Photo by David Fairchild
Volume XXI, Issue 5 December 2016
December 2016 • Peninsula 3
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PENINSULA
Volume XXI, Issue 5
December 2016
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
Golf course designer David Kidd
Photo by David Fairchild
PROFILES
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Rolling Hills links to golf
by Kevin Cody
After a decade of costly and complicated lease negotiations,
Rolling Hills Country Club prepares to unveil a new, world
class golf course by Scottish course designer David Kidd
A taste of Terranea
by Richard Foss
Terranea Resort offers a new view and fresh presentation of
the familiar food and wine tasting concept.
Keys to Coleman
by Esther Kang
When not performing in international piano competitions,
Adam Coleman played saxophone in the Palos Verdes
Intermediate School band and then served as battery captain
in the Palos Verdes High School band.
Change of courses
by Richard Foss
HT Grill chef Nael Taki of HT Grill introduces a new menu,
but his signature style is still in evidence.
HIGHLIGHTS
14 Providence Gala
20 Viva España
24 Peninsula Heritage gala
30 Land Conservancy garden to table
34 Freedom 4 U
36 Torrance Memorial Grammys
44 Peninsula Symphony 50th Anniversary
68 Fort MacArthur reenactment
74 Lunada Bay Harvest Festival
DEPARTMENTS
42 Peninsula gift guide
46 Peninsula calendar
72 Around and about
81 Home services
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L
Providence Gala
Benefiting Cardiovascular
Center
The Providence Celebration Gala, benefiting
the Torrance and San Pedro Providence
Little Company of Mary Medical
Centers, celebrated its 40th annual masquerade
fundraiser at Terranea Resort. The
black tie event specifically supported the
new Cardiovascular Center of Excellence.
Major donors included American Honda
Motor Co., The Centofante family, Driftwood
Healthcare Center and the Jacqueline
Glass family. The high tech auctions utilized
the guests’ smartphones for bidding.
The evening was an inspirational event,
emphasizing compassionate community
healthcare.
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PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN
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1. Glenn Thompson and LaRae Mardesic Bechmann.
2. David and Maria Schinderle, Jake and Tracey
Pierson.
3. Neil and Sanam Chhabria.
4. Nazanin Azadi M.D. and Vanessa Benitez.
5. Raju Chhabria, Carlin and Art Edelstein.
6. Beatrice Schlatter, Janet Teague and Philo
Chhabria.
7. Lynn and Jim Watson.
8. Sassan Farjami M.D. and Beata Farjami, Arty
and Kathy Feles.
9. Uriah Melchizedek and Andreea Maxim.
10. Pat and Debbie Greene, Joan and Tom
Connaghan.
11. Sanam Chhabria, Marshall Varon and Shintia
Lynch.
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Fine Homes and Luxury Properties
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L
Viva España!
Benefits LA Phil
An intimate, gourmet dinner for
10 was held September 18 at the
Palos Verdes home of Ed and Nancy
DeRenzis. The dinner was the result
of a silent auction prize donated and
hosted by the DeRenzises and Van
and Diana Honeycutt. Chef Matt
Todd prepared a Spanish menu that
included five appetizers, three tapas
courses, two main courses and
dessert. Paired wines were poured by
Jeff Bonafede, owner of Uncorked in
Hermosa Beach. All proceeds went to
the Peninsula Committee for the LA
Philharmonic of which Nancy and
Diana are members. The Peninsula
Committee was founded in 1952 to
help support the LA Philharmonic
and local youth music instruction and
education.
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PHOTOS BY JULIE SISKOWIC
1. Bud Guthrie, David and Barbara Hart,
Linda Bhatia, Karen Gottlieb, Marian Hall,
David Jones, Bill and Phyllis Glantz,
Sharon Guthrie.
2. Jeff Bonafede of Uncorked in Hermosa
Beach.
3. Hosts Nancy and Ed DeRenzis.
4. Tortilla Española, trio of Spanish
cheese, jamon, Spanish olives.
5. Entertainment by flamenco guitarist.
6. Chef Matt Todd.
7. Tomatoes stuffed with couscous and
wild mushrooms.
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L
Peninsula Heritage Gala
at Brouwerij West
Peninsula Heritage School’s annual Spring Gala, hosted by the
PHS Parents Association, brought together parents, friends,
trustees, teachers and administrators at the festive Brouwerij West
in San Pedro. Parents Association co-president and gala chair Tristen
Moffett, and her committee chairs organized an extensive silent
auction, a superb New York Food Co. dinner, and an exciting live
auction. Proceeds benefited Peninsula Heritage’s athletic facilities.
1. Nancy Dineen, Head of School
Patricia Cailler and Renee Dokmanovich.
2. Alicia Yarak, Tony Drockton and
Patricia Hogan.
3. Rick and Dee Edler, Eric Gutierrez
and Mike Dokmanovich.
4. Maria Auerbach, PHS Trustee
Art Auerbach and PHS teacher
Kimarie Lynn.
5. PHS Trustee Zita Macdonald,
Head of School Patricia Cailler and
PHS Trustee Robin Mearns.
6. PHS Parents Assoc. Co-Chair
Kate McKenna, gala Committee
Chair Emily Gutierrez, and gala
Chair Tristen Moffett.
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Chris Adlam
310.493.7216
www.chrisadlam.com
Gorgeous 6 bedroom Palos Verdes Estates home. Built in 2005, and designed by Edward Carson Beall, this
6200 square foot home has it all! Wine cellar, pool, spa, tennis court, ocean view, and more! $4,999,000
Panoramic Queen's Necklace and ocean views from this Coastal Classic in PVE. Charm throughout
with 3 bedrooms and a beautiful veranda and brick patios! $1,895,000
Chris Adlam
310.493.7216
www.chrisadlam.com
Incredible Lower Lunada Bay home with 4 bedrooms, office, great indoor/outdoor living spaces and a
large, flat backyard with pool, spa, patios and grass play yards. $2,699,000
Beautiful, contemporary 6 bedroom home in Palos Verdes Estates with ocean views. Over 5400
square feet with open, spacious living spaces. Pool and spa too! $3,199,000
Chris Adlam
310.493.7216
www.chrisadlam.com
Sprawling one level in Palos Verdes Estates with over 5100 square feet and 5 bedrooms.
Huge street-to-street flat lot with tennis court, pool, spa, sauna and more. $3,899,000
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Rolling Hills Estates
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S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L
Palos Verdes Peninsula
Land Conservancy
Terranea Pastoral Garden-to-Table Dinner
An illuminated coastline was the backdrop to an extraordinary evening benefiting the
preservation of the Peninsula’s natural landscape. The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land
Conservancy in partnership with Terranea Resort and Whole Foods Market hosted the
Basque themed alfresco dinner. Using only local ingredients, Terranea’s Executive Chef
Bernard Ibarra created a special menu starting with rosemary sangria cocktails and following
with an organic array of sustainable foods and wine. Co-chair Diana Heffernan described
the sold out event as “the ideal fit for the communal garden-to-table event, where
guests enjoy old friends and meet new ones….”
Terri A. Haack, a member of the Conservancy’s President’s Advisory Council and President
of Terranea Resort spoke to guests saying she was delighted to host this special
evening and that it offered a “unique experience that will benefit and support an important
cause close to all of our hearts - preserving our natural landscape.” Sponsors were entered
to win many prizes including a 2-night get-away at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco
with dinner at the Michelin Star Luce Restaurant. Other prizes included a beautiful
painting by acclaimed plein air artist Dan Dempster and guests also had a chance to win
a pair of Silver Oak reserve wines and a VIP wine tasting for 6 at the Silver Oak Winery.
PHOTOS BY STEPHANIE CARTOZIAN,
KIM D. WEST AND LORI HIRSCH STOKOE
1. Executive Director
Andrea
Vona, Diana
Heffernan-
Schrader, Sharon
Ryan, Terranea
President Terri
Haack.
2. William
Hadley, President
of the Board Dr.
Cassie Jones,
Charlotte and
Allen Ginsburg.
3. Jeralyn Glass,
Jacqueline Glass,
President of the
Board Dr. Cassie
Jones, Jill
Gregerson, Diane
and Jim Staes,
Becky Cool, Don
Tuffli.
4. Becky Cool
and Executive Director
Andrea
Vona.
5. Janet Grothe,
Joelle Arnado,
Susan Fitzhenry,
Jolie Rhinehart.
6. Dan Thomas,
Kevin Kim, David
Dykzeul, William
Hadley, Andrew
DeCristofaro,
Sean Hassett,
John Moffitt.
7. Sharon Ryan,
Chuck Klaus and
Marylyn
Ginsburg-Klaus.
8. Austin and
Brandon Nash.
9. Dimitri and
Leah Bizoumis.
10. Joaquin and
Teresa Madrenas
and Evi and David
Meyer.
11. Diana
Heffernan-
Schrader (far
right) enjoying
sunset with
guests.
12. Steve
Napolitano,
Dimitri and Leah
Bizoumis,
Rebekah Kim.
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30 Peninsula • December 2016
LILY LIANG PRESENTS:
3300 Palos Verdes Dr. W., Rancho Palos Verdes
5 Bedrooms, 10 Bathrooms, 12,270 Sq.ft., Lot Size 1.12 acres
2990 Twin Harbors View Dr., Rancho Palos Verdes
4 Bedrooms + Library, 6 Bathrooms, 6,208sq. Ft, Spacious Media Room,
Bonus Room/Gym,Huge Wine Cellar
12 San Miguel, Rolling Hills Estates
www.12SanMiguel.com
$3,599,000, 5 Bedrooms + Library 6 Bathrooms, 4,500+ sq ft, Approx.
20,000 sq ft lot, Catalin & Ocean Views, Salt water pool/spa & waterfall
5288 Willow Wood Rd., Rolling Hills Estates
www.lilyliang.com
$1,099,000, 4bdrm, 2ba, 1,971 sq ft, Lot Size 9,185 sq ft
Single level home within close proximity to schools & shopping
32 Peninsula • December 2016
PALOS VERDES’ FINEST HOMES & ESTATES FOR OVER 30 YEARS!
COMING
SOON
Monte Malaga, Palos Verdes Estates
$2,399,000, Price includes lot with plans only, 13,000+ sq. ft. lot. 5,000 sq. ft.
Interior, Infinity pool, Ocean/Coastline/Redondo to Malibu Views
605 Paseo del Mar, Palos Verdes Estates
$28,000/Mo., 6 Bedrooms, 9 Bathrooms, 6,800+ sq ft, 33,000 sq ft
lot, Landmark Oceanfront Chateau , 1 year Lease
FOR
LEASE
FOR
LEASE
1724 Esplanade #B, Redondo Beach
$10,000/Mo., 3 Beds, 4 Baths, 1,830 sq. ft., Fully furnished,
1-year Min lease
24 Narcisa Dr., Rancho Palos Verdes
$7,500/mo., 1825 sq.ft., Resort living at it’s best! Fully Furnished and
Boasting incredible ocean & Catalina Island views!
550 Silver Spur Rd. Suite 240, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90275
December 2016 •
S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L
Glass receives Freedom4U
George and Etty Allen Award
L
ong time Peninsula volunteer and benefactor Jacky Glass was presented
with the George and Etty Allen Lifetime Achievement Award
during the recent Releasing Youth Into Purpose dinner hosted by Freedom4You
at the Palos Verdes Country Club. In addition to Freedom4You,
Glass volunteers for dozens of other charity and community programs,
including H.E.L.P., the Norris Theater, St. Peter’s by the Sea and the Los
Angeles Philharmonic.
Freedom4U helps parents and teens move towards healthier living and
away from substance abuse, using, peer mentors, healthy activities and
service learning. “The unique thing about our program is we will involve
kids in healthy social activities and our service-learning projects,” said
director George Allen.
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1. Jacky Glass receives the George
and Etty Allen Lifetime Achievement
Award from Greg Allen.
2. Freedom4U leadership teens share
their experiences.
3. The Freedom4U Teen band.
4. Jamie Born and friends.
5. Dr. Greg Allen, Dr. Charles Park, Dr.
Nicole Wesley, Mitzi Cress and Jens
Brandt.
6. Jesse Allen, Joanne Culverhouse,
Roma Mistry, Greg and Christine Allen.
7. Freedom4U Board Members
Michael Kroll, Greg Allen, Lauren
Forbes, Ashton Smith, Suzy
Zimmerman, Peter Boesen and John
Corrales.
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34 Peninsula • December 2016
Enjoy The Holidays in a Spectacular Lake Arrowhead Estate
160 Cedar Ridge Drive
9 Bedrooms, 11 Bathrooms, 16,000 sq ft
$4,925,000
Spectacular French Chateau located in the gated enclave of multi-million dollar homes in Cedar Ridge Estates. Nestled on 2.73 acres
of wooded land, this private property showcases a main residence, separate apt, and a guest house. featuring 9 ensuite bedrooms,
11 baths, 9 fireplaces, and an elevator. Mature cedar and pine trees provide an ideal setting for this impeccably maintained, elegant
remodeled estate. A Magnificent Grate Room with 25 Ft. ceiling, grand fireplace and a gorgeous hand painted mural is the focal
point of this stunning French Manor. Spacious kitchen features a banquette, stainless steel appliances and a butler's pantry. All the
bedrooms are generous in size and beautifully decorated. Retreat to the gentleman's den w/bar and spiral staircase leading up to
the 2nd floor library. A child's fantasy bedroom has 12 built-in bunk beds and an adorable kids bathroom. On the lower level is a
separate apartment w/ 2 bedrooms and kitchen; a wine cellar, gym, and a 3/4 bath. A Fairy Tale guest house offers all the amenities
of a small home w/ 2 car garage. Grounds include an outdoor kitchen, children's playground, fruit trees and several areas to enjoy
the amazing vistas. Lake and beach privileges are included. It's a castle in the Forest.
Shirley Walters
Coldwell Banker- Redlands
Office: (909) 748-5130
Email: shirleywalters@coldwellbanker.com
Bre # 01827379
Jane Angel
Previews Property Specialist
Coldwell Banker- PV Beach Cities
Cell: (310)292-2290
Office: (310)791-6022
Email: jangel@coldwellbanker.com
BRE # 01272591
S P O T L I G H T O N T H E H I L L
And the GRAMMY
Goes to…
Torrance Memorial patrons
The Torrance Memorial Foundation hosted
a dinner party at the GRAMMY Museum
at LA Live to recognize its foundation patrons.
More than 100 guests spent the evening viewing
the exhibits featuring the clothing, work
and career milestones of legends such as The
Beatles, Michael Jackson and The Rolling
Stones, as well as trying their hand at being
rock stars with various hands-on exhibits.
After taking in the displays, donors enjoyed
dinner and wine on the museum’s rooftop terrace
with spectacular views of the Los Angeles
skyline. Craig Leach, president and CEO
of Torrance Memorial, thanked patrons for
their support of the medical center. For
more information on the Torrance
Memorial Patrons program, visit
torrancememorial.org/giving.
1. Sandy VandenBerge, Kim
Vallee and Song Klein.
2. Nadine Bobit and Pam Crane.
3. Adam Wagner and Sandra
Sanders.
4. Pam Crane, Sally Eberhard and
Judy Sipes.
5. Dan and Marie Stefferud, Barbara
Bentley, Phil and Christina
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Pavesi and David Bentley.
6. Scott and Krissie Douglas,
Greg and Grant Geiger.
7. Liz and Rich Umbrell, Heidi
Hoffman M.D. and Erin Hoffman.
8. Christie Otis, Russ Varon,
Shintia Lynch, Marshall Varon,
Paula Bold and Ed Bold, M.D.
9. David and Ann Buxton.
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10. Del McCulloch, Diana and
Van Honeycutt, Bobbie and George
Farinsky.
11. Kim Vallee, Judy Gassner,
Song Klein, Buddy Parks, Carla
Zanino and Kathleen Parks.
PHOTOS BY DEIDRE DAVIDSON
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The Gift of Luxury
A Sparkling Holiday
Inspired by nature and the beauty of
the world around us, Yael's signature
style blends vintage with classical and
modern influences.
Medawar Fine Jewelers
810C Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates
(310) 544-0052
medawarfinejewelers.com
Give the gift of
Terranea, with indulgent
experiences for friends
and family members including
resort stays, spa
treatments, golf, outdoor
adventures, dining, and
more.
Terranea Resort
100 Terranea Way,
Rancho Palos Verdes
(866) 990-7289
Terranea.com
A Gift of Beauty
Purchase a gift certificate at Celibre Medical Laser
Dermatology in November or December and receive
10% off the value.
Celibre
23211 Hawthorne Blvd., Second Floor, Torrance
(800) 689-1571. Celibre.com/beach
Always a delicious gift!
Admiral Risty Gift Certificates
Available in any denomination and they
never expire.
Stop in or call Wayne or Tim today!
The Admiral Risty
(310) 377-0050
www.admiralristy.com
31250 P.V. Drive West • Rancho Palos Verdes
The Magic of Mova
Luxurious, eco-friendly
globes that channel energy
from ambient light and
the earth’s magnetic field
to rotate continuously on
their own.
Nantucket Crossing
867 Silver Spur Rd, Rolling Hills Estates
(310) 377-7201
nantucketcrossing.com
Celebrate the Season with books
by Mary Jo Hazard
The Peacocks of Palos Verdes, P is for Palos Verdes and
Palo’s World
Available at Pointe Discovery at Terranea, Nantucket
Crossing, Point Vicente Interpretive Center and on
Amazon.com
MaryJoHazard.com
Info@MaryJoHazard.com
Morgan’s Jewelers
Palos Verdes
Peninsula Shopping
Center 50-C
Rolling Hills Estates
(310) 541-2052
Morgansjewelerspv.com
Give the Gift of
Authentic Italian Cooking
at Deluca Trattoria this Holiday Season.
Gift certificates, private dining available
for family, business, social events.
Lunch & Dinner.
Deluca Trattoria
225 Richmond Street
Downtown El Segundo
(310) 640-7600
Delucapasta.com
ift Guide
The Perfect Place
for your Holiday Parties & Special Events!
Join Us Dec. 24-25 and New Year’s Eve -
for party, live music and dancing!
La Rive Gauche
320 Tejon Place
Palos Verdes Estates
(310) 378-0267
LaRiveGauchePV.com
42 Peninsula • December 2016
Musical Gifts for Everyone
Give a gift that lasts a lifetime. Music
Rhapsody has instruments and lessons
for all ages. Perfect gifts for teachers
too! Learn more at MusicRhapsody.com.
Music Rhapsody
1603 Aviation Blvd. #1, Redondo Beach
(310) 376-8646
MusicRhapsody.com
Morgan’s Jewelers Palos Verdes
Peninsula Shopping Center 50-C
Rolling Hills Estates
(310) 541-2052
Morgansjewelerspv.com
Give the Gift of Travel
Give that special someone a memorable trip
from custom vacations to exotic cruises or simply
a flight to a favorite destination. Travel is
happiness and one of the only things to buy that
makes a person richer.
We are an accredited full service Travel Agency
in the South Bay.
Pacific Heights Travel
Your Holiday Travel Planner
2204 Elm Ave., Manhattan Beach
(310) 802-0066 or PacificHeightsTrvl@gmail.com
PacificHeightsTravelAgency.com
The Gift of Relaxation
Give the gift of a
therapeutic,
stress relieving, relaxing
thai massage
Men / Women / Couples
Body Scrub, Swedish, Sports, Thai
$60/hr * $10 OFF
Original Thai Massage
7 days 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. * Visa & MC
(310) 539-6097
2231 Lomita Blvd, Lomita
Holiday 2016
Mama Terano
Don’t forget about Mama Terano for
your last minute to-go food.
We can fill in the voids or do the
whole thing! Call us for details.
Mama Terano
815 Deep Valley Dr., Rolling Hills Estates
(310) 377-5757
Mama Terano Cafe
36 Malaga Cove Plaza, Palos Verdes Estates
(310) 375-6767
Mamaterano.com
Timeless treasure
Hermês watches embody French
elegance and most are inspired by
timeless styling of equestrian and
nautical themes.
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50th Anniversary
Gala
Peninsula Symphony Orchestra
The Peninsula Symphony Orchestra celebrated
its 50th anniversary of presenting
free concerts to the community during a dinner
served by the Red Onion at the Rolling
Hills home of Richard Colyear. Dinner was
followed by a concert of wind instruments
conducted by maestro Gary Berkson. Guests
enjoyed strolling through the Versailles-style
gardens and viewing the orchid greenhouse,
roosters, doves and horses, including a
Friesian show horse.
Maestro Joseph Valenti who lived in Palos
Verdes Estates, founded the orchestra at the
Unitarian Church on Monte Malaga Drive
during a rainy night in 1967. His goal was to
provide music for the betterment of the community
and have the orchestra achieve national
prominence. John Williams, the
organization’s president, has been instrumental
in securing continuing support from the
community.
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3. Anne and Ray Destabelle.
4. Terri Zinkiewicz and president John Williams.
5. Jackie Crowley, Eugene McAdoo, Wayne Lynch
and Martha Mathes.
6. Betty and Jack Reider.
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8. Jean Shriver, Tom Redfield and Ann Buxton.
9. Lisa Valenti Barnes and Marion Ruth.
10. Host Richard Colyear, Terry Dallam and Cliff
Meidl.
11. Marion Ruth.
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CALENDAR OF COMMUNITY EVENTS
Compiled by Mary Jane Schoenheider
You can email your event to our address: penpeople@easyreadernews.com
All submissions must be sent by the 10th of each month prior to event taking place.
Ongoing
Annual Holiday Boutique
Having a hard time finding that gift for the person that has everything? Finish
up your last minute shopping at the Assistance League of San Pedro-South
Bay’s Holiday Boutique. The boutique has a selection of unique gift items that
will appeal to everyone on your list. All proceeds benefit local philanthropic
programs. Sale Hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekdays, and 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturdays.
Now through January 4, 2017. 1441 W. 8th Street (Weymouth Corners),
San Pedro. (310) 832-8355 ext. 221.
Saturday-Sunday, November 19-20
Nutcracker
Peninsula School of Performing Arts performs The Nutcracker. Saturday, 2
and 7 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. Norris Theater, 27570 Norris Center Dr., Rolling
Hills Estates. (310) 544-0403 x221 or pspadance.com.
Saturday, November 19
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Part of the PV Land Conservancy’s Beauty in Nature series, “Unbranded” is
a film about 16 mustangs and four men riding Mexico to Canada. The documentary
tracks the fresh-out-of-college buddies as they set out on the adventure
of a lifetime. 4 p.m. $10. 18 and under free. Tickets at pvplc.org or (310)
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541-7613. Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W 6th St, San Pedro.
Promenade Tree lighting
Enjoy local youth talent from Amuse Music Center and Elite Dance, sip hot
cocoa and meet a surprise guest. Free. 5 p.m. Promenade on the Peninsula,
550 Deep Valley Dr., Rolling Hills Estates.
Saturday, November 26
Guided Nature Walk
Sponsored by PVP Land Conservancy. 10 - 11 a.m. White Pt Nature Preserve,
San Pedro. Information (310) 541-7613 or RSVP at: pvplc.org.
Sunday, November 27
Another ‘Cracker
Elite Dance Studio presents Twisted Nutcracker. 3 p.m. Warner Grand Theater,
478 West 6th Street, San Pedro. elitedancepac.com for tickets, info.
Tuesday, November 29
ACT II Back to Broadway auditions
Act II, a support group for Palos Verdes Performing Arts, is looking for talented
performers to sing and dance to favorites from Broadway musicals at its 31st
annual variety show. Auditions for “Back To Broadway” will be held at the
Harlyne J. Norris Pavilion. Appointments for both solos and groups are being
taken for times between 5:30 to 10 p.m. Participants should choose music
from a popular Broadway musical to tie in with this year’s theme, and come
prepared with a three minute act of dancing, singing or a combination of a
special talent. An accompanist will be available. This season’s show is set for
March 3-5, 2017 at the Norris Theatre. This year’s production will be in a different
format, with audience members invited to participate in some of the
numbers. For more information call co-producer Maureen Brugh at (310) 375-
3328. 501 Indian Peak Road in Rolling Hills.
Torrance Memorial’s Annual Holiday Festival
TMMC begins its 33rd annual Holiday Festival fundraiser. The festival features
more than 36 themed, decorated trees, live entertainment, the South Bay’s
largest holiday boutique, an opportunity drawing, children's activities and a
food court. Tree themes include “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter,” “The
Magic of Oz,” and “Floating Through the Decades,” featuring award-winning
floats by the Torrance Rose Float Association. $5. Hours: Tuesday, Nov. 29,
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Nov. 30, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday, Dec.
1, Saturday, Dec. 3, Sunday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Senior Days: (free for
seniors and those with limited mobility) Wednesday, Nov. 30 and Thursday,
Dec. 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Community Service Group Night: ($2 admission
for nonprofit and community service group members) Thursday, Dec. 1, 4 to
9 p.m. Torrance Memorial Medical Center, 3330 Lomita Blvd., Torrance. For
more information, call (310) 517-4606 or visit TorranceMemorial.org/holidayfestival.
Torrance Memorial’s Festival Fashion Show
Cocktail and evening dresses by Kevan Hall Designs, as well as rare and original
fur fashions and designs by Edwards-Lowell Furs Beverly Hills will be
shown. 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., $125 per person. For tickets call (310) 517-
4606 or visit TorranceMemorial.org/holidayfestival.
Friday-Saturday, December 2-3
PV Art Center Holiday Art Sale
Friday, 1 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reception Friday December
2 from 5 to 8 p.m. with holiday entertainment and refreshments hosted by
The Circle. Since 1975, Palos Verdes Art Center has held an art sale to welcome
the Holiday Season. This year's PVAC Student and Instructor Holiday
Sale will feature ceramics, glass, textiles and jewelry, as well as painting,
drawing and prints. A percentage of the proceeds funds much needed equip-
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St. John Fisher Catholic Church
Christmas Eve, December 24
Masses in Church and
Parish Activity Center
4:00 pm Church
4:00 pm Parish Activity Center
6:00 pm Church
8:00 pm Church
Midnight Mass Church
Carols begin at 11:30 pm
Christmas Day, December 25
All Masses in Church
7:30 am
9:00 am
10:45 am
12:30 pm
No evening Mass
Please join us as we celebrate the
Birth of Our Lord
Corner of Crest and Crenshaw
Rancho Palos Verdes 310-377-5571 www.sjf.org
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ment for the PVAC studios. Palos
Verdes Art Center, 5504 West Crestridge
Road, Rancho Palos Verdes.
(310) 541-2479. info@pvartcenter.org.
Friday, December 2
Seaside Beaders
A special interest group of the Embroiderers'
Guild of America is meeting
at 9:30 a.m., at St. Francis
Episcopal Church, 2200 Via Rosa,
Palos Verdes Estates. This will be a
"catch up" meeting to finish projects
started earlier in the year. Visitors
are welcome and you may bring
your own project to work on. For
more information, please call Idele
(310 540-6104 or visit our web
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Banning Luncheon
Victorian Christmas Luncheon in the
Stagecoach Barn, 11:30 a.m. -
1:30 p.m. Elegant plated lunch, holiday
entertainment and special
sneak preview of Victorian-decorated
Museum. Banning Museum,
401 East ‘M’ Street, Wilmington.
Call (310) 548-2005 for tickets and
reservations.
TMMC Festival Gala
The Festival Night Dinner Gala will
include silent and live auctions. 5:30
to 10 p.m. $300 per person/$550
per couple. Bid online from November
9 through 22 by visiting biddingforgood.com/holidayfestival.To
make reservations to attend any of
the events or for Opportunity Drawing
tickets, call the Foundation at
(310) 517-4703. For recorded general
event information, call (310)
517-4606 or visit TorranceMemorial.org/holidayfestival.
Saturday-Sunday,
December 3-4
Victorian Celebration
Kick off the holiday season in grand
style at the Banning Museum’s Annual
Victorian Christmas Celebration
and Open House! Event admission
is free. Visitors will enjoy period entertainment,
tours of the Museum
decorated in holiday splendor, refreshments,
a children’s craft, a
blacksmith, a horse-drawn trolley
ride between The Banning Museum
and Drum Barracks Civil War Museum
as well as local food and craft
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vendors. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. 401 East M Street, Wilmington.
(310) 548-7777 or visit Thebanningmuseum.org.
Saturday, December 3
Santa breakfast
Treat your family to a personal visit with Santa at Ruby’s Diner, 8:30-10:30
a.m. Bring your camera! Seating is limited. Adults $15, children under 12
free. Cash or check only. (310) 544-7829. Promenade on the Peninsula, 550
Deep Valley Dr., Rolling Hills Estates.
Sea salt seminar
Attendees will enjoy an intimate workshop, salt pairing, and wine, as they
learn about the Terranea’s sea salt harvesting process with award-winning
chefs. 10 a.m. Sea Salt Conservatory, located adjacent to the Palos Verdes
Ballroom Terrace. $65 per person, advance reservations required. For more
information contact (310) 265-2885. 100 Terranea Way, Rancho Palos
Verdes.
Sunday, December 4
Family Hike
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy family hike with their naturalist
guide to discover habitat, wildlife and more on an easy hike up the canyon
with amazing views of the city. Free. All ages welcome. For more information,
contact (310) 547-0862 or RSVP at: pvplc.org, Events & Activities. First Saturday
Family Hike at George F Canyon, 9 a.m.
Holiday boat parade
More than 60 vessels of all shapes and sizes will participate in the 54th Annual
Los Angeles Harbor Holiday
Afloat Parade starting at 6 p.m. in
the Port of Los Angeles Main Channel.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
has been invited to serve as this
year’s Grand Marshal to preside
over this spectacular display of boats
celebrating the nation’s largest international
trade gateway. laharborholidayafloat.org.
Bach’s Magnifcat
Johann Sebastian Bach’s first major
liturgical composition with a Latin
text, written in 1723 for Christmas
Day. Evening will culminate in celebratory
Christmas carols with audience
participation. Celebrate this
season with the JMN Singers, accompanied
by a professional instrumental
ensemble and operatic
soloists, fill the hall with joyous
sound! 7:30 p.m. Tickets $20-$40.
Norris Theater, 27570 Norris Center
Dr., Rolling Hills Estates. (310)
544-0403 x221 or jmnsingers.com.
Lunch with Santa
Torrance Memorial’s Lunch with
Santa will include face painting,
crafts, clowns and photos with Santa
(bring your camera). Price includes
a ticket to Torrance Memorial’s 33rd
annual Holiday Festival, which features
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Bay’s largest holiday boutique or in the Children’s Marketplace or Senior’s
Marketplace for one-of-a-kind stocking stuffer items under $5. 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. $15 per person (minors must be supervised by a paid adult). Torrance
Memorial Medical Center, Richard B. Hoffman, M.D., Health Conference Center,
3330 Lomita Blvd., Torrance. Call (310) 517-4606 or visit TorranceMemorial.org/holidayfestival
to purchase tickets or for more information.
San Pedro holiday parade
Enjoy a festive holiday extravaganza beginning at 1 p.m. Parade travels up
Pacific Ave. at 13th St., turns right on Sixth St and ends at Palos Verdes St.
Free. For more info, spholidayparade.com.
Holiday Concert Wonder and Joy
Celebrate the season with the Palos Verdes Symphonic Band’s annual holiday
concert, Wonder and Joy, at 5 p.m. in the Frances Young Hall at the South
Coast Botanic Garden. The program consists of traditional Christmas, winter,
and Hanukkah favorites, including Morton Lauridsen’s beautiful O Magnum
Mysterium. The band is especially honored to feature guest musician James
Miller, Associate Principal Trombone with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Tickets
are only $10 each for adults, with free admission for children 12 years of age
and under, and are available in the Botanic Garden courtyard just prior to
concert time. 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Speaker series
Kalliopi: Pranic Healing Workshop - Self Healing & Recharging through the
11 Chakras. Noon - 1 p.m. Wayfarers Chapel Speaker Series, 5755 Palos
Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verdes. (310) 377-1650 ext.222.
Celebration of the season
Enjoy lively entertainment, holiday crafts for all ages and spirited music from
local entertainment at Terranea’s tree lighting ceremony. Share your holiday
spirit and bring an unwrapped gift to donate to Toys for Tots. 5 p.m. Complimentary
with toy donation. Catalina
Terrace, 100 Terranea Way, Rancho
Palos Verdes. For information, (310)
265-2800.
Sat., December 10
Guided Nature Walk
By Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
at Filiorum Reserve, 9 a.m.
Walk Jack’s Hat Trail on this 191-
acre property linking the Three Sisters
and Portuguese Bend Reserves.
This wildlife corridor boasts beautiful
ocean views and native habitat. This
is a strenuous walk. Park on the
street on Ocean Terrace Drive near
Pacifica Drive, RPV. Free and open
to the public. For more information,
contact (310) 541-7613 ext. 201 or
sign up at pvplc.org/ _events/NatureWalkRSVP.asp.
Volunteer Day at White
Point Nature Preserve
Help beautify the native demonstration
garden and surrounding habitat,
9 a.m. – noon. Sign up at
pvplc.volunteerhub.com.
Family Storytime
Stories, songs and more for all at the
White Point Nature Education Center,
10 a.m. Share the joy of story
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telling with your children and introduce them to the beauty of our natural surroundings.
Retired Children’s Librarian Carla Sedlacek will read stories and
lead activities featuring nature themes using exciting props and songs. Bring
the whole family! Free. 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro. RSVP at:
pvplc.org, Events & Activities.
Holiday Ice Spectacular
Group and solo performances, all ages and levels. 5 p.m. Promenade Ice
Chalet, 550 Deep Valley Dr., RHE. (310) 541-6630.
Nutcracker, too
San Pedro City Ballet returns with a holiday season tradition, featuring their
corps de ballet and some of San Pedro's ballet stars of the future. Truly a magical
experience for the entire family. 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets $19-$39. Warner
Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro. SanPedroCityBallet.org.
Sunday, December 11
Annual Christmas Pageant
Neighborhood Church will be presenting the annual Christmas Pageant at 6
p.m. and again at 8 p.m. Music by the Bell Choir and caroling will begin at
5:30 p.m. in the Church Sanctuary where the Christmas journey begins. Everyone
is invited to attend this traditional Christmas event retelling the Christmas
story enacted in picturesque tableaus set in scenic locations throughout the
property of the beautiful Neighborhood Church. Be stirred by the Annunciation
and awed by the Christmas star and angels. Visit the shepherds overlooking
their flocks by a fireside surrounded by animals in a stunning pastoral setting.
Be turned away at the Inn. View the Magi in their glorious attire, bearing gifts
to the blessed newborn Jesus. See Herod’s Court in all its decadence and
grandeur, and finally end your journey at the scene of new hope, the Nativity
set in a cliffside grotto. This is an event suitable for the entire family and is offered
each year free to the public. A
Christmas offering of canned goods
for a local food bank will be collected.
The Neighborhood Church is
located at 415 Paseo del Mar, Palos
Verdes Estates. For information call
(310) 200-1798.
Nutcracker redux
San Pedro City Ballet’s holiday tradition.
A magical experience for the
entire family. 2 p.m. Tickets $19-
$39. Warner Grand Theater, 478
West 6th Street, San Pedro. SanPedroCityBallet.org.
Swinging holiday
A Big Band Christmas- featuring
Gene Krupa Tribute Orchestra. 2
p.m. Norris Theater, 27570 Norris
Center Dr., Rolling Hills Estates.
(310) 544-0403. palos verdesperformingarts.com
Holiday Chorale concert
Los Cancioneros Master Chorale
Holiday Concert: A Joyful Holiday
Festival. 7:30 p.m. Tickets De
Giebler, (310) 779-3072. Armstrong
Theater, 3330 Civic Center
Way, Torrance.
Nature Walk
Hosted by Los Serenos De Pt. Vicente
at Abalone Cove Park. 1 p.m. 5970
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Dinner with Carols
Admiral Risty Restaurant hosts tableside
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Songs performed by the Los Cancioneros
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Friday, December 16
Full Moon Hike
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The Palos Verdes Art Center
hosts exhibits by three artists
working with noir themes
through December 31. Los Angeles
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Saturday, December 17
Peninsula holiday celebration
The merchants of the Peninsula Center host a holiday celebration for the whole
family, noon to 3 p.m. Enjoy Santa photos, a DJ spinning holiday music, face
painting and a wheel of fortune for prizes! Silver Spur Rd. at Hawthorne Blvd.
Located across from the Baskin Robbins. For more info: peninsulashoppigcenter.com.
Holiday concert
Join Maestro Steven Allen Fox and the Golden State Pops Orchestra for a spirited
and sublime performance of holiday film music and traditional favorites.
8 p.m. Warner Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro. gspo.com.
Sunday, Dec. 18
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Tuesday-Friday,
December 20-23
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A decade of lease negotiations nearly
forced Rolling Hills Country Club to
close permanently and did force it to close
for two years. Now it is awaiting the
opening of a new golf course that may
rival the best in the world
Golf course designer David Kidd during a visit last month to
Rolling Hills Country Club. Photo by David Fairchild
Rolling Hills Country Club general manager Greg Young, club president Aubie Goldenberg
and Chadmar Group builder Chuck Lande. Photo by Kevin Cody
Kidd
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In April 2014, builder Chuck
Lande invited golf course designer
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Hills Country Club golf course. That
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Washington, had been named
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modeled after Scotland’s St. Andrews,
golfing’s birthplace, and the equally
historic Scottish course Gleneagles,
where Kidd grew up as the son of the
golf course’s superintendent.
Lande grew up in Rancho Palos
Verdes in a home his mother still lives
in. He attended Chadwick School and
USC and is the founder of The Chadmar
Group, named after his son Chad
and daughter Marisa. Chadmar built
the Grand Del Mar Golf Club, its 134
fairway homes and the neighboring,
five-star Grand Del Mar Hotel.
Lande planned to build 114 fairway
homes at Rolling Hills and wanted
Kidd to design the club’s new golf
course.
“I looked at the practice range and
thought, Oh, this may not be all I had
hoped for. It was, not the worst I’d
seen, but close,” Kidd would recall.
“It was obvious the course had been
cobbled together over generations
and not a lot of thought had been
given to the overall composition.”
“I was on the point of thanking
Chuck for the opportunity and leaving
when we reached the highest
point of the course and I was able to
look down into the quarry. It wasn’t
a rock quarry. It was a sand quarry.”
“Sand is the elixir of life to a golf
course designer. Knowing we had
hundreds of acres of sand next to the
course meant we had the sacred in-
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The clubhouse is designed by architect Bob Altevers, whose other golf course clients
Club. It will offer fine and casual dining rooms and a banquet room, ballroom,
gredient to make a great course, ” Kidd said.
Kidd was also attracted by the opportunity to build a course overlooking
Los Angeles, adding views of a third global city to TPC Stonebrae, overlooking
San Francisco and Beaverbrook, overlooking London.
A third appeal, which Kidd alluded to during a recent visit to Rolling
Hills, was the opportunity to quiet his critics.
‘I’ve heard a few green-eyed monsters say my courses are successful because
I get great sites.” That criticism wouldn’t apply to the Rolling Hills
site because Kidd planned to level the site, literally.
Into the rough
Kidd was correct in his assessment that the course had been cobbled together.
Rolling Hills Country Club opened in 1963 as a par-3, nine-hole
course squeezed onto 14 acres along Palos Verdes Drive East. A round was
$1.25. In 1972, the members, whose aspirations were apparent in the
club’s name, signed a lease with the neighboring Chandler Sand and Gravel
company for another 66 acres, enabling the course to expand to 18 holes
across 99 acres. The new, 6,112 yard course was designed by Ted Robinson,
from the Arnold Palmer Design Company. It was a traditional parkland
course, with tree-lined fairways, neatly groomed bunkers, rose gardens and
ponds with Palos Verdes flagstone waterfalls dotting the namesake rolling
hills.
In 2000, the Chandler family (no relation to the Los Angeles Times’s
Chandlers) told the club they wanted to sell the 66 acres they had leased
to the club. They also planned to sell the adjacent, 61-acre sand and gravel
quarry, which the family founded in the 1930s. Sand and gravel from the
quarry had been used to build Marineland of the Pacific in 1954. In a precursor
to repurposing, when the park was torn down in 1987, the aquarium’s
concrete was trucked back to the quarry and resold as land fill.
The 66-acre lease ran through 2022. The club had until then to acquire
the property or close.
The purchase promised to be both costly and complicated. Approvals
would need to be obtained not only from the city of Rolling Hills Estates,
but also Torrance (the quarry straddled the Torrance border), three school
districts, six property owners associations, utility companies, environmentalists,
Native Americans and over 20 governmental regulatory agencies,
including the FAA.
In addition, the club’s board needed to convince its 465 equity members
to pay a $40,000 assessment, each, and to continue paying dues during the
two years the club would be closed while a new course and clubhouse
were built.
Over 100 members left. Most resigned rather than attempting to sell their
memberships and pay the $25,000 transfer fee.
Finally, in 2008, at a party at the clubhouse, with the 80-year-old Arnold
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have included PGA West in La Quinta, Pelican Hill in Newport and Lande’s Del Mar
wine cellar, gym and a spa. Rendering courtesy Rolling Hills Country Club
Palmer as guest of honor, a jubilant club president Bruce Steckel announced
that a deal had been reached.
Developer John Laing Homes would acquire the Chandler property. The
city would rezone part of the property for residential development, in exchange
for which Laing would fill in the noxious quarry, eliminating pollution
and traffic from the quarry’s 200 daily truck trips. Torrance would
receive $10 million for allowing its portion of the quarry to be annexed by
Rolling Hills Estates. The country club would receive title to 131 acres, including
the quarry, in exchange for helping the home builder obtain the
necessary entitlements and for building a course that would enhance the
value of the fairway homes.
Rather than being forced to close in 2022, the club was to emerge from
the negotiations with a new, $62 million, 160-acre, Arnold Palmer-designed
golf course and a new 60,000 square foot clubhouse overlooking the course
and the Los Angeles Basin.
The $400 million project was arguably to be the largest residential and
recreational community development in the history of the South Bay and
almost certainly larger than any that will be approved in the future.
“All we were waiting for was for the developer to transfer money to the
escrow account. And then the Great Recession of 2008 hit,” current club
president Aubie Goldenberg said during a recent interview.
“Venerable Irvine developer John Laing Homes, one of the nation's
largest, filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday, joining the growing ranks
of residential builders laid low by the collapse of the housing market,” the
Los Angeles Times reported shortly after the agreement was reached.
Lucky lie
Lande lives in Santa Barbara. But his sister still lives in Palos Verdes.
During the summer of 2013, her son Jake was working in the club’s pro
shop. Jake’s grandmother, on his father’s side, is a founding member of
the club.
One day that summer Jake invited his first cousin Chad, Lande’s son, to
play golf. Between holes, Jake asked Chad why he and his dad didn’t step
in to save the club. Chad, a former financial analyst, was working with his
dad. But he had been unaware of the club’s problem.
“That evening, Chad called me and asked if I knew John Robertson,”
Lande recalled. “I said, ‘Sure. In high school, I worked with John’s sister
at Pat’s Ski and Sport in Riviera Village.’”
Robertson was a third generation Chandler and president of the sand
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Lande’s experience spanned the spectrum, from great success with the
Del Mar course, to a course “put on hold” by the Great Recession in Snow
Creek, Mammoth.
“We built 800 homes in Snow Creek. It had an existing nine hole golf
course that we were going to replace with a new course, along with 600
new homes and a five-star hotel.”
The stalled Snow Creek course had one significant, residual benefit.
Lande met Kidd.
“We worked with Tom Fazio on the Del Mar course. He’s a great golf
course designer. But golf goes through phases. There was a period when
Fazio, Nicklaus and Palmer were the kings. And I’m not saying they aren’t
still. But as far as we’re concerned, David is the king today,” Lande said.
Lande met Kidd through longtime friend and landscape architect David
Howerton, whose San Francisco firm Hart Howerton is doing the landscaping
at Rolling Hills. Howerton worked with Kidd at Bandon Dunes.
Onto the green
Last May, Rolling Hills Country Club held a party to announce that a
new agreement had been reached to build a new golf course, a new clubhouse
and 114 new homes. This time, Kidd was the guest of honor and
Lande the home builder.
“When it’s finished, it will look like it’s been here 100 years,” Kidd told
the members.
It was an audacious promise. Not a blade of grass, not one of the 980
jacaranda, pepper, pine or eucalyptus trees, nor the 100-foot high namesake
rolling hills were to remain of the old course.
Kidd is known for designing “links” courses. Links is a Scottish term that
refers to coastal areas, where the early Scottish golf courses were built.
Any doubt about the club’s commitment to the new plan, was erased by
a YouTube video posted a few days later. The video showed club general
manager Greg Sullivan in his black Dodge Charger, and board member
Kerry Welsh in his midnight blue Tesla Model S, drag racing down the old
number 5 fairway and doing donuts on the green.
“Greg always hated the number 5 hole,” construction superintendent
Bob Vaughey, who was riding in Welsh’s car, says on the video.
Last August, trucks began dumping sand from the quarry at staging areas
around the course while Caterpillar scrapers, commonly used to scrape
coal bowls, began leveling the hills and emptying their 80-ton loads into
the cavernous quarry. Six million cubic yards of dirt would be scooped up
and emptied into the quarry.
Hillside neighbors, behind the white picket fences that border the course,
now wake up to the sun rising over the San Gabriel mountains, east of the
LA Basin. In winter, the view will include snow covered Mount Baldy.
Vaughey describes the new course as “one big tea saucer, or drainage
project.”
“Essentially, that’s what golf courses are. They’re almost always built in
a flood zone.”
To channel the water that flows onto the course from two large canyons
on the western edge, Vaughey’s crews carved barrancas, modeled after the
natural barranca that makes the first hole at the Riviera Country Club,
home of the LA Open, so intimidating.
The barrancas, or arroyos, flow into an irrigation lake, which replenishes
the aquifer, 182 feet beneath the former quarry.
Water rights secured during the negotiations guarantee the club healthy
fairways and greens, regardless of drought conditions. Computerized sprinkler
heads reduce the one million gallons typically required to water an
18 hole course by 60 percent, Lande said.
While the hills were being leveled and the 150-foot deep, 1,000-foot wide
quarry filled, fairway grass was being grown by West Coast Turf, in Thermal
City, near Palm Springs. The company supplies grass for most of the
sports facilities in the west, including the Rose Bowl and Dodger Stadium.
Last month, six to eight West Coast Turf trucks, each carrying 8,000-squarefoot
rolls of turf, began daily deliveries. Groundskeepers unrolled the turf
like carpet, at the rate of a fairway a week.
“Life is short. It would have taken a year to grow the fairways from seed,”
Vaughey said.
He plans to have the course ready for play next June, less than two years
after he did donuts on the number 5 green in Welsh’s Tesla.
The 60,000-square-foot, $35 million clubhouse, clad in Palos Verdes flagstone
and bordered by trimmed, green hedges, is scheduled to open next
58 Peninsula • December 2016
August. It is being built by Suffolk
Construction and was designed
by architect Bob Altevers,
whose other golf course clients
have included PGA West in La
Quinta, Pelican Hill in Newport
and Lande’s Del Mar Club in Del
Mar.
The clubhouse will overlook
seven holes where there was once
a sand and gravel quarry and the
LA basin, beyond. It will offer fine
and casual dining rooms and a banquet
room, ballroom, wine cellar,
gym and a spa. Adjoining the clubhouse
will be tennis, bocceball,
pickleball and basketball courts, a
Junior Olympic-sized pool and a
zero-entry pool.
A 10-acre golf facility will include
a 350-yard driving range that
converts to a 9-hole, par-3 course
whose greens, approaches and
bunkers mimic the 18-hole course.
The clubhouse complex is as important
to the club’s future as the
golf course, Sullivan said. Successful
new golf clubs are increasingly
designed to appeal to families.
Rolling Hills offers non-golfing,
social memberships, which are
crucial to a golf club’s home sales,
Lande said.
“Typically, only 25 percent of
home buyers at a golf club are
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golfers, but almost everyone enjoys swimming, tennis
and dining,” he said.
The new, ranch style homes will be 3,200 to 5,800
square feet on 12,000 square foot lots. Lande said he expects
buyers will be older Peninsula couples who want
more amenities and less home maintenance and young
Beach Cities families who want yards.
Model homes will be completed in December 2017,
Lande said. He declined to disclose the home prices, except
to say they will be priced at market value.
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house and listened to Kidd’s
thoughts on golf course design.
Kidd asked Sullivan his handicap.
Sullivan answered 13.
“Imagine if I designed a 400-yard
hole, with a 100-yard wide fairway,
no bunkers and the cup in the middle
of the green. What do you
think your chances would be of
parring the hole?”
After hesitating a moment, Sullivan
ventured, “50-50.”
“What if I shaped the fairway
like a taco and upped your chances
of par to 60 percent. Wouldn’t that
be more fun to play?” Kidd asked.
“My detractors say I make
courses too easy. But no golf is
easy. Not if 50 percent of the time
a good golfer can’t par an easy
hole,” Kidd said.
Following his success at Bandon
Dunes, Kidd said, he succumbed to
the prevailing wisdom that a golf
designer’s job was to “defend par.”
“The locals call Tetherow in
The Chandler Sand and Gravel pit as it appeared last year, the day an agreement
was announced to fill it in for the new Rolling Hills Country Club golf
course. Photo by Kevin Cody
Bend ‘Deatherow.’ And that’s my home course,” he said. Kidd moved to
Bend, Oregon, shortly after Tetherow opened in 2008, just ahead of the
Great Recession.
“Ego reigned. Harder was better. Every golf designer wanted to brag about
how hard their courses were, making them 8,000 yards long with 24-yard
wide fairways and a slope ratings of 148. (Slope rating is a measure of a
course’s difficulty, with 155 being the maximum difficulty.)
“We were doing what clients wanted and that was generate a maximum
amount of media attention because most were selling houses.”
“Designers talked about ‘Tiger
proofing’ courses because Tiger
made the game look too easy.”
Golf course designer Pete Dye
expressed the then prevailing philosophy
in 2002, when he was
commissioned to design the Trump
National Golf Course, overlooking
the ocean, on the opposite side of
the Peninsula from Rolling Hills.
“The pros are the only people
who like an easy course. And
they’re a bunch of crybabies. And
you can quote me,” Dye said.
Told that his courses are described
as “Dyeabolical,” he shot
back, “Have you ever heard of a
great, easy course? This course will
be tough on players who come out
only once or twice a year. But the
ardent golfer who shoots 95 will
love it. He may curse it, but he’ll
go home to Omaha and tell all his
buddies they’ve got to play it.”
Last year, Trump National was
scheduled to host the PGA Grand
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comments about illegal immigrants.
“In 2008,” Kidd said, “I had an epiphany. Harder is not better. Fun is better.
Why did people love the early courses I designed, when I knew so little?
And why weren’t they returning to play the courses I did 10 years later
when I knew so much more?”
“Golf is already one of the hardest sports there is, and you want me to
make it harder? Imagine if tennis had to be played with wooden rackets
and skiers had to use straight skis.”
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“There’s a saying that courses should be easy to bogey, but difficult to
birdie, which sounds good, but is rarely achieved.”
Welsh mentioned the old adage that golf is 90 percent psychological and
10 percent mental.
Kidd, a 6 handicap, said he learned that early on as a golfer.
“But it took me a long time to understand what that meant for a golf
course architect,” he said. “We’ve been taught that golf is all about intimidation
and playing defense. I’m turning that on its head. I want my courses
to breed confidence. Then golf becomes fun.”
“When you stand at the tee, do you feel confidence, or trepidation? Are
you looking down at that $4 Titleist Pro, thinking ‘I’ll never see it again’?”
“If you hit a rank shot, out of bounds, I can’t help you. But keep it in
bounds and I’ll do my best to keep you playing golf with one ball.”
“Confidence translates into a confident swing. If you played a great round
at Bandon Dunes, it’s not because it’s an easy course. It’s because you
played confidently.”
Kidd traced the divergence between the Scottish links courses he grew
up with and America’s less forgiving parkland courses to the 1933 opening
of Augusta National, the Churchill Downs of golf, with its colorful flower
boxes, tree lined fairways and bright white, egg-shaped bunkers.
“Never was the iron gauntlet of challenge more skillfully concealed in
velvet,” the legendary Bobby Jones said of the course he helped design.
"The architect assumes the role of defender against the golfer attacking the
course," he wrote in “Golf by Design”.
“Every April, golfers watched the Augusta Masters on their color TVs
and dusted off their clubs. Groundskeepers looked at Augusta and thought,
‘That’s my benchmark,’” Kidd said.
“Then Bandon Dunes opened and American golfers were able to experience
the golf I grew up with — its wiry grasses, multiple colors, imperfect
nature.”
“I spent my childhood at St. Andrews and Gleneagles. That’s the only
golf I knew.”
“When I came to Bandon Dunes to meet with (owner) Mike Kaiser, I had
never played a Pete Dye, an Arnold Palmer, a Jack Nicklaus or a Tom Fazio
course.
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“I knew Kaiser had already talked to Nicklaus
and Fazio and didn’t think I had a chance. So I
told him what I thought, that he should keep it
simple because the land was already so good. A
few weeks later, he called and asked, ‘Do you really
believe what you said?’”
“He thought golf had gone down a course it
wasn’t meant to go down and he wanted someone
unencumbered by American golf’s overcontrolled
and overspending look.”
“So, he hired someone who didn’t know
enough to screw it up.”
Kidd was 27. As he had proposed, he left the
relatively flat, nearly treeless site largely alone,
wrapping the fairways around the brown sand
bunkers that had always been there.
When Bandon Dunes opened in 1999 it triggered
a revolution in golf course design in the
U.S.
“Whatever else I achieve, I believe Bandon
Dunes marked a turning point in my life and I
believe it marked a turning point in golf in America.
Sophisticated American golfers already understand
that,” Kidd said.
Like Bandon Dunes, Rolling Hills’ fairways will
be defined by strips of tall grass rather than trees.
Its bunkers will be the brown sand that has always
been there.
“The fairways are very sinuous,” he said. “I
want you to be able to hit the ball high and wide
and still be able to find it.”
When asked what quality makes a great golf
designer, Kidd answered, “Visualization. You
must be able to paint in your mind’s eye something
that doesn’t exist.”
Lande’s contract called for grading the site to
within 18 inches of Kidd’s specifications.
At that point, Kidd said, “Course design
changes from an engineering exercise to a lot of
hand waving, flag planting and foot dragging [to
outline the bunkers and greens].”
“The trick is to make the course look as random
as nature. It’s whimsy that excites golfers. If it
looks engineered, it’s not cool.”
“I admire Tom Fazio. His courses are beautiful,
but too perfect. Pete Dye is not so perfect, but
he’s kind of evil. I’m aiming for something in between.”
Kidd said he played Trump National and
walked off after the 12th Hole. “It was like going
to the dentist,” he said.
“People look at the old Scottish courses and ask,
why is there a hump in the fairway? It’s there because
it was there. No one shaped it. My challenge
here is to make features look like they were
there when they weren’t. I’m having to engineer
randomness.
“Luis, who’s designing the bunkers doesn’t play
golf. He’s an artist. I let him do his thing. He built
a bunker with a grass hump in the middle.
“I keep telling Greg to stop telling people we
filled in the quarry and leveled the hills. I want
them to look at the course and think it’s always
been that way.”
The group asked Kidd how their course would
measure up to other Los Angeles area courses.
He responded by speaking admiringly of Riviera,
in Pacific Palisades, whose 1926 design is
largely unchanged and possesses some of the
characteristics of a links course.
He also spoke admiringly of Los Angeles Country
Club’s newly redesigned North Course.
“I’d love it if comparisons were made between
our course and LA North. To be spoken of in the
same breath as Gil Hanse would be cool. Gil
studied aerial photos from the ‘20s of George
Thomas’s original design and paid homage to it.
I hope 100 years from now, people will do that
with this course.”
Then Kidd disclosed his hopes for the new
Rolling Hills course.
“It stands a chance to be one of the best courses
not only in Los Angeles, but maybe in the world,”
he said.
Presumably, he was including Bandon Dunes,
with which it will share many characteristics and
one notable exception.
Bandon Dunes is a privately owned pay by the
round course that hosts 150,000 rounds a year.
The nearby airport is the busiest private airport
in the Northwest. Rolling Hills’ 465 members will
never have trouble getting a tee time on their
David Kidd course. Nor is the nearby Torrance
Airport, the reason the new course needed FAA
approval, likely to be impacted.
As the conversation wound down, Kidd was
asked how difficult he thought their course
would be.
“I want the slope rating to be in the 115 to 120
range. More than 120 is too much,” he said. (113
is considered average difficulty).
“I want your pro to think he can shoot a 59. I
don’t want him to actually shoot a 59. I just want
him to think he can. And maybe he will, if he
holes every putt.” PEN
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Chef Tim Wood prepares California Kurobuta pork shoulder with grated fresh truffle. Photo by Stephanie Cartozian
“We are venturing into uncharted waters with different flavors and textures…” -- Terranea Chef Bernard Ibarra
Most of the people who attended the Third Annual Farm-to-Terranea
Celebration of Food and Wine at Terranea last month probably
didn’t give much thought to the way that the event was put together.
You just bring together a lot of good food and beverages and turn
chefs and sommeliers loose on it, and people will have a great time, won’t
they?
Anyone who has ever managed a large event knows otherwise. Executive
Chef Bernard Ibarra mused thoughtfully over the breakdown of traditional
ideas about pairing food and drink.
“People no longer just listen to authority figures about what we should
and should not like. We are venturing into uncharted waters with different
flavors and textures, and leaving it up to ourselves to see if we like it or not.
It would be arrogant of me to try to change people’s minds, but I can expose
them to what is out there.”
Resort Wine Director Szymon Piechaczek agreed and gave an example,
based on one of the dinners on the first evening. That evening was called
“A Study Of Pork,” and featured five chefs. Each was given a different cut
of pork and challenged to serve it in a way that accented its best qualities.
As wine director, Szymon provided both traditional and unexpected offerings.
“I do want people to experience a new approach to a food and wine festival,
but it’s a holistic approach. Some people are so guided by tradition
that they never think of experimenting. For the Study of Pork we provide
wines that can all work and let them find the one that they really like. One
of the wines is Mumm Napa sparkling wine, which is not what you usually
think of with pork, but it has the citrus and acidity to cut through the fat
content.”
A Champagne-style wine with pork? The resort’s Beverage Director Aloys
Scheer was involved with an even more unusual event.
“Our Japanese whiskey dinner begins with a cocktail and moves on to include
tastings of the spirit, neat. The menu is predominantly seafood in an
Asian style, which works with these soft-spoken whiskies. This is an extension
of something we have done before at the resort, introducing people
who think of liquors and cocktails just as after-dinner items to the ways
they can be part of a meal.”
One theme that runs through the event is the idea of using local products,
which is possible to a degree that may surprise even locals. There are farms
and wineries hidden in the hills of the Peninsula, and Bernard Ibarra had
a chance to get some hands-on experience at one of them.
“A couple of weeks ago we went to Villa Oneiro and harvested olives and
pressed them for olive oil, so for the first time we have Terranea olive oil.
It’s beautiful extra virgin oil, unbelievable, and we have the olives in some
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Wine Director Szymon Piechaczek, Executive Chef Bernard Ibarra and Beverage
Director Aloys Scheer. Photo by Richard Foss
of our other dishes. We have the salt we gather right here on the property,
and we blend it with herbs grown here, and we make smoked salt too. We
also have what we call our moving backyard, the sea right behind the resort.
We use as much as we can from what Mother Nature provides us with right
here.”
Some of those local producers attended the event, including the roaster
who produces the resort’s signature coffee and winemakers Dimitri Bizoumis
from Villa Oneiro and Jim York of Catalina View. Beverage Manager
Scheer noted that while there aren’t any distilleries on the Peninsula, they
use as many local ingredients as possible in their cocktails. Ibarra, a Basque
who grew up in a wine-loving region, sounded just as enthusiastic about
the cocktail revolution.
“The cocktail component of the event is new this year, but that is such a
dynamic part of the culture now. We are using what grows in the Peninsula
in our drinks as well as our food. We have always been utilizing them in
the kitchen, but at the bar it is new.”
Speaking of local produce brought up the question of whether this event
is primarily for local people, or whether there are ambitions to make it
something larger. Scheer suggested that it is already a little of each.
“The event is for local people but is already becoming a regional event.
We have chefs coming from San Francisco, Carmel, Seattle, and San Diego,
and they have spread awareness of this weekend through their clientele. It
has a great potential to grow.”
Szymon suggested that as it does, it could benefit more than just Terranea.
“We have many guests who are coming to this event from Hollywood,
from Malibu, and for many it is their first time to the area. They are not
just seeing this event at Terranea, they are discovering the other attractions
of the Peninsula, and they will come back.”
Abigall Parera, Virna Bolang, Andrew Long, Chef Tim Wood and Jessica
Wood. Photo by Stephanie Cartozian
Chef Dushayant Singh of The Camby in Phoenix creates pork frankfurters with
crisped black-eyed peas. Photo by Richard Foss
Wherever the guests came from, they had a wide range of events and
seminars to attend. Szymon characterized these as partly educational and
partly entertaining.
“In the entertaining category I would put our recreation of the famous
‘Judgment of Paris’ dinner of 1976, which will include representatives of
Chateau Montelena and Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. In the educational category,
I would put our event evaluating the wine styles of the Old World.
That’s focused on discovering the regional wine styles, and people can learn
a lot from that.”
On the weekend of the event, that balance of intellectual understanding
with basking in the experience was on full display. The “Study of Pork” on
Friday night was a great example. The chefs were all accessible, explaining
to anyone who was interested how they had created each recipe to enhance
the natural flavors and textures of the cut they had been assigned. Some of
the presentations were elegant and stylish, like Chef Tim Wood’s California
Kurobuta pork shoulder with grated fresh truffle. Others were more down
home. Chef Dushyant Singh of The Camby in Phoenix created delicious
pork frankfurters and served them in a bun alongside crisped black-eyed
peas, a plate that looked like something you might get at a ballpark but
tasted amazing. Between trips to the food stations guests sampled beer,
cocktails, and wine, including that Napa sparkler that did indeed go superbly
with pork. It was an education for those who cared to get one, and
a great meal for those who just came for the experience.
Moving on through the weekend, guests could attend a seminar by
women winemakers, a seafood and Champagne brunch, and a celebration
of the legacy of Robert Mondavi. Or they could just stroll the grounds at
Terranea, enjoy the views, and think about what they would eat and drink
next. PEN
Selman and Pauline Shaby, David Buckley and Chef Paul McCabe.
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Old Fort Mac Arthur
Hosts multi-era reenactment
History buffs from around the Western
United States showed up at Old Fort
MacArthur Days last July for a multi-era
historical reenactment. Unlike most
events that focus on a single time period,
here one saw encampments of ancient
Britons and Romans, civil war cavalrymen,
Napoleonic infantry, World War II
leathernecks and peoples of other times
and places. Alongside the soldiers were all
the other people who enable armies to
function, including blacksmiths, surgeons,
cooks, nurses, and other artisans.
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1. This group of Soviet Army reenactors is
composed entirely of fathers and sons. (Bottom
row) sons Dakota Boettcher, Shane Pollack
and Tom Marinello. (Top row) fathers
Scott Boettcher, Todd Pollack and Dennis
Marinello.
2. Ice cream vendor C.K. Farnsworth poses
with “Doughnut Dollie” Kim Hallenger of the
Great War Historical Society. During WW1 the
British “Doughnut Dollies” made fresh pastries
in the trenches and were the only women allowed
at the front.
3. Civil War “Buffalo Soldiers” Trooper Dillis,
August Simian Jr., and Trooper Redfern.
4. Colonial American blacksmith Peter
Farquhar.
5. Early California reenactor Mike Breckinridge
with his horse Juan.
6. President Lincoln (Robert Brosky).
7. Legio 6 Victrix trooper John Long.
8. Roman Centurion David Michaels wears
medals for valor while standing next to a shrine
to Jupiter.
9. Scottish clan chief Steven Gillan talks with
Tory officer John Savage.
10. World War 2 field cook David Kellerman
with his restored army jeep.
11. 19th Century naval Lieutenant John Ash,
better known Gary McAulay of the Manhattan
Beach Historical Society, poses with Dale Erickson
of Lomita.
12. Michael Cawelti as T.R., straight from San
Juan Hill.
13. French and Indian War Surgeon Mark
Rutledge has an encyclopedic knowledge of
18th Century medicine, as well as some scary
looking saws and tools.
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Homegrown virtuoso
by Esther Kang
A 21-year-old
Palos Verdes native
rises to
international
acclaim
Aplastic toy keyboard he received from
his parents on his sixth birthday sealed
Adam Coleman’s fate.
“Apparently, I would just sit there for hours
at a time plucking at the keys that lit up,” said
the now 21-year-old Coleman. “I learned
some classic pieces that way.”
The following year, his parents took him to
Maria Denima, a talented Russia pianist who
studied at St. Petersburg Conservatory. Over
the following decade, Coleman’s musical career
blossomed.
At 9, he began competing in piano performances
around the world, winning the Southern
California Bach Festival, Cypress College
Piano Competition and the MTAC State Solo
and Concerto Competition. In 2012, he was
named a finalist in the 2012 Schlern International
Music Festival Competition in Italy. He
also earned multiple scholarships from the
Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Alice Frazier
Kitchen Memorial.
Despite his competitive successes, the
Peninsula native considers them a “necessary
evil.” Coleman is in his fourth year at the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music,
where he is studying Piano Performance
under esteemed professor Evelyne Brancart.
“I don’t like putting musicians and the
music up against each other,” he said. "I think
it defeats the whole purpose of the art. Especially
the way a lot of these competitions score
and the way they decide, it’s very subjective
and there’s a lot of politics involved.”
Performing for people who come to enjoy
the music rather than to judge — that’s the
“best feeling in the world,” he said.
“For me, it started more as a relationship
with the instrument rather than with the
music,” he said. “I fell in love with the instrument
before I fell in love with classical music.
I always felt safe there and felt like I had
something to say when I was making music."
“Later came the love of the music, once I
started hearing about classical composers and
really diving into their genius, why they’re so
well-known now and why it is so important
to listen to them.” Beyond the classical repertoire
of Bach, Mozart and Chopin, Coleman
said he is drawn toward 20th century “new
music” and the late romantics. "Why has their
music lasted hundreds of years,” he said, “and
other people’s music died out instantly?"
At Palos Verdes Intermediate School, he
played saxophone in the school concert band
(and gave piano lessons to the director). At
Palos Verdes High School, he played the snare
drum, quads and bass drum and served as
battery captain, front ensemble captain, and
eventually drum major in the marching band.
He also delved into mallet percussions, including
the marimba and vibraphone.
In 2011, when the Tohoku earthquake and
tsunami hit Japan, Coleman teamed up with
a friend and decided to put his musical chops
to use. It was his first ever attempt at organizing
a concert for the community.
“I had no idea what I was doing, but I just
went around to random churches and asked
if I could play a concert there,” he recalls. “Finally,
someone said yes."
The benefit concert at St. Francis Church,
curated and performed by Coleman, raised
$2,500 for Direct Relief International. Since,
he has organized an annual benefit chamber
concert at the Palos Verdes Golf Club to benefit
the San Pedro-based SHAWL House (Support
for Harbor Area Women’s Lives), which
helps battered and addicted women. The concerts
have raised $50,000 over the years for
the organization. The next one is scheduled
for next spring.
Coleman, who this summer spent an immersive
six weeks at the Brevard Music Festival
in North Carolina, keeps his engine
revving. For next fall, he will be applying for
master’s programs for classical piano performance
across the country (his top choice is Indiana
University). He hopes to make a living
by performing — what he does best.
“By sitting through a performance, you experience
it, and I think in some ways it makes
you a better person, and it makes you grow,”
he says. “I’m really fascinated by how people
can react to music and how it can change your
mental state.” PEN
Adam Coleman. Photo by Brian Chin
December 2016 • Peninsula People 71
Ground breaking
Veterans celebration
around&about
Bishop Joseph
Sartoris blesses
the site of the
new Providence
Little Company of
Mary Advanced
Ambulatory Care
Center on Tuesday,
October
25. The $80
million center will
include an Orthopedic
and Spine Institute, a Women’s Breast Center and, in partnership
with City of Hope, a multi-disciplinary Cancer Center. Photo courtesy
Providence Little Co. of Mary
Gathering for the annual Veterans Day Health and Wellness Fair at the
Palos Verdes Golf Club are Cecil Wyman, Ackerman Geo, Frank Campion,
Bruce Campbell, Laverne Harry Peck, Ray Burns, Bill Garley, Joe
Sherwood, Frank J. Brown, Judge Robert Evans and Wally White.
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n The Peninsula Chapter of the National Charity League celebrated 57 years of
service at the Palos Verdes Golf Club. Mother with daughters in middle school
and high school learn leadership and enjoy cultural experiences while also offering
critical services to the community. The celebration was attended by past and current
officers. For more information visit peninsula.nationalcharityleague.org.
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undreds of families came out for
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9. Residents enjoyed pumpkin
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food trucks and a beer garden. The
Johnny Rock band performed and
two tickets to the Los Angeles
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2. Robby Harbison and niece
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4. Charlotte, Allison and
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5. Maya Gill, Malcolm Gill and son
Malcolm with Michele McRae.
6. Christie Gill (front), Araceli Orozco,
Carol Kollmer, Danica King (back).
7. Derek Mason, Misael Valle and
Dawn Packwood.
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9. Duncan McVicar, Sam Sullivan and
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blue cheese and sweet caramelized
onions with chopped dried figs, run
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grudgingly admitted that he liked it
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I was less of a fan of the meatloaf
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a very liberal slathering of sweet
bacon jam and served over a
mashed potatoes on a bed of chipotle
ketchup. My companion had ordered
this because he really likes a
good meatloaf, but the taste of the
meat was almost completely obscured.
We hadn’t known both
items were served sauced, and we
both wished we had so we could
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The desserts offered were a salted
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There were enough things that
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term negotiable. All
utilities paid for. Comes
fur- nished with free
high speed internet
(150 mbps download
and 20 mbps upload
speed), kitchenette
and bathrooms. For
more information call
Neil Chha bria at 310-
902-7227 or visit
www.malagacoveoffices.com.
2013
Patch Master
Plastering
Patch Plastering
Interior • Exterior
• Venetian Plastering
• Ceiling Removal
• Drywall Work
• Acoustic
Ceiling Removal
• Water & Fire Restoration
310-370-5589
Lic. # 687076 • C35-B1
PLUMBING
Thank You South Bay for
50 Years of Patronage!
Residential • Commercial • Industrial
Plumbing 24/7 • Heating
Air Conditioning
pfplumbing.net
800-354-2705 • 310-831-0737
ROOFING
Tile Reroof and
repair specialist
310-847-7663
Family owned
business since 1978
Lic 831351
TILE
POOLS • SPAS
HARDSCAPES
New Construction
& Remodeling
Excellent References
Horusicky Construction
310-544-9384
www.Horusicky.com
Credit cards accepted
Lic #309844, Bonded, Insured
SOLAR ENERGY
TUTORING
Math Tutoring
SAT/ACT Specialist
20 Years Experience
Math Degree from UCLA
Certified College
Counselor
Mensa Member
1000+ Successful
Students
(949) 564-0224
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classifieds
424-269-2830
Simply Tiles Design Center
Fine Ceramics, Natural Stone, Hardwoods, Cabinetry, Faucetry.
Kitchen & Bathrooms Specialist.
3968 Pacific Coast Hwy., Torrance • (310) 373-7781 • www.simplytiles.com
License #904876
December 2016 • Peninsula 81
310.539.6685 310.884.1870
310.326.9528 866.BEYOND.5
310.997.1900
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CUT * COLOR * STYLE
310.530.5443 310.534.9560
310.539.2191
310.326.3354
310.539.2993
310.530.4888 310.534.0220 310.530.3079 310.326.4477
New Smiles Dentistry
Stephen P. Tassone, DDS
310.791.2041
310.517.0324
310.530.0566
310.517.9366
310.326.8530
310.530.3268 310.539.3526
TORRANCE
TOWNE BEAUTY
CENTER
310.325.2960
310.891.2237
310.539.1808
310.530.8411
WineShoppe
310.539.1055
Northwest Corner of Crenshaw Blvd. & Pacific Coast Hwy.
in Torrance ~ For Information, Call 310.534.0411
A LA CAZE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY PROJECT
84 Peninsula • December 2016
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