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Emails obtained by LCCN under the Freedom of Information Act show a coordinated effort led by LA County CEO Press Secretary David Sommers.

By Randy Economyand Brian [email protected]

Two months ago, Los Cer-ritos Community Newspa-per reported that billionaire

developer Rick Caruso may have received special treatment and subsequent property tax reduc-tions for some of the most profit-able commercial properties in Los Angeles County after donating thousands of dollars to a political campaign committee that ben-efits jailed Los Angeles County Assessor John R. Noguez.

Since the LCCN article was published detailing the long time

relationship between the two political allies, Noguez was ar-rested on dozens of felony counts of accepting bribes, forgery and money laundering allegations, and Caruso dropped his bid to run for Mayor of Los Angeles.

Several local media outlets re-ported on the details of the LCCN expose including television news stations, radio talk shows, news web sites, and political blogs. At the same time, out of the glare of the public, an aggressive cam-paign was being coordinated by high-level government officials at the Los Angeles County Hall of Administration with a private public relations firm to discredit LCCN.

Last week, LCCN obtained hundreds of emails via the ‘Free-dom of Information Act’ that details how Los Angeles CEO’s acting Press Secretary David Sommers, Chief Deputy As-sessor Santos Kriemann had an open dialogue about the LCCN coverage with reporters and legal

editors at the Los Angeles Times and other media outlets.

Documents confirm that Som-mers spent almost the entire day of September 28 calling, email-ing, and even assisting in writ-ing a response to the LCCN story under the signature of Acting Los Angeles County Chief Deputy Assessor Santos Kreimman.

Even more disturbing, and possibly violating public policy, documents show Sommers, a county employee, secretly in-forming Charlie Sipkins, Man-aging Director of Sard Verbin-nenn and Co. in Los Angeles, a national Strategic Corporate & Financial Communications com-pany, and Galit Shokrian, Se-nior Vice President, Marketing and Communications for Caruso Affiliated, about what his office was doing to discredit the LCCN story.

Sommers also called and/or emailed CBS News, KNX News Radio, and internet blogs LA Ob-served and City Maven discredit-

ing LCCN. The collaboration between

Sommers and several parties began at 10 a.m. Friday the 28th with an email from Santos Kre-imman to Sommers stating, “I want to talk to you about this (the article on Caruso that appeared in the Los Cerritos Community Newspaper).”

By 1 p.m. Sommers, Kreim-man and George Reinke (Depu-ty Assessor to Kreimann and a long time key ally to the jailed Noguez), finished what they classified as “corrections” to the LCCN article.

Then at 1:55 p.m., in the first of several extremely question-able moves, Sommers contacts Shokrian who is the Sr. VP, Car-uso Affiliated, states, “Could you please contact me as soon as pos-sible.” Sommers then contacted Sipkins (Sard Verbinnen & Co)

At 2:30 p.m., Sommers emails the corrections to Sipkens and Shokrian telling them “this (the corrections) is what we will be

LA County CEO Bill Fujioka.

David Sommers- Press Secre-tary for LA County CEO Fujioka orchestrated the campaign to discredit LCCN article.

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a uniquely dedicated public ser-vant has been taken from us too soon, that we mourn the death of long-time Lakewood City Coun-cil Member Larry Van Nostran,” said Mayor Diane DuBois.

Van Nostran, 79, passed away at home last Friday night, with his wife Charlene by his side, from what city officials said was “a progressive and incurable lung disorder. ”

“Van Nostran had been re-leased from the hospital a week earlier once the incurable nature of his ailment had been diag-nosed,” a city spokesman said.

Lakewood City Councilman Todd Rogers took to his Face-book page on Saturday and told his friends that “A good friend

and great councilman left us to-night. His passion and unabashed love for Lakewood will leave an indelible mark on our great com-munity. I miss him already. May

By Randy [email protected]

Los Angeles County Dis-trict Attorney Steve Cooley took to the microphone in a

packed ball room at the Universal City Sheraton Hotel last Saturday night and told well wishers he “didn’t have a regret in the world” as he prepares to exit his job as the top county law enforcement official in the United States.

Cooley, was joined by 750 close friends, family members, colleagues and staff members to bid adieu to the “greatest job anywhere in law enforcement in the world.”

Cooley received high praise from his two adult children, film-

maker Michael and daughter Shannon who works as an Assis-tant District Attorney inside the operation.

“Growing up as the daughter of Steve and Jana Cooley was the greatest gift any kid could have been given,” Shannon said in her tribute speech about her father.

Cooley hailed the creation of the DNA Data Base, that he said was the “best criminal tool law enforcement has to prove the in-nocence or guilt of any suspect.” He also said the he was also proud to have started the Public Integ-rity Division which has lead to the arrest and conviction of local elected officials and public em-ployees. During a video tribute to his career, photos of several elected officials as well as book-

ing photos appeared on large pro-jection screens in the ballroom, including eight arrested city of-ficials from the City of Bell.

“The people in our communi-ties deserve honest local elected officials,” Cooley said. “When we have crooks running our local city halls, this office is going to make sure that they are arrested and prosecuted to the highest ex-tent of the law,” Cooley said to a thunderous applause from those gathered.

Cooley’s son Michael pro-duced a video clip that parodied the famed NBC drama “Law and Order” that starred the District Attorney’s two young grandchil-dren in the lead roles portraying

See VAN NOSTRAN page 10See COOLEY page 10

Cooley Hailed as ‘Best L.A. County District Attorney Ever’ During Emotional Retirement Dinner

Emails obtained by LCCN under the Freedom of Information Act show a coordinated effort led by LA County CEO Press Secretary David Sommers.

By Randy Economyand Brian [email protected]

Two months ago, Los Cer-ritos Community Newspa-per reported that billionaire

developer Rick Caruso may have received special treatment and subsequent property tax reduc-tions for some of the most profit-able commercial properties in Los Angeles County after donating thousands of dollars to a political campaign committee that benefits jailed Los Angeles County Asses-sor John R. Noguez.

Since the LCCN article was published detailing the long time

relationship between the two po-litical allies, Noguez was arrested on dozens of felony counts of ac-cepting bribes, forgery and mon-ey laundering allegations, and Caruso dropped his bid to run for Mayor of Los Angeles.

Several local media outlets re-ported on the details of the LCCN expose including television news stations, radio talk shows, news web sites, and political blogs. At the same time, out of the glare of the public, an aggressive cam-paign was being coordinated by high-level government officials at the Los Angeles County Hall of Administration with a private public relations firm to discredit LCCN.

Last week, LCCN obtained hundreds of emails via the ‘Free-dom of Information Act’ that details how Los Angeles CEO’s acting Press Secretary David Sommers, Chief Deputy Assessor Santos Kriemann had an open di-alogue about the LCCN coverage with reporters and legal editors at

the Los Angeles Times and other media outlets.

Documents confirm that Som-mers spent almost the entire day of September 28 calling, email-ing, and even assisting in writ-ing a response to the LCCN story under the signature of Acting Los Angeles County Chief Deputy Assessor Santos Kreimman.

Even more disturbing, and possibly violating public policy, documents show Sommers, a county employee, secretly in-forming Charlie Sipkins, Manag-ing Director of Sard Verbinnenn and Co. in Los Angeles, a national Strategic Corporate & Financial Communications company, and Galit Shokrian, Senior Vice Pres-ident, Marketing and Commu-nications for Caruso Affiliated, about what his office was doing to discredit the LCCN story.

Sommers also called and/or emailed CBS News, KNX News Radio, and internet blogs LA Ob-served and City Maven discredit-ing LCCN.

The collaboration between Sommers and several parties be-gan at 10 a.m. Friday the 28th with an email from Santos Kre-imman to Sommers stating, “I want to talk to you about this (the article on Caruso that appeared in the Los Cerritos Community Newspaper).”

By 1 p.m. Sommers, Kreim-man and George Reinke (Dep-uty Assessor to Kreimann and a long time key ally to the jailed Noguez), finished what they classified as “corrections” to the LCCN article.

Then at 1:55 p.m., in the first of several extremely questionable moves, Sommers contacts Shokri-an who is the Sr. VP, Caruso Af-filiated, states, “Could you please contact me as soon as possible.” Sommers then contacted Sipkins (Sard Verbinnen & Co)

At 2:30 p.m., Sommers emails the corrections to Sipkens and Shokrian telling them “this (the

ChalleNGe Program. Rep. Na-politano serves as the “National Champion” for the cause in the US House of Representatives, while Sen. Landrieu oversees the cause in the US Senate.

The evening was hosted by

talk radio host David Cruz, from KTLK AM 1150 and included a reception, a silent auction, fol-lowed by a dinner program with live entertainment and a live auc-

the pending expiration of its cur-rent lease.

In other business the council approved an agreement with

the Conservation Corps of Long Beach for em-ploying “at risk” youth to perform landscape maintenance services at Cerritos city parks

and other facilities.Hal Arbogast, Direc-

tor of Public Works, said the Safe Neighborhood Parks Propo-sition of 1992 and 1996 provides maintenance and servicing funds to eligible agencies to offset in-creased maintenance costs result-ing from projects funded by Los Angeles County Parks and Open Space District grants.

He said the funds are col-lected by the County of Los An-geles and held in interest-bearing escrow accounts, which can only be used by an agency to offset the expenditures directly attributed to

By Rico Dizon

Meeting in special session on Sept 17, the Artesia City Council unanimously agreed

to hire the firm of Kelly Associates Management Services for the re-cruitment of an Interim and later, a Permanent City Manager, to fill the vacancy of current City Manager Maria Dadian who officially retires on Oct. 19.

The agreement calls for Kelly Associates to advertise in several newspapers, interview and recom-mend candidates for the position to the Council. The City will shoulder costs for the firm, which will not ex-ceed $5,000.

Artesia Council Member Tony Lima figured the salary of the new City Manager would be between $120,000 to $122,000 annually.

The current City Manager salary is $134,094.02 per year according to city records although for several months there have been work fur-loughs for all full-time city employ-ees resulting in a 10% salary reduc-tion.

Lima stressed that prior to the selection of a permanent City Man-ager, it was of utmost importance the Interim City Manager who will be recommended by the management consultancy firm be chosen and actu-ally assume the job until the Perma-nent City Manager would have been selected and hired by the City. Most likely candidates for the interim position will come from applicants who retired from similar line of jobs, he said The Interim City Manager would probably be offered an hourly rate in the range of $80 to $100 on a part-time basis, said Lima.

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By Jerry [email protected]

Scott Smith has been named Executive Director of the Cerritos Regional Chamber

of Commerce effective Oct. 1 by the Board of Directors.

Smith comes to the chamber with 14 years experience in com-munity relations and outreach communications and branding. He said he is looking forward to working with the business com-munity and the community at large.

He is married and lives in Seal Beach with his wife, two-step sons age 11 and 13 years old, and his 17-year-old daughter and he is also an big LA Angela fan. Scott is a graduate of California

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Cerritos Council Approves Relocation of UCI Satellite


With Pomp and Military precision the California National Guard Youth

ChalleNGe Program, celebrated its inaugural California Chal-leNGe Champions Gala last Saturday night at the historical Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.

United States Congresswom-an Grace Napolitano (Norwalk) and Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana greeted hundreds of supporters during a red carpet arrival ceremony that included senior National Guard leaders, federal, state and local elected officials, corporate and commu-nity leaders, and National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program staff and cadets.

The annual gathering pays tribute to the California Nation-al Guard’s efforts to curb high school dropout rates throughout the state, backed by the Youth


T he Cerritos City Council approved a conditional use

permit for University of California, Irvine to move their pres-ent Cerritos location at 10900 183rd Street to 17871 Park Plaza Drive adjacent to the Cerritos Towne Center.

The University has a total of 45 adult students, seven full-time employees and two part-time em-ployees per school day. Proposed hours of operation for adminis-trative staff are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday with classes scheduled on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday through Thursday eve-nings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The University proposes to use 5,043 sq. ft. of an existing 48,992 sq. ft. of building space.

The school is relocating due to

Photo by JERRY BERNSTEINNewly appointed Cerritos Cham-ber of Commerce Executive Di-rector, Scott Smith.

CORRECTION: Cerritos High Football Program To Take A Step Back In Order To Move Forward

In last week's paper we accidently printed the wrong article associated with the correct headline. Please see the corrected article on page 15.

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Congresswoman Grace Napolitano and United States Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana present a special award to General James Gabrielle in honor of his ongoing support for the National Youth Guard Foundation. The event was held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles and attracted several celebrities, members of the military and generous corporate donors.

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LAKEWOOD MOURNS DEATH OF ICONIC COUNCILMAN LARRY VAN NOSTRAN AT AGE 79By Randy [email protected]

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“It is with a sense of deep per-sonal loss and the recognition that

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“Well, the election is over,” declared VAL LYNDER,

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“What did you think of the results?” I asked.

Not one to beat about the bush she said, “The Democrats won the White Houser and retained control of the United States Senate, and in Sacramento. the Democrats won a two-third majority in both houses of the legislature. The Republicans are wounded. The next two years will tell if they are mortally wounded or just super-ficially.” She paused a moment and then

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said, “Apparently the majority of he people don’t care for “strong tea. What they like is a good cup of tea. not to strong but not weak.”

“I looked at my friend, She was leading up to something. “VAL,” I said,” “What’s brothering you?

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“There are two seats open, “ I an-swered. “Councilwoman Carol Chen and the other now held by Mayor Jim Edwards. Chen is seeking re-election to another four years in office and Mayor Edwards is leaving the council after serving two four year terms. So far three candidates have announced they are seeking a seat on the council. Chen, George Ray who is a Past Chairman of the Cerritos Planning Com-mission and past president and member of the Board of Directors for the Friends of Arts and Education at the Cerritos Cen-ter for the Performng Arts and Planning Commissioner Frank Yokoyama “

VAL LYNDER, DEFENDER OF ALL THAT IS TRUE was silent. Finally she asked, “Are there any other candidates r seeking election to the council?”

“There are rumors, but I prefer to hold comment until I see if they commit them-selves.

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“Won’t this come as a surprise for those who use the facilities?” she asked.

“I don’t think so., “ I said. “The Recre-ation Department has been talking to the organizations involved about a raise in the rates for some time, so it’s not a surprise and I assume they in turn have been talk-ing to their members about a possible us-age increase”

“Well, that’s good,” she said. “I was a little upset that they had not been in-formed.”

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Why Skip the Turkey?Dear Editor,

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According to Principal Dr. Rhonda Buss, “Whitney High School’s vision is to help students discover their “element,” which is a term coined by Ken Robinson, a well-known educational author. The term “element” refers to the place where natural aptitude and personal passion meet. When students find their “element,” education becomes more meaningful and relevant to them. The new Multi-Media Arts Center (MAC) is truly the place where students are involved in activities that help them to discover their “element.”

Currently, English classes participate in college Fridays. The MAC Lab “A” is the lab where teachers may sign up their students to use the state-of-the-art techno-logical resources provided by this lab. The students in the English classes use the lab to take aptitude, interest, and personality inventories to lead them in the journey of

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The Southern California Philippine-US Veterans Association celebrated its 37th Anniversary on Sept. 22 at

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Circle Auxiliary Unit and their respective Board of Directors were sworn in for the 2012-2013 year. ABC School Board Mem-ber Lynda Johnson administered the oath of office to the incoming officers.

The evening included special guest speaker Councilmember Mark Pulido,

who gave a donation to the Phil-US Veter-ans Association. The Ladies Circle Dance Troupe, wearing traditional Maria Clara outfits, performed a Filipino folk dance entitled “La Jota”. The association also an-nounced three high school students who were recognized for their academic efforts

and individual successes. The scholarship recipients were:

Keanu Andico – Santiago High School. Currently attending UCLA and majoring in Biochemistry. Ryan Flynn – Esperan-za High School. Currently attending Cal Poly Pomona and majoring in Mechani-cal Engineering and . Nicolas Popoy – La Mirada High School. Currently attending California Maritime Academy and major-ing in Facilities Engineering.

The Phil-US Veterans Association was founded 37 years ago, forming an organi-zation to reunite old shipmates and friends that served in the United States armed forces. In addition, they wanted to have an organization that is charitable, social and civic oriented. Their youth scholarship program has awarded thousands of dollars to young individual that wanted to pursue higher education.

Inducted were: President – Pedro Dio-nisio, Vice President – Gani Azucenas, Secretary – Tante Camanag, Treasurer – Ted Quibrantar, Auditor – Andy Sangria. Parliamentarian – Wens Bantad, Sgt at Arms – Gene Ines and Jess Matias. Board of Directors is Chairman – Jess Gatdula, and Gani Azucenas, Billy Balmaceda, Tante Camanag, Pete Dionisio, Cesar Doma, Ted Quibrantar, Romy Ricarte, Ed Saclolo, Andy Sangria and Bob Van Pat-ten.

The Phil-US Veterans Association, along with the Ladies Circle, is a commu-nity-based organization. They have an an-nual Scholarship Program and continually support city-initiated programs such as the City of Cerritos Festival of Friendship and the Halloween Festival. The organization meets the first Friday of the month at Lib-erty Park at 7:00pm.

For additional information, please contact President Pedro Dionisio at (562) 881-3480.

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Area resident celebrated Veterans Day this past weekend paying homage to the men and women of our Armed

forces. Cerritos Mayor Jim Edwards read the

names of veterans attending the city’s ser-vice. “In all my years on the city council,” he said, “This is the largest group of veter-ans to attend this observance.

Tom Tislow, a Marine veteran and mem-ber of Artesia VFW Chapter did a touching reading entitled “Cemetery Duty” that set the tone for the city’s observance of Veter-an’s Day. Speaker of the Day was Richard Suttle, U.S. Navy Veteran Retired, and cur-rent Superintendent of the Valley Christian Schools. He said for the last 32 years his home was where the Navy sent him. “My family and I have called Okinawa, Japan, Alaska, England, the Middle East, Malay-sia, Hawaii, Iceland, Norway and nearly 10 other states in America home before set-tling in Cerritos..

Acknowledging the 1st CEB and the 5th Battalion of the 14th Marines from Seal Beach, he said, “It has been a privilege to closely serve with the Marines for most of my career, and anyone who knows a Ma-rine, knows the Eagle, Globe and Anchor is not just a collier device, but in fact “tat-tooed on their soul” Simper Fi Marines.”

He said Veterans Day is perhaps our most important national holiday. Some may say the Fourth of July or Thanksgiv-ing is. “But I think it is because without the bravery shown by those who have manned the lines from Concord Bridge to Gettys-burg, San Juan Hill, to Belleau Wood, Nor-mandy and Guadalcanal, Hue (Vietnam) and Fullujah (Iraq), the days of peace and liberty would not exist.”

Suttie quoted Winston Churchill: in his description of this country. “The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fires are lit under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.” Churchill said when he heard the Japanese had attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Churchill – who was willing to lead lonely Britain in the fight against the Nazis even though vic-tory was uncertain – famously said, it was that night he slept the sleep of the saved because now he knew that victory was cer-tain – because America had been wronged ---and he knew the American character.

He said Veterans have taught our chil-dren and our children’s children the value of sacrifice, and work, and virtue, the nec-essary conditions of freedom.

Suttie concluded by saying, “I read this morning that Comedian Daniel Tosh said in a mocking tone “no one has the National

Anthem on their ipod. Well I do along with Anchors Away.”

Hawaiian Gardens Mayor Mike Gomez, members of the city council and veterans of the Armed Forces participated in a rib-bon cutting ceremony dedicating the city’s new Veterans Memorial Plaza. In his wel-coming remarks the Mayor said,” We are here to remember our veterans and their sacrifices.”

Guest speakers were Colonel Philip Butch of the United States Army and Ser-geant Major Mario Marquez of the United States Marine Corp.

Colonel Butch told those gathered in the plaza that “Today is our day.” He said the United States is the greatest nation on earth because of the sacrifices our service men have made. “Your city’s veteran’s memo-rial reminds us what small town USA can Marine Sergeant Major Mario Marquez, World War II Veterans Marine Sergeant James

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corrections) is what we will be sending Bri-an (Hews) and Randy (Economy) shortly. It has been reviewed by our County Counsel. I also plan to send this to the other local media who have reposted the original ar-ticle.”

At 2:54 p.m., Sommers sends to Sip-kens as well as Shokrian an email that read, “The email (with corrections) has been sent (to LCCN).”

Sipkens writes back to Sommers, “did you send to Rick Schroeder at KNX News Radio.” Sommers replies to Sipkens, “no not yet on KNX, but trying to get to CBS 2, but they are with Hews and Economy at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper of-fice in Cerritos.”

Sommers then sent the corrections to Assessor employee George Reinke, Cher-yl Burnett, Press Secretary to Supervisor Don Knabe, Joel Bellman, and Press Sec-retary to Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, and D.J. Singer from CBS News.

After that, Sommer’s went on KNX Radio and slammed LCCN over the Car-uso article. KNX never questioned Som-mers as to why he went on the air to defend a private citizen.

During the three o-clock hour Som-mer’s emailed the corrections to Kevin Roderick, from the website LAObserved,

and Alice Walton, from the website City-Maven.com, saying “I sent you a Tweet about this, wanted to email it also.” The tweet was sent from Fujioka’s twitter ac-count. In another unusual move, he also emailed the corrections to LA Times re-porter Jack Dolan.

At 5 p.m., Sommers again emailed LA Times reporter Dolan telling him “Nord-strom called (CEO William) Fujioka; they said they have no relation with property tax agent Michael Schaaf.”

At 5:04 Dolan responded, “Got it on Nordstrom’s, any response from LCCN?”

At 5:05 Sommers emailed Dolan back saying, “nothing from LCCN.”

At 6:30, Sommer’s emailed Kriemann, “LCCN published the corrections on their website under public comments.”

Kreimann answers “So what does that mean? How long will the comments be up? Sommer’s then tells Kreimman, “I wouldn’t worry about it, the LA Times, KNX Radio and CBS 2 News thinks their story is a joke.”

At 6:35, Sommers sends another email to Kreimman and Renkei under the subject line “LA Observed: County has big issues with tax story implicating Caruso.” In that email he said “This was just published online at LA Observed. So not only did Kevin Roderick run our email concerns, but also points out that Randy Economy is actively supporting mayoral candidate Kevin James, a possible opponent if Caru-so runs.” The note included a hyperlink to Roderick’s post to LA Observed.

On Wednesday, October 3rd at 9 a.m., LA Times reporter Dolan emailed Som-mer’s “any luck with the leases.” Dolan was likely referring to the Nordstrom sub-lease at the Grove in relation to the parcel number indicated in the LCCN article. This also indicated that Sommers contin-ued communication with the LA Times in an effort to further discredit the story.

Sommer’s emailed Dolan back “I am working on getting the leases. Any chance you would be willing to shed some light in what you are looking into, or is that push-ing my luck.”

Dolan later replied, “Let’s talk after I review the leases.”

Sommer’s answers to Dolan “what’s your cell phone number, or where can I call you?”

Dolan then emailed Sommer’s back “I have been playing phone tag with Santos, is he going to suggest that I get the leases from the Recorders Office, if so, do you know someone with authority and ability to help quickly. I would rather not start from scratch.”

By 1 p.m., Sommers apologized to Dolan for “not having the leases yet.”

Two hours later Dolan emails Sommers and Kriemann with a copy to Matt Lait, Ed-itor of Legal Affairs and Criminal Justice at the LA Times referring the a paragraph in the corrections asking, “Which publicly available county records are you referring to? Are you referring to your response to LCCN? The records I reviewed show Car-uso Affiliated and AF Gilmore applied for multiple reductions on the parcels. All of the refund checks went from the County Auditor to AF Gilmore.” AF Gilmore is controlled by Caruso Affiliates.

Los Cerritos Community Newspaper spoke to Sommers from his office at the Los Angeles County Hall of Administra-tion at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday and requested a formal comment about his role in the Car-uso article. Sommers said he was “aware” that LCCN was working on this article and that he had “no comment.” “I will need to talk our County (Legal) Counsel to see if I will be able to respond,” Sommers said.

LCCN interviewed Sipkens and after being asked several questions about his involvement with Sommers and Caruso, he quickly responded “this conversation is

over” and hung up the phone midsentence.Through additional interviews by

LCCN, several sources, who did not want to be identified, confirmed that Sipkens and his firm represent Caruso as a “public relations crisis consultant.”

LCCN also left a message for Shokrian on Wednesday to allow her the opportunity to comment and she did not respond.

Ryan Alsop, Assistant Chief Execu-tive Officer for the County of LA defended Sommers in an interview with LCCN on Wednesday.

“Dave Sommers is a guy who interfac-es with the media on behalf of the County. Santos (Kreimann) doesn’t do that for a living, he is busy trying to fix a problem inside the Assessor’s Office,” Alsop said.

Alsop also confirmed that Sommers contacted both Caruso Affiliated and Nor-dstrom’s corporate officials to alert them about the article that was being written by LCCN “as a courtesy because Mr. Som-mers is a great professional, and that’s why he did it.”

Emails from this article can be found online at LosCerritosNews.net.

(Editor’s Note: Los Cerritos Commu-nity Newspaper was the first media outlet to report about the allegations of corrup-tion deep inside the LA County Assessor’s Office. Their coverage has been instru-mental in the criminal investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office that has already resulted in the ar-rest of Assessor John R. Noguez, Property Tax Agent Ramin Salari, Major Property Appraiser Mark McNeill, and Appraiser Scott Schenter have all been arrested and are facing hundreds of felony charges be-tween them. LCCN is being nominated for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for their efforts by several media outlets throughout Southern California).


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Sergeant Major Mario Marquez of the United States Marine Corp said he believes

in history and that it repeats itself. “Our presence here today represents service to our veterans who represents a sizable force of the nation in every field.”

Sergeant Marquez is the leading non-commissioned office (NCO) of Marine Aircraft Group 36 (MAG 36) at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Ja-pan, a unit of 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. Army

Army Veteran Barbara Martin, VFW Post 7243, gave the closing prayer.

The origins of this Day of Remem-

brance go back to 1921 when an unknown World War I American soldier was bur-ied in Arlington National Cemetery on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River and Washington D.C. commemorating the signing of the armistice that ended World War I.

Similar ceremonies occurred earlier in England and France where an unknown soldier was buried in each nation’s high-est place of honor; in England Westminster Abby and in France, at the Arc de Triomph. on Nov. 11.

These memorial observations gave uni-versal recognition to the ending of World War I. The day became known as Armi-stice Day and officially received its name in the United States in 1926 through a Congressional resolution. It became a na-tion al holiday 12 years later by another act of Congress.

On June 1, 1954, President Eisenhower signed legislation changing the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day, to include all veterans who have served in the nation’s Armed Forces.

Councilmember Reynaldo Rodriguez who sheparded the building of he veterans memo-rial stands next to it following its dedication.

Presenting Colors were Marines from the 5th Battalion 24th Marines out of Seal Beach.Dedication and Ribbon Cutting of Hawaiian Gardens Veterans Memorial Plaza.

Members of the Cerritos City Council place a Wreath by the Veteran’s Memorial. Salut-ing is Captain Richard Suttle, USN (ret).


God bless Larry Van Nostran and comfort his family.”

Rogers told LCCN in an interview: “This is a great personal and professional loss. He was a great mentor to me as I ran for and joined the city council. He was a wealth of historical knowledge regarding the growth and past politics of our city and remained passionate about the community until his last breath. I spoke to him several hours before he passed and he demonstrat-ed the same indomitable spirit that was his hallmark. He had a zest for life and was courageous to the end.”

Council Member Van Nostran was first elected to the city council following a special election in 1975. He was one of the longest-serving local elected officials in Southeast Los Angeles County and the longest-serving council member in Lakewood’s history with 37 years on the governing body.

He ran unopposed in the election of 1999, a first in the city’s history and served nine terms as mayor during his tenure on the council, most recently in 2011-2012.

Van Nostran was Lakewood’s repre-sentative to the California Joint Powers In-surance Authority (JPIA), and he serves as president of the authority’s executive com-mittee, a position he has held since 1990. Started in 1978, the California JPIA is the largest municipal self-insurance agency in the state. He was also the city’s alternate representative to the League of California Cities’ L.A. County Division.

Van Nostran founded the Lakewood Youth Sports Hall of Fame.

According to a city website, Van Nos-tran was proudest of Lakewood’s “excep-tionally low crime rate, abundant recre-ational opportunities, efforts by the city council to improve the quality of Lake-wood schools, the creation and sustain-ment for over 30 years of the Lakewood

Youth Sports Hall of Fame.”“In each of his nine terms as mayor,”

said DuBois, “Larry stood as a fierce de-fender of the community’s values and served as a leader of the city council in guiding Lakewood with wisdom and de-termination. I know that Larry’s greatest aspiration – and one he achieved – was to keep Lakewood safe, ensure its continuing prosperity and preserve its neighborhood quality of life. We will always remember Council Member Larry Van Nostran – in-domitable, loyal, true, and brave. A great leader of Lakewood has been struck down, but his enduring legacy will live on.”

“I’ve known Larry throughout my entire career in Lakewood,” said Howard Chambers, who has served as Lakewood’s city manager since 1976. “For me, he was a mentor, an advocate and a friend. For Lakewood, he was a pillar of strength. In Larry, I saw a man who always fought the good fight, who never wavered in his con-victions, and who lived and breathed the genuine spirit of his city each day.”

Van Nostran is survived by his wife Charlene, sons Dennis and David, five grandchildren and ten great-grandchil-dren.

Memorial services are scheduled for Council Member Van Nostran with a pub-lic visitation on Friday, November 16, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Luyben Family Dilday-Mottell Mortuary, located at 5161 Arbor Road in Long Beach.

A public memorial service will be held on Sunday, November 18, at 2:00 p.m., at The Centre at Sycamore Plaza at the Lake-wood Civic Center. The memorial will be in the Weingart Ballroom. The Centre is located at 5000 Clark Avenue.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Friends of the Lakewood Sheriff’s Station at 5130 Clark Avenue, Lakewood, CA 90712, or to Christ Presbyterian Church of Lakewood at 5225 Hayter Avenue, Lakewood, CA 90712.

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Rep. Linda T. SánchezNovember 13, 2012

Mister Speaker, it is with great sorrow that I announce the passing of Larry Van Nostran, who served the city of

Lakewood for 37 years. Larry was first elected to the Lake-

wood City Council in 1975. He is the lon-gest serving council member in the city’s history, and was serving his tenth term as a council member when he passed away Fri-day, November 9th. During his 37 years on the council, he served as the Mayor of the city nine times.

Among Larry’s most notable achieve-ments was the founding of the Lakewood Youth Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and its continued success for the past 30 years.

The Hall of Fame has honored thousands of Lakewood youth during that time, and has helped promote a vigorous sports and recreational culture in the city. This strong tradition was nationally recognized by Sports Illustrated magazine, who named Lakewood “Sportstown USA” in 2004.

Larry was instrumental in helping cre-ate a high quality of life in Lakewood’s neighborhoods and finding solutions to keep Lakewood’s crime rate low. Larry began his service in Lakewood city gov-ernment as a member of the Traffic and

Safety Commission, and was a longtime member of the Public Safety Committee as a member of city council. He firmly believed that there’s not a more important value than keeping a community safe. He was a strong supporter of the Lakewood Award of Valor event, where public safety personnel, volunteers and residents are honored annually for their dedication, hard work and courage.

Larry was prominent in the develop-ment and expansion of senior services, which were scant before he was elected to the city council. Larry saw the initiation of Lakewood’s DASH senior transit sys-tem and exercise and fitness programs at the city’s two senior centers. He was also a champion of growing Lakewood’s busi-ness and commercial base, which included modernizing the second largest shopping center in Los Angeles County, Lakewood Center Mall.

Larry was born in Seville, Ohio in 1933 and moved to Lakewood in 1958, just four years after the city was incorporated. He was active in Lakewood civic life for over 40 years, including membership in the Elks Club, Jaycees, Kiwanis Club, Lakewood Pan American Association, and Masonic Lodge & Scottish Rite.

As you are aware Mister Speaker, many of our colleagues in city government have a fundamental impact on the lives of our constituents and they rarely get the recog-nition that they deserve.

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B U R B A N K - Something had to give when Norwalk’s football team travelled to Burbank in a California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Southeast Division first round game last Friday night. Norwalk entered the game averaging 44.8 points per game while Burbank had yielded 205 points in the regular season.

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By Loren [email protected]

CLAREMONT-This time, the Cerritos girls tennis team was prepared and ready to claim what they thought they should have claimed last season. Backed by a solid performance from their doubles play, the top ranked Lady Dons slammed Red-lands 14-4 in the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Division IV finals last Friday afternoon at The Clare-mont Club under blustery conditions.

After falling short last season to Buck-ley 10-8 in its first trip ever to the finals, Cerritos came out with a vengeance de-spite arriving to The Claremont Club lit-

erally minutes before the two teams lined up for player introductions. Cerritos head coach Alvin Kim took the team to a facil-ity in nearby Upland where it spent the morning warming up.

“Last year was our first year and we had no idea what we were doing,” Kim said. “We were sneak-ing out onto courts trying to warm-up and I felt that we just weren’t ready because of that. This year, the whole strategy was just to be more prepared. I wanted to get over there for them to eat and for us to warm-up.”

“It’s really emotional because last year we were runner-ups,” said junior Mi-chelle Yang. “So, watching the number one [ranked team] get presented with their medals...it was really emotional for them.

Now that we’re in this position, I feel hap-py because [junior] Rachel [Guadarrama] and I actually got to contribute this time. I’m just happy for our team.”

Just like their semifinal match against Santa Ynez, the Lady Dons (25-0)

breezed through the first two rounds, owning a 37-14 advan-

tage in games won after the first round. Sophomore Katie Wee, the No. 2 singles player, began the onslaught with a 6-1 win over Sheila Torres.

Her younger sister, freshman Shirline Wee at No. 3 blanked

Brianna Torres 6-0 as did the No. 3 doubles team of Guadarrama and Yang over Myriam Larif and Bao Nghi Nguyen.

No. 2 seniors Alyssa Le and Chris-

This one clearly went to Norwalk and it was over in a flash. The Lancers scored four touchdowns in the first quarter and routed the Bulldogs 49-14 at the brand new Memorial Stadium on the campus of John Burroughs High School. But while the of-fense was doing what it normally does, the defense was equally as impressive, forcing a pair of first quarter fumbles within Bur-bank’s first seven plays from scrimmage.

“Our defense really played,” said Nor-walk head coach Jesse Ceniceros. “You can’t ask for anything better than to come out in a game like that and set the tempo. We got two turnovers right off the bat and we were able to move the ball on offense. To establish a game like that; to come out that early and put some points on the board and get those two turnovers was huge.”

Norwalk (9-2 overall) took the opening kickoff and moved 53 yards on seven plays culminated by a five-yard touchdown run from junior wingback Rashaad Penny. On Burbank’s first play, senior lineman Davonte Williams recovered a fumble and seven seconds later, the Lancers went up 14-0 after junior wingback Matthew Or-tega went in from four yards out.

Following a three and out by Norwalk’s defense, senior wingback Bryan Sullivan scampered 33 yards for a touchdown and a 21-0 lead midway through the opening quarter. Penny then recovered a fumble and six plays later, scored from seven

yards out to put the game away early. The 28 first quarter points were a season high as Norwalk has now outscored its oppo-nents 119-53 in the first quarter.

Senior fullback Malcom McAllister got into the scoring party with a 10-yard run nearly three minutes into the second quarter. After that, the Bulldogs put to-gether their most sustained drive of the first half. But after 11 plays and driving to the Norwalk 13-yard line, Ryan Merideth was incomplete on a fourth down pass. The Bulldogs finally got on the board with 1:16 left in the half when Merideth tossed an 18-yard pass to Teddy Arlington.

Through the first 24 minutes, Norwalk had piled up 274 yards on the ground with Penny gaining 102 yards. But Burbank’s version of Penny, James Williams, was limited to 21 yards on half a dozen carries. Williams had entered the game with 1,414 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns, just 153 yards and 11 rushing touchdowns behind Penny’s regular season output.

“They just looked very well coached and they looked very fundamentally sound,” Ceniceros said. “Honestly, I was really scared coming into this game, not knowing what we were going to see. But we have a good team here.”

Burbank began the second half the same way it ended the first half. A 3:47 drive of 10 plays ended when Arlington scored from four yards out. The Bulldogs

were aided by a pair of personal foul pen-alties. But after that, the Lancers went back to work with smash mouth, ball con-trol football, solid defense and disciplined play. The Lancers didn’t have another pen-alty the rest of the way and was flagged just three times for 40 yards in the game.

“We knew that in the regular season, penalties were our bump in the road,” Ce-niceros said. “We did a really good job at [limiting] that.”

With the score now 35-14, Norwalk chewed up over six minutes and ran 12 straight times, the last coming on a two-yard run from senior quarterback Jacquise Hooper. When the Lancers got the ball again, it took another 7:35 off the clock with Ortega scoring from a yard out. In all, Norwalk racked up 414 yards on the ground with Penny leading the way with 157 yards on 22 carries. Sullivan followed with 103 yards on nine carries and McAl-lister added 85 yards on 13 touches. Thanks to Norwalk’s defense, Burbank was held to 217 yards, 63 coming on the ground from just 26 rushes.

The Lancers offense faced a third down situation five times and was suc-cessful three times. On fourth down, they were true both times. Norwalk had 25 first downs as opposed to 13 by the Bulldogs.

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“When you play on a field like this and you step onto our home field, I’d rather play away,” Ceniceros said. “I’m just be-ing honest. Maybe that will motivate our district to try and get something going with our facilities. But honestly, I’d rather play every playoff game away.”

A Lancers victory would give them a home game against Suburban League champion and top ranked La Mirada in the semifinals should the Matadores de-feat Santa Fe.

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Cerritos High School Girls Tennis wins Division IV CIFBy Karishma Gokhale

The Cerritos High School girl’s tennis team won CIF verses Redlands High School Nov. 10 at Claremont Country Club. This is the first time girls’ tennis has won CIF in 41 years - or since Cerritos High School was opened. Coach Alvin Kim bluntly states, “This win was long overdue. We were late to the dance, as I had planed to win last year, but it’s better late than never. I’m glad that CHS girl’s tennis finally has its crown.”

This was a proud moment for the Lady Dons, who advanced to quarter-finals in 2009, semi-finals in 2010, came in second at the finals in 2011, and finally secured the win this year. They defeated Redlands 14-4 in the finals, sweeping them 6-0 in the first round, and were ahead 11-0 when Redlands finally gained a set. The Dons had a per-fect 24-0 season and won 18/18 Suburban League medals in Varsity and JV.

There was confusion as to who would play in Regionals (CIF State Finals) since it’s the first year that these have been host-ed, and CHS was left out of the run. How-ever, they will definitely be coming back next year for a chance at the state finals, and a chance to fight for a ranking as one of the top 10 girls’ high school tennis teams in California.

tine Troung doubled up Hollyn Bakland and Lisa Aubry 6-3 before junior Taylor Heath, the team’s top singles player posted a 6-4 win over Shyamlee Nanda. That set the stage for the first competitive set of the day which involved the top doubles team

of seniors Michelle Jen and Katrina Tan. They were trailing Anushka Paladugu and Heidi Lai throughout the majority of the set before winning 7-6 (7-5). They were even down 1-3 in the tiebreaker.

“Our No. 1 doubles got off to a slow start again but for them to just claw their way back was a big deal,” Kim said. “They were down 1-4 and 2-5 and came back in the tiebreaker to win. All of the close matches we won.”

Heath began the second round with a 6-1 win over Torres before Jen and Tan pushed Cerritos closer to clinching the title with a 6-3 win over Larif and Nguyen. That was followed by a pair of 7-5 wins in dou-bles action. First, Le and Troung defeated Paladugu and Lai, then Guadarrama and Yang officially clinched the championship with their win over Bakland and Aubry. In all, the doubles won all nine sets.

“It was really close because we’re ner-vous to be here and we’re nervous to win,” Yang said. “I think overall we just tried re-ally hard and even if we were down, we al-ways kept on fighting for every last point. That’s partially why we pulled off those close wins.”

Redlands finally posted a win when Nanda edged Katie Wee 7-5. In fact, Nan-da earned half of Redlands victories as she blanked sophomore Niyati Patel 6-0, who was a substitute for Shirline Wee in the third round. Shirline Wee also defeated James 6-4 and figures to be a major factor in the success of the girls program for the next three seasons.

“She’s been great except for a few hic-cups, and those have really shown how young she is,” Kim said. “Even in that

last [set], she could have easily dropped it. She was getting upset at the crowd and the noise and a couple of comments made. With the experience, you have to realize that you can’t be surprised about things like that. They’re very normal and they happen all the time.”

While the Lady Dons graduate most of their doubles’ players, the team will be solid with the Wee sisters and Heath re-turning, Shirline Wee was the Suburban League champion while Heath was the runner-up.

“A lot of people misinterpret Taylor’s body language as being apathetic,” Kim said. “But really she’s just introverted. The huge court just really isn’t what she’s comfortable with. She’s a slow starter and we had changed her strategies a couple of times during the first set. Eventually she pulled through and I think experience is a big thing for her.”

With as many as 11 players returning next season, Cerritos should be the favorite to make it a third straight trip to the finals and win its second straight championship.

“We knew that we were the favored team but anything can happen in cham-pionship matches,” Kim said. “It’s just been a long journey. We had a video that we showed on the bus where we had girls from 10 different classes just sharing how badly they wanted this and how hard they worked to win it their year and how they fell short. It’s a very, very big deal.”

“We’re really ambitious of the team and we came here to win CIF,” Yang said. “I think losing so close really motivated us to try harder for next time. We trained even harder this season.”


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Ralph Gonzalez A102 George Bojorquez A192Paul Santos A307Ofelia Alcala B106Cruz Maria Cueva Parraga B215Tina Galvez B453Harold Daily III B496Cynthia Stewart B503Deborah Jackson B508Cynthia Stewart B509Janet Sim B626Jacqueline Vazquez B641Araceli Flores B778Vincent Rodriguez B841Carlos Masauding L15

Published at Los Cerritos Community News 11/9/12 and 11/16/12

NOTICE OF SALE OF ABANDONED PROPERTYNotice is given that pursuant to sections 21700-21713 of the Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the Commercial Code, Section 535 of the Penal Code. 1812.607, that Cherry Carson RV Storage, located at 4160 Cherry Ave., Long Beach, California 90807 will sell by competitive bidding by Climer’s Auctions ( Bond # S915-1221 ), on or after November 27, 2012 @ 12pm NOON, property belonging to those listed below. Auction is to be held at the above address. Property to be sold as follows: household goods, furniture, personal items, clothing, electronics, tools, auto parts and miscellaneous boxes, belonging to the following.

Pursuant to section 3071 of the vehicle code, the following vehicle/s will be sold at publicauction for the purpose of unpaid storage.

(“1977 Coachman Travel Trailer VIN# F34BF4V001212 - CA.Lic. 8AMB917” “1974 Ford Four Star VIN# F34BF4V001212- CA.Lic.4NZF080”)

NAME UNIT #

RYAN SMITH C4JOHNNY HEFNER B65JENNIFER M JOHNS B39JENNIFER M JOHNS B76MARVIN MIZELL B69TIMOTHY WHITFIELD E59 DELORES PEIRRE E56

Published at Los Cerritos Community News 11/9/12 and 11/16/12

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. 12-0022890 Doc ID #0008725625682005N Title Order No. 12-0038060 Investor/Insurer No. 6875508134 APN No. 7006-025-006 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 07/01/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUB-LIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANA-TION OF THE NATURE OF THE PRO-CEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by JIN WOO PARK AND EUN YOUNG GANG, dated 07/01/2005 and recorded 7/11/2005, as Instrument No. 2005-1617384, in Book , Page , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California, will sell on 12/06/2012 at 9:00AM, Doubletree Hotel Los Angeles-Norwalk, 13111 Sycamore Drive, Norwalk, CA 90650, Vineyard Ball-room at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and inter-est conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 17134 LESLIE AVENUE, CERRITOS, CA, 90703. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any in-correctness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold plus reasonable esti-mated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $770,859.42. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier's checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do busi-ness in this state. Said sale will be made, in an ''AS IS'' condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the in-debtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, ad-vances thereunder, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of section 2923.5 of the Cali-fornia Civil Code, the declaration from the mortgagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee's Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Re-corder's Office. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on a property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the prop-erty. You should also be aware that the lien be-ing auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postpone-ments be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 1-800-281-8219 or visit this Internet Web site www.recontrustco.com, using the file number assigned to this case TS No. 12-0022890. Information about postponements that are very short in dura-tion or that occur close in time to the sched-uled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postpone-ment information is to attend the scheduled sale. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI VAL-LEY, CA 93063 Phone: (800) 281 8219, Sale Information (626) 927-4399 By: - Trustee's Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. A-4321717 11/09/2012, 11/16/2012, 11/23/2012

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. 12-0045835 Doc ID #0001402802102005N Title Order No. 12-0083491 Investor/Insurer No. 140280210 APN No. 7024-011-023 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 06/23/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by YOUNG KYONG KIM, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE and SEPARATE PROPERTY, dated 06/23/2006 and recorded 6/30/2006, as Instrument No. 2006-1447977, in Book , Page , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California, will sell on 12/06/2012 at 9:00AM, Doubletree Hotel Los Angeles-Norwalk, 13111 Sycamore Drive, Norwalk, CA 90650, Vine-yard Ballroom at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it un-der said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully de-scribed in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designa-tion, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 18815 STEFANI AVENUE, CERRITOS, CA, 907038440. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incor-rectness of the street address and other com-mon designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the prop-erty to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $770,495.62. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept ca-shier's checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an ''AS IS'' condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances there-under, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of section 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declara-tion from the mortgagee, beneficiary or autho-rized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee's Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder's Office. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on a property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this prop-erty by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the prop-erty. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Sec-tion 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 1-800-281-8219 or visit this Internet Web site www.recontrustco.com, using the file number assigned to this case TS No. 12-0045835. Information about postpone-ments that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone: (800) 281 8219, Sale Information (626) 927-4399 By: - Trustee's Sale Officer RECON-TRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector at-tempting to collect a debt. Any information ob-tained will be used for that purpose. A-4322849 11/09/2012, 11/16/2012, 11/23/2012

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-12-521272-JB Order No.: 120261799-CA-GTI YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/17/2004. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the high-est bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or sav-ings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial code and autho-rized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encum-brances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): JAHAN E ANTHONY, AND KAREN T ANTHONY, HUSBAND AND WIFE Recorded: 11/24/2004 as Instrument No. 04 3051162 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, Cali-fornia; Date of Sale: 11/30/2012 at 9:00 A.M. Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza Pomona, CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $436,640.11 The purported property address is: 17802 STOWERS AVE, CERRITOS, CA 90703 Assessor’s Parcel No. 7022-008-001 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this prop-erty by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mort-gagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if ap-plicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714-573-1965 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.quali-tyloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-12-521272-JB . Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immedi-ately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common des-ignation, if any, shown herein. If no street ad-dress or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the suc-cessful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further re-course. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2141 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 714-573-1965 Or Login to: http://www.quality-loan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. If you have previously been discharged through bank-ruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. THIS NOTICE IS SENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECT-ING A DEBT. THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE NOTE. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE CREDI-TOR WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agen-cy if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. TS No.: CA-12-521272-JB IDSPub #0039677 11/9/2012 11/16/2012 11/23/2012

NOTICE OF PROPOSED PURCHASE OF DEPOSIT LIABILITIES

Notice is hereby given that First Choice Bank, 17414 Carmenita Road, Cerritos, California 90703, has filed with the Fed-eral Deposit Insurance Corporation an application to purchase from Evergreen International Bank, deposits and related liabilities, which will be transferred to the main office of First Choice Bank in Cerritos upon close of the transaction.Any person wishing to comment on this application may file his or her comments in writing with the Regional Direc-tor of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at its regional office, 25 Jessie Street at Ecker Square, Suite 2300, San Francisco, California 94105 not later than November 17, 2012, the 30th day following the date of the first required publica-tion. The non-confidential portions of the application are on file at the Corporation's office and are available for public inspection during regular business hours. Photocopies of the non-confidential portion of the application file will be made available upon request.Published pursuant to Section 303.7(c) of the rules and regulations of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

October 18, 2012 First Choice Bank Ms. Neena Bansil President and Chief Executive Officer

Published at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper 10/19, 10/26, 11/9/12

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNOTICIA PARA UNA AUDIENCIA PUBLICA

CITY OF HAWAIIAN GARDENS PLANNING COMMISSION

Notice is hereby given that the Planning Commission of the City of Hawaiian Gardens will conduct public hearing pertaining to the item listed below:

PUBLIC HEARING 1: Case Number PLNG2011-0077 - The City of Hawaiian Gar dens will conduct a public hearing for the purpose of consid ering a Conditional Use Permit, submitted by Metro PCS California LLC, for the construction of an unmanned roof top wireless telecommunication facility at StorAmerica lo cated at 12336 Carson Street, Hawaiian Gardens, California 90716.

CEQA DETERMINATION: The project is Categorically Exempt (CEQA, Section 15061.b.3) from the requirements of the California Environ mental Quality Act based on Staff’s determination that the project is a minor development and will not have a significant effect on the environment.

INVITATION TO BE HEARD

Those persons desiring to testify in favor of or in opposition to the proposal listed above will be given an opportunity to do so at the public hearing. If you challenge the subject application in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence submitted to the Planning Department at, or prior to the public hearing. The decision of the Planning Commission will be final unless appealed to the City Council in accordance with Section 18.100.170 of the Hawaiian Gardens Municipal Code.

Further information may be obtained by contacting the Hawaiian Gardens Community Development Department at (562) 420-2641. Si desea obtener mas informacion, llame al Departamento de Desar-rollo de la Comunidad al (562) 420-2641.

Joseph ColomboCommunity Development Director

Published: November 16, 2012

Published at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper 11/16/12

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICIA PARA UNA AUDIENCIA PUBLICA

CITY OF HAWAIIAN GARDENS PLANNING COMMISSION Notice is hereby given that the Planning Commission of the City of Hawaiian Gardens will

conduct public hearing pertaining to the item listed below:

HEARING BODY: Planning Commission

DATE OF HEARING: November 28, 2012

TIME OF HEARING: 6:00 P.M., or soon thereafter.

LOCATION OF

HEARING:

City Council Chambers

City of Hawaiian Gardens

21815 Pioneer Boulevard Hawaiian Gardens, CA 91716

PUBLIC HEARING 1: Case Number PLNG2011-0077 - The City of Hawaiian Gardens will

conduct a public hearing for the purpose of considering a Conditional Use Permit, submitted by Metro PCS California LLC, for the

construction of an unmanned rooftop wireless telecommunication

facility at StorAmerica located at 12336 Carson Street, Hawaiian

Gardens, California 90716.

CEQA

DETERMINATION:

The project is Categorically Exempt (CEQA, Section 15061.b.3) from

the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act based on Staff’s determination that the project is a minor development and will

not have a significant effect on the environment.

INVITATION TO BE HEARD

Those persons desiring to testify in favor of or in opposition to the proposal listed above will be

given an opportunity to do so at the public hearing. If you challenge the subject application in

court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence submitted to the Planning

Department at, or prior to the public hearing. The decision of the Planning Commission will be

final unless appealed to the City Council in accordance with Section 18.100.170 of the Hawaiian

Gardens Municipal Code.

Further information may be obtained by contacting the Hawaiian Gardens Community

Development Department at (562) 420-2641. Si desea obtener mas informacion, llame al Departamento de Desarrollo de la Comunidad al (562) 420-2641.

Joseph Colombo Community Development Director Published: November 16, 2012

CITY OF NORWALKNOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS

LOCAL STREETS REHABILITATION WITH CURB AND GUTTER REPAIRSIN THE NORTH WEST AREA OF THE CITY

CITY PROJECT NO. 7181

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Norwalk will accept bids for this project until the hour of eleven o'clock A.M. on December 4, 2012. Bids are to be submitted to City Clerk's Office Room 10, City Hall, Norwalk, California. Bids will be opened in the City Clerk's Office Room 10 unless otherwise posted.

Plans, specifications, bid forms, bonds and contracts may be obtained at the office of the City Engineer, Room 12, City Hall. Plans and specifications will be issued to prospective bidders over the counter for a $5.00 charge. For plans and specifications that are required to be mailed the charge will be $10.00. Checks are to be made payable to the City of Norwalk.

It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon all sub-contractors under him, to pay not less than the general prevailing rates of per diem wages to all workmen employed in the execution of this contract in accordance with the provisions of Sec-tion 1770 to 1780 of the Labor Code. Said general prevailing rate of per diem wages and clas-sification, if applicable, to said contract and work was adopted by the City Council of the City of Norwalk and is on file in the office of the City Clerk. Attention is directed to the provisions in Section 1777.5 (Chapter 1411, Statutes of 1968) and 1777.6 of the Labor Code concerning the employment of apprentices by the contractor or any sub-contractor under him. The Contractor will be required to submit weekly payrolls to the City of Norwalk to verify the above require-ments. No payments shall be made until the above requirements are met. In performance of the terms of this Contract, the Contractor shall not engage in nor permit such sub-contractors as he may employ from engaging in discrimination in employment of persons because of the race, color, national origin or ancestry, or religion of such person. Violation of this provision may result in the imposition of penalties referred to in Labor Code Section 1735.The City Council of the City of Norwalk reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and/or waive any informality on a bid. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening thereof.

BY ORDER OF THE NORWALK CITY COUNCIL of the City of Norwalk, California this 16th day of November, 2012.

/s/Theresa Devoy, City Clerk

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE(UCC Sec. 6105)Escrow No. 6021343NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s) and business address(es) of the seller(s) are: JP SWEET TEMPTATION, INC, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, 11446 SOUTH ST, CERRITOS, CA 90703Doing business as: JP BAKERY CAFEAll other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/are: J.J. BAKERY, 15333 CULVER DR, STE 660, IRVINE, CA 92604The location in California of the Chief Executive Office of the seller is: 32 COLORADO, IRVINE, CA 92606The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) is/are: YI FANG WU, HSIN LUNG LU AND CHANG HUA CHEN, 12 ASBURY, IRVINE, CA 92602The assets being sold are generally described as: FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT and are located at: 11446 SOUTH ST, CERRITOS, CA 90703The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: CENTRAL ESCROW INC, 4040 BARRANCA PKWY, #260, IRVINE, CA 92604 and the anticipated sale date is NOVEMBER 21 2012The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.[If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided.] The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: CENTRAL ESCROW INC, 4040 BARRANCA PKWY, #260, IRVINE, CA 92604 and the last day for filing claims by any creditor shall be NOVEMBER 20, 2012, which is the business day before the anticipated sale date specified above.Dated: 10/3/12YI FANG WU, HSIN LUNG LU AND CHANG HUA CHEN, Buyer(s)LA1238885 LOS CERRITOS COMMUNITY NEWS 11/2/12


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