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Volume XX, Issue 8 

February 2016 

PENINSULA PEOPLE 

P A L O S V E R D E S P E N I N S U L A M O N T H L Y 

ON THE COVER 

34 Destination Dining 

by Mark McDermott 

Executive Chef Bernard Ibarra has made 

Terranea Resort a destination not just for 

vacations and conferences, but also for 

fine dining. Photo by David Fairchild 

PROFILES 

36 Supervisor not ready to retire 

by Kevin Cody 

Termed-out Don Knabe makes a final sweep through the 

South Bay. But he’s not retiring just yet. 

Senior management 

by Roger F. Repohl 

Britt Huff is committed to helping 25 percent of Peninsula residents 

to stay in their home with help from the other 75 percent. 

Power portraits 

by Kevin Cody 

English born photographer Platon Antoniou tells the stories behind 

his portraits of the world’s most powerful men and women. 

Plated on the Peninsula 

by Richard Foss 

A contemporary Mark Twain would want to visit Plates 

American Bistro. 

Mary Y Nakamura 

by Esther Kang 

RPV resident honors her mother’s legacy in a book detailing firsthand 

accounts of the Japanese-American experience during WWII. 

HIGHLIGHTS 

10 Vistas for Children 

14 Palos Verdes Village 

20 Little Sisters of the Poor 

24 Palos Verdes Performing Arts 

28 Admiral Risty 50th Anniversary Celebration 

30 Assistance League 

32 Peninsula Committee LA Philharmonic 

DEPARTMENTS 

46 Community Calendar 

56 Attorney Profiles 

64 Around & About 

65 Service Directory 

CONTRIBUTORS 

Kevin Cody is the Puiblisher of Easy Reader publications. 

David Fairchild ‘s photography is frequently seen in Peninsula People 

and Beach magazines. 

Richard Foss is the Dining Editor for Easy Reader publications. 

Esther Kang is a freelance writer and musician. 

Mark McDermott is News Editor of Easy Reader publications. 

Roger F Repohl is a columnist and regular contributor to Easy Reader 

publications. 

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Vistas for Children 16th 

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Vistas for Children held their 16th Annual 

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Terranea Resort on Sunday, November 22, 2015. 

Over 450 guests attended the Kentucky Derby– 

The Run for The Roses theme event. The fashion 

show included collections from several hot LA Designers 

such as Marisa Kenson, Alexis Monsanto, 

Angelino, and Louise Green. Fantastic dancers, 

fabulous models showing the latest LA fashion, a 

wonderful children’s and teen production, along 

with a tribute to Vistas past presidents entertained 

the philanthropic group. The boutique shopping 

and live auction raised tens of thousands of dollars 

to help children with special needs during the 

event. Vistas For Children, Inc is a distinguished 

philanthropic organization serving Southern California 

which began in 1978 working in the South 

Bay, Los Angeles. Since then, close to $6,500,000 

has been disbursed to different charities which include, 

but are not limited to children who are terminally 

ill, multi-disabled, abused, homeless, 

suffer from pediatric illnesses or born with 

retinoblastoma (cancer of the eye). Our mission is 

to raise funds to help special needs children and 

to be a system of support for these children and 

their families. The Fall Fashion Show and Spring 

Golf Tournament are the primary events which 

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Auxiliary of the Little Sisters of 

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luncheon and meeting in 

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in San Pedro. 

1. New Officers for 2016 (Seated Left to 

Right) Libby Cigliano, President; Jan 

Werneid President-elect; Sylvia Kostyo, 

1st Co-Vice Pres.; Mickey Zimmer, 2nd 

Co-Vice Pres.; Standing (Left to Right) 

Colleen Cotter, 1st Co-Vice Pres.; Laura 

Wetzel, 2nd Vice Pres.; Mary DiLeva, Corresponding 

Sec.; Rita Swartz, Treasurer. 

Not pictured: Dottie Mezin, Recording Sec. 

2. Mother Margaret gave a special “Thank 

You” to the Auxiliary officers and members 

for their continued enthusiasm, hard 

work and financial support of the Home. 

She graciously accepted a check on behalf 

of the Auxiliary for the proceeds from the 

2015 fundraising activities presented to 

her by Ida Mavar, the outgoing president. 

3. The presidential gavel was passed 

from Ida Mavar to Libby Cigliano who announced 

plans for the annual fundraiser 

to be held on Saturday, September 

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for the 27th annual fundraising 

event for Palos Verdes Performing Arts 

on February 6. “Music and Memories” 

Gala guests enjoyed gourmet food stations 

prepared by Chef Michael Shafer, 

live and silent auctions and a special 

performance in the Norris Theatre, 

filled with songs from the last 33 seasons. 

The highlight of the evening was 

the presentation of the honoree, celebrated 

jazz pianist and composer and 

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of the audience of PVPA supporters. 

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1. Julie Moe Reynolds and son Travis 

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2. Arline Grotz and Steve and Sue Soldoff. 

3. Lisette Herrera and Reggie Lucero. 

4. John Reynolds and gala chair Abby 

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5. Beatrice and Al Sheng. 

6. Sandra Sanders and John Jaacks. 

7. Jim Grussing, Travis Reynolds with 

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8. Sophia Fitzmaurice. 

9. Betty and Jack Reider. 

10. Jackie Glass and Jim Kinney. 

11. Dee and George Schuler. 

12. Kei and David Benoit, Celebrity 

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13. Marilyn Schaffer, Hal and Anita Javitt, 

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Admiral Risty celebrates 50th 

This restaurant has survived longer than most of the 

marriages of couples who’ve met here,” State Assemblyman 

David Hadley observed at the 50th anniversary celebration 

of Admiral Risty last month. He added that the 

average lifespan for a restaurant is seven years. 

“I turned 50 this year and Admiral Risty has certainly 

aged better than I have,” said Steve Napolitano, field representative 

for Supervisor Don Knabe. 

After thanking his guests, owner Wayne Judah explained 

the key to the restaurant’s success. “We make every night 

a party, and you leave us just enough money for another 

party tomorrow night,” he said. 

1. Rancho Palos Verdes Mayor Ken Dyda 

expresses his city’s appreciation to Wayne 

and Jan Jay Judah. 

2. Assembly David Hadley (center) with 

Wayne and Jan Jay Judah and Sarah and Eric 

Wood, children of the restaurant’s founder 

Ralph Wood, and Kathy Berg. 

3. The Judahs are presented a State proclamation 

by State Senator Ben Allen’s office. 

4. Offering up a toast is Fourth District Supervisorial 

candidate Steve Napolitano, representing 

Supervisor Don Knabe. 

5. Jot Condie, president of the California 

Restaurant Association recalled that Admiral 

Risty’s founder Ralph Woodl served two 

terms as president of the CRA. 

6. Representatives of the California Restaurants 

Writers Association James Woodin and 

Bob Gourley congratulate the Judahs on 

owning one of California’s oldest restaurants. 

7. Palos Verdes Chamber of Commerce 

Eileen Hupp presents a proclamation to one 

of the chamber’s oldest members. 

8. Wayne Judah thanks his guests as wife 

Jan Jay looks on. 

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The Assistance 

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80th anniversary at their Chapter 

House on February 6th. The event was attended 

by a sellout crowd of 150 people.The 

attendees dressed in 1930’s attire and Mae 

West was the Master of Ceremony. It was 

like a Hollywood opening night. Mr. Joseph 

Bowker was at the piano while guests enjoyed 

appetizers and cocktails. Ted Johnson 

provided music from the 30’s for the dining 

and dancing pleasure of the guests. A raffle 

was held to help support our philanthropic 

programs which include Operation School 

Bell (providing school uniforms for those in 

need), the Frances J. Johnson Dental Center 

(dental service for children of low income 

families), the Weavers (visually impaired) 

monthly luncheon, Operation Hug (teddy 

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can be obtained by calling the Assistance 

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Welcomes New Members 

T 

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of the annual Installation Luncheon for 

the Peninsula Committee, Los Angeles Philharmonic. 

Paula del Vicario was installed for 

a second term as President, along with her 

Board of Officers. Eleven new members 

were also welcomed into Committee membership, 

four of them being part of the 

newly formed category of Professsional Provisionals. 

Outgoing officers were thanked 

for their service over the past year. 

The Peninsula Committee raises funds in 

support of the Los Angeles Philharmonic 

and also supports music programs in the 

local Palos Verdes schools. 

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newly installed Board 

are: (Back row from 

left to right): Val 

Noguchi, Joan Connaghan, 

Tricia Paulsen, 

Karen Cameron, Marian 

Hall, Claudia 

Grzywacz, Ann Marinovich, 

JoAnn DeFlon, 

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Gottlieb, Cheryl Graue, 

Paula Del Vicario, 

Board President; Kathy 

Keller, Ellen Perkins, 

Linda Whitson. 

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left, with Diana Honeycutt. 

3. Vice President/ Fall 

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Cheryl Graue. 

4. Board President, 

Paula Del Vicario, left, 

with former President, 

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5. Philharmonic members, 

Donna Scoular, 

Joellen Alfen, and 

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Lorna Interian, Joan 

Connaghan, Mardi Tobias, 

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Sherwood, Karen 

Cameron, and Jean 

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Sierveld, Nancy Bell, 

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knowing a few things about the sprawling cliffside resort 

where he’d just been appointed executive chef. 

He knew Terranea was going to be a more hands-on experience 

than what he’d become accustomed to. His nearly 30-year career 

spanned the globe. He’d spent more than a decade with the Four Seasons 

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Las Vegas — the Aria Resort & Casino, which included 4,004 rooms,16 

restaurants, and 300,000 sq. ft. of banquet space. He’d managed 800 employees 

and oversaw a $260 million budget at Aria. 

Terranea, at 560 rooms, was intimate by comparison. Perched above the 

Pacific Ocean on 102 acres that had formerly been the Marineland oceanarium 

and park, Terranea was a small world unto itself — a departure 

from the dense urban landscapes of Los Angeles County, stunning both in 

its unexpectedness and sheer physical beauty. 

What Ibarra did not know when he first stepped foot on Terranea was 

that after three decades wandering the world 

he was coming home. 

He was looking out at the ocean one day not 

long after he began working at the resort 

when his mind drifted back to his childhood 

and to his mother Helene. 

“I looked at the sea and at first I was just enjoying 

it,” Ibarra said. “Then I remembered. 

Years ago, we would go to the beach and my 

mom used to take some water from the ocean. 

… And then we would have salt. I had forgotten 

about the salt.” 

Ibarra grew up in Bayonne, an ancient port 

town in the Basque Country, the proud nation-without-a-nation 

on the borders of France 

and Spain that has somehow survived centuries 

of invasions. The Basque are some of 

the greatest seafarers the world has ever 

Ibarra among his bees. Photo courtesy of Terranea Resort 

known. For 1,000 years, they sailed from the Bay of Biscay to hunt whales 

and fish for cod in the North Atlantic. Some historians believe the Basque 

are among the original tribes of Europe and the first to reach the New 

World, hundreds of years before Columbus. 

Remembering his mother, Ibarra found his way down to the shore beneath 

Terranea. He filled a container with water and brought it back to his 

kitchen. He let the water evaporate and for the first time, Terranea produced 

its own salt. 

“I felt like a kid again,” Ibarra recalled. 

Three years later, Terranea has launched its Sea Salt Conservancy, utilizing 

an evaporation greenhouse to harvest and produce its own signature sea 

salt, which is used at the resort’s eight restaurants and in its spa. The resort 

has become “sea salt-sustainable” and produces beyond its own needs — 

enabling it to also sell infused sea salts at the resort gift shop. Chef Ibarra 

plans to begin making soap from the salt later this year. 

Other “sustainability” practices have grown from Ibarra’s initiatives. Most 

significantly, the resort has expanded its partnership with Jim York and his 

nearby Catalina View Gardens to minimize distance in its “farm-to-table” 

offerings. York, who is one of Terranea’s original investors, had previously 

supplied the resort with organic Hass avocados and Meyer lemons. Since 

Ibarra’s arrival, York has dedicated a larger section of his farm to Terranea 

and with the help of Ibarra and some of his fellow 

chefs from the resort has added crops, including 

heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, 

zucchini, watermelon, corn, eggplants, strawberries, 

chili peppers, bell peppers and various 

citrus. Additionally, Ibarra introduced beekeeping 

to the farm in 2014 and helps tend to the 

bees himself. 

Lemons and various herbs are also grown at 

Terranea. Ibarra can sometimes be found foraging 

around the property’s undeveloped edges 

for berries, salt grass, and bay leaves. 

“When you come to this area, or at least 

when I did, it struck me there was so much 

bounty here — both from the land and the 

sea,” Ibarra said. “The place had such a rich 

history. Growing, harvesting and learning 

about this area made me realize, ‘Hey, maybe I 


could bring something.’ And I thought it was exactly 

what I aspired to be. All these years working 

in cities, in hotel restaurants...there was never 

such a thing as these resources.” 

After all his travels since leaving home as a 

teenager to become a chef, Terranea felt he’d 

come full circle. He’d returned to a close-to-theearth 

rhythm similar to his Basque childhood, 

where the notion of “farm-to-table” wasn’t some 

highbrow culinary trend but a way of life that has 

continued, unnamed and uninterrupted, for centuries. 

Some of Ibarra’s fondest memories are the 

three hour walks his mother made almost daily 

to the small markets — the cheesemongers, several 

different green grocers, the fishmongers on 

the docks — as she planned out the day’s meals 

for his family and exchanged news with the community 

of Bayonne. 

None of this was something Ibarra expected 

when he moved. In his mind, he was essentially 

moving to Los Angeles. 

One of Terranea’s signature infused sea salts, left. Above, Terranea executive chef Bernard Ibarra among the resort’s lemon 

groves. Photos by David Fairchild 

“I didn’t come here to grow things. I came here 

to be a chef,” Ibarra said. “I didn’t know there 

would be this closure. Not only memories of my 

childhood, but the energy and the willingness...I 

just wanted to make a difference, not only with 

the hotel, but with my life. And I just wanted to 

be connected. I just looked around me and felt 

whole with what I saw. I looked at everything we 

had around us and I felt totally fulfilled. Then I 

had this picture of the cliffs back home and my 

mother taking water and giving it to me.” 

He paused, filled with emotion at the memory. 

Ibarra is a soft-spoken, gentle man, but even in 

his understatedness, his passionate nature is evident. 

Terranea president Terri Haack said it’s a 

quality that has made him an almost heroic figure 

among the ranks at the resort. 

“He is so compassionate and so humble, he 

does not allow it to be about him,” Haack said. 

“It’s about nature and about sustainability and 

about teaching people how fragile our land is. He 

taught us that honeybees are almost extinct. It’s 

really amazing — now we have our young chefs 

taking shifts and going up to the farm and learning 

how to work the land. Many of them grew up 

in an urban setting and had no sense of what 

working the land might be.” 

“Bernard really believes part of his role is to 

transmit his knowledge to others. And that takes 

time. It’s a lot easier to do things yourself, rather 

than teach someone to do it. He’s very patient.” 

It’s also made him a quiet but very influential 

leader, beyond even the culinary realm he is responsible 

for. He serves on the resort’s eight-person 

strategic board. 

“He’s engaged in every conversation about our 

business,” Haack said. “He adds great color to our 

conversation. He’s not a stand up and shout the 

answer kind of guy. He’s very thoughtful, but he 

listens and he’ll say, ‘What about…’ And I’ll just 

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‘Complaining about a problem without posing a solution 

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by Kevin Cody 

Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe went 

suddenly silent after talking comfortably, on and off 

script, for 30 minutes before 200 guests at the Torrance 

Chamber of Commerce’s annual Lunch with 

our Leader on February 10 at the DoubleTree Hilton. 

Just prior to going silent, he said under his breath, 

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The clashing of silverware and dishes also ceased 

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to finish his talk. 

“This is probably the last time I’ll address this 

group as your supervisor. It’s been an honor. I thank 

you for allowing me to represent you,” he said. 

The audience rose from their seats for a standing 

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The former Cerritos City Councilman was elected 

in 1995 to represent the two million people of the 

Fourth Supervisorial District. The district’s 47 cities 

stretch 25 miles along the coast from Marina Del Rey 

to San Pedro and east 43 miles to Diamond Bar. 

Knabe is retiring in June because of term limits. 

Knabe began his talk by observing, “It’d be easy 

at this point in my career to act like I’m already retired. 

But I feel invested in some programs and I 

want to be sure they are continued.” 

One of those programs is for the homeless. He said 

he had spent 10 years working on it and just the previous 

day the Board of Supervisors board meeting 

had finally approved a credible homeless program.. 

On the morning of his talk, the Los Angeles Times 

reported on its front page that the county’s 88 cities 

had reached an agreement to spend nearly an additional 

$10 billion over the next 10 years to help feed 

and house the county’s estimated 200,000 homeless. 

The county’s contribution to the program next 

year is to be $100 million. The county already 

spends nearly $1 billion annually of its $27 billion 

budget on services and jail for the homeless. “At first, 

many cities wouldn’t acknowledge that they had a 

homeless problem,” he said. “But when business 

owners began calling me about homeless sleeping in 

front of their stores, cities began to see homelessness 

is not just a social issue, but also an economic issue.” 

Still, he cautioned, “Homelessness isn’t a problem 

we can spend our way out of. It’s going to take a 

community effort.” 

Knabe also spoke of two other legacy programs he 

wants to be sure are continued. One helps 

children caught up in sex trafficking, the 

other mothers who can’t care for their 

newborns. 

Last October, Knabe and newly elected 

supervisor Sheila Kuehl authored a measure 

to treat minors arrested for prostitution 

as victims, not prostitutes. 

“Stop calling these children prostitutes. 

They are our kids,” Knabe told his listeners. 

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H.E.L.P. Executive Director and Rolling Hills Estates Councilwoman Britt Huff. Photo by Roger F Repohl 

by Roger F. Repohl 

Reporters are expected to ask the age of the 

people they interview, but this didn’t go 

over well with Rolling Hills Estates Councilwoman 

Britt Huff. As the executive director of 

the non-profit Healthcare and Elder Law Programs 

Corporation (H.E.L.P.) in Torrance, she has 

been sensitized to the subject. 

“One day a woman who came into our office 

told me, ‘Honey, one of the things you need to 

learn in life is never to tell people your age. People 

will limit you by your age. They’ll put you on 

the back burner and discount you,’” explained 

Huff, who is also a member of the Rolling Hill 

Estate City Council. 

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was 92 and clearly still going strong. We’re trying 

to change traditional attitudes about the capabilities 

and value of older adults.” 

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this year, provides information and referrals 

on healthcare, legal issues, financial planning, 

and consumer protection to 

seniors and their families 

throughout the South Bay. 

“People walk in our door 

and tell us they have some 

crisis with an aging parent and they don’t know 

where to start,” she says. “Perhaps their parent 

has had a stroke and is unconscious and hasn’t 

left any directives; perhaps parents are neglecting 

their finances; perhaps they are feeble and feel 

isolated in their homes. We help them make a 

plan.” 

In addition to walk-in and telephone assistance, 

the program offers a wide range of publications 

and free workshops to show seniors how to avoid 

these crises by planning wisely for the future. It 

also acts as an advocate for seniors’ issues with 

local governments and other community groups. 

In 2014, H.E.L.P. served over 6,000 people 

through one-to-one counseling; more than 1,600 

attended its workshops, and 380,000 visited its 

Almost 25 percent of Peninsula residents are seniors. H.E.L.P. director and RHE 

Councilwoman Britt Huff wants the other 75 percent to help the seniors stay here. 


website, Help4srs.org. 

H.E.L.P. is staffed almost entirely by volunteers, many of them retired 

professionals. 

“We’re focused on helping people in their eighties and nineties by encouraging 

younger retirees to reach out and share their life experiences 

and expertise. We’re predicting that one of these days there won’t be the 

stigma for the aging that we so often see today.” 

Huff was attracted to H.E.L.P. five years ago, after the deaths of her 

mother and aunt. She had looked after them in their aging years, helping 

them to remain in their own homes and live independently as long as they 

possibly could. 

“It’s sad to see so many elderly people spending their life savings in expensive 

senior care facilities” she says. “A good number of them could get 

the care they need in their homes, but not everybody has family to look 

after them. What I wanted to do was to help people continue living happy 

lives in their communities among their friends and neighbors.” 

The spirit of service is in her blood. Britt Vanden Eykel grew up in 

Pasadena, graduated from UCLA, and went on to receive a doctorate in 

political science from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. 

After working on Capitol Hill and a three-year stint in the Foreign Service, 

she moved to Boston with her new husband Kenneth Huff, now a UCLA 

Professor of pediatrics and neurology and Chief of Pediatric Neurology at 

Harbor UCLA Medical Center, who was starting his residency at Harvard 

Medical School. While in Boston, Britt worked as Deputy Director of the 

U.S. Department of Commerce regional office. Returning to the Los Angeles 

area with her husband, she turned her talents to non-profit management 

and consulting. While raising their young daughter Hana Lise, she 

also became active in the PTA and many artistic and charitable organizations, 

as well as serving as an adjunct professor of political science at several 

area colleges. 

But her work with H.E.L.P. kindled her true passion: community involvement 

in the care of the elderly. “Until I got involved with H.E.L.P.,” 

she says, “I didn’t realize the number of people who are living isolated in 

their homes. I think it’s important that these people get help. And who 

else is better able to do this than their neighbors?” 

To this end, she became an enthusiastic supporter of the Village movement, 

which enlists individuals and local organizations to provide the services 

needed to help seniors continue to “age in place” in their communities. 

The program that began in Boston in 2001 and there are now over 190 Villages 

in 40 states, with another 185 in development. California, alone, has 

50. 

“It’s so exciting to utilize the process of neighbors helping neighbors,” 

Huff says. “It’s always been part of American culture, but it’s being lost as 

people become more mobile and both husband and wife are busy working 

while raising their families.” 

Villages are nonprofit corporations that mobilize and coordinate existing 

service organizations, commercial businesses and a large contingent of vetted 

volunteers to provide comprehensive assistance to seniors. This includes 

home visits, grocery shopping and food preparation, home cleaning 

and maintenance and transportation to doctors’ appointments and events. 

“A lot of people end up moving out of their homes because they have 

one or two things they can’t handle,” she notes. “Villages supply the support 

network that you really need to stay at home.” 

H.E.L.P. has assisted in the development of two local villages, the Palos 

Verdes Peninsula Village and South Bay Village, which serves the cities of 

Torrance, Lomita, and the beach communities. Huff is on the board of directors 

of both. 

Huff’s involvement in city government sprang from her desire to 

broaden the scope of action on seniors’ concerns and to encourage local 

citizen participation. 

“Almost 25 percent of our population on the Hill are seniors, and I 

wanted to get the other 75 percent involved. It’s important to communicate, 

coordinate, and cooperate on all levels, from the grassroots on up. 

And having taught political science for much of my life, I decided to practice 

what I preached about the democratic process.” 

After volunteering on the planning commission of the City of Rolling 

Hills Estates for five years and becoming its chairperson in 2012, she entered 

the race for the City Council and was elected in 2013. 

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“Running for City Council was one of the highlights of my life,” she says. 

“It was a scary thought to run in an election, but I decided that I wanted 

to get out and meet people, so I walked door to door in the neighborhood. 

These days people are wary of a knock on the door, but I just said, ‘Hi, 

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“For me,” she says, “the City Council opens wider opportunities to help 

more people” by extending the principles of grassroots organizations like 

H.E.L.P. and the Villages in ever-widening circles. 

“Let’s learn from each other,” she says, “and share what’s working.” 

Huff also serves on the South Bay Cities Council of Governments 

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and influence legislation. As the Chair of the Senior Services Working 

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Huff’s passion for community-building and improving people’s lives extends 

beyond our national boundaries. For years she, her husband and 

daughter have gone to countries in Latin America and Africa with a team 

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“Most recently in Kenya,” she notes, “we teamed up with 20 medical students 

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to the medical and dental care they desperately need, we help with sanitation 

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companies -- develop a business plan, look for funding and then pay back 

their loans to help others.” 

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“If you are willing to say, ‘Here I am, Lord; send me,’ God will open 

doors to a wonderful and abundant life of service to help bring justice and 

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on “Meet the Press” that he could not support 

Republican candidate John McCain. Mc- 

Clain was a personal friend and it was not 

McCain the former Secretary of State was repudiating. 

It was the Republican Party, Powell told 

“Meet the Press’s” Tom Brokaw. Powell explained 

he could not support a candidate whose party disparaged 

opponent Barack Obama by saying he 

was a Muslim. 

“He is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always 

been a Christian. But the really right answer 

is, what if he is? Is there something wrong 

with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's 

no, that's not America,” Powell said. 

Powell said his decision was triggered by a photograph 

in New Yorker magazine. 

“I feel strongly about this particular point because 

of a picture I saw in a magazine of a mother 

in Arlington Cemetery,” he said. 

“She had her head on the headstone of her 

Photographer Platon recounts the stories behind his portraits of the world’s most powerful people. Photos by Deidre Davidson (Davidsonfoto.com) 

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son’s grave… And it gave his 

awards — Purple Heart, Bronze 

Star — showed that he died in Iraq, 

gave his date of birth, date of 

death. He was 20 years old. And 

then, at the very top of the headstone, 

it didn’t have a Christian cross, it didn’t 

have the Star of David, it had a crescent and a 

star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem 

Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American. 

He was born in New Jersey. He was 14 

years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until 

he can go serve his country, and he gave his life,” 

Powell said. 

The photograph was taken by Platon Antoniou, 

who works under the name Platon. He spoke 

Monday, February 8 at the Redondo Beach Performing 

Arts Center to Distinguished Speaker Series 

subscribers. 

Though known for his distinctive style of 

harshly lit, tightly cropped and often black and 

white portraits, Platon spent no 

time discussing how he takes pictures. 

The program quoted him as saying, 

“Photography is just technique, 

it’s the grammar, but it’s never the 

content.” 

‘Mr. President, I’m English. Do you 

like the Beatles?’ ‘Oh, my God, I 

love the Beatles,’ Putin answered. 

Instead, he recounted how he engages his often 

powerful subjects in light hearted banter, leading 

them to lower their guard. Then he is able to photograph 

them not as world leaders or celebrities, 

but as themselves. 

When he met Henry Kissinger to photograph 

him for the London Times Magazine, he said to the 

architect of the Vietnam War, “Dude, you’ve got 

such a great, old school style. I love the suspenders.” 

Kissinger responded, “Platon, you are the greatest 

con man I have ever met.” 

Platon told the stories behind the portraits as 

the portraits were projected behind him on a 

large screen. 

Shortly after Obama was elected, Platon was 

invited to the White House to do a portrait photo 

of Michelle Obama. 

“It was an intimidating moment for me. She 

was having her makeup, done, a stylist was working 

on her clothes, a hairdresser on her hair. I became 

overwhelmed by the moment 

and said, ‘Right love, I want your 

soul. Give it to me.’ There was silence 

and she gave me a devastating 

look with raised eyebrows, as if to 

say, ‘How dare you.’ But I think she 

quite liked it. 

“After I took the photo, I apologized. 

I said, ‘I am usually a polite 

Englishman and can’t believe I just 

called you my love. You’re the 

bloody First Lady. 

“She kissed me on the cheek and 

whispered in my ear, ‘Platon, when 

all is said and done, I’m just 

Michelle.’” 

In 2007, Time Magazine sent Platon 

to Moscow to photograph 

Vladimir Putin for the magazine’s 

Man of the Year cover. Platon has 

taken over 20 Time Magazine covers. 

“This is the only photo Putin has 

ever sat for, outside the Kremlin. 

The KGB came to my hotel room in 

Moscow and I was taken in a black 

limo to a dark forest to Putin’s personal 

dasha covered by snipers. I 

was led into the historic room 

where the Soviet Union was dissolved. 

“Putin walked in with his bodyguards, 

two translators and six advisors. 

I said, ‘Mr. President, it is an 

honor to meet you. I’m English. Are 

you a Beatles fan? The translators 

whispered in his ears. 

“He ordered everyone out of the 

room except security. 

“He said, ‘Oh my God, I love the 

Beatles.’ I said, ‘I didn’t know you 

spoke English. Who’s your favorite 

Beatle. He said Paul. I said, ‘I bet I 

know your favorite song -- ‘Back in 

the USSR.’ I thought I was going to 

be shot right then. He said, ‘No. It’s 

‘Yesterday.’” 

“That connection with pop art is 

how I got the truth.” 

Platon described the closed 

lipped, impassive head shot he took 

of Putin that day as “the cold look of 

power.” 

For another Time Magazine cover, 

Platon photographed Microsoft cofounder 

Bill Gates. The pictures 

shows the often grumpy, disheveled 

looking genious happily smiling. 

“I had trouble connecting with 

him. I couldn’t reach him. But 

when I got the film back, I saw he 

was connecting not with me, but the 

camera.” 

Platon said he had better success 

with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerman. 

“As I walked into his office, I saw 

a hand painted poster with red letters 

nailed to the wall. It said, ‘What 

would you do if you weren’t afraid?’ 

The irony is, as soon as he walked 

in, I saw he was terrified. He didn’t 

want his picture taken. He resisted 

every attempt I made to reach him. 

His eyes were bulging out of his 

head. 

“Finally, I said, ‘You must have 

failed sometime on your journey. 

How do you deal with failure?’ He 

answered, ‘There is no failure. I love 

what I do.’ I said, ‘Show me.’ He 

changed and stopped looking at me. 

He looked over his shoulder, looking 

almost angelic. He was looking to 

the future.” 

Platon’s most famous photograph 

is of the most wanted man in America. 

The picture appeared on the 

cover of the August 2014 Wired 

magazine 

“I put the word out in the human 

rights network that I wanted to photograph 

Edward Snowden. I communicated 

in code. He was Mr. 

Mango,” Platon said. 

In 2013, while working for a National 

Security Agency contractor, 

Snowden copied thousands of pages 

of classified document that revealed 

the NSA’s secret surveillance of 

friendly nations and U.S. citizens. 

“I was told to go to the Metropole 

Hotel in Moscow on a certain date 

and that I would be contacted at 

noon. But it was impossible for me 

to get a visa in time for the appointment. 

So I called Putin. 

“Without giving the game away, 

he gave me a visa like that. 

“At noon, with military precision, 

I heard a knock at the door. A little 

guy slips in wearing a blazer that’s 

too sizes too big, scruffy shoes, broken 

glasses and a backpack with a 

computer. 

“He said, ‘I’m Ed. Let’s begin.’” 

“Twenty years earlier, I photographed 

Pamela Anderson with an 

American flag for John F. Kennedy 

Jr.’s magazine George. Pamela was 

pregnant at the time and didn’t 

want the press to know. So I clothed 

her in a big flag she had. She gave 

me the flag and told me to take it on 

all my big shoots, that it would bring 

me good luck. 

“Snowden was looking out the 

window at the Kremlin when he 

saw my good luck American flag 

draped over a couch. He picked it 

up and walked over to where the 

camera lights were. I said, ‘I’ve got 

a question. Everyone wants to know 

if you are a patriot or a traitor.’ He 

said, ‘Don’t get bogged down in labels 

and picking sides. It’s not us 

versus them. It’s about coming together.’ 

He said, ‘I didn’t ask for 

money. I took the information to 

give it back to you, to give you a 

choice about the kind of country 

you want to live in.’” 

“He clenched the flag and put it to 

his face. 

“Click, I took this photo,” Platon 

said. Snowden appeared on the 

cover of Wired clutching the flag 

and looking into the distance. 

“I’m not trying to sell you Snowden. 

I never sell anyone. But we live 

in such a wonderful, free democracy 

that I can stand here and discuss 

delicate issues and we can 

debate them. Because without good 

old fashion discussions about what 

is right and what is wrong, we’ll 

never know,” Platon said. 

Theoretical physicist and futurist 

Michio Kaku will address Distinguished 

Speaker Series subscribers on 

Monday, March 14 at 8 p.m. at the Redondo 

Beach Performing Arts Center. 

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Compiled by Mary Jane Schoenheider 

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All submissions must be sent by the 10th of each month prior to event taking place. 

Tuesday, March 1 

Dawn Unity panel discussion 

“The Legacy of David” will be the topic when the Dawn Unity Group presents 

its third Interfaith Discovery Series year at Congregation Ner Tamid, 5721 

Crestridge Rd, at 7:30 p.m. David the shepherd boy who slew the giant Goliath 

grew up to be King David the royal monarch who created the Jewish 

kingdom. The discussion of the strengths and flaws of a national leader is particularly 

appropriate in this election year. The panelists are Rev. Jonathan 

Chute, Rolling Hills United Methodist Church; Rev. Clayton Cobb, Presbyterian 

Church USA: Rabbi Brian Schuldenfrei, Congregation Ner Tamid; and Fr. 

Alexei Smith, Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Bob Rothman will be the moderator. 

For more information (310) 833-7008. 

Thursday, March 3 

First Thursday Art Walk 

Marymount California University presents student and faculty performances 

and exhibitions at the Klaus Center for the Arts during First Thursday in San 

Pedro. Free. 6 p.m. Marymount’s Blue Moon Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. 

Lee Raby will perform. Exhibitions feature the work of Marymount’s Media 

Studies students. 430 W. Sixth Street in San Pedro. For information call 

(310)303-7223 or visit www.MarymountCalifornia.edu. 

Of Mice and Men 

One of the greatest American dramas of the last century, “Of Mice and Men” 

will come to life in the intimate setting of the Harlyne J. Norris Pavilion, March 

3 - 6 for an immersive live theatre experience unlike any other. With only 100 

seats, audiences will be instantly drawn into the lives of John Steinbeck’s extraordinary 

characters. As vital today as when it was first written, “Of Mice 

and Men” is one of world’s most compelling and touching tales of the bonds 

of friendship. 8 p.m. Thursday - Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 

7 p.m. Sunday. $38 and $25 for children ages 12 and under. For more information 

or to purchase tickets call the box office at (310) 544-0403, ext. 

221, or go to PalosVerdesPerformingArts.com. 27570 Norris Center Drive 

in Rolling Hills Estates. 


Sunday, March 6 

Music in the Garden 

Peninsula Committee Los Angeles Philharmonic will hold its community outreach 

program, Music in the Garden at South Coast Botanic Garden from 

noon to 4 p.m. Featuring student musicians from the Palos Verdes Peninsula 

and the South Bay, the program is designed to create public audiences for 

young musicians and to showcase the music programs of area schools. The 

schools performing are Miraleste Intermediate, Narbonne High, Palos Verdes 

High, Palos Verdes Intermediate, Peninsula High, Ridgecrest Intermediate, 

Rolling Hills Prep and Renaissance Schools and South High. The popular Music 

Mobile van will be on display and will feature hands-on demonstrations of orchestra 

instruments. Face painters, strolling musicians and a food truck will 

add to the festivities. The Cherry Blossom Festival will conclude on this day. In 

addition to the schools, the Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko group will perform taiko 

drumming based on the old Okinawan tradition of obon taiko dancing. Proceeds 

from Music in the Garden will benefit youth music education. Information 

on the program and how to purchase tickets are posted at www.pclap 

Palos Verdes Symphonic Band 

The Palos Verdes Symphonic Band will present Music for Organ and Band at 

3 p.m. at St. Peter's by the Sea Presbyterian Church, 6410 Palos Verdes Dr. 

South, Rancho Palos Verdes.Featuring organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and 

collaborative artist Haesung Park.Music to include the Finale from Camille 

Saint-Saens Organ Symphony (No. 3), Steven Reineke's Celebration Fanfare 

(Overture for Symphonic Band and Organ) and Alfred Reed's Alleluia! Laudemus 

Te (a Celebration Hymn for Winds, Percussion, and Organ). The band 

will perform selections by Malcolm Arnold, Leo Delibes, and Ralph Vaughan 

Williams, giving the program an international flavor with composers from Engeventcalendar 

Friday, March 4 

Get Your Kicks with ACT II 

Act II, a support group of Palos Verdes Performing Arts, will stage its 30th annual 

community variety show, “Route 66: Get Your Kicks with ACT II” March 

4 - 6 at the Norris Theatre. Director Larry Watts’s script follows the fabled 

Route 66 to tie all of the musical numbers together. Hostess Adrian Sanchez 

takes on the role of an employee of the U.S. Auto and Travel Company to 

help cast members plan the road trip for their dream destination, while she is 

being courted by UPS man Brady Porter. With a cast of over 100 singers and 

dancers, outstanding returning, and newly discovered local South Bay area 

talent of all ages will be showcased. Produced by Sue Soldoff and Susane 

Button, with musical direction by Brian Murphy. Proceeds benefit the Palos 

Verdes Performing Arts. 7:30 p.m. on March 6 and 2 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. on 

March 7. $25 for adults and $15 for youth aged 18 and under. For more information 

or to purchase tickets call the box office at 310- 544-0403 or online 

at PalosVerdesPerformingarts.com. 27570 Norris Center Drive in Rolling Hills 

Estates. 

2016 Designs for Dining 

St. Francis Episcopal Church presents "2016 Designs for Dining," Annual 

Fundraiser, benefiting the St. Francis Outreach Scholarship Program, 10 a.m. 

to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow, March 5. This 2-day event features entertaining 

ideas and 20 themed table designs. Other highlights include guest speakers, 

boutiques, tastings, an opportunity drawings and silent auction, including an 

African Safari. Opportunity drawings include a catered dinner with wine for 

12 prepared in your home or at Chez Melange by Chef Robert Bell and staff. 

Tickets for that dinner may be purchased in advance or at the show, and the 

special drawing will be held after Sunday services on March 6 at noon. The 

winner need not be present. Tickets for the event are $30 in advance (by 

March 1); $35 at the door. Refreshments will be served throughout the day 

and are included in the admission price. St. Francis Church is located at 2200 

Via Rosa, at the northwest entrance to Palos Verdes Estates, off Palos Verdes 

Boulevard. For more information, call (310) 375-4617, or visit www.stfrancispalosverdes.org 

and click on Designs for Dining link at bottom right side of 

Home page. 

“Breakfast with Champagne” 

3200 La Rotunda Drive, Unit 110, 

Rancho Palos Verdes 

Enjoy the romantic life of beginning each day with the 

panoramic unobstructed view of the blue Pacific Ocean, nestled 

on the Trump National Golf Course. From your condo views of 

Catalina Island, golfers on the 14th hole and shimmering pool 

are entertainment. Orange Sunsets, golden sun, gray foggy 

days are unsurpassed. Breakfast with Champagne on the spacious 

terrace deck off living room or in the formal dining room 

looking out on passing cruise ships. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, 

walk in closet, fireplace, new recessed lighting in kitchen, 

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land, France, Italy, and the United 

States. $20 and $10 (youth 15 and 

younger). Contact Max Miller for 

tickets at KC6ZUT@ieee.org. Purchase 

tickets online at 

pvsband.brownpapertickets.com. 

The Palos Verdes Symphonic Band, 

under the direction of David Stanton, 

consists of 60 local musicians dedicated 

since 1962 to bringing the 

very best in concert band music to 

the South Bay community. For information 

call the band at 310-792- 

8286 or visit www.pvsband.org. 

LA CELLO Quartet 

Cellist RusLan Biryukov and his magnificent 

LA CELLO Quartet will perform 

at Temple Emet, 2051 W. 

236th St. Torrance at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments 

at intermission. Four 

charismatic, dynamic cellists playing 

a delightful program including the 

LA Premiere of a major cello quartet. 

$36 for members; $46 for non-members. 

Tickets at www.templeemet.org 

or send check with contact information 

to Temple Emet, PO BOX 1324, 

Torrance CA 90505. Or pay at the 

door (doors open at 6:30). Call 

(310) 373-3161 for further information. 

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Monday, March 7 

Artist Talk 

Celebrity Choreographer Shane 

Spark speaks from 7 – 9 p.m. at the 

Olguin Campus of San Pedro High 

School, as part of Marymount California 

University’s artist-in-residency 

master class. 3210 South Alma 

Street. Free. Sparks won the “Best 

Choreography in a feature film” for 

"You Got Served" at the 2004 

American Choreography Awards; 

and the “2005 BET Award” for cochoreographing 

for “You Got 

Served. 3210 South Alma Street., 

San Pedro. 

Wed., March 9 

PV Woman’s Club 

Meets at noon at Trump National 

Golf Club. A representative of Point 

Vicente Interpretive Center will be 

the guest speaker. $32. For reservations 

call Beverly Teresinski at (310) 

378-1349. 

Los Serenos event 

Karin Rice, of the Page Museum, will 

discuss the relationship of fossils to 

the broader tectonic picture with her 

presentation “Tectonics makes it stick 


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– Rancho la Brea.” Free, open to the 

public. 7 p.m. Point Vicente Interpretive 

Center, 31501 Palos Verdes 

Drive West, Rancho Palos Verdes. 

For more info call (310) 377-5370, 

or go to LosSerenos.org or 

www.facebook.com/LosSerenos. 


Palos Verdes Chamber 

“Salute to Business” 

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Chamber 

of Commerce invites the public to 

join them at the “Salute to Business” 

dinner 5:30 p.m. at Trump National 

Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes. 

As part of the Chamber’s 60th anniversary, 

the evening will celebrate 

the history of business on the Peninsula 

with camaraderie, conversation, 

cocktails, dinner, historic photos 

and lots of surprises. Dance to music 

from the ‘60s, ‘60s attire is encouraged. 

Peninsula businesses, present 

and past, are encouraged to forward 

photos of their businesses (with 

ballpark dates of the photos) to office@palosverdeschamber.com. 

$125 for Chamber members, $150 

non-members. For tickets, information 

on event sponsorships or to purchase 

Opportunity Drawing Tickets, 

contact the Chamber at 310-377- 

8111, office@palosverdeschamber. 

com, or PalosVerdesChamber.com. 

“Cabaret” at Pen High 

The award winning Peninsula High 

School Drama Department presents 

this entertaining energetic musical 

about Berlin's societal strains as the Nazis rise to power. 

March 10-12, 18-20 and 25-26. Friday and Saturday at 

7 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m. Tickets on sale one hour before 

show or reserve tickets ahead at PeninsulaDrama.com or 

call (310) 377 4888 x 830. 

Friday, March 11 

Embroiderers’s seashell necklace 

The Seaside Beaders, of the Embroiderers' Guild of America, 

meets at 9:30 a.m. at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 

2200 Via Rosa, Palos Verdes Estates. Idele Gilbert will 

teach the square stitch, which will be used to make Idele’s 

beaded seashell name tag necklace. Or bring your own 

project to work on. Visitors are welcome.(310) 540-6104 

or visit Azureverdeega.com/bead_projects.com. 

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Blues Brothers Revue 

Experience the legendary Blues Brothers with the only duo 

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hat and sunglasses and walk in the footsteps of Jake 

and Elwood Blues. Featuring Wayne Catania as Jake and 

Kieron Lafferty as Elwood, along with the eight-piece Intercontinental 

Rhythm and Blues Revue Band. the show authentically 

captures the spirit and high jinx of the Blues 

Brothers while also paying homage to Chicago’s rich history 

of music. 8 p.m. $48 to $58, with a $10 discount for 

children ages 12 and under. For more information or to 

purchase tickets call the box office at 310- 544-0403, ext. 

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Saturday, March 12 

Family Ranger Day 

At the White Point Nature Preserve, 10-11 a.m. Your family will enjoy spending 

time with the LA City Rangers and their mobile nature exhibit. Family 

Ranger Day is every 2nd Saturday of the month at the White Point Nature 

Preserve located at 1600 W. Paseo del Mar in San Pedro. Meet at the information 

kiosk between parking lot and Nature Center. For more information 

visit: pvplc.org or call (310) 541-7613. 

Whale of A Day Celebration 

Celebrate the 32nd annual “Whale of a Day” celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 

p.m., at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center. Co-Sponsored by Los Serenos 

de Point Vicente and the City of Rancho Palos Verdes. Free. Celebrate the annual 

migration of the Gray Whale. Games for all ages, whale watching from 

the bluff, food booths, entertainment, museum tours, educational and environmental 

booths, inflatable jumpers and face painting. Free parking and shuttle 

service from Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd. (Sorry, 

no onsite parking.) If it rains, the event will be rescheduled to April 9. (310) 

544-5260 or go to whaleofaday.com or faebook.com/LosSerenos. 

Black and Gold Affair 

Peninsula High School’s Athletic Booster Club holds its 25th annual A Black & 

Gold Affaire at the Palos Verdes Golf Club. This is the largest fundraising effort 

for Peninsula High’s physical education and athletic department. The 25th annual 

A Black & Gold Affaire is panther casual, and tickets start at $110 per 

person, which includes a 3-course dinner, wine tasting and live and silent auctions. 

The highlight of the event is the Senior Parade. 3301 Vía Campesina, 

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South Coast Cactus & Succulent Society 

"The ABCs of Growing African Bulbs" are discussed by Ernesto Sandoval, Director 

of the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory. 1:30 p.m., South Coast Botanic 

Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula. For more information 

visit southcoastcss.org. 


Climate Change Presentation 

Learn more about U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change from a 

panel including Marymount professor and PVP Land Conservancy board member 

Dr. Allen Franz and Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of Climate Resolve. 

6 p.m., Free. Wayfarer’s Chapel, 5755 Palos Verdes Drive South, RPV. 

Space is limited, RSVP at pvplc.org/_activities/ClimateChange.asp. 

Wednesday, March 16 

Copenhagen Girls Choir 

The Rolling Hills United Methodist Church presents the Copenhagen Girls 

Choir at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary. Renowned Danish pianist Katrina Gislinge 

will also perform music from Debussy, Nielsen, Norgard, and Sorensen. Conductor 

Anne Marie Granau is the assistant conductor at the Royal Danish 

Opera and the Copenhagen Philharmonic. Free, donations appreciated. All 

proceeds go to the artists. 26843 Crenshaw Blvd., Rolling Hills Estates. (310) 

377-6771. 

Palos Verdes 4-H Club 

Community Meeting 6:45 p.m. Rolling Hills Estates City Hall, 4045 Palos 

Verdes Drive North, RHE. For more information visit pvp4hclub or call Dee 

Keese at (310)-377-9773 or Peter Michel at (310)-493-5559 or email to 

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Crenshaw Boulevard, Palos Verdes Peninsula, at 7 pm. Our speaker will be 

Tom Carruth, one of the most respected hybridizers of roses and is now the 

Curator of the Rose Garden at the Huntington Library, Art Collection and 

Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. He will share his enthusiasm 

and the history of the China rose, which arrived in the West from China in 

late 1792 although it had been cultivated in China for over 2,000 years. 

Please join us! For more information, please see us on Facebook. 

Beach Cities Republicans Meeting 

Dinner (no host dinner is required by all attendees) at Sizzler at 6 p.m. 2880 

Sepulveda Blvd. Torrance. 7 p.m. Speaker. For more information call 310- 

793-8647 or email info@lagopclubs.com. 


Pancake Breakfast 

Young Life Christian Youth Ministries holds a pancake breakfast to raise money 

to send high school, junior high school, and special needs kids to camp this 

summer. At the Rolling Hills Community Center (735 Silver Spur Rd, RHE) on 

from 8:30-11 a.m. Call Steve Heffernan at (310) 466-3661. 


Effective prayer 

The 1st Church of Christ, Scientist, Palos Verdes Peninsula presents a free lecture 

on "Effective Prayer" by Brian Kissock, CSB at 2 p.m. 4010 Palos Verdes 

Drive North, Palos Verdes Estate. For further information, (310) 375-7914. 

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tThe Power of Haydn 

Los Cancioneros Master Chorale presents “The Power of Haydn,” featuring 

he Lord Nelson Mass. 7 p.m. at Torrance Armstrong Theater. The sacred concert 

opens with three modern-day sacred anthems by Helvey, Powell and 

Petker, followed by three 19th century gems by Brahms, Gounod, and Franck. 

The chorale will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra. Four of the finest 

singers from the distinguished vocal music program at California State University, 

Long Beach, will sing the solos in the Mass. $25. Student tickets$15. 

For tickets De Giebler (310) 779-3072 or at djgiebler@specialletters.net. 


Republican Women on political integrity 

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Women’s Club Federated will meet at Palos Verdes 

Golf Club. Meet and greet at 10:30 a.m.; meeting at 11 a.m. followed by 

lunch and the featured speaker, Linda Paine of The Election Integrity Project. 

She will discuss voter fraud in California. In 2013 The Election Integrity Project 

submitted a list of 60,000 voter irregularities to the L.A. County Registrar. $30. 

Husbands, friends and significant others welcome. For reservations contact 

Hildegarde Kurtz at hildegardek@cox.net or (310) 377-1640 or Kay Poss at 

(310) 377-8319 or FKPoss@aol.com or PVPRWF@aol.com. 

Wednesday, March 23 

Palos Verdes Buddhism Club Meeting 

Palos Verdes Library 701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates, 2:30 - 4 p.m. 

in the Conference Room next to the Gift Shop. Call Bita Asakura for more information 

(818) 571-3573. 


Stone Temple Pilots, Bach to Rock school benefit 

“From Bach to Rock,” brings The Stone Temple Pilots and fellow rock stars together 

with world-renowned classical musicians for a journey from 17th century 

to modern hits at the Norris Theater and Pavilion. The evening includes 

an auction and a red carpet after-concert party. 6:30 p.m. For tickets call 

(310) 544-0403. 27570 Norris Center Dr., Rolling Hills Estates. 

Saturday, April 2 

Scholarship Luncheon 

Panhellenic Alumnae South Bay Association (PASBA) will hold its 49th annual 

Scholarship Luncheon at the newly renovated Los Verdes Golf Club. $50. Silent 

auction and raffle. Dr. Joanna Medawar Nachef. Dr. Nachef is director of 

choral activities at El Camino College. Proceeds from the event fund scholarships. 

Tickets are available at SouthBayPanhellenic.com or call Kathy Gonzalez 

at (310) 937-9842. 


Banning Museum Annual Wisteria Regale 

Friends of Banning Museum’s annual fundraising event, the Wisteria Regale, 

is 6 to 10 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel, 2800 

Via Cabrillo Marina, San Pedro The theme is “Hollywood’s Golden Age.” 

Silent auction, elegant sit down dinner, hosted bar, live music provided by the 

Fabulous Esquires Big Band, dancing and the Wisteria Scholarship presentation. 

Dressed as your favorite Hollywood star or in formal attire. $150. Call 

Friends of Banning Museum at (310) 548-2005 for further information or to 

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P E N I N S U L A P E O P L E | F O O D 

Above: Grilled octopus with romesco sauce and 

brussels sprout gratin. Lower: Pan-roasted pork chops 

with bourbon glaze. Photos by Richard Foss 

Twain’s Feast, updated 

by Richard Foss 

There is a picture of Mark Twain on the wall 

at Plates American Bistro and nearby is one 

of his memorable quotes on the subject of 

dining. It reads, “The secret of success in life is 

to eat what you like and let the food fight it out 

inside.” This makes the case for Twain as both 

omnivorous and adventurous. As detailed in the 

book “Twain’s Feast,” he was also a passionate 

advocate for the idea that American food was as 

good as any in the world. When in the midst of a 

long European tour he compiled a list of the 

American foods he most missed, and it was 80 

items long. 

Twain would have felt at home at Plates, the 

new “American bistro” that recently opened in 

the Promenade at the Peninsula. There are items 

here that he would have found novel, such as 

rare ahi tuna served with falafel or a fried 

Jessica Gibb with petrale sole, the catch of the day. Photo by Brad Jacobson (CivicCouch.com) 

A contemporary Mark Twain would feel right at home at Plates American Bistro 

chicken Cobb salad. But they could have fought 

it out in his stomach with more traditional favorites 

like shrimp and grits and chicken in a pot. 

The menu by Executive Chef Robert Bell and 

chef de cuisine Karl Viking has comfort food flavors 

with enough modern ideas so it isn’t a museum 

piece and it’s an alluring read. 

When my wife and I visited on a rainy weekday 

evening the place was sparsely populated, 

and our server Jessica had plenty of time to go 

over the menu and give suggestions. We were impressed 

by her knowledge of both the food and 

the wine list and as it turned out her recommendations 

were excellent. 

Two of the more interesting modern starters involved 

the same main ingredient: a Brussels 

sprout salad with endive, walnuts, pancetta, and 

olive oil and a Brussels sprout gratin that was on 

the side plates menu. Jessica endorsed both but 

had a slight preference for the gratin, so we ordered 

that. Though a gratin sounds like a fancy 

dish this was the same idea as that classic, scalloped 

potatoes: put vegetables with buttery, 

creamy cheese sauce and breadcrumbs and bake 

until there’s a rich crust on top. I loved this dish 

as a kid when my Mom made it and still enjoy it. 

The Brussels sprouts make it both more flavorful 

and healthier. The cheese sauce at Plates is a lot 

lighter than my mom’s (hers was really just 

molten cheese) but that is all to the good because 

we didn’t get full too fast. 

The other starter wasn’t part of American culture 

unless you grew up around Southern European 

immigrants: grilled octopus with romesco 

sauce over red onion with pork belly chunks and 

crisped farro, along with blistered shisito peppers. 

Almost everything about this was right, the 

octopus tender and well-matched to the pork, 


onions and grain, but the peppers sent this dish out of balance. Shisito peppers are a tricky 

ingredient because they’re unpredictable. The usual estimate is that one in 10 will be very 

spicy and it will look just like the other nine. On this particular day it was more like one 

in every two or three, and after a few particularly aggressive peppers I left them on the 

side. I like spicy food, but I wanted to taste the other elements in the dish. 

For the starters I chose a Cold Heaven Viognier, while my wife asked Jessica to choose 

for her and received a Talley Pinot Noir. The Viognier was excellent with the octopus but 

not the gratin, while the Pinot did its magic and worked with both. 

We went with traditional items for mains: chicken in the pot and pan-roasted pork chops 

with apples, pears, and a bourbon glaze. Chicken in the pot is a Colonial American classic, 

half a bird in broth with carrots, beets, fingerling potatoes, and sprigs of herbs including 

thyme and whole sage leaves. The flavors are deeply blended, the vegetables cooked 

through but not mushy, the meat tender enough to fall off the bone. Items like this have 

a heritage going back to New Englanders who took the Sabbath so seriously that they prepared 

the meal on Saturday night and set it by the fire so as avoid the work of cooking on 

the day of rest. No religious devotion is needed to appreciate this and though we added a 

bit of pepper to the broth to perk it up it was fine just as it arrived. 

The pork chops were tender and had a slight smokiness from the grill that married well 

with the bourbon sauce with apples and pears. There was no detectable alcohol flavor, 

just the sweetness of the booze cooked down with fruit along with mild herbs. It was 

served over a mix of barley and kale, and the whole effect was to present the warm flavors 

we crave in winter. This time we had asked Jessica to pick both wines and received a Dry 

Creek Merlot and Melville Syrah, and I slightly preferred the Syrah with both dishes. 

The dessert menu here goes very traditional, and includes a bread pudding, caramel 

chocolate tart, winter fruit shortcake, and caramel apple crisp. After the parade of heavy 

cakes that are usually offered around the South Bay this was a delight, and we took some 

time to decide on the apple crisp and chocolate croissant bread pudding. Both were firstrate, 

though I’ll ask for the bread pudding to be delivered with the caramel sauce on the 

side next time so I can get just a dab of it on each bite. It went very well with a glass of 

Heitz California port, which we shared as a finish to the meal. 

Our meal with wine for two ran $140, of which $80 was food – reasonable for this cuisine 

with caring service in a stylish environment. Plates is a rarity locally, offering food 

that would have tickled Mark Twain’s palate with flourishes that match our own. 

Plates American Bistro is at 550 Deep Valley Circle, #145, across from El Pollo Inka. 

Open daily except Monday 11 a.m. – 9 p.m., parking in adjacent structure. Wine and beer 

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eti Tsai Bergman started Peninsula Law with the idea of creating a law 

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Bergman believes that you can’t be good at any one thing if you try 

to do a little of everything. With that vision and her laser focus on probate 

law, Bergman built Peninsula Law into a probate powerhouse. Peninsula 

Law represents fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and families who need help planning, 

administering and settling estates. Peninsula Law embraces resolution 

of conflict and embraces trial when necessary. Peninsula then wins because 

it firmly believes in bringing out the truth. There are no smoke and mirrors. 

Peninsula Law does not ignore or hide the facts. Peninsula Law builds 

winning cases based on excellent legal analysis, strategic thinking, and 

masterful persuasion. Families come first and Peninsula Law vigorously pursues 

the wishes left by testators or trustors. 

Peninsula Law also minimizes long and protracted litigation or administration 

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With such ethics, Peninsula 

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Beti Tsai Bergman is certified in estate planning, trust, and probate law by 

the California Board of Legal Specialization and has earned an advocate 

designation from the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. Before earning her 

J.D. at UC Davis School of Law, Bergman earned a B.S. in applied mathematics 

from UCLA and an M.S. in applied mathematics with concentrations 

in partial differential equations and probability and statistics from CSULB. 

Bergman sustains active involvement in the community. She is a Probate 

Co-Chair of the Trust & Estates Section of the South Bay Bar Association, a 

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Ibarra cont. from page 35 

look at him and go, ‘Wow.’ Remarkable, really 

creative, really observant.” 

He’s also at the center of the most vital aspect 

of Terranea’s business. While Haack couldn’t reveal 

the exact numbers, she did say that food and 

beverage outpace hotel rooms in revenue produced 

for the resort. She said that banquets alone 

generate more revenue than all of Terranea’s 

restaurants and Ibarra is equally attentive to each 

facet of dining operations at the resort. 

Ibarra was educated La Citadelle College of 

Culinary Arts in San Jean Pied de Port, France, 

where he also studied under Chef Firmin Arrambide 

at the Michelin-starred Hotel Les Pyrenees. 

But Ibarra, Haack said, gives equal attention to 

the gastropub fare at Nelson’s as he does to Terranea’s 

most ambitious restaurant, mar’sel. 

“He’s an incredibly talented businessman as 

well as a culinarian,” Haack said. “It takes a very 

disciplined chef to drive initiatives that are completely 

different in each area. There are many 

chefs who can only function at one level of food 

or service and can’t be creative and really fresh 

and relevant in many different venues, including 

in-room dining and banquets. Bernard plays a 

large role in all our properties. He is really the 

keeper of an extraordinary amount of our revenue.” 

He is also, York said, extraordinary on a plateby-plate, 

meal-by-meal basis. 

“He takes what we grow so he can then create 

incredible dishes, but he also has a vision for 

what people want. And even though he is quiet, 

he has a tremendously engaging personality. It’s 

something. When you come to one of his restaurants, 

you feel like you are coming to his home 

and you are very welcome in his home,” York 

said. 

His wife Jessica Lo Ibarra said that it’s difficult 

to adequately convey how much Bernard cares 

about every level of his work. 

“He cares about how you feel about every single 

bite — every single person, every single bite,” 

she said. “The rest of us would have just written 

it off a long time ago. And he cares about making 

the business right, not just the pure artistry.” 

He often works from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. or 

beyond. 

“He still shakes the bees out of the bee house,” 

Jessica said. “I’ll be like, ‘Why are you going up 

there for four hours on a Sunday?’ And he’ll say, 

‘Oh, I have to check on the bees.’ Whether it’s a 

VIP guest, or one of thousands of bees, he cares 

about that bee.” 

The word that keeps coming up among those 

who know Ibarra best is passion. 

“I’ve thought about this before: how would I 

describe Bernard?” said Jun Sur, the resort’s director 

of food and beverages. “I’ve been able to 

learn from him. And in 20 years in this industry, 

I have to say, hands down, Bernard is the most 

passionate culinarian I’ve had the privilege to 

work with. He’s a visionary. And his physical 

commitment to success is remarkable.” 

In the age of the celebrity chef, Ibarra stays fastidiously 

out of the limelight. You won’t see him 

on TV, though he has the pedigree and track 

record to garner such attention. He’s more likely 

to be found at the water’s edge, collecting seawater 

for salt, or out among the bees, or deep in the 

trenches at Catalina View Gardens. Or you might 

see a somewhat burly, almost always smiling 

man, walking into the entrance at Terranea early 

in the morning, his muddied boots a bit out of 

place among the well-heeled arrivals at the resort. 

But Ibarra is a man who has truly found his 

place. 

“A lot of people are happy to go to work,” Ibarra 

said. “But for me, it’s like the fountain of youth. 

I get so much out of it and also give a lot. When 

I go to the farm, it means feeling good, and 

breathing fresh air and looking at the Pacific and 

seeing Terranea nearby and smelling the soil and 

losing my shovel in the mud. And then coming 

back to the hotel. … I’ve got to wash outside on 

the dock and people don’t know. ‘Where did he 

go? He has a chef’s uniform.’ It is, I guess, a very 

humble and natural picture.” 

“After all those years on the road, so to speak, 

I think it is just the best place. Everything we do 

is done with care and we mean it. We think it is 

good for us and for the community. I have never 

known that feeling before. I never worked for a 

place where it is just so black and white — I am 

still looking for the fine print. But it is what it is: 

it’s amazing.” PEN 


Rombro & Associates 

Human touch on the scales of justice. 

Attorney Roger Rombro holds the 

highest possible rating from the 

peer-reviewed Martindale- 

Hubbell Law Directory for a 40-year 

practice, which now focuses principally 

upon family law. 

Along the way, he retained a human 

touch that makes him the best lawyer 

he can be. 

“Spouses tend to be hurt in the initial 

stages of their separation. They tend to 

feel that they have failed, irrespective 

of whether they’re the spouse that initiates 

the separation. Each spouse has 

a huge sense of disappointment with 

their partner which slowly evolves into 

resentment and anger. 

Not surprisingly, each of them goes 

through a morning period recognizing 

that they have suffered a death in 

their family,”he said. 

“And there can be lots of reactive 

things going on. One side does something, 

to which the 

other side wants to react,” Rombro 

said. 

“Part of my job is to help people to understand 

their own feelings. I become 

both their advocate and their counselor. 

The counselor part of me wants 

to help them to see that they are 

going in a direction that is not in their 

best interest,”he said. 

“To a large extent, the lawyer must 

often do what a therapist would be 

doing,”Rombro said. 

“I try to keep the conflicts down as 

much as possible. Otherwise, people 

tend to spend huge amounts of 

money, draining themselves both financially 

and emotionally; and this is 

particularly true in custody disputes 

where people become so angry, that 

they fail to realize that they are hurting 

their children, rather than just their 

spouse,”he said. 

Rombro is certified by the State Bar as 

a specialist in family law, and he has 

recently been 

appointed to the State Bar Family Law 

Executive Committee. 

Before he went into civil practice, he 

served in the Los Angeles County District 

Attorney’s office, prosecuting 

everything from DUI to homicide in 

thousands of cases before state and 

federal courts. 

“I think our criminal justice system is the 

fairest in the history of mankind,” he 

said. “We go out of our way to protect 

the rights of the accused, and we also 

try prevent the suffering of victims, and 

to protect society.” 

Rombro and wife Joanna have three 

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long time member of the South Bay, the full-service law firm Baker, 

Burton & Lundy P.C. is proudly celebrating their 40th anniversary 

this coming May. The entire firm believes it is a tremendous honor 

to have continuously served the legal needs of the South Bay for so long. 

In November of 1980, founding partners Brad N. Baker and Kent Burton 

purchased the building on 515 Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach. With two 

expansions, the firm has continually grown to meet the needs of the 

community. 

Commitment to the South Bay 

The members of the Baker, Burton & Lundy law firm are involved in the 

South Bay beyond their legal work through coaching, volunteering and 

serving on boards of charitable organizations. Veteran estate planning 

attorney Brad Baker serves as the Vice Chair of H.E.L.P. (Healthcare and 

Elder Law Programs Corporation) that provides legal guidance to the 

ever-growing senior community in our area. 

Meeting the Needs of South Bay’s Growing Elderly Community 

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South Bay Locals Celebrating 40 Years 

BB&L has also added a new attorney, Christine Daniels, to work with 

Brad in meeting the needs of people creating estate plans for their future 

and protecting the rights of the elderly. Raised in the South Bay, 

Christine is a fluent Spanish speaker and understands the value of creating 

individualized estate plans for her clients. BB&L places great importance 

on the interviewing and drafting process to make sure plans 

will meet each client’s unique needs. With the firm’s experience in litigating 

will and trust contests as well as trust and estate mismanagement 

cases, they focus on designing documents that effectively minimize the 

risk of future litigation. 

Business and Litigation Powerhouse 

Partner Kent Burton leads the business and real estate arm of the firm. 

With associate Clint Wilson and Teresa Klinkner, of counsel, they are well 

known for their transactional expertise and have clients ranging from individuals 

and small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations. Kent has also 

assisted several South Bay non-profits with their 501(c)(3) incorporation 

documents and served on the board of the Didi Hirsch Mental Health 

Center for over a decade. 

The firm has built a reputation far beyond the South Bay as fierce litigators. 

In addition to recovering over $4 Billion for California energy 

consumers, it won a recent decision before the California Supreme 

Court that has reduced litigation. BB&L’s trial and personal injury practice 

is headed by Albro Lundy III, Trial Lawyer of the Year for Consumer 

Attorneys of California, and Evan Koch, named a Rising Star by Super- 

Lawyers two years in a row. Lundy and Koch collaborate with Baker and 

Daniels in the firm’s Probate Litigation practice combining probate and 

estate expertise with accomplished trial skills. 

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Read of Thorns 

A longtime Rancho Palos Verdes resident 

honors her mother’s legacy 

in a new book detailing firsthand 

accounts of the Japanese-American 

experience during WWII 

by Esther Kang 

Mary Yoko Nakamura was just 12 years old when the Pearl Harbor 

bombings ignited a war between her motherland and adopted 

home. The Hawaiian born Japanese-American citizen does not 

remember too many details of those havoc-ridden days, but her mother 

Aoki Hisa, a renowned writer before her death at age 63, diligently kept a 

journal that would become a best-seller in Japan. 

Originally published in 1953 in Tokyo, White Road of Thorns is a raw 

account of her mother's experience in the Japanese internment camps during 

WWII, a composite of observational and intimate journal entries documenting 

her day-to-day life in the Santa Anita Internment Camp and Gila 

Relocation Center in Arizona. 

As the sole survivor in her family, Nakamura, 87, recently decided to 

issue an English version of her mother’s journal after her friend Archie 

Miyamoto read the original book and offered to translate it. He noted that 

an authentic account of the WWII internment camps did not yet exist. 

Most writings on the matter are based on interviews conducted decades 

after the fact — “Just hearsay,” Nakamura said. 

“They’re interviewing people like me and my husband,” said Nakamura, 

a 47-year Rancho Palos Verdes resident. “They ask, ‘What do you remember?’ 

You don’t remember the daily things. They’d be my age now and 

they interviewed them starting 10 years ago.” 

White Road of Thorns (Xlibris Publishing) is 217 pages and includes old 

photographs of her family as well as her family’s history, from Japan to 

Hawaii to Los Angeles. The cover is a painting by Nakamura of the Arizona 

desert landscape where the barracks of Gila Relocation Campsite stood. 

“I, of all people in my family, am not the writer,” she conceded. “If it 

was to be done, it should’ve been my second brother or my younger sister. 

They were the writers. They were like my mom. I was always good at 

mathematics. I didn’t have any interest, but I’m the only surviving one. I 

had to take the responsibility.” 

Nakamura remembers her mother writing every night after she and her 

sister went to bed as kids. She laughs when recounting her favorite memory 

of her mother: sitting in her bed and chewing on a candy bar while 

feverishly jotting in her journal. 

“I knew she was writing,” Nakamura said. “For me and my sister, it was 

nothing new. It was her natural thing.” 

Her mother, widely known in the Japanese community by her pen name 

Yamamoto Asako, shared her pointed observations about living in Los Angeles 

in a popular column for Kashu Mainichi, the largest daily Japanese 

newspaper in the Los Angeles area at the time. She covered politics and 

culture, including the Academy Awards. She was invited to a premiere 

screening of "Gone With The Wind." 

“My mother was always a maverick,” Nakamura said. 

She was also fiercely intelligent. As the daughter of a university professor, 

she was one of the first three women accepted to the University of 

Japan in Tokyo in the early 20th century. She nursed an urgent curiosity 

about different cultures. She spoke four languages and could read and write 

in six. 

When war with the United States broke out with the Pearl Harbor bombings 

on Dec. 7, 1941, she and her family’s lives were turned upside down. 

Nakamura’s parents ran a 

Japanese language school 

out of their rented home, an 

old Victorian mansion in 

East LA. That was reason 

enough for the FBI to harbor 

suspicion. Her father was 

questioned and taken to a 

prisoner-of-war camp. He 

would be separated from his 

family for two years. Her 

mother, 12-year-old Nakamura 

and her younger sister 

were confined in a temporary 

internment camp at 

Santa Anita. 

“When we went, we were 

very unlucky and sent into 

the horse stables,” Nakamura 

remembered. “We had 

a very small family and we 

were put in one of the worst 

horse stables. My mom 

couldn’t sleep, of course.” 

Five months later, they 

were transferred to Gila Relocation 

Center in the Arizona 

desert, where they stayed for approximately a year before their selection 

as passengers on the Gripsholm for the second wartime exchange 

of nationals between the U.S. and Japan. Life in Japan was not much easier. 

The family’s home was bombed during an air raid and subsequently the 

children’s school was shelled as well. 

When the war ended in August 1945, 17-year-old Nakamura got a job as 

an interpreter and accountant for the Military Post Exchange in Tokyo, 

where she would meet Edward, her now-husband of 65 years. Edward, a 

Japanese-American from Seattle, also spent some time in an internment 

camp before being drafted into the U.S. Army. He took a discharge six 

months later and got a civil service job in Tokyo. He is 90 today, lively and 

playfully interjecting in Nakamura’s recounts of the past. 

At 19, Nakamura and her siblings returned to Los Angeles after saving 

enough of their earnings for ship fare and renting out space in their old 

piano teacher’s duplex. She attended night classes at Roosevelt High 

School, where she would earn her diploma, and worked a number of temp 

jobs to make ends meet, from nannying in Hollywood to working at a necktie 

factory. Edward earned a B.A. in accounting from UCLA, and in 1950, 

the two had a big wedding at a church in Los Angeles. She was 21, and he 

was 25. 

They lived in Gardena for 14 years before moving to Rancho Palos Verdes 

for the schools. They have lived in the same home for 47 years, raising 

their two children, Nora and Rodney, who both went through the Palos 

Verdes school system. Their two grandchildren currently attend Palos 

Verdes High School. 

Since the book’s release last August, a copy has been donated to the 

Japanese American History Museum in Los Angeles. Nakamura said she 

has not been able to hold signings due to health issues, but she hopes 

younger generations will relish the honest and accurate accounts of the 

Japanese-American experience during WWII. 

“The intent was to leave a legacy of the Japanese Americans, Nisei (second 

generation) and Sansei (third generation),” Nakamura said. 

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Eagle Scout 

Arman Ramezani 

with his parents during 

his Eagle Scout 

ceremony. 

n Arman Ramezani, a resident of Rancho Palos Verdes has reached the highest 

level of scouting, and is now an Eagle Scout. Arman’s Eagle project was the 

beautification and landscaping of two large planters in front of the Lomita Sheriff’s 

station. Arman, a senior at Peninsula High School is a member of various honor 

societies, Co-President of Teen Court, Secretary General of Model United Nations 

and school Treasurer. 

New VP of Development and Communications 

to join LA BioMed 

n Bringing a wealth of fundraising and management expertise, Love Collins III 

will be joining the leadership team at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute 

(LA BioMed) as its new vice president of development and communications on 

May 2. Collins has more than 35 years of experience in management, development 

and strategic planning, and he currently serves as the vice present—development, 

communications and marketing at another independent research institute, 

Eagle Scout 

n Kevin Rahman, 13, received his 

Eagle award this month at a Court of 

Honor with family, friends and members 

of his Scout Troop, 134, Boy Scouts of 

America, in attendance. The troop is 

sponsored by the Palos Verdes Stake of 

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day 

Saints. 

Kevin is in the 7th grade at Palos Verdes 

Intermediate school. He is the son of Jim 

and Angela Rahman of Rancho Palos 

Verdes. He is the third member of his immediate 

family to earn the award, joining 

his father, Jim, and brother, Trey. For 

his Eagle project he painted fences at 

Abalone Park in Rancho Palos Verdes. 

About 25 Scouts and other volunteers 

helped with the project and Kevin spent 

an estimated 200 hours completing the 

work. 

Jim Rahman was scoutmaster of Troop 

134 until recently when Chad Turner of 

San Pedro was called to lead the troop. 

Only about four per cent of scouts nationwide 

attain the Eagle rank, according 

to scouting leaders. 

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Van Andel Research Institute, in Grand Rapids, MI, a position he’s held for the last 

five years. “At LA BioMed, we feel very fortunate to have attracted a nationally 

recognized fundraiser who is responsible for raising hundreds of millions of dollars 

in private support,” said David I. Meyer, PhD, LA BioMed president and CEO. 

Terranea Resort names Andrew Vaughan 

Chef de Cuisine of mar’sel 

n Terranea Resort, A Destination Hotel, has named Andrew Vaughan as the new 

chef de cuisine of mar'sel, the resort’s signature restaurant. One of Los Angeles’s 

top dining destinations, mar’sel offers a decidedly inventive twist on California cuisine 

in a spectacular seaside setting located along the prestigious Palos Verdes 

Peninsula. A Louisiana native, Vaughan hails from two of the most iconic restaurants 

in the nation, working alongside Emeril Lagasse at NOLA in New Orleans, and 

Daniel Boulud at Restaurant Daniel in New York City. Most recently, Vaughan has 

been an integral part of Terranea Resort’s culinary team, recently serving as the 

Chef de Cuisine for Nelson’s at Terranea, as well as masterfully executing VIP Dinners 

for the resort, and aiding the development and execution of the successful 

Chef’s Table Dinner Series, which showcases the resort’s renowned “farm-to-Terranea” 

cuisine, alongside featured wines, to benefit a select charity. 

Kevin Rahman after receiving 

his Eagle award at a 

Court of Honor held this 

month. He is holding a 

replica of an eagle above 

his head, a gift symbol of 

his new scouting status. 

Ice Chalet to become Promenade Ice Chalet 

n Scott Williams, the spokesperson for Ice-America and the new operations management 

company for the rink, announced Palos Verdes Ice Chalet that the facility 

officially changed its name to Promenade Ice Chalet as of February 1. 

Scott explained that the new name reflects the evolving focus and standards of 

the sports & entertainment venue, goals for new additions, targeted marketing, increased 

public sessions and a focus on new business and community outreach. 

Palos Verdes Ice Chalet has been a local favorite since the early 1980s and a 

launch pad for many notable Olympic figure skaters and NHL hockey professionals. 

As PV Ice Chalet provided the introduction for many world-renowned professionals, 

Promenade on Ice’s mission is to offer the same quality initiation and 

instruction to the future skaters and players of America. There is no indication yet 

as to whether this will be the only change to Palos Verdes Ice Chalet’s image or 

just the first of many. Representatives are firm in stating that their efforts to nurture 

community, family and youth activities will continue to grow. Customers and employees 

alike are enthusiastic and supportive about the transformation.www.PromenadeIceChalet.com, 

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