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The “ballot marking device,” as they are called, allows voters to not touch their paper ballot once inserted. Reviewing choices at the very end do not require handling the ballet — only visually scanning it. Think of it as an easy-to-read ATM. We repeat these simple instructions countless times a day to no avail. All in all, what an honor to be part of this noble experience. Many have died to ensure our right to a secret ballot. Let me do my part to continue this tradition for many years to come. Kyle Kimbrell Playa del Rey Talking Corona! Don’t Stand So Close To Me Re: “A Global Pandemic Hits Home,” March 12 Your article was very informative on the preventive actions our government and private institutions and advice to individuals on washing hands, touching surfaces and handshaking. However, there was no mention about a healthy person contracting the virus by TALKING to an infected person within 3 feet. At first, I thought FAKE NEWS, but on a recent NBC national news broadcast of a Pentagon news
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Ripple Effect Westside small businesses are struggling and finding innovative ways to pivot amid COVID-19 restrictions By Kellie Chudzinski Small businesses across the city are feeling the effects of Los Angeles County’s “Safer at Home” measures. New restrictions by county and city health officials have closed non-essential businesses in an attempt to keep residents at home and limit the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, as the number of deaths and cases in the county rises daily. Dine-in only restaurants, bars, hair salons, gyms, movie theaters, malls, and some retail stores, among others, have closed. Businesses on typically packed strips including the Venice Boardwalk and Abbot Kinney Boulevard, as well as those all around Los Angeles, are closing and those remaining open are feeling the constraints. Though the Safer at Home order officially went into effect on March 19 and will be in place until April 19, businesses started feeling a squeeze weeks ago. Hair and nail salons were among new businesses in mandated closures announced Sunday. Mindy Kim, owner of Nails by Olivia in Marina del Rey, closed before the official
DK’s Donuts’ Mayly Tao is on a mission to save her family business one delivery order at a time order as business came to a stop after a slowing since the beginning of March. “At this point, it was costing us more to stay open,” says Kim. Shannon Tackett, a stylist formerly at Abbot Kinney’s Salon 1636, who saw clients canceling weeks before St. Patrick’s Day, knew she wouldn’t be able to afford her station at the salon. Tackett made the difficult decision to leave the shop, though she is still offering clients
services on a case-by-case basis in their homes or her Venice penthouse — where she hopes to open a business called The Salon Sanctuary after the crisis — though she will be taking precautions to not spread or get the virus by wearing gloves and masks for now. “I’m doing my best to keep my focus,” she says. “I believe what we focus on grows. So I’m doing my best to keep my focus in a creative forward-moving place.”
Tackett expects if the closures of salons span a significant time period it will drive stylists to other professions and will have those in the industry innovating on their own as she is working to do now. Restaurants, and hospitality in general, have so far been deemed an essential business, as long as they serve food but only for delivery, pickup or take-out. In a letter sent to President Trump on March 18, the National Restaurant Association estimated the industry will lose $225 million in revenue over three months and five to seven million jobs. Mayly Tao, owner of the 24/7 DK’s Donuts & Bakery in Santa Monica, and delivery-only Donut Princess, has been working to find new and creative ways to drive in businesses. Tao says she noticed the change in foot traffic and orders weeks before the local and statewide orders started to rain in. For Tao, DK’s is a family business, opened in the early ’80s by her parents who settled in L.A. from Cambodia and passed the business on to her. A staple in the community, the doughnut shop has catered St. John’s hospital
cafeteria for nearly 25-years and had reoccurring orders for New York Bagel & Deli, among other cafes, and large companies in the area including Hulu, Amazon, and its subsidiary Ring. Earlier in the month, as concern around the novel coronavirus grew, companies slowly started sending employees to work from home, and on the front lines hospitals began preparing for heightened hygiene concerns. When St. John’s canceled its order, Tao took notice. “Almost all of the accounts are canceled,” Tao now says. “And that’s a huge hit on the business.” To stay up and running, she created a grocery store at DK’s, selling staples such as milk, eggs, bread and a selection of vegetables, open around the clock. She has also created DK’s Secret Sandwich Shop Menu on Uber Eats, and has made delivery available 24/7 on multiple food delivery apps. If a customer is outside of the app’s delivery range, Tao will take orders via email and deliver them herself. Tao is also encouraging residents to support local shops, and buy gift cards that supports businesses now and
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Humble Potato’s Eric Ong says government relief aid isn’t going far enough to save small businesses like his shoppers can use them later. “I mean, when your family business like this has been opened since 1981,” Tao says. “I will literally do anything, I will work at any hours necessary to make sure that we will move forward in the future.” Eric Ong, owner of Humble Potato in Culver City, Mee and Greet in Palms and MVP in Westchester, has banded together with other small business owners in the hospitality industry to petition Gov. Gavin Newsom “to plea for relief and support at the local, state and federal level.” “This is a once in a lifetime type of situation,” Ong says. “I’m just trying my best to make sure that we are as proactive as we can be.” He felt small businesses were “forgotten” in the initial discussions of a stimulus package, as owners were encouraged to take out low-interest loans with SBA or the city of Los Angeles’ microloan program, though both have caps that he said would barely cover one of his payrolls. President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act on the 18th that allocated roughly $8 billion for COVID-19
prevention, preparation and response efforts, with some new expectations and tax breaks for small businesses, but Ong is still pushing for relief. “It’s just crazy [that] somebody would take out a loan in this situation and go into debt,” Ong says. “We need grants here, we need cash bailouts in the sense that inject into the business.” Included in the aid package, going into effect April 2, were requirements that businesses with less than 500 employees provide up to 10 days of paid sick leave for those affected by the disease, and partial sick leave for up to 10 days to take care of an affected family member. And with the new expectations, those businesses will also receive tax credits and payroll tax relief to offset the costs of the sick leave. Christina Davis, president and CEO of the LAX Chamber of Commerce, is working to provide her nearly 600 members with resources — from webinars to tech training — to keep their businesses running. She is encouraging owners to pivot when possible and embrace the digital age, taking their companies online. She believes those that are able to “reinvent themselves” and use new technologies will “come out of this stronger.” “Some businesses will survive and thrive and they’ll adapt and some businesses will not,” she adds. “Every day is a new adventure for them trying to figure out how to weather the storm.” As businesses that remain open continue to struggle without their typical customer flow, Davis encourages support of local businesses. “When you can shop local, shop local,” she says. “So many of these businesses continue to reinvest in our communities. And if we can start at a very local level, it will just ripple out from there.”
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In-House Education With local schools moving online, parents, pupils and educators are adapting to distance learning
As local students’ coursework moves online, parents are navigating a new system of learning alongside their children their computer with headphones sort of art – painting, decorating where the teachers will post on and the parents are doing their during the day what the kids are cookies, anything to use their work, side-by-side. Everything is creativity. Then we do P.E., things doing and we’re also able to do out of whack right now, but at like yoga videos. But I’m going to virtual learning. Last week was least this feels kind of normal,” have to take them on walks.” only our first week, so it’s not she says. Joel Pelcyger, Co-Founder and completely structured yet. We’re Single mother of two, Amanda doing it in our jammies, which Head of School for PS1 Pluralistic Goldman lives in Playa Vista, I’m not proud about. I’m going to School in Santa Monica (psone. where her Kindergartner and buckle down on that. I want us to org), says his school’s distance third grader attend Playa Vista learning effort is going incredibly get dressed, have our breakfast Elementary School well, but he admits, “We are in and start school.” completely uncharted territory.” (playavistaschool.com). While her 9-year-old is able to Pelcyger started PS1 49 years “They are doing live Zoom work independently on the ago with his wife, but to him, creatsessions on the computer and the computer, Goldman is very school sent us home with packets hands-on with her youngest, help- ing a virtual, online school feels and packets of work to catch up,” ing him with reading and writing. like he’s almost starting a second “After that,” says Goldman, “I says Goldman. “The teachers are school. try to do a craft with them, some doing check-ins. We have apps “It’s a school that’s differ-
ent from most,” he says. “We always emphasize building an inclusive community where parents are our partners. We’re figuring out how to keep online learning active, interactive and dynamic, and give the students as much sense of normalcy and continuity as possible by seeing their teachers in person [on the computer].” Students and teachers are mostly using the Zoom app to connect with each other on the internet, but they are vetting many other apps as well. As effective as this type of learning can be, Pelcyger doesn’t think online education should ever replace face-toface learning for one very important reason. “The key to all learning is human relationships. We have three core values in our school: competence, confidence and connection,” he says. PS1 emphasizes connection because, “Everything in life is based on relationships and interrelationships ” says Pelcyger. “When you’re doing distance learning, you have to figure out ways to make that continue. We’re in these uncertain times and we want to provide assuredness and stability. People count on us for the relationship we have, we have to figure out how to maintain that relationship from a distance. We’re not just doing distance learning; we are establishing and sustaining a distance learning community.” PHOTOS BY AMANDA GOLDMAN
By Shanee Edwards COVID-19, more commonly referred to as coronavirus, is disrupting life as we know it and that includes how our children learn. The Los Angeles Unified School District has closed all K–12 schools until at least May 1, with even Governor Gavin Newsom expecting that California schools won’t reopen before summer break. Local independent and private schools, such as Westside Neighborhood School in Del Rey and Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, have also shifted classes online for the time being. For parents, that means they will be leading the education charge at home, as L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has urged everyone to stay “safer at home.” So what exactly does that mean for students? It depends on each individual school and each individual family. Zsuzsi Steiner (an Argonaut contributing photographer) is a mom with two boys, ages 6 and 9. They are students at WISH Charter Elementary in Westchester (wishcharter.org), where Steiner also teaches an elective class in “Survival Arts.” WISH provides a Chromebook laptop computer to every student and has implemented a very detailed online learning program that allows kids to see their teachers on screen and learn together in real time. “We started virtual learning last Monday,” says Steiner. “The teachers have been opening up the classrooms a few minutes early so the students can hear each other. You hear this wonderful, excited children-babble. They play music in the mornings before school and connect. When the teacher comes on, she’s able to mute all the kids’ microphones and kids just hear the teacher. Then she begins the first lesson.” For the first few days, the teachers were at the school, in their actual classrooms. “It was really helpful for my Kindergartner to see his teacher in his classroom,” says Steiner. “His face just lit it, saying, ‘Oh, there’s Mr. Gleason!’” By having the regular school schedule continue, parents like Steiner have a window to get their own work done. “You see photos of families at the kitchen table. The kids are at
Playa Vista mom Amanda Goldman has supplemented her kids’ distance learning with crafts, cookie decorating and jigsaw puzzles at home
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Notes From Noreen: Rumors of this Boomer’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated… Dear Editor,
through the epidemiological barbwire, I am. Off the grid and just hunky-dory hunkered down here. I didn’t strangle that Census worker with an old D-Day parachute on my lawn just to have a goddamn microbe be my ultimate demise. Give it your best shot, COVID-19. You too, MS-13. All you confusing acronyms are the same to me. My home is a veritable Thermopylae of impregnability. Good luck navigating the complex system of moats and medieval pikes I fashioned from barrels of Ensure powdered milk and the upturned legs of my many prescription walkers respectively. Like my once calcium-deficient bones, this place is fortified. Balls in your court, you piñata-looking virus. I pace the ramparts of my DSM5-recognized mania with utmost vigilance. Like a Norse berserker febrile on shrooms, mead, and
Fogey ol’ Noreen here. Longtime reader, first-time computeruser. Hale and healthful and still bristling brio from my basement brimming with delicious preserves that I canned and stockpiled during the Cold War. I do declare, few confections taste as savoury as decades-old apricots garnished with the comforting capers that you’re sticking it to Khrushchev somehow with every bite. Turbulent times afoot. Yet I frolic and squeal with anti-social glee when I hear a pandemic looms. It reinforces and affirms my lifestyle choices for the last half-century. Namely the wholesale hoarding and allaround distaste for reason. Long have I been waging an epic battle with germs and they finally have me in their crosshairs. But I’m still bobbing and weaving
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Zen Garden Safe Place for Youth’s Community Garden cultivates jobs and tranquility for local homeless youth By Gary Walker Talk to anyone who spends time in a garden and almost invariably they mention how it makes them feel relaxed, serene — even safe. In Safe Place for Youth’s Community Garden on Venice Boulevard, butterflies and pollinators dance among the plants and fruit trees just in front of literary arts center Beyond Baroque, where practically every square inch is covered in green. Rich, black topsoil surround some of the plants like an organic sentry, its slightly
pungent smell rising with the ocean breeze on a February day. For Althena Gelfand, working in Safe Place for Youth’s Community Garden as an intern has been a way to connect with nature. “I really like working with plants, getting my hands dirty. It’s really therapeutic,” says Gelfand, 21. While SPY’s garden internship program is currently in hibernation as the world collectively pauses to combat the spread of COVID-19, the homeless services nonprofit’s patch of
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green space has served for the last two years as a refuge for local youth from a chaotic world. “There’s no doubt that we will resume and absolutely grow the internship program as soon as it’s safe to,” says SPY Garden Manager Emily Alford. “We’re all altering our lifestyles to care for the community at large. That is a theme that has carried to the garden.” Intern Trevion Beck says he wishes there were more spaces like the SPY garden. “It’s a safe place for people to spend time relaxing, admiring
butterflies, and smelling fragrant herbs like lavender and rosemary,” Beck says. “Green space [is] a mental health benefit,” says Alford. “Some people innately and easily gravitate toward the garden because they instantly feel that it’s calming and anxiety reducing. But there are others who have virtually no experience with gardening but still are able to tap into that deeper, innate place. … I’m blown away by the amount of feedback that I hear from the youth who come out here and put their hands in
the soil who tell me how calming that is for them.” Former SPY intern Taris Auberry says the garden represents a sense of renewal, a place where she feels rejuvenated. “When I feel weak, and after I work here in the soil and with these plants, it gives me strength. It’s very grounding and it keeps you in the present moment,” says Auberry, 24. Auberry, Beck and Gelfand are among SPY’s current and former clients who have discovered an inherent passion for urban gardening during their
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internships. While she did not intern at the garden, SPY Garden Community Coordinator Natalie Flores Blackner sees herself in many of the interns. “Getting involved in gardening was the best thing that ever happened to me,” says Flores Blackner, who admits to being a “lost youth” in her early 20s. “We’ve created incredible topsoil that was not here before. Through mulching and composting we’ve created a great fertilizer and that is helping our community get fertilized. They are the fruits and the results of this wonderful fertilization.” ___ Founded in 2011 by Executive Director Alison Hurst and a group of volunteers, SPY has grown from an all-volunteer group into a full-service youth organization with paid staff members and now works to house youths in Venice as well as put them to work through various programs, including the Community Garden. The garden yields a bounty of fruits and vegetables: arugula, radishes, cauliflower, lettuce, kale, cabbage, baby carrots,
beets, fruit trees, figs, mulberries, avocados, peaches, pears, passion fruit, lemons and sugarcane. And much of what is harvested is sold at SPY and consumed by its staff and clients. Once owned by the environmental and soil regeneration nonprofit Kiss the Ground, the SPY Community Garden is not just a place to mellow out and get into a Zen-like state. In 2018, the garden produced 269 pounds of fresh produce, which is eaten at SPY and sold at the SPY Youth Farmers Market and other venues. Last year, the SPY Community Garden Farmstand at the youth market earned $1,347 in revenue. “We try not to let anything go to waste. Carrot top pesto is sold at our stands and we always sell out of it,” says Alford. In 2019, 60% of garden-based interns gained jobs in industries directly related to work performed at the garden. Over the last two years, youth interns have found jobs in landscaping, social services, and produce management in grocery stores and restaurants. “We’re igniting entrepreneurship and we’re igniting the skills
that they have within them that can be harnessed and used in the real world,” says Hurst, a former landscape consultant. One of those youths is Allison Arnott, who was a SPY Community Garden intern in 2017. Working in the garden has given her an added appreciation for organic produce now that she has worked in that industry. Since her internship, she has worked as a cash manager at the organic produce store Rainbow Acres in Culver City. “Working here feels really aligned with some of the things that I really like, such as working for a store that provides healthy, natural food instead of for some corporation that doesn’t care about sustainability,” says Arnott, 24. “It was such a wonderful feeling of taking care of something and then seeing it grow.” ___ Once a week Alford harvests greens from the garden for a large salad with other garden ingredients that is served at the SPY Access Center. Lunch is cooked whenever interns come to work at the garden, which
gives them an opportunity to actually eat what they spend hours cultivating. “We’re trying to grow as much food as possible in order to feed as many people possible,” says Alford. In an effort to bridge the current widening divide between opponents of housing homeless foster youth and adults and those who support more housing, SPY hosts a community meal at the garden four times a year where anyone — regardless of their positions on local politics — is welcome to come and enjoy the garden’s bounty. “It’s an incredible opportunity for people from all sides to come together to break bread. Our youth can show off the produce that they’ve grown and we think it’s a great way to humanize all sides,” Alford says. “It’s almost like this oasis in the major crisis where the unhoused community and the housed community can come together to hear conversations,” Hurst adds. Mar Vista resident Susan Klos has visited the garden and when she built her own garden several years ago she hired several SPY teens to work on it. She sees the
garden as a stress-reducing environment as well as a place to grow food in an urban setting. “It’s a gift to the community. It’s a wonderful place where you can escape the rat race and relax in a tranquil setting,” says Klos, a member of Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas’ Empowerment Congress Mental Health Committee. Hurst says she hopes to expand the number of internships as well as the items that she grows in the garden this year. Last year, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl awarded the garden program with a $40,000 grant from her Food for The Soul initiative and SPY is hoping to implement similar funding from a recently awarded grant soon. “So many of the youth who we provide services to feel that they have nothing to offer because they’ve been told that over and over again,” Hurst says. “So we’re trying to find a way to tap the beauty that is within them.” Safe Place for Youth continues to serve local youth in need through its Access Center. To make a donation, visit safeplaceforyouth.org
Through the bounty of its Community Garden (managed by Emily Alford, right), Safe Place for Youth helps interns like Trevion Beck (left and opposite) build valuable job skills in the agricultural arts
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‘A Little Bit of Decency’ Students petition LMU after being forced to leave campus without tuition reimbursement amid COVID-19 precautions By Kellie Chudzinski Thousands of people — among them Loyola Marymount University students, professors and alumni — have signed a petition demanding partial tuition reimbursement, continued payment of students in workstudy programs and accommodations for those who may struggle with online courses. LMU, which has joined schools across the country in moving classes online and closing on-campus housing as cases of the novel coronavirus continue to rise, is one of the most expensive university’s in the country, charging at least $70,000 a year for tuition, books, housing and food. In a statement to The Argonaut, LMU Provost Thomas Poon wrote: “LMU has taken extraordinary steps to safeguard our community in response to the outbreak of COVID-19. I am acutely aware of the challenges
LMU students’ online petition seeks partial tuition reimbursement, housing and food refunds as well as workstudy compensation for the remainder of the semester that these necessary actions have created for our students, faculty and staff. Through it all, I’ve witnessed the professionalism, commitment and resilience in our community that I am confident will sustain us during this
uncertain time.” Poon is also the university’s chief academic officer. LMU has joined universities and colleges across the country in moving classes online and closing on-campus housing to
students as cases of the novel coronavirus climb nationwide. On March 13, all LMU students who lived on the school’s Westchester campus and in university-owned houses and apartments in Playa del Oro and Park West were notified that they were required to move out by March 22. Case-by-case waivers to stay in university housing would be taken into consideration, according to the notice. LMU students who lived outside of campus housing would be allowed to stay in the area, though many have been posting their rooms for rent as they also prepare to return to their homes. LMU officials announced on March 19 that the university would offer “prorated credits or refunds for housing and parking” for the rest of the school year, though neither specific amounts nor balances were released. The notice also said the school will be paying those in the work-study
program, which provides students with on-campus jobs in which paychecks can go directly toward tuition or for personal expenses in a lump sum dispersed in April. Those funds are based on hours worked before spring break. That statement also said it was working with unidentified “dining partners” to offer partial credit for meal plans for which students pay in advance. Students have yet to receive information on the refunds, according to multiple students interviewed by The Argonaut. Universities have not yet been recommended to close by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), though much of California is on a state of lock down, with residents being asked to stay at home and avoid gatherings of more than 10 people. A group of students, including LMU junior Raven Yamamoto (Continued on page 17)
Farmers markets, essential for the health of local communities, remain open but are making some changes in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Expect to see wider spaces between vendors, no samples, more gloves, possible waiting lines, and other precautions. As always only shop for essentials and practice social distancing.
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DIRECTORY Where healthy food is always in season TUESDAYS
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Culver City Farmers Market 2 to 7 p.m.
Marina del Rey 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Santa Monica Pico Farmers Market 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Via Marina at Panay Way, Marina del Rey
Virginia Avenue Park, 2200 Virginia Ave., Santa Monica
Main Street, between Venice and Culver boulevards
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WEDNESDAYS Santa Monica Downtown Farmers Market 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Arizona Avenue, between 4th St. and Ocean Ave.
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FRIDAYS Venice Farmers Market 7 to 11 a.m. 500 Venice Blvd. (at Venice Way), Venice
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Playa Vista Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Mar Vista Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
12775 W. Millennium Drive, Runway at Playa Vista
Venice and Grand View boulevards
www.farmermark.com/ playavista Santa Monica Downtown Farmers Market 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Arizona Avenue, between 2nd and 4th streets, Santa Monica
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marvistafarmersmarket.org Santa Monica Main Street Farmers Market 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Heritage Square, 2640 Main St., Santa Monica
smgov.net/portals/farmersmarket/ Westchester Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Triangle, 6200 W. 87th St.
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“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” — Robert Urich
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Dining During a Pandemic Local restaurants use technology, lay-offs and hospital-grade sanitizer to keep their kitchens open By Shanee Edwards
One of the best perks of living on the Westside is the wide array of delicious dining options. But since California Governor Gavin Newsom mandated a statewide closure of dine-in restaurants in response to the COVID-19 virus and the city of Los Angeles has halted restaurants from offering dine-in service, going out for a casual, boozy brunch at Lunetta All Day in Santa Monica isn’t an option right now. Lunetta All Day, like most Westside restaurants, is open for pickup and delivery, but it’s unclear if the shift to a take-out/delivery model alone will garner enough business to sustain most restaurants. We checked in with some of our favorite eateries to see how they are faring. Most are hopeful they will make it through this time of crisis and all are adapting new safety measures to minimize health risks and follow orders from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Restaurateurs are also optimizing technology to make getting your meal as easy (and germ-free) as possible. Some restaurants like Mo’s Place in Playa del Rey and Gulp in Playa Vista are offering to-go cocktails (now legal in California under a temporary measure by the state’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control); others, toilet paper and hand sanitizer to-go. Some like Playa’s Bacari PdR have turned into temporary pop-up markets, and others like chef Jeremy Fox’s Birdie G’s in Santa Monica have added the option to curbside pickup culinary staples direct from the famed chef’s larder. The City of Santa Monica has even launched an interactive digital map (santamonica.gov/coronavirusresources) to help local in-home diners find restaurants offering to-go/delivery services. While our local restaurants seem to understand the key to survival is innovation, overall, everyone is worried. Here’s what they had to say. Benny’s Tacos in Westchester | bennystacos.com Benny’s Tacos manager
Taiwanese restaurant Little Fatty, food gallery concept Pop’s Burgers and Shakes, Marina del Rey’s Pizzarito and Westchester’s Benny’s Tacos are doubling down on delivery Christian Gutierrez says now that customers can no longer dine-in, they are seeing drastic financial losses. “We are losing thousands of dollars every day,” he says. “Our delivery went up a bit but we’re still losing a lot of money. We’re just staying open to provide for our community and our neighborhood, and so our employees can have money to feed their families.” Pizzarito N.Y. Pizza by the Slice in Marina del Rey | pizzaritomenu.com Al Caruso has owned and operated Pizzarito in the Marina Marketplace for 36 years. He says, “Some days business is up and some days down, it’s hard to say.” To help drum up business, he’s doing internet promotions and working with the Marina del Rey Visitors Bureau. But he’s also sanitizing to the hilt. “When we get here in the morning, we get out the hospital-grade disinfectant and go through the whole restaurant.” Luckily, he hasn’t had to lay off any
employees. “As long as the government doesn’t shut us down, we’ll be here.” Mao’s Kitchen in Venice | maoskitchen.com Jake Li, owner of Mao’s for the last 20 years says business is very slow. “I’m very nervous,” says Li. “The pick-up and delivery is a little busier, but the daytime is really slow. We don’t have dine-in so the sales figures have dropped probably 40%.” But Li says he felt a slowdown back in January, weeks before the Governor banned in-restaurant dining. Because the COVID-19 virus started in China, he thinks people have an unconscious bias against Chinese food. He hopes people realize his food is just as safe and delicious as any other food. “We are Chinese food, but a very American company.” The Gallery Food Hall at Santa Monica Place | popburgers.com The Gallery eateries in the
Santa Monica Place mall are focused on ramping up delivery, according to John Kolaski, owner of K2 restaurants. They are using a total of eight delivery services, including their own service, SocialEats, specifically for people in Santa Monica. In a twist of fate, they feted their newest eatery Pop’s Burgers and Shakes with a launch party just days before the state and city’s directives to halt dine-in service. “It’s actually been our most popular concept so far,” says Kolaski. Kolaski says they also stocked up on another highly sought-after commodity: “We bought a whole lot of toilet paper so our team doesn’t have to worry here, and we’re selling rolls of toilet paper on our apps to help people not have to leave the house.” All food comes in sealed bags. Tony P’s Dockside Grill in Marina del Rey | tonyps.com But not all restaurants are trying to ramp up take-out and delivery.
Jack Reck, manager at Tony P’s, says, “We are completely closed. We have the option to do [take-out and delivery], but we’re not set up for it, it’s not efficient for us. It would not be cost effective.” Little Fatty in Mar Vista | littlefattyla.com Little Fatty’s manager Pam Stampahar says she had to lay off 80% of her staff and is now focused on take-out and delivery. Luckily, they already had a robust delivery business and have seen an increase on take-out as well. Stampahar says a lot of customers are opting not to use the apps for takeout because they want all the money to go to the restaurant. Last week, Little Fatty also launched an entire frozen line that seems to be popular with people wanting to stock their freezer. “The dumplings and some of our pasta dishes can be bought in bulk,” she says.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE “UR OUT!” By FRED PISCOP ACROSS 1 Identifies in a Facebook photo 5 __ basin 10 Chitchats 14 Prep for surgery 19 Mil or mile 20 Kipling’s “Lone Wolf” 21 Release, as an odor 22 Reason to march 23 Where a displaced ex-hubby may sleep? 25 Determination as to which twin is born first? 27 Brunch dish 28 2000 NBA MVP 30 Clay-pigeon launcher 31 Guinness Book suffix 32 Back-to-zero button 33 Delightful places 34 Closed (in) 36 Concerning 38 North Pole explorer 40 Restaurant with skating carhops 44 Poem about the letter nu? 50 Myriad 51 Violinist’s effect 52 “Didn’t mean it” 53 Confession hearers 56 Lendl of tennis 57 Alloy containing carbon 58 “Any day now” 59 Body __ 60 Elsinore natives 62 Ex-White House Press Secretary Spicer 63 Progressive Insurance icon’s layoff? 66 Warning to a sinner 68 “__ Madness”: old anti-drug movie
69 Dried, pulverized onions? 72 “The Swedish Nightingale” Jenny 73 Littlest littermates 77 Greek X 78 Primatologists’ subjects 79 Commonly abbreviated bit of Latin 81 Part of a hat trick 82 Hard bargain driver 84 “CSI” part 85 African grassland 88 “Uh-huh” 89 Three movies about skeletons? 91 Clobbers with snowballs 93 Silents vamp Bara 94 Hammerhead cousin 95 Got ready to stop 97 Needing a rinse 100 28-Across, for eight seasons 105 “That’s unfortunate” 108 Rebus animals 109 Game akin to bingo 110 Flea market deal 111 Extension of an embargo? 114 Della’s notable facial feature? 116 Poke around 117 Artist who helped Hitchcock design a dream sequence for “Spellbound” 118 Colorful upholstery fabric 119 Gobs 120 Trivial 121 Manicure sound 122 Escargot 123 Kitchen supplies DOWN 1 House of Henry VIII 2 “Speed Racer”
genre 3 Helps the cause 4 Made off with 5 Negotiating asset 6 Clanton gang leader 7 __ ring: encryption toy 8 One way to work 9 Grow dark 10 USAF VIP 11 Org. with an oftquoted journal 12 Marsh bird 13 Bright at night 14 Sharpshooters’ aids 15 Sleeping __ 16 Far from polite 17 Doesn’t waste 18 Muppet with a unibrow 24 Eye part 26 Vientiane native 29 Set a high goal 33 Logician’s word 34 Buffoon 35 Fuller’s geodesic creation 37 MLB Expo, since 2005 39 Counts’ equals 41 __ spray 42 Toastmaster’s opening 43 Dermatologist’s concern 44 “Amores” poet 45 Operatic icon 46 Abba of Israel 47 Difficult 48 Ritzy spread 49 Either “Fargo” director 53 Elbowed 54 Urban sunbather’s spot 55 Derive 57 Orders to go 58 Potpourri quality 61 Bud protector 62 Home of the Ninja Turtles 64 No longer in bed 65 Thrifty 67 St. Peter’s Square
figure 69 Climactic film scene 70 Bright Orion star 71 Pressed through a sieve 72 Celeb with a TV “Garage” 74 Pitcher’s gem, in baseball lingo 75 Brand associated with NASA missions 76 Crack up 77 Casino disk 80 Lower in status 83 Catches on to 84 Slough off 85 Stick around 86 Torah holder 87 Roy G. Biv hue 89 Saint-Saëns work with a memorable cello solo 90 Big-box stores, e.g. 92 Yawning, say 93 Coarse woolens 96 Part of BYOB 98 Brewers’ ovens 99 Playwright Chekhov 101 Tunesmiths’ org. 102 Hayek’s “Frida” role 103 “Silas Marner” author 104 Monopoly fees 105 1/2 fl. oz. 106 Level-headed 107 Half hitch, e.g. 109 Dot on a radar screen 110 “Riverdance” dance 112 Hogwash 113 Dethroner of Foreman 115 Lilly of pharmaceuticals
MEET JOE BEIGE I’ve been dating this guy for a month. Things with him are really average. However, we met through a mutual guy friend, and I’m actually really into that guy. Could my staying with the guy I’m seeing spark jealousy in the friend and lead him to make a play for me? —Wrong Place Sext your boyfriend and ask him to forward it to his friend. Kidding, obviously. But at least that would end things between you. That’s the right thing to do — as opposed to staying with the guy and using his interest in you as bait to attract the dude you really want. By the way, it’s probably unrealistic to think the other dude will swoop in, elbow his buddy out of the way, and run off with you. Mate poaching — somebody “stealing” another person’s romantic partner mid-relationship — has likely been a common form of mate acquisition throughout human evolutionary history, explains evolutionary psychologist David Schmitt. However, it has its costs. Schmitt notes that mate poaching can lead to undesirable “social consequences”: violent retribution from the poached person’s partner, damage to one’s reputation (especially for a guy who poaches his buddy’s girl), and exile from one’s social world.
The relationships formed through mate poaching also tend to be less than dreamy. Research by social psychologist Joshua Foster and his colleagues found that “individuals who were poached by their current romantic partners were less committed, less satisfied, and less invested in their relationships” than non-poached relationship partners. The sort of people who let themselves be poached (from their previous relationship into their current one) tended to have a wandering eye — paying “more attention to romantic alternatives” and cheating more often than the non-poached. The moment you realize you’ve got the lukewarms for a guy is the moment you should break it off and move on. You’ll be that much further along in meeting somebody who might be right for you. Plus, your sharing any more than a date or two (and a chaste kiss, no nudity) with a guy you’re not that into is likely to make his dude friends classify you as off-limits. Of course, it’s also seriously unfair to the meh man (who is also a person with feelings) for you to slowwalk him off the plank. Sure, there’s this idea that a romantic partner will be your shelter, but that’s not supposed to mean they’re the bus stop where you wait till the guy you’re actually into picks you up.
DAWN OF THE DAD I’m a 36-year-old woman. I’ve had my share of men who shy away from commitment, so it’s a bit of a surprise that the guy I’ve been seeing for a few months really wants to settle down. He’s already talking about kids. While I really like him a lot, I worry that his rush to settle down is a red flag. — Uneasy When a guy yells something out in bed, it’s a little disturbing if it’s, “You make me want to put up wallpaper in a house in the suburbs!” It’s possible the guy suddenly had enough of the Tinder rando-lympics and began longing for a lasting bond with a woman. Clinical psychologist Judith Sills believes feeling this way causes a shift in one’s approach to dating. The push to find the perfect “right person” gets cast aside for finding a right enough person at the right time. What makes it the right time is “readiness,” which Sills calls “an internal process that acts as a psychological catalyst for commitment.” This is readiness for true partnership — for intimacy (and the vulnerability it requires). It “does not mean being without
anxiety or ambivalence,” Sills explains. But “readiness is a state of mind, an attitude of approach that helps you to push past the barriers created by these feelings.” Whatever the reason for the guy’s rush to put up picket fencing, it’s important to take things slowly. (You might give it a year or more before you make any big moves together.) Research by psychologist Michael I. Norton and his colleagues suggests that the more budding romantic partners learn about each other, the more they see dissimilarities — clashes between them — and the less satisfied they can become with each other and the relationship. Do something people newly in love (or at least newly in hots) typically don’t do: Seek out the clashes between you — all the areas in which you glaringly don’t want the same things, have habits that grate on each other, etc. If that stuff isn’t enough to break you up, tell him you two might have a reasonable chance of going the distance together — though not if he keeps talking to your womb on dates: “I’d like you to give me a male heir. How’s Friday?”
GOT A PROBLEM? Write to Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave, Ste. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email her at AdviceAmy@aol.com. ©2020, 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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THE ARGONAUT REAL ESTATE Q&A Coronavirus update: Cancelled real estate events, a halt to evictions and the DRE marches on The impacts of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are touching every segment of our lives, and the real estate profession is no exception.
rates will be significant. The average 30-year FRM rate was 3.36% in the week before the Fed dropped the federal funds rate to zero. During the same week, the difference between the 30-year FRM rate and the applicable Anxiety is sure to pull back sales volume, home benchmark rate – then 10-year T-Note – was prices and residential construction. But until nearly 2.5 percentage points, a full point above these reports start to come in for the spring — the average spread of 1.5 percentage points. in one-to-two months — we won’t know how significant the drop will be. These figures show that while average FRM rates are at historic lows, they can, in fact, go In the meantime, people are being told to stay lower. With significantly lower interest rates, home and Governor Newsom is pondering how homebuyers may well be enticed out of their the state will maintain a quarantine when there cautious rigor mortis. Moreover, they will are so many people who are homeless or at suddenly find their buyer purchasing power risk of eviction. For now, the DRE is continuing inflated, allowing them to qualify for higher to administer most state licensing exams, prices, which will undoubtedly buoy home which are conducted in-person. prices. Our updated housing market forecast But will FRM rates go lower? Or will mortgage Anxiety about the state of the economy has caused homebuyers to pause. With job insecurity at the forefront of many homebuyer’s minds, taking a leap into a new mortgage payment seems riskier than ever this spring. Normally, an event like the coronavirus outbreak would cause home sales volume to slow dramatically — which has already begun — and home prices to follow quickly behind. However, with the 10-year Treasury (T-) Note hitting historic lows and recent news that the Fed has dropped their key benchmark rate to zero, the impact on mortgage interest
lenders, wary of the economic risks of an economic downturn, maintain their elevated spread in 2020?
It will depend on how long this pandemic lasts, and the degree of economic impact it continues to have on financial and mortgage markets. With the Fed now at a zero interest rate and with a $700 billion quantitative easing (QE) effort underway, they have thrown down arguably their most useful tool to pull the economy out of a recession – and we aren’t even in one yet!
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Interest rate limbo The Fed’s only option going forward will be to go negative, a dramatic action that they avoided during the 2008 recession and elongated recovery. If the Fed does go negative, expect to see the 30-year FRM rate fall below 3% for the first time in history. This downward rate pressure will be increased as the Fed will buy up mortgages as part of their QE efforts, and thus set the rates for the majority of mortgages going forward.
(MBA) cancelled their big technology conference in Los Angeles. This was quickly followed by the cancellation of two major Southern California events by the National Association of Realtors.
Other, smaller gatherings have been cancelled, as well. Despite not meeting the 250-person threshold when events are required to be cancelled, in-person events like real estate training courses are being postponed or cancelled every day. Agents are nervous about gathering, especially those who are part of With significantly cheaper lending, home prices vulnerable populations. will receive a massive stimulus and builders with any sort of resources will be induced to On the client side, sellers are more hesitant to build, uncertainty about the pandemic aside. open their homes to potential buyers and many Thus, like during the early 2000s when the Fed are cancelling open houses. Agents are reporting was in reaction mode to the unexpected events deals falling through as economic uncertainty of September 11, a recession will largely be sets in. Homebuyers and sellers unsure about job averted, and home prices will not receive a security are more likely to hunker down until the correction, but continue to rise beyond the uncertainty passes, and real estate professionals pace of incomes. are seeing that first-hand. But, this is all up in the air. In the coming weeks, watch mortgage rates closely for an indication of where home sales are headed through the remainder of 2020. Cancelled: all real estate events, that is With Governor Newsom calling to limit large gatherings to reduce the spread of the virus, the cancellations are rolling in. In the first week of March, the Mortgage Bankers Association
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“This three bed, two bath home has a privacy fence at street level,” says agent Jesse Weinberg. “Upgrades include hardwood floors, recessed lighting, an open kitchen w/ stone countertops. There are several outdoor sitting areas, including a private deck off the kitchen perfect for outdoor dining & entertaing. Other updates, include a new roof, several new appliances, two-car garage w/ custom shelving, & new HVAC, this home is truly unique. Walking distance to beaches, the bike path, & restaurants.” Offered at $1,489,000 Jesse Weinberg Jesse Weinberg & Associates 800-804-9132
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Compiled by Jennifer Pellerito, Stephanie Bell & Christina Campodonico Shut In and Sing Festival, 5 p.m. Stay connected through music and community as a group of songwriters bring their musical talents online. Listen to live-streamed country, folk and Americana music. Pay what you can. stageit.com/shutinandsing The Canyoneers, 6 p.m. Outlaw country and desert rock duo The Canyoneers play a live-streamed concert for the online Corona Classic Concert Series. Search Ellen Berman’s Corona Classic Concert Series on facebook.com. Songs from the Corona Zone: Dan Navarro, daily at various times. Known as one half of the duo Lowen & Navarro, Dan Navarro performs an intimate solo acoustic set daily on his Facebook page, usually live-streamed between 4 and 7 p.m. PST. facebook. com/danavarro.personal
Friday, March 27 Venice Farmers’ Market, 7:00 to 11:00 a.m. Enjoy some
fresh air while shopping for essential groceries at the Venice Farmers’ Market. 500 Venice Blvd. at Venice Way. venicefarmersmarket.com Pandemic Parties, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tune in to original music from Seth Glier, who presents his Pandemic Parties series as part of the Stay at Home online festival. patreon. com/sethglier
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Thursday, March 26
Wednesday, April 1 Quarantine Karaoke, 9 p.m. Sing your heart out during quarantine karaoke with people from all around the world on social media. @karaokequarantine hosts karaoke sessions on Instagram live every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. instagram.com/karaokequarantine
Saturday, March 28 Santa Monica Farmers’ Market, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Practice safe social distancing while shopping for fresh food offerings from local farmers. Arizona Avenue between 4th and 2nd Streets, Santa Monica. smgov.net/portals/farmersmarket Dockwalker Training, 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Learn about environmentally-sound boating practices to help protect wildlife and prevent water pollution. This virtual workshop helps interested boaters become Dockwalkers volunteers. santamonicabay.org/events/
Museums & Galleries Hot Club of L.A. moves their Monday night IRL residency at the Cinema Bar online with a jazzy live stream. SEE MONDAY, MARCH 30.
dockwalker-training-newportbeach-2 Theodore Payne Native Plant Virtual Garden Tour, 10 a.m. Tour the Westside’s most beautiful home landscapes during this live stream event. Chat with garden owners and designers while learning about plants, garden design and wildlife habitats. $30 members/ students; $35 non-members. eventbrite.com
Sunday, March 29
Santa Monica’s world famous farmers’ market invites you to pick up fresh produce in an airy environment. SEE SATURDAY, MARCH 28.
master class hosted by Nandi Wellness Boutique practitioner John Corsa, who uses movement to help mentally and physically release tension and anxiety while supporting muscle alignment and development. $5. nandi.la.
Mar Vista Farmers’ Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Take a social distancing stroll through this local farmers’ market, which continues to operate every Sunday. Stock up on fruits and vegetables while supporting local farmers. 3826 Grand View Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 861-4444; marvistafarmersmarket.org
Westchester Farmer’s Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Shop for fresh produce supplied by local farmers, open during shelter-in-place for those who need to head out for essential needs. 6200 West 87th Street, Westchester. westchesterfarmersmkt.com
Monday, March 30 Gypsy Jazz Live Stream, 9 to 11 p.m. Tune in to an energetic live stream performance by Hot Club of LA, featuring a mix of original music, straight jazz, and French, Roma and Russian songs. youtube.com/ channel/UCAzm9MFp17El7jB4mQdcjLA
Tuesday, March 31 Virtual Mindfulness + Movement Masterclass, 1 p.m. Get active during this 40-minute
Virtual Google Museum Tours. Explore LACMA and The Getty along with many other museums and collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture. View high-definition images of art collections and experience 360-degree views of museum galleries from the comfort of your home. google.com/ culturalinstitute Wende Museum Online, anytime. Experience the collections of the Wende Museum virtually while you stay at home. Watch live stream videos and explore highlights from a collection of Zsolnay ceramics via the museum’s online collection.wendemuseum.org
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‘A Little Bit of Decency’ (Continued from page 10)
and first-year student Raymond CangKimVo, penned the online petition on Change.org, which also asks for tuition to be lowered after the university’s March 13 eviction announcement. As of press time, the petition had almost reached its goal of 5000 signatures. “[Students] are all in such bad shape right now,” Vo said of posting the petition. “We’re all so displaced. We’re really just asking for a little bit of decency.” “As someone who has just worked so hard to pay these costs just to be able to stay here and then see that we’re getting
evicted, classes are being moved online, that we’re essentially not going to have the same quality of education we paid for, it just really upsets me that they haven’t even said that they are intending to refund us,” said Yakamoto, adding she has struggled to cover tuition on her own. Undergrad tuition and fees at LMU are set at $50,252 for the current school year. That does not include room and board at $15,000 and parking costing anywhere from $800 to $1,200, as reported on the school’s website. Current film majors and students enrolled in performing arts programs wrote that the new
online education format was not conducive to success with their studies. They said they often relied on facilities and equipment provided by the university. They believe a partial tuition credit is warranted. “As a senior art major, I was depending on having access to studio facilities in order to complete my portfolio and secure a job position post-graduation,” Aurora Schnurr wrote. “Now, without access to said facilities and without the ability to install my thesis in the TPK art gallery, I have not only been robbed of my education, but my future job prospects, and LMU has done absolutely nothing to
remedy that.” Lina Larson adds: “I’m not paying $70k to not use the edit rooms for post-production on my thesis film.” The university, and students who created the petition, have set up separate relief funds for students having difficulty moving or having other challenges in complying with the school’s directions. LMU’s Lion Emergency Fund, for instance, has $20,000, according to the web page for the fund. “Hundreds of students need your help; some of them are choosing between buying their next few meals or paying for their moving expenses. We
should never allow Lions to make that choice,” states the site. (The school’s mascot is Iggy the Lion.) Student Andrea Villegas Ospina of Bogota, Colombia, returned home after three flights in four days to make it there before the Bogota airport shut down due to the pandemic. She felt students weren’t prioritized by LMU and that international students were forced into a situation possibly exposing them to the virus, exacerbated by “jetlag, and financial distress, and still being expected to show up to class [online] with different schedules, fulfill assignments on time, and continue to excel at school.”
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Times Media Group is seeking an experienced advertising account executive. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced advertising sales professional. TMG has grown significantly as a result of its great professional team, and its well-known print and digital media platforms, including the The Argonaut and Playa Vista Direct Magazine.
WHAT WE NEED
We are seeking an individual who can sell solutions not just ads, who appreciates straight-talk, and is hardworking, motivated, and values working in a positive team environment.
Law Offices Of Baker & Oring, LLP
Recipient of Awards for 35 Years of Community Service to Marina del Rey
Since 1998 Times Media Group has been a locally owned news and entertainment media company. Fast forward to today and TMG is now one of the largest print and digital media companies in the Southwest. With this level of growth and expansion we need to add to our multi-media sales team.
An ideal candidate will be familiar with the Westside area including Marina del Rey, Santa Monica, Westchester, Palms, Venice, Playa Vista and the surrounding areas.
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Two years of outside advertising sales experience is preferred. A good candidate for this position is financially motivated, possesses exceptional organizational skills and is ready to embrace a real opportunity to work on a quality team.
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If, based on the requirements, you are a qualified candidate and would like to join a quality team and get on with your future, respond with your resume and a cover letter outlining why you believe you are a good fit for the position. We are currently scheduling interviews. Times Media Group offers a positive work environment, great product line and a significant opportunity for income growth. Times Media Group: Times Media Group is a digital and print media company that operates in the Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego and Los Angeles markets. It serves a wide variety of demographic audiences and communities.
E-mail Resume & Cover Letter to: Rebecca rbermudez@ timespublications.com MARCH 26, 2020 THE ARGONAUT PAGE 19
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