The polarizing coastal access app Our Malibu Beaches is being asked to correct errors that a local homeowner says misleads the public. The app, launched in 2013, guides users to areas of sand possibly otherwise unknown to the general public. The free app has been hailed by coastal evangelists as an innovative tool to opening beach access for all. Others, including many Malibu beachfront homeowners, criticize the app and raise many potential concerns.
They were on their way to the Maui airport to catch a flight back to Malibu when The Malibu Times called them after reading this post on social media: “I did a fun thing today. While traveling in Lahaina, Maui, I presented a ball cap from The Malibu Fire Safety division of the City of Malibu to the personnel at the Lahaina Station of the Maui Fire Department. They were very gracious and appreciated the gift. I explained
that this was a gift of solidarity as we also have in our recent history a devastating wildfire.”
What a loving idea to share such a wonderful memento of resiliency shared by two small communities waging war against the devastation of wildfires.
“Can you tell me about giving the small gift to the firefighters who were on duty at the Maui fire department’s Lahaina fire station?,” this reporter asked.
Tim Horton, a board member of Malibu’s Community Emergency Response Team,
and its social media assistant paused before responding.
Had he orchestrated doing that beforehand, perhaps with a camera crew in tow just to catch the right shot? Nope.
Rather, he just thought he’d stop by and share some love and caring, brother to brother, to express support for Lahaina.
“I just felt how poignant it is that they are recognizing the one-year anniversary of their devastation which is still so terribly rampantly
One such concern is the privacy of homeowners who say Our Malibu Beaches facilitates and arguably encourages trespassing on their private property. Others point to environmental degradation due to an influx of visitors who may not adhere to proper beach etiquette, such as littering or disturbing wildlife. Some cite the disruption of the tranquility and exclusivity homeowners came to expect with their oceanfront homes located far from beaches designed for public use with restrooms, trash receptacles, and lifeguards.
One example is the 2021 opening of access to La Costa Beach. When residents tried to upgrade a fence at 21704 Pacific Coast Highway, the Mountains Recre -
ation and Conservation Authority (MRCA), which has jurisdiction of the area, had the fence permanently removed. However, since the fence’s removal three years ago, the MRCA has not provided any amenities for the visiting public, including restrooms or even one trash can. This has led to a sanitation nightmare for La Costa Beach residents who have documented piles of trash, soiled diapers, beer bottles, and more left by visitors. Some beachgoers have even lit fires, urinated, defecated, used drugs on the beach, or camped out under resident homes. There have been charges against the MRCA of not providing adequate assignment of rangers to patrol the area. Now, Latigo Beach homeowner Dennis Seider, who this year settled with the California Coastal Commission over the right to post “Private Property” signage at his home, is asking Our Malibu Beaches to correct what he calls misinformation about where the public has the right to access in front of his property. The issue stems in part from the inscrutable Mean High Tide Line definition, which has pitted beach homeowners against coastal access advocates at least since the enactment of the California Coastal Act in 1976. The Our Malibu Beaches app currently informs the public that, with respect to the Seiders’ home, they “can use dry sand for 25 feet from
Fred Segal stores have always been known as offering an effortless lifestyle experience inspired by the free-spirited style of Los Angeles. The retailer enjoyed having A-list celebrities as clients and was even given nods in “Beverly Hills 90210,” “Legally Blonde,” and “Clueless.”
The brand shuttered its Malibu and West Hollywood location last week, leaving many to pause and reflect on Fred Segal’s impact on the retail industry and to recall that he was the pioneer of retail centers in Malibu when he helped
Since its 1961 debut with a 350-square-foot store on Santa Monica Boulevard, the Fred Segal brand has been a leader in fashion and accessories. From the beginning, Segal introduced new concepts in retail, first with his instore jeans bar concept and later utilizing a shop-in-shop concept through which then-emerging designers such as Juicy Couture and cosmetics brand Hard Candy launched.
At Monday’s (Aug. 5) Malibu Planning Commission meeting, Assistant City Manager Joseph Toney stepped in as the search for a new interim planning director continues.
Toney provided updates on several key issues, including the upcoming Coastal Commission review and the Housing Element, which is scheduled to go before the Planning Commission on Aug. 19 and the City Council on Sept. 23. He also reminded the community about the Topanga Lagoon Restoration Project meeting held that evening. The Malibu Times will have an update on the meeting next week. Additionally, Toney noted that the California Coastal
She’s a descendant of the Visigoths and of El Cid — the 11th-century Castilian knight who served in the armies of both Christian and Muslim rulers. You remember learning about him, either in elementary school or in that old eponymous movie where he was portrayed by Charlton Heston, starring opposite Sophia Loren. Her 17th-generation grandfather is King Ferdinand
III, who was canonized in 1671 and was known for ensuring a good quality of life in his land by taking care not to overburden his subjects with taxation, fearing, as he said, the curse of one poor woman more than a whole army of Saracens. One wise, perceptive guy!
This generation’s iteration of that wise, determined, and successful clan is manifested in one Flora Sanchez of Paradise Cove.
The proprietor of Flourishing with Flora, she’s a yoga instructor — all are welcome to attend her thrice a week yoga classes. She’s also a certified ayurvedic healer who freely gives to others advice from that system of medicine which is centered on the idea that disease is
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Dear Editor,
Three Ways to Improve Malibu: 1. Ban RV parking on PCH 2. Speed cameras 3. Shut down Nobu
Ronald Snodgrass, Malibu
Revised Impound Policy
Dear Editor,
In a previously published Letter to the Editor by Dermot Stoker, an important update is needed regarding speed enforcement in Malibu.
The letter originally stated that the Sheriff’s Department will impound your car if you speed. To clarify and provide a more accurate representation of the situation, the revised statement should read: “If you speed in Malibu, the Sheriff’s Department should impound your car, one day for every mile an hour over the speed limit, when you get busted.”
This adjustment reflects the actual enforcement policy more accurately and helps ensure that readers understand the potential consequences of speeding. It’s crucial to remember that speed limits are set not only for the safety of drivers but also for the safety of all road users. Impoundment of a vehicle serves as a significant deterrent and rein-
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rent status of the Malibu City staff and their job openings and PCH safety.
ast Friday, the Malibu Business Round Table was a big success, with a great turnout and engaging discussions. We covered a range of topics, from local business developments to the recent school separation issues, and delved into the cur-
forces the importance of adhering to traffic laws.
We urge everyone to be mindful of speed limits and drive responsibly. The goal is to keep our roads
Looking ahead, our next meeting will be held via Zoom next month. We will then gather in person for the meeting in October. The location will be announced at a later date. To stay updated, please email office@malibutimes.com to be added to our mailing list. As election season approach-
safe and prevent accidents that could result from excessive speeding. Please “SEE IT” and “SET IT” with the updated wording to ensure the correct message is conveyed to
es, we anticipate reporting on all the candidates vying for the open seats next week. We are also planning a candidate forum, which will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
On a personal note, I am thrilled to share that my sweet Mirac is celebrating his 12th birthday today. He continues to make me incredibly proud to be his mom. Happy Birthday, my sweet boy!
The power of community: Driving change on PCH
Sharing my views publicly has been enlightening. These early weeks have been thought-provoking. I’m living proof that we can drive change by highlighting important issues. But I’m just one person — we need collective action. It’s not just about awareness; it’s about actively pursuing solutions. This is a call to action for all of us. Together, we have the power to shape our community’s future, and the time to act is now. We can’t afford to wait any longer. The stakes are too high, and the cost of inaction is already being paid in the most tragic way: death.
We’re a strong, supportive community that always rallies in the face of tragedy. But it’s time to shift from reaction to proactive action. Each of us has a voice, a vote, and a wallet — powerful tools for change. I’ve always believed that with determination, anything is possible. By uniting, we can transform our community for the better, and we need to act now. The time for complacency is over. We have the strength; now we need the resolve. Together, we are a force to be reckoned with. The situation with PCH is critical. Why postpone solutions until the end of the year? I remain skeptical about Caltrans’ lack of meaningful action and its use of the $4 million. Do you feel any safer? We need access to information and real data for change and accountability. Transparency is not
just a buzzword, it’s a necessity for progress.
We’ve been aware of these problems for decades. When someone dies, we’re briefly concerned, then resume as if nothing happened. I refuse to be silent; passivity is acceptance. I’ll be the squeaky wheel until something is done. We owe it to ourselves and our children to demand better. We owe it to the memory of those lost to fight for change.
Let me share a story: I met Haylynn Conrad, a remarkable woman passionate about our community and PCH’s problems. She’s a mother, a devoted member of this community, and a true advocate. Her concern for PCH safety stems from seeing her children travel that road daily. We met to share ideas, and I was struck by her intelligence, determination, and refusal to accept the status quo. Haylynn stands out as a refreshing presence in a world where many voice grievances but take few actions.
She listened intently as we exchanged thoughts, and after a long discussion, she became determined and said, “I’m going to City Hall to get the form to run for City Council. I’m unimpeachable, I don’t need anything from anyone, and I want to be part of the solution.” Her words were a powerful reminder that one person can be the catalyst for change.
Haylynn is one person, but that’s all it takes to start a movement. Imagine if we all had the courage to take that first step towards change. Think of the power we could wield if we all stood up and demanded better. Haylynn’s story is a testament to one person’s ability to make a difference. But we need more Haylynns. We need an entire community willing to rise up and demand action. The question is: what will you do?
Education is key, but we need immediate solutions. Take park -
ing — it’s insane that our highway allows it. We need swift solutions. Here’s an idea: a multipurpose parking structure in Malibu with an electric bus service. Charge a minimal fee and ban parking except for residents. Is this the solution? Anything is better than the status quo. We’re talking about saving lives. The cost of inaction is too high to bear. Every day we waste is a day closer to the next tragedy.
Let’s work together to create change for our community’s future. Support those working towards solutions by attending meetings, signing petitions, and volunteering. It’s time for each of us to commit to making a difference. Let’s show our community
that we care and won’t settle for anything less than the safety and prosperity we deserve. Shall we start painting another tire white to represent another family destroyed because you know it’s just a matter of time? What if, this time, it is someone close to you? What would you do to make sure that doesn’t happen? Everything?
Consider this: a well-designed parking structure could be more than just a practical solution — it could be a symbol of our community’s power to create change. Imagine a space that not only resolves a safety issue but also brings us together — a hub for community events, a showcase for public art, and a green oasis amidst the concrete. By thinking creative -
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ly, we can transform a challenge into an opportunity. This is just one idea, but it illustrates a more significant point: the possibilities are endless when we commit to positive change. We can turn necessities into assets and problems into solutions. But this requires us to think differently, demand more, and act. The only limit to what we can achieve is the one we place on ourselves. So, let’s dream big, but also let’s get to work. Let’s turn outrage into action and awareness into results. Our community deserves nothing less.
The question is: What will we build?
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The following incidents were reported between:
JULY
16 - July 20
7/16 | Vehicle Burglary
A vehicle parked near Cross Creek was broken into and ransacked. The victim’s iPhone and wallet were missing from the passenger seat. The victim received a notification of multiple attempt purchases made at two retail stores in Culver City for a total of $2,700. There were no security cameras available for evidence.
7/17 | Vehicle burglary
A vehicle parked near Topanga State Beach was broken into and ransacked. The victim’s iPhone and wallet were stolen from the rear passenger seat. The victim received a notification of charges made at a Nike store in Santa Monica for $1,345 and a declined charge of $957 at the same Nike store in Santa Monica. There were no security cameras available for evidence.
7/17 | Grand Theft
Electrical charging cables were cut and stolen from a parking lot at Zuma Beach. The cost of each charging station was $500 totaling to $3,000. There were no security cameras available for evidence.
7/17 | Burglary
A vehicle parked near the Getty Villa was broken into and ransacked. The victim returned to see the lock box had been damaged and their wallet, phone, and $20 in cash was stolen. There was no damage made to the vehicle, only to the lock box. There were no security cameras available for evidence.
3.0 earthquake strikes near Malibu on Sunday morning
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific Ocean approximately 16 miles off the coast of Malibu at 7:10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 4.
Fortunately, there have been no immediate reports of injuries or damage associated with the quake. If you experienced the tremor, please share your observations by visiting the USGS website at earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40861744/ tellus. Your reports help improve the understanding of seismic events and their impacts.
Kanye West’s house sells
The mother of all home fixer-uppers, Kanye West’s gutted Malibu Road beach house has finally found a buyer. The house designed by Japanese architect Takao Ando was nearly demolished by the rapper/singer with the intention of redesigning it, but that never happened. The $57 million property sat as an empty shell exposed to the elements for nearly three years before the best-selling artist decided to sell it at a loss for $53 million.
After no takers, West dropped the price finally to $39 million due to the home’s unlivable condition. The final sale price is unknown, nor is the buyer, but what is known is that a renovation will take millions to restore what is considered an architectural masterpiece.
Governor Newsom’s
executive order addresses homelessness postSupreme Court ruling
In June, the Supreme Court made a 6-3 decision siding with the City of Grants Pass, Oregon, in a case involving its anti-camping ordinances. In 2018, three homeless people from Grants Pass filed a lawsuit against the city on behalf of its homeless population. They alleged that the city’s ordinances against camping violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
A CBS News article reports that in Grants Pass, “violators face fines starting at $295, and repeat
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offenders may be banned from a city park for 30 days. If a person violates that order by camping in a park, they are subject to criminal trespass charges, punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a $1,250 fine. According to the city, more than 500 citations were issued from 2013 to 2018 for violations of the anti-camping ordinances.”
At the time, the federal district court blocked Grants Pass from enforcing its public camping ban during nighttime hours and during the daytime unless it gave 24 hours’ notice.
A divided 9th Circuit panel upheld a district court ruling that Grants Pass couldn’t enforce anti-camping ordinances against homeless individuals with no other shelter. The full 9th Circuit declined to rehear the case. The Supreme Court heard arguments in April, with justices suggesting that policy decisions on homelessness should be left to policymakers, not judges. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, in his opinion, emphasized that Americans have the right to experiment with various policies to address homelessness without federal judicial interference.
“The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people and in their place dictate this nation’s homelessness policy,” Gorsuch wrote.
Within the Supreme Court ruling, the prior Martin v. Boise decision was referenced. This ruling was a 2018 decision by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in response to a 2009 lawsuit by six homeless plaintiffs against the city of Boise, Idaho, regarding the city’s anti-camping ordinance saying that cities cannot enforce anti-camping ordinances if they do not have enough homeless shelter beds available for their homeless population.
The Grants Pass appeal noted that following the Martin v. Boise suit, lawsuits against cities like Grants Pass increased.
The decision, in favor of the homeless plaintiffs, had trickled down to other cities and states across the country, including California, which is leading the nation with the highest homeless population. According to the most recent Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, California is home to 181,399 homeless individuals.
That same report says that on
one night in January 2023, at least 653,104 people were experiencing homelessness in the country, more than 12 percent since 2020.
Essentially, with the Martin v. Boise ruling, cities were not permitted to remove any homeless population if they did not have somewhere else to house them, leading to cities changing their ordinances to comply.
But on June 28, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Grants Pass.
Nearly a month later, on Thursday, July 25, Newsom issued his executive order directing state agencies to “address homeless encampments while respecting the dignity and safety of Californians experiencing homelessness.” The order also urges local governments to “use substantial funding provided by the state to take similar action.”
Within Newsom’s statement, it says “The state has been hard at work to address this crisis on our streets. There are simply no more excuses. It’s time for everyone to do their part.”
Newsom’s order directs state agencies and departments to adopt policies similar to the California Department of Transportation’s (Caltrans) existing encampment policy. According to the executive order statement, “Since July 2021, California has resolved more than 11,000 encampments, and has removed 248,275 cubic yards of debris from encampments along the state right of way in preparation for Clean California projects.”
The statement adds that Caltrans works with local providers who support those experiencing homelessness to store and remove one’s personal property from the encampment site for at least 60 days.
Newsom’s office also encourages local governments to apply for grant funding from the state. This includes the $3.3 billion available through Proposition 1, which is meant to expand behavioral health services for those experiencing mental health conditions and substance use disorders, especially those who are also homeless.
Caltrans workshop scheduled for PCH Master Plan Feasibility Study
All community members are invited to attend workshops to learn about and give input Cal-
trans’ PCH Master Plan Feasibility Study in person at Malibu City Hall Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Caltrans will also hold another virtual workshop on Thursday, Sept. 12, from 1 to 3 p.m.
Lechuza Beach public access hearing postponed
At the Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority’s (MRCA) request, the California Coastal Commission (CCC) public hearing on the application for a coastal development permit for the Lechuza Beach Public Access Improvements Project, scheduled for Friday, August 9, has been postponed to allow MRCA additional time to meet with representatives of the Malibu Encinal Homeowners Association. A new hearing date has not been scheduled.
The Malibu Planning Commission held a public hearing on April 1, on the MRCA’s application for the project. However, the adopted resolution denied the requested conditional use permit for an onsite wastewater treatment system and ADA-compliant restroom and added conditions to provide public access to the beach in the event of a fire.
The Planning Commission’s decision was appealed to the California Coastal Commission by the MRCA. The Coastal Commission’s staff report is available on the CCC website.
Explore the City of Malibu’s Fall
Recreation Offerings in the Fall 2024 Recreation Guide and City Newsletter
The City of Malibu invites all community members to explore the Community Services Department’s upcoming programs and events in the Fall 2024 Recreation Guide and City Newsletter. The guide is now available online at MalibuCity.org/CommunityServices and will be mailed directly to Malibu residents during the week of Aug. 12.
“Enjoying softball, soccer, tennis, swimming and many other sports, learning new skills, exploring other cultures, and finding new ways to enhance your health and wellness are such valuable ways that we build community bonds,” said Malibu Mayor Doug Stewart. “I encourage everyone in Malibu to take advantage of the fantastic services we have planned.”
The Fall Recreation Guide features a wide range of activities including youth sports, adult fitness classes, senior activities, arts and crafts workshops, and family-friendly events. Each program is designed to meet the varied interests and needs of the community, ensuring there is something for everyone.
Residents can find information for upcoming fall programs offered September through November including afterschool programs in partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Malibu, bird watching and nature journaling at Legacy Park, complimentary wellness workshops with The Mindry, Discover Scuba, Parent and Me Programs, poetry
Submission deadline is Monday at noon. Please email submissions to:
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Only events with a connection to Malibu will be considered. Calendar events are scheduled in advance and subject to change.
MON AUG 12
BALLROOM DANCING WORKSHOP
Learn the fundamentals of swing, ballroom, and salsa on Monday, Aug. 12, from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. at the Michael Landon Community Center. During these workshops, easy-to-learn dance techniques will be taught, including lead, follow, rhythm, and timing. Instructed by MC Callaghan. For ages 18 and above. Cost is $25. To register, visit MalibuCity.org/Register.
WED AUG 14
LEGACY PARK NATURE WALK AND STORYTIME
Spend the morning in nature with your little one. Participants will begin at the Malibu Library and enjoy a walk around Legacy Park with park educators on Wednesday, Aug. 14, from 10 to 11 a.m. Participants will take their time exploring bird, bugs, and flowers of the season. The walk will culminate with Storytime at the amphitheater. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Meet at the Malibu Library. Cost is free. To register, visit parksrecreation. ci.malibu.ca.us/CourseActivities. aspx?id=18.
THU AUG 15
MALIBU FILM SOCIETY FILM SCREENINGS
The Malibu Film Society and the City of Malibu will be bringing three special events to Malibu this summer, with 50 free seats reserved for local residents. All three events will be held in the Malibu Civic Theater at City Hall, located at 23825 Stuart Ranch Road. Showtimes will be 7:30 p.m. each night, with doors opening at 7 p.m. for the free pre-show reception, including wine, snacks, and soft drinks for all guests. The next film screening is on Thursday, Aug. 15, for the film “Buster Keaton — America’s AvantGarde Auteur.” One of the greatest comic actors of all time, Buster Keaton influenced Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Sid Caesar, Lucille Ball, Jerry Lewis, and Bill Murray. His influence as a director has been just as profound, an unconventional and surreal style that’s since shown up in films by Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and more. Hollywood historian, producer, and screenwriter David Weddle (“Battlestar Galactica,” “For All Mankind”) will join us for an evening of film clips and conversation about why Keaton remains such a powerful, indelible presence. Weddle will also stay with us after the show to answer questions.
FRI AUG 16
CHARMLEE WILDERNESS
PARK SUNSET HIKE
Discover Charmlee Wilderness Park after hours in the beautiful light of the setting sun on Friday, Aug. 16, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Experience one of Malibu’s best hiking venues and learn all about the natural surroundings. Participants should feel
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comfortable walking on uneven terrain for 90 minutes. Hiking boots or sturdy closed-toe shoes are recommended. Bring water and dress in layers.
SAT AUG 17
HHW/E-WASTE COLLECTION
Properly dispose of certain types of household hazardous waste (HHW) and electronic waste at Malibu City Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All containers must be clearly labeled to identify the contents. Maximum amount of paint/motor oil accepted is 15 gallons or 125 pounds per trip. Participants are strongly encouraged to remain in their vehicles.
Accepted materials list:
• Paint (water-based only)
• Used motor oil
• Anti-freeze
• Automotive and household batteries
• Compact fluorescent bulbs (unbroken)
• Electronics
The city schedules its events on the third Saturday in February, April, June, August, and October. Rain cancels event. Visit www.888CleanLA.com for information about the County’s HHW events.
The City of Malibu’s CineMalibu™ series has presented free outdoor movie screenings for the community since 2005. No RSVPs or seat reservations are needed; seating is available on a first-come, firstserved basis. Free admission; bring blankets and chairs. Attendees may bring in outside food. No alcohol is allowed at Malibu Bluffs Park. The next
film sceening will show the 1990 film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” Event begins at 6 p.m. Movie begins at sunset.
thu AUG 22
‘SIP & SHOP’ AND MEET THE MAKERS AT THIRD SPACE
Community members can come to Third Space Malibu from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, to enjoy complimentary champagne and shop for local, handmade, and sustainable products while getting to know local creatives and the story behind their brands.
sun aug 25
JEWELRY-MAKING EXPERIENCE AT THIRD SPACE MALIBU
The community is invited to join Third Space Malibu’s Kidd’s Jewelry Heist “Jewelry-Making Experience” on Sunday, Aug. 25, from 12 to 5 p.m. Those who attend can create their own necklaces, bracelets, keychains, and earrings during an hourlong session with the help of a mentor. Participants can take home two unique pieces of jewelry each.
wed aug 28
CALTRANS IN-PERSON MEETING
All community members are invited to attend workshops to learn about and give input to Caltrans’ PCH Master Plan Feasibility Study in person at Malibu City Hall, Council Chambers, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Malibu City Hall. This meeting will not be broadcast or livestreamed. The study aims to identify safety and multimodal travel improvements for all users of PCH in Malibu, including
options for pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as enhancing transit opportunities on Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in Malibu. For further questions, please contact D7.System. Planning@dot.ca.gov.
wed aug 28
DRUMBOXING AT MILESTONE RANCH
Enjoy a morning of connection and inspiration with drumboxing demonstration, inspirational guest speakers, coffee, tea, and snacks on Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Milestone Ranch, 203 Vera Canyon Road. All members of the rehabilitation, community, therapists, and healers are welcome. To RSVP email christina@drumboxing.com.
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FARMERS MARKET
The Malibu Farmers Market returns to the Library Plaza on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., located at 23555 Civic Center Way, adjacent to the library. For updates, follow up on instagram@ malibufarmersmarket.
WEEDING EVENT AT POINT DUME
Join fellow preservationists the second Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to noon at the Point Dume Preserve at Birdview and Cliffside Drive to keep the headlands poison-free. Please bring gardening gloves and be prepared to do some hand weeding with some of your wonderful neighbors. Parking is available at Westward Beach.
MEET THE MAKERS: SIP & SHOP AT THIRD SPACE
Shop our local, handmade, and sustainable products while
getting to know our local creatives and the story behind their brands at Third Space every third Sunday of the month and also on Thursday, Aug. 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. in partnership with Malibu Village Books.
TRANCAS SUMMER NIGHTS
Trancas Summer Night Concerts have returned for the summer every Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. until Aug. 30.
KNITTING
Join the City of Malibu’s Community Services Department and Sheila Rosenthal for a knitting workshop that takes place on Mondays and Fridays at 9:00 a.m. This program is a welcoming gathering space for fiber artists that fosters community through open stitch. Make a scarf, hat, blanket, or homemade gift. No experience necessary. Please bring size 8 needles and one skein of yarn. This is an ongoing, drop-in program. Instructed by Sheila Rosenthal.
RELAXING THROUGH COLORING
The art of coloring activates different areas of the brain, using logic, forming colors, and creativity. Join this free, unstructured program. Instructed by Judy Merrick. Complimentary program. Visit malibucity.org for dates and times.
STRETCH AND STRENGTH Participants will focus on increasing flexibility, balance, circulation, and muscle tone while learning to relax through breathing techniques. Bring yoga blocks and a mat. Instructed by Marsha Cooper. $5 per class. Visit malibucity.org for dates and times.
BUSINESS
Local salon finds innovative uses for old hair and hair extensions
Maria Madisson salon donates to nonprofit foundation Matter of Trust, which upcycles hair, fur, and fleece
By BARBARA BURKE
Remember learning in school that resourceful ancient civilizations used all available resources to perform vital societal functions and never discarded anything? It’s kind of the anthropological illustration of the old proverb that one must work with what he’s got.
That principle still holds today in the context of a local hair salon.
Yep — a hair salon.
“Customers notice my jar of used extensions and after they find out its purpose, when they come in to get new extensions installed they often bring old extensions they’re no longer using. One of my customers brought in a small suitcase full of hair!” said Alysha Daroy, proprietor of Maria Madisson, a hair extension salon that is popular with Malibu residents. “I am happy to donate the hair for good use — it’s so much better than throwing it away!”
Daroy notes that donating the hair is user-friendly — one need only mail the hair to Matter of Trust, a nonprofit organization, at its San Francisco headquarters.
Old hair discarded by pet groomers and veterinarians, hair clippings from local salons as well as hair extensions, and even laundry lint — all can be repurposed as mats that help soak up petro-chemical oil spills.
Yep, oil spills, including those in the ocean, such as when hair collected by Matter of Trust was used to help mitigate the damage caused by the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill. The mats can also be helpful to collecting oil spilled in ports, airports, mining sites, and garages.
A Matter of Trust collects hair, animal fur, wool, fleece, and other fibers for sea mulch and seagrass restoration as well.
Here’s how it works:
“The hair mats for oil spills are felts, such as the material we all used in elementary school projects,” Matter of Trust President Lisa Gautier explained. “There are different scales of integrity in a textile and felt has low integrity as it can be pulled apart easily. The best way to think of the felts is that they’re like big fat hair dreadlocks that we make by putting the longer hairs into scrims that have shorter fibers sandwiched within them. We make some felt in-house at our headquarters and we have many partners all over the world who make the felt mats.”
Matter of Trust’s goals include mobilizing and celebrating practical, replicable, local-to-global systems that sort waste into resources. The organization is also focused on including youth as interns and helping
to build Cross Creek. Fred Segal’s Culver City home furnishing store and Fred Segal at Resorts World LV remain open for business under separate ownership.
However, as a Fred Segal legal representative told Forbes for its article published today, “This is not the end of the road for the brand.”
“We are looking for an operator for Dad’s brand,” Nina Segal of Malibu shared with The Malibu Times. Nina and her sister, Sharon Segal, reverently added, “We are very proud of what our father created. He was a true visionary. He touched many people’s lives through fashion, through his love of nature and his love of all people.”
“Dad’s life’s motto was ‘Look. See. Feel. Be. Love All,’” Nina shared, as she talked about Sharon and her, as well as the Segal’s next generation, carrying
teach school children about all of their efforts and all the possible eco-solutions to waste and pollution.
The science behind using hair mats to mitigate oil spills
There’s a lot of academic and oil and maritime industry scholarship establishing that hair, fleece, and fur are ideal sorbents. My personal favorite is titled “Use of hair mesh for oil spill management.” I like that one best because it is informative for laymen and also because it is published in the International Journal of Creative Research Thought. I was delighted to learn there is a journal of creative thought!
The article’s abstract clearly explains that among the environmentally friendly methods to clean up crude oil-contaminated water, human hair, being hydrophobic and a biosorbent, has proven to be an efficient material in removing oil from water with a maximum adsorption capacity of crude oil as well as its recovery and reusability. It
can adsorb up to nine times its own weight! Wow! Further, hair is independent of external factors like temperature unlike other methods. Finally, since hair is just a waste product, it is a cost-effective method.
“Hair is also useful to help restore soil,” Gauthier said. “If one puts it on the ground, it will mossify and become smooth and then develop a microbial glossiness. It starts to felt all by itself, and mycelium fruits up, which attracts moths and, logically enough, animals are attracted as the moths are a food source. Soon, there is a blooming ecosystem where only unhealthy dirt was.”
I’m sold. So was Paul Newman.
Yep, Paul Newman: In 1998, his organization, Newman’s Own Foundation, kindly helped provide attorneys and start-up support for Gautier to establish Matter of Trust, whose mission is to link surplus, such as the hair, a naturally abundant material, and manmade excess materials with needs those resources can fulfill. Matter of Trust serves communities by practical, replicable,
local-to-global systems that sort waste, such as hair, into resources. The organization also researches and showcases planet-friendly inspirations for households and workplaces with its eco-home and eco-industrial hubs.
“The Air Force started using the mulch we have made from fibers and their officials characterize it as a game changer,” Gautier said. “People reach out to us and want to also make felt mats — we send them a felting machine wherever in the world they are located — the main idea is to use local fiber for local solutions.
“We’re delighted that Alysha’s salon is donating hair — we currently have 30,000 of the 900,000 hair salons nationwide contributing to our causes. It doesn’t matter if the hair is dyed or chemically treated.”
As for Daroy, she aims to ultimately recycle 95 percent of her salon’s waste, including hair dyes.
At Matter of Trust, discarded items matter so they can be deployed to address environmental challenges that matter to us all.
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A worker at the felt machine in the Matter of Trust flagship factory in San Francisco holds up a felt mat to be used to help clean up oil spills.
Fred Segal introduced new concepts in retail, and was a pioneer in local retail, helping launch Cross Creek. Fred Segal
The Fred Segal retailer has shuttered the doors in Malibu and West Hollywood, although stores in Culver City and Resorts World LV remain open under separate leadership. Photo Samantha Bravo/TMT
Workers at the Matter of Trust flagship factory in San Francisco collect the donated hair to put into the felt machine, which makes the mats used to help clean up oil spills. Photos Courtesy of Matter of Trust
Meet Salvador Lopez Jr., Malibu’s interim assistant planning director
Lopez has served in several municipalities, including Artesia, Hemet, and Long Beach
By BARBARA BURKE Special to the Malibu Times
Bringing his experience that spans several aspects of planning in several Southern California municipalities, Salvador Lopez now serves as Malibu’s interim planning director.
As readers well know, the city’s planning department has experienced tumult recently, with Adrian Hernandez, who served as the assistant planning director, alleging that the city has a toxic work environment with regard to the Planning Department and its internal operations as well as when planning staff interacts with the City Council and various citizens and advocacy groups. Moreover, the recent retirement of Planning Director Richard Mollica adds to the department’s flux as a search to replace Mollica is underway.
Lopez has served in various municipalities, including, most recently, as the managing planner for the Planning and Environmental Services Department for Artesia, California, where he provided comprehensive
plan reviews, processed land use entitlement applications, prepared general plan tax or map amendments, and assisted in authoring zoning code texts and map amendments. He also assisted in the preparation of the city’s 6th Cycle Housing Element Update with a focus on complying with the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing standards. Prior to serving in that capacity, he served in Artesia as the town’s Special Projects Planning Services official.
Before working in Artesia, he worked as a contracted project manager in planning and environmental services in Hemet, where he was responsible for overall project management and oversight. His duties ranged from preparing general plan text or map amendments to preparing or amending specific plans.
Lopez has also worked in Planning and Environmental Services for Cudahy, California, where he served as the interim community development director and in Long Beach where he was a project manager for overall project management and oversight of staffing resources and prepared CEQA documents as well as helping in long-range planning projects.
Finally, he was formerly working in Culver City, Hawaiian Gardens, and El Monte conducting project management and related tasks.
Lopez holds a Bachelor of Science degree in urban and regional planning from California State Polytechnic University.
workshops, senior programs and water polo.
The Recreation Guide also includes information on upcoming special events, including the screening of the film “My Ascension” in partnership with the Malibu Library Speaker Series, as well as the Senior Resource Fair, the Tiny Tot Olympics and the Halloween Bu Bash Carnival.
Registration for Fall Programs opens on Monday, Aug. 19, at malibucity. org/register. For ongoing, up-to-date information on Community Services programs, visit malibucity.org/communityservices
President Biden withdraws from seeking second term
Just eight days after an assassination attempt on former president and current
presidential candidate Donald Trump failed, our current president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced that he will no longer be seeking re-election this November.
On a plain sheet of white paper, Biden released a statement on Sunday, July 21, addressing the country.
“My Fellow Americans, Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation,” the letter begins.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term. I will speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision.”
The news did not come as a shock to many as since the President’s debate against Trump in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, numerous Democrats have
called for the President to step down. For the last year — at least — many Americans have questioned the president’s cognitive competency in serving his office. It was earlier this month that Biden introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” during a briefing. Though he quickly corrected himself, it was not the first time the president appeared confused.
Upon Biden’s withdrawal from seeking a second term, he has endorsed current Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a post on X following his withdrawal, the president said, “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today, I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee for our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump.”
Leading up to the news on Sunday, national media outlets predicted that the president would announce dropping
from the race by Monday, July 22. Once the news came, elected Democratic officials were ready to back her getting into the Oval Office.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom took to X to express his appreciation of Biden, “President Biden has been an extraordinary, history-making president — a leader who has fought hard for working people and delivered astonishing results for all Americans. He will go down in history as one of the most impactful and selfless presidents.”
He then expressed his support for Harris, “Tough. Fearless. Tenacious. With our democracy at stake and our future on the line, no one is better to prosecute the case against Donald Trump’s dark vision and guide our country in a healthier direction than America’s Vice President Kamala Harris.”
LACOE public meeting on Malibu’s school district separation petition
The LA County Office of Education (LACOE) Committee on School District Organization held a public hearing on the City of Malibu’s petition to form an independent school district on Wednesday, Aug. 7.
Mediation stopped when in July Malibu chose to proceed with its petition to LACOE in its decades-long pursuit of becoming a stand-alone school district or what’s known as“unification.”
On July 18, SMMUSD released a statement saying it opposes the city’s unification petition “after the city abandons a mutually agreed upon timeline of the unification process.”
The Malibu Times will provide an update online and in next week’s print issue.
For more information on the City’s effort to separate from Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and form an independent public school district, visit www.MalibuCity.org/MUSD.
Salvador Lopez, Jr. Malibu’s interim assistant planning director
Summer COVID cases on the rise; caution urged
Reported cases are up in Los Angeles County
By JUDY ABEL
In case you didn’t know, COVID-19 cases are on the rise this summer. California is experiencing its worst wave of infections since 2022. With rising cases in Los Angeles County, the Department of Public Health is warning, “Given the increased transmission of new strains of COVID-19, residents should continue taking common-sense precautions to avoid transmitting or becoming ill.”
The Malibu Times spoke with Malibu Urgent Care (MUC) to confirm a spike in cases locally.
“Over the last month we’ve seen more COVID infections in patients, for sure,” said Hydeen Mofford, a medical assistant and administrator at MUC. Most of the patients seeking medical help at the urgent care facility were reported as moderately sick, but Mofford also reported “symptoms seem to be lingering a bit longer.”
visible as you try to visit Lahaina Town,” Horton said.
Then, we two people — a reporter in Malibu and Horton and his wife on their car phone driving to leave Maui — shared one of those long moments of silence where people in the conversation try to process remembering a trauma.
Finally, Horton sighed sadly and said, “As you drive through the part of the area where the fire burned that folks are allowed to enter, it’s reminiscent of driving through Pt. Dume or our other fire-ravaged neighborhoods after the Woolsey Fire — so many lots where houses once were are just barren and burnscarred.”
Many reading this well know the reporter’s quite predictable next question — uttered with fear about what I would hear in the answer.
“How is the beautiful old Banyan tree in the center of Lahaina Town?” I asked.
“We wanted to go see her but that part of town is fully closed off,” Horton responded. “The entire neighborhood where the tragedy was is still walled off, but locals told us that the tree will survive and she’s at approximately 70 percent of what her health was and a team of arborists are working to help her heal.” Honor. Hope. Respect. Reverence The Hortons shared details about the moments of their visiting the memorials depicting pictures of some of the approximately 100 victims.
“Lahaina Memorial is a place of honor, hope, respect and reverence,” a memorial sign states. “Divisiveness and politics have no place here — this is a place to walk humbly, to grieve, to seek peace and reflect on all that we have lost.” Horton and his wife shared, “We could tell that they are setting up a stage for some
The most common symptoms in this summer wave are cough, body aches, fever, congestion, and headaches. Many patients seeking care are prescribed the drug Paxlovid.
Doctors are saying it’s important to take precautions, especially for those over 65 or for those with underlying health conditions who are at higher risk of severe illness. Precautions include being up to date on vaccinations and boosters, frequent hand washing, and even the use of masks when in crowded indoor spaces.
Dr. Lauren Pike of Malibu Urgent Care reminds there are updated guidelines from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) that the community should be aware of.
“When you’re sick, especially with COVID, stay home and away from others if you have any respiratory virus symptoms,” she said. “You can resume your normal activities once your symptoms are improving and you’ve been fever-free without any aid of fever-reducing medications for at least 24 hours. For the five days after you
resume your normal activities people should be wearing a well-fitting mask and maintaining distance from others for another five days.”
Pike said it’s best to gather for outdoor activities or in other well-ventilated areas. She also suggested frequent hand washing and, if possible, to avoid frequently touched surfaces.
“Testing is also good before getting together with others,” Pike advised, even if you’re symptom free. “I think especially when we’re having this uptick in cases, especially if you’re getting together with people that are immunocompromised, it’s just good to do a test before you meet with other people.
“While you’re sick, stay home. Once you start improving, wait 24 hours before you go out into society and resume your normal activities. If you’re feeling better for 24 hours, and you want to resume your normal activities that’s completely acceptable, but you should be wearing a well-fitted mask for an additional five days. It’s important that we still follow the guidelines that the CDC proposed.”
Pike also remined those who are sick, should keep well hydrated.
MUC is offering rapid COVID tests that give results in just 15 minutes, but the tests are different from home testing.
“The gold standard of COVID-19 tests are the (NAAT) nucleic acid amplification tests and (PCR) polymerase chain reaction tests,usually done at a health care facility” Pike said. “Antigen tests are a good alternative to do at home. They’re pretty accurate [and] reliable. They are way more accurate when you’re symptomatic than if you’re asymptomatic. To really be confident that you don’t have COVID, they do recommend two negative antigen tests if you’re symptomatic 48 hours apart to feel comfortable that it’s not COVID.”
Dr. Patsy McDermott from UCLA Malibu Urgent Care also confirmed a spike in COVID cases this summer.
“It started going up in June. We had gone a month, maybe six weeks with almost no cases and now we see a handful every day,” she said, adding roughly one-quarter of her patients have
been diagnosed. “Mostly what we see are people who recognized their symptoms and tested at home.”
She makes many video visits with infected people who self-isolate. McDermott noted that most of the patients she sees have already had COVID once, some three or four times. Though, “There is a subset of people who are first-timers. We call them ‘NOVIDS,’” she said.
McDermott said most of the COVID cases now are less severe than years earlier, “Which is a blessing … Most of our patients have been vaccinated. The least vaccinated are very young children.”
The doctor advises wearing a mask. She had stopped masking in May, but has started wearing one during this new wave of cases.
“It’s out there. People need to know there is a lot of asymptomatic spread,” said McDermott, who also noted a high number of cases of influenza B, historically spread after summer. She encourages people to get an updated COVID and flu shot this fall.
sort of ceremony on Aug. 8 to recognize the one-year anniversary of their terrible fire.” In the meantime, the world’s secondlargest banyan tree, planted in 1873 in Lahaina Town, which has for more than 50
years also been a place of honor, hope, respect, and reverence, just by her multitudinous branches which have embraced thousands in Lahaina, is slowly healing and even beginning to sprout new leaves. No doubt
she does so with the hope that the humans who love her, both locals and adoring visitors alike, can continue to help Lahaina, its upcountry and all of Maui, sprout new hope. Join her — and the Hortons — in the
the High Tide Line to up to five feet from the house.” In asking the app to correct the information Seider says, “HTL [truth is from the Mean High Tide Line, an average of all high tides], up to 5 ft from the house [truth—public can use the first twenty-five feet above the Mean High Tide but that still leaves over 45 feet of private sand between the public easement and the house].” He continues: “Your invitation to the
public based on these mistakes has been re-published” in other newspapers.
Seider also wrote to the app, “CCC staff, invited by the judge to settle the case with us, concluded beach front property owners were allowed to post permitted signs dividing public and private areas of the sand by reference to the MHTL. Thus, wet sand that you have invited the public to use is not necessarily public and not likely to be public around high tide, because wet sand is most often the result of
wave uprush and is usually above the MHTL. Please correct your frequent reference to wet sand as public—-it is only public if within an easement or seaward of the MHTL.”
Seider claims he had the property surveyed to be sure where the public and private beach was divided and provided the app’s owners with a copy.
Two years ago, one of the app’s owners, Jenny Price, emailed Seider and wrote that they try to make “the app as accurate as we possibly can.” Price’s email also
says: “the app says ‘up to’ 5 ft—so the public must respect a 5-foot buffer zone when the high tide line on any given day is less than 30 feet from your house.
“Also, the MHTL (as we explain in the app) is, as you say, an average high tide—for the last 18.6 years. However, no one can possibly know where that is on any given day, so the accepted onthe-ground boundary is the last high tide line, i.e. you can walk on the wet sand. The HTL will be above the MHTL on some days, and below it on others.
“And finally, the MHTL is a vertical, rather than a horizontal, measurement—which simply specifies the vertical height of the tide, rather than where the tide has actually hit the sand, over the last 18.6 years. As the beach erodes, the MHTL, just like the HTL, will move closer to the beach houses—as has happened historically on Latigo and other beaches.”
As Price earlier claimed to make “the app as accurate as we possibly can,” in a July 31 email she deflects accountability to the
CCC, which does not operate the app, writing: “we rely on the Coastal Commission for our information on signage and easements.”
The Malibu Times reached out to Price for comment on Seider’s latest request that, consistent with the signs he is permitted to post after his CCC settlement, the app respect his request to inform the public of its right to access not within five feet of his home, as implied by the app description, but only 25 feet landward of the MHTL. TMT is waiting for a response.
worldwide moment of silence at noon on Sunday, Aug. 11, during an Interfaith Day of Hope and Prayer that will be led by faith leaders of the churches and temples that were lost in the fire.
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The Lahaina Memorial is lined with photos of some of the approximately 100 victims. Photos Courtesy of Tim Horton
Commission postponed a hearing on a beach access item from the MRCA, with a new date to be announced.
During the meeting, the Planning Commission voted to continue Coastal Development Permit No. 21-035 and Variance No. 24-012, an application for constructing a rope fence across a vacant beachfront parcel, which includes a variance for encroachment into an Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area (ESHA) buffer.
On July 14, 2021, the applicant submitted an application for Coastal Development Permit (CDP) No. 21035, seeking approval to construct a rope fence on a vacant beachfront property. The proposed fence aims to provide a barrier between the private property and the adjacent public beach, addressing the applicant’s concerns over trash accumulation and loitering by beachgoers.
This project was subsequently routed to various city departments for review, including the city’s coastal engineering consultant, the city biologist, and the Public Works Department, all of whom assessed the proposal for compliance with local and state regulations.
REAL ESTATE
However, as the review process unfolded, concerns arose regarding the environmental impact of the fence, particularly its potential encroachment into an Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area (ESHA) buffer. On March 19, 2023, the current city biologist determined that the project required further scrutiny by the Environmental Review Board (ERB) due to the potential impact on specialstatus biological resources within the ESHA. This led to an ERB hearing on
tiny but terrific trailers in Paradise Cove, a space blessed by fresh ocean breezes.
May 22, 2024, where the environmental implications of the project were thoroughly examined.
During the hearing, several nearby property owners voiced their support for the construction of the fence, citing safety concerns and the challenges of managing the boundary between private property and public beach space. One neighbor
highlighted the difficulties in enforcing any restrictions in the area, stating that law enforcement officers have been unable to take action due to the lack of clear signage indicating property boundaries.
“We just need help,” the neighbor pleaded. “You guys can tell us what to do to safeguard this land; we don’t know what to do with it anymore.” This sentiment underscored the frustrations of local residents who feel caught between protecting their property and respecting public access rights, a common tension in coastal communities like Malibu.
According to a letter from the California Coastal Commission dated on Aug. 2: The proposed fence may obstruct public access to state lands, as it would mark a static boundary that could conflict with the shifting mean high tide line, impeding the public’s right to access tidal areas and is inconsistent with the CP policies that prioritize maximum public access:
Prescriptive rights: Concerns about whether the fence might impact any existing public prescriptive rights to the beach.
ESHA Impact: The project is near a stream that flows onto the beach, and the fence posts might interfere with the stream’s natural flow, raising concerns about compliance with ESHA protection policies.
The commission emphasized the importance of obtaining a permit from
the California Coastal Commission before moving forward with the proposed rope fence project. Recognizing the complexities and potential legal challenges associated with coastal development, the Planning Commission decided to continue the discussion on the matter, specifically item 5.B, until Oct. 7.
Chair John Mazza expressed his reservations about moving forward too hastily, stating, “I’d be perfectly willing to make a motion of approval, but I’d hesitate to do that,” indicating the potential risks involved without thorough consideration of the Coastal Commission’s concerns.
Commissioner Skylar Peak echoed this caution, advising the applicant, “Just know, if you go down that road, they may say ‘no’”. His statement reflects the uncertainty and possible rejection that could arise from the Coastal Commission, which has already flagged significant issues with the proposed fence.
Despite these warnings, the Planning Commission ultimately decided to approve the permit, pushing the matter forward while acknowledging the applicant’s right to pursue the project. This approval, however, comes with the understanding that the Coastal Commission’s review could still pose a significant hurdle.
The next Planning Commission meeting is scheduled for Aug. 19.
caused by an imbalance or stress in a person’s consciousness.
She’s a lady with a big dream who needs big support to start developing a blue zone in Paradise Cove.
“I’ve been smiled upon,” the vivaciously optimistic Sanchez declares. “I’m in a position where I can now smile upon others and bless them!”
What’s all this talk about a “blue zone”?
Soooo, what’s a blue zone anyway?
It’s a region in the world where people enjoy a high quality of life and have exceptionally long lives, well beyond their 80s. They include the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa Island; Loma Linda, California; and Sardinia, Italy, all areas with the lowest rate of middle-age mortality and dementia.
Developing a blue zone doesn’t take much physical space. Rather, it takes those participating in the effort being in a good, positive, happy headspace.
Sooooo, how are Sanchez and her team going to form a blue zone in Paradise Cove? She ticks off the elements of her long and everevolving to-do list to accomplish the nascent goal. She’s already on her way.
First, Sanchez had to get the blessing of Steve Dahlberg, a member of the Kissel family who manages the Cove through its Paradise Cove Land Company, to install two box gardens in empty spaces.
“Steve gave me his blessing for the garden projects,” Sanchez said. “We will have a residents’ meeting to determine where to place the garden at the top of the park and one will be near the laundry room across from my home.”
Her home, dubbed the Healing Hut, is one of those wonderful,
Dahlberg requested renderings of the proposed gardens. No problem. Enter stage left Britton Glynn of Glynn Design Build who kindly provided the renderings.
“Every single person I talk with has loved the idea for the Cove to have the gardens,” Sanchez said. “We will develop a healthy, supportive community, perhaps in the future having two to three community meals in our clubhouse using ingredients from our biodynamic gardens.”
Sanchez is well-known in Malibu’s wellness community.
“I’ve taught yoga for years, am an ayurvedic healer and help people with massage and bodywork,” she said.
According to Beach Cities Health District in Redondo Beach, a decades-old organization that focuses on preventive health, which serves Hermosa, Manhattan and Redondo beaches, forming a blue zone in one’s community optimizes residents’ health
“Blue zones” was a phrase first coined by Dan Buettner, a National Geographic explorer, fellow, and journalist during an exploratory project in 2004. The project began in Okinawa and then set out to explore other regions in the world with high longevity. There are several power principles for blue zones derived from habits practiced by those residing and thriving in such regions whose life practices are fulfilled, authentic, and healthy.
One of those principles is to move naturally — walk, don’t drive, walk a dog, take steps instead of elevators, and just keep moving!
“In our blue zone, people will be able to plant and tend to a garden and studies show that when doing so, one raises her dopamine level naturally,” Sanchez said. “We’ll keep doing my yoga classes three times a week and perhaps practice Reiki or tai
chi. Those who are interested can join a group that goes down to the beach and puts their feet in the water in harmony and synchronicity with the tides. We’ll also have walking clubs so that participants can encourage one another.”
Knowing your purpose is another principle. For the Okinawans, who are in one of the world’s nine recognized blue zones, “know your purpose” is called, “Ikigai” and the Nicoyans call it “plan de vida.”
Simply stated, both of those phrases translate to “why I wake up in the morning.” Whether to help others, be introspective and create your own world of wonder and purpose, or pursue one’s interest, a person gets to know his purpose by taking an inventory of their life and being mindful of their values, passions,
gifts, and talent.
Know why you ARE!
“We all need to follow our gifts, and creating the blue zone with a supportive team of people and community donations and possibly a grant is my next level of following my gifts,” Sanchez said.
“Positive pack” is another principle, which notes that the world’s longest-living people are either born into or choose to create social circles that support healthy behaviors. In Malibuese, it distills down to having a tribe you socialize with, a tribe you support, and that supports you. Ikarians enjoy tight-knit communities that social frequently, while Okinawans build “moai” groups of five friends that commit to each other for life.
Another principle is “belong” —
all but five of the 263 centenarians interviewed in the original blue zones studies belonged to a faithbased or civic community that organically provides opportunities to develop strong social relationships, which those studies found, can add years to one’s life.
“Down shift” is another way to phrase efforts to reduce stress because it causes inflammation, which is associated with every major age-related disease. The world’s longest-living elders have routines to shed stress that they have instilled into their mental memories so they’ve become habits. Okinawans take a few moments each day to remember their ancestors. Adventists pray, Ikarians take a nap and Sardinians do happy hour. Friends at five
gatherings are also useful — and fun!
Less is more
“Hara hachi bu,” the 2,500-yearold Confucian mantra before meals, reminds Okinawants to stop eating when they are only 80 percent full. Some easy tricks to pull that off include using tableware that is only 10 inches in diameter and tall, skinny glasses and eating one’s smallest meal in late afternoon or early evening.
Having what is known in blue zone parlance as a “plant slant,” helps as well, as in eating little meat and only that of the highest grade while partaking of fruits and vegetables galore as they have disease-fighting nutrients. Also, one is nuts if he does not eat a couple of handfuls of nuts a day.
This map shows the location of a proposed rope fence across a vacant beach parcel. The Malibu Planning Commission decided to continue the item, Coastal Development Permit No. 21-035, until October. Contributed Graphic
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Malibu Foundation hosts Native Plant Hike
Intimate learning group hikes led by Malibu Foundation experts through the UCLA Stunt Ranch Reserve
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The Malibu Foundation hosted its Guided Native Plant Hike on Sunday, Aug. 4, leading an adventurous group through the heart of the Stunt Ranch Reserve during the Guided Native Plant Hike on Aug. 4. in the Santa Monica Mountains.
The hike marked a return of guided hikes hosted by the Malibu Foundation.
The informative expedition was led by Malibu Foundation’s Native Plant Nursery Manager Lexi Davin and Urban Forest Manager Mallory Finley. They navigated an intimate-sized group through the biologically diverse UCLA-owned reserve, teaching the group about the California and Southern California native flora as well as highlighting the impact of invasives, non-native plants that disrupt the ecosystem of a natural area.
Davin and Finley spearheaded the efforts for the Malibu Foundation to host a guided hike to engage with the community and provide a fun opportunity to connect with nature and learn about the plant life throughout the Santa Monica Mountains.
“We plant these native plants, but how could we engage [with the community] and also give a full in-depth education on these native plants that are in the Santa Monica Mountains,” Davin said. “It was like a fun passion project that we wanted to do with the Malibu Foundation.”
Finley explained that more often the Malibu Foundation engages with the
community and students through volunteer opportunities and said she was excited about the opportunity to meet community members and lead them on a fun hike.
“When volunteers plant native plants
with us, it’s very much still in the preliminary stages of what a plant will look like and what it’s life cycle will be, so it’s very valuable to see and learn about how those plants are operating in a complex ecosystem once they’re
grown up in real time,” Finley said. Providing support on the hike was Assistant Director for Stunt Ranch Reserve and La Kretz Center David Blake. Sharing a wealth of knowledge of the ecosystem and experience of the reserve,
he helped navigate the group through the 310-acre land. Blake helps maintain and monitor the reserve that is a part of the University of California Natural Reserve System, which consists of 41 natural re-
Rediscovered Andy Warhol digital artwork up for sale 39 years later
Nearly four decades after their creation, some largely forgotten artworks by iconic artist Andy Warhol are going up for sale this week through a Malibu art dealer.
In 1985, Warhol, a father of the Pop Art movement, was introduced to the burgeoning world of home computers. Cash strapped at the time, the famed Warhol was courted by now-defunct Commodore International, a once rival to Apple, to help launch the company’s Amiga computer. The superstar was commissioned to demonstrate the innovation of merging digital technology with visual arts.
Commodore staged a glittering event at Lincoln Center where Warhol, always an innovator and eager to experiment with new mediums, embraced the opportunity.
During a live demonstration, he created a now-famous portrait of singer Debbie Harry of the rock group Blondie. However, the artist wasn’t an expert at the groundbreaking technology of that time and Amiga’s advanced color graphics capabilities. So, a computer expert was brought in to help. Engineer Jeff Bruette lent his expertise to Warhol
for the demonstration. Warhol’s digital portrait of Harry captured the public’s imagination. Harry was a cultural icon in her own right, and her collaboration with her friend, Warhol, symbolized a melding of two significant figures in the art and music worlds.
Three portraits of Harry were eventu -
ally made. They’re owned by the singer herself, the late CEO of Commodore, and Bruette, who was gifted a signed diskette portrait along with other dig
ital images. Bruette stored the old
and then transferred
to thumb drives, revealing a
By JUDY ABEL Special to the Malibu Times
EMMANUEL LUISSI Special to The Malibu Times
Jeff Bruette (left) and art dealer Kenneth Mitchell stand next to the digital portrait of rock singer Debbie Harry created by artist Andy Warhol. Bruette,
The hiking group poses for a photo at Cold Creek at Stunt Ranch Reserve. Photo by Emmanuel Luissi/TMT.
Cabin Fever: Part One
MALIBU SEEN
By Benjamin Marcus, Entertainment Editor
Restoring or destroying:
Topanga Ranch
Motel awaits fate
Detailing the past, present, and future of the Topanga Lagoon is a book-length topic that is hard to condense into 1,300 words or so. But here is an argument for California State Parks to not knock down the Topanga Ranch Motel (and the Feed Bin) and to resurrect those twodozen-plus cabins into a combination of “rustic” and “boujee.” Historic, visitor-serving, lovely, I’ve thought it. You’ve thought it. We’ve all thought it. Driving east out of the Malibu, smacking your lips and scratching your head when you pass Cholada — the Thai place that sounds like a Mexican place — laughing at the latest fishy puns on the board at Reel Inn and wondering how they never run out of material. And then passing the decrepit, Boo Radley remains of the Topanga Ranch Motel and thinking, “Why don’t they fix that up? How many cabins are back there? Imagine if they had famous designers/architects customize and Maliboujee out each one with mod cons and comforts? It’s all perfectly situated 5.6 miles from the Malibu Pier and 5.0 miles from the California Incline! What would
people pay for those sunrises and moonrises over Carson? Those tequila sunrises and sunsets? Two hundred a night? Three hundred? A thousand a night? There’s not many options along the 21-Mile Miracle and those cabins would be booked solid for years like Tavarua Surf Camp! What are they waiting for??!?!?”
You’ve thought that, as have we all. So what’s up?
Topanga State Park is 11,000 acres owned and managed by California State Parks. There is a movement to expand the diminished Topanga Lagoon from one acre to 7-10 acres and make it a better habitat for our friends the tidewater goby and steelhead. And just, in general, sanitize and rearrange the whole Lower Topanga and make
it shipshape and Bristol Fashion.
This is a project very similar to the Malibu Lagoon Restoration and like that deal, this one has inspired pitchforks and lanterns and a great deal of public comment and input.
The Topanga Ranch Motel is more than 100 years old and in the path of that environmental restoration:
To restore, or demolish? That is the question.
Built in 1920, these motor courtstyle bungalows originally housed a classical music summer camp. They were among Malibu’s first buildings (on the public side of the Rindge ranch).
You could write a book — or several books — about the evolution of Lower Topanga. Pablo Capra has done that exactly: “Topanga Beach:
Campaign status
PERSPECTIVE
By Burt Ross, Contributed Column
As some of you might recall, earlier this summer I threw my proverbial hat in the ring and announced that I was running for President of the United States. A friend of mine recently asked me how my campaign was going, and so I believe that you, my loyal reader, deserve a status report.
For one thing, the current occupant of the White House was so intimidated by my announcement that within two weeks of my declaring my candidacy, he dropped out of the race.
The simple fact is that the reaction to my declared candidacy has been overwhelming and beyond anything I could have anticipated. My physical therapist said he would vote for me, and my great nephew said he would vote for me if he could, but he is only 14 years old.
Ever since I announced my candidacy, my phone has been ringing off the hook which is no mean feat, because I have a cellphone and keep it in my pants pocket.
I have decided to forego all the filing papers necessary to place myself on the 50 state ballots. I refuse to be bogged down by all these technical -
of Warhol’s digital experiments.
“This is the rarest thing. I can’t think of anything that’s more unique than this right now in artwork,” said Kenneth Mitchell, a four-decade Malibu resident who is selling the artwork. Mitchell, who has run art galleries in New York and Palm Beach in his 60-year career and had spent time with the artist years earlier, said, “Once Andy started learning how to work the computer, he fell in love with it. That’s all he wanted to do.”
For many years, these digital works were overshadowed by Warhol’s more traditional works and the physical media he is best known for, until now. Bruette has decided to part with his resurfaced Warhol treasures and enlisted Mitchell in the sale. The collection includes 10 images by Warhol on two original floppy disks, two thumb drives, the original Amiga computer and a Warhol signed Harry portrait.
It’s being offered at $26 million.
“There are seven pieces the public has never seen,” according to Mitchell. Two images are of Dol-
ities. It seems a lot simpler to just have everybody write in my name. My first and last names are each four letters, so it’s not like writing in the name of former Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski. Imagine having five consonants in your name before reaching a vowel!
I have also decided not to campaign out of state — make that out of town. I have no intention of leaving Malibu, and quite frankly, when I am elected, official business will be conducted here. I can make great decisions as easily here as elsewhere now that we live in the world of virtual work. I also firmly believe that the voters will respect me more for having the intelligence to live in Malibu rather than moving to Washington, D.C. In fact, I absolutely need lots of sunshine to deal with the world’s problems with clarity.
I have decided to take the high road and will refuse to engage in any name-calling. Even though I am not a Christian, I will turn the other cheek if I am attacked, but so far, I am happy to report that my opponents have completely ignored my candidacy, at their own peril, I might add.
I cannot believe I still have decisions to make, like picking a running mate and deciding whether I want to debate. For now, I need to relax a bit, take a dip in the pool, and enjoy the Malibu summer.
ly Parton, and several others are self-portraits.
“The first time I met him was at the Gotham Bookstore. He didn’t have a dealer then. He had a portrait of his mother that I bought,” recalled Mitchell, who in his long career has since sold nearly 100 Warhols. “He was always so involved in something, a work of art, something. He never stopped.”
Mitchell visited the artist a few times at his studio known as “The Factory.” “He was always with a parade of people,” he noted.
The sale of Warhol’s lost digital images represents a fascinating intersection of art history, technology, and pop culture. The unique nature of these works, unlike traditional Warhol pieces, represent an early exploration of what would later become a significant trend in the art world: digital and computer-generated art. The digital works of Warhol, who embraced new ideas in art, showcased new technologies long before they became mainstream in the art world.
The sale of these lost digital images reemphasizes Warhol’s enduring influence and the
A History, 1820s-1920s” (Brass Tacks Press). Topanga history is in his blood and brain.
“The origin of the Topanga Ranch Motel goes back to Cooper’s Camp, which began as a campground in 1919 managed by Miller Cooper,” Capra said. “In 1924, the Los Angeles Athletic Club bought Topanga Beach with plans to turn it into a yacht harbor. William Randolph Hearst liked the idea, and bought part of the beach from them, as well as part of Tuna Canyon. In 1933, he was accused of creating a useless construction job to move the still-new PCH slightly inland so his property would fall on the beach side. This meant that the motel had to be moved inland too, and the bridge rebuilt, in the locations where they are now.”
Barbara Tejada, whose title is Supervisor, Cultural Resources Program for Angeles District, added, “The Motel began life as tent cabins and a dance pavilion c. 1919-1920 with sturdier cabins constructed by 1924 when the Coast Road was completed through Topanga Beach as far as Las Flores. Due to high recreational demand, the Coast Road was widened, becoming known as the Roosevelt Highway. The widening produced quite a bit of fill material from cutting into the coastal slopes, so the Division of Highways (precursor to Caltrans)
used as much as 60 percent of that fill in the Topanga Lagoon. The Auto Camp was relocated on top of the filled area.”
Capra’s family moved to Lower Topanga in 1980 and had some very good years well into the 21st Century: “My family was in The Rodeo Grounds behind the Malibu Feed Bin since 1980. We were among the last residents to leave in March 2006. The motel closed in 2005, after State Parks threatened to evict both the businesses and the residents. Instead, State Parks changed its mind about the businesses a couple years later, and became the landlord of the commercial strip, charging $8 for what used to be free parking. Other businesses that left too soon were Ginger Snips, Something’s Fishy, The Topanga Ranch Market, and The Money House. These businesses resent not only feeling forced out, but that State Parks has allowed new businesses to take their space.”
State Parks’ original plan was to connect the land to Topanga State Parks and preserve the cabins as the park’s entrance. Instead, the land looks ruined and visitor unfriendly:
“The only attention given to Lower Topanga seems to be spraying the non-native plants with herbicides. State Parks should stop putting chemicals in the watershed, focus on
preserving what’s left, and not take on new projects,” Capra said. The rangers maintain one fencedoff cabin, hidden in back of the motel, where they have dogs, a Jacuzzi, a skate ramp, and a quiver of surfboards. According to Capra, “They live the same Topanga Beach lifestyle we did, which is cool, except they took it away from us and from the public.”
Tejada fouled that off a bit: “There are currently 23 cabin structures containing 30 units if you count the office and the combined units separately. The current employee residence does not have a Jacuzzi, pets and the old dilapidated skate ramp I believe has been, or is in process of, being dismantled.”
The future of Topanga Lagoon — and the Topanga Ranch Motel — was debated the day this story was turned in — Monday the 5th of August — in a virtual public meeting that will poke and prod the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and hopefully polish it into the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR).
As the DEIR is written now, there are four alternatives which will affect the Topanga Ranch Motel, from demolishing it completely to restoring it completely — although not for public, commercial use. More on that next week.
timeless appeal of his work. It also serves as a reminder of the constantly evolving nature of art and the ways in which technology can transform creative expression. The works celebrate Warhol’s legacy in paving the way for greater recognition of digital art in the global art market, marking the convergence of traditional art values with modern technological advancements while opening new possibilities for how art is created, viewed, and valued in the digital age.
Mitchell said, “This is the most exciting journey I’ve ever dealt with in my career.” The art dealer who has sold Gauguins and other important works loves Warhol art and credits the artist with “opening up the art market.”
Mitchell is shopping the digital Warhols, but hopes a museum will buy the collection. “I want to keep it in this country and I want it to be seen by more persons than one,” he said.
For information on the collection or further discussion contact Kenneth Mitchell at (310) 508-3770, kennythemitch77@ yahoo.com or Stephenlamm8@ gmail.com.
do to help support in the removing of invasives.
serves. The UC reserve system is the largest university reserve system in the world and is home to 2,100-plus native plants and sees 147,000 students and researchers every year.
“The whole area is devoted towards people to come learn more and to grow as a community in terms of understanding the Santa Monica Mountains and just conservation in general. The space is primarily used for creating understanding and research so it’s really great when the public comes to support that,” Blake explained.
The hike participants had to RSVP to be eligible for the experience, and the group was capped at just 10 participants in an effort to maintain an intimate-sized group that would foster purposeful education and meaningful discussion. Davin and Finley said the interest for the hike led to be “sold out” within an hour of announcement, with hopes for more hike opportunities to be announced in the near future.
The highly insightful hike led the group down to the Cold Creek watershed of the Malibu Creek, where the group was treated to a fun activity of native plant bingo and more information on invasives, how to avoid the spread of invasives, and what they could
The event ended with a brunch hosted at the reserve research facility where participants of bingo were treated to prizes for whoever identified the most native plants throughout the hike.
Prizes included a copy of the highly informative “California Plants: A Guide to Our Iconic Flora” by Matt Ritter and California nature-inspired artwork from local artist Lesley Goren.
Kaia Jessum is a local student majoring in environmental science with hopes of working in the field and said the experience was very rewarding.
“I think it’s interesting, I know a little bit about natural plants and invasives but to experience and learn about it this way is pretty cool,” Jessum said. Davin and Finley hope to continue to represent the Malibu Foundation and support future guided hikes and engaging activities and hopes the community continues interest in nature studies, understanding and conservation.
For more information on impactful work in your community or to subscribe to the newsletter and alerts for future events and volunteer opportunities, follow @malibufoundation on Instagram or visit malibufoundation.org.
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NATIVE PLANT HIKE
ANDY WARHOL
Guided by Malibu Foundation’s Native Plant Nursery Manager Lexi Davin and Urban Forest Manager Mallory Finley, the hiking group heads down to Cold Creek. Photos by Emmanuel Luissi/TMT.
Assistant Director for Stunt Ranch Reserve and La Kretz Center David Blake led close behind the group on the hike through Stunt Ranch.
The Topanga Ranch Motel: Dignity defaced. History halted. Sad. Photo by Pablo Capra
Past Waves All-American joins Pepperdine men’s water polo coaching staff
Spencer Hamby was one of several new Waves athletics coaching announcements last month
By McKENZIE JACKSON Special to The Malibu Times
Aformer Pepperdine University All-American joined the Waves men’s water polo team’s coaching staff last week.
The university announced on July 29 that Spencer Hamby, a two-time American Collegiate Water Polo Coaches Association All-American and team captain, was hired as an assistant coach ahead of the Waves’ 2024 campaign, which begins next month.
Hamby, a 2013 Pepperdine graduate, said in a statement that he is excited to be part of his alma mater’s coaching staff.
“I am looking forward to bringing my experience and positive energy to the team as well as helping our student-athletes thrive in the classroom and the pool,” he said. “Along with our excellent coaching staff on deck,
I’m confident we can be competitive and win WCC championships.”
Hamby, who played professional water polo in Germany for seven years after graduating from Pepperdine, will help guide a squad that won a share of the West Coast Conference regular season titles in 2023. Waves head coach Merrill Moses, who coached Hamby at Pepperdine, is excited to add his former player to the Waves coaching ranks.
“He is a Pepperdine alum who knows what it means to be a Wave and represent Pepperdine and our water polo program,” Moses remarked.“He was one of the best centers to ever play for Pepperdine and has also played professionally in Europe and for Team USA.”
Hamby was one of several new Waves athletics coaching announcements last month.
Logan Robbins, Dane Stankiewicz, and Cameron Rowland joined new Waves baseball head coach Tyler LaTorre’s staff. Robbins, adept at coaching hitting with power, was a coach at Notre Dame for two seasons before joining Pepperdine. He helped the team hit a school record in home runs and lead college baseball in slugging percentage one season. Robbins also coached at Old Dominion for seven years and Ken-
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“I can’t wait to see Logan dive in and develop elite-level hitters,” LaTorre said. “In the short time that we have gotten to know each other, Logan and I have already aligned our goals for the program and are ready to elevate Waves baseball.”
Stankiewicz was an assistant coach at UC San Diego for two seasons previously and had the same role at Saddleback College in 2022.
LaTorre said adding Stankiewicz to the coaching staff, which also includes pitching coach Rowland, was a huge step for the Waves.
“He had a great career playing at Grand Canyon prior to getting into his coaching career,” LaTorre noted. “Dane brings a youthful energy that our players will love.”
Also, Martin Redlicki, a former Pepperdine Waves men’s tennis volunteer assistant coach, rejoined the team’s coaching staff as an assistant coach. Redlicki rejoined Pepperdine after serving as the Oklahoma State men’s tennis team’s assistant coach from 2022-24.
Redlicki, a two-time NCAA doubles champion and the 2018 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Player of the Year at UCLA, was a Waves volunteer assistant coach from 2020-22.
Hamby, the new addition to the
Waves water polo coaching staff, played pro water polo in Germany from 2013-20. He helped Wasserfreunde Spandau 04, a team in Berlin, win two Bundesliga championships during that time. Afterwards, Hamby came back to the U.S. and was the head water polo coach for Garland Independent School District in Dallas. The former player was also the coach of the Southwest Zone Olympic Development Program Cadet Team and was tapped to be the top coach for the Cadet division at the 2024 USA Water Polo Olym-
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pic Developmental Championships.
As a Wave from 2009-13, Hamby tallied 20 goals in each of his last three seasons and earned spots on Team USA in 2009 and 2011 at the Junior World Championships.
Moses, a Waves assistant coach and associate head coach before being promoted to head coach in March and a former Olympian and Pepperdine All-American, said Hamby was one of the best centers to ever dive in the pool for Pepperdine.
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edge to our program with his experience as a player and a coach and will help our program succeed in reaching our goals of winning conference championships and competing for NCAA Championships,” Moses noted.
The Waves water polo coaching staff also includes one of the most iconic people in American water polo history, Hall of Famer Terry Schroeder, the associate head coach, who served as Pepperdine’s head coach for 32 seasons, and assistant coach Mike Tragitt, a former Waves standout.
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 21-20583-SPCA Title No. 210816392-CA-VOI A.P.N. 2049-028-113 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 05/19/2004. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, (cashier’s check(s) must be made payable to National Default Servicing Corporation), drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state; will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made in an “as is” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: Felix R Wasser and Beatriz N Wasser, Trustee of the Wasser Family Trust Dated May 23, 1990 Duly Appointed Trustee: National Default Servicing Corporation Recorded 05/26/2004 as Instrument No. 04 1342881 (or Book, Page) of the Official Records of Los Angeles County, California. Date of Sale: : 09/05/2024 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: Doubletree Hotel Los Angeles-Norwalk, Vineyard Ballroom, 13111 Sycamore Drive, Norwalk, CA 90650 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $2,097,795.90 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 24341 Bridle Trail Road, Hidden Hills, CA 91302 A.P.N.: 2049-028-113 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The requirements of California Civil Code Section 2923.5(b)/2923.55(c) were fulfilled when the Notice of Default was recorded. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on
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this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800-280-2832 or visit this internet website www. ndscorp.com/sales, using the file number assigned to this case 21-20583-SP-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT*: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are a “representative of all eligible tenant buyers” you may be able to purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 888-264-4010, or visit this internet website www.ndscorp.com, using the file number assigned to this case 21-20583-SPCA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as a “representative of all eligible tenant buyers” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. *Pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code, the potential rights described herein shall apply only to public auctions taking place on or after January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2025, unless later extended. Date: 07/17/2024 National Default Servicing Corporation c/o Tiffany and Bosco, P.A., its agent, 1455 Frazee Road, Suite 820 San Diego, CA 92108 Toll Free Phone: 888-264-4010 Sales Line 800-280-2832; Sales Website: www.ndscorp.com Connie Hernandez, Trustee Sales Representative A-4821241 08/01/2024, 08/08/2024, 08/15/2024 MALIBU 163
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1. AUNTIE B’S BUG BREW 21530 CALIFA STREET UNIT 330, WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91367, LOS ANGELES COUNTY Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable): Registered Owner(s):
1. MARIE C VALDES 21530 CALIFA STREET UNIT 330, WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91367 If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/ Organization
This business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime). Signed, MARIE C VALDES, OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 7/25/2024. NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION.THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider the project described below. A presentation and overview of the project will be given, and any interested person or authorized agent may appear and comment on the project at the hearing. The Regional Planning Commission will then consider a vote to approve or deny the project or continue the hearing if it deems necessary. Should you attend, you will have an opportunity to testify, or you can submit written comments to the planner below or at the public hearing. If the final decision on this proposal is challenged in court, challenges may be limited to issues raised before or at the public hearing.
Hearing Date and Time: Wednesday, September 18th at 9:00 a.m.
Hearing Location: 320 West Temple St., Rm. 150, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Virtual (Online) at bit.ly/ ZOOM-RPC. By phone at (669) 444-9171 or (719) 359-4580 (ID: 858 6032 6429).
Project No.: PRJ2023-003193-(1-5)
Case No.: RPPL2023004662
Project Location: Unincorporated Los Angeles
County Project Description: An ordinance amending Title 2 – Administration and Title 22 – Planning and Zoning of the Los Angeles County Code that corrects minor technical errors and discrepancies, reformats and reorganizes sections, streamlines procedures, makes the County Code consistent with State law and other County regulations, and adds definitions and clarifies code language for ease of implementation. CEQA Determination: This project qualifies as a Categorical Exemption pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15305 (Class 5, Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations) and Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3). The proposed Ordinance is administrative in nature and has no physical effect on the environment.
Case Documents: https://bit.ly/PRJ2023-003193
Contact Information: Kenneth Warner, Regional Planner. 320 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. (213) 974-6411. ordinance@planning.lacounty.gov. https://planning.lacounty.gov/long-rangeplanning/title-22-tune-up-program/. If you need reasonable accommodations or auxiliary aids, contact the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator at (213) 974-6488 (Voice) or (213) 617-2292 (TDD) with at least 3 business days’ advanced notice.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF MALIBU PLANNING COMMISSION
The Malibu Planning Commission will hold public hearings on TUESDAY, September 3, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Malibu City Hall , 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu, CA and via teleconference on the projects identified below.
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT NO. 21-069, CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 23-008, VARIANCE NOS. 22-002 AND 24-005, AND DEMOLITION PERMIT NO. 22-003 - An application to replace a pump station and related equipment servicing existing Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 29 infrastructure in the Encinal Canyon area; including a Conditional Use Permit for a public utilities facility use on two residentially zoned lots, 32805 Camino de Buena Ventura and 4525 Avenida de la Encinal, two variances for encroachments into the side yard setback of each lot, and a demolition permit to demolish the existing utility infrastructure
Locations: 32805 Camino De Buena Ventura and 4525 Avenida de la Encinal APNs: 4473-009-011 and 4473-009-012
Zoning: Rural Residential, Two-Acre (RR-2)
Applicant: Los Angeles County Department of Public
Works
Owner: County of Los Angeles
Appealable to: City Council and California Coastal Commission
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT NO. 21-064, SITE PLAN REVIEW NO. 21-035, AND DEMOLITION PERMIT NO. 24-035 - An application to remodel an existing 4,897 square-foot, two-story single-family residence, an 816 square foot addition to an existing two-story 893 square-foot detached garage, construction of a new 2,434 square foot pool cabana, a new swimming pool, spa, and decks; including a site plan review for construction in excess of 18 feet in height, up to 28 feet in height with a pitched roof, for the detached garage and the new pool cabana, and a demolition permit to demolish the existing horse stable
Location: 23344 Palm Canyon Lane
APN: 4452-014-067
Zoning: Rural Residential, One-Acre (RR-1)
Applicant: Burdge and Associates Architects, Inc.
Owner: M&L Sorochinsky Trust
Appealable to: City Council and California Coastal Commission Environmental Review: Categorical Exemption CEQA Guidelines Sections 15301(a), 15301(e), and 15303(e)
EXTENSION OF COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT NO. 16-012, CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE NO. 22-004, AND LOT MERGER NO. 20-001 - A request to extend the Planning Commission’s approval to merge two lots and for construction of a new single-family residence, basement, swimming pool, grading, onsite wastewater treatment system and associated development
Location: 31573 Sea Level Drive
APN: 4470-022-041
Zoning: Single-family Medium (SFM)
Applicant: Ryan Levis Architect, Inc.
Owner: Keane Real Estate Holdings 1 LLC
Appealable to: City Council
Environmental Review: Categorical Exemption CEQA Guidelines Sections 15303(a) and 15303(e)
For the projects identified above with a categorical exemption for environmental review, pursuant to the authority and criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Planning Director has analyzed these proposed projects and found that they are listed among the classes of projects that have been determined not to have a significant adverse effect on the environment. Therefore, the projects are categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA. The Planning Director has further determined that none of the six exceptions to the use of a categorical exemption apply to these projects (CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2).
Extension requests will be presented on consent calendar based on staff’s recommendation but any person wishing to be heard may request at the beginning of the meeting to have the application addressed separately. Please see the recording secretary before start of the meeting to have an item removed from consent calendar.
A written staff report will be available at or before the hearing for the projects. All persons wishing to address the Commission regarding these matters will be afforded an opportunity in accordance with the Planning Commission’s procedures.
Copies of all related documents can be reviewed by any interested person at City Hall during regular business hours. Oral and written comments may be presented to the Planning Commission on, or before, the date of the meeting.
LOCAL APPEAL – A decision of the Planning Commission may be appealed to the City Council by an aggrieved person by written statement setting forth the grounds for appeal. An appeal shall be filed with the City Clerk within ten days following the date of action (15 days for tentative maps) for which the appeal is made and shall be accompanied by an appeal form and filing fee, as specified by the City Council. Appeal forms may be found online at www. malibucity.org/planningforms or in person at City Hall, or by calling (310) 456-2489, extension 246.
COASTAL COMMISSION APPEAL – For projects appealable to the Coastal Commission, an aggrieved person may appeal the Planning Commission’s approval to the Coastal Commission within 10 working days of the issuance of the City’s Notice of Final Action. Appeal forms may be found online at www. coastal.ca.gov or in person at the Coastal Commission South Central Coast District office located at 89 South California Street in Ventura, or by calling 805-585-1800. Such an appeal must be filed with the Coastal Commission, not the City.
IF YOU CHALLENGE THE CITY’S ACTION IN COURT, YOU MAY BE LIMITED TO RAISING ONLY THOSE ISSUES YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE RAISED AT THE PUBLIC HEARING DESCRIBED IN THIS NOTICE, OR IN WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE DELIVERED TO THE CITY, AT OR PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING.
Salvador Lopez, Jr., Interim Assistant Planning Director
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1. TONY SPRINGER
15001 MCKENDREE AVE, PACIFIC PALISADES, CA 90272, LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable): Registered Owner(s): 1. PHILIP SPRINGER 15001 MCKENDREE AVE, PACIFIC PALISADES, CA 90272
If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/ Organization
This business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/1999
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime). Signed, PHILIP SPRINGER, OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 7/15/2024. NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION.THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF BRUCE GOWERS Case No. 24STPB06727 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of BRUCE GOWERS
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Carol Rosenstein in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Carol Rosenstein be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 30, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 11 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner:
M KATZENSTEIN
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Katie Faulkner, formerly the associate head coach at Washington, takes over a team that was 5-25 last year
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epperdine Waves women’s basketball team head coach Katie Faulkner doesn’t expect her squad to fast-break through the upcoming season.
Instead, the first-year Waves hoops coach’s squad will take their 2024-25 campaign, which starts with practices in September, one dribble at a time.
“Every day there is growth,” said Faulkner, hired to be Pepperdine’s coach in April. “We are never putting up a zero in practice. We are continuing to lay the
foundation of our culture, our standards and adding in basketball pieces of the process in between, of course.”
That culture is a competitive one, the coach said.
“I’m not interested in the results,” Faulkner explained. “Which is ironic because I am in a results-based industry, but I’m obsessed with the process. So, every day did we do our best? Did we get better? If we truly focus on that by November, December, January, there is an immense amount of magic that comes because of those things.”
Faulkner has taken over a hoops program that finished last season with a 5-25 record. The year before, the Waves went 11-19. The team had an 8-17 record two seasons ago.
Faulkner, an associate head coach at Washington the previous three seasons, is used to success on the sideline. During her 10-year coaching career, she has helped guide teams to eight postseason qualifications and coached four WNBA draft selections.
Faulkner, also a standout player at the University
of Montana before going into coaching, said winning isn’t as quick and easy as an undefended layup. She and her coaching staff spent four weeks of practice in June and four weeks of practice in July teaching the players the competitiveness they want them to have when the season tips off.
Three-point shots were launched, scrimmages happened, layup drills with two basketballs were swished, and high-fives by the players adorned in Pepperdine orange and blue were frequent.
“There is an adaptation that has to come with new standards and new culture,” Faulkner said. “New coaches, new verbs, new terminology. The players soaked it up. Their ability to compete and want to grow was really evident. That is something you can build on.”
Pepperdine’s returning players include junior shot-blocking center KK Brodie, sophomore guard Hailey Johnson, graduate student guard Ella Brubaker, senior guards Addi Melone and Helena Friend,
and senior forwards Megan Harkey and Maggie Vick.
The newcomers include freshman guard Chloe Stotell, a two-time national champion with Montverde Academy in Florida, and transfers Ornela Muca and sisters Malia Mastora and Makena Mastora. The three transfers are also guards.
The team members got to know each other well during their summer practices. When school begins this month, they will do some training. Their head coach envisions the team playing a brand of hoops that is high-paced and efficient.
Faulkner said the team has high character.
“Basketball is simple,” she said. “You can teach that on so many different levels, but character is what matters right now.”
Faulkner said building toward being a good squad will be a fun process.
“Day by day,” she said. “A lot of people try to force the rebuild, but the focus has to be right here. Right now.” H H H THIS WEEK AT THE AGOURA SHELTER H H H
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women’s basketball coach Katie Faulkner observes Helena Friend (right). (Bottom left) The Waves’ Malia Mastora, one of three transfers to Pepperdine this year, consults with assistant coach Joslyn Tinkle. (Bottom right) Pepperdine guard Ella Brubaker takes a shot during a recent Waves women’s basketball practice. Brubaker, a graduate student, is one of several returning players for Pepperdine. Photos courtesy of Pepperdine University
