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Controversial Housing Bill SB 50 is Back Sen. Scott Wiener offers amended version of bill that would override local control for housing developments near transit and job hubs

By S am C atanzaro A state bill that would override local zoning laws to allow mid-rise apartments to be constructed, including in some single-family neighborhoods, is up for consideration again by California lawmakers.

Senate Bill 50 (SB 50), authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would, if passed, permit the development of four and five-story apartment buildings within half a mile of major transit corridors and job hubs, overriding any local laws that may prohibit such development from occurring in these areas.

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The Downtown Santa Monica Metro Expo Line station. A new bill going through the California legislature would override local control for the development of housing near major transit hubs.

The bill was shelved last legislative session after failing to pass through the Senate Appropriations Committee. The new version before state lawmakers includes an amendment giving local lawmakers a two-year window to develop individual housing plans for their jurisdictions.

“These new amendments recognize that cities should have some flexibility in how they implement SB 50’s goals,” Wiener said in a state-

ment. “We’ve spent enormous time and energy speaking with and receiving feedback from a broad array of stakeholders, including local governments. We’ve heard loud and clear that cities want the flexibility to implement this kind of legislation in a way that works best for them.”

Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown said that while City Council has not yet taken a position on the amended version of SB 50, he personally opposes the legislation.

“City staff is still analyzing the recycled SB50, and the Council has not taken a position. Personally, I continue to oppose the bill as written because it would destructively override Santa Monica’s thoughtful plan to encourage affordable housing production in places that would minimize impacts on existing neighborhoods and the dangers of displacement for existing residents. What we really need from Sacramento is funding to produce deed-restricted affordable housing for working families, low-wage individuals, and fixed-income seniors — not a bill to open the market-rate floodgates,” McKeown said.

In April of last year, Los Angeles City Coun-

cil, led by Councilmember Paul Koretz who represents much of the Westside, voted 12-0 on a resolution opposing SB 50, the second year in a row they took such action. Koretz called the bill a “handout for developers” while fellow Westside Councilmember Mike Bonin expressed opposition citing fears of gentrification in his district.

Under the amended version, local lawmakers would be required to zone for the maximum amount of housing allowed under the initial version SB 50 without concentrating construction of new housing in low-income neighborhoods and without increasing car trips. When reached for comment, Bonin’s office said the Councilmember was reviewing the amended version before taking a position.

Local plans would be reviewed by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. If a local plan is rejected by the Department, the requirements of SB 50 would kick in.

In order to become law this legislative session, SB 50 must pass the Senate Appropriations Committee and then the full Senate by the end of January.

‘They Were Powerless to Stop the City’ Plaintiffs in voting rights case file to appeals court

By Sam Catanzaro Plaintiffs in a voting rights case against the City of Santa Monica have filed a brief reiterating their argument that the city’s at-large election system dilutes the voting power of Latino residents, asking an appeals court to uphold an earlier ruling calling for district elections.

“The evidence showed that meaningful Latino candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by Latino voters, yet Latino candi-

dates almost always lose,” wrote plaintiff attorney Kevin Shenkman in an 82-page brief filed last month. “This lack of representation for Latinos, who are 16% of the city’s population and most concentrated in the city’s Pico neighborhood, meant they were powerless to stop the city from dissecting their community with a freeway and turning their home into the city’s toxic waste and trash dump site.”

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Still Searching for Homeless Shelter Bomb Threat Bomb threat bridge housing facility under investigation

By Sam Catanzaro Police continue to investigate several explosive-like devices that were found at the site of a 154-bed homeless shelter set to open soon in Venice.

“Until arrests are made, a motive cannot be determined – but authorities are investigating whether the bridge housing was a target, and are seeking the public’s help in the investigations,” said Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Boin who represents Venice.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Media Relations Division, the devices that were found in the area of Main Street and Sunset Avenue in

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Footage from the Citizen App showing police activity in Venice Thursday evening during a false bomb threat.

Venice Thursday, January 2 were facsimile devices resembling explosives. The first devices were discovered around 5:30 p.m. on and as the investigation developed more devices were found in the vicinity as well.

The devices were found on and near the construction site of the new Bridge Housing facility and an adjoining street “While the motive is unclear the Depart-

ment continues to work to identify if the Bridge Home Site or the homeless community was a target,” the LAPD said in a news release.

While the LAPD would not provide more information about the incident, in statement Bonin said that there were three separate devices.

“While they were apparently designed to look like explosive devices, LAPD’s bomb squad determined that none of them contained the necessary fuel to cause an explosion. LAPD removed the devices, conducted a safety sweep of the area, reopened streets, and allowed people back into their homes,” Bonin said.

The items were first reported to the LAPD around 6 p.m. Thursday and forced evacuations at Pacific Avenue and Main Street from Rose Avenue to Brooks Avenue. The LAPD Bomb Squad was on the scene as authorities investigated the package. By 10:30 p.m. police had let residents return to their homes.

The lot the devices were found at was a 3.15-acre lot that takes up an entire block between Pacific Avenue and Main Street south of Sunset Avenue that will soon be a 154-bed bridge housing center set to open in the coming months. The project has been the subject of legal action and pushback from opponents who think the shelter will disrupt the neighborhood. Bonin, in his statement, suggested that the facsimile devices could have been an intended attack on this shelter.

“This is an appalling incident perpetrated by a disturbed and cowardly person or persons. If it was meant to slow or halt progress on providing bridge housing, it failed.

It is unacceptable and inhumane for people to be living and dying in sidewalk encampments in our neighborhoods. It is imperative that we get people off the streets.

We will not be intimated, and we will not back down from providing solutions to our homelessness crisis,” Bonin said.

Man Who Extorted Santa Monicans with Gay Sex Guilty Tyler Buchanan faces 10 years in federal prison

By Sam Catanzaro A man has pleaded guilty to using Craigslist, among other sites, to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from Santa Monica and Los Angeles men who responded to ads offering gay sex services.

28-year-old Tyler Buchanan pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal felony charges using an interstate facility to facilitate an unlawful activity, transmitting threatening communications with intent to extort, receiving and disposing of proceeds of extortion and criminal forfeiture.

Buchanan, who remains in federal custody

due to being deemed a risk to flee, faces up to 10 years in federal depending on the outcome of a sentencing hearing set for May 11.

Over a period of six years, Buchanan purchased more than 1,300 ads on Craigslist, Backpage among other services under the moniker “Thuler O’Naill” offering sex services for hire, targeting gay men in multiple cities and states, including Santa Monica and Los Angeles, according to federal prosecutors.

After an individual would respond to one of Buchanan’s ads via a listed phone number, Buchanan would look up personal information on the victim and proceed to sext with them, often including an agreement to engage in sex for money, according to his plea agreement. Buchanan would then threaten to publicize the texts and re-

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Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow

How would you like to live in a small, already built out, city that, every year, was building more than its fair share of market-rate and affordable housing, that was trying to reach its water neutrality with a balance of increasing supply from limited sources and reducing demand, that was weaning itself from the car with a combination of old (light rail) and new( electrified bicycles) technologies, that had reached a stable popu-

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lation, that had excellent schools (private and public) and one of the best (and largest) junior colleges in the country, whose seaside charm was a global tourist draw both for foreigners and locals, and that was finally ramping up its buildings to net neutrality (buildings producing locally the energy they consume)? That is the city Santa Monicans live in: not perfect by any means but headed in the right direction.

Now imagine that a distant state legislature using an unelected cabal of bureaucrats called SCAG (Southern California Association of Governments) arbitrarily decided that that city had to add 9,118 new units of housing over the next 8 years under the pain of dubiously legal draconian penalties.

Imagine further that that city’s City Council after being bombarded by the usual echo chamber of developers, architects, attorneys, real estate speculators etc. panicked and decided to cave to the state and embark on the fool’s errand to up-zone the entire city to try to meet the 9,118 new units target. What that would mean is the City would have to abandon its current effective housing program, abandon its water neutrality program, would give up on reducing traffic (and its urgent attempt to reduce traffic deaths to zero), would add 20% to its population in eight years, would overload its schools, would destroy its seaside charm by making the entire city a canyon of econobox buildings and finally it would give up on any chance to create a green net zero city.

Now imagine the resident’s tax increases re-

quired to deliver 9,118 units of which 69% are required to be affordable. Just at the current construction cost of a least $500,000 per unit and assuming 1/3 of the units would essentially be given away (tenants in the lower end affordable units cannot pay anywhere near the cost of building the units, they can barely cover annual utilities, operations, taxes, insurance etc) our 92,000 residents would carry an unrecoverable starting burden of $1.52 billion or about $16,518 per each person.

Now add to that an additional elementary school, enlarged sewers, water system upgrades, new police cars and firetrucks not to mention their staffing and you see where this is going. How much lost medical insurance, foregone college educations, and gutted retirement plans would you ask our residents to endure to meet this unfunded State mandate? But you say the citizens of Santa Monica will not have to pay the entire cost of this housing, other cities or counties will contribute. They may or may not, but in the end why should they sap their own progress potential to benefit the poor and homeless of Santa Monica? There will surely be massive state wide resistance to any housing tax increase; so the tax burden, directly or indirectly, initial or eventual, will end up on our shoulders.

The victims will be the Santa Monica citizens already, thankfully, willing to tax themselves with a sales tax bump dedicated entirely to affordable housing, that when executed is already producing 20-40 affordable units per year. These are the same citizens that live in a city headed for a major cash crunch because of among other things decreasing parking, hotel tax and retail tax revenues plus increasing pension/medical obligations. And these are the same citizens perched on the edge of a major global recession should the self-inflicted Iranian crisis spin out of control (remember our city is very dependent on tourism which suffers immediately when wars threaten).

Our City Council should not assist the state in this uncompensated taking. They should not assist the state in destroying our city’s future and leaving us with a crushing generations long tax burden. If the state feels that housing requires a statewide response, they should not try to illegally coerce cities with its preferred solution.

Instead, when the state has a pressing valid common problem (eg building a bullet train), it should use its own money to solve it. Let the state buy land at a fair market value (even if it

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from page 4 needs to use eminent domain), let it apply for any desired zone changes like every other developer, let it pay for and build the housing and lease and operate it like any other non profit housing provider. Unless they are willing to do that, all cities and counties should be free to find their own way to resolving their housing issues.

Finally, there are several reasons the SCAG numbers are questionable. First the population of the state is flat lining: its increasing very slowly at about 0.5%/year which would translate in Santa Monica to a manageable 2,164 units over the 8 year SCAG horizon (about a 4% population increase). Second while housing demand is slowing down, housing affordability is declining faster primarily because of greedy landlords. We know they are greedy because in Los Angeles the rent rose 65% in ten years (about 5%/year) which is much faster than the CPI which rose only about 22% in that same period. Analogously as soon as you up zone to absorb the growth, the selling landowners will raise the cost of land to recapture its added value resulting in no net increase in affordability. Third to reduce rents, even a modest 10% reduction, requires a huge investment on the order of a 20% increase in housing stock (Nickelsberg Sept 2017, Andersen School UCLA). So even if magically, given the limited capacity of the construction trades, housing were to increase by that amount, and also magically no new influx of wealthy residents arrived to push out the lower income residents,

only a small rent savings, if any, would result.

This is why SCAG insisted on fixed ratios totaling 69% of the units being affordable for their idealized 9,118 unit increase. They knew that without some form of what is essentially rent control for all these new units, no increased affordability would result. But its exactly this rent control on the new units that dooms their approach, as the necessary State subsidy money is simply not there nor is it likely to be.

The final flaw of SCAG’s numbers is that instead of moving jobs to where the housing is (virtually everywhere) it tries to move housing to where the jobs are (a limited concentration).

This urban strategy is the most expensive solution selected by SCAG precisely because its massive dislocation results in the most amount of construction and real estate transfers: all to the financial benefit of the development community and to the expense of the general public that is forced to finance this extortion.

So Santa Monica should not try to match the irrational delusional SCAG numbers at all.

We should stay the course and trust our own balanced combination of taxes and fees, proliferating accessory dwelling units, downtown housing incentives, availability of boulevard zoning capacity, to meet our legitimate realistic housing needs. Santa Monica’s housing process is working: it does not need to nor can it be fixed by SCAG on steroids. Finally and more importantly, the City cannot sacrifice its long term mobility, sustainability, educational, and resilience goals on SCAG’s heretical altar.

In the mean time, cities like Santa Monica should actively resist this and future (e.g.

SB50) unfunded State mandates that block our

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My Attainable Goals for 2020

I can find. Ok. I can’t deny it. I qualify for senior citizen discounts. So far this year I asked for a senior discount at the local car wash. I saved $2, for an annual savings of $96, if I wash my car every week. That’s at With Barbara Bishop least a dinner at Mastro’s. For one. I think It’s 2020. The confetti has been swept up, I’ll put my senior discount savings in the the sugar and fat-laden treats have been eat- bank instead of my mouth.

Shed 2 pounds a month. Losing weight en, and my door wreath and Mistletoe have been laid to rest in my storage closet. (Hmm. can be accomplished by making small changes. For me, it’s the Friday night pizza, Maybe I should keep that Mistletoe up.)

It’s now two weeks into the year, and I’m the fried foods and sumptuous appetizers at just getting around to focusing on my New fundraising events, happy hours, food fesYear resolutions. But instead of just list- tivals and assorted gatherings with friends. ing the larger than life feats, like losing 30 This is when “I’ll just have a couple” starts pounds in a month or replenishing my en- to add up. 2 pounds a month is 24 pounds a tire savings account in a week, I’m taking a year. That’s 2-3 sizes for me. Game changer.

Attend one yoga class a week. I attenddifferent approach.

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The The citizen added that this something person had appeared to the es for each part of the body.

Because I had you the confidence and drive to keep it gohave been picking items off the ground next to the victim had been able to supply a detailed descripdislocated my shoulder in August of last ing. Love it!leaving the area. The citizen gave the tion of the suspect, which had also been conveyed to vehicle before year, Chris, the instructor, geared the class officers a detailed description of the suspect and the the officers, as they were en route to the location. around my injury. And, I could do most of Following my attainable forofficers 2020: The officers arrived in the vicinity of the apartment officers went inare search of this man.goals As the the exercises! I was so grateful that at the Save $100 a month.

So it’s not that much, were searching the area they spotted another vehi- complex and began to scour the area. The officers end of class, I started to cry tears of hope butwith I’ma smashed usually window thinkingthat about what Iatcan cle was parked the soon spotted the suspect lurking in the 1300 block and joy. I had not been able to use my right buy with an extra $100 ($1200 annually.)

I’m side of the street. The officers then drove back to of Alley Number 10. The suspect was easy to recshoulder. And I’m right-handed. I’ll be actually ‘way ahead on this one.

I redid my the 2000 block of Pico Boulevard where they spot- ognize due to the fact that in addition to the back for that class every Monday. budget for the year, made some major cuts ted a man who fit the description of the suspect. description given by the victim the suspect was ridWalk 20 minutes every day. This one is a that do not effect me in the large scheme of The officers detained this man and a few moments ing one bicycle whilst pushing a second one with his little aggressive. Any thing that requires me life, saving more than $4k a month.

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out. But I know now my long-term health depends on it. And there’s nothing more important than being healthy. I’m taking walks with my pup Zoey every day, but rather than waiting for her to take in the um, scent of other dogs, we are going to move our hineys. No more lollygagging, Ms. Zoey!

Be on time. My friends reading this will roll their eyes in disbelief. I will prove them wrong. Being on time is a sign of respect, interest and leads to success. Amen.

Have more “commitment” integrity. My

friends are laughing out loud at this one.

What I mean by integrity is doing what you say you’re going to do when you said you were going to do it. This is tough to own up to. And I feel horrible when I cancel plans at the last minute or don’t show up to an event. I’m going to focus on this one and clearly demonstrate respect to my friends, associates and myself.

Happy New Year! May yours be filled with laughter, good health, love and many small successes.

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VOTE,

from page 1 defense attorney Theodore Boutrous argued that district elections actually decrease the voting power of Latino voters.

“Over 70 years ago, prominent civil-rights leaders in Santa Monica urged the City to adopt its current at-large method of electing

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its seven-member Council—which expanded minority voting strength over the prior system.

In the last quarter century of elections, the undisputed evidence demonstrates that Latino voters’ preferred candidates have won Council seats the majority of the time, even though Latinos make up only 13.6% of the City’s voting population,” reads the city’s brief.

The case, Pico Neighborhood Association, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, filed by

plaintiffs Pico Neighborhood Association, Maria Loya and Advocates for Malibu Public Schools alleges that Santa Monica’s at-large election system dilutes Latino voting power in violation of the CVRA and discriminates against Latino voters in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution.

On March 27, 2019, the Second Appellate District of the Court of Appeal of the State of

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California issued a stay on a special election when they said that current members of Santa Monica City Council can legally serve during the duration of the city’s appeal.

Both the plaintiffs and the defense will give oral arguments in the next phase of the appeal.

Under an expedited schedule requested by the City of Santa Monica, the court will make its final ruling by July 10, 2020, to allow time to prepare for potential districts.

DBAs and LEGAL NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 19SMCP00566 Superior Court of California, county of Los Angeles 1725 Main Street | Santa Monica, CA 90401 Petition of: KASAI HAGOS KIROS for change of name.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all interested persons: KASAI HAGOS KIROS Petitioner: filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. KASAI HAGOS KIROS to KAHSAY KIROS HAGOS 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: 2/07/2020 | Time: 8:30AM | Dept: K Room: A copy of this ORDER to SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once a 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: SANTA MONICA MIRROR | Dated: DEC. 06, 2019 Judge Lawrence H. Cho Published: 12/20/2019, 12/27/2019, 1/03/2020, and 1/10/2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2019 320798 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES ON 12/13/2019.

The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as SANTA MONICA VENTURE, LP 2325 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, SUITE 203 SANTA MONICA, CA 90403. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: SANTA MONICA VENTURE, LP 2325 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, SUITE 203 SANTA MONICA, CA 90403. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 11/1982. 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 CHERYEL L. KANAN. This Statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES

County on DECEMBER 13, 2019. 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). SANTA MONICA MIRROR to publish 12/20/2019, 12/27/2019, 1/03/2020, and 1/10/2020.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 19SMCP00575 Superior Court of California, county of Los Angeles 1725 Main Street | Santa Monica, CA 90401 Petition of: Teresa Miriam Green for change of name.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all interested persons: Teresa Miriam Green Petitioner: filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Teresa Miriam Green to Miriam Green Potok 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: 2/14/2020 | Time: 8:30AM | Dept: K Room: A copy of this ORDER to SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once a 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: SANTA MONICA MIRROR | Dated: DEC. 12, 2019 Judge Lawrence H. Cho Published: 12/27/2019, 1/03/2020, 1/10/2020, and 1/17/2020

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 19SMCP00579 Superior Court of California, county of Los Angeles 1725 Main Street | Santa Monica, CA 90401 Petition of: Brenda Gutierrez Ramirez for change of name.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all interested persons: Brenda Gutierrez Ramirez Petitioner: filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Brenda Gutierrez Ramirez to Brenda Ramirez 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: 1/24/2020 | Time: 8:30AM | Dept: K Room: A copy of this ORDER to SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once a 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: SANTA MONICA MIRROR | Dated: DEC. 13, 2019 Judge Lawrence H. Cho Published: 12/27/2019, 1/03/2020, 1/10/2020, and 1/17/2020 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 19SMCP00605 Superior Court of California, county of Los Angeles 1725 Main Street | Santa Monica, CA 90401 Petition of: Mateo Luca for change of name.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all interested persons: Mateo Luca Petitioner: filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Mateo Luca to Luca West 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: 2/07/2020 | Time: 8:30AM | Dept: K Room: A copy of this ORDER to SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once a 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: SANTA MONICA MIRROR | Dated: DEC. 31, 2019 Judge Lawrence H. Cho Published: 1/10/2020, 1/17/2020, 1/24/2020, and 1/31/2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2019 321909 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES ON 12/16/2019.

The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as VIDINA 730 ARIZONA AVENUE SANTA MONICA, CA 90401. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: VIDINA SOLUTIONS, INC. 730 ARIZONA AVENUE SANTA MONICA, CA 90401. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not Applicable.

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 GORDON ALEXANDER LANG. This Statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on Dec. 16, 2019. 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). SANTA MONICA MIRROR to publish 1/10/2020, 1/17/2020, 1/24/2020, and 1/31/2020

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FILM REVIEW: “Little Women”

BEHIND THE SCREEN

By Kathryn Whitney Boole There are two categories of audience members who will see this movie, those who devoured the American classic Little Women by Louisa May Alcott probably multiple times in elementary school and those who have not read it at all. Both will enjoy the film, a heartfelt and vibrant picture

of the family Alcott created in her novel, from her own life experiences. Alcott never married or had her own family, although she did raise one of her sister’s daughters. She left behind a wealth of literature that has served as a guiding light for strong girls and young women for generations.

In the film the story jumps back and forth in time. However, the portrayals of the characters are so intimate and moving that this memorable look into the life of an unusual family in New England during the 1860s will draw you into its world. Every one of the actors gives an extraordinary per-

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formance - Saorise Ronan as Jo, Emma Watson as Meg, Eliza Scanlen as Beth, Florence Pugh as Amy, Laura Dern as Marmee, Meryl Streep as Aunt March, Timothee Chalamet as Laurie, and Louis Garrel as Professor Baer.

It helps that director Greta Gurwig is herself a brilliant writer and actor. She has an extraordinary visual sense and mastery of storytelling. The beginning minutes of the film capture the sense of the environment beautifully, bringing you immediately into this small Massachusetts town where rich, poor and middle-class citizens live within walking distance of one another.

The emphasis on the fight of women for equality in the 1860s is not a fabrication by the director, or of author Alcott. It was a real struggle of the time, as it is today. Alcott was herself an active crusader for the rights of women. It was a theme of her life, reflecting the real struggle between her father, who believed in the limitations of the female as a keeper of the home, and his wife and daughters who fought to better themselves through education, reading, and cultivating artistic skills. Alcott’s mother bristled at her husband’s

restrictions and probably helped establish resentment in Louisa, whose wild and headstrong behavior was a thorn in her father’s side. Fun fact – Louisa ran for exercise regularly throughout her life, even though that activity was not considered proper for women, and she encouraged other girls to brave hostility and run as well. As in the novel, Alcott’s mother did social work among the Irish immigrants who at the time endured severe prejudice, and the real Alcott family served as masters on the Underground Railroad in 1847.

This cinematic rendition of the Little Women story will influence your life though you may not realize it, as did the novel for so many. Director Gurwig crafted a film that highlights the social mores and political dilemmas of a very messy and vitriolic period in US history, very much a parallel to our time.

Kathryn Whitney Boole has spent most of her life in the entertainment industry, which has been the backdrop for remarkable adventures with extraordinary people. She is a Talent Manager with Studio Talent Group in Santa Monica. kboole@gmail.com

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21 “Cien ____ de Soledad” (Gabriel García Márquez novel) 22 Bailiwick 23 Lane restricted to allow motorcades through?

26 Ribs 27 Jerry’s adversary, in cartoons 28 ____ colada 29 Night vision?

30 Early online forum 32 Honolulu’s historic ____ Palace 34 Current 36 Pressing and shoving me as I enter the subway?

41 Sounds before sneezes 42 Word repeated by Romeo in “As mine on ____, so ____ is set on mine” 43 Brown v. Board of Education city 44 Last words of a pep talk, perhaps 48 Not taking a bow?

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103 Portal in “Alice in Wonderland” 106 Shellac and myrrh 107 Rule against singing 108 Toodle-oos 111 Peddle 112 115 Where Scarlett got a letter?

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14 Time release 15 Get to Grand Central right at 5:00?

16 Tool for a blacksmith 17 Jason’s wife in myth 18 Finger-licking good 24 Thread: Prefix 25 San Francisco : BART :: Philadelphia : ____ 31 Sweater damage 32 “No more for me, thanks” 33 Force onward 35 Utah’s ____ Canyon (locale of petroglyphs) 36 Kale alternative 37 Fix, as a golf green 38 Pianist Rubinstein 39 Rise above the din, say 40 Somewhere over the rainbow they’re blue, in song 45 Carry-____ 46 Scraped (out) 47 Cleanup target 49 Tax ____ 50 Queen dowager of Jordan 52 ____ Homme (fashion line) 53 Awkward 56 Decision point 57 Simple life?

58 Through 60 “Quantico” actress Priyanka ___ 64 Prefix with -phone 66 “I’m scared by the speed you’re going in this traffic!”?

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