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THIS IS THE WESTSIDE VILLAGE PAGE
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One of only two Web pages in the entire universe that give a woof about Westside Village.
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WESTSIDE VILLAGE LINKS
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FEATURES
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SCHOOLS
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MAPS
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ORGANIZATIONS
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Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch
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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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 ROBERTA GOLAN SCHILLER, the only candidate for Zone 1 representative (Westside Village) on the Board of the Mar Vista Community Council, has been elected in a low turnout at Mar Vista Elementary School in Mar Vista.
She replaces Robert Mednick, manager of the Palms Branch of Wells Fargo Bank, as Westside Village representative.
She received 21 votes.
Schiller's official statement can be found on the MVCC Web site.
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In the only contest of the MVCC election, J.D. (John Duffy) Gaydowski was elected  79-20 over Francis Harris in Zone 3.
Others who ran and were elected unopposed were Laura Bodensteiner, Zone 2, with 14 votes; Curt Steindler, Zone 5, with 12 votes, and Keith Lambert, Zone 6, with 51 votes. There was no candidate in Zone 4, but 35 votes were cast there anyway.
The largest bloc of voters (99) was from Zone 3, Hilltop Mar Vista and Westdale. Fewer came from Zone 6. West Mar Vista, 51 voters; Zone 4, Lower Mar Vista, 35 voters; Zone 1, Westside Village, 21 voters; Zone 2, North Westdale, 14 voters, and Zone 5, south of Venice, 12 voters.
A straw vote (nonbinding) had the following results:
1) Should the MVCC Board Advocate for an MVCC-wide property tax assessment district for funds to improve Venice Blvd?
Yes - 56
No - 130
No Opinion - 20
2) Should the MVCC Board advocate for the stopping of all jet aircraft traffic at Santa Monica Airport?
Yes - 140
No - 55
No Opinion - 14
3) Should the MVCC Board advocate for making residential developers in CD11 pay traffic mitigation fees as do commercial and residential developers in other council districts?
Yes - 180
No - 16
No Opinion - 11
4) Should the MVCC Board advocate for doing Community Design Overlay (CDO) zones for MVCC neighborhoods?
Yes - 114
No - 35
No Opinion - 53
5) Should the MVCC Board advocate for having our neighborhood council elections at the same time and place when city council elections are held?
Yes - 102
No - 73
No Opinion - 33
6) Should the MVCC Board advocate for (mass transit) infrastructure projects like the Expo LIght Rail Line and the Red Line Subway?
Yes - 173
No - 19
No Opinion - 15
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West magazine
June 18, 2006
slurps at a Westside Village Oaxacan cafe
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GREEN MOLE SOUP
Guelaguetza, a modest café with oil cloth on the tables and the scent of roasted chiles and nuts wafting out the door, has moles that are made from ingredients brought from Mexico every week. A green mole, fragrant with cilantro and epazote, flavors a delicious soup made from pork bones and chayote squash. Intricately spiced mole negro de Oaxaca flows over chicken like chocolate over an ice cream sundae. Guelaguetza, 11127 Palms Blvd., Palms;
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The above is from the L.A. Times.
For another review of Guelaguetza (much longer and funnier, with photos, but with fewer capitalized letters), you can read this one by a woman named Sarah, who we are virtually certain lives in Palms.
 "this ain’t burritos, taco, and fajitas," she writes, "there’s goat and *gulp* crickets, too."
This is Sarah's photo, or as much of it as she allows to be shown in her anonymous Web-sodic paean to dining in and out in Los Angeles, a blog she calls
The Delicious Life.
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REPORT ON THE ST JOHN'S CHURCH MORETON BAY FIG TREE
$30,000 to move power lines underground
We've received a report from Ken Alpern of Westside Village about some of the recent steps taken to preserve the famed Moreton Bay fig tree on the grounds of St. John's Church on National Blvd. (photo below).
He attached the following e-mail from Annette Mercer of the Westside Neighborhood Council, indicating it will take an additional $30,000 to put the power lines underground along National Blvd. in that area — "relatively cheap," wrote Alpern.
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From: Annette Mercer
To: Steve Spector; Tippit Terri; Alpern (WVCA) ken
Cc: Griego Craig Haney and Orlando (Midvale); Greg.Monfette (at) lacity.org; wvcaprez (at) comcast.net; Lamm (St.Johns) Jim; Broide (WWSSM) Barbara; Thomas.Fujiwara (at) ladwp.com; Backstrom Paul; TPonton (at) MarVistaCC.org
Sent: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:23:05 -0700
Subject: Moreton Bay Fig - meeting with DWP 6/16/06
Hi all, thought I'd report on the very positive field meeting with DWP this morning (June 17, 2006) regarding the wires and the tree. In attendance were myself (for the WNC [Westside Neighborhood Council]), Jim Lamm (St. John's), Thomas Fujiwara (DWP/underground [Department of Water and Power) and Thomas Caton (DWP/overhead).
The DWP engineers reviewed the existing wires and the DS-145 construction plans which will be putting conduit in the street to the north of the centerline. There are 3 poles in the block of National between Military and Tilden on the church side of the street, one at each corner and one mid-block. The poles carry 3 Edison guy-wires (cables) at the top (coming off the pole itself, one below another), 6 energized DWP wires that come off the crossbar on the pole in a horizontal plane (below the Edison cables), and 2 lower twisted cables/wires. The real issue with tree pruning (and why the canopy is cut out at a right -angle) is the 6 DWP energized wires.
Because the DS-145 construction will already be putting conduit in the street, Mr. Fujiwara said it would not be a problem to put the 6 energized wires underground in conduit at the same time. They will go underground near Tilden and come back up east of Military. The 3 poles and Edison guy wires need to stay but can run through the tree canopy. The 2 lower cables can also stay (they already run through the canopy). It was agreed that adding overhead wires on the north side of the street would be problematic because of the eucalyptus tree and the need for owner permission. DWP requested that the Moreton Bay Fig tree not be allowed to interfere with wires on the north side of National. The church will ask its arborist about pruning a bit more at the northerly extent of the crown, which might force the tree to grow upward to fill in the cut in the canopy anyway.
Mr. Lamm and I agreed that the mo ving of the 6 DWP wires would be very positive and that the neighborhood would support it.
The one possible issue is that "normally" the DWP would charge the customer for the risers (going from underground to overhead) (actually, normally they would charge for the whole thing but since they are doing DS 145 they won't charge for the underground conduit, etc.). He roughly estimated $30,000. Mr. Fujiwara will ask that the DWP absorb this cost in this case. Mr. Lamm said the church cannot afford that and has already paid for tree improvements and is fixing the sidewalk. I said that the NC's could not afford that kind of money and we suggested that since the tree is a cultural monument, perhaps there are other funds available, in Environmental Affairs, Cultural Affairs, or CD 5. Hopefully we won't have to search for the money, and DWP will just do it.
We seem to have come at just the right moment with this idea and all concerned felt that thi s was a good project. Mr. Fujiwara will bring a proposal to Mr. Lamm in a few weeks, including the potential money issue. |
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