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L E T T E R S Stop selling toxic avgas Editor: Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA regulates emissions from aircraft and the use of lead in gasoline, including automotive gasoline additives, which were phased down beginning in the 1970s. The agency subsequently banned the sale of leaded gasoline for on-road vehicles in 1996, but it allowed the continued use of lead in aviation fuel, known as avgas.

This leaded fuel is used in the roughly 170,000 piston-engine aircraft estimated to be in use nationwide, including airplanes and helicopters, which operate out of more than 13,000 airports. These small, gasolinepowered general aviation aircraft comprise the largest single source of lead air emissions in the U.S., according to 2017 data from the EPA, and generated 468 tons of emissions that year.

They constitute about 70% of total lead air emissions nationally, according to a congressionally-mandated report issued earlier this year by the National Academies of

Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. More than 5 million people, including 363,000 children under age 5, live within 500 meters of these airport runways, and more than 160,000 children attend school in these areas, according to a 2020 EPA analysis. (Grist, 8/24/2021) Why does the City of Santa Monica continue to sell this dangerous toxin at the Santa Monica Airport? Stop selling toxic avgas!

Robert Brown Santa Monica Re: Homelessness czar Editor: After reading Michael Rapkin’s column in the March 31 Argonaut, I have to wonder if Mr. Rapkin has personally ever even seen a homeless person. As a longtime Venice resident, I’ve been assaulted three times by mentally ill homeless people - twice in the past year. My wife has also been assaulted. And that’s not counting the thousands of times we’ve been harassed, screamed at, aggressively

panhandled, and forced to walk in the streets when the sidewalks are completely blocked by tents.

Mr. Rapkin wants to force people in residential neighborhoods to accept multi-unit homeless housing. Mr. Rapkin also wants to force construction of large buildings in residential neighborhoods, without going through the permitting process, and without allowing community input!

Mr. Rapkin also belittles the well-known facts that homelessness is a public safety issue, and that the vast majority of homeless are either mentally ill, addicted to drugs and alcohol, or both. Essentially, the position Mr. Rapkin is advocating is that of a dictator. His or her word will be the law, and we will have no recourse to unjust decisions.

Mr. Rapkin asks for new ideas, so here’s one that has never been tried: bring back the mental hospitals. The problem started when the mental hospitals were closed,

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and will only be solved when they are reopened. This is the best, most humane solution for the mentally ill/addicted individuals themselves, as well as for all of us innocent victims.

Give jobs and housing help to the few who are simply regular people down on their luck, and hospitalize the vast majority who are mentally ill or addicted, so they can be properly helped - and so they will no longer victimize the rest of us.

Dean Wahls Venice Re: Homelessness czar Editor: While I agree with most of Michael Rapkin’s Opinion piece about homelessness, he neglected the most important stakeholder: landlords.

Many people are unhoused through no fault of their own and just need a hand getting back on track, but others require much more. Before leaving my position as assistant to a property owner, I watched Los Angeles’ tenants’ rights groups defend people

who smashed windows; stripped copper wiring; broke into the washing machine coinbox; let dogs relieve themselves in the building’s hallway; let an ex-boyfriend/ drug dealer crash in the apartment; moved a dozen family members into a studio leased for a single occupant; and much more.

After spending four to six months in Court proceedings to remove a problem tenant, an owner is likely to have to pay a settlement; then the Court will usually seal the record, forcing the owner to provide a favorable reference and freeing the tenant to start the process over again. And don’t forget, LA is rent-controlled, with maximum rent increases set by the City.

Even when rent is partially or fully subsidized and a counselor is assigned to the tenant, the owner of a duplex or a 12-unit complex will lose tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid rent, damage repair, legal costs, and the ripple effect of long-term tenants moving out because of the disturbances and degradation.

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This was all visible via the Culver City bike path, and particularly from our building sitting parallel to the flood channel. Residents most closely located to the vagrants who were in somewhat hidden fashion, on the south side of the south supporting wall, were exposed to much of the worst of audio and visual activity ranging from regular bickering, to more intense fighting and likely rape of the one female residing with the four males

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requiring police response.

Vagrant summary: two to four Latin males, thin, 35 to 65 in age range, and one Latin female about 25, average weight, who resided there for two to four years, constructed illegal housing via ladders giving access to the lattice above the supporting bridge wall beneath the road, and tapped into power lines for lights, generators, and an amazing array of power saw equipment, constant sounds of construction, and even causing some transformer explosions.

Oddly, this was all partially hidden during the last two years tandem construction of an apartment building on the northwest opposite bridge corner, where they were actually obtaining material. For the most part they kept to themselves and thankfully hadn’t drawn major expansion of residents, aside from additional visitors and possible patient dumping, displaying the evolution of yet another Skid Row. This barrage of illegal vagrant activity was of course a solid

threat to protected marine environment via pollution and human waste. All notifications of this drew zero response, except for DPW at least making weekly visits for clearance of major trash debris.

The other main concern was apparent abuse that has going on with the female who (with likely low education and intellect) had loud, raging, screaming tantrums on a seven to 10-day basis, lasting several minutes or less, sometimes with accompanied throwing of bottles and cans, such as the morning of Sep. 7 just after 6 a.m. with a loud screaming fit, and then went suddenly silent.

One can discern being knocked unconscious is what may have occurred.

The entire underlying point here is that these people require and deserve help! This just cannot be emphasized enough!

Funds, resources and legal jurisdiction have recently been prioritized for this long, well overdue handling of the homeless situation in our city, (yet alone the nation/world), and very respectable progress

has been made in nearby accumulation of years of debris Venice. This requires full dumped from their dwellings. action of responsible departThe large crew consisting of ments to move all individuals numerous departments working toward the mental and physical impressively together, accomaide that is certainly appropriplished a well-organized ate. display of what can be done in So, after many attempted a single day, for the removal of communications over the last several years of the massive couple of years without results, ‘housing’ constructed within (with numerous records kept) the lattice beneath the Centivia myself and other neighbors nela bridge, that required a to the City Council, Departteam of sanitation, parking and ment of Public Works, Sanitalaw enforcement, lift equiption and various other City and ment and numerous dump County agencies, all of which trucks, finally concluding the are interwoven and entangled enormous task at dusk. in responsibility for dealing Social workers confirmed with this, we decided to alert attempted offers of aide made the media, obtaining the available with firm denials of interest of KCAL/CBS, which any interest. No one in their sent a reporter team to highright mind would continue to light the situation just a few prefer to languish in a permaweeks ago. nent state of struggle for Following this, I sent a letter survival, prone to further to the Argonaut that was to be physical and mental damage, in the Jan. 27 issue and then crime, drugs, etc. This specific pushed later after the coincipoint is exactly where the line dental notification of major of intervention must be cleanup posted just after that enforced, basically with submission. Final warning was proactive mandatory enrollgiven Friday morning Jan. 28. ment in mental facilities for the The vagrants obviously took well-being of these individuals Argonaut 4.81x5.85 notice with quite a large and safety of all citizens.

It’s quite unfathomable that authorities don’t have logical discretion to make any arrests after such a clear number of violations have occurred ranging from a myriad of unauthorized entry, ecological wetland endangerment via trash and toxic debris, burning plastic, illegal tampering and unauthorized construction on city, public and/or county property, with several levels of intrusive damage to the structure of the Centinela bridge...all while the four primary culprits remained seated the entire day, just 50 yards west on the bike path, to only return beneath the bridge that night. So far, vagrant activity remains minimal with a couple returning below the bridge and others relocated along the bike path.

In closing, this should sincerely have some serious levels of major logical and intellectual impact for the clear need of genuinely prioritizing all moral and ethical obligations for further prevention of this exact situation.

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Saving the Lives of Animals

Pup Culture Rescue is a foster-based rescue that helps dogs find their forever homes

By Haley Beyer ictoria Shaffer, CEO and founder of Pup Culture Rescue, has been working in animal rescue for 10 years. She previously wrote the book, “Pup Culture: Stories, Tips and the Importance of Adopting a Dog,” which teaches first-time dog owners how to care for their new pet. It also inspired the name for her rescue organization.

Shaffer grew up in Manhattan, New York, but decided to make the move to Los Angeles four years ago. Pup Culture Rescue spends lots of time on the Westside because two of the main veterinarians they work with are there. The organization also partners with Morpheus, a boutique on Venice Boulevard, to hold special events.

Most recently they participated in Mar Vista’s Venice Lovefest, where they had an adoption booth. All the dogs and puppies they brought to the event were adopted, and Shaffer said it’s one of the best ways to highlight animals who need a home because potential adopters can meet the dogs in person and see the animal’s character.

Shaffer started Pup Culture in October 2021. She was working for another rescue located in San Diego, but decided to start her own and created one of the only foster-based rescues.

“I’ve been passionate about rescue since I was 12 years old when my family found our first dog in a dumpster,” Shaffer said. “Later when I was in college, I coincidentally found yet another dog in a dumpster and kept it.”

Helping these two dogs by giving them a home, loving and rehabilitating them from the trauma they had endured were the first stepping stones to opening Pup Culture Rescue.

Shaffer’s organization is a nonprofit animal rescue that is dedicated to saving dogs.

She spends a lot of her time educating the community about the importance of adoption specifically through fostering, a unique quality for a rescue.

Typically when potential adopters visit a rescue, the animals are in cages and they

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spend a brief amount of time together in a room before deciding if they want to take them home. Pup Culture works through fostering, where people bring an animal into their home to see how it reacts to the environment, their family members and other animals, then they decide whether it’s a good fit.

The organization rescues homeless, mistreated and overlooked animals, both locally and internationally. The Pup Culture team has connections to shelters and rescuers all the way from LA to Mexico, who reach out when they find a dog that has either needed a home for a while, is about to be euthanized, or needs extra help finding its forever owner.

Currently they only work with dogs, but could potentially expand to cats once the organization is big enough to manage that many animals.

Because Pup Culture is a foster-to-adopt system, an extra step is put into place to guarantee a more successful adoption.

Once a dog is taken in by the team, they post its picture along with a description of its characteristics on social media to find someone who can foster it. For someone to foster and eventually adopt a dog through Pup Culture, they must create a profile and apply for the kind of dog they want, which makes it easier for the team members to find perfect matches between dogs and adopters.

For example, if someone wants a small dog with low energy, Pup Culture is only going to consider that applicant for dogs who fit those characteristics to increase the chances of them keeping the dog and to minimize the number of fosters a dog must go through before finding its forever home.

Applicants must also agree to a virtual home check to make sure it is a safe and healthy environment for a dog to live.

“There is a dog for everyone, the application process makes it so much easier for us to find the perfect match,” Shaffer said.

While a dog goes through the foster process, Pup Culture provides it with any necessary medical care it may need. A

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Run by an all-female team, the rescue has anywhere from 20 to 30 dogs in the system at a time and is always looking for foster homes. typical dog takes around two weeks to be adopted, but it all depends on the dog, its characteristics, and any other specific issues the dog is dealing with.

Pup Culture averages anywhere from 20 to 30 dogs at a time. Currently, they have close to 30 in the system. The best way for someone to help and get involved would be to foster one of the dogs. Pup Culture is always looking for fosters.

“We never want dogs to live in cages, we want them to have a home,” Shaffer said. “And that helps us learn about them while socializing the dog and teaching it to trust humans again.”

While it would be a dream to be able to take in every dog that came their way, it isn’t possible at this point because Pup Culture doesn’t have enough people and resources to give all dogs the proper care.

“It is really challenging to turn dogs away, but sometimes we just don’t have a place for them to go,” Shaffer said.

“Sometimes it comes down to what dogs are in demand within our applicants because we want everyone to get the dog of their dreams.”

Without meaning to, Pup Culture consists of an all-female led team.

“It just happened that we were all women with the same passion, but it will stay this way because we have all bonded from our love for this work,” Shaffer said. “Each member has shown such sacrifice and selflessness. It’s messy and heartbreaking work, but incredibly rewarding.”

Pup Culture’s team includes Shayna Lesser, co-founder and head of Interna-

tional Rescue; Riley O’Day, co-founder and head of outreach; and Lindsay Logan, web and content designer.

Together, these women have created a powerful and passionate community to help dogs find the loving homes they deserve.

One of the most rewarding parts of this line of work is seeing photos of a dog with its new owner a few months after the adoption. Shaffer makes sure to stay connected to the adopters for this very reason.

“Seeing the dog fully bonded to its human and not only how the owner changed the dog’s life, but how the dog changed the owner’s life as well is why we do what we do,” she said.

Shaffer has three of her own dogs and is unable to adopt more at the moment, but she still fosters dogs all the time, including a pregnant pit bull she took care of for two months. After spending so much time with her, it was hard not to become close and form a bond, but Shaffer was able to adopt her out to a permanent home.

“One of my favorite parts of this job is when adopters and dogs first meet,” Shaffer said. “Seeing a dog go from when they first came into the rescue to being an adoptable dog who has come out of their shell, trusts humans and is confident in themselves again is a magical thing.”

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Building a Brighter Future

Venice YouthBuild graduate Carmen Cotton awarded scholarship

By Kamala Kirk n support of YouthBuild alumni leaders’ post-secondary education and training, YouthBuild USA recently announced four Los Angelesarea recipients of its 2021 Helene D. Stoneman Scholarship and Civic Leadership Program.

In YouthBuild programs, opportunity youth – young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither in school nor employed – pursue their education, prepare for future careers and grow into community leaders, building brighter futures for themselves and their neighborhoods. YouthBuild partners with opportunity youth to build the skill sets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood and leadership. They primarily serve young people who lack a high school diploma and financial resources.

Carmen Cotton, a 2013 graduate of Venice YouthBuild,

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Carmen Cotton is a 2013 graduate of Venice YouthBuild and is currently enrolled at the Paul Mitchell Beauty Academy to obtain her esthetician certificate. was among the four recipients of the scholarship. The other scholarship recipients were Bryan Ross, Ely Flores and Nevi Adriani.

The Stoneman Scholarship provides awards of $2,000 to outstanding YouthBuild graduates across the U.S. The honorees are pursuing associate’s,

bachelor’s and master’s degrees or trade certificates in a variety of fields. Winners were chosen from a pool of applicants who submitted a personal essay, a personal recommendation and college transcripts.

Cotton is currently enrolled at the Paul Mitchell Beauty Academy to obtain her esthetician certificate.

“When I joined YouthBuild, I had just given birth to my baby,” Cotton said. “I was a young woman without an education, and I knew that my son needed more from me. So, I started to look into programs that would suit me. My YouthBuild experience was amazing – they worked with me on my education, job training, counseling and so much more. It was everything I needed in one place.”

Since 2005, the Helene D. Stoneman Scholarship and Civic Leadership Program has awarded 324 gifts to 165 YouthBuild graduates attending

post-secondary education or training, providing $640,000 to assist YouthBuild graduates with their post-secondary education.

“Everyone was so welcome, energetic and positive,” Cotton added. “It was exactly where I needed to be, with the people I needed to be around. When I found out that I was going to receive this scholarship I cried.

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Santa Monica Education Foundation’s executive director steps down after 28 years

By Kamala Kirk inda Greenberg, the longtime executive director of Santa Monica Education Foundation (SMEF), announced her plans to retire after 28 years of service.

Under Greenberg’s leadership, SMEF has substantially grown in many different areas. She has overseen SMEF’s evolution from a nascent organization raising less than $100,000 per year to a mature nonprofit with an annual operating budget of more than $3.2 million. SMEF now provides vital funding each year for educational and extracurricular personnel and programs to benefit every student in Santa Monica public schools, generated through annual fundraising campaigns and endowment earnings.

“It has truly been a gift to have a leader like Linda at the helm for so many years,” said board president Alison Havel. “Her passion and dedication inspire all

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Linda Greenberg, executive director of the Santa Monica Education Foundation, is retiring after 28 years of service. of us who work to support the Ed Foundation’s mission. Linda’s record of accomplishments with the Ed Foundation is remarkable and we owe her a debt of gratitude for all she has done to support Santa Monica public schools.”

Greenberg served as board president when SMEF launched the Bells and Books of Knowl-

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edge campaign in 1998 that raised $1 million for the Academic Endowment. That was followed in the early 2000s by the For the Arts campaign, which raised $2 million for SMEF’s Arts Endowment, a fund that now provides more than $150,000 annually in support of visual and performing arts programs.

When a state budget crisis resulted in potential cuts to personnel and programs, Greenberg was at the forefront of the Save Our Schools campaign, working with volunteer leaders to mount an emergency effort that raised $1.6 million in 60 days.

Most recently, Greenberg has guided SMEF through the challenges of fundraising during a pandemic, helping to ensure that staff and programs would remain in place despite the move to remote instruction. With the support of SMEF staff and the Board, she also raised funds to meet the needs of those most vulnerable during the pandemic, including tutoring services for the district’s economically disadvantaged students and homeless and foster youth. She has also helped set the stage for a future Athletics Endowment campaign.

Greenberg’s specific retirement date has yet to be finalized, as

she has committed to remain in her role as the Ed Foundation Board launches a search for her eventual successor.

“We are so grateful that Linda’s commitment to the Ed Foundation continues even as she plans to retire,” Havel added. “By remaining aboard as we launch our search, she affords us the opportunity to ensure a thoughtful, inclusive and diligent process to identify the next executive director…First and foremost, we cannot thank Linda enough for all she has done for our schools and our community over the years. We know she will remain a vital and passionate advocate for Santa Monica public schools, and we look forward to honoring and celebrating her career and litany of achievements in the near future.”

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Opening Doors Google engineer Chris Clark aims to ‘be a beacon for folks who look like me’

Chris Clark is a Google engineer at the company’s Venice office, where he builds tools and software for other developers to use such as a metrics system to assess the health of Google products.

By Marin Heinritz hris Clark spent much of his early life feeling like an outsider.

As a Black kid who attended Catholic elementary school, he received messages from his friends in the Compton neighborhood where he grew up such as, “Why do you talk white?” and “You obviously don’t belong here.”

Then when his family moved to Diamond Bar shortly after the 1992 riots, Clark remembered saying hello to white neighbors next door and within a week or two they moved out.

“It wasn’t direct racism, but it was racism,” Clark said.

Now a software engineer in tools and infrastructure at Google, based in their Venice office, Clark is very much an insider and living his dream.

But it wasn’t exactly easy to get there.

Clark always had a proclivity for STEM subjects in school,

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but it wasn’t until his Uncle John who worked in IT moved in with the family for six months that he found a mentor who showed him what was possible for him.

“He saw in me that I was interested in the space,” Clark recalled.

His uncle helped him put together computers as a side hustle, took him to computer fairs and helped him get an internship at his company En Point Technologies, which was a graduation requirement for Troy Tech, the magnet high school he attended in Fullerton.

In 2003, Clark began at UCLA. “When I started at UCLA, when I walked into a classroom of 300 to 400 people I’d look around and I wouldn’t see anyone who looked like me,” he said.

As a first-generation college student, it was challenging to not see himself reflected in his classmates or his professors.

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“I would feel a lot of imposter syndrome naturally,” Clark said.

But having broken down those mental barriers to successfully make it through his education and career, he’s made it his mission to make sure others, like him, know there’s a place for them.

“I think the goal for me is to just build that sense of community in a tech space so that people understand that people who look like me are out there and are doing positive things,” Clark said.

When Clark graduated from UCLA in 2008, he started at Microsoft in Seattle, working at a top-tier company right out of the gate. And in February 2011, he moved to Google’s Venice office and has been there ever since.

While he simply loves his job building tools and software for other developers to use and thrives on seeing the fruits of

his labor, such as a metrics system he built to assess the health of Google products that’s been used worldwide and now has a dedicated team working on continuing to build on his original idea, what’s even more empowering and humbling to Clark is helping pave the way for others.

“My real goal in general in my career is to be a beacon for folks who look like me, to reinforce and show that there’s a place for them in tech and in top-tier companies like Google,” he said.

Building on the momentum of last year’s $50 million grant to 10 HBCUs, on Feb. 9 Google announced a new $6 million investment in The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and United Negro College Fund (UNCF), with the intention to continue finding more ways to provide the tools, resources and opportunities necessary to ensure tech’s

workforce better represents the communities that use their products every day.

And Clark has been a strong driving force in increasing Black representation in Google’s Venice office. He served as the co-leader of the local Black Googler Network employee resource group, creating opportunities to increase connectivity and build community.

He also launched a summer intern outreach program. Every year pre-pandemic, he would connect interns from underrepresented groups with engineers for open conversations and fun events.

For six years, Clark co-led monthly Blacks in Tech (now Blacks United in Leading Technology/BUiLT) meetups. These 30 to 60-person events were a collaboration between Google and Raytheon that provided a space for members of the Black community to connect over

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interesting topics and issues in tech.

Clark also helped organize an event for the launch of the “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” documentary series. They brought in Martin’s parents, the directors of the series, and other special guests to screen the first episode, while also fielding questions and discussion from local Googlers and the Los Angeles community.

Clark said he also maintains ties with UCLA, especially through organizations that were formative for him. He has direct involvement with key organizations such as the Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity as well as Women in Engineering, both UCLA programs for underrepresented minorities in engineering that offer mentoring, networking opportunities, mock interviews, resume critiques and visits to Google.

“My primary motivation was drawing from my personal experience, trying to make sure I can turn around and open that door for someone else,” Clark said.

Though Clark also pointed out that “it’s in Google’s interest to have the most diverse pool as possible,” he said. “If you ensure you have diverse representation, you’re going to put out the best possible product.”

While his motivations are personal and professional, Clark also credits his Christian roots for inspiring his work.

“I think it’s just really rooted in me to really treat people not only how you want to be treated, but how they should be treated and I think I get a lot of that from my faith,” he said, adding that it’s about “grounding and humbling myself to use the talents I’ve been given to have a positive impact on other people’s lives.”

Ultimately, doing his part to help those who might have otherwise been outsiders become insiders like him has created a tremendous payoff beyond what he could have imagined.

“I’m seeing people that I’ve helped being in successful positions now,” Clark said.

“And now they’re doing this kind of work even better than I could have done. It’s a snowball effect.”

Clark is a strong driving force in increasing Black representation in Google’s Venice office, serving as co-leader of the local Black Googler Network employee resource group and co-leading monthly Blacks United in Leading Technology/BUiLT meetups.

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Community theater celebrates rich history in Westchester PHOTO BY GLORIA PLUNKETT PHOTOGRAPHY

Westchester-based Kentwood Players has a rich history of more than 70 years in the community.

By Bridgette M. Redman rom a company that had resident cats giving birth on stage to one that has earned the moniker, “LA’s most professional amateur theater group,” Kentwood Players has a rich history stretching back more than 70 years.

It incorporated in January of 1950 and spent 10 years in a nomadic journey through a barn, a pump house and a restaurant. Their first show was in December 1949 when PTA parents put on a Christmas show at an elementary school and decided that they should keep a good thing going.

In 1960, they settled at their present location in Westchester—the corner of 83rd Street and Hindry. They transformed an old warehouse into the Westchester Playhouse, which is now home to a proscenium stage, dressing rooms, costume closets, a scene shop, a large front patio and 112 seats.

When the pandemic shut them down, they renovated the entire facility, bringing HVAC and all

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other safety measures up to date, as well as completely renovating the upstairs dressing room and rehearsal hall. Now reopening and once again performing a season—their next show is the musical “Fun Home”—the members are recollecting their seven decades of history and what they hope to do in the years to come.

Calia Mintzer-Wolf joined in 1955 after she, her husband and Jerry Silvers went to a fair where Kentwood Players had a booth and was casting “Time of Your Life.” Silvers auditioned and was cast, and afterward he and Mintzer-Wolf became what she called “staunch members” who were passionate about Kentwood.

At the time, they were performing in a barn on a large ranch.

“Everyone who came in got a cat on their lap,” Mintzer-Wolf said in a video the company recorded. “The place was overrun with cats. Some cats gave birth on stage during a

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show.”

Charlotte Lee Gunter joined in 1957 when they were at the Pumphouse, though she said she first saw a show there in 1955 when it was still at the barn, “Front Page.” She joined because all she’d wanted to do since she was 6 years old was act, but once she got involved with Kentwood Players, she found she enjoyed everything involved with theater.

Gunter and Mintzer-Wolf were present when the warehouse in the current location was built. They talked about how the members couldn’t agree as to whether they would build a proscenium stage or a theater in the round. After much arguing, they took a vote—having everyone in favor of the one stand against one wall and the others against another wall.

Proscenium won by a single vote, according to Gunter.

Within 10 years, they were able to hold a “Burn the Mortgage” party, having paid off their loan.

Jeremy Palmer, the current director of development, joined Kentwood Players because of his wife. She had auditioned for the group in 2008, but then they moved to Denver, not returning until 2015. She did a few shows before he got involved.

“I had that unique experience of kind of seeing it from the outside,” Palmer said. “I quickly noticed that they really emphasized the community aspect of it. It had such a tightknit and passionate company around it. There were people who had been there for 10 to 15 years or more, to say nothing of the people that have been there since 1955. That definitely set it apart for me from other theaters and things I’ve been a part of in the past.”

Kentwood Players was instrumental in bringing performance back into the life of Marty Feldman, who is now VP of membership and building renovation. He had left anything to do with acting and performing for almost 20

years after being an opera singer in New York.

He moved to LA and was coaxed into a production with Kentwood Players.

“I liked the people and I liked that it felt like a warm place to be,” Feldman said. “Charlotte and Calia were instrumental in making me feel welcome. I proceeded to make it my home theater. I started auditioning for other places, doing more work and my skill set went up, because not only is it a place to perform, it’s a place to grow and become a better actor. We all support each other in that.

That’s the way I view the theater. It’s why I’m always looking to what it is and what it can become.”

The current president of Kentwood Players, Alison Boole, first became involved with the company in 1995 when she auditioned for “Guys and Dolls.” She fell in love with the family and found everyone to be so enthusiastic about the theater that she just wanted to stick around.

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She pointed out that Kentwood Players has an interesting history behind it, starting out as a group of parents whose kids all went to the same elementary school. She added that the benefit it has to the community has grown and changed throughout the years.

“We’re really trying to reach out to a broader community base,” Boole said. “We are really trying now to reach out to people in other communities that haven’t discovered us. We want to try to represent communities of all variations.”

Theater had also always been a passion for Shari Barrett, the company’s publicity director, though she didn’t discover the group until 2003. It was then she learned that her parents used to go there when she was a teenager, but she was stuck at home babysitting.

Barrett did her first play when she was 6 years old and taught high school drama and English when she was a teacher. She’d been volunteering at a lot of different theaters when a former roommate was in a show at Westchester Playhouse.

She’d recently co-directed a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Kentwood Players was about to do it.

Barrett met up with the director for lunch and soon became a member.

“I’ve never left,” she said. “I feel like it’s my home away from home. I feel like other theater companies didn’t want me to shine. They already had their people in place. Kentwood just opened their arms to me and has let me learn from them.”

Committee chair Gail Bernardi has been a member of Kentwood Players for 42 years.

She was a theater major in school, but when she came to California with her parents, she promptly got married and had two kids, which ended her theater career. Eventually, she got antsy and some friends invited her to a performance at Westchester Playhouse.

“The first play I saw there, I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, this is a community theater?’”

Bernardi said. “It was a brilliant production with high production values. The acting was brilliant. Everyone was so friendly and so kind.”

They continue to grow and to serve new communities. One of the things Barrett said she is excited about is that the

Metrolink has built a new line and there is a stop that is a block away from them.

“Charlotte and I were instrumental in pushing for a station,” Barrett said. “They weren’t going to put a station

in Westchester and now they’re putting it at the end of our block. Once those are done, then the whole thing will open up. That will allow us to bring in people from all over.”

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wood Players had its shared struggles getting through the pandemic. However, Feldman pointed out that they were very careful from day one, following all the safety protocols and doing their best to make sure

no one got sick. They’d had a show that was in previews and had to close down the night before it opened. A year and a half later, they were able to (Continued on page 18)

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Kentwood Players has participated in the Westchester Fourth of July Parade since its inception.

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Middle picture: The original stage being built inside the former warehouse as it was transformed into the Westchester Playhouse. Bottom: Building the front patio in 1985.

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open it.

“Within the theater community of people who were physically helping to keep that theater running during this period, no one came down with COVID,” Feldman said. “We sort of took responsibility for each other and we took responsibility for what was going to happen with the theater.”

During the closure, they did repairs that had been needed for many years. Part of that happened because during the period where no one was in the building for the first couple months of the pandemic, they sprung a leak in the upstairs from their water heater. For days, water poured out all over the floor in the dressing room area, rehearsal space and where the costumes were stored. They received insurance money to help pay for the damage and it became the impetus for major change.

“We just went out and said, ‘What do we want to do to this theater?’” Feldman said. “From top to bottom, we redid the roofs. We replaced the old, horrible air conditioning with brand-new state-of-the-art units with HEPA filters with ionization for viral load protection.

We put in air conditioning throughout the theater in a way we never had it before. This wasn’t just for cooling the place or heating it, it was really for sanitizing it.”

They also did a massive cleanup, culling their costumes and props, getting rid of everything they didn’t need.

Then they remodeled their upstairs dressing room with a better layout for the theater and the actors working shows. They put down new flooring and painted.

Despite the insurance payment, it was still an expensive process and they had to take out some new loans. Palmer pointed out that they subsist on ticket sales and donors, something that dropped off during the pandemic. He said they’ve spent the past year cultivating donor relations and trying to figure out other forms of income, whether it be from show sponsors or grant money.

“We’re very fortunate to have stayed open at all given that other places didn’t,” Palmer said. “And we were able to still be creative during COVID with the online series that we did.

About a year ago, we did a

Gilbert and Sullivan concert to benefit the theater and had a lot of generosity from our patrons.

We’re looking to just expand that out as much as possible while welcoming new members and new audience members.”

Bernardi said her committee is working hard to select shows that will welcome people back from the long theater absence and take them into the future.

There are three members—herself and two young people.

They are all on the lookout for new plays along with a plan for two musicals, a drama, a comedy, a mystery, and then something new or unusual for their venue.

“Obviously, we all have a huge responsibility to present diversity in theater as well as continue with the quality of work that we do,” Bernardi said. “We have some ideas about what we want to do for the upcoming season which are not written in stone yet.”

Gloria Ramirez-Plunkett is not an actor, but became involved because her husband and son were. She is now the chair of the DEI (Diversity) Committee. The committee’s goal is to respond to many of the issues of diversity and equity that were raised during 2020.

“Kentwood is a very welcoming place,” Ramirez-Plunkett said. “It’s lovely, but we would like to see more diversity. Our goals are to increase awareness at the theater as far as how we’re lacking in that area and how we can maybe bring more diversity in. We’re trying to host different events where we can get the community more involved.”

As they continue to grow and evolve into what Mintzer-Wolf hopes will be their next 70 years, Barrett wants people to know that all are welcome to come join them.

“If we can encourage people who want to get involved in theater to come here—it’s a local place you can come in, you won’t be judged,” Barrett said. “What do you want to do?

What do you want to learn?”

Whatever an individual’s answers are to those questions, she hopes they will find them with the Kentwood Players.

Kentwood Players 8301 Hindry Avenue, Los Angeles 310-645-5156 kentwoodplayers.org

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‘Sea Sick’

Journalist Alanna Mitchell’s one-woman play gets its LA premiere at the Broad Stage PHOTO CREDIT: ALEJANDRO SANTIAGO.

Science journalist and storyteller Alanna Mitchell investigates how global climate change is damaging the ocean — and the consequences that will be felt on land — in her one-woman show “Sea Sick” at the Broad Stage April 15 to 16.

By Bliss Bowen desire to investigate exactly how climate change is impacting the ocean — the least examined aspect of the climate crisis — prompted Torontobased science journalist Alanna Mitchell to make 13 expeditions over three years to dead zones, coral reefs, far-flung beaches and the ocean floor with teams of marine biologists.

The result was her award-winning 2010 book “Sea Sick,” which by 2014 had yielded a play of the same name. Directed

by Franco Boni and Ravi Jain, the acclaimed one-woman show finally received its American premiere in March at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, after years of touring Canada and overseas. It gets its Los Angeles premiere on Friday and Saturday at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

“Sea Sick” is not your standard piece of theatre. Mitchell is not an actor. And her play, packed with alarming details about how climate change is harming the ocean, is backboned by stories about the “fabulously interesting,” very human scientists with whom she journeyed around the world.

The daughter of a scientist father and an artist mother, Mitchell considers science and art “two sides of the same coin.” She has devoted years to translating science into journalism, literary nonfiction and “Sea Sick” the play. As a species, she noted, we respond to narratives and characterizations: “Any time it’s possible to explain science using that ancient art form of storytelling, it has a better chance of reaching people.”

That’s particularly true when continually evolving climate reports almost demand a

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“scientific literacy skill set” to understand complex systems analyses and problems.

For most of us, Mitchell said, art is needed “to truly explain what the science is.”

Thanks to the escalating pace of climate change, she said she is currently performing the fifth ending for “Sea Sick,” as she updates data “almost month to month” that she explains in the play. But basic trends remain the same: “the ocean is becoming warm, breathless and sour.”

Less oxygen and more acidity in the water are obviously dangerous for marine creatures, and hurt the rest of us too. As Mitchell recently put it during a “Healing the Ocean and Building the Blue Economy” panel: “The ocean is the life support system of the planet, and its ability to support the planet is being impaired.” That’s the message of “Sea Sick.”

“This is an incredibly perilous time in the planet’s history and we have to be careful about what we do and how we do it,” she said. “We can’t just see the ocean as yet another frontier to provide us with carbonbased fuel. If we do that, then we’re accelerating the peril.”

Marine cleanup campaigns and similar efforts are meaningful, but their scale is dwarfed by the magnitude of the full problem.

“Think about the ocean plastics issue,” Mitchell explained. “In jurisdictions that have banned single-use plastic, and there have been many across the world, pollution from plastic has declined dramatically. But I hate to tell you that plastic pollution in the ocean is not the biggest issue. It’s not even close.

“The major issue with the ocean, by far, is

that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that we’re producing from fossil fuels is being absorbed by the ocean like a sponge and that is changing the chemical makeup of the ocean, making it more acidic. Something like 90% of the extra heat that’s been held against the body of the planet by this blanket of carbon dioxide has entered into the ocean. That is by far the biggest problem. So if you’re thinking about trying to preserve the ocean or change this trajectory that we’re on when it comes to the ocean, then the focus has to be on de-carbonizing the economy.”

Mitchell does not suggest concrete actions to take; there’s no simple fix and she won’t offer false assurances. From her perspective, the play is part of an expanding global cultural movement of citizens trying to “convince the people who can change the rules that the rules need to be changed.”

Audience members may not see the damage wrought by climate change beneath the ocean’s surface but they are witnessing related disruptions on land. So Mitchell tries to offer them “a sense of possibility.”

“We have a moment here to rise to the challenge, to be heroes, to bring us back from the brink — that’s one of the lines in

the play,” she said. “I hope that by the time we get to the end of all these stories that people will feel they’re invited to find that solution.”

Wryly acknowledging that people attending a show such as this often “expect to be spanked,” she insisted “blaming and shaming” is not what “Sea Sick” is about.

“There’s a lot of humor in the play,” Mitchell said. “People might assume it’s kind of dour but it’s not. People laugh, usually quite a lot. There’s a lot of joy in it, strangely enough. …

“I’m intensely, exuberantly hopeful about our future and our species and the challenges ahead of us. I’m fascinated to hear what people want to offer that challenge.”

“Sea Sick” receives its LA premiere at the Broad Stage at 8 p.m. Friday, April 15, and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 16. Tickets cost $35.

The Broad Stage 1310 11th Street, Santa Monica 310-434-3650 alannamitchell.com thebroadstage.org

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WESTSIDE HAPPENINGS Compiled by Kamala Kirk

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Have an event for the calendar? Send it to kkirk@timespublications.com “U.S. 99” Band Friday, April 15 “U.S. 99” will play retrovintage rock ‘n’ roll, blues and more at Hinano Café.

15 Washington Boulevard, Venice, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., facebook.com/u.s.99band Marina del Rey Farmers Market Saturday, April 16 This weekly outdoor event allows Westside residents to support local produce sellers and other vendors. Food from a wide variety of businesses is available for purchase. Masks are required and only 40 people are allowed to shop at any one time. Held in parking lot 11.

14101 Panay Way, Marina del Rey, 8 to 9 a.m. (seniors), 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (general public), beaches.lacounty. gov/mdrfarmersmarket

Jacaranda’s “Passion” Concert Saturday, April 16 The acclaimed concert series Jacaranda presents live April performances to suit many tastes.

On April 16, Jacaranda presents the long-awaited LA premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio (1725), as well as revisits former premiere glory from 10 years ago, with the return of an esteemed Jacaranda soloist in an evening of “Passion.” Student tickets $20, General tickets $45.

First Presbyterian Church, 1220 2nd Street, Santa Monica, 8 p.m., jacarandamusic.org/concerts

On April 16, acclaimed concert series Jacaranda presents the long-awaited LA premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio, as well as revisits former premiere glory from 10 years ago, with the return of an esteemed Jacaranda soloist in an evening of “Passion.”

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Santa Monica Main Street Farmers Market Sunday, April 17 Shop for local fresh produce and prepared foods from local restaurants. You can also enjoy musical entertainment from featured weekly bands, face painting, balloon designs, and if you catch it on the right week, a cooking demonstration featuring local produce.

2640 Main Street Santa Monica, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Mar Vista Farmers Market Sunday, April 17 This vibrant, year-round market offers local produce, prepared foods, kids crafts and live events.

12198 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., marvistafarmersmarket.org West LA Farmers Market Sunday, April 17 This weekly community gathering at the West LA Civic Center hosts a range of certified farmers, prepared foods and artisan crafters.

Around the unique bandshell are a range of weekly free youth activities, free yoga classes at 9 a.m., goofy free raffle at high noon, community garden access from 10 a.m. to noon, and versatile professional bands from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free parking in large county and city lots.

11228 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., wlafarmersmarket.com

Motor Avenue Farmers Market Sunday, April 17 The Motor Avenue Farmers Market enhances the farm-totable connection and availability of fresh, local produce to residents of the Palms, Cheviot Hills, Beverlywood and surrounding communities. The market is dedicated to cultivating a sustainable food system through its operation and educational programs. The market consistently provides a wonderful opportunity to create synergy between local businesses and residents while promoting a healthy city and a vibrant community. Open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Westchester Farmers Market Sunday, April 17 Certified farmers market brings together some of the region’s best small and micro farmers from the Central Coast and Ventura counties with over 30 local food businesses, kids activities and live bands. Held in the heart of downtown Westchester adjacent to many new and thriving local businesses from an independent bookstore to local eateries with plenty of free parking. Held every Sunday rain or shine!

6200 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., westchesterfarmersmkt.com Take & Make Kit: Poetry and Butterflies Available beginning Monday, April 18 This kit includes supplies and instructions for two crafts: a butterfly suncatcher for spring, and a construction paper windsock featuring a poem for National Poetry Month. While supplies last. For ages 3 and up.

Pick up at the Main Library Youth Services desk, Pico or Montana Branches.

Send event information at least 10 days in advance to kkirk@ timespublications.com COURTESY PHOTO

Unkle Money at The Warehouse Saturday, April 16 Unkle Monkey will perform at The Warehouse in the Tiki Bar – rock, pop, reggae covers and originals.

4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, 8 to 11 p.m., unklemonkey.com

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Make Every Day Earth Day Saturday, April 16 Bring something from home that can be repurposed. Make it a planter, a wall greenhouse or a bird feeder. Come to Ishihara Park Learning Garden for garden pancakes, chat with other gardeners, visit the orchard and see how a communal garden works. Enjoy wandering through Ishihara Park – landscaped with native plants. Bring your own utensils/plates/cups and be entered to take home a fruit tree. Sponsored by City of Santa Monica Community Gardens and Santa Monica Roots.

2909 Exposition Park, Santa Monica, 9 to 11 a.m., santamonicaroots@gmail. com

Come to Ishihara Park Learning Garden in Santa Monica on April 16 for garden pancakes, chat with other gardeners, visit the orchard and see how a communal garden works.

10418 National Boulevard, Los Angeles, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., motoravenuemarket.com

On April 16, Unkle Monkey will perform at The Warehouse in the Tiki Bar – rock, pop, reggae covers and originals.

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How to Have a Consistently Clean Home Whether your house is on the market and you’re preparing for showings, or you just like to have a home that feels clean and tidy, it’s a lot of work. Keeping a home consistently clean can feel like a full-time job, particularly when you have a family.

If you’ve ever been to someone’s house and felt like it’s always clean and you’ve wondered their secret, they probably have a few, including the following.

Stop the Marathon Cleaning Session What a lot of us do that makes us feel like we’re never going to be able to keep up with household chores is putting them all off and trying to do everything at once. For example, maybe clutter piles up all week, and then Saturday, you tackle it.

That’s fine, but you could develop a negative relationship with cleaning because it’s always frustrating to tackle such a big project.

If you can make goals to clean your house a little at a time, it changes your habits and becomes a natural part of your routine rather than a once-in-a-while dreaded task.

Start to focus on things you can do at the moment that might be smaller but, over time, make a difference. Then, you won’t

get overwhelmed. If you gradually add these small tasks into your day-to-day routine, you’ll stop thinking about them as cleaning. You’ll just think of them as something inherent to your day Try the 20/10 Rule The 20/10 rule is an approach that can help you stop being a marathon cleaner.

You use a timer to train yourself to do brief cleaning periods throughout the week.

For example, you can set a timer for 20 minutes. You focus on cleaning something during those 20 minutes. Then, you give yourself a 10-minute break to do whatever you want, and once that ends, return to cleaning.

Make the Beds Everyday One of the best things you can do for yourself to feel mentally more in control of your home and your day is to make your bed every day. Make it even on the weekends or when you don’t feel like it.

Making your bed has an immediate impact.

You can feel calmer knowing that at least one thing in your home is tidy, no matter what.

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Put Things Away As Soon As You’re Done Using Them It sounds simple, but think about how many things you use throughout the day without putting them back. We do it unconsciously all the time. For example, maybe instead of putting something back in the drawer, you leave it on the countertop for the time being.

Clothes are another example. Instead of hanging them up, you start throwing them on the floor or your bed, so try to change that habit.

These things add up.

If you consciously promise yourself you’ll put everything back after you’re done using it, you’ll notice a difference in your home.

Do One Room At a Time When you do clean, focus on one room at a time. It gets overwhelming to tell yourself you have to clean the entire house.

When you focus on one room at a time, it can be encouraging and help keep you motivated because you can accomplish something.

Have a Schedule One way that people often find success in having a consistently clean home is by

having a schedule. You can come up with something that works for you, but one way to do it is to separate tasks by day and do the same ones on the same day every week.

For example, maybe Monday is for dusting and laundry, and Tuesday is for vacuuming and bathrooms. You can go from there, but as you’re doing more frequent cleaning, things have less of a chance to become big messes.

Finally, aim to do a load of laundry a day.

That means washing it, folding it, and putting it away. Laundry can create piles and messes all over your home if it gets out of hand, so taking control of those before they become problematic will keep floors and other areas tidier.

Maybe you come up with a routine for the load you do every day. For example, you could put a load in in the morning before leaving for the day. You put it in the dryer as soon as you get home, and you put it away before bed.

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PUBLISH: Argonaut Newspaper 03/24/22, 03/31/22, 04/07/22, 04/14/22 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 22AHCP00100 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of ZHANSHUO LIU by and through Guardian ad litern JIAJIN LI ZHIGUI LIU, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: ZHANSHUO LIU filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.)

ZHANSHUO LIU to NOAH ZHANSHUO LIU 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/10/2022. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: 3 Room: 300. The address of the court is 150 West Commonwealth Ave. Alhambra, CA 91801. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles. Original filed: March 18, 2022. Robin Miller Sloan, Judge of the Superior Court.

PUBLISH: Argonaut Newspaper 03/31/22, 04/07/22, 04/14/22, 04/21/22

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 22STCP01014 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of IAN WILLIAM PUGH, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: IAN WILLIAM PUGH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.)

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