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ILWU commemorates Bloody Thursday p. 2 Joe announces winners of the “Buscaino Grants” p. 2 Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council president and vice president lose re-election in upset p. 4 Summer Vibes: RLn’s Summertime Fun Guide p. 11 & 14

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Community Announcements:

Harbor Area Red Cross Needs Help to Overcome a Severe Blood Shortage

Rising trauma cases, organ transplants and elective surgeries are depleting the U.S. blood supply.

The Red Cross urgently needs blood donors of all types, especially type O and platelet donors to overcome this severe blood shortage.

Details: Sign up at rcblood.org/donate.

Long Beach Expands Mobile Vaccination Sites, New Schedule The City of Long Beach will offer 11 new COVID-19 mobile vaccination clinic options throughout July to make vaccines more accessible. Vaccines will continue to be offered at many of the city’s regular vaccination sites.

The Long Beach Convention Center vaccination site will offer walk-ups throughout the month, but will end its drive-through operations on July 17.

LA County Expands COVID-19 Worker Protections

Expanded worker protections enacted through challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic offer workers a safer and violationfree work environment. To learn more about the county’s COVID-19 Vaccine Paid Leave law, plus other federal protections for workers, register today for a free webinar July 21, hosted by Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs and the U.S. Department of Labor.

Time: 3 p.m. July 21 Details: www./lacountydcba.webex.com/ expanded-worker-protections

Minimum Wage Increases in Unincorporated County of Los Angeles

Beginning July 1, 2021, all workers who work two or more hours in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County must receive a minimum wage of $15.00 per hour. This applies to both large and small businesses.

In January 2022, LA County’s chief executive officer will determine the adjusted rates of the minimum wage based on the Consumer Price Index. The updated rate will become effective on July 1, 2022. Unincorporated areas of the County. www./lavote.net/apps/precinctsmaps Details: www.dcba.lacounty.gov/minimum-wage

Healthy Harbor Communities Initiative Grant Program

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The Harbor Community Benefit Foundation, in collaboration with the TraPac Appellants, have announced applications for round 2 of the Healthy Harbor Communities Initiative Grant Program. This grant program addresses and mitigates the impacts of Port of Los Angeles and port-related activity on the health and well-being of San Pedro and Wilmington residents.

HCBF intends to distribute up to a total of $350,000 in grant awards and anticipates awarding funds for three proposals, with $250,000 available for one large grant, and the remaining $100,000 available for two grants of $50,000 each. Deadline to submit an application is 4 p.m. Aug. 6, 2021.

Details: www.healthy-harbor-communitiesinitiative-grant-program

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Child Tax Credit

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Most families with children are expected to get their monthly federal child tax payments automatically, beginning July 15, with no action required.

Families who filed tax returns for 2019 or 2020 or signed up to receive a stimulus check from the IRS, will get this tax relief automatically.

Families who did not file a tax return for 2019 or 2020 and who did not use the IRS Non-filers tool this past year to sign up for the Economic Impact Payments, should go online and use the IRS Child Tax Credit Non-filer Sign-up Tool to sign up.

Details: www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/

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Joe Announces Winners of “Buscaino Grants” “It’s not my money. It’s taxpayer money,” Councilman says

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

This time around, nonprofit organizations Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino Also on July 1, winning nonprofit organizaannounced the winners of the so-called “Bus- tions in Harbor City received a total of $307,000. in Watts collectively received $2.5 million. It caino Grants” at the start of Independence Day Watts, with the overall greater number of ap- should be noted that while stakeholders throughweekend, shaking off concerns about the fairness plicant grant winners had the most proposals that out the council district got to pick the deserving of the grant process. fell under the Reimagining Public Safety catego- nonprofits that applied for the grants, it was the On July 2, Wilmington nonprofit organiza- ry. Buscaino, a former senior lead officer for the council office that created the parameters for the tions received a total of $550,000. The council- Los Angeles Police Department, has staked his grant proposals.

Those parameters dictated that all proposals man also announced fall under the umbrella of at least one of the folthat a portion of the lowing categories, including: community funds • Addressing homelessness and its root were used to comcauses, including addressing and preventing plete the final phase poverty of the Wilmington • Addressing racial disparities Park revitalization, • City services/beautification including installa• Jobs/economic development tion of the mosaic • Nonprofit/community investment art installation and • Recreation/youth programming security cameras and • Reimagining public safety a youth job training program called Clean WILMINGTON and Green in Watts • The Great Summer Comeback, Boys & and Wilmington.

Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor, At the First Councilman Joe Buscaino awards a grant of $75,000 to a representative of the $60,000 Thursday Art Walk Beacon House of San Pedro.

• Wilmington Grow Green fitnessSpace, in Sirens Java and $50,000 Tea on July 1, Buscaino announced the winning entire political career as the “community polic• LAUSD Community School, Wilmington, nonprofits in San Pedro, which totaled a little ing” candidate for both city council and the may$25,000 over $1 million. Perhaps the most unusual win- orship. The councilman allowing constituents to • Banning High School Booster Club weight ner was Bridge Cities Alliance, whose 501(c)(3) have a voice in the distribution of city funds in room transformation, $75,000 status was revoked in December 2020 for not fil- their neighborhoods is a welcome change — a • Wilmington Juniors youth soccer proposal, ing the necessary tax returns for three consecu- shift from the days when community advocates LA Monsters Sports Academy, Inc., $100,000 tive years. Start-up non-profits often have fiscal would win grants from the state or federal gov• Avalon Art and Culture Alliance, $90,000 sponsors who do have 501(c)(3) status, which ernment, only to have those same funds be fil• Wilmington Teen Center, $60,000 provides legal cover for them. Bridge Cities Al- tered through the law enforcement agencies to • Hawaiian Elementary School, $25,000 liance, however, is no-longer a mere startup. The the communities to force engagement between • Banning High School Parkette, $80,000 Buscaino Grant process explicitly states that all the youth and the police.

[See Grants, p. 4] applicant 501(c)(3) statuses would be confirmed.

Buscaino’s communication director Branimir Kvartuc and senior advisor explained, via text message, that Bridge Cities Alliance had become a 509(a)(2), a private foundation.

“There are five subtypes of 501(c)(3). BCA is a 509(a)(2), which is one of the qualified subtypes, so they are actually both (501(c)(3) and a 509(a)(2)), which makes them qualified,” Kvartuc texted.

The longtime councilman’s aide explained that Bridge Cities Alliance has had issues with the IRS website reporting their updated status, which the IRS says is due to COVID-19 staffing. The bottom line is that BCA is a qualified nonprofit.

Earlier in the day, Councilman Buscaino announced the grant winners in the Harbor Gateway at the newly-opened Normandiegale SkatePark, which totaled just $100,000.

In each of his announcements, Buscaino would say some variation of, “Don’t thank me, thank us,” highlighting that the nonprofits chosen were chosen by community stakeholders and that it was taxpayer money that was distributed.

However, despite the public funding and voting, On July 5, the Locals of the ILWU commemorated the martyrdom of Dickie Parker and John in Council District 15, the grants were called the Knudsen, two longshore workers whose deaths inspired a general strike that shut down the entire West Coast in 1934, with a classic car cruise. This year’s Bloody Thursday began with a morning “Buscaino Grants.” The council member went on memorial at Roosevelt Memorial Park in Gardena, where Parker and Knudsen are buried. When the to say, “This has nothing to do with me or my brief service was over, a group aboard classic cars and bikes from the Longshoremen’s Motorcycle money or my office dollars that you all voted on.

Club left the cemetery and cruised to Peck Park for the picnic. Photo by Sean Dover So thank yourselves.”

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NWSPNC President, VP Lose Re-Election

By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter

July 8 - 21, 2021

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After ousting two of its highest-ranking and longest-serving leaders, the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council will complete its overhaul and perhaps signal a new course on July 12, when board members elect a new president and vice president.

Ray Regalado, NWSPNC’s president for eight years, and Laurie Jacobs, whose vice presidency was part of nine years of board service, learned they had lost on June 30, when the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment released official results of the election. But those outcomes only confirmed preliminary counts.

“I wasn’t surprised,” Regalado said. “You never know what’s going to happen in this type of a process.”

Regalado received 70 votes to finish third in the race for two Park Western area seats behind Craig Goldfarb (102) and Dan Dixon (89). Jacobs received 65 votes, and finished fourth in a race for three at-large seats, losing to Angela Sumner (92), Cynthia Gonyea (86), and Gwen Henry (76).

Regalado also serves as a commissioner for the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners, or BONC. He works full time and his responsibilities as president and commissioner — as well as COVID-19 restrictions and his recovery from knee surgery — prevented him from doing a lot of campaigning.

“The president has a lot of responsibility on their shoulders to make sure that all the meetings are taking place, that everyone is doing what they need to do to represent the community, not their own personal agenda,” Regalado said. “It’s really a full load.”

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Jacobs did not do a lot of campaigning either, as she also works full time and had a lot of meetings to attend as vice president, as well as outreach chair. She used social media and called people but did not go door-to-door. She put a slate together, which is a list of candidates that endorse each other.

“Any time I campaigned, I campaigned for other people too,” Jacobs said. “It’s not about me; it’s about the collaborative effort. So, it was extremely disappointing that someone didn’t understand how a slate works and tried to use that against me, calling it manipulative.”

Jacobs was referring to a flyer that was distributed that said she was trying to manipulate the board, and that she wanted to elect the people on the slate so that they would vote her way.

“Once I saw that someone had the time to do … a negative campaign, I wasn’t going to play that game,” Jacobs said.

She instead focused on her own experience and the work she has done for the board when she campaigned.

Board member John DiMeglio was not included on Jacobs’ slate, but he made a slate of his own with Goldfarb and two other people, all of whom were elected. DiMeglio did lots of campaigning, which helped him get re-elected, but he said he did not even speak to half the people he knew.

DiMeglio had several criticisms with the board, including the proposed properties the board has approved for construction. He said that even if the other two neighborhood councils in San Pedro do not approve a project, Northwest usually will.

Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council President Ray Regalado, who recently lost reelection. File photo

He owns an apartment building in San Pedro, and when he built it, he had to include two parking spaces per unit — while some modern projects do not even have half of that.

DiMeglio said he is one of the few dissenting voices on the board and that the rest of the board members tend to vote together. He said that it has been him against the whole board in the past, and that he had trouble getting motions passed.

Jacobs said that the city did not run the [Grants, from p. 2]

Buscaino Grants

• Los Angeles Harbor College Job Reentry programs, $35,000

SAN PEDRO • Beacon House, $75,000 • Boys and Girls Club, $60,000 • Shakespeare By the Sea, $100,000 • Pedro Petpals, $100,000 • San Pedro Fallen Veterans Association, $92,700 • Bridge Cities Alliance, $100,000 * • Operation School Bell, $100,000 • Toberman Neighborhood Center, $100,000 • Eastview Little League, $90,000 • Friends of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, $69,500 • AltaSea, $30,000 • LA Maritime Institute, $36,000 • Marine Mammal Care Center, $47,000 HARBOR GATEWAY • Driving Hope Foundation, Dream Program, $50,000 • Nuestras Raíces, $30,000 • New Challenge Ministries Food Bank, $20,000

HARBOR CITY • Humanities Arts Academy, $90,000 • City Lights Gateway Foundation’s Youth Ambassador Program, $70,000 • Narbonne Arts Complex, $68,000 • The Giving Room, $30,000 • Harbor City Food Pantry, $25,000 • Boys and Girls Club LA Harbor College, $24,000 WATTS • A Flower Pot of Resources, Lend An Ear, $30,000 • Educational Justice Through a College Degree for 250+ Watts Youth, College Track, $100,000 • Connections, a social emotional learning

elections well. Because of the pandemic, it was all vote-by-mail, but stakeholders had to request ballots and send pictures of their IDs to prove they lived within each council’s boundaries. Jacobs said that some people received ballots after voting was already over.

Jacobs said that while she is disappointed that she was not re-elected, she is not going anywhere and she will continue to do community work. She runs a girl scout troop and she is an analyst for the South Bay Cities Council of governments working on using Measure 8 funds to help homeless people.

“I’m also the outreach chair; I run events; I’m on the budget and finance committee; I’m on the executive committee,” Jacobs said. “So, maybe a step back … is a good thing for me at this point.”

Regalado would not rule out running for the board again in the future once a seat is available — but he stressed he would only do so if he felt the board needed it.

“I have a certain skill set that has lent to … an effective neighborhood council running, where there has been very little controversy, where there has been very little contentious opportunities … for people to lash out,” Regalado said. “If I were to see that happening to our neighborhood council, which has avoided that over these last many years, I may decide to try to go back. But I mean if things are all … working so that people are being heard, people are being treated equitably and everyone is doing the job they’re elected to do, then why would I do that?”

One of the things Regalado has done as [See Upset, p. 7]

program for Watts youth, $43,000 • Rebuilding Connections for Youth in Foster Care, Peace4Kids, $50,000 • Watts Garden Club Apprenticeship Training for US Domestic and Global Trade, Watts Garden Club/SACOP, $100,000 • Finish First Academy Youth Financial and Physical Fitness Training, $100,000 • Fostering Resilience and Building Community through Professional Mentoring Services, Friends of the Children, $75,000.

• STREAM, Watts Community Core, $100,000 • BEAST Watts, East Side Riders Bike Club, $100,000 • Beauty Behind the Bricks, $100,000 • Watts Empowerment Center, $100,000 • Women of Watts and Beyond Community Youth Services, $100,000 • Watts Labor Community Action Committee, $200,000 • Rental Relief Outreach, Watts/Century Latino Org., $100,000 • Five Pillars of Success Program, Operation Progress Student Assistance Foundation CAL, $100,000 • Watts Community Core, $200,000 • Watts Empowerment Center, $200,000 • College Bound at Jordan Downs Public Housing Community, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles, $100,000 • Streets to Success, We Care Outreach Ministries, $89,578 • Sisters of Watts Summer Youth Leadership Program, $100,000 • Community Food Bank, People for Community Improvement, $76,500 • Continue What We Have Started, Hope Central, $24,500 • Camp Ubuntu Watts, Harold Robinson Foundation, $85,000 • Watts Gang Task Force Council, $100,000 • Watts Community Development Corporation Job Development & Retention Services, $75,000

My Recycled Life

Coming Home to Reuse, Recycle, Sell, Keep, Giveaway and Reduce

By Lyn Jensen, Columnist

A surviving daughter is dedicated to integrating recycling, reducing, and reusing into our urban and suburban California lifestyles

Although some may brand my parents hoarders, I wouldn’t — neither lived the kind of lifestyle seen on TV reality shows and news features, where homes are literally knee-deep in trash. My mother and father were products of the Great Depression where nothing got thrown away if it was “still good,” like Jeff Foxworthy’s description of a “redneck” as someone who keeps the old non-working TV around because the wood’s still good. Both my parents also were truly great procrastinators, their living spaces full of multiple projects that never got done.

Hoarding and collecting is to an extent subjective, depending somewhat on what we do with our acquisitions once they enter our lives. My mother watched in horror what happened after the elderly couple next door to her died within a few months of each other. Their daughter parked a giant truck-sized dumpster in front of the house and threw what looked like the home’s entire contents into it and everything got hauled away to enter the waste stream. I assured my mother I’d never do that.

When my father was facing his last days, I persuaded him to let me put the contents of his apartment in storage, telling him I’d find him another apartment where he and a caregiver might live comfortably for the remainder of his

life. Part of me knew it was a lie and he’d never leave the care facility, but the other part of me knew there was no predicting the future and maybe, just maybe, he might live long enough for me to get him into his “own home” one last time. Once he died, my focus shifted to reducing, recycling, and reusing what he left me. That’s become one of my ongoing projects — and not one I procrastinate about, either.

When my mother entered a care facility in July 2019, I told her I’d sell my mobile home, move into her home so she could come home and I’d be her caregiver. I set my timeline to move in September but she died that August. I moved from my singlewide one-bedroom mobile home, which seemed so small, to a three-bedroom house that seemed so large, until I took stock of everything that was crammed into it. My mother’s closets weren’t even like Fibber McGee’s on that old radio show, because when I opened the door, the contents were too tightly crammed for anything to fall out.

I integrated reducing, reusing and recycling what my mother left behind into my lifestyle, which has been pro-environmental since back before the first Earth Day. I may be leading a lifestyle dedicated to recycling, reusing and reducing, but I’m also recycling a life — or two or three. In months to come, I’ll be offering guidance for leading a “recycled” life, specially tailored for our local urban lifestyle.

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July 8 - 21, 2021

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Jankovich Company Sold to Firm in Seattle

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

July 8 - 21, 2021

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The sale of the Jankovich Co., a longtime San Pedro harbor business, was recently completed.

The family-owned and operated company was established in 1933 as a full-service, land and marine lubricants, fuels and specialty products distributor.

According to a few relatives of the employees, the workers were given $10,000 as a thank you for their service. The company was sold to TJC LLC, a Washington Limited Liability Company owned by North Star, which is 100% owned by Saltchuk, a privately-owned family of diversified transportation and distribution companies headquartered in Seattle. Sources close to the sale said the Jankovich Company was acquired for $200 million. The company’s operations extended as far north as the San Francisco Bay Area and as far south as San Diego.

Jankovich’s 20-year permit to operate at the Port of Los Angeles, which became effective in 2017, was transferred to TJC LLC. The permits entitled Jankovich the right to use City of Los Angeles Harbor Department land, subsurface, and water areas at Berths 73A and B and Berth 74 in San Pedro for operating and maintaining a retail marine fueling service station that sells fuel and lubricants. This permit also included the operation of a small commercial watercraft mooring facility; the use of an office building and storage; truck access and storage; and docking of barges. Jankovich made the move upon the Harbor Department’s request to accommodate the redevelopment of Ports O’ Call.

The port reported the remediation of Berth 74

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The Jankovich Co. fuel dock. The longtime San Pedro business was bought by a Seattle-based LLC.

as being substantially completed. The premises will require continued ground water monitoring and potential further toxic soil remediation depending on the results of monitoring. Through the termination agreement Jankovich has agreed to perform ground water monitoring and provide the Harbor Department a $350,000 security deposit to secure future monitoring and remediation.

Upon completion of the remediation at

Berth 74, there will remain small amounts of soil contamination along the seawall, which cannot be removed without compromising the integrity of the seawall. There is also residual soil contamination along the roadway that could not be accessed.

Jankovich has been working on a remediation plan to address the limited amounts of remaining contamination. Some groundwater contamination will also remain, but is expected to attenuate in time since the source soil contamination has been removed.

Jankovich will initially be required to monitor groundwater for two years and if after the first year groundwater contamination levels have not been substantially reduced, Jankovich will be required to take additional action to expedite remediation of the groundwater. Until such time as groundwater contamination has been reduced to acceptable levels for future unrestricted use, Jankovich will assume responsibility for the remaining contamination through the termination agreement. This will require a $350,000 security deposit that will not be refunded until the Berth 74 is returned to the Harbor Department in a condition that will allow for unrestricted use.

Started by Thomas Jankovich as a San Pedro marine fuel business in 1933, the company grew from a one-man operation to an internationally recognized company. Jankovich’s son, Tom Jr., joined the firm in 1960 and was instrumental in the company’s continued growth.

Until 1970, the company was selling fuel and lubricating oil mainly to the fishing fleet in San Pedro. Then Jankovich and his son formed San Pedro Marine Inc. and started their own trucking business.

In 1982, Jankovich and his son formed a water taxi service, J & S Water Taxi Service. In 1983, Jankovich and Hal Noring formed Petro America Inc., a marketer and transporter of petroleum products to inland and international marine companies not serviced by San Pedro Marine Inc., as well as serving truck lines, railroads, airlines and petroleum exploration/ production groups.

The firm also served as a fuel broker for the Jankovich companies, maintaining a working relationship with all major independent refineries and wholesale markets.

LA Port Police Leads Effort to Prevent Suicide SAN PEDRO — Traffic on the Vincent Thomas Bridge was impacted when a person threatened to commit suicide about 200 feet above the Port of Los Angeles Main Channel.

The incident took place at about 5:30 a.m.

June 26, when officers with the Los Angeles Port Police, the Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol responded to a 9-1-1 call regarding a suicidal person who had climbed through barriers of the bridge.

Port Police reported to the scene. Port Police Officer Ryan Martinez encouraged the individual to not let go of the bridge. The officer was able to grasp the person, preventing a fatal fall.

Martinez was quickly joined by other responding officers, and together, the officers creatively used a police K‑9 leash to prevent a fall of the distressed person, who was suspended by the rescuing officers for more than 10 minutes before being pulled to safety.

The person, whose identity has not been released, was taken for evaluation to an area medical facility. Port operations were not impacted.

LA City Council Adopts New Anti-Camping Ordinance Towards Unhoused Population

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted 13 to 2 July 1, in favor of adopting a new city ordinance banning homeless encampments from public sidewalks and parks in the city of Los Angeles.

The draft ordinance required a unanimous vote to be adopted on its first consideration.

Councilmembers Mike Bonin and Nithya Raman voted no in the 13-2 vote.

The ordinance will be tabled until July 28, when another vote will take place.

Bonin and Raman expressed concern about the number of beds available for homeless individuals, stating that the ordinance might not solve the problem but would instead move encampments to other places.

On June 29, LA City Council voted in a 12 to 3 vote , to prevent unhoused people from camping near schools, parks, libraries and other “sensitive” facilities. Council members requested city lawyers to write a law prohibiting sleeping, lying and storing possessions near public facilities, including public schools and homeless shelters.

The law would bar tents and encampments from blocking sidewalks in ways that prevent wheelchairs users from traveling on them, in violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. On June 30, the LA City Attorney drafted the new ordinance. The previous anti-camping laws prohibited tents during daytime hours, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Council members had been scheduled instead to consider another anti-camping measure, one that was drawn up in October but failed to secure council support.

LBPD Arrests Three Suspects for Attempted Murder

LONG BEACH — One man and two teenage boys were arrested in connection to a driveby shooting on June 26, near Shoreline Drive and Aquarium Way in Long Beach.

Jonathan Rodriguez-Zamora, a 23-year-old resident of Wilmington, was booked on three counts of attempted murder, one count of shooting into an inhabited dwelling, carrying a concealed weapon and driver permitting a person to discharge a firearm from a vehicle. He is being held on $3,000,000 bail; a 15-year-old boy was booked for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and shooting into an inhabited dwelling; and a 17-year-old boy was booked for attempted murder, shooting into an inhabited dwelling, altering a firearm and carrying a loaded firearm on a person or in a vehicle while in a pub[See News Briefs, p. 7]

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lic place.

The incident took place at about 7:30 p.m.

June 26. Long Beach Police Department officers were flagged down regarding the hit-shooting.

Assisting officers found and detained the vehicle with the three suspects believed to be involved in the shooting.

The three victims were transported to local hospitals by the Long Beach Fire Department.

The first victim, a 23-year-old man, was struck in the upper torso. He is listed in critical condition. A second victim, an 18-year-old man, was struck in the upper torso. He is listed in stable condition. A third victim, a 13-year-old boy, was struck in the lower torso and he is listed in stable condition.

The victims were standing in front of a business, when gunshots were fired at them from a vehicle driving by. The three victims and a nearby business were struck by the gunfire. Officers made a traffic stop on a suspect vehicle that was seen fleeing the area and detained the three suspects inside the vehicle. A firearm was recovered from inside the vehicle. There were multiple crime scenes with evidence collected, including surveillance video from the area. This video evidence is being reviewed to aid in investigating and prosecuting this incident.

A motive for the shooting is still undetermined. Gang detectives responded to the scene and conducted an investigation. The three arrests were made after the suspects from the vehicle were positively identified as being involved in the shooting.

Anyone who has information regarding the incident is asked to call 562-570-7370, or anonymous at 800-222-8477.

IBU Challenged By Industry Wide Asset Swaps

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

The Jankovich Co. sale to TJC LLC was just one instance of consolidation among many that has happened in recent years — disruptions that are increasingly impacting wages and labor contracts.

This past May, members of the ILWU’s marine division — the Inlandboatmen’s Union, or IBU, and ILWU Locals 13, 63, 94, 63 OCU, the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association, Federated Auxiliary 8 and the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, or MM&P, rallied outside Westoil Marine Service on Terminal Island over such issues.

The biggest news to happen in fuel transhipment news was the asset exchanges by two large national marine transportation corporations — Saltchuk Marine and Centerline Logistic and its impact on labor contracts. Both Saltchuk and Centerline come from old family owned companies.

The asset exchange has upended scores of contracts worked by IBU, MM&P and the Sailors Union of the Pacific maritime workers while weakening the Southwest Marine Pension Trust.

The maritime unions charge that Saltchuk and Centerline have used the asset exchange as an opportunity to replace longstanding contracts with the IBU and the MM&P with a substandard agreement with company-friendly, Seafarers International Union that undermines the standards for fair wages and benefits previously set by the IBU and MM&P collective bargaining agreements.

In December of this past year, Saltchuk Marine announced that it acquired eight ship assist tugs owned by Centerline Logistics and operated in the Pacific Northwest and California. Centerline Logistics, in turn, purchased six bunker barg-

es operated in California from Foss Maritime, a subsidiary of Saltchuk. A bunker barge is like a floating petrol station. The bunker barge pumps fuel oil into the ship’s storage (bunker) tanks.

The effect of this deal had an immediate impact on mariners from Los Angeles and Long Beach to San Francisco. In Los Angeles and Long Beach Foss Maritime terminated 21 employees who worked on its bunker barges. The collective bargaining agreement with MM&P, who represented the mariners, was voided as were contributions to the Southwest Marine Pension Trust. In San Francisco, roughly the same number of employees represented by the Sailors Union of the Pacific also lost their jobs when Foss Maritime stopped its operations.

Sly Hunter, regional representative for MM&P, was quoted in the ILWU newspaper, The Dispatcher, that on the day after Christmas, he received a call from Foss Maritime stating that it had sold its bunker barge business and that the contract which had two-and-a-half years left on it and employed 21 of their members was gone. The company was sold to Centerline Logistics, which then created a subsidiary, called Leo Marine.

Centerline Logistics claimed that MM&P didn’t have jurisdiction. The transaction also impacted 55 IBU members working for the Centerlineowned Westoil/Millennium when Centerline’s Millennium-branded tug operation was sold to Saltchuk operation. Instead of folding the six bunker barges and the contracts it acquired from Foss into its existing marine fueling companies including Westoil, Centerline gave the contract and barges to its newly created subsidiary, Leo Marine

Services, leaving many of the IBU mariners who manned both the Millennium tugs and the Westoil barges without work. All that remains now for the 55 workers at Westoil are contracts from two smaller customers.

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NWSPNC Upset

president is to build relationships with outside parties, including with people from the city.

Regalado’s philosophy is to listen to his constituents and represent them, putting aside his own feelings.

“It’s a matter of just being able to be at the table, to have these discussions and to be able to address the needs of the people that you represent,” Regalado said. “That’s the important part of this kind of work.

Unfortunately, there are some people who feel that … the work is needed around what they want to see.”

Regalado may not be on the board anymore — but he’ll still be involved in the council as a BONC commissioner. He represents region 12, which includes all the neighborhood councils in the Harbor Area.

“I still need to be able to clearly understand what’s happening within our region of neighborhood councils,” Regalado said. “My responsibility to neighborhood councils doesn’t end when that new board, new leadership is selected. It allows me to just get deeper into my other responsibilities as a commissioner.”

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July 8 - 21, 2021

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Two Men of San Pedro

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

series on the history of California, collectively called Americans and the California Dream.

Now, the first man I came to know by name was Robert Sutro. Only later did I come to understand that he was a very wealthy Los Angeles mortgage lender who was heir to the San Francisco Sutro fortune. He had multiplied his holdings by buying up much of what is now called Silicon Valley when it was mostly orchards and then selling it off for a huge profit when this became the home to many start-up and global technology companies. Apple, Facebook and Google are among the most prominent. It’s also the site of technology-focused institutions centered around Palo Alto’s Stanford University.

One would never presume this man to be a multi-millionaire; he never came off as anything but a smart, humble guy who in his later years would walk from his home at Point Fermin some 30 blocks to the hardware store. He once told me, “I’ve never worked a day in my life.”

“But Robert,” I said, “you’ve worked for years turning deals and buying properties.”

“Oh, that’s not work. Working is having to do something you don’t enjoy.”

Sutro did teach me a thing or two about buying commercial real estate and which pitfalls to be wary of.

In his later years, my wife passed him by in her car as he was walking down Pacific Avenue one evening. She stopped to offer him a ride.

He graciously accepted and after arriving at his place on Paseo del Mar, he asked if she’d like to have dinner with him and his wife. She declined saying she had to go home and feed her cats.

“Well, why don’t you go home and get the cats and bring them to dinner, too?” was his response.

The second man’s name was Pat Chambers.

He was a retired labor organizer who had spent years in the fields of the Central Valley. By the time he landed in San Pedro, he was living in a retirement home and had spent some time reflecting on his life. He was at home here with the union workers and the blue-collar ethic of this town.

When I ran into his name again, it was a decade later in the book I mentioned above on the history of California. In the chapter on the 1930s labor struggles, I read about a famous cotton strike in the Central Valley. In that chapter, the author referenced a common police practice of arresting everyone on the picket line.

The author noted that there was one guy at that time who held the record for the highest number

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Over the past four decades, I’ve had every kind of person enter my offices, including, paupers, politicians, procrastinators, princes, pickpockets and plutocrats. This has given me some extensive experience in judging human character as not all or perhaps even many of these people were what they appeared to be upon presenting themselves at the counter. Some of the most honest and honorable of these have frequently been the ones with the least financial resources — the ones who stand out, have something that can’t be bought — integrity. Here are two examples in contrast: Back in the days when our offices were located on 7th Street in Downtown San Pedro, two different men walked into my office. Both were much older than I, and by appearances could have been the average old working man.

Neither wore a suit, nor had a fancy car parked at the curb. And neither tried to impress me with a long line of credentials or even a business card with a title.

In fact, the first man who came in to see if we’d cut off the top of his old letterhead because he was so cheap he wanted to use the paper for writing notes. I tried to sell him a fresh ream of paper but he was adamant about saving on the paper. He didn’t look like a tree hugger, but more like a guy who had worked on the docks wearing a double pocket work shirt and work pants. So we lopped off the letterhead and figured we’d never see him again. Not so.

He came back a dozen or more times and slowly I began to realize who this elderly gent was and he wasn’t your average working stiff.

The second man came in one day with a sheaf of yellow ledger paper under his arms and asked for me personally. He was similarly dressed. His goal was to have me transcribe all of his scribbling into what amounted to be his oral history. I remember saying, “You know, there’s plenty of secretarial services that can do this kind of thing.”

His response was, “I don’t trust anybody else to do this but you.”

We negotiated over the price and I had one of my staff who has far more patience than I to help this old codger spill out his story.

I later learned that this transcription went to the archives of Temple University. This caught my passing attention and was filed in my mental-rolodex. I never saw him again.

But a decade later, his name appeared in a book by Kevin Owen Starr, California’s state librarian, best known for his multi-volume

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of arrests in a 30-day period. That man’s name was Pat Chambers.

You see, Chambers was arrested some 90 times during that month. This means he was arrested, posted bail and was back out on the picket line three times a day for a month.

Starr went on to say that only the communist organizers had money for bail.

So, here we have it. The capitalist and the communist — at first sight you couldn’t tell the difference. Both men came to San Pedro near the end of their lives for pretty much the same reasons with far different life stories. Neither one was full of hubris. Both were men I’d gauged as having something that couldn’t be bought — integrity.

LA City Council Seeks New Law to Prevent Public Encampments Buscaino’s Anti-camping ordinance passed 13-2 Los Angeles City councilmembers Joe Buscaino and John Lee took action to force a vote by the full city council on a draft anti-camping law that has been stalled in committee since November 2020. The city’s current anti-camping ordinance, which has not been enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic, prohibits tents during daytime hours, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. On June 9, Buscaino requested that the council amend the mayor’s Declaration of Local Emergency and resume enforcement of the current anti-camping ordinance.

The rarely-used procedure under Council Rule 54 requires the council at the next regular meeting to vote on pulling the draft law from committee for immediate consideration by the full city council.

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city council to adjourn for a month-long recess without considering this important ordinance that will restore rules and order to our shared public spaces,” said Councilmember Buscaino.

“Public Safety is the core responsibility of local government and we are failing to protect both the unhoused and the housed. Allowing unmitigated encampments on our streets and sidewalks is not compassionate, it’s reckless.”

The draft ordinance, which was referred to the Homelessness & Poverty Committee on Nov. 30, 2020, would restrict sitting, lying, sleeping, and the placement of tents or personal property on streets and sidewalks: Random Lengths News asked all the declared Council District 15 candidates for their response to this action. These are a few of the responses.

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Wage Stagnation Needs to Be Addressed The proposed legislation would make it illegal [See Encampments, p. 9]

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Before the hysteria over critical race theory, it was a war on “wokeness”; before that, it was a crusade against “political correctness”; before that, it was a battle against the “reverse racism” of affirmative action; before that, it was a feverish panic over an earlier iteration of “political correctness”; before that, it was a life-or-death struggle against the evils of “multiculturalism” … The right has long perfected the art of manufacturing fake boogeymen to justify cultural backlash and political crackdowns that do real harm. The pattern is clear, it’s predictable, and it’s consistent— because it works. Just look at how effortlessly conservative political

figures and pundits mobilized their base over the past year to fear and fight the “threat” of critical race theory. In so doing, the right-wing outrage machine is sustaining the deep cultural resentments that made Trumpism attractive in the first place, even if Donald Trump himself is currently out of power and out of the limelight.

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A Willful Ignorance Of Impending Doom

As we witness the grim outcome of the collapse of the Surfside condo building and its 160-plus deaths, we understand the

[Encampments, from p. 8]

Encampments

Specter of Racism Haunts SCIG Railyard Project

Thank you for your public service in reporting on yet another dishonest Environmental Impact Report perpetrated by the Port of Los Angeles. There was zero mention of this in either the Daily Breeze or the Los Angeles Times.

The quotes from the community members make the case better than I ever could.

The San Pedro and Peninsula Homeowners Coalition put the Port on notice almost 20 years ago of its responsibility to consider Environmental Justice in its project planning. The Port has resolutely

ignored that requirement from that day to this. Perhaps now, at long last, enough pressure will mount to force the Port to live up to its responsibilities to the public.

I also note “POLA Sets Western Hemisphere Record, Seroka Honored” With every increase in container throughput comes the accompanying increase in toxic diesel pollution. Mr. Seroka would do well to devote less energy to increasing toxic throughput and more to alleviating [the] health crisis so movingly described by those quoted in your article.

Noel Park Rancho Palos Verdes

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First and foremost, the housing and homelessness crisis is overwhelmingly caused by the difference in wage growth and housing cost growth over the past several decades.

People simply cannot afford to sustainably and comfortably live in this city while working an entry level or even some mid level jobs. Look into the gap in wage increases and housing increases. My website has some references at www.clgforthepeople.com/.

This wage stagnation needs to be addressed by the city, county, state and federal level in the form of a jobs guarantee with a living wage.

Until that is a reality, passing this law would be a severe disservice to our city, because it would cover up and mask this real failure in our economic system.

In addition, until wages actually allow for people to afford housing, we also need a housing guarantee for all and this must also be coordinated between city, county, state and national governments.

Housing and jobs guarantees must also be coupled with services to bring people back into society with dignity.

Once every single person in our diverse and talented city is offered a living wage job, housing and social services, then I would support the council motion. I do believe the public has a right to utilize our streets, sidewalks and other public rights of way in a safe and sanitary condition.

I am an avid walker and biker and sometimes it is hard to get around without colliding into unsanitary refuse.

Our families and we should not be afraid of our own streets. But to enact such a rule as proposed by Buscaino and Lee, before a jobs and housing guarantee would not address the root cause of homelessness. It would shift the blame onto our houseless neighbors as if it is their choice and personal fault to be on the streets.

This is not the case for 40,000 of our people who are houseless. Urban camping might be a choice for a small and even visually obvious minority.

But most want a chance to live in a home and contribute meaningfully to their communities.

I have met these people and broken bread with them at the Garden Church in San Pedro and near the municipal building in Wilmington.

Our houseless neighbors have goals, joys and problems as our housed-neighbors do.

We must work on these issues before passing any kind of camping restrictions like the one so

Clearing encampments causes people to disperse throughout the community breaking connections with service providers. This increases infectious disease spread. So increased enforcement will lead to more unhoused deaths.

Los Angeles is set to become the City with the highest homeless mortality rate.

For the above reasons, I strongly oppose the passage of Council file: 20-1376 and urge others to do the same.

Citation: https://tinyurl.com/unhouseddeaths-la-county

precipice of doom under the most vulnerable of conditions possible.

Renown forensics risks professor, Bob Bea, has repeatedly warned of our government’s persistence to disregard obvious hazards due to; hubris, arrogance, indolence, ignorance, and greed.

Employing these traits will ultimately guarantee disaster.... sooner or later. The Plains All American Pipeline owned, Rancho LPG LLC facility represents the poster child for his testimony. The catastrophe here awaits. The threat does not get any more obvious than this.

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to be unhoused and to refuse an offer of shelter in Los Angeles. This legislation criminalizes homelessness, a strategy that wastes millions of city dollars that we, the taxpayers, pay.

Proposals like this promote the myth that people are homeless by choice, not the result of the city’s failure to expand available housing for those experiencing homelessness. Public officials have stated that there are not enough available beds to support Los Angeles’ unhoused populations. The L.A. City Council needs to prioritize building housing projects for all of the unhoused instead of criminalizing homelessness.

The criminalization of homelessness, rather than solving this humanitarian crisis along with its root causes (ex: skyrocketing rent, insufficient public housing units) is one of the reasons I’m running for Los Angeles City Council District 15 in 2022. We need evidence-backed, communitycentered solutions that prioritize care -- not criminalization.

These ordinances constitute cruel and unusual punishment and violate basic human rights. Judges have ruled that enforcing the bans on sitting and sleeping in public violate the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause. Despite these rulings, Los Angeles continues to criminalize the homelessness crisis. This is counterproductive toward reducing homelessness.

• Unhoused deaths represent 11% of all deaths in LA, despite representing only 1% of the overall L.A. population.

• Unhoused deaths are twice as likely to be male and Black.

• Unhoused people were over two times more likely to have died from accidental and preventable causes compared to housed populations.

willingness to play down warnings that preceded the catastrophe. It is sad, indeed.

I cannot help but reckon back to the unfathomable “acknowledged” danger posed to “thousands” of residents in the Los Angeles harbor area from over 25 Million gallons of highly explosive butane and propane gases that continues to be stored in their literal backyard for almost 50 years now! These storage tanks were built “without building permits” in 1973 for a projected life span of 25 years, and to an Earth Quake substandard of 5.5 mag. while sitting in a EQ Fault zone of mag. 7.4! This prolonged extraordinary willful ignorance to disregard public safety is intolerable and unacceptable in light of the overwhelming scope of disaster that this storage facility represents. Yet, here we sit on the

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Instant Recall: Just Add Lies

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

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he “Recall George Gascón’’ website is paid for by “Victims of Violent Crime for the Recall of District Attorney Gascón,” but two of the the three major donors it cites are billionaires on the LA Business Journal’s list of “Wealthiest Angelenos,” and one of them, Geoffey Palmer, is a Donald Trump mega donor, to the tune of $2 million. The other, Robert Day, made his money the old-fashioned way: he inherited it. So, a more honest name would have been: “Billionaires for the Recall of District Attorney Gascón.” But honesty plays no part in the recall effort, any more than it does in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.

The Gascón recall campaign is also an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, but in a more local sense, revolving around race and criminal justice reform. When Gascón defeated incumbent District Attorney Jackie Lacey by 7 points this past California Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a recall November, it was just one of several fronts in this election fueled by big money from right wing donors. File photo fight. County Measure J, dedicating funding to redress racial injustice — including alternatives to Lives Matter protests following the murder of incarceration — passed by almost 15 points, and George Floyd in March 2020. Now, Gascón also Proposition 17, restoring parolees voting rights, faces a recall for not embracing the agenda he passed by 17 points, while Proposition 20, which defeated at the polls.

“The people that are supporting the recall would have rolled back several important criminal are not interested in public safety,” Gascón said justice reforms, was defeated by 16 points. As with the election of President Joe Biden, the voice of the on NPR’s Air Talk on June 24. “They want me voters was clear: they soundly rejected the failed to put kids in adult prison. They would like to see the gas chamber back again. They want to mass incarceration politics of the past.

But, also as with Biden’s election, the see the death penalty working. They’re really conservative losers refused to accept reality. interested in punishment as opposed to safety.”

To understand the recall, Gascón urged Immediately after Gascón took office on Dec. 7, announcing he’d implement the policies he’d people to follow the money.

“When you look at the funding on the campaigned on — an end to cash bail, the death penalty, trying children as adults, and the use organization, what you’re seeing is very District Attorney George Gascón, who is the center of of sentencing enhancements to lengthen prison conservative right-wing people, much like we a recall effort led by two billionaires. File photo sentences — the first shots law enforcement audiences, were fired in an effort to according to her website. So, recall him. That same month she’s a victim, yes. But hardly saw a dramatic uptick in the a representative one. She’s far effort to recall California more representative of law Gov. Gavin Newsom enforcement — the part of (who appointed Gascón law enforcement that’s bitterly as San Francisco police opposed to any change. chief in 2010 and district A more representative view attorney in 2011), even can be found in a survey of as Republicans tried 724 LA County crime victims and failed to block (including families of murder the certification of victims) by David Binder Electoral College results Research, conducted in early in Arizona, Georgia, February. It found that “few Michigan, Wisconsin Left, Geoffrey Palmer, one of the billionaires leading the recall effort against Gascón. Right, get victim support services,” and Pennsylvania.

Robert Day, the other billionaire leading the recall effort against Gascón. File photos and “Most say they were not While national attention focused on Trump’s far-flung efforts see in other parts of the country, trying to undo informed about these services, and majorities to hold onto power in purple and formerly the results of an election,” Gascón said. say they would have wanted services they did red states — efforts that culminated in the Gascón went on to cite Palmer, as well as not receive,” thus giving the lie to the notion that Jan. 6 insurrection — the situation in deep- former District Attorney Steve Cooley and the existing system prioritizes victims’ welfare, blue California was in some ways even more police unions. interests and concerns. troubling, because of how strikingly it showed The survey report went on to say: “So it is very clear a) what they want and b) contempt for the will of the voters. Newsom was where it’s coming from,” he said. “And, it’s not Most violent crime victims want changes elected governor in 2018 by almost 2-1, 63% to about safety, it’s about punishment.” to the criminal justice system that emphasize 32%. The recall petition attacked him for not rehabilitation and crime prevention, rather Indeed, the idea that crime victims and having a Republican agenda, and only found their families want punishment is just another than more incarceration. Large majorities traction because of frustrations over COVID-19 lie. Some do, of course — and the recall support policies to shift resources away restrictions — restrictions that probably saved campaign highlights them, as if they speak for from incarceration and invest in prevention, tens of thousands of lives. Gascón won by a everyone. Tania Owen, a recall campaign corehabilitation, and support services. narrower, but still substantial margin (53.7% chair is a prominent example. Her husband was Asked about criminal justice preferences, to 46.3%) against a well-funded incumbent murdered in 2016, but she’s not your typical the vast majority of violent crime victims (the first to lose since 1992) backed by more survivor. Her husband was a sergeant in the support community-based victim services, than $5 million from the law enforcement Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, and she mental health crisis response, and violence establishment. It was an unmistakable rejection herself is a detective in the department, as well prevention outreach workers as well as of the status quo, made possible by years of as a public speaker who’s made a second career alternatives to incarceration and reducing sentences for people in prison that 10 grassroots organizing, supercharged by Black based on her identity — primarily speaking to

participate in rehabilitation.

When asked specifically, “Which of the following should be a prosecutor’s primary goal?” only 25% said “Prosecuting crimes to get as many convictions and prison sentences as possible,” while 69% said, “Solving neighborhood problems and stopping repeat crimes through prevention and rehabilitation, even if it means fewer convictions.”

What crime victims want is well supported by the data that Gascón points to as guiding his policies. In fact, the evidence goes even farther in some respects. A 2015 study based on data from Harris County, Texas (home to Houston), from 1980 to 2009, found that “incarceration generates net increases in the frequency and severity of recidivism, worsens labor market outcomes, and strengthens dependence on public assistance.” In short, sending someone to prison makes them more likely, not less, to commit future crimes.

This makes perfect sense, if prisons act more like schools for criminals than places of rehabilitation.

In addition, a March 2021 study based on data from Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Boston), from 2004 to 2018, found that “nonprosecution of a non-violent misdemeanor offense leads to large reductions in the likelihood of a new criminal complaint over the next two years.” So, even prosecuting someone makes them more likely, not less, to commit future crimes.

Recall proponents blame Gascón for increased crime in Los Angeles County, but it’s hardly credible, he told AirTalk.

“I have been in office for six months,” he pointed out. “And, actually, the day after I was sworn in, the recall process began and they were told they’d have to wait 90 days. You could hardly say that my policies are causing an increase in crime when you look at the last seven years of increase in violent crime in the county, the spike in homicides last year, and I’ve only been in office for six months.”

There’s also been violent crime increases across the country since last summer. But here, as elsewhere, the recent rise still leaves crime rates well below what they were 15 or 20 years ago, before California began reversing its tough-on-crime policies.

The county’s top cop, Sheriff Alex Villanueva, has joined the recall effort, but Villanueva himself has been severely criticized over allegations of excessive force, retaliation, lack of transparency and mismanagement.

This past October, the Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission called for him to resign, the next month the Board of Supervisors began investigating how they might fire him, and in January, the state launched a civil rights investigation. In early June, the County Democratic Party also called for his resignation.

In the Air Talk interview, Gascón said that Villanueva’s opposition came after he refused to join the sheriff’s “crusade targeting all his political enemies.” More than a dozen smaller cities served by the Sheriff’s Department have since endorsed the recall, apparently relying on Villanueva-generated propaganda. His opposition has also been promoted by Epoch Times, a pro-Trump conspiracist media outlet run by the Chinese Falun Gong religious cult. Fox News has also played a role, promoting unrepresentative “crime victim representatives,” so the recall campaign has all the hallmarks of a typical Trump-era GOP operation.

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor (March 12 to April 11, 1964). What the composer saw and experienced during that tour inspired her to pen a series of musical snapshots and commentaries focusing on two other seminal events in the Civil Rights movement: (1) the Montgomery Bus Boycotts from December 1955 to December 1956; and (2) the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala. in 1963. The bombing’s impact in galvanizing national public opinion on civil rights in the 1960s became a galvanizing force for nonviolent protest that had been underway since the 1950s.

Indeed, this version of Peter and the Wolf could just as well be an ode to today’s youth movement that has forced change to happen during a moment that has a few too many similarities to the battles that had to be fought 60 years ago. The inclusion of the Montgomery Variations was also a nod to Bonds making Los Angeles her adopted home. She lived in Los Angeles from 1967 until her death in 1972. Get your tickets while you can. It’s set for July 15.

Details: www.hollywoodbowl.com/peter-and-thewolf-tickets

Other shows to watch for include: Christina Aguilera, July 16-17; Kamasi Washington with Earl Sweatshirt, July 18; Ledisi Sings Nina Simone, July 24.

Orchestra, where she recently gave her criticallyacclaimed subscription debut, when she had to replace Stanisław Skrowaczewski on short notice in a concert selected by The Dallas Morning News as one of the year’s highlights.

Long Beach is another hot spot for music and all around adulting fun this summer. One of the places you should look to is Harvelles in Long Beach, a place unafraid to say “Burlesque is back.”

Between Harvelle’s Underground Comedy and Burlesque on Tuesday night to get you over the hump to the live shows on the weekends, July in Long Beach may prove to be a hot one indeed.

The month will be kicked off with an already sold out show, American Monster and Burlesque [See Summer Vibes, p. 14]

The Los Angeles Philharmonic — Mozart and Mendelssohn with Ruth Reinhardt, July 27. Reinhardt is assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony

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ost-COVID lockdowns, everyone is trying to live their best lives this summer. Think best concerts, the best food festivals, the best dance parties and generally the best of the best of times to be had — especially here in Southern California where life is still slow to return to a preCOVID normal.

Right now, the Hollywood Bowl is the biggest venue with the brightest and most culturally relevant artists of our time at this moment. Some of these shows are included in this edition’s Summer Vibes calendar such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Peter and the Wolf with the Oscar, Emmy, and twotime Tony winning Viola Davis lending her voice as narrator for beloved children’s story. However, this rendition of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf will be different from the 1930s Soviet-era monument to youth ushering in a new era by including selections from Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations.

The Montgomery Variations was inspired

by Bonds’ 15-state southern tour with Eugene Brice and the Manhattan Melodaires

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rilled pizza does not sound like the highest use of a grill or a pizza.

Wouldn’t the bottom of the crust burn into a blackened crisp long before the cheese melts? Luckily, nobody told Johanne Killeen and George Germon, two art students from Providence, Rhode Island. They’d met while working for Dewey Dufresne, a young chef with a big future of his own. In 1980 they opened Al Forno, which means “from the oven,” an unlikely name for the birthplace of the world’s first non-baked pizza. It sprang from the fact that their new restaurant space came with a grill. They wanted to use it, and their signature margherita pie became that grill’s reason why.

In those days, dishes like “pesto” were exotic, and the married chef/owners had to contract with a local farm in order to get enough basil. They credit Dufresne for their focus on quality ingredients cooked simply. As for the pizza, it succeeded despite the obvious reasons why it shouldn’t have. Or perhaps these hurdles are what sculpted the pizza into the work of art it is. The crust — or my version, anyway — comes out puffy, crunchy, crispy, chewy and cracker-like, with a charred but hopefully not burnt bottom and smoky flavor.

While Germon and Killeen were inventing local grilled pizza in Providence, I was a mere 50 miles away, eating oven-baked pizza from Armando’s in Cambridge, quite certain that pizza couldn’t possibly get any better.

“Eating at Al Forno was something that rich people did,” recalls my friend Michele, who grew up near Providence but never dined there.

“It’s where my aunt’s boyfriend took her on fancy dates.” Michele recently introduced me to this this legendary pizza, which she has been making all spring and debuted to her friends on Memorial Day. The core trick is to flip the pizza after grilling one side, and put the toppings on the cooked side. This flipping solves the problems

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The best selection of Italian specialties include hearty calzones, an array of pastas and our amazing selection of signature pizzas. We are taking all safety precautions to protect our diners and staff.

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Family owned and operated since 1965, Buono’s is famous for award-winning brick oven baked pizza.

Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and sauces based on tried-and-true family recipes and hand-selected fresh ingredients. Now limited dine-in and patio service, takeout and delivery. Hours: Sun.Thurs. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Buono’s Pizzeria, 222 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 310-547-0655, www.buonospizza.com

The Thrill of the Grill

By Ari LeVaux, Flash in the Pan Columnist

presented by grilled pizza. The cheese melts. The extra-oily, extra-thin crust cooks quickly, all the way through, with no gooey inside to worry about. And it won’t stick to the grill.

At Al Forno you could, and still can get, toppings like nettle pesto, fried calamari, peaches and prosciutto to name just a pinch of them, constrained only by the chef’s whimsy. The home grill master can do the same with the ever unfolding bounty

Grilled Margherita ala Al Forno The Al Forno margherita pizza is a great, simple place to embark upon the path of grilled pizza, and Germon and Killeen were not shy about discussing the pie that put them on the map.

I have read every one of their interviews on their margherita pizza that I could find. It changed over the years, so what I have here is something in the middle, with my own adaptations for the Weber grill that I use at home.

Makes one medium-sized pizza that serves two 4 pounds hardwood charcoal 1 ball of pizza dough, 14-16 ounces ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil 1 clove garlic, pressed, grated, crushed or minced 3 ounces grated fontina cheese 1 ounce grated Romano cheese ½ cup chopped basil ½ cup chopped parsley 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme 14 ounces of canned whole tomatoes, hand crushed

CONRAD’S MEXICAN GRILL

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HAPPY DINER #1

The Happy Diner #1 in Downtown San Pedro isn’t your average diner. The selections range from Italian- and Mexicaninfluenced 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. Dine in or al fresco or call for takeout. Hours: Mon.-Wed. 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thurs.Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #1, 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro, 310-241-0917, www.happydinersp.com

½ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes Place the dough ball in a bowl and let it sit for about an hour. If it rises, punch it down and pack it back into a ball. Then pour the oil over it, and roll it in the bowl of oil to coat it all around, and leave it to soak. Light the coals. When they are about halfway ready, spread them evenly about 5 inches below one side of the cooking grate.

Remove the dough and place it on the back of a cookie sheet. Use your fingers to press and stretch it into an oblong shape about the size of the pan, and about ¼-inch thick. It’s OK if some parts are thick and others thin. That’s part of the art. If you stretch the crust so thin that a hole opens up, don’t try to patch it. This is an artist pizza. Just don’t add any toppings to that negative space and you’ll be fine. Add the minced garlic to the bowl with the remaining oil. Hand crush the tomatoes and mix in the basil, thyme and parsley.

When the coals are a bit past their prime and

HAPPY DINER #2

Built on the success of Happy Diner #1, Happy Diner #2 offers American favorites like omelets and burgers, fresh salads, plus pasta and Mexican dishes are served. Order online for delivery or call for pickup.

Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #2, 1931 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 310-935-2933, www.happydinersp.com

HAPPY DELI

The Happy Deli is a small place with a big menu. Food is made-to-order 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. Order online or call for takeout or delivery.

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

of summer. Once you get the hang of grilling a pizza, the precooked crust becomes a blank slate for whatever seasonal and creative toppings you can imagine. But none of Al Forno’s specials ever supplanted the simple margherita, topped with a juicy tomato sauce with herbs and the occasional pungent intrusion of half-cooked garlic, all held together by cheese.

You could grill yourself a lovely pizza with a hunk of store-bought dough, a jar of sauce, and a bag of shredded cheese. But there’s levels to this. Once you get the basic hang of grilling pizza, you can progress to thinking about toppings. And some day, perhaps, you’ll be ready to contemplate dough mixing. I am not there myself, but luckily I can get decent pizza dough at my local store. Without the fuss of crust, we can focus on toppings and grilling.

We have all summer to figure out the dough. not burning quite so aggressively, lift the crust by two points on the same edge and toss it onto the hot side, like you’d whip a fresh sheet onto a bed.

After about a minute on the grill it should start to puff up. Carefully tug up on an edge and peek at the underside. After another 30 seconds, before it blackens, grab the edge and flip the crust onto the cool side of the rack. (It’s impossible to give exact cooking times because they depend on the heat of your coals and their distance from the grill.)

While it’s still piping hot, immediately brush or rub the newly-browned side of the crust with the garlic oil. Sprinkle on the fontina and Romano cheeses, and spoon on the crushed tomatoes and herbs in dispersed little piles. Sprinkle the salt, pepper and pepper flakes over the pizza.

With tongs or carefully with your fingers, slide the pizza onto the hot side, over the coals. Cook it as long as you can, ideally about four minutes, without smelling any burning crust. If it starts to blacken, pull it to the non-hot side of the grill and put the lid on until the cheese melts. Cut into pieces with cooking scissors and serve.

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. Order your growlers, house drafts and cocktails to go (with food purchase)! Open daily 12 to 8 p.m. for indoor or al fresco dining, takeout and delivery through Grubhub, Postmates and Doordash. San Pedro Brewing Company, 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 310-831-5663, www.sanpedrobrewing.com

WEST COAST PHILLY’S

Welcome to West Coast Philly’s Cheesesteak and Hoagies where authentic Philly cheesesteaks meet the waterfront in San Pedro. Along with serving the classic cheesesteak, West Coast Philly’s puts its unique twist on its cheesesteaks and hoagies. Also on the menu are subs, burgers, wings and salads. Happy hour from 2 to 6 p.m., Mon.-Thurs. Indoor dining or order online or call for pickup. Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. West Coast Philly’s, 1902 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro, 424-264-5322, www.westcoastphillys.com

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Foodie Life

The Sounds of First Thursday Art Walk Return to San Pedro

Post-Lock Down Culinary Festivals on the Rebound

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

Over the past several years, journey of coffee from farm the Queen Mary Events Park to cup with 10 interactive and was the go-to location for jaw-dropping installations. a number of different food Details: www.coffeeworld. festivals and competitions, com including the Delicious Chili During the first week of & Brewfest, which featured August, Long Beach Food a chili cookoff and Southern & Beverage, a California California’s best brewed beer and the West Cheetos, Fritos, mac Coast BBQ Classic, ‘n cheese, truffles which also featured and even gold leaf. the best brews in Long Beach Southern California.

Burger Week will The pandemic,with feature $5, $10, the enforcement of $15 and $20 onepreventive lockdown of-a-kind burgers measures, changed at 34 participating all of it, and for other restaurants (as of longtime food and this publication) beverage events to across the city. bounce back may take More could be awhile. added to the list. It’s But a few of them an opportunity to will be happening this support restaurants summer and into the in Long Beach Chef Stephen Le with the Droft Burger, his offering for fall. Coffee World, LB Burger Week, Aug. 1 to 8. during this critical a pop-up museum time while you get to registered 501(c)3 non-profit, about coffee that opened in eat, drink, and try new places. will spend the first week in January 2019, at the Del Amo Featured eateries will offer August paying homage to Shopping Center in Torrance a Long Beach Burger Week America’s original culinary will reopen on July 17. special with dine-in, to-go sweetheart: the hamburger. The and delivery options available It was only supposed offerings are going to be wide to stick around for six depending on the restaurant. and diverse, from house made months to test its viability, This should be a hint to sauces to traditional sesame but managed to survive the other cities looking to give COVID lockdown. The pop-up seed buns and American restaurateurs a boost. museum has a Japanese kawaii cheese, hearty veggie and Details: www.burgerweeklb. culture celebrating coffee. The vegan renditions and even com burgers topped with Hot exhibit takes the visitor on a

Later this summer, Aug. 21, is the 10th Annual Taste of Brews LB, which will be returning to the Lighthouse Park. This event infuses dozens of craft beers and select hard ciders, seltzers and kombucha along with SoCal’s premier mobile restaurants, all at an amazing ocean-front venue.

Details: http:// tasteofbrews.com.

First Thursday Art Walk on July 1 was a brisk affair after being on hiatus for more than a year. Mike Watt + the secondmen and Dave Widow and the Line Up were supposed to perform on this date.

Instead, their shows were postponed until Sept. 2 at the last minute. Fortunately, theirs weren’t the only shows to be enjoyed.

At JDC Records, below, the Glass Family Electric Band rocked out in the storefront. Left, musicians tuned up for an evening of music at the Garden Church on 6th Street.

Photos by Raphael Richardson and Chris Villanueva.

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MUSIC July 8

Corday Corday is an awesome cover band fronted by award-winning singerguitarist Jennifer Corday featuring top-notch local musicians playing classic rock.

Time: 7 to 8 p.m. July 8 Cost: Free, $5 donation suggested Details: https://tinyurl.com/eldorado-summer-concerts Venue: El Dorado Nature Center, 7550 E. Spring St., Long Beach

July 9

Ethio Cali Ethio Cali pays homage to the Golden Age of Ethiopian jazz and soul, with collaborations with DJs Rani de Leon and Cut Chemist.

Ethio Cali is a Los Angeles-based Ethio-Jazz ensemble, its sublime sound is inspired by the golden age of Ethiopian music of the 1960s and ’70s, filtered through a uniquely Los Angeles lens.

Time: 7 p.m. July 9 Cost: Free Details: www.grandperformances.org Venue: Grand Performances, 350 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles Black Market Trust Since their 2012 debut album The Black Market Trust, this jazz quintet has gone on to record two more albums and have been keeping a busy touring schedule.

Time: 5:45 p.m., July 9 Cost: $107 Adult, includes a boxed dinner and dessert with the show.

Details: palosverdesperformingarts.com; 310-544-0403 x221 Venue: Norris Theatre, 27570 Norris Center Drive, Rolling Hills Estates

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Sunday Sessions Grand Park’s Sunday Sessions hosts Los Angeles’ finest house music curators on select Sundays during the summer months. This popular free series showcases how house music defines eras and subcultures, Angeleno-style.

Time: All day, July 11 Cost: Free Details: 213-972-8080; https:// culturela.org Venue: Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles

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Keith McKelley Saxophonist and aerophone musician McKelley will be at Harvelles. In his varied career as a producer and songwriter he has collaborated with the biggest names in the music industry, including Jhené Aiko; Kenneth “babyface” Edmonds; Usher; Tyrese; and Earth,

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Show, which has been described as an excellent night in debauchery. The show features an array of fiery red-hot burlesque dancers performing to the loud, raucous live blues musicians.

The American Monster Burlesque and Blues Show has it all, everything your depraved little heart could ask for — soulful singing, strip-tease dancing, tassletwirling and some wild offbeat vaudevillian stuff that will blow your mind.

So, don’t fret that the July show is sold out. It will be back on Aug. 7 and Sept. 4.

So, get your tickets. https:// longbeach.harvelles.com.

Other shows at Harvelles you don’t want to miss include Little Miss Nasty The 2021 Resurrection; The Black Veils and the Circus of Sine. The mentioned shows Wind & Fire.

Time: 3 p.m., July 11 Cost: $25 Details: https://longbeach.harvelles.com/calendar.cfm Venue: Harvelle’s Downtown Long Beach, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

SUMMER VIBES

are the remaining ones that aren’t sold out this month as of this publication. Obviously that can change.

Another Long Beach show blues lovers will want to catch is the free community concert being put on by Long Beach Councilwoman Mary Zendejas and the Long Beach Blues Society featuring The Disciples, Shy But Flyy and

the Long Beach Blues Society Allstars. This concert is just one in a series of concerts to be put on during the months of July and August.

Music isn’t all there is to be had this summer. Outdoor theater productions in August in the cool breezes at Point Fermin Park will be the place to be. Featured is the Shakespearian play, Love’s

DRU HILL at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, July 23

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The Winehouse Experience Come see the show everyone has been talking about. The Winehouse Experience, featuring Mia Karter, pays tribute to the late icon Amy Winehouse, known for her distinctive warm vocals, soulful songwriting and signature style.

Time: 9 p.m. July 23 Cost: $15 Details: awin1.com Venue: Harvelle’s Downtown LongBeach, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach Summer Breeze Concert Dru Hill, 112, Next, Jon B, Montell Jordan and Adina Howard will be bringing that 90s Summer vibe to Carson. Get your tickets before they are sold out.

Time: 8 p.m., July 23 Cost: $65 to $145 Details: www.dignityhealthsportspark.com/ Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 S. Avalon Blvd., Carson

July 24

Summer Love Jam SoCal nightlife returns with a night of classic cars and oldies but goodies music including Rose Roycek, Joe Bataan, The Emotions, Blue Magic, Evelyn Champagne King, The Temprees, Sly Slick & Wicked and Little Willie G. Time: 6:30 p.m., July 24 Cost: $35 to $145 Details: www.dignityhealthsportspark.com Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 S. Avalon Blvd., Carson Ledisi Sings Simone Ledisi will be taking on the powerhouse musician’s emotionally searing and socially direct songs on her PBS special Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina Simone. Now she brings that spirit to the same stage where Simone herself sang so many times.

Time: 8 p.m. July 24 Cost: $9 to $114 Details: www.my.hollywoodbowl. com/ledisi-simone Venue: Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles

SHY BUT FLYY at Cesar Chavez Park in Long Beach, July 31

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CHRISTINA AGUILERA at the Hollywood Bowl, July 17

Venue: Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles Kamasi Washington Saxophone virtuoso and widely lauded bandleader Kamasi Washington introduced hip-hop audiences to the lineage of spiritual jazz and hard bop with 2015’s The Epic and 2018’s Heaven and Earth.

Time: 7 p.m. July 18 Cost: $15 to $116 Details: www.hollywoodbowl. com/kamasi-washington-earlsweatshirt Venue: Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles

Underground Stand-Up Comedy & Burlesque Long Beach’s best kept secret is comedy Tuesdays with burlesque at Harvelles.

Time: 8:30 p.m. July 13, 20, 27 Cost: $10 Details: https://longbeach.harvelles.com/calendar.cfm Venue: Harvelle’s Downtown Long Beach, 201 E. Broadway, LongBeach Peter and The Wolf Viola Davis shares her powerful voice when she joins Conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic as narrator for Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

Written in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Selma-toMontgomery marches, the Variations are a cycle of spirituals that were lost, restored and finally per-

Labour Lost, one of the old bard’s earliest comedies.

It is believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the king of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on studying and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn. In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the princess’s father, and all weddings are delayed for a year.

Look for the Southern California Summertime Fun Guide in this edition and in upcoming editions through the summer and fall for all the cool happenings.

formed for the first time in 2018.

Time: 8 p.m. July 15 Cost: $8 to $51 Details: www.hollywoodbowl. com/peter-and-the-wolf-tickets Venue: Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles Vibe The Vibe is back. Enjoy a new nightlife experience in the heart of downtown Long Beach.

Time: 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. July 15, 22, 29 and Aug. 5 Cost: Free Details: eventbrite.com Venue: The Harbor, 130 Pine Ave., Long Beach

July 16

Burlesque is Back Come enjoy a night of burlesque with the ladies and gents of Dirty Little Secrets, amazing live music from The Corderman Detail, and all the underground speakeasy vibes that Harvelle’s Long Beach has to offer.

Time: 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

July 16 Cost: $10 to $65

Details: https://longbeach.harvelles.com/calendar.cfm Venue: Harvelle’s Downtown Long Beach, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

July 17

Shane Parish and Patrick Shiroishi Acclaimed finger-picking acoustic guitarist Shane Parish is joined by avant-garde saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi for an evening of instrumental fireworks.

Time: 7:30 p.m. July 17 Cost: $15 Details: 310-351-0070; www.collageartsculture.com Venue: Collage, 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro Christina Aguilera Six-time Grammy Award winner, singer and songwriter Christina Aguilera has long been renowned for the power of her voice.

Time: 8 p.m. July 17 Cost: $17 to $74 Details: www.hollywoodbowl. com/events/christina-aguilerawith-the-la-phil

July 22

The Salty Suites Come out and listen to the original songs of traditional music of the world, from bluegrass, Depression era and old country, swing, classical and roots with current edge.

Time: 7 to 8 p.m. July 22 Cost: Free, $5 donation suggested Details: https://tinyurl.com/eldorado-summer-concerts Venue: El Dorado Nature Center, 7550 E. Spring St., Long Beach

Little Miss Nasty Little Miss Nasty is rock ’n’ roll burlesque for the 21st century — good girls gone bad.

Time: 9:30 p.m. July 24 Cost: $15 Details: awin1.com Venue: Harvelle’s Downtown Long Beach, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

July 31

Blues For All Join Councilwoman Mary Zende-

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[from p. 14] jas and the Long Beach Blues Society for a free community concert, featuring The Disciples, Shy But Flyy and the Long Beach Blues Society Allstars.

Time: July 31, Aug. 28 Cost: Free Details: bit.ly/LBBSFORALL Venue: Cesar Chavez Park, 401 Golden Ave., Long Beach Summer Concert in the Park Enjoy a fun day filled with live music. The event will include inflatable jumpers for the children, food trucks and a beer and wine booth.

Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. July 31, Aug. 28 Cost: Free Details: rpvca.gov Venue: Point Vicente Park Civic Center, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos Verdes

Time: 7 p.m. Aug. 14 Cost: $32 to $70 Details: 310-781-7171; www.torrancearts.org Venue: Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance Tribute to Neil Diamond Jack Wright’s Tribute to Neil Diamond is a sophisticated, authentic performance of the hit songs that have kept Neil Diamond in the hearts of his fans for more than five decades.

Time: 2 p.m., Aug. 14 Cost: $35 to $70 Details: www.palosverdesperformingarts.com Venue: Norris Theatre, 27570 Norris Center Dr., Rolling Hills Estates

Cost: $59.50 to $135.50 Details: https://tinyurl.com/bryanwilson-terraces Venue: Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

Sept. 2

Sligo Rags Sligo Rags are taking the Southern California Celtic Music scene by storm with a satisfying blend of Celtic, Jazz and bluegrass influences.

Time: 7 to 8 p.m. Sept. 2 Cost: Free, $5 donation suggested Details: https://tinyurl.com/eldorado-summer-concerts Venue: El Dorado Nature Center, 7550 E. Spring St., Long Beach

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Closely Related Keys This Wendy Graf stage-play directed by Saundra McClain is a family drama centered around New York-based African American attorney Julie Dolan. She has a career on the rise which starts to crumble when she finds out she has an Iraqi half-sister, Neyla, who shows up at her door.

Time: 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays Aug. 25 through Sept. 12 Cost: $37 to $55 Details: 562-436-4610; https://ictlongbeach.org Venue: International City Theatre, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach

Oct. 20

Blues in the Night With little spoken text, the interweaving stories are defined through glorious songs that cover the range of this indigenous American art form, from Bessie Smith to Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Alberta Hunter, Jimmy Cox and Ida Cox. Come check out the post-show talkback with the cast on Oct. 31.

Time: 8 p.m. Thurs. through Sat, and 2 p.m. Sun from Oct. 20 - Nov. 7 Cost: $37 to $55 Details: 562-436-4610; https://ictlongbeach.org Venue: International City Theatre, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach

DANCE July 8

Honest Purpose Honest Purpose features Heidi Duckler Dance dancers accompanied by a live four-piece band led

by Dwight Trible. The piece is an exploration of private and public space as well as a celebration of the reopening of the city.

Time: 8 to 9 p.m. July 8 and July 9.

Details: http://honestpurpose. eventbrite.com Cost: $20 to $40 Venue: The Culver Steps, 9300 Culver Blvd., Culver City

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BIG CITY HILLBILLIES at El Dorado Nature Center in Long Beach, Aug. 5

Aug. 5

Big City Hillbillies Come be entertained by the Big City Hillbillies, a high energy, boot stomping, swing your partner ‘round dance band.

Time: 7 to 8 p.m. Aug. 5 Cost: Free, $5 donation suggested Details: https://tinyurl.com/eldorado-summer-concerts Venue: El Dorado Nature Center, 7550 E. Spring St., Long Beach

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Steel Parade Steel Parade is a one-man, full time singing steel drummer who plays world music with a SoCal vibe.

Time: 7 to 8 p.m. Aug. 19 Cost: Free, $5 donation suggested Details: https://tinyurl.com/eldorado-summer-concerts Venue: El Dorado Nature Center, 7550 E. Spring St. Long Beach

Aug. 20

10th Annual Uptown Jazz Festival Live in the heart of Uptown at Houghton Park. Save the date and get your lawn chairs and festival hats ready for a jazzy and soulful time.

Time: TBA, Aug. 21 Cost: Free Details: www.facebook.com/rexrichardsonlb Location: Houghton Park, 6301 Myrtle Ave., Long Beach

Aug. 14

Kasey Lansdale This small-town Texas girl has recorded with Grammy Award-winning producer John Carter Cash and will be performing music from latest release, Living in the Moment from the EP Leave Her Wild.

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Aug. 29

Brian Wilson See Brian Wilson perform his greatest hits live with Al Jardine and Blondie Chapman Time: 8 p.m. Aug. 29

THEATER Aug. 13

Love’s Labour’s Lost A young king and his companions vow to swear off worldly pleasures and devote themselves to gaining eternal fame through scholastic pursuits. But a princess and her ladies render their oath difficult to keep in this love letter to love.

Time: 8 p.m. Aug. 13, 14, 15, 20, 21 and 22 Cost: Free Details: 310-217-7596; info@shakespearebythesea.org Venue: Point Fermin Park, 807 W. Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro

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South Bay New Orleans Jazz Club Session Traditional jazz session free to performing musicians with room for dancing.

Time: 1 to 5 p.m. Aug. 8 Cost: $12 Details: 310-377-2441; alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

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Sept. 10

Beach Life Festival A one-of-a-kind boutique music festival located on the shores of Redondo Beach will feature performances by Jane’s Addiction, Counting Crows, Ziggy and Stephen Marley performing their father’s songs, and Cage The Elephant.

Time: Sept. 10 to 12 Cost: $125 Details: www.beachlifefestival. com Location: 137 N. Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach

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Tom Rigney and Flambeau The fiery, electrifying violinist/composer, Tom Rigney, joined forces with the finest musicians on the San Francisco roots music scene to form Tom Rigney and Flambeau.

Time: Aug. 20 Cost: $107 Adult, includes a buffet dinner and dessert with the show.

Details: palosverdesperformingarts.com Venue: Norris Theatre, 27570 Norris Center Dr., Rolling Hills Estates

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Summer Swing Nights Celebrate the return of live entertainment with Summer Swing Nights: Drive-In Edition concert series featuring the jazzy vocal stylings of The Swing Tones, accompanied by a live seven-piece big band plus swing dance lessons.

Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Aug. 7 Cost: $50 Details: 323-365-6650; https://tinyurl.com/summer-swing-elcamino Venue: El Camino College, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

Sept. 3

Cornet Chop Suey Named after a somewhat obscure Louis Armstrong composition, Cornet Chop Suey is best known for a variety of styles while applying its own exciting style to traditional jazz, swing, blues and “big production” numbers.

Time: 4:30 p.m., Sept. 3 Cost: $107 adult, includes a boxed cinner and cessert with the show.

Details: palosverdesperformingarts.com; 310-544-0403 x221 Venue: Norris Theatre, 27570 Norris Center Drive, Rolling Hills Estates

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[from p. 15] The Ultimate Flamenco Dinner Show Experience Forget the airport — 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: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7, 14, 21 Cost: $80 Venue: Alegria Cocina Latina, 115 Pine Ave., Long Beach

FILM

July 15 #BANG4CHANGE Tour Long Beach Billed as the largest #BANG4CHANGE screening, the Art Theater screening will be the second stop in the historic film screening tour. Immediately after the murder of George Floyd, feeling like he had to do something, activist and filmmaker Ferin Kidd flew to Minneapolis to film a ground’s level documentary of the protests that had erupted there.

RSVP. Time: July 15 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/ bang4change Venue: Art Theatre of Long Beach, 2025 E. 4th St., Long Beach Long Beach Movies In The Park Long Beach Parks, Recreation and Marine invites you to participate in Be S.A.F.E. (Summer Activities in a Friendly Environment) and free movies in the park. Movies and activities will take place throughout the summer.

Time: July 15: Scoob!

Cost: Free Location: Houghton Park, 6301 Myrtle Ave., Long Beach Time: July 22: Dora and the Lost City of Gold Cost: Free Location: Drake Park, 951 Maine Ave., Long Beach

Time: June 24: Black Panther Cost: Free Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 1950 Lemon Ave., Long Beach Details: www.longbeach.gov/free-and-low-cost-recreation-programs-starting-june-21 2021 Universe Multicultural Film Festival The film has the power to bring history to life, open windows into other cultures, and engage in a way that no other medium can duplicate.

Time: 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Aug. 27 Cost: $8 to $988 Details: https://tinyurl.com/umcfilm-fest Venue: LOTH RHCC Community Center, 735 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates

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July 29

Giant Kelp Micro-habitats Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium education staff for a giant kelp holdfast dissection and look into the micro habitats of giant kelp and discover the variety of mollusks, crustaceans and echinoderms that make it their home.

Location: Meet in the lower courtyard, under the coral tree Time: 1 p.m. July 11 Cost: Free Details: 310-548-7562 www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org/ salt-marsh Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

Aquarium of the Pacific Take a journey of discovery through the world’s largest ocean at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. Meet 12,000 animals, and see more than 100 exhibits.

Time: July 29 Cost: $26.95 to $36.95 Details: 562-590-3100; www.aquariumofpacific.com Venue: Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach

MULTIPLES at Angels Gate Cultural Center Gallery, opens July 10

July 10 Building Meaning from the Multiple Multiples The artists in Multiples share a strategy of building meaning from an expanded concept of the multiple, as found in iterative series, repetition of mass-produced objects and images in new and site responsive works. Multiples presents the work of Nathan Gulick, Colleen Hargaden, Seth Lower, Megan Mueller, Samuel Scharf, Noah Spindler, Katie Thoma and Katya Usvitsky, with a text by Hannah Sage Kay. Time: 2 to 4 p.m. July 10, opening reception. On view through Sept.

12 Cost: Free Details: 310-519-0936; www.angelsgateart.org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro Coming Together: An Exhibition of Small Works Via an open call, local artists were encouraged to submit work. Two jurors then reviewed the submissions — more than 450 were received — and selected 85 to be

On June 19, renowned sculptor and San Pedro resident Eugene Daub won the Marcel Jovine President’s Prize for a realistic work, in the form of a bas-relief of Civil Rights leader and legendary member of Congress, John Lewis.

This isn’t the first time Daub has been recognized for his depiction of Civil Rights icons. In 2013, a monument he completed of Rosa Parks was installed in the statuary hall of the U.S. Congress. At the time, he told Random Lengths News he knew his statue of Rosa Parks would be his most celebrated work.

In 2019, Daub completed a bronze statue of Harry Bridges.

Within the past 30 years Daub has designed and created many public art commissions for the U.S. government, private foundations, universities and corporations and has exhibited in the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institute, among other plcaes. His previous commissions include Joe Hill, Harvey Daub working workMilk, young Abraham Lincoln and ing in his studio Thomas Jefferson. The artist has in San Pedro. The relief built his reputation on classically cardboard styled figurative works. His ac- in process. Photos complishments have been recog- courtesy of Eugene nized through numerous awards Daub. in full figure, monumental and bas relief sculpture. He serves on the board of the National Sculpture Society and has taught sculpture around the country for years.

Aug. 15

CicLAvia Open Streets Events are Back CicLAvia Sundays are back with open streets events for the remainder of 2021. CicLAvia temporarily closes streets to car traffic and opens them to Angelenos to use as a public park. Attendees come from all over LA and beyond, connecting neighborhoods to each other through a spirit of exploration.

Time: Aug. 15: Wilmington, Oct. 10: Heart of LA (CicLAvia’s 11th Anniversary Celebration) and Dec. 5: South LA Cost: Free Details: https://www.ciclavia.org/

Sept. 26

Sincere Instances, Nathan Gulick included in the show.

Time: 1 to 4 p.m, Thursdays through Sundays, July 10 through Aug. 14 Cost: Free Details: www.LongBeachCreativeGroup.com Venue: LBCG/Rod Briggs Gallery, 2221 E. Broadway, Long Beach

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Shoebox Projects’ Sculpture Garden at High Beams A one day drive-through pop-up.

Kristine Schomaker of Shoebox Projects has curated a collection of mixed freestanding sculpture that will create its own landscape.

On a small scale, it’s texture. On a human scale, it’s a crowd. On a large scale it’s otherworldly, like an alien landscape through the looking glass.

Time: 12 to 3 p.m. July 17 Cost: Free Details: www.torranceartmuseum.com Venue: Torrance Art Museum, 3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

Queer Zines 2.0 Join in-person or on Zoom with artist Ellie Cota for a fun, easy zine workshop. Taking inspiration from last year’s Queer Zine event, there will be a discussion the history of radical self-publishing and produce a completed zine at the end of the workshop. RSVP. Time: 6 to 7:30 p.m. July 15 Cost: Free Details: 424-277-1020; esmoa@ artlab21.org Venue: ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundo

July 28

MoLAA Zoom Project With Judith Baca Dr. Judith F. Baca has been creating public art for four decades.

In 1974, Baca founded the City of Los Angeles’ first mural program, producing over 400 murals and employing thousands of local participants which evolved into the arts organization Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).

Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. July 28 Cost: Free Details: www.zoom.us/webinar/ judy-baca

COMMUNITY July 10

Beach Cleanup Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium educators and volunteers in a beach cleanup, clearing the shore of marine debris. Meet at the steps in front of the auditorium. Open to all ages. Make reservations by the Thursday before the event: Call Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Time: 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. July 10 Cost: Free Details: 310-548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org/ beach-cleanup Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

July 17

Salt Marsh Open House Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium educators and learn about the Salinas de San Pedro wetlands habitat at Cabrillo Beach by using binoculars and microscopes to observe live animals. Visitors can view the birds of the marsh, learn about native plants and observe the changes in the tides.

Time: 11:30 a.m. July 17 Cost: Free Details: 310-548-7562 www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org/ salt-marsh Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro Family Art Workshop Angels Gate will be holding a Family Art Workshop in-person at Angels Gate, as well as Virtually on Zoom. COVID-19 safety protocols will be enforced. Join artist-teacher Iliana Cuellar for this month’s workshop exploring storytelling. This workshop will explore humans’ natural knack for storytelling through writing, acting, drawing, and more. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Time: 1 to 3 p.m. July 17 Cost: Free Details: 310-519-0936; Register, www.eventbrite.com/e/family-artworkshop-july-ticketsVenue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

Southern California Weaving & Fiber Festival The Southern California Handweavers’ Guild presents its 2021 Weaving & Fiber Festival.

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 26 Cost: $1 Details: torranceca.gov Venue: Torrance Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance

Ongoing

Summer Dog Walking Series South Coast Botanic Garden will welcome your four-legged best friends back to explore its 87 acres on the fourth Sunday of every month through October. Dogs must remain on the leash throughout the garden and aren’t allowed in the Bohannon Rose Garden or Koi Pond area.

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m every fourth Sunday, through October Details: www.southcoastbotanicgarden.org/dog-walking-hours

LITERATURE July 13

Conversation Starter: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Join a book discussion of Octavia Butler’s book Parable of the Sower. Published in 1993, the novel takes place in the LA area during the 2020s. The novel shows a climatically and socially chaotic U.S. in constant upheaval. Protagonist Lauren takes to the road, building a community based on the tenets of a new belief system she calls Earthseed.

Time: 6 p.m. July 13 Cost: Free Details: Register, www.us02web. zoom.us/parable-of-the-sower

FOOD Oct. 2

LAWineFest SoCal’s legendary LAWineFest sets up shop at the Pike Outlets in Long Beach for its 16th year, with its usual vast variety of wine and craft-beer tastings.

Time: 5 p.m. Oct. 2 and 3 Cost: $50 to $75 Details: www.lawinefest.com Venue: Harry Bridges Memorial Park, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach

CLASSIFIED ADS & DBA FILINGS RLNews is looking for freelance food and music writers who are knowledgeable about San Pedro and Long Beach area restaurants, culture and music scenes. Experienced writers preferred, but will consider aspiring bloggers. We are looking for writers who have a curiosity for a wide range of cuisines or music in the greater LA / Long Beach Harbor Area.

Committment to writing to deadline is a must. Having a strong social media following and bi-lingual skills is a plus.

Submit inquiries and any links to your writing to editor@ randomlengthsnews.com or call 310-519-1442 weekdays.

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021104264 The following person is doing business as: (1) FUNERAL COACH PLUS, 118 Gaviota Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Ronnie Grubbs, 118 Gaviota Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802. This Business is conducted by an individual.

The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 07/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Ronnie Grubbs, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 05/06/21.

Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 05/27/21, Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021111890 The following person is doing business as: (1) PATRICIA’S SKIN CARE, 1622 S Gaffey Street #202, San Pedro, CA 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Patricia Elaine Bondon, 873 W. 18th Street

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PLEASE SPAY/NEUTER YOUR PET! *In any condition. We will wash and mend.

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2022021104268 The following person is doing business as: (1) RITO RESTORATION, 1840 S Gaffey Street #414, San Pedro, CA 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered

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“That Tracks”— and yeah, it’s a bit of a stretch.

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1 Deceptive maneuver 6 Wine bar choice 9 Bolivia’s constitutional capital 14 Singer Lennox 15 Zamboni surface 16 Thees and ___ 17 *Oldest of the five original MTV VJs, and host of the KISS “unmasking” special 19 Gridiron kicks 20 “Next one’s on me” 21 “Bali ___” (“South Pacific” song) 22 A long time 24 “Pericles, Prince of ___” 26 Angry Birds box that goes boom 28 *American Samoa village which is home to the territory’s only movie theater 31 Until this moment 33 “Monty Python and the Holy ___” 35 “Robin Hood: ___ in Tights” 36 Elephant-snatching bird of myth 38 Amazed acronym in chats 39 News station 40 Track and field athletes during the Tokyo Olympics (and a hint to the starred theme answers) 44 T as in testing?

45 “Hazy” beer variety 46 Installation in a bar, maybe

47 Line up a cornhole bag 48 Goes around 50 Game with numbered balls 54 *1997 Hanson chart-topper 56 Word before cow or horse 58 Prison film weapon 59 “We Have the Meats” advertiser 61 Big flightless bird 63 Carbon compound suffix 64 Harmon of “Rizzoli & Isles” 66 *Program you might use in a smartphone emulator (otherwise, they’d run on their own) 69 “___ say more?”

70 Get the picture 71 Missile monitoring gp.

72 Air Force student 73 Possessed 74 Final Oldsmobile model

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1 Tex-Mex offering 2 Takes pleasure in 3 Harm 4 “Boyz N the Hood” actress Long 5 Silicon Valley industry, briefly 6 Ascendant 7 “Foucault’s Pendulum” author Umberto 8 Prohibit 9 Twin city to Minneapolis 10 ___ Peak, Kilimanjaro’s highest point (and Swahili for “fredom”) 11 Buyer and user 12 Wagon wheel groove 13 Curvy letter

18 “Call Me ___” (Mayim Bialik sitcom) 23 Puzzling riddle 25 Chilling 27 USC athletes 29 Not so much 30 Printer fluid 32 Over the ___ 34 ___ Darya (central Asian river) 37 “It looks like you’re writing a letter” Microsoft helper 39 How-to presentations 40 Quick haircut 41 Rooted (through) 42 Dermal opening 43 ‘70s-’80s “Club” mentioned in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” 44 Tim ___ (Australian cookie) 48 “Whatever happens, happens” 49 Leaked slowly 51 “___ here!” (“Poltergeist” catchphrase) 52 Musical ineptitude 53 Be extra, with “it” 55 Wedding cake figurine, maybe 57 Fuse box unit 60 Broad band?

62 Arm bone 64 Mandela’s former org.

65 Org. for teachers 67 Shepherd’s pie bit 68 ISP your grandparents might still use

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The animals at the Harbor Animal Shelter have ongoing need for used blankets, comforters, pet beds.* Drop off at Harbor Animal Shelter 957 N. Gaffey St.,San Pedro • 888-452-7381, x 143

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Specializing in small businesses CPA quality service at very reasonable rates www.donmarshallcpa.com

owners: Jorge A Espinoza, 202 N Bandini, San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual.

The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/.

Jorge A Espinoza, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 05/06/21.

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change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 05/27/21,

06/10/21, 06/24/21, 07/08/21

310-719-8884

Don Marshall CPA, Inc.

#2, San Pedro, Ca 90731.

This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 07/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

S/. Patricia Elaine Bondon, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 05/17/21.

Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any

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[Homeless, from p. 9]

Homeless Emcampments proposed by Buscaino and Lee. It will be a difficult discussion and even more difficult action, but to not have it or do it, is to push the problem down the road and lead to more tension.

Addition/clarification: Although the ultimate goal is to house every one in stable housing with supportive services, I do see the utilization of appropriate government/ public owned land and buildings as a very short term solution to house people. This would also need to be in place before an urban camping ban such as the one proposed is enacted.

I will say that it is the economical and ethical thing to house people instead of leaving them out on the streets. The costs to emergency healthcare, sanitation and law enforcement will all decrease once we house people; city taxpayers will save money.

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I support the intent of the motion, because of the great urgency of the homeless crisis.

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We need to stop just talking about solutions, now is the time to act. The Council needs to adopt an ordinance that is fair to the unhoused and housed alike.

First, we must never make it a crime to be poor or unhoused. We have to lead with compassion and haste to build both shelter and permanent housing. It is not compassionate to leave people on the street.

Nor is it fair to any Angeleno — housed or unhoused — to allow encampments to prevent passage on sidewalks, block entrances to properties, prevent access to parks or beaches, or to surround the very shelters that currently serve the unhoused who, we all hope, are in transition to permanent housing.

Editorial Note: All of the CD15 candidates who have filed at this point were offered the space to comment on Buscaino’s antihomeless ordinance; no responses were received from Shannon Ross, Danielle Sandoval or Lamar Lyons.

DBA FILINGS & NOTICES [from p. 17] days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 05/27/21, 06/10/21, 06/24/21, 07/08/21

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021122657 The following person is doing business as: (1) LEXSERVICE, (2) LEXERVICE, 735 Pacific Coast Hwy, Harbor City, CA 90710. Los Angeles County. Reg-

istered owners: Stephen Haddad, 735 Pacific Coast Hwy, Harbor City, CA 90710. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 09/1994. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Stephen Haddad, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 06/01/21. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursu-

ant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 06/10/21, 06/24/21, 07/08/21, 07/22/21

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021122655 The following person is doing business as: (1) WEEDTIME APPARELL COMPANY, 1419 South Mesa Street, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Filippo Salvato, 1419 South Mesa Street, San Pedro, CA 90731. Stephanie Salvato, 1419 South Mesa Street, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by a married couple. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Filippo Salvato, Husband.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 02/25/20. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement

does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 06/24/21, 07/08/21, 07/22/21, 08/05/21

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2021149848 The following person is doing business as: (1) CURLEY’S CAFE, (2) WORLD FAMOUS CURLEY’S CAFE, 1999 E Willow Street, Long Beach, CA 90755.

This Business is conducted by a Corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 01/2012.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. John Toman, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 07/01/21. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).

Original filing: 07/08/21, 07/22/21, 08/05/21, 08/19/21

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