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December 29, 2017

Beverly Hills Police Investigate Alleged Sexual Assault At Beverly Vista

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Theodore is a year-old malitpoo who was given up by his owners on Christmas Eve and is in need of a new home.

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Actress Rose Marie, best known for her role on The Dick Van Dyke Show, died Thursday at 94.

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George Christy, Page 6 After Emigrating To California From His Native Philidelphia, Stephen Tomar, In 1981, Began Painting Favorite Scenes From Beverly Hills And The East Coast For His Christmas Cards

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Beverly Hills Resident To Celebrate 106th Birthday On New Year’s Eve

By Laura Coleman This Dec. 31, longtime Beverly Hills resident Julius Rothschild will celebrate his 106th birthday, making him easily one of the oldest residents in the City, if not the country. In anticipation of this incredible milestone on the cusp of 2018, the Courier connected with Rothschild hoping to learn a secret or two about attaining a long life.

“My greatest asset is my family,” he attests. “There’s a differ-

Julius & Hilda Rothschild

ence between making a life and making a living.”

Every Friday night, he attends Shabbat dinner at the Beverly (see ‘106TH BIRTHDAY’ page 11)

Beverly Hills Year In Review: BOLD 2017 Featured Health, Business, Community

By Victoria Talbot Real estate, development, community and health have been the hallmarks of 2017 in Beverly Hills.

January saw the kick-off of a lackluster election season that heralded in two new councilmembers, Les Friedman and Robert Wunderlich, replacing Kathy Reims who had been appointed to fill the seat left by departing councilmember Willie Brien.

BOLD and Healthy Upon her inauguration, Mayor Lili Bosse relaunched her highly successful Beverly Hills Healthy City campaign, promot-

ing a healthy personal lives and business initiatives to make Beverly Hills the world’s healthiest city. Recognized at the National Conference of Mayors for her initiative, Bosse relaunched Walk with the Mayor, which draws hundreds of walkers every Monday morning, visiting businesses and points of interest throughout the City.

As part of this commitment to health, the Beverly Hills City Council passed an ordinance that bans smoking in multi-family residences. The ban begins January 1, and includes rental and (see ‘YEAR IN REVIEW’ page 9)

alleged performed these unwanted acts, the majority of which are corroborated by witnesses according to the letter authored by Mendoza, is now a freshman at Beverly Hills High School. The girl now attends high school outside the district – a decision she said was predicated on her feeling unsafe to continue on to the high school knowing that her harasser would be attending BHHS. Although the victim alleges that the harassment began in fall 2016, the BHUSD letter, which relies on an investigation conducted by attorney Kimberly Ludwin of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo, deals specifically with a complaint filed by the girl on Feb. 17. The letter states: “Specifically, a previous investigation in November 2016, conducted by Assistant Principal Alyssa Para, concluded that [the boy] grabbed [the girl’s] breasts as he hugged her from behind and that such conduct was unwelcome.”

Findings from Ludwin’s investigation included the belief that the boy “slapped” the girl on the behind, jumped on her, and licked her neck.

Prior to the investigation, the letter notes that the boy had been “previously disciplined” for his conduct against the girl and that “despite this discipline and a directive not to touch or hug [the girl], the evidence supports a finding that he continued engaging in this conduct.” (see ‘SEXUAL ASSAULT’ page 11)

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HOLIDAY CHEER – The Beverly Vista choir went to the Carmel Senior Home on Burton Way last week and performed a 45-minute program of holiday songs. It was there that the choir met Theodore Rich, a resident of the facility who happens to be a Beverly Vista alum (class of 1941). Mr. Rich was delighted to hear the choir sing. Pictured: BV Choir members: Cameron Asher, Evan Baron, Scarlett Basile, Isabella Best, Nava Bonyadi, Jayden Bulexa, Julia Coffey, Alyssa Galen, Kayla Granitz, Olivia Green, Arianna Gullins, Hannah Harooni, Amanda Hosseiny, Pablo Irazoqui, Tyler Janssen, Ashley Jourabchi, Jory Kanaan, Klarine Kanaan, Suhhyeon Kim, Eunice Kim, Rachel Kohley, Jazmin Koncke, Kaylee Kwok, Avery Lo, Hannah Mahboubi, Arielle Margolin, Edden Mizrahi, Eve Nesbit, Sofia Maurer, Leiana Micaelli, Armita Mosaeli, Kayla Naemi, Alexis Nagler, Lila O'Reilly, Karolina Paderno, Jayden Park, Maya Rendon, Isabel Sapphire, Kate Schirmer, Ariella Shaoulian, Elise Soufer, Valentina Steele, Batia Tello, Hannah Teman, Esther Wolchin, Sienna Wolfe and Eva Zacarias.

By Laura Coleman Following this month’s Courier article entitled, #MeToo In Beverly Hills: Former Student Details Sexual Harassment While Attending BHUSD School, the Beverly Hills Police confirmed the department had opened up an investigation into the incidents that prompted former Beverly Hills Unified School District Chief Human Resources Officer Yolanda Mendoza to author a letter stating that a Beverly Vista student had “engaged in sexual harassment on multiple occasions” against another student.

“The case is still under investigation,” stated a BHPD spokesperson. “We do not provide specific details about open criminal investigations, but generally speaking an investigator assigned to a criminal matter will conduct interviews of all parties and any witnesses, collect any evidence and write follow-up reports.

Once a criminal investigation is completed, a case will be presented to the District Attorney’s office for filing consideration.”

The sexual harassment victim specified in Mendoza’s letter, who was in her 8th grade year at Beverly Vista at the time the incidents occurred, told the Courier that a fellow classmate who was in the same grade as her engaged in a pattern of unwanted behavior that included touching her breasts, simulating copulation while touching her, and threatening to rape her. The boy that she

MONEY TALKS — Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg revisited during the Los Angeles premiere of All The Money In The World at Samuel Goldwyn Theater For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING DATE: January 11, 2018 TIME: 7:00 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard LOCATION: City Council Chamber, 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, January 11, 2018, will hold a public hearing beginning at 7:00 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard to consider an ordinance to amend development standards generally pertaining to basements in the single-family residential zones of the City, and development standards generally pertaining to grading and retaining walls in the Hillside Area of the City. In addition, the Planning Commission will discuss the applicability of the proposed ordinance to pipeline projects that are currently under review by the City. The proposed ordinance includes the following measures, which may be further modified by the Planning Commission: •

The definition of “floor area” in single-family residential zones is proposed to be amended to define a “basement” as an area that is located directly below the portion of a story above which has a finished floor level that is a maximum of three feet (3’) above finished grade at any cross-section cut through the building with certain exceptions for driveways, light courts, pools and water features, and stairs and access ways that might otherwise cause a basement to be exposed by more than 3’ above grade. The proposed amendments would also require a basement that extends beyond a story above to be located entirely below both finished and natural grades (Beverly Hills Municipal Code [BHMC] § 10-3-100).

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A definition of “light court” is proposed to be added to the BHMC. As proposed, a light court would be an excavated area adjacent to a building that extends more than 4’-0” from the building perimeter that is enclosed on four sides, open on the top, and allows light into a below grade level of a building. The BHMC does not currently contain a definition of light court. (BHMC § 10-3-100)

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The definitions of “finished grade” and “natural grade” are proposed to be added to the BHMC to ensure clarity of the code and consistency in its application.

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The language governing the maximum height of walls, fences, and hedges within the Hillside Area of the City is proposed to be amended to limit the total height of any wall fence or hedge to 12’-0” regardless of the side of the wall, fence, or hedge from which a measurement is being taken. An R-1 Permit is also proposed to be added to allow relief from these regulations. (BHMC § 10-3-2516)

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The language governing the construction of series of walls in the Hillside Area of the City is proposed to be amended to allow for a maximum cumulative height of 12’-0” for all walls constructed on the same property within any 50’ perpendicular section. A 10’-0” landscaped horizontal distance must also be provided between each wall. An R-1 Permit is also proposed to be added to allow relief from these regulations. (BHMC § 10-3-2516)

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The calculation method provided in the BHMC that defines the total cubic yards of landform alteration (cut/fill) allowed on a site in the Hillside Area of the City within a five year period is proposed to be amended. (BHMC 10-3-2521)

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The regulations regarding import/export of earth material within the Hillside Area of the City are proposed to be amended to clarify that cubic yardage will be based on in-ground earth volumes. The code does not currently stipulate whether the amount of earth material is in ground compacted earth material or excavation un-compacted earth material. (Proposed amendment of BHMC 10-3-2521 and BHMC 10-3-2521.1) The Planning Commission may also consider revisions to BHMC Section 10-3-2521 and 10-3-2521.1 to reduce the number of cubic yards of earth material that may be imported or exported from sites in the Hillside Area to account for the difference in volume from in-ground compacted conditions, and post-excavation un-compacted conditions.

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The definition of “height of building” is proposed to be changed to bring the method of measuring the height of buildings in the Hillside Area of the City in line with the method of determining whether or not a portion of a building can be considered a basement. (Proposed amendment of BHMC 10-3-100)

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The findings pertaining to Hillside R-1 Permits are proposed to be amended to add a provision that the total number of construction-related vehicle trips associated with a project as a whole may be considered by a reviewing authority when considering a Hillside R-1 Permit for import and export of earth material. (BHMC §10-3-2550)

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Other non-substantive changes to reorganize and reorder Article 25 of Chapter 3 of Title 10 of the BHMC, which contains development standards applicable to the Hillside Area of the City.

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Language pertaining to the applicability of the proposed ordinance to projects that are currently under review by the City of Beverly Hills (pipeline projects).

The proposed ordinance, which may be modified by the Planning Commission includes exempting the following pipeline projects from the new provisions: all pipeline projects in the Central and Trousdale Areas of the City, pipeline projects in the Hillside Area of the City that have previously received an R-1 Permit, pipeline projects in the Hillside Area of the City that are not a new single-family homes and/or are not increasing cumulative floor area on a site by more than 50%. Pipeline projects that are not exempt will be allowed to request an R-1 Permit for review of the project under the existing code provisions by the Planning Commission.

This Ordinance has been preliminarily 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. The Planning Commission will consider the adoption and implementation of the Ordinance to be exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) as there is no possibility that adoption and implementation of the Ordinance may have a significant effect on the environment because the Ordinance does not authorize construction and it would impose greater restrictions on certain development in order to protect the public health, safety and general welfare. Additionally the Planning Commission will consider if adoption and implementation of the Ordinance is eligible for a Class 8 categorical exemption pursuant to Section 15308 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations for actions taken to assure the maintenance and protection of the environment.

Any interested person may attend the meeting and be heard or present written comments to the Commission. Any comments submitted will be considered as part of the public record. 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.

If there are any questions regarding this notice, please contact Timothea Tway, Senior Planner in the Planning Division at (310)285-1122, or by email at ttway@beverlyhills.org. The draft ordinance and associated documents 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, Timothea Tway, AICP, Senior Planner In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, City Council Chamber is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with audio equipment for the hearing impaired. If you need special assistance to attend this meeting, please call the Planning Division at (310) 285-1122 or TTY (310) 285-6881. Please notify the Planning Division at least fortyeight (48) hours prior to the meeting if you require captioning service so that reasonable arrangements can be made.

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HERE! HELPING HANDS– The Beverly Hills Unified School district held its annual Feed The Hungry event Sunday at El Rodeo, which was well-attended by parents and students alike.

More than 1,000 lunches were made for the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition.

Pictured above, left: Eli Ramer and Karma Kyulo making sandwiches. Pictured above, right: Charlotte Walker and Abby Wolf with bagged lunches ready to be shipped.

Special Jan. 4 Meeting Called To Address Santa Monica Boulevard Parking

By Matt Lopez The Beverly Hills Traffic & Parking Commission has planned a special meeting to discuss strategies to implement parking in the aftermath of completion of South Santa Monica Boulevard reconstruction.

The meeting is set for Thursday, Jan. 4, at 9 a.m. in City Hall, Room 280-A. The meeting, according to a release from the City, will introduce several parking strategies to the commission, including returning to the original parking configuration, restoring parking on

the north side of the street only, or other alternatives to allow for other modes of transportation.

According to City staff, the removal of parking meters on South Santa Monica Boulevard has “proved successful in terms of traffic flow”, although many business owners have expressed interest in returning parking meters to the narrow street.

A formal agenda will be released online at www.beverlyhills.org/tpcagendas on Dec. 31.

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Golden Globes Street Closures Coming To Beverly Hills Next Week

By Matt Lopez The 75th annual Golden Globes are set to emanate, as usual, from The Beverly Hilton on Sunday, Jan. 7, and with it will come street closures in the area.

Road closures will be set up on Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards with access allowed to local residents and L.A. Country Club members.

Partial closures will be established on Carmelita, Elevado, Lomitas, Trenton and Whittier, with access being granted only to residents. All north/south streets east of Bedford Drive will remain open.

Here’s a full list of Golden Globes closures: North Santa Monica Boulevard Westbound: complete closure from Wilshire Boulevard. to Century Park East from 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 5 through 4 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8.

Eastbound: complete closure from Century Park East to Wilshire Boulevard from 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 6 through 4 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8.

Wilshire Boulevard Westbound: closure from South Santa Monica Boulevard to Beverly Glen Boulevard from 7 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 7 to 1 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8.

Eastbound: closure from Beverly Glen Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard with local access provided to residents in the 10200-10300 blocks of Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood from 7 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 7 to 1 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8.

Whittier Drive North/South: limited closure between Wilshire and Sunset boulevards with local access to residents only from 7 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 7 through 1 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8.

Alternate Routes: all north/south streets east of Bedford Drive will remain open.

Trenton Drive Northbound: complete closure at Wilshire Boulevard from 7 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 7 through 1 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8. Alternate Route: Access Trenton from Elevado Avenue.

Carmelita/Elevado/Lomitas Ave. Westbound: limited closure at Walden Drive with local access to residents only from 7 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 7 through 1 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8.

For residents without permit parking, an exemption can be obtained by contacting the City’s Parking Exemption Line at 310-285-2548 or online at www.beverlyhills.org/parkingexemptions.

LITTLE THEO – Theodore is a sweet 1-year-old maltipoo whose previous owners left him at the shelter on Christmas Eve. He weighs about eight pounds, is potty trained and good with kids. To bring home Theodore for the holidays, visit www.shelterhopepetshop.org.

DineL.A. Restaurant Week Returns To Beverly Hills In January

By Laura Coleman One delicious New Year’s resolution to consider adding to your list is trying new things. With the return of DineL.A. from Jan. 12-26, now in its 10th year, giving your palate a shot at something novel is only a restaurant reservation away.

With 37 restaurants across the City participating in the upcoming twoweek DineL.A., not to mention over 300 restaurants across Los Angeles, you’re certain to find the perfect meal to tantalize your taste buds without decimating your wallet.

Georgie, one of the best new restaurants to open in the City in the past few years, is offering a tempting three-course $25 lunch where your entree might include the “Georgie Burger” or crab tagliatelle. Héritage Fine Wines, a relative newcomer with a superb wine selection amidst Frenchstyle decor, is offering a decadent $29 three-course dinner, where an appetizer option is oysters followed by entree selections that include Beef Bourguignon or Salmon Papillote, and book-ended with a molten chocolate cake dessert.

Presented by the Los Angeles

Tourism and Convention Board, the biannual dining event is intended to highlight the diversity of culinary experiences L.A. has to offer with specially priced and curated lunch and dinner menus at participating restaurants.

Special menus for lunch all include at least two courses and range from $15 to $25. Set dinner menus with at least three courses start at $29 and edge up incrementally to $39 and $49, culminating with the introduction of a new $95+ ”DineL.A. Exclusive Series.”

Spago and Jean-Georges Beverly Hills are both participating in the new series. At Jean-Georges, a six-course $130 dinner includes black bass, lamb chops and Maine diver scallops. Spago, which continues to be a revered member of the Beverly Hills cuisine landscape after all these years, offers a $125 “California Tasting Menu” with a mouth-watering menu that incudes slow-braised pork belly, Wagyu beef, black cod, and handmade agnolotti (with shaved French black truffles available for an extra $20).

Want to see the full slate of offerings? Visit: https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/dinela-los-angeles-restaurant-week.

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Beverly Hills Library Earns Prestigious Five-Star Ranking For Second Straight Year

I DO – What’s a good honeymoon without a little reading material for some downtime? Beverly Hills residents Jim and Kristen Garrett were married earlier this month in Boston and snapped a photo in front of the Boston Harbor with their copy of the Courier. To join the Garrett’s in the Carry the Courier Club, snap a photo of yourself on your next trip with a copy of the Courier and email it to mlopez@bhcourier.com.

Our heartfelt congratulations to the newlyweds!

Gary Canter, Co-Owner Of Popular Canter’s Deli On Fairfax Avenue, Dead At 58

By Matt Lopez Restaurateur Gary Canter, co-owner of Canter’s Deli, which was founded by his grandfather Ben Canter, died Tuesday night at his Los Angeles home at the age of 58.

The news was announced by a statement on Canter’s personal Facebook page, stating Canter died from an “apparent massive heart attack.”

Funeral services are being planned for Sunday at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, according to Canter's ex-wife.

According to Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter, Canter was found unresponsive at 7:29 p.m. at a residence in the 400 block of South Highland Avenue.

A post appeared on Canter’s Deli’s Facebook page that read: “Last night, Gary Canter passed away. We are deeply saddened and shocked by his sudden death. Gary lit up whatever room he walked into with his charisma, generosity and kindness. His love

for his family, friends, and Canter’s deli was profound.

‘Buddy Buddy’ will be very missed by all.”

The 24-hour deli at 419 N. Fairfax Ave. has long been a popular Hollywood hangout.

Ben Canter and two brothers opened the first Canter’s in

Boyle Heights in 1931.

According to the company’s website, the restaurant was moved to Fairfax in the 1950s, with help from Ben Canter’s daughter Selma Udko and her then-husband, Harold Price.

Over the years, noted regulars have included legendary Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda and comedian Mel Brooks. Guns N’ Roses members frequently hung out at Canter’s during their heyday in the 1980s. President Barack Obama stopped by for a visit in 2014.

Mental Health App ‘Be A Looper’ Launches As Tool To Keep Friends, Family In The Loop

By Laura Coleman While the holiday season is touted as a time of good cheer for all, in reality the holidays can prove to be a tough time for many people. Indeed, mental health is a global epidemic all year long, with the National Alliance on Mental Illness estimating that one in five adults in the U.S.—43.8 million—experiences mental illness in a given year.

A new app called “Be A Looper” is looking to help people feel a little better, through the holidays and beyond, by offering a free daily mental health check-in tool to keep users in the loop with up to five people anywhere in the world.

For Beverly Hills resident Nabil Barakat, CEO of Warmar International and a Be A Looper boardmember for the past three years, the app offers him a way of connecting to his six children who are spread out throughout the globe.

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“We are in touch every day,” Barakat said, as a result of the app, which allows users to rate how they’re feeling on a daily basis. “I feel good every day when I know my kids are okay.”

Founded by Australian Amanda Hart, the app officially launched last month. In its first week, the application was downloaded in over 130 cities, across 30 countries. A business version of Be A Looper to be used directly with clinicians or care providers is slated for release in the spring.

“We wanted to create the equivalent of Tinder or Candy Crush for mental health,” described Hart. “It was pivotal we used gamification and game design to create an addictive technology people would use daily. We needed a private yet interactive place where people could express themselves authentically, multiple times a day if they require,

without judgment – but with a ring of responsibility around them from their peers – who also check-in daily.”

Barakat said he believed that the app would really serve to bring families together.

Over the years, he said his work has brought him in contact with multitudes of men and women in the U.S. Military and he has observed firsthand how lonely people become when separated from family.

“Traveling throughout the world, you come across a lot of people in need of social help or programs, they need to have the connection that most of the time they don’t,” Barakat observed. “They want to talk to somebody, they want to feel that somebody is in contact with them, that they’re not alone. I think this app can provide and satisfy some of these needs.”

For more information, visit: https://www.bealooper.com.

By Matt Lopez For a second year in a row, the Beverly Hills Public Library (BHPL) has been awarded five stars by the prestigious Library Journal, making it one of the top libraries in the nation.

The November issue of Library Journal ranked libraries based on per capita statistics, including circulation, library visits, total program attendance, public internet terminal use and electronic circulation.

Beverly Hills is one of only two libraries in California to receive a Five Star Rating.

Only 13 libraries in the state received a starred ranking.

“The Five-Star rating is based on library usage – questions answered, items check-

out, program participation, website traffic – and our usage at Beverly Hills Public Library is comparable to libraries serving a much larger population (in the hundreds of thousands), said Marilyn Taniguchi, the City’s Library Services manager.

Taniguchi added: “The City of Beverly Hills is thrilled to receive this five-star rating for a second time in a row, which honors our treasured Library for being a center of information, recreation, learning and fun for all ages. The ability to achieve the highest rating recognizes the outstanding resources and service provided to our local community.”

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his year’s holiday greetings is a bow “to the original Beverly Hills City Hall, which I incorporated with the new addition and painted the sky magenta, because Beverly Hills rocks, and I wanted that feeling in the card that my design partner and life partner, Stuart Lampert and I mail to 650 friends and business associates.”

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CHLA Tech Team Ranked Among Best Hospital IT Departments In The Nation H E A LT H & W E L L N E S S

Whether repairing a doctor’s iPhone or setting up a secure networking infrastructure in multiple locations across the nation’s second largest metropolitan area, the Information Services (IS) Department at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) meets the task.

It’s the reason CHLA’s tech team is ranked this year as one of the nation’s Best Hospital IT Departments by Healthcare IT News. The awards, published annually by the magazine, are an employee-driven benchmark recognizing how well hospitals and health systems integrate and innovate technology to support physicians and hospital staff.

“This award affirms our goal that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles be a leader in the health-care technology sphere, and the best part is knowing that programs we implement will dramatically impact our patients, their families, and our amazing caregivers,” says Steve Garske, PhD, CHLA senior VP/chief information officer.

In particular, Healthcare IT News highlighted a few of CHLA's implementation goals for the year ahead: • A first-in-the-nation deployment of the Cerner

The Children's Hospital Los Angeles Information Services Team.

Oncology platform, integrating the department's health records and allowing doctors to electronically write complex pharmacy orders for chemotherapy.

• A goal to attain Stage 7, the highest level on the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management System Society) Electronic Medical Records Adoption model, the industry gold standard for how healthcare institutions adopt and utilize digital record-keeping tools.

• Rolling out a 24/7 internal mobile app that facilitates staff communication with the IS team and between hospital divisions.

Also recognized—the IS

team’s work integrating CHLA’s technology infrastructure with the new CHLA Health Network, an association connecting more than 100 community pediatricians and pediatric specialists throughout L.A. County with the hospital’s care delivery model for patients. Part of that implementation includes projects to improve digital health models and telemedicine, even one day creating a “virtual channel” for children and families to engage doctors even if they’re not physically able to come to CHLA’s main campus or outpatient centers.

“We have laid a strategy for the next three to five years:

technology, process, people, and how it all works together,” said Dave Abbott, CHLA’s VP of IT operations. “Whether we’re expanding the CHLA Health Network for the L.A. area and beyond, or developing better inpatient entertainment systems right here at the hospital so kids have richer content to access, our team is really moving the needle for CHLA.” This year, employees from 91 different hospitals filled out anonymous Best Hospital IT Department surveys, which measured workplace satisfaction on factors like day-to-day experience, workplace culture, senior management and leadership, professional development

opportunities, pay and benefits and more, according to Healthcare IT News, who says more than 3,300 hospital IT employees took part.

From these results, Healthcare IT News and research partner HIMSS Analytics awarded Best Hospital IT Department status to the top five hospitals in each of four size categories based on the size of the IT team. CHLA was awarded ranking in the “super" category (200+ employees).

To see the list of winners, visit http://www.healthcareitnews.com/projects/best-hospitals-best-hospital-it-departments-work-2017.

UCLA Researchers Uncover Cell Changes Behind Therapy-Resistant Cancers, Call For New Clinical Approaches A UCLA study in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows that skin-cancer cells could be chemically changed from within to reflexively alter gene expression patterns and intracellular pathDr. Antoni Ribas ways, which allows the cells to become resistant to targeted drugs.

UCLA’s Drs. Wei Wei and Antoni Ribas and Caltech’s Dr. James Heath are co-senior authors.

The findings, published online in Proceedings Of the National Academy Of Sciences, provide a more accurate roadmap of how cellular resistance can develop non-genetically, and demonstrate that cancer cells can be chemically prodded to prevent resistance to therapy at its earliest stages. The results also suggest new avenues for effectively treating melanoma and other cancers by preventing these intracellular changes.

Over the past several years, targeted therapies against cancer have been developed as an improvement over chemotherapy. Targeted therapies, at least in theory, can narrowly impact cancerous cells without harming healthy ones. However, in many cancers including melanoma, cells have shown their ability to develop resistance against newer targeted inhibitors.

The UCLA-Caltech team conducted genome-wide expression and flow

cytometry analyses on human melanoma cells that had a mutated form of BRAF, a target for drug inhibitors. They employed mathematical modeling of the dynamic process through which the melanoma cells developed resistance to tarDr. Wei Wei geted agents. They also conducted functional proteomics analysis of single melanoma cells, using a microfluidic single-cell barcode “lab on a chip” to determine how cellular responses varied to BRAF inhibitors.

Scientists have previously hypothesized that the source of developed resistance to targeted inhibitors resided in a cell’s ability to develop new genetic mutations that confer this resistance. This study sheds new light on that assumption, showing that cells can tolerate (resist) drug treatment through a nongenetic cell state transition by changing their gene expression patterns and signaling pathways.

The results further demonstrate that by blocking the pathways that allow cancer cells to resist molecular targeted therapies, the cells could be held in a drugsensitive state so therapy can more effectively inhibit growth. Through identifying and tracing the exact inhibitors that affect the steps in these pathways, new combinations of therapies could be developed that inhibit cancer cell transitions and improve the durability of therapies that target BRAF.

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Golden Globes Name Halle Berry, Neil Patrick Harris Presenters Halle Berry, Carol Burnett, Gal Gadot and Neil Patrick Harris were among the celebrities announced Thursday as presenters for next month's Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced a roster of presenters for the Jan. 7 show at the Beverly Hilton, with many of them past Globe winners or nominees.

Also on the list of presenters announced Thursday were Kelly Clarkson, Darren Criss, Penelope Cruz, Hugh Grant, Greta Gerwig, Chris Hemsworth, Christina Hendricks, Isabelle Huppert, Shirley MacLaine, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ricky Martin, Amy Poehler, Edgar Ramirez, Seth Rogen, J.K. Simmons, Sharon Stone, Aaron TaylorJohnson, Alicia Vikander, Kerry Washington and Emma Watson.

Seth Meyers will host the Golden Globes ceremony, which will include the presentation of the HFPA's Cecil B. DeMille Award to Oprah Winfrey.

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owner-occupied homes.

Business in the City has been good. Mayor Bosse’s BOLD (an acronym for Beverly Hills Open Later Days) boosted retail sales during August and the holidays. BOLD was part of the mayor’s Beverly Hills Healthy City initiative, promoting a healthy business climate by extending weekend retail hours throughout the Triangle.

With BOLD, Bosse brought together the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, Conference and Visitors Bureau, the Rodeo Drive Committee and the City to host social media events, music and food trucks every weekend in an unprecedented cooperative effort, bringing thousands of tourists and shoppers to retail shops throughout the summer and holiday season.

Real Estate and Development While business in the City has been booming, 2017 has also been a banner year in homebuilding and redevelopment. Beverly Hills continues to be one of the most desirable locations for both business and residency.

Real estate values continued to rise in 2017, with Beverly Hills 90210 ranking as the fifth highest zip code in the nation for median sale prices at $3.85 million, following

Atherton at #1 (94027- $4.95 million), New York (10013$4.1 million), Miami Beach (33109-$4.053 million) and New York (10007-$3.989 million), according to Property Shark.

The summer of 2017 was dominated by the news of a new Rent Stabilization Ordinance. The City hired Dispute Resolution and Pepperdine University Assistant Professor of Law Sukhsimranjit Singh to facilitate discussion between landlords and tenants, which brought genuine civility to the discussion, if not resolution. The ordinance will be considered again in 2018 after the City sorts through information received through the rental registry.

The City will have new condominiums at 9200 Wilshire Boulevard, a project that was approved in 2007.

New Pacific brought the venture back to the Planning Commission in October for updating, and the mixed-use project was approved.

Two debated projects in the pipeline include a proposed super-luxury condominium development on South Santa Monica Boulevard that would require a controversial overlay zone for residential in a business zone at the location of the old Friar’s Club and a fivestory redevelopment of 100 Crescent Drive for a new media center that would cast homes

on Rexford Drive into shadow.

Residents who oppose these projects and others have united to aid one another to protect their neighborhoods across the City.

In 2016, the Hillside Ordinance made the news. In 2017, the Basement Ordinance sought to navigate the increasingly oversized basements that dominate new construction in the hillsides, and that now permeate the flats, and will be reconsidered in 2018 by the City Council.

Food and Entertainment In June, the fabled Waldorf Astoria was completed, bringing Michelin-star chef Jean George to Beverly Hills for the hottest dining ticket in town.

The year began with Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin announcing plans to purchase a major Hollywood studio, following a bid to purchase Dick Clark Productions.

The developer of One Beverly Hills, however, ended the year with thudding defeat after the Chinese government reigned in foreign debt and investment.

The Dick Clark deal fell through and a groundbreaking for the signature condo-hotel project has fizzled. The once bright future of One Beverly Hills is unknown.

As the year ends, the City bids farewell to Bouchon, which closed its doors at the end of 2017 after failing to make a profit in the City-

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Odds And Ends As the year closes, Public Works made the news, as the City has approved water rate increases that will continue to rise throughout the next five years to accommodate an ambitious water enterprise plan, construction and rising costs.

In January, Public Works began the Santa Monica Boulevard reconstruction project, widening the street, repairing aging utilities and drainage systems and, following heated discussions, adding bike lanes that will connect the streets from West Hollywood to Los Angeles.

At the same time, Metro began utility relocation for the Rodeo Drive segment of the Purple Line extension.

Through the efforts of the Traffic and Parking Commission and the Beverly Hills Police Department, traffic kept flowing, despite the construction.

To accommodate an alarming increase in crime following state legislation to reduce the prison population, Beverly Hills Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli announced the formation of a permanent Crime Impact Team. In the Beverly Hills Fire Department, Chief Ralph Mundell retired and Chief Greg Barton took over.

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Union Bank Of California Building On Wilshire Boulevard Sold For $130M

‘Let’s Buy a Mountain’ Group Purchases 17-Acre Site for Christmas Surprise

By Matt Lopez Real estate investment firm CIM Group is poised to buy the Union Bank of California building in Beverly Hills, The Real Deal reported earlier this week.

The deal for the six-story, 97,000square-foot building at 9460 Wilshire Blvd. is expected to close in Jan. 2018.

The Real Deal reports the final sale price at roughly $130 million – $1,340 per square foot.

The building, which has a little more than 25,000 square feet of retail space at its base, has been owned by Beverly Union Company since 1978.

Current tenants of the building, according to CoStar Group Data, include Union Bank, Universal

By Victoria Talbot Christmas came to Laurel Canyon a day late, but no one is complaining.

Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife and the Laurel Canyon Association announced Dec. 26 that they have completed the purchase of a 17-acre ridgetop for open space and wildlife habitat at the top of Laurel Canyon in an historic effort by residents to take open space out of the hands of developers.

The organization formed for the purpose, “Let’s Buy A Mountain,” raised $1.6 million to purchase the land with an agreement between the Laurel Canyon Association and CLAW with the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority and the Laurel Canyon Land Trust to purchase and manage the property.

Laurel Canyon Association President Jamie T. Hall launched the ambitious project to a skeptical public, but the project nonetheless drew the support of government agencies, residents and community organizations, philanthropists and some former Laurel Canyon residents to raise the funds for the purchase.

Former resident Don Henley of the Eagles made a $100,000 donation in memory of late bandmate Glenn Frey, also a former resident of Laurel Canyon.

“I greatly appreciate your efforts to preserve the rare undeveloped lands that remain in the Laurel Canyon area,” said Henley. “These resources are precious,

Properties and 3 Arts Entertainment.

The Union Bank building is just down the street from the 146,000 square foot building at 9401 Wilshire Blvd. that Douglas Emmett paid $144 million to acquire last week.

Beverly Hills Listed As Los Angeles’ Second Most Expensive Place To Live

By Matt Lopez To the surprise of probably very few, Beverly Hills ranks as one of Los Angeles’ most expensive neighborhoods of 2017.

Malibu and Beverly Hills rank No. 1 and 2, according to a PropertyShark report which compiled the 50 neighborhoods in Los Angeles with the highest median sales prices in 2017.

Beverly Hills’ Trousdale Estates neighborhood came in second, with a

median sales price of $9.3 million – 18 percent higher than last year. Trousdale trailed only Malibu’s The Colony neighborhood, with a median sale price of $13 million.

Malibu’s Carbon Mesa came in at third place, while Beverly Hills Gateway finished in fourth place.

Fifth was Malibu Cove Colony, followed by Beverly Hills Flats, Malibu Road, Serra Retreat, Broad Beach and Point Dume rounding out the top 10.

both in terms of wildlife habitat and in terms of the human history that resides there,” he said.

Other contributions include $300,000 from the David Schwartz Foundation and a $100,000 Proposition A grant from L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.

The effort also received support from LA City Councilmembers David Ryu (CD4) and Paul Koretz (CD5).

“The long-term presence of larger mammal species in the mountain range between Laurel Canyon and Griffith Park depends on permanent protection of this 17-acre property,” said Paul Edelman, chief of Natural Resources and Planning for the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.

The Conservancy granted $1 million in Proposition 1 funding for the acquisition. “The property’s standalone ecological resources are significant and equally important, it forms the core of a 55acre habitat hub that provides for wildlife movement between over half a dozen surrounding habitat areas.”

In October, a wildlife camera captured a mountain lion on the property, one among the many species which inhabit the area including deer, coyote, bobcats, owls and red-tailed hawks.

“More open space protection is to come,” said Hall, in a promise for 2018 and the future of the human and wildlife residents of Los Angeles.

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Jewish Community Foundation Awards Capital Grants To Three Institutions

By John L. Seitz The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles has awarded a total of $420,000 in grants for capital projects to three local organizations serving older adults and seniors.

Of the grants, Jewish Community Foundation President/CEO Marvin I. Schotland stated: “Our capital grants support construction and renovation projects vital to programs and services which strengthen the fabric of our varied and multi-faceted Jewish community. Every day, approximately 5,000 people become senior citizens so it is highly fitting our grants are focused on capital projects that will serve our older population.”

Jewish Family Service of L.A. has received a $170,000 grant for its Lois and Richard Gunther Center in the Fairfax district aimed at turning the campus into a flagship service center to provides fully integrated health, mental health, and human services for older adults under one roof.

The Jewish Federation of Greater L.A. was awarded $150,000 for the transformation of the Israel Levin Center on the Venice boardwalk into a state-ofthe-art building, offering an expanded program calendar and increased accessibility to improve functionality, and increase the number of seniors served.

The L.A. Jewish Home was granted $100,000 to upgrade the dining facilities at its Pepp Center, augmenting a larger project of the Leonard and Annette Shapiro Family Foundation, whose $1 million grant enabled the building of a cyber café and outdoor garden space adjacent to the dining facilities.

Established in 1954 and ranking among the 10 larger local foundations, the Jewish Community Foundation of L.A. manages charitable assets of approximately $1.1 billion entrusted to it by more than 1,300 families.

For more information on the Jewish Community Foundation (JCF), visit www.jewishfoundationla.org.

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Hills home of his daughter, Muriel, and son-in-law, Jeffrey Waterman, where he offers a special blessing. And while not all of his six grandkids and 11 greatgrandkids (with two more on the way) are in attendance, the meal is a weekly reminder of how much love pulses through the family.

Beyond the Friday night tradition, Rothschild still remains active; he particularly enjoys attending “Beyond the Headlines,” a UCLA Extension course he has been going to for the past 20 years.

“I feel very strongly about keeping busy,” he said. He also said he feels particularly driven to have a purpose in life and be an asset to the community.

Originally born in 1911 in Mainz, Germany, Rothschild grew up in a world rife with anti-semitism and a nation on the brink of collapse.

In 1932, shortly after he lost his job, his parents lost their business, and the family was forced to move–all because they were Jewish–Rothschild tried to leave for America; however, he was refused a visa for almost three years “The flip side was...I found the love of my life,” he recalled of meeting his beloved Hilda in a hotel at the banks of the River Rhine. “It’s a great love story.”

Shortly after his wife Hilda passed away almost a decade ago, Rothschild discovered some 400 letters the two had exchanged before they married.

In their later years, every evening, the two would play backgammon together and the table still sits unused and set for play in Rothschild’s home.

After moving first to Cleveland,

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The report further states, “that on at least three occasions, [the boy] approached [the girl] in the hallways between class periods and touched and/or hugged her in an unwelcome and inappropriate manner.”

In fact, according to Mendoza’s letter, there were teachers who bore witness to this happening.

Further, the report states that one teacher said that the boy had “a tendency to hug or touch people even when they recoil or are obviously uncomfortable and/or receptive.”

By the time the mother of the girl received Mendoza’s letter, dated May 8, 2017, just before the school year ended, she had already made the decision to enroll her daughter in a new school.

The mother told the Courier that she had spoken directly with Beverly Vista Principal Christian Fuhrer, who assured her that the boy’s unwelcome behavior would stop.

However, the girl told the Courier that nothing seemed to change following her mother’s conversation with the principal and that she began to believe with certainty that it would never get better.

Furthermore, she said she had completely lost her trust in people of authority.

The girl’s belief that school

Ohio and then eventually to California, the newlywed Rothschilds had two daughters, Judy and Muriel, both of whom attended Hawthorne and Beverly Hills High School.

After daughter Judy died at 33 from a tumor, Rothschild retired from manufacturing to stay at home with his wife.

He also started volunteering more.

In addition to volunteering for Jewish Family Services, the City of Hope’s Merchant Club and AYSO, Rothschild also spent 14 years teaching advanced English to international students at UCLA. “Volunteering was the most satisfying part of life,” he said. “It’s a wonderful experience; it’s kept me young.”

Rothschild notes that he has outlived most of his friends. His father died at 75 and grandfather at 76, so he’s not entirely sure what it is about him that continues to make him tick.

“When it comes to diet, I don’t eat vegetables, I don’t eat fruit,” he admits.

“I eat meat and potatoes.”

He also admits he eats too many sweets, much to the distress of his doctor, who advises that he cut down on ice cream and cookies.

So, just what is the secret to life?

“My quick answer would be moderation in everything,” Rothschild replied. “But I have to say, you are put in this world to make an impact on your fellow man.

“It’s not enough to just live for yourself and be selfish. You have to have an impact on your fellow man to make the world a better world. That’s what liberalism is all about. Like Hillel (the famed Jewish religious leader who lived over 2,000 years ago) said, ‘If I am only for myself, who am I?’”

administrators failed to protect her rights as a student to be safely educated appears to have some legal merit; specifically, the school district appears to have violated California law by failing to make a police report detailing the instances of abuse or to contact Child Protective Services.

According to California Penal Code Section 11165.7, the overwhelming majority of school district employees–including teachers and administrators–are mandated reporters, which means that when they observe any form of child abuse, they must make a report, according to the code, “immediately or as soon as is practicably possible.”

BHUSD Board Policy 5141.4 further supports California law, specifically stating: “The district has a responsibility to protect students by facilitating the prompt reporting of known and suspected incidents of child abuse....Employees who are mandated reporters, as defined by law and administrative regulation, are obligated to report all known or suspected incidents of child abuse and neglect.”

A BHPD spokesperson confirmed that the behavior detailed by the victim is considered sexual assault.

Further, the spokesperson said, sexual abuse does equal child abuse.

Although the law is a bit murky when it comes to defining just what constitutes child abuse, multiple sources told the Courier

that it appears that Principal Fuhrer and AP Para shirked their mandated reporter responsibilities. Further, sources say that the school district appears to have neglected to direct counsel to determine whether or not the boy’s actions needed to be reported beyond BHUSD. Every year new and returning district employees are required to go through training that makes them aware of their responsibilities as mandated reporters.

“Any claim or allegation that’s received by me or anyone at the district office is taken very seriously and will be investigated,” Superintendent Michael Bregy told the Courier.

While Beverly Vista administrators have known about the boy’s behavior at least since fall 2016, it appears that the Board of Education is only just now learning of what transpired at the school over a year ago.

Board of Education President Lisa Korbatov said she was very concerned about what had happened.

“I’ve asked the superintendent to please reach out to the fellow board members to find a time where we can all get together after the new year regarding this delicate matter that deals with personnel and student privacy,” she said. “I‘m waiting to hear back when the board can get together with our legal counsel to discuss next steps and learn the facts.”

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Rose Marie, Beloved Sally Rogers On The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dead At 94 Actress Rose Marie, who had one of the longest- running careers in show business, highlighted by her work on The Dick Van Dyke Show, died yesterday at age 94.

According to her official website, Rose Marie died at 2 p.m. in Van Nuys.

Born Rose Marie Mazetta, she began her show-business career at age 3, performing in Atlantic City and touring the country as Baby Rose Marie.

She went on to a career on radio, was given her own show and sang for three presidents.

She moved to the big screen in 1929 with the short Baby Rose Marie The Child Wonder, and later appeared in films including International House, Top Banana and The Big Beat.

In 1946, she married Bobby Guy, the lead trumpeter on The Tonight Show, bringing her to California. Around the same time, she was hired by mobster Bugsy Siegel to headline shows at his then-new Flamingo hotelcasino in Las Vegas.

She went on to make guest appearances on television shows such as Gunsmoke,The Red Skelton Hour and The Bob Cummings Show before landing the role of comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran from 1961-66,

Rose Marie

propelling her to stardom.

She continued to work regularly for decades after the show’s run ended and continued working into the 2000s, most recently lending her voice to The Garfield Show.

Bobby Guy died in 1964.

Rose Marie said in a recent interview that he enjoyed the trademark bow she wore in her hair beginning as a child, and she continued to wear one every day in his memory. One of her black bows is displayed at the Smithsonian museum.

She is survived by her daughter, Georgiana Marie, and son-in-law Steven Rodrigues.

Funeral services were pending.

–– City News Service

Saffron Burrows To Star In The Wallis’ Premiere, Jackie Unveiled combed over Saffron Burrows recently released (Mozart In The Jungle) CIA and Secret Serwill star in The Wallis vice records, read production of Jackie dozens of biograUnveiled, Feb. 22phies, and watched March 11 in the countless hours of Lovelace Studio documentaries. But, Theater, 9390 N. Santa at the end of the day Monica Blvd. when it comes to Tom Dugan’s Jackie Kennedy (Wiesenthal at the Onassis’s personal Lovelace) one-woman life—who knows show looks behind the what happened in façade of America’s the privacy of her most private public fig- Saffron Burrows own home? Jackie Unveiled is ure.

Making its world premiere, grounded in fact but it’s the the drama is set against two of playwright’s job to connect the Kennedy’s most seminal life dots. So I offer up this character moments, examining the per- of Jackie not as a long list of sonal struggles of a woman who facts—but rather as a question.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis seemed to have it all.

The production is made made it all look so easy, but possible by support from David what if it wasn’t?”

“Tom Dugan’s writing is C. Bohnett, chairs of The Wallis both intimate and challenging,” board’s executive committee “Growing up in the ‘60s I said Saffron Burrows. “I am had an affinity for that pretty excited to play this extraordilady my mom admired so much nary woman, at this moment in on the TV who had so many time,” said Burrows.

Single tickets for the show, troubles, but still managed to appear strong,” said Dugan. directed by Jenny Sullivan are “My five years of research for $60-$75.

For more information, visit this play were extensive. I interviewed several of Jackie’s TheWallis.org/Jackie or call 310friends and acquaintances, 746-4000.

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Joan Benedict Steiger Recounts Lengthy Acting Career, Loves In New Brooklyn Baby

“I’m still learning after all these years,” says Joan Benedict Steiger. Even after a career spanning stage, screen, and television—and romances with three devoted men—the veteran actress still finds each role a new challenge.

She recently relocated to Beverly Hills from Malibu, where her portrait by Johanna Spinks is one of 69 in “The Face of Malibu” exhibit on display in the city hall through Jan. 12.

Benedict Steiger immerses herself in every acting opportunity, including an appearance on Fox’s Dollhouse, a starring role in the feature Dead Border, and upcoming roles in the films Opus To An Angel and the action/comedy Thou Shalt Not Steal. She was awarded the Eternity Award for “lifetime achievements that have made a lasting contribution to the world of theatre” recently at the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival.

In her recently released memoir, written with David Minasian, Brooklyn Baby, A Hollywood Insider’s Amazing Journey Through Love, Loss, And Laughter, Benedict Steiger chronicles some of the highs and lows of her life.

A dancer from childhood, Benedict Steiger forged a career in show business as an actress in the early days of TV, where she made appearances on shows like the original Candid Camera and The Steve Allen Show.

Dozens of TV and film appearances later, including stints on General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, she’s still dedicated to all facets of acting, having

Joan Benedict Steiger

appeared in numerous stage productions, from the classics to modern comedies to her solo shows (Leona, about Leona Helmsley, and her autobiographical The Loves Of My Life).

Her personal life has been equally rewarding. Her first husband was stage veteran John Myhers, with whom Benedict Steiger spent 30 years before his passing.

Richard Rodgers saw Myhers doing stand up and singing on The Jack Paar Program, where Joan Benedict was a regular. The next day the actor got a call from William Morris saying the famed composer wanted to see him. The result was Myhers being cast as Captain Von Trapp in the national tour of The Sound Of Music.

Benedict and Myhers were wed in Chicago where the tour, with Florence Henderson as Maria sold out for a year.

Then, she was reunited with Academy Award-winning actor Rod Steiger; the two had known each other when she was a star-

struck ingénue and Steiger a leading young performer. Now, decades later, their romance was rekindled, and the couple married, working together and supporting each other until the actor’s death in 2002.

“He was a pussy cat,” says Benedict Steiger. “People think he was a tough guy because of the roles he played. I remember people would come up to the gate or ring the bell (when the pair lived in Malibu) and he would let them in–especially if they had a script.

“People also don’t know that he wrote fantastic poetry,” says Benedict Steiger. “And I have all of it.”

Then Joan fell in love with veteran TV actor Jeremy Slate, and the two spent several years together before his death.

“They all passed away from different forms of cancer, so it’s bittersweet,” says Benedict Steiger. “But they were three of the greatest guys in the world.”

The book is available at http://amzn.to/1WffmQv.

CELEBRATING AND SUPPORTING VETS—The Thalians and the Thalians Presidents Club held their “Gatsby Holiday Party” at the Bel-Air Country Club to celebrate the holidays and raise funds for UCLA’s Operation Mend. Barbara Cohen-Wolfe, event chair, and her husband Larry Wolfe spearheaded the event with dining and dancing to Jimmy Carnelli and his band. Enjoying the event, were back (from left): Board member Andrew McDonald, Board Chair Dr. Irwin Lehrhoff, Dr. Tom Strouse of Operation Mend, director of UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital; Board member Frank Sheftel and Larry Wolfe. In front are: Board members Brian Theobald and Stephanie J. Hibler, Ruta Lee, chair emeritus; Barbara Cohen-Wolfe, retired Army SPC Joseph Paulk and President Kira Lorsch. The Thalians have supported mental-health programs for 62 years, currently working with wounded war veterans through Operation Mend.

Photo by Bill Devlin

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PICTIONARY FOR A CAUSE—Pictionary inventor Rob Angel helped raise money for the CureDuchenne Foundation this week at St. Supéry Rodeo Drive where attendees got to enjoy a wine flight, cheese and a game of Pictionary with its inventor. Said Angel: “I think the beauty of the game is that anyone can play because it’s not knowledge-based. A 10-year-old can play with a 70-year-old. It’s a great equalizer.” Pictured (from left): artist Picasso Milano, Rob Angel and St. Supéry Estate Vineyards Marketing & Experience Manager Veronica M. Navarretta.

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL—If you’re looking for a magical over-the-top experience to do in the new year, Cirque du Soleil’s recently opened production Luzia is performing under the Big Top next to Dodger Stadium through Feb. 11. Luzia marks Cirque du Soleil’s 38th original production since 1984. The new production is intended to feel like a waking dream in an imaginary Mexico where light (“luz” in Spanish) quenches the spirit and rain (“lluvia” in Spanish) soothes the soul. Through a series of grand visual surprises and breathtaking acrobatic performances, Luzia invites audiences to escape on a surrealistic journey through a sumptuous and vibrant world suspended somewhere between dreams and reality. Pictured above: “A Walking Dream of Mexico” where the morning sun rises and a woman and a metallic horse run together to awake this imaginary Mexico where the journey of the traveler will take place.

The running woman spreads her “butterfly wings” in a tribute to the annual migratory journey of the monarch butterfly from southern Canada to central Mexico. Costumes

by Matt Beard.

Photo by Giovanna Buzzi / 2016 Cirque du Soleil

LADYLIKE AT UCLA—The Ladylike Foundation began its sixth annual Ladylike Day at UCLA with a celebrity female panel that included designer/philanthropist Tina Knowles-Lawson, philanthropist/businesswoman Cookie Johnson and actress/singer Holly Robinson Peete. The annual program features classes geared for young ladies between the ages of 12-17 from Los Angeles’ under-served neighborhoods. Throughout the day, the young ladies attended group sessions led by top professionals in their field in the areas of finance, fashion, health and fitness, etiquette, and preparing for their future. Pictured (from left): Tina Knowles-Lawson, Marilyn Booker, Cookie Johnson, Magic Johnson, Leah Pump, and Holly Robinson Peete.

ADL GALA–The Anti-Defamation League’s Annual Gala at The Beverly Hilton raised nearly $1.1 million to support its efforts in combating bigotry. Joining the festivities were (from left): ADL’s Regional Director Amanda Susskind and Regional Board Chair Ivy Kagan Bierman; cohonoree Leah Weil of Sony Pictures; Bet Tzedek president/CEO Jessie Kornberg, former Sen. Barbara Boxer; and honorees Sarah and Joe Kiani of Masimo Corp. Stephen C. Jensen, Anthony J. Vinciquerra, and Karen and Alan Weil served as honorary co-chairs of the gala which was emceed by comedian Wayne Federman. Oscar-winning songwriter Alan Bergman treated the audience to a special musical performance.

Photo by Michael Kovac

JEWELS— Robert Arnold-Kraft, VP and General Manager of Saks Fifth Avenue Beverly Hills, and Gaia Repossi attend the exclusive Saks Fifth Avenue launch of Repossi in Beverly Hills. Founded in 1920 in Turin, Italy, the House of Repossi continues to build on a creative family legacy of talented artists.

Since launching the Berbère Collection in 2010, Gaia Repossi has earned acclaim for her influential presence within the fashion industry and the high jewelry world. Blending and pushing the boundaries between architecture and traditional high jewelry techniques, Gaia’s designs are characterized by modern, minimalist motifs and the innovative use of complex patterns.

Photo by Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Saks Fifth Ave WINTER BLISS—Beat winter fatigue away with Le Salon & SoSpa’s Winter Bliss facial.

Nestled away in luxurious French décor, this one-stop shop for beauty & wellness treatments offers a much-needed respite from the hustle and bustle outside. The Winter Bliss facial focuses on combatting the drying effects of cold temperatures, indoor heat and holiday over indulgences. Skin is re-hydrated and re-vitalized while you’re treated to the scents of the season, all for $165.

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S P O RT S

Legendary Sportscaster Dick Enberg Dead At 82

REMEMBERING PANCHO–The Beverly Hills Tennis Club hosted more than 200 coming to salute the late tennis legend Pancho Segura, who served as head pro at the BHTC from 1962 to 1970. Segura died Nov. 18 at age 96 after rising from poverty to win six U.S. pro singles and doubles championships in the 1950s. Pictured (from left): son Spencer Segura, Jonathan Canter, tennis champion Jimmy Connors, and Tom Kreiss. The Beverly Hills Tennis Club’s past ownership has included Hall of Famers Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines, and its early members were such as Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, and playright Neil Simon.

Oklahoma, Georgia Football Teams Arrive In Southern California For Rose Bowl Preparations The Oklahoma and Georgia football teams arrived in the Southland Tuesday, six days before they will meet in the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Rose Bowl New Year's Day. Oklahoma participated in Lawry's Beef Bowl in Beverly Hills Thursday, one day before Georgia.

The teams will practice at StubHub Center in Carson.

Tickets priced between $180 and $42,750 are available at Primesport.com, the game's official ticket exchange.

The inaugural Rose Bowl

Bash will be held from 11 a.m.5 p.m. Sunday at The Bloc at Seventh and Hope streets in downtown Los Angeles.

The free event will include family-friendly interactive games, photo activations, a beer garden with televisions to watch sporting events, a DJ booth, team pep bands and cheer squads, and food trucks.

Once every three years, the Rose Bowl Game dispenses with its traditional Big Ten versus Pac-12 matchup to serve as a College Football Playoff Semifinal.

The matchup was deter-

mined by the final College Football Playoff rankings, which are made by a 13-member committee.

Big 12 Conference champion Oklahoma (12-1) was second in the final rankings, one spot ahead of Southeastern Conference champion Georgia (12-1). Topranked Clemson (12-1), will face fourth-ranked Alabama (11-1) in the other semifinal, the Sugar Bowl.

The winners will meet for the national championship Jan. 8 in Atlanta.

–– City News Service

Flowers were placed on Dick Enberg's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last Friday, one day after the death of the sportscaster fondly remembered for his work at both the local and network levels.

Enberg died last Thursday at his La Jolla home from a possible heart attack, his wife Barbara told the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was 82.

He appeared to be waiting for a car that was to take him to Lindbergh Field for a 6:30 a.m. flight to Boston when he was stricken, she said.

Enberg retired as the San Diego Padres primary play-byplay television broadcaster following the 2016 season, his seventh with the team.

“We are immensely saddened by the sudden and unexpected passing of legendary broadcaster Dick Enberg,” Padres executive chairman Ron Fowler and managing partner Peter Seidler said. “Dick was an institution in the industry for 60 years and we were lucky enough to have his iconic voice behind the

microphone for Padres games for nearly a decade.

Enberg did call one more game, matching the team he grew up rooting for, the Detroit Tigers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, in 2017.

Retired Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully heaped praise on his sportscasting colleague.

"To me, Dick Enberg was the greatest all-around sportscaster who ever lived and will never be emulated," Scully said. "He had my respect, admiration and my friendship.”

Enberg was a member of the National Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.

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OUTLOOK B E V E R LY H I L L S Jewish young adults, 21-42 are invited to the New Year’s Eve Bash from 9 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 31-1 a.m., Monday, Jan. 1 at Hollywood Temple Beth El, 1317 N. Crescent Heights Blvd., West Hollywood.

The evening will include music and dancing, games, socializing, and snacks (including chocolate chip banana french toast).

Event coordinator is Bryce Emily Megdal. Tickets are $50.

To resister, visit https://nyeathtbel.eventbrite.com/.

• • • • • Leif Cocks, author of Orangutans, My Cousins, My Friends: A Journey To Understand And Save The Person Of The Forest and founder of The Orangutan Project, will discuss and sign his latest book from 1-3 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 3 in the Grand Room at the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park Lief Cocks at the junction of the Ventura (134) and Golden State (5) freeways.

Cocks has spent the last three decades working to save orangutans from extinction. Part memoir, part philosophical discussion, part scientific case for conservation, the book is a call to action to save the orangutan.

The presentation is free with

zoo admission. For information, call 323-644-4200 or visit www.lazoo.org.

• • • • • Free upcoming film screenings at The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., include: • Human Flow, an exploration of the global refugee crisis, at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 4. Captured over the course of a year in 23 countries, the film follows stories through Afghanistan, Greece, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey and beyond, from refugee camps to ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders.

A Q&A with filmmaker Ai Weiwei follows the screening.

• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, Al Gore’s sequel to his Oscarwinning An Inconvenient Truth, screens at 7:30 p.m., Sunday. Jan 7.

The film follows Gore’s fight to build a global network and in-fluence international Al Gore policy.

A Q&A with Gore follows the showing.

For more information, visit https://hammer.ucla.edu or call 310-443-7000.

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Wanaragua Association of Los Angeles (WALA) in a performance of the Garifuna people’s traditional dance of celebration, from noon-2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 6 at Union Station, 800 N. Alameda St., downtown L.A. The procession will begin at Union Station’s east portal and culminate at the North Patio where association members will discuss this traditional dance commemorating the Garifuna people’s victory over British colonizers and the prospect of slavery on the island of St. Vincent.

Accompanied by drums, the dance tells the story of that 1700’s triumph through music and movement. Participants wear clothing that represents the slave masters, including masks.

For two centuries, the indigenous Carib population resisted European attempts at colonization by retreating to the mountainous, densely forested interior of the island. They were joined by runaway African slaves, forming a new culture, combining elements of African and Amerindian heritage.

When the Garifuna emigrated from St. Vincent to other parts of the world, they brought the Wanaragua dance and the tradition of performing it over Christmas and the New Year.

For more information, visit www.unionstationla.com.

• • • • • Author Nina B. Lichtenstein will discuss her new book, Sephardic Women’s Voices: Out Of North Africa at her exclusive L.A. appearance presented in partnership with JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and N o r t h Africa) and J e w i s h W o m e n ’s Theatre (JWT) from 7-9 p.m., Tu e s d a y, Jan. 9 at The Braid, 2912 C o l o r a d o Nina Lichtenstein Ave., #102, Santa Monica.

In the book, Lichtenstein illuminates the histories and complicated religious, political,

and cultural identities of seven 20th century Sephardic women writers born in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, placing them in the context of the littleknown Jewish world of Maghreb.

Maureen Rubin, emeritus professor of journalism at CalState Northridge and a JWT Advisory Board member will moderate the event, which will include readings.

Tickets are $10 and available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/321264.

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Gabino Rodriquez in Tijuana.

Photo courtesy Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol

The Skirball Cultural Center and REDCAT will present Tijuana, a multimedia solo performance by leading Mexico City theater company Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, that blurs the line between fiction and reality, at 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Jan. 11 and 12 at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. Using video, a sculptural stage environment, and poetic texts, the company’s co-founder Gabino Rodríguez dramatizes his social experiment: the performer moved to Tijuana, changed his name to Santiago Ramírez, and was hired as a minimum-wage factory worker for six months.

The play shines a light on what it means to live on minimum wage in the 21st century while confronting the ethical questions raised by a middleclass actor taking on the life of a factory worker.

Performances will be in Spanish with English supertitles.

Tijuana at the Skirball is part of the Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA. Tickets are $15. To purchase and for information, visit skirball.org/tijuana.

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BIRTHDAYS—Jon Voight, Kristina Djadenko. and Ted Danson (Dec. 29); Joni (Berry) Maitland-Lewis, Bebe Neuwirth and Tiger Woods (Dec. 30); Julius Rothchild, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Val Kilmer, Stephanie J. Hibler, Helene Irvin, Donna Summer, Barbara Carrera, and Tim Matheson (Dec. 31); Suzanne Marx, Frank Langella, Marty Barab and Sol Levine (Jan 1); Tia Carrere and Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Jan. 2); Dabney Coleman, Mel Gibson, and Stephen Stills (Jan. 3); Dyan Cannon, Barbara Rush, and Janice Reches (Jan. 4).

Joni Maitland-Lewis Jon Voight

Suzanne Marx

Kristina Djadenko

Marty Barab

Stephanie Hibler

Ted Danson

Joan Mangum

Jimmy Cortiana and Barbara Luna

Cindy Williams with Dr. Jay Sher and Judy Sher

bottle and Diet Coke can purses were the top sellers at $4,130 each. Bids for the Lieber models, such as a koi fish, a sleeping cat or a violin went for $1,200 to $3,000.

CHRISTMAS EVE PARTY–The cohosts of one of our annual wintertime social highlights–Michael Rosen (left) and his stepmother Helen Grayco Rosen (right)–greet Joan Ashton and Beverly Hills philanthropist Stanley Black as they arrive at the Christmas Eve dinner party in Michael Rosen’s Trousdale home.

Photos by David Levin

A virtual “who’s who” of Westside socialites–some 300 strong– trekked up one of Trousdale’s steepest roads to the magnificent estate of Michael Rosen to attend a genuine Christmas Eve tradition–the annual dinner party hosted by Michael and his lovely stepmother Helen Grayco Rosen.

Shuttles from the street deposited guests at the front entrance over a fishpond and into the festive entrance hall with its sparkling Christmas tree and onto the massive, tented terrace where all the socializing, dancing and dining took place.

We spotted Beverly and Bob Cohen, Virginia Plumb and Mike Starkmen, Gloria and Mike Franks, Joan Ashton and Stanley Black, Barbara and Arthur Lewis, Lorna Berle and Peter Kingston, Nancy Bretzfield, John Rockwell, Carol and Lee Baca, Lisa and Marty Greenberg, Annie and Shelly Lehrer, Enid Rom, Ronnie Kassorla and Robert Rock, Joanie and Jack Black, and Ed Lozzi. www.nataleethai.com Still more were Donald 10101 Venice Blvd., Culver City Kaufman, Glenna Kroenert and (310) 202-7003 Spike Jones, lla and Len Krane, 998 S. Robertson Blvd., Beverly Hills Madeline Gussman and Bob Vernon, Cindy and Bob (310) 855-9380 Williams, Marlene Kreedman,

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Kathrine Baumann

Len and Ila Krane

Lorna Berle and Peter Kingston

Judy and Dr. Jay Sher, Neal Sloane, Julie Farb, Stephanie Hibler and Dr. Nickolas Chugay, Sami Faulkner and Jay Cousins, Jill and Buddy Epstein, Naomi and Marty Feldman, Janet and Arthur Kassell, Darlene Prijatel and Michael Sokolich.

And then there was Barbara Luna and Jimmy Cortiana, Marianne Berman, Janis and Doug Warner, Peter Schlesinger, Sue Wittner, Lisa Cohen and Walker Strangis, Joni Alpert and Shael Jacobson, Kathrine Baumann and Jim Henderson, Gloria and David Levisohn, Gail and Roger Dauer, Marilyn and Don Lettiere, Shana Forman, Marcia and Stan Rosner, Eleanor and Ray Moscatel, Adele Heller and Lana Shrone, Gina Jones, and the list goes on and on.

Needless to say, a grand time was had by all!! ****** A few weeks ago, Christie’s auction house in New York set a record for the highest sale in the history of the art world when a collector spent $450 million for Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper” painting.

If that wasn’t enough, The New York Times reported that Christie’s has just set another auction record...in handbag sales.

It was our own Beverly Hills designer Kathrine Baumann, whose limited edition, jeweled crystal Coca-Cola Can and Bottle Minaudieres outsold the venerable Judith Leiber. Baumann Coke

Kathy told me she has just completed an international collaboration with Aaron Shum of Coronet Jewelry in creating a diamond Coca-Cola bottle handbag. This is currently on display on tour throughout Asia and the United Arab Emirates, retailing for $200,000.

Christie’s Matthew Rubinger said that handbags have fast become a core category for his company, attracting 30 percent new buyers. “With the paintings, it’s such a major financial decision that no one is having fun with it.”

He added: “For bags, we want sellers to be excited that their stuff is in the sale, and for buyers to be excited to own something. If there’s not that emotion, then it just doesn’t work.”

Kathrine Baumann Beverly Hills’ handbags have always been good luck charms at awards’ shows for such as Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Helen Mirren, Marcia Gay Harden, Minnie Driver, Beyonce, etc. ****** May we wish all our Courier readers a most happy new year and hope that 2018 is the best year ever for one and all.

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BEVERLY HILLS

PUBLIC NOTICES BID PACKAGE NO. 17-67 CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC WORKS - PROJECT ADMINISTRATION 345 FOOTHILL ROAD BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA 90210 LEGAL NOTICE - BIDS WANTED COLDWATER CANYON PARK – PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENT AND SITE IMPROVEMENTS 1100 NORTH BEVERLY DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLS The City of Beverly Hills ("City") hereby requests sealed bids for the materials, supplies, equipment or services set forth herein, subject to all conditions outlined in this Bid Package, including: SECTION 1: NOTICE INVITING BIDS SECTION 2: INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS SECTION 3: GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS SECTION 4: CONTRACT SECTION 5: BONDS SECTION 6: INSURANCE SECTION 7: SCOPE OF WORK SECTION 8: DRAWINGS AND TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS SECTION 9: TENTATIVE PROJECT MILESTONE DATES SECTION 1: NOTICE INVITING BIDS 1.

Notice Inviting Bids a. Date of Request: December 26, 2017 b. Bid Number:

17-67

c.Item Description: The project scope consists of removal of an existing chain link fence, posts and gate on a hillside, upgrade of existing building foundation by construction of new piles and grade beams on a hillside, and installation of a new chain link fence. Project is located at 409 Walker Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. d. Obtaining Bid Documents: A copy of the Bid Package may be obtained by mail or in person from the Department of Public Works - Project Administration, 345 Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, telephone number 310-288-2817.

The bid package including plans and specifications may also be viewed on, and downloaded from the City’s web site: www.beverlyhills.org.

Interested bidders must have experience working on similar type projects. On proposal form, bidder must list three (3) similar projects, and projects must have been completed within the past ten (10) years. e. Bid Opening: Thursday – January 18, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. f. Due Date and Location for Submittals: Sealed bids will be received at all times during normal business hours prior to the Bid Opening, at the City Clerk’s Office, 455 North Rexford Drive, Room 290, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. All bids must be in writing and must contain an original signature by an authorized officer of the firm. Electronic bids (i.e., telephonic, FAX, etc.) are NOT acceptable. All bids shall clearly contain on the outside of the sealed envelope in which they are submitted: BID PACKAGE 17-67: COLDWATER CANYON PARK – PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENT AND SITE IMPROVEMENTS g. Contractor's License: In accordance with provisions of Section 3300 of the California Public Contract Code, the City has determined that the Contractor shall possess a valid California Contractor's License Class B – General Building Contractor, or other appropriate license classification under the State Contracting Code at the time the contract is bid. Failure to possess such license may render the bid non responsive and

bar the award of the contract to that non responsive Bidder. h. Liquidated Damages: There shall be a $250.00 assessment for each and every calendar day work remains undone after date fixed for completion. i. Prevailing Wages: In accordance with Labor Code Section 1770 et seq., this Project is a “public work,” and thus, the Contractor and any Subcontractors must pay wages in accordance with the determination of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) regarding the prevailing rate of per diem wages. Copies of those rates are on file with the Director of Public Works, and are available to any interested party upon request. Contractor shall post a copy of the DIR’s determination of the prevailing rate of per diem wages at each job site. j. Pre-bid Conference Date and Location: A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held on Friday, January 5, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at 1100 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. k. Bid Security: Each bid shall be accompanied by bid security in the form of a cashier's check, certified check or bid bond in the amount of 10% of the total bid amount. All cashier's checks or certified checks must be drawn on a responsible bank doing business in the United States and shall be made payable to THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS. Bid bonds must be issued by a bonding company licensed to do business in the State of California. Bids not accompanied by the required bid security shall be rejected. Cash and personal or company checks are NOT acceptable.

The City shall return the bid security checks of unsuccessful bidders to them when the successful bidder ("Contractor") enters into the Contract with the City. l. Payment Bond and Performance Bond: A Payment Bond and a Performance Bond, each in the amount of 100% of the contract amount, will be required of the Contractor. m. Insurance: Upon award of contract, contractor will be obligated to file certificates of insurance evidencing coverage as specified in the bid documents and in a form acceptable to the City. The certificates shall be on the City's standard proof of insurance form. n. Time of Completion: The contractual completion time shall be 95 calendar days from the date of Notice To Proceed. o. Retention: In accordance with the contract, five percent (5%) of any progress payment will be withheld as retention. Pursuant to Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code, at the request and expense of the Contractor, securities equivalent to the amount withheld may be deposited with the City or with a state or federally chartered bank as the escrow agent, and City shall then pay such moneys to the Contractor. Refer to the contract for further clarification. p. Contact Person: A bidder or potential bidder who has questions regarding this project should email those questions to Ji Kim, Associate Project Manager at jikim@beverlyhills.org.

Written responses to all questions will be issued via addendum.

THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY BID OR ALL BIDS AND TO WAIVE ANY INFORMALITY OR IRREGULARITY IN ANY BID. ANY CONTRACT AWARDED WILL BE LET TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE BIDDER. NOTICE TO BIDDERS for the CCTV, ALPR, WIFI, AND FIBER OPTIC AS-NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS within the CITY of

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA BIDS - Sealed proposals for the CCTV, ALPR, WIFI, AND FIBER OPTIC ASNEEDED IMPROVEMENTS at various locations within the CITY of BEVERLY HILLS, California, will be received up to the hour of 2:00 p.m., on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the office of the City Clerk of the City of Beverly Hills, located in Room 290 at 455 North Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California. Bids will be publicly opened at 2:00 p.m. on the abovementioned date in the office of the City Clerk at City Hall and award of the contract will be made during a subsequent meeting of the City Council.

SCOPE OF THE WORK - The work to be done shall consist of furnishing all the required labor, materials, equipment, parts, implements, supplies and permits necessary for, or appurtenant to, the construction and completion of the project indicated above in accordance with Standard Drawings and the Specifications prepared for this project.

In general terms, the contract work for this project shall consist of the following items of work:

Copies of the Specifications and Proposal Form may be inspected and downloaded from the City’s webpage (http://www.beverlyhills.org/business/bidlistings/).

Contact Tristan Malabanan for further information: call (310) 285-2512 or email tmalabanan@beverlyhills.org.

References in the project specifications to specific sections of the Standard Specifications refer to the book of "Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction", 2015 Edition, written by a Joint Cooperative Committee of the Southern California Chapter of the American Public Works Association and Southern California District of the Associated General Contractors of California. Contractors wishing to obtain this book may purchase copies directly from the publisher, Building News, Inc., 1612 South Clementine Street, Anaheim, California, 92802; (800) 873-6397.

ORDINANCE NO. 17-O-2745 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE TO PRECLUDE LANDLORDS WHO HAVE FAILED TO REGISTER THEIR RENTAL

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BEVERLY HILLS

PUBLIC NOTICES UNITS FROM IMPOSING THE ANNUAL RENT INCREASES THAT ARE ALLOWED BY THE MUNICIPAL CODE UNTIL THE RENTAL UNITS ARE REGISTERED. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS HEREBY ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1.

Section 4-5-303 (“Annual Increases”) of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code is hereby amended to add new paragraph E thereto to read as follows: E. A landlord who is not in substantial compliance with any of the provisions of Section 4-5-801 of this chapter shall not demand, accept or retain the annual rent increase otherwise permitted by this Section 4-5-303.

Section 2.

Section 4-5-701 (“Illegal Rent or Withholding of Relocation Fees”) of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code is hereby amended to add new paragraph C thereto to read as follows: C. A tenant shall not pay otherwise allowable rent increases under Section 4-5-303 of this chapter, if the landlord has failed to substantially comply with the registration requirements of Section 4-5-801 of this chapter. The nonpayment of rent increases in good faith pursuant to this paragraph shall be a defense to any action brought to recover possession of a rental unit for nonpayment of rent.

Section 3.

Section 4-6-3 (“Rental Increases”) of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code is hereby amended to add new paragraph D thereto to read as follows: D. A landlord who is not in substantial compliance with any of the provisions of Section 4-6-10 of this chapter shall not demand, accept or retain the annual rent increase otherwise permitted by this Section 4-6-3.

Section 4.

Paragraph A of Section 4-6-12 (“Illegal Rent Or Withholding of Relocation Fees”) of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code is hereby amended to add new subparagraph 3 thereto to read as follows: 3. A tenant shall not pay otherwise allowable rent increases under Section 4-6-3 of this chapter, if the landlord has failed to substantially comply with the registration requirements of Section 4-6-10 of this chapter. The nonpayment of rent increases in good faith pursuant to this paragraph shall be a defense to any action brought to recover possession of a rental unit for nonpayment of rent.

Section 5.

CEQA. This ordinance is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3) which is the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment, and CEQA does not apply where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity may have a significant effect on the environment. It can be seen with certainty that precluding landlords who fail to substantially comply with the requirements to register their rental units with the City from imposing the annual rental adjustment allowed by the Municipal Code will not cause a significant effect on the environment.

Section 6.

Publication. The City Clerk shall cause this Ordinance to be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City within fifteen (15) days after its passage in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code, shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause this Ordinance and the City Clerk’s certification, together with proof of publication, to be entered in the Book of Ordinances of the Council of this City.

Section 7.

Effective Date.

This

Ordinance shall go into effect and be in full force and effect at 12:01 a.m. on the thirtyfirst (31st) day after its passage.

Section 8.

Certification. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance.

Adopted: December 19, 2017 Effective: January 19, 2018 LILI BOSSE Mayor of the City of Beverly Hills, California ATTEST: BYRON POPE City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: LAURENCE S. WIENER City Attorney APPROVED AS TO CONTENT MAHDI ALUZRI City Manager VOTE: AYES: Councilmembers Wunderlich, Friedman, Mirisch, Vice Mayor Gold and Mayor Bosse NOES: None ABSENT: None CARRIED ORDINANCE NO. 17-O-2746 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS TO MODIFY RATES AND CHARGES FOR WATER SERVICES AND FACILITIES FURNISHED BY THE CITY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1.

The City Council of the City of Beverly Hills hereby finds as follows: (a) The City Council is authorized pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code Section 5471 to prescribe, revise and collect rates and charges for water services and facilities furnished by the City. (b) The City Council wishes to modify the rates and charges (the “rates”) for water services and facilities furnished by the City, as provided in Exhibit A. (c) The City Council identified the parcels upon which the proposed rates would be imposed and calculated the amount of the proposed rates. (d) The City Clerk caused a notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the proposed rates to be mailed as required by Section 6 of Article XIIID of the California Constitution. (e) Each notice described the amount of proposed rates, the basis upon which the amount of the proposed rates was calculated, the reason for the proposed rates, and the date time and location of a public hearing on the proposed rates. (f) On November 7, 2017, the City Council conducted a public hearing on the proposed rates and heard and considered all objections and protests thereto and at the close of the public hearing, the City Council determined that written protests had not been presented by a majority of owners of the identified parcels.

Section 2.

The City Council hereby approves the rates in the amounts and on the effective dates as provided in Exhibit A. In addition, each January 1, commencing with January 1, 2019, the rates provided in Exhibit A shall automatically adjust to pass through the adopted increases or decreases in the wholesale charges for water established by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Section 3.

Severability. If any sec-

tion, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this ordinance.

The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and each and every section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof be declared invalid or unconstitutional. Should any rates or charges imposed herein be invalidated for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, the rates and charges in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this ordinance shall be effective with regard only to such invalidated rates or charges.

Section 4.

The City Clerk shall cause this Ordinance to be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City within fifteen (15) days after its passage, in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code; shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause this ordinance and her certification, together with proof of publication, to be entered in the Book of Ordinances of the Council of this City.

Section 5.

This Ordinance shall go into effect and be in full force and effect at 12:01 a.m. on the thirty-first (31st) day after its passage.

Adopted: December 19, 2017 Effective: January 19, 2018 LILI BOSSE Mayor of the City of Beverly Hills, California ATTEST: BYRON POPE (SEAL) City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: LAURENCE S. WIENER City Attorney APPROVED AS TO CONTENT MAHDI ALUZRI City Manager DON RHOADS Director of Administrative Services/Chief Financial Officer VOTE: AYES: Councilmembers Wunderlich, Friedman, Mirisch, Vice Mayor Gold and Mayor Bosse NOES: None ABSENT: None CARRIED

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LARGE AND PRESTIGIOUS

BEVERLY HILLS SALON currently has a room available for rent for beauty services.

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For more info call 310.887.7000

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AGT. 310-770-4111 CalBRE #00456048

236 Acreage/ Residential Lots

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KELEMEN REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900 License 00957281

Builders/Investors... CENTURY CITY LAW Vacant Lot w/ Plans & OFFICE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY Permits Ready to Go! 1 Ocean View Corner Partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office & Secretarial Bay Avail.

Each unit has 2 Bdrms.+2 Baths. in beautifully appointed suite on 18th floor. $489,000 Including Will consider â&#x20AC;&#x153;of plans and permits counselâ&#x20AC;? relationship. by top architect.

Amenities Include: LISA SHERMAN â&#x20AC;˘ AGENT receptionist, law library, 310/724-7000 x-1851 fax, photocopy, kitchen, conference rooms.

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Preferred Attorneys

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all listings are on CenturyCityLiving.com

NOW AVAILABLE GATED 5 STAR LUXURY PROPERTIES *BEL AIR *WESTWOOD *CENTURY CITY

CENTURY PARK EAST CONDOMINIUM

SOLD $1,000,000 2 BEDROOMS, 2 BATH CORNER PENTHOUSE $1,047,500

270 degree Unobstructed Views. Island Kitchen 2 Jumbo Balconies Viking Appliances Walk-In Closet Hardwood Floors 1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH $750,000

High Floor Unobstructed City View Jumbo Balcony Totally Renovated Island Kitchen Hardwood Floors. Loft Style Lease Purchase Available

NMLS # 313559

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Carthay Circle Duplex

BH TOWNHOUSE

KELEMEN

Minutes to Grove & Beverly Center Top floor 3 Bdrm. +Office+3-½ Bath

2 +Den +3 • $3,800

435 S. Maple Dr.

BH 435 S. Maple Dr. 2 + 2 • $3,000

BH 9000 Clifton Way Expansive Deluxe 1 +Den +2 • $2,975

NOW AVAILABLE

BH 254 S. Lasky Dr.

GATED 5 STAR LUXURY PROPERTIES

1 +1 • $2,150

F URNISHED & U NFURNISHED

$4,950/$5,150 w/ garage LISA SHERMAN • AGENT 310/724-7000 x-1851

COMPASS GOLD PROP. Marty: 310/293-2205

6 BDRM. + 8 BATHS

6 mo. avail. or month-to-month W/ granite kitchen & bath,

601 COMSTOCK AVE. porcelain tile & hrwd. flrs., Janet: 310/666-8179 washer/dryer hook-ups,

440 UNFURNISHED APT’S/CONDO’S

•PLAZA TOWERS• 838 N. DOHENY DRIVE

walk-in closet, hi-ceilings.

Shared backyard. No pets.

310/271-6811 Cell: 310/994-4122 Must see! 439 S. Rexford

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A Modern Living Space PRIME LOCATION

2 BDRM. + 2 BA. Bright & Spacious

2 BEDROOM + LRG DEN + 2.5 BA With Breathtaking Views Ultimate luxury with full amenities and great neighborhood. 1554 sf.

Gourmet kitchen with top of the line appliances, marble/hardwood flooring, 2 balconies, rooftop and ground floor pools, well equipped gym and much more... $5,400/MO.

By Appointment only Call 310/612-1125

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2170 Century Park East $4,000 • 2+2 • #811 Best Location in Bldg.-180º Jetliner Views. Renovated, New Stainless Steel Appl., Granite Kitchen+Maple Cabinets, Beautiful Bamboo Floors Throughout.

• DIANA COOK • 468 N. Camden Dr., Beverly Hills, 90210

310-203-8333

with balcony and private side entrance, hardwood floors and garage parking. $2,800/MO. Call 818/383-4038

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2433 BARRY AVE.

BARRY GARDENS PLAZA

MELROSE/BEVERLY CENTER AREA

$3,400/MONTH

High Floor Unobstructed City View Jumbo Balcony Totally Renovated Island Kitchen Hardwood Floors Loft Style Lease Purchase Available

————— Border of BEVERLY HILLS 321 S. Sherbourne Dr.

FABULOUS HUGE APARTMENT 2 BEDROOM - 1.75 BATHS GORGEOUS ART DECO BUILDING GATED AND WITH SECURITY. LARGE LIVINGROOM AND PRIVATE DININGRM. HARDWD FLOORS, CENTRAL AIR AND HEAT. KITCHEN WITH BRK AREA AND LIVINGROOM WITH BEAUTIFUL BAY WINDOW. WASHER AND DRYER IN UNIT PRIVATE $3,350/MO. ONE CAR GARAGE. STREET PARKING AS WELL.

SANDRA LEWIS

CENTURY PARK EAST

AGT. 310-770-4111

$3,100/mo to $4,250/mo

BRE #00456048

BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. $4,500/mo to 6,100/mo.

NEWLY REMODELED LUXURY APARTMENT CENTURY TOWERS 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH

Light and bright upper with hardwood floors, CENTURY HILL laundry facility and 2 car parking space. $6,800/mo. to $7,500/mo. $2,600/MO. 918 S. BEDFORD LE PARC Sam: 310/422-6026 $7,995/mo to $8,900/mo. $6,500 to $7,000/month

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Starting $2,645 Swimming pool & Jacuzzi, elevator, camera security surveillance throughout property, all appliances, 2 car gated parking.

$10,000/mo. to $59,000/mo.

BEL AIR CREST

EVERLY HILLS ADJ. BEVERLY HILLS B120 S. Swall Dr.

Balcony, controlled access, a/c, stove, elevator, laundry facility, parking.

• 310/247-8689 • Close to Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Center & Trendy Robertson Bl.

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Permit Parking Only.

All Utilities Paid.

Available Jan. 1, 2018

————— BEVERLY HILLS 221 S. Doheny Dr.

• • 1 Bd.+1 Ba.

3 BDRM. + 1.75 BA. • 2 Bd.+2 Bath • • Formal dining room, living • • • • • • •

Very Spacious, A/C, room with fireplace, breakfast balcony, intercom entry, room, appliances, sun room, on-sight laundry, prkg. hardwod floors, service porch, A/C, 2 car garage, new carpet

8725 Clifton Way

Newly Remodeled

Lrg. unit. balcony, walk-in closet, central air, intercom entry, laundry facility,

• • • • • •

elevator, parking.

Spacious, hardwood flrs., • CHARMING & BRIGHT • huge closets, built-in a/c, dishwasher, pool, • 310/276-1528 • elevator, controlled Close to Cedars, access, laundry Beverly Center facilities. No pets. restaurants, shopping

424/343-0015

Great Location!

872 S. Westgate Ave.

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EXTRA LARGE • • • • • • • • • Very Bright UPPER DUPLEX • 1 Bd.+1 Bath •• 2 Bdrm.+11/2 Bath •

Large & Spacious $2,000/MO. $9,000/mo. to $125,000/mo.

Call 310/409-5020 1 Bd.+Den+1.5 Ba. Some Complexes include or 310/729-1400 • • • • • • • • •

Heated Pools, Sundeck, Tennis, Doorman, Houseman, Staff Engineers, Switchboard, Security Staff, Call 310/612-1147 Switchboard, Saunas, Business Center, Pet www.

PlayLand, Restaurant, bhcourier Acres of Flower Gardens .com and Grassy Lawns.

• • Spacious • • • • • Jr. Executive • •• ••

• BRENTWOOD •

PARK PLACE

and paint. City Views.

ONE CENTURY • • • P R I M E • • • Nice yard. Close to all! $22,000/mo. to $25,000/mo. BEVERLY HILLS LIGHT & BRIGHT Call 310/339-5714 1 BEDROOM —————–––– CENTURY WOODS Lower unit with hardwood $9,000/mo. floors, includes appliances. * BEVERLY HILLS * School District Secured building.

10000 SANTA MONICA

2 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS BRIGHT UNITS

Newly Remodeled.

Balcony, hardwood flrs., elevator, controlled access pool, on-site laundry, parking.

310/247-8689 Close to Cedars Sinai, Shops, Transportation

*BEL AIR *WESTWOOD *CENTURY CITY

Across from Holmby —————–––– CENTURY PARK EAST Park on an acre lot. • BEVERLY HILLS • Beautiful & serene garden 2 Bd.+1 Ba. • $3,150 1 BEDROOM /1 BATH with pool. High ceilings. X-LARGE ELEGANT APT. $15,000/MO. • Newly Updated •

449 N. SPAULDING AVENUE

all listings are on CenturyCityLiving.com

BH 237 N. Almont Dr.

HOLMBY HILLS

License 00957281

2 + 2 • $3,100

Newer kitchen, hi-ceilings, redone bathrooms, hrwd. flrs.

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REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900

Beverly Hills Adj. 310 S. Sherbourne Dr. 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath

& transportation.

Close to Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Center, shops, cafes & transportation.

310/270-0724

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Totally Redone.

Harwood+carpet floors, fireplace, patio, parking, laundry facility.

310/592-4511

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Grand Opening BEVERLY HILLS BRENTWOOD ’s

Great Location! Most Spectacular

•• • • • • • • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. •

Apartments •• 120 Granville Ave. • • • *2 *B *d .*+ 2* / * B* a*.

• French doors in bdrm. • • 3 B d . + 2 / B a . open to large balcony • * * * * * * * * overlooking pool • Large units, walk-in closet, 1 1

2 2

custom kitchen, built-in washer/dryer, all appliances, hardwood floors throughout, some units • GORGEOUS UNITS • w/ skylights+high ceilings.

Hardwood flrs., central Health club, wifi, sauna, air, pool, elevator, heated pool, controlled on-site laundry, acess, parking.

intercom entry.

320 N. La Peer Dr.

• 310/246-0290 • C L O S E TO S HOPS & D INING

424/272-6596 • Close to Brentwood Village, Restaurants, UCLA, Mt. Saint Mary’s, & Transportation.

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Rooftop pool, Close to deck, central air, transportation. elevator, intercom entry, on-sight laundry, • 310/442-8265 • Very private, hi-ceilings, gym, parking. large veranda, luxury • Free WiFi Access • WEST L.A. kitchen+bathrooms, ~ 310/476-3824 ~ 1415 Brockton Ave. walk-in closet, all new { { { { { { { BRENTWOOD & appliances, washer/dryer U.C.L.A. CLOSE 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath in unit, central air, prkg.

Patio, stove, CULVER CITY dishwasher, on-sight Please Call: 310/312-9871 3830 Vinton Ave. laundry, parking.

• 2 Bd. + 2 Ba. • 2 Bd. + 2 1/ 2 Ba. • 3 Bd. + 3 1/ 2 Ba.

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310/479-0700

Very spacious, Newly Remodeled granite counters, Great Views microwave, intercom Great views, controlled entry, on-sight launaccess, balcony, dry, parking & WiFi. elevator, lrg. pool, Very close to UCLA prkg, on-sight laundry. & Westwood Village.

H IKING IN R UNYON 310/208-5166

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Single

MID-WILSHIRE

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WiFi, pool, elevator, controlled access, onsight laundry, parking.

1628 S. Westgate Ave. C l o s e t o U . C . L . A .

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310/477-6885

2 Bd. + 2 Ba.

323/467-8172

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Pool, sauna, intercom entry, elevator, on-site 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath 310/473-1509 laundry, parking. X-St. Santa Monica Bl. •••••••• All Utilities Paid. ~ 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. ~ Balcony, dishwasher, WESTWOOD 310/841-2367 B r i g h t & A i r y. a/c, heated pool, 10905 Ohio Ave. Intercom entry, on-sight WiFi, elevator •• SANTA MONICA parking, on-sight laundry •• • • controlled access, • Spacious • facility, courtyard patio. • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • • •• on-site laundry, prkg. 3 Bdrm. + 2 Bath Close to transportation. • Dishwasher, on-site • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • Close to 310/820-1810 laundry, parking.

•• Brentwood Village, •• LOSE TO S CHOOL , C •• Shops & Restaurants.

•• WESTWOOD Wifi, Bright, F REEWAY & controlled • 310/826-4889 • 1370 Veteran Ave. T RANSPORTATION . access, balcony, 310/449-1100 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath pool, e levator, • BRENTWOOD • 2600 Virginia Ave. Single + 1 Bath laundry facility, prkg.

922 S. Barrington Av. •••• • • C LOSE TO S ANTA • •••• • Close To U.C.L.A. • 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • M ONICA C OLLEGE .

Balcony, air conditioning 310/477-6856 Fireplace, balcony, dishwasher, controlled wet bar, dishwasher, WEST L.A. access bldg., WiFi, • WESTWOOD • laundry facility, 1433 Armacost Ave. pool, on-sight laundry, 10933 Rochester Ave. elevator, parking. « « « « « « « ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ gym, parking.

Close to shops+dining.

Newly Updated

C ANYON , H OLLYWOOD B OWL /N IGHTLIFE .

Jr. Executive

340 S. St. Andrews Pl.

• • • • • Spacious 1 Bdrm + 1 Bath • • • • • Balcony, controlled access, parking, elevator, on-site laundry.

Close to shopping, great restaurants and Metro.

213/738-9849

————— LAFAYETTE PARK 274 LAFAYETTE PARK PL.

• 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • Bachelor

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Granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, air conditioned, new hrwd. flrs., designer finishes, balcony, ceiling fan, elevator, controlled access. Fitness ctr, yoga room, wi-fi, skyview

Spacious a/c, fireplace, B RIGHT & S PACIOUS . Close to U.C.L.A. lounge w/ outdoor firepool, controlled access, Balcony, dishwasher, BRENTWOOD place, laundry facilities. laundry fac., prkg.

W E S T W O O D controlled access The Carlton • Free WiFi Access • Easy freeway access 11666 Goshen Ave. on-sight laundry, prkg. 1409 Midvale Ave. 213/382-102 1 310/473-5061 310/479-0700 (•)(•)(•)(•)(•) •••• ••• ••••

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Close To U.C.L.A.

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• —————–––– LOS ANGELES ~ WEST ~ • • Single • WESTWOOD • 401 S. HOOVER St. LOS ANGELES • • 1422-1428 Kelton Av. • • • • • • • • Single + 1 Bath 2 Bdrm.+1 Bath •• ~ •• • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. (•)(•)(•)(•)(•) ~ ~ ~ Spacious • • ~ • • WiFi, central air/heat, Newly Remodeled.

• • • WiFi, a/c, intercom • 1 Bd. 1 Ba. + fireplace, balcony, New hrwd. flrs., stain• Single controlled access, less steel appl., balcony, entry, laundry facility, Hardwood floors, • • • • • • • •

elevator, parking, pool. dishwasher, controlled Control access, pool, pool, elevator, parking, controlled access, laundry facility. on-site laundry, prkg. CLOSE TO U.C.L.A., access, WiFi, on-site dishwasher, elevator, SHOPPING & 1 BLK. 1307 Barry Ave. 310/312-9871 laundry & parking. on-site laundry 310/473-1509 TO WESTWOOD PARK. C LOSE TO U.C.L.A. Shopping & Dining in and parking.

SMALL QUIET BLDG. 310/478-8616 310/312-4957 Brentwood Village 213/385-4751

Legal Notices ––––––

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344663 The following is/are doing business as: B.W.S. IMPORTS CO. 7613 Flight Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90045; Paul Darricarrere 7613 Flight Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90045; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Paul Darricarrere, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 06, 2017; Published: December 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 LACC N/C

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2017026023 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: SFP 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #121, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The fictitious business name referred to above was filed on (date): February 01, 2017 in the county of Samuel Friedman 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #149, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL declare that all information in this statement is true and correct, Signed: Judy Friedman Rudzki As Power of Attorney For Samuel Friedman, Principal/Owner; Statement #2017344952 is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344951 The following is/are doing business as: SFP 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #121, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The Samuel Friedman Revocable Family Trust 8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #149, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; The business is conducted by: A TRUST, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Judy Friedman Rudzki As Power of Attorney For Samuel Friedman, Principal/Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344953 The following is/are doing business as: LITTLE RED’S FURRY TAILS 415 N. Crescent Dr. #235, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; P.O. Box 7150 Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Dawn Medina 415 N. Crescent Dr. #235, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Dawn Medina, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344954 The following is/are doing business as: 1) BHH GROUP 2) CENTINELA GROUP 1702 S. Robertson Blvd. #2009, Los Angeles, CA 90035; Enrique Mannheim 1702 S. Robertson Blvd. #2009, Los Angeles, CA 90035; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Enrique Mannheim, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017344955 The following is/are doing business as: FRENCH LOVE 131 S. Barrington Pl. #210, Los Angeles, CA 90049; Olivia Vaatete 131 S. Barrington Pl. #210, Los Angeles, CA 90049; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Olivia Vaatete, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 07, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2017346278 The following is/are doing business as: POWER OF ONE DOCUMENTARY MOVIE 10850 Wilshire Blvd. #350, Los Angeles, CA 90024; Yagya Productions, Inc. 10850 Wilshire Blvd. #350, Los Angeles, CA 90024; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed November 2017: Evangelina M. Richards, Secritary: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 08, 2017; Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2017, January 05, 2018 LACC N/C

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Another Phobia From Roger Lefkon THE FEAR OF LOUD NOISES My first encounter with loud noises occurred at an early age while witnessing my mother yelling at my father because he would not clean the dinner plates. He retaliated by screaming back at her that it wasn’t necessary to wash and dry paper plates. She then threw a tantrum hurling several platters–not the 50’s rock n’ roll group–in his direction as he shouted: “You can dish it out but you can’t take it.”

Traumatized by their noisy confrontation I fled the room in terror.

I was subsequently diagnosed by Morris Freud, a psychiatrist and grandson of Sigmund, as having developed Phonophobia, a fear of loud noises. During our first encounter, and with time running out, I vividly recalled the intense dislike I had developed for my Aunt Bertha’s meatloaf, made from a recipe contained in the best selling Siberian cook book, Gulag Favorites, which was known to produce a variety of frightening abdominal noises that included gurgling, rumbling, growling and high pitched screams similar to those made by a Red Fox. Without warning an alarm clock, signaling the end of the session, rang so loudly that it caused me to tumble off his couch on to the floor giving new meaning to the expression “Freudian Slip.”

Over time, my fear of loud sounds grew as the result of being exposed to car crashes, lawn mowers running amok, dog’s barking in the middle of the night, vacuum cleaners sucking up rodents, floors creaking just before they collapse, loud TV commercials hawking hearing aids, babies crying followed by babies laughing, attending a KISS concert surrounded by an array of mega watt speakers guaranteed to produce an ear splitting ringing in your ears that lasted for 9 days, one more than Hanukkah and listening to my wife Phyllis snoring and generating a decibel level of 100, about the same intensity as a chainsaw. There was also my time in the service where during basic training I learned to use a machine gun, toss a hand grenade and fire a ground to air stinger missile from a shoulder launcher bringing down several domestic airliners in the process.

I recently put my fear of loud noises to the test by attending a Tchaikovsky spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl. The al fresco dining was first rate as was the musical program. Things started to go downhill however as soon as the orchestra commenced playing the 1812 Overture and the fireworks began exploding.

The noise was deafening, a child behind me was

celebrating a birthday and his cluster of balloons started bursting, the clouds moved in and claps of thunder filled the air. I was hoping that someone would steal my thunder but it was not to be. I left my seat and ran to the parking lot to seek refuge in my car and in the process set off the alarm, which in turn set off other car alarms.

I was trapped in an alarming situation and called 911 for help. Soon fire engines began arriving, their loud wailing sounds almost drowning out the awesome display of pyrotechnics. I ran out of the parking lot towards the nearby Magic Castle where I prevailed upon a magician named Merlin to make me disappear and he did. The only bowl I come into contact these days is the one I put my cereal in.

In the unexplained category there are UFO's, Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle the Lost City of Atlantis and Tinnitus, that mysterious affliction that has plagued me for years. It is very scary to hear loud ringing, buzzing, clicking and hissing in both ears, phantom noises that no one else other than my dog Piper can hear. These disturbing sounds come and go but tend to peak whenever I'm standing in line at the bank, eating Chinese take out, waiting for Viagra to kick in and preparing for a colonoscopy.

Sitting next to a dragster as he fires up his cars engine and screams down the raceway can be more than just loud, it can be damaging to your entire body. I recently experienced a similar situation while seated next to my grandson Andrew, a newly minted driver, as he backed out of the driveway at 70 mph, the roar of the air blowing through the open windows and the tires screeching as the car entered the road with a patrol car, lights flashing and siren blaring came up behind us. To complete the picture a low flying TV station chopper, its rotary blades roaring, was sending back live pictures of the pursuit to the six o’clock news audience. As a concerned grandfather I made the supreme sacrifice, slipped in behind the wheel and was promptly arrested and yes the cell door makes a great deal of noise as it clangs shut.

I paid a fine and was released on the condition that I attend traffic school which at my age was like going to see a sex therapist to learn new love-making positions. They both teach you to exercise caution when attempting to navigate at night.

Longtime 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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR A letter I wrote two weeks ago to the Courier explained how BHUSD board members Mel Spitz and Isabel Hacker had ignored Board of Education bylaws in the December organization meeting when they erroneously stated Ms. Hacker should be vice-president. Then they abstained from the vote, ignoring another bylaw that permits abstentions only in cases when a conflict-of-interest exists.

Mr. Spitz responded last week, calling my letter senseless and citing another board bylaw in defense of his position that Ms. Hacker should be VP and not Mr. Margo.

The bylaw, which Mr. Spitz references, is a section of BB 9100. He quotes it as: “Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph B, once a member has served as president that member shall drop to the bottom of the rotation order behind all of the other members… ”But Mr. Spitz cuts the sentence short and does

not quote the entire bylaw! The sentence continues: “…including any new members who are elected or appointed prior to the expiration of such president’s term as president.”

Mr. Margo’s term as president expired December 2014. Ms. Hacker was not elected until November 2015. Therefore Ms. Hacker was not elected “prior to the expiration” of Mr. Margo’s term as president, and the provision Mr. Spitz references cannot apply to Mr. Margo and Ms. Hacker.

Mr. Spitz’s duty as an elected board member is to follow the BHUSD bylaws. By ignoring them and belittling someone who points out his mistakes is disturbing, especially since his behavior creates divisions on the board. Mr. Spitz’s objective as an elected school board member should be to serve our students, not to prove he is right by rejecting or distorting the truth.

Lewis Hall

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Astrology

By Holiday Mathis TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 29). It's like you and life are in a conversation. Sometimes it's deep; sometimes it's silly and totally off the rails. But it's a conversation you love either way. You'll be freed of a burden in the early part of your solar return. You'll make an impression with your style. The relationships you nurture will reward you richly. Leo and Capricorn adore you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You're wanted and needed in new places. A group of people you're not too familiar with will readily accept you as one of their own. It will be a struggle not to over-commit your time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Though it takes intelligence to know another person, it takes wisdom to know yourself. Wisdom often comes from the pain that accompanies mistakes, but not today. Today it comes from listening better and better.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). There are questions that those who prefer the bliss of ignorance just shouldn't ask. And anyway, you're starting to get information through a kind of osmosis of feeling, so maybe asking is unnecessary.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). Usually clouds gather before the storm, so the aware person knows when to duck for cover or get out an umbrella, as the case may be. You'll use the analogy in the realm of emotion today.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). You know who gets angriest at the small things? Beings who are even smaller. But the small things can't help what size they are, and the tiny beings can't, either. So you'll respect all and try not to judge things by scale.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It can be daunting to meet people in a broad context, but as the context gets narrower, people feel safer. While it's easier to relax around friends of friends than with the general public, today it will pay to search wider than that.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). While a dog's affection may not be conclusive evidence of a person's fine character it does feel wonderful to be sloppily, enthusiastically and unconditionally appreciated. Dogs aren't the only ones who will deliver thusly.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Today features different people, going at different paces, with different tolerance levels and definitions of “high pressure.” You'll be as content as you are patient.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The good fortune will come from getting out and interacting. Tonight you may find yourself communicating differently with someone as you begin to sense this person's deepening affection.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Tending to your inner self is as essential to your existence as feeding yourself. Right now it's about paying greater attention to what you need, how you feel and, most importantly, what you have to give others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There's someone who's been thinking of you. In fact, yours is the first face that pops to mind in the morning and the last one that comes in clear at night. What do you wish for this person?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Mastering anger will be the advanced skill to work on. Danger and anger are only one letter apart. While it's healthy to express your feelings, anger should only be let out in a safe context. Anger also defuses with a delay.

POLICE BLOTTER The following assault, robbery, burglaries, and grand thefts have been reported by BHPD. Streets are by block numbers.

ASSAULT 12/18 9300 Wilshire Blvd.

12/19 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/20 300 N. Canon Dr. BURGLARIES 12/16 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/18 100 S. Oakhurst Dr. 12/18 200 Stanley Dr. 12/19 300 S. Almont Dr. 12/19 200 N. Almont Dr. 12/19 100 N. Le Doux Rd. 12/20 300 N. Crescent Dr. 12/20 Park Way/N. Rodeo Dr. 12/20 9500 Brighton Way 12/22 9300 Wilshire Bl. 12/23 500 N. Rodeo Dr.

12/23 9700 Olympic Bl. 12/24 Park Way/N. Canon Dr. 12/24 Park Way/N. Crescent Dr. GRAND THEFTS 09/01 1000 Wallace Ridge 11/15 100 N. Swall Dr. 11/25 200 S. La Peer Dr. 12/18 200 Reeves Dr. 12/19 9800 Wilshire Bl. 12/19 1000 N. Beverly Dr. 12/19 400 N. Oakhurst Dr. 12/22 500 Arkell Dr. 12/22 S. Elm Dr./Charleville Bl. 12/22 100 N. Almont Dr. ROBBERY 12/22 8300 Wilshire Bl.

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