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Spikers Exceeding Expectations

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Shubin Has PaliHi Volleyball Program on the Rise

One need only look up at the endless stream of banners hanging from the walls of Palisades High’s gymnasium to know that volleyball is one of the school’s most successful sports. The boys team, however, has not won the City championship since 1998. Player defections and numerous coaching changes have taken their toll in recent years and the aura of invincibility the Dolphins once enjoyed is gone. The theme for new coach Matt Shubin is to get that long-lost swagger back. “If I had to give us a letter grade at this point in the season, I’d give us an ‘A’,” Shubin said after a recent practice. “We’re starting to come together as a team and there’s a healthy competition at every position. I expected it to take a few seasons to get the program back up to the level it once was, but seeing the progress we’ve made so far I don’t see why we can’t do it this year. All the pieces are in place.” Amidst this week’s winter break the Dolphins find themselves second place in the Western League, having lost only two matches all season–a sweep at the hands of defending City champion Chatsworth on March 14 and a four-game loss to league rival Venice March 29. “Every match we’re improving,” said Joey Sarafian, one of seven seniors on the Dolphins’ varsity roster. “I’ve never seen this much improvement in one year. Last year, we practically coached ourselves but this coach has us doing things we’ve never done before. He’s even got us soliciting businesses around town to donate money for a sound system.” Sarafian, who leads the team in kills, is joined on the outside by 12th-grader Beck Johnson. Ace leader John Barneson is referred to by Shubin as “the best setter in the City Section” and fellow seniors Rob Mees and Vertis Hays are the middle blockers–a key position in the Dolphins’ first-tempo offense. “Our attack is designed to get our hitters one-on-one with a blocker,” Shubin said. “If we can get a good pass we should be able to put the ball away 80 percent of the time. We also have versatility in our serving. We have guys who can float it short and others who can jump serve it deep, which keeps opponents off balance.” The team has exceeded expectations largely because of the development of Hayes, who joined the squad after Pali’s basketball season ended, and freshmen liberos Jordan Cohen and Matt Hanley. Junior Will Smith and sophomore Adam Cristiano rotate at opposite hitter. “I had never really played volleyball before I joined the team because basketball has always been my sport,” Hayes admitted. “They are completely different. The first volleyball practice I had was on a Thursday and by Friday night I couldn’t do a push-up because my shoulders and back were killing me. The only similarity I see is that serving is like shooting a free throw. It was great to beat Fairfax and Westchester in volleyball because that’s something we haven’t done in basketball.” Cohen, who trained with Shubin at Sinjin Smith’s beach volleyball camp over the summer, moved into the starting lineup three matches ago and Shubin has been impressed with his on-court leadership and work ethic. He called Hanley “the best defensive player we have” and said the healthy competition in practice keeps players sharp. “Our practices are tougher than most of our matches,” Mees said. “We still have room for improvement but I definitely think if we can improve our passing we’re good enough to win City.” Rounding out the varsity are Scott Vegas, Jonathan Peters, Nathan Pezeshki, Stuart Klein and Jacob Khoubian, a senior on the All-Academic team who has been accepted to both Harvard and Yale. Shubin said he will likely bring Noah Kauss, who has dominated on the junior varsity level, up to varsity for the playoffs. Palisades resumes Western league play next Wednesday with a home match against Hamilton. JV plays first at 2:30 p.m., followed by the varsity.

Jeannette Henkes, 91: Avid Bruin, Loved Fishing

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Jeannette Ford Sternberg Henkes, loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and 52-year resident of Pacific Palisades, passed away at home on April 6. She was 91. The daughter of John and Anna Ford, Jeannette was born on February 23, 1915 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her family moved to Des Moines in 1924 and she graduated from East High in 1933. She met Donald Sternberg in 1933 at Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She moved to Los Angeles in 1936 and they married on May 28, 1938. Jeannette and Don were charter members of Westwood Hills Christian Church, a new church near UCLA. In 1950, they moved to Pacific Palisades with their three children, Steve, Kent and Christie. In July 1953, Don died and Jeannette moved to Santa Monica, where she lived until 1958. On February 23, 1958, she and J. H. “Judd” Henkes, Jr. were married at Westwood Hills Christian Church. That May, Jeannette and her family moved back to Pacific Palisades. Their combined household included Judd’s two children, Justus III and Denise Marie. Jeannette’s interests included a love for the outdoors and for UCLA athletics. She loved to fish, sometimes even “outfishing” Judd, who introduced her and all of the children to these hobbies. She also loved to travel and in her later years greatly enjoyed family reunions and visits with her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Jeannette continued to live in their Palisades home until her death and also remained active in Westwood Hills Christian Church, Pi Beta Phi alumni, the Palisades Rotary Anns, P.E.O., Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Republican Women’s Club. Along with her husband, endowed scholarships were established in their names at UCLA for football and kidney research and at Pepperdine University for water polo and academic achievement. In addition to Donald Sternberg, Jeannette was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Justus H. Henkes, Jr., who passed away in 2001, her sister, Catherine, her brother, John, and her daughter, Denise Marie Henkes Meyers. She is survived by her brother Charles R. Ford (wife Elaine) of Riverside; brother- in-law Howard Henkes (wife Petie) of Los Angeles; sons, Stephen F. Sternberg of Dallas, TX, Justus H. Henkes III of Santa Monica, and Kent H. Sternberg of Sacramento, CA; daughter Christie Henkes Fulton of Napa, CA; and their families, which include 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, with the 14th due in May. A memorial celebration will be held at Westwood Hills Christian Church,10808 Le Conte Ave., on Friday, April 14 at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in memory of Jeannette Henkes be made to the Rotary Club of Pacific Palisades, attn.: Rotary Foundation Chair, P.0. Box 114, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 or to a charity of one’s choice.

Patti Flynn, 89: Artist, Nature Lover, Tennis Player

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Longtime Pacific Palisades resident Ruth Flynn, known for her enchanting watercolor paintings and called “Patti” because she was born on St. Patrick’s day, passed away after a month-long struggle with pneumonia, February 7. She was 89. A gentle spirit who felt a distinct calling to create beauty with her work, Patti was a dedicated artist for over 60 years and she shared her passion for art with many. Born in New York City in 1916, young Ruth Mau began to draw and paint when she was confined to bed with scarlet fever for a time. Her family moved to Teaneck, New Jersey, where she graduated with honors from Teaneck High School in 1933. After attending the New York School of Design on a scholarship, she had a successful career as an illustrator in New York City which included artwork for pattern makers such as McCall’s and Butterick. Seeking serious instruction in painting, Patti eventually moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where she took special courses at the Rhode Island School of Design. She also studied at the Hans Hofmann School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 1944, Patti joined the war effort as an American Red Cross volunteer. She became a staff assistant, and later director of the Red Cross Club in Eye, Suffolk, England, which provided support to the 490th bomb group, the 95th, and the 100th. After the war she was reassigned to Wurzburg, Germany, to open a club for the enlisted men of the First Infantry Division. While in Germany, Patti was able to attend proceedings of the war crimes trials at Nuremburg. Patti married Bernard James Flynn, also an artist, in 1947. They settled in Chappaqua, New York, and had three daughters. The family spent seven years in the Minneapolis area where Patti taught art at the Minnetonka Center for Arts and Education and continued to paint. When Bernard accepted work in Los Angeles in 1965, realtor Lelah Pierson, a family friend, helped the Flynns find a home in Pacific Palisades. Patti joined the Pacific Palisades Art Association where she served in various leadership positions over the years. She taught watercolor painting at The Brentwood Art Center in the 1970s, after which she taught privately at her studio in Castellammare. She was also active with Women Painter’s West and the Los Angeles Art Association. Patti worked in oils, acrylics, watercolor and various types of print making producing many landscapes, portraits, and still life paintings exhibited in numerous group shows. Her work was represented by local art galleries from Beverly Hills to Malibu and can be found in collections nationwide and in Europe. In later years, Patti’s zest for life was undiminished. She gave art instruction to groups on excursions, played tennis into her 80s, participated in exhibitions of Scottish country dancing, studied t’ai chi, gardened and was active with the Temescal Canyon Association, serving on the board of directors and as secretary for many years. Assisting on the creation of the Los Liones Canyon mural was one of Patti’s fondest memories, and she liked to visit the park often. Although Patti suffered from dementia in the last years of her life, she retained her positive outlook and her enthusiasm for watching tennis matches, movies and enjoying restaurants. A lifelong athlete, she was determined to get out for her daily walks so that she could be closer to the ocean she loved. She is survived by a sister, Evelyn Morse of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and daughters Karen Campbell of West Los Angeles, Kathe Flynn (husband Bob Kost) of Deephaven, Minnesota, Veronica Flynn of Mar Vista, and granddaughter of Julia Campbell of Berkeley, who will, along with those who knew her, hold her in loving memory. A memorial will be held at Los Liones Gateway Park, at the amphitheater across from the mural, at 2 p.m. on April 15, and is open to all. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Temescal Canyon Association. P.O. Box 1101, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, or to the American Red Cross.

Six Teachers to Receive Petrick Awards

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Winners Will Get $2,000 From Charter Foundation

Marquez teacher Jeff Lantos, winner of a Lori Petrick Educator Award, rehearses a song from “Water and Power” with last year’s fifth graders. Students pictured (left to right) are Elizabeth Ling, Kristine Sorensen, Danielle Hollander, Chloe Travis, Victoria Laulile and Amy Dersh.

Four individual teachers and a teaching team have each been selected to receive a $2,000 Lori Petrick Educator Award from the Palisades Charter Schools Foundation. The award was established in 2003 to honor the late, much-beloved second grade teacher at Palisades Charter Elementary. This year’s winners are Jeff Lantos (Marquez Elementary), Marlene Morris (Canyon School), Charlena TerVeer and Kathie Yonemura (team teachers at Canyon), Shari Laham (Kenter Elementary) and Larry Newman (music teacher at Kenter, Marquez, Palisades Elementary and Topanga Elementary). The awards ($10,000 total) are underwritten by the Boone Foundation, and will be presented at a private home in Pacific Palisades on May 20 at 2 p.m. According to Charter Foundation member Paula Leonhauser, the award process was broadened this year in order to reach more nominees and honor more individuals who are achieving excellence in education within the Palisades Charter Complex. “Teachers, teams, departments, administrators, counselors, etc. who have been part of the Palisades Complex of schools for five or more years are eligible,” Leonhauser said. The Lori Petrick Award was first given in June 2003 to Bud Petrick, Lori’s husband. A year later, the honor went to former Palisades High principal Merle Price, who played a leading role in gaining charter status for all five Palisades schools. Last year, after gaining feedback from the school community and parents, the Foundation decided to expand the award by giving out five grants. Individuals interested in applying for the award were asked to either submit a 10-minute videotape or a 2,000-word essay. A panel of judges then observed each instructor in the classroom. “We received no applications from Paul Revere or Palisades High,” Leonhauser said. “There are many outstanding teachers at both schools and we feel perhaps they didn’t apply because the process is new. Next year we expect many more applicants.” The Boone Foundation is a philanthropic group whose mission is to support “passionate people who provide excellent programs to youth.” The family foundation has members residing in the Palisades and attending local schools. “After attending a Foundation board meeting, the family chose to underwrite the Petrick Awards as a show of support for our work to recognize community excellence in public school education,” Leonhauser said. The Palisadian-Post will profile each of this year’s winners, beginning with JEFF LANTOS, a well-known fifth-grade teacher at Marquez Elementary, where he has taught for 11 years. Lantos was a history major at Brown University and worked as a freelance journalist for Movieline magazine and the L.A. Times before entering the teaching profession in 1987. In the mid-1970s, he took a musical theater workshop in New York run by legendary conductor Lehman Engel. He later received a fellowship to the American Film Institute and then went back to school to get his teaching credential. ‘Teaching is a great job for someone with a liberal arts education–you put everything to use and are never bored,’ said Lantos, who has continually searched for creative ways of teaching basic classroom subjects like history, math and literature through the arts. He makes history come alive by having students perform musicals he has written with jazz musician Bill Augustine that deal with historical events like the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 (‘Carry On’), the Constitutional Convention (‘Miracle in Philadelphia’), the Industrial Revolution (“Water and Power”) and the Louisiana Purchase (‘Hello Louisiana’). He has also written a children’s history book entitled ‘My Adventures with John Smith.” “Ask any fifth grader who’s not in my class what they think of history,” Lantos said. “They’ll tell you it’s boring. But there is a palpable change in the mood of the class when you don’t just tell them you’re going to learn history, but you tell them we’re going to sing a song or we’re going to put on a play. Then they get excited about learning.” Using this teaching philosophy, Lantos leads the school’s fifth graders in three musical productions each year, all of them performed in public. The Lori Petrick Award judges commented: ‘Jeff Lantos deserves a 10++ in best practices in education (10 is the highest score). He uses a strategy called ‘No Talk, No Chalk’ which allows the kids to ‘own’ the material. This is an excellent program with a clear and unique presentation of American history. His methods seem truly exceptional and innovative.’

Lost But Not Forgotten in Sudan

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“Education is my mother and my father.” This African saying reveals the strength and suffering of an estimated 20,000 young boys driven from their homes in southern Sudan, Africa, in the late 1980s, during the country’s violent civil war. Separated from their parents’many of whom were killed’and suffering from thirst and hunger, they walked barefoot across 1,000 miles to refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. They became known as the “Lost Boys,” and 3,800 of them were eventually relocated to the United States through the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Three of those boys’now in their mid-20s’have told their story in a book entitled “They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky.” Living near San Diego, they are pursuing their dreams of getting an education’a way to reconstruct their identities. One of the authors, Alephonsion Deng, spoke about his journey and assimilation in the U.S. at Palisades Charter High School on March 29. His visit was organized by Human Rights Watch Student Task Force representatives from PaliHi as part of their efforts to further understand the ongoing conflict in Sudan’currently in the Darfur region of western Sudan. “I was used to a life of escaping bullets and taking care of myself,” Deng told the large crowd of students and teachers who gathered to hear him speak in Mercer Hall. He was only 7 years old in 1989 when northern government troops attacked his village and he began his journey across the war-ravaged country. He walked for five years, stopping at refugee camps, before finally reaching a camp in Kenya where he lived for nearly a decade on a half cup of cornmeal a day. “It wasn’t enough, but it was enough to keep me from dying and starving to death,” he said of the meager portion. Deng told of an earlier time in a camp when he did think he was going to starve to death. He saw a woman preparing some grain and, when she wouldn’t let him have any, he began to pick up the pieces that had fallen into the fire'”like a chicken on the floor,” he said. She kicked the granules out of his hand and asked him questions like where his parents were, which he could not answer. He understood that the woman’s own children had died. “War doesn’t have any boundaries between who’s a child and who’s an adult,” Deng said. “This war is taking everybody.” When one student asked how he dealt with the everyday pain of walking without food or water, Deng said he had to get used to it. “I didn’t want to lag behind because some of the boys left behind were left to die.” According to the book, half of them did die before the others reached the Kenyan refugee camp. Many of their sisters were sold into slavery and taken to northern Sudan. Deng said the UN aid workers would follow them to camps and give them food, which is how some of them survived. But he believes that what really kept him going was the basic education he received in the Kenyan refugee camp, where he started studying English. After a long application and interview process, he was chosen, along with his brother and cousins, to come to the United States. They arrived in San Diego in 2001. “It was frustrating for them that first year,” said Judy Bernstein, chair of the advisory committee of the San Diego International Rescue Committee and co-founder of the IRC Lost Boys Education Fund, who mentored Deng as well as his brother and cousins. “The hard part was assimilation and learning the [American] ways.” Deng said that in his first job in the States, as a bag boy at Ralphs, “customers would get upset because I put the meat together with the soap.” He explained how, even though he could move quickly in Sudan when he needed to go from one camp to another or defend himself, “I couldn’t move very fast in an American, modern-day grocery store.” He found that speaking about and writing his story helped him mentally and emotionally. “I think it is important for my self-esteem to be able to tell the stories,” Deng told the Palisadian-Post. “I think if I’m helping myself, than I’m helping other people.” Bernstein, who assisted the three young men in developing their stories and structuring the book, agreed. “Most of our [U.S.] veterans keep it inside,” she said. She added, “I thought their writing was exceptional’it had a lyrical quality.” The book was published in May 2005 by Public Affairs. Deng currently attends San Diego City College and works in the Medical Records Department at Kaiser Permanente Hospital. “I take the challenges day by day,” Deng said, adding that the hardest thing for him now is adjusting to having a schedule’getting up and going to school. In Sudan, his life was precarious, and he continually had to move from place to place. He recently took a pantomime class, another artistic form of self-expression that he said helped him “get back to what it was like when I was a kid.” Deng said that every time he speaks to an audience about his experiences in Sudan, “it feels different.” But the message is the same: to spread peace. “Peace has never existed in my world,” he told a group of Student Task Force representative who gathered around him after his talk. “We should take our peace [here] and place it over there.” But the war in Darfur, Sudan is complicated. Unlike the north v. south/Arabs v. blacks/Muslims v. Christians conflict of which Deng is a victim, the conflict in Darfur pits Muslims against Muslims. The enemy is the Sudanese government, which has backed Janjaweed militia troops that are attacking and killing civilians. More than two million people have been displaced and are living in refugee camps in Darfur and Chad, which borders Darfur to the west. When one student asked if Deng feels angry towards other governments that are not doing anything to help the people of Sudan, he replied, “I feel angry towards my own government.” Deng admitted that while he likes to read the newspaper, he does not like to read the articles about the war in Iraq or the few that appear about the conflict in Darfur, which the United States has labeled a genocide. “It’s the political perspective. I don’t think they really know what is the bottom line,” he said, referring to how the war is affecting civilians, especially the women and the children. “All I know is we are the ones who get caught in between.”

Momma Reiner’s Local Fudge Business Goes Commercial

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For Easter, ‘Momma’ Reiner has prepared some special treats. Which means that for weeks now, she and her three helpers have been busy in the commercial kitchen she leases on Pico Blvd. turning out confections, including chocolate-covered marshmallows, as well as semisweet and white chocolate fudge. Reiner’s delicacies, which are individually packed in powder blue tins with brown ribbon for the holiday season, are available in half a dozen stores, including Black Ink at 873 Swarthmore. “I always recommend that people store their fudge in the refrigerator if they like more firm fudge or in a cool, dry place if they prefer it soft,” Reiner said. “Fudge can be frozen for up to three months. I put the fudge in a Ziploc bag inside the freezer.” Kimberly Reiner, a former attorney, has come a long way in the two years since she started her candy business in her Palisades home, when she would spend hours in her kitchen dipping a long spoon into a large pot of hot fudge and dropping spoonfuls onto sheets of wax paper. Row upon row, column after column, the treats accumulated on the counter, each made with the artful swirl of Reiner’s hand. “I like the dipping part,” Reiner said. Up until 2004, Reiner had been making the candy mostly for family and friends. She started cooking when she was about 5 years old’first with her mother, then with her own children. It was at the suggestion of her friend and neighbor, Palisadian business owner Patti Black, that Reiner began selling her homemade treats, which she now does seasonally. “Patti inspired me [to sell],”Reiner said. “Kimberly’s been giving [the fudge] to me every Christmas and I’ve been telling her we should sell it,” said Black, who’s been in the customized stationery business since 1998. “It’s selling great. People come in every day for samples [available at the counter].” Reiner and Black were neighbors in the Las Casas/Grenola neighborhood, where Reiner still lives with her husband, Steve, and sons, Alex, 7, and Emmett, 3. Reiner, a graduate of Pepperdine Law School, worked for five years as an immigration attorney in Los Angeles and Houston, Texas, where she and her husband moved after marrying in 1997. Originally from Beverly Hills, Reiner put her law career on hold when Alex was born. Her Texas friends gave her the name ‘Momma’ Reiner because she was the first among them to have a baby. When her husband’s job brought them them back to L.A. in late 1999, the same friends presented her with a white apron with the nickname embroidered on it. Even when Reiner was working as an attorney, she always made fudge for the holidays. “I think it brings back [childhood] memories.” She believes that the family fudge-making tradition began with her maternal grandmother, who used to make it with her daughter (Reiner’s mother, Terri Aidikoff). “I always knew I wanted to start a business,” Reiner said about the evolution of her “cottage industry.” While she won’t reveal the “secret recipe,” Reiner does say that the fudge has to boil at a high temperature and has to be the proper consistency before it’s shaped into pieces and set out to dry. Reiner announced this week that her company has been hired to provide fudge for the grand opening party of American Girl Place, which is owned by Mattel, at The Grove on April 21. There will be approximately 1,100 guests to this event.’Information is on-line at www.AmericanGirl.com’ ‘ Reiner’s next business moves include attending the candy food show in New York in July and to eventually open a retail shop of her own. She believes in “slow, steady” growth for her fudge factory. Contact: 454-2704 or www.mommareiner.com.

In Conversation with Robert Towne

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Academy Award-winning writer Robert Towne, who was born in Los Angeles and raised in San Pedro, has lived in Pacific Palisades for over 20 years. He resides in an English Tudor-style house in the Riviera with his Italian wife, Luisa, and their 14-year-old daughter, Chiara. Asked what he likes about our town, the former philosophy major says “the way the weather comes in over the ocean, having friends like Sydney Pollack in the neighborhood” and “‘ la tarte,” where he often eats with his brother Roger, who is also a writer. Asked if living here has influenced his work, Towne says: “No, it doesn’t inspire me in that way.” However, it may some day, given the scope of his career. Towne, who got his start acting and writing for director Roger Corman, came into his own writing what he knows best’Southern California. His Oscar-winning screenplay for “Chinatown” (1974) was critically acclaimed and “Shampoo” (1975), which he wrote with his friend Warren Beatty, was a commercial hit. “Tequila Sunrise” (1988) reflected his roots, as does his latest release, “Ask the Dust.” Known as one of the best script doctors in Hollywood, Towne worked on other Academy-Award-winning films, including “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) and “The Godfather” (1972). What do all these films have in common? They’re all “period” pieces in that they reflect the reality of the times in which they are set’be it the sexual mores of the 1970’s or the racial prejudice of the 1930’s. Still considered one of the finest writers in Hollywood, Towne at 72 is the quintessential Californian: laid back, opinionated, hip. He swaggers around his room in the Four Seasons Hotel in faded jeans and a black long-sleeved shirt looking for a match to light his cigar. He was meeting with the media here for two days to promote “Ask the Dust,” which opened in early March. The film, which Towne both wrote and directed, is based on the novel by John Fante. Set in Depression-era Los Angeles, it stars Colin Farrell as Arturo Bandini, the son of Italian immigrants who comes to L.A. determined to write the great American novel and marry a beautiful blonde. Instead, he falls for Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek), a passionate Mexican waitress who can’t read and longs to marry a WASP. Their explosive relationship (the curdled milk Camilla accidentally puts in Arturo’s coffee says it all) is meant to be a metaphor of the larger issues facing Angelenos at the time: the underlying racial tension, given the steady influx of Mexicans into California seeking a better life. “This whole book and movie is really about Los Angeles,” Towne says. “It’s a love story about the city and the relationship between two angry people, who are essentially angry for the same reason. Both feel like outsiders.” Asked if the film is somewhat autobiographical, Towne says that when he first read Fante’s novel “I almost thought I was reading about my own past. While there is a point where the movie and the book diverge, it was hard for me to tell where one ends and the other begins.” For Towne, “Ask the Dust” became a 30-year labor of love. After discovering the book while researching “Chinatown,” he began a friendship with Fante that would last until the author’s death in 1983. In the mid-1990s, 20 years after he first read the novel, Towne wrote a screenplay on spec and then spent the next decade years trying to secure financing. He says the reason the novel became a passion for him is that it taps into strong feelings he has for this city and his work as a writer. “It’s about a writer who feels neglected, unappreciated,” Towne says. “What writer doesn’t feel that way? How could I not identify with that?” Fante was born in 1909 in Colorado, the son of an Italian immigrant bricklayer. After a childhood spent in poverty and battling anti-Italian prejudice, he moved to California in 1929 and began writing stories for H. L. Mencken’s The American Mercury magazine. By 1936, he had created Arturo Bandini, the character who would become his alter ego in four novels. The first novel, “Wait Until Spring, Bandini,” was published in 1938 (and made into a film in 1989), followed by “Ask the Dust,” “Dreams from Bunker Hill,” and “The Road to Los Angeles” (published posthumously). The saga chronicles the writer’s acceptance of his working-class background, his Italian-American heritage and his longing for assimilation. “If there’s a better piece of fiction written about L.A., I don’t know about it,” Towne says of “Ask the Dust.” “I saw the story as a sort of ‘Wuthering Heights’ in Bunker Hill. In its way, it’s as old a story as ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ It ends, as all great love stories do, tragically. [But] it makes us believe that there is such a thing as love.” In the opening shot of “Ask the Dust,” which was filmed in South Africa, Towne pans a series of drawings of the California landscape over a radio weather report. The drawings come to life, taking us to the Alta Loma Hotel on Bunker Hill, where Mexicans and Jews are not welcome. It is here that Bandini finds a room. The view outside his window? A dusty palm tree. “You can feel the sand that comes in from the Mojave, even between the sheets,” writes Bandini. Although self-absorbed, Bandini is surprisingly likeable, as played by Farrell. As for Hayek’s Camilla, her feisty spirit can still be found in almost any small downtown coffee shop’given the ongoing racial tension in L.A. (Note: In 1988, as an entertainment writer for The Toronto Star, I interviewed Robert Towne when “Tequila Sunrise,” which he also both wrote and directed, was released. At the time, Towne said he saw the film as a modern morality tale about loyalty, friendship and love and hinted that some day he could end up as a character in one of his own films. As what? I predicted as an incurable romantic, which could certainly describe Bandini. Towne says his next film, which he’s already working on for Sony, is the tale of an American mining engineer, Wendell Fertig. It will be set during World War II and filmed in the Philippines.)

Playing in the Palisades

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A Photographer’s View of Our Local Parks

The centerpiece at Rustic Canyon Park is the historic Uplifter Clubhouse, which served as the country home for the men’s social club, founded in 1913. The Spanish-style building, designed by William Dodd, became the venue for the group’s absolutely “stag” Annual Outings. The property was transferred to the city in 1953, placing the 20,000 sq.-ft.-clubhouse

After Maral Kirschenmann moved into her home on Paseo Miramar in 1988, her photographs began exploding with the endlessly fascinating, ever-changing natural environment around her: the moods of the Pacific, the subtleties of the chaparral, and the critters. “Most of my challenges have to do with weather, light and timing,” says Maral, who’ despite an expertise that goes way beyond the amateur’s’considers her photography a hobby. Not really untrained, Maral minored in cinema at USC, and after she graduated with a business degree she continued to take courses in film, concentrating on the directing. “Framing became my interest, which carried over into my photography,” Maral says. Whether she is using her digital Canon Elf or her Pentax 1st-D (for which she can use the assortment of lenses she acquired for her old Pentax film camera) she is constantly taking pictures. At the end of each year, she selects the best work from each camera and creates a slide show for her family and friends. While her interest in the natural world is ceaseless, Maral has an affinity for photographing children, which she says is probably the hardest thing to do. “Fortunately, I am blessed with a daughter who is photogenic and allows me to shoot her. I seem to be really good with kids.” Her daughter Aran, 9-1/2, is a student at Calvary Christian School in the Highlands. Photographing birds is actually quite predictable, she says. “You give them the right food and setting and they’ll come and pose for you, flutter. And having an artistic eye, I can go from there.” Maral would like to do a book of her photographs someday. “Maybe a book on the views of the Palisades or the Westside, as a release for my artistic side. What I’d really like to see is an art gallery in the Palisades, and I think a great spot would be in that space right across the courtyard from Blockbuster [the former location of Contentment].” Maral was raised in a family in which you became a banker, a doctor or a lawyer. “I was a banker for years, now I’m more interested in doing something with my art.” She and her husband, Lon, have just finalized a film script that they have been working on for the past five years. Now in the hands of CAA, the story concerns the adventures of two young girls in the Cancun jungles. For now, though, Maral says that her real estate development firm continues to pay the bills.

‘Plaza Suite’ Is A Sweet Success

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Theater Review

This well-directed Theatre Palisades production of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” is a delightful evening of comedy. The original Broadway play starred George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton and opened for previews in December 1968. It was directed by Mike Nichols, who won a Tony for his efforts. The play and Stapleton were also nominated for Tonys, but did not win. In 1971, the play was turned into a movie starring Walter Matthau. Simon’s plays are generally about middle-class families dealing with the complexity of life: divorce, infidelity and, yes, even marriage, that are lightened through one-liners. The anguish of the characters’ situations is masked with glib remarks and covered with the audience’s laughter. Underneath Simon’s comedies is the same pain of being human as found in Eugene O’Neill’s tragedies. Simon started as a television writer with Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbert and Carl Reiner on the “Show of Shows” before turning to plays. His early successes, like “Come Blow Your Horn,” “Barefoot in the Park” and “The Odd Couple,” are more lighthearted than his darker, more autobiographical plays, The Eugene Triology, “Brighton Beach Memories,” “Biloxi Blues” and “Broadway Bound.” “Plaza Suite” is one of Simon’s earlier plays and is actually three separate sketches'”A Visitor from Mamaroneck,” “A Visitor From Hollywood” and “A Visitor from Forest Hills”‘that share a uniting factor, Suite 719 in New York’s Plaza Hotel. In the first sketch, Karen Nash (Martha Hunter) has secured the same hotel room for her 23rd anniversary that she and her husband shared on their honeymoon. Although it would have been easy for Hunter to follow Stapleton’s lead, she has made Karen her own. From Hunter’s acting choices, like a slip that peeks out from her blue skirt to her blunt, truthful outbursts about her children, her wistfulness is appealing. Wiser and more clever than her husband gives her credit for, she is a complex woman we know and understand. Her husband, Sam Nash (George Lissandrello) has other plans, which include spending the evening “working” with an assistant, Jean McCormack (Kimshelley Garner), who is younger, thinner and “smarter” than his wife. Nash does his best to try to vilify his wife by pointing out her deficiencies, but she nicely outwits him, and the audience realizes that beneath her seeming scatteredness there is a woman fighting to save her marriage. The audience laughs at her lines like, “We don’t have to worry about you, you have an affair. I’m the one who needs an activity.” In the second sketch, famous Hollywood producer Jesse Kiplinger (Frank Schultz), formerly of Tenafly, New Jersey, is a “Visitor from Hollywood” in Suite 719. Weary from all the “phoniness” of show business, he calls his high school sweetheart Muriel Tate (Holly Sidell) to join him for a drink. Although Muriel is married with three children, she comes to his room. Why would a happily married woman come to a famous producer’s hotel room? Is it curiosity about whether he would or could still love her, or is it because the happiness she proclaims about her marriage is not entirely honest? The second sketch, like the first, has a bittersweet quality that still is honest, funny and relevant today even though the play is almost 40 years old. Schultz, after he dropped the opening schtick, let the vulnerability surface in his performance. It was nicely nuanced and prevented him from being one-dimensional. Before raising the curtain for the final sketch “Visitor from Forest Hills,” which involves a bride who refuses to come out from the bathroom of Suite 719, members of Theatre Palisades went into the audience passing out “wedding party favors” and assuring the “guests”‘the audience’that there had been a slight delay with the wedding. This was a clever move on the director’s part that indirectly pulls the audience into the sketch, while giving the final cast time to set up. When the curtain rose, Norma Hubley (Dale Waddington Horowitz) and her husband Roy (Jack Winnick) spend frantic minutes trying to get their daughter, the bride, out of the bathroom. Roy is worried not only about all the money they’ve spent on this wedding, but also insulting the bridegroom’s family. Norma is worried about her daughter. This sketch is filled with physical comedy, as well as negotiations between the bathroom and bedroom in Suite 719 that would make any hostage negotiator proud. Kudos for the evening go to director Sherman Wayne. Even though the acting was uneven, the staging and pacing makes this a production to see. The one-liners provoke laughter throughout the performance. Comedy is one of the hardest art forms to do well, but in Wayne’s capable hands “Plaza Suite” is a great evening of laughs. “Plaza Suite” runs Friday and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through Sunday, April 7 at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon. Contact: 454-1970 or www.theatrepalisades.org

CLASSIFIED ADS FROM THE MARCH 30, 2006 ISSUE OF THE PALISADIAN-POST

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HOMES FOR SALE 1

INCREDIBLE WATERFRONT HOME, Kitsap County, WA. 2,300 sq ft custom 4 bdrm, 2.5 ba. 96 ft. low bank. Only $599,500! Owner/agent, (360) 265-3652. Janellis16@hotmail.com

HOMES WANTED 1b

WE BUY HOUSE’S, APTS & LAND! ALL CASH, AS-IS, FAST CLOSE. David, (310) 308-7887

HOME EXCHANGE 1c

CHARMING GARDEN APT. IN HAMPSTEAD, LONDON. Offer to swap for August to visit our Palisades based family. Would consider also offering one week in our large villa with pool in Italy. London apt. is big enough for family of 4 or 5. 1 master bdrm, kids room w/ bunk bed and one more small single bdrm. 2 ba and lg fenced garden. Contact by email: kwolman@blueyonder.co.uk

FURNISHED HOMES 2

FURNISHED CHARMING HOUSE near bluffs. 2+ den. Fireplace, garden, hardwood floors. Available short term. $5,000/mo.+security. Call (310) 459-0765 FURNISHED CHARMING COTTAGE close to village and bluffs. 1+1, fplc, garden, quiet. Available short term. $2,700/mo.+security. (310) 459-0765

UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS 2c

WALK TO VILLAGE. Fabulous condominium. 2+2, formal dining, oversized patios, hardwood floors, pool. $3,200/mo. (310) 454-7340 or (310) 804-5612 VILLAGE 1 BDRM APT. 85512 Via de la Paz. $1,515/mo. References, security dep. Avail 30th April or before. (310) 454-4668 1 BDRM, 1 BA MOBILE HOME at the beach. Yard, patio, sundeck, ocean view. $1,650/mo. No smoking. No pets. Call (310) 459-8538, cell (310) 895-0537 2 BD, 1 BA, CHARMING, quiet. Hardwd fl, w/d, microwave, dishwasher, Jacuzzi tub, large priv yard, pets ok. Walk to village. 853 Haverford Ave. $2,660/mo. (310) 454-4599 SMALL OCEAN VIEW. Guesthouse, private, gated, tropical gardens near old Getty villa. No pets, no smoking. $1,250/mo. Ready now. (310) 459-1983

ROOMS FOR RENT 3

FURNISHED/UNFURNISHED Master bdrm, bath in Palisades home. 2 double closets & sunny. Use of kitchen, laundry, yard. Close to trails. $840/mo. (310) 454-8520

WANTED TO RENT 3b

SEEKING A LONG TERM housesitting arrangement. 53-yr-old widow. SMC RN student without children/ pets. Desires a quiet environment. N/S. Call anytime. C.R., (310) 548-0626, (310) 621-7781 RECENT LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE looking in Palisades area for an apartment or guest house to rent. Clean, responsible, friendly with excellent employment. Non-smoker. Loves pets, children, life. Handy with tools. Able to house/ pet/babysit. Call Michael, (312) 375-5622 FIREFIGHTER IN PALISADES area looking for guesthouse/private rm to rent. Excellent credit, clean, non-smoking, handy w/ tools, loves dogs, able to housesit or maintain large property. Mike, (805) 907-0579

OFFICE/STORE RENTALS 3c

LARGE CORNER OFFICE 320 sq. ft. in Palisades village. 15135 Sunset. Second floor, $1,370/mo. (310) 454-0840 or (310) 600-3603

VACATION RENTALS 3e

PRIVATE FURN APARTMENT IN PARIS. Services available. 24-hour hotline. Starting at $75 a night for 2 persons (studios to 4 bedrooms). Privacy, economy, convenience as you live like a Parisian. 5 day minimum. Established in 1985. PSR 90, Ave Champs-Elysees. PSR, Inc. (312) 587-7707. Fax (800) 582-7274. Web address: www.psrparis.com. Email: Reservations@psrparis.com

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES 5

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LOST & FOUND 6a

$500 REWARD! LOST: BLACK DOGS, lost February 2nd. Escaped from backyard De Pauw St. near Swarthmore. “DRAKE” 11 years old, pit bull/lab mix, white chest, very people friendly. “Stella” 8.5 years, lab mix black retriever. CALL (310) 740-5849 LOST: BEAUTIFUL diamond stud earring (one of a pair) on Temescal Canyon (street from PCH to Sunset. Dear to my heart. If found, call (310) 980-6071

PERSONALS 6b

MAH JONGG PLAYERS WANTED for a regular WEEKLY game. Also looking for couples or individuals for a monthly poker game. Lorraine, (310) 459-0166

MISCELLANEOUS 6c

SEMPER FI TO BE ALWAYS FAITHFUL. US Marines code of honor. A class by Ray Nasser, US Marine. CA cred teacher. 16321 PCH #63, Pacific Palisades. (310) 454-7432

COMPUTER SERVICES 7c

PUT YOUR COMPUTER TO WORK – HOME & BUSINESS SURVEILLANCE-Featuring: PC Based Solutions to View your Property Remotely – Live Viewing from Internet & Wireless Handhelds! – FRANKEL CONSULTING – (310) 454-3886 MARIE’S MAC & PC OUTCALL. I CAN HELP YOU IN YOUR HOME OR OFFICE WITH: Consultation on best hard/software for your needs – Setting up & configuring your system & applications – Teaching you how to use your Mac or PC – Upgrades: Mac OS & Windows – Internet: DSL, Wireless, E-mail, Remote Access – Key Applications: MS Office, Filemaker, Quicken – Contact Managers, Networking, File Sharing, Data backup – Palm, Visor, Digital Camera, Scanner, CD Burning – FRIENDLY & PROFESSIONAL – BEST RATES – (310) 262-5652 YOUR OWN TECH GURU – Set-up, Tutoring, Repair, Internet. End Run-around. Pop-up Expert! Satisfying Clients since 1992. If I Can’t Help, NO CHARGE! COMPUTER WORKS! Alan Perla, (310) 455-2000 COMPUTER CONSULTANT, MAC SPECIALIST. Very Patient, Friendly and Affordable. Tutoring Beginners to Advanced Users. Wireless DSL internet. MAC/PC SET UP – Repair – Upgrade – OS X. Senior discounts! Home/Office. William Moorefield, (310) 838-2254. macitwork.com QUICKBOOKS-GET ORGANIZED – Set-up, Data Entry, Reporting, Tax Preparation. Palisades Resident. Doris, (310) 913-2753 FREE YOURSELF FROM THE OFFICE! Want to work from home or anywhere you want? Got a Virus? The Mobile Office Professional CAN HELP! Call QTutors, (602) 625-3381 TAX PREPARATION / ACCOUNTING – Tax Services: Tax Extensions, Lacerte Software – Individual, Partnership, Corp, Trust & Estate – Retail, Wholesale, Entertainment Business – Bookkeeping/Quickbooks. SILVERMAN CO., (310) 454-5822. Palisades Resident

GARAGE, ESTATE SALES 7f

PLANNING A GARAGE SALE? a moving sale? a yard sale? a rummage sale? an estate sale? Call it what you like. But call us to do it for you. We do the work. Start to finish. – BARBARA DAWSON – Garage Sale Specialist – (310) 454-0359 – bmdawson@verizon.net – Furniture – Antiques – Collectibles – Junque – Reliable professionals Local References

ORGANIZING SERVICES 7h

PUTTING IT TOGETHER 25+ years organizing. Organize: home office, file system setup, finances, kitchen, bedroom, closet, garage, etc. Clear the path to enjoy life. (323) 580-4556 PERSONAL ASSISTANCE, ORGANIZATION & BOOKKEEPING. Superior services provided with discretion and understanding. Local references. Call Sarah, (310) 573-9263

NANNIES/BABYSITTERS 8a

HOME HELP! I would love to help you organize kids, errands, pets, cook, office help. 20 years experience. Excellent local references. Call Ruth, (310) 429-2459 NANNY/HOUSEKEEPER EXPERIENCED, good references, speaks English available 5 days and weekends. Please call cell, (323) 490-5750, or home anytime, (323) 750-3874 BABTSITTER, RESPONSIBLE 27-year-old female available weekday evenings and weekends. $15/hr. (310) 779-9630

HOUSEKEEPERS 9a

“PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.” We make your home our business. Star sparkling cleaning services. In the community over 15 years. The best in housekeeping for the best price. Good references. Call Bertha, (323) 754-6873 & cell (213) 393-1419 HOUSEKEEPER OR BABYSITTER available now Monday-Friday. Experienced. Local references. Own car. Please call Imelda or Carolina, (323) 752-5244 EXPERIENCED HOUSEKEEPER AVAIL weekdays Mon.-Fri. Expert cleaning, laundry, errands, English-speaking, own transportation, trustworthy. Pacific Palisades & Malibu refs. Roxanne, (323) 293-4917 EXPERIENCED HOUSEKEEPER AVAILABLE 3 days/week, Tues. Thurs. & Sat. Speak English. I have my own transportation. Good references. Please call Adelina at (323) 737-7158 or (323) 527-4538 HOUSEKEEPER/BABYSITTER wanting to work immediately. M-F Own transportation references. Please call Yenis, (213) 385-5074 HOUSEKEEPER, EXPERIENCE, good references. Available 7 days a week. Has own transportation. Speaks English & Spanish. Call anytime, (323) 564-8928 HOUSEKEEPER 18 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Excellent references. Own transportation. Available Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Call Aida, (323) 735-7603 HOUSEKEEPER AVAILABLE Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Excellent references. Has car, English, U.S. citizen. Call Silvia. (323) 422-9017 HOUSECLEANER AVAILABLE on Monday and Fridays only. Own transportation, local references. Please call Marisa, h (323) 232-7668, or cell, (323) 687-8816 HOUSEKEEPER AVAILABLE Thursdays and every other Friday afternoon. Own transportation. Excellent references. I want to work for you. Call Carol, (323) 299-1797 HOUSEKEEPER/BABYSITTER to live out available now M-F or live in 2 or 3 days a week. References. Call Dora, (213) 924-6534

ELDER CARE/COMPANIONS 10a

CAREGIVERS/COMPANIONS Live in/out. Minimum 2 years experience. 3 work related references required. CNA’S/CHH’S welcomed. Bondable. Call (323) 692-3692 EXPERIENCED COMPANION/CAREGIVER Live-in 24/7. Capable of light housework, meal preparation and drive. References available. Call Precious at (323) 404-5043. Email preciosazgarcia@yahoo.com

GARDENING, LANDSCAPING 11

PALISADES GARDENING – Full Gardening Service – Sprinkler Install – Tree Trim – Sodding/Seeding – Sprays, non-toxic – FREE 10″ Flats, Pansies, Snap, Impatiens. (310) 568-0989 TREE AND LANDSCAPE EXPERT. Horticulturist, arborist, landscape manager/designer. Tree diagnosis, trimming, removal, appraisal/donation for tax deduction. Lawn diagnosis, repair. Sprinklers, drip systems. Expert maintenance. Greenhouse/veggie/herb gardens Comprehensive plant & landscape consulting. Darren Butler, (818) 271-0963 POND CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN: Water gardening. Japanese Koi fish. Filtration pond service, repair & maintence. Free estimates. Cell, (310) 498-5380, (310) 390-1276. Visit us at www.TheKingKoi.com

MOVING & HAULING 11b

HONEST MAN SERVICES. 14″ van & dollies. Small jobs to 2 bedrooms. Hauls it all. California/Nevada. Over 12 years. Westside experience. (310) 285-8688

HEALING ARTS 12

HEAL YOUR LIFE at the DNA Cellular Level. Transform yourself with caring, compassionate spiritual counseling. Gain clarity about root causes of your painful issues, with help from an experienced intuitive who knows how to walk you through the shadows and into the Light. Begin changing your life NOW. Contact: Selacia, (310) 915-2884, Selacia@Selacia.com, www.Selacia.com

WINDOW WASHING 13h

NO STREAK WINDOW cleaning service. Fast & friendly. Quality service you can count on. Free estimates. Lic. # 122194-49. Pressure washing available. Please call (323) 632-7207 EXPERT WINDOW CLEANER 20 years Westside. Clean and detailed. Free estimates, sills and screens included. Up to two stories only. Brian, (310) 289-5279

MISCELLANEOUS 13i

PRESSURE WASHING. Driveways, patios, walk-ways, garages, dirt, oil, rust, paint and moss removal. Concrete, brick, natural stone. Clear and colored-stain sealer. Craig, (310) 459-9000

PERSONAL SERVICES 14f

DO YOU HAVE MEDICARE? I can find the best and least expensive Medicare Part D prescription plan for you. Private and confidential. (Save $$-join by 5/15). Paula, (310) 454-8694

PET SERVICES/PET SITTING 14g

BE HAPPY TO COME HOME! Trusted house/pet care in & around Palisades since 1986. Educated, responsible. (310) 454-8081 PET HEAVEN – TOTAL PET CARE – Training. Walking. Play groups. Does your dog need manners? Call (310) 454-0058 for a happy dog.

SCHOOLS, INSTRUCTION 15d

VIOLIN INSTRUCTION. Expert friendly guidance at all levels by highly qualified teacher. Home or studio. Teaching in Palisades 20 years. Laurence Homolka, (310) 459-0500 PIANO INSTRUCTION. Give your child the life-long gift of music! Patient, creative teacher, specializing in children. Music degree, USC. Qualified, experienced, local. Lisa Lukas, (310) 454-0859 STUDY SAX WITH A PRO! Your home or my studio. All levels, 9 years old and up. Twelve years on the Westside. Jim Thompson, (310) 581-1916

TUTORS 15e

INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION. EXPERIENCED TUTOR 20+ YEARS. Children & adults, 20+ yrs teaching/tutoring exper. MATH, GRAMMAR, WRITING & STUDY SKILLS. Formerly special ed teacher. Call (310) 313-2530. SCIENCE & MATH TUTOR, All levels (elementary to college). Ph.D., MIT graduate, 30 years experience. Ed Kanegsberg, (310) 459-3614 MS. SCIENCE TUTOR. Ph.D., Experienced, Palisades resident. Tutor All Ages In Your Home. Marie, (310) 888-7145 EXPERIENCED SPANISH TUTOR. All grade levels, conversational & all ages. Local refs, flexible hours. Please call Noelle at (310) 273-3593 READING SPECIALIST – Master of Education-Reading and Learning Disabilities – Special Education Teaching Certificate: K-12 – Regular Education Teaching Certificate: K-9 – Elementary Education Teaching experience: 12 yrs – Services provided for special & regular education students of all levels – Academic areas taught include reading (phonics and reading comprehension) writing and spelling – Private tutoring includes accessing the student’s needs, developing an individualized education program and implementation of that program. Palisades resident. Call Brandi, (310) 230-9890 PROFESSIONAL TUTOR. Stanford graduate (BA and MA, Class of 2000). Available for all subjects and test prep (SAT & AP). In-home tutoring at great rates. Call Jonathan, (310) 560-9134 SPANISH TUTOR, CERTIFIED TEACHER for all levels. Has finest education, qualifications and experience. Palisades resident. Many good references. Amazing system. Affordable rates. Marietta, (310) 459-8180 PIANO TEACHER IN PACIFIC PALISADES! 20 years experience. I teach in your home. Great with children and adults returning to the piano. Call Karen Rae, (310) 383-0200 MATH & SCIENCE TUTOR Middle school-college level. BS LAUSD credentialed high school teacher. Test Prep. Flexible hours. AVAILABLE to help NOW! Seth Freedman, (310) 909-3049 COMPUTER LESSONS. Working on an assignment for school or work, but need help? From the Basics to Web Design to Viruses, WE CAN HELP! Call QTutors, (602) 625-3381 CLEARLY MATH TUTORING. Specializing in math! Elementary thru college level. Test prep, algebra, trig, geom, calculus. Fun, caring, creative, indivdualized tutoring. Math anxiety. Call Jamie, (310) 459-4722 CAN SCORE OVER 650 on June SAT Math, if commit to 8 weeks of tutoring, 5 hours per week, homework practice tests. Please, only dedicated students eager to work hard. Hubert, (310) 573-7088

CABINET MAKING 16

CUSTOM CARPENTRY – Entertainment Units – Cabinets – Libraries – Bars – Wall Units – Custom Kitchens – Remodeling – Designed to your Specifications – Free Estimates – CA Lic. #564263 – (310) 823-8523 CUSTOM WOODWORK AND CABINETS. Craftsmanship quality, 20 years experience, local resident. Local references available. General Contractor Calif. License #402923. Ron Dillaway, (310) 455-4462. rondillaway@yahoo.com

CARPENTRY 16a

QUALITY CRAFTSMANSHIP! Doors, windows, skylights, decks, drywall, kitchen, baths, etc. Non-lic. (310) 428-3822

CONCRETE, MASONRY 16c

MASONRY & CONCRETE CONTRACTOR. 36 YEARS IN PACIFIC PALISADES. Custom masonry & concrete, stamped, driveways, pool, decks, patios, foundations, fireplace, drainage control, custom stone, block & brick, tile. Excellent local references. Lic. #309844. Bonded/insured/ workmen’s comp. Family owned & operated. MIKE HORUSICKY CONSTRUCTION, INC. (310) 454-4385 – www.horusicky.com

CONSTRUCTION 16d

CASTLE CONSTRUCTION. New homes, remodeling, additions, fine finish carpentry. Serving the Westside for 20 yrs. Lic. #649995. Call James, (310) 450-6237 PALISADES CONSTRUCTION SERVICES. KEVIN B. NUNNELEY. (310) 454-5029. Local References Avail. Lic. #375858

ELECTRICAL 16h

PALISADES ELECTRIC, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. All phases of electrical, new construction to service work. (310) 454-6994. Lic. #468437. Insured. Professional Service ELECTRICIAN HANDYMAN. Local Service Only (Not lic.). Please Call (310) 454-6849 or (818) 317-8286

FENCES 16j

THE FENCE MAN. 14 years quality workmanship. Wood fences – Decks – Gates – Chainlink & overhang. Lic. #663238, bonded. (818) 706-1996

FLOOR CARE 16l

GREG GARBER’S HARDWOOD FLOORS SINCE 1979. Install, refinish. Fully insured. Local references. (310) 230-4597. Lic. #455608 CENTURY HARDWOOD FLOOR. Refinishing, Installation, Repairs. Lic. #813778. www.centurycustomhardwoodfloorinc.com. centuryfloor@sbcglobal.net – (800) 608-6007 – (310) 276-6407 HART HARDWOOD FLOORING. Best pricing. Senior discounts, quality workmanship. Bamboo, maple, oak and laminate. Installation & refinishing. Call for free quote. Lic. #763767. Ron, (310) 308-4988 GOLDEN HARDWOOD FLOORS. Professional installation & refinishing. National Wood Flooring Association member. Lic. #732286 Plenty of local references. (877) 622-2200. www.goldenhardwoodfloors.com

HANDYMAN 16n

HANDYMAN, Since 1975. Call for your free est. Local ref. Lic. #560299. Member, Chamber of Commerce. HOOSHMAN (310) 459-8009, 24 Hr. LABOR OF LOVE carpentry, plumbing, tile, plaster, doors, windows, fencing & those special challenges. Work guaranteed. License #B767950. Ken at (310) 455-0803 LOCAL RESIDENT, LOCAL CLIENTELE. Make a list, call me. I specialize in repairing, replacing all those little nuisances. Not licensed; fully insured; always on time. 1 Call, 1 Guy Marty, (310) 459-2692 THE HANDY GUY. Any job, big or small. Over 16 years experience. Lic #B-858574. We’re proud to donate our services to Habitat for Humanity. (310) 216-9034 HANDYMAN SERVICES. No job too small. 10 years experience in the Palisades. Please call (310) 454-3838 for prompt, friendly service. Not licensed. PETERPAN – Quality home repair. Serving entire Westside. (Not lic.) Ask for Peter, (310) 663-3633 AVALON ESTATE MAINTENANCE. Specializing in all aspects of home repair. Reasonable rates. Refs available. Prompt service. Non-lic. Call Dustin, (310) 924-2711

HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING 16o

SANTA MONICA HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING. INSTALLATION: New and old service and repairs. Lic. #324942 (310) 393-5686

PAINTING, PAPERHANGING 16q

PAUL HORST – Interior & Exterior – PAINTING – 52 YEARS OF SERVICE – Our reputation is your safeguard. License No. 186825 – (310) 454-4630 – Bonded & Insured TILO MARTIN PAINTING. For A Professional Job Call (310) 230-0202. Ref’s. Lic. #715099 SQUIRE PAINTING CO. Interior and Exterior. License #405049. 25 years. Local Service. (310) 454-8266. www.squirepainting.com SPIROS PAINTING, INTERIOR/EXTERIOR. Painting on the Westside since 1980. Lic. #821009. Fax and phone: (310) 826-6097. NO JOB is too small or too big for Spiro the Greek ZARKO PRTINA PAINTING. Interior/Exterior. 35 years in service. License #637882. Call (310) 454-6604 QUALITY PAINTING PLUS: Free estimates. Family owned and operated for three generations. Serving southern California since 1979. Interior/exterior, residential/commercial. Only high grade materials applied. Lic. #698939. James Welsh, (310) 663-3914

PLUMBING 16s

BOTHAM PLUMBING AND HEATING. Lic. #839118. (310) 827-4040 JLK PLUMBING. Re-pipe and sewer specialist & all plumbing repairs. Mention this ad & receive 10% off. Lic. #722414. Call (310) 678-6634

REMODELING 16u

KANAN CONSTRUCTION – References. BONDED – INSURED – St. Lic. #554451 – DANIEL J. KANAN, CONTRACTOR, (310) 451-3540 / (800) 585-4-DAN LABOR OF LOVE HOME REPAIR & REMODEL. Kitchens, bathrooms, cabinetry, tile, doors, windows, decks, etc. Work guar. Ken Bass, General Contractor. Lic. #B767950. (310) 455-0803 BASIX DESIGNS & REMODELING, INC. WE DO IT ALL – Kitchen & Bathroom Remodeling Specialist – Room Additions – Interior/Exterior Paint – Windows/Doors – Custom Carpentry – Plumbing – Electrical – Call For Free Estimate – Toll Free: (877) 422-2749 – Lic. #769443

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DRIVERS, ARE YOU GETTING GREAT PAY? Are you living the lifestyle you deserve? If not, call WERNER today! (800) 346-2818, ext 123 PATROL OFFICER, ARMED, P/T or F/T. Great benefits, high pay. CA BSIS permit and CA POST cert. required. Call today, (310) 454-7741 or email patrol@gatessecurity.com AAA HOME INCOME. 23 people needed NOW. Earn PT/FT income. Apply online to get started: www.wahusa.com FULL-TIME BOOKKEEPER FOR the Malibu Times newspaper. Become part of our account team. Experienced. Proficent in Quickbooks, Word, Excel. Detail oriented, organized with excellent people skills. Fax resume with salary history to Janice, (310) 456-8986 PART TIME NANNY/HOUSEKEEPER. Must speak English and drive. Great with kids. Flexible hours. Wed., Thurs., Fri. Call (310) 387-7722 LOOKING FOR LIVE-IN HOUSEKEEPER/NANNY. Tuesday thru Saturday, or Monday thru Friday. Must have experience with children, cleaning. References please. (310) 573-3663 PERSONAL ASSISTANT/CHILDCARE provider needed for 7 year old girl, 10 year old boy, afternoons. Additional hours as necessary. Rebeccalobl@earthlink.net. YMCA/SUMMER DAY CAMP OPPORTUNITIES! We need Camp Directors, Counselors, an Art Director, Hiking and Nature Director to closely supervise and educate the children in the summer camp program, by maintaining a safe and stimulating environment. Each employee is responsible for planning programs for their group of campers and coordinating their programs within the camp. QUALIFICATIONS: High school diploma, GED, or further education. Experience working with children is preferred but not required. CPR and First Aid Certification. Flexibility and ability to adjust to varying situations. Creativeness, patience, understanding, co-operation, and common sense. www.YMCALA.org/PM. Jason Forman, (310) 454-5591 OFFICE MANAGER, GOOD CUSTOMER service skills. Computer literate for new physical rehabilitation clinic. Fax resume: (310) 454-5049 LEAD GUITAR PLAYER WANTED: Looking for mature and accomplished lead guitar player (40+ yr old) to play with local Palisades band (The Garden Weasels) specializing in ’60s and ’70s music. We play occasional gigs, parties, clubs, etc about one gig every two or three months. Together 15 years. Mainly to have fun, money is not major factor. Practice locally in Palisades at homes of band members. Beatles, Eagles, Clapton, Doobies. We do lots of vocals, but we need a lead player. Ours just moved to Phoenix under suspicious circumstances. Call Len, (310) 459-5243, or Don, (310) 459-3170 HOUSEKEEPER/NANNY needed part-time short term. Available immediately to Santa Monica Family. Drive own car, speak English. Call Claudette, (310) 451-8723 SUBTLETONES LOOKING FOR PART TIME and FULL TIME employees in all of our locations, Santa Monica, Palm Desert, Newport Beach. Please contact Janna at Santa Monica store, (310) 576-0504, or email janna@subtletones.com DRIVERS: $1,000 BONUS! Just for hauling your FIRST flatbed load. Call WERNER ENTERPRISES for this and more! (800) 346-2818 ext. 136 NEEDED: WOMAN OR COUPLE for help with partially handicapped young lady, housework. 8 hours per day in Malibu/Pt. Dume area. Live-in or out. English-speaking. Drive car w/ license. Prefer no children, no pets. Call (310) 457-3393 and ask for Madora. NANNY NEEDED. PALISADES family with two children needs 20 hours a week; after school 2:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. or later nightly. Must drive and speak pretty good English. Need a lot of errands run. Please call (310) 874-1084 AFTER SCHOOL HELP WANTED. Two days/week, pick-up children from school, help with homework and dinner, approx 12 hrs/wk. Great driving record required. Ruthanne, (310) 230-4035 LIVE-IN HOUSEKEEPER, must be legal and pay taxes. Some childcare. English speaking. Light cooking. Driving a plus. In the Highlands. Call (310) 694-4979

AUTOS 18b

CASH FOR CARS $$ Foreign or domestic. Running or not. Friendly professional buyer. We come to you & handle all paperwork. Local references. Please call (310) 995-5898 1994 FORD EXPLORER SPORT 4×4, 2 door hunter green. Alloy wheels w/ BFGAT’s. Brand new master cylinder and brakes. 125,000 miles good condition. $3,200 obo. GREAT CAR! (310) 576-0622 1998 VOLVO CROSS COUNTRY V70, AWD, Black, Sportswagon pkg, loaded, blk lthr htd seats, 3rd seat, 85K mi. Clean. $9,500 obo. (310) 892-6707

FURNITURE 18c

COMPLETE APPLIANCE PACKAGE, Slightly used (Fridge, range, microw, dishw, W/D), white, $1,500. Eclectic pine furniture. (310) 454-0846 BEAUTIFUL NEW & NEAR NEW office furniture for sale. Oak desks, file cabinets. Executive chairs, more. See Joy or Chris at the Methodist Church. 801 Via de la Paz. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (310) 454-5529 2 TWIN BDS, SLEIGH style w/ wood & iron, mattresses incl, good cond, med brown, $995. 2 matching bedside tables, grt cond, $250/pair. Matching bunk beds, desk w/ hutch, 2 side tables, light wood, grt cond, mattresses incl, $1,500. Pine hutch, grt cond, $750. (310) 230-9947 3 PIECE BEDROOM SET painted for Disney TV decorating show in “Toy Story” theme. Our little Buzz Lightyear has grown up! Twin trundle bed with mattress, computer ready desk with large hutch and 3-drawer dresser. A few knobs are missing (easily replaced at Norris) but otherwise in great condition. $400 for set, you arrange pick-up. (310) 459-8506

GARAGE, ESTATE SALES 18d

SMALL ESTATE SALE! Good furniture, brand new “Foof” chairs, wooden kitchen bar chairs, tile inlay table and chairs, iron baker’s rack, new elec mower, misc. & MORE. 773 Via de la Paz. FRI.-SAT., April 7-8, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. (310) 459-7418

PETS, LIVESTOCK 18e

LOOKING FOR A LOVING home for 2 year old cats. Litter trained, fixed, short hair, beautiful grey. Call (310) 456-9810

MISCELLANEOUS 18g

SINGER SEWING MACHINE & other items. Hardly used. Like new. $295. (310) 454-4887

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WANTED: Old tube guitar amplifiers, ’50s, ’60s, etc. Tommy, (310) 306-7746 – profeti2001@yahoo.com

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