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Entering Santa Monica? That Will Be $4 Study explores the idea of congestion fee for the Westside.

By Cailley Chella It may soon cost you an extra $4 a day to travel through parts of LA and Santa Monica.

“I think it’s really strange,” said Steven Mueller, a four year Santa Monica resident.

A new study, released last week by the Southern California Association of Governments, reports positive effects of implementing a $4 congestion fee to enter or travel through a specified area on the Westside of Los angeles. The report, the first of its kind for the area, says LA commuters lose over 100 hours a year while sitting in traffic and that this fee can help reduce that time by up to 24 percent.

The report states that currently, the specified area, which includes parts of Brentwood, West Los Angeles and a chunk of Santa Monica, sees more than 500,00 trips in or through the area a day on average. It says 50 percent of those trips take place during the seven busiest hours of the day, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The area suggested for the fee is specifically bound

by Montana Avenue and Sunset Boulevard on the north, I-405 on the east, I-10 on the south and 20th Street on the west The analysis says that, if implemented, the

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The proposed congestion zone.

CONGESTION, see page 11

SANTA MONICA RESIDENT TURNS 100 Community organizes a celebration for Anna Hafeli.

By Keldine Hull Anna Hafeli was born in Switzerland on April 1, 1919 and has spent the last 44 years of her life in Santa Monica. On Sunday, March 31, just one day shy of her 100th birthday, the community came together and celebrated the momentous milestone for one of Santa Monica’s oldest living residents.

Tom Chambers has lived in the same build-

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ing as Anna, at the corner of 3rd Street and California Avenue, for 28 years and has been the building manager for the last 15 years. “I used to live on the 3rd floor, but for 10 years, I’ve lived on the first floor where Anna lives.

We’ve gotten to know each other extremely well because I’m one door away. My daughter is 12, my son is 8, and they both have grown up coming over to see Anna. They would sneak over here, and she’d give them chocolate.”

Tom began planning Anna’s birthday celebration months in advance and the community at 3rd and California were eager to join in. “We all love Anna so much. She’s a great neighbor. She’s social and comes out and talks to people. People are just drawn to her. My

family has been celebrating birthdays with her for years. Her 100th birthday kept getting closer and closer. She goes to 11 o’clock mass every Sunday so I had arranged for that mass to be said in her honor six months ago. We’ve been planning this for a long time. We started out with smaller kind of idea of how to celebrate, but more neighbors started talking about it and more people wanted to be involved. It grew into this big party.”

Over 50 people joined in the celebration including many of Anna’s neighbors as well as her niece, who lives in Beverly Hills, her nephew and his family who came in from Texas, and two cousins who flew all the way from Switzerland. The party took place right

in front of Anna’s apartment in her building’s courtyard.

For Tom, the party turned out even better than he had imagined. “About half the people from the building came. Most of the people from the building have been there for a long time. I would say half of the people have been there over 10 to 15 years, so we all know each other pretty well. And we all pitched in to set it all up and make it happen. We had neighbors that know Anna that came over. We rented tables and chairs, set up lights, set up Swiss flags. We had it catered by Panini Cafe. We had wine, beer and drinks. One of her neigh-

BIRTHDAY, see page 11

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Parking Attendant Struck with Car SMPD arrest suspect for assault with deadly weapon.

By S taff W riter Earlier this week, the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) arrested John Douglas Steuart, a 57 year- old male from Huntington Beach, for his possible involvement in an assault with a vehicle.

According to Lieutenant Saul Rodriguez, on March 23, at about 9:18 a.m., SMPD officers responded to a radio call for service in the parking lot of, 1301 4th Street, regarding an assault with a deadly weapon.

Officers responded to the scene and determined a male suspect driving a white 4-door cross-over type vehicle was attempting to exit the parking lot without paying the parking fee.

“The parking attendant (victim) confronted the suspect about the payment due.

While the victim was in front of the vehicle, the suspect accelerated the vehicle striking the victim causing her to fall to the ground.

While the victim was on the ground, the suspect continued to accelerate striking the victim a second time. The suspect drove off at a high rate of speed,” reads a SMPD press release.

According to Rodriquez, The Santa Mon-

The Bank of America on 4th Street where the incident took place.

ica Fire Department (SMFD) Paramedics responded to the scene and treated the victim. The victim was transported to a local hospital for further treatment and released having suffered a broken leg.

Following a preliminary investigation, detectives developed information leading to Steuart as the primary suspect involved in the incident.

On April 1, 2019, SMPD Officers located Steuart and the involved vehicle in Pacific Palisade and took him into custody.

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Steuart has been booked for 245(a)(1) PC – Assault with a deadly weapon. The case will be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office – Airport Branch for filing consideration.

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John Douglas Steuart was arrested earlier this week.

Anyone with information related to this incident is encouraged to call Detective Haro at (310) 458-8432; Sgt. Skogh at (310) 458-8992; or the Santa Monica Police Department at (310) 458- 8491.

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$2.6 Million in PR Contracts “Behavior Change” firm among companies selected.

By Sam Catanzaro At their regular meeting Tuesday, March 26 Santa Monica City Council voted to award $2,610,000 on communications and outreach services to third-party vendors.

Agenda item 3.D, which passed by a 5-1 vote, awarded contracts to 15 companies to provide all City of Santa Monica Departments as-needed communications and outreach services.

Councilmember Sue Himelrich was the only Councilmember to vote against the propsoal.

According to city staff, each two-year

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contract will not exceed $174,000 per company, meaning the City could spend up to $2,610,000 over the next two years.

“Increasing public outreach helps ensure the community knows about and can participate in City programming, services, and policy decision-making. In an effort to streamline City outreach efforts and make resources available more broadly to all City programs, staff recommends establishing 15 city-wide contracts with companies consisting of creative agencies or individuals,” Santa Monica City Staff wrote in a report.

“These agreements can be leveraged by all city departments to help make delivering information more timely, integrated and efficient, ensuring more of the public know about city information, more consistently and easily.”

According to the staff report, the City previously used third-party services for communications and outreach, but each department or agency acquired these services independently.

This piecemeal approach, the report says, results in significant time devoted to procuring and orienting various companies to the City.

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Among the companies listed in the staff report are Marketing for a Change, “a full-service creative firm anchored in social psychology and behavioral economics” and “behavior change,” according to their website; Conceptive, Inc, “a branded entertainment firm that focuses on producing branded web series and non-traditional advertising campaigns that involve and embrace,” and Katz & Associates, a PR firm that works to “inform, educate, facilitate and resolve issues to move projects forward.”

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much they estimate will be spent over a two-year period. According to the City, this will not result in additional dollars sent.

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OPINION

Micro Thinking Without Master Planning

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THE FLIPPER’S SECRET SOMETIMES OVERLOOKED

By Ron Wynn

Will the cost of materials and labor hold, and will the bids you get be reliable?

Will unanticipated things come up once you open up walls, ask for city permits, and comply with soil and retaining wall requirements, drainage issues and retrofit nuances?

Are you being optimistic or realistic about the time required to obtain city approvals, HOA approvals and possible obstructions from neighbors, coastal commission issues and setbacks, neighborhood review boards, or natural causes like rain and what have you?

Are you factoring declines in sale prices based on previous sales per square foot should there be a shift in the market?

Are you adequately and realistically looking at adjustments for a busy street, a fixer-upper next door, unsightly power lines obstructing a view, high power transformers nearby, a less desirable school district, a home with low ceilings, a poor floor plan or with poor natural light, or a home that lacks a backyard or adequate parking?

Could there be an oversupply of homes in your price range with a limited number of buyers by the time you are on the market?

Will you have adequate reserves if you run short on cash so that you can move forward without needing to scramble for new investors after the fact?

The bottom line…Don’t believe everything you see on TV and know this is serious business with little room for error. The key is to buy right, from the beginning. Be location conscious, be realistic about your costs, and make good use of your time. Wasting 6 moths to draw plans and obtain permits could be your kiss of death before you even start.

Be realistic, keeping reserves and always anticipating your cost at 10 % higher than you projected as you figure your pro forma analysis.

If it doesn’t pencil out this way, don’t be optimistic saying “somehow it will come together”.

That’s going to dig you a grave for sure.

There are a lot of amateurs these days trying to get in on the game. Flipping homes is “the dream” occupation because watching the reality flip programs on Bravo and HGTV make it look like the easiest way to make the big bucks with no downside. As a realtor of many up and down markets, let me quickly caution you, it’s not as simple as it looks. There are many considerations here, but first and foremost, please enjoy the TV programs and Youtube. Before spending your money or borrowing against the equity in home, be sure to be well educated about the many factors that determine your final outcome.

The flipper’s secret is “annualized return”.

Even after figuring your rehab costs, your closing costs, your proposed selling price, and the possible rise and decline in the market, the time you are either paying for borrowed capital or the time you are tying up your personal invested capital is very important. If you put out $200,000 in cash and borrow $500,000 at 5% interest, planning to finish your project in 6 months, to find out later that it in fact took 12 months, your annualized return was cut in half.

If you anticipated to clear a profit of $100,000 in 6 months but it took 12 months, your return on investment declined by 50% and then it is still subject to tax reporting based on ordinary earned income.

Of course, there is no guarantee at all to any profit, and a loss could turn you bankrupt if you are not otherwise well covered. There is no guarantee that the market will remain stable, and there is always a chance, even if you have strong comparable sales to prove the value for your beautiful newly remodeled masterpiece that the market may no longer be as strong of a seller’s market. There could easily be an increase in the interest rates, or an economic hiccup that might cause a decrease in activity plus an increase in unsold inventory, more price reductions, and longer days on the market. Have you factored all these possibiliFor more information, consult your trusted ties into your equation? advisor or feel free to email me, Ron@RonRemember these unknowns: Wynn.com.

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Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow

Six new apartment projects, all with 100 percent micro units, have been proposed for Santa Monica’s downtown. The developer is claiming that a normal mix of unit types is “financially unsustainable” without his proposed higher unit count. The Council’s reaction to these projects is a temporary ban on single units less than 375 square feet. Unfortunately, this response is symptomatic of the city’s overall approach - one of piecemeal planning at every level, from the study of SRO’s (single resident occupancies) to separate plans for our downtown, Bergamot, SM airport, the Civic Center, 4th & Arizona, the Promenade, etc, etc. "Knee-jerk" planning decisions are taken instead of an overall approach, a master plan that takes into account a diverse urban lifestyle. It is unconscionable that our city has never undertaken such a fundamental task in its 134-year history.

Although it might be possible to live in a micro unit, it is not the formula for new residents to establish roots and settle down in the community. Instead, they are a guarantee for rapid turnover, no families, less support for local schools and a new class of residents with no “skin in the game.” In the process, they will also drive out existing apartment buildings and residents while making it more likely that they will be rented to tourists as hotel rooms! Why is this even debated when we simply need to provide housing for a variety of residents that will retain a stake in our community.

In the meantime, the City Council has authorized $150,000 to retain an outside consultant to simply tell them that the mix of apartments should range between 15-20 percent for single units, 35-30 percent ones, 35-30 percent twos, and 15-30 percent three bedrooms along with the minimum square foot areas of each. This along with $2.3 million for rebuilding a restroom facility at Clover Park (+/-$5000/sf !!!), $.5 million for a mural in a back room stairwell at city hall, and up to $8 million for yet another public relations firm to promote city projects.

In addition, they are giving away 55-year leases for pennies on two prime downtown properties and are spending $145 million including bond financing for a 50,000 square foot City Hall expansion (+/- $3,000/sf !!!).

All of which borders on the absurd.

But this issue of controlling micro-units is only an indication of larger and more serious issues confronting our downtown and our city as a whole. Cities are generally shaped by mobility, the economy, demographics, and local topography. In Santa Monica however, it seems developers control our city in a piecemeal manner, one project at a time, and with the blessings of the City Council.

In the past, good design went hand in hand with good economics. In today's corporate world, however, it’s the flow of money that shapes today's buildings leaving little room for art in our architecture or pride and the

protection of our natural environment. It’s not just providing housing that is important but also, the quality and nature of that housing. We need zoning laws that protect our city and a City Council that respects and protects its residents. What we have instead is a City that is wasting $150,000 to determine the appropriate number and size of micro-units. Wouldn't a better use of city funds be to create a conceptual master plan along with some simple and effective design standards that avoid long shadows and darkening streets. And while we’re at it, how about limiting height which could reduce land and construction costs, ultimately reducing the cost of living in our City. We need to be more concerned about our residents than our investors. What we don’t need is more overdevelopment only to pay for more public relations contracts, inflated salaries, and overpriced restrooms!

I realize the city has a general plan, which is followed only when convenient, but the LUCE (Land Use Circulation Element) is NOT a master plan. A broad, comprehensive master plan, in addition to addressing the design of our buildings and the public realm, would take into account issues of infrastructure, sustainability, shifting demographics, mobility and new technologies that are advancing faster than our ability to adapt. Some of these fast-evolving sectors include our healthcare, educational, hospitality and cultural industries. It would also address the challenge of seismic events and rising sea levels, autonomous vehicles and the reinvention of malls under siege due to online retailing. Some other evolving areas requiring attention are senior living and micro-housing, that have their particular set of problems regarding economic inequality and social inclusion. A well-conceived master plan can both stay rooted in our local culture while taking into account our inevitable growth and evolving technological challenges.

We need design standards that protect our beachfront character and environment, a city where housing quality is not just limited to the mix and size of apartment types. We need design standards that address how buildings relate to each other. The current requirement of only 2 ft offsets in downtown hardly addresses our rapidly growing streetscape of building blocks joined cheek and jowl. An environment of boxes and balconies shoulder to shoulder, devoid of spirit and providing all the sculptural artistry of a computer punch card. This will soon be visible for all to see along the great wall of Lincoln Boulevard! When will our City insist on more inspired environments with wider sidewalks and setbacks, trees and sunlight, with courtyard recesses and mid-block arcades? Good design is the precursor to good economics!

We need a creative code that reinforces and inspires rather than unleashes the greed of those who destroy our City for their own personal gain. Although Santa Monica may be in the vanguard of progressive causes,

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from page 6 with respect to good planning practice and responsibility to its residents, it is failing miserably!

In summary, it’s “time to recall” what our city council has failed to do for the residents of Santa Monica. Our political leaders and planning staff need to preserve what’s left of our small city while addressing the formidable challenges that lie ahead- both socially and environmentally. They need to do a better job imagining the future and put residents ahead of investors and corporate profits. We need to enact zoning laws and design standards that don’t allow box-like buildings in "straight-jackets" or limit access to daylight and nature. We need to re-establish the “art” in architecture and in our public realm. We need an authentic environment that holds onto the values that make Santa Monica special. Our quality of life and environment depend on it!

Ron Goldman FAIA for SMa.r.t. (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow) Thane Roberts, AIA, Architect, Robert H. Taylor AIA, Ron Goldman FAIA, Architect, Dan Jansenson, Architect, Building and Fire-Life Safety Commission, Samuel Tolkin Architect, Mario Fonda-Bonardi, AIA, Planning Commissioner, Phil Brock, Santa Monica Arts Commission. For previous articles see www.santamonicaarch.wordpress.com/ writings.

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Repair Café at Camera Obscura

Saturday, April 6 from noon to 4 p.m.

By S taff W riter

The City of Santa Monica is hosting a Repair Café on Saturday, April 6 to connect community members who have broken household items with volunteers who demonstrate repairs at the Camera Obscura Art Lab, 1450 Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica.

Participants will share community skills, reduce waste, and have fun in the process. Although it’s fun to DIY (do it yourself,) it’s even better to do it together with your community! All are invited to bring their appliances, bicycles (a guest mechanic from the Santa Monica Bike Center will be present), computers/electronics, wooden furniture, torn garments and broken jewelry for repair. Special activities include a seed exchange workshop with Christy the GardenNerd and practical 3D printing of replacement parts with Librarian Kelly Wortham of the Santa Monica Public Library.

Westside Repair Café is presented in partnership with Our Time Bank, Transition Culver City, Santa Monica Bike Center, Santa Monica Resource Recovery & Recycling, the Santa Monica Library, and Santa Monica Cultural Affairs.

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The Repair Cafe is on Saturdy, April 6 from noon to 4 p.m.

“The City of Santa Monica’s Zero Waste Strategic Plan calls for 95 percent of our waste to be diverted from landfills by 2030, and since household waste is a considerable portion of landfill usage, the items that Repair Café fixes helps toward achieving this important goal. Repair Café empowers the community to regain skills

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that are becoming lost in a disposable society. The skills developed and relationships fostered during these events not only help sustain the planet, but on a local level, help build sustainable neighborhoods,” said the City in a press release.

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SM Symphony’s “Coming to America” The performance will feature music by immigrant composers.

By Tabitha Hogue Although the great Sergei Rachmaninov is known as a Russian composer, he actually spent the last three decades of his life in America, first in New York and later in Beverly Hills. Santa Monica Symphony (SMS) will be performing the last of his works, the famed Symphonic Dances, in a free concert titled “Coming to America,” celebrating the accomplishments of immigrant composers, on Sunday, April 14 at 7 p.m. in Barnum Hall (on the campus of Santa Monica High School).

The concert will open with the “Star Spangled Banner” – not the typical version one usually hears, but a unique arrangement by another great Russian who moved to the United States, Igor Stravinsky. According to SMS Music Director and Conductor Guido Lamell, Stravinsky originally put this arrangement together when he was asked to conduct a Boston Symphony concert; however, the Boston police caught wind of this and admonished him that it was against the law to tamper with the national anthem.

“He performed his version complete with unfamiliar harmonies and the police confiscated the parts,” Lamell explained. “Popular myth

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The soloist for the concert, Roberto Cani, also the concertmaster for the LA Opera.

suggests that Stravinsky was arrested, but that is not the case. Since that time, his version has been performed often – sometimes accompanied by a fake mugshot of Stravinsky in the program for dramatic effect!”

Following the “Star Spangled Banner,” the orchestra will be performing the “Malaguena,” a beloved piece by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. Lecuona was an extremely prolific composer and a talented pianist who wrote over

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600 pieces and is known for bringing fame to Cuban music in the classical realm. According to Lamell, although Lecuona was Cuba’s most fa-

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CONGESTION, from page 1

congestion fee would result in a 24 percent decrease in the number of hours people spend traveling through the area in cars during peak travel hours and almost a 10 percent decrease over the course of a day.

That would correspond with a drop of 19 percent, or about 20,000 people, driving during peak inbound hours, according to the report. It added that 23 percent more people would choose to take alternative transportation, such as biking, walking, or taking the bus and that many would choose not to travel at all during those peak travel hours.

The congestion fee would be reduced $0.40 for residents, a whopping 90 percent off, and $2.00 for low-income commuters, 50 percent

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off. It would be collected by using FasTrak and Automatic License Plate Recognition technology, according to the study.

Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin, who represents parts of the specified area in the report, criticized the idea, saying he’s open to new ideas regarding traffic reduction, but that this plan won’t go over well.

“The neighborhoods [the Southern California Association of Governments] proposes lack the necessary transit alternatives — and is downright unjust to propose a system that charges less to the CEO of [a] billion-dollar company than it does to his or her housekeeper or gardener,” Bonin said.

But Alan Wapner, President of the Southern California Association of Governments says this is already an issue they’ve considered, saying “Prior to implementing we have to make sure that there is a transit system that’s intact that of-

fers an option for folks.”

And charging drivers a fee to reduce traffic jams isn’t an original idea. It’s already been implemented in London and Milan and more recently, New York.

Lee Collins, a former Santa Monica resident who currently lives in Beverly Hills, says she’d like to see the fee implemented all over. “It’s not just Santa Monica that’s the problem, everywhere is a gridlock.”

And Collins’ idea isn’t too far off from what could happen. Wapner says they’re just the planning and researching organization that conducted the study, and that “any jurisdiction take it from there and decide if they want to implement it.”

As for the next steps, the Los Angeles Times says officials will first need to to find an agency to implement the program, change state law to allow tolls on streets and educate the public.

Wapner says the education part will be the

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biggest challenge. “People are thinking it’s another tax and that they’re going to have to pay it. They don’t understand that only in certain circumstances are they going to have to [pay] it.”

When it comes to the money that will be made from collecting the fee, Wapner says that the revenue will go “right back to where it’s generated to help mitigate the impacts congestion cause, whether it be health impacts, environmental, additional maintenance on the streets.”

Some residents are already being won over by the idea. When asked if she supported the fee, Hillary Miller, a Santa Monica resident of 26 years said, “If the studies will show that the money will go to the right things to keep the traffic down...I say maybe because we have to do something.”

Even Mueller could be swayed. “If the money was going to something that was going to make a change then I would actually be for it,” he said.

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Over 50 people joined together to celebrate the 100th birthday of Anna Hafeli

BIRTHDAY, from page 1

bors baked a lot of desserts. Everybody was talkative and friendly. Everybody had a great time, and Anna was just glowing. She was the star. She savored every second of it.”

Even at 100, Anna remains active in the community and remembers clearly what Santa Monica was like over four decades ago when it cost just $175 to rent an apartment. “Years ago, Santa Monica was extremely quiet. It was nice shopping on 4th Street. There were all small stores, and the owners were very friendly. But now there are all these big companies. It’s not as personal anymore, but Santa Monica is still the place to go. It’s very different now.”

As much as Santa Monica has changed over the years, Anna still loves her home just as much as when she first moved here. “The climate is beautiful. I like it. Especially my apartment; it’s always nice. I like the beach. I don’t go to the beach anymore, but I have good remembrance. When I have visitors, they love it here. I wouldn’t want to live in any other place.

That’s why I’ve lived here so long.”

The people in the community and the kind-

Photo: Courtesy.

ness they have shown Anna have also been an important part of why Anna enjoys living in Santa Monica to this day. “I think the people are very nice to me. They’re very polite. Sometimes when I open the door and I walk people come running to hold the door, people I don’t even know! I’m very happy about that.”

When asked what her secret is to such a long and healthy life, Anna responded, “I haven’t found it yet! There’s no secret. It just happens. I didn’t think I’d live this long. The most important thing in life is to stay well.” With a hundred years under her belt and never once catching the flu, Anna has figured out exactly how to stay well.

What makes Anna such a well- loved member of her community is her kindness, openness, and upbeat outlook on life. Tom adds, “She’s so mobile and outgoing. She’s out there walking around every day. I’ve seen her at Vons. I’ve seen her at the post office. If I see her, I’ll pull over and say, ‘Anna! What are you doing?

Get in my car!’ I’m worried, but I don’t need to be worried. She’s out there with her walker. She goes fast cruising down the sidewalk! She’s got this extremely positive, happy attitude, demeanor, and outlook.

She’s always smiling and lighthearted. It’s really an amazing thing.”

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SPORTS: Lacrosse

Samo Boys Lacrosse Hanging Tough

By C had W inthrop

As their season draws to an end, the Santa Monica High School Vikings boys lacrosse team find themselves playing high-caliber lacrosse and fighting for a spot in the playoffs.

After losing a low scoring 1-0 game versus San Marcos High School on March 16, Santa Monica’s offense returned in a big way on March 20 in a 10-8 victory over El Segundo High School.

After losing a 14-6 game versus Pensiula High School, the Vikings took on Hamilton High School and eeked out a tight 8-7 win on March 23.

On March 29, the boys took on Downey High School at home and exploded for an 18-4 victory. With the win, the Vikings find themselves with an 8-6 record in second place in the South Bay standings. Up next for the team is an April 24 affair versus Beverley Hill High School.

Photos: Morgan Genser.

Santa Monica’s Ryan Ezhari (left) is defended by Chris Orozco from Downey High School.

Santa Monica’s John Meshkanian (center) charges the Downey goal on March 29.

Anthony Perini of Santa Monica (left) is checked by Downey’s Enrique Rangel.

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SM Businesses Transition to Green Power

By S taff W riter

Photo: Getty Images.

Beginning May 1, 2019, Santa Monica businesses will begin receiving 100 percent green power.

The City of Santa Monica through the Clean Power Alliance introduced Santa Monica residents to green power in February 2019.

Through the change, electricity delivery and billing will remain with Southern California Edison (SCE), but business customers will have a choice of three Clean Power Alliance energy plans derived from 100 percent carbon-free energy sources.

This transition is intended to reduce Santa Monica’s greenhouse gas emissions.

This change marks the final transition for approximately three million customers across 31 jurisdictions in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

“Santa Monica’s business community has long championed sustainable practices and now they get to continue to model what it means to be a green business,” said Mayor Gleam Davis. “We are greener, healthier city because our businesses lead on climate change.”

According to the City, 100 percent green power will cost businesses approximately 7-9 percent more than it was under SCE. Santa Monica businesses account for 75 percent of communitywide electricity demand. Taken together, residents and businesses switching to green power will re-

LEFT – Beginning May 1, 2019, businesses in the City of Santa Monica will begin receiving 100 percent green power.

move almost 20 percent of communitywide carbon emissions, according to the City.

“Based on what we have seen with our residential rollout, where 95 percent of customers committed to 100 percent green power, we are confident that the business community will take pride in our new green energy mix and work to keep the renewable levels as high as possible,” said Santa Monica’s Chief Sustainability Officer Dean Kubani.

All green power is derived from non-fossil fuel, non-nuclear, and plans offer the highest percentage of green power possible on the grid today.

The three power plans offer a range in price and in the percentage of energy derived from renewable sources.

The plans can be adjusted freely without restriction. Energy plans range from 100

percent, 50 percent and 36 percent renewable power. Santa Monica selected the “100 percent green power” plan as the default for

all businesses. This means that businesses will automatically be enrolled in in 100 percent renewable unless they select a different plan.

The Clean Power Alliance has secured long-term renewable energy agreements in order to offer stable and competitive rates for Santa Monica customers.

Customers with solar who generate excess energy will also be able to sell their electricity to the Clean Power Alliance at a rate 10 percent higher than SCE’s.

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OBITUARY: Beth Leder-Pack (1958-2019) Santa Monica Leader and Activist

Beth Leder-Pack, Santa Monica community leader and activist, has passed away after a brief illness.

A long-time Santa Monica resident, Beth worked as an Information Analyst for the City of Santa Monica for 25 years.

Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Beth graduated from Harriton High School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, earned her bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources from Cornell Uniuniversity, and her master’s degree in Regional

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from the University of Pennsylvania.

Beth began her career working in Philadelphia at Wallace Roberts & Todd (WRT), a large city and regional planning firm. She then worked in the housing department for the Office of the Mayor of Princeton, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, in New Jersey and then again in housing for the City of East Palo Alto in California.

Settling in Santa Monica, California, Beth made her mark as a galvanizing and dynamic force in social justice, political and community organizations, including Santa Monica for Renters Rights (SMMR), Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Santa Monica Democratic Club and as a founding member of Santa Monicans Allied for Responsible Tourism (SMART).

At the forefront of the local living wage movement, fighting for the rights of low wage workers, Beth was also a longtime affordable housing activist, having served as vice chair on the Board of Directors of Community Corporation of Santa Monica for over 10 years, as vice chair of the Ocean Park Community Organization and as a member of the City of Santa Monica Housing Commission.

A devoted and loving mother, Beth was known to bring along her young

daughter, Anna, to many of these community organizing meetings, sharing with her a strong sense of social responsibility and civic engagement.

Beth also advocated for the welfare of her coworkers as a union leader for the Santa Monica Rent Control Board and the National Organization of Legal Service Workers Local 2320/UAW/AFL-CIO. For her exemplary record of civic leadership, Beth received the Communitas Award in 2001 from the Church in Ocean Park, an interfaith community devoted to social justice, along with a commendation from the California State Legislature and the City of Santa Monica.

A dedicated member of the Church in Ocean Park, Beth served on the Board of Directors and for many years enjoyed the church’s annual camping trips to Joshua Tree National Park and Catalina Island.

She also served on the Board of Directors for the Growing Place, a preschool she valued for its commitment to providing a quality all-day, year-round early education program for children of City of Santa Monica workers and other working parents.

Beth loved and appreciated the performing arts, especially music and theater. She was an avid supporter of the Santa Monica public schools’ choir and theater programs, in which her daughter and so many students have thrived, and served on Samohi Theatre’s steering committee.

Photo: Courtesy.

Beth will be remembered for her quick wit, ready laugh, adventurous spirit, generous heart, delight in bringing people together, concern for shelter animals, and her encouragement of friends and acquaintances of all ages to reach their potential.

Beth was predeceased by her mother, Diana; her stepfather, Irv; and her sister, Robin.

She is survived by her daughter, Anna, whom she adored; her brother, Michael Jay Leder; her father, BobLeder, and stepmother, Rowena Harker-Leder; her half-brother, Christopher Leder; and her cousins, Debra and John Kalish.

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mous composer, he was exiled when Fidel Castro came to power, and he took up residence first in New York and later in Florida. The “Malaguena” is Lecuona’s most famous work.

“This arrangement, by Morton Gould, a prominent American composer and conductor, is a virtuosic rendition of the piece that actually contains some quite technical challenges for the orchestra,” Lamell noted.

The April 14 concert will also feature a performance of Miklos Rozsa’s Spellbound Concerto for Orchestra. Rozsa was a Hungarian composer who came to the United States in 1940 to compose film scores for Hollywood. The Spellbound Concerto is based on music originally composed for the 1945 Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller Spellbound, which deals with themes of mental illness. Rozsa would go on to win an Oscar for the soundtrack.

“The concerto has this marvelous tone of instability and mystery and darkness, and even the beautiful, extremely recognizable main melody has a certain unsettling character,” Lamell said.

“Even though it’s beautiful, it still is somewhat disturbing.”

This piece is unusual in the orchestral repertoire for its use of the theremin. This is an electronic instrument that Lamell describes as making “very unusual, science-fiction like sounds. It is the only instrument that one does not touch in any way,” Lamell said. “Sounds are created when theremin players move their hands in and out of electrical fields emitted

from two antennas.”

A highlight of the “Coming to America” concert will be the performance of Franz Waxman’s Carmen Fantasie by the LA Opera’s Concertmaster, Roberto Cani. Mr. Cani has performed with the Santa Monica Symphony once before to wild standing ovations and is “one of the greatest violin virtuosos residing in Los Angeles,” according to Lamell.

Franz Waxman was a German Jew who came to the United States in the 1930s after suffering a severe beating from Nazi sympathizers in Berlin.

He wrote this piece for the soundtrack of the film Humoresque which received an Academy Award nomination. Jascha Heifetz was originally slated to perform the Carmen Fantasie for the film, but was replaced by a young Isaac Stern - whose hands are seen in the film. After hearing Stern’s performance, Heifetz asked Waxman to expand the work for him so he could play it on the Bell Telephone Hour. It is considered to be one of the most dazzling and daunting showpieces for the violin.

Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances will close the program. Rachmaninov first performed a two-piano rendition of the work with the renowned pianist Vladimir Horowitz at a private home in Beverly Hills in 1941. (Incidentally, Rachmaninov’s 146th birthday took place earlier this month on April 2nd.)

“I selected this piece because I’ve dreamt of conducting it my whole life,” Lamell said. “It’s one of my absolute favorite pieces and I think it’s Rachmaninov’s greatest work. It is extremely challenging for the orchestra and shows off its powers through magnificently powerful rhythmic styles, and brilliant orchestral innovations.”

The main theme in the second movement of the work is given to the saxophone and has a “gorgeous and haunting quality,” according to Lamell.

“In the overall character it’s a struggle between dark and light themes, representing life and death, but certainly ends on a victorious note

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the apartment complex in which she resided. The victim had been able to supply a detailed description of the suspect, which had also been conveyed to the officers, as they were en route to the location.

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individual memories each, actor giving a tour de force performance. Rashomon would be a good reference point.

Clearly in an agitated state, the opening monologue is delivered by Frank, who in order to pull himself together, recites in rapid succession, a long list of obscure Scottish, Welsh, Irish, or English towns that he visited. He is a self-styled alcoholic faith healer who travelled to these remote towns, where he performed his healing in run down church halls. He is tormented with the notion that he might be a total fraud, “Am I just a con man?”

He adds, “Drunk or sober, I always knew when something was going to happen” and remembers the time he actually straightened a man’s crooked finger and restored sight to a blind person. Frank ruminates about his life in an almost stream of consciousness and talks about how he missed his mother’s death by only an hour, and refers to his long-suffering wife as his mistress. The dialogue emanates from a deeply organic place with Norwood’s performance servicing the material with rapid, mercurial, almost dizzying transitions. This tormented man rambles on about his relationship with both his wife and Teddy, his manager. He is deeply troubled. He is deeply tormented. He is lost.

Grace is next up. She is disheveled and clearly

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from page 16 in a highly stressed state. She, like the other two actors, has crawled deep inside of her character and like Frank keeps trying to pull herself together by having another drink and lighting a cigarette. She tells her version of her relationship with her husband and how she stuck with him no matter what. She was virtually his cheerleader and despite how he treated her, she stood by her man, until she couldn’t. Grace talks fondly about Teddy and how he helped with her stillborn baby. Dressed in what looks like a nightgown over which she wears a raincoat, which she constantly clutches, almost trying to keep anything from getting in. She, too, is in a sorry mental state and when she feels like she’s losing it, like Frank, recites the names of obscure Welsh, English, Irish, or Scottish towns in rapid succession. She tells of how her husband kept changing her name and her birthplace, which added to her confusion. She happily remembers the time Frank actually cured ten people in one night after which a grateful person left a wallet for them full of money.

They celebrated for four days in Cardiff. Finally, at the end of her tether, she remembers saying to Frank, “Do not follow me. I love you.

I’m leaving you.”

Following a brief intermission, we get to meet Ron Bottitta’s Teddy who lightens up the proceedings. Over the years, he’s managed a number of different acts including a Whippet who played the bagpipes and a lady with 120 pigeons. He makes it clear that you shouldn’t mix friends and business. Teddy begins to tell his version of his relationship with Grace and Frank, which also reveals his tender feelings toward the abused wife. He shares a memory of watching Grace give birth in the back of the van and what happened after the baby was stillborn. He also makes reference to how many times he watched Frank actually heal people. There is some comic relief as being a bit worn out, he wants to represent something simple like, “A whistling dolphin.” By the end of the fourth monologue, delivered by Frank, one can put together a picture of what life was like for three people whose lives were intricately bound to each other.

The entire production is performed on a bare bones stage with a bunch of empty wooden chairs where people coming to get healed would sit, a couple of tables, and a phonograph with a recording of “The Way You Look Tonight,” which is played a few times throughout the production. Rashomon, as applies to this production, is not a new theatrical device. However, I dare say you would be hard pressed to find a more exciting use of this genre than what transpires on that stage as the nuanced performances given by these three mega-talented actors are nothing short of masterful.

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31 Exciting, in modern lingo 32 Rock, maybe 36 Danson’s “Cheers” role 38 End of some hybrid dog breed names 39 N.Y.C. dance company 40 Hounds 42 Tidbits for aardvarks 43 Bearded beast 44 They go with potatoes in soup 46 Sting operator 49 Regarding 51 Vitamin stat 52 Hosts, in brief 55 Italian cheese 59 Peel place 61 Out at a library, say 63 “Yeah, why not” 64 Cyrus who sang the 2013 No. 1 hit “Wrecking Ball” 66 Once did 67 States, informally 68 Be prone 69 Radiated 70 Leafy salad ingredient 72 Didn’t delay 74 Inexperienced 75 Fool 76 Something frequently found in pink lipstick 77 Pupil’s location 78 Stabilizes with a heavy load 81 Lump in the throat 82 Geologic period 83 Get upset over 84 Lincoln-to-Madison dir.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Aries will relax, realizing that the long-awaited weekend has finally come, giving you great pleasure. At the same time, today you will have several urgent assignments at once, which must be done or else your weekend will not begin.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus will notice that a person, to whose conquest time and internal forces were invested, began to respond with fervent attention. However, somewhere in the depths of your soul you cannot help but admit that this person is just a new trophy for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Geminis need to change their attitude toward their other half.

While you criticize them in every way, in their environment will be a man who has the opposite opinion. This attractive person of the same sex as you will start to shower your partner with compliment.

CANCER (June 22-July 22) Cancers today will be in great demand. Relatives, colleagues and friends will rush to appeal to you with various requests. And, this is a moment when you are loaded down with your own affairs, not allowing the slightest delay!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Leos should not panic because of the behavior of their second half.

What you take for indifference on their part is nothing more than a consequence of enormous fatigue. Let your partner in marriage spend Friday evening as relaxed and lazy as possible.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgos will be able to free themselves from an old debt. Once you repay this loan, you will have new plans related to the area of finance. However, be sure to take on new obligations in installments. Listen to the exhortations of your partner in marriage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Libra has a surprise visit from one of the relatives. As it turns out a little later, this person will try to enlist your support in some kind of complex family disagreement. It's up to you to decide whether to support this relative or not.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) Scorpios will begin to develop one of their creative ideas. To it you will begin after the work weekends. In the daytime, in addition to performing your professional duties, you will call up a person who can help in your project.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sagittarius will spend this day enjoying great curiosity from their colleagues. They will be interested in how you could so quickly lose weight, buy a prestigious car, start an affair with a dazzlingly beautiful person or achieve something impressive.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Capricorns will not be able to resist the charm of a very attractive person. You will be so smitten that you will give him a subtle hint that you do not mind getting close to them in the very near future. Returning home, you will have to rethink your behavior.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) This day will be a great pleasure for Aquarians. You will once again convince your superiors and colleagues that you are a consummate professional, able to cope even with the most intricate task. In the evening, after a busy day, you go to have fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Pisces will be arrogant when looking at colleagues, knowing that only they are destined to get a bonus for the results of last month. This behavior is not permissible, if you do not want to make many enemies among your colleagues.

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