The Malibu Times • September 7, 2023

When one enters Malibu Lumber Yard (MLY), you will see a lot of James Perse’s presence. ere’s an apparel shop named James Perse, featuring the highly successful businessman’s aesthetic clothing. en, there’s James Perse Malibu Home, an upscale home furnishings and accessory space. For a while, James Perse had an antique store on the rst level and also had its Y/osemite brand of high performance gear and accessories occupy a space. Now, much of the lower level space is vacant, with Cafe Habana and the two James Perse locations as the only current rst oor occupants.

In the past, some local retail businesses were also on the ground oor. No longer. Strange Family Vineyards’ Malibu Wine Tasting Room, the last local business standing on the rst level of MLY, was given notice to vacate its rst- oor location as of Aug. 31.

However, the Strange family is not going quietly.

After spending 10 months of time, energy and expense waiting to be placed on the agenda for the Malibu Planning Commission to allow Strange Family Vineyard’s Malibu Wine Tasting Room to split the MLY’s liquor license in half so it could relocate its tasting room from the ground oor to MLY’s second oor — and, after nally getting the City Council to approve that split of license and venue relocation, and after negotiating a lease with WPG Malibu, LLC, an a liate of Washington Prime Group (NYSE:WPG)

ousands of families enjoyed hours of carnival rides, bowls of award-winning chili, and live music for the 41st Annual Malibu Chili Cook-Off over this Labor Day weekend.

e highly anticipated four-day summer event brought together friends, families, local businesses, and restaurants for a weekend of fun and food.

The fair kicked off on Friday night, also known as Locals’ Night, continued with the chili competition on Saturday, the 4th Annual Johnny Strange Legacy Skate Competition Sunday, and Family Day on Monday, Sept. 4, where tickets were $20.

Some of the chili vendors that returned were Duke’s and Beyond

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Meat. Food trucks o ered a variety of carnival foods, such as ice cream, corn dogs, chili fries, and funnel cakes. One of the newest restaurants coming to Malibu Park at Cross Creek, Irv’s Burger and Prince Street Pizza, also participated in the festivities and even won second place for their chili.

This year’s champions were Universal Music Group for rst place in the meat category, and Duke’s

Malibu, with the people’s choice award and rst place in the veggie category.

Chili chefs competing included Dan Morales of Universal Music Group, who went up to the podium to receive the award and said the event was all about family and community.

“ e Boys & Girls Club means a lot to the community, we’re so happy to do it every year, 100 percent of the

proceeds go to the charity,” Morales said. “Come buy more chili.”

e competition attracted both pro and amateur chefs to enter and featured a wide range of chili entries — from meat-based to vegan chilis and Texas-inspired chili to AfroLatin and Asian-inspired recipes.

Chili chefs competing included Dan Morales of Universal Music Group, Diana Stravaridis of Beyond Meat, Alex Rylance of Stoner House Farms, Darrell Gillcrese of Mestico, Lisa McCullough-Roark of Topanga Grain Company, Armen Piskoulian of Irv’s Burgers, Mario Lopez of Green Truck, along with chefs from Duke’s Malibu.

Renowned judges included cohost of Food Network’s e Grill Dads Ryan Fey, celebrity chef Jet Tila, Top Chef alum Marcel Vigneron, KCRW’s Good Food host Evan Kleiman, Chris ompkins of Broad Street Oyster Co., founder of e Infatuation and EEEEEATSCON Chris Stang, Conscious City Guide founder Mel Nahas, and more.

Partners and sponsors included

A second public records request seeking information about the exclusive restaurant Nobu in Malibu has revealed a better understanding of the real penalty the restaurant received from the city regarding the July 4 tra c disaster it caused during an unpermitted event. e public records request also reveals no required Temporary Use Permits (TUPs) were issued by the city to the high-end sushi establishment in the past 10 years despite numerous events apparently requiring them and numerous complaints.

e restaurant’s compliance with public safety issues came to a head on Independence Day this summer when 700 guests converged on Nobu for an advertised “White Party.” e event was unpermitted despite apparently requiring a TUP. e city website (malibucity.org) states: “You will need a TUP if your

A new chaperone policy for minors instituted for the rst time this Labor Day Weekend at the Malibu

Chili Cook-O appears to have accomplished its goal.

No children unaccompanied by an adult of at least age 21 were allowed into the community event cherished by local families. e Boys & Girls Club Malibu, which has been staging the popular event for the past few years, instituted

e new Malibu Marlins swim club is voicing frustration over obtaining swim time at the Malibu

community pool at Malibu High School. e Marlins were formed over the summer when the Malibu Aquatics Foundation (MAF) red coach Erik Ran over the objections of many in the program it ran, the Malibu Seawolves.

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Baker Tilly reviews Malibu development processes

ing its development procedures “are rooted in three areas.”

By BARBARA BURKE Special to The Malibu

On Aug. 1, consultant Baker Tilly, an advisory tax and assurance accountancy rm, sent the city an exhaustive report assessing the city’s challenged development processes, including permit issuance, inspections, and the enforcement of municipal zoning and development regulations.

Yes — yet another consultant’s report aimed at studying residents’ concerns, replete with interviews of sta persons, concerned citizens, contract workers, and construction, architect and design professionals. Yes — yet another city-funded study with customer experience surveys.

First, there is a lack of clear and consistent policies and regulations that make project review “di cult and time consuming and resulting in various outcomes,” conclusions that mirror many Malibuites’ own assessments as they su ered through what one resident trying to rebuild after the re told Malibu Times could only be characterized as “extremely tortured and protracted processes.”

rational and I expect the council will accept 95 percent of them, but it makes sense to implement them in small groups.”

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Be sure to visit Pepperdine University's Waves of Flags tribute, honoring the 9/11 victims. Also, join the Ride to the Flags on Sept. 10 at Malibu Blu s Park, starting 10 a.m. at the Naval Base. For details, visit whiteheart.org/ridetothe ags.

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However, to be fair, BT’s review of city operations is thorough and, if its recommendations are implemented properly, could be instrumental in addressing the frustrations, delays, and expenses incurred by those wishing to obtain permits in Malibu, by those wishing for the city to enforce its policies, and by those wishing to not only address the immediate concerns, but to also proactively respond to ever-changing technologies in our ever-changing world.

Noting the development process is performed by three city departments: Environmental Sustainability, Planning and Public Works and Engineering, BT determined that the city’s problems in administer-

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Second, “insu cient sta ng resources constrain the city’s capacity to handle the workload,” according to BT. Finally, the city’s ability to monitor and manage the development process e ectively is constrained by “missing components and other challenges,” with the “management system,” de ned as “the interrelated tools, techniques, approaches and methods used to manage city operations.” In sum, BT opined “the governance structure in Malibu lacks clarity as it relates to the development process, and this makes it appear that the city is disorganized and inconsistent.”

e consultancy report provides 46 recommendations designed to improve the process-wide de ciencies.

“We’re waiting for Baker Tilly to provide an implementation plan,” Councilperson Paul Grisanti said, noting that the issues addressed in the development services review and the implementation plan will be agendized for the full council’s review as soon as that is received.

“All of the recommendations are

Grisanti noted that at one time after the Woolsey Fire, each sta person was responsible for approximately 60 cases, but with the help of contracted professionals, that had been reduced to approximately 40 cases per sta person, which he characterized as still constituting “a sizable backlog.”

To put those gures in context, Grisanti noted, “Beverly Hills sta has approximately 10 cases each, although that is a fairly built-out city and it didn’t su er through a wild re.”

Starting at the beginning by changing the rules of the game BT opined that governmental complexities related to land use policies and regulations in Malibu, including the General Plan, Zoning Ordinance, and the California Coastal Commission’s Local Coastal Plan (LCP) that was certi ed in 2004, contain provisions that are “inconsistent, unclear, or con ict with one another, which “leave certain issues or topics open to interpretation, that create uncertainties and delays in the development process.”

It is imperative, in BT’s assessment, to update the Zoning Or-

dinance and amendments to the relevant LCP documents, working closely with the Coastal Commission. “Problems and ine ciencies will continue until these policies are reconciled,” BT emphasized.

Hiring of experienced employees is critical path

Exacerbating the inconsistent regulations challenges is a foundational problem relating to sta ng levels and the city’s capacity to handle the workload, BT concluded, noting that the city “has faced substantial headwinds in recruiting and retaining employees with the experience needed to handle the workload,” and there has been “a relatively high rate of turnover in positions providing development-related services. Further, a substantial number of vacant positions remain.”

e need to meet workload demands has led the city to hire and rely quite heavily on contracted sta members, a strategy that, in Grisanti’s estimation, “has saved the city’s bacon,” on the one hand, but that, in BT’s assessment, is not a panacea, in part because such contracted employees work remotely, meaning they do not engage in person with residents, and because already-encumbered sta must interface with and manage contracted sta . Simply stated, BT concludes, “ e city has become over-reliant on contract

sta , an approach which has not proven to be e ective or sustainable.”

Technology Recommendations

“ e lack of technology in City Hall is an overarching problem for the organization,” BT concluded, partly because “there is no comprehensive system to track project progress, or for customers to monitor the status of their projects.”

Simply stated, BT advised, “the city needs to acquire software that allows for comprehensive project management, including monitoring turnaround times and customer accessibility.”

Next Steps

To assist the city over the next 18 to 24 months as it implements the recommended changes, BT is preparing a “Near-Term Strategic Work Plan,” to help the city to prioritize changes that need to be undertaken to implement the major recommendations identi ed in the report. e Malibu Times will keep readers informed concerning how that process evolves because, as virtually all those answering surveys and participating in interviews — whether customers, sta , contracted sta , design, construction, engineering or professional consultants concur — things have to change when it comes to the city’s permitting, code enforcement and inspections.

Community members hike with State Senator Ben Allen

Iconic Gladstones restauraunt set to close after 50 years in business

Wolfgang Puck plans to open new restaurant at the location

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Upcoming City Council: September 11

is past Sunday, Aug. 27, District 24 State Senator Ben Allen came to Malibu to hike and have lunch with the area’s community members. Sam Liu, Allen’s district director, and Davis Han, his district representative, accompanied Allen. e hike and lunch were hosted by the Malibu Democratic Club, but were open to the entire community. Many people came out to enjoy the fun and spectacularly beautiful day.

e senator loves Malibu, and has always shown a genuine interest in our city. He has been hiking in Malibu since he was a child, when he and his father hiked a lot in the canyons. He also served on the San-

ta Monica-Malibu Uni ed School District board early in his career, so he is familiar with the school issues. Today’s events were designed to give him the opportunity to get to know Malibu residents and their concerns in a broader and deeper way, now that he is our state senator. Malibu rolled out the best weather it has to o er for the hike around the Point Dume Nature Preserve. In addition to soaking in the natural beauty and vistas, the group saw the sea lions basking on the beach of their Point Dume home.

e hike was then followed by a delicious, convivial summer lunch at Ciel Orange, a new local favorite restaurant on Point Dume, owned by beloved Malibu restauranteur Wilfredo Barrera (who also owns Tramonto). As always, Barrera was there working; the food was exquisite; and his wait sta did a superb job of serving the group, deftly and unobtrusively weaving between people and tables.

Malibu residents enjoyed having a long, personal visit with their state legislator. Foremost on their minds were safety on Paci c Coast Highway, the environment, and problems that Malibu-ites experience with the management of State Parks and MRCA properties. Allen had several ideas that may be able to improve communication between the government and Malibu residents on these issues, along the lines of the PCH Task Force, for which his district representative, Da-

vis Han, serves. Allen said that he knew the parents of Emily Shane, who was only 13 when she was killed on PCH in 2010. He said he still gets chills every time he drives by PCH and Heathercli , where Emily died.

Dr. Bill Swartout, a three-year Malibu resident said, “I very much enjoyed this opportunity to get to know Ben.”

Jane Albrecht, president of the Malibu Democratic Club, said, “We thank Ben for giving up several hours

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of his prime time on Sunday to spend time with us in Malibu. Even before he was our senator, I was impressed by his willingness to make time for Malibu. It’s always a pleasure to work with Ben, Sam, and Davis.”

If you need to reach Senator Allen, Sam Liu or Davis Han, the district o ce is at 2512 Artesia Blvd., #320, Redondo Beach, CA 90278-3279. Phone: (310) 318-6994. eir emails are: Senator.Allen@senate.ca.gov; Sam.Liu@senate.ca.gov; and Davis. Han@senate.ca.gov.

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State Senator Ben Allen (second from left) poses for a photo with Malibu community members (from left) Jane Albrecht, Ted Vaill, Gina Muscatel, Bill Swartout, and Hap Henry. Community members enjoyed a hike Aug. 27 with State Senator Ben Allen (center, with black shirt and backpack), whose District 24 includes Malibu. Contributed Photos

SIRENS

The following incidents were reported between:

Aug. 7 - Aug. 11

 8/7 | Grand eft

A bicycle worth $4,500 was stolen from Aviator Nation in Malibu. e victim said there was one security camera that could have captured the incident, and said they reached out to the manager to get the surveillance footage and said they would contact law enforcement when the footage arrived.

 8/9 | Burglary

A vehicle parked near Leo Carrillo State Beach was broken into, and a laptop, iPhone, and wallet were stolen. e victim left the key in front of the grill, went sur ng and their vehicle was ransacked. e victim received a noti cation of unauthorized purchases made at a Nordstrom in Woodland Hills.

 8/10 | Vandalism

A trailer parked near Serra Road was vandalized, and the damage was estimated to cost $50,000. e victim said there were security cameras available but did not capture the incident or the suspects. e victim said there was nothing stolen from their property.

 8/11 | Burglary

Trancas Canyon Park multipurpose eld closed for maintenance through Oct. 23

e Multipurpose Field at Trancas Canyon Park was closed for annual rest and renovation on Sept. 5 and will stay closed through Oct. 23. e rest and renovation are important in keeping the eld safe and playable throughout the year. Other facilities at Trancas Canyon Park will remain open.

Temporary Skate Park closed for maintenance through Sept. 15

e city is working to improve the Temporary Skate Park at Malibu Blu s Park. e park will be closed for maintenance from Sept. 5-15. Normal operating hours will resume on Saturday, Sept. 16. For more information regarding park hours, visit the Skate Park webpage at malibucity.org/skatepark

LASD and LA County Fire Department to host wellness and safety event

Join the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheri 's Station and the Los Angeles Fire Department for shared re ection on wellness and safety for the upcoming re season on Tuesday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Agoura Hills Recreation and Event Center 29900 Ladyface Court. Speakers include Capt. Jennifer Seetoo, Assistant Chief Andrew Smith, and Las Virgenes Uni ed School District Superintendent Dr. Daniel Stepenosky. To RSVP email lost hills.howgroup@gmail.com no later than Tuesday, Sept. 5.

California Coastal Cleanup Day at Zuma Beach set for Sept. 23

Community members are invited to volunteer for the City of Malibu and Heal the Bay’s 2023 Malibu Coastal Cleanup Day at Zuma Lagoon and Westward Beach on Saturday, Sept. 23, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. e day is California Coastal Cleanup Day, California’s largest annual volunteer event, when thousands of

community volunteers across the state unite to protect our beach and ocean ecosystems. e event is a great way to keep Malibu’s beaches clean and protect its marine environment. It’s also a great activity for kids to learn about environmental protection and community service. For more information and to sign up, visit the website at eventbrite.com/e/ coastal-cleanup-day-2023-tickets-681853782017?a =oddtdtcreator.

Construction expected to start on Solstice Bridge Replacement Project in October

e award and approval of the contractor on the Caltrans Solstice Bridge Replacement Project will be completed in late August. Construction work is expected to begin in October. e project is expected to take 430 working days, with tra c controls in place. e city will post details on the work schedule and any lane closures as soon as they become available. ere will be lane closures on PCH between Santa Monica and Malibu while Caltrans conducts embankment repair, removal, and replacement of a broken storm drain system, and storm debris cleanup and removal on south and north lanes PCH between Las Flores Canyon Road and Decker Road.

West Basin District holding water conservation events in 2023

West Basin Municipal Water District invites Malibu community members to join their free Water Lab water conservation events in 2023. Join the classes in-person and hybrid remote. Go on water recycling facility tours. Participate in online chat sessions with water conservation experts. Learn about technology and plans to help secure our water future, ways to save water to help address the drought and save you money, and resources to help the community be resilient.

Attendees will get an in-depth look at the water journey and local water issues. Classes will take place on Wednesday evenings every other month.

Wednesday, Sept. 13 – Emerging Water Saving Technologies

West Basin Chats – Grass Replacement: ese online 30-minute question-and-answer sessions will focus on the Grass Replacement Rebate Program application process. Attendees will have the chance to get their speci c questions answered by a West Basin representative. ey will take place online on Wednesday evenings, every other month.

Wednesday, Sept. 27

Community Updates: Speakers Bureau: West Basin o ers presentations to organizations and businesses in their service area on a variety of water topics.

For more information about West Basin’s free water conservation water classes, workshops, and tours, visit the website and sign up at westbasin.org. (Go to Community/Classes, Workshops, & Tours).

Construction to begin on Tra c Signal Synchronization Project to improve safety and mobility

Construction is expected to start this month on the City of Malibu’s PCH Tra c Signal Synchronization Project, the city’s most significant measure to date to improve tra c safety and mobility on PCH, among the most important quality of life issues in Malibu. e project will take more than one year to complete. Communications lines will be installed between tra c signals on PCH from Topanga Canyon Boulevard to John Tyler Drive to synchronize them to existing tra c conditions, and they will be controlled by the Caltrans Tra c Management Center.

According to Caltrans, during the past 10 years, there have been more than 4,000 collisions on PCH in Malibu. Speeding and improper turns are the most common contributing factors to collisions, both of which will be directly addressed by the Signal Synchronization Project.

e system can also be used to help emergency evacuations move quickly and safely. e $34.6 million project is fully funded through County Measure R transportation funds. e city’s parcel on Civic Center Way and Webb Way will be used for storage of construction vehicles and materials, employee parking, and a temporary construction o ce, which will make the project more e cient and reduce vehicle tra c on PCH and Malibu Canyon. Per the city’s requests, the contractor will install screening and has committed to

keeping the location clean. For more information, visit malibucity.org.

Sign up for e-noti cations

e city maintains a robust e-noti cation system so the community can stay informed about all the city’s activities. Sign up to receive messages by text or email on the city’s e-noti cations page at malibucity.org/ civicalerts.

Updated Zonehaven Evacuation Zone maps for Malibu to be sent

e City of Malibu will be mailing out information cards to all households in Malibu about the updated Zonehaven Evacuation Zone numbers for Malibu. Malibu’s zones are now numbered MAL-C111 to MAL-C114. Los Angeles County adopted new o cial disaster response and evacuation zones and the new Zonehaven AWARE online tool in November 2022. All county agencies and cities, including the City of Malibu, will adhere to them in a disaster. e new zones for Malibu are the same as the city’s evacuation zones (11-14) that were adopted in February 2020 as part of the city’s o cial Mass Evacuation Plan, following a recommendation

after the Woolsey Fire.

Residents can get emergency preparedness backpack with home wild re assessment

Malibu residents who complete a free Home Wild re Hardening Assessment with the City of Malibu will receive a free rolling emergency preparedness backpack. e handy backpacks are a valuable addition to your “go kit” and can help you be better prepared to evacuate quickly in case of a wild re or other disasters. ey are only available while supplies last, so schedule your appointment now. e city’s Fire Safety Liaisons will conduct a 30- to 60-minute exterior inspection of your property looking at what can be done to make it less vulnerable to the millions of ying embers from a wind-driven wild re, a leading cause of homes burning down in wild res. You’ll get a checklist of steps to take, such as removing dead vegetation or wood furniture that is touching the house, to harden your property. For more information or to schedule a free Home Wild re Hardening Assessment, visit malibucity.org/ resafety or call (310) 456-2489, ext. 238, or email FireSafety@MalibuCity.org.

1981 - 2023

T imothy Joshua Hardaway II, 41, of Agoura Hills, CA, passed away around April 16, 2023. He was known as Tim in his business world and Josh to his friends and family. Timothy was a charismatic and well-connected individual known for his ambition and diplomatically competitive nature in his professional life. He achieved great success throughout his 18-year career in the mortgage industry, starting out as a messenger clerk for the Los Angeles Public Library system in high school and transitioning to banking and finance during his college years.

Josh had a playful and jovial nature with his friends, often teasing around and engaging in entertaining antics. With those closest to his heart and in his comfort, he was a relaxed, quiet observer and rather private man. He had a passion for writing free verse poetry, enjoyed studying warfare philosophy and political strategy in his spare time, and was ever-primed for intellectual sparring and creative wordplay. One of his cherished pastimes was taking beach drives with his daughter Leyamae and former wife Nicole, accompanied by their three beloved rescue dogs, Buttons, Pieper, and Gizmo. These drives created treasured memories over the span of twenty-five years.

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Joshua leaves behind his daughter Leyamae Azalea Hardaway, his former wife Nicole Elizabeth Hardaway, his mother Cynthia Estalena Harris, his brother Bijan Valentino Hansen, and his father, Robert Troy Hansen. He was preceded in death by his biological father, Timothy Sinatra Hardaway, and his aunt Renee Lynda Hardaway.

Josh graduated from Calabasas High School and completed two years toward a Bachelor’s degree at California State University Northridge. Although not affiliated with any religion or belief system, Josh was raised in the faith of Jehovah’s Witnesses, later finding solace in his own spiritual journey.

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thu sep 7

UNDERSTANDING FIRE

WEATHER METRICS

Join the City of Malibu Fire Safety Liaisons Gabriel Etcheverry, Bradley Yocum, and Jerry Vandermeulen on ursday, Sept. 7, at 6 p.m. for Firewise/Firesafe Communities, Understanding Fire Weather Metrics, Home Wild re Hardening Meets Curb Appeal.

thu sep 7

PARK TALES STORY TIME

Join the Community Services Department’s Park Tales Storytime for “Falling into Books” on ursday, Sept. 7, 10 to 11 a.m. at Malibu Blu s Park (24250 Paci c Coast Highway). e program includes an art activity and a free snack. Advanced registration is recommended but not required. For more information, visit the webpage at https://malibucity. org/500/Special-Events.

FRI sep 8

CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION MEETING

On Sept. 8, the California Coastal Commission (CCC) will report on the Director’s decision regarding certi cation of Malibu Local Coastal Program Amendment (LCPA) No. 16-006 for Sea View Hotel (CCC No. LCP4-MAL-21-0073-2) under Item No. F7. e CCC will also consider certi cation of Malibu

LCPA No. 21-002 (CCC No. LCP-4-MAL-22-0043-1) for Malibu Middle and High School Campus Speci c Plan under Item No. F8a. e physical location of the meeting was recently changed due to wild res. e meeting will be livestreamed and members of the public can also participate remotely (requests to speak should be submitted by 5 p.m. the day before the hearing) or provide written comment in advance of the meeting. Meeting details are posted on the CCC website (coastal.ca.gov/meetings/ agenda/#/2023/9).

sat sep 9

SAMO FUND, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TINY PORCH CONTCERTS: A NIGHT WITH TAYLOR GOLDSMITH

e Santa Monica Mountains Fund, in partnership with Tiny Porch Concerts, presents a Night with Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Saturday, Sept. 9, at Peter Strauss Ranch, 30000 Mulholland Highway, Agoura Hills. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the featured performance begins at 6:45 p.m. General Admission is $70 per person on a rst-come, rst-served basis. To purchase tickets or for further information, go to www. samofund.org.

mon sep 11

WAVES OF FLAGS

Every September, Pepperdine University honors the lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks with the Waves of Flags display. Located in Alumni Park along Paci c Coast Highway and Malibu Canyon Road, the display features nearly 3,000 ags — one for each innocent victim, including national ags representing the countries that lost citizens in the attack. Waves of Flags is a tribute that educates and commemorates the

sacri ces made to keep our country safe and free.

tue sep 12

LASD AND LA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT TO HOST WELLNESS AND SAFETY EVENT

Join the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheri s Station and the Los Angeles Fire Department for shared re ection on wellness and safety for the upcoming re season on Tuesday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Agoura Hills Recreation and Event Center, 29900 Ladyface Court. Speakers include Capt. Jennifer Seetoo, Assistant Chief Drew Smith, and Las Virgenes Uni ed School District Superintendent Dr. Daniel Stepenosky. To RSVP email lost hills.howgroup@gmail.com no later than Tuesday, Sept. 5.

thu sep 14

EARTHQUAKE THREAT IN SOCAL: ARE YOU PREPARED?

Join the California Institute of Technology (CalTech): SoCal ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning Regional Coordinator Margaret Vinci on ursday, Sept. 14, at 6 p.m. for a virtual workshop on earthquake threat in SoCal.

FRI sep 16 -17

TOPANGA ACTORS COMPANY

AT THE MALIBU LIBRARY

Join the Topanga Actors Company on Saturday and Sunday, September 16 and 17 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. for a staged reading of “ e Lifespan of a Fact.” is is a script by Jeremy Kereken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell based on the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal. For more information visit, lacountylibrary.org/malibu.

wed sep 20

TSUNAMI ALERT AND

WARNINGS

Join the Department of Conservation Tsunami Unit Engineering Geologist Nick Graehl and California O ce of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Senior Emergency Services Coordinator/Tsunami Planning Coordinator Matthew Palmer on Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 6 p.m. for a virtual workshop.

wed sep 20

MALIBU LIBRARY SPEAKERS SERIES: SCOTT FREIMAN

e Malibu Library Speaker

Series welcomes Beatles expert Scott Freiman, presenting “Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” On Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. at Malibu City Hall. Freiman is a composer, musician, and software entrepreneur. He is the creator of “Deconstructing e Beatles,” a series of multimedia presentations about the composition and production techniques of the Fab Four. RSVPs are required. Register online or call Malibu Library at (310) 456-6438.

SAT sep 23

CALIFORNIA COASTAL CLEANUP DAY AT ZUMA BEACH

Community members are invited to volunteer for the City of Malibu and Heal the Bay’s 2023 Malibu Coastal Cleanup Day at Zuma Lagoon and Westward Beach on Saturday, Sept. 23, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sept. 23 is California Coastal Cleanup Day, California’s largest annual volunteer event, when thousands of community volunteers across the state unite to protect our beach and ocean ecosystems. e event is a great way to keep Malibu’s beaches clean and protect our marine environment. For more information and to sign up, visit the website at https://app.grammarly.com/ ddocs/2160490062.

wed sep 27

ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE READINESS

Join Los Angeles County Sheri ’s Department Sgt. Chris Soderlund on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 6 p.m. for a virtual workshop on active shooter response readiness.

SAT sep 30

MALIBU TRIATHLON

e Malibu Triathlon, presented by Super League Triathlon, returns to Zuma Beach for its 38th Annual swim-bike-run race weekend on Sept. 30 to Oct. 1. More than 5,000 athletes, including Hollywood celebrities, will test their tness as they raise critical funds for the Pediatric Cancer Research Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Registration is open at www.MalibuTri.com/ Register.

SAT sep 30

FREE GARDENING WORKSHOP

LA County is o ering a free Gardening 101 course covering the simple techniques of droughttolerant landscaping, organic gardening, and integrated pest management, Saturday, Sept. 30, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., in-person at City Hall. Learn how to improve your lawn and garden, conserve water, and reduce waste. No reservations needed. Participants can purchase compost bins at a discount after the workshop (check or cash only please). For more information, visit the website at pw.lacounty.gov/epd/sg/wk_ scheds.cfm.

ONGOING

FARMERS MARKET

Shop for fresh fruits and veggies, prepared food, and more at the weekly Malibu Farmers Market on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Market at Legacy Park.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION

SITTING GROUP

e Malibu Mindfulness

Meditation Group meets ursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. for a group sit and chat in Point Dume. e group is led by longtime local resident Michael Kory, who has been practicing Mindfulness Meditation for over 12 years and recently graduated a two-year teacher training program. Everyone is welcome, whether you are an experienced meditator or are a complete newbie. ere are many bene ts to be had both from giving yourself the gift of learning how to quiet the mind, and doing it in a group with the support of others. If you wish to attend, please email mmm@bu-dharma.com for more info.

BALLET SLIM AND TRIM

Develop better posture and improve balance, exibility, and circulation during this one-hour class. Class is ursdays from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Michael Landon Community Center. e instructor will also focus on body awareness, coordination, and stretching techniques. Please wear workout clothes and ballet shoes. No experience is necessary. Sign up at MalibuCity.org/Register to register for the month or pay a $5 drop-in rate, space permitting.

TAP/JAZZ DANCE COMBO

Enter stage right to the Senior Center’s new dance program. e class will consist of jazz warm-ups and stretches, followed by routines. Every dance taught will be straight from a Broadway musical. Instructed by Ann Monahan. e class is ursdays from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Civic eater at Malibu City Hall. No experience is necessary. Register for the month or pay a $5 drop-in rate, space permitting.

CARDIO SALSA AND STRETCH

An energetic Latin dance workout that incorporates salsa, cha-cha, and merengue in an easy-tofollow format. e cooldown will

include stretching to relax the body. No dance experience necessary. Instructed by Jackline Daneshrad. e program is held on Tuesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Michael Landon Center at Malibu Blu s Park. Sign up at MalibuCity.org/Register to register for the month, or pay a $5 drop-in rate, space permitting.

MAT PILATES PLUS

Relax, refresh, and build core strength. Sessions are ursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Michael Landon Community Center at Malibu Blu s Park. Please bring a yoga mat and wear comfortable clothes. Sign up at MalibuCity.org/Register to register for the month, or pay a $5 drop-in rate, space permitting.

SENIOR STRETCH AND STRENGTH

Class is organized on Mondays from 1 to 2 p.m. and Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Participants will focus on exibility, balance, circulation, muscle tone, and breathing techniques. Class will be held outdoors at the Malibu Blu s Park. Register for the month or pay a $5 drop-in rate. For additional information contact (310) 4562489, Ext. 357, or visit malibucity. org/SeniorCenter.

MAT YOGA

Learn new poses, increase exibility, and practice stretching techniques in a calm and relaxing environment. Bring your own yoga mat. Instructed by Daya Chrans. Class is organized on Tuesdays at the Senior Center at Malibu City Hall from 1 to 2 p.m. Sign up at MalibuCity.org/Register to register for the month or pay a $5 drop-in rate, space permitting.

CHAIR YOGA

Yoga is a wonderful way to stretch the body and calm the mind. is class helps you develop a strong and exible spine, feel ease in your joints, and be steady in your balance. Get t while you sit! Join this peaceful hour of exercise. Instructed by Daya Chrans. Class is organized on Mondays at the Senior Center at Malibu City Hall from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

RELAX THROUGH COLORING

Did you know that coloring helps relieve stress? Join a free coloring program led by Judy Merrick at the Senior Center at Malibu City Hall on Wednesdays from 1 to 2 p.m. RSVP by calling the Malibu Senior Center at (310) 456-2489, Ext. 357.

CHOIR

Join an upbeat choir group and learn the fundamentals of singing and performing di erent styles of music. Group meets at Malibu City Hall Senior Center on Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. is is a great opportunity for socialization, self-expression, and learning through music. All levels are welcome. Instructed by Laura DeMieri Fercano. $5 per class.

Vigil held at Las Tunas Beach for Emmanuel Baltazar Silva

Grieving family members and friends remember man who was killed the beach last month

By SAMANTHA BRAVO Of The Malibu Times

On ursday, Aug. 31, family and friends gathered on a tranquil moonlit night to honor Emmanuel Baltazar Silva, the 21-year-old who was killed on Aug. 22 at Las Tunas Beach.

“We’re doing a vigil for my son’s soul, trying to see if he can nd a little peace, so he can rest in peace,” his mother Patricia Silva said. “My son was so loved, he’s being surrounded by so much love, so many people who

and signing the lease, the Strange Family Vineyards waited, and waited and waited for several months while WPG represented that it was going to renovate the upstairs space to accommodate the tasting room.

Finally, in March 2023, WPG abruptly informed Strange Family Vineyards it had to vacate MLY. eir deal was o . Strange was able to arrange staying through the summer.

Strange Family is the last in a litany of locally based businesses that were either speci cally noti ed they had to leave in the last few years, or that chose to leave because, Strange Family Vineyards and other prior tenants maintain, James Perse is monopolizing the retail center and, in their view, thereby violating Malibu’s Retail Formula Ordinance discussed below.

Strange Family Vineyard’s last day of business at MLY was Aug. 31. However, the company is not going quietly. Not without airing its grievances, as many residents have in the past years. e Strange family

loved him.”

e vigil began around 9 p.m., when friends began making their way to the tower at Las Tunas Beach, where Emmanuel was last standing. Silva said she has received much support from family, friends, and even strangers who reassured her that she was a great mother and her son was extremely proud of her.

“Like todayw, I woke up thinking that it was my fault that this happened, that I didn’t protect him, but I talked to him [her son], and it’s like he sends people,” Silva said. “ is woman I didn’t know said, ‘he was so proud of you, the strong mother you are, you are the best mother,’ so it gave me a little bit of piece in my heart.”

opines that the city-owned MLY should, as Malibu Councilmember Steve Uhring said, “be a poster child for what the Retail Formula Ordinance is all about — supporting local businesses to adhere to the intent of the City of Malibu’s mission, which respects the uniqueness and quasi-rural nature of Malibu,” attributes that are not served by having too many similar high-end fashion chain stores all selling similar T-shirts for hundreds of dollars or other high-end products. Malibu Lumber Yard’s history provides important context to the dispute

To assess what is going on in the Malibu Lumber Yard, and to be fair to all concerned, one must view the contentious situation in the context of MLY’s unique history. First, the City of Malibu owns the land at MLY. Second, WPG Malibu, LLC leases the buildings and then subleases spaces within the center to James Perse companies and other businesses. ird, and perhaps most importantly, when the city contracted with Richard Weintraub and Richard Sperber in 2007 to design the MLY, it speci cally intended for

Emmanuel lived with his mom the past few months because he was going through a divorce. He was also trying to get custody of his son.

Family member Jennifer Bravo (no

some of the space to serve locals.

e Malibu Times chatted with former City Councilmember Pamela Conley Ulich, whose proposed formula retail ordinance in 2004 did not pass. In 2014, voters approved an initiative imposing a number of restrictions on formula retailers, aka chain stores. en, in 2017, an appellate court overturned the voter-approved initiative, and the California Supreme Court declined to grant review, rendering the appellate court ruling dipositive.

In October 2017, the Malibu Planning Commission proposed a more watered-down version of the chain store restrictions so as to pass judicial scrutiny. Ultimately, the City Council approved a formula retail ordinance in 2018.

“With regard to the Malibu Lumber Yard, when the city originally decided to work with Richard Weintraub and Richard Sperber to develop buildings on the city-owned MLY land, the original intent was that local businesses would benet from the space, that 10 percent of the space would be allocated to having a City of Malibu welcome center and that the city would get

relation to writer) said Emmanuel was the de nition of kindness.

“Very generous, down to earth, and every time he was even around, he just kind of reminded us how to

a percentage of gross sales,” Ulich said. “All those provisions were intended to bene t locals and the local economy.”

At rst, WPG seemed to support the concept of the MLY being community-oriented.

“Originally, Washington Prime wanted to build MLY as a place for the community to gather,” said Diane Dreyer, who served as the MLY local events coordinator for Washington Prime from 2017-21. “After Lou Conforti became its CEO, Washington Prime gave more attention to the MLY as Lou viewed the space as a hidden gem with a great location. I was charged with hosting fantastic events to support local businesses and nonpro ts.”

Dreyer noted that after the Woolsey Fire, MLY hosted a fundraiser for Malibu Foundation and a donation center for re victims. During COVID, residents could do yoga classes outdoors in the MLY courtyard so as to be appropriately spaced apart for safety.

“MLY also hosted events supporting AMPS, Malibu High School and Junior High, Webster and Malibu Elementary, Boys & Girls Club of Malibu, e Malibu Foundation and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles,” Dreyer said. “Strange Family Vineyard was an integral part of MLY’s philanthropic efforts and Strange also supported its own e orts for nonpro ts, including the Emily Shane Foundation, Kitten Rescue LA, Eastwood Ranch Foundation, and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.”

However, over time, Washington Prime led for bankruptcy reorganization, emerged from that process, and subsequently entered into a joint venture with O’Connor Capital Partners, an institutional, management, and development rm in New York City.

Over time, the community’s perception is that MLY’s commitment to local businesses and nonpro ts has been supplanted by a focus on pro tability and a high-fashion aesthetic.

Evidence of this shift lies in changes to the leasing agreement between the city and WPG Malibu, LLC. Upon a request for public records by e Malibu Times, the city disclosed amendments to the lease. One key change occurred on Jan. 27, 2020, when former City

love each other,” Bravo said. “And my favorite thing about him was that he always made me feel that we we’re blood-related. He would call me ‘tia’ [aunt in Spanish], from the time that I did get to be with him, he was just the sweetest boy ever, and I love that about him.”

e family created a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral expenses. Link to gofundme: gofundme.com/f/ emmanuel-baltazar?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=sms&utm_source=customer.

“Emmanuel was the victim from the stabbing in Malibu, and we would greatly appreciate all the help. It was a sudden death that none of us expected, and left his mother with all

Manager Reva Feldman signed an amendment that explicitly removed provisions aimed at supporting local businesses. Speci cally, the amendment deleted all requirements related to “Locally Based Subtenants,” “Local Preference Space,” and “Reduced Local Rents” from the original lease.

e provision grandfathered in the subleases between Dance Star Entertainment, LLC, dba Dance Star, formally d/b/a Malibu Dance Studio, and James Perse Enterprises, Inc.

Despite those changed contractual provisions in leases, WPG is still bound by the formula retail ordinance. e city provided e Malibu Times with this statement on Sept.

1: “Malibu Lumberyard is subject to the Formula Retail chapter in Malibu Municipal Code section 17.61. e MLY used to have many formula retail businesses that were grandfathered at the time as they were in place prior to the MMC Formula Retail ordinance, however there are now many vacancies, and the City of Malibu Code Enforcement and Planning Sta members conducted an inventory this week of the existing uses still in place and con rmed that the MLY is currently in compliance with MMC 17.61. Shopping centers are allowed to have non-exempt formula retail occupy 30 percent of the shopping center’s gross oor area and MLY is within that percentage. e Strange family may opt to explore whether the computations utilized in arriving at that conclusion are correct. Or, they may seek an equitable remedy based upon their detrimental reliance on WPG’s assurances that a lease for the space on the second oor was forthcoming.”

For its part, Washington Prime Group said that the city con rmed it was in compliance with Malibu’s retail formula ordinance, and that for all of its properties, its goal is to “offer a tenant mix of shopping, dining and entertainment options that are preferred by the residents of and visitors to the surrounding community,” according to Kimberly Flaherty, WPG’s vice president of communications and public relations, who added, “We are proud that Malibu Lumber Yard successfully attracts a steady volume of guests and o ers shops and restaurants that residents continue to enjoy visiting.”

For its part, David Schulte, pres-

the funeral expenses,” the post says. “Emmanuel was a good-hearted, kind-spirited person loved by everyone he came across. He was a loving son, brother, and amongst all, an amazing father. Just his mere presence would light up any room he walked into. He left behind all his dreams, and plans for the future, also leaving behind all of his family with a broken heart.”

On Saturday, Aug. 26, his mother and family placed a cross with his name near the lifeguard tower at Las Tunas Beach. e family placed a sign asking anyone with any information about the incident to contact (323)890-5500. No arrests have been reported on the suspect.

ident of James Perse, Inc. stated, “We have and will always support small businesses and local brands. We have the utmost respect, appreciation, and understanding of the importance that small and unique businesses bring to a community.

We have been a part of the Malibu Community for over 20 years and have built the company with the values of a small-town brand. We are disheartened that anyone would imply otherwise.”

Shamra Tankersly Strange said, “Numerous times, after other local vendors left, customers have come into my Tasting Room asking, ‘What’s happening? Why is James Perse the only brand here? Where are the other shops?’” She stressed the di erence between chain stores capitalizing on Malibu’s zip code and local vendors deeply invested in the community. “ ere should be room for both, particularly on cityowned property,” she concluded.

As Strange Family Vineyards cleared out its last items on Tuesday, Shamra told e Malibu Times, “James is relocating wine barrels into multiple front spaces at the Malibu Lumber Yard, marking a full takeover by James Perse.”

Interestingly, a close examination of the lease amendments reveals that WPG has the option to transfer its entire leasehold interest to another entity.

Some locals question whether that may be what’s going on: Is James Perse perhaps not only guratively taking over MLY, but also considering or planning to literally do so?

Matt Myerho , the City of Malibu’s media information o cer, stated in an email to e Malibu Times, “I have heard, that [Washington Prime Group] may want to transfer the lease.”

Locals are left to wait and wonder what happened to the focus on local businesses and local residents’ needs.

As for what happened to the Strange family and its being led on for so long, ultimately, what WPG did by deciding not to ink thenal deal, may be legal. However, in many locals’ perspectives, that’s not dispositive of the question regarding whether it is fair.

e Malibu Times will continue to follow this story as it develops and provide new information as it becomes available.

On Thursday, Aug. 31, family and friends gathered at Las Tunas Beach honoring Emmanuel Baltazar Silva, the 21-year-old who was killed on Aug. 22. Photo by Samantha Bravo/TMT

participants in the program and essentially forced us, because of their non-engagement, to start our own club,” said Marlins treasurer Robert Brinkmann.

Marlins parents say the termination of a popular coach without the input of a large number of participants was unfair and they’re advocating for choice.

Former Seawolves parent Dr. Amora Magna said she wishes city vendor employees like Ran were “treated fairly.”

“A majority of parents boycotted due to MAF’s decision to let go a quali ed coach who worked with our children for many years,” she said. “ e city should have taken a stance to protect this coach from the poor decision making of MAF. It is a joint program.”

Magna said her children had been participating in the Seawolves for years.

“I nd it unfortunate that we had to begin a new organization because of the way the MAF board conducted themselves,” she said, alleging that of the four MAF board members, only two have children on the team.

With Marlins quickly able to sign

the chaperone policy after listening to parent concerns regarding the challenges of unsupervised young adults who have been known to let o steam at the end of summer celebration with at times unruly behavior.

According to a few sources, including Los Angeles Sheri ’s Department Volunteers on Patrol Team Leader Mark Russo, “It was a

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activity involves any of the following: … rental of a facility (e.g., the rental of a facility to hold a wedding or other event).” Similarly, Malibu Municipal Code sect. 17.68.010 states: “Activities involving any commer-

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50 swimmers — most of them former Seawolves who treasured Ran — the club applied to be a vendor for the city of Malibu.

Brinkmann claimed “City sta was supportive, informed us and essentially were planning on having us be an option,” although city recreation guides had already been printed without Marlins’ information included.

“When I was speaking to Recreation Manager Kate Manisco, she told me that two weeks into the fall schedule she would review pool utilization and would reassign lanes based on how many swimmers were signed up.” Brinkmann said.

He believed at the time that the Marlins club had a majority of swimmers and could get lane assignments from Parks and Recreation. e Marlins indicated they would share the pool while the Seawolves ran practices simultaneously.

“Sharing is not a problem,” he said. “It happens all the time.”

In August, Brinkman asked the Parks and Recreation Commission to reconsider pool utilization so kids who use swimming to meet independent study requirements would have access. “ ey

well-behaved, well-attended crowd.

Everyone had a really good time.”

Overcast skies and a little drizzle kept some beachgoers home, but according to Russo, “ e diehard surfers still come to the beach.”

From Friday through Monday the surf spots that attracted big crowds were Surfrider and Zuma.

“Overall, the weather was great, and we had a lot of surf tra c on the east end of Malibu from Malibu Canyon to Topanga was very heavy over the holiday weekend.”

cial component such as: admission fee, renting of facility, charging for valet parking or shuttle service and/ or public advertising shall require a [TUP].”

After Nobu’s parking lot lled to capacity on July 4, guests resorted to illegally parking and abandoning their vehicles, limos, and party buses

did a 180,” according to Brinkmann, who suspects political in uence.

e commissioners asked if Marlins swimmers had given the new coach a chance, but Brinkman countered, “If we did that, we would lose Erik which is the whole point. If we can’t pay Erik, he could leave. We want the coach our kids want to train with.” Other parents have echoed their praise for Ran. Now, the Marlins have no pool access through the city. e club resorted to renting the pool from the school district at 6 a.m., an inconvenient time for families with younger swimmers.

Manisco explained the Marlins did apply to be a city vendor and would be evaluated on quali cations and whether the city already o ers a similar program, but did so after the city had executed an agreement with the current vendor, the MAF.

“ e city has been working with MAF for 10 to 15 years,” she said. “ ey did go through a name change but it’s the same organization. I informed Robert we already had a contract with MAF. I told him in the event they did not meet their program minimums that it would be excellent to have their application.”

e VOPs (Volunteers on Patrol) and the sheri ’s beach team issued 302 parking citations over the four day period, not a record, but still a large number. “We have an ongoing parking issue at Birdview and Cli side at the headlands,” Russo commented on patrolling problem areas, including El Matador and Winding Way. “We get a lot of violations around Malibu Seafood Restaurant and the Chili Cook-O . We have a lot of area to cover.”

Los Angeles County lifeguards

in the center median of Paci c Coast Highway. It created a asco for drivers unable to navigate through Malibu with tra c at a virtual standstill. Some drivers caught in the backup claim it was a two-hour tra c jam.

After city leaders were bombarded with public objection to Nobu’s lack of consideration to public safety,

Brinkmann disputes MAF as a longtime vendor for the city.

“Seawolves Swimming was the original vendor, but you can search the California Secretary of State website and see that it has been defunct since the pandemic,” he said. “ e Malibu Aquatics Foundation was formed afterwards to take over the business and is only a 3-year-old vendor. ey are using the Seawolves name, but they don’t actually have any rights to it.”

Still the Seawolves did meet minimums with nearly 50 swimmers, although some Marlins parents believe those numbers are bloated with paid, non-swimming participants as well as students with no other choice than to return to the Seawolves to keep independent study (ISPE).

When asked if two swim programs could use the pool Manisco replied, “Right now there isn’t any more space.”

e city operates the pool from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and various times on weekends. With swim lessons, aqua aerobics, and other water sports Manisco stated there are no lanes left.

“I’m aware the Marlins accepted registrations and checks for a program that was not under contract,” Manisco

reported more than 600,000 visitors to area beaches over the weekend. ere were 45 ocean rescues at Malibu beaches and over 100,000 of what are called preventative actions, where lifeguards issue verbal warnings to swimmers. Sixty-seven people needed medical care over the weekend at local beaches. Russo commended the LACO lifeguards. He and his team were called to a stranded swimmer near the Sunset Restaurant who was eventually rescued by the lifeguards.

e Malibu Times questioned City Manager Steve McClary about the July 4 mess. McClary emailed back on July 14: “We are currently investigating the incident and will be meeting with restaurant management as well. e investigation will determine any appropriate action.”

On July 24, the city met with restaurant management and two days later issued the following statement: “Nobu agreed to pay all associated Code Enforcement nes and will be charged for nes, penalties and administrative fees for an ‘After-theFact’ TUP.” However, the city did not disclose what the dollar amounts

In its statement, the city cited two reasons for withholding from the public the ne amounts. e rst reason stated is because it “is an active Code Enforcement case” but a search of open code enforcement cases on the city’s website for the Nobu address revealed no open cases. e second reason the city cited was that Nobu could appeal the nes, apparently contradicting its earlier statement that Nobu had voluntarily agreed to the nes and providing no evidence suggesting Nobu was seeking to litigate the issue.

An initial public record request revealed the city charged Nobu $821

said. “ is is a unique situation where the city has an existing vendor and an application for the same type of program on a limited facility schedule.”

On Sept. 19 at the Parks and Recreation commission meeting an ad hoc committee will address if having two vendors is feasible.

“I believe the commission will look at it from a broad perspective and what are the procedures looking forward,” Manisco said.

In Manisco’s 18 years with the city she said she does not recall any specialized programs such as swimming with the same demographics duplicated. “No, only because we are such a small community with limited facility resources,” she said. Brinkmann said the Marlins club is advocating for choice.

“We are duplicating an existing program because we want to create a club that represents its members. All our members have a voice, not just four board members,” he said.

Magna called it “outrageous to only o er elementary school children a 6 a.m. swim time. Kids need a reasonable swim time. Our community is too small for us to not be working together.”

e VOPs heard his voice past the breakers and assisted in locating the swimmer.

“ e lifeguards did an amazing job. Had they not found him, he certainly would have drowned. He was out so far in high surf.”

Malibu’s hiking trails were well-visited over the Labor Day weekend as well. By Sunday, when temperatures climbed, the Malibu Search and Rescue team assisted a 32-year-old female hiker in Malibu Creek State Park who was showing

for an after the fact TUP, but remarks from City Councilmember Steve Uhring at a council meeting indicated the amount reported by e Malibu Times was incorrect. When queried by TMT on the correct ne amount, Uhring said he would “try and get to the reason why the city has been reluctant to share this information.” at information has not been divulged by the city except by use of the Public Records Act.

To be clear, the reporting of total fees, penalties and assessments by e Malibu Times Aug. 10 was incorrect, as the city’s Public Records Request response was incomplete and failed to include a July 25 document indicating that the invoice for the after-fact TUP and code enforcement fees totaled $1,821.

e second request also revealed that in the past 10 years no TUPs were issued to Nobu, only the afterthe-fact July 4 TUP.

signs of dehydration and possible heat-related symptoms. en on Sunday evening, MSAR was called to help a female hiker on Topanga Tower Motorway. She was carried o the trail by MSAR and a LACO re crew. On Monday evening, as the crowds were nally leaving Malibu, a helicopter was called to help rescue two people stuck on a cli at Leo Carrillo Beach. en, as night fell, MSAR was called again to nd a missing hiker in Malibu Creek State Park.

goes on to explain the after the fact TUP also includes an associated code enforcement fee.

e $1,821 fee does not include penalties.

In a follow-up email from Nobu to the city, Nobu manager Ryan Ford wrote a thank you saying, “It was nice meeting with you all today and as always, we really appreciate all of your e orts, understanding and guidance.”

Ford goes on to write that he is looping his events manager in “to ensure we’re all on the same page moving forward.” He says he will drop o a check in person at the Malibu City Hall Planning desk.

Two days later, Nobu Special Events Manager Mayena Mustafa emailed the city to inform them of an upcoming event Aug. 25 with as many as 250 guests. Mustafa wrote: “In the past when I have reached for a TUP, it was not required, but please advise.”

In addition, the second request also revealed a memo, dated July 24, to Nobu from Senior Code Enforcement O cer Doug Cleavenger stating, “As discussed, moving forward, you will notify me directly for any future events, and remove the outdoor speakers at the property. is way we can analyze ahead of time if a TUP is required or not.”

Cleavenger

is email is completely contradictory to her request for a TUP in January 2022. A TUP was paid for by Nobu but then withdrawn “due to a surge of COVID cases this event is postponing,” Mustafa wrote. e Nobu email to the city asked if the TUP application could be applied to a future date. e city withdrew the application and issued a refund minus administrative costs. e city advised Nobu it would “need to resubmit a new TUP for a new event.”

No TUP was requested nor issued for the private party held at Nobu Aug. 25. In fact, the manager of a condominium complex next to Nobu con rmed “there was a HUGE party 08/25/2023 with a doorman and loud bass from house music that could be heard inside of the adjacent condo units. I called the sheri and they visited the restaurant around 5:30 p.m., they called me from in front of the restaurant. However, nothing stopped, the music went past 11 p.m. We also tried calling the restaurant to ask them to turn o or turn down the music but there was no answer and no way to get in touch with someone. One of the condominium owners walked next door to try to talk to a manager but couldn’t even get past security to go inside of the restaurant to talk to someone.”

In past email inquiries and noise complaints to the city of Malibu’s Code Enforcement Department the building manager clearly asks if Nobu led for Temporary Use Permits. ose questions were never answered by the city, but the public record shows in the last decade only one TUP was issued and that was the after the fact TUP for July 4 of this year.

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e Malibu Times, Barefoot Dreams, Alphapals, Bright Event Rentals, Universal Music Group, Aviator Nation, Havaianas, Outerknown, Rancho West Beer, Summer Somewhere Wines, Flying Embers, Open Water, and Optimist Drinks, along with the event’s newest partners California Naturals, Malibu Brewing Co, Known Supply, LaCroix, Bones Love Milk, State Farm/Efrain Cazares, and more.

All proceeds from this competition bene ted the Boys & Girls Club of Malibu and its year-long services for youth and the community at large.

The event also enacted a new chaperone policy to ensure the safety of all guests. Any guests under the age of 18 were unable to enter without a chaperone. Chaperones must be 21 years of age and older and may chaperone up to ve guests.

e event redesignated the junior carnival rides into their own space for parents with small children ages 2-10. Activities for kids were

available, including the return of the 24-foot-high rock climbing wall presented by Alphapals.

Adults who attended also enjoyed the Barefoot Dreams Lounge, a cozy-chic oasis where beer and local wine varieties were served.

Nearly 20 vendors and artists had tents and tables on display at the festival, such as jewelry, curated clothing, handcrafted candles, and niche fragrances.

On Sunday, the event included the 4th Annual Johnny Strange Legacy Skate Competition. The event included jam-session-style competitions for intermediate and advanced competitors of all ages and genders, with cash prizes awarded to the winners. e Bones Love Milk Skateboard Mini Ramp, offered public skate and practice sessions opportunities for those eager to re ne their skateboarding skills. Skateboarder and lmmaker Vern Laird was on the mic introducing the skaters and giving out prize money to participants who were shredding tricks on the ramp.

“[Strange] was inspired by the

world around him — nature, culture, sport, especially this sport we all love, skateboarding, that’s why we are all here right now in this moment,” Laird said. “He used his opportunities to do good.”

Johnny Strange was an adventure seeker deep in his heart. He was the youngest to climb all seven peaks at the age of 17. e Johnny Strange Legacy Program is a beacon program for the Boys & Girls Club of Malibu, focusing on skateboarding and the lifestyle to help teens transcend any real or imagined barriers. e program helps support skateboarding lessons, maintenance and upkeep of the ramp and inspirational speakers who also share Johnny’s passion.

On Sunday, nearly 15 kids and over 25 advanced skaters participated in this year’s competition. Strange’s family also attended the event to see the participants compete for prizes.

Boys & Girls Club of Malibu

Chief Executive Officer Kasey Earnest said they were surprised to see many participants in this year’s competition.

“Today was really awesome; for us; it was honoring the life of Johnny Strange, who was beloved to us and the community and, moreover inspiring so many next-generation kids to get out and nd their ow and do what they love, and Johnny loved skating, he loved moving and this is a way we can honor him,” Earnest said. “We had Malibu kids skating and competing today with pros and the big dogs, so it was really fun.”

Earnest said she was happy to see chefs return to compete at the cooko this year.

“ e chili competition was super fun this year, it makes me happy that were getting chili chef competitors that are coming back because they love this event and they love donating to the Boys & Girls Club, they’re having a blast and we’re bene ting from their hard work and generosity,” Earnest said. “It’s been a wonderful event, honestly for me it’s been so much work but it’s been a pleasure to walk around and see people smiling and having fun and meeting up with friends and family, that’s what the cook-out is about.”

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Parents Dianette Wells and Brian Strange (above center) proudly representing the legacy of Johnny Strange, as they watch spirited competitors take on the Skate Competition on Sunday. Carnival rides and treats, skateboarding and of course, chili were all part of the Chili Cook-O (below). Photos by Samantha Bravo/TMT

Malibu Life

Malibu High School football team’s explosive offense shines in victory

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The Malibu High football team will attempt to score its second win of the season this week.

e Sharks travel to play the Milken Wildcats on ursday at 7 p.m. e game will be at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys.

Malibu head coach Mike Halualani said his team seeks to continuously get better.

“We want to see a big jump in improvement from game one to game two,” he stated. “All the nervous game-one energy and sloppiness should be out of our system. I’m looking for us to have a big jump in our game.”

e Sharks began their season with an explosive 26-15 victory over Desert Christian on Sept. 1 at Malibu High.

e Sharks’ rst score was a 79-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback

Nico Miller to senior wide receiver Travis Kies. Miller then tossed a 48-yard scoring strike to Kies and scored another later with a 19-yard run. Sophomore Tanner Kies, Travis’ brother, galloped 51 yards to score Malibu’s nal touchdown of the game. Additionally, Malibu converted a two-point conversion.

Halualani said the Sharks want to be aggressive o ensively.

“We have a quarterback who is big, strong, and talented,” he said. “Our goal

is to drive the ball down the eld. We did a really good job.”

Malibu had 205 passing yards total and 145 yards rushing in the game. e squad’s defense limited Desert Christian

to 214 o ensive yards.

Halualani said the leadership of Malibu’s captains was pertinent to the victory.

“ ey held the team together against a really well-coached, physical team,” he

recalled. “ ey helped us get through some adversity the rst half of the game. ey really helped us weather the rstgame jitters.”

In addition to Malibu’s ball handlers,

Halualani said several Sharks — football players for the rst time in fact — had outstanding showings in the contest. ose players included sophomore tackle

Parents, students, and teachers ‘get the

from their new SMMUSD administrators

Malibu

Parents, students, community members, and Malibu Middle/High School leaders from SMMUSD joined Superintendent Dr. Antonio Shelton and MMS’s new Principal Greg Schellenberg on ursday, Aug. 31, for ice cream and conversation.

Students enjoyed ice cream, games, and an opportunity to hear SMMUSD representatives share the goals they had for the semester.

Malibu Middle/High School

PTSA President Kevin Keegan, welcomed the crowd and introduced the guest speakers.

“We are parent-led, we are teacher-focused, and we we are student-centered, and one of our initiatives this year is to boost the S (students) in PTSA,” Keegan said.

Keegan also acknowledged the Malibu PTSA and the

Malibu Shark Fund.

Parents and community members can also donate to their Malibu Middle and High Shark Fund, the primary fundraising entity for MMS/MHS

PTSA, Athletic Booster Club, Arts Angels, and administration. eir fundraising goal for the 2023-2024 school year is $437,200.

ose interested in a board

or volunteer positions, email PTSAmalibu@gmail.com.

Malibu Schools Pathway Executive Director Isaac Burgess acknowledged Superintendent

Malibu High quarterback Nico Miller rushes for yardage during the Sharks’ season-opening win over Desert Christian on Sept. 1.

Photo by Devon Meyers/TMT

Plate O’ Shrimp: Part One

MALIBU SEEN

By Benjamin Marcus, Entertainment Editor

Malibu’s ‘lattice o’ coincidence’ Is alive and well

Thus spake Miller, in “Repo Man” (1984): “A lot of people don’t realize what’s really going on. ey view life as a bunch o’ unconnected incidents ‘n’ things. ey don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice o’ coincidence that lays on top o’ everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate o’ shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o’ shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.”

Miller’s “lattice o’ coincidence” is also known as “synchronicity,” which the Urban Dictionary de ned as “Term coined by Carl Jung for the phenomenon of an apparent pattern of coincidental events which, while lacking any causal relationship, bear a meaningful relationship to the observer.”

Sting and the Police lyrically de ned synchronicity as “A connecting principle/Linked to the invisible/Almost imperceptible/

Something inexpressible/Science insusceptible/Logic so in exible/ Causally connectable/Nothing is invincible.”

However you de ne it, this latticework o’ invisible/imperceptible/inexpressible/ insusceptible/ in exible/connectable coincidence is a strong current in the Santa Monica Bay, from Venice to Malibu. As evidenced by Your Humble Narrator through a long chain of synchronicities going back to the 1990s with Mary Louise Parker, and more recently involving Cher, Michael Keaton, Miles Teller, John Lydon, Paul Sha er, a retired talk show host carcissist and a semi-retired standup comic narcissist. e rst happened with a Cher sighting near Marmalade Cafe in the spring of 2022. She emerged from a black, chau eured SUV wearing a lime green track suit you could see from space.

Cher! Cher is cool! Cher is Boomer Royalty! “I Got You Babe!” If YHN had transgressed Malibu’s First Unwritten Law — Do Not Approach Celebrities in the Wild — YHN would have complimented Cher on her song “Believe” because it evoked memories of driving around England in the ‘90s with the Charming and Glamorous Joanne O.

Rather than approach Cher, YHN e-biked to Ralphs, where they just happened to be playing “Believe” on the PA.

Can you believe that? “Do you believe in life after love?”

So that was like a 3.2 on the thrust fault o’ coincidence. A foreshock for all that was to come.

Four days later, there was another seemingly unconnected incident. Being pronoun-careful here to protect the suspicious and the suspect: is started with an out-of-the-blue phone call from a Concerned Resident to warn about a Real Estate Grifter who was taking advantage of kind-hearted homeowners who shoulda known better. According to CR, this REG would charm their way into high-priced rent and then refuse to move out. In California, renters have layers of protection against getting the heave-ho, and the process can take months, lawyers, and loss of income from unpaid rent.

COVID added another layer to that mess.

e REG would basically blackmail the homeowner to pay her to leave, a grift that was repeated on Malibu people who should have known better. e CR wanted YHN to write an expose on this person. In the conversation YHN said, “Oh that sounds like ‘Paci c Heights’ with Michael Keaton.

Ever seen it? Keaton is a psycho renter — the uniquely California boogeyman.”

e CR had not seen “Paci c Heights” — everyone should — and nothing much came from that conversation. But the very next morning, drinking co ee at Malibu Kitchen, there was Michael Keaton. No kidding. Bigger than life, talking to some unknown person about who knows what? Show biz probably. Fly shing, hopefully. Dude lives in Montana and likes to sh for cutthroats and rainbows.

Blurry smartphone images of Michael Keaton in repose at Malibu Kitchen. Summer of 2022.

Photo: Unknown.

YHN was verklempt and broke Malibu’s Second Unwritten Law — Do Not Photograph Celebrities in the Wild — by attempting to sneak a cellarazzi photo, but Keaton seemed to be aware and shot some stinkeye. Around a 4.5 on the Synchronicity Scale.

(And as I am editing this on Sept. 1, the Real Estate Grifter just walked into Whole Foods, and left. No kidding)

During the summer of 2022, when Malibu Kitchen was still the scene to see and be seen, the writer/director of a very successful movie was holed up on Malibu Road writing the much-anticipated sequel to a billion-dollar mas-

terpiece that nearly won the Best Picture Oscar in 2020.

During the summer of 2022, “ e O er” was a show about the making of “ e Godfather” on Paramount+ that aired from late April to the middle of June.

While chatting on a noisy, carcinogenic Cars and Co ee Sunday, YHN asked e Director if he was watching. He said he wasn’t but had actually been o ered “ e Offer” but was too busy. He asked how it was and YHN said, “Kinda cheesy, the best things are Miles Teller and Giovanni Ribisi.”

Malibu Kitchen got too noisy with all the fumes and crowds of the Cars and Co ee KarbonKlatch. Herr Direktor got up to hole up and work on the sequel, then a few minutes later, a retired car-addicted Talk Show Host sat down

Burt’s Eye View: Grandparents Day

PERSPECTIVE

By Burt Ross, Contributed Column

This coming Sunday is Grandparents Day. Quite frankly, I didn’t know such a day existed, but I am sure glad it does. Grandparents are irreplaceable. I say that as somebody who hopes to be a grandparent one day and certainly does not wish to be replaced.

I never knew my paternal grandmother, who died before my folks married, and my maternal grandfather died when I was only 3 years old, so my

memories of him are derived more from photos than life itself.

Grandpa Rosalsky (my father and his brothers changed their name to Ross) was quite old when I was born, and I rarely saw him. On the rare occasion when he would stay with us for a day or two, I remember his taking out his false teeth and making a sucking sound when he ate fruit.

He would walk me down to the barber shop where he got his daily shave, and during the walk he would promise that when I got older, he would buy me a chicken farm. I don’t know why he thought I wanted a chicken farm, but it doesn’t much matter

since he never bought me one. e only grandparent whom I really knew was my Mom’s Mom — Grandma Rogovin. I absolutely loved her. When I was an infant, and my parents did not feed me on demand, Grandma would shout, “You murderers.” When I misbehaved as a child, my Dad punished me once and sent me to bed without dinner, but Grandma quickly righted the wrong and served me dinner in bed.

Grandma was one of the founders of a bungalow colony in the Catskill Mountains. Like most of her peers, they spoke and read Yiddish. She would take me on walks to pick huckleberries and washed me

with an equally car-addicted Stand Up Comedian/Sitcom Star to talk story. ey were maybe three feet away and even without trying, YHN broke Malibu’s ird Unwritten Law — Do Not Eavesdrop On Show Biz Conversations — it was clear they were talking about “ e O er.” e RTSH hadn’t seen “ e Offer” and asked TSUC/SCS if he had and what he thought. e comedian said: “It’s okay. e best things are Miles Teller and Giovanni Ribisi.” at was about a 5.3 on the Latticework Scale. Pretty cool. But there’s more: Stay tuned for Plate O’ Shrimp Part Two. Questions? Answers? Corrections? Complaints? Tips? Email YHN at thebenmalibu@gmail.com

Dr. Antonio Shelton and welcomed him to the podium.

“What I know about Antonio is that he is an individual of integrity, and I think that’s very important when you think about who is leading important systems such as school systems,” Burgess said. “He is passionate, he really believes in making connections, making connections with students, to ensure they have a sense of belonging and fully working hand in hand with teachers and sta and families and our entire school community, to make sure that our students have meaningful and relevant learning experiences.”

Shelton thanked the PTSA for their continuous e orts in supporting their students.

“I am truly excited about this opporunity, we have a great school district that can even be better than we already are,” Shelton said. “If we can empower our students, teachers and, principals to be the best individuals they can be, we are doing our job. We do that by developing opportunities through curiosity.”

Shelton said they want everyone to have a sense of belonging and a sense of community.

“No one should feel isolated or left out, whether they were an adult or child,” Shelton said. “ is year, I want to make sure that you know that we are together in this; every child is important, every student that walks into this space is important, we have work to do, absolutely,

nothing is perfect, we will grow, we will learn, we will develop, and all I’m asking you to do is walk with me through this journey, let’s be one. We have great leaders here, that are facilitating that process and I’m here to listen and move forward with developing students to become leaders today, not tomorrow, I need us to start leading today because our students are the most important of what our future holds.”

Burgess acknowledged and thanked Councilmembers Paul Grisanti and Doug Stewart for attending the event.

Burgess introduced Malibu High School Principal Patrick Miller to the podium. Miller acknowledged the teachers in attendance who have served 20 to 30 years in the school district.

“Even if you don’t have kids in secondary schools, please join us for these events, the more you come to the concerts, the shows, the sporting events when your kids are in elementary school, the more comfortable they are when they get here,” Miller said.

“We are a small school, in a small town, and both are getting smaller, but being in a small school but still o ering everything we did when we were a big school, is a chance to be involved in everything, and that’s when I tell our kids to be involved in as much as they possibly can.”

Miller introduced new MMS Principal Greg Schellenberg to the podium where he shared his vision and focus for the year.

“Everything’s been great, the kids are amazing, people have been wonderfully warm and welcoming and I’m excited for the work to come,” Schellenberg said. “ ere will be an opportunity for the parents as part of the community to give input when we’re establishing independent core values and we’re establishing some of our priority and the culture of the community that we want to build and grow over time.”

After introductions and speeches, district sta , students, and parents gathered for more conversation and, of course, ice cream.

“It was wonderful just being able to connect with part of our school district, Malibu and seeing everyone come out and support and welcome not only me but Greg Schellenberg our new middle school principal,” Shelton said. “ is is empowering to see that our PTSA is bringing together the community to not only allow our principals to share how they’re moving forward but also to welcome individuals that may not have not been involved in this school community — to the school community; so, I’m just ready to go, get started, put our best foot forward and embrace the things that we said we were going to do and create that sense of belonging for everyone that comes into our spaces.”

e U.S. News and World Report recently ranked Malibu and Santa Monica high schools in the top 4 percent for 2023 out of nearly 18,000 public schools in the nation and in the top 110 schools in California.

with brown soap when I came down with poison ivy. One time, she took me to visit Molly Koppel, who had been bedridden with polio her entire adult life. My Grandma never forgot those less fortunate. Molly asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was all of 6 years old or thereabouts, and I told her that I wanted to be President of the United States. A tear fell from her eye, and she said, “Kinde, better you should be a doctor.” Well, I was never president nor a doctor, but the best I could do was raise a daughter who is a fantastic pediatrician.

Grandma, I will never forget you.

Malibu High School ranked 93rd in the state and Santa Monica High School ranked 106th. Both schools moved up in the rankings from the prior year, re ecting hard work and e orts of SMMUSD educators.

In 2022, Malibu ranked 176 in the state and 1,170 in the country and Samohi ranked 108 in the state and 829 in the nation. Olympic High School is not included in this ranking.

U.S. News rankings are determined by college readiness scores, based on demographics, state test scores, and college prep exams.

U.S. News released its 2023 Best High Schools list this week, ranking Malibu High 660 and Samohi 736, nationally, while countywide rankings are 39 for Malibu and 45 for Santa Monica.

To create the rankings, U.S. News focused on six factors: college readiness, reading and math pro ciency, reading and math performance, underserved student performance, college curriculum breadth, and graduation rates.

e City of Malibu Planning Commission held a public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 5, on the District’s Coastal Development Permit (CDP) Application to build the new high school. In addition, the California Coastal Commission will review the City of Malibu’s Local Coastal Plan Amendment (LCPA), which will pave the way for the school projects to move forward on Friday, Sept. 8. Link to meeting is cal-span.org/ meeting/ccc_20230906-20230908/live.

Miller (played by Tracy Walter) and Otto (Emilio Estevez) are shown in a scene from “Repo Man,” the source of the “lattice o’ coincidence” concept. Contributed Photo

SMMUSD administrators such as Isaac Burgess, Malibu Pathway executive director, (middle left) faculty members, SMMUSD Board member Stacy Rouse (middle right) and students enjoyed the PTSA ice cream social on Thursday, Aug. 1. Photos by Samantha Bravo/TMT

Foundation salutes LA County lifeguards at Zuma headquarters

First-In Fire Foundation donates favorite foods to rst responders

First-In Fire Foundation recently donated baby back ribs, a rst responder favorite food, for 16 lifeguards, as a “thank you” to Zuma Beach ocean lifeguards and Command Sta at the Zuma Beach, LA County Lifeguard Service Headquarters. Also thanked were three recently retired lifeguards, the Heinrich brothers, with over 60 years of service.

Lifeguard Operations is located within the Los Angeles County Fire Department. e primary mission of the lifeguards is to detect and rescue those in distress, so that others may live. e Lifeguard Operations safeguard 31 miles of beach and 72 miles of coastline, from San Pedro in the south, to Malibu in the north.

Lifeguards protect the lives of over 50 million visitors to the L.A. County beaches annually. eir life-saving work includes rescuing more than 10,000 people annually protecting the lives of families and children, surfers, swimmers, wildlife including dolphins, whales and occasionally a dog that needs rescuing as well as boat and pier res. e undertow can be dangerous, said Fernando Boiteux, chief lifeguard for Los Angeles County. Many swimmers underestimate what is beneath the waves, he added.

As for the gift of ribs, Boiteux said, “We wanted to express our gratitude for the delicious ribs provided to our lifeguards at Zuma Beach. Your generosity means a lot to us, and we are truly thankful for your kindness.”

Zuma Beach Ocean Lifeguard Captain Patrick O’Neill says he got up at midnight to start barbecuing the ribs and added the lifeguards really enjoyed them.

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“A huge surprise from my peanut butter and jelly sandwich,” said O’Neill. “Lifeguards were all honored to get a ‘thank you.’ e unsung heroes from the golden shores of Malibu. ‘Everyone goes home safe.’”

First-In Fire Foundation President Lyn MacEwen Cohen has supported the e orts of re ghters/lifeguards of LACoFD with programs to improve nutrition, health, and morale as well as hygienics.

In the past the Zuma Beach headquarters received a “Firehouse Emergency

Dan Morris, freshman safety Sawyer Keegan, and sophomore Nick Ortiz, who caused a Desert Christian fumble.

Malibu had two weeks of preseason training heading into the victory. e squad worked hard in the practices, Halualani noted.

“ e kids learned the o ense, learned the defense,” the coach said. “We really instilled a new culture of Malibu football.”

e culture is “next man up,” Halualani described. “We don’t dwell on anything bad that happens. We just keep moving forward.”

Malibu hosts Sherman Oaks CES on Sept. 14. e Sharks then host Calvary Baptist on Sept. 22 and play at Lucerne Valley on Sept. 29.

Halualani said starting the season 1-0 is great.

“It feels like we are moving in the right direction,” he said. “We have some games to go, but it is always nice to win because winning is hard. Whenever you win, you want to celebrate them because they are a hard thing to get.”

Preparedness Freezer,” a 13-cubic-foot freezer so re ghters/lifeguards can stock up way ahead in the quiet before danger comes. is is critical in cases where shopping would be prohibitive and food storage would be inadequate during an emergency such as res, ooding, earthquakes, or other natural or man-made disasters.

ese donations will supplement rst responders’ preparedness during emergencies which can occur unexpectedly. e preparedness programs also support the well-being of our rst responders, which

is key, as these heroes manage the daily complications and demands of simultaneous emergencies, earthquakes, hurricane winds and tropical storms plus numerous emergency medical calls. With upcoming wild re season 2023 approaching, lifeguards are very aware that in a major Malibu re, residents may be forced to evacuate onto the beach as they did in the recent Maui re. With a major holiday such as Labor Day, California beaches all along the coast are especially popular and crowded. ese First-In Fire Foundation Pro-

grams champion for local preparedness within the rehouse and as a catalyst and conduit for emergency preparedness in the local community. e foundation directly and indirectly bene ts residents of Los Angeles County by supporting our lifeguards, re ghters, and the Fire Department. e programs help build relationships between citizens and local rst responders, and boosts citizen awareness of public safety, community readiness and resilience activities. e LACoFD is the largest professional lifeguard service in the world. e programs from First-In Fire Foundation provide hearty nutrition for really demanding lifesaving duties 365 days per year. No matter what the disaster, lifeguards and re ghters need to eat to be able to serve.

“Lifeguards and re ghters are the Fire Department’s most valuable and precious asset,” Cohen said. “ eir wellness is paramount in this extraordinary time of unpredictable unprecedented extremes of weather and Herculean strength and resilience of beach rescue demands on our lifeguards. We deliver ‘Ribs to the Rescue,’ top quality nutrition AND a real morale boost!” says Lyn MacEwen Cohen, President.

Lifeguards were grateful for the generosity of Television City Studios and the generous donation of ribs from a small business at the Original Farmers Market, “Partners in Preparedness” with the FirstIn Fire Foundation.

e foundation encourages beachgoers to befriend their local lifeguards and re ghters and get involved in their local neighborhood emergency preparedness programs. is collaboration is greatly valued by the lifeguard leadership and Los Angeles County Fire Department Command Sta . “Friendship is the rst step toward preparedness, locally,” Cohen said.

If you would like to directly thank your local lifeguards/ re ghters, donate to First-In Fire Foundation via PayPal at firstinfirefoundation.org or email: rstin refoundation@gmail.com.

Malibu High defenders Anthony Martinez (27) and Hank Norby (55) pursue a Desert Christian ballcarrier during the Sharks win over the Knights on Sept. 1. Photos by Devon Meyers/TMT

Malibu defenders close in on a Desert Christian ballcarrier.

Malibu High quarterback Nico Miller gets o a pass during against the visiting Knights.

(From left) Ocean Lifeguard Captains Patrick O’Neill, Virginia Rupe, and John Zimpleman, join First-In Fire Foundation President Lyn MacEwen Cohen, and retired Ocean Lifeguard Captain Ed Heinrich for a photo after the foundation’s donation of food to the lifeguards. Contributed photo

Malibu High receiver Travis Kies battles a Desert Christian defender.

Malibu High quarterback Nico Miller gets ready for a pass during the Sharks’ season opener Sept. 1 against Desert Christian. Miller threw for two touchdowns and ran for another in Malibu’s 26-15 win.

Malibu High assistant football coach Jerrel Hamilton roams the sidelines during the Sharks’ 26-15 season-opening win Sept. 1.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case No. 23SMCP00439

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

Petition of: LIANA VIOLETA VILCEANOV TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

Petitioner LIANA VIOLETA VILCEANOV a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

Present Name: LIANA VIOLETA VILCEANOV Proposed

Name: LIANA VILCEANOV LASCU

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing:

Date: OCTOBER 06, 2023 Time: 8:30AM, Dept.: K

The address of the court is:

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

1725 MAIN STREET, SANTA MONICA, CA 90401

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county (specify newspaper): The Malibu Times

Date: 08/10/2023

HON. LAWRENCE CHO, Judge of the Superior Court

DAVID W. SLAYTON Executive Officer Clerk of Court

PUB: 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/7/2023 The Malibu Times

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4074, Page 526, of Official Records of said county, more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the Northwest corner of said Northeast Quarter in the Northeast Quarter of Section 34; thence along the West Boundary of said Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter South 0° 18’ 52” West, 906.06 feet, more or less, to a point in the Southerly right of way line of the North Canal of the Arvin-Edison Water Storage District and the true point of beginning of this description; thence from said true point of beginning, along said right of way line South 50° 10’ 24” East, 377.74 feet to the beginning of a curve concave to the Southwest having a radius of 200 feet; thence along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 50° 18’ 09” a distance of 175.59 feet; thence tangent to the preceding curve, South 0° 07’ 45” West 23.35 feet, more or less, to a point in the South boundary of said Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 34; thence leaving said right of way line, along said South boundary North 89° 48’ 18” West, 364.25 feet, more or less, to the Southwest corner of said Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter; thence along aforesaid West boundary North 0° 18’ 52” East, 418.10 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. Excepting therefrom all oil, gas and other minerals in and under said land, together with the right of ingress and egress and reasonable use of the surface thereof for the purpose of extracting the oil, gas and minerals thereunder, as reserved in Deeds, recorded December 18, 1963, in Book 3673, Page 148 and January 27, 1964, in Book 3686, Page 245, of Official Records of said county, as to an undivided 7/8 interest, and as reserved to Donald M. Johnston, et ux, and Gerald A. Johnston in aforesaid Final Order of Condemnation, as to the remainder of said mineral rights.”

The Petition is set for hearing in Department Number 44 of the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse located at 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, California, 90012 at 8:30 AM on September 15, 2023.

geles County on 8/15/2023.

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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THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:

POSITIVE IMPACT SOLUTIONS

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Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable):

Registered Owner(s):

KATELYN WHITE

3327 1/2 SUMAC RIDGE RD, MALIBU, CA 90265

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, KATELYN WHITE, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 7/12/2023.

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).

Publish in The Malibu Times: 08/17, 08/24, 08/31, 09/07/2023

MALIBU 192

NOTICE OF PETITION AFFECTING ESTATE OF: HENRY POLLARD CASE NO. 23STPB04925

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, of Henry Pollard of Malibu, California (“Decedent”) and persons who may be otherwise interested in Henry Pollard’s will or estate, or both:

A petition has been filed by Michael Polier as Trustee of the Butch Schuman Living Trust, dated August 24, 2000 (the “Trust”), in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, re uesting the Court to confirm the Trust’s ownership of real property which is currently titled in the name of the Decedent and described below (the “Petition”). The real property which is the subject of the Petition is described as follows:

“An undivided ten percent (10%) interest in the real property located in an unincorporated area in the County of Kern, consisting of land on Mt. View Road, Arvin, California (APN: 178-350-79), with a legal description noted as follows:

PARCEL ONE:

That portion of the West Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 34, Township 30 South, Range 29 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, in the unincorporated area of the County of Kern, State of California, according to the Official Plat thereof, lying Southwesterly of that portion described in Final Order of Condemnation recorded December 1, 1966, in Book 4000, Page 1, of Official Records.

Except all oil, gas, minerals and other hydrocarbon substances within or underlying said land, as reserved in Deed from Blanche J. Carter, a widow and George T. Johnson, Jr., a married man, dated December 15, 1972, recorded February 29, 1972, in Book 4639, Page 755, of Official Records.

PARCEL TWO:

All that portion of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 34, Township 30 South, Range 29 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, in the unincorporated area of the County of Kern, State of California, according to the Official Plat thereof, described as Parcel ACN-2F-1 in the Final Order of Condemnation recorded July 27, 1967, in Book

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 FAIL TO OBJECT prior to or at the hearing you will lose your ability to do so. You may not, thereafter, be able to recover any property conveyed by a Court Order ruling on the Petition, either in satisfaction of any debt owed to you by the Decedent or as a beneficiary or heir of the Decedent. Certain California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the Court for the full text of the Petition and all supporting documents.

Petitioner Michael Polier, Trustee of the Trust, may be contacted in care of his attorneys:

c/o Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP, Attn: Douglas Lawson 2029 Century Park East, Suite 3400 Los Angeles, CA 90067

Tel: (310) 855-3000

MALIBU 194

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case No. 23SMCP00448

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

Petition of: JESSICA, LEIGH, GALBRAITH TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

Petitioner JESSICA LEIGH GALBRAITH a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

Present Name: JESSICA, LEIGH, GALBRAITH Proposed

Name: JESSICA, LEIGH, LAGEYRE

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing:

Date: OCTOBER 13, 2023 Time: 8:30AM, Dept.: K

The address of the court is:

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

1725 MAIN STREET, SANTA MONICA, CA 90401

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county

(specify newspaper): The Malibu Times

Date: 08/14/2023

HON. LAWRENCE CHO, Judge of the Superior Court

DAVID W. SLAYTON Executive Officer Clerk of Court

PUB: 08/24, 08/31, 09/7, 09/14/2023 The Malibu Times

MALIBU 195

2023151130

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:

THE FINAL ROUND

6784 SHEARWATER LANE, MALIBU, CA 90265, LOS AN-

GELES COUNTY

Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable):

Registered Owner(s): AARON ECKSTEIN

6784 SHEARWATER LANE, MALIBU, CA 90265

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: 08/2023. 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, AARON ECKSTEIN, OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los An-

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURER AND TAX COLLECTOR

NOTICE OF DIVIDED PUBLICATION NOTICE OF DIVIDED PUBLICATION OF THE PROPERTY TAX-DEFAULT LIST (DELINQUENT LIST)

Made pursuant to Section 3371, Revenue and Taxation Code

Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code Sections 3381 through 3385, the County of Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector is publishing in divided distribution, the Notice of Power to Sell Tax-Defaulted Property in and for the County of Los Angeles (County), State of California, to various newspapers of general circulation published in the County. A portion of the list appears in each of such newspapers.

The County of Los Angeles Treasurer and Tax Collector, State of California, certifies that:

Notice is given that by operation of law at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time, on July 1, 2021, the Tax Collector declared the real properties listed below tax defaulted. The declaration of default was due to non-payment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments, and other charges levied in tax year 2020-21 that were a lien on the listed real property. Non-residential commercial property and property upon which there is a recorded nuisance abatement lien shall be subject to the tax collector’s power to sell after three years of defaulted taxes. Therefore, if the 2020-21 taxes remain defaulted after June 30, 2024, the property will become subject to the tax collector’s power to sell and eligible for sale at the County’s online auction in 2025. All other property that has defaulted taxes after June 30, 2026, will become subject to the tax collector’s power to sell and eligible for sale at the County’s online auction in 2027. The list contains the name of the assessee and the total tax, which was due on June 30, 2021, for tax year 2020-21, opposite the parcel number. Payments to redeem tax-defaulted real property shall include all amounts for unpaid taxes and assessments, together with the additional penalties and fees as prescribed by law, or be paid under an installment plan of redemption if initiated prior to the property becoming subject to the tax collector’s power to sell.

The Treasurer and Tax Collector’s Office will furnish, upon request, information concerning making a payment in full or initiating an installment plan of redemption. Requests must be made at 225 North Hill Street, First Floor Lobby, Los Angeles, California 90012. For more information, please visit our website at ttc.lacounty.gov or contact us at (213) 974-2111.

I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed at Los Angeles, California, on August 11, 2023.

Elizabeth Buenrostro Ginsberg

Chief Deputy Treasurer and Tax Collector County of Los Angeles

State of California

Assessees/taxpayers, who have disposed of real property after anuary 1, 2020, may find their names listed because the Office of the Assessor has not yet updated the assessment roll to re ect the change in ownership.

ASSESSOR’S IDENTIFICATION NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION

The Assessor’s Identification Number, when used to describe property in this list, refers to the Assessor’s map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The Assessor’s maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available at the Office of the Assessor. The following property tax defaulted on July 1, 2021, for the taxes, assessments, and other charges for the Tax Year 2020-21:

LISTED BELOW ARE PROPERTIES THAT DEFAULTED IN 2021 FOR TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND 0THER CHARGES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2020-2021.

AMOUNT OF DELINQUENCY AS OF THIS PUBLICATION

IS LISTED BELOW.

ALESANDRINI, KATHRYN

MALIBU SEA BREEZE LP ET AL TATUM,ZANE 4461-027024 $14,954.16

MCGUIRE, JOHN T 4462-012-014 $3,213.58

MERCY FOR MANKIND SITUS 1807 LATIGO CANYON RD

MALIBU CA 90265-2751 4464-024-014/S2019-010/S2020010 $117,641.77

MITCHELL, RICHARD L TR RICHARD E MITCHELL DECD TRUST SITUS 24528 MALIBU RD MALIBU CA 90265-4614

4458-012-009 $3,511.30

MOORE, MICHAEL S AND DNA S SITUS 6215 KANAN DUME RD MALIBU CA 90265-4049 4467-017-014

$13,620.29

MORO, HECTOR 4472-026-003 $17,144.01

MURPHY, DAVID K 4472-031-012 $6,322.73

NALBANTIAN, EDWARD AND VALERIE L SITUS 6711

WANDERMERE RD MALIBU CA 90265-4135 4468-012006 $1,372.33

NAVARRETE, KELLER SITUS 4831 LATIGO CANYON RD

MALIBU CA 90265-2809 4460-001-015 $30,386.36

NEJAD, PEGAH S SITUS 27314 WINDING WAY MALIBU CA 90265-4478 4460-003-010 $28,273.53

P O A PROPERTIES LLC SITUS 3233 TUNA CANYON RD

TOPANGA 90265 4448-007-068 $51,645.34

PEASLEE, HANNAH CO TR BIG WEDNESDAY TRUST SITUS 29221 HEATHERCLIFF RD NO 7 MALIBU CA 90265-4170

4468-010-025 $11,942.26

PERRY, BRIAN 4464-014-010 $2,334.81

4464-014-011 $2,334.81

PERRY, BRIAN R 4448-024-020 $7,852.80

SCHILLING, FREDERICK AND HUME, KIRSTY J SITUS 3350 TUNA CANYON RD TOPANGA CA 90290-3463 4448-007101 $39,040.86

SCHMIDT, HENRY W JR 4473-006-019 $7,363.38

SIMMONS, CYNTHIA L SITUS 6805 SEAWATCH LN MALIBU CA 90265-4142 4468-022-033/S2019-010/S2020-010

$5,781.19

SIMON, REBECCA A SITUS 20644 MEDLEY LN FERNWOOD CA 90290-3320 4448-016-043/S2019-010/S2020-010

$7,183.58

STANG, CARLA D SITUS 1233 GREENLEAF CANYON RD TOPANGA CA 90290-4115 4438-017-002 $59,340.72

STRAUSS, NAOMI R AND GOSS, JOHN R III 4462-008-018 $2,159.93

SULIMAN, GEORGE 4438-024-007 $494.40 SYLLA, PIERRE TR LUCIANNE SYLLA DECD TRUST 4438024-010 $776.72

THOMPSON, LEON JR 4465-001-027 $9,816.34 CN999476 524

Aug 31, Sep 7,14, 2023

MALIBU 197

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARILYN THALER

Case No. 23STPB09170

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARILYN THALER

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ean Weishaar in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Jean Weishaar 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 Sept. 27, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 2D 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 Re uest 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 Re uest for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER:

SHALOM ZEV KATZ ESQ SBN 92757

THOMAS & ELLIOTT LLP

12424 WILSHIRE BLVD NINTH FLR LOS ANGELES CA 90025

CN999271 THALER Aug 31, Sep 7,14, 2023

MALIBU 199

NOTICE INVITING BIDS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids for the City of Malibu, MALIBU PARK RESURFACING PRO ECT SPECIFICATION NO. 2107, will be received by the City Clerk, at Malibu City Hall, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu, California, 90265 at or before 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023, at which time they will be publicly opened and read by the City Clerk (or designated representative).

SCOPE OF WORK

In general, the proposed improvements consist of mobiliation, traffic control and construction signing, stormwater pollution prevention plan and implementation, record of construction changes, full depth pavement repair, trench repairs, surface preparation and crack seal fill, cold milling, slurry seal, pavement delineation striping and signing and all other appurtenant work included and shown in the Contract Documents and Specifications.

The bid shall be submitted and the work shall be performed by a Class A or Class C-12 State of California licensed contractor in strict conformance with the project specifications for MALIBU PARK RESURFACING PRO ECT SPECIFICATION NO. 2107 now on file in the City’s Public Works Department.

An electronic copy of plans and specifications may be obtained by prospective bidders from the Public Works Department through mpublicworks malibucity.org.

All prospective bidders shall abide by the provisions of the Bid Terms and Conditions listed in the project’s specifications.

The City reserves the right to retain all bids for a period of 90 days after the bid opening date for examination and comparison and to delete any portion of the work from the Contract. The City reserves the right to determine and waive nonsubstantial irregularities in any bid, and to reject any or all bids. The bid shall be balanced so that each bid item is priced to carry its share of the cost of the work and also its share of the contractor’s overhead and profit. The City reserves the right to delete any bid item to the extent that the bid is qualified by specific limitation. An unbalanced bid shall be considered as rounds for re ectin the entire bid. he ity shall award the bid to the lowest responsible bidder as the interest of the ity may require.

In accordance with the provisions of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 of the California Labor Code, the California Department of Industrial Relations has established the general prevailing rates of per diem wages for each craft, classification and type of work needed to execute contracts for public works and improvements. The per diem wages published at the date the contract is advertised for bids shall be applicable. Future effective wage rates which have been predetermined are on file with the Department of Industrial Relations, are referenced but not printed in said publication. The new wage rates shall become effective on the day following the expiration date and apply to this contract in the same manner as if they had been included or referenced in this contract. The website for California Department of Industrial Relations Prevailing Wage Unit is currently located at www. dir.ca.gov, prevailing wages are located on the website at http: www.dir.ca.gov dlsr pwd index.htm.

The wage rate for any classification not listed by the California Department of Industrial Relations, but which may be re uired to execute the proposed contract, shall be in accord with specified rates for similar or comparable classifications or for those performing similar or comparable duties, within the agency’s determinations.

At the time of submitting the bid the Bidder shall be registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations in accordance with the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the California Labor Code, as amended by Senate Bill 854. No public work contract may be awarded to a non-registered contractor or subcontractor.

ithout e ception the bidder is required to state the name and address of each subcontractor who will perform wor or labor or render ser ice to the prime contractor and the portion of the wor which each will do in their bid as required by Section Subcontracts of the Standard Specifications and in conformance with ublic ontract ode Sections to inclusi e.

The City will not consider awarding any contract based upon any bid submitted by any contractor nor consent to subletting any portions of the Contract to any subcontractor located in a foreign country during any period in which such foreign country is listed by the United States Trade Representative as discriminating against U.S. firms in conducting procurements for public works projects.

All bidders are hereby notified that any contract entered into pursuant to this ad ertisement usiness nterprises must be a orded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this in itation and will not be discriminated a ainst on the rounds of race color or national ori in consideration for an award.

The Contractor may substitute securities for retention monies pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300.

Date this 23rd day of August, 2023

CITY OF MALIBU, CALIFORNIA

Rob DuBoux, Public Works Director City Engineer

Published: Malibu Times on August 31, 2023 and September 7, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case No. 23TRCP00308

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

Petition of: RANDYL PAIGE HYATT CHRISTIAN HYATT FOR MINOR KAGE KANAINA IKAIKA KOA KELL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

Petitioner RANDYL PAIGE HYATT CHRISTIAN HYATT FOR MINOR KAGE KANAINA IKAIKA KOA KELL a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

Present Name: KAGE KANAINA IKAIKA KOA KELL Proposed

Name: KAGE KANAINA HYATT KELL

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing:

Date: OCTOBER 06, 2023 Time: 8:30 AM, Dept.: M, ROOM:

350

The address of the court is:

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

825 MAPLE AVE, TORRANCE, CA 90503

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county

(specify newspaper): The Malibu Times

Date: 08 21 2023

DEIRDRE HILL, udge of the Superior Court

DAVID W. SLAYTON Executive Officer Clerk of Court

PUB: 08 31, 09 7, 09 14, 09 21 2023 The Malibu Times

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LEGAL POST

USA Medical Research Institute VS Brandon Wilson

USA Medical Research Institute is suing Brandon Wilson for Medical services performed yet not paid.

Defendant: Bramdon Wilson of 3359 Rambia Pacifico Malibu, CA 90265

Plaintiff: USA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 5924 S. Congress Ave Unit 32 build 3 Austin, TX 78745

Defendant re uested Regenerative Medicine and paid for some yet not all treatments. He failed to pay 1250.00 He has now been arraigned in Austin. TX for failure to pay.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee’s Sale No. CA-

BBC-23019613 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 3 17 2023. 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. PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE SECTIONS STATED ABOVE, THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO ABOVE IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT IS MAILED TO ALL REUIRED RECIPIENTS 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 re uires 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 714-730-2727 or visit this Internet Web site www.servicelinkasap.com, using the file number assigned to this case, CA-BBC-23019613. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be re ected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. On September 27, 2023, at 11:00:00 AM, BY THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED AT, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, in the City of POMONA, County of LOS ANGELES, State of CALIFORNIA, PEAK FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC., a California corporation, as duly appointed Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by TAO GUAN, as Trustors, recorded on 4 3 2023, as Instrument No. 20230210495, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, State of CALIFORNIA, under the power of sale therein contained, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or 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, 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. Property is being sold as is where is . TAX PARCEL

Los Angeles, State of California, as per map recorded in Book 1 Page 407 et se ., of Patents, in the Office of the County recorder of said County, described as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of Parcel 30, as shown on a record of survey Map filed in Book 76 Pages 57 to 59 inclusive of record of surveys, in the office of the County Recorder of said county thence along the westerly prolongation of the northerly of said Parcel 30, North 89 34’ 02 west 606.80 feet for the purposes of this description said certain course shall have a bearing of north 89 34’ 02 west thence north 00 24’ 54 east 2364.00 feet to a point that bears south 00 24’ 54 west 1377.72 feet from the northeast corner of the land described in Book D1554, Page 379, official records in said recorder’s office, thence north 00 24’ 24 east 322.57 feet to the true point of beginning thence south 81 49’ 23 west 2020.95 feet to a point on the easterly line of Parcel 1 of Decker Road, as shown on County Surveyor’s Map No. 8113 on file in the office of the county engineer of said County, said county being south 10 16’ 14 east 50.00 feet measured along the radial line from station 73 28.00 of the located centerline thence westerly and southerly along said easterly line of Parcel 1 to a point on the prolongation 70.00 feet Southeasterly of the radial line passing through station, E.C. 69 26.56 of said centerline (bearing distances and curve data for Decker Road and Parcel No. 1 as shown on said County Surveyor’s Map No. 8113 are to be adjusted so as to agree with their respective values as determined by an adjusted survey of the centerline of Decker Road by the Los Angeles County engineer and filed in F.B. 3154 Pages 5 to 34 inclusive, in the office of the county engineer of said county thence northwesterly along said radial line 10.00 feet thence southerly parallel to said centerline to a point of intersection with a radial line of passing through Station 68 09.29 thence leaving said easterly line, north 82 30’ 00 east 2341.13 feet, more or less, to a point on the east line of land described in Book D5247 Page 714, official records in said recorder’s office thence north 00 24’ 54 east 240.78 feet to the true point of beginning. Except therefrom all water contained in, on, within and under said land and ever part thereof, and all riparian rights and rights to water in and to streams or creeks, if any, or any waters of said land, provided, however, that the foregoing exception shall not be construed as prohibiting owner from construction or maintaining checks dams, ponds, or other places for storage of water on said lands, provided said storage structures do not materially diminish the annual ow of waters down Lechu a canyon and provided further, that the right of Marblehead Company, or its successors in interest to take water from aforesaid lands shall be confined to the location particularly in said deed described with reference to the easement for water development purposes or right to maintain water wells, as reserved in deed recorded February 27, 1941 in Book 18061 Page 313, official records. Except therefrom all oil, gas, minerals and other hydrocarbon substances lying below the surface of said land but with no right of surface entry thereto, as provided in the Deed recorded February 27, 1942 in Book 18061 Page 313, official records. Parcel 2: An Easement for ingress, egress and utility on and over that portion of Rancho Topanga Malibu Se uit, as per Patent recorded in Book 1 Pages 407 et se . of Patents, in the office of the County Recorder of said County, being a strip of land 60 feet wide, lying 30 feet on each side of the following described centerline: Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the parcel of land described in Deed from Marblehead Land Company to Oscar Anderson, recorded February 27, 1941, in Book 18061 Page 313, official records of said county, said northeasterly corner being the northwesterly corner of the parcel described in Deed recorded in Book D1554 Page 379 of said official records, the common lines between above mentioned parcels having a bearing of south 0 21’ 41 west thence south 62 26’ 47 west 828.12 feet thence south 83 22’ 30 west 232.12 feet to the true point of beginning thence south 83 22’ 30 west 60 00 feet thence south 83 22’ 30 west 60.00 feet thence south 17 46’ 08 west 432.79 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the east having a radius of 300 feet thence southerly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 26 53’ 11 a distance of 140.78 feet thence tangent south 9 07’ 03 east 274.48 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the east having a radius of 300 feet thence southerly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 23 09’ 37 a distance of 121.27 feet thence tangent south 32 16’ 40 east 142.80 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the west having a radius of 150 feet thence southerly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 57 40’ 00 a distance of 15.97 feet thence tangent south 25 23’ 20 west 80.79 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the northwest having a radius of 300 feet thence southwesterly along the arc of said through a central angle of 19 31 30 a distance of 102.23 feet thence tangent south 44 54’ 50 west 149.21 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the northwest having a radius of 300 feet thence southwesterly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 3 26’ 54 a distance of 18.06 feet thence tangent south 48 21’ 44 west 68.08 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the southeast having a radius of 300 feet thence southwesterly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 14 45’ 49 a distance of 77.30 feet thence tangent south 33 35’ 55 west 73.43 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the northwest having a radius of 300 feet thence southerly along the arc of said curve through angle of 22 00’ 36 a distance of 115.24 feet thence south 55 36’ 31 west 183.96 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the southeast having a radius of 300 feet thence southwesterly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 23 51’ 05 a distance of 124.89 feet thence tangent south 310 45’ 26 west 230.26 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the north having a radius of 100 feet thence southwesterly, westerly and northwesterly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 141 58’ 24 a distance of 247.79 feet thence tangent north 6 16’ 10 west 73.44 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the east having a radius of 150 feet thence northerly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 26 37’ 19 a distance of 69.70 feet thence tangent north 20 20’ 09 east 283.02 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the southwest having a radius of 100 feet Thence northwesterly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 75 52’ 39 a distance of 132.43 feet thence tangent north 55 31 30 west 124.27 feet to

the beginning of a tangent curve concave of the northeast having a radius of 150 feet thence northwesterly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 40 27’ 28 a distance of 105.92 feet, thence tangent north 15 04’ 02 west 60.78 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the southwest having a radius of 100 feet thence northwesterly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 38 11’ 36 a distance of 66.66 feet thence tangent north 53 15’ 38 west 31.68 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve concave to the south having a radius of 60 feet thence westerly along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 85 38’ 19 a distance of 89.68 feet thence tangent south 41 06’ 03 west to the easterly line of Decker Road as shown on Los Angeles County Surveyors Map No. 8113. From information which the Trustee deems reliable, but for which Trustee makes no representation or warranty, the street address or other common designation of the above described property is purported to be 3960 DECKER EDISON RD, MALIBU, CA 90265. Said property is being sold for the purpose of paying the obligations secured by said Deed of Trust, including fees and expenses of sale. The total amount of the unpaid principal balance, interest thereon, together with reasonably estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Trustee’s Sale is 171,595.64.NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on 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 si e 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 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 an eligible tenant buyer, you can 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 877-237-7878, or visit www.peakforeclosure.com using file number assigned to this case: CABBC-23019613 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 ualify as an eligible tenant buyer or eligible bidder, you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. NOTICE TO PERSPECTIVE

OWNER-OCCUPANT: Any perspective owner-occupant as defined in Section 2924m of the California Civil Code who is the last and highest bidder at the trustee’s sale shall provide the re uired affidavit or declaration of eligibility to the auctioneer at the trustee’s sale or shall have it delivered to PEAK FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC. by 5:00 PM on the next business day following the trustee’s sale at the address set forth above. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written re uest to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of the first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale will be entitled only to the return of the money paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchasers sole and exclusive remedy. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. SALE INFORMATION LINE: 714-730-2727 or www.servicelinkasap.com Dated: 8 29 2023 PEAK FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC., AS TRUSTEE By Lilian Solano, Trustee Sale Officer A-4795088 09 07 2023, 09 14 2023, 09 21 2023

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Los Angeles County Hearing Officer 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 authori ed agent may appear and comment on the project at the hearing. The Hearing Officer will then consider 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, testimony may be limited to issues raised before or at the public hearing

Hearing Date and Time: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.

earin ocation 320 West Temple St., Rm. 150, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Visit https: bit.ly HO-hearings and select hearing date for more information. By phone at (323) 776-6996 (ID: 391 609 802).

ro ect o. PR 2021-002261-(3)

ro ect ocation 4201 Topanga Canyon Boulevard within the Santa Monica Mountains Planning Area

A ate orical emption Class 1 Existing Facilities ro ect escription Continued operation of an existing 199-space mobile home park with a detached office, utility room, and laundry room structures. ore information William Chen, AICP 320 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. (213) 974-6411. wchen

planning.lacounty.gov. planning.lacounty.gov.

Case Material: https://bit.ly/PRJ2021-002261

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 PERMIT REQUEST

The Director of Regional Planning shall make a decision after 30 days of this public noticing. Any individual opposed to the granting of this permit may express written opposition to the Director by [30 days from date noticing sent out]. Please note all correspondence received by LA County Planning shall be considered a public record.

Project No.: PRJ2023-000966-(3)

Project Location: 24850 Piuma Road, within the Santa Monica Mountains Planning Area CEQA Categorical Exemption: Class 3 – New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures

Applicant:Andrew Goertzen

Project Description: To authorize the construction and maintenance of a roof-mounted solar array and appurtenant equipment and infrastructure in association with an existing single-family residence.

More information: Nathan M. Merrick, 320 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. (213) 974-6411. NMerrick@ planning.lacounty.gov. planning.lacounty.gov.

Case Material: https://bit.ly/PRJ2023-000966

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF MALIBU PLANNING COMMISSION

The Malibu Planning Commission will hold public hearings on MONDAY, October 2, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. on the projects identified below in Council Chambers at Malibu City Hall, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, and via teleconference. How to View and Participate in the Meeting: Members of the public are encouraged to submit email correspondence to planningcommission@malibucity.org at least three days prior to the meeting to provide adequate time for Commissioner consideration. Correspondence will continue to be processed until thirty minutes prior to the start of the meeting or as practical.

To view and participate during the public hearing, please review the meeting agenda posted at MalibuCity.org/ AgendaCenter and follow the directions for public participation. Only those members of the public who are present in person at Malibu City Hall will have the opportunity to defer time to another in-person speaker.

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT NO. 07-087, CON-

DITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 21-010, SIGN PERMIT NO. 19-004, INITIAL STUDY NO. 19-001, NEGATIVE

DECLARATION NO. 19-001, VARIANCE NOS. 21-022, 21-023 AND 23-029–An application for public access improvements at Lechuza Beach to improve accessibility consistent with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) including installation of a new ADA accessible single-stall restroom, onsite wastewater treatment system (OWTS), gate, access improvements, ADA van parking space and access aisle, and reconstruction of existing view platforms and staircases; including a conditional use permit for an OWTS to be located on separate properties, variances for locating improvements on a steep slope, reduction in the blufftop setback, and retaining wall heights in excess of six feet, and a sign permit for the installation of information signs

Location: 31720.5 Broad Beach Road

APNs: 4470-026-003; 4470-021-008; 4470-021-007; 4470-021-900; 4470-028-918; 4470-028-917; 4470-028915; 4470-021-009; 4470-024-901; 4470-024-062

Zoning: Single-family Medium (SFM)

Applicant/Owner: Mountains Recreation and Conservation

Authority

Appealable to: City Council and California Coastal Commission

Environmental Review: Initial Study No. 19-001 / Negative Declaration No. 19-001 State Clearinghouse No. 2019011015

Application Filed: July 16, 2007

Case Planner: Joseph Smith, Contract Planner jsmith@californiacw.com

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT AMENDMENT NO.

22-007–An application to amend Coastal Development

Permit No. 19-052 to remove Condition of Approval No. 22 of Planning Resolution No. 21-39 regarding the requirement to widen Bayshore Drive

Location: 25429 Malibu Road

APN: 4459-014-014

Zoning: Rural Residential-Two Acre (RR-2)

Applicant/Owner: Matt Eksan / The Celestial Trust

Appealable to: City Council and California Coastal Commission

Environmental Review: Categorical Exemption CEQA

Guidelines Section 15061

Application Filed: October 17, 2022

Case Planner: Adrian Fernandez, Assistant Planning Director (310) 456-2489, extension 482 afernandez@malibucity.org

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).

For the project listed at 31720.5 Broad Beach Road, pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Sections 15082 and 15096, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA), acting as lead agency for the proposed project, consulted with responsible agencies throughout the preparation of an Initial Study (IS) and Negative Declaration (ND), including the City.

As the agency implementing the project, MRCA is the lead agency for purposes of CEQA. The IS prepared by MRCA determined the proposed project would not have a significant impact on the environment; subsequently a negative declaration was prepared and circulated pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15071. On May 1, 2019, in compliance with CEQA, the MRCA adopted the IS and ND.

For the project listed at 5723 Busch Drive, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15082 and 15096, the Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 29, acting as lead agency for the proposed project, consulted with responsible agencies throughout the preparation of the initial study and negative declaration, including the City. As the decision-making body, the City reviewed and considered the initial study and negative declaration prior to acting upon Coastal Development Permit No. 13-040.

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 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 245.

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 805585-1800. 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.

Richard Mollica, Planning Director Publish Date: September 7, 2023

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2023189332 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

THE FOLLOWING PERSON IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:

1. NOBLE VETERINARY CARE

12721 CULVER BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90066, LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number (if applicable):

Registered Owner(s):

1. DOC HALLIGAN, INC

12721 CULVER BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90066

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization

CA

This business is conducted by A CORPORATION

The date registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 08/2023.

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, DOC HALLIGAN, INC, KAREN MARIE HALLIGAN, PRESIDENT

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 8/29/2023.

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).

Publish in The Malibu Times: 09/7, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2023

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NEW FILE NO. 2023183390 OLD FILE NUMBER.

2019029025

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S) TO BE ABANDONED: CALIFORNIA YACHT CLUB, 44469 ADMIRALTY WAY, MARINA DEL REY, CA 90292, LOS ANGELES COUNTY

THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME WAS FILED IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ON: 02/04/2019

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) HAVE ABANDONED THE USE OF THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME: CALIFORNIA YACHT CLUB INC, 431 W SEVENTH ST, LOS ANGELES, CA 90014

If Corporation or LLC- CA State of Incorporation/Organization

CA THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: A CORPORATION

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, CALIFORNIA YACHT CLUB INC, CHRISTOPHER PLANO, VICE PRESIDENT

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 08/22/2023.

Publish in The Malibu Times: 09/7, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28/2023

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NOTICE INVITING BIDS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids for the City of Malibu, WESTWARD BEACH ROAD SHOULDER REPAIR SPECIFICATION NO. 2070, will be received by the City Clerk, at Malibu City Hall, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu, California, 90265 at or before 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 5, 2023, at which time they will be publicly opened and read by the City Clerk (or designated representative).

SCOPE OF WORK

In general, the proposed improvements consist of asphalt road reconstruction repair of the eastbound shoulder of Westward Beach Road including sawcut, base and asphalt reconstruction, and all appurtenant work, included and

shown in the Contract Documents and Specifications. The bid shall be submitted and the work shall be performed by a Class “A” or “C-12” State of California licensed contractor in strict conformance with the project specifications for Project Specification No. 2070 now on file in the City’s Public Works Department.

An electronic copy of plans and specifications may be obtained by prospective bidders from the Public Works Department through mpublicworks@malibucity.org. All prospective bidders shall abide by the provisions of the Bid Terms and Conditions listed in the project’s specifications.

The City reserves the right to retain all bids for a period of 90 days after the bid opening date for examination and comparison and to delete any portion of the work from the Contract. The City reserves the right to determine and waive non-substantial irregularities in any bid, and to reject any or all bids. The bid shall be balanced so that each bid item is priced to carry its share of the cost of the work and also its share of the contractor’s overhead and profit. The City reserves the right to delete any bid item to the extent that the bid is qualified by specific limitation. An unbalanced bid shall be considered as grounds for rejecting the entire bid. The City shall award the bid to the lowest responsible bidder as the interest of the City may require.

In accordance with the provisions of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 of the California Labor Code, the California Department of Industrial Relations has established the general prevailing rates of per diem wages for each craft, classification and type of work needed to execute contracts for public works and improvements. The per diem wages published at the date the contract is advertised for bids shall be applicable. Future effective wage rates which have been predetermined are on file with the Department of Industrial Relations, are referenced but not printed in said publication. The new wage rates shall become effective on the day following the expiration date and apply to this contract in the same manner as if they had been included or referenced in this contract. The website for California Department of Industrial Relations Prevailing Wage Unit is currently located at www.dir.ca.gov, prevailing wages are located on the website at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/pwd/index. htm.

The wage rate for any classification not listed by the California Department of Industrial Relations, but which may be required to execute the proposed contract, shall be in accord with specified rates for similar or comparable classifications or for those performing similar or comparable duties, within the agency’s determinations.

At the time of submitting the bid the Bidder shall be registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations in accordance with the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the California Labor Code, as amended by Senate Bill 854. No public work contract may be awarded to a non-registered contractor or subcontractor.

Without exception, the bidder is required to state the name and address of each subcontractor who will perform work or labor or render service to the prime contractor and the portion of the work which each will do in their bid as required by Section 23, “Subcontracts”, of the Standard Specifications and in conformance with Public Contract Code, Sections 4100 to 4113, inclusive. The City will not consider awarding any contract based upon any bid submitted by any contractor nor consent to subletting any portions of the Contract to any subcontractor located in a foreign country during any period in which such foreign country is listed by the United States Trade Representative as discriminating against U.S. firms in conducting procurements for public works projects.

All bidders are hereby notified that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, Business Enterprises must be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color or national origin consideration for an award.

The Contractor may substitute securities for retention monies pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300.

Date this 29th day of August, 2023

Rob DuBoux, Public Works Director/City Engineer

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ALL REAL ESTATE advertised herein are subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, ancestry or national origin or intention to make such preference, limitation or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertisements for real estate in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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Pepperdine men’s water polo 4-0 in season-opening tournament

Waves excel against northeast competition, return to California for games this weekend

By MCKENZIE JACKSON Special to The Malibu Times

The Pepperdine Waves men’s water polo team went undefeated at the Bruno Classic at Brown University and Harvard University last weekend.

e Waves, ranked 11th nationally, went 4-0 at the Sept. 2-3 event by defeating Fordham, Brown, Harvard, and Wagner College.

Pepperdine began the classic with a 16-10 victory over Fordham, ranked 15th, at Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sophomore attacker Adam Csapo had eight goals in the contest. Senior center defender Nico Tierney had two. Sophomore attacker Sandor Gal, senior attacker Christian Hosea, graduate student attacker Curtis Jarvis, graduate student utility Kaden Kaneko, junior center Matty Walsh, and freshman center Chase Wilson each scored a goal.

e Waves downed Brown 22-10 that same day. Travis Reynolds, a senior center, had four goals and Walsh tallied three. Senior attacker Andrew Outcalt, graduate student driver Ryan Brosnan, Csapo, and Jarvis had two goals each. Tierney, Wilson, Kaneko, Hosea, and

Conor Brough had one goal apiece.

Goalkeeper Antonio Knez, a graduate student, had 24 saves total in both matches.

Pepperdine began the second day of the classic at Blodgett Pool in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a 1611 triumph over 18th-ranked Harvard. Walsh scored four goals in the match. Hosea had three scores and

Brosnan, Jarvis, and Travis Reynolds scored two goals each. Csapo, Gal, and Milo Joseph also each scored one goal.

In the second game of the day, a 15-7 win over Wagner College, Walsh led the Waves with three goals. Csapo and Tierney tossed in two scores. e other Waves that scored — one goal each — were Brosnan,

Brough, Gal, Kaneko, freshman utility Jon Carcarey, senior attacker Anthony D’Ambra, junior attacker Clay Kaneko, and senior attacker Andrew Outcalt.

e Waves play at Loyola Marymount on Saturday and host California Sunday at noon. e squad hosts Westcli at noon on Sept. 14 and UC Santa Barbara that same day at 5 p.m.

Malibu High School girls golf season begins with match against Viewpoint

Malibu and Carpinteria will co-host the first all Citrus Coast League match at Saticoy on Sept. 14

By MCKENZIE JACKSON

Special to The Malibu Times

The Malibu High Sharks girls golf team will have its second match of the season on ursday. e ve-member squad will take on Santa Paula at the Saticoy Regional Golf Course in Ventura.

Malibu head coach Anna Deshautelle said her team is excited about the season. She described the Sharks as a hardworking bunch who are involved with a variety of school activities.

“The girls are all wonderful,” Deshautelle said. “ ese are high-achieving young women.”

Last season, the Sharks nished in the middle of the seven-team Citrus Coast League standings.

MHS’s Chloe Loquet was named to the All-Citrus Coast League second team and her teammate, Caidyn Ovsiowitz, was honorable mention. Loquet and Ovsiowitz are on the

team again this season along with Irina Columbeanu, Audrey Hamre, and Brienna Brandau, a rst-season golfer. is is the second consecutive year Malibu has had a girls golf

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team on the links.

Deshautelle said the Sharks’ golf games have improved since the beginning of last season.

“ ey are de nitely ne-tuning

their games,” she said. “ ey are trying to become more competitive with this. ey are becoming more sophisticated with their development.”

Malibu opened the season on Aug. 30 with a friendly match against Viewpoint.

Malibu and Carpinteria will co-host the rst all-Citrus Coast League match at Saticoy on Sept. 14. e event will feature all seven of the league’s teams. Malibu will take on Santa Paula on Sept. 21 at Saticoy and then play Fillmore on Sept. 28 at Buenaventura Golf Course in Ventura.

Deshautelle said it is not too late for experienced or inexperienced golfers to join Malibu’s team.

“We’d love to have a few more girls,” she said. “We need six to have a safety net in case someone gets sick or can’t miss class. We’d hope they’d come sooner rather than later.”

e coach said Malibu wants to have a good ranking in the league standings.

“We hope to really do well in our league,” Deshautelle said. “If we keep everyone healthy and able to make it to matches — with all their other commitments — then we can do really well in league. We can nish high.”

Malibu opened the season on Aug. 30 with a friendly match against Viewpoint. Members of the team shown from left are Brienna Brandau, Caidyn Ovsiowitz, Audrey Hamre, Irina Columbeanu, and Chloe Loquet.

Photo by Anna Deshautelle.

The Pepperdine men’s water polo team is shown in a team photo. The Waves won all four of their games last weekend in the Bruno Classic in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Photo by Ron Hall