New MLK Hospital a step closer

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New MLK Hospital a step closer
County and UC regents
agree that appointed
board will operate
hospital once it is built.
BY ELIZABETH
MARCELLINO
CITY NEWS SERVICE
The county Board of
Supervisors Tuesday approved
an agreement with the regents
of the University of California
to open the new Martin Luther
King Jr. Hospital.
The agreement outlines the
county’s funding commitments
to the facility and the general
roles of both the county and the
university in setting up a private, nonprofit hospital entity.
That entity will begin to take
shape when its seven-member
board is appointed and goes to
work.
Based on the agreement, the
county and the regents each
have the power to select two
of the seven members of the
board. The final three seats will
be chosen by consensus of the
county and the regents.
Candidates for the board have
been under discussion by county and UC staffers for the last
couple of months. A list of
seven potential members is
expected to be presented to
the Board of Supervisors for
its approval in the next few
weeks, according to Deputy
Chief Executive Officer Sheila
Shima.
While some advance planning has been done to
accommodate the “nuts and
bolts” of setting up a new
board, Shima said all the
real decision making about
hospital
operations
and
management will be the
responsibility of the independent board.
“We’re trying to do everything we can to set it up,” said
Shima, but it will be up to
the hospital board to choose a
hospital operator — or make
a decision to staff and oper-
ate the hospital directly — and
to negotiate the myriad details
of providing medical care to
the community.
The UC will not provide any
one-time or ongoing funding
for the 120-bed medical center,
which, when fully operational,
is expected to handle 30,000
emergency room visits and
10,000 outpatient visits annually.
County officials expect to
spend $50 million in start-up
funding (at the rate of $10 million per year beginning this
month) and will establish a
$28 million reserve fund to
be used only under “exigent
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South L.A. police cars get video cameras
Photo by Gary McCarthy
Removing blight
South Los Angeles residents display pictures of rundown
homes in their neighborhoods that have been foreclosed
at a press conference Saturday where city officials
announced that banks owning foreclosed homes would be
responsible for their upkeep. See story on Page A4.
BY CHRISTINA
VILLACORTE
CITY NEWS SERVICE
Before the end of summer, 300 Los Angeles Police
Department patrol cars will be
equipped with video cameras
to record interactions between
officers and suspects, the
mayor and police chief
announced Tuesday.
Several patrol cars in
LAPD’s Southeast Division
have had the video cameras
since May, as part of a pilot
program to check for glitches.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
and Police Chief Charlie Beck
said patrol cars in the 77th
Street Community Police
Station will be equipped with
cameras by Wednesday, and
those in the Southwest and
Harbor Divisions will get video
Grant supporters now focus on sentencing
With former BART
officer Johannes
Mehserle convicted
of involuntary
manslaughter, his
victim’s family and
friends are seeking the
maximum sentence.
BY OLU ALEMORU AND
LEILONI DEGRUY
STAFF WRITERS
In the wake of the July 8 involuntary manslaughter verdict
against former Bay Area Rapid
Transit police officer Johannes
Mehserle for the shooting
death of Oscar Grant III, the
California coalition spearheading a justice campaign for the
slain Oakland man met this
weekend to plan strategies for
Mehserle’s upcoming sentencing.
Mesherle faces five to 14
years in prison. The Los Angeles
Coalition for Justice for Oscar
Grant hopes that the judge
gives Mesherle the maximum.
Photo by Leiloni DeGruy
Attorney John Burris, representing the family of Oscar Grant,
addresses the media following the reading of the verdict in the
trial of Johannes Mehserle July 8 in downtown Los Angeles.
The family and friends of Grant are awaiting the sentencing of
Mehserle, which has been delayed until November.
After the verdict, Mehserle,
28, was immediately booked
into the Los Angeles County
Men’s Central Jail, where he
is being kept separate from the
general population.
Outside the courthouse,
John Burris, who is representing the Grant family in the case,
called the verdict “extremely
disappointing.”
“This verdict is not a true representative of what happened
to Oscar Grant and what the
officer did to him that night.
This is not an involuntary
manslaughter case. … We do
believe that this was a murder
case, a second degree murder.”
The 12-member jury, however, thought otherwise.
According
to
Aidge
Patterson, of the Los Angeles
Coalition for Justice for Oscar
Grant, members of the different
coalitions gathered on Sunday
at the Inglewood offices of the
Youth Justice Coalition.
Patterson revealed that
around 60 people attended the
gathering, many of them student organizers, which he said
came up with a grassroots plan
“to keep up the momentum and
public pressure” on the case,
letting the judge know that the
community is expecting him
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Marketplace founder holds out hope
Talent manager offers
help raising funds to
keep African cultural
fair going.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
It may be just a faint glimmer of hope, but after announcing last week that the annual
African Marketplace and
Cultural Faire might be canceled this year, the event’s
founder is seeing some hope
that his annual event can survive.
After revealing that the
Los Angeles City Council’s
Department of Recreation and
Parks is asking for an upfront
fee of $185,000 to hold this
year’s festival at Rancho
Cienega Park, James V.
Burks received a quick call of
help from L.A.-based talent
manager Mark Thomas.
Founded in 1985, the marketplace’s goal has always
been to foster cultural, trade,
tourism
and
educational
exchanges between people
of African descent dispersed
throughout the world.
The faire typically runs for
three consecutive weekends
from the end of August.
Thomas, who represents film
composers and has attended
the faire on many occasions,
said he will be speaking to
Burks about the possibility of
harnessing some celebrity
power for a potential fundraiser.
“I’ve loved going to the marketplace over the years and
had many reunions with friends
and family there,” Thomas
said. “It’s an important event
and I was sad to read that
it might not continue. But I
just didn’t want to sit back.
I wanted to see if I could do
anything so I contacted James
through your newspaper.”
Burks, a longtime director in the city’s Department of
Cultural Affairs, welcomed the
interest, although with a July
1 deadline to raise that upfront
fee any staging of a 25th
anniversary event at Rancho
Cienega would be on a
reduced scale.
“I’m grateful for Mark’s
offer and we will be talking
cameras before the end of the
summer.
“By installing this system in
patrol cars, we’ll have digital
audio and video recordings of
interactions with individuals
who are stopped or arrested,”
Villaraigosa said. “This digital
data will not only shine a light
on apprehension procedures
but would also protect our officers from frivolous or unwarranted claims.”
Beck called the cameras “a
mechanism for transparency, a
mechanism for gathering evidence in criminal cases.”
“It builds public trust within
the police department, it builds
partnerships, and it shows the
dangerous job — the difficult job — that the men and
women of the Los Angeles
Police Department do every
day,” Beck said.
The Southeast Division,
which spans 10.2 square miles,
serves the neighborhoods of
Athens Park, Harbor Gateway,
Jordan Downs, Nickerson
Gardens, San Miguel and
Watts.
The 77th Street Community
Police Station, meanwhile, covers about 12 square miles in the
Crenshaw District, Athens Park,
Chesterfield Square, Gramercy
Park, Hyde Park, Vermont
Knolls, View Heights, Vermont
Park and Morningside Park.
The City Council in 2005
approved a $5.47 million
contract to install video cameras in the South Bureau,
which includes the Southeast,
Southwest and Harbor divisions
and the 77th Street Community
Police Station.
Central Bureau is slated to
follow. The cost of equipping
the rest of LAPD’s 1,600 patrol
cars with the video cameras is
estimated at about $20 million
to $25 million.
Police Chief Charlie Beck shows Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
how the new video cameras being installed in police patrol
cars in South Los Angeles will operate during a Tuesday press
conference at the 77th Street Station.
Police cadet program
lacks Black participants
Bottom Line
Betty Pleasant
People browse through the different goods for sale at the
African Marketplace and Cultural Faire at Rancho Cienega
Park in this 2008 file photo. The founder of the annual event,
James Burks, is keeping hope alive that he can stage a
smaller version of the event this year.
more about it,” Burks said.
“Maybe there’s still time to
have something this year at
the park. Right now I’m writing letters to Bernard Parks,
Mark Ridley-Thomas and
Karen Bass.
“We would still have to raise
some money from the private
sector, but if the city were to
waive 100 percent of its fees,
we could have something that
might be half or a third of the
usual size.”
I attended the third annual
LAPD Youth Leadership Day
celebration Tuesday, which honored the 1,200 youngsters participating in the department’s
Cadet Program, and came away
with some insights and concerns
which lend themselves to future
in-depth reportage on my part.
I was aware that the LAPD has
youth cadets, but I was unaware
of exactly who they are, where
they come from and what they
do. About 500 of them gathered on the grassy field of the
Police Academy Tuesday morning at which the entire force
— from Chief Charlie Beck to
the patrol officers and all the various chiefs and scouts and warriors in between — treated these
cadet children like little gods.
With former Los Angeles City
Councilman Martin Ludlow serving as master of ceremonies, the
cadets were served breakfast
and then showered with more
than $10,000 in scholarships,
computers and other prizes as
rewards for their efforts in leading a fruitful life. These rewards
were made possible by contributions from several corporations,
community and civic organizations and the LAPD Association.
The cadets, who are male and
female and range in age from
14 to 20, are the community’s
“good kids,” and they were
reminded of this by Beck and
Michael Josephson, the event’s
keynote speaker. Josephson is one
of the nation’s most respected and
sought-after speakers and consultants in the field of ethics and
character and is the founder of
the Josephson Institute of Ethics.
His award-winning “Character
Counts!” radio commentaries are
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Inglewood mayoral candidates to debate Thursday night
said.
“I spent most of my time
in June focusing on District 1.
Now we’ll expand that out to
2, 3, and 4. There are people
in other parts of the city that
I’ve never represented that
need to get to know who I am.
I want to hear what their issues
are.”
Tabor said in Thursday’s
debate he will be focusing on
the key challenges like the budget crisis, jobs and redevelopment and public safety.
“I think what voters are
expecting from me is an honest assessment of where we
are financially as a city and a
clear, coherent approach to
address the structural deficit
problem,” he explained.
“From the conversations
we’ve had with voters when
I came back onto the council
three years ago, they want to
see us generate new revenues
and continue to develop this
community, like, for example,
having a new identity for downtown [Market Street].”
Tabor added: “For instance,
at a recent district meeting we
had a presentation about
the concept for the transit
station that will be part of the
Crenshaw to LAX rail line.
“We talked about how community-oriented development
occurs around station locations
and how important it is for
the council to engage with the
MTA on where we want that
station to be. It was a dynamic discussion; some residents
didn’t know the train was
coming, but others not only
knew, they had ideas about the
types of developments it could
bring.”
Meanwhile, Butts, who
launched his runoff campaign two weeks ago and this
past Saturday hosted a voter
registration rally that netted
225 names, had just finished
walking the beat Monday
night when The Wave caught
up with him.
“I’ve not stopped walking
and don’t intend to,” he said.
“We just attended a block
club meeting in the 9000 block
of 3rd Avenue where we met
a group of people and talked
about the condition of the city
and my vision for the future.
“I want to make it a destination city again for upwardly mobile families, a destination for sustainable businesses
and a destination for people
to come and spend their disposable dollars.”
Butts declined to preview
what he might say at the
upcoming debate, but noted his
election showing was a sign
residents were fed up with the
status quo.
Woman frustrated with pace of
investigation in grandson’s death
Allen revealed that Hamblet
was so traumatized by the
event that she hasn’t been
able to give police a full description of the attackers.
An initial statement issued
by Inglewood homicide detectives said they were looking
for three Black male subjects,
but according to Allen one
of the investigating officers
later told her daughter, Cheryl
Ancar, that he was “98 percent certain” that it was a
member of a Latino gang
called the Inglewood 13’s,
who are alleged to be in a turf
war with the neighborhood
Inglewood Pirus.
“My daughter was called by
this detective on the day of the
funeral,” Allen said. “He told
her he was 98 percent sure it
was the I13’s. Now it was just
a matter for them to prove it.
I believe it was one of the
gang specialists for the department.
“My daughter’s reaction
was to ask why hasn’t anything been done. She has called
back to speak to this detective,
but hasn’t been allowed any
access. She leaves her number,
but he is always out in the field
and never calls back.”
According to a police statement released hours after the
incident, officers were dispatched to the scene of the
crime and found Koger sitting in the driver’s seat of his
vehicle with a single gunshot
wound to the head.
The release said that Los
Angeles County Fire Depart-
ment paramedics quickly
arrived, but Koger was pronounced dead at the scene.
In the preliminary investigation, police revealed that
Koger was preparing to leave
his vehicle when a white or
silver Toyota pulled up next
to him, “occupied by 2-3 male
Black suspects.”
“There was an exchange of
words, after which time one
of the suspects fired several
gunshots at the victim,” the
report said. “After the incident,
the suspect vehicle continued
south on Beach Avenue out of
sight. Although the investigation is still ongoing, the motive
for the shooting appears to be
gang related.”
The initial suspect line was
also backed up by Sgt. Marie
Kirk, now promoted to a lieutenant, at a vigil the night
after the murder attended by
The Wave.
Kirk is currently on vacation and a reporter’s attempts
to speak to the officer
Allen mentioned were not successful.
“All inquiries should be
directed through to the information officer, Lt. [Oscar]
Serrano,” said a person who
answered the phone in the
detective bureau last week.
“I phoned through to the
detectives, but they were all
busy,” said Serrano, who pointed out that detectives would
be dealing with the primary
family member, the victim’s
mother.
“I have spoken to Mrs. Allen
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
INGLEWOOD — First
District Councilman Danny
Tabor and former Inglewood
Deputy Police Chief James
T. Butts — the two top vote
getters in the June 8 mayoral
primary — will take part in
a candidates forum Thursday
at Faithful Central Bible
Church.
The debate is scheduled at 7
p.m. in the Living Room at the
church’s 400 W. Florence Ave.
location.
In interviews with the candidates this week, both talked
confidently about becoming
interim mayor and eventually being elected to shape the
city’s future for the next four
years.
“We’re kicking off our campaign this coming Saturday, but
since the election we’ve taken
some time off to call and thank
our supporters who were active
and helped organize their blocks
and neighborhoods,” Tabor
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
INGLEWOOD — The grandmother of a young father killed
in broad daylight five months
ago has voiced her frustration
at the “slow pace of the
investigation,” and says detectives have a good lead on the
shooting but aren’t moving
fast enough.
The comments came from
Ruth Allen, whose grandson,
Ira “Tyrone” Koger, 21, was
Photos by Gary McCarthy
Inglewood mayoral candidates James Butts, left, and Danny
Tabor meet Thursday night in a candidates forum at Faithful
Central Bible Church.
gunned down Feb. 25, in the
800 block of Beach Avenue as
he was on his way to work in
the cargo department of
Evergreen Cargo Express.
The murder was witnessed by Koger’s fiancée,
Korisha Hamblet, 20, but
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“The common message
that cuts across all sections is
that voters have lost faith in
their elected officials and that
accounted for me making the
runoff after only 68 days of
campaigning for office,” Butts
said.
“I got to talk to people face
to face and they really understood there is a viable alternative; someone who doesn’t want
to be a politician, but a public
servant.”
Tabor and Butts are running
in the runoff election Aug. 17
to fill the last two months
remaining on the unexpired
term for the post last held by
Roosevelt Dorn, who resigned
in January.
The regularly scheduled
mayoral election will be held
Nov. 2, open to all qualified
candidates, in which voters will
be asked to elect a mayor to a
new four-year term.
If no candidate receives
more than 50 percent of the vote
in November, a runoff will be
held in early January.
and understand that she is
frustrated with the pace of the
investigation. I will try to get
back to you in a day or two.”
In her interview with The
Wave, Allen said she believes
the reason why the police
might be putting out misinformation is for “fear of retaliation.”
“Any suggestion that he
had any [gang] affiliations is a
blatant lie. He went to work
everyday and was not a member of any gang. Ira previously
worked security at LAX and
wouldn’t have been hired if
he’d had any kind of a criminal record,” Allen said. “I don’t
want to put the police on the
spot because I know there’s
certain things they may not be
able to tell us. But who speaks
up for the families? My grandson was a young man trying
to do the right thing. … He
was on his way to work just
trying to take care of his
family.”
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Crime down, but homicides increase
BY CHRISTINA
VILLACORTE
CITY NEWS SERVICE
Homicides increased slightly in the city of Los Angeles
during the first half of the year
compared to the same period
last year, despite a decline in the
overall crime rate, the mayor
and police chief announced
Friday.
From January through June,
150 homicides were reported to the Los Angeles Police
Department, which is six more
than last year, up 4.2 percent.
Gangs are blamed for more
than half the homicides — 82.
That total is unchanged from
last year, but the number of
shooting victims attributed to
gangs rose 6.6 percent, from
485 in the first half of 2009, to
517 in 2010.
Overall, the LAPD recorded 706 shooting victims in the
first half of the year, compared
to 659 during the same period
in 2009, up 7.1 percent.
Though gangs were accused
of 21.6 percent fewer attacks
on police officers, and 23.5 percent fewer rapes this year, they
were associated with 19 percent more carjackings and 22.2
percent more kidnappings than
during the same period last
year.
However, over the last five
years, homicides have gone
down 39.5 percent, while the
number of shooting victims
declined by 34.7 percent.
Since the start of the year,
violent crime dropped 11.4
percent compared to 2009,
with rapes, robberies and
aggravated assaults continuing
to decline.
“Despite the biggest economic crisis since the Great
Depression, our unwavering
commitment to public safety has yielded tangible, positive results,” Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa said. “With more
cops on our streets than ever
before, and more tools at our
disposal to fight crime and
keep our cities safe, we continue to make the safety and
security of every man, woman
and child in our city our number
one priority.”
The 363 rapes reported during the period was 13.6 percent fewer than over the same
time last year. Robberies fell
8.4 percent, while aggravated
assaults dropped 14.9 percent,
burglaries fell by 8 percent
and grand theft auto by 6.7 percent.
Police Chief Charlie Beck
said the city is safer because
police are working closely with
the communities they protect.
He also praised innovative
anti-gang initiatives such as
Summer Night Lights, which
keeps kids in troubled neighborhoods busy with sports and
recreational activities at public
parks.
“Cops are the most important thing [in public safety]
... but we leverage our effectiveness through community,”
Beck said. “The standards that
a community sets for itself
are much longer lasting than the
standards that a police department sets for its community.”
Villaraigosa said when the
economy improves, he intends
to continue growing the LAPD,
which currently has nearly
10,000 officers.
According to Villaraigosa
and Beck, the statistics indicate
the Los Angeles is the second-
safest big city in the country,
next to New York.
However, they point out New
York uses a different system for
measuring crime rates, which
does not match with federal
government standards.
Beck said budget constraints
that have forced him to give
officers time off in lieu of
overtime pay are a concern.
Still, he is confident of maintaining the progress that has
been made.
“What kills me here is that I
have to send cops home when
they hit a certain point of
overtime,” Beck said. “These
are things that are challenges,
but they’re not ‘unovercomable,’ it just takes much smarter
management.”
To replace beat cops who are
being forced to take days off,
Beck has transferred 300 officers from jobs at headquarters
to the field.
“I believe that we will finish
this year with a Part I crime
reduction [violent crimes and
property crimes combined),”
Beck added. “It won’t be
double-digits, but it will be a
Part I crime reduction.”
County renews reward for missing woman
From City News Service
The county Board of
Supervisors Tuesday renewed a
$10,000 reward for information
leading to Mitrice Richardson,
who has been missing since
September when she suffered a mental breakdown, was
arrested in Malibu and then
released after midnight.
Richardson was released
Sept. 17 from the sheriff’s
Malibu-Lost Hills Station in
Calabasas about 1 a.m. without
transportation, a cell phone or
her purse. The 24-year-old was
arrested when she was unable
to pay her $89 bill at Geoffrey’s,
a Malibu restaurant. Deputies
also found some marijuana in
her car and impounded it.
Restaurant staffers told
investigators Richardson was
behaving bizarrely and speaking gibberish. Los Angeles
Police Department investigators
have said they have found evidence in Richardson’s diaries
and text messages that she was
suffering from bipolar disorder
and may have been awake for
as many as five nights when
she had what appeared to be a
mental breakdown on Sept. 16.
Her mother, Latice Sutton,
contended that authorities
should have recognized her
daughter’s erratic behavior as
abnormal and given her a men-
tal-health evaluation. Sutton
hired attorney Leo Terrell to
sue the county and the Sheriff’s
Department.
The suit, filed June 29, alleged
wrongful death, though there is
no proof that Richardson is dead.
Deputies said the Cal State
Fullerton graduate passed a
sobriety test before she walked
away from the station in the
27000 block of Agoura Road.
Sheriff’s spokesman Steve
Whitmore has said he cannot
comment on the suit, but that the
agency looks forward to telling
its side of the story in court.
Neighbors reported seeing
a woman who may have been
Richardson sleeping on a porch
later that morning, but she
was gone by the time deputies
arrived.
Sheriff’s deputies and volunteers mounted extensive air
and ground searches, but
Richardson has not been seen
since. Whitmore said deputies
were continuing to work with the
LAPD to try to find her.
The Cal State Fullerton graduate’s father, Michael Richardson,
held a drawing Sunday to
raise money to hire a private
investigator, apparently unsatisfied with the LAPD’s official
investigation.
The county’s reward for
information as to Richardson’s
whereabouts expired June 26, but
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Community Calendar
Compiled by Marisela Santana
SHOWING
APPRECIATION
The
California African American Museum
Thursday hosts the third annual Bebe Moore
Campbell National Minority Health Awareness
Month, featuring Bebe Moore Campbell (pictured), a journalist, author and co-founder of
NAMI Urban Los Angeles. Campbell has
dedicated her life to advocating for loved
ones dealing with mental illness. Dedicated
to raising the community’s awareness about
minority mental illness and celebrating
long-term recovery. The event also includes
cocktails and smooth jazz. July 15, from 6 to
8:30 p.m. CAAM, 600 State St., Los Angeles. (323) 294-7814
•••
ANNUAL
OUTFEST
There are three days left in
the 28th annual Los Angeles
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
through Sunday with still a
handful of films, receptions,
parties, discussion panels and
family programs. Outfest is
the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated
to nurturing, showcasing and
protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender images. Events take place at
the Orpheum Theatre, at the Ford Amphitheatre, the REDCAT at Walt Disney
Concert Hall, the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center’s Village, the Laemmle
Sunset 5 Theatres, and at the Directors Guild of America, the festival’s
headquarters. The closing night’s film will be “Spork” (pictured), a film by
J. B. Ghuman for outsiders everywhere. Outfest runs July 15-18. Call (213)
480-7065 for more information or go to www.outfest.org
•••
GOT AN IDEA The Vermont Slauson Business Entrepreneur Center invites
emerging entrepreneurs to attend free entrepreneurial training and business
plan writing classes, starting this Saturday. Whether you are an emerging
entrepreneur contemplating the next innovative business idea or an established
business owner on your way to the Fortune 500, this free program is for you!
Introductory and comprehensive classes are offered in 3-week and 8-week
sessions. July 15-31. Vermont Slauson Business Enterprise Center, 6109 S.
Western Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 789-4515
•••
FIELD WORK Author and youth advocate John Hill, who served for 10 years
as chief of staff for former Los Angeles
County Supervisor Yvonne Burke, will discuss his latest book, “Dreamer in the Fields:
My Life as a Child Migrant Farm Worker.”
Hill tells a personal story somewhat reminiscent of the Joad family’s struggles in
John Steinbeck’s immortal novel, “The
Grapes of Wrath.” Hill tells the story of
the Hill Family, then 10 children (one dies
early) born to parents who favor alcohol
above the basic needs of their children. He
also shares his story of a hard life as a
foster child and child laborer, having to
overcome many challenges in his struggle
for a normal home life and a decent education. July 16, from 6 to 9 p.m. Lucy
Florence Cultural Center, 3351 W. 43rd St., Leimert Park. (424) 602-9562
•••
FAMILIES COMES
FIRST L.A. Care
invites the community
to the first anniversary
of its Inglewood Family
Resource Center with
island-style fun. With
a guest appearance
by
KJLH
Radio’s
Adai
Lamar,
the
event welcomes residents to the center’s ongoing commitment to improving community health. The event will feature free food,
free goody bags, raffle prizes, free vision, blood pressure and glucose,
and gait and balance screenings, and opportunities to sign up for free
health education and exercise classes. There will also be free smoothie demonstrations, craft activities and face painting for children and a Caribbean
Island ambiance provided by KJLH. July 17, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. L.A. Care’s
Family Resource Center, 3111 W. Century Blvd., Inglewood. (213) 694-1250
•••
MEET AND GREET Author
and radio personality Andrionna L.
Williams autographs copies of her
new book, “In-Laws From Hell,” this
Saturday. Williams’ novel focuses
on marriage, in which she calls the
epitome of a catastrophe! “In-Laws
From Hell” describes unbelievable
and uncompromising predicaments
that come with being married and
dealing with one’s parents in laws.
Williams says of her book: “Try
adding an offensive stench of meddling in-laws vexation; and if you
can surpass the maliciousness you could actually enjoy years of wedding
bliss.” July 17, from 2 to 4 p.m. Zahra’s Books & Things, 900 N. LaBrea Ave.,
Inglewood. (310) 330-1300
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COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS The
nation’s only touring Black rodeo, the
Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, is making its way to the L.A. area this weekend
with excitement, skills, talent and nerves
that represent the spirit of the west and
the rich heritage of Black Americans.
Participants may take part in bare back,
bull doggin’, tie-down ropin’, steer
undecoratin’ barrel racin’, and bull ridin’
competitions. The event brings together
people from all over the west coast to
celebrate their love for the rodeo. July 17-18. Industry Hills Expo Center,
16200 Temple Ave., City of Industry. (310) 674-6700
•••
NEW LEADERSHIP Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and the Empowerment
Congress host an evening with Don Blevins, the new Los Angeles County
chief of Probation Monday. The event is an opportunity for residents of
the Second District to meet the department’s new leader. July 19, from 6 to
8 p.m. Second District Exposition Park Administrative Office conference
facility, 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles. (323) 586-6523
•••
MIXING IT UP The networking event
of the season, “L.A.’s Largest Mixer,”
unites with local businesses, city chambers
of commerces and business groups for
Los Angeles’ most anticipated business
mixer of the year. Attendees will have
the opportunity to view more than 250
exhibitors and network with thousands
of local influentials on the cutting edge
of Los Angeles’ business elite. Nearly
3,000 people attended last year’s event.
July 22, from 5 to 9 p.m. Shrine Auditorium Expo Center, 700 W. 32nd St.,
Los Angeles. (323) 230-5656
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SECOND
CHANCES
County
Supervisor
Mark
RidleyThomas
and
the
Empowerment
Congress invite the public to help
develop a master plan for the coordination of re-entry services for youth in Los
Angeles County at the Second District’s
Youth Offender Re-Entry Summit next
Friday. The county has been awarded a $300,000 Young Offender Re-entry
Planning Grant by the U.S. Department
of Labor. The event is in partnership with
Los Angeles County Senior Services’
Workforce and Community Services
Branch, in collaboration with the Human
Relations Commission. July 23, from 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Carson Community Center, 801 E. Carson St., Carson. (213) 351-5036
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on a space-available basis. The deadline for all submissions is Friday at 5 p.m. Please
include the name and telephone number of a contact person.
Establing rules of responsibility
City Councilman Bernard Parks explains the new city ordinance requiring banks to be responsible for maintaining foreclosed
homes to a group of South Los Angeles residents at a Saturday morning press conference. Attending with Parks was City
Council President Eric Garcetti.
A new city ordinance
requires banks to
maintain homes that
have entered foreclosure
with fines totaling as
much as $1,000 a day.
BY CHRISTINA
VILLACORTE
CITY NEWS SERVICE
Angelenos are being urged
to report foreclosed properties
that have fallen into disrepair,
so the city can fine the banks
that own them.
Under an ordinance that took
effect July 8, banks can be fined
$1,000 per day for failing to
maintain a foreclosed home.
The maximum fine is $100,000
per year.
Banks will have 30 days to fix
problems before being fined.
City Council President Eric
Garcetti, who co-authored the
ordinance with Councilman
Greig Smith, met Saturday
with members of a South Los
Angeles neighborhood hard
hit by the recession and urged
them to call 311 to report foreclosed homes that are not being
maintained.
“If you see a home that is
in your neighborhood, that is
full of weeds and maybe broken windows, beginning to be
neglected, and you know it’s
because it’s going through a
foreclosure, contact the city,”
he said.
“We have inspectors who
will come out and we will fine
banks who are taking over
these homes. Many [banks]
claim that they don’t fully own
[the homes] yet but they are
responsible for them,” Garcetti
said.
Councilman Bernard Parks,
whose district includes part of
South Los Angeles, said banks
must be held accountable.
“We can no longer allow
banks to act solely in their own
financial interest while disregarding the consequences for
the community,” he said.
The ordinance calls for creating a registry of foreclosed
properties, whose owners will
be instructed to keep them
“clean and free from accumulation of debris, rubbish,
garbage, trash, overgrown vegetation and other similar material.”
Garcetti and Parks said residents living near foreclosed
homes should call the city’s
311 line if they see:
• Criminal activity on the
property.
• Accumulated garbage.
• Overgrown yards.
• Unlocked, open or broken
windows, doors and walls that
could allow entry.
• Flammable or hazardous
materials.
• Pools or hot tubs that have
not been drained or are not
being kept clean and in working order.
• Failure to post 24-hour contact information for reporting
problems on the property.
• Failure to post a sign
saying “This property is closed
to the public.”
• And occupancy without
water, electricity or other utilities.
“These dilapidated homes
can drag down an entire neighborhood’s quality of life and
property values,” Garcetti said.
“This ordinance is about stopping banks from neglecting
seized homes to the point that
they become magnets for trash,
vermin and crime.”
Los Angeles’ 2010-11 budget
depends on the fees and fines
from this program to generate at least $5 million, which
would help prevent layoffs of
city employees.
Focus turns to sentencing of Mehserle
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to give Mehserle the maximum
sentence.
Following
the
verdict,
Mehserle was scheduled to be
sentenced Aug. 6, but that will
likely be delayed as his defense
attorney Michael Rains asked
Superior Court Judge Robert
Perry for more time to prepare
post-trial motions.
The sentencing hearing is now
expected to convene Nov. 5.
“We are already drafting
template letters to local and
national politicians and will be
writing letters to the judge,”
Patterson said. “We fully expect
Perry to hand down the minimum sentence, but the letterwriting campaign will let him
know we’re fully aware of
what’s happening. If Rains gets
the [gun] enhancement charge
thrown out, Mehserle is looking
at only probation.”
He added: “On another level,
we will also be contacting the
judicial board of review, the
federal body that oversees
judges. We think Attorney
General Eric Holder should be
all over it. This case is far from
over. There’s a lot of groundwork to do [and] we can’t afford
to slacken off.”
Speaking for the Grant family, Cephus Johnson, Grant’s
uncle, also said “it’s not over.”
“We’ve made it clear that we
want the Justice Department
to conduct [its] own investigation,” he said in a phone call
from Oakland Monday. “We
will be setting up meetings
with the Oakland and Los
Angeles Justice groups and
going on from there.”
In what was seen by Grant’s
family as a ploy to decrease
his prison sentence, Mehserle
issued a handwritten letter —
released by his attorney and
dated July 4 — expressing his
remorse.
“I know a daughter has lost
a father and a mother has lost
a son. It saddens me knowing that my actions cost Mr.
Grant his life and no words
can express how truly sorry
I am,” Mehserle wrote. “For
now and forever I will live,
breathe, sleep and not sleep
with the memory of Mr. Grant
screaming, ‘You shot me’ and
me putting my hands on the
bullet wound, thinking the
pressure would help while I
kept telling him ‘You’ll be
okay.’”
Mehserle added that he wanted to contact the family following the shooting but death
threats prevented him from
doing so. He then extended his
condolences to the family in
hopes “that the day will come
when anger will give way to
dialogue.”
The verdict suggests the jury
believed Mehserle, who testified June 24, did not intend
to kill Grant on New Year’s
Day 2009 on a rail station
platform, and intended to draw
his Taser, instead of his .40
caliber handgun.
“It sets a precedent for cops
now to know that if they shoot
and kill us on camera, they
can still get away with it as
long as they have an excuse,”
said protester Cherise Rogers
outside the courthouse July 8
after the verdict was read. “It
puts fear into young people —
Black and Brown — out here
that walk the streets and know
now that the biggest gang out
there is not the Bloods or the
Crips, but the police. It is as
if [police] now have the permit
or license to go out here and
kill our people with no
recourse.”
In the minds of Grant’s family, supporters and concerned
citizens, the jury rushed to the
decision and should have taken
a longer look at the facts.
Grant’s mother, Wanda
Johnson, who has not spoken
much to the media, said after
the verdict: “My son was murdered and the law has not held
the officer accountable the way
that he should have been held
accountable.”
Involuntary manslaughter
convictions call for anywhere
between two to four years in
prison. But because of the
added gun enhancement charges, the judge could add an additional three to 10 years.
“Johannes Mehserle has a
debt to pay,” Grant’s uncle said.
“And if that debt is not paid
according to this system, there
is a higher moral justice that
he will pay to. … It is my
prayer and hope that the judge
comes back with a sentencing that is appropriate because
we do not want this murderer
to be released to go home to
eat dinner and then be rehired
by another police department
somewhere across the United
States.”
Following the verdict, the
U.S. Justice Department issued
a statement saying its civil
rights division, the FBI and
the U.S. attorney’s office have
an open investigation into the
fatal shooting, and at the end
of the state prosecution the
bodies will conduct “an independent review of the facts and
circumstances to determine
whether the evidence warrants
federal prosecution.”
New MLK Hospital takes another key step
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circumstances,” according to
the agreement.
The county also estimates it
will need to cover another $63.3
million in annual expenses
— $50 million through MediCal transfers and $13.3 million in county revenues to pay
for medical care for the indigent uninsured. The county has
committed to cover shortfalls
in Medi-Cal reimbursements
through borrowing against a
$100 million letter of credit.
The full operating budget for
the hospital will depend on the
many of the decisions about
care that have yet to be made,
but some early projections
by the county indicated the
county’s $63.3 million would
amount to about one-third of
the overall hospital budget.
Other revenues will come from
Medicare and private patients.
The UC’s role will be to provide clinical planning and physicians’ services and to direct
and manage the establishment
of an accredited teaching program at the hospital. Subject
to agreement on compensation
with the hospital operator, the
UC will also provide a chief
medical officer and doctors to
staff the hospital.
There was little discussion
surrounding Tuesday’s unanimous vote in favor of the agreement, as the board approved
its basic outlines last Dec. 1.
In addition to a host of agreements between the county, the
UC, the state and the operating entity, state legislation and
regulatory approvals will also
be required for portions of the
agreement to take effect.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
commended the board’s decision.
“Today’s action is a significant milestone toward the
future reopening of the
Martin Luther King [Jr.
Medical Center], and I applaud
the Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors for taking this
important step today. This
agreement is great news for the
people of South Los Angeles
who are looking forward to
the new hospital providing
the quality health care they
deserve,” Schwarzenegger said.
Separate from start-up costs
and a percentage of operating expenses, the county is
expected to spend an estimated
$391 million to build the new
facility in Willowbrook, set to
open in 2013.
Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew
Medical Center, a full-service
teaching hospital built after
the 1965 Watts riots, lost its
accreditation and federal funding after a series of incidents
of inadequate care which led
to patient injuries and death.
In one of the last, most highly
publicized tragedies, a woman
died on the floor of the emergency room while awaiting
treatment.
The hospital and emergency room was closed in August
2007, leaving only a county-run
outpatient clinic.
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Old-fashioned detective work, modern science led to arrest
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
It took years of old-fashioned detective work with
a little bit of modern science
thrown in, but the Los Angeles
Police Department finally have
arrested the man they believe
to be the Grim Sleeper.
Lonnie David Franklin Jr.,
57, is suspected of killing at
least 10 women in South Los
Angeles and wounding another
between 1985 and 2007. There
was a nearly 14-year break
between killing sprees.
The victims were: Debra
Jackson, killed Aug. 10, 1985;
Henrietta Wright, found dead
Aug. 12, 1986; Barbara Ware,
killed Jan. 10, 1987; Bernita
Sparks, found dead April 15,
1987; Mary Lowe, killed Nov.
1, 1987; Lachrica Jefferson,
slain Jan. 30, 1988; Alicia
Alexander, found dead Sept. 11,
1988; Princess Berthomieux,
killed March 19, 2002; Valerie
McCorvey, slain July 11, 2003;
and Janecia Peters, found dead
Jan. 1, 2007.
All of the victims were found
in alleys and trash bins in South
Los Angeles, Inglewood and
surrounding unincorporated
areas. Some were raped before
being shot to death with a
small-caliber handgun.
Enrieta Washington, the lone
survivor, was attacked Nov. 20,
1988. According to Washington,
she met the suspect while
walking home. He offered her a
ride and upon her initial refusal,
he said “you Black women are
ungrateful.”
She said she decided to accept
the ride because the man was
handsome, had a nice complexion, was clean shaven and drove
a vehicle — an orange Ford
Pinto — much like “those
matchbox cars,” she said.
But no more than 10 minutes
into the ride, her assailant shot
her in the chest. Washington
said she passed out from the
loss of blood, only to awaken
with him on top of her. She
said she pleaded for medical
assistance and her life. The
Two dobermans are a menacing presence outside the house on West 81st Street where Lonnie
David Franklin Jr., the suspect in the ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial murder case, was arrested July 7
by Los Angeles police officers.
man pushed her from his vehicle, leaving her to die in a ditch
and drove away.
Washington said she had
to muster the strength to trek
roughly a mile to a friend’s
house, where she eventually
got aid.
Nearly 22 years later,
Washington said she wasn’t
sure whether Franklin was her
attacker. He would have been
in his mid 30s at the time and
her attacker was much thinner
than Franklin is today.
But
lead
investigator
Detective Dennis Kilcoyne told
reporters at a press conference last
week that he was “100 percent”
confident that they had arrested
the right man.
Franklin was arrested July 7
outside his home in the 1700
block of West 81st Street by a
task force that compared DNA
samples from Franklin and his
son. The latter was arrested
about a year ago and is not
a suspect because he was too
young at the time, police said,
to commit the murders. But
in this case, said Attorney
General Jerry Brown, because
DNA from convicted felons
is required, Franklin’s son’s
DNA closely matched the
DNA evidence investigators
had been searching for.
Investigators then worked
on obtaining a sample of
Franklin’s DNA. They followed
him around until they were
able to obtain a discarded piece
of pizza. The tactic, according
to some critics, raises ethical
and legal questions about constitutionality and the right to
privacy.
“We are in the midst of very
powerful new technology and
also legal battles to make sure
we can use,” Brown said at the
press conference. “In this case,
in our 1.5 million data samples,
there was no evidence of the
suspect in the case. In recent
months — actually, it started
about a year ago — I authorized,
and there’s a lot of questions
about whether its constitutional, but we concluded that it
was, that we can search not just
from a suspect in the database,
where we have a link to a crime
scene, but we can search for
someone in our database who
has a family member — a brother or a father — who is related
to DNA taken from a murder
scene. And that’s exactly what
happened in this case.”
Brown added that scientists
developed a unique software
that cannot be found anywhere
else in the country. And it was
with that software that they were
able to identify the suspect.
“We follow a lot of procedures, so we are protecting people’s privacy,” Brown said. “We
have a number of safeguards
before we turn the name over
to the Los Angeles Police
Department. And that’s happened just in the last 10 days.”
According to Police Chief
Charlie Beck, the new technology will change the way policing is done in the country and
will bring justice to victims who
did not previously have it. The
method, he added, has been
successful in parts of Western
Europe.
While some public officials
at the press conference — held
outside LAPD headquarters
in downtown Los Angeles —
patted themselves on the
back, co-founder of the Black
Coalition Fighting Back Serial
Murders Margaret Prescod
said detectives and public officials were not so vigilant in
the beginning stages and only
through constant pressure from
the coalition and the victims’
families did they solve the case.
“Public officials who have
done little to support community efforts to resolve these
crimes are now congratulating
themselves,” Prescod said. “If
indeed the LAPD has found
the killer, we cannot whitewash
the reality that if the investigation had been taken seriously
earlier — for example back in
1987 when there was a 911
eyewitness call when Debra
Ware was killed — lives could
have been saved.
“The fact that the victims
were Black and found in an
inner-city neighborhood resulted in the lack of priority of
these murders,” she added,
“and impacted the handling of
the investigation — particularly
in the earliest phases.”
And it was because of this
that the coalition — made up
of eight founders, as well as
residents and families of the
victims — was formed in 1985.
Prescod said they were even
more outraged by the LAPD’s
late warning to the community, saying that the department
waited until a number of lives
were lost before they addressed
the community about dangers
that were lurking.
Beck praised the victims’
families, saying “they have
been with us for the last 23
years, have been patient with
us for the last 23 years and
ensured that this case has
never been forgotten,” he said.
“The courage that they have
displayed has energized the
detectives of every homicide division and my office in
making sure that this case was
the number one priority. So
for the families, this case was
solved because of you. Yes it
was science, yes it was good
detective work, yes it was
never saying no, never letting
go, but it was because of the
families. It was really important.”
The coalition contends that
they pushed to get a composite
sketch of Franklin at the time
he committed the murders, and
later had to press the department to issue an age-enhanced
composite.
Porter Alexander, Alicia
Alexander’s father, said he “had
doubt in my mind after all the
years had passed that I would
not live to see this day. … I
felt that the police department
had given up, I had the feeling
that they didn’t care that much
about them. … We were only
interested in one thing and
that [was] finding this man
out there taking lives that he
did not give.”
Prescod also congratulated those involved for pulling
through in the end. But she
has another challenge: To not
give up on other victims who
have been killed in South Los
Angeles.
Though the LAPD believes
they have their suspect, there
is still work to be done. Police
detectives said they will
continue to comb through
scores of unsolved murders of
women in South Los Angeles
that may also be linked to the
Grim Sleeper.
According to authorities,
there are at least another 30
murders that have similarities
to the 10 slayings attributed to
the Grim Sleeper.
Franklin was scheduled
to be arraigned July 8 in the
downtown Criminal Courts
Building on 10 counts of
murder and one count of
attempted murder, but it has
been postponed to Aug. 9 at
the request of defense attorney
Regina Laughney. If convicted,
Franklin could face up to life
in prison.
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Elections matter: Don’t
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BY JULIAN BOND
f the teachers sit
on their hands this
fall, it would be a
disaster for Obama and the
Democrats,” said a scholar who follows educational
politics last week.
And it would be a gift to
an opposition which has
said no to a tax on big
banks, apologized to big
oil, and encouraged bigotry
and fanaticism at its fringes.
Teachers have a right to
express disappointment in
Obama — they spent millions helping to elect him in
2008.
The administration has
angered teachers in a dispute over whether funds
intended for them can be
diverted into an educational
program. This dispute may
or may not be solved in
a few weeks, but the teachers’ anger echoes other segments of the progressive
coalition — angered that
the change they hoped
for hasn’t come to pass,
angered that Obama seems
to be just a regular politician.
That perception of the
Obama
administration
ignores its many accomplishments to date. In spite
of an opposition marching
in lockstep and pledging to
make it fail, the administration’s record to date is
quite impressive. Anyone
who contributes to the defeat
of Democratic members of
Congress this fall will weaken Obama’s chances of adding to this record. If you
want Obama to do more, you
have to give him more to
do it with, not less.
If progressive voters stay
at home in November — as
young voters have done in
every election since they
turned out in record numbers for Obama in 2008
— we will get whacked by
right-wing wackos, and the
country will suffer immeasurably as a result.
In his brief tenure as president, Obama has brought us
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President Obama’s many accomplishments — in the face of
misguided criticism from the left and the right — are one reason that voter participation in the upcoming midterm elections
is especially crucial.
back from Bush’s precipice
with a $100 billion stimulus that has begun to revive
our infrastructure and transportation system and which
contained tax incentives
for clean energy and $60
billion for energy development, engineered passage of
revolutionary health reform,
and is about to get a hefty
financial reform bill.
He succeeded in urging
Congress to pass the Lilly
Ledbetter Act, which insures
equal pay for equal work.
He did the same with the
Matthew Shepard Act, adding extra penalties for hate
crimes. He stopped banks
from profiting from student loans which the government provided. He has
urged Congress to repeal
the discriminatory “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” and has
made great progress in
removing
discrimination
against gays and lesbians
by executive order.
Despite having inherited
the burden of two wars, one
a war of choice, he kept to
his promise to begin drawing down troop levels in
Iraq and faced down an
impertinent
general
in
Afghanistan.
He negotiated a nuclear
pact with Russia, which calls
for a dramatic decrease in
nuclear weapons, increasing
world security. He created
an initiative that would help
keep nuclear weapons away
from terrorists.
He won the Nobel Peace
Prize!
Some Senators considering whether to confirm
Elena Kagan to the Supreme
Court said, “Elections matter.” The election that chose
Obama certainly mattered.
But it will matter less if
the
mid-term
elections
this November result in a
Congress — as opposed to
a minority — that just says
no.
If you sit on your hands
and don’t pull that voting
lever down, you’re letting
others who may be hostile
to your interests decide
what your future will be.
Bond, the former chairman of the NAACP, wrote
this special commentary for
the NNPA.
ANOTHER VIEW
Post-racial, or head in the sand?
BY HARRY C. ALFORD
he White male is very,
very worried. His dominance in the world is no
longer certain and there must
be a way for him to devise a
new system that can assure his
economic and power advantage
despite the rising populations of
people of color, White women
and the demands for a fair share
of that economy and power.
Blacks are now the majority
in Brazil. Forty percent of all
newborns in Germany are of
Turkish descent. White French
are dropping in population,
while Arabs and Blacks in that
country have soaring populations. Gains in civil rights and
political clout are starting to
make a difference.
Thus, a new kind of psychological tactic is now being
weighed. They, the White power
trust, are trying to convince us
that racism no longer exists
and that we should not be vigilant any longer. We should no
longer count heads and search
for disparate impact and correct demographic imbalances.
Yes, we are now all one family
and our new direction should
be human rights, not civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. is dead
and so should be our focus.
Victory is won and things have
been corrected. Oh, it is a postracial future now. Go to sleep
Black man and forget your
drive for equality because you
T
have it now and just don’t know
it. Forget about unemployment
that is triple that for Whites.
Don’t worry about low education attainment and disproportionate criminal sentences and
an enormous poverty level. It
really isn’t there anymore. You
have a Black president — so it
is all gone.
It sounds so preposterous but what is shocking is
that many Black organizations
and some activists are drinking this “Kool-aid.” Some civil
rights organizations have even
officially changed their names
from “civil rights” to “human
rights.” An alarming number
are changing their missions to
include advocacy for Whites,
gays, lesbians, disabled and anything else you can think of.
Strangely, this was the
Reagan Administration’s tactic
to tone down affirmative action.
You include every group you
can think of into the affirmative action pot, thus lessening
the concentration on, or action
for, true minorities. Many of
our civil rights groups have
now bought into this as it is the
liberals singing the message so
it must be the way to go.
When you change your mission, you lose your cause.
Whites don’t need your help as
they are in the driver’s seat as
it is. Gays and lesbians have
a strong lobby and advocacy
and don’t need us. We, African-
Americans, should not think
that things are fine. There is
still a lot of racism, prejudice and inequality out there.
Don’t put your head in the
sand like an ostrich trying to
block out the dangers of the
world.
Stand tall and continue the
fight. These organizations are
rendering themselves worthless by walking away from the
battles. Right now there is a
backlash in this nation that is
directed right at Black America
and they are singing a song of
togetherness and happiness.
Why even one group is dropping their lawsuit against the
subprime lenders who economically exploited millions
of our homeowners. They have
dropped the suits as if it never
happened. This is absolutely
shocking.
Another indicator of this
alarming trend is the current voting rights case before the U.S.
Department of Justice. It is clear
that the New Black Panther
Party violated the civil rights of
voters at a polling place during
the last presidential election. It
is on videotape and there are
very credible witnesses. They
have been found guilty in a
court of law. Still, without
any sound logic, our Justice
Department is dropping the
case, as if it didn’t happen. This
is just one matter at the Civil
See ANOTHER VIEW on page A7
USA Basketball
After the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers publicly blasted LeBron James for going to
Miami, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said the basketball superstar was being treated like
“a runaway slave.”
No shame in his
decision to be LeGone
BY GEORGE E. CURRY
f there were any doubts
about whether LeBron James
should have migrated from
the cold winters of Cleveland
to sunny Miami, they were
removed when Dan Gilbert,
the Cavaliers’ majority owner,
issued a scathing criticism of
Cleveland’s “former hero” who
demonstrated “cowardly betrayal” by deciding not to remain in
Cleveland after becoming a free
agent.
Gilbert’s open letter to fans was
actually an open attack on James,
who gave the franchise seven
years to assemble an adequate
support crew around him. When
they failed, he opted to sign with
the Miami Heat, where he will
be paired with two all-star teammates.
James was wrong to make
Gilbert learn of his decision
by watching James’ reality TV
announcement on ESPN instead
of extending him the courtesy of a telephone call prior to
the announcement. Still, that
didn’t justify Gilbert’s attempt to
humiliate his former star attraction.
“As you know, our former
hero, who grew up in the very
region that he deserted this evening, is no longer a Cleveland
Cavalier,” Gilbert wrote. “This
was announced with a severalday, narcissistic, self-promotional build-up culminating with a
national TV special of his ‘decision’ unlike anything ever ‘witnessed’ in the history of sports
and probably the history of
entertainment.”
He told the fans, “You simply
don’t deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal.”
Speaking of cowards, Gilbert
waited until his superstar jilted
him to accuse King James of
choking in four playoff games
against the Boston Celtics. If
James’ threw in the towel against
the Celtics, as Gilbert sug-
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gests, then why is the owner so
enraged that No. 23 is headed to
Miami? Furthermore, if Gilbert
harbored such thoughts about
James, he is acting like a coward
by waiting until James left the
franchise before expressing those
thoughts.
Let’s get a few things straight.
The NBA has tight restrictions
on the mobility of players, stacking the deck — by allowing the
home team to offer more money
than competitors, if it wants
to — and deciding a player can
choose another team only after
he has been cut or his contract
expires. While under contract,
teams can’t even approach other
players about the possibility
of joining them without facing
league tampering charges.
When James became eligible for free agency, he had to
weigh whether his best chance of
winning an NBA championship
rested with staying in Cleveland
or moving to Miami to join
fellow NBA All-Stars Dwayne
Wade and newly-acquired Chris
Bosh. There is no question that
by signing James and Bosh and
re-signing Wade, the youthful
Miami Heat instantly become
a favorite to win next season’s
NBA championship and many
more.
Angry fans who burned James’
old Cleveland jersey in protest accused James of making a
selfish decision. They forget
that professional basketball is
first and foremost a business.
And as a shrewd businessman
— and one of the game’s greatest
players — James agreed to
leave millions on the table in
an effort to win his first NBA
championship.
Cleveland fans need to get
over it. I saw men on TV crying over losing James to Miami.
Yes, crying. There’s something
wrong with such an over emphasis on sports, especially if, as one
of those interviewed said, “This
is the worst thing that has ever
happened to me in my life.”
In a strange way, it was one
of the best things to happen to
Jesse Jackson, who has been teetering on the fence of irrelevancy
since vowing to remove certain
body parts of Barack Obama. He
found a way to inject himself
into the LeBron James saga, posting a statement on the Rainbow
PUSH Coalition website, saying,
“LeBron is not a child, nor is he
bound to play on Gilbert’s plantation…”
Referring to the Cleveland
owner, Jackson said, “He speaks
as an owner of LeBron and not
the owner of the Cleveland
Cavaliers. His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master
mentality. He sees LeBron as a
runaway slave.”
Jayson Whitlock, an outspoken Black sports writer, challenged the notion of “NBA owners and their $100-million contracts are slave owners and King
James is Kunta Kinte escaping
on the Underground Railroad to
Miami...”
He wrote, “Dan Gilbert’s rant
was certainly immature, but it
wasn’t remotely racist. He sounded like a scorned lover, a guy who
gave his heart to a relationship
and found out on national TV
that the alleged love of his life
didn’t care about him at all.”
A scorned Dan Gilbert told
Cleveland fans: “I personally
guarantee that the Cleveland
Cavaliers will win an NBA
Championship before the selftitled former ‘king’ wins one. You
can take that to the bank.”
If you take that promissory
note to the bank, be prepared to
be arrested for fraud. There is no
way Cleveland will win an NBA
title before LeBron & Company
wins one in Miami. Cleveland
couldn’t win a championship
with LeBron and they have a
lesser chance of winning a title
without him.
Curry is an NNPA columnist and former editor-in-chief
of Emerge magazine and the
NNPA News Service.
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WILLIAM WARREN
Orwell’s novel also happens
to be a fine piece of literature
and one that I believe has a
proper place in our children’s
literary curriculum.
But was the problem with
Stalinism only that it corrupted the Marxist ideal? Is
totalitarianism the natural end
of all forms of government,
or are men capable of ruling themselves? Without the
foundation of Locke, do
American children have the
philosophical foundation necessary to understand what
is truly evil about Stalin and
Marx and conversely, what
is good and unique about
America? I am concerned
when young students can’t
identify the source of the
ideas upon which their nation
was founded, but can easily
identify men whose political
beliefs are in direct opposition
to those ideas.
Locke was a 17th century
physician and philosopher and
is also known as the father
of empiricism — the theory that knowledge is gained
through evidence acquired
through experience. Locke
developed his ideas in his
“Essay Concerning Human
Understanding.”
However, it is the publication of two books — “The
First Treatise on Government,”
and “The Second Treatise on
Government” — that makes
Locke important to the study
of political philosophy in general and the American founding in particular. In these
great works, Locke refutes the
divine right of kings and sets
forth the nature of legitimate
civil government, based on
(what was at the time) the
radical idea of natural rights
and the social compact.
It was the revolutionary
ideas of natural rights and
government limited to the
occupation
of
securing
those rights that influenced
America’s founding fathers.
Locke is quoted and paraphrased throughout much of
America’s founding documents.
Over the years, there has
been increasing pressure on
America’s public schools to
increase the level of math
and English education. There
has also been a corresponding decrease in the emphasis
on teaching American history and civics. For instance,
here in California, entrance
requirements into the public university system call for
only two years of history and
government, as opposed to four
in English and math.
But civic education is at least
as important.
According
to
the
Intercollegiate
Studies
Institute, civic knowledge not
only “exerts a broader and
more diverse influence on the
American mind,” but it also
“increases a person’s regard
for America’s ideals and free
institutions.”
In other words, the health
of our republic depends on
a citizenry educated in the
history and source of its political ideals and the institutions those ideals produced.
Certainly, that is as important
as geometry.
And if students must study
literature, which they certainly
should, why not read works
that also have the benefit
of teaching the source of
the ideas of the American
Revolution?
Between Karl Marx and
John Locke, who is more
important to our national
political identity? So why are
our children hanging posters
of Marx on their classroom
walls instead of Locke?
I am not claiming that there
is a Marxist conspiracy to
indoctrinate our children.
However, I do know that if we
continue to neglect educating
our children about the men on
whose ideas this nation was
built, this nation will not stand.
The borders may remain the
same, but the character of this
nation will be lost forever.
Joseph Phillips can be
reached via his Web site at
josephcphillips.com.
Police cadet program needs more Blacks
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and around the world each day.
Following his encouraging
words to the cadets, Josephson
joined me in a private observation that gave us both
pause: The cadets are overwhelmingly Latino.
“This program has no Black
children in it. That is strange
for Los Angeles, don’t you
think?” Josephson asked me.
“Indeed,” I responded.
“Do you think the Blacks are
staying away from it because
they view it as a strictly Latino
thing?” Josephson asked.
“I dunno,” I answered.
“It could be that, like me,
Blacks don’t know much about
this program because the LAPD
is not making any special
efforts to outreach the Black
community and bring Black kids
into it,” I surmised.
“Well, the Latino community
certainly knows the benefits of
this and they have flocked to it.
It would be a wonderful thing
if our Black youths — and other
ethnicities — would do so as
well,” Josephson said.
This exchange led me to
seek out one of the handful of
Black cadets I saw: 17-year-old
Quamonte Carr, who has been
a cadet from the Wilshire
Division for almost a year.
He graduated from Hamilton
High School last month and he
has his sights set on becoming a
poet. (Yes, a poet.)
Carr is absolutely delighted
with the Cadet program. “It’s a
very good program that motivates everybody to do whatever they want to do in life,”
Carr said. “I plan to use in the
future, everything I learn
here. Yes, you learn how to be
a police officer, but you don’t
have to want to be a police
officer to benefit because what
you learn here can be applied to
whatever you want to be.
“I want to be a poet first
and being a cop is my second
choice,” Carr continued.
“So, if you don’t make it as
the next Langston Hughes, you’ll
become a poetic cop?” I asked.
“Yes. I’ll be a poetic cop,”
Carr answered.
The next batch of cadets are
being recruited for the training
cycle that begins in September.
To be a cadet, the applicant
must be between the ages of
14 and 20, have a decent (2.0)
grade point average, and have a
letter of recommendation from
somebody who is not related
to him or her. Kids wanting to
become cadets can apply at any
police station or they can stop
a cop on the street.
OK. Spurred by my conversation with Josephson and Carr,
I now have a new journalistic
advocacy issue: To increase the
number of Black youths in the
LAPD’s Cadet Program.
Asst. Chief Earl Paysinger,
head of operations, has been the
director of the Cadet Program
for the past three years and
Beck calls the program
“Paysinger’s Passion.” I’m
going to be all over Paysinger
about what intense efforts he is
making to promote this program
in the Black community. I’m
going to want names and dates
and data. Contacts, events and
statistics.
I’m going to want to know
each of the extraordinary measures he’s using to attract my
Black children into a taxpayer-supported program that is a
virtual guarantee to them of a
crime-free, purposeful, altruistic
life. Now, I like Paysinger; I
really do. But I hope we won’t
fall out.
In post-racial era, the struggle continues
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Rights Division of the U.S.
Department of Justice. They
are denying the existence of
discrimination in many other
cases. Imagine: our first Black
president and first Black attorney general, denying that discrimination exists. It is more
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Joseph Phillips
am willing to wager my
house that not one of my
son’s seventh-grade classmates could identify John
Locke in a photo. I am then
willing to let that wager ride
on another gamble that less
than one percent of the seventh or eighth-graders in the
Los Angeles Unified School
District would be able to identify Locke in a photo array of
historical figures.
Double or nothing that not
only would they not know
who he is, but they would
also have no idea of why he
is important. I would then bet
my entire stack of chips that
a substantially higher number
of middle-school students
could identify Karl Marx. I
anticipate being a very wealthy
man.
This venture came to my
mind following an end of the
year visit to my son’s middle
school.
My wife and I attended a
parents’ night at our son’s
school. As we entered his
English classroom, I noticed
that the walls of the classroom were covered with photos of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin
and Vladimir Lenin. The
eighth-grade students had been
studying George Orwell’s
“Animal Farm.”
On every wall was a handmade poster featuring a photo
of Karl Marx, some biographical information, along
with some pithy bit of
wisdom attributed to him. As
we left the room, I whispered
to my son, “Tell your teacher that your father wants to
know when she will teach
the work of John Locke.” My
son responded, “Who is John
Locke?”
Written by George Orwell
in 1945, “Animal Farm” is the
allegorical tale of the wickedness and terror of Stalinist
Russia. Significantly, the
book is not a condemnation
of Marxism. Rather it is a cautionary tale about Stalinism.
“Animal Farm” is really a
commentary on how Russian
apathy and political corruption
derailed the Marxist utopia.
It’s also a rather cynical tale
of the inevitability of totalitarianism.
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than ironic — it is plain sick. It is
also dangerous.
We have an obligation to
the generations that come after
us and to our children that we
presently care for. This world is
not yet perfect, and we cannot
take the propaganda that some
of our naïve brothers and sisters
have swallowed. This nation is
not post-racial. It is as racial
now as it was in the 1980s.
Better than the 1960s, but that
doesn’t mean that victory has
been won.
Our schools are failing us,
police are abusing our sons,
courts stack the deck against us
and we are still last hired and
first fired.
Is it post-racial? Get real as
the struggle continues. It is just
that some have put their heads
in the sand.
Alford is an NNPA columnist
and co-founder of the National
Black Chamber of Commerce.
WHERE CREDIT IS DUE — The arrest last week of the
Grim Sleeper serial killer suspect, Lonnie David Franklin Jr., has
public officials pouring out of the woodwork to take credit. From
Attorney General Jerry Brown, to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa,
to Councilman Bernard Parks, they’ve all come forward to get a
piece of this limelight, which rightfully and solely belongs to the
Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD got its man; it took 24
years to do it, but the cops did it — and they did it by themselves.
Former Police Chief William Bratton did it because he was so
concerned about the serial killing of Black women in South
L.A. that he created the Grim Sleeper Task Force on which Capt.
Kevin McClure, Det. Dennis Kilcoyne and other LAPD officers
devoted their lives to catching this murderer. Chief Charlie Beck
did it and he described in November 2009 exactly how he was
going to do it: through familial DNA. In a Bottom Line story eight
months ago, I wrote that Beck, who spent most of his career in
South L.A., took the killings personally.
He said: “We’ve gone all across the country chasing every
lead we got and we’re still doing it. We’ve investigated every
bit of forensic evidence ... and now we’re doing a ‘familial
DNA’ search,” which he described thusly: “The Grim Sleeper’s
DNA is not in the database, but now that the database of possible
suspects has greatly increased over 24 years, his father’s, son’s or
brother’s DNA could be in it.” And lo, as Beck suspected, the DNA
of Franklin’s son was in it. Gotcha! The police work didn’t stop
there, but went into overdrive, as undercover LAPD officers set
about getting the suspect’s actual DNA. They surveilled him and
dressed as waiters and went about collecting tableware, napkins,
glasses and an incriminating piece of pizza crust at the restaurant
he frequented. Gotcha again!!
Brown feels he deserves some credit for this capture because
he signed the order authorizing the California Department of
Justice to conduct the familial DNA tests. Naw, he doesn’t. As
much as I want Brown to be governor, the mere signing of his
name on a piece of paper put before him is a routine bureaucratic
act and isn’t worthy of being mentioned in comparison to what the
LAPD did to bring this suspect in. Parks, in the company of a trio
of community activists of dubious distinction, is patting himself on
the back for having had a reward issued for the capture of the killer
and for having had billboards posted about the killings.
While they are admirable gestures, neither the reward, which
grew to an historic $500,000, nor the billboards had anything to
do with Franklin’s arrest. Everybody saw that billboard (even the
suspect saw it) and nobody recognized him and nobody ratted
him out. Even Park’s award motion was not original, as I have an
archival photograph taken in 1988 of the late Supervisor Kenneth
Hahn holding a news conference at which he is announcing the
first reward of $35,000 being offered for information leading to the
arrest of the serial killer. Surrounding Hahn in the photo are thenCouncilman Bob Farrell, the late Assistant LAPD Chief Jesse
Brewer; the late Hahn aide, Jim Cleaver; the late Rev. Charles
Mims Jr., pastor of Tabernacle of Faith Baptist Church and
several community activists, including Cathy Irish, Norma
Johnson of the Justice for Southside Victims group, and a young,
fresh-faced Mark Ridley-Thomas, president of SCLC. So, the
county was the first to offer money for the killer’s capture, not
the city and certainly not Parks. Furthermore, since no individual
can claim the reward, I strongly suggest that Parks, who seems
obsessed with cutting the LAPD’s funds at every turn, do the right
thing by the cops now and make a City Council motion that that
unclaimable $500,000 reward he likes to tout be tacked on to the
LAPD’s budget. They certainly earned it.
And in conclusion, I have no idea where Villaraigosa gets off
even being in the same room with people talking about the Grim
Sleeper’s capture. He refused to be in it before — when the community and the victims’ families wanted to meet with him to talk
about ratcheting-up the city’s efforts to find the killer. The Black
Coalition Fighting Serial Murders held a large informational meeting on the killings at Hamilton AME Church with police and
elected officials on Nov. 14, 2009. They asked the mayor to attend,
but the group was told the mayor needed 30 days notice for such
a request. Margaret Prescod, leader of the coalition, relayed that
snub at a subsequent community meeting which I attended and
reported on, at which the still visibly outraged Prescod said:
“We were insulted, as that showed what the mayor thinks of
Black women being murdered in his city!” And I agree. I think
the mayor should shut the #@%* up.
NAEJA ON THE CASE — The National Association for Equal
Justice in America held a town hall meeting in Culver City last
weekend on police brutality in that city. Everybody came — except
the Culver City police. A police official is reported in a local newspaper as saying his department decided not to attend because it was
not at liberty to answer any questions relating to the police killing
of Lejoy Grissom, which is still under investigation. NAEJA’s
head, Royce Esters, told Soulvine, “We had no intentions of discussing that case; we know better than that. We wanted to discuss
with the Culver City police those items we
listed in our fliers announcing the meeting: excessive force, community policing, police department hiring practices, racial profiling
and strategies to cut homicides in the city.” Esters pointed out that
the police official publicly offered to meet with the group in
a smaller setting, and Esters is holding the department to it.
“The Culver City Department is racist and we want to make
sure that what they did to Grissom doesn’t happen again. Yeah,
we’ll meet ’em,” Esters said.
In another matter, the family of Traveon John Avila, the 15year-old boy who was shot dead by Bakersfield Police officers
Friday night, contacted NAEJA Monday for assistance with that
tragedy. Unfortunately, NAEJA’s caseload is increasing.
AND FINALLY — In the 40 years that I’ve been doing what I
do, I can’t help but notice that whenever pastors get into disputes
with their church members and begin to crash and burn, they stop
living the 23rd Psalms and start walking through their troubled
churches with armed guards to comfort them. A reader reminded
me of a neighborhood church where the pastor initiated an actual
gunfight in his church before he was sent packing and, when they
were not following him around protecting his little body, the Rev.
Frederick Murph had his armed guards stationed in the front and
back pews when he preached at Brookins AME. He kept it up until
he was thrown out of all AME pulpits entirely, guns and all. Comes
now the embattled Rev. William Epps, who is reported to have
enlisted a contingent of armed goons to prepare a table before him
in the presence of his enemies at Second Baptist Church. I thought
the Lord was their shepherd. Maybe He is, but just not when
they’re in church.
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Going it
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Big Boi has put OutKast on hold to record his solo debut.
OutKast’s Big Boi
pursues solo
success with the new
‘Sir Lucious Left Foot.’
BY GAVIN GODFREY
CNN
S
ixteen
years
ago,
Antwan
“Big
Boi”
Patton and his partner-inrhyme, Andre “3000” Benjamin,
single-handedly put Southern
hip-hop on the map as the rap
group OutKast with the debut
of their album, “Southernplayali
sticadillacmuzik.”
In 2003, they released their
biggest commercial and critical hit to date, “Speakerboxxx/
The Love Below.” Fast forward
to 20 million albums later, and
music pundits continue to put
OutKast atop their lists of the
genre’s most influential groups
of all time.
Despite the pair’s undeniable mark on the history of hiphop, Big Boi finds himself in a
unique position: one-half of a
legendary duo who has had
success elude him so far as a
solo artist.
But Big Boi is hoping to
change that.
Forty months in the making,
“Sir Lucious Left Foot: The
Son of Chico Dusty” is Big
Boi’s rap opus that he hopes
will be a reintroduction to the
self-proclaimed “funk crusader.”
“The people that have
been down since ‘Southernplay
alistic,’they know the logistics
of how the group works,” Big
Boi, 35, says responding to a
review in The Guardian that
suggests he’s an “undervalued”
part of the OutKast legend.
“For some of the newcomers,
they might not know what Big
Boi’s part in the group is, but
they’re going to know when
this album drops. It’s dead
serious.”
Originally slated for release
on Jive Records four years
ago, “Sir Lucious” hit a major
roadblock when Big Boi’s
label suggested that he create
his own version of Lil Wayne’s
“Lollipop.” The idea insulted
Big Boi and revealed what he
views as an industry skepticism
that has followed every step he
has taken without his musical
partner.
According to Big Boi, he
and Jive didn’t see eye to eye on
the finished product.
“Jive Records — they didn’t
understand my music,” he
now says. “They wanted me to
do more cookie-cutter, radiofriendly type songs.”
Because of the back-andforth with his label, Big Boi’s
fans had to be patient, similar
to what they felt with oftdelayed OutKast albums.
Some fans even went as far
to say that “Sir Lucious” was
Big Boi’s “Detox,” referring to
Dr. Dre’s forthcoming release
that’s been a decade in the making. A growing but warranted
skepticism began to surround
Big Boi’s solo project, and
some wondered if it would ever
come to pass.
It was then that the rapper
decided to take things into
his own hands and deliver his
product directly to the people.
“The social networking
media is so powerful, espe-
cially for an established artist,
to where I can create a song
a day and put it out through
my Twitter account — in 24
hours, it will get 4 million hits,”
he says. “I was just doing it
myself. I think every artist
should really take your destiny
in your hands if you’ve got the
product and the means and the
know-how to market and promote yourself.”
Big Boi recently streamed
“Sir Lucious” on his MySpace
page, a move he announced
via Twitter. He admits to leaking the songs “Royal Flush,”
(no longer on the album)
“For Your Sorrows,” “Shine
Blockas” and “Lookin’ 4 Ya”
in the years and months leading
up to the album’s set release
date.
The latter tune is a collaboration with Andre 3000 barred
from “Sir Lucious” by Jive,
which owns the current rights
to OutKast the group. “It’s
really blasphemy,” Big Boi says
of the label’s keeping the pair
from being featured together
on his solo project.
“Hopefully, when I do see
[Jive] again, and me and Dre
get into the studio, they will
let the creativity and the music
be what it is — just art —
and appreciate it for what it’s
worth.”
Released on Def Jam, “Sir
Lucious” combines stories of
everyday life, love and politics with rap, funk, jazz, rock
and everything in between.
And even though Big Boi
knows how to show listeners
a good time, one aspect of
OutKast and the two men
behind the music has been their
ability to “educate and entertain,” a theme that continues on
“Sir Lucious.”
“I like to say little things
to make the listener think,”
Big Boi reflects. “If you have
the globe as your stage, why
not spread something?”
One thing the artist seems
intent on spreading is his own
brand.
With forays into acting
(films “Who’s Your Caddy” and
“ATL”), breeding dogs (Pitfall
Kennels), running his own label
(Purple Ribbon Entertainment)
and foundation (Big Kidz), it
would seem that the husband
and father wouldn’t have time
for another OutKast album.
The group, however, owes Jive
one more album, though in
light of Big Boi’s spat with
the label, it’s hard for fans to
not doubt that OutKast will be
back.
“Yeah, there is definitely a
reunion in the works,” Big Boi
says in response to a question
about the future of OutKast.
“I’m doing my solo album,
Dre is working on his solo
record, and then after that were
doing an OutKast record.”
In the meantime, Big Boi
is intent on scratching two
items off his wish list. The
first involves music. “Kate
Bush — that’s my dream
collaboration,” he says adamantly. “I’d do a whole album
with Kate Bush. I’m looking
for her right now.”
The second goal is a little
more close to home. “I just
want to be happy,” he says.
“I want to make music, raise
my kids and be a productive
citizen — basically, that’s it.”
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Daytime Emmys bring stars to Vegas
s the the television industry prepares to honor its own at the
62nd Primetime Emmy Awards
in August, stars from another time slot
gathered in Las Vegas last month for the
Daytime Emmys. Clockwise from top
left: “The Young and the Restless” star
Darius McCrary (accompanied on the
red carpet by his on-again, off-again gal
pal Karinne Steffans), best known for
his childhood role on the long-running
sitcom “Family Matters,” now stars on the
soap opera as Malcolm Winters — a role
originated by Shemar Moore; rock icon
Chubby Checker, who performed “The
Twist” as part of a tribute to TV legend
Dick Clark; Denise Vasi, who stars on the
ABC soap “All My Children,” is slated
to appear next year in the big-screen
comedy “What’s Your Number?” starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans; former
talk show host Montel Williams (with
CALENDAR
wife Tara Fowler), whose battle with
multiple sclerosis has made him one of
the highest-profile advocates for medical
marijuana; showbiz brothers Kyle (left,
star of the Disney Channel’s “Cory in
the House”) and Christopher Massey;
and J.R. Martinez, who suffered critical burn injuries while serving in Iraq as
an Army infantryman, now stars on “All
My Children” and travels the country as a
motivational speaker.
Compiled by
Marisela Santana
HIP-HOP
FILM
Good Girl Gone Bad
History on Record
Rihanna is taking her act on tour
and bringing some friends along
via her “Last Girl on Earth”
Tour storming North America
starting in early July with opening
acts by Ke$ha and Nicki Minaj.
The tour is in support of her
sophomore album, “Rated R.”
“We’ve never done a tour to this
capacity,” she has said about the
show. “The production is unbelievable and the costumes, we
just took it to a whole new level.
Visually and sonically it’s going
to be a big step up from the last time. We just keep growing, and this time it
is a massive production that I cannot wait for.” July 21. Staples Center,
1111 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. (800) 745-3000
The American Cinematheque rocks with
Wattstax this month with a special screening of a restored, extended version of the
1973 music documentary, “Wattstax,”
featuring performances by Rufus & Carla
Thomas, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor and
Isaac Hayes. The 1972 concert teamed
soul music with Black Pride — and was
dubbed the “Black Woodstock.” The film
presents a slew of great Stax Records artists
performing at the Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum. The documentary will be paired
in a rock-doc double feature with 1968’s
“Monterey Pop.” July 30, at 7:30 p.m.
Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave.,
Santa Monica. (323) 466-FILM
RAP
MUSEUM
It Must Be Him
Diverse Landscapes
Now known just as
Game, the American
rapper, is considered
to be one of the many
driving forces bringing
back the West Coast
hip-hop scene into the
mainstream. A native
of Compton, Game is
getting ready to drop
his fourth studio album
entitled “The R.E.D.
Album” in August.
July 24. Club Nokia,
800 W. Olympic
Blvd., Los Angeles.
(213) 747-9797
LACMA will host the new and
ambitious body of work by the
internationally renowned and LAbased photographer Catherine
Opie and her new exhibit titled
“Figure and Landscape.” Since
2007, Opie has surveyed America’s
college football at sites including
Ohio, Hawaii, and Los Angeles.
She captures the diverse landscapes
in which this symbol of America
and masculinity is literally played
out and, in her portraits of the
young football players, the resilience
and fragility of male youth. Football
is a stunning contemporary project that resonates perfectly with the narratives
of Thomas Eakins’s paintings and photographs. July 25 through Oct. 17.
LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 857-6000
THEATER
MONTHS AHEAD
Paging Doctor Feelgood
Music Industry
Simon Helberg (“The Big Bang Theory”)
stars in, “Doctor Cerberus,” a coming-ofage, coming-out story with a twist of terror.
Thirteen-year-old Franklin Robertson is trying to survive adolescence. His parents don’t
understand him, his brother torments him,
he has no friends, and he’s more interested
in the high school quarterback than any girl.
The one bright spot in his life is the glow of
the black-and-white TV in his parents’ basement. Here, he worships at the altar of the Saturday Night Horror Movie,
hosted by the eerie Dr. Cerberus. All performances are recorded to air on
L.A. Theatre Works’ syndicated radio theater series. Written by Roberto
Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by Bart DeLorenzo (both pictured), the show
also stars Steven Culp, Pamela J. Gray, Jamison Jones and Jarrett Sleeper.
Performances run from July 15-18. L.A. Theatre Works at the Skirball
Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 827-0889
The third annual Sunset Strip Music
Festival rocks West Hollywood in
August. The three-day event kicks off
Aug. 26 at the House of Blues with a
tribute to this year’s honoree, Slash, for
his contributions to the history of The
Strip as well as the music industry. The
culmination of the SSMF is a street festival on Aug. 28. headlined by the worldfamous Smashing Pumpkins (pictured).
Additional acts include Slash (with
Fergie and Myles Kennedy), Common,
Semi Precious Weapons, Neon Trees,
Big B and Steel Panther. A weekend-long celebration, SSMF will also feature
live performances in six different venues, including the Cat Club, House of
Blues, Key Club, The Roxy Theatre, Viper Room and Whisky A Go-Go.
Aug. 26-28. For information, go to www.sunsetstripmusicfestival.com.
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Cal State L.A.’s Josh Como
finished second in the triple
jump in the North American,
Central American and Caribbean
Under-23 Championships in
Miramar, Fla. Sunday.
Como’s mark of 52-4 was
bested only by the 54-8 of
Florida’s Christian Taylor.
Loyola Mar ymount junior
Tara Erdmann took third in the
women’s 5-kilometer race in
18:27. Suffering through food
poisoning the night before, she
battled fatigue and dehydration
to place as high as she did the
next day.
Team USA dominated the
meet with a record 74 total
medals.
GOLF
Katelyn Reynolds of Los
Angeles shot a 4-over-par
76 to win the girls division
in the American Junior Golf
Association national qualifier in
Santa Clarita Sunday.
Juniors from seven states
took part in the tournament.
SOFTBALL
Crenshaw High School’s
Loren Williams is a third-team
selection on Cal-Hi Sports allstate softball team.
Williams, a shortstop, batted .783 with 10 home runs,
four triples, nine doubles and
37 RBIs for the Cougars this
spring.
She was also an All-City and
All-Wave Newspapers selection.
Selected to the all-state
underclass team is Warren
sophomore catcher Tina
Iosefa, a first-teamer. Secondteam picks include Carson
sophomore shortstop Darian
Tautalafua and Warren junior
pitcher Franny Vaaulu.
FOOTBALL
Led by tournament MVP
Robert Lewis, a running back/
defensive back, South East
High School defeated host
Crenshaw to win the Crenshaw
passing tournament.
Lewis, a junior-to-be, rushed
for 1,085 yards last season for
the Jaguars. He figures to be
one of the top players in the
City this fall.
In the Mission Viejo passing tournament, Schurr finished
third. The Spartans were led by
quarterback Aaron Cantu, who
threw for 2,500 yards and 28
touchdowns a year ago.
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One of the legends in City Section basketball history has the
task of restoring the glory at his
alma mater, Manual Arts High
School.
Dwayne Polee Sr, the 1981
City player of the year when
he led the Toilers to the section
championship, is the new coach
of the boys basketball program at
the South L.A. school.
Polee, 46, takes over a program that despite a rich tradition
hasn’t made much of a splash in
City circles lately. As programs
at Westchester, Taft, Fairfax have
dominated the section in recent
years, Manual Arts has slipped
into the background. Over the
past six seasons, the program is
a combined 69-81.
The Toilers last won any sort
of City title in 200 when they
claimed the lower-division Invitational crown. Their last upper
division championship was in
1999.
Prior to that, the 4-A title it
won in 1990 was the program’s
last. They were 4-A runners-up
five times in the 1980s and ’90s.
In the 1981 City title game,
Polee put on a great one-man
show, scoring 43 points in an 8269 victory over Crenshaw before
14,123 fans at the Sports Arena.
He played a year of college
ball at UNLV before finishing at
Pepperdine.
A third-round pick of the Clippers in the 1986 NBA draft, he
played one game for them before
going on to play professionally
in Mexico and for a U.S. traveling team in Europe over the next
few years.
Since his playing days ended,
Polee has been a social worker
for Los Angeles County and
done some coaching. He was an
assistant at L.A. Southwest College when the Cougars won the
2001 state title.
For the past three years, he
has been director of basketball
operations with the USC men’s
program, as well as serving as an
instructor at the Trojan camps.
His son, Dwayne Jr. was the
City player of the year this season while leading Westchester
to the section title and a second
straight State Division I championship. Dwayne Jr. begins his
college basketball career at St.
John’s in the fall.
Zajve Woods, a standout guard
from L.A. Southwest College,
has signed with the women’s
basketball program at Grand
Canyon University.
The Compton native completed the recruiting class of Grand
Canyon coach Trent May.
The 5-foot-7 junior-to-be averaged 12.4 points and 4.5 rebounds per game and hit 39
3-pointers to earn South Coast
Conference South Division coMVP honors with Adria Jackson
of Cerritos. She had a high game
of 27 points.
In conference games, Woods
averaged 17.2 points.
“We’re very excited about
Zajve,” May said. “She’s hardworking and has the willingness
to get better and wants the team
to get better.”
The rest of the recruiting class
includes Jallisa Butler of Las Vegas, Joslyn Frazier of Sacramento, Steve Kamp of Mesa, Ariz.,
Jazmyn Foster of Phoenix, and
Maylinn Smith and Jenna Pearson, both of Gilbert, Ariz.
Grand Canyon, located in
Phoenix, is an NCAA Division II
program that is a member of the
Pacific West Conference.
Roadrunner signs
Rio Hondo College point guard
Nathan Mohri will be joining his
cousin at UC Santa Cruz.
The product of Bosco Tech
High School in Rosemead signed
with the NCAA Division III independent basketball program, the
same place Darren Lew joined
a year ago out of East L.A. College.
Mohri averaged 9.0 points, 5.0
assists and 2.0 steals per game in
two years with the Roadrunners.
“After seeing Nate play several
times, I love the way he controls
the floor,” Santa Cruz coach Gordon Johnson said. “He can get a
shot any time he wants, but he
would rather set up a teammate.
“With the scorers we have on
the team this is going to get more
people involved in the offense.
I also love the way he takes on
the challenge of defending his
position and takes charge of the
whole defense.”
Lew, who also graduated from
Bosco Tech, averaged 9.6 points
and 2.6 assists as a junior for the
Banana Slugs. He was honorable
mention Division III independent.
Photo by Matt Brown
Cal State Fullerton’s Noe Ramirez, an Alhambra High School graduate, has made the
final roster of Team USA’s collegiate baseball team.
Area trio on team
Baseball: Team USA
has local flavor
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
2008 tied him with Baseball
Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner for
the highest single-season mark
in school history.
Nick Ramirez led the Big West
with 11 saves, tying him for seventh all-time in school history.
Cole, a right-hander in his second year with the national team,
helped UCLA reach the College
World Series final by going 114 with a 3.37 ERA. He was 4-0
with a 1.06 ERA last summer for
the national team.
Rodriguez batted .249 with
eight home runs and 37 RBIs for
the Bruins.
Cal State Fullerton coach Dave
Serrano is the pitching coach for
Team USA.
This summer’s schedule includes a five-game series against
Korea and a single game against
a Japanese college all-star team
July 21 at Omaha’s Rosenblatt
Stadium. The team then travels
to Taipei, Taiwan for a fourgame series against Chinese Taipei beginning July 25.
Team USA close its summer
season at the FISU World University Championships in Tokyo from July 30-Aug. 7. The
U.S. has won the last three FISU
Worlds (2004, ‘06, ‘08), while
host nation Japan will be looking for its first title.
Noe Ramirez has made the
final 22-man roster for Team
USA’s collegiate national baseball team.
Team USA is made up of the
nation’s top non-draft-eligible
college players.
The East L.A. native and former Alhambra High School
standout, is part of a pitching
staff that also includes his Cal
State Fullerton teammate Nick
Ramirez and UCLA junior Gerrit
Cole. Also representing the Bruins on the team is catcher Steve
Rodriguez, a former St. John
Bosco High standout.
Ramirez was putting up numbers this spring that had him in
contention for national pitcher
of the year honors before a freak
break of the wrist in a fall at
practice April 14 sidelined him
for nearly a month.
The sophomore right-hander
returned to win seven more
games without a loss and was
named to the All-Big West first
team. He finished second in the
Big West in ERA (2.54), third
in opponent’s batting average
(.229), second in innings pitched
(106), while leading the conference in strikeouts (119) and victories (12).
He was a huge factor in Fullerton reaching the Super Regionals. The Titans lost the series to
UCLA, which advanced to the
College World Series.
A year earlier, Ramirez earned
Freshman All-American honors
and was the conference freshman of the year after going 9-1
for the Titans.
Ramirez had a stellar career
at Alhambra, going 7-3 in 205,
10-0 in 2007 and 9-1 in 2008.
He threw a pair of no-hitters
and posted individual strikeout
games of 17 and 16.
His .513 batting average in
pitcher at South Gate and an allconference performer at Cal State
L.A.
---------Ex-Warren High and Rio
Hondo College standout Bobby
LaFromboise is having an exceptional season for the High
Desert Mavericks of the Single-A
California League.
The Seattle Mariner’s farmhand, a left-handed pitcher, is 9-4
with a 4.19 ERA going into the
week.
He has 70 strikeouts and 26
walks in 81.2 innings.
Seattle’s eighth-round selection
in the 2008 draft out of the University of New Mexico, LaFromboise was twice the San Gabriel
Valley League MVP at Warren.
At Rio Hondo, he was the state
co-pitcher of the year in 2006.
---------Shortstop Jesus Campos, a
24th-round pick of the Angels
last month, has already made
three stops since signing with the
club in June.
The Roosevelt High, East L.A.
College and Cal State L.A. product, went 3-for-7 in two games
with their Arizona (Rookie)
League team before being called
up to Triple-A Salt Lake City
to replace an injured player. He
went 2-for-5 in three games before being sent to Single-A Rancho Cucamonga. He is 12-for-40
with a home run and nine RBIs
in the 10 games he has played for
the Quakes.
Campos is hitting .327 overall.
---------Downey High grad Mark Serrano is 3-6 with a 4.54 ERA for
the Lynchburg Hillcats, the Cincinnati Reds Single-A Carolina
League club.
Serrano, who also played at
Cypress College and Oral Roberts University, was taken on the
sixth round of the 2009 draft by
the Reds.
He was a standout pitcher
and football team quarterback at
Downey.
---------San Diego Padres’ farmhand
Cesar Ramos, the former El
Rancho High and Long Beach
State pitcher, is 2-2 with a 3.23
ERA for Triple-A Portland.
The southpaw spent part of
the season with the San Diego
Padres, but was only 0-1 with a
21.21 ERA in nine games before
being sent back down.
---------Bellflower High grad Anthony Gose leads the Florida State
League with 10 triples and is tied
for third in stolen bases with 28.
The Philadelphia Phillies’
prospect is hitting .266 for their
Single-A Clearwater team.
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Last year the left-hand hitting
outfielder led all of the minor Former Crenshaw High School star Trayvon Robinson
played in Tuesday’s Southern League all-star game.
leagues with 76 stolen bases.
Noe Ramirez
Twelve
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Husky
Robinson plays in minor league all-star game
Shootout
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Prep football: City,
CIF-SS represented
Wave Staff
East L.A. College hosts the
annual Husky Shootout summer
passing tournament Thursday
through Saturday at Weingart
Stadium.
Twelve high school football
teams, primarily from the City
Section, will vie for the title.
Bell, Chatsworth, Dorsey, Fremont, Garfield, Lincoln, Marshall, Roosevelt and Roybal are
the City teams entered.
Alhambra, Hacienda Heights
Wilson and Morningside represent the Southern Section.
Competition begins at 5:30
p.m. Thursday with Garfield
taking on Lincoln on the west
half of the field and Chatsworth
facing Morningside on the east
field. At 6:20 p.m., Chatsworth
plays Garfield and Lincoln takes
on Morningside. At 7:20 p.m.,
Morningside matches up with
Garfield and Lincoln squares off
against Chatsworth.
Friday’s games begin at 4 p.m.
with Alhambra playing Dorsey
on the west field and Roosevelt
facing Roybal on the east. At 5
p.m., Wilson plays Marshall and
Bell takes on Fremont.
Dodgers farmhand and former
Crenshaw High School standout
Trayvon Robinson played for the
winning North Division in the
Double-A Southern League allstar game Tuesday.
Stationed in left and centerfield, Robinson went 0-for-3 at
the plate, striking out once, for
the North, a 3-2 winner.
The 22-year-old switchhitter
for the Chattanooga Lookouts
heads into the second half of the
season that began Wednesday
looking to build on what has already been a fine season.
At the break, he was hitting
.297 with seven home runs, 36
RBIs and 26 stolen bases.
Following a stellar career at
Crenshaw where he was an AllCity selection, Robinson was
a 10th-round draft pick of the
Dodgers in 2005.
---------Isaac Morales, a South Gate
High School and Cal State L.A.
product, is doing a solid job as a
relief pitcher in the Florida Marlins’ system.
The 2009 34th-round pick of
the Marlins is currently playing for the Jamestown Jammers
of the Single-A New York-Penn
League where he is 3-1 with a
4.70 ERA. He is a combined 4-2
with a 3.46 in two minor league
stops this season.
The southpaw was an All-City
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for the act of murder against, TYRON HOWELL
and the attempted murder of CHRISTOPHER
ANTHONY BAKER, in the City of Los Angeles.
On Friday, April 21, 2006, at approximately 12:00
a.m., 23-year old Tyron Howell and his 21-year
old brother, Christopher Anthony Baker, were
victims of a drive-by shooting in South Los
Angeles. Both brothers were seated in a 2002
Ford Explorer in front of 1340 West 60th Street
when two male Black suspects exited a white
Chevy Tahoe and began shooting. After striking
the victims, the suspects fled on foot. The victims
were taken to California Medical Center where
Tyron Howell succumbed to his injury. Christopher
Anthony Baker survived the incident. 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, JANUARY 10, 2011.
The provisions of payment and all other considerations shall be governed by Chapter 12 of Division
19 of the LAAC Code, as amended by Ordinance
Nos. 158157 and 166666. This offer shall be
given upon the condition that all claimants provide
continued cooperation within the criminal justice
system relative to this case and is not available
to public officers or employees of the City, their
families, persons in law enforcement or persons
whose misconduct prompted this reward. If you
have any information regarding this case, please
call the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877LAWFULL, 24 hours.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAMES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100832980
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
1. Central American Press Club, 2. Club
de Prensa Centro Americano, 4428 1/2 S.
Broadway Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90037, County
of Los Angeles
Registered owner(s):
Santos B. Claros, 4428 1/2 S. Broadway Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90037
Yurina Rico, 493 Dustin Dr., Los Angeles, CA
90065
Imelda Interiano, 2091 W. 30th St., Los Angeles,
CA 90018
Eber Huezo, 823 S. Union Ave., Apt. 201, Los
Angeles, CA 90017
This business is conducted by a General
Paratnership
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/ Yurina Rico, President
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on June 17, 2010
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. 20100883277
as:
Ceiba Restaurant, 9131 S. Vermont Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90044
Jose Marin, 9650 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles,
CA 90044
This business is conducted by an individual
above on 6/28/10
S/ Jose Marin, Owner
Los Angeles on June 28, 2010.
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100914645
as:
Dynamik Detailing, 14530 Freeman Ave.,
Suite #5, Lawndale, CA 90260, County of Los
Angeles.
Gregory Taylor, 14530 Freeman Ave., Suite #5,
Lawndale, CA 90260.
This business is conducted by an individual.
above on N/A.
S/ Gregory Taylor
Los Angeles on July 2, 2010.
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100899342
as:
Noah’s Mobile Services, 311 N. Robertson
Blvd., #675, Beverly Hills, CA 90211, County
of LA.
Robert Nathaniel Hall, II, 311 N. Robertson Blvd.,
#675, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.
This business is conducted by an individual.
above on N/A.
S/ Robert N. Hall II
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100809440
as:
Faithful Walk Ministries, 11105 S. Western Ave.
Juanita Whitfield, 2912 W. 132nd St., Gardena,
CA 90249
This business is conducted by an Individual
above on N/A
S/ Juanita Whitfield
Original
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NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100809409
as:
Left Behind Mother’s, 11101 S. Western Ave.,
Juanita Whitfield, 2912 W. 132nd St., Gardena,
CA 90249
above on N/A
S/ Juanita Whitfield, Owner
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100836441
as:
Precious Umunna, 106 N. Eucalyptus Avenue,
Unit 2, Inglewood, CA 90301, County of LA
Precious Umunna, 106 N. Eucalyptus Avenue,
Unit 2, Inglewood, CA 90301
above on January 1, 2005
S/ Precious Umunna, Owner
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100840643
as:
Watermarke Tower, 845 S. Flower Street, Los
Angeles, CA 90015, County of Los Angeles
La Flower Street Apartments, LP, 410 North Main
Street, Corona, CA 92880
This business is conducted by a Limited
Partnership
above on 4/26/10
La Flower Street Apartments, LP
General Partner
New Filings
7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22/10
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100875597
as:
Nailspa Excel, 5372 W. Rosecrans Ave.,
Hawthorne, CA 90250, County of Los Angeles
6801 Starline St., La Verne, CA 91750
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number:
AI #ON: 3242979
Gateway Salon Inc., California, 6801 Starline St.,
La Verne, CA 91750
This business is conducted by a Corporation
above on 6/1/10
Gateway Salon Inc.
S/ Tranh Nguyen, CEO
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100875598
as:
Posh Nails, 1570-E Rosecrans Ave., Manhattan
Beach, CA 90266, County of Los Angeles
15517 Doty Ave., Lawndale, CA 90260
AI #ON: 3244348
Southbay Salon Inc., California, 15517 Doty Ave.,
Lawndale, CA 90260
above on 6/21/10
Southbay Salon Inc.
S/ Chung Phan, CEO
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100875599
as:
Nailspa Excel, 6705 La Tijera Blvd. Los
Angeles, CA 90045, County of Los Angeles, 5022
S. Raymond Ave. Gardena, CA 90247
AI #ON: 3242993
Ledera Salon Inc., 15022 S. Raymond Ave.
Gardena, CA 90247, California
above on 6/11/10
Ladera Salon Inc.
S/Lien Le, CEO
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100853265
as:
Of One Mind, 2001 S. Barrington Avenue, Ste.
300, Los Angeles, CA 90025, County of Los
Angeles.
AI #ON: 3294715
Of One Mind Teenwork & Family Therapy, A
Professional Corporation, California.
This business is conducted by a Corporation.
above on May 25, 2010.
S/ Richard B. Cohen, President
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100850116
as:
Face 2 Face Cosmetics, 1210 N. La Brea,
Inglewood, CA 90302, County of LA
Jennel Brooks, 1210 N. La Brea, Inglewood, CA
90302
This business is conducted by an individual
above on N/A
S/ Jennel Brooks, Owner
Original
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20100843329
as:
Fiesta Inn Motel, 5015 S. Central Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90011, County of Los Angeles
AI #ON: 200523710043
Bhavana LLC, CA, 5015 S. Central Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90011
This business is conducted by a Limited Liability
Company
above on 9/1/05
Bhavana LLC
S/ Bhavana A. Patel, Member
Original
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College: East Los Angeles College
Project Name: Science Career & Mathematics
Building Leased Temp Swing Space
Project Number.: 32E.5222.02.01
Project Estimate: $4,150,000-$4,251,000
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Los Angeles
Community College District (“District”) invites
sealed bids for the following public works project
(“Work”):
Project consists of customization, delivery, Lease,
and removal of DSA Pre-Approved Modular Units
including; modular building units to serve as
Physics Labs and Stockroom, Life Science Labs
and Stockrooms, Husky Store, H.I.T. Computer
Lab, Math Offices and Restrooms.
Furnish fourteen (14) Prefabricated, DSA Preapproved modular units, Type V-B; ten (10) 48 feet
by 40 feet, one (1) 36 feet by 40 feet, one (1) 24
feet by 40 feet, and two (2) 12 feet by 40 feet.
Modular Building Interior Construction and
Finishes: Doors, door hardware, windows, window treatments, partitions, finishes, visual display
board, projection screens, light fixtures, mechanical system, standard foundations, AV equipment,
laboratory equipment & fittings, casework, and
Group I equipment as described in the contract documents. Modular Building Systems:
Mechanical, telecommunication, electrical,
plumbing, fire protection and security systems as
described in the contract documents. Construction
of stairs and ramps to access modular buildings.
The Specifications for the project restrict the
Bidders to providing products for a campus wide
fire alarm Annunciator intelligent network panel
compatible with General Electric’s EST3 at East
Los Angeles College, which is based on a finding by the Board of Trustees that such restrictive
specifications are necessary in order to match
existing installations. No other restrictions apply.
Bids shall be prepared in conformance with
the Instructions to Bidders and other Bidding
Documents. Bids must be received, by either hand
delivery or mail, at BuildLACCD, 915 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017, no
later than the Bid Closing Deadline of 2:00 p.m.
on August 10, 2010, to be thereafter on said date
and at said location publicly opened and read
aloud. The Bidder assumes full and sole responsibility for timely receipt of its Bid.
Bidding Documents will be available to Bidders
on and after July 14, 2010, at the following
locations:
For document pick up: Universal Reprographics
(District’s reprographics service) at any of the following Three (3) locations:
1) Universal Reprographics Incorporated, Los
Angeles Branch, 2706 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles,
California 90057 Tel: 213-365-7750
2) West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Pontius Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025 Tel: 310-477-2900
3) Robertson Branch, 1444-B S. Robertson Blvd,
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242
To order or view online: http://www.build-laccd.
org/, Contracting and Bidding Site, Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room Link.
To view in person: Jacobs Facilities, 1200 W. Floral
Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754, Telephone:
(323) 859-2330.
The District will provide one (1) complete set
of Bidding Documents to each Bidder, free of
charge, for pick-up upon at least eight (8) hours
notice to Universal Reprographics at any of the
above-stated Universal Reprographics locations.
Bidder may arrange, at Bidder’s own expense,
for document delivery and additional sets by
contacting Universal Reprographics at one of the
above-stated locations.
A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be
conducted on July, 20, 2010, commencing
promptly at 1:30 p.m. at Jacobs Facilities,
1200 W. Floral Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754,
Telephone: (323) 859-2330. Attendance at the
Pre-Bid Conference is required as a condition
of bidding, unless the Bidder is a “Local, Small or
Emerging Business”, as defined in the District’s
Policy on Local, Small and Emerging Businesses,
Board Rule 7103.17 (a copy of which is available
for review on the District’s Website), and Bidder
submits an affidavit as required by said Board
Rule. Sign language services are available for the
Pre-Bid Conference upon written request received
by Build-LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 810,
Los Angeles, CA 90017 or by Fax at 213-9962534 at least three (3) business days prior to the
day of the Pre-Bid Conference.
Capitalized terms used herein shall have the
meanings assigned to them as set forth in Article
1 of the Instructions to Bidders.
Questions shall be directed to:
Daniel Robb
Build-LACCD Sustainable Building Program
Managers
E-mail: daniel.robb@build-laccd.org or via
Phone: (213) 996-2589 or Fax: (213) 996-2534
[Contractors interested in obtaining information on
upcoming LACCD projects; see
www.build-laccd.org (Contracting and Bidding
Site)]
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BIDDING OPPORTUNITY WITH LACCD
The Los Angeles Community Colleges have
embarked on an extensive building program
funded by Proposition A/AA to address muchneeded campus improvements for educational
and support facilities for its nine community colleges. For future bidding opportunities
please visit the website www.build-laccd.org
under “Contracting and Bidding Site” then
click “Construction Look-Ahead”:
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
College: District Wide
Project Name: Master Agreement for Purchase of
Sidewalk Sweepers
Project Number: 40J.J55.05
Bid Number: 59
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Los Angeles
Community College District (“District”) invites
sealed bids for the following:
This is a competitive bid for the purchase by
the Los Angeles Community College District of
the following Sidewalk Sweepers, for its colleges throughout the Los Angeles area. The
items to be procured are broken down for the
purposes of bidding into one (1) Bid Category and
consist of Sidewalk Sweepers, Warranty and
Accessories.
Bids shall be prepared in conformance with the
Instructions to Bidders using the forms included in
the Bidding Documents. All Bids must be received
at Build LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 810,
Los Angeles, California 90017, by either hand
delivery or mail, no later than July 15, 2010 @
3:00 PM to be thereafter on said date and at
said location publicly opened and read aloud.
The Bidder assumes full and sole responsibility
for timely receipt of its Bid, the Bid Security and
any other documents required to be submitted
with the Bid.
Bidding Documents including Instruction to
Bidders and other documents, if any, will be available to Bidders on and after July 6, 2010, at the
following locations:
For document pick up: Universal Reprographics
Incorporated, Los Angeles Branch, 2706 Wilshire
Blvd Los Angeles, California 90057 Tel: 213-3657750 , West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Ponitius
Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90025 Tel: 310-477-2900,
Robertson Branch, 1444-B S. Robertson Blvd,
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242.
To order or view online: http://build-laccd.
org/, Contracting and Bidding Site, Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room Link.
To view in person: Build LACCD, 915 Wilshire
Blvd., Ste. 810, Los Angeles, California 90017,
213- 593-8641
The District will provide one (1) complete set
of Bidding Documents to each Bidder, free of
charge, for pick-up upon at least eight (8) hours
notice to Universal Reprographics at any of the
above-stated Universal Reprographics locations.
Bidder may arrange, at Bidder’s own expense, for
document delivery and additional sets by contacting Universal Reprographics at one of the abovestated Universal Reprographics locations.
There will be no mandatory pre-Bid conference
for this Bid.
Questions shall be directed to:
Paul Spear
Sustainable Building Program Managers
paul.spear@build-laccd.org
[Contractors interested in obtaining information
on upcoming LACCD projects; see build-laccd.org
(Contracting and Bidding Site)]
7/15/10
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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 JULY 28, 2010 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;B281 CHARLES L. WEAKLEY, B422
ESTELLA V. NORRIS a.k.a. ESTELLA VINCENTA
NORRIS a.k.a. ESTELLA NORRIS,B426 MOSES
JOSEPH EDEM, B160 BEAUCLERE L. WAITE,
B375 TAIANA BROWN a.k.a. TAIANA MARIA
BROWN, B423 ELAINE STEPTER, B459
ANNETTE CRANFORD, B498 T HUNT, B523
ELSIE YOLANDA LEIVA, B396 TRACY LYNN
WOMACK a.k.a. TRACY WOMACK, B231
MONETIA SMITH a.k.a. MONETIA THILIA
SMITH, B180 NINA ESTELLE FRANQUI, B164
REBECCA ANN DEARWATKINS, B182 CYNTHIA
MARSHALL, B216 CONLEY DUANE MARTIN
a.k.a. CONLEY D. MARTIN, B167 JONATHAN
TRACY BRITTION a.k.a JONATHAN TRACY
BRITTON, A53 DONALD PATRICK DILLION SR.
a.k.a. DONALD PATRICK DILLON SR., B262
CURTIS E. HAYNES a.k.a. CURTIS EDWARD
HAYNES, B367 DOYLE COLE . 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.
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Charles Johnson 1-800-5355727. (Cal-SCAN)
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
1010
EMPLOYMENT
EXPERIENCED
TELEMARKETER
If you are the best, we will
pay Top $, Salary + Comm.
Call JOYCE (800) 667-1669
For advertising
information call
(323) 556-5720
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
1010
SCHOOLS & INSTRUCTIONS BATH TUB REPAIR/REFINISH
4100
1300
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA!
Graduate in 4 weeks! FREE
Brochure. Call Now! 1-866562-3650
ext.
60
www.SouthEasternHS.com
(Cal-SCAN)
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
1010
Helping Other People
Angelus & Rosedale
Funeral Homes
Family Service Counselors
• F/T Career Professional
• Loving Support & Training
• No Exp. Necessary
If you have a compassionate heart and a passion
for sales, call Amy at 800-779-7526
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
1010
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
1010
Freelance Sports Reporter - Golf
The Los Angeles Wave is looking for Freelance Sports Reporter - Golf.
We are looking for a passionate golfer and writer. The ideal
candidate will be an experienced golfer who can cover the
game with a sportswriter's expertise.
Assignment may involve playing rounds of golf.
For consideration, please email your resume and writing
samples to: HR@wavepublication.com
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
1010
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
1010
Freelance Technology Reporter
The Los Angeles Wave is looking for a freelance technology
reporter.
You should be able to write articles, case studies, blogs and
similar types of content for a weekly column about the latest
trends and technological innovations, covering all aspects of
the marketplace.
For consideration, please email your resume and writing
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
2005
ANNOUNCEMENTS
2005
ROBYN (ROBIN?)
@Savoy Club Friday Night
3/19 (Reggae)
You were wearing a great black dress.
You are dark brown skin with a metal
wire across your upper front teeth
I Bought u a Patron Margarita
“Prettiest woman I’ve seen in a long time”
Please email me at:
isfra10@yahoo.com
Bath Tub Reglazing
SPECIAL SALE $199
with 2 yr warranty.
(310) 338-0638
BUSINESS SERVICES
4123
ADVERTISE ONLINE in a
network of 140-plus newspaper websites. Border to Border with one order! $7 cost
per thousand impressions
statewide. Minimum $5,000
order. Call for details: (916)
288-6010.
www.CaliforniaBannerAdNetwork.com
(Cal-SCAN)
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
in 240 Cal-SCAN newspapers for the best reach, coverage, and price. 25-words
$550. Reach over 6 million
Californians! FREE email
brochure. Call (916) 2886019. www.Cal-SCAN.com
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DISPLAY ADVERTISING in
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statewide for $1,550! Reach
over 3 million Californians!
FREE email brochure. Call
(916) 288-6019. www.CalSDAN.com (Cal-SCAN)
FLOORS/HDWD/LINOLEUM
/TILE
4290
LINOLEUM INSTALLATION
& laminate flooring, carpet
restretching. Please call
Lawrence@(323) 293-1851
HANDYMAN
4315
*****GREAT PRICE!!****
Painting, plumbing, stucco
roofing, electr, tile, concrete, sec 8. 323-333-4084
Affordable Plumber
Drains & Leaks $49 & up.
Main sewer line $99 & up.
(323) 751-2323
JOE’S HANDYMAN SVC
Carpentry, painting, electrical, roofing, plumbing,
drv-wys, repiping, rm adds
maid avail. (323) 610-9225
MISC. SERVICES
4405
Who wants to learn how
to Save Money using
FREE software?
www.msgdownload.com
PAINTING
4430
El Dorado Painting, Int &
Ext, Rm additions, roofing,
kit, granite tops stucco,bath
tile. Free Est (213) 590-8682
FINANCIAL SERVICES
5250
CASH NOW! Get cash for
your structured settlement or
annuity payments. High payouts. Call J.G. Wentworth. 1866-SETTLEMENT (1-866738-8536). Rated A+ by the
Better Business Bureau.
(Cal-SCAN)
Furnished 1Bd TwnHouse
Quiet, very clean gated.
Garage. Long Beach area
$750/m (310) 603-5630
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
Realty Rentals Co.
(310) 478-1091
LA 1204 W Florence Ave $1095 3bd
2ba SFR, 2 pkng
Compton 2099 Bliss St $1395 4 bd
2.5 ba SFR, 3 pkng & lndy hk ups
Los Angeles 6517 ½ Avalon Blvd #4
$545 studio 1 ba
Compton 1002, 1004 A &N Sloan
Ave $845 2 bd 2 ba, 1 pkng
LA 1818 N. Kingsley Dr #8, #9
$995-$1095 2 br 2 ba w/ 1 pkng
& lndy fclty
LA 10348 Hickory St $995 3 bd 2
ba SFR 2 pkng & lndy rm
LA 10541 DeHaven Ave $1695
4bd 2.5ba SFR 2 pkng grge
LA 1036 S Normandie Ave
#11 $1045 2 bd 2 ba, 1 pkng &
lndy fclty
OLIVER THE HANDYMAN
Painting, Hauling, Tree
Trim. Garage, Cleanups,
Windows. (323) 294-4444
WE DO ALL FOR LESS
Plumbing, Electrical,
Tile, Roof Leaks, Remod.
Senior Citizen Discount!
Luis (323) 806-3707
• WE FIX ALL •
And do Painting &
Plumbing.
Clarence (323) 770-0421
HAULING
4320
MOVING, HAULING
& CLEAN UP Call Ron
310 422-8460 310 672-8202
1Bd Apt for rent Wsh/Dryer
garbage disposal, Parking
space,Mid Wilshire, $1200/m
SEC 8 OK (310) 569-6621
1bd, Sec 8 ok, $800/mo
West Blvd/ Washington
& Western/ 46th Ave.
Call: 323-939-0137
1bd/1ba. New decor. County Sec. 8 ok. 1 child ok.
$825/mo Near 104th &
Western. 909-944-2241
2 bd+1ba $1300/mo, newly
decorated. Section 8 okay!
1923 1/2 Claudina Ave.
(323) 931-4242 after 5pm
2 Bdrm 1 Ba. Apt. Sec. 8 Ok
Near downtown, school,
shopping ctr. Secure prking,
clean Call (323) 777-8100
2 br, 4086 Hillcrest Dr $950
2 br, 6332 Crenshaw Bl $950
1 br, 6203 Crenshaw Bl $750
Sngl 6203 Crenshaw Bl $550
Sec 8 ok. lic #00450451
bkr (323) 750-4445
2Bd 2Ba 1217 W. 110th St
$1200/m County Sec 8 OK
Garage, New crpt, pnt, flrs &
cabinets (310) 908-5330
Text AP1 to 555411
HARVARD YARD APTS
NOW LEASING
8711 S. Harvard Ave.,
Affordable Senior Housing
community containing 1 & 2
bedroom units. Age &
income restrictions apply.
For more information please
call (323) 758-7309 EHO.
Ex/Large 2Bd,1Ba, 4-Unit
Bldg, 1942 W. Florence Av,
$1,200-1325/mo, CITY SEC
8 OK, 323-293-6868
Gardena, 1 bd, kitchen
w/blt ins, dinette area, bath
w/tub shower, nr transp.
$875 mo. 323-321-6245
$1050/m 2Bd 1Ba 1 car on
site prking, secured, balcony.
Close to all 901 Eucalyptus,
Inglewood (310) 272-0971
$1250-$1300 2Bd 1Ba in triplex. 906 W 82nd st. gated,
new paint, crpt, gar, nr shops
Sec 8 only (310) 384-2296
$1495 Lrg upper 3Bd 1 3/4
Ba, off street pkrg, No Sec 8
Redondo & Adams
(323) 293-1536
$950/m lower 1Bd Completely remod. Off st prkg No
Sec 8 Robertson & National
area 323 293-1536
BALDWIN VILLAGE
1 bedroom @ $850
4064 Abourne Rd.
4101 Palmyra Rd.
4010 West Blvd.
Single @ $750
4009 Palmyra Rd.
4022 Palmyra Rd.
2 bedrooms @ $950
4029 West Blvd
4053 West Blvd.
Clean x-lg, fresh paint,
new crpt, ceiling fans,
locked entry, parking,
lndry rm.
BALDWIN VILLAGE
3922 Stevely Ave
3 + 2 @ $1200
Clean, x-lg, fresh paint,
new crpt, ceiling fans,
locked entry, parking,
lndry rm.
(Section 8 OK)
INGLEWOOD
711 W Queen Street
2 Bd + 2 Ba @ $1295
Gated entry & covered
prkg, new crpt, totally
redecorated, 2 laundry
rooms, cul-de-sac.
629 Harding Dr
2 bedrooms @ $1195
Clean unit freshly painted,
new crpt, new kitchen,
refurbished, ceiling fans,
shared garage, located on
a cul de sac.
JEFFERSON PARK
3903 W 27th St
1 bedrooms @ $895
Small 10-unit courtyard
bldg. Clean unit freshly
painted, newer crpt, lndry
rm, off street reserved
prkg, close to fwy.
MID CITY
1928 S. Corning
Single @ $695
Clean, fresh paint, new
crpt, gated entry, lndry rm.
For additional info
www.sourceoneproperty
management.com
323-295-0245
1 & 2 bd Apts. LA & Long
Beach. Choose your paint
color-restrictions apply.
$850-$1400 mo. Sec 8 ok.
Lisa B. 800-721-6350 x2
1 Bdrm lower. $750/m
Open Sat 1-5.
1623 1/2 W. 39th Pl apt #1,
near Western Bl
1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms
available. City & County
SEC 8 acceptable.
Call (310) 330-0730 Ext.12
117 1/2 W. 41st PL, LA Lrg
2Bd (upper) 4 unit bldg Sec
8 Ok. New pnt, off str prking
$1000/m (323) 896-2800
Inglwd Sec 8 OK Clean 2Bd
1Ba, cpt, new tile in kit & ba
$1050+ sec. 10234 England
Ave unit #4 (310) 658-8307
RENTALS
RENTALS
FOR RENT
1Bd Duplex 1149 E. 87th Pl County Sec 8
accepted New carpet throughout Drive
by then call owner appointment only
(323) 752-2770
Sec8 OK Discounted Move
in Nice 2Bd Apt, South L.A.
108th & Western W/D hk up
$1288/m (909) 875-1733
Seniors Welcome 1Bd
3925 Roxanne Secure Bldg
w/cameras in & out. $900/m
Hrd wood flrs 323 294-9140
Spacious 1 bd condo
(Baldwin Hills area) dining
rm, remodeled, porcelin tile
floor, garage, stove, laundry
onsite, chandelier, granite
vanity top, $1050/monthly
contact #323-754-2704
Spacious 2Bd Downstairs
ING, fenced yrd, 1 car gar,
NO pets, NO smoking
(310) 674-7143
Spacious Sgl Utilities
paid Venice & Crenshaw
$775/m (323) 735-1315
TOWNHOMES
6075
2bd 2 1/2 ba Townhouse
14700 S Berendo Gardena.
$1,500/mo
Helene 323-750-1777
2811 1/2 W. 48th St.
2815 1/2 W. 48thSt.
1bd/1ba w/d hk-up
Sec 8 OK (213) 359-4439
3 bd 1 ba duplex, off street
parking. $1175 mo. 2957
Somerset Dr. Crenshaw/
Adams. 323-228-4406
Arlington/Adams, lrg tandem 2bd, 1ba, $1300/mo,
hrdwd flrs, w/d hook-up, gar,
lrg porch & yd. Open
house, 7/17, noon - 2pm.
310-420-5994.
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
6005
Brand New Duplex 3Bd
Washer & Dryer hook up
Sec 8 Welcome $1800/m
8318 S. San Pedro
(818) 416 2178
Elderly Apts. for Rent
Must be 62 yrs+ age. Single Units Only!!
(Florence & Figueroa)
7010 Denver Ave. - Los Angeles, CA 90044
Call: 323-753-3427
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
South Central Los Angeles Regional Center
(SCLARC) is interested in contracting with one
qualified applicant to develop a Family Home
Agency (FHA).
Family Home Agencies are
contracted by the regional center to recruit, support
and monitor family homes. A family home enables
an adult with a developmental disability to join a
family in their private home, as a fully participating
family member. Interested parties should contact
Kim Bowie, Chief, Community Services Division,
between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at
(213) 744-8454 by July 23, 2010.
Insured & Bonded
ROOF MASTER
ROOFING
All Kinds of Roofs
• Free Estimates
• Top Quality
• No Down Payment
• We Do gutter & down spout
• Seniors Special Discount
Visa / Master-Card accepted
(323) 933-3110
CHRIS, Owner
STORES/OFFICES FOR RENT
6955
OFFICES, modern bldg, security. Western/ 46th, 120
sqf ($275/MO) & 700 sqf
($650/MO) 323-939-0137
STORES/OFFICES FOR LEASE
6960
$1.50 per 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, Inglewood.
Jenny: (310) 272-0971
Gwen: (310) 408-1403
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
• LIVE THE DREAM •
Westside duplex 3 bd 2 ba
& 2 bd 2 ba. FHA apprvd.
$475K 213-804-2939
Open Sat/Suh 1-4
ON THE AVENUES lovely
spacious 4 bd 2 ba hse,
den, quiet area, nr transp,
yd. $325K 323-321-6245
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
RED! $293,500 LEIMERT
PARK. 3 + 2, 4320 2nd Ave,
PROBATE, lic #00450451
bkr (323) 750-4445
OUT OF STATE PROPERTY
7585
20 ACRE RANCHES ONLY
$99/mo. $0 Down, $12,900,
GREAT DEAL! Near Growing El Paso, Texas. Owner financing, No Credit Checks,
Money Back Guarantee.
FREE Map/Pictures. 1-800343-9444. (Cal-SCAN)
For advertising
information call
(323) 556-5720
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
FOR SALE
(323) 293-8235
227LC071510
Fraser’s Plumbing & Heating
Rooter Service
C-39779133
LYNWOOD clean 2 bdrm, 1
ba, stove, refrig, laun. hookups, fenced yard, 2 pkg
spaces $2235+dep
760-525-2060
2Bd Side driveway, stucco,
single car garage. 6206. 6th ave
Shown by appointment only
PLUMBING
Lic #320433 - over 35 years. Insured & Bonded
Commercial & Residential
Senior Discount • Gas Leaks • Copper Repiping
Drain Maintenance • Water Heaters • Toilets
261LC071510
REGIONAL CENTER PLANS
TO DEVELOP A FAMILY
HOME AGENCY
LA, 2+1, bonus rm, yard,
D/R, 5215 S. Van Ness Ave,
$1450/mo. lic #00450451
bkr (323) 750-4445
(323) 293-8235
Directory
ROOFING
Compton 3bd/ 1Ba. hse
Crpt, blnds W/D Hk-up, Prkg
$1,650./Mo.+ Sec Dep. Not
Sec. 8 apprv. 323 778-9008
FOR SALE
Business & Service
Directory
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
4Bd 2Ba $2200 SEC 8 OK
Nice frt, lrg bk yrd w/patio.
New pnt, crpt, fenced & barred pets OK (310) 592-1679
2 Bd + Den 407 Magnolia ave
Inglewood CA. Side driveway,single
car garage. Quiet Neighborhood
Drive by then call
6005
SECTION 8 AVAILABLE!
HOUSES UNFURNISHED
6450
OUT OF STATE PROPERTY
7585
MONTANA
PONDEROSA
RANCH Trophy Elk & Deer
Horse Trails- BLM bordering
Bank Liquidation Sale- CALL
NOW! 20 Acres w/ Road &
Utilities- $19,900. 20 Acres
w/
New
cabinWAS:
$99,900 NOW: $69,900. Also Available: 200-3000 acres
w/ trees, views, utilities.
Loaded w/ 350 class bulls,
deer & game birds. Large
acreage starts at $800/acre
888-361-3006
www.WesternSkiesLand.com
(CalSCAN)
SOUTHERN COLORADO's
Nice 1 bdrm. New crpt & pnt.
Best Land Bargains! DeedTile floors, Incl stv & fridge.
backs, repos, foreclosures.
$800/m. 7626 S Western. By
Starting as low as $427 per
NICE 3 Bdrm, 2 Ba HSE
Appt: 310-539-8114
Washer/dryer hookup. $1850 acre. Excellent financing.
www.ColoradoRanchdeal.co
Nice 2 bd/1ba. Nu crpt & pnt, mo. 1625 W. 51st St. nr m (Cal-SCAN)
Western. (310) 839-4911
2 balconies, AC, gated bldg.
prkg. 1609 S. St Andrews
Unemployed with Sec 8
$1200/mo 310-539-8114
MOBILE HOMES
Move-in Free 4 Bd, 2 1/2 Ba
near Western & Slauson
7600
Nice bachelor, new crpt,
Quiet, Safe, Lovely, No
paint. Incl stv & fridge +
application fee 323 753-0414
util. $690/m. 207 1/4 50th St
BEAUTIFUL NEW MANUBy appt 310-539-8114
HOMES with
ROOMS FACTURED
unbelievable views in ArizoPICO/HAUSER AREA
na.
Paved
roads,
acreage,
6850
Seniors & Sec 8 welcome.
warranties. Additional invenVery clean1 bd lower with
tory available. Below factory
stove. (310) 673-6164
If not working & on a fixed in- wholesale.
520-909-9162.
SEC 8 UNIT HAS PASSED come & want to save $$$ on (Cal-SCAN)
3Bd 1Ba. 3 unit bldg. New rent in xchange 4 hse duties
Lady pref’d. (323) 298-4574
fridge, stv, crpt. Tiled Ba
For advertising
(818) 879-9000
DUPLEXES UNFURNISHED
6250
4 Bd 1.5Ba House. Fenced yard 5007
S. Central ave Corner of 50th & Central
Will rent Sec 8 price.
(323) 293-8235
Apply at
NEWLY DECORATED 2 Bd
& 3 Bd apts, granite counter
tops, pvt lndry rm 12608 &
12608 1/2 S. Figueroa.
SEC 8 OK. 714 624-2426
Spacious 2Bd 1Ba. Apt
$950/m Adams & Western
Sec 8 Not approved
Please call (323) 735-1315
Los Angeles 4 plex. 3 bd
apt. Arlington/Adams. Sec
8 ok. Call Mr Hill
323-590-7566
6005
Lrg 2bd/1ba, $1,250/mo
Sec 8 ok. 3027 W View St.
3bd/ 1ba Apt. $1650/mo.
Sec 8 ok. 1501 W 60th St.
Helene 323-750-1777
******************************
L.A. Apartments for Rent
2 Bedroom
Lrg 2Bd apt Lrg Bd/closets
Sml bldg, well managed quiet/clean Western & Imperial
$950/m 310 603-5630
Spacious 1Bd Adams &
Arlington $850/m
(323) 735-1315
MARLTON
PROPERTY MGMT
(323) 293-5809
Inglewood- 2bd. $950/mo.
No Dep OAC Prkg, laundry,
gated. 514 W. Hyde Park.
213-963-1187
6005
6005
*****************************
LA 2Bd 2Ba $995/m New
Dec. Non Sec 8 bldg
$700 Security 2220 W. 27st
avail 9/1/10 call now for
details (323) 292-6050
LA 821 ½ S Normandie Ave $1395
4bd 2ba w/2pkng & lndy fclty
L A 6519 Avalon Blvd $ 995
3br 2ba duplex 1 pkng and
lndy fclty
933½ E 28th St $895 2bd 2ba
w/2 pkng
1ST Month's Free Rent
No Section 8 Program
6005
Inglewood 2Bd 2Ba $1300
1Bd $950 Secure bldg,
Laundry Room & Pool.
724 E. Hardy (310) 641-5468
LA 1242 S Mariposa, # 5 $1095 3
bd 2 ba, 2 pkng & lndy fclty
Newly dec, w/w
crpt, Sec 8 & sr
citizen welcome.
LaSalle nr Adams
MR. JACKSON
Home Repair, Painting,
Carpentry & Plumbing.
Pls Call 323.294-6202
6005
2Bd 2Ba apt for rent.
1330 W 106th St, LA.
$1060- $1160. 1st mo free.
Sec 8 ok. (310) 279-2769
APARTMENTS FURNISHED 2Bd newly decorated 4088
6004 Leimert Bl, LA. 1 mo free
rent. Sec 8 OK. Open Sat
11a - 2pm. (323) 988-1161
2 BDR 1 BATH House for
rent. Huge shared backyard
3Bd 1Ba apt FOR RENT
with gated parking. Section 8 Sec 8 Welcome New carpet,
OK. Call Fedric at
& floors Call: (323) 733-3966
323-228-2901 for details
Near Broadway & Century
229LC071510
EMPLOYMENT
Can Fix Any Plumbing Problem
(323) 931-9262
24 Hour Prompt & Professional Service
www.frasersplumbing.com
information call
(323) 556-5720
AUTOS WANTED
8145
DONATE YOUR VEHICLE!
Receive
Free
Vacation
Voucher. United Breast Cancer Foundation. Free Mammograms, Breast Cancer Info www.ubcf.info Free Towing, Tax Deductible, NonRunners Accepted, 1-888468-5964. (Cal-SCAN)
AUTOS WANTED
8145
A CAR DONATION HELPING SICK KIDS! Donate
Your Car to SONGS OF
LOVE and make a sick child
smile! Featured on NBC
(TODAY
SHOW),
CNN.
Tax-deductible, all vehicle
conditions
accepted.
www.SongsofLove.org 888909-SONG (7664).
(CalSCAN)
DONATE YOUR CAR: Children's Cancer Fund! Help
Save A Child's Life Through
Research & Support! Free
Vacation Package. Fast,
Easy & Tax Deductible. Call
1-800-252-0615.
(CalSCAN)
TRUCKS FOR SALE
8600
1963 Ford Ranchera antique truck Runs good. $7000
obo. 310-215-9378
Go ahead, make
the match.
Find a furry friend
for your children in
our Pet Corner.
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