Peninsula People June 2017

Volume XXI, Issue 11 

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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 

Peninsula High 

surf team rider 

Isabel Frandsen 

and coach Brian 

Helmrich. 

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Heavy starRo Movin’ 

by Esther Kang Shinya Mizoguchi abandoned music when 

he moved from Tokyo to Rancho Palos Verdes in search of a 

quieter life. Now, he’s nominated for a Grammy. In appreciation 

of his new hometown, StarRo, as he is known professionally, 

served as DJ at last month’s Peninsula Education Foundation 

gala. 

Schooled in the sea 

by Ed Solt The Peninsula High surf team finds life lessons, 

including self discipline, in early morning practices. 

High style comes to the Hill 

by Bondo Wyszpolski Tziporah Salamon discusses dressing 

as an art and the difference between style and fashion at 

the Palos Verdes Art Center. 

The Beall deal 

by Stephanie Cartozian A 1930s,Tuscan-inspired home 

designed by Long Beach City Hall architect H.H. Lochridge is 

reimagined by former Peninsula architect Edward Carson 

Beall. 

HIGHLIGHTS 

16 LA Biomed honors researchers 

20 Peninsula Ed Foundation Ibiza en Blanco 

24 Blazevich/Coldwell Banker, tennis 

indoors and out 

50 Peninsula Committee Children’s Hospital 

honors sponsors 

54 Sunday by the Sea for TrinityCare 

56 Palos Verdes Breakfast Club 75th Anniversary 

DEPARTMENTS 

43 Kids summer camps 

47 Peninsula calendar 

70 Around and about 

73 Home services 

Photo by Steve Frandsen 

High on Thai 

by Richard Foss Servings and service elevate the spirits at 

Tantawan Thai. 

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items. The banquet room transported guests to the festive island 

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by Esther Kang 

Shinya “Straight Arrow” Mizoguchi, better known as starRo, is rising up the musical 

ranks with his heartfelt concoctions of soul, R&B, jazz and electronica. In five years’ 

time, the Tokyo-native multi-instrumentalist has gone from an unknown bedroom producer 

with a day job as a project manager for a Torrance tech company to becoming the 

first Japanese electronic artist to be nominated for a Grammy. Touring internationally and 

shooting commercials for Beats by Dre are some of the itinerary items that comprise his 

new normal. 

Still, the 41-year-old father of three stays grounded. Mizoguchi, who with his family has 

lived in Rancho Palos Verdes for five years, recently DJ’ed at the Palos Verdes Education 

Foundation’s annual fundraiser, where one of the main auction items was a private party 

with Mizoguchi as the DJ. His two sons are first and fifth graders at Point Vicente Elementary 

School; his daughter is a preschooler at St. Peter’s by the Sea. 

Until about a month ago, Mizoguchi, who last fall released his first full-length album 

Monday, was working out of his home studio. Now with a new ground zero in LA’s arts 

district, he finds himself appreciating the peaceful nature of Palos Verdes. 

“The school system is obviously the biggest thing, but I find myself really enjoying life 

here now,” Mizoguchi said. “When you play at the club and go back late at night tired, the 

next morning you wake up and see a completely different nature explosion. That’s really 

cool. I really enjoy this contrast of life right now." 

Raised in Tokyo, Mizoguchi grew up in a musical environment, inundated with jazz 

records and the sounds of his father, a “semi-professional” jazz pianist, performing at home. 

Shinya “Straight Arrow” Mizoguchi, better known as starRo in the music world. Photo by Sean Garrison 

At 7, Mizoguchi began taking piano lessons — by his own 

volition, not his parents’, he noted — but by middle 

school, he had lost interest in classical music. With leanings 

toward top 40, rock and dance music, he began 

teaching himself other instruments and formed a band 

with friends from school. They mostly covered their favorite 

rock bands, from Japan and abroad. 

When they began composing original music, Mizoguchi 

took it upon himself to make a demo for the band. That 

was his first exposure to creating music on a computer, 

he said. 

“I pretty much played every part — bass, drums, guitar 

and a little vocal — and that was the beginning of my 

track making,” he said. “I realized I enjoyed making the 

demo more than being in a band, so I started being more 

of a producer. I did that for a while, just as a hobby and 

maybe to show some of my friends." 

For many years, he worked brutal hours as a manager 

at a tech company, which left little time for a life outside 

of work. About 10 years ago, he and his wife decided to 

leave Tokyo’s workaholic culture in search of a more balanced 

life. After a weeklong visit to LA, they knew they 

had found their new home. 

“It seemed like this is a chill, laid-back place, and people 

seemed to enjoy their lives more,” Mizoguchi said. 

“We didn’t really expect anything; we basically just tried 

to change our lifestyle.” 

Mizoguchi had no intention of pursuing a music career 


in LA, he said. He was unfamiliar with the music 

scene and had sold all his gear back in Tokyo. For 

three to four years, he worked his job at a tech company 

in Torrance, striving to build a new foundation 

for him and his family. Not knowing a single person 

in the new city, he never went out to explore the clubbing 

or live music scene, he said. 

“We pretty much started from ground zero,” he said. 

“Music was not even a priority back then.” 

It wasn’t until a friend from Tokyo came to visit that 

Mizoguchi had a proper night out. His friend, curious 

about LA’s clubbing scene, urged him to find a spot 

for them, so he went online and discovered Low End 

Theory, LA’s seminal weekly event featuring up-andcoming 

beat makers. As a big fan of A Tribe Called 

Quest, Mizoguchi said he had initially thought it 

would be a hip hop event (Low End Theory is the name 

of the hip hop group’s most famous album). His life, 

he said confidently, changed for good that night. 

“It was experimental and also mind-blowing,” he 

said. “Mind-blowing in the way that I’d never heard 

any music like that, and I’d never seen a producer, a 

trackmaker like myself, get on the stage under a spotlight 

… Usually to me, the artist has always been like 

the singer or rapper, but there I realized that even producers 

can be an artist.” 

Newly inspired, Mizoguchi began producing music 

again and sharing his tracks with the burgeoning online 

community of Soundcloud. There, he made hundreds 

of new friends — fellow beatmakers and 

producers — and began accruing tens of thousands of 

plays with his fresh take on soul-based electronica and 

tasteful remixes. In 2013, he was discovered and 

signed by Soulection, the famous LA-based online 

radio station and label for inventive producers such as 

himself. The rest, he said, is history. Tours, festivals 

and numerous musical collaborations have followed. 

He has since performed at Low End 

Theory three times, marking a full circle. 

“That was my dream, my original 

dream,” he said. 

Last year, he was approached to remix 

an a cappella song called “Heavy Star 

Movin” by The Silver Lake Chorus. Having 

heard that many producers gave up on 

the difficult endeavor, Mizoguchi said he 

gave it his full effort. To his surprise, his beautiful 

remix garnered him a Grammy nomination 

this past February. His stardom has since 

been in full swing, particularly in his home 

country of Japan. 

“I didn’t realize that it was such a big deal 

in Japan,” he said. “So it’s kind of strange to 

see myself in major newspapers in Japan. A 

lot of my old friends didn’t even know I had 

quit my day job and was making music.” 

Today, Mizoguchi is regularly on the 

road, performing across the U.S. and 

abroad. He returns to Tokyo to perform 

once a month and has no plans to slow 

down anytime soon, he said. His next 

album is due out in the fall. PEN 

Rancho Palos 

Verdes resident 

starRo. Photo by 

Caitlin Harroun 



The Peninsula High School surf team. Photo by PSS Imaging, Inc. 

An emerging generation of talented young surfers is riding high on Peninsula High’s surf team 

by Ed Solt 

John “Doc” Ball founded the Palos Verdes Surf Club in 1935, laying 

the foundation for the surfing lifestyle and making Palos 

Verdes a hotbed for surf culture. Ball documented early California 

surf history in his book,“California Lifestyle,” published in 

1946. His photos beautifully capture the easygoing lifestyle of the 

burgeoning surf scene, prewar surfers enjoying Waikiki-esque 

waves, oftentimes sharing waves. 

More recently, even as the Palos Verdes has attracted unwanted 

national attention for surf localism, a less noted undercurrent has 

emerged — a new generation tapped into the stoke of Ball’s original 

surf gang, a stoke that’s leading these young surfers to do great 

things in all areas of their lives. 

Peninsula High’s surf team is an original member of the South 

Bay Scholastic Surfing Association (formerly known as the South 

Bay High School Surf League), founded 25 years ago. Notable 

alumni include Holly Beck, a professional surfer who paved the way 

for women surfers in the 2000s; Chris Del Moro, who found success 

as a professional lifestyle surfer (sans contests) and eco-friendly entrepreneur; 

former professional longboarder and local restaurateur 

Chris Bredesen; his brother, big wave rider and LA County Lifeguard 

Scotty Bredesen; and professional surfer Alex Gray. 

Gray found a place in Hawaii’s notoriously difficult North Shore 

line-ups, charging mountainous waves while performing small wave 

acrobatics, all the while showing a keen understanding of the inner 

limits of a tube. In addition to his surfing accolades (he’s been fea- 

Isabel Frandsen. Photo by Steve Frandsen 


Colin Macleod slashes back in a local South Boardriders Club Surf Contest. Photo by Steve Gaffney (SteveGaffney.com) 

tured on surf magazine covers and in surf movies for almost 20 years), 

Gray’s entertaining personality has made him a spokesman for the sport. 

He’s hosted numerous surfing events, including the prestigious Surfer Magazine 

“Surfer Poll” awards. 

In the midst of his jet-setter, surf lifestyle (one that’s taken him to far 

flung places such as Alaska’s outer islands), Gray makes time to work with 

his former surf team. 

“I'm always so excited watching the surf team kids compete,” Gray wrote 

in an email from Fiji. “Whether they win or lose, it's great seeing them 

face their nerves and fearful emotions through surfing. We all go through 

so many life moments as teenagers. It's a time when many emotions are 

foreign and hard to understand. That's where surfing really shines. It can 

be a vessel of self-confidence, helping you to achieve things you never 

dreamed of.” 

Peninsula freshmen Colin Macleod has only been surfing for two years, 

but he’s rapidly progressing on his Dennis Jarvis-shaped Spyder surfboards. 

Junior Isabel Frandsen has perfected a distinctive style on her Chris Ruddy 

Surfboards noserider and 5-foot-5 mini shred sled. Senior Cole Yoshida is 

a multi-discipline surfer, shredding with either a Lost, Pyzel, or Roberts 

under his feet. On the longer end of the spectrum, he perches on the nose 

on either his Kris Hall-shaped Flower Surfboard or his Swift, shaped by 

the late Don Swift. 

“I first met Alex at a rally he was leading for a PV Skate Park at City 

Hall,” Frandsen said. “I was so stoked to meet my first pro surfer.” (Gray 

was instrumental in establishing PV’s first skatepark — in a community 

where skateboarding had been banned since the ‘70s). 

These kids do not possess one ounce of the slacker-stoney-stereotype of 

Sean Penn’s character “Spicoli,” from the early ‘80s teen comedy “Fast 

Times at Ridgemont High.” To be a part of the surf team one must possess 

commitment. 

“Surf class begins at sunrise. Having the discipline to be up at dark and 

in the cold, equipment ready, with a good attitude is something the coach 

expects,” Gray said. “The surf team allows for a positive, healthy outlet. I 

want to pass on the fun of surfing and its benefits to help guide you through 

life. For some it's competitive, and for others it's a hobby. Either way, we 

are lucky as surfers to have the ocean as our teacher. I hope each student 

allows surfing to be a teacher for all aspects in life.” 

Macleod is known as the most surf-fevered of the bunch, winning his 

team’s “Most Dedicated Surfer” award. 

“It’s all about getting in the water every day and having fun,” he said. 

“Even if it’s onshore and small, make the best of the situation. It’s part of 

my daily routine. It wakes me up for school.” 

Macleod has perfect school attendance. For Yoshida, the discipline 

needed for surf team is applied to other sports, particularly his golf game. 

He’ll be heading to University of Hawai'i at Manoa on a golfing scholarship. 

“Waking up early to go surf and catch a few waves in the morning has 

influenced my golf greatly because it has trained me to get up every morning 

before six, and it’s helped when you have an early tee time and you 

have to get there even earlier to warm up,” Yoshida said. “It just makes it 

a lot easier because it feels like second nature. It even helps if you have a 

later tee time because waking up early gives you time to have a proper diet 

for a full day of golf and it gives you time to get a little more warmed up 

before even getting to the course.” 

For Frandsen, surf team is just a part of her morning routine, something 

that defines her as a person. She’s up at 5:15 a.m. and out the door to attend 

a 5:45 a.m. daily seminar at her church. After church, she returns 

home to wake up her younger sister to get her ready for her church semi- 


Brielle Anderson, Ada Frandsen, Isabel Frandsen of the Peninsula High Surf team, 

along with friend Kierra Fedio. Photo by Steve Gaffney (SteveGaffney.com) 

nar at 6:30 a.m. 

“My sister needs a little more sleep,” she said, with a laugh. “I have a 

real structured morning. I also make sure I have on a good watch. From 

6:45 a.m. until 8 a.m., I’m surfing. It’s my morning reflection and meditation 

time.” 

As Gray noted, surfing is a guiding light that helps some kids navigate 

the turbulent waters of adolescence. 

“Being a part of the surf team gave me a sense of purpose,” Gray said. “I 

dealt with a lot during high school. I can say I was lost at times on the 

early path of life. But the surf team was always there for me. It was something 

that made me strive to be a better student and surfer. I really enjoyed 

the feeling of pride for our team that we collectively instilled and acted 

upon together.” 

In addition to pushing each other out in the water, the team prides itself 

on killing it in school. The team possesses 

one of the highest collective team GPAs of 

all Peninsula’s sport teams. Macleod considers 

homework a breeze compared to “jumping 

into the chill of morning surf.” Yoshida 

is not affected by “senioritis.” For his last semester, 

AP Psychology, Marine Biology Honors 

Calculus, and English 4 fill his schedule. 

Frandsen is planning to attend BYU Hawaii. 

“Surfing has taught me to push beyond 

your comfort zone, to paddle out and go 

big,” she said. “When it came to choosing 

classes, I took harder subjects — they have 

become my favorite classes. As my coaches 

Bryan Hemlrich, Bill Macleod, and Alex say, 

‘Always look two seconds ahead on a wave.’ 

It’s another aspect of surfing I apply to life.” 

She also volunteers with organizations 

such as Walk on Water, which provides 

ocean therapy for special needs children. 

“My first time as an instructor, I took a kid 

out for his first time on a surfboard and he 

pearled hard after I pushed him into a 

wave,” she said. “When he came up, he was 

frowning, about to cry, then began laughing. 

I knew from there I wanted to get into occupational 

therapy, helping young kids with 

special needs. Much like ocean therapy is to 

a special needs child, I want to make the 

world a little better with one little push.” 

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In his senior year, Gray was named “Athlete of the Year.” It was the first 

time the award went to a surfer. 

“That award is something I hold high in my surfing accomplishments. 

As the captain of the team, I truly felt a responsibility to do all I could to 

get our team to the top. Some of my dearest memories are with my brother 

surfing early mornings,” Gray said (Gray lost his brother at the age of 21). 

“He would drive me to each practice. I got to hang out with the older guys 

who were my heroes because I was with my brother. Having him to push 

me in the surf was the most influential aspect I had. I still find myself 

thanking him for those moments.” 

With three years to go, Macleod is just generally stoked to be on the 

team. 

“Banquets, contests, meets — it’s all fun,” he said. “I’ve been on club 

soccer teams; everybody is in pursuit of individual glory. In surf team, it’s 

all about the team — which is weird because field sports are considered 

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“I spent a few days down there with Coach and some of my close friends 

on the team,” he said. “It was a great opportunity to surf against a very 

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shine while they compete on the team. At the end of the day, it's about 

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We won’t charge you, but by the time you’re done reading this article 

you’ll be on your way to becoming the best-dressed person 

on your block, and maybe in all of the South Bay, who knows. 

Last month New York-based Tziporah Salamon presented a two-hour 

show and tell at the Palos Verdes Art Center about her newly-released 

book, “The Art of Dressing,” subtitled “Ageless, Timeless, Original Style.” 

The key word here, I think, is style, and although the book contains 150 

color photographs “style” remains an intangible. Even so, with enough 

learning and exposure we’ll know it when we see it. 

“It’s the image that leaves an indelible mark on the viewer, forever,” Salamon 

writes. “It requires discipline, study, and attention… Style does not 

just happen; it needs to be cultivated, chiseled, refined.” 

I dress, therefore I am 

People Salamon encounters often ask what she does, and while at the 

beginning she might have replied that she was a hostess, a cashier, a salesgirl, 

and so forth, she soon discovered the proper response: “I dress.” 

“When I am assembling an outfit, “she writes, “I think of the total look… 

Dressing is an artistic endeavor with you as the painter, your body as the 

canvas, the various components of your outfit as the paints, and your eyes 

as the brush.” Or, as she tells me over the telephone from New York: “I 

don’t have to invite you to my studio to show you my paintings. You get to 

see my paintings every day on my body.” 

Know your body and its proportions, height, width, etc., and thus which 

colors and what shapes work best with it, she advised. Within your budget, 

of course, invest in staples, but remember it’s quality over quantity. Choose 

the classic over the trendy because 

fashion is here and gone 

Tziporah Salamon 

and the 

“The Art of Dressing” 

at the PV Art Center 

but style endures. Lastly, don’t 

underestimate the importance of 

a good seamstress and tailor. 

“No matter what,” Salamon 

writes, “always dress as well as 

you can, and in a becoming and 

thought-out outfit.” 

Repairing a broken heart 

How a person gets to where 

they are from where they started 

can often be circuitous or labyrinthine. Both words apply to Tziporah Salamon, 

the child of Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust and relocated 

to Israel in the early 1950s. Papa was a tailor and mama a dressmaker. 

Despite empty pockets, despite dusty roads and few amenities, people 

dressed well, even elegantly (in style, Salamon says, “Budapest was considered 

a rival to Paris”). If there was poverty, there was also a solid sense 

of community. Besides, much more than in most places, they were all in 

this together. 

Her father’s tailoring shop was Salamon’s “Magic kingdom,” until 1959, 

when she was nine, and the family moved from Israel to Brooklyn. Culture 

shock hardly describes it: Salamon’s first impression of New York was that 

the sun never shone there. Figuratively, it wouldn’t shine until many years 

later. At the age of 12, she changed her name to “Lynn” because no one 

had ever heard of “Tziporah” ( a Biblical Hebrew name; “tzippor” means 

bird) and naturally the “Tz” threw everyone off. 

For all that, Salamon was a bright young lady, and she enrolled at the 

University of Buffalo. However, she decided to spend her junior year overseas, 

back in Israel. A decade had passed, but embedded in her mind was 

a picture of Israel as (in my words) a cross between the Emerald City of 

Oz and one of those magical paintings by Marc Chagall. 

“I told my parents I was going back to study,” she says over the phone, 

“but I told all my friends that I wasn’t going to come back, that I was hoping 

to meet an Israeli and settle down and marry and raise my kids there. 

“What happened was,” she continues, “everything I hated about America 

in 1959 when we moved here was now in Israel. The first thing my relatives 

wanted to do was show me the skyscrapers and the supermarkets.” 

“We were no longer dancing in the streets,” she says. “We were now 

dancing in discotheques. 

“The first time my heart was broken [was when] we left Israel and came 

to America. America was the enemy when we got here. And now [I’ve 

gone] back to Israel to live happily ever after and America is now in Israel. 

The wound of the nine-year-old girl opened up all over again. I was just 

devastated. There was no home.” 

Back in the U.S., Salamon graduated with a degree in English literature, 

attended UC Santa Barbara, where she earned a Masters in Education, and 

then headed up to Berkeley to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology, with the goal 

of becoming a therapist. In the eleventh hour, however, she decided to 

move back to New York, hoping for a career in fashion. A photo of Nancy 

Cunard (think of the shipping line) convinced her to cut her hair, and she 

immersed herself in the world of designer Coco Chanel, “Vogue” editorin-chief 

Diana Vreeland, and others. She embarked upon a string of jobs 

and at the same time asked herself what precisely she was hoping to become. 

A stylist? No. A designer? No. A buyer? No. A fashion consultant? 

Well, that was a possibility. While working as a hat- and coat-check girl at 

a new restaurant she started wearing a different hat for each day (currently, 

she has about 300). 

Serious, and fun 

Not a hard and fast rule, I imagine, but for the most part Salamon seems 

to dress from the top down. She first selects a hat (“Hats are the exclamation 

point. The perfect finishing touch to any outfit.”), and then, in roughly 

this order, a blouse, pants, earrings, shoes, handbag, shawl, coat. She em- 

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Tziporah Salamon. Photos by Bondo WyszpolskiF 


tyle 

tays, 

ashion 

ades 

phasizes good, and comfortable shoes; suggests mixing costly jewelry with 

costume jewelry, and advises that one should “always wear earrings as they 

frame the face.” An outfit can produce a different effect by merely changing 

the buttons. Her choice of bright red lipstick is certainly a strong accent, 

although I did notice that fingernail polish makes only an occasional appearance. 

At the PV Art Center, Salamon presented a chronological walk-through 

of how she’s dressed over the years, and how it’s changed as she’s gone 

from her 30s to her 40s, her 50s and now 60s. “What I want to wear now,” 

she tells me, “is very different than what I wanted to wear in my 30s. I 

talk about the evolution of a woman aging as well, and its impact upon us 

and our choices.” 

She points out that the key chapter in “The Art of Dressing” is called 

“The Keeper of the Cloth.” It explains, within a religious context to some 

degree, why she does what she does: “I take the role of dressing, and my 

being a dresser, very seriously… I really do see it as a calling.” 

Number one, though, she dresses well to bring delight to herself. But 

there’s more to it than that, of course: 

“I think what I do is I give women permission to dress again, to play in 

their closets,” Salamon says. “I give them permission, I free them, and I 

entice them to do it. They look at me and they say, ‘Wait a minute, you’re 

having such fun with clothes. I want it too; I want to have fun with clothes.’ 

If that’s what I’ve done, and in my way leave the world a more beautiful 

place in the way we dress, then I’ve done my job.” 

The Palos Verdes Art Center is located at 5504 W. Crestridge Road, Rancho 

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boys and girls, BeachSports programs start at age 4. Participants will leave 

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camps are offered: Surf Camp, Beach Camp, Beach Volleyball Camp, and Intro 

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Flight School Gymnastics 


w Flight School Gymnastics is committed to giving children the opportunity to experience 

the joy and benefits of gymnastics. Programs are designed to help children 

develop from beginning gymnastics through competitive team. Academy 

offers a wide range of options starting with parent and me, beginning, intermediate 

and advanced classes. Teams includes Compulsories Junior Olympic Pre-Team, 

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Flight School is a place where students and team members can thrive and 

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Palos Verdes Performing Arts Conservatory 

June 19-30, July 10-21 and July 24- Aug. 4 

w Palos Verdes Performing Arts Conservatory will offer exciting theatre camps for 

kids of all ages and levels. Camp Curtain Call, which introduces musical theatre 

to elementary school-aged children has three fun-filled sessions: “Madagascar: A 

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Aug. 7-11 and Aug. 14-18 

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Sunday, May 28 

Family Picnic Day, more 

Included with Garden admission. Picnic location is on the Lower Meadow. In 

spring, the Garden is at its showiest! Visit Guest Services or the Gift Shop for 

additional information about the perennials and annuals in bloom for your 

self-guided tour and enjoy your visit. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. South Coast Botanic 

Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula. 

South Coast Bonsai Association Meeting 

The South Coast Bonsai Association meets the fourth Sunday of the month 

(except December) at South Coast Botanic Garden, 10 a.m. - noon. No registration 

required. Meetings are open to the public. For additional information 

contact Ken Ueda at (310) 987-6345. 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes 

Peninsula. 

Wednesday, May 31 

Mac Users Group Meeting 

The South Bay Apple Mac Users, a group of over 100 Mac, iPad, iPhone 

and Apple Watch aficionados, has been around for almost 30 years. Free 

monthly meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. for beginners; Q & A at 8 p.m., with a 

presentation on a subject of interest to all Mac users. All Mac/iPad/iPhone 

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Project Runway Fashion Club at Palos Verdes High School held its 10th 

annual fashion show and raised $17,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, 

Greater Los Angeles. The funds will help grant the wishes of children 

diagnosed with life-threatening medical conditions. This year’s theme was 

"Walking on Sunshine." Models were from PVHS, all three middle schools 

and Lunada Bay Elementary School. The fashions were from South Bay boutiques, 

including the online rental clothing store, The Stylist L.A. New this 

year was the addition of dogs modeling fashions from Tail Trends pet accessories. 

Two South Bay high schoolers shared stories of their wishes being 

granted and how it helped them recover from illness. This year’s presidents 

were Nikki Walker and Perrie Kaminskas. 

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Saturday, June 3 

Family Hike 

First Saturday Family Hike at George F Canyon. Bring your family and join a 

PV Land Conservancy naturalist to discover habitat, wildlife and more on an 

easy hike up the canyon with amazing views of the city. 9 a.m. Free. All ages 

welcome. 27305 Palos Verdes Dr. E, Rolling Hills Estates. For more information, 

contact (310) 547-0862 or RSVP at: pvplc.org, Events & Activities. 

Outdoor Volunteer Day 

Help beautify native demonstration garden and surrounding habitat. 9 a.m. 

– noon. At White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 W. Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro. 

Sign up at pvplc.volunteerhub.com. 

Dave Widow & The Line Up 

With his unique style of fingerpicking and bluesy vocals, Dave Widow combines 

elements of R&B, funk, soul and rock. Nominated for "Best Musical 

Group in 2012" by the LA Music Awards and recognized in 2013 by The 

Blues Foundation, Widow and his Line Up of session all-stars deliver a soulful 

helping of guitar-driven blues. Opener Bernie Pearl is one of the most highly 

respected blues musician in Los Angeles. 8 p.m. Tickets $20-$30; $50-$55 

with Dining in Town package. Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro. For 

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Needlepoint 

Needle Artists by the Sea, chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild will 

hold its monthly meeting 10 a.m. at Ports O’Call Restaurant. The program is 

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Special Events 

Nature & Me Storytime: Stories, Songs, Rhythm and Rhymes at George F 

Canyon Nature Center. Share the joy of reading with your children and introduce 

them to the beauty of our natural surroundings. Geared for 2-5 years. 

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Celebrating Sponsors 

Peninsula Committee Children’s Hospital recently held its 28th annual 

Seahorse Classic Sponsor Party at the home of Carol and John 

Miguelez in Palos Verdes Estates. While enjoying the breathtaking ocean 

views, major donors to this year’s Seahorse Classic Golf Tournament 

enjoyed wine and a Japanese feast catered by Ace sushi. Proceeds from 

the Seahorse Classic benefit the Associates Sarcoma Program at Children’s 

Hospital Los Angeles. 

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Full Moon Hike 

Explore nocturnal sights with an expert naturalist under a full moon at the 

George F Canyon Nature Preserve with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. 

Must be age 9 and up. $12 per person. George F Canyon, 27305 

Palos Verdes Dr. E, Rolling Hills Estates. Reservations required at pvplc.org, 

Events & Activities. 


Guided Nature Walk 

Explore a 15-acre restoration site with cactus wren and gnatcatcher habitat 

with beautiful views of Catalina Island with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land 

Conservancy. This is a moderate to strenuous walk. 9 a.m. Free and open to 

the public. Alta Vicente Reserve, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd., Palos Verdes. For 

more information, contact (310) 541-7613 or sign up at 

pvplc.org/_events/NatureWalkRSVP.asp. 

Docent Training 

George F Canyon Docent training. This charming nature center needs docent 

assistance to staff the center during open hours and to help with special events. 

9 a.m. – noon. 27305 Palos Verdes Dr. E, Rolling Hills Estates. Sign up at 

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At Portuguese Bend Reserve, Rancho Palos Verdes, 9 a.m. – noon. Help restore 

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beauty of the natural surroundings with retired Children’s Librarian Carla Sedlacek 

for stories and activities featuring nature themes, exciting props and 

songs. 10 a.m. Free. White Point Nature Education Center, 1600 W. Paseo 

del Mar in San Pedro. RSVP at: pvplc.org, Events & Activities. 

Music of Babes 

Ty Greenstein and Ingrid Elizabeth of Mouths of Babes are no strangers to the 

contemporary folk music scene. For years, their respective bands Girlyman 

and Coyote Grace captivated thousands of loyal fans as they toured with the 

likes of the Indigo Girls and Dar Williams. Now, as Mouths of Babes, Ty and 

Ingrid have distilled the songwriting, humor, and musicianship of their previous 

groups into a new duo. 8 p.m. Tickets $20-$30; $50-$55 with Dining in Town 

package. Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro. For tickets go to: grandvision.org 

or call (310) 833-4813. 

Sunday, June 11 

Surfwriters Playwrights 

Surfwriters, a Peninsula writing group, will again present a readers theater 

production of short plays. Enjoy plays written by Surfwriters and a few of their 

favorite playwrights. Free and open to the public. 2 p.m. Peninsula Center Library 

Community Room, 701 Silver Spur Rd, Rolling Hills Estates. For more 

information: mltrvlarng@hotmail.com. 

Second Sundays at Two 

Pianist Robert Thies won the Gold Medal at the Second International Prokofiev 

Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, and has since performed concertos with 

leading orchestras worldwide. Admission is free; donations appreciated. 2 

p.m. sharp! Rolling Hills United Methodist Church, 26438 Crenshaw Blvd., 

formation call (310) 316-5574. 

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Cactus, Succulent Society 

Gary Duke's program "Bolivia - Part 

1" shows Bolivian altiplano via La 

Paz, Cochabamba, Sucre, Potosi, 

Carmago to Tarija where he photographed 

more than 50 species of 

cactus and succulents, including rare 

ones and unique aerial videos as 

well as other scenic views of the Bolivian 

Andes and Bolivian culture. 

Come at 1 p.m. to buy plants, meet 

other cactophiles, and have refreshments. 

Program is at 1:30 p.m. 

South Coast Botanic Garden, 

26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos 

Verdes Peninsula. For more information 

visit southcoastcss.org. 

Borscht comedy 

Back to the Catskills, a tribute to the 

“Borscht Belt”, presented by Senior 

Comedy Afternoons. 2 p.m. Call or 

buy your tickets online, (714) 914- 

2565, seniorcomedyafternoons. 

com. Tickets $35 advance sales and 

$40 cash sales at the door. At the 

Clark Building, 861 Valley Dr., Hermosa 

Beach. 

Los Cancioneros Chorale 

Under the direction of Artistic Director 

Allan Robert Petker, Los Cancioneros 

Master Chorale presents 

“East Meets West”, 7 p.m. Torrance 


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Armstrong Theater. Concert begins 

with “world music” selections by 

Brian Tate, representing different 

styles of music from around the 

globe then skips over to Argentina 

for a Mass of Two Worlds, with captivating 

melodies and Latin rhythms, 

by Ariel Quintana. The final work, 

Touch, composed by LCMC conductor 

Allan Robert Petker, features the 

chorale and chamber orchestra and 

is based on the paintings of Chinese 

artist, He Qi, which will be displayed 

in multimedia as the piece is 

performed. General admission is 

$25; students $15; parking is free. 

LCMC offers a Buy-One-Get-One if 

you are attending the concert for the 

first time! Please purchase tickets in 

advance from a Los Cancioneros 

member or by contacting De Giebler 

by phone or by email. (310) 779- 

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Theater is located at 3330 

Civic Center Dr., Torrance. 

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Providence TrinityCare 

Sunday by the Sea 

The 26th annual Providence TrinityCare’s Gourmet Tasting 

Gala was hosted April 30 at the bluff top home of Julian and 

Carolyn Elliott, overlooking Lunada Bay. The exquisite cuisine 

was prepared by local chefs and served with fine wines of every 

varietal, and craft beers. Among the many vendors were Mama 

Terano’s Cafe, Plates Restaurant and the Admiral Risty. This 

year’s tent for the several hundred guests was the largest ever. 

Proceeds benefitted the Providence TrinityCare Foundation. 

1. Terry Neff, Marlene and Chuck Smyth 

and Jenni Brooks. 

2. Mike and Dena Maloney, Chris and 

Valerie Adlam and Andrea Sala. 

3. Dave Cort and Carol Armitage. 

4. Alan Tran, Tony Yeh and Jay Outsen. 

5. Will and Linda Gassett, John and Alicia 

Maniatakis. 

6. Jacqueline Glass, Jamie Born, Pat 

and Hank Edelstein. 

7. Tim Roderick and Jill Gaston. 

8. Rick Murphy and Dan Gruen. 

9. Nancy Jurecki and Jim Sala. 

10. Venue at Julian and Carolyn Elliott’s 

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Scene programs energize families with an exciting summer of friends and fun! 

Children entering grades TK-5 have a choice of the Kids’ Corner Summer Day 

Camp at Rancho del Mar High School, 38 Crest Rd W, or Before/After Summer 

School Care at select elementary schools. Intermediate students entering 

grades 6-8 can join friends at the Ridgecrest Teen Scene After Summer School 

Program. No residency requirements. Programs run through August 18. For 

more information on a fun and enriching summer experience, visit 

pvpusd.net/pvkids or contact the business office, (310) 541-7626. 

Wednesday, June 14 

The Palos Verdes Woman's Club 

Scholarship recipients will be introduced and the philanthropy recipients announced 

at this monthly meeting. Noon. Rolling Hills Country Club, 27000 

Palos Verdes Drive East. For information and reservations call Beverly Teresinski 

at (310) 378-1349. 

Bell Ringers 

The Wesley Youth Bell Ringers will perform a free concert at St. Peter’s by the 

Sea, 7:30 p.m. The concert will be the fifth concert on the choir’s 52nd annual 

concert tour, and will feature 15 teenaged ringers playing more than 150 

handbells and handchimes. They have performed at the US Capitol, Cathedral 

of the Pines National Monument, Mt. Rushmore, George Washington Masonic 

Memorial, Disneyland and Disneyworld. All are welcome! 6410 Palos Verdes 

Dr. South, Rancho Palos Verdes. More info at StPetersPres.org. 

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PV Breakfast Club 

Provenance joins friendship 

Over 250 members and guests of the Palos Verdes Breakfast Club 

celebrated the club’s 75th anniversary last month. The Club dates 

back to the early years of WWII when neighbors volunteering in Civil 

Defense gathered along the beaches and cliffs to give early warning of 

enemy attacks. The club’s mission statement includes "no politics or 

causes, just neighborly fun and frolic." The Breakfast Club meets on the 

first and third Saturdays of every month at the Palos Verdes Golf Club. 

Meeting includes a breakfast buffet, music and speakers — some famous, 

others infamous, including best-selling authors, professional athletes 

and war heroes. For more information visit pvbcweb.com. 

1. Mike Miller, Bruce Dalrymple, 

Charlie Peterson and James Morino. 

2. Capt. Harry Peck, 96, the club’s 

oldest member and Marion Somers. 

3. Kathy Melton, Gloria Mangano and 

Eve Higgins. 

4. Eve and Rick Higgins. 

5. Elaine and James Bruce. 

6. Thomas and Joan Connaghan. 

7. Virginia Butler and Les Fishman. 

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8. Norm and Patricia Eagle. 

9. John and Cynthia Bartlett, Alicia 

and Kenny Kao. 

10. Sandra and Craig Caryl. 

11. Ram and Mani Nadella, Cindy 

and Sam Pheng. 

12. Andrew Meinzer and Lynn Reger. 

13. Charlie and Joanne Peterson, 

Mary Engle, James and Diana Morino. 

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Speaker will be Jack Engberg of GroPower which has been making humusbased 

soil conditioners since 1966 and will share which fertilizers work best 

during the hot summer months. Savings will be offered to members and friends 

who participate in SCRS’s group order with Mr. Engberg at the meeting. Additionally, 

free fertilizer samples will be distributed to attendees. Admission: 

Members: free; adults: $9; senior & students: $6; children (5-12) $4. For more 

information, please see them on Facebook or southcoastbotanicgarden.org. 

26300 Crenshaw Boulevard, Palos Verdes Peninsula. 


Docent Training 

White Point Docent Training at White Point Nature Education Center. 9 a.m. 

– noon. Help run the White Point Nature Education Center. From school programs 

to plant sales, assistance is needed running a variety of fun events. 

1600 W. Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro. Sign up at pvplc.volunteerhub.com. 


Pen Symphony, Knox winner 

For Concert IV of their 50th Season, Maestro Gary Berkson and the Peninsula 

Symphony Association are excited to present Nicholas Mariscal, winner of 

the Edith Knox Competition. Nicholas will join the Peninsula Symphony filling 

the concert hall with Samuel Barber’s exquisite Concerto for Cello in A minor, 

Opus 22. Doors open at 6 p.m. At 6:15 p.m., a pre-concert lecture by Maestro 

Berkson (for members only), and 7 p.m. the concert. The concert and parking 

are free. The venue is Redondo Union High School Auditorium, 631 

Vincent Street in Redondo Beach (PCH at Diamond). For further information, 

please call the Symphony Office at 310/544-0320, e-mail us at music.pensym@verizon.net, 

or visit Pensym.org. 


Birding 

Enjoy birding with Wild Birds Unlimited at White Point Nature Preserve. Explore 

the birds making a home in the restored habitat at this beautiful preserve. 

Binoculars supplied for beginners. The program is free. All ages welcome. 

8:30 a.m. 1600 W. Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro. RSVP at: pvplc.org, Events & 

Activities. 

Affinity luncheon honors 

Three prominent community members: 

Jean Adelsman, Ann Buxton 

and Joyce Kochanowski will be honored 

for their exemplary volunteerism 

and contributions to the 

community at a luncheon hosted by 

the Affinity Group of the Volunteer 

Center. Proceeds will benefit the Volunteer 

Center’s Operation Teddy 

Bear program. Noon. Tickets to the 

luncheon cost $75 per person. At 

the Palos Verdes Golf Club, 3301 

Via Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates. 

For more information about the 

event, interested guests should call 

De De Hicks at (310) 377-4930. 


Local Paleo History 

Austin Hendy talks about fossils and 

mollusks. Discover more about the 

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ecosystems around us. Free. 11 a.m. White Point Nature Education Center & 

Preserve, 1600 W. Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro. RSVP to: pvplc.org: Events & 

Activities/Whitepoint Presentations or (310) 541-7613. 

Guided Nature Walk 

Visit White Point Nature Preserve and attend a naturalist-guided hike. Enjoy 

coastal views and learn more about the plants, animals, restoration area and 

more! Meet at the information kiosk between parking lot and Nature Center. 

9 a.m. 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro. For more information call (310) 

541-7613 or RSVP at: pvplc.org, Events & Activities. 


Help restore a unique canyon habitat, home to many threatened and endangered 

wildlife species. 9 a.m. – noon. At Alta Vicente Reserve, 30940 

Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos Verdes. Sign up at pvplc.volunteerhub.com. 

Native Plant Sale 

At White Point Nature Preserve, noon – 2 p.m. Plants sold on first-come, firstserve 

basis. White Point Nature Preserve located at 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, 

San Pedro. For more information call (310) 541-7613 or pvplc.org. 


Wellness in the Garden 

Join Cancer Support Community Redondo Beach as it celebrates 30 years of 

providing free support programs for cancer patients and their loved ones. Reserve 

your seat at this extraordinary garden party that will amaze and delight 

food and wine enthusiasts or anyone who appreciates an opportunity for a 

great culinary experience. Leisurely stroll through the garden while sampling 

delectable cuisine and beverages from some of the finest South Bay restaurants, 

wineries and breweries. Bid on the many valuable live and silent auction 

items offered at the event: fabulous trips, health and beauty, entertainment and 

sports items, and much more. Visit the Wine Vault—a special setting devoted 

to wine aficionados. Guests can enjoy sipping on exquisite wines while perusing 

silent auction items that include tasting packages from high-end vintners 

among other fabulous items tailored to the wine lover. Its 21st annual Celebrate 

Wellness food and beverage tasting event, hosted and sponsored by the South 

Coast Botanic Garden, takes place 3 - 7 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the more 

than 200 free programs per month offered by Cancer Support Community 

Redondo Beach. Tickets are $150 per person (guests must be 21 and older), 

and can be purchased online by visiting CelebrateWellness.org or by calling 

(310) 376-3550. 26300 Crenshaw Boulevard, Palos Verdes Peninsula. 


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Seaside Concert 

Free family-friendly concert hosted by the Neighborhood Church, features Italian-born 

songwriter Elena Degl’Innocenti, an award-winning songwriter recognized 

at the LA Music Awards, UK Songwriting Contest, and much more. 

Blessed with a three-octave soprano voice, her vast repertoire mixes her Italian 

roots with Jazz and Latin influences. BYO picnic begins at 6 p.m. Concert at 

7 p.m. No tickets or reservations required. 415 Paseo del Mar, Palos Verdes 

Estates. 

Tuesday, June 27 

Documentary “Being Mortal” 

To address the importance of planning ahead and talking with family members 

about end-of-life decisions, Torrance Memorial Medical Center and Caring 

House host a free screening of the PBS “Frontline” documentary “Being Mortal.” 

The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying and explores the 

relationships between patients and their doctors. Following the screening, a 

panel of end-of-life care experts and Celia Rothman, as a representative community 

member, will explore the movie’s themes and encourage further discussion 

with audience members. Free. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Torrance Memorial 

Richard B. Hoffman Health Conference Center, 3330 Lomita Blvd., Torrance. 

Seating is limited and RSVP is recommended for the event. Please call (310) 

517-4711 or visit TorranceMemorial.com/BeingMortal for more information. 


Birding 

With Wild Birds Unlimited at George F Canyon presented by the Palos Verdes 

Peninsula Land Conservancy, 8:30 a.m. Explore the birds in nesting season 

making a home in the canyon. The program is free and all ages welcome. 

27305 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rolling Hills Estates. RSVP at: pvplc.org, Events 

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Sunday, July 16 

Fundraiser to Benefit the PVAC 

Celebrate Chefs & Cellars, an afternoon in the vineyard, is a fundraiser to 

benefit the Palos Verdes Art Center. This is a 21+ only event. Restaurants, wine 

tasting, and art. 4-7 p.m. $125 per ticket. Reservations limited. Catalina View 

Gardens, 6001 Palos Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verde. Call or email 

Sharon Holman (310) 375-6917 or holmsha@aol.com. Celebratechefs.com. 

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on 

Thai 

Tantawan Thai crabcakes are mildly seasoned and served with noodles stir-fried with onions and a dipping sauce of mild red curry. Photos by Brad Jacobson (Civic- 

Couch.com) 

Tantawan Thai’s servings and server lift spirits 

by Richard Foss 

Idon’t always comment about the restaurant service, even though that 

has a lot to do with the quality of the dining experience. Once in awhile, 

though, it makes or breaks a meal, and that just happened at Tantawan 

Thai, a restaurant located in a shopping center near the corner of Silver 

Spur. 

I was meeting family members for dinner, and one had just had a bad 

day at work. Wait, did I say bad? I mean stupendously awful, the kind of 

day that can leave you sullen, irritable, and looking for someone to vent 

at. Thai food hadn’t been her first choice for the evening, and as she waited 

for a menu to be delivered she was an explosion looking to happen. 

The person who delivered that menu was a sunny character named Carlos, 

who handled a snappish customer with deft diplomacy and wit. When 

we asked his opinion of one item that seemed fairly plain, he responded, 

“That’s very healthy. You should get something else.” After a few such comments, 

the person who was having a bad day was living in the moment 

and enjoying the repartee. It was a case of the irresistible charm meeting 

the immovable grouch, and it was the grouch that melted. 

All this bonhomie would have led to disappointment if the food that Carlos 

was recommending hadn’t been up to par, but we were in a good mood 

as we awaited our appetizers while sipping a Chainier “1749” Sauvignon 

Blanc. Though New Zealand has become famous for this varietal in the 

last few years, the French entrants like this one from Bordeaux are worth 

exploring. The climate in France is warmer, the soil limestone based rather 

than volcanic, even the aging method different, and French Sauvignon 

Blancs are more subtle without the pungent grassy overtones. The New 

Zealanders are usually suggested with spicy Asian cuisines because the 

tropical fruitiness stands up well to spice and vinegar, but we found this 

enjoyable both as a sipping wine and with the food. They sell it for only 

$20 per bottle, which is a very good price. 

Our starters were eggrolls, dumplings called ka-nohm-jeeb, and an order 

of crabcakes that were served with a side salad. The dumplings were a 

Thai version of Chinese shu mai, ground chicken and shrimp with shiitake 

mushroom and water chestnuts steamed inside a thin crepe-like noodle. 

Though Thailand doesn’t share a land border with China there has been 

trade for centuries, and the culinary influence was clear here, with none 

of the heat and ginger that characterizes most Thai food. A thick soy-based 

spice sauce was served with it and that added flavor without ratcheting 

the heat very high, but these were just fine without it. 

I did want a little more zip with the eggrolls, which were a bit on the 

bland side and served with a sweet chili sauce. When asked Carlos provided 

a trio of sauces with different balances of vinegar and chili. One of 

these had chopped red and green peppers in a tart vinegar and was so assertive 

that I momentarily lost my ability to speak when I got too much of 

it. I kept applying it because it was delicious, but did so more moderately. 

The crabcakes were a winner, too, the two large discs of seafood mildly 

seasoned and served with some noodles stir-fried with onions and a dipping 

sauce of mild red curry. The exterior had the uniform crispness that 

suggested it had been egg-dipped before deep frying, which isn’t how I 

usually like crabcakes, but it worked and that’s what matters. The red 

curry dip was fragrant rather than hot according to the spice wimp at the 

table, but we had asked for things to be mild and now know we can give 

them a bit more latitude with the seasoning. 

We continued with a “tiger salad” which contained no actual large felines, 

but was composed of a mix of grilled beef, scallion, onion, lemongrass, 

and mint leaves over a bed of green salad. Salads like this aren’t 

really Thai because lettuce as we know it doesn’t grow there, but this 1960s 

invention by a Thai chef in Los Angeles has gone global. As well it should, 


ecause the combination of spice 

and garlic in the meat with a vinegary, 

slightly peppery dressing is a 

winner. 

Our final items were barbecue 

garlic pork over vegetables, shrimp 

pad Thai, and chicken with spicy 

chili and basil. If I had it to do all 

over again I might have ordered 

something other than the garlic 

pork because it was similar to the 

garlic beef that had been on the 

salad, and I would have liked to try 

a wider range of flavors from this 

kitchen. The different setting with 

cooked vegetables and a side sauce 

lent sufficient variety that we 

weren’t bored, but I’d still suggest 

getting one or the other. 

The shrimp pad Thai was standard 

but well crafted, the shrimp 

briefly grilled rather than steamed 

and the vegetables in good balance 

with the noodles, peanuts, and 

sauce. It wasn’t highly spiced and 

as far as I can tell shouldn’t be – 

it’s a gentle savory item that is a 

delight when done traditionally. 

The chicken with chili and basil 

was more assertive even though 

we had ordered it medium in deference 

to the two-heat-averse people 

at the table. When made mild 

it accents the pungency of Thai 

Tantawan Thai manager Miu Sauls 

basil, which has a concentrated 

herbal flavor that is very different 

from the Italian variant. The basil 

was accented by chili in the mild 

version, but if we had asked them 

to kick the seasoning up a few 

notches it would have been the 

other way around. Either way, it’s 

an enjoyable dish and one I would 

recommend here. 

We were offered the choice of 

regular jasmine rice, coconut rice, 

or brown rice with each entrée, 

and we got one of each. My suggestion 

is to do the same, because 

the different flavors in each add 

shadings to the curries and sauces. 

Dinner for four with a bottle of 

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Asia America Symphony (AAS) Guild Spring Tea 

n The “Tea by the Sea” was held at the private home of an Asia America Symphony 

Guild members in Palos Verdes Estates on May 11. The Guild supports the 

Asia America Youth Symphony, directed by David Benoit. Nearly 100 guests enjoyed 

tea and finger sandwiches and an array of desserts prepared by members. 

Youth Symphony members performed for guests , including Marcus Chang on 

the violin and Kai Nakkim on the clarinet. 

Elizabeth 

Morinaka, Susan 

Toy Stern, Lisa 

Nakkim, Margaret 

Shimada, Karen 

Bronson, Lisa 

Malone, Leslie Low 

and Kay Inose. 

Las Comadres Light Blue Group 

Los Compadres Class of 2017 (seated left to right) Kasey Katayama, 

Katherine Kelliny, Camille Masuda, Jillian Ambler, Julianna Yonis, and 

Hope Maruyama. (Standing, left to right) Megan Webb, Jennifer Simonell, 

Olivia Azzopardi, Cassidy Cushman, Nicole Takeda, Maxine 

Lee, Morgan Rivera. Photo by Kathi Wolfrum 

n The Las Comadres Light Blue Group Class of 2017 held their recognition 

dinner on Sunday, March 5 at Ports O’Call in San Pedro. Las Comadres is a 

member of the Student Service Advisory Council of Palos Verdes. Over the past 

four years, the group of 13 girls from Peninsula and Palos Verdes high schools volunteered 

more than 2,500 hours for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Ronald Mc- 

Donald House, PVP Land Conservancy, Heal the Bay, Cabrillo Marine Museum, 

Friendship Circle and local elementary schools. 

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HOME SWEET TUSCANY 

After starting a family in Japan, the Chapmans returned to Palos Verdes and rebuilt a masterpiece 

by Stephanie Cartozian 

Larry and Jodie Chapman 

never expected that they 

would be building a life together 

after a blind date set up by 

a mutual church friend over 30 

years ago. 

Larry was late to the performance 

of “Pirates of Penzance,” 

which was to be their meeting 

place for the evening. It was a 

show staged at the St. Peter’s Episcopal 

Church in San Pedro, where 

Jodie volunteered as a youth 

leader. 

“It was the worst production of 

Designed in part by Edward Carson Beall, the Chapmans’ Tuscan villa sits 

just off of the Palos Verdes Golf Course in the Valmonte neighborhood. 

‘Pirates of Penzance,’ ever,” Larry 

said. 

Jodie was not particularly impressed 

with his tardiness. Yet the 

two somehow managed to enjoy 

the evening together. Following 

their courtship, they married on 

August 27, 1983, and relocated 

soon after to Tokyo to take advantage 

of a professional opportunity. 

Larry, an electrical engineer, had 

joined Hughes Electronics in 1980. 

His work in Japan was the result of 

a joint venture between Hughes 

Electronics and two other companies. 

The companies were researching 

the technology 


This inviting pool area was a favorite spot when the Chapman children were growing up, replete with a water slide. 

surrounding direct broadcast satellites at the 

time, which eventually became DirecTV. Larry 

was one of DirecTV’s original Chief Operating 

Officers, in charge of the company’s Latin 

America division. 

The Chapmans’ first child, Alexis, was born 

in Japan and spent her first four years there. She 

was an anomaly in Eastern Asia. 

“People couldn’t get over her looks,” Jodie remembered. 

“They would bring over gifts just to 

be afforded the opportunity to see her up close 

and were fascinated by her non-Asian appearance. 

It was quite an experience for her to undergo 

all the extraordinary attention and 

popularity bestowed upon her at such an early 

age.” 

The family thoroughly enjoyed living in 

Tokyo and brought Japanese style, along with a 

sense of adventure, to the homestead they’d 

eventually establish in Palos Verdes. The family's 

sojourn to Japan ended in 1989 and they 

moved back to the States and settled in San 

Pedro in time for the arrival of their second 

child, Wesley that same year. Jodie, a Palos 

Verdes High School alumna, had never anticipated 

moving back to her hometown to raise a 

family as a full time mother. 

But the family became smitten with a house 

in the Valmonte neighborhood of Palos Verdes 

Estates. They purchased it in 1996. 

“We saw the potential here to really make it 

our own,” Jodie said. “I had a book of ideas and 

I would go through it excitedly searching for 

the just the right place to [apply] our future 

home ideas.” 

And what a playground this home proved to 

be for architectural detail, ingenuity and luxury. 

Originally built in 1938 and designed and engineered 

by H. H. Lochridge — the same architect 

who designed the City Hall building in 

The water slide leads to a sparkling pool and spa area 

with artificial grass and a courtyard lined with trellises 

filled with spring’s abundant flowers. 

Long Beach — this Tuscan-style refuge 

served as the foundation for the family’s 

future ideal home. In 1997, they hired the 

prominent Torrance-based architect, Edward 

Carson Beall, to engage in an ambitious 

remodel. 

“It was a two year endeavor,” Larry said. 

“We covered lots of ground.” 

He recalled how the couple saw an advertisement 

for vintage flooring that took 

them out to Vista, California, one of many 

uniquely sourced materials for the home’s 

reimagining. 

“The wood plank reclaimed flooring is 

eucalyptus sourced from a Tasmanian 

sheep shearing factory,” Larry said. “We 

had it hand-scraped, and even though it 

was glued down flooring, it still retains the 

original nail holes from its past life.” 

The family went to great lengths to stay 

true to the home’s character. The stairwell 

by the entrance is the original from the 

1930s. It’s made of magnesite, a type of oldworld 

style poured cement comprised of a 

mixture of calcined magnesite, magnesium 

chloride and various fillers including wood 

flour or sawdust. 

“There were five layers of paint masking 

the magnesite,” Larry said, noting it was 

all removed to expose the stairwell’s natural 

egg-shell color composition. Larry recalled 

that when they went to build the 

back staircase during the remodel, they 

could only find one purveyor of this material, 

Rizo’s, in Los Angeles. 

The house sits high above the street, 

meeting its towering eucalyptus trees eyeto-eye. 

The steps leading up to the front 

door are winding and alluring, with the floral 

and herbaceous scents of nature wafting 


Timeless 

Larry and Jodie Chapman enjoying the veranda with the Sebastion and 

Sola. Photo by Tony LaBruno 

Centuries ago when the world’s finest clockmakers were 

hard at work, their aim was to create a mechanical marvel 

that operates continuously and last forever. Imagine 

a hand made complex mechanism of inter-working parts designed 

to keep time accurately. Your clock is a work of art and 

your job is to keep this timeless treasure healthy for the next 

generation. 

Your clock reminds you of its presence every time you wind 

it. If the accuracy of the clock is not what it used to be, or the 

chimes are not as strong or rhythmic, or maybe it just stops; 

that means your clock is talking to you and telling you that its 

endless life is in jeopardy. 

It is imperative to maintain and service your clock regularly. 

Oil gets old and dry forcing the train of gears to work twice as 

hard to accomplish their goal. This results in damage that drastically 

shortens the life of a fine timepiece. 

Michel Medawar has been extending the lives of timepieces 

for over Sixty years as his father did Sixty years before. He is 

the inventor of the first talking clock in the world. He is a graduate 

from Patek Philippe in Geneva, Switzerland, The Theod 

Wagner Clock Co. in Wiesbaden, Germany, and the Howard 

Miller Clock Co. in Zeeland, Michigan. Call him so that he may 

come to your home and offer you a free estimate for servicing 

your clock. Or bring your wall or mantel clock to our store to 

see our showroom and receive the same complementary diagnosis. 

as one ascends. The front door, from Arte de Mexico, is heavily built with 

hand-carved paneling originally towering 12 feet tall. The door had to be 

taken down a few feet to fit the frame, so the extra panels were crafted 

and embedded into a wood lattice succulent planter outside creatively concealing 

waste bins. 

When the front door opens you are greeted by the Chapmans and their 

friendly small schnauzers, Sebastian and Sola. Your second vision is of the 

inviting kitchen, designed partly by Cooper Pacific Kitchens in Los Angeles. 

The kitchen cleverly features Old World accessories. The Sub-Zero refrigerator 

boasts an Arte de Mexico set of ornate handles. A “secret” staircase 

takes you underground to a well-equipped butler’s pantry, replete with a 

second refrigerator and other useful appointments, including ample storage 

cabinetry and workspace countertops. The breakfast area sits by a large 

bay window overlooking lush greenery outside. A front deck, visible just 

outside the window, offers an expansive view that includes the Palos 

Verdes Golf Course, venerable trees and bounding greenery and flowers. 

The home has three distinctive fireplaces. The living room, off the kitchen, 

has an old world finish, hand-done by well-known South Bay artisan Barbara 

Van Groningen in a textured deep merlot hue. Van Groningen’s 

artistry is ubiquitous throughout the home, including fleur de lys painted 

into the beams, whimsical fairies painted on the floors in the children’s 

bathroom and copper etchings of Tuscan villages she freehanded in the 

laundryroom. Some Asian influence can also be discerned in the largely 

The daughter’s whimsical bathroom has a decorative handpainted fairy on 

the floor by the basin and Barbara Von Groningen, artisan, styled the flanking 

cabinetry to match the sink basin’s greenery motif. 

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Tuscan residence, such as the 

Japanese Tansu step cabinet in 

their son’s room. 

Wesley resides in Australia now. 

“Since he wasn’t born internationally 

like his sister, he went international 

later!” Jodie said. 

All the bedrooms are upstairs in 

this approximately 3,355 square 

foot home that even has a “quilting 

room” upstairs, with a sewing machine 

and a window seat overlooking 

the pool and gardens. 

“This room is my refuge and 

sanctuary,” Jodie said. “It’s away, at 

the end of the house, and offers me 

creative time to work on projects 

that I love.” 

Each of the five bathrooms is 

carefully thought out, with unique 

accents fitting for the home. Wesley 

loved dolphins, so a dolphin 

motif is displayed in his shower 

tiles. Each of the bathroom shower 

drains throughout the house has a 

different, uniquely designed brass 

grating of Japanese fish or flowers 

or other nature motifs. Even the 

pool and spa are comprised of pebble-tech 

flooring, and the pool slide 

has a stone facade; gargoyles flank 

Living room with views of the verdant outdoors and vintage eucalyptus flooring 

throughout is a nod to the home’s seamless melding with nature. 

the slide with half-animal, halfhuman 

features, acting as downspouts 

clearing water from the slide 

wall. Such features, throughout the 

home and its grounds, are both 

practical and decorative. 

After the couple finished their 

home’s two year remodel, Jodie 

said they were inspired to find 

other projects they could share. 

“I was trying to find out what else 

we could do together next,” Jodie 

said. “Some couples garden together, 

bike together or even work 

together.” 

Jodie’s father, who was a navigator 

in the military, instilled in her a 

love of flying at an early age. So 

Jodie obtained her pilot’s license in 

2001 and two years later she convinced 

Larry to do the same. They 

purchased a Cirrus plane that has 

two batteries, two alternators, two 

GPS’s, four seats, and its own parachute. 

“I feel very safe in this plane,” 

Jodie said. 

The plane is housed at the Torrance 

Airport but will soon be flying 

north. The Chapmans have 

decided to make a move to Placerville 

to be closer to their new 

granddaughter, Juniper, who just 

turned one. The Chapmans are 

once again embarking on a new adventure, 

together. PEN 

The handcarved front door from 

Arte de Mexico is of substantially 

thick wood and makes a 

grand entrance. 


New PV Orchard’s Paint a Pot 

n The new Orchards in Palos Verdes hosted a free Paint a Pot event on Saturday 

afternoon May 13 in anticipation of Mother's Day. Children painted a terracotta 

pot for their mothers and planted a 

flower inside their new creation. 

Assisteens Recognition Ball 

around&about 

Chris Tabellerio and OSH 

manager Cyndy Lippert. 

Photos by Stephanie Cartozian 

Kids at the table painting 

their Mother's Day creations. 

Peninsula School of Performing Arts 

Presents La Bayadere ballet at the Norris 

n Students of the Peninsula School of 

Performing Arts (PSPA), directed by 

owner Tita Boulger, performed “La 

Bayadere” at the Norris Theatre La 

Bayadere on May 12, 13 and 14. La 

Bayadere means The Temple Dancer 

and was originally staged in four acts 

and seven scenes by the French choreographer 

Marius Petipa, to music by Ludwig 

Minkus. The ballet premiered in 

1877. The story takes place in India 

and connects the romantic and classical 

Lauren Hunter. 

Photo by Stephanie Cartozian 

eras of ballet. The ballerinas wear 

shorter classical tutus and move in very 

romantic and flowing manners. 

Assistance League Walk 

n Assistance League supporters Walked the Walk on April 23. It started at the 

Maritime Museum in San Pedro and concluded at the Dancing Waters, in front of 

the Cruise ship terminal. Nearly 100 walkers enjoyed views of the U.S.S. Iowa 

and cruise ships to raise funds to help underprivileged. Lisa Lehman won the prize 

for most miles. 

Nadia Innab, Eileen Potter, Miranda Kim, Nicole Suppelsa, Isabella 

Manestar and Nicole Rogalski. Photo by Nathan Worden, Worden Photography 

n The 52nd Annual Assisteens Recognition Ball was held at the Millennium Biltmore 

Hotel’s Crystal ballroom. Senior graduates danced a traditional waltz with 

their fathers to Tchaikovsky’s classic “Sleeping Beauty.” Each honoree spotlighted 

in a white gown, stood on a balcony while her high school accomplishments were 

read. The honorees contributed more than 4,500 hours to more than 17 South 

Bay nonprofit organizations. This year’s graduating class comes from Palos Verdes 

Peninsula High School, Palos Verdes High School, and Bishop Montgomery High 

School. 

Happy 90th Birthday, Jea Baran 

n The Trojan League of South Bay (TLSB) celebrated the 90th birthday of Founding 

Member and Past President Jea Baran at the Valmonte Room at the Canterbury 

Residence in Rancho Palos Verdes. The Trojan League of South Bay awards merit 

scholarships to current USC students from the South Bay. The group also connects 

South Bay USC alumni with one another. 

Pam Sattler, Rita 

Stratton and Gwen 

Slater. Photo by 

Andrew Wyman 

(Seated) Nancy Jacobsmeyer, John Baran, Jea Baran, Joan Spaeter and 

Sigrid Allman. (Standing) Al Spaeter, Lori Carlson, Kerry Olson, Patti 

Johnson, L’Cena Rice, Mary Beeson, Suzanne Krapf, Ginny Wood, 

Alice Remp, Nancy Lovell, Patti Josi, Julie Haynes and Beth Petak Aaron. 

Photo courtesy of TLSB 


Red Day helps Seniors 

n Keller Williams closed its doors May 11 for its annual Red Day. Keller William 

Palos Verdes Realtor Cheryl Friedman spearheaded the effort with Palos Verdes 

Estates Police Community Relations Officer Marcelle Herrera and Orchard Supply 

Hardware Assistant Manager Dave Taylor. The group cleaned up the yards of 

seven elderly residents. 

PV Seniors receive donation 

n The Palos Verdes Peninsula Association of Realtors 

(PVPAR) presented $1,000 to the Peninsula 

Seniors for their Capital Campaign. The donation 

was made at the seniors’ monthly breakfast 

meeting at the Los Verdes Country Club. Real Estate 

Attorney Steven Spierer addressed the nearly 

100 in 

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and Bill Ruth. 

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Eagle Scout Brian Hom 

n Students at Palos Verdes Intermediate School have a new garden to lunch in 

thanks to Eagle Scout Brian Hom of Palos Verdes High School. As his Eagle Scout 

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