FBI, LAPD conduct raid in Baldwin Village

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FBI,
LAPD
conduct
raid in
Baldwin
Village
THE
MEANING
OF OPRAH
T
he daytime television landscape suddenly looks very
different after the
reigning queen of
talk packed it in on Wednesday.
After 25 years that have seen
Winfrey evolve from a talk
show host to a pop culture icon,
she has decided to stop the
machine that has made her so
influential.
The move has not only left
loyal fans mourning, but has
also resulted in speculation on
who, if anyone, can fill the void.
SPECIAL REPORT - A8
Residents shocked
by rubber bullets and
tear gas canisters in
early-morning operation
targeting gang members.
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
Inglewood selects
new City Hall boss
Artie Fields, who has
been city manager of
Salinas since 2008, will
come to a city with
tough problems to solve.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
Photo by Gary McCarthy
Left to right: scholar Cornel West, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Los Angeles Urban League
chief Blair Taylor listen Wednesday at a press conference on the Crenshaw-to-LAX light rail.
Rallying more support ahead of
key vote on Crenshaw light rail
Supervisor Mark
Ridley-Thomas,
others gather to put
pressure on MTA
board to approve a
station for Leimert Park
and move portion of
route underground.
BY LEILONI DE GRUY
STAFF WRITER
CRENSHAW DISTRICT
— Citing safety concerns and
negative impacts to businesses
in a well-trafficked section of
Los Angeles’ historically Black
corridor, stakeholders gathered
here Wednesday to voice support for a plan by L.A. County
Supervisor Mark RidleyThomas to secure a Leimert
Park station for the Crenshawto-LAX light rail, and guarantee that a portion of the line
runs underground through Park
Mesa Heights.
The MTA board is scheduled
to meet Thursday to consider
Ridley-Thomas’ motion, but
opponents of the move have
cited both cost and the close
proximity of other planned
light rail stations as reasons not
to grant the requests, despite
growing support in both political and community activist
circles.
The project budget is
between $1.59 to $1.7 million,
and is funded with local and
federal dollars. The Leimert
Park station, if approved,
would be at Vernon Avenue,
and serve Leimert Park Village
and View Park. The Park Mesa
Heights tunnel, if approved,
would run underground from
48th to 60th streets. The estimated cost of building the 11
blocks underground would be
See CRENSHAW on page A4
Helping young minds take shape
An Inglewood
partnership provides
tutors — and role
models — for local
students looking to jump
on the college track.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
INGLEWOOD — In the
wake of a financial crisis that
began with the Los Angeles
County Board of Education
rejecting its 2010-2011 budget,
the Inglewood Unified School
District has endured months of
bad press.
Board meetings have been
picketed regularly by unionized
workers angered by layoffs, the
teachers association held a wellattended early morning protest
last month and earlier this month
officials approved a mechanism
to apply for an emergency state
loan to keep the district solvent.
However, there was a recent
event that didn’t receive much
attention, but was significant:
UCLA Chancellor Gene D.
Block took a tour of the district.
According to Mandla Kayise,
an Inglewood-based education
consultant and UCLA alumni,
25¢
Block and university representatives have been looking at the
city as a local community where
UCLA can raise the college eligibility of African-American
and Latino students.
For many concerned with the
fortunes of Inglewood Unified
— students, employees, parents
and the community at large —
that is some rare good news.
Kayise, who runs New World
Education, was part of an innovative two-pronged, after-school
initiative that began in 2001.
The UCLA/Inglewood GEARUp partnership, which ran until
2007, focused on working with
INGLEWOOD — The City
Council Tuesday night appointed Artie Fields, a California
native and 25-year veteran in
local government, to be the new
permanent city administrator.
Fields, who assumes his new
title July 14, was one of five top
candidates chosen by the city’s
executive recruitment firm, The
Hawkins Company, to replace
Mark Weinberg.
Fields was most recently the
city manager of Salinas, the
county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, and
before that spent 10 years working for the city of West Covina.
There he served as acting city
manager, acting community
services director, acting finance
director and acting human
resources director.
According to a statement provided by Mayor James Butts,
Fields listed five accomplishments during his tenure with
Salinas, including: hiring one
of the best police chiefs in the
nation; working with the economic development director to
implement policies to diversify,
attract and retain businesses
in the city; developing a plan
to streamline the organization;
improve service delivery and
cost savings; working with staff
to apply a record number of
grants that allowed significant
City of Salinas
Fields, who will assume the
post of Inglewood city administrator July 14, has worked in
a number of L.A.-area cities.
improvements to the city’s infrastructure and public spaces; and
lastly, the level of community
engagement.
“While my career has allowed
me to work in all facets of local
government, I have four areas
of expertise that will assist me
being successful in the city of
Inglewood,” Fields noted: “budgeting and finance, community
relations, economic development and citizen engagement.”
The veteran public official,
who holds a bachelor’s degree
in psychology and masters in
public administration, both from
USC, has also worked for the cities of Beverly Hills, Manhattan
Beach, Pasadena, Pomona and
San Leandro.
“Artie Fields is the best person to guide our city staff as we
rebuild Inglewood and position
ourselves to become a premier
See FIELDS on page A2
Many in the Baldwin Village
community received the shock
of their lives in the early morning hours of May 19, as tear gas
cans and rubber bullets riddled
their homes, causing dozens of
neighbors to take cover.
Broken glass was scattered in
front of apartment complexes,
windows were shattered, window screens were torn from their
foundations, metal doors were
sawed in half, knobs were ripped
from doors and door frames were
dented in.
This was all the result of a joint
Los Angeles Police DepartmentFBI raid that had been in the
works for over a year.
“They were shooting rubber
bullets through the window. At
first we saw blue sparks and
thought it was fireworks. Then
we thought it was a gang shootout, so we got down on the
ground,” said Deborah Smith,
who said she heard at least six
shots. “It wasn’t how they should
have approached it. They blew
the windows out and shot before
they said who they were. We
were afraid. I have four small
children.”
As her preteen son recalled,
“They said, ‘Everybody get
down!’”
Clarice Kyle, who previously
lived in the South Bay area,
moved to Baldwin Village less
than a year ago with her children
because of the location’s affordable housing.
“We just moved in for the
first time almost a year ago.
It was really disturbing,” Kyle
said, noting that people were
arrested in her apartment complex and surrounding buildings.
“The way that they were gunning
these people’s house down was
wrong. It sounded like more than
flash grenades. I have kids in my
house; they were terrified. They
are still scared. I didn’t even let
them go to school this morning
because of this incident. It was
that bad. They had the streets
blocked off. We are out of here
this year because we’ve never
been through anything like this
before. This was very disturbing.
It was scary. I felt like the force
See RAID on page A5
a group of primarily AfricanAmerican and Latino male K-12
students to keep them on track
for college.
At the same time, Kayise
was also involved in the
UCLA SHAPE program, which
stands for Student Heightening
Academic Performance Through
Education and is still effective
today.
SHAPE provides UCLA students, some of whom are former
Inglewood students, who come
out and mentor K-12 kids at
Rogers Park and middle and
high schools like Inglewood
High School and Crozier Middle
Ebreon Farris, a 22-year-old Inglewood High School alumni who
School.
is preparing to graduate from UCLA by completing language
Both programs relied on the studies in Brazil, is working as SHAPE tutor in his hometown.
See SHAPE on page A2
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Reward offered in
slaying of Baldwin
Hills nightclub owner
From City News Service
The Los Angeles City Council
Wednesday approved a $50,000
reward for information leading
to a conviction in the murder of
nightclub owner Alonzo “Dicky”
Ester in front of his Baldwin Hills
home.
Ester, 67, was fatally shot
May 13 in his white Rolls-Royce
Phantom as he arrived home in
the 4300 block of Hillcrest Drive
about 2:30 a.m.
Initial reports suggested the
gunman may have fled in a silver-colored BMW.
“It’s a case in which LAPD has
requested this reward. It will stimulate leads and hopefully solve
this case,” Councilman Bernard
Parks said.
Detective Robert Lait said he
found several witnesses but has
run out of leads.
Lait said more than one vehicle may be associated with the
shooter, who may have had an
accomplice.
Robbery is believed to have
been the motive. The Louisiana
native, who used to own a liquor
store in Long Beach and was
a successful real estate investor,
was not shy about his wealth and
may have been targeted because
of it. He also drove a flashy
Excalibur.
Ester and his wife, who formerly lived in Leimert Park, moved
to the Baldwin Hills home in
1999.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Ester had a security guard
follow him part of the way home
from his Inglewood club, Dynasty
at 206 S. Locust St., because he
was suspicious of a white truck or
SUV spotted in front of the club.
Anyone with more information
about the killing is urged to call
Lait at (213) 485-4341.
The department’s anonymous
hotline is (877) LAPD-24-7.
New city administrator
FIELDS from page A1
destination,” Butts said. “His
broad experience and proven
track record of success made
him stand out amongst the top
quality applicants for the position.”
City Councilman Ralph
Franklin also spoke highly of
Fields. “He has a great personality and vision and comes ready to
do the work,” Franklin said. “He
has a strong finance and economic development background
and that will be important for
projects like the Hollywood Park
redevelopment.”
Healthy
impression
Joy the Clown gives a young visitor a unique souvenir Saturday at
a health fair sponsored by Great
Beginnings for Black Babies.
Hosted at the Rancho Cienega
Sports Complex, the event featured
free health screenings, inspirational performances and a “Beautiful
Black Pregnant Woman” contest.
One at a time, helping students achieve
SHAPE from page A1
support of the city’s Parks and
Recreations Department and the
Inglewood Unified District.
“The work in Inglewood has
been consistent, but it depends
heavily on having partners who
are interested in working with
students to approach higher
education a little bit differently,” Kayise said.
Kayise said that GEAR was
primarily an academic program
and of the 12 students, including one girl, it graduated 10 of
them.
“Three got into UCLA,
one went to Berkeley, one
to Humboldt, two got into
Cal State L.A., one got into
Hayward University and one
got into another UC and one
went to the Santa Monica Art
Institute,” he added.
Meanwhile, Kayise described
the SHAPE program as a methodology based more on advising students than tutoring.
“At its core, SHAPE took a
holistic approach to the development of students, not only advising them how to approach their
academic success, but also their
personal and social development,” Kayise explained. “The
core activities involved community service and community
organizations, helping students
to develop leadership skills in
terms of working together to
achieve common goals.
“It provided a great opportunity for them to explore various
career fields and discover they
have a passion for something,
which increases their academic motivation, based on goals
they’ve established for themselves.”
In the current crisis, Kayise
sees the SHAPE program as a
vital resource.
“When you look at things
through a traditional lens then
all outcomes are bad; nothing
good can come of laying off
teachers and cutting services,”
he said. “But SHAPE is about
empowering students and putting more information and tools
in their hands where they can
facilitate their own success.
“I think that at a time of crisis
like this, it gives us more of an
incentive to use strategies like
this where students and parents
are not as dependent upon what
the school district is capable of
doing and have more of a capability to make these outcomes
happen for themselves.”
One such educator paying it
forward is Ebreon Farris, 22,
a graduate of Inglewood High
School and GEAR and sociology major at UCLA.
Farris — a senior who is
looking forward to traveling to
Brazil to complete his foreign
language studies — agreed.
“The quality of education is
important, but it boils down to
the student and their urge to
get more than what they get in
the classroom,” Farris said. “I
was frequently in the college
and career center trying to figure out what scholarships were
available and how I could take
advantage of them.”
As a member of the SHAPE
and UCLA GEAR-Up class at
Inglewood High, Farris recalled
the effect it had on his academic
and personal development.
“We gained more knowledge
than our standard curriculum
and we were enlightened with
a political awareness,” he said.
“The program also operated out
of a bungalow, so it offered us a
safe haven where we were welcomed with open arms. They
actually had undergraduate students on the campus providing mentoring and counseling
to students who wanted to talk
about things that weren’t always
to do with academics.
“On the social side, we went
on field trips to museums and
college campuses. I distinctly
remember going whale watching. When it came time to apply
to college, they provided a summer workshop where we not
only worked on our personal
statements, but there was SAT
prep.”
On graduating, Farris got
accepted to all of the UCs he
applied to, choosing UCLA as
the “college he had the most
exposure to.”
Now as a SHAPE tutor, he’s
exposing a new generation to
greater possibilities.
“I was shocked at first when
I went back and started talking
to ninth graders,” Farris noted.
“One said ... ‘Wow, so you can
really go to college?’ A lot of
students from their early years
of education have a preconceived notion that they can’t
possibly go to college. I want
to influence them that coming
from the same background as
mine, they can.”
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Community Calendar
Crenshaw to LAX: Crenshaw
District residents, business owners and all others with a stake
in making the Crenshaw-to-LAX
light rail line a first-rate project
now have an opportunity to let
the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority hear their voices. A
petition urging Metro to include
important design features that
will enhance the commuting experience for all county
residents is now in wide circulation. It calls for two critical
developments: a station stop in Leimert Park Village and
undergrounding the segment of light rail that will run along
Crenshaw from 48th to 59th streets. More than 1,000 people
already have signed the petition, and Supervisor Mark
Ridley-Thomas (pictured) is encouraging everyone who is
able to join the movement. The goal is to present thousands
of signatures to the Metro board before its meeting at 9
a.m. this Thursday. From a statement: “For generations,
the South Los Angeles community has seen transportationrelated construction bisect and scar our neighborhoods,
hindering business and destroying property values. Seeking
a station stop in Leimert Park Village, the cultural and
business heart of the corridor, is seeking neither a favor
nor an advantage. It is a just return for years of sacrifice
by communities that are still waiting to see the economic
benefits of millions of taxpayer-funded rail projects.” May
26. Metro Board Room, 1 Gateway Plaza, Third Floor, Los
Angeles. (213) 922-6235
•••
Denim and White: After the success of Kevin Rouse’s and Parnell
Clark’s 2010 All Black Affair, the
duo are doing it again by recreating the magic this Memorial Day
Weekend, this time at the prestigious
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with their
“Summer Solstice L.A. 2011: Denim
and White.” Joined by a bevy of
some of the city’s top event promoters, such as Roland
Wirt, Marc Gaspard, Mike Heath and Joe Jones, Rouse and
Clark, along with core group partners Deshawn Cabeza and
Brandi White, are coordinating one of the biggest affairs
Los Angeles has ever seen held at the venue with proceeds
benefiting The Weingart Center Association which serves
the homeless. Musical performances include the Grammy
nominated neo-soul sensation N’Dambi (pictured), actor/
musician William L. Johnson aka Brotha Bill, comedy by
T.K. Kirkland and celebrity host, actor Christian Keyes from
the hit stage play, “Madea Goes to Jail.” Tickets start at $30.
May 28, at 2 p.m. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand
Ave., Los Angeles. (213) 926-2809
•••
The Good Old Days: UCLA is
hosting the 25th annual JazzReggae
Festival this Memorial Day Weekend.
The event celebrates the last quarter of a century with headliners of
the past such as Lupe Fiasco, Talib
Kweli (pictured), Little Dragon,
Karriem Riggins, Pharoahe Monch,
The Stepkids, Sean Paul, The Wailing
Souls, Los Rakas and J-Boog, among
others. May 29-30, Noon to 7 p.m. on
both days. UCLA Intramural Fields, 308 Westwood Plaza,
Los Angeles. (310) 825-6564
•••
Beautiful Hair Show: CSUDominguez Hills is hosting “Naturally
Beautiful Hair Show: Reclaiming Our
African Crown,” a natural hair show
next Saturday. Spearheaded by lecturer
of Africana Studies, Jalondra A. Davis,
the show grew out of a series of campus events and conversations focused
on Black women’s experiences, body
image, and aesthetics. The show will
feature beautiful models ages five to adult rocking styles by
amateur and professional natural hairstylists, exciting dance
and spoken word performances, and a post-show mixer.
Compiled by Marisela Santana
Bring the whole family to this fun and empowering event.
The event will demonstrate the range of Black beauty and
expose Black women to natural hairstyling options for work,
school and life. June 4, at 3 p.m. CSU-Dominguez Hills,
1000 E. Victoria St., Carson. (310) 243-3042
•••
Marketing Your Business: The
Women of Excellence, along with
GoldTone Entertainment, announce
that the California Teachers Association
is sponsoring the 2011 “AfricanAmerican Men/Women Summit” to be
held in Beverly Hills next Saturday.
The AAMWS will have workshops and
panel discussions focusing on financial management, how to
use the media effectively, becoming a successful corporate
leader, and public relations and marketing for your business.
Dawn Osborne, CEO of Next Level MCS will be adding
her expertise in “Funding Your Dreams,” a solution to nonprofit fundraising. Also joining the event will be former
CNN financial anchor Valarie Coleman Morris (pictured),
social networking guru Natalie Gouche and author Courtney
Parker. Registration for the summit begins at 1 p.m. Panel
discussions begin at 2 p.m. June 4. Beverly Hills Library,
444 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills. (424) 288-4293
•••
Having Breakfast: Alumni are
invited to the Locke High School
Founders Alumni Men’s Breakfast
next Saturday. The original Locke
High Saints will be meeting from
10 a.m. to noon at the Watts Coffee
House. The high school first opened
in the fall of 1967. The graduating
classes of 1969 and 1970 were the
first students to populate the campus. They gather every first
Saturday of the month for breakfast and are inviting other
alumni to join them. June 4. Watts Coffee House, 1827 E.
103rd St., Los Angeles. (310) 650-5661
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Jazz in the Park: The
Playboy Jazz Festival continues with its free community
concerts this month at the Lou
Bredlow Pavilion next Sunday.
The free event, held in conjunction with the upcoming
Playboy Jazz Festival (June
11-12), will feature 1+One with Patrice Rushen, Ndugu
Chancler (pictured), Doc Powell, Johnny Polanco y Su
Conjunto Amistad and the Nikhil Korula Band. Admission
to the Jazz at Warner Park concert is free and open to the
public. June 5, from 4 to 8 p.m. Warner Park, 5800 Topanga
Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills. (818) 704-1358
•••
Black Music Month: The California African American
Museum focuses on the roots of Black Music Month with a
celebration next Sunday entitled, “Bee Bop, Doo Wop, Scat
and The Blues!” Along with performers, the museum traces
the evolution of musical forms preceding R&B, Soul and
Hip-Hop. Special recognition will be paid to composers of
stage and screen, and to the fathers of Black Music, in honor
of Father’s Day. This event is free and open to the public.
June 5, at 1 p.m. CAAM, 600 State Drive, Los Angeles.
(213) 744-2024
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Funds are identified for preferred rail options
CRENSHAW from page A1
$167 million without a station
at Slauson, and $219 million
with a station at Crenshaw and
Slauson. The cost of adding a
station at Vernon would run
about $120 million.
“They said that this stop is
too close to Martin Luther King
Boulevard, only to have research
done to determine that there are
31 other stops that are in close
proximity. That is, to say, less
than a mile to another stop,”
Ridley-Thomas said. “They said
that didn’t exist, but we uncovered this. They said there was
… insufficient money. We asked
the staff to do their work a little
more carefully, and found out
that there is approximately $2
billion in play that could be
assigned to this project if seven
votes show up. So, the major
issues that they have argued not
in our favor, we have essentially
moved to a point of clarity that
they have had to concede.”
Metro staff has identified up to
$2 billion of funds from lowerpriority maintenance and system
enhancement projects that can
be redirected to the Crenshaw/
LAX line without affecting any
new transit or highway projects.
The funding sources listed in a
Metro study released last week
include $500 million in highway
interchange and widening projects, $585 million in low-priority improvements to existing
subway stations and lines and
$943 million in various maintenance projects. Other potential funding sources are: Expo
Measure R funds for the “substitute project,” Measure R Green
Line to LAX funds, Arbor Vitae
interchange project funds and
surplus property sales.
Despite this, only portions
of those funds would be available for the Crenshaw/LAX line
enhancements.
Without a Vernon station,
there would be no stops on the
light rail line between Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard and
Slauson, causing potentially
thousands of people to bypass
the heart of the cultural mecca.
“It would essentially overlook
the significance of this iconic
destination for not only this
community, the county of Los
Angeles, but the entirety of the
nation,” Ridley-Thomas said.
“Everybody knows that Leimert
Park is a cultural destination
point for the African-American
community in particular and
beyond.”
Of the existing stations in the
Metro system, 31 are within 0.6
miles of another station. The
separation between the Leimert
Park and Martin Luther King,
Jr. Boulevard stations would
also be 0.6 miles.
At present, over 55 percent
of the 8.5 mile alignment is set
to be grade separated, with 36
percent in a below-grade tunnel and 19 percent above-grade.
The track through Hyde Park
and Slauson to West Boulevard
has been changed from abovegrade to below-grade.
Ridley-Thomas contends that
if the tunnel is not constructed
under Park Mesa Heights, traffic
congestion will remain at unacceptable levels and become further impacted, while also hampering economic development.
Additionally, the Public Utilities
Commission has expressed concerns about the intersection, and
a rejection to Metro’s application
for an at-grade line could result
in the project being delayed and
an accruement of costs.
Metro has said it could mitigate these impacts by eliminating automobile parking
for patrons on both sides of
Crenshaw Boulevard, reducing
left turn movements and removing trees and landscaping.
On the other hand, having
a tunnel underground in Park
Mesa Heights is said to improve
travel time by an average of two
minutes per trip, reduce safety
concerns, minimize disruption
to local businesses and prevent
gridlock on surface streets.
“It seems to me that it is important to recognize that economic
development is at stake, safety
is at stake, the aesthetics of our
community is at stake,” RidleyThomas said. And “therefore
we want to make it clear to
the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority board they can and
should do the right thing.”
In 2009, the State of California
Public Utilities Commission
wrote a letter to Metro stating
that “due to the large amount
of student pedestrian activity
around schools, particularly with
both middle and high schools
adjacent to the proposed light
rail transit at this location, we
recommend Metro grade separate the intersections of 57th
Street and Slauson Avenue.”
However, an analysis by
Metro staff concluded that the
line could be safely built atgrade while navigating seven
intersections in the area and also
keeping all current traffic lanes
on Crenshaw.
“This is an old story in
America — an old story where
when it comes to transportation issues, communities of
color get left out, communities
of color get left behind,” said
Tavis Smiley, whose headquarters The Smiley Group Inc. is
located at 4434 Crenshaw Blvd.
and was the site of Wednesday’s
press conference. “This city is
better than that. Los Angeles is
a microcosm of the world. This
is a multicultural, multi-racial,
multi-ethnic mecca, and shame
on us if we do not vote tomorrow to include communities
of color, people of color, hard
working taxpayers in this conversation, and more expressly
and more accurately, in this train
line that ought to stop right here
at Leimert Park. … Nothing less
than that should happen.”
Construction on the line — the
first comprehensive north/south
light rail transit system in western Los Angeles County with
connections to existing Green
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Raid was aimed at ‘dismantling the gangs’ infrastructure’ in South L.A.
also known as ‘crack,’” said
the release. Another 54 state
arrest warrants were filed with
the Los Angeles County District
Attorney’s Office.
Many of the state defendants
were arrested in the early morning raid and the remaining were
already in custody on unrelated
charges, said authorities. “An
additional 20 individuals were
arrested during the course of the
lengthy investigation, but are
not included in today’s overall
numbers,” said the release dated
May 19.
Prior to the operation, authorities said the investigation resulted in the seizure of 135.5 grams
of PCP, 41.2 grams of methamphetamine, 25 kilograms of
marijuana and 1.7 kilograms of
cocaine. An undisclosed number
of firearms were also seized.
The federal defendants have
been listed. They include:
Tiana Renee Baudoin, 25, of
Inglewood; Kenneth Richard
Bell, 26, of Los Angeles;
Rodney Dewar Bourgeois,
44, of Los Angeles; Jiles T.
Bradshaw, 33, of Los Angeles;
Huey Jacque Carter, 41, of Los
Angeles; Lawrence Issac Cooks,
Jr., 37, of Los Angeles; Rudolph
Valentino Cotton, 50, of Los
Angeles; Jose Desiderio Gaitan,
26, of North Dakota; Hector
Alex Garcia, 40, of Los Angeles;
Jorge Hernandez-Calderon,
34, of Los Angeles; Michael
Jerome Lawrence, Jr., 36, of
Los Angeles; Andrew Joseph
McMillan, 59, of Los Angeles;
Charles Ray Moore, Jr., 37, of
Los Angeles; Christopher Earl
Patterson, 39, of Los Angeles;
Sylvester Ivan Payne, 50, of
Los Angeles; Milo Koshawn
Perkins, 39, of Los Angeles;
Norman Paul Reed, 47, of Los
Angeles; Sean Correll Sims, 43,
of Los Angeles; Chance Lorane
Willis, Jr., 29, of Los Angeles;
Kimya Wilson, of Los Angeles;
and David Andrew Winzer, 33.
Bradshaw,
Calderon,
Lawrence and Wilson are listed
as fugitives. Carter is in state
custody and Winzer is currently
in federal custody. Sims was
arrested in Phoenix, AZ.
Bradshaw’s mother, Michelle
Roberts, 59, was visibly shaken
Thursday when she was interviewed by The Wave.
“They tore my house up and
he doesn’t even live here. He
hasn’t lived with me in six years.
They didn’t even show me a
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In the wake of a May 19 raid targeting the membership of a notorious street gang, Baldwin Village
resident Michelle Roberts examines the damage to her apartment.
search warrant; they shot my
windows out with tear gas and
I just got out of the hospital for
having emphysema. I couldn’t
breathe.”
At the time of the raid, Roberts
said she was in her bed, and as
they shot tear gas cans through
her front glass sliding doors and
rubber bullets through her kitchen window, “I was hollering
‘Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me!’
I didn’t know what was going
on because they were shooting
through my house. I heard the
windows breaking. I told them
‘I’m a woman, I am in here with
my friend.’ She was here taking
care of me. They scared her half
to death. She ran out and said
she is never coming back over
here.”
Roberts said the officers
entered her home by climbing
over her balcony wall, which is
located on the first floor. They
searched her closets before
making her go outside barefoot,
without a coat.
She called it “a blessing” that
her four grandchildren were not
home at the time, because she
would have worried for their
safety. Yet, she was concerned
hours after the fiasco.
When The Wave visited her
home hours after the raid, she
had to constantly warn the young
children to be careful because
there were still shards of glass
on the carpet, despite her best
efforts to clean it up with a vac-
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uum and broom. There are large,
wooden slabs now in place of
the glass sliding doors.
“They didn’t even know who
was in these houses, they just
ransacked them and left. If they
were in the house when the
raid happened, they were taken.
They took everybody to jail,
they got women, too.”
Bradshaw, said Roberts, is
currently on the run, in hiding. Police told Roberts that
her son was wanted for shooting a police officer years ago.
However, Roberts has her
doubts; she believes if that were
true, authorities would have shot
him on the spot or arrested him
by now. She said her son has not
gotten into any major trouble,
just ditching school as a teenager. She acknowledged that
he used to hang out with gang
members — he was not one, she
claims — but cut ties with them
and stopped hanging out in the
streets when his first child was
born 10 years ago.
He wants to turn himself in,
“but I don’t want him to right
now. I want him to have a lawyer to take him in there. I don’t
want them to railroad my baby,”
she said. “I want to get some
money so I can get my son a
lawyer so they can get him up
out of this [stuff]. My son is
scared to death. I hate to see
that. It hurts me to my heart
to see him like that. I love my
baby boy. I need some help to
get him a lawyer because I don’t
want to see nothing happen to
my baby.”
According to Roberts, her
oldest son was picked up in
a raid that took place in the
area in 2004. She said he was
charged for bank robbery and
was moved to a jail in Kentucky.
He is currently serving the rest
of his sentence — he is expected
to be released in 2014 — in
Victorville. Roberts said her
middle son was arrested in 2008
for possessing a small amount
of rock cocaine. He was charged
and is currently serving his sentence in Louisiana. He is not
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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TOPIC: Alondra Regional Park Proposed Project
The City of Compton Community Redevelopment Agency – Alondra Park Regional Project
- Community Workshop will be held on Saturday, June 11, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
at Wilson Park located at 1500 East Rosecrans Avenue, Compton, CA 90221.
The purpose of the Community Workshop is to gather public input for the Conceptual Site Master
Plan for the Compton Alondra Regional Park project. The Workshop will provide an opportunity for
adults and youth alike to participate in a creative, energized “hands on” way in the development of
Compton’s Regional Park Site Master Plan.
This is a great opportunity for Residents of the City of Compton and Compton Community Leaders to
share their vision, desires, needs and improvements for the proposed Alondra Regional Park project.
The Community Workshop will engage the community in the following discussion points:
• Recreation needs
• Desired park amenities
• Site improvements
Refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you.
If you have any questions, please contact the Community Redevelopment Agency at (310) 605-5511.
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was terrible. There was no warning or anything. They woke the
whole neighborhood up. It’s
sad how they do our people.
Those people haven’t bothered
anybody since I’ve been living
here.”
Over 900 officers and FBI
agents participated in a predawn raid targeting members
and associates of the Black PStones street gang. The raid,
which included arrests and
search warrants, took place
Thursday morning just before
5 a.m.
“The task force coordinated
this joint effort to have the
greatest impact on the landscape of the P-Stones’ gangcontrolled neighborhood,” said
Steven Martinez, assistant director in charge of the FBI in Los
Angeles.
“The strategy involved dismantling the gangs’ infrastructure by arresting the main players and by removing the businesses where gangs launch their
criminal activity. By working
jointly with the LAPD, the city
attorney and HUD, we have
a chance to provide the community with an opportunity to
move forward.”
Some residents repeated
neighborhood speculation that
those picked up in a earlier raid
tipped off law enforcement in
exchange for reduced sentences.
Officials did not comment on
that speculation.
According to authorities, over
50 arrest warrants were served,
primarily in the southwest area
of Los Angeles, and 25 state
search warrants were effectuated in the early morning operation known as “Red Dawn.”
The term was given because “it
relates to the targeting of the
Black P-Stones, a faction of the
notorious Bloods street gang,”
said a joint press release about
the raid.
While 75 members and associates of the gang were identified for arrest during the investigation, which began over
one year ago, “21 defendants
were charged in 15 indictments returned by the federal
grand jury sitting in the United
States District Court for the
Central District of California
with a variety of federal statutes relative to the possession
and conspiracy to possess methamphetamine and cocaine base,
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BY DR. BENJAMIN F.
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he first place to end poverty is in your own mindset. If you believe that
you are supposed to live in an
unending state of poverty and
hopelessness, then that is exactly
where you will continue to find
yourself. It is, therefore, refreshing to witness President Barack
Obama and the U.S. Department
of Commerce place a major
national priority on increasing the development and economic sustainability of Black
American-owned businesses.
In particular, there has been
a steady increase in younger
African-American entrepreneurs
taking the lead in new business
development across America.
A self-destructive component of a “slave mentality” is
to believe that wealth acquisition and economic power is
ordained and limited only for
the sons and daughters of former slave masters who are entitled to wealth based on their
historical inheritance of privilege and power over the flow
of money. Too many people in
our communities do not believe
that they can achieve financial
success and wealth. That is a
sad and inaccurate understanding of the opportunities at hand
today. 2011-2012 ought to be
the year of focus on building and
expanding Black-owned businesses and constructing a more
secure economic foundation
and sustainability for the expansion of wealth-building in the
African American community.
Recently the U.S. Department
of Commerce Minority Business
Development Agency (MBDA)
and U.S. Census Bureau
released new data from the
U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey
of Business Owners showing
“that the number of AfricanAmerican-owned firms in the
United States increased by 60.5
percent between 2002 and 2007
to 1.9 million firms. AfricanAmerican-owned businesses also
drove job creation over the fiveyear period, with employment
growing 22 percent, exceeding
that of non-minority-owned
businesses.” Keep in mind that
this Black American business
growth was also during the severe
economic crisis in the United
States. Today Black-owned businesses are helping to provide
more new jobs and income into
Black America than ever before.
Too often we get so distracted
dealing with all the bad news
that happens each day in the
world in which we now live that
we lose sight of how to improve
our overall quality of life
through education, hard work,
diligence, economic development, and a refocused mindset
that maintains the highest of
social and financial aspirations.
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The MBA National Director,
David A. Hinson stated, “We
are encouraged by the overall
growth of the minority business
community, including African
American-owned businesses,
but we still have a lot of work to
do. Creating new businesses and
new jobs on a path to entrepreneurial parity in size, scope and
capacity is our primary goal.”
According to the MBDA,
“While minority-owned firms
are experiencing substantial
growth,
African-Americanowned businesses still only
represent 7 percent of all classifiable firms but 12 percent of
the adult population. MBDA
works to promote the growth
and global competitiveness of
minority businesses, so they
are better equipped to create
jobs, boost their local economies, and compete in the global
marketplace.” Here is where we
definitely agree with Hinson and
the MBDA. Connecting Blackowned businesses in the United
States to the global marketplace
is critical and essential going forward. Million-dollar businesses
in our communities have an
opportunity to become billiondollar businesses with the right
networking by building global
business relationships and joint
ventures. In other words, we
have to expand our vision and
mission. Ending the poverty in
the African-American community will not happen overnight.
Building more wealth in our
communities will also not be
done overnight. There are not
going to be quick easy fixes to
our financial status. But, there are
real solutions to our problems.
We just need to focus more
on establishing stronger economic and revenue-generating
strategies and businesses during
this period of time. Yet, we can
do more and should do more
today to increase the economic income and investment into
our communities and families.
Neither poverty nor wealth is
a permanent condition for the
Black community. The point
here is that as we build more
successful businesses that serve
the economic interests of Black
people, we will be stronger to
remove poverty from both our
mindset and our socioeconomic
condition. For those who are
doing better today financially
and for those who will do better in the future, please do not
forget about reaching back to
provide more economic development opportunities for more
of our sisters and brothers who
really want a better quality of
life. The more we acquire or
have, the more we should give
back and lend a helping hand.
Chavis is an NNPA columnist and president of Education
Online Services Corporation.
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Racist blog post doesn’t detract
from the beauty of Black women
BY LZ GRANDERSON
n a couple of weeks my
mother turns 65.
She takes yoga and Zumba
every chance she gets and if you
sneeze more than twice around
her, she’ll cook you a pot of collard greens. My mother believes
her collard greens can fix just
about anything.
She has a fiery personality
that can rub people the wrong
way. But those who know her
don’t mind, because it was that
same fire that helped her overcome poverty, beat cancer and
protect her five cubs.
My mother is a Black
woman.
And she is beautiful.
So to the editors of
Psychology Today who thought
it was a good idea to post a blog
item calling Black women ugly,
I suggest you watch your back...
my mother’s cubs are looking
for you.
And we are not happy.
Satoshi Kanazawa’s post,
“Why Are Black Women Less
Physically Attractive Than
Other Women?” appeared two
Sundays ago and quickly circulated around the blogosphere. It
drew a great deal of criticism,
which I suspect led to the post
being pulled, though you can
still find it elsewhere on the
Web.
While it’s not quite as bad
as Golfweek magazine putting
a noose on its cover in relationship to a story about Tiger
Woods, it is still rather disturbing that Psychology Today’s
editors needed public outcry to
clue them in that the post was
offensive and irresponsible.
It’s challenging enough to see
popular culture publications such
as People and Maxim struggle
to include Black women in their
annual most-beautiful listings,
but at least their editors don’t
try to justify their choices under
I
the guise of science.
“Because they have existed
much longer in human evolutionary history, Africans have
more mutations in their genomes
than other races,” Kanazawa’s
post read. “And the mutation
loads significantly decrease
physical attractiveness.”
I do not dispute Kanazawa’s
credentials as an evolutionary
psychologist at the London
School of Economics, but I do
wonder why he even approached
the topic.
I question a methodology that asks random people
to judge the attractiveness of
other random people without
taking into account the influence of background and culture.
Without taking into account a
Westernized standard of beauty
that has not only haunted some
Black women into buying cream
to bleach their skin but prompted some Asian-Americans to
undergo surgery to make their
eyes more European looking.
That’s not to say White skin
or round eyes are necessarily
unattractive. Rather, a system
that declares one set of physical attributes as the standard
to which a multiethnic society
must adhere is destructive.
And racist.
And yet as much as I detest
Kanazawa’s post, I do recognize it as just another chapter
in the ongoing assault on Black
women in our culture.
He says they’re ugly.
The statistics say 42% have
never been married.
Some rappers say, well, we
know what they say... and apparently we don’t mind, because
they keep topping the charts.
If you comb through Donald
Bogle’s book “Toms, Coons,
Mulattoes, Mammies and
Bucks: An Interpretive History
of Blacks in American Films,”
you’ll find a long celluloid his-
tory of Black women being portrayed as anything but beautiful.
Their sass is a constant source
of comedic relief, but rarely are
they seen as complete human
beings, to be romanced or capable of being vulnerable.
Nowadays the most popular
Black female characters in film
are not even played by Black
women. Tyler Perry’s “Madea”
and Martin Lawrence’s “Big
Momma” characters are unflattering caricatures of figureheads
who for generations on top of
generations held the Black community together.
Funny, maybe.
Fair, definitely not.
More than two in three Blacks
enrolled in college are women.
Three of four Blacks in graduate school are women. It’s a
free country and film makers
can say whatever they want. I’m
just not sure why it’s so hard to
make a sequel about that. The
First Amendment gives us the
freedom to say whatever we
want. But it doesn’t say that we
should.
Because of the long history of
the deconstruction, Kanazawa’s
post, while tasteless and disgusting, is an attack Black
women can easily brush aside
— been there, heard that. But it
does provide an opportunity for
real talk within the Black community and for recognizing that
the wounds that hurt the most
don’t come from enemy lines
but friendly fire. It comes from
Black men who know enough
to respect the Black women
who are their mothers but not
the Black women who are their
lovers. They fail to see the disconnect.
I’m not suggesting Black
women are absolved of any
responsibility in how they are
portrayed in the media or that
every Black woman is looking for a Black man in the first
place.
But certainly Black men play
a significant role in the way
Black women are perceived.
Black men help create the environment in which a blog like
Kanazawa’s can be written.
We are the ones who use Black
women as shields because we
lack the will to be disciplined,
integrity to accept responsibility, or, for a small number of
us, even have the courage to
embrace our own sexuality.
The down-low isn’t just about
the impact homophobia has on
Black men; it’s also about the
selfish disregard these Black
men have for another person’s
life. In that, I see little difference between that and the Black
men who refuse to help raise
the kids they father or resort to
domestic violence.
The truth is Kanazawa’s post
doesn’t hold a candle to the
amount of damage Black men
continue to do to the image of
Black women ourselves.
That doesn’t mean not choosing one as a spouse is an automatic slap to the face. Black
men are free to date and marry
whomever they want, just like
everybody else.
Heck, I haven’t slept with a
woman of any color in years
because, well, I’m gay. But my
sexual orientation doesn’t prevent me from simply showing
respect for what continues to
be the backbone of my community. Women like my mother.
My sisters. My aunts, cousins,
friends ... the sisters who retwist
my locks, fight for equal rights,
usher in church or go to work
every day in a society where
a publication like Psychology
Today thinks it’s OK to call
Black women ugly.
Granderson wrote this commentary for CNN.
The sad, callous villainization of the poor
Speaking
Wednesday in
London, President Obama
told a joint
session of the
British Parliament that “The
longing for
freedom and
human dignity
is not English
or American or
Western — it
is universal,
and it beats in
every heart.”
BY GEORGE E. CURRY
In the 1960s, we had the War
on Poverty. In 2011, we’re now
seeing a War on People Who
Live in Poverty.
One of the most callous examples of this occurred on — you
guessed it — Fox News. Charles
Payne, in a business segment,
acknowledged that anti-poverty programs, food stamps, and
unemployment insurance were
“good programs”, but then went
on to attack recipients of those
programs.
“I think the real narrative here,
though, is that people aren’t
embarrassed by it,” Payne said.
“People aren’t ashamed by it. In
other words, there was a time
when people were embarrassed
to be on food stamps; there
was a time when people were
embarrassed to be on unemployment for six months, let alone
demanding to be on for more
than two years… No longer is
the man being told to look in
the mirror and cast down a judgment on himself; it’s someone
else’s fault. So, food stamps,
unemployment, all this stuff is
something that they probably
earned in some indirect way.”
The host of the business
show, Stuart Varney, called
food stamps, Medicaid, and the
Earned Income Tax Credit “a
form of welfare, income redistribution” benefiting people
with an “entitlement mentality.”
Varney and Payne, in effect,
dismissed the findings by the
National Bureau of Economic
Research that showed that such
programs keep 1 in 6 Americans
out of poverty, mostly the elderly, the disabled, and the working
poor. According to the Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities,
without those programs, the
poverty rate would double.
As states continue to struggle to balance their budgets, as
required by their constitutions,
some state lawmakers are direct-
ing their anger at the poor.
In Kentucky, a Republican
state representative has introduced a bill that, if passed,
would require random drug testing for all adults receiving welfare, food stamps or Medicaid.
Rep. Lonnie Napier, of
Lancaster, Ky., introduced
Kentucky House Bill 208 that
would immediately terminate
benefits to recipients who fail a
drug test. He told the Huffington
Post, “This program is gonna
save us a lot of money, because
there’s gonna be a lot of people
showing up on illegal drugs and
they will lose their assistance.”
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African-American voting rights
Photo by Olu Alemoru
Marqueece Harris-Dawson speaks Tuesday in Exposition Park, at the first town hall meeting of the African-American Redistricting
Collaborative.
At the first town hall
meeting of the AfricanAmerican Redistricting
Collaborative, experts
and residents discuss
ways to protect Black
political representation.
BY OLU ALEMORU
STAFF WRITER
The imminent redrawing of
California’s political map may
— according to the head of an
advocacy group that seeks to
ensure that African-American
representation is not “wiped
out” — be like watching paint
dry, but many are urging the
Black community to get fully
involved in the process.
That was the message from
Marqueece Harris-Dawson,
of the African-American
Redistricting Collaborative,
which held the first of three
town hall meetings to inform
and engage the community this
week at The Expo Center in
Exposition Park.
The next scheduled meetings
are May 31, at the LADWP
Auditorium, 4030 Crenshaw
Blvd.; and June 9 at the Puente
Learning Center’s South L.A.
Campus, 10000 S. Western Ave.
AARC’s member organizations
include AGENDA/SCOPE,
Community Coalition of South
Los Angeles, the Greenlining
Institute, the Los Angeles Urban
League, the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund
and West Angeles Community
Development Corporation.
Tuesday night’s two-hour
forum, attended by about two
dozen people, began with an
introductory overview by
Harris-Dawson
explaining
AARC’s mission, the redistricting process and what is at stake
for the Black community.
“I think a lot of people don’t
know what it means … it’s one
of the most un-exciting, mundane issues you can work on,
but if we don’t get this right
our representation could be cut
in half or wiped out,” HarrisDawson said. “You can weigh
in on the proposed maps that
are going to be created, write
e-mail’s and letters and attend
the meetings. It’s important that
people are not able to walk
away from these hearings and
say African-Americans have
disappeared from California.”
He was joined on the panel
by the group’s coordinator Erica
Teasley Linnick, First AME
Church’s Denise Hunter and
Kareem Crayton from the North
Carolina Law School.
Linnick gave an overview of
the Voting Rights Act, while
Hunter talked about the issue of
“prison gerrymandering” — the
practice of counting incarcerated persons as residents of their
prison communities instead of
their home communities — and
Assemblyman Mike Davis’
Assembly Bill 420 to outlaw
the practice.
Meanwhile, Crayton, gave a
presentation of AARC’s proposed maps for the Assembly,
Senate and Congressional districts.
Redistricting takes place
every 10 years following the
census and involves the drawing of political lines that make
up California’s Assembly,
Senate, Board of Equalization
and Congressional districts.
Following the passage of
Proposition 11 in 2008 and
Proposition 20 in 2010, a new
independent redistricting commission took over the task previously reserved for lawmakers
and their designees.
The 14 commissioners are
currently engaged in drawing
the lines — which are dependent on the final Census numbers — and will be holding a
number of hearings around the
state to receive public input.
The proposed date for the
first draft maps is June 10, followed by post draft map hearings. The second draft maps are
scheduled to be posted July 1,
again followed by subsequent
hearings and the proposed date
for the final maps is July 26.
The deadline for the final
maps is Aug. 15 and in order
to approve or adopt the new
district lines the commission
must have the affirmative of
votes of at least three of the five
Democratic Commissioners, at
least three of the five Republican
commissioners, and at least
three of the four nonpartisan or
third party commissioners.
On vote, ‘things are evolving in a positive way’
CRENSHAW from page A4
Urban League; scholar Cornel
West; Jackie Ryan, of the
Leimert Park Village Merchants
Association; and Damien
Goodmon, executive director of
United Community Associations
Inc., which actively challenged
the board when it was faced
with a decision to place an atgrade rail line near Dorsey High
School.
As to how the board may vote,
Ridley-Thomas said, “Things
are evolving in a positive way.
This effort today only encourages that. Meetings have taken
place with the mayor of Los
Angeles, who holds four votes
on that board, and the mayor
has indicated that he is open
to trying to work this out. That
is a good sign. We are going
one-by-one to all other metro
directors and our conversations
are quite encouraging at this
point. Our point is for everyone
to show up, link up, sign up and
speak up.
“Their responses are weakening. That is, they are finding less
things to throw up that would
be defensible. It is a question
of whether Crenshaw will get
these resources versus some
other uses that members may
have. So, it is not theirs, nor is
it ours, but it is to be determined
how it will be expended,” he
added. “The important thing to
understand is that this project is
ready to go; we are first out of
the shoot. Therefore, what do
you do? Do you build a project
that doesn’t reach the highest in
best use indifference to projects
that are coming on line as far
out a decade or two away? No,
you make a decision now to
build this project and celebrate
it in a way that is worthy of all
our investment.”
Why are they demonizing the downtrodden?
CURRY from page A6
There is no evidence that people benefiting from anti-poverty
programs are any more prone
to becoming drug addicts than
those who do not receive such
aid. Professor Harold Pollack,
of the University of Chicago,
pointed out that Michigan
implemented a mandatory drug
testing program 10 years ago
at three of its welfare offices.
Of the 258 welfare applicants
tested, only 21 tested positive
for illegal drugs. Of the 21 failing, 18 tested positive for marijuana.
Newt Gingrich, who is testing
the GOP presidential waters,
has tried to indirectly inject race
into his campaign. Speaking to
a group of Republicans in his
home state of Georgia, he said:
“President Obama is the most
successful food stamp president
in American history. I would
like to be the most successful
paycheck president in American
history.”
When asked about the comment on Meet the Press, Gingrich
denied his comment contained
racial overtones. He asserted,
“…I have never said anything
about President Obama which
is racist.”
Perhaps not overtly, but certainly covertly. That point was
not lost on Adam Serwer of the
Washington Post. “I don’t think
Gingrich lacks the sophistication to understand how it sounds
when he calls for poll tests and
refers to the first black president
as ‘the food stamp president,’”
Serwer wrote. “…He gets to
play the victim of a politically
correct world where liberals try
to stifle all criticism of Obama
by characterizing any such criticism as racism. His dog whistle
is thus amplified by enraged liberals, while conservatives get to
play up their own form of racial
grievance politics.”
Nearly 12 percent of
Americans are beneficiaries of
the Food Stamp program — 28
percent of Blacks, 15 percent
of Latinos, and eight percent of
Whites.
Recipients, who are at or
below the poverty line, are
given a plastic card to purchase
food, seeds, and food plants.
The card cannot be used to purchase alcohol, tobacco, paper
goods or pet food. Despite those
restrictions, the users of food
stamps are still used as a political football.
“If people buy fresh vegetables or other relatively expensive though nutritious foods,
they are considered to be living
high on the hog at the taxpayers’ expense,” the New York
Times observed in 2009. “But
if they buy cheap foods like hot
dogs they are criticized for poor
health habits.”
Many people who were quick
to criticize the Food Stamp
program in the past are now
embracing it after they have lost
their job. More than 36 million
people are food stamp recipients, with an additional 15 million eligible for enrollment.
“This is the most urgent time
for our feeding program in our
lifetime, with the exception of
the Depression,” Undersecretary
of Agriculture Kevin Concannon
told the New York Times. “It’s
time for us to face up to the fact
that in this country of plenty,
there are hungry people.”
And, those hungry people
— many of them facing unemployment for the first time in
their adult life — should not be
stigmatized by candidates for
public office seeking to score
cheap political points.
Curry is an NNPA columnist and former editor-in-chief
of Emerge magazine and the
NNPA News Service.
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By Betty Pleasant
SANCTUARIES AND COURTROOMS — Well, it seems that
Churches-Gone-Wild season is upon us again as the historic Second
Baptist Church and its pastor, the Rev. William Epps, are poised to
spend the rest of the year in court, and venerable Paradise Baptist
Church, pastored by the Rev. A.D. Iverson, is becoming a hotbed of
anti-clerical sentiment over … you guessed it … money and property. Case No. BC431972, in which the National Baptist Convention
and Epps sued each other over whether Epps misappropriated
NBC funds, is scheduled for a jury trial on June 8 at 8:35 a.m. in
Department 64 at the downtown Hill Street courthouse.
In addition to that litigation, Epps and his church have been
embroiled in Case No. BC447095, in which Epps, Norman Bullock,
Second Baptist Church and the church’s Canaan Housing Corp. are
being sued for $5.6 million by A. Stephens Corvi Jr., Fractions
Sportswear Inc. and 20th Century Funding over just about every
piece of property the church owns. A trial date for this suit is slated
for December.
The trouble at Paradise is still under investigation by the Soulvine
and will be reported next week.
CANDIDATES’ STAND — I asked last week where the mayoral
candidates were on the issue of the Crenshaw Rail Line, as, at that
time, they had been silent on this — the biggest thing to happen in
the city’s Black community since most of us were born. I’ve heard
from them. Controller Wendy Greuel was the first to speak up.
(She was also the first to file to run for mayor). Last Friday, Greuel
sent a letter to the MTA board expressing her support of the RidleyThomas motion to add a Leimert Park station to the line and that
the subway continue underground until its terminus. Greuel’s letter
of support was followed by one from mayoral candidate Austin
Beutner, former deputy mayor. As of press time Wednesday afternoon, two others, Eric Garcetti and Alex Padilla, expressed warm
fuzzy feelings about the Leimert Park Station.
As far as the Black community is concerned, there are obviously only four candidates for mayor: Greuel, Beutner, Garcetti and
Padilla.
WHAT?! — Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell’s bill to limit the
ticketing of homeless youth cleared the Assembly by unanimous
vote this week. AB 1111, authored by Mitchell and San Diego
Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, is designed to protect homeless
youth from being ticketed and harassed for loitering.
“Homeless youths are among the most vulnerable members of any
community,” Mitchell said. “When cited for offenses such as loitering, they are essentially being penalized for having nowhere else to
go. Unable to pay the fine and likely to miss their day in court, these
homeless youths receive additional fines and penalties, and even risk
jail time if ‘caught’ by law enforcement. AB1111 aims to interrupt
the cycle of poverty that occurs when already down-and-out youngsters are cited for loitering, truancy or curfew violations, thereby
ratcheting up debt they cannot afford to pay down,” Mitchell said.
“It makes no sense to penalize these kids for circumstances
beyond their control,” said Ed Howard, counsel for the bill’s sponsor, the Children’s Advocacy Institute. The measure will now be
considered by the Senate.
I did not know these draconian Charles Dickens-like operations
are being undertaken by our law enforcement/criminal justice system
among our poorest and youngest people. This must stop. Thank you,
Holly.
... AND THANK YOU, BOB — Former City Councilman
Robert Farrell was among the civil rights trailblazing Freedom
Riders documented in the recent PBS American Experience series
program,“Freedom Riders.” As part of the salute to the Freedom
Riders, Houston’s PBS Channel 8 had Farrell et al. feted by Texas
Sen. Rodney Ellis, who retrieved the riders’ arrest records, gave
them state Senate and House of Representative commendations and
had them commissioned by the state of Texas as “honorary Texans.”
THIS AND THAT — Councilman Herb Wesson and community stakeholders are scheduled to break ground at 9 a.m. Thursday
morning for the construction of Wilshire Vista Plaza retail center
at Pico and Hauser boulevards. The development will consist of a
12,000-square-foot retail commercial project in the Mid-City area
and is expected to create 500 construction and 65 permanent jobs
when it opens next April.
State Sen. Curren Price will be presented the President’s Award
by the California Association of Museums for his support of the
state’s museum and cultural institutions in a ceremony at the Natural
History Museum in Exposition Park at 4 p.m. Thursday.
MA’AT Institute for Change will convene a forum on jobs and the
economy to be hosted by veteran community and union organizer
Greg Akili, who is field director for the national Social Security
Campaign. The forum will be held May 31 at 6:30 p.m. at 7100 S.
Western Ave.
NATE HOLDEN SEZ — “Los Angeles‘ city officials must be
extremely careful about negotiating with representatives of L.A.
Events Center, LLC. Last week I told you L.A. Events Center, LLC
is a dummy organization created in January to build the Farmers
Field football stadium. It is chartered in Delaware. Obviously,
Delaware was chosen to hide the organizer’s identity, isolate the
corporation from paying taxes and create a defense mechanism from
personal liabilities. L.A. Events Center LLC is subject exclusively
to Delaware law and not the laws of California, where they intend
to do business. Why would the creators of this dummy organization
think Los Angeles officials would be so dumb as not to investigate
what this corporation is all about? Delaware corporate laws do not
publicly disclose who created the corporation, nor do they require
the corporation to conduct business in that state. Delaware’s laws
of incorporation only require an annual franchise tax of $200 and
the board of directors and officers may only consist of one person
whose identity does not have to be disclosed. Question: Who might
that person be who filed to incorporate L.A. Events Center LLC?
The citizens of Los Angeles have a right to know! If the L.A. City
Council approves a $350 million bond for L.A. Events Center LLC
and it defaults on meeting the financial obligation to service the
loan, then the city would be holding the bag.”
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rom “aha!” moments to
“teachable” moments,
in 25 years “The Oprah
Winfrey Show” has not
just become a part of our popular vernacular, it’s shaped our
culture. Whether you’ve tuned
in each weekday afternoon or
preferred to tune her out, “Lady
O” has left her mark.
Here’s a list of the top five
ways “Oprah” has changed the
way we live.
Weighty issues
Over the years, Oprah has
chronicled every step of her
personal weight struggles.
Remember the red wagon full of
fat she wheeled onstage?
From fasting and fad diets to
embracing exercise and lifelong
lifestyle changes, Oprah’s candidness about issues surrounding weight created a cultural
dialogue that got us all talking
about “living our best life.” With
countless health tips from Dr.
Oz and Bob Greene’s frequent
weight loss and diet suggestions,
“Oprah” has served as the personal training team for legions
of followers.
Reading
Oprah got people walking, and
reading. During the 14 years of
Oprah’s Book Club, fans bought
millions of copies of Oprah’s
65 selected reading suggestions.
A lit pick by Oprah guaranteed additional printings and big
paychecks for publishers and
authors.
Controversy colored her
2005 choice of James Frey’s
“A Million Little Pieces” when
the author was forced to admit
he had made up large sections
of the story of drug addiction
and recovery that he touted as
nonfiction.
Nonetheless, it made for great
discussions at Oprah-inspired
book clubs across the country.
Race relations
Oprah has always credited
the sacrifice and service of
the men and women involved
in the civil rights movement
for paving a path for a poor
African-American woman from
the South to transform into a
beloved billionaire businesswoman. In turn, Oprah’s success
has inspired millions more.
“Oprah” opened discussions
about race in America. During
her first season, Oprah taped a
show in Forsyth County, Ga.,
where not a single Black person
had lived for 75 years. Her presence inspired conversation and
slow change. Twenty-five years
later, 7,000 African-Americans
call Forsyth County home, and
millions of Oprah’s diverse fans
see commonalities where they
once saw differences.
Give big
In 1997, Oprah invited viewers to help make a difference in
the lives of others by donating
their spare change. Remember
all the tear-jerking episodes of
school children collecting pennies and donating the proceeds
from their lemonade stands?
This simple request grew
into a charity known as Oprah’s
Angel Network, which gave
funds to hundreds of organizations around the world dedicated
to improving access to education
and basic rights. Oprah’s Angel
Network closed down in 2010,
but her desire to create awareness and “give big” continues to
inspire her fans.
Taboo topics
Issues like abuse, infidelity
and addiction weren’t often talked about openly before Oprah
became a household name.
Oprah’s willingness to share
her own experiences with childhood sexual abuse and other
struggles, combined with her
ability to attract guests willing
to reveal their secrets, made it
seem safer for the rest of us.
Oprah’s personal journey to
overcome her past, shared in
small moments with her viewers
over countless episodes, is the
essence of the show.
When reflecting on her 25th
season, Oprah recently told her
best friend, Gayle King, that
the message of her program is:
“You are not the product of
your circumstances. You are a
composite of all the things you
believe, and all the places you
believe you can go. Your past
does not define you. You can
step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even
if the entire culture is saying,
‘You can’t.’ Even if every single
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possible bad thing that can happen to you does, you can keep Whether in the area of race relations, philanthropy, weight-loss, self-improvement or literature,
going forward.”
Oprah Winfrey has left an indelible mark on American popular culture.
Amid tears and celebration, an icon signs off
BY MONI BASU
& JOE STERLING
CNN
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hen Funda Ray arrived
on these shores two
decades ago from
her native Turkey, she hardly
spoke English. But she learned,
went to school and even college.
Today, she works as a financial
adviser’s assistant. And it’s all
because of Oprah.
“She inspired me so much,”
said Ray, 44, of Hibbing,
Minnesota. “If it wasn’t for her,
I would have sat at home.”
Ray is recording the last episode of Oprah Winfrey’s show
Wednesday — she won’t be
home in time to watch. “I’m
going to miss her so much,”
she said.
The talk show queen is signing off after 25 years, capping
off three days of a farewell show
that included appearances by
Hollywood’s top celebrities.
Winfrey announced in 2009
that she was leaving the show
that catapulted her into a household name and made her a
part of American culture and
a worldwide celebrity. Even
Ray’s mother, who arrived from
Istanbul for a U.S. visit last
week, got off the plane and
asked her daughter: “Do you
know Oprah is retiring?”
Winfrey’s popularity and
credibility go hand in hand: If
she gushed about a book, it
became an instant best-seller.
An appearance on her show was
almost always followed by a rise
in profile for the guest.
Paula Pervall, 44, administrative assistant at the Elmhurst
House of Friendship, an assisted
living home in Wheeling, West
Virginia, is among millions of
Oprah fans.
“I think that it’s sad that the
up-and-coming generation is not
going to be able to experience
what she offered my generation
— the self-help, the inspiration
to do better,” Pervall said. “She
was very inspiring to people.
She taught a lot of lessons.”
The most important lesson?
“To be the best me that I can
be.”
She’s had a lot of great people
on the show, Pervall said.
She remembers the woman
who had the face transplant; she
was from West Virginia — “that
one jumps out at me.” Another
show featured someone kicked
out of a West Virginia town
because of HIV.
Winfrey taped a teary finale
last week that included a surprise
tribute from superstars including
Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Aretha
Franklin, Michael Jordan, Will
Smith and Madonna.
The finale aired in three parts
starting Monday and featured
surprise appearances as — one
by one — dozens of Winfrey’s
famous friends took to the
stage to pay tribute to the talk
show host at Chicago’s United
Center.
Show producers kept her out
of the loop about the guests.
Winfrey, who has in the past
made it clear that she does not
like surprises, gasped as her
celebrity friends made appearances to thunderous applause,
sometimes after a clue phrase.
“Pulling off this surprise
has been mission impossible,”
Hanks said Monday, a nod to the
famous movie starring Cruise,
who walked on stage right after.
On the first two days, Winfrey
took in the scene in an arena
filled with giant photographs of
memorable show moments and
thousands of adoring admirers.
Winfrey has kept mum about
plans for the final show — leaving her fans with one last surprise.
Kathy Pittman, 55, of
Columbus, Ohio, won’t find out
until Saturday. She’ll be watching it with her daughter then,
after the work week is over.
For Pittman, who is AfricanAmerican, Winfrey transcended
racial barriers with her talk. She
first connected with Winfrey just
months after the debut of “The
Oprah Winfrey Show” when the
talk show host visited Forsyth
County, Georgia, a hotbed of
racial tensions at the time.
Pittman was intrigued by
Winfrey’s courage and her confidence to put herself in the
middle of a volatile situation.
“No one sees her as a Black
woman,” Pittman said. “She
appeals to everyone. She showed
us ... that you can do whatever
you want to, that the sky’s the
AMPAS
The final edition of Oprah Winfrey’s eponymous talk show
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limit.”
It was refreshing to see an
African-American woman rise
to such enormous power and
then use it to help heal the
world, said Sondra Miller, 33,
vice president of community
engagement for Cleveland’s
rape crisis center.
“I think Oprah has built credibility over the years,” said
Miller, a subscriber to Winfrey’s
magazine and viewer of her
show from childhood. “She
takes topics with an extreme
amount of stigma, like sexual
abuse, and makes people OK to
talk about it.”
Male survivors of sexual
abuse was one such topic, Miller
said. Winfrey interviewed actor,
director and producer Tyler Perry
about his own experience and
also had an audience filled with
such survivors. Miller thought
that was remarkable.
“I don’t think we ever could
have imagined that happening
10 years ago,” she said.
Miller was drawn to Winfrey’s
knack for approaching intimidating topics in a sensitive and
empowering manner.
For many of her fans,
Winfrey’s last show is history
in the making. Her show will
end, they said, but her legacy is
lasting.
Part of it will live on through
runner Raymond Britt, 50, who
first saw Winfrey at the Chicago
Marathon in 1994. He had never
run a race before, let alone a
marathon. There was so much
behind him but so far to go still
— five miles to the finish line.
At mile 21, he caught a glimpse
of Winfrey, who had just run the
Marine Corps Marathon, cheering on the runners. She stood
alone, without an entourage,
simply encouraging everyone to
keep going.
“If she could do it, then I
could do it,” thought Britt, of
Winnetka, Illinois. He finished
that day and went on to run
125 more races, including 85
marathons.
“It’s possible I wouldn’t have
finished that first one without
Oprah at the 21,” he said. “She
inspires the human race.”
And part of it will live on
through Britney Deatherage, 26,
of Lexington, Kentucky, who
watched the shows with her
mother and became a fan.
The topics were more than
current events, said Deatherage,
a hairdresser. They focused on
“people’s real lives and what
they experienced.”
“She’s just kind of like an
idol to every woman,” she said,
illustrating that “women can be
what they want to be.”
Winfrey is one of the most
recognizable talk show hosts and
has built a media empire, including launching her own cable
television network, OWN.
“My vision for OWN is to
create a network that inspires
our viewers and makes them
want to be who they are on their
best day,” Winfrey said.
As Winfrey devotees mourn
the end of her 25-year run, some
speculate who — if anyone —
can fill her void.
“You all have been a safe
harbor for me,” the talk show
queen told her audience during
her last show. “My hope is that
you will be that safe harbor for
someone else.”
Some already have a leg up on
the competition.
“I’ve spent seven to eight years
training at Oprah University,”
joked Mehmet “Dr. Oz” Oz, a
Winfrey protege whose show
will upgrade to 83 time slots
and stations where “The Oprah
Winfrey Show” had aired.
Oz added that he is grateful
for the opportunity to take over
the time slot, which is among the
most sought-after in TV land.
Winfrey’s show made people
like Dominique Taylor, 23, of
Brooklyn reorient their lives.
Taylor rescheduled her cheerleading practice, her voice lessons, everything around 4 p.m.
so that she could be home in
front of the television. Winfrey
made the young woman laugh,
made her cry.
Today, Taylor sees herself as
an embodiment of Winfrey’s
show, another part of her legacy.
She’s a young filmmaker who
hopes to involve Winfrey’s production company in her project.
“Her show was a platform
for so many people to tell their
story, for them to know they
weren’t alone,” Taylor said.
At 4 p.m. every day, Taylor,
like millions of others, felt that
she mattered.
Winfrey signed off by walking
through her audience and offering an email address — oprah@
oprah.com — by which her
many fans might contact her.
“I want you to know that what
you have to say matters to me,”
she said, pledging to read as
many emails as possible.
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UCLA’s Priscilla Orozco
(Montebello
High
School,
Commerce Aquatics Club) earned
first-team all-tournament honors
at the NCAA women’s water polo
championships in Ann Arbor,
Mich.
Orozco scored a goal in the
Bruins’ first-round match against
Indiana and one in the second
round against California.
UCLA edged USC, 6-5 in the
third-place game.
BASEBALL
Cal State L.A. junior Gabriel
Asakura has been named to
the NCAA Division II All-West
Region first team by the National
Collegiate Baseball Writers
Association.
Asakura was named the
California Collegiate Athletic
Association co-pitcher of the year
last week
Asakura was 7-2 with a 1.38
ERA. He struck out 74 in 72
innings and allowed only 11
earned runs.
Cal State Dominguez Hills is
represented on the all-region
team by senior infielder Carlos
Leyva and senior outfielder Kevin
Pillar on the first team and junior
pitcher/designated hitter Josh
Corrales on the second.
TENNIS
USC senior Maria Sanchez has
been named the Pac-10 women’s tennis singles player of the
year in a vote of the conference
coaches.
Sanchez has been atop the
ITA national rankings most of the
season.
She is 36-5 in singles and
is seeded No. 2 in the NCAA
Championships and is the reigning National Indoor singles champion. She was runner-up at the
Pac-10 championships.
SOFTBALL
Marilyn Toriz (El Rancho High
School grad) and Natalia Morales
(South East) earned all-tournament honors while helping
Cypress College repeat as state
community college softball champions in Bakersfield.
Toriz was named the tourney’s
golden glove award winner and
had an RBI in Sunday’s final, a
9-1 win over San Joaquin Delta.
She also had a three-run home
run in an opening-round 5-1 win
over San Joaquin Delta.
Arren Nunez, a freshman from
South East, went 2-for-4 with an
RBI in the final.
BASKETBALL
Former Centennial High School
star Rose Boatner and April Perry,
both members of the Cerritos
College women’s basketball
team, have signed with NAIA
school Southern University at
New Orleans.
Boatner averaged 7.4 points
and a team-high 10.2 rebounds
per game for the 23-7 Falcons.
She also led the team with 12
blocked shots and was second
in steals.
Perry led Cerritos with a 15.7
scoring average and 3.8 assists
per game. She had a team-high
40 3-pointers.
GOLF
Andrea Gaston, who directed
USC to four wins, including at the
2011 Pac-10s and NCAA West
Regional, was named the National
Golf Coaches Association national coach of the year and Trojan
Sophia Popov, who won three
times among eight top 7 finishes,
is the national freshman of the
year.
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Among those selected to the
All-Big West Conference softball
team were former Warren High
School standout Liz Javier and
ex-Carson star Christina Schallig
of Long Beach State.
Javier, a senior third baseman,
is a first-team selection, while
Schallig, a senior first baseman,
made the second unit.
Javier earned All-Big West honors for a second season after
batting .325 with two home runs
and 25 RBIs. In conference, she
hit .397 (fifth in the Big West),
with 25 hits (sixth) and a .479
on-base percentage (sixth).
Schallig, who began her college career at Cal, hit .344 with
four homers and 17 RBIs in
conference. She finished among
conference leaders in slugging
percentage (.625/sixth), RBIs
(second), doubles (6/fifth), home
runs (fifth) and total bases (40/
second).
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Carson High School’s Brittany Moeai smashes a long triple against Marshall in the City Section playoff game. Carson
won, 2-0.
Carson goal within reach
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Having met one big challenge
Monday, the Carson High School
softball team now faces an even
larger one Friday.
A year after falling in the City
Section semifinals, the Colts will
be playing for the Championship
Division title this time around
against top-seeded El Camino
Real at 3 p.m. Friday at Cal State
Northridge.
Second-seeded Carson (26-3)
and El Camino Real (24-4) took
care of business in Monday’s
semifinals to advance. The Colts
blanked Marshall, 2-0 and El
Camino Real edged San Pedro,
1-0 in dramatic fashion.
Now the Colts are one step
from reaching an annual goal
they haven’t achieved in a while.
“I tell our team at the start, our
goal is to win our last game,”
Carson coach Cam Werner said.
“That means we’ve won it all.
“We talk about legacy here and
how we’d like to be remembered.
What a great way to be remembered.”
Werner knows the Colts face a
quality opponent in the Conquistadores, who have won 13 City
titles in program history, two shy
of the City record of 16 held by
San Pedro.
El Camino Real has an outstanding senior outfielder in
Dani Gilmore, who is headed to
Oregon State. She is batting .568
with nine home runs and 59 RBIs.
Junior outfielder Whitney West is
hitting .551 with 26 RBIs.
Junior pitcher Daryn Wright
is 24-3 with a 0.88 ERA and is
averaging better than a strikeout
per inning.
“Dani Gilmore is outstanding,
she’s very fast and will put pressure on you,” Werner said. “They
have a very good pitcher and
Lori Chandler is an outstanding
coach. They have a City championship under her. They are the
No. 1 seed for a reason.”
Shortstop Darian Tautalafua, catcher Brittany Moeai and
pitcher Crystal Maas are big reasons Carson goes into this game
with confidence.
Tautalafua, a junior shortstop
who has committed to Long
Beach State, is hitting .567 with
15 home runs and 44 RBIs. Her
mammoth home run to center
field leading off the fifth against
Marshall’s Megan Reiner was
the 36th of her career, breaking the old mark held by current
Long Beach State player Christina Schallig.
Moeai, a junior who has committed to UCLA, is hitting .593
with 12 homers and 65 RBIs. She
hit a booming triple and scored
on an error and also picked Marshall’s Rachel Ponce off second
with a laser-like throw in the
third inning.
Maas (18-2, 1.13) survived a
shaky top of the seventh when
Marshall (22-5) put two runners
on base to complete a two-hit,
nine-strikeout effort.
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Jordan captures City volleyball title
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Jordan High School may not
have entered the City Section Division 2 boys volleyball playoffs
as No. 1, but they sure exited it
that way.
Thanks to a spectacular effort
by junior outside hitter Cesar
Medina, the second-seeded Bulldogs won the second City title in
program history by knocking off
top-seeded Verdugo Hills, 25-14,
26-24, 22-25, 25-19 in the title
game Saturday at Venice.
The championship was the
highlight of a 31-4-3 season and
gives the school another trophy
to go along with the one it earned
for winning the Invitational
crown in 2008.
Their season actually ended
Tuesday with a 25-18, 225-19,
25-22 loss to visiting Santa Margarita in the first round of the
Southern Regional Division 2
playoffs.
Medina, the likely City player
of the year in the division, had
much to do with the Bulldogs
winning this time.
His 30 kills, 10 in the fourth
Jordan High School’s Jose and final set, set the tone.
“This feels great,” Medina said
Saldana spikes the ball
afterwards.
against Verdugo Hills.
Asked what he can do for an
encore next season, he added,
“Go out and win it again.”
“This was a tough game,” Jordan coach Leland Wong said.
“Everyone went on a lot of runs.
It was a tough game to coach, but
it was a good game with Cesar
and Jose Saldana going at it.
He had special praise for Medina.
“Cesar went all out today,”
Wong said. “He played his heart
out. We went to him every chance
we got. He was really killing it
today.”
Medina’s six kills and a service
ace and four kills and two blocks
by senior outside hitter Saldana
were keys to Jordan getting off to
a good start in set one.
The Bulldogs had to rally from
a 20-17 deficit in the second set
to pull off a 26-24 triumph that
ended with Saldana’s spike. Saldana scored the final three points
for the Bulldogs.
Verdugo Hills (25-5) came
from behind to win set three and
avoid a sweep.
A lot of the credit has to go to
the play of sophomore middle
blocker Joe Arechiga and sophomore outside hitter Timmy Indrieri. Indrieri’s block accounted for
the final point of the set.
Lincoln cruises past Locke
BY RON GUILD
STAFF WRITER
Lincoln High School made
Locke’s stay in the City Section
Division 2 baseball playoffs a
short one.
The Tigers jumped on starter
Gustavo Partida for five runs in
the first three innings, then completely broke the contest open
with a six-run sixth and went on
to an 11-4 victory Tuesday in a
first-round game.
Five errors contributed to three
unearned runs and an uneven performance by a rusty Locke team
that had been off for two weeks.
Lincoln (13-9-1) moves on to
the quarterfinals, while Coliseum
League co-champ Locke finishes
up 13-8. The Tigers are at No. 5
Gardena (12-18) Thursday. Gardena beat Los Angeles, 8-5 Tuesday.
Saints coach Dwayne Tatnall
wasn’t surprised at the quality of
the opposition.
“I saw them play against Huntington Park and they brought the
same game today,” he said. “This
is a team that hits the ball well, it
bunts the ball well and has good
pitching. As I told our guys, they
look a lot like us.
“I wish them well. I take my
hat off to them. If they keep
playing like they did today, they
have a good chance to go all the
way.”
The Saints, who like to play
small ball themselves, were the
victims of that style Tuesday.
James Orozco squeezed home
the first run, while Raul Lozano
and Danny Guerra had bunt singles during the six-run sixth.
The Tigers collected 12 hits,
led by center fielder Matthew
France, who was 3-for-4 with
two RBIs, Brando Lopez, who
was 2-for-3 with two RBIs, and
Lozano, who was 2-for-3.
Locke managed only two hits,
In set four, Medina came out on
fire and scored Jordan’s first four
points on kills for a 4-1 lead.
While the Dons eventually tied
the score at 8-8, the Bulldogs
went on another run as Medina
scored the next three points on
kills to put Jordan back up 11-8.
Junior outside hitter C.J. Suarez’s kill brought Verdugo Hills
to within two at 14-12 before Jordan began to stretch its lead.
With an 18-15 advantage, the
Bulldogs quickly turned that into
a 23-16 lead, putting them within
two points of the title. A Medina
kill made it 24-19, then Saldana
finished it off with one of his
own.
The Bulldogs also received
key contributions throughout
from the likes of senior outside
hitter Carlos Diaz, junior middle
blocker Juan Luna, junior setter
Roberto Lopez and junior libero
Edgar Soria.
Wong said it was hard to compare the two titles.
“My first one, that was a great
group of guys, but this was a
great group of guys, too,” he said.
“It’s hard to get back on top, but
they’ve worked hard ever since
they were freshmen. I’m so excited for the boys.”
Serra High School stunned
top-seeded Woodcrest Christian
Tuesday in the second round of
the Southern Section Division 5
baseball playoffs.
Dominic Smith hit a three-run
home run and went 3-for-4 and
Kamal Muhammad went 2-for-4
with four RBIs to spark a potent
lineup for the Cavaliers (20-5),
who travel to Hemet (17-11)
Friday for a quarterfinal game.
Hemet defeated Lompoc Cabrillo, 4-2 to advance.
Serra scored three runs in the
bottom of the second to tie the
score, then exploded for six in
the fifth to take control of the
contest.
Ron Miller went 3-for-4 and
Tim Ravare was 1-for-2 with a
sacrifice fly and three RBIs for
Serra.
Sophomore Khalil Denson (60) pitched 5.1 innings of relief to
get the win.
Division 7
Firebaugh 17, Twin Pines 2:
Gerardo Velasco hit two of the
team’s five home runs and Firebaugh (17-7) banged out 13 extra-base hits in a 17-2 rout in the
Division 7 playoffs.
Daniel Esparza went 4-for-5
with a homer, three doubles and
two RBIs, Miguel Valles went 3for-5 with a homer, two doubles
and three RBIs and Robert Rodriguez went 3-for-3 with a homer
and four RBIs. Rodriguez (3-0)
pitched five innings for the win.
Firebaugh
hosts
Nuview
Bridge (21-2) Friday in the quarters.
Animo Leadership 18, North
County Christian 4: Damian
Garcia, James Barraza and Jose
Pacheco each hit home runs
and drove in eight runs between
them and Andrew Negrete had a
no-hitter through five innings as
Inglewood’s Animo Leadership
routed North County Christian,
18-4 in the Division 7 game.
Negrete also had two hits and
scored a run as the lead-off hitter
for Animo.
Animo (19-5) hosts No. 1 New
Roads (18-5) in the quarterfinals
Friday at Darby Park.
City Section
Division 1
Chatsworth 15, Westchester 0: Visiting Westchester (1614) was routed by top-seeded
Chatsworth in the first-round
game.
Division II
Dorsey 11, Crenshaw 4:
Dorsey upset Crenshaw, 11-4 to
earn a quarterfinal game at Wilson Thursday. Wilson defeated
Van Nuys, 6-1 to advance.
Gardena 8, Los Angeles 5:
James Lopez (3-6) had seven
strikeouts and no walks in 4.1
innings and went 3-for-4 with an
RBI in the first round for No. 5
Gardena (12-18).
Austin Gadaire, who recorded
a four-out save, was 2-for-4 with
an RBI and Anthony Perez was
2-for-3 with two RBIs. Ben Mendez had two hits and two RBIs
and Pedro Valdez had a triple for
the Panthers.
both in the fourth when it was
scoring its runs.
Eric Soto singled and Partida
doubled him home. After Anthony Casillas walked, he got in
an intentional rundown between
first and second. While Lincoln
was occupied with him, Partida
raced home. Casillas wound up
safe at second.
David Soto (5-3) pitched the
first five innings to gain credit
for the win. He retired the first 10
batters.
“Overall, I’m proud of our
guys,” Tatnall said. “We have
four seniors, so most of the guys
are returning. We have a freshman second baseman (Soto), a
junior shortstop (Justin Marzett)
and a junior third baseman (Felix
Macias). Our left fielder (Victor
Photo by Ron Guild
Medina) is a sophomore, our center fielder (Matthew Stewart) is a Locke High School’s Gustavo Partida awaits a pitch durjunior. We’re looking forward to
ing Tuesday’s game with Lincoln.
next season.”
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Carson, ECR in City final
CARSON from page A9
Carson High School’s Ramona Robledo is tagged out on a steal attempt against Marshall.
ence helped get them through the
nervous moments against Marshall.
“Being in that pressure situation before helped,” she said.
“We didn’t get flustered.”
That goes back to the three
stars.
“That extra insurance run was
huge,” she said. “It was a big
player stepping up. All three
stepped up when they had to.
Big-time players step up in those
situations and all three did. It’s
why Darian is going to Long
Beach State, why Brittany is going to UCLA, why Crystal is going to Cal State Northridge.”
“I think we are a little more
experienced than we were last
year,” Maas said. “We grew a
little more as a team and know
our strengths more.”
“I think last year lit a fire under
us,” Tautalafua added.
Tautalafua, who went 2-for-3
with the home, said she wasn’t
consciously trying to break the
record.
“I’m not really worried about
it,” she said. “I just go up there
and try to hit the ball.”
Moeai went 2-for-3 with her
triple and also picked Rachel
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NOTICE OF IMPENDING POWER TO SELL TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY
Made pursuant to Section 3361, Revenue and Taxation Code
Notice is hereby given that real property taxes and assessments on the parcels
described below will have been defaulted five or more years, or, in the case of
nonresidential commercial property, property on which a nuisance abatement lien has
been recorded or that can serve the public benefit by providing housing or services
directly related to low-income persons when three or more years have elapsed and a
request has been made by a city, county, city and county, or nonprofit organization that
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The parcels listed will become subject to the Tax Collector's power to sell on July 1, 2011,
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property is either redeemed or made subject to an installment plan of redemption initiated
as provided by law prior to 5:00 p.m., on June 30, 2011. The right to an installment plan
terminates on June 30, 2011, and after that date the entire balance due must be paid in
full to prevent sale of the property at public auction.
The right of redemption survives the property becoming subject to the power to sell,
but it terminates at 5:00 p.m. on the last business day before actual sale of the property
by the Tax Collector.
All information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption
will be furnished, upon request, by Mark J. Saladino, Los Angeles County Treasurer and
Tax Collector, 225 North Hill Street, First Floor, Los Angeles, California 90012.
The amount to redeem, in dollars and cents, is set forth opposite its parcel number.
This amount includes all defaulted taxes, penalties,
and fees that have accrued from the date of tax-default to the date of June 30, 2011.
I certify, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 25th
day of April, 2011.
MARK J. SALADINO
TREASURER AND TAX COLLECTOR
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION
The Assessor's Identification Number (AIN), when used to describe property in this list,
refers to the Assessor's map book, the map page, the block on the map, if applicable, and
the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The Assessor's maps and further
explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the Assessor's Office, 500
West Temple Street, Room 225, Los Angeles, California 90012.
The real property that is the subject of this notice is situated in the County of Los
Angeles, State of California, and is described as follows:
PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED IN YEAR 2006 FOR TAXES, ASSESSMENT, AND
OTHER CHARGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005-2006
5066 $8,913.88
MOTT,FRANK AND MARILYN TRS ET AL MOTT TRUST AND MOTT,BRIAN J
SITUS:1026 E GHENT ST AZUSA CA 91702-4834 AIN: 8629-016-006
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CITY OF LOS
ANGELES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that on TUESDAY, JUNE
28, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the
John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City
Hall, Los Angeles, the City Council will convene
to hear protests to Building & Safety Department
relative to non-compliance and proposed line to
recover the cost of inspections, plus appropriate fees and fines, pursuant to Los Angeles
Municipal Code Section 91.103, 98.0411(a), and
Los Angeles Administrative Code Sections 7.35.3
and 7.35.5 for the following property located at
10915 South Broadway, lien amount $2,133.93,
APN: 6074-013-004. Please be advised that the
City Council reserves the right to continue this
matter to a later date, subject to any time limit
constraints. Please contact this office if you would
like to be notified of any future hearing dates
should the Council not act on this matter on the
aforementioned date.
All persons interested and affected by the proposed assessment may file written protests or
objections with the City Clerk, Room 395, City
Hall, at any time prior to the time set for hearing by the City Council on the report of the
Superintendent. References should be made to
Council File No. 11-0425.
June Lagmay, City Clerk of the City of Los
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Notice is hereby given that on TUESDAY, JUNE
28, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the
John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City
Hall, Los Angeles, the City Council will convene
to hear protests to Building & Safety Department
relative to non-compliance and proposed line to
recover the cost of inspections, plus appropriate
fees and fines, pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal
Code Section 91.103, 98.0411(a), and Los
Angeles Administrative Code Sections 7.35.3 and
7.35.5 for the following property located at 10728
South Vermont Avenue, lien amount $2,098.66,
APN: 6061-006-030. Please be advised that the
City Council reserves the right to continue this
matter to a later date, subject to any time limit
constraints. Please contact this office if you would
like to be notified of any future hearing dates
should the Council not act on this matter on the
aforementioned date.
All persons interested and affected by the proposed assessment may file written protests or
objections with the City Clerk, Room 395, City
Hall, at any time prior to the time set for hearing by the City Council on the report of the
Superintendent. References should be made to
Council File No. 11-0424.
June Lagmay, City Clerk of the City of Los
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAMES
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011036084
The following person(s) is (are) doing business
as:
(1) Ubidorbuy, (2) Ubidorbuy.com, 607 S. Hill
Street, Suite 535, Los Angeles, California
90014, County of Los Angeles.
Articles of Incorporation or Organization Number:
AI #ON: 201112010278
Registered owner(s):
Ubidorbuy LLC, CA, 531 Main Street #943, El
Segundo, California 90245.
This business is conducted by a Limited Liability
Company.
The registrant commenced to transact business
under the fictitious business name or names listed
above on N/A.
I declare that all information in this statement is
true and correct. (A registrant who declares as
true information which he or she knows to be false
is guilty of a crime.)
Ubidorbuy LLC
S/ Dennis J. Dufau, Manager
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of
Los Angeles on May 24, 2011.
NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County
Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of
Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the
residence address of a registered owner. A New
Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed
before the expiration.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under
Federal, State, or common law (See Section
14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011017188
as:
Komodo Novelties, 3727 Monon St., Los
Angeles, CA 90027, County of Los Angeles, P.O.
Box 63443, Los Angeles, CA 90063
Blanca Martinez, 3727 Monon St., Los Angeles,
CA 90027
This business is conducted by an individual
above on n/a
S/ Blanca Martinez
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011025658
as:
R&B Caribbean Market, 3804 Western Ave.,
Los Angeles, CA 90062, County of LA, 1076 E.
Fernrock St., Carson, CA 90746
AI #ON: 27-1662980
Two Bells As One, Inc., 1076 E. Fernrock St.,
Carson, CA 90746
This business is conducted by a Corporation
above on n/a
Two Bells As One, Inc.,
S/ Monique D. Bell, Secretary
Los Angeles on May 9, 2011
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011018685
as:
(1) Akilah-Bree’s, (2) Akilah-Bree’s Boutique,
5900 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2600, Los Angeles,
CA 90036, County of Los Angeles
Edward L. Saunders, 2293 W. 20th St., Los
Angeles, CA 90018
This business is conducted by an Individual
above on N/A
S/ Edward L. Saunders, Owner
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011016767
as:
Supremacy Elite Entertainment, 309 E. Hillcrest
Bl., #137, Inglewood, CA 90301, County of Los
Angeles
Mede Strong, 309 E. Hillcrest Bl., #137, Inglewood,
CA 90301
Marcus Brooks, 309 E. Hillcrest Bl., #137,
Inglewood, CA 90301
Laquan Chandler, 309 E. Hillcrest Bl., #137,
Inglewood, CA 90301
This business is conducted by a General
Partnership
above on n/a
S/ Mede Strong, Partner
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Ponce off second base after the
Barrister’s first baseman led
off the fourth with a single and
moved up on an infield out.
“Having somebody like Brittany behind the plate is like having a coach on the field,” Werner
said. “She calls her own game
and does a great job. I feel very
blessed to have somebody like
that behind the plate.”
Reiner struck out six and scattered nine hits over her six innings of work.
Ponce and Samantha Talavera
had the hits for the Barristers. Talavera led off the seventh with a
single and Shirley Chui was then
hit by a pitch, putting Maas in
her first tough spot since the first
inning when two runners reached
courtesy of a hit batter and walk.
But Maas got Lilian Andrade
to pop out to short, Erin Mendoz
to ground out and Cynthia Rodriguez to pop out to second to end
the game.
For Carson, a trip to Northridge awaits it.
“It’s exciting, I can’t wait,”
Maas said.
Invitational Division
Poly 4, Westchester 2: Monica Mendoza struck out the final
two batters with runners at sec-
ond and third to lift top-seeded
past Westchester Monday in the
City Section Invitational Division softball semifinals.
The Parrots (17-8-1) faced
Franklin (13-7) Wednesday at
Birmingham for the division
title.
Mendoza struck out six and
pitched a four-hitter to outduel
Westchester’s Monica Cartwright, who fanned nine, walked
three and allowed one earned
run.
Stephanie Hernandez hit an
RBI-triple in the first inning for
Poly and three Comet errors led
to a three-run third for the Parrots.
Imani Goss went 2-for-3 and
Lauren Culbertson had a double
and RBI for Westchester (135). Sharnitra Woods, Shalonda
Woods and Cartwright also had
hits for the Comets.
Franklin 4, Sylmar 3: Visiting Franklin advanced to the Invitational final with a 4-3 victory
over Sylmar.
The Panthers scored a single
run in the second, then fell behind, 3-1 before rallying to tie
with two in the sixth. They broke
the tie in the seventh.
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213-996-2534 at least three (3) business days
prior to the day of the Pre-Bid Conference.
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.
( 323 ) 556-5720
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INGLEWOOD/HAWTHORNE WAVE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011011415
as:
The Lice Magicians, 2023 Corning Street #15,
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Verlisa Walker, 2023 Corning St., Los Angeles,
CA 90034
This business is conducted by an Individual
above on N/A
S/ Verlisa Walker, Owner
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011017178
as:
J V Group & Associates Inc., 1542 W. Olympic
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015, County of Los
Angeles
AI #ON: 3366863
J V Group Associates Inc., CA., 1542 W. Olympic
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015
above on N/A
J V Group Associates Inc.
S/ Jorge E Velasquez, Director
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011024873
as:
Dramastage-Qumran Workshop, 265 S. Lake
St. #314, Los Angeles, CA 90057, County of LA
AI #ON: 02-0796204
Dramastage-Qumran Workshop, 265 S. Lake St.
#314, Los Angeles, CA 90057
above on 1-24-07.
Dramastage-Qumran Workshop
S/ Earlean Anthony, Chief Executive Officer
Los Angeles on May 6, 2011
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File No. 2011018347
as:
Angels Doves Personal Care & Maintenance
Service, 7701 S. Western Ave., Apt. 14, Los
Angeles, California 90047, County of LA
Barbara Faye Lias, 7701 S. Western Ave., Apt. 14,
Los Angeles, California 90047.
This business is conducted by an individual.
above on N/A.
S/ Barbara Faye Lias, CEO
Los Angeles on April 28, 2011.
GOVERNMENT
$450,000.00 BIDDING 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
College: Los Angeles Harbor College
Project Name: Serviceability Enhancement DSA
Package NEA/SSA
Project Number.: 33H.5366.02.04
Project Estimate: $425,000. - $450,000.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Los Angeles
Community College District (“District”) invites
sealed bids for the following public works project
(“Work”):
Project consists of Serviceability Enhancements to
the Northeast Academic Hall and Student Services
and Administration Buildings constructed in 2009.
Upgrades to the existing Northeast Academic
Hall and Student Services and Administration
Buildings to include:
1)Rooftop mechanical screen doors
2) Rooftop crossover platform
3)Angle closures at 2nd floor guardrails
4) Framing
5) Drywall
6) Patching and painting
7) Stucco
8) Door replacements
9) CCTV system
10) Automation of perimeter doors
11) Additional signage.
12) HVAC augmentation
13) Fire Alarm system augmentation
14) Lighting
15) Other misc. trade work
On March 9, 2005, the BOT granted a waiver to
the prohibition on restrictive bidding specifications and contracting documents for building
automated controls to specify only controls that
are manufactured by Honeywell, and Fire Alarm
Systems manufactured by Edwards Systems at
Los Angeles Harbor
the prohibition on restrictive bidding specifications
and contracting documents for Primex Clocks,
Schlage Key Systems & Locksets; Von Duprin
Exit Devices; and LCN Surface Closers for door
hardware at Los Angeles Harbor College.
the prohibition on restrictive bidding specifications
and contracting documents for Alerton BACnet
Building Controllers for the Building Management
System (BMS) at Los Angeles Harbor College.
Bids shall be prepared in conformance with
the Instructions to Bidders and other Bidding
Documents. Bids must be received, by either hand
delivery or mail, at BuildLACCD, 915 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017, no
later than the Bid Closing Deadline of 2:00 p.m.
on June 17, 2011, to be thereafter on said date
and at said location publicly opened and read
aloud. The Bidder assumes full and sole responsibility for timely receipt of its Bid.
Bidding Documents will be available to Bidders
on and after May 25, 2011, at the following
locations:
For document pick up: Universal Reprographics
(District’s reprographics service) at any of the following Three (3) locations:
1) Universal Reprographics Incorporated, Los
Angeles Branch, 2706 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles,
California 90057 Tel: 213-365-7750
2) West Los Angeles Branch, 2043 Pontius Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025 Tel: 310-477-2900
3) Robertson Branch, 1444-B S. Robertson Blvd,
Los Angeles, 310-205-5242
To order or view online: http://www.build-laccd.
org/, Contracting and Bidding Site, Universal
Reprographics Online Plan Room Link.
To view in person: Arcadis U.S., Inc., 1111
Figueroa Place Box 234, Willmington, CA 90744,
Telephone: (310) 221-8300.
The District will provide one (1) complete set
of Bidding Documents to each Bidder, free of
charge, for pick-up upon at least eight (8) hours
notice to Universal Reprographics at any of the
above-stated Universal Reprographics locations.
Bidder may arrange, at Bidder’s own expense,
for document delivery and additional sets by
contacting Universal Reprographics at one of the
above-stated locations.
A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be
conducted on June 1, 2011, commencing
promptly at 10:00 a.m. at Arcadis U.S., Inc.,
1111 Figueroa Place Box 234, Willmington, CA
90744, Telephone: (310) 221-8300. Attendance
at the Pre-Bid Conference is required as a
condition of bidding, unless the Bidder is a “Local,
Small or Emerging Business”, as defined in the
District’s Policy on Local, Small and Emerging
Businesses, Board Rule 7103.17 (a copy of which
is available for review on the District’s Website),
and Bidder submits an affidavit as required by said
Board Rule. Sign language services are available
for the Pre-Bid Conference upon written request
received by Build-LACCD, 915 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017 or by Fax at
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):
B - General Contractor
In addition, Bidder is required to hold, or designate in its Designation of Subcontractors a
Subcontractor that holds, the certification(s)
required by Applicable Laws to perform the following work: N/A.
Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1771.7, this
Project Will Not be subject to the District’s
approved Labor Compliance Program, initially
approved July 19, 2004. For questions or assistance concerning the Labor Compliance Program,
Veronica Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire
Blvd. Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017..
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 Veronica
Martinez, (213) 996-2581, 915 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
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 915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA
90017, 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
Program. For further information regarding enrollment eligibility and program services contact
Paulette Williams, Merriweather & Williams, at
213-258-3000.
Capitalized terms used herein shall have the
meanings assigned to them as set forth in Article
1 of the Instructions to Bidders.
Questions shall be directed to:
Daniel Robb
Build-LACCD Sustainable Building Program
Managers
E-mail: daniel.robb@build-laccd.org or via
Phone: (213) 996-2589 or Fax: (213) 996-2534
[Contractors interested in obtaining information on
upcoming LACCD projects; see
www.build-laccd.org (Contracting and Bidding
Site)]
5/26/11
WWA-2106887#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
NOTICE OF $10,000 REWARD OFFERED BY
THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS
Notice is hereby given that the Board of
Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles has
Established a reward in the amount of $10,000 in
exchange for information leading to the apprehension and/or conviction of the person or persons
responsible for the murder of Waymon Weston,
who was shot and killed on Monday, October
19, 2009, at approximately 9:59 p.m., as he was
standing outside his residence, located on the
1100 block of West 90th Street, Los Angeles.
Any person having any information related to this
crime is requested to call Sergeants Robert Gray
or Martin L. Rodriguez at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s
Department, Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500
and refer to Report No. 009-10108-0370-011. The
terms of the reward provide that: -- The information given that leads to the determination of the
identity, the apprehension and conviction of any
person or persons must be given no later than
August 15, 2011. All reward claims must be in
writing and shall be received no later than October
14, 2011. -- The total County payment of any and
all rewards shall in no event exceed $10,000
and no claim shall be paid prior to conviction
unless the Board of Supervisors makes a finding
of impossibility of conviction due to the death or
incapacity of the person or persons responsible
for the crime or crimes. -- The County reward may
be apportioned between various persons and/or
paid for the conviction of various persons as the
circumstances fairly dictate. Any claims for the
reward funds should be filed no later than October
14, 2011, with the Executive Office of the Board
of Supervisors, 500 West Temple Street, Room
383 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, Los
Angeles, California 90012, Attention: Waymon
Weston Reward Fund. For further information,
please call (213) 974-1579. Si no entiende esta
noticia o si necesita más informacion, favor de
llamar a este numero (213) 974-1579. SACHI
A. HAMAI EXECUTIVE OFFICER BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES
5/26, 6/2/11
WWA-2106314#
SOUTHWEST TOPICS WAVE
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
(RFP# 7551)
DISPOSITION PROJECT BASED VOUCHER
(“PBV”) PROGRAM
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
invites proposals from qualified developers,
including HACLA’s subsidiary, for the ProjectBased Voucher (PBV) Program. Through this
RFP, the Authority will make available up to a
maximum of 455 PBVs for projects which directly
assign them to existing housing developments
principally to serve low-income elderly and/or
disabled occupants. Copies of the RFP may be
obtained beginning May 23, 2011 online at www.
hacla.org/ps. Proposals will be accepted at 2600
Wilshire Blvd., #3100, Los Angeles, CA 90057,
until 2:00 P.M., June 24, 2011.
5/26, 6/2/11
WWA-2105558#
SOUTHWEST WAVE
West Wave Classified
WAVE PUBLICATIONS
A11
CLASSIFIED
To Place An Ad Call: L.A. Office (323) 556-5720
DEADLINES
•Class Display-Monday 5:00 p.m. prior to publication
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491AO052611
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I am looking for a female btw 50-70
in good physical condition to provide
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non smoker. Service would include,
cooking, light house cleaning, helping
with hygiene & medication. The
senior lives in the Watts area please
contact me: Allen (714) 317-1034
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Single @ $695
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4260
SCHOOLS & INSTRUCTIONS
1300
ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE from Home. *Medical,
*Business,
*Paralegal,
*Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance. Computer
available. Financial Aid if
qualified. SCHEV certified.
Call
888-210-5162
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Mason’s Electric & Lights
Door Bell, Smoke Alarm.
Fuses, Breakers. Free est.
Lic 611170 (323) 778-8563
HANDYMAN
4315
32 yrs Exp, paint, plaster
tile, carpentry, plumbing,
stucco repair, sec 8 ready.
323 608-1501, 323 757-7810
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Plumbing, Electrical,
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Medical Management Careers start here - Get connected online. Attend college
on your own time. Job placement assistance. Computer
available. Financial Aid if
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Graduate in 4 weeks! FREE
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ext.
60
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(323) 236-1222
M .F
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&
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House
During
Week! Intra-State Flatbed
Position Now Available! Potential to make $1,000/wk!
Excellent Equipment and
benefits. CDL-A, 6mo. OTR.
1-888-801-5295.
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1BD, 1BA, 1053 W.91st str
wall to wall crpt, vertical
blinds. $800/m LA County
Sec 8 OK (310) 521-9977
Wanted- Sales reps. Multi
million dollar company.
Qualified candidates call
immediately (310) 598-2511
DRIVERS - CDL-A Flatbed
Drivers Needed. Teams, Solos & O/Oís. Great pay &
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benefits. Consistent miles &
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hometime. 1 yr. Experience
ASAP! New Pay Increase! Required. 1-888-430-7659.
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(310) 478-1091
S
HAULING
4320
4365
Bellflower 9128 Palm St #8 1br/1ba
1pkng & Indy room Apt. $795
LA 3110 W. 71st St 3br/2ba (House)
3 pkng & lndy hk-ups $1495
Compton 1002-A N. Sloan
1br/1ba w/ 1pkng (Duplex) $695
LA 3445 ½ W. 11th Ave Apt.
3bd/2ba 1 garage pkng $1,045/Mo
LA 3447 ½ W. 11th Ave Apt.
3bd/2ba 1 garage pkng $1,045/Mo
LA 2917 W. 62nd St 4br/2ba
1pkng gar & Indy hk-ups $1195
LA 12229 Vermont 8 br 5.5ba
$3795 (House)
LA 411 E. 80th St 3 bd/2ba storage
Indy hk-ups (Duplex) $1195
LA 832 W. 66th St 2bd/2ba
2pkng & A/C (Bk House) $995
L.A 1634 Echo Park Apt. 2bd/1ba
w/ lndy hook-ups $1195/Mo
L.A 1634 ½ Echo Park Apt. 2
bd/1ba w/lndy hook-ups $1195/Mo
L.A 6521 Avalon 3bd/2Ba w/
2 pkng and lndy facility $995/mo
1ST Month's Free Rent
No Section 8 Program
SEED & grass, sprinkler
system, tree trim & removal. Enrique 323-273-5212
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
5045
BE YOUR OWN BOSS Start Today! Own a Red Hot
- Dollar, Dollar Plus, Mailbox
or Discount Party Store from
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APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED
6005
$1295 2 bd 1 1/2 ba lg upper, off st prkg, National &
Robertson area. Not apprv
sec 8. (323) 293-1536
*Large 2BD 1BA Apt* new
paint,carpet,mini blinds,
South LA near Normandie
323-290-1155
1BD & 2bd avail Crenshaw
& Adams. Redec w/New
crpt, Stv/fridge. Sec. bldg.
Sec 8 OK 323 934-5666
6005
NEWLY-RENOVATED 2BDRM UPPER UNIT
New carpet, paint, blinds, etc.
Large closets, Off street parking.
Close to shopping & bus lines.
$1,250/m + security. 2125 Crenshaw blvd
L.A. (between Adams & Washington)
(323) 383-8051 Section 8 OK
6005
MISC. FOR SALE
School Furniture
& Supplies. Desks, Chairs,
Books, Tables, Toys & More
EVERYTHING MUST GO
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm
2061 W. Slauson Ave L.A.
(323) 496-1400 (323) 291-2344
2 Bedroom
Newly dec, w/w
crpt, Sec 8 & sr
citizen welcome.
LaSalle nr Adams
323-295-0245
Inglewood- Sgl & 2 bd from
$750 and up. No dep OAC,
prkg, lndry, gated. 514 W.
Hyde Park & 8612 8th Ave
Call: 213-963-1187
2Bd 1.5Ba Apt Completely
Redecorated Ceramic tile
in Kit/ba, Call Mr Carter
(323) 756-1345
Spacious, lower, 1 bd,
hard wood floors, gated pkg,
2625 W. Imperial Hwy,
$950.00, SECTION 8 OK.
2Bd 1.5Ba Lower unit
$1200/m 1740 1/2 W. 49th
str L.A. (909) 484-1135
2Bd 1Ba Newly furbished
W/D hk up. City Sec 8 OK
Will accept 1Bd voucher. Nr
88th Pl/Main (909) 483-3191
3Bd 2Ba. Built- in stove
Lndry on site, City Sec 8 OK
NearCadillac/LaCIenega
Call: (909) 483-5253
NOW ACCEPTING applications for low income housing Section 8 Housing,Singles & 1 bd units. Elderly &
family located at 6231 Afton
Pl #102, LA CA 90029. call
(323) 467-4972 for info.
Equal Housing Oppty
NOW ACCEPTING applications for low income housing Section 8 Housing, Singles & 1 bd units. Elderly &
family located at1229 S
Westmoreland. call (213)
383-7945 for info. Equal
Housing Oppty
Modern 2 bd Apt. Bronson
Ave (Between Pico & Venice) $1030 mo + $800
move-In fee! Sorry Not Section 8 Apprvd! CALL NOW!!
323-630-4595, 323-2935609, 310-849-5710
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
6005
Upstairs, 1 bd, new crpt,
rear & private, pkg, 1713 W.
80th St., Sec.8 OK.
323.754.2818. $850.00
BPM has 1 & 2 bd apts &
houses for rent. Some sec 8.
LA, Southbay & Long Beach.
Call 800-721-6350 x2
CITY SEC 8 OK!
2Bd/1Ba New pnt, crpt
8414 S. Figueroa
$1100/m (323) 767-4792
DUPLEX, 3Bd 2Ba, lndry
hkup, gtd bkyd. Sec 8 OK.
$1900/m + Security
48th/Western 323-294-1103
Free rent for unemployedhomeless. No smoking. children welcome call for further
info: 323-298-4574
Leimert Park lg studio,
kitchen with dinette area,
stove & refrig. Not apprv sec
8. $775. 323-321-6245
Lg 2 bd/1ba. Fresh pnt, nu
crpt, lndry & prkg. 1140 W.
90th St. $1100/mo. Sec 8
ok. By Appt 310-539-8114
Lrg 1Bd Apt County
Sec 8 OK Nr Manchester
& Vermont (818) 585-4896
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
HOUSE SOLD BY OWNER
Large 4 Bed, 3 Bath house
Completely Rehabbed
2100 SF living area on a 6875 SF lot
$399,000. 3312 W. 82nd St.
LA City Sec 8 & All Welcome
fzahir@pacbell.net
• 1 & 3 Bedrooms • Newly Updated
• Porcelain & Wood Floors
• Laundry Room • Gated Intercom
• Secure Parking • Landscaped
• Near Shops
p & Buses
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
(323) 758-7886
FOR SALE
2 bd 1 ba upper, Lndry rm.
1 car gar. Secure bldg. 1st
& last. $1200 mo. 10634 S
Crenshaw. (310) 649-1217
HOUSES UNFURNISHED
6450
Rare Exec Home w/upgrades Elite
Baldwin Hills, 3bd/2ba. Stainless
Cooks Kitchen, hardwood & brick
floors, fireplace, large back yard,
pet okay. Call: (310) 535-2150
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
6005
$1950+Dep; Lrg 3Bd 2Ba
Sec 8 Accepted
6000 Rimpau. Wsh/dryer hk
up, garage (310) 671-0607
2 Hses 2+1+sm pet trail & 2
+1 corner lot. $1279-$1975.
LA & So Gate areas. 323982-1707, 323--630-4072
(section 8 OK)
(section 8 OK)
4012/14 West Blvd
2 bedrooms @ $925
3916 Stevely
4013 West Blvd
(section 8 OK)
Totally Renovated, Clean,
Large, Freshly Painted,
New Carpet, Ceiling Fans,
Locked Entry, Parking,
Laundry Rm *Pool/Walk to
Jim Gillian Park.
JEFFERSON
PARK
3903 W 27th Street
1bedroom @ $895
Clean unit, Freshly
Painted, Newer Carpet,
Off Steet Parking, Laundry
Room, Close to 10 Fwy.
1810 1/2 W 36th St
1 Bedroom @ $850
Clean Units, Freshly
Painted, Newer Carpet,
Service Porch w/WD
Hookup (some units), Off
Street Parking, Spanish
Style Courtyard Bldg,
Close To 10 Fwy.
HYDE PARK
6326 Crenshaw Blvd
2 bedrooms @ $895
(Section 8 OK)
Clean, Freshly Painted,
New Carpet, Gated Entry,
Reserved Prkg, Laundry
Rm, Gated Courtyard.
INGLEWOOD
711 W Queen Street
2 Bd + 2 Ba @ $1295
Gated Entry & Covered
Parking, New Carpet,
Totally Redecorated, 2
Laundry rms, Cul-de-Sac.
******************************
Call for move in specials OAC
www.sourceoneproperty
management.com
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MARLTON
PROPERTY MGMT
(323) 401-2847
Nice 1bd. Nu crpt & pnt,
Laundry, AC, gated bldg.
prkg. 1609 S. St Andrews
$1000m. 310-539-8114 appt
Quiet 1Bd on 1751 1/-8
MLK Blvd. Near transpo
$800/mo Newly decorated.
Call: 323-293-6748
Sec 8 OK, 1Bd 1Ba $795/m
+ $500 dep. Upper unit 66th
& Normandie. SGL $675/m
laundry hk up. 213-804-7177
HOMES FOR SALE
7400
BUY HOUSE WITH 3.5 % DOWN
3 bed,2 bath on a 9900 SF lot
Completely Rehabbed
$335,000. 2804 8th Ave 90018
323-855-7757
Sec 8 Welcome, will
accept 1Bd voucher Lovely
2Bd Garden Apt Residential
area (323) 737-3498
2815 1/2 W. 48th St.
1bd/1ba w/d hk-up
Sec 8 OK
(213) 359-4439
License # 401447 -Seniors 10% discount- Free Est. Lic. Bonded
(800) 326-5899
Nice 3Bd 1Ba $1550/m
A/C, heating, garage, lndry
hkup. 3639 W. 105th St.
Call J.R. (310) 671-0540
Complete Inspection Corrections
Mike (323) 335-6793
511AO052611
Plumbing, electrical,
roofing, concrete, tiles,
heating, carpentry, kitchen
& bathroom remodeling.
no job too small
LUIS PLUMBING SERVICE
Free EST. Senior Discounts
Bathroom Remodeling, Tile, Electrical
Fixtures, Garbage Disposal, Water Heater
Rooter Service, Re-piping Gas Lines
Leaking Faucets: $29.00
Drains: $39.00
Sewer: $60.00
Call Luis Tel: (323) 291-5473
Cell: (323) 422-6982
1726 W. 38th Pl. Los Angeles, CA 90062
Inside Laundromat
(310) 946-2249
493AO052611
READ THE CLASSIFIEDS
ROOFING
Since 1975 Lic C-39 315235
C-39779133
Troy Roofing Co.
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ROOFING
All Kinds of Roofs
• Free Estimates
• Top Quality
• No Down Payment
• We Do gutter & down spout
• Seniors Special Discount
Visa / Master-Card accepted
(323) 933-3110
CHRIS, Owner
Install all types of roofs &
rain gutters. Free est
Louis Troy
Lrg 3Bd 2Ba Hse
856 W. 126th St. LA
Wsh/Dryer. Patio & lrg bk-yrd
$1900/m Sec 8 OK.
(310) 213-9968
Newly Refurbished
4Bd 2Ba Sec 8 OK window
covers throughout. 218 E.
76th Pl. (323) 291-1101
Nice 1 Bd Hse LA 1034 W.
91st St. Move-in rdy! $675/m
parking, Sec 8 OK
(323) 754-0602 Lv Message
Nice 3 BD 2BA Near Gardena,Fenced, No pets, Ldry
$1295 310/559-1868
Nice 3Bd/1ba Front Hse.
Newly refurbished. 613 E.
74th
St.
Off
Avalon.
$1,800/Mo. 310 839-4911
REMOD 1 bd, gtd prkg, 1309
W 90th Pl, LA. County sec 8
ok. $850 mo. Quetin (310)
405-4863
REAL ESTATE
NY STATE LAND Rivers &
Small Lakes for Sale 27
Acres-Salmon River Area $39,995. 97 Acres w/ Stream
Surrounded by State Land $110,995.
Independence
River-Adirondacks-16 Acres
WAS:
$129,995.
NOW
$79,995. Oneida Lake Proximity 16 Acres -$29,995.
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Insured & Bonded
Lovely 3 Bdrm House
for rent. $1600/m. Close to
Metro. 142 E. 99th St,
(323) 755-0310
AUTOS WANTED
8145
LOANS No Qualifying Equity Only
Bad & Good credit, No Income,
Self Employed, Bankruptcy,
Foreclosure. Call Rose
(951) 544-5861 (951)486-0210
Se Habla Espanol
ROOFING
PLUMBING
MAINTENANCE
One Call Maintenance
(310) 218-3004
600 W. Manchester Blvd
L.A. 2Bd 1Ba Sm House
No Sec 8 Newly renovated
Lg fenced yrd Nr Washington
Fairfax $1450 323 290-2080
TIME SHARE
7800
473AO052611
508AO0522611
• Copper Repipe - Main Drainline
•Structural Framing, Block Wall
•Sand Blasting, Color Coating
513AO052611
509AO052611
Roofing - Attic Insulation -Windows/Doors
492AO052611
BSD CONSTRUCTION LIC# 858414
Kitchen remodel $8,926 complete,
Bathroom remodel $3,926. Plumbing,
Electric, Paint, & Room Addition
26 years experience
(310) 890-9814 (323) 314 2060
Room Additions:
502AO052611
CONSTRUCTION
Fashion Design/Seamstress
Looking for all fashionist
Sm to Full Figure.
We do remakes, Alterations,
All White Linen Attire
for White Linen Parties.
All types of garments
4Bd 2Ba Hse for Lease
New Crpt, Linoleum, Tile
$1800/m (310) 516-8165
SACRIFICE SALE - Nevadaís 3rd Largest Lake 1.5
hours South of Tahoe on
California border, 1 acre
Sec8 OK Discounted Move Panoramic Lake View/Acin Nice 2Bd Apt, South L.A. cess $24,900 (was $49,900).
108th & Western W/D hk up 1.5AC Bold Lake Front
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“It’s scary,” Roberts said.
“They already took two of my
sons that are in the federal penitentiary. Now they want to take
my baby from me.”
A task force command post
was set up in a parking lot outside the Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum/Sports Arena in
Exposition Park, where detainees were brought in on three
large buses and processed.
According to a witness, “they
were processing them like cattle. It looked like a [modernday] slave trade. It was all Black
men, women and young [teenagers and adults].”
Community activist Linnard
Lee said he could not summarize the event, other than to say
that “it’s an attack on the Black
community. They did this last
time. There are gang injunctions constantly. It’s overriding
us. It seems like us, as a Black
community, are being attacked
on this. I agree that something
needs to be done, but how they
handled this was wrong.”
The Los Angeles City
Attorney’s Office is said to be
pursuing civil actions including property abatement, evictions and case conferences for
15 of the gang’s controlled
businesses and residences.
Also, the Office of the Inspector
General for Housing and Urban
Development will remove those
tenants who were arrested or
indicted on the grounds that
they violated rules associated
with Section 8 housing.
The goal of HUD, said the
department’s agent James
Todak, was and will continue
to be to eliminate criminals who
inhabit the federally subsidized
residences.
“The Justice Department
is committed to a long-term
approach to public safety, a strategy that involves taking hardcore gangsters off the streets, but
also includes helping local com-
munities reclaim, rebuild and
restore their neighborhoods,”
said U.S. Attorney for the
Central District of California,
adding that Thursday’s “action
targeting the P-Stone Bloods is
the latest example of our collaborative effort to identify, investigate and prosecute individuals
responsible for bringing misery
to our communities.”
According to authorities, the
gang has been established since
the early 1960s, and since then,
their membership has expanded
to 894 documented members,
approximately 275 of which
were served under a current
gang injunction. Their territorial boundaries, they said, have
stayed relatively the same —
primarily in the lower Baldwin
Village area of Los Angeles.
They are said to be ranked
among the top 10 gangs in Los
Angeles. Authorities said that
the P-Stone Bloods have established strong ties with other
Blood gangs, as well as Blood
prison gangs. Some criminal
activities said to be carried out
by the gang’s members are murder, assault, robbery, narcotic
sales and weapons possession.
City
Attorney
Carmen
Trutanich said, “Through our
joint efforts, we are removing thugs from the streets of
Los Angeles — one gang at a
time — so the residents of Los
Angeles may once again walk
in their neighborhoods without fear. My office’s Project
T.O.U.G.H. is filing nuisance
abatement actions against three
gang-related properties, based
upon evidence of drug sales
and criminal gang activity by
members of the Black P-Stone
Bloods criminal street gang and
their known allies at those properties.”
In 2006, the same task force
targeted Black P-Stones members through Operation Stone
Cold, in which 17 federal targets
were convicted and sentenced.
Twelve state defendants were
also convicted.
To complement the recent
operation, authorities said they
are prepared to implement what
is called a Community Recovery
Plan. Some measures that will be
taken include increased police
patrols — such as enforcement
and nuisance teams — community clean-up days, graffiti
removal, abandoned vehicle
impound, trash clean-up, community meetings with property
owners and youth programs.
All of the suspects picked up
in the raid face charges that carry
a mandatory minimum sentence
of five years in prison, however,
the majority will face charges
that carry a statutory maximum
sentence of up to 40 years in
prison. Federal defendants will
be prosecuted by the United
States Attorney’s Office and had
an initial appearance in U.S.
District Court in Los Angeles
last Thursday afternoon. State
defendants will be prosecuted by
the Los Angeles County District
Attorney’s Office.
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