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The Local Publication You Actually Read September 18 - October 2, 2014

Guy and the Million-MilePorsche

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

The Los Angeles Harbor Area is home to many folks who are multi-generationally rooted in Southern California. Aside from descendants, monuments, old homes and inherited objects, there are few things that connect them outside of the ever-flowing present.

I was reminded of this when Guy Newmark, second-generation owner of the Wilmington Marina, told me of his plan to host a 50th anniversary celebration for his blue 356C Porsche he calls “Bleu” this coming October.

The timing of the celebration isn’t quite the self-indulgent splurge one would think, despite it being a 50th anniversary party for a car. In 2013, a car enthusiast website called Petrolicious.com, profiled Guy as the “million-mile Porsche 356 driver,” complete with film footage and a photo shoot taken of the blue Porsche at various scenic locals around San Pedro.

The profile came at a time when both the car and the Phineas Banning Museum were about to celebrate an anniversary—the car’s 50th and the museum’s 150th. If Guy was born a year earlier, he would have been celebrating his 70th birthday the same year.

For folks like Guy, family history is more an inherited collective memory handed down from one generation to the next. Historic dates take on a mythical quality—mythical in that to people like Guy, history is a living breathing entity, while to the rest of us, history is just a jumble of names, dates and facts.

Guy owns and maintains the Wilmington Marina, sells yachts through Newmarks Yacht Centre and sells insurance. Guy is also a docent of the Phineas Banning Museum. A docent is a volunteer guide for a museum, art gallery or zoo. They are typically a member of the teaching staff immediately below professorial rank at such institutions. In that regard, Guy’s almost encyclopedic knowledge of Banning and Banning’s outsized influence on the modern Port of Los

Guy and the Million-Mile Porsche/ to p. 6

Federal Panel Fails to Impress at Sept. 10 Peck Park Meeting on Rancho LPG P. 3

Logistics Company Illegally Fires 33 Truckers: Breaks “Cooling Off” Agreement P. 5

Cantinflas: New Biopic Tells Story of Iconoclast of Mexican Cinema P. 11

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Guy Newmark will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his beloved blue 356C Porshe. Photos by Terelle Jerricks.

“Bleu” in front of the Phineas Banning Museum where owner Guy Newmark volunteers as a docent. The Museum will commemorate its 150th year.

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Harbor AreaFree E-Waste Recycling

On Sept. 20, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Carson is hosting a free e-waste recycling for the community. All electronics such as computers, monitors, televisions, cell phones, MP3 Players, ink and toner cartridges, printers, microwaves, cables and wires, and laptops will be recycled. Details: (310) 952-1740 ext. 1150.Venue: Carson City Hall Parking LotLocation: 701 E. Carson St., Carson

Overturn Citizens United Public Forum

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision poses serious environmental concerns. To push back, the Environmental Priorities Network is presenting a public forum on how to strengthen and reclaim democracy from corporate interests.

The “Overturn Citizens United “public forum will take place from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sept. 27, at the Pacific Unitarian Church.

Three speakers will address this important topic: Michael Tucker, a coordinator for Move to Amend, John Smith, a Southern California Common Cause organizer, and Alison Hartson, a California State Director of Wolf PAC.

Admission is free, but contributions are welcome. Details: (310) 545-1384; lklight@verizon.net Venue: Pacific Unitarian Church Location: 5621 Montemalaga Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes.

Carson’s Veterans Job Fair The Carson Veterans Affairs

Commission has organized a Veterans Career and Resource Fair, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 3, at StubHub! Center.

Among the services that will be offered during the fair include information on veterans’ benefits and workshops and seminars on job seeking skills. Participants are encouraged to bring their resume and dress to impress as interviews may take place onsite. Admission to the event is free.Details: (310) 847-3570; CarsonVets2014@gmail.com.Venue: StubHub! Center Location: 18400 Avalon Blvd., Carson

LADWP Offers Tips to Keep Cool and Protect the “Grid”

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, LADWP, encourages customers to conserve energy use where possible, especially between the hours of 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. to help minimize the risk of power outages due to strain on neighborhood power grids.

High temperatures lead to more customers operating their air conditioners all at once and also causes other appliances to work harder, resulting in additional strain on electrical equipment. In the event of a power outage, customers are urged to report the outage immediately by calling (800) 342-5397 so that a crew can be dispatched to make repairs. When calling customers should choose “Report Power Outage” in the automated phone system.

LADWP recommends these tips:• Adjust your thermostat to 78 degrees

to reduce energy usage during the hottest hours of the day, 11 a.m. through 6 p.m.

• Avoid using major appliances during peak hours of the day. Use washing machines, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners and other heavy appliances after 6 p.m.

• Close draperies, shades or blinds during the heat of the day.

• Ventilate your home in the early morning and evening by opening windows and doors to clear out the heat and allow cooler air to circulate.

• Unplug “energy vampires” like cell phone chargers, DVD players, microwave ovens and other appliances that use energy even when they are not in use.

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Committed to independent journalism in the Greater LA/LB Harbor Area for more than 30 years

“If this is outreach, I think you are already failing,” Kathleen Woodfield said about 30 minutes into a two-hour meeting with federal regulators at Peck Park on the eve of Sept. 11.

Rep. Henry Waxman convened the meeting to address concerns raised by the Rancho LPG facility. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Environmental Protections Agency both showed up prepared to explain their operations. But the

the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorist Standards program, or CFATS,” said Wulf in his introductory remarks.

The CFATS program as described in the meeting—and supported by documentation on the Department of Homeland Security website—seems to be a broadly comprehensive response to potential terrorists threats in general, with “18 separate risk standards” that have to be met. But what’s missing is any provision for re-assessing the fundamental level of threat that a facility possess to the surrounding community. The implicit operating assumption is that facilities are inherently safe, in and of themselves, except for the addition of a potential terrorist threat — an assumption that’s easily disproven by a long series of deadly, headline-grabbing accidents in recent years.

The Department of Homeland Security seemed well-organized and highly focused on reducing risks posed by terrorists, but there is no provision for taking a big picture look at whether a given facility—or combination of closely-related facilities—poses a threat so severe that it simply cannot be reduced to acceptable levels. This is the general concern represented by the specific example of Rancho LPG. Yet, the issue was never clearly addressed at any time in the 2-hour meeting. Still, it bubbled up constantly in comments and questions shouted out or written down.

It also showed up in the very first written question posed at the opening of the question-and-answer period that took up the second half of the meeting:

“How and why does the government turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the fact that this 25 million gallons of high explosive gas sits in 5.5 seismically-built tanks in a rupture zone of a magnitude of 7.3?”

Lawrence responded for the EPA. “We saw the seismic issues as a concern

and that’s why we hired the seismic expert to

Rancho is ‘Fixed’, Government is Broken:EPA, DHS Officials Fail to Answer Public’s Fundamental Questions at Two-Hour MeetingBy Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

crowd in attendance was overwhelmingly concerned with their shortcomings—and how to overcome them. Which is why Woodfield, vice president of The San Pedro and Peninsula Homeowners Coalition, seemed to speak for the vast majority of those in attendance.

Waxman was not present because the House was in session, voting that day, but District Director Lisa Pinto chaired the meeting, ably keeping it from descending into chaos. However, she lacked Waxman’s legendary personal and institutional authority to put the agency representatives on the spot, as most of those in attendance clearly wanted.

Rep. Janice Hahn’s District Director Lara Larramendi, read a statement.

“These tanks store millions of gallons of dangerous and explosive chemicals, which are just a couple of blocks away from where families live, work and send their children to school,” the statement read, in part. “Our office continues to believe that relocation of these tanks is only permanent solution to the threat posed by this facility.”

This drew a spontaneous round of applause from the audience—a rare occurrence in a meeting marked by initial distrust and growing frustration. Tellingly, there was no further discussion of relocation—it was off the agenda—except in questions raised by the public.

Mary Westerling, the EPA official who oversaw the Rancho LPG investigation, was on assignment, assisting in another EPA region, so the leading EPA representative was Kathryn Lawrence, chief of the Emergency Prevention and Preparedness Section for EPA District 9. The top representative of the Department of Homeland Security was David Wulf, director of Infrastructure Security Compliance.

“Fostering security at high-risk chemical facilities, and thereby reducing the risk of successful terrorist attacks, or other terrorist activities that impact communities like San Pedro, is the focus of the program we manage, Rancho LPG Questions Go Unanswered/ to p. 5

On Sept. 10, a panel of Department of Homeland Security and the Environmental Protection Agency officials met with local residents about the Rancho LPG tanks. Photo by Terelle Jerricks

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Maintaining a historic home is challenging and choosing to own a historic home comes with a plethora of city and state rules to abide by.

Support for Harbor Area Women’s Lives, known as SHAWL House, has been making repairs to its neo-classical and colonial revival-style home near 9th and Centre streets. In 2000, grants from the Ahmanson Foundation, the Parsons Foundation and the Weingart Foundation helped to purchase the home SHAWL uses on Centre St., in San Pedro.

The house, built in 1910, was constructed in

the neo-classical and colonial revival styles near an area known then as “Saloon Keepers Row.” It was once home to Henry Stieglitz, a judge, city attorney and member of the San Pedro Board of Trustees, who also was a volunteer fireman. After the Stieglitz family vacated the house, it became a boys’ home, before SHAWL made the home a women’s shelter.

Recently, the home underwent some much needed repairs. The columns in front of the home started sinking and separating over the course of time. One day, when Executive Diector Laurie

Whalen-Martinez arrived at the SHAWL House, she noticed that one of the columns had sunk deeply and separated. Because SHAWL is part of Volunteers of America, she contacted that organization and asked for someone to come and look at the column. After coming to the site, representatives from the organization suggested hiring a structural engineer.

“We were trying to figure out, ‘Are those columns really structural, or are they decorative to the house?’” she recalled. “Well, they were structural. And so, the safety of the building was compromised.”

The structural engineer asked them to put wood support to keep the house structurally sound while they figured out an engineering plan to repair the house. The contractor pulled all the proper permits before he started the work.

Because the home is a historic building, the Vinegar Hill Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, known as Vinegar Hill HPOZ, was among the groups that had to sign off on the project. The Los Angeles City Council established the Vinegar Hill HPOZ in 2000. Vinegar Hill HPOZ is one of more than 20 HPOZs in Los Angeles. These are designated historic districts in the city that contain buildings and structures from a similar time period. Historic property owners are able to get a property tax reduction and flexible

regulations for building permits. However, additions, repairs, replacements and remodeling of the exterior of the home must be approved a by a local five-member design review board or the Los Angeles Planning Department. Interior repair work does not require HPOZ approval.

“It’s a repair and replace job, because we are keeping everything the same as it was before,” Whalen-Martinez said. “We are not changing anything…. A lot of people have characterized it as remodeling, and it’s not, because we are not changing anything. It’s simply repair and replacing, and everything is going to [be] put back to its original form—in fact, better.”

Workers have stabilized the rooftop with new beams that come down. The columns will then go back around the structural part that is holding the top.

All of this came with the stamp of approval from the Vinegar Hill HPOZ.

“SHAWL House does wonderful work helping women, but they also are good neighbors,” said John Matson of the Vinegar Hill HPOZ. “They contribute to the community and make it a better place to live in. I applaud their careful and caring maintenance of the Judge Stieglitz House, which is one of the most important historic houses in San Pedro. It seems clear that they will soon have that beautiful front porch and impressive columns ready to last the next hundred years.”

SHAWL House Adds Pride, Compassion to Harbor AreaBy Zamna Avila, Assistant Editor

SHAWL House, a chemical dependency treatment facility for homeless women, is undergoing repairs. Photo by Terelle Jerricks

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take a look at this facility,” Lawrence said. “While my background is as a chemical engineer, Mary [Westerling] is a geologist and knows seismic issues, we have an environmental engineer on staff and we have a whole host of other terrific and very well-educated consultants standing behind us when we need them…”

At this point, audience members began to lose patience, as several raised their voices almost simultaneously. “What’s the answer?” the clearest of them shouted out.

honesty. “Some of these questions are

bigger than our regulations,” Lawrence acknowledged at one point.

She also admitted that the term “worst-case scenario” was misleading, since it was the scenario involved in the case of Rancho LPG, for example, is very far removed from the worst case —it’s a time-limited release from just one tank, involving no explosion whatsoever.

“We should have used ‘disaster model,” Lawrence said.

Rancho LPG Questions Go Unanswered at Meeting

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“The answer is we evaluated them according to our regulations and they met the standards,” Lawrence replied.

She seemed to miss the fact that she had merely restated the problem, rather than answering it. The crowd, however, was not so easily deceived, but as crowds often do, it lacked a coherent voice, and Pinto responded to the jumble of responses.

“We will make no progress this evening if people shout out,” she said.

The audience still pressed Lawrence for an answer, and she offered more of a narrative about the process.

“We asked a seismic consultant, ‘Do they meet these standards?’” Lawrence said. “And this person said, ‘Yes,’ and it has some recommendations.”

“What standard?” one audience member shouted out

“That is something I’m afraid that I’m not explicitly prepared to say,” Lawrence replied.

There was a distinct ambivalence in the crowd. People wanted their questions answered, and significant questions, like the first one, had already been written down. Yet, as this first non-answer portended—echoing the explanatory monologues that preceded it—simply following the prescribed question-and-answer format seemed doom to failure, if getting real answers to the basic questions of public safety was the goal.

That was exactly how the remainder of the meeting played out, despite a few welcome moments of

Yet, the underlying problem remains unchanged, despite this modest degree of candor. As retired oil industry consultant Connie Rutter has repeatedly explained, LPG facilities are regulated based on standards adopted under threat of a lawsuit from the American Petroleum Institute, which have no basis in physics or chemistry. They are copied from toxic hazard regulations—substances that neither explode, nor rapidly expand via spontaneous evaporation, as liquified petroleum gas does.

“I was only able to yell my refutation that the half-mile blast radius was incorrectly granted after the API suit,” commented Rutter about the lack of candor and honest information involved.

“And that the impound basin is ineffective at holding back a butane spill…. I’m not sure how much the attendees were able to grasp…. But, the whole scene, the way it was choreographed, now makes me think that the EPA is now aware it has a problem by caving in to the API, and is trying to keep it quiet…. [T]he EPA is either woefully stupid, or is now in damage control mode.”

“I am very sorry about the outcomes from the meeting,” said nationally famous disaster investigator Bob Bea (aka “the Master of Disaster”), in response to a report of the meeting via homeowner activist Janet Gunter.

“It reinforces my current experiences with both U.S. industry and government about reactive risk

management: fixing disasters after they happen and relying on ineffective guidelines and regulations to define what is ‘safe’….Fines are levied that ultimately must be paid by consumers. Some incremental improvements [are made] so all can claim ‘we are safer’ and return to ‘business as usual’ until we have the next major disaster.”

As the meeting ended with a litany of unanswered community complaints, Random Lengths sought to translate some of those concerns into a question framework designed to facilitate a responsive reply from Department of Homeland Security. Because we wanted a thoughtful written response, we submitted a three-part question to Wulf via email that evening:

(a) Do you agree that it’s possible some facilities simply can’t be made

significantly safer to the same degree that the vast majority of facilities can be?(b) Do you think that conditions can be clearly identified to qualify facilities as unfixable in this sense?(c) Do you think that DHS should have the capacity to identify some facilities as inherently too dangerous to fix?

The Department of Homeland Security response—not from Wulf, but from an information officer, was completely unresponsive to the questions posed. Which sums up the underlying government problem in a nutshell.

The Rancho LPG tanks are in close proximity to homes. File photo.

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Angeles makes him a perfect for the museum. But Guy brings something else to the table as a docent: His family connections.

Guy’s family is listed among the founding families that built Los Angeles. During an interview with Random Lengths News on a yacht in his marina, Guy explained that he didn’t truly understand the full extent until he came face to face with a direct ancestor, Harris Newmark, at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s “Becoming L.A.” exhibit.

“I was shocked when I went down to see the exhibit, because there are two portraits. One of Harris Newmark, and the other was of his wife,” Guy explained. “They [the portraits] are 5 feet high and about 3 or 4 feet across…sitting on this big wall. These are my relatives. I couldn’t believe it. I had no idea.”

Guy’s surprised shock of seeing his ancestors featured in the museum was matched by his shock at the near absence of Phineas Banning at the exhibit.

“Phineas Banning was so instrumental in turning this harbor into something,” Guy recalled. “He had fought the railroads. He had fought the government. Everything. He was a state senator. He went to Washington, D.C. and campaigned. He did so much and there was only like a little post card with his name on it at the exhibit and that’s all.”

The exhibit starts in pre-Columbian times with Native Americans and covers the periods in which explorers John Fremont and Richard Henry Dana were active, all the way through to World War II.

“Maybe, to be fair to the museum people, is that they were doing just downtown Los Angeles,” offered Guy, giving the museum the benefit of the doubt. “They weren’t doing it for the surrounding environs, even though LA Harbor as we know is a part of Los Angeles.”

The exhibit has been up since July 2013. While many in San Pedro are familiar with

Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast,

“He was getting a kickback. That’s what he did with almost all of the other businesses he had. I mean, he delivered the firewood. He delivered the water. He delivered everything.”

Guy collects anything antique with the Newmark name on it.

“I go to antique stores and things like that. If I see a Newmarks coffee can or a Newmarks spice can or a spoon or something, I buy them.”

Guy recently donated his collection to the Banning Museum where they research, document and put the objects on public display.

the love affair with PorscheBy the 20th century, the Newmark family

had branched off from the grocery business and moved into real estate and making products out of animal hide. Although Guy wasn’t born until 1945, the roots of Guy’s passion for cars began with his father, Warren Phineas Newmark, and uncle, Steven Newmark and their love driving fast cars on the virtually empty streets of 1920s Los Angeles.

Warren and Steven were more like brothers than cousins, so much so that Guy calls Steven “Uncle Steven.” By the 1940s Warren and

as a definitive work that provided seekers of fortune information about California during the Gold Rush, Harris Newmark published a definitive work of his own called, Sixty Years in Southern California: 1853-1913.

Harris’ book has been cited in dozens of academic papers and books.

“The book presaged the Alameda Corridor,” Guy said. “I believe it was Harris that proposed that there be a connection between the downtown and the Harbor.”

The Newmark family was particularly close to the Banning family both personally and in business. That closeness was based, by and large, on the friendship between Harris and Banning. The friendship seemed to grow in the 1850s when Harris founded a string of grocery stores in Los Angeles.

“Our family had the markets in Los Angeles called Newmarks Markets,” Guy explained. “We provided the spices and the different kinds of coffees. We had our own brands.

“The reason we were so successful was that since we were such good friends with Phineas Banning, who was the No. 1 mover of freight in Southern California. We would bring our goods from the Harbor to downtown Los Angeles, which was 20 miles away, at a lower rate. That meant we could sell our items at the store at a lower rate. It sounds good for us until you realize that Phineas Banning isn’t doing this for nothing,” Guy said with a laugh.

Steven were deep into Southern California car racing. The pair came to own a number of race cars and raced and such legendary tracks as the Riverside International Raceway and the Ascot Park Raceway.

“My dad was always taking me out to the races, ever since I was about 7 or 8 years old,” Guy recalled. “I would go out to see Sterling Moss, Graham Hill and all the great drivers, Wolfgang von Trips and see them race.”

Warren got out of owning cars after his driver was killed in a race.

The Boys and Girls Club of the Los Angeles Harbor is overseeing the development of a new recreational facility being built at Daniel’s Field in San Pedro.

The new facility will be about 17,000 square feet and will include basketball courts, two golf driving ranges, one batting cage, and a futsal (modified form of soccer) area.

Despite its various features, the new facility will not affect the football field, directly behind it.

Although the Boys and Girls Club will be using the new facility for their after school programs, the ownership of the facility will be transferred to the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks after the project is completed.

“Our organization conceived, designed the plans and raised funds for this project on a previously unused hill space on the field,” said Kimberly Cabellero, the marketing and communications coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club.

Daniel’s Field has always been a permit only facility and field that is not open to the public for general use. This new facility will abide by the same regulations and will require the Boys and Girls Club, as well as local organizations, wishing to gain access to the facility to obtain permits.

“Through a monthly fee, our organization maintains our permit to utilize Daniel’s Field during after school hours and certain weekend times for sports league games,”Cabellero said . “Local organizations with permits can also utilize Daniel’s Field.”

The plans for the new facility had originally been developed in 2005 by the Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Mike Lansing as a way to expand athletic opportunities for the youth in the community.

After the plans were approved by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, the Boys and Girls Club raised $1.2 million for the project. The majority of the funding was acquired from the California Department

of Parks and Recreation Urban parks funds, as well as block grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Community Development. Any additional funding was provided by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, the LA84 Foundation and Major League Baseball Tomorrow fund.

Due to the Boys and Girls Club collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the organization is able to serve 11 schools in San Pedro, Wilmington, and Lomita. Their students are not required to pay the required membership fee of $25 per school year. On average this allows for 7,500 students to utilize the facilities provided by the Boys and Girls Club. The organization also provides the students with enrichment programs that include academics, athletics, arts, college bound, homework help and daily supper.

“Our goal is to provide our services and programs to local youth who wish to become club members,” Kimberly Cabellero said. “We are excited to utilize the new facility on Daniel’s Field and expand our athletics program for local youth.”

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Boys and Girls Club Develops New Recreational FacilityBy Ariana Quihuiz, Editorial Intern

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Guy In Bleu/ to p. 10

Guy Newmark is a second-generation owner of Newmark’s Yacht Center in Wilmington. Photo by Terelle Jerricks

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On Sept. 3, Port trucking firm TTSI fired at least 33 drivers, in direct violation of labor laws and the “cooling off period” agreement that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti brokered. The agreement had ended the most unfair labor practices strike in early July.

The drivers had participated in the strike and filed “wage and hour” claims with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Four of the fired drivers were each awarded on average $68, 211 in stolen wages after the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement found that they were misclassified as “independent contractors.” The other 29 drivers have similar cases pending. TTSI was demanding that all such claims be dropped as part of the conditions for continued employment, which depended on signing new truck lease agreements.

“The Teamsters stand by these illegally fired port truck drivers,” said Fred Potter, director of the Port Division, International Brotherhood of Teamsters. “TTSI’s illegal actions have shined a spotlight on the lawlessness that pervades the drayage industry and we will not stop until every misclassified ‘independent contract’ port truck driver in America has the dignity of being classified as an ‘employee’ and the right to join a union without the harassment, intimidation and retaliation that they are afforded under the National Labor Relations Act.”

As part of the cooling off agreement, TTSI and two other companies (Green Fleet and Pac 9) agreed to accept all drivers back to work without retaliation or being forced to sign away

Fourteen veterans wounded in combat took to the water in the Never Quit Challenge, from Sept. 8 through 11. The challenge included a 600-mile jet ski-course from Morro Bay to San Diego.

In the challenge’s second year, veterans who received purple hearts stopped in Santa Barbara, Long Beach and Catalina Island. The challenge concluded on the evening of Sept. 11 at the Stone Bistro’s Liberty Center, Point Loma for a 9/11 tribute.

The prior year’s challenge took place between Key West, Fla. and New York City. Event organizer Shawn Alladio changes the location of the event each year because she says she likes to

timelines,”“The Pacific Ocean doesn’t play any

favorites,” Barry Baker said, who was one of the event’s organizers. “It delivered some smooth riding and then there were times where it was very challenging, knocking people off of jet skis and such. It was great. It was challenging.”

Baker is one of three riders who never served on active duty. He is an alumni with the K38 Rescue Program. Barry rode from Long Beach to Catalina and back, while the second of the three, Alladio, rode the whole 600 miles.

One of the veterans who was part of the challenge, 3rd Ranger Battalion Kyle Butcher, was shot three times while on duty in Iraq. He

their rights in new truck leases. However, TTSI had been pushing drivers to do just that even before the strike began. It renewed that demand shortly after the strike ended, with a deadline of Sept. 1.

On Aug. 29, the last working day before that deadline, drivers tried to meet with the company to sign new leases, but were told to return on Sept. 2. Originally, they were promised that they wouldn’t be required to withdraw their claims. According to a statement from Justice for Port Drivers, some drivers actually signed the new lease agreements and were dispatched for work. However, the company abruptly changed course while other drivers were awaiting their turn to sign and demanded withdrawal of all claims.

“While we were waiting, the company changed their mind and told us that if we didn’t withdraw our DLSE claims we would not be allowed to sign the new contract,” said fired TTSI driver Elmer Chacón in a statement. “The drivers that did sign the new contracts and were back at work were sent a message on the QUALCOMM saying that they should return to TTSI and they are ‘out of service.’”

On Sept. 15, fired truck drivers testified before the Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System’s Corporate Governance Committee to demand that the $11.9 billion pension fund divest from companies that violate local, state and federal labor laws. The commissioners requested an expedited report from the Port of Los Angeles on their ongoing investigation into TTSI’s labor law violations and the violation of the terms of this cooling off period.

—Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

TTSI Illegally Fires 33 Truckers, Breaks ‘Cooling Off’ Agreement

Veterans Ski 600 Miles for Fallen BrothersBy Joseph Baroud, RLn Contributor

keep the event unique.The event supports the Marsoc Foundation,

Station Foundation, and Phoenix Patriot Foundation. All three support veterans and the families of fallen soldiers.

It’s called the Never Quit Challenge for a reason: The waters are choppy and unpredictable, creating a greater challenge for wounded veterans. One rider was using prosthetic legs, but zero riders complained or quit.

“It’s kind of a hardship,” Alladio said. “The challenge is very difficult. It’s painful at times because it’s a lot of hours on the water. What we’ve experienced the last two days, it’s been very windy. And, so, the wind has affected the surface texture of the water and that’s really slowed down a lot of the projections of the

enjoys the brotherhood that he experiences with the riders who are fellow veterans, which he says is lacking in his day-to-day life.

“It’s great, getting back together and having that camaraderie that you don’t get in the real world—the civilian world,” Butcher said. “It’s a hardship. It wasn’t fun. Most people think riding jet skis is fun, but we’re riding jet skis 600 miles in some pretty rough water. Each one of those boats have a fallen brother on it. We look down at that when times get hard and tough, it’s like, you know it’s not about me, suck it up. That’s why its called the never quit challenge. There’s no quitting.”

Next year’s challenge will take place between Galveston, Texas and Miami.

Event organizers of the Never Quit Challenge unload jet skis during the three-day challenge. Photo by Joseph Baroud

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LA Watchdog, Councilman Paul Krekorian, asked the neighborhood councils to submit community impact statements in support of the his Citywide Sidewalk Repair Plan that was discussed at a joint meeting of his Budget and Finance Committee and Joe Buscaino’s Public Works Committee on Aug. 18. After additional consideration on Aug. 26, the city council directed Miguel Santana, the city administrative officer, to prepare a report with options for a “comprehensive and sustainable sidewalk repair strategy.”

A community impact statement allows a neighborhood council to submit its official position on an issue that is before the city council. Importantly, this statement of no more than 100 words becomes an integral part of the council file and is referenced on the city council’s agenda when the matter is up for consideration.

But it is very difficult to craft a precise community impact statement when there are very few specifics about the Citywide Sidewalk Repair Plan, including who is responsible for repairing the tree damaged sidewalks and who is going to foot the bill.

There are even fundamental questions as to extent of the damage. For instance, the city has estimated that 40 percent (4,600 miles) of our 10,750 miles of sidewalks are in need of repair at

a cost of $1.5 billion. On the other hand, a 2008 report by Bureau of Street Services shows that only 5.6 percent (600 miles) are tree damaged. This difference of 4,000 miles will lower the city’s financial obligation by over $1 billion.

Nevertheless, after considerable discussion about how to pay for the repairs, the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition adopted a resolution approving the following community impact statement as a basis for discussion by the city’s 95 neighborhood councils.

The [insert name of] Neighborhood Council supports a “fix and release” plan for the repair of our tree damaged sidewalks. The City will issue bonds to finance the repair. There will be no new taxes. The City may develop alternative plans (50/50 program, loan fund, Assessment Districts) that rely on the voluntary participation by Property Owners. Property Owners and the City may retain independent contractors and managers. The City will assess the status of our sidewalks and prioritize the necessary repairs. The City will establish a well-funded, independent Oversight Committee to ensure transparency throughout the process.

Under the “fix and release” plan, the City would pay for the repair of the tree damaged

These days, even sitting at your computer can leave you drenched with sweat.

It is exactly at times like these that I wonder why we have not lined our streets with a forest of shade giving trees, opened public pools at many of our city parks, or finally renovated and opened the Gaffey Street pool to give relief for neighborhood children.

The long and the short explanation of these longings is that we have hobbled ourselves with our philanthropic donation mentality and short-term fixes in response to budget deficits. We also suffer from lack of a grand vision of what we can expect living in one of the largest cities in the world. After all, we are all a part of this sprawling city and region known as Los Angeles.

Our own “village mentality” restricts us from envisioning a more sustainable, economically secure and livable city. And, government officials continually reminds us that the city or the state lack the resources for this or that project. Meanwhile, other government entities spend a half billion dollars on a single new courthouse or fritter away hundreds of millions on dysfunctional software programs.

And, don’t let us want to promote the arts, improve a park or—God forbid—help the homeless. Nonprofit organizations of varying degrees of competence would be relegated to pandering and begging, forever increasingly meager amounts of money from governments, philanthropic foundations and corporations—

can’t be criticized for thinking too small or being too meek. He was a man of big ideas.

This, of course, is only a prelude to discussing the accomplishments of his cousin Franklin Roosevelt who followed in his footsteps to becoming the second most influential president of the 20th century. So much of what we’ve come

to expect as citizens of this nation was the result of Franklin’s greater vision of government’s role in the economic and social life of the nation. Think Social Security or unemployment insurance. His vision was not completed.

In the middle of his third term in office, in his inaugural address of 1944, FDR proposed the revolutionary concept of the Second Bill of Rights. Had he lived to finish his third term

in office and perhaps served a fourth term, we might have avoided much of the social conflict that has followed us to this day.

The unintended result of this Roosevelt documentary, leaves the questions: Where are today’s great nation-changing ideas? Where are today’s visionary leaders with the boldness to lead beyond the shortsightedness of deficit excuses and bitter partisan conflict? Clearly, in the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where partisanship is not the issue, the leadership is shackled by deficit explanations. In other times, under far more economically stressful conditions, great leaders launched heroic game changing initiatives. Today, we just argue over increasing the minimum wage and allowing marriages for same-sex couples. The City of Los Angeles even has trouble planting the remainder of the million street trees promised a decade ago.

The City of Los Angeles needs to rise to the occasion and lead beyond its limitations with great ideas. Band-Aid approaches to easing traffic congestion such as road-diets and the Mayor’s Great Street initiatives does not solve the greater problem. Los Angeles is disconnected from itself and only has become more so, as traffic congestion leaves an ever-growing number of people stuck on the freeways on any given day.

I offer two modestly grand ideas: • Reconnect every part of this city by functional

light rail starting with LAX to the port.• and build a publicly owned, high-speed

wireless Internet access for the entire city of Los Angeles at an affordable rate for everyone.

Tell me if I’m wrong, but if you give people convenient alternatives to driving, whether by rail or telecommuting, via hi-speed Internet, wouldn’t a very large number of you choose to park your car on a tree shaded street, rather than sweat in traffic on our increasingly congested freeways?

corporations that should be paying a larger percentage of their profits in taxes, but aren’t.

So this week, while I was sitting shirtless wondering where the afternoon breeze from Point Fermin had gone, I turned on the Ken Burns PBS documentary on the Roosevelts. It wasn’t a relief from the humidity or the heat, but it did make me wonder where all of the big ideas that shaped the past century of this nation have gone?

President Teddy Roosevelt, by executive order, created some 42 national parks and forests and forced the food and drug industries into regulated compliance with the creation of the Food and Drug Act. He enforced the anti-trust laws against monopolies that were rigging the pricing of goods and services, and then he took on one of the biggest, longest-view enterprises ever imagined—building the Panama Canal. Whatever one may think of Teddy Roosevelt “the imperialist,” he

Hot Weather and a Shortage of a Great VisionBy James Preston Allen, Publisher

Citywide Sidewalk Repair Plan: Details Please, Mr. KrekorianBy Jack Humphreville, CitywatchLA.com

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sidewalks, after which the property owners would be responsible for the maintenance and repair of their sidewalks and any associated slip and fall liabilities.

Importantly, the city would finance its obligations, including those of any voluntary plans, through the issuance of long-term bonds that would be serviced by the growth in future tax revenues. This would include the additional $700 million from ratepayers associated with the doubling of DWP’s Power System revenues over the next 10 to 15 years. As such, no new taxes would be required.

Many homeowners questioned the efficiency and expense of the city’s work crews, resulting in the desire to retain independent contractors—at city expense—to repair their sidewalks if the outside cost of repair is considerably less than the prices quoted by the city.

Finally, the proposed Citywide Sidewalk Repair

Plan does not provide for any meaningful oversight of the process, starting with development of the plan through its completion.

Krekorian has asked for neighborhood councils to submit community impact statements in support of the plan. But this request is premature as he and his colleagues on the city council have not provided the neighborhood councils, homeowners and other property owners, and the voters with sufficient information to make an informed decision.

Jack Humphreville writes LA

Watchdog for CityWatch. He is the President of the DWP Advocacy Committee, The Ratepayer Advocate for the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council, and a Neighborhood Council Budget Advocate. Humphreville is the publisher of the Recycler Classifieds—www.recycler.com. He can be reached at: lajack@gmail.com. Hear Jack every Tuesday morning at 6:20 on McIntyre in the Morning, KABC Radio 790.

Regarding the death of Michael Brown

Regarding the death of Michael Brown and the demonstrations/riots/vandalism which followed in Ferguson, Missouri, Random Lengths News blasted the same hollow talking points that racism is such a demented evil in our society.

Granted, the militarization of Ferguson’s police force raises alarms. Why do they arm themselves so heavily? What should also concerns us, though, is the never-ending racialization of our politics, even when current leaders intended to usher in a post racial society. This country has a black President and black leaders in statehouses and city halls across the country, yet still there are loud, foolish, virulent voices which claim that every black man is targeted for murder by the white man.

Left and right, pundits agree: the greatest danger to a black man, statistically, is another black man. When will the mainstream media explore this issue?

President Obama has been tagged a divisive failure, and Attorney General Eric Holder arbitrarily launches lawsuits for alleged racism, all while ignoring government corruption and malfeasance. Michael Brown, the black youth shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, was not

the gentle giant which race hustlers have painted him out to be. Hours before his death, Brown had robbed a convenience store and pushed away the owner.

On YouTube (https://w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m /watch?v=VT2v64Ykxc0) one black man castigated his peers: “It’s time to take responsi-damn-bility. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves and blaming slavery for all your troubles.” He also indicted the deceased Brown’s folly for rushing at the police officers, and told his peers to stop blaming the police and start blaming those who commit crimes and cause the “Driving While Black” situation.

Rodney King, the criminal beaten by police, pleaded with LA residents exploding in criminal rage: “Can’t we all just get along?”

If the one who was beaten could plead with rioters to stop rioting, what business does anyone have, black or white, to foment hatred and bitterness today in the name of racial outrage?

Offense and political correctness has turned into an entitlement in this country, and a dangerous one if individuals of minority status feel they have a right to break the law and destroy businesses all in the name of social protest. California Governor Ronald Reagan knew better, and

expected better from University leaders during the UC student protests.

Regarding the endemic recourses to systemic racism, I must quote House Oversight ranking member Elijah Cummings: “I am tired of this!

Arthur Christopher SchaperTorrance

So many lies, so little time…In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr. told Mike Wallace, on 60 Minutes,“We’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.” Apparently, you still haven’t gotten the word. Sadly, neither have far too many in positions of power today. King was not endorsing riots, of course, and neither are we. He was simply recognizing the larger reality of injustice which they emerged in response to.

You, in contrast, are willfully blind—and proud of it.

Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

The Road Kill DietI read the cover of your latest

issue about the “Road Diet” and I honestly had to do a second take because I have just published an eBook titled The Road Kill Diet. No kidding. I see after reading more that the Road Diet is about the DOT trying to make better Pacific Ave. Honestly, the true solution is closing that ugly street to cars, as I’ve suggested many years ago. Pedestrians and bikes ONLY is what is needed and calling the redevelopment project—The Pacifica Creek Business District. As you know, I had a lot of support for this from many locals, but the current powers that be simply didn’t get it.

Anyway, routing the traffic to Harbor and also Gaffey from 22nd Street and 1st Street, is the way to close it off. Making this area “special” residential and commercial is the BEST was. Anything else there is a half measure.

All the best from the smallest harbor in the world.

Richard PawlowskiDepoe Bay, OR

Supporting Moderate Opposition in Syria

Obama vowed in May 2013 to take America off its “permanent war-footing”, and curtail the use of drones. As of 9/13/14 the U.S. has launched more drone strikes in the past five weeks then in the past three years.

The so-called threat to our homeland by ISIS is more hype and hysteria than reality. Our mission should be to protect our own borders rather than protecting other countries borders.

Obama changed his mind about Syria, as he had reservations about (moderate opposition) which he long dismissed as incapable but now describes as a key U.S. partner.

The U.S. is supporting about three groups of rebel fighters in Syria with ammunition, guns and anti-tank missiles. There is also plans to send anti-aircraft missiles. Obama is hoping that the weapons do not get in the wrong hands!. Apparently Obama doesn’t know that Syrian Revolutionary Front is

fighting alongside al Qaeda, as al Qaeda it is not their problem they say. The SRF admits teaming up with al Qaeda as well as providing weapons to the group. As ruthless as ISIS is in regards to killing two Americans and one British citizen, Obama is teaming up with a coalition of rebel’s that are just as cut-throat as ISIS. Obama is actually looking the other way and violating the law in supplying high tech U.S. weapons to these fighters. There is a ban on sending military aid to people with

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a history of human rights abuses and these groups have a long list. How quickly Obama forgets that he secretly gave his blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar in 2011. These weapons were used in the attack that killed four Americans at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. It should be noted that the weapons that the ISIS are using are mostly U.S. that have been captured from Iraq Army.

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“He gave up the car ownership, but he always loved racing and always loved cars,” Guy explained.

Guy was about 20-years old when his father bought “Bleu.” Recalling his naivete at the time, Warren played a trick on Guy, telling him that the Porsche had a button in the dashboard that can change a red signal light to green if you push it.

“I was like, ‘Wow!’” Guy exclaimed. “‘We had the only button in the car that could make the signal turn.’ I thought it was the coolest thing going. Then when I get the car there’s no button.”

But to Guy’s mind, just because the Porsche didn’t include a signal light button did not mean they couldn’t create such a button.

“Porsche has an R&D department that’s tops in all of automobiledom,” Guy said with a note of wonder in his voice. “Many other car manufacturers come to Porsche to have them develop their brakes or have them develop their transmission or something like that.”

Guy noted that Porsche has a whole separate entity that “would build you anything you want. They can build you a golf club…. They’ll build you a cigarette-holder…they’ll build you an engine for a train. It’s that kind of a department,” Guy said.

Guy loves history. He has always loved history, even when he was in school. Biographies are his favorite. His current passion is car-racing history.

“I like reading the history of Porsche because they have quite a history and a tremendous racing history.

Warren bought Bleu in 1965.Until he bought the Porsche, Warren had

been driving Austin Healeys, Jaguars and 300SL Mercedes. Then he got into a Porsche.

“He never had a problem with overheating or water or anything like that,” Guy explained. “He loved the handling of the car. And so, he decided, ‘Wow! This is the car I want to drive to work,’ because he had to commute from UCLA to down here everyday.”

The 356C Porsche rolled off the assembly line the same year the Santa Monica Freeway was completed, in 1964. Until then, Warren Newmark was commuting from the family’s Westwood home to Wilmington everyday by way of Pacific Coast Highway. At 25 miles to the gallon in gas

made it the most economical car from the 1960s through the 1980s.

“It was quite a slog down Pacific Coast Highway,” Guy recalled. “I remember when there was nothing but a trench in the ground and we used to drive along that trench and it turns out to be the 405 freeway.”

Warren gave Bleu to Guy in 1968, and Guy has been driving it ever since.

Bleu shares some of the same characteristics as the Wilmington Marina or the museum relics connected to the Newmark family’s heritage. These objects hold stories and life lessons. For Guy, these objects are imbued with his story and the stories of his ancestors.

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Guy Newmark and Bleu overlooking the Los Angeles Harbor. Photo by Terelle Jerricks

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Mario “Cantinflas” Moreno is arguably the greatest actor to come out of the Spanish-speaking world.

Now a new film, simply titled, Cantinflas, is running at the Cinemark at the Pike in Long Beach. The film paints a multilayered picture of Moreno. It humanizes the legend and highlights little known aspects of Moreno’s life as a film producer, screenwriter, businessman, labor activist and husband.

Cantinflas, premiered this past August nationwide with a limited release in U.S. cities with large Latino populations. The film is expected to open in Mexico

later this month but it already has been selected as that country’s entry for the Oscar in the best foreign language film.

Moreno was already a huge star in his homeland by the time he was introduced to American audiences with the acclaimed 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days, based on Jules Verne’s classic novel of the same title. Moreno plays the lovable Passepartout.

Cantinflas, the movie, doesn’t just aim to wring laughs from Moreno’s old material but attempts to reflect Moreno’s talent,

revealing just why he was admired by the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth Taylor and others. Moreno’s light was bright enough to eclipse

Marlon Brando for a Golden Globe in 1956 for Around the World in 80 Days. The film went on to win five Oscars, including best picture.The movie does spend a good amount of time on Moreno’s activism

with Mexico’s actors guild. His activism helped clear corruption out of the actors guild while under the authoritarianism of Mexico’s powerful Institutional Revolutionary

Party, PRI.Cantinflas the movie rescues this fact about Moreno from the dusty pages of history to

refreshingly show us a funny man who was serious about organized labor. In his stand against corruption, Moreno risked his life to defend Mexican actors’ right to an independent union that abided by democratic principles.

Directed by Sebastian del Amo (Sex, Shame & Tears), Cantinflas, the biopic, centers on the beginning of Moreno’s career as an actor in the early 1930s. Moreno wanted to be a boxer but it turned out that he had a better punch delivering lines on stage. Not that those lines made much sense at times, but thanks to his humor and a voice clearly rooted in barrio talk—like

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Forty Days & Nightsof Oktober FunAs Angelenos, we’re accustomed to having

our pick of cultural traditions to sate our culinary palate. Just about every region on the planet is represented in the Los Angeles culinary map. If you want Caribbean cuisine, you can find it Inglewood, Mid–Wilshire and downtown Los Angeles.

If you want quality Indian cuisine, you can find it Old Town Pasadena, Burbank, and Torrance. If you have a hankering for some Asian cuisine, be it Japanese, Chinese or Vietnamese, like Mexican or Italian cuisine, there isn’t a square inch in Los Angeles County you wouldn’t be able to find it.

European cuisine, however, with the exception of French and Italian, is a different story. There’s only but a smattering of restaurants offering of Irish, German, Russian, English or any other European cuisine.

This is why this year’s Oktoberfest at Alpine Village in Torrance is such an great event. This year also marks Alpine Village’s 47th Oktoberfest since 1968, making it the oldest and longest running Oktoberfest celebration in Southern California.

For the last several years, the festival in its attempt to draw more people, would emphasize the biergartens and the live entertainment. It was easy to miss that Oktoberfest was a celebration of German culture.

This year, with new website design and campy Youtube video that parodies the Randy Newman’s song and music video, I Love L.A., it’s apparent that Alpine Village is making it all about the culture.

The first Oktoberfest took place 214 years ago in celebration of royal marriage between Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen Oct. 12, 1810.

Munich citizens were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event.

The festival was eventually prolonged and moved ahead to September to allow for better weather conditions. Today, the last day of the festival is the first Sunday in October. In 2006, the Oktoberfest extended two extra days because the first Tuesday, Oct. 3, was a national holiday.

Above is a screencapture of a scene in Alpine Village Oktoberfest parody of Randy Newman’s I Love L.A. song and music video.

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Mecca in loS angeleSBy Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

louise Reichlin is bringing back the San Pedro Tri-Arts Festival for its eighth year, on Sept. 27. But after three years since taking the helm of the festival, it’s becoming clearer that she is attempting to turn this festival into a vehicle that can add dance to the Los Angeles clout as cultural center.

Since the founder, Joe Caccavella, died in 2012, the festival has been growing, evolving and drawing in top flight performance arts partners from the community. In previous years, one could expect to see a lot of different artists that were similar to each other and little different from previous years.

These past two years we have seen more high quality diverse talent than has been seen in San Pedro. Reichlin said as much.

“In terms of diversity, we have grown,” Reichlin said. “We have added a dance troupe and have one less music group this year.”

Reichlin brought back some top shelf dance troupes such as the widely known Lula Washington Dance Theatre and the Ruby Karen Project/Orange County Aerial Arts. But she has also invited some new companies such as the APA Repertory Ensemble and Ballet Folklorico Pasion de Mi Tierra/Gabriel Avila.

APA Repertory has been racking up accolades since its founding in 2004, becoming six-time finalists and two-time grand prize award winners in the Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival in Palm Desert. In the past eight years, they have traveled to New York City on five separate occasions, where they danced with members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the José Limón Dance Co., Parsons Dance and more.

Perhaps one of the most exciting of the new additions this year is the Underground Street Dance Co. which was founded by Marquisa “Miss Prissy” Gardner or was profiled in the 2005 documentary, Rize. The documentary chronicled the lives of some of South Central Los Angeles’s top krump dancers. Miss Prissy, who at the time was just 13 and a classically trained dancer, was one of those who were profiled.

The film captured the sharp, aggressive spirit of hip hop in the moves of South Los Angeles youth at the time. The dance form of Krumping had been around since the 1990s, but following the documentary, Miss Prissy has turned the dance form from the streets to the stage into high art.

This year, Reichlin put on previews of the upcoming festival at the Tall Ships Festival and most recently at Alvas Showroom. This marked the second year in a row that the festival hosted a preview at Alvas. Reichlin noted this past week’s preview brought in significantly more attendees.

“It has been growing in terms of attendance,” Reichlin said. “But for it to continue to grow, it has to be seen by the community.”

As the thinking goes, the more community support the festival receives, the easier it is to get financial support from government, nonprofit and private sector organizations.

The festival has always operated on a shoestring budget, depending heavily on grants from the Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe’s Music in Public Places program, Los Angeles Council District 15 office, and support

September 19dirty Ice CreamHarbor Area rock band, Dirty Ice Cream, will be at San Pedro BrewCo, starting at 10 p.m. Cover is $3. details: www.sanpedrobrewing.com, www.facebook.com/dicbandVenue: San Pedro Brewing Co.Location: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

phil deGruy Solo GuitarpistPhil deGruy will be performing for the first time, at 8 p.m. Sept. 19, at Alvas Showroom playing the Guitarp. The Guitarp is the fusion of a guitar and a harp. In this case, a high-register harp. Suggested donation is $20.details: www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas ShowroomLocation: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Gypsy rose Gypsy Rose performs, at 10 p.m. Sept. 19, at Harvelle’s Long Beach. Gypsy Rose is dance extravaganza in the spirit of Burlesque & Classic Cabaret starring Miss Dakota along side a bouquet of talented beauties teasing you with dances to an array of music and styles including jazz, Latin and even a little ballet.details: http://longbeach.harvelles.com/Venue: Harvelle’s Long BeachLocation: 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach

September 20noise Fest at Harold’sFreda Rente and Friends is hosting an art, poetry, and live music event, Sept. 20, at Harold’s. Bands such as It’s OK!, Sista Sin, DEATH CAT, Bathsalt Zombiez and NOMAD will be performing.details: (310) 832-5503Venue: Harold’s PlaceLocation: 1908 S. Pacific Ave, San Pedro

Conjunto Costazul Conjunto Costazul will perform, at 8 p.m. Sept. 20, at the Grand Annex in San Pedro. With its energetic New York sound, driven by four melodic trombones and an exceptional rhythm section, the group is led by brothers and salsa legends Freddie and Johnny Crespo on vocals and percussion. General admission is $15 in advance and $20 door. details: (310) 833-4813; www.grandannex.org Venue: The Grand AnnexLocation: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Live music at San pedro brewCoBrewCo is going to be rockin’ on this night with Destroy LA, the Imposters and G.I.M.P performing. The show starts at 10 p.m. Cover is $3.details: www.sanpedrobrewing.comVenue: San Pedro Brewing CompanyLocation: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

September 21Sestra Sestra is performing, at 4 p.m. Sept. 21, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro. Sisters Stephanie Podolak and Carolyn Snell, recently completed recording their debut album SESTRA, Actions Speak Louder with Grammy Award winner Dusk Bennett. Suggested donation is $20.details: www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas ShowroomLocation: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

September 26Live music at San pedro brewCoYou don’t want to miss this. Toys That Kill, Yoohoos and Lost Notes are playing at San Pedro BrewCo. The show start at 10 p.m. Cover is $3.details: www.sanpedrobrewing.comVenue: San Pedro Brewing Co.Location: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

La Voz de tres La Voz de Tres, performs at 8 p.m. Sept. 26, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro. These three voices comprise the unique sound of Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal, keyboardist Mike Eckroth and seven-string guitarist Jason Ennis. the trio blends an infectious rhythms and nuanced songwriting traditions of Latin America, original compositions and choice picks from the Great American Songbook in a surprising and refreshing improvisational texture. Suggested

donation is $20.details: www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas ShowroomLocation: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

September 27Gabriel Johnson Gabriel Johnson performs, at 8 p.m. Sept. 27, at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro. After completing his education in Boston, Gabriel decided to return to his California roots, only this time to Los Angeles, where he has lived for the past 8 years. Suggested donation is $20.details: www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas ShowroomLocation: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

midnite Cruzzers If you’re looking for that funk, old school, oldies and Latin jazz, you’ll find it at the Marina Seafood Restaurant (upstairs) formerly Simon’s. Cover is $10 advance or $15 at the door. The doors open at 7 p.m. The show starts at 8p.m. Sept. 27.Venue: Marina Seafood restaurantLocation: 1050 Nagoya Way, Ports O’ Call Village, San Pedro

Warehouse One Harbor Area rock band, Warehouse One, will be at San Pedro BrewCo, starting at 10 p.m. Sept. 27. The cover is $3. details: www.sanpedrobrewing.com, Venue: San Pedro Brewing Co.Location: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

OCtOber 3Live music at San pedro brewCoHarbor Area rock band, Eye The Realist, will be at San Pedro BrewCo, starting at 10 p.m. The cover is $3. details: www.sanpedrobrewing.comVenue: San Pedro Brewing CompanyLocation: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

OCtOber 4Susie Glaze & Hilonesome bandThe Grand Annex presents Susie Glaze & Hilonesome Band, at 8 p.m. Oct. 4. Winner of the Just Plain Folks Music Award, Susie Glaze & Hilonesome band properly deliver folk-inspired stories of love, tragedy and fate. General admission is $20 in advance or $25 at the door. details: (310) 833-4813; www.grandannex.orgVenue: The Grand AnnexLocation: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Live music at San pedro brewCoHarbor Area rock band, Brimful and Street Flunkiez, will be at San Pedro BrewCo, starting at 10 p.m. The cover is $3. details: www.sanpedrobrewing.comVenue: San Pedro Brewing CompanyLocation: 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro

September 20dedication of the miniature rose GardenJoin Rancho for an intimate tea, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 20, celebrating the dedication of the miniature rose garden in the center of the rose garden. This new rose addition marks the 205 rose variety to be added to the garden that was built by Father Pat McPolin and the seminarians back in the 1930s. Food is catered by Elis’s tea House in Long Beach. Tickets are just $20.details: (310) 603-0088Venue: Dominguez Rancho Adobe MuseumLocation: 18127 S. Alameda St., Rancho Dominguez

downtown Walking tourGet a tour of downtown Long Beach, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 20. Long Beach is filled with historic gems. neighborhoods, buildings, modern architecture and art deco style; it’s all waiting to be discovered. Experience historic downtown Long Beach on a walking tour. Cost is $10 per adult.details: (562) 493-7019; www.lbheritage.org

September 21Carson Hispanic Heritage month CelebrationGrammy Award Winner Mariachi Divas de Cindy

Lissa Resnick No Strings Attached Dance Company, which performed at the past year’s San Pedro Tri-Arts Festival. Photo courtesy of San Pedro Tri-Arts Festival.

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the real, downtrodden Mexican urbanites spoke, Moreno morphed himself into Cantinflas.

Written by del Amo, who only had two other films under his belt as a writer (including a short), and the even less experienced Edui Tijerina, Cantinflas’bilingual script is somewhat uneven and struggles to flow smoothly. It doesn’t help that the story takes place in two different worlds, Hollywood and Mexico, and in two different times destined to converge when Moreno attempts to succeed in the Mecca of the movies.

The film is saved in great part thanks to Catalán actor Oscar Jaenada, who does a magnificent job as Cantinflas—and who, by the way, strikingly resembles Mario Moreno. Other cast members that stand out are actors Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) as film director Michael Anderson, Isle Salas as Valentina Ivanova (Cantinflas’ wife), and Barbara Mori as Elizabeth Taylor.

In spite of its weaknesses and challenges, this biographical feature successfully shows the complexities of Moreno the human being—his struggles to find his acting voice and launch his career, marital problems, stardom and union organizing activism. We also see a man determined to maintain artistic integrity and control.

When hollyWood KnocKs When approached by newbie director Anderson

to join the cast of Around the World in 80 Days alongside British actor David Niven, Moreno turns down a role playing the stereotypical, seeking instead the role of Passepartout.

Moreno turns the character into the lead of the movie, leading to a Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical—the first Mexican actor to accomplish such a feat.

Cantinflas made just two other American films in the 1960s, including, Pepe, alongside the legendary Bing Crosby. The film flopped but earned the Mexican actor another Golden Globe nomination.

Moreno helped usher in the Golden Era of

Mexican Cinema and was determined to keep it shining. By the time he died, in 1993, Mario Moreno had made about 50 films, most of them box office hits, centered around his character Cantinflas, and often doing social commentary through comedy about injustice in Mexico, such as Si Yo Fuera Diputado (If I Were A Congressman), El Ministro Y Yo (The Minister And I), and “Su Excelencia” (Your Excellency).

“I think that Si Yo Fuera Diputado was one of his best works,” said Axel Caballero, film director and executive director of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, NALIP. “If you watch it now decades later, it still is very relevant today. He always seemed to infuse a criticism on the system, if veiled at times and at others very straight on…. His characters reflected the social and cultural problems of Mexico at that time and toward the later part of his life he dedicated a lot of his work to charity. His activism seeped through his work.”

source of InspIratIonCantinflas’ work also has inspired other

Latinos in film in the United States.Puerto Rican Bienvenida Matias says she has

not missed any of Cantinflas’ films. “We saw all of them,” she explains. “Cantinflas

was about giving us a different way of interpreting a very harsh world, with laughter, hope, and keeping up the good fight. Maybe that’s why today I love working for a nonprofit such as NALIP and engaging with Latino creative media makers. He opened my eyes to class, race and economic inequalities. And we created NALIP to promote Latino/a media makers in front and behind the camera.”

For his contributions to motion pictures, Cantinflas received a spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1980. His star is near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Wilcox Avenue, between those of actress Lucille Ball and heartthrob Tony Martin.

The film is playing at Cinemark at the Pike, 99 S. Pine Ave., in Long Beach, and at Edwards Long Beach Stadium 26, 7501 E. Carson Blvd., Long Beach.

But at Alpine Village, Oktoberfest is 40 days (if you don’t include the Mondays that the Village is closed), which extends from Sept. 12 to Oct. 26.

For the uninitiated, here’s what to expect when you go to Oktoberfest:

The Chicken Dance commences each hour on the hour. After each dance, a Das Boot and Stein holding contest ensues. What sort of contest are these, they’re contests that are a test of beer drinking fortitude and strength.

From 8 p.m. to midnight the party is non-

stop and continues after the tent shuts down at the Oktoberfest After Party hosted in the Alpine Restaurant.oKtoberfest meals:main courses: Sausage, baked chicken, Kassler Ripchen (Vegetarian sausage is available)sides: Sauerkraut, German Bratkartoffeln (fried potatoes), potato salad, cole slaw, tater totsdesserts: Huge cookies, cream horns, browniesand giant pretzels!oKtoberfest bIer

A feast would not be complete without an ice cold stein of German bier. This year, the Village is featuring Warsteiner beers, one of the

most popular beers in Germany. Beers include Warstiener Pilsner, Warsteiner Oktoberfest, Konig Ludwig Oktoberfest, Selection of Wine, and finally, Coors Light if German beer isn’t to your taste.details: www.alpinevillagecenter.com/Venue: Alpine Villagelocation: 833 W. Torrance Blvd, Torrance

Shea takes center-stage as Carson presents the first Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. The festivities starts at 12 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Performers include the Tlanextli Tlacotan Aztec Dancers, Grupo Folklorico Faisan, Pasion Latina, Alma Latina, Raices Peruanas, Alma De Oro and Carson’s Mariachi Academy. Comedian Ralph Figueroa will be emcee for the event.details: (310) 830-4998.Venue: Carson Park Location: 21411 S. Orrick Ave., Carson.

September 27poncho Sanchez at the Carson Jazz FestivalThree-decade leader and legend of straight-ahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms, Poncho Sanchez, lead the line-up for Carson’s annual Jazz Festival. The festival starts at 11 a.m. The event is open to the public and admission is free. For guaranteed seating, V.I.P. seats are available and may be purchased in advance for $75 per person, which includes a meal and unlimited non-alcoholic beverages.details: (310) 632-0756Venue: Anderson ParkLocation: 19101 S. Wilmington Ave., Carson

OCtOber 11Carson Country Western FairThe fair features non-stop live country music entertainment, line dancing, western riders and entertainment for the entire family. There will be a petting zoo, carnival rides, games, raffles and prizes, boxing exhibition, car show, horse show, and much more. The fair starts at noon. details: (310) 549-3962.Venue: Dominguez ParkLocation: 21330 Santa Fe Ave., Carson

OCtOber 25Carson pays tribute to Filipino-American Labor Leader Larry ItliongThe City of Carson and various organizations will join the entire community in honoring the life’s work and legacy of Larry Itliong – a Filipino-American labor leader and organizer. The tribute march will start at 9 a.m. beginning at the USW-Local 675 Union Hall, located at 1200 E. 220th and ending at the east parking lot of the Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald Community Center, at 801 E. Carson Street in Carson.details: (310) 830-7600 ext. 1000, (310) 987-8886.Venue: Carson Community CenterLocation: 801 E. Carson St., Carson

September 19 roadmap to ApartheidThe Roadmap to Apartheid, a film about Palestine, will show from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Harry Bridges Institute in San Pedro. In this award-winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed look at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Narrated by Alice Walker (author of the Color Purple), Roadmap to Apartheid is as much a historical document of the rise and fall of Apartheid in South Africa, as it is a film about why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of people around the world agree with them.” Discussion to follow. details: (310) 567-3332Venue: Harry Bridges InstituteLocation: 350 W. 5th St., San Pedro, CA, 2nd floor

September 26the 5th Annual H.p. Lovecraft Film FestivalThe H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival returns with three days of films, guest speakers, artists and special events celebrating the legacy and influences of the master of gothic horror. The festival runs from Sept. 26 through 28. Tickets are $18, $28 and $60.details: www.hplfilmfestival.comVenue: Warner Grand TheatreLocation: 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

September 27Songs for a new WorldAttend Songs for a New World, a musical by Jason Robert Brown, presented as a benefit for the LGBTQ Center of Long Beach. The show is a

collection of songs that tell a series of stories through an arc, rather than a continual and developing plot running throughout. Each song transports us through our American identity, our community, and our desires. Propelling the journey is the ensemble featuring Dyan Hobday, Michelle Jones, Owen Lovejoy, Caron Lowe, Emily McKibben and David Ponce.Venue: Long Beach State, Gerald R. Daniel HallLocation: 6200 E. Atherton St. Long Beach

OCtOber 4twelfth nightRomance, slapstick, pathos, ribaldry and mental torture will take place with Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, playing Sept. 6 through Oct. 6, in the Studio at the Long Beach Playhouse. details: (562) 494-1014 option 1; www.lbplayhouse.orgVenue: Long Beach PlayhouseLocation: 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

September 19Jay mcCafferty, recent WorksElecting the neutrality of the grid as an organizing principle, Jay McCafferty has been creating artworks by focusing rays of sunlight on its points of intersection for more than three decades. Restrictive by choice, and process-driven, the work has evolved from an orderly array of cigarette-sized burns punctuating the grid to scatters of charred excavations through multiple layers, to near obliteration of the matrix. The exhibition runs through Oct. 31. Gallery hours are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and by appointment.details: (310) 600-4873Venue: Transvagrant@Warschaw GalleryLocation: 600 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

September 20transforming Feminisms A group show featuring 29 artists addressing the issue of feminism in the 21st century. In 2014 violence against women, reproductive rights, and economic fairness continue to be the most significant issues related to gender-specific injustices nationally and globally. Discrimination against women and girls remains the most pervasive and persistent form of inequality. The show runs through Oct. 25, 2014. An artist’s talk will take place Oct. 11, 5 to 7 p.m.details: southbaycontemporary.comVenue: South Bay Contemporary GalleryLocation: 550 Deep Valley Dr., #261, Rolling Hills Estates

September 21Artist’s CallGallery Azul is accepting art work for the 9th annual Dîa de los Muertos group art exhibition. Theme for this year is “Recordando a Nuestros Idolos (Remembering our Idols/Icons).” Portraits are ok but all art must have a calaca/calavera (skull/skeleton) inserted somehow. Deadline Sept. 21. For more info visit galleryazul.com.details: www.galleryazul.com Venue: Gallery AzulLocation: 520 W. 8th St., San Pedro

September 27Color me Long beachColor Me Long Beach is a celebration of the many cultures and art forms that make up the fabric of Long Beach. This multicultural urban art and video experience will spotlight diversity during the five-hour long creation will be launched at the former site of Acres of Books 4 to 9 p.m.details: colormelongbeach.comLocation: corner of 3rd St. and Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach

OCtOber 2Color and CodeColor and Code opens at Michael Stearns Studio 347. The exhibit represents a recent shift in the artist’s focus and direction. In this show Stearns uses chromosome mapping to raise questions regarding science and ethics. Exhibition opens Oct. 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. The opening coincides with the San Pedro First Thursday Art Walk. details: (562) 400-0544Venue: Michael Stearns Studio 347Location: 347 W. 7th St., San Pedro

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cold beer on tap and wine. Full lunch menu also includes salads, sandwiches and burgers. Indoor and outdoor patio dining available. Proudly pouring Starbucks coffee. Open 7 days a week. Free Parking. Boardwalk Grill • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 519-7551

buOnO’S AutHentIC pIzzerIAA S a n P e d r o landmark for over 40 years, famous for except ional a w a r d - w i n n i n g pizza baked in brick ovens. Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and

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CALIente CAntInA LOunGeCaliente Cantina has a variety of hot bar cuis ine and salads, with a variety of hot wings, including orange ter i yak i chicken wings and the special Caliente wings made with habanero sauce. They a lso of fer burgers, fries and nachos. Part sports

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

eL CuCO reStAurAntP l a y a E l C u c o i s t h e quintessential El Salvadorean beach and El Cuco Restaurant s e r v e s quintessential

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HAppy dInerThe Happy Diner isn’t your average diner. If you pay attention to their special menu on their blackboards (yeah plural, they have about three), it’s almost a certainty you’re going to find something new from week to week. The cuisine runs the gamut of Italian and Mexican cuisine to American

cont inental . The Happy Diner chefs are always creating someth ing new. They believe that if an item is good, its reputation will get around by word of mouth. You can even find items normally found at curbside lonchera trucks. You

can take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables, prepared anyway you like. Another item that’s emerged from their flair for the creative is their chicken enchiladas soup made from scratch, a soup Roman describes as very thin and flavorful. Happy Diner • (310) 241-0917 • 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro

LIGHtHOuSe CAFeThe favorite local cafe for the point Fermin area of San Pedro great b r e a k f a s t s , lunches and even dinners. Serving

traditional offering for breakfast along with specialty omelets, espresso and cappuccino. Lunches include a delicious selection of soups, salads, burgers and sandwiches with hearty portions as well as Chef’s Creations. Dinners feature Top Sirloin Steak or Prime Rib as well as a kids menu. Beer and wine are served. Free Wi-Fi and is pet friendly on the patio. Open 7 days a week 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. close to Cabrillo Beach and the Korean Bell, Point Fermin area. Lighthouse Cafe • 508 West 39th St., San Pedro. 310- 548- 3354

mISHI’S StrudeL bAkery Mishi’s is a fragrant l a n d m a r k o n 7 t h Street, where it is possible to find Nirvana by following your nose. The enticing aroma of baking strudel is impossible to resist, and the café is warm and welcoming like your favorite auntie’s house. Aniko and Mishi

have expanded the menu to include homemade goulash, soups and a variety of sweet and savory Hungarian strudels, crépes and pastas. Take a frozen strudel home to bake in your own kitchen and create that heavenly aroma at your house. mishi’s Strudel bakery and Café, 309 W.7th St., San Pedro • (310) 832-6474 www.mishisstrudel.com

nAzeLIe’S LebAneSe CuISIneN a z e l i e ’ s L e b a n e s e C u i s i n e i s a favorite of the neighborhood for the terrific kabobs, beef o r c h i c k e n shawarma, lamb

dishes and falafel. Nazelie’s chicken and rice soup with lemon is like a warm embrace—it takes chicken soup to a whole new level. Nazelie uses a recipe handed down in her family for generations, starting with homemade chicken broth, and adding a refreshing touch of lemon for taste and nutrients. nazelie’s Lebanese Café, 1919 S.Pacific Avenue, San Pedro. (310) 519-1919

pHILIe b’S On SIXtHOwner Philie Buscemi welcomes you to Philie B’s on Sixth, where New York style pizza, Sicilian rice balls and pizza by-the-slice are the specialties.

Fresh hot or cold sandwiches, gourmet pizzas, and fresh salads are also served. Try the “White Pizza” with smooth ricotta, mozzarella and sharp Pecorino-Romano cheeses topped with torn fresh basil. Extended hours accommodate San Pedro’s unique lifestyle and work

schedules. Catering and fast, free local delivery ($15 min.) available. Philie B’s On Sixth • 347 W. 6th Street, San Pedro (310) 514-2500 www.philiebsonsixth.com

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A microbrewery and American grill, SPBC features hand-c ra f ted award -w inn ing ales and lagers served with creative pastas, bbq, sandwiches, salads and burgers. A full bar with made-from-scratch margaritas and a martini menu all add fun

to the warm and friendly atmosphere. WI-FI bar connected for Web surfing and e-mail—bring your laptop. Live music on Saturdays. Hours: From 11:30 a.m., daily. San pedro brewing Company • 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro • (310) 831-5663 • www.sanpedrobrewing.com

SpIrIt CruISeSAn instant par ty ! Complete with al l you need to relax and enjoy while the majesty of the harbor

slips by. Our three yachts and seasoned staff provide for an exquisite excursion every time, and “all-inclusive” pricing makes party planning easy! Dinner Cruise features a 3-course meal, full bar, unlimited cocktails and starlight dancing. Offering the ultimate excursion for any occasion. Free Parking. Spirit Cruises • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 548-8080, (562) 495-5884 • www.spiritmarine.com

tHe WHALe & ALeSan Pedro’s British Gast ro Pub o f fe rs comfortable dining in oak paneled setting, featuring English fish

& chips, roast prime rib, sea bass, rack of lamb, beef Wellington, meat pies, salmon, swordfish & vegetarian dishes. Open for lunch & dinner, 7days/wk; great selection of wines; 14 British tap ales, & full bar. Frequent live music. First Thursday live band & special fixed price menu. Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri. 11:30 a.m.-midnight Sat. & Sun. 1-10 p.m. Bar open late. the Whale & Ale • 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro • (310) 832-0363 • www.whaleandale.com

from local business such as Ports O’Call restaurant and Spirit Cruises president Jaime Wilson and others.

The live music component of the festival will be split between Ports O’ Call Village site of the festival from 4:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. and San Pedro Brewing Co. from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The festival is free and for all ages.

festIVal program:sept. 27 dance performance times:1:00 p.m. -Degas Dance Team1:15 p.m. -San Pedro City Ballet1:25 p.m. -Dance Department/Idyllwild Arts Academy1:35 p.m. -Rubans Rouges Dance Company/ Noelle Andressen 1:45 p.m. -Gulistan Dance Theater2:00 p.m. -Kenneth Walker Dance Project2:15 p.m. -Navarasa Dance Theater /Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda2:35 p.m. -The PGK Dance Project/ Peter G Kalivas3:05 p.m. -Tap Overload3:25 p.m. -The Underground Street Dance Co.3:45 p.m. -Peoples Placesept. 28 dance performance times:1:00 p.m. -Ballet Folklorico Pasion de Mi Tierra/ Gabriel Avila1:15 p.m. -APA Repertory Ensemble1:20 p.m. -Jrick and the Hot Flashers Post Pros1:30 p.m. -ENCORE Dance Company1:40p.m. -Lula Washington Dance Theatre2:15 p.m. -Grupo Folklorico Tzintzuni2:30 p.m. -Louise Reichlin & Dancers/LA Choreographers & Dancers 3:05 p.m. -Hiroshi Hamanishi3:30 p.m. -Ruby Karen Project/Orange County Aerial Arts

musIcal schedule:sept. 27 outdoors at ports o’call:4:30 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. -Blue Eyed Son (Rock)5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. - Prestige Worldwide (Rock, covers)Sept. 27 San Pedro Brewing Co.:10 p.m. to 1 a.m. - Warehouse One (Rock/Ska)Sept. 28 Outdoors at Ports O’Call:4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. - The Black Tongued Bells (Blues/Rock’n Roll)6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. - US 99 (Blues)

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declare that all information in this state-ment 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/. Teresa Violante, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 29, 2014. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another un-der federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).Original filing: 08/21/14, 09/04/14, 09/18/14, 10/02/14

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2014202777The following person is doing business as: ABC electric, 26201 Vermont Ave #102, Harbor City, CA 90710. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Ferenc Hudak, 26201 Vermont Ave #102, Harbor City, CA 90710. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 7/28/2009. I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Ferenc Hudak, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on July 28, 2014. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another un-der federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).Original filing: 09/04/14, 09/18/14, 10/02/14, 10/16/2014

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2014230794The following person is doing business as: girls gun Club, 12021 Wilshire Blvd #774, Los Angeles, CA 90025. Los Angeles County. Articles of Incor-poration: 2750987 Registered owners: American Defense Enterprises, 12021 Wilshire Blvd #774, Los Angeles, CA 90025. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A regis-trant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. William Beasley, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 18, 2014. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement

does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another un-der federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).Original filing: 09/04/14, 09/18/14, 10/02/14, 10/16/2014

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2014233778The following person is doing business as: port Nationals, 2049 W. Pa-cific Coast Hwy, Ste #223, Lomita, CA 90717. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Eddie Greenwood, 1220 W. Cruces St., Wilmington CA 90744. Carly Bolster, 4448 Owens St., #104, Corona, CA 92883. This Business is conducted by a general partnership. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: n/a. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Eddie Greenwood, partner. This state-ment was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on August 19, 2014. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another un-der federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).Original filing: 09/04/14, 09/18/14, 10/02/14, 10/16/2014

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2014204674The following person is doing business as: American rental Services, 2902 Alma Street., San Pedro, Ca 90732. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Michael Joseph Cracchiolo, 2902 Alma Street., San Pedro, Ca 90732. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: n/a. I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Michael Cracchiolo, owner. This statement was filed with the County

Clerk of Los Angeles on July 24, 2014. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the 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 un-der federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).Original filing: 09/04/14, 09/18/14, 10/02/14, 10/16/2014

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2014249347The following person is doing business as: San pedro Chiropractic and pos-ture, 1534 W. 25th Street., San Pedro CA 90732. Los Angeles County. Articles of Incorporation number: 3696302. Reg-istered owners: Ghassemi Chiropractic Corp., APC, 1875 S. Beverly Glenn, Los Angeles, Ca 90025: California. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 8/15/2014. I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Dr. Romina Ghassemi, DC/CEO, Ghassemi Chiropractic Corp. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 2014. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another un-der federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code).Original filing: 09/18/14, 10/02/14, 10/16/2014, 10/30/2014

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Community Announcements:

Harbor AreaTribute to Filipino-American Labor Leader Larry Itliong

The City of Carson and vari-ous organizations will join the entire community in honoring the lifes work and legacy of Lar-ry Itliong—a Filipino-American labor leader and organizer on Oct. 25.

The tribute march will start at 9 a.m. beginning at the USW-Local 675 Union Hall, located at 1200 E. 220th Street and ending at the east parking lot of the Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald Commu-nity Center, located at 801 E. Carson Street in Carson.

The event is free and open to the public. The event will feature music, refreshments, inspirational messages and awards presented to the labor awardees.

Larry Itliong was respon-sible for organizing immigrant farm workers and cannery workers for over 30 years. He helped establish the Alaska Cannery Workers Union in the 1930s and helped get a con-tract that called for 8-hour days with overtime pay.

In 1965, Itliong led the suc-cessful “Great Delano Grape Strike” to protest the low wages and miserable working condi-tions. In 1966, he led the Ag-ricultural Workers Organizing Committee and merged with

the National Farm Workers As-sociation led by Cesar Chavez to form the United Farm Workers union.

In 1970, Itliong founded and became the president of the Filipino American Political Asso-ciation (FAPA), the first national political Filipino American orga-nization and a crucial alliance be-tween Filipino professionals with 30 active chapters throughout the United States.

In October 2010, Carson City Council passed a resolution es-tablishing Oct. 25 as Larry Itliong Day in Carson. Details: (310) 830-7600 ext. 1000 or Fe Koons at (310) 987-8886.

City of Carson to Host Wom-en’s Symposium

The City of Carson Women’s Issues Commission will be host-ing an educational program to promote the understanding and awareness of women’s issues and social services for women and their families on Oct. 25.

The symposium, “Women in the 21st Century,” will run from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The sympo-sium is open to the public and admission is free. Topics of dis-cussion include financial manage-ment for women, caring for aging parents, fitness and health tips, and career achievement for local trail-blazers.

The Women’s Issues Commis-sion assists the City in addressing women’s issues such as domestic violence, equality in employment areas, teen-dating and unwed motherhood. It would also provide Carson women with information and referrals to service agencies and organizations dealing with women’s issues. The commis-sion meets every fourth Monday of the month, 6 p.m. at Carson City Hall.Details: (310) 952-1729.Venue: Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald Community Center Location: 801 E. Carson St. Car-son.

Historic Downtown San Pedro Hosts 8th Annual Dia de Los Muertos Festival

This free, family-oriented an-nual event will feature live enter-tainment, delicious foods, crafts for kids, altar exhibition, and more on Nov. 1 in downtown San Pedro.

Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, dates back to pre-His-panic and Spanish customs and is now a traditional holiday world-wide, where deceased friends and family members are remembered and celebrated.

Entries are now being accept-ed for the Festival’s Sacred Altar Exhibition and Competition. Food and craft vendor applications are also being accepted. Deadline for applications is Oct. 1. Details on how to submit an application along with complete festival in-formation can be found at: www.spdayofthedead.com or www.spdiadelosmuertos.com

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