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Contents

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VOL 44, NO 20 Local News & Culture

OPINION Letters to the editor....................................................................... 5

NEWS MdR, meet Silicon Beach............................................................. 6 Incumbent helps opponent to different seat.................................. 6

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Marina hosts Regatta for Hope

Grunion make a run for Venice

NAUTICAL NEWS MarinaFest, Regatta for Hope and Halibut Derby updates..........11

FEATURE The gender landscape of Westside politics is changing..............12

THIS WEEK Google hosts the Venice Art Walk................................................15 Westside Happenings..................................................................18 Ballet legacy comes home.......................................................... 37 Doc tackles ‘Big Food................................................................. 38

FOOD&DRINK ChocoVivo goes old-school.........................................................15

REAL ESTATE Find your dream home................................................................ 30

CLASSIFIED/CROSSWORD Jobs, apartments and more........................................................ 40 ON THE COVER: (From left) Simona Farisse, Wendy Greuel, Sandra Fluke and Autumn Burke. PHOTO BY TED SOQUI. DESIGN BY ERNESTO ESQUIVEL.

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Letters

RETOUCH & CUT

The bike path that connects Venice to Santa Monica along the beach has become an embarrassing mess due to lack of maintenance and upkeep.

Immediate action is required.

Despite relentless contact with city and county officials, the situation has become worse, with the deterioration of the grassy knolls that separate the pedestrian walk from the bike path as the culprit.

I have attached some photos to demonstrate the severity of the problem. Bicyclists have to stop peddling and walk their bicycles through the mounds of sand that have created a potentially dangerous situation as we enter the high-traffic summer months.

I have never witnessed a government do so little to protect its brand among tourists and residents nor such a lackadaisical attitude by public officials to address an issue so remedial but vital. This detached and condescending treatment of residents has become tiring, as if pointing out obvious deficiencies is somehow the problem — not the lack of action and accountability by those elected to represent the citizens of Venice Beach in a responsible manner.

It is unacceptable to have a city and county government that fail to coordinate the maintenance that this bike path requires as a primary tourist attraction at the beach — to say nothing of getting people

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A sand drift obstructs the bike path on Venice Beach out of their cars and riding bikes, which relieves traffic congestion that stresses Venice Beach every weekend.

I have corresponded for months with those responsible for the path.

Instead of concentrating on things that most residents find ridiculous — ice skating rinks, zip lines and Ferris wheels — when will public officials get back to basics and address the core issues, given the importance of Venice Beach to the economic well-being of Los Angeles? How many visitors will return if they’re drowning in sand and can’t find a clean restroom?

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Quality of life a losing battle in the marina

Old, young, rich, poor: Marina del Rey is being destroyed for everyone in all ways.

Fresh air to breathe is gone with all the planned and added residential and commercial projects.

Boating is being threatened for all the reasons continuously being stated by the boating community.

Water views are being turned into something called “view corridors.”

Try driving and attempting to look down one of these so-called view corridors to see if you might actually be near a marina yet. Oops, did I just drive into the back of the car in front of me?

Walking instead of driving: gone, Less than impressed not only due to congestion of cars with new Venice homes and having to breathe bad air, but also the present loss of decent Re: “Designing Up: Venice as restaurants, including ones where Architectural Laboratory,” feature, “seniors” and some not-so-senior April 24 can actually hear each other and Regarding your recent article have a conversation; loss of movie gushing about “unique” and theaters where patrons are not “eclectic” homes in Venice, I would disturbed by people dining during like to give my input as a longtime, the movie, which adds unreasonably fourth-generation Venice resident. to the ticket price; and the upcoming These houses — or ugly white loss of the post office in Marina del sheet metal and concrete boxes, as Rey. I prefer to call them — are visually Serious walking for exercise polluting Venice. They have no requires not only good air and soul and look as though they were pleasant views, but the ability to slapped together with the cheapest continuously walk uninhibited material and slightest attention to by poor walking surfaces such as design possible. bricks, cobblestone look-alikes, baby I hate them; they are a scourge on carriages, bicycles, skateboards and our neighborhoods. last — but definitely not least — offI encourage you to report on leash dogs or too long leash lengths builders who produce these causing walkers to fear strange dogs monstrosities for what they are: and come into physical contact with no-talent carpetbaggers arriving them. in Venice to make big bucks and Old, young, rich, poor: We all keep do the minimum to contribute to going to L. A. County meetings, neighborhood attractiveness.

Miriam Jannol writing letters to The Argonaut and Venice who knows what else. But we are losing. So sad.

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Correction:

Last week’s feature story, “Punk on Film,” contained some incorrect information about Jenny Lens, who did not feel the story accurately portrayed her career. Although born in West L.A., Lens grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Lens appeared in “The Decline of Western Civilization” and attended the April screening at LACMA. The issue’s cover photo of X was taken during the filming. Lens also said she did not meet Glen Friedman or Chuck Dukowski until the mid-2000s. Her work did not appear in the “Superman is Dead” art exhibit but was featured in the exhibit “Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die.”

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NEWS Knabe wants to put Marina del Rey on the Silicon Beach map

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Supervisor Don Knabe makes a point during Monday’s speech

By Gary Walker Strengthening Marina del Rey’s position in the housing, tourism and commercial marketplaces will be a top priority of Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe’s remaining time in office, Knabe told constituents last Friday during a “State of

the Marina” address hosted by the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce.

During his 30-minute speech at Tony P’s Dockside Grill, Knabe also touched on dissatisfaction with the pace of recent street repairs and signaled resistance to a state environmental cleanup initiative largely opposed by recreational boaters.

But in terms of shaping Marina del Rey’s future, change — particularly as it concerns a controversial county visioning process that would rearrange the harbor’s landscape — appeared to be the underlying theme.

“Many of you have been reading about the new Silicon Beach [technology entrepreneurship sector] that we have around here, and we need to be competitors for that marketplace and have the kinds of amenities and living experiences and businesses that will attract people to come here,” Knabe said.

“I think with the visioning, we’re at the point where we have one last good shot, and we’ve got to do it right. As far as I’m concerned, everything is on the table.”

The county’s visioning initiative seeks to guide development in Marina del Rey for the next 30 years to accommodate up to 200,000 square feet of new retail development and as many as 940 new hotel rooms. The plan, likely facing a vote by the Board of Supervisors later this

year, would create recreational, boating and residential sectors of the harbor with changes that include the demolition of Fisherman’s Village and clustering boater amenities at the southwest end of the harbor.

“I’m really working hard to finish out a lot of things in my last two and a half years in office, and really feel that under the leadership of [newly named Dept. of Beaches and Harbors Director] Gary Jones we’ve got some momentum out here,” Knabe said.

The visioning effort, however, does have its critics.

Environmentalist Douglas Fay, who is running in June for the seat that County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky must vacate due to term limits, said the county report does not reflect the will of harbor residents.

“The visioning process that the county is conducting is absurd,” said Fay, a Santa Monica resident who is also suing the county over its Oxford Lagoon restoration project. “It has not been inclusive, and I am opposing the visioning process.”

During his address, Knabe took issue with a recent mandate by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board that would force boaters to strip and re-paint vessel hulls coated with copperbased paints, likely at considerable

expense.

“We thought that was pretty extreme and outrageous, and we were treated very rudely at the hearing and we made a very scientific presentation,” Knabe said.

Knabe threatened to “go nuclear” if the water board does not revise its mandate — a remark he later clarified as bringing legal action against the state-run board.

Addressing concerns about homeless encampments in the Ballona Wetlands, Knabe said the Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station has made strides to collaborate with other agencies and added an additional patrol deputy.

“We’re seeing some improvements, but we need more help from the state,” Knabe said.

Reacting to complaints about delays in work during recently completed upgrades to Admiralty Way, Knabe said he is seeking to improve county oversight of contractor work schedules.

“While the business community was requesting that the project be completed as soon as possible, the residential community was asking for peace and quiet, with no work late at night or on weekends. So it is always difficult striking an even balance between the two, but from that experience, we’re going to make some changes going forward,” he said. ª gary@argonautnews.com

Appointment narrows competition in contested race

Neighborhood Council of Westchester – Playa incumbent faces fewer challengers after offering one opponent an empty seat

By Gary Walker Sunday’s Neighborhood Council of Westchester – Playa elections will have one less candidate vying for a heavily contested seat following his appointment to a different seat on the board through a vote initiated by one of his ballot-box rivals.

On May 6, council President Cyndi Hench moved to appoint Gregg Aniolek to a recently vacated seat not up for election this year, a move that was supported unanimously by the council.

Aniolek, who was narrowly defeated in a bid for that same seat in 2012, had been running this year for one of two at-large seats in a crowded race that included Hench and five other candidates.

Westchester – Playa council member Scott Carni said he didn’t object to Aniolek joining the board but took issue with the timing of the appointment.

“The optics of having someone appointed to an at large seat who was running against the president — where for the first time the president has competition — was of great concern to me,” Carni said. “What bothers me is that there seems PAGE 6 THE ARGONAUT May 15, 2014

to be more concern about control of the board than the health of the board.”

Carni offered a friendly amendment to Hench’s motion that would have delayed Aniolek’s appointment until after the election, but the idea failed to garner majority support.

Hench said she embraced competition in the upcoming elections and that Aniolek had stated a preference to serve in the seat he was appointed to, which represents a specific residential district, rather than the at large seat he had sought in this year’s election.

“Gregg Aniolek has expressed his interest in serving the board in the [residential district] seat. Since he ran for that seat two years ago, he has attended more meetings than a few of the board members. When I learned that his predecessor was to resign, I told Mr. Aniolek about the upcoming vacancy so that he could decide what he wanted to do as it pertained to the upcoming election.

Because it is his preference to serve in the residential district seat, he opted to drop out of the election,” Hench wrote in an email to The Argonaut.

“The [residential district] seat is in Group A and not on the current ballot, so an appointment was necessary. It is the duty of the president to make an appointment when a qualified replacement is identified,” Hench continued. “There are a couple of other seats that have been vacant for a bit longer but they are in the Group B election cycle and are on the ballot on May 18. It seemed unfair to appoint someone to one of those seats with an election on the horizon.”

Westchester – Playa council member Craig Eggers, who is seeking reelection to an unrelated seat, said he thinks very highly of Aniolek but worries the timing of his appointment would leave constituents with a negative impression of the council.

“When in doubt, if it doesn’t feel right, seem right or look right, don’t do it,” Eggers said. “We had a choice, and we chose to further the perception that once again we did not take the high road.”

Only 214 voters turned out for the 2012 Westchester – Playa election, but Hench said increased interest in this year’s races shows that community members have

become more willing to get involved “I think it is great that we have more competitive races,” she wrote. “What is surprising is that several of the candidates have not been to more than one or two meetings. I wonder if they fully understand what they have signed up for.”ª

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Bigger and better, Marinafest returns Once upon a time, Marina del Rey had an annual boat show and all the townspeople came to walk amongst the many boats and booths. These were fine times and happiness rang throughout the land. But then, shrouded in darkness, an evil economy came along and destroyed the event and the people were sad.

Through the years, efforts were made to revive the show, but nothing all that great came of them. Its time, it seemed, had come and gone.

In the end, however, this fairy tale could squeak out a happy ending. Six years ago, a small group of community members attempted to fill the void by starting a humble little event called Marinafest. It

was far less grandiose than the large-scale boat shows of the past, but had something that the more recent shows didn’t have — a local heart.

“It quickly evolved into a desire to pull the community together to promote itself … in particular the boating aspects of this community,” said co-organizer Steve Curran, a yacht broker in Marina del Rey. While Curran is interested in seeing the event encourage boat sales, Marinafest is rooted in a less commercial, more community-based philosophy. He spoke of the economic slowdown of the last six years and a “hugely negative effect” it has had on boating in general. Curran says there is a need to pull together,

and an event like Marinafest can inject the necessary energy.

“The five of us, [including co-organizers Russ Carrington, Paul Skipper, David Maury and Christine Rohde] are really driven to do something more than a boat show,” Curran said.

And it is. In addition to 40 boats and 30 booths to check out, there will also be quite a few other activities to explore: water bus tours of the marina, classic yachts on display, face painting for the kids, model boat racing, a look at the sheriff’s patrol/fire boat, yacht club open houses and even some public sailing.

Organizers are proud this year’s event will be held on the grounds of Burton

Chace Park. Last year Marinafest was held in a parking lot, and there’s no doubt the shift is a massive upgrade. The docks at Burton Chace have recently been upgraded, so there is lots of optimism surrounding the show.

“Having it at the park, instead of [a parking lot on] Bali Way, brought more boat businesses and really improved the attitude towards the event,” Curran said.ª Marinafest happens from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Burton Chace Park, 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey. Call (310) 877-5500 or visit marinafest. com.

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And finally, a fish story…

Racers compete in the 2006 Regatta for Hope aboard a Martin 243

Collaboration bolsters Regatta for Hope Also this weekend, the Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club and the Del Rey Yacht Club have teamed up to help raise money for City of Hope, the prominent Southern California cancer research and treatment center. Year after year, SMWYC has been running the annual Crab Feast and Regatta for Hope events and have now facilitated donations of well over $250,000 for the charity. They are consistently breaking their own fundraising records, and this year will very likely be the same story.

By partnering with the larger Del Rey Yacht Club, the two clubs together can draw from substantial

resources.

Attendance was increasing to the extent that we just outgrew our facility at SMWYC,” said volunteer regatta organizer Norm Perron. “Rather than turn away potential donations, we approached DRYC with the idea of partnering with us and they thought this could work. In fact, as of now, the Crab Feast is sold out.”

Perron encourages anyone who has a sailboat and is capable of sailing up to the Santa Monica Pier to come out and join the cause.

Those who do not have boats can come out and crew or just relax on the water.

Venice Angler Tim Sheridan won top prize at last year’s Halibut Derby with a 33.5-pound catch

“Overall the regatta is a more laid back race where we encourage novice and inexperienced participants to enjoy a day on the water for this worthy cause,” Perron said. “If you don’t have a boat, we offer crew positions on Catalina 42s and cruising boats. Also, we have a 65+-foot private motor yacht that will take observers out on the race course for a minimum donation of $45.

This includes munchies and wine onboard.” ª To get involved in the Regatta for Hope, call (424) 222-9206 or visit regattaforhope2014@gmail.com.

There has been a good amount of speculation (mostly doubt) about whether the annual Marina del Rey Halibut Derby will happen this year. Word on the street was that it would be cancelled for lack of interest, but Marina del Rey Anglers President John Szynura said this week that the event has only been postponed.

Though the derby was expected to take place in June, Szynura said July 12 has become the tentative date for local anglers to take to the ocean in pursuit of that prized fish.

Szynura said he’s regretful for the uncertainty and delay, citing a lack of manpower

within the organization, but is looking forward to taking a fresh approach to this year’s tournament — including its first ever free-entry contest.

“We’re looking to do a freeentry tournament to boost the numbers back up,” said Szynura.

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and attorney Sandra Fluke, who came to national prominence in 2012 when a male-dominated House of Representatives committee blocked her from testifying on women’s reproductive rights.

Civil rights attorney Simona Farrise and economic development consultant Autumn Burke are in what appears to be a tight battle for the 62nd Assembly District seat, and former state Sen. Sheila Kuehl is one of two presumed favorites in the race to replace termed-out Yaroslavsky.

If elected, Kuehl would be only the third woman to serve on the Board of Supervisors.

West Los Angeles Democratic Club President Cara Robin said the area has previously elected many significant female legislators and will likely do so again.

“We on the Westside of Los Angeles have been very fortunate to have had an

By Gary Walker exemplary tradition of progressive women representing us over the years,” said In 1992, California sent Dianne Feinstein Councilman Mike Bonin.

Robin, listing Secretary of State Debra In what could become our Year of the and Barbara Boxer to the U.S. Senate, Bowen, the late state Sen. Jenny Oropeza, Woman in local politics, the June primary where they joined two newly elected Butler and former state Sen. Fran Pavley election ballot features strong female women from other states and two female among them. candidates in races for Congress, both incumbents in a watershed moment the Boxer takes encouragement in seeing so houses of the California Legislature and national media dubbed “The Year of the many women once again seeking office on an open seat on the L.A. County Board of Woman.” the Westside.

Supervisors — women who in many cases Despite women attaining a record 20 “We will never have a truly are outpacing their male counterparts in Senate seats and being more broadly representative government until women campaign fundraising. represented throughout the political and minorities are well represented at Former Los Angeles City Controller spectrum today, holding public office every political level,” wrote Boxer in remains a predominately male career path. Wendy Greuel has emerged alongside an email to The Argonaut last week. “I Lieu as a frontrunner to succeed Waxman Even on L.A.’s progressive Westside, am heartened to see many more women in the House, and Marianne Williamson the top lawmakers are men: retiring getting engaged in what was formerly a has led the pack in fundraising with a Rep. Henry Waxman (D- Beverly Hills), man’s domain.” campaign war chest exceeding $1 million. state Sen. Ted Lieu (D- Torrance), th The field of candidates for the 26 Assemblyman Steven Bradford (DGardena), L.A. County Supervisors Don California Senate District seat includes A two-term member of the L.A. City Knabe and Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles former Assemblywoman Betsy Butler, Council before serving as City Controller Mayor Eric Garcetti and L.A. City Manhattan Beach Mayor Amy Howorth

Strong female candidates emerge as leading contenders for West L.A.’s top political offices, all of which are currently held by men

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from 2009 to 2013, Greuel said women remain significantly underrepresented at the national level.

“Congress is only 18% women. That’s not good enough for me,” said Greuel, 52.

“When we see the issues that are facing Congress and our state and local area, a lot of them are women’s issues — family issues. Women still make 77 cents on the dollar [compared to men]. We have a war on women’s reproductive rights. We have a war on the family’s ability to survive and to be able to have a good-paying wage to put food on the table.”

Joining the race to replace Waxman “was really a gut reaction,” said Greuel, who campaigned last year to become mayor of Los Angeles.

Federal Elections Commission records updated last month tallied roughly $672,000 in campaign fundraising for Greuel, a Democrat — slightly ahead of Lieu and third overall behind Williamson and Venice attorney and entrepreneur David Kanuth, also a Democrat, who had raised about $800,000.

Williamson, a former Democrat turned Independent and one of a few candidates to enter the race before Waxman’s retirement announcement, had raised $986,000 and loaned herself another $92,000.

“We need more women in politics, but what we really need are more women who are not entrenched in the current political system,” said Williamson, a public lecturer and self-help author who has had four books on The New York Times bestseller list.

Williamson — who calls for reducing corporate influence in politics and protection of civil liberties while taking aim at partisan gridlock — has made frequent public appearances throughout

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the congressional district. A Williamson rally on Monday at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills features Alanis Morissette performing a campaign song she wrote for Williamson.

“Mine is a grassroots campaign,” said Williamson, 61. “I think there is a general dissatisfaction with the political status quo. Democracy is being dismantled right before our very eyes. I feel that I’m speaking to that message and it is being heard.”

Barbara Mulvaney, an international human rights attorney and Playa del Rey native, has trailed in fundraising but had amassed more than $120,000 last month.

Mulvaney, 62, served as lead prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, pioneered efforts to prosecute domestic violence and was a deputy director of constitutional and legislative affairs for the U.S. State Dept. under President Obama.

“It’s important to hear a woman’s voice in government, especially on international security issues as well as on issues here at home,” said Mulvaney, who now lives in Santa Monica.

best friends don’t agree with.”

The only woman on the Manhattan Beach City Council, Howorth said having more women in public office gives government a more diverse set of viewpoints and problem-solving skills.

“We all have different experiences, and that’s always valuable in representative government,” Howorth said. “If we truly have a representative government, ideally we’d have over 50% women.”

A longtime legislative advocate on women’s rights issues, Fluke comes to the race with the notoriety of having stood up to attacks by far-right pundits after she decried House Republicans for stifling the female perspective on women’s reproductive issues.

For many women, the sequence of events pointed up the need for more women in elected office.

“I don’t think that particular moment when I took on Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators is what qualifies me to run for office, it’s the 10 years of legislative advocacy that qualifies me. But that moment is an example of what my leadership looks like, what my character looks like. Folks can turn to that and see I’m someone who’s not going to back down even when there are difficult personal consequences,” said Fluke, 33, who spoke at the 2012 National Democratic Convention.

Fluke, who initially contemplated a bid for Congress, said that many of the pressing issues facing Californians are rooted in women’s issues — including efforts to combat human trafficking and sexual assaults on college campuses as well as early childhood education and affordable child care.

“Disproportionally it ends up being women whose careers are impacted when they don’t have access to child care. That’s important for the educational futures of our kids, but also for families to pursue careers that provide economic stability,” she said.

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Butler, who worked as a Clinton administration Dept. of Commerce official, was elected to the state Assembly in 2008 and again in 2010 before losing her seat to former Santa Monica City Councilman Richard Bloom in 2012 by a razor-thin margin.

She initially declared an Assembly run but trained her sights on the state Senate after Lieu decided to run for Congress.

“I’ve lived in the district for over 20 years,” said Butler, 50, who resides in Marina del Rey. “I know the territory and I know about the issues that constituents of the 26th District care about.”

Butler’s legislative work on the environment, equal rights and elder care illustrate her priorities, she said.

Leading the fundraising battle, however, is Howorth, who also entered the race due to the political musical chairs effect of Waxman’s retirement announcement.

“As a mayor, I know how decisions from Sacramento can affect local communities,” said Howorth, 49, a former photo editor for Wired magazine and mother of two. “I’ve had to make difficult decisions as mayor, some that even my

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who have separated themselves from the pack in terms of campaign spending and voter outreach, say the plethora of female candidates in their race and others this election cycle is worth noting.

“What our communities need, what our state needs, are the best and brightest wherever they are found. But it’s important to recognize that women bring something different to the table,” said Farrise, 48, whom Newsweek named in a 2011 list of the nation’s top attorneys.

“Women, and I don’t just mean in a caregiver way, have taken care of children, have taken care of elders and have really held the trust of what is going to make a family, a community, a tribe, if you will, healthy,” said Farrise, a Westchester resident. “I’m the mother of three children, and my thinking about any variety of substantive issues is put through the lense of potentially making decisions for my daughter, for my son, for my mother.”

Burke, 40 and a resident of Marina del Rey, comes to the race a scion of an influential family in Los Angeles politics.

But the daughter of former Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Braithwaite Burke and former Coastal Commission President William Burke said she has worked hard to stake out her own political identity in a race without a well-known The local Assembly race is largely a candidate. contest between two women who are first- “As proud as I am of my parents, it’s time office seekers, while the race for the been important to me for the voters to get Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to know me and what I stand for,” Burke Third District seat features one prominent said. female and one prominent male candidate. Farrise had raised roughly $330,000 for Assembly candidates Farrise and Burke, her campaign and Burke $320,000 as of

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May 8, according to California Secretary of State records. But Burke’s bid for office had also benefitted from about $340,000 in independent expenditures on mailers and other outreach, according to records.

"It’s incredibly important that women’s voices are represented at every level,” said Burke. “No one should vote for someone just because they’re a woman, but luckily we have a series of very intelligent women who have proven they are smart and really committed to the community, and that’s why you vote for someone.”

If elected to the Board of Supervisors, Kuehl would become only the third woman to serve in Los Angeles County’s highest office.

Kuehl, 73, touts 14 years of state legislative experience spanning both houses of the California Legislature.

“The kind of experience that I have really matters, not experience on a part-time city council that some of my opponents have,” Kuehl said.

Kuehl, a child actor turned attorney turned officeholder, had raised about $800,000 for her campaign as of May 6, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder. Former Santa Monica City Councilman Bobby Shriver had raised nearly $1 million, including $300,000 of his own money.

Burke said gender balance in the halls of power is essential for good government.

“I just can’t imagine a legislative body that can properly perform without truly representing the community,” Burke said.

“There aren’t enough women in politics, and we’re getting ready to fix this.”

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political ambition; men tend to have it, and women don’t,” the (Continued from previous page) report concluded.

According to the report, women are more likely than men to perceive the political landscape As the saying goes, you can’t as highly competitive and biased win if you don’t play. The against them, “much less likely gender imbalance in American than men to think they are politics, according to a recent qualified for political office” and academic study, may largely far less often encouraged to seek be the result of too few women political careers, even by their choosing to run for office. mothers and other women.

In a 2012 report titled “Men But in a follow-up report last Rule,” Loyola Marymount year (this one titled “Girls Just University associate professor Wanna Not Run,” a play on the of political science Richard song “Girls Just Wanna Have Fox and American University Fun”), Fox and Lawless did associate professor of find a ray of hope in that more government Jennifer Lawless women — especially young examined the persistent underwomen — are now beginning representation of women in to consider entering politics, higher office. according to a survey of college “Study after study finds that students. when women run for office, they “Given the emergence of perform just as well as their male over the past 10 years of highcounterparts. No differences profile women in politics such emerge in women’s and men’s as Hillary Clinton, Nancy fundraising receipts, vote totals, Pelosi, Sarah Palin and Michele or electoral success. Yet women Bachmann, the landscape of U.S. remain severely unrepresented in looks to be changing. Perhaps young woman now are just as U.S. political institutions,” Fox motivated as young men to enter and Lawless wrote.

“We argue that the fundamental the electoral arena,” they wrote.

Williamson has made her own reason for women’s undercontribution toward getting more representation is that they do women involved in politics. not run for office. There is After the 2012 presidential a substantial gender gap in

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Fluke said voters also have a role to play.

“We’re making progress in having women step forward and run, but we have to make more progress than that. We have to elect them,” Fluke said. “We have to make sure that we have diverse voices in our government at every level. If the government doesn’t look like the people, do we truly have a democracy?” ª Managing Editor Joe Piasecki contributed to this report.

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By Michael Aushenker That giant metal ballerina clown that stands on the northwest corner of Main Street and Rose Avenue “has not kicked in more than 25 years,” according to Laney Kapgan, chief development officer for Venice Family Clinic.

At noon Sunday, Jonathan Borofsky’s mechanical creation — its mechanism finally repaired — kicks again to kick off the Venice Family Clinic’s 35th annual Venice Art Walk & Auctions.

The event features the unveiling of a new mural, tours of some 50 local art studios, an oldfashioned tintype photo-maker, live music, gourmet food trucks and a special tribute to artist Don Bachardy, who turns 80 that day.

The auction includes more than 300 works of art — including pieces by Peter Alexander, celebrated for his paintings and translucent resin sculptures, and Alejandro Gehry (architect Frank Gehry’s son) — and for the first time is being held online, at paddle8.com/auctions/ venicefamilyclinic.

For the third year, Google’s Venice headquarters (a.k.a. Frank Gehry’s “Binoculars Building”) plays host to Art Walk, which annually raises about $700,000 for Venice Family Clinic’s efforts to deliver medical care to some 24,000 low-income or homeless clients.

The prior 32 years, Art Walk had been held at Westminster Avenue Elementary School.

“Moving it to Google has been

a wonderful opportunity to reinvent the event and open it up to a larger audience,” Kapgan said.

“I feel like we’re finding our home in the Google space and continuing to grow there.”

As part of an effort to better connect Art Walk with its beneficiary agency, local artist Cameron Gray will unveil a new permanent mural on the west wall of the clinic’s flagship location on Rose Avenue.

“To be able to do something to help out, it’s great, it’s wonderful,” Gray said.

Mixing art and activism is nothing new for Gray, an Art Walk veteran who has had a busy week since his wife, Ramaa Mosely, played a role in popularizing the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign in response to the hundreds of school girls abducted in Nigeria.

Bachardy also has a long association with the benefit.

In addition donating a portrait sitting each year, Bachardy has created more than a dozen portraits of HIV/AIDS patients who utilize the Venice Family Clinic.

At 18, Bachardy famously met and fell in love with playwright Christopher Isherwood, who was 48 at the time. Bachardy still occupies the Santa Monica Canyon home the pair moved into in 1955.

“I’ve been here ever since,” Bachardy said. “He died in this very house with me looking after him.”

After 50 years, Bachardy still finds his trademark endeavor,

Google’s Venice headquarters — also known as Frank Gehry’s “Binoculars Building” — plays host to the Venice Art Walk & Auctions on Sunday

portraiture, a challenging one.

“I’ve never ever tire of it. I live off of it like a vampire,” he said.

“I meet my sitter for the very first time, we shake hands, and in a few minutes we’re locked in this very intimate experience, looking at each other with eye contact.”

Isherwood did not escape Bachardy’s artistic gaze.

“That poor man, I put him through incredible long sittings,” Bachardy recalled. “He was such a good sport, he never complained. I even did drawings

of his corpse. During the last six months of his life, I worked with him every day. It allowed me to be with him intensely.”

Isherwood died in 1986 at the age of 81. As Bachardy turns 80 on Sunday, the Google courtyard will be a backdrop for rock bands, food stalls and even live painting.

Best known for her murals of gorillas that are ubiquitous throughout Venice, Isabelle Alford-Lago will be live painting (for her first time ever) during the auction and reception at the

Google complex.

“I’ve created several of my public gorilla murals in the surrounding area, so the idea is that the demonstration of my process will bring a piece of the local art scene to this event,” said Alford-Lago, who has participated in Art Walk the past two years.

A Gray-designed T-shirt incorporating 500 Art Walk volunteers and a poster featuring Bachardy’s sketches of 14 artists — among them Ed Moses, Ed Ruscha and the late Robert (Continued on page 27)

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Speakers by the Sea holds an open house welcoming people to master the art of public speaking

By Michael Aushenker With its drab, gray cylinders, Playa del Rey’s Hyperion Treatment Center seems like a nondescript meeting place for a club dedicated to the art of standing out, yet it is here opposite Dockweiler Beach where Emily Sang, in a burst of boldness and nervousness, propels herself

before a boardroom of 15 fellow Toastmasters and nearly weeps.

Under the stress of a twominute time limit, Sang, 41 — polite and professionally dressed, with an accent belying her English as her second language — valiantly gives her presentation while fighting back tears. Her speech addresses Mother’s Day, but she’s currently

discussing her comatose father, whom she and her devoted mother tended to at his UCLA hospital sickbed for two years before his 2010 death.

With the clock ticking, Sang looks her viewers in the eye, summoning a smile as she stands front and center, away from the dais. Across the room, Billy G. Ingram II, a.k.a. Billy G., flashes

visual cues; his green card segues to a yellow card to red before Sang’s time ends.

Speakers by the Sea, a local branch of Toastmasters International that meets at 11 a.m. Wednesdays, is this week hosting an open house for prospective members as part of its regular meeting.

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boasts nearly 300,000 members at 14,350 clubs in 122 countries.

The organization publishes a monthly magazine under the mantra “Where Leaders Are Made” from its Rancho Santa Margarita headquarters.

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You have some products that I don’t see at other chocolatiers, like cacao nibs. What’s a nib?

Chocolate grows in pods on the cacao tree, and cacao nibs are deshelled and cracked pieces of the cacao bean. You can eat them, or grind them up and use them as a steak rub — they don’t melt.

Some people like to mix nibs into frosting to give it a crunchy texture, and they’re useful in baking. You can use them instead of nuts in banana bread. We have a chocolate bar called the nibby bar that has nibs inside. It helps enhance the fruitiness of the chocolate.

I’m also making chocolate nut butters, grinding the nuts with cacao. We have an almond chocolate nut butter and a chocolate hazelnut butter — it’s like Nutella with a PhD. This uses the sweetness of the nuts, and it’s much less sweet than the version with all the processed sugars.

There are lots of chocolates with unusual ingredients. Do you do that?

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Traditionally in Mexico they use four flavors: vanilla beans, almonds, sugar and cinnamon, and that’s it. I have started using other ingredients that I can stone-

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it. We offer drinking chocolate here [at ChocoVivo], using filtered water as opposed to milk. hocolate is the world’s Chocolate is 40% to 50% natural vegetable fats, but adding milk luxury candy as adds a lot of creaminess and well as an ingredient coats your mouth. When you in cereals, baked use water you taste the cacao goods and even savory sauces, butter. We have four styles of but throughout history it has drinking chocolate. In Europe been much more. The Mayans they like it thick and dense, so and Aztecs used chocolate as we have a sipping chocolate. We currency, and when Europeans have an American or Mexican first experienced the delicacy they were so enchanted that they style hot chocolate that is more liquid, and we also have an iced gave the trees that produced it hot chocolate and a frozen hot the Latin name theobroma — chocolate that’s like a frozen literally, “food of the gods.” milkshake.

Patricia Tsai of ChocoVivo in Culver City understands the When the Europeans got to fascination with chocolate. She Mexico, how did they do things has devoted years of her life to differently? studying it in order to open the They refined it and added sugar, Westside’s first “bean to bar” gave it that creamy mouth feel chocolate factory last year. that you are used to in chocolate bars. The Mayans and Aztecs How did you get involved in gave it a more nutty, gritty feel the chocolate business?

I got my CPA and found it because they were stone-grinding to be a soulless job, and went it. We use a pair of lava stones to on this journey to figure out grind ours to a finished form. what I was passionate about. I decided it was food, but didn’t Any other ways your bars are want to become a chef. The big different from mass-market moment was when I went on chocolate? a culinary tour of Mexico and The way that large commercial discovered they enjoy chocolate companies make chocolate is a in a completely different way, 16-step process. We only take and that was where my chocolate the first six steps. We don’t journey started. After five years conch it, which means heating of research and development I and aerating it; we don’t temper actually got into the business. the chocolate [a process that gives the bar a glossy sheen]. I How did the ancient Mayans have found that I eat less of the enjoy chocolate? whole chocolate and find it more The Mayans drank chocolate satisfying than chocolate that has in water, and they would add been highly processed. Those different herbs and chilies to bars are like eating mashed-

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grind in with the cacao, so we have 13 different blends. We use cherries and black peppercorns, Valencia or blood oranges that we dry and then grind in, tonka bean, and we’re doing blueberries and lavender right now.

Without preservatives, does your chocolate have a shorter shelf life?

We tell customers they should eat it within two or three weeks, because since there are no preservatives the flavor will change. If they want to keep it longer, keep it in the refrigerator, but put it in an airtight container,

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I made a chicharron chocolate once because a chef wanted it, but most people were not ready for crispy pork fat in chocolate.

I want to make a red bean chocolate some time. I think it ª will taste great.

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Strathmore, 10 p.m. The L.A.based acoustic alternative rock band performs at Witzend, 1717 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. $10. (310) Get Connected, 10 a.m. to 2 305-4792; witzendlive.com p.m. Commission for the Senior Community, the Santa Monica Ithaca, 10:30 p.m. The rock Public Library and the Older group leads a bill that includes Adult Task Force co-host a free Straw Dogs and The Rocking technology fair for older adults at Horse at the Good Hurt, 12249 the Santa Monica Public Library, Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. (310) 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa 390-1076; goodhurt.com Monica. smpl.org

Showtime Dinner Group, 7 p.m. Adrienne Pender leads this dinner-and-theater outing to The Café Plays, five one-act plays created in 10 hours, at Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Blvd., Santa Monica.

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City Yards Open House, noon to 4 p.m. Children can meet Curby the Recycling Robot and operate a real trash truck at this community event showcasing the many services Public Works provides through hands-on activities and displays. Free admission, free parking and bike valet. Santa Monica City Yards, 2500 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica.

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Used Book Sale Runs Friday, May 16 to Saturday, May 23 M ore than 50,000 books will be on sale at the Rotary Club of Westchester’s 58th Annual Book Sale from May 16th through May 24th.

The event will be held in the parking lot of the Westchester Village Ralphs at Howard Drollinger Way and Sepulveda Boulevard in the Westchester Business District.

The books are generously donated each year by businesses and residents in Westchester and the surrounding communities. The club is continuing to seek book donations throughout the sale.

Among the thousands of titles are dozens of categories as well as audio and video tapes. Books have been presorted and placed in selected areas to ease the search in locating specific kinds of books.

Proceeds from the event provide support for a number of programs in the Westchester community, including the Annual Teacher Mini-Grant

Program, which provides funds to local teachers so that they can conduct enriching classroom activities for their students that they otherwise could not afford. The Rotary Club of Westchester also provides financial assistance to the Scouts, the YMCA and other youth organizations, as well as scholarship programs at our local schools and many other community, senior citizen and youth activities.

The Rotary Club of Westchester also works with the El Sauzal Orphanage in Mexico, providing needy families with food and clothing. The Club also supports the International Rotary polio eradication program, which hopes to eliminate polio from the earth; and the Polio Corrective Surgeries Program, which sends doctors and other volunteers to third world countries to perform much-needed surgery on victims of the disease and clean water program in Thailand.

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Annual Report of the Rotary Club of Westchester

Welcome!

zation where community leaders and those interested in community service could come together on a weekly basis to better our community and the lives of those around the world. Rotary International has likely touched your lives, or the lives of someone you care about in some small or large way.

have a Back to School shopping program for elementary children in need of clothing.

I have the privilege to serve as the Within the community at large we 2014-2015 Rotary Club of Westchester provide support to a battered women’s President. Along with our board of crisis center, food for the homeless directors, I am looking forward to a new at the LAX Pantry, and participate in year which begins on July 1st and promthe Jet to Jetty to raise money for the ises to carry on a tradition of giving and Marina Counseling Center.

We partner service within our community and inter- What does Rotary Do? with Westchester Playa Village to pronationally. In this brief message, I hope We come together to give and support vide seniors with the resources and supto convey the depth of commitment to our local communities through proport they need to stay in their homes as service and peace through service that I grams and giving to those in need and they age. experience every day in our club, in our to recognize those already doing good We acknowledge, give support district and around the world. in our community. Westchester Rotary to and applaud the good in our has established avenues of service for Community through programs such as What is Rotary? youth, vocational, community and interthe Courageous Citizen Awards with You have seen the rotary wheel. It is national. the District Attorney’s office, to honor posted at hotels and restaurants, little Our Youth programs include two citizens for their bravery and action. league fields, community buildings, on Interact clubs at the high school level, We have a Gun’s and Hoses program billboards and street signs, in programs and Rotaract club at the college level at to honor our police and fire fighters at charity events and advertising for LMU. Through these clubs we provide and this year held a joint program with fundraising, but what does it mean? It leadership training and mentoring and the Inglewood Rotary Club and the is a sign that there are people coming a resource for young people to give Inglewood Chamber of Commerce. We together in an organization to serve the within their own communities.

We suprecognize a Westchester Citizen of the community, locally and at large. When port the Westchester YMCA Youth and Year and hold an event to raise money you see the Rotary wheel, you know Government Program for those teens and honor that person. there are people dedicated to the prininterested in the political system and We come together to strengthen ciples of Rotary, and our motto, Service one more way to foster leadership skills. international relationships to further Above Self. You know there are people We have several scholarship programs our goals of peace in the world. We deeply committed to service and peace for graduating high school students, a believe that the way to sustainable through service in our community, in dance, music and art contest for eighth peace is through these alliances. We our district and around the world. You grade students and a separate contest support ambassadorial scholars to study may have seen or heard someone say, for high school students.

We have a internationally, we host and sent out the Four Way Test. It is a guiding ethiread-to-me program at the elementary high school exchange students that live cal code all Rotarians strive to live by in school level and math tutoring to help with families and attend local schools. the things we think, say and do…Is it young students struggling with math We give orphanages in Mexico and the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will facts.

Africa, combine efforts and funds with it build goodwill and friendships? Will Westchester Rotary began a partnerother Rotary Clubs to provide water it be beneficial to all? It is also a place ship with Vision to Learn and Rotary to wells in areas that do not have potable where people come together to estabprovide screening and eye glasses to water. We support polio eradication lish friendships and alliances to further students at local elementary schools in and polio corrective surgery. good and peace in our community and need.

We give fi nancial and hands-on in the world.

How does Rotary work? support to help feed homeless youth The Rotary Club of Westchester was We are financially self supportive. As through a drop in center in Venice.

We founded in 1950 to provide an organi-

members, we pay for our club and support our district and international organizations through quarterly dues. We raise money through two annual fundraisers, the used book sale and a fundraiser dinner that honors our Citizen of the Year. All money raised through our fundraisers provides support to our giving programs.

Who are Rotarians?

We run businesses and raise families, we live next door or have our office down the hall, we care about our youth, our seniors, our community and international peace and are willing to get involved to make a better world. We are you…come join us.

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Founded more than a decade ago, the Interact Clubs have thriving memberships. The students volunteer their time and energy to help raise money for worthy causes, perform volunteer community service, and display the highest level of citizenship and character.

Projects undertaken by the St. Bernard group have included helping run the Rotary International Foundation Dinner and holding a T.B. clinic at the high school for local teachers, aides and school volunteers.

They’ve also worked on the Home Makeover Project, Jet to Jetty run for the Airport Marina Counseling Service, Westchester Senior Citizens Holiday party, a Mexican orphanage Christmas party, Rotary Rose Parade float decorations, Pediatric AIDS benefit dance, the Rotary’s Casino Night, Palm Sunday Pilgrimage and the Rotary

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The Westchester Interact Club advances worthwhile causes close to home and across the seas, including the Mary Magdalene Project, which helps prostitutes get off the streets; Project Angel, which collects baby blankets for County USC hospital; a mobile dental clinic in Latin America; and the LAX Food Pantry, which collects food for the needy. They have also purchased shelter boxes that ease the suffering of international refugees.

The club collected food and gifts for the poor in developing countries and aided relief efforts for bombing victims in Kenya and Tanzania. The clubs’ members also volunteered at the local fire stations, city marathons, beach clean-ups, and the Rotary Scrabble Challenge.

In addition, Interactors play a major role in the Every 15 Minutes Program, a drunk driving program at the school that includes a staged auto accident in front of the school.

The Westchester Rotary Club also pays for several Interactors to attend leadership training events, the most memorable of which is an annual mountain camp retreat. The Rotary Club supports a number of scholarships at the high schools that recog-

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In March, 2000, the Rotary Club of Westchester was proud to oversee the chartering of a Rotaract Club at Loyola Marymount University, marking the establishment of a Rotary sponsored club at all of Westchester’s secondary schools and universities.

Rotaract, the college equivalent of Interact, has proven to be a wonderful addition to the LMU campus, providing a wide range of community service to Westchester.

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Westchester Playa Village provides help to local seniors I n 2009, the Rotary Club of Westchester agreed to be a fiscal sponsor for a new venture initially called the Westchester Village Network. Inspired by a new aging in place initiative known as the “village concept,” the goal was to create a non-profit organization that would help seniors in the community remain in the comforts of their homes for as long as physically and financially possible. This was the seedling that

Volunteers help members with tasks around their homes.

has now become Westchester Playa Village (WPV), and the ties between WPV and the Rotary Club of Westchester have continued to develop.

Two years ago, Rotarian Cozette Vegari saw the importance of strengthening the Club’s relationship with WPV, and in this same special issue, the Rotary Club of Westchester shared its intention to support WPV’s “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” movement. True to its word, the Club has demonstrated its support in many valuable ways, helping WPV to grow and flourish.

Spearheaded by Heather Martillo, the Club’s incoming President, the Rotary Club of Westchester helped spread the word about WPV and the valuable services it provides to seniors and their families. The club has helped promote WPV programs, connect WPV with others in the community, and enlisted volunteers, including high school students in need of community service hours. Several Rotarians, including Martillo and her family, have volunteered by driving WPV members to and from local doctor, hair, and other appointments, as well as assisting members with grocery shopping and other projects around the house. One Rotarian, Fred Wild, is a member himself.

The Club has also provided financial support, pro bono services, and made other donations to WPV. During outgoing Club President Edgar Saenz’ term, WPV was

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awarded a $1,000.00 grant. Rotarians Mason Shayan, Lloyd Hild and their spouses, Geoff Maleman, as well as other Club members have given generously of their resources and skills to support WPV members in need and the WPV operation. Rotarians Bob Smith and Ed Rodriguez sit on WPV’s Board.

Westchester and its surrounding communities has a growing aging population.

This demographic is increasing exponentially - over 10,000 people per day will turn age 65 over the next 15 years across the county. In addition to more people entering this age bracket, those already in it are living longer, healthier lives. While this is a good thing, preparing for this “silver tsunami” is crucial.

In the year ahead, the Rotary Club of Westchester will join forces with WPV to explore ways to better serve the seniors and their families in the community. There will be in increased focus to identify unmet needs and enhance current programs and services. To that end, Rotary and WPV will work with other important community partners/organizations, and discussions with the Westchester Senior Citizens Center and affiliated Club, Councilman’s Office, and the Neighborhood Council of Westchester/ Playa are already underway.

Said Martillo, “During my term, the Rotary Club of Westchester hopes to pave the way to do more to support our seniors

Members learn to use computers with the help of volunteers. population. Our Club values the important work WPV is doing to fill a much needed gap in the community. We are proud to be one of WPVs partners in establishing this kind of support for our seniors.”

“WPV is thrilled to be working with Rotary on such an important project,” said Carol Kitabayashi, WPV’s Executive Director.

“Now is the time to come together to help seniors in our community — it takes a village — and we are grateful for our continued partnership with the Rotary Club of Westchester. We hope our work will be an example for other Rotary Clubs and villages across the nation.”

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During the 2013-2014 school year, the Rotary Clubs of Westchester, Redondo Beach and Playa Venice Sunrise together raised $34,000 to provide vision screenings and eyeglasses to students at six Title 1 elementary schools in the LAX area — Loyola Village Elementary School and Westport Heights Elementary School in Westchester, Broadway and Westminster Elementary Schools in Venice, Playa del Rey Elementary School in Del Rey and Washington Elementary School in Redondo Beach.

“Vision To Learn gave over 300 children the chance to succeed by providing them with prescription eye glasses,” said councilman Mike Bonin at a November event celebrating the project.

Austin Beutner, Vision To Learn Founder and Chairman added, “We appreciate the work of the Rotary Clubs to bring the community together to support the work of Vision To Learn.

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Founded in 1905 in Chicago, Rotary is now the world’s largest service organization with more than 1 million members in more than 160 countries across the globe. Internationally, Rotarians build wells in poor countries where villagers have no access to water. Rotarians provide educational and technical support to those trying to establish businesses in Third World countries.

‘Service above self’ in the local community Rotary Club of Westchester is involved in a variety of community service events and efforts: Courageous Citizen Awards recognizes ordinary citizens who have performed extraordinary acts of valor and selflessness in aiding victims, preventing crime, capturing suspects and assisting in criminal prosecution. Rotary Club of Westchester participates in the annual Fourth of July Parade with an entry. Club members also assist the LAX Costal Area Chamber of Commerce in running the event. Rotary Club of Westchester is a sponsor for the annual Jet to Jetty 5K – 10K annual event, benefitting Airport Marina Counseling Service, a non-profit, community-based mental health clinic that provides an array of effective mental health services for people of all ages, including crisis management. Services are provided seven days a week for people of all ages with fees based on a sliding scale. Rotarians join Interactors and Rotaractors to provide an annual Halloween Party at the 1736 Family Crisis Center for children and families unable to enjoy outside trick or treating.

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Art Walk...

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Later in the evening, Hal’s Bar & Grille is hosting an Art Walk after party from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. with the restaurant’s newly renovated private dining room and art gallery hosting the exhibit “A Taste for Art – Food,

Drink & Film.” A film by artists Debby and Larry Kline will make its Los Angeles premiere to kick off the exhibit, which includes works of art by Ruscha, Andy Warhol and others and continues through July 30. ª The Venice Art Walk & Auctions begins at noon Sunday at Google, 340 Main St., Venice.

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Emily Sang delivers her milestone May 8 speech

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(Continued from page 15) honor a club can achieve,” member Gisel Nightengale says of Speakers by the Sea, founded in 2004.

Speakers by the Sea can be a tough crowd. Prior to Sang’s speech at the club’s May 8 meeting, chapter President Monica Bodell delivers a twominute address on eco-friendly design, a topic very much in her wheelhouse as an interior

designer. Bodell engages listeners with eye contact and humor, but after the talk, member Staci Boggeri still has questions.

She feels Bodell could have provided more depth.

Later critiquing Sang, Boggeri commends her on “great body language and fantastic eye contact.”

“Just to see the evolution, the posture, the body language …

I wish we had a video of your evolution because I believe it’d win an Academy Award!” agrees fellow evaluator Fran Weber.

The pursuit of “persuasive speech” is what brought Sang here.

“I want people to listen instead of forcing your ideas upon them,” the Mar Vista resident said.

As a CPA for a Playa Vistabased corporation, Sang jumped at the opportunity to conquer a lifelong sense of nervousness about public speaking.

When Sang was 8, she won national awards for writing poems.

“I memorized [my poem]

verbatim. I cleared my throat in front of my microphone.

Everyone gasped. That gasp carried with me. It was a psychological obstacle for me to overcome,” she recalls of one disastrous reading.

By her own admission, Sang still needs to perfect her vocal variety: more acting in her storytelling, less monotone in her monologue. What she has improved since joining last August is body language and “getting rid of the fillers” — the dreaded “ums” and “ahs” that

garner point deductions.

“I used to hold the podium and hang on to my dear life.

Now I talk freestanding. I feel in general more confident, less nervous,” she says.

Like clockwork an hour later, award ribbons are presented, including the coveted “Best Speaker.”

And the award goes to …

Emily Sang.

“It gives me chills,” said Westchester resident Mallory Gazecki, club secretary, of witnessing Sang’s development.

“She was a little, meek, mild person who didn’t really relate to anyone. It looks like she’s just finding her stride.”

Sang’s in good company.

Toastmasters’ distinguished alumni includes astronaut James Lovell, cookie entrepreneur Debbi Fields Rose, former White House Press Secretary James Brady, former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle, The Guess Who lead singer Carl Dixon and filmmaker King Vidor.

“The more I practice, the less nervous I will get,” Sang says.

In the meantime, Speakers by the Sea is “a wonderful place to practice and to fail.” ª Speakers by the Sea hosts its open house at 11 a.m.

Wednesday at the Hyperion Treatment Center’s Pregerson Technical Facility, 12000 Vista Del Mar, Ste. 230A, Playa del Rey. Contact Diane Martell at (323) 601-7791 or visit meetup. com/Toastmasters-Speakers-bythe-Sea-Club. michael@argonautnews.com

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Wednesday, May 21 “Country: Portraits of an American Sound,” 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Exhibit opening at Annenberg Space for Photography, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles.

Playa Vista Night Market, 4 to 8 p.m. Enjoy prepared food, shop for fresh produce and dance to live music each Wednesday all summer long at the Playa Vista Night Market, 6400 S. Seabluff Drive, PlayaVista. playavistafm.com House of Vibe All Stars, 8 p.m. Rock, jazz, hip hop and R&B every Wednesday at Harvelle’s, 1432 4th St., Santa Monica. $7. 21+. (310) 3951676; santamonica.harvelles.com Nancy Luca and Friends, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

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back programs with the Maasai peoples, work supporting the Cheetah Conservation Fund, and other experiences on the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent. Buffet lunch starts at 12:20 p.m.; presentation begins 12:40 p.m. Cost: $18.50 (includes luncheon, tax, service and parking).

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Galleries Gallery and Art Sale. Artist Nicolas Koles created 19 landscapes that are on sale at REAL Creative Space, 6207 W. 87th St., Westchester. A portion of the proceeds from these paintings will be donated to rejuvenate arts in education. Prices range from $50 - $500. Ongoing.

REALCreativeSpace.com “Roberto Gil de Montes: Hecho en México” through May 17. Guadalajara-born Roberto Gil de Montes debuts his newest paintings at Bergamot Station. The 15 works on display are inspired in part by primitive, ancient culture and symbols. Lora Schlesinger Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave., Ste T3, Santa Monica. (310) 828-1133; loraschlesigner.com Allied Artists Spring Invitational Exhibit, through May 31. See original landscape and seaside paintings at Blue Seven Gallery/ Artistic Frames, 3129 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (310) 497-7048; allied-artists.com, blue7gallery.com “Punk Photos B-Shots,” through June 1. Curated by Kio Griffith, an exhibit of Giant Robot founder Eric Nakamura’s late-1980s/early 1990s rock photography continues at Balconi Coffee, 11301 W. Olympic Blvd., Ste. 124. Call (310) 906-0267 or visit balconicoffee.com

‘A Bad Film for a Good Cause’

Venice Arts students screen ‘Troll 2’ to fundraise for arts trip Consider this an entirely different type of trolling.

Four photography and film students with the nonprofit Venice Arts are raising travel funds for a Grand Canyon art exploration trip with a screening of the 1990 cult-classic horror film “Troll 2” — a film so good at being bad that its following became the subject of a 2010 documentary titled “Best Worst Movie” — on Friday at Venice Arts Gallery, 1702 Lincoln Blvd., Venice.

Proceeds of “A Bad Film for a Good Cause,’ which asks a $10 donation, will help photography students Zinnia Moreno (pictured left) and Mark Pomilin and

film students Chelsea Ramirez and Rio Martinez raft down the Colorado River and hike the Grand Canyon while producing art to be exhibited at the gallery.

The fundraiser also includes a preview of Venice Arts’ culminating exhibition, which officially opens from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Moreno, whose photography usually involves human subjects in an urban setting, said she looks forward to shooting natural landscapes.

“I want to experience nature in a way that I can’t do in Los Angeles,” she said.

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They will also embody a number of familiar characters — Puss ‘n Boots, the White Cat, Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, the Bluebird and Princess Florine, and Princess Aurora and Prince Florimund in the “Grand Pas de Deux.”

“The challenge in contemporary dance is in doing all the steps to make the dancing look totally free, yet doing it in such a way that maintains your technique,” said one of the performers, Lucia Connolly, who dances the Princess Aurora role.

Barak, who also runs her own company in Santa Monica, praised the Westside School of Ballet’s legacy.

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“Yvonne was my teacher since I was 12 years old, so I have been part of Westside Ballet since I was a child. They launched my career,” Harley said.

“You can’t possibly replace someone like Yvonne [Mounsey],” she said. “Mostly what I wanted to do is continue Yvonne’s legacy. It was a huge privilege to be the person to carry that torch into the future.”

Harley said the opportunity for this year’s venue change to The Broad Stage happened through Santa Monica College Professor Richard Tavildaran-Jesswein, associate director of SMC’s Public Policy Institute and head of Westside Ballet’s fundraising guild.

“Now we’re performing right in the vicinity of our ballet studio.

It all feels much more part of the Santa Monica community where we’ve been for all these decades,” Harley said.

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On Sunday, the Westside School of Ballet stages its annual Spring Performance, highlighting the work of some of the 20th century’s great choreographers (including Balanchine) and excerpts from “The Sleeping Beauty.”

It will be the first time the event, previously staged at the Wadsworth Theatre and the Smothers Theater at Pepperdine, takes place at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

The performance includes a staging of choreographer Ben Stevenson’s celebrated “pas de deux Prelude.” Set to Rachmaninoff, “pas de deux Prelude” was first choreographed in 1965 by Stevenson, for whom Westside Ballet’s current artistic director, Martine Harley, danced during her time at Houston Ballet.

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Stills from the film “Fed Up” point up a crisis in American eating habits

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By Michael Aushenker With her Oscar-winning 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” producer Laurie David called attention to the pollutants our society has unleashed into the atmosphere.

With her follow-up documentary “Fed Up,” released last Friday, David goes after the poisons we collectively ingest by consuming mass-marketed processed foods.

“This is an emergency,” said David, who talks about major food processing companies as Big Food, likening their social influence to that of Big Oil and Big Tobacco.

According to the film, America’s obesity rate doubled between 1980 and 2000 despite a concurrent doubling of fitness club memberships. Meanwhile, Type 2 diabetes cases skyrocketed among adolescents ages 8 to 19 from none in 1980 to 57,638 in 2010.

As a long-time Westsider, David said she is well aware of how Santa Monica and Venice residents are diligent — even militant — when it comes to reading food labels. The junk food in her sights is not just the obvious potato chips and cookies, but products presumed to be healthy that turn out to be loaded with sugar.

“This is a healthy breakfast?” she said, referring to one popular yogurt brand. “That’s a dessert!”

David recently tweeted a photo from a Santa Monica Ralphs showing how pervasive junk food placement is.

“Everywhere you go, the junk is there. You can’t go into a pharmacy or a grocery store in Santa Monica without seeing it!” said David.

“The stores have put candy and junk food in every section now.” Ditto gas stations, and major home goods retailers, she said.

“Fed Up” also examines the government’s role in subsidizing corn syrup manufacturing and criticizes corporate involvement in First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” program targeting childhood obesity.

“The food industry went out of its way to sign up,” David said, her film tracking the

involvement of soda and cereal producers in shifting the program’s focus from healthy eating to exercise.

Through the stories of several obese children, some of them already coping with diabetes, the film argues that no amount of exercise can undo a diet of unhealthy school lunches, microwave dinners, sugary juice boxes and breakfast cereals adorned with cartoon mascots.

“The marketing to kids is absolutely unconscionable,” said David, whose film also tracks soft drink marketing to infants.

The making of “Fed Up” began with narrator and executive producer Katie Couric, who teamed with Culver City resident Stephanie Soechtig (the filmmaker behind the bottled water industry documentary “Tapped”), before the pair approached David to produce.

“When Katie Couric asks you, the answer is yes!” said David, formerly married to comic actor and television producer Larry David.

David does retain some optimism that greater awareness of food quality will change consumer spending habits and cause customers to “push back on their supermarkets,” she said.

“I see within the next five years we are going to go back to cooking fresh, real food in our schools,” she said.

But in the here and now, there’s much more work to be done.

“We’re living in a food fog,” David said. “We really need to snap out of this.” ª michael@argonautnews.com

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Dong-Yi fondly remembers mentor Zipper, a colorful, impassioned figure and Holocaust survivor who had escaped Dauchau only to be kidnapped by Japanese soldiers and interred in another concentration camp. The subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Never Give Up,” Zipper spent 20 years conducting LAUSD children’s concerts until his death in 1997.

Since Dong-Yi filled his former teacher’s position, Cummins has returned to teaching music theory. A part of Crossroads since its inception in 1971, Cummins, as Dong-Yi describes her, is “the backbone and fire” of EMMI. Since graduating from Crossroads, Dong-Yi has played with members of the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony and L.A. Philharmonic and performed as a soloist with the Pacific Symphony and the Beijing Symphony.

Supplementing his field experience, the pianist does not come to his administrative role as EMMI’s artistic director without precedent. DongYi, who began giving piano instruction while attending Yale University, founded Opus119 Conservatory of Music in Irvine and divides his week between Santa Monica and Orange County. His former students have played Carnegie Hall.

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The Argonaut met with DongYi and Henry Shin, the EMMI chamber orchestra’s assistant conductor, in late April as they observed EMMI Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and conductor Alexander Treger lead 10 students through the Pizzicato Polka by Strauss — a rehearsal for a performance this Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater.

Treger and Shin also lead Crossroads Community Youth Orchestra (CCYO), EMMI’s after-school orchestra, which invites musicians ages 9-15 outside Crossroads to participate.

This year, Treger, an energetic figure who served as Los Angeles Philharmonic concert master for 36 years, marks his 21st year teaching at Crossroads.

“It’s a great joy and it keeps me younger,” Treger said. “Overall, we have a good time. We teach them how to play in an orchestra, how to behave in an orchestra.

You’re young. You come here to learn how to play with professionals.”

Crossroads is a private, progressive school serving grades kindergarten through

By Michael Aushenker In 1989, composer Herbert Zipper, a music theory teacher at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, witnessed a young Dong-Yi win first place at the Pearl River National Piano Competition in China. Zipper convinced the student of Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music to come to America and attend Crossroads, which the young pianist did, graduating in 1993.

But Dong-Yi’s affiliation with his alma mater did not end there.

In October, Crossroads announced Dong-Yi as the new director of its prestigious Elizabeth Mandell Music Institute (EMMI), replacing long-time director Mary Ann Cummins.

“At Crossroads, we combine music education and academics, emphasizing human development. We want wellrounded human beings,” DongYi said.

The musician has assumed an important mantle, charting the future of a prestigious program that children compete globally to enter.

Dong-Yi, once recruited from China to study music at Crossroads, now heads its music program

place a premium on music education, as Crossroads students volunteer their time to tutor pupils at neighboring St. Anne’s Catholic School.

Jun Ha Kim, Sebastian Carrasco and Ernie Carbagia, who were rehearsing with Treger for Sunday’s performance, are among 30 Crossroads teens teaching music on a weekly basis to 120 St. Anne’s children.

“It’s really nice, I do remember being their age,” said Carrasco, 17, a 12th-grader who has played violin since age 4. “That role reversal now is really good and helps you understand where your teachers are coming from.”

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In fact, Kim and other matriculating students arrive at Crossroads committed to classical music. Tenth-grader Kim has been playing violin for nine years.

Dong-Yi plans to expand EMMI to include students at Crossroads’ adjacent elementary school.

“What I’m doing here is reenvisioning what the school’s next decade will be,” he said. ª The Elizabeth Mandell Music Institute performs at 6 p.m.

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The dance of the grunion The Venice Oceanarium celebrates the uniquely Californian ritual of watching thousands of spawning fish swarm the beach

By Rebecca Kuzins Tim Rudnick vividly remembers the first time he saw a grunion run — the unusual spawning ritual in which thousands of the sardine-like fish swarm beaches to lay their eggs in sand along the water’s edge.

“It’s a life-changing experience to see this. It was for me,” said Rudnick, director of the Venice Oceanarium. “Many, many people I’ve talked to just go into reverie when they remember going to a grunion run.”

Rudnick hopes others will share a similar experience on Friday night, when the Venice Oceanarium sponsors its 20th annual Grunion Festival near the breakwater rocks at Venice Beach. Past events have drawn hundreds of people to the beach, including many families.

The California grunion grows to about six or seven inches long and can only be found along the coast of Southern California and northern Baja California.

Grunion “spawn completely

out of water and lay their eggs on many sandy beaches in California. Shortly after high tide, on specific nights, sections of these beaches sometimes are covered with thousands of grunion dancing about on the sand,” according to grunion.com, an organization of scientists and environmentalists who study the fish.

During their “dance,” female grunion wiggle their bodies to bury their tales into the sand while male fish wrap themselves around their mates to fertilize the eggs.

Grunion runs typically occur between March and August, with peak runs happening April through June. The California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife prohibits people from fishing or collecting grunion during April and May and bans the use of fishing gear or sand barriers to catch them.

While people at the Venice grunion run can pick up a fish to look at it more closely, Rudnick says they must return these fish

The California grunion

to the ocean. He also advises event-goers to bring a flashlight and wear clothes they won’t mind getting wet.

Although the grunion are expected to swarm the beach between 11 p.m. and midnight, Rudnick said there’s no way of knowing the precise time of their arrival, so people may have to wait. But patience will be richly rewarded.

“They play in the surf. It’s really a remarkable event,” he said. “It brings people down to the ocean and makes a connection. It’s a special time at night; people don’t get down to

the ocean at night very much.”

Getting people to the ocean is the goal of the Venice Oceanarium, which seeks to provide a better understanding of the Pacific and the life within it.

The organization sets up exhibits on the Venice Pier, at the end of Washington Boulevard, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each Sunday and also offers school and after-school programs. The nonprofit group will celebrate its 20th birthday in November with its annual reading of Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick.”

Rudnick says the Oceanarium

is different from most ocean advocacy groups because its members are artists, not scientists, and it does not focus on conservation.

“There are other ways of looking at the ocean. We’re collecting plankton from the water to show people how alive the water is,” he said. “We’re more focused on the mystical, magical aspects of the ocean.” ª The Grunion Festival begins at 11 p.m. Friday at the breakwater rocks on Venice Beach.

For more information, visit veniceoceanarium.org.

legal advertising FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 092137 The following person is doing business as: Shawnaís Spa Products, 8944 Dalton Ave Los Angeles, CA. 90047. Registered owners: Shawna D. Adams, 8944 Dalton Ave Los Angeles, CA. 90047. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/Name: Shawna D. Adams. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Apr. 7, 2014. Argonaut published: Apr. 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 096856 The following person is doing business as: (1) The Center For Mindful Marriage Marathons, (2) Bay Citites Institue for Marriage Family Therapy, (3) The Center

For Underachieving Children, 505 Paseo Miramar Pacific Palisades CA. 90272-3020. Registered owners: (1) Dr. Ann Forisha Thiel 505 Paseo Miramar Pacific Palisades CA. 90272-3020, (2) Loren Latker, 505 Paseo Miramar Pacific Palisades CA. 90272-3020, (3) Dr. Bill Forisha, 4715 Northrop Drive Minneapolis MN 55406. This business is conducted by a Joint Venture. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

Registrant Signature/Name: Dr. Ann Forisha Thiel. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Apr. 10, 2014. Argonaut published: Apr. 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 104039 The following person is doing business as: Infinity Flow, 13970 Panay Way, Unit 306, Marina Del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Mwikali

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Bessie Hayes, 13970 Panay Way, Unit 306. Marina Del Rey, CA. 90292. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

Registrant Signature/Name: Mwikali B. Hayes Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 17th, 2014. Argonaut published: Apr. 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2014.. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 107425 The following person is doing business as: Demoraes Images, 4572 Via Marina #308, Marina Del Rey, CA. 90292. Registered owners: Clerio Demoraes, 4572 Via Marina #308, Marina Del Rey, CA. 90292.

This business is conducted by an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement

is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

Registrant Signature/Name: Clerio Demoraes. Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Apr. 21, 2014. Argonaut published: Apr. 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 100670 The following person is doing business as: D.C. Home Remodeling Inc.9155 Telegraph RD #200 Pico Rivera, CA. 90660. Registered owners: D.C Home Remodeling Inc.9155 Telegraph RD #200 Pico Rivera, CA. 90660. This business is conducted by a corporation.The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dol-

lars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Douglass Carrillo.: Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 15, 2014 Argonaut published: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 104070 The following person is doing business as: Sixlumens 8172 Manitora St #5 Playa Del Rey Ca 90293.

Registered owners: John Jeffrey Howarth8172 Manitora St #5 Playa Del Rey Ca 90293. This business is conducted by a individual.The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: John Jeffrey Howarth.

Title: Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 17, 2014. Argonaut published: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the

end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 108294 The following person is doing business as: Flowers Pronto2355 Westwood Bl #525 Los Angeles CA. 90064. Registered owners: Tina Rochon2355 Westwood Bl #525 Los Angeles Ca. 90064. This business is conducted by a individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Tina Rochon. Title:Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 22, 2014. Argonaut published: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious

Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014 110235 The following person is doing business as:VCCNB 1503 Venice Blvd Venice, CA. 90291 Registered owners: Venice Church Of Christ 1503 Venice Blvd Venice, CA. 90291. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: David Frost. Title:Secretary/ CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on April 23, 2014. Argonaut published: May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, 2014.. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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Adoption of the proposed Project would enable the development of up to 2,320,000 square feet of new development and would permit areas for recreation, open space, and buffer space. The proposed Project would establish a vehicle trip cap of 23,635 total daily vehicle trips.

Implementation of the proposed Project may also include a street vacation of Cum Laude Avenue.

Implementation of the proposed Project is expected to result in significant and unavoidable impacts related to air quality, traffic, and short-term construction related noise impacts.

The project is 340 acres generally bounded by Sepulveda Westway and Sepulveda Boulevard to the east, LAX to the south, Pershing Drive to the west, and generally 91st Street, Manchester Avenue, and 88th Street to the north.

Please submit any comments on the draft EIR, online at www.ourlax. org or in writing no later than 5:00 p.m., Pacific Time, Monday, June 30, 2014 to: Los Angeles World Airports, Capital Programming and Planning, Environmental & Land Use Planning – Attention: Lisa Trifiletti, Director, One World Way, Suite 218, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

Copies of the documents referenced in the draft EIR, and the draft EIR, are available for review at LAWA, Clifton A. Moore Administration Building, at 1 World Way, Room 218, Los Angeles, 90045. The Draft EIR is also available for review online at LAWA’s website, www. ourlax.org. Copies of the Draft EIR are also available able the following libraries: Westchester-Loyola Village Branch Library, Playa Vista Branch Library, El Segundo Library, Inglewood Library, and Culver City Library.

A public workshop about the proposed project will be held on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the St. Bernard High School Gymnasium. For further information or questions regarding the Draft EIR, contact the Environmental & Land Use Planning Section, at (424) 646-7690.

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Registrant Signature/Name: Nicole Lynch. Title: owner. This statement was filed with the county clerk of Los Angeles on April 21, 2015.

Argonaut published: May 15, 22, 29, and June 5, 2014. NoTicE-in accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of

itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NaME STaTEMENT File No. 2014111231 The following person is doing business as: Spalding and Associates3681 Dunn Drive, Los Angeles, cA. 90034. Registered owners: Randolph P. Spalding 3681 Dunn Drive, Los Angeles, cA. 90034. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. i declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Randolph P. Spalding.

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U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles International Airport Draft Environmental Assessment Runway 6L-24R and Runway 6R-24L Runway Safety Area (RSA) and Associated Improvements Project NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Pursuant to Title 49, United States Code, Section (§) 47106(c)(1)A), notice is hereby given that the City of Los Angeles, California, through its airport department – Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), proposes to improve the Runway Safety Areas (RSA) for Runway 6L-24R and Runway 6R-24L at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California and to complete associated improvements that include pavement reconstruction to the eastern segment of Runway 24R and Taxiway AA, and realignment of taxiway holdbars, markings, and lighting on Taxiways Y, Z, and AA (collectively, the Proposed Action). The purpose of the Proposed Action RSA improvements to Runway 6L-24R and Runway 6R-24L at LAX is to enhance the level of safety provided by RSAs at LAX to comply with airport design standards included in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Advisory Circular 150/5300-13A, Airport Design, as required by The Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, The District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law [P.L.] 109-115), November 30, 2005. P.L. 109-115 requires completion of RSA improvements by airport sponsors that hold a certificate under Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 139, to meet FAA airport design standards

by December 31, 2015. The purpose for reconstructing Runway 6L-24R and Taxiway AA pavements is to address poor pavement conditions and to provide a suitable pavement for aircraft landing and departing on Runway 6L-24R and aircraft taxiing on Taxiway AA. The purpose of the realignment of taxiway holdbars, markings, and lighting on Taxiways Y, Z, and AA is to meet FAA design standards concerning runway and taxiway object free areas.

The Proposed Action RSA improvements involve implementation of declared distances;demolition, closure, and/or relocation of airport service roads; covering a portion of the Argo Ditch; closure of LAWA equipment parking areas; relocation of security gates;and relocation of a portion of the Air Operations Area (AOA) fence. The Proposed Action also involves the pavement reconstruction of the eastern portion of Runway 6L-24R, pavement reconstruction of Taxiway AA, and realignment of taxiway holdbars, markings, and lighting on Taxiways Y, Z, and AA. The Proposed Action will enhance the safety of the airfield consistent with the requirements of P.L. 109-115 at LAX. Reconstruction of the runway and taxiway pavements is necessary to ensure safety of aircraft operations on the airport due to the deteriorated condition of the existing pavement. A Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) of the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the Proposed Action and its alternatives (including the No Action Alternative) has been prepared.

The Draft EA evaluates the potential environmental effects of the Proposed Action described above and its alternatives, and has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and Section 509(b)(5) of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982, as amended. The FAA is the lead federal agency to ensure compliance with NEPA for airport development actions. The Draft EA has also been prepared in accordance with FAA Order 1050.1E, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures, and FAA Order 5050.4B, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Instructions for Airport Actions.

Pursuant to the federal Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and National Historic Preservation Act, the Draft EA includes an analysis of prudent or feasible alternatives analysis, potential impacts, and mitigation measures, as appropriate.

Beginning on May 16, 2014, the Draft EA will be available for public review through LAWA’s website at http://www.ourlax.org and in the following locations during normal business, through June 16, 2014: - Federal Aviation Administration, Western-Pacific Region, Office of the Airports Division, 15000 Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne, CA 90261 - LAWA Administrative Offices, One World Way, Suite 218, Los Angeles, CA 90045 - City of Los Angeles Public Library, Westchester-Loyola Village Branch Library, 7114 W. Manchester Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90045 - City of Los Angeles Public Library, Playa Vista Branch Library, 6400 Playa Vista Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90094 - Inglewood Library, 101 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90301 - El Segundo Library, 111 W. Mariposa Ave., El Segundo, CA 90245 Comments must be received by 5:00 p.m. PacificDaylight Time on Monday, June 16, 2014. Please ensure adequate time for mailing. Comments can only be accepted with the full name and address of the individual commenting.

Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, be advised that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask the FAA in your comment to withhold from public review your personal identifying information, the FAA cannot guarantee that it will be able to do so. Comments received on the Draft EA and the responses to those comments will be disclosed in the Final EA. Written comments on the adequacy of the information disclosed in the Draft EA may be submitted online at www.ourlax.org or by mail to: Los Angeles World Airports, Capital Programming and Planning Land Use and Entitlement Section – Attention: Evelyn Y. Quintanilla One World Way, Suite 218, Los Angeles, CA 90045 5/15/14 CNS-2622512# THE ARGONAUT

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Argonaut published: May 15, 22, 29 and June 5, 2014. NoTicE-in accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code).

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Argonaut published: May 15, 22, 29, and June 5, 2014. NoTicE-in accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NaME STaTEMENT File No. 2014126648 The following person is doing business as: Haute Hope 1277 Barry Avenue #9 Los Angeles, cA. 90025. Registered owners: Jess Puccinelli 1277 Barry Ave. #9 Los Angeles, cA. 90025. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. i declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Jessica Puccinelli. Title: owner. This statement was filed with the county clerk of Los Angeles on May 9, 2014. Argonaut published: May 15, 22, 29, and June 5, 2014. NoTicE-in accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions code).

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LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

“THE SOUND OF VICTORY” By GIA CHRISTIAN (Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis)

ACROSS 1 Cal. sequence 6 One pulling in pushers 10 They’re grabbed on corners 14 Fashionable fold 18 “__ Ben Jonson”: literary epitaph 19 Similar: Pref.

20 Other, in Oaxaca 21 Paris possessive 22 Traveler’s nightmare due to a road crew strike?

24 Checking aid 25 Glacial lake 26 1954 Emmy winner for Best Female Star of a Regular Series 27 Wait on a knight?

30 Credit report item 31 “Just like that!” sound 33 Domingo, e.g.

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56 Pepper’s title: Abbr.

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Wine seller Turkish general Computer maintenance tool?

Became harder to bear Rajah’s spouse Serious surprise Throw out all your stuff?

Revered one Bassoon kin Continental boot?

Nearing the hour Personnel office array Curve Substance in the sea’s H2O Element #18

DOWN 1 Tourists’ rentals 2 Tour 3 Ancient greeting?

4 Buy for, as dinner 5 Trepidation 6 Reagan biographer Peggy 7 Asia’s __ Darya river 8 Rules, briefly 9 Murmured from a cote 10 Oregon State city 11 Exactly, with “to” 12 Two-masted vessel 13 Capital SW of Muscat 14 Mail-order purchase enclosure, often 15 Pac-12 team 16 Really cheap 17 Discovery 19 Doglike scavenger 23 Active campus gp. during the Vietnam War 28 Rebel 29 Hosp. staffer 32 Racing safety vehicle 36 Breakfast food 38 Like old Paris streets 40 High school suffix 41 Story opener 43 Kit __: candy bar 45 Span. lass 47 Newspaper ad meas.

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64 Old porticos 65 Crack up during a jackknife?

66 Dictionary note subject 67 Showy flowers 69 PC time meas.

71 Gertrude Stein confidante Alice B. __ 72 Many newspaper ads 75 Sloppy stack 76 Strip of gear, as a ship 77 Walkout walk-in 78 Year McKinley was reelected 79 1966 A.L. Fireman of the Year Jack 82 Fixed up 83 Event to be played in Pinehurst, N.C., in 2014 85 DOJ enforcer 86 Contest that’s over in seconds 87 Prepare to shoot at 89 Kilmer of “Top Gun” 90 Cornhusker’s st.

93 Temperature units 96 Poppycock 98 Wallace of “E.T.” 101 Sighed line 102 Senseless 104 Eastern faith 105 “Please hold” equivalent 107 Not usually an opportunity for advancement 109 Amber, for one 111 With 116-Down, shared equitably 113 Plumbing problem 114 Hoop site 115 North Carolina school 116 See 111-Down 118 Jazzy James 122 Little sucker?

LEGAL ADVERTISING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014127291 The following person is doing business as: BSL Production333 Washington Blvd #417, Marina del Rey, CA. 90292.

Registered owners: Richard Dana Harlow 333 Washington Blvd. #417 Marina Del Rey, CA. 90292. This business is conducted by a individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). Registrant Signature/ Name: Richard Dana Harlow. Title: Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on May 9, 2014.

Argonaut published on: May 15, 22, 29, and June 5, 2014. NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. ES017818 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of CAYCE LORIN LEPA, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Cayce Lorin Lepa filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.)

Cayce Lorin Lepa to Cayce Lorin Kelly 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: 06/06/2014.

Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: A Room: . The address of the court is 300 East Olive Ave Burbank, CA. 91502. 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: The Argonaut Newspaper. Original filed: April 18, 2014.Mary Thornton, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut Newspaper 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 2014.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 55024328 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of Kathleen Mary Martelli, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Kathleen M. Campbell filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Kathleen M. Campbell to Kathleen Mary Martelli 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:06/20/2014. Time: 9:00 AM. Dept.:K Room: A203. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street Santa Monica, CA. 90401. 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:The Argonaut. Original filed:April 30, 2014.

Gerald Rosenberg, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut 5/15/14, 5/22/14, 5/29/14,6/5/14.

PUBLIC NOTICES NO. 427630 IN THE PROBATE COURT NO. THREE (3) HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS IN THE ESTATE OF BERTHA DAVID FOSTER, DECEASED ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION On this day the Court considwered Applicantís Motion for Substituted Service by Publication. The Court adopts the affidavits of DONALD LESLIE HALL and THAIS AMARAL TELLAWI as fact incorporates same as if set forth here at length. The Court finds that Applicantís motion should be GRANTED and service of citation by publication in Los Angeles County, CA on heir DAMIEN BROWN is authorized. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk shall issue citations for service by publication in Los Angeles County, CA of heir DAMIEN BROWN, SIGNED on April 24th, 2014. Ray R. Olsen, JUDGE PRESIDING, Stan Stewart, County Clerk, Harris County, Texas. APPROVED AS TO FORM: /s/ THAIS AMARAL TELLAWI, Attorney for the Applicant, AMARAL TELLAWI LAW, 2519 South Blvd, 2nd Floor, Houston, Texas 77098, Tel. (832) 295-0770/Fax: (713) 750-9044.

PUBLISH: The Argonaut,05/15/2014.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. NS028605 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the naPetition of Maya St. Mark, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Maya St. Mark filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Maya St. Mark to Maya O’Mahony 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 thme 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: 05/02/14. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: 527 Room: N/A. The address of the court is 275 Magnolia Ave., Long Beach, CA. 90806. 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: The Argonaut. Original filed: March 17, 2014.

Ross M. Klein, Judge of the Superior Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut 03/27/14, 04/03/14, 04/10/14 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. PL14C0038CA SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition of Isla Grace Stewart, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Jason Brady Petitioner: Heather Dolan filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Isla Grace Stewart to Isla Grace Dolan 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:05/29/2014. Time:10:00 AM. Dept.: Room: . The address of the court is 52 Obery Street Suite 1130 Playmouth, MA 02360. 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: The Argonaut. Original filed:April 29th, 2014. Catherin P. Sabaitis, First Justice of Court. PUBLISH: The Argonaut, 5/8/2014, 5/15/2014, 5/22/2014, 5/29/2014.

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