Palisades News March 26, 2021

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Turn Signal Activated at Dangerous Intersection Left-turn phasing signal installed at Sunset and Chautauqua

By Sam Catanzaro

A new turn signal is now active at a Pacific Palisades intersection where a fatal crash occurred in 2017.

Councilmember Mike Bonin has announced that the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) activated a left phasing turn signal at the intersection of Sunset and Chautauqua boulevards. The signal is for westbound traffic on Sunset turning left onto Chautauqua, “The new signal will improve safety for everyone who uses the road, and also help traffic move more efficiently on the oftencrowded street, making it much easier for

drivers to safely turn when turning west from Sunset onto Chautauqua headed south, where there is a curve that prevents them from seeing oncoming traffic,” Bonin said.

In 2017 36-year-old David Babalyan died in a motorcycle accident at the intersection.

Pacific Palisades resident Lou Kamer was at the scene of the fatal 2017 accident. That crash involved four motorcycles traveling east on Sunset and a westbound Mercedes Benz driven by a 16-year-old boy. In addition to Babalyan’s death, the crash sent the three other motorcyclists to the hospital. At the time Kamer was serving on the PPCC, and along with then-PPCC President Maryam Za, led a persistent effort to address safety at the intersection, working with LADOT, Bonin’s office and the Los Angeles Police Department.

Now after over three years of hard work, the signal has been activated.

In addition, Bonin noted LADOT crews upgraded an existing crosswalk to enhance visibility for drivers as pedestrians cross the intersection.

The intersection of Sunset and Chautauqua boulevards.

Photo: Sam Catanzaro

LAPD Pre-Identifies Palisades Village as Potential Looting Target

LAPD says there are no specific intelligence threats but still ready to pre-deploy officers

By Sam Catanzaro

As the trial against Derek Chauvin– the police officer charged with killing George Floyd–began in Minneapolis this month, the LAPD says it has identified Palisades Village as a potential target for looting and vandalism in the event of unrest, despite having no specific intelligence threats.

Last week, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) West Los Angeles Area Captain Jonathan Tom notified residents and business owners the department is preparing for different reactions to the trial.

According to Tom, the West Los Angeles division does not have any specific intelligence regarding potential

unrest in the area, but has pre-identified locations that are likely to be targets of looting, vandalism and protests.

“We do not know when the trial will conclude, but we do know that there are some in the community that are concerned about the potential for civil unrest,” Tom wrote in a letter. “My purpose in communicating with you is to let you know that West Los Angeles Area (WLA) and the Department are diligently preparing for different reactions to the trial. That being said, we fervently hope for a peaceful reaction to the outcome of the trial.”

In a phone call with Palisades News, Tom said that the Westside locations are Westfield Century City, Westwood Village, Palisades Village and Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard corridors. During the unrest of May 31, National Guard troops were called to protect Palisades Village as looting was underway in downtown Santa Monica.

“If it becomes necessary, we will

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The National Guard at Palisades Village on May 31, 2020.

Photo: Sam Catanzaro

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Attempted Armed Robbery of Two Dogs in Pacific Palisades Suspect brandishes knife in Friday evening attempted robbery

Young Female Mountain Lion Discovered

Year-old cougar appears to be in good condition

By Chad Winthrop

By Sam Catanzaro

Two dogs were the target of an attempted armed robbery in Pacific Palisades this month.

According to Los Angeles Police Department Palisades Senior Lead Office III Jae Lee, the incident occurred on March 5, 5 p.m., at Corona del Mar and Toyopa Drive when a suspect brandished a knife at the victim and demanded the victim’s dogs.

The suspect–of whom there is very little information on–fled location northbound on Toyopa, according to Lee. As reported by Circling the News, French bulldogs were the target of this incident, the breed of dog that was robbed after Lady Gaga’s dog walker was shot recently.

In addition, for months flyers and social media posts have been circulating in an effort to return a French bulldog named Melo, who went missing on September 26 around in Santa Monica, near Venice. According to the one-year-old puppy’s owners, Melo was

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Melo, a French bulldog that was stolen in Santa Monica last fall.

likely stolen. Visit bringmelohome.com for more information.

More recently, on February 27 a Shepherd puppy was stolen at gunpoint near the Venice Beach Boardwalk.

A young female mountain has been discovered by local biologists.

According to the National Parks Service, a young female mountain lion was recently captured by NPS biologists in the Simi Hills and has become the 96th cat to be included in the agency’s 18-year study. Biologists say the mountain lion, P-96, appeared to be in good condition and is estimated to be about a year-old.

A GPS radio collar was placed on her that will track her movements and provide researchers with valuable information on this small and isolated population living on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

On the day of her capture, Feb. 12, she weighed 59 lbs.

“As with all of our study animals, P-96 was given a full work-up, which includes taking morphological measurements, attaching an eartag, and collecting blood, hair, and tissue samples for genetic and disease analyses.

DNA material collected might also provide a

P-96.

Photo: NPS /Jeff Sikich

clue to her lineage,” the NPS said.

Currently, there are 11 radio-collared mountain lions being tracked by NPS scientists. Seven of these are in the Santa Monica Mountains, three in the Simi Hills and one in Griffith Park. The first capture took place in 2002. Since that time, the NPS has been studying mountain lions in

Mountain Lion, see page 9

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Hyperthermia Cancer Institute: Giving All Cancer Patients Hope

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Located in the heart of Santa Monica, Hyperthermia Cancer Institute (HCI) is a gentle FDA-approved treatment designed to improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy to treat a wide range of tumors, regardless of their stage, giving all patients a unique source of hope.

Hyperthermia is a targeted, non-invasive cancer therapy that is FDA-approved to treat cancers in combination with radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy. The treatment uses ultrasound technology to carefully direct heat to the location of the tumor at depths in the body of up to 10 cm beyond the body’s natural layer of fat. During treatment, ultrasound energy slowly increases the temperature of the tumor up to approximately 109°F. “Somewhere between 106o-109o seems to be a magic window where a variety of changes take place in that tumor,” said Dr. Joseph J. Pinzone, Medical Director at HCI. “It is a little higher than a fever and a little cooler than the hottest California day. We heat the tumor for approximately 45 minutes at that temperature.

What that does is increase the blood flow to the tumor.”

According to Dr. Pinzone, patients who have recently been diagnosed with cancer have a big challenge.

“Their biggest challenge is to decide what the optimal therapeutic regimen is initially because that is going to set the trajectory of their entire clinical course,” Dr. Pinzone said.

“I would say that in my mind every patient with cancer, regardless of the stage, should give us a call and potentially be seen by me so that we can figure out whether and how we could improve their other therapies and improve their overall outcome.”

For patients that have disease at an early stage, where cure is a realistic possibility, coming into the clinic at a timely fashion is critical.

“We can help the chemotherapy work better, we can help the radiation therapy work better, but we can’t do that if they come into us after they have already received that therapy,” Dr. Pinzone said.

According to Dr. Pinzone, if people have a high likelihood of cure, doctors are often very excited to treat those patients, but he encourages patients to come in as soon as possible, ideally before they start on their journey. HCI will work with them and with their doctors to try and improve their chance of cure.

“If I were to say one thing to patients who have a real shot at cure, it would be they only have one shot. And it is to their benefit to optimize that initial treatment regimen in order to maximize the chance that they are

cured. If hyperthermia can be part of that, they should come and see me and determine that early, because again, they only have one shot of getting that disease cured. If that initial regimen does not work, they are in a completely different clinical situation,” Dr. Pinzone said.

HCI also offers hope for patients experiencing a recurrence of the cancer after an initial treatment. According to Dr. Pinzone, hyperthermia is also very effective in helping these people.

“In many ways, that is the sweet spot of hyperthermia,” Dr. Pinzone said. “We have demonstrated in a number of different tumor types that adding hyperthermia to chemotherapy and/or to radiation therapy can help two things. Most commonly, disease-free survival. That means that the length of time that a person is in remission. And in some cases, we actually improve overall survival of those patients who have recurrent disease.”

Stage 4 cancer patients also can benefit from hyperthermia. Stage 4 typically means the tumor has spread to a different organ, not just surrounding lymph nodes, as in breast cancer spreading to the liver. Not only does that person have multiple sites with tumors, but each of those sites are shedding tumor cells into the blood and they are at risk of having other parts of the body develop cancer.

And while typically in that situation there is a low likelihood of cure, Dr. Pinzone says hyperthermia can be utilized in a special way: targeting the most vulnerable organs, where failure of those organs will give the patient the biggest problem.

“If we are successful in those organs, success looks like either no tumor growth, tumor shrinkage, or in some cases, complete resolution of the tumor in that organ. Now granted they may have disease in other parts of the body, but why would that be important to them? It is important to them because we can, in that situation, potentially extend their life because we helped that critical organ. It is a different landscape now from when our technology was first FDA-approved. Now the pace of innovation in medicine is so fast that it is possible that next year they may have something that is unbelievably effective to treat the rest of the tumors in their body.

So, if we can preserve their quality of life and possibly increase their lifespan, even by a year, by helping to stop the growth or shrink the tumor in that critical organ, then they can do what we call ‘innovation jump’,” Dr. Pinzone said.

This approach improves the possibility that even patients with advanced disease have an increased chance of disease-free survival, and therefore an invaluable sense of hope.

“We can treat almost any part of the body and...improve the effectiveness of other therapies,” Dr. Pinzone said. “That really translates into increased hope that they can then have a better quality of life, live longer,

Photo: Courtesy Joseph J. Pinzone, M.D. at Hyperthermia Cancer Institute in Santa Monica.

and be around for that next innovation that just might be curative.”

As one of the preeminent centers for hyperthermia, Hyperthermia Cancer Institute treats a large number of patients. What patients don’t know, however, until they come in is that the staff at HCI offers an unmatched patient experience and that starts with their first phone call. People experience an environment that is extremely welcoming with clear recommendations, but zero pressure to do anything in particular and a strong support system. In addition, HCI has many patients from out-of-town and the staff often help these patients with travel and housing to both coordinate it and, in some cases, to help offset the cost through various foundations.

“Because we have close bonds with patients, we develop a tremendous amount of trust and

that allows us to be an unbiased sounding board, which translates not just to a more pleasant experience and not just to increased effectiveness because they are receiving hyperthermia treatments. It also allows us to help them to navigate,” Dr. Pinzone said.

“We are able to provide something that our patients tell us they value tremendously which is guidance, a respite often from their day–it’s a gentle therapy in a therapeutic environment– and just an amazing bond with the people who are going through their journey with them.”

To find out more about whether hyperthermia can help you, call Hyperthermia Cancer Institute at 888-580-5900 or visit their website at www.hcioncology.com.

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE 2021

How to Plan for a Future Vacation in 2021 After a long year stuck at home, many people are dreaming about when they can travel once again. While counting down the days may feel like torture, planning and booking a vacation for later this year can give you something to look forward to.

Now may be the perfect time to start thinking about your next adventure.

Consider these tips for planning a future trip - even if you’re not certain exactly when you’ll take it.

Research Travel Restrictions For any kind of travel, it’s important to make sure you’re up to date on any restrictions your potential destinations may have in place. Though the vaccine may help lessen restrictions in some places, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain updated guidance and travel warnings based on the risk level of certain areas, which can help you make decisions. Once you’ve booked travel plans, it is prudent to check in frequently as your trip approaches and prepare a backup plan.

Account for High Demand Many hotels, vacation rentals and

resorts may already be booked for summer in popular locations due to optimism around the vaccine, increased demand for domestic travel and families planning multiple trips this year. In fact, travelers are locking in private Vrbo vacation homes at top summer destinations earlier in 2021. Less than half of vacation homes in some locations are still available for July, which is a more than 25% increase in demand year-over-year. To better your odds of securing your desired travel dates, accommodations and activities, booking earlier can help off-set the increased

demand.

“In years past, we’ve recommended families book their summer vacations by late April to stay ahead of the curve, but this year there are several reasons why families are eager and ready to book,” Vrbo President Jeff Hurst said. “These

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Opt for Flexible Booking If you’re eager to plan a vacation right away, be sure to review and understand cancellation policies for your preferred accommodations, airline and activities.

Many have changed their policies due to the pandemic, so be sure to know how

long you have to cancel or change dates without incurring additional fees or penalties. For example, when booking a vacation rental through Vrbo, where hosts set their cancellation terms, you can use the “free cancellation” filter to search for properties with flexible policies, some of which allow cancellations up to 14 days before check-in for a full refund.

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Rick Caruso’s Oceanfront Mansion on the Market $40 million price tag on Malibu property

By Toi Creel

A luxury oceanfront mansion is now on the market near Pacific Palisades.

The home–21528 PCH just north of Las Flores–listed by Rick Caruso, philanthropist, American billionaire, businessman and luxury resort tycoon– is on sale for $40 million. Caruso currently has another home in Brentwood, where he and his family spend the majority of their time, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The mansion boasts nearly 7,300-sq-ft and features black-and-white marble-tiled floors.

The home also features a black-and-white

theme throughout the building including white cabinets and a black fireplace to an outdoor deck.

According to The Wall Street Journal, “He remodeled it, taking it down to the studs.

The resulting five-bedroom looks like a whitewashed beach house and has a handset stone driveway, a formal dining room and a large living room with a painted brick fireplace.”

It appears Caruso is aiming to make a profit from the sale. Documents show he purchased the property in 2008 at a price of $11.3 million.

The family is allegedly set to sell the home to make room for an expansion on a property in Orange County.

Forbes’s net worth for Caruso online is listed at more than $3 billion. The owner of major Los Angeles shopping centers the Grove and Palisades Village, He also owns several resorts and properties across Los Angeles.

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Mountain Lion, from page 2 and around the Santa Monica Mountains to determine how they survive in a fragmented and urbanized environment.

Southern California’s extensive freeway network presents a major barrier for wildlife, which is particularly a concern for the mountain lion population largely isolated in the Santa Monica Mountains. Planning and fundraising for a wildlife crossing over the 101 Freeway in the Liberty Canyon area of Agoura Hills is in progress. The bridge would provide a connection between the

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small population of lions in the Santa Monica Mountains and the large and genetically diverse populations to the north.

Another issue facing these cats is poison.

Since the National Park Service launched its study of mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains 17 years ago, over five lions have died from rat poison.

Several other lions have been diagnosed with mange, which many researchers believe is linked to rat poisons, though they are unsure of the exact nature of the connection.

Some think that the rat poisons weaken the animals’ immune system, making the cats more susceptible to mange.

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Longtime Malibu Italian Restaurant Coming to Pacific Palisades

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Food Review: New Ramen Spot is Much Needed Addition to Montana Avenue Dining Scene

Summer 2021 opening for Spruzzo Restaurant & Bar in Highlands

By Kerry Slater

A longtime Malibu Italian restaurant will be opening a Pacific Palisades location this summer.

As reported by the Pali Post, Spruzzo Restaurant & Bar will open in the former Taste space at 538 Palisades Drive this summer in the Palisades Highlands.

The restaurant has been a Malibu favorite since 1994 at its 29575 PCH space near Zuma Beach.

“Primarily known for our wood-fired brick oven pizza, we offer food cooked to perfection including appetizers, salads, sandwiches, pasta, chicken, and steaks, as well as fresh seafood entrees. Nearly everything on our menu is organic and freerange,” the restaurants says of itself.

Accordig to the Post, the Pacific Palisades location will feature a nearly

Photo: SpruzzoMalibu.com

identical menu with the addition of brunch on the weekends, something not offered at the Malibu location. In addition, the

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The classic Tokotoso ramen from Kai Ramen in Santa Monica.

Kai Ramen opens first Westside location

By Kerry Slater

Photo: Kerry Slater

A new ramen spot on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica–the first on the Westside for the restaurant–may not knock your socks off

Ramen Review, see page 11

Getting LAUSD Kids Back in the Classroom

This past year has been exceptionally difficult for the students, families, teachers and staff of the Los Angeles Unified School District, and as your representative on the School Board, I am excited that we will soon finally welcome students back into the classroom. COVID cases are declining, vaccines are being distributed, and we’ve learned a lot about which precautions help keep kids and staff safe. We have also reached

an agreement with our teachers’ union to begin the recovery process from this crisis by safely reopening schools for in-person instruction in a hybrid model.

Here’s what reopening will look like. We will begin reopening some elementary schools on April 12, with the remaining schools returning the following week. Elementary students who would like to return to campus will have three hours of in-person instruction

Monday through Friday. In addition, to ease the transition back to campus, we’re going a step further by offering families the options of on-campus child care and extra enrichment activities. Of course, for those students who choose to continue learning remotely for the time being, schools will provide three hours of live virtual instruction. Middle and high school students will be able to return to campus on April 26. Students will learn in stable inperson cohorts, allowing them to preserve individual course loads and schedules this late in the year.

I will continue pushing for the Fall semester to look as close to normal as possible, as health conditions continue to improve. We are also actively planning summer enrichment opportunities for all families interested in participating.

Safety is, of course, our top priority. All students and staff will be tested for COVID-19 prior to their return to campus, and regular COVID testing will be provided thereafter.

To ensure the safest environment possible for everyone returning to campus, the District has already invested more than $120 million on new safety measures, including upgrading airfiltration systems, procuring adequate stocks of PPE and disinfecting supplies, and adding extra custodial staff. Every air filter on every campus has been replaced with the equivalent of an N95 mask. Masks and social distancing protocols will be in place for students, staff,

and visitors at schools, and schools will use outdoor learning environments where appropriate to ensure safety.

I recently visited a few schools across my district to see these protocols and safety measures firsthand, including Palisades Elementary. Campuses are ready and staff is prepared and eager to have students back at school.

The process of reopening a district as large and diverse as LA Unified is especially complex, and won’t be perfect. But we will continue to navigate challenges and push forward, just like we did when transitioning nearly overnight to distance learning for more than half a million teachers and students, procuring more than 200,000 devices and hotspots to give every student access to virtual classrooms, and distributing over 110 million meals and necessities to the kids and families who rely on their school as part of the social safety net over the past year.

I deeply appreciate everyone who has fought to keep our kids healthy and learning.

We will continue to learn, adapt and overcome any obstacles that emerge -- because our kids and families are counting on us.

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Village, from page 1 pre-deploy officers to those locations,” Tom said.

In addition, Tom noted that the Department is conducting tabletop

Restaurant, from page 10 restaurant will feature an outdoor patio able to seat around 25 people.

Ryan Gowhari–the son of Ray Gowhari

Ramen Review, from page 10 but still offers a solid Tonkotsu broth that is a much-needed addition to the area’s dining scene.

Kai Raman is not new to the Los Angeles dining scene, with eight locations across the county. A few weeks ago, however, the restaurant opened its first Westside storefront on Montana Avenue between Lincoln Boulevard and 7th Street. I popped in for lunch, order a classic Tonkotsu ramen for take-out (the restaurant does not yet have an outdoor setup), paid ($13 plus tax & tip) and walked out less than five minutes later with

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exercises to evaluate its preparedness.

In the phone call, Tom stressed that there is no indication of any unrest at the present time but, but that the LAPD is still preparing for the possibility in the same way they did ahead of Election Day and Inauguration Day.

While budget cuts has led to an overall reduction of LAPD officers citywide, Tom says the number of patrol officers on the Westside has increased.

“While we have had a reduction in overall Department personnel, the Chief of Police has directed more resources

to be allocated to patrol divisions. As a

who has been running the the restaurant in Malibu since 1994 when he purchased it and kept the name–tells the Post that the Pacific Palisades location is set to open this June. According to Ryan, the Highlands location was chosen in part because of the

values of the area.

“There aren’t many other restaurants [in Malibu], especially in deep Western Malibu, a very high percentage of our business is [from] regulars, I know my customers by name and I know their families,”Ryan

told the Post. “We feel that the Palisades

my food. On the Westside, an area where waiting an hour for ramen is not unheard of, getting served so quickly was a pleasant surprise. Also on the Westside paying $13 for ramen is reasonable, especially on Montana Avenue.

The ramen came in a disposal bento box.

Not only does this prevent the noodles from getting soggy, it is also a great bento box that I will reuse for other things. After assembling my ramen in a bowl and taking a photo, I began by taking a sip of the broth followed by a bite of pork and was not disappointed.

It was not the best ramen I have ever had.

That award goes to Tsujita on Sawtelle. It was not even the second-best ramen I have

ever had. That honor belongs to Ippudo (formally in Santa Monica). But it still checks off all the boxes for a solid bowl of ramen. The broth packed full of umami yet not too salty and slightly sweet. The two slices of pork belly were hearty, thick and crispy (thanks to some flame torch action).

The flavored egg traveled surprisingly well while ample mushrooms and greens were provided, adding some great texture to the bowl. The weak link was the noodles, not because they were bad, but just because the take-out process deprived them of any aldente bite. After I was full, there were still leftovers but I still found myself wanting to eat more, a true sign of a good bowl of ramen.

Overall, Kai Raman is a much-needed addition to the Montana Avenue dining scene. Not only does it serve a solid bowl of ramen, it also offers other Japanese options, a type of cuisine missing in the area amid the array of Italian restaurants, cafes and healthy eateries on the street. This is not a place to go on a romantic date, this is not the place to take a visitor to, but it is definitely a place to stop by for a quick, tasty bowl of ramen that is sure to hit the spot.

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LA, we have never had so many officers in patrol as we do now,” Tom wrote.

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