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A debt of gratitude is owed to the late director emeritus of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, John Olguin and the late William “Bill” Samaras, a paleontologist and science teacher from San Pedro who helped launch the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium were leading proponents of saving the whales. In the 1970s, the pair would travel to dead stranded whales to strip them of skin, blubber and meat and transport their giant skeletons to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. They even excavated a California gray whale fossil discovered 150 feet above sea level near where the Harbor Freeway meets the port in 1971. This was long before the history of gray whales was well-documented, before it was known that San Pedro Bay was once, and still could be again, a spawning area for the giant leviathans. Today, the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium takes an annual boat trip to Scammons Lagoon in Baja California for whale enthusiasts and marine biologists to study the end of the 10,000mile annual round trip migration. Gray whales travel each year between their winter calving lagoons in the warm waters
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ast August, after an unprecedented 11 wildfires raged through Swedish forests inside the Arctic Circle, a Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, skipped school for three weeks to distribute leaflets outside Parliament in advance of national elections in solitary protest of adults’ lack of concern for her future. Thunberg was inspired by the Parkland students, who turned the trauma of a mass shooting at into a movement for gun control. “Someone I knew said, ‘What if children did that for the climate?’” Thunberg told Democracy Now! in December. “I tried to bring people with me, but no one was really interested, so I had to do it alone.” But she isn’t alone, anymore. On March 15, Thunberg tweeted, “School strike week 30”—with hashtags #climatestrike, #fridaysforfuture, #schoolstrike4climate—and was joined by more than 1.5 million other students and supporters at more than 2,000 places, in 125 countries, on every continent — including Antarctica. At least one of them, JJ Doherty of Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland, stood alone, just as Thunberg had done the first few weeks of her strike. “But he stood there in the knowledge that millions of kids all over the world are standing with him today,” his “Very proud Mum” tweeted. Doherty wasn’t wrong. There were 150,000 student Advocates call out Mayor Garcetti strikers in Montreal, 100,000 in Milan, 20,000 in Sydney, and for endless homeless sweeps p. 2 the list went on and on. Port truckers, warehouse workers “Indian students of all ages and backgrounds streamed continue push for justice p. 2 out from schools across the country,” India’s News18.com reported. There, as here in Los Angeles, impacts of climate Dear revives Carson outlet change and particulate pollution are inextricably intertwined. mall plan p. 5 “My country lives with the shame of having 14 of the 15 most polluted cities in the world,” 13-year old Arya Dhar The song of music from Gupta wrote in the Guardian. “How can I not host the strike Windy Barnes Farrell p. 9 in Gurugram, labelled the city with the worst air quality in the
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Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy will host an Earth Day Celebration and film for families. The day includes a ranger walk, performances, art activity and plant sale. It later concludes with a screening of the National Geographic documentary Free Solo at the Warner Grand Theatre. Date: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.volunteerhub.com Venue: 916 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates
Tongva Crafts and Workshop for Children
Join Rancho Los Cerritos for a day of activities about the Tongva tribe. The exhibit Tevaaxa’nga (Te-yaah-ha-nga) to Today: Stories of the Tongva People recalls the Tongva community and stories. The arts and crafts workshop shows children how to make necklaces and learn Tongva words from Tribal Council member and cultural consultant, Julia Bogany. The Heritage Award winner from the Aquarium of the Pacific has helped assemble a Tongva dictionary. Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. April 27 Cost: Free to $5 Venue: Rancho Los Cerritos, 4600 Virginia Road, Long Beach
Free Rides on the Metrolink for Earth Day
The Metrolink will observe Earth Day by providing free transportation on its regional rail system on April 22. It will also be free to ride the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Metro bus, rail and bike share systems on Earth Day. The free transportation is intended to encourage the use of more environmentally friendly ways to move about. Date: April 22 Cost: Free Details: www.metrolinktrains.com/freerides
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Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program will provide 203 university and community college students with paid on-thejob experience at over 100 arts organizations across the county this summer. All applicants must be currently enrolled in a community college or four-year university. Applicants must also be residents of or attending schools that are located in LA County. They cannot be previous participants of the program. Positions are highly competitive and must be filled by May 15, so students are encouraged to apply early. Details: https://www.lacountyarts.org/ oppor tunities/ar ts-internship-programstudents/2019-internships
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Get ready for five- or three-day overnight adventures for youth 11-17 years on-board LA Maritime Institute’s tall sailing ships cruising to nearby Catalina Island. Explore topics in marine biology, maritime history and island ecology. Activities often include kayaking, snorkeling, sail training and marine navigation. Time: June 24 to 28, July 8 to 12, July 15 to 19, July 22 to 26, July 29 to Aug 2, Aug 12 to 16, Aug 19 to 23 Cost: $600 per child Details: 310-833-6055; www.lamitopsail.org/ seacamp
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Advocates Call Out Garcetti for Endless Homeless Sweeps By Steven Guzman, Editorial Intern
More than two dozen organizations came together at a press conference at Lomita Boulevard and McCoy Street in front of the Stillman Sawyer Family Service Center in Harbor City demanding Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti change the city’s tactics regarding street cleaning and sanitation services at homeless encampments. The April 6 press conference was organized by 26 organizations under a campaign named “Services Not Sweeps,” where a list of demands was presented as well as resources provided to a homeless encampment in the area. Organizations behind Services Not Sweeps say that the city of Los Angeles has begun escalating its efforts into cleaning and sanitizing homeless encampments by increasing its law enforcement presence around encampments instead of providing services through a health-based approach. “Right now the policy is criminalizing. The stories of the encampment residents are that [of] daily sweeps, police guards stationed there, warrants, and tickets for jaywalking,” said Chris Venn, a member of San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice, one of the organizations behind this coalition. These actions are happening after a growing concern over the city’s tactics to support a law passed by LA City Council to “clean up” homeless populations resulted in a 2016 federal injunction
On April 6, a coalition of social justice activist groups held a press conference demanding Services Not Sweeps in Los Angeles’ handling of homeless encampments like the one above in Harbor City. Photo by Steven Guzman
where the city was found by a U.S District Court to be illegally seizing the property of homeless people in downtown LA’s Skid Row. The now-amended law, Municipal Code 56.11, was originally revised to state that in order to “balance the needs of the residents and public at large to access clean and sanitary public areas” the city could, “without prior notice,” impound, “temporarily move personal property, whether attended or unattended,” or “discard any bulky item” if said property was found to be
“obstructing city operations in a public area.” While the Municipal Code was amended after the injunction, and as a response to the city’s continued actions, Services not Sweeps has listed demands directed at Garcetti and the City Council. These demands include removing all law enforcement personnel from street cleaning teams, the retraction of ordinances “used to criminalize homelessness during street cleaning,” the identification of “a voluntary secure space for [See Sweeps, p. 5]
Port Truckers, Warehouse Workers Continue Push for Labor Justice By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
As the Port of Los Angeles moves toward finding a replacement for NFI, after its lease renewal was cancelled by the Los Angeles City Council for labor law violations, port truck drivers, warehouse workers, Teamster representatives and community allies have continued to bring pressure to ensure that any successor company, selected through the port’s request for proposals process, abides by law. “As a port, truck driver, at Cal Cartage Express, the progress with the RFP process at NFI warehouse in Wilmington is very important for us,” Gustavo Villa told the Harbor Commission on April 4, during public comments. “Make sure that whichever company moves in, will be good for the workers and our community. We need to work together to make sure that these lawbreakers stay out of the port.” “We are closely watching the RFP process, and welcome the opportunity for a new company to conduct business at the warehouse, especially a company that will treat his workers with respect and abide by the law,” said Teamster Local 848 Vice President Louie Diaz. “The faith community is monitoring the lease decision-making process, as well as the conditions at the warehouse,” said Rev. William Connor, pastor emeritus of St. Joseph Catholic Church in East Long Beach. “The Catholic
Church and other mainline Christian churches teach that workers like these have the right to decent working conditions, a living wage and collective bargaining, something that to this day they have never experienced. Our Lord and savior Jesus Christ says in the Gospels, ‘What you do to one of these the least of my brothers and sisters, that you do to me. What you fail to do, you fail to do to me.’” “As an environmentalist, I believe that we cannot have climate justice without worker justice,” said Sherry Lear, co-organizer of 350 South Bay. “That’s why we stand with the Teamsters on this issue. We ask the port, when they consider new tenants for the warehouse, to select a company that will be not only a good business partner, but a good community partner, and it will treat its workers with respect and dignity.” “NFI has lost its warehouse, but its lawbreaking continues,” said Jesus Maldonaldo. “As a driver at Cal Cartridge Express, I drive out to the Mojave Desert … back to port [from Rio Tinto’s mines in Boron]. I’ve been misclassified as an independent contractor all 10 of the years of being at this company. NFI has stolen my wages for years.” “We ask that the companies who do business with the port make sure they hear our struggles and take action. TJMaxx, Lowe’s, keep your
business at the warehouse under the new company. Rio Tinto, cleanup your supply chain, cut your business ties with Cal Cartage. Our port and our community should not have lawbreakers doing business here.” On April 10, a delegation of Rio Tinto drivers and Teamster leaders attended the company’s annual general meeting in London, where they pressed the company to uphold its own code of conduct and cut ties with Cal Cartage Express. Chairman Simon Thompson agreed to investigate. “We came before Rio Tinto’s Board of Directors and shareholders to bring light to the worker exploitation taking place in the company’s supply chain and told them why we believe that Rio Tinto must take swift action against this exploitation,” Villa said, according to a Teamster press release. “Rio Tinto is not my employer, but they have the power to step in and stop this abuse,” said Maldonado “The Teamsters are proud to be supporting these men in their fight for justice at America’s largest seaport, and heartened by Chairman Simon Thompson’s willingness to listen to them and take action,” said Fred Potter, vice president, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Director of the Teamsters Port Division.
It’s Not Just About Us
ILWU Local 13 vice president, Gary Herrera, rallies the crowd outside the Port of Los Angeles administration building in San Pedro ahead of a continuation hearing on APM Terminal’s permit to automate Maersk terminal at Pier 400. The Board of Harbor Commissioners postponed its decision for another 30 days to give the LA mayor’s office and negotiators to come to a resolution. “Look behind you. Right there, they’re building homes. How are we going to afford those homes if we don’t have jobs? They are building them right here in our own community and they’re looking to get rid of us. Not just us, but the Uber drivers. Not just us, but the teachers. What about the SEIU workers at Dodgers Stadium that they just replaced with kiosks? They spent $300 million to get rid of labor so that they don’t have to pay a minimum wage of $15. This has gotta stop!” Herrera said. Photo by Terelle Jerricks
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may have to be driven 90-feet down,” Raymond explained. “The outlet mall alone will probably need about 3,000 piles driven in.” If an outlet mall were to open in Carson, its closest competitor — both in location and business type — would be the Citadel on the former Uniroyal property in Commerce. Carson has predicted such a mall could initially generate over $4 million in sales tax revenue, along with 1,700 construction jobs and 1,800 permanent jobs. Developing the property has long been a controversial issue. Carson residents’ concerns may be traced back at least to 2006, when former Mayor Vera Robles DeWitt led a drive to stop a residential development.
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Take the Avalon Boulevard exit south from the 405 Freeway and see a street sign that boasts “Stadium Way.” It’s not a reference to Dignity Health Sports Park several miles north. The sign’s left over from an unsuccessful effort to coax the National Football League to Carson three years ago. It ended up in Inglewood. Stadium Way only turns left onto Avalon, because the right leads nowhere but a vacant 157-acre hazardous waste site known as a “brownfield.” It once housed the Cal Compact Landfill that closed more than 50 years ago. Carson’s been attempting to clean up and develop the land for much of this century. The Carson Reclamation Authority took title to the site in 2015 when hopes were high of attracting professional football. Although no stadium was built there, Carson still controls the land, and remains hopeful that this vacant real The site where a 42-acre outlet mall with 500,000 square feet of retail space was once proposed for the estate—prime vacant real estate, except for its former NFL Stadium site in Carson. File photo toxic soil—will be developed. [Sweeps, from p. 2] Before and after the stadium plan failed, there emergency cleaning supplies as well as other was a push for an outlet mall on a parcel that things members of the encampment community fronts the 405 Freeway. The mall was proposed people to leave their belongings” during street were thought to might need. However, to be built and open by now, but construction cleanups, as well as including, in the 2019 city according to Venn, “[while] providing these never started. budget, plans and funding to improve public services was real, it was largely symbolic,” and Now that former Mayor Jim Dear’s back on health infrastructure beyond street cleaning. that community members believe they “do not the council, he says the city is going forward with During the press conference, Services Not have the resources that the city of L.A. should the plan for an outlet mall. He says Tetra Tech Sweeps provided resources to the neighboring provide.” did some site clean-up, but a different company homeless encampment ranging from access to The mayor’s office and Councilman Joe is handling what work remains. showers and toilets, a clean needle exchange, Buscaino have not responded to these demands. This past month the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, the lead regulatory agency for the project, sent out a work notice that announced upcoming “remediation field work activities,” which will include driving about 2,300 piles, adding a landfill cap, and other “Officer, I will gladly give a statement work that indicates the final stages as soon as I call my Attorney, Ted of development may be happening. The department’s work notice “I’m not guilty.” also says this work will begin in mid-April and take about a year. DON MARSHALL The notice directs persons who CPA, INC. wish to view site documents to Attorney at Law the website www.EnviroStar.dtsc. SBN: 105408 ca.gov but that site leads only to Do your taxes right. Criminal & Personal Injury technical long-term monitoring Don Marshall, MBA, CPA data. FREE CONSULTATION In 2015, John Raymond, donmarshallcpa.com 562.824.8773 333 W. Broadway, #214 Carson’s community development (310) 833-8977 Ted@BatsakisLaw.com Long Beach, CA 90802 director, said that after eight years of site remediation — begun in 2007 —the clean-up that remained would have to wait until something is actually being built upon the site. Raymond explained there were Personalized Service you deserve. three things that needed to happen Save Time. Save Money. for the remediation to be complete. Save Stress. The first, a groundwater collection system was finished. The second, gas recovery equipment was also • Custom Printing installed. “But we cannot do too • Union Printing much ahead of time,” Raymond • Graphic & Logo Design added. “We may need to relocate Palma Mattera Mejia, EA • Email Marketing the gas wells according to the 870 W. 9th St., Ste. 100A, San 1302 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro Pedro timetable when we know the final (310) 519-1442 footprint of the construction.” 310.221.0034 info@graphictouchdesigns.com The third step, driving piles, is still to come. “The landfill goes 65feet deep in some places, so piles
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PALOS VERDES — Palos Verdes resident Thomas Wong has organized volunteers to hold picket signs at the corner of Hawthorne Boulevard and Silver Spur Road in response the violent assault on an autistic boy by 18 year-olds Declan BellWilson and Korey Streeter at the Peninsula Shopping Center on March 22. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department press release reported Bell-Wilson, the son of Rolling Hills Mayor, Patrick Wilson, and Streeter of Palos Verdes Estates were arrested at their respective homes. They were booked at the Lomita Sheriff’s Station on charges of conspiracy, assault and robbery and are each being held in lieu of $80,000 bail. Tommy Wong, who also has an autistic son said, “We do not condone violence….[What happened] is the worst fear of parents of children with autism.” Wong’s aim is to help teach kids early that bullying is unacceptable.
2019 Eastern Sierra Snowpack Measured at Well Above Average Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, center, was named one of the world’s most influential people for her youth-led international climate campaign. Thunberg, alongside fellow demonstrators with her “school strike for the climate” sign. File photo [Youth, from p. 1]
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world in a recent report?” Regionally, there were events from Laguna Beach, Irvine and Orange to Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, Northridge, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Covina and Rancho Cucamonga. In downtown LA, marching strikers chanted, “What do we want? SCIENCE! When do we want it? AFTER PEER REVIEW!” They assembled for a program that began with a Native American ceremony honoring the directions, beginning with the East: “It is the land of the eagle, and it is the land of our youth and it is the land of opportunity, and a new day, ceremony leaders said. “It is the youth that will save our earth.” This past November, Thunberg addressed United Nations Secretary General António Guterres at the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland. “Some people say that I should be in school instead; some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‘solve’ the climate crisis, but the climate crisis has already been solved,” Thunberg said. “We already have all the facts and solutions. And why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future?” But Thunberg hadn’t just come to complain. “We have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future,” she said. “They have ignored us in the past, and they will ignore us again. We have come here to let them know that change is coming, whether they like it or not. The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.” Others had already begun following Thunberg’s example, but this speech was a turning point, coming just a few weeks after a new UN report warned that there was only a 12-year window to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. A letter signed by more 6 than 12,000 scientists supported the growing
movement. “These concerns are justified and supported by the best available science,” they wrote. “The enormous mobilization of the Fridays for Future/ Climate Strike movement shows that young people have understood the situation. As scientists and scholars, we emphatically approve their demand for rapid and forceful action.” The Guardian carried voices of students from around the world. “I started my activism quite young — at 11,” said Brianna Fruean, 20. “As a young girl in Samoa, a small island in the south Pacific, hearing the implications it had for my island scared me and jump-started my passion to do something about it. I feel like the young people of the Pacific are now experiencing what young people around the world will experience tomorrow. Right now, along with a lot of other vulnerable communities around the world, we’re having cyclones, floods and droughts. And it’s going to be that — and worse — for future generations.” “My friends and I heard for the first time about Greta Thunberg and her climate strike in the autumn of 2018,”said Anastasia Martynenko, 20. “Then we had the idea to hold a similar action in Ukraine. We invited other youth and students to join us in Kyiv (aka Kiev) and all together demand from our politicians a new future without climate change. We also got adult supporters. After two weeks, five other Ukrainian cities joined us in organizing actions and will also be coming out to protest today. I and likeminded people are happy to be the driving force of change among young people, because when our children ask us, ‘What have you done for our future?’ We will have an answer.” Vidit Bay, 17, of India recalled the winter of 2018. “I went to march on the streets of Melbourne with a group of amazing, diverse people of all ages to urge the Australian government to take action against climate change,” he wrote. “When I came back to India, I started an organization called No Borders and wrote an article regarding climate change here in India that was quite popular among my schoolmates and teachers. Then there was no stopping us. Today, young
people from all over India will strike for a sustainable future.” Also featured, speaking in support, was Kumi Naidoo, the Secretary General of Amnesty International and former executive director of Greenpeace, whose activism began in apartheid South Africa. “In 1980, at the age of 15, I led a student protest that got me expelled,” Naidoo wrote. “Even though adults told us that we could not make a difference, once our eyes were opened to this injustice, there was no alternative.... Rather than give in to the fear that it was too big to take on, we had no choice but to trust in the power of our individual actions. There are many lessons here for the climate-change movement.” “Only if we act quickly and consistently can we limit global warming, halt the mass extinction of animal and plant species, preserve the natural basis for life and create a future worth living for present and future generations,” the report signed by 12,000 scientists stated. “This is exactly what the young people of Fridays for Future/Climate Strike want to achieve. They deserve our respect and full support.” “If our leaders and indeed other adults are still clueless as to what they can do,” Naidoo wrote. “My one piece of advice is: act like the kids.”
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Harnessing Uncertainty In A Dark Time May Be Key To Climate Crisis Survival By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor Americans have been aware of the dangers of climate change since the Johnson administration, but the science and the politics of uncertainty has meant little to no action at all. Senior Editor Paul Rosenberg deconstructs the politics of uncertainty and reveals how humanity will be saved by the youth. Read more at tinyurl.com/RLN-EarthNight
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Department of Water and Power hydrographers performed the final snowpack survey for the season, April 5, which helps determine the amount of water available for Los Angeles’ water supply. This year, the snowpack measured at 171 percent of normal. In comparison, the snowpack registered at 66 percent of normal in 2018 and 203 percent in 2017, the second wettest year on record. Snowpack measurements help determine how much water supply LADWP can expect from the LA Aqueduct and how much it will need to purchase from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. 2019-2020 Los Angeles County Budget Los Angeles County has unveiled a proposed $32.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2019-2020 that addresses key social issues while embracing innovation, jobs and quality of life improvements. It also included the launch of a new “humancentered” voting system and the County’s first Department of Arts and Culture. The programs recommended for funding include fighting homelessness, promoting health and well-being, improving the justice system, championing the rights and needs of immigrants, creating better lives for children and families, and enriching communities through recreation and sustainability projects. It includes funding to promote affordable housing, rent stabilization, job creation and safer roads. The recommended spending plan also makes a substantial investment in the county’s mental health safety net. The recommended budget was presented to the Board of Supervisors on April 16. The budget process continues with public hearings on May 15 and budget deliberations on June 24. Details: lacounty.gov. Southern and Northern Segments of the Blue Line Update LONG BEACH — The southern segment of the Blue Line is scheduled to reopen between Downtown Long Beach and Compton Station, June 1. The northern segment of the Blue Line will be out of service between Compton Station and 7th St. at Metro Center starting June 1, through September 2019. The Blue Line Willowbrook/ Rosa Parks Station will continue to be out of service throughout the Northern Segment closure through September 2019. Green Line Willowbrook at Rosa Parks service will remain open. Two stations on the Expo Line will be out of service (Pico Station and 7th St. at Metro Center) for 60 days starting June 22.
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The Advocates, a documentary film by Remi Kessler, is a sweeping look at the history and causes of Los Angeles’ homeless crisis through the eyes of tireless advocates working to improve the lives of their homeless clients. It is perhaps the most moving piece of reporting I have seen in recent years and it stands in stark contrast to the one-hour KOMO TV special aired on March 16, Seattle is Dying. The team who screened The Advocates at the San Pedro Grand Annex recently should be congratulated for bringing forth such an in-depth look into the challenges of actually getting people off the streets. As heroic as these advocates are in their efforts, I was left with just one very depressing afterthought: even if there were 5,000 of these case workers there still wouldn’t be enough housing to give all of our homeless residents shelter. Amber Sheikh Ginsberg, who helped get The Advocates screened at the Annex on April 11, was recently honored for her work in organizing the 15th Council District working group on homelessness at City Hall. “A movement or coalition is not made up of one person,” Ginsberg said. “Over the past year, dozens of local residents have truly led this charge and hundreds more have joined them in solidarity to support solutions to ending homelessness. I’m so proud of everyone who has stepped up to support solutions.” There are any number of people out there doing their best to help people get off the streets, yet clearly it would take an army of such people to do this work with no foreseeable end in sight, especially since nothing has been proposed yet that will stop the flow of people descending into it. We are dealing with a humanitarian crisis but without the seriousness of a crisis. The mayor postures, the people protest, and the city and county pass measures to fund housing. Yet very little is being done RIGHT NOW! Yes, there are plenty of people working on it. Lots more are talking about it. But the cure for homelessness, something that would require a huge economic-social shift, is not something anyone really wants to discuss. Even the wealthy developers of Los Angeles are beginning to see that their dreams of recreating a “new” LA hinge on how this city cures its homeless crisis. Mack
Real Estate Development Chairman Paul Keller spoke at a Bisnow Future of Downtown Los Angeles event and said, “The only way we’re going to solve this… is that the vast majority of us — in some way or another — get involved. “It is time for all of us to step up,’’ Keller said. “I think for all of us who love the city, we really need to think long and hard about collaboratively working towards solutions or it’s going to be a very serious downside that’s going to hit all of us.” In contrast, the Seattle is Dying perspective seems to continue the narrative of blaming the homeless, even demonizing them for their plight. “The KOMO special, by reporter Eric Johnson, definitely appeals to the ‘I don’t want to have to look at homelessness’ viewer,” Catherine Hinrichsen wrote. “It’s a call to punish, rather than help people in need and it seeks to divide them into ‘the real homeless’ (or the deserving poor) and all the others.” Hinrichsen writes for Cross Cut in Seattle and she is project director of Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness. We clearly have these two perspectives on homelessness here in the San Pedro Bay area: those who call it a humanitarian crisis and the others who see it as a criminal issue. Los Angeles has been juggling these two perspectives between 56.11 enforcement and losing court battles over civil rights for a decade. Councilman Joe Buscaino, representing the 15 City Council District, has only belatedly adopted the Bridge Home policy after Mayor Eric Garcetti changed course a year ago. This change has alienated many of Buscaino’s NIMBY constituents, as he was previously content on simply chasing the homeless from one encampment to another. There is still no solution for the people living just one block from his San Pedro City Hall office. There is no immediacy to his taking any action whatsoever — even to give these people trash cans or temporary sanitation. So, of course, everybody is concerned and upset about the mess. What needs to change is that the homeless issue needs to be addressed as a public health crisis on many levels and immediately. The county and cities jointly need to set up triage centers — safe places on public lands, off the sidewalks, where our unsheltered neighbors can camp temporarily in secure, sanitary conditions. Then sort out who needs what help by using an
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assortment of professional services from both the public and non-profit sectors. What we don’t have now is a coordinated effort utilizing all the resources that we have available to address this problem. Instead, we are just waiting for the developers to come in, using Prop. H bond money to build permanent housing at some future date. This is not a realistic solution. It’s shocking how the service providers featured in The Advocates work so hard to get
so few people off the streets and how much time it actually takes to get even one person a Section 8 vouchered apartment. This is the frustration of solving this issue and everyone who has looked into this problem knows it. Service providers need to be demanding a shift in the groupthink at city hall to shelter now — triage centers with services and sanitation. Yes, it is time to bring our unsheltered residents off the streets and that is something everyone can agree on.
Harbor Community in Danger as AQMD Stalls By Sally Hayati, founder Ban Toxic MHF
The Chemical Safety Board says the 2015 Torrance refinery explosion nearly caused a “catastrophic” hydrofluoric acid release impacting “hundreds of thousands” of people. Superheated and pressurized in the alky unit, released HF forms a dense vapor that drifts in thick plumes at ground level. If debris from the explosion had struck a tank mere feet away, 50,000 residents and 22 schools — an area from the west side of the refinery to the beach — could have simmered in a dense HF fog for over an hour. Five million people are at risk from HF release at the Torrance or Valero, Wilmington refineries. A 2016 Environmental Protection Agency inspection of Torrance’s alky unit revealed dangerous, sloppy practices, and inadequate management, with HF safety systems
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unrepaired and non-operational. Yet, four years after Torrance’s near-catastrophe, not one corrective action has been taken. This wasn’t the South Bay’s first brush with disaster. A 1987 explosion led to a Torrance lawsuit. An HF release could “cause a disaster of Bhopal-like proportions... extend[ing] to other areas of LA County…hundreds of thousands… could be killed and double that…seriously injured.” (Bhopal, India, is where a gas leak at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant on December 2 to 3, 1984, killed 25,000 people and disabled 50,000 more. It is considered the world’s worst industrial disaster). In 1991, South Coast Air Quality Management District adopted Rule 1410 to phase out HF. “Engineering measures can…
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RANDOMLetters Exploding the Myth of Progress in Technology
I would like to commend you on your excellent editorial, “Exploding the Myth of Progress in Technology,” in the March 21-April 3, issue of Random Lengths. I have a number of objections to high technology, which I find depersonalizing, disempowering and infantilizing, among other things, and I’ll be damned if I know why everybody seems to bow down to it. I am distressed to see electronic and mechanical devices invading so many areas of our lives, and I dread the possibility of government spying. I hope to team up with others who want to use our hands, feet, minds and bodies again, in work and in play, and in ordinary life. Naomi Anna Greenleaf San Pedro
We Need a New Educational Paradigm
$4.5 Million Renovation of the WGT
As a native of San Pedro who has been attending programs at the Warner Grand Theatre for decades, and producer of a significant cultural event (LA Harbor International Film Festival) held there the past 16 years the recent announcement that the City of Los Angeles will sponsor a $4.5 million renovation of Warner Grand Theatre seems long over due that appropriate action being taken after years of neglect, especially since the city owns the property. Under the adroit management of Lee Sweet and the Department of Cultural Affairs. in the most professional style, the WGT is open for events nearly 365 days a year that include variety of popular and classical music concerts, plays, film programs, graduation and wedding ceremonies, and filming for theatrical and commercial projects, yet it is more than a venue for hire. The WGT is the only space available for large community functions and used frequently for that purpose. There are many challenges in connection with the historic property. With 1,500 seats it is too small for large so called “A list”
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The President is Still Hiding His Tax Returns
As Tax Day approaches this [past] Monday, many of you are probably filing your taxes or waiting for your refund.
Meanwhile, President Trump is still hiding his tax returns. After reneging on his promises during the campaign, Trump became the first President since Nixon to refuse to make his tax returns public. While he originally claimed he could not release them due to an ongoing audit by the IRS, no law actually prohibits that, and his own IRS Commissioner says he’s free to release them at any time. The law may not prohibit the President from releasing his tax returns, but one thing that is crystal clear is the law authorizes the Chair of a key House committee, the [See Letters, p. 19]
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industry may triumph again. PR 1410 shows signs of morphing into a memorandum of understanding allowing continued HF use. Refinery industry unions pressure other unions to ignore MHF. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Eric Garcetti, LA City Councilman and AQMD board member Joe Buscaino and State Sen. Steven Bradford ignore the issue. Significant organized public support for HF replacement could counter the power of organized wealth, despite the press blackout, refinery threats to shut down, and MHF misinformation campaigns. Residents have a limited window of a few months to salvage PR 1410 and gain a Rule mandating an expeditious MHF phase out, as staff recommended in 2017. Organizations, including Ban Toxic MHF, Communities for a Better Environment, the Sierra Club, the Torrance Refinery Action Alliance, National Resources Defense Council, and EDF plan a Public Forum on MHF in the week following Earth Day. Learn what you can do to put safety before profits!
country we come from or who our parents were. What The Gathering made clear to us all was the need to come together and understand the interconnectedness of the challenges we face in order to find the path forward. Dr. James Zogby Founding Fellow, The Sanders Institute Burlington, VT
reduce the probability of an accidental release... [but] cannot eliminate the possibility of a major incident… Large, unanticipated disasters… [can] occur at any time,” it stated. An HF ban in California was averted, however, by promises of a “modified” version of HF that would meet a strict performance standard not to form a vapor cloud upon release. Ever since, industry and government have told LA County residents that modified HF is safe. But it isn’t; we’ve been hoodwinked. After the 2015 explosion, investigations into MHF by the SCAQMD, EPA and CSB found that safety claims were “unproven,” with “no clear basis.” MHF is 99 percent HF by molecule count, and barely different. AQMD expert staff recommended MHF be phased out; a preliminary EPA report declared MHF mitigation credit impermissible. The US Department of Labor sued ExxonMobil for “proprietary” MHF documents. AQMD resurrected Proposed Rule 1410. Three affordable alternatives exist; MHF replacement will have much less impact on gas prices than the 2015 explosion shutdown. Yet
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climate change, and the economy — all are connected and tied directly to the issues of justice and human rights. For too long, our society has compartmentalized these fundamental concerns, failing to recognize or even understand how they impacted each other. This has been true not only of governments, because too often, in the past, even activists didn’t make the connections. At the Sanders Institute Gathering, I was honored to moderate a panel on civil rights, immigration, and human dignity with Dr. Radhika Balakrishnan, Representative Tulsi Gabbard, Susan Sarandon, and Ben Jealous. We talked about how climate change and economic injustice are creating conflicts across the world and contributing to mass migration. This, in turn, has impacted several countries fostering xenophobic farright movements. We discussed the importance of judging a country’s economy, not on how large it is, but on whether it is just and meets the test of providing equal opportunity for all. And we talked about the history of our own nation and how genocide against indigenous peoples, indentured servitude, slavery, and disenfranchisement defined our beginning and still shape our social and our political realities. We concluded by recognizing the need to demonstrate this interconnectedness and to come together to fight for a better future for all of us - no matter what race, what gender, what age, or what
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Sometimes I think I live in an alternate universe, one where everything seems so clear and right. I would like to change the world, and eliminate racism, poverty, illiteracy etc. I can’t. However, I can bring awareness to our local needs and our continual efforts to thwart new ideas. Our education system is in need of a new paradigm, one that eliminates the naysayers. Education changes everything, and until it becomes the top line on everyone’s budget, nothing will change. I am all for beautification and the saving of our history, but not at the expense of our children. This was in the Daily Breeze: It was recently announced that L.A. City’s Department of Cultural Affairs secured more than $4.5 million to aid in the renovation of the historic Warner Grand Theatre. Yet, around the corner is Barton Hill elementary school,
where 1/10 of that amount of money would give them the books, computers, teachers they need to insure that all of our children are treated equally, regardless of race, income, or gender. This is your money that is being used! Have you ever noticed how we honor our elected officials for donating to various programs in the community. It is your money they are donating! Please stop and think about this the next time you read about one of our City, County, State representatives donation to a local cause. Arlene Dickey San Pedro
bookings such as the Music Center, Greek Theatre or Hollywood Bowl could command, and too large and costly for smaller events that might bring in an audience of 500 which would be actually be a good box office record. San Pedro is also a “destination challenge” and though the L.A. Philharmonic held a sold out concert over 20 years ago the orchestra never returned. Something of immense concern with regard to the notion of bringing in “A-list” bookings is the lack of sufficient parking. The City of L.A. missed the opportunity to purchase the adjacent property next to the WGT that could have been ideal addition for parking, as well as augment the facility with more space for rehearsals, meetings, “green room.” More myopia or lack of vision that’s now being subsidized after the fact. There are also safety concerns in the downtown after dark. Where will the “A list” audience and performers park? The historic monument status has stringent guidelines for restoration therefore whomever is commissioned to do the restoration work is subject to close scrutiny precluding zealous remodeling, notwithstanding consideration to current ADA edicts that could supercede. Since the “Save Your Seat” campaign (c. 2005) there has been an absence of significant investment or improvement from the Grand Vision Foundation, nonprofit support group that began as “Friends of the WGT, with the mission to restore the WGT to its former glory The WGT is indeed the centerpiece of historic downtown San Pedro and deserves to be treated with dignity, and respected not exploited, and revered as part of our local history. Stephanie Mardesich San Pedro
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Profit Drive Degrades Environment By Mark Friedman, RLN Environmental Reporter In 1970, millions of young people and others turned out for the first Earth Day, carried by the momentum of massive social movements for civil and women’s rights, and against the Vietnam War into a fight against the poisoning and destruction of the world’s air, land and water. The protests have continued annually, but almost 50 years later, the problems remain — mountains of nuclear waste cannot be safely disposed of, toxic spills from factories and oil tankers seep into the water and soil, massive tracts of rainforests are chopped down, ocean plastic pollution contaminates virtually all marine organisms, ocean acidification, resulting from fossil fuels, just like global climate change,
threatens the entire planet. There is no political will, nor mobilizations large enough to force existing solutions. The U.S. government, especially when Democrats are in power, tries to promote itself as the protector of the environment. But every modest gain in regulating pollution and environmental hazards has been won in struggle. For thousands who will turn out for this year’s Earth Day events, their participation should be linked to broader fights against attacks by the government and employers against immigrant workers, women’s rights, workers’
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and thousands of unemployed. The banner of “protecting jobs” is hypocritically flown by those who are trying to gut the totally insufficient protections workers have won from OSHA or EPA. Washington also provides the military muscle to back up the banks demanding that governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America sign over oil, virgin forest, minerals, land for toxic waste dumps and human labor to pay back loans whose purpose was always to transfer wealth from the semicolonial world to the coffers of the billionaires, to attempt to overthrow the democratically elected Venezuelan government as a move against Cuba and to get its hands on their oil. Labor needs to wage a fight to halt the destruction of the environment internationally. We have the biggest stake in protecting the environment, as an integral part of defending our health, safety, and working and living conditions. Industry and technology in and of themselves don’t lead to environmental destruction nor of the factory workers. But as long as they are run for profits, the bosses will try to get away with as much as they can in their drive for a better bottom line. The working class can and must take the lead in fighting to end the destruction of the environment by putting forward such demands as: • Dismantlement of Washington’s nuclear weapons arsenal. • Making corporations pay for their pollution. • Giving unions control of health and safety; giving employers the bill. • Creating jobs for all by shortening the work week to 30 hours but keeping the same pay, thus hiring enough workers to do jobs safely and cleanly. • Canceling Third World debt to the banks.
Windy Barnes Farrell at home. She will perform on May 12 at the San Pedro Music Festival at the Warner Grand Theatre. Photo by Dennis J. Freeman
By Dennis J. Freeman, Contributor
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Music for life. That is songbird Windy Barnes Farrell’s story. She sings, sings and sings some more. While you’re at it, make it good to the folks listening to you, she said. Barnes Farrell has made it good enough that she has never had to do anything in the line of employment but open up her mouth. Her vocal skills used to get her into clubs as a teenager where she would perform. Then she was onto bigger and better things. Performing at these small venues eventually fast-tracked Barnes Farrell to working with Stevie Wonder, making the international rounds with the great Julio Iglesias, and collaborating with the soulful Michael Bolton (We’re Not Making Love Anymore). So, if there is someone who knows a thing or two about good music, Barnes Farrell, who headlines the San Pedro Musical Festival on May 12 at the Warner Grand Theatre, has already dialed that number in. “I love all kinds of music,” Barnes Farrell said in an interview at her San Pedro home. “When people ask me what kind of music I sing? I say, ‘Good music.’ That’s how I distinguish between one or the other.” As far as her definition of what good music is, the San Pedro songstress said it should be something that stirs the soul. “It is music that moves you to feel a particular way, music that takes you to another space that is good, that makes you feel good on the inside,” she said. “Some music to me is not necessarily meant for that purpose. It’s meant to move you but feel good. Some music is distorted…you can’t really feel good about it, but if you’re doing [See Windy, p. 16]
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very time a new health study about eggs is published, it becomes increasingly clear that what they actually cause is whiplash. This past May we learned that eggs decrease risk for heart disease. This month we learned that three or more eggs per week will increase one’s risk not only for heart disease, but also early death. I ate three or more eggs just yesterday. My hens are back in the saddle after their winter lay-cation, and my crepe omelet recipe is a welloiled masterpiece. A French pancake tucked inside an eggy enigma, the crepe omelet has all the makings of a trans-Atlantic home economics mystery thriller. An ovovore like myself won’t be looking away from that, not until I run out of cholesterol or coffee. Previously, when I wanted extra-puffy eggs I would separate the yolks and beat the whites stiff. Now, two teaspoons of pancake mix is all the fix I need. That bit of flour and leavening doesn’t dilute the egg, but makes it more egglike, reinforcing its subtle, sturdy body without interfering with the eggy taste or texture. If eggs were truly bad for one’s health, the crepe omelet would be a problem because I won’t stop eating it. Happily, the wealth
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A Trans-Atlantic Home Economics Mystery Thriller By Ari LeVaux, Flash in the Pan
Ari LeVaux’s crepe omelette. Photo by Ari LeVaux
of conflicting health guidance offers me the freedom to select whatever evidence best supports my hopes and beliefs. The only question that ever weighs on my ovovorous heart is “does the egg float, or sink?” A floating egg is a rotten egg, which is an egg you want to avoid. Most hen keepers have the experience of discovering the occasional unsanctioned nest in some random corner of the yard, filled with eggs of an uncertain age. Cracking and sniffing can help assess the fitness of an egg, but can also lead to PTSD.
I place the egg in question on the bottom of a pot of water. If the egg lies prone, it’s as fresh as tomorrow’s news. As the egg ages, the wide end will fill with waste gases and rise toward the surface, while the pointy end stays on the bottom. At this stage an egg is still OK to eat. It will taste fine, although the texture won’t be as tight. The yolks won’t stand up like solid spheres; instead they’ll collapse into yellow circles in a puddle of watery white albumen. And once the egg stops touching the bottom, it’s biological waste. I would send it to the landfill. Triple-bagged. Egg floating isn’t just for flocksters. It can be a useful skill for egg buyers, too. I often float purchased eggs to see how fresh they are. Some store-bought eggs can be on the old side, standing or even bouncing on the bottom. I generally find the freshest eggs at the farmers market, but it’s also possible to bring home literal stinkers — especially during the summer. If you buy eggs from a stand that sells out every week, you won’t have a problem. But once, toward the end of market, I bought a dozen from the only stand that still had any. At home, some of the eggs floated. Bummer, but at least I didn’t crack any. Embarrassed, the seller returned my money the next week when I complained. Nobody complains about the crepe omelet, which occupies the sweet spot at the center of a Venn diagram, where circles of egg, batter and cream all overlap. When filled with Nutella or topped with whipped cream, the omelet will taste like the sweetest crepe in Brittany. But when filled with savory ingredients and spattered with hot sauce, it tastes like the sunniest Sunday morning omelet. Salty or sweet, the crepe omelet will [See Thriller, p. 13]
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always taste good with a cup of coffee, which is all I truly ask of an egg. That, and to please not float, or kill me.
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You need a good pancake recipe for this dish, and some will work better than others. My favorite is Krusteaz Buttermilk Pancake Mix, which was developed at the University of Washington in the 1940s and it became a comfort food staple among the Alaska pipeline workers in the 1970s. Whichever mix you use, it may take an omelet or two before you figure out your preferred quantity, which depends on both the mix and how crepe-ey you want your omelet. With Krusteaz, I like two teaspoons per egg. Once you have mastered the basic recipe, you have permission to take it in any sweet or savory direction you wish. Fruit or vegetable, sugar or salt, spinach or chocolate chip ricotta cheese or Philly cheesesteak or nothing but a grated cheddar, which will melt into the egg batter with a cheesy stringiness. If it tastes good, it will taste good in the crepe omelet.
Makes a single, one-egg omelet. Scale up as necessary. 1 large egg ¼ cup milk 2 teaspoons pancake mix ½ tablespoon butter Crack the egg into a bowl and beat with the milk and pancake mix. Don’t over-beat, or go after every lump. Melt the butter in an omelet pan on medium. Add the mixture, tilting the pan around for even coverage. When bubbles appear on the edge of the disc, lay the filling across the middle, perpendicular to the direction you will fold it. The delicateness of the crepe omelet makes it difficult to fold in half like a normal omelet. Instead, start at one edge and roll the crepe across the pan in several little folds. When bubbles appear toward the middle, slide a spatula under an edge and turn over the first inch or two. Let it sit there for a moment to set up, then fold again. You may want a second spatula to help roll it evenly. Keep folding and rolling until it’s a cylinder pushed up against the edge of the pan. (If you totally botch this part, stir it around like you meant to all along, and serve a glorious pile of scrambled eggs.) Turn off the heat and let it sit for a minute to set up. Slide onto a pan and serve.
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Lusby is a painter focused on contemporary realism. Though Lusby’s work varies with ideas, the main focus is to evolve painting forward. To create this progression he has three consisting elements running through the paintings: time represented by segmentation, motion expressed by the blurring of the painted subject matter and place solidified by a photo collaged background. Arid West opens on May 2. Reception for the artist May 5, 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibition runs through June 29. Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro. Enter the Loft at the loading dock on 4th St.
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M-Pact Its exploration of the artistry of the human voice is especially resonant in the era of high tech production values. Time: 8 p.m. April 19 Cost: $10 to $24 Details: 310-329-5345; artstickets@elcamino.edu. Venue: Marsee Auditorium, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance Fantana Come and celebrate the music of Carlos Santana as Fantana plays covers of classics like Black Magic Woman and Evil Ways. Time: 9 to 11:30 p.m. April 19 Cost: $15 to $25 Details: 310-323-3954 Venue: Alpine Restaurant, 833 W. Torrance Blvd., Torrance
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Tower of Power Creating a groove that’s become the backbone of urban soul, Tower of Power is fluent in all realms of soul, rock and pop with the sophistication of big band jazz. Time: 8 p.m. April 20 Cost: $90 to $115 Details: 562-916-8500; www.cerritoscenter.com Venue: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 18000 Park Plaza Drive, Cerritos
The Wartburg Choir From Waverly, Iowa the Wartburg Choir’sconcert will feature music centered around the strength of the human spirit to overcome adversity. Time: 7 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: 319-352-8347 Venue: First Lutheran Church, 2900 W. Carson St., Torrance
Dom Kennedy The Associated Students Inc. of California State University Dominguez Hills presents its annual spring fling with musical guest Dom Kennedy. Time: 6 to 10 p.m. April 25 Cost: $10 to $15 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ yy7usd5t Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 S. Avalon Blvd., Carson
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U.S. 99 Join this trio of musicians as they play music inspired by American rock ‘n’ roll and blues music. Time: 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. April 26 Cost: $5 Details: 310-323-3954 Venue: Alpine Restaurant, 833 W. Torrance Blvd., Torrance
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Old School Creole Music Joe Hall & The Cane Cutters play original and traditional songs in Creole French, in celebration of the release of his new CD, Aye Char Catin. Time: 8 p.m. April 27 Cost: $25 Details: www.alvasshowroom.tix. com/Event.aspx?EventCode=1 120310 Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Lynn McGrath A true feast for the ears and the soul, classical guitarist Lynn McGrath performs selected movements from Platero y Yo in the role of both theatrical narrator and guitarist. Time: 8 p.m. April 27 Cost: $10 to $21 Details: 310-329-5345; www.elcaminotickets.university tickets.com Venue: Campus Theatre, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance Che Malambo The powerhouse Argentinian ensemble Che Malambo celebrates the South American cowboy tradition of the gaucho with percussive dance and music spectacles. Time: 8 p.m. April 27 Cost: $35 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ y2yx853u Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach
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Mary Poppins When Mary Poppins arrives on the banks doorstep she must use a combination of magic and common sense to encourage the Banks children to drop their silver spoons. A new take on a classic tale, this musical will make you believe that anything can happen. Time: 7:30 p.m. April 19 and 2 and 7:30 p.m. April 20 Cost: $22 Details: 310-781-7171; www.southbayconservatory.com B James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
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Amaluna Under the big top at the LA Waterfront, Amaluna invites the audience to a mysterious island governed by goddesses and guided by the cycles of the moon. Time: Wednesday to Saturday 8 p.m., Saturday, Sunday 1:30 and 4:30, 5, or 8 p.m. April 25 Cost: $49 Details: www.cirquedusoleil.com/ amaluna Venue: Battleship IOWA, under the Blue Grand Chapiteau, 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro. In The Penal Colony Franz Kafka’s ingenious metaphor about man’s inhumanity to man is heightened by Phillip Glass’ hypnotic score. Witness the internal conflict: to act or to do nothing. The show runs April 25 through May 5. Time: 7:30 p.m. April 25, 26, 27 Cost: $49 to $150 Details: 562-470-7464; www.longbeachopera.org/tickets Venue: CSULB Studio Theater, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach
April 26
HairSpray the Musical Follow intrepid teenager Tracy Turnblad and her friends, as she negotiates teenage love, dance crazes and race relations in her quest to be a “big girl.” Time: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, April 26 through May 12
Glove Story Two aging champion rival boxers—who fought a legendary trilogy in the early 1960s against the backdrop of a changing nation and the civil rights movement— are reunited by an ambitious young sportswriter. The show runs April 26 through May 12. Time: 8 p.m., Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday May 5, 12 Cost: $18 to $25 Details: www.panndora productions.com Venue: The Garage Theatre, 251 E. 7th St., Long Beach
April 27
Exit, Pursued by a Bear Nan tries to show her abusive husband the error of his ways by reenacting scenes of their marriage with her friends. She even tries to make a bear eat him. Time: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, April 27 to May 25 Cost: $14 to $20 Details: 562-494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach Uncle Vanya Celebrated actress Renee O’Connor stars in a reading of Uncle Vanya, a story of thwarted passion and enduring hope. Time: 2 p.m. April 27 Cost: $100 Details: 310-512-6030; www.tinyurl.com/https:// shakespearebythesea-se Venue: Little Fish Theater, 777 S. Centre St., San Pedro
We Sing Tomorrow’s Song Enjoy an evening with the Torrance Civic Chorale as they perform a selection of new music by young composers, plus favorite enduring standards. For this special evening the chorale will be joined by an orchestra. Time: 8 p.m. April 27 Cost: $25 Details: www.TorranceCivic Choral.org Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
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April 20
Nobel Places From the famous church in The Graduate to the Norton Simon Museum, Ladd & Kelsey, Architects were the maestros behind some of the most famous ‘60s and ‘70s landmarks in Southern California. Noble Places runs through May 26. Time: 3 to 5 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free
Saturday Ceramics New hand building ceramics class with studio artist Lowell Nickel. Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 20 Details: lowellnickel@gmail.com Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro
April 27
Sketching & Drawing Workshop Instructed by artist Amber Stucke, this is an intermediate and interdisciplinary workshop in drawing with a specific focus on plants. All levels 18 years and older are welcome. Time: 10 a.m. to 1p.m.Saturdays, Session 1 April 27, Session 2 May 11, Session 3 June 15 Cost: $50 per workshop Details: 510-541-1915; amberstucke.com Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro
May 2 Teacher as Artist-Artist as Teacher Gallery Azul celebrates Teacher Appreciation Month by hosting an art show about teachers as artists, artists as teachers. Time: 6 to 10 p.m. May 2 Cost: Free Details: 562-225-8535; www.galleryazul.com Venue: Gallery Azul, 520 W. 8th St., San Pedro
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April 20
Free Solo Join the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy in viewing the acclaimed documentary Free Solo at the Warner Grand Theatre. Time: 5 p.m. April 20 Cost: $10 and Youth Free Details: www.pvplc.org Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
DANCE April 19
Spring Dance Ensemble Long Beach City College’s Performing Arts Department presents the dance ensemble’s spring performance featuring choreography by both faculty and students. Time: 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and 2 p.m. on Saturday April 20 Cost: $15 to $17 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ y6bmt6u9 Venue: Furjanak Sandberg Auditorium, 4400 E. 10th St., Long Beach
April 23
Momentum 2019 Palos Verdes Peninsula High School presents their annual Choreo Show. Time: 7 p.m. April 23, 24, 25 Cost: $15 to $25 Details: 310-781-7171; hendrickk@pvpusd.net Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
FOOD
April 27 OPA! Healthy Greek Cooking Chef Christina Xenos demonstrates how one might extend the good life by preparing dishes from Opa! The Healthy Greek Cookbook: Modern Mediterranean Recipes for Living the Good Life. Afterward, enjoy samples of Chef Christina’s work and sip fine Greek wines. Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m. April 27 Cost: Free Details: www.natfab.org Venue: Pacific Food & Beverage Museum, 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro
LITERATURE April 20
Writers Resist! Poetry and Prose from the Resistance Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018 celebrates its first year. This online journal includes the works of 73 contributors, some not-yet-known, some wellknown, and a few notorious writers and artists of the resistance. Time: 5 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: 562-208-5862 Venue: Gatsby Books, 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach
April 27
A Red Night Join to celebrate the launch of Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s Between the Spine with featured readers Alexis Rhone Fancher, Joan Jobe Smith and Aruni Wijesinghe. The event also includes an open mic. Time: 7 to 9 p.m. April 27 Cost: Free Details: 562-208-5862 Venue: Gatsby Books, 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach Philippine Expressions Poetry Reading in Spanish and English by poets from the Latin-American communities in collaboration with Filipino American poets. Time: 4 to 7 p.m. April 27 Cost: $10 Details: 310-548-8148; info@philippinebookshop. com; Venue: Philippine Expressions Bookshop, 479 W. 6th St., Suite 105, San Pedro
COMMUNITY EARTH DAY EVENTS April 20
Dryad Join the annual Earth Day celebration at White Point Nature Preserve with guests, Jon and Sabine Sherman. With its cultural and ecological insights this program offers inspiration and hope to all who care about the natural world. RSVP.
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The Express The Express is known for incorporating different genres of music into their repertoire such as swing, Cajun, American country, and classic rock. Time: 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. April 20
April 25
Dymally International Jazz & Arts Festival The Dymally Institute and Rainbow Promotions presents a day of jazz, soul, global music, spoken word, visual and performance art and hosted by D.L. Hughley. Time: 1 to 10:30 p.m. April 27 Cost: $55 and up Details: 562-424-0013; www.rainbowpromotions.com Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E Victoria St., Carson
Magic Up Close This one of a kind magic experience puts you up close with amazing musicians who will perform close-up parlour magic that will leave you amazed. Time: 8 p.m. April 26, 27 Cost: $35 Details: 310-781-7171; www.torrancearts.org Venue: George Nakano Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
Details: 310-541-2479; pvartcenter.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center 5504 W. Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes
Fools Logic In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the release of Supertramp’s quadruple platinum, Grammy-winning Breakfast in America, Fools Logic will perform the album in its entirety. Time: 8 to 10 p.m. April 20 Cost: $25 Details: alvasshowroom.tix.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
April 24
Storm Large with Le Bonheur Enjoy the singing of Storm Large and her band Le Bonheur as they play Broadway showstoppers and classic anthems alongside their own original music. Time: 7 p.m. April 24 and 25 Cost: $45 Details: www.tinyurl.com/y4cx9jy4 Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach
Cost: $30 to $80 Details: www.palosverdes performingarts.com Venue: Norris Theatre, 27570 Norris Center Drive, Rolling Hills Estates
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Micah Wright & Friends Multi-instrumentalist Micah Wright and his diverse ensemble showcase both the classic piano, clarinet, cello trio and jazzy, virtuosic selections with clarinet, sax and piano. Time: 3 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: 310-316-5574; www.palosverdes.com/Classical Crossroads/TheInterludes.htm Venue: First Lutheran Church & School, 2900 W. Carson St., Torrance
Cost: Free Details: 310-323-3954 Venue: Alpine Restaurant, 833 W. Torrance Blvd., Torrance
Mozart’s Jupiter Conductor Eckart Preu and Simone Porter join in a highly sensory program from The Long Beach Symphony that includes works by Pärt, Mozart, Golijov and a performance of Korngold’s Violin Concerto by guest soloist Porter. Time: 8 p.m. April 27 Cost: $29 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ y6jwelsp Venue: Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach
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[from p. 15] Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: pvplc.org/_events/ WhitePoint WorkshopRSVP. asp Venue: White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 Paseo del Mar, San Pedro Chalk Festival on the LA Waterfront Create family-friendly art with an Earth Day theme. Bring your own biodegradable chalk and let your creativity flow. Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: www.lawaterfront. org/events.php Venue: Wilmington Waterfront Park Main Plaza, 604 W. C St., Wilmington
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Harbor Wildlife Celebration The event celebrates City of Stem with docents from Marine Mammal Care Center and International Bird Rescue Center LA Time: 5 to 7:30 p.m. April 20 Cost: $30 to $60 Details: 310-833-6055 Venue: LA Maritime Institute, Berth 73, Suite 2 San Pedro
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Earth Day Celebration At this family friendly event you can shop sustainable vendors and a fresh produce stand, meet the chickens, explore the food forest, learn about microgreens, try healthy food samples and much more. Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: 562-984-2917; www.growingexperiencelb. org Venue: The Growing Experience, 750 E. Via Carmelitos, Long Beach
First Annual Wildfest Celebrate the animals that live amongst us and the pets that live and love us in our homes.There will be workshops on bees, butterflies and coyotes. The Harbor Animal Shelter will also hold pets adoptions. Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: 310-519-6115 Venue: Friendship Park & Nature Center, 1805 W. 9th St., San Pedro Ocean Adventure Day Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, Marine Mammal Care Center, International Bird Rescue, and Los Angeles Maritime Institute have joined forces to present an entire day of ocean science activities. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 20 Cost: Free Details: 310-548-7562; www.cabrillomarine aquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro
Cabrillo Beach Cleanup Interactive activities on the beach including a nurdle and microplastic challenge with prizes, a sand crab station, a beach wrack station, a bird watching station and grunion hatching on the hour. Cost: Free Details: 310-548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro Wildlife Observation Sail On board LAMI’s twin tall ships, passengers will have the opportunity to learn about how sailors raised the sails on ships in the Age of Sail. Wildlife experts from Mammal Care Center and International Bird Rescue will be on board to give commentary and answer questions. Time: 5 to 7:30 p.m. April 20 Cost: $30 to $60 Details: 310-833-6055 Venue: Los Angeles Maritime Institute, Downtown Harbor at the foot of 6th St., Berth 84, San Pedro
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Switzerland by Train David Eisenberg spent 11 days in July riding tourist and commuter trains in Switzerland. In his presentation Eisenberg will show you the spectacular Alpine scenery up close and personal. Time: 7 p.m. April 24 Cost: Free Details: 310- 383-5247 Venue: Palos Verdes Peninsula Public Library, 701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates
April 25
National Poetry Month The Uptown Cafe at the Michelle Obama Library Garden celebrates National Poetry Month with poetry, jazz and children’s activites. Time: 5:30 to 8 p.m. April 25 Cost: Free Details: 562-570-1096; www.lbpl.org Venue: Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library, 5870 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach
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Point Fermin BioBlitz Join the researchers from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium to explore coastal marine life at Point Fermin, San Pedro. RSVP. Time: 10:15 a.m. to 1 p.m., April 27, 10:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 28 Cost: Free Details: www.eventbrite.com Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro Earth Day on Pine Avenue Join Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez for the inaugural Earth Day on Pine Festival. Time: 2 to 8 p.m. April 27 Cost: Free Details: www.earthdayonpine. com. Venue: Pine Avenue between 4th and 5th streets, Long Beach
Heart the Homeless 5k The event will include a run or walk, costume contest, food drive, and health expo. Runners and walkers will step-off at 7:30 a.m. The event’s key sponsor is Torrance Memorial Medical Center Time: 6:30 a.m. April 27, Cost: Free Details: www.harborinterfaith. org/support-us-2/heart-thehomeless-5k/ Venue: Ernie Howlett Park, 25851 Hawthorne Blvd., Rolling Hills Estates
Beach Streets From Downtown to Wrigley, Beach Streets features a 2.5mile route inviting locals to get out and get active. Enjoy music, food and vendors along the route with various music and family-friendly activities. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m April 27 Cost: Free Details: www.longbeach.gov/ beachstreets Location: Pacific Avenue between Willow St. & 3rd St., Long Beach
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drugs and they make you feel some kind of way, like in a trance or something…that’s not the kind of music I’m talking about. To me, for me, this is personal, it’s music that has miracle content, and if it’s instrumental, it has a melodic or a certain melody that is pleasing to the ear.” Barnes Farrell has had an interesting journey getting to where she is today as an accomplished singer and coveted singing coach. None of her other eight siblings took to the singing rout that she took towards her life pathway. Her mother worked as a seamstress.
was what she wanted to do. “Watching her on television, I remember saying to myself, looking at her, ‘I can sing like that,’ and I was a kid,” Barnes Farrell said. “I was clear as a little girl that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I didn’t know that I should have had support. I didn’t know this was weird. I didn’t know to compare, and then when I got older and I saw people like the Jackson 5 and the Winans, I was like, ‘I’m beautiful. We could have been harmonizing together…” As it turns out, Barnes Farrell, because of her strong singing voice, was so good that she became a requested item for teachers who would pull her out of one class just for her to perform
April 28
Earth Day Expo This community event includes educational activities about the environment, free reusable bags, chickens, bees, bunnies and children’s activities. Time: 1 to 5 p.m. April 28 Cost: Free Details: 810-423-7710; amanda@gmail.co Venue: Feed and Be Fed Urban Farm, 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro CicLAvia—Wilmington CicLAvia and LA2050 opens the streets in Wilmington to cyclists, pedestrians, runners and skaters alike to explore as recreational space. Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 28 Cost: Free Details: 213-355-8500; info@ciclavia.org, LA Bureau of Street Services, 213-847-6000.
April 30 Behind the Scenes Bridge Tour One of the most successful ways the Bridge Project engages with the community is through construction site tours. To accommodate the growing interest, registrations are open for the second sunset tour. Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 30 Cost: Free Details: https://newgdbridge. com/contact-us/site-tours/ Venue: Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project Office, 11 Golden Shore, Long Beach Community Conversations #3 Life Beyond Prison Representatives from the Cal State University Long Beach Rising Scholars Justice Lab and California Innocence Project are featured in this poignant conversation around the experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals. Isaac Bryan lends his expertise on mass incarceration and public policy in the keynote address. Bryan is director of public policy for Million Dollar Hoods, a community-driven research project that digitally maps incarceration in California. Reception to follow. Time: 3 to 6 p.m. April 30 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/ y2wz8w3z Venue: CSULB University Theatre, 1250 N. Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach
Windy Barnes Farrell playing the piano at her home in San Pedro. Photo by Dennis Freeman
She was the only one in the family blessed with talented vocal chops. She was determined to use them, too, even though she got plenty of grief and a lot of pushback from family members. “[It] was purely a gift from God,” she said. “Out of the nine, there nobody singing but me, nobody in music, not my parents, not even my siblings. I grew up in a world with no support. I was not encouraged to sing. I was encouraged to shut up. I could sing since I was three.” Without the backing of her family, BarnesFarrell, who travels and performs extensively in China and throughout Asia, said she learned a valuable life lesson growing up in such a big family. “It was like a community,” she said. “It felt like I learned about the world from my siblings. Each one of them represented a different aspect of life that I would encounter once I left home. Somebody really loved you, somebody really adored you, somebody hated you. There were teams of people for you and against you. Of course, since she had the gift of singing, there was some hating going on as well, Barnes Farrell said. “It was all this manipulation from the older sisters,” she said. “[There] was jealousy. I didn’t understand what that was as a kid, but it was like I got a lot of attention as a kid because I did sing. They didn’t (get) the same type of attention. It seemed like it was resentment that was built up. I had one older sister who was the antagonist; she just had it in for me. She just didn’t care for me for whatever reason.” Barnes-Farrell got her career props going, listening and singing along to Motown artists from the jukebox or radio. Motown’s original songstress Gladys Knight caught her attention. It was at age five that Barnes Farrell saw Knight perform on television and decided that singing
in another classroom. One day, a substitute teacher gave her a pathway directive that she still remembers to this day. “He said to me, you have such a recordable voice,” she said. “I didn’t even know what that meant because I didn’t know anything about recording. I was about eleven. He said, if you don’t become a big superstar, I would really wonder why?” Well, that teacher need not worry because Barnes Farrell took that advice baton and ran with it, going from school and church phenom to a worldwide performer. “I was like Michael Jackson in the Jackson 5, Barnes-Farrell said. Here is this little girl, and I had a really big voice. Our house was down there from the church and my mother could sit at home and hear me singing in church. She could sit right at home and hear me singing.” Getting behind the microphone, though, is just one aspect of her multidimensional musical career. When she’s not on stage belting out songs, she is a choir director. She runs and operates Windy Barnes International Voice Academy. The Mother’s Day concert that she’ll be performing in is run through her Windy City Productions. Married to former Los Angeles City Councilman Robert Farrell, Barnes-Farrell has developed and prospered her business acumen as well as keeping her singing drive alive. That attention thing? She’s gotten plenty of it throughout her career, but that is not why she chose to go into that profession. “It wasn’t about the attention that I got,” said Barnes-Farrell. “It was really about the singing. I just couldn’t stop expressing that way. So, it was more for me about me expressing something than the attention.”
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Interestingly, in March 2015, similar doubletrack markings were discovered on another adult female gray whale as she migrated north past Los Angeles with her calf. The same whale had earlier been photographed in one of Baja California’s lagoons and the peculiar markings were not visible. So the tracks materialized at some point during the northbound migration. More importantly, the whales this season that have been spotted have been slimmer than usual. Gray whales feed on small crustaceans such as amphipods and tube worms found in bottom sediments. They feed primarily during the long daylight hours of the summer months in the cold Arctic waters of the Bering and Chukchi seas. Even though the inner beach at Cabrillo rarely gets a passing grade from Heal The Bay’s annual shoreline water quality ratings, there’s been significant improvement in the shallow water habitat — especially when compared with the quality of 50-feet-deep waters just to the north. Picket noted that with the man-made sediment deposits, the shallow water habitat has become home to more invertebrate species that whales like to feed on.
Gray Whale Identification
• Low V-shaped or heart shaped bushy blow • Mottled gray, state blue or gray-brown color • Narrow head encrusted with barnacles, whale lice • At surface head looks like top of shallow triangle • Low hum instead of dorsal fin • Knuckles between hump and tail • Usually raises flukes when diving
There was a line of people fishing on the edge on the east end of the Cabrillo Beach Pier near where the Federal Breakwater curves north-east to the Angels Gate Lighthouse. The wind was a steady eight and a half knots blowing down around Point Fermin and the wind surfers were skating across the inner bay. Between the end of the pier and the opening of the harbor is the shallow water habitat that was created by the environmental mitigation funds from the Pier 400 and Main Channel Dredging projects years ago. The habitat was capped with silt and planted with eel grass and other flora to attract marine life back into the bay. This in an attempt to bring back a fraction of the biodiversity that once existed in the San Pedro Bay a century ago. The gray whales returning here to feed just might signal the return of a more healthy bay. From the end of the public pier, which is a good ten minute walk from the inner beach, I can see the cargo cranes at AMP Maersk silhouetted against the San Jacinto mountain twin peaks commonly known as “old gray back” as it looks vaguely like the back of an elephant. Today in this line of sight the only “gray backs” are a couple of whales who have rediscovered San Pedro like some are hoping so many two-legged tourists do. This is a healthy sign that the harbor is recovering from the decades-long suffering of industrial development. Just maybe, maybe we are turning the corner on pollution in the harbor and in another decade there could be just enough of what it takes to bring back a robust population species to this once bountiful bay? — James P. Allen, Publisher
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of Mexico and their summer feeding grounds in the cold Arctic seas. Thanks to its nearshore migration route, sea-mammals can observe the gray whale along its journey at places like the Point Vicente Whale watch in Rancho Palos Verdes. For the past two years, American Cetacean Society whale-census takers have noted an above average number of migratory whales passing by the San Pedro Peninsula over the past two years. This past March and continuing into April up to six whales have been spotted swimming in the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors, a spectacular sight in any year, but this year the whales stuck around the area for well over a month, actively feeding near the fishing pier near Cabrillo Beach in the Port of Los Angeles. The environmental specialist at the Port of Los Angeles, Kat Prickett, noted that the places whales have been observed are places that are part of the Port’s efforts to mitigate the negative impacts of the channel deepening and Pier 400 projects. Prickett pointed out that the port has worked with tenants to reduce water pollution and also enacted a speed reduction program, partly in hopes of decreasing collisions between cargo ships and migrating whales. The gray whale received its name from the gray patches and white mottling on its dark skin. On the skin are many scratches, scattered patches of white barnacles, and orange whale lice. Newborn calves are simply dark gray to black, although some may have distinctive white markings that biologists can use to identify individuals. Recently, however, a few of the whales have been showing up with mysterious white markings or tracks running in various directions across their backs — tracks that scientists so far have
not been able to identify the source. The small parallel tracks are easily differentiated from the normal crater-like barnacle scars and white blotches on the whale’s skin and are also easily differentiated from orca teeth rake marks on the dorsal hump, and more visible boat prop scars. Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a whale expert known for her work on Amazing Journeys (1999) and Planet Earth Live (2012) had this to say about the sightings: “In March 2015, I had encountered a gray whale mom that had exactly the same type of mysterious markings trailing all over her body (plus prop scars and killer whale tooth rakes) off Point Vicente (also seen in Ojo de Liebre in Jan 2015). We had a long discussion on possible scar origin at that time: squid experts ruled out squid tentacles as the scar’s origin; some thought mariculture equipment rollers; others suggested tiny unknown marine creatures.”
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• Breeding: single calf born late December to mid February, after a gestation period of 12 to 13.5 months • Distribution: North Pacific and adjacent waters, in recent years at least one individual in the North Atlantic and another in the South Atlantic. • World population: about 18-21,000 in the eastern North Pacific ; probably fewer than 130 in the western north Pacific.
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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019028044 The following person is doing business as: (1) Harbor Foot and Ankle Podiatric Group, 1360 W. 6th Street, #150W., San Pedro, CA 90732. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Bruce D. Levine, 1360 W. 6th Street, #150W. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Bruce D. Levine, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Feb. 01, 2019. Notice-In accordance with subdivi-
sion (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 expire 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 registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. 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 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code). Original filing: 03/07/19, 03/21/19, 04/04/19, 04/18/2019
Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019051612 The following person is doing business as: (1) Imagine Glass Designs, (2) Imagine Glass, 7708 Chimineas Avenue, Reseda CA, 91335, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Steven Lenchner, 7708 Chimineas Ave., Reseda CA, 91335. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Steven Lenchner, owner. This statement was filed with
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1 Wish for success 11 Nemesis for Hook 15 It stops at ports of call 16 “You leave ___ choice” 17 Nonstop 18 Lenovo competitor 19 PC menu command 20 Short-term positions 22 20-20, e.g. 23 Gp. with a Seattle team come 2021 25 Maiden name lead-in 26 Turn green, perhaps 27 Pre-grads 28 Kool Moe ___ 29 “The Hollow Men” poet 31 Instruction segment 33 British heavyweight? 34 Word before operandi 39 ___-Caps (concession stand candy) 40 Pushed, with “on” 41 Home of California’s Mendocino College 42 TV character who jumped the shark, with “the” 44 Course outlines 46 Short Morse code bit 48 Break stuff? 51 Ohio airport code 52 Dad joke, often
53 Upscale hotel offering 54 Noir investigator, slangily 55 Bob Mould’s band before Sugar 58 He played Wiseau 60 “Just ___ bit more” 61 Drama with a title character voiced by Kristen Bell 63 Contested 64 Embarrassed 65 Parts of loaves 66 Buckeye and others
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1 Speaks too proudly 2 Cream-filled pastry 3 Individual beings 4 ___ Modern (London art gallery) 5 Nearby 6 Gives substance to, with “out” 7 Tipsy 8 Fathom or foot 9 Swimming pools, a la “The Beverly Hillbillies” 10 Krispy ___ (some doughnuts) 11 Key with no flats or sharps, for short 12 Editing a program, say
13 Single-file 14 Wearing some Victorian garb 21 PGA’s Calvin 24 Explorative phrase in kids’ science shows, maybe 30 Yule symbol 32 Ambient music producer Brian 34 Requisite 35 “Fine, I give up” 36 Pork roast flavorer 37 Suffix after habit or sex 38 Rhombus, e.g. 43 Archive format 45 Old Scottish towns (as opposed to towns elsewhere?) 47 La Brea attraction 48 Nick follower on cable TV 49 Ruling 50 Reprimands 56 Classic canvas shoe brand 57 Pres. Eisenhower’s alma mater 59 Petri dish medium 62 Plop down
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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 the registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. 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 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code). Original filing: 03/21/19, 04/04/19, 04/18/19, 05/02/19
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Gov. Newsom’s Visit to El Salvador
“We must not love our lives so much that we avoid taking the risks in life that history calls for.” —Saint Oscar Romero Last week I traveled to El Salvador, Central America to learn firsthand about the conditions causing tens of thousands of Central Americans to flee to the United States. El Salvador is one of several countries impacted by the Trump administration’s recent cuts in federal aid to Central America — aid meant to alleviate and address the poverty and chaos that force so many to leave their homes. During my trip, I heard directly from folks who have fled their homes because of violence, corruption, and extortion. But I also learned more about El Salvador’s beautiful culture and met folks working to make life better for the next generation. I had a moving visit to Saint Oscar Romero’s home and the chapel where he was assassinated. He was a true warrior of faith and justice, and an example to us all that it is never the wrong time to
families and asylum seekers here in California. We’re going to continue working to expand access to healthcare for anyone who calls California home. And I’m going to push Congress to finally pass the Dream and Promise Act, which will provide a pathway to citizenship and permanent status for immigrants across the country. California won’t sit by while the federal government abdicates its duties. We will do better. Gov. Gavin Newsom Sacramento Send Letters to the Editor to: letters @randomlengthsnews.com. To be considered for publication, all Letters to the Editor must include your name with address and phone number included (these will not be published, but are for verification only) and be kept to about 250 words.
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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019055514 The following person is doing business as:(1) Donna Jason Designs, 1205 S. Alma Street, San Pedro, Ca 90731, County Of Los Angeles. Registered owners: Jennifer Lynn Smith, 1205 S. Alma Street, San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant
started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Jennifer Lynn Smith, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on March 5, 2019. 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 expire 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 the registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the
Ways and Means Committee, to request anyone’s tax returns from the IRS. This administration has gone without proper oversight for far too long. Thanks to you, we finally have a House Democratic majority with the power to demand accountability. Rep. Adam Schiff Van Nuys
do the right thing. I met kids learning to code, offering a chance for a better future for themselves and their families. I also met the USAID team providing these classes, whose funding is now at risk of being cut by Trump. And I spoke to leaders and activists about how the very same American aid that Trump has threatened to cut is helping curb the need for migration, create economic opportunity, and protect so many from violence. One thing has been made crystal clear to me by this trip: We have to address immigration in a comprehensive and thoughtful way. The divisive rhetoric coming from Washington is doing nothing but creating more chaos and harm to this country. It’s reckless and irresponsible — and California will not stand for it. Our state is going to offer even more help to separated
Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019048107 The following person is doing business as:(1) Subterranean Hair, 263 W. 7th Street, San Pedro, Ca 90731, County Of Los Angeles. Registered owners: MIROXY, 263 W. 7th Street, San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 01/2019. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) MIROXY S/. Mitchell Lee Wilson II, president. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Feb. 26, 2019. 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
Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019047328 The following person is doing business as:(1) Pedro’s Auto Repair, 1631 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro, Ca 90731, County Of Los Angeles. Registered owners: Pedro Kings Araujo, 659 W 19th Street, San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 10/2011. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Pedro Kings Araujo, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Feb. 26, 2019. 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 the registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. 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 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code). Original filing: 04/04/19, 04/18/19,
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the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Feb. 28, 2019. 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 expire 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 registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. 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 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code). Original filing: 03/07/19, 03/21/19,
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