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1,000 Ferraris Expected In Beverly Hills This Weekend

Lili Bosse celebrated her birthday at Monday’s Walk With The Mayor. 4

Ethan is a 2-year-old, 10pound toy poodle looking for a home. 4

Can you help Beverly Hills Police find this suspected retail store thief? 5

October 10, 2014

By Laura Coleman On Sunday, Beverly Hills will play host to the car show of the year when Ferrari North America celebrates 60 years in the U.S. with the finest collection of classic and racing Ferraris ever assembled. Starting at 10 a.m., along a red-carpeted Rodeo Drive, 60 of the sexiest Ferraris ever to meet the pavement will be on display. Around 1,000 other Ferraris are expected to make their way to the City’s Golden Triangle. “One of the most important luxury brands in the world is Ferrari [and] this will be the largest and most important exhibition they have ever put together in the country,” said Peterson Automotive Museum Vice Chairman Bruce Meyer, a Beverly Hills collector who helped orchestrate the exhibition in

VROOM VROOM — Beverly Hills resident Bruce Meyer (pictured above beside his 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa) helped craft the upcoming Ferrari exhibition “Race Through The Decades: 1945-2014” following a lunch with Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and Piero Ferrari, the son of Enzo Ferrari, while at the factory in Maranello, Italy. The Sunday event, which is Ferrari’s way of celebrating 60 years in North America, will feature 60 of the world’s top Ferraris on Rodeo Drive and is expected to draw 1,000 Ferraris to Beverly Hills. Pictured right, top to bottom: the ‘64 Ferrari 250 GTO, the Ferrari ‘62 Dino 245 S, the Ferrari 340 America and the ‘96 Ferrari 333 SP.

Car images courtesy of Ferrari

Beverly Elder: Janet Salter: The Three New Red Light Cameras Courier’s Cartoonist, Beverly Coming To Beverly Hills Hills’ First Lady Part 7 in a series on Beverly Hills residents who have grown with the Centennial City.

Could the Beverly Hills Historic Preservation Ordinance be revised? •Arts & Entertainment •Sports •Birthdays

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George Christy, Page 6 Immigrating From Yugoslavia, Dan Tana Was Protected By The Mother Superior And The Convent Sisters In A Brussels Nunnery. Arriving in California, He Washed Dishes In Micelli’s In Hollywood Editorial from Rabbi Pressman AND MORE

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By Laura Coleman For as long as she can remember, Janet Salter knew she wanted to live in Beverly Hills. “It [is] the most special place in the world next to heaven,” said Salter, a former first lady of Beverly Hills who moved to the City 55 years ago. “I’ve always been fascinated with where we live.” Born in the Roaring 20s just moments after her mother took the red car from Santa Monica to the downtown L.A. hospital, Salter grew up in an era where human

Janet Salter

relationships were foundational and men wouldn’t dare to show up for a date without a flower for the lady, generally a white gardenia. Indeed, her husband-to-be, Maxwell Hillary “Sonny” Salter, distinguished himself by proffering

By Victoria Talbot In a 4–1 vote with Councilmember John Mirisch voting nay, the Beverly Hills City Council approved three new intersections for red-light cameras. The move will bring the total of red-light cameras within the City limits to nine. The council voted on a proposal to award the contract to Xerox State and Local Solutions Inc. for Photo Red Light Enforcement Program services rather than the current agreement with Redflex Traffic Systems, which expires Oct.

(see ‘JANET SALTER’ page 22)

preparing a Motion to Stay. “Strategic Concepts is precluded from continuing the lawsuit until such time as it becomes reinstated,” he said. “Under applicable law, a suspended corporation may not either prosecute or defend a lawsuit in which it is a party.” Former BHUSD project manager Karen Christiansen sued the district earlier this year for relief (see ‘CHRISTIANSEN’ page 22)

The City has operated red light cameras since 1997 at the intersections of Wilshire Boulevard and Whittier Drive, Wilshire Boulevard and Beverly Drive, Olympic Boulevard and Doheny Drive, Olympic Boulevard and Roxbury Drive Olympic and Spalding Drive, and Sunset and Hillcrest Drive. Together, these cameras generate 16,800 citations a year, according to a report by BHPD Chief David Snowden. The cameras operate at a

BIG TALENT, BIG RICH —Robert Downey, Jr., who stars in The Judge, with his producer wife Susan Downey were besieged at the premiere. They are infanticipating a daughter next month.

Christiansen’s LLC Suspended, BHUSD Lawsuit To Be Delayed By Laura Coleman The case of Strategic Concepts, LLC and Karen Christiansen vs. Beverly Hills Unified School District is unlikely to be heard anytime soon following a decision by the California Franchise Tax Board to suspend the LLC for not paying its taxes. BHUSD attorney Fred Fenster, who is with Greenberg Glusker, told The Courier he is currently

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(see ‘RED LIGHT CAMERAS’ page 22)

Vanity Fair reports that Robert is the highest paid actor in the world.

Celebrity Photo/Scott Downie

Beverly Vista’s “Pretty In Pink” aims to raise cancer awareness. 5

(see ‘FERRARI’ page 12)

Joining Robert at the premeire were his co-star Robert Duvall with wife Luciana Pedraza, director David Dobkin with wife Megan, Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ken Howard, Dyan Cannon, Kristen Bell, Leighton Meester, and Sally Kellerman. For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.


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