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SECTION ONE
Design for Living LARCHMONT CHRONICLE MAY 2009
Trutanich faces Weiss; fifth district runoff City attorney debate is May 7
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hen you walk into Thomas Newman’s newly remodeled 1926 Hancock Park home, you don’t know whether to look to the past or to the future. And that’s a very good thing.
Tom and Ricky Strauss bought the McCadden Place house in March 2008. It was designed and built by the owner Walter Brown and his son, and later remodeled by William Gage (Please turn to page 27)
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DANIEL MURPHY bought by Jewish Orthodox School. 6 GAS PRICES affecting hybrid sales. 18 SPELLING BEES, trips in School News.
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CAMP SECTION has science projects to solar trips. 35 TWO FOR the road. Restaurants. 45
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Candidates for L.A. City Attorney, Councilman Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich, will take part in a debate sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles, on Thurs., May 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. at 543 N. Fairfax Ave. ABC TV news reporter John North will moderate the panelists who will also answer written questions submitted from the audience. Both Weiss, and Trutanich, a former deputy district attorney, will square off in a Tues., May 19 runoff election in their race to succeed termedout City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. Weiss, who is also an attorney, has served on the L.A. City Council since 2001. Also on the ballot are former state Assemblyman Paul Koretz and neighborhood council member David T. Vahedi, who are competing for Weiss’ fifth District seat on the City Council. The fifth district See Election, p. 6
MORE THAN 100 volunteers from Paramount Studios lent a hand at Van Ness Elementary School on Viacommunity Day. Paramount Pictures Studio president Randy Baumberger and Kelley Avery, president of Paramount Worldwide Home Entertainment, read to students. Story page 13.
Wilshire line favored at Metro meetings on transit Line would run west to the sea Residents attending the meetings for the westside subway extension project in April overwhelmingly favored a Wilshire alignment that would extend the existing Metro Red Line station at Wilshire Blvd. and Western Ave. west to San-
ta Monica. The Wilshire alignment is one of three choices presented at the meetings; the others are a West Hollywood route, and a no-build alternative. In all, five meetings were See Subway, p. 8
Marijuana dispensary opens on Melrose City set to close Bull Dog Café by May 17 A new marijuana dispensary, Bull Dog Café Collective has opened half a block from John C. Fremont Public Library, infuriating some area residents. Its proximity to a library and surrounding residential neighborhood is a lethal mix, according to Cindy Chvatal, president of the Hancock Park Homeowners Association. The site, at 6105 Melrose Ave., is also operating illegally. “They’ve apparently jumped the gun,” and opened without an interim control ordinance exemption, said Doug Mensman, planning deputy for Councilman Tom LaBonge. Bulldog Café owner Anthony Folsom applied for the hardship exemption with the city clerk’s office in February. But, apparently he has not followed up on the matter since opening the store in March, after moving from a Cahuenga lo-
cation. “Either they don’t know or don’t care that they have to get permission via a vote of
the City Council to grant the hardship,” Mensman said. Folsom was not available for comment. Store manager See Marijuana, p. 4
Marathon runs on Memorial Day The 24th annual Los Angeles Marathon, including a 5K run and the Acura L.A. Bike Tour, kicks off at 6th St. and Figueroa on Memorial Day, Mon., May 25 at 7:30 a.m. The route—to run the same course as last year—will wind down Wilshire Blvd., south on Fairfax, then east on 6th St. to Rossmore Ave. There, it will turn north to 3rd St. before going south on Gramercy Pl. and back to 6th St. Finally, runners will head south on Wilton Pl. to Olympic Blvd., and onto the finish line at 5th and Flower streets downtown.
On the Boulevard Glimpses by Jane
TOURS OF LOCAL fire stations, apparatus demonstrations and a pancake breakfast at the Old Fire Station 27 Museum and Memorial will mark Fire Service Recognition Day Sat., May 9. Story page 10.
The extreme hot weather didn’t deter shoppers and diners from frequenting the boulevard. Gift shopping for Mother’s Day and graduations will spur more activity as the new month dawns. *** While shopping at Noni, we met Ellen Hoberman and learned her daughter Sarah will be interning with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC news anchor. Sarah attends George Washington University in Washington, D.C. where she is a political communications major with a minor in jourSee BLVD., p. 31
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