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The article written by Lydia You “Birth of a Movement” stated that Karen Bass represents the 37th Congressional District, including West Los Angeles, Mar Vista and Culver City. Coungressmember Bass also represents Palms, incorporated in 1886.

Years ago, the L.A. Times designated Palms as “the most

livable part of Los Angeles,” Developers destroyed that distinction.

Jeanne Parker Palms Resident for over 50 years Rename Fort Bragg The Northern California town of Fort Bragg is in desperate need of a name change ASAP! Sure, there will be some relatively minor expenses for residents from the municipal name change, but the cost of keeping the town’s current obnoxiously racist name will be far greater.

First of all, no self-respecting Californian could ever possibly justify or countenance any town or city in the Golden State being named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, who was not only a traitor and a slave owner, but an especially intemperate and incompetent military commander as well. That name is nothing to brag about, Fort Bragg.

Secondly, why would any patriotic American want to set foot in a town named after an anti-American racist traitor to the republic, like Braxton Bragg?

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Too bad, Fort Bragg, but you’re not getting another dime from me until you change your town’s name! Here are some non-Confederate, pro-American options for you. Please feel free to choose any one of these as your town’s new name: 1. Fort Lincoln 2. Fort Grant 3. Fort Sherman 4. Fort Roosevelt 5. Fort Eisenhower 6. Fort Patton 7. Fort Marshall 8. Fort Bradley 9. Fort Kennedy 10. Fort Powell Jake Pickering Arcata, CA

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By Dev Jaiswal As “Black Lives Matter” protests continue in Los Angeles and throughout the United States, local mother Leandra and her daughter Lux decided to organize a peaceful demonstration of their own.

On June 10, the mother and daughter organized a socially distanced gathering in front of Lux’s school Broadway Elementary in Venice. Fellow students, their families, and the school principal were also present. Shaded from the afternoon heat by a tree and wearing masks, protesters stood holding up signs on Lincoln Boulevard and chanted “I Can’t Breathe,” “No Justice No Peace,” and other slogans in support of racial equality and the Black Lives Matter movement. Lux, Broadway Elementary’school historian, spearheaded the event.

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Broadway Elementary students and parents gathered outside the school on June 10 to show their support for racial justice initiative to put together the people honking,” Leandra said. this is people being nicer and the past and have had conversaprotest for her school, to “It was incredible how many in general not being killed tions about what they mean. organize kids and families to people honked.” because of the color of their “I support Lux in all her be able to have a voice,” endeavors,” Leandra said. “I Lux said she felt “really nice skin,” Lux said. “I thank Leandra explained. (Leandra inside and outside” during the everybody for coming.” think it is very important that asked that her last name be children have a voice and to use demonstration, especially when Leandra has been very withheld to protect her daughthat voice to speak up and cars on the street honked in supportive of her daughter’s ter’s privacy.) solidarity. activism. The two have speak out on social issues.”

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“It’s surprising to say there’s a Black Lives Matter protest going on in El Segundo — just the sound of that goes against its reputation and what you would expect.”

Known as a family- and- business-friendly coastal “surfurbia” (to quote the architectural critic Reyner Banham) with a quaint downtown, El Segundo does not immediately jump out as a hotbed of racial tension or political activism. Yet the group’s protests for racial justice have brought the community together, says head of press and social media Elias Garcia. Each protest has grown in size, with the latest on June 13 drawing a crowd of over 250, and these gatherings are now a regular presence at the corner of Imperial Avenue and Main Street.

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By Meera Sastry The protests that swept the nation in response to the killing of George Floyd and other victims of police brutality have occupied a massive range in terms of size and setting — from gatherings of tens of thousands in Hollywood to single-person outposts in towns that have never before seen such progressive public activism.

The leaders of El Segundo for Black Lives, an organization recently founded in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, say they have struggled to make their voices heard in a city some in the group perceive as “hostile to people of color” and describe as “notorious” for “racial bias” in press materials. Yet they have felt an outpouring of community support recently. The group has held four events since their inception at the end of May: three protests and a Juneteenth Remembrance Ceremony at El Segundo Library Park held last Friday on the holiday.

Imperial and Main’s intersection has become a regular spot for El Segundo protesters “Speaking as a Black woman, it like El Segundo to express their solidarity with Black Lives really touched me to look to my right and see another mother Matter. “We’ve had questions who’s white with her children such as ‘why not Inglewood? shouting ‘Black Lives Matter’,” Why not Crenshaw?’” she says. head of events and education “It’s important to remember that Tanya Taylor says of her experiEl Segundo does have Black ence at the protests. “It was just residents. We are here. To say that the most heartwarming thing. if your neighborhood only has Someone who has experienced four or five Black people, that discrimination and racism can they don’t matter, is ridiculous.” actually feel, in a moment like (U.S. Census data estimates that that, your community coming as of July 2019, El Segundo’s together.” population was 71% white and Taylor also describes why it is 3.8% Black or African American.) especially important for small, Beyond the protests and events, predominantly white communities the organization plans to continue

their work in a long-term way through policy change: they are currently compiling a list of demands to share with the mayor of El Segundo, the city council and police department. Those include, as Puckett says, a review of use of force guidelines, a reduction of the operating budget for the city’s police department, the creation of small business programs for minority-owned businesses and demands for curriculum changes and increased diversity in the El Segundo Unified School District’s student body and faculty.

Though there remains work to be done, the leaders of El Segundo for Black Lives are confident that the support for their movement signals the arrival of a “vocal majority” of residents who will continue to take a stand against racial injustice.

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Reimagining Public Safety Let’s work on smarter, better approaches to keeping our neighborhoods safe

By Councilmember Mike Bonin The author represents the Westside on the Los Angeles City Council.

What is the best way to keep our neighborhoods safe? For decades, conventional wisdom said the answer was to hire more police officers. And that’s what we did — even if it meant cutting everything else in the budget, and even if it didn’t make everyone — particularly African Americans — feel safe.

Across the country and here in Los Angeles, we are waking up to a better, smarter approach, one that asks not “how many more cops do we need?” but “what is the best way to provide public safety, public health and emergency response?”

If we were going to design a public safety system from scratch, very few people would say that the appropriate and necessary response to mental health crises, traffic collisions, or reports of loud parties should be armed agents with the authority to use deadly force. But that’s exactly the system we have in Los Angeles, where residents call the same agency for off-leash dogs as they do for homicides.

That doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense if you’re the victim of a violent crime and are angry that an overburdened LAPD took so long to respond to your 911 call. It doesn’t make sense if you have a family member suffering a mental health episode and you’re afraid an armed response will escalate the situation, with violent results. And it doesn’t make sense if you’re a young Black man who has been pulled over in traffic stops more times than you can count, fearful for your life each time.

Westsiders agree we need a smarter, more thoughtful approach to neighborhood safety. In a recent online survey I conducted, it was clear that my constituents strongly favor narrowing the scope of LAPD responsibilities.

While a majority of the 2,672 respondents favor an LAPD response to violent crimes and to property crimes in progress, residents overwhelmingly prefer non-LAPD responses to most other situations for which police

11th District Councilmember Mike Bonin officers are routinely called.

Instead of a police response, neighbors say mental health professionals should be called on to respond to mental health episodes, social workers should respond to calls about homelessness and homeless encampments, trained mediators or unarmed security should respond to neighborhood disputes, and volunteers or trained civilians should enforce social distancing and public health rules. By large margins, respondents say they prefer police officers not be responsible for crowd control at large public events, and they also reject an armed presence at parks, in schools, or on public transit.

The Black Lives Matter movement and people all over Los Angeles and the Westside demand — appropriately — that we reimagine public safety. So do the fiscal constraints of the city budget in this recession. Unless we do things differently, an expanding police budget will necessitate deep cuts in the services Angeleno demand (emergency preparedness, street resurfacing, parks, traffic lights) and the programs Angelenos need to survive this pandemic (senior meal programs, renter’s assistance, small business support.)

The city’s traditional approach of cutting neighborhood services, increasing police budgets, and relying on a police solution to every problem is broken and is causing harm. The people of Los Angeles are way ahead of city government in reimagining public safety. They want alternatives that resolve conflicts, address the root causes of problems, and deconstruct

systemic racism. We are in a rare moment when we can look clearly at our budget and decide to provide more and better public safety, public health and emergency response by spending more on people and neighborhoods and less on LAPD and an armed response to every situation. We need a more tailored approach, with LAPD responding to violent or major crime, and more appropriate agencies or personnel handling (and perhaps even preventing) most other problems.

That’s why I am supporting a different approach. I am pushing the city to move programs and funding to a new emergencyresponse model that uses trained specialists, rather than LAPD officers, to respond to many types of calls. I’m advocating for investments in conflict resolution, violence prevention, and youth opportunity programs. I’m calling for replacing armed officers on public transit, and I am exploring how we can move more LAPD functions, like traffic control, to other agencies.

Only rarely do cascading events shake us so hard that we look at things from a fundamentally different perspective, challenge the way we do things, and force us to do the difficult and messy work of forging something better.

The COVID-19 pandemic, the crashing economy, and a national moment of awakening to systemic racism are forcing us to rethink many things about how we function as a city, a nation and a society. This moment demands that we imagine and create a better, smarter way to make our neighborhoods safe for everyone.

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Rescuing Main Street from the Pandemic Is ‘Al Fresco’ the right emergency experiment for Santa Monica?

By Tim Tunks Former sailboat racer, university professor, designer and inventor Tim Tunks is happily retired, living in his Ocean Park home since 1976.

Two weeks ago on a Friday Zoom meeting, Santa Monica city Senior Transportation Planner Scott Johnson presented PowerPoint slides describing what I thought was a proposal for rescuing Main Street — an outdoor dining and shopping plan initiated by the Ocean Park Neighborhood Association and Main Street Business Improvement Initiative in partnership with the city of Santa Monica called “Al Fresco.”

According to a press release from city government, “the reimagined Main Street from Pico Boulevard to Pier Avenue temporarily leverages space previously dedicated to street parking and the center turn lane to expand the space businesses and customers can safely use,” and features space in “the public-right-of-way” for outdoor shopping and retail, “parklets” along Main Street between Pico Boulevard and Hollister Avenue, and sidewalk extensions between Hollister and Pier Avenue and sections of Hill Street, Kinney Street and Pier.

Three months of boarded-up businesses has generated severe strain on the local economy and reopening requires something different from what we had before the novel coronavirus assaulted our lives. Many agree that something must be done — but is the Al Fresco plan of adding parklets for small dining areas in the curbside-parking lane the right “something” to save Main Street?

Johnson presented a pretty picture to sell the plan. However this picture does not leave much room for the people, cars, buses, and six-foot spaces and barriers that would all be required for the successful return of Main Street to customers. In Johnson’s picture, empty traffic lanes and wide sparsely occupied bikeways produce the sense of open space where social distancing could be possible. But when you add what’s missing, you’ll see a roadway frequently blocked by cars waiting for a break in pedestrian and bike-lane traffic so they can turn into Main Street

A rendering of Main Street at Pier Avenue looking southbound from Al Fresco’s working plan driveways and parking lots.

You’ll see bike lanes filled with scooters and skaters mixed in with the bikes, making passing a dangerous task in the narrow lane between passing buses and the sharp corners of cement Jersey K-rails proposed as the barrier material for the parklets in Al Fresco’s working plan. You’d wonder how customers could line up with 6-foot spacing while strolling pedestrians pass nearby.

I said to myself, “This is a terrible proposal!” I thought about droplets collecting in sitting diners’ dinners as passing cyclists exhale from their exercise. But, as it turns out, this wasn’t even a proposal for a plan, it was rendering of what they had already been put into action. A city-hired contractor has already been engaged and began work on the project Monday (June 22). Work will continue to take place through June 26, with temporary closures at night on Main Street between Bay Street and Marine Street from June 29 to July 10, according to the city’s release.

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“Given the time sensitive nature of economic recovery and need to provide safe physical distancing, this project is proceeding quickly and it will not be coming up for a vote of the City Council,” wrote Public Information Officer Miranda Iglesias in an email to The Argonaut, adding that an agenda item was added to the council’s June 23 meeting.

But a sailor can look at a painting of a sailboat and know if the painter knew about sailboats. I’ve spent over fifty years looking at plans for public spaces and I can tell if the designer has properly considered how people will fit and function within that space. In consideration of COVID-19 social distancing issues, the Al Fresco plan to rescue Main Street from the pandemic is like a sailboat drawn by a Tibetan recluse.

I was a lighting design consultant for the first nightclubs Disney built in Florida and I remember when I saw the plans and said, “There aren’t enough bathrooms. Drinking makes people pee and you want to keep

them inside buying drinks...” There were several brilliant people on that design team, but their usual attractions made money moving people through the attraction. A nightclub makes money keeping people in and an attraction makes money moving people through.

Their projects always provided plenty of bathroom buildings outside, so that’s where people go “to go” in Disney’s world. Like the traffic engineers who designed Main Street’s Al Fresco pavement plan, these Disney Imagineers weren’t considering what the people in their nightclub should be doing, which in the case of Main Street should be social distancing.

“How will people and vehicles navigate this space?” I thought when I saw the plan. “Where will people sit or stand to avoid the virus?”

I have studied the published COVID social distancing and preventive barrier specifications as a matter of interest, so I know designing a contagion safe

“A sailor can look at a painting of a sailboat and know if the painter knew about sailboats. …

In consideration of COVID-19 social distancing issues, the Al Fresco plan to rescue Main Street from the pandemic is like a sailboat drawn by a Tibetan recluse.”

layout is like a difficult tabletop puzzle, where the pieces are already too large to all fit easily together. When the tabletop gets smaller, the puzzle becomes impossible to solve. Main Street is 60 feet wide, and this plan slices a 38-foot wide channel right down the center, subtracting space while adding congestion and vapors.

The project looked like the design team had never tried to put all the required pieces into the two new 11-foot wide parklet strips and 12-foot wide sidewalks their plan provides. None of the plan’s 18 pages illustrate actual layouts or show the distances un-masked diners will require for safety. This plan requires each of the individual businesses to draw their own diagrams showing how they’ll achieve social distancing. I wonder how their efforts will be shepherded to successful outcomes.

Our national religion — worshiping wheeled personal transportation in all its forms — is so powerful that Al Fresco’s team couldn’t embrace the heresy of blocking all traffic from Main Street to provide the space people need for Main Street’s revival. But even as an agnostic to that religion, I can see that dedicating all Main Street’s pavement for the puzzle’s table top is the only path toward success for a lively outdoor social/business life while (Continued on page 12)

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By Dev Jaiswal In the age of coronavirus, many Los Angeles residents have found themselves out of a job, struggling to provide food for their families. In response, urban farmer and community engagement coordinator Natalie Flores founded Nourish L.A., an organization that has been providing free food and groceries to families in need every Sunday since March.

“The inspiration really came from COVID,” Flores, a resident of Mar Vista, said.

Nourish L.A. operates a drive-thru grocery pantry every Sunday at the Wood Cafe in Culver City. Set up happens between 12:15 and 1:15 p.m. and food distribution begins at 1:30 p.m. The organization is set to operate for its fifteenth week on June 28 and serves an average of 800 to 900 people weekly.

Those in need can come in their cars to pick up a bag full of produce, grains, eggs, a dessert or salad, and sometimes flowers.

(Clients are asked to stay in their vehicles as volunteers bring food to their cars.) If a customer is infected with or at risk for COVID-19, they can email or call at least 24 hours before Sunday to be put down as a

delivery for that week. Persons without transportation can also sign up for delivery but need to live within a 6-mile radius of the Wood Cafe. (Those further aflield can check out resources at lacontroller.org/data-stories-andmaps/foodforcalifornians.)

Elderly or handicapped persons and those sick with coronavirus are prioritized for delivery.

Nourish L.A. operates with the help of volunteers who possess a “neighbors-helping-neighbors” mindset. The atmosphere at the pickup pantry is lively, and morale is high. The staff plays music as they hand out bags of food, and Flores described the team as a “family” and “a well-oiled machine.”

“When you’re doing the right thing, you know what needs to be done and somehow it all just works out for the best of the cause,” Flores said. “That type of energy just keeps us so excited every week.”

Volunteers of any age can sign up to help out online and will be asked to wear a mask during their shift. Donations of food, money, and supplies (i.e. bags, rubber bands, folding tables, fruit from home gardens, etc.) are welcome and can be brought on Sundays during set-up time. A pick-up time for

donations can also be arranged through email.

The organization receives its food from partnerships with local food agencies such as Food Cycle Los Angeles, Food Forward and Food Finders.

Local restaurants, businesses, churches, farmers, and community members have also pitched in. Flores wishes more initiatives like Nourish L.A. would spring up in surrounding cities so that more people could be served. Flores encourages members of her community to learn to garden with their neighbors so they can be more self-sufficient with their food.

Flores described the pride she feels knowing the people she serves will go home and have nutritious food to put on the table. She believes that food is “the great bridge in bringing people together.”

Nourish L.A.’s next food drive will be this Sunday, June 28, at the Wood Cafe in Culver City (12000 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City), starting at 1:30 p.m. Sign up to volunteer at bit.ly/nourishLAsignup. Visit the group’s Facebook profile at bit.ly/NourishLAFacebook for updates.

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By Kamala Kirk Every June for the past five years, 826LA has hosted a gala that centers around the nonprofit organization’s students and their stories, along with celebrity guests and great food.

Last year, approximately 350 people attended and more than $600,000 was raised for the nonprofit writing and tutoring program, whose Victorian-style curiosities shop and Westside writing center are located in Mar Vista. Due to the pandemic and the eruption of George Floyd protests around the country this year’s early June gala, “Changing the Story,” was made virtual and postponed to stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. The rescheduled virtual fundraiser streams this Thursday (June 25), featuring live and recorded performances by celebrity guests. It will also celebrate a special milestone: 826LA’s 15-year anniversary.

“This year’s theme is the past, present and future as we’re celebrating 15 years of 826LA,” said Cheryl Klein, 826LA’s development and communications manager.

“This year it will be very different, but we’ve been excited about the talent who have signed on to read work by our students and talk about their own creative process.”

The 2020 gala will be hosted by comedian Al Madrigal and will

Actress, writer, producer and comedian Mindy Kaling is among the celebrity guests for 826LA’s online fundraiser and storytelling event feature a star-studded ensemble of celebrities including writerproducer-comedian Mindy Kaling, Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, “The Big Sick’s” Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, and comedians Constance Wu and Keegan-Michael Key — all of whom will be reading stories by 826LA’s students.

“The pieces by our younger students tend to be short and delightfully weird — getting trapped inside a phone, sentient hamburgers, emotional lemurs,” Klein said. “Our high school students tend to write about their lives, which often include some pretty intense challenges like

immigration, poverty and struggling to belong, along with incredible hope and resilience.

And these times definitely call for hope and resilience.”

Like other organizations, 826LA was forced to pivot both its programs and its fundraising strategy in the wake of COVID-19. Within weeks of school closures, the organization had contacted hundreds of families and volunteers to assess their needs, and relaunched programs in virtual form.

“Our mission hasn’t changed but our methods have changed a lot, needless to say,” Klein said. “We now have online tutoring and workshops, but we also have

writing prompts for teachers who are struggling in this environment and a bilingual resource hub for families, where they can find out about things like how to get free Internet access. A silver lining of our COVID-19 response is that now certain programs that were available only to LA students are available to everyone via our Virtual Hub.” The 826 network started in 2002 when writer Dave Eggers teamed up with educator Ninive Calegari to start a creative space where students from under-resourced communities could get one-onone writing and tutoring support from volunteers. Proving to be a successful model, it expanded to

then sort through the criteria to see what could be kept, what had to be altered, and then what must be discarded. Understanding how the stagehands and costume change crews maneuver in the dark to produce the stage magic is a difficult puzzle piece to understand when you haven’t had to make it happen a few times before. There are similar granular concerns not addressed by this plan.

I’ve lived in Ocean Park for almost half a century, making Main Street an important feature in my life. But I think it will take a miracle for this plan to work.

So I sit here saying, “If I’d only

been around at the beginning of this urgent project….” I would have brought out all the pieces to see what could fit onto their orthodox table version, the one with a transportation gulf down the middle. After comparing that with what we could fit using all the pavement, we might muster the courage to go against the national personal automobile religion and eliminate the roadway and bike paths. Solving remote parking and shuttle service issues would pave the way toward a promising result.

An old image of the original 1965 design for the Third Street Promenade comes to mind — with reflecting pools, planters,

Los Angeles in 2005.

“We have writing centers on the Westside and the Eastside, plus Writers’ Rooms on the campuses of Manual Arts High School in South LA and Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights,” Klein shared. “Our programs include tutoring, workshops, field trips, in-school projects and college access support. Our curriculum ranges from silly to serious, and students range from 6 to 18 — but the through line is a belief in amplifying student voices with one-on-one support from trained volunteers.”

The event streams at 7 p.m. on Thursday and is free to watch, but donations are encouraged.. To date, $483,585 has been raised.

“We know times are hard, but we are really grateful to people who say, ‘I have a little extra and I’m going to share it,’” Klein said. “We are also always looking for volunteers. We have easy trainings to help people get acquainted with virtual volunteering.”

A version of this story originally appeared in Los Angeles Downtown News, a Times Media Group sister publication of The Argonaut. Watch the stream at 7 p.m.

June 25 at 826LA.org/changingthestory, where you can also make a donation. Follow @826LA on Instagram for updates.

Rescuing Main Street from the Pandemic (Continued from page 10)

maintaining the prescriptions required to combat the pandemic.

So now the task at hand is to fit the functional requirements into the space left over. Failure to make Main Street “corona-safe” (that sounds like where you keep beer away from your brother-inlaw) — will mean safe people won’t come. What are the chances of rescue without safe people participating in the economic revival of Main Street?

If the social distancing part of the puzzle is neglected then this Main Street lifeboat will sink, along with the energy and

resources it took to build it. If safe distancing and six-foot distances are properly accommodated, the new configuration might not have the customer capacity it needs for profitable operation. If that happens, we will have wasted a valuable opportunity.

As a special effects designer for Las Vegas stages in the ’70s, I know the art of producing spatial and visual miracles and how hard they are to produce without showing the strings and levers.

My clients would tell me what they wanted to see on stage and frequently produce a long checklist of criteria. My job was to analyze the essential function,

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benches and plenty of wide walkways for pedestrians to spread out. If my team was challenged to produce a Main Street rescue plan now, this is the open stage I’d choose.

Let’s all hope the Al Fresco project team puzzles out some magic stagecraft I don’t know about to make this emergency experiment pay off.

Power to Speak is The Argonaut’s guest column for community members to voice their opinions on local matters and does not represent an editorial position by The Argonaut. Have a unique point of view? Email christinac@argonautnews.com.

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By Anthony Torrise Summer is here! At long last, the sun is out and the weather has gotten better by the day. As establishments begin to slowly reopen after the COVID-quarantine, we are in need of relaxing, nourishing meals now, more than ever. What could be better than taking the most important meal of the day to the beach for a picnic or having a socially distanced dine-in date?

You could also curl up between your sheets and order breakfast in. The choice is yours.

The Win-Dow at American Beauty Just blocks away from the beach, this walkup burger joint is now serving breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The new breakfast menu not only pays homage to The Wind-Dow’s roots with an egg-topped cheeseburger ($4.95) also available with an Impossible patty, but also offers a grilled bologna, egg and cheese sandwich with spicy sauce ($3.95) and a steak and egg burrito with housemade brisket and fries on the side ($9.95). The Wind-Dow is built for to-go, so why not make brunch grab & go and head to the beach? Delivery is also available through Uber Eats, Grubhub, Postmates and DoorDash.

425 Rose Ave., Venice | (310) 412-0075 | americanbeauty.la Nighthawk Breakfast Bar Infusing breakfast into any meal and giving it a boozy twist is Nighthawk’s specialty. The breakfast burger or late night croissant and chicken are just a few of the standout savory selections perfect for a summer evening where breakfast is for dinner. Indulge your inner child with “spiked” cereal, like cocoa puffs with vanilla vodka.

Nighthawk is now open for dine-in service — except Mondays, they “don’t do Mondays.” But delivery is also

available through Postmates, Grubhub, UberEats and DoorDash.

417 Washington Blvd., Venice | (424) 835-4556 | nighthawkrestaurants.com Bru’s Wiffle The waffle has been reimagined thanks to the dozens of possible creations available at Bru’s Wiffle. Extra toppings, like Nutella, sprinkles, or strawberries take it even further for those with a sweet tooth.

French toast is also on the menu with variations that are just as exciting. Delivery is available through Uber Eats, Seamless, Grubhub, EatStreet, and Postmates.

3105 Washington Blvd., Marina del Rey | (310) 8819162 | bruswiffle.com KC’s Crepes Cafe The best part about a crepe is that it can be taken and eaten anywhere. Try taking some breakfast crepes on a picnic in the park or bringing a chocolate, banana and creme crepe to the beach at sunset. It might be overwhelming to select from more than 80 crepes but each one has a flavor that pops.

Delivery is unavailable, but you can order ahead for pickup through Grubhub or by calling ahead.

8320 Lincoln Blvd., #101b, Westchester | (310) 348-9697 | kcscrepescafe.com Bluey’s Kitchen Brunch is served all day at this Santa Monica spot now open for dine-in service and inspired by the owners’ “adventures in Australia, California and Mexico.” With creativity served on every plate, guests will find a certain savoriness in the breakfast burrito and tanginess in the fried egg sandwich. The breakfast acai bowl packs a fruity punch and the sweet squash pancakes are chewy and creamy, thanks to the avocado, granola and berries on the side.

The Win-Dow’s new breakfast menu goes well with cofffee or fries

Tasting Kitchen’s fried chicken brunch box comes with a fresh sticky bun and a pot of jam Delivery is also available through Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Postmates and ChowNow. 1814 Berkeley St., Santa Monica | (310) 586-7419 | blueyskitchensantamonica.com Hash If you have a hankering for something sweet, Hash in Playa Vista has your back. Browse through selections of French toast stuffed with custard or Nutella, chewy pancakes with fruity toppings, a crisp and airy Belgian waffle or 14 different styles of eggs. Hash presents classic dishes with a modern twist in a way that won’t overwhelm you, so try something adventurous! Call in your order or order online.

12181 Bluff Creek Drive, Unit B, Playa Vista | (310) 282-8501

| hashrestaurant.com Atmosphere For those who like a classic brunch meal, look no further than Atmosphere. There are different kinds of breakfast sandwiches, as well as soups, pizza, and other main dishes for those who want more lunch out of brunch. Takeout is available through Uber Eats and DoorDash.

12034 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista | (310) 437-0144 | atmospheremarvista.com The Tasting Kitchen This Abbot Kinney eatery is not yet open for dine-in service, but has rolled out a new weekend brunch service to help guests brunch differently. Two options are available for the boxed brunch meal — the fried

chicken combo or the crostata combo (grilled mushroom, asparagus and parmesan) — and both are served with a biscuit, sticky bun, salted butter and jam. If you feel like adding a cocktail, there are three boozy brunch options to choose from — a gin, grapefruit and elderflower Navy Sour, a classic Bloody Mary with housemade pickles or an espresso, bourbon and milk Nightshift — along with a package of four wines.

Delivery is available through Grubhub, DoorDash and Postmates.

1633 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice |(310) 392-6644 | thetastingkitchen.com Argonaut editor Christina Campodonico contributed to this story.

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Credit and Coronavirus: What You Need to Know If you’re one of the thousands of homeowners who is struggling to pay your mortgage and bills right now, safeguarding your credit probably isn’t high on your must-do list. But if you want to make sure your credit stays good—or even improves—despite any economic difficulties, read on for some important updates and tips.

are attempting to take this safeguard even further, asking for protection to Americans’ credit outside of mortgages. They sent a letter “to Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, inquiring about the actions they are taking to make sure Americans’ credit isn’t damaged permanently if they have trouble paying their bills on time during the crisis,” said Yahoo Money.

Government safeguarding credit?

There have already been steps taken to safeguard credit for those who enter into a forbearance program. Typically, “Payments that are skipped or only partially paid during a mortgage forbearance period technically violate the original terms of your mortgage loan agreement, so even though your lender agrees to the forbearance plan, they may report your payments as delinquent to the national credit bureaus,” said Experian.

“However, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act offers relief to borrowers who are seeking forbearance due to the coronavirus crisis but are worried about the impact to their credit: Mortgage accounts in forbearance as a result of COVID-19 cannot be reported negatively to the credit bureaus by lenders.”

They wrote: “If American families and consumers are piled under a mountain of debt during this pandemic and once it ends, the country will struggle to emerge from a deep recession. This means that when the crisis is over, months of late or missed payments could add up to not just a mountain of debt, but a cratering credit score that takes away the shovel they might use to dig themselves out.”

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Francis Creighton, president and CEO of the Consumer Data Industry Association,

So far, the progress consists of a letter from the trade group representing the three credit bureaus, which read: “The companies just received the letter from the Senators and are reviewing it now. We share the Senators’ concerns about how the crisis will impact consumers and we have taken actions to help, including providing increased free access to credit reports.”

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added, “We have also increased our training of banks and other creditors to help them understand their obligations under the law and to make sure they have tools to help consumers,” said Yahoo Money.

Assistance from the credit bureaus this far includes: • Free weekly credit reports for all Americans for the next year “to help them protect their financial health during the sudden and unprecedented hardship caused by COVID-19,” said Experian.

“The free reports will be available via AnnualCreditReport.com starting on April 20, 2020.”

• Equifax has eliminated “the need for hard credit inquiries when opening phone service, wireless phone contracts, internet service and pay TV service accounts.”

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sealed, and filed at the Cashsemana antes para asegurar prises. The Board of Superier's office no later than 2 disponibilidad. Cuando se visors reserves the right to p.m. on the date indicated. haga una peticion reasonreject any or all bids or to Bids will be publicly opened, able para acomodo, por fawaive technical or inconexamined, and declared by vor mencione [PJ-I]. Si nesequential errors and disPublic Works at 2:30 p.m. on cesita informacion en espancrepancies in bids submitted this date in the conference ol, por favor llame al Telein the public's interest. Indirooms at 900 South Fremont fono (626) 458-2563. By orviduals requiring reasonable Avenue, Alhambra, Califorder of the Board of Superaccessibility accommodania 91803. This project revisors of the County of Los tions may request written maquires the general contractor Angeles, State of California, terials in alternate formats, DEADLINE: firm to possess an A or B lidated June 9, 2020. Specs. physical accessibility accomMonday at 11am for Thursdays cense classification at the 7441 CELIA ZAVALA, EXECmodations, sign language intime of bid. The general conUTIVE OFFICER OF THE terpreters or other reasonCALL ANN: tractor and all of its subconBOARD OF SUPERVISORS able accommodations by 626-584-8747 or tractors of any tier shall be OF THE COUNTY OF LOS contacting our departmental required to pay prevailing ANGELES Americans with Disabilities EMAIL: wages to all workers emCN970286 03587 Jun 18,25, Act Coordinator at (626) 458ann@argonautnews.com ployed in the execution of the 2020 4081, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 project in accordance with p.m., Monday through Labor Code Section 1770.

Thursday (excluding holiCopies of the prevailing rate days). Persons who are deaf Fic. Business Name Legal Notices per diem wages are on file at or hard of hearing may make Public Works, which shall be contact by first dialing the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS made available to any interOFFICIAL NOTICE California Relay Service at 7NAME STATEMENT FILE ested party upon request.

INVITING BIDS 1-1. Requests should be NO. 2020079269 PREBID CONFERENCE Notice is hereby given that made at least 1 week in adType of Filing: Original The Public Works Project Manthe Director of Public Works vance to ensure availability. following person(s) is (are) agement Division I will hold a will receive sealed bids for When making a reasonable doing business as: JUST prebid conference at 10 a.m., furnishing all materials, labor, accommodation request , LOVE REALTY; 13274 Fiji on June 18, 2020, at the and equipment required to please reference [PJ-I]. IndiWay Suite 100 Marina del project site, 12001 Vista del complete construction for the viduos que requieran acoRey, CA 90292, 3221 Carter Mar, Los Angeles, California following work: SD: 4; modamiento rasonable acAve., Unit 110 Marina del 90293, to provide informaSPECS: 7441; PROJECT: cessible pueden solicitar maRey, CA 90292. COUNTY: tion on the scope of work and Dockweiler Recreational teriales escritos en formatos Los Angeles. REGISTERED answer basic questions from Ve h icle Par k Expansi on alternativos, acomodamiento OWNER(S) Alisha Hall, the potential bidders. DeProject 12001 Vista del Mar fisico accesible, interpretes 13274 Fiji Way Suite 100 tailed questions or additional Los Angeles, CA 90293; en lenguaje de senas AmerMarina del Rey, CA 90292. information must be submitDATE OF BID OPENING: icano u otros acomodamienTHIS BUSINESS IS CONted in writing to Mr. Joseph July 9, 2020. Copies of the tos rasonables comunicanDUCTED BY an Individual.

Chang with Public Works dose con nuestro Coproject manual and drawings The registrant commenced to Business Relations and Conordinador Departamental del may be downloaded free of transact business under the tracts Division at Fax (626) Acto de Americanos con Incharge from the County of Fictitious Business Name or 979-5311 or you may concapacidades al (626) 458Los Angeles, Public Works names listed above on: tact him at (626) 300-2346.

4081, de 7:30 a.m. a 5 p.m., w e b s i t e 01/2020. I declare that all inOTHER INSTRUCTIONS Lunes a Jueves (excluyendo (http://dpw.lacounty.gov/go/c formation in this statement is The County supports and endias festivos). Personas soronstructioncontracts). For bid true and correct. /s/: Alisha courages equal opportunity das o con problemas auditinformation, please contact Hall. TITLE: CEO. This statecontracting. The contractor ivos pueden comunicarse Mr. Joseph Chang of Busiment was filed with the LA shall make good faith efforts primero marcando al Serviness Relations and ConCounty Clerk on: May 11, as defined in Section 2000 of cio de Difusion de California tracts Division at (626) 3002020.

NOTICE – in accordthe Public Contract Code real 7-1-1. Solicitudes pueden 2346. Each bid shall be subance with subdivision (a) of lating to contracting with hacerse por lo menos una mitted on the required form, Section 17920, a Fictitious Community Business Entersemana antes para asegurar sealed, and filed at the CashName Statement generally prises. The Board of Superdisponibilidad. Cuando se ier's office no later than 2 expires at the end of five visors reserves the right to haga una peticion reasonp.m. on the date indicated. years from the date on which reject any or all bids or to able para acomodo, por faBids will be publicly opened, it was filed in the office of the waive technical or inconvor mencione [PJ-I]. Si neexamined, and declared by county clerk, except, as sequential errors and discesita informacion en espanPublic Works at 2:30 p.m. on provided in subdivision (b) of crepancies in bids submitted ol, por favor llame al Telethis date in the conference Section 17920, where it exin the public's interest. Indifono (626) 458-2563. By orrooms at 900 South Fremont pires 40 days after any viduals requiring reasonable der of the Board of SuperAvenue, Alhambra, Califorchange in the facts set forth accessibility accommodavisors of the County of Los nia 91803. This project rein the statement pursuant to tions may request written maAngeles, State of California, quires the general contractor Section 17913 other than a terials in alternate formats, dated June 9, 2020. Specs. firm to possess an A or B lichange in the residence adphysical accessibility accom7441 CELIA ZAVALA, EXECcense classification at the dress of a registered owner. modations, sign language inUTIVE OFFICER OF THE time of bid. The general cona new Fictitious Business terpreters or other reasonBOARD OF SUPERVISORS tractor and all of its subconGeorge Howard Capp of Venice, California passed Name statement must be able accommodations by OF THE COUNTY OF LOS tractors of any tier shall be filed before the expiration. awaytoFriday March 27, 2020our at departmental the age of 93.

Born contacting ANGELES required pay prevailing filing of this statement Americans with Disabilities wages to all workers emDecember 24, 1926 to Charles J. and MaryCN970286 A. Capp03587 Jun 18,25, The does not of itself authorize Act Coordinator at (626) 4582020 ployed in the execution of the the use in this state of a Ficti4081, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 of Santa Monica, CA. George was the youngest and project in accordance with tious Business Name in violap.m., Monday through Labor Code Section 1770. the last surviving child of Charles and Mary’s seven tion of the rights of another Thursday (excluding holiCopies of the prevailing rate under federal, state, or comdays). Persons are deafMarie, Dick and perchildren diem wages (William, are on file at Walter, Jack, who Charles, mon law (see Section 14411 or hard of hearing may make Public Works, which shall be George). et seq., business and profescontact by first dialing the made available to any intersions code). Publish: The ArCalifornia Relay Service at 7ested party upon request. was playing basketball and gonaut Newspaper. Dates: 1-1. Requests should be P RGeorge EBID CON F E Rvery E N C Eathletic, 6/4/20, 6/11/20, 6/18/20, made he at least 1 week in adPublic Works Project Man-school football at every attended.

On July 14th, 6/25/20 vance to ensure availability. agement Division I will hold a 1945 George in the USa Navy.

Served one year When making reasonable prebid conference at 10enlisted a.m., accommodation request, on helping June 18, 2020, at the the to return troops home from the far East on please reference [PJ-I]. Indiproject site, 12001 Vista del the USS La Salle (APA 102.) viduos que requieran acoMar, Los Angeles, California modamiento rasonable ac90293, to provide informacessible pueden in solicitar ma- George rehis Honorable discharge 1946, tionUpon on the scope of work and teriales escritos en formatos answer basic questions from ceived his GED from Saint Monica’s then alternativos, acomodamiento attended SMC the potential bidders. Defisico accesible, interpretes tailed or additional forquestions one year.

Over the following three years he worked en lenguaje de senas Amerinformation must be submitodd jobs for various family members, liquor store attendant for brother Jack, conicano u otros acomodamiented in writing to Mr. Joseph tos comunicanChang with Public Works struction alongside hisrasonables father and brother Charlie. In 1950 George began working dose con nuestro CoBusiness Relations and ConforDivision NorthatAmerica as Management System Analyst and worked there 39 ordinador Departamental del tracts Fax (626) Rockwell Acto de Americanos In979-5311 may conyearsortillyou retirement in 89.

It was atcon Rockwell George met and later married Linda capacidades al (626) 458tact him at (626) 300-2346.

Johanna Roeper in 1954.

4081, de 7:30 a.m. a 5 p.m., OTHER INSTRUCTIONS Lunes a Jueves (excluyendo The County supports and enIn retirement George was most oftensorfound sailing or golfing with friends, unless dias festivos).

Personas courages equal opportunity o con problemas auditdas of contracting.

The was contractor someone in need help.

George couldn’t resist helping a family or friend ivos pueden comunicarse shall make good faith efforts in need.

He 2000 wasofa devoted husband, father, brother, uncle and friend. George primero marcando al Servias defined in Section cio de Difusion de California the Public Contract Code reforever had a twinkle in his blue eyes, and an infectious warm smile. al 7-1-1. Solicitudes pueden lating to contracting with hacerse por lo menos una Community Business EnterGeorge lived the past fiveantes years asasegurar a resident of the assisted living facility Nazareth semana para prises.

The Board of Superdisponibilidad.

Cuando se excellent care while there, continuing to visors reserves to House of the Losright Angeles.

George received haga una peticion reasonreject any or all bids or to make many and he acomodo, remained smiling and in good spirits until the very able para por ever fawaive technical or friends inconvor mencione ne- Jeffrey and Christopher; his sister-in-law sequential errors andisdisend. George survived by his[PJ-I]. two Sisons cesita informacion en espancrepancies in bids submitted June Capp (widow Capp); as well as his many loving nieces & ol, his por brother favor llame Jack al Telein the public's interest.

Indi- of fono (626) 458-2563.

By orreasonable viduals requiring nephews as well as their children and grandchildren. der of the Board of Superaccessibility accommodavisors of the County of Los tions may request written maNo funeral or celebration of life can be set at this time.

Angeles, State of California, terials in alternate formats, dated June 9, 2020. Specs. physical accessibility accom7441 CELIA ZAVALA, EXECmodations, sign language inUTIVE PAGE 18 orTHE ARGONAUT JUNE OFFICER 25, 2020 OF THE terpreters other reasonBOARD OF SUPERVISORS able accommodations by OF THE COUNTY OF LOS contacting our departmental ANGELES

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FLESH AND BLEH I started dating someone who is super close to his family (talks to his mom and/or dad daily, sometimes multiple times). I have a perfectly good relationship with my family, but we talk a few times a month, not a few times a day!

I’m uneasy that being in a relationship with him will mean being in an intense relationship with his family, too. Should I be worried about dating someone so tied to his mom as an adult?

—Disturbed

psychologically healthy, independent adult. Not surprisingly, research by interpersonal communications researcher Kelly Odenweller and her colleagues suggests helicopter parenting leads to adult children with “neurotic tendencies, dependency on others, and ineffective coping skills.”

Look at how your boyfriend responds to conflict, and assess whether you’ve got a psychologically handicapped adult baby on your hands or merely a guy who really likes and enjoys his parents.

There’s being close with your parents That said, even if it’s the latter, it might and then there’s being close like one of not work for you. Talk to him to suss out those kids on a leash at the mall. what sort of role his family would have in Starting in the late ’80s, childhood your lives. For example: What would be became like jail, with children no longer expected of you? Would you need to go being allowed out to explore and to every single event with his family? If instead incarcerated in fenced-in play you got a job across the country, would dates. This came out of “helicopter moving be out of the question? parenting,” named for parents overproUpon investigation, figure out what tectively hovering over their kids, superyou’d be comfortable with. You may vising every aspect of their lives. Helicop- decide his level of involvement with his ter parents remain in constant family doesn’t work for you, and that communication with their kids (includdoesn’t make you a bad person or ing their adult kids), making their “wrong.” It just makes you the wrong decisions for them, clearing obstacles person for him. However, talking this out out of their path, and trying to micronow could help you see whether there manage their children into Harvard and are compromises you two could live with the “right” career, spouse, house, and all (same as you might do if he were the rest. intensely into a hobby that you find When you have constant adult supervi- intensely tedious). Maybe you’ll always sion, and your mistakes are magically be a little “Disturbed” about his level of mopped up by Mom (like by calling your engagement with his family, but maybe boss for you -- which, yes, really hapyou can work things out so his parents pens), you get shorted on the normal are involved in your life together...but not developmental challenges that create a on the level of intestinal polyps.

IT’S NOT YOU. IT’S MEH. In the first few weeks of seeing this new guy, I was really into him and wanted to spend all my time with him. We’ve now been together for three months. For the first time for me in a relationship, I’m okay with being apart from a boyfriend.

(Normally, I get insecure and upset.)

Maybe this is good, but it worries me. If you don’t really miss someone when you aren’t together, does that mean you don’t love them?

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rewards”— seemingly rewarding things we have yet to experience — may be even three or four times as exciting (that is, dopamine-elevating) as those we’re used to. However, expecting something to be exciting and having it fall short, failing to match our prediction, causes dopamine levels to sag. We experience less wanting and have diminished motivation to pursue it — in other words, the neurochemical expression of “meh.”

Give a hard look at whether this guy hits the marks for you. At the same time, There’s an old Billy Joel love song, “I consider whether you missed past need you in my house because you’re boyfriends more because there was my home”—not, “I could take you or something missing in you. (When you leave you because you’re the shed develop emotional security, you’re able out back.” to be alone without feeling alone.) If you It’s possible you mistook the initial decide he’s worth keeping, remember excitement of the relationship for having that romantic partners need to feel the hots for this guy, in bed and as a loved, even if you don’t need them person. Elevated dopamine plays a role desperately. You’ll be doing the nice in this. It’s a neurotransmitter — a thing if you text the occasional, “I really chemical messenger — that drives miss you!” as opposed to the perhaps wanting and seeking. Neuroscientist more honest: “I assume you’re alive. Still Wolfram Schultz finds that “unpredictable on for dinner this Thursday?”

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