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L E T T E R S COVID-19 as a Political Virus Part 1 It appears to me that in the United States, COVID-19 is a political virus.

Because of the many missteps from the White House, closure of the water system (to some) in Detroit and the diminishing role of the CDC, the citizens of this health-care-for-profit nation are at great risk!

Pardon me while I wash my hands in warm water for 20 seconds. Please note that I do not live in Detroit, am not incarcerated, nor am I poor or black.

Sincerely, Robin Doyno Mar Vista COVID-19 as a Political Virus Part 2 Today I am calling and writing my congressional representative to ask for legislation that assures our participation in the World Health Organization.

To not have the protection of this network of research, education and action is criminal and fatal to both the U.S. and the rest of the globe.

Sincerely, Robin Doyno Mar Vista

In Support of Affordable Housing: A Word from Santa Monica’s League of Women Voters The League of Women Voters of Santa Monica supports and commends the City Council’s passage of the Emergency Interim Zoning Ordinance to allow for streamlined approval of 100% affordable housing projects and Tier 2 housing projects compliant with the City’s existing Zoning Code and California’s Housing Accountability Act. In the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis in California, Santa Monica continues to take a forward-looking, proactive approach to support the production of new housing in our city.

We appreciate the leading role that the city has taken in addressing barriers to the creation of new housing, particularly affordable housing. While other cities are fighting against the proposed RHNA numbers, Santa Monica understands that a solution to the housing crisis is multifaceted, and must begin at the local level.

The League does not support or oppose any candidates or parties, but we do advocate for

best practices on issues where we have established public policy positions.

The League supports action at all levels of government for the provision of affordable housing for all Californians and removal of barriers that inhibit the construction of low and moderate-income housing. We support measures to provide affordable housing to the community which assist with meeting and maintaining all state requirements and which also address local needs.

Additionally, we support the adoption of policies incentivizing the increased building of housing, including working towards amending regulations to streamline approval processes for multiple types of housing, including both deed-restricted low-income housing and all-income levels of housing.

The city’s action is in alignment with our adopted positions supporting the creation of new housing by eliminating barriers, incentivizing increased production, and streamlining approval processes, as well as alignment with our adopted position that the City of Santa Monica should take a leading role in solving homelessness at the local and regional

level. In taking a proactive response to increase the production of housing, particularly affordable housing, the city is setting an example and taking a leading role in addressing the housing crisis affecting every part of California.

The housing and homelessness crises in our state, region, and city are inextricably linked. We support the Council’s March 10th decision and encourage the City to continue its efforts to address these crises.

Sincerely, Natalya Zernitskaya President League of Women Voters of Santa Monica Food Not Rent I would like to see more reporting from y’all about the rent crisis. LA Tenants Union has plenty of information on this.

There is a growing movement of rent strikes to acquire a relief for rent to landlords and tenants as well as mortgage lenders and payers who are not able to collect income due to COVID-19. I made this art piece and have it hanging in my window here in Venice. … I am a singer and artist in

Venice, California. Due to the shut down from COVID-19, I am not able to work. Unfortunately, I am now in the position where it is food or rent with uncertainty of when I can get back to work. I have joined LA Tenants Union and am now working to support those who, like me, are out of work and don’t have a choice.

Ryan Holliday Venice

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‘Feel it in Your Heart’ Pony Wave’s viral Venice Art Walls mural speaks a language of love in the time of corona PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

By Christina Campodonico Pony Wave feels “alive” when she does street art. The Russianborn, vegan tattoo artist, street artist, and model, probably best known for her turn on the reality tattooing competition show “Ink Master,” moved to LA seven years ago to pursue her artistic dreams. She recently made a splash on the Venice Art Walls earlier this March with her evocative image of two lovers passionately kissing — their lips covered by flowered face masks.

This enigmatic and unusual image of affection has since been painted over, but went viral, capturing the spirit and contradictions of our present pandemic moment. Even as social distancing separates us from our friends and loved ones, the scourge of COVID-19 has also brought out collective showings of love for our fellow man.

Neighbors across Los Angeles have greeted healthcare workers coming home at night with hoots and hollers of gratitude. Serious seamstresses and 3D printer experts across the Westside have stepped up to make medicalgrade face masks and personal protective equipment gear or PPE for healthcare professionals (see our cover story on pages 8 and 9). Businesses like R6 Distillery have converted portions of their operations to make hand sanitizer for first responders (see page 7). And thanks to a citywide temporary

Street and tattoo artist Pony Wave (@ponywave on Instagram) brought her talents to Venice Beach this March and shared this evocative image of love What inspired you to become reminder to love others by be covered after days, and it’s all housing initiative, military an artist? wearing a new kind of armor. going to be a history under fresh veterans have a place to rest Pony Wave shared her process layers of paint. Like all that we their heads as the storm of this I think that I was born like and what the mural means to her are going through right now: It pandemic rages on (see page 5). this. … For sure, my father with The Argonaut. will be past one day.

Now, as LA Mayor Eric played an important role. He is a Garcetti mandates that city What inspired you to create What was your process to cre- very talented artist and musician. residents and essential workers But he didn’t want it to be his the mural of two people ate the mural? wear face coverings in public to job. He has his own reasons. But protect each other from contract- wearing face masks and he definitely gave [me] his talent ing COVID-19, Pony Wave’s kissing at the Venice Art I used acrylic, water-based and definitely helps me a lot to image — which popped up days Walls? paint (nature-friendly). The become who I am now. before the mayor urged all whole process was fun. I’m I did a lot when I was a child.

Angelenos to wear face masks This is a unique time right now. obsessed with street-art culture. I … I danced and toured with a — feels even more prescient and The world is slowing down. feel alive when I’m doing it. dance group when I was a kid, timely. Its passionate depiction This time is definitely scary and then art school, then music, then of a face-masked kiss is like a unusual, but at the same time, Why do you call yourself acting schools. I was a busy kid, this time is opening something Pony Wave? as many kids at that time in we haven’t seen or understood Russia were. before. Right now, we need to Long story short: My friends started to call me “Pony” when think about what we are doing What did you learn from your with our lives, our planet, our I was 16 because I’m small.

I’m 5’1” tall. And “Wave,” it is experience on “Ink Master”? time. People easily forget about important things until it touches from “new wave,” like new I just wanted to prove to myself them. So right now, the universe wave in art, music… and others that anything is put us all in this situation to possible. If you want to move to combine us. So it is time for all Why is it important to you of us to think! Look around and to bring veganism to your tat- your dream city — do it. If you want to do something but you are into yourself. It’s the best time to too practice? scared that you are not good wake up. enough — still just do it. You I bring veganism to everynever try, you never know. thing. Tattooing is part of me.

Why put your mural on This is a huge part of my life.

Venice Beach?

What message do you hope to This is not about diet. It is about mindfulness. I truly believe that impart through your mural at Street art is a very unique type veganism can change the world. Venice Beach? of art because it can be seen by We can fix health, ecology, many people, but it doesn’t stay Please feel it in your heart! Let economy, karma. It starts from for long, especially on the your heart [lend] its own meanVenice Beach walls — anyone your plate, and then you are ing! This is art. Art speaks in slowly awakened. Try, and you can cover it the next day. will see. We need this right now different languages, and it touches So I did this mural devoted to every heart differently! even more than ever. today’s problem because it will

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Giving Shelter The Brentwood VA campus’ new bridge housing facility shelters and protects those who served

By Evan Henerson With rain in the forecast and a global pandemic driving everyone who has the means to go indoors, the slightly futuristic-looking new structures on the grounds of the Brentwood Veterans Administration campus are providing much-needed shelter in more ways than one.

Last Friday and Saturday were move-in days for a number of homeless veterans who were admitted into the “A Bridge Housing” facilities at the VA campus. Originally designed to be a 100-bed transitional shelter, the new bridge housing has been reconfigured to hold a smaller number of residents and also to help keep them from being exposed to the COVID-19 virus.

“This has been a long haul and we’re really excited that it’s up and running and that we have been able to get several veterans housed already,” said Dr. Anjani Reddy, Clinical Director of

Bridge housing at the Brentwood VA will temporarily house 50 vets at a time and offer “safe camping” with access to restroom facilities and meals Community Engagement and Reintegration Services for the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VAGLAHS). “There have been some very positive attitudes and lots of individuals really stretching to get this done.

It’s thanks to their hard work that we have been able to do this.”

The bridge housing facility is part of a 2018 initiative passed by Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles City Council that is

designed to help address the homeless crisis. The program takes advantage of a state law passed in 2018 allowing the city to quickly build housing on land owned or leased by the City of Los Angeles. Councilmembers have identified areas in their various districts that have high-density concentrations of homeless. A previous bridge housing shelter opened in Venice — also within Councilman Mike

Bonin’s District 11 — in February.

In development for more than a year, the VA campus bridge housing is a collaborative effort between the city and county of Los Angeles, VAGLAHS and private partnership. Construction began on the structure in December of 2018, but the project was delayed for nearly a year when workers discovered asbestos and other elements in need of cleanup.

“We were happy to pay for it and we were happy to build it just as we’re happy to help pay for some of the long-term housing that will go in there, too,” said Bonin. “Our hope was that if we built it, not only would they come, but that the VA would open it and so we’re glad they did.”

The facility will offer temporary housing to up to 50 residents who will all be screened and must have no symptoms of COVID-19.

The units have been configured to meet Centers for Disease Control

(CDC) health guidelines, with beds placed a minimum of six feet apart. Veterans get access to shower and laundry facilities, meals and other on-site case management. Bridge housing occupants – all of whom are male – will likely stay in the facility between three and six months before hopefully transitioning to more permanent housing, according to Reddy.

In addition to opening bridge housing, the VA campus has implemented additional measures to help veterans stay safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The campus is converting 138 beds in Building 214 to isolation/ self-quarantining units and the VA has also implemented “safe camping” in tents on the campus.

Veterans using the tents will also get access to showers, restrooms and meals.

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ADULTERY SWIM I started seeing a guy whose previous relationship ended because he cheated. He insists he really learned his lesson and would never do it again. Should I trust him, or should I go by that line, “once a cheater, always a cheater”?

--Worried People in relationships do develop little traditions — like coming home every night and checking the closet for their boyfriend’s sex partners.

The question is: does the skeleton that your boyfriend’s yanked out of the closet point to a heavily populated closet in your collective future? This is ultimately a question of whether he’s a cheater — a person psychologically “wired” to be prone to cheating — or a person who once cheated. There is a distinction.

Sometimes, somebody cheats just to see what it’s like to walk on the bad boy/bad girl side — the (heh) Socio Path. And sometimes, in the moment (SEXXXXX!), somebody who’s generally considerate puts their partner’s feelings on “ignore.”

However, evolutionary psychologists David Buss and Todd Shackelford found there seems to be a cheater personality — a trio of personality traits common to people prone to infidelity: narcissism, low conscientiousness, and “psychoticism.”

That last one — psychoticism — suggests an ax-killing hobby, but it’s actually researcher-ese for a combination of

impulsivity, unreliability, and an inability to delay gratification. Narcissism, of course, is the “Me! Me! Me!” personality trait, reflected in self-absorption, selfimportance, exploitativeness, and an empty well in the empathy department.

Low conscientiousness is the personality trait of the inconsiderate, reflecting disorganization, poor impulse control, and an inability to delay gratification.

Yet another factor is a personality trait that psychologist Marvin Zuckerman named “sensation-seeking.” People “high in sensation seeking” crave a variety of new, complex, and intense sensations and experiences and will take physical and social risks to get them.

Talk is cheap — especially for the ethically sketchy, the morally underfunded. Look at the guy’s behavior and thinking — in your brief past and in the weeks and months to come. See whether it adds up to good character or reflects the cheater personality markers.

Sometimes cheaters change, but personality traits have a substantial genetic component, so cheaters mostly just change who they’re cheating with. If your boyfriend’s moral compass is secretly set on Booty Call North, you’re setting yourself up for many joyful years of checking his shirts for some hussy’s self tanner and trying really hard to believe that he only goes to strip clubs for the music.

BEST OF REFLUX! My fiancée and I mutually ended it several months ago, but she’s staying in touch, reaching out, texting, etc. It’s really hard to move on when she’s trying to maintain a connection. I’ve hinted at this, and I know she isn’t interested in rekindling romantically, but nothing changes.

— Disturbed My late Yorkie, Lucy, now resides in a tiny urn in my living room; I didn’t have her taxidermied and mounted on an old roller skate so I could take her on walks like nothing’s changed.

After a breakup, it’s hard to go your separate ways if you never stop being together. Though your situation sounds like “Brokeback Mountain” for straight people (“Bro, it’s super hard to quit ya!”), there might be something else keeping your ex-fiancée around.

Ancestral humans became a cooperative species, living and working together in groups, leading to a need to identify (and avoid) the takers among the givers.

We seem to have evolved to act in ways that elevate our reputation, which is basically a social credit check for the sort of people we are. For example, evolutionary psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues theorize that reputa-

tion promotion is one of the evolutionary functions of grief. They see the expression of grief as a form of advertising for our character, showing us to be loyal and committed allies who “form devoted bonds” with people in our lives.

This zombie fiancée thing — the ex-fiancée who keeps coming back and eating your well-being — may be your ex’s way (probably subconscious) of promoting herself as a good friend, a caring person who doesn’t just shut the door on somebody she’s romantically done with. This could help her seem more attractive to the next guy — which is surely help you aren’t interested in providing, especially at the expense of your need to heal.

Toss the hinting. Tell your ex-fiancée that this maintaining-a-friendship business does not work for you, and ask her to stop contacting you for now and/or until you let her know otherwise. Cutting off contact will help you get used to the new normal — you and your former fiancée walking off into the sunset apart, in totally different directions...at least until your new wife is in the delivery room, giving birth to your first child. A familiar voice behind you: “Guess who’s here to finally cut the cord!”

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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Magic in a Bottle El Segundo distillery R6 pivots to hand sanitizer production to help first responders and slow the spread of COVID-19 donations for their hand sanitizer

By Phoenix Tso operation. The distillery has raised If this were any other day, the a little more than $3,000 out of a copper stills at R6 Distillery $20,000 goal to cover the costs of would be entirely devoted to producing large batches of hand making vodka, bourbon and sanitizer. With these donations, single-malt whiskey in the Smoky R6 Distillery can scale up their Hollow neighborhood of El production to 650 gallons for the Segundo. But in the middle of the next batch of sanitizer, and then COVID-19 pandemic, R6 is also eventually to two or three times distilling ethanol to make hand that size. sanitizer for hospital workers and Donations will also enable the first responders. distillery to give out the hand “It’s a very interesting — and sanitizer to medical workers and weird — turn of events,” said first responders free of charge.

Rob Rubens, the distillery’s “Any bit helps that people are founder and owner. “It was also able or willing to donate,” Rubens somewhat natural too, because, said. “Even if it is $5 or $10.” as a business we produced ethanol for consumption.”

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From scraps of fabric to 3D printers, locals are repurposing resources in surprising ways to arm health care workers and battle COVID-19

Instructions For Making Your Own Face Mask Use the sewing pattern printed with this story to sew your own face mask and follow these instructions to assemble: 1. Cut out the paper pattern to your preferred size. This will be the same pattern for both the outer layer and the inner lining of your mask. You may use the same fabric for both.

4. Cut out the pieces. Remove pattern from fabric.

8. Stitch three of the four sides together with right sides facing each other.

5. You will have two identical pieces of fabric – keep them laying on top of each other. The curved side that looks like a horn will be the middle of your mask.

Stitch the two pieces along the curved side.

9. Turn inside out, so your preferred fabric is now on the outside.

2. Fold your outer fabric in half to double, 6. Open the two pieces like you’re openright sides facing each other. This will allow ing a book and iron flat. You now have the you to cut out two pieces at once. outer layer.

3. Pin the pattern to your doubled cotton fabric. If you don’t have pins, you can use binder clips or paper clips.

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7. Repeat the above process for the inner lining. You will now have your outer and inner layers.

10. Stitch the last side closed or leave open to insert a filter.

11. Attach straps to each corner to tie around the back of the head or attach elastic to loop around the ears.

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Late Sunday Afternoon’s cofounder Matthew Schildkret (far right) has pivoted his team from making scarves to face masks for medical worker and consumer use

By Shanee Edwards From desperate pleas on social media by doctors and nurses to widespread news reports on shortages, it’s no secret that medical workers are in dire need of PPE, or personal protective equipment, like N95 masks and face shields.

As Los Angeles heads into another critical week for the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for face masks for all — not just health care professionals — has become even more acute.

On Tuesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued an order requiring all nonmedical essential workers to wear face masks on the job to slow the spread of COVID-19. And starting Friday, all LA residents will be expected to wear face masks when going out to do business, too, according to the measure. (Though public health officials have urged people to leave the medical-grade face masks for the pros.)

While the state of California just stepped in to purchase more than 200 million medical-grade masks, some clever Westsiders — including costume designers, quilters, a dentist, community college professors and an

altruistic city worker — are using the resources they have at hand to fill demand now for those on the front lines of the pandemic and help protect the most vulnerable among us.

‘Sew’ You Think You Can Dance Nancy Drake is the Wardrobe Director for the Westside School of Ballet in Santa Monica. She was supposed to be overseeing costume production for their spring show, a gala to celebrate iconic ballerina Patricia Neary, when all performances were canceled.

Drake learned of the face mask shortage when she saw videos of people making masks out of random office supplies.

“They were using the most absurd materials,” she says. “I thought, ‘I’ve got 20 or 30 skilled seamstresses and at least 10 sewing machines that are currently sitting idle.’ The whole reason we are here is to give to the community. So we decided to make face masks instead of ballet costumes.”

For the first time, instead of making elaborately frilled and

feathered costumes and tutus, like the ones featured in Westside Ballet’s annual production of “The Nutcracker,” the costume team is making personal protective equipment in the form of face masks. Drake’s team includes 12 wardrobe department parent volunteers plus their dancer helpers. Over 200 colorful masks have been donated to Meals on Wheels and the Pacific Clinic so far.

Westside Ballet’s masks are made with layers of vibrant cotton fabric and HEPA filters that you find in air conditioners.

They’ve also repurposed dental bib material, which behaves like fabric while not allowing penetration by droplets.

One perk of having face masks made by costumers is that they look great.

“We delight in making things beautiful,” says Drake.

Many Hands Make Light Work Local quilting group Quilt from the Heart typically meets twice a month at the Mar Vista Library to make artisan quilts for people in need.

“Sometimes it’s homeless shelters, churches, foster kids or fire victims,” says Playa Vista resident Patti Londre, who’s been with the group for over two years.

Unable to meet due to the Safer at Home order, the group decided to use their skills at home to make face masks.

Londre describes quilters as “obsessive” people who have stacks of unused fabric in their studios or garages. After one member of the group sourced plenty of elastic, the next mission was to wash and iron large quantities of fabric. Help came from Amin Amersi, owner of Hollyway Cleaners in Playa Vista, who agreed to wash and press the fabric for free.

Londre then prepared bags of material, leaving them on her porch for members of the group to pick up and cut out the masks at home using a pattern found on the internet. The third task was sewing them. In just four days, hundreds of cloth masks were delivered to St. Jude Hospital, assisted living facilities in Mar Vista, and the LAPD. “The pattern we are using is recommended by the CDC and has an opening on the side that

allows medical facilities to insert a disposable filter,” says Londre.

The mask can also be worn over N95 masks to extend their use. Quilt from the Heart is currently producing 75 to 100 masks per day.

While these masks are being made for people on the front lines of this epidemic, people at home can make their own without a filter. Simply cut out the Quilt from the Heart pattern printed with this story, follow the pattern instructions, and sew your own mask to wear. (See page 8.)

“You can cut up a shirt or sheets,” says Londre.

She recommends using cotton fabric.

One-for-One Masks by Late Sunday Afternoon Matthew Schildkret founded Late Sunday Afternoon in Venice eight years ago. The Lincoln Boulevard boutique usually makes stylish scarves and ascots from salvaged deadstock fabric (material that would typically end up in a landfill) to keep with their “zero waste” mandate, but the (Continued on page 10)

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store had to pivot in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We closed our doors on March 13 with no idea what to do,” says Schildkret. “We sat at home and waited for a path.”

The path appeared and led him and his business partner Thomas Brodahl to making face masks.

“I realized I had to reorganize and retrofit my production immediately. A couple days later, I started prototyping,” Schildkret says.

The outside layers of their masks are silk, while the straps are made of linen and are meant to be tied around the back of the head. For a filter, they’re using a double-layer of melt-blown, non-woven fabric often used in air filters.

“It makes a really comfortable, Late Sunday Afternoon-style mask. It’s a one-for-one program, meaning for every mask you purchase for $22, one will be donated to health care workers,” says Schildkret.

They hope to have completed approximately 2,000 masks by the end of the week. They are also making masks available to the homeless in Venice.

Protective Gear from a 3D Printer When Playa Vista-based dentist Lawrence Fung discovered his

fellow health care workers were in need of PPE, there was no way he was going to sit by idly.

“My business is essentially shut down until April 19,” says Fung.

“I thought, okay, what am I going to do now?”

Given that his dental practice in Culver City has a 3D printer, an idea sparked: “I thought, why don’t I print a mask?” he says.

After crowdsourcing a design for a standard facemask then 3D printing it, he learned that the pre-made filters from 3M were completely sold out. He needed a new plan. When a large pediatric hospital reached out to him saying they were in need of face shields, he contacted several 3D printing companies in Orange County and the Inland Empire to help fabricate the face shields.

“The turnaround time is about 48 hours and can make about 500 a day,” says Fung, who’s had over 1,500 face shields manufactured.

The face shield is the first barrier between the virus and medical professional, with the mask as the second barrier. Since the standard practice is one shield for one patient, the need is in the tens of thousands.

“If everyone at home [with a 3D printer] could make 10 of these, we could make thousands of them,” he says.

Academics to the Rescue

From pint-sized dancers to skilled seamstresses to masters of 3D printing, Westsiders have contributed their time and expertise to making face masks for health care workers, volunteers and other essential first responders on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Normally, the 3D printers that Santa Monica College professor Tram Dang uses for her engineering classes are making parts for robotic arms, or other creative inventions students have dreamt up. Now instead of lying dormant for the rest of the semester, they’re making open-sourced N95 masks and face shield headbands for medical professionals at Keck School of Medicine of USC and Kaiser Permanente Los Feliz.

“I hate having things sit around and not being used,” says Dang, whose brother is an ICU doctor.

So soon after classes moved online this March and a call went out from UCLA for PPE production help, Dang brought three 3D printers home, set them up in her garage, and wired up some extra security cameras so that she could “live stream” and monitor the printers’ progress on her home’s wireless network internally.

Since then, she’s been printing anywhere between 10 headbands and six face masks per day between two printers and has enlisted the help of a network of professors, including SMC Interaction Design professor Maxim Safioulline and art professor Christopher Badger.

“This whole thing is bigger than me,” says Dang, whose home will serve as a collection point for printed materials before being delivered to hospitals for assembly and sanitation. “It’s big-

ger than the individual organization, and I think to get through it, we all have to sort of work together, whether that means stay at home and do nothing or stay at home and 3D print.”

At the Badger household, 3D printing is a family affair as two 3D printers run “round the clock” in the family’s shed.

“My wife and two kids are helping to check the filaments,” says Badger, referring to the plastic material with which the masks are made. “We’re running prints 24 hours a day.

“The biggest thing about these masks is they’re reusable,” he continues, “There’s a small [HEPA] filter that’s embedded in the mask that can be thrown away, so the rest of the mask can be sanitized or reused.”

“I have about 30 of them right now,” he adds. “I’m going to keep those machines running until someone says stop, or I run out of materials.”

Delivering Masks Doorto-Door When District 11 City Councilman Mike Bonin’s Field Deputy Nisa Kove learned that seniors living in Marina del Rey’s Marina Manor Senior Apartments didn’t have access to face masks, she wanted to help.

She discovered and reached out to a regional organization working with 25 sewists across

Los Angeles called Project Mask LA, whose mission is to “mask LA” safely while leaving the N95 masks available for the pros.

In two days’ time, Kove had 200 face masks ready to be distributed.

“The masks we got were from a costumer, so most of the people that Project Mask LA are working with have master sewing skills,” says Kove.

Kove, along with Michelle Manos and Chelsea Stough of Project Mask LA, actually went door-to-door themselves to hand out the masks at Marina Manor recently.

“We were prepared with our gloves and masks and wipes.

They were really grateful. People started coming out on their balcony,” says Kove. “A lot of these people aren’t even leaving their apartments, they’re getting Meals on Wheels deliveries and are afraid to go out, honestly.”

She also made sure the residents knew they needed to wash their masks daily, either in the washing machine or with hot water and detergent on the stovetop.

Kove, who lives in Venice, hopes some of the elderly can go out to catch a brief sea breeze now that they have masks.

Argonaut editor Christina Campodonico contributed to this report.

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When It’s Time to Get an Accountant to Do Your Taxes The Differences Between CPAs and Other Tax Experts First you need to know there are different types of tax experts. And not all accountants are CPAs. So if you’re thinking that an independent CPA and someone at H&R Block or Jackson Hewitt (or your buddy who studied accounting in college) are pretty much the same, don’t count on it. Basically, • An accountant is someone who studied accounting.

• CPAs are accountants who pass rigorous testing from their state board on a regular basis. The designation usually requires a degree. Not every CPA specializes in taxes.

• An “enrolled agent,” or EA, is an accountant who has received certification from the IRS. Being an EA doesn’t require a degree like CPA. But it does verify they know tax law.

• A tax preparer like H&R Block or Jackson Hewitt is trained on tax software to help taxpayers file their returns. They aren’t required to be CPAs or EAs. • Only CPAs and EAs can legally represent

you if the IRS challenges your return.

There’s nothing wrong with visiting preparer like H&R Block if your return isn’t all that complicated. It’s when you start generating other income — perhaps you launch a business or own rental property — [or experience a big financial change] when it makes sense to ask for some extra help.

When It’s a Good Idea to Hire a Tax Pro: When you buy your first house. Many of the expenses related to buying a home and having a mortgage are deductible. But only if you itemize. Because the experts are best at it.

new records to keep and a new tax form, Schedule E, to complete.

When you buy a vacation property.

Especially if you rent it out. And especially if it’s in a different state.

When you work from home. There’s a lot of potential money-saving deductions that can vary widely depending on the type of business and how much space it takes up in your home. If you have a home office you can deduct for the square footage you use for work as well as a portion of your utilities, mortgage interest, and property taxes.

When you move to a new state. There’s a good chance you’ll have to file two state returns for the year you move. And each state is a little bit different in terms of state tax owed — zero in some states, a flat amount in others, and graded by income bracket in most.

When you make home improvements.

Energy-efficient upgrades like installing a new heating and cooling system, water heater, or insulation may qualify for tax credits. But that can change depending on the year. Same goes for medically necessary home improvements that aren’t paid by your employer or insurance.

When you become a landlord. When you own investment property you essentially become a small business owner. That means

When your home’s value is reassessed.

Sometimes the reassessed value is incorrect.

If so, an expert will be able to pull the data

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together to appeal it.

You can definitely DIY all these tax scenarios and save the fees, but with CPAs and EAs the extra cost may be worth it, especially if you run your own business or own more than one home. An accountant can help you analyze your spending choices and even act as a consultant. Best of all, they’ll be by your side if the tax man ever comes after you. That alone could be priceless if the time comes.

One last tip: If you decide you want to hire a CPA or EA, best not to wait until the last minute. You may not find one.

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According to 2019 data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, there are approximately 3,800 homeless veterans living in Los Angeles County. Collaborative efforts like the bridge housing and the other efforts on and around the VA campus will

help fill an important need, according to Reddy.

“This is a time of incredible need and our teams have all come together across multiple different programs and services to make this happen quickly,” Reddy said.

“This is an atypical situation and now more than ever, our veterans need our support and help.”

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