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CONTENTS

VOL 51, NO 12 Local News & Culture

Letter from the Editor:

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Westsiders 2021

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very year for our special Westsiders issue, The Argonaut highlights interesting, innovative and diverse people that are making a positive impact in the local community.

From advocates, artists and athletes to entertainers, educators and entrepreneurs, we’ve selected 12 individuals whose creativity and unique accomplishments are initiating change and influence.

Santa Monica resident Charlie White, featured on our cover, is a successful video game designer and key player on the U.S. men’s beach handball team who is bringing more awareness to the relatively new sport.

ICU physician and researcher Dr. Thanh Neville has spent the past year working on the frontlines during COVID-19, helping patients and their families through some of the hardest and most vulnerable moments in their lives.

Local activist and Venice Pride founder Grant Turck is dedicated to educating the public on LGBTQ and civil rights, bringing the community together by promoting acceptance and awareness.

Historian and tour guide Robbie Jones, who created Black Santa Monica Tours and Concierge, keeps the city’s Black history alive by sharing the undocumented stories that have contributed to its development and growth.

These are just a few of the inspiring Westsiders who are featured in this year’s edition. Read on to learn more about them and others that are making a difference in this amazing community that we live, work and play in.

“The Westsiders Class of 2021 includes environmentalist, animal rights advocate and journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell; and Venice Pride founder, board member and president Grant Turck.

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Corona by the numbers & local updates Compiled by Kamala Kirk Cases and deaths by neighborhood as of March 22: Culver City: 2,133 (deaths 96); Del Rey: 1,949 (deaths 29); El Segundo: 683 (deaths six); Marina del Rey: 360 (deaths three); Mar Vista: 1,982 (deaths 34); Palms: 2,520 (deaths 61); Playa del Rey: 108 (deaths one); Playa Vista: 576 (deaths eight); Santa Monica: 4,523 (deaths 156); Venice: 1,572 (deaths 15); Westchester: 2,403 (deaths 52) Total Westside cases: 18,809

Total Westside deaths: 461 total Confirmed cases in LA County: 1,214,178 Total deaths in LA County: 22,797 Total new cases as of March 22: 423 Total new deaths: 20 Hospitalizations: 792 Positivity rate (seven-day daily average): 1.70% Total number of people tested: 6,009,81 (Source: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)

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Could This End Differently?

Editor: The Main Street outdoor dining al fresco layout we now have has proven far less than the effective rescue plan it promised to be. The good news is that efforts are afoot to experiment with modifications in hopes of moving toward success — becoming a popular social and business district anchored by a thriving restaurant/ bar customer base. The bad news is that these efforts are moving at a glacial pace.

Let me declare my own bias — I objected to the center traffic corridor with scattered parking lane parklet seating for socially distanced outdoor dining when it first hatched nearly a year ago. My primary reason was that rather than spreading out serving areas to provide space for enough outdoor socially distanced diners to pay the rent and the employees, it presented choke points where the sidewalk was funneled between store fronts and small corrals of parklet customers with their crowds overflowing or folks just waiting for their place at one of the few parklet seats for service.

Near equal in importance was my sense that bike lane and vehicle traffic close by made outdoor dining far less enticing than eating in an open-air piazza should be. I certainly wouldn’t want bicyclists sneezing on my guacamole as they wheeled by two feet from my table.

I felt all the stakeholders for Main Street not becoming a semi-wasteland, one with too many failed business vacancies and closed restaurants — consider the City dependent on tax revenues — should have addressed the mobility and private automobile issues head on to repurpose pavement for people.

Unfortunately, the planners last spring considered the cohort of private automobile interests too powerful to engage, and the planners made workaround compro-

mises, keeping the center thru traffic lanes and some Main Street parking intact to satisfy those who would otherwise too strongly oppose any changes.

Unfortunate indeed.

With current science-based predictions that some version of regular life could well return by this coming 4th of July, I think we will never make it to a sustainable Main Street recreation before we just slide back into some lackluster and diminished version of pre-pandemic times.

How happy I’d be if I was wrong about developments not coming in time to bring this business and social district into its full potential as the popular seaside and neighborhood walk-around attraction as it could be, especially when just developing remote parking with effective last mile public transportation could make that possible. With an efficient link between offsite parking and business/social centers, we’d have the seed we’d need to grow a more sustainable Santa Monica.

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C O M M U N I T Y

Youth of the Year Venice High School senior honored by Boys & Girls Clubs of Venice COURTESY OF VENICE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS

By Kamala Kirk Every year, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Venice hosts an annual Youth of the Year Competition that celebrates youth who have overcome enormous odds and demonstrated exceptional character and accomplishments.

This year the competition and ceremony were held virtually, and the club’s four Youth of the Year candidates shared stories about their achievements, challenges and how the club has prepared them for a bright future.

The Youth of the Year recognition is the highest honor a club member can receive, and the 2021 Youth of the Year winner was Alonna Deshotel, a senior at Venice High School. She has been a member of the club for three years and also received a scholarship.

“What I enjoyed about being a member of the club is that I get lots of opportunities such as scholarships and training for

Venice High School senior Alonna Deshotel was recently crowned Boys & Girls Clubs of Venice’s 2021 Youth of the Year. jobs,” Deshotel said. “The club goes out of its way to help you achieve your goals and works to set you up for a better future.

I’ve gained a lot from the club

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including friends and counselors I can go to if I ever need help.

But my biggest takeaway from the club would be that they helped me discover my passion

for art, which has really helped me in my personal life.”

Deshotel has proven that she is a natural-born leader and is also secretary of her school’s Black Student Union. She hopes to become a marine biologist after earning her degree and wants to one day find a solution to water pollution.

“After the main event where all of the nominees gave their interviews and speeches, the judges went into a separate breakout room to deliberate,” Deshotel said.

“When they came back and said my name, I was in shock, completely frozen. At that moment I had no clue if I had imagined it or if she really said my name. After I processed what happened, pure joy ripped through me – it felt amazing to be recognized and receive such an honor. I was honestly so happy that I couldn’t stop dancing and jumping, and my mother joined me and shared my

excitement. I felt true satisfaction that day.”

Next, Deshotel will move on to the next round and represent BGCV at the Los Angeles County Alliance Boys & Girls virtual Youth of the Year Awards.

She looks forward to continuing to give back to others and help those in need.

“COVID-19 has impacted the work I do for the club because ever since we’ve been quarantined, it’s been hard to have activities hosted by the club for seniors such as myself,” Deshotel said.

“Giving back is important to me because I do come from a place that didn’t have a shortage of struggles, and like someone was to me, I want to be a pillar of support for someone and help them find their way. I want to be a guide because it feels good to be that hand that reaches out to others.”

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C O M M U N I T Y

Hunting for Treasures

By Kamala Kirk Known as one of the top 10 flea markets in America, the Santa Monica Airport Antique Market is a popular destination for avid collectors and treasure seekers.

Held on the first and fourth Sunday of every month at the Santa Monica Airport, it offers everything from original vintage prints and clothing to estate jewelry, exotic plants, furniture, garden accessories and more. Recently, we stopped by to check it out and took some pictures of our adventure. For more information, visit santamonicaairportantiquemarket.com PHOTOS BY CHRIS MORTENSEN

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE “DIAMOND JUBILEE” By JERRY MICCOLIS

STALK OF SHAME I’m a 34-year-old woman seeking a relationship. Last week, I went to dinner with a man. We had an instantaneous connection and ended up having sex. I haven’t heard from him since. I’ve always believed sex on a first date doesn’t matter if there’s a connection.

Now I’m worried I moved too quickly.

I’m tempted to call him. Any advice on what to say?

— Disappointed Chasing a man into wanting you is usually about as successful as trying to split atoms with small household tools.

You may believe sex on the first date “doesn’t matter,” but our genes (the source of our psychology) have not heard of the women’s movement and do not drink out of an “ovaries before brovaries!” coffee mug. Women and men are more alike than different, physically and psychologically, but the physical differences we do have (like how only women get pregnant) led to the evolution of psychological sex differences. For example, evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss find that heterosexual men and women having sex with someone for the first time experience differing “affective shifts” — shifts in feelings — afterward.

In the afterglow, women felt more emotionally attached and more attracted to

their partner (a “positive affective shift”).

These commitment-fostering feelings align with how, for a woman, sex “signals the possibility of pregnancy” (and Daddy shoes in need of filling).

On the male side, immediately after the first sexperience with a new woman, men who’ve had a lot of sex partners (six-plus as college undergrads, suggesting a short-term sexual strategy) experienced a “negative affective shift”: finding a woman ”less physically attractive and sexy.” (This effect didn’t show up in men with fewer sex partners or in women, no matter how many sex partners they’d had.) Haselton speculates that for hookupmeister men, the negative affective shift signals game over — sex goal achieved — and pushes them to move on lest they get “entangled in an unwanted long-term relationship.”

If this guy wanted to see you again, he’d be blowing up your phone. To help yourself accept that, recycle him from a current goal to an ongoing reminder: Whenever you might want more than a hookup with a particular guy, wait till he’s emotionally attached before having sex with him. How many dates, calls and texts this takes will vary, but basically, a man needs to care about you enough to weather how your sex face makes you look like a mortally wounded hamster.

THE BLURT LOCKER My boyfriend and I broke up during a nasty fight. I (rashly and immaturely) blurted out that we should just break up. He blurted out,“Fine!” and asked to stop talking for a while. Ugh. I still want to be with him. Dating coaches advise a “no contact” rule post-breakup (cutting off communication for 21 to 45 days). Do you agree? Is this a way to give him a chance to miss me, reset, and get back together in a healthy way?

— Distressed If you broke up by accident and still want to be with the person, there’s something you should do, and it isn’t spending a month and a half being all, “My spirit animal is a 3,000-year-old crustacean fossilized in rock.”

Breaking up because you hit an impasse in an argument is like abandoning your apartment because your toilet’s clogged. Chances are you exploded because you “reasoned” with part of the brain not equipped for the job. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains that our brain has two information-processing systems: System 1, our instinctive, fastresponding emotional system that jumps into action automatically; and System 2, our slow-to-awaken reasoning system

that we have to force to do its job.

System 1 (automatic emotion!) drove you to blurt your way into breaking up.

Possibly getting back together takes hauling your System 2 reasoning out of bed and making it process whether you, as a couple, are irretrievably broken or just need to learn healthy conflict resolution techniques.

You resolve conflict not through fighting to win — hammering the other person until they give in — but through listening with an open mind: putting in the effort to understand and empathize, and then working to solve problems as a “we” instead of a “you versus me.” (This takes practice and psychologist John Gottman’s “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” is a helpful guide, but in the meantime, a clue: If the volume goes up, you’re doing it wrong.)

Since the guy was in a relationship with you until you accidentally blew it up, he probably cares about you and doesn’t need to be psychologically manipulated into wanting you with some “no contact” crap fest. Ultimately, if you love something and accidentally set it free, go after it and tell it you were an idiot: “If I’m gonna have fights about underwear used for a coffee table coaster, I want them to be with you.”

GOT A PROBLEM? Write to Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave, Ste. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email her at AdviceAmy@aol.com. ©2021, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Alkon’s latest book is “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence.” Follow @amyalkon on Twitter or visit blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon.

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ACROSS 1 “Yummy!”

7 “Bein’ Green” singer 13 Best bro 20 Cry from a balcony 21 “Whatever works” 22 Fats Domino’s first name 23 With 32-Across, stately sailors fearlessly face full-bodied fish?

25 A, to Morse 26 Lots 27 Place for un étudiant 28 Actor Epps 30 Monsieur’s mine 31 Dodger great Hodges 32 See 23-Across 36 It can follow land or sea 38 Sea eagle 39 “__ silly question ... ” 40 Made foam 45 DDE opponent 47 Courtroom art 52 With 66-Across, public park patrollers faced feathered facsimiles?

58 Yale founder Yale 59 Saigon soup 60 Cowboy’s catcher 61 Port abuser, say 63 Press 64 “Amazing” magician 66 See 52-Across 70 Hirsute Himalayan 72 A, in Austria 73 Mosque holy man 74 With 92-Across, energetic New Englanders filch furry fledgling felines?

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121 Super Mario’s dinosaur 122 Garage job 123 Middle East economic center 125 Contrived competition ... and what the 109-Across comprise in this puzzle?

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Renowned artist Alison Van Pelt creates realistic paintings

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here is nothing static about Alison Van Pelt’s art or the way she creates it.

Like an athlete, she conditions her body and relies on muscle memory developed from decades of painting and a process that requires intense focus and physicality. The results are works that change as viewers move around them, the light bring different features into focus.

“I’ve been working a lot with silver paint,” Van Pelt said. “As you move around the painting, certain parts of it reflect the light, and then you move again and that same area becomes dark.”

It’s a style of painting that has caught the attention of celebrities, politicians and museums. Van Pelt’s work is displayed in public and private collections around the world. In the 1970s, she began painting in a style sometimes referred to as photorealistic. She fills the walls of her gallery with images, waiting for one to tell her it is time to do that one.

“A lot of it is just a visceral reaction,” Van Pelt said. “I’ll see something that makes me want to paint and it will trigger a physical response in me. Images are exciting and I want to harness that excitement, to use that energy to paint. I’ve had walls in all my studios that are covered in images. It’s like an image will just pop out when it’s time for it to be painted.”

Van Pelt will start with a drawing of an image, but once she begins to paint, the clock starts ticking and her body goes into painting mode where she eats very little and doesn’t sleep for days until the picture is done.

After drawing an image, Van Pelt begins to paint the picture by hand as realistically as possible. She then meticulously blurs the image so that from a distance it looks soft and almost misty. As viewers get closer, they can see the detailed lines and the subject comes into a sharper focus.

“The one saving grace I have is that I work very fast,” Van Pelt said. “I can spend as much time as I want on a drawing, a week or two. But as soon as I touch the canvas with the brush, the timer is on. I have to get every detail in, but still finish the painting while the paint is wet. It’s about a day or two until I have to stop because it gets too sticky to blur nicely.”

With 40 years of experience with this type of painting, she said her body snaps to when she starts painting and adjusts to the routine of being awake for several days straight. Van Pelt said it requires her to treat her body like an athlete.

Born in the Hollywood Hills, Van Pelt moved with her family to Hong Kong when she was 6 months old and stayed there for four years before returning to California. That started a lifelong pattern of moving away — to Paris, Rome, Florence, Hawaii, New York — then returning to Santa Monica.

“I really love moving somewhere, feeling like I really lived there, feeling like a part of a community, but I always come back,” Van Pelt said. “I’m always drawn to Santa Monica. It always has felt so much easier than anywhere else. It’s been easier to navigate having a studio and going to the art store, and the daily routine has just been so comfortable here. It feels like home and where I belong.”

Van Pelt found herself in a dark time during 2020 for reasons personal and global. She fought off depression by painting. She chose subjects such as flowers and hummingbirds, painting them with much brighter colors than what she usually does.

“Every painting uplifted me,” Van Pelt said. “I felt a healing with each colorful, light painting and I just kept creating them.”

The paintings are small and she found they fulfilled a universal need.

She also set up ten 9-foot canvases in the downstairs area of her new Santa Monica studio, where she plans to do a series of forests and trees.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about the need for joy,” Van Pelt said.

“People say follow your bliss. All my life, I have battled depression. It’s so important to cultivate the things that bring you joy, and painting has always been my source of purpose, comfort and my refuge – the thing that gives me energy and excites me. I’m just so grateful to be able to spend my life doing this.”

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hen a company wants to film a commercial at one of Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District’s 16 schools, chief operations officer Carey Upton knows the first question he’ll hear: “Where are the chalkboards?”

“That’s not how we teach today,” Upton said, who knows the location of every old-fashioned chalkboard in the district.

Throughout the district, chalkboards and wooden desks (which Upton described as “heavier than our students and older than their parents”) are giving way to smartboards and seating areas that can be easily shifted to create multiple learning environments.

Upton is also overseeing $900 million in facility modernization and construction throughout the school district, including an innovative open building concept for Santa Monica High School’s new Discovery Building.

“This is one of the first K-12 buildings anywhere to be built with change in mind,” Upton explained.

Unlike the high school’s nearly 90-year-old history building with its cramped classrooms and narrow hallways, the Discovery Building will feature moveable walls set above a base that houses pipes and wiring, so the configuration can change and adapt with educational needs.

“We’re giving teachers the tools to do 21st century learning, blending technology, interaction and flow,” Upton said. “We’re shifting the entire dynamic, envisioning a school facility that supports where we’re going in education and as a culture.”

Upton has served as the district’s chief operations officer since 2016, and from 2007 to 2016 was the district’s director of facility use, in charge of theater, filming, special events and athletics. Upton’s background is in theater, which he says prepared him well for his current role.

“When my wife and I moved to Los Angeles, I quickly discovered that it’s not a theater town,” Upton said, who had worked at theaters throughout the country. “I originally came to the school district to manage its theater. They gave me more and more to do, and I kind of wandered into the operations job.”

It may seem like a big jump from theater to operations management, but as Upton explained, everything he has done in his theater career has been applicable to this job.

“Swinging a hammer as a stage tech, designing sets, stage managing, production, teaching theater, directing – I’ve dabbled in enough areas that I can talk with different people and understand their needs,” Upton said. “In both theater and operations, you’re bringing together people from many disciplines, working together to create something on time and on budget.”

Another similarity between theaters and schools is that both were shut down by the pandemic. Upton’s job includes ensuring that when the schools eventually reopen, everything is ready to go.

“Even with the pandemic, our buildings still have to be maintained,” Upton said. “Our goal has been to get the schools back open, but what that looks like has changed several times.”

First, the focus was on hand washing and surface cleaning, so Upton’s team installed portable sinks and sanitized every surface. Then there was an emphasis on distance, so they set up systems to keep people at least 6 feet apart. Now air circulation is the focus, with the need for ventilation and ionization systems, air scrubbers, HEPA filters and improved air exchange.

“I’ve been working every step of the way with the LA Department of Public Health, even as the conversation keeps shifting,” Upton said.

When the kids weren’t in classrooms due to COVID-19, Upton and his team were able to move full speed ahead with work on construction projects that are usually put off until the summer.

“Even as we continue construction, we’re focused on getting the kids back as soon as we get the word,” Upton said. “It’s just like getting ready for the opening night of a play. I’ve had more than 300 opening nights, and with one exception, every play opened when it was supposed to. For the school district and our construction projects, we must be ready so the kids can return. It’s all about putting butts in seats, just like in the theater.”

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Charlie White is a key player on the U.S. men’s beach handball team

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anta Monica resident Charlie White excels at games on and off the court.

A former Division 1 soccer player at Vanderbilt University, White now represents the United States as a member of the U.S. Men’s Beach Handball national

team.

Born in San Pedro, White spent his childhood moving around with his family as a result of his father’s career as a military officer. Before attending high school in San Francisco, he lived in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, New Jersey and New Mexico.

After graduating from college and art school, White worked at various tech companies in the Bay Area, before eventually going into video game design.

“I moved down to Santa Monica, also for another game company, thinking, ‘[I’ve] got to get out of the Bay Area and I’ll just come down here for the summer,’” White recalled. “That was seven years ago, and I never left. I love it here.”

He has contributed to several successful games, including CityVille, which once held the record for the most active game users on Facebook.

While adjusting to his new environment, White started looking for activities to take part in outside of work. Thus began his play in niche sports, but it wasn’t until he took up beach handball that his passion was stoked.

“For a long time, I just felt like I was kind of lost,” White said. “I was just working in tech. And I’d do recreational sports on the side, but I didn’t really have any meaning or purpose. It wasn’t until I moved down to LA and got involved in beach handball [that] I felt like my life had meaning again.”

White began his beach handball career in club tournaments, concerned about his eligibility for the American national team. Although he is 6 feet 2 inches tall, that is still shorter than the average height of professional players. When White was invited to a training camp with the team, he felt he could compete and excel.

Beach handball is a relatively new sport, having been played on an organized international level for about two decades. This creates a lack of established teams, allowing the American team to compete with just about any country.

“We have one of the best, maybe one of the most talented teams in the world,” White said. “And we have all these guys that didn’t grow up playing beach handball. You can’t really do that with any other sport that I know of. It’s a really unique situation.”

White has taken full advantage, traveling the world with the rest of the team. Coming from a background in soccer, where national pride is so important to the sport, he understands the value of being able to represent his country.

Perhaps just as important, White enjoys playing.

“Beach handball itself is a super exciting sport,” White said. “There [are] tons of goals.

The offense always has an advantage. It’s like four on three, basically, because they have three defenders plus the goalie. So it’s a fun game.”

Over the past few years, White has competed in a variety of tournaments and events.

One of his favorite memories is winning a gold medal with the USA team at the 2019 IHF North America and Caribbean Championships in Trinidad and Tobago. White was the leading scorer and also scored a Golden Goal in the final championship game against Mexico. It was a historic win for the USA team and qualified the U.S. for the ANOC World Beach Games in Qatar and the IFH Beach Handball World Championships in Italy.

White has received several other unique opportunities as a result of his time on the team. One of the trainers knew a casting director for the Fox game show “Ultimate Tag,” who interviewed White and cast him. White competed in the premiere episode and won $10,000. During the filming, White earned the nickname “Beast Mode” by his teammates.

The show, taped at a time when White was unsure if he’d get a serious shot at beach handball, gave him confidence.

“I’m standing up on top of this big pyramid and there’s all these cameras and lights flashing, and the crowd’s cheering down below,” White remembered. “I felt like if I never made the USA team, at least it brought me this. All that training and all that hard work, at least I got to experience this moment.”

During the pandemic, White has continued his game design work remotely. As for beach handball, he hopes to help bring more international success to the American team and is grateful for what he has been through so far. In 2022, the USA is hosting the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, which will be a great opportunity to showcase the sport.

“It’s changed my life, [but] I didn’t even know what I was looking for or that I was missing it,” White said. “You put in all the work, you start training, you start practicing.

You start going to these tournaments. You’re paying more attention to everything you do in your life … professionally, too, with all the gaming stuff. I really had more ownership of a lot of the projects. And I really was able to make more of an impact on those things.”

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DR. THANH NEVILLE

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r. Thanh Neville, a critical care and pulmonary doctor at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, always knew she wanted to help those in need; although at first, she didn’t know which sector of the medical field she wanted to pursue.

“I was really fascinated by a field that involved every organ system and the whole person,” Neville said. “I think it is very exciting to be at the patient’s most critical and vulnerable moments, so critical care not only provides this dynamic aspect of medicine, but also an avenue where you can be with patients and families in their most vulnerable moments and help them through that.”

A graduate of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Neville has worked at UCLA for 21 years. She enjoys working at both locations, but appreciates the smaller and more community-centric feel of UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.

“One of the reasons I choose to go to Santa Monica is because I am able to do a lot more hands-on care with patients, and work directly with patients and nurses,” Neville said. “But I’ve seen a lot of goodbyes over Zoom, a nurse holding an iPad so that a family can grieve, and no matter how many times I see that, it’s still very jarring and heart breaking. There is no denying that COVID-19 has changed everything, and has changed every one of our lives, especially the health care workers.”

It is no surprise that working in the ICU during the pandemic has taken an emotional and physical toll on everyone in the medical field.

“There is no doubt that, especially in the beginning of the pandemic, we are putting ourselves at risk,” Neville said. “It’s not a secret that health care workers get infected more than the general population being front and center, exposed like we are.”

Neville recounted one of her most difficult days in the ICU, the day the U.S. Capitol was stormed in Washington, D.C. “I remember coming home around 9 p.m. on my most horrible day in the ICU, I had no idea what was going on because I was intubating patients and it was so crazy in the ICU,” Neville said.

“As I drove home I was listening to NPR and I just wanted to cry. But at the same time, I thought, ‘You’re going to be so tired, it’s going to take up a lot of time if you cry, you’ve worked so many hours and now you can get some rest so you can get back to the ICU tomorrow,’ so I held it in.”

Despite these difficulties, Neville has found comfort in the pride she has for her field and the support of colleagues and loved ones.

“The things that really help us are the support from our colleagues, the fact that we really are not in this alone, the comradery has really been significantly stronger amongst us and I think that our support systems is really important,” Neville said.

Neville has taken on journaling and writing essays as new hobbies during these uncertain times. She has had an essay published in The Huffington Post about her experiences in the ICU. But her selflessness doesn’t stop there. Neville is also co-founder of the 3 Wishes Program at both medical centers. The program was designed to help celebrate and dignify the lives of terminally ill patients. It has helped fulfill wishes like bringing a mariachi band into a patient’s room and creating a special wedding ceremony in the hospital.

“As an ICU doctor, I feel proud and kind of privileged that I get to be in a position where I can be helpful,” Neville said. “This is not something that I can sit out on, and I am glad that as an ICU doctor, I can’t sit on the side lines.”

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Dr. Thanh Neville is an ICU physician and researcher at multiple local hospitals

Saving Lives

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Singer-songwriter Emily James’ uplifting songs spread joy and positivity

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mily James’ interest in music began at a young age.

“I’ve loved music my entire life,” James said. “There are home videos of me singing to my family in the kitchen when I was 3 years old.”

The youngest of five siblings, James was born and raised in New York until the age of 16. As a child, she learned how to play the piano and guitar, and took voice lessons. By the time she was 10, she was already writing her owns songs.

James realized how strongly she felt emotion through music after listening to Adele’s “Someone Like You” when she was 11.

“It was my first realization that music isn’t just entertainment, it has the ability to connect with people on a deeper level,” James said.

From that moment on, music became James’ focus. She began looking for opportunities to perform at live shows, even if it meant driving to Nashville from New York.

When she was 16, James moved to Nashville where she could fully immerse herself in music. While there, she connected with Grammy Award-winning producers Ian Fitchuk and Jacquire King, who produced her self-written 2016 EP, “Emily James.”

In 2017, James relocated to Los Angeles, and soon after, released her debut album, “Til the Morning,” which was produced by Ryan Hadlock. Hadlock has worked with musical acts including The Lumineers and Vance Joy. James wrote and produced her 2019 EP, “Dreaming,” and most recently, she released the EP, “Wanted You to Know, Pt. 1,” which features six songs, three of which she wrote while the rest were collaborations.

James said she felt extremely fortunate to work with Evan Klar, who co-wrote with her, and Justin Lucas, who co-produced the EP’s lead single, “back in the summer.” She also collaborated with Brian Brundage, who cowrote the single, “that’d be alright.”

James wanted the EP to be a way for her listeners to look back and appreciate the past, look forward to a bright future, and most importantly, meditate on the present. Her goal for all of her music is to create uplifting energy and have a positive impact on those around her.

“Wanted You to Know, Pt. 2” is already in the works. James said she trusts her gut when she writes songs.

“I go with what fits when it comes to writing and making music. When I get stuck in my music, I pull back, try something else and don’t force it.”

James’ music influences include Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin. She also doesn’t believe in writer’s block. She’s in a state of complete inspiration where the music just flows right out of her. When the words are there or when there is something that needs to be expressed, it will come.

“I don’t think it’s me writing the songs, I’m just a vessel from the song to come out of,” James said.

James is learning more about the producing side of the music industry and is grateful to have the help of the professionals she has worked with so far. The process of making music is ultimately trial and error until she gets the perfect sound, flow of lyrics or feeling.

“When I’m making music, I just have to remind myself to be me, that everyone is on their own path and there is a place for everyone,” James said.

James is working toward her English and music industry degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles. She looks forward to traveling more and visiting each state at least once, in addition to performing live again.

Visit emilyjames.net and follow her on Instagram, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube at @emilyjamesmusic — Haley Beyer

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Celebrating Diversity GRANT TURCK LGBTQ activist Grant Turck is the president and founder of Venice Pride

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eing a community advocate who educates the public on LGBTQ and civil rights is a lifelong mission for Venice resident Grant Turck.

Growing up in Ohio, Turck noticed there were very few resources for gay teens, so he set out to create his own.

When he was a student at Madeira High School in 2001, Turck started the first Gay-Straight Alliance club at his school, which remains to this day, to promote acceptance and awareness.

“I grew up in a conservative town when states were banning gay marriage,” Turck said. “It was definitely a battle to win over school officials, but I persevered and I’m proud to say two decades later the Madeira GSA continues to offer a safe space for students.”

In 2004 while attending Pepperdine University in Malibu, Turck challenged the school’s anti-gay policies by trying to start Students Against Homophobia, an organization designed to educate the community about homophobia and its effects.

“I was on a mission to create an organization similar to the one I had created in high school,” Turck said. “I tried to frame it around the idea that whether you’re a Christian or a non-Christian, whether you believe in gay rights or not, we can all agree that violence against others and beating people up for being gay is not OK. They still didn’t approve the club, but since I was a public relations major at the time, I was able to bring attention to the issue and spark a dialogue on campus by getting press coverage. Years later, they now have an LGBT club on campus.”

After graduating from Pepperdine, Turck lived in Santa Monica for several years before moving to Venice in 2015.

“I love the beach and Bohemian lifestyle,” Turck said.

“Venice is such a unique, diverse and magical place to live and work.”

In 2016, Turck founded Venice Pride, a nonprofit

organization that celebrates the diversity of LA’s LGBTQ community, friends and supporters. Every year, the organization does ongoing outreach and hosts annual events such as the Venice Pride sign lighting and block party to inspire, commemorate and support diversity in the community. Venice Pride has garnered support from many organizations including the NFL’s LA Rams and LA Chargers, who previously sponsored its annual weekend Pride event.

“With the 2016 closing of Roosterfish, LA’s last gay bar on the Westside, the LGBTQ community lost a safe space where we could let our hair down.,” Turck shared.

“We wanted to create new spaces for the LGBTQ community to connect and remain visible on the Westside. We established Venice Pride as a nonprofit later that year with a mission of saving lives through acceptance and diversity. We accomplish this through annual events and public art projects like the rainbow crosswalk and Venice Pride Flag Lifeguard Tower.”

The rainbow crosswalk was unveiled in 2019 on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in front of the Roosterfish, which reopened in 2018. Modeled after the iconic rainbow crosswalks in the Castro District of San Francisco, it is the city’s first and is a permanent fixture.

The Venice Pride Flag Lifeguard Tower is at the end of Brooks Avenue and is known as the most Instagrammable lifeguard tower in the world. Turck came up with the idea to transform the tower from its traditional light blue color into a rainbow pride flag to celebrate diversity and commemorate Venice Pride.

“People from all over the world come to take pictures with the tower, post about it in different languages on social media, and spread its message of acceptance far and wide,” Turck pointed out. “The positive impact it has on the public is amazing.”

The lifeguard tower was painted in 2017 by Venice Pride board members, along with volunteers from the

community. LA City Councilman Mike Bonin and LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, the first openly gay California legislator, helped out by applying the final paint strokes. The sand around the tower was dedicated as Bill Rosendahl Memorial Beach and named after the late Bill Rosendahl, the first openly gay man elected to LA City Council.

After gaining traction through an online petition and grassroots campaign backed by city and county officials, the rainbow lifeguard tower was also designated as a memorial to Rosendahl by the LA County Board of Supervisors to be permanently maintained by the Department of Beaches and Harbors.

“I’m thankful that we’ve created the lifeguard tower and rainbow crosswalk, which have become iconic landmarks and safe spaces for people,” Turck said.

“Although we haven’t been able to have in-person events this past year, including the Pride celebration, we have established these landmarks in the community where people can continue to gather and celebrate themselves.”

While Venice Pride has transitioned to a virtual model during COVID-19, Turck looks forward to returning to in-person events once it is safe to do so.

“With Pride month right around the corner and continued uncertainty around when large outdoor events can begin anew, Venice Pride is looking toward 2022 when we plan to host our first pride parade and festival on the boardwalk,” Turck said. “In the meantime, we encourage those interested in supporting us to shop the Venice Pride merchandise on our website or make a tax-deductible donation by texting ‘VENICE’ to 44321. I’m very proud of the organization and what we’ve achieved so far and look forward to celebrating with the community soon.” venicepride.org — Kamala Kirk

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Culinary Creativity HEATHER TIERNEY Heather Tierney’s plant-based eateries offer healthy fare in a stylish setting

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eather Tierney’s first job out of college was as a food writer for Time Out New York, which gave her the opportunity to learn about the city’s food and beverage scene. She later owned and operated a cocktail bar and a Mexican restaurant with her brother that were located next to each other in New York’s Chinatown.

Eventually, Tierney became driven by the desire to create something healthy that she wanted in her own life. In 2014, she opened The Butcher’s Daughter, a plant-based restaurant, café and juice bar that serves healthy vegetarian dishes with many vegan and gluten-free options as well. They source their produce from local and organic farms, and feature special seasonal dishes and beverages.

“I would describe myself as a designer who happens to own bars and restaurants,” Tierney said. “I’m always thinking visually first and I knew how I wanted to design my restaurant. I came up with the idea to have kale and vegetables hanging from meat hooks, because when you make juice, you butcher and slaughter the produce, and after we make juice, it looks like there’s blood on the walls. Butcher shops are a dying breed nowadays, and I imagined an old butcher whose daughter became a vegetarian as an act of rebellion against her father because she grew up around meat and got tired of it, so that’s how the name came to be.”

Since opening the first restaurant in New York’s Nolita neighborhood seven years ago, The Butcher’s Daughter has expanded to include two more locations in New York (West Village and Williamsburg), a West Coast location in Venice, as well as a food and juice truck that can be found at the Venice Farmers’ Market.

“I had been in New York for a decade and was over the winters, so I moved to California,” Tierney said. “I love California, specifically Venice, so when I moved here, I took a year off, lived on the canals and rode a beach cruiser around. I eventually signed a lease for a space on Abbot Kinney and everything just fell into place, it was

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While each location shares a similar design and menu, they all have their own unique personality traits and signature dishes as well. Tierney also owns Wanderlust Design, a design and creative agency based in Venice and New York, and selected all of the design elements for each restaurant.

“I always pick one color that pops against the neutral setting with lots of organic woods and greenery,” Tierney explained. “For our Venice location, we used lots of indigo fabric to mimic the ocean. I also put in a 25-foot communal dining table and counter stools, because I wanted to create a sense of community where people could come in by themselves, feel comfortable and interact with others if they want. Every time I open a new location, I get to design the space and come up with ideas for the food and beverage menus. The creative process is what really drives me.”

Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, The Butcher’s Daughter serves a variety of innovative and healthy dishes that range from mushroom pizza and poppyseed waffles to spicy kale Caesar salad and the Butcher’s Burger. The avocado toast and vegan Pad Thai are among the most popular dishes.

Dessert offerings include citrus cake, chocolate matcha cake and cashew ice cream, while the drink menu features wellness lattes, cold-pressed juices, fresh smoothies, wine, as well as craft beer and seasonal cocktails such as the rosemary mule and the spicy mezcalita.

“My husband, who is a carnivore, loves The Butcher’s Daughter because he can go enjoy a margherita pizza with good-quality mozzarella,” Tierney said. “Depending on people’s diets and food preferences, we can also substitute with vegan mozzarella, cashew ricotta or burrata cheese, as well as a gluten-free cauliflower crust. There’s something for everyone.”

Like all other restaurants, The Butcher’s Daughter was

impacted by COVID-19, but Tierney and her team found creative ways to pivot during the pandemic. In addition to expanding outdoor seating, online orders and delivery, they offered Bodega Boxes: curated wooden crates that feature a selection of fresh produce and other ingredients such as eggs, bread, almond and oat milk, fresh juice and more. Bodega Boxes are available for sale on their website in multiple themes including a Farmers Market, Kitchen & Pantry and Wellness kits.

“It’s definitely been a rollercoaster,” Tierney said. “The hardest part was in the beginning when everyone was dealing with the fear of this new virus, as well as navigating how to keep the restaurants open. We were able to apply for and get a PPP loan, which was a big relief. We started selling our Bodega Boxes, which have been very popular as well.”

Tierney plans to open more locations, including one in LA as well as across the United States. She is also looking to open a location in a hotel in New York as well.

“Our brand is a really great fit for hotels because we can offer people the opportunity to eat and drink healthy while they’re traveling,” Tierney said. “We look forward to expanding but we’re not in a rush, we’d rather be patient and wait for the right space. When people come to our restaurants, our amazing staff makes them feel welcome and at home. I want people to be able to feel like they can drop by anytime and stay as long as they like. Some of our regulars come in multiple times a day – we have one guy that comes to our Venice location for coffee in the morning, then he’ll come back later and read a script.

More people want to be healthier these days, and we like being able to offer them a place where they can enjoy good food and drink while doing something good for themselves.” thebutchersdaughter.com — Kamala Kirk

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Animal Advocate Activist and journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell is making a difference

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ane Velez-Mitchell, founder of the Los Angelesbased Jane Unchained News Network, is doing her part to facilitate a nonviolent world. And it’s not as unrealistic as it sounds.

She’s actively advocating for veganism, because if humans adopt a plant-based diet, animals won’t be raised and killed.

“We are 7.8 billion humans killing 80 billion animals every year for food,” Velez-Mitchell said. “If we eliminated that suffering right there, we would take a huge leap toward a non-violent world.”

The Marina del Rey resident, who created her nonprofit social media news network after working for four decades in the mainstream television news media, said it’s “exhilarating” to follow her passions such as veganism, human health, animal rights and climate change reversal. The transition was natural since, even in her last position at CNN’s headline news, she produced a weekly story on animal issues.

“I basically took that weekly story and turned it into a whole nonprofit,” Velez-Mitchell said. “Now we have

more than 70 volunteer contributors going all around the world bringing us stories that are ignored by mainstream media. That’s why it’s super important to do this.”

Velez-Mitchell’s clarion call gathers even more impetus during a pandemic — COVID-19, a zoonotic illness, has destroyed the health of millions of humans and killed more than 475,000 in the United States alone.

“It’s important for us to make the connection between our disrespect of the natural world and the problems that we are experiencing,” Velez-Mitchell said. “If our planet becomes so degraded that it doesn’t support human life, or any other life, then we’re all in deep trouble.”

Velez-Mitchell grew up in Manhattan, New York, and was born to an Irish American father and a Puerto Rican mother who was compassionate toward animals, didn’t eat them and understood that meat “doesn’t fall from the meat tree.”

“I was raised with that consciousness,” Velez-Mitchell

said. “She’s my inspiration.”

But her real lesson came not as a child, but much later, when she interviewed Howard Lyman, a fourth-generation cattle rancher-turned-vegan. After the interview, he said, “I hear you’re a vegetarian. Do you eat dairy?”

“I was ashamed to admit I did because he had just outlined all the terrible cruelty to mother cows and calves,” Velez-Mitchell recalled. “‘Liquid meat,’ he exclaimed, pointing his finger at me.”

That was the moment she went vegan. Velez-Mitchell described it as: “The best decision I have ever made.

We are not cows. We are not meant to drink the breast milk of cows.”

Nearly 25 years later, Velez-Mitchell finds veganism not just a trend, but necessary to the future of the planet. Processed meat causes cancer, while fruits and vegetables contain zero cholesterol.

“It’s a bad habit that we have to break,” Velez-Mitchell added. “The world is suffering right now because of it.”

According to Velez-Mitchell, humans have destroyed more than 68% of all wildlife on the planet. The animals are killed mostly to raise cattle in grazing land.

The secondary land use is to grow crops to feed farm animals. Human development is a comparatively tiny portion of land use.

“If we were eating a plant-based diet, the earth could easily support 7.8 billion humans, and far more than that, because we are eating a tiny percentage of food,” Velez-Mitchell added.

She urges people to embrace a healthy diet with fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains. To that end, Jane Unchained presents two cooking shows, “New Day New Chef,” a multi-episode vegan cooking show (newdaynewchef.com); and “Lunch Break Live,” a daily vegan cooking show on Facebook Live (12:30 p.m.

PST) featuring a different chef who cooks a plantbased, dairy-free meal sans animal products.

Jane Unchained has also produced an award-winning documentary on the connection between animal agriculture and climate change, “Countdown to Year Zero,” which can be viewed on Amazon Prime Video.

Velez-Mitchell’s other bugbear is the climate crisis.

Again, it points to the irresponsible behavior of humans, she said, citing extensive animal agriculture that produces greenhouse gas emissions, while clearing forests to grow livestock feed destroys wildlife and habitat.

The activist has joined members of her community to embrace a project close to home. The 600-acre Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve is Los Angeles’ last coastal wetlands, now subject to a questionable, decade-long habitat restoration project.

“It is home to 1,700 species, some endangered, some threatened, all of whom have a right to live and whose home should not be obliterated, under the guise of ‘public access’ which they could provide right now by opening a locked gate,” Velez-Mitchell said.

Working with biologists, the community has proposed a detailed 20-point gentle restoration that achieves the goals of habitat restoration without destruction and would give inner-city children meaningful access to nature now – not in a decade.

Velez-Mitchell is also the author of four books, among them a candid memoir that reveals her former alcoholism, coming out as gay and the vegan lifestyle. She calls them her “three miracles.”

Right now, however, she’s enamored of her mission to help Americans reinvent their diets, become healthier and lower their carbon footprints.

“We all need to wake up,” Velez-Mitchell said. “We like to say we’re nice people, we’re kind people, we love to say we love animals, but if we are co-signing the torture of animals, we’re hypocrites.” janeunchained.com — Srianthi Perera MARCH 25, 2021 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 23

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efore Lisa Baker Morgan was a private chef, cooking class instructor and author who divides her time between Paris and the Westside, she was a lawyer who specialized in business litigation.

“The key to my life, and maybe any life, is flexibility and finding how you can do the things that you want to do and developing a schedule that allows you to be comfortable with the roles that you’re in,” Morgan said.

Morgan has fulfilled many roles over the years, from being a single mother of two daughters to becoming a trustee on the boards of The Colleagues Helpers in Philanthropic Service (CHIPS) and Children’s Institute Inc (CII).

During the pandemic, Morgan tied her cooking expertise to fundraising for CII by teaching a series of online classes called “Dinner in Paris.”

“The primary reason why I’m doing all these classes is because it’s so close to my heart, there’s such a need for it,” Morgan said.

When Morgan started out as a cooking class instructor, she taught large group classes for adults at Surfas Culinary District in Culver City. Over the years, she saw a shift in the market and moved to smaller private classes so she could focus more on each student. As a result of COVID-19, Morgan switched her cooking classes to online.

“The one thing I always liked about cooking, the one thing that really drew me to it, was the teaching aspect,” Morgan said. “I consistently did that since graduating from culinary school.”

After completing culinary school, Morgan was mentored by renowned chef Matthew Carpenter. She also started her own company, CIAO YUMMY!, offering catering and private chef services.

In 2011, Morgan published her first book, “simple pleasures fifty-two weeks of turning ordinary ingredients into extraordinary moments.” It includes an entire year of simply written recipes that transform everyday items into wonderful dishes and features 18 pages of photographs.

“I think it’s important for people to cook by season, which isn’t always emphasized,” Morgan said. “I made the [first] book small enough so [readers] could take it with them to the farmers’ market.”

In 2014, Morgan teamed up with Ann McCormick to co-author an herb growing and cooking book, “Homegrown Herb Garden: A Guide to Growing and Culinary Uses.”

She also highlights her travels and recipes in her blog, “Chef Morgan à table.” In 2020, Morgan published a memoir, “Paris, Part Time,” which describes her half-life in France and includes correlating recipes and photographs.

Morgan takes pride in using the freshest ingredients and favors the French cooking style. To her, cooking is an act of sharing creativity and French culture concurs with her ideals. Both value fine, fresh ingredients and preparing food with care. She also appreciates the French way of creating beautiful food.

“For me, it’s hard to separate French food from the French culture,” Morgan said. “It’s a celebration of humanity in every way.”

Morgan’s other favorite food culture is Japan. Alongside her favorite Piment d’Espelette from Southwest France, she loves using Japanese yuzu juice in her recipes. When combining Japanese and French foods, Morgan makes a fusion of ingredients using French techniques.

“One reason that I find Japanese and French food are intertwined is because there is an emphasis on very simple plates, and minimal and fresh ingredients,” Morgan said.

Morgan describes her personal style as a fusion of Japanese, French and Californian foods. Her go-to dishes are those with fish, fresh oils, yuzu, herbs and minimalistic foods. She noted that a lot of the fish she likes to use frequently, such as Dover sole, are not readily available in California, but can be ordered online.

“Over the years, my style has become much lighter and I’ve really developed a fondness for cooking lighter things,” Morgan said. “Now, people will ask me to do more of those things because they know that’s what I like to do.

Over the years, there’s [also] been a lot more vegetarians and vegans. I love to cook vegetables, a lot of fresh herbs and seafood.”

The Westside has always been home to Morgan. While she was married, she moved to the Hollywood Hills, but later returned to the Westside to be closer to her daughters’ school and enjoy the outdoors.

“There are so many beautiful places in LA, but for me [the Westside] has been the niche that I’ve been the most comfortable in,” Morgan said.

Follow Morgan on Instagram at @chefmorgan — Katie Lulla

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Facing Fear Head On PAUL DE GELDER Diver and shark attack survivor Paul de Gelder embraces adventure

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ormer Australian Defense Forces diver Paul de Gelder was afraid of two things: sharks and public speaking.

Which is why the author of “No Time for Fear” now hosts documentaries for Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” and is a motivational speaker who is in demand across the United States and Australia.

“The only thing I was more afraid of than sharks was public speaking,” de Gelder said. “We can turn our greatest fears into our greatest strengths if we face them head on.”

He has, perhaps, more reason to fear sharks than most people. When de Gelder was participating in an antiterrorism exercise in Sydney Harbor in 2009, he was attacked by a 9-foot long, 600-pound bull shark that chewed off part of his leg and arm.

“I was in the fight for my life,” de Gelder said. “It tore me to pieces. I was in agony.”

Eventually, the shark’s teeth sawed all the way through de Gelder’s leg and ripped out his hamstring. Since he wasn’t attached anymore, he was able to make it to the surface and began swimming back with one hand and one leg, through a pool of his own blood.

“When (my fellow Navy divers) got in close, the blood was so thick they could taste it in the air,” de Gelder said.

“They got to me before the shark came back.”

He underwent emergency surgery and, partly because it was the first time in 60 years that there had been a shark attack in the harbor, de Gelder became the center of media attention. The chief of the Navy pledged in public that as long as de Gelder wanted a career, he would have one.

That became a motivator for de Gelder.

“I was not going to be pushed under a desk,” de Gelder said. “I used that total fear of losing my career as a motivator to get me off my drugs earlier than I was supposed to, on prosthetics earlier than I was supposed to, and to get to the gym and relearn how to use my body and be physically fit.”

De Gelder managed to convince the Navy that he would be useful at diving school.

“I kept the impossible dream in front of me,” de Gelder said.

The Westside was the first place that de Gelder visited when he came to Los Angeles in 2016 and he was immediately enamored. As a health and fitness devotee, he sought out Gold’s Gym, known as the mecca of bodybuilding, and immediately began training there.

“I kind of stand out with a robot leg and a weightlifting arm with a big steel hook,” de Gelder said. “I train pretty hard, and I have a lot of people coming up to me constantly for a chat.”

He now resides in Marina del Rey because he needs to be

near the ocean and LA holds a lot of work opportunities.

“I realized how little we have to fear from sharks and how much they have to fear from us,” de Gelder said. “We are wiping them out. My military training was about standing up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.

This is just a transfer of standing up for others, for another species that can’t speak for themselves.”

During the pandemic, de Gelder wrote a new book, “Tough AF,” which addresses all the military physical training he went through. He also rewrote his first book, “No Time for Fear: How a Shark Attack Survivor Beat the Odds,” which is now called “Uncaged” and includes updates from the past eight years.

De Gelder continues to seek out adventure and insists that there is nothing wrong with being scared and doing something anyway — that being scared won’t kill you.

“I think that the worst thing you can do is decide to quit on your own happiness and your own drive,” de Gelder said. “Happiness is found in adventure. Growth is found in uncomfortable scenarios. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. You’re never going to talk about those days you sat on the couch watching television. I like a little adventure.” pauldegelder.com — Bridgette M. Redman MARCH 25, 2021 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 25

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HONORING THE PAST Historian and tour guide Robbie Jones keeps Santa Monica’s Black history alive PHOTO BY LUIS CHAVEZ

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anta Monica is only about 8 square miles, but throughout the city are deep roots of Black and African American history that have helped it develop into what it is today.

Local historian and tour guide Robbie Jones gave her first Santa Monica Black history tour to her family while they were in town for a reunion. She took them to 28 different stops around town including a section of the beach in Santa Monica that used to be known as the Inkwell, a popular gathering place for Black people in the early 20th century.

After the tour, friends and family asked Jones if she would give tours for them as well. As she was talking with her grandmother and elders, Jones realized how much Black history was rooted throughout Santa Monica and how many of its residents shared interconnected histories.

“I just include everybody’s story, it depends on who’s on the bus and who wants to take the tour, but I try and gear it toward whatever that interest is,” Jones said. “We have a lot of athletes that grew up here, professional NFL players, musicians and opera singers. We have some of the best of the best who grew up in Santa Monica that are also African American. So I kind of tell those stories as I go on, as I remember them.”

Jones was born and raised in Santa Monica, where she lived with her grandmother.

When she was growing up, Jones recalled the town was full of warmth and friendly neighbors where the front door was always open.

“A lot of African American history isn’t documented, it’s mostly told in stories,” Jones said.

As Jones was collecting those stories, she realized that when she officially launched her touring business, Black Santa Monica Tours and Concierge, in 2004, she wanted to focus on the African American history of Santa Monica as a way to document and continue telling the stories of the town.

She calls Santa Monica a “little big city” because of how much there is in town. As she got older, Jones started her activism for her community and for Black people.

It started in the 1980s when Jones noticed that the PTA at her kids’ school wasn’t reaching out to the African American population, which led her to start an African American parent group to create a safe space for everyone so Black kids could feel heard and connected to their campus.

In 1998, Jones felt that African American youth weren’t being given enough attention from the city, so she created a boys mentorship program where businessmen, professionals and mentors could connect with young boys and inspire them.

All of Jones’ activism work comes from wanting everyone, especially Black people, to feel special and included in their community.

“We’re all in this together, I just want to help those who have been treated poorly,” Jones said. “Some people ask, ‘Why do Black lives matter only?’ Well, it’s not that, it’s just that they have been the ones who have been singled out, ignored, discriminated against and ostracized in America.”

Jones is also the cofounder of the City Council Black Agenda, an initiative and conversation starter that takes place between city officials and the Black community on how to be better allies. Through subcommittees on topics like housing and education, the Black Agenda will keep the conversation going about improving life in Santa Monica for Black people and minorities.

“Our city manager and staff understood that the conversation needed to take place with the Black community,” Jones said. “Things are happening in Santa Monica that I never thought would happen.”

Even through a tumultuous 2020, Jones isn’t done making a difference in her community. In the next few years, Jones plans to open a coffee shop across the street from Santa Monica College where customers can enjoy a cup of coffee or a meal while learning about the local history of Santa Monica that isn’t taught in books.

“That’s very important to see themselves not only nationally, but locally in the history books,” Jones said. “Why I’ve been here so long is because I felt that connection early on, and the kids who have been here for five or 10 years haven’t felt that connection yet. I remember the way I felt and the way people made me feel and made Santa Monica feel like home. I could’ve gone to many other places, but I love this little big city. I’m attached to it and I’d just like to see better things for Black folks here in Santa Monica.” santamonica.com/what-to-do/black-santa-monica-tours-and-concierge — Sara Edwards

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om Ford has always had a connection with water. This connection brought him from a rural area in Pennsylvania to Los Angeles to preserve ocean life through influencing national and international policies, as well as helping the next generation of conservationists.

Ford and his family live in Santa Monica and have been on the Westside since 1998. He wanted to live somewhere where he could be in or near the water all the time. Now, Ford serves as the chief executive officer of The Bay Foundation, an organization that studies and preserves the bay and local coastal waters. He said that the kelp forests he’s seen are one of the most beautiful wildlife experiences he’s witnessed.

“It is so unbelievably beautiful and majestic, and right next to it is this humongous city with all of its priorities and all these other human-focused aspects,” Ford said. “And it’s this unreal contrast in my mind of this unbelievable thing that is right next door, that most people don’t ever get to see, that they don’t get to appreciate and understand.”

Ford has been focusing on the restoration of kelp forests since he moved to LA. He was drawn to kelp initially because of his connection with water. Ford loves being around these forests as it parallels being in water as tall as an 80-story building with fish and shafts of light shooting down through columns of algae. Through studying kelp forest dynamics for his graduate work at UCLA, Ford learned that kelp forests are declining around the world because they are breaking.

However, Ford came to understand the structure of these forests, and developed approaches to save them through restoration. Initially, Ford viewed this process as preserving homes for fish and other wildlife that consider kelp to be their shelter. However, it also nourishes ecosystems by ending up in between sand grains, at the bottom of the ocean, among other places. Kelp also serves to reduce climate change by sequestering carbon in its tissues.

Ford is also looking at how fishermen and their families can have viable jobs and provide local sources of seafood, along with other factors.

“Now we’re on to looking at the interchange with these other ecosystems, peripherals of the kelp forest and how kelp can help us with climate change,” Ford said.

Ford’s work with kelp forests has gained recognition in Canada. In British Columbia, the Haida Nation is having the same problems as Los Angeles.

“The restoration methods we developed are being applied in British Columbia and working for them,” Ford said. “The opportunity to help that culture with the results of my work was something I never anticipated.”

Ford is a senior lecturer at Loyola Marymount University’s Environmental Science Program and co-executive director of its Coastal Research Institute. Through his work there and at The Bay Foundation, Ford is providing students with real-world experiences in applied science by studying the nature around them.

“For those students, [I’d] love to give them tangible examples and incorporate them in the real-world work that we’re doing so that they have that experience and that power to know that they can change the world,” Ford said. “Being able to pass that along has been maybe one of the greater gifts I may ever have a chance to share with my fellow human beings.”

The Bay Foundation is also working on adapting the Los Angeles coastline to rising sea levels, in addition to numerous other projects focused on sustainability. However, Ford advises everyone to do their part in reducing emissions of fossil fuels, while supporting environmental organizations, including The Bay Foundation, through donations, volunteering and more.

For more information, visit santamonicabay.org

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The Bay Foundation CEO Tom Ford is focused on kelp forest restoration and preserving ocean life

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“This four-bedroom Playa Vista townhome transcends the imagination by infusing innovation with luxury,” says agent Stephanie Younger. “The gated entry, crowned with bougainvillea and bubbling fountain, establishes an Italian villa ambience, which continues inside to the vaulted ceilings, private balconies and graceful curves. Ideal for striking that leisure-work balance, this multi-tiered floor plan offers flexible spaces for working, schooling, creating or retreating. A striking formal living room with elevated ceiling, pressed quartz-stone fireplace and decorative stained-glass windows ascends half a flight to the family room. The formal dining room with balcony perfect for the indoor-outdoor SoCal lifestyle sits adjacent to the chefs kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and large breakfast bar island. The top-floor bedrooms provide atrium-like loft landings and en suite spa baths. The master suite has floor-toceiling windows, dual vanities and an inviting spa tub. Explore the endless parks, cafes, and shopping.”

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How to Find Properties to Flip If you want to invest in real estate, flipping can be one of the most viable ways to do it. There is risk inherent in flipping houses. For example, if you don’t sell the house quickly, you have to maintain it. There are also almost always bumps along the way when you remodel a house to flip it, and the timelines tend to drag on longer than most new investors might think.

One big challenge of flipping occurs before you ever start work on a property, however. You have to find a house to flip. Finding houses that will work to flip is a challenge because you’re competing with so many other investors who want to do the exact same thing.

You have to be able to quickly identify good deals and make a move on them to be successful in flipping. The following are some of the strategies you can start to use to find the best properties.

Work with Wholesalers Wholesalers are professionals who find properties that need to be rehabbed, and then they put them under contract. At that point, they work to find

buyers who will do the flip. The buyer, in these situations, takes over as the wholesaler and they then pay the wholesaler who acted as their middleman.

It’s expensive to go with this option, but it’s going to save you time. When you look at things over the long-term, it may even end up saving you money.

Wholesalers often have connections in very specific neighborhoods, and they’re really a niche that can be an efficient way to identify properties.

Go to Auctions Foreclosure and estate auctions are a popular way for flippers to find properties, but they’re very competitive. You have to be able to pay cash in many instances. Your county will publish auction lists for foreclosures a few weeks before the sale itself. If you’re interested in private or estate auctions, those are also usually published and advertised a few weeks out from the sale.

These are nerve-wracking because you typically can’t go in the house before you bid. You can just

see it from the street.

There are also very often bidding wars, so you may spend a lot more than you expected.

When you buy a property at auction, you’ll usually have to put down 10% of the winning price at the time of the auction and settle within 30 days.

Otherwise, you lose your deposit.

Work with a Real Estate Agent One of the best ways to identify properties that will fit your investment needs is to work with a real estate agent.

The agent can do most of the legwork for you, and the more you build your relationship, the better they’re going to be able to hone in on those properties that are a perfect fit for you.

A real estate agent can scour the MLS, but they also have network contacts so they can identify opportunities before they hit the MLS.

Go Straight to the Seller If things are very competitive, you do have the

option of going straight to potential sellers, but there are no guarantees this is going to work out.

If you see a property you’re interested in, you can go to the seller and make an offer, even if it’s not listed.

Real Estate Investment Groups Finally, something that has become increasingly popular in the past few years is joining a real estate investment group.

Real estate investment groups offer networking opportunities as well as education.

Listings tend to show up on the websites and newsletters these groups have access to.

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Lien Sales NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell personal property, household items, business goods and boxes of unknown content identified by Occupant name below, to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Sections 21700-21716 of the Business & Professions, section 2328 of the UCC, Section 535 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code.

The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on Thursday April 08, 2021 at 1:00 pm on the premises where said property has been stored known as Stor-It Self Storage and located at 4068 Del Rey Avenue, Marina Del Rey, Ca. 90292, County of Los Angeles, State of California, the following:

Natalie Jackson Antonio Marin Gago Barry Thomas Kerry Snyder Dream Hammer Corp Christina Ranieri Heung P. Lau Sam Melamed Brad Haase Erica Arden Adela Cei M. Gloria Gowan Marketta Denise Smith Andrea Bass Claudia Gutierrez Donna Rabin Purchases must be paid for at time of purchase in cash only. All purchased items are sold as is, where is and must be removed at the time of sale.

The sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between Owner and the obligated party.

AUCTIONEER: David Hester Auctioneer & Associates, C al i for ni a Au cti on Bond # 70 75 939 0 PUBLISHED: The Argonaut Newspaper 03/25/21, 04/01/21

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RUTH V. BRYANT CASE NO. 21STPB01627 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of RUTH V. BRYANT. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Joseph J. Praske in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. Mary J. Howroyd THE PETITION FOR PROKaren Mcclain BATE requests that: Joseph Brian Allaire J. Praske be appointed as KC Brown personal representative to Dorothy A. Washington administer the estate of the Eat The Ball USA decedent.

Dorothy A. Washington THE PETITION requests the Natalie Jackson decedent's will and codicils, if Antonio Marin Gago any, be admitted to probate.

Barry Thomas The will and any codicils are Kerry Snyder available for examination in Dream Hammer Corp the file kept by the court.

Christina Ranieri THE PETITION requests auHeung P. Lau thority to administer the esSam Melamed tate under the Independent Brad Haase Administration of Estates Act. Erica Arden (This authority will allow the Adela Cei personal representative to M. Gloria Gowan take many actions without Marketta Denise Smith obtaining court approval. BeAndrea Bass fore taking certain very imClaudia Gutierrez portant actions, however, the Donna Rabin personal representative will be required to give notice to Purchases must be paid for interested persons unless at time of purchase in cash they have waived notice or only. All purchased items are consented to the proposed sold as is, action.) The independent adwhere is and must be reministration authority will be moved at the time of sale. granted unless an interested The sale is subject to cancelperson files an objection to lation in the event the petition and shows good of settlement between Owncause why the court should er and the obligated party. not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition AUCTIONEER: David Hester will be held in this court as Auctioneer & Associates, follows: Date: March 26, Ca lifo rn ia Auction Bo nd 2021, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept.: # 7 07 59 3 90 44, Location: 111 N. Hill St. Los Angeles, CA 90012.

PUBLISHED: The Argonaut IF YOU OBJECT to the Newspaper 03/25/21, granting of the petition, you 04/01/21 should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 26, 2021, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept.: 44, Location: 111 N. Hill St. Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to th e granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Wayne T. Kasai SBN 144198 PO Box 811074 Los Angeles, California 90081 (213) 629-3900 The Argonaut Newspaper 03/11/21, 03/18/21, 03/25/21

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YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Wayne T. Kasai SBN 144198 PO Box 811074 Los Angeles, California 90081 (213) 629-3900 The Argonaut Newspaper 03/11/21, 03/18/21, 03/25/21

Name Change ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 21SMCP00083 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of MEG CAROLINE REINIS, CODY JULES NEWMAN (Minor), for Change of Name.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Meg Caroline Reinis filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Meg Reinis Newman to Meg Caroline Reinis b.) Cody Jules Newman to Cody Jules Reinis 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/7/2021. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: K. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street, Room 102 Santa Monica, CA 90401-Santa Monica Courthouse. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: March 1, 2021.

Lawrence Cho, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 03/18/21, 03/25/21, 04/1/21, 04/8/21 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 21NWCP00084 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of JOANA MORALES, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Joana Morales filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Joana Morales to Joana Salas 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/17/21. Time: 10:30 AM. Dept.: C Room: 312.

The address of the court is 12720 Norwalk Blvd., Room 101 Norwalk, CA 90650-Norwalk Courthouse. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: March 16, 2021. Judge Margaret M. Bernal, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 03/25/21, 04/01/21, 04/08/21, 04/15/21

Fic. Business Name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2021043240 Type of Filing: Original The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NICOLE ASHERAH; 6521 Hedding St. Los Angeles, CA 90045.

COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S) Nicole Madison Petrie, 6521 Hedding St. Los Angeles, CA 90045. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the Fictitious Business Name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. /s/: Nicole Madison Petrie. TITLE: Owner. This statement was filed with the LA County Clerk on: February 18, 2021. NOTICE – in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. a new Fictitious Business Name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., business and professions code). Publish: The Argonaut Newspaper. Dates: 03/4/21, 03/11/21, 03/18/21, 03/25/21

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