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This NONCOMMERCIAL site is a harmless hobby of George Garrigues, who has lived in the Westside Village district of Palms for 12 years. These pages have no connection with any organization.
Send him e-mail with corrections and comments.
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Spring 2005 standardized test scores for our area's schools: Charnock misses its target; Clover remains at the top Schools page
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PAULINE STOUT CHOSEN AS PALMS VICE-PRESIDENT Below
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Assembly adopts a 'shell budget' Below
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Land-use chair cancels hearing on apartment-commercial project at National and Overland Real Estate page
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Assembly approves plans to build a commercial-residential complex at Palms and Motor Real Estate page
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Van Nuys site opposed for Regent Street hearing
Real Estate page
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1911 Craftsman house is razed;
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A historic and solidly built Craftsman house at 3655 Motor Ave., between Tabor and Regent, was demolished Sept. 13-15, 2005, to make way for a 12-unit apartment building.
 The house went up in 1911 — in the days when Palms was the center of a vigorous ranching district. (Thanks to Lori Donahoo for providing the date.)
In 1927 it housed the family of Charles N. Stahl, a ranch manager, and his wife, Lucy O. With them were their son, Charles Jr., also a rancher; Kathleen Stahl, a stenographer; Mary E. Stahl, a teacher, and John V. Stahl.
Ten years later, E. G. Zinn, an osteopathic doctor, and his wife, Lucille K. Zinn, owned it. Living with them was Richard E. Zinn.
[Source: City directories at the Culver City Branch Library.]
Its most recent use was as a studio for the physio-dynamics (body posture) practice of Bernice Danylchuck, who bought the place in 1976. (Her most prominent clients were actors Burgess Meredith and Cloris Leachman.)
Danylchuk was the third owner, she said in a telephone interview from her home in La Jolla.
The interior featured hardwood moldings and doors and the careful attention to detail of the era. Of course the two-story structure had only one bathroom.
A garage at the rear was also razed, and a row of protective trees on the north side was ripped out.
By the weekend, there was nothing on the lot but a bulldozer (left).
Demolishing the old house is symptomatic of the changes that are continuing in Palms. A former church at Regent and Motor was destroyed to make room for a fire station, and apartment structures are being built or planned at the four-story height limit elsewhere on Motor.
Some old houses, though, have been turned into shops or businesses, particularly on Overland.
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| More information from Lori Donahoo, the representative of the Charnock Ranch Historic Business Area on the Palms Representative Assembly:
FYI about Craftsman houses. They were part of the Arts and Crafts art movement of the early 20th century. The movement was of a more simple style and design. getting away from the Victorian era and design from the late 19th century. The other designs that went along with the movement were Mission furniture and Stickley, syle named after the desugner. The name California Craftsman is specifically of course, to California because the design sprang up in the Midwest (Ohio/ Indiana).
At one time you could order a California Craftsman from the Sears and Roebuck catalog and build the house yourself. Many of them were prefab houses.
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 Donate backpacks, supplies for Katrina victims
Patti Lawhon of Friends of Palms reports:
"The Mayor of Houston has taken in 30,000+ refugees and is housing them at the Astrodome. He has promised those families that their children would be able to register and attend the local schools.
"We have been in contact with the mayor of Houston and the Houston School District, and they have 10,000 students to place in their schools. They have more elementary students than middle and high school combined.
"We would like to ask anyone who is in a position to help to please donate a backpack filled with school supplies and personal items. We are starting with the elementary and middle school."
If you are interested in helping a child you can drop off your backpack at Palms Middle School (10860 Woodbine St.) or Clover Elementary School (11020 Clover Ave.)
Lawhon is at plawhon@busmgt.net
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Assembly adopts first Palms budget
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 The community of Palms has adopted its first budget, and it was just in time.
The Palms Neighborhood Council faced a deadline of Sept. 30 to complete all the city's requirements in order to be rewarded with a grant of $12,500 for the first quarter of the fiscal year — that is, July through September 2005.
And one of them was the adoption of a yearly budget.
So the Council's governing body — the fledgling Representative Assembly — on Sept. 7 hurriedly approved a $50,000 budget for the year ending next June 30.
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undoubtedly be amended as the months go by.
During the Assembly debate, which involved the way that election expenses should be accounted for, stakeholder Naomi Serotoff called out from the audience that the budget "should have been considered in committee" before it was brought to the Assembly.
Treasurer Asad Yavari did plan such a committee meeting but an e-mail to Secretary George Garrigues went astray and a meeting of the Budget Committee was not held as proposed.
Below is the budget, which stakeholders can now examine and comment on.
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Pauline Stout named Vice President
 Pauline Stout has been named Vice President of the Palms Neighborhood Council.
Her appointment by President Todd Robinson was approved by the Council's Representative Assembly at its regular meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 7.
Robinson held that job himself for a little more than a week before assuming the role of Council President upon the June 30 resignation of Len Nguyen, who left the Presidency to become a field deputy for City Council Member Bill Rosendahl.
Stout has been active in the outreach of the Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch. She was on the election committee for Palms's first election last spring, and she has been acting recording secretary.
Under the Palms bylaws, the Vice President "Assumes the duties of the President in case of absence or illness and becomes president on the death, resignation or permanent incapacity of the President." and "Assists the President and assumes special duties and responsibilities as necessary."
Like other Assembly members, the Vice President must take part in at least one Neighborhood Council committee and attend Neighborhood Council meetings, which are held on the first Wednesday of the month.
Soschin will have charge of Assembly meetiings
 Alejandro (Alex) Soschin has been elected Facilitator of the Palms Representative Assembly for a three-month period beginning Sept. 21. He succeeds George Garrigues, who remains as Secretary.
The motion to name Soschin was made by Garrigues after Soschin volunteered for the job. The vote was unanimous.
The Facilitator chairs the meetings of the Assembly and has charge of the physical arrangements of the meeting room and other logistics. He also works with the President and the Secretary to help the President set the agenda for the meetings.
Soschin is the elected representative of nonprofit organizations on the Assembly, which is the governing body of the Palms Neighborhood Council.
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CAN YOU HEAR WHAT THIS TREE IS SAYING?
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The first trees were planted in Palms soon after the town was founded in 1886.
This spectacular specimen on Tabor between Vinton and Keystone towers over the block.
It will tell you a story if you have the patience to listen.
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