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POLA ExecUTIVE Director Gene Seroka on Waterfront Dreams and Port Congestion p. 2 ________________ LA County Supervisors Move Against Wage Theft, Raise Minimum Wage p. 4 ________________ New Blues Festival II Featuring Sherry Pruitt, Delgado BrOTHERS, More p. 11

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Hahn Legacy Continues

Fifty Years After the Watts Rebellion

By Danny Simon, RLn Contributor

Kenneth’s lasting popularity can be explained by his diligent awareness of the wants and needs of his community and his diligent attempts to bring them to fruition.

The national Civil Rights Movement inspired a generation of black politicos to fight social and political inequality, and many cut their teeth on John F. Kennedy’s California campaign for the presidency in 1959. Hahn worked both openly and behind the scenes to help empower black politicians and to help their constituents achieve racial representation on the Los Angeles City Council. On Kenneth’s advice, Gordon stepped aside to make way for Billy G. Mills. He served, along with Tom Bradley and Gilbert Lindsay, as part of a movement of black political leadership that arose to challenge the white

domination of Los Angeles politics in the early 1960s.

President Lyndon B. Johnson fought a “War on Poverty” for a “Great Society” and the Civil Right’s Movement marched on, but for many black youth of South Los Angeles, progress was too slow and hard to see. Violence broke out on Aug. 11, 1965, after a crowd witnessed what had seemingly become routine police brutality via the humiliation of members of the black community. The National Guard poured into the area, followed by state and federal funds. California Gov. Pat Brown (Gov. Jerry Brown’s father) swiftly assembled an investigatory committee headed by John A. McCone, a wealthy California scion and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Few family names in Los Angeles politics evoke a tradition of public service like Hahn. Kenneth’s older brother, Gordon, represented the 66th District of the California State Assembly from 1947 to 1953, after which he filled Kenneth Hahn’s vacant seat on the city council until 1963. Kenneth was a Democrat, while Gordon was a Republican, but the politics of both brothers, and the family in general, echo the idealism of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, though plainly infused with more plebeian sensibilities.

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LA County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn flanked by his children James and Janice in 1964.

Photo by Rolland J. Curtis, LA City Public Library Photo Archive.

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City of Long Beach Public Health Emergency Management will explain new developments to help people with hearing loss during an emergency at the Hearing Loss Association of America, Long Beach/Lakewood chapter meeting.

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Rally for the Red Car

Supporters of the Red Car have started a petition and are mobilizing to save the beloved San Pedro icon. The Port of Los Angeles is discontinuing Red Car service following the Lobster Festival, to make way for the Samson Way realignment, part of the waterfront development project. There are no current plans to bring back the Red Car after work is completed.

Time: 10 a.m. Aug. 15 Details: http://tinyurl.com/Save-the-RedCar, Location: 200 22nd St., San Pedro

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South Bay 350 Climate Action Group will be having a general membership meeting in the Harbor Area. Come find out about active campaigns, plans for participation in the Labor Day parade, and how to get involved.

Time: 7 to 8:30 Aug. 19 Venue: Port of Los Angeles High School, 250 W. 5th St., San Pedro

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Waterfront Dreams and Port Congestion POLA Executive Speaks on Ports O’ Call in Wake of Legislative Changes to Tidelands Trust

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor, with James Preston Allen, Publisher

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ene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles; Doane Liu, deputy, executive director and chief of staff; and Phillip Sanfield, media relations director, sat down with the editors of Random Lengths News on July 10 to discuss Ports O’ Call, port congestion and Seroka’s vision of the port’s future.

Seroka asked us to wait until their July 13 announcement about Ports O’ Call Village before discussing it with us. We couldn’t have known at the time that the LA Waterfront Alliance, in an attempt to blunt public reaction, was going to leak the fact that port officials had agreed to renew their letter of intent with the LA Waterfront Alliance. That may grant them a 50-year lease on a significantly scaled back vision than was presented to community residents almost two years ago.

The July 13 announcement came two days before the California State Senate unanimously passed Sen. Isadore Hall’s Senate Bill 399. The bill amends the State Tidelands Act (the law that controls how the city can use state lands), to allow for the renewal of franchise permits or land leases along the city’s waterfront for an additional 25 years. This could be interpreted as specifically aimed at the Ports O’ Call development that would potentially extend the period of its lease to 75 years.

The bill is in the California State Assembly before it reaches the governor’s desk. POLA has no position on this bill. Yet, the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce endorsed this bill by executive council fiat without getting approval

Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka. Photo by Terelle Jerricks.

of its full board. However, Liu did note during our conversation that the bill would at least put Los Angeles on par with Long Beach, which is allowed to have one 25-year renewal in addition to its 50-year lease term.

The State Lands Commission is probably the only entity that cautioned against the changes in the law. It noted in its letter to the assembly committee on local government that its commissioners “believe it is poor public policy to lease the state’s public trust lands for 75-year periods under the same lease terms.” Their letter

continued: Based on our own experience with long-term legacy leases, 75-year leases will not reflect and keep pace with evolving environmental policies and practices, contemporary liability, insurance and indemnification provisions, market rates, modern land and resource management principles, and current public trust needs. Additionally, [SLC] believes that allowing 75-year leases prevents the city from fulfilling its duties as trustee of public trust [See Seroka, page 3]

[Seroka, from page 2]

Seroka on the Waterfront land managed on the state’s behalf, including the duties specified in Public Resources Code Section 6009.1, such as the duty of loyalty, care, and to keep control and to preserve the trust property‌ [SLC] believes that a maximum lease term of 66 years is sufficient for the City to meet its trustee responsibilities.

Hall noted in his author’s statement on the bill that the waterfronts of San PedroWilmington communities are closely linked and mutually interdependent. But, he also noted that this connection has diminished in recent decades, except for a few isolated areas of successful visitororiented commercial enterprises that came with the growth of the number of abandoned, vacant, or underutilized sites along the waterfront.

Councilman Joe Buscaino endorsed this legislation, in close cooperation with Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Citing the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation and other major public and private stakeholders in the city, Hall said he believes the city must have the ability to grant leases exceeding the 50-year limit in order for the Los Angeles Waterfront to be successful. Hall doesn’t explain with any depth why this ability is needed.

Still, with all of these changes in the works and the fact the port is under a microscope as a facilitator of job creation, Seroka does not agree with the notion that a tourism-driven economy is the most efficient way to create the greatest number of permanent jobs. He believes the jobs created by a revamped Ports O’ Call Village would complement the overall Harbor Area economy. “When you talk about the jobs related to port activity, it’s going to take an entirely different opportunity to compete with what impetus we have now on the logistics and goods movement industry,� Seroka explained.

Seroka cited the port’s 2014 financial feasibility study, completed this past November, noting that the Ports O’ Call Village revamp would create 315 minimum wage jobs at a cost of

nearly $350,000 per job, based on the port’s $50 million infrastructure commitment. This does not include the construction jobs or the jobs created by extension from the waterfront development.

But he does have a point. “That, compared to the 1.5 million jobs in Southern California and 3.1 million throughout the United States that have been created because of the work at this port,� he said. “I don’t think it’s a fair comparison. Can we do more? Absolutely.

Are we trying? We’re working around the clock.�

Still, it’s hard to justify the impacts of the $200 billion import-export trade of the port with the fact that some of the poorest areas of Los Angeles are within blocks of the two harbors.

Seroka noted that even if a $1 billion hotel was built in the Harbor Area like what’s being built in downtown Los Angeles, it would not make the kind of dent needed to make up for the tens of thousands of job losses during the 1980s and ’90s. “It’s all about economics,� he said. “The two hotels we have here today can’t even crack the $100 a night rate. And we’ve talked to some experts in the hotel and hospitality industry recently and they can’t seem to find a way to make it work right now from a hotel standpoint.�

This, even though the two largest hotels in San Pedro are now working at about 80 percent capacity servicing four or five airlines.

Liu, reflecting on his numerous years in government, noted that government never says what’s going to happen, but rather what they want to happen. “It’s the market that really determines what will be built,� Liu said “We could build a $1 billion hotel here, but it would be empty. And that’s not the best use of the port’s money. We have to rely on the developers to risk capital.

And they are not willing to risk capital. There are a lot of good sites along Harbor Boulevard to build hotels. But it’s not like [the movie] Field of Dreams, ‘If we build it, they will come.’�

[See Waterfront, page 5

A Tale of Two Cities and One Harbor Review by James Preston Allen, Publisher

Port Town—How the People of Long Beach Built, Defended and Profited from Their Harbor by George and Carmela Cunningham, Port of Long Beach, publisher, 524 pages, 2015

If you’ve ever wondered who came up with the idea of creating a city named “Long Beach,� in California, or how the city boosters ever came to dredge a port out of a salt marsh at the delta of the Los Angeles River, or what the connection between the Port of Los Angeles and the one in Long Beach is, Port Town is your book.

George Cunningham, the former Press Telegram reporter and editor of the Cunningham Report, and his wife Carmela, a historian and author in her own right, have covered the two harbors longer than anyone. They have written about when the area of Long Beach was a collection of Spanish land grants, to the foibles of having Mickey Mouse captain the Queen Mary. There are a lot of curious details in between. The amount of research that obviously went into these 524 pages is a yeoman’s task.

For a book that is touted to be about the port and city of Long Beach, it has an amazing amount of history about POLA and San Pedro.

So much that perhaps it should have been titled “The tale of two cities and one harbor.�

One of the book’s curious episodes that makes for fascinating reading is about how

Authors of Port Town, Carmela and George Cunningham. File photo.

Long Beach and what was then the city of San Pedro both attempted to annex Terminal Island at the same time, with Long Beach officials holding their annexation vote just one day before San Pedro’s. If not for a later legal settlement, Terminal Island would have been forever called West Long Beach instead of East San Pedro.

Who knew?

Now there is a curious, invisible line, which you can only see on a map, separating Long Beach and Los Angeles, dividing the island in half. There are some other very interesting perspectives.

In the chapter about Phineas Banning, the venerated “father of our harbors� the [See Port Town, page 4]

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County Supervisors Move Against Wage Theft, Raise Minimum Wage

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

On July 21, a majority of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed two measures to raise the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour by 2020, affecting an estimated 155,000 workers.

The board also unanimously passed a third motion taking aim at wage theft. That unanimity highlights both a severe problem and a corresponding political dynamic.

“Poverty is very, very expensive,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in his comments to the board. While the main thrust of his testimony was directed at raising the minimum wage, it was equally applicable to the issue of wage theft.

Six years ago, a groundbreaking report, Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers, found that wage theft from low-wage workers in just three cities—Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City—totaled $2.9 billion the year before. As Random Lengths reported at the time (“Robbed On The Job,” RLN, Sept. 25, 2009), this was “a rate more than double that of reported theft in California.”

President Barack Obama’s first Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, authored the July 21 motion.

It directs staff to produce two written reports aimed at informing and motivating the board to take future action to substantially enhance county law enforcement against wage theft.

“It’s important to provide enforcement tools

Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe following the board’s approval of a countywide minimum wage increase on July 21. File photo.

against those [who] would take advantage of our employees,” said Solis, shortly before the vote.

The first report, due in 60 days, will be “an analysis of the county’s legal authority to regulate wage theft…and its authority to enforce municipal, state, and federal wage theft laws.” The second, due in 90 days, calls for a “recommendation for the most effective and efficient model by which the county can enforce wage theft regulations.”

The first minimum wage measure covers workers in unincorporated areas of the county, as well as employees of county contractors. It was opposed by both Republicans on the board, Mike Antonovich and Don Knabe. The second

minimum wage measure covers county employees.

Only Antonovich voted against. All three Democrats—Solis, Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sheila Kuehl—voted for both minimum wage measures.

The lack of opposition to the wage theft motion underscores the broadbased nature of support that anti-wage theft measures enjoy. What’s been missing in the past has been, first, awareness of the

[Port Town, from page 3]

Port Town

Cunninghams include a sarcastic reflection in the Los Angeles Times which reads: In the far future, when the slate of the braves is made up, there will be Geo. Washington, “the first in war, the first in peace and the first in the hearts of his countrymen;” and one hundred years further down the column— General Banning, the last in war, the first with the Quartermaster and with the commissary’s fluid stores…

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This, of course, is not how he is remembered at either the historical society or the museum that bears his name. The authors write, “It was a harsh—although not entirely inaccurate— critique…”

And what makes this a worthwhile read is that the boosterism is kept to a minimum, even though the book is published by the Port of Long

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problem; second, data about its extent; and third, organizing to focus political attention on the need to do something. Six years after Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers, all three of those missing pieces are finally being put into place.

Victor Narro, a project director of UCLA Davis Center, laid out some of the basic facts in his public comments.

“Wage theft is 20 percent higher in Los Angeles County than the national average,” Narro said. “The UCLA Labor Center published an extensive survey in which we found in any workweek, eight in 10 low-wage workers in Los Angeles, about 655,000 total, suffered from wage theft; 80 percent of these workers worked overtime [and] are not properly compensated; another 80 percent of these workers are denied their right to meal and rest breaks. All this amounts to $26.2 million per week stolen from workers in wage theft violations, which is estimated at $1.4 [See Wages, page 6]

Beach. It is written in a very journalistic style. It doesn’t come off like an academic history, but it contains some specific gems that should not be lost in the archives of time.

The chapter on the Free Harbor Fight is a significant case in point. This section should be read as a chronicle.

It explains the contentious, political wrangling and governmental delays that took close to 20 years to resolve,. This involved three studies to find the best location for the federal breakwater and lobbying Congress to budget the money before building the first 9,250 feet.

If you think politics is more corrupt or divided now than it has ever been, then just read this chapter for a taste of how the rich and powerful can screw up a good plan.

Port Town, for all of its well-researched and well-written narrative, is an honest attempt to tell the history of the City of Long Beach and the harbors of the San Pedro Bay. It chronicles the major events, choices and blunders of both ports. The rivalries and collaborations between the two cities over port developments and trade are something to be reflected upon considering the current issues of global trade logistics and environmental and economic concerns.

However, Port Town, in my estimation, doesn’t go far enough in reporting the history of the past 30 years, the struggle over environmental and economic justice and the actions of the two ports during recent times. Perhaps this leaves open the opportunity for a sequel?

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Center. Cook emphasized how the center serves over 200 stroke patients, some as young as 35.

“The theme was vulnerable young men of color,” she recalled. “Most people assume strokes happen to seniors and that’s not always the case.”

She cited the example of Curtis Storey Jr., a trumpeter who toured with the rock band Fishbone.

At the age of 31 he had a stroke that disabled the left side of his body. He had to learn to play the trumpet one-handed.

Deputy Frederick Noya spoke about the Gang Diversion Team, along with a young woman, Kiana Dean. She told the jury how, because of the mentoring and counseling she’d received from the team, she was able to go to Hampton College and make the dean’s list.

Matthew Smith, a project coordinator, represented the Male Success Alliance at Dominguez Hills. He told the jury how the alliance works with more than 100 young men.

“Our middle through high school college initiative started in response to the poor educational and social outcomes for young men of color… providing mentoring, academic support, professional development,” Smith said.

The university’s student body president, Alex Guerrero, also spoke about how the program helped him, and how he in turn mentored a student and helped his grades improve.

“I was very emotional,” said Smith about his reaction to winning. “We just came in and told our story. The judges were so moved by our story, they gave us the award.”

“We were able to convince them we were an All-America City,” said Cook about her reaction.

“We got to share all these positive things that are happening here.”

Hicks said the award is on display at City Hall.

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On the other hand, there’s the old adage, “Private profit follows public investment.” Just look at every freeway, rail corridor, Metropolitan Transit Authority transit terminal and docking facility in Los Angeles.

Everywhere where public infrastructure is built, property values go up and investors come in to build. This is actually what’s behind the Ports O’ Call development, supported by the Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles Waterfront Access and Redevelopment Coalition, a group of local realtors.

The problem is that POLA invested in the TraPac terminal at a cost of more than $150 million, and the community asks why the same can’t be done for Ports O’ Call? The excuse is that the port doesn’t have the money and that it isn’t an “economic imperative.”

Seroka, in reply to this challenge, noted that another developer who has been a witness to the ongoing efforts to redevelop Ports O’ Call wants to develop a different parcel along that waterfront (possibly near the new marina). He also said they are close to attracting a huge retailer in the sporting industry. Random Lengths could not confirm this with the LA Waterfront Alliance by press time.

The bigger problem is that both the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are in a much bigger competition to maintain their position as premier U.S. ports, fending off competition from the newly

widened Panama Canal and the advent of shipping alliances emerging from ever larger-capacity container ships.

It’s not as if Seroka doesn’t agree with the need to diversify the port’s revenue streams. He does. He noted that the port deals with energy companies, dry bulk, fruit and vegetable companies through SA Recycling terminal from Latin America, retail dining and entertainment and automobile distribution. But to the port, the density of industry lies with container activity.

“We and [the port of] Long Beach combined manage 40 percent of the nation’s imports,” Seroka said. “Today, Monday through Friday there are 192,000 jobs between these two ports, folks like ourselves; folks on the docks work every day. One of 12 of Angelenos has a job related to the goods that move in and out of the port complex, and one out of eight jobs in Long Beach has the concept with [its] ports. I was told by the mayor that one out of 50 jobs tie into the logistics industry of cargo that runs through Southern California.”

Our concern, of course, is how many of those 192,000 belong to residents who live within a 10mile radius of the two ports. Unfortunately, Seroka ran out of time before he could answer that question.

The issue remains: Who benefits most between global and national economies versus the benefit to the city and local residents surrounding these two ports?

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Carson was one of 10 cities honored with the AllAmerica City award for 2015 by the National Civic League on June 14 in Denver, Colo.

To earn such a distinction, the city had to identify and present three community projects reflecting the theme of “engaging and supporting vulnerable boys and young men” in unofficial support of President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative launched this past year.

Carson highlighted these programs: 1. The Male Success Alliance at California State University Dominguez Hills; 2. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Gang Diversion Team; and 3. The Joseph B. Jr. and Mary Anne O’Neal Stroke Center.

Mike McGrath, chief information officer for the National Civic League, said the award has been given annually since 1949 to cities that exhibit outstanding civic accomplishments.

Sixteen applicants, including Carson, passed the initial screening process. McGrath said the league was particularly looking for programs linked unofficially to Obama’s initiative and “Carson had done work in this area.”

“This year the [league’s] focus was on programs that help young men and boys of color,” said Ngozi Mordi, the Carson field deputy who handled the application process. “Myself and Melissa [Marcial, another city staffer] asked around for programs in existence for at least five years and had good results.”

She said the effort was spearheaded by Mayor Albert Robles and the council. Identifying the programs and making the application took about a month. Carson was one of 13 cities that actually made presentations to the jury in Denver.

Cedric Hicks, director of the Community Services Department, said he and five representatives of the three programs made up Carson’s delegation. The presentation is posted on YouTube. Ten winners were announced immediately after the presentations.

Dani Cook, Carson’s community services coordinator, spoke on behalf of the O’Neal Stroke

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[Hahn, from page 1]

The Hahn Family’s 50-Year Legacy Among the committee’s varied findings was the need for a full-service hospital for the people of South Los Angeles, though that idea originated with local black physicians like Dr. Wells Ford and Dr. Sol White Jr. In tight collaboration with black political leaders like Mervyn Dymally, Hahn began a long process which eventually led to the creation of the Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital and the Charles R. Drew School of Medicine and Science (King/Drew) in Willowbrook. Shuttered mid-scandal in 2007, King Hospital reopened in 2015.

A generation later, Kenneth Hahn’s children, James and Janice, have enjoyed remarkable ascensions of their own. James Hahn served as city controller and city attorney before serving as mayor of Los Angeles from 2001 to 2005.

He now presides as a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench in Santa Monica.

Janice Hahn represented the 15th District of the Los Angeles City Council from 2001 to 2011, after which she’s represented the 36th and 44th districts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Rep. Janice Hahn took a break from her busy schedule in Washington D.C. to speak about the politics of her father, her experience in the House and her campaign for the 4th District of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

Danny Simon: How do you account for your

father’s progressive politics?

Janice Hahn: My dad was born into a family with a single mom who raised seven boys in poverty in South Los Angeles. He lived and died no more than two miles from where he was born.

He grew up in poverty and I think he never lost touch with that. I know that the first suit he ever owned was when he joined the Navy, and I think the first steak he ever ate was in the Navy. I think he never lost touch with his roots and his poverty, and he had a keen way of relating to the people he represented. He was one of them and I think they knew that, so I think his politics were about how he would’ve liked to have seen politicians in the ’30s and ’40s make policies that would’ve helped his family.

On June 9, 1965, Supervisor Kenneth Hahn observed the social workers’ picket line outside the Hall of Administration. File photo.

DS: Do you think that came out of a sense of FDR Progressivism that was bipartisan?

JH: Yes, I think that in those days there was a sense that government did have a role to play in people’s lives, both positive and helpful in terms of reaching out to the poor and trying to make more opportunities available. We just celebrated the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Social Security. Two great programs that have kept many people out of poverty.

DS: So there’s a bit of a paradox in that after Johnson got past all the Great Society legislation, [See Hahn, page 7] [Wages, from page 2]

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billion a year.”

Narro boiled it down to what it means per worker.

“Individually, these workers lose $2,000 annually out of an average earning of $16,500, which means that more than 10 percent of their earnings are lost in wage theft,” he added.

But there’s also a significant impact on government.

“Every year we estimate wage theft robs the state and local government between $103 and $153 million in lost tax revenues—[about] $11.7 to $25.5 million of which is lost to the county of Los Angeles,” Narro said.

The issue of wage theft costs to Los Angeles County is significant because Antonovich, who opposed all the minimum wage increase measures, supported the wage theft motion, but questioned the cost involved in taking action.

“Wage theft is irresponsible and ought to be punished to the full extent of the law, but the problem that we have is that the county has many unmet needs,” Antonovich said. “I don’t know how an additional cost to our budget, to our general fund, is the appropriate manner to handle this issue.”

But Narro’s figures suggest that enforcement costs would be far less than the costs of continued lawbreaking—a point Solis also made in response to Antonovich.

“What we’re trying to get at is the loss of revenue, the money that goes to the underground economy, which is

in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” Solis said.

“That will come back to us.”

“As the county considers raising the minimum wage, it’s important to understand enforcing that wage is just as important as raising it,” Narro continued. “All 10 municipalities in California that have raised their minimum wage have authorized and funded enforcement of the wage theft.”

The board also heard from labor leaders, lawyers and ordinary workers. In her testimony, Maria Elena Durazo, vice president of UNITEHERE, the hotel, casino and food service workers’ union, quoted Marin Luther King Jr. “Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,” she added. “One day our society must come to see this. That day has arrived in Los Angeles. That day is today.”

Although wage theft impacts workers in many different industries, the per-person costs are particularly devastating among port drivers, two of whom offered direct testimony. Edwin Ortiz, a driver for Harbor Rail Transport, owned

by X.P.O. Logistics, testified about how that company steals from workers like him.

“X.P.O. is a multibillion-dollar corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange,” Ortiz said. “They bill themselves as one of the top 10 logistics companies in the world. Despite being worth billions of dollars, they are stealing pay from drivers like me through illegal deductions…

That’s the reason I’m making the claim with the California Labor Commissioner to get my money back. In April, X.P.O. bought a French company for $3.5 billion dollars in cash.”

He explained that he and his coworkers couldn’t help but wonder if X.P.O. had that cash because it had been stolen from their paychecks.

Also testifying was Carlos Quintero, a port driver for Pacific Line Transportation.

“I am a victim of wage theft and my company owes me over $200,000,” Quintero said. “Here is evidence of receipts for fuel, tires, lease payments, insurance, brake repairs, windshield wipers, truck washes, administrative fees, hundred of thousands of dollars they deducted from my paycheck every week.

“With the deductions, I’m below minimum wage and your vote today to raise the minimum wage won’t help me or my family at all.

Why? Because as a misclassified independent contractor, I’m not even entitled to the current minimum wage, not entitled to overtime, [and not entitled to] worker’s compensation, disability.

They say I’m not even entitled to anything….

But that’s not true because the government has already ruled that I am an employee, that I have employee rights.”

And yet, his struggle isn’t over, Quintero explained.

“My company, for a while, even agreed with the government,” he said.“They reached a settlement and posted up signs in the offices in the company, but they never stopped the illegal deductions. They never gave me a W-2 form.

They never even started paying the payroll taxes that I’ve been paying for them for years. So I’m on strike again. This is my sixth strike in two years. This time I’m not going back until they re-classify me as an employee and stop the wage theft.”

The staff studies that have been authorized are intended to find the best way to help curb such abuses, not just for Los Angeles County, but in coordination with other levels of government.

“I know that we have some other agencies that want to work with us, the state labor commissioner’s office as well as the federal wage and hours division,” Solis said. “So I know that we’ll have a lot of interest here.”

JH: I think that if he’d been still alive, we’d never have lost the first hospital. He took such a keen interest in that hospital. I remember so many times that we would drop by the hospital and he would go in unannounced, he would walk the halls and talk to doctors, talk to patients. I think he had a much better sense of what was going on in that hospital and I’m not sure that he would’ve allowed it to meet its demise like it did. He would be happy that there is some sort of healthcare available to that community.

But like me, I’m sure he would not have been fully satisfied until there was a level-one trauma center again. It had a first-rate trauma center and I think people probably lost their lives because that trauma center was closed.

Supervisor Kenneth Hahn trys out one of his signature achievements: Emergency Freeway call boxes. File photo.

[Hahn, from page 6]

then comes the violence of August 1965. Do you think your dad understood the anger in the black community? Could he empathize or was he offended by it?

JH: As I recall it—I was 13 at the time—I remember the Watts Riots very well. I think his first reaction was a bit of disbelief, a little bit of sadness that then quickly turned to resolve. My father was very interested in helping to rebuild the community. He was very interested in seeing

what the McCone Commission recommendations were and what he could do to implement some of them. Of course, one recommendation was that the black community needed a full-service hospital, and one of my dad’s greatest legacies was [that] they built a hospital in Watts.

DS: How do you think he’d respond to King Hospital reopening in such a scaled-back manner?

Was It a Riot or a Revolution?

DS: How do you explain your dad’s lasting popularity amid a massive demographic shift?

JH: I think Kenny Hahn is synonymous with public service and with faithfully representing his constituents. He set an incredibly high bar for all politicians, like, if you take care of little things, the big things will take care of themselves. He was famous for filling potholes, for building swimming pools, for putting in stop signs, for knowing the pastor of every church.

I was sitting on a plane next to a woman who said, “We always felt like your father had our backs.” His constituents knew that Kenny Hahn had their back and that no matter what happened, he’d be on their side because he was always on the side of the people. Not many politicians have that reputation. I think there’s still a sense that people have to fight city hall to get their concerns addressed. I don’t think he ever gave the impression that people had to fight county

government to get something. He worked day and night to bend county government to work for the people. And that has really lasted and they remember his legacy for having built a hospital and assembling a paramedics program, to put call boxes on the freeway, to bring the Dodgers to LA. He was one of those people’s politicians that would see a problem and figure out how to solve it and people appreciate that.

DS: What have you learned both politically and personally while serving in the House of Representatives?

JH: I think what I’ve learned is that even if you have a passion or idealism to accomplish things or change the world, in Washington D.C. it’s very difficult...There’s almost zero cooperation between both parties. The deck is stacked against whomever is in the minority, the committees are stacked against them, the rules are stacked against them. Its very difficult no matter how hard you try to form a relationship to work across the aisle. It just doesn’t bode well for a divided government.

There’s no real incentive for the party in the majority to work with the party in the minority.

A few times when the Tea Party revolted against the speaker, the Democrats have come into play because Speaker [John] Boehner needed our votes to pass something, and then we were able to force some compromises and get some of our ideas onto a bill. I’ve learned that I’m not politically wired for partisan politics; I enjoy and I’m more suited to nonpartisan politics; I enjoy building consensus; I enjoy bringing different people to the table; I enjoy identifying a problem and identifying a solution; I enjoy that kind of [See Hahn, page 17]

The Semiotics of the Watts Insurrection

By Danny Simon, Contributor

A street in Watts 1965, after 6 days of fires and violent confrontations.

[See Watts, page 17]

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plight of urban black America in the American West as never before — or since.

Previously, black Los Angeles was largely ignored in the media, or occasionally covered by black journalists like retired Los Angeles City Councilman Robert C. Farrell. But the sensationalism surrounding the 1965 Watts Riots produced a rabid curiosity, which was partially satiated by popular books and articles that attempted to put the events into context. This happened while espousing a wide range of ideological positions on American history and culture. What is astonishing is the range of perspectives that this one event spawned, and that some writers actually took the time to ask the right questions and formulate answers that got to bigger truths.

This in stark contrast to the limited McCone Report, the government’s investigation and report, which largely exonerated police officials and ignored structural poverty and racial segregation.

In A Journey into the Mind of Watts, a young Thomas Pynchon went to the streets and brought back some straight answers, a feat that

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The Watts Rebellion began Aug. 11 and ended Aug. 17, 1965, after an altercation between a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s unit and a group of black citizens escalated violently.

Six days of fires, looting and violent confrontations between members of the black community, local law enforcement and the California National Guard that enforced martial law, left 34 dead and more than $40 million in property damages. Amid the ashes, the mass media rushed in to report from the newest war zone—not in Vietnam, but in the City of Angels.

For a brief moment, the nation was wide awake and its eyes moved to the

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Our Neighbors Without Shelter

The nexus between global trade, gentrification and homeless

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

August 6 - 19, 2015

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I recently read an article in a daily paper that explained how increasing property values have matched the growing homeless population in Orange County. It would seem obvious that, as real estate prices rise in areas with no rent control, some people will be priced out of the market. But who knew the O.C. had a homeless problem?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the words we use to frame the discussion about homelessness, and how those words color our thoughts and solutions to the matter.

The term “homeless” itself connotes a being without a place; an outcast or a vagrant. At the very start, the word “homeless” denies that these economically displaced persons are a part of our society, our city or our neighborhood—when in fact these folks are as native as anybody else.

Some were born and raised here while others came, like so many of you, from other places. In the end they are our neighbors, who just happen to be without shelter.

The truth is, there are many thousands more who are just one paycheck, one health crisis, or one financial disaster away from sleeping in their cars or having to choose between paying the utilities or buying groceries.

Yet, we’re happy as long as they’re not camping out on the sidewalks or in our public parks where they could be an affront to our common sensibilities. So from here on out, I’m going to use the term “our neighbors without shelter” because in the end there is only one solution for these neighbors—shelter.

Putting a roof over their heads is the only civilized thing that a wealthy nation should provide and there are plenty of studies proving that it’s a more cost effective, more efficient and definitely a more humane solution. For so many reasons, a shelter-first philosophy is better for our neighborhoods, our business districts and our common safety and public health. Stray and abandoned dogs and cats are shown more sympathy on Facebook than people panhandling at a freeway offramp.

Once we stop blaming these people for their own circumstances (for which there is plenty of blame to go around), perhaps then we’ll be able to cozy up to the idea that this is a human problem completely within our collective ability to solve. After all, Americans are still really good at building things and solving big problems. We put a man on the moon, constructed a 400-mile aqueduct to bring water to the desert of Los

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Angeles and built the largest harbor complex in North America. When we stop arguing with ourselves and put our minds to a project, amazing things get done.

Providing shelter for our less fortunate neighbors shouldn’t be that difficult, but it is.

Why? The reason is that there is no “economic imperative” to solve this problem.

But, there are an ample number of imperatives that are animating the continued expansion of the industrial basis of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars will be spent over the course of the next decade to modernize and expand industrial port operations to accommodate an ever-increasing global import market—a market based on domestic outsourcing and foreign manufacturing that has cost American workers dearly, contributed directly or indirectly to the plight of neighbors without shelter, and continues to negatively impact portions of the Harbor Area both environmentally and economically.

While the two ports boast of handling more than 40 percent of the nation’s imports, creating 1.5 million jobs in Southern California and even more nationwide, still within a few miles of these two ports reside some of the deepest pockets of poverty in Los Angeles County. Such disparity between POLA’s $200 billion trade business and the US Census figures of areas near this “economic engine” seem to be at odds with each other.

Clearly, many of the jobs created by the import trade are remote from the harbors, with distribution warehouses out in San Bernardino or out past Tehachapi—far enough away from the reach of the waterfront unions where land is cheap and workers willing to work even cheaper.

The impacts of this are both environmental and logistical, causing more travel time and pollution in the region, while transferring jobs that could be had locally to boost employment near the harbor to other regions.

POLA, by mandate of the State Tidelands Trust, is perhaps the largest landlord in all of LA County, granting the City of Los Angeles and the port control over these tidelands for the benefit of California’s citizens.

So, just who should benefit most from the use of these tidelands? I would argue that the people who live closest to the tidelands in this state should be considered first, rather than second or last.

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more near dock distribution warehouses­—more industrial manufacturing buildings to attract new innovation technologies and export companies— it would solve more of its current logistical problems. And, in the process reduce pollution and address more of the economic disparities.

In the end this would provide more of an economic imperative than attempting to gentrify Ports O’ Call Village or subsidizing automated technologies on terminals that will ultimately

cost more jobs than they will save in time. The benefit to Los Angeles in taxes raised and jobs created could be immense.

This may just be part of the solution to ending the problem of our neighbors without shelter also. The best way to keep people from becoming homeless is to create more good paying, secure jobs. This is a plan both Mayor Eric Garcetti and POLA Executive Director Gene Seroka could get behind.

Responsible Marijuana Legalization

By Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom

I chaired a Blue Ribbon Commission of experts to chart a responsible path to marijuana legalization, and our new report makes it clear that protecting children and promoting public health must be paramount.

A 2014 survey of 12th graders from the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that nearly half of those surveyed had used marijuana—significantly more than tobacco.

That is the failure of the status quo: When we shirk marijuana use to illicit markets, drug dealers can continue selling marijuana to children without IDs and targeting the youngest, most impressionable members of our communities.

But legalizing recreational marijuana use for adults—if done right—would bring the industry out of the shadows and into a regulated mainstream with oversight to protect our children and promote public health and safety.

Will you join me and pledge your support for responsible marijuana legalization in California?

It’s time for California to move beyond the failed laws prohibiting marijuana use and toward

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a more productive future based on responsible regulation.

The commission’s report explains that legalizing marijuana gives us a new opportunity to provide better prevention and education programs, which would limit youth access to marijuana and keep California’s students in the classroom instead of tangled up in the criminal justice system.

The process for legalization will be long. We have to take the time to carefully consider all of the effects of legalization—both intended and unintended—and ensure the pieces are in place for responsible oversight and regulation.

Now is the time to talk about it so that when marijuana is legalized, it’s done so in a way that protects our children and benefits our communities.

I’m committed to this process and to continuing the conversation in California—I hope you’ll join me. Sign up at www.signforgood. com/marijuanaincalifornia

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that it permanently ends.”

— Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)

RANDOMLetters Response to “The Donald, The Confederate Flag, and the GOP

Big Victory for Conservatives

I have great news about the Export-Import Bank.

As Congress leaves for August recess, it is clear that the ExportImport Bank will remain dead for the foreseeable future. And we aren’t the only ones who think so: Supporters of the ExportImport Bank are worried about its future after losing a battle with conservatives this month to renew its charter.

— The Hill “The longer the bank is closed, the harder it is to re-open. Boehner has just shown us where he’s at: he’s terrified of his right flank.”

— Senior Ex-Im supporter “Every day that goes by without the Ex-Im Bank being resurrected means it is more likely

Here’s what happened: Bad news in the Senate: Ex-Im supporters saw the July highway and transit bailout as their best chance to resurrect the bank. And Mitch McConnell forced a vote on reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank on behalf of liberal senators and special interest groups.

Good news in the House: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said McConnell’s irresponsible bill was a non-starter.

One month ago, conservatives forced the Export-Import Bank to shut down for the first time in its 81-year history. It is clear, though, that big-government advocates of the bank and their congressional allies like John Boehner will not give up.

As we fight to end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood and expose the horrors of the Iran bill, we will remain vigilant in the fight against this corporate welfare program.

Thank you for standing with us in this fight.

Michael A. Needham Chief Executive Officer Heritage Action for America

The Voters Wanted Civil Service, the Mayor Didn’t

On June 8, 1999, the voters of Los Angeles adopted a new city charter; it became effective on July 1, 2000. But the mayor, Richard J. Riordan, refused to enforce the personnel provisions in the

new charter. In an obvious abuse of power, he replaced the city’s civil service system with his own employment plan.

At that time, Riordan had only one year left in the Mayor’s Office.

But he’d spent the previous seven years laying the foundation for a new, and very different, way to manage the personnel function in city government.

Riordan termed out on June 30, 2001. Since then, Los Angeles has had three mayors, and like Riordan, each one abused the power of his office by changing the charter with no legal authority to do so. Consider two such charter changes:

Under Charter Section 540, the personnel department has the power and duty to administer the civil service system. But under the new paradigm, each city agency manages itself. There’s no system for the department to administer.

According to Charter Section 541, the Board of Civil Service Commissioners has the power and duty to make and enforce the civil service rules and to establish and maintain the civil service system.

But under the new paradigm, the board actually spends its time investigating and hearing complaints and appeals.

I observe that the new paradigm [See Letters, page 19]

Rep. Ted Lieu’s Statement on the 50th Anniversary Of Medicare

I celebrate the anniversary honoring some of the most important programs America has ever created—Medicare and Medicaid. With their landmark passage in 1965, our country firmly took the position that the most vulnerable in our society should not live in poverty because of a lack of health insurance.

Before Medicare, seniors were the most likely group to be in poverty, with almost 30 percent of seniors living below the poverty line. Today, less than 1 in 10 seniors live below the poverty line (still too high but much better than before Medicare) and almost all seniors have health coverage.

We must not stop here. Today, 11.4 percent of American adults are still without healthcare coverage, and children are now the group most likely to be living in poverty.

Every American, regardless of age or income, should have access to health insurance. Let this important anniversary remind us of the progress we have made, and be a wakeup call for the unfinished work we have yet to do.

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I never knew that Harbor College served as an internment camp for Italian-Americans during WWII. Finally, someone besides Michelle Malkin and myself is reporting that Italian-Americans were interned. Let’s not forget that Terminal Island was home to a thriving and loyal JapaneseAmerican community, and the first interned following Democratic (socialist) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066. Why won’t Random Lengths News admit that Democratic “liberal” policies dress up slavery in the trappings of security, and diminish liberty while imposing equality, sometimes at the barrel of a gun?

Now, throughout the rest of Allen’s editorial, he insists on repeating the tired narrative that the Republican Party at its core embraces the state-sponsored segregation and racism represented by the Stars and Bars. From its inception, the Republican Party was founded on a pro-freedom, pro-family platform, which included the end of slavery. The Democratic Party embraced slavery, secession, then segregation and finally socialism, another form of segregation which punishes those who make and creates more of those who take.

Predictably, Allen targets Donald Trump, yet neglects one key element in describing Trump and his disastrous campaign. Even though his rhetoric has tapped into deep-rooted frustration, and gotten Hispanic voters’ support, the fact is that “The Donald” is a Democrat.

He said so himself.

He has donated more money to Democratic candidates and illiberal causes than others. He favors single-payer health care.

Not even four years ago, he was praising Hillary Clinton before mulling whether he would run for President. He was pro-abortion, then suddenly changed his mind.

He is a gun-grabber and an illegalalien employer. Granted, he is running as a Republican. The reality is that many self-serving ambitious Democrats have run as Republicans because the label allowed them to stand out from the Democratic machine-chicanery in their home states. Tree-hugger and Big-Government lover Constance Morella of Maryland was a total RINO, as was former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee, but both ran as Republicans in their attempts to

seem outstanding and to avoid the internecine primary fights which Democratic Party bosses squelch.

Diversity of opinion? Not within the Democratic Party.

Besides trashing Democrat Donald Trump, RLn should take “socialist” Bernie Sanders seriously. He is a pro-Second Amendment “gun nut” who voted against expanding lawsuits against gun manufacturers. He has disappointed Vermont’s regressives as a warmongering corporate sell-out who voted for Bush and Clinton’s war authorizations. Now that’s a story RLn should publish!

Arthur Christopher Schaper Torrance Dear Art, The Lincoln Republicans did free the slaves, but for the years after reconstruction did nothing to stop the Jim Crow laws in the South. And, as history tells us, the progressive side of the Republican party died with Teddy Roosevelt—the last true Republican progressive. He lost the Republican primary and split off with his own Bull Moose party.

Perhaps Trump will do the same and run on the Duck Dynasty ticket. Think of it as the Donald Duck Dynasty! American politics can’t get much quackier than that.

As for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s internment of the JapaneseAmericans at the beginning of World War II, the only way to explain this is the irrational war hysteria that comes at the beginning of almost every war. In World War I it was the GermanAmericans, after 911 it was the Arabs and Muslims.

James Preston Allen, Publisher

Finally, my parents depend on Medicare. There is no way I would ever eliminate this program. In fact, we need to expand Medicare and Medicaid.

Rep. Ted Lieu District 33

Correction

August 6 - 19, 2015

An article in the July 23 issue of Random Lengths News mistakenly reported artist William Crutchfield’s employment. Crutchfield was commissioned by NASA to create the sculpture titled, “Countdown.” The sculpture is housed in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Random Lengths News continues to strive for accurate and independent coverage of the Harbor Area.

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Twenty Years of Music by the Sea At the last of the music concerts for this summer, musicians and the community gave Michael Caccavalla, right, a certificate of appreciation for 20 years of service in organizing the annual Music by the Sea festival at Pt. Fermin Park in San Pedro. Photo by Betty Guevara.

Baby-Friendly Designation for St. Mary

August 6 - 19, 2015

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Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) joins Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center leadership at a celebration in honor of the Long Beach’s first “baby-friendly” hospital. Left to right: President Joel Yuhas, Lowenthal, Director of Maternal and Child Services Stacie Amarantos, and Chief of Staff Bertram Sohl, MD.

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Sherry Pruitt (left) and the Delgado Brothers

Labor Day Weekend Blues Bash, a Proper End to Summer

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By Melina Paris, Music Columnist and Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

ring the lawn chairs and the ice chests. Come Labor Day weekend (Sept. 5 through 7) the New Blues Festival II is going down at El Dorado Park.

The festival has two stages, two days, and dozens of blues bands, including fan favorites Bernie Pearl, Sean Lane, Barbara Morrison, teen blues phenom Ray Goren, and Sherry Pruitt and the Delgado Brothers.

Over the years, Random Lengths has spent a considerable amount of ink covering Pearl, Lane and Morrison. We will likely cover Goren in the near future. However, we were eager for an artist we haven’t covered who is deserving of a bit of the spotlight.

Pruitt, a Beaumont Texas transplant to Long Beach, calls herself the Soulful Songstress. Her

range includes gospel and rhythm and blues, she has performed all around the world, having been a singer and performer all her life.

The Delgado Brothers are a versatile band whose roots go back more than 50 years, starting in the Maravilla public housing in East Los Angeles. There are 11 brothers, straddling two generations.

Their range includes the blues (an original Texas-style blues they call the Stevie Ray Vaughan style), R&B, Latin, roots, rock and Americana music. And they play only original music. No covers.

The versatility in their music could probably be credited to the gap in age between the older and younger brothers in the group. But they’re so good, it really doesn’t matter what they play. This band has the capacity to sonically take you places you either haven’t been in a while, or where you have never been at all.

We were able to reach Pruitt and Joey Delgado recently and talk to them about their set

ACE: Arts • Cuisine • Entertainment

The New Blues Festival II

[See Blues Fest, page 14]

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The Long Beach Grand Cru:

Judge For a Day

By Gina Ruccione, Cuisine Writer

If you are a wine aficionado, you might be a little jealous after reading this article.

Pictured are wine contestants participating in the Long Beach Grand Cru’s wine tasting competition. Photos

by Tommy Kishimoto

On July 19, I had the pleasure of attending the Long Beach Grand Cru wine tasting competition, the country’s only nonprofit wine sip-off.

The Long Beach Grand Cru celebrates its 21st anniversary this year. Each year the Grand Cru raises funds through its public tasting festival to benefit the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles’ Greater Long Beach Community Medical Legal Partnership. Proceeds from the fundraiser help provide legal support to low-income people in the community.

In preparation for that event, there is an international wine competition that precedes the public tasting and wine festival. The two-day competition boasts a prestigious panel of judges, including winemakers, winery owners, wine writers, industry professionals, educators — and of course, yours truly.

Structured as a double-blind judging process, each judge samples about 120 wines per day — and believe me when I say, it’s a long and arduous process. Judges are set up at round tables and served flights of wine, both white and red so as not to exhaust the palate. Judges are then asked to award medals based on several characteristics: subtlety, varietal character, terroir (the combo of factors including soil, climate and sunlight that give grapes their character). Discussion is encouraged. At the end, a vote is taken to determine if the wine is worthy of a bronze, silver or gold medal.

I had no idea what to expect that day—I assumed I would be stuck at a table with wine elitists who would be less than welcoming, but that was hardly the case. Everyone at my table, from enologists (people who study the science of wine), to vintners, were incredibly friendly, helpful, and engaging. They took time to explain how the judging process works. One person at my table broke it down in layman’s terms:

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[See Grand Cru, page 15]

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Palos Verdes Art Center Displays A Garden of Excesses T

By Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer

August 6 – August 19, 2015

[See Excesses, page 15]

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he Palos Verdes Peninsula, with its rolling hills covered with lush trees and fauna, has some of the most beautiful gardens in all of California. It’s a setting fit for the works of artist Ángel Ricardo Ricardo Rios.

This month the Palos Verdes Art Center honors the beauty of nature, with its newest exhibition, A Garden of Excesses. The show features paintings, drawings, and monumental, inflatable sculptures by the artist.

Ricardo Rios presents an abundance of vibrant, breathtaking large-scale paintings. It’s fecund garden bursting with lush foliage rooted in his life in Latin America.

A transplanted Cuban, Ricardo Rios was born in Holguin, and has lived half his life in Cuernavaca, México. “I have been living in Mexico for 24 years, where the city is similar to what you see here in the artwork,” the artist said.

Influenced by the same environment that inspired the art of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, the vivid colors of fruits and blooming plants permeates Ricardo Rios’ creations. His work is a testament to his intense childhood in Cuba, but it shows the colorful experiences the artist has had as an adult in Mexico.

When relocating to Mexico, he arrived in the lush jungles of the Yucatán.

“When I moved to Cuernavaca all this visual experience culminated for me,” Ricardo Rios said.

“The union of the location, and the magic and plants came together and began to translate into art work.”

His prior work in Cuba was grounded in the structured art education he received. The nation provides generous support for artists through training, housing and work space. However, the disciplined style of Cuban art did not provide for experimentation.

Social themes tended to dominate the style as dictated by the government.

As a young artist Ricardo Rios was part of the generation of the ‘80s, a post-revolutionary generation, born and trained in the revolutionary system. This group began testing its limitations under the watchful eye of a still paranoid young regime, hoping to continue the revolutionary politics of the time.

Early in his career, Ricardo Rios became known for architecturally inspired sculpture. Setting a new direction in the medium, his sculptures moved into a more eclectic form with a series of wild, overstuffed furnishings and inflatable plastic figures.

Most of that is left behind in this new period of majestically proportioned oil and charcoal paintings, which focus on organic form. The work is an explosion of sensuality and passion which radiates an irresistible force. His immense oil paintings are overlaid with broad, wild strokes of color and texture that render the desire he feels for his medium.

Reduced studies in charcoal are assembled in a smaller gallery. These works serve as a precursor to carry the artist’s fantasy toward the unbounded works that initially greet the visitor in the main gallery.

“I believe life is organic, contrary to the industrial,” the artist said. “After having a full career that was

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[Blues Fest, from page 11]

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The best selection of Italian specialties include hearty calzones, an array of pastas and of course, our amazing selection of signature pizzas, each piled high with the freshest toppings. Like wings or greens? We also offer an excellent selection of appetizers, salads, beer and wine.

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Buono’s Authentic Pizzeria A San Pedro landmark for over 40 years, famous fo r exc e p t i o n a l award-winning pizza baked in brick ovens. Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and sauces based on tried-and-true family recipes and hand-selected ingredients that are prepared fresh. You can dine-in or take-out. Delivery and catering are also provided. Additionally, there are two locations in Long Beach. Hours: Sun.-Thurs.

11 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. • Buono’s Pizzeria • 1432 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro • (310) 547-0655 • www.buonospizza.com Happy Diner The Happy Diner isn’t your average diner. If you pay attention to its special menu on blackboards, it’s almost a certainty you’re going to find something new each week. The cuisine runs the gamut of Italian and Mexican to American continental. The Happy Diner chefs are always creating something new. They believe that if an item is good, its reputation will get around by word of mouth. You can even find items normally found at curbside lunch trucks. You can take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables, prepared any way you like. Try their chicken enchiladas soup made from scratch.

Happy Diner • (310) 241-0917 • 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro Nazelie’s Lebanese Cafe Nazelie’s Lebanese Cafe is a favorite of the neighborhood for the terrific kabobs, beef or chicken

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Casual waterfront dining at its finest!

Famous for slabs of Chicago-style baby back ribs, fish-nchips, rich clam chowder, cold beer on tap and wine.

Full lunch menu also includes salads, sandwiches and burgers. Indoor and outdoor patio dining available. Proudly pouring Starbucks coffee. Open 7 days a week. Free Parking. Boardwalk Grill • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 519-7551

shawarma, lamb dishes and falafel. Nazelie’s chicken and rice soup with lemon is like a warm embrace—it takes chicken soup to a whole new level. Nazelie uses a recipe handed down in her family for generations, starting with homemade chicken broth, and adding a refreshing touch of lemon for taste and nutrients. Nazelie’s Lebanese Café, 1919 S. Pacific Avenue, San Pedro. (310) 519-1919 Niko’s Pizzeria One of downtown San Pedro’s signature restaurants features a full Italian menu, huge selection of pizzas, Greek specialties and a beer and wine bar featuring a wide selection of beers on tap and by the bottle.

Watch sporting events on plasma TV screens throughout the restaurant. Delivery service to all of San Pedro, Port locations and hotels. 399 W. 6th St., San Pedro (at the corner of Mesa and 6th sts.) • (310) 241-1400 PHILIE B’S ON SIXTH Owner Philie Buscemi welcomes you to Philie B’s on Sixth, where New York– style pizza, Sicilian rice balls and pizza by-the-slice are the specialties. Fresh hot or cold sandwiches, gourmet pizzas and fresh salads are also served.

Try the “white pizza” with smooth ricotta, mozzarella and sharp PecorinoRomano cheeses topped with torn fresh basil.

Extended hours accommodate San Pedro’s unique lifestyle and work schedules. Catering and fast, free local delivery ($15 min.) available.

Philie B’s On Sixth • 347 W. 6th Street, San Pedro (310) 514-2500 www.philiebsonsixth.com San Pedro Brewing Company A microbrewer y and American grill, SPBC features handcraf ted award-winning ales and lagers served with creative pastas, bbq, sandwiches, salads and burgers. A full bar with made-fromscratch margaritas and a martini menu all add fun to the warm and friendly atmosphere. Wi-Fi bar connected for Web surfing and email—bring your laptop. Live music on Saturdays. Hours: From 11:30 a.m., daily. San Pedro Brewing Company • 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro • (310) 831-5663 • www.sanpedrobrewing.com

The hands-on attention to detail makes their restaurants so successful, in both quality of food and service. Sonny’s Bistro’s lunch and dinner menus feature dishes made from locally sourced and hand–selected meats, seafood and seasonal vegetables. Try the $10 lunch menu served Mon. through Friday. Think Café serves breakfast in addition to lunch and dinner with fresh egg dishes, omelettes and griddlecakes. Both restaurants have a fine selection of wines and beers that complement the dishes. Sonny’s Bistro • 1420 W. 25th St., San Pedro. Hours: Mon-Fri, 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat and Sun. from 4 p.m. • (310) 548-4797. Think Café • 302 W. 5th St., San Pedro • Hours: Mon-Sat. 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun. 8 a.m.- 2 p.m. • (310) 519-3662.

Tally’s Sandwiches One of San Pedro’s newest dining spots, Tally’s offers a fresh take on American homemade cuisine. Everything, from the hamburgers, ground in-house, to the macaroni salad is made fresh daily. Open for lunch and dinner; enjoy one of the specials as you dine in this unassuming, centrally located sandwich shop. Feeling adventurous?

Try the Thursday Thanksgiving sandwich special with homemade stuffing. Tally’s Sandwiches • Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. • 1438 S. Pacific Ave. San Pedro • (310) 974-0728.

The Whale & Ale San Pedro’s British gastro pub offers comfortable dining in an oak–paneled setting, featuring English fish & chips, roast prime rib, sea bass, rack of lamb, beef Wellington, meat pies, salmon, swordfish & vegetarian dishes. Open for lunch & dinner, 7days/wk; great selection of wines; 14 British tap ales, & full bar. Frequent live music. First Thursdays live band & special fixed price menu. Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri. 11:30 a.m.-midnight Sat. & Sun. 1-10 p.m. Bar open late. The Whale & Ale • 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro • (310) 832-0363 • www. whaleandale.com

at the New Blues Festival and how they joined forces.

Pruitt and the Delgado Brothers have played together periodically since 2006. Pruitt and Joey were introduced at a housewarming party hosted by their mutual friend, Bobby Zeno, KPFK radio’s “Blues Power” disc jockey.

As Delgado tells it, Zeno hired Pruitt and her backup band to perform at his housewarming party. Joey and his wife were among Zeno’s invited guests.

“When Sherry sang; it was unbelievable,” Delgado recalled of the evening. “She [Pruitt] saw that I was digging her, so she came to our table to sing for my wife and me. She literally brought us to tears. Her singing is just incredible.”

Delgado immediately asked her to perform at his housewarming party. Pruitt consented, for a fee of only $75.

“God bless her,” Delgado said, praising her humility. “Anyway, we agreed on a higher rate.

She came to the party, performed and people just lost their minds. We ended up raising $500 or $600 more than I agreed to pay her by just passing the hat around.”

Soon after that, the Delgado Brothers were working on an album and Joey Delgado invited her to be the featured vocalist on it. Pruitt and the Delgado Brothers periodically teamed up for festivals, concerts and blues competitions following the release of their first collaboration.

The most recent competition in which Pruitt and the brothers participated together was the 2011 Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tenn. They placed second.

Check out the YouTube videos of their performances. The chemistry between Pruitt and the Brothers is as obvious as that of peanut butter and jelly.

At the New Blues Festival, Pruitt and the Delgado Brothers are going to perform a mix of the latest material from their discography, ranging from some of their oldest to newest music. Both have released new CDs within the past couple of years.

“Whenever we’ve done festivals or other events and we need to spice it up, we’ll hire Sherry to come in, and you know, raise the roof,”

Sonny’s Bistro and Think Café Sonny and Carly Ramirez are the husband and wife team behind Sonny’s Bistro and Think Café. They operate both establishments: Sonny works in the kitchens and Carly attends the front of the house.

PORTS O’ CALL WATERFRONT DINING S i n c e 1 9 61 t h e y ’ v e extended a hear ty welcome to visitors from every corner of the globe.

Delight in an awe-inspiring view of the dynamic L.A. Harbor while enjoying exquisite coastal California cuisine and varietals.

Relax in the plank bar or outdoor patio for the best happy hour on the waterfront. With the awardwinning Sunday champagne brunch, receive the first Spirit Cruises harbor cruise of the day free.

Open 7 days, lunch and dinner. Free Parking. Ports O’Call Waterfront Dining • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 76, San Pedro • (310) 833-3553 www.Portsocalldining.com

SPIRIT CRUISES

An instant par ty!

Complete with all you need to relax and enjoy while the majesty of the harbor slips by.

Their three yachts and seasoned staff provide an exquisite excursion every time, and all-inclusive pricing makes party planning easy! Dinner cruise features a three course meal, full bar, unlimited cocktails and starlight dancing. Offering the ultimate excursion for any occasion. Free parking. Spirit Cruises • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 548-8080, (562) 495-5884 • www.spiritmarine.com

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Joey said.

Pruitt is excited about the outdoor festival.

“That’s my favorite,” she said. “I like being outdoors in the open and seeing people have a good time. The club scene is different but the outdoors is magical to me. I’m looking forward to playing the New Blues Festival. It will be exciting to play together with the Delgado Brothers again.”

Pruitt and the Brothers are scheduled to perform on the main stage on the last day of the festival, Sept. 6. But they are by no means the only ones to look out for on that day, or the next.

[See Blues Fest, page 16]

Entertainment Aug. 7

Jimmy Hewitt a the Seabird Lounge Guitarist Jimmy Hewitt is a noted jazz guitarist.

Time: 9 p.m. Aug. 7 Cost: $7 Details: http://seabirdjazzloungelbc.com Venue: Seabird Jazz Lounge, 730 E. Broadway, Long Beach

Aug. 8

[Grand Cru from page 12]

Grand Cru in the middle of the table (cheese, roast beef, olives, crackers) to avoid an accidental buzz.

Apparently, I’ve been doing this wrong for years.

I’ve been eating a box of crackers and having a glass of wine, when it should be a bottle of wine and a couple of crackers. Or—wait. No, that can’t be right.

The Long Beach Grand Cru Public Tasting will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. Aug. 8, at the South Coast Botanic Gardens in Palos Verdes.

Entertainment, delicious food from local restaurants, and of course, the opportunity to try plenty of wine is all on the agenda.

Details:

http://longbeachgrandcru.com

Gina Ruccione has traveled all over Europe and Asia and has lived in almost every nook of Los Angeles County. You can visit her website at www.foodfashionfoolishfornication.com.

[Excesses from page 12]

Garden of Excesses

Aug. 14

Ray Goren At just 15 years old, Ray Goren is a singer and multi-instrumentalist who started playing piano and guitar and writing his own music before the age of seven.

Time: 9 p.m. Aug. 14 Cost: $10 Details: http://seabirdjazzloungelbc.com Venue: Seabird Jazz Lounge, 730 E. Broadway, Long Beach Battle of the Bands!

Be part of amazing live music from some of Los Angeles’ most talented musicians. Come support your favorite local band and help them get an opening slot for the next month’s headliner.

Time: 9 p.m. Aug. 14 Cost: $7 to $10 Details: http://www.alpinevillagecenter.com/ Venue: Alpine Village, 833 W. Torrance Blvd., Torrance

Aug. 20

Palos Verdes Art Center Executive Director Joe Baker and artist Ángel Ricardo Ricardo Rios. Photo credit: Monica Orozco

years he will be well established.”

The exhibition is accompanied by COLLABORATIONS: prints from Mixografia, featuring works on paper by Helen Frankenthaler, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Rufino Tamayo, Donald Sultan, Jason Martin, Mimmo Paladino, Joe Goode, Kwang-Young Chun and Kcho. The exhibit is presented by the Palos Verdes Art Center in partnership with Beyond Borders Art Exchange and Mixografia Workshop. Both exhibitions are on view through Oct. 4.

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.

Cost: Free Details: (310) 541-2479; pvartcenter.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

The Ladies of Salsa Dance the night away with Josie Neglia’s salsa lessons and the Ladies of Salsa’s powerful grooves.

Time: 8 p.m. Aug. 20 Cost: $15 to $120 Details: www.grandvision.org Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Aug. 21

South Side Slim at the Seabird Lounge This premier Los Angeles based blues player was recently featured in Random Lengths News.

Time: 9 p.m. Aug. 21 Cost: No cover Details: http://seabirdjazzloungelbc.com Venue: Seabird Jazz Lounge, 730 E. Broadway, Long Beach

Community/Family Aug. 7

Los Angeles Quilt Show and Fiber Art Fest Check out the Los Angeles Quilt Show and Fiber Art Fest. The three day festival includes all styles and skills.

Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 7 through 9 Cost: $7 to $75 Details: www.laquiltshow.com Venue: Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles, 112 E. 22nd St., San Pedro Discovery Lecture Series Hatchery manager of Catalina Sea Ranch, Kelly Stromberg, will have a talk on Aquaculture: the fight for local seafood. Marine aquaculture in the United States contributes to restoration habitats, fisheries, seafood supply and helps the economic

Aug. 13

Play Chess The Dalmatian American Club would like to invite chess players to enjoy the game every Thursday afternoon.

Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 13 and 20 Cost: Free Details: (310) 946-8055, (310) 547-1361 Venue: Dalmatian American Club, 1639 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro

Aug. 15

Siale Festival The Tongan Alliance of America presents the Siale Festival. Enjoy a day filled with fun with a festival that promotes the Polynesian culture.

Special events include a Little Miss Aiale Festival Pageant, Tau’olunga (cultural dance) competition, kava ceremony, food and craft vendors, and song and dance all day.

Time: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Cost: Free Details: (562) 232-8029; www.tfsca.org Venue: Torrance Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance 7th Annual Phineas Banning Birthday Celebration and Concert Friends of Banning Museum will celebrate the birthday of the “Father of the Los Angeles Port” Phineas Banning with a special evening of music and dancing. In the spirit of the Rancho-period of the Banning property, guests will be treated to a Western-themed evening with live music provided by local favorite, South Bay Country, free line dance instruction, country style dancing and a good old fashioned barbecue buffet provided by Southland favorite, The Outdoor Grill. Country-Western attire is admired but not required.

Time: 5 p.m. Aug. 15 Cost: $10 Details: (310) 548-2005 Venue: The Banning Museum, 401 E. M St., Wilmington

Aug. 16

Bukowski- The Laughing Heart San Pedro International Film Festival Presents a tribute to Charles Bukowski, (1920 - 1994) on his 95th birthday in old town San Pedro.

Including a feature film based on one of his novels, poetry and art contests, readings from his books, drinks and hors d’oeuvres, books and souvenirs to be purchased. Events will take place at the Warner Grand Theatre, Grand Annex and Post-Future: The Art Company at Williams’ Bookstore .

Time: 3 p.m. Aug. 16 Cost: $15 Details: spiffest.org Venue: 6th Street, San Pedro

Aug. 22

2nd Annual Horton’s Hayride Classic car show, shopping, pin up contest, motorcycle show, two stages, full bar and a craft beer area, food trucks and amazing music. Acts include: The Reverend Horton Heat Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Nekromantix, Cadillac Tramps, and more. Children 10 and younger get in free.

Time: 12 p.m. Aug. 22 Cost: $15 Details: http://tinyurl.com/2ndAnnualHayride Venue: 3600 Miner St., San Pedro

Theater/Film Aug. 7

And The Stones Will Cry Out

August 6 – August 19, 2015

socially critical, painting now is like coming back to the origin. It is a private language that is personal and radical. It is pretext to talk about other things like painting and sensuality.”

The exhibition came about after the director of Palos Verdes Art Center, Joe Baker formed a partnership with Marissa Caichiolo of Building Bridges Art Exchange in Santa Monica.

“We started talking to her about working with international artists and she introduced us to Angel,” Baker said.

He met Ricardo Rios in May at the Havana Biennale and arrangements were made to bring the artist to Palos Verdes for this exhibition.

“I am just exuberant about Cuba,” said Baker. “I am in love with Cuba and I am in love with the art of Cuba.”

Ricardo Rios career has evolved and he is building an international reputation. He has exhibited extensively throughout Latin America and Europe. For two years Caichiolo has been representing him in Los Angeles through her gallery at Bergamot Station. She coordinated a lecture for the artist at the L.A. Art Show this year and he has an upcoming show at the Juan Ruiz gallery in Miami.

“He is in the middle of a very strong career” said Caichiolo. “I keep getting more solo exhibitions and I feel that in the next five to 10

Aug. 11

Dirty Little Secrets Harvelle’s is the sexiest venue under the streets of Long beach. A true speakeasy venue. A real Underground devil’s den, combining comedy and burlesque by Dirty Little Secrets. The best comedians in the world come here to work on their comedy every Tuesday.

Time: 8 p.m. Aug. 11 Cost: $10 Details: http://longbeach.harvelles.com Venue: Harvelles, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

Aug. 8

Navy Days LA 2015 Public Ship Tours Tour a U.S. Navy vessel, visit the science, technology, engineering, and math expo.

Reservations are required and available online.

Time: 9 a.m.

Cost: Free Details: www.PortOfLosAngeles.org Venue: Los Angeles World Cruise Terminal, 100 Swinford St., San Pedro

ACE: Arts • Cuisine • Entertainment

“Would you serve this wine at a dinner party? If you would, then it should be awarded a medal.” Next question: “How much would you pay for the bottle? Ten dollars should be awarded a bronze medal, $20 should be awarded a silver medal, and $30 dollars should be awarded a gold Medal.”

I enjoy wine and consider myself somewhat knowledgeable about it, but wine jargon can be stuffy at times, and tasting 25 different white wines in one flight proved to be more challenging that I expected. By the end of the day, everything started to taste the same. It was hard to discern what was good, what was bad, and/or if my taste buds were still functioning properly. To my surprise, my palate is more sophisticated than I thought. Most of the judges at my table and I had similar taste in wine.

To say I felt a little dehydrated after the competition would be a severe understatement.

I found myself snacking on the palate cleansers

Left Lane Cruiser at Harvelles Left Lane Cruiser is a blues-rock band originating from Fort Wayne, Indiana. The band has said that their main influence comes from the North Mississippi Hill country blues musicians, most of whom were or are currently signed to Fat Possum Records.

Time: 9 p.m. Aug. 8 Cost: $8 Details: http://longbeach.harvelles.com Venue: Harvelles, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

activity of coastal communities.

Time: 7 p.m. Aug. 7 Cost: Free Details: lecture@cmaqua.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

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Go back in time with And The Stones Will Cry Out. In 1725, Johann Beringer, dean of the medial school of Würzburg, Germany, discovers fossils that he thinks will make him famous the world over. But the involvement of two of his university colleagues makes his path to immortality a bit rocky.

Time: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Aug. 7 through Sept. 5, with a 2 p.m. matinée Aug. 30 Cost: $22 to $45 Details: www.littlefishtheatre.org Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 Centre St., San Pedro

Aug. 8

Hairspray Enjoy a live performance of Hairspray. Based on John Walters’ 1988 film, the story takes place in Baltimore during the 1960s, when TV dance shows were all the rage. Plump Tracy Turnblad dreams of winning a role on the TV show and uses her new fame, after winning, to integrate the show.

Time: 8 p.m. Aug. 8, 15, 21 and 22, and 2 p.m.

Aug. 9 and 16 Cost: $25 to $35 Details: (310) 781-7171 Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance CMA Outdoor Movie Night The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is hosting an outdoor movie night in celebration of Shark Week.

Two movies will be featured: Shark Tale and Jaws.

Please RSVP to reserve a seat.

Time: 6 p.m. and 8p.m. Aug. 8 Cost: Free Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

Aug. 13

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me Follow an Englishman, an American and an Irishman through their experience as hostages in Lebanon. As the three men wrestle with their differences to develop an extraordinary friendship, we are asked to consider life on the edge of human existence.

Time: 8 p.m. Aug. 13, 20, 26 and 27, and Sept. 2 and 3, and at 2 p.m. Aug. 16 and 23 Cost: $22 to $45 Details: www.littlefishtheatre.org Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 Centre St., San Pedro

August 6 – August 19, 2015

Independent And Free.

Art

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Watts: 50 Years after Rebellion Through a collection of publications, correspondence, reports and books chronicling and analyzing the six days of destruction in the Watts community in 1965 set alongside an intimate portrait of Watts today, California State University, Dominguez Hills has put together an archives and photography exhibition, Watts: Then and Now, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Watts Rebellion.

Time: Aug.11, 2015 through Jan. 28, 2016 Cost: Free Details: (310) 243-3895 Venue: Library Cultural Art Center at CSUDH, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson Archives Department Receives Collection from Longest-Running Black-Owned Bookstore The Department of Africana Studies and University Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills present The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles: The Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection.

Alfred and Bernice Ligon were proprietors of the Aquarian Book Shop from 1941 until it closed permanently in 1994. The longest-running blackowned bookstore in the country, the Aquarian Book Shop was often described as the “Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles” and the “Citadel of Black Intellectualism on the West Coast,” not only for its inventory of black literature but also for being a gathering place for a who’s-who of African American writers and thinkers of the day.

Since the death of Alfred Ligon in 2002, the Aquarian Spiritual Center, which he also founded, had been the stewards of collection. This past year, members approached Faraji about the university’s interest in properly preserving the items. The exhibit will run through Sept. 1 in the archives’ gallery.

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday

Cost: Free Details: (310) 243-3895 Venue: University Library

South Wing, 5th Floor, CSUDH, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson A Garden of Excesses: Ángel Ricardo Ricardo Rios Ángel Ricardo Ricardo Rios’ massive paintings and deft drawings blend organic, vegetal forms with allusions to the erotic in fantastic displays of sensual excess. Expressed in vibrant colors with a quick, sure hand, or made using his body to apply paint, his meld of Expressionist and Neo-Baroque explorations appear part abstraction and part dreamscape, recalling the theatrical presence celebrated in the Spanish Baroque.

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 to 4 p.m.

Sundays, through Oct. 4 Cost: Free Details: (310) 541-2479; pvartcenter.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes Collaborations: Prints from Mixografia Works on paper by Helen Frankenthaler, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Rufino Tamayo, Donald Sultan, Jason Martin, Mimmo Paladino, Joe Goode, Kwang-Young Chun and Kcho. The exhibit is presented by the Palos Verdes Art Center in partnership with Beyond Borders Art Exchange and Mixografia Workshop.

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 to 4 p.m.

Sundays, through Oct. 4 Cost: Free Details: (310) 541-2479; pvartcenter.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes Sextet Group Show TransVagrant and Warschaw Gallery present Sextet, a group exhibition of paintings by Katy Crowe, William Mahan, Yong Sin, Gary Szymanski, Marie Thibeault, and Ted Twine.

Exhibit is curated by Ron Linden, a painter living in San Pedro.

Time: 10 a.m through 9 p.m, Every day. Runs through Aug. 29.

Cost: Free Details: transvagrant.com Venue: TransVagrant and Warschaw Gallery, 600 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro Entities Michael Stearns Studio 347 welcomes back artist Lance Green for two-man show highlighting the analogous styles of these two artist-storytellers.

Lance Green is a colorist and an expressionist, but more than that he is a storyteller conjuring images that take the viewer beyond the mere skin and bone of the subject and into the soul that lies hidden beneath.

Michael Stearns is well-known for using organic materials such as sticks, twigs, leaves, stones, branches, feathers and shells. He taps into the source of the narrative to chronicle it while honoring its offering.

Time: 6 p.m to 9 p.m during First Thursday Art Walk, and by appointment Cost: Free Details: (562) 400-0544 Venue: Michael Stearns Studio 347, 347 W. 7th St., San Pedro Exuberance A group show featuring artists: Echo Lew, Erika Lizée, Brian Mallman, Melissa Manfull and Hilary Norcliffe. These images show the invisible links between cause and effect driven by instinct, compassion, thought, language, and emotion.

Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during First Thursday Art Walk Cost: Free Details: (310) 541-4354 Venue: Angel’s Ink Gallery, 366 W. 7th St., San Pedro

What sets RLn apart from the rest?

John Farrell: A Celebration of Life

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an Pedro native and long-time Los Angeles area arts critic John Farrell will be honored, at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 15, with “John Farrell: A Celebration of Life” at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 31290 Palos Verdes Drive, West, Ranch Palos Verdes.

In addition to Random Lengths News, the San Pedro High and Long Beach State graduate’s work appeared in the Press-Telegram, the Daily Breeze and the Pasadena Star-News. He covered opera, classical music and stage productions throughout Los Angeles County from the early 1980s until his death in May.

Details: (415)

902-6376, (510)566-3575

Endless Summer Poster Inducted in to the Smithsonian Museum

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an Pedro artist John Van Hamersveld soon will see his iconic Endless Summer movie poster inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The Surfing Heritage and Culture Center, in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and the Lemelson Center for Innovation and Invention, is recognizing the societal impact that surfing has made on American culture. It is accepting artifacts and stories, including a sampling of surfboards and a copy of the film The Endless Summer, along with Van Hamersveld’s poster.

“Not only is ‘The Endless Summer’ the single most recognizable image in surfing, but it was also tremendously influential in its introduction of the use of day-glo, which would become the standard for a whole generation of pop art images that would soon follow,” stated Barry Haun of the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center.

This honor marks a period of significant achievement for Van Hamersveld. In July, 2014 his name was placed on the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame for his contributions to surf culture.

In July of this year the artist installed “The Great Wave” mural in Hermosa Beach.

John Van Hamerveld and his wife Alida Post are owners of Post-Future: The Art Company @ Williams Bookstore at 443 W. 6th St. in San Pedro.

[Blues Fest, from page 14]

Blues Festival II

By our estimation, the inclusion of James Harman on the main stage is a coup for festival goers. Harman’s down home vocals and harmonica playing is both nostalgic and grooveinspiring–”groove inspiring” because his music has the capacity to move your body and soul like a snake to a charmer’s flute.

Harman has played with and been among the best for 50 years. He’s been performing since the ‘60s, and experienced his greatest success after recording several albums in the 1980s and ‘90s.

A number of Harman’s songs have been used in films and on television, including “Kiss of Fire,” which was on the soundtrack of the movie The Accused. Harman was also a frequent guest artist at the Long Beach Blues Festival.

Also on the bill is Dave Widow, an artist that a festival can never go wrong. The Random Lengths News columnist, B. Noel Barr called Widow’s critically acclaimed album, Waiting for the World to End “an outstanding collection of blues songs, demonstrating first-rate production and musicianship.”

You don’t want miss his performance Sept. 5.

The Second, But Golden, Stage Though the Golden Grove is not the main stage, it will feature Lil’ A and the Allnighters; Kelly Chappue and the Soul Collectors; the Other Mules’ Shadow Blue Featuring Lady Faye; Tracy Niles; Crooked-Eye Tommy, and the Seatbelt, who Random Lengths has profiled a few times over the years.

But one artist to watch on the Golden Grove Stage is South River Slim. This guy is not your typical artist that says he’s a blues and rock n’ roll guy but sounds like every other blues and rock n’ roll guy.

We couldn’t find a single YouTube video of him performing. But we did get to hear two of his singles, “Heavy Like Liquorice” and “Square of the Dead.” The songwriting and performances of these songs immediately grabbed my attention because they sounded fresh and new, and familiar, at the same time.

The lyrics of “Square of the Dead” reminded me of the sort you’d hear in early blues cuts from the likes of blues legend Robert Johnson and others.

So, we tapped some keys into the Google search engine and found a feature story on Slim and his battle with cancer just as he was beginning to find his voice on Urbanitenews.com.

The Yardbirds, Rolling Stones and the Doors were South River Slim’s gateway to the blues. By the time he was 12, Slim had “immersed himself in the deep blues, devouring old masters like Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson,” according to the online feature.

It chronicled his early years trekking and jamming with his friends on Route 66, playing covers of the above-mentioned artists, as well as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Elvis Presley, along the way.

Family tragedy seemed to ultimately halt his youthful adventures, forcing him to put aside his music and get a day job—only occasionally writing something and playing guitar in his basement.

Just when he had decided to pursue his music again, Slim was diagnosed with throat cancer.

Ultimately, music, and his desire to live, are what saved his life. South River Slim is going to be performing on Saturday on the Golden Grove Stage.

Time: 9 a.m to dusk, Sept. 5 and 6 Cost: General admission $25 for one

two days Details: www.newbluesfestival.com Location: El Dorado Park, Long Beach

day; $40 for

Legacy of Kenneth Hahn [Hahn, from page 7]

On July 1, 2001, Janice Hahn was inaugurated to become councilwoman of District 15 at the Korean Friendship Bell in San Pedro. Her brother, James Hahn was elected Mayor of Los Angeles the same year. File Photo.

politics and I think my skills are better suited for local politics. I learned that it’s a team sport back in Washington D.C., us versus them, and both sides try to move the football down the field and try to score some points. It’s not something I’ve found enjoyable. I’m not as well-suited for partisan politics as I thought I was.

DS: Your dad’s board could be extremely divisive over issues like the creation of King Hospital.

DS: Why do you want this job?

JH: I grew up in the home of a county supervisor.

I was a baby when my dad was elected, so I watched the way that my dad did the job for 40 years. I watched him solve problems for constituents, from filling the potholes to building the hospital…. It was certainly imprinted on my soul and my heart and my brain that this was a noble profession and a good opportunity for me to serve my Los Angeles County. I was born and raised in Los Angeles County; it’s my home and I know that I can deliver results for the 4th District. I look forward to that job, I look forward to that work. I think everything I’ve done so far has prepared me and led me to this moment in time and I’m gonna embrace it.

seemed to mystify so many at the time.

Systematic ghettoization, poverty and police harassment led a slim minority of the population of Watts to rebel against anything they could. Leave it to a surrealist fiction writer to be a rare clarion voice in the midst of so much pain and confusion.

In A Prelude to a Riot, Paul Jacobs addresses the structural issues of race and poverty that led to the insurrection of poor urban blacks against a system that failed to address their concerns: police brutality, ghettoization, white ignorance, economic exploitation and general disregard for the black ghetto in Los Angeles and across the nation amid a period of economic prosperity. Jacobs concludes that unless America addressed those issues, more revolutions against the government and society would continue.

Was it a riot or was it a rebellion?

Complexity may be a vice, however the semiotics of the telling and retelling of the event are varied and revealing.

The use of the the term “riot” connotes a lawless and chaotic disruption of the status quo, a plague set loose upon the innocent and civilized. Before 1965, ironically, race riots in America were the practice of white terrorists who attacked black communities. As the nation’s media cast its gaze upon Watts, multiple meanings were relayed and accepted. For segregationists, it was proof that integration was dangerous and containment of the black population was necessary; for the general viewing public, it was proof of distinct cultural differences.

While some of the media sensationalism may have produced a short-lived form of sympathy, it did not create a form of empathy which would have demanded a historical recitation of inequities of race and class stemming from Jim Crow.

The use of the term “rebellion” connotes a concentrated effort by individuals within a group to strategically attack what they believe are either concrete or symbolic examples of exploitation and violence within their community. Fed up and tired of waiting for progress to arrive, black youth exploded and could not be contained by traditional leadership in the community.

Black revolutionaries involved in the Watts rebellions found empowerment and international attention through violence and looting, a warning to a result of a nation riddled with inequity and too slow or simply unwilling to engage.

Whether the event was perceived as a riot or a rebellion depended on one’s place amid a deeply divided American society. The effects of separate but always unequal was largely ignored by most white Americans out of a habit of denial that continues to this day amid this supposed post-racial era. Mass incarceration of the poor and the militarization of law enforcement occlude the structural inequalities that remain from 50 years ago. But infected with historical amnesia, the next urban unrest will appear unexpectedly, cleaved from the past, though explanations of the event will have to be 140 characters or less.

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DS: How will you campaign for the 4th District seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (currently served by Don Knabe)?

JH: This race is neighborhood by neighborhood, community by community, almost block by block. It’s about really understanding the needs of the different communities and seeing how county government can step in and play a role to solve problems. Or, I’m sure there are many communities that won’t want county government to play any role. That’s what I’m good at, because of my father, who was good at listening and talking to people about where they’re at and seeing their frustrations, or maybe, their disappointment with county government, and seeing if there’s something I can do to fix it…. If elected, I will be the third female on the county board, making it a female majority, the first time in its history. I kind of joke, “this is not my dad’s board of five men that ruled the county for a very long time.”

DS: Do you have any projects you’d like to see accomplished in the next decade by the Board of Supervisors?

JH: I get asked that question a lot, and at this time, I don’t know. I’m sure when my dad first took office in 1952, he never dreamed he would be building a hospital or bringing the Dodgers to Los Angeles or putting call boxes on the freeway or starting the paramedics program. Those probably weren’t visions or dreams of his, and by the way, they probably happened like during year 15 or 20 of his tenure on the board. Now, of course, we have term limits and there are only 12 years that you’re allowed to serve. I think I’ll take it one step at a time and look for opportunities to serve the residents of the 4th District in a way that would make my dad proud.

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DS: But you have cultivated some relationships across the aisles?

JH: One of my biggest accomplishments in Congress was my bipartisan port caucus; that was the first time in the history of the United States Congress that anyone decided to gather people together around the subject of our nation’s ports.

I started it; I co-chaired it and it had about 100 members of Congress whom I educated about why ports matter in this country. Because of those relationships, I’ve brought some of them to LA and Long Beach to look at our ports, and I’ve traveled with them to look at their ports, and as a result, I believe for the first time we’re able to bring more money back to our ports than ever before. When I look back, that will be my greatest accomplishment [in Congress] and that was done in a bipartisan way.

How do you feel things have changed?

JH: My dad was many times on the end of a losing vote, 4-1. He finally went to the voters to build that hospital (Hahn lost that vote by a razor- sharp margin of .3 percent, but eventually forged a compromise with Mayor Sam Yorty). I feel that this is a board on which we will find many opportunities to build consensus. I know Mark Ridley-Thomas very well. I know Hilda Solis, who was also a member of Congress and who served as secretary of labor under President [Barack] Obama. I know Sheila Kuehl, I talk to her a lot; Sheila and Hilda have endorsed me. I feel like this is a board that will be very workable, and I’m proud of the work they’re doing right now with their progressive agenda.

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Registered owners: John Jay Ulloth, 24680 Piuma Road, Malibu, CA 90265. 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/.

John Jay Ulloth, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on June 9, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a 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: 06/25/15, 07/09/15, 07/23/15, 08/06/15

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2015152889 The following person is doing business as: Mendez Computer Consulting, 1172 Paseo del Mar, San Pedro Ca 90731.

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istered owners: Jesse Paul Mendez,1172 Paseo del Mar, 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: 05/25/2015. 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/.

Jesse Paul Mendez, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on June 9, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a 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).

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2015155364 The following person is doing business as: Jessica HaleyClark, 524 W 9th Street,, San Pedro Ca 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Jessica Haley-Clark,259 W. 12th Street Apt. 1, San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual.

The date registrant started to

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by a general partnership. 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/. Clark Wilson, owner-general partner.. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 02, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a 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: 07/09/2015, 07/23/2015,

transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 02/05/2015. 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/. Jessica Haley-Clark, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on June 11, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a 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: 06/25/15, 07/09/15, 07/23/15,

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Order to Show Cause For Change of Name Case No. NS030379 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Petition of: Elaine Anne Gismondi for Change of Name To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Elaine Anne Gismondi filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Elaine Anne Gismondi to EurydiceGitane Serrato The court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the

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/. Abel Herrera, owner-general partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 02, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a 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: 07/09/2015, 07/23/2015, 08/06/2015, 08/20/2015

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petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter i scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Notice of Hearing: Date: July 24, 2015, Time: 8:30 a.m.

Dept. 27 The address of the court is 275 Magnolia Ave., Long Beach, Ca 908024591. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county: Daily Journal Date: June 6, 2015 Ross M. Klein Judge of the Superior Court

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2015174362 The following person is doing business as: JCVR Joey & Clarks Vacation Rental, 3157 S. Alma Street, San Pedro, CA 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Joey Murillo, 3157 S. Alma Street., San Pedro, CA 90731. Clark Wilson, 4577 Bancroft St., #4, San Diego, Ca 92116. This Business is conducted

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2015174325 The following person is doing business as: Pancho’s Tacos, 14626 Crenshaw Blvd, Gardena Ca 90249, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Abel Herrera, 1019 W. 60th Pl, Los Angeles Ca 90044. 3157 S. Alma Street. Abel Herrera Jr., 1019 W. 60th Pl, Los Angeles Ca 90044.

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To being—my initial board of appeals hearing was three years (Sept. 2012, with Judge O’Shay) a the CA Veterans Affairs Office at 11000 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, and all I”ve been getting since then is one delay after another. Meaning: letters from Judge O’Shay and his group of people leaving me frustrated.

Also, the CA Veterans Affairs Office on Wilshire have been avoiding my phone calls for the past year, and haven’t returned my calls requesting help with this appeal.

As of today: Wednesday, July 29, 2015, I phoned the (800) 923-8387

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015, I then phoned the CA Vet. Office at (213) 620-2755. I left a message for the department manager Bill McClure to return my call to discuss my concerns.

Thursday, July 30, 2015, Knowing that the CA Vet Office probably wouldn’t return my call, I phoned the office and spoke with Maura Meade (my original helpful representative) who then explained to me that the only way to get an answer or decision on my case must include one or more of the following situations: 1. I must be on my deathbed 2. I must be in a financial hardship 3. I must be 75 or older (I’m 71).

Thursday, July 30, 2015, I then phoned (again) the (800) 923-8387 requesting the status of my appeal, and the representative (Michael) told me that “the judge hasn’t picked it up yet” (I assume Judge O’Shay).

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represents a shift of power in city service. The personnel department—the general manager and the Board of Civil Service Commissioners—lost power while the mayor and the department CAOs gained it.

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It’s my understanding that the current city budget authorizes the personnel department to establish rules and regulations governing the appointment, promotion, transfer and removal of city employee. If that’s correct, personnel should promulgate a rule to standardize the use of probation as a jobrelated working test in all city

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