Councilwoman files restraining order against her predecessor

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Councilwoman
files restraining
order against
her predecessor
Compton’s Janna Zurita
accuses ousted Barbara
Calhoun of harassment,
saying “irrational”
behavior prompted her
to seek a court order.
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
In the mix
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Members of the Garden Gateway Project prepare foods using fresh ingredients at the “Back to School: The Healthy Way”
health fair Saturday at the St. John’s Well Child & Family Center in South Los Angeles.
Imagining futuristic development
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As support grows for
underground station near
downtown Inglewood,
transit advocates ask
residents in vicinity of
proposed route to make
their wishes known.
BY OLU ALEMORU
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INGLEWOOD — Residents
can expect surveys in the mail
this week from a local transit
advocacy group seeking community input on the type of development they would like to see
around the proposed CrenshawLAX Light Rail Line.
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COMPTON — Citing multiple instances of harassment,
newly-elected Councilwoman
Janna Zurita has filed a restraining order against her predecessor, Barbara Calhoun.
The restraining order was
served to Calhoun on Aug. 9
at the City Council’s last meeting before its blackout period.
It requires Calhoun to stay 100
yards away from Zurita.
According to Zurita, the
harassment began before the
city’s April 19 primary election,
in which Zurita claimed 615
votes to Calhoun’s 1,305, sending them into a runoff in June.
“She was driving by my house
several times a day,” said the
councilwoman. “After the election, she was more blatant, passing by several times at a time,
writing down license plate numbers of the cars in the driveway.”
The encounters intensified,
she said, after Calhoun began
sitting in front of her house. This
happened on at least three occasions, Zurita said.
Following this, Zurita said one
question lingered in her mind:
“Who’s to say she’s not showing
up at my house every day when
we are not here?”
Photos by Gary McCarthy
Compton City Councilwoman
Janna Zurita, top, obtained a
court order against her predecessor, Barbara Calhoun.
The thought was terrifying,
she said. “I have been very troubled by her behavior. You never
know what a person is capable
of. I am afraid, especially for
my 75-year-old mother, because
she actually stopped her car and
got out to confront my mother,”
Zurita said. “The number of
times she was passing by made
me feel as though I was being
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STAFF WRITER
Los Angeles County Deputy D.A. Danette Meyers announced her intent to run for the top
job in that agency before D.A. Steve Cooley revealed that he was not seeking re-election.
Seeking to be D.A., Meyers’
highest-profile case is far
from her biggest achievement
I
now present to the court of
public opinion, the third of
the three African-Americans
seeking to become the next Los
Angeles County district attorney:
Deputy D.A. Danette Meyers,
whose career in the D.A.’s office
is the stuff theatrical dramas are
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her numerous court appearances,
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about the current issue with the
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Meyers has moxie. Of all the
candidates — Black, White,
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the only one who was prepared
to beard the lion in his den: She
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The South Los Angeles
office of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference is being
downsized, according to the Rev.
Eric P. Lee Sr., president and
CEO of the Greater Los Angeles
Chapter.
According to Lee, the SCLC
board decided to sell the building, located at 4182 S. Western
Ave., back in April and are currently looking for a smaller facility.
“It’s not really affordable and
it’s too much space,” said Lee,
reached Wednesday on his cell
phone. “We’re still looking for
a spot that is right for us, but
it hasn’t hindered our work. …
“I’ve just left a meeting with
[Rev.] Jesse Jackson at Ralph’s
talking about the [possible] grocery strike.”
More than 60,000 Southern
California grocery workers
recently voted to authorize their
union to call a strike against
Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons if
contract talks are not resolved.
“We met with a Ralph’s store
manager, but we need to meet
with someone higher up in the
food chain,” Lee explained.
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Rep. Karen Bass blasted Republicans who say they want to
“take their country back” from President Barack Obama.
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‘I view it as
absolute racism’
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Obama’s prospects in 2012.
STAFF WRITER
With budget problems roiling both the state and federal
government, Californians can
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and health and human services,
according to Rep. Karen Bass.
The first-term congresswoman
hosted a media roundtable at
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Compton increases fines
for all parking violations
City Council approves
change before recessing
for its August blackout
period.
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITERR
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Singer Stephanie Mills, who rose to fame in “The Wiz” on Broadway, performs with
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The Game apologizes for tweets
that overwhelmed sheriff’s station
CNN
The rapper The Game apologized Wednesday for how
his Twitter account posted
the phone number of a Los
Angeles County sheriff’s station, prompting hundreds of his
followers to overwhelm depu-
The twice-Grammy-nominated Taylor said that he hoped his
apology would end a sheriff’s
investigation in which detectives are considering charges
for obstructing law officers and
other misdemeanors.
“It was a simple mishap,”
the rapper said. “I was doing a
photo shoot, and it was downtown Los Angeles, and one of
my boys picked up my phone
and started tweeting random
numbers.”
Taylor said his phone “was
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friend.”
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COMPTON — The City
Council approved an increase
on all parking citations issued
in the city to cover administration and enforcement costs
and to cope with state mandated
increases.
The increases were given
the green light at the council’s
last special meeting before its
August blackout period.
The state of California uses
parking citation fines collected
by local governments and campuses to help balance its budget,
and has done so since 1991.
But it was not until 1992 that
the state mandated that parking citation processing responsibilities be transferred from the
courts to local agencies no later
than Jan. 1, 1994, according to
city officials, who added that
the transfer also decriminalized
parking violations and made
them civil violations enforced
by the local issuing agency. The
city of Compton began processing parking citations in 1993.
Prior to the transfer, the state
had imposed a parking penalty
surcharge of $5 on each parking citation collected by the
court and it was used to fund
the Courthouse Construction
Fund and the Criminal Justice
Facilities Construction Fund.
When the transfer took place,
the state required that local
agencies collect the surcharge
and pass it through to the county
and the state.
In 2008, the Legislature passed
SB 1407 — it became effective
Jan. 1, 2009 — which increased
the parking penalty surcharges
by an additional $4.50, for a
total of $9.50.
“Even though the city was
required to pay the state $9.50
per parking violation citation collected, the city had not
increased its fines and penalties
since 1992. Thus, from 1993
through 2009 the general fund
absorbed the state mandated cost
of both the initial $5 surcharge,
plus the $4.50 surcharge enacted
in 2009,” said the staff report.
“This oversight was corrected
in October 2009, when the City
Council adopted [an] ordinance
which authorized an increase in
parking violation fees by $10 to
accommodate future collections
of the state mandated surcharges
of $9.50 per citation, plus a .50
cents increase to the city’s base
rate for violations.”
The city, according to officials, was hit with another surcharge of $3 in 2010 as a result
of SB 857, which went into
effect in December of last year
and is not set to expire until July
2013.
On Aug. 9, the council, with
a 3-1 vote, authorized an adjustment of the violation fines by
$3 to accommodate the $3 state
mandated increase on all parking
citations issued and collected by
the city and increased the city’s
base rate for violations by $2 per
citation to cover the city’s costs
of administration and enforcement.
Newly elected Councilwoman
Janna Zurita voted against the
ordinance, saying that “this is
unacceptable. You are just now
asking for the money and the
bill was passed December 2010.
So, this has actually cost the city
about $80,000 out of the general fund. I agree with the $3,
but what actually is the administrative fees? I don’t agree
with gouging our citizens and
our residents for irresponsible
actions here. Why are you just
now asking for the increase after
almost a year?”
Mayor Eric Perrodin responded by saying that many cities
were “surprised” by SB 857.
“I’m not condoning whether
or not we got the information
timely, but I do know that the
state did not make any type of
effort to get that information to
the cities to let them know that
they were going to increase that
surcharge.”
Had the city not approved
the increase to its parking citations, the city would have had
to absorb and pay the $12.50
surcharge from its general fund,
which according to officials
could have amounted to approximately $10,000 per month for
violations issued and paid after
December 2010.
Carl Houston, acting director
of Municipal Law Enforcement
Services, called the increase
“reasonable” and said that “the
city does not want to absorb this
cost itself, but instead pass it on
to the violators.”
While the $2 base rate will go
up to cover the city’s costs of
administration and enforcement,
Houston added that it will only
offset some of the costs incurred
by staff.
According to Houston, the
city’s typical initial costs per
citation issued breakdown as the
following: $1.51 for the cost
of each citation, .38 cents for
initial processing and mailing of
notice of violations, $1 for second processing and mailing of
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of 21 counts of sexual assault
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stalked. I don’t feel anyone
should be harassed under any
circumstances. My home is off
limits. I have a 5-year-old child
and an elderly mother and father
to be concerned about, and I
certainly do not want to have to
worry about her lurking around
my home.”
But enough was enough, she
added, when on Aug. 4, Calhoun
allegedly had a verbal confrontation with Zurita’s 75-year-old
mother — former Compton city
councilwoman Delores Zurita
— on the front porch of their
property. Zurita said the incident occurred around 8 a.m.;
she was in the shower and was
startled by the ruckus.
“I knew I had to put a stop to
it,” she said, calling Calhoun’s
actions “irritating” and a “nuisance.”
Zurita said she believes that
Calhoun is upset about losing
the election. She referred to a
May story in The Wave in which
Calhoun said “it’s not ‘if,’ it’s
‘when’ I win.” Calhoun went
on to note that she had defeated
the Zurita family in previous
elections. In 2003, Calhoun
unseated Zurita’s mother from
her council seat; then four years
later won re-election, with 55
percent of the vote, by defeating current Compton Unified
School District Board member
Satra Zurita.
“She did not expect to lose,”
added the new councilwoman.
“She felt entitlement.”
Dr. Kevin Brown,
son of the former
premier of Bermuda,
is immediately taken
into custody after jury
verdict was read on
Monday.
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“We’re trying to avert what
would be a devastating strike
… after the last one some stores
didn’t re-open.”
Lee blasted the three major
supermarket chains over the
sticking point of healthcare contribution benefits.
“The employers are asking
workers to contribute up to a
third of their pay for benefits
that were previously free,” he
said. “Yet, those three companies made $5 billion combined
last year.”
In 2003-04, the strike and
lockout dragged on for 141 days,
wiping out worker savings and
costing the supermarkets an estimated $1.5 billion.
Barbara Calhoun, a former
Compton city councilwoman,
declined comment but will
appear in court on Aug. 24.
not. I don’t want anything I say
to be in the newspaper until it is
over with.”
Instead, Calhoun advised The
Wave to attend a court hearing
on Aug. 24, where she will give
testimony on the matter.
Zurita said she hopes that
the restraining order will force
Calhoun “to move on. It will
certainly keep her from stopping in front of my home and
harassing my mother. I moved
back home to help my elderly
parents, and I certainly do not
want someone harassing them
on my accord. I just want to
get the whole ordeal over and
continue to serve the residents
of Compton without the threat
of personal violence or harassment. I do not want to have to
constantly look over my shoulder.”
Zurita said that no members
of her family have seen Calhoun
pass by their home since the
restraining order was issued.
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A doctor was convicted
Monday of 21 felony counts of
sexually assaulting eight female
patients and an undercover
policewoman while working
at the Crenshaw Expo Medical
Center in Los Angeles, along
with two other facilities in Los
Angeles and Glendale.
Dr. Kevin Antario Brown, the
son of former Bermuda Premier
Ewart Brown, was ordered to
be taken into custody after the
jury’s verdicts were read.
The 40-year-old doctor shook
his head in apparent disbelief
as Los Angeles Superior Court
Judge Michael Pastor read the
jury’s verdicts, which included
convictions for sexual battery
by fraud, sexual exploitation by
a physician, sexual penetration
by a foreign object and lewd act
upon a child — the latter charge
involving a 15-year-old girl.
The counts involved crimes
between 2003 and 2008.
The judge declared a mistrial after the jury’s forewoman
announced that the eight-man,
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According to Zurita, Calhoun
has filed several complaints
against her with the district
attorney’s office and with the
city of Compton’s attorney,
Craig Cornwell. Zurita did
not elaborate on the nature of
the complaints, but the former
councilwoman has raised questions about whether Zurita does
indeed live in the council district she now represents. She
has claimed that Janna Zurita
did not live in the First District
and that she only began to reside
in her mother’s home in order to
run for office.
Zurita has refuted the allegations, saying she has been living at her mother’s home in the
First District for some time in
order to take care of her aging
parents.
Zurita, who also accused
Calhoun of showing up nearly
every day at both City Hall and
a fire station on South Acacia
Avenue, claims that Calhoun’s
constant presence on the second
floor of City Hall has made the
city manager’s staff uneasy.
“She has been hanging out
at the fire station on Acacia all
day,” she said, “and just acting
irrational.”
Neither the city manager or
city attorney could be reached
for comment.
Reached by telephone on
Tuesday afternoon, Calhoun
sounded typically upbeat. Asked
whether she would be willing to
comment and give her side of
the story, she said “absolutely
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ly deadlocked on eight other
counts.
Those charges included a
count that he forcibly raped one
of his patients — with jurors
split 11-1 in favor of acquittal, with splits of 8-4 in favor
of conviction and 6-6 on the
remaining counts.
Four other charges had been
dismissed during the trial at the
request of the prosecution.
Brown is facing 16 years and
10 months in state prison on
the charges on which he was
convicted, according to Deputy
District Attorney Ann Marie
Wise. Sentencing was tentatively set for Sept. 21.
“I’m very pleased with the
outcome,” the prosecutor told
reporters outside court.
Wise said no decision has
been made yet on whether to
retry the counts on which jurors
deadlocked.
Brown’s attorney, Edi M.O.
Faal, said the defense was
“extremely disappointed” with
the jury’s findings.
Faal said the defense believed
that each of the women “had a
credibility issue,” but added that
“the sheer numbers of alleged
victims was a major hurdle to
overcome. … We just couldn’t
overcome that.”
Brown’s attorney noted that
he intends to file a motion asking the judge to grant a new trial
for his client.
“My client never expected
that he would be convicted on
any count. ... It was unbelievable to him,” Faal said.
Brown was handcuffed by
a court bailiff after the judge
ordered him to be remanded,
with Pastor saying that the doctor had been “convicted of a significant number of very serious
felony charges.” He had been
free on $4 million bail.
The judge said he would
strongly recommend that the
county Sheriff’s Department
take into account the nature of
crimes for which Brown was
convicted, but told Brown’s
attorney that he did not have
the authority to order the doctor to be placed into protective
custody behind bars.
Pastor told attorneys that they
must notify the Medical Board
of California within 24 hours
about the verdict.
After the charges were filed,
Brown was ordered not to see
female patients without a chaperone selected by the medical
board.
During the trial, the prosecutor told jurors the victims all
described similar scenarios,
including Brown flirting with
patients, asking them out, making unnecessary comments and
performing unnecessary breast
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Saluting Community Excellence: The National
Congress of Black Women salutes community excellence at their Second West Coast Anniversary and Awards
Luncheon this weekend. For 27 years, the NCBW has
operated nationally and internationally as a nonprofit,
and in 2009, the Los Angeles Chapter was formed and
joined the fight to better our communities through educational, political, economic and cultural development of
African-American women and their families. Among the
honorees: Rep. Maxine Waters; Lula Washington (pictured), founder of the
Lula Washington Dance Theatre; Reginald “Reggie” Andrews, educator,
mentor and music producer; and Arlene Jackson, CEO of Restoring Hope
Community Services. E. Faye Williams, the National Chair of the NCBW
will be the keynote speaker, Waters the guest speaker and Councilwoman
Lula Davis-Holmes, from the City of Carson and 3rd Vice Chair of the Los
Angeles Chapter, will be the emcee. Aug. 21, from 1 p.m. Hyatt Regency
Long Beach, 200 S. Pine Ave., Long Beach. (800) 895-3180
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More Power to You: The Empowerment Congress Central Area
Neighborhood Development Council conducts its monthly community meeting early next week featuring Los Angeles Unified School District Board
Member Marguerite LaMotte. Up for discussion will be concerns over the
ICEF Charter School and the Department of Sanitation. Members of the community are invited to attend these meetings to discuss very important issues.
Aug. 22, at 6:30 p.m. Amistad Plaza Community Room, 6050 S. Western
Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 789-1449
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Movable Feast & Salsa: The 17th annual Culver
City Music Festival, sponsored by the Culver City
Redevelopment Agency, is coming to a close this month.
The event, set to present eight free concerts, this week
launches the “Jazz Bakery’s Movable Feast,” featuring
living Conguero legend Poncho Sanchez (pictured)and his
Latin Jazz Band. He and his ensemble are the recipients of
a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for their work
on the Concord Picante album “Latin Soul.” Aug. 25, at 7
p.m. Culver City City Hall Courtyard, 9770 Culver Blvd.,
Culver City. (310) 253-5716
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Reel Black Men: The Black
Hollywood
Education
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Resource Center’s “Reel Black
Men Short Film Showcase” is officially here, showcasing the artistry
of emerging African-American
Male Filmmakers. Films include: “Somebody’s Gonna Pay” (pictured),
“J-12,” “The Parallax Parallel,” “IEP,” “Snapshot,” “The Switch,” and
“Salvation Road.” Screenings start at 7 p.m. with a Q&A with directors,
cast and crew immediately following and closing, followed by a reception
and networking opportunities. This showcase is an opportunity for emerging
African-American male filmmakers to showcase their skills, talent and vision
through film screenings, while giving the audience a chance to view and
discuss the artistry, passion and sacrifice involved in the independent filmmaking process. Aug. 27. Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood.
(323) 957-4747
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Finding Children Homes: Every child deserves to have a safe, loving
and permanent home. Children’s Bureau needs foster parents who will care
specifically for infants and toddlers during the reunification process with
their parents. There are 114,000 children currently in foster care who are
unable to return to their families of origin. Children’s Bureau is seeking caring families to consider adopting these older children and large sibling sets.
The agency is holding a monthly information meeting for those interested in
learning more. Children’s Bureau encourages individuals (single or married),
teachers, retired persons and anyone interested in helping children find love,
stability and support a family can provide, to contact Children’s Bureau.
Aug. 27, from 10 a.m. to Noon. Children’s Bureau Magnolia Family Place,
1910 Magnolia Ave., Los Angeles. (213) 342-0168
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Celebrate Your Roots: Celebrating the
connection and diversity of the world’s
cultures through music and dance, Israeli
American Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble,
the African-American Lula Washington
Dance Theatre, and multi-ethnic, Interfaith
Agape International Choir join together for
a cross-cultural evening under the stars for
a “Rhythm & Roots: A Benefit Concert.”
With Macy Gray (pictured) also signing up to perform for the benefit, the
event also features guest artists Israeli superstar Harel Skaat, R&B singer
Abraham McDonald, and legendary female rapper MC Lyte. All proceeds
will go to support Children Uniting Nations, an organization that brings
attention to the plight of at-risk and foster youth, and Keshet Chaim’s youth
education programs, which serve to eradicate ethnic and cultural barriers
through the arts. Diverse as the Rhythm & Roots artists might seem on the
surface, they all share a communal mission to bring peace and healing to the
world through their art. Aug. 28. Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd.,
Hollywood. (323) 461-3673
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A mother shares ice cream with her son on Sunday at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, where they were among thousands
attending the 26th Annual Children’s Festival of the Arts sponsored by the Hollywood Arts Council.
‘Prank’ blamed for Twitter mob
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ing around and my phone is
laying around, we tweet from
each other’s page. That’s what
happened,” the rapper said.
The tweet about the phone
number was confused with an
earlier tweet about a music
internship that the rapper was
offering to any of his more
than 580,000 followers on his
Twitter page, the rapper said.
“The tweet about the internship was earlier in that day, and
it got lost in the media with all
that. He never sent out a tweet
that said these numbers are for
the internship. He tweeted a
bunch of numbers jokingly. We
always play pranks on each
other,” Taylor said.
But Taylor took responsibility
for the early tweets about the
internship.
The sheriff’s department has
alleged that the rapper’s tweets
appeared to be listing the sheriff’s station in Compton as the
contact number for the internship, prompting the mad rush
of calls that forced the sheriff’s
office to bring in additional
manpower to answer phones.
Photo by Mikko Koponen
On Wednesday, Jayceon “The
Game” Taylor offered his “sincerest apologies to the sheriff’s
department … it was a joke
gone wrong.”
Underground rail station backed in Inglewood
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organization of activists in and
around the city that believes
the rail line has the potential to
rebuild the local economy. Aside
from hoping to get all of those
surveys back, the group is also
canvassing block clubs and
churches throughout the area for
input since the Crenshaw-LAX
Light Rail Line will be cutting
right through their city.
The committee had its first
meeting last month and was due
to hold another one on Aug. 4
at the Jazz Gallery on Market
Street, but it has been postponed
to a later date. The flurry of activity follows a recently approved
Inglewood City Council resolution, sponsored by First District
Councilman Mike Stevens, that
backs an underground station at
the Florence/Centinela intersection — the so-called Design
Option 3 — and supports exploring funding options for the preferred below-level crossing.
Stevens has argued that the atgrade crossing poses unique safety hazards not fully evaluated by
Metropolitan Transport Authority
officials in the final environmental report. A background briefing provided by the councilman
argued that an at-grade separation
is necessitated by a number of
factors, including the shape and
features of the intersection, the
proximity of two schools, a large
public park, a large church, a
blind corner, awkward roadway
configuration, close proximity to
residential properties and the lack
of north-south arterials in North
Inglewood due to Prairie Avenue
dead-ending at Ed Vincent Park
and Centinela dead-ending at St.
John’s Church.
Further, it maintained that the
high frequency of funeral processions in the immediate vicinity due to the close proximity of
St. John’s and Inglewood Park
Cemetery to the crossing would
push procession routes onto
already overburdened streets like
La Brea Avenue and Crenshaw
Boulevard, creating more traffic
congestion from a project intended to alleviate transportation challenges.
According to Build Inglewood
Network member and former
mayor Danny Tabor, the committee is looking to distribute 250
surveys. Once completed and collected, they will be presented to
the City Council and the office of
County Supervisor Mark RidleyThomas.
“The survey we’ll be conducting is more of an information
piece sharing with residents what
is currently being planned on the
Photo by Olu Alemoru
The architectural design studio fer (the lowercase acronym stands for “form environmental
research”) envisions a rail line integrated with commercial goals in downtown Inglewood.
Crenshaw LAX line as it comes
through Inglewood,” said Tabor.
“I think that it’s appropriate and
extremely important for the city
that the voices of residents be
heard … It’s an opportunity for
the community to come together
with a collective voice to let the
MTA know we’re supportive of
the train system coming through,
but we want to make sure that it
has a safe, economically viable
passage through the city.”
As mayor and former councilman representing the First
District, Tabor had engaged in
discussions with the architectural
design studio fer (the lack of
capitalization is intentional in the
acronym for “form environment
research) to envision a modern
downtown rail link.
In an interview conducted
Monday at their Hyde Park
Boulevard design studio, fer principals Christopher L. Mercier
and Douglas V. Pierson, provided
a futuristic look into a Market
Street rail link via a full scale
model mock-up and interactive
3D computer animation.
“We founded the business
in 2002, centered on environmental issues, green design and
how it relates with good, urban,
contemporary design,” Mercier
explained.
Added Pierson: “We consider
ourselves to be sustainable architects in the sense that when we
work on a project, we always start
with the selection and research of
materials to best fit the project in
the region.”
Mercier recalled that they met
Tabor around 2006, initially on
what is now the annual artist
studio tour project, and learned of
the proposed rail line and its station locations: West/Florence, La
Brea/Florence and Manchester/
Aviation. The latter is a proposed
maintenance yard site, located
just outside of Inglewood.
“When we looked at the La
Brea/Florence and realized where
they wanted to put the station,
which was on the west side of La
Brea, it didn’t make any sense,”
Mercier said. “Our argument was
why … have an entire downtown
on the southeast and then put the
station and parking on the opposite corner. That means everyone
who gets off the train will not go
downtown, but get into their cars
and drive away.
“So you just lost all that economic opportunity to get as many
people shopping as possible; that
would never happen in any other
city.”
Thus, fer’s proposal was to
simply slide the line eastward so
that it aligns with Market Street
and to locate the parking potential
as an underground development
on the empty Florence and La
Brea Avenue site known as D-3.
“That way everybody who gets
off the train would by nature walk
toward downtown, and that’s
what you want. It seems obvious
and Danny quickly got what we
were saying,” Mercier noted.
However, the MTA gave short
shrift to theirs and other protestations, until it was discovered
that a major earthquake fault runs
west of Florence. The proposed
station was moved into almost
the exact location mapped by
fer. Using its own resources, the
firm then developed a four-board
design to present to the city, but
was thwarted at the last minute
when legal ownership issues surfaced on the D-3 site.
That kept them in limbo until
this year, when they decided to
pull out the city’s master plan
and rethink their proposal; not
with the traditional colored block
drawings, but instead thinking of
Inglewood as a “living city.”
“We actually found a ‘living
city’ competition and entered
it; we didn’t win because we
were competing against large cities like Paris, but it revived the
project and we’ve done presentations now with council members
Stevens and [Judy] Dunlap, and
we’re drawing more interest at
this point.”
That’s encouraging news for
Build Inglewood Network’s
Kokayi Kwa Jitahidi.
“It’s why we came together:
How can the Crenshaw-LAX
Light Rail Line precipitate
the positive development of
Inglewood, particularly as it pertains to downtown Market Street,
which we know has struggled
mightily these past few years?”
he said. “We want to engage
stakeholders on how important it
is to have a transit-oriented overlay zone that would dictate the
types of development around the
stations. We believe that the line
should help stir investment and
create businesses and economic opportunities that Inglewood
want[s] and deserve[s].”
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not quite as high for the president over that as they were this
time over the debt ceiling.
How will the debt ceiling
compromise impact the state of
California?
The bottom line with this
deal, and part of this is what
California is used to. We are so
shell-shocked from the budgets
here that when you hear a budget
with a trillion dollars in cuts that
would freak us out here because
we know we are going to feel
those cuts tomorrow. The cuts
actually haven’t been defined.
So the process in Washington is
that the dollar number is there,
then it goes through the appropriation process and the cuts are
actually made specific. What
we do know, though, is that
education is liable to take the
biggest hit because the cuts are
in discretionary spending. So,
people will feel the cuts to K-12
and higher education. But we
won’t know exactly what they
will be probably for another
month because the deadline for
the budget is September 30. We
have to have a new federal budget by October 1. … Bottom
line — education will probably
be hit. We don’t know how
the other cuts will come down,
but given the ideology of who’s
in charge, we can assume the
cuts are going to come down
in health and human services
because that is what this group
doesn’t believe in. They right
now are already upset by the
trigger that was put in place,
and the trigger says that they
have to come up with about
$1.2 trillion in additional cuts by
the end of the year. And if they
don’t agree to the additional
cuts, then this trigger goes into
place where there are 50/50 cuts
in defense and health and human
services. The Republicans are
already bucking that; they want
to know what those defense cuts
are going to be. They don’t
care about the others, they just
care about the defense cuts. It’s
not that the Republicans don’t
want to spend money — they
just want to spend it on certain
things.
There seems to be this overwhelming message from the
Republican party that they
believe it is their mission to
take back America. What are
your thoughts?
It’s a racist message. I view
it as absolute racism. Take the
country back from who? From
the Black man sitting in the
White House. I think it’s quite
clear. Then when you have the
messengers delivering it, it gets
slightly confused, but I don’t
think much when you have Allen
West and Tim Scott, the two
African-American Republicans,
sending the same message. For
the most part, I think everybody
is clear and I think everybody is
clear in the Democratic Caucus
about it. … Maybe there is a
handful of people who don’t see
it as racist, but I think most
people do. …It’s tough if it’s
an African-American up saying it’s racist, because then you
are just discredited as playing
the race card, if you do it in
mainstream media. Could you
imagine the speaker not returning the president’s call? That is
just so disrespectful, the speaker
not attending state dinners that
the president invited him to. I
mean, the level of disrespect.
It’s tough when I sit in the
Democratic Caucus and hear
him being attacked. … When
[Vice President Joe] Biden was
in the room, one of my colleagues got up and said that they
wished he was president. Then
you have attacks coming from
the right.
What are the president’s
prospects of being re-elected?
I think the president has an
excellent chance of getting
re-elected and I think [Texas
Gov. Rick] Perry entering it just
upped it.
What about Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton? Will she
run or be successful if she runs
for president again?
I think she is done [burned
out]. Well first of all, historically, I don’t know when there
was a secretary of state that
served two terms. I’ve seen her
quite a bit because I’ve done
some international traveling and
she is so done. That is my own
personal opinion.
Both the state and the federal
government are facing a horrendous budget crisis. Is there
light at the end of this tunnel?
There will eventually be, but
I don’t think there is anytime
soon.
There has been a huge
debate over how the redistricting maps for California have
been formed. How will they
impact African-American representation?
There is good news and
there is definitely bad news.
There was definitely an effort
to eliminate the AfricanAmerican representation. There
is no question about that. The
good news is that I think the
African-American representation is going to be retained on
every level — Senate, Assembly
and Congress. But, I do think
that it is compromised. If you
look at some of the districts, for
example [Rep.] Maxine Waters’
district, if you look at Laura
Richardson’s district, it was kind
of cut in half, with half going
to Long Beach and extending
to Orange County, reducing the
African-American population to
eight percent, and then the other
half of the African-American
voting representation is stronger, but it included San Pedro.
They eliminated Janice Hahn’s
district. … As for Waters, they
put Torrance in her district and
now there is this organized Tea
Party effort that is just outright
racist and is essentially saying
“We don’t want to be represented by those people.” What
they did to me was give me back
my old Assembly district, and
they just extended it to USC. I
came out fine, but as far as I am
concerned it’s not over. They
are going to finalize it today and
then everybody is going to sue.
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Four-step plan:
How President
Obama can
get America
back on track
BY DONNA BRAZILE
ver since Republicans in
Congress held our country hostage to the brink
of default, there has been an
ongoing discussion about how
President Obama can reassert
control over the American economy.
These arguments have often
centered around how Obama can
get the GOP to “come around”
and “find common ground.”
Now, folks know I’m all
for civility. The framers of the
Constitution built us a govern-
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to each other. But in a time of
economic crisis, when one party
completely shuts itself down
to compromise, and Congress
decides to obstruct every piece
of legislation that reflects the
consensus of public opinion,
sometimes the president needs
to take matters into his own
hands.
The president certainly
shouldn’t walk away from the
negotiating table. But he needs
to make it clear that he will take
bold action if Congress continSee CHAVIS on page A7
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If Obama won’t fight for us, we’d
better prepare ourselves for battle
Photo by Emily Schultze/CNN
President Obama speaks Wednesday at the last town hall of his
bus trip this week through the Midwest.
ANOTHER VIEW
GOP on the wrong
side of a severe jobs
crisis in Black America
BY L. TONI LEWIS
This summer, millions of
working families got a front-row
seat to the dysfunctional leadership of Republicans in Congress
who proved once again that they
just don’t get it.
The national unemployment rate is 9.1%. For African
Americans, the unemployment rate is hovering around
16 percent. Instead of creating solutions for the jobs crisis,
Republicans are killing jobs and
destroying the American Dream.
Many African American families are experiencing the most
dramatic blows in this economic depression. The unemployment rate is higher than any
other group in the country.
Incomes for African-American
families plunged by more than
83 percent in the past eight
years. And according to the
Congressional Black Caucus,
Republicans blocked more than
40 bills intended to create jobs
that would help uplift African
American communities. They
didn’t stop there.
Republicans in Congress
rewarded big corporations for
shipping American jobs overseas
but voted to cut Medicare and
Medicaid to protect tax breaks
for and billionaires and CEOs.
Astonishingly, they continue to
propose and pass more reckless
policies and budget cuts that
disproportionally impact people
of color.
Thirty million Americans are
still looking for work while Wall
Street banks reap record profits and take home big bonuses
— they’ve made over $100 billion since taxpayers bailed them
out. The Republican leadership
in Congress is doing nothing to
help struggling families put food
on the table, fill our gas tanks,
save our homes from foreclosure and send our children to
college.
Working families in this country are fed up with right-wing
politicians coming up with new
excuses to make budget cuts
that kill jobs and put thousands
of teachers and police officers in
the unemployment line. We’re
fed up with the tax giveaways
to big corporations instead of
investments in jobs that are the
backbone of the American economy. We’re fed up with politicians constantly siding with
Wall Street bankers and rich
CEOs at the expense of working
people.
It is clear: Republicans are
on the wrong side of the jobs
crisis and on the wrong side of
the American Dream. As members of congress head back to
their districts for August recess,
working families, including
African American, should hold
them accountable for failing to
create jobs.
This August recess, it’s time
to tell politicians to reset their
priorities and fix the jobs crisis.
Dr. L. Toni Lewis, Chair of
SEIU Healthcare
BY BILL FLECTHER JR.
The fight over the increase
in the debt ceiling should have
taught us a few lessons. These
include that there is a wing of
the Republican Party — the Tea
Party faction — that is quite
prepared to fly their planes into
the towers of government in
order to make their point. They
have no interest in compromise
and are doing all that they can
to defend the wealthy elite that
dominates this country, despite
their rhetoric about looking out
for the common person.
There is something else that
we have to face. President
Obama accepted the basic
Republican framework for looking at the economic crisis in
which we find ourselves. Thus,
instead of focusing on jobs,
Obama began, some months
ago, to talk more and more
about national debt and budget
deficits. At a point when the
government should be putting
more resources into the production of jobs as a way of priming
the economic pump, President
Obama called for shared sacrifice in the need to cut the debt.
This was compounded by his
willingness to concede most of
the demands of the Republicans
as the price for gaining the rise
in the debt ceiling. The irony, of
course, is that the Republican
shenanigans, and the instability that this displayed, contributed to the S&P downgrade
and the subsequent, renewed
financial crisis. So, instead of
the President standing firm in
defense of our hard-won social
benefits and insisting that without a clear debt ceiling increase
from Congress that he would
use the Constitution’s 14th
Amendment to increase it unilaterally, he blinked, and sadly,
the Republicans knew well in
advance that he would.
Leaving aside your personal
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An African-American member of the Tea Party denounces President Obama’s policies during an
April 2010 gathering of the conservative faction in St. Louis, Mo.
feelings about President Obama
one thing becomes perfectly
clear. There is no way that we
can rely on him to defend the
social safety net that was won in
recognize is that if we want any
action out of the President, the
everyday person will need to be
the ones that brings this about.
How? We will have to make
The Tea Party faction is
quite prepared to fly their
planes into the towers of
government
the 20th century, nor is there any
way that we can assume that he
“gets” the centrality of the need
for jobs in order to get us out
of the economic crisis. Whether
this is due to his ties with Wall
Street, his belief system, or his
poor negotiating skills is actually irrelevant. What we have to
more noise than the Tea Party
element. We will need to have
protests, not just in Washington,
D.C., but throughout the USA.
The unemployed need to assemble in state capitals and insist
that they will not be allowed to
starve. Workers facing layoffs
and demands for concessions
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During an appearance at a Congressional Black Caucus town hall
meeting in Detroit on Tuesday, Rep. Maxine Waters raised questions about the Obama administration’s commitment to improving the lot of Black communities across the United States. “We’re
supportive of the president, but we’re getting tired,” said Waters.
“We’re getting tired. So, what we want to do is, we want to give the
president every opportunity to show … what he can do and what
he’s prepared to lead on.”
“Our people are hurting,” Waters said. “The unemployment rate
is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is.”
She later added: “We don’t know why in this trip that he’s on the
United States now, he’s not in any Black communities. We don’t
know that.” Waters said.
Waters also suggested that voters need to unleash Black politicians to be more forceful in their criticism of the administration.
“When you tell us it is time to let go,” she said, “we’ll let go.”
must receive support from the
rest of us so that they are not
standing alone. And, yes, in
2012, we must run and support
candidates that have a demonstrated record of being on
the side of working people and
the poor. We do not need those
who will talk out of both sides
of their mouths and offer us
heart-warming speeches. We
need politicians who are with
us in the trenches, fighting the
good fight. The decisions about
our economy will be made both
in Washington and in corporate
board rooms.
If working people do not make
their voices heard and flex their
muscles — in the streets and in
the election booths — just guess
who will come out on top?
Fletcher is an NNPA columnist and senior scholar with the
Institute for Policy Studies.
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Settlement offer
The Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors has approved a
settlement offer for the parents of
Mitrice Richardson, the 24-yearold woman who went missing in
2009 after being arrested over
an unpaid restaurant bill, then
released into Malibu Canyon by
sheriff’s deputies.
With Supervisor Gloria
Molina absent, the settlement
was approved by a unanimous
vote in closed session this
week.
Richardson’s divorced parents — mother Lattice Sutton,
and father Michael Richardson
— filed separate wrongful
death cases against the county
last year, after their daughter’s
remains were found in August
2010 by deputies and park rangers looking for evidence of illegal marijuana farming,
Their suits contend that sheriff’s deputies should have gotten
medical help for Mitrice, who
may have been suffering from
mental illness, before she was
released into a mostly rural area
without her car, a cellphone or
any other means of transportation
The housing crisis
in Black communities
BY BENJAMIN CHAVIS JR.
he National Association
of Real Estate Brokers
(NAREB) just made
an important game-changing announcement at its recent
national convention in New
Orleans. NAREB announced
a historic engagement with
Wall Street investors to launch
a $800 million Homeowner’s
Assurance Program (HAP) to
address the devastating effects
of the housing mortgage crisis
for Black America and other
minority families and communities across the United States.
The state of Black American
housing is in crisis more disproportionately than any other
group in America. Combined
with the unemployment crisis
that has also increased the ranks
of abject poverty in the AfricanAmerican community, the housing crisis makes it paramount
that national organizations like
NAREB step up to the plate with
solutions to the economic challenges facing Black Americans.
The good news is that
NAREB has gone considerably
beyond describing the magnitude of the problems confronting the Black community in
2011 with respect to the array of
critical housing issues. They are
taking quantitative and qualitative financial action proactively
and the Black community and
other minorities engulfed in the
national housing and mortgage
crisis will be the direct benefi-
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Assurance Program (HAP). We
all should be very grateful to
the national leadership of the
National Association of Real
Estate Brokers for putting the
real estate and housing interests
of the Black community as a
national priority.
If other African-American
professionals would consider
following the leadership methodology that is being exhibited by NAREB on the housing
issue as well as the other related
critical economic empowerment
issues challenges our families
and communities, then the
future of our plight for freedom,
justice, equality and empowerment will be considerably
advanced with greater progress
and achievement.
Various Wall Street investors, including Paul R. Taylor,
Jr. and Cicero Wilson of SRP
Development Management,
have committed to providing
initial capital for the purchase
of non-performing loans and
REO assets up to $200 million per quarter for the HAP
initiative of NAREB beginning
this month, August 2011. At
the NAREB conference in New
Orleans, representatives of one
of the top four national banks in
the United States also indicated
the HAP initiative has the potential over the next several weeks
and months to attract additional
capital and non-performing loan
or bank-held mortgages to the
tune of $1.2 billion per month.
Thus, the sheer magnitude of
what the NAREB is launching
has already caught the immediate attention of the major players in the U.S. banking industry.
We are talking about the financial recovery and economic
development of the Black community through the systematic
recovering of property and real
estate ownership. The wealth
and empowerment of AfricanAmericans is directly related to
homeownership. This not about
giving charity, this is about gaining back a sense of self-reliance,
responsibility and empowerment for our communities. We
need more homeowners with
mortgages that they can afford.
NAREB understands this point
and is taking an important step
forward to assist brothers and
sisters in our community to be
viable homeowners again.
Prior to announcing the
innovative Housing Assurance
Program, NAREB published a
Public Policy Paper on Housing
and African-Americans. The
policy paper documented that
Black communities have borne
a disproportionate share of the
damage from foreclosed real
estate left in the wake of the
country’s severe housing and
economic crisis. The accelerated rate of massive evictions
of Black families from their
foreclosed homes, and the subsequent dumping of foreclosed
or abandon properties in Black
LASD
Mitrice Richardson’s parents
each filed separate wrongful
death lawsuits against the
County of Los Angeles.
and other minority communities
without a sustainable recovery
solution is now causing a new
and expanded crisis of undervalued and/or vacant blighted
properties throughout our neighborhoods. NAREB PresidentElect Julius Cartwright stated,
“An innovative housing assistance program and strategy are
needed. Many of the current
programs are ineffective and
they do not adequately address
all the needs in our nation’s
communities,
particularly
minority communities.” We are
with Julius Cartwright and that
is why we salute the initiative
of NAREM.
The Joint Center for Political
Studies, the Hip-Hop Summit
Action Network (HSAN),
the National Association for
Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education (NAFEO) and many
other national organizations
will work collaboratively with
NAREB with respect to the
Housing Assurance Program.
Time is of the essence and we
need to get the word out throughout the Black community about
this program. People do suffer
from the lack of knowledge and
understanding. NAREM has
the knowledge and the professional experience on the critical
issue of housing. Now it is our
task to promote the sharing of
this information and to create
a groundswell of understanding and awareness. The future
economic recovery of the Black
community is at state. Let’s
work together to turn this crisis
into an opportunity for economic empowerment.
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is
an NNPA columnist and senior
advisor to the Black Alliance
for Educational Options.
Obama can find way out of political trouble
GUEST EDITORIAL from page A6
ues to ignore what needs to be
done.
Here are four options available to him, right now:
Empower his Cabinet. A story
published last Thursday reported
that the White House is going to
begin releasing new job creation ideas each week. This is a
good start, but President Obama
needs to develop an economic
action plan with his Cabinet
that he can implement strictly
through the exercise of executive power. This has the added
political benefit of getting the
president’s bipartisan Cabinet
members like Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood on
TV, making Republicans in
Congress look even less reasonable. And speaking of executive
power...
Don’t be afraid to be an
executive. If President George
W. Bush used the argument of
the “unitary executive” to justify warrantless wiretapping and
torture, surely President Obama
can wield executive power to
put Americans back to work
while Congress dithers on.
There’s a big toolbox available,
and the president needs to get
aggressive in using it.
Flex monetary muscle. During
the debt ceiling debate, some
legal scholars pointed out that
while the Treasury is limited in
terms of how much paper money
it can print, there is no such
limit on the minting of coinage.
They jokingly recommended the
government could mint two $1
trillion coins and deposit them
in the government’s coffers to
help pay off the debt. While this
certainly isn’t a real option, it
goes to show how much authority the executive branch has on
monetary policy.
Acknowledge the bully pulpit
has changed. Because of the
ever-shortening attention span
exemplified by Twitter and the
24/7 political news media, the
power of the presidency as a
mover of public opinion has
been diminished. However, the
president still has a lot of power
to cajole public and private entities into action. Whether that’s
persuading banks to lend, corporations to hire, or public and
private institutions to reorganize, the president needs to hit
the phones. Even if cold calls
have been fruitless before, persistence is a virtue.
The president has spent a lot
of time trying to shake and
rattle this divided Congress into
action. The American people
don’t seem to blame him for
trying. With a 14% approval rating, Congress is clearly taking
the brunt of the public’s anger.
The American people have
written off Congress this term,
so should the president. Instead
of finger-wagging, the president
needs to take the public unhappiness as a mandate to take bold
executive action.
The American people don’t
care about “Super Congresses”
or the slasher movie taking
place on Capitol Hill. They
want a bold president who can
lead them to new jobs and a
recovery they can feel on Main
Street.
Donna Brazile is a CNN contributor and vice chairwoman
for voter registration and participation at the Democratic
National Committee.
Victims contacted police
about sexual misconduct
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and vaginal examinations. Each
one of them told someone what
had happened before eventually
going to police, including one
who told police she was raped
after Brown visited her at her
apartment, Wise said.
Knowing that they had to come
forward “once they knew they
weren’t alone,” the majority of
the victims contacted authorities
after Brown was charged with
sexually assaulting one female
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or communication. Investigators
said she apparently suffered a
mental breakdown prior to her
arrest, after being awake for
as many as five nights, citing
diaries found in the car she was
driving.
The amount of the settlement offer was undisclosed, and
it was unclear on Wednesday
night whether Richardson’s parents were prepared to accept it.
According to a closed session
report obtained by The Wave,
“details of the settlement will be
made available once finalized by
all parties.” — Betty Pleasant
(City News Service contributed
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cer who had been sent into his
office, Wise said.
Brown’s attorney countered
that there were inconsistencies
in the women’s stories, noting
that none of the patients was
ever heard screaming or telling
the doctor to stop.
Brown’s attorney accused an
undercover police detective of
lying that the doctor had held
her breasts during an examinaPhoto by Gary McCarthy
tion involving a problem with
Dr. Kevin Brown was found guilty of sexually assaulting several
her ankle. He noted that it was patients who sought care at his Crenshaw District clinic.
“nowhere on [an audio] tape.”
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was the only one who announced
her candidacy for the office when
D.A. Steve Cooley was ruminating over whether he would
seek another term. She didn’t care
whether he ran or not, as she was
prepared to stand toe-to-toe with
Cooley and take him on in 2012,
come what may. All the other
candidates threw their hats into
the ring after Cooley announced
he would not seek another term.
Fascinating.
Meyers was born in Los
Angeles, raised in Compton
and has lived her entire life in
South Los Angeles, except for
the period when she was earning her bachelor’s degree at UC
San Diego and her law degree
at Howard University’s School
of Law, the historic moxie Black
lawyer factory.
During her 25 years of service as a deputy district attorney, Meyers has prosecuted nearly 200 jury trials, including 41
murder trials, winning six death
penalty cases while working in
the Inglewood, Beverly Hills,
Torrance branch and downtown
trial offices. Meyers became a
member of the special trials division of the Van Nuys Branch
where she convicted area socialite Susan Rhea of second degree
murder for killing a motorist
while driving under the influence
of alcohol and drugs. While there,
she also prosecuted and obtained
a death verdict against Robert
Carrasco for killing two people.
At that trial, Meyers obtained one
of the first convictions of a serial
rapist using DNA evidence.
In 1997, Meyers joined the
elite Crimes Against Peace
Officers Unit, where she successfully prosecuted the most
serious crimes against sheriff’s
deputies and other peace officers.
Then-D.A. Gil Garcetti appointed Meyers deputy-in-charge of
the Bellflower office in 1999
where, in addition to her supervisory duties, she prosecuted and
obtained a death verdict against
Bernard Nelson for his killing,
shooting and robbing spree that
was plastered on the pages of
the mainstream media and which
became the subject of several TV
crime documentaries. Nelson is
currently on death row soliciting
Facebook friends.
Meyers’ job became political in 2000 when she backed
D.A. Garcetti’s re-election bid
over Cooley’s attempt to succeed
him. Cooley won the election and
demoted Meyers from her post as
head of the Bellflower office and
sent her to the Florence/Firestone
Area Office, where upon she proceeded to retaliate against the
new D.A. by sending the killer
of law enforcement officer Brian
Brown and 17-year-old Gerardo
Sernas to death row. She followed
that slap in Cooley’s face with a
number of homicide convictions
out of the Compton and Airport
Branch offices, including one for
the murder of LAUSD teacher
Kathryn Dawson, which, as with
many of Meyers’ cases, made
the news. The most recent of
Meyers’ headline-grabbers is the
first degree murder conviction she
won last month against Tyquan
Knox, 23, the former Crenshaw
High School football star found
guilty of killing the mother of a
girl set to testify against him in a
robbery case.
Knox was a standout wide
receiver at Crenshaw who was
attracting a lot of attention from
college recruiters, when one
morning in 2007 he walked up to
Pamela Lark in a parking lot, put
a gun to her face and fired five
times. The killing was reported
in a two-part series in the L.A.
Times. Meyers tried Knox for
murdering Lark twice and got a
hung jury both times. On July
20, after her third trial, the jury
agreed with Meyers that he had,
indeed, killed Lark in an effort to
stop her daughter from testifying
against him in a robbery case.
“It’s been 4-1/2 years of work-
ing to bring this guy to justice,”
Meyers is quoted in the newspaper. “He destroyed this family and he attacked our system
of justice by trying to scare the
hell out of this witness by killing
her mother,” Meyers said. Knox
is scheduled to be sentenced on
Sept. 7.
Now, for some biographical
fact-gathering: Meyers has been
named Prosecutor of the Year
twice by both the L.A. County
Bar Association and the Century
City Bar Association, and the
Daily Journal, the state’s most
respected legal journal, named
her among California’s top 100
lawyers.
Meyers has received several awards for her prosecutorial prowess and her passion and
commitment to diversity in the
legal profession from her fellows,
and she has been recognized for
her contributions to the citizens of
Los Angeles by the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors and
the California state Senate.
After carrying out the responsibilities of 10 various leadership roles within the state and
county bar associations throughout her career, as well as serving
on the board of directors of the
Association of Deputy District
Attorneys — plus her involvement with the Black Prosecutors
Association and the Women
Lawyers Association of Los
Angeles — Meyers was elected
the L.A. County Bar Association’s
first female African-American
president in 2008.
I am no fan of the District
Attorney’s Office, in general, and
of Cooley, in particular and I have
virtually foamed at the mouth in
print about my perception that
our current D.A. plays favorites
with the law, engages in vengeful
“payback” prosecutions and that,
basically, he is a beast. I asked
Meyers to address my overt contempt for her office, and she did
not flinch.
Meyers has obviously given
the perception some thought, as
she has developed a program for
operating the District Attorney’s
Office, if she is elected. She calls
her program “Smart Justice,”
and its first three principles are:
“Equal access to justice for all
citizens; fairness in the application of the laws of the state of
California and uniformity in the
application of laws throughout
Los Angeles County.” That reads
like a no-brainer, but I vividly
recall Cooley saying pretty much
the same thing when he appeared
before the Black Journalists
Association seeking our support
for his election in 2000. After
he won, he operated contrary to
these three principles. Based on
the credentials of people who
have endorsed her and who work
with her on justice issues outside
the courtroom, she could very
well mean it.
Other points in her Smart
Justice program include reforming the juvenile justice system by
reducing the number of juveniles
prosecuted as adults, and working
with school administrators, parents and members of the criminal
justice system to actively engage
students in the learning process
and thus, increase the number of
high school and college graduates. She also wants to create a
committee to work on ways to
reform the current death penalty
statute and the way in which the
District Attorney’s Office prosecutes death penalty cases, and she
wants to “vigorously investigate
and prosecute those who pollute
our communities, especially low
income and minority areas,” she
said.
Meyers’ Smart Justice program
would find the county office saving money by using rehabilitation as a means of punishing
nonviolent offenders and spending resources prosecuting those
who commit serious and violent
crimes while demanding longer
prison terms for individuals who
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Chiwetel Ejiofor (seen here in last year’s “Salt”) will play the lead
role in the movie to be produced by actor Brad Pitt.
Chiwetel Ejiofor will
star in adaptation of
1853 autobiography by
educated, free Black
man who was kidnapped
and forced into slavery.
BY BREEANNA HARE
CNN
B
rad Pitt is going back in
time with his next project: The actor’s Plan B
production company is set to
produce “Twelve Years A Slave,”
according to the Hollywood
Reporter.
The movie will be adapted
from the autobiography written
by Solomon Northup in 1853.
The author was a married and
educated free Black man living
in New York who traveled to
Washington, D.C. after two men
offered him a job. He was subsequently kidnapped into slavery.
Northup was able to regain his
freedom after a white Canadian
smuggled letters to his wife,
which launched a court case that
led to his release.
Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Salt,”
“American
Gangster”)
is
attached to play Northup in the
film, which will be directed by
“Hunger’s” Steve McQueen.
The director also co-wrote the
script along with John Ridley.
Pitt’s Plan B has also taken
on “World War Z,” which is
being directed by Marc Forster
and starring Pitt. The movie is
in pre-production, and is slated
to arrive in theaters December
21, 2012.
REVIEW: ‘CHASING MADOFF’
Cash rules everything
BY MATTHEW GUHIT
SPECIAL TO THE WAVE
A
gripping documentary
about the biggest scandal
on Wall Street, “Chasing
Madoff” takes you into the
world of Harry Markopolos as
he and his team retell their nearly decade-long effort to put the
most powerful — and ultimately, most corrupt — stockbroker
of his time behind bars.
Years of tireless effort and
frustration drove Markopolos
— a former securities analyst
turned financial vigilante — to
paranoia in his quest to expose
Bernard Madoff, who eventually
admitted to operating the biggest
Ponzi scheme in history. The
story, based on his New York
Times bestseller “No One Would
Listen,” isn’t a regurgitation of
what had already been reported
in 2008. Primarily centered on
Markopolos’ struggle, it’s a tale
focused on events that unfolded
10 years ago. An animated, but
determined Markopolos narrates the story, alongside fellow
whistleblowers Frank Casey,
Neil Chelo, Michael Ocrant and
Gaytri Kachroo.
Panning from one whistleblower to the next, there are
some scenes that unmistakably
scream “That ‘70s Show” — as
if you were at the center of a
conversation in Eric Foreman’s
smoke-filled basement. Though
the mood is generally serious,
bits of humor are weaved in to
keep dullness at bay, avoiding
a common hazard in the documenting of often tedious financial matters.
A former soldier and Catholic
school student, Markopolos was
willing to fight even if it meant
getting trampled by beefed-up
bullies in the process. You sense
he was just that sort of guy from
the beginning. If there were a
study that suggested nine out of
10 people don’t pick up trash
after walking past it, he would
have been the lone collector.
Directed, produced and written by Jeff Prosserman, “Chasing
Madoff,” is a narrative documentary filled with reenactments,
though some that can make you
squirm awkwardly in your seat;
imagine a seemingly harmless
guy dressed in a suit, repeatedly
cocking a gun in your face.
A film fit for Wall Street buffs
and economic enthusiasts, it
plays the part for a general audience as well. And unless you’ve
been living under a rock for the
past decade, you’ll walk into a
movie that will hold your hand
up to the end when Madoff turns
himself in. No problem solving
skills required. It’s a modern
David vs. Goliath tale that keeps
you invested until finish.
In all, the telling does justice
to those who haven’t read the
book, or audiences simply looking to check off one more item
on their you-should-know-thisby-now list.
For thoughtful celebs, the new college try
K
eke Palmer (top left) was among the luminaries who
turned out at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Sunday
night, for the 33rd Annual United Negro College Fund
Evening of Stars benefit. Palmer, who stars on the Disney
Channel series “True Jackson, VP,” is in the cast of the forthcoming gospel music comedy “Joyful Noise” (starring alongside
Queen Latifah, Kris Kristofferson and Courtney B. Vance) and
will give voice to the character Peaches in next year’s animated
sequel “Ice Age: Continental Drift” More stars lending support
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to African-American college students (clockwise from top right):
singer Miguel, whose new single “Quickie” (off the album “All
I Want is You”) is climbing the R&B charts; songstress Ledisi,
who is set to embark on her first headlining tour (behind the LP
“Pieces of Me”), which will stop in Los Angeles on Nov. 10;
model/actress Kenya Moore; singer Erykah Badu, one of rhe
UNCF performers (along with Musiq Soulchild), who is denying
rumors of a rekindled romance with her daughter’s father, rapper
D.O.C.; and actress Jill Marie Jones.
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Six Cal State Los Angeles
athletes have received Division
II Athletic Directors Association
Academic Achievement Awards.
Chris Matzner of baseball,
Natalia Gonzalez of volleyball,
Ayana Younge of women’s soccer, Lisa Ohberg of women’s soccer and women’s track and field,
Justina Sadauskaite of women’s
cross country and track and field
and Christie Lau of tennis were
Golden Eagles honored.
To be eligible, an individual
must have a cumulative grade
point average of 3.50 or higher
on a 4.0 scale, have completed
a minimum of two years of college level work and have been
an active member of an intercollegiate team during his/her last
academic year.
BASEBALL
Rex Peters, the head coach
at UC Davis the past nine years,
has been named assistant baseball coach at UCLA.
Peters guided UC Davis from
NCAA Division II to Division I
status during his tenure, helping
the Aggies advance to the 2008
NCAA Tournament in their first
year as a Division I member and
Big West Conference program.
Prior to Davis, he was head
coach at Chapman University for
nine years
“Rex is a great addition to
our program,” UCLA coach John
Savage said. “He brings a wealth
of experience to UCLA and is
very familiar with players and
programs on the West Coast.
We are very fortunate to be able
to get somebody as talented as
Rex to join our program as an
assistant coach. He is a very
accomplished offensive coach
who I know our players are looking forward to working with.”
FOOTBALL
Carolina Panthers secondyear wide receiver David Gettis
(Dorsey High School) is done for
the season after suffering a torn
ACL in his left knee. The injury
occured during a practice.
Gettis caught 37 passes for
508 yards and three TDs during
his rookie campaign.
SOCCER
UConn’s Carlos Alvarez
(Salesian High School) is on the
All-Big East preseason men’s
soccer team.
The junior forward had a teamhigh 14 assists and was second
with 22 points a year ago.
The Huskies are the preseason
favorite to win the conference’s
Blue Division.
SWIMMING
The Distance Swim Challenge,
sponsored by the American Lung
Association in California and
OptimisSport, will be held at 6
a.m. Sunday at Venice Beach.
NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver
Jerry Rice, former NFL defensive
end Marcellus Wiley and two-time
Olympic gold medalist Julie Foudy
will welcome guests.
Swim distances range from a
500-meter fun swim to 1.2, 4.8
and 12.6-mile courses. A portion of proceeds from the event
will benefit non-profit organizations Exceeding Expectations,
SplashBall, Save the Team, and
the American Lung Association in
California.
Online registration is open
until Thursday at distanceswimchallenge.com.
SOCCER
Cal State L.A.’s women’s
soccer team is ranked 23rd
nationally in the National Soccer
Coaches Association of America
preseason poll.
The Golden Eagles went 327-3 and advanced to the NCAA
Division II tournament a year
ago.
They return 15 players including All-American defender Melina
Barragan from the team that won
the California Collegiate Athletic
Association South Division title.
Cal State L.A. opens the season Sept. 1 at home against nonconference foe Saint Martin’s.
Cal State L.A. also hosts Grand
Canyon Sept. 3.
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Kerry Kelley pitched a complete-game one-hitter and was
named championship game MVP
after leading the Venice Boys &
Girls Club to a 10-0 win over Harrisburg, Pa. Sunday in the final of
the Reviving Baseball in Inner
Cities Senior Division World Series in Minnesota.
It was the second Senior (1618) title for Venice in the last
three years.
Kelley, 19, struck out one and
walked two in the game shortened
to six innings due to the 10-run
mercy rule. He gave up a first-inning single, then held Harrisburg
without a hit the rest of the way.
Played at Target Field, home
of the Minnesota Twins, Venice
broke the game open with six
runs in the bottom of the fifth,
then added two more in the sixth
to end it.
Kelley, also the championship
game MVP of the 2009 series,
had plenty of offensive support
from his teammates, who banged
out 13 hits.
First baseman Juan Avena
(Warren High School) went 4for-4 with two RBIs to lead the
way. Third baseman Mike Duarte,
shortstop Steve Pascual (Downey)
and center fielder Alex Newman
each had a pair of hits. Pascual
and Newman each drove in two,
Newman on a two-run homer.
Damon Aikens had a triple.
During the World Series, Venice went 4-1-1 and received a
number of outstanding individual
performances.
It opened with a 15-5 win over
Houston. Aikens had a home run,
triple, double and five RBIs, Avena went 3-for-3 and Duarte 3for-4 with two doubles and three
RBIs.
They bounced back from an 81 loss to Venezuela and a 3-3 tie
with Chicago by edging Jersey
City, 9-8 in the first playoff game.
Kevin Maxey drove in the gamewinner with a single.
In the semis, Venice topped the
Cubs, 5-3 as Aikens had two hits
and an RBI and Maxey added two
hits. Dillion Tate pitched a complete game five-hitter.
Junior Division
Dominicana (Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic) defeated
Los Angeles, 9-6 Sunday to win
the Junior (13-15) Division of the
RBI World Series.
Left Fielder Gustavo Cabrera
was named MVP of the title game
after going 2 for 3, with a walk,
three RBIs and one run scored.
His three RBIs, which came on
singles in the fifth and sixth inSee RBI on page A12
Servite
No. 1 in
state grid
rankings
Wave Staff
Servite High School is ranked
No. 1 in the state in maxpreps.
com’s preason football rankings.
The Friars finished ahead of
Northern California powerhouse
Concord De La Salle, which was
second, and No. 3 Mission Viejo.
Oaks Christian is No. 4 and Santa
Margarita is No. 5.
The top-ranked area team is
Bellflower St. John Bosco, which
is 10th.
Dominguez is No. 24, Carson
No. 62 and Crenshaw No. 65. St.
Paul is 71 and Serra 108.
Photo courtesy of Colorado State
Former Crenshaw High School star Elijah-Blu Smith, chasing down a ball carrier here, starts in the secondary for Colorado
State.
Corner is a good fit for Smith
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Former Crenshaw High School
standout Elija-Blu Smith has
shifted from free safety to cornerback for his senior season at
Colorado State and apparently is
adapting well during fall drills.
Rams coach Steve Fairchild
talked about the move.
“He’s a corner, he’s better at
corner, with some scheme changes, some of the things we are doing technique-wise, he can do
and it fits him better,” Fairchild is
quoted on Colorado State’s website. “So it’s best for our football
team to have him at corner.”
What is it that Smith does so
well?
“Well, he’s long,” Fairchild
said. “He can play press. He’s got
good speed. He gives us another
tackler out there, out wide.”
Fairchild said Smith supports
the move.
“Yeah, he likes it,” he said.
“I like it. I think you could tell,
even in spring when he wasn’t
going full speed, it was going to
be a good move for us. He gives
us another tackler out there at
corner. You can single him up because he’s got big-time speed.”
A year ago, Smith had 42 tackles, 26 of them solo, and two
Evans catching the
eye of Neuheisel
forced fumbles.
Another ex-Crenshaw standout, tailback Raymond Carter,
figures to help Colorado State on
the other side of the ball.
Carter, who began his college
career at UCLA, rushed for 269
yards and a touchdown on 65 carries and caught 15 passes for 163
yards and three scores in eight
games as a junior for the Rams,
who are coming off a 3-9 season. He had a memorable game
against Idaho when had more
than 100 yards rushing and 100
receiving to earn Mountain West
Conference offensive player of
the week honors.
Carter, who performed in a
tailback-by-committee situation
a year ago, will again face that
situation unless someone assumes control. He battled injuries in 2010, playing in just eight
games, but is now healthy.
Look for Carter to share the
workload with sophomore Chris
Nwoke and senior Derek Good.
“All three of us are contributing to the team in different ways
and helping our team win, and
the defense can’t really key on
us, so that’s a great thing to do,”
Nwoke told the Coloradoan.
Maxpreps.com preseason
state grid rankings
1. Servite
2. Concord De La Salle
3. Mission Viejo
4. Oaks Christian
5. Santa Margarita
6. Bishop Amat
7. Oceanside
8. Valley Christian (San Jose)
9. St. Bonaventure
10. St. John Bosco
11. San Clemente
12. Alemany
13. Pleasant Grove
14. Centennial (Corona)
15. Westlake
16. Chaminade
17. Palo Alto
18. Arroyo Grande
19. Vista Murrieta
20. Bellarmine (San Jose)
21. Crespi
22. Grant (Sacramento)
23. Orange Lutheran
24. Dominguez
25. Tesoro
Others
28. Long Beach Poly
47. Loyola
48. Mater Dei
53. Lakewood
62. Carson
65. Crenshaw
71. St. Paul
101. Venice
108. Serra
Bowled over
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Shaquelle Evans evidently has
plans for being part of the wide receiver rotation at UCLA this year.
The former Inglewood High
School prep All-American who
began his college career at Notre
Dame has been impressive thus
far in fall drills. He caught a pair
of touchdown passes from Richard Brehaut Monday.
Bruins coach Rick Neuheisel
noted that following Monday’s
practice.
“I had an inkling he was going
to be special when I went to watch
him as a senior at Inglewood,”
he said. “I really badly wanted to
have him.
“He’s had a great camp and
continues to impress.”
Evans, a redshirt sophomore,
caught seven passes for 61 yards
as a freshman at Notre Dame in
2009. He had shoulder surgery last
fall after joining the program and
was limited to non-contact drills
in the spring.
Seniors Taylor Embree, Nelson
Rosario and Josh Smith, junior
Randall Carroll (Cathedral High)
and sophomore Ricky Marvray
will all be competing for playing
time at the wide receiver spots.
Quarterbacks battle
Richard Brehaut and Kevin
Prince continue to be in a close
battle to start at quarterback as the
Sept. 3 season opener at Houston
Courtesy of UCLA
Shaquelle Evans
approaches.
“Today Richard was better,”
Neuheisel said Monday. “Kevin
made some good reads, but the
ball sailed on him. Those balls
have got to be complete. When
he’s on, he’s flawless.”
Prince threw for 384 yards a
year ago, but his season was cut
short by a knee injury that required
surgery. He was limited to 7-on-7
drills in the spring.
Still, rust is no excuse anymore for Prince, in the view of
Neuheisel.
See SHAQ on page A12
Photo by Mario Villegas
The Dodgers’ Matt Kemp introduces his bowling team at the seventh annual State Farm
Dodgers Dream Foundation Bowling Extravaganza hosted by Dodger James Loney held
recently at Lucky Strike Lanes L.A. Live. Dodger fans joined Loney and his Dodger teammates and their celebrity friends for a night of bowling to benefit the Dodgers Dream
Foundation.
A10
D.A. hopeful challenges media
BOTTOM LINE from page A7
hurt and kill members of the
community.
Smart Justice for Meyers would
also include increasing diversity
within the Los Angeles County
District Attorney’s Office and
developing and increasing training of law enforcement officers
on courtroom procedures, charging policies and the application
and implementation of laws.
The following is something that
haunts Meyers and is troubling to
me. I think you should share our
discomfort. Read this:
Meyers is annoyed by the frenzied media attention the various and sundry legal matters of
Lindsay Lohan attracts and she
related her disdain about the situation to me in a manner that suggested she was blaming me! If
not me, personally, then certainly
the lust for trivial celebrity hap-
penings by people in my profession gets her goat. She said the
day Lohan was sentenced for one
of her offenses, she was besieged
at the Beverly Hills Courthouse
by about 100 reporters and photographers and the like, all clamoring to know what was going to
happen to Lindsay Lohan.
Meyers said she became angry
and told the mob of journalists
that later that day she would be
in court for the sentencing of a
man who brutally murdered an
11-year-old Black girl in her own
bedroom. She told them that case
was the worst one she had ever
prosecuted, and she challenged
the media mob around her to
meet her at the courthouse and
provide coverage of that sentencing.
It was the case of the People
vs. James Heard and it involved
Katrina Brown, a smart and
energetic 11-year-old who lived
with her mother, Marilyn, and
her boyfriend, James Heard,
in an unincorporated section
of Los Angeles, near Compton
and Lynwood. Marilyn worked
the graveyard shift at Cal State
Northridge. Unfortunately, she
began dating Heard, an unemployed felon, six months before
Katrina’s death.
On Dec. 18, 1990, Brown left
for work at approximately 11
p.m. Prior to leaving for work,
she checked her daughter and
found she was sleeping in her
bed with her Cabbage Patch dolls
next to her. It was her routine to
leave for work around 10:45 p.m.
and check on her daughter around
6 a.m. to confirm that she was
awake and preparing for school.
On Dec. 19, 1990, she never
received a call from Katrina.
Around 9 p.m. on Dec. 18,
1990, Katrina kissed her mother
and told her she loved her. She
went to sleep and around 2 a.m.
was awakened by Heard, who
had been drinking and snorting
cocaine most of the evening. In
fact, earlier that evening, Heard
attempted to assault and rape
a prostitute. However, several
men prevented the attack and he
returned to the home he shared
with Marilyn and Katrina.
At 2 a.m., Heard entered
Katrina’s room and brutally raped
her. Katrina fought back by biting
off a portion of his tongue. Heard
responded by biting Katrina’s
breast and inserting one baseball
bat into her vagina and a second
baseball bat into her anus. The
bats were inserted so far into
her that they broke the lining
that separates the two areas of
the body. It took three men to
remove the bats. Heard also took
one of the bats and hit Katrina in
the head, causing her forehead
to split open and inflicting major
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Los Angeles on August 5, 2011.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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I declare that all information in this statement is
true and correct. (A registrant who declares as
true information which he or she knows to be false
is guilty of a crime.)
S/ Miles Houze, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on July 18, 2011
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Documents. Bids must be received, by either hand
delivery or mail, at BuildLACCD, 915 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017, no
later than the Bid Closing Deadline of 2:00 p.m.
on September 13, 2011, to be thereafter on said
date and at said location publicly opened and read
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TREASURER, CITY OF LOS ANGELES
8/18, 8/25/11
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
BIDDERS WANTED
BERTHS 70-72 DEMOLITION OF LIQUID BULK TERMINAL
SPECIFICATION NO. 2723
Asbestos Abatement Contractors, Demolition of Building,
Equipment Rental General, Fencing, Trucking
ENG. EST.: $2,750,000- $3,500,000
MANDATORY PRE-BID DATE:
AUGUST 30, 2011, 9:00AM
BID DATE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2011, 2:45 P.M.
FEE: $0.00
Class A or C-21 California Contractor’s License
required at time of award.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
HARBOR DEPARTMENT
(310) 732-3522
FAX: (310) 831-5389
CNS# 2157992
DEPARTMENT OF THE
TREASURER AND
TAX COLLECTOR
NOTICE OF DIVIDED
PUBLICATION
OF THE PROPERTY
TAX DEFAULT
(DELINQUENT) LIST
2 col. 3.8” x 3”
SOUTHSIDE
JOURNAL
Notice of Divided Publication
Made pursuant to Section 3371,
NOTICE OF DIVIDED PUBLICATION
OF THE PROPERTY TAX DEFAULT
(DELINQUENT) LIST
Made pursuant to Section 3371,
Revenue and Taxation Code
Pursuant to Sections 3381 through
3385, Revenue and Taxation Code, the
Notice of Power to Sell Tax Defaulted
Property in and for Los Angeles County,
State of California, has been divided
and distributed to various newspapers
of general circulation published in the
County. A portion of the list appears in
each of such newspapers.
I, Mark J. Saladino, County of Los Angeles
Tax Collector, State of California, certify that:
Notice is hereby given that the real
properties listed below were declared to be
in tax default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2009,
by operation of law. The declaration of
default was due to non-payment of the total
amount due for the taxes, assessments,
and other charges levied in 2008-09 tax
year that were a lien on the listed real
property. Property upon which a nuisance
abatement lien has been recorded and
non-residential commercial property shall
be subject to sale if the taxes remain
unpaid after three years. If the 2008-2009
taxes remain unpaid after June 30, 2012,
the property will be subject to sale at public
auction in 2013. All other property that
remains unpaid after June 30, 2014, will be
subject to sale at public auction in 2015.
The name of the assessee and the total
tax, which was due on June 30, 2009, for
the 2008-09 tax years, is shown opposite
the parcel number. Tax defaulted real
property may be redeemed by payment
of all unpaid taxes and assessments,
together with the additional penalties and
fees as prescribed by law, or it may be paid
under an installment plan of redemption.
All information concerning redemption of
tax-defaulted property will be furnished,
upon request, by Mark J. Saladino,
Treasurer and Tax Collector, 225 North
Hill Street, Los Angeles, California 90012,
1(888) 807-2111 or 1(213) 974-2111.
I certify under penalty of perjury that the
foregoing is true and correct. Executed at
Los Angeles, California on August 8, 2011.
____________________
MARK J. SALADINO
TREASURER AND TAX COLLECTOR
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Assessees/taxpayers, who have disposed
of real property since January 1, 2008,
may find their names listed for the reason
that a change in ownership has not been
reflected on the assessment roll.
ASSESSOR'S IDENTIFICATION
NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION
The Assessor's Identification Number
(AIN), when used to describe property
in this list, refers to the Assessor's map
book, the map page, the block on the map
(if applicable), and the individual parcel
on the map page or in the block. The
Assessor's maps and further explanation
of the parcel numbering system are
available in the Assessor's Office.
The following property tax defaulted on July
1, 2009, for the taxes, assessments, and
other charges for the fiscal year 2008-09:
LISTED BELOW ARE PROPERTIES
THAT DEFAULTED IN 2009 FOR TAXES,
ASSESSMENTS AND 0THER CHARGES
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2008-2009.
AMOUNT OF DELINQUENCY AS OF
THIS PUBLICATION IS LISTED BELOW.
GARCIA,ERICK
ET
AL
ARTEAGA,ELSA J SITUS 334 S
RANGER DR AZUSA CA 91702-4843
8629-013-011 $1,616.24
LOPEZ,VICTOR SITUS 955 E
GAILLARD ST AZUSA CA 91702-4742
8629-011-016 $9,088.67
MALDONADO,ELDA
AND
ALBARRAN,MARIO J SITUS 231 S
RANBURN AVE AZUSA CA 91702-4753
8629-006-017 $1,927.06
TRINITY ARF INC SITUS 1034 E
ALFORD ST AZUSA CA 91702-4801
8629-007-020 $112.43
ZEKMANSKI,JOHN A AND BENDA
J SITUS 1033 E GHENT ST AZUSA CA
91702-4831 8629-015-025 $8,288.48
Revenue and Taxation Code
Pursuant to Sections 3381 through
3385, Revenue and Taxation Code, the
Notice of Power to Sell Tax Defaulted
Property in and for Los Angeles County,
State of California, has been divided
and distributed to various newspapers
of general circulation published in the
County. A portion of the list appears in
each of such newspapers.
I, Mark J. Saladino, County of Los
Angeles Tax Collector, State of California,
certify that:
Notice is hereby given that the real
properties listed below were declared to
be in tax default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1,
2009, by operation of law. The declaration
of default was due to non-payment
of the total amount due for the taxes,
assessments, and other charges levied in
2008-09 tax year that were a lien on the
listed real property. Property upon which
a nuisance abatement lien has been
recorded and non-residential commercial
property shall be subject to sale if the
taxes remain unpaid after three years.
If the 2008-2009 taxes remain unpaid
after June 30, 2012, the property will be
subject to sale at public auction in 2013.
All other property that remains unpaid
after June 30, 2014, will be subject to
sale at public auction in 2015. The name
of the assessee and the total tax, which
was due on June 30, 2009, for the 200809 tax years, is shown opposite the parcel
number. Tax defaulted real property may
be redeemed by payment of all unpaid
taxes and assessments, together with
the additional penalties and fees as
prescribed by law, or it may be paid under
an installment plan of redemption.
All information concerning redemption of
tax-defaulted property will be furnished,
upon request, by Mark J. Saladino,
Treasurer and Tax Collector, 225 North
Hill Street, Los Angeles, California 90012,
1(888) 807-2111 or 1(213) 974-2111.
I certify under penalty of perjury that the
foregoing is true and correct. Executed at
Los Angeles, California on August 8, 2011.
MARK J. SALADINO
TREASURER AND TAX COLLECTOR
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Assessees/taxpayers, who have disposed
of real property since January 1, 2008,
may find their names listed for the reason
that a change in ownership has not been
reflected on the assessment roll.
ASSESSOR'S IDENTIFICATION
NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION
The Assessor's Identification Number
(AIN), when used to describe property
in this list, refers to the Assessor's map
book, the map page, the block on the map
(if applicable), and the individual parcel
on the map page or in the block. The
Assessor's maps and further explanation
of the parcel numbering system are
available in the Assessor's Office.
The following property tax defaulted on
July 1, 2009, for the taxes, assessments,
and other charges for the fiscal year
2008-09:
LISTED BELOW ARE PROPERTIES
THAT DEFAULTED IN 2009 FOR TAXES,
ASSESSMENTS AND 0THER CHARGES
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2008-2009.
AMOUNT OF DELINQUENCY AS OF
THIS PUBLICATION IS LISTED BELOW.
MARLEN,ARTURO JR AND KARINA
SITUS 233 E RUSSELL ST AZUSA CA
91702-4922 8613-009-014 $10,817.48
CNS#2156297
LOS ANGELES, CA 90007-4318
Type of license(s) applied for:
41 - On-Sale Beer And Wine - Eating Place
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
1 col. 1.9” x 9.5”
Wave
CITY OF LOS
ANGELES
CNS#2156304
BUSINESS
1 col. 1.9” x 11”
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Wave TO SELL
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Date of Filing Application: July 30, 2011
To Whom It May Concern:
The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are:
LOTUS ON FLOWER LLC
The applicants listed above are applying to the
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell
alcoholic beverages at:
3742 FLOWER ST
NOTICE OF ESCHEAT TO THE
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for more than
three years last past there remained unclaimed
with the Police Department of the City of Los
Angeles monies held in the account known as the
“UNCLAIMED MONIES SEIZED INCIDENTAL TO
ARREST TRUST FUND” which were seized on
August 29,1975 through July 1, 2008.
AMOUNT: $571,076.45
Claims for return of monies held must be filed with
the City Clerk, Room 395 City Hall, 200 N. Spring
St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 BEFORE Monday,
October 10, 2011.
THE AFORESAID MONIES WILL BECOME THE
PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES
ON October 10, 2011.
DATED: August 4, 2011 STEVE ONGELE,
INTERIM CITY TREASURER, OFFICE OF THE
NOTICE OF ESCHEAT TO THE
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that for more than
three years last past there remained unclaimed
with the Police Department of the City of Los
Angeles monies held in the account known as the
“UNCLAIMED MONIES SEIZED INCIDENTAL TO
ARREST TRUST FUND” which were seized on
August 29,1975 through July 1, 2008.
AMOUNT: $571,076.45
Claims for return of monies held must be filed with
the City Clerk, Room 395 City Hall, 200 N. Spring
St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 BEFORE Monday,
October 10, 2011.
THE AFORESAID MONIES WILL BECOME THE
PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES
ON October 10, 2011.
DATED: August 4, 2011 STEVE ONGELE,
INTERIM CITY TREASURER, OFFICE OF THE
TREASURER, CITY OF LOS ANGELES
8/18, 8/25/11
WWA-2153812#
TRIBUNE NEWS
$50,000 REWARD NOTICE
The City of Los Angeles offers a reward payable
at the discretion of the City Council to one or more
persons in the sum or sums up to an aggregate
maximum total sum of $50,000 for information
leading to the identification and apprehension
of the person or persons responsible for the act
of murder against, BRIGITTE BURDINE, in the
City of Los Angeles. On Wednesday, December
29, 2010, at 1:49 a.m., a fatal traffic collision
occurred on Culver Boulevard between Pershing
Drive and Jefferson Boulevard, in Playa del Rey.
An unknown suspect driving a dark vehicle, eastbound on Culver Boulevard, struck Ms. Brigitte
Burdine, age 48, and a resident of Marina del Rey,
while she was crossing the street. The suspect
subsequently fled the location driving the vehicle.
Ms. Burdine was transported to a local hospital
where she later died. Detectives believe that a
monetary reward will assist in their identification
and apprehension. The person or persons responsible for this crime represent an ongoing threat to
the safety of the people of Los Angeles. Unless
withdrawn or paid by City Council action, this offer
of reward shall terminate on, and have no effect
after, FEBRUARY 10, 2012.
The provisions of payment and all other considerations shall be governed by Chapter 12 of Division
19 of the LAAC Code, as amended by Ordinance
Nos. 158157 and 166666. This offer shall be
given upon the condition that all claimants provide
continued cooperation within the criminal justice
system relative to this case and is not available
to public officers or employees of the City, their
families, persons in law enforcement or persons
whose misconduct prompted this reward. If you
have any information regarding this case, please
call the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877LAWFULL, 24 hours.
C. F. No. 11-0010-s5
8/18/11
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAMES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011073244
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
One Chair Christensen Interior Design, 4315
6th Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90008, County of
L.A.
Registered owner(s):
Kimberly Christensen, 4315 6th Ave., Los Angeles,
CA 90008.
This business is conducted by an individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on N/A.
S/ Kimberly Christensen, Owner
Los Angeles on July 29, 2011.
Original
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WWA-2158696#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011 068735
as:
K-9 Grooming, 2114 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90025, County of Los Angeles
Roberto Lopez, 2114 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90025
This business is conducted by an individual
above on N/A
S/ Roberto Lopez, Owner
Original
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WWA-2158692#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011077385
as:
Kard’s By Angie, 854 E. 119th Street, Los
Angeles, CA 90059, County of Los Angeles.
Angela Hale Jackson, 854 E. 119th Street, Los
Angeles, CA 90059.
above on N/A.
S/ Angela Hale Jackson, Owner
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT
OF USE OF FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS NAME
File No. 2011076126
Current File No.: 20101335349
Date Filed: 10/14/2010
1. Red Flag, 2. Red Flag Supply, 622 N. La Brea
Ave., Inglewood, CA 90302
Registered Owner(s):
Aaron D. Morris, 1905 N. Curson Pl., Los Angeles,
CA 90046
Business was conducted by: an Individual.
S/ Aaron D. Morris, Owner
Los Angeles County on August 4, 2011.
8/11, 8/18, 8/25, 9/1/11
WWA-2154163#
INGLEWOOD/HAWTHORNE WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011077848
as:
Martinez Auto Parts, 6820 3/4 S. Main Street,
Los Angeles, CA 90003, County of Los Angeles
Vicente Martinez, 6820 3/4 Main St., Los Angeles,
CA 90003
This business is conducted by an Individual
above on N/A
S/ Vicente Martinez, Owner
Los Angeles on August 8, 2011
Original
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011069708
as:
GS Casters, 6425 Alondra Blvd., Paramount,
CA 90723, County of Los Angeles
Tae In Chung, 364 Smokeridge Terrace, Anaheim,
CA 92807
above on N/A
S/ Tae In Chung, Owner
Original
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SOUTHSIDE JOURNAL
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011069409
as:
Phalanx Protective Services, 3781 E. 11th St.,
Apt. 202, Long Beach, CA 90804, County of
Los Angeles.
Anthony Rodriguez, 3781 E. 11th St., Apt. 202,
Long Beach, CA 90804.
This business is conducted by an individual.
above on N/A.
S/ Anthony Rodriguez, Owner
Original
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011066485
as:
Brighter Day Investigations, 879 W. 190th
Street, Gardena, CA 90248, County of Los
Angeles
335 East Albertoni St., Carson, CA 90248
Miles Houze, 335 East Albertoni St., Carson,
CA 90746
above on N/A
trauma to her brain. Then, he
poured rubbing alcohol in her
mouth and stomped on her chest
in an effort to get her to throw up
his tongue. Heard’s shoe prints
were found on Katrina’s chest.
The attack on Katrina took more
than two hours, and finally, Heard
strangled Katrina to death.
The case was originally tried
in 1993 by another prosecutor
and Heard received the death
penalty. However, the California
Supreme Court reversed the penalty phase and Meyers was called
upon to retry the penalty phase
of the case, which required her
to retry the entire case before a
new jury. Katrina’s injuries were
so severe that the medical examiner testified for more then 2-1/2
hours, and he told the jury it was
the most brutal crime he had
ever seen and one of the longest
autopsies he had ever performed.
The first retrial hung 11-1 for
guilty based on jury misconduct.
The second retrial, which Meyers
completed in 2010, ended with a
death verdict.
Meyers challenged the horde
of reporters to go with her to
Heard’s ultimate sentencing later
that afternoon when they finished
with their Lohan gawking.
“You know how many showed
up?” Meyers growled. “One,” she
said, while giving me dirty looks.
A Times writer went and his
July 23, 2010, reportage quotes
Meyers as calling the case “the
most brutal crime I have seen
perpetrated in my lifetime. This is
one guy I hope to see executed in
my lifetime. I hope they expedite
this.”
After telling me this, Meyers
sat giving me the evil eye and
all I could do was apologize profusely on behalf of my profession
and keep relating that I knew
nothing about it.
“Yeah, but you knew about
Lindsay Lohan, didn’t you?” she
snapped. Yes, I did. God help me.
God help us all.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011066236
as:
Anna Meliksetian Gallery, 1270 S. Burnside
Ave. #5, Los Angeles, CA 90019
Anna Meliksetian, 1270 S. Burnside Ave. #5, Los
Angeles, CA 90019
above on N/A
S/ Anna Meliksetian, Owner
Original
7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18/11
WWA-2144588#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011068902
as:
MiMi’s Natural, 3650 W. Martin Luther King Dr.,
Los Angeles, CA 90008-1775, County of LA.
3601 N. Lincoln Ave., Altadena, CA 91001
Michelle Lockert, 3601 N. Lincoln Ave., Altadena,
CA 91001
above on N/A
S/ Michelle Lockert, Owner
Original
7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18/11
WWA-2139303#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
GOVERNMENT
$42,000,000.00 BIDDING OPPORTUNITY WITH
LACCD
The Los Angeles Community Colleges have
embarked on an extensive Sustainable
Building Program to address much-needed
campus improvements for educational and
support facilities for its nine community colleges. For future bidding opportunities please
visit the website www.build-laccd.org under
“Contracting and Bidding Site” then click
“Construction Look-Ahead”:
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
College: East Los Angeles College
Project Name: Science Career & Mathematics
Complex
Project Number.: 32E.5222.02
Project Estimate: $42,000,000.- $45,000,000.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Los Angeles
Community College District (“District”) invites
sealed bids for the following public works project
(“Work”):
The project consists of the hazardous materials
abatement of all buildings to be demolished and
renovated, site grading, provide and install sound
wall between Phase 1 & Phase 2 scope of work,
site demolition and the construction of the new
Math & Science Complex including new site and
infrastructure work.
Work includes demolish five (5) existing singlelevel buildings (G5, G6, H5, H6, H7) and demolish
the Husky store which is attached to building G7;
construct a new 4-level Math & Science Building
(G5) with an adjacent 1-level Lecture building
(100,700 GSF, Type II fire-rated steel frame construction); renovate an existing 1-level Building G8
(12,600 GSF, Type V non-rated wood frame construction); renovate an existing 1-level Building
H8 (11,500 GSF, Type V non-rated wood frame
construction); installation of underground site utilities and associated site improvements.
On February 25, 2009, the BOT granted a waiver
to the prohibition on restrictive bidding specifications and contracting documents for Annunciator
Intelligent Network Panel compatible with General
Electric’s EST3 East Los Angeles College.
On March 10, 2010, the BOT granted a waiver
to the prohibition on restrictive bidding specifications and contracting documents for BEST Kaba
Peaks door key and key cylinders; Von Duprin
Exit Devices; LCN Surface Closers; HID iCLASS
access cards and readers; and Honeywell Access
system WIN-PAK card access control panels and
server software, campus wide Fire Alarm, Mass
Notification and Emergency Communications
(MNEC) system compatible with Edwards EST,
and Alerton BACnet building controller at East Los
Angeles College.
Bids shall be prepared in conformance with
the Instructions to Bidders and other Bidding
Bidding Documents will be available to Bidders
on and after August 23, 2011, at the following
locations:
For document pick up: Universal Reprographics
(District’s reprographics service) at any of the following Three (3) locations:
1) Universal Reprographics Incorporated, Los
Angeles Branch, 2706 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles,
California 90057 Tel: 213-365-7750
2) West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Pontius Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025 Tel: 310-477-2900
3) Robertson Branch, 1444-B S. Robertson Blvd,
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242
To order or view online: http://www.build-laccd.
org/, Contracting and Bidding Site, Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room Link.
To view in person: Jacobs Facilities, 1200 W. Floral
Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754, Telephone:
(323) 859-2330.
The District will provide one (1) complete set
of Bidding Documents to each Bidder, free of
charge, for pick-up upon at least eight (8) hours
notice to Universal Reprographics at any of the
above-stated Universal Reprographics locations.
Bidder may arrange, at Bidder’s own expense,
for document delivery and additional sets by
contacting Universal Reprographics at one of the
above-stated locations.
A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be conducted on August, 24, 2011, commencing
promptly at 11:00 a.m. at East Los Angeles
College, Building H6-room 102. Attendance at
the Pre-Bid Conference is required as a condition of bidding, unless the Bidder is a “Local,
Small or Emerging Business”, as defined in the
District’s Policy on Local, Small and Emerging
Businesses, Board Rule 7103.17 (a copy of which
is available for review on the District’s Website),
and Bidder submits an affidavit as required by said
Board Rule. Sign language services are available
for the Pre-Bid Conference upon written request
received by Build-LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017 or by Fax at
213-996-2534 at least three (3) business days
prior to the day of the Pre-Bid Conference.
The Bidder to whom a contract for the Work is
awarded by the District shall be required to furnish
Performance and Payment Bonds as provided in
the Instructions to Bidders.
awarded by the District is required to hold at the
time of submitting its Bid and Award a contracting
license of the following classification(s):
B - General Contractor
In addition, Bidder is required to hold, or designate in its Designation of Subcontractors a
Subcontractor that holds, the certification(s)
required by Applicable Laws to perform the following work: ASB.
Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1771.7, this
Project Will Not be subject to the District’s
approved Labor Compliance Program, initially
approved July 19, 2004. For questions or assistance concerning the Labor Compliance Program,
Veronica Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire
Blvd. Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017..
The District Has entered into a Project Labor
Agreement that is applicable to this Project. For
questions or assistance concerning the Project
Labor Agreement (if applicable), contact Veronica
Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
awarded by the District shall comply with the
provisions of the California Labor Code, as well
as the District’s Project Labor Agreement (if
applicable) and the District’s Labor Compliance
Program (if applicable, including, without limitation, the obligation to pay the general prevailing
rates of wages in the locality in which the Work
is to be performed in accordance with, without
limitation, Sections 1773.1, 1774, 1775 and 1776
of the California Labor Code and the obligation
to comply with Section 1777.5 of the California
Labor Code governing employment of apprentices. Copies of the prevailing rates of per diem
wages are on file at the District’s principal office
at 915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA
90017, and are available to any interested party
on request.
Substitution of securities for any moneys withheld by District to ensure performance under any
contract awarded by the District for the Work shall
be permitted as required by Section 22300 of the
California Public Contract Code.
Bidders are notified of the District’s Surety Bond
Program. For further information regarding enrollment eligibility and program services contact
Paulette Williams, Merriweather & Williams, at
213-258-3000.
Capitalized terms used herein shall have the
meanings assigned to them as set forth in Article
1 of the Instructions to Bidders.
Questions shall be directed to:
Daniel Robb
Build-LACCD Sustainable Building Program
Managers
E-mail: [email protected] or via
Phone: (213) 996-2589 or Fax: (213) 996-2534
[Contractors interested in obtaining information on
upcoming LACCD projects; see www.build-laccd.
org (Contracting and Bidding Site)]
8/18/11
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
PUBLIC AUCTION/
SALES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE
US STORAGE CENTERS
14680 AVIATION BLVD
HAWTHORNE, CA 90250
(310) 536 - 7100
In accordance with the provisions of the
California Self-Storage Facility Act, Section
21700, et seq. of the Business and Professions
Code of the State of California the undersigned
will be sold at public auction on SEPT. 15,
2011 at 12:00 PM. General household goods,
tools, office and business equipment, electronics, furniture, appliances, instruments, sporting
goods and apparel, collectibles & antiques, and
or miscellaneous items stored at 14680 Aviation
Blvd., Hawthorne, CA 90250, County of Los
Angeles, by the following persons:, ALICIA DIANE
GARGES, PETER DENNIS LESLIE, ALAN
SCOTT DAVIDSON,
Property is sold on an “AS IS BASIS”. There is
a refundable $50 cleaning deposit on all units.
Sale is subject to cancellation. Auctioneer is:
American Auctioneers Dan Dotson & Associates,
California State Bond #FS863-20-14, (800) 8387653
8/18, 8/25/11
WWA-2156805#
INGLEWOOD/HAWTHORNE WAVE
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3220
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crpt, blinds, pkg, 701 Market;
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310-641-4891, 310 673-7000
B-man's Apparel's
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(323) 297-3030 ask 4 B-man
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FURNITURE
3225
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set (323) 778-8635
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3230
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+ Lndy Room $995/mo
1016 W 109th Pl #4 Single 1ba
w/1pkng + Lndy Room $545/mo
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w/1pkng + Lndy Facility $1295/mo
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4047 West Blvd
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RENT SPECIALS Windsor
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ph 818-653-1029
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6005
6005
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Please call (323) 735-1315
For more information
6005
6005
Clean one bedroom apartment. Unit includes
full-size kitchen, tile floor bathroom and walk-in
closets. Close to 105 & 110 freeway interchange
and MTA transit hub. Full size refrigerator
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Credit & Eviction check $20.00. 11827 S. Fig.
Units #5, 6, & 10.
Open house Aug. 20th
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For appl. and more info.
call (323)291-5202.
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6960
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7400
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44333 Raysack Lancaster
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A12
No. 1 overall pick Cole finally
agrees to terms with Pittsburgh
Well-grounded
Wire Services
Photo courtesy of Colorado State
PITTSBURGH — UCLA
right-hander Gerrit Cole, the No.
1 overall pick in Major League
Baseball’s first-year player
draft in June, finally agreed to a
deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates
Monday just as the deadline approached.
Cole and second-round pick
Josh Bell, an outfielder, both
came to terms on the final day
that players taken in the 2011
draft were allowed to negotiate
with teams.
Cole, who, according to a
source, can make more than $9
million in guaranteed money if
he reaches the Majors by 2013,
reportedly received an $8 million
signing bonus. Cole’s deal was a
Minor League one, though it is
the highest-paying Minor League
deal ever handed out.
Bell’s deal is worth $5 million, a sum usually reserved for
players taken at the very top of a
draft class. But given how strong
a commitment Bell had to play at
the University of Texas, the Pirates were well aware it was going to take significant dollars to
lure Bell away from that.
“We felt like we had a chance
to have a terrific draft in terms of
adding talent to the system, and
we’ve been able to do that.” general manager Neal Huntington
said. “We’ve added a lot of quality players, obviously headlined
by Cole and Bell, but we believe
in a lot of other players in our
draft. We obviously invested a
significant amount in the draft
again, thanks to (owner Bob Nutting’s) support.”
Cole’s bonus represents the
largest the Pirates have ever given to a player. Jameson Taillon,
the No. 2 overall selection in the
2010 draft, previously held that
distinction after signing for $6.5
million on this date last year. The
last time the Pirates held the first
pick, they handed out a $4 million
signing bonus to college pitcher
Bryan Bullington in 2002.
Cole went 6-8 with a 3.31 ERA
in 16 starts for UCLA this year.
He gave up 103 hits in 114 1/3
innings but also struck out 119.
The 6-foot-4, 220-pounder has
a fastball that sits in the mid-90s
deep into his starts. His two secondary pitches — a slider and
changeup — are also already advanced. This would all suggest
that Cole has a chance to make a
quick ascension through the farm
system to Pittsburgh.
With only three weeks remaining in the minor league season,
Cole and Bell are not expected
to make their professional debuts
this year. The two will travel to
Pittsburgh sometime this week to
take part in formal news conferences and to get acquainted with
the organization.
“From there,” Huntington
said, “we’ve got to establish
what they’ve been doing the last
10 weeks, and based on that information, we will put our plan
in place for them from this point
forward.”
Former Crenshaw High School star Raymond Carter is in the tailback mix at Colorado State.
See story on Page A-9.
Galaxy
signs
Irish
star
Keane
Kelley pitches Venice to the title
Wave Staff
RBI continued from page A9
nings, proved to be crucial as Los
Angeles scored three runs in the
top of the seventh to shorten the
lead to 9-6.
He finished the series batting
.450 with 10 RBIs, eight runs
scored and four stolen bases.
Los Angeles first baseman
Christopher Castellano hit two
doubles, one that scored two runs
in the midst of a comeback at-
tempt in the top of the seventh.
L.A., which went 5-1 during
the series, had its share of outstanding performances.
Tyree Davis, who plays at
Centennial High, batted .429 (6for-14) with five RBIs. He had
three hits and four RBIs in a 10-6
win over Chicago during tourney
play.
Pedro Fierros was also 6-for-14.
Fierros drove in the game-winner
against Detroit in the playoffs.
L.A. also received completegame victories from pitchers Jeffrey Robinson and Jacob Lechuga.
Robinson’s was in the first game,
a 12-2 rout of Houston. Lechuga
threw his in the first playoff game,
a 6-2 win over Detroit.
Julian Perez pitched 2.1 innings
of shutout relief to get the win in
an 8-5 victory over Dominicana
in tourney play.
Inglewood grad makes impression
SHAQ continued from page A9
“We’re not going to say ‘rust’
anymore,” the coach said. “We’re
in the second week now and it’s
time to play football.”
Brehaut threw for 1,296 yards
and six TDs last season.
Also lurking is highly regarded
incoming freshman Brett Hundley, who suffered a knee injury
before camp opened but could be
ready to go soon.
Around the nation
At San Jose State, sophomore
wide receiver Noel Grigsby is
looking to improve on a year ago
when he caught 56 passes for the
Spartans.
The Crenshaw High product
got off to a good in their first
scrimmage last Saturday by
catching a six-yard TD pass from
Matt Faulkner.
“Noel Grigsby made a heck of
a play,” coach Mike MacIntyre
said of the scoring grab.
At Arkansas State, senior
wideout Dwayne Frampton,
who prepped at Dorsey and also
starred at L.A. Harbor College, is
coming off a season in which he
caught 69 passes for 78 yards and
six TDs for the Red Wolves.
Ireland national team captain
Robbie Keane has agreed to
terms with the L.A. Galaxy, the
club announced Monday.
Per team and league regulations, details of the contract were
not released.
Keane, 31, who will join the
club from Tottenham Hotspur of
England’s Premier League, officially becomes part of the Galaxy upon receipt of his P-1 Visa.
Since the Galaxy currently have
three designated players, the club
will have to make a change prior
to adding Keane to the roster.
L.A. is getting a proven offensive threat in Keane, who has
more than 250 goals for club and
country in a career that began in
1997 at the age of just 17 and has
seen him become the 10th alltime leading goal scorer in the
history of the Premier League.
“I am delighted, honored and
very excited to be joining the LA
Galaxy,” Keane said. “I have always wanted to come and play in
MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come
true.
“My family and I have already
been made to feel very welcome
in telephone calls from Tim Leiweke and Bruce Arena. Also
when David Beckham came
and trained at Spurs recently he
couldn’t speak highly enough
about the Galaxy, their fans and
the league in general, so I can’t
wait to get over and get started.”
The native of Dublin has 108
career appearances for his country, scoring 51 goals to make him
Ireland’s all-time leading goal
scorer.
A member of Ireland’s squad at
the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Keane
scored three times in four games
at the tournament.
Prior to joining the senior national team, Keane helped Ireland win the 1998 UEFA U-16
European Championship and the
UEFA U-18 European Championship that same year. Ireland is
currently tied for first in Group B
of qualifying for the 2012 European Championship, with Keane
scoring five goals in six matches.
“Robbie Keane will be a great
addition to our club,” Galaxy
general manager and coach Bruce
Arena said. “I have followed his
career and have always respected
his ability as a competitor and a
goalscorer.
“I believe that he brings qualities in and around the penalty
area that we have been lacking.
Hopefully, he will be another
piece of the puzzle in our quest
for the Supporters’ Shield and an
MLS Cup championship as well
as to advance to the next round
of the CONCACAF Champions
League.”

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