RLn 11-23-22

The Legacy of the Buscaino Community Grants

West Harbor Breaks Ground

Facing the future of the waterfront and the threat of erasure

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

On Nov. 12, A few hundred attendees packed around the stage for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the long-awaited entertainment and dining complex dubbed “West Harbor.” Ports O’ Call Village was de molished to make way for the long-awaited waterfront development.

Construction on the new San Pedro waterfront complex is set to start in the summer of 2023. The entertainment and dining complex will mark the first major overhaul since Ports O’ Call Village’s founding in 1962. The $155 million project is scheduled to be completed in three phases, with the first phase intro ducing new restaurants, shops, and bars with a finish date of 2024.

Joe Buscaino, the outgoing city council representa tive for the 15th district, began his remarks by reminisc ing about the past and memories of his youth in San Pedro, a habit he’s given over to as he winds up his tenure.

“As a child, some of my best memories of my life are from visiting Ports O’ Call Village, where my dad would take me and my sisters for ice cream after he came back from days at sea as a fisherman, then it seemed like we lost an entire generation of memories,” he said, almost as if he didn’t have anything to do with the rapid erasure of San Pedro’s cultural heritage. But, he’ll fix it, he said.

Buscaino recounted the highlights of the Waterfront Development project starting with the Downtown Watercut groundbreaking ceremony in 2012, one of the first of his tenure on the north side of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. It was indeed a full circle moment given that the Nov. 12 ceremony was about 100 feet away from the first ceremony ten years ago.

No one spent much time rehashing how the Port of Los Angeles fought tooth and nail to work with the Community Redevelopment District to develop the waterfront to revive San Pedro. Or turned deaf to restaurateur John Papadakis’ pleas to return the waterfront to the people of San Pedro and develop it. And yet now, nearly two decades after he proposed the vision for this area, he was recognized for that vision by outgoing councilmember Buscaino.

The new waterfront of West Harbor will feature a 20,000-square-foot beer garden, more than one mile of waterfront access, and more than 150,000 square feet of

retail, restaurants, entertainment and more. Other elements include the proposed 6,200-seat amphitheater; 9,000 square foot food and dining hall; three overwater decks for dining directly on the waterfront; more than 20,000 square feet of waterside space for attractions and harbor excursions; and 1,200 linear feet of courtesy dock to accommodate boats.

West Harbor, as it has been pictured to-date, has many of the elements envisioned and demanded by the community 20 years ago. That is due to the local grassroots activism that rose and pushed the port to do what it didn’t want to do. There are also a number of elements that didn’t make it, the most prominent of which was the revival of the Red Car line from the south end of the San Pedro Waterfront to Wilmington. That dream was ultimately put in a coffin a couple of years ago when the port pulled the trigger on pulling up the railroad tracks to make room for greenspace for the coming redevel opment of Rancho San Pedro public housing.

Community business leaders and the port had decided that San Pedro’s revitalization rests on increased density around the downtown core and waterfront development rather than transportation even though the POLA has now hired a consul tant to create a “connectivity” plan for this area.

The developers have an unprecedented 66-year lease with the port to operate West Harbor with more than $100 mil lion of investment by the city and the Port of Los Angeles to

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

To recap, in the wake of the protest fol lowing the killing of George Floyd in Min neapolis, Minnesota, which set off protests across the nation advocating for the end of wanton police killings of Black men and police brutality in general in July 2020, the LA City Council cut the Los Angeles Police Department by $150 million and pledged to pour that money into disenfran chised communities. Council members set aside $60 million, using much of those funds to balance the budget, leaving about $89 million for various programs.

The $89 million was spread across the neediest census tracts in the city with Council District 15 receiving the third most at $12 million. CD 15 Councilman Joe Buscaino chose to divvy-up $3 million of these funds amongst the nonprofit orga nizations in CD 15 through the so-called Buscaino Community Grants, in which the top vote-getting nonprofit organizations in their respective parts of the district won a grant. While stakeholders throughout the council district got to pick the deserving nonprofits that applied for the grants, it was the council office that created the pa rameters for the grant proposals.

About a year and a half ago, I called Buscaino out on these pages for not ensur ing that all of the nonprofit organizations that won a “Buscaino Grant” received their money. The proposals had to benefit the communities of Watts, Wilmington, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway and San Pe dro. And grant proposals could range from $10,000 to $100,000. In order to partici pate, they needed to have 501(c)(3) status or operate under the umbrella of a 501(c) (3) and have a Business Tax Registration Certificate with the City of Los Angeles.

Applications were supposed to have been vetted to ensure they met all the ap plicable criteria.

The voting rule was one vote, one per son. By voting, residents were confirming that either they lived in the community or were a community interest stakeholder in the community in which they were voting.

Finalists were notified the first week of May 2021. The voting period opened from May 10 to May 31, 2021, and the council office began announcing the winners start ing with Watts on Juneteenth in June 2021.

Those parameters dictated that all pro

“It’s not my money,” he said. “It’s taxpayer money!” But he sure didn’t act like that was the case

Councilman Joe Buscaino cuts the ribbon at the groundbreaking for West Harbor, the new dining complex replacing Ports O’ Call Village.

Photo by Chris Villanueva

Announcements: Harbor Area

2023 Edison STEM Scholarship Applica tion

The Edison Scholars Program will award $50,000 college scholarships to 30 high school seniors studying science, technology, engineering or math (STEM). Applications are open until Dec. 9.

Requirements: Must be a high school senior with at least a cumulative 3.0 GPA, plan to pur sue studies in the STEM fields at a four-year ac credited college or university and show financial need.

The top 50 finalists will be required to submit a short video and potentially participate in a final interview.

Details: https://tinyurl.com/edison-scholars and apply at: https://tinyurl.com/3jntts88

Long Beach Seeks Volunteers for 2023 Homeless Point in Time Count

The Long Beach Health Department is seek ing 250 community volunteers to help conduct the 2023 Point in Time or PIT count, its street count of people experiencing homelessness in Long Beach, taking place on Jan. 26, 2023. The PIT Count is a community wide effort that provides an opportunity for residents and local businesses to contribute and learn about people who are experiencing homelessness and gain an understanding of the resources available to ad dress homelessness in Long Beach.

Details: https://tinyurl.com/homeless-count

City of Los Angeles Child Care Grant Program

Single parents in Los Angeles can now apply for the city’s Child Care Grant for Single Parents program, which will provide eligible parents up to $1,000 per month for up to six months in child care support. Angelenos can apply for the grant at one of the city’s 17 WorkSource Centers.

Details: bit.ly/lacipgrant

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LAHSA Holds Panel on Rise of Latino Homelessness

By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter

On Nov. 17, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA, hosted a panel via Zoom about the rise of Latino homelessness in LA County. The panel discussed how low wages, the pandemic, the language barrier and misinformation about services led to a 26% increase in homelessness among Latinos in the county from 2020 to 2022, according to the most recent homeless count.

Marina Genchev, LAHSA associate director in systems of planning, said that Latinos are the largest demographic group in the county, making up about 49% of the population. There are about the same number of homeless Latinos proportionally, as they represent 44% of the homeless population.

“The pandemic, we know, has deepened California’s chronic economic housing inequalities for low-income and people of color Hispanics, particularly the Hispanic/Latinx population,” Genchev said.

Genchev said that the Latino homeless population also increased between 2019 and 2020, by 12%.

“Things are increasing and getting worse,” Genchev said. “This is something we want to pay attention to and respond to quickly.”

As of the 2022 homeless count, there are 28,945 homeless Latinos in the county. Of that

number, 27% are in shelters.

The vast majority of homeless Latinos are adults, with 96% being over the age of 25. Homeless Latino veterans and seniors increased as well between 2020 and 2022.

Genchev said that 63% of homeless Latinos have been homeless for less than a year, as well as a 20% increase in Latino adults being homeless for the first time.

“This is a new problem,” Genchev said. “This is a recent problem; this is a growing problem.”

Vanessa Sedano, managing director of The Whole Child, a nonprofit that provides housing to families, said economic hardship is a big reason for the rise in Latino homelessness.

“We have seen people trickling in that historically would not use the system,” Sedano said. “Those are people that are being impacted by employment loss, due to working for momand-pop companies that are no longer open due to the COVID [pandemic].”

Sedano said there are also people who were being paid cash under the table, and they would not be able to apply for unemployment benefits.

Sedano’s organization is trying to reach out to people on the verge of homelessness and let them know about available services before they are evicted.

Genchev said there are several barriers to

connecting Latino homeless people with housing or other services. One is the language barrier, some do not feel comfortable using seeking services if they aren’t in their preferred language.

“There might be cultural stigma around seeking help, or seeking assistance, especially when it comes to homelessness or mental health or substance abuse,” Genchev said. “Immigration status is another thing that can definitely cause fear and nervousness in seeking services, as well as a number of other reasons, like lack of understanding, lack of knowledge, lack of trust.”

Milagros Lopez, program manager at the Council District 8 navigation center, said a lot of people don’t know where or how to reach out for help. In addition, disabilities and poor health can also make accessing services more difficult.

Hazel Lopez, senior director of the coordinated entry system and community engagement at the People Concern, said that Latinos on the verge of homelessness often are misinformed, and think they will not qualify for resources because of their legal status. However, in the City of Los Angeles, there are resources that are available regardless.

“We have programs that are federallyfunded, and those that are funded by the city,” Hazel Lopez said. “And those that are federally-

[See LAHSA Panel, p. 8]

West Harbor Breaks Ground

the site’s infrastructure. There are some who suggested that the rush to break ground now was moti vated by the change coming to the mayor’s office starting in Decem ber after the close election votes have been counted. Some city hall insiders believed that candidate Rick Caruso would have taken a dim view of this project and that Karen Bass who has just declared victory in the mayor’s race might want to review or alter this project to create more diversity and eco nomic opportunities for small or minority-owned businesses.

Eight acres of outdoor recre ation tenants, parks, and leisure spaces on the waterfront do not include any of the previous Ports O’Call tenants, the San Pedro Fish Market nor any other San Pedro brands as previously promised by the developers; except Harbor

including restaurants, nightclubs and hotels.

King and Queen Cantina

The West Harbor location will be the third location for King and Queen Cantina. King and Queen Cantina is part of the Mr. Tempo franchise founded by Jorge Cueva.

The restaurant combines Latin fla vors with a farm-to-table experi ence serving sustainable ingredients presented in one-of-a-kind dishes honoring Mexican influence, while also showing off culinary inspiration from international cuisine. The bar will offer mixologists creating craft cocktails that have garnered consis tent five-star ratings.

Hopscotch Immersive Art

Hopscotch is an immersive and experiential brand that brings to gether artists in collaborative envi ronments to create unique, impactful

opened in 1997 in the North Hollywood Arts District and the brand continues to expand. Besides Costa Mesa, the chain’s other SoCal locations are in Manhattan Beach, Mar Vista, Pasadena and West LA. The restaurants serve 12 sourdough crust pizzas and offer a create-your-own pie option with vegan and gluten-free choices like house-made vegan cheese and cauli flower crust.

The Win-dow Burgers

The Win-dow is best known for its inexpensive smash burgers, earning a

following well before the pandemic. The company expanded over the fall of 2020, opening a second outlet along the Venice Boardwalk that still sells the same under-$5 cheeseburger by the hundreds.

Jay Bird’s Chicken

Opening its first location in Long Beach, Jay Bird’s Chicken is a represen tation of Chef Jay’s upbringing in Chica go, where he would spend the summers visiting Nashville and frying chicken ev ery Sunday as a family tradition.

Olala Crêpes

Olala Crêpes is a creperie located in the Liberty Public Market of San Diego. It has developed a variety of products that offer an alternative to the current fast food options. Olala Crêpes hasde veloped an array of freshly prepared, high-quality, savory and sweet crêpes.

Marufuku Ramen

Marufuku serves authentic Hakatastyle tonkotsu ramen featuring milky and umami-rich broth made from boiling pork bones for long hours, and ultra-thin

Mike Hess Brewery

Mike Hess is a craft brewery with several franchises in and around San Diego and another in the Bay Area in Walnut Creek. Considered a premier craft brew ery, Mike Hess beers are distrib uted throughout California. Origi nally established in 2010 as San Diego’s first nano-brewery, the company has expanded to include six locations and is now the 35th largest craft brewer in the state. Their tasting room and brew ery locations are family and dogfriendly.

Yamashiro and Sugar Factory

The Fish Market’s former footprint at West Harbor will be partially occupied by Yamashiro and Sugar Factory, a trendy bras serie known for bombastic des serts and other Instagram-friendly fares. Both Yamashiro and Sugar Factory are co-operated by Elie Samaha, a high-profile film pro ducer and real estate developer with multiple business interests,

and distinct shared experiences. The company believes art can be a vessel to tell stories and illuminate impor tant messages of the past, present, and future.

Poppy+Rose

Poppy + Rose is a Californiainspired brunch restaurant located in the Flower District in Downtown Los Angeles. Founded in 2014, the restaurant’s husband-wife duo Chef Michael Reed and Kwini Reed, Pop py + Rose serve seasonal, elevated country kitchen-styled comfort food in a relaxed, floral-themed ambiance.

Harbor Breeze Cruises

The only legacy tenant from the Ports O’ Call Village era, Harbor Breeze Cruises is a top destination for whale-watching in Long Beach and Los Angeles. With custom-built high-speed vessels, Harbor Breeze Cruises can cover waters north to Santa Monica and south to Newport Beach for maximum range coverage resulting in maximum marine lifesighting success.

Pitfire Pizza

Pitfire Pizza has seven locations. Its lease at West Harbor will be its eighth. The original Pitfire Pizza

Breeze Cruises. Confirmed restaurants and dining include:

An attendee of West Harbor groundbreaking event looks at the plans for the complex, which include restaurants, shops and bars. Photo by Chris Villanueva

UAW Picketing Continues at UC Campuses

Solidarity from other unions reduces construction site work

As the sun rises over the UCLA campus, hun dreds of UAW members from several bargaining units are on the picket line. This is day four of their strike statewide at 10 campuses, represent ing 48,000 researchers, teaching assistants and graduate students. The system is gigantic with 280,000 students and 230,000 faculty and staff.

This strike, a year and 50 bargaining sessions in the making, is the largest at any academic institution in history. The workers perform the majority of teaching and research in the state’s premier university system. Their unified ac tion, pickets and support from professors and an overwhelming majority of students triggered canceled classes and shuttered labs weeks before final exams. The strike also included workers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Unionists are demanding significant pay in creases, child-care subsidies, enhanced healthcare for dependents, longer family leave, public transit passes, and lower tuition costs for international scholars. The majority of their members are “rentburdened,” or spending more than 30% of their income on rent. The unions are asking that sala ries be tied to increases in the local cost of living, including housing, so that no one pays more than 30% of their salary toward housing costs.

UC has offered salary scale increases of 7% in the first year and 3% in each subsequent year for teaching assistants and tutors, and increases for postdoctoral scholars of 8% in the first year, 5% in the second year, and 3% in subsequent

By Mark Friedman, Contributor [See UC,

years. UC said pay increases would amount to up to 17%, depending on the union. UC has asked for a neutral mediator to step in.

Omer Sohail, a researcher who, like many, makes $24,000 but has to pay $1,600 a month in rent, was forced to take a second job. He told this reporter that he also takes a full load of classes.

“We have had support from the Ironworkers Union Local 433 working on building construc tion, and Teamster Local 2010 drivers who are refusing to cross the picket lines,” he pointed out.

In an interview with Random Lengths News, UAW striker Jared Brewster noted that following the strike announcement, 16 workers walked off the job, effectively shutting down the construc tion site at the Luskin School of Public Affairs. Several other unionized workers refused to show up after learning of the strike the day before. The workers who walked off were members of the Sheet Metal Local 105, Ironworkers Local 433, Plumbers UA Local 78 and UA Local 761.

The state federation encompasses 2 million members and 1,200 affiliated unions and Team sters Joint Councils 7 and 42 have said that their members can honor the picket lines. UPS drivers have been informed that they can refuse to de liver packages in California.

Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, executive secre tary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation said, “We stand alongside the dedicated aca demic workers who are so critical to the teach

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Searching for the Yellow Brick Road

Cultural erasure of Oz, from Old Beacon Street to Ports O’ Call

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

I’ve always had an affinity for L. Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), the author of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Long after I read the book as a child, I came to know more of the backstory about the author who started his career as a small town newspaper editor and publisher in South Dakota before he published his series of books on the Wizard and Land of Oz — a series based on what looked like a simple children’s fable at first glance was instead a political parable about the battle between advocates favoring our national currency being backed by either the silver or gold standard.

Suddenly the yellow brick road and Doro thy’s silver (not “ruby”) slippers — as they be came in the 1939 Hollywood adaptation — start ed to make more sense. Baum went on to have an illustrious career writing 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.

By 1910 he moved to Los Angeles where he experienced great success with the Broadway pro duction of The Wizard of Oz. He produced other stage-productions, filed for bankruptcy, received a sizable inheritance from his mother-in-law and built an architectural marvel of a California Craftsman style home at 1741 N. Cherokee Ave., in Hollywood, called OZCOT. He lived there with his library of works, his wife Maud and a beautiful garden only to die at the age of 62 in 1919. Twenty years later, just blocks from this house, the Wizard

of Oz movie premiered at Grauman’s theater. And then in 1953, his wife died and the OZ COT was sold, demolished and replaced with bland stucco apartments.

Sadly, this is the way Los Angeles treats its cultural heritage. The land under which our cultural heritage lies has more value than the history and culture created by the people who lived there. It’s a tragedy that I have witnessed many times as a resident of Los Angeles over the years.

When I first arrived in San Pedro some 50 years ago, there was a grand street party put on by the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce celebrating the demolition of lower Beacon Street. This area was notorious around the world as being “the toughest four blocks in the world” with its second-floor bar girls, basement casinos — not to mention the infa mous Shanghai Red’s Café. It is said on Bea

con Street that “money flowed as freely as blood from the open wounds of rolled sailors.” And so, for many decades various groups have tried to “re brand” San Pedro. Yet in places as far away as Bangkok, Thailand the street still inspires awe and curios ity. Back in the 1970s, just one lone architect objected to tearing down the old buildings.

Some 30 years later, the term “adaptive reuse” came into fashion and many of the old downtown edifices and buildings were saved. People came to regret the demise of Old Beacon Street or at least its historic archi tecture, but not so much its reputation.

It was during the demolition phase that Pep per Tree Plaza, at the foot of Sixth Street, was established to preserve some modicum of the cultural history as many could see that if things continued on with the Los Angelesification of San Pedro there would be a complete erasure of the old in a race to invent the new. Los Angeles always seems to be chasing the chimera of reinvention and running away from its past. There remains a certain allure of the authenticity of the past, a reverence if you will, that attracts both artists and location scouts for the film industry. It’s why the poet Charles Bukowski landed here to escape the phony façades of Hollywood. It’s why political radicals chose here to hide out from the blacklists and is why almost everyone else who wasn’t born here came here — for the authenticity.

This place is about as far away from the abyss of the metropolis as you can get without leaving the actual city of LA, and many Angelenos still don’t know the city actually has a harbor. This is all about to change with the West Harbor de velopment which was recently feted in the same fashion as the destruction of Beacon Street — I’ve said many times before, we will long regret being discovered by LA.

Councilman Joe Buscaino in his zeal to re invent San Pedro has added his pastiche to Pep per Tree Plaza and reinvented it into an Italian piazza — for which there is no historical rhyme or reason. The recent apartment developments also have no seeming relevance to the history of this place. German tourists (of which there are many) who come looking for Bukowski’s ghost may walk away mistaking this place for Redondo Beach.

Cultural erasure has been with Califor nia since it was “discovered,” and like Bruce’s

Beach or the native tribes of the Gabrielinos, there’s always something left behind for some future urban archeologists to dig up from be neath the pavement. West Harbor will always be Ports O’ Call. And Old Beacon Street will always have the memory of Shanghai Red’s.

The long anticipated completion of the wa terfront promenade and the proposed West Har

bor, perhaps our own Yellow Brick Road, will lead Dorothy and others from Kansas or perhaps nearer, to discover that there is no Emerald City here but only a still proud authentic working class community that tenaciously holds onto its traditions, identity and history — refusing still to be like Los Angeles while complaining vocifer ously about being a part of it.

How to Stop the GOP from Killing Medicare, Social Security, and Us

By Thom Hartmann

It’s The Ronald Reagan Memorial Competi tion: which Republican can make the rich richer and the poor poorer the fastest? This week, Re publican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin wants to one-up Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida in this perpetual GOP contest over who can most effectively screw working people.

Johnson wants Congress to vote every year whether or not to continue funding both Social Security and Medicare, while Scott says it should only be every five years. On top of that, in a true tribute to Saint Ronny, they’re competing for how to most aggressively raise income taxes on working-class people, and how quickly.

You may remember Rick Scott as the guy who ran the company convicted of the largest Medicare fraud in the history of America, who then took his money and ran for governor of Florida, where he prevented the state from ex panding Medicaid for low-income Floridians.

Scott is the second-richest guy in the Senate and, true to form, he’s now echoing the sentiments of the richest guy in the Senate, Mitt Romney.

“There are 47% who are with him,” Romney

said of Barack Obama voters back in 2012, “who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the govern ment has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. These are peo ple who pay no income tax.”

Most low-income working people in America actually pay a higher percentage of their income as taxes than do many billionaires and multimulti-millionaires.

Working people pay Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and other taxes in the form of fees for everything, from a driver’s license, to road tolls, to annual car inspections.

Billionaires, on the other hand, have bought politicians to write so many loopholes into the tax code that most — like Donald Trump — will go decades without paying a single penny in in come taxes.

But that level of inequality isn’t enough for Sen. Scott, who’s committed to out-neoliberaling

Political Violence

Going back to 2016, Donald Trump said at one of his rallies, “ he could shoot somebody on 5th Ave., and wouldn’t lose any votes”. Shooting someone might be an outrageous statement, al though Mr. Trump is known for spinning negative statements in stead of defending himself against it. Whatever the issue, Trumpian speech puts things into terms that are kinder to his brand. Conse quently, since Mr. Trump took of fice in 2016, there has been a 10fold upsurge in violence against members of Congress.

Donald Trump wants to run again for President and continue where he left off with chaos and scandal. Americans do not want a leader who is impulsive, undis ciplined, tradition-defying with an inclination to bypass the truth (tell Lies) and skirt the law.

Donald Trump has been a po larizing president for the American people and consequently, we have seen our democracy in danger with Mr. Trump. American people need to “stand united, instead of divided we fall.” We do not need a leader who has a narcissistic mental dis order who has an unrealistic high sense of their own importance.

What makes our nation sepa rate from other countries is that we have laws that protect our rights under the U.S. constitution as well as civil rights laws. Trump’s ad ministration aggressively tried to turn back the clock on our nation’s civil and human rights progress.

Stop the GOP

Mr. Trump did not deliver on for eign policy, has admiration for dic tators, does not believe in climate change, and put the United States in a bad light with our allies.

Mr. Trump fails to understand what makes our country great. We are a country of immigrants and of people of different colors from many countries. Mr. Trump never supported amnesty and his policy was to separate children from their parents at the border. Former Vice President Mike Pence says, “I think we’ll have better choices than Trump in 2024. Let us hope so!

John Winkler San Pedro

Urge Newsom to Support Clean Energy

Gov. Gavin Newsom clearly cares about his image as an en vironmentalist governor who is guiding our state toward national leadership in combating climate change. But following the mid term election, the California Pub lic Utilities Commission, led by his appointees, has issued a new proposal that would severely cut the subsidies that new rooftop so lar customers receive. For people who go solar after April 2023, the CPUC is proposing to slash by 75 percent or more the credit that new customers would receive for the excess energy that they contribute to the grid. Due to this and other

parts of the proposal, it would double the length of time it takes for the solar investment to pay for itself, going beyond 10 years for most of the California market. The bottom line is that this proposal would put rooftop solar out of reach for millions of working fam ilies, churches, schools, and busi nesses while increasing the profits of large utility companies.

The CPUC is scheduled to vote on this proposal on December 15. Governor Newsom has the power to reject the proposal if the CPUC passes it. Urge him to stop this cur rent proposal and encourage the CPUC to come up with a better one that significantly supports the expansion of rooftop solar. An on line search for “Contact Newsom” will lead you to his website, where you can leave a written comment. Or call his office to leave a spoken comment at 916-445-2841. Thanks

for considering this action.

Terry Andrews San Pedro

Lack of Disabled Access for the Art Walk

I haven’t attended the art walk in many years now. I have mobility issues and found the art walk to not be very disabled friendly. Parking access is virtually nonexistent. Of ten, I would drive around for up to 30-40 min. for a space, to eventu ally give up, and go back home. I know we have an aging artist com munity, making access critical. In the past when I brought the issue up, it was treated with an oh-hum response, if at all. Having had a studio in the ‘80s, long before it was fashionable, on Palos Verdes Street, I do feel an affinity with the current successes in making the old town area thrive again.

Slobodan Dimitrov Long Beach

In Random Lengths News Nov. 10, issue, the story “First Thursday ArtWalk Reaches a Milestone” mistakenly men tioned its subject Linda Grimes without an explanation of her title preceding her introduction. Grimes is the executive direc tor of the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District. We regret the error.

Ronnie himself. He wants everybody in Rom ney’s “47%,” even people making $7.25 an hour or less, to subsidize billionaires by paying in come taxes on their meager wages.

His logic is nuts. The simple reality is, if you want more Americans to pay income taxes, all you have to do is raise working people’s pay. This isn’t rocket science.

We saw it work out in a big way between 1933 and 1980, before Reagan’s war on labor, when unions helped wages — and income tax payments — steadily rise for working people. Those rising wages literally built the middle class, which peaked in 1980 and then began its long slide under Reaganomics.

In the early years of the Reagan administra tion, before his neoliberal “trickle down” and “supply side” policies started to really bite Amer icans, only 18% of Americans were so poor that their income didn’t qualify to be taxed.

As “Right to Work for Less” laws spread across America and Republicans on the Supreme Court made it harder for unions to function, however, more and more working people fell below the tax threshold. When Romney ran for president in 2012, it was 47% of working people who had fallen out of the middle class and were then so poor that they lived below the income tax threshold.

Today, just a decade later (and after the $2 trillion Trump tax cut), it takes two working adults to maintain the same lifestyle that one worker could provide in 1980. That’s why an es timated 61% of working Americans this year will make so little money that they’ll struggle to pay the rent and buy food, and their income won’t be

subject to taxation.

But Rick Scott’s solution to this situation isn’t to raise the income of working-class people so they make enough to pay for food, rent, and qualify to pay income taxes.

Quite to the contrary, he’s suggesting that lowincome people should be hit with their very own special income tax — in addition to the dozens of other taxes they’re already paying — so multimil lionaires and billionaires like him and his friends can see their own taxes go down a tiny bit.

“All Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game,” Scott says in his 11-point plan, “even if it is a small amount. Cur rently over half of Americans pay no income tax.”

But for Ron Johnson, even that’s not quite enough of a club to beat working-class Ameri cans over the head, particularly those who are retired and no longer working. He’s targeting the older folks, in fact, for his punishment this week.

He wants to open the Social Security and Medicare trust funds to an annual vote by Con gress by moving those programs from the “man datory spending” category to the easily changed or deleted “discretionary spending.”

“Defense spending has always been discre tionary,” Johnson said on a recent radio show. “VA spending is discretionary. What’s mandatory are things like Social Security and Medicare. If you qualify for the entitlement you just get it no matter what the cost.”

Read the complete article at: www.random lengthsnews.com

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the au thor of The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream (2020); The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America (2019); and more than 25 other books. This article was published in Common Dreams.

funded have eligibility or criteria that oftentimes undocumented folks are unable to access, but those programs or resources funded by the city don’t have such strict criteria. But without that education piece, and the general public not really knowing that, this population in particular, is the one that gets adversely impacted.”

Milagros Lopez said she was living in the United States for 30 years before Donald Trump was elected president. Because of the fear of deportation, she obtained her citizenship shortly afterwards.

“When I did my citizenship, I was told by the instructor that that was the biggest graduating class, for so many reasons,” Milagros Lopez said. “And that was because of the fear of losing status, of not being able to provide by being sent back to their countries. So I believe that the policies that were put in place, and the limited access to the resources to the non-citizens, caused this disconnect.”

Sedano said some were afraid to apply for benefits because they thought it would impact their ability to attain citizenship.

“People are in fear of applying for benefits because they’re in fear that if this country gives you something, that means that you’re a burden, and that you won’t be able to apply for immigration status,” Sedano said.

However, Sedano did say there are times it is difficult to find services that people who are not documented qualify for.

“There’s a stigma … Latinos are eating up all our funding, through the state, through the federal,” Sedano said. “It is not true. There is so much money that goes back to the state and the federal government because it’s not being utilized.”

Sedano said the biggest reason for Latinos

becoming homeless is poverty.

“The gap between the fair market wage and the area median income and the wages that they’re making is tremendous,” Sedano said. “When people come in sometimes … there are situations that can be quickly fixed, and the problem is they just can’t pay their rent. The gap between the wages is just so drastic.”

Sedano said she can give them services, but the type of employment they have will never al low them to live out of crisis.

“How do we provide higher wage opportu nities?” Sedano said. “Right now, our program is piloting a very small [program], focusing on robust employment services.”

Her program will try to provide them with employment opportunities that will pay them at least $26 an hour.

“You’re a flat tire way from homelessness every month,” Sedano said. “That brings trau ma, that’s crisis every month.”

Sedano said she would like to see more La tino representation in government. Ten years ago, there were no decision-makers that looked like her, or the people they were serving.

“When you’re trying to really bring robust services that are really tailored to service this population, it becomes really difficult when people that are decision-makers can’t connect with us, and don’t understand our language.”

However, there is some good news. Genchev said that since 2020, there has been a 2% increase each year in the number of home less adults finding permanent housing after going to temporary housing. LAHSA has im proved in getting them connected with the doc uments they need for permanent housing.

“We’re also working closely with the county office of immigrant affairs to address undocumented homelessness, and to launch an initiative focused on Hispanic/Latinx home lessness,” Genchev said.

artisanal noodles that match perfectly with the broth, and char-siu made from specially select ed pork. West Harbor will be the ramen shop’s ninth location.

Bark Social

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The Baked Bear

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Mario’s Butcher Shop

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LA Maritime Institute

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A photo taken in 2021 of homeless people at Beacon Street. File photo

The Black Panther is Dead, Long Live the Black Panther

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever gracefully moves past the death of Chadwick Boseman and triumphantly introduces one of Marvel’s most iconic characters

By Hunter Chase

It’s obvious from the beginning of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever that something is missing. Chadwick Boseman, who played T’Challa, aka Black Panther, in previous Marvel movies, is absent after he tragically died from cancer in 2020. In addition, Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) is no where to be found at the beginning of the movie, and no one else has taken the mantle of Black Panther after the character of T’Challa died. In many ways, since the movie does not center around T’Challa, it feels less like a Black Panther movie, but instead a Wakanda movie centered around the loss of the Black Panther.

This was likely intentional, as Wakanda Forever has several tributes to Boseman. The movie takes plenty of time to mourn T’Challa and Boseman.

However, since this is Marvel Studios, a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of franchise filmmaking, there’s more money to be made and that necessitates a new Black Panther to be chosen. And even with such a heavy loss hanging over the film, it’s not surprising that it’s so good, as it has the same director and writers as the first Black Panther, which is one of Mar vel’s best movies.

A big part of the reason why Wakanda Forever works so well is because of its antagonist, Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía). Much like the antagonist of the first movie, Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger, director Ryan Coogler gives Namor plenty of screen time and character develop ment, and explains his motivations. Why he goes to war with the Wakandans makes sense, at least in Namor’s point of view.

It’s true that Namor’s origin story has been changed significantly. In the comics he is halfhuman and half-Atlantean, whereas most of his people were fully Atlantean and could not breathe air. I won’t spoil his exact origin story in the movie, but he is Mesoamerican, as are his people, and their civilization is never called Atlantis. Instead, it is called Talokan. However, Namor’s disdain for surface dwellers is very much in line with his comic book self, and the movie goes to great lengths to explain why. Namor has seen some of the worst of humanity, as he witnesses the Spaniards’ enslavement of the Indigenous people. In the comics, he has disdain for the surface world because of the way they have mistreated Atlanteans, but the movie adds more depth to his character by having him be related to a people who were marginalized in real life.

Another reason why the first movie worked so well is a trio of women who all gave fine performances, includ ing Nyong’o as Nakia, Letitia Wright as Shuri, and Danai Gurira as Okoye. Each of them display a larger range of

[See Black Panther, p. 10]

Top left: Letitia Wright from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Bottom: A mural of Chadwick Boseman in a scene from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

hanksgiving, as we observe it today, doesn’t have much in common with the original feast of 1621. The temperature of the vibe between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag was above comfort level at the dinner table, with some participants arriving ready to rumble. Come to think of it, maybe today’s Thanksgiv ing table hasn’t strayed too far, being notable for bringing together people from warring political tribes to break bread together, with notoriously mixed results. And this election year, especially, it seems like only social distancing measures might be able to keep apart drunk family mem bers ready to get angry and sloppy.

There was no pumpkin pie, because butter and flour were unheard of or sorely missed, depend ing on ones’ affiliation, but wildfowl was likely on the menu, which leads me, among others, to conclude there was stuffing. Historians point to their evidence, while I point to the simple fact that both Pilgrims and Indians are human beings, and human beings know how to cook. And cooks don’t let an empty body cavity go unstuffed, es pecially during a three-day feast.

Unfortunately, we seem to take this for grant ed in today’s America, where we think nothing of passing around side dishes filled with savory bread pudding called “stuffing” that has never seen the inside of a bird. That’s the fight I’ll pick this year.

Technically, this never stuffed material is “dressing,” not “stuffing.” The reason this dis tinction is important is because the stuff that comes out of the bird is so much better than the side pan, even if the same went into both vessels. The juices from a baked bird impart an unmistakable, irreplaceable joy to the stuffing.

On the east coast, the local diet was heavy on seafood like clams, scallops, seaweed, oysters, mussels, eels and fish. I grew up in coastal Mas sachusetts, where we would sometimes dig a hole in the beach and fill it with ingredients like those above, and hot rocks, and have a clambake.

Somewhere along the way, in my Thanksgiv ing ruminations and experimentations, I decided it would be a good idea to stage a clambake

inside a bird. In order to make it taste more like stuffing, I add breadcrumbs, herbs, lemon and aromatic veggies: onions, carrots and celery.

This recipe depends on a diversity of quality seafood. It’s good to have at least one with the shell on, like clams or mussels, because that makes it seem more like a real clambake. Scallops and shrimp work great too. I must have a jar of oysters, like you can get at the seafood counter of many stores.

Birds: It’s for the Stuffing

By Ari LeVaux, Flash In the Pan Columnist

And I really like imitation crab, like what you get in a California roll. It soaks up the juices like a thirsty sponge.

Chickens, ducks and turkeys all work fan tastic. Rabbit tastes like chicken, so that should work too. But whatever bird you are able to stuff, large or small, you might find yourself with more stuffing than you can possibly cram into your bird.

The easiest thing to do is to stuff it around the bird, along with the potatoes, and let it melt in the pan juices. Another option for too much stuffing: pull the skin away from the bird and stuff it on up between the skin and bird. If basted properly, this layer of stuffing can help keep the bird moist. And finally, we can do the almost unthinkable: bake that excess stuffing in a side pan. Put it in a pan as if you are making a dish of dressing. Put a bunch of chicken wings on top, and cook it until they melt into the dress

ing. And just like that, after all of my huffing and puffing, I have figured out a way to make it taste like stuffing.

But my favorite part of this fishy bird dish is the clam juice brine. You’ve probably heard of clam juice as a mixer, adding deep umami notes from earth and sea to your Bloody Mary. And we can thank James Beard for nationalizing the idea that you should brine a chicken before baking it, because the salt gets in the meat, and salty meat absorbs more water so it stays moist.

My salty clam brine combines the two con cepts and brings them deep into the meat. It flavors the stuffing via the fat, and adds deli cious authenticity to the feast. It may not dis solve the animosity at the table, but perhaps it will at least help keep everyone’s mouths too stuffed with food to talk. And that, my friends, is the true point of Thanksgiving.

Black Panther

emotion in this movie, no doubt because of the loss of Boseman impacting their performances. The same goes for Angela Bassett, who plays

T’Challa’s mother Ramonda. She had little to do in the first movie, but in many ways she anchors Wakanda Forever. She convincingly portrays a woman who must balance grief with enormous responsibility. In addi tion, new character Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), who is called Ironheart in the comics but never in the movie, is a delightful addition to the cast. She’s very funny and charismatic, and defi nitely ready for her spinoff that’s coming to Disney Plus in 2023. While she may have generated some controver sy in the comics by initially going by the name Iron Man, this shouldn’t be a problem in this movie, as she does not seem to be related to Iron Man in any way. She’s just another character in a high-tech suit of armor.

Unsurprisingly, the biggest character arc goes to Wright’s Shuri. While I enjoyed her

performance in the first movie, her main roles were tech support and comic relief. She takes on a central role in Wakanda Forever, having to deal with her feelings of inadequacy as well as her anger, grief and her struggles with morality

The Right Stuffings

Since chicken tastes good with lemon, and seafood tastes good with lemon, I add a lot of lemon.

Some clam juice is salty, some isn’t. Sometimes the salty ones don’t mention salt in the ingredients, but it will show up in the RDA values for sodium. I’ve seen it with zero grams, 40 grams and 100 grams of added sodium, with different bottle sizes. Taste your clam juice, and if it’s really salty, reduce the added salt by a teaspoon or two. Serves 6

4 pound bird

1 10-oz bottle clam juice

6 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 cups minced onion

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup chopped carrots

1 apple, red or green, chopped

1 teaspoon black pepper

3 tablespoons chopped fresh sage

2 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme

1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary

2 pounds seafood (for example; 1 pound mussels or clams on the shell, 1 10-oz tub of oysters and the juice, 6 oz. scallops, 6-oz imitation crab)

½ cup white wine

1 cup crouton-sized breadcrumbs

3 lemons, cut into quarters

4 potatoes, quartered, to surround the bird

Rinse the bird, take out any giblets stashed in the cavity, and brine the bird in the clam juice with the salt and two cups of water.

Push down on the bird hard, so the body cavity fills with brine. Turn it occasionally, and marinate for at least four hours in the fridge.

Rinse the bird, pat it dry, and put it in a roasting pan. Add the oil to a fry pan and saute the onions, garlic, carrots, celery and apple with the black pepper, thyme, rosemary and sage on medium heat. After 10 minutes, add the seafood, wine and lemon juice and squeezed lemons, and cook a few minutes longer, but don’t try to cook all the seafood. Add the breadcrumbs, stir it all together and stuff it into the bird. Place the potatoes around the bird, along with extra stuffing if you go that route.

Cover with foil and place in the oven preheated to 350. After 90 minutes remove the foil. The skin of an extra-stuffed bird will have receded like the tide, leaving a bunch of mussels clinging to the bird like it’s a beach rock. The stuffing on top, including the seafood, will hold the baste like a sponge. Turn the oven down to 300. Baste every 15 minutes until done. After about an hour, use a meat thermometer to make sure the bird’s internal temp is at least 165. Rest, serve and eat.

Black Panther was merely a follow-up to Cap tain America: Civil War, and didn’t have to deal with the earth-shattering ramifications of the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Wakanda Forever doesn’t even ac knowledge that T’Challa has died twice within the past decade. First, he died when Thanos snapped him away at the end of Infinity War, then he was resurrected after five years along with half the planet. He dies for a second time at the beginning of Wakanda Forever due to an undisclosed illness, to coincide with Boseman’s real death. That means his mother, Ramonda, had to deal with losing him twice — three times if you count the time she briefly thought he was dead in the original Black Panther. If the events of the larger MCU didn’t have such a big impact on the Black Panther franchise, this would have felt a lot less jarring.

and practicality.

Wakanda Forever’s biggest weakness is its connection to the rest of the Marvel cinematic universe, or MCU. Its connections worked bet ter in the first film, as it was nice seeing Mar tin Freeman’s Everett Ross and Andy Serkis’ Ulysses Klaue, and to see T’Challa’s relation ship with Ross continue in Black Panther. But

Overall, this is definitely a movie worth see ing, at least to fans of the previous movie and Marvel fans who have been waiting for Namor’s live-action debut. If the MCU wasn’t such a money-printing machine, it’s possible that no sequel would have been made without Bose man. But the show must go on, and because of that we have a new Black Panther — and a very capable one.

Chicken with seafood stuffing. Photo by Ari LeVaux

Angela Bassett as Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

[Black Panther, from p. 9]

25TH ANNIVERSARY

FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK

ART GALLERIES OPEN STUDIOS LATE DINING LIVE MUSIC

Michael Stearns Studio

Palos Verdes Art Center TED TWINE: DEEP FLAT THEORY

TransVagrant

Influences as varied as Tantric art, the cut-outs of late-stage Matisse and historic Japanese painting and woodblock prints have found their way into Ted Twine’s art. Flatness of backgrounds and shapes allows the shape itself to be assertive. Shape is made apparent by its color. Depth is suggested within a relatively flat field with lines branching along the surface, suggesting perpendicular space. Seeing both pos sibilities at the same time is the key to “deep flat” vision.

Opening reception Dec. 2, 6 to 9 p.m. Ceramics sale Dec. 2, 6 to 9 p.m. and Dec. 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Deep Flat Theory runs through Jan. 7, 2023.

Details: 310-541-2479; www.pvartcenter.org

Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

Menduina Schneider Art Gallery THE GRAVURA COLLECTIVE SHOW

Craig

Craig Keith Antrim: Selected Works runs through Dec. 30.

Details: 310-600-4873

Venue: TransVagrant + Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro.

Epiphany Framing by JJ Geary

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Come visit our frame shop and get your project started. Your art deserves the best. 1,000 frame samples to choose from or custom build your own. Check out some local art and understand the important details behind framing and your investment.

Details: 310-600-8881

Venue: Epiphany Framing, 343 W. 7th St. San Pedro

Ted Twine, Wild Fungi, 2022, 32 x 42 in, acrylic and oil on canvas

Orbits

Michael Stearns Studio @The Loft congratulates the San Pedro Arts District on celebrating 25 years of great art in the Harbor Area. Join us for the Dec. 1 San Pedro ArtWalk, we have been cleaning house and will be offering many works at a deep discount for the upcoming holiday shopping season.

Details: www.michaelstearnsstudio.com Venue: Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro.

THE COLORS OF LIFE — MICHAEL STEARNS

Totem Forest by Michael Stearns

Antrim (1942 - 2022) wedded spirituality with the sensual in his work. Much of his work was influenced by his understanding of philosophy, Jungian psychology and the philosophy of Joseph Camp bell. Spiritual iconography appears, evolves, disappears, and reap pears in a variety of reductive abstract guises – paint often revealing embedded forms, symbols, and fragments evocative of mandalas.

MUSIC

Dec. 1

Feed and Be Fed Farm

There will be a Jerry Romano quartet, Christmas songs and carols to sing along to in the garden. Sit, have some popcorn, and enjoy the music in the garden. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Dec. 1 Cost: Free Details: feedandbefed.org

Venue: Feed and Be Fed Farm. 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Dec. 2

Bobby Breton and Friends Ring in the season with Bobby Breton’s Winter Solstice show.

Breton’s seven-member group, Free Jazz Radicals, performs an eclectic musical blend of contemporary, jazz, holiday, film and television, including original music by Bobby Breton. Time: 8 p.m., Dec. 2 Cost: $25 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ Bobby-Breton

Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

First Fridays at First First church organist in residence and UCLA professor Christoph Bull is joined by the noted mezzosoprano I-Chin Lee in a holidaythemed program.

Time: 12:15 p.m., Dec. 2 Cost: Free Details: 310-316-5574; www.palosverdes.com/ classicalcrossroads

Venue: First Lutheran Church and School, 2900 W. Carson St., Torrance

Irish Christmas In America

This family-friendly performance features lively instrumental tunes on fiddle, flute, uilleann pipes and harp, along with Irish oldstyle dancing from Samantha Harvey. In addition, evocative photographic images provide a backdrop to some of the rich historical traditions of Ireland.

Time: 8 p.m., Dec. 2 Cost: $25 to $35

Details: https://torrancearts.org/ show/irish-christmas

Venue: TOCA, 3330 Civic Center Dr., Torrance

Taiko

Dec. 3

Instructors and students of the Los Angeles Taiko Institute housed under Asano Taiko U.S., present contemporary and traditionally-inspired taiko repertoire in their end-of-year recital. Performances are interspersed with commentary on the challenges and joys of learning Japanese drums.

Time: 6 p.m., Dec. 3

Cost: $15 to $25

Details: https://torrancearts. org/show/taiko-recital/ Venue: TOCA, 3330 Civic Center Dr., Torrance

Scott Henderson Trio Scott Henderson’s work over the years as co-leader of the group Tribal Tech, leader of his own trio and sideman to some of the best jazz artists of their generation, including Joe Zawinul, has elevated him to the front ranks of both jazz and blues.

Time: 8 p.m., Dec. 3

Cost: $35

Details: https://tinyurl.com/ Scott-Henderson-trio

Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper Keith Putney Productions presents The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in concert, along with the best of 1967 from The

Beatles. Additionally, hear classic tracks from 1967 by the Beatles and others, taking advantage of the gifts brought by a stellar cast.

Time: 2.30 and 7 p.m., Dec. 3 Cost: $60 to $140

Details: www.keithputney.com

Venue: The Grammy Museum at LA Live, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles

Merry-Achi Christmas

The cultural holiday celebration brings to the stage a colorful and traditional Mexican holiday celebration full of seasonal songs, dance and festive merriment.

Time: 7 p.m., Dec. 3 and 2 p.m., Dec. 4 Cost: $35 to $86 Details: 562-916-8500; cerritoscenter.com

Venue: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 18000 Park Plaza Drive, Cerritos

Dec.

4

Rocky Mountain Christmas

Jim Curry brings the magic of John Denver and the spirit of Christmas together. Join in singing Denver’s hit songs and the holiday favorites featured in Denver’s Christmas albums and television specials. Each song is synchronized to video of nature and winter landscapes.

Time: 4 p.m., Dec. 4 Cost: $25 Details: https://tinyurl.com/JohnDenver-Christmas

Venue: Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Dec.

16

Dave Koz and Friends

Kick off the holiday season with a tour that includes special Guests Rick Braun, Peter White, Keiko Matsui and Rebecca Jade.

Time: 8 p.m., Dec. 16, 17 Cost: $60 to $100 Details: 562-916-8500; cerritoscenter.com

Venue: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 18000 Park Plaza Drive, Cerritos

Dec. 17

Holiday Pops Spectacular

The Voice contestant Lana Love will be singing Into the Unknown. Tenor of the Americas, Maximo Marcuso and The GSPO Chorale will play holiday film music and traditional favorites.

Time: 7 p.m. pre-concert lecture, 8 p.m., show Dec. 17 Cost: $31 and up Details: https://tinyurl.com/ holiday-pops

Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Long Beach Symphony Holidays

Long Beach Symphony will once again deliver in its annual tradition of holiday favorites and singalongs. Enjoy conductor Morihiko Nakahara, the Long Beach Camerata Singers, and the Pops signature indoor picnicking, where audiences can bring their food, sweets, decorations and libations to make this a true holiday party.

Time: 8 p.m., Dec. 17 Cost: $30 and up Details: 562-436-3203; LongBeachSymphony.org

Venue: Long Beach Arena, ADDRESS

THEATER

Nov. 25

Relatively Speaking Playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s play centers around Greg and Ginny, who have been seeing each other for about a month. Despite the short courtship, Greg is planning to propose to Ginny. But when he finds a pair of shoes beneath her bed that aren’t his, he becomes suspicious.

Editor’s Note: Due to the current COVID-19 surge in the Los Angeles area, please be advised to check ahead to confirm if events will still be happening before purchasing tickets.

Time: 8 p.m. Friday, and Saturday and 2 p.m., Sunday through Dec. 3 Cost: $14 to $24 Details: 562-494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org

Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

Nov. 25

George Orwell’s 1984

The House of Bards Theatre Company presents the authorized stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. It is directed by Renee O’Connor. This is a play based on the dystopian 1949 novel.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m., Sundays through Dec. 3 Cost: $15 to $40 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ orwell-1984

Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro Dec.

1

We Scream Your Name Highways Performance re-opens in recognition of World AIDS Day, featuring a day of remembrance, blessings, community, and spe cial guest performers: Michael Kearns, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario & The Sisters of Perpetual Indul gence. Through this event, High ways provides an opportunity to remember family, friends and col leagues who have died of AIDS.

Time: 12 to 10 p.m., Dec. 1 Cost: Free Details: 310-453-1755; www.highwaysperformance.org

Venue: Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica

Love’s Labour’s Lost; A Puppet Play With People

The king of Navarre and his complement have sworn a threeyear pledge to abandon all of life’s pleasures for study and selfimprovement. As fate would have it, the princess of France arrives shortly after with her ladies in tow, causing the king’s crew to battle with their oath.

Time: 8 p.m., Dec. 1 to 17, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Cost: $18 to $30

Details: 866-811-4111; www.thegaragetheatre.org

Venue: The Garage Theatre: 251 E. 7th St., Long Beach

ART Nov. 23

Impermanence: Stories of Rapture and Repair

This group exhibition features the work of Jamil Austin, Ja’net Dan ielo, Betsy Lohrer Hall, Vannia Ib arguen, Pamela K. Johnson, Cody Lusby, Trinh Mai, Elizabeth Mun zon, Elyse Cajefe Pignolet and Katie Stubblefield.

Time: Tuesday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday, 12 to 6 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

Friday, Saturday, now through April 30

Cost: Free Details: www.artslb.org Venue: Billie Jean King Library, 200 W. Broadway, Long Beac

Dec. 1

Venue: Online and in person at ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundot:

Dec. 3

Meant To Be

Up & Coming Actors in association with Signal Hill Sandbox, Inc. and A2theZShow LLC premiere their 12-minute short web series Meant To Be, which tells the story of two young women who meet, fall in love, and decide to start a family together. Throughout their navigation, they seek the help of experts: their best friends and the internet.

Time: 4 p.m., with screening times: 4:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 4:45 p.m. and 5 p.m., Dec. 3 Cost: 0 to $10 Details: https://tinyurl.com/webseries-meant-toobe Venue: Aurora Theatre, 4412 East Village Road, Long Beach

COMEDY Nov. 28

Underground Stand-up Comedy And Burlesque

Details: https://www. cabrillomarineaquarium.org

Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

City of Carson Tree Lighting Ceremony

Join officials from the City of Carson as they lead the community in lighting its giant holiday tree. The tree will be lit in the atrium of the Carson Event Center. This special event features light refreshments and a visit from Santa.

Time: 6 p.m., Dec. 1

Cost: Free Details: 310-835-0212

Venue: Carson Event Center, 801 E. Carson St., Carson

Dec. 3

George F. Canyon Guided Nature Preserve Walk

Craig

Keith Antrim: Selected Works

Craig Antrim (1942 - 2022) wed ded spirituality with the sensual in his work. Much of his work was influenced by his understanding of philosophy, Jungian psychol ogy and the philosophy of Joseph Campbell. Spiritual iconography appears, evolves, disappears, and reappears in a variety of reductive abstract guises. The show runs through Dec. 30.

Time: 5 to 9 p.m., Dec. 1 Cost: Free Details: 310-600-4873 Venue: TransVagrant + Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro

The Gravura Collective Show Immerse yourself in the rich cul ture of Brazil. This group exhibition consists of works by 13 Brazilian artists, showcasing the vast array of Brazilian art through sculpture, photography and painting. Open ing reception Dec. 1, 6 to 9 p.m. The show runs through Dec. 31. Time: 5 to 9 p.m., Dec. 1 Cost: Free Details: www.msartgallery.com Venue: Menduina Schneider Art Gallery, 366 W. 7th St, San Pedro

Dec. 2

Ted Twine: Deep Flat Theory

Flatness of backgrounds and shapes allows the shape itself to be assertive. Shape is made apparent by its color. Depth is suggested within a relatively flat field with lines branching along the surface, suggesting perpendicular space. Seeing both possibilities at the same time is the key to “deep flat” vision. Join an artist talk reception on Dec. 17. Time: 6 to 9 p.m., Dec. 2 Cost: Free Details: https://pvartcenter.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

FILM Dec. 2

ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival

Join an international festival inviting filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds to submit short films around a theme. This year, the festival’s topic is bliss. Audiences will be able to view the official selection by registering for free passes on ESMoA’s website. All awards will be announced at the in person screening at ESMoA from 1 to 3 p.m., Dec. 3 Time: 10 a.m., Nov. 30 to 5 p.m., Dec. 2 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/ festival-bliss

Featuring Ginger Lee Belle and Darling Nikki, every Tuesday night you’ll experience the best comedy around. This is a 21-and-over only event.

Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 28 Cost: $10 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ jh2k64ba Venue: Harvelle’s Long Beach, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

DANCE Dec. 9

The Nutcracker

A timeless holiday classic, featuring professionals and young dancers from San Pedro City Ballet and cameos from your favorite locals.

Time: 7 p.m., Dec. 9, 2 and 7 p.m., Dec. 10 and 2 p.m. Dec. 11 Cost: $30 to $40 Details: https://tinyurl.com/spcbnutcracker Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

LITERATURE Dec. 7

THE BEATLES 100

Join an in-store event with music journalist and author John M. Borack dscussing and singing his new book, The Beatles 100: One Hundred Moments in Beatles History, published by Rare Bird Books. A music journalist for more than 35 years, Borack has been an avid fan of the Fab Four since childhood, and is a drummer in a Beatles cover band, Let it Be. Time: 7 p.m., Dec. 7 Cost: Free Details: 562-588-7075; http://www.patmbooks.com/ Venue: Page Against The Machine, 2714 E. 4th St., Long Beach

COMMUNITY Nov. 26

The Sardine Holiday Bazaar

The second annual Holiday Bazaar is back in action on Nov. 26. Come out to shop, eat, drink and be merry. The event will have 30-plus bands and artists and food and beer.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Nov. 26 Cost: Free Details: 424-264-5557; https://www.thesardinepedro.com Venue: The Sardine, 1101 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

Nov. 27

CMA Holiday Market

Celebrate local independent artisans, enjoy food and music and shop for a cause.

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nov. 27

Cost: Free

You will be guided by a trained naturalist to discover a unique variety of wildlife in their canyon habitat with amazing views of the LA Basin. Meet outside on the back deck of the George F. Canyon Nature Center. No RSVP required. Rain cancels the walk. Time: 10:30 a.m., Dec. 3 Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc.org/ calendar-guided-nature-walks Venue: George F. Canyon Nature Center, 27305 Palos Verdes Dr. East, Rolling Hills Estates

Dec. 4

Second Annual Long Beach International Tamales Festival

This all-day holiday inspired fair features tamales from different regions of Latin America, Latininspired dishes, drinks, tequila tastings, live music, art workshops for kids, performances, best homemade tamales contest, shopping and more.

Time: Dec. 4

Cost: $25 to $65 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ tamales-fest-LB

Venue: Long Beach City College, 1305 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach

Dec. 8

Virtual Docent Orientation

Join and learn with the Palos Verdes Land Conservancy about how you can share your love of nature with others.

Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m., Dec. 8 Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc. volunteerhub.com Venue: Online

Dec. 10

Guided Nature Walk

Hike through a 21-acre habitat restoration of coastal sage scrub and home to the threatened California gnatcatcher, with rolling hills and amazing scenic vistas.

Time: 9 a.m., Dec. 10

Cost: Free Details: pvplc.org/calendar

Venue: Three Sisters Reserve, 6270 Ocean Terrace Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes

Outdoor

Volunteer Day at Abalone Cove Reserve

Join the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy to volunteer at the newest restoration site on a breathtaking coastal reserve helping eradicate invasive weeds to protect native species.

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Dec. 10

Cost: Free

Details: https://pvplc. volunteerhub.com

Venue: Abalone Cove Reserve, 5970 Palos Verdes Dr. South, Rancho Palos Verdes

posals must fall under the umbrella of at least one of the following categories:

Addressing Homelessness and Its Root Causes;

Addressing Racial Disparities; City Services/Beautification; Jobs/Economic Development; Non-Profit/Community Investment; Recreation/Youth Programming; Reimagining Public Safety

It was supposed to be “simple,” until it wasn’t. It should be noted that 25 nonprofit or ganizations in Watts had collectively won $2.5 million in Buscaino grant money. But if you were to look at the council office website at https:// www.la15th.com/buscainogrants, there are only 14 winners.

Watts

Keisha Daniels, COO, and co-founder of Sis ters of Watts, said they received half the grant so far. They received the first $50,000, but need to submit more paperwork to receive the second $50,000, to reimburse them for money they al ready spent.

Anna Marie Carter, the founder of Watts Gar den Club, said that her organization applied for a $100,000 grant. The community voted in her favor, but Buscaino’s office only awarded them $70,000.

Carter said they stole $30,000 from her orga nization. She contacted the city to complain, but city representatives said the money was at Bus caino’s discretion. The program the money was used for started on June 1, 2021, and ended in June 2022. However, Buscaino’s office made the organization spend its own money, and did not

reimburse her until December 2021, when they gave them $35,000, and gave the second $35,000 in April 2022.

Timothy Watkins, president and CEO of Watts Labor Community Action Committee, said, “We were designated for an award but turned it down. It came with far too many obli gations and restrictions.”

Kenny Jones, director of People for Com munity Improvement, said he received half of $76,000. He said the other half was lost in the mail, and he is waiting for it to arrive electroni cally instead.

Kevin Hunt, the co-founder of Watts Com munity Core, said his organization did not re ceive the grant money. They were awarded two grants, but Buscaino took them back and gave them to another organization. He said many nonprofits were unhappy that Buscaino gave the money to the Gang Reduction and Youth Devel opment (GRYD), which took 10% because they were a preferred provider by the city.

Responses from other Watt’s organizations:

• Justin Mayo, executive director of Watts Empowerment Center said they received the grant, and they are very grateful for it.

• Fiona Friend, CEO of Women of Watts and Beyond, said her organization received the money as a reimbursement grant.

• A representative of Watts/Century Latino Org, who would not give her name, said they did receive the grant.

• Jose Hernandez, senior pastor of Hope Central Watts, said they received the grant of $24,500

• Zaid Gayle, executive director of Peace4Kids, said they received it.

• Cristina Cuellar, executive director of Op

eration Progress, said they received it.

• Representatives in the following nonprofits admitted to receiving the grants but wouldn’t identify themselves personally.

• A representative of Lend An Ear said they received their grant.

• A representative from Calibrate said they received it.

Harbor Gateway

Laura Hernandez, CFO/director of opera tions for New Challenge Ministries Fresh Res cue Food Bank, said “New Challenge Ministries, Inc., was chosen to receive $20,000 in funds from Joe Buscaino’s Community Grant Program for our Back To School Event in August 2021.

“We attended the Normandale Skatepark Grand Opening on July 1, 2021 where the Com munity Grant winners were given the notification

and a certificate,” Hernandez said. “We were told that the funding would arrive within a couple of weeks at the most.”

In August, Hernandez said she received an email from the council office explaining they were still working on funding the grants. But that’s when requests for Hernandez and her staff to fill out mounds of additional paperwork started.

“In November (three months AFTER our event) we were still completing all the paper work for the City,” Hernandez said. “On Nov. 15, 2021, we received half of the allocated funds.”

When Hernandez followed up to check on the balance of the money, she said the council of fice asked for more paperwork to be completed.

“We decided to not pursue it since it was al ready three months after the event and the red tape and paperwork was too much to go through

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On July 1, 2021, founders of City Lights Gateway Foundation, Howard and Kym-Graham Scott receive a $70,000 cardboard check from Councilman Joe Buscaino. Screen capture from Buscaino’s Facebook video

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS

BUSINESS NAME

File No. 2021076736

DATE FILED: March 31, 2021

Name of Business(es): A-1 Imported Groceries Street Address, City, State, Zip Code: 348 W. 8TH ST SAN PEDRO CA 90731

Registered owner(s): EMID DIO UNGARO 1508 w AVERILL PARK DRIVE, SAN PEDRO CA 90732, LISA UNGARO 1508 w AVERILL PARK DRIVE, SAN PEDRO CA 90732

State of Incorporation: CA

This business is conducted by a married couple. The registrant(s) started doing business on 1/1947.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

S/ LISA UNGARO, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 10/21/2022. 10/27, 11/10, 11/23, 12/1/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. 2022230238

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A-1 IMPORTED GROCERIES. 2485 W. 8TH ST SAN PE DRO CA 90731 County of LOS ANGELES

Registered owner(s): LISA UNGARO 1508 w AVERILL PARK DRIVE, SAN PEDRO CA 90732

State of Incorporation: CA This business is conduct ed by an Individual. The registrant(s) started doing business on N/A.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

S/ LISA UNGARO, OWNER

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 10/21/2022.

of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). 10/27, 11/10, 11/23, 12/1/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2022223858

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SUTHERLAND CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING 972 W 20TH STREET, SAN PEDRO CA 90731 County of LOS ANGELES

Registered owner(s): ED WARD HUGHES AMOND SEN, 1508 w AVERILL PARK DRIVE, SAN PEDRO CA 90731

State of Incorporation: CA This business is conduct ed by an Individual. The registrant(s) started doing business on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who

declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

S/ EDWARD HUGHES AMONDSEN, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los An geles County on 10/14/2022.

NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Sec tion 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a regis

“Stateside” — and the rest will follow.

tered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the ex piration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be ac companied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). 10/27, 11/10, 11/23, 12/1/2022

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NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a regis tered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the ex piration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be ac companied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. 2022237192

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

SIMPLYRE, 1377 W. 7TH ST, SAN PEDRO CA 90731

County of LOS ANGELES

Registered owner(s): RE SOURCE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, 1377 W. 7TH ST, SAN PEDRO CA 90731 90275

State of Incorporation: CA This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant(s) started doing business on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)).

S/ MANUEL GUILLERMO VILLAGRAN, SECRETARY

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los An geles County on 10/31/2022.

NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdi vision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pur suant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Profes sions Code). 11/23/22 , 12/01/22, 12/08/22, 12/21/22

Louis was born in Hawthorne, California and grew up in the neigh boring city of Hermosa Beach where he learned to love the ocean and surf ing. From an early age he had a passion for travel, language, and adventure. His childhood hero was the French ocean ographer, Jacques Cousteau.

After high school and a foreign exchange trip through the American Field Service to Cape Town, South Africa, he moved to France where he lived for five years and earned his B.A. in International Relations at the American University in Paris and studied Russian. After college he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina to teach English. From 1988 to 1993, with his Russian friend Vladimir Fis senko, Louis rode horseback from Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina to Dead horse on the North Slope of Alaska fulfilling his vision to travel the entire length of the Americas. His five-anda-half year adventure is chronicled in his book Sufridor named after the one horse who made the entire trip, and in

Grants

again,” Hernandez said. “We were very disappointed in the entire experience.”

Hernandez noted that New Chal lenge Ministries Fresh Rescue Food Bank is the largest privately funded food bank in the South Bay.

“We service the entire South Bay including the Harbor City area and we support the LAPD Harbor Division with many items to support their community outreach,” Hernandez said. “We are pri vately funded, so we don’t have a large staff to complete all paperwork and fol low up on the projects many times to get something completed.”

Howard Scott, president and founder of the City Lights Gateway Foundation in Harbor City said its Youth Ambas sadors Program received a grant, albeit $30,000 less than the $100,000 they re quested. He explained that a $35,000 check was cut after having to turn in ad ditional paperwork months later, and the second $35,000 check was cut as a re imbursement for monies spent in March 2022 after still more paperwork.

Louis James Bruhnke

Argentina and their three children. Vaca tions were often taken in the family ve hicle, a 1968 Volkswagen bus. Over the years his passion for surfing shifted to kite surfing.

2020 they moved Sacramento where he served as the Chief Deputy Director of Emergency Medical Services Authority for the State of California.

the 2007 documentary 20,000 Miles on a Horse By his early 30s, Louis was fluent in Spanish, French, and Russian.

After his journey, he returned to southern California where he became a paramedic. He then decided to settle in Humboldt County with his first wife from

Wilmington

Michael Herrera, director of the Wilm ington Teen Center, said they received half the grant. They filled out all the paper work, and are waiting for the second half. Buscaino’s office told them it is coming, they said this about a month and a half ago.

Sherece Jefferson, coordinator for the LA Harbor College career and job place ment center said her department did not re ceive the grant. They were going to put on a job fair, but Buscaino’s office was only willing to reimburse them. As they were unable to get the money to put on the fair, they just did a smaller-scale version of the fair and did not use Buscaino’s money.

San Pedro

Robin Aube, director of advancement at AltaSea, said they did receive the grant.

Shane Fleming of Beacon House said, “Yes we did receive the money. Covid dealt us a hard blow and the funding came at a critical time for our organization. Let me know if you have any additional ques tions. Anything I can do to emphasize our organization’s gratitude for the Commu nity Grants Program.”

A representative of Eastview Little League said they received the money.

Louis was of service to the county of Humboldt and surrounding areas from 1996 to 2020 working as a paramedic for City Ambulance in Eureka, Fortuna, and Garberville, for K’ima:w Medical Center in Hoopa and Willow Creek, and for Cal-ORE Life Flight. He concurrent ly served as an administrator for North Coast Emergency Medical Services. During his years living in Humboldt County, Louis participated in various disaster preparedness operations in the United States and in Ukraine, earned his private pilot’s license, and a master’s de gree in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Cali fornia. Louis remarried in 2018 to his second wife from Kiev, Ukraine, and in

Jonathan Williams, president and CEO of the Pacific Battleship Cen ter at the Battleship IOWA, said, “Yes, we have received it, but keep in mind that those that were due to receive it needed to comply with city contractual requirements and policy to receive payment. We are easily able to do this, as we are a tenant of the Port of Los Angeles and have to already.”

In an interview with Random Lengths News, Howard Scott said it best:

“[Nonprofit operators] are not politicians. We don’t go out asking people to vote for the work that we do. [But] for some strange-odd rea son, politicians asked us to go out lobbying and asking people to vote for us, and collecting their email in formation and passing it on to the city. Why do they [the city] want to know? I felt like that was an inva sion of their privacy for us to have to pass on this information.”

Community reporter Hunter Chase made significant contributions to this story.

Louis is preceded in death by parents Consuelo Hancock and Louis Bruhnke Sr., and his daughter-in- law Hannah Baker. He is survived by his wife Za bashta (Lesya) Oleksandra, daughters Emma and Andrea Bruhnke, stepsons Nicolas Baker and Danylo Oleksandra, daughter-in-law Sandra Hoff, his grand children Marcelo, Mariana, and Sebas tian Baker, and Camila Plants, siblings Jackie, Aaron and Rachel Bruhnke, first wife and lifelong friend Rosana Bruhn ke, and his ride partner Vladimir Fissen ko. Louis was known by family, friends, and colleagues to be private and humble despite his many achievements. He was studious and dedicated to his work but also took his free time seriously. He cher ished opportunities to travel internation ally, get out in the ocean or jump in his airplane on a sunny afternoon. He was a proud and loving father and grandfather and will be dearly missed.

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ing and learning environment at the UC. It is outrageous that these workers make poverty wages at some of the wealthiest institutions in our state.”

Gonzalez-Fletcher called on the Uni versity of California to do the right thing and agree to a fair contract, and said they will be out on the picket lines until that happens.

Former UCLA unit chair of the UAW, Rachel Forgash, is on the picket line coordinating and dispatching strik ers to various UCLA entrances.

“UC is no longer the public institu tion, but a barrier to making education equitable. There is a misconception that we, 4,700 of us at UCLA, are an elite group of people but we have all worked hard to get here. And came here because it was in the past fea sible to do graduate work.”

“Come to our picket lines, bring messages of solidarity, and spread the word about the issues in the strike,” Forgash said.

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