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ix days before the May 30 health fair that featured mobile showers, free haircuts and lunch, the senior pastor of the San Pedro United Methodist Church was still receiving donations for towels and hygiene kits for the event. The health fair was sponsored by Harbor Interfaith Services alongside a constellation of aid organizations including the San Pedro Community Clinic, Toberman Neighborhood Center, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. “What is so incredible is that people are coming together to make hygiene kits, donate towels… they are asking, Do you need lunch? Do you need granola bars? Water...What do we need? How can we help to be a part of the process?’ said Pastor Lisa Williams. “That’s really encouraging for me to see that happening and that level of energy.” Pastor Lisa, as she is generally known by her congregates and other members of the community, had also been collecting jackets and other items of clothing to give away. The response had been so great that she worried whether she had enough jobs for volunteers. To ensure that these services and resources reached the people most in need, LAHSA and Harbor Interfaith spread the word through caseworkers who have been diligently making contact and attempting to enter the unsheltered into the county-wide system. Pastor Lisa estimated that between 15 and 20 volunteers from her congregation alone will be participating at the fair. The May 29 event provided access to mobile showers and free hair cuts. “I am encouraging people, especially to our volunteers is to be a gentle presence because that’s what we can do,” she said. Shortly after she was hired to become the senior pastor of the San Pedro United Methodist Church, she realized the adjacent lot it owned was an enormous asset. [See Hope, p. 6]
Navy Fuel Depot Plans Raise Alarms By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
Comment deadline extended — a little
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Rev. Lisa Williams, the senior pastor at San Pedro United Methodist Church. Photo by Terelle Jerricks
The Navy’s most recent steps toward re-opening the decommissioned Naval Fuel Depot—technically known as “Defense Fuel Support Point” of DFSP—caught local residents by surprise. If they couldn’t say exactly why, it’s because the Navy is approaching the project via a commercial “outlease” that does not define the actual extent of what would be done on the site. Just under 164 acres are undergoing environmental remediation, which won’t be completed until 2022-2024. Only 43.1 acres
would be available immediately. A draft environmental assessment (EA) was released on April 19, with a comment period that was originally scheduled to end on May 20. But how to comment on a proposal that residents say lacks any obvious need and carries significant hazards, which it fails to acknowledge? Alfred and Barbara Sattler gave it a shot by writing this comment on May 14: The Navy has not cited any need for increased operations at the Main Terminal for the purposes of national defense in the environmental assessment. In fact, the site was declared surplus by
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Bill Restricting Oil Drilling Makes Progress By Hunter Chase, Editorial Intern
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Permissible place to drill for oil and gas in California will face additional and severe restrictions if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs Assembly Bill 345 into law. The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, was recently postponed until next year by the Appropriations Committee so that legislators can improve the language of the bill, said Alvaro Casanova, the senior policy advocate for the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment. The bill passed 7 - 3 in the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources in April. If the bill becomes law, it would prohibit future drilling projects in California within 2,500 feet of residences, schools, hospitals and playgrounds. Several weeks prior to the committee vote, Muratsuchi predicted the bill would receive stiff opposition, not just from oil companies, but from unions afraid of job losses. “I want to make sure that we are protecting children and families, while at the same time protecting good union jobs.” Muratsuchi said. He said large oil companies are the most well-funded special interest in Sacramento and spend the most money on lobbying. The California Chamber of Commerce called Muratsuchi’s bill a job killer on its CAJobKiller. com website. On AB 345, the chamber said it would
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eliminate thousands of high-paying California jobs and require California to import even more foreign oil by banning new oil and gas development, re-drilling operations and rework operations. Casanova said advocates for the bill, including himself, did not have as much money to advocate for the bill as the oil companies. Despite this, Casanova was optimistic the bill would reach the governor’s desk. Casanova said the bill will protect communities already overburdened by air pollution, specifically in Los Angeles County and Kern County. Casanova said the claim the bill would shut down oil production in the state of California is outlandish. “They can continue to access and drill for oil,” Casanova said. The only difference is they cannot create new drills close to communities. The bill focuses on new oil wells, not current ones. “There’s no existing jobs that are in danger,” said Sherry Lear, co-organizer of 350 South Bay Los Angeles, a climate action group fighting for swift transition to a 100 percent renewable energy future. She said that looking after a specific well is not a full-time job. They are simply monitored. The environmental improvement that the bill
would bring outweigh any economic downside, Lear said. The bill also prevents abandoned or plugged oil wells from being reused if they are within 2,500 feet of a residence, school or hospital. “Two-thousand-five-hundred feet is the recommended minimum for health and safety,” Lear said. “It’s very important for the community,” said Sally Hayati, director of Ban Toxic MHF, and former director of Torrance Refinery Action Alliance. “It’s a very, very necessary bill.” Rep. Al Muratsuchi for the 66th Assembly District. File photo
Pride Flag Raising Ceremony
The City of Signal Hill launched its first Pride Flag on May 22 at city hall. The celebration took place on Harvey Milk Day in solidarity with and in celebration of the LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning) community. The flag will fly through June 30. Council member Keir Jones, above, brought forth the proposition of displaying the LGBTQ flag. Photo by Diana Lejins.
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Harbor Area Calfresh Benefits Available June 1
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services or DPSS announces the expansion of the State of California’s CalFresh Program to now serve older adults and people with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Income benefits, beginning June 1. Supplemental Security Income recipients may be eligible to receive CalFresh food benefits and applying will not affect their SSI benefit amount in any way. DPSS has established a call center dedicated to taking CalFresh applications by phone. All County residents can contact the call center at 866-6133777, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. In 74 percent of the cases, the application is processed on the same day. The department also accepts applications through GetCalFresh.org, Details: DPSS Call Center at 866-613-3777; www.dpss.lacounty.gov.
Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
At this family-friendly event, residents and community members will have the opportunity to view maps and results of the Long Beach climate vulnerability assessment, which shows how climate change is predicted to impact Long Beach residents and communities due to worsening extreme heat, flooding from sea level rise and storms, air quality and drought. Participants are invited to provide feedback on a draft of the City’s first ever Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. Participate in interactive activities to help prepare for climate change, and view environmental project displays from Long Beach students. Time: 10 to 1 p.m. June 1 Cost: Free Details: RSVP: https://lbclimatefest.eventbrite. com/ Venue: Marine Stadium, 5255 E Paoli Way, Long Beach [See Announcements, p. 5]
Replacing the Gerald Desmond Bridge By Lyn Jensen, Reporter
Replacing the Gerald Desmond Bridge isn’t one of Long Beach’s more controversial projects. The landmark 50-year-old bridge, which spans the Port of Long Beach’s Back Channel, is simply no longer up to handling today’s road and harbor traffic. Although it remains structurally sound, chunks of concrete have been flaking off for years, and a safety net has been installed to literally hold some parts together. After many years of planning and securing funding, the groundbreaking ceremony for a new bridge was held Jan. 8, 2013. The old bridge remains open to traffic while the new bridge is being constructed just to the north. When the new bridge is completed and opened to traffic— scheduled for late 2019—the old bridge will be closed and torn down. What’s being called the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project is a joint effort of Caltrans and the Port of Long Beach, with funding contributions from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or Metro. When the new bridge is completed, Caltrans will take responsibility for operations and maintenance. Denis Wolcott, who handles media inquiries on the project, provided the following information about the budget, which is currently $1.467 billion: •Federal loans - $500 million • LA Metro - $17.3 million • Port of Long Beach - $117 million • State/Caltrans funds - $153.7 million • Federal funds - $675 million
The new Gerald Desmond Bridge under construction. File photo
Wolcott said that, “as of today” the project is on time and on budget, although he added a significantly clarifying point. “The original project budget was $1 billion when the project began in 2013,” Wolcott said. “Since the project began, the Port of Long Beach has authorized a couple of incremental budget increases to its current level of $1.467 billion.” The difference is because of some
changes in the design. Wolcott also said, “The current estimate is that the bridge could open to traffic as soon as late 2019. However, given the size and importance of this project — it’s a bridge being built to last at least 100 years — we recognize there could be normal construction delays.” Today’s largest cargo ships — up to six [See Bridge, p. 5]
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In March 2017, the Defense Logistics Agency, which manages the site, put out a story quoting its official John Cummings saying: “We are doing the right thing since commercial partners store bulk fuel and there is no need to maintain a government-owned facility.” As the Sattler’s note, there’s no explanation of how anything has changed. Meanwhile, the comment period was extended through June 3 after Chuck Hart, president of San Pedro Peninsula Homeowners United, or SPPHU, brought the issue to the Northwest Neighborhood Council, which asked the Navy for more time.
“I made a call to the Navy,” NWSPNC President Ray Regalado told Random Lengths. “They were very open to say, ‘We’ll give an additional 14 days’ or something like that.” It’s not long enough for an official neighborhood council response to be drafted. “We are taking any comments people want to give us, so that we, in turn, can also send out a cumulative report.” There’s a comment page on the NWSPNC website as well as a May 29 meeting of the Community Issues Committee where comments were to be taken as we went to press. But it’s still too little time for a meaningful public response. In its public comment, South Bay 350.org called for a minimum of 60 additional days extension, along with further and meaningful efforts to seek out public input, including hosting public workshops, publicizing the proposal in local newspapers, and reaching out to local schools, churches and organizations of all types. On May 15, Hart submitted a comment from
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This map depicts the area at San PedroFuel Depot that is proposed to be outleased. The outleased area consists of 311 acres of the Main Terminal, 11.06-acre Marine Terminal and an offsite network of pipelines totaling 14 miles. Map courtesy of the Navy Department
members of SPPHU, situated directly south of the main site that described the proposal to reopen the Defense Fuel Support Point as “reckless” and warned that it “invites further potential for disaster.” SPPHU and the U.S. Department of the Navy have historically had a meaningful relationship. But in its comment, SPPHU noted: “This is a much different world than when the fuel depot was introduced into our neighborhood back in the ‘40s,” with significant new hazards introduced since—specifically, the Rancho LPG facility and added butane storage tanks at the Phillips 66 refinery. “Frankly, we were relieved when in 2016 the Navy announced its closure, thereby eliminating ‘one’ of these several hazardous facilities surrounding our homes,” SPPHU stated. “You are deceiving the public by not being specific about; a) how many new tanks there could be, b) where they would be located and, c) exactly ‘what’ is considered ‘areas historically used for operations’ in that 300-plus acre site.” In a note appended to the comment, Hart recalled bringing the issue to the neighborhood council two days earlier. “I asked how many board members had received an environmental assessment notice and had the opportunity to respond. No one raised their hand.” South Bay 350.org also wrote that “the Navy does not offer any compelling reason to renew and expand fuel operations at this location. In fact, given the potential for this facility becoming a terrorist target, would indicate that expanding this facility would be against national security interests …. We find it is incredible that the EA states, without adequate explanation, that there will not be any significant impact in any way from the proposed project. These conclusions, alone, demonstrate the perfunctory nature of the EA and the lack of understanding of the community in which the facility is located, including significant changes taking place right next door presently. “There is already too high of a concentration of dangerous and/or polluting facilities for residents and business who are located within these Los Angeles Harbor communities … there is no justification for the storage of large quantities of highly flammable fuel when it creates a real risk of major casualties in the community in the event of earthquake, accident, fire, explosion or a terrorist attack.
“While the City of Los Angeles and the State of California are enacting broad and bold plans to transition away from fossil fuels and move toward clean and safe energy alternatives, it is truly disturbing that the Navy believes it is acceptable to come back into an already disadvantaged community and add more danger and burden to its residents.” They, too, were caught by surprise, according to Sherry Lear, co-organizer of South Bay 350. org and a resident of Seaport Homes. “In both of those roles, I would’ve expected to receive notice,” Lear said. “And, I received none.” Seaport management heard nothing as well, she said. “I quite frankly found out about it very late and only because of Janet Gunter,” Lear said about the mass emailing that alerted many local activists. Harbor City Neighborhood Council board member Caney Arnold raised basic questions about the underlying rationale, drilling down into the specific language of the EA and the federal law it references. “There is no compelling rationale provided in the EA to even establish a need for the DFSP,” Arnold wrote. He went on to question the proposal’s supposed “Purpose and Need,” that “The need for the proposed action is to ensure the fullest possible use and maintenance of the Navy’s assets… in support of 10 U.S.C. section 5062,” that section of federal law defines the Navy’s composition and functions. “Nowhere in 10 U.S.C 5062 does it require the Navy to ensure the fullest possible use and maintenance of the Navy’s assets, or to even require any specific assets such as DFSP, San Pedro,” Arnold wrote. “Rather, 5062 calls for ‘prompt and sustained combat…’. The EA does not address how use of the DFSP asset is the best alternative for the Navy. Again, fueling by alternative means may in fact provide more benefit…” The Navy is studying two options. Alternative 1 calls for rehabilitation and operation of the main terminal in San Pedro, and the smaller marine terminal on Terminal Island, along with the operation of on-site and off-site pipelines. Alternative 2 is limited to the marine terminal and pipelines. Both would establish commercial operations with guaranteed priority service for the Navy [See Depot, p. 7]
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Election Day is June 4
Election Day is upon us again — this one is on Tuesday, June 4, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. — and although it’s probably caught you by surprise, overshadowed by the wait for summer weather and camouflaged by the Trump tug-of-war in Washington, D.C., the stakes are higher than you might think. That’s what the big money says, anyway. Contributions to the campaigns in the runoff that will determine who will warm the 33rd District state senate seat that’s been vacant since Ricardo Lara was elected California’s insurance commissioner in November have run into the multiple seven figures. The candidates are Democrat Lena Gonzalez, a Long Beach City Councilmember, and Republican Jack Guerrero, a city councilmember in Cudahy. There’s also Measure EE, the QualityTeacher, Class Size Reduction, and Local School Safety proposal that would ostensibly supply all those things and more via a 16-cents per square foot parcel tax.
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The Los Angeles Maritime Institute is hosting a maritime first aid and CPR course from June 8 and June 9. Students will learn how to assess a person for injuries and decide how to treat them. The class focuses on treating injuries from boating accidents and methods to prevent accidents. Participants will learn techniques in airway management, rescue breathing, bleeding control and stabilization. The course will cover trauma, medical, maritime and environmental medicine. The money raised will benefit the Topsail Youth Program. Time: 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. June 8 and 9 Cost: $30 to $60 Details: https://tinyurl.com/maritimecpr Venue: Berth 78, Ports O’ Call, San Pedro.
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Blue Line Updates
The Southern Segment of the Blue Line is scheduled to reopen between Downtown Long Beach and Compton Station, on June 1. The Northern Segment of the Blue Line will be out of service between Compton Station and 7th St/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/Rosa Parks service will remain open. Two stations on the Expo Line will be out of service (Pico Station and 7th St/Metro Center) for 60-days starting June 22. Details: www.tinyurl.com/bluelineimprovements
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and they would require council members to live in their district, and district elections could increase voter turnout at less cost. At the same time he warned districts could be gerrymandered to ensure certain persons got elected, and council members might consider “their own needs” over the needs of the city at large. Last May, Carson received a letter from Shenkman which read, “voting within Carson is racially polarized, resulting in minority-vote dilution” and claimed he was representing Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a Latino voter participation organization. Shenkman’s letter concluded, “Given the historical lack of Latino representation on the Carson City Council” that the council “voluntarily” change its at-large elections system or “we will be forced to seek judicial relief.” Several cities have challenged Shenkman in court but none has been successful. Some have simply changed to districts rather than go to court after receiving one of his threatening letters.
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times as large as fifty years ago—can’t get under the current bridge. The new bridge, with a cable-stayed design, will solve that problem by raising the road deck to 205 feet above water. That will give the new bridge the highest roaddeck clearance of any cable-stayed bridge in the United States. The two 515-feet towers, from which support cables will fan out, are completed and already dominate the Long Beach skyline. They are currently the second-highest cable-stayed bridge towers in the United States—only the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in Charleston, South Carolina, has taller towers, at 572 feet tall. With three lanes in each direction plus safety lanes, the new bridge will also be wider and better able to serve the old bridge’s current traffic of 68,000 vehicle trips per day– equal to about 18 million trips a year. Pedestrian walks and
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bicycle lanes are also part of the design. Construction has affected motor vehicle traffic with both long-term and short-term closures and detours. The website www. newgdbridge.com has a place to sign-up for a weekly newsletter that provides traffic updates. People can also download the LB Bridge Mobile App to keep informed of traffic conditions surrounding the bridge construction. The last of the major road closures is to replace the existing ramp that connects eastbound Ocean Boulevard to northbound I-710. It was closed in mid-2018 to make way for a new connector that will open in mid-2019. Whether the new bridge will bear the name “Gerald Desmond” is ultimately a question for the state legislature. The old bridge is named after a former Long Beach city attorney and council member.
As an example of alleged infringement of Latino voting rights, Shenkman claimed in 2016 Raul Murga was the “only Latino candidate” for council, and he lost. In fact there was another candidate with a Spanish surname, Ramona Pimentel, a planning commissioner. She also lost. Another example Shenkman asserts is, that in June 2015, Jesus-Alex Cainglet lost for council “despite garnering significant support from the local Latino community.” It does not cite any evidence for this assertion. Cainglet is Filipino-American, so Shenkman appears to not distinguish between the Latino and Filipino-American communities. Neither does the letter mention Elito Santarina, who is Filipino-American with a Spanish surname and who served on the council, 2003-2018. In a third allegation, Shenkman claimed that in March 2015 council candidates Margaret Hernandez and Elisa Gonzalez did not win despite “significant support from the Latino community.” Actually the two women’s vote total combined amounted to barely more than five percent. At the same time Santarina won. One of Pimentel’s mailers during the 2016 election complained about lack of “geographic diversity” on the council. During the 2018 election season Pimentel ran again and lost again. One of her mailers in that campaign blared, “Should Carson Switch to District Elections Like Everybody Else?” It added: “Carson has been threatened with a lawsuit which would cost the city millions unless districts are created to allow fair representation of all residents” and “Nearly 40 different people have been elected in Carson, but only two have ever lived in the South of Carson.” The mailer didn’t define “South of Carson.” Former council members Santarina, Vera Robles DeWitt, John Calas and Kay Calas all lived or live south of the 405 freeway. So does current council member Jim Dear. As for the other current council members, Mayor Albert Robles claims he lives in his parents’ Carson home south of the 405 freeway, but a Los Angeles Times investigation uncovered evidence that he may live in Los Angeles. Lula Davis-Holmes, Cedric Hicks and Jawane Hilton — all African-American —live within a few miles of each other, north of the 405 freeway.
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Hazardous waste are unused or leftover portions of products containing toxic chemicals used around the home. Products labeled caution, warning, Danger, poison, toxic, flammable or corrosive are considered hazardous. Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 8 Details: cityofsignalhill.org Venue: EDCO Recycling and Transfer Environmental Collection Center, 2755 California Ave., Signal Hill
Carson is considering a switch from citywide elections to selection by geographic districts, but the initial response from residents was not positive. No one spoke in favor of the change during a public hearing at the May 21 city council meeting, but several residents opined against a system of by-district elections. The loudest advocate for council districts was the year-old echo of attorney Kevin Shenkman, who threatened legal action for what he claims are violations of the California Voting Rights Act this past May. Shenkman has a history of suing cities and school boards on such grounds. Public hearings regarding a by-district system for council elections are also scheduled for June 13 and June 18. After draft maps are drawn, at least two more public hearings are required, probably in late summer or early fall. An ordinance could be introduced in September, which would have to be submitted to voters, perhaps in November. Since Carson is now a charter city, a move to council districts and by-district elections will require a charter amendment, which would also need to be submitted to voters, possibly in March 2020. At the May 21 meeting, several residents spoke against changing to districts. None spoke in favor. “We do have representation on the council,” said Faith Walton. Robert Lesley compared the city’s actions regarding districts to the rush to become a charter city this past year. He recalled how a charter committee was formed to have input on creating a charter but he alleged the committee did not have any input on the charter in its final form. Bill Koons said districts had pros and cons,
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The Arts Council for Long Beach has announced that the 2019–2020 Annual Grant Cycle Applications and Guidelines are available. The Arts Council provides three types of annual grants to fund Long Beach artists, organizations and initiatives: the Community Project Grant; Operating Grants I & II and Professional Artist Fellowship Grants. These grants are supported through the City of Long Beach’s allocation for the arts. Applications are due at 5 p.m. June 10. Details: http://www.artslb.org/grants.
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Newsom Announces Homeless and Supportive Housing Advisory Task Force
OAKLAND — Days after Bay Area counties released their homeless point-in-time figures showing significant increases in their homeless populations, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the formation of the Homeless and Supportive Housing Advisory Task Force and its co-chairs Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark RidleyThomas. Earlier this month, the governor released his May budget revision, which included $1 billion to fight California’s homelessness crisis. The task force will consult with local and regional governments around the state to assess best practices and strategies to increase the production of navigation centers, positive housing exits and information sharing. The task force should guide local governments as they develop joint regional plans to address homelessness.
Supervisors OK $460 Million in Measure H Spending
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $460 million spending plan for fiscal year 2019-20 to widen and intensify its fight against homelessness. The five-member board unanimously adopted dozens of recommendations for the third-year budget of Measure H, the voter-approved, quarter-cent sales tax dedicated exclusively to providing services and programs to prevent homelessness and combat the County’s homelessness crisis. The newly-adopted Measure H budget expands on spending priorities adopted by the supervisors for its first two years and targets a number of critical strategies in the county’s comprehensive Homeless Action Plan. This investment includes $126 million for shelter/ interim housing, $85.4 million for rapid rehousing, $77.3 million for permanent supportive housing, $28.4 million for outreach and $23 million for prevention.
AB 39 Would Make California a Top Education Spender
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TORRANCE — A bill by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) that would help raise California to the top 10 in the nation in per pupil spending passed the Assembly May 22. AB 39 proposes funding targets for California’s Local Control Funding Formula to establish a plan for increasing the state’s K-12 funding by $35 billion over an unspecified number of years. This increase would ensure that all school districts have full and fair funding to cover increasing fixed costs and improve education for all California public school students.
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SEIU Members Joined Fight for 15 Activists at McDonald’s Strike
LOS ANGELES — Members of SEIU 2015, California’s long term care union representing 385,000 nursing home and home care workers, joined Fight for 15 activists at the May 23 McDonald’s strike. SEIU 2015 member Catherine Polk of Los Angeles shared the following statement: “I am sick and tired of millionaires and antiunion people attacking workers. “Just recently the Trump administration attacked home care workers by passing a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule attempting to keep us from paying our union dues. This was just another sorry attempt to break apart our union.” SEIU Local 2015 represents more than 385,000 home care and nursing home workers across California.
Hope on Sixth Street San Pedro United Methodist Church is proposing to build permanent supportive housing with wrap-around services for the unsheltered and affordable housing for families whose income falls under 60 percent of the average median income, as defined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. “We know wrap-around services are the key to helping folks get off the street and stay off the streets,” Pastor Lisa said. “There will be studios, one and two bedroom apartments.” The church is working with 10x10 Development, a nonprofit firm, to build a five story project: four stories of wood frame housing over a 1-story concrete podium for a total of 49 units. The mixed-use building will include 25 units of supportive housing and 23 one and two bedroom units for low-income families. The podium level will have recreation and outdoor space, office space for property management and onsite services, 3,300 sq. ft. health center and 13 parking stalls. A lot on Grand Avenue and 5th will provide 50 more parking spaces. Harbor Interfaith Services has been engaged as the project service provider. Pastor Lisa explained the firm is working on the funding strategies to make the mixed use project happen. “We know that the funding process will take a year or so. It is somewhat being expedited right now because there is such a crisis,” she explained. “So people are trying to move it forward.” The reverend was referencing the monies generated by the Los Angeles county Measure H which raised the county sales tax by a quarter of a cent and the city of Los Angeles Proposition HHH a bond measure to raise $1.2 billion. She hopes that the project would be completed by 2023. One of the key supporters of this project is Amber Sheikh Ginsberg, the leader of the Council District 15 Homeless Working Group, who is supporting this plan. “It’s refreshing to see some more permanent supportive housing and this is the first entity to step up and do this,” she said. “Bridge housing is just the first step but it won’t work if there isn’t the permanent supportive housing to send people to afterwards.” Through the coalition of the San Pedro Faith Consortium and Family Promise, Pastor Lisa said it was revelatory seeing the need of families living on the margins… families who are just one paycheck away from losing everything. “We all became very aware of the need for children and families, so that’s where a lot of that passion came from with regards to affordable housing,” Pastor Lisa said.
Looking Backward
The history of the San Pedro Methodist Church, where the current sanctuary was built in 1923, has also inspired Pastor Lisa. “As I dug deeper into the church and into this community, what I realized was that this place has been here for about 100 years,” Pastor Lisa said. “During World War II, it was a beacon of light for soldiers and sailors [who] would come to get a shower, a letter home and a hot meal.” The pastor noted that the itinerant guests would put their names on the great big map of the world in the sanctuary to identify others who came from their hometowns. “This church has a history of being a place of refuge,” she said. “That’s the real calling we
Above is a rendering of the 49 unit Hope on 6th Street project. Courtesy of the San Pedro United Methodist Church.
have here at this church and we want to continue that mission.” Pastor Lisa admits that the path will look different from the one traveled by the church 50 or 60 years ago. “It’s still a very important piece of what we believe on this corner of 6th and Grand,” she said. “It’s to provide that hope for people during times that don’t feel so hopeful.” The San Pedro Faith Consortium, which includes the Garden Church on lower 6th Street, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, the Jewish synagogue Temple Beth El and the First Presbyterian Church was formed almost four years ago as a way to connect and partner with each other on different projects including Family Promise. Family Promise of the South Bay is an affiliate organization alongside more than 200 others throughout the United States. It was started by a woman in New Jersey who daily walked by her high-rise place of work and saw people who were hungry. She and her two sons decided to make lunches for the people they saw in need, and not just peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but also complete, balanced meals. As they did this work, they began to ask what it would look like if the people they saw in need had a place to stay. It was a project few were willing to take on, but then a group of people asked what if they moved from church to church? What if a group of people lived in a church for a week and they got a place to sleep and a meal to eat and could stay in their school of origin? They could continue to look for a place and save the money that they are earning to get them back on their feet quicker. This, Pastor Lisa said, is infinitely better than bouncing around from hotel room to the next to avoid revealing their homelessness. “There’s a whole shame factor included in it and they have exhausted all the couch surfing they could do, their family members can’t provide any more assistance,” Pastor Lisa said. “Sometimes it’s a situation where they are only one paycheck away from not having a car to get them to work. “What I have come to realize while doing this advocacy work on homelessness is that everybody that you talk to has been affected by homelessness in some way.” Pastor Lisa noted some of the structural implications that lead to homelessness, including racism, gender bias and income inequality.
“When you start putting it together and make it human, then we can start to deal with it on a different level,” she said. “We can start to have a different conversation and that’s what I think is important.” Before becoming the senior pastor at San Pedro United Methodist Church, she was the children and youth director at the Rolling Hills Methodist Church. Her father served as senior pastor at Grandview Methodist Church, on Leland, for 40 years before it merged with the San Pedro Methodist Church.
Looking Forward
When asked if she has faced opposition in making this project a reality, Pastor Lisa’s face lit up, “I’m really delighted to say that I haven’t,” she said. She could not have made such a report last year when it was announced that the San Pedro United Methodist Church was looking to set up something akin to the ill-fated navigation center on the adjacent lot in order to provide services to the homeless. Community reaction was swift and the church backed off the plan. “We have done an awful lot of groundwork,” she said. That meant building stronger relationships with local elected officials, the neighborhood councils, the Chamber of Commerce and their community partners. When asked about her hopes for the Bridge Home Shelter project that’s set to be built on the Caltrans park and ride on Beacon Street, Pastor Lisa was hopeful still. “I hope that it can become a catalyst for conversations with the community, our service providers and those who oppose [the Bridge Home Shelters] because of fear,” she said. “I hope all parties come together and really create a system and a picture of success and accountability,” she said. “We can’t always affect all of the results, but we do need to listen to people. If something is not happening, we need to hear that and try and fix it.” This journey on which she has been leading her church has kept her encouraged. She said she is starting to see people in San Pedro really talk to one another and connecting the different dots and resources far greater than ever before. “I’m hoping for better education and better conversation around homelessness,” Pastor Lisa said. “If we can do that, then we will be able to take it to the next level.”
Newsom’s Budget Fine-Tunes a Balancing Act By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
With his “May Revise,” Gov. Gavin Newsome doubled down on two contrasting features of his initial budget proposal unveiled in January: the fiscal caution he shares with his predecessor, Jerry Brown, on the one hand and his commitment to significant policy shifts— most notably on housing and homelessness, family policy, and healthcare—on the other. Newsom also devoted considerable attention to fine-tuning specifics—such as reallocating
spirit of fiscal caution, Newsom said most of the increased revenues are already constitutionally obligated—either to reserves and debt repayment, or to schools. Newsom is devoting another $1.2 billion dollars to rainy day reserve funds, while also paying off the remainder of budgetary debts and deferrals left over from the Great Recession. This comes in the face of Newsom’s budget staff projections that a modest recession could cost the
On healthcare and family policy, in particular, Newsom’s stated goals are transformational, including the goal of universal healthcare, while his means are incrementalist. California’s current state provision—six weeks—is something, but far below the international average. Newsom’s goal of six months, announced in his January budget message, would at least make us respectable. But it’s an incrementalist path forward all the way. Still, Newsom is making progress. The May Revise would extend paid leave to eight weeks, effective July 1, 2020, and it affirms a plan to convene a task force in the near future, to develop recommendations on how to expand the
program. Those recommendations would be due in November, with an eye toward including them in the 2020-21 budget. There was also a $54.2 million investment in CalWORKs Stage 1 child care funding, to allow uninterrupted child care for eligible children, a new allocation of $80.5 million in Proposition 64 revenue to child care and a doubling of the proposed tax credit for families with children younger than the age of 6, from $500—when it was introduced in January—to $1,000 now. Both houses of the state legislature are working on their versions of the budget, with some pushing for more spending of the surplus that’s now on hand. The deadline for passing the budget is June 15. Whatever the final results may be, the overall tone set by Newsom seems almost certain to prevail.
On Jan. 7 California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to allow the state to negotiate lower prescription drug prices with big drug companies. File photo.
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as needed “during normal operations [an estimated 6 ships per quarter] and contingency scenarios.” But they are open-ended regarding further site development, leaving the proposal incredibly vague. There’s also a ‘no action’ alternative. However, several other alternatives identified earlier were not explored and are not being considered, including site conversion to full recreational or open space use—which many local residents seem ready to support—and Naval fueling at the local ports. The combination of those two alternatives would seem to be far superior to what’s being considered, but consideration was apparently ruled out by one inexplicable “screening factor”: “The alternative must ensure reactivation and sustainment of existing Navy infrastructure in a cost effective manner to the Navy.” There was not even a mention of other possible alternatives, such as “Sale of Site to State, Local Agencies or to Commercial Organizations,” also pointed by Arnold in his comments.
state $70 billion over three years. “We have a record amount of rainy day reserves and a record amount of resiliency. We have well over $30 billion-plus to weather a major storm and I would argue we have much more than that,” Newsom said. On the other hand, Newsom has increased funding for a range of homeless initiatives— most notably, adding $150 million to the $500 million previously devoted to local governments for emergency aid — for a total that’s now $1 billion higher than Brown’s last budget. He’s accelerated his push to expand paid family leave toward an eventual target of six months, and he’s introduced a “Parents Agenda” family policy package — a sales tax and use exemption for diapers and menstrual products, increased child care and an increase in state Earned Income Tax Credit for children younger than the age of 6 — which he rolled out in advance of the budget. “The cost crisis is the foundational economic and quality of life challenge that California families face,” Newsom said at the time. “As anyone who takes care of kids can tell you — these costs add up. From diapers to child care, raising kids is expensive wherever you live. But when you factor in the cost of living here in California, it is close to impossible.” When he unveiled his budget, Newsom spelled out how he saw the connection between the two contrasting aspects of Brown-like caution and his policy initiatives — especially regarding families. “We’ve got dozens and dozens of [billions in] reserves, Newsom said. “We’ve got [rainy day reserve] accounts that have never been flush. We are in a very different place [than before the last recession], but it’s not good enough. I hope I’m back next year saying we’re going to get another 10-ish billion dollars into those reserves and then I feel like we can weather that $70 billion storm and be in a place where we’re not cutting programs that disproportionately impact women and children.”
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$500 million in local incentive funds for housing production to the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, supporting the development of higher-density and mixed-income housing in infill locations. The aim is to address multiple needs simultaneously in a synergistic manner—getting more bang for the buck as a result. An added $10 million to support college students who are homeless or housing insecure is another example of this approach. The revised budget has grown to $213.5 billion from $209 billion in January, but in the
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I Think that it Rained Today Feather toy news, car chases, the weather report and other distractions
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By James Preston Allen, Publisher The other day it rained around noontime, an unseasonal downpour that lingered briefly, then blew on out to the Arizona desert and beyond. By early evening, as I stepped out of my back door, I looked up at the clear sky and I asked myself, “Did it actually rain today, or did I just imagine it?” It’s the same kind of feeling I get from watching the 24/7 news cycle these days — a news storm crosses my screen and stays there for a few hours before becoming the next Twitter rant from the Oval Office or the latest car chase across the metropolis. Then it’s gone and I remember it as well as yesterday’s weather. It’s the digital rain in an era in which instant infodata reigns. We’ve all become accustomed to the distraction it causes one way or another. It is said that this technology is the undeniable future, that automation and artificial intelligence are unstoppable. This may or may not be true. What is more important is how we integrate these into human action and thought. In this information age it appears as though you can know little but have access to everything — facts without wisdom. We have abandoned the crafting of things with our hands to become voyeurs on little screens that provide us with instantaneous gratification and feed our addictions. Those who are adroit at manipulating this “new media” by tracking our likes and dislikes, purchases and politics, use media like a feather toy distracting a cat. And being very visually acute, we humans watch the scary car chase, the bloody mayhem of an accident or the ravages of a Midwestern tornado as the smiling faces of news readers in well-suited outfits fake concern or shock. Most of the time, broadcast news resembles reality TV shows — scripted dialogue with bits of edited video clips to shock or astound. And I wonder, “Where have the real journalists gone?” Where are the ones with the experience to not just report but to give some analysis and perspective? Have they all died off or been forced out like Dan Rather? No, they are still around reporting on Democracy Now!, The Intercept and other truly alternative media. You can find more at https://tinyurl.com/alt-news-services. Clearly, most of the talking heads on TV today are just that — talking heads chatting up the news to entertain but not really inform you. This is where the trouble lay — too much information without context or memory of
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what happened before. Then there’s the blurring between fiction and real life with ripped-from-theheadlines police procedural shows, exaggerated for shocking effect to the delight of viewers who just can’t get enough of it. And, it’s all produced for audience ratings, which in turn brings in advertising dollars to keep the hamster wheeling and the viewer distracted. Did that sex crime really happen or was it just on the special crime victims show? In this infotainment arena, Donald J. Trump is the master of distraction. If there were a Twitter prize or contest he’d be the winner — but only in the category of distracted Twittering. His only qualifications for being elected to office seem to be his reality TV bully persona, his 55 million Twitter followers and his exaggerated claims of being a billionaire. However, according to Thinkum Media, a web platform that aims to tell the story behind the numbers, Trump doesn’t even rank in the Top Ten in Twitter followers. In April, singer Katy Perry’s account @katyperry had 107.23 million followers, while former President Barack Obama’s account had 105.82 million followers. What we all can notice is that at every juncture when the FBI or congress comes close to discovering what his real tax returns might expose, Trump invents another crisis. One day it’s caravans of aliens invading our borders. Another day it’s war with Iran, and a different day it’s missiles in North Korea. Then it’s him handing a Presidential Cup to a sumo wrestler in Japan. In return, Trump was able to miss the backlash over his pardoning U.S. war criminals on Memorial Day. Can it get any worse? Hardly a day goes by that Trump doesn’t use his Twitter feather toy to distract the media with yet another outrage, insult and lie as a tactical maneuver to avoid the underlying truth — this man is unfit for office. Only when congressional Democrats get their hands on the underlying documents in the Mueller report and impeach Trump for those 11 instances of obstruction of justice or expose his financial links to Russian oligarchs and money laundering, will this reality TV presidency end. Until then, it will be incessant, repeated distraction to keep us all from thinking about the really important stuff, while the mainstream media covers this president’s every little tweet. I am waiting for the day I walk out my back door and ask, “Did it actually rain today?” and wonder if these past few years of Trump really happened.
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Ginsburg’s Reasoning of Why Reproduction is a Woman’s Right Excerpted from My Own Words: Ruth Bader Ginsburg by contributors Mary Hartnett and Wendy Williams
Note: Shortly before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal in 1973, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now a much-admired Supreme Court justice but then a crusading young lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, was involved in a different kind of abortion case. In Struck v. Secretary of Defense, the American military was attempting to force a female service member to have an abortion or leave the service. Ginsberg, representing the plaintiff, argued that violating a woman’s reproductive rights violated equal protection and due process and amounted to sex discrimination. She has discussed the case before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a 2008 law lecture and a 2016 book. At her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg testified that she “first thought long and hard” about abortion rights in the early 1970s, when she was a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and took on Struck v. Secretary of Defense. That case was on the Supreme Court’s calendar during the same term Roe v. Wade was decided, although the court never actually heard it. Susan Struck, the plaintiff, was an Air Force captain who became pregnant while serving in Vietnam she sued the Air Force after it said she would have to either get an abortion or leave the Air Force. She told the Air Force that she didn’t want to get an abortion. She wanted to take some vacation days she had saved up and use them to cover the time she needed to give birth, and then put the baby up for adoption because abortion violated her Roman Catholic faith. Here’s how Ginsburg explained her approach — that sex discrimination includes discrimination
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because of pregnancy — to the Senate Judiciary Committee: First, that the applicable Air Force regulations — if you are pregnant you are out unless you have an abortion — violated the equal protection principle, for no man was ordered out of service because he had been the partner in a conception, no man was ordered out of service because he was about to become a father. Next, then we said that the Government is impeding, without cause, a woman’s choice whether to bear or not to bear a child. Birth was Captain Struck’s personal choice, and the interference with it was a violation of her liberty, her freedom to choose, guaranteed by the due process clause. Finally, we said the Air Force was involved in an unnecessary interference with Captain Struck’s religious belief. So all three strands were involved in
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RANDOMLetters Open Letter Regarding the Reopening of the San Pedro Navy Fuel Depot
Dear Gregg Smith: My husband’s name was Greg Smith, but he only spelled it with one “g.” Maybe that’s the difference between what he would have thought about the proposition of using the Navy storage tanks on Gaffey Street in San Pedro and yours: he was practical, a trained geographer and rational. But, rational arguments don’t seem to matter to the bureaucracies, whether it’s local or state or federal; all of them seem to think that they have a “larger interest” than the people who have to live with that “larger interest.” Power is just that: power. JUST power, no. Just POWER. So, when I learned of the proposal to once again use the Gaffey Street in San Pedro/Rancho Palos Verdes site for Naval fuel storage I just about threw up…it’s SO power oriented and SO irrational and SO “in your face.” Is this the federal administration in Washington, D.C. “sticking it to California”?
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Clean Air Action Plan Public Advisory Meeting Set For June 25
You Can’t Fight City Hall
In regards to Rachael Bruhnke’s May 2 article, Green City, (In Pursuit of an AgroIndustrial Model City), I share her “frustration” and (I’m sure others do too), with councilmember Joe Buscaino of CD 15. The hypocrisy and may I add, cowardice all over CD 15, which includes Jacob Halk, his deputy chief of staff and their staff itself, is not just to include “exposure” or “hearing about all of San Pedro’s, etc. issues - it’s that they just don’t care” – period. That includes our Janice Hahn - Supervisors office and all the numerous government managers and officials plus offices also who
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Struck lost in the lower courts but on Oct. 24, 1972, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. That never happened, however, because the Air Force waived Struck’s discharge and allowed her to remain in the service before that date rolled around. The Roe decision came out three months later. Ginsburg gave her account to law students in a summer program in July 2008, according to the 2016 edited collection of her remarks and writings My Own Words, in which she explained solicitor general Erwin Griswold had recommended that course of action for the Air Force because he thought the government could potentially lose the case.
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Captain Struck’s case. The main emphasis was on her equality as a woman vis-à-vis a man who was equally responsible for the conception, and on her personal choice, which the Government said she could not have unless she gave up her career in the service. In that case, all three strands were involved: her equality right, her right to decide for herself whether she was going to bear the child, and her religious belief. So it was never an either/or matter, one rather than the other. It was always recognition that one thing that conspicuously distinguishes women from men is that only women become pregnant; and if you subject a woman to disadvantageous treatment on the basis of her pregnant status, which was what was happening to Captain Struck, you would be denying her equal treatment under the law…
The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her wellbeing and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When Government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices
is waiting for their next photo op and smiles (and dimples help a lot too)! Dorota Star San Pedro Dorota, I have to disagree with your pessimistic view about fighting city hall. The problem is that people give up to easily and don’t organize their neighbors to make a concerted effort around a common effort. The Croatian Cultural Center building is a central issue that has been covered up and ignored. That building has now been closed for more than a year with little or no explanation to the public for the eviction of the former tenants nor any plans or discussion with the Central Neighborhood Council or the Arts District as to its future use and repurposing. For all we know Councilman Joe Buscaino might turn it into the capital of his Little Italy district. My vote is for ditching the nationalist designation and embracing the multiethnic diversity of San Pedro and rebrand it as the International Cultural Center of San Pedro and give the veterans and the Arts District an office in that building. And give
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The second advisory meeting of 2019 to offer information on progress of the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) 2017 Update is scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, in Wilmington. The next advisory meeting will take place on Tuesday, June 25, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Banning’s Landing Community Center, 100 E. Water St., Wilmington, CA 90744. The meeting is open to the public.
Telling the community to go “suck its thumb”? That’s about the only “rational” explanation I can think of. Will you and your family be moving closer to these wonderful storage facilities so that you can personally “protect the nation”? Or, will you continue to live far away from any potential hazard that they might create. Do you have children? Have you ever lost one? Do you know anyone who has? I’m an “old lady.” About to be older. So I can speak my mind (and yes, I still have one). Your agency is showing its utter contempt for the safety of our community and our families. Your agency is power hungry. Your agency is imposing its will where it doesn’t have to, not in order to be respected and honored, but to assert its authority. In fact, your agency is operating in a manner that brings a JUST reaction from this community… opposition and disbelief in such inanity (yes, without an “s”). I guess “two g’s” means that you are better than a person with “one g.” Chant that when we all go to “smitherings” into the “clouds of glory” on the fuel you will be supplying us. June Burlingame Smith San Pedro
support them too! Does the citizen constituent have a voice?? The answer is no! Though, you can write RLN. Greening their brains with organic seeds won’t help. They know we have and I have no clout. Speaking for myself, after wasting 18 years of my life involved with this community- doing a “Lifetime Achievement award for Muriel Olguin,” involved with the neighborhood council, San Pedro’s artist groups and First Thursday, working on numerous campaigns for Democratic and progressives, etc. — as an activist and an artistI’ve given up fighting by expecting “understanding and appreciation” and okay, “exposure.” No amount of written letters, emails, phone calls, public speaking or petitions will count. They will continue to speak out the side of their mouths and nose(s) and handshakes, even with hugs and photo ops because they know I and we and you – the people can’t do anything about it. “The quickest way to kill a constituent is to ignore them!” For numerous years I’ve fought (for) and requested a veterans resource center in and for San Pedro (and other issues too) in the now empty city owned antique 1930s bank building at 510 W. 7th St. and Pacific Ave. Everyone in relation to San Pedro real estate — paid for with taxpayer dollars — has been notified. For years I’ve requested councilmember Joe Buscaino and all the others to do one thing. Write me a letter that says yes or no. Do they want a veteran’s center here or not, or do they want a Consulate General from a foreign country there for office space instead in the city building? They won’t put it in writing, at all, ever! They won’t put it in writing because it would show the truth and they won’t put it in writing as they don’t want a public record in print to say yes or no! They won’t put it in writing because they can and know we have no recourse to defend our voices or human rights as a single person — so exposure isn’t enough and they know it. They know that tomorrow’s news
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Queer Pride and Allies to Celebrate Community and Solidarity By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor and Benjamin Garcia, Reporter
slung anti-gay remarks and actual garbage at him, he recounted Anyone attending the Pride at the Port of Los Angeles Festival on at the time. June 15 will find themselves living their best life dancing with Cher He captured the episode on video, in which two women and impersonator, Chad Michaels, to the liveliest music pumped out a child are seen mocking him and one woman spits at him. by the Southland’s top DJs. Just remember that this inaugural San In the video, one woman taunts him through his screen door, Pedro Pride Festival was never a call for civility or even a call for jeering at him before spitting on Gierach through the door. acceptance for the LGBTQ community in this Port town. It was a Gierach told a television news outlet that call for solidarity against hate. before this, fliers were posted around the The Pride Festival is set to take place one year after the press neighborhood that listed his home address and conference where community leaders and Councilman Joe accused him of pedophilia. Buscaino stood in solidarity with Ryan Gierach, a gay Air When word of this initially got out, civic Force veteran and former WeHo News publisher, who leaders Aiden Garcia-Sheffield, Allyson Vought, allegedly endured months of homophobic harassment Leslie Jones and Mona Sutton offered Gierach and was physically assaulted by his neighbors. their support — this is significant given that the At the time, Gierach said the abuse from four had just ended their stint as officers at the his neighbors began as soon as he moved in Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council. two years prior. At least one of his neighbors has said Gierach’s “When I came here my neighbors account isn’t all that it seems. That person painted directly across from me began calling me Geriach as a bad neighbor at both his previous names — all of them revolving around gay West Hollywood home and San Pedro. epithets,” he said. Garcia-Sheffield founded the nonprofit, The harassment escalated when he hung a rainbow Cher impersonator, Chad Michaels, will be at Bridge Cities Alliance, for the express purpose of flag in front of his house for Pride Month. His neighbors the June 15 Pride at the Port of Los Angeles. promoting community inclusion through monthly outreach socials, community clean-ups and hosting annual Pride at the Port of Los Angeles event. At first glance, choosing the USS Iowa as the venue for the festival would seem odd. When asked about how the nonprofit chose the venue, Garcia-Sheffield told Random Lengths News, “We had originally planned on the Harbor Cut but were told it would be under construction at the time of our festival.”
No one could have known that the Los Angeles Maritime Museum would have been given a two month renovation reprieve when a venue for the festival was first sought. “This year, there will be no live bands,” Garcia-Sheffield explained, “It’s our first year and we want to be successful. Unfortunately, the complexities of live band sound requirements were placed on next year’s goal list.” “Well we certainly gave priority to those who are generously giving their time,” said Garcia-Sheffield when asked about the process of choosing performers. Garcia-Sheffield admitted that those who participate actively in the LGBT+ community and who are generously giving their time (i.e. performing damn near free) were made a priority. With those two thoughts in mind, he said they had more entertainment than they could fit into one day. Chad Michaels will be performing in the VIP area aboard The USS Battleship Iowa. “All but two of our entertainers donated their time to the festival, including DJs,” GarciaSheffield said. General admission is $15; VIP admission is $75. Voyage on the Fairy Ferry is $45. Ticket purchase to the ferry includes entry into the main festival and light food on board, provided by Hamburger Mary’s. The cruise includes views of the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports and will be hosted by Master of Ceremonies Jewels Long Beach. Passengers may also expect DJ Shane to perform, a dance floor and drinks. The gates open at 11 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. The last call for alcohol will be at 9 p.m.
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By Melina Paris, Arts and Culture Reporter
Early in May, inspired by the prospect of to collaborate, and showcase contemporary San Pedro’s first pride festival, the proprietors of and cultural artworks. Gallery Azul sent out a call for works by Latinx Ramirez-Vasquez said the inspiration for artists from the LGBTQ this show came from community for a juried multiple places but show before during and the most influential after Pride at the Port was the historyJune 15. making occasion It was the kind of of San Pedro’s first move that has been Pride festival. The characteristic of Gallery couple has many Azul since Ray Vasquez friends in the and Cora RamirezLGBTQ community, Vasquez opened the especially artists, and space in 2006. So was the they strongly support response they received. and advocate for When the deadline for the community. The submissions arrived last exhibit made sense to week, the exhibit had them. a roster of artists from For this event San Pedro, Long Beach, they placed additional Pomona and Claremont. focus on the Latinx Like so many of the culture, which gallery’s contributions they describe as to the quality of life in “collectivist,” a San Pedro, the Pride condition that Ernesto Ramírez, La Sirena, acrylic on canvas. courtesy of Gallery Azul. at the Port exhibit was increases the risks to mostly a matter of Gallery Azul’s co-founders those mulling whether or not to come out as remaining true to their mission — to provide a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, venue and platform for working, emerging artists
[See Gallery Azul, p. 12]
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LB Playhouse’s Seven Guitars Likely to Please August Wilson Fans By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist
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here’s nothing not to like about the conceit behind August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, the 10 quasi-connected plays that idiosyncratically dramatizes a century of struggle in the life of Black America. Considering the cycle, however, is different than taking each play on its merits. My job here is to give you a sense of whether you would do well to put your good money down on Seven Guitars as a single piece of theatre. So here goes. After stealing away to Chicago for a recording session and serving 90 days in the workhouse on charges stemming from little more than the color of his skin, Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton (Rayshawn Chism) is back in postwar Pittsburgh, where he hopes to win back Vera (Latonya Kitchen) and capitalize on his hit song by pulling together the funds to get back to the Windy City, make more music, and get himself a piece of the American Dream. But no matter which way he turns, it seems the road is blocked, driving him to desperate measures. Despite the length of Act One (over 90 minutes), you spend intermission wondering whether Seven Guitars is ever going to get anywhere. This is not a play with much dramatic action, and ponderous ruminations on roosters (Wilson’s deftness with colloquial dialog sometimes leaves him a little too in love with the
sound of his (characters’) own voice) don’t help. Floyd is frustrated by his lack of opportunity in the so-called Land of Opportunity, Vera wrestles with whether she should give Floyd another chance and Hedley (William Warren), a tuberculosis-ridden alcoholic, nurses delusions that New Orleans jazz legend “King” Buddy Bolden will one day rise from the grave with enough money for Hedley to buy his own plantation (“where no White man will tell me what to do”). And, that’s about it. The conclusion, if not quite deus ex machina, nonetheless rings false, particular as staged by Long Beach Playhouse, where the fight choreography in two brief scenes of violence is as good as no fight choreography at all. That is, however, just about everything bad there is to say about the show. With a cast this good, we really get to appreciate Wilson’s way with the dialog, which is simultaneously believable, stylized and often funny. On that last count, Ebonie Marie (as Louise, the owner of the Hill District house that is Seven Guitars’s sole setting) is so good in Act Two that you wish the play were a comedy so you could get a lot more of this. As Hedley, Warren avoids being a caricature of derangement, despite the fact that his character went completely around the bend [See Curtain Call, p. 16]
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n Aix-en-Provence, the spring is emerging slowly, trees blossoming in pink and white, tulips and crocus in all shades of yellow, purple, crimson and coral. The warm weather is encouraging the locals to venture out, filling the ancient church and leaving no empty seats in the cafés along the boulevard. An impromptu flea market of treasures forms, with family heirlooms and cheap imports mixing for added interest. Deep in the south of France, life is
rooted in tradition, in the appreciation of simple things and the passing of the seasons. The promise of Easter and the welcomed sunshine bring out families, older folks, hipsters on Vespas and several local dogs. The same French ambiance and flavor abounds in LaBuvette, on lower 7th Street in San Pedro, which is among the delicious
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French Cuisine on Seventh Street By Gretchen Williams, Dining and Cuisine Writer
Above, Koji rubbed coulotte (steak), frites and aioli. Halibut served with avocado mousse, cucumber and micro greens and below, mussels harvested from Catalina Sea Ranch. File photos.
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destinations gaining a reputation for hip as the town blossoms again on the restaurant scene. The atmosphere is decidedly French, with lovely interiors, subtle lighting and signature French blue accents. The wide bar is inviting and accommodates the casual diner as well as someone just stopping for a glass of wine or cup of excellent coffee.
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wines are well chosen. The early summer in Provence calls for the light and dry rosés of the region, served chilled, a wonderful companion to the appetizer “Maman Compagnon.” This savory tart is made with a family recipe, using locally grown tomatoes, Gruèyre cheese and Dijon mustard. Locally grown is not a joke — the splendid mesclun salad is produced from Green Girl Farms, the charming organic ranchito at 14th and Mesa. Traditional charcuterie plate has cheeses comte, bleu d’Auvergne and brie with coppa, sopressata and cevapcici from A-1 Deli for the local touch. Old World favorite onion soup is made with Madeira and molten with Gruyere, a real taste of France. The halibut tartare is the most sophisticated dish on the menu at La Buvette, which is probably the only place to eat this fish in the area. Local wild caught ikejime halibut is specially prepared from the instant it is caught. As soon as the fish is landed, it is killed and bled to preserve it in its best possible form, then iced and delivered to the chef immediately. This results in a wonderful dish, served crudo with avocado mousse, cucumber and microgreens and herbs. This dish alone is ample reason to become a regular at La Buvette. Of course, the pomme frites are another [See La Buvette, p. 13]
Cirque du Soleil at the Port of LA is providing a natural clientele for La Buvette, but the crowd is certain to linger even after the acrobats finish flinging themselves about. The wine list is superb, highlighting the French offerings, but the California
[Gallery Azul, from p. 10]
Gallery Azul Shows Pride and Diversity
risks which, in turn, can generate new fears and challenges. Gallery Azul believes that education is essential to the enlightenment that will enable a community to be supportive of its LGBTQ family members. Of course, the attention directed toward the Latinx community also comes from the fact that Gallery Azul is Latinx
owned, coupled with their desire to highlight how amazing and creative the community is. “We are very supportive of all people but lately the Latinx community has been under attack, so to balance the negativity we are highlighting the positive,” said RamirezVasquez. “[This] show is a response to the negativity that is being spewed towards the Latinx and LGBTQ community; we need a positive view of our Latinx community [and] this show highlights the goodness that comes from the community.” Gallery Azul has made its mark as a cultural gallery due to its themed shows with a focus on informing the community about the
importance of events that impact us all. Vasquez and Ramirez-Vasquez are all about diversity. “Without our colorful world, we would be bland.” You are invited to Gallery Azul before Pride at the Port to have some cafe con pan or some mimosas, and other Mexican delicacies. Time: June 6, 7-10 p.m., June 15, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., June 21, 6 to 10 p.m. Cost: Free Details: www.galleryazul.com Venue: Gallery Azul, 520 W. 8th St., San Pedro
[La Buvette, from p. 12]
La Buvette excuse to drop by. The mussels and frites are a massive pile of mussels cooked with white wine, garlic and herbs. The pomme frites are the best real French French fries ever! The traditional technique fries the potatoes twice, to ensure a steamy inside and crispy outside. The steak frites, a classic executed perfectly. La Buvette is the place for the fantasy French bistro meal; steak frites, glass of red wine and the film star of your choice, perhaps
BIG NICK’S PIZZA
Tradition, variety and fast delivery—you get it all at Big Nick’s Pizza. The best selection of Italian specialties include hearty calzones, an array of pastas and our amazing selection of signature pizzas. We offer a wide selection of appetizers, salads, beer and wine. Call for fast delivery. Hours: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sun.-Thurs.; 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Big Nicks’ Pizza, 1110 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro • 310732-5800 • www.bignickspizzasp.com
BUONO’S AUTHENTIC PIZZERIA
A San Pedro landmark for over 44 years, famous for exceptional award-winning pizza baked in brick ovens. Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and sauces based on tried-and-true family recipes and handselected ingredients that are prepared fresh. Dine-in, take-out and catering. There are two locations in Long Beach. Hours: Sun.Thurs. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Buono’s Pizzeria, 1432 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro • 310-547-0655 • www.buonospizza.com
Bardot or Depardieu? Gascony style duck with bleu cheese polenta and figs will fascinate even the jaded diner, full of flavor and interesting contrast, with greens from Green Girl Farms for crunch. Beef bourguignon is the time-honored French comfort food, deeply braised with red wine, tender beef in velvety sauce, just the thing for a cool evening. The fish of the day is always subject to the whims of the sea, using the freshest variety available that day. Desserts are interesting to contemplate. The classic crème brûleé is beautiful, not too sweet, crowned with amber burnt sugar, made by an
angel. Chocolate ganache tart is dark chocolate, smooth and sweet with nutty crust, perfect to share. The ‘lemon cloud’ is a mystery. Big chunks of roasted beet in a dish with lemon curd and some “crumble.” Sorry, this was neither attractive nor tasty. La Buvette is a new jewel in the crown of lower 7th Street. It’s part of a lineup that features cherished local Whale & Ale Pub and new favorite Mediterranean restaurant Sebastian’s, and frankly deserves better than the view of the half-pint liquor store and the Shipscaler’s local. Perhaps some potted street trees or festive landscaping would be more
THE CHORI-MAN
Fourth-generation artisanal chorizo and meats. Purchase chorizo by the pound or try our burritos and tacos! Menu specials change weekly. Open Wed. and Thurs., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Fri. - Sun., 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. For catering email: info@ thechoriman.com for catering and special orders. The ChoriMan, 2309 S. Alma St., San Pedro • 424-287-2414
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GAFFEY DINER
At the north end of Gaffey Street, where the 110 Fwy. delivers you back to San Pedro, is where you’ll find the Gaffey Street Diner. Made famous 10 years ago by Guy Fieri’s Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, Gaffey Street is a destination breakfast spot serving the “Original” John Wayne Breakfast. The menu has Mexican and all-American fare, plus a taste of the Islands with dishes such as Spam and eggs, and Portuguese sausage and eggs. Open 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mon. - Fri.; 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat. and Sun. Gaffey Diner, 247 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro • 310-548-6964
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HAPPY DELI
The Happy Deli is a small place with a big menu. Food is made-toorder using the freshest ingredients. Breakfast burritos and breakfast sandwiches include a small coffee. For lunch or dinner select from fresh salads, wraps, buffalo wings, cold and hot sandwiches, burgers and dogs. Delivery to your home or office available. Ask about catering your next event. Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 am. to 8 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Deli, 530 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro • 424-364-0319 • www.happydelisp.com
LA BUVETTE WINE BISTRO
Welcome to La Buvette Wine Bistro, San Pedro’s French bistro located in the historic waterfront district. La Buvette offers rustic French cuisine featuring the freshest ingredients from valued local purveyors. La Buvette pays tribute to the classic French bistros of various regions of France where good food, good wine and friends come together to create the special joie de vivre. Free, private parking lot in rear Hours: Tue.-Thur. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. La Buvette Wine Bistro, 335 W. 7th St., San Pedro • 424-342-9840 www.LaBuvetteBistro.com
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PHILIE B’S PIZZA Welcome to Philie B’s, where New York style pizza, Sicilian rice balls and pizza-by-the-slice are the specialties. Fresh hot or cold sandwiches gourmet pizzas and salads too. Try the “white pizza” with smooth ricotta, mozzarella and sharp Pecorino-Romano cheeses topped with fresh basil. Extended hour accommodate San Pedro’ s unique work schedules. Catering and fast local delivery available. Hours: Sun. - Thurs. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fri. Sat. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Philie B’s on Sixth, 347 W. 6th St., San Pedro • 310-514-2500 • www.philiebs.com
SAN PEDRO BREWING COMPANY
A micro brewery and American grill, SPBC features handcrafted award-winning ales and lagers served with creative pastas, BBQ, sandwiches, salads and burgers. A full bar with made-from-scratch margaritas and a martini menu all add fun to the warm and friendly atmosphere. Live music. Open daily from 11:30 a.m.. San Pedro Brewing Company, 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 310831-5663 • www.sanpedrobrewing.com
THE WHALE & ALE ENGLISH RESTAURANT & PUB
The Victorian oak panels & elegant brass fittings will make you feel like you’ve crossed the Atlantic. Featuring popular pub fare such as Fish & Chips, Shepherd’s Pie, Choice Steaks, Roast Prime Rib, Beef Wellington & Roast Rack of Lamb. Seafood selections include Chilean Sea Bass, Atlantic Salmon, Jumbo Tiger Shrimp & Sand Dabs. International draft beers & ales, and domestic craft beers on tap. Full bar; free, gated parking lot. Happy hour five days a week. Hours: Mon. 5 to 9 p.m., Tues.-Thurs. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fri. 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sat. 1 to 10 p.m., Sun. 1 to 9 p.m. The Whale & Ale, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro • 310-8320363 • www.whaleandale.com
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Enjoy all your Marie Callender favorites at their new San Pedro location. From appetizers and salads to classic entrées and famous pies, there’s something for every taste and mood. For quick workday lunches or business meetings, try the Big, Boxed Lunch to go or delivery. Dinner entrées include fresh seasonal selections as well as traditional
favorites. Ask about catering for your next event. During June and July, buy one pie at regular price and get the 2nd pie for $4.99. Hours: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Marie Callenders, 1030 N. Western Ave., San Pedro • 310-832-4559 • www.mariecallenders.com
The Happy Diner #1 in Downtown San Pedro isn’t your average diner. The selections range from Italianand Mexican-influenced entrées to American Continental. Happy Diner chefs are always creating something new—take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables prepared any way you like. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Catering for any occasion available for your home or office. Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #1, 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro • 310-241-0917
Built on the success of Happy Diner #1, Happy Diner #2 just expanded its dining room for parties of up to 100 guests and soon to open for dinner service. American favorites like omelets and burgers, fresh salads, plus pasta and Mexican dishes are served. Happy Diner #2 is casual dining, a place to enjoy a relaxing meal with family and friends. Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #2, 1931 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro • 310935-2933
Details: 424-342-9840; www.labuvettebistro.com Location: 335 W. 7th St., San Pedro
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Conrad’s menu reflects the cuisine of his native Oaxaca with a fresh focus on local, seasonal ingredients for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It features classic dishes from Oaxaca and regional Mexico, such as mole sauces, ceviche, empanadas and sopecitos. Sourcing the freshest ingredients, combining them with traditional flavors and rewriting familiar recipes into exceptional cuisine is Conrad’s mission. Ask about Conrad’s vegan menu. Catering available. Open Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sun. noon to 8 p.m. Conrad’s Mexican Grill, 376. W. 6th St., San Pedro • 424-264-5452 • www.conradsmexicangrill. com
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inviting, as well as some true sidewalk dining during the day. Friendly security and designated parking might ease the pain of West Los Angeles prices in downtown Pedro. Dinner reservations are advised, especially for weekends. Editor’s note: Roasted half chicken with potato purée and demi and New York steak were just added to the menu.
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JUNE 6 Brought to you by the artists and restaurants of the Downtown San Pedro Waterfront Arts District
Pinta*Dos Philippine Art Gallery TAGOLILONG: AN INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft
Studio Gallery 345
DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS AND MIXED MEDIA WORKS
Meet the artists: champoy & Sarita Doe. TAGOLILONG is a homage to Indigenous California Habitat, showing non-permanent dwelling and installation of painted, sculptural and photographic representation of the artists’ home and studio. Exhibit ends June 29. Pinta*Dos Philipine Art Gallery, 479 W. 6th St., Suite 108, San Pedro.
Cody Lusby, Inflatable Oasis.
Cody 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.
Time: 3 to 8 p.m. First Thursday, June 6. Wednesdays through Fridays 3 to 6 p.m. and by appointment Details: 310-548-8148; www.pintadosgallery.com
The Basement Gallery
Assemblages by James Preston Allen are selected from a 40-plus-year career of making art. A fascination with found materials and the use of the container are a recurring element. The functionality and banality of the found objects are reinterpreted on intuitive and metaphorical levels — like the images one remembers from a dream that can’t be explained. Basement Gallery, 520 W. 8th St., San Pedro. Open on First Thursday, special events and by appointment. Details: 310-561-7811
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.
Pat Woolley
Studio 345 presents painting by Pat Woolley and acrylic and collage paintings by Gloria D Lee. Open 5 to 9 p.m. on First Thursday and by appointment. Studio 345, 345 W. 7th St., San Pedro.
Details: 562-400-0544
Details: 310-545-0832 or 310-374-8055; artsail@roadrunner.com or www.patwoolleyart.com.
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MUSIC May 31
The Paul Gormley Trio Bassist Paul Gormley brings his trio to The Whale & Ale. Time: 7 p.m. May 31 Cost: Free Details: www.thewhaleandale. com Venue: The Whale & Ale, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro
June 1 Scott Grillo Local acoustic guitarist and vocalist Grillo covers popular folk, classic rock and country western songs from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Time: 7 to 9 p.m. June 1 Cost: Free Details: www.thewhaleandale. com Venue: The Whale & Ale, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro Fortunate Son Fronted by vocalist Brad Ford with an all-star band, Fortunate Son delivers the best of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s rough-hewn rock ‘n’ roll. Time: 8 to 11 p.m. June 1 Cost: $25 to $35 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ ccwrevival Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro
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Blakgraz Blakgraz combines the intense energy of rock with country storytelling and blues heart. Time: 8 p.m. June 7 Cost: $15 Details: www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Music Store, 1413 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Arugakki & Mochi-Mochi Arugakki and friends return to perform their newest works for Japanese drums, including their one-of-a-kind mochi-making extravaganza. Time: 8 p.m. June 8
Revolucion de Amor The No. 1 Mana tribute in the U.S. direct from Chicago comes to Long Beach . Time: 9 p.m. June 8 Cost: $20 Details: 562-596-4718; www.gaslamplongbeach.com Venue: Gaslamp, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach Blue Storm Come out to San Pedro Brewing Co. to enjoy Blue Storm and have some fun. Time: 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. June 8 Cost: $1 Details: 310-831-5663; www.sanpedrobrewing.com Venue: San Pedro Brewing Co., 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro Flamenco Dinner Show Experience The quickest way to get from Long Beach to Spain is an evening of authentic Spanish entertainment and cuisine at Alegria Cocina Latina’s “Ultimate Flamenco Dinner Show Experience.” Time: 7 p.m. June 8 Cost: $55 Details: 562-357-8005; www.alegrianightclub.com Venue: Alegria Cocina Latina, 115 Pine Ave., Long Beach
June 9 Spring Concert Los Cancioneros Master Chorale will perform Armed Man — A Mass for Peace. Time: 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. June 9 Cost: $15 to $25 Details: 310-781-7171 Venue: James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance Strunz & Farah Merging the cultural riches of their native lands with improvisationrich original compositions, legendary guitar duo Jorge Strunz and Ardeshir Farah imbue their songs with Afro-Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern flavors. Time: 7 p.m. June 9 Cost: $25 Details: 310-372-0035; www.saintrocke.com Venue: Saint Rocke, 142 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach
DANCE June 1
Ballet Goes Broadway San Pedro Ballet School presents its annual school recital. Students will perform ballet, jazz, modern, hip-hop and contemporary dance. The show will also feature San Pedro City Ballet company members in a new work choreographed by Patrick David Bradley. Time: 2 p.m. June 1 Cost: $29 to $35 Details: 310-732-1861 Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
June 2
Rock of Ages Elite Dance Studio presents its annual June show, showcasing their talent and growth from the past year. Time: 1 p.m. June 2 Cost: $12 to $20 Details: www.tinyurl.com/eliterockofages Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
June 8
DANCEFEST 2019 Dance West Studios and Metropolitan Ballet Company presents DANCEFEST 2019. Time: 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. June 8 Cost: $15 to $18 Details: 310-781-7171; www.tinyurl.com/dancefest2019 Venue: James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
Dead Accounts First Look Buy Dead Accounts Tickets Quick-witted Jack, a banker from New York, unexpectedly returns home to Ohio after several years in the Big Apple. Time: 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. June 7, 8 Cost: $26 to $28 Details: www.littlefishtheatre.org Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 S Centre St., San Pedro
Soundpedro The 2019 event will add greater conceptual breadth to soundpedro by moving beyond sound to “ear orientation,” with an international call (earmaginations) requesting silent videos that explore and synthesize ideas and images responding to aurality. Time: 6 to 10 p.m. June 1 Cost: Free Details: www.angelsgateart.org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro
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The Hatmaker’s Wife In this comic fairy tale inspired by the Jewish folktales of Sholem Aleichem, we are introduced to a young woman who moves in with her boyfriend expecting domestic bliss. Instead, she finds discomfort, displacement, and the realization that she needs more. Time: 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. June 9 Cost: $20 to $40 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ thehatmakerswife Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach Stage Talk: The Comedy of Errors Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UCLA Professor Michael Allen* takes us behind the scenes of one of Shakespeare’s earliest and shortest plays to discuss the characters, a farcical plot filled with puns and wordplay. Time: 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. June 8 Cost: $40 Details: 310-512-6030; www.littlefishtheatre.org Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 S. Centre St., San Pedro
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Bestseller This is a funny and original new comedy about writers and how they write — the stories they tell and the secrets they keep. Time: 8 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, June 12 through 30 Cost: $30 to $49 Details: 562-436-4610 Venue: Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach
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Reclaim! Remain! Rebuild! An exhibit of 60 years of poster art on affordable housing, gentrification and resistance from Boyle Heights to Boston, from Melbourne to Paris. The exhibition is on view through June 15. Time: 12 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, 12 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, 10 to 5 p.m. Friday, 12 to 4 p.m. Saturday Cost: Free Details: 562-570-1047; www.tinyurl.com/Obamalibr Venue: Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library, 5870 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach
Doctor Faustus The wealthy and acclaimed Doctor Faustus is bored with life, having learned everything already known, so makes a deal with the devil to learn all that is unknown. One of Shakespeare’s greatest contemporaries, Christopher Marlowe retells the classic German tale with scathing wit and dark humor. Time: 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, May 31 through June 15 Cost: $22.50
Long Beach Architecture Week Join a series of tours, events and educational opportunities that celebrate architecture, promote preservation, sustainability, and new ideas. The event provides an opportunity to explore important structures in Long Beach through educational talks and tours. Time: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. May 31 to June 9 Cost: $35 to $75 Details:www.LBarchitectureweek. com
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NTYMEspring Concert North Torrance Youth Musicians Ensemble presents its spring concert directed by Glen Kamida. Time: 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. June 14 Cost: $5 to $10 Details: 310-989-4550; www.tinyurl.com/ntymespring concert Venue: James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
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First Thursday Pottery Sale Members’ work for sale at the monthly First Thursday pottery Sale Time: 6 to 9 p.m. June 6 Cost: Free Details: 424-264-5364; www.bluewaterclay.com Venue: Blue Water Clay, 803 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro Nothing New This artistic investigation looks into the phenomenon of manmade flotsam i.e. beached discards as cultural artifacts. Visit this exhibition during the First Thursday Art Walk in June and July. Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Cost: Free Details: 310-832-7272 Venue: San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, 390 W. 7th St., San Pedro Latinx LGBTQ Pride In honor of San Pedro’s 1st Pride at the Port, Gallery Azul will showcase the creative contributions of the Latinx artists from the LGBTQ community. The show runs through June 22. Artists reception 5 to 10 p.m. June 8. Time: 7 to 9 p.m. June 6 Cost: Free Details: 562-225-8535; www.galleryazul.com Venue: Gallery Azul, 520 W. 8th St., San Pedro Revenge of the Bit Just in time for this year’s E3, Revenge of the Bit will feature a full return to the art scene with a solo show featuring the creator of 8BitCubist. Time: 6 to 9 p.m. June 6 Cost: Free Details: www.the8bitcubist.com Venue: Studio Three Six One, 361 W. 14th St., San Pedro
June 8 Now Trending Opening reception and announcement of Alpay Scholarship Award winner. Art students from leading Southern California art programs were invited to mine the cultural landscape of Los Angeles for inspiration leading to the submission of 40 new works to be showcased in this exhibition. It runs through July 6. Time: 6 to 9 p.m. June 8 Cost: Free Details: pvartcenter.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 W. Crestridge Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes Paintings + Objects Working in a variety of mediums, Dillan Conniff, Quinn Gilmer and Stephen Zerbe present a fresh take on postmodernist tropes without the irony or cynicism often associated with current artistic production. Reception for the artists, June 8. Time: 4 to 7 p.m. June 8. Hours: Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to
New Works Double Solo SoLA Gallery will host two South Bay, Los Angeles artists, Steve Shriver and Candice Gawne. The exhibition runs through June 22. Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 8 Cost: Free Details: 310-429-0973; www.southbaycontemporary.org Venue: SoLa Gallery, 3718 W. Slauson Los Angeles
June 10 Community Forum for Arts Education: Long Beach Arts education is an economic and community wellness issue. Young people who receive a wellrounded education that includes the arts are given the tools they need to achieve their full potential, and strengthen their communities. Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. June 10 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/ lbartseducationforum Venue: Long Beach City College, 1305 E Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach
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May 30
Taste of Downtown Taste of Downtown showcases the culinary culture from restaurants in the East Village Arts District in Long Beach. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the event. Time: 6 to 10 p.m. May 30 Cost: Free Details: www.downtownlong beach.org/event/taste-ofdowntown-2019/Location: 1st Street and Linden, Downtown Long Beach
June 1
Roti, Indian Breads and Sides Roti, the “other Indian bread,” has a traditional range of sweet and savory accompaniments. Learn how regional and seasonal differences alter bread recipes and flavors, how techniques can create different kinds of bread from the same dough, and how to make roti at home. Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m. June 1 Cost: Free Details: www.pacificfood.org Venue: Pacific Food & Beverage Museum, 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro
June 5 Empowered Kitchens Meet and eat with an astounding collaborative of chefs and cooks who have grown healthy food businesses from small and home kitchens. Learn their stories, discuss best practices and ways to support home kitchens through local policy advocacy. Time: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 05 Cost: $25 to $30 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ empoweredkitchens Venue: Casa Chaski’s, 2380 Santa Fe Ave., Long Beach
June 7 Foodways Stories Relax into the black box theatre at The Expo Arts Center with some of Bixby Knolls’ best bites in hand, as local food innovators give short five minute “pechakucha” style talks. Time: 5:30 to 8 p.m. June 7
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June 8
Beethoven’s Ninth The Long Beach Symphony performs Beethoven’s Ninth. Time: 8 p.m. June 8 Cost: $58 Venue: Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach
Gary Hoey One of rock’s most successful instrumentalists, guitarist Gary Hoey has released 20 albums, a dozen of them without vocals, and he’s had five Top 20 Billboard hits. Time: 8 p.m. June 13 Cost: $20 Details: 310-372-0035; www.saintrocke.com Venue: Saint Rocke, 142 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach
June 1
5 p.m. Cost: Free Details: 310-0600-4873 Venue: Transvagrant @ Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro
Shostakovich Ensemble First Fridays at First! recital series presents the Shostakovich Ensemble: Portuguese pianist Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro and Canadian violinist Corey Cerovsek. Time: 12:15 p.m. June 7 Cost: Free Details: 310-316-5574; www.palosverdes.com/Classical Crossroads Venue: First Lutheran Church & School, 2900 W. Carson St., Torrance
Dale Fielder Quartet Dale will perform some of his new, original jazz compositions and release his CD, Consensus, which was recorded at Alvas Showroom. Time: 8 p.m. June 8 Cost: $20 Details: www.alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
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El Camino College Concert Jazz Band El Camino College’s flagship big band will perform an exciting concert with music driven by groove and great rhythmic ideas, from the great masters as well as up and coming composers. Time: 4 to 6 p.m. June 2 Cost: $15 Details: www.alvasshowroom.tix. com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Cost: $20 to $30 Details: 310-833-4813; www.tinyurl.com/arugakki-taiko Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro
Details: www.tinyurl.com/ y3zyh8ga Venue: Long Beach Shakespeare Company, 4250 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach
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Cost: $10 to $15 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ foodwaysstories Venue: Expo Arts Center, 4321 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach Last Day of School Barbecue Toberman will host its Last Day of School Barbecue for Toberman children and parents. Join the celebration. Time: 4:30 to 6 p.m. June 7 Cost: Free Details: www.toberman.org Venue: Toberman Neighborhood Center, 131 N. Grand Ave., San Pedro
June 9
¡TANGOVINO! An evening of dance, Argentine food and California wine celebrating the first anniversary of PacFAB’s opening. Enjoy live music by Los Angeles del Tango, tango demonstrations and lessons courtesy of Tango San Pedro and Silvia Askenazi. Time: 6 to 9 p.m. June 9 Cost: $65 to $75 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ tangovino-pacfab Venue: Deco Art Deco Penthouse Loft, 741 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro Gin & Juice Long Beach here will be amazing gins to sample and fantastic juices from juice shops all over Long Beach Enjoy delicious food, opportunity drawings, excellent local vendors, grown-up games and live music. Time: 12 p.m. June 9 Cost: $5 to $25 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ lbginandjuice Venue: Roxanne’s Cocktail Lounge & Latin Grill, 1115 E. Wardlow Road, Long Beach
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Sound Bath and Breathwork Join an afternoon of relaxing and grounding with singing bowls, gongs and other healing music with Dona Lafaurie from Healing Octaves with breath master Jay Bradley from Breatheonit who will lead participants through deep breathing and meditation including Ho’oponopono. Time: 4 to 6 p.m. June 2 Cost: $40 Details: paypal. me: www.tinyurl.com/ soundbathandbreath Venue: Healing Octaves, 771 W. 9th St., San Pedro
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Banning High All Alumni 11th Reunion Picnic Join the Banning All Alumni Picnic annual reunion. Enjoy live music by 2ndchance, Dj Trev, alumni art show and raffle. Scholarships will be awarded to BHS seniors. Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 1 Cost: Free Details: 310-866-1959; www.facebook.com/ BanningHighAll AlumniPicnic Venue: Point Fermin Park, 807 Paseo del Mar, San 16 Pedro
World Oceans Day Celebrate the ocean and share how important it is in our lives. Family-oriented activities include arts and crafts, scavenger hunts, animal stories, a guided beach walk, a close-up look at baby animals and more. Time:10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 8 Cost: Free Details: www.cabrillomarine aquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro Family Nature Walk Enjoy an easy and educational walk with a naturalist through this canyon preserve to discover the unique variety of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects that call it home. The walk concludes inside the Nature Center with a hands-on exploration of the exhibits. Time: 11 a.m. June 1 Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.org Venue: George F Canyon Preserve, 27305 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rolling Hills Estates
June 4 Dana Middle School Spring Concert Join Dana Middle School award-winning marching band groups in an amazing show featuring the music of Bruno Mars. Time: 7 p.m. June 4 Cost: $2 Details: 310-241-1100; w w w. d a n a m s - l a u s d - c a . schoolloop.com Venue: Dana Middle School, 1501 S. Cabrillo Ave., San Pedro
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Craft Delight Calling all crafters. Share, learn, be inspired. Bring your portable project (knit, crochet, quilting, jewelry, etc.) and spend time with fellow crafters. Time: 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. June 5, 12 Cost: Free Details: 310-371-2075; www.torranceca.gov Venue: Henderson Library, 4805 Emerald St., Torrance
June 6 First Thursday Open Mic First Thursday Open Mic is dedicated to showcasing, connecting and providing a creative outlet for artists. The Grand Annex will open up its stage to musicians, singer-songwriters, and poets from all walks of life. Time: 7 to 9 p.m. June 6 Cost: $5 Details: 310-833-4813 Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro Community Conversations #5 Black Lives, the Arts, and Mattering Acclaimed composer Anthony Davis shares his inspiration for writing The Central Park Five, which will receive its world premiere at
Long Beach Opera June 15. He is joined by performers from the opera to explore how music and art is used in activism. Time: 6 to 9 p.m. June 6 Cost: Free Details: 562- 570-6555 Venue: Long Beach City Council Chambers, 333 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach
June 8
Alta Vicente Reserve Local History Walk Meet at Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall for a hike along the beautiful Alta Vicente Trail. The trail shows the wild flowers of our hillsides to their full advantage and the docents will explain the coastal sage scrub habitat. Time: 10 to 12 p.m. June 8 Cost: Free Details: 310-544-5260; www.losserenos.org Venue: Alta Vicente Trail, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos Verdes 121st Philippine Independence Day The event includes live entertainment, booths and exhibits, health education, food vendors and a children’s area. Time: 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 8 Cost: Free Details: 310-831-9993 Venue: Veterans Park Carson, 22400 Moneta Ave., Carson Native Plant Sale Purchase colorful, drought tolerant native plants that make fertilizers and insecticides virtually unnecessary and require little or no water. Naturalists are on hand to give advice. Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 8 Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.org Venue: White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro
June 9
Landscaping and Micro-Climates for Small Yards Learn about sun angles and how to create microclimates, develop focal points and learn what crevice gardens are and how to make them with Gary Duke. There is a $10 park entrance fee. Time: 1 p.m. June 9 Cost: Free Details: www.southcoastcss. org. Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula
June 13
Friendzone Underground An array of Long Beach/Orange County and L.A. Comedians upcoming and seasoned to share the stage in the intimate Parlour Speakeasy. Time: 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. June 13 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/ friendzoneunderground Venue: The Parlour Speakeasy, 102 Pine Ave., Long Beach
long before curtain-up; and he holds our attention fast during his two vocal solos. And in the lead role, Chism manages Floyd’s wry humor, soft meditations and explosive anger with equal ease. The only blemish on the entire cast’s otherwise pristine performance was the recurring sense that they were a half-beat late replying to each other.ut good as they are otherwise, I predict this was merely an opening-night rhythmic kink that will be ironed out by the time you read this. The aforementioned weakness in fight choreography is the only misstep by director Rovin Jay. For the most part his blocking is worthy of the dialog (although there’s nothing to be done when the monologs get overlong), and the solid set and straightforward lighting design serve the material perfectly. A deceptively simple detail that furthers the spirit of the play is the extensive use of classic blues, which we hear both between scenes and as diegetic sound emanating from a radio that provides an aural backdrop for much of the action. It’s probably not exaggerating to say that the blues is a sonic representation of Black struggle in the United States, a musical reaction to troubles both universal to humankind and specific to being downtrodden by racial inequity. That is Seven Guitars all over, and after experiencing the play with this music woven into its fabric, any production without it would seem lacking. To my taste, Seven Guitars is a bit lacking in
Rayshawn Chism as Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton in LB Playhouse’s production of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars.
plot and overflowing with words. Nonetheless, there’s much to like in this production. And if you’re a bigger August Wilson fan than I, perhaps there’s little not to love. Times: Friday through Saturday, 8 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. The show runs through June 15 Cost: $14 to $24 Details: 562-494-1014; LBplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach
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LEGAL FILINGS NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, Bids for the following Work: ON-CALL SERVICES FOR FURNISHING AND INSTALLING FENCING MATERIAL at THE PORT OF LONG BEACH LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S3029 Bid Deadline:
Documents, to be added to the prospective bidders list, and to receive addendum notifications when issued. For the link to the Port of Long Beach PB System and for information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at http://www.polb.com/economics/contractors/default. asp. Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, SBE/ VSBE Program forms, Harbor Development Permit Applications and other Port forms are available at http://www.polb. com/economics/contractors/ forms_permits/default.asp.
Prior to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25, 2019. Bids shall be submitted electronically via the Port of Long Beach PlanetBids (PB) System prior to 2:00 p.m.
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For assistance in downloading these documents please contact Port of Long Beach Plans and Specs Desk at 562-283-7353. Non-Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting:
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Date/Time: June 4, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. Location: Port of Long Beach Interim Administrative Office (IAO) 1st Floor Board Room 4801 Airport Plaza Drive Long Beach, CA 90815 Deepen Upadhyay, deepen. upadhyay@polb.com
Please refer to the Port of Long Beach PB System for the most current information. NIB -1 Contract Documents. Contract Documents may be downloaded, at no cost, from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal website. Bidders must first register as a vendor on the Port of Long Beach PB System website in order to view and download the Contract
NIB -2 Pre-Bid Questions. All questions, including requests for interpretation or correction, or comments regarding the Contract Documents, must be submitted no later than June 18, 2019, at 5 p.m. Questions received after the pre-Bid question deadline will not be accepted. Questions must be submitted
electronically through the PB System. Emails, phone calls, and faxes will not be accepted. Questions submitted to City staff will not be addressed and Bidder will be directed to the PB System. NIB -3 Non-Mandatory PreBid Meeting and Site Visit. The engineering staff of the City’s Harbor Department will conduct a pre-bid meeting at 9:00 a.m., on June 4, 2019, in the 1st Floor Board Room, of the Port of Long Beach Interim Administrative Office (IAO), 4801 Airport Plaza Drive, Long Beach, CA 90815. Attendance is non-mandatory for the Contractors. It is not mandatory for Subcontractors but highly recommended. Bidders are encouraged to RSVP for the Pre-Bid Meeting through the PB System; located under the “RSVP” tab of the Prospective Bidder Detail. Following the meeting a list of Pre-Bid Meeting signed-in attendees will be available on the PB System. NIB -4 Summary Description of the Work. The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: Furnish, construct, and install fencing and other related work including chainlink fence, gates, post holes, temporary railing, fence panels, and earthwork. NIB -5 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Contractor shall achieve Affidavit of Final Completion of the Project within two (2) years as provided in Paragraph SC - 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed” issued by the City and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8.2 of the General Conditions. FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES SET FORTH IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ENGINEER’S APPROVAL OF AFFIDAVIT OF FINAL COMPLETION, WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS. NIB -6 Contractor’s License. The Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class “A” or “C-13” California Contractor’s License to construct this project. NIB -7 Contractor Performed Work. The Contractor shall perform, with its own employees, Contract Work amounting to at least 50% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract. The amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. “Specialty Items” will be identified by the City on the Schedule of Bid Items. The bid price of any materials or equipment rental costs from vendors who are solely furnishing materials or rental equipment and are not performing Work as a licensed subcontractor on this project shall also be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. NIB -8 SBE/VSBE. The Port has established a
Small Business Enterprises (SBE)/Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program to encourage small business participation on construction contracts. Although an SBE/ VSBE participation goal was not assigned to this contract, the Port strongly encourages all bidders to include such participation whenever possible, by utilizing small and very small business subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers. The Port also strongly encourages SBE/VSBE firms to respond to this solicitation as prime contractors. The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide information on the program requirements, including SBE certification assistance. Please contact the SBE Office at (562) 283-7598 or sbeprogram@polb.com. You may also view the Port’s SBE Program requirements at www. polb.com/sbe. NIB -9 Prevailing Wage Requirements per Department of Industrial Relations. This Project is a public work Contract as defined in Labor Code Section 1720. The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract. The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/ dlsr/DPreWageDetermination.htm and on file at the City, available upon request. Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices. This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. No Contractor or Subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 (with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1(a)). No Contractor or Subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5. Contractors and Subcontractors must furnish electronic Certified Payroll Records (CPRs) to the Labor Commissioner’s Office, and in addition, hardcopies or electronic copies shall be furnished to the Port of Long Beach. NIB -10 Project Labor Agreement. This project is not covered by a PLA. NIB -11 Trade Names and Substitution of Equals. With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the non-specified item
is of equal quality to the item specified, no later than fourteen (14) calendar days after City’s issuance of Notice to Proceed (NTP). Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City. NIB -12 NOT USED NIB -13 Bid Security, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. All Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City. NIB -14 C o n d i t i o n a l Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights. The Board, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity. The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder. NIB -15 Period of Bid Irrevocability. Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds and other acceptable Bid Security shall be guaranteed and valid for ninety (90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first. NIB -16 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. NIB -17 Iran Contracting Act of 2010. In accordance with Public Contract Code sections 2200-2208, every person who submits a bid or proposal for entering into or renewing contracts with the City for goods or services estimated at $1,000,000 or more are required to complete, sign, and submit the “Iran Contracting Act of 2010 Compliance Affidavit.” Issued at Long Beach, California, this 11th day of March, 2019. Mario Cordero, Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California Note: For project updates after Bid Opening, please contact plans.specs@polb. com.
NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, Bids for the following Work: DEMOLITION OF NRG INTAKE FOREBAY STRUCTURE at BACK CHANNEL AND PIER S LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S3026 Bid Deadline:
deadline will not be accepted. Questions must be submitted electronically through the PB System. Emails, phone calls, and faxes will not be accepted. Questions submitted to City staff will not be addressed and Bidder will be directed to the PB System. NIB -3 Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting and Site Visit. The engineering staff of the City’s Harbor Department will conduct a pre-bid meeting at 10:00 a.m., on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in the 1st Floor
Prior to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Bids shall be submitted electronically via the Port of Long Beach PlanetBids (PB) System prior to 2:00 p.m.
Bid Opening:
Electronic Bid (eBid) results shall be viewable online in the PB System immediately after the Bid Deadline.
Contract Documents Available:
Download Contract Documents from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal: www.polb.com/sbe Click on the POLB Vendor Portal 1. Register and Log In 2. Click “Bid Opportunities” 3. Double-click on respective bid Project Title 4. Click on Document/Attachments tab 5. Double-Click on Title of Electronic Attachment 6. Click “Download Now” 7. Repeat for each attachment For assistance in downloading these documents please contact Port of Long Beach Plans and Specs Desk at 562-283-7353.
Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting:
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Location: Port of Long Beach Maintenance Facility 1st Floor Meeting Room 725 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802
Project Contact Person:
George E. Gordon IV, george.gordon@polb.com
Please refer to the Port of Long Beach PB System for the most current information. NIB -1 Contract Documents. Contract Documents may be downloaded, at no cost, from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal website. Bidders must first register as a vendor on the Port of Long Beach PB System website in order to view and download the Contract Documents, to be added to the prospective bidders list, and to receive addendum notifications when issued. For the link to the Port of Long Beach PB System and for information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at http://www.polb.com/ economics/contractors/default. asp. Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, SBE/ VSBE Program forms, Harbor Development Permit Applications and other Port forms are available at http://www.polb. com/economics/contractors/ forms_permits/default.asp. NIB -2 Pre-Bid Questions. All questions, including requests for interpretation or correction, or comments regarding the Contract Documents, must be submitted no later than Tuesday, July 2, 2019, at 5 p.m. Questions received after the pre-Bid question
Meeting Room, of the Port of Long Beach Maintenance Facility, 725 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, CA 90802. Attendance is mandatory for the Contractors. It is not mandatory for Subcontractors but highly recommended. Each Bidder shall attend the mandatory Pre-bid meeting and the mandatory Site Visit, inspect and examine the Project Site and perform any observations and measurements to further document existing conditions and may use photography and/or video to aid in preparation of Bid Documents. The City makes no guarantee that existing construction and site conditions matches construction depicted on record reference drawings. It shall be the Bidder’s responsibility to identify existing conditions during the Site Visit. Each Bidder must have a valid picture identification card (driver’s license or TWIC card), hard hat, steel-toed boots, and safety traffic vest to attend the Site Visit. Should a Bidder elect not to attend the pre-bid meeting, the Bidder shall not be relieved of its sole responsibility to inform itself of all conditions at the Project Site and the content of the Contract Documents. EACH BIDDER MUST ATTEND THE MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING AND SITE VISIT. FAILURE
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LEGAL FILINGS TO ATTEND THE MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING AND SITE VISIT SHALL DISQUALIFY YOUR BID. Bidders are encouraged to RSVP for the Pre-Bid Meeting through the PB System; located under the “RSVP” tab of the Prospective Bidder Detail. Following the meeting a list of Pre-Bid Meeting signed-in attendees will be available on the PB System. Note that attendance at the pre-bid meeting can be used to satisfy a portion of a Bidder’s good faith efforts to meet the SBE/VSBE participation goals listed below. NIB -4 Summary Description of the Work. The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: Partial demolition and removal of the Main Forebay Intake Structure as well as the adjacent Submerged Intake Structure, dredging to remove the accumulated sediment within the Forebay Intake Structure and the adjacent Submerged Intake Structure to allow access for the concrete removal limits, in addition to dredging the portion of the Back Channel adjacent to the Forebay Intake Structure. Please refer to Technical Specifications TS 01010 “Summary of Work”.
NIB -6 Contractor’s License. The Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class “A” California Contractor’s License to construct this project.
NIB -10 Project Labor Agreement. This project is subject to the requirements of a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), included as Appendix AA. The Contractor and all tier subcontractors must sign a Letter of Assent before commencement of construction and be bound by each and every provision of the PLA, including, but not limited to: payment of prevailing wages; payment of fringe benefit contributions to union trust funds on behalf of workers; use of union hiring halls as a source for workers; follow alternating referral procedures if employ-
NIB -11 Trade Names and Substitution of Equals. With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the non-specified item is of equal quality to the item specified, no later than fourteen (14) calendar days after City’s issuance of Notice to Proceed (NTP). Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City. NIB -12
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NIB -13 Bid Security, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. All Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City. NIB -14 C o n d i t i o n a l Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights. The Board, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or
NIB -15 Period of Bid Irrevocability. Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds and other acceptable Bid Security shall be guaranteed and valid ninety (90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first. NIB -16 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. NIB -17 Iran Contracting Act of 2010. In accordance with Public Contract Code sections 2200-2208, every person who submits a bid or proposal for entering into or renewing contracts with the City for goods or services estimated at $1,000,000 or more are required to complete, sign, and submit the “Iran Contracting Act of 2010 Compliance Affidavit.” Issued at Long Beach, California, this 13th day of May, 2019. Mario Cordero Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California Note: For project updates after Bid Opening, please contact plans.specs@polb. com.
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Ordained a priest in 1958, Bonpane toured the U.S. as a Maryknoll regional director. He received his masters of art in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. Bonpane was sent to Guatemala to run a Maryknoll program in Huehuetenango, where he spent all of 1967. In his journal that year he wrote, “I do not intend to become accustomed to the poverty and destitution of these poor people. I do not intend to become accustomed to their sickness, ignorance, to the constant injustices they receive. I do intend to do whatever I can to change these evils.” When the Guatemalan government complained that Bonpane was going beyond his priestly duties and meddling in politics, the Maryknoll order instructed him to leave the country. He was moved to a parish in Hawaii, where he was given a gag order. Instead, Bonpane returned to his parents’ home in Los Angeles and began his post-church life in political activism. Visit www.randomlengthsnews.com/ blase-anthony-bonpane to read the rest of Blase Bonpane’s obituary.
Rae Wyman
March 13, 1930 – May 2, 2019 Rae Wyman died May 2 at the age of 89, surrounded by family and her loving caregiver Mardy. Rae was a student, a teacher, an actress, an activist, a lawyer, a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Rae was a student at Northwestern University Drama School graduating with honors (Mortar Board); earned a master’s degree in English Literature at UCLA, and a law degree at Loyola Law School when she was 45. She performed in small theatres in Chicago and on nationally televised theatre productions when her husband Dr. Milford Wyman was in medical school (1949-53). She and Milford came to Los Angeles (South Bay-San Pedro) in 1959. Rae worked her entire life to help the underprivileged; active in civil rights, women’s rights and politics, particularly
within the Democratic Party and the Fund for the Feminist Majority. Her greatest joy was her family: Milford, cardiologist, sons Mark (Holly), a lawyer, Michael (Cathi), a cardiologist, Matthew (Jacqui), a lawyer, grandchildren Jack, Charles, Sarah, Andrew, Max, Joel, Emma, Jenna, Julian, Siena, and great-grandchildren Addison and June. Her spirit was infectious. Her humor, warmth, intellect and sense of style will be remembered by all she touched. Donations may be made in Rae Wyman’s honor to Feminist Majority Foundation and the Music Center Spotlight.
May 30 - June 12, 2019
NIB -8 SBE/VSBE. This project is subject to the Port of Long Beach (POLB) Small
This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. No Contractor or Subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 (with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1(a)). No Contractor or Subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5.
Per the Department of Industrial Relations, projects covered by a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) are exempt from the requirement to submit electronic CPRs directly to the Labor Commissioner’s Office. In lieu, the Contractor and all Subcontractors will be required to submit electronic or hardcopies of CPRs and labor compliance documentation to the Port of Long Beach.
irregularity. The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder.
Blase Anthony Bonpane, an influential peace and justice activist, died on April 8, 2019, two weeks before his 90th birthday. For 50 years, Bonpane produced and hosted the popular Sunday radio show, World Focus on the progressive Los Angeles radio station KPFK-FM (90.7). A colleague of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the early 1970s, Bonpane also authored six books and co-founded the nonprofit “Office of the Americas” with his wife, Theresa Bonpane. They played a key role in raising awareness of government-directed violence throughout Central America during the 1980s by leading delegations of politicians, activists, celebrities and students on trips to Nicaragua. “Dad dedicated his life to the cause of peace and justice; he made real, significant change in our world, and he inspired many others to fight injustice at home and abroad,” said Blase Martin Bonpane, his son. “He was the cornerstone of our family, and we will miss him and honor him. But we will also be guided by the word he shared with us during a particularly painful emergency room moment: ‘Exultet,’ which is Latin for ‘Let us rejoice.’” Born to Italian immigrants in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 24, 1929, Bonpane was the youngest of four siblings and the only boy. His father, who was born Biaggio Augustus Buonpane, served in both world wars before becoming a military judge, then a California Superior Court judge. His mother was Florence Inmaculada Marcoguiseppe. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1937. Bonpane attended Loyola High School and then USC, where he played on the football team and boxed. He was in the Marine reserve until February of 1950, when he left to join the seminary. The rest of his platoon served in the Korean War, where all but one perished.
NIB -7 Contractor Performed Work. The Contractor shall perform, with its own employees, Contract Work amounting to at least 40% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract. The amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. “Specialty Items” will be identified by the City on the Schedule of Bid Items. The bid price of any materials or equipment rental costs from vendors who are solely furnishing materials or rental equipment and are not performing Work as a licensed subcontractor on this project shall also be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees.
NIB -9 Prevailing Wage Requirements per Department of Industrial Relations. This Project is a public work Contract as defined in Labor Code Section 1720. The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract. The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www.dir. ca.gov/dlsr/DPreWageDetermination.htm and on file at the City, available upon request. Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices.
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NIB -5 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Contractor shall achieve Substantial Completion of Work within 300 calendar days and Affidavit of Final Completion of the Project within 390 calendar days as provided in Paragraph SC - 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed” issued by the City and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8.2 of the General Conditions. FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES SET FORTH IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ENGINEER’S APPROVAL OF AFFIDAVIT OF FINAL COMPLETION, WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS.
Business Enterprises (SBE)/ Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program. The combined SBE/VSBE participation goal for this project is twenty seven percent (27%), of which a minimum of five percent (5%) must be allocated to VSBEs. POLB expects all Bidders to achieve the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. Award of the Contract will be conditioned on the Bidder submitting an SBE-2C Commitment Plan demonstrating the Bidder’s intent to meet the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. If the Bidder’s Commitment Plan does not demonstrate intent to meet the combined goal, the Bidder shall demonstrate that it made an adequate good faith effort to do so, as specified in the Instructions to Bidders. The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide information on the program requirements, including SBE certification assistance. Please contact the SBE Office at (562) 283-7598 or sbeprogram@ polb.com. You may also view the Port’s SBE program requirements at www.polb. com/sbe.
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