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Los Feliz LedgerRead by 100,000+ Residents and Business Owners in Los Feliz, Silver Lake,
Atwater Village, Echo Park & Hollywood HillsMarch 2019Vol 14. No. 9
FOOD & DINING: House of Pies, now 50, is the last L.A. remnant of a former chain, losfelizledger.com
LUCK OF THE IRISH: St. Patrick’s Day events calendar, losfelizledger.com
THEATER: “Miss America” play examines Mother-daughter relations, losfelizledger.com
KEEN TO BE GREEN: Taking a look at AOC’s Green New Deal, losfelizledger.com
COMMUNITY NEWS: Neighbor-hood weighs in on Silver Lake Reservoir plan, losfelizledger.com
Los Feliz Groups Support Homeless Shelter ProposalBy Erin Hickey PinheiroLedger Contributing Writer
The Los Feliz Neighbor-hood Council unanimously voted February 19th to sup-port a temporary homeless shelter planned for the neigh-borhood, joining a chorus of local community groups in support of the idea.
The proposal, introduced in a February 6th motion by Los Angeles City Council-member David Ryu would bring bridge housing—in-terim shelter for homeless in-dividuals awaiting permanent supportive housing—to a city-owned property located at 3210 and 3248 Riverside Drive in Griffith Park, near the Mulholland Fountain
and across the street from the Friendship Auditorium and Griffith Park Adult Commu-nity Club (GPACC).
The 2018-19 mayor’s bud-get includes $20 million for such interim housing proj-ects, with a goal of developing 50-100 shelter beds in each council district citywide. Ap-proximately 750 unsheltered homeless individuals live in Ryu’s council district, CD4, according to the motion, compared to about 31,500 citywide, per Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) data.
“I am excited to begin see HOMELESS page 6 see HYPERION page 9see RATS page 5
As City Hall Looks to Purge RatsSome Hope to Ban Rat PoisonBy Erin Hickey PinheiroLedger Contributing Writer
A rat infestation at Los Angeles City Hall made headlines in February after City Council Presi-dent Herb Wesson suggested ripping out all of the building’s carpets to mitigate a Typhus outbreak pos-sibly caused by the rodents.
But while city officials focus on exterminating rats, local organizations, includ-ing the non-profit Friends of Griffith Park and the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council (SLNC) are more concerned with how to avoid the collat-eral damage caused by those exterminations.
Owls, foxes, coyotes and squirrels are among the wild-life recently found dead in Griffith Park after being inad-vertently poisoned by a com-mon type of rodenticide called an anticoagulant, according to Friends of Griffith Park Vice President Gerry Hans, who said his organization helped
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By Sarah FavotLedger Contributing Writer
LOS FELIZ—Locals will go to the polls March 5th to vote for a new Los Angeles Uni-fied School District (LAUSD) Board of Education represen-tative for District 5, which includes the Los Feliz, Silver Lake and Echo Park commu-nities.
The special election is be-ing closely watched because it could determine the school board’s ideological balance af-ter the resignation of Ref Ro-driguez, who was convicted of a felony and other charges related to campaign finance violations during his 2015 campaign.
Rodriguez was part of the majority bloc of school boardmembers who have been financially backed by charter school supporters. Since he de-
LAUSD Election Could Change Board Ideology
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LFNC Demands Answers After FatalityBy Erin Hickey PinheiroLedger Contributing Writer
LOS FELIZ—After a recent hit-and-run accident killed pe-destrian Christina Garcia near the intersection of Hyperion and Fountain avenues, the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council (LFNC) wants answers from the city about why their 2017 request for safety improve-ments along that same stretch of road went ignored.
The 1.4-mile stretch, which extends from the inter-section of Sunset Boulevard to Rowena avenue, includes Thomas Starr King Middle School, Kids’ World K-12 School and Lyric Pre-School
City May Ban Developer DonationsBy Allison B. Cohen
The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission voted in February to ban donations to political candidates and of-ficeholders from all non-indi-viduals and from real estate developers and their associates looking for “discretionary” ap-provals on projects that don’t follow current zoning codes.
The commission called the reforms the “most compre-hensive set of restrictions on contributions and fundraising since the Ethics Commission was first established,” in 1990.
Cities like San Diego, San Francisco and New York have already implemented simi-lar restrictions. San Diego’s limitations were challenged and upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2011.
Griffith Park mountain lion P-22 in 2014 (left) and in 2016, before and after recovering from a rodenticide-induced bout of mange. Photo: National Park Service.
This graphic depicts where the eight LAUSD school board candidates who attended a February 18th forum at the Autry Museum stand on key issues in the race. Reporting by Sarah Favot. Graphic by Tiffany Sims.
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Inman to Discuss L.A. Architecture “Bible” at Free Library Talk
Author Robert Inman will discuss the newly revised An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles at the Architecture & Beyond Lecture Series Thurs-day, March 14th from 6:45-7:45 p.m. at the Los Feliz Li-brary, 1874 Hillhurst Ave.
This, the sixth revision of the veritable bible of structures built in Los Angeles, was up-dated and edited by Inman in collaboration with renowned architectural historian Dr. Robert Winter, who authored the original guidebook over 50 years ago.
Inman is the author of A
Guide to the Stairways of Los Angeles and Finding Los Ange-les by Foot: Stairstreet, Bridge, Pathway and Lane. He fre-quently collaborates with Dr. Winter, his mentor.
Nathan Masters, Emmy-winning host and producer of KCET’s Lost LA, wrote the foreword.
Skylight Books will be on hand for the selling and sign-ing of the newly-revised An Architectural Guide to Los An-geles.
The free lecture series is supported by Friends of the Los Feliz Library.
For more information, call the Los Feliz Branch Li-brary at (323) 913-4710.
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Corrections & Amplifications
The story “Some NCs Worry Boards Still Vulnerable to Abuse” from our February 2019 print edition incorrectly stated Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu was up for re-election in 2021. Ryu is up for re-election in 2020, not 2021. We regret the error.
[LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER]
Candidates in the Los A n g e l e s U n i f i e d School Dis-trict election
(see front page) have spent over $850,000 and indepen-dent groups on their behalf have spent over $1.1 million, and not a dime went to adver-tising in the local newspaper.
Additionally, only one candidate, Rocio Rivas, re-sponded to our request for ad-ditional information and an interview.
While it may be naïve for me to think candidates that will oversee our area’s lo-cal schools should have taken out an eighth page black and white ad for $250—or at least
responded to our interview re-quests—I don’t think so.
This election is a little bit about your kids, but it’s more about the all-important swing vote on a school board fractured between charter schools and the teacher’s union.
These campaigns are big business and a big win is a big get for either side.
Instead the campaigns spent tens of thousands on mailers, texts, robocalls and on social media, Facebook, et al, despite all of Mark Zucker-berg’s companies’ breaches of user trust.
A recent Los Angeles Times story indicated that for the first time, in 2019, money spent on digital advertising will surpass
traditional advertising, like television or newspapers, and that in just four short years, digital will have captured two-thirds of all advertising.
Meanwhile, I hear repeat-edly at industry conferences and via media reports that lo-cal, community journalism is more important than ever.
It’s a conundrum for all publishers, I guess, that none of us, large or small, have been able to monetize advertising on our websites.
This newspaper only ex-ists because of our advertis-ers. Please seek them out, support them for their sup-port of local journalism and advertise with us.
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House of Pies 1869 N. Vermont
Los Feliz Public Library 1874 Hillhurst Avenue
Los Feliz 3 Theaters 1822 N. Vermont
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Maroon 5’s Mickey MaddenConversations with the Creative Folks Who Call Los Feliz HomeBy Mica Campbell and Patti Ruben, Ledger Columnists
On a recent chilly af-ternoon we sat down at the Starbucks on Hillhurst with Mickey Madden, bassist for the rock band Maroon 5 be-fore their recent Super Bowl halftime appearance.
A quick jolt of caffeine and his friendly, easy-going manner made for a pleasant afternoon conversation in the waning winter sun.
Madden grew up in Los Angeles, spending time on the
west side and the San Fernan-do Valley before making his way to the eastside.
Maroon 5 recorded their first album, Songs About Jane, released in 2002, on Lowry Road in Los Feliz and he and most of the band have lived on this side of town ever since.
Architecture was what initially drew Madden to Los Feliz—the Craig Ellwood de-signed Moore House on Bon-vue Avenue to be precise—
which he owned for just over 10 years.
Today he lives in anoth-er architectural gem in the neighborhood and is grateful to be able to hike in Griffith Park with his dogs, Toast and Jam, daily.
Madden’s excursions in the park, he said, are key to his creative process and he is con-tinually inspired by the nature that surrounds him.
When asked what he loves about Los Feliz, we were not surprised to hear the word “community” come up quick-ly. According to Madden, his everyday takes place between
Silver Lake and Franklin Vil-lage, and he said he appreciates the walking sensibility of the area, which he partially attri-butes to the many New York-ers and Europeans who have made Los Feliz home.
Pedestrians making their way up and down our two main arteries and the café cul-ture brings to mind any num-ber of cities perceived as much more walkable than Los Ange-les, he said.
Madden said he also ap-preciates the diversity of the neighborhood, citing the prevalence of multi-family apartment complexes next to multi-million-dollar homes and everything in between.
And, once again, he cir-cles back to the aesthetic that drew him here: Los Feliz’s varied types of Los Angeles
architecture. Locally, he said he loves
hanging out at All-Time and Café Figaro. Atrium, Kismet and Covell were also high on his list. Covell, by the way, is a favorite not just for a glass of wine but as Madden’s ho-tel recommendation for out of town guests.
On a more casual night out, Madden said he often returns to old favorites: The Drawing Room and Ye Rustic Inn. Or you might find him settling into a movie at the Los Feliz 3 or the Vista on a rare night off from touring.
Anything not to love about the neighborhood?
“I think we’ve reached our max for ice cream and coffee in the neighborhood, but I’m not complaining,” he said. [STREET LEVEL]
Locals Split on Cable News, Most Look to Web for Updates
By Michael Darling, Ledger Contributing Writer
Do you watch cable news? If so, what channels? What other news sources do you use?
“I don’t. I pretty much just use Twitter and CNN.com.” –Corey C., outside the
Skylight Books Annex on Vermont Avenue
“I don’t. I fol-low indepen-dent journalists on Twitter that aren’t affiliated with corporate
media companies.” –Ryan W., outside Skylight Books on Vermont Avenue
“I do. I watch most of them, all the major networks and look at the New York Times,
Apple News, Drudge, Huff-Po.” –Joe E., outside the for-mer site of WKNDR on Ver-mont Avenue
“I watch CNN sometimes and MSNBC some-times, but I don’t have cable so I mostly
watch online. I read the New York Times, Washington Post and sometimes Fox to see how the other half lives.” –Corina M., outside Skylight Books on Vermont Avenue
“I watch CNN and I get a lot of my news from my different feeds, mostly L.A. Times and
New York Times.” –Ian E., outside the Vintage Los Feliz Theatre on Vermont Avenue
“I watch CNN and I guess any-thing I read on-line is an ac-c e p t a b l e answer? I read
the New Yorker and Vanity Fair.” –Britt R., outside the Vintage Los Feliz Theatre on Vermont Avenue
“I used to work in television, but I’ve never owned one and I’m not interest-ed in cable net-
works. All of my news, I get online.” –Kevin B., outside the former site of WKNDR on Vermont Avenue
“I don’t, I go straight to the New York Times, L.A. Times and then Wa s h i n g t o n
Post. I don’t own a TV.” –Miles T., outside Skylight Books on Vermont Avenue
“If I were to watch cable news, it would be MSNBC. I have NPR on 24/7.” –Ava T.,
outside Skylight Books on Vermont Avenue
“I don’t watch cable news, be-cause we just have Apple TV. So I get my news online
from CNN and also the MS-NBC Morning Joe podcast.” –Alexandra O., outside La La Ling on Vermont Avenue.
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fund posthumous testing on the animals.
Unlike traditional ro-denticides, which kill rodents immediately but are easy for vermin to learn to avoid, an-ticoagulants—which prevent blood clotting, causing severe internal bleeding—act slowly, allowing rodents to survive up to two weeks after exposure.
“In the dying process … these rodents can be stagger-ing around half dead and be-come easy prey for hawks, owls and small mammals,” which are then poisoned secondarily, said Hans. In some cases, he said, “The rat may have eaten 10 times [the amount of poi-son] it really takes for it to die,” resulting in “a really po-tent poison that goes up the food chain.”
According to Hans, there have also been cases of tertiary
poisoning in the park, such as bobcats that have died after eating a coyote that ate a poi-soned rat.
Less commonly, Hans said, non-predatory animals like squirrels will get into bait boxes that have been improp-erly secured.
According to Hans, Griffith Park’s population of western gray squirrels has sharply declined in recent years, and while the cause is unclear, testing on one squir-rel recently found dead in the park came back positive for anticoagulant rodenticides.
Even in cases where sec-ondary rodenticide exposure does not directly result in death, it can cause significant damage to wild animals’ im-mune systems, resulting in mange, hypothermia, starva-tion and other potentially le-thal complications, according
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Atwater Village Neighborhood Council
Governing BoardMarch 14th at 7 p.m.
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to an October National Park Service (NPS) report.
One high-profile exam-ple occurred in 2014, when Griffith Park mountain lion P-22 contracted a severe case of mange, which the NPS later attributed to rodenticide poi-soning. P-22 had fully recov-ered from the disease by 2016.
But the issue is not limited to Griffith Park.
According to the non-profit Poison Free Malibu, at least five Los Angeles County mountain lions have died from secondary exposure to roden-ticides in the past five years in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Verdugo Mountains and near Simi Valley.
Most recently, Santa Monica mountain lion P-55, most famous for crossing the 101 Freeway twice, was found dead in July, with rodenticide poisoning suspected as a prob-able cause of death, according to the nonprofit.
Additionally, concerns regarding wildlife living in the Silver Lake Reservoir Complex prompted the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council (SLNC) to request that the city ban the use of anticoagu-lant rodenticides in the neigh-borhood last February.
Such a ban was enacted citywide in 2014, but it only applies to one type of antico-agulant—other types are still available—and only for direct consumer use, meaning pest control companies are still al-lowed to use the banned poison.
The SLNC’s request calls for a ban on all types of anti-coagulants, both for consum-ers and for businesses.
“Although it might be a good thing to rid ourselves of rodents … the poisons that are being used to control them are going up the food chain to all of the wildlife that we want to retain within the region,” Bob Liskaus, co-chair of the SLNC’s Green Committee said in an interview. “We’re proposing that not only resi-dents take an active approach [to preventing secondary poi-soning], but that even com-mercial vendors within the city take action.”
According to Liskaus, the SLNC’s request is still under review by the city.
Also last year, local Cali-fornia State Assemblymember Laura Friedman proposed leg-islation calling for a statewide ban on anticoagulants, but that bill languished in com-mittee and ultimately expired.
In the absence of timely legislation, the onus is on individuals to protect wild-life from rodenticides and to spread the word out about the dangers they pose, said Friends of Griffith Park’s Hans.
“We’ve been trying to get the word out on this for a long time,” said Hans. “Pest control companies are a large part of the problem.”
According to Hans, before hiring a pest control company, homeowners should ensure their home is well-sealed, re-move food sources from the property and cut back over-grown vegetation or vines that go up the side of a house.
The most common at-tractants for rats, Hans said, are “foods, including rotting fruit from fruit trees—coy-otes are attracted to this as well—feces left by dogs or wildlife” and vegetation such as English Ivy.
The bottom line, accord-ing to Hans, is that there are “plenty of good alternatives” to rodenticides. “They’re a little bit messier, a little harder work, but they are also safer.”
And if all else fails, Hans said, you can’t go wrong with old-fashioned wooden spring traps.
[ CRIME BLOTTER ]
There were 421 crimes reported in our coverage area between January 16th and February 15th, according to LAPD data, including two rapes.
The rapes both occurred in Echo Park, one on January 21st at 5 p.m. at the intersec-tion of Court Street and West Belmont Avenue and one Jan-uary 30th at 1 a.m. in the 700 block of Echo Park Avenue.
During the same time period there were 13 reported cases of assault with a deadly weapon, five reported cases of spousal abuse, two reported cases of assault, one unspeci-fied sexual offense and one case of arson locally.
Additionally, there were 144 reported thefts or burglar-
ies from a vehicle; 64 cases of theft and one attempted theft; 58 vehicles reported stolen and two attempts to steal a vehicle; 36 burglaries and five attempted burglaries; 26 mis-demeanor drug cases and one drug felony; 13 robberies and one attempted robbery; 11 cas-es of shoplifting; seven cases of vandalism; eight stolen bi-cycles; five reports of disturb-ing the peace; four cases of identity theft; three drunk in public reports; two violations of weapons laws; two cases of fraud; one report of shots fired; and one case of fighting.
For a full list of crimes reported in our coverage area by neighborhood, visit losfelizledger.com.
Silver Lake Neighborhood Council
Governing BoardMarch 6th at 7 p.m.
Ivanhoe Elementary School2828 Herkimer St.
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In Case You Missed ItBriefs on stories published online since our last edition.
TRADER JOE’S SHOOTER TELLS JUDGE HE IS A “PROPHET” SENT BY JESUS
The man accused of trig-gering a July 21st hostage situ-ation and gun battle with Los Angeles Police Dept. officers that resulted in an LAPD bul-let killing Silver Lake Trader Joe’s manager Meldya Corado, told a judge February 15th that he was “sent here by Jesus’’ and didn’t understand anything.
Gene Evin Atkins, 29, has been charged on 51 counts, including murder, attempted murder and false imprison-ment of a hostage.
The standoff was featured February 16th on CBS 48 Hours.
Corado’s family has filed a wrongful death suit against the LAPD.
SCHIFF CALLS ON FACEBOOK & GOOGLE TO STOP SPREADING INCORRECT CHILD VACCINATION CONCERNS
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff sent letters on February 14th to Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Ex-ecutive officers of Google and Facebook respectively,
expressing concern that the company’s platforms includ-ing YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, are surfacing and recommending information that discourages parents from vaccinating their children, which he said contributes to declining vaccination rates and is reversing progress made in tackling vaccine-prevent-able diseases.
According to Schiff, the scientific and medical com-munities agree that vaccines are both effective and safe.
BELMONT, HELEN BERNSTEIN AMONG LOWEST PERFORMING SCHOOLS IN STATE
Belmont High School in Westlake—near Echo Park—and Helen Bernstein High School in East Hollywood were among the 1,640 schools recently named by the Califor-nia Dept. of Education as the lowest-performing schools in the state.
The ranking was based on criteria such as math and English-language arts assess-ments, English-learner prog-ress, chronic absenteeism and suspension rates, graduation
rates and college and career readiness benchmarks.
AUTHORITIES ID PEDESTRIAN KILLED NEAR MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL
The coroner’s office iden-tified a 78-year-old pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle in the Los Feliz area February 7th.
Nadim Shvartsman of Los Angeles died at the scene of the crash, which occurred about 8:10 a.m. at St. George Street and Lyric Avenue.
CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS UTILITY SHUTOFFS TO HINDER ILLEGAL POT OPERATIONS
With hundreds of illegal marijuana shops continuing to operate in Los Angeles, a Los Angeles City Council com-mittee moved forward Febru-ary 15th with a plan aimed at cracking down on the busi-nesses by shutting off their utilities.
The idea of shutting off water and power at illegal pot shops was proposed last year by Los Angeles City Council-members Nury Martinez and Monica Rodriguez.
looking at the feasibility of a bridge housing site in Los Feliz,” Councilmember Ryu said in a prepared statement. “Homelessness is the crisis of our time, and I’m thankful to the Department of Recre-ation and Parks [for] stepping forward with this location on Riverside Drive. I look for-ward to working with the City departments to better under-stand its feasibility for a Bridge Home location, and to dis-cussing with the community.”
Previously, Ryu faced sig-nificant pushback, including threats of a recall from some Sherman Oaks residents, af-ter suggesting two properties in the area as potential sites for homeless housing last August. He announced in November he would no longer pursue home-less housing at those locations.
A December city council decision to move forward on homeless housing in Venice drew similar ire from some resi-dents of that neighborhood.
But Los Feliz may prove to be more welcoming of home-less housing.
According to Ryu spokes-person Estevan Montemayor, discussions with local commu-nity groups revealed a “gen-eral sense of support” for such housing in the neighborhood, where about 151 unsheltered homeless people currently re-
side, according to data from LAHSA.
“It’s clear that Los Feliz is engaging in this conversation about homelessness and wants to do something about it,” Montemayor said.
The Los Feliz Improve-ment Assoc. sent Ryu a let-ter of support for local bridge housing in January, calling the issue of homeless housing “critical and time sensitive.”
“The Los Feliz area, with its river and a large park has a high number of homeless residents living without proper shelter and hygiene facilities,” the letter reads. “We want to help these Los Feliz residents and support the model of cen-tralized clustered services and housing.”
Even non-profit organiza-tion Friends of Griffith Park, which has historically opposed most development in the park, unanimously voted to submit a letter to Ryu express-ing their “ardent support” for Ryu’s bridge housing pro-posal, according to Friends of Griffith Park Vice President Gerry Hans.
“The site along Riverside Drive between Mulholland Fountain and the L.A. Shares building is a good location be-cause it will serve the signifi-cant number of homeless [peo-ple] currently living in tents on the bike path along the river
and in the river itself,” the let-ter reads. “The [Los Angeles] River can be an extraordinarily dangerous place to live when it rains. These people need a safe place to live with beds, toilets, showers, and social services to get them stabilized until more permanent housing can be found for them.”
According to a separate Ryu motion introduced the same day, once more perma-nent homeless housing is built and interim housing is no lon-ger needed, the Riverside Drive location could offer additional benefits to the community.
In approximately three years, the councilmember hopes to convert the proposed location into a permanent se-nior center for GPACC, which is currently located in two trailers across from the pro-posed site, according to the motion.
The motion asks that a plan for later conversion to a senior center be developed concurrently with the plan for interim homeless housing.
According to GPACC’s Stephanie Vendig, the orga-nization supports both mo-tions. “Members of GPACC are looking forward to both projects being developed con-currently, since both projects could be a benefit for [the] community now,” Vendig said in an email.
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The commission also vot-ed to ban so-called “behested” payments—those made to charities or causes favored by a politician at the politician’s request.
“Restricted sources,” meaning developers and a lita-ny of those working with them
on projects, including lobby-ists, attorneys, consultants, engineers and architects, to name a few, would be in play for the bans as well as any in-dividual who has tried to in-fluence a city official within the past 12 months.
Additionally, the commis-sion lowered the reporting re-quirement on behested dona-tions from $5,000 to $1,000, following San Francisco and West Hollywood.
The commission’s actions and votes—all unanimous from the 4-person board—come amid an FBI corruption probe of city hall and mul-tiple media reports alleging city officials may have traded political favors for donations–either to the officials them-selves, or to charitable causes they support.
Ryu, who introduced in January his third attempt at campaign finance reform and who during his 2015 cam-paign for office refused devel-oper contributions, addressed the ethics commission saying the city “cannot afford to put off this discussion any longer.”
“Democracy in Los Ange-les is on life support,” he said.
Ryu’s comment was met with a few standing in ova-tion, and applause filled the City Hall room, which was at capacity.
“A perception of corrup-tion and pay-to-play politics fu-eled by the outsized influence of developer money threatens the very foundation on which we stand,” Ryu said. “Twice I have tried to advance legislation that would target this problem and twice I have seen this legislation go ignored while the problem only gets worse.”
The commissioners’ actions were based on a 10-month investigation by city ethics staff, summed up neatly in a 14-page report, which concluded that elected city officials have reported $50 million in 597 individual behested payments since 2014.
Of that amount, $40 mil-lion, or 80%, was reported by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office.
According to Alex Comis-
ar, a spokesperson for Garcetti, the mayor is 100% behind the city ethics recommendations.
The report also noted that of the top 10 donors since 2014, “eight had business with the [c]ity during that five-year period.”
Additionally, 52% of the payments were made by those
who had done business with the city within a year before or after their donations.
The report also noted com-mission staff believes the num-bers are “conservative,” and that “potential ties between indi-viduals and entities are very dif-ficult to determine.”
Speakers at the commis-sion’s hearing in February applauded the changes, say-ing they would “decrease cor-ruption” and allow “everyday people” to have more of a voice in government rather than giv-ing billionaires or corporations with special interests “an arti-ficially enhanced megaphone.”
The commission’s actions would also prohibit what’s called “bundling,” when someone who is banned fun-draises for a candidate or of-ficial en masse and delivers the funds in the individual do-nors’ names.
“Even the appearance of corruption is extremely prob-lematic,” said David Burke, president and 2016 founder of Citizens to Take Action, which aims to remove mon-ey from politics and increase civic engagement.
According to an analysis by the Ledger, developer Son-ny Astani, has donated over $60,000 since 2003, includ-ing $20,000 last December to Garcetti’s Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles.
Astani has over two-dozen real estate projects in Los An-geles, with a portfolio of over $500 million, according to his company’s website.
Over the years, Astani, has given donations routinely and even to the election cam-paigns of opposing candidates, per city records.
For instance, in 2013, he gave donations to both Garcetti and Wendy Greuel’s mayoral election campaigns.
Garcetti ultimately was elected and took office on July 1, 2013.
Astani received an approv-al from the Garcetti-appoint-ed Los Angeles City Planning Commission four months later according to city records, allowing him a 15% density
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“Democracy in Los Angeles is on life support,” David Ryu said.
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Revitalizing an Underutilized Section of Griffith ParkBy Stephanie Vendig, Ledger Columnist
Recently Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu proposed a pair of motions that would bring two new visions to Griffith Park.
Both motions concern a city-owned property on the west side of Riverside Drive, just south of Mulholland Foun-tain. The property currently
houses a building utilized by nonprofit organization L.A. SHARES, an adjacent grassy area and a parking lot.
One motion calls for the development of bridge hous-ing—temporary shelter for homeless individuals awaiting permanent supportive hous-ing—on the parking lot that is currently there. The other requests the development of a community center on the grassy area.
If approved, both projects would benefit the Los Feliz
community and all those who view Griffith Park as a source of recreational opportunities and a resource for community engagement.
The bridge housing fa-cility would provide interim housing for homeless people in the community, providing security and on-site services
to help those residents stabi-lize their lives and move into permanent housing. The pro-posed facility is expected to be open for three years.
The community cen-ter would provide additional permanent space for the ac-tivities of the Griffith Park Adult Community Center (GPACC), located directly across the street.
GPACC opened in 2008 and has flourished since, but because of its limited capacity, more space was needed within
a few years after opening. The organization has of-
ten considered the property across the street as a potential location for a 6,000 square-foot community center that could accommodate the space needs of many of our activi-ties, such as aerobics, meetings and musical performances.
The grassy area being con-sidered for the center used to house the Los Feliz Perform-ing Arts Center for Youth, a popular facility that opened in 1963 and offered free classes and performances for amateur and professional actors rang-ing in age from children to se-nior citizens. What is now the L.A. SHARES building was once part of that structure and housed the costumes.
But the center’s life was cut short by a fire in 1986, and while there was talk of
rebuilding, it never happened. Instead, this part of
Griffith Park is now underuti-lized—almost abandoned.
If Ryu’s two motions come to fruition, Griffith Park could truly be viewed as an ideal community park within an age-friendly city.
Maybe eventually the city could go even further
and develop a master plan to improve the rest of Griffith Park south of Los Feliz, mak-ing sure it is easily accessible for the local community, with more swimming oppor-tunities and walkable paths leading to the Los Angeles River, for example.
If Ryu’s proposals pass, we could be on our way.
If approved, both projects would benefit the Los Feliz community and all those who view Griffith Park as a source of recreational
opportunities and a resource for community engagement.
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Beginning Conversational Spanish Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 & Advanced Thursdays 3:30-4:30
Thanks to our ad sponsor Sunset Hall. They offer:
The Lunch Program: Lunch is served 5 days a week at the Center. $2 is the donation for those over 60 years. $4 for less than 60 years.
Daily lunch is served at 12:00pm. Come in for coffee and sign in at 10:30am.
For Information on the Griffith Park Adult Community Club and to receive a newsletter, contact Stephanie Vendig at
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GPACC is located at 3203 Riverside Dr., just south of Los Feliz Bl.
Weds., March 20, 2019: Lunch, General meeting and program, 12:00 noon – 2:30 pm
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Sales Drop Nationally, Echoing Low December Sales Locally
Single-family home sales dropped for the third con-secutive month nationwide in January, down 1.2%, accord-ing to a January 20th report from the National Association of Realtors.
Data on local January sales
were not yet available at press time (check losfelizledger.com for updates), but Southern Cal-ifornia home sales in December were the lowest for that month in 11 years, according to a re-port from CoreLogic, a real estate analysis firm based in La Jolla, CA.
According to the report, sales have fallen year-over-year
in Southern California for the last five months.
“The number of homes sold was the lowest for any Decem-ber in 11 years, since the onset of the last housing downturn in 2007,” said Andrew LePage, a CoreLogic analyst. “… This
drop in activity reflects a vari-ety of factors. Mortgage rates hit a 2018 high in November, affecting December closings, and stock-market volatility cre-ated an additional headwind in high-end markets. Meanwhile, some would-be buyers remain priced out or unwilling to buy amid concerns that prices have overshot a sustainable level.”
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and is included on a city list of “high injury” streets.
At a February 19th meet-ing, the board voted unani-mously to send a set of letters to the city’s Dept. of Transpor-tation (DOT), requesting im-provements for a second time—and demanded an explanation.
“We tell you our critical needs and are met with si-lence,” one letter reads.
DOT did not respond to a request for comment on dead-line.
The January 16th accident that killed Garcia occurred when a car lost control and careened onto the sidewalk near Thomas Starr King where the 57-year-old mother of three was standing. Authori-ties determined the crash was likely caused by the day’s rainy weather. However, accord-ing to a February 15th LFNC analysis, the majority of acci-dents in the area happen dur-ing clear weather and “under
no unusual road conditions.” Instead, the board wrote,
the design and location of the corridor makes it dangerous regardless of the weather.
“During morning and af-ternoon rush hour, the roads are jammed with traffic feed-ing to and from the 5 freeway,” the LFNC wrote. “At all other times it is a speedway.”
Thomas Starr King Princi-pal Mark Naulls also referred to the corridor as a “speedway,” saying traffic on that section of Hyperion has long been a con-cern for school administrators, especially as apps like Waze have brought additional com-muters to the street.
“Every day at arrival and dismissal, I say a quiet prayer because no one was hurt,” he said.
Although a signaled cross-walk installed in 2017 at the request of the school’s parent group has made students safer, according to Naulls “there’s still miles to be done” in reducing
speeds in the neighborhood.According to LFNC
Transportation Committee Co-Chair Danny Cohen, part of the issue is that the street’s blind curves, bends and drops encourage dangerous driving.
“People drive the street they are given,” Cohen said at a February meeting of the com-mittee, where he suggested lane reconfigurations, tree planting, additional crosswalks and bill-boards encouraging safe driving as ways the city could reduce speeds in the area.
According to Cohen, his goal is to find a balance be-tween the road’s use as a thor-oughfare and the residential area it runs through.
“This corridor, these bunch of streets, this is our neighborhood,” Cohen said in an interview. “I understand that it’s also a conduit for peo-ple passing through our neigh-borhood, but it’s where we live. I look forward to making it safer for everyone.”
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parted last year, the board has been split on some issues.
Candidates discussed is-sues facing the nation’s sec-ond-largest school district, including charter schools, the teachers strike, the district’s budget and Supt. Austin Beutner at a forum at the Au-try National Museum Febru-ary 18th, sponsored by the Los Feliz Improvement Assoc. and moderated by Cal State L.A. professor Albert Jones.
Audience members asked the candidates about charter schools, programs for students with special needs, discipline and who they would vote for if they couldn’t vote for them-selves.
The crowd applauded after some of the candidates’ com-ments, including when they spoke about more accountabil-ity for charter schools, which are publicly funded but run privately.
Jackie Goldberg, a sea-soned politician and former teacher who has represented the area on the school board, Los Angeles City Council and California State Assembly, said she will work with state lawmakers to reform state law regarding charter schools and to increase state funding.
“I am here to tell you that I’m the only one up here with the experience in Sacramento that can lead the charge to make the changes, to tell them that it’s time to tax the wealth of this state and put it into our children. That’s why I’m here,” Goldberg, of Echo Park, said.
Cynthia Gonzalez, a prin-cipal at a district school in South Los Angeles, said she
will focus on smaller issues that would directly be felt by princi-pals and teachers at schools.
“I’m here because I am a passionate believer that our kids need good-quality people on the school board...we need to make sure we have someone who is not connected politi-cally to people and to money and to buy these seats,” she said. “These seats belong in the hands of educators who have experience in our schools.”
Additionally, Gonzalez said, the national conversation about public education that began during the local strike, which lasted six days in Janu-
ary, must continue.“We can’t forget that the
reason why we’re here is we’ve ignored the needs of our most marginalized students,” she said.
Candidate and Silver Lake resident David Valdez, a mem-ber of the Silver Lake Neigh-borhood Council and the Los Angeles County Arts Com-mission, said he joined teach-
ers on the picket lines during the strike.
“These teachers deserve us to support them,” Valdez said. “I want to be one of those sup-porters,” adding teachers need more resources in their class-rooms.
Graciela Ortiz, a LAUSD counselor and Huntington Park city councilwoman, said she would connect with the communities in the vast dis-trict because of her experience as a counselor and politician.
Heather Repenning, who recently stepped down as vice president of the city’s Board of Public Works to run for the
seat, discussed her experience working for the city.
“I know how to get things done in the context of local government,” Repenning, of Los Feliz, said.
She said she will use the contacts she’s made through-out her career in state and local government to increase state funding for schools.
“I will bring all of these
skills and my connections to bear,” she said.
Allison Bajracharya, who stepped down as an admin-istrator at a charter school network, also supported in-creased funding, through a possible parcel tax and ballot measure to reform Prop. 13 so that commercial and indus-trial properties, which change hands infrequently, would be regularly taxed at their cur-rent value, rather than their value when sold, which is the protocol for residential prop-erty and small businesses. She noted the teachers’ recently reached contract agreement
relies on more funding in the third year.
“We have to increase rev-enues,” she said.
While some candidates at-tacked charter schools, includ-ing for not serving students with disabilities, Bajracharya noted the schools have made improvements regarding en-rolling such students.
She also said she wants to increase graduation require-ments so that students must earn a “C” or higher in high school classes in order to grad-uate, so that they are eligible for the state university system.
Ana Cubas, a professor at East L.A. College, said if she is elected, she would hold budget hearings to make the process more transparent.
“Every department has to justify their funding,” Cubas said.
Rocio Rivas said she is running because of her oppo-sition to charter schools.
“Everything I’ve experi-enced and know, is telling me in my gut that we need to stop this privatization,” she said.
Absentee ballots have al-ready been mailed. If no can-didate gets more than 50% of the votes on March 5th, a May 14th runoff election will be held.
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Audience members asked the candidates about charter schools, programs for students with special needs, discipline and who
they would vote for if they couldn’t vote for themselves.
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A Bold Vision to Combat Climate ChangeBy Rep. Adam Schiff
More than a decade ago, I spoke on the
House Floor and called on Congress to launch an Apol-lo-like project to kickstart America’s transition to renew-able energy. I believed then, as I do now, that addressing the effects of climate change must
be a top priority for our na-tion.
Every day, the climate cri-sis grows more urgent. From scorching droughts and inten-sifying wildfires to stronger hurricanes and more frequent flooding, we are witnessing the disastrous impacts of a dra-matically changing climate. Last year alone, the United States’ 14 biggest weather and climate disasters caused more than 200 deaths and $90 bil-lion in losses.
Scientists agree if global temperatures continue to rise at current rates, the spiraling effects of could cripple vulner-able communities and aging infrastructure and even un-
dermine national security. In fact, the Defense Department recently found that two-thirds of our mission-essential mili-tary installations are under threat of potential flooding, drought and wildfires.
And yet, the Trump Ad-ministration is taking steps that set us back: withdrawing
the U.S. from the Paris Agree-ment, dismantling President Obama’s Clean Power Plan to phase out coal power and re-fusing to accept scientific evi-dence.
But America never backs down from a challenge. That’s why I joined over 70 of my colleagues in introducing the Green New Deal.
When President Frank-lin D. Roosevelt proposed the original New Deal in 1932, he recognized that mobilizing the entire federal government was the only way to mitigate the most urgent problem of the time: the Great Depression.
Indeed, President Roos-evelt’s ambitious package of
new laws and programs not only pulled us out of the De-pression but left us with a lega-cy we continue to benefit from today—from hiking trails in our state and national parks to Social Security and the mini-mum wage.
The Green New Deal calls for drastically reducing emis-sions, protecting clean air and water, investing in infrastruc-ture and jobs and protecting vulnerable communities. It recognizes the need to build resiliency against extreme weather, upgrade our infra-structure and buildings and transition to clean energy, ag-riculture, manufacturing and transportation.
Addressing the climate crisis will demand the same determination it took to put a man on the moon. Our chal-lenge today is even greater, but if we marshal the resources, in-genuity and can-do optimism that have enabled Americans to overcome seemingly insur-mountable obstacles through-out history, I am confident it is one we will meet. But we must bring urgency to the task and do so now.
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Working with D.C. on Preventing CA WildfiresBy Laura FriedmanCalifornia State Assembly
Recently, I joined the Cal-ifornia State Assembly delega-tion to the nation’s Capital to meet with federal leaders on is-sues concerning our state and the country.
This was a fantastic oppor-tunity to meet one-on-one with
House and Senate leaders, in-cluding our own Congress-man Adam Schiff as well as some of the energized and em-boldened freshmen class, such as representatives Katie Hill, Mike Levin and Katie Porter.
But there was one meeting in particular I want to focus on for now with U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Undersecretary Jim Hubbard on an issue that
hits right at home: wildfires.Hubbard, a 35-year veteran
of the Colorado Forest Service, oversees the U.S. Forest Service, a key player in wildfire preven-tion and recovery. He compli-mented our state’s management of our forest and current mitiga-
tion efforts and provided a very positive review about the part-nership between the federal gov-ernment and our state, which he said are in constant contact.
I am heartened to know we have a healthy relationship with the federal government when it comes to this critical, vital issue.
How vital? Forestlands
Our forestlands are the majority of our state’s key watersheds that provide for a massive portion of our residential and
agricultural water needs, serve as wildlife habitats and are one of our greatest
sources of carbon storage.
Addressing the climate crisis will demand the same
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[COUNCIL DISTRICT 4]
The Homeless and I Thank You By Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu
Today, we face a crisis that challenges Los Feliz and all of Los Angeles: homelessness. The thousands of Angelenos who sleep on the street or in their cars each night is a mor-al, economic and public health crisis. Ignoring the problem has failed these Angelenos and the communities struggling with encampments. The only way to solve it is to face it—for each and every one of us to find our common human-ity and work together toward a common solution.
I recently introduced a motion to study a city-owned lot on Riverside Drive for use as a bridge housing location. If feasible, this site could provide interim transitional housing as well as counseling, services and job training to dozens of people who currently live along the L.A. River or on the streets of Los Feliz. I am deep-ly grateful to the many com-munity groups from across the neighborhood who have voiced their support for this needed resource.
There are many reasons why someone falls into home-lessness: a surprise medical bill, a rise in rent, a job loss or abusive home situation. But nothing stops homelessness better than a home. Across the City of Angels, we must ask ourselves: do we see our homeless neighbors as people, or just another problem? No matter what issues they face, do they not deserve a roof over their heads and someone to fight for them?
On February 12th, Los Feliz held its second Home-less Connect Day—when service providers came to-gether to provide people ex-periencing homelessness with everything from haircuts to legal aid to a fresh pair of socks. Over 160 people came in for services.
This was a reminder: be-ing homeless is hard. These individuals want help getting their life back. Living on the street or in your car, feeling ashamed and ignored, is one of
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[LOS FELIZ IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION]
March: Women’s History MonthBy Lynne T. Jewell, Communications Co-Chair
Over the years, many dedicated and diligent Los Feliz women have made their mark both locally and beyond. They are accomplished artists, architects, authors, educators and volunteers.
March is Women’s His-tory Month and LFIA salutes a sampling of the outstanding women who have graced our community.
Sister Corita Kent taught at Immaculate Heart College (a former companion to Im-maculate Heart High School that closed in 1981) and trans-formed advertising slogans from local markets and hard-ware stores into pop art. Her colorful art reflected her fight for social causes in the 1960s. In her honor, Corita Art Cen-ter was established on the high school’s campus.
Cartoonist Mimi Pond wrote the inaugural episode of the The Simpsons and por-trait artist Margaret “Meg” Holland Sargent has painted hundreds of commissioned portraits, including of Ger-ald Ford (for Time magazine), Margaret Thatcher and for-mer Los Angeles Mayor James
Hahn. Nancy Baker Cahill cu-
rated a recent virtual art in-stallation along the L.A. River and the neighborhood also boasts stellar architects Bren-da Levin, who renovated the Griffith Observatory and Bar-bara Bestor, who’s designing an expansion project for the Griffith Park Adult Commu-nity Center.
Volunteerism and public service has also always been the cornerstone of our com-munity.
When John Marshall High School faced demolition after the 1971 Sylmar earth-quake, activists Sherrill Boller, Joanne Gabrielson, Alberta Burke and Nina Mohi stepped up to preserve the local land-mark.
Long-time educator, Dr. Verna B. Dauterive, spent more than two decades as principal of Franklin Avenue Elementa-ry School and was one of only four African-American teach-ers in the Los Angeles Unified School District when she was hired in 1943.
[SILVER LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD
COUNCIL]
Reservoir, Homelessness & NC ElectionBy Anne-Marie Johnson Co-chair
At the end of January, the Loyola Mary-mount Univer-sity Center for Urban Resil-ience (LMU)
presented the results of the LMU/SLNC Silver Lake Res-ervoirs Complex Open Space Survey at a standing-room-only-community meeting.
We are so proud of our partnership with LMU and the over 1,200 people who took the survey.
LMU is expected to have submitted their final report by the end of this month.
The “Homelessness In Silver Lake Committee” Co-chair Nithya V. Raman and committee member Dowler-Guerrero did an excellent job on KPCC discussing assis-tance for those who are home-less. “We couldn’t have found
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Another educator, Dr. Jane Pisano, served as presi-dent of L.A.’s Natural History Museum for 15 years. And Ethel Pattison, 94, who grew up in Los Feliz is the LAX historian and creator of the Flight Path Museum.
Los Feliz has also been the home to authors past and pres-ent. In the 1930s, Sarah Bixby Smith wrote and advocated for women’s self-determination and higher education. She au-thored Adobe Days: A Book of California Memories and feted artists, writers and politicians at her Los Feliz Boulevard mansion.
Author Ann Whitford Paul wrote the award-winning children’s book If Animals Kissed Goodnight and Los Feliz historian-author Diane Kan-ner is a commissioner on the city’s Cultural Heritage Com-mission.
Carla Anderson Hills, a lawyer, served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-opment from 1975 to 1977.
And Socorro “Mama” Herrera transformed a shoe-shine stand on Hillhurst Av-enue into the James Beard Award recipient and ever-pop-ular Yuca’s.
better representatives,” stated SLNC Vice Chair and Com-mittee Co-chair Darius Der-akshan.
On March 20th, the SLNC’s Transportation and Neighborhood Safety Commit-tee will host a Waze Impact and Traffic Safety Plan community meeting. Local officials will be on hand to hear concerns and discuss mitigation.
It’s also election time for the SLNC board. We will have a Candidate Fo-rum March 23rd at the Sil-ver Lake Jewish Community Center.
You’ll have the chance to meet and speak with those who are running for a SLNC board seat. It’s a great way to get involved in our local elec-tions.
For more SLNC informa-tion, please visit www.silver-lakenc.org.
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the most difficult experiences someone can suffer. Thou-sands of Angelenos live this trauma every day.
But we also saw some-thing else that day: the best of Los Feliz. Neighbors from across the community came to donate and volunteer. From the homemade valentines to clothing donations, these community members went out of their way to help people experiencing homelessness.
By the time we have our next homeless connect day, I want to be able to say hous-ing is on its way. I have been deeply heartened to see the community stand together in support of bridge hous-ing in Los Feliz. Once again, you continue to prove what makes this such a remarkable community. I look forward to working with you on this most crucial endeavor.
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make up a third of the land in California. The federal gov-ernment owns and manages 57%; state and local govern-ments own 3%; and privately owned forests make up the re-maining 40%.
Our forestlands are the majority of our state’s key watersheds that provide for a massive portion of our resi-dential and agricultural water needs, serve as wildlife habi-tats and are one of our greatest sources of carbon storage.
All of these benefits are facing great risk as wild fires become more often, longer and more severe.
This aspect of our state’s ecology is so important, that it will be a central focus of my work as Chair of the As-sembly Committee on Natu-ral Resources. Even with our positive relationship with our federal partners, we still have significant hurdles and issues that need addressing.
The U.S. Forest Service has been limited on spending funds on forest management due to so much of its budget going to forest fire response.
This is why California is committed to continue spend-ing at least $1 billion to fund
forest management programs for the next five years.
It was comforting to know that these efforts are appreci-ated in Washington.
I also discussed with Hub-bard how California, a nation-al center of innovation, can be a partner in the competitive grant program recently passed by Congress.
The program will provide matching funds for projects, which construct thermal en-ergy systems fueled by bio-mass waste, construct new fa-cilities, or retool existing mills to produce innovative wood products.
It is good to know in these times of divisive rhetoric, when it comes to safety, there is no room for that division.
I look forward to continu-ing to collaborate with our federal partners in diving into how our state can continue to improve upon our practices and procedures for this ex-ceedingly critical issue.
For more information or for any questions, ideas, or con-cerns, please feel free to reach out to me through my district of-fice by phone (818) 558-3043 or email [email protected].
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[OUR MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL]
Catholic Schools Week By Jacob Frederick, 7th grade
C a t h o l i c Schools week is a week for
all Catholic schools through-out the nation to celebrate with open houses, masses, and activities for students, teach-ers, parents, and parishioners.
Catholic schools week be-gan in 1947 to recognize the importance, the value, and the contributions of Catholic education. At Our Mother of Good Counsel, we have fun activities for Catholic Schools Week.
One activity is the Reli-gion Quest which is a friendly tournament-style competi-tion for grades first through
eighth, with each grade facing off against another grade to test the religious knowledge of students.
Fourth grader Lars, who participated in the Religion Quest said, ”The anticipation was fun and exciting for me and my friends.”
Our students had fun and were excited for the competing classes.
Another activity was the Spelling Bee, with each indi-vidual class having students compete for who would be fi-nalists.
The finalists studied hard and did their best, but only one finalist came out on top.
One of our eighth grad-ers, Audrey Villavicencio, was the winner and will compete at the Los Angeles County Scripps Regional Spelling Bee on March 9th.
Our last major activity was our book fair.
A book fair is when we or-der a variety of books for stu-dents and parents to purchase after school.
Fourth grader Carrie said, “There were a lot of good books … I actually bought five books.”
We all had fun for Catho-lic schools week in 2019 and can not wait for Catholic Schools Week in 2020.
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increase and an approval to provide less open space than is required by city rules, in exchange for designating 18 of the 161 apartments he was proposing for “very low” in-come tenants.
Calls to Astani for com-ment were not returned.
Additionally, Aaron Sos-nick is behind the La Vida Feliz Foundation, which ac-cording to ethics commission filings has donated $2 million to Garcetti’s Mayor’s Fund since 2014.
According to the website Inside Philanthropy, Sosnick lives in New York and Los An-geles—specifically, according to public records, in Los Feliz.
Sosnick’s foundation funds arts and culture, justice and human service and edu-cation. It additionally funds projects in Los Angeles regard-ing transportation and the en-vironment.
According to the city eth-ics report, La Vida Feliz was one of the top 10 donors to city officials via behested do-nations, but any relationship between donations and busi-ness before city officials was not immediately traceable.
However, the report noted La Vida could have been a so-called “restricted source” with-out being documented in data-bases city ethics staff analyzed.
“For example,” the staff report read, “they could have attempted to influence an elected official directly in a matter that had a material fi-nancial effect on them.”
Requests for comment from Sosnick were not re-turned.
Some, however, were able to comment on the city’s po-tential new rules.
“I think the developer ban has a lot of merit,” said Steven
Afriat, founder of the firm Afriat Consulting, but with a caveat.
Donations, he said, will just get more obscured “get-ting shoved further and fur-ther down so the public does not know who is making the donations.”
According to Afriat, whose firm is assisting developer Dy-namic Development with city approvals and outreach for a mixed-use project at Franklin and Western avenues in East Hollywood, developers give to city candidates and officials “because they ask us. It should be wrong for [politicians] to ask too,” he said. “That would be real reform.”
Glenn Gritzner, of Mer-cury Public Affairs, which is currently handling media rela-tions for what’s known as the “Junction Gateway,”—two apartment complexes and a hotel within close proximity of one another on Sunset Boule-vard in Silver Lake—said that while there are some develop-ers that are “bad apples,” the issue is overblown.
“It’s not an endemic prob-lem,” he said.
Instead Gritzner said, de-velopers and their associates “sponsor and do all sorts of things to show they will be good stewards of the commu-nity.”
He also added: “If they ban” these type of donations to officials, “that’s a rule we will have to follow. No one is dying to give away money.”
According to the eth-ics commission’s recom-mendations, companies like Gritzner’s and Afriat’s would be banned under the new rules.
The Los Angeles City Council is expected to discuss and vote on the issue within 60 days.
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[FRANKLIN AVENUE ELEMENTARY]
Franklin Film Festival: a Movie Theater by and for KidsBy Max Sanders, 5th grade
Every year, Franklin Av-enue Elemen-tary School puts on the Franklin Film Festival. At
this festival, children from the school can submit their own films.
The four people who put together this festival are Wen-dy Perez, David Skelly, Jenni-fer Skelly and Jessica Freeman. It was founded seven years ago by Patrick Creadon, Christine O’Malley and their family.
I have participated as a filmmaker in the film festival every year since kindergarten. Sadly, this is my last film festi-val as I am a 5th grader and in my last year at Franklin.
One of the things I like about the film fest is that it shows the audience the stu-dent filmmakers’ creativity and ideas.
In total, during my six
[IMMACULATE HEART]
Ready for SpringBy Chechi Amah ’21
Weeks into a new semes-ter, Immacu-late Heart High School students are cruising into
new routines. And with the
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Boys’ Basketball Team Still UndefeatedBy Mia Reid, 8th grade
February was a very exciting month.
M a n y i n t e r e s t i n g things hap-pened last
month, but I think one of the most interesting things has been the undefeated boys’ bas-ketball team.
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years at Franklin, I’ve made seven films about space, classic movie style, horror, music, and fantasy.
One of my favorite sub-missions this year came from a fellow student filmmaker and was called “The Crystal Heist.” I liked it because it was cool how they made different scenes in different places.
Going to the film fest is like going to a movie theater for kids and by kids. The Film Fest is very unique and fun and I would definitely put it as one of my top 5 events at Franklin.
This year’s film festival took place February 8th and featured more than 50 student filmmakers from kindergarten through fifth grade.
arrival of March, our activities herald the start of the spring season.
Many students ended the month of February on a con-templative note by participat-ing in two spiritual retreats: The juniors attended the Em-maus Retreat and members of the senior class experienced the four-day Kairos retreat. Now the entire school com-munity will come together on Wednesday, March 6th, for the Ash Wednesday prayer service that will mark the start of the Lenten season leading to Easter.
Students will join with family members for another community-building event—the 74th Annual Spring Lun-cheon—on March 15th at the Sheraton Universal. This year’s event features the theme “Seeds of Change” as it cel-ebrates sustainability and re-newal.
By tradition, the seniors will model fashions during the luncheon, which will also in-clude a silent auction and raf-fle, all sponsored by the Parent Council.
Next up, the Genesians will stage their spring produc-tion for four performances, March 21st-24th, on campus. This year, members of the
school theatre company will perform the comedy 67 Cin-derellas.
Finally, after weeks of con-ditioning, our spring sports teams in swim, softball, and track and field are now steeped in competition. Go Pandas!
As you have probably no-ticed, there are many things happening here at Immacu-late Heart. There never seems to be a break! What will hap-pen next? I’ll fill you in next month. For now, see you soon!
a lot about the basketball team, and it really shows in their per-formance. They have been un-defeated the whole season.
In their first game, they won by 10 points. In their sec-ond they won by 15 points, and in their third game, the score was 13 to 67!
I decided to ask the bas-ketball coach why he thought they were winning so much. His answer was, “These boys work very hard. They never slack off. Even when they are tired, they still strive to their full potential. They have good grades and are very respectable young men. I am very honored to be able to coach them.”
That definitely explains why they win so much. As you can see, Larchmont students work very hard not only in school but also in sports.
I hope you enjoyed this article, and I hope you had a great month.
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