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Beverly Hills North Homeowners To Hold Hilton Initiative Forum, City’s Debate Canceled COLLEGE BOUND—In order to engender educational pride, Beverly Vista 5th grade teacher Kris Milliken teaches his students about the importance of college and of working hard right now. To that end, he provides every student a college shirt so they can participate in College Thursdays at the school. “I want my students to fully understand that what they do in school each day is leading up to the time when they will eventually enroll at a college or university,” Milliken said. Pictured, from left: Front row, Kate Schirmer, Maxime Soulies, Colby Gilardian, Matthew Niknam, Lauren Mandel, Harrison Isaac, Jacob Perlmutter, Benjamin Lee, Elijah Imani, Reese Margo, Batia Tello, Noah Jover, and Camille Kaiserman; Back row: Evie Nesbit, Mia Saltzman, Maddie Zelinka, Ryan Cukier, Lola Choukroun, Izzy Sapphire, Alex Zide, Devorah Elliot, Olivia Kim, Estrella Echeverria, Kaylee Kwok, Hayden Radonsky, Jonas Ehrilch, and Brandon Seff. Not pictured: Aiden Granitz.

Friends of Greystone held its annual membership event last week.

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Amanda Foundation’s Teri Austin was honored by the Parks & Rec Commission. 5

The Rape Foundation’s annual brunch was held in Beverly Hills.

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George Christy, Page 6 The LA Greek Fest On October 7, 8, 9 at The Saint Sophia Cathedral Campus Brings Out Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Every Year, Who Love The Music, Dancing, Food and Camaraderie

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Christiansen’s Latest Verdict Nears Day In Court Of Appeal

By Laura Coleman In a 101-page response brief filed Friday, attorneys for Karen Christiansen, the former Beverly Hills Unified School District Chief Facilities Officer, argued that she and her company were not subject to the reach of Government Code Section 1090, like other district employees, because she was being paid as a consultant. As such, the brief argues, last year’s verdict against her, which now has her owed in excess of $22 million, should stand.

BHUSD attorney Fred Fenster said he will file a reply brief next

month in anticipation of a final judgment by the Court of Appeal that could overturn last year’s jury verdict that she was improperly terminated and therefore a victim.

A different jury–from Christiansen’s first trial–found her behavior to be criminal.

Fenster maintains that because Christiansen was acting as though she were a true school district employee, she is therefore subject to 1090’s reach.

“Karen Christiansen and her company Strategic Concepts LLC...violated the conflict of

“Could you please kindly forward me Mayor [John] Mirisch’s contact information at his hotel while in Beijing,” wrote Wanda Group Director of Sales & Marketing Rohan a’Beckett in late July in an e-mail obtained by the Courier to City of Beverly Hills employees Dorina Mohan and Adrianne Tarragon. “We need to arrange transportation to collect him from his hotel.”

In the email, a’Beckett was finalizing plans for Mirisch’s China meeting with Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin, which was not disclosed publicly until Mirisch made mention of it to Variety, noting that he’d “love for Wanda to consider Beverly Hills to be their Hollywood headquarters.”

This is the same Wanda Group that announced Thursday it had fired a top executive in China for bribery of a local government official.

Why didn’t Mayor Mirisch disclose his meeting with Wang when the information was requested in advance of his departure to China? And who paid for the China trip?

For the full e-mails, see page 18.

(see ‘CHRISTIANSEN’ page 16)

Irene Dunne Guild, Saint John’s Health Center To Honor Kostlan, Felix, Beals The Irene Dunne Guild in partnership with the Saint John’s Health Center Foundation board of trustees, will co-host the 2016 Caritas Gala, Saturday, Oct. 22 at The Beverly Wilshire.

The black-tie event will honor actress Jennifer Beals with the Caritas Award, Olympian Allyson Felix with the Hope & Inspiration Award and Kathleen McCarthy Kostlan, on behalf of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation, with the Spirit of Saint John’s Award.

The evening will feature a special performance by singer/songwriter and actress Alisan Porter, recent winner of NBC’s The Voice, Season 10.

“We are honored to celebrate Kathleen and the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation,” said Robert O. Klein, president and

Kathleen Kostlan

CEO, Saint John’s Health Center Foundation. “She is a remarkable member of our Foundation family and is selflessly carrying on the legacy of her parents’ commitment to the spirit of philanthropy.” (see ‘SAINT JOHN’S’ page 16)

mayor and current Beverly Hills North Homeowners President Robert Tanenbaum and Municipal League Chairman Thomas White.

“We look forward to a spirited, thoughtful, fact-based and civil debate and discussion regarding the entire matter,” said Tanenbaum. “My family have resided in the City over 70 years. We have always been involved in matters of quality of life, and maintaining a proper balance between quality of life and smart, productive and beneficial development. I look forward to discussing the HH Initiative issues with my dear friend Thomas White.”

Refreshments will be served and the event is open to the public.

Kosterman also stated that the League of Women Voters pulled out of the debate. The organization was going to provide an impartial moderator.

MIRISCH VISITS WANDA – THE E-MAILS

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By Victoria Talbot A City-sponsored debate on the Hilton Initiative that was scheduled to take place Thursday at City Hall, has been canceled, but another debate with Beverly Hills North Homeowners and the Beverly Hills Municipal League is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 6 at The Beverly Hilton.

The cancellation of the City-sponsored debate was announced last Friday evening

by Therese Kosterman, communications manager for the City of Beverly Hills.

The Hilton declined to participate in a debate against a panel of speakers opposed to the Initiative hand-picked by members of the Wanda development group.

However, a debate to be held Oct. 6 that is sponsored by the Beverly Hills North Homeowners Association will take place between former

T W O G O R G E O U S PEOPLE — David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o star in Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe. They attended the premiere at the El Capitan Theatre, where premieregoers discussed the excellent reviews from LA Times Kenneth Turan and Joseph Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal.

For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.

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B E V E R LY H I L L S M A I N N E W S COURIER IN ITALY — Beverly Hills’ Rubins family took their favorite reading material on vacation this week to Portovenere, Italy, where Zale Richard and Brenda Rubins are seen (pictured left) posing with the Courier outside of a cafe.

Zale Richard and Brenda are local artists. Zale Richard is a former Beverly Hills Architectural Commissioner and Brenda formerly served on the Fine Arts Commission.

To join the Rubins family in the Carry The Courier Club, simply snap a photo of yourself with your copy of the Courier on your next trip and e-mail the photo to mlopez@bhcourier.com

Pups Strut Their Stuff For A Cause At HAUTE DOG Fashion Show At The Peninsula Oct. 13

By Matt Lopez The Peninsula Beverly Hills will play host to some of the most fashionable pups in Los Angeles next month at Canine Companions for Independence’s 5th annual HAUTE DOG runway fashion show.

The event is from 6:309:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13 at The Peninsula.

Guests and their prettiedup pooches can strut their stuff in front of a panel of celebrity judges, competing for prizes like Most Creative, Cutest and Silliest Canine Fashions, as well as People’s Choice and Judges’ Choice.

Tickets are $95, with all proceeds going toward Canine for Independence, a non-profit that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly-trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to

Virginia Robinson Gardens Annual Soiree Lights Up Beverly Hills

By Laura Coleman On Saturday night, the glamour of a bygone era returns to Beverly Hills as the City’s first estate, Virginia Robinson Gardens, plays host to its annual Patron Gala.

Held every year beneath twinkling lights on the great lawn at the center of the 6.5acre property, this year to the theme “La Dolce Vita,” the gala is both a celebration of the historic landmark as well as a fundraiser to support an important institution that serves over 2,100 students every year.

This year’s gala honors local philanthropist Joni Smith.

Smith's far-reaching philanthropic efforts have included organizations like the Music Center's Blue Ribbon, the Costume Council of LACMA, and the Library Foundation, among many others.

Last year the Friends of Robinson Gardens, which has worked to preserve the legendary estate since shortly after Robinson’s death in 1977, honored Courier Publisher/

Joni Smith

President Marcia Wilson Hobbs (Spirit of Beverly Hills Award) and Virginia Robinson Gardens Superintendent Timothy L. Lindsay (Garden Champion Award).

Founded by community arts leader Joan Selwyn in 1982 with a Board of Directors and a general membership of over 75 committed women, the Beverly Hills gem has become both a haven for inspiration as well as a bastion for learning.

Visit www.robinsongardens.org for more information.

Pictured: A dog mom and her fashionable pooch at last year’s HAUTE DOG fashion show.

ensure quality partnerships.

The event features a cocktail hour, hors d’oeuvres, and a silent auction.

For more information or to

purchase tickets, visit cci.org/hautedogla or call 760901-4305.

FRIENDS OF GREYSTONE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP OPEN HOUSE— The Friends of Greystone held its annual membership event last Sunday at the Doheny Greystone Estate. Members enjoyed the afternoon touring the 46,054 square foot historic Doheny Greystone mansion along with viewing captivating historical photos that shared the Doheny family’s life before and during their years at the estate.

Crustacean of Beverly Hills sponsored the event with Chef Helene An and her daughter Elizabeth joining in the Pictured (from left): Chef Helene and Elizabeth An of Crustacean; City Councilmember Julian Gold; Marco Bracamontes, Archivo Bracamontes and Susan Rosen, president Friends of Greystone.

Teen Skate Event Includes Free Instruction for a Funtastic Time

STUDENTS IN CITY GOVERNMENT—This year’s Teen Advisory Committee (TAC) was introduced to the Recreation and Parks Commissioners at their meeting Tuesday. TAC encourages Beverly Hills students, grades 6-10 who are residents or enrolled in the Beverly Hills Unified School District, to take an active role in local government. TAC members meet monthly to share experiences, suggest solutions, work with City officials, and put on special events for their peers. To learn more call 310.285.6823 or visit www.beverlyhills.org/teens. Pictured are TAC members Adriel Ghadoushi, Alex Melamed, Ariella Andout, Eli Ramer, Emma Newman, Hanna Levy, Joseph Gluckman, Julia Kamara, Julia Tabatabai, Liam Cox, Matthew Smoller, and Natasha Melamed with Recreation and Parks Commissioners Frances Bilak (chair), Susan Gersh (vice chair), Robert Anderson, Simone Friedman and Howard Rosoff, along with City staff Tim Duerr and Jennifer Leuning. Not pictured are TAC members Jenny Kim, Philip Sayah and Ryan Tabatabai.

By Victoria Talbot Saturdays will be a blast with a new teen skate event at Roxbury Park.

Kids are invited to join this free, fun event 4-6 p.m. Oct. 8.

Skatedogs will be there to offer free instruction for newbies and serious skaters and there will be music, refreshments, a contest and prizes for skating.

Teens should meet either at the tennis court or the basketball court, splitting into groups for one area of free skating and one of free instruction.

Skatedogs will teach you every trick in the book to get you up and running with the help of the Beverly Hills City staffers.

There will be a Trick Contest for the last 30-45 minutes. Participants sign up and Skatedogs and City staff spot trick contestants and judge the tricks and winners will receive prizes.

All participants must have a waiver signed by parents/guardian and a helmet to join in the fun.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RECREATION AND PARKS COMMISSION AWARD — The Recreation and Parks Commission recognized Amanda Foundation President Teri Austin for her guidance and support with the Beverly Hills Community Dog Park. For 31 years, Austin has worked tirelessly to advocate for pets.

Amanda Foundation’s free Spaymobile provides free spay/neuter and vaccines, pro-bono veterinary services and "pop-up" Wellness Clinics. Her expertise and guidance were essential to creating the new Dog Park.

Beverly Hills Parents Crystalize Support For Measure Y

Bow Wow Beverly Hills is Back with a James Bond Theme

By Victoria Talbot This year, Teri Austin and the Amanda Foundation are back, bigger than ever, with BowWow Beverly Hills, the premiere costumed event that takes place at 2 Rodeo Drive to support their efforts to provide low-cost spay and neuter, adoptions and pet health care for animals in some of the area's most under-served neighborhoods.

Located directly across from Beverly Hills' brand new Community Dog Park, the organization has raised thousands of dollars at their annual gala with wicked auctions, mysterious themed-cocktails and a sensational doggie Costume Parade that will have everyone howling in laughter!

This year the theme is Bond, James Bond, the iconic spy we love so much!

Come as Sean Collie, Timothy Dachshund, or Roger Maltese? A villain or a Bond girl, or ???

The evening entertainment includes a host of fine small bites, Black Jack and Casino gambling (how Bond-ish!) or a killer silent auction. And then there is that doggie costume contest to die for and the Halloween Cocktail Event: The Moonraker Martini.

General Admission is $60 in advance and $75 at the door. VIP tickets are $200. Valet parking at 2 Rodeo Drive is $7, with the entrance on Burton Way. So get your Austin Martin shined and waxed and join the fun, Oct. 30, 710:30. For more information and tickets visit www.amandafoundation.org or call 310-550-0101.

Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai To Be Honored For Innovation In Saving Lives

By Laura Coleman Saving a life often comes down to knowing just what to do at the right time. To that end, the Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai is doing everything in its power to ensure that professionals in the medical field–from surgeons to administrators–have the opportunity to hone valuable skills at its eponymous Simulation Center.

Since opening its doors almost three years ago at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, the Women’s Guild Simulation Center has helped some 20,000 people annually interact with the newest tools and technology at the only medical training facility in Southern California that employs completely equipped and functional operating rooms, Intensive Care Unit rooms and a trauma treatment area.

In recognition of the center’s outstanding contribution to healthcare, the Los Angeles County Medical Association (which represents more than 6,500 physicians), announced that in concert with the Patient Care Foundation of Los Angeles County, it will honor the Women’s Guild with its Innovation Award for Technology at its upcoming Los Angeles Healthcare Awards Dinner in November.

“Every single person in the commu-

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nity and everywhere is a potential patient,” emphasized Guild President Gina Furth.

Furth said the Women’s Guild, which is comprised of approximately 65 members, voted to direct its funds to create a center focused on continuing education in order to allow medical professionals to practice new techniques in order to reduce human error.

Recently, the Courier had the opportunity to observe Cedars-Sinai surgeons-in-training learn how to perform a lifesaving procedure by operating on high-tech “cut suit” worn by Simulation Specialist David Escobar.

For this procedure, where nine scrub-clad individuals surrounded the cut suit-clad Escobar to perform a thoracotomy (a lifesaving maneuver to open the chest cavity in emergencies), heart surgeon Alistar Phillips, co-director of the Congenital Heart Program in the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, demonstrated just how to make a surgical airway cut into the neck while his training team assisted.

“How realistic this is allows them to hone their skills,” he said. “Everything we do here at the Women’s Guild Simulation Center is to not suspend reality...so that people can learn.”

ed to myriad questions including conBy Laura Coleman At yesterday morning’s PTA cerns about mismanagement of funds, Council meeting, Beverly Hills parents ensuring that Hawthorne remains a k-8 voted to officially have the PTA endorse school and guarantees that funds earMeasure Y. The $260 million General marked for specific projects won’t be Obligation school-building bond must used to pay for others.

“I thought it was well received,” he pass by two-thirds (66.7 percent) of the added.

City’s voters in order to take effect.

The Beverly Hills PTA Council According to PTA Council coPresident Rose Kaiserman, the vote was endorsement is the latest in a string of representative of PTA members from endorsements, which includes: the across all five schools, with 44 voting California Democratic Party, the Beverly Hills Education Association, yes and 12 voting against.

“If Measure Y passes it would mean the Beverly Hills Democratic Club, the a lot of changes in building structures Beverly Hills Basketball League, the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, and improvements,” she said.

Before the vote, Board President the California School Employees Howard Goldstein made a presentation Association, and most recently as of about the bond, which Kaiserman Wednesday, the West Hollywood Democratic Club. called “unbiased.”

“The way I see it, I was able to message people about Measure Y–I think most people didn’t come with an agenda,” Goldstein said.

The board president, who voted to authorize the new bond together with board members Lisa Korbatov and Noah Margo, said he thought the presentation was well- MEASURE Y — BHUSD Board President Howard Goldstein received. led an informational meeting on Measure Y at Horace Mann Goldstein respond- last Thursday, attended by around 17 community members.

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Saint Sophia Cathedral Archives

George Christy The hungry visitors at a buffet

Young parishioners of the Saint Sophia Cathedral, proud of their Greek heritage, are happy to teach the visitors to the L.A. Greek Fest some of the timeless folk dances.

The annual autumn L. A.

Greek Fest picks up next weekend on Oct. 7, 8, 9 on the campus of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in midtown at Normandie and Pico Boulevards. Friday is free, and parking is free every day.

General admission is $5, and seniors are $3.

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ot only will you learn to dance the timeless folk dances – the syrto, kalamatiano, hasapiko (the butcher’s hop), you will find homecooked feasts of Greek dishes and delicacies with their tantalizing aromas. The buffets are prepared fresh by the families of the parish to raise funds for the charities of Saint Sophia’s.

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non-profit Greek Fest, installed by the Cathedral’s Very Reverend John Bakas, has raised funds for the homeless, poverty stricken elderly, runaway and orphan teens and more.

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side note about the folk dancing.

During the

enslavement of Greece by the Ottoman Empire, legend prevails that a lady soldier, Bouboulina and her lady warriors were trapped and being raped by the Ottomans. She gathered her fighters who escaped, and singing a popular folk song and with arms around each other they danced off a cliff to their death, rather than be raped by the enemy. True or false? Who knows?

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hose indebted to the future of heart health met in the ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel to wine and dine with Dr. Harold Karpman. The distinguished cardiologist and author of 14 medical books, Dr. Karpman established the Cardiovascular Research Foundation that has protected and saved global lives with its trailblazing innovations.

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cknowledging the Good Doctor’s dedication to a medical practice that’s beyond compare, Constance Towers Gavin served as toastmistress for the gala evening. (We’ve never forgotten Connie proudly told us that she was born and raised in Whitefish, Montana, a healthy environment with its outdoors lifestyle.) Son Michael Gavin is a heart surgeon.

Tom Hanks with wife Rita Wilson, who’s of Greek heritage, always attend the L.A. Greek Fest

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peaking from the heart about tomorrow’s promising medical advances, Dr. Karpman and his longtime colleague and the Foundation’s CEO Dr. Ronald Karlsberg enumerated the impressive innovations. As did Dr. Rene Selvag Packard, who was presented with the Cardiology Fellowship Award.

We all know that research doesn’t happen without financial support, and the loyalists that evening are making a difference with their philanthropic gifts.

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he Foundation honored Dr. Satinider Bhasti, whose 30year body of research is renowned as an incomparable achievement.

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eggy Frank, the Foundation’s executive director, introduced the evening.

Followed by Carlos Murgula and Mauricio Abaroa performing their Choices Of The Heart, composed for – and with profits donated to – the Foundation.

The Golden Throne arrived

Saint Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral has been designated a landmark in the city of Los Angeles

references Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), a urinal presented as a sculptural readymade …

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attelan’s solid gold toilet offers a wink and a nod to the excesses of the market.”

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y late afternoon when New Yorkers are leaving their offices, the queues for viewing and participating become longer. With patrons standing in line for more than an hour. To pee or poop.

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New Yorker art maven named Ann conceded she was nervous about using the facility.

While her husband had no qualms, shrugging that “it’s just another crapper.” ____________________

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bout this week’s First Debate, where moderator Lester Holt improperly favored her, we may well be a minority of one, as we ruminate about it, and deciding it was b-o-r-i-n-g.

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ame old, same old.

Trade, e-mails, race, taxes, etc.

Nothing really new, other than he reminding her that she didn’t spare how awful President Obama was with her decimating comments when she was his rival for the White House during the last election.

• No mention of the fiscal insanity (we are $20 trillion in debt).

• No mention of border control.

• The issue of the 100 million unemployed Americans.

• The issue of the 11 million illegal aliens.

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uo Vadis? Change or the Same, with its uncontrollable lust for higher taxes and big government.

Debates don’t win elec-

tions.

Online at www.bhcourier.com/category/george-christy

from Italy in mid-September at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.

Kris McKay © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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adies and gents -- and young ones, too -- get out your dancing shoes and join the lads and lassies who’ll teach you to dance a la Grecque.

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esigned and created by the Padua-born Maurizio Cattelan, it is a fully functional replica of a toilet cast in solid gold and on view in one of the public restrooms.

Toastmistress Constance Towers Gavin with Dr. Harold Karpman, the founder of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, with honoree Dr. Satinider Bhasti and Foundation CEO Dr. Ronald Karlsberg during the 10th Anniversary Gala at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills

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he new work, included in the artist’s America exhibition, invites viewers to make use of the fixture individually and privately, informs a Guggenheim executive.

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e adds: “Its participatory experience offers viewers an unprecedented intimacy with an artwork that is extravagantly luxurious.

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The Golden Throne sculpture by Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan is on exhibtion and in use by patrons at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Council of the City of Beverly Hills, at its regular meeting to be held on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, will hold a public hearing to consider adoption of:

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE TO ESTABLISH A WATER SUPPLY FEE and A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHEDULE OF TAXES, FEES & CHARGES TO ESTABLISH A WATER SUPPLY FEE. The proposed ordinance and resolution will establish a water supply fee that will pay for the cost of facilities to provide additional local water supplies needed as new connections are established or new development / redevelopment occurs. The proposed fee is in addition to the City’s current water capacity charge adopted in 2015 and will help maintain the City’ s goal of reducing its reliance on imported Metropolitan Water District water.

Copies of the proposed Ordinance, Resolution and the related fee study are available for review or purchase in the Office of the City Clerk, Room 290, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California. These documents can also be found at www.beverlyhills.org. Any interested person may attend the meeting and be heard. Written comments may also be submitted and should be addressed to the City Council, c/o City Clerk, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, 90210. The comments should be received prior to the hearing date. If you need more information, please contact Caitlin Sims at (310) 285-2499.

Please note that if you challenge the Council's action in regard to this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at or prior to the public hearing.

BYRON POPE, MMC City Clerk

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The City Council of the City of Beverly Hills, at its regular meeting to be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, will hold a public hearing to consider adoption of: RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHEDULE OF TAXES, FEES AND CHARGES TO ADD PARKING CITATIONS FOR ILLEGAL SALE, USE AND PURCHASE OF PREFERENTIAL PARKING PERMITS, AND AMEND THE BIKE SHARE FEES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017 The proposed resolution will amend the City of Beverly Hills Comprehensive Schedule of Taxes, Fees and Charges for Fiscal Year 20162017. The proposed amendment includes the addition of a parking citation for related to illegal sale, use and purchase of preferential parking permit as well as the modification of bike share fees.

Any interested person may attend the meeting and be heard. Written comments may also be submitted and should be addressed to the City Council, c/o City Clerk, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, 90210.

The comments should be received prior to the hearing date. If you need more information, please contact Logan Phillippo at (310) 285-2477.

Please note that if you challenge the Council's action in regard to this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at or prior to the public hearing.

BYRON POPE, MMC City Clerk

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING HEARING DATE: TIME: LOCATION:

October 13, 2016 1:30 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard Commission Meeting Room 280-A Beverly Hills City Hall 455 North Rexford Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210

The Planning Commission of the City of Beverly Hills, at its REGULAR meeting on Thursday, October 13, 2016, will hold a public hearing beginning at 1:30 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard to consider: A request for a Conditional Use Permit, a Development Plan Review, and an Extended Hours Permit for the property located at 469 N. Doheny Drive (Café Amici at Hotel Beverly Terrace). The Applicant was previously granted a Conditional Use Permit and Development Plan Review to allow the following operations at the hotel: • Operation of a restaurant within the hotel that is open to the public; and • Operation of open air dining associated with the hotel restaurant.

The previously granted entitlements have expired, and the Applicant is requesting a new Conditional Use Permit and Development Plan Review to allow the same operations as previously granted, with amendments to allow the following: • An expanded open air dining area (increasing total outdoor seats from 24 to 42) and to determine that the parking demand for the expanded open air dining area can be met with the existing parking supply and valet operations, and additional parking is not required to be provided; • To allow the restaurant to be open to the public on Sundays; and • To allow the restaurant to be open to the public beyond the standard hours of operation for a property located in a commercial-residential transition area and beyond those hours previously approved by the original Development Plan Review and Conditional Use Permit. An Extended Hours Permit is requested to allow the hours of operation to be expanded to accept members of the public (not only hotel guests) between the hours of 7 A.M. to 11 P.M. daily.

This project has been assessed in accordance with the authority and criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the State CEQA Guidelines, and the environmental regulations of the City. Upon review, the project appears to qualify for exemption from CEQA. Accordingly, the Planning Commission will consider a recommendation to find the project exempt from the environmental review requirements of CEQA as a Class 1 Categorical Exemption (minor alterations to an existing facility) pursuant to Sections 15301 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.

Any interested person may attend the meeting and be heard or present written comments to the Commission. According to Government Code Section 65009, if you challenge the Commission's action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at or prior to the public hearing. Any written comments received prior to or during the public hearing will be considered as part of the public record.

If there are any questions regarding this notice, please contact Alek Miller, Assistant Planner in the Planning Division at (310) 285-1196, or by email at amiller@beverlyhills.org. Copies of the application and associated project materials are on file in the Community Development Department, and can be reviewed by any interested person at 455 North Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Sincerely, Alek Miller, Assistant Planner

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Los Angeles Business Journal Names Joyce Rey One Of The “Most Influential”

Wanda Group Fires Executive Who Bribed Local Government Official

By Victoria Talbot Beverly Hills real estate personality Joyce Rey, leader of Coldwell Banker Previews International, has been named one of the most influential people in Los Angeles.

The honor was bestowed on Rey by the Los Angeles Business Journal, listing her in its inaugural issue of “The Los Angeles 500: The Most Influential People in Los Angeles.”

Rey is no stranger to accolades.

In the four decades Rey has been in Los Angeles, she has a $3 billion sales record. Not bad.

This year, The Hollywood Reporter named her in the “Top Hollywood Realtors for 2016.”

Joyce Rey was also nominated for the Will Rogers Award for Lifetime Achievement this year.

“I was almost speechless when I was notified that I was being named one of the most influential people in Los Angeles, because everything I’ve done in this community is out of love for Los Angeles. I am both honored and grateful to be recognized for this award and all the others,” said Rey. “Integrity, attention to detail and innovation have been the key factors in my success.”

Rey is also a tremendous philanthropist in Los Angeles. “I have a passion for making our world a better place

Chinese entertainment giant Wanda said Thursday it had fired an executive implicated in the bribery of a local government official.

The announcement followed media reports that the executive had been named in court documents related to a government corruption trial.

Wanda said in a statement that former manager Leng Chuanjin had "seriously violated" company rules by using corporate funds to pay a local party chief 300,000 yuan ($45,000) as it sought to shake off partial government ownership and move into private hands.

The company first learned about the bribery case from media reports that Jin Cheng, former party chief of Wanda's home district, had been sentenced to jail on corruption charges, it said.

According to the Benxi Intermediate People's Court's judgement, two Wanda executives used company funds to pay Jin the sum in two instalments.

The bribes were to "thank" Jin for helping Wanda transition from a stateowned company into a privately-held firm, the court said.

Wanda's boss Wang Jianlin has long insisted that his company did not rely on political help to achieve its

Joyce Rey

and have raised money for so many charitable organizations. It is with great pride that I have served for many years on the Coldwell Banker Community Foundation, the Southern California Executive Board for UNICEF, American Cancer Society as well as many others.”

Joyce Rey is an affiliate of the Beverly Hills South office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, and leads one of the top producing teams for the brokerage.

stunning transformation from a regional real-estate firm into a giant conglomerate that has bought major Hollywood studios and aims to challenge Disney.

From 2004 to 2007 Jin presided over discussions on Wanda’s restructuring, the court documents said.

During that time, the municipal government offloaded 70 million shares, allowing Wanda to go private.

On Thursday Wanda said it had fired Leng from his post as chief engineer, frozen his shares and dividends, and ordered an audit of his financial ties to the company.

It did not specify when the sacking occurred.

Wanda also said the company's then-vice-president of finance Han Yuqiu, who assisted in the bribe, had misappropriated funds without approval.

The company has frozen his shares, it said, but added that he was already retired and therefore could not be sacked.

"The group reiterates that all staff members take this as a warning to abide by company rules and regulations," it said.

–– Agence France Presse

USC’s Richard Green Sees Uneven Real Estate Recovery Up Ahead

By Victoria Talbot Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and a regular advisor to the White House, Senate Finance Committee and Internal Monetary Fund, sees an uneven recovery in the real estate market.

“We are getting close to the 2006 peak for national house prices, and the most important positive resulting from this is more and more people have equity in their houses again. While it’s certainly positive that more people own homes worth more than their mortgage balances, the recovery in house prices has been uneven and prices remain well below their peaks in many parts of the United States. In fact, when adjusted for inflation, house

prices are still nearly 20-percent lower than they were in 2006.

“It’s also important to note that, unlike the last time around, higher prices reflect higher rents and reflect an increasing affordability problem.”

Green recently returned to USC after a one-year appointment as senior advisor for housing finance with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A joint research center of USC’s Marshall School of Business and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, one of the Lusk Center’s primary missions is to address timely issues that affect the urban economy, real estate and public policy.

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Los Angeles Conservancy Hosts Glamour In The Hills On Oct. 22 At Beverly Hills Historic Mansion

By Victoria Talbot The Los Angeles Conservancy announces its annual gala event Glamour in the Hills: An evening at the Historic Liliore Green-Rains Estate in Beverly Hills Oct. 23.

Together with Max Whittier, Charles Canfield, Frank Buck, Henry Huntington, William Kerckhoff, William Herrin, W.S. Porter and Frank Balch, Liliore’s father Burton Green purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas to drill for oil. Finding water, the partners formed the Rodeo Land and Water Company and developed the town of Beverly Hills.

The home was built by Burton Green, one of the original developers of Beverly Hills, who built this 1940 mansion for his daughter.

Designed and built by James F. Dickason, it blends styles and influences including Georgian Revival, French Revival, and Rustic.

Liliore Green-Rains suffered mysterious illness that left

to her, including Pomona College, Stanford University, Loyola Marymount University, Caltech, the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles and the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kan. She lived in the home until her death in 1986, when it was purchased by Merv Griffin for a reported $5 million.

There are eight bedrooms and ten bathrooms, with a lavish entry and staircase presiding over inlaid marble floors.

Paneled walls, huge living and dining rooms, and a vast front lawn, tennis court, swimming pool and separate pool house are complimented by a rose garden and dense one-acre urban forest of Canary pine trees hiding an original Adirondack cabin with amazing City views.

Skaist-Levy purchased the home in 2005 for $17.5 million from former Ticketmaster Chief Executive, Fred Rosen.

Currently owned by fashion designer and Juicy Couture

The foyer of the Liliore Green-Rains Estate in Beverly Hills

her a recluse in her later years.

When she died she left $240 million dollars to charities that seemed to have no connection

co-founder, Pamela SkaistLevy, the three-acre property was quietly placed on the market for a cool $50 million.

PRESERVING LA HISTORY FOR EVERYONE-Pictured (from left) are Event Co-Chair Maxine Greenspan, Los Angeles Conservancy President and CEO Linda Dishman, and Event Co-Chairs Diane Keaton and Lauren King. Absent is Event Co-Chair Linda Bruckheimer. Photo by Shari Belafonte

This gala event offers rare access to this spectacular property while supporting the Los Angeles Conservancy’s ongoing mission to protect, preserve and revitalize historic places in Beverly Hills and throughout Los Angeles C o u n t y.

Reservations for this exclusive event begin at $450 for a cocktail reception from 5-8 p.m. while guests can explore the property.

Sponsorships include the reception plus a seated al fresco dinner from 8-10 p.m. in the rose garden.

For information and reservations, visit www.laconservancy.org/benefit, contact lleshine@laconservancy.org or call 213-430-4213.

This 1940s estate was build by Burton Green, with architect James F. Dickason

Modest Southland Housing Market Increase Expected For 2017 Following a dip in home sales in 2016, California's housing market will post only a nominal increase in 2017 amid supply shortages and affordability constraints, the California Association of Realtors said today in its 2017 California Housing Market Forecast.

The forecast sees a modest increase in existing home sales of 1.4-percent next year to reach 413,000 units, up slightly from the projected 2016 sales figure of 407,300 homes sold. Sales in 2016 also will be

virtually flat at 407,300 existing single-family home sales, compared with the 408,800 pace of homes sold in 2015, a statement said.

“Next year, California's housing market will be driven by tight housing supplies and the lowest housing affordability in six years,” said CAR President Pat “Ziggy” Zicarelli.

“The market will experience regional differences, with more affordable areas, such as the Inland Empire and Central Valley, outperforming the urban coastal centers, where

high home prices and a limited availability of homes on the market will hamper sales.

“As a result, the Southern California and Central Valley regions will see moderate sales increases, while the San Francisco Bay Area will experience a decline as home buyers migrate to peripheral cities with more affordable options.”

The average for 30-year fixed mortgage interest rates will rise only slightly to 4.0 percent in 2017, up from 3.6 percent in 2016, but will still remain at historically low lev-

els, CAR said.

The California median home price is forecast to increase 4.3-percent to $525,600 in 2017, following a projected 6.2-percent increase in 2016 to $503,900, representing the slowest rate of price appreciation in six years, according to CAR. “With the California economy continuing to outperform the nation, the demand for housing will remain robust even with supply and affordability constraints still very much in evidence. The net

result will be California's housing market posting a modest increase in 2017,” said CAR. VP/Chief Economist Leslie Appleton-Young.

“The underlying fundamentals continue to support overall home sales growth, but headwinds, such as global economic uncertainty and deteriorating housing affordability, will temper stronger sales activity.”

–– City News Service

ARTS & E N T E RTA I N M E N T

Beverly Hills Psychologist Anita Storm Combines Passions For New Art Exhibit Beverly Hills psychologist Anita Storm is fusing two of her passions— art and gun-control safety.

An art lover all her life, she is one of the curators of “Guns,” an exhibit running through Tuesday, Nov. 1 at The Loft at Liz’s, 453 S. La Brea Ave. “I was devastated after the shootings at Sandy Hook,” says Storm, in practice in the City, mostly on Bedford Drive, for 30 years. “Those were kids and it hit home; and then there were the shootings in Orlando.

“I thought, ‘this is all about guns and gun violence“ says Storm. “And I thought ‘what can I do to get the message out.’”

A former painter, art student, “mini-collector and New Yorker who spent her childhood visiting 57th Street galleries, Storm knew “art is powerful and its own language.”

So she decided to mount an art show with guns as the theme; and after three years of work it’s come to fruition.

Her first move in assembling the show was calling her friend artist Ed Ruscha. He was enthusiastic and with his commitment she called more artists. “Nobody said ‘no,’” reports Storm. “Everyone said, ‘this is great.’

Shepard Fairey had expecially strong feelings about it,” Storm relates.

With the green light from gallerist

and co-curator Liz Gordon of The Loft at Liz’s, the show is on with artists John Baldessari, Jodi Bonassi, David Buckingham, Helen Chung, Joyce Dallal, Cheryl Dullabaun, Fairey, Dr. Anita Storm Michael Flechtner, Jane Goren, Mark Steven Greenfield, Alex Kritselis, Meg Madison, Ted Meyer, Sabine Pearlman, Osceola Refetoff, Miles Regis, Milo Reice, Kathy Shorr, Anna Stump, Senon Williams and Kerri Sabine-Wolf.

Most of them created pieces especially for the show, says Storm, which has paintings, sculpture and even a work in neon by Flechtner. “There’s some fantastic work here,” Storm reports.

An especially moving part of the show will be works by children who survived the Sandy Hook shooting and parents of children who survived—and some who didn’t—who worked with art therapists. “To me these have special meaning,” says Storm. “This is work from the heart.” (see ‘EXHIBIT’ page 19)

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Oktoberfest The Musical Wows And Delights At The Crest In Westwood

By Jerry Cutler If you are currently in the doldrums, then, perhaps an entertaining evening with seven highly talented people singing and dancing will brighten up your day.

Oktoberfest The Musical; An Almost True Story, currently at the Crest Theatre in Westwood is a blast. The situations and jokes are funny and the cast–marvelous.

If it’s mangled history you want – it’s there. If it’s hysterical while being historical you want, you will revel in the cleverness of the songs accompanied with pratfalls and grimaces from the performers. There is even audience participation if you fancy yourself a budding star.

As I had mentioned there are seven performers in the ensemble and they are: Nick Bruno, Hannah Celeste, Sonia Gascon, Kersten Haile, Andrew James, Noah James and Natalie Masini. I cannot single one out, as they are all terrific and go to great lengths to entertain.

The good thing about Oktoberfest is that it is an appropriate time of year when festivals and beer drinking are at their height. In fact, when entering, adults are given a glass of beer to rev up their anticipated enjoyment. It’s not great theatre, but it’s a heck of a lot better, livelier and funny than most musical productions appearing around the L.A. area.

Incidentally, feel free to take the kids, as they will love it. There are a couple of double entendre lyrics floating around, but they probably will be too young to

Japanese Sumi Ink Paintings Christen Kylin Gallery An exhibit of sumi ink paintings and handmade sculpture by Yoshio Ikezaki has launched the new Kylin Gallery at 9411 S. Santa Monica Blvd.

Ikezaki, who divides his time between L.A. and Kitakyushi in southern Japan is inspired by “pure nature without a trace of human involvement,” the Zen philosophy he learned from his grandfather and comparing East and West. “Westerners are interested in individuality. Asians respect selflessness.

This opposition makes me interested in seeing and observing nature in a different way. It inspires my art.”

His methods and process are specific and an art in themselves. For his paintings, Ikezaki uses sumi ink made from soot of burned vegetables and seed oil or pine tree ash.

Most the paper he uses is made by professional traditional paper makers in Japan—”I direct them to make a special paper only for me.”

He sometimes uses his own paper. Ikezaki studied tradit i o n a l Japanese papermaking

under master paperm a k e r , Shigemi Matsuo, in Yame, Japan for six years after having earned his MFA in painting from Florida Yoshio Ikezaki State University. He’s taught the craft at Southern California Institute of Architecture, UCLA Extension and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

A unique trait of Ikezaki’s work is using traditional Japanese bamboo brushes, made especially for sumi ink painting and always on wet paper.

“Water is a mother of everything,” says Ikezaki. “Wetting paper makes an extremely difficult surface to control, but at the

same time with my long-time experience with the medium, I can control the ink movement and create various kinds of skillfully controlled accidents leading to unique compositions capturing the forces of nature,” Ikezaki relates. “I wet the paper again and again after each layer of ink movement until I feel the composition is complete.”

Ikezaki, a friend of galley owner Yvonne Zhu, is “overwhelmed” with his debut Beverly Hills show. “I was excited to see opening guests respond to my artwork so positively. I was pleased the gallery provided me such a beautiful space and an environment that fits perfectly with my artistic concept.”

The gallery in open from 11 a.m.7 p.m., Tuesday, Friday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday. For information, visit https://www.kylingallery.com.

Some of the Oktoberfest The Musical cast.

understand them. However, they will, like me a big kid, be entertained and energized by what’s happening on stage.

I must mention the creativity of Philip LaZebnik who wrote the book and co-wrote the clever lyrics with Harold Faltermeyer who also composed the music, and kudos to Madeleine Dahm for her non-stop direction and choreography.

(Here’s a little trivia about Oktoberfest itself: The Einstein brothers were the first to provide electric lighting to the Oktoberfest. Albert Einstein himself once had a job as an electrician's assistant cabling the Schottenhammel Oktoberfest tent.).

HOW DO YOU FEEL?

Health Happenings...

UCLA Center Slates Play As Part of World Mental Illness Awareness Week As part of World Mental Illness Awareness Week, The UCLA Center for Health Services and Society will present the original play, The One With Friends, written by Joseph Mango and directed by Ashley Griggs, to help de-stigmatize depression and explore how the arts can promote healing.

Performances of the play—about people struggling with depression who use the TV show Friends as a way of connecting, and one character who writes the reunion episode every fan has been waiting for—will be at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday Oct. 7 and 8, and 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 9 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Tamkin Auditorium, 757 Westwood Plaza.

The play is also part of the center’s ongoing Narratives Project, a research study exploring how the arts (TV, theatre, film) can help de-stigmatize depression when accurately portrayed.

Tickets for the one-hour play are free, but reservations must be made to http://hss.semel.ucla.edu/friends/.

Ray Romano Hosts Comedy Celebration For International Myeloma Foundation The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) will hold its premier fundraising event, the 10th Annual Comedy Celebration— hosted by Ray Romano and featuring Bill Burr, Jeff Garlin, Dom Irrera, Larry Miller, Kevin Nealon, JB Smove and Fred Willard plus a musical performance by Michael McKean and Annette O’Toole— beginning at 6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 4401 W. Eighth St., L.A. Proceeds will benefit the Peter Boyle Research Fund and support the Black Swan Research Initiative, an approach to finding a cure for myeloma by detecting and eradicating the disease at the earliest time point. The evening will honor Boyle’s widow, Loraine Alterman Boyle, for her work as the event chair for the last 10 years.

Tickets, ranging from $50-$1,000 are on-sale now at comedy.myeloma.org.

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Embracing Creativity Triggered by Brain Cancer: Art Of The Brain Celebrates 17th Anniversary Gala tating brain cancer side More than 530 people effects. attended the sold out Art of Kaufman turned to the Brain (AOB) 17th poetry as her path back to Anniversary Gala for Brain hope in dealing with the Cancer Research earlier this damaging effects of brain month at UCLA’s cancer and its treatments.

Schoenberg Hall and Plaza.

She became a published Attendees enjoyed food, poet, and her books of music, and entertainment poetry include Passion And with Jason Barry, awardShadow: The Lights Of winning reporter from CBS 5 Brain Cancer, and Do You in Phoenix, as the evening’s Want Your Brain To Hurt emcee.

Now Or Later?

The theme of the gala “Although Judi said was “The HeArt of Judi”—an goodbye to us just one year homage to Judi Kaufman, ago, her creative soul, AOB founder, who died courageous spirit, and most after an 18-year struggle importantly, her loving with brain cancer on Sept. heart will never leave us.

21, 2015, just a few days Her heart continues to beat before the 2015 event. in all the lives that she AOB is an organization touched. Her spirit surof “Brain Buddies,” brain Judi Kaufman’s daughter, Jennifer cancer patients and families Kaufman, presented the annual Judi rounds all of us. Through that celebrate art, creativity Kaufman Founder's Responsibility Award Art of the Brain, her fight, her love and her heart will and life undefeated by brain at the Art of the Brain gala. beat on forever,” said Roy cancer. The organization also raises funds for brain cancer research at Kaufman, Judi Kaufman’s husband, at the gala.

Sadly, he died Wednesday, Sept. 21, four UCLA’s Neuro-Oncology Program to find a cure.

An entrepreneur, community activist and days after the gala and a multi-year struggle with poet, Kaufman was diagnosed with her first brain Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (see obituary, page cancer tumor in 1997. Based on Kaufman’s 16).

Since 1999, AOB has raised almost $10 milvision, AOB centers on creativity, in all its forms, as a vehicle to help brain-cancer patients survive lion for brain cancer research. This year’s gala and regain their self-esteem in the face of debili- raised $600,000.

TEAMWORK—A trio from How To Get Away With Murder (from left): Jack Falahee, Alfred Enoch and Karla Souza took second place in the mixed male and female relay at the 30th Annual Nautica Malibu Triathlon presented by Equinox, earlier this month at Zuma Beach.The triathlon consists of a halfmile ocean swim, 18-mile bike course and a four-mile run with proceeds benefitting Children's Hospital Los Angeles’ Pediatric Cancer Research Program.

More than 5,000 people took part in this year’s event which brought in more than $1,226,000 for CHLA. Getty Images

CureCervicalCancer Heading To China The CureCervicalCancer (CCC) team will travel to China in November to participate in a women’s health conference.

Led by resident and local oncologist Dr. Patricia Gordon, CCC will be making its second trip to China since 2015, when it initiated a program in Lianyungang.

The team will be certifying health practitioners working in four different cities. Participants from CCC will be the new Leonard Hill Foundation Traveling Nurse, Rebecca Lespik, RN and program coordinators Julia Scott and Leila Hariri.

Beverly-Hills based CCC is a leader in the effort to prevent cervical cancer in the developing world. More than half a million women worldwide acquire cervical cancer and more than 300,000 die from the disease each year. More than 85 percent of cases and 90 percent of fatalities occur in countries that lack proper screening and treatment programs, making this the second most fatal cancer among women in those regions.

Since May 2015, the network of “See and Treat” cervical cancer clinics expanded from 32 to 67, currently serving seven countries. This growth has resulted in more than 55,000 woman screened/treated and been made possi-

ble by the support of philanthropist Judy Carmel, The Leonard Hill Foundation, The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, Joseph Drown Foundation and other individual donors.

According to Dr. Gordon, “the “See and Treat” method is recognized by the World Health Organization as the gold standard for resource-poor areas. CCC targets countries where the mortality rate is highest. These areas more urgently require screening and prevention because treatment is least available. The early detection of precancerous cells enables effective and simple treatment to prevent cancer from developing. CCC’s international “Clinic in a Suitcase” model provides services at no cost to patients and is delivered at partner medical facilities. The operational model is to establish dedicated clinics, train local health workers and raise awareness so as to reach as many women as possible.

Each clinic requires only$25,000 to set up.

CCC is currently seeking professionals interested in joining the Global Sisters Circle committee.For more information. visit www.curecervical-cancer.org or call 310-601-5008.

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CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM— Beverly Hills' Crisis Response Team (CRT) is seeking new members for its 10-week, 30-hour training course which begins Thursday, Oct. 6. For more information, visit www.thecrt.org. Pictured (from left): CRT members: Paul Soroudi, Kathy Bronte, Cheri Thomas, Anne Kellogg, Judy Spigelman, Les Bronte, Michelle Upchurch, Bonnie Cacavas, and Ryanne Colbert.

Shimon Peres, Former Prime Minister Of Israel, Dead At 93 Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Tuesday two weeks after suffering a major stroke, his doctor said, triggering an outpouring of grief for the beloved elder statesman.

The 93-year-old died in his sleep, according to his son-in-law Rafi Walden President Barack Obama immediately hailed Peres as a friend who "never gave up on the possibility of peace."

"There are few people who we share this world with who change the course of human history, not just through their role in human events, but because they expand our moral imagination and force us to expect more of ourselves," Obama said in a statement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his "profound sadness" and opposition leader Isaac Herzog, the head of Labour, Peres's longtime party, said he will be "forever remembered as an icon of Israel's history."

Peres held nearly every major office in the country, serving twice as prime minister and also as president from 2007 to 2014.

He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser

Shimon Peres

Arafat for his role in negotiating the Oslo Accords, which envisioned an independent Palestinian state.

Peres had been in hospital near Tel Aviv since September 13, when he was admitted feeling unwell and suffered the stroke with internal bleeding. He had been under sedation and respiratory support in intensive care.

Born in Poland in 1923, Peres emigrated to what was then British-mandated Palestine when he was 11.

He joined the Zionist struggle and met David Ben-Gurion, who would become his mentor and Israel's first prime minister.

–– Agence France Presse

Montage Hotels & Resorts To Award $50,000 in College Scholarships With Annual Montage Memory Makers Contest

By Laura Coleman Montage Hotels & Resorts announced its 4th annual Montage Memory Makers contest this week with all luxury hotels in the chain participating. The program is designed to empower young humanitarians with scholarships to fulfill their higher education goals.

“We are thrilled to bring the Montage Memory Makers contest back for the fourth time. Montage is committed to inspiring younger generations to nurture creativity, promote generosity and encourage community service,” said Montage Hotels & Resorts Founder/CEO, Alan J. Fuerstman. “We are honored to recognize exceptional young humanitarians who make giving back a part of their everyday lives.”

The luxury hotel company is in search of community leaders between the ages of 13-17 years old who are making the world a better place. The five winners will be judged on the following criteria: 1) Ongoing community service or volunteering efforts; 2) Achievements that have made a meaningful impact in their community or beyond; and 3) How their community

service inspires others.

Individuals who meet the contest requirements are encouraged to enter the contest by visiting https://www.montagehotels.com/montage-memory-makers-scholarship to upload a three-hundred (300) word essay and additional material detailing how they inspire and provide service to their communities.

Entries will be accepted from now through Nov. 14. Winners will be formally announced on Jan. 5.

Ten finalists will be selected by Montage Hotels & Resorts after Nov. 14, and the final five winners will be chosen by a panel of guest judges. Each winner will be awarded $10,000 to their accredited college or university.

Additionally, winners will receive a twonight stay at one Montage property in the Continental U.S., including Montage Beverly Hills, Montage Laguna Beach, Montage Deer Valley and Montage Palmetto Bluff.

For more information on the Montage Memory Makers contest, including rules and guidelines and to submit an entry, please visit: https://www.montagehotels.com/montage-memory-makers-scholarship.

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THE EAGLE HAS LANDED— Aisholpan, second from right, and her eagle, attended a recent screening of the new film, The Eagle Huntress. Set for release next month, the film follows 13-year-old Aisholpan, a 13-year-old nomadic Mongolian girl as she battles to become the first female to hunt with a Golden Eagle in 2,000 years of maledominated history. Pictured with other cast members is Beverly Hills composer/lyricist Carol Connors, second from right.

Entertainment Business Manager Roy D. Kaufman Dies At Age 76

By John L. Seitz Entertainment business manager Roy D. Kaufman, a Beverly Hills resident for almost 40 years, died on Sept. 21 at age 76 following a long struggle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was pre-deceased by his wife, Judi, who passed away one year ago to the day, following her well-chronicled 18-year battle against brain cancer, a journey that has served as an inspiration to thousands of people.

Kaufman was born March 4, 1940 in New York City. He enrolled at NYU, studied accounting and landed his first position with Arthur Andersen in Manhattan. After coming to California in 1964, he joined the CPA firm of Pritkin, Finkel & Co. where he met Howard M. Bernstein. The pair formed Century City-based Kaufman + Bernstein, Inc. in 1970.

In 1997, when Judi was diagnosed with her first malignant brain cancer

tumor, the pair created the Art of the Brain (www.artofthebrain.org), an organization that raises public awareness about brain cancer, spotlights the strength and courage of brain cancer patients, and helps raise money for advanced brain cancer research at UCLA. Roy Kaufman was active in the American Jewish Committee, serving on the L.A. chapter's executive board and as member of the National President's Council. He was also a founding member ofthe Skirball Cultural Center.

Roy, who was pre-deceased by his brother Fred, is survived by daughters Jennifer and Suzy and grandsons Garrett and Sebastian.

The family would appreciate contributions to Art of the Brain, c/o Dr. Tim Cloughesy, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 710 Westwood Plaza, Suite 1-230, Los Angeles CA 90095.

SAINT JOHN’S

Center. Since 1987, the guild has raised more than $13 million and has supported Saint John’s through a variety of philanthropic, educational and volunteer programs and services. The guild was named for the late actress Irene Dunne, considered the “First Lady” of Saint John’s.

Individual tickets are $500 and sponsorship packages are available. For more information, contact Tess Csiszar at 310-829-8168 or email Tess.Csiszar@stjohns.org.

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“The Caritas Gala celebrates those who demonstrate compassion for others through exceptional service to the community,” said Brenda McDonald, president of the Irene Dunne Guild. “Each of our honorees truly exemplify the spirit of caritas and we are extremely grateful for their generosity and many contributions.”

Net proceeds from the gala benefit programs and services at the Health

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interest rules embodied in Government Code Section 1090 by using their considerable insider influence to dramatically overbill the District...and approval of a consulting contract that would yield her many millions of dollars,” Fenster wrote in a statement to the Courier.

In 2012, Christiansen was convicted by a jury as a criminal for self-dealing for having entered into a solesourced contract with a company she founded, Strategic Concepts, LLC, through her role as BHUSD’s facilities chief. That conviction was subsequently overturned on appeal with that court ruling that Christiansen was not subject to Gov. Code Section 1090 because she was an independent contractor. Last year, L.A. Superior Court Judge Stephen Czuleger adopted the Appeal Court’s determination, subsequently ruling that BHUSD breached its 2008 contract with Christiansen’s firm. That ruling opened the door for that jury’s determination that she was a victim and was owed almost $20 million.

Fenster said he was optimistic that

the Court of Appeal would confirm that the district properly terminated its contract with Christiansen and her company.

“The trial court ruled that Section 1090 did not apply because the Christiansen parties were independent contractors who were not included within the definition of the statute,” Fenster stated.

Subsequent Courts of Appeal, after Czuleger’s ruling, have found that contracts with independent contractors can be voided when they are tainted by a conflict of interest that enables these parties to profit from public contracts which they have had a hand in negotiating for their benefit, he added.

In a case decided last year, for example, the Court of Appeal decided that the scope and intention of Government Code section 1090 authorized a private organization to enforce its provisions in the case of San Diegans For Open Government v. HAR Construction, Inc. “Personal gain at public expense will not be permitted and it is expected that the judgment will be overturned,” Fenster said.

TO SEE AND BE SEEN

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SALUTE—Ferragamo USA Inc. Chairman Massimo Ferragamo (pictured with Jon Borland, General Manager of Salvatore Ferragamo on Rodeo Drive) offers a toast at Wally’s on Canon Drive during a special evening winetasting staring wines from “Castiglion del Bosco,” a historic producer of Brunello di Montalcino in Italy owned by Massimo Ferragamo. The evening soiree proved a a flavorful and tantalizing event for the dozens of oenophiles in attendance.

SHOPPING AND BONDING FOR A CAUSE—On Monday, the winners of last year’s Friends of Robinson Gardens Patron Gala auction prize “Rodeo Drive Shopping Extravaganza with Lunch at Crustacean Restaurant,” had their fabulous experience. Described Beverly Hills Vice Mayor Nancy Krasne: “We shopped, we saw the new current designs from the runway shows, we were entertained like royalty.” From exclusive shopping and Champagne-sipping experiences at Burberry, Michael Kors, and Frette (complete with gift bags at each) to a delicious four-course tasting menu designed by Mama An at Crustacean, the ladies indulged in a wonderful day. Pictured, from left: (standing) Brenda Chandler Cooke, Barbara Marcus and Nancy Krasne; (seated) Kerstin Royce, Adrienne Horwitch, Marian Power and Ricki Ring.

50 YEARS—The 50th anniversary celebration gala of California State University, Northridge’s David Nazarian College of Business and Economics held at The Beverly Wilshire turned particularly festive with the announcement of a $5 million gift from CSUN alumni Harvey ’70 (Business Administration) and Harriet Bookstein. CSUN President Dianne F. Harrison revealed that this gift and those from other supporters of the college put the college’s $25 million fundraising campaign over its goal, which launched two years ago with a lead gift of $10 million from CSUN alumnus David Nazarian.

Pictured above: David and Angella Nazarian.

Photo by Lee Choo

CHANGING LIVES—The Rape Foundation’s Annual Brunch held in Beverly Hills last weekend honored actress Viola Davis and philanthropist Cheryl Saban (pictured) for their inspirational leadership and extraordinary impact. The brunch, which benefitted the Rape Treatment Center and Stuart House at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, was MC’d by David Schwimmer. The center provides state-of-the-art care for rape victims and sexually abused children, and prevention education programs across the country.

Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for The Rape Foundation

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Mirisch And Wanda - The E-Mails The two e-mails pictured below were obtained by the Courier via a California Public Records Act demand. They show Wanda Director of Sales & Marketing Rohan a’Beckett communicating with City employees to arrange Mayor John Mirisch’s meeting with Wanda Group chief Wang Jianlin. The meeting was not disclosed publicly before or after, until it was revealed in an article in Variety. Mirisch has publicly supported the Wanda’s One Beverly Hills project, while standing in staunch opposition, at every turn, to its neighboring Hilton Initiative.

BOOK DRIVE — El Rodeo 4th graders completed a successful used book drive where students collected, sorted and packed 2,164 children's books and then took a special field trip to 122nd Street Elementary School where they personally delivered the books and read with kindergartners. Pictured (from left): Pappim Suriyasat, Elisa Del Prete, Michelle Park, Noah Labib, Remy Javidzad, Principal Kevin Allen, Chanel Anooshian; (in back) Pauline Farahmand and Madison Farahmand.

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A ‘57 T-Bird will be featured in the Arboretum’s car show.

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A collection of 30 birdinspired automobiles including Thunderbirds, Hawks, Bluebirds and more will be featured in the “Birds in the Garden Car Show,” from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia.

Cars will be spread throughout the garden with owners and drivers on hand to share the cars’ stories.

A car-themed scavenger hunt, photo opportunity with a miniature car and barbecue are also part of the afternoon.

Admission is $9-$4. For information, call 626-821-3222 or visit arboretum.org.

• • • • • Actor/director Joe Praml will read selection from Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas’ radio play for voices, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Palms Rancho Park Branch Library, 2920 Overland Ave., L.A. Thomas’ work is a humorous sometimes profound look into the dreams and innermost thoughts of the colorful inhabitants of a fictional seaside village in Wales.

For information, call 310840-2142 or visit www.lapl.org/branches/palms-rancho-park.

• • • • • The Gracias Music Foundation (GMF), in association with the Gracias Choir, will present The Christmas Cantata,

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An Early Christmas For Los Angeles, at 7 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 2 at the Shrine Auditorium, 665 W. Jefferson Blvd.

The choir has performed for more than 40 heads of state and won numerous international choral competitions.

To request free vouchers to attend, call 213-386-0097 or email losangeles@iyfusa.org.

• • • • • Amy Elaine Wakeland, political strategist, public policy expert, and advocate for children and families, and L.A.’s first lady will be the keynote speaker at The Ebell of Los Angeles opening day Women in Leadership Luncheon, beginning at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Oct. 4 at 743 S. Lucerne Blvd., L.A. Tickets are $35 and include lunch. To purchase, visit www.ebelleventtickets.com, email tickets@ebelloflosangeles.com, or call 323-931-1277 ext. 131.

• • • • • Beverly Hills producer Steve Barber’s latest documentary from his Vanilla Sky Productions Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story narrated

by Josh Brolin has ended its preliminary run to qualify for Oscar consideration this week at the Laemmle Music Hall.

The film will have its world premiere, however, Sunday, Nov. 13, during Veterans Day weekend at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Blvd.

After the fall of the Philippines in 1942, Lieut. Ed Ramsey refused to surrender.

Instead, he joined the Filipino resistance and rose to command more that 40,000 guerrillas, enduring unimaginable fear, pain, and loss for three years.

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Luca is a 10-pound, 5 month old, male, Schnauzer mix puppy rescued as a stray from the streets of downtown Los Angeles.

Those interested in adopting this handsome, playful pup may call the non-profit, humane pet store ShelterHopePetShop.org at 805379-3538.

Skipper is a 6 yr old Milley is adorable CoCo is an 8-month Nikki is a 2-yr old male Shih Tzu who is and she is an 8-week old female Pekingese-Mini poospunky and sweet! old Pit puppy.

Chihuahua puppy dle who is very cuddly.

These dogs are available at Wags and Walks, a WLA rescue. For info, info@wagsandwalks.org. To adopt: www.wagsandwalks.org/adoption-application/ To donate, volunteer or to check out who is waiting for a new home, www.WagsandWalks.org

BOARD RECOGNITION—At the L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting where The Willows Community School received a commendation for hosting the Foster Care Counts “Foster Mother’s Day” and partnering with the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services to support foster youth and parents, were from left: Head of School Lisa Rosenstein, Willows Operations Manager Treisha Chanman, Willows parent and Foster Care Counts volunteer Lia Seabold, Foster Care Counts Founder Jeanne Kriser Pritzker, and Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.

Willows Honored For Dedication To Foster Youth and Families The L.A. County Board of Supervisors has awarded The Willows Community School a commendation for hosting the Foster Care Counts “Foster Mother’s Day” and partnering with the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services to support foster youth and parents.

Supervisor Mark RidleyThomas, accompanied by Foster Care Counts Founder and Beverly Hills resident Jeanne Kriser Pritzker, presented the award to The Willows Head of School Lisa Rosenstein during the Sept. 20 supervisors meeting.

The commendation recognized the school as a model community partner for welcoming the Foster Mother’s Day event onto its campus since 2014. The presentation also recognized the commitment and efforts of The Willows Community School and its representatives to support foster youth and families and to partner with the L..A. County Department of Children and Family Services.

“We are tremendously grateful to Jeanne Pritzker and the entire Foster Care Counts

organization for giving us this opportunity to serve such a vital organization,” says Rosenstein. “Community is part of our name, and we are dedicated to helping the children and families of Los Angeles. We thank the Board of Supervisors for this recognition of our commitment to Los Angeles.”

Nonprofit Foster Care Counts helps foster youth get the education and resources they need to become independent young adults. The organization aims to improve the lives of children and teens in foster care, those transitioning out of the foster system, as well as support families that offer their homes to foster youth.

The annual Foster Mother’s Day is a celebration for hundreds of foster families complete with food, entertainment, a clothing boutique and more.

The Willows Community School in Culver City is a developmental kindergarten through eighth grade independent school enrolling 463 students annually. The Willows’ (www.thewillows.org) academic program integrates technology and the arts into the classroom.

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Dexter, board member of Women Against Gun Violence.

A percentage of all art sales will go to the organization whose main focus is legislation, says Storm. “We are pretty much people who would like to see responsible gun ownership,” says Storm. “Nobody wants to take guns away from people who legitimately have and need a gun. We just want to change rules about purchasing, licensing and keeping guns in a home.”

• Gunworlds, a performance with Maya Gurantz and Elizabeth Goodman will be from 7-10 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28.

For more information, call 323-939-4403, ext. 5 or visit www.theloftatlizs.com/guns/.

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A calendar of special events at the gallery accompanies the show.

• An exhibit walkthrough with co-curator Betty Ann Brown will be from 7-9 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 5. “It’s a great chance to see all the works in all mediums and sizes,” says Storm.

• She will host a panel discussion from 3-5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 15. Participants will include L.A. City Councilman David Ryu, Lonnie and Sandy Philips, whose daughter, Jessi was killed in the 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo; Anthony Coda Lopes of Gays Against Guns, and Hollye

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Vin Scully Set To Call Final Game Sunday, Will Be Simulcast On Various Channels In Los Angeles Vin Scully's final broadcast will be simulcast in its entirety on Spectrum SportsNetLA, KTLA-TV Channel 5 and KLAC-AM (570), the Los Angeles Dodgers announced today.

The first three innings of Scully's broadcasts are customarily simulcast, with the rest of his call heard only on television.

"We wanted to make sure that all of Vin's fans are able to share in his final Dodger broadcast of an incredible 67-year Hall of Fame career,” said Lon Rosen, the Dodgers executive vice president & chief marketing officer.

Scully's final game will be on Sunday, when the Dodgers play in San

Francisco. He said he chose that game because it comes 80 years to the day when he saw a sign at a laundry in his native New York City reporting the score of Game 2 of the World Series that day -- New York Yankees 18, New York Giants 4, that prompted him to become a baseball fan.

"It seems like the plan was laid out for me, and all I had to do was follow the instructions," Scully said.

The Giants have a tribute planned for Scully at AT&T Park Sunday. His call of the third inning will be simulcast on the Giants' television and radio outlets, CSN Bay Area and KNBR-AM (680).

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CAN’T TOUCH THIS – Charles Green (No. 49 for BHHS) moves to evade a Peninsula defender in last Friday’s loss at Nickoll Field.

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Beverly Hills High Football Team Falls To 0-5 After Loss To Peninsula

By Matt Lopez The Beverly Hills High football team was shut out last Friday in a 45-0 nonleague loss against Peninsula at Nickoll Field.

Peninsula’s running game, led by junior Jeffrey Jimena, proved to be too much for a young Normans defense to handle.

BHHS (0-5) struggled on offense – the Normans totaled just 31 rushing yards, led by Michael Revah who carried five times for 25 yards.

Between quarterbacks Jeremiah Klapper and Thomas Goolsby, the Normans tallied only 24 total yards passing.

Peninsula moved to 4-0 in a resur-

gent season under first-year coach David Young, who took over the program after Peninsula’s 2015 season was canceled mid-season because of too few players in the program.

The Normans have never defeated Peninsula in 11 appearances since the school opened in Palos Verdes in 1991.

Thus far through five games, Beverly Hills has tallied 383 rushing yards. The Normans have struggled to move the ball through the air, with just 136 passing yards and three touchdowns.

The Normans are off this weekend and start Ocean League play on Oct. 7 with a game against Carson at 7 p.m. at Nickoll Field.

DEMOLISHED – The LA Sports Arena was demolished earlier this month, making way for the soon-to-be-built new Banc of California stadium that will house Major League Soccer expansion team Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC).

Police Investigating Knicks Star Derrick Rose Over Alleged Beverly Hills Rape The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed it is investigating sexual abuse allegations involving New York Knicks guard Derrick Rose, according to a court filing obtained today.

In a letter lodged in Los Angeles federal court Sunday as part of a lawsuit against Rose, LAPD Detective Nadine Hernandez wrote that it was a "misconception" that the department "does not have a current criminal investigation" pending that names the basketball star and two other men.

The letter is addressed to Brandon Anand, a lawyer representing plaintiff "Jane Doe," the woman who alleges Rose and his friends drugged and raped her in 2013 at a party in Beverly Hills.

The defendants contend the sex was consensual.

U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald previously ruled that the woman's name will be revealed after a jury is sworn.

A pretrial hearing is scheduled Thursday, when Anand is expected to ask the judge to reconsider the ruling

and keep the woman's identity secret for her own safety throughout the trial, which is set to begin Oct. 4.

Hernandez wrote that the woman's identity would remain confidential, as far as the LAPD is concerned, as the police probe continues.

"The ability to offer anonymity to victims of sex crimes is an invaluable investigative aid to investigators as well as a great comfort to victims of crimes of such a sensitive nature," Hernandez wrote.

According to the suit, filed in August 2015, the plaintiff alleges Rose and his friends slipped a drug into her drink before sexually assaulting her.

Speaking at Knicks media day today, Rose, 27, said he had not been aware of the LAPD investigation, and denied any wrongdoing.

"I'm innocent. I felt like I didn't do anything wrong," he said.

He also said he could miss time with the team during the trial of the civil case.

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The annual Get Lucky for Lupus Celebrity Poker Tournament was held at the historic Avalon nightclub at Hollywood and Vine. Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Cabrera, Amanda Righetti, Kellie Martin, Black-ish’s Allen Maldonado, Omar Benson Miller, Eddie Matos, Phill Lewis, Erik Valez, poker star’s Tiffany Michele and Maria Ho, Jessica Hall, Verne Troyer, Mike Mizanin and more were among the celebrities that came to support Lupus LA, which raises funds for lupus research and local patient programs.

Each year, awards are presented to individuals who strive to make the world better for those living with lupus, whether it is through research charitable gifts, spreading awareness and more. Lupus LA honored the Band From TV and members Scott Grimes, Greg Grunberg, Bob Guiney, James Denton, Adrian Pasdar and Jesse Spencer.

LUPUS LA–The Get Lucky for Lupus LA Celebrity Poker Tournament was hosted by the group’s Board Chairman Adam Selkowitz and his wife, Laurie. Photo by Tiffany Rose

A disease with no cure, lupus affects 1.5 million people in the US, which is more than cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis combined with 90-percent being women. In the past 12 years, the event has raised $2.5 million for Lupus LA, which promotes research, awareness, and education, and serves the needs of people with lupus and their families. Visit www.LupusLA.org or call 310-657-5667. ****** Maintaining its mission of philanthropy since 1851, Kiehl’s, the venerable New York-based purveyor of fine quality skin and hair care, continues to expand its LifeRide motorcycle project to support the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance.

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Honorees that evening will be Adele and Beny Alagem and Sylvester Stallone.

Singer/dancer Matthew Morrison headlines the gala which is co-chaired by Paul Guerin and Robert Barth.

Individual tickets $600. For information, call Rebecca at 323-904-4400 or email: rebecca@ grantevents.com. Event website cedars-sinai.edu/boggala. ****** The Loren L. Zachary Society for the Performing Arts Viennese Luncheon will be held Oct. 16 at the Four Seasons under the auspices of Ulrike Ritzinger, consul general of Austria. The honoree is Allan Edmiston, M.D. in recognition of his dedication to the performing arts and his profession.

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On the Kiehl’s LifeRide for OCRFA, motorcyclists, led by its President Chris Salgardo, actors Gilles Marini, Grant Reynolds, Scott Patterson, and artist Luke Wessman, rode through the L.A. area, making stops at various Kiehl’s stores.

In an area such as the Coachella Valley, home to a high percentage of parents and grandparents, it comes as no surprise that the welfare of children is of primary concern. Tools For Tomorrow (TFT) is a not-for-profit that provides cognitive, emotional, social, multi-sensory and critical thinking skills by offering children a hands-on experience in art, music, creative writing and drama.

TFT encourages a child’s artistic selfexpression and nurtures the positive selfesteem resulting from the discovery of his or hers inherent creativity. While creating their works of art, they acquire a coping mechanism for the future … a tool for tomorrow.

TFT employs qualified paid instructors using a professionally designed curriculum, held on-site at individual schools after regular school hours; and, the classes, geared from grades K through 5, are free, with TFT picking up the $10,000 tab per each of the 15 schools currently offering the program. This means its class-budget, which also includes supplies, musical equipment and snacks, totals $150,000.

Raising this money is the purpose of Visionaires of Tools For Tomorrow who are tasked with assisting in fundraising efforts.

The Visionaires present its first fundraiser of the season on Nov. 16, titled Christmas At The Grande Ole Dame, a love story played out at a famous old hotel. Starring is Desert resident Gavin MacLeod (The Love Boat, Mary Tyler Moore Show) along with local philanthropists Donna MacMillan, Barbara and Jerry Keller. There will be a wine reception preceding the performance, which will be serenaded by TFT children singing the sounds of the holidays.

For more information about the Vissionaires event or TFT, call 760-6013954. ***** You probably won’t find it on the golf channels, but an amazing competition took place in Indian Wells last week that featured a one-armed man from Northern Ireland. In fact, all the competitors had just one arm.

Named the Fightmaster Cup after Don Fightmaster, an internationally renowned one-armed golfer from Kentucky who is considered an inspiration for many, the first Fightmaster Cup took place in Louisville, KY. Taking over three days, the race for the cup comprises two days of fourballs and foursomes, with singles matches on the final day. The Fightmaster Cup is the equivalent of the Ryder Cup, but for onearmed golfers from North America in an international format.

The quality level of the Fightmaster Cup players is high, having players who can drive the ball 350+ yards, while others have handicaps around plus-0.2–meaning that on any given day, the holder of the handicap can match or break par on a regulation golf course. In fact, Canadian Jesse Flokowski has, among his accomplishments, shot a 31 … for nine holes.

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A Hal Lipson Salute To

Beverly Hills Own AM Radio Station

Did you know Beverly Hills has its own radio station? It's a really cool throwback mix which features Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole and legendary crooners.

I am referring of course, to the newly launched, “Unforgettable 1260AM” which just switched formats from classical music to The Great American Songbook. This is old timey radio at its best and love the B.H. reference on station ID's.

Station owner Saul Levine, who has been an advertiser in the Courier, is going back to the “standards” format for the first time since 2011. Years ago, 1260AM was known as KGIL a San Fernando Valley-based radio station playing big bands and talk shows. It lasted until 1993, when Levine bought the station and began a news format.

During the last 23 years, the station has been everything from '60s oldies, all Beatles, country, and Broadway show tunes.

It's so great to hear songs of my parents’ vinyl album era (and my youth) on AM radio reminding me of summer nights driving in my dad's 1968 powder blue Chevy Caprice, with black vinyl roof and radio speaker on front dash and above back seat. KGIL was where I first heard Come Fly With Me, a Sinatra anthem, the harpsichord melody of Love Is Blue by Paul Mauriat and Fool On The Hill done by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66. These are all present on the 1260 playlist which has an added bonus–no commercials!

I tune in 1260AM at bedtime as a soothing lullabye and antidote to the Trump/Clinton furor. For some reason, hearing the music on the AM dial makes it that much more authentic.

I remember hearing those legendary deejays like Gary Owens, Wink Martindale, and Bill Ballance on stations like KMPC, KFI and KGIL when I wasn't listening to my own '60s AM radio fave KHJ93 which all '60s kids tuned in on their pocket transistors.

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Jerry Cutler On Film Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Spall star in Denial, a simple yet very moving story about vociferous Holocaust denier David Irving.

It is straight forward story told without cliches and haunting images meant to badger–just a reminder of a heinous time in history that should never be forgotten.

Spall as Irving is chillingly good as the adamant, self-centered Holocaust denier who is shamed and brought down by a no-nonsense diminutive school teacher, Deborah Lipstatd, played with admirable restraint by Oscar winner Weisz. The searing screenplay by David Hare is based on Lipstadt’s History On Trial: My Day In Court With A Holocaust Denier.

Building an iron clad defense against the smug Irving who had sued Lipstatd in England claiming defamation when she accused him of lying, is the English barrister, acted with calm and with cautious restraint, Richard Rampton (Wilkinson), who berates Irving for his hateful rhetoric and blinded beliefs. The sensitive subject is humanely presented especially when they visit the gray ghost-like barren terrain of Auschwitz. It is a haunting and powerful scene and registers the somber effect of devastation and hopelessness. Rampton decries the lack of the concentration camp’s extensive forensic records and with his solicitor, Andrew Scott as Anthony Julius, they set out to prove the essential truth.

Obviously, Denial is a sensitive subject but all involved handle the story with the respect and esteem it so richly deserves.

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Jewish Community Foundation Of L.A. Names Steve Gamer VP/Advancement NEW VICE PRESIDENT–The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, the largest manager of charitable assets and planned giving solutions for local Jewish philanthropists has named Steve Gamer (pictured left) to the newly created position of VP of advancement.

He brings more than 25 years of strategic planning experience working with individuals, families, corporations and foundations. His previous positions include serving as vice chancellor of advancement at University of California San Diego and as executive director of the UCLA Foundation.

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Beverly Hills Post Office Veteran Retires; Says Good-Bye To The City She Loves The following is a letter from Helen Lee who just retired after serving 29 years at the Beverly Hills Post Office: “Leaving Beverly Hills”–it’s not the title of a new movie but I’ve been waiting for this day a long time.

Aug. 31 was my last day after 29 years at the Beverly Hills Post Office.

I’ve been so lucky enough to work in this beautiful City with nice customers and dedicated co-workers.

Even if we live in the most hi-tech, SMS world, we have feelings to send birthday cards, sympathy and love notes.

Also when it comes to important times of people’s lives, such as weddings, kid’s Bar Mitzvahs or applying for schools and jobs, they come to the post office.

I remember this young mother came to the post office every day for six weeks to send books to her daughter who was in camp. She told me there was no computer or phone.

At Christmastime, people send packages to their family, either in the states or overseas. I can usually tell where they originally came from.

It was fun to help people when they needed it at the counter.

I want to give special thanks to Beverly Hills Postmaster Koula Fuller, for helping me go through my difficult times.

I also want to thank my long-time customers who took me to Madeo’s, Lawry’s and Nate’n Al for my retirement.

I will love to come back to this area – not for working, but window shopping and dining. Thank you all!

Helen Lee

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FEAR OF LIVING TO BE 100!

Although growing older is inevitable, modern medical breakthroughs suggest that life expectancy may increase dramatically.

In this regard I have always been fearful of living to be 100, that’s 36,525 days, including leap years, and lots of anxiety attacks, constipation and bad dreams.

On the plus side, there is generally a first rate selection of congratulatory birthday cards to choose from, not the run of the mill, inane, age related ones found in the humor section of the drug store but warm, heartfelt, spiritual messages written by out of work death row chaplains and hospice practitioners, all displayed in the special occasions section, adjacent to the sympathy cards.

On the other hand, there will be virtually no one left to send me a celebratory card since I will, in all probability, outlive all of my family, friends, doctors, insurance agents, lawyers, maitre d’s and even my Tai Chi instructor who taught me internal discipline before succumbing to a Chinese take out order of Kung Pao chicken. The autopsy confirmed it was the chili peppers that did him in.

Phyllis, my significant other, might still be around but would lack the mobility and sense of direction required to get to Rite Aid, find the greeting cards section and then locate a mail box.

It is no secret that with advancing age comes an array of debilitating, painful, degenerative conditions that can significantly reduce your quality of life and, in a worse case scenario, may even prompt you to want to give up sex, something even more painful then undergoing a root canal procedure. So when confronted with the deterioration of body parts, it’s important to know where to go for replacements. My first inclination was to pay a visit to the Body Parts Unlimited Warehouse located next to a cemetery in Orange County. The BPUW is like Costco but with a limited selection of merchandise and, as you might expect, its customer profile skews a lot older but unlike Costco there are no free samples handed out at lunch time. They also require a minimum purchase of four body parts, no mix and matching, and have a strict no return policy. However, upon further reflection I decided that it made more sense to procure my replacement parts from sources demonstrating their superiority.

For a new heart to replace my aging organ, I choose Japan where a steady diet of fish protects against plaque build up in the arteries and contributes to a long life. I know what you’re thinking--does mayonnaise enriched tuna salad with coleslaw and a Kosher Pickle qualify? Sadly, it does not but if your doctor says that you only have two weeks to live, then go for it.

In need of a new lung, then pay a visit to Switzerland where folks climb mountains just to get in their front door. A regimen of hiking and mountaineering trumps the sedentary lives of most Americans as well as the population of Tonga where the king weighs in at 461 pounds, 491 with his crown. In need of a new knee then visit Kenya, home of the world’s foremost marathon runners. These guys have never had to contend with knee replacement surgery followed by months of physical therapy and a lifetime dependence on Aleve.

Okinawa has the fewest hip fractures of any place on earth, therefore it would be hip to drop in on this Pacific island and leave with a fresh ball and socket joint and the good news is that you don’t have to list it on your customs declaration form.

As for a new schnoz, it’s off to Italy where the Roman nose, sported by Julius Caesar, Tom Cruise and Celine Dion wins “best in show” with it’s prominent bridge and soft sloping tip.

As I approach centenarian status and prepare to be labeled a “rare species,” there are any number of daily functions that are no longer within my reach. My limited computer skills have deserted me and as a result all of my user names, contacts, and files seem to have disappeared into the digital abyss, never again to be recalled. Mobile apps, which have taken over my life, have also pulled a disappearing act. Without Google maps how will I get home? No more Skype means no more face to face conversations with my pharmacist and the countermen at Nate n’ Al’s and the loss of “Angry Birds” signifies that I can no longer take out my hostility on Miss Piggy. I will also miss “Pickuplines” which comes in handy while standing in the supermarket check out line, and “Fat Booth” which showed me what I will look like, with no hair and a few extra pounds, when I hit the century mark.

The one saving grace of turning 100 is the opportunity to have this life altering event recognized by Al Roker and shared with his Today Show viewers who will be thrilled to see my photo displayed on a jar of Smuckers strawberry preserves. It doesn’t get any better than this!

My fear of approaching triple digits also encourages binge viewing. No one wants to cash in their chips while there are still new episodes of House Of Cards to catch on Netflix so do as I do and stream the entire new season in one 24 hour period. That means having breakfast, lunch, cocktails, dinner and a late night helping of Haagen-Dazs chocolate/chocolate chip ice cream while sitting in front of the TV. Frank Sinatra nailed it when he said: “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine!”

Beverly Hills resident Roger Lefkon is a veteran TV writer/producer, former senior executive with Merv Griffin Entertainment, and author of The World Is A Really Scary Place!

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BEVERLY HILLS

PUBLIC NOTICES ORDINANCE NO. 16-O-2711

council hereby amends and restates the definition of “LIMOUSINE” contained in Section 72-206 (“DEFINITIONS”) of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code as follows.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING HEAVY VEHICLES AND 7-2-206: DEFINITIONS: AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF LIMOU- LIMOUSINE: A motor SINE propelled sedan or sport utility vehicle of either THE CITY COUNCIL standard or extended OF THE CITY OF length, with a lawful BEVERLY HILLS seating capacity of not DOES HEREBY more than ten (10) pasORDAIN AS FOL- sengers, including the LOWS: driver, and used in the transportation of pasSection 1.

The city sengers for hire on a council hereby amends prearranged basis. and restates Section 72-201 (“HEAVY VEHI- Section 4. Severability.

CLES RESTRICTED If any section, subsecTO CERTAIN tion, subdivision, senSTREETS”) of the tence, clause, phrase, Beverly Hills Municipal or portion of this Code to read as follows: Ordinance or the application thereof to any 7-2-201: HEAVY VEHI- person or place, is for CLES RESTRICTED any reason held to be TO CERTAIN invalid or unconstitutionSTREETS: al by the final decision of any court of competent A. No person shall oper- jurisdiction, the remainate any vehicle having a der of this Ordinance gross weight, including shall remain in full force the vehicle and its load, and effect. of three (3) tons or more on any street in the city Section 5. Publication. except on those streets The City Clerk shall designated in section 7- cause this Ordinance to 2-203 of this article or be published at least unless authorized by once in a newspaper of permit issued pursuant general circulation pubto subsection 8-2-3D of lished and circulated in this code. the city within fifteen (15) days after its pasB. The provisions of sage in accordance with subsection A of this sec- Section 36933 of the tion shall not apply to Government Code, shall the following: certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and shall 1. Any passenger cause this Ordinance stage corporation, regu- and the city Clerk’s cerlated by sections 1031 tification, together with through 1046 of the proof of publication, to California Public Utilities be entered in the Book Code, whose certificate of Ordinances of the from the California Council of this city.

Public Utilities Commission specifically Section 6.

Effective provides for travel on Date. This Ordinance the streets prohibited by shall go into effect and subsection A; be in full force and effect at 12:01 a.m. on the thir2. Any vehicle ty-first (31st) day after owned by a public utility its passage. while necessarily in use in the construction, Adopted: installation, or repair of September 20, 2016 any public utility; Effective: October 21, 2016 3. Any vehicle operated by the city, or JOHN A. MIRISCH any employee thereof, Mayor of the City of in the course of regular Beverly Hills or official city business; ATTEST: 4. Any vehicle of BYRON POPE(SEAL) the military or naval City Clerk forces of the United States or the duly APPROVED AS TO authorized militia of the FORM: state in the proper per- LAURENCE S. WIENER formance of their duties. City Attorney Section 2.

The city council hereby amends subsection A of Section 7-2-203 (“STREETS DESIGNATED FOR HEAVY VEHICLE USAGE”) of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code to add Wilshire Boulevard to the list of streets designated for use by vehicles having a gross weight, including the vehicle and its load, of three (3) tons or more.

Section 3.

APPROVED AS CONTENT: MAHDI ALUZRI City Manager

TO

SUSAN HEALY KEENE Director of Community Development

VOTE: AYES: Councilmembers Reims, Gold, Bosse, Vice Mayor Krasne, and Mayor Mirisch NOES: None ABSENT: None The city CARRIED

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016216858 The following is/are doing business as: MICHELLE DARES 439 N. Canon Dr. #300, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Mihaela Blidarescu 439 N. Canon Dr. #300, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Mihaela Blidarescu, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 31, 2016; Published: September 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016216856 The following is/are doing business as: RIFKIN DDS INC. 441 S. Beverly Dr. #4, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Rodney Raanan DDS Inc. 441 S. Beverly Dr. #4, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Rodney Raanan, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 31, 2016; Published: September 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016216857 The following is/are doing business as: 1) BRAIN HEALTH CENTER CHINESE ACUPUNCTURE 2) BRAIN HEALTH ACUPUNTURE CENTER 3) B.H.C.C.A. 4) B.H.C.A. 201 N. Robertson Blvd. #207, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; Linda Y. Ho 201 N. Robertson Blvd. #207, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed August 30, 2011: Linda Y. Ho, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 31, 2016; Published: September 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016216859 The following is/are doing business as: 1) GOLDHAMMER ART AND DESIGN 2) GOLDHAMMER 3) AMBER GOLDHAMMER ART STUDIO AND GALLERY 4) AMBER GOLDHAMMER STUDIO AND GALLERY 5) GOLDHAMMER STUDIO AND GALLERY 1223 Wilshire Blvd. #231, Santa Monica, CA 90403; A Goldhammer 1223 Wilshire Blvd. #231, Santa Monica, CA 90403; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed August 2016: A Goldhammer, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 31, 2016; Published: September 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016209087 The following is/are doing business as: SGSBC ART PARTNERSHIP 9665 Wilshire Blvd. Fl. 5, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Douglas R. Stone 9665 Wilshire Blvd. Fl. 5, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Richard M. Genow 9665 Wilshire Blvd. Fl. 5, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Mitchell Smelkinson 9665 Wilshire Blvd. Fl. 5, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Allison H. Binder 9665 Wilshire Blvd. Fl. 5, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Chad M. Christopher 9665 Wilshire Blvd. Fl. 5, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Matthew S. Rosen 9665 Wilshire Blvd. Fl. 5, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the

name(s) listed January 2016: Douglas R. Stone, General Partner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 02, 2016; Published: September 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016213918 The following is/are doing business as: CONTINENTAL PACIFIC 3820 Main St. 2nd Flr., Culver City, CA 90232; Gustavo Lamanna 3820 Main St. 2nd Flr., Culver City, CA 90232; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed August 2016: Gustavo Lamanna, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 29, 2016; Published: September 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016219320 The following is/are doing business as: COLOR ME MINE BEVERLY HILLS 233-A S. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Color Me Mars, Inc. 233-A. S. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Fabz Enterprises, Inc. 233-A. S. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; The business is conducted by: JOINT VENTURE, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed August 2003: Fred Anderson, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 02, 2016; Published: September 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016205313 The following is/are doing business as: 1) KINDERPREP 2) KINDERPREP PLUS 3) KINDERPREP2 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404; Elizabeth Fraley 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed on August 2016: Elizabeth Fraley, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: August 17, 2016; Published: September 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016220293 The following is/are doing business as: 1) ICON 11 2) SBH CONSULTING 3104 Hollyridge Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90068; Sandrine Auerbach 3104 Hollyridge Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90068; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Sandrine Auerbach, President/Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 06, 2016; Published: September 16, 23, 30 October 07, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016226152 The following is/are doing business as: OJAI LAVENDER COOKIES 2214 Fox Hills Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90064; Nili Sinai 2214 Fox Hills Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90064; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Nili Sinai, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 13, 2016; Published: September 23, 30 October 07, 14, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016226153 The following is/are doing business as: HCM BEAT 10342 Ilona Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064; P.O. Box 642826, Los Angeles,

CA 90064-2826; Cynthia Waldman 10342 Ilona Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed August 01, 2016: Cynthia Waldman, Founder/Editor: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 13, 2016; Published: September 23, 30 October 07, 14, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016226154 The following is/are doing business as: ALL NATIONS OPPORTUNITY 237 W. 64th St., Los Angeles, CA 90003; Carraby’s Dynasty Corporation, Inc. 237 W. 64th St., Los Angeles, CA 90003; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Devera Carranby, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 13, 2016; Published: September 23, 30 October 07, 14, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016226155 The following is/are doing business as: JGL PRODUCTIONS 304 S. Elm Dr. #303, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Joanne Levien 304 S. Elm Dr. #303, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Joanne Levien, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 13, 2016; Published: September 23, 30 October 07, 14, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016231567 The following is/are doing business as: M3 PHYSICAL THERAPY 10474 Santa Monica Blvd. #435, Los Angeles, CA 90025; Physician’s Physical Therapy Service, Inc. 10474 Santa Monica Blvd. #435, Los Angeles, CA 90025; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: J. Raul Lona, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 20, 2016; Published: September 23, 30 October 07, 14, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016229595 The following is/are doing business as: HUMMINGBIRD JEWEL PRESS 1375 Reeves Dr. #405, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Rachelle J. Lewis 1375 Reeves Dr. #405, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Rachelle J. Lewis, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 16, 2016; Published: September 30 October 07, 14, 21, 2016 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2016 221028 The following is/are doing business as: COMFORT BY HOMA 10390 Wilshire Blvd. Unit 303, Los Angeles, CA 90024; Homa Adler 10390 Wilshire Blvd. Unit 303, Los Angeles, CA 90024; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Homa Adler , Ownert: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: September 7, 2016; Published: September 16, 23, 30 October 7, 2016 LACC N/C

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CENTURY WOODS $1,495,000

BEL AIR CREST $6,950,000

Some Complexes include Heated Pools, Sundeck, Tennis, Doorman, Houseman, Staff Engineers, Switchboard, Security Staff, Switchboard, Saunas, Business Center, PlayLand, Restaurant, Acres of Flower Gardens and Grassy Lawns.

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2 BEDROOMS starting at $3795 3 BEDROOMS starting at $4250

Available for immediate move in. Open house ever y day APPROX. 1,700 S.F. 416 S. SPALDING DR. from 11am to 5pm, call before heading over.

Top Floor Front Facing Backs Up To Roxbury Pk. www.rentwiseman.com • 310-473-3000 Immaculate, Remodeled, Views, A/C, Inside Laundry, S x S Parking.

Apartment For Rent OLYMPIC/ROBERTSON BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. $4,195/MO.

1 BED+DEN+2 BATHS $3,650/MONTH

High Corner.Large Balcony Unobstructed City & Ocean Views. Wrap around floor to ceiling Windows. Granite Counters. Bamboo Floors.

Updated Baths

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Private deck, large closets, Completely Remodeled PARK PLACE granite counters kitchen 425 New Bath/Granite-Kit/ HOUSES 2 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS and bathrooms, stainless Dwash/Stove/Carpet PENTHOUSE FOR LEASE steel appliances. Berber 2126 sf., balcony with $4,300/MONTH Higher Floor - Great View Central Air Conditioning BEVERLY HILLS Renovated. New Appliances great view, central air 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath carpet & harwood foors, Security-Gate/Parking Quartz Counters. New Carpets washer/dryer, microverticle blinds. Fireplace, •• HOUSE •• 2 Parking Side by Side Fresh Paint. Vaulted Ceilings wave, pool, exerise washer & dryer in unit, Two Tandem Parking 24hr Full Service Bldg.

3 BDRM. + 3.5 BATH Walk-In Closets. Washer/Dryer Call 310/721-3769 room. • $6,200/Mo. Pool Jacuzzi Gym Party Rm Secured building with 208 S. RODEO DRIVE 310/980-1256 CENTURY PARK EAST Central Air-Conditioning courtyard garden view. ————— Gourmet Kitchen, $2,650 to $4,500/mo. 310/278-8861 x-2087 BEVERLY HILLS New Carpet & Paint Choice location.

Remodeled Bathrooms, ————— Refrig Washer Dryer PARK PLACE Near Beverly Center, 2 Bdrm.+2 Bath Central A/C, Hardwood Floors.

WESTWOOD $4,000 to $5,495/mo.

• REDUCED • $2,595/Month Beverly Hills Schools.

Cedars-Sinai, Restaurants, 3-Level Townhouse $4,095/Month CENTURY TOWERS New kitchen w/ granite $7,400/Month 10810 Massachusetts Av Call 323/933-9544 Trader Joes, Etc. No Pets, $5,750 to $8,900/mo.

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Heated Pools, Sundeck, —————–––– Completely updated BEVERLY HILLS APT Tennis, Doorman, new kitchen & 3 Bd.+3 Ba. • $4,395 Houseman, Staff bathrooms, new wood Engineers, Switchboard, • Great Condition • floors & windows, Bright Southwest Security Staff, central air & heat, Switchboard, Saunas, Exposure. Every room recessed lighting and has French Doors to Business Center, Pet wired for sound.

PlayLand, Restaurant, Small Covered Balcony.

Washer & dryer in unit.

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Ceilings. Beverly Hills and Grassy Lawns.

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310/275-5304

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In The HEART of BEVERLY HILLS B R E N T W O O D BEV. HILLS TRIANGLE

11988 Kiowa Ave.

• •••••••• •• 1 Bd.+1 Ba. •• 1 B d . + 1 B a .

••••••• •• •• • • Large & Bright Unit.

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Old World Charm!

Bright, intercom entry, fridge, stove, laundry fac.

CLOSE TO RESTAURANTS & SHOPPING.

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Elevator, controlled

access, on-site laundry facility, balcony, parking.

Close to Brentwood Village,

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LAFAYETTE PARK

1 0 9 0 5 O h i o A v e . 274 LAFAYETTE PARK PL. 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • •

• • • •• • X-St. Santa Monica Bl. • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • • •• • ~ 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. ~ • •• •• B r i g h t & A i r y.

1628 S. Westgate Ave.

Dishwasher, Intercom entry, on-sight parking, on-sight laundry facility, courtyard patio.

Close to transportation.

310/820-1810

& R E S TA U R A N T S C A N O N /B E V E R LY / RODEO DR.

1 Bd.+Den+1.5 Ba.

Good closet space, a/c,

310/858-8133

elevator, dishwasher, controlled access. Close

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310/247-8689

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pool, elevator, parking, with valet, lush garden laundry facility. surrounding pool,

310/312-9871 gym, elevator, etc.

2 Bd. + Den + 2 Ba. 321 S. Sherbourne Dr. Shopping & Dining in • • Spacious • • Brentwood Village Hardwood flrs., granite ••

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• Jr. 1 Bdrm. • •• ••

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counters, dishwasher, central air, balcony,

2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath

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443 S. Oakhurst Dr. 11730 SUNSET BLVD.

a/c, heated pool, WiFi, elevator controlled access, on-site laundry, prkg.

Close to

Single

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= = = = = = 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath Loft+Den+1 Ba. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ = = = = = =

Balcony, dishwasher, elevator, intercom skylight, elevator, inter- entry, on-sight laundry, com entry, on-site gym, parking.

Hardwood floors, Spacious a/c, fireplace, laundry, parking.

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213/385-4751

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BRENTWOOD

• • • • • • • • WESTWOOD • 310/247-8689 • Close to Cedars-Sinai, Balcony, dishwasher, 1380 Midvale Ave.

Close to Cedars, Beverly Center Beverly Center & restaurants, shopping Trendy Robertson Bl. & transportation.

• • 2 Bd. + 2 Ba. • • • • • • • • • • •

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CULVER CITY — — — — — – – – – — — — — — – – – – * * * * • 310/826-4889 • 3830 Vinton Ave. * * * Large & Bright. BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. ————— W I L S H I R E Pool, a/c, balcony, • • 309 S. Sherbourne Dr. BRENTWOOD C O R R I D O R • Single • stove, dishwasher, laundry rm., prkg., inter•• • ( • • • ----- • • • ) T h e C a r l t o n 10530-10540 com entry, elevator.

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D I R E C T O RY

ANTIQUES / JEWELRY BUY & SELL

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WANTED

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TOP DOLLAR PAID Call 310/289-9561

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Buyers and Sellers of High-End Jewelr y & Watches

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Art Collectors:

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507 AUTOS WANTED

WE BUY CARS

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Chairman 2014 Paula Kent Meehan President & Publisher Marcia Wilson Hobbs

From The Publisher

MARCIA WILSON HOBBS Opinion: Dalian Wanda Group’s Dealings In Beverly Hills Follow A Familiar Script For those keeping up with the goings on in China, a familiar story is beginning to play out in Beverly Hills with the Dalian Wanda Group’s public attacks against the Hilton Initiative.

Of course, in China, it might not get reported quite the same way as it has in the pages of the Beverly Hills Courier. That’s because China’s government, led by President Xi Jinping, has instituted strict censorship policies on the country’s media members.

In China, almost without notice, any website can be taken down for any period of time if it’s tagged with the “politically incorrect” label.

This summer, the Cyberspace Administration of Wang Jianlin China (CAC) cracked down on several online news sites. Those closures came on the heels of Xi’s suspending the social media accounts of Ren Zhiqiang, an outspoken tycoon who had publicly challenged Xi’s demands for “absolute loyalty” from the Chinese press. Xi paid a visit to the headquarters of China Central Television earlier this year and demanded that Chinese media “bears the party’s surname.”

Xi’s control has grown increasingly concerning for those in China because, as the International Business Times reported earlier this year, critics worried that his “consolidated power was preventing China from navigating multiple looming problems, including an economic slowdown and an ongoing healthcare corruption investigation.”

As Geremie Barmé, one of Australia's foremost historians, was quoted earlier this year in The Economist, "Xi is the chairman of everything."

Xi has a reported relationship with Wanda chief and China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, whose Wanda Group owns AMC Theatres chain, Legacy Entertainment, is in talks to acquire Dick Clark Productions, and is behind the One Beverly Hills project at 9900 Wilshire.

A New York Times investigation last year found that a sister and brother-in-law of Xi purchased large stakes of Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties just before it went public. The shares purchased through a holding company for $28.6 million in 2009, the Times reported, had ballooned to a worth of $201 million by 2009.

Wang, for his part, denied that the financial relationship Wanda had with the relatives of China’s president had any bearing on his company’s rapid growth.

“We owe our rapid growth to our core competence of innovative business model and effective management practices,” Wang was quoted as saying, before adding that Xi’s sister Qi Qiaoqiao and her husband Deng Jiagui had sold their shares before Wanda made its initial public offering.

The Times, however, found that corporate records showed the couple had transferred ownership of the holding company used to purchase the shares in October 2013. Wang said the two sold their stake two months before the I.P.O., which would have been exactly a year later in October 2014, meaning the two still owned their shares even after, on paper at least, the ownership had been transferred.

The Times also found that Wanda’s pre-I.P.O. documents showed that the holding company still owned Wanda shares as of mid-August 2014.

Xi’s siblings aside, the Times’ report also found that relatives or business associates of three of China’s other top officials held shares in two of Wang’s companies.

Clearly, those relationships, and the financial successes that have come with it have given Wang more than a little bit of an ego boost. Just a few months ago, he took aim at Disney, warning Mickey Mouse and friends not to open their theme park in Shanghai.

“One tiger cannot compete with a pack of wolves,” Xi said. “Shanghai has one Disney, but Wanda has 15 to 20 theme parks across China.”

In his continued efforts to fight off Disney, Wang this week opened its new Wanda City theme park in the city of Hefei, the second in a planned 15 multibillion-dollar theme parks in China.

So what does it all mean for Beverly Hills?

As it has done against Disney, Wanda appears to be taking a similarly aggressive stance here in its vehement opposition to its neighboring Hilton Initiative, spearheaded by the Beverly Hilton, the City’s largest taxpayer. There doesn’t appear to be any reason the two can’t co-exist, but that hasn’t stopped Wanda from funding the “No on HH” campaign with – as reported last week in the Courier – accusations of foreign money being funneled in.

Ironically, Wanda announced Thursday that it had fired an executive implicated in the bribery of a local government official in China stemming from an incident in the mid 2000s.

Wang certainly doesn’t have control of American media like Xi does in China, but that hasn’t stopped those locally in favor of Wanda’s Beverly Hills development to make attempts at censorship on their own. One resident wrote publicly last week that the Courier should lose advertising because of its reporting on Wanda’s squabble with the Hilton.

That line of thinking sounds like it would go over a lot smoother in Xi’s People’s Republic of China than it ever would in the United States of America.

Essentially, “since we don’t like what you’re reporting, we want to hit you where it hurts the most – your wallet.”

Once again, for those following closely in China - sound familiar?

–– Matt Lopez

Cartoon for The Courier by Janet Salter

Astrology

By Holiday Mathis TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 30). It's a lucky year for saving up for big-ticket items or bucket-list experiences. Sources of income crop up as you tell more and more people about what you do. In October, you'll call a few key shots and be put in charge. Families come together in December. March and July will be the most adventurous. Scorpio and Taurus adore you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Sincerity may not be the flashiest of qualities, but it's high on your list of attractive qualities in a loved one these days. Knowing whom you can trust and feeling the truth of that person's affection will bring comfort and delight now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Recognize your own strengths -not because you need a pat on the back or because the ego boost will feel good, but because the others are going to miss out on the best part of you if you don't know what that is.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You'll be accused of generosity, thoughtfulness, amazing selflessness. None of this rings true to you. You think of your loved ones all of the time; it only follows that you would want to spoil them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Determination is a talent in and of itself, and today, it combines with another one of your talents, making you absolutely indomitable. Most will respect your top status without challenge.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). They trust you because you do as you say you will when it matters -- and when it doesn't. Big and small matters get the same level of integrity from you. None of your words are too inconsequential to honor.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). You're excellent company because you take responsibility for and pay attention to all of the signals zinging back and forth between you, your environment and everyone within it.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). You care enough to learn everything about your subject of interest, and that's just the attitude that will allow you to mesmerize the powers that be with your in-depth analysis and study.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). You're like a radio station with a 24hour request line. The stream of suggestions may be endless, but you're not obligated to honor any of these requests. Ultimately you'll play what you want to play.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You need more than the usual amount of rest now to recharge and heal the daily wear and tear that affects your body and mind. There's no need to feel guilty for sleeping in, napping or turning in early.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You feel where someone is coming from, and then stay one step ahead of the game. You're an expert at figuring out the motives of complicated characters.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). What you want will cause a rub with what someone else wants, and the power dynamic will be worked out in interesting ways. What happens will be as much about your will as it is about the politics of the situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You seldom make promises or pacts, but today there's something you might enjoy promising, and there's an equally enjoyable demand the other person would, in turn, request of you.

POLICE BLOTTER

These burglaries, grand thefts, assaults and robberies reported by BHPD. Streets are usually indicated by block numbers. Losses in brackets.

ASSAULTS 09/18 9600 Sunset Bl. 09/21 9800 Wilshire Bl. 09/20 400 N. Rexford Dr. 09/23 N. Doheny Dr./N. Santa Monica Bl. BURGLARIES 09/19 300 S. Linden Dr. ($500) 09/20 8300 Wilshire Bl. ($355) 09/20 100 S. Elm Dr. 09/21 400 N. Rodeo Dr. 09/21 500 N. Roxbury Dr. 09/25 800 N. Roxbury Dr.( $39) 09/25 200 El Camino Dr. ($320) 09/25 1800 Loma Vista Dr. ($490)

GRAND THEFTS 07/20 200 Spalding Dr. ($44,050) 09/12 9005 Burton Way 09/14 300 N. Rodeo Dr. ($2,730) 09/19 300 N. Canon Dr. ($1,004) 09/19 300 N. Canon Dr. ($1,390) 09/20 200 N. Rodeo Dr. ($12,200) 09/20 100 N. Robertson ($2,800) 09/21 300 N. Rodeo Dr. ($18,285) 09/23 9800 Wilshire Bl. ($10,010) 09/24 9700 Wilshire Bl. ($1,195) 09/25 400 S. Crescent Dr. ($1,085) ROBBERIES 09/20 N. La Cienega Bl. 09/21 N. Rodeo Dr./Brighton Wy.

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