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theft and lease violation allegations, were the stories regarding the removal of key personnel, the poor treatment of volunteer workers and the general impression that the executive management—most of whom reside out of town and out of the state—held a certain disdain for San Pedro.

When the USS Iowa officially opened in 2012, the speed in which it went from proposal to reality was breathtaking. Typically, acquiring a battleship museum requires years of laying the groundwork for political support, not only in the host state but the state of the ship’s namesake.

The Pacific Battleship Center was formed in 2009. By 2011, the Pacific Battleship Center had the support of the state legislatures of Iowa and California, the Los Angeles City Council, all the Harbor Area neighborhood councils and the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission, which had initially been very skeptical when the idea was first proposed. The new nonprofit organization was even able to go through every feasibility study and every stage of the environmental impact studies at a speed unheard of in San Pedro. This, despite nagging questions about the Pacific Battleship Center’s ability to finance the endeavor and the ability of the old battleship to draw enough visitors every year to make the naval museum self-sustainable.

In light of the recent allegations outlined in the emails, Random Lengths decided to revisit the origins of the Pacific Battleship Center and the arrival of USS Iowa.

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In the previous edition, Random Lengths [Oct. 2, 2014 edition] reported on the contents of an exchange of emails between the Pacific Battleship Center’s former vice president of development, Patrick Salazar and the Port of Los Angeles community affairs director Theresa Adams Lopez.

The exchange highlighted a number of allegations including environmental abuses, possible lease violations with the port and turmoil within the ranks of the Pacific Battleship Center’s volunteers and hourly workers. Those emails did not just reflect the experience of a single individual, but multiple individuals who documented their own personal experiences aboard the USS Iowa.

The Pacific Battleship Center has officially denied these allegations. (See the “Letters to the Editor” on page 9 of this issue.)

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Community Announcements:

Harbor Area Militarization of the Police Force San Pedro Neighbors for Peace & Justice will host Militarization of the Police Force: Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri and You, a community forum, starting at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17, at the Harry Bridges Institute.

Speakers will address police violence against the community, acquisition of equipment designed for war, and indiscriminate shootings of unarmed civilians in our city, region and state.

Details: (310) 567-3332 Venue: Harry Bridges Institute Location: 350 W. 5th St., San Pedro Too Toxic to Trash Dispose of household hazardous waste and e-waste the right way on Oct. 18. Business waste will not be accepted.

Examples of what you can bring include: brake fluid, paint, paint thinner, cleaner with acid or lye, pesticides or herbicides, household batteries and car batteries, pool chemicals, motor oil, oil filters, expired pharmaceuticals, antifreeze, and fluorescent light bulbs. (You can also recycle paint at participating retailers through the paint care program.) Household electronic waste includes: computer monitors, televisions, CPUs, keyboards, printers, cell phones, etc.

Examples of what you can’t bring to the event: Hazardous waste and electronic waste from businesses, explosives, ammunition and radioactive materials, tires, large appliances such as refrigerators, stoves and washing machines, and controlled substances.

How to prepare items for transportation: bring the items in a study box, preferable in their original labeled containers. Do not mix the items together. There‘s a limit of 15 gallons or 125 pounds of hazardous waste per trip. Be prepared to leave your containers and boxes. Remove all other items from your trunk.

Details: (855) 724-5809; www.paintcare.org Venue: West Maintenance Building Parking Lot Location: 24501 S. Figueroa St., Carson

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POLA Uncertain of What To Do

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

Total Transportation Services Inc., or TTSI, one of three companies where workers struck in July, touts itself as an environmental leader, but the claim is largely an illusion. TTSI is apparently in violation of the subsidy agreement, which underwrote about 90 percent of the cost of one of its initial LNG truck purchases.

Not only does TTSI owe most of its “green” image to government subsides, ranging anywhere from $5.8 million to $13.2 million—a different kind of green—but it also may have perpetrated fraud by signing a 2008 subsidy agreement in bad faith.

In addition, TTSI also received subsidies for more trucks than its fleet originally had, implying that it relied on truckers not previously driving for it to trade in their rigs for some of the trucks TTSI added to its fleet.

Random Lengths is still investigating the full extent of the subsidies involved, as well as the wording of related agreements. However, language from the Port of Los Angeles’s first round of funding shows that TTSI has violated at least some of its agreements.

POLA’s agreement with TTSI and the other nine companies states that companies will not “sell, lease, encumber, or dispose of” the trucks. Yet, this is precisely what TTSI has done and apparently intended to do all along.

The agreement also includes a requirement for workers’ compensation or self-insurance, yet failure to provide workers’ compensation has been one of the key issues involved in the truckers’ strike. More broadly, the agreement also requires companies to comply with “all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations, and with the reasonable request and directions of Executive Director,” which certainly includes the state and federal labor laws that TTSI, among other companies, has been violating.

“The Port of Los Angeles is enforcing its LNG truck grant agreements consistent with its enforcement on similar truck funding agreements,” POLA spokesman Arley Baker said, when Random Lengths asked if POLA has confirmed that the trucks are being used as intended. “It would be inappropriate and premature to disclose at this time possible actions that are being discussed with motor carriers.”

However, Baker also said, “These contracts are up in 2015, so a focus continues on a number of levels in terms of ensuring compliance.”

Regarding questions about the specific violations, Baker could only provide a general response.

“The port continues to engage stakeholders and has been facilitating dialogue between the parties,” Baker said. “As the discussions continue, the port’s direction from the mayor’s office has been to continue our focus on helping to keep information and discussion flowing between all parties while ensuring that the port continues to operate safely and efficiently.”

This response suggests a continued narrow focus on present operations, a focus that inevitably gives short shrift to questions of equity, justice and even legality. But Baker was not finished.

“Concurrently, the port is working to complete an assessment to the mayor,” Baker continued.

“The port understands that various drivers have wage and labor law claims pending with the appropriate state and federal labor authorities with jurisdiction to determine if violations of labor laws have occurred and to take enforcement action against violators.”

While nothing Baker said indicated POLA’s willingness to take action and enforcing the terms of its agreement, it at least opens the door a crack.

For a sense of how far TTSI has moved away from its initial promises and how those promises should be seen, we need to start before the Clean Trucks Program was implemented, the port drayage industry enjoyed a massive subsidy in the form of externalized costs born by

the surrounding communities. The subsidy far exceeded their profits and was roughly in same ballpark as what truckers were paid per load.

Based on California Air Resource Board formulas, POLA estimated that Southern Californians paid between $100 million and $590 million annually in health impact costs due to drayage truck pollution. The cost would amount to $10.1 billion through 2025. But those aren’t the only costs. A 2010 document, “The Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program: Program Overview & Benefits” stated: According to a drayage options analysis performed by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the current drayage system imposes between $500 million and $1.7 billion of costs on the public each year through: operational inefficiencies (e.g impact on truckers and trucking companies of truck under-utilization, traffic congestion and lack of driver health/ benefits); city/community costs (e.g.road maintenance, environmental damage, vehicle and driving safety and residential impacts from truck traffic and parking); and, above TTSI Violates Subsidy Agreement/ to p. 4

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Free Electronic Waste Drop-off On Nov. 8, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Boy Scout Troop 212 is hosting a community service project for e-waste disposal and canned food collection, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 8, at Grace First Presbyterian Church. Properly dispose of your electronic waste (TV’s, monitors, printers, cell phones, Ink Cartridges etc.) at this open community event. Drive through and drop-off at no-charge. Scouts will remove the unwanted electronics from your vehicle for your convenience.

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Free Blood Pressure, Glucose Screenings at Diabetes Walkathon Lace up your shoes, bring your friends, and join the third annual Diabetes Walkathon Health and Information Fair, from 9 to 11 a.m. Oct. 25 at Cabrillo High School, in Long Beach.

The fundraiser will take place around the high school track and will benefit St. Mary Medical Center’s Outpatient Diabetes Program.

The program has been continuously certified by the American Diabetes Association for 11 years.

The health fair will include informational booths and free blood pressure and glucose screenings. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Contact Kit Katz Details: (562) 491-4840; kit.katz@dignityhealth. org Venue: Cabrillo High School Location: 2001 Santa Fe Ave., Long Beach

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TTSI Violates Subsidy Agreement all, public health (premature death, hospital admissions, workday and school-day loss, and restricted activity).

This analysis was performed before the Clean Trucks Program was approved in 2008. Given that local container traffic peaked at around 15.7 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) in 2007, that would equate to a per-container externalized public cost of $32 to $108. The true figure would obviously be higher, since not all containers are moved by truck.

While equity, justice, or even a genuine commitment to free markets would have demanded an immediate end to that massive subsidy, the political power relations of modern capitalism demanded the opposite: a further public subsidy in order to create a low-polluting truck fleet. TTSI was one of the most eager port firms to pursue this new source of money,

collecting anywhere from $5.8 million to $13.2 million. This amounts to over $50,000 per truck, but TTSI cleverly packaged its fondness for subsidies as “environmental leadership.”

The ports and even environmentalists like the Coalition for Clean Air were happy to endorse the packaging in order to motivate others to follow suit.

In August 2007, TTSI rolled out its first LNG trucks, purchased with an 80 percent subsidy from the AQMD, according to a story in the Press-Telegram at the time.

It was reported that TTSI intended the trucks to be driven by so-called “owner-operators,” but that they could be hired as employees, if the ports required it—as POLA ultimately did, only to be barred from doing so by Ninth District Court.

“We’re prepared for it to go either way, and if they decide to do employee status, we’ll work with them,” La Rosa told the Press-Telegram.

“Right now, though, our (drivers) will be contractors.”

Those LNG trucks were actually part of a larger initiative also involved port subsidies, as explained in a POLA board report dated Sept. 27, 2007. The ports’ agreements were significantly altered in response to truck company criticism, increasing subsidies from $144,000 to $184,000 to account for higher than anticipated costs for new LNG truck. Agreements were signed with 10 companies, which had requested subsidies for 383 trucks. Funding was provided for 158–– 117 by the ports, 41 by the AQMD––according to the report. TTSI requested 60 truck subsidies and was funded for 28—eight from POLA and 20 from AQMD, as reported by the Press-Telegram (Random Lengths, however, was not able to verify this with AQMD before press time).

TTSI and Southern Counties Express Inc. were the only companies to receive AQMD subsidies. TTSI’s agreement with POLA is the

one referred to above. It was approved by the city council in early 2008.

Later that year, the Great Recession hit, changing everything. The exponential shipping growth abruptly halted, drastically altering the market dynamics. But when markets crash, subsidies become even sweeter. In 2009, POLA cited TTSI as one of three of its 2009 “Winners for Significant Early Action to Reduce Air Pollution,” saying: Total Transportation Services, Inc. (TTSI): A licensed motor carrier serving both ports, TTSI enthusiastically joined in the ports’commitment to clean air. A mere nine months after the ports adopted the San Pedro Bay Clean Air Action Plan, TTSI committed to converting its entire fleet of 106 drayage trucks to a completely green fleet of clean diesel and liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles. TTSI was able to complete the conversion in a year’s time. TTSI has again backed up its reputation as an innovator in the drayage community.

Yet, TTSI received further AQMD subsidies, including $4.4 million approved by AQMD’s board on Sept. 11, 2009. In retrospect, it was simply a very smart business move: getting as large a chunk of public subsidies as possible, while creating a “green” image paid with other people’s money—a different kind of “green.”

What’s more, despite its signed agreement and its statement that drivers could be hired as employees if the ports required, it seems almost certain that exploiting misclassified “independent contractors” was integral to TTSI’s business plan from the beginning. After all, POLA had previously pointed out that one continued on following page

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service event in November. Troops across Long Beach and the nation will be collecting to help fill the local food banks in their area.

Details: (562) 799-4009.

Venue: Grace First Presbyterian Church parking lot Location: 3955 Studebaker Rd., Long Beach Festival Volunteers Needed About 200 volunteers are needed for The Festival 2014, a craft beer-tasting festival. The event will take place Nov. 8 and 9 at Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles. The Festival will feature craft brewers from around the world, food and music. Volunteers must be 21 years of age or older.

Details: volunteer@sharefestinc.org Venue: Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles Location: 112 E. 22nd St., #10, San Pedro LA Harbor Holiday Afloat Parade Boater Registration Open Boaters are encouraged to register for the 52nd Annual Los Angeles Harbor Holiday Afloat Parade on at 6 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Port of Los Angeles Main Channel.

The vessel entry fee for the parade is $30, which includes one admission to the parade awards brunch on Dec. 7, at the Los Angeles Yacht Club in San Pedro. Awards brunch tickets are $20 online or $25 at the door. The deadline for boater registration is Dec. 3. Register online at laharborholidayafloat. org.

Details: (310) 549-8111.

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Gautt Assumes Command Amid Changes:

Setting Community Policing Priorities

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By Lyn Jensen, Carson Reporter

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Changes in leadership are happening at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and the Carson station’s new captain, Reginald Gautt (pronounced “got”) signals potential for change at the community level.

Having assumed command June 22, he now must address what policing issues may arise locally including any potential for use-offorce complaints. With a new county sheriff expected to assume command after the November election, new administrative procedures could be in store as well.

Gautt is leading the Carson station through a pilot program on body-worn cameras, only one New Carson Sheriffs station Captain Regipriority among various manpower nald Gautt. and community issues. The new captain spoke about his priorities for community policing at his office this past month. The discussion ranged across Carson’s crime trends, community outreach, response to citizen concerns about use of force and the potential effectiveness of the body-worn camera pilot program.

The sheriff’s department is conducting a six-month pilot program on deputies using body-worn cameras, a tool that some other departments nationwide have adopted to better address complaints about excessive use of force. Seventeen deputies and two supervisors are participating at the Carson station.

The station has not received any complaints regarding excessive use of force in more than a year, but Gautt explained the body-worn cameras could be helpful in potential future investigations.

“We certainly have had allegations made of misconduct and certainly it’ll help to keep the deputies honest and the community honest,” he said.

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benefit of the employee mandate was the trucks owned by licensed motorized carriers could be used by multiple drivers, thus making them far more efficient economically. By intentionally choosing a less efficient business model, TTSI was committing itself from the beginning to yet another round of cost-shifting onto others—this time its drivers. Not only were truck leases to its drivers a violation of the LNG agreement with POLA, they also were an income source, forcing drivers to pay for trucks which public entities had already subsidized.

It was the drivers who bore the true cost of the Clean Trucks Program more than anyone else.

“Things were bad enough when we owned our trucks, but I would say the situation is desperate now,” driver Alex Mejia told the Los Angeles Times in 2010.

He gave up a 1995 Freightliner, which he owned, to lease a ‘clean’ 2008 International, the Times reported.

“We’re all happy that the air is cleaner,” he said. “We live here too. But it is our sweat, our work, that is helping to improve the environment.”

And, it is companies like TTSI taking all the credit, breaking the law and violating their agreements as they do.

POLA could help put a stop to that, simply by enforcing an agreement, which TTSI has broken since day one. The question now is: will they?

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Don’t Kill the Messenger The USS Iowa, ILWU/TraPac Dispute and the Tale of Gary Webb

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

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In the almost 35 years that I have been publishing this newspaper in our community, there’s one question I’ve always had to navigate: How much of what we know do we actually print?

As you can probably guess, we are told much more than we ever use and we face the consequences of printing the truth as we know it. Our story on the Pacific Battleship Center, the nonprofit organization charged with operating the USS Iowa naval museum, is a case in point.

Some may take exception to us reporting on the problems of this important naval monument and the non-profit that manages it.

Regardless of the perceived impact of our reporting, the intent is not personal. Our hope is that with our reporting we can get the best out of our cultural assets.

This newspaper has long defended workers on the waterfront. We believe that the allegations of mistreatment of both volunteers and workers at the Pacific Battleship Center should be treated with no less scrutiny than the workers at the TraPac terminal—workers who, despite millions of dollars invested in automation, still do not work in a safer workplace. I take very seriously our role in reporting on what we discover in our Harbor Area community. As I see it, my staff and I have a duty to deliver to you, our readers, what is not revealed by other less courageous entities.

The Port of Los Angeles is not going to tell you about the ongoing troubles at TraPac with the numerous accidents related to automation nor will the Port of Long Beach be issuing a glowing press release about their new automated terminal with its reported electrical problems either. And, unless forced, these ports will not be revealing anything but the positive spin via their public relations departments. It’s just not the job they were hired to do.

Subsequent to my previous editorial on the troubles brewing at TraPac, I have learned that the Pacific Maritime Association, the group that negotiates with the Longshore Union, has walked away from the bargaining table in San Francisco on the 2014 coastwise contract. This is with the understanding that until the TraPac terminal issues are resolved, no further progress on the long awaited contract will move forward.

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Eric Garcetti’s office along with POLA representatives and the leaders of ILWU locals 13, 64 and 94 have all been in secretive closeddoor discussions on the work-safety issues of new technologies and the threat of this impasse causing a major showdown that could close this port or perhaps all West Coast ports to a labor showdown, not unlike the lockout in 2002. You may recall this event idled the ports for more than 120 days and cost billions of dollars in lost wages and revenues to the shipping companies.

I cannot say what role our newspaper had in alerting both the mayor and the port to this upcoming crisis, but as of the night before we published, Cynthia Ruiz, POLA’s director of external affairs had no knowledge of the rising conflict. She told me that I seemed to know more than they did about it.

Within three days of posting this issue online, there were some 5,000 readers who took note of it. I use this example only to highlight the role that we have in informing and engaging the community (both near and far) and it’s representative of the critical issues that might otherwise be ignored until something exploded.

We have heard and seen reports that Pacific Battleship Center’s executive staff were beginning to resolve the issues since at least August. Even Patrick Salazar, our main source for the first “Trouble On the Iowa” story, who submitted a letter to the editor this past week, said as much, writing, “I have learned recently of many changes are in progress at the Pacific Battleship Center...I am confident that these changes will enable the leadership team to address and resolve the critical issues.”

We don’t know how much progress the Pacific Battleship Center has made in resolving its issues regarding labor and other matters. But the question we have to ask is, “Without this reporting, would these issues have been swept under the carpet?” I cannot say for certain. But what I do know for certain from past experience, is that when we have not stepped up to the plate of honest journalism, the community and the non-profits involved have suffered more than if the truth were told.

The cautionary tale about printing the truth to power will soon be coming to the big screen with the movie “Kill the Messenger,” which tells the story of journalist Gary Webb and his 1993, exposé, in the San Jose Mercury News, about the Publisher/Executive Editor James Preston Allen james@randomlengthsnews.com Assoc. Publisher/Production Coordinator Suzanne Matsumiya info@graphictouchdesigns.com

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CIA’s involvement with the Contra’s importing of crack cocaine into South Central Los Angeles during the Reagan-Bush years. Soon after these stories appeared, he was personally attacked and condemned on the front pages of the nation’s largest newspapers, for his “bad reporting” and he was subsequently discredited and removed from this line of reporting. The Mercury News and its publisher cowardly printed a front page retraction or apology for the allegations.

Only a few years later did the CIA meekly admit in a press release that, in fact, the agency had full knowledge of this part of the IranContra scandal, ostensibly verifying that Gary Webb had gotten the story right. And for this, he was punished by the corporate publishing establishment as they cooperated in the cover-

up of this illegal action. Webb, like many other journalists who work in the trenches, know what’s at risk for speaking truth to power and yet, in their hearts, believe deeply that there is something fundamentally liberating in telling it.

So when you are honoring our heroes on upcoming Veterans Day or recognizing our courageous civil rights leaders, do remember the courage of those who speak truth to power in journalism—they, too, are defenders of our democracy. And, it is my aspiration that in some small way, this is what we, at this newspaper, contribute to this community at this time, for no less noble intentions. In other words, don’t kill the messenger just because you don’t like the message. We might just be telling you something really important.

Understanding the General Election:

How the Nov. 4 Propositions Affect the Harbor Area

By David Johnson, Editorial Intern As the Nov. 4 general election approaches, California voters are faced with six different propositions to vote on.

While each proposition is important to research, it can be hard to know just where to start—political language and the outcome of a “yes” or “no” vote can be hard to understand.

Here are the six most important measures for the Harbor Area.

California Proposition 1 is a $7.1 billion bond for statewide water system improvements pressing due to the current drought. Spelled out under the docket is a list of how funds would be distributed. Most of it is going toward water

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storage, recycling and retention. The largest sums of $1.45 and $2.7 billion would be designated to ecosystem protection projects and the creation of new dams and reservoirs. An additional $425 million will be reallocated from prior water bond acts and general tax revenues will be used to pay off the bond.

Those in favor of the proposal are seeking both an answer to the worst drought since 1959 and a more conservative price than the 2010 proposal of $11.4 billion. Notable support comes from the California Farm Committee. This is not surprising considering studies have shown that continued on following page

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RANDOMLetters The Vote on the Cabrillo USS IOWA Responds to Beach Youth Facility “Trouble on the Iowa” The Cabrillo Beach youth facility, known to us locals as the Cabrillo Beach Boy Scout Camp, has been the subject of controversy for the past 10 years. San Pedro residents may remember that the local neighborhood councils stood up against the port and a potential deal that would have turned this facility over to another private organization for an additional 30 years. The Port of Los Angeles has now released a request for qualifications that may very well do what we tried to stop back in 2004. The fact that this request came on without significant public input is of concern. In previous years, the topic would have been discussed at length at the Port Community Advisory Committee (PCAC), the organization that was so abruptly and rudely dismantled in the final days of the Villaraigosa administration.

This is an important site that by rights belongs in public hands, for the use of the public. It would be a great place to have children come swim, children from all over Los Angeles, and not just from the private clubs and organizations that currently have the best access.

We need to develop a grassroots movement that will communicate to our elected leadership and administrators at all levels that this space is not just another piece of commercial property that the port can lease out in order to make a few dollars. It should be operated in the public interest, and the decision as to what constitutes that public interest should be made in an open way.

Bob Gelfand San Pedro

Patrick Salazar is a disgruntled former employee with a history of retaliating against his former employers. While the Board does not believe he is a whistleblower, his claims were taken seriously and have been investigated over the course of two separate independent investigations. Both investigations found that many of Salazar’s claims were based on hearsay with no direct evidence to support them and that certain other claims were also unsubstantiated.

In addition, the investigation found no evidence to support the claims of coercion to practice any type of legal or policy violation.

His numerous misstatements and mischaracterizations are revengedriven to cause economic and emotional hardship towards the Pacific Battleship Center, its board, management, and crew.

These types of behaviors and allegations from Patrick Salazar are similar to the pattern he has practiced over the years after losing other jobs and will not result in any further severance or compensation to Salazar. We have also taken steps to file a defamation suit against Salazar based on these claims and his refusal to comply with our request to cease and desist.

Jonathan Williams Pacific Battleship Center President and CEO

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Yes Carl, I read the letter before it published and reread it just now to see if your criticism was warranted. Frankly, I disagree with you. Mr. Schaper is a regular critic of our publication and intentionally likes to provoke both me and our readers with his right-wing revisionist history of America.

I do believe that Schaper is

“willfully blind and proud of it.”

You will notice, however, that even though I disagree with Schaper, I still print his critical letters in our paper, because more than thinking that he’s wrong, I believe he has a right to be wrong and to express that opinion in a public forum. This is so that people such as yourself will think about it.

James Preston Allen Publisher

Blast to the Past

It was Dana Junior High in the early 1950s. I was in Mrs. Veghers eighth grade social studies class. I sat in the back row next to Howard

Hawks. He was a white kid, really white. He had a non-athletic body, and walked with a slight limp. He was always well dressed, even wore hard shoes. He always seemed serious and never talked much.

One day, Howard turned to me and asked, “Why do you wear those sneakers to class?”

It was such a strange question.

Howard caught me off guard. I really didn’t know how to answer except to say that I had PE after this class. In reality I only had sneakers to wear everyday and hard shoes to wear on Sunday.

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Regarding the USS Iowa

When the ship came down from San Francisco I was doing volunteer work in the mess deck.

Dan Pawloski gave me and other people the job of cutting off the legs of tables at floor level and then we never saw him again that day.

At the time, I was worried about the possibility of asbestos in the tile. I have a 1 inch by 1 inch piece of that tile.

Pat Manion San Pedro

Taking the Blinkers Off

It’s time to either fire or take the blinkers off, that narrow-mindedpontificating Paul Rosenberg. The last sentence after Rosenberg’s

table, they should go toward any present debt. Similarly, education groups say that any money for schools should put into the schools immediately to guarantee it will be spent on education.

California Proposition 45 seeks to decrease the cost of health care premiums by eliminating pre-determination based on credit history. The intent is to insure more individuals by eliminating higher rates based on background. It requires all changes to individual insurance rates be approved by an insurance commissioner before they take effect, as well making this notice public knowledge. It does not apply to employers in large group health plans.

Supporters from both the California Democratic Party and organizations such as Consumer Watchdog state that the bill is a start in bringing more widespread health care.

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The Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative is inviting community members to participate in the second of three information and input workshops about improvements along Gaffey Street in San Pedro. The workshop will take place, starting at 10 a.m. Oct. 25, at the San Pedro Regional Library.

The workshop will be an open format, where participant will be presented with an updated conceptual plans and project information, as well as information for business along the Gaffey corridor.

Details: (213) 627-1822 ext.

18, (310) 732-4515 Venue: San Pedro Regional Library Location: 931 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

by an estimated $2.2 billion.

The opposition consists mainly of biological and conservation groups that believe the plan is merely a price reduction on poor planning. Their push is for money being given for reform and incentivizing more efficient use of current water reserves.

California Proposition 2 proposes to further increase money going toward the rainy day fund by 1.5 percent capping at 10 percent. It is an update to the Budget Stabilization Act and would require a fiscal emergency for funds to be withdrawn. The update would also establish a public school system fund based on tax revenue. Supporters argue that Prop. 2 helps the taxpayer by allowing the government to save in times of excess, begin to address and pay off California’s debts and protect schools from unnecessary budget cuts.

Opponents say that instead of taking money off of the

lecture [RL’s Random Letters “Regarding the death of Michael Brown,” Sept. 18 edition] was unnecessary overkill-blather.

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farmers have cut their water usage by one-third this year. As a result, their fields have been left fallow and marketed down

many changes in progress at Pacific Battleship Center (PBC).

I am confident that these changes will enable the leadership team to address and resolve the critical issues I and others raised with the PBC board of directors.

As I have told you and all others throughout this situation, the optimal outcome would be that PBC commit to promoting a culture and management strategy that will advance its charitable and educational mission. I now strongly believe genuine steps are being taken along this path at PBC. I appreciate that RLN is an important voice in San Pedro, and that your work on this and other topics strives to serve the Harbor Community. In that vein, I hope you will carefully consider if more RLN stories critical of PBC will favorably serve the community we all care about so very much.

Patrick Salazar former Vice President of Marketing, USS Iowa

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State Lands Commission Befuddled by Rancho But Not Ready to Quit

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

In a dynamic reminiscent of the last time Rancho LPG appeared on its agenda, the Oct. 14 State Lands Commission meeting in Santa Monica began with a staff report saying there was nothing the commission could do. Rancho still refused to disclose the contents of its insurance policies—even to Attorney General Kamala Harris behind closed doors. And it ended with the commission’s acting chairman, Alan Gordon, pledging to stay involved, even if that only meant persistently nudging the port to take firmer action.

“It’s really important that State Lands stay involved in this issue,” said Earth Justice lawyer Adrian Martinez, providing outside support for the recurrent refrain of the array of community members.

It clearly struck a chord with Gordon, but no one divined the odd split between Gordon and the staff more succinctly than Kathleen Woodfield, one of half a dozen homeowner activists who spoke.

“I have first-hand knowledge of State Lands’ staff investing its time and asserting its authority in order to shape and restrict mitigation projects intended to mitigate negative impacts in the community,” Woodfield said, referring to State

Lands Commission’s highly intrusive role in the China Shipping mitigation process.

“The hypocrisy, therefore, of the staff report that states, ‘Grantees have the primary responsibility of administering the trust on a day-to-day basis’ is remarkable and disturbing, and it shows that State Lands [Commission] will scrutinize port community mitigation benefits, yet [it] looked the other way when the same port community is put at risk by a big industry.

These combined actions cause State Lands own environmental justice policy to be moot.”

“This is an opportunity lost if state lands does not intervene,” Woodfield continued. “The port has demonstrated that it has not been diligent when it comes to its relationship with Rancho.

The port has not made sure that the insurance for Rancho is adequate. The port does not convene safety meetings as called for in the real spur permit. The port does not keep track of what is in the rail cars, where they are parked or where they are going. The port has allowed erroneous language to persist in the revocable permit, which they continue to renew without review. The port is not here. I hope that our presence here gives you the courage to stay involved and intervene in this very important issue.”

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by regulating rates to stay consistent with inflation.

Opponents, mostly medical care providers, believe that controlling health care is important, but not at the mercy of one official, who may be easily bribed with campaign money.

California Proposition 46 would be a major change in health care reform requiring alcohol and drug testing for all California physicians. It requires negligence to be reported and submitted to a review process, in which physicians would be suspended until acquittal or punishment is enacted. The law also would require health care practitioners to consult a patient’s drug history before issuing certain prescription drugs.

Those who support the law argue that there is little-to-no assistance for those seeking aid in medical malpractice suits. This law would give them grounds to pursue legal action as well as aid in expediting the process.

The opposition, which ranges in the healthcare 8 field, believes that this is

an unnecessary addition that only makes health costs more expensive in the long run.

They argue that by putting a physician under medical review, after every suspension, hospitals will inevitably become more overcrowded.

The organization, backed by $57 million in support, argues that it also jeopardizes personal privacy by requiring medical records to be reviewed (by pharmacists) before approval of some prescription drugs.

California Proposition 47 deals with misdemeanor sentencing for drug possession offenses, forgery, check fraud, theft and receiving of stolen property in amounts less $950.

It allows for felony charges to be brought against any repeat misdemeanor offenders who have also been convicted of rape, murder, child molestation and sex offense.

Those in favor argue that it stops wasting prison space on lower level, non-violent crimes, and keeps rapists and murders off of the streets. They argue that it reduces spending and estimate the proposition would generate between $750 and $1,25 billion in savings within the following five years.

The opponents mostly are county sheriffs and councilmen who argue much of the benefit to Prop. 47 is already in play.

They argue that California law already requires keeping lowlevel offenders out of long-term prison sentences.

California Proposition 48 seeks to enlist to new tribes into project gaming compacts. It seeks to give the Mono Indians and Wiyot tribe gaming compacts and national tribal rights. The compacts would allow for casinos to then be built on the land of these tribes making them the first two casinos off of existing reservation land.

Those in favor hope the measure will generate more than 4,000 jobs in largely unemployed areas.

Those against claim it breaks the promise to keep casinos only on original Indian areas of the tribes in question.

Countywide Measure 1 would continue to levy an annual parcel tax to keep a park and recreation measure going. The cost would $23 per parcel, which would go toward protecting rivers, beaches, water sources and preserving and maintaining natural areas.

Questioning the Minimum Wage Proposal

By Mitch Harmatz, proprietor of Plaza Automotive and local civic leader Local businesses provide 90 percent of the jobs in this country.

Local business is where many of our children get their first jobs, learn responsibility, fund their college educations, get exposed to “community” and in many cases supplement their families’ income.

You want to ease the fiscal burden of our challenged families? Lower the cost of education; lower the cost of housing; and lower the cost of transportation. Raising minimum wage will not end the astronomical climb in the cost of any of these. The proposed multiple increases to minimum wage will diminish local businesses, harm the economy, and play right into the hands of the transnational corporations who already control 90 percent of what we buy.

Housing: The average one-bedroom apartment in the Los Angeles basin is $1,465 and for a two-bedroom it is $1,862. To be able to afford an average one bedroom apartment in our city you will need to earn $34.18 an hour. We must commit to building affordable housing at public transportation

hubs, infill areas, and allow for density bonuses when affordable housing is included.

Transportation: Instead of raising the cost of public transportation, lower the cost; make it more accessible and make it a more economical choice.

Eliminate free single car access to downtown. Create car free zones.

Make public transportation a clear and obvious choice. The ability to jump on a bus or train and then walk to your local bakery, to dinner or to a show increases local commerce, which in turn, will increase both wages and employment.

Education: In the past decade the cost of public college education has increased 90 percent.

While federal support for public education has decreased 50 percent. Why? Because today education has become big business. The student loan market is now larger than the personal credit card market. Thus, motivating big business to make sure that education remains a debt-based business. In 1966, the year before Ronald Reagan became governor of our state, tuition was free in the UC system. Free, and at the same time a single wage earner could support his or her family and The Squeeze on Small Business/ to p. 23

Fixing Los Angeles:

A New Minimum Wage— and Enforcement of Labor Laws

By Robert Brandin, President of the San Pedro Democratic Club There is a major crisis that is affecting one of the most affluent cities in the United States. This crisis is poverty.

Although Los Angeles is one of the main economic centers in the United States generating great wealth, thousands of Angelenos struggle to survive due to low wages and wage theft.

Although corporate profits and salaries for our nation’s most wealthy individuals has increased drastically throughout the past 30 years, wages for working families has stagnated. It is estimated that the real value of the minimum wage has decreased 30 percent since 1968.

This trend has accelerated in the aftermath of the 2008 economic recession as the majority of jobs that have been created post recession have been jobs in low-wage industries.

This is why I support the initiatives to increase the minimum wage in Los Angeles to a level that allows workers to provide for their families. Increasing the minimum wage in Los Angeles would lift thousands of people out of poverty and put much needed resources into some of the city’s most impoverished communities. Giving people a living wage means better jobs, better schools and safer

communities. Contrary to what many people think, raising wages does not result in a decrease in jobs. Quite the contrary, by providing workers with better wages, workers will increase productivity and profits, which in turn will spur job growth in Los Angeles.

Here, in the Harbor region, we see the effects of this disparity most with the struggle of port truck drivers. More than 10,000 hard-working men and women drive long hours bringing us the clothes, food and consumer goods we depend on. But because employers have been able to perpetuate the fraud that these workers are independent contractors, these drivers are lucky to receive minimum wage after paying for fuel, truck leases and every other business cost.

Some drivers go home with a negative paycheck after a full week of work, owing money to their employer. Fortunately, these drivers have begun to fight back, filing lawsuits and getting determinations from the state that they are employees. Extending these drivers a living wage for the critical work they do would change the economics of the Harbor region and stabilize our communities.

Whether it is a port truck driver, a hotel Enforce Labor Laws/ to p. 23

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ontrasting styles are celebrating the art of sculpture at two of area colleges this month.

Eugene Daub, Sculpture/Drawings/Photos is on display at Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery and Michael Davis, No Place to Hide is the exhibition at the El Camino Art Gallery.

The juxtaposition of these two nationally recognized sculptors, shown in such close proximity, present an exceptional opportunity. Art lovers can view a range of public art created in the United States. Each artist has achieved prominence through works commissioned for national parks, universities, transit stations, courthouses and even the U.S. capitol. Both of these artists reside right in San Pedro.

The long history of public art has its roots in the cultures of the great empires. Greeks and Romans constructed art that was meant to symbolize the culture and the leaders of great society. In recent times, monuments such as the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty have become icons of nation states.

In recent years, public art has increasingly expanded in scope and application, both into wider and more challenging areas of the art form. And also, across a much broader range of what might be called our public realm.

Such cultural interventions have often been realized in response to creatively engaging a community’s sense of ‘place’ or ‘well-being’ in society.

Michael Davis and Eugene Daub employ completely contrasting aesthetics, but both create public art that engages their audience through site-specific installations.

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6th Street between Mesa and Centre Streets will be filled with the sounds of traditional and contemporary Latin-American performers.

As you explore, enjoy strolling musicians, local color and delicious Latin American cuisine and international offerings from dozens of San Pedro’s great Downtown restaurants!

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Bringing the Dead Back To Life—Musically

By John Farrell, Curtain Call writer

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the story

That was several years ago and Buffer and Sills stayed in touch. “... Jonas and I continued to talk and work small projects together. One day, Jonas decided he wanted to start a company that would be a collaborative art space and asked me to be his partner.

“We looked at real estate but couldn’t find a store front with apartments overhead in an area we desired to create a black box theater.

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of a man brought back to life through a miracle of science, a body revived from the grave.

Frankenstein, the Musical tells the same story, with music. So does Young Frankenstein, the movie and musical by Mel Brooks. The success of Brooks’ musical has overshadowed Frankenstein, the Musical, an off-Broadway show from 2007 that briefly toured the East Coast.

Maybe it was time for Frankenstein, the Musical to be discovered on the West Coast. And who better to do that than a man who has been, for several years now, dead, at least as a producer and director? Art often imitates life. If there isn’t the smell of ozone about Ray Buffer, once the director of the Relevant Stage in San Pedro (he is best known, perhaps, for Kiss Me, Kate at the Warner Grand Theatre several years ago), there is a smell of greasepaint and of sweat as he and his partner and co-producer Jonas Sills get their production of Frankenstein, the Musical off the ground in a theater in Long Beach. The theater hasn’t been used much but seems perfect to bring Buffer and a musical back to life.

That theater is on the second floor of the five-story Scottish Rite Cathedral at 8th and Elm in downtown Long Beach. The building, a large concrete structure built in the 1920s, is used by the Masons for fraternal events. It is also used for wedding receptions and other private gatherings.

And it has a theater!

The Cathedral is an historic landmark in Long Beach. Built of steel and concrete with a terra cotta exterior in the Romanesque Revival style, the five-story structure was designed by Wright and Gentry architectural firm. The auditorium is noted for its hand-painted designs and 30-foot high ceiling.

That theater is called the Ernest Borgnine Theatre, after the late actor who was a 33rd degree Mason. It was named in 2011 when Borgnine was still around, but it hasn’t seen much theater recently.

“That theater has been underutilized and it is Art in Relation’s vision to become a resident company and help the space to thrive,” Buffer said in a recent email conversation.

Sills and Buffer are co-directors of that new acting company, Art in Relation, which is producing Frankenstein in downtown Long Beach. They also are planning, in December, a new production of Buffer’s version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which was successful in several productions at San Pedro’s Warner Grand.

This is a rebirth of sorts for Buffer, who was producer, director and star of many productions at the Warner Grand.

“I had ceased productions of shows in San Pedro with The Relevant Stage in 2012 following Kiss Me Kate,” Buffer said. “Although very well received, it had cost more than any other show to produce and we just didn’t see the growth necessary over those four years to stay afloat.

So I returned to the retail sector and gave myself a hiatus.

“I knew Jonas Sills from having seen him perform in Candide at Kentwood Playhouse, and later cast him to be in a production of Forever Plaid in 2012.

Unfortunately, that production, which would have taken place in Fullerton, had its funding yanked out from under it and we had to cancel the show. However, both Jonas and I knew we wanted to work together and we stayed in touch and became better friends over the past couple years.”

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Eat Responsibly

Choose seafood that is fished or farmed in ways that have less impact on the environment. The Seafood Watch smartphone app is a free handy device providing up-to-date recommendations for ocean-friendly seafood and sushi: http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/our-app

Sam Choy with fish he’s setting to prepare.

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By Lori Lynn Hirsch Stokoe, Food Writer & Photographer

orn and raised in Hawaii, Chef Sam Choy explains how the islanders would watch the old Hawaiian “landkeepers” take care of the environment and how they would embrace the magic of kapu.

Kapu represents a period of time when there is no fishing, no taking from the earth. “It is when we leave the earth time to replenish itself,” Choy said.

“If we keep depleting, there will be nothing left for our great great grandkids. We need to protect.

We need to care. We want them to have what we are enjoying.”

Choy’s philosophy has always been like that: protecting, caring. He lives that way, he says.

Keeping the ocean pristine and vibrant, allowing the nature of the ocean to be plentiful.

“Living in Hawaii, you have to believe in that, we are surrounded by water, after all.”

Working to not deplete any species of fish, he discovered that the folks at Monterey Bay Aquarium had been doing a great job with sustainability issues. He was invited to be a part of their project 4 years ago. Recently, when the opportunity came to promote seafood sustainability in Southern California, he was happy to come to San Pedro to extend the message.

“If we allow that to be a part of our daily life and livelihood, it will be there for the future

generations,” he said.

Known as the “Godfather of Poke,” Choy loves working with fresh fish and keeping it simple. Poke (pronounced PO-kay) describes the method of preparation by cutting into cubes or slicing. Fish, vegetables, and even tofu - can all become poke. Choy is famous for making poke super-popular in the islands, when in 1991 he and a friend sponsored the first poke contest on the Big Island.

Long before Capt.Cook “discovered” Hawaii, islanders were eating poke. Reef fish would be cut up and seasoned with sea salt collected from evaporated pockets of seawater along the shore. Then limu (seaweed) and inamona (ground candlenut) were mixed in. Later, after contact with the outside world, Hawaiians started growing chili peppers. Around 200 years ago, they enthusiastically adopted this new spicy taste and added chili pepper to the traditional poke recipe.

The old-style poke is still very much enjoyed today. But as Hawaii became a melting pot for various cultures and cuisines, poke has undergone an exotic evolution. Choy and his contemporaries have been creating a new wave of poke dishes.

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but delicious pokes of the past.

At the Sustainable Seafood Expo hosted by the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium at Crafted on Oct. 12, Choy demonstrated two classic poke dishes: one with pole-caught yellowfin tuna (ahi), the other with avocado.

Pole-caught, Pacific yellowfin tuna is rated “best choice” by Seafood Watch, a site that recommends what seafood to buy or avoid, to help consumers and chefs alike in selecting items that are fished or farmed in ways that have less impact on the environment. The Seafood Watch smartphone app is a free handy device to bring consumers up-to-date recommendations for oceanfriendly seafood and sushi: www.seafoodwatch. org/seafood-recommendations/our-app.

In addition to raw preparations, poke can also be cooked. In Chef Sam Choy’s Bow-tie Mahi-mahi Salad, the fish is cut into cubes and pan-seared for about a minute. Tossed with a lemony cilantro mayonnaise and vegetables.

It is a pasta salad made with readily available ingredients and has broad appeal. Be sure to check out his original recipe below. It is another sustainable seafood dish, wild mahi-mahi caught by longline off the U.S. coast and is rated a “good alternative” by Seafood Watch.

Recipe

Boardwalk Grill

C a s u a l waterfront dining at its finest! Famous for slabs of Chicago-style baby back ribs, fish-n-chips, 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 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

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“Pasta salads and poke are made for each other – both are best served cold, both use a blend of multiple flavors, and both taste great.

The best thing about this dish, aside from the taste, is its versatility. If mahi-mahi is not your favorite, simply substitute ahi, wahoo, or any other fish. You simply cannot go wrong.”

-Sam Choy Ingredients: • 1 pound mahi-mahi, cut into 1-inch dice • 8 ounces bow-tie pasta, cooked • 10 ounces frozen peas, thawed • 1/4 cup red onion, thinly sliced • 1/2 cup pitted olives, halved • 2 tomatoes, trimmed and cut into wedges For the Dressing: • 1/4 cup mayonnaise • 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest • 3 tablespoons lemon juice • 2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped • 1/4 teaspoon salt • 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Playa El Cuco is the quintessential El Salvadorean beach and El Cuco Restaurant s e r v e s quintessential Salvadorean cuisine right here in San Pedro. A wide variety of pupusas-made fresh daily-plus empanadas, platanos, pastelitos, as well as authentic Mexican favorites. Wine and imported and domestic beers. Breakfast, lunch and dinner served 7 days a week. Free parking. El Cuco Restaurant • 234 N. Pacific Ave., San Pedro • (310) 521-9509 Happy Diner The Happy Diner isn’t your average diner. If you pay attention to their special menu on their blackboards (yeah plural, they have about three), it’s almost a certainty you’re going to find something new from week to week. The cuisine runs the gamut of Italian and Mexican cuisine to American

The favorite local cafe for the point Fermin area of San Pedro great breakfasts, lunches and even dinners. Serving traditional offering for breakfast along with specialty omelets, espresso and cappuccino.

Lunches include a delicious selection of soups, salads, burgers and sandwiches with hearty portions as well as Chef’s Creations. Dinners feature Top Sirloin Steak or Prime Rib as well as a kids menu. Beer and wine are served. Free Wi-Fi and is pet friendly on the patio. Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. close to Cabrillo Beach and the Korean Bell, Point Fermin area.

Lighthouse Cafe • 508 West 39th St., San Pedro.

310- 548- 3354 Mishi’s Strudel Bakery Mishi’s is a fragrant landmark on 7th Street, where it is possible to find Nirvana by following your nose.

The enticing aroma of baking strudel is impossible to resist, and the café is warm and welcoming like your favorite auntie’s house. Aniko and Mishi have expanded the menu to include homemade goulash, soups and a variety of sweet and savory Hungarian strudels, crépes and pastas. Take a frozen strudel home to bake in your own kitchen and create that heavenly aroma at your house.

Mishi’s Strudel Bakery and Café, 309 W.7th St., San Pedro • (310) 832-6474 www.mishisstrudel. com Nazelie’s Lebanese Cuisine

Nazelie’s Lebanese Cuisine is a favorite of the neighborhood for the terrific kabobs, beef or chicken 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 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.

PORTS O’CALL WATERFRONT DINING S i n c e 19 61 we ’ ve extended a hear ty welcome to visitors from every corner of the globe. Delight in an awe-inspiring view of the dynamic LA 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 Award-Winning 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 San Pedro Brewing Company A microbrewery and American grill, SPBC features handc r a f t e d aw a r d - w i n n i n g ales and lagers ser ved with creative pastas, bbq, sandwiches, salads and burgers. A full bar with madefrom-scratch margaritas and a martini menu all add fun to the warm and friendly atmosphere. WI-FI bar connected for Web surfing and e-mail—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 SPIRIT CRUISES An instant party!

Complete with all you need to relax and enjoy while the majesty of the harbor slips by. Our three yachts and seasoned staff provide for an exquisite excursion every time, and “all-inclusive” pricing makes party planning easy!

Dinner Cruise features a 3-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 The Whale & Ale San Pedro’s British G a s t ro P u b o f fe r s comfortable dining in 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 Thursday 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) 8320363 • www.whaleandale.com

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Preparation: Heat a sauté pan over high heat. Sear the mahi-mahi cubes on all sides. This should take about one minute.

Put mayonnaise, lemon zest and juice, cilantro, salt and pepper in a large bowl and whisk to combine. Add the seared fish, cooked pasta, thawed peas, onions and olives to the dressing and toss to combine. Arrange tomato wedges on top.

For a family-style presentation, simply put the bowl on the table and watch the food disappear.

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Fresh hot or cold sandwiches, gourmet pizzas, and fresh salads are also ser ved.

Try the “White Pizza” with smooth ricotta, mozzarella and sharp Pecorino-Romano 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

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Chef Sam Choy’s Bow-tie Mahi-mahi Salad

Caliente Cantina has a variety of hot bar cuisine and salads, with a variety of hot wings, including o r a n g e te r i y a k i chicken wings and the special Caliente wings made with habanero sauce.

T h ey a l s o o f fe r burgers, fries and nachos. Part sports bar and part lounge, Caliente Cantina takes full advantage of the two story venue with a bar on both floors, regularly featuring live entertainment. Happy hour 4-7p.m. seven days a week. Open seven days a week, from noon to 11 a.m. weekdays and from noon to midnight on weekends. Caliente Cantina Lounge, 465 W. 7th Street, San Pedro • (310) 684-1753

continental. The Happy Diner chefs are always creating s o m e t h i n g n e w.

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 lonchera trucks. You can take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables, prepared anyway you like. Another item that’s emerged from their flair for the creative is their chicken enchiladas soup made from scratch, a soup Roman describes as very thin and flavorful. Happy Diner • (310) 2410917 • 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro

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A Grand Opening for Village Treasures

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One of Long Beach’s largest stores of African art, textiles masks and musical instruments, Village Treasures, reopened Oct. 11.

Its new location is on 247 E. Broadway in the Pacific Tower Building, just two blocks away from its old location.

Village Treasures proprietor, Max Viltz, who has been bringing African culture and artifacts to Long Beach for the past 17 years, celebrated this transition with longtime friends and customers.

Viltz treated her guests to live entertainment from Long Beach Cultural Center’s exciting Dembrebrah Drum and Dance Ensemble (an African dance troupe from Long Beach Cultural Center), healthy appetizers and beverages.

Max Viltz (left) celebrating the reopening of Village Treasures. Photo courtesy of Village Treasures

Jazz musician Michael Sessions Quartet performed, featuring the talented female vocalist, Radio. Guests were also able to observe the fascinating progress of a live art creation by Enkone throughout the evening.

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Daub, through his heroic, humanistic monuments of historical figures, and Davis through a minimalist theory that he equates with political consciousness.

Live Music at Harold’s Place On this night, a crazy blend of styles and approaches will be showcased. Majicbullet Theory 21+ No Cover! MajicBulletTheory, Hellbat and The American Daisycutters will be at Harold’s Venue: Harold’s Place Location: 1908 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro Rosa Parks by Eugene Daub

for a white passenger on a crowded segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala. She is seated, dressed in a heavy wool coat and clutching her purse as she looks out of an unseen window, waiting for the police.

Daub’s exhibit embodies the deeply felt humanity in his works.

“Eugene is uniquely qualified in the world,” said curator Ron Linden. “There just aren’t that many people who can do that anymore. His work is about portraiture and it is driven by history. His works are all public works. Once they are commissioned and installed, they are kind of like gone. He doesn’t really have any control over where and how they are installed. The realm of public art is a whole different game.”

Daub utilizes the lost wax casting method, which is a lost art in itself. The exhibition at Harbor College displays not only finished works, but sketches and molds used to transform clay figures into bronze sculpture.

Included in this exhibit are full-sized statues and maquettes of the Lewis and Clark monument, the Rosa Parks statue, the “Japanese Internment Monument” and many more.

Each of these exhibits presents an opportunity for students and the public to study the process and finished works of sculptors working in the elite field of public art.

Eugene Daub, Sculpture / Drawings / Photos is showing at Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, 1111 Figueroa Place in Wilmington.

The show runs through Dec. 4. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. through 4 p.m.

Michael Davis, No Place to Hide is showing at El Camino College Art Gallery, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd. in Torrance. The show runs through Oct. 30. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesday through Thursday 12 to 8 p.m. It is closed weekends.

Revmatics Rock band Revmatics will be rocking the mic at Brew Co. The show starts at 10 p.m. Cover is $3.

Details: www.sanpedrobrewing.com Venue: San Pedro Brewing Company Location: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

OCTOBER 18

Noise Fest 14 Check out Music, Art and Poetry by Freda Rente’ a.k.a. Sista Sin and friends in San Pedro. There is no cover charge. Guests must be 21 years older or older.

Venue: Harold’s Place Location: 1908 S Pacific Ave., San Pedro Richard Smith Fingerstyle Guitar Considered one of the best in this genre, Richard specializes in the fingerstyle tradition of Merle Travis, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. The show starts at 3 p.m. Cover is $20.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Little Joe’s Birthday Celebration Join this Grammy-winning godfather of tejano, norteño and Latin music and his band La Familia as they celebrate his 74th birthday with a concert of Mexican music, country and blues. Email to purchase tickets. Tickets are $50 to $70. The celebration starts at 6 p.m.

Details: tonyjaramillo47@yahoo.com, www. grandannex.com Venue: Warner Grand Theatre Location: 476 W. 6th St., San Pedro John Kaye, Steppenwolf Tribute Comprised of World Class Players of today’s rock industry, John Kaye & Steppenwolf Tribute have selected some of the most recognizable songs from the psychedelic age of rock that defined the age of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’roll. The show starts at 8 p.m. Cover is $20.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

OCTOBER 24

The GrandMothers of Invention The GrandMothers of Invention are the only Frank Zappa and Mothers of Invention alumni who have been consistently performing the music of the maestro since 2003. Cover is $25. The show starts at 8 p.m.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Bad Apples Reggae band, Bad Apples will be at Brewco, moving people according its island rhythms. The

State of Grace State of Grace will take the stage at 10 p.m.

Oct. 25. Cover is $3.

Details: www.sanpedrobrewing.com Venue: San Pedro Brewing Company Location: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

OCTOBER 26

A Band with No Name - America & Fortunate Son C.C.R Tribute Members of the renowned Eagles tribute show, The Long Run, Experience The Eagles perform as A Band With No Name, the only America tribute actually approved by Americans themselves. The cover is $25. The show starts at 3 p.m.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Community/Family Dark Harbor: SoCal’s Only Haunt That Is...

Actually Haunted The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is rising from the depths of a rich, haunted history to frighten those who dare through Nov. 2. This year’s Dark Harbor is thrilled to unveil a spectacle of new attractions that include two brand new mazes and the new Voodoo Village. Beloved veteran characters including The Ringmaster and all grotesque spirits of the Queen will make a chilling return amidst freaks, food, and live entertainment. Tickets start at $24.

Details: (877) 342-0738; www.queenmary.com/ events/dark-harbor Venue: Queen Mary Location: 1126 Queens Hwy, Long Beach

OCTOBER 16

Circus Vargas Returns to San Pedro From Oct. 16 through Oct. 20, Circus Vargas will be in town with a new act, Agostino Maltese from Venezuela and his “Wheel of Death”. This terrifyingly thrilling display takes place high atop the 35-foot cold steel revolving pendulum.

A daring duel with destiny and the forces of gravity. No harnesses. No safety nets. Spinning at breakneck speed, this fearless daredevil, leaves audiences breathless in anticipation of his next dangerous move.

Details: www.circusvargas.com Venue: Ports O’Call Village Location: 77 Berth, San Pedro

October 18

Spooky Night The Point Fermin Lighthouse will be transformed into an eerie place for trick-or-treaters, from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 18. Decorate a Jack O’ Lantern and trick-or-treat bag. Cost is $15 per family.

Details: (310) 241-0612 Venue: Point Fermin Lighthouse Location: 807 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro

OCTOBER 19

Autumn Sea Fair Celebrate the bounty of the sea with fun in the sun games and hometown spirit, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 19, at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro. The event will include exhibits, demonstrations and contests.

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CabrilloMarineAquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Location: 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro Calendar continued on page 18.

October 16 – 29, 2014

Eugene Daub, Sculpture / Drawings / Photos Eugene Daub’s work documents many of the greatest struggles in American history.

Among his themes are the crossing of the American west through the Lewis and Clark expedition and the ultimate success of the civil rights movement.

The artist has completed more than 40 public arts commissions nationwide. He has artwork in three U.S. capitols and collections in the Smithsonian Museum and the British Art Museum.

His most famous work is his statue of Rosa Parks, installed in the U.S. capitol. The statue of Mrs. Parks captures her waiting to be arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat

Kei Akagi & Jason Harnell Duo The Kei Akagi & Jason Harnell Duo will perform, at 8 p.m. Oct. 17, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro. Cover is $20.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

OCTOBER 25

Expansions - Dave Liebman Group After more than two decades of the Dave Liebman Group (featuring guitarist Vic Juris) the NEA Jazz Master unveils Expansions, a brilliant new adventure featuring members of the new generation of talented musicians who are eager to alter the language of jazz. Cover is $25. The show starts at 8 p.m.

Details: (800) 403-3447 Venue: Alvas Showroom Location: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

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Michael Davis: No Place to Hide This exhibition represents about 34 years of work for artist Michael Davis. Davis titled his art business “M.A.D. Art” (mutually assured destruction) in response to the genuine peril of nuclear annihilation.

“The body of work goes back to the mid-80s” Davis said. “At that particular time, I was doing some research on nuclear energy. I was interested in the proliferation of it and how it relates to my own life. I picked up the book No Place to Hide

by David Bradley. It was a book that influenced me especially when I realized that he had written the book in the year of my birth, 1948.”

The best-selling book, a memoir of the Bikini Islands atomic bomb tests in the late 1940s and early 1950s, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear testing.

The artist found himself struck by pivotal moments in history. Moments that occurred in his own life, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy assassination and the moon landing.

He realized, as he compiled the exhibition, that he had created a lifelong theme to his work. One of the first pieces to greet visitors to the exhibit is Davis’s version of the “Doomsday Clock,” a plywood, neon paint, digital print, on plexiglass.

The familiar image is known to warn the world of the dangers of an imminent nuclear war. Davis’ piece is based on a photo of the actual first atomic bomb detonated at Alamogordo, N.M. He updated his piece with fluorescent colors that convey the effect of irradiation. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, our clock is currently set at five minutes to midnight.

“The symbology of the 1950s was embedded in my consciousness early on and remains relevant today,” Davis said. “Industrial refuse, the excess of Cold War industry, is included in my art materials.

But I also look to science and astronomy, the infinitesimally small and infinitely large to seek connections that bind us together in spirit, if not ideology.”

Davis’ analytic conceptual style, based on moral and social issues, utilizing fabricated materials, may seem diametrically opposed to the warm classical bronze work of Eugene Daub.

However, each artist addresses the challenges of mankind in today’s world.

OCTOBER 17

Grace Kelly Grace Kelly will perform, at 8 p.m. Oct. 17, at the Grand Annex in San Pedro. Weaned on Stan Getz, a saxophone player since the age of 10, and graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Grace Kelly has hit the jazz world by storm. Now, at only 22, this straight ahead jazz sax phenom (and surprisingly, a vocalist, too) has released eight albums, earned many regional and national recognition awards. General admission is $20 in advance and $25 at the door, Details: grandvision.org Venue: Grand Annex Location: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

show starts at 10 p.m. Cover is $3.

Details: www.sanpedrobrewing.com Venue: San Pedro Brewing Company Location: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

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OCTOBER 19

Green Hills Memorial Park Harvest Festival Family event featuring a pumpkin patch, corn maze, pony rides, petting zoo, hay rides and arts and crafts. Costume parade is from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The festival ends at 3 p.m.

Details: (310) 521-4460.

Venue: Green Hills Memorial Park Location: 27501 S. Western Ave., RPV

OCTOBER 25

Carson Pays Tribute to Labor Leader Larry Itliong Carson and various organizations will join the entire community in honoring the life’s work and legacy of Larry Itliong, a Filipino-American labor leader and organizer, starting at 9 a.m. Oct. 25.

The tribute march will begin at the USW-Local 675 Union Hall, 1200 E. 220th and ending at the east parking lot of the Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald Community.

Details: (310) 830-7600 ext. 1000, (310) 9878886 Venue: Carson Community Center Location: 801 E. Carson St., Carson

OCTOBER 30

Nightmare On 6th Street In the spirit of the season, Port of Los Angeles High School Advanced Drama class presents Nightmare On 6th Street: a comedy variety show. The show is filled with hilarious studentwritten sketches, haunting original ghost stories, bumbling clowns, and the magic of Jim Cross.

Starts at 6 p.m. Tickets available online and at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m. The show starts at 7 p.m. General admission is $15. Limited availability.

Details: www.grandannex.com Venue: Warner Grand Theatre Location: 476 W. 6th St., San Pedro

November 1

San Pedro Día de Los Muertos Celebrate San Pedro’s Día de Los Muertos Festival, Nov. 1, in downtown San Pedro. The streets will come alive with art, culture, delicious cuisine and live entertainment. Admission is free.

Details: http://sanpedrodayofthedead.com Venue: Downtown San Pedro Location: Los Angeles Waterfront

Theater/Film

October 16 – 29, 2014

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Spring Awakening Spring Awakening will be playing, from Oct. 18 through Nov. 15, at the Long Beach Playhouse.

Duncan’s Sheik’s indie rock musical, Spring Awakening, is a coming of age story based on the controversial German play Spring Awakening (1891) by Frank Wedekind. The play was banned in Germany for some time due to its frank portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. The musical, first produced in 2006, tells the story of teenagers discovering the intricacies - good and bad - of their own sexuality. Adults pay $24, seniors pay $21 and students pay $14.

Details: (562) 494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse.

Location: 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach Glorious!

International City Theatre presents Peter Quilter’s Glorious! through Oct. 26. Glorious! is the hilarious true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the worst singer in the world. Florence warbled and screeched her way through every performance to an audience who cried out with laughter. But this delusional and joyously happy woman paid little attention to her critics, comfortably surrounded by a circle of devoted friends who were almost as eccentric as she was.

Details: (562) 436-4610; www.

InternationalCityTheatre.com Venue: Long Beach Performing Arts Center Location: 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

October 19

Educating Rita Educating Rita, the highly acclaimed and popular play about personal growth and the lifelong nature of learning, recently opened at Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro. The play, written by British dramatist

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Willy Russell, is about hairdresser, determined to learn “everything there is to know.” The hairdresser is paired with a jaded and burned-out professor of literature for tutoring. The play runs Wednesdays and Thursdays through Oct. 23. A Sunday matinee is scheduled for 2 p.m. Oct. 19, after which the creative team will be available for 10 to 15 minutes for post-show discussion with the audience.

Details: www.littlefishtheatre.org Venue: Little Fish Theatre Location: 777 Centre St. San Pedro

OCTOBER 25

The 39 Steps The 39 Steps is playing at the Long Beach Playhouse through Oct. 25. The 39 Steps was a mystery novel written in 1915. In 1935, Alfred Hitchcock interpreted the story on film. The plot centers on a London man who tries to help a counter-espionage agent prevent The 39 Steps (a spy group) from stealing top secret information.

Adults pay $24, seniors pay $21 and students pay $14.

Details: (562) 494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse.

Location: 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

Art OCTOBER 17

Eugene Daub, Sculpture / Drawings / Photos Daub is renowned for expressive portraits of well-known public figures. President Barack Obama unveiled his full-length sculpture of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks on March 27, 2013, in the Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol. Daub has completed more than 40 major public commissions nationwide. This engaging installation includes preliminary conceptual sketches, finished presentation drawings, maquettes, full-scale works in bronze, plaster, and clay. The exhibition runs through Dec. 4.

Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., and by appointment.

Details: 310-233-4411 or 310-600-4873 Venue: Harbor College Art Gallery Location: 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington Michael Davis, No Place to Hide Michael Davis, No Place to Hide, provides a glimpse into the artists stunning creative output from the 1980’s to 2014. No Place to Hide includes sculptural and two-dimensional works that range from quizzical to didactic and from philosophic to apocalyptic. All bear the earmarks of precision, rigorous artistic scrutiny and elegance that are typical of Michael Davis.

Exhibition closes Thursday, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m.

Gallery is open Mon. and Tues., 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Wed. and Thurs. 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Fridays and weekends.

Details: (310) 660-3010 and smeiers@elcamino. edu Venue: El Camino College Art Gallery Location: 16007 Crenshaw Blvd. Torrance,

OCTOBER 22

Crossing Borders: Stories of Migration in Contemporary Art Crossing Borders: Stories of Migration in Contemporary Art is on exhibit, Oct. 22 through Dec. 4, at CSU Dominguez Hills. The exhibition featuring six California artists whose work explores the visual impact of contemporary immigration and migration.

Venue: University Art Gallery, LaCorte Hall, A-107 Location: 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson

OCTOBER 26

Port Photography Winners on Display The Arts Council for Long Beach announced the three winners of a Port of Long Beach photography competition which will be on display through Oct. 26. The first-place winner was Cherene Birkholz for her photo “Oriental Queen.” The second-place winner was Joan Day for “Jewels of the Night.”

And the third-place winner was Dave Freeman for “Watercolors.” There are almost 100 images on display, at the Liberty Gallery & Event Space.

Details: polb.com/phototour, www.artslb.org Venue: Liberty Gallery & Event Space Location: 435 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

Dead Back to Life

the park. Noise became an issue and so we looked at the Scottish Rite, met with them and developed a working relationship that allowed us to afford the use of the space for six performances.”

Frankenstein, the Musical is the obvious choice to open a new theatrical space on the weekend before and the weekend of Halloween. Buffer said it was a choice he made years before.

“It’s a show that I fell in love with when I first heard it after buying the cast album at a Huntington Beach Barnes and Nobles in 2009,” Buffer said.

“The show had been briefly Off Broadway in 2007 and had toured for a small time after, but was overshadowed by Mel Brooks’ stage adaptation of his own classic movie, on Broadway that same year,” Buffer said.

Art in Relation aims to shake the dust off this under-appreciated work and bring new life to it.

“It is a faithful adaptation of Shelley’s novel with serious music and operatic overtones. I sold Jonas Sills on it when he first heard it. I know

Jonas’ voice well and I thought the role of Victor Frankenstein would be a perfect showcase for the purity of his voice. Likewise, I felt the role of the creature was well suited for me.

“We agreed to produce it and I would direct it, even though we had precast ourselves, we held open auditions for all roles - keeping an eye out for any talent that we might discover that could best fill the roles. We ended up with a powerful cast of strong singers and actors from Long Beach, Torrance, Los Angeles, Hollywood and even San Diego.”

The result, the return to musical life for Buffer, will be on display next week and over Halloween weekend in Long Beach. To misquote the movie: “He’s alive!”

Tickets are $18.50 for general admission, $25 for reserved seating and $10 for guests 12 and younger. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., through Nov. 1.

Details: (714) 396-6110; www.artinrelation.com Venue: Scottish Rite Cathedral Ernest Borgnine Theatre Location: 855 Elm Ave., Long Beach

Eugene Daub’s bronze sculptures were stolen along with a car Oct. 2 at the Art Loft in San Pedro. Photo courtesy of Eugene Daub

Grand Theft Auto Results in Stolen Bronze Heads

By Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer

Theft tarnished the monthly San Pedro Art Walk this October.

Artist Carole Hungerford, of the Loft Gallery at South Mesa Street, reported that she was the target of thieves who entered the gallery during the First Thursday Art Walk. The thieves took her car keys and made off with her 2003 White Dodge Caravan, license number: 5B1B780.

“The Conversation,” internationally renowned artist Eugene Daub’s bronze sculpture, was in her car.

Hungerford states that her keys were inside her Loft studio during the Art Walk

on Oct. 2. She suspects the thief took the keys while she was speaking with a visitor and went into the parking lot to find the car that matched the keys.

“The Conversation” was in her car because the piece was going on loan to an exhibition at Harbor College featuring Daub’s work. It is doubtful that the car thief realized the value of the artwork. Daub is noted for his recent sculpture of Rosa Parks that was installed in the U.S. capitol. The sculpture consists of four 3-inch by 6-inch busts cast in bronze, which was unmounted on its base. The artist still has that in his possession.

If anyone has information regarding the vehicle or the art stolen it is recommended that they contact the Los Angeles Police Department at (310) 732-3500.

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The Arrival of the USS Iowa to Fanfare and Fireworks

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When the Pacific Battleship Center emerged as a rival, the man at the helm was Robert Daniels except, his name wasn’t Robert Daniels.

Wong saw his picture in a newspaper above the name Robert Kent.

“That’s how we knew that he [Robert Kent] was Robert Daniels,” Wong said recalling her organization’s initial amazement at the discovery.

elsewhere, should it fall below 100,000 visitors a year. The center projected the ship would see 400,000 visitors each year, but as of this year it has fallen short by half that number.

Origins of the Pacific Battleship and the Betrayal

With almost 20 years experience in various capacities at the Vallejo, Calif.-based Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square, Merylin Wong has worked to acquire and preserve United States naval history for future generations.

“It’s the result of people joining the organization and then leaving with enough information to disrupt their efforts,” she said, when asked about why her organization lost out acquiring the USS Iowa.

It has been three years since the Navy awarded the USS Iowa to the Pacific Battleship Center, but Wong and her organization are still smarting from the betrayal. It was only after speaking with Wong that it became clear that efforts to secure the USS Iowa on the West Coast were a long term effort.

Wong identified Jonathan Williams as one of the orchestrators of the betrayal. Williams became a volunteer with the Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square in 2002. Not long after he came aboard the organization, Williams introduced his friend Robert Daniels to Wong and the rest of the board. But even at that time, Daniels was not a new name to Wong.

“Robert Daniels reached out to me independently years before we met in person.”

Wong said.

The seasoned battleship nonprofit head noted these kinds of projects always draw attention.

Anyone wanting national exposure would be eager to associate with an endeavor such as this.

“It’s a source of pride for many Americans,” Wong explained. “We’re honoring veterans and educating the public about the importance of our sea services and contributions of our men and

women in the services.”

The Historic Ships Memorial had worked with the California congressional delegation, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Barbara Boxer and their Bay Area delegation, which had appropriated the $3 million needed just to move the ship from Rhode Island to California in 2001.

After a few years, Daniels and Williams were elevated to positions of significant responsibility that put them in contact with the organization’s donors and contacts. Wong said they worked in this capacity for more than a year.

When Williams and Daniels left the Historic Ships Memorial, the organization suddenly saw the pair with people that split with the organization years previously. Wong believes that Williams and Daniels had someone close to the Navy panel passing on to them vital information.

“The only people who I see could have conceivably shared this information would have been someone in the Navy who was a part of the evaluation team,” Wong said. “We would have to submit to them updates and we disclosed the identity of these fundraisers.

And the person we suspected of having something to do with it was fired. Anyway, it was a very painful loss for us.”

Wong explained that Williams and Daniels were a part of her organization when they had assembled a capable engineering team that had qualified and priced out all of the work of repairing and renovating the battleship.

“You can imagine someone who was working with you for awhile and had all of that information available to them. Everyone was trusting that this was a united effort… It was very upsetting and very disappointing,” Wong said.

Wong noted that arranging the financing to preserve an old decommissioned ship, locating a berth and turning it into a museum can take as long as a decade, sometimes two Troubled Waters/ to p. 22 19 October 16 - 29, 2014

the waterfront since it would be visible from the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Harbor Freeway.

Typically speaking, floating battleship museums do well at being a complement to a tourist destination, not the focus of a place aiming to be tourist destination. Indeed, a port study suggested that the battleship may draw 188,000 visitors per year—a study the Pacific Battleship Center vigorously disputed. Nevertheless, it is likely this study is what motivated port officials to require a $15 million fund to cover potential shortfalls over the first three years of the ship’s operation as a floating museum.

Panicking supporters, from thenCouncilwoman Janice Hahn on down, said it would have killed the entire proposal.

“I understand that if the resolution you have before you today passes, this will probably torpedo the ship and this project,” Hahn was quoted as telling the Harbor Commissioners.

“This battleship has gone through wars and probably through some storms. But it’s never gone through the bureaucracy it’s going through now with the port staff today.”

By May 2012, the Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners approved the final lease agreement to bring the battleship to the Port of Los Angeles permanently. Included in the lease agreement were provisions for the Pacific Battleship Center to pay into an escrow fund $5 million that would cover towing the ship

Jonathan Williams, Mike Getscher and Robert Kent on the USS Iowa, circa 2012. Photo by Greg Bishop

Random Lengths, “Trouble on the Iowa “ cited an email exchange regarding questions about board member travel expenses to Patrick Salazar.

The article should have attributed that exchange to an operation team member, who at this time remains unidentified for personal reasons. We regret the confusion. Random Lengths continues to strive to bring fair and accurate reporting.

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The Pacific Battleship Center was hardly six months old before the fresh faced, smooth talking president of the nonprofit was quoted in the Daily Breeze challenging San Pedro residents to prove how much they want the ship in the Los Angeles Harbor: “I think the people of San Pedro, if they want this ship, need to convey that to the port commissioners,” said the Pacific Battleship Center president, Robert Kent.

Kent was already becoming a recognized figure in the Harbor Area as he ramped up the effort to bring the USS Iowa to San Pedro. The Orange County-based, self-employed contractor, had seemingly came out of nowhere in 2010. He began raising the interest level for bringing a monument of the Harbor Area’s naval history to the Los Angeles Waterfront.

A clean-cut, suited and booted Kent presented a simple pitch that would neatly align with the goals and interests of the Los Angeles Waterfront: Bring to the harbor a tourist draw to further San Pedro’s ambition to become a destination town.

The proposal would cost zero taxpayer dollars and there would be nothing but profit to gain in acquiring that floating piece of history. The USS Iowa, as Kent would note during a Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council presentation in August 2010, “is a piece of history that our children would be able to touch and to hold instead of just reading about it in a book.”

The plan may have sounded too good to be true, but it had enough backers, even at this point, to look like the real deal. Early on, the Pacific Battleship Center had Harbor Area veterans such as Bryan Moss who served on the USS Iowa during the Korean War and the grandson of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H. Delano Roosevelt.

Kent also had on board two fundraisers: one for the West Coast and the other from Iowa.

Moss and Roosevelt began reaching out to Harbor Area Neighborhood Councils, city councils members and every locally elected official at every level of government.

By the end of the summer, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to bring the USS Iowa battleship to the Port of Los Angeles. The push to bring the battleship had gained so much momentum that it seemed like fait accompli.

Sure, the Pacific Battleship Center was in competition with a group in Northern California, but with the momentum behind Southern California, that group felt almost like a non-entity.

Officials at the Port of Los Angeles, judging from their earlier moves when the USS Iowa proposal was first presented to them, weren’t convinced that the battleship would do what Kent was saying it would in making San Pedro a tourist destination.

Indeed, the Pacific Battleship Center still had to complete a feasibility study and an Environmental Impact Report.

By Christmas 2011, the Los Angeles City Council, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission and the Navy had agreed to give the Los Angeles Harbor Area the battleship.

“The whole waterfront plan really comes together” if the USS Iowa project is approved, Kent was quoted as saying at the time.

Kent argued that with it located at Berth 87, the battleship would be a key marketing focus for

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DBA/LEGAL FILINGS Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014202777 The following person is doing business as: ABC Electric, 26201 Vermont Ave #102, Harbor City, CA 90710. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Ferenc Hudak, 26201 Vermont Ave #102, Harbor City, CA 90710. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 7/28/2009. 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/. Ferenc Hudak, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 28, 2014. 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: 09/04/14, 09/18/14, 10/02/14, 10/16/2014

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014204674 The following person is doing business as: American Rental Services, 2902 Alma Street., San Pedro, Ca 90732. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Michael Joseph Cracchiolo, 2902 Alma Street., San Pedro, Ca 90732. 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/. Michael Cracchiolo, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 24, 2014. 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

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014249347 The following person is doing business as: San Pedro Chiropractic and Posture, 1534 W. 25th Street., San Pedro CA 90732. Los Angeles County. Articles of Incorporation number: 3696302. Registered owners: Ghassemi Chiropractic Corp., APC, 1875 S. Beverly Glenn, Los Angeles, Ca 90025: California. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 8/15/2014. 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/. Dr. Romina Ghassemi, DC/CEO, Ghassemi Chiropractic Corp. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 2014. 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: 09/18/14, 10/02/14,

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014265913 The following person is doing business as: (1.) Mister Marley, 880 W. 18th St., San Pedro CA 90731.

Mailing Address:880 W. 18th St., San Pedro CA 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Fred C. Allen, 880 W. 18th St., San Pedro CA 90731: California. 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/. Fred Allen,owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2014. 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: 10/02/14, 10/16/2014,

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Eva was born in Bellingham, Wash. on Oct. 24, 1921, and raised in San Pedro.

She attended Mary Star of the Sea grade school and was a graduate of San Pedro High School.

She is preceded in death by her husband Slavko Frlekin.

Eva died on Oct. 4. She was 92.

She raised their four children Jim, Rey, Steve and Elaine while working side by side with her husband, acting as his accountant in their family business, Slavko’s Harbor Poultry still open on Pacific Avenue.

The efforts she made during her lifetime have contributed to San Pedro’s landmarks today.

She was very active in the San Pedro community, serving as president of Mary Star of the Sea Parents Teachers Association and the VeLi Gospa Society.

Eva was instrumental in raising funds in the community to construct the building that is Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church. She was the first PTA President of the Fermin Lasuen High School.

One of her last accomplishments was serving as chairwoman of the Fishing Memorial Committee. There, she provided the leadership in erecting the fishing memorial monument located on Fifth Street and Harbor Boulevard, in

RANDOMLetters from p. 7

Now my suspicion is Howard had attended an all white elementary in South San Pedro. It was almost like he did not believe that an Afro-American kid belonged in the same school with him. Was it just a cultural clash or something else?

You tell me.

After taking the grade placement test at Dana, the ninth graders moved into the cathedral, San Pedro High. I was assigned to what was considered advanced placement classes which never had any Afro-American students, no big deal. But guess who was in my classes, Howard Hawks. I saw him for the next three years. He would glance over at me, but never, ever, said one word.

Blast: High school is a time of big change for teenagers moving from child to young adult. I was reasonably popular among my peers. However, a caveat was that some white guys never seem to take Afro-Boys seriously, like we never had an important thought run through our brains. We were expected to shuck and jive, know the haps, be down with the music and of course, you had to know

San Pedro.

She had two sisters, one living, Marie Ursich and one deceased, Jean Welle.

She also helped raise two of her grandchildren, Michelle O’Brien and Brian Frlekin. She leaves behind four children, 14 grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren, two daughtersin-law and many cousins, including her close traveling companion and cousin, Mary Zorotovich of Seattle, Wash.

The family wishes to thank Eva’s caregivers, Mele and Grace, who made it possible for her to spend her final days at home. Funeral mass will take place at Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Oct. 17 at 10:30 a.m. with the burial conducted at Green Hills Memorial Park immediately following. the latest dance moves. I remember one guy John G., we were on the track team together. He would sing Johnny Cash’s “Rock Island Line” non-stop through track workout. Sometimes someone would yell “John, shut the f-up.” Thankfully, there were exceptions to John.

There was Vince L. We talked about how his family came from Yugoslavia to the United States. He once asked me, “Why don’t whites and American Negroes get along?”

My 16-year-old mind had no answer. Vince eventually settled in Palm Springs.

There was Bob B., always smiling, always positive. We played a lot of basketball together and against each other. Once we got drunk at the Fisherman’s Fiesta.

There was Bob P., down to earth, no pretense. Bob played on an all African-American basketball team with me at the Anderson Memorial Center. In one game it seemed like we had to fight the other team. Bob was all-in to get down with my team. My guys loved it.

John R. Gray San Pedro 21 October 16 - 29, 2014

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014233778 The following person is doing business as: Port Nationals, 2049 W. Pacific Coast Hwy, Ste #223, Lomita, CA 90717. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Eddie Greenwood, 1220 W. Cruces St., Wilmington CA 90744. Carly Bolster, 4448 Owens St., #104, Corona, CA 92883. This Business is conducted by a gen-

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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: 09/04/14, 09/18/14,

Oct. 24, 1921 to Oct. 4, 2014

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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014230794 The following person is doing business as: Girls Gun Club, 12021 Wilshire Blvd #774, Los Angeles, CA 90025. Los Angeles County. Articles of Incorporation: 2750987 Registered owners: American Defense Enterprises, 12021 Wilshire Blvd #774, Los Angeles, CA 90025. This Business is conducted by a corporation. 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/. William Beasley, President.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 18, 2014. 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: 09/04/14, 09/18/14, 10/02/14, 10/16/2014

eral 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/. Eddie Greenwood, partner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 19, 2014. 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: 09/04/14, 09/18/14,

Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2014260373 The following person is doing business as: (1.)Josephine Trusela Events (2.) JT Events, 1621 W. 25th St #2301., San Pedro CA 90732. Los Angeles County.

Articles of Incorporation number: 201422610355.. Registered owners: Le Meow LLC, 1621 W. 25th St #2301., San Pedro CA 90732: California. This Business is conducted by a Limited Liability Corporation. 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/.

Josephine Trusela, president of Le Meow LLC.. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 16, 2014. 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: 10/02/14, 10/16/2014,

Eva Frlekin, Matriarch of Slavko’s Poultry

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Troubled Waters

decades to complete.

“When there is an ongoing effort to launch an endeavor such as this, you respect the sole party working on it. It would be hard enough for one organization to try to do it. But when you have competition, it dilutes the effort,” Wong said. “The fundraisers we had once worked with wound up working for them. As far as I could tell, there was no way that this new effort, because these people severed their relationship with us, would have known about these fundraisers unless somebody told them.”

When the Pacific Battleship Center emerged as a rival, the man at the helm was Robert Daniels except, his name wasn’t Robert Daniels. Wong saw his picture in a newspaper, above the name Robert Kent.

“That’s how we knew that he [Robert Kent] was Robert Daniels,” Wong said recalling her organization’s initial amazement at the discovery.

“We realized then that they [Williams and Kent] had possibly entered our group to simply gain knowledge and information with a desire to perhaps displace us as the leadership. But you know, they are all Southern Californians.”

Indeed, this was true about the Pacific Battleship Center group with the exception of a few key executives, such as Williams and a few board members, Southern Californians had the largest connection with the Long Beach Naval Shipyard.

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The Pacific Battleship Center didn’t just have grassroots support going for it. Incredible timing also played a critical role. The year 2010 was the year U.S. Census completed its survey. Upon completion, this nation’s political boundaries were redrawn to reflect the changes in population.

Combine that with the phenomena of state legislators coming to Los Angeles to run for city council to lengthen their careers in politics, the resignation of Rep. Jane Harman, and the

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Capt. Gautt

Like many other American law enforcement agencies, the sheriff’s department has access to military weapons and equipment. It acquires more than $4 million in such gear annually, raising questions about potential use of military-level force. Gautt argued, however, such equipment can be a life-saving tool He used a hypothetical “active shooter” as an example. “There is a time to go in and get someone safe, believe me [and] everyone wants a military vehicle to do that,” he said, while at the same time admitting, “It’s very important that we continue to exercise due diligence.”

Gautt said overall crime is down in his jurisdiction despite two recent incidents that have inflated homicide statistics. One happened on May 20, when a woman allegedly stabbed her three children to death on 223 Street in West Carson. In addition, a double homicide in July just happened to fall within the station’s jurisdiction along the Compton border.

Gang response remains an issue the Carson station’s constantly working on.

“We always, consistently, think about

ambition of Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn, the nonprofit organization’s USS Iowa proposal was literally a “godsend” for multi-term politicians running for a different office.

In 2011, at every forum and every gathering a candidate spoke, potential voters heard about what they were doing to ensure that the USS Iowa’s permanent home was at the Port of Los Angeles.

The Historic Ships Museum and Pacific Square, Wong said of the time: “It was the Navy’s decision, [but] if you have a congresswoman going to bat for you and contacting the Secretary of the Navy….We went as far as we could [but] that’s what the former LA Councilmember did. She was out there. She was in front of the Port of Los Angeles, she was rallying for them. That’s political support.”

Hahn wasn’t the only one. Sen. Warren Furutani, with his remaining days in the state legislature as he ran to replace Hahn on the Los Angeles City Council, marshaled some 30 colleagues to support a resolution to bring the USS Iowa to Los Angeles. The legislature seemed to have all but forgotten about the Bay Area group competing for the USS Iowa. Essentially, the Pacific Battleship Center benefitted from a perfect storm of aligned interests.

Fearless Leader Disappears into the Sunset It took more than magic and sleight of hand to build the Pacific Battleship Center and accomplish its mission in such a short period of time. It took a charismatic salesman with the ability to bring people together for a common cause. Robert Kent was that person.

Two years after the floating naval museum open, Kent was gone. Not even a press release marked his departure—a sharp contrast to how he burst on to the scene like cannon fire in 2010.

In April 2013, the Pacific Battleship Center issued a strange press release announcing organizational changes in which Jonathan Williams was promoted to president and chief operating officer.

Buried in the press release was the apparent the gangs that are here locally and I think the deputies have been doing a great job ensuring that we have a very aggressive gang team,” Gautt noted.

Reducing domestic violence cases is another ongoing concern, as Gautt noted that many— perhaps most—aggravated assault cases his station handles involve domestic violence.

“I would certainly want our domestic violence program to continue to flourish and we continue to educate people in the community,” he explained, because fewer cases of domestic violence result in downward crime trends.

Although the station is fully staffed, Gautt said he’d like to have another 20 or so deputies to work on abatement. The current staffing level doesn’t affect deployment but it does affect the station’s response to quality-of-life issues.

“Homeowners that are doing things illegally, negligence,” Gautt explained, “We would have to work hand-in-hand with building safety, the city attorney, to address those issues.”

Gautt knows Carson, having served two previous stints at the station, first as a patrol deputy between 1983 and 1986. He later returned to the station as a lieutenant, working under Capt.

Todd Rogers.

“I certainly would like the community to know that I’m very community-oriented and I look forward to working with the community,” said Gautt, summing up his leadership with that approach.

Robert Kent, second from left, USS Iowa booster and Navy veteran Bryan Moss and John Stinson, foreground left, moving a diorama of the Iowa class battleship. Jonathan Williams and Nate Jones are shown standing in the rear. Photo by Greg Bishop

shifting of Kent to director of external affairs, a position in which he was charged with the responsibility of managing and building relationships with key donors and funding bodies.

A year later, Kent sailed off into the sunset with a rumored six-figure severance package [reportedly paid monthly at more than $10,000]—rumored because the Battleship Center executive board members won’t discuss personnel matters.

Williams told RLN that Kent moved to Las Vegas. RLN has not been able to independently verify that information.

Patrick Salazar, who started off as a volunteer at the Pacific Battleship Center before he was elevated to the position of vice president of development in 2014, worked with Kent in his final year with the Battleship Center.

“Robert Kent…was booted,” Salazar said.

“Jonathan made a bunch of allegations to the board about mismanagement of company funds, living on board with his girlfriend and his forcing people to salute him as if he were a navy captain.”

Salazar recalled his initial meetings with Kent when he was doing work as a fundraiser on a contract basis. Salazar said he immediately noted the dysfunction at the senior staff level of the organization.

“There was no communication,” Salazar explained. “You can’t raise money if the there’s no communication. They didn’t need a grant writer or a fundraiser like myself. They needed a therapist.”

When Williams asked for his opinion on Kent’s functioning as vice president of external affairs, Salazar gave him this assessment.

Williams repeated that assessment along with the other allegations to the board.

Interestingly, Salazar is not alone in this characterization of Kent and Williams’ relationship. Wong at the Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square had the same impression of Kent and Williams.

“I think the first couple of visits early on when we first met Daniels [Robert Kent], he made it clear to us that he was not going to report to Jonathan,” Wong recounted. “I said [to myself], ‘Oh boy, that’s trouble.’ He’s just came in and [now] you’re telling us you don’t want to work for him. We’re not even hiring and you’re already jockeying for a job?

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two of them, which I think already happened.

They are very different in their education and ability to articulate and present themselves.”

Wong described Robert Daniels [Kent] as the sales person who “comes off as smooth and can talk well.”

“Jonathan is your operator that hides behind your skirt,” Wong explained. “That’s the way I looked at him. But he’s there now and he’s in charge and he made it that way. I’m sure he engineered the whole thing that way.

Knowing what I know about him. He used to brag about not having a formal education and getting as far as he did. That’s the kind of person we’re dealing with.”

In the Wake of the Battleship

Allegations of mismanagement on multiple levels at the Pacific Battleship Center are not without merit. Since the publication of “Trouble on the Iowa,” in the previous edition, Random Lengths has heard more accounts of local groups and individuals who have made donations to the Pacific Battleship Center but were virtually ignored. We also heard stories from former volunteers and interns who validated Random Lengths News’ reporting of the treatment of volunteers and hourly workers, and the firing of valued managers for perceived non-performance related reasons.

Regardless of how the USS Iowa came to San Pedro, no one in the Harbor Area wants to get rid of the floating museum. If nothing else, this moment in time is an opportunity to remake the Pacific Battleship Center into a stronger piece of the waterfront puzzle that makes San Pedro a destination town. But as long as the personnel working at the helm of the Pacific Battleship Center look upon the local community and its local donors of both time and money with disdain, some believe the Port of Los Angeles really has a problem on its hands.

However, the source of some of its funding is another complication to this story that comes in part three of the “Trouble On the Iowa” saga.

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The Squeeze on Small Business the top marginal tax rate was 70 percent. With a top marginal rate of 70 percent, we could afford higher education without debt, raise our family with one paycheck and have a balanced federal budget. Today, with a 30 percent top marginal rate, we have historic deficits, unaffordable educational burdens and the inability to live in the town that we work in.

The political sell out: support given to increasing minimum wage is purely pandering by our politicians to the unions and their fundraising and get out the vote capacities. The unions’ objectives are clear; increased membership with the delusion that with increased membership they can once again gain their lost influence in today’s

business environment.

Unions need to use their investment and pensions funds to invest in affordable housing projects, expand their credit unions and encourage education and employee advancement. And, they need to stop supporting bad legislation and bad policy for all of us. The transnational could care less about increased wages—their profits; generated from lowering operational costs, to tax evasion, to record returns on their investments will hardly be impacted. The elimination of local businesses will only enhance their role in politics and in the march toward global control and the “free market” myth. They will showcase a fight against higher minimum wages while in reality

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Enforce Labor Laws worker, or someone cleaning cars at a carwash, thousands of people work hard every day yet struggle to feed their families. Many workers earn wages that are so low that they must rely on public subsidies in order to make ends meet.

Many restaurant workers must often go to work sick because they have no paid sick leave, exposing the public to unhealthy conditions.

Other workers are the victims of systematic wage theft through illegal paycheck deductions or by being forced to work off the clock. These are only a few examples of the challenges that working people in Los Angeles must face on a daily basis.

These unethical practices do not only affect the workers and their families; they affect our broader communities and the economic structure of the city. The use of public subsidies to supplement low wages creates a burden on ordinary taxpayers and does not hold low-wage employers accountable. We live in a country that has a firm belief that any person can achieve their

goals if they work hard enough. What I see in my community is thousands of people who work hard every day, yet struggle to put food on the table and provide a better future for their families.

However, simply raising wages is not enough.

Lawmakers must ensure that there is strict wage theft enforcement that protects workers from wage theft and illegal retaliation by their employers for demanding their rights. Implementing these types of policies will ensure a brighter future for Los Angeles and the thousands of working families in this city who wash our cars, serve our food and deliver the goods that we need on a daily basis.

they win, no matter the outcome.

Make Los Angeles business friendly. A business that can open in 30 days, employs people; a business waiting for an inspection or for a permit to be processed employs no one.

Inflexible, unimaginative and a lack of problem solving attitude makes this a city few want to do business in. Where are the politicians and union on this? Where are our politicians and unions on getting Building and Safety to being accountable for business creation? Why not expedite the process for local businesses? Why not expedite the process for first timers? Why not expedite the process for businesses under 1,000 square feet? Every new business creates jobs—an unopened business pays nothing.

People must also understand that increasing wages also increases employer’s payroll tax contribution and worker’s compensation premiums. And, by increasing expenses – with no guarantee of increased revenue the value of local businesses will drop. A business that loses value at time of sale may not be able to support that owner in retirement—social programs, funded with taxpayers’ dollars will have to fill that gap.

Any discussion of increasing minimum wage needs to be linked to improved city revenues, an easing of gross receipts tax, and business creation and growth. Any increase after the suggested initial increase should not be pre-committed until other metrics are met.

All metrics need to be transparent and be part of a long-term solution to enhancing our communities.

In conclusion, without a focus and commitment to the vital levers of change, accessible education, affordable housing, public transportation and a business friendly city, the “American Dream” will evaporate.

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