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Vehicles are fit for the 'hybrid highway' By Steven Rosenthal Guest Columnist Plug it in, go to sleep and wake up with a full tank… uh, battery. Just plug in the car cord in your charging station at home or at a specially marked parking space at the mall. Soon—spark-spark— you’re on the road. When the battery runs low in some plugins, a gasoline engine will take over.

hybrid highway, offering dramatic designs and lighter lithium batteries. Based on looks alone, the “prototype” Prius, which was unveiled at the Auto Show at the Convention Center, is an entry-level winner. Perhaps you’re looking for a more sophisticated vision? No problem. There’s a new stable of stylish European plug-ins for your “green” driving excitement. For example,

The 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show debuted a full range of hybrids featuring the newest in technology. Recently, going “the green way” meant driving the top selling, yet frumpy looking Prius hybrid with minimalist maneuverability. Toyota watched as the competition saw its Prius Division rolling in hybrid profits. More carmakers jumped on the

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there’s the Porsche Panamera S plug-in, a $94,000 sexy sedan with the Porsche brand design and racing characteristics like 165 miles-per-hour top speed. Porsche claims 50 mpg with this stallion. Not to be outdone, Mercedes-Benz rolled out an elegant S550 plug-in model immersed in Mercedes technology and luxury. There’s an abundance of safety technology with collision-avoidance systems, cameras on all sides, radar transceivers and ultrasonic sensors. The car also monitors traffic, tracks pedestrians, and even watches your back. It will get 40 mpg. Oh, it also parks itself! BMW joined the hybrid game with its tightly tuned plug-in sedans. Their legendary autos received too many negatives for dated designs. It seems they saved the best ideas for their all-electrics. More ho hums from the Audi e-tron family, trying to be a different hybrid and still looking like the same old Audi. Inside and out, you will find more of yesterday’s touches still dominating the new Audis. It’s difficult to distinguish their latest cars from

current models. Even Audi’s 2018 e-tron concept already appears outmoded. For those of you who don’t want to bother with plugging in your car when you get home, there’s a unique plugless option for the gorgeous Cadillac ELR. Just park the car over a flat circular pad easily installed in your garage floor, and presto, charge your battery wirelessly. As for me, I’ll endure pulling out the car cord and plugging in my Mercedes S550, just as soon as my $99,000 bonus check arrives.

Preservation awards deadline is Jan. 29 The Los Angeles Conservancy is accepting applications for its 2016 Preservation Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in the field of historic preservation in Los Angeles County by 5 p.m. Fri., Jan. 29. Applications are available at laconservancy.org/awards or by contacting the Conservancy’s office at 213-623-2489 or info@laconservancy.org. Award recipients will be announced at an awards luncheon in the spring at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel.

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Future plans, board election on agenda at PLBRA Planning for the new year is among the topics of the Park LaBrea Residents Association’s annual meeting on Sun., Jan. 10 at noon in the Park La Brea activity center. The meeting will also cover a review of PLBRA’s financial position and election of a

new board of directors. Current officers are Bernie Clinch, president, Carol Robins, vice president and Col. Donald Harris (ret.), secretary-treasurer. The Association serves as an advocate for tenant-management relations. Its purpose

is to protect resident’s rights, to provide a liaison with Park La Brea management, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of life in the community. The Association also sponsors a weekly movie program. For more information, call the office at 323-934-1177.

RENDERING SHOWS TWO OF SIX proposed single-family houses on Eighth St. west of Muirfield Road.

Neighbors discuss scope of EIR for CIM Farmers project By Billy Taylor About 20 neighbors showed up in mid-December at the House of Lebanon in Brookside for the city’s “scoping” meeting for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the 4.73-acre development project proposed for the former Farmers Insurance property at Wilshire Blvd. and Mullen Ave. The city organized the evening as an “open house,” with a half-dozen stations with illustrations on easels and resource people to discuss different topics at each station. The final stop on the tour was the city planning department table staffed by Erin Strelich. There, she received comment forms from some attendees. Comments on the city’s EIR “initial study” document and the proposed scope of the EIR must be provided to the city in writing and may be submitted by mail, fax, or e-mail. The deadline to comment on the scope of what is to be studied is Jan. 4, 2016. Among the neighbors participating in the meeting was across-the-street (Eighth St.) neighbor, Jan Wieringa. She said after the meeting that she did not have any comments yet and that she was “still working through all of the EIR documentation and there is quite a lot to read and think about.” Wieringa said she planned to send com-

GWNC candidate filing starts Jan. 17 Stakeholders in the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council (GWNC) area who are interested in running to be a Council director or alternate may begin filing as candidates on Jan. 17. Candidate filing ends on Wed., March 2. The election will be held Sun., May 1, from 4 to 7 p.m., in the Barking Lot on Larchmont Blvd. The Larchmont Chronicle will carry additional information in coming issues. Detailed election information is available now at empowerla.org/elections/ region5/gwnc16/

ments to the planning dept. and that she would be urging her neighbors to do likewise. Purpose of “scoping” The city comment form explains that the purpose of a scoping meeting is to identify public and agency concerns, define the issues that will be examined in the EIR, and help identify project impacts, alternatives, and mitigation measures that can lessen the negative impacts from both temporary construction activities and long-term operation of a proposed project. On display were drawings and renderings previously presented to Brookside neighbors and now part of the formal submittal to the city. More details are available online under the “Environmental Review” tab on the left side of the planning.lacity.org web site. The case number is ENV-2015-2719-EIR. The drawings available at the House of Lebanon event showed the 14 single-family homes, three triplexes, and 11 townhouses to be built on the now-vacant parking lots. The 53 remaining allowable residential units are planned to be built in the historic, eightstory Farmers tower. 391 parking spaces Attendees also viewed a station staffed by engineers from the AutoParkit company that is designing an automated garage to go under the townhouses next to the existing tower. That garage will provide a substantial number of the total of 391 parking spaces being provided by the project (more than the 379 spaces required by code, according to the Initial Study). The land use station had boards listing the various steps in the entitlement approval process that precedes the start of construction. The environmental station featured a long list of issues to be studied while drafting the EIR. Another station presented the traffic analysis process now underway and had a board showing the numerous nearby intersections where traffic impacts are being studied.

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Historical Society names its 2015 Holiday Lights winners This year’s six winners for the Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society’s annual Holiday Lights contest were: A home at 415 S. Windsor

Blvd. won Most Spectacularly Decorated; The home at 425 N. McCadden Pl. won for Most Traditionally Decorated;

The home at 300 S. Irving Blvd. won for Most Creatively and Colorfully Decorated; and, the home at 244 N. Gower St. won for Most Whimsically Decorated. Its decorations featured animal figures, twirling lollipops and blinking giant lights. The Best Block went to 500 S. Muirfield Rd. Best decorated store on

Larchmont Blvd. went to DMH Aesthetics. Sites to be judged were between Highland and Wilton and Melrose and Wilshire. “Our only rule was that we could not give an award to any house that had won in the last two years,” said judge Juanita Kempe. The winners will receive a

certificate from the Historical Society. Other judges were: Fluff McLean, Laura Cohen, Sandy Boeck, Patricia Rye, Connie Richey and Carrie Hayward. “There were many houses considered for our judging, and we want to thank them all for their hard work and holiday spirit,” said Kempe.

happy new year! CRAFTSMAN on the corner of Irving and Third received accolades for the Most Creatively and Colorfully Decorated.

TWIRLING LOLLIPOPS at this N. Gower home were among features of the Most Whimsically Decorated.

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Tudor home on Irving with nearly a score of owners Most houses in our neighborhood have had a few owners since they were built in that ambitious age of the 1920s when Windsor Square, Hancock Park and environs came to be. Some houses have been handed down through families, and some have had a few more owners than others. The house that I lived in at 144 N. Norton had six previous owners when I purchased it in 1988. Corner properties are sometimes more transient than others depending upon the location. For instance, the northwest corner of Third St. and Wilton Pl. has had many owners and was an eyesore for years until property values increased and a preservationconscious couple purchased it. They restored it and continue to think of ways to drown out the busy rush hour traffic outside. The house at 555 S. Irving Blvd. has had a whopping 19 owners prior to the current occupants. Located on the northwest corner of Sixth St. and Irving, just across from the mayoral Getty House, the large brick Tudor has a slate roof. It has six bedrooms and six bathrooms, a butler’s pantry, back staircase, screened porch, crown moldings, fireplaces in both dining room and living

room and is on a large stately lot. This home has had an interesting selection of people occupying it since it was first built by Harry Belden in 1924. The list of names attached to the property reflects the evolution of our neighborhood as it does the cultural melting pot of our nation. Because of space constraints, we will focus on only a few owners.

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Richard Battaglia Harry Belden Belden was a contractor who built many homes around Los Angeles. According to the periodical “Domestic Engineering-The Plumbing and Heating Weekly,” February 11, 1922, “Harry H. Belden has purchased 12 lots on Lorraine Boulevard between 2nd and 3rd Streets, and will erect residences on each lot costing from $25,000 to $30,000 each.” Shatto and Catalina Island From the Beldens, the property moved into the hands of an icon of early Los Angeles

real estate development history. Clara Shatto was a widow for many years when she purchased the Irving property in 1927. She and her husband, George Rufus Shatto, moved west to California during the 1880s land boom. Among other things, George thought it would be a great idea to buy a worthless piece of land offshore. Purchased for between $150,000 and $200,000, Shatto briefly owned Santa Catalina Island. He developed the town of Avalon there. Clara and George had one child, Walter, who sadly died eight months after birth. The ambitious George was killed at the age of 42 in a freight train accident in 1893. Clara Shatto later donated 32 acres of land along Wilshire Blvd. to the city of Los Angeles. Today, that land is Lafayette Park. She is buried at Rosedale Cemetery in the large, private Shatto Mausoleum that is shaped like a pyramid. Seventeen more owners Clara Shatto only lived at the Irving house a short time before selling it to Cyrus and Amelia Boon (1928-1930). From them, the chain of title is: Charles and Sadie Andrews (1930-1937), Fred Andrews (April 1937 - June 1937), back to Charles and Sadie Andrews

LABINER-MOSER house at 555 S. Irving Blvd. has had 19 owners.

(1937-1943), Ruby L. Baker (1943-1972), Lucille C. Bolin (1972-1978), Fred and Nevelyn Ervin (1978), Don O. Pettie (1978-1979), Nagi and Maureen Murad (1979-1990), Jun Li Kang (1990-1991), Michelle Kim (1991-1992), Andrea H. Im (1992-1993), Kyung Mun and Ok Sun Kim (1993-1995), Jun Il Kang (1995-1996), Coast Federal Bank (1996), Richard Ahn and Erica Kim (1996-1999), Erica Kim (19992003), Caroline Labiner Moser and Dr. Franklin G. Moser. Labiner-Moser Years Dr. Moser is the director of clinical and interventional neuroradiology at Cedars-Sinai, and his wife is an architect. She serves on the Park Mile Design Review Board, the Windsor

Square and Harvard Heights HPOZ Boards and the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council and Bel Air – Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council land use committees. She is a board member of the Windsor Square Association and of the Natural History Museum. Their two grown daughters graduated from Marlborough School and Cornell University. In moving to 555 S. Irving, Caroline had to undo some of the inappropriate additions from years of different ownership. She did so with skill and taste. It is wonderful to have this historic house back in the hands of people who intend to be there a long time, maybe as (Please turn to page 15)

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Shelby cruise-in, King holiday events, opening at Craft and Folk PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM—Movie night, "Beyond the Bibs," about Carol Shelby, screens Wed., Jan. 6, 7 p.m. • Carol Shelby cruise-in is on Sun., Jan. 10, 8 to 10 a.m. • Curator's Talk about alter-

native fuel vehicles is Mon., Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. with Leslie Kendall. • Book signing with Harold Cleworth, "Painter Laureate of the Car," is Wed., Jan. 13 at 11 a.m. • Steve Stanford Art Show is

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p.m. • Exhibits include Precious Metal silver cars; Disney/Pixar cars and Microsoft Xbox Forza racing simulators. 6060 Wilshire Blvd., 323903-2277; petersen.org. CRAFT AND FOLK ART MUSEUM—"Upcoming Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to the Present" opening reception is Sat., Jan. 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. More than 120 works from jewelry to wall panels are featured. • "Made in China: New Ceramic Works by Keiko Fukazawa" opens Sat., Jan. 23. New works are from her residences in Jingdezhenk, the porcelain capital of the world. Exhibits end May 8, 2016 5814 Wilshire Blvd., 323937-4230; cafam.org; free on Sundays. ZIMMER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM—Sunday family programs include "Dreaming our Way to a Better World!" Sun., Jan. 17 from 2 to 4 p.m. Celebrate Trees on Sun., Jan. 24 from 2 to 4 p.m. 6505 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 100; 323-761-8984; zimmermuseum.org. LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART—Target store's free Holiday Monday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is for everone Mon., Jan. 18 beginning at 11 a.m. Bilingual tours, family sketching. Live Dixieland blues and swing and dance performances at 12:30 and 2:45 p.m.

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• "Islamic Art Now, Part 2: Contemporary Art of the Middle East" opens Jan. 24. • "Senses of Time: Video and Film-based works of Africa" features six works of art. Ends Jan. 2017. • "Japanese Paintings: Figures from Life; Figures from Allegory" ends May 29. • "Rain Room" allows visitors to experience the ability to control rain. Ends March 6. • "Frank Gehry" includes works from the 1960s to the present. Ends March 20. LACMA is free the second Tuesday of the month. 5905 Wilshire Blvd., 323857-6000; lacma.org. JAPAN FOUNDATION— Winter lanugage courses begin. Everyday and business courses offered. • Japanema: films screen the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. $10. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., 323761-7510; jflalc.org.

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museum row MUSEUM—"It's the Pits!" with cocktails, tours and fossils,on Fri., Jan. 15 from 7 to 10 p.m. A science-skewed creative salon invites artists, musicians, and fimmakers to stage pop-ups. RSVP. • "Titans of the Ice Age: The

BELGIAN PASSPORT above shows one of 30,000 visas Mendes issued against government orders in 1940.

L.A. MUSEUM OF THE H O L OC A U S T — M u s i c a l Ambassador Winter Showcase Series is on Sundays Jan. 3, 10, and 17 at 1:30 p.m. Student pianists will perform on a Blüthner which before the Holocaust belonged to a Jewish musician in Germany. • "Visas to Freedom: Aristides de Sousa Mendes and the Refugees of World War II" opens Fri., Jan. 22. The exhibit features original artifacts and photographs recognizing the heroic acts of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese Consul General stationed in Bordeaux, France. In defiance of his government's orders, he issued visas to an estimated 30,000 people seeking to escape Nazi-occupied Europe through Portugal in May and

June of 1940. • A ceremony to honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day will take place on Wed., Jan. 27. Check Sousa the website for Mendes information. Holocaust survivor speakers and tours on Sundays. Pan Pacific Park, 100 S. Grove Dr., 323-6513704; lamoth.org. Always free. KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER—Films, classes and cultural events. Visit website for listings. 5505 Wilshire Blvd., 323936-7141; kccla.org. LA BREA TAR PITS &

La Brea Story in 3D" screens every half-hour 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily in the 3D theater. • Excavator tours feature the museum and park, labs and fossil excavation. Daily. • Ice Age Encounters with a (life-size puppet) saber-

toothed cat are Fridays at 11 a.m., 1 and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at 11 a.m., 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Free first Tuesday of each month except July, August. 5801 Wilshire Blvd., 323934-PAGE; tarpits.org

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Options abound for tree recycling, removal Several options for Christmas tree disposal are available for residents this year. Some city park locations and fire stations will accept trees for collection Sun., Jan. 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lights, ornaments, tinsel and stand must all be removed from the tree. Locally, Fire Station 29, 4029 Wilshire Blvd., will be accepting trees on that day.

Call 213-485-6229 for information. Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation offers citywide curbside collection at no charge. Residents can cut their trees and dispose of them in the green bin with yard waste. Ornaments, lights, tinsel and stand must be removed, and the tree may not protrude more than a foot above the top of the bin.

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If the tree is too big, it may be placed next to the green waste bin at the curb on collection day. Trees that are flocked must be disposed of in the black bin. They are not recyclable. Residents in multi-unit housing, such as apartments and condominiums, or others who do not have access to bins, can call 800-773-CITY (2489) to make an appointment to have their trees picked up from the curb outside their buildings. If you purchased a tree from Wilshire Rotary Club at the lot on Larchmont Blvd., you may keep the metal rebar stand that came with it and bring it back to the lot next year for reuse. California Christmas Tree Recycling will come to your home, drain the water stand, remove the tree, vacuum the floor and take the tree to a recycling center where it will be mulched and used in future plantings. They will also pick up your tree from your curb for a reduced fee. Prices for the service start at $25 depending on the size of the tree, and a portion of the proceeds goes to TreePeople, an environmental non-profit. Pick–up dates and times can be reserved online at recycletrees.com or by calling 310584-6589. For more information on the city of Los Angeles Christmas tree drop-off and recycling program, visit lacitysan. org/tree-recycle.htm.

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Real Estate Sales*

SOLD: This house located at 438 N. Lucerne Blvd. was listed for $1,878,000.

Single family homes 516 S. Hudson Ave. 124 S. Rossmore Ave. 159 S. Van Ness Ave. 329 S. Mansfield Ave. 560 N. Cahuenga Blvd. 438 N. Lucerne Blvd. 533 N. Irving Blvd. 677 S. Bronson Ave. 433 N. Windsor Blvd. 316 N. Gower St. 250 N. Wilton Pl. 940 3rd Ave.

$8,485,000 5,400,000 3,995,000 2,799,000 2,095,000 1,878,000 1,395,000 1,350,000 1,150,000 999,900 995,000 899,000

Condominiums 4661 Wilshire Blvd., #104 631 Wilcox Ave., #1B 3810 Wilshire Blvd., #PH-10 681 S. Norton Ave., #111 871 Crenshaw Blvd., #306 333 Westminster Ave., #105 3810 Wilshire Blvd., #1204 444 S. Gramercy Pl., #4 5050 Maplewood Ave., #102 3810 Wilshire Blvd., #1910 525 N. Sycamore Ave., #429 358 S. Gramercy Pl., #308

$1,515,500 925,000 799,900 699,000 649,000 639,000 609,000 455,000 452,500 405,000 395,000 270,000

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368 South Rimpau Blvd.

This newly reimagined 1960-2016 completed masterpiece is majestically sited on a twenty two thousand square foot lot. This Italian Mediterranean boasts the expert craftsmanship of this design so brilliantly created by their designers extraordinaire.

The elegant master bedroom is 1700 plus square feet boasting high ceilings. The master bath and his and hers dressing rooms are indescribable. Standing tall on the corner of Rimpau and Fourth Street in Hancock Park. It is a strong masterpiece and is titled “The Duke.” Price upon request. The offices representing this property are: Coldwell Banker Hancock Park North, Betsy Malloy (323) 806-0203. The Agency Beverly Hills, Brandon Cohen (310) 654-0200. Property will open on January 12th 2016, please stop by for a viewing. We will be hosting a fantastic, entertaining open house.

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As you enter the home you are greeted by a mesmerizing two story foyer and the amazingly wide open view of the home waiting for you to enjoy. The palatial living room has the space for several seating arrangements. A private chef’s center island kitchen perfect for your everyday entertaining and a caterer’s delight serving in a romantic dining room. This home has the ability to master the California indoor outdoor living to the fullest. Many enclosed decks and balconies where there is quiet space for any and all who live there while creating lovely and spacious entertainment areas, all

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Payne goes to the birds; native flora keeps it there

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Discover bird species that depend on California native plants and learn gardening methods that maintain native flora at the Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford St., Sun Valley. Start the year out right by helping clean up and prune the grounds Sat., Jan. 2 from 9 a.m. to noon. Bring a hat, gloves, kneepads and other tools for personal use. Shovels, trowels, rakes, hoes, pruners and refreshments will be provided. Visit Payne’s booth at the Hollywood Farmers Market at Ivar and Selma Sun., Jan. 3 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Get advice from horticulturists and use your Payne discount. Essentials of native flora A three-part California native design series taught by garden designer Orchid Black

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is Fri., Jan. 8, 22 and Feb. 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The California Native Plant Horticulture class is a prerequisite. Learn the basics about gardening with California flora Sat., Jan. 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Horticulturist Barbara Eisenstein shows how to establish plants and keep them alive Sat., Jan. 9, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Get tips on how to restructure your lawn into a more sustainable landscape from Steven Gerischer Wed., Jan. 13 at 10 a.m. or Sat., Jan. 23 at 1:30 p.m. with Lili Singer. A three-part California native design series taught by landscape architect Carlos Flores is Fri., Jan. 16, 30 and Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Another three-part series is Sat., Jan. 23, Feb. 6 and 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with landcape designer Andreas Hessing. Again, the California Native Plant Horticulture class is a prerequisite for both. Nursery manager Tim Becker teaches how to propagate native flora from cuttings and divisions Sat., Jan. 23 from 9 a.m. to noon. Lili Singer tells how to combine California natives with edible plants in the home garden Fri., Jan. 29, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Hear about harvesting and using rainwater Sat., Jan. 30 from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Discussion will include reservoir types, system requirements

CALIFORNIA GNATCATCHER (above) and coastal cactus wren (below) are topics at Payne.

and how much water you’re likely to catch. Life with the birds Discover some of the various birds who winter in Southern California on a bird walk with Ken Gilliland, Thurs., Jan. 7 at 8 a.m. Bring binoculars, a hat and water. Learn about the California gnatcatcher and cactus wren, two sensitive bird species that make their habitat in and depend on low-elevation coastal sage scrub in southern California, Sat. Jan. 16 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Speaker Dan Cooper, author of “Important Bird Areas of California,” will talk about implications for habitat conservation and restoration in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and also lead the class on a walk around the grounds. Bring binoculars. For more information, call 818-768-1802 or go to theodorepayne.org.

Recycling as a gardening tool Learn how to recycle and re-purpose household items that might normally be tossed into tools that can be used in the garden at the Los Angeles Garden Club meeting Mon., Jan. 11. Yvonne Savio, 2010 Horticulturist of the Year and formerly of the Vegetable Crops Cooperative Extension Dept. at U.C. Davis, will speak. The meeting begins at 9:15 a.m. with coffee and refreshments; the presentation starts at 11 a.m. First-time visitors and members attend for free; non-members pay $5. For more information, contact Joyce Parrott at 310-4718512 or go to losangelesgardenclub.org.

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Drink tea with camellias, discover nature’s changes

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Sat., Jan. 16 at 10 a.m. This course will cover water catchment and management strategies including permeable paving, bioswales, rain gardens, infiltration and rain barrels. Kids of all ages are invited to an interactive performance of Invertigo Dance Theatre Tues., Jan 19 at 11 a.m. Camellia and Tea Festival Celebrate the camellia, both beautiful and useful as a beverage, at the Camellia and Tea Festival Sat., Jan. 30 and Sun., Jan. 31. Activities include

lectures, walks through the Camellia Garden, tea tasting, crafts, dance performances and refreshments. Sample a variety of teas and learn about the tea plant camellia sinensis from professionals at Chado Tea of Pasadena both days of the festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kids of all ages can participate in hands-on art activities both days of the festival. Invertigo Dance Theatre performs both days of the festival at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

An interactive dance workshop follows. The Camellia Lounge is also open both days of the festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visitors can sip tea with a mini tea sandwich plate. For more information, call 818-949-7980, or go to descansogardens.org.

Trending at Arboretum: Plants for 2016 Keep on top of the best plants to have for 2016 and get started on caring for your roses from the ground up at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Best new plants 2016 Botanist Frank McDonough discusses the best new plants to have in 2016 on Wed., Jan. 6 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. He will also cover various landscaping and gardening topics plus the latest news in gardening and plant science and some of the unusual or entertaining questions received from the public. Bring your plant questions for discussion. Living with roses Jill Morganelli, horticul-

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View art based on nature in a post-wild world, learn about outdoor water management and drink up at the Camellia and Tea Festival at Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Dr., La Cañada Flintridge. See work by contemporary artists who are grappling with the changes of nature in a human-dominated world beginning Tues., Jan. 12. The exhibit runs through Sun., April 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn about Los Angeles’ outdoor water management

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Here are some cool items we have in our HouseWares section. 1- “Capabunga” no spill wine sealer caps. They replace the cork. Easy to use, with no spills. We have a nice selection of the caps. 2- “Electra Rabbit” the electric corkscrew 3- Pizza Scissors- easy and fun 4- The “Smood” potato masher. Mashes in seconds, scrapes the pot clean, and even serves. 5- “Dream Farm” mini spoons- It is a “spoon measure.” Tea spoon and table spoon measures are built into the spoon, making it a measure and a scraper in one. Plus, it is made to “sit off the table” so it doesn’t touch the surface. 6- “Govino” plastic wine glasses to “go anywhere with wine.” 7- Also, we are the only place within miles to have the large (120 liter) refill cartridge for the “Soda Stream”

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wood sorrel, grape hyacinths and gladiolus. A sale of bulbs and bare-root roses follows. View American Impressionism and Garden Movement paintings at the Artist’s Garden exhibit beginning Sat., Jan. 23. The exhibit explores the connections between the American Impressionist movement and the emergence of gardening as a middle-class leisure pursuit. Featured artists include Philip Leslie Hale (1865–1931), Childe Hassam (1859–1935), and John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902). Hear how to translate water usage into what is appropriate for your landscape Sun., Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. Jim Folsom, the Telleen/Jorgensen director of the Botanical Gardens, and Scott Kleinrock, landscape design and planning coordinator, will tell how to interpret water usage by reference to objective standards. Attendees are invited to bring their water bills, sampling all seasons, for discussion. Explore the science of gardening at a workshop Thurs., Jan. 28 at 4:30. Examine specimens and samples using microscopes and other tools in the lab. Spend the morning creating arrangements out of citrus and flowers with Flower Duet Sat., Jan. 30 from 10 a.m. to noon. For ages seven to 12 Young chefs can learn how to make orange marmalade and preserved lemons Sat., Jan. 30 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. after a brief tour of the orange groves. Budding flower arrangers can help usher in the Asian year of the monkey Sat., Jan. 30 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Each child will create a flower arrangement with a hidden surprise inside. For more information, visit huntington.org.

3 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Suiseki are expressive stones from nature that have a special shape, color and texture; viewing them invites contemplation. More than 100 stones will be on display. Learn how roses and bulbs complement each other at a talk with Tom Carruth, the E.L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collections, Thurs., Jan. 14 at 2:30. Some of the bulbs include narcissus,

Start the new year by contemplating a beautiful stone, learning how roses and bulbs work together or how the American Impressionist movement is connected to the rise of gardening at Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino. Enjoy the many different suiseki on display at the 26th annual Stones Show sponsored by the California Aiseki Kai Sat., Jan. 2 and Sun., Jan.

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Chicago meatpacker puts gut wagons on railroads What’s the origin of the saying “straight as a gut wagon?” asks John Murphy. In the early days of slaughter houses, the entrails of eviscerated animals were piled in wagons and eventually taken elsewhere for processing. This horrible smelling, gory mess was never disposed of quickly enough for the butchers who were trying to carve the hanging carcasses and was always a bone of contention between these skilled workers and the wagon drivers. Until 1877, that is, when Chicago meatpacker Gustavus Franklin Swift put the gut wagons on rails, thereby assuring their timely, “straight,” and most welcome departure. ••• How about “lukewarm?” asks John Murphy. Luke is from the Old Norse

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Saxon for imprisonment. The derangement comes not from the place but from what Saxon prisoners were required to do in stir. The Germanic equivalent to making license plates was ealustyr or “ale stirring,” and was always performed by convict labor. This tedious, continuous job of standing over boiling pots of hops and malt, eventually caused the con to become lightheaded and go styrgemaed or “stir crazy.” ••• Why is a criminal a “thug?” queries Bonnie Tull. In Hindi, thug means cheat or swindler. This term was applied by the British in India to a sinister religious cult of stranglers who were worshippers of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death. The Thugs had prospered since medieval

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