Larchmont Chronicle
VOL. 61, NO. 1
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IN THIS ISSUE
Locking arms to address homelessness is top of mayor’s agenda
Hancock Park has been planting trees
n Parkways graced with leafy camphors
n Terms of new councilmembers also have been inaugurated HEALTH, FITNESS & BEAUTY 2023 11
PARTIES, good causes Around the Town. 5
CAMPS help kids reach new heights. 20
CELEBRATING a milestone.
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By John Welborne During her inauguration speech on Dec. 11, Mayor Karen Bass emphasized the need for all Angelenos to “lock arms” to address homelessness. She said that the voters elected her to lead and that she would, adding: “But I am also asking you, Angelenos, to join me in moving our city forward. “In addition to asking you to join me in bringing Angelenos inside, I am also calling on you to lock arms with me to make our neighborhoods — every neighborhood — safe, through a strategy that is informed by our communities.” Her inaugural remarks touched on many issues of the day, but the main focus was on addressing homelessness. She stated that her first act as mayor would be to declare a state of emergency on homelessness, an action she took the next day at the city’s Emergency Operations Center. In the past three weeks, she has taken other steps set forth in her speech, such as where she said: “If we are going to bring Angelenos inside and move our city in a new direction, we must have a single strategy to unite our city and county and engage the state, the federal government, the private sector and every other stakeholder. “And so I call on our City Council, and our City Attorney and City Controller, to continue the work we started during the transition on a unified and urgent strategy to solve homelessness. See Election, p 6
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JANUARY 2023
NEW MAYOR AND NEW NEIGHBOR Karen Bass emphasized the need for all Angelenos to lock arms to address homelessness during her December 2022 inauguration speech. Photo by Gary Leonard
By Suzan Filipek Mid-December saw landscape workers and their vehicles along several streets in Hancock Park. They were there for a big project — planting approximately 25 trees in community parkways. Funds from dues collected from members of the HanSee Trees, p 4
Marlborough School is in capable hands
JENNIFER CICCARELLI in her office at Marlborough.
By Casey Russell As the ninth head of school at the oldest independent girls’ school in Southern California, Jennifer Ciccarelli has her hands full. Hancock Park’s Marlborough School, originally called St. Margaret’s School for Girls, was founded by Mary Caswell in 1889. It is the educational home to 530 girls and young women in grades seven through 12 and has a long legacy of being a national leader in girls’ education. The Larchmont Chronicle sat down with the head of
school to talk about her new position, the post-pandemic school culture and her hopes for Marlborough in the coming years. “I get really excited about new opportunities and learning new things,” said Ciccarelli, who took over at Marlborough last summer. Ciccarelli told us, “I’m a person of ‘yes’… [and] Marlborough was an easy ‘yes’ because I had known about [it] for a long time and, as soon as I started to learn more See Marlborough, p 26
NEW COUNCILMEMBERS were inaugurated in December. At left, at Pan Pacific Auditorium, is Katy Young Yaroslavsky (CD 5) with Rabbi Adam Kligfeld and Congresswoman-elect Sydney Kamlager behind her and daughter Yael mugging through the podium. At right, Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez (CD 13) offers remarks after being sworn in by Unite Here Local 11 executive vice president and nationally acclaimed labor leader Martha Santamaria (left).
Larchmont enjoys winter wonderland
n Holidays and local small businesses were celebrated in style on Boulevard By John Welborne The culmination of a crisp but sunny Saturday filled with holiday festivities on Larchmont Boulevard was the official dedication of the new café lights crossing high above the street in the 100 and 200
North blocks of the Boulevard. Joining the Larchmont Village Business Improvement District and many of its member property owners as donors to the project were the merchants’ association (the Larchmont Boulevard Asso-
ciation — LBA), individual LBA members, Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell’s Council District 13 office, several residential associations including Windsor Square and Hancock Park, and Wilshire Rotary. See Larchmont, p 4
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