Palisadian Rick Phillips, a second-degree black belt in Yoshukai Karate, won the United States Knockout Karate Lightweight championship in Anniston, Alabama, two weeks ago. An instructor at Gerry Blanck’s Martial Arts Center, Phillips has fought in the tournament four years in a row. “I’m proud that Rick won it this year,” Blanck said. “The first year he was eliminated in the semifinals, the next year he got third and last year he lost a close fight in the final. So he’d gotten closer each time. His training and determination really paid off and this year he dominated the last match to take first place.” Another local instructor, Thomaz Lezny, also competed in the event and placed second in the middleweight division. Both Phillips and Lezny were invited to fight in the World Karate Knockout Championships held in Osaka, Japan next September.
Marymount Wins Another CIF Title
Under the guidance of head coach and Palisadian Cari Klein, the Marymount High varsity volleyball team won its fifth consecutive CIF Southern Section Division IV-AA title Saturday night at Cypress College. The Sailors beat Sunshine League rival La Salle in the final, 25-15, 25-23, 25-16, and advanced to the state tournament, which opened Tuesday night against Chowchilla Union. Led by Palisadian junior outside hitter Kelly Irvin’s 22 kills and 22 digs, the Sailors (28-7) swept La Salle for the third time this season. The Sailors’ fifth consecutive Section title tied the record set by Lake Arrowhead Rim of the World from 1981-85. Other area players contributed to the victory, including Megan Tryon (17 kills and 18 digs), Alex Ayers, Ali Hoffman and Madison Wojciechowski. Starter Jamie Sabol suffered a concussion in the first game, but junior Claire Kinnan stepped in with five blocks and freshman Mattison Quayle had 18 digs. Marymount won four consecutive Division IV state titles from 2000-2003 before failing in its bid for five straight last season. Girls Tennis For the second straight year, Palisadian Madison Akerblom teamed with Rosemary Miller to advance to the third round of the CIF Southern Section Individual doubles tournament. In 2003, Akerblom and Jackie Dubbins advanced to the second round. Seeded No. 1 in the Sunshine League, Akerblom and Miller beat Oxnard’s Fatima Sanchez and Lauren Wiggins in the first round, 6-2, 6-0. Then, the Sailors’ top duo defeated Corey Burnett and Beth Thorne of Brentwood, 6-4, 7-5. In the third round, Akerblom and Miller fell to Santa Barbara’s Brook Robertson and Kristen Teufel, 6-3, 6-1. Cross Country Marymount’s varsity cross country team finished 12th out of 75 schools at last Saturday’s CIF Finals meet. The Sailors’ roster included Palisadians Katie Aspell, Ani Mardirossian, Erin Windler and Daryn Towle.
Pali’s Hickok Qualifies for State Cross Country Finals
Palisades High junior Kristabel Doebel-Hickok finished sixth in the girls’ varsity division at the City Section finals meet last Saturday morning at Pierce College in Woodland Hills. And just as head coach Ron Brumel had predicted, his top runner qualified for this weekend’s state finals meet at Woodward Park in Fresno. Doebel-Hickok ran the three-mile switchback course in 19:09, a full 20 seconds faster than her qualifying time five days earlier. The top two teams and the top seven individual runners qualify for the state meet, so Doebel-Hickok earned a spot by finishing nine seconds ahead of the seventh and last qualifier. Senior Emmaline Hartel of Birmingham became the first girl to win three City Section cross country titles, running the course in 18:16. Sarah Roth of El Camino Real was the runner-up in 18:30 and third-place finisher Jennifer Hernandez (18:32) helped secure the team title for Birmingham. Birmingham totaled 42 points, El Camino Real took second with 47 points and San Pedro, which was vying for its fifth consecutive girls’ crown, finished third with 55 points after one of its runners was disqualified. Doebel-Hickok ran Pierce in 19:29 to finish second in her heat at the prelims, 35 seconds behind Hartel. The Dolphins’ junior had beaten Hartell by 30 seconds in a nonleague tri-meet at Griffith Park in October. Doebel-Hickock’s personal-best of 18:37 was earlier this season at the Woodbridge Invitational in Irvine, where she placed seventh out of 238 runners in her division. She posted the fifth fastest prelims time. Neither of Palisades’ varsity teams qualified for the City finals.
Palisades Tennis Is Back on Top
Dolphins Down Carson 6-1 to Win City Section Title for First Time Since 1998
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
Having lost in the finals the previous two years, Palisades High’s girls varsity tennis team began its season with one clear objective: win the City Section championship. The Dolphins did just that Friday, reclaiming the title that once belonged exclusively to them by soundly defeating Carson, 6-1, at Balboa Sports Center in Encino. It was Palisades’ 18th team crown and first since 1998. After falling short against Granada Hills by 6-1 and 5-2 scores in 2003 and 2004, Friday’s win was most satisfying for the six seniors who made the best of their last chance at a title. “One one hand, I would have liked to have beaten Granada [Hills] in the finals to pay them back for the last two years,” said Pali’s senior co-captain Brittany O’Neil, who celebrated her 17th birthday by teaming with Lauren Pugatch to win at No. 2 doubles. “On the other hand, Carson deserved to be here and gave us a great match. Everything just came together this season. Like a jigsaw puzzle, we finally got all of the pieces to fit.” Palisades (15-0) needed less than an hour and a half to clinch the victory. Katy Nikolova, a sophomore transfer from Burbank, was first off the court. Two days after her 16th birthday she won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 singles and finished the season undefeated, not losing a set since joining the team just before the second round of league play. Though the Dolphins might have won even without her, Nikolova was the missing ingredient to the championship mixture. “My goal coming here was just to have fun and to give it my best,” said Nikolova, who was among the top 20 juniors in Southern California in the 14s last year. “The rest of the team has really embraced me and we’ve worked hard for this. I think the secret of our success has been that we all get along so well.” O’Neil offered high praise for her younger teammate. “Katy is such a nice, wonderful girl,” O’Neil said. “She became part of our family right away and having her has really boosted our confidence even more. It gave Krista a better player to practice with and it made our lineup that much stronger. She’s definitely made a difference.” After Carson’s Teresa Macias won 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3 singles to level the match, Palisades’ senior co-captain Krista Slocum won 6-2, 6-2 at No. 2 singles, then teammate Kathryn Cullen won 7-5, 6-0, at No. 4 singles, meaning the Dolphins needed only one of three available doubles points to end the longest stretch between City titles in the program’s storied history. “This is one of the best, hardest working groups I’ve had,” said Palisades coach Bud Kling, who could not contain his elation upon winning his 12th City title with the girls since he took over the program in 1985. “These girls had no egos They were very unselfish and they stayed motivated all the way through the season.” Kling, who led the boys’ team to its 25th City title in May, deemed the Dolphins’ fast start as critical to the outcome of the match. “We have a lot of respect for Carson and after the first few games it looked like it would be closer. Once we got over the nerves and got in a groove we just kept rolling,” he said. “I’m happy for our seniors and for our whole program. Now we have both titles back where they belong.” The second-seeded Colts (15-1), who lost to Palisades in the semifinals last year, were hoping to pull off an upset in doubles. Instead, the Dolphins’ top duo of Yasmir Navas (the Dolphins’ third senior captain) and fellow senior Mary Logan won, 6-4, 6-2, O’Neil and Pugatch won, 6-4, 6-2, and Pali’s No. 3 team of senior Sarah Jurick and sophomore Sarah Yankelevitz won 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. “Our strategy was to try to win two in singles and two in doubles,” Macias said. “We knew their top two players are really strong, so we concentrated on three and four [singles] and also two and three doubles. They were just too good for us today.” In a way it was fitting that Cullen, the only player to post a win in each of the Dolphins’ 15 victories this season, earned the decisive fourth point. After the final ball was struck and Cullen had completed her post-match handshake, she was mobbed on the court by her teammates. Nikolova and Slocum arrived first to give her a hug. “That made me feel real good,” Cullen admitted. “I’m just happy I was able to contribute.” Another celebration ensued after Jurick and Yankelevitz wrapped up their come-from-behind victory to provide the final margin. In a classy display of sportsmanship, Carson players recited a “Who do we appreciate?” cheer for Palisades. The Dolphins huddled and responded by shouting “Carson rocks!” Palisades won a record eight consecutive City titles from 1984-91 and had never gone more than two years without winning a section title before its recent drought. Slocum is happy just to have won once. “It would’ve been really disappointing to lose in the finals again,” she said. “We seniors are proud to be able to say we won our last high school match.” Knowing full well that success at any level is cyclical, Kling would not entertain thoughts of a dynasty, though he predicted the Dolphins will have a strong chance to repeat with two juniors and five underclassmen returning next season. “One of the real challenges is finding good competition,” Kling said. “Our league has been down the last few years so I really have to be tough on the girls in practice to get them to stop their bad habits. When you’re winning all the time it’s easy to slack on fundamentals but I keep telling them that’s not going to work when it really counts.” Slocum said overconfidence was not a problem heading into the finals because Kling addressed the issue in a team meeting before the playoffs started. “He definitely was concerned about that when he found out we got the No. 1 seed. He warned us not to get complacent. So we were prepared for that.” In its three playoff matches, Palisades notched 19 of a possible 21 points. The semifinals last Wednesday were as one-sided as the finals, with Nikolova and Slocum each winning 6-0, 6-0 in a 6-1 rout of fourth-seeded Bell.
Matthew Boyle, 92; Elevator Expert
Matthew Boyle, a 48-year resident of Pacific Palisades, businessman, golfer and Rotarian, passed away on November 6. He was 92. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Elmhurst, Long Island, Boyle graduated from Newtown High School in 1930 and Pratt Institute in 1933. In the late 1930s, he went to work for Watson Elevator as an engineer while also attending City College of New York in the evenings, eventually earning his engineering degree. At the start of World War II, Watson became a major manufacturer of war materials, which exempted Boyle, then vice president, from the draft. While at Watson, Boyle met Audrey Rice, who was working there as an expediter. The couple had their first date in February 1943 and married on July 10 that same year. They lived in Englewood, New Jersey, where their daughter Audrey Ann was born. A job change resulted in their move to Los Angeles in 1957. The family closed escrow on a home in Paseo Miramar, where they lived thereafter. In 1960, Boyle’s company, Elevator Maintenance Company, was bought out by Haughton Elevator and he became Western States regional manager. This territory included Hawaii and Las Vegas, so good times came along with business. Boyle retired in 1977 and became a consultant to the president of Haughton for several years. With his knowledge of the industry and command of English, he was very much in demand. He served from 1950 to 2001 on the American Elevator Safety Code committee and contributed greatly to elevator safety. He was also a member of the Los Angeles 5 Rotary chapter for over 20 years. Boyle was an enthusiastic golfer and member of the Riviera Country Club, although he was never pleased with his swing. “I can see him now, out in the backyard, practicing his swing,” recalled his daughter Audrey Ann. “He would stand there for hours working on his backswing while he watched his reflection in the windows. He was trying out what he had just read in the Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan or some other golf book. He had two holes-in-one in his life (one at Riviera) and he was so proud of them.” Boyle loved music and listening to Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney and others, his daughter said. “I remember when I was at Marymount and we had the father-daughter dinner dance, my friends would dance with their fathers. My father would lead me to the dance floor, shuffle over to the bandstand’he was never much of a dancer’and start chatting with the bandleader about old friends and acquaintances they shared from the earlier days in New York. He and the bandleader would laugh and my dad would kind of keep swaying so it looked as though we were dancing.” The Boyles loved to travel, but were always grateful to come back to Paseo Miramar. “He often asked why we felt a need to travel when we lived where so many people traveled hundreds of miles to experience,” Audrey Ann said. “He cared deeply about the hill and was always ready to volunteer his time and effort to protect it.” Boyle is survived by his wife of 62 years and his daughter. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to Corpus Christi Church, c/o Msgr. Liam Kidney, 15100 Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.
Bill Hootkins, 57; Multifaceted Actor
William (“Bill”) Hootkins, an actor who appeared in more than 40 films and recorded such books as “Moby Dick,” died of pancreatic cancer October 23 in Pacific Palisades. He was 57. A native of Dallas, Hootkins was an actor in high school and at Princeton University. He then studied in at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and enjoyed a multifaceted career. His movies included “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Colour Me Kubrick,” which is in post-production. His TV credits ranged from “Cagney & Lacey” to “The West Wing.” In the 1990s, Hootkins recorded books that included “White Fang,” “The Old Patagonian Express” and “The Pillars of Hercules.”
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WANTED: Old tube guitar amplifiers, ’50s, ’60s, etc. Tommy, (310) 306-7746 – profeti2001@yahoo.comResidents Create Illegal ‘Dog Park’
Photo by Rich Schmitt, Staff Photographer
Responding to complaints that local dog owners have turned the playing fields at the Palisades Recreation Center into an off-leash dog park, the Palisadian-Post has confirmed that this illegal activity has indeed been happening every morning. After early-morning voters at the Rec Center noticed the dogs running off-leash and called the Post on November 8, my editor asked me to check out the situation. I own a dog (or, as I call him, “my hairy child”), so I suggested I might not be the best person to do the story. But as a journalist, I realized that I wanted to see if a serious problem actually existed. ”Last Thursday, 7:45 a.m. at the Rec Center, I walked over to the outdoor basketball courts. Next to the entrance to the field is a prominently displayed sign showing a dog on a leash and the words “L.A. Municipal Code 63.44-B,2,C.” Since it had rained the previous day and early that morning, an additional sign with big red letters read “FIELD CLOSED.” I counted 24 dogs off-leash running all over the field and 19 owners. All were breaking the law. ”Friday at 7:30 a.m., the “FIELD CLOSED” sign was still at entrance to the field. Twenty-nine dogs were running the field, and 26 adults and two small children were gathered in the center of the field. A Saint Bernard trotted up to the sign pole and peed on it. As I was leaving the park, five other dogs and their owners were on their way in. None of the dogs was on leash. ”Saturday at 7:33 a.m., I counted 30 owners and 33 dogs, all of them off-leash. A medium-sized black dog defecated; the product wasn’t picked up in the five minutes I observed. I talked with Mike Skinner, the 2004 Citizen of the Year, who led the community-wide campaign to raise more than $1 million to pay for construction and ongoing maintenance of the four new baseball diamonds at the park, now known as the Field of Dreams. Skinner, who has two dogs, said the “FIELD CLOSED” signs are for everybody, including dogs and their owners. “It’s kind of annoying,” he said. “When the fields are wet, they get soft and the dogs tear them up. It almost hurts to have adults standing around on wet, soft grass. Their shoes put holes in the field that can’t be fixed.” Fellow dog owner Bob Benton, who is president of the Palisades Pony Baseball Association (PPBA) and also a member of the Palisades Community Center Committee, which is paying for the maintenance of the fields, said that the situation is particularly bad right now because the Bermuda grass on the field goes dormant this time of year and is easily destroyed by this “dog park” activity. The Community Center Committee pays the maintenance people, who arrive for work about 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. “On Saturday, literally, the dogs leave and then the kids are on the field,” Skinner said. “It’s not a healthy situation, but I don’t know what we can do about it.” Benton added: “It’s becoming a problem for our maintenance group, with repairing the thatch and dealing with all the dog poop residual.” The Rec Center office doesn’t open until 9 a.m. and by then the dogs are usually gone, according to park director David Gadelha. He does see evidence that the dogs have been there because more than once a child playing soccer on the field on Saturday has done a slide tackle and got dog feces on his shorts. “It wrecks it for the little kids; they usually just go home,” he said. Another problem, said Gadelha, are the dogs who run into the park’s sandy play area where the little kids play. “If we see it, we ask the owners to keep their dogs out of there because it isn’t hygienic.” The Field of Dreams is heavily used after school and on the weekends by AYSO soccer practices and games, flag football practices and games, lacrosse, and fall baseball practices and games. In addition, students at nearby Village School, Seven Arrows and Corpus Christi use the fields during school hours for physical education classes and at lunch. Putting dogs and children on the same field is not a good idea, according to the National Center for Infectious Diseases and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both call for a prompt collection and disposal for pet feces, especially in areas where children play, to remove ascarid and hookworm infective eggs and larvae and to keep children away from areas that may be contaminated with pet feces. “There needs to be a dog park in the Palisades,” Veterinarian Kathy Litochleb of the Pacific Palisades Veterinary Center said. “This whole situation causes a lot of strife.”
AARP Chapter Celebrates Its 10th Year Here
The Palisades AARP chapter, which has grown from a small founding committee into one of the town’s most successful organizations with nearly 200 paid members, celebrated its 10th anniversary at the Woman’s Club last Wednesday afternoon. All six of the past chapter presidents plus current president Bill Van Vorst spoke at the gathering, including (left to right in the photo) Loretta Mazorra, Van Vorst, Milt Weiner, Arnie Wishnick, Jack Bendar, James Birren and Paul Lorentzen. Van Vorst, a professor emeritus at UCLA, noted that “some chapters in other more populated areas have not survived,” and he credited the ongoing success of the Palisades chapter to several dozen volunteers he named who have contributed their time, energy and ideas to various committees and activities over the years. The chapter’s next decade will begin with the annual holiday luncheon on Wednesday, December 14 at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $20.
Proposed Building/Parking Plan Could Affect Seven Businesses
The proposal to build new commercial/retail buildings and underground parking on the wedge of land between Sunset and La Cruz will affect seven businesses. Coldwell Banker, Philips French Cleaners and Naturella Beauty Center on Sunset, and Sabrina Nails, the Palisades Garden Caf’, the Palisades Auto Spa and UDO Real Estate on La Cruz, would have to relocate during the project’s excavation and construction. Elliot Zorensky, co-president of UDO Real Estate and the business developer behind the plan, told the Palisadian-Post October 31 that the business owners “are aware that this is contemplated.” He said, “It is my strong desire to work with those tenants to bring them back.” He subsequently announced his plans at last Thursday’s Community Council meeting. This week, the Palisadian-Post talked to some of the owners and managers whose businesses will be affected by the plan. Most of them had learned about the proposal last week and did not yet know where they would relocate in the interim period, starting perhaps a year from now. Josie Benjamin, branch manager at Coldwell Banker, said she did not feel confident commenting on the proposal “until we see the full impact on the Village.” “I have 60-plus quality agents who would have to be relocated, and we have just finished remodeling,” she said. “These agents are not only full-time agents but they also live here, so, should the plans be of benefit [to the community], we would definitely be supportive even though we would have to go through the relocation.” Benjamin could not comment on when Coldwell Banker had learned about the proposal. “It’s been a rumor for years,” said Meera Cho, who owns Philips French Cleaners with her husband, Jeff. “[Zorensky] didn’t tell us yet in a letter.” Last year, the Chos invested in expensive new equipment to provide more “environmentally-correct dry cleaning services,” so they are not in any rush to move. “We have to hear from [Zorensky] first,” Cho said. Naturella Beauty Center manager Nicky Javidnia said Zorensky told them about the plan last week. “I don’t know what’s going to happen or where we’re going to go,” she said. “If [the project] does happen, we will definitely try to find a spot in the Palisades to stay.” Sabrina Nails manager Denise Nguyen also wants to stay in town. “I don’t know where we’re going to go,” said Nguyen, who has owned her nail salon on La Cruz for five years and considers her employees to be her family. “I can’t tell them we have to move,” she said. James Kwon, whose family owns Palisades Garden Caf’, said that they heard about the parking proposal from a customer over the weekend, and met with Zorensky on Monday. “It’s going to hurt us a lot because this is all we have,” said Kwon, whose family purchased the caf’ in June. “We’re not going to have a business.” Pointing to the photograph collages of loyal customers that are hanging on the walls of the small, sweet-smelling shop, he said, “These pictures say it all. This place has been here for 20 years.” He added that a lot of their customers are regulars and “I’m starting to remember names.” The owners of Palisades Auto Spa’Gregg Reneau and Dana Vatanpour’could not be reached for comment before we went to press.
