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Summer concerts and swap meets
A&R Music Center will sponsor concerts and musicians' swap meets from 3 to 8 p.m. Saturdays, Aug. 5 and Sept. 2, at 3634 Overland Ave., across the street from the Overland Cafe.
For more info, call Russell at (310) 204-2019.
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Some links on these archived pages are not operative.
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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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| Westside and Palms both approve plan to adjust northeast boundary Story below |
| Local fictitious business names as published in the Culver City Observer Story below |
Assembly again OKs Palms-Motor mixed-use building by a split vote
Story on our Real Estate page |
Former Palms Middle School Principal Didinger runs into trouble in his new job and quits the LAUSD
Story below |
| Traffic light will be erected at Charnock-Overland and Midvale will be paved, but there will be no south-side sound walls on the I-10 Story below |
| City controller will investigate neighborhood councils; Palms audit material is late; funds are threatened Story below |
| City official approves condominiums for big new apartment building at Venice-Clarington-Dunn Story on our Real Estate page |
SHALOM, BUBALA! Old-timers remember the Palms theater
Story opens on our Features page
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ONE YEAR AGO
Uproar over planned apartment-commercial project at National and Overland You go back in time to August 2005 |
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Westside and Palms councils both approve plan to adjust northeast boundary
Stakeholders will be surveyed to find out what they want |
The Board of the Westside Neighborhood Council on Aug. 10 approved the idea of adjusting the boundary between the Palms and Westside Neighborhood Councils east of Overland and west of Exposition Blvd.
The area south of the I-10 Rosa Parks Freeway would be switched from the Westside to the Palms councils.
Westside Secretary Terri Tippit said in an electronic message to Palms President Pauline Stout that:
"We think the boundary line issue might just be a matter of clarification as it was never our intent to include in our Neighborhood areas south of the 10 Freeway east of Overland to the National exit.
"We will not begin the process of changing the boundary description in our Bylaws until after our December 7th election. The WNC will work with Palms NC and DONE, after our election, to take the steps necessary to confirm this boundary between Westside NC and Palms NC's respective Neighborhoods."
But "the WNC is not interested in sharing jurisdiction over Palms Library and Palms Park which lie clearly in the WNC Neighborhood," she wrote in a parenthesis.
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The area above National Blvd. (red line) is part of the Westside Neighborhood Council, even though it has historically been considered Palms. A blue-and-white municipal Palms sign on Motor Ave. is marked with an arrow. The former Palms train station, now a historic monument which was moved to the Arroyo Seco, is also marked.
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| The governing boldy of the Palms Neighborhood Council on Aug. 9 approved a plan looking to expand Palms's northeast boundary to the I-10 Freeway.
At present the south side of National is in Palms, but the north side is in the Westside Neighborhood Council.
Secretary George Garrigues outlined a proposed survey of stakeholders in the apartment-commercial area north of National Blvd. and south of the Interstate 10 Freeway. That small area consists of some 266 apartments in about 23 buildings and no more than 35 businesses at about the same number of addresses.
The area (Map A above) is now part of the Westside Neighborhood Council.
The survey would wind up with an informational meeting in the Palms-Rancho Park Library at 3 p.m. Aug. 26.
The target date for approval of the boundary shift by the city's Board of Neigborhood Commissioners would be Nov. 30, 2006. That date would enable the new Palms stakeholders to take part in Palms community elections scheduled for May 2007.
An earlier proposal for sharing of Palms Park between the two councils has been set aside temporarily.
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The Following Person(s) is/are Doing Business as: Aquarians
Enterprises, 1103 S. Westgate Ave., # 4, Brentwood, CA90049.
Full name of Registrant(s): Giselle Contreras, 1103 S. Westgate
Ave., # 4, Los Angeles, CA90049, Marissa Okazaki, 3518 Dunn
Drive, # 105, Los Angeles, CA90034, Vera Lucia R. Pires, 1103
S. Westgate Ave., # 4, Los Angeles, CA90049. This Business is
conducted by: co-partners. Registrant has not yet begun to trans-
act business under the fictitious business name or names listed
herein.
The Following Person(s) is/are Doing Business as:ANoble Exile
Productions, 3700 S. Sepulveda Blvd., # 132, Los Angeles, CA
90034. Full name of Registrant(s): Anthony L. Gilardi, 3700 S.
Sepulveda Blvd., # 132, Los Angeles, CA90034. This Business
is conducted by: an individual. The Registrant commenced to
transact business under the fictitious business name or names
listed on (Date): 07-20-2006.
The Following Person(s) is/are Doing Business as: Circuit
Breaker Salvage, CBS Electric, 11101 Clover Ave., Los Angeles,
CA90034. Full name of Registrant(s): Velvet Dallesandro, 11101
Clover Ave., Los Angeles, CA90034. This Business is conducted
by: an individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact busi-
ness under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.
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Ex-Palms principal calls it quits at Crenshaw High School
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Last year Charles Didinger left the principal's job at Palms Middle School, a campus that "practically ran itself," and went to tackle a more difficult assignment.
He was asked to become principal at the academically troubled Crenshaw High School. And, according to reporter Mitchell Landsberg of the Los Angeles Times, he did a fine job, but —
"Months of wrangling with the teachers union left him frustrated and exhausted and contributed to his decision to take early retirement this summer," Landsberg wrote in the Times's Aug. 25 edition.
That all came about because Crenshaw High is on a short leash. Its accreditation was in danger, and Didinger was called in to take charge. Now the leash is a bit longer; the campus was reaccredited, but for only one year (the normal term is six years).
And he faced opposition from some of the Crenshaw teachers.
Landsberg reported:
"On Thursday, in what some saw as an act of revenge, the Los Angeles Unified School District began proceedings to transfer a teachers union activist at Crenshaw who was among those butting heads with Didinger."
That activist was Alex Caputo-Pearl, 37, who said he loved Crenshaw High (the red marker on the |
map) so much that he had bought a house in the neighborhood.
"Then there is this odd fact," Landsberg wrote: Didinger used to be the boss of A.J. Duffy, who is now the head of the teachers' union and is defending Caputo-Pearl. They both worked at Palms Middle School (the green marker).
Landsberg continued about Didinger:
"'He was highly regarded as a principal who built collaboration,' Duffy said. He added, however, that Palms — one of the highest-achieving middle schools in the city — 'practically ran itself' and was a much easier place to administer than Crenshaw. . . .
"Several teachers at Crenshaw gave Didinger high marks for improving academics at the school and some described him as a collaborative principal who sought advice from his faculty."
No matter. Didinger has announced his retirement from the L.A. school system.
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Midvale will be paved; Charnock signal is planned; I-10 sound wall is nixed
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The city plans to pave Midvale Ave. between Venice Blvd. and Charnock Road this fiscal year, Ingeborg Prochazka, head of the Palms Transportation and Roadworks Committee, has announced.
 A "hold" placed on the street by the city's Wastewater Division has been released, according to information received from James Brosius at (213) 485-3838, street services supervisor of the Bureau of Street Services.
That one-block stretch of Midvale was picked by the Palms Representative Assembly in December 2005 as the street most in need of repair in our area.
Residential representative Willie Bell has been in the forefront of the fight for Midvale paving.
The committee also considered the suggestion of Steven D. Klein for a sound barrier on the south side of the I-10 Rosa Parks Freeway, similar to that recently installed on the north side to protect the Cheviot Hills single-family residential district.
The committee took the matter off the agenda after receiving a report from Secretary George Garrigues stating that the apartments on the south side of the freeway were not eligible for a sound wall because they were built after the freeway was in place and so the responsibility for deadening the noise should be with the property owners.
In other traffic news, President Pauline Stout said she had been informed that a traffic light at Charnock and Overland will be installed this fiscal year.
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CITY CONTROLLER WILL TAKE A LOOK AT NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS AND THE DEPARTMENT THAT GUIDES THEM
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City Controller Laura Chick has trained her sights on the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, which oversees the 88 neighborhood councils throughout the city — and on the councils themselves.
 "Chick said she wants to see what kind of oversight the agency provides and how some of the councils are spending their money," reporter Steve Hymon wrote in the Aug. 30, 2006, issue of the L.A. Times.
The city controller (right) made a similar statement at a meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in April 2005, which The Sun relayed to you.
At that time she said she wouldn't get down to the individual council level, but she seems to have changed her mind. |
Required Palms Council audit material is late; city threatens access to funds
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| August 30, 2006
Dear Palms Neighborhood Council board members:
The Palms Neighborhood Council's audit submission for 3rd quarter (January 1- March 31, 2006) is now 60 days past due.
During the training provided to the treasurer and second signatories, Funding Program staff highlighted the requirement to submit quarterly audit materials in a timely manner. At the conclusion of the fiscal quarter, Neighborhood Councils have one quarter (three months) "grace period" to submit all original receipts, reconciliations for petty cash, records regarding use of the Bank of America card, and copies of the Bank of America monthly bank statements.
The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment continues to be audited by the Controller's Office. One of the issues receiving close attention is which Neighborhood Councils have not submitted their audit materials, which was a condition for participation in the Funding Program. We need your audit materials immediately. Please make sure all submissions are complete. If the materials are not received within twenty (20) business days of the date of this notice, the department will exercise options available for compliance. This may include suspension of your funding access. If you need assistance, please call Funding Program accountant Steve Oh at (213) 485-1360 or email him at steve.oh@lacity.org.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Accounting Staff
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
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