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LADY
IN L.A.
O
n a swing through
the Los Angeles
area this week, First
Lady Michelle Obama
pleaded with Hollywood to support military families, opened
up about how she overcame
cynicism about politics, and
headlined top-dollar fundraisers for her husband’s 2012
re-election campaign. Inside,
Rashidah Shakir-Blackshere
— who was among more than
500 guests at a Monday event
in Pasadena — shares why she
sees the first lady as a singular
inspiration. A6
White House Photo
District takeover imminent?
Inglewood school
officials fear state
may step in should
IUSD fail to come up
with millions needed
to avoid insolvency.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
INGLEWOOD
—
Stakeholders in the Inglewood
Unified School District received
grim news at a special community meeting held June 9:
Despite laying off 250 employees and slashing its tentative
2010-11 budget by $24 million,
the district is in very real danger
of running out of cash within the
next four months.
That outcome would require
IUSD to seek a state loan, which
in turn would likely trigger a
state takeover of the district.
The news comes after the district board unanimously voted
last month to seek “an emergency apportionment” loan from the
California Board of Education
to help ease its short-term cash
crisis.
The details were spelled out in
the auditorium of Morningside
High School, during a gathering
hosted by the Fiscal Crisis and
Management Assistance Team
(FCMAT).
The independent external
agency was created in 1992 to
help local education agencies
comply with financial accountability standards.
Following an introduction
by IUSD Superintendent Gary
McHenry, who acknowledged
the presence of board members
Arnold Butler, Johnny Young and
Carol Raines-Brown, the presentation was made by FCMAT’s
Deputy Director Anthony
Bridges and Intervention
Photo by Olu Alemoru
Specialist Debi Deal.
Embattled Inglewood Unified School District Superintendent
See IUSD on page A2 Gary McHenry shares financial details at a June 9 meeting.
Motoring
around
Watts, a
pastor finds
the drive to
serve others
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
Photo by Gary McCarthy
On Monday, demonstrators in downtown L.A. expressed angry opposition to the release of
former policeman Johannes Mehserle, who shot and killed an unarmed man in 2009.
Release of ‘killer cop’ revives
condemnation in Oscar Grant case
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
This week’s release of
Johannes Mehserle, the former
Bay Area Rapid Transit police
officer convicted in the shooting death of unarmed 23-yearold Oscar Grant, has sparked
new outrage in a case that has
drawn international headlines.
On June 9, the Los Angeles
Coalition for Justice for Oscar
Grant, along with community
supporters and other activists
staged a protest at the corner
of Crenshaw and Martin Luther
King Jr. boulevards to con-
demn Mehserle’s exit from a
Los Angeles jail early Monday
morning.
Armed with signs reading
“Stop Killer Cops,” protesters
chanted “Killer cop Mehserle,
we won’t forget, we won’t
back down.” Jubilee Shine, of
the Los Angeles Coalition for
Justice for Oscar Grant, called
Mehserle’s release “a travesty
of justice. It is a perversion. The
community has no confidence
in the court system to protect us
against abusive, violent police
officers in California.”
A woman who identified her-
self as Lala, a member of the
Black Riders Liberation Party,
agreed, saying that change can
only come through civilians
who are fed up with officers
“constantly terrorizing us. If
we don’t stop this now, there
are going to be more and more
brothers and sisters being
killed. What are we going to
do? Are we going to continue
to let them kill our people? Or
are we going to do something
about it? Black Riders is going
to do something. It is up to
the people to stand up and do
See MEHSERLE on page A5
WATTS — For Pastor Todd
Grant of Watts Power House
Church, service is in his blood.
Growing up in Columbus, Ohio
with a father who was the pastor
of a diverse congregation, Grant
found himself heavily involved
in the church at a young age.
But it was not until “college that
God began to lay it on my heart
to go into the full-time ministry,”
said Grant, who attended Ohio
State University before going to
Asbury College in Kentucky, then
Asbury Theological Seminar. It
was there, he said, that “God
really began to press upon my
heart the desire to plant or start
a new church in the urban city. It
was in my doctoral program that
I began to try to tackle the issue
of breaking down racial barriers
in the church.”
This led him to Tucson, AZ.,
where he and other like-minded
peers started a church. During
his time there, he was offered
an opportunity to come to Los
Angeles for a conference on
planting churches, and the evergrowing urge to start a church in
the inner-city was fostered. Yet,
See PASTOR on page A10
Photo by Gary McCarthy
Andre Christian, who has been shot 13 times, is a new graduate of the Urban Peace Academy gang intervention program.
On the front lines,
combating violence
Newly-certified as gang
intervention specialists,
a group of South L.A.
residents are ready to
make a difference in
their community.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
Burly Los Angeles native
Andre Christian is coy about his
age — “25 for life.” But having
been shot 13 times, he is far less
reserved about his calling.
Christian was one of 20 proud
professionals who graduated
June 10 as front line gang intervention workers from the Urban
Peace Academy’s Los Angeles
Violence Intervention Training
Academy — known as LAVITA
— the nation’s only program for
people who help keep the peace
in gang zones.
The academy is a program of
the Advancement Project, cofounded by civil rights attorney
Constance L. Rice, who along
with its 75 partner foundations
have won millions to help engineer large-scale systems change
to fight inequality, expand
opportunity and open paths to
upward mobility.
The graduating class received
their certificates from Rice
and L.A. Deputy Mayor Larry
Frank at the Children’s Bureau,
housed in the Magnolia Place
See GRADUATION on page A3
Quest for fatherly love
carried on in his name
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Betty Pleasant
ust as the Children’s Institute
Inc., one of the Southland’s
oldest and largest child services organizations, was wrapping
up the details of its fourth annual
Fatherhood Solution Conference,
scheduled for Friday, Hershel K.
Swinger — CII’s executive vice
president, founder, director and
guiding light of its innovative
“Project Fatherhood” program
— died.
Swinger, a 72-year-old resident
of Baldwin Hills, died May 23
of congestive heart failure after
devoting his life to the health
and welfare of children, with an
emphasis on children’s fathers,
for which he gained a national
reputation, numerous accolades
and awards, two federal grants
and recognition as a model program from the Obama administration.
Swinger was a clinical psy-
Courtesy photo
Hershel K. Swinger died on
the eve of the Fatherhood
Solution Conference set to be
held this week in L.A.
chologist with a Ph.D from USC
who, after spending many years
helping children traumatized by
family and community violence,
See BOTTOM LINE on page A4
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IUSD from page A1
McHenry noted that the drastic
cuts had wiped out the structural
deficit for this fiscal year, but
the 2011-12 structural deficit is
projected to be between $6 and
$10 million and $24-28 million
in 2012-13.
“There is no structural deficit in
2010-11, but we still don’t have
the required reserves for 201112 and 2012-13,” McHenry said.
“We have done all these things
to try and balance the budget,
but it’s still not enough and we
are in a negative cash balance
until December, and unless we
reduce our expenses we will not
be able to make payroll sometime between now and then.”
In her opening remarks, Deal
confirmed the bad news and outlined the likely process.
“We’re pretty close to a takeover at this point,” she said.
“Mr. McHenry has already been
talking to local officials about
an ‘urgency bill’ that would go
to the governor to secure a state
loan that would result in the
takeover of the district.
“[But] it’s a long process —
four to six months — and the
degree of state control depends
on how much money you need
to borrow. If our calculations
are true, Inglewood would need
about twice the level of its
reserves [about $20 to $30 million, according to Bridges].”
She added: “Therefore, under
[the education code] the state
would take over and the school
board would lose its control. The
superintendent would be fired
and a state administrator would
be assigned to take over the district and assume all of the powers of the board.
“This is not a process that is
good for the kids, employees,
parents and we encourage the
district and all involved to really
work together to avoid this process.”
However, in terms of how the
district came to find itself in
such a position, Deal singled out
the ongoing state budget crisis.
“Lots of problems have been
impacted on the district by the
state … we’ve had three years
of state budget cuts, the largest deficit we’ve ever seen and
declining enrollment,” she said.
“The district has really responded as best it can at this point in
a very short period of time. The
district has made $24 million in
cuts and you’ve really all made a
difference and chipped in.
“You just need to go a little
further to keep the state out …
that’s why we’re working with
the state right now to get this
apportionment to buy time.”
Meanwhile, Bridges noted
that McHenry would most likely
receive compensation for the
18 months left on his contract
— over $200,000 — which later
drew the ironic ire of union
representative Chris Graeber,
of the California Professional
Employees Local Union #2345,
which represents 650 classified
employees in the district.
“We’re actually written into the
education bill and are required
to do a management review,”
Bridges explained. “Within
weeks, a FCMAT team will be
here and we will do an analysis
of the areas of community relations, personnel, finance, facilities and governance. There are
about 362 standards that go into
those five component areas and
we have a rubik scale where
we score the district and set a
baseline.
“Most districts in state takeover score somewhere in the one
and twos … [but] in order to get
one of these components back
under local control you have an
average score of six.”
Reaction from the audience,
which from mid-afternoon
swelled to a sizable crowd by
early evening, was critical of
McHenry and the board.
One retired teacher asked
what the bottom line is in terms
of what her former colleagues
could give up, noting that they
had already taken a pay cut of
18 percent.
Parent Darryn Harris asked:
“You’re talking about us going
into the community to spread the
word about Inglewood schools?
Why would we talk up a district
that is about to be taken over by
the state?”
But board member Brown
managed to sound upbeat.
“I am very optimistic,” she
said when asked by The Wave
about the possibility of being
fired. “I don’t think about that
… it’s a probability, but not a
reality at this point. I am doing
my part to make sure there is not
a takeover. … I am going door
to door with community people,
students and teachers to recruit
families to come back to our
school district and celebrate the
greatness of our schools.”
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Intervention workers combat violence
Photo by Gary McCarthy
Jermain Jackson clutches the certificate honoring his completion of gang intervention training
at the Advancement Project’s Los Angeles Violence Intervention Training Academy.
GRADUATION from page A1
Conference Center on Magnolia
Avenue
and
Washington
Boulevard.
The graduates are representatives of local community-based
intervention
organizations,
most of which have contracted with the Mayor’s Office
of Gang Reduction & Youth
Development.
Their duties include brokering ceasefires between rival
gangs, defusing tensions before
violence escalates or after it
explodes and responding to
gang related homicides to prevent retaliation.
Last year, officials noted a
40 percent drop in gang-related
crime in and around 24 city
parks that are home to the
Summer Night Lights Program,
an anti-gang initiative that keeps
parks open after dark with free
food and expanding programming for youth.
Similarly, gang-related homicides dropped around 57 percent
in the neighborhoods surrounding the Summer Night Light
parks.
“I’ve lived on the other side of
the fence for so many years and
suffered a few tragic events,”
Christian said in an interview.
“I’ve been shot 13 times and
used to wonder what I was left
here for — because it wasn’t
like I was just in the wrong place
at the wrong time.”
He added: “As I started doing
this work it all made sense; I feel
obligated to save lives because
I’ve been destroying them for so
many years.”
According to Christian, he
first began performing intervention work in the community
then heard about a number of
programs and found his way to
LAVITA.
“I think that’s where a lot
of guys are getting stuck,” he
said. “They make the mistake
[of believing] that because they
are in the community, they don’t
need the professionalism … just
the hood connection. They don’t
need to put any further knowledge into it.
“A major component is that
we get training in hospitalization. That’s where a lot of the
shootings and aftermath escalate. They might see a family
member bleeding and now they
want to go out and do something,” he added. “But a lot of
times the story’s not even true;
that’s where we put in the rumor
control, because they hear some-
thing, they act off that and then
it’s too late.”
Rice paid a fulsome tribute to
the class saying they are “creating a safe environment for
the children, your children and
everybody else’s.”
“You are putting your lives on
the line, stepping away from a
role you started out as and deciding there was something more,”
she said. “You are giving back,
and you are re-building, and we
want you to continue with that.
You don’t have the badges, a
vest or weapons. You have the
skill, relationships, accessibility and your honor. And we are
all banking on that to keep the
children safe in our neighborhoods.”
Meanwhile,
Michael
Cummings,
an
Academy
Program Standards committee
member, called on the graduates’
families to be understanding.
“They’re going to be called
away from some birthdays and
other celebrations and sometimes at night,” he noted. “Don’t
get mad because they’re going
to save a life; just embrace and
hug them and give them all your
strength because only a few special people can do this.”
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Community Calendar Compiled by Marisela Santana
Uplifting Change: The Liberty
Hill Foundation hosts a reception and
special conversation with Rep. Karen
Bass (pictured), who will share reflections from the nation’s Capital that
will inform philanthropy today in L.A.
Hosted by the Leadership Circle members Darryn Harris and Nii-Quartelai
Quartey with The Sankofa Group
for Civic Foundation, this event will
bring together an empowering group
that will include Tanya Acker, Kibi
Anderson, Brickson Diamond, Earl
Fowlkes, Paul C. Hudson, Fran Jemmott, Paula and Barry Litt,
Dawn Randall, Edward and Effie Sanders and Assemblywoman
Holly Mitchell. The event takes place on June 17, from 6 to 8
p.m. at a location that will only be provided upon RSVP. (310)
453-3611, ext. 132.
•••
Supplier Diversity: Assemblyman
Steven Bradford (pictured), D-Gardena,
hosts a local minority, women, veteranowned business/enterprises at a legislative
hearing on supplier diversity. Beginning in
1986, the California Legislature enacted a
series of statutes to encourage a fair proportion of total utility contracts and subcontracts for products and services to be
awarded to women, minority and disabled
veteran business enterprises. Regulated
electrical, gas, water and telephone corporations with gross annual revenues exceeding $25 million and
their Commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates are directly
covered by these laws. AB 2758 declared the policy of the state to
ensure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or
subcontracts for commodities, supplies, technology, property and
services for regulated public utilities, including, but not limited
to renewable energy, wireless telecommunications, broadband,
smart grid and rail projects, are awarded to women, minority and
disabled veteran business enterprises. June 17, from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. Inglewood City Hall, 1 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood.
(310) 412-6400
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Honoring Fathers: The Honor Thy
Father Foundation invites families in
the community to celebrate their fathers
by registering them for the 10th annual
Honor Thy Father Awards Dinner. The
ceremony allows families to honor their
fathers, husbands, brothers, uncles,
brothers or mentors with a public presentation in grand style. HTF is still accepting registrations.
Hosted by Denise Estelle for Humanity, the dinner takes place on
Father’s Day, June 19, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Proud Bird
Restaurant, 11022 Aviation Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 281-0766
•••
Giving Back: Kiki Shepard (pictured) and
Friends invite the community to participate
in “The World Sickle Cell Day: A June 19th
Awareness Cell-A-Bration,” next week. Sickle
Cell disease is a painful, life-threatening illness that is thought to affect over 100,000 people in the Unites States and 2 Million people
globally. The event aims to bring awareness
and educate the public at large about Sickle
Cell disease and traits; dispel the rumors, and
opinions; unite and bring attention to the needs
of the Sickle Cell Community; and to educate and activate people
to donate blood and register marrow. Activities will include an onsite Blood and Marrow Drive, free Father’s Day lunch for 100 people, music, arts and crafts, a Sickle Cell education walking tour,
and so much more! A free “Winter Holiday in June” Toys Givea-way donated by Kiki Shepard’s K.I.S. Foundation, for children
and young adults diagnosed with Sickle Cell will also take place.
June 19,
from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. Vermont Square United Methodist Church, 4410 S.
Budlong Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 750-1087
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Grand Master: The California African
American Museum’s Films@CAAM
Series explores the life and death of famed
hip-hop DJ Jason Mizell — best known
as Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC — in
the documentary “Two Turntables and a
Microphone: The Life and Death of Jam
Master Jay,” which probes his unsolved
murder and tracks the history of hip-hop
and mainstream rap. This event is free and open to the public.
June 23, at 7 p.m. CAAM, 600 State Drive, Los Angeles. (213)
744-2024
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The Force: The Los Angeles Police
Department and the Los Angeles Fire
Department are going head to head in a
friendly rivalry next weekend at a kids safety event and basketball game. Hosted by
television personality Arsenio Hall, attendees of the “Safe 2011 Summer Tip-Off” will
be treated to a barbecue lunch, prepared by
some of the city’s best firefighter chefs,
play games, obtain celebrity autographs and win prizes. Both
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and LAFD Chief Millage Peaks will
be in attendance. The event will also include tours of fire trucks,
helicopters and equipment used by the LAPD’s Swat Team and
the bomb squad. Attendees will also be introduced to some of the
LAPD’s K-9 Units. June 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. USC Galen
Center, 3400 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. (213) 486-5919
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Those wishing to place announcements in this month’s calendar
should mail information to The Wave, 1730 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite
500, Los Angeles, CA 90015, fax to (213) 835-0584 or e-mail to msantana@wavepublication.com. Items will be published on a space-available basis. The deadline for all submissions is Friday at 5 p.m. Please
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BOTTOM LINE from page A1
abuse and neglect, finally arrived
at the nexus of the problem he was
facing everyday and of its solution
— the role of the father in a child’s
life. So, 15 years ago, Swinger
created Project Fatherhood at
CII through which he and his
staff devoted themselves to helping low-income, urban fathers
become engaged, effective and
loving parents.
“During his many years of
working with the courts and child
protective service agencies, Dr.
Swinger saw that social workers would not seek out fathers of
color to involve them in their children’s problems, and that made
him very sad,” said Ron Banks,
clinical director and now interim
director of Project Fatherhood.
“He recognized the longing that
children have for a nurturing and
supportive father and the instinctive desire that almost all fathers
have to love and protect their
children.
“And Dr. Swinger saw that there
were four reasons why the connection between fathers and their
children was broken,” Banks continued: “Stress, social and psychological isolation, low self-esteem
and intergenerational issues, such
as substance abuse, domestic violence and incarceration were the
reasons. Dr. Swinger saw that,
despite these four reasons, absent
fathers do love their children and
he set out to change the way
fathers were being treated.
“He began developing strategies, protocols and treatments
to infuse fathers and their children into each others’ lives,” said
Banks, who also has a Ph.D in
clinical psychology, was mentored by Swinger and who worked
closely with Swinger in the creation and implementation of
Project Fatherhood.
At the Children’s Institute, a
105-year-old agency, Swinger
spent more than 10 years developing several fatherhood demonstration programs and innovative
treatment models, which ultimately meshed into Project Fatherhood
in 1996. Since then, the project
has served more than 7,000 absent
urban fathers who were either
referred to it or chose to seek
assistance on their own.
In 2006, the project received
two grants totaling $7.6 million
from the U.S. Office of Family
Assistance pursuant to the federal
Fatherhood Initiative to expand
the program, and now Project
Fatherhood is being implemented
in more than 50 agencies throughout Los Angeles County — from
Lancaster to Long Beach. Locally,
a Project Fatherhood program is
operated in Watts, in the midWilshire area, in Long Beach, and
in two Torrance sites. The newest
one, which opened a couple of
months ago, is at 2121 W. Temple
St. near downtown Los Angeles.
According to CII, 95 percent of
the fathers participating in Project
Fatherhood maintain regular contact with their children and only
two percent of the children of participating fathers re-enter the child
protective services system.
Anyone wanting information
on Project Fatherhood or any of
its program can call (213) 2607600, exts. 8121, 8150 or 8130.
Banks said Swinger was planning to retire at the end of this
month and Friday’s Fatherhood
Solution Conference — scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
at the downtown Wilshire Grand
Hotel — was set to honor him
as the retiring father of Project
Fatherhood. But now that he’s
dead, Banks said the first 1-1/2
hours of Friday’s conference will
be devoted to a memorial tribute
to Swinger, with the rest of the
schedule proceeding with the business of tackling the critical issues
facing high-risk urban fathers and
their children, such as: “Trauma,
Fathers and Immigration,”
“Incarcerated Adult and Teen
Fathers,” “Women’s Role in the
Fatherhood Movement,” and
“Perceptions of Fatherhood in the
Media.”
Six national and two local
experts on fatherhood are expected
to participate in the conference.
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something with us.”
The group reassembled
Saturday for an emergency town
hall meeting at the Southern
California Library, and again
Monday morning at the Clara
Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice
Center, where Mehserle’s trial
was held. This was followed
by a march to a nearby U.S.
Department of Justice building,
where demonstrators attempted to put pressure on Attorney
General Eric Holder, who has
initiated an investigation into
the case.
“Mehserle has done less than
half the sentence Mike Vick
served for animal abuse,” Shine
said. “We demand that … federal
charges of civil rights violations
be brought. We further announce
the initiation of a campaign in
Los Angeles to establish community control over the police
in the form of an all-elected,
all-civilian … board with full
authority over the LAPD in all
aspects, at all levels.”
In a letter to the Justice
Department, Rep. Maxine
Waters, who sits on the House
Judiciary Committee, wrote, “I
write with grave concern for the
events and procedure surrounding the People of the State of
California v. Mehserle. This case,
involving a Caucasian police
officer’s brutal shooting of an
unarmed … African-American
male, has further exacerbated
tensions between California’s
communities of color and law
enforcement authorities,” she
wrote, noting her support of
Rep. Barbara Lee’s call for a
federal investigation into the
Mehserle verdict.
Though the case is a state
criminal matter, “certain factors
warrant further examination by
the Civil Rights Division of the
Department of Justice,” Waters
continued. “Although the incident occurred in Oakland, the
brutal police killing of Oscar
Grant … has so resonated with
my constituents in South Los
Angeles, that they have organized a grassroots campaign,
urging their elected officials to
support a federal investigation
into the facts and procedures
surrounding the case. Given
the level of protest and civil
unrest that has resulted from
the Mehserle verdict, it is critical that the Justice Department
ensure that all civil rights statutes were properly enforced,
and that no federal laws were
violated during the course of the
prosecutorial stage, jury selection and trial process.”
For Grant’s uncle Cephus
Johnson and other relatives, there
will be no peace of mind until
“the Department of Justice picks
this case up and files charges of
civil rights violations,” he said.
“Then and only then will we get
some accountability and justice.
Then and only then will we get
peace on this issue.
“This is sad day for us. We
have to relive what took place
on that platform every day,”
Johnson added. “But, we know
there is going to be pain before
there is some gain. We realize
that … in order to bring about
change we must walk through
it.”
On a rail platform on New
Year’s Day 2009, Mehserle was
videotaped shooting a prostrate
Grant in the back, leading to his
becoming the first law enforcement officer in California to be
convicted of a killing committed
on duty.
Last July, a jury with no
African-Americans
handed
down an involuntary manslaughter verdict in the case against
Mehserle, who was immediately
booked into the Los Angeles
County Men’s Central Jail and
kept separate from the general population. Superior Court
Judge Robert Perry rejected a
prosecution request that jurors
be allowed to consider firstdegree murder against Mehserle,
saying there wasn’t enough evidence to show the shooting of
Grant was premeditated.
On Nov. 5, Perry sentenced
Mehserle to two years in prison.
However, Mehserle only served
seven months; Perry credited
him with 146 days for time
served, and another 146 days
for good behavior. That left 438
days, which was then cut in
half.
Mehserle’s attorney, Michael
Rains, built his case by describing similar incidents in which
“seven other officers before
[Mehserle] had … mistakenly
drew and fired [their] gun,” said
motion statements. Mehserle has
maintained that he meant to use
a Taser, not his service revolver,
when he fired at Grant, who was
lying on his stomach.
At his sentencing, Mehserle
gave a tearful, 15-minute speech
in which he apologized for his
actions, which he said have widened mistrust between communities and the law enforcement
officers who serve them. He
also took responsibility for acting with haste, and said that if
incarceration will bring safety to
his family, then he will be will-
ing to serve jail time. He said he
and members of his family have
been subjected to death threats.
“I wish I could bring Oscar
Grant back, but I know it’s
not possible,” Mehserle stated,
according to StreetGangs.com
writer Alex Alonso, who was
inside the courtroom.
Members of Grant’s family, who had urged the judge to
impose the maximum sentence,
still consider Grant’s killing to
be murder — and they lashed
out at Perry’s handling of the
proceedings. “He, himself …
overrided the [initial] verdict
that the jury brought back,”
said Johnson, in an interview
Monday afternoon about Perry’s
decision to throw out a gun
enhancement charge.
The verdict, Johnson said, has
sent a clear message to people
of color “that whatever rights
you think you have, you don’t
have.” The family, he added, “is
seeking to bring resolution, to
get justice and to also make sure
that accountability is taken for
[Mehserle’s] egregious act.”
They are also working to
ensure that Mehserle does not
revert back to his “normal life,”
Johnson said, adding that their
lives have been destroyed by
the fateful day. He said the other
young men who were with Grant
that day have been affected as
well — their civil rights have
been violated and they are still
coping with the loss of a friend.
“They are entitled to seek justice for that,” said Johnson. “We
are entitled to seek justice for it.
And that is what we are determined to do.”
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BY ARUN RAMANATHAN
ver the past decade,
Californians have learned
a lot about the academic
performance of our students,
thanks in large part to data collected from school districts. We
now know, for example, that
the achievement gap between
African-American eighth graders and their white peers has
increased statewide over the past
seven years in English Language
Arts; that Asian students, in general, are high-performing, but
that certain subgroups of Asian
students, including Laotian and
Samoan students, are silently
struggling; and that in certain
school districts, Latino and
African-American
students
have equitable access to college-ready coursework, while in
other school districts they are
disproportionately being denied
access to the courses that public
universities require.
All of this data has armed
parents, community members,
advocates, and policymakers with the information they
need to make better decisions
on behalf of students. And this
kind of information is just the
beginning. With new and better
ways of collecting data, we now
know our state’s dropout rate is
21.5 percent, at least 8 percentage points higher than we previously thought. And this year, we
will know for the first time the
state’s true four-year graduation
rate. Yet, if Gov. Jerry Brown’s
most recent budget revision is
adopted, the future collection of
such data is at risk.
Over the last eight years, the
state has been building a longitudinal student data system
known as CALPADS. This system is being built in response to
federal requirements that each
state be able to track enrollment history and achievement
data over time for individual students. Since 2005, each student
in California has been assigned
a unique, anonymous identification number that school districts
use to submit data to the state
about each student’s enrollment,
demographics, achievement and
more. All of this student-level
data will ultimately be housed in
CALPADS, which is now nearing completion. This year, almost
every district used CALPADS to
report their enrollment, and will
soon use it to report the other
data as well.
CALPADS represents a major
shift from previous data collection efforts, when school districts reported data about groups
of students instead of individuals. Statewide longitudinal data
is the only way to consistently
know whether a student dropped
out of school, or whether he
simply transferred to a school in
another district and ultimately
graduated. Longitudinal data
can also tell us which schools
produce the strongest academic
growth for their students, and
which programs are most effective at raising the achievement of
English Learner, or low-income
students. And once CALPADS
is linked to the state’s preschool
and higher education data systems, we will be able to use data
to better understand school readiness, as well as how students
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are being prepared for success in
college and careers.
Unfortunately, the future of
CALPADS is at risk because
of opposition to the system
from Gov. Brown. The governor has questioned the value of
CALPADS and dismissed the
benefits of collecting statewide
student data. In his May budget
revision, he completely defunded the system, threatening the
state’s ability to accurately and
reliably collect, store, and make
use of longitudinal data.
In collaboration with advocacy groups ranging from PICO
California to the California
State PTA, we at The Education
Trust-West have strongly urged
the Governor to change his
mind. Without funding for the
CALPADS system, Californians’
ability to know about the academic performance of our students will be severely limited.
For example, educators would
lose the ability to access enrollment and academic background
information for highly mobile
students, who may change
schools multiple times each
year.
Consider a student who transfers from a district in Northern
California to a district in
Southern California. That student
may have a history of chronic
absence, may excel in English
but struggle in math, and may be
eligible for the free or reduced
price lunch program. But unless
the first district sends this data to
the second (and oftentimes, this
does not happen) the student’s
new school will not have this
information. In contrast, a statewide data system would house
all of this information at the state
level so that no matter where the
student moves in California, his
new school will be able to access
this data and tailor instruction to
his needs.
The potential elimination of
CALPADS also has major implications for parents and community members. There are
1.5 million English Learners in
California. Parents of these students should be able to access
information on which schools
have a track record of helping
English Learners achieve English
proficiency as quickly as possible. But without CALPADS, it
will be much harder for parents
to find out how long schools
take to bring students to English
proficiency.
California’s schools — once
the envy of the nation — are
now failing to adequately serve
our students. But for Governor
Brown to point the finger at
the state’s data systems is the
equivalent of blaming the messenger. Data helps illustrate
the problem, it doesn’t cause
it. Governor Brown’s proposal
to cut funding for CALPADS
would bring an end to the transparency and accountability that
is vital to empowering educators and communities to act on
behalf of their children.
Ramanathan is executive
director of The Education
Trust-West, and wrote this
commentary for New America
Media.
The nephew
of Rep. Elijah
Cummings of
Maryland was
killed in a shooting in Norfolk,
Virginia on
Friday — just
weeks after he
tried to chase
down a would-be
robber who reportedly vowed
retaliation.
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At a lunchtime fundraiser Monday afternoon in Pasadena, First Lady Michelle Obama told more than 500 guests that meeting
so many hardworking Americans on the campaign trail “pushed me away from my cynicism” before the 2008 election.
In Michelle Obama, inspiration
BY RASHIDAH
SHAKIR-BLACKSHERE
ver 500 guests attended a Monday luncheon with First Lady
Michelle Obama, in support
of President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Hosted by
a diverse planning committee
led by fundraising guru Lena
Kennedy, the $1,000-a-plate
affair was held in the spacious
gardens of the historic Hamilton
Estate in Pasadena. Community
volunteers, educators, business
professionals, and members of
the American military were on
hand to witness an impassioned
speech by the dynamic corporate attorney-turned mother and
wife-turned-quintessentially
American First Lady.
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What began as an overcast
morning for hundreds of guests,
waiting patiently to pass through
tight security, gave way to brilliant sunshine as the first lady
made her way to the podium.
Mrs. Obama is at once powerful
and graceful, and she is at the
center of a family that has redefined the term “All-American.”
Yet, she freely acknowledges
that she has been humbled by
campaign-trail encounters with
Americans from so many different walks of life.
“I was pushed away from my
cynicism … meeting so many
hard-working Americans …
parents working that extra shift
or taking the extra job” to make
the rent or put a child through
college. Meeting extraordinary
people from the inner cities
“to the backyards of Iowa,”
— all of them embodying the
American ideals of hope, tenacity and resilience that continually inspire her.
Serving as First Lady takes
tremendous spirit and energy,
but for Michelle Obama, someone new to politics and its rigors
and demands, it is an energy
that is clearly derived from the
people. Rather than creating a
“new” America, the president
and first lady have dedicated
themselves to heralding a “true”
America — where both theroes
and the downtrodden lift and
inspire one another, arm in arm,
side by side, “even when it’s
hard, even when it’s not in [our]
self-interest,” she said during
her remarks.
For many of us, particularly African-Americans, the
American dream, no matter how
it’s defined, has rested on shaky
ground for far too long. When
the Obamas entered the White
House, they assured us that in
America, the land so many of
us have proudly called home
for generations, “there’s a place
for us all.” Though many of us
are still struggling to secure our
“place” — be it a job, home or
an education — as long as the
Obamas are leading the way, we
can’t help but believe our time
is coming.
Shakir-Blackshere is an
associate professor of English
at Los Angeles Trade-Technical
College.
Getting Black women off the hook in South L.A.
BY NAJEE ALI
The word choose means to
select from a number of possibilities or to pick by preference.
Here is a choice to think about.
Which arm would you like me
to chop off, your right or left?
Is that really a choice? Would
most of us choose to have the
left hand chopped off since
most of us are right handed?
When real alternatives do not
exist, it looks like people are
making bad choices. What are
the basic rights that all women
and children should have so
that they never have to make the
“choice” to prostitute?
They say prostitution is a
choice. But is prostitution
a choice that young AfricanAmerican women really desire
to make? Or are circumstances
— combined with ignorance,
hopelessness, extreme poverty
and pimps luring women with
false dreams — the reason why
prostitution has increased dramatically throughout South Los
Angeles? At a recent meeting
of the Empowerment Congress
Central Area Neighborhood
Development Council, there
were several area residents who
complained that prostitutes
were engaging in sexual acts
near homes, schools, churches
and businesses in the area.
Their outrage and concerns
have sparked the attention of
a diverse group of South Los
Angeles community organizations and leaders which include
The Community Coalition,
Weller Street Baptist Church,
L.A. Humanity Foundation and
members of the Muslim community to unify and launch a new
South Los Angeles anti-prostitution initiative. It is designed to
help provide support and referrals for women to overcome
homelessness, domestic violence, and substance abuse problems. Too often we drive down
Western Avenue, Figueroa, or
problem successfully, you must
understand and address the root
causes. There is a nationwide
trend of increased frequency of
child prostitution as a result of
runaways. Many men feel that
they are safer from AIDS if they
have sex with younger prostitutes, increasing the market for
younger sex workers. Sixty percent of children reported miss-
We’re not interested in calling
the police on our sisters
other parts of South L.A. where
prostitutes are working in broad
daylight — and equally as often,
they are viewed with indifference, as if this is normal and
accepted behavior. But these
women are someone’s mother,
sister, daughter, or neighbor. If
we don’t reach down and help
them, who will? Our coalition
is one that chooses to care about
these women, not vilify and look
down on them with disdain.
We’re not interested in calling the police on our sisters. We
believe that the systemic barriers encountered by prostitutes,
who are already involved in
the criminal justice system, will
only impede their recovery. We
have to be able to help police
our own community.
We need to call for stiffer
criminal penalties for those
who seek to solicit and exploit
these women. In order to fight a
ing as a result of running away
become prostitutes for some
period of time to survive.
According to a 2003 study
by researchers Kramer & Berg,
childhood risk factors and limited access to economic and educational resources place poor
African-American women and
girls at significantly higher rates
of risk for entry into prostitution
at earlier ages as a consideration
for survival. African-American
women and girls are disproportionately represented among
women who are involved in
street prostitution — the lower
echelon of the prostitution hierarchy. They are disproportionately (90 percent) represented
among female victims of prostitution-related homicide (…
Grim sleeper in Los Angeles)
and are more likely (60 percent)
to be controlled by a pimp.
African-American victims of
prostitution are more likely to
be arrested, face higher fines,
receive more jail time, and have
their children removed by the
child welfare system.
Faced with additional individual barriers associated with
child sexual abuse, substance
use, and mental health issues,
African-American women can
benefit from culturally sensitive
healing and recovery programs
that adequately address a multitude of needs. These considerations raise important issues
regarding the need for service
delivery programs that simultaneously address both individual
and systemic factors in serving
the needs of prostituted AfricanAmerican women and girls.
For this cause, our coalition
of anti-prostitution activists will
be conducting weekly street
outreach throughout South L.A.
and attempting to draw attention to what we feel is a form of
systemic violence and exploitation of our young women.
Prostitution is an extension
of modern-day slavery with the
buying, selling, and trading of
women on South L.A. street
corners becoming more commonplace. It’s crucial that these
young women be presented with
better choices.
Ali is the director of Project
Islamic HOPE. On Friday,
there will be an anti-prostitution rally at 9 p.m., with participants meeting at Barack Obama
Global Prep Academy, 1700 W.
46th St. in Los Angeles.
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II.” But if that was a movie with
a predominantly black cast?
Nothing.
The NAACP had a burythe-N-word ceremony at its
national convention in Detroit a
few years ago, but the NAACP
Image Awards, which were created to promote the positive
images of African-Americans,
has honored comedians and
musical acts that have used the
N-word in their work.
So society says it’s bad, but
then for some it’s fine — so
what’s the mixed message we’re
sending?
Let’s look at the gay slur,
the F-word. When Kobe Bryant
directed the F-word at a referee
I have laughed hysterically at jokes based on sexist,
racist or homophobic stereotypes told by a litany
of comedians. That’s right. LOL. LMAO. ROFL.
Carlos Mencia, Andrew Dice
Clay, Kathy Griffin — and the
list can go on and on and on.
I’ve watched Lampanelli,
marketed as the Queen of Mean,
call a guy in the audience a
Hispanic slur; rip someone as
“a skinny Jew;” cuss out a guy
by telling him she uses the Nword and doesn’t care; and on
and on and on. Is there anyone
or any ethnic group that Don
Rickles hasn’t insulted? And
he’s a comic legend!
So, I think we should make an
effort to have a real discussion
and not just a knee-jerk reaction
when some of us say that the
comedy stage has no place for
sexism, racism and homophobia. Are we really being hypocritical?
Are we saying that as a society, when we have major social
epidemics, those are off limits to
the comedy stage? Just the other
day I watched comedian Patrice
O’Neal’s stand-up act late one
night on Comedy Central. He
had a bit about how good sex
felt for someone not wearing a
condom. To a socially conscious
person, that’s an abomination
when you look at the HIV/AIDS
rates in America, especially in
the African-American community. (O’Neal is black.)
When a prominent HIV/AIDS
activist took me to task on my
Morgan column, I asked her
about O’Neal’s bit, knowing the
issue is her passion. I didn’t
get a response. Child abuse is a
major problem in America. But
don’t let me pull out the video
clips of comedians of all colors, genders and sexual orientations talking about beating a kid
with anything they can get their
hands on. Are we saying that
because it’s a societal problem,
no joking and no laughing are
allowed?
When groups that have been
oppressed begin to make sweeping pronouncements about what
can or cannot be said, there are
going to be the contradictions
that have to be confronted.
I’ve had some long, running
battles on Twitter, radio, TV
and in person with AfricanAmericans on the N-word. For
me, I don’t like it and I don’t
use it. On one hand, black folks
will blow up when someone
white uses the N-word. A lot
of folks were offended when
people who were not black used
the N-word in “The Hangover
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During a recent stand-up performance in Nashville, comedian Tracy Morgan joked about responding with violence should
his son reveal himself as gay in an effeminate manner. He has since been roundly condemned by colleagues and others.
estly: “Have you ever laughed
at vile, nasty, offensive comics who told sexist, racist and
homophobic jokes?”
The response? A resounding
yes.
I can sit here and tell you
with no uncertainty, that I have
laughed hysterically at jokes
based on sexist, racist, or homophobic stereotypes told by a litany of comedians. That’s right.
LOL. LMAO. ROFL.
Take your pick. I’ve listened to Richard Pryor, Eddie
Murphy, Chris Rock, Flip
Wilson, Lisa Lampanelli, Bill
Maher, Rick Ducommun,
Bernie Mac, George Lopez,
Martin Lawrence, Don Rickles,
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henever there is an
issue dealing with
race, misogyny, sexual orientation or some other
hot-button issue, we often hear
the cry that we need to have
a national discussion about it,
whether in the media, in our
homes or in our churches.
Yet what always seems to
happen is that the discussion
ends up being you take your
side, I take my side, and we
express our righteous indignation. Then what was supposed
to have started as a conversation
turns into a knockdown, dragout fight, with folks cussing one
another out, naturally causing
others not to talk, to discuss or
to think.
Case in point: Tracy Morgan’s
graphic and violent anti-gay
“rant” or “bit” or “comic routine” or “meltdown” during a standup act last week in
Nashville.
We haven’t seen any video
of the show or heard the audio,
and are basing our judgments of
what he said on the account of
someone who was in the audience, was offended and wrote
about it on Facebook.
I got wind of the issue when
I read Morgan’s apology for
what he had to say. When I saw
the CNN.com story, my initial
thought was, “Damn. Talk about
hateful, nasty and crude.”
Yet as I followed the traffic of discussion on Facebook
and Twitter, all of a sudden I
began to see how folks were
categorizing what he had to say
and began to ask myself about
the other implications of our
reaction.
So I wrote a piece for my
nationally syndicated column on
that, and all hell broke loose.
“You hate gays.” “You’re
homophobic.” “Why can’t you
be on our side?” “Why are you
defending Tracy Morgan?”
“Comedians have a First
Amendment right.” “It’s just
jokes, folks!” We had a strong
back and forth on Facebook,
Twitter and e-mail, and it was
easy to see the passions aroused
by what Morgan said and what
I wrote.
My goal wasn’t to defend
Morgan, as some have said.
What stirred me to comment
was seeing someone say that,
“Comedians should never joke
about murder or bring harm and
violence to children.” Someone
else tweeted me, “Bigotry has
no place in comedy.”’
So I cited examples of
jokes about the murder of O.J.
Simpson’s ex-wife and her
friend; a comedian joking he
wished he showed up at home
and his wife was dead; a ton of
jokes about beating kids; hitting
a 1-year-old in the throat or
stomach; and many comedians
who have used a gay slur incessantly in their acts, and presented stereotypes of how gays and
lesbians talk and walk.
These aren’t the same as what
Morgan said, but they could
easily be seen as offensive to
many.
Yes, all of these come from
popular comedians who are
loved and adored by millions.
To the people who rightfully
condemned Morgan’s anti-gay
comments, and to everyone else,
I asked them to answer hon-
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and he was caught on camera,
there was a huge uproar. He
was hit with a $100,000 fine,
and the largest gay and lesbian civil rights group, Human
Rights Campaign, issued this
statement: “Hopefully Mr.
Bryant will recognize that as
a person with such fame and
influence, the use of such language not only offends millions
of LGBT people around the
world, but also perpetuates a
culture of discrimination and
hate that all of us, most notably
Mr. Bryant, should be working
to eradicate.”
Really? I had a gay Twitter follower who said that Lampanelli
is his absolute favorite comedian
and he sent me a YouTube link
to one of her standup acts. In the
clip, she used the F-word with
impunity while thanking her
gay and lesbian fans for showing up. She had to have used it
more than a dozen times.
So I asked this guy how
he could say the F-word was
wrong, but his favorite comedian used it with ease. His reply?
She’s a friend of the gay community and has donated money
to gay causes.
So if the HRC says we’re to
eradicate the F-word from our
language, just as the NAACP
says we’re to get rid of the Nword, then why do we allow
the exceptions to the rule, and
end up praising the offenders as
friends of our communities?
In response to my Tracy
Morgan piece, I had gays and
lesbians write me saying that
I didn’t say the same about
Michael Richards or other
examples of people who have
used the N-word. Even Keith
Boykin, whom I have known
for some time, took me to task.
But I told them, and him,
that I said repeatedly on CNN
that Richards’ N-word blowup
wasn’t a part of his stand-up act;
it wasn’t a bit; it wasn’t a routine; he lashed out at a patron. Is
there a difference? You bet.
Who remembers when Duane
“Dog” Chapman was caught
using the N-word on his son’s
answering machine? I was
on CNN and was asked if he
should lose his A&E show. I
said, not at all. He made these
comments in private, was on
his son’s answering machine,
wasn’t in the workplace, and it
didn’t rise to the level of him
losing his show. Yep, the black
guy who has called out racism
said a white guy like Chapman
shouldn’t lose his show.
One gay blogger tweeted
me and said I had been wrong
to call for Don Imus’ firing
because he was a comedian like
Morgan, and that I employed a
double standard. I replied that
Imus wasn’t a comedian; he
had a respectable morning show
that attracted presidential candidates, members of Congress,
media titans, authors, academics, you name it. I said over
and over that had Imus still
been a shock jock, we would
have placed him in that category because we’re used to
having them make sexist, racist,
homophobic comments.
Are people shocked by anything that Howard Stern says?
No. Think about the kind of
stuff he has said about any
group. What happens when we
hear it? Our response for the
most part has been, “Well, he is
a shock jock.” And we move on
with our lives.
So if we’re honest, we are
known to make exceptions to
the rule. Our society will have
a different standard for a shock
jock then we would for a traditional morning show host. Our
society will let comedians say
things on stage that if someone
else said them in the workplace,
we would be filing lawsuits.
And what is so amazing is
that this same society will pay
to go be insulted, or laugh at
a comedian insulting another
group, and we will go home
saying how great the show was.
Then we turn around and say
that bigotry has no place in our
society. Really?
This isn’t an attempt to
muddy the issue of dealing with
Tracy Morgan. Let’s hold him
accountable; let’s all agree that
what he said was vile and despicable.
But if we leave it there, and do
not become more introspective
as a society and confront our
own contradictions on race, sex,
homophobia and violence, we
will have allowed the moment
to go to waste and failed.
If all expressions of bigotry
are wrong, then it’s wrong on
the comedy stage. If all sexism is wrong, then there isn’t
an exemption on the stage.
If racism is always bad, then
let’s have zero tolerance. If
all homophobia is unacceptable, then no one — friend or
foe — gets a pass. If violence
against women should never be
joked about, then let’s hold even
comedians accountable. If we
say that no one should ever
joke about violence committed
against children, gay or not,
from this day forth, it ends.
Don’t dismiss this. Think
about what I’m saying. Think
about what you accept and don’t
accept. For God’s sake, don’t
just offer a surface rebuke of
Tracy Morgan, think about how
profound sexism, racism and
homophobia — and violent
crime based on such bigotry
— is in our society, and how
you are willing to deal with it.
The opinions expressed in
this commentary are solely
those of Roland Martin, a CNN
contributor.
THE MAPS — The voter-mandated 14-member California
Citizens Redistricting Commission, seeking to end a long and nasty
history of gerrymandering by California politicians, took a stab at
redrawing the boundaries for the state’s congressional and legislative districts and released to the public Friday the fruits of its labor
— the first draft of new district maps. These maps are subject to
extensive public vetting and changes are most likely to be made to
them before they are subjected to final action in August.
According to the analysis prepared by experts engaged for that
purpose by the California Democratic Party, the preliminary maps
drawn by the redistricting commission would have the following
affect upon Los Angeles County’s African-American elected representation:
• Congressional Seats: Rep. Karen Bass would continue to
represent the Crenshaw-Leimert Park-Mid-City areas, as well as
Westwood, Mar Vista, Culver City and Ladera-Windsor Hills-View
Park. But her district would stretch eastward to the Harbor Freeway
from Venice to Slauson.
Rep. Maxine Waters’ South L.A. district gets stretched eastward from Inglewood to the Long Beach Freeway corridor cities
of Bell, South Gate, Cudahy and into Downey. She loses Gardena,
Hawthorne and many neighborhoods north of the 105. With the
exception of Inglewood, she loses the neighborhoods surrounding
the airport, which is a big employment center for the residents she
has represented for decades. She picks up areas represented by Rep.
Linda Sanchez, fueling speculation that the two could face each
other in a 2012 primary should this draft district prevail in August.
Rep. Laura Richardson’s district is shifted eastward as well
and picks up Paramount, Hawaiian Gardens, Lakewood, Cerritos,
Los Alamitos, Signal Hill and virtually all of Long Beach. She
loses all of South L.A. south of Manchester, Compton and Carson.
The first-draft seat overlaps with the one held by Sanchez, triggering speculation that she could abandon her Long Beach base for a
new Hawthorne, Lawndale, Gardena, South L.A., Harbor Gateway,
Compton, Carson seat that could attract the interest of Waters and
a host of others looking for that next opportunity. “Big Mama”
and “Little Mama” may yet have the falling out predicted when
Waters engineered Richardson’s election following Rep. Juanita
Millender-McDonald’s death. Or, termed-out state Sen. Alan
Lowenthal, who hails from Long Beach, could give Richardson the
challenge disgruntled Long Beach voters have been waiting for.
• State Senate Seats: Sen. Curren Price’s sprawling preliminary
district includes all of South L.A. within the city of Los Angeles
and he keeps Culver City, Windsor Hills and Ladera-View Park. The
district gets pushed well east of the Harbor Freeway into Huntington
Park as he loses portions of Hollywood, Hancock Park and Silver
Lake. Price picks up virtually all of Westwood and Palms and he
would represent collegiate crosstown territory.
Sen. Rod Wright’s proposed district would retain Inglewood,
Hawthorne, Lawndale, Gardena, Compton and San Pedro. He picks
up East Compton, Carson, Wilmington and Lynwood. He loses
Long Beach and Rancho Palos Verdes. Assembly members Steve
Bradford, Isadore Hall and Warren Furutani all live in this new
district.
• State Assembly Seats: Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell’s district spreads further north and west to pick up all of Westwood and
Mar Visa. She retains Culver City, Ladera-View Park and Windsor
Hills and picks up mid-Wilshire. According to these draft maps,
Mitchell and Assembly Speaker John Perez now reside in the same
Assembly district. That’s messy.
Assemblyman Mike Davis’ string bean-shaped district gains
weight to the east of the Harbor Freeway to pick up FlorenceFirestone, and west to Arlington to include all of incorporated South
L.A. He loses Koreatown and most of the territory north of the Santa
Monica Freeway.
Bradford’s Inglewood-Hawthorne-Gardena seat picks up the
Harbor Gateway and Harbor City portions of the city of Los Angeles
east of the Harbor Freeway to include some of Torrance, while
Hall’s Compton-based seat gets merged into a Lynwood, Carson and
Wilmington-San Pedro configuration which would place him at odds
with Furutani, who represents the new areas folded into Hall’s proposed district.
As I keep reiterating, these are only preliminary district boundaries drawn by the redistricting commission and they are certainly subject to change before the final maps are drawn. Toward that end, the
African-American Redistricting Collaborative is urging Southlanders
to meet with the redistricting commission Thursday when it holds
its only local hearing to take testimony from residents as to their
reaction to these preliminary maps. Activists with the AARC are
opposed to the way these maps divide, truncate, split — whatever
you want to call it — African-American communities of interest,
thereby reducing opportunities for Blacks to be elected. They plan
to talk to the commission about that. The meeting will be held in the
Culver City City Hall, 9770 Culver Blvd. beginning at 5:30 p.m.
HEARD THROUGH THE SOULVINE — Pull up a chair,
pour yourself a cup of tea and listen to this: I heard that former Los
Angeles City Councilman Robert Farrell is planning to come out of
retirement and run for the unexpired term of Councilwoman Janice
Hahn after she is elected to Congress on July 14. Bob does live
in San Pedro, you know. … I heard that Secretary of State Debra
Bowen lost her runner-up spot to face Hahn for Congress because
she hired a whole bunch of Latinos to campaign for her and their
large presence in tony 15th District neighborhoods in Bowen’s
behalf turned the usually liberal White people off, causing them to
vote for the Republican, Craig Huey. And that’s why the state’s first
open primary didn’t turn out as expected. … I also heard that aboutto-be-termed-out Councilwoman Jan Perry is thinking about abandoning her quest for the mayor’s office and seeking the city controller’s job instead. Also being talked about is Councilman Bernard
Parks’ interest in going after the controllership himself. After all,
it’s a citywide office that pays more than councilman and since he
won re-election by a measly 277 votes, he would not have to fool
with a constituency that doesn’t like him and, with his conservativeness, he can bask in the sunshine of Valley voters whom he’s representing on the council now anyway, and he likes dealing with money
issues. So, I say do it. But then, whither Parks’ buddy, Councilman
Dennis Zine? I thought he wanted to be controller. Wendy Greuel’s
office has become the political office du jour. Of course now, I can’t
swear that all of this is true. I can only say that I heard it from some
folks in City Hall who have proven to me in the past that they know
stuff, and I must tell it.
AND FINALLY — Happy Father’s Day, guys.
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ORAL HISTORY: ‘MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS
Photos by Bill Jones
PAPARAZZI
‘My face sort of operates
on its own nowadays’
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Jim Carrey shares the stage with six flightless friends in his latest movie, providing him with
fresh ground to showcase the physical comedy that is his hallmark.
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MANAGING EDITOR
im Carrey loves working with animals. That
declaration will come as no surprise to anyone who roared with laughter while watching 1994’s “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,”
the film that launched Carrey into Hollywood
superstardom. Now — 17 years after co-starring
with dogs, birds, a monkey, and even a dolphin
— Carrey is seeking to recapture that lightning in
a bottle with “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” a familyfriendly comedy based on the eponymous book
by Richard and Florence Atwater. As Mr. Popper,
Carrey is a successful New York real-estate developer who inherits a half-dozen penguins from
his father, an inveterate explorer and naturalist.
Hilarity ensues — as does Carrey’s signature
brand of physical comedy. In a recent interview,
Carrey — along with co-stars Angela Lansbury
and Carla Gugino, director Mark Waters and producer John Davis — talked about the vagaries of
working with live penguins, the challenges presented by modern-day CGI and the on-set mating
habits of the film’s flightless waterbirds.
Angela, what was it like for you to work on
this project?
Lansbury: Well, it was an unexpected event in
my life, but when it came along I found it very
hard to resist the opportunity to work with such
an extraordinary group of people, particularly
led by the great Jim Carrey, who I’ve been a fan
of for many, many years. So it just worked out.
It coincided with my career at this time. I was
working in the theater and I had a chance to be
in a movie, after many years — six years, I think,
since I made the last one — in New York City.
Carrey: Can I tell you something? [Lansbury’s]
incredibly tough, too. Four o’clock in the morning, she’s up, running us all ragged. It’s unbelievable. Enthusiastic, completely into it — I dream
of being that enthusiastic at that point in my
career. It’s fantastic to watch. It was amazing to
work with you.
Lansbury: Thank you so much, Jim.
Waters: When we convinced Angela to do the
movie, I hid from her the fact that her first three
days of shooting were going to be night shooting
at the Guggenheim [Museum]. “We’re gonna
have you working from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., three
nights in a row. I hope you don’t mind.”
Lansbury: It’s true, they never told me.
Waters: But she showed up, she danced and
got spun around by Jim over and over. They made
that sequence incredibly fun.
Jim, does it get any easier, in terms of working with special effects? Did you know, from just
looking at the script, where you were going to
be dealing with little “x’s” and when there were
going to be actual creatures there?
Carrey: I didn’t really have any idea how we
were going to go about it on a day-to-day basis.
What happened was, I loved working with the
real penguins. Animatronic penguins were a
little issue, because everybody has a cell phone
or some kind of plate in their head or whatever
these days, or some kind of electronic gizmo,
iPads and things coming out of everywhere. And
so you get guys on joysticks going: “Is that you?”
“It’s not me.” “Is that you?” We opted for a lot of
[computer-generated] stuff, but most of it is real
penguins, because I love working with animals. I
kind of like to join their energy.
Waters: The great thing about the live penguins is that, even when you’re choosing to do
a sequence with CGI [computer-generated imagery] — like at the Guggenheim, they wouldn’t let
us pour buckets of water down the ramp and slide
penguins down, but that’s their choice — because
of that, working with the live penguins just gave
you an idea of the chaotic dementia of penguins
and how fun they are. Even when we chose to do
a CGI sequence, we knew that we had to keep
that bubbly energy going and keep a little bit of
instability in the shooting of it so that it would
match with all the things that were live.
Gugino: And there was an actual habitat on the
stage where the penguins lived the entire shoot.
So they were definitely part of the family.
Carrey: And they made love.
Gugino: They did. [laughs]
Carrey: There was no hanky-panky on the
set, but the penguins were going at it — which is
always a good sign, apparently, with penguins.
If someone bequeathed to you these penguins,
in real life, what would you do?
Carrey: Eat them?
Davis: I’d make a sequel.
Carrey: [laughs] Nice. Spoken like a true
producer.
Jim, are you still finding new things you can
do with your face?
Carrey: Well, my face kind of operates on its
own nowadays. It just does what it wants to do
— sometimes it’s appropriate, sometimes it’s not.
Sometimes in the editing room we’ll go, “That’s
not human. We’ll want to take that out — eyebrows aren’t supposed to be able to do that. That’s
going to distract people, flat out.” But I find I’m
still doing things, little tricks and fun things that I
created when I was 10 years old — all of it comes
into play. The play you do when you’re a kid is so
super-important. I’m so lucky that my life didn’t
get turned upside-down until I was 11, because I
had a lot of great play and a lot of creativity that
still comes into play for me.
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Did Ohio Gov. John Kasich go too far in his taunting
of newly-vanquished NBA superstar LeBron James?
In one career, longevity and inspiration
The life and career of Morgan Freeman (top,
surrounded by his family) was celebrated June
9 at Sony Pictures Studios, where the Academy
Award-winning actor received the 39th AFI
Lifetime Achievement Award. Clockwise from
top, others on hand to wish him well: Freeman
was also joined on the red carpet by fellow
Oscar winners Forest Whitaker (left) and
Cuba Gooding Jr.; designer Kimora Lee and
actor Djimon Hounsou (star of the forthcoming
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Afghanistan thriller “Special Forces”); singerproducer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds and
his longtime love, dancer Nikki Pantenburg;
Samuel L. Jackson, rumored to have a part
in Quentin Tarantino’s slave-revenge fantasy “Django Unchained”; and at the UCLA
Longevity Center’s ICON Awards gala, model
Kimberley Locke was one of the VIPs who
sent an RSVP.
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SOCCER
Former
Warren
High
School and Cerritos College
men’s soccer standout Rene
Hernandez has signed a national letter of intent with Cal State
Northridge.
Hernandez, who helped
Cerritos win the 2008 state
community college championship, is part of an eight-man
recruiting class for coach Terry
Davila. Hernandez was first-team
All-South Coast Conference in
2008 and 2010.
“Rene is an excellent outside
back who can cover the line
and be a threat in the offensive
third as well,” Davila said. “He
can shut down the opponent’s
best offensive player.”
Wire Services
Center Tyson Chandler was like
all the other Dallas Mavericks entering the NBA playoffs.
From all-star power forward
Dirk Nowitzki to the 12th man on
the roster, there was not a single
NBA championship on their resume. Nor had the franchise itself
won one in its 31 years of existence.
But for Chandler, whose last
title of any sort was a state championship as a senior at Compton’s
Dominguez High School, the
drought officially ended Sunday
with the Mavericks posting a 10595 victory over the Miami Heat
in the clinching game six of the
NBA Finals.
Chandler, the well-traveled
nine-year veteran in his first season with the Mavs, played his part
with five points, eight rebounds
and two steals Sunday.
During the series won by Dallas, 4-2, Chandler averaged 6.4
points and 5.9 rebounds and provided toughness in the pivot that
had been lacking in past seasons
for the Mavericks.
“I just think this is a win of
team basketball,” Nowitzki, the
Finals MVP said after scoring 21
points Sunday. “This is a win for
playing as a team on both ends of
the floor, of sharing the ball, of
passing the ball, and we’ve been
doing that all season long. We’re
world champions. It sounds unbelievable.”
“This is the most special team
that I’ve ever been around,” said
Mavs coach Rick Carlisle, who
25 years earlier was part of a very
special team, the ’86 champion
Boston Celtics. “When you view
it from afar, it doesn’t look like
a physically bruising-type team.
So a lot of people don’t think we
have the grit and the guts and the
BASKETBALL
Vincent Fuller and Joe
Malone, Verbum Dei High
School products and transfers from El Camino College,
have signed with the Cal State
Stanislaus men’s basketball
program.
Fuller averaged 15.7 points
and Malone 13.3 for El Camino
this season. Fuller and Malone
were both first-team All-South
Coast Conference selections.
Both are 6-3.
GOLF
Freshman Patrick Cantlay
of UCLA has earned his second national player of the year
honor in a matter of a week.
This time, GolfWeek magazine honored Cantlay, who
previously received the Jack
Nicklaus Award as the GCAA
national player of the year.
Cantlay recorded a national
best four victories during the
season and finished runner up
at the NCAA championship.
BASEBALL
Serra High School’s Ron
Miller went 5-for-7 over two days
and hit for the cycle Saturday
during the Southwest Future
All-Star Series at the Urban
Youth Academy in Compton.
Miller and his Serra teammate Dominic Smith hit backto-back doubles Sunday.
TENNIS
USC junior Steve Johnson
has been named the Campbell/
ITA national men’s tennis college player of the year.
Johnson won the NCAA singles title to finish the season
on a 35-match winning streak.
Last fall he won the ITA AllAmerican Championships singles consolation title.
FOOTBALL
Lynwood High School, featuring the appearance of NFL players, will be hosting a football
camp for youth 7-16 from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. July 16.
For registration information,
call (877) 930-7799.
The school is located at
4050 E. Imperial Highway.
BASKETBALL
Lynwood High School will be
hosting the Urban City 3-on-3
Classic basketball tournament
Saturday and Sunday.
The event, which begins at
8 a.m. Saturday, features multiple age divisions for male and
female. It is free and open to
the public.
The school is located at E.
Imperial Highway in Lynwood.
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Maas and
Goss earn
top honor
in softball
FOOTBALL
Alumni football teams from
Franklin and Eagle Rock high
schools will square off Friday at
West Adams Prep High School.
Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
The game kicks off a summer series of planned games
in the Southland for Alumni
Football USA.
Tickets are $10. There is
no charge for children 6-andunder.
For more information, visit
AlumniFootballUSA.com or call
(888) 562-0645.
BASKETBALL
Citrus College guard Jasmyn
Randolph has signed with the
Cal State L.A.’s women’s basketball program.
Randolph averaged 10.8
points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.8
assists while earning first-team
All-Western State Conference
South honors this past season.
“Jasmyne is a tenacious onball defender,” Cal State L.A.
coach Janell Jones said. “It is
invaluable to have a player on
your team who has a defensive
mindset with a willingness to
defend and stop any player on
the opposing team. She will
make our team better as she
will bring her defense to practice every day.”
mental toughness. You can’t dismiss how everybody stayed ready
and how everybody answered the
bell.”
The truth is, few saw this coming.
Dallas, noted for untimely playoff exits and an epic Finals collapse in 2006 when the Mavericks
blew a 2-0 series lead to Dwyane
Wade and the Miami Heat, was
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Crenshaw High School center fielder Evan Santa Cruz was a second-team All-City selection.
Area players selected All-City
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Westchester High School third
baseman/pitcher Robert Gsellman and West Adams Prep shortstop Damon Akins have earned
first-team berths on the All-City
Division I baseball team chosen
by a panel of sportswriters.
Player of the year honors went
to San Fernando junior William
Vazquez, who led the Tigers past
Chatsworth in the title game at
Dodger Stadium.
Gsellman, a 13th-round pick of
the New York Mets in the recent
Major League first-year player
draft, batted .608 with eight
home runs and 33 RBIs.
Drafted as a pitcher, he was 34 with six saves and a 1.70 ERA.
In 61.2 innings, the hard-throwing right-hander struck out 80
and walked 26.
He was All-City last year and
the Wave Newspapers player of
the year.
Akins put up huge numbers as
a senior, batting .645 and was 60for-60 in stolen bases. He scored
36 runs and drove in 20.
Also earning first-team honors
was Banning junior right-handed
pitcher Erik Magdaleno, who was
9-4 with a save and 1.36 ERA.
Named to the second team
were the Crenshaw duo of junior
pitcher Keymon Thomas and
senior center fielder Evan Santa
Cruz, Dorsey senior shortstop
Stephen Smith, Locke junior
shortstop Justin Marzett, Westchester senior shortstop Kenny
Peoples-Walls and Banning senior outfielder Jonathan Hernandez.
Thomas was 6-1 with a 1.68
ERA for the Coliseum League
co-champs. Santa Cruz batted
.524 with two homers and 18
RBIs.
Smith batted .418, drove in 17,
scored 25 and stole 19 bases. He
committed only three errors in 20
games for the Dons.
Marzett batted .500 with four
homers and 15 RBIs, scored 33
runs and stole 33 bases for the
Coliseum co-champs.
Peoples-Walls, a fourth-round
pick of the St. Louis Cardinals,
batted .404 with five homers and
Photo by Mario Villegas 23 RBIs.
Hernandez, who pitched and
Dorsey High School shortstop Stephen Smith is a sec- played the outfield, batted .351
ond-team All-City selection.
with 23 RBIs.
Jordan QB Lewis is
MVP at Watts Games
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
If the Watts Summer Games
football tournament Saturday at
L.A. Southwest College revealed
anything, it’s that Jordan High
School will be able to throw the
ball with anybody this fall.
While the Bulldogs lost by a
point to Banning in the championship game, their explosiveness
was impressive.
Junior quarterback Justin
Lewis, the tourney MVP, had
touchdown passes of 47, 48, 50
and 51 yards against Banning.
Returning standout receiver
Robert McCovery also showed
he’s primed for a big season this
fall with a number of amazing
catches.
“Justin has improved with the
ability to throw the ball a lot further, is very accurate and always
willling to learn,” Jordan assistant coach Jose Gallegos said.
As a sophomore for a 6-5 Jordan team, Lewis completed just
under 50 percent of his passes
for 1,868 yards and 16 TDs, but
with 17 interceptions. Look for
a reduction in that latter number.
McCovery caught 49 passes
for 736 yards and 10 TDs and intercepted four passes, returning
them 105 yards as a junior.
He’ll be one of the top twoway players in the City Section.
“He made some beautiful TDs
by jumping over defensive backs
Saturday,” Gallegos noted.
Basketball
The Watts Games basketball
tournament concludes Saturday
Photo by Nick Koza
at L.A. Southwest with titles
games in two divisions at 4 and Jordan High School’s Justin Lewis was MVP of the Watts
Summer Games football tournament.
5 p.m.
Crystal Maas, who helped Carson High School to the first City
Section title in program history,
and Westchester’s Imani Goss
were among the top honorees on
the All-City softball teams selected by the coaches.
Maas, a key part of the Colts
winning the City division I title,
is that division’s pitcher of the
year.
Goss, who caught and played
shortstop, is the Invitational Division player of the year.
Port of L.A. took top honors
in the Small Schools with Brandi
Sutcliffe being named pitcher of
the year and Brianna Grayson
player of the year.
Maas, a senior headed to Cal
State Northridge, went 19-2 with
three saves and a 1.28 ERA for
the 27-3 Colts. She struck out
134 and walked 52 in 120.2 innings.
In the City title game at Cal
State Northridge, she went the
distance to beat top-seeded El
Camino Real, 6-3.
Goss batted an amazing .796
(43 for 54) and was 36-for-36 in
stolen bases. She scored 35 runs
and drove in 13.
Carson is also represented
on the All-City first team by
third baseman Alicia Barajas,
shortstop Darian Tautalafua and
catcher Brittany Moeai. Colts on
the second team are Brittanie Lamotte and Ramona Robledo.
Tautalafua (.554, 15 home
runs, 47 RBIs) and Moeai (.580,
12 homers, 65 RBIs) provided a
potent one-two punch for Carson. Barajas hit .478 and Robledo .429.
Banning placed Noelani Boyer,
Melissa Ortega and Ilima Riveira
on the second team.
Boyer batted .427 with 29
RBIs, Ortega .471with 25 RBIs
and Riveira .473 with 29 RBIs
and 17 doubles.
The All-Invitational first team
includes pitchers Monica Cartwright of Westchester and Tiffany Cockrell of King-Drew,
and the Fremont duo of shortstop
Stephanie Palos and outfielder
Nayele Valle.
Cartwright was 9-2 with two
saves and a 2.01 ERA and Cockrell was 13-7 with a 2.42. Cockrell also batted .472.
Palos, the Coliseum League
MVP, batted .541 with six home
runs and 23 RBIs. Valle hit .473
with 21 RBIs.
Second-teamers include Shaina Anderson of King-Drew, as
well as Gabby Delgado and Karla Garcia of Fremont.
Anderson, a senior shortstop,
batted .600 with six homers and
27 RBIs and stole 45 bases.
Delgado (.478, 6 HRs, 24
RBIs) and Garcia (.478, 4 HRs,
27 RBIs) also had big years for
Fremont.
The City Small Schools Division team is headed by the Port
of L.A. duo of Brianna Grayson
(player of year) and Brandi Sutcliffe (pitcher of year).
Other first-team honorees included Erin Bettis of Harbor
Teacher Prep, Ashley Cruz of Annenberg, Every Dominguez and
Lizelle Florez of Port of L.A.,
Uche Okoye of Harbor Teacher
Prep, Denise Rodriguez of Community Harvest and Kelsea Short
of Port of L.A.
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Overcoming fear to serve Watts
to provide an alternative to gang
life by providing a Christian
family where they can be loved
and cared for, where their names
are known. We have seen that
happening. We have a hand-
ful of guys that were once in a
gang and have said no to that
now. There have been younger
kids who were [at-risk] but saw
that there were people here who
cared for them.”
As for the health component,
every Tuesday the church offers
a free health clinic, where fulltime physicians and nurses provide professional medical care.
Some procedures, such as Xrays and operations, are referred
out. There is also a crisis pregnancy mobile unit that they partner with, where young girls are
given ultrasounds, clothes and
other resources. Once a month
there is a free dental clinic —
Grant has partnered with three
dentists, one of which is Arni
Balber — where community
and church members get every
dental need, except for braces,
taken care of.
In the fall, the church has
plans to house a private K-2
school on its site. Principal
Andrea McMillan, along with
three teachers, will instruct 10
to 15 students. Each family
who brings their child must be
involved in a family development program, where they are
given classes throughout the
year that focus on relationships,
financial literacy and anger
management, among other topics. “We want to nurture the
whole family,” he said.
See PASTOR on page A12
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the City Council on the report of Superintendent.
Reference should be made to Council File No.
11-0499.
June Lagmay, City Clerk of the City of Los
Angeles.
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(1) Ubidorbuy, (2) Ubidorbuy.com, 607 S. Hill
Street, Suite 535, Los Angeles, California
90014, County of Los Angeles.
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number:
AI #ON: 201112010278
Registered owner(s):
Ubidorbuy LLC, CA, 531 Main Street #943, El
Segundo, California 90245.
This business is conducted by a Limited Liability
Company.
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on 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.)
Ubidorbuy LLC
S/ Dennis J. Dufau, Manager
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 24, 2011.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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erally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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PASTOR from page A1
he returned to Arizona for nearly
four years, feeling as though he
had to complete that responsibility before he could move on.
Grant admits, however, that
he had reservations about working in some of Los Angeles’
most impoverished and gangridden communities. “Really,
fear was holding me back. I
knew what God wanted me to
do, I just wasn’t doing it,” said
Grant, who is Caucasian. “If
you are outside the state, you
hear news about Los Angeles. It
usually is not good news. They
really highlight the violence. It
was daunting in the sense that
there were danger issues and
daunting in the sense that we
have a family and in many ways
I didn’t feel equipped because
my education was not geared
toward inner-city type of issues.
All of that put together, kind of
stymied me for a while. But, we
took the plunge and it’s been the
best decision [I’ve] ever made.
God has just provided for us in
every way.”
It was five years ago that Grant
and his wife began the Watts
Power House Church, located at 2003 E. Imperial Hwy.,
across from the Imperial Courts
housing projects. In their first
year, they began a Bible study
group near their previous home
on Florence and Normandie
avenues; he is ordained with
the Christian and Missionary
Alliance denomination.
He then moved the Bible
study group to a vacant property in Watts. “We transitioned
it over here and then really just
opened up the doors and began
doing weekly services,” he said,
noting that his presence in the
community was well received
by the predominately Black and
Hispanic community. “Watts, in
many ways, is a very friendly
community.”
These days, Grant finds himself canvassing Watts, promoting vital services to improve
education, health, life skills
and reduce gang violence. The
church, which partners with various organizations, has a medi-
cal clinic, dental clinic, tutoring,
a girls and boys Bible club and a
crisis pregnancy mobile unit.
For elementary children, the
church provides recreation and
a Bible club for 30 to 40 young
boys and girls every week. On
Thursdays, roughly 35 middle
age to teenage girls learn life
skills and how to be Christians
— they are partnered. On
Fridays, junior high and senior
high youth have fellowship time
and engage with one another
during Bible study. On Sundays,
after church — service begins at
noon and is followed by a lunch
at 2 p.m. — those same youth
take a leisurely trip.
Over the summer, the children
are taken to camp. Grant expects
up to 100 youth to attend this
July. Then during the winter,
they go to a retreat. The trips are
made possible by a van donated
to the church by Kinecta Federal
Credit Union, and is also used
to bus people back and forth for
Bible study and Sunday service.
These activities, Grant said,
are the church’s way “of trying
LEGAL NOTICES
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ations shall be governed by Chapter 12 of Division
19 of the LAAC Code, as amended by Ordinance
Nos. 158157 and 166666. This offer shall be
given upon the condition that all claimants provide
continued cooperation within the criminal justice
system relative to this case and is not available
to public officers or employees of the City, their
families, persons in law enforcement or persons
whose misconduct prompted this reward. If you
have any information regarding this case, please
call the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877LAWFULL, 24 hours.
C. F. No. 11-0010-s27
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BULK SALES
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF BULK SALE
(Division 6 of the Commercial Code)
Escrow No. 112613-MC
(1) Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within
named Seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be
made on personal property hereinafter described.
(2) The name and business addresses of the
seller are:
Sary Moth and Somala King, 257 N. La Brea Ave.,
Ste. 6, Inglewood, CA 90301-1262.
(3) The location in California of the chief executive
office of the Seller is: Same as above.
(4) The names and business address of the
Buyer(s) are:
Heng S. Oum and Sanreatha Ma, 1440 Logan St.,
#9, Los Angeles, CA 90026.
(5) The location and general description of the
assets to be sold are stock in trade, furniture,
fixtures, equipment and goodwill of that certain
business located at: 257 N. La Brea Ave., Ste. 6,
Inglewood, CA 90301-1262.
(6) The business name used by the seller(s) at
that location is: Boston Cream Donuts
(7) The anticipated date of the bulk sale is July
5, 2011 at the office of R Escrow, 1205 East
Chapman Avenue, Orange, CA 92866, Escrow
No. 112613-MC, Escrow Officer: Millie Cork.
(8) Claims may be filed with Same as “7” above.
(9) The last date for filing claims is July 1, 2011.
(10) This Bulk Sale is subject to Section 6106.2 of
the Uniform Commercial Code.
(11) As listed by the Seller, all other business
names and addresses used by the Seller within
three years before the date such list was sent or
delivered to the Buyer by Seller.
Dated: June 6, 2011
Transferees:
/s Heng S. Oum
/s/ Sanreatha Ma
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BUSINESS
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Date of Filing Application: May 31, 2011
To Whom It May Concern:
The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are:
EBK DINING LINE INC
The applicants listed above are applying to the
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell
alcoholic beverages at:
3839 WILSHIRE BLVD
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LOS ANGELES, CA 90010-3207
Type of license(s) applied for:
41- On-Sale Beer And Wine - Eating Place
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CITY OF LOS
ANGELES
$50,000 REWARD NOTICE
The City of Los Angeles offers a reward payable
at the discretion of the City Council to one or more
persons in the sum or sums up to an aggregate
maximum total sum of $50,000 for information
leading to the identification and apprehension
of the person or persons responsible for the act
of murder against, WILBERT ROBERTSON, in
the City of Los Angeles. On Thursday, May 19,
2011, at approximately 10:15 p.m., 22-year old
Wilbert Robertson was walking on the 200 block
of West 41st Place when a confrontation occurred
with unknown male(s). During the confrontation,
an unknown suspect fired at Robertson with a
handgun, killing him. The person or persons
responsible for this crime represent an ongoing
threat to the safety of the people of Los Angeles.
Unless withdrawn or paid by City Council action,
this offer of reward shall terminate on, and have
no effect after, DECEMBER 9, 2011.
The provisions of payment and all other consider-
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that on TUESDAY, JULY
12, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the
John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City
Hall, Los Angeles, the City Council will convene
to hear protests to Building & Safety Department
relative to non-compliance and proposed line to
recover the cost of inspections, plus appropriate fees and fines, pursuant to Los Angeles
Municipal Code Section 91.103, 98.0411(a), and
Los Angeles Administrative Code Sections 7.35.3
and 7.35.5 for the following property located at
10919 South Broadway, lien amount $2,150.13,
APN: 6074-013-005. Please be advised that the
City Council reserves the right to continue this
matter to a later date, subject to any time limit
constraints. Please contact this office if you would
like to be notified of any future hearing dates
should the Council not act on this matter on the
aforementioned date.
All persons interested and affected by the proposed assessment may file written protests or
objections with the City Clerk, Room 395, City
Hall, at any time prior to the time set for hearing by the City Council on the report of the
Superintendent. References should be made to
Council File No. 11-0506.
June Lagmay, City Clerk of the City of Los
Angeles.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that on TUESDAY, JULY
12, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the
John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City
Hall, Los Angeles, the City Council will convene
to hear protests to Building & Safety Department
relative to non-compliance and proposed line to
recover the cost of inspections, plus appropriate fees and fines, pursuant to Los Angeles
Municipal Code Section 91.103, 98.0411(a), and
Los Angeles Administrative Code Sections 7.35.3
and 7.35.5 for the following property located at
10402 South Vermont Avenue aka 850 West
104th Street, lien amount $2,144.73, APN: 6061002-001. Please be advised that the City Council
reserves the right to continue this matter to a later
date, subject to any time limit constraints. Please
contact this office if you would like to be notified
of any future hearing dates should the Council not
act on this matter on the aforementioned date.
All persons interested and affected by the proposed assessment may file written protests or
objections with the City Clerk, Room 395, City
Hall, at any time prior to the time set for hearing by the City Council on the report of the
Superintendent. References should be made to
Council File No. 11-0503.
June Lagmay, City Clerk of the City of Los
Angeles.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that on TUESDAY, JULY
12, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the
John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City
Hall, Los Angeles, the City Council will convene
to hear protests to Building & Safety Department
report relative to non-compliance of code violation, annual inspection invoices and proposed lien
to recover the cost of inspections, plus appropriate
fees and fines, pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal
Code Sections 91.103, 98.0402(E), 98.0411(a)
and Los Angeles Administrative Code Sections
7.35.3 and 7.35.5 for the following property
located at 1047 West Manchester Avenue, lien
amount $4,771.25, APN: 6033-026-019. Please
be advised that the City Council reserves the right
to continue this matter to a later date, subject
to any time limit constraints. Please contact this
office if you would like to be notified of any future
hearing dates should the Council not act on this
matter on the aforementioned date.
All persons interested and affected by the proposed assessment may file written protests or
objections with the City Clerk, Room 395, City
Hall, at any time prior to the time set for hearing by
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAMES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011041069
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
Batavian Batiks, 2300 E. Gladwick Street,
Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220, County of Los
Angeles
Registered owner(s):
MM Fab Inc., CA, 2300 E. Gladwick Street,
Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220
This business is conducted by a Corporation
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on 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.)
MM Fab Inc.
S/ Michael Yeung, VP of Operations
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on June 01, 2011.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011036556
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
JC & M Readers, 5250 W. Century Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90045, County of LA
Registered owner(s):
Melissa Gee, 2423 W. 75th St., LA, CA 90043.
This business is conducted by an individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on 5-25-2011.
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/ Melissa Gee, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 24, 2011.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011036084
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
Courtesy photo
Pastor Todd Grant canvasses Watts in a donated van, offering
educational, child care and other services to residents.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011036409
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
Fly Cargo Express, 3606 W. 106th St.,
Inglewood, CA 90303, County of Los Angeles.
Registered owner(s):
Carlos Arriaza, 3606 W. 106th St., Inglewood,
CA 90303.
This business is conducted by an individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on 11/03/08.
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/ Carlos Arriaza, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 24, 2011.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011017188
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
Komodo Novelties, 3727 Monon St., Los
Angeles, CA 90027, County of Los Angeles, P.O.
Box 63443, Los Angeles, CA 90063
Registered owner(s):
Blanca Martinez, 3727 Monon St., Los Angeles,
CA 90027
This business is conducted by an individual
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on n/a
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/ Blanca Martinez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on April 27, 2011
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement gen-
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011025658
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
R&B Caribbean Market, 3804 Western Ave.,
Los Angeles, CA 90062, County of LA, 1076 E.
Fernrock St., Carson, CA 90746
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number:
AI #ON: 27-1662980
Registered owner(s):
Two Bells As One, Inc., 1076 E. Fernrock St.,
Carson, CA 90746
This business is conducted by a Corporation
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on 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.)
Two Bells As One, Inc.,
S/ Monique D. Bell, Secretary
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 9, 2011
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Original
5/26, 6/2, 6/9, 6/16/11
WWA-2107507#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011 037681
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
Let’s Keep it Real, 17700 S. Avalon Blvd.,
Sp#10, Carson Ca 90746, County of LA
Registered owner(s):
Jerry Jones, 17700 S. Avalon Blvd., Sp #10,
Carson Ca 90746
This business is conducted by an Individual
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on n/a
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/ Jerry Jones, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 26, 2011
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Original
6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/23/11
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) NO. 1709
THE RE-ROOFING OF ONE HUNDRED FOUR
(104) BUILDINGS
AT RAMONA GARDENS
2830 LANCASTER AVE., LOS ANGELES, CA
90033
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
(HACLA) invites vendors to submit bids for The
Re-Roofing of One Hundred Four (104) Buildings
at Ramona Gardens 2830 Lancaster Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90033. Copies of the IFB may
be downloaded from the internet at www.hacla.
org under “Doing Business with HACLA”, then
click on “Procurement Opportunities” and click
“Construction Goods and Services”. Bids will
be accepted at 2600 Wilshire Blvd, #3100, Los
Angeles, CA 90057 until 2:00 p.m. (local time),
July 1, 2011.
6/16, 6/23/11
WWA-2117321#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
PUBLIC AUCTION/
SALES
Notice of Public lien Sale
us storage centers
820 Industrial ave
INGLEWOOD, ca 90302
(310) 677-2544
In accordance with the provisions of the California
Self-Storage Facility Act, Section 21700, et seq.
of the Business and Professions Code of the
State of California the undersigned will be sold
at public auction on JUNE 28, 2011 at 11:00am
General household goods, tools, office & business equipment, electronics, instruments, appliances, furniture, sporting goods, apparel, collectibles & antiques, and / or miscellaneous
items stored at 820 Industrial Avenue, Inglewood,
CA 90302, County of Los Angeles, by the following persons; SHAREE TAMARA EDWARDS
a.k.a. Sharee T. Edwards, Emogene Jackson,
Thomas Irby, Estella V. Norris, Adrian Garcia,
Lydia Marie Murray- chotronnapad A.K.A.
Lydia Murray-Chotoronnapad, Theron Paige
Christopher A.K.A. Theron Christopher,Trameka
Lashawn Ewell a.k.a. Trameka Ewell, Kevin Dion
Hill, Donnika Poindexter, Danielle Cansler a.k.a.
Danielle Nycole Cansler, Larwence L. Williams
a.k.a. Larwencw L. Williams Jr. a.k.a. Lawrence
Williams L. Jr, Kimberly Harris a.k.a. Kimberly
Chevon Harris, Carol Ann Gray, Nicholas Collins
a.k.a. Nicholas Emmanuel Collins . Property is
sold on an “AS IS BASIS”. There is a refundable
$40 cleaning deposit on all units. Sale is subject to
cancellation. Auctioneer is: American Auctioneers
Dan Dotson & Associates,
California State Bond #FS863-20-14, (800) 8387653.
6/9, 6/16/11
WWA-2115345#
INGLEWOOD/HAWTHORNE WAVE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE
US STORAGE CENTERS
14680 AVIATION BLVD
HAWTHORNE, CA 90250
(310) 536 - 7100
In accordance with the provisions of the
California Self-Storage Facility Act, Section
21700, et seq. of the Business and Professions
Code of the State of California the undersigned
will be sold at public auction on JUNE 28, 2011
at 12:00 PM. General household goods, tools,
office and business equipment, electronics, furniture, appliances, instruments, sporting goods and
apparel, collectibles & antiques, and or miscellaneous items stored at 14680 Aviation Blvd.,
Hawthorne, CA 90250, County of Los Angeles,
by the following persons:, Bonnie Marie Leeper/
Abandoned Goods, Janet G. Saurbier aka Janet
Gerene Saurbier
Property is sold on an “AS IS BASIS”. There is
a refundable $50 cleaning deposit on all units.
Sale is subject to cancellation. Auctioneer is:
American Auctioneers Dan Dotson & Associates,
California State Bond #FS863-20-14, (800) 8387653
.
6/9, 6/16/11
WWA-2113937#
INGLEWOOD/HAWTHORNE WAVE
West Wave Classified
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ELECTRICAL
4260
Mason’s Electric & Lights
Door Bell, Smoke Alarm.
Fuses, Breakers. Free est.
Lic 611170 (323) 778-8563
HANDYMAN
4315
**** GREAT PRICE!! ****
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Senior Citizen Discount!
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HAULING
4320
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(310) 422-8460
PLASTER/DRYWALL
4465
Plaster Patch Work
Interior & Exterior
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or (323) 293-5365
ROOFING/SIDING
4500
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hacemos de toda classe.
323-216-1743. Mr.Flores
For advertising
information call
(323) 556-5720
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
LA 3445½ & 3447½ W. 11th Ave Apt.
3bd/2ba 1 garage pkng $1,045/Mo
LA 2917 W. 62nd St 4br/2ba
1pkng gar & Indy hk-ups $1195
LA 12229 Vermont 8 br 5.5ba
$3795 (House)
LA 411 E. 80th St 3 bd/2ba storage
Indy hk-ups (Duplex) $1195
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2bd/1ba w/ lndy hook-ups $1195/Mo
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2 pkng and lndy facility $995/mo
1ST Month's Free Rent
No Section 8 Program
$1295 2 bd 1 1/2 ba lg upper, off st prkg, National &
Robertson area. Not apprv
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*Large 1BD 1BA Apt* new
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323-290-1155
1 BD APT, Low Move In,
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welcome. 310-215-9378
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
New carpet, pain, blinds, etc. Large closets.
Off-street parking. Close to shopping
and bus lines. 2125 Crenshaw Blvd., L.A.
(between Adams & Washington)
Drive by, then call for appointment
(323) 383-8051 Section 8 OK
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
SPACIOUS SGL’S 1 & 2BD
APT FOR RENT
Near Western/Adams
Prices $775-$950/m NO Sec 8!
Please call (323) 735-1315
For more information
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APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
LA City Sec 8 & All Welcome
• 1 & 3 Bedrooms • Newly Updated
• Porcelain & Wood Floors
• Laundry Room • Gated Intercom
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• Near Shops
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60
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(Cal-SCAN)
2815 1/2 W. 48th St.
1bd/1ba w/d hk-up
Sec 8 OK
(213) 359-4439
Inglwd garden setting 1 bd
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2419 Imperial Hwy. $850
S. Hawthorne 1 bd upper
$825. Great area, gated
bldg. 4023 W. 141st St
Rent Special 310-678-7794
BPM has 1 & 2 bd apts &
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FREE RENT in exchange in
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pay offered. Children OK
NO Smoking (323) 298-4574
INGLEWOOD LG 2 BDRM
APT. Carpet, drapes, garage. 10104 8th Ave ,$1150
mo. 323-754-9712
Inglewood- 2Bd from $900
and up. No dep OAC,
garage, lndry, AC. 638 Hardy
8612 8th Ave 213-963-1187
LA $1200/mo Lrg renovated
2Bd 1Ba, tile kitchen/bath,
own garage, quiet area.
(323) 829-6547
Sec8 OK Discounted Move
in Nice 2Bd Apt, South L.A.
108th & Western W/D hk up
$1228/m (323) 371-0162
(323) 758-7886
BALDWIN VILLAGE
Single @ $695
4009 Palmyra
(section 8 OK)
1 bedroom @ $825
4066 Abourne Rd.
3959 Gibralter *
4012/14 West Blvd
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JEFFERSON
PARK
3903 W 27th ST
1bedroom @ $895
Clean unit, Freshly
Painted, Newer Carpet,
Off Steet Parking, Laundry
Room, Close to 10 Fwy.
1810 1/2 W 36th St
1 Bedroom @ $850
Clean Units, Freshly
Painted, Newer Carpet,
Service Porch w/WD
Hookup (some units), Off
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Style Courtyard Bldg,
Close To 10 Fwy.
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2739 W 42nd ST
2 bedrooms @ $1295
Art Deco Gem, Formal
Dining Room, Service
Porch, WD Hookup,
Private Entrance, Garage,
Gorgeous Street.
Lg 2 bd/1ba. Fresh pnt, nu
crpt, lndry & prkg. 1140 W.
90th St. $1100/mo. Sec 8
ok. By Appt 310-539-8114
HYDE PARK
6326 Crenshaw Blvd
2 bedrooms @ $895
(section 8 OK)
Clean, Freshly Painted,
New Carpet, Gated Entry,
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Rm, Gated Courtyard.
Move in Special! Baldwin Village. Lg 2bd/2ba. $1075/mo.
Granite counters. 4807 August St. 323-815-0553
INGLEWOOD
711 W Queen Street
2 Bd + 2 Ba @ $1295
Gated Entry & Covered
Parking, New Carpet,
Totally Redecorated, 2
Laundry rms, Cul-de-Sac.
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Nice 1bd. Nu crpt & pnt,
Laundry, AC, gated bldg.
prkg. 1609 S. St Andrews
$1000m. 310-539-8114 appt
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
(section 8 OK)
4022 Palyra
(section 8 OK)
1600 SF 3bd/2ba Inglewood
nr. Forum. $1700. New appliances, granite bathroom,
crpt, blinds, paint, gar & Lovely upper single apt for 1
single person. 1970 W. 29th
Lndry room. (310) 674-6423
St. Lrg rms-full bath & kit
bdrm $570/mo 323 299-3589
NEWLY-RENOVATED 2BDRM UPPER UNIT
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
1Bd Apt downstairs unit
105th & Denker L.A. County
Sec 8 approved. 1549 W.
105th st (310) 337-1062
Sec 8 Welcome, will
accept 1Bd voucher Lovely
2Bd Garden Apt Residential
area (323) 737-3498
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
McAlpin & Company
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Call for move in specials OAC
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PROPERTY MGMT
(323) 401-2847
Los Angeles
3956 Crenshaw
1 Bedroom/ 1Bath $900
1136 W. 107th Street
1 Bedroom/ 1 Bath $675
HOUSES UNFURNISHED
6450
3015 4th Ave.
2 Bedroom/ 1 Bath $1,000
3015 1/2 4th Ave.
1 Bedroom/ 1 Bath $850
7718 S. Avalon Blvd.
2 Bedroom/ 1 Bath $895
HOUSES UNFURNISHED
6450
Inglewood
McAlpin & Company
310-437-4172
Mike (323) 335-6793
PLUMBING
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READ THE CLASSIFIEDS
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Free EST. Senior Discounts
Bathroom Remodeling, Tile, Electrical
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Leaking Faucets: $29.00
Drains: $39.00
Sewer: $60.00
Call Luis Tel: (323) 291-5473
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1726 W. 38th Pl. Los Angeles, CA 90062
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4Bd 2Ba Hse for Lease
New Crpt, Linoleum, Tile
$1595/m (310) 516-8165
House for lease. 3306 W.
115th St. Inglewood, CA.
$1800/mo. Credit req’d.
323-712-1975
Lafayette
Agent, DRE 01155244
Inglewood 3 bdrm/ 1 3/4Ba.
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$1,650./Mo. + sec dep.
Sec. 8 okay. 323-778-9008
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Newly Refurbished
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covers throughout. 218 E.
76th Pl. (323) 291-1101
Nice 3 BD 2BA Near Gardena, Fenced No pets Ldry
$1295
310/559-1868
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6600
1 or 3 x-large bdrms,
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Crenshaw area.
STORES/OFFICES FOR RENT
6955
OFFICE SPACES, Modern
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Suite $650
323-939-0137
STORES/OFFICES FOR LEASE
6960
$1.10 per sq ft suites from
110 sq ft - 600 sq ft Secure
bldg by KJLH. Wall of windows.1 mo free rent w/1 yr
lease 171 N. La Brea ave,
ING. Gwen 310-408-1403
HOUSES UNFURNISHED
6450
HOUSES UNFURNISHED
6450
310-405-3863
One Call Maintenance
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11803 Cashmir Ave, Hawthorne. 2 master suites.
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6450
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6250
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6005
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APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
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Busting out
Photo by Gary McCarthy
Arnett Hartsfield, a pioneering Los Angeles firefighter who became a civil rights activist, acknowledges the cheers as
a bronze bust of his image was unveiled Tuesday at the African American Firefighter Museum in South Los Angeles.
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Saturday
and
Sunday, tens of
thousands trekked
to Hollywood Hills
for the Playboy Jazz Festival,
a yearly Los Angeles ritual that
brings together lovers of all
musical genres to celebrate a
uniquely American art form. In
keeping with tradition, entertainer Bill Cosby served as emcee
— and drummer with his own
jazz collective — as the crowd
swayed and danced to nonstop
offerings from artists like The
Roots, Dianne Reeves, Ambrose
Akinmusire, Buddy Guy and
Terence Blanchard. The music
is always the main attraction,
but the collegial atmosphere is
also a draw for the many who
have come to consider summer
incomplete with out the chance
to wheel a cooler full of goodies
up a hill to the Hollywood Bowl,
and spend a day or two making
new friends on stage and off.
— André Herndon
Photo by Peter Iovino
Photo by Peter Iovino
‘Fathers of the Community’ to receive honors
PASTOR from page A10
A strong advocate of the “One
church-One child Adoption
Program,” which was initiated in 1981 by Rev. George
H. Clements in Chicago at the
Holy Angels Church and later
became a nationwide recruiting effort in 1988 that seeks to
find adoptive parents through
local churches, Grant and his
wife, Jennifer, began looking
into adoption.
They are on the final leg of
the adoption process. Initially,
their family was only supposed
to grow by two — Grant and
his wife have four biological
children — but when they discovered that the twins had an
older sister, the idea of parenting three adopted children was
a no-brainer, he said, noting
that “we saw the need” and did
not want to break up the family
unit.
Grant has plans to expand
the church and offer the same
services in Nickerson Gardens
before the end of the year. “We
really want to be strategic, to
try to bring two communities
together that have historically
been at odds with each other,”
he said. “We want to bring them
together as a family and essentially end some of the bloodshed and pain that has happened
in the past. We are excited.”
For his efforts, Grant will
be honored at a Fathers of
the Community breakfast on
Saturday, where he will be
joined by four other honorees.
They include: Robert Yanez,
a 20-year LAPD veteran and
senior lead officer who works
to ensure that youth have safe
environments — in his spare
time, he reads to young children
at local schools and distributes
food and toys to needy families; Erich Nall, who founded
Collegiate Search, a program
that offers tutorial support and
academic assistance to aid youth
in their mission to succeed in
school and work towards earning a college degree; Ernie G,
a nationally-known comedian,
community activist and lecturer
with a B.A. degree in psychology; and Keith Gibbs, a former
member of the U.S. Army and
U.S. Marine Corps who founded
Sarges Community Base Inc.,
a nonprofit organization that
develops and inspires young
men and women to become
leaders in their communities by
providing core values of family commitment and community
responsibility.
The event, sponsored by
Nix Financial, Kinecta Federal
Credit Union and MoneyGram
International, will be held at
Maverick’s Flat in Los Angeles
from 9 to 11 a.m. Los Angeles
City Councilman Bernard Parks
will deliver the keynote speech.
Each honoree will be given
$1,000, which will be donated
to the nonprofit charity of their
choice.
Grant’s charity of choice is
Broken Hearts, led by Antoine
Washington, which is an outreach ministry that goes out at
night a couple of days throughout the week to minister to
people living on the streets of
Hollywood.
“We often celebrate mothers
on Mother’s day, and it is well
deserved, but it is rare when
we get to recognize men in
the community who are highly respected and admired role
models,” said Mel Calloway,
executive vice president of Nix
Financial. “These are some of
the unsung heroes that day-in
and day-out are making a difference in their community, and
more specifically making a difference with the youth.”
Photo by Peter Iovino
Photo by Leroy Hamilton
Dominguez grad helps
Dallas win NBA title
DRAFT continued from page A9
seen as an underdog in every
playoffs series this year.
Remarkably, they pulled it off
minus two players expected to be
starters: Caron Butler, who was
the second-leading scorer until a
knee injury on New Year’s Day
ended his season, and Rodrigue
Beaubois, a second-year guard
whose speed and athleticism were
supposed to charge up the offense.
But Beaubois was hurt until February, then ineffective, then hurt
again.
That left Carlisle constantly
mixing and matching.
In the finals alone, he gambled
by putting a struggling J.J. Barea
into the starting lineup and they
won three straight games. The guy
he asked to come off the bench,
DeShawn Stevenson, thrived in
his new role.
Backup center Brendan Haywood hurt his hip and was limited,
so Mahinmi filled in pretty well,
hitting two memorable shots in
the clincher. Backup forward Peja
Stojakovic played his way out of
the rotation and Cardinal seized
his extra minutes with gritty defense and taking open shots when
he had them.
Sixth-man guard Jason Terry,
who scored 27 in the deciding
game six, claims he “knew it in
training camp,” that Dallas was
capable of a title.
He felt so confident that in October he got a tattoo of the championship trophy on his right biceps
and vowed to have it removed if
this team didn’t win it all.
“(Miami) had three pieces, but
we have 14 or 15,” Terry said.
“With that kind of confidence
in each other—the system, the
coaching staff—we just believed.
This team has the heart the size of
Texas.”
Before Sunday night, these
15 guys had played a combined
133 seasons without a single ring
among them. Nowitzki and Jason
Kidd were in the conversation of
“best players never to win it all.”
Everyone had a right to have
a chip on their shoulders about
something, from Terry being the
consolation prize when Steve
Nash skipped town to Barea being undrafted. From Chandler’s
health history scaring off teams to
Carlisle having gotten two teams
to the conference finals but never
beyond, causing him to be fired
twice.
Then there was the franchise
itself.
Over the previous 30 seasons,
the Mavs went through several
phases: the “model expansion
team,” a 13-year drought between
playoff wins when they were best
described as the Mav-wrecks,
and, since Mark Cuban took over
as owner in 2000, a team that was
always really good but never the
best.
This was Dallas’ 11th straight
50-win season, a feat only two
other clubs had ever done: Tim
Duncan’s Spurs and Magic Johnson’s Lakers. Both won multiple
titles along the way; all the Mavericks had to show was a single
runner-up finish in 2006. They
went into this postseason having
won a single series since.
No wonder they were the team
everyone wanted to face.
They lived down to expectations by blowing a 23-point lead
over the final 14 minutes of Game
4 in their first-round series against
Portland. What could’ve been
the beginning of the end for this
year’s playoffs became the first of
several key moments that turned
them into champions.
“We looked at each other and
said, ‘That can’t happen again,”’
Kidd said.
They turned into comeback
specialists themselves, pulling
off at least one double-digit rally
each round, always on the road. In
the finals, they won games when
trailing in the fourth quarter by
15, nine and four.
Nowitzki was usually in the
heart of the action, often in spectacular fashion: a left-handed
layup to win Game 2 after tearing a tendon in the tip of his left
middle finger in Game 1; and
fighting through a 101-degree fever caused by a sinus infection to
have 10 points and five rebounds
in the fourth quarter of Game 4.
He’s been leading this club for
more than a decade, establishing
himself “as a great scorer, but …”
The flop in the ’06 finals—going
from nearly up 3-0 to losing in six
games—followed by a first-round
ousting as a top seed in ’07 left the
kind of scars only a championship
could heal.
All-City
baseball
selections
Westchester High School’s Imani Goss is the City Invitational Division
year.
All-City Baseball Team
selected by a panel of sportswriters
First team
P_David Lira, San Fernando, Sr.
P_Jose Cardona, El Camino Real,
Sr.
P_Angel Rodriguez, Chatsworth,
Sr.
P_Eric Magdaleno, Banning, Jr.
P_Alberto Flores, Kennedy, Sr.
C_Chris Whitmer, El Camino
Real, Sr.
C_Renae Martinez, San Pedro,
Jr.
INF_William Vazquez, San Fernando, Jr.
INF_Danny Alcantar, Kennedy, Sr.
INF_Anthony Canjura, San Pedro,
Sr.
INF_Alex Sawleson, Taft, Sr.
INF_Damon Akins, West Adams,
Sr.
UT_Robert Gsellman, Westchester, Sr.
UT_Aaron Brown, Chatsworth, Sr.
Photo by Ron Guild UT_Kevin Torres, Birmingham, Sr.
OF_Steven Karkenny,
player of the Chatsworth, Sr.
OF_Sam Wasserman, Palisades,
So.
OF_Danny Taylor, Narbonne, Sr.
OF_Raul Camas, Chatsworth, Jr.
OF_Chris Nicholson, El Camino
Real, Jr.
All-City softball team selections
All-City Softball Teams
Division I
First-team
Alicia Barajas, Carson, Jr.;
Trista Chavez, San Pedro, Sr.;
Koral Costa, San Pedro, Jr.;
Adriana Correa, Kennedy, Sr.;
Sarah Enriquez, Granada Hills,
Sr.; Alicia Fernandez, San Pedro,
Sr.; Jenny Ly, Lincoln, Sr.; Brittany Moeai, Carson, Jr.; Megan
Reiner, Marshall, Sr.; Darian
Tautalafua, Carson, Jr.; Whitney
West, El Camino Real, Jr.; Karyn
Wright, El Camino Real, Jr.
Second-team
McKenna Arriola, El Camino
Real, Fr.; Noelani Boyer, Banning, Fr.; Danielle Estrada, Kennedy, Soph.; Taylor Garcia, San
Pedro, Jr.; Brittanie Lamotte,
Carson, Jr.; Elia Lizarraga,
Narbonne, Sr.; Alyssa Mena,
San Fernando, Soph.; Dylann
O’Connor, El Camino Real, Jr.;
Melissa Ortega, Banning, Soph.;
Ilima Riveira, Banning, Soph.;
Melissa Reynosa, Grant, Sr.; Melinda Robertson, San Fernando,
Sr.; Ramona Robledo, Carson, Fr.; Danielle Feuer, North HollyJr.; Jessika Sandoval, Marshall, wood, Sr.; Jaleka Galvez, HamSr.
ilton, Jr; Karla Garcia, Fremont,
Fr.; Stephanie Hernandez, Poly,
Invitational Division
Sr.; Lauren Jackson, Franklin,
Player of Year: Imani Goss, Fr.; Amanda Kersey, Taft, Sr.; JoWestchester
hana Soto, Roosevelt, Jr.; Nicole
Pitcher of Year: Monica Men- Vandenberg, Verdugo Hills, Jr.;
doza, Poly
Taleigh Williams, Palisades, Fr.
First-team
Monica Cartwright, WestSmall Schools Division
chester, Jr; Tiffany Cockrell,
Pitcher of Year: Brandi SutKing-Drew, Sr.; Sophia Garcia, cliffe, Port of L.A.
Franklin, Sr.; Yvonne Lemus,
Player of Year: Brianna GrayLos Angeles, Jr.; Lorraine Lopez, son, Port of L.A.
Franklin, Sr.; Alexis Muir, PaliFirst team
sades, Soph.; Stephanie Palos,
Erin Bettis, Harbor Teacher,
Fremont, Sr.; Nayely Ortega, Fr.; Vanessa Castro, SOCES, Jr.;
Roosevelt, Jr.; Yesenia Reyes, Jasmine Corona, Vaughn, Jr.;
Poly, Sr.; Jazmin Rae Torrez, Ashley Cruz, Annenberg, Sr.;
Sylmar, Sr.; Nayele Valle, Fre- Everly Dominguez, Port of L.A.,
mont, Sr.; Sonia Vasquez, South Jr.; Lizelle Flores, Port of L.A.,
East, Soph.
Jr.; Amanda Lewis, Northridge,
Second-team
Jr.; Ashley Monroe, Northridge,
Shaina Anderson, King-Drew, Sr.; Uche Okoye, Harbor TeachSr.; Regina Choi, Hamilton, er, Soph.; Denise Rodriguez,
Soph; Selma Cortez, Palisades, Community Harvest, Sr.; Kelsea
Jr.; Gabby Delgado, Fremont, Short, Port of L.A., Fr.; Katie VoSr.; Clarissa Estezane, Sylmar, gler, Northridge, Jr.
Second team
P_Keymon Thomas, Crenshaw,
Jr.
P_Ryan Cruz, Kennedy, Sr.
P_Miguel Perez, Arleta, Sr.
P_Dylan Jeffers, Palisades, Sr.
C_Daniel Ibarra, Narbonne, Sr.
C_Jordan Berger, Taft, Sr.
C_Frankie Figueroa, Sylmar, Sr.
INF_Angel Araujo, Wilson, Jr.
INF_Jonathan Linares, North Hollywood, Sr.
INF_Christian Dye, LACES, Sr.
INF_Stephen Smith, Dorsey, Sr.
INF_Justin Marzett, Locke, Jr.
INF_Kenny Peoples-Walls, Westchester, Sr.
INF_Chris Naredo, Maywood, So.
INF_David Garcia, San Fernando,
Jr.
INF_Andrew Pacleb, Kennedy, Jr.
UT_Jose Reyes, San Fernando,
Sr.
UT_Jonathan Hernandez, Banning, Sr.
OF_Randy Medellin, Birmingham,
Jr.
OF_Evan Santa Cruz, Crenshaw,
Sr.
Player of the year_William
Vazquez, San Fernando, Jr.