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Atwater Village, Echo Park & Hollywood HillsApril 2018Vol 13. No. 10

THEATER REVIEW: The Chosen explores friendship across boundaries, losfelizledger.com

BOOK CLUB: Lynell George discusses her new book at Skylight, losfelizledger.com

KEEN TO BE GREEN: Using hashtag movements for environmental change, losfelizledger.com

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Freedman’s puts a fresh twist on the Jewish deli, losfelizledger.com

Atwater Village Toys “R” Us Set To CloseBy Julia Wick, Ledger Contributing Writer

ATWATER VILLAGE—The fail-ure of Toys “R” Us, the toy mega-retailer that recently an-nounced plans to close or sell all of its U.S. stores, has been cast as a broad strokes tale of brick-and-mortar casualties in the age of e-retailers, or the dangers of debt-fueled financial re-structuring.

In a shopping center in Atwater Village, however, the story is far more local, and much less certain.

Employees at the Atwater Village Toys “R” Us store on Los Feliz Boulevard, who were not authorized to speak on the

record, said they had little in-formation on when the store would be closing, or when they would officially be losing

their jobs. “We’re literally waiting on

what corporate says,” one em-ployee who works as a stocker

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Shoppers at the Atwater Village Toys R Us in March, days after the retailer announced it is going out of business. Photo: Julia Wick.

Gang Injunction Ruling Has Local ImpactBy Julia WickLedger Contributing Writer

Echo Park resident Peter Arellano’s father and uncle were once involved with a gang, a long time ago.

As such, for the last five years, something as simple as sitting on his own front porch with family members could have made Echo Park resident Peter Arellano subject to ar-rest.

In 2013, the now 23-year-old Arellano was served with what is known as a gang injunction—a sort of group restraining order tied to a geographic area—limiting his move-ments, actions and associa-tions, despite his claims that he had never been a gang member, according to an American Civil Liberties

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Local High Schools Put Safety FirstBy Erin Hickey Pinheiro, Ledger Contributing Writer

In the wake of February’s shooting at Marjory Stone-man Douglass High School in Parkland, FL, calls for in-creased school security mea-sures are at an all time high.

But some local high schools are already ahead of the curve.

According to Immacu-late Heart President Maureen

Immaculate Heart students protested March 14th, calling for more stringent gun laws in the wake of the February 14th school shooting in Parkland, FL.

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Los Feliz Sees Spate of Break-InsBy Allison B. Cohen

LOS FELIZ—The Village has seen a spate of burglaries over the last month, according to Los Angeles Police Dept. data and reports from local stores.

McCall’s Meat and Fish Company on Hillhurst Av-enue reported its store had a break-in the first week of March.

“They smashed in the front door and stole our safe,” said co-owner Karen Yoo.

Additionally, Yoo re-ported Hillhurst Liquors and Lassen’s Natural Food and Vitamins, both on Hillhurst Avenue were broken into in

Beachwood Gate Won’t ReopenBy Erin Hickey PinheiroLedger Contributing Writer

A judge ruled March 22nd that the city was not required to reopen the controversial Beachwood Drive entrance into Griffith Park after clos-ing it last April following a lawsuit by Sunset Ranch Hol-lywood Stables, a horse ride and boarding business who claimed people were trespass-ing on their property to access the gate.

After the April closure, community groups Friends of Griffith Park, the Griffith J. Griffith Charitable Trust and the Los Feliz Oaks Homeown-ers Association filed a court motion in July calling the closure a “backdoor deal” be-tween the city and the ranch and claiming it violated local and state laws as well as the Hikers and tourists will still not be able to get this view from behind the Hollywood Sign, at least not from the Beachwood

Traihead entrance, which a judge ruled March 22nd should remain closed. Photo: Getty Images/Trekandshoot.

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Big Bunny’s Spring Fling The L.A. Zoo will have a bunny petting zoo, crafts, photo-ops with Big Bunny and a family dance party. Free with zoo admission. L.A. Zoo, Fri. March 30th to Sun. April 1st, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 5337 Zoo Dr. Information: (323) 644-4200, lazoo.org

Spring EGG-Stravaganza Burbank’s public egg hunt for children under 4, photos with the Bunny, games and bounce house. Online registration only. Free for Burbank residents; $5, non-residents. McCambridge Park, Sat. March 31st, 9:15 a.m. to 12 p.m. 1515 N. Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank. Information: (818) 238-5353, burbankparks.com

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and story time. Brunch with the Easter Bunny also available. Free. Brunch, $14 for children 4 to 14, $22 for ages 15 and older. The Rose Bowl, Sat. March 31st, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; brunch seatings: 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. 1001 Rose Bowl Dr., Pasadena. Info: rosebowlstadium.com

EasterFest 2018 This massive egg hunt hosted by the New City Church of Los Angeles features 15,000 plastic eggs scattered around DTLA’s Grand Park. Face painting, games, bounce houses, storybook readings and food vendors. Tickets, $5 per person or $25 per family (up to 7 people). Kids two and under free. Grand Hope Park, Sun. April 1st, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. 919 Grand Ave. Information: newcitychurchla.com/easterfest

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Transparency Needed from LAPDLos Feliz Village stores

had 10 robberies or burglaries over a 30-day period, in Feb-ruary and March, and sadly, the Los Angeles Police Dept. (LAPD) ignored our request for more information on this recent crime spree.

This is nothing new. Nearly all of our requests for information are ignored by the LAPD and that’s by an entire department whose job is to only provide the public and news media information.

One important mission of any newspaper, large or small, is to keep its readers informed, especially of crime. We cannot do that without the LAPD’s cooperation.

LAPD’s Chief Charlie Beck recently announced he

will retire in June. As part of a search for his replacement, I recently filled out an LAPD questionnaire asking what qualities were needed in find-ing a new chief. I answered by simply saying, “one that be-lieves in transparency.”

The public is invited to give feedback about the di-rection of the LAPD under a new chief. Its Board of Com-missioners will met April 3rd at 6:30 p.m. at Griffith Park’s Friendship Auditorium.

“As the Police Commis-sion seeks a new chief for the LAPD, now is the time to speak up for the future direc-tion of the LAPD,” read an announcement of the event on Los Angeles City Council-member David Ryu’s website.

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2018 Coachella: Local Connections to CatchBy Michael Darling, Ledger Contributing Writer

It’s that time of year again, as music lovers head to the desert for the twin weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Every year sees many lo-cal Los Angeles artists per-forming, and this year 10 have connections to the Los Feliz, Silver Lake and Echo Park neighborhoods.

Here are some of the local heroes who will take the stage.

FRIDAY(April 13th and 20th)

Perfume Genius is the alter ego of Mike Hadreas. While Hadreas is mostly Seattle-based, he also keeps a home in Silver Lake. Perfume Genius’s fourth record of lo-fi pop, 2017’s No Shape, made several critics’ best of lists.

The enigmatic Elohim in-tentionally obscures her bio-graphical information in in-terviews, but we know she’s from L.A. and has played the Echo. She’s released a few sin-gles over the last few years, in-

cluding the summery KCRW favorite “Hallucinating,” and her self-titled debut record fi-nally comes out on April 27th.

Formed in 2015 when singer-guitarist Lydia Night was just 14, L.A.-based teen punks The Regrettes have quickly be-come indie rock stars. They’ve played with Sleigh Bells and Peaches and took the stage at Echo Park Rising. The band’s debut record, Feel Your Feel-ings Fool! was released in Janu-ary 2017 and they celebrated with a release party at the Echo.

SATURDAY(April 14th and 21st)

Sister trio HAIM grew up in the San Fernando Valley, but got their start playing in clubs like the Satellite and the Echo. Lead singer and guitarist Dan-ielle Haim now lives in Silver Lake. Their second record, Something To Tell You, came out in July.

Bluesy garage rocker Benja-

min Booker released his second record Witness in July and as part of the pro-motional push for the record he gave Rolling Stone a tour of his apartment in Echo Park.

Although born in Syria, Azniv Korke-jian now lives in Echo Park and per-forms under the name Bedouine. Her folk–tinged self-titled debut was released in last June and named a mas-

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website The Fader.

Silver Lake natives Cherry Glazerr take their name from KCRW host Cherry Glazer, but if you’re expect-ing sedate NPR newsvoice, you’re out of luck. Cherry Glazerr plays grungy rock and roll and released their second record, Apocalipstick, in January 2017.

SUNDAY(April 15th and 22nd)

Saxophonist Kamasi Wash-ington has collaborated with everyone from Herbie Han-cock to Snoop Dogg and played a prominent role on

Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly. In 2015 he released his acclaimed debut triple al-bum The Epic, which was re-corded at Kingsize Soundlabs in Silver Lake.

Silver Lake punks FIDLAR are currently working on a fol-low up to their 2015 release entitled Too. In 2012, they re-leased a tribute to Silver Lake’s infamous Cha Cha Lounge, fittingly called “At The Cha Cha.”

While Magic Giant may be an indie-folk band, they have a metal spirit: they regularly record and perform in a con-verted 1940s bomb shelter in Silver Lake. Their debut full length In The Wind came out in May 2017.

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The Joke’s on You!By Michael Darling, Ledger Columnist

April Fools’ Day is coming up. What’s the most memorable prank you’ve ever been involved with, either as a prankster

or the pranked?

“I once turned my neighbor’s hot tub into Jell-O. It took 100 packets.” – Jason D., out-

side Stories Books and Cafes on Sunset Boulevard.

“Someone once toilet papered my house. It was actually funny because it was during a

party.” – Chris W., outside Stories Books and Cafes on Sunset Boulevard.

“My friends were going to throw a sur-prise birthday party for me, but I knew

about it. They were going to watch for me on the security camera at my house. I got dropped off and faked an al-tercation with the driver. We rolled around like we were fighting and my friends didn’t know if they should come out and help me. Eventually I got up and walked into the house and they were like ‘Surprise?” – Mick A., outside the Echo Park Time Travel Mart on Sunset Boulevard.

“Last April Fools’ Day, I had just gotten out of a four year relation-ship and I had

been building a piece for an

art show downtown, so I was up for days straight without sleep. My best friend’s boy-friend calls me to tell me my friend’s been arrested for co-caine possession and she needs my help. I’m freaking out be-cause I’m not in the best head-space and then she gets on the phone and says ‘April Fools…’ I cursed her out for that. Ha ha.” – Madison K., outside Stories Books and Cafes on Sunset Boulevard.

“This isn’t real-ly a prank, but back in 1972, I lived above a veterinary clin-ic and my

roommate was in the National Guard. He had a simulated grenade, it wouldn’t explode, but it would make loud noises. One day, he says he’s going to set it off. He throws it off the roof and it lands in front of the car of the doctor who runs the clinic. It makes this loud noise and he found us and said ‘Lis-ten, I did some stupid things back in the day, I know you’re young, but don’t do stupid things.’ So, I guess that’s the lesson, don’t do stupid things.” – Ruben T., outside Stories Books and Cafes on Sunset Boulevard.

March. Yoo added that Bru Coffee on Vermont Avenue, has also recently experienced a break-in.

Attempts to speak with those owners were unsuccess-ful. A request for information from the Los Angeles Police Dept. (LAPD) was addition-ally not returned.

Los Feliz Hi-Tech was also burglarized between closing March 6th and the early hours of March 7th. In that instance, burglars forc-ibly pried the Apple retailer’s front door.

Hi-Tech owner Diego Thomas later said nothing was stolen from his shop during the break-in.

According to LAPD crime statistics, there were five burglaries on Hillhurst and Vermont avenues in Los Feliz Village and another five local robberies between Feb-ruary 22, 2018 and March 21, 2018.

All but one of the bur-glaries occurred between midnight and 3 a.m., ac-cording to the data, while most of the robberies oc-curred in the afternoon or early evening between 1:50 p.m. and 7:40 p.m.

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Five Local Dispensaries Can Now Sell Recreational PotBy Ethan Varian, Ledger Contributing Writer

Nearly three months after California’s recreational mari-juana law went into effect, five dispensaries in East Hol-lywood, Silver Lake and At-water Village have been issued temporary licenses to sell recreational pot, according to the newly formed Department of Cannabis Regulation.

They include Green-house Herbal Center in East Hollywood; MOTA, Barr Corporation and Silver Lake Caregivers in Silver Lake; and Greenwolf in Atwater Village.

The temporary approvals are first being issued to exist-ing medical marijuana dispen-saries that comply with regu-latory measures set forward by Measure M, which voters ap-proved last year.

There are currently 129 businesses in Los Angeles that have been issued temporary li-censes. The approvals must be displayed in stores until per-manent licenses are issued.

The submission period for dispensaries to be approved under Measure M expired on March 5th.

Now, applications from

the general public will be-gin to be accepted at the department›s discretion.

The department will also establish a “social equity” pro-gram prioritizing applicants from communities that have historically been affected by “the war on drugs,” according to city documents.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office did not respond to inquiries about the application process on dead-line.

Last year, the Los Ange-les City Controller’s office re-leased data showing that 563 marijuana businesses had been issued criminal complaints by the Los Angeles City Attor-ney’s office. Four were in East Hollywood and Silver Lake along Sunset Boulevard.

At a February press con-ference, Los Angeles Police Dept. Deputy Chief John Sherman estimated there were between 200 and 300 mari-juana businesses operating il-legally in the city.

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Working on Federal Funding For Early Earthquake Warning SystemBy Rep. Adam Schiff

Living atop the San An-dreas Fault,

Southern Californians have come to expect the tremors that shake our homes. It is largely without fanfare or pan-ic: perhaps we ask our neigh-bors if the small quake woke them up and then we move on. There is usually little to no damage and no disruption to our daily lives.

It’s the “big one,” like the one that struck Northridge in 1994, or medium ones like the earthquake that hit Napa in 2014, that we worry about the most and for good reason.

For years, I have worked to get California ready for the next big earthquake by working to see that we build an earthquake early warning system for the West Coast. We don’t know when the next big one will hit, but we are certain it will and the only question is whether we will be prepared.

Completing the earth-quake early warning system,

also known as “ShakeAlert,” will save lives and protect property and infrastructure. Imagine receiving a text mes-sage or hearing an alarm in a

public building alerting you to an earthquake that will hit in 15 seconds. Doctors would be able to pause their operations on patients and trains could be slowed automatically.

We could also stop the flow of natural gas, preventing fires that often result from big earthquakes. All of this could be accomplished with a warn-ing provided by “ShakeAlert.”

In 2014, I led the Congres-sional effort to secure federal funding for a West Coast early earthquake warning system.

We built on a successful pilot project conceived by the US. Geological Service, Caltech, U.C. Berkeley, the University of Washington and the Uni-

versity of Oregon, demonstrat-ing the technology was sound and that building the system was feasible and affordable.

Thanks to bipartisan con-gressional support, we were

successful in obtaining federal funding, which has grown in the years since, bringing us closer to a full roll out.

The construction of

“ShakeAlert” is coming along well, but we still have work to do to ensure we have enough sensors installed and that the information can be dissemi-nated quickly and efficiently

to the public. Congress recently passed

a spending bill that continues ShakeAlert funding, despite the President’s desire to elimi-nate the program.

With the necessary invest-ment, the system can be fully built out within two years. Hopefully, that will be in time. After all, the operational costs for continued maintenance are minuscule compared to what will be saved if we have the system ready to go before the next big quake.

The “ShakeAlert” tech-nology is proven to save lives and property. The federal gov-ernment should continue to invest in it so we’re ready.

Completing the earthquake early warning system, also known as

“ShakeAlert,” will save lives and protect property and infrastructure.

Imagine receiving a text message or hearing an alarm in a public build-

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Addressing Our Rising CrimeBy Assemblymember Laura Friedman

When polled, there is one single issue that the public—across demo-graphic, economic and geo-graphic lines—consistently ranks as their top concern and that is public safety. For this reason, community safety is a top priority for me as an elect-ed official.

It is my belief that, as leg-islators, we are doing our job best when we consider safety first when proposing legisla-tion.

Across the nation and here in California, crime has been decreasing. However, the same cannot be said of our region, which has actually seen an uptick in crime—especially property crimes.

While there was a decrease nationwide in the number of property crimes of 1.3% from 2015 to 2016 and a decrease statewide of 2.9% during the same time period, Los Angeles County actually saw an overall increase of 5.7%.

Like many of the key is-sues we face at the local and state levels, rising crime is the result of a wide variety of sys-temic problems that all require addressing.

Factors such as poverty, barriers to education, housing and mental health services and even well intentioned legisla-tion, all play a role in influenc-

ing the overall crime rate and the types of crimes that are committed.

Crime is unfair to every-one, and if we do not help of-fer quality rehabilitation op-tions for offenders, then we are doing nothing but throw-ing them back into the cycle of crime, whether we lock them up for a few days, a few months or a few years.

This year, there will be different efforts tackling this issue from all sides, some working in harmony and oth-ers in isolation. At the same time signatures are being col-lected for a ballot measure that would aim to roll back some of the effects of Prop 47, 57 and AB 109 there are also serious efforts to entirely eliminate our state’s bail system.

Like all equally complex issues, there is no magic so-lution to instantly resolve the issue. It’s my view that there needs to be a real path towards rehabilitation with treatment that’s proven, coupled with se-rious penalties that truly hold criminals accountable.

Reducing crime is some-thing everyone can agree on, but how we get there is up for an honest debate.

As always, I want to hear your thoughts. Please contact me at [email protected]

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Will AI Fend Off Senior Isolation?By Stephanie Vendig, Ledger Columnist

As you are p r o b a b l y aware, ad-

vances in technology are be-ginning to impact our every-day experience either on the job or making our lives easier. “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) is the broad category identify-ing many of these advances or new products. Most of us refer to them as “robots,” meaning machines that imitate human behavior.

The latest so-called “ro-bot” is the driverless car. While we may think such technology is far in the future, it’s not.

In April, the California Dept. of Motor Vehicles will begin issuing permits for com-panies to test self-driving cars on public roads.

The idea that machines can fully take over human activity is truly remarkable. However, in the case of the car, full automation must come in stages, which will take time to develop.

If the driverless car be-comes more of a reality, one of the possible unintended benefits would be that older adults could retain their own

cars way beyond their usual ability to be safe drivers. In other words, seniors can con-tinue to feel independent and not be home bound. And your car can drop you off right in front of where you want to be and go park itself to wait for the call to pick you up. Of course, this may mean Los Angeles’s infamous traffic congestion will con-tinue, because no one will want to give up their car.

Aside from the driver-

less car, AI technology is also advancing very fast, particu-larly in the personal assisting area. It is becoming popu-lar to use navigation apps, streaming services, smart-phone personal assistants, ride-sharing, home personal assistants and “smarthome” devices, all of which feature some element of artificial in-telligence.

Perhaps the biggest appli-cation will be seen in the lives of older adults and disabled

individuals as a means of help-ing them to remain active, in-dependent, and most of all to reduce isolation.

For example, the Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa/Echo and the Elli Q robot all incorporate voice interac-tion. Thus, you can use these assistants for reminders, set-ting alarms, playing music or

news, managing medications and connecting to family and friends.

So, onward to the future!

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Saturday, April 7th from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., 2060 N. Vermont Ave. Contact Joyce Robertson (323) 363-4316 or Mary Hickey (323) 664-2111 for more information. Those interested in attending can register at foundationforseniorservices.site-ym.com/events

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All Politics is LocalBy Luke Klipp, President

In a city like Los Angeles, with more

than 4 million residents but only 15 City Council mem-bers, it can be tough to get the ear of our elected officials. To further complicate things, Los Feliz is one those few neigh-borhoods represented by more than one City Council mem-ber. And while both of our City Council members’ offices are very helpful, sometimes you need to be able to talk lo-cal issues with your neighbors and, together, to pressure City Hall to take action.

That’s where the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council comes in.

We organize neighbor-hood cleanups, sponsor com-munity forums and events, and hold hearings on things like alcohol permits. Often, we make specific requests and

offer feedback to the City on these and other matters, and we influence outcomes. How-ever, our success depends on your involvement. We have over a dozen stakeholder committees, on topics rang-ing from recreation to public health and safety to trans-portation to business, any of which you can attend and join.

Also, on May 12th at the Elysian Masonic Temple (on the northeast corner of Ver-mont and Franklin), we will hold elections for our govern-ing board, and we would love for you to come vote. That same day, outside our polling station, we will be hosting a tree giveaway. For more in-formation, visit www.losfeliz-votes.org.

Hope to see you there! And hope to see you around at one of our many upcoming meetings!

[OBITUARY]

Tamara GhazarianWe are saddened to an-

nounce the passing and loss of longtime Los Feliz resident Tamara Ghazarian.

Tamara moved to Los Fe-liz in 1964 with her family and will always be remembered for her contagious smile and open heart to all.

Tamara always loved the fashion industry and worked in private design houses and the motion picture studios, contributing her keen sense of style to fashion.

She loved Los Feliz with a passion and always told her friends and relatives that she lived in an area of Los Angeles that was pure magic and full

of flowers and nature. Tamara passed away on

February 24, 2018 from health complications.

She was a loving wife and mother. She is survived by her children Nelly and Rafik Ghazarian.

[SILVER LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL]

SLNC Hosts Notable Panel for #MeToo DiscussionBy Anne-Marie Johnson, Co-chair

The Silver Lake Neighborhood Coun-cil (SLNC) welcomes newly elected David Valdez as Re-gion 5 representative. David has lived in Silver Lake for 10 years and was appointed to the Los Angeles Arts Commission in 2015.

On Thursday, March 29th, in honor of Women’s

Month, the SLNC, in part-nership with the Silver Lake Library, will present the final installment of the Words Can Help … And Hurt series of community conversations.

“Translating #MeToo Into Action” will be a provoca-tive discussion of this global movement and how to support women who are experiencing discrimination or harassment

issues. Guest panelists include

actresses Jenifer Lewis, Black-ish; Amy Hill, Crazy Ex-Girl-friend; Melissa Sagemiller, Law and Order SVU and Ziba Zehdar-Gazdecki, co-orga-nizer of the Long Beach Zine Fest.

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Silver Lake

Library Community Room, 2411 Glendale Blvd. All are invited.

Also, on Wednesday, April 4th, the SLNC will hold a community meeting regarding the proposed Sil-ver Lake/Ivanhoe Reservoir walking path, which will precede the monthly board meeting.

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City Councilmember Da-vid Ryu’s office will be in at-tendance and representatives from the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power will pres-ent renderings of the proposed path. The meeting will take place at Ivanhoe Elementary School Auditorium, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

And on Sunday, April 8th,

the SLNC’s Green Commit-tee will host a walking tour of some of the glorious public steps in Silver Lake.

Charles Fleming, notable author of the “Secret Stairs,” will lead the tour and share his unique knowledge of Silver Lake’s historic public stairways.

For more SLNC informa-tion, visit silverlakenc.org.

Guest panelists include actresses Jenifer Lewis, Black-ish; Amy Hill, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; Melissa Sagemiller, Law and Order

SVU and Ziba Zehdar-Gazdecki, co-organizer of the Long Beach Zine Fest.

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Southern California Sees Typical Post-Holiday DropSouthern California real

estate sales in January 2018 were down 23% from De-cember and down about 1.5% from January of the previous year to a total of 15,247 homes or condos sold in Los Angeles,

Riverside, San Diego, Ventu-ra, San Bernadino and Orange counties combined, according to data from Core Logic, a real estate analysis firm out of La Jolla, CA.

“A fairly sharp drop in recorded home sales between December and January is nor-mal,” said Andrew LePage, a research analyst with Core

Logic. “Not everyone wants to buy and sell around the holi-days, meaning there are fewer deals to record in January and February—two relatively slow months that tend not to be predictive of the year.”

The median price paid for Southern California homes in January was $507,000, down half a percent from December and up about 11% from last January.

According to LePage, this January’s median price in-crease “was the largest since spring 2014. The median’s double-digit annual gain [in

January] mainly reflects the ongoing mismatch between housing supply and demand, especially in the lower price ranges.”

Locally, there were 50 sin-gle-family homes and 7 con-

dos sold in our coverage area this January.

Of those, 17 single-family homes sold in the Hollywood Hills’ 90068 zip code. The median price for the area was down 12% from January 2017 to $1.249 million. Five con-dos sold in the 90068 ZIP for a median price of $490,000, about 7% higher than the pre-

vious January’s median.Meanwhile, 17 homes

sold in Silver Lake/Echo Park’s 90026 ZIP in January. The median price for the area was up more than 31% from the previous year to $1.003 million. No condos sold in the area this January.

Los Feliz saw nine homes sell in the 90027 ZIP code for a median price of $2 million, roughly 10% lower than the

previous January. The area’s condos, however saw a median price increase of about 36% to $865,000 for the two sold.

The 90039 ZIP code, which includes parts of Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Atwa-ter Village, had seven home sales in January for a median price of $865,000, about 14% lower than the previous year. No condos sold in 90039 this January.

The so-called “Ackermansion,” a five-bedroom six-bathroom home at 2495 Glen-dower Ave. in the Los Feliz Hills that was the former home of science fiction and horror legend Forrest J Ackerman sold for $3.475 million, less than one month after it was listed. Lyonel Katz of Lux Realty was the listing agent and Rodolfo Anaya of Westmark Homes was the buyer’s agent.

“A fairly sharp drop in recorded home sales between December and January is normal,” said Andrew LePage, a research analyst with Core Logic.

“Not everyone wants to buy and sell around the holidays, meaning there are fewer deals to record in January and February—two relatively slow

months that tend not to be predictive of the year.”

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It began when Linda Lo-pez noticed her floors were creaking and cracks were ap-pearing in the walls of her home.

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On a recommendation, she called Alpha Structural to shore up and seismically retro-fit her home to its foundation.

Such repairs aren’t un-usual to the hillside and older homes you’ll find in historical neighborhoods such as Silver Lake and Los Feliz.

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construction from 100 years ago was really good, but issues can be found where someone did some remodeling along the way.”

It is important to note that hillside-building codes have changed significantly over the years.

Many homes built in the 1950s and 1960s were con-structed with foundation sys-tems that, at the time of con-struction, were believed to be deep enough to withstand the forces of nature.

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On a construction site in Echo Park, an Alpha Struc-tural worker was recently standing in a trench—up to his shoulders—prepping for a steel cage to be lowered into the hole spanning the width of a four-car garage.

“Essentially we are look-ing at a soft-story building where it is structurally inef-ficient to support sideways movement that happens in an earthquake or sheer forces like high winds,” said Olivo.

In 2015, retrofitting of so-called soft-story buildings—such as apartment buildings with tuck-under parking that proved especially vulnerable in the 1994 Northridge earth-quake—became mandatory.

When finished, this building will be restored, greatly strengthened with grade beam footing and new steel col-umns and all exist-ing parking will re-main.

Not all of Alpha Structural’s jobs are as extensive.

“A foundation inspection is a good investment in your property. We can tell if there’s nothing to worry about, or if there are issues and what it may cost,” to repair, said Olivo. “Home buyers can get a clear picture of the house they are getting into and put [worry] to rest.”

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According to Diekmann, the new company, Joffe Emer-gency and Security Services, specializes in school security and emergency situations, such as earthquakes, fires and lockdown situations like school shootings.

“They train their guards on how to function at a school,” said Diekmann, “not how to function guarding Netflix or a film studio” like other Los Angeles-based secu-rity companies.

Immaculate Heart had also increased their emergency situation drills prior to Park-land, both in frequency and intensity, according to Diek-mann.

“There were set drills ev-ery year, but they were too or-chestrated, too routine,” said Diekmann.

Now, she said, the school’s emergency drills are far more realistic.

During a November earthquake drill, featuring “injured” student actors and less prior direction for fac-ulty and staff, administrators tested the school’s emergency communication and public information systems—and encountered a few stumbling blocks.

“We learned a lot, cause it was rough,” said Diekmann. “But that’s the whole point of a drill—to know where your holes are.”

In light of the new infor-mation gleaned from the No-vember drill, a February lock-down drill at the school was far more successful.

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If law enforcement offi-cials declare a gang’s public behavior to be a “nuisance” and obtain a court order, they can add individuals suspected of being part of that gang to a list, subjecting them to rules that restrict their activity and ability to engage with one another.

Many individuals sub-ject to such injunctions have never been convicted of a crime and have little recourse for getting their names removed from such a list, which many civil rights advocates say is a violation of due process and dispro-portionately affects men of color.

After the Echo Park in-junction was issued, Peter Arellano “skipped neigh-borhood gatherings, holiday parties and other social ac-tivities out of fear of arrest” and underwent a lengthy commute in order to work as far away as possible from the Echo Park designated zone, according to the ACLU suit.

Because his father was also subject to the injunc-tion, Arellano was “afraid of going anywhere with his fa-

ther or being seen in public with most of the people he is close to, even if they [were] engaging in routine day-to-day activities, for fear that they [would] be stopped, searched, and arrested for a violation of the injunction,” according to the suit.

Now, five years later, Arel-lano’s injunction has finally been lifted, thanks to a federal judge’s March 15th ruling or-dering the city of Los Angeles to stop enforcing nearly all ex-isting gang injunctions.

Peter Arellano was not available for comment, but his aunt Veronica Arellano said that the family was deeply sur-prised when her nephew was served with the injunction in 2013.

“Peter was working. He had just graduated school and had been working ever since. There had not been a day that this kid had a rest,” she said.

Veronica Arellano said that she broke down in tears when she learned of the judge’s decision last Thursday.

“It was tears of happiness, tears of the pain that we had to go through with the harassing by the police,” she said. “Every emotion just hit. To know that my nephew can walk freely, and go to the doughnut shop if

he wants to, or the liquor store to go get his daughter some-thing. Those are the moments that came through my head. It’s freedom.”

Peter’s story is not unique, according to Kim McGill of the Youth Justice Coalition, a nonprofit organization that joined the ACLU in bringing the suit.

“Peter Arellano is very typical of how people get swept up into this system,” said McGill. “He had an uncle and a father who had been gang involved way back when they were young adults. There’s a lot of this kind of guilt by association and guilt by history, so even when your family members are no longer involved, you’re seen as, ‘Once a gang member, always a gang member,’ and that’s what hap-pened with Peter.”

But while civil rights ad-vocates like the ACLU, who have long decried injunctions as unconstitutional, see the March 15th ruling as a vic-tory, many law enforcement officials consider it a setback.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League—the union that represents rank-and-file police officers—pushed back against the decision, character-izing gang injunctions, when

applied appropriately, as “a valuable law enforcement tool intended to improve the safety of Los Angeles neighborhoods and stem the tide of drug deal-ing, assaults and other violent crimes associated with gangs.”

Various forms of gang injunctions are currently in place across the country, but their use was pioneered here in Los Angeles County in the early 1980s.

“We created gang injunc-tions and exported them to the rest of the state, the rest of the nation, and even some other parts of the world,” said McGill.

The city of Los Angeles implemented its first gang in-junction in 1987, which tar-geted the West L.A.-based “Playboy Gangster Crips” and was obtained by then-City At-torney James Hahn.

Use of the tactic has ballooned in the decades since. As of 2008, 15% of the city—or 75 square miles—was cov-ered by injunctions, according to the ACLU.

In 2013—when the LAPD and the city attorney’s office first sought to impose its Echo Park gang injunc-tion against six rival gangs in a 3.8-square-mile area known as the Glendale Boulevard

Corridor that includes parts of Silver Lake and Elysian Val-ley—many critics argued that the move had less to do with crime-fighting than aiding gentrification in the rapidly changing neighborhood.

“In the 1990s when we did have crime rates and every-thing, it was never proposed then,” Rio Contreras, a youth educator and organizer, said at a 2013 community meeting. “So why, all of a sudden when we have all this demographic shift and new influx of devel-opment, things are getting im-posed now?”

The Youth Justice Coali-tion’s McGill agrees. Gang injunctions, she said, have aided gentrification since their inception.

“You can see this over and over again, not just in Echo Park,” she said. “For exam-ple, the injunctions for L.A. county and L.A. city weren’t put in place initially in the areas of Watts, South Central L.A. and East L.A. where the violence was the highest. They were put in place in communi-ties like West Covina and Po-mona, where there were either majority white populations, or brown or black people moving into a white community.”

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CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE OKS FINDING WAYS TO HELP PROPERTY OWNERS PAY FOR MANDATED RETROFITS

A Los Angeles City Coun-cil committee agreed March 19th to explore ways of helping property owners finance costly seismic retrofits required by a 2015 law.

INFORMATION NEEDED ON HIT AND RUN FATALITY ON 5 FREEWAY

Authorities need help identifying a driver who fled after colliding with 25-year-old motorcyclist Emery Beck-er around 2 a.m. March 18th on the 5 Freeway near the 2 Freeway interchange. Becker was then hit by another car and died at the scene. The second driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI and vehicu-lar manslaughter. The hit-and-run vehicle was described as a dark-colored sedan.

Anyone with information is urged to call the CHP at (213) 744-2331.

SCHIFF ASKS TRUMP TO UP 2019 FUNDING FOR PROJECTS, LIKE THE L.A. RIVER

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and other lawmakers March 19th urged the House Appropriations Committee to allocate at least $121 million in the 2019 budget to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for engineering and design projects across the nation, including for the Los Angeles River.

President Trump’s current 2019 budget did not include specific funding for the L.A. River, only $82 million for Army Corps projects nation-wide.

KING AND MARSHALL AMONG 3,000 SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE DEMANDING SCHOOL SAFETY FROM GUNS

Students from Thomas Starr King Middle and John Marshall High schools partici-pated March 14th in National Walkout Day calling for gun law reforms in the wake of the February 14th shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.

NUN IN KATY PERRY CON-VENT FIGHT DIES AT 89

Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, one of two nuns fighting a court ruling of the sale of a former Los Feliz con-vent to singer Katy Perry, col-lapsed and died March 9th

during a court hearing on the matter.

RYU FUNDS $50K FOR ADDITIONAL SPRING BREAK PATROLS AROUND HOLLYWOOD SIGN

The Los Angeles City Council approved $51,320 to increase police patrols and other security around the Hol-lywood Sign during spring break between March 23rd and April 2nd.

ACTIVISTS PRESSURE CITY TO LIMIT AIRBNB

Demonstrators held mul-tiple rallies throughout Los Angeles March 8th demand-ing city leaders pass laws reg-ulating the short-term, like Airbnb, rental industry.

The city’s Planning and Land Use Committee is re-portedly considering a city law limiting the number of rental days per host to 180 days a year, which can be increased through an appeals process.

LOS FELIZ HI-TECH BURGLARIZED, BUT NOTHING TAKEN

Los Feliz Hi Tech, a Mac computer authorized seller and service provider, was bro-ken into March 6th, its glass door forcibly pried open, ac-cording to the Los Angeles Police Dept.

But according to store owner Diego Thomas, noth-ing was taken from the store at 1805 Hillhurst Ave.

CITY RECEIVES MORE FUNDING TO CLEAN HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS

With a backlog of requests for homeless camp cleanups mounting, a Los Angeles City Council committee approved March 6th the city’s Bureau of Sanitation’s request for more funding.

The number of cleanup requests for homeless encamp-ments and illegal dumping sites nearly tripled between April 2016 and the end of 2017, according to the bureau, and the city finished the year backlogged by nearly 4,000 requests out of almost 20,000 requests it has received.

O’FARRELL TO RECEIVE LGBTQ LEADERSHIP AWARD

Equality Armenia, a non-profit whose mis-sion is to achieve marriage equality in Armenia, will honor Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell with a Leadership Award at a red-carpet event honoring leadership in the LGBTQ community March 29th in Glendale.

O’Farrell is the first open-ly gay councilmember to be elected to the CD13 seat.

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When Things Go to PotBy Rob Loos, Ledger Columnist

When I told a friend I was having trou-

ble figuring out how to make a good “pot shelf” in our kitchen he gave me the strangest look. It was only later that I realized he was thinking of legalized cannabis and I was talking about the kind of pots—and pans—we use for cooking.

Maybe I just blew my “cool factor,” but I’ve got a

big problem with where—and how—to put our diverse accu-mulation of pots and pans.

When I got remarried a few years ago, my wife and I merged our cookware col-lection—combining big and small, wide and narrow, stain-less steel and copper, tradition-al and non-stick. We’ve ac-cidentally created the kitchen version of a flea market where every pot is interesting, but

nothing matches.One of the biggest prob-

lems is what to do with the pot tops – each “lid” only fits one particular matching pot, which is invariably the last choice in the very back of our 1920’s-era super deep cabinets.

I usually end up with six or seven tops that are close in size, until I finally locate the one that I think will work.

Like many, I’ve also dis-

covered there is no way to stack pot lids so they won’t fall when you pull one out of the pile. No matter how carefully you try to pry loose one lid, inevitably, a sizeable portion of the pile crashes and creates a loud cacophony of noise that sounds like a five-car pile up on Los Feliz Boulevard.

There must be a way to solve this problem. I envi-sioned one of those devices

at the dry cleaners where you hang pot lids on a giant con-veyor belt that rotates from the kitchen ceiling and deliv-ers you the perfect top. As I was seriously considering this option, my wife suggested that I do what I always do.

So I phoned my amaz-ing contractor friend Dave. I reached him as he was swim-ming in his lap pool after his morning 20-mile jog.

I explained my situation. “Do you want the pot lids

on top of the counter or inside a cabinet?” asked Dave.

I was amazed that there was a choice.

“Inside,” I answered. “Then you want a ‘Pull

out pot lid holder,’” he said. “Check the hardware store or online.”

Dave explained that there are various brands that line up the lids in a way that you can slide them in and out of the cabinet without the sound of a car crash.

I followed Dave’s advice, installed it with a screwdriver and now our pot problems are over!

Which once again goes to prove: “If I can’t figure it out—and I know that I can’t—my friend Dave can.”

We’ve accidentally created the kitchen version of a flea market where every pot is

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city’s own charter, which states decisions on access to Griffith Park must be made through a public hearing process via the Recreation and Parks Com-mission.

“It was both shocking and disturbing to hear the city argue in court today that, in their view, the general man-ager of the Recreation and Parks Department has the right to close every public ac-cess point to Griffith Park at his/her discretion without any public notice or public input,” Friends of Griffith Park said in a statement.

The Beachwood Drive gate was first installed, opened and publicized in 2015 by then Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge. Prior to that, there was no official public entrance to the popular Hol-lyridge hiking trail—which provides close-up views of the Hollywood Sign—though hikers could easily access it.

Since then, the gate has sparked conflict between those who claim the Beachwood Canyon community does not have the infrastructure to sup-port the tourists it draws and those who believe the access point is a public right.

“This ruling goes com-

pletely contrary to the inten-tion of Griffith Park,” said Los Feliz Improvement Assoc. Parks Committee Chair Chris Laib “…We’re telling the folks that bought homes in upper Beachwood Canyon that they can’t hike in their own neigh-borhood. They have to drive miles to a different entrance … when they have easy and readily avail hiking trails ad-jacent to their neighborhood. It’s ridiculous.”

As for Sunset Ranch’s trespassing concerns, Laib said, the city could easily build a new gate adjacent to the old gate that would not require pedestrians to trespass.

But some local residents were pleased by the decision.

“I think the most impor-tant thing to remember is that [prior to 2015] there never has been an [official] entry for the public at the end of the Beach-wood [Drive] into the park,” said longtime Beachwood Canyon resident Sarajane Schwartz.

According to Schwartz, she doesn’t understand why people keep suing to reopen an entrance that she said was never technically meant to be open.

“People keep trying to push this when it’s unsafe, and

there’s no infrastructure. It’s unsustainable,” she said.

Hollywood Estates resi-dent Tony Fisch said while he supports people’s right to hike, he also supports businesses’ right not to have trespassers on their property.

“This damaged the ranch’s business. That’s their right and that’s their property. There’s plenty of access to get up into Griffith Park already,” said Fisch.

For his part, Los Ange-les City Councilmember Da-

vid Ryu, who inherited the trailhead problem when he succeeded LaBonge in 2015, shortly after the gate was first opened, said he was commit-ted to solving the problem.

“The more time we spend on costly litigation is less time we are spending on finding solutions that work for everyone,” said Ryu in a prepared statement. “While some choose to litigate, I have worked closely with the May-or’s Office, the Department of Recreation and Parks, [an out-

side contractor] and various community groups to identify those solutions.”

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at the store said. “It’s day to day.”

A store manager, who was also not authorized to speak on the record, said that an of-ficial closing date had yet to be announced.

Toys “R” Us, which got its start as a children’s furni-ture store some 70 years ago, is the largest toy distributor in the country after Amazon and Walmart, according to online statistics and market research portal Statista.

The company filed a mo-tion March 15th to liquidate its U.S. business, meaning more than 700 locations around the country will be closed or sold.

An employee at the At-water Village location said he and other employees received letters informing them of the news that same week.

The toy giant, which hadn’t been profitable since 2013, filed for bankruptcy in September 2017 and owed more than $5 billion in debt.

The eventual closures are “expected to mean the elimi-nation of thousands of jobs” across the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report. A manager estimated that there were roughly 50 employees at the Atwater Village location.

The Atwater Village store is one of about 20 Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores in the Los Angeles area.

On Monday, March 19th—four days after the an-nouncement—shelves at the Atwater Village store were still well-stocked and there were few visible signs of the im-pending closure. Many shop-pers milling the aisles that afternoon said they decided to visit the store in the hopes of finding bargains after hearing news of the closures.

They would have to wait a few more days. Accord-ing to a manager, liquidation sales wouldn’t begin until that Thursday.

“We’re here to get rid of our gift card,” said Valerie Pu-ente, a 36-year-old Eagle Rock resident shopping with her partner and young daughter.

The company said they plan to honor gift cards un-til mid-April. After that, gift cards like the $45 one Puente received for her now almost three-year-old daughter’s first birthday, will be worthless.

The Atwater Village Toys “R” Us store opened in 1996, according to city records.

The 45-acre Los Fe-liz Boulevard shopping mall, which also contains a Costco

and Best Buy, was built on the site of the former Franciscan Ceramics plant.

The factory closed in 1984 and the land was redeveloped in the 1990s.

A representative from Fes-tival Companies, the commer-cial real estate firm that owns and operates the shopping center, said future plans for the soon-to-be-vacant big box retail space had yet to be decided.

“It’s too soon to know anything,” leasing assistant Denise Long said.

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Author/documentarian Bernard Friedman will speak on his new book, The American Idea of Home: Conversations About Architecture and Design, at the library’s Architecture and Beyond Lecture Series Thurs-day, April 19th, from 6:45 – 7:45 p.m., at the Los Feliz Library, 1874 Hillhurst Ave.

The compiled interviews on wide-ranging topics give readers insight on the design process from some of Ameri-

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“We’re giving people a look ‘under the hood,’ so to speak, on how architects set the stage for them to turn a house into a home,” says Friedman, who is founder and creative director of the docu-mentary production company, Flying Mind.

For more information, call the Los Feliz Branch Li-brary at (323) 913-4710.

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April 2018 losfelizledger.com SCHOOL NEWS

[OUR MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL]

Walk-a-ThonBy Hailey Caldera, 5th grade

Our Mother of Good Counsel is a Catholic

School in Los Feliz. Every year in April we

have a Walk-a-Thon fund-raiser. We stop at locations like the firehouse, Palermo’s, Yuca’s, and other local busi-nesses.

There will be oranges and water to keep us going, and

the school designs a shirt ev-ery year and tells us to bring sunglasses.

We normally have bud-dies from other classes while we walk. We might pass by some pretty cool stuff too. Maybe we’ll pass by your fa-vorite restaurant!

The walk is about 3.2 miles which is a pretty good reason for all those stops.

We can bring our own wa-ter, and I suggest a light bag to hold the oranges and the wa-ter. It’s honestly really fun to get out of the school for a little while. It’s a cool experience that lasts about two hours.

This is how we raise mon-ey for our school every year. It’s fun to walk outside and get fresh air.

This year’s Walk-a-Thon will happen on April 27, 2018 starting at about 10:30 a.m. Maybe you’ll stop by to cheer us on.

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Protect Students, Not GunsBy Sasha Ivanir, 7th grade

I am 12 years old and I am scared to come to school.

There have been several school shootings in less than a two month span since Janu-ary 1st, this year—five that occurred during school hours and resulted in physical ac-cording to a February 15th Washington Post tally, though nonprofit organization Every-town for Gun Safety puts the number at 17, including in their count any time a firearm was discharged on a school campus, regardless of injury or whether children were present.

Regardless of which num-ber you go by, innocent lives have been taken because the right laws haven’t been put in place. It is crazy to me that you can legally buy a gun before you can legally drink.

A candy chocolate egg—Europe’s “Kinder Surprise Egg”—was banned in Ameri-ca to keep children safe. But a firearm that can kill 17 people in less than 20 minutes can be placed legally into the hands of an 18 year-old.

In 1791 when the right to bear arms was passed, guns had to be reloaded after every bullet and were not as danger-ous as they are today. That law has not yet been updated.

Schools need to be a nur-turing environment for chil-dren that will soon be the fu-ture. Schools need to be safe, sacred places to learn and grow intellectually—not battle-grounds for psychopaths and mentally deranged individu-als. It’s appalling that we have to worry about heinous crimes within our own school. The protection of us, the children, is more important than the protection of the 2nd amend-ment.

I advocated for gun con-trol laws and school safety on the KSNC News channel at our school on Wednesday, March 14th.

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Lots to Do at LILABy Max Campbell, 4th grade

Hi, my name is Max and I

am in 4th grade at LILA Los Feliz. I enjoy studying at this school because we do research reports. I love researching people, animals, and places. I especially love putting it to-gether and making a poster, slideshow or an article on google docs.

Recently I completed a report on the British ex-plorer Captain James Cook, and now I am working on a report on echidnas and Aus-tralia. I especially love edit-ing and animating. I find that when you’re finished, and when you have put ev-erything together, it can be funny, satisfying and even mind-blowing!

After school we can sign up for after school activities like: mad science, toy making, violin, fencing, soccer clinics,

art, etc. I take fencing. There are also team sports:

soccer, track, volleyball and basketball, but it’s not guaran-teed that you will qualify, as you have to try out. I’m on the track and soccer team.

Every season there are 10 soccer matches against other schools. Each team has a name. Ours is Lilalions. At lunchtime, after you eat, there are tournaments. You sign up with two teammates and find a name. You wait until your name is called and then you play to get points. There is a schedule to know when you are playing. I love playing soccer!

I enjoy learning at this school because it makes me feel smarter, and when I be-come smart, it makes my life easier, better and more inter-esting because I have learned new skills!

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Friday Night in the GardenBy Lyana Monge, 6th grade

Our school is a Culinary Arts, Farm to

Table School for Advanced Studies. That means that we focus a lot on gardening and eating healthy all year long.

Every year around Earth Day, we also have an event called Friday Night in the Garden held after school. This

year it will be on April 20th, from 4:30-6:30 pm at Glen-feliz Elementary SAS. Dur-ing this event, we have special guests visit our school. We have food samplings and a lot of fun things to do.

Some of the guests that will be at our event this year include Enrich L.A.’s Garden Ranger Farmer Ted, Chef

Lovely, Atwater Farmer’s Mar-ket, USC Master Gardener Christine Anthony, Bio Con-tractors, and of course both of our parent groups. Our parent groups will host arts and crafts tables and sell food to support

our event. We also have all of our

teachers and teacher assistants helping out by volunteering at booths. Some of their booths include food sales like salads, spa water, and parfaits, while other teacher booths include crafts tables, a raffle table, suc-culent planting, T-shirt and tote bag sales, and an informa-tion booth.

This event is always so much fun. We have free things like seed giveaways, crafts, in-formation, and our succulent plantings. We also have some things for sale, like food, T-shirts, totes, raffle tickets, and beverages.

We hope that people from our community will come and join us for our event. It will be exciting and educational.

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Dream WeekBy Lane S. Lee, 6th grade

H o l l y w o o d Schoolhouse allows us chil-

dren to learn in so many dif-ferent ways. One of the most exciting ways we learn new intriguing concepts is during Dream Week! Dream Week is a week of having fun, learn-ing new things, and bring-ing the whole school together through lessons involving STEAM. For example, some classes are teaching how weather works, how ice-cream is made, how to build structures, and much, much more. I am looking forward to this year’s Dream Week, as I would consider it one of the best events at school.

Speaking of recent events, each month a special guest speaker for the sixth grade comes to visit. Each of

these wonderful women talks about her career and endeav-ors. Anna Gay was our most recent speaker, and she was truly inspiring. I can honestly say from my classmates’ feed-back that they are encour-aged by the life stories we get to hear and get a better un-derstanding of what the real world is like.

As part of our service learning program at Holly-wood Schoolhouse, fifth and sixth grade students volun-teered with TreePeople. Tree-People is a nonprofit associa-tion that benefits both nature and people, as trees provide air and other natural resourc-es for us. We helped prepare over 100 pieces of greenery for planting. This was a wonderful opportunity for my peers and me to take part in.

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April 2018 losfelizledger.com SCHOOL NEWS

[LARCHMONT CHARTER SCHOOL]

Larchmont Middle Schoolers’ View on School ShootingsBy Mia Reid, 7th grade

We are only four months into the year, and there have already been several school shootings in 2018. Official tallies range from five to 17, depending on factors such as whether school was in session or injuries occured, but any number is too many. There has to be a change.

I am going to share with you some of the ideas Larch-mont Charter School middle schoolers, teachers, and sub-stitute teachers have about this issue and how we can fix it.

“School shootings shouldn’t happen as frequently as they do now,” said 7th grad-er Avery Hipolito. “The gov-ernment has to have a stricter law on gun control. Until that happens, schools should have more drills and more talks about this issue.”

Luciana Da’nhunzio, also in 7th grade, has actually been in a school shooting herself.

“It was extremely terrify-ing because you don’t know what’s happening. You just hear loud noises and scream-ing. It feels like you are a helpless little ball with no power. I hope no one else ever feels this way again,”

said Da’nhunzio.I also wanted to get a

teacher’s point of view. I de-cided to interview our sev-enth-grade science teacher, Ms. Gina Taylor. “School shootings are a horrible thing, and they are extremely unacceptable,” said Ms. Tay-lor. “We can only have so many drills. A big thing that will help this issue the most would be to have regular check-ins with the students to make sure everything is okay. When students are in charge of these school shoot-ings, it is usually because they feel both isolation and self-hatred. I really think these check-ins would help.”

The number of school shootings happening now is not okay—even one shoot-ing is wildly unacceptable. Something has to be done. We Larchmont students don’t want to feel scared and worried every time we come to school. We encour-age everyone to participate in marches and protests to fight for our schools and fight for our community. Anything, and even every little thing, will help.

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In the spirit of Easter and renewal, Im-

maculate Heart continu-ally breathes new life into its commitment to foster a school community of com-passion, awareness, and sis-terhood.

One such effort took place on March 14th when our high school and middle school students participated in the nationwide walk-out, protesting gun violence and showing solidarity with the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida. Students and teachers stood

silently for 17 minutes along Franklin and Western av-enues, while other students held a memorial service on the quad for those who lost their lives.

Days later, IH hosted its annual community-building luncheon and fashion show. The Mother-Daughter Lun-cheon honors the generations of strong Immaculate Heart women and the bonds they forge—both maternal and sisterly.

Following a Holy Thurs-day prayer service, Immacu-late Heart students began their Easter holiday, which continues through April 8th.

Over Spring Break, students rest and renew, tour colleges, and participate in school-orga-nized trips to Japan and New York City. Part of Immaculate Heart’s Pandas Explore pro-gram, the bi-annual trips offer students a chance to experi-ence new cultures and gain new perspectives.

When classes resume fol-lowing Spring Break, Immac-ulate Heart High School will invite incoming 9th graders and their parents to a welcome breakfast and reception on Saturday, April 14th. We look forward to meeting our new Pandas and members of the Class of 2022!

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before,” said Diekmann. Pilgrim School on Com-

monwealth Avenue had also implemented new security measures before the Park-land shooting, according to its Chief Operations Offi-cer Maite Cervik, who said the school had been work-ing with a security consul-tant to take the school’s security “from reactive to proactive” just prior to the shooting.

Although the timing of the school’s increased security measures was coincidental, the school plans to incorporate lessons learned from Park-land into their security guards’

training, according to Cervik. “It’s an ongoing process

for us,” said Cervik. Los Angeles Unified

School District officials did not respond to multiple re-quests for an interview about any new security measures at John Marshall High School, but sent the following pre-pared statement via email:

“Marshall High School administrators and staff have met with their security staff and tightened up on all safety protocols. The principal is of-fering professional develop-ment to his staff with school police and recently heard an active shooter presentation by one of our officers.”

As an example, McGill cited the city’s first gang in-junction against the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987.

“That was not the neigh-borhood experiencing the most violence—not even close. But it was the neighbor-hood that was right next door to Culver City and Beverly Hills and also the black com-munity was moving in to what

had been a traditionally white community.”

The March 15th court decision will affect the nearly 1,500 Angelenos whose names remain on gang injunction lists. More than 7,000 addi-tional names had already been removed from injunction lists last year following an audit by the Los Angeles Police Dept. (LAPD) and the city attor-ney’s office.

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