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By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAReporter

The much-anticipated Tocaya Organica will not be coming

to Palisades Village, according to a spokesperson for Caruso, after the development announced its arrival at the end of September.

This marks the second tenant to withdraw from the prime Sunset Boulevard location after Al Forte by Madeo withdrew in August and is now in a legal battle with Caruso, as both parties are accusing each other of breaching their contract.

“We have decided not to move forward with Tocaya and will be announcing another exciting tenant soon,” a spokesperson for Caruso said.

On September 10, Tocaya Or-ganica owner Amrou Almanaseer registered the “Tocaya Palisades, LLC” name with the Secretary of State, all but confirming the Mexi-can food chain’s arrival to the Pal-isades.

Posters that read “Tocaya Or-ganica Coming Soon” lined the walls of the controversial business location, but have since been tak-

en down, sparking a new set of rumors on who will be filling the space next.

Rent for the original flagship restaurant location was priced at over $29,000 per month, according to a copy of the lease agreement be-tween Madeo, the original tenants, and Caruso, but it is not clear if To-caya Organica agreed to the same price.

Previous prospective tenants reported having to sign a pre-lease agreement and then later being told

of costs and logistics not previously mentioned, which led to their deci-sion to withdraw and having to pay a fee.

Additional tenants that were previously announced but have since decided to not open at Pal-isades Village include Miller’s Oath, max-bone and Marysia.

Almanaseer did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Those who wish to eat at Tocaya can visit the Santa Monica or Ven-ice locations.

Tocaya Organica No Longer Coming to Palisades Village

By JAMES GAGEReporter

A string of four burglaries in the Via Mesa neighborhood

of Pacific Palisades shocked res-idents returning to their homes to find broken glass and missing items Wednesday evening, De-cember 19. The burglaries oc-curred between 1 and 7 p.m.

“LAPD detectives believe the four burglaries are possibly related,” LAPD Senior Officer Michael Moore told the Palisadi-an-Post.

The break-ins highlight a re-cent spike in home thefts through-out the Palisades, with over a doz-en incidents occurring in the span of a week and close to 20 incidents in the month of December, not in-cluding vehicle-related break-ins.

“There were three smashed rear doors and one rear glass slid-ing door that was opened with an unknown tool,” Moore said of the Via Mesa burglaries. “Jewelry, watches and currency were the property taken in the burglaries.”

The suspect believed to have burglarized all four residences was captured on CCTV at two of the homes he burglarized. He is reportedly 6’0’’, thinly built, and was wearing a white ski mask, a white sweater, dark pants, gloves and a headlamp at the time of the burglaries. The homeowners ob-served the suspect communicating via walkie-talkie with an accom-plice driving a dark Toyota Prius outside two of the burglarized homes.

The first burglary took place on the 600 block of Swarthmore Avenue. The suspect broke into the home by accessing a sec-ond-floor balcony and smashing a thick piece of glass, taking jewel-ry and watches.

“It was a very professional job,” the homeowner, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Post. “Pacific Palisades is no lon-ger safe for anyone.”

The next burglary was report-ed at the 400 block of Swarth-more Avenue, where the suspect smashed a rear glass door. It is unknown what property was tak-en. The suspect was captured on a Ring device at the home.

“It’s becoming ridiculous,” Marcelo Loureiro, the homeown-er, told the Post. “We had four houses broken into yesterday. I have a Ring system, cameras in-side my house, everything.”

Loureiro’s wife and children arrived home at 7:30 p.m. that evening right as the suspect was leaving their property. Loureiro was working in Brazil at the time of the burglaries, but returned home shortly after receiving the news.

“[The suspect] was talking to someone over his radio, which is how he got out before my wife and kids got home,” Loureiro said. “He was still searching almost up to the minute they got home.

“It’s scary that this happens in the Palisades. My kids and wife feel totally invaded—my kids didn’t want to sleep in the house. They saw the shattered glass and the police arrive; it was bad.”

The third burglary took place on the 400 block of Lombard Av-enue, where the suspect opened a rear sliding glass door with an unknown tool and took jewelry and watches from the home. SSA patrol were alerted.

The final burglary was report-ed on the 700 block of Radcliffe Avenue, where the suspect was also captured on CCTV footage. Jewelry and $160 in cash were taken from the home.

“The Palisades needs to be a safe place,” Loureiro continued. “We can’t have this happen. We need to focus on prevention … There are a lot of families that live here—a lot of elderly residents.”

The LAPD have not released any further information at this time.

If you have any information, call the LAPD’s 24/7 anonymous tip line at 1-877-527-3247.

String of Burglaries Shocks Residents in Via Mesa Neighborhood

An empty space on Sunset Boulevard Photo by Christian Monterrosa

Burglaries in December Map by Christian Monterrosa

Palisadians Honor Geller in Paddle Out Ceremony

By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAReporter

Community members held a service and ceremony for Pal-

isadian Damon Michael Geller, who died Thursday, December 20, while night surfing at Topanga State Beach.

By way of a paddle out,

where surfers swim out into the ocean and hold a service, Geller’s friends and family said their good-bye to the beloved Palisadian, who was known as a family man and an outdoor sports enthusiast.

“Just past the surf break, close to 100 people on surfboards and paddle boards held hands, cheered Damon’s name and promised to stay in touch, despite distances and busy lives,” a post on the Mar-quez Charter Elementary School Instagram page shared. “Even the lifeguards paid homage by blast-ing sirens and pouring water over-head from the rescue boat.”

Palisadians showed an over-whelming amount of support both in person and online, as Geller’s life touched many.

“When I think of Damon I think devoted dad and a valuable part of Marquez Elementary,” said one of many Facebook posts.

“Damon and I shared identi-cal ideas on many important is-sues and often discussed them,” said another post. “I will miss him greatly.”

“Marquez lost an amazing dad this holiday season,” the school posted. “Damon Geller touched many people through his life.”

The post described Geller’s celebration of life at Kehillat Is-rael as “standing room only,” with “every seat taken by family, friends, financial colleagues and more.”

Geller, who was 48 years old, was well known in the surfing community, often seen riding the waves at Topanga State Beach.

On Monday, December 31, the Los Angeles County Coro-ner’s office announced the case was under “additional investiga-tion” after initial reports attributed the death to medical reasons.

The Sunday paddle out Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Deck Your Halls Winners CrownedBy SARAH SHMERLINGEditor-in-Chief

With the holiday season coming to a close and

the lights coming down from the houses, the Palisadian-Post reveals the winners of the 2018 Deck Your Halls home decorat-ing contest.

Charles and Joanna Curtis in the Alphabet Streets were voted Best Decked Out Hall.

“It feels really good,” Charles said of the win. “It’s a lot of hard work, so it’s nice to feel appreciated for putting out so much effort.”

The Curtis family, who has lived in the Palisades for six years and decorated their home each of them, previously won the DIY/Originality Award in 2016.

“This year we did it a lit-tle bit different,” Charles said, explaining that he pulled some inspiration from the 2004 Tim Allen film “Christmas with the Kranks.”

“One of the things I took away from it was that they all decorate the roof,” he said. So this year, the Curtis house added slant lines of lights to the roof instead of just outlining.

“I had to buy 10 more sets of lights,” Charles shared.

Jack and Sharon Sutton—also in the Alphabet Streets—took home the prize for DIY/Originality.

“We’ve been decorating our home for as long as we can re-member,” Jack shared with the Post after learning they won. “It feels great.”

The Sutton family has lived in the Palisades for 44 years and has decorated at one level or an-other—including while raising their son in the home—since then.

“This year we added the wraps around the trees and add-ed something around the gate,” Jack said.

This is the first time the Sutton home won a Deck Your Halls prize, but the house won the Fourth of July Home Dec-orating Contest five years ago. Jack credits his grandson for that prize.

“When we won the Fourth of July contest, our son and daughter-in-law were here,” he explained. “Our grandson decid-ed we were missing something because nowhere anywhere did it say ‘USA.’”

The Sutton family added a “big USA” on the windows,

which was the thing the judges revealed to be the deciding fac-tor that year.

For winning the Deck Your Halls contest, the Sutton and Curtis families received a tro-phy snowman, complete with hundreds of dollars in gift cards to local businesses.

Winners will dine at Pali-sades Pizza, Café Vida, Juicy Ladies, Fiesta Feast, K Bakery, Pinocchio, Palisades Garden Café, Coffee Bean and Kayn-daves. They can indulge in treats from McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams, The Yogurt Shoppe and Sweet Rose Creamery, and visit Hi-Lites, SKINxFIVE, Ronny’s Market and the Bay Club.

Charles and Joanna Curtis Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Jack and Sharon Sutton

With the new year underway, the Palisadian-Post is searching for the first baby born to a Palisadian family—a tradition honored by the newspaper since 1954.

The family with the baby born nearest to 12:01 a.m. on January 1 will be awarded a gift basket full of certificates from local businesses and restau-rants, as well as a feature in an upcoming edition of the Post.

To enter (or to nominate a community member who has had a baby this year!) email the baby’s name, as well as the date and time or birth, to [email protected].

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Deck Your Halls contest: The Curtis family and the Sutton family!

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222¢2¢22SpeedhumpsTo the Bienveneda family that had their gardener jackhammer the speedhumps on Bienveneda (they’re humps not bumps), I applaud you. Thanks to you we will be reintroducing our Mon-day night drag racing club. I will let being woken up at 3AM slide because now I will once again be able to enjoy racing on my street.

KeysI lost my Mercedes Benz car key Saturday evening (12/22) near Palisades YMCA. It’s on a Mer-cedes leather key chain with two names and a phone number on it. If you found it, please turn it in to Palisades YMCA. It will be greatly appreciated.

Thank YouHeartfelt thanks to Lisa Kass Boyle and her thoughtful edito-rial. There are many things about the Palisades Village that disap-point me but that statue offends my basic beliefs about who we are as Americans and Palisadi-ans and has kept me from spend-ing any time (let alone any mon-ey) there.

Power ProblemsThere’s way too many power outages in the Palisades. Espe-cially for those in the Marquez area.

Year-EndBeautiful year-end issue!

Year-End III was very disappointed when I read today’s year in review in the Palisades Post. You failed to mention the Palisades Ho Ho Ho Hulabaloo held on December 8 at the picnic grounds by the REC Center. The event was at-tended by over 1000 people and was organized for Palisadians by Palisadians in two short weeks.

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ShErrY CornEllCongratulations!!!

TrISTa CurTISWhoop-Whoop !!!

ChrISTInE BEaulIEu CrandallCongrats!

CYnThIa G. dESroChErSCongratulations Sharon and Jack Sutton

Maura CaSonCongratulations!

MarCElla KETElhuTFor gentleness and kindness toward all whom we encounter. A real sense of heartfelt community kinship. Starts with us. Blessings Palisadian Post!

nICK SalzErHealth and happiness for next year and years to come!

JunE roBErTSonTo keep history alive.

This month, legislators made history when both our senators and congressional leaders passed the Building Our Largest Dementia Infra-structure for Alzheimer’s Act (BOLD), which would create a nation-wide Alzheimer’s public health infrastructure to implement effective Alzheimer’s interventions.

Now it’s the president’s turn to help those in our community who are facing this devastating disease.

I am a new Alzheimer’s Association advocate, volunteering to raise awareness with our legislators on the association’s behalf.

I am asking the president to sign this legislation into law, as soon as possible, to improve the lives of those facing Alzheimer’s and related dementias throughout our communities.

The BOLD would create the change necessary for those living with Alzheimer’s disease to live a higher quality of life while reducing the costs associated with Alzheimer’s. BOLD would increase early detec-tion and diagnosis, reduce risk, prevent avoidable hospitalizations, re-duce health disparities, support the needs of caregivers and support care planning for those living with this disease.

In California Alzheimer’s is the third leading cause of death—as opposed to the rest of the country in which Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death. Women are two-thirds of those diagnosed—and women are two-thirds of all caregivers as well. No one is immune to Alzheimer’s, a disease that cannot be prevented or cured.

Now that the Senate and our Congress have stepped up to fight this deadly disease, we must demand our president support this legislation. The BOLD Act’s journey through Congress and the Senate provided an example of parties coming together to do the right thing for the people they are meant to serve.

Thank you to my local legislators, Congressman Ted Lieu and Sen-ators Feinstein and Harris, for co-sponsoring BOLD.

Adele Carter

BOLD

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Out Of the PastBill Fischler is the owner of Patrick’s Roadhouse, the unlikely eating place which is fast becoming one of the city’s most popular celebrity haunts.

July 14, 1988

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The O’Donnell family—Tanya, Pete, Elsa and Oliver—took a family vacation to Ireland. The photo was taken in the town of Listowel in front of what remains of the Listowel Castle, which was built in the 15th century.

Though Bill has since passed, the restaurant is now owned by his son, Anthony Fischler.

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Attempt Murder17300 Sunset, December 15

at 10 p.m. A 36-year-old male at-tempted to murder his mother by striking her several times with his fist causing multiple facial frac-tures.

Assault with a Deadly Weapon17300 Sunset, December 15

at 6 p.m. The suspect (see Attempt Murder) attempted to stab victim with the metal rod from a broken rolling pin when the victim at-tempted to stop the suspect from striking his own mother.

Burglary16700 Calle Arbolada, De-

cember 12 between 7:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. The suspect smashed a glass door to enter victim’s home and took jewelry.

900 El Medio, December 12 between 12 and 9 p.m. The sus-pect entered victim’s home and took a purse and a watch.

1200 Las Pulgas Rd, Decem-ber 12 at 6:20 p.m. The suspect (male, 5’8”/5’10”, NFD) smashed a glass door but fled before enter-ing victim’s home.

1400 Chastain Pkwy, De-cember 12 at 6 p.m. The suspect smashed a glass door to enter vic-tim’s home and took a purse.

800 Napoli Dr, December 12 between 3 and 9:20 p.m. The sus-pect pried open a window to enter victim’s home and took jewelry.

400 Surfview, December 14 at 6:35 p.m. The suspects (#1-2

male, NFD) smashed a door to en-ter victim’s home, ransacked the home but did not take any prop-erty.

600 Amalfi Dr, December 18 between 9:15 a.m. and 7 p.m. The suspect smashed a window to enter victim’s property and took a purse.

400 Swarthmore, December 19 between 2 and 7 p.m. The sus-pect smashed a glass door to enter victim’s home. It was unknown what property was taken at the time of the report.

400 Lombard, December 19 between 7:10 and 8 p.m. The sus-pect opened a door to enter vic-tim’s home and took jewelry and watches.

600 Swarthmore, December 19 between 1 and 6 p.m. The sus-pect broke a balcony door to enter and took jewelry and watches.

900 Napoli, December 21 between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. The suspects (#1-2 male white, 6’ 160 lb, 20/25 years) smashed a glass balcony door and took money and jewelry.

300 Swarthmore, between December 19 at 1:30 p.m. and De-cember 20 at 4 p.m. The suspect entered victim’s home through a window and took a watch.

700 Radcliffe, December 19 between 6:30 and 7 p.m. The sus-pect smashed a glass door to enter victim’s home and took money and jewelry.

300 Amalif Dr, between De-cember 24 at 2 p.m. and Decem-

ber 25 at 6 a.m. The suspect took two electric bicycles from vic-tim’s closed garage.

Burglary/Theft from Vehicle700 Palisades Dr, between

December 13 at 7:30 p.m. and December 14 at 4:30 a.m. The suspect smashed a window on victim’s vehicle and took a purse and wallet.

500 Los Liones, December 14 between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. The suspect entered victim’s ve-hicle and took a purse and wallet.

15800 Pacific Coast Hwy, December 14 between 3:15 an 3:20 p.m. The suspect smashed a window to enter victim’s vehicle and took a laptop computer and battery pack.

17200 Sunset, between De-cember 7 at 6 p.m. and December 8 at 8 a.m. The suspect entered victim’s vehicle and took a laptop computer and sunglasses.

500 Los Liones, December 21 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The suspect forced open the lock on victim’s vehicle and took mon-ey and credit cards.

800 Via De La Paz, Decem-ber 26 between 12:45 and 3:30 p.m. The suspect pried open a window on victim’s vehicle and took backpack, money and read-ing glasses.

Driving on Suspended LicenseMinorca/Sunset, December

14 at 2:50 p.m. A 33-year-old male was arrested for driving on

a suspended license after being stopped for a speeding violation.

TheftPacific Coast Hwy/Temecal

Canyon, December 7 at 4 p.m. The suspect took victim’s bicycle from a bike rack.

15400 Sunset, December 27 at 11:30 a.m. The suspect re-moved victim’s wallet from her purse while victim was shopping.

Throwing an Object at a Moving Vehicle

Pacific Coast Hwy/Entrada, December 24 at 12:15 p.m. The suspect (male, NFD) threw a plas-tic water bottle filled with sand at victim’s vehicle causing damage to the windshield.

Battery100 Entrada, December 27 at

5 p.m. A 47-year-old female was arrested for battery after punching a restaurant employee.

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PALISADES Neighborhood News

First Family Mega Challah BakeCastellammare

Chabad of Pacific Palisades and Palisades Jewish Early Child-hood Center will host the Palisades first Family Mega Challah Bake on Saturday, January 13, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

“We are stronger together,” said Rabbi Zushe, director of Chabad of Pacific Palisades. “What better way to strengthen the bonds of community and family than bringing the two together to bake Challah bread, a practice that everyone, regardless of back-ground, can enjoy?”

The event comes on the heels of the Mother and Daughter Chal-lah bake, which was a “resounding success,” Zisi Cunin, co-direc-tor of Chabad, shared.

Challah is a braided bread, which is often topped with sesame or poppy seeds, served as part of Shabbat and holiday family meal.

For more information or to get involved, visit chabadpalisades.com/familybake or call 310-454-7783.

—SARAH SHMERLING

Traffic Accident Shuts Down PCH PaCifiC Palisades

Pacific Coast Highway was closed in both directions for more than five hours on Thursday, December 27, after an accident involv-ing a big rig caused power lines to go down.

The closure came around around noon between Sunset Boule-vard and Temescal Canyon Road as crews from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power arrived on scene to find two occu-pants of a big rig trapped inside the truck.

Workers determined the line was still energized, and one crew member stayed with the truck occupants to make sure they remained safely inside the vehicle until it was safe to exit.

Caltrans later announced that all lanes had been reopened. City News Service contributed to this report.

—CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA

Chamber InstallationPaCifiC Palisades

The Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce will host its 2019 Installation Gala on Thursday, January 17, from 6 to 10 p.m. at The Riviera Country Club.

This year’s gala features “Dancing With The Chamber Stars” and a celebrity panel of judges, including Honorary Co-Mayors Janice and Billy Crystal, as well as Mario Lopez.

Tickets, which are $125, are now on sale at palisadeschamber.com. —SARAH SHMERLING

COuNCIL TO STuDy ONE-WAy PrOjECT

Spotted in the Palisadian-Post: January 21, 1988

A last minute appeal by residents stopped the Pacific Pal-isades Community Council just short of endorsing the contro-versial Swarthmore Avenue one-way street project during a well-attended forum last week.

The bitter debate over whether the block should remain one way between Sunset Boulevard and Monument Street drew a standing room only crown of about 75 to the meeting, which was attended by Councilman Marvin Braude.

C R I M E R E P O R T

Provided by LAPD Senior Lead Officer

Michael Moore. In case of emergency,

call 911. To report a

non-emergency, call 877-275-5273.

Mountain Lion Appearancethe highlands

A mountain lion was recently seen climbing over a fence at a home in The Summit area of The Highlands neighborhood of Pa-cific Palisades. Though human encounters with mountain lions are “rare” and the risk of an attack is “infinitely small,” they will occa-sionally kill and eat domestic companion animals, including dogs and cats. —SARAH SHMERLING

On Friday, December 28, the American Red Cross hosted

a Blood Drive in the Community Room at Palisades Branch Library from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

With only 12 appointments scheduled ahead of the drive, Red Cross put out a call-to-action on Friday.

Twenty-four donors showed up, with 17 pints successfully col-lected.

“As our high schools, colleges and regular donors are vacationing, we see a decrease in donation sites and collected units,” an American Red Cross representative told the

Post. “Community blood drives like our Palisades Branch Library drive help ensure we’re still col-lecting blood every day for our patients and hospitals in need.”

Those who donated received a free long-sleeve Red Cross shirt.

—SARAH SHMERLING


California is always at the fore-front of progressive legisla-

tion. On January 1, several new laws came into effect locally and statewide that could bring some day-to-day changes for Palisadi-ans.

Food One big change will be the

omission of soda and sugary drinks from kids’ menus at restau-rants and “full-service” (AKA fast food) restaurants across the state. Milk (regular, soy and other kinds) and water (sparkling and regular) will be the only options listed on kids’ menus. Kids can still request a soda with their meal, but by law, those sugary options will no longer appear as choices on their menus.

State Senator Bill Monning, who authored the bill, said Cal-ifornia is in a “health crisis” as rates of Type-2 diabetes skyrocket across the state.

New laws extend not just to drinks, but to straws as well. On January 1, anyone who wants a plastic straw with their drink will have to ask for one.

Assembly Bill 1884 prohibits full-service restaurants from auto-matically providing plastic straws with drinks. The bill was written to reduce plastic waste in Califor-nia landfills, oceans, rivers, and lakes. Every day, Americans use an estimated 500 million dispos-able plastic straws.

Transportation and Motor Vehicle Safety

Under Assembly Bill 3077, if your youngster rides a scoot-er, skateboard or bicycle without a helmet and receives a “fix-it” ticket, they can reverse the cita-tion within 120 days by attending a bicycle safety course and pro-viding proof they own a helmet that meets safety standards.

Another new helmet law, As-sembly Bill 2989, removes the requirement to wear a helmet on motorized scooters if you’re over the age of 18. While it’s still ille-gal to ride motorized scooters on sidewalks, you can now ride them on Class II and Class IV bikeways and roads with speed limits up to 25 mph.

For those of us without a Tesla, there are new smog check changes and abatement fees to study. Assembly Bill 1274 ex-

pands exemptions to vehicles eight model years old or older. During the additional two years, vehicle owners must pay an annu-al $25 abatement fee.

One law also aiming to make our roads safer is Senate Bill 1046, which mandates that repeat DUI offenders whose violations have caused injury install an igni-tion interlock device for a period of anywhere between 12 and 48 months.

Social justiceIn a victory for the LGBTQ+

community, Senate Bill 179 will allow anyone applying for a driv-er’s license or ID card in the state of California to identify as male, female or non-binary on the ap-plication. Those who identify as non-binary will seen an “X” next to the gender category on their ID card or license.

Over 100 of the 400 Califor-nia-based companies in the Rus-sell 3000 stock index have zero female board members. Senate Bill 826 introduces female di-rector quotas on publicly traded companies in California. These companies must have at least one female director on their boards by the end of 2019. Boards with five

directors will need two women and boards with six directors will need three women by the end of 2021.

For new mothers in the work-force, Assembly Bill 1976 amends and expands on California Labor Code Section 1031, stipulating that employers must provide a lactation space that is not a bath-room along with access to a sink and a refrigerator near the moth-er’s workspace.

Other LawsSenate Bill 901 will allocate

$1 billion for forest thinning and wildfire prevention across the state over the next five years, which comes in the wake of the devastation of the Woolsey and Camp fires last November.

Another bill is Senate Bill 100, which requires California to get 60 percent of its electrici-ty from renewable resources by 2030 and 100 percent by 2045.

Finally, one of the quirkier laws written this year is Assem-bly Bill 1782, which codifies surf-ing as California’s official state sport—good news for the Pacific Palisades, forever immortalized as a surf destination in the Beach Boys’ classic “Surfin’ USA.”

New year, New Laws: What to Know for 2019

Palisadians Donate at Blood Drive

The library drive Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer


10 a.m. Tai Chi with Elliot Barden. $5. Rustic Canyon Recreation Center, 601 Latimer Road. 10 a.m. Tai Chi for Seniors. Loose, comfortable clothing and shoes are recommended. Pacific Palisades Woman’s

Club, 901 Haverford Ave.5:30 p.m. Wine Tasting. Featuring the favorites of the month. vintagegrocers.com. Vintage Grocers, 15285 Sunset Blvd.

9:45 a.m. Community Chair Yoga with Alison Burmeister. Seated yoga and breathwork. $15 suggested donation. Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.

8:30 a.m. Yoga with Alison Burmeister. Vinyasa yoga class for all levels. $15 suggested donation. Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.3:30 p.m. Family Storytime. Stories, fingerplays and

rhymes for children ages 3 and up. Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real Drive.6:30 p.m. PPWC General Membership Meeting. Celebrating the New Year and discussing the Home Tour. Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.7 p.m. Santa Monica Canyon Civic Association meeting. Rustic Canyon Recreation Center - Clubhouse, 601 Latimer Road.

10 a.m. Positive Aging Group resumes. [email protected]. Palisades Lutheran Church, 19505 Sunset Blvd.10:15 a.m. Baby & Toddler Storytime. For 36 months and under. Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real Drive.

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She was a 1949 graduate of UCLA and received a BA and a Kindergarten-Primary Teaching Credential. In 1976, she received an MS from Pepperdine Univer-sity.

She taught at Will Rogers, Franklin and McKinley Elemen-tary schools in Santa Monica, and taught for the U.S. Air Force De-pendents School in England and in Japan. She worked three years in Washington, D.C. at the Associ-ation for Childhood Education In-ternational (ACEI) Headquarters, and held local, state and interna-tional offices.

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ter serving 42 years in the Santa Monica schools. She was in-volved in the Community Bible Study (CBS), the Mayflower So-ciety and Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution (DAR).

She was a devoted Christian and loving daughter, sister, aunt and great aunt. She will be missed by all who knew her.

She was predeceased by broth-er, Ralph Hedges (Marilyn), and sister, Marie Hedges Rourke (W. Eugene). She is survived by sister-in-law, Marilyn Hedges; nieces, Kathleen Hedges Loftman (Rus-sell), Phyllis Rourke Kelleghan (William) and Janice Rourke (Eric Fujishin); nephew, Robert Hedges (Patricia); great nieces, Catali-na Kelleghan, Lillian Perry and Annemarie Kelleghan; and great nephews, Michael Kelleghan and Andrew Kelleghan.

A celebration of life service will be held at 11 a.m. on Satur-day, January 12, at St. John’s Pres-byterian Church at 11000 Nation-al Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064. Donations in her name may be made to Wycliffe Bible Transla-tors, Mercy Ships, Focus on the Family, Calvary Church Pacific Palisades Christian Service and Children’s Camp Scholarship Fund, The Bible Tabernacle, or Thru the Bible Radio Network.

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Palisadian-Post Page 5Thursday, January 3, 2019SportS

By STEVE GALLUZZOSports Editor

s we begin another exciting year of sports in the Pali-sades there are many memorable plays, record-breaking achievements and storybook endings to look forward to. Before we do, however, let’s take a look back at the best

sports moments of the past 12 months. Here is a countdown of the Palisadian-Post’s Top 10 sports stories in 2018...

Sophie Whittle Claims Last Riviera Singles Honor Not even rolling an ankle in the second set could prevent-Gonzaga senior qualifier Sophie Whittle from winning her eighth match in six days—a three-hour marathon ver-sus Duke freshman Maria Mateus—to claim the singles

crown at the Women’s All-American Tennis Championships. The event moves to Tulsa next fall, ending a 34-year run at Riviera. Kansas seniors Nina Khmelnitckaia and Janet Koch beat Stan-ford’s Caroline Lampl and Kimberly Yee for the doubles title.

Pinto, Mustang Cubs and Bronco Yanks Win PPBA There was plenty of drama on the diamonds at the Field of Dreams for the Pacific Palisades Baseball Association’s three championship series in June. The Pinto Division came down to the Cubs and Pirates, who combined for 47 hits be-

fore Matteo Koudsi’s walkoff double gave the Cubs a 15-14 win. In the Mustang Division, the Cubs edged the Tigers 3-2 in a pitch-er’s duel and in the Bronco Division the Yankees won the decider 7-2 as Thomas Wynperle got a strikeout with the bases loaded.

Pali High Swim Squads Continue City Finals Reign The City swim championships might just as well have been dubbed the “Palisades Invitational” as the Dolphins drained all of the drama out of the pool at John C. Argue Stadium on the campus of USC by sweeping to their sixth straight

boys title and ninth straight girls title in May. It was the first time head coach Maggie Nance, who joined her team for a victory swim afterwards, could recall every single Palisades swimmer who com-peted placing in the top 16 at prelims to qualify for the finals.

Pali High Tennis Teams Keep City Dynasties Alive In the spring, Coach Bud Kling led Palisades High’s boys team to its 10th City championship in a row and in the fall he piloted the girls to their second straight Open Division championship with a tense 4-3 victory over Granada Hills.

Jack Harrington partnered with Tomas Huttepain to take the In-dividual doubles title in the spring while Alex Miller and Emma Akiyama reached the Individual doubles final and Ireland Amato reached the singles final in the fall at Balboa Sports Center.

Pali High Football Upsets League Archrival Venice With stout defense and a little help from Mother Nature, the Dolphins rallied from a 10-point deficit in the first quarter to stun the Gondoliers 24-17—the second time in three years that Palisades upset Venice on its home field. The game

started on a Friday night but was halted because of lightning and resumed the following afternoon. Palisades went on to share the Western League title with Fairfax and earn an Open Division play-off berth as one of the top eight teams in the City Section. Okello Runs into Record Book at Will Rogers 10K

His bib number was “1” and, for a record-setting fifth year in a row, that’s the place Tonny Okello finished in the Palisades Will Rogers 10K on July 4. The 34-year-old Santa Monica Track Club member from Mar Vista covered the 6.2-mile

course through the Will Rogers switchbacks in 32:51 (his third-fast-est time yet) to become the first five-time men’s champion and the first runner, male or female, to win five straight times. Finishing third in the 10K was 47-year-old Highlands resident Ken Rideout.

Bubba Watson Triumphs by Two at Genesis Open After being talked out of retiring by his wife Angie, 39-year-old Bubba Watson shook off three bogeys on the front nine to post a final-round 69 and capture the Genesis Open—his first PGA Tour title since winning the same tournament (then

called the Northern Trust Open) in 2016. All thoughts of trading in his clubs for a rocking chair melted in the bright sun as he became only the third golfer to win three times at Riviera Country Club.

Rec Center’s All-Stars Repeat as District Champs The Banner Boys were at in again in April. A year after win-ning the Citywide Minor Division basketball crown, the Pal-isades Recreation Center’s 9- and 10-year-old All-Stars won

the District title and came within seconds of repeating as City cham-pions. Coach John Jacobs’ squad consisted of Connor Petoyan, Sean Findley, Julien Harnoncourt, Jake Vander Veen, Quincy Watson, Luke Jacobs, Henry Simon, Will Petoyan and Shayen Bhatia.

Pali High Boys Water Polo Wins Regional Trophy After throttling Birmingham 13-5 to capture its seventh straight City title, the Palisades High boys water polo team made more history in November, winning three games in two days to

claim the Southern California Regional Division III championship in Orange County. The No. 2-seeded Dolphins, coached by Adam Blakis, finished with a school-record 30 victories and knocked off top-seeded California from Whittier 12-5 in the regional final after beating LA Cathedral and Valley View in the first two rounds.

Pali High Volleyball Teams Sweep City Open Titles A program steeped in tradition added a few more firsts under head coach Carlos Gray. In the spring, the boys enjoyed unprec-edented success, sweeping Chatsworth for their second straight

City crown, then reaching the semifinals of the regional tournament. In the fall, the girls upset defending champion Granada Hills in the semifinals, then beat Taft in four sets to win their 30th City title and first in the Open Division. They then notched their first-ever win in the state playoffs and finished with a school-record 40 victories.

#6. Jake Nadley and the Dolphins storm the football field after their 24-17 upset of archrival Venice that helped earn a share of the league title. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

#4. Genesis Open champion Bubba Watson joins Hall of Famers Lloyd Mangrum and Ben Hogan as three-time winners at Riviera. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

#2. Coach Adam Blakis and the Dolphins are No. 1 after winning the CIF Southern California Regional Division III water polo title. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

#8. Pali High swim coach Maggie Nance takes a celebratory dip after the girls’ ninth consecutive City title and the boys’ sixth in a row. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

#10. Gonzaga’s Sophie Whittle hits a forehand in the singles final of the Women’s All-American Tennis Championships at Riviera. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

#7. Pali High tennis player Lincoln Bellamy returns serve in the City finals, where the Dolphins won their record 10th straight section crown. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

#9. Coach Blake Schinto and the Cubs celebrate after winning the PPBA Mustang Division championship at the Field of Dreams. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

#3. Jake Vander Veen drives for a layup for the Palisades Recreation Center’s Co-Ed Minor All-Stars in the City basketball final in Westchester. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

#1. Senior Annie Wibbelsman and her Pali High volleyball teammates celebrate their first City Section Open Division championship. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

#5. Tonny Okello is all smiles as he crosses the finish first for a record fifth-straight time in the Palisades-Will Rogers 10K on the Fourth of July. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

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Justin Haynes drives for a layup during Saturday’s fifth-place game against El Camino Real. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

Pali High Hoops Sixth at Spot Up Christmas Classic By STEVE GALLUZZO Sports Editor

Confidence is high for the Palisades High boys basketball team as it resumes Western League action on Monday against Hamilton.The Dolphins had reason to feel good about themselves after giving

El Camino Real all it could handle Saturday in the fifth-place game of the Spot Up SoCal Christmas Classic at Burbank High.

Palisades lost 65-62 but gave a much better account of itself than it had one month earlier when it lost to the same team by 14 points in the opening round of the Rose City Round Ball Classic in Pasadena.

“It shows we’re improving, especially on defense,” said Pali High senior forward Will Janney, who made the All-City Open Division

defensive second team as a safety on the Dolphins’ football team in the fall. “We run hard zone defense and you have to be a smart team to beat that. It took a couple weeks to transition from one sport to the other but I got back in the rotation quicker than last year.”

Palisades opened the tournament with a 74-64 victory over Ingle-wood, then suffered a blowout loss to Bishop Montgomery, one of the best teams in the state.

On Friday, Nick Kerkorian scored 15 points and Sheldon Zanders had nine as the Dolphins (7-8) beat Providence 53-46 in a game that was close from start to finish.

Graham Alphson had a game-high 24 points, Kerkorian had 10, Dylan Griffin had eight and Caden Arnold had seven against the Con-quistadores in Saturday’s game, which was tied 30-30 at halftime.

Dylan Griffin grabs a rebound during Friday’s 53-46 victory over Providence at Burbank High. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

Pali High Girls Soccer Travels to ECR Today

Playoff seeding will be at stake when the Palisades High girls soc-cer team takes on defending champion El Camino Real at 5 p.m.

today in Woodland Hills in a rematch of last year’s City Section final. The Dolphins (5-1) will try to rebound from a loss to Santa Monica

and the Conquistadores (2-2-3) are coming off a tie with league rival Granada Hills. ECR edged Palisades 2-1 for the City title in March.


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Junior guard Hayley Amador will lead the Palisades High girls basketball team at this week’s Cleveland High Classic in Reseda. The Dolphins began the four-day tournament yesterday versus Moorpark. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

The pigskin prognosticating is over for yet another season, but the annual Palisadian-Post Football Contest drew more entries than

ever and taking home the 18th and final prize of the year (a $15 gift card to The Yogurt Shoppe) was Richard Olsen, who won for the sec-ond time after guessing the winners in seven out of 10 games.

The season championship went to Don Galias, who was the top predictor six times. Three-time winner Katie Ebert was the runner-up while Andrew Rhames joined Olsen as a two-time winner.

James Ryan, Linda Harvey, Ryan Angelich, Christine Odionu and Patrick Elder each won once. Eight of the 18 contests were de-cided by tiebreakers and there were no perfect 10s, although Odionu (Week 7), Rhames (Week 15) and Galias (Week 9) got nine correct.

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Passing Up

By STEVE GALLUZZO Sports Editor

Facing tough competition has a way of bringing out your best

as Palisades High freshman Ari Blloshmi found out last weekend at the Black Watch Tournament, which annually attracts the best wrestlers in California.

The two-day event held at Upland High featured a field of 64 in every weight class, with matches going on 10 mats in two gyms simultaneously.

Despite locking arms with opponents two or three years old-er than him, Blloshmi made it to the second day with a gutsy ef-fort that earned him praise from Coach Mike Lawlor and gained him valuable experience. After a first-round bye he won his first match in the 120-pound weight division by technical fall (18-1) over Riverside Poly’s Adrien Castillo before losing a decision to eventual runner-up Michael Jahnig of La Quinta. Blloshmi re-bounded to beat Glendora’s Ryan Greenberg 10-6 in the backdraw Thursday to ensure himself more

matches on Friday. “A lot of guys did well at the

JV tournaments we went to earli-er but there were a lot more peo-ple here and this is much harder,” said Blloshmi, who took up the sport under Coach Adam Hunter at Paul Revere Middle School. “This was a learning experience. It taught me more about sprawl-ing and ducking the head. Mak-ing weight is one of the hardest

parts of wrestling. You really have to be disciplined and watch what you eat.”

Accumulatung a majority of Palisades’ 63.5 points to help it finish 23rd out of 63 teams were 160-pounder Luke Hansen and heavyweight Immanuel Newell, a defensive end on the Dolphins’ football team in the fall.

Hansen, a senior, won his first two matches by fall before

being matched against Boulder Creek’s Cole Sheldon, who is ranked No. 1 in the state and beat Hansen 11-3 en route to winning the tournament.

Hansen decisioned Pomona’s Damien Limon and pinned Xavi Camarena of Franklin EG. In the fifth-place match he pinned Damien’s Liam McNair in the third period to earn a spot on the podium (top 8) and a medal.

Newell, a junior, lost his first match but scored four straight pins (with a default mixed in) and followed with an 8-2 decision to make the third-place semifinals. He lost that by fall but rebounded to score an 11-5 decision against Jorge Reboseno of Montclair to secure fifth place.

Erinn Jackson posted a 1-2 record at 152, Braeden Harris went 1-2 at 170, Kyle Santelices went 0-2 at 138 and Parsa Pour-moula finished 1-2 at 132.

Palisadian Aaron Galef, the LA City Section champion at 132 pounds last year, transferred from Palisades to Birmingham over the summer and won the 145 di-vision Friday at Black Watch.

Luke Hansen (top) flips Damien Limon of Pomona toscore an 8-1 decision on his way to fifth place at 160 pounds. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

Immanuel Newell (top) pins Andrew Cronin from Montclair in the backdraw on his way to fifth place at 285 pounds. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

Pali High freshman Ari Blloshmi (right) advanced to the second day in the 120-pound weight division at Black Watch. Photo: Steve Galluzzo

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Deep inside the heart of New York City, Matthew Del Negro was

weaving his way through restaurant staff and bartenders to make ends meet while trying to stand out in a sea of ambitious actors also deter-mined to break into the entertain-ment industry.

Del Negro performed in count-less short films and local plays that paid nothing more than a blank check signed by his determination to keep going.

In 2002, Del Negro cashed in with a small role on season four of “The Sopranos,” which snowballed into the successful acting career he has now, appearing in popular shows like “The West Wing,” “Goliath” and “Scandal.” The Westchester County native is also set to appear in a new Netflix series called “Huge in France,” a story about a French comedian who moves to LA without his celebrity status.

But it wasn’t until an on-set con-versation with a friend got Del Ne-gro thinking about starting “10,000 ‘No’s” a podcast focused on people’s life journeys, rather than their des-tinations.

“I started [the podcast] about a year-and-a-half ago as a complete passion project all about not just actors but [people from] all walks of life, overcoming adversity and turn-ing things around,” the Via Mesa resident said in an interview with the Palisadian-Post.

After being asked how many times he’s been told “no” in the span of his career, Del Negro figured he hears the dreaded word some 10,000 times a year and decided that would be the name of his podcast.

His very first episode consisted of a 17-minute rant on why he wanted to take on the audio venture and his plans for creating the “anti-Insta-gram” where it’s acceptable—and preferred—to talk about life’s chal-lenges rather than only highlight the accomplishments.

Del Negro has since hosted big names in the fields of entertainment and sports, business and music, many of who are Palisadian.

“People have been so willing to be vulnerable and express their sto-ries,” said Del Negro, who was sur-prised to get such positive feedback on his early episodes and was often told from friends of his guests that they themselves had not heard the stories shared on his podcast.

“That was the whole intent of the entire project: to have listeners feel less alone,” he said. “Because

everybody is struggling, everybody is looking at the people that seem to have arrived or ‘have it made’ and they think, ‘Oh, they don’t have any problems,’ and then you hear their stories and you realize, ‘Oh, my God, people that look like they’re on top of the world have been through hell.’”

Del Negro recalled a younger version of himself wishing he could hear the often unspoken versions of people’s success stories for motiva-tion and has now taken it upon him-self to put those stories out into the world in hopes of shedding light onto the career paths of the next genera-tion.

In hopes of transmitting more emotion and reaching people on a deeper level, Del Negro chose to make a podcast instead of writing a book.

“I want people to feel like they are a fly on the wall listening to a conversation that’s unfolding as they’re listening to it,” said Del Ne-gro, who has been surprised by just how harrowing some of his guests’ stories were. “There’s just a tremen-dous amount of respect I have for what it takes for someone to really succeed.”

As a result of that respect, Del Negro has turned into a mentor for anyone who will listen, often giving speeches at acting schools and con-necting people with like-minded in-dividuals. His podcast now creeps into the realm of a masterclass, teaching his listeners one hour at a time that rejection is all part of the process.

Over one year since its launch, Del Negro’s “10,000 ‘No’s” has evolved from an entertaining re-cording of an actor ranting about his challenges to a well-regarded audio destination that anyone with an am-bition to “make it” can benefit from and find inspiration.

With a five-star rating on iTunes and on Backstage’s “20 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To As an Actor,” “The West Wing” star’s passion project is well on its way to a full-time production as producers and fi-nanciers are now reaching out to him looking to take it to the next level.

“It [started as] just me following a string of inspiration and figuring if I was putting something into the world that was going to help people then I would just do that and kind of figure it out as it goes,” Del Negro said. “Now it seems like that little thing that I was doing could turn into something that has a larger impact.”

10,000 “No”s can be listened to on 10000nos.com, iTunes and most third party podcast apps.

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Simply put, Barbette blew our minds.Enter this West Hollywood

newbie and one is instantly trans-ported to the Belle Epoque. that is the vibe of the main room and bar, as the charmingly rustic, province-harkening back room (usually reserved for big parties and special events) feels like the interior of a quaint little spot up Rue Lepic in Montmartre.

Given the attention to detail to the scenery and decor, there was

almost an initial sense that Bar-bette’s owners—Jared Meisler and Sean MacPherson, the team behind the nearby, classy Jones and Bar Lubitsch, as well as the Pikey on Sunset, the luchador-able El Carmen on 3rd Street and the long-running hipster diner Swingers—were overcompen-sating with their latest concept, which just opened in May.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Oui, we must tip our cha-peaus to the man behind the menu—Executive Chef Robert Flaherty, who started out his cu-linary career in New York, first at the Michelin-starred Spotted Pig and later at Chef April Bloom-field’s White Gold Butchers.

At Barbette, Flaherty has devised a menu that emphasizes quality over quantity and that is not a bad thing. to be clear, these plates are ample and will not leave you feeling hungry after-ward, yet the menu is sparse on choices and the kitchen does not heap overkill portions onto your plates that, yes, some restaurants around town seem to do as a way of making up for a core lack of

craft.Everything at Barbette is

house-made from scratch, in-cluding the scrumptious French bread. Pure and simple, Barbette Sourdough, served with real but-ter, defies categorization. On the restaurant’s website, there is a passage explaining Flaherty’s very personal quest to devise his own sourdough baguette. Indeed, his mad laboratory experimenta-tion has worked, and the slices are so stellar, we ordered a sec-ond round.

Chilled Shrimp came with a fennel aioli and proved a light and terrific combination; also worth trying are the salads, including the Endive and Beet selection we chose; a colorful mélange highlighted by reddened leaves resembling kimchi and savory pieces of bleu cheese and candied walnuts.

the restaurant offers vege-tarian and vegan counterparts for most meals, and our waitress said the Vegan Cassoulet—Sonora beans, basil oil, crimini mush-rooms, pumpkin, cauliflower and olive oil-fried bread—is a very popular order.

the main attraction, howev-er, came in the form of the meal. Steak Frites (steak with thin-sliced French fries) came as ei-ther 6 oz. or 12 oz. the smaller is a hanger steak but we opted for the larger flat-iron selection.

At Barbette, there is no need to “Americanize” your steak by dumping ketchup or A-1 on it. Marinating in its own juices with a side of chimichurri sauce, this steak speaks for itself. You’ll sop up every last drop on your plate with your bread.

You will want to indulge in the Moules Mariniere, doused with white wine and fresh garlic and accompanied by grilled olive bread and a mustard aioli dipping sauce. The crossfire of flavors is sublime, and this entree does the cities of Paris and Brussels proud.

And if steak is not your thing, Crab Rice, Salmon and Chicken Diable entrees are among your options.

Dessert boils down to four choices; nothing revolutionary in terms of the type of selections of-fered—including Buttermilk Pan-na Cotta, Chocolate Mousse and

Sorbet (raspberry and champagne flavors the night we visited)—but the mousse we opted for, which arrives with touches of fruit and peanut brittle—was well execut-ed and went especially well with the winning cup of cappuccino (concentric hearts design includ-ed) we asked for.

Oddly and conversely, the weakest part of Barbette’s of-ferings is the cocktail program, which pales in potency to the quality of the food here. High-lights included the black-licorice lean of Absinthe, fired up right in front of you, and the spicy Gold River, combining mezcal, Amaro Angeleno, apricot, lime, turmeric, agave and habañero. the purplish Northern Trick, a gin-and-coco-nut water-informed libation with lemon and blue pea flower, ap-peared attractive and tasted OK.

However, don’t let the mixed drinks be the main reason you visit Barbette—a sure bet if you crave high-end French. As un-likely as it may appear, the cui-sine and atmosphere here are strong enough to top the list of many restaurants we’ve reviewed

for the Post since mid-2015. Yes, the food here is that good.

Note: Barbette is open from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily. However, the general manager promises the bistro will open for brunch in 2019, and I, for one, will return to partake in this additional new menu. Can’t wait to see what else Chef Flaherty has in store for us. Bien joué!

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Palisadians Jennifer Garner and J.J. Abrams—co-work-

ers on the hit 2001-06 ABC se-ries “Alias”—will reunite for a limited series ordered by Apple for its new streaming service set to air in 2019.

The series, “My Glory Was I Had Such Friends,” is based on Amy Silverstein’s eponymous 2017 memoir and chronicles the experiences of her friends sup-porting her as she waits for a sec-ond life-saving heart transplant.

Garner will star in the series and co-executive produce along-side Abrams, who is working un-der the banner of Bad Robot (in association with Warner Bros.), the production company respon-sible for hit shows like “Lost,” “Westworld” and “Person of In-terest.” Also producing are Sil-verstein and Bad Robot Head of Television Ben Stephenson.

The series follows on the heels of Garner’s recent return to a series-regular role with HBO’s 2018 comedy series “Camping” and is the second Apple series Abrams has produced, along with the half-hour musical dram-edy “Little Voices” starring sing-er Sara Bareilles.

“My Glory Was I Had Such Friends” is one of over a dozen original TV series and movies ru-mored to be part of Apple’s new video streaming service line-up. Some other series ordered by Apple include an untitled dra-ma from “La La Land” creator Damien Chazelle, “Swagger,” a drama based on the early life and career of NBA star Kevin Durant, “Central Park,” an an-imated musical comedy series developed by “Bob’s Burgers” creator Loren Bouchard, and “See,” a world-building drama set in the future written by Ste-ven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”)

and Francis Lawrence (“The Hunger Games”).

Palisadian Steven Spielberg will also executive produce Ap-ple’s reboot of the ’80s NBC se-ries “Amazing Stories.”

Apple spent $1 billion de-veloping original content in 2017 and 2018, seeking to carve out a customer base for its new Netflix-style subscription ser-vice. This comes just over a year after the company aired its first original television show, “Planet of the Apps” in June 2017 and followed up with its popular “Carpool Karaoke: The Series” in August 2017.

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Starting January 12, the Pep-perdine University Frederick

R. Weisman Museum of Art will house “Richard Diebenkorn: Be-ginnings, 1942-1955”—the first exhibition to solely examine the work the artist, best known for his “Ocean Park” series, made prior to his turn to figuration.

The American painter and printmaker has been associated with abstract expressionism (the focus of this exhibition) and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

“‘Beginnings’ focuses on the artist’s stylistic and technical or-igins in oil, watercolor, gouache, ink, crayon and collage, tracing Diebenkorn’s evolution from rep-resentational landscape, to semi-abstract and Surrealist-inspired work, to his mature abstract ex-pressionist paintings from the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana and early Berkeley years,” Pep-perdine explained in a press re-lease.

The Pepperdine exhibition, which will feature approximate-ly 75 pieces, most of which have never before been publicly exhib-ited, was organized by the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, based in Berkeley, in conjunction with the Crocker Art Museum in Sacra-mento.

The works range from World War II drawings and watercolors to abstractions that combine sur-realism and cubism.

“We are thrilled to welcome ‘Beginnings,’” said Michael Zakaian, director of the Freder-ick R. Weisman Museum of Art,

in a statement. “Many of the early images, influences and references that later defined Diebenkorn’s mature drawings and paintings began here in Southern California.

“Of course, he would return, moving from the Bay Area in 1966 to Santa Monica, where he taught as a professor in the art de-partment at UCLA until 1973 and produced his epic painting cycle, the Ocean Park series.”

The work will be on display through March 31, with an open-ing reception planned for January 13 from 2 to 4 p.m.

For more information, includ-ing museum hours, visit arts.pep-perdine.edu.

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Is your home in need of a spiritual makeover?

For many of us, when we see a large mess we might feel anxious and stressed, often choosing to ig-nore the problem by shutting doors and letting it pile up.

But when Courtney Lewis and Jordan Moore look at clutter, they see an opportunity to simplify.

That’s because the Palisadian duo recently launched The Happy Space, a professional organizing company that transforms chaotic closets, disasterly dens and unorga-nized offices into calm, clean and productive living spaces.

In an interview with the Pali-sadian-Post, the organizing entre-preneurs revealed that they help a variety of clients, most of whom are not clinical hoarders or extreme couponers.

Some are working profession-als too busy to tackle their messes head on or cooking gurus who need a spice rack overhaul. Others are mothers whose living rooms have been taken over by a sea of scat-tered toys.

But, according to Moore, one thing all Happy Space clients have in common is that they are seeking to clear up the “stress and emotion-al blocks” that come along with ac-cumulating too much stuff.

“We believe a clean and orga-nized home helps promote a clear and organized mind,” Lewis further explained.

And the two might be onto something: according to findings published in the 2010 scientific journal Personality and Social Psy-chology Bulletin, researchers found that women who described their living spaces as “cluttered” or full of “unfinished projects” expressed higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol and were more likely to be

depressed and fatigued. “Many Americans are anxious

in their own spaces,” Moore said. “They feel overwhelmed—or even paralyzed—by their own mess, so much to where they can’t even be-gin to try and sort through it all ... that’s where we come in.”

Lewis told the Post the major-ity of requested jobs are for kitch-ens, offices and playrooms, and that clients need the most help with sort-ing objects into easy-to-see, easy-to-access groups.

In operation since October, the idea for their business came while Lewis and Moore, who have back-grounds in interior design and proj-ect management, were strategizing new and efficient ways to organize their own cluttered homes.

“It really all started out of ne-cessity,” Moore revealed. “Our friends and neighbors kept asking for our help and so we thought, ‘We could really have something here.’”

And, apparently, they were right: Lewis said the local demand for professional organizing is high and with the holidays behind us, Palisadians are preparing for the New Year by committing to purge last year’s clutter.

“We’ve been booked out a month in advance,” Lewis told the Post. “We feel so lucky to live in such a caring, supportive and mind-ful community.”

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I made a lot of memories in 2018, but one memory that stood out to me was Hume

Lake—a Christian camp located in Fresno County.

I must admit, I was very nervous, as this was my first-ever sleep away camp. Hundreds of worries had sprouted in my mind: Will I be homesick? Will I miss my bed? Will I like the food? Will I get sick? Will a bear show up in our cabin?

The campers met up at school where we boarded the bus that took us there. I sat next to one of my closest friends, who I have known since preschool. We were all bracing ourselves for a long, six-hour trip.

Surprisingly, it did not feel that long at all. Maybe because of the movie we were watching (“Sing!”), maybe because of the fun games we played, maybe because of the pit stop at In-N-Out (YUM!) or maybe just because we were all so excited to see what awaited us at Hume Lake.

When we arrived, we all scrambled out of the bus and grabbed our heavy bags. We all dashed to the covered wagons where we slept.

The wagon is much like the one from “Little House on the Prairie.” Each wagon was named after a U.S. state.

I was grouped with nine other girls and our wagon was named Georgia. Lucky for us our wagon was closest to the bathroom.

We ate a big dinner of a delicious burg-er and then got ready for bed. We layered ourselves the best we could because the nights at Hume Lake could be very cold, even in the middle of summer.

Even though it was my first night away from home, I fell asleep quickly. I think the long bus ride helped.

I woke up to the sound of a rooster’s crow. I was disoriented at first but as soon

as I registered where I was, I immediately jumped out of bed. I was filled with an-ticipation, excitement and was so ready to begin the day.

Our daily schedule goes like this: First, a wake up call by the rooster. It is bitterly cold in the early mornings as well, so ev-eryone wears their pajamas as we head out to the grassy field to say our pledges.

Breakfast is served in the Mess Hall, which is outdoors. Breakfast consists of toasts, waffles, cereal, sausages, bacons,

eggs and fruits.After breakfast, we brush our teeth,

change our clothes, apply sunscreen and fill up our water bottles. Then we proceed to the chapel for our morning praise and prayers.

In the morning, campers are assigned a counselor and an activity. The activi-ty could either be hiking or a fun game: Campers vs. Counselors. Then lunch is ready and served at the Mess Hall.

Nappy Poo follows after lunch, which

is a 30-minute rest time. One can catch some Zs, play a game or two, or write an entry in the journal book. No one’s allowed to leave the wagon during Nappy Poo.

In the afternoons, campers have four hours to choose and enjoy any of the fol-lowing: playing games in the wagon, go-ing to the snack shop, playing sports, play-ing an outdoor game with the counselors, zip lining, canoeing, swimming or repel-ling!! I love how there were endless fun activities to do.

Then we get ready for dinner. Also at dinnertime, care packages arrive. I re-ceived a care package during my one-week stay there. My mom and dad sent me a letter, board games, book and treats galore!

After dinner, we head back to our wagon exhausted and hit the hay right away. We were always so excited for the following day to unfold.

On our last night, we had a bonfire. It was a very beautiful night. The sky was clear and the stars were bright. We had s’mores, we sang songs and went to bed late.

The following morning we woke up to a song from “The Greatest Showman.” We ate a quick breakfast, piled on the bus, got comfy and prepared for the ride home.

I had so much fun and the days passed by so quickly. As we drove back, I found myself missing Hume Lake, which was ironic. None of my worries that I had be-fore the camp ever happened. I liked the food, I didn’t miss my bed, I didn’t get sick and no bears showed up. I did miss my family a little bit.

Hume Lake was a blast and I had the greatest time there!

Thank you 2018 for an unforgettable and wonderful memory, and I am looking forward to making another great one in 2019!

My Favorite Memory of 2018

Hume Lake campers Photo courtesy of the Shin family

Do you think New Year’s resolutions are a good idea for my 9-year-old son? Nothing crazy

like losing weight, but something along the lines of committing to keeping his room cleaner. I want to teach him how to set goals, but are resolutions a good place to start?

Two years ago I was on the “Today” show talking about this very issue—New Year’s resolu-tions! ’Tis the season.

I wonder: Do you make reso-lutions? And more importantly, do you keep them? I wonder: How many people do you know who, on December 31, look back and say, “I did it! I stayed on my diet for the whole year!”

Resolutions are really hard for adults to keep. Is it reasonable to

expect a child to make and keep a resolution? Not likely.

Truth be told, I am not a fan of New Year’s resolutions for any-one. It’s not that I don’t believe in resolving to change your ways. It is the sense of failure that one feels when you blow your resolu-tion.

A resolution implies that you WILL do something. And when you fall off the wagon, it erodes your sense of “I can do it.” That’s not a good thing. No one likes to feel like a loser.

As you said above, you want your son to set goals for himself. Nothing wrong with that.

Maybe you have answered your own question. Maybe you can use the new year as a good time to discuss what changes could be made and the idea of the

holiday of New Year’s Day being a good time to turn over a new leaf, as the saying goes.

But just know, your son needs to buy into the idea. If he is not on board, it will fail.

Why don’t you ask him what changes in himself or in his behav-ior or habits he would like to make in the new year? And then he can be in charge of reaching toward his goals, measuring his progress and feel proud of himself.

You can be the cheerleader, encouraging and praising his ef-forts. You can even incentivize his progress. But if it’s your goal for him, it’s a whole different story.

As an aside, a 9-year-old boy keeping his room cleaner will like-ly be an uphill battle. But that’s for another column!

Happy New Year!


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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELESCase No. 18PSCP00052

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Martin Andrew Valdez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows:Present Name: Martin Andrew ValdezProposed Name: Martin Andrew SilverouxTHE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the

petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: February 1, 2019, 8:30 a.m. The address of the court is 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91765A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be pub-lished at least once each week for four succes-sive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALISADIAN-POST. Dated: November 27, 2018

SHERRI R. CARTERExecutive Officer/Clerk

December 13, 20, 27, 2018 and January 3, 2019

R COURT OF CALIFORNIACOUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Case No. 18SMCP00071ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR

CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Tricia Degelman Rose filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows:Present Name: Tricia Degelman RoseProposed Name: Tricia Rose StoneTHE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested

in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: January 18, 2019, 8:30 a.m. The address of the court is 1725 Main Street #102, Santa Monica, CA 90401A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be pub-lished at least once each week for four succes-sive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALISADIAN-POST. Dated: November 15, 2018

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