Community LGBTQ Pioneer and Live Nation Executive Killed in Surfside Collapse
Cuba Solidarity Protests in Beverly Hills BY SAMUEL BR ASLOW
BY SAMUEL BR ASLOW
Theresa Valasquez The impact of the tragic condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, has rippled across the country to Beverly Hills after Miami-Dade police confirmed the death of Live Nation executive Theresa Valasquez, 36, along with her two parents. Valasquez, who worked at
Live Nation’s Beverly Hills headquarters, had traveled to Florida the night before the collapse to visit her parents, Julio, 67, and Angela, 60. (LGBTQ Pioneer continues on page 13)
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“People are being killed, people are being prosecuted and ending up in jail for just speaking up,” Yisel Pupo, who is from Cuba but now lives in Los Angeles, told the Courier. “Is that right? Is that just? No, so I’m here supporting them.”
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13-year-old Tova Bodner of Beverly Hills helped her team the Monarchs win the Baseball for All Nationals championship in Aberdeen, Md., which hosted girls aged 7-19 from all over North America. Bodner pitches and plays third base for the team that won
A crowd of well-over 100 protesters gathered in Beverly Gardens Park on July 17 to stand, sing, and chant in solidarity with protesters in Cuba. The protests, provoked by food and medicine shortages, represent a rare moment in a country quick to silent dissent.
seven games in four days to take home the championship. In Beverly Hills, Bodner plays for Little League in the Juniors Division on a championship team and is the only girl to make All-Stars for Beverly Hills.
Members of Just in Case BH and the Beverly Hills Police Department mingled recently with residents and BHPD K9 units. Just in Case BH is a neighborhood-based emergency preparedness program proposed by Vice Mayor Lili Bosse. It seeks to bring together residents, businesses, and city agencies in the event of city-wide disasters. Teams representing police, fire, and
residents, have been making the rounds through the city’s nine zones, geographic subdivisions organized around emergencycenters and led by a zone coordinator. Photo courtesy of Vera Markowitz.
JULY 23, 2021
