Tears for, memories of a one-of-a-kind entertainer

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Vol. 92 • No. 27
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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MICHAEL JACKSON
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Exclusive photo obtained
by The Wave shows masked
Jackson in doctor’s office
one week before death - A3
Timeline tracks the
evolution of a
superstar - A5
Court battles loom as
details of 2002 will are
released - A8
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Final curtain
Michael Jackson appeared in good health when he was
photographed just two days before his death, while
rehearsing in downtown Los Angeles for a planned series
of comeback shows in London. This is one of the last
known images taken of the star before he collapsed and
died of cardiac arrest June 25.
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Photos: Michael
Jackson through
the years
Poll: What was
the King of Pop’s
best album?
Video: His music
returns to the top
of the charts
Tears for, memories of a
one-of-a-kind entertainer
In every corner of
L.A., fans and admirers
express shock and grief
over the King of Pop’s
death.
Industry insiders who
knew, worked with or
were influenced by
Jackson reflect on his
life and legacy.
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
STAFF WRITER
From Hollywood to the
Crenshaw District and around
the world, the passing last
Thursday of pop music superstar Michael Jackson has
brought together a diverse
community of fans stunned by
his sudden death.
In the moments after
Jackson’s passing was officially announced by his brother
Jermaine, South Los Angeles’
central thoroughfare, Crenshaw
Boulevard, was the site of
countless impromptu tributes to
Jackson, as fans attempted to
cope with an event that many
see as the end of a pop culture era. As vehicles in slowmoving midday traffic blasted
such songs as “Don’t Stop ‘Til
You Get Enough,” “Thriller”
and “I’ll Be There” from their
stereos, passersby could hear
that virtually every conversa-
It has been a week in popular culture like few others, as
the news of Michael Jackson’s
untimely June 25 death has
dominated headlines, the airwaves and water-cooler discussions around the world.
For the last seven days —
and surely, many more to come
— Jackson’s music has been
played nonstop, his mesmerizing videos filling television
screens and his every transformative image displayed on
every medium from magazine
covers to commemorative pop
art.
Talk had swirled over the
last several days that Jackson’s
Neverland Ranch would play
host to a massive gathering of
fans for a public viewing on
Friday, but by late Wednesday
afternoon Jackson’s family had
quashed those reports.
Photo by Gary McCarthy
A woman cries on Friday in
Hollywood, one of thousands
of fans who gathered to pay
tribute to Michael Jackson
at his star on the Walk of
Fame.
tion on the street concerned the
death of the King of Pop.
“I just can’t believe it, I grew
up on Michael, a lot of us did,”
said Tishina Reynolds, 25,
while standing at a bus stop
on Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard. “People have been
texting me all day about it, but
it still hasn’t set in. … Since,
I’ve been here people have
been bumping his music up and
See MICHAEL on page A5
In an interview with the Wave,
Debbie Allen, who described
herself as a close friend of
Michael Jackson, said she
was the first to confirm his
death to singer Diana Ross.
On June 28, BET drew its
biggest-ever audience — 10.65
million viewers — for the live
BET Awards 2009 at the Shrine
Auditorium, which turned into
the first widely-seen musical
tribute to Jackson following his
death.
It was capped off by an
unscheduled and emotional
appearance by Janet Jackson,
who spoke on behalf of her
See JACKSON on page A5
Deal could stave off
some L.A. City layoffs
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
Members of the Coalition
of L.A. City Unions will not
see layoffs and furloughs for at
least the next two fiscal years, if
a tentative agreement between
city and union officials is finalized.
The agreement, which was
approved last Friday by the
city council and now awaits
ratification by the coalition,
is expected to save the city
more than $500 million over
the next two years by way of
deferred wage adjustments and
the implementation of an early
retirement incentive program.
As a result, the city would forgo
layoffs and furloughs amongst
coalition members. Layoffs,
however, would only come as a
last resort; meaning that the city
exhausted every option with the
help of the Coalition.
According to Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa’s office, the city
would see a savings of $200
million the first year, followed by $300 million the
next year. “This agreement,”
said Villaraigosa, “allows us to
balance the budget without
layoffs and furloughs that hurt
workers and cut services at a
moment when our families need
them most.”
The city’s other six unions
would not be included in this
deal, only the coalition’s 22,000
members. According to city
officials, all unions were asked
Los Angeles City Council Budget and Finance Committee chairman Bernard Parks says if a union coalition ratifies a new agreement, they “would not be subject to layoffs or furloughs unless
there’s a significant downturn in the city’s economy, some
catastrophic financial event.”
to participate at the onset of
negotiations but some declined.
“There will still be layoffs [of]
some people,” said Councilman
Bernard Parks. “But if this con-
ceptual agreement goes forward as it’s currently intended,
then members of the coalition
would not be subject to layoffs
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Justice Dept. will
deepen probe of
Inglewood Police
Following contradictory
accounts of another fatal
shooting, FBI notifies
department of
new investigation.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
INGLEWOOD — Police
Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks
has expressed confidence that
the department will be exonerated in the officer-involved
shooting death of Marcus Smith
after the FBI launched an official probe into the incident.
But that assertion was flatly contradicted by Kevin R.
Hackie, a private detective
representing the Smith family,
who told the Wave on Tuesday
that based on the evidence his
team has handed over to the
bureau, “I guarantee they are
going to indict those officers.”
According to a statement by
Seabrooks released last week,
the FBI notified her department
of the impending investigation in a May 24 letter. Smith,
a 31-year-old father of three,
was shot and killed May 17
when police responded to calls
of a fight at a party in the 800
block of South Osage Avenue.
“The Department will cooperate completely in all aspects
of their investigation, even as
we complete our own administrative and internal reviews
into the incident,” Seabrooks
said in the statement. “We are
confident the FBI review will
validate facts already made
public about the incident,
including our initial findings
that Mr. Smith was armed and
pointed his handgun at officers,
resulting in the fatal shooting.”
Meanwhile,
Hackie,
a
retired law enforcement officer, revealed that his agency
had turned over all its evidence
to the FBI’s Public Integrity
Division in Santa Ana on June 1.
Hackie and the Smith family legal team held a press conference in San Pedro May 29
where they revealed details of
a private autopsy performed by
Dr. Sylvia Camprini, a former
head of the Washington D.C.
coroner’s office. Her report
concluded that Smith was shot
at point-blank range from a
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One does the Wright
thing, another cuts
his Price in solidarity
Bottom Line
Betty Pleasant
T
his is a tale of two senators: One who has chosen
to cut his state salary by
five percent, and one who has
refused to do so. They are both
new to the Legislature’s upper
house; both are Democrats,
and both are right here in
The Wave’s circulation area.
Senate President Pro Tem
Darrell Steinberg recently asked
his 39 Senate colleagues to join
him in cutting their salaries by
five percent as an empathetic
gesture of solidarity with the
growing number of Californians
facing financial crises due to
the massive cuts the lawmakers
must make in the state budget.
Thirty-eight of the 40 senators have chosen to give up at
least five percent of their salary
— with several of them agreeing to give up even more — but
two have refused to give up a
cent: Bakersfield Republican
Sen. Roy Ashburn and Inglewood
Democrat Sen. Rod Wright.
Wright, a first-term senator
with a contrarian history, has
deflected media inquiries about
the reason for his decision with
comments to the effect that
his salary and what he does
with it is his “personal business” and that he does not discuss his “personal business.”
I contacted Wright Monday
for an interview and reminded
him that his $116,000 annual
salary (plus the $38,000 per
diem he gets so he can maintain Sacramento housing for
himself while the Legislature
is in session) is the people’s
business, since we’re paying
it. Wright agreed to discuss it.
Wright called Steinberg’s
call for the voluntary pay cut
“a political gimmick” and said
“it’s not like it would close the
budget gap. I made a personal
decision about the handling of
my money and I don’t make
those decisions for political
advantage and I don’t begrudge
my 38 colleagues who do,”
Wright said. “I choose to donate
to causes in my district, such as
the Jenesse Center’s domestic
violence program and to
Washington
High
School
for which I have raised
money and donated money.
“I get no pension,” Wright
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Renaldo Gatson celebrates June 24 after receiving his diploma from Locke High
School. It was the first graduation at the Watts campus since it was placed under
the auspices of the Green Dot Public Schools charter organization. A total of 374
students participated in the ceremony.
Inglewood receives
national recognition
Honored for meeting
challenges in three
areas, community is
named a 2009 AllAmerica City.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
INGLEWOOD — The city
has been named a 2009 AllAmerica City, which comes
two decades after first receiving the prestigious award and
amid challenging times with its
police department and mayor
both under investigation.
The title was bestowed June
20 in Denver by the National
Civic League when a small delegation led by Mayor Roosevelt
Dorn made their presentation
as the only competing finalist
from Southern California following a month-long nationwide competition.
A jury of national experts
selected Inglewood as one of 10
All-America cities for identify-
ing city challenges and solutions in three select areas of
public, private and nonprofit
cooperation. Specifically, economic development, aircraft
noise mitigation and job training.
The projects identified
included the Village at Century
development,
Residential
Sound Installation Program for
homes on LAX flight path, and
the Auto Repair Apprenticeship
with Los Angeles Opportunity
Industrialization Center and the
city’s Fleet Management and
Transit Service.
Touting the Village at Century
development in particular, the
delegation cited its transformation into a successful commercial corridor that boasts sales in
the top five and 10 percent for
landmark retailers nationally.
According to the city, approximately 50 percent of the project’s 600-person workforce is
comprised of local residents and
total crime in the surrounding
area decreased by 43 percent.
With a future tax increment
revenue stream of approximately $10 million, the development is slated to make back its
investment in just four years.
“The award is not really made
to cities, but to communities,”
said National Civic League
spokesman Mike McGrath, in
providing an overview of the
competition “The emphasis is
on partnerships in the public,
private and nonprofit sectors.
Most cities have problems, but
Inglewood won on those projects in their application.”
Following on from celebrations in Denver, Dorn congratulated the city at a recent council
meeting on winning “the Oscar
of cities.”
“We couldn’t be more proud
to accept a second recognition as an All-America City
— Inglewood has flourished
through the teamwork and consistent dedication of our residents, grassroots groups, city
workers, and political, religious
and business leaders.”
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since the beginning of the superstar’s career. View our extensive
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INGLEWOOD — The city
has announced it has established
a hotline for the public to report
illegal fireworks.
Lt. Mike McBride, a Police
Department spokesman, said
anyone who observes people
using illegal fireworks can make
anonymous calls 24 hours a day
to (310) 412-4333.
If it appears the activity is
posing an immediate danger to
people or property, call 911, he
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Photo by Sandra Larin
In a cell phone photo obtained exclusively by the Wave, a heavily-disguised Michael
Jackson arrives for an appointment at what the photographer said is a Beverly Hills doctor’s office. The photo was taken the week before he died of cardiac arrest on June 25.
L.A. launches ‘Summer Night Lights’
LOS ANGELES — Starting
this week, the lights will stay
on until midnight at 16 parks
across the city as part of a newly
expanded anti-gang program
credited last year with helping
Los Angeles record its safest
summer since 1967.
“Summer Night Lights” provides at-risk youth with organized activities aimed at keeping
them out of trouble during the
summer.
Last year, communities around
parks that were part of the program experienced a 17 percent
drop in violent gang crime, an
86 percent reduction in homicides, and a 23 percent decline in
aggravated assaults, according to
the mayor’s office.
This year, the number of parks
in the program has been doubled.
“This is our chance to build on
last summer’s success and take
back our parks and communities,” Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
said during a kick-off ceremony
Monday at the Imperial Courts
Recreation Center.
“This summer, we’re going
to double-down on our efforts
to invest in our youth and our
broader strategy to push our sons
and daughters to lead productive lives if given the chance,”
he said.
Police Chief William Bratton
said the program gives youth an
alternative to joining gangs.
“We know that our youth are
more likely to become victims
of gang violence than any other
group. We know that the nighttime hours are when disproportionate amount of gang violence
happens,” he said. “The key
word today and tomorrow is
choice.”
USC football coach Pete
Carroll’s nonprofit organization,
A Better LA, helped develop
some of the program’s afterschool activities, which include
athletic leagues, arts initiatives
and family programs.
The program keeps parks open
until midnight on Wednesdays
through Saturdays, and provides
jobs to at-risk youth willing
to oversee the park activities.
“Intervention workers” were
also hired to maintain cease
fires between gangs and the surrounding community.
Parks participating in Summer
Night Lights include Denker
Recreation Center, Harvard
Recreation Center, Imperial
Courts Recreation Center, Jim
Gilliam Park, Jordan Downs
Recreation Center, Mount
Carmel
Park,
Nickerson
Gardens Recreation Center and
Ross Snyder Recreation Center.
FBI will
look into
Smith
shooting
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distance of seven feet, once in
the head and 17 times in the back.
“The evidence we have turned
over includes the coroner’s
report, photos, forensics, and
on-camera interviews with [dozens of] witnesses,” said Hackie.
Reached for comment,
Los Angeles Civil Rights
Association
president
Eddie Jones welcomed the
FBI announcement. “I am
very happy that the FBI is
coming in to investigate Mr.
Smith’s death,” said Jones.
“Our attorneys are also working
with the family and we will
fight to see that the truth
— the whole truth and nothing but the truth — comes
out of this investigation.”
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Community Calendar
Compiled by Marisela Santana
The City of Los Angeles and Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa invite children
between five and 12 years old to
participate in a citywide “Playdough
Experiment.” Free and open to the
public, participants will be asked to
use their imaginations to construct clay
masterpieces for prizes. July 2, from
4 p.m. Wilmington Recreation Center,
325 Neptune Ave., Wilmington. (310) 548-7645
•••
Councilman Bernard Parks and the
City of Los Angeles’ Cultural Affairs
Department present Fourth of July Jazz
in Leimert Park Festival. Free and open
to the public, this event brings together
an array of local musicians and merchants
for an afternoon of music, artisans, great
food and good company. July 4, from 1
to 5 p.m. The Vision Theatre, 3341 W.
43rd Place, Los Angeles. (A Fireworks
Extravaganza takes place afterward at the
Los Angeles Coliseum). (213) 473-7008
•••
Keith Cross is conducting a
senior center rap class at the
Watts Senior Citizen Center.
Seniors will learn about the
evolution of hip-hop by exploring jazz, blues and soul roots
of hip-hop music. Each participant will graduate from
the month long workshop by
showcasing his or her emcee
skills as they perform an original piece during a live show
scheduled for the end of the
month. This class is free and open to the public. July 6-30. Watts Senior
Citizen Center, 1657 E. Century Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 232-2446
•••
The Crenshaw Yoga and Dance
Studio invites Los Angeles youth
to its urban movement and ballet summer dance four-week camp.
This summer program is an excellent
way for young people to develop
confidence and leadership training.
Students will learn choreographed
routines to popular dance rhythms
traveling back in time to the roots of
Africa all the way to today’s hip-hop beats. July 6 through August 3.
Crenshaw Yoga and Dance Studio, 5426 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles.
(323) 294-7148
•••
Urban Arts Theater West’s
original theatrical event, “One,”
is a stylized postmodern portrayal of Peter and Paul’s last
days in Rome and Peter’s last
days with Christ. The play is
described using “humor and
soul-stirring vocals staged with
dramatic dance sequences to
depict the conflict, persecution
and ultimate triumph of the
apostles after Jesus’ crucifixion.
Gospel star Rev. Daryl Coley
(pictured) stars as Apostle Peter. July 11-19. Holman United Methodist
Church, 3320 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 735-5498
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School raising funds
for reading program
The Teen Reading Mentor
Program at Florence Griffith
Joyner Elementary School is
trying to raise funds to keep the
program going year-round.
The program teaches students
in kindergarten through fifth
grade phonics, reading comprehension, basic spelling, vocabulary and math skills, according
to Ella Andrews, who founded
and directs the program.
The program is trying to raise
$100,000. The funds would be
used to hire older teens to tutor
students.
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Andrews said the program has
been given $15,000 by Beyond
the Bell, a nonprofit program that
works through the Los Angeles
Unified School District.
She said donations can be
sent to Community Concern,
Teen Reading Mentor Program,
P.O. Box 72208, Los Angeles,
90002. Checks should be made
out to Beyond the Bell Branch
— LAUSD, with a notation in
the memo line that says “for
teen reading mentor program
only.”
Information: Andrews at (323)
989-4861.
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The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y
direccion de la corte es):
Santa Monica Courthouse - West District Los Angeles
County Superior Court, Unlimited Civil Jurisdiction,
1725 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s
attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre,
la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado
del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene
abogado, es):
Jonathan Herschel Bornstein (SBN 163392) Bornstein
& Bornstein, 507 Polk Street, Suite 320, San Francisco,
CA 94102-3339 Telephone: (415) 409-7611
Date (Fecha): Apr. 5, 2007
JOHN A. CLARKE, Clerk (Secretario), by G. MADISON,
Deputy (Adjunto)
SEAL
NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served
as an individual defendant.
STATEMENT OF DAMAGES
(Personal Injury or Wrongful Death)
To: Sylvestre Garcia
Plaintiff: Thomas Brooks seeks damages in the aboveentitled action, as follows:
1. General damages AMOUNT
Pain, suffering, and inconvenience...$50,000.00
Emotional distress...$50,000.00
2. Special damages
Medical expenses...$50,000.00
Future medical expenses...$50,000.00
Loss of earnings...$50,000.00
Loss of future earning capacity...$50,000.00
Property damage....$50,000.00
Punitive damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek
punitive damages in the amount of: $50,000.00 when
pursuing a judgment in the suit filed against you.
To: Sylvestre Garcia
Plaintiff: Karen Alper Brooks seeks damages in the
above-entitled action, as follows:
1. General damages AMOUNT
Pain, suffering, and inconvenience...$50,000.00
Emotional distress...$50,000.00
2. Special damages
Medical expenses...$50,000.00
Photos by Gary McCarthy
Debbie Allen (in both photos at right, kissing Motown’s Berry Gordy at top) celebrated the opening of her dance academy at
the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. It was located in Culver City for nine years before the mall owner lured the facility to South L.A.
Allen Dance Studio officially
opens in South Los Angeles
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
The official opening of the
Debbie Allen Dance Studio,
now relocated to the Baldwin
Hills Crenshaw Plaza after
nine years in Culver City, was
celebrated with extra poignancy Friday naming a room
after Berry Gordy and featuring
a musical welcome from soul
artist and writer James Ingram.
Gordy, is of course, the legendary founder of Motown,
which launched The Jackson
5, and Ingram co-wrote
“P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”
from Michael Jackson’s phenomenally successful “Thriller”
album.
“It’s a great day,” said Ingram.
“I’ve been with Debbie for over
12 years writing plays and stuff.
I’m just happy we’ve found a
home.”
The ribbon cutting ceremo-
ny for the academy, housed in
a former bistro on the corner
of Marlton and Santa Rosalia
Avenues, was hosted by Allen
and her husband Norm Nixon
and attended by students, family, friends and special guests.
They included philanthropic
arts donor Wallis Annenburg,
a patron of the Academy, who
was also honored with a room
in her name. Quintin E. Primo,
chairman of Chicago-based
Capri Capital Partners, LLC,
which owns the plaza and wanted the studio as a flagship to
revive the facility, had a business room named in his honor.
“It’s extraordinary to have
a cultural icon like Debbie
Allen come to our community,”
said Primo. “It’s a win, win,
win, for her, us, and the community.”
Allen paid tribute to her special guests, the staff, advisory
board, students, parents and
Jackson, saying “we have lost
one of the greatest.”
“We have so much to be
grateful for today,” said Allen.
“This is a place we can make
difference.”
Council awaits union approval of agreement
AGREEMENT from page A1
or furloughs unless there’s a significant downturn in the city’s
economy, some catastrophic
financial event.”
The council is expected to
finalize the agreement within
the next six weeks following
an actual study as well as the
ratification from the union. The
Coalitions’ bargaining teams
have already voted unanimously
to recommend its approval by
the membership.
“We strongly recommend
that they approve this tentative agreement. We believe that
it’s the best way,” said coalition spokeswoman Barbara
Maynard. “With this agreement
we have assurances from the
city that there will be no layoffs
or furloughs for the workforce
that we represent. So, clearly it’s in the best interest not
only for the workers and their
families but also for the city services that they provide.”
Under the arrangement,
“coalition members would
defer all raises and cost of living adjustments for two years,”
starting from 2009-2010,
said a statement from Mayor
Villaraigosa’s office. This, said
city officials, is expected to
save the city $342 million in
payroll over that period.
LEGAL NOTICES
Future medical expenses...$50,000.00
Loss of earnings...$50,000.00
Loss of future earning capacity...$50,000.00
Property damage....$50,000.00
Punitive damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek
punitive damages in the amount of: $50,000.00 when
pursuing a judgment in the suit filed against you.
Date: 6/23/2009
Jonathan Herschel Bornstein (SBN 163392)
CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE!
Hearing Date: July 20, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. in Department
P.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAMES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090964346
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
Main Street Investment Group, 8344 1/2 W. 3rd St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90048, County of Los Angeles. P.O.
Box 481069, Los Angeles, CA 90048.
Registered owner(s):
Emanuel Metcalf, 8344 1/2 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles,
CA 90048.
This business is conducted by an individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under
the fictitious business name or names listed above
on N/A.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and
correct. (A registrant who declares as true information
which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
/s/ Emanuel Metcalf, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los
Angeles on June 26, 2009.
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,
“Clearly the entire agreement
is a compromise because we
already had a fully negotiated contract but because of the
economic crisis, city employees were facing a major paycut through furloughs as well
as layoffs,” said Maynard.
“Basically what city employees
felt and what we heard loud
and clear from members is that
they were willing to share in the
sacrifice in order to maintain
those services...”
Despite this, coalition members would then be compensated with increased salaries
every six months for three
years. Every July, from 20112013, workers would receive
a 2.25 percent increase and
every January, from 2012-2014,
a 2.75 increase. In addition,
they would receive subsequent
cash bonuses amounting to
1.75 percent of their salaries
in November 2011 and 2012,
as well as July 2013. Also,
two cash payments averaging
$1,300 will be issued.
The
Early
Retirement
Incentive Program, which is
open to all city workers, will be
implemented and will encourage 2,400 workers to retire.
Those approached will be
those already eligible to retire
or those within five years of
LEGAL NOTICES
or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business
and Professions Code).
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090928063
E. Entas International Agency, 13050 Doty Ave.,
Apt 10, Hawthorne, CA 90250
Prince Afam Arinze, 13050 Doty Ave., Apt 10,
Hawthorne, CA 90250
This business is conducted by an individual
on N/A
S/ Prince Afam Arinze, Owner
Angeles on June 19, 2009.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090928391
MS. Pink Enterprises, 1450 West 71st Street, Los
Angeles, CA 90047, County of LA.
Harriet L. Hendricks, 1450 West 71st Street, Los
Angeles, AC 90047
retirement. If the city reaches
this goal, payroll costs will be
lowered by roughly $200 million.
To cover the net cost of the
program, workers will increase
their contribution to the
Los Angeles City Employees
Retirement System by 0.75
percent. As for what will happen to workers if the city does
not recruit the desired 2,400
retirees, Service Employees
International Union (SEIU)
Local 721 President Bob
Schoonover said, “We will have
to find a way to deal with that.”
“The ideal plan is to have
an open window on this early
retirement [program] of 45 days,
starting August 1,” he said. “It
will obviously take some period
of time if these 2,400 people
sign up to get them off the
books.”
Negotiations “began 18
months ago because the outgoing CAO [City Administrative
Officer] realized that even
without the economic downturn of last year we were facing a structural deficit that
would be significant [to] $300
- $350 million this year,” added
Schoonover. “And then with the
economic downturn, of course,
it makes it worse. And the only
way to really fix a significant
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Angeles on Jun 18, 2009
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090773155
L.C.A., 2915 W. 131st Street, Gardena, CA 90249,
County of Los Angeles
Halima Wyatt, 2915 W. 131st Street, Gardena, CA
90249
on N/A
S/ Halima Wyatt, Owner
Angeles on May 26, 2009.
structural deficit like that — as
you look at the situation the
city was in — was to reduce the
workforce. … With the position
of the economy at the present
time, nobody was really relishing the fact sending 2,400 or
3,000 people to the unemployment line because that wouldn’t
do any good for the local economy, which would again impact
certain services and could also
cause an increase in housing
foreclosures. So, the best way
to do it was through early retirement.”
Maynard agreed: “Although
it was a long, hard negotiation
process with the city of Los
Angeles, we are very grateful
that we were able to work in
partnership with the city to
reach this resolution,” she
said. “Because without the
labor management partnership
services would have been
destroyed in the city of Los
Angeles and people would have
lost their jobs and even more
people could be losing their
homes and families and could
have been destroyed. So, we
feel that this is the best possible
agreement that could be reached
in this economic crisis.”
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090899633
Mc Ghee Realty Group, 1050 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 217, Los Angeles, CA 90017 , County of Los
Angeles
George J. Mc Ghee 1050 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 217, Los
Angeles, CA 90017
This business is conducted by an Individiaul
on N/A
S/ George J. Mc Ghee, Owner
Angeles on June 16, 2009
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LEGALS continued on page A10
Fans and admirers mourn a musical legend
Photo by Bill Jones
Michael Jackson, seen in an undated performance photo from the late 1980s, “copied from no one
and borrowed from no one,” said one grieving South L.A. fan interviewed on the day he died.
MICHAEL from page A1
down the street. Shoot, most
of the conversations [at the
bus stop] have been about him.
Everyone is in total shock …
Right now we are just celebrating his life through his music.”
On June 25 around 12:30
p.m., paramedics received
a call from an unidentified man
who had been with Jackson at
his rented Holmby Hills estate.
The caller reported that Jackson
was not breathing. As paramedics arrived, they determined
that the pop star had suffered
from what they believed to be
full cardiac arrest. He was then
transported to UCLA Medical
Center, where doctors performed CPR for more than an
hour before pronouncing him
dead at 2:26 p.m.
The cause of Jackson’s death
has yet to be determined and
will be revealed in the coming weeks pending the results
of a post-mortem examination
conducted by the coroner’s
office on the day after Jackson’s
death. Jackson’s family has
commissioned a second, private
examination that could bring
faster results.
Speculation has swirled
around Jackson’s long history
of prescription drug abuse.
According to L.A. County officials, two large evidence bags
filled with medical material
were retrieved from Jackson’s
estate on Monday. Three days
earlier, Dr. Deepak Chopra
— a personal acquaintance of
Jackson’s for more than two
decades, who claimed that
the pop icon had used both
OxyContin and Demerol
— told CNN that “when you
have enough drugs in your system, your heart goes into an
arrhythmia and your respiration
stops. I think the drugs killed
him.”
“I just hate to see him gone
right now,” said 31 year-old
George Jackson, who first heard
the news from a fellow South
L.A. pedestrian. “I wanted to
see him again at another concert. I wanted to see him and
meet him personally, to be
honest.” His sadness was magnified, he said, “because that’s
Michael Jackson, that’s history.
I grew up on Michael Jackson, I
used to do his moves. I used to
get down like him. I had the red
‘Beat It’ jacket, I had the glove.
I used to do the dance. I used to
wear the penny loafers. That’s
my era. It’s really sad. … It’s
devastating.”
It was even more heartwrenching for Joyce Sweatt,
51, who found out about
Jackson’s death when The Wave
approached her for an interview.
She was at the movies with her
daughter when the news was
first announced
“I’m devastated to hear he’s
gone. I can’t believe it. Are you
sure?” said Sweatt, her eyes
welling with tears. “They’ve
said this about him once before
and he was okay. Are we sure
this time?” Upon confirmation
from a reporter, as well as others passing by while she gave
the interview, Sweatt said, “I
don’t want to believe it. I don’t
want him to be gone because
there was so much more he had
to give. … He shouldn’t have
left us.”
After expressing her dismay,
Sweatt offered her fondest
memory of Jackson. “Thriller,”
she said. “I remember when
‘Thriller’ came out, it was a
debut video and we stopped
everything to make sure we
saw it and kept watching it
over and over again. I mean his
steps, his moves, he was so
charismatic and stylish and he
did things that no one else had
done before. He copied from
no one and borrowed from no
one. This is tragic because there
won’t be another one, there
won’t be another Michael.”
One day after Jackson’s death,
Eddie Perell, who had been
hawking Lakers championship
T-shirts outside a post office
near 39th and Crenshaw, had
already shelved that inventory
in favor of shirts paying tribute
to Jackson. The 60 year-old said
it was not about capitalizing on
the superstar’s death, but rather
honoring “the greatest entertainer to ever live. He was talented
from the word ‘go.’ [He] was
God’s gift … I know my eyes
will be full of tears by the end
of the night.”
On Monday in front of the
Kodak Theater in Hollywood,
where Jackson’s Walk of Fame
star is located, adoring fans
were still expressing disbelief
while waiting in a long line to
pay their respects.
Some weeped. Others waited
anxiously to lay down gifts and
say a few words, while others still relished the moment
and took photos next to his
star, which was decorated with
flowers, ribbons, and other
mementos — including a bill-
board-like poster featuring
images of Jackson and adorned
with hundreds of signatures.
Kimberly Smith, 13, came to
the site “to pay my respects
to him because he was a very
nice person and did stuff for
the community — and I like his
music.”
Her grandmother, Evelyn
Lara, said she would “miss him
because he was just getting
ready to go on his tour and he
said this would have been his
last tour.” Her daughter is currently overseas and was looking
forward to seeing Jackson in
concert. She had already purchased tickets. Upon hearing the
news, “she called me from Japan
crying,” said Lara. “Saying,
‘He’s not going to make it.’”
Kim Bridges, 32, “was very
disappointed, I was very sad
and shocked” by Jackson’s
death. Even four days after his
passing, her reaction “is still
shock … I can’t believe it, he
was only 50. He was making
his comeback. I can’t believe it.
Michael the greatest.”
Bridges said she clearly
remembers “Michael from
when I was six or seven years
old and ‘Thriller’ came on TV
and nothing else was on,” she
said. “I remember running into
the room saying ‘Mommy —
Michael, Michael!’ He made
an impact on this whole generation. Every song, from ‘Heal
the World’ [to] ‘Man in the
Mirror,’ he made you think in
his songs. He had the best videos. Everyone today mimics
what he did.”
For Kenny Warland, Sunday
night’s BET Awards ceremony,
transformed at the eleventhhour into a Jackson tribute, was
“painful” to watch.
“I don’t ever think there will
be a talent of that magnitude
that we see in at least this lifetime, ever,” said Warland, who,
during a conversation, alternated between speaking about
Jackson in both the past and
present tense. “He’s had such
a great impact. This man has
been doing this since he was six
years old, so his whole life has
been based in entertainment.
He’s had an impact on Usher,
Chris Brown, Justin Timberlake,
Ciara — you name it. It was his
dance and his innovativeness in
his music videos. Everything.”
WAVE PUBLICATIONS
Moments in a Life
Compiled by Pharoh Martin/NNPA
August 29, 1958
Michael Joseph Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.
He is Joseph and Katherine Jackson’s seventh of nine children.
1964
Jackson and brothers
Marlon, Jackie, Tito and
Jermaine form the singing
group the Jackson 5.
1968
The Jackson 5 sign with
Berry Gordy’s Motown Records.
October 7, 1969
The Jackson 5 score their first number-one hit with “I Want You Back.”
January 24, 1972
Jackson releases his first solo album, “Got to Be There.”
June 1975
The Jackson 5 leaves Motown, signs new contract with CBS Records.
October 24, 1978
Jackson makes big screen debut as the Scarecrow in “The Wiz,” where
he first meets legendary producer Quincy Jones during production of the
musical.
1979
Jackson breaks away from his
brothers to go solo, releases
“Off the Wall.”
1980
Wins a Grammy for
Best Vocal Performance with
“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.”
November 30, 1982
Jackson Releases “Thriller,”
the bestselling album of all time
at 109 million sold to date.
March 25, 1983
On the “Motown 25: Yesterday,
Today, Forever” television special,
Jackson debuts his signature dance
move — the moonwalk.
December 2, 1983
Premieres the video for “Thriller,” breaking the racial barrier of
MTV’s reluctance to play Black videos.
January 27, 1984
Suffers second-degree burns to his scalp after pyrotechnics accidentally
set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
February 28, 1984
Jackson wins a
record eight Grammys.
May 14, 1984
Jackson is invited to the
White House to receive an
award from President Reagan
for his work with charities.
‘God gave him a gift,’ says a collaborator
JACKSON from page A1
family to thank fans for their
love and support. “My entire
family wanted to be here
tonight, but it was just too painful,” she told the audience. “To
you, Michael is an icon. To
us, Michael is family and he
will forever live in all of our
hearts.”
As the tragedy of Jackson’s
death began to sink in further,
entertainment industry insiders
who knew, worked with, or were
influenced by Jackson reflected
on his legacy. “He stepped up
and pretty much invented the
[art of] pop videos,” said video
director Life Garland, who has
worked with the likes of Nelly,
Jermaine Dupri and Lil Wayne.
“He was a creative genius.
‘Thriller’ still stands up today
as one of the best videos of all
time.”
Garland added: “I think part
of the reason for that was he
never had a boyhood, and so he
was able to tap into this supersensitive, creative energy. [In a
sense] he was in his own fantasy
world. He had to escape into
his imagination because his life
was under a microscope the
whole time.”
James Ingram, a renowned
soul artist in his own right who
co-wrote “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young
Thing)” from Jackson’s all-conquering 1982 “Thriller” album,
gave The Wave a simpler explanation at last Friday’s opening of the Debbie Allen Dance
Academy in the Crenshaw
District.
“God gave him a gift,” said
Ingram. “When Michael was in
the studio … he was dancing
and singing at the same time
around the mic. I had never seen
anybody dance, maybe I did
a bit of head-bopping myself,
but I was trying to save all
my breath to sing. Michael was
Photo by Bill Jones
James Ingram, who co-wrote “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”
with Jackson (pictured here in the late 1970s with his sister,
Latoya) said the performer was among the few who danced
while recording in the studio.
dancing for real and singing at
the same time. He comes out,
he’s sweating and said ‘James,
am I singing all right?’ I said,
‘Michael, you killed it, you
can sing anyway you want to.’
Man, I loved that brother.”
Allen, who was also a close
friend of the superstar, first
became aware of Jackson’s
death when one of her employees heard the news on the
radio. She immediately placed
a call to choreographer Kenny
Ortega, who was working with
Jackson on a series of 50 concerts scheduled to begin in
London later this month.
“We’re good friends,” she
said. “I asked what was going
on. He said there was no proof,
but Michael was in hospital.
He called me back 30 seconds
later and confirmed the news.”
Shortly thereafter, Allen had
the sad duty of relaying the
news to a woman Jackson
himself had idolized.
“I called Diana Ross in New
York and told her it was true,”
said Allen. “She had to get off
the phone. My phone [was]
ringing off the hook, I had to
shut it off for sometime.” She
later added: “It’s been a heavy
loss … and the hope is that we
all remember time is fleeting
and we have to stay close.”
Bobbi Cowan, a former
Motown publicist who worked
with the late Bob Jones — the
former record label publicrelations boss who wrote a
controversial 2005 tell-all
book about life with Jackson
— recalled both pleasant and
painful memories.
“I met Michael just as he
was preparing his first solo
album away from the rest of his
brothers, and had the pleasure
of introducing him to several
magazine writers for interviews,” said Cowan. “This was
the first time Motown did not
speak for him, and he was in
the process of emerging from a
child performer with his family,
into a creative young person,
writing, producing and coming
into his own persona. My young
daughter, who had a massive
crush on Michael, came with
me once for an interview at
the family compound. Michael
was very sweet to her, and
my daughter, now a grown
woman, cherishes a photo from
that day.”
Cowan added: “Michael’s
later life was terribly bizarre,
and must have been painful.
No wonder he took so much joy
from his own children, and for
helping kids around the world
with his charities. It’s all too
heartbreaking, and Michael left
this world much too soon —
but he was in deep trouble
years ago.”
The tributes also flowed in for
Jackson’s humanitarian work.
“Michael Jackson’s dedication to humanitarian issues,
including helping to raise
untold millions of dollars to
alleviate poverty and hunger,
showed us that he understood
how to use his fame to advocate for equality and freedom
worldwide,” read a statement
from NAACP President and
CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous.
“In the African-American tradition of the great song and dance
men, Michael’s incomparable,
talent and creativity influenced
music, dance and culture for
decades. His love of soul,
rhythm and blues, and rockand-roll, all performed with his
innovative, unique style, captured the hearts and imagination
of generations of fans. Michael
Jackson was a musical artist
rooted in the proud tradition
of Black American music. His
career — from the workingclass neighborhoods of Gary,
Indiana, to the heights of the
entertainment industry — is a
classic example of the American
Dream.”
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March 7, 1985
Releases the benefit song
“We Are the World,” which
features 45 popular singers
such as Stevie Wonder,
Lionel Richie and
Ray Charles.
August 31, 1987
Releases “Bad,” the follow-up album to “Thriller.”
Feburary 10, 1993
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jackson speaks openly for the first
time about childhood abuse by his father.
1993
Michael Jackson is accused of child abuse for the first time.
February 6, 2003
May 2005
British journalist Martin Bashir’s
famously candid interview with
Jackson airs in the U.S.
Controversy ensues after Jackson
admits to letting underage children
sleep with him in his bed.
Jackson is acquitted of seven
counts of sexual molestation.
2008
June 25, 2009
Jackson announces a tour of
50 concerts in London, set for
July 2009.
Jackson dies of cardiac arrest.
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More testing is key to curbing
HIV/AIDS rate among Blacks
BY GEORGE E. CURRY
lacks are more likely than other racial
and ethnic groups to have been tested for
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but will
need to be examined at much higher rates in order
to curb the devastation the epidemic is having on
African-Americans.
That’s the conclusion of a new report by the
Black AIDS Institute titled, “Passing the Test:
The Challenges and Opportunities of HIV Testing
in Black America.” The report was made public
last week to coincide with National HIV Testing
Day (June 27). However, while special observances such as National HIV Testing Day and
World AIDS Day (December 1) are used to rally
the public, attention on HIV/AIDS needs to be
maintained throughout the year.
Although African-Americans represent only 12
percent of the U.S. population, we accounted
for nearly half of all AIDS cases diagnosed in
2006. Black women represented 66 percent of all
new AIDS cases among women. Although Blacks
13-19 years old are only 16 percent of U.S. teenagers, they account for 69 percent of new AIDS
cases. Among men infected, 46 percent were
African-Americans.
More than half of African-Americans know of a
friend or relative who is HIV positive or suffering
from AIDS. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey
found that 38 percent of African-Americans have
experienced a relative suffering from the virus
and 20 percent of Blacks had an acquaintance
or co-worker infected with HIV/AIDS.
According to the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC), 52 percent of Black Americans 18 or older
reported being tested for HIV at least once in his
or her life, compared to 38 percent of Latinos
and 34 percent of Whites. Still, that’s not good
enough.
“Blacks actually need to be tested at much
higher rates to ensure prompt diagnosis,” the
Black AIDS Institute report noted. “Nationwide,
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well over 100,000 Black Americans are currently unaware that they are living with HIV.
In Washington D.C., nearly half of all Blacks
surveyed said they had never taken the test. In
a multi-city survey of young gay and bisexual men, two-thirds of Black men who tested
HIV-positive had previously been unaware they
were infected.”
A major problem is that health care providers
place a disproportionate emphasis on high-risk
groups such as gay or bisexual men and drug
users while failing to recognize that the virus
has permeated all sectors of Black America.
For example, one study in South Carolina, where
African-Americans make up three-fourths of
all people living with HIV, found that if efforts
were concentrated only on high-risk groups, 79
percent of those with HIV would go undetected.
Not only must the entire Black community be
targeted, the key is to test everyone earlier.
Phill Wilson, CEO of the Black AIDS Institute,
stated: “People who are diagnosed late in the
course of HIV infection have a much poorer
prognosis than individuals whose HIV diagnosis
is timelier. In New York City, individuals whose
HIV and AIDS diagnoses occur within 31 days
of one another are twice as likely to die within
four months of diagnosis as people with a nonconcurrent AIDS diagnosis.”
In order to combat HIV/AIDS, we must know
when and how the virus is attacking AfricanAmericans. Among Black men, 63 percent are
infected through male-to-male sex, 20 percent
through heterosexual sex, 12 percent by drug
injections, and 4 percent through a combination of
drug use and having sex with other men.
The pattern is different for Black women,
with 80 percent becoming infected through
heterosexual activity and 20 percent through
drug use.
The Black AIDS Institute report cited four
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ANOTHER VIEW
Thomas’ lonely
crusade against
Black voting rights
BY RON WALTERS
t is worth noting that when the
Supreme Court rendered its most
recent decision on whether to uphold
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in the
Austin Municipal District case, Justice
Clarence Thomas was the only one
to vote against it in the 8-1 decision.
That isolated vote was a monumental
confirmation of many things his opponents
have been saying about his lack of fidelity —
indeed his hostility — to the African-American
civil rights tradition. What makes it so bad was
he was wrong on the basis for his rejection of
the responsibility of the Justice Department to
pre-clear changes in voting procedures
for certain selected states that have historically
practiced
discrimination.
Some aspects of Thomas’ logic as stated in
his dissenting opinion was that: “The extensive
pattern of discrimination that led the Court to
previously uphold Section 5 as enforcing the
Fifteenth Amendment no longer exists. Covered
Jurisdictions are not now engaged in a systematic campaign to deny black citizens access to
the ballot through intimidation and violence.”
As a result, “Punishment for long past sins
is not a legitimate basis for imposing a forward-looking preventative measure that has already served its purpose.”
Clearly, Thomas’ analysis is rooted in a past
notion of what constitutes Black voter disenfranchisement. He declares that the “extensive pattern of discrimination no longer exist” and seems
to define it as that kind of discrimination fostered by widespread “intimidation and violence.”
This may be true, but if Thomas was alive
in 2000 and 2004, he saw an extensive pattern
of Black voter disenfranchisement, not only in
Florida and Ohio, but in other states as well.
The new tactics are based on skillful manipulation of aspects of the voting system. When voter
lists are purged and Black voters disproportionately taken off, the notorious reason in Florida
in 2000 was that they were wrongly perceived
to be felons. Republicans have been known to
practice “vote caging” in Black districts, sending
post cards to find out if they are returned saying
the person registered to vote does not live there.
Black votes are disproportionately spoiled
by voting machines for a host of reasons and
Blacks have also been denied access to provisional ballots in some places. Sufficient voting equipment is often unavailable in Black
districts and officials are often not as helpful.
Then, there are the old problems of boxes of
ballots going missing and police showing up in
Black neighborhoods on election day to intimidate
voters. Yes, the old tactics have declined, but they
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,
whose hostility to the principles of the civil
rights movement is well-documented, cast the
lone dissenting vote in an 8-1 decision to give
Congress an opportunity to preserve a key
tenet of the Voting Rights Act.
have been replaced by more sophisticated tactics
that are no less effective in paring down the Black
vote. If any of these tactics had not been effectively practiced in 2000 and probably 2004, George
Bush would not have been elected President.
True enough, Section 5 of the Voting Rights
Act has served its purpose, but the Republican
party has been consistent in attempting to get
around it by passing voter ID laws in southern states such as Georgia where the Secretary
of State has testified that it would have negative effect on Black voters most of all.
Then, the Bush administration’s Justice
Department failed to enforce Section 5 in many
cases. I validated this when attending a meeting with the Assistant Attorney General for Civil
Rights with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Louisiana
Rep. Cleo fields who objected to his Legislature
changing the date of the New Orleans mayoral
election, shortly after the Katrina Hurricane struck.
After the meeting, he received a letter from
the Civil Rights division saying it routinely had
approved such changes in voting procedure after
they were made — clearly violating Section 5.
In all of this, there is the ring that since the
United States elected an African-American
President, the protection of voting rights based
on the Justice Department monitoring voting procedures is no longer needed, since the
African-American vote performed so decisively.
But, like many other racial dynamics, the election of President Obama will not stop politicians
from attempting to suppress the Black vote as
evidenced in the 15,000 pages compiled by
Congress in its 2006 examination of whether
the Voting Rights Act key provisions were still
necessary. After all, the responsibility to pass appropriate legislation to see that states did not deny a
person the right to vote was given to the Congress
by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
In passing such legislation in 2006
Congress found that it was certainly appropriate, and Justice Thomas should respect that.
Walters is the an NNPA columnist and director of the African-American Leadership Center
at the University of Maryland College Park.
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Hold the apology,
we’ll take 40 acres
BY JAMES CLINGMAN
re Black folks special or what? The U.S.
Senate, perhaps soon to be followed by
the House of Representatives, issued an
apology for the enslavement of Black people in
this country.
Wow! How cool is that? Following a couple
of centuries of enslavement and 145 years after
we were so-called “freed,” we finally receive a
formal apology. Despite Congressman Thaddeus
Stevens’ 1867 resolution for reparations to
Africans in America, we have finally reached the
pinnacle of respect: An apology.
The timing of this apology is obviously suspect.
It comes at a time in our history when we are
constantly being made to believe that everything
is fair now, that relationships between the races
have reached the ideal point of “equality,” and
Black people have nothing more to complain
about when it comes to our progress in this nation.
After all, we have Black president.
In my opinion, apologies are highly overrated,
especially those given to Black people for slavery.
Here’s why: Jews were granted apologies and reparations following WWII. Japanese got apologies
and reparations. Native Americans got apologies
and reparations. And now, Filipino veterans are
scheduled to get “reparations” from the stimulus
package to the tune of $15,000 for residents of the
U.S. and $9,000 for non-residents.
Want a parallel? Check this out: Speaking on
behalf of the stimulus for Filipino soldiers, Sen.
Daniel Inouye said, “It’s a matter of honor and the
good name of the United States.” He noted that in
1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised
the benefits, but Congress reneged on the pledge
in 1946.”
That sounds similar to Gen. William Sherman’s
field orders that called for 40 acres of land to be
given to formerly enslaved Africans, which was
revoked by President Andrew Johnson. That was
in 1865.
Want a more recent example? In 1921, after the
destruction of Black Wall Street in the Greenwood
District of Tulsa, Okla., the president of the local
Chamber of Commerce, released a statement to
the press that contained the following:
“The deplorable event is the greatest wound
Tulsa’s civic pride has ever received … Leading
businessmen are in an hourly conference and a
movement is now being organized … to formulate
a plan of ‘reparation’ in order that homes may be
rebuild [sic] and families as nearly as possible
rehabilitated.”
Nice words, but it never happened, folks. The
latest case taken to the U.S. Supreme Court
for reparations for the survivors of the Tulsa
Riot, petitioned by Harvard Law School Prof.
Charles Ogletree and his team of lawyers, was
turned down by the court. Everybody else gets
reparations; Black folks get apologies. They get
substance; we get symbolism.
Suggestion to the U.S. Senate: Don’t stop with
an apology that does absolutely nothing, in and of
itself, for the economic empowerment of Black
people. If you ask me, it is insulting.
Did it take you hundreds of years to figure
out that slavery was wrong? Did it take that long
for your conscience to be pricked? Did it take
centuries to bring you to this latest point of
contrition? Come on, “gentle-ladies” and gentlemen.
With all of the precedents for reparations for
people who were abused in some form or fash-
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President Andrew Johnson, who routinely
expressed White supremacist views, revoked a
Civil War general’s field order that all freed slaves
be given 40 acres and a mule as compensation.
ion, not only should an apology have been issued
long ago, somebody should have picked up where
the U.S. Congress, during Thaddeus Stevens’
time, left off. Imagine how things would be for
Black people now if someone with a backbone,
someone with a conscience, someone with a moral
and ethical foundation, would have insisted and
acted upon the appropriate response to the aftermath of slavery.
We would not have had the “noneconomic
liberalism” from the so-called do-gooders, the
White liberals who “helped” Black people by
giving us programs, projects, and everything
except those 40 acres promised by Gen. Sherman
— everything except a way for Black people to
become economically empowered. And we would
not have the so-called White conservatives (nor
the Black ones either, I suppose) wringing their
hands and whining about the lack of self-help
and personal responsibility among Black people; and conservatives’ blame-the-victim tirades
would not even be an argument now.
It would have been great if someone would
have just paid Black people, given them some land
and then followed Frederick Douglass’ advice
when he responded to the lingering question of
his time: What to do with the Negro. Douglass
simply said, “Do nothing with us,” leave us alone
and we will make it for ourselves.
He intimated that Black people, without interference, terrorism, racist laws and Black Codes, and
equal opportunity, would be all right; we would
economically empower ourselves by supporting one another and advancing in our individual
fields of endeavor.
We demonstrated that acumen in Tulsa on
Black Wall Street, but angry White folks burned
it down.
Douglass was really on to something, but even
after 250 years of enslavement, Black folks still
suffered under the latest racist act du jour, whether
it was in the form of negative public policy,
private sector exclusion, Klan nightriders, voter
intimidation, criminal injustice, prejudice, and
discrimination.
After all of the trauma, the torture, the maiming,
the lynching, the racism, and exclusion, don’t you
think a mere apology to Black people is way too
little and much too late, that is, unless that apology
is followed by some form of reparations?
Get a clue, U.S. Senate. And you too, House
of Representatives. You can keep your apology.
Where do we sign up for our 40 acres?
Clingman is an NNPA columnist and adjunct
professor of economics at the University of
Cincinnati.
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“There’s a persistent dehumanization of African-Americans
throughout Hollywood that displaces issues of race onto non-human
entities. It’s not about skin color or robot color. It’s about how
their actions and language are coded racially.” — Allyson Nadia
Field, UCLA assistant professor of cinema and media studies, on Skids and Mudflap (pictured) — two robots in the new
“Transformers” sequel that New York Times film critic Manohla
Dargis described as possessing “conspicuously cartoonish, so-called Black voices that indicate
that minstrelsy remains … in fashion in Hollywood.” The film earned more than $200 million
in its first five days of release.
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ments of former President
Kennedy.
That is not to say the opposition rolled over. No longer
able to gum the petition process,
they resorted to stalling tactics
and backbiting.
Hispanic legislators claimed
that Rep. Steve Montenegro,
who sponsored the measure
in the assembly, was not truly
Hispanic because he is Puerto
Rican and not Mexican. No
doubt this must come as a shock
to the Obama Administration.
Judge Sonia “wise Latina”
Sotomayor is being hailed
as potentially the first Hispanic
to sit on the United States
Supreme Court. Sotomayor is
Puerto Rican. The good news
is that thanks to his revelation,
Senate Republicans are now
free to oppose Sotomayor.
Because she is Puerto Rican
and not Mexican, Republicans
need no longer fear losing the
Hispanic vote.
More fascinating were the
words of State Rep. Cloves
Campbell. During testimony
before a legislative committee,
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If discrimination continues,
how do we get beyond race?
ace has no place
in American life
or law.” President
John F. Kennedy spoke these
words the evening of June
11, 1963 following the desegregation of the University of
Alabama. In the speech Kennedy
delivered that evening, he chose
not to appeal to legal arguments;
rather, he asked Americans to
look into their collective hearts
and weigh the moral question
of continued racial discrimination. “The heart of the question,” said Kennedy, “is whether
all Americans are to be afforded
equal rights and equal opportunities.”
This week the Arizona state
legislature answered that question with a resounding, “yes!”
The state legislature cleared the
way to place the Arizona Civil
Rights Initiative or ACRI, on
the Ballot in 2010. ACRI is a
constitutional amendment that
would prevent the state from
discriminating on the basis or
race or sex in the areas of public employment, contracting or
education. The action taken by
the state legislature now makes
it possible for the people of
Arizona to actually decide if
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Campbell insisted that special
preferences (based on race)
would be necessary for years to
come. When asked exactly how
long, he responded, “400 years!”
Thus providing credence to the
growing sense that Campbell
took the small bus to school
and also that a good many supporters of racial preferences
are more interested in exacting
payback then they are in actually realizing equity.
The rationale of Campbell
and others that favor preferences
is that they are needed to ensure
diversity. Racism in America
is systemic, so if left to its
own devices the system will
naturally deny Black people
(and other minorities) access.
As proof, they offer what is
known as disparate representation or disparate impact. In
other words, the fact that a particular minority group is not
statistically represented in any
endeavor or policy at the same
percentage they are of the
population is proof of discrimination, and it is therefore necessary to cook the books as it
were.
The problem, of course, is
that people are not statistics;
they are individuals, and ought
to be judged as such against the
same criteria. The very idea of
disparate group representation
as a rationale for race preferences turns that proposition on
its head as it also does the idea
of equality before the law and
equality of opportunity. It is as
if in answer to Kennedy’s question, supporters of preferences
have said, “Not so fast.”
They must be made to explain
how this nation will ever move
beyond its ugly history of racial
discrimination if we not only
allow but encourage government to discriminate based on
race. They must tell us if they
believe “the rights of every
man are diminished when the
rights of one man are threatened.” Finally they must explain
to the citizens of Arizona (and
the larger American citizenry)
— what could be more important than having a state constitution unequivocally affirm that
it must treat all of its citizens
equally and without regard to
race?
In 1963 Kennedy asked the
country to make a moral decision. In the age of Obama those
that continue to support racial
preferences must do likewise.
They must ground their opposition not in legalese or political
correctness but in the terra firma
of moral correctness. They must
follow the lead of the Arizona
legislature and examine their
consciences and then take the
fist steps toward a truly post
racial society.
Taking a stand
Compton Unified School District Trustee
Satra Zurita speaks to a crowd gathered at the State Capitol on June 24 to
rally against cuts to education funding.
The Sacramento protest was organized
by SEIU Local 99, which represents
cafeteria workers, custodians, bus drivers and classroom aides.
Photo by Deborah Tracey
Senators differ on legislators’ pay reduction
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added. “And if I were to donate
part of my salary, there are a
lot of places in my district I’d
give it to rather than pretend
to give it back to the state. I’ll
pick my own recipient of my
money. I take exception when
people try to pick one for me.”
I asked Wright how he felt
being part of a minuscule
minority on this issue. He
replied: “I have never been
much of a follower. If all the
senators jumped into the river,
would I be expected to do so
as well?” he asked. I answered:
“Yes. And if you didn’t I’d be
standing on the bank asking you
why you’re not swimming in
the river with the rest of them.”
One of those swimming in
the river is Sen. Curren Price,
who was sworn into his 26th
District seat last month. Price
has agreed to take the $5,800
salary cut as well as continue
giving and raising money
for groups in his district.
“For example, you might
remember,” Price said Monday,
“I did not have a victory party
after winning the Senate seat.
Instead, I gave $5,000 to
California State Senate
State Sen. Curren Price, left, says he agreed to a voluntary
five percent salary cut because the state is in “tough economic times and the majority of my constituents are feeling
the pinch.” His colleague, Sen. Roderick Wright (right, taking
the oath of office in December) kept his pay intact because
“I made a personal decision about the handling of my money
and I don’t make those decisions for political advantage.”
community groups in my
district because that was
something I chose to do.”
The senator said he also
chose to give up five percent
of his salary because “it was
the appropriate thing to do
toward making a token effort
to show some solidarity with
the people. Extraordinary times
call for extraordinary efforts.”
“These are tough economic
times and the majority of my
constituents are feeling the
pinch. Most of my residents have
seen their home values fall and
their pay decline and in many
working families, primary wage
earners have lost their jobs,”
Price continued. “Now is a time
for financial sacrifice and saving and I will do my part to
keep faith with my constituents.”
Price said the reduction in
senators’ pay, which has already
taken effect, was only one of
several actions undertaken
to balance the budget. “We’re
reducing expenses across the
board. The salaries of Senate
staff members were cut five percent through a one-day-a-month
furlough and their benefits
have been reduced,” Price said.
The senator said the Citizens
Compensation Commission,
whose only job is to set the
salaries and fringe benefits for
state elected officials, is proposing to cut the legislators’ salary by 18 percent for the next
term. “They are also looking at
our state automobiles and our
medical benefits,” Price said.
I asked Price if he could
live on only $110,200 a year.
“I think I can manage,” he
said. “After all, most people in
California live on a lot less.”
L.A.-based organization urges more testing
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major reasons the epidemic
has not been halted in Black
America:
• The stigma associated with
being HIV positive;
• The failure of many physicians to include HIV screening as part of routine medical
exams;
• A requirement by some
states that a person must provide
written consent before being
tested for the virus and
• The failure to increase
testing rates though effective
marketing efforts.
Among the report’s recommendations:
• The establishment of community-based testing coalitions;
• Having African-Americans
discuss HIV/AIDS more openly
• Seeing national leaders
include HIV/AIDS are part of
their priorities
• Development of a national
AIDS strategy
• Congressional passage of the
Routine HIV/AIDS Screening
Coverage Act, the Stop AIDS
in Prison Act and the National
Black Clergy for the Elimination
of HIV/AIDS Act
• Providing adequate treatment for people who are HIV
positive
• Instituting an anti-stigma
campaign
• Having insurers reimburse
health care operatives for HIV
testing.
Wilson said many of the
objections to being tested for
HIV have been removed.
“There are agencies offering
free HIV tests in nearly every
city in America,” he said. “HIV
tests are painless. The most
common form of HIV testing
today uses an oral swab — no
more blood or needles. The days
of waiting a week to get your
results are over. With the rapid
tests, you can get your results
back in less than an hour.”
Curry is an NNPA columnist and former editor-in-chief
of Emerge magazine and the
NNPA News Service.
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RESCUE INITIATIVE NEEDED — The state of California
is rapidly approaching the point where it can no longer provide
a public education for its children. Owing to the state’s dismal fiscal
condition, the Los Angeles Unified School District passed a terrible
budget last week that will entail laying off teachers, foregoing purchasing textbooks and other learning materials, increasing class sizes,
eliminating summer school and full-day kindergarten and curtailing
other educational services, which are the very stuff of schools. Yet,
during that same week, the LAUSD broke ground for the construction
of another new school — Central Region High School No. 16 located
at 54th and San Pedro streets! What’s wrong with this picture?
For more than 10 years now, the LAUSD has been on a frenzy
invoking its eminent domain powers to displace residents and
businesses from their neighborhoods so it could build all manner
of fancy new state-of-the-art schools on every piece of land it saw
— never mind that the district’s school-age population has been
dwindling all the while. Last week’s dual LAUSD acts are an
obscenity because we’re facing a situation where we can have
more schools than we have teachers!
What is the point in building new schools when we won’t have
teachers to teach in them, students to go to them, textbooks and
materials to use in them and educational services to provide in them?
The LAUSD has $20.1 billion (yeah, billion) in its New School
Construction and Modernization Program for new schools, but it has
virtually no funds to educate children in them. Why do we need to
pass a “parcel tax” to pay teachers? Why can’t some of that construction money be used to buy teachers and counselors and nurses and a
decent education for our children in the schools we already have?
I asked these questions of people who are supposed to know, and
they said: “School construction funds are bond money (from measures BB, K, R and Y) passed by the electorate through the initiative
process for the sole purpose of building and repairing school facilities
and they cannot be used for anything else.” I asked: Why not? I was
told: “The initiatives that created the bond measures were worded that
way and that’s what the people voted for and enacted into law.”
I asked: Can we, the people, change our mind? Can we say we
need teachers and educational programs now more than we need
new schools and can we, therefore, divert some bond money to
where it’s needed most? I was told: “Yes. The people can do
anything they want.” Whoa! I then asked: How do we do it?
I was told: “Through the same process that created the bond measures
in the first place. You need to write a carefully constructed initiative
that, in dire financial circumstances such as these facing school districts today, would allow school construction bond funds to be used
to pay teachers and deliver educational services. Then get enough
people to sign it so it can go on the ballot and then campaign to get
the people to vote it into law. That sounds like a long, hard process,
but people do it all the time.”
People who know how to write ballot initiatives need to get
together and get busy and start crafting this one post haste, because
it is an abomination before God for us to be building schools and
laying off teachers and delivering a rank, regressive, substandard,
20th century education product to our 21st century kids while we
have our hands on $20.1 billion! Shame on us!
IT’S A FLOOR FIGHT! — Rep. Maxine Waters got into a
shouting and shoving match with House Appropriations Committee
Chairman Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.) June 25 over Obey’s refusal to
appropriate $1 million to the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation
Center, at 10925 S. Central Ave. A dispute broke about between the
two on the House floor when Waters questioned Obey about his failure to allow the funding and he bellowed at her: “I’m not going to
approve that earmark!” Obey, who is attempting to ban “monuments
to me” in funding project requests, angrily told Waters: “I am not
going to fund your request because you are attempting to circumvent
my rule not to fund any project named after a member.”
In seeking to explain the altercation and to rally her colleagues’
support for the center’s funding, Waters argued that the funding
would serve an official program in the poorest part of her district
— and the nation — and that the center was named for her before
she got to Congress. Waters wrote her colleagues: “At a time when
unemployment in California and nationally is at record highs, and the
recession is more like a depression for the Black and Latino residents
of Watts, it seems we would want to fund and support a successful
program like the center, which is a national model for employment
training opportunities.” She said she told Obey it was unfair to fund
private, affluent schools and other groups while denying a successful
program serving an impoverished community. She said Obey became
angry with her and shouted that he didn’t care about her plea and
would not fund her request “and an angry exchange ensured between
us.” Thus, the shouting and the shoving.
AT THE COUNTY LEVEL — Acting on a motion by
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas last week, the Board of
Supervisors called for lowering the two-thirds majority requirement
for the Legislature to pass the state budget — a requirement that has
caused California’s annual budget morass for as long as anyone can
remember. Ridley-Thomas’ motion, approved on a 3-2 vote, instructs
the county chief executive officer to work with the county’s lobbyists
in Sacramento to reduce the threshold, a change that would require
voters to amend the state Constitution.
The Board of Supervisors also supported Ridley-Thomas’
motion to uphold the county Regional Planning Commission’s denial
of a conditional use permit for a wireless telecommunications facility
on the rooftop of a CVS drugstore in the Windsor Hills area, an issue
of significant concern which embroiled more than 700 affected
residents in a year-long fight against the proposed erection of a
T-Mobile tower in their midst. Score one for the people. That was
the first victory for 2nd District county residents in 16 years.
THIS AND THAT — The newly seated state Sen. Curren Price
has been appointed to serve on three of the Senate’s most powerful committees: Appropriations, Governmental Organization, and
Banking and Finance and Insurance. … Lt. Gov. John Garamendi
received the enthusiastic endorsement of the SEIU California
State Council this week for his bid for 10th District congressman.
Garamendi was running for governor until President Barack Obama
tapped 10th District Rep. Ellen Tauscher for a State Department post
in April. Since Tauscher’s seat is now vacant, Garamendi is seeking to
fill it in an upcoming special election. The 10th District extends from
San Francisco’s East Bay area to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES), located in
school board member Marguerite LaMotte’s 1st District, has been
named by Newsweek magazine 44th among the nation’s top
50 public high schools. Over the years, LACES has received
numerous honors and distinctions as both a National Blue Ribbon
School and a California Distinguished School. Needless to say, it
has a student wait list that stretches from here to Mars.
The students, staff and parents of 186th St. Elementary School
in Harbor Gateway recently joined Rep. Waters, Councilwoman
Janice Hahn and the International Children’s Choir in launching
the “Colors of Love and Peace” children’s book, a 40-page
publication containing student-created artwork and messages to promote love, peace and healing to children in hospitals around
the world. The book features a foreword written by the Dalai Lama,
who was inspired by the students’ art projects. He called it a “bright,
cheerful and practical expression of concern for others.”
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Michael Jackson’s will, signed in 2002, indicates that it
“intentionally omitted” ex-wife Debbie Rowe (right), who bore
two of Jackson’s three children.
Legal action begins
over Jackson estate
A will signed by Michael Jackson in 2002 was filed in Los
Angeles Superior Court Wednesday, specifying that he wanted his
mother to be the guardian of his three children, but if she were to die
before him, he asked that singer Diana Ross be appointed.
Despite the filing of the will, which designated an attorney and
music-industry executive as executors of the will and estate, a
Los Angeles judge ruled today that Jackson’s mother will remain
the special administrator of the singer’s estate pending another
hearing Monday.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff said he saw
no urgency to remove Katherine Jackson for now, and said he wanted
to see if additional wills are filed between now and Monday.
Beckloff said he named Katherine Jackson special administrator three days ago in large part to protect her son’s memorabilia,
which recently was the subject of an attempted auction and a lawsuit
before the dispute was settled out of court.
During today’s hearing, Beckloff said the Jackson case was not
an ordinary probate matter.
“I think we have a unique case here because the world knows
that Michael Jackson has died,” Beckloff said. “Clearly we are dealing
with an international star.”
The will names attorney John Branca and music executive John
McClain as executors. Through their attorney, Paul G. Hoffman,
they sought to have Monday’s order naming Jackson’s mother
special administrator vacated, saying it was based on the false assumption the entertainer had no will.
“There is a fundamental problem with that order,” Hoffman argued.
According to the five-page will and a series of probate documents
filed with it, Jackson’s estate is believed to be worth more than
$500 million. The singer, who died June 25 at age 50, left his holdings
to the Michael Jackson Family Trust, and he named his mother and
children as beneficiaries.
The will was signed by Jackson on July 7, 2002. In it, he names
Branca, McClain and his accountant, Barry Siegel, as executors.
In a letter dated Aug. 26, 2003, however, Siegel resigned as a co-executor of the will.
In the will, Jackson specifically leaves his former wife, Deborah
Rowe, out of any inheritance.
“I have intentionally omitted to provide for my former wife,
Deborah Jean Rowe Jackson,” the will states.
In a statement, Branca and McClain said the most critical part
of the will is his desire that his mother become the guardian of
his children.
“As we work to carry out Michael’s instructions to safeguard
both the future of his children as well as the remarkable legacy he left
us as an artist we ask that all matters involving his estate be handled
with the dignity and the respect that Michael and his family deserve,”
they said.
On Monday, Beckloff granted temporary custody of the children
— Prince Michael Jr., 12; Paris Michael Katherine, 11; and Prince
Michael II, 7 — to Jackson’s 79-year-old mother.
Court papers filed on behalf of Katherine Jackson indicated that
the family’s lawyers were unaware of the existence of a will, but they
said it was possible that someone will emerge claiming to have one.
That happened Tuesday when the 2002 will was turned over to the
Jackson family.
Funeral arrangements for Jackson still have not been announced.
Rumors circulated Tuesday that Jackson’s body would be transported
to Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara County, with public and private
memorial services planned over the weekend.
But in a statement issued by the family’s newly hired spokesman
— New York public relations executive Ken Sunshine — the Jacksons
said “there will be no public or private viewing at Neverland. Plans
are under way regarding a public memorial for Michael Jackson, and
we will announce those plans shortly.”
The Los Angeles Times quoted an unnamed source saying a
memorial might be held at Staples Center, where Jackson had been
rehearsing for his London concerts.
Meanwhile, a London woman who had earlier claimed to be the
mother of Jackson’s three children filed 93 pages of court documents claiming that she was still married to the singer. Nona Jackson
had sought multiple times in 2007 to have a say in the custody/visitation agreement between Jackson and Rowe, but she was rebuffed
each time.
In her papers filed today, Nona Jackson maintains that she married the singer in 1970, when he was 12 years old. She asks that “all
my husband’s properties, monies and assets must be transferred to me
immediately.”
She also requests that Jackson’s body be returned to the coroner’s
office.
Nona Jackson states that the entertainer’s three children are hers
and that their skin color is fair because she is “originally of white skin
color, a white Jew and Saudi Arabian mix.”
The woman asserts that she and Jackson took prescription drugs
because they needed them. She also says they both “had detox
regularly and at no time did he ever order anyone to pump his
stomach,” contradicting an assertion made by the former nanny of
Jackson’s children.
A hearing on her petition is scheduled for Aug. 19.
Seeing double — and triple — on the red carpet
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andy and Maya McLean, otherwise known professionally as Prince
backup singers/dancers The Twinz,
are becoming a more frequent sight on
the Hollywood social scene. The Australia
natives appeared in last year’s film comedy “Surfer Dude.” Other celebs going
before our cameras (clockwise from top
center): actor Gary Sturgis (second from
left, next seen in the comedy “Chicago
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Pulaski Jones”) brought his family to an
L.A. bookstore to celebrate the release of
the book “Saving Our Daughters: From
a Man’s Point of View, Vol. 1”; actress
Nia Long (who contributed to “Saving
Our Daughters” and will voice a character
in the pilot episode of the animated Fox
series “The Cleveland Show”) at the book
event; former B2K singer-turned solo artist
Raz B; Shanica Knowles, who co-stars in
Compiled by
Marisela Santana
MUSIC
■ Ne-Yo
Since penning the hit “Let Me Love You”
for singer Mario, the multiplatinum-selling artist has carved out a remarkably
prolific career as both a songwriter and
chart-topper in his own right. Opening
act: Keri Hilson. July 2. San Manuel
Indian Bingo and Casino, 5797 Victoria
Ave., Highland. (800) 359-2464
■ LMFAO
As they are the forces behind the infectious “I’m In Miami Trick,” good luck
getting into this record release party for the
band’s second LP, “Party Rock.” July 7.
Roxy Theatre, 9009 Sunset Blvd., West
Hollywood. (310) 278-9457
■ Ivy Queen
Puerto Rico’s undisputed Reina del Reggaeton
performs in support of her seventh studio album,
“Drama Queen,” to be released in the fall. July
10. The Conga Room, 800 W. Olympic Blvd.,
Los Angeles. (213) 749-0445
■ Beyoncé
Still filling arenas on the 2009 “I Am…
Sasha Fierce” tour, Ms. Knowles remains
one of the true forces of nature in pop music
today. July 11. Honda Center, 2695 E.
Katella Ave., Anaheim. (714) 704-2400
STAGE
■ Coming Home
Playwright Athol Fugard, hailed by Time magazine
as “the greatest active playwright in the Englishspeaking world,” will attend the July 12 matinee of
his newest play, about the love of a mother for her
child in contemporary South Africa. July 12.
The Fountain Theatre, 5060 Fountain Ave.,
Los Angeles. (323) 663-1525
■ Crowns
Winner of four Helen Hayes awards including Best
Regional Musical, Regina Taylor’s play explores the lives
of the “hat queens,” six women in the South whose stories
of love, loss, identity and sisterhood are woven into the hats
that crown their heads and the songs that speak their truth.
Stars Sharon Catherine Blanks, Vanessa Bell Calloway,
Clinton Derricks-Carroll and Paula Kelly. July 12 through August 16.
Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena. (323) 964-9766
“Hannah Montana”; actresses Anna Maria
Horsford, Janet DuBois and Florence
Henderson at the Mablean Ephriam
Foundation’s annual Honoring UnSung
Fathers awards; “American Idol” contestant
Jasmine Murray; musician Tony Rich and
date Brooke Demmerelle; and singer Kelly
Price (center left) posing with popular
“Divorce Court” television judge Mablean
Ephriam at the H.U.F. gala.
VISUAL
■ Sebastião Salgado: Africa
Renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado
is considered to be one of the world’s most
important photographers working today. He
has photographed Africa since the beginning
of his career in 1973. His current exhibition focuses on images of Africa’s most
pristine ecosystems, wild species, remote
tribes and their traditional ways of living. Salgado aims to create “the pure and virginal face of nature and of humanity.” July 2 through September 19.
Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. (310) 453-6463
■ Tuskegee Airmen: The Journey to Fligh
The overarching story of the Tuskegee Airmen has
been told on film and in countless publications including how it began: On October 15, 1939 Frederick D.
Patterson, President of Tuskegee Institute received a
letter from the Civil Aeronautics Authority designating
the school as the lynchpin of a new Negro civilian pilot
training program. This was a precursor to the establishment of the program
that produced the pilots, ground crew and training staff that contributed to the
success of the Tuskegee Airmen. July 2 through November 1. California
African American Museum, 600 State Drive, Los Angeles. (213) 744-7432
FOR THE KIDS
■ Science in Toyland
Playing and doing are the ways that children discover
new things, expand their imagination, and practice
what they learn. This exhibit combines toys and
games to foster excitement and interest in learning
about science. In an age of electronic games, children
and parents can rediscover classic toys by learning
how to make tops spin longer, how to build strong buildings, and why sailboats can
travel into the wind. This collection of interactive elements challenges children to
investigate basic scientific principles for themselves. July 2 through August 30.
California Science Center 700 Exposition Park, Los Angeles. (213) 744-2019
SAVE THE DATE
■ Long Beach Jazz Festival
The legendary music festival is celebrating
22 years of great music and remains one
of Southern California’s premier events.
Themed, The Ultimate Summer Groove,
this year’s line-up features David Sanborn,
Ledisi, Leela James, Hiroshima, Steve
Cole, Paul Brown & Marc Antoine, Al
William Jazz Society featuring Barbara Morrison, Jazz Attack featuring Rick
Braun, Jonathan Butler & Richard Elliot, Angie Stone, Ramsey Lewis, Les
McCann Swiss Movement with Javon Jackson, Brian Bloomberg, Clarence
McDonald, Norman Brown, Patti Austin, Eric Darius, Gail Johnson and
Eldredge Jackson. There will be a special tribute to Wayman Tisdale. August
7-9. Rainbow Lagoon, 403 Shoreline Drive, Long Beach. (562) 424-0013
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VILLA HEADS TEAM
Three-time Olympian and
team captain Brenda Villa, a
Bell Gardens High School and
Commerce Aquatics Club product, is part of the 14-player
national women’s senior water
polo team that represents the
United States at the FINA World
Championships in Rome this
summer.
Villa, a former college star
at Stanford, is joined by threetime Olympian Heather Petri, as
well as 2008 Olympians Moriah
van Norman, Betsey Armstrong,
Kami Craig, Alison Gregorka,
Brittany Hayes, Jaime Komer,
Jessica Steffens, Lauren Wenger
and Elsie Windes.
The World Championships
begin July 19.
MAGALLANES NAMED
Bell High School graduate
Ever Magallanes, manager of
the Chicago White Sox Double-A
Birmingham Barons, will manage
the South Division team in the
Southern League all-star game
July 13. He has also been named
a coach for the world team in the
Major League Baseball Futures
Game July 12 at Busch Stadium
in St. Louis.
“I am incredibly honored,”
Magallanes said of both assignments. “It doesn’t happen every
day that you’re able to coach
in the Futures Game and then
come back the next night and be
the manager in an all-star game.
I have been blessed.”
Magallanes had a long minor
league playing career with several organizations and briefly made
it to the big leagues, playing
three games at shortstop for the
Cleveland Indians in 1991.
USA MINI-CAMP
Lakers forward Trevor Ariza
(Westchester High School) and
Oklahoma City Thunder guard
Russell Westbrook (Leuzinger)
are among the 25 rising young
NBA players who have accepted
invitations to take part in the
USA Basketball men’s national
team mini-camp July 22-25 in
Las Vegas.
The mini-camp will be capped
by the USA Basketball Showcase,
an intersquad game, at 8 p.m.
July 25 at UNLV’s Thomas &
Mack Center.
Ariza (one year) and Westbrook
(two) both played at UCLA.
BIG RELIEF
Isaac Morales, the former
South Gate High School and Cal
State L.A. star, got his professional baseball career off to a
promising start last week.
Selected on the 34th round
by the Florida Marlins in Major
League Baseball’s first-year player draft in June, Morales struck
out five, walked one and allowed
one hit in two innings of relief
in his debut for the Marlins Gulf
Coast League (rookie) team.
The left-handed pitcher registered a school-record 24 wins
against just eight losses during
his four-year career at Cal State
L.A.
Darrick Hale, a former Downey
High School, Compton College
and Cal State L.A. standout, is
currently playing for the Chico
Outlaws in the independent
Golden Baseball League.
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B r i e f s
USA TRACK
Current USC freshman Duane
Walker, a Compton High School
grad, and former Trojan Lionel
Larry, a Dominguez product,
have qualified for the U.S. junior
national track and field team that
will compete at the IAAF World
Junior Championships in Trinidad
this month.
Walker and fellow USC freshman Aareon Payne made the
national team as members of the
relay pool. Walker’s fourth-place
finish in the NCAA Championship
400 earned him an automatic
berth.
Walker also placed third in
the 400 intermediate hurdles
in 51.42 to qualify as an alternate.
Larry has qualified in the 400
and the 4 by 400 relay based
on his performances at the USA
Championships in Eugene, Ore.
The top three finishers automatically qualify for the U.S.
team and despite a fourth-place
finish by Larry in the 400 in
45.40, he moves on as thirdplace finisher Kerron Clement
automatically qualified in the
400 intermediate hurdles and
will not run the 400. Larry is also
part of the relay pool.
WAVE PUBLICATIONS
NBA draft: Compton
natives go high
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Photo by Ron Guild
King-Drew Medical Magnet High School first baseman Shannon Colquitt, who led the nation with
27 home runs, is the Wave Newspapers Softball Player of the Year.
Home run king
Prep softball: Colquit
Wave Player of Year
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
To look at her numbers this
year, it’s difficult to fathom
King-Drew Medical Magnet
High School softball star Shannon Colquitt having difficulty
making contact with the ball.
But that, indeed, was the case
at one time for the senior first
baseman, who had a season for
the ages for the Golden Eagles
this spring.
Her 27 home runs and 1.735
slugging average led the nation’s
preps and her 69 RBIs were third
nationally. She led the state of
California in all three categories,
the home run total a single-season record.
Even with those power numbers, Colquitt rarely struck out,
fanning only seven times in 95
plate appearances.
But as King-Drew coach Chay
Robinson noted of the Wave
Newspapers Player of the Year,
it wasn’t always that way.
“She’s come a long way,”
Robinson said of the four-year
starter. “When she got here, she
couldn’t hold on to the ball or
hit the ball. But through hard
work and determination, she has
improved. Now, she has a good
glove and a good bat.”
Robinson, the Wave Newspapers Coach of the Year for leading the Golden Eagles to a 20-4
record and the Coliseum League
title in their first year in the
league, cited a number of factors
in the improvement of the lefthand hitting slugger, who will
be continuing her softball career
along with King-Drew shortstop
Nicolette Anderson at Texas
Southern University.
“She works hard all the time
to improve, she works with a
hitting coach and plays travel
ball,” Robinson said. “All of that
helps.”
A year ago, she was on a similar homer pace, but tailed off the
second half of the season and
finished with 12.
This year, the power was on
from beginning to end.
Still, Colquitt falls into bad
habits at the plate from time to
time, according to the coach.
“She’ll get into those bad
habits where she’ll dip her bat,”
Robinson said. “I have to remind
her to keep her hands high. She
just wants to hit the ball. She’s
so hungry to do it.”
Defensively, Colquitt is solid
as well.
“She wants to field every ball,
to catch every ball,” Robinson
said.
Anderson, who batted .609
and hit 13 homers with 52 RBIs,
anchored the left side of the infield and shared team MVP honors with Colquitt.
Robinson raves about Anderson, as well.
“She has no limits,” the coach
said. “She will dive for the ball
and get dirty. She loves the game
and is a great leader. She helps
all the girls on the team.
“Those two are my dynamic
duo.”
Robinson, who led the team
to three consecutive Crosstown
League titles, was not surprised
by the team’s ability to unseat
perennial champion Crenshaw
in the Coliseum League this
spring.
“These girls have been together for quite a while, so I
told them this was their year,”
Robinson said. “They did what I
thought they should have done.”
Profiles of all-area players
FIRST TEAM
OF-CYNTHIA QUIROZ
(HAWTHORNE), SOPH.
She batted .529 with five home
runs, two triples, 10 doubles and
35 RBIs for the Ocean League’s
second-place team. Quiroz was
an all-league pick.
IF-JACKIE DELGADO
(HAWTHORNE), JR.
Delgado batted .486 with eight
home runs, eight doubles, a triple and 38 RBIs. She was an AllOcean League selection.
IF-ALIA WILLIAMS
(CRENSHAW), SR.
Two-time Wave Player of the
Year and the state’s all-time
career home run leader with 53
capped a fabulous career by hitting .692 with 16 home runs, a
triple, 15 doubles and 59 RBIs.
IF-SHANNON COLQUITT
(KING-DREW), SR.
The national leader in home runs
with 27 also collected eight triples, scored 47 runs and had 69
RBIs for the Coliseum League
champions. The senior first baseman batted .615.
IF-NICOLETTE ANDERSON
(KING-DREW), SR.
The senior shortstop batted .609
with 13 home runs, two triples,
15 doubles and 52 RBIs.
IF-BRITTNEI PRICE
(CRENSHAW), SR.
The Cougars second baseman
batted .615 with 11 home runs,
four triples, seven doubles and
38 RBIs.
IF-LEESA HARRIS
(WESTCHESTER), JR.
The All-City selection batted
.589 with four triples, six doubles, 58 runs and 77 stolen bases
for the Western League champi-
ons.
C-BRITTANY MOEAI
(CARSON), FR.
Moeai earned Marine League comost outstanding player honors
after hitting .458 with two home
runs, five doubles, seven triples
and 37 RBIs for the Colts.
P-JESSICA LOZANO
(BANNING), SR.
Lozano pitched the Pilots to the
City title game with a 23-11 record and 1.23 ERA. In 222 innings, she had 276 strikeouts
and 43 walks.
P-CRYSTAL MAAS
(CARSON), FR.
Maas was 15-7 with a 1.40 ERA
and struck out 148 in 125 innings. The freshman also batted .319 with six homers, three
triples, a double and 30 RBIs.
BREEA JAMERSON
(WESTCHESTER), JR.
The Western League’s pitcher of
the year led the Comets to the
league title and a 22-6 record.
UT-LOREN WILLIAMS
(CRENSHAW), JR.
A natural shortstop, Williams
was forced to pitch this year. She
did a creditable job in the circle
with a 9-7 mark and 3.36 ERA.
She batted .582 with six home
runs, four triples, seven doubles,
30 RBIs and 27 stolen bases.
SECOND TEAM
OF-LIDIA ASTORGA
(FREMONT), JR.
Astorga helped the Pathfinders place third in the Coliseum
League by batting .436 with
three homers, a triple, two doubles and 22 RBIs.
IF-VANESSA CORRAL
(CARSON), JR.
The junior first baseman hit .452
with four home runs, three triples, four doubles and 26 RBIs.
IF-ERIN ANDERSON
(DOMINGUEZ), SR.
The state’s fifth-leading hitter
batted .683 (41 for 60) with seven home runs, two triples, nine
doubles and 33 RBIs.
IF-CHRISTINA CHAVEZ
(BANNING), SR.
The Marine League’s co-most
outstanding player batted .384
with six doubles, a triple and 18
RBIs for the City runner-up.
C-ANA SAENZ
(FREMONT), JR.
The junior catcher hit .564 with
seven homers, three triples, seven doubles and 32 RBIs.
C-STEPHANIE AGUIRRE
(BANNING), SR.
The senior catcher batted .452
with two homers, three doubles,
three triples and 11 RBIs.
C-KELLY TAMAYO
(INGLEWOOD), JR.
The All-Ocean League catcher
batted .488 with two homers,
three triples, four doubles and
18 RBIs for the Sentinels.
P-TIFFANY COCKRELL
(KING-DREW), SOPH.
The 10th grader went 20-4 with a
1.90 ERA for the league champs.
She batted .455 with 10 RBIs.
P-SHAWNAE CAMPBELL
(LAWNDALE), SR.
Although Lawndale placed fifth
in the Pioneer League, Campbell
managed to go 11-10 with 3.23
ERA. In 130 innings, she struck
out 212 and walked 34. The allleague pick batted .293 with two
triples, three doubles and 18
RBIs.
There was some irony in the
fact Compton natives DeMar
DeRozan, the classic one-anddone, and Brandon Jennings,
who took the less traditional
approach, went ninth and 10th
overall during last Thursday’s
NBA draft in New York.
Shooting guard DeRozan, the
Compton High School graduate
who bolted USC after just one
season, went ninth to the Toronto Raptors.
Point guard Jennings, who
spent two years at Dominguez
High and two at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia before completely skipping college and playing a
year of professional ball in Italy,
was taken next by the Milwaukee Bucks.
If they have anything else in
common besides their Compton
roots it would be their extraordinary athleticism, which NBA
scouts felt was enough to overcome the relative lack of basketball experience.
The 6-foot-7 DeRozan has
drawn comparisons to another
superior NBA athlete, Vince
Carter, who was traded from the
New Jersey Nets to the Orlando
Magic on draft day.
“It’s great to be compared with
Vince Carter, but at the end of the
day, I’m just DeMar DeRozan,”
he said during a news conference
on draft day.
So how does he assess his
game?
“I’m one of those players who
plays both ends of the floor, the
offensive end and the defensive
end,” he said. “Right now, I’m
not half as good as I want to be.
I want to get in there and work
on every aspect of my game and
polish it as much as possible.”
He’s not all that worried about
the transition from the West to
East Coast, either.
“It’s no problem, I’m not
worried,” he said. “I was excited about the city just walking
through the airport. I’ve just got
to get some bigger coats.”
DeRozan leaves USC as it faces an NCAA investigation and
breaks in a new coach (Kevin
O’Neill). He had praise for the
Trojans’ outgoing coach.
“Tim Floyd was a great coach
for me,” he said. “I appreciate
everything coach Floyd did for
me. I wish the best for the university and Tim Floyd.”
The 6-foot-1 Jennings certainly took the road less traveled on
his path to the NBA.
During last week’s news conference, he discussed that decision to skip college, altogether.
“I was waiting for my SAT
scores, which I never did get
back,” he said. “I had to make a
decision, which was to go overseas. I don’t regret it at all. It was
the best decision I could make
and I think it will pay off at the
end of the day.”
After averaging 35.5 points
per game and earning Parade
magazine national player of the
year honors as a senior at Oak
Hill, Jennings played in a reserve
role in Italy, averaging 6.3 points
in 17 minutes per game for Lotomatica Virtus Roma.
Though his shooting percentage fell off and he was often
playing out of position, Jennings
felt he benefitted from the higher
level of competition.
“I had to mature fast because
I was around grown men,” he
said. “Nobody was going to kiss
my butt and say everything was
okay. I had to earn my playing
time.”
It’s why he doesn’t have a sense
of entitlement as far as playing
time with the Bucs goes.
“No, I don’t expect to come in
and just start,” he said. “I have
to come in and earn my position.
It’s up to me. I have to work for
it.”
Nor is he concerned about the
slower pace of Milwaukee.
“When I got to Milwaukee, I
heard bad stuff about it, how it
such a boring town,” he said.
“But, it’s not a bad town, it’s just
laid-back. Now I get to go to a
Green Bay Packers game. I can’t
wait for that.”
What does Jennings feel he
brings to the club?
“I like to get up and down the
court,” he said. “I’m looking
forward to getting into the open
floor and getting the ball to Michael Redd and Charlie (Villanueva).”
It was pointed out, he has a
good tutor in coach Scott Skiles,
a former NBA point guard who
holds the league single-game assist record.
“He was one of the best point
guards in the league,” he said.
“I think I can learn a lot from
him.”
Star power
Pau Gasol of the NBA champion Lakers signs autographs for youngsters during a recent visit to Edison
Middle School in South L.A. Gasol toured the campus,
saw student performances in various sports, music and
dance programs and answered questions. The students
are members of the After-School All-Stars, a program
that serves low-income youth in at-risk communities of
L.A. County.
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File No. 20090792852
1. Certified Limo, 2. Certified Limousine, 3.
Cirtified Medical Transport, 4717 Don Lorenzo
Dr. Suite #8, Los Angeles, CA 90008, County of
Los Angeles
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number:
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Wilshire Transportation, Inc., California, 4717 Don
Lorenzo Dr. Suite #8, Los Angeles, CA 90008
This business is conducted by a Corporation
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on N/A.
I declare that all information in this statement is
true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true
information which he or she knows to be false is
guilty of a crime.)
Wilshire Transportation, Inc.
S/ Endalkchew Tessema, President
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 28, 2009
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).
New Filings
6/18, 6/25, 7/2, 7/9/09
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090740041
Bayfols Media Productions, 924 S. Carondelet
Street, #403, Los Angeles, CA 90006, County
of Los Angeles
Akende, Sunday Adebayo, 924 S. Carondelet
Street, #403, Los Angeles, CA 90006
above on n/a
guilty of a crime.)
S/ Akende Sunday Adebayo
Original
6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2/09
WWA-1617745#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090728632
1. Half Price Intimate Aparrel, 2. Half Price
Lingerie, 4207 Sutro Ave., Apt. 1, Los Angeles,
CA 90008, County of Los Angeles.
Elvridge Williams, 4207 Sutro Ave., Apt. 1, Los
Angeles, CA 90008.
This business is conducted by an individual.
above on N/A.
guilty of a crime.)
S/ Elvridge Williams, Owner
Los Angeles on May 18, 2009.
Original
6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2/09
WWA-1617051#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090732590
Erandys and Sister Human Hair, 1535 W. 69th
St., Los Angeles, CA 90047, County of Los
Angeles
Scarlys Cisneros N., 1535 W. 69th St., L.A., CA
90047
This business is conducted by an Individual
above on N/A.
guilty of a crime.)
S/ Scarlys Cisneros, Owner
Original
6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2/09
WWA-1617043#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090834745
Superior Auto Direct (USA), 11616 Hawthorne
Blvd., #222, Hawthorne, CA 90250, County of
Los Angeles, P.O. Box 5425, Inglewood, CA 90310
Superior Auto Direct (USA) Inc., 11616 Hawthorne
Blvd., #222, Hawthorne, CA 90250
This business is conducted by a Corporation
above on n/a
guilty of a crime.)
S/ David Akynwafo, President
Los Angeles on June 4, 2009
6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2/09
WWA-1615726#
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 20090841390
Skyride Murals, 4535 1/2 W. 11th Pl. Los
Angeles, CA 90019
Ana Fernadez, 4535 1/2 W. 11th Pl, Los Angeles,
CA 90019
This business is conducted by an Individual
above on 1-1-2008
guilty of a crime.)
S/ Ana Fernandez, Owner
Los Angeles on June 5, 2009
Original
6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 7/2/09
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
GOVERNMENT
$27,500,000.00BIDDING OPPORTUNITY WITH
LACCD
The Los Angeles Community Colleges have
embarked on an extensive Sustainable
Building Program to address much-needed
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 (REBID)
College: Los Angeles Mission College
Project Name: Media Arts center
Project Number: 34M.5405.02 (AKA 04M.6405.02)
Construction
Estimate:
$26,500,000
to
$27,500,000
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Los Angeles
Community College District (“District”) invites sealed
bids for the following public works project (“Work”):
Construction of a new, 53,400 sf,
3-story plus mezzanine level building classified
by the 2007 CBC as type 2B, fully sprinkled
structure. The building will require a LEED Gold
certification with enhanced commissioning. Major
building components include a three-story atrium
space, various art studios and technology intensive
multimedia studios and labs, a multi purpose
performing arts theatre with support spaces, a
production studio, a multipurpose recital hall, an
art gallery, a sculpture studio and workshop, a
photography studio, a smart lecture classroom,
faculty and staff offices, and support spaces.
Additional construction components include
a service yard and concrete shade structure, a
storm water collection and infiltration “arroyo” with
extensive landscaping, exterior lighting, extensive
site infrastructure, pedestrian walkways and partial
demolition and reconstruction of an existing sunken
courtyard with major retaining walls and footings.
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, Suite 810,
Los Angeles, California 90017, by either hand
delivery or mail, no later than 2:00 p.m. on July
30, 2009, 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 Plans, Drawings,
Specifications, Instruction to Bidders and other
documents, if any, will be available to Bidders on
and after July 03, 2009, 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, and Newbury Park Branch,
817 Mitchell Road, Unit 206, Newbury Park, CA
(805) 498-8397.
To order or view online: http://www.propositiona.
org/, Doing Business With Us Link, Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room Link
To view in person: CPM, Gateway science and
Engineering, 13356 Eldridge Ave, Sylmar, CA
90017, 818-367-7236 (tel.), 818-367-4607
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 Universal
Reprographics locations.
A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be
conducted on *July 07, 2009, commencing
promptly at 10:00 a.m. at LAMC Campus,
Campus Center Building Main Auditorium,
13356 Eldridge Ave, Sylmar, CA 90017.
Attendance at the mandatory 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, which is available
for review on the District’s Website, and submits an
affidavit as required by said Board Rule.
*Persons who attended the original pre-bid
meeting on May 21, 2009 are not required to
attend the “Re-Bid” Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled
for July 7, 2009 at 10:00 AM.
The Bidder to whom a contract for the Work is
awarded by the District shall be required to furnish
Performance and Payment Bonds as provided in
the Instructions to Bidders.
awarded by the District is required to hold at the
time of submitting its Bid and Award a contracting
license of the following classification(s):
A-General Engineering Contractor or BGeneral Building Contractor
Without limitation to the Bidder’s obligations under
Applicable Laws to designate Subcontractors,
the following certification(s) N/A, and all other
certifications required by Applicable Laws or the
Bidding Documents to perform the Work, must
either (1) be held by Bidder at the time of submitting
its Bid and at Award; or (2) if the Work requiring
such certification is permitted to be performed
by a designated Subcontractor, be held by such
Subcontractor at the time Bidder submits its Bid
and at Award.
Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1771.7, this Project
will be subject to the District’s approved Labor
Compliance Program, initially approved July 19,
2004. For questions or assistance concerning the
Labor Compliance Program, contact Patricia Padilla
or Miguel Cabral, Padilla & Associates, Inc., at (714)
577-5340.
The District has entered into a Project Labor
Agreement that is applicable to this Project. For
questions or assistance concerning the Project
Labor Agreement (if applicable), contact Patricia
Padilla or Miguel Cabral, Padilla & Associates, Inc.,
at (714) 577-5340, or Veronica Martinez, (213) 5938681, 515 S. Flower Street, 9th floor, Los Angeles,
CA 90071.
awarded by the District shall comply with the
provisions of the California Labor Code, as well
as the District’s Project Labor Agreement (if
applicable) and the District’s Labor Compliance
Program (if applicable, including, without limitation,
the obligation to pay the general prevailing rates
of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be
performed in accordance with, without limitation,
Sections 1773.1, 1774, 1775 and 1776 of the
California Labor Code and the obligation to comply
with Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code
governing employment of apprentices. Copies of
the prevailing rates of per diem wages are on file at
the District’s principal office at 515 S. Flower Street,
9th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071, and are available
to any interested party on request.
Substitution of securities for any moneys withheld
by District to ensure performance under any
contract awarded by the District for the Work shall
be permitted as required by Section 22300 of the
California Public Contract Code.
Bidders are notified of the District’s Surety Bond and
Finance Assistance Program. For further information
regarding enrollment eligibility and program services
contact Paulette Williams, Merriweather & Williams,
at (213) 228-1080.
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:
Patricia M.Torres-Gorman, Contract Administrator
Build-LACCD Proposition A/AA Bond Program
Managers
E-mail: patricia.torres@build-laccd.org or via
Phone: (213) 996-2247 or Fax: (213) 996-2534
[Contractors interested in obtaining information on
upcoming LACCD projects; see www.propositiona.
org (Doing Business With Us Page)]
7/2/09
WWA-1631523#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
$3,000,000.00 BIDDING OPPORTUNITY WITH
LACCD
embarked on an extensive Sustainable Building
Program to address much-needed campus
improvements for educational and support facilities
for its nine community colleges. For future bidding
opportunities please visit the website www.buildlaccd.org under “Contracting and Bidding Site” then
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
College: West Los Angeles College
Project Name: Temporary Facilities – Swing Space
Project Number: TBD
Project Estimate: $ 800,000 to $ 950,000.
Community College District (“DISTRICT”) invites
sealed bids for the following public works project
(“WORK”):
Procure a ‘Lease’ with monthly payments for
delivery, setup, configuration and occupancy
including tear down, and removal from site at
conclusion of lease for 1 story, relocatable buildings,
Type V-NR construction, ‘B’ and ‘E’ Occupancies for
a duration of 35 months consisting of: 2-12’ x 40’
restroom buildings, 2-48’ x 40’ general classroom
buildings, 8-36’ x 40’ general classroom buildings,
3-3 ganged 24’x 40’ general office buildings with
demised partitions, and 1- 24’ x 40’ general use
building together with finishes, lighting, power,
plumbing, HVAC, data/telecomm including utility tie
ins at campus POC and ADA ‘Path of Travel’ from
the public right away to each building. All work shall
be compliant to DSA and other governing agencies’
codes, ordinances and regulations with continuous
inspection by a DSA Inspector furnished and paid
by DISTRICT.
Blvd Los Angeles, California 90057 Tel: 213-3657750, West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Ponitius
(805) 498-8397.
To order or view online: http://www.build-laccd.
com à Contracting & Bidding Site à Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room
To view in person: Turner Construction Company,
West Los Angeles College, 9000 Overland Ave.,
Culver City, CA 90230
A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be conducted
on Monday, July 06, 2009 commencing promptly
at 9:00 AM atTurner Construction Company Job
Site Office (Adj to Bldg Bldg A-15), West Los
Angeles College, 9000 Overland Ave, Culver City,
CA., 90230. Attendance at the mandatory 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, which is available for review on
the District’s Website, and submits an affidavit as
required by said Board Rule.
B - General Building Contractor
Applicable Laws to designate Subcontractors,
the following certification(s) NONE and all other
certifications required by Applicable Laws or the
Bidding Documents to perform the Work, must
and at Award.
will not be subject to the District’s approved Labor
577-5340.
The District has entered into a Project Labor
Agreement (if applicable) to this Project. For
Labor Agreement (if applicable), contact Veronica
Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire Blvd. Suite
810, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
the prevailing rates of per diem wages are on
file at the District’s principal office at 915 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017, and are
available to any interested party on request.
Bidders are notified of the District’s Surety Bond
and Finance Assistance Program. For further
information regarding enrollment eligibility and
program services contact Paulette Williams (213)
228-1080, respectively.
Michael Berman
Turner Construction Company
9000 Overland Avenue
michael.berman@build-laccd.org
Voice: (310) 202-2575
Fax: (310) 202-2576
Build-LACCD Proposition A/AA Bond Campus
Project Managers
Contractors interested in obtaining information on
upcoming LACCD projects; see http://www.buildlaccd.com à Contracting & Bidding Site
7/2/09
WWA-1631481#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
$80,000BIDDING OPPORTUNITY WITH LACCD
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
at BuildLACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 810,
Los Angeles, CA 90017,by either hand delivery
or mail, no later than 2:00 PM on Tuesday, July
14, 2009,to be thereafter on said date and at said
College: West Los Angeles College
Project Name: Sidewalk and Flatwork ADA
mediation
Project Number: 40J.5902.03 / Sidewalk ADA
Compliance
Project Estimate: $75,000 to $80,000
All work is. non-structural.
Architect: ACSA, Inc.
ARCHITECT: ACSA, Inc.
documents, if any, will be available to Bidders on
and after July 6, 2009, at the following locations:
approximately 2450 square feet of concrete paving
at 30 locations throughout campus.
3. Removal of 6 matured trees throughout campus
bids for the following public works project (“Work”):
Improvement to the existing concrete paving
includes grinding or removal of tripping hazards
as follows:
1. Concrete grinding grand total of approximately
700 linear feet of concrete paving at 37 locations
throughout campus.
2. Removing and replacing grand total of
at Build-LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd, Suite
810, Los Angeles, California 90017, by either
hand delivery or mail, no later than 2:00 PM on
Thursday, July 9, 2009, 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.
documents, if any, will be available to Bidders
on and after Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at the
following locations:
Blvd Los Angeles, California 90057 Tel: 213-3657750 and West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Pontius
Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90025 Tel: 310-477-2900.
com à Contracting & Bidding Site à Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room
To view in person: Turner Construction Company,
West Los Angeles College, 9000 Overland Ave.,
A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be conducted
on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 commencing
promptly at 10:00 AM at Turner Construction
Company Job Site Office, West Los Angeles
College, 9000 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA.,
90230. Attendance at the mandatory 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, which is available for review on
the District’s Website, and submits an affidavit as
required by said Board Rule.
B GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTOR
Applicable Laws to designate Subcontractors all
other certifications required by Applicable Laws or
the Bidding Documents to perform the Work, must
and at Award.
will not be subject to the District’s approved Labor
577-5340.
The District has not entered into a Project Labor
Agreement that is applicable to this Project. For
Labor Agreement (if applicable), contact Veronica
Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire Blvd. Suite
810, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
the prevailing rates of per diem wages are on
file at the District’s principal office at 915 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017, and are
available to any interested party on request.
Bidders are notified of the District’s Surety Bond
and Finance Assistance Program. For further
information regarding enrollment eligibility and
program services contact Paulette Williams (213)
228-1080, respectively.
Robert Perks
Turner Construction Company
9000 Overland Avenue
rob.perks@build-laccd.org
Voice: (760) 214-0307
Fax: (310) 202-2576
Contractors interested in obtaining information on
upcoming LACCD projects;
see http://www.build-laccd.com à Contracting &
Bidding Site
7/2/09
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SOUTHWEST WAVE
BIDDING OPPORTUNITY WITH LACCD
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
College: District Wide
Project Name: Master Agreement for Purchase of
Personal transports
Project Number(s): 30D.5055.05 (Bid # 61)
bids for the following:
This is a competitive bid for the purchase by the Los
Angeles Community College District of the following
personal transports. The items to be procured are
broken down for the purposes of bidding into one
(1) Bid category and consists of: personal transports
and accessories.
at Build LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 810,
Los Angeles, California 90017, by either hand
delivery or mail, no later than 2:00 p.m. on July
15, 2009 to be thereafter on said date and at said
documents, if any, will be available to Bidders
on and after June 23, 2009, at the following
locations:
Blvd Los Angeles, California 90057 Tel: 213-3657750 , West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Ponitius
(805) 498-8397.
org Doing Business With Us Link, Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room Link
To view in person: Build LACCD, 915 Wilshire
Blvd., Ste. 810, Los Angeles, California 90017,
213- 996-2578
Contact: John Ferraro at Build-LACCD 915 Wilshire
Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90017, telephone (213)9962387 or fax requests to (213)-996-2534.
There will be no mandatory pre-Bid conference
for this Bid.
John Ferraro
Build LACCD Sustainable Building Program
john.ferraro@build-laccd.org or via Phone: (213)
996-2387 or Fax: (213) 996-2534
[Contractors interested in obtaining information on
upcoming LACCD projects; see build-laccd.org
(Doing Business With Us Page)]
7/2/09
WWA-1627800#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
PROBATE
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
ALTHEA LAURAETTA FULTON
GILCHRIST
CASE NO. BP116997
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate,
or both of ALTHEA LAURAETTA FULTON
GILCHRIST.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed
by PATRICE L.G. THOMAS AND GREGORY
J. GILCHRIST in the Superior Court of
California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE
requests that PATRICE L.G. THOMAS AND
GREGORY J. GILCHRIST be appointed as
personal representative to administer the estate
of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s
WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available
for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to
administer the estate under the Independent
Administration of Estates Act . (This authority
will allow the personal representative to take
many actions without obtaining court approval.
Before taking certain very important actions,
however, the personal representative will be
required to give notice to interested persons
unless they have waived notice or consented to
the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition
and shows good cause why the court should not
grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held
in this court as follows: 07/13/09 at 8:30AM
in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS
ANGELES, CA 90012
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state
your objections or file written objections with
the court before the hearing. Your appearance
may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file
your claim with the court and mail a copy to
the personal representative appointed by the
court within four months from the date of first
issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code
section 9100. The time for filing claims will
not expire before four months from the hearing
date noticed above.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by
the court. If you are a person interested in the
estate, you may file with the court a Request for
Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of
an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of
any petition or account as provided in Probate
Code Section 1250. A Request for Special
Notice form is available from the court clerk.
In Pro Per Petitioner
PATRICE L.G.THOMAS
GREGORY J. GILCHRIST
17718 S. RAINSBURY AVENUE
CARSON CA 90746
6/18, 6/25, 7/2/09
WWA-1621306#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
PUBLIC AUCTION/
SALES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE
US STORAGE CENTERS
820 INDUSTRIAL AVE
INGLEWOOD, CA 90302
(310) 677-2544
In accordance with the provisions of the California
Self-Storage Facility Act, Section 21700, et seq.
of the Business and Professions Code of the
State of California the undersigned will be sold at
public auction on July 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
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; A3 Marilyn
Bradford-Reed; Marilyn Reed; aka: MB Reed; A64
Madelyn Ann Lewis; aka: Madelyn Lewis; aka:
Madelyn A. Lewis; aka: ML; B70 Charles Curtis
Matlock; aka: Charles C. Matlock; aka: Charles
Matlock; B87 Francisco Armando Henriquez; aka:
Francisco A. Henriquez; B113 Antonio E. Sanchez;
aka: Antonio Sanchez; B155 Annette Christine
Vasquez; aka: C. Vasquez; aka: Annette Vasquez;
B187 Lakeitha Monique Ellis; aka: Lakeitha M. Ellis;
aka: Lakeitha Ellis; B222 Adrian Garcia; aka: A.
Garcia; B262 Curtis Edward Haynes; aka: Curtis
E. Haynes; B189 Hamsat Kazeen; B323 Spencer
Martin Davern; aka: Spencer Davern; aka: Spencer
Davern c/o Bellville Rodar; B337 Vern Lee Brooks;
aka: Vern Brooks; B372 Ronald Watts; B429 Leroy
Alexander Hogan; aka: Leroy Hogan; aka: Leroy A.
Hogan; B436 Willis Sinilla Turner, Jr.; B440 Jorge
Luis Delatorriente, II; aka: J. Delatorriente; B499
Martin Nelson French; aka: Martin French. 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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EST. Jessie 323/753-5708
JOE’S HANDYMAN SVC
Carpentry, painting, electrical, roofing, plumbing,
drv-wys, repiping, room
addition. (323) 737-6093
OLIVER THE HANDYMAN
Painting, Dry Wall, Haul,
Garage, Cleanups,
Windows (323) 294-4444
• WE FIX ALL •
and do Painting &
Plumbing.
Clearence
(323) 770-0421
HAULING
4320
MISC. FOR SALE
BEAUTIFUL
BASKETS,
Themed Baskets, Variety
Baskets, Holiday Baskets, all
kinds of baskets for all occasions! For the best price call
213-440-6288; email: fourangelsdesigns@hotmail.com;
www.myspace.com/FourAngelsDesigns3 (Cal-SCAN)
SAWMILLS FROM ONLY
$2,990 - Convert your Logs
To Valuable Lumber with
your own Norwood portable
band sawmill. Log skidders
also available. www.NorwoodSawmills.com/300n
FREE Information: 1-800578-1363 x300-N.
(CalSCAN)
BATH TUB REPAIR/REFINISH
4100
Bath Tub Reglazing
SPECIAL SALE $199
with 2 yr warranty.
(310) 338-0638
Dennis’ Hauling &
Clean Up. Garages,
yards, moving, etc.
(213) 712-7640
MOVING, HAULING
& CLEAN UP Call Ron
310 422-8460 310 672-8202
PLASTER/DRYWALL
4465
Plaster Patch Work
Interior & Exterior
*IMMIGRATION SERVICES
*DOCUMENT
PREPARATION
323-751-3337
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
in 240 Cal-SCAN newspapers for the best reach, coverage, and price. 25-words
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www.Cal-SCAN.com
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ALL CASH VENDING! Be
Your Own Boss! Your Own
Local Vending Route. Includes 25 Machines and
Candy for $9,995. MultiVend
LLC, 1-888-625-2405. (CalSCAN)
CEMENT/CONCRETE
4160
NUTRITIONAL COMPANY
Needs Experienced SALESPEOPLE. Make Great Money. Training and leads provided. Work from office or
home. FT/PT. Car/ computer
required. Small investment.
Jim 661-259-0790. (CalSCAN)
CREDIT CONSULTANTS
4215
For advertising
information call
(323) 556-5720
Realty Rentals Co.
(310) 478-1091
Long Beach1502 ½ 11th St
$995 3br 2ba Apt w/ 2 pkng
spaces
Los Angeles 632 78th St
$1245 3bd 2ba SFR w/ 2pkng &
lndy hook ups
Los Angeles
1206 W. Florence Ave
$1295 3bd 2ba house w/ 1 pkng
245LC070209
All Trades Available
• Plumbing • Electrical • Tile
• Roofing • Fencing
• Bath & Kitchen Remodel!
Senior Citizen Discount!
Luis (323) 806-3707
237LC070209
HYDE PARK
6326 Crenshaw
3 bedroom @ $1200
Clean units, freshly
painted, new carpet,
gated entry, off street
parking, laundry on site.
(Section 8 OK)
MARLTON
PROPERTY MGMT
(323) 293-5809
******************************
2 Bdrm Newly remodeled
1330 W, 106th Str. County
Sec 8 OK $1,160./Mo (310)
902-2527 or (310) 279-2769
2837 S Bronson Ave. 1+1
$950/mo. All utils incl.
Charming, spacious. Newly
remodeled. 818-703-3513
2Bd 1Ba Newly Decorated
Upstairs.$950Mo. Located
near Normandie/Denker on
104th Call: (323) 751-0914
2Bd Apt w/Full & 1/2 Ba
w/Appliances. 313 S. Hoover
Off street parking $1100/M
Sec 8 OK (310) 850-3425
2bd Beautiful Extra Lrg
TwnHse huge walk in closets
patio, prking Non Sec 8 rent
negotiable (323)992-2941
2Bd Lower Unit Tile Kit &
Ba in Inglewood. Lovely area
82nd & Crenshaw.
Call (323) 751-0914
2bd/1.5ba, upper & lower
level. Recently refurb, off stpkg, lndry hkup. 81st &
Denker.$1300 323 235-8565
2BD/1BA. 1225 W. 90th
Street. LA County Sec. 8
Okay. $1200. Kevin
(310)383-7348.
Apt for Lease 2Bd 1Ba
Prking, security bldg, great
area. 903 N. Eucalyptus
$1150/Mo (310) 408-1403
CITY SEC 8 OK! 2Bd New
pnt, crpt 8414 S. Figueroa
$1299/m (323) 767-4792
Low Move In Special Windsor/Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw,
JeffPrk 1Bd from $795. 2Bd
from $1150. 310 279-5570
Lrg 2 Bdrm Slauson/Alviso
Newly Renovated Sec 8 OK
$1469/m (323) 756-6080
Lrg SGL for Rent $750/m
Sec 8 OK 510 1/2 E. 60th
Str L.A. (323) 842-2206
Evictions OK. 1-2-3 bdrms Quiet 2bd. Lrg. duplex-like.
for rent. 1st mo rent moves New pnt & crpt w/prkg. Crenyou in. 310-631-9516 or call shaw area. Sec 8 not ok.
888-344-6911
$1200/mo. 310- 591-9345
Food & utilities free. Shared
living. $200 & up. GR/Tanf/
SSI accepted.
310-631-7628/888-344-6911
Quiet, spacious, redecorated
1 bdrm w/prkg. In Crenshaw
area. $975/mo. Sec 8 ok.
Ms Bowen: 310-591-9345
INGLEWD 2 1/2 bd 1 ba,
$1250. 2+1 $1200.. 1+1
$900. Sec 8 okay. 310671-7339, 323-936-8178
Sec 8 Welcome 2 & 3 Bds
Newly remodeled Btw $1195
& $1550/m 48th Str, L.A.
call Nicole (310) 644-2020
Inglewood/Hawthorne.
Move-in specials. 1 & 2 bd.
Fresh units. Call agent.
310-671-8570
SEC. 8 OK. 1 bd, w/d, newly
refurb. 1627 W. 70th St.(duplex) 2811 & 2815 1/2 W.
48th St. 213-359-4439
L.A. 107th & Vermont.
1Bd 1Ba. Crpt, Paint & Sec.
Gate Sec 8 Ok. Call for
more details (310) 527-0146
SECTION 8 RENTERS
WANTED. Remod apts. Singles, 1, 2, 3, & 4 bdrms.
Avail immed. 562-882-7199
LA/LYNWOOD $700 MO.
NICE QUIET 1 BDRM.
Newly painted. Prkg in
rear. (323) 292-3939
Two 1Bd Apts Totally
Refurbished Hrdwd floors,
Leimert Park $1050/m Open
Hse Sun 1-5 pm NO Sec 8
Call: (909) 987-6037
4275 1/4 Leimert Bl 1 bd 1
ba $999.99. 2 yr lease.
$2600 sec dep, no pets.
See, then call 323-299-9939
LEIMERT PARK upper lg 2
bd, form dining, service
porch, lndry hkup. No sec 8.
$1495 mo. 323-321-6245
New Townhouse. 2bd/2ba.
$1400/mo. 1213 E. 77th Pl.
For more info call:
310-348-8291
Los Angeles 12229 Vermont
$4995 8bd 5 ½ba + 3 bonus
rms w/ 1pkng grg + 2 spaces and
lndy hk ups
Los Angeles
3447 11th Ave
$1295 3bd 2ba w/ 1pkng grg
APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
Leimert Pk lg studio, full
kitchen, sep dressing rm,
gas paid, no sec tion. $775.
323-321-6245
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR
RENT
6100
LA 10230 Olive St
$1245 3bd 2ba duplx w/ 2kng
6005
SECTION 8 AVAILABLE!
Los Angeles 4106 San Pedro
$845 2bd 1ba SFR w/1 pkng
Apts available SEC 8 OK,
Low/free move in avail 727
W. 82nd St, 2Bd 1Ba $1100
3Bd 1Ba - $1500/m 4510
S. Vermont 2Bd 1Ba
$1200/m (310) 433-8800
1 BD REMODELED $800
New crpt,pnt,blinds& fixtures
Near shopping & bus lines
Sec 8 OK (323) 997-7967
5925 Crenshaw Blvd #25
FOR RENT
1 & 2 bdm Pico/Crenshaw
1, 2 & 3 bdm Venice/4th Ave
1Bdm Cimmaron/Adams
1 & 2 bdm USC area
1 & 2 bdm 48th/Crenshaw
1, 2, & 3 bdm Inglewood
Call 323-938-7467
Elderly Apts. for Rent
Must be 62 yrs+ age. Single Units Only!!
Apply at
(Florence & Figueroa)
7010 Denver Ave. - Los Angeles, CA 90044
Call: 323-753-3427
6005
030LC070209
6005
Section 8 & All Welcome
Section 8 Special:
After Occupancy 2nd, 3rd & 4th
Month Rebate of $25 with This Ad
1 BDRM
NEWLY COMPLETED
PORCELAIN & WOOD FLRS, LNDRY
RM, GTD INTERCOM. SECURE PRKG.
OFF CRENSHAW NR SHOPS & BUS.
$800 & UP.
(323) 758-7886, (323) 750-1837
1Bd UPPER $885/mo
$700 dep. New decor.
5400 7th Ave. (310)
497-4080, (626) 794-7419
CREDIT CONSULTANTS
4215
(323) 945-7800
HANDYMAN
Clean units, freshly
painted, newer carpet,
service porch w/ W/D
hookup (some units), off
street parking, Spanish
style courtyard bldg,
close to fwy.
2 & 3 Bd Apts available
In Compton area. Large
remodeled, Sec 8 Only.
call: (323) 753-9777
880 Victor Ave Twnhse style
apt 2+2 1/2 spacious patio,
pool & gated entry $1350/m
310 902-4379
Lovely Modern 1 Bd
$925/mo. Redecorated,
prkg. Washington/LaBrea
area. (323) 935-7958
1bd Fairfax/Pico Beautiful
Lrg. Hrdwd flrs, windows
throughout, prking Non Sec8
Rent neg (323) 992-2941
By 60%
Cell (323) 752-6657
Home(323)401-4707
JEFFERSON PARK
1808 1/2 W 36th St
1 bedroom @ $895
1BD/1BA APT. Newly
remodeled. $950/mo. $1900
move-in. 1615 W. 107th St.
(323) 753-3676
Lovely 2Bd Spacious Apt
Windsor Hills/View Prk area
Mr Carter (323) 756-1345
Los Angeles 1016 W 109th Pl#7
$595 Single 1ba w/ 1 pkng and
lndy rm
Los Angeles 608 E 79thSt # 1
$1095 3bd Apt w/2 pkngs
GUARANTEED!
Manuel or Jesus
Clean extra large units,
freshly painted, new
carpet, ceiling fans,
locked entry, reserved
parking, laundry on site.
Call: 323-939-0137
3bd House
-Sec8OK!
-Low Sec Dep!
Eric 323-200-0922
6005
Leimert Park Lrg 1Bd 1Ba
New crpt, drapes. 2832 MLK
Low move in,OAC $825 Non
Sec 8 appr (310) 645-1303
Reduce Your Debt
Chain link, redwood fences, blockwall,
concrete, hauling release window, tree
removal Free estimates.
Single @ $795
1 bedroom @ $875
2 bedroom $995
1bd, Sec 8 ok recently
decorated,parking
Florence/Gramecy. $800/mo
6005
3Bd 2Ba W/D hk-up
Spacious, built in 2001
2Bd also avail Section 8
ready Leroy: 323-758-6397
Personal
Financial
Bail-Out
HANDYMAN
BALDWIN VILLAGE
4064 Abourne Rd
3959 Gibraltar Ave
4009 Palmyra Rd
4041 Palmyra Rd
6005
1 Bd 1 Ba Unfurn Apt,
clean bldg. $900/mo. Normandie/ Manchester. County
Sec 8 ok. 949-632-6048
& Any Unsecured Debt
CALL TODAY
$500 MOVE IN
BONUS
*SUPER LGL SINGLE, quiet
bldg., Lg kitch & bath, 527 W
46th St / Fig., $600/mo (310)
383-9000 / (323) 479-5641
Inglewood
3239 W 108th St
$1245 3bd 2ba house w/ lndy rm
Credit Card
CONCRETE PLUS .....Block
wall, driveway, retaining
wall, porch, stone. Free est.
Lic 826339. (310) 335-2938
6005
*****************************
1 Bdrm. Newly refurb. Very
secure. Sec 8 ok. 1211 S.
Bronson, Crenshaw/Pico.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LA 4 bd 2 ba, newly refurb,
hkup. Sec 8 ok. 158 W
4485 lndry
73rd St, cross street Main/
Broadway. (323) 766-1415
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
5045
NEWS RELEASE? Cost-efficient service. The California
Press Release Service has
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!! FOR RENT!!
Houses, Apts & Duplexes
1, 2, 3 & 4 BDRMS
AJIH & Sons
(Agt) (323) 751–3337
Quality Work & Free Est.
(323) 293-5364
or (323) 293-5365
BUSINESS SERVICES
4123
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6005
255LC070209
EMPLOYMENT
FINANCIAL SERVICES
5250
Leimert Prk 2Bd/Ba 4100 9th
ave Name Your Rent Price
W/D, Stv, Pvt Gar,Crpt
No Sec 8 (323) 799-1161
TOWNHOMES
6075
DUPLEXES UNFURNISHED
6250
ROOMS
6850
Inglwd 2 Bdrm 1 Ba.
Crpt.,Stove,F/P, Din rm. With
W/D incl. 1 car gar, No Pets
$1,300/Mo. + $2,800 mve-in
Call (323) 752-8529
• FURNISHED ROOM •
$550 MO. OR $150 WK.
Secure, quiet. Near bus line.
Seniors OK. 213-765-8079
Newly built in 2009. Low
move in. Sec 8 ok. 5bd/3ba.
1023 E. 74th St. W/D hk-up.
$2400/mo 323-291-2965
ROOM for rent
No smoking/ alcohol.
(323) 757-5961
Section
8
Welcome.
$1400/mo. 2bd/1ba. Det. gar
with w/d hk-up. Enclosed
front porch. 323-792-4215
Men 50 & up, Rms $650.
Utils incl. Cable. Lndry &
cooking privs. Shared
bath. (323) 733-3381
HOUSES UNFURNISHED
6450
3 bd, crpt, sec bars, fenced
in, good neighborhood,
1239 E 88th Pl. County Sec
8 welcome. (323) 754-9878
3 Bd, den, 1 ba hse, quiet,
hdwd flrs, big bkyd, nr Century/Western. $1900. Sec 8
considered. (323) 754-7899
3 bed 1 ba house appliances included. Laundry area.
Large enclosed yard.
Please call (323) 903-5071
$1700.00 mo
4 BDRM, 2 BA HOUSE.
$1800. Open House
Sat 9-5. 450 W 41st Pl, LA
90037. 323-755-9016
Compton-305 S. Holly. 1904
N. Grape. Newly remod.
3bd/2ba. Sec 8 ok. $1700$1750/mo. 310-670-0832
SEC 8 OK 1 bd rear house.
East 56th St. New paint &
carpet. Near bus lines.
Mr. Jackson 323-753-2655
ROOMS
6850
Christian Home, upscale
shared rms, NO deposit
NO utils, NO drugs,
NOalcohol. $450/mo
Call Kathy (310) 936-1776
ROOM & BOARD
6875
WANTED: A Female senior citizen or a retired
couple Bwt 65-80 & who are somewhat mobile.
This is an opportunity to live RENT FREE in the
Watts area in a very comfortable home, in exchange for providing companionship & some
services to an older female senior citizen. These
services would include cooking, maintaining the
House, assist the senior with hygiene & providing
her medication for her. I will be in & out several
times per week to assist & answer questions.
This person must be drug free, Non-smoker & a
Christian. This person will have their own Bdrm &
use of Kit, dinning, Ba, & living rm. If you have a
car, off str secure parking is available Please call
Allen Doby at (323) 566-7439 Sun, Mon, & Tues.
On other days I may be reached at (714) 317-1034)
or (800) 730-6564 (a Small monthly stipend is
also paid) Please call if you are interested or
have any questions.
STORES/OFFICES FOR LEASE
6960
OFFICES FOR LEASE Next
to KJLH 171 N. La Brea Ing
Starting $200 up to $450/M
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COLORADO RANCH 40
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days of sunshine. Rocky
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Financing! Call Today! 1866-696-5263
x4938.
www.ColoradoLandBargains.
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BUYER'S MARKET. New
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cover including Ponderosa,
rolling grassland and rock
outcroppings. Abundant wildlife, great hunting. EZ terms.
Call NML&R, Inc. 1-866-3605263. (Cal-SCAN)
LAND FORECLOSURES IN
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Guaranteed financing, low
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AUTOS WANTED
8145
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1-800-252-0615.
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GREAT LEIMERT STORE
Now available for only
LEASING & RENTALS
$1250/mo.
8165
626-331-0568
Read the Classifieds
Restaurant for Lease, fully
equipped. Currently doing
business at 1977 W. 48th St
L.A. 90062 (323) 291-1114
Commercial Storefront
Aprox 1,300 Sq ft $1200/m
90231 S. Broadway L.A.
90003 Call (323) 842-2206
LG 3 BDRM 1 BA.
New kitchen. Prkg. Near W.
Adams. Sec 8 considered.
$1800 mo. (323) 754-7899
DUPLEXES UNFURNISHED
6250
Lg. 1bd in Leimert Pk. 1bd &
2bd Nr. USC $1000 & up.
Sec 8 ok.Units newly remod.
323-595-5152/323-595-5140
3bd8110 S. San Pedro.
$1750. 3bd/2ba 3503 S.
Budlong. $1950 Sec 8 ok
Low move-in. 323-291-2965
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Attention Renters
Excellent opportunity to purchase your
own home
-Very low home prices
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-$8,000 to &18,000 government tax
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from me to you Call today for details and
pre-qualification
Legals
Sunrise Realty & Loan
Cell: (323) 218-9508
246LC070209
ROOM & BOARD
6875
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