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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
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Vistas for Children held their 16th Annual
Fashion Show Luncheon and Boutique at the
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
raise funds for Vistas For Children.
1. Event Sponsor and
Vistas Member Evelyn
Booth.
2. Past Vistas Presidents
Nadine Bobbit, Caro
Miguelez and Margo
Goldsbero.
3. Former Vistas President
Suzanne Thornton
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founder of Vistas for Children.
4. Vistas Members Beth
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5. Current Vistas President
Pam Branan with her
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her husband Larry
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6. Vistas members; Irene
Trotter, Randy Dauchot,
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7. Junior Vistas model
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8. Past Vistas President
Helaine Lopes.
9. Bugler, Lorenzo
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12. Fashion Show Chairwoman
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Library Gallery. Over 60 members and
friends enjoyed an afternoon of socializing
and learning about the Village. There is
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4. Susan Wallace, Fran Wielin event chairs.
5. Ruth Gralow, Bill and Barbara Ailor.
6. Judy Bayer, Grace Farwell, Mary Watson.
7. Executive director Colleen Cotter, Chair of
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8. Mike Cotter, Donna Johnson, Ruth Bloland.
9. Bill May, Harriet and Ken Servis.
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Little Sisters
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Auxiliary of the Little Sisters of
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luncheon and meeting in
the auditorium of the Jeanne Jugan
Residence at 2100 South Western Ave
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
24, 2016 at the Palos Verdes Golf Club.
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L
Palos Verdes
Performing Arts
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The Harlyne J. Norris Pavilion was
transformed into a spectacular setting
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
five-time Grammy nominee David
Benoit, who also performed to the delight
of the audience of PVPA supporters.
For more information about
upcoming performances or joining one
of the nonprofit’s many support groups,
call (310) 544-0403 or visit
www.PalosVerdesPerformingArts.com.
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1. Julie Moe Reynolds and son Travis
Reynolds.
2. Arline Grotz and Steve and Sue Soldoff.
3. Lisette Herrera and Reggie Lucero.
4. John Reynolds and gala chair Abby
Douglass and John Douglass.
5. Beatrice and Al Sheng.
6. Sandra Sanders and John Jaacks.
7. Jim Grussing, Travis Reynolds with
auction puppy and Jason Sluyter.
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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contemporary jazz.
13. Marilyn Schaffer, Hal and Anita Javitt,
and Sal and Melody Intagliata.
14. Myla Azer and Max Gropeupenhagen.
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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
League of San Pedro-
South Bay
M
embers and guests celebrated their
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
bears taken to emergency room for children
in traumatic situations). Additional information
regarding volunteering and/or donating
can be obtained by calling the Assistance
League 310-832-8355.
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Peninsula Committee,
Los Angeles
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Welcomes New Members
T
he Palos Verdes Golf Club was the site
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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1. Members of the
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,
(Front row): Karen
Gottlieb, Cheryl Graue,
Paula Del Vicario,
Board President; Kathy
Keller, Ellen Perkins,
Linda Whitson.
2. Nancy Siskowic,
left, with Diana Honeycutt.
3. Vice President/ Fall
Fundraiser, Joan Connaghan,
left, with new
Vice President/ Programs,
Cheryl Graue.
4. Board President,
Paula Del Vicario, left,
with former President,
Marian Duntley.
5. Philharmonic members,
Donna Scoular,
Joellen Alfen, and
Patricia Zelt.
6. Philharmonic Affiliate
Chair, Sherri Gill,
left, with Beth Howell.
7. Board President,
Paula Del Vicario, left;
Lorna Interian, Joan
Connaghan, Mardi Tobias,
and Cassie Westhead.
8. Phyllis Glantz, left;
Gayle Tons, Phyllis
Sherwood, Karen
Cameron, and Jean
Strickland.
9. Provisionals Chair,
Phyllis Sherwood, left;
with new Provisionals
Cassie Westhead,
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Passion
The
of Bernard Ibarra
How Terranea’s executive chef transformed the resort’s farm-to-table
approach to food and in so doing found his own roots by Mark McDermott
C
hef Bernard Ibarra arrived at Terranea Resort three years ago
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
Hotel group, opening and operating locations in Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver,
Seattle, Houston, Tokyo, and Singapore. He’d served as executive chef
at the world-renowned Mandarin Oriental hotel, where he’d overseen the
handover dinner between Hong Kong and China. Most recently, Ibarra had
been the chef behind one of the most ambitious launches in the history of
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
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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
Ibarra cont. on page 56
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P E N I N S U L A P E O P L E | P O L I T I C S
Retiring Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe is thanked for his service by Depot chef Michael Shafer.
Photo by Kevin Cody
Knabe not ready to retire yet
‘Complaining about a problem without posing a solution
is called whining.’
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,
“This is the dreaded paragraph.”
The clashing of silverware and dishes also ceased
as the audience turned its full attention to the supervisor.
Eventually, Knabe regained his composure sufficiently
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
ovation.
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.
“In the past, judges would give young
girls a slap on the wrist and they would go
out to the parking lot, where their scumbag
pimps would be waiting for them.
“Under the county program their cases
are heard in special courts and they receive
wraparound services. In our test program
in Long Beach and Compton, only one of
38 kids returned to their pimps.”
“What’s still missing is pressure on the
demand side. Men who buy young girls are
not anonymous Johns. They are child
rapists. I’m working with the district attorney
on a ‘Shame John’ ordinance. Years
ago we had a 10 most wanted child support
evaders program. Shaming works,” he
said.
In 2001, Knabe initiated the Safe Surrender
program for mothers who feel they
can’t provide for their newborn babies.
“It’s a no name, no shame, no blame. All
the mother or father has to do is bring the
child across the threshold of a hospital or
a police or fire station. They can’t leave the
child in the parking lot. Parents have 14
days to reclaim their child. I’m so proud of
the 142 mothers who have had the guts to
do the right thing,” Knabe said.
He recently hosted a picnic at the Garden
of Life in Grand Park in downtown
Los Angeles for surrendered children and
their adoptive families. He said he is establishing
a college scholarship fund for children.
The morning’s Los Angeles Times front
page with the homeless story also carried
the headline, “Trump and Sanders score
big wins in first primary.”
The election season prompted Knabe to
urge his audience to support Steve Napolitano
in his bid to succeed Knabe in next
June’s election. Napolitano is a former
Manhattan Beach councilman and long
time Knable field representative.
“He’s a prudent, talented leader whose
only fault is he is a lawyer,” Knabe joked.
He followed the endorsement with his
thoughts about the condition of the current
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“Politics should be the art of problem
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We shouldn’t celebrate that kind of behavior.
Teddy Roosevelt said, ‘Complaining
about a problem without posing a solution
is called whining.’ Leadership doesn’t need
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P E N I N S U L A P E O P L E | C H A R I T Y
Senior Planner
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.
“The woman eventually revealed to me that she
was 92 and clearly still going strong. We’re trying
to change traditional attitudes about the capabilities
and value of older adults.”
H.E.L.P., which is celebrating its 20th anniversary
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.
40 Peninsula People • February 2016
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.
Britt Huff cont. on page 42
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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,
I’m your neighbor,’ and found them very welcoming, very friendly, very
interested in meeting a neighbor who wants to improve the city. It expanded
my horizons to find out their concerns, and I got to know my city
in ways I hadn’t thought of before.”
“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
(SBCOG), an umbrella group that brings together officials from the 16 cities
in the region to discuss issues of common interest, coordinate their programs,
and influence legislation. As the Chair of the Senior Services Working
Group of the SBCOG Steering Committee, she has been reviewing
various area-wide possibilities such as contracting with the Uber ride service
to provide trained van drivers to supply rides for the elderly to a wider
service area at a reduced rate.
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
of missionaries from her church to provide short-term medical and social
services to people in rural areas.
“Most recently in Kenya,” she notes, “we teamed up with 20 medical students
from Nairobi University to work in six remote villages. In addition
to the medical and dental care they desperately need, we help with sanitation
and clean-water projects. We also show people how to start small
companies -- develop a business plan, look for funding and then pay back
their loans to help others.”
At base, Huff’s guiding principle is what she calls “a God-thing.”
“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
mercy to the world.”
For Councilwoman Britt Huff, the work of helping and healing can be
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And that’s why it’s important never to ask people their age.
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P E N I N S U L A P E O P L E | A R T S
by Kevin Cody
Two weeks prior to the 2008 presidential
election, General Colin Powell announced
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.
For more information visit SpeakerSeriesLA.com.
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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.
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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”
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Catalina Island, golfers on the 14th hole and shimmering pool
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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.,
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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.
Thursday, March 10
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
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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
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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)
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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,
Palos Verdes Estates.Tickets at pvphsabc.com. Online auction will open February
26 at PenBlackandGold.com.
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Sunday, March 13
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.
Tuesday, March 15
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
pvp4hclub@gmail.com.
Thursday, March 17
South Coast Rose Society
Will hold its March meeting at the South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300
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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.
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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.
Saturday, March 19
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.
Sunday, March 20
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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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.
Tuesday, March 22
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.
Saturday, March 26
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.
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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
make a reservation. PEN
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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,
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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
served, corkage $10, wheelchair access good, vegetarian items. No website. (310) 541-9500. PEN
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eti Tsai Bergman started Peninsula Law with the idea of creating a law
firm that does one thing and one thing well, and that is probate law.
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
of an estate because it follows the same motto as Nike: “Just Do It.” The
drive and goal on each case is to reach a quick resolution. Of course there
is no controlling the court’s calendar, but anything that is within the control
of Peninsula Law is addressed and handled with speed. Putting a task on
the back burner is considered blasphemy within the firm.
Another key element that has factored into the success of Peninsula Law
is listening to clients and hearing what they have to say. Families are often
perplexed after the death of a loved one and do not know what should be
done or what needs to be done. If you add a contentious family member
who comes forward to contest a will or trust, or who distrusts the person in
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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
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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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A
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.
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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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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.
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Terranea Resort names Andrew Vaughan
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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
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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
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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
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