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FORWARD MOTION 

Officials meet with Malibu evacuees to share 

information, answer questions, Page 4 

TRAGIC TALES 

Malibu residents who lost their homes 

share their stories, Page 6 

EDUCATIONAL OUTLOOK 

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District 

highlights options, next steps, Page 9 

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Malibu West residents band together to 

save neighbors’ homes, Page 3 

Malibu West volunteer fire brigade member Dermot Stoker (right) speaks with Susanna Roth and David Hays on Nov. 12. The brigade and other Malibu West residents stayed 

behind and took fire-fighting efforts into their own hands. SUZY DEMETER/22ND CENTURY MEDIA

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Athlete of the Week ................................20 

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THURSDAY 

Thanksgiving Day Feast 

11 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, 

Nov. 22, Malibu Beach Inn, 

22878 Pacific Coast Highway. 

The community is 

invited to a Thanksgiving 

Day feast. Complimentary 

food and beverage will be 

provided to this affected. 

Attendees are asked to use 

the city lot adjacent to the 

hotel. 

Community Thanksgiving 

11 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, 

Nov. 22, Pepperdine 

University, 24255 PCH, 

Malibu. Share a meal with 

community members. All 

are welcome, including first 

responders. 

MONDAY 

City Council 

6:30 p.m. Nov. 26, 

Malibu City Hall Council 

Chambers, 23825 Stuart 

Ranch Road. The City 

Council will meet. To view 

the agenda, visit www.mal 

ibucity.org. 

information, call (310) 

456-2489 ext. 232 or email 

mlinden@malibucity.org. 

THURSDAY 

Caltrans Public Hearing 

6-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 

29, Malibu City Hall Council 


Ranch Road. Caltrans 

will hold a public hearing 

to receive public comment 

regarding the Draft Initial 

Study/Environmental Assessment 

for the Solstice 

Canyon Creek Drainage 

Restoration and Bridge 

Replacement project. The 

project includes replacement 

of the existing bridge/ 

culvert at Solstice Canyone 

Creek with a new bridge 

structure with an underlying 

natural slope creek bottom 

to provide improved 

flood water conveyance 

and improve movement of 

Southern steelhead trout 

through the area. Written 

comments on the Draft IS/ 

EA must be submitted by 

Dec. 14. For more information, 

call (213) 897-9016. 

EDITORIAL DESIGN DIRECTOR 

Nancy Burgan, 708.326.9170, x30 

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9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 

Dec. 1, 23519 W. Civic 

Center Way, Malibu. This 

event is free and open to all 

residents of LA County for 

household waste. Business 

waste will not be accepted. 

For more information about 

the Small Quantity Generator 

Program, call the City 

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of accepted items at Clean 

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Jake Shimabukuro 

8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1; 

2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, Pepperdine 

University Smothers 

Theatre, 24255 PCH, 

Malibu. Ukulele player 

Jake Shimabukuro will perform. 

Tickets start at $25 for 

adults and $10 for full-time 

Pepperdine students. To 

purchase tickets, call (310) 

506-4522 or visit arts.pep 

perdine.edu. 

Planning Commission 

6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 

3, Malibu City Hall Council 


Ranch Road. The Malibu 

Planning Commission will 

meet. To view the agenda, 

visit www.malibucity.org. 

Malibu Chamber Mixer 

5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 

Dec. 4, Villa Calcare, 

31739 PCH, Malibu. Come 

preview one of the homes 

Mehrdad Sahafi, a Malibu 

local architect and builder, 

built. Owner and CEO 

Mehrdad Sahafi has been 

designing and developing 

estates for more than 30 

years exclusively in Malibu. 

Mixer admission is $20 

for members, $35 for nonmembers, 

and complimentary 

for first-time attendees. 

For more information, visit 

www.Malibu.org/. 

NAMI Support Group 

6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 

Dec. 4, Malibu Library, 

23519 West Civic Center 

Way. The National Alliance 

on Mental Illness Support 

Group meets the first Tuesday 

of every month. This 

group is for parents/caregivers 

who have a loved 

one with a mental illness. 

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Rotary Club 

8 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 

5, Pepperdine University 

Drescher Campus, 24255 

PCH, Malibu. This is the 

regular Rotary Club meeting. 

Those wishing to have 

breakfast at the meeting 

can choose from a variety 

of items in the Pepperdine 

Waves Cafeteria starting 

at 7:30 a.m. The cafeteria 

is adjacent to the meeting 

room, which is LC 152 in 

the Villa Graziadio Executive 

Center. For more information, 

visit www.malibu 

rotary.org. 

Senior Center Winter 

Showcase 

6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, 

Malibu City Hall Council 


Ranch Road. The Malibu 

Winter Showcase will 

feature performances by 

the Malibu Senior Choir, 

Senior Tap Dance, Ballet 

Class, Ukulele Players and 

the Senior Storytellers. Admission 

is complimentary 

and doors open at 5:30 p.m. 

For more information, call 

(310) 456-2489 ext. 357.

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MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS | November 23, 2018 | 3 

The heroes who saved the neighborhood 

Malibu West fire 

brigade, residents 

defend homes 

LAUREN COUGHLIN, Editor 

They stayed behind — 

and, because they did, 

many Malibu West residents 

can return home. 

The community has not 

been spared, though, with 

an estimated 21 homes lost 

out of 237 homes, despite 

valiant efforts from the 

Malibu West volunteer fire 

brigade and other residents. 

The brigade was formed 

in 2012 with the thought 

that if and when a big fire 

came, resources would be 

spread too thin. That year, 

the crew gained 10 members: 

Chris Spiros, Mark 

Wetton, John Hathorn, 

Dom Fote, Carey Hayes, 

Mike Downing, Armando 

Petretti, Merlin Clarke, Tim 

Bice and Dermot Stoker. 

The men had the gear and 

had gone through the motions, 

training under retired 

Santa Monica Battalion 

Chief Walt Shirk. 

When the fire roared into 

Malibu on Nov. 9, several 

residents — including 

newly elected councilmember 

Mikke Pierson 

and his 23-year-old son, 

Emmet, Christine and David 

Hays, Laurie, Monty 

and Tim Biglow, Erik Rondell, 

and Greg Corinth — 

stayed back, too. Christine 

Hays, event manager at the 

Malibu West Beach Club, 

opened the facility to community 

members, offering a 

safe shelter with amenities 

and supplies. 

Together, they fought a 

fire for which they never 

could have been prepared. 

“When you have it advancing 

on you, even 

though you’ve got a fire 

hose in your hand ... the 

roar, the sound — there’s 

nothing like it,” Stoker 

said. “You can’t produce 

it any other way than witnessing 

that firsthand.” 

Pierson said the fire leapt 

by 500 yards at a time once 

it exploded over the ridge, 

and they knew they had to 

save the top two homes in 

the neighborhood to slow 

the fire’s path. So they did. 

“We didn’t know who 

else was doing what,” 

Pierson said. “We just had 

our escape plan and saved 

houses we could and lost 

the ones we couldn’t.” 

Fote was on his roof, 

hosing down his property, 

when he caught sight of 

three separate lines of fire 

heading his way, including 

what he described as a 

“hurricane of fire, coming 

like a tornado” from the direction 

of Malibu Park. 

“Pieces of houses [are] 

flying through it and out 

of it on fire,” Fote said. “ 

... The only thing I’ve ever 

seen like that has been on 

some Weather Channel 

special.” 

Corinth, who also spent 

time on his roof with garden 

hoses, called the fire response 

in Malibu West “horrible” 

and said he interacted 

with firefighters in two idle 

engines, one on Paseo Canyon 

Drive and one on Trancas 

Canyon Road. 

“They literally ignored 

me then told me to move 

on,” Corinth wrote in an 

email to the Surfside. “The 

one on Trancas said they 

have it under control, then 

turned around in no rush 

and headed down PCH.” 

Corinth, whose dog was 

in his car, left the area when 

things got bad. 

“When day turned to 

night on Paseo, the smoke 

was so thick I started 

coughing and my eyes were 

Malibu resident Wendy 

Sweetmore organizes 

supplies for those who 

chose not to evacuate 

and instead stayed in 

Malibu West to fight fires. 

Residents had access to 

the Malibu West Beach 

club, where supplies were 

stashed. SUZY DEMETER/22ND 

CENTURY MEDIA 

nonstop tearing,” Corinth 

wrote. “I had to get my dog 

out of there. I regret not 

staying longer.” 

Pierson said the fire department 

was not in Malibu 

West for the first four hours 

of activity, but added that 

he has long held the belief 

that residents cannot expect 

their homes to be saved. 

“If you live in Malibu in 

a high fire zone, which is 

pretty much all of Malibu, 

and you expect other people 

to come and save your 

house, then you need to 

reevaluate that position,” 

Pierson said. 

And while Pierson credits 

those who stayed behind 

with saving roughly 

200 homes in Malibu 

West, he also admits that 

the City will have to discuss 

those who, like him, 

ignored evacuation orders 

and stayed behind, but who 

Malibu Coast Animal Hospital 

23431 Pacific Coast Highway 

tel:310-317-4560 

www.malibuvets.com 

saved hundreds of homes 

by doing so. 

“I’m super glad that the 

vast majority of people 

evacuated; I think everyone 

should evacuate, despite 

us staying,” Pierson said. 

“You really gotta have a 

very solid understanding 

of what you’re doing and 

what your plan is ... or else 

people die, and there’s no 

Please see HEROES, 7 

Our deepest debt of 

gratitude to the heroes who 

successfully evacuated our 

Malibu community, 

and all our 4-legged friends. 

We are forever in your debt.

4 | November 23, 2018 | MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS NEWS 


Next steps, more outlined at Malibu evacuee meeting 


There were no simple answers 

and, in some cases, 

there were simply no answers. 

Four days after the Woolsey 

Fire displaced thousands 

of Malibu residents 

from the comforts of their 

homes, Malibu City officials, 

representatives of 

emergency departments 

and other local entities met 

Nov. 13, facing a sea of 

concerned, at-times frustrated 

evacuees in the Santa 

Monica High auditorium. 

In just over two hours, 

officials provided updates 

and took more than 20 written 

questions. 

What now? 

Though some residents 

of eastern Malibu were permitted 

to return home that 

day, definitive answers did 

not exist for other portions 

of the community. 

“We don’t know when 

we’re going to be able to 

open up the city; you need 

to hear that,” City Manager 

Reva Feldman said in response 

to shouts from the 

crowd. “In the ’93 fire, our 

city was closed for three 

weeks. We are doing everything 

we can.” 

Those affected by the fire 

were urged to file claims 

with the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

The process can be started 

at www.fema.gov, and 

FEMA may be reached at 

1-800-621-3362. 

The community also 

heard from Ava Wagner, 

who provided an update on 

the health of her dad, Mayor 

Pro Tem Jefferson Wagner, 

who was hospitalized 

with carbon monoxide poisoning 

while trying to fight 

the fire that eventually took 

his home. Ava said her father 

sustained severe damage 

to his lungs, kidneys, 

airway and eyes, but he was 

released from UCLA Medical 

Center Nov. 12. 

“He wanted me to tell 

you that he has been so 

moved by the stories of 

our brave neighbors coming 

together to fight the fire 

and to support each other 

in these devastating times,” 

a tearful Ava said. “ ... We 

will heal and rebuild.” 

‘Rough days ahead’ 

The City plans to hire a 

consultant to aid in processing 

building permits. 

Residents asked if local 

boards would relax or 

Ava Wagner (second from left) — surrounded by (left to 

right) Laura Rosenthal, Skylar Peak, Reva Feldman and 

Lou La Monte — shares an update on her father, Mayor 

Pro Tem Jefferson Wagner, who went to the hospital with 

carbon monoxide poisoning. DAVE TEEL/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

suspend some regulations. 

Moderator Richard Bloom 

(D-50th Assembly), a former 

coastal commissioner, 

said historically in disaster 

aftermath, regulations have 

been relaxed, but he could 

not speak for the current 

commission. Councilmember 

Skylar Peak, while not 

speaking for the entire City 

Council, pledged to do everything 

he could to expedite 

permitting for anyone 

rebuilding. 

Officials warned that 

rain is expected to hit right 

around Thanksgiving, posing 

a threat of flooding 

as well as mud and debris 

flow. Feldman said the City 

would be temporarily lifting 

its ban on plastic sandbags, 

which residents will 

be able to get at local fire 

stations. 

As of Nov. 13, Southern 

California Edison estimated 

that 9,879 homes were 

without power and over 

600 poles needed to be replaced. 

The LA County Office of 

Emergency Management 

was working on a plan to 

remove debris, some of 

which is toxic. 

Once residents return 

home, anyone who believes 

property has been stolen is 

urged to report it to authorities. 

Roughly 700 deputies 

were deterring looters, of 

which there were no reports 

in Malibu, LA County 

Sheriff’s Office Chief John 

Benedict said. 

Officials warned of 

scammers and price gougers, 

and Bloom told residents 

not to give money to 

anyone unless they are sure 

of the beneficiary. 

The Boys and Girls 

Club of Malibu is to lead 

donation efforts, Feldman 

shared. 

“We need to come together 

as a community, we 

need to remember that we 

are Malibu and we will get 

through this,” Feldman said. 

“There’s going to be some 

rough days ahead, but we’re 

going to get through it.” 

Looking back 

As far as what has already 

occurred, meeting 

attendees’ questions centered 

on the fire response 

and the LA County Fire 

Department’s allocation 

of resources, as some residents 

described a lack of 

response to burning homes. 

Los Angeles County Fire 

Department Chief Deputy 

David Richardson said the 

unpredictability and swiftness 

of the fire made it difficult 

to control and follow, 

saying, “In 32 years in the 

business, I’ve never seen 

fire activity [like that].” 

Richardson also said the 

department had to “divert 

resources” to life-saving 

situations, where people 

who did not or could not 

evacuate Malibu called for 

emergency assistance. 

The question of Pepperdine’s 

decision to have 

those on campus shelterin-place 

was again raised, 

but Richardson stuck by 

his department’s previous 

statement that the university 

has a right to protect its 

students how it sees fit and 

said the decision did not 

pull resources away from 

other areas of Malibu. 

Feldman added that many 

Pepperdine students do not 

have cars, adding difficulty 

to the need to swiftly evacuate 

from Malibu. 

Resources 

Answers to residents’ 

questions, which can 

be sent to info@cityof 

malibu.org, are posted at 

www.malibucity.org/wool 

sey. 

The broadcast of the Nov. 

13 meeting is available at 

youtu.be/n1J7dGD43no 

Woolsey Fire watch — the latest on the historic fire’s impact 


The Woolsey Fire was 96-percent contained 

as the Malibu Surfside News went to 

print Tuesday, Nov. 20, and many Malibu 

residents have been able to repopulate. 

The Los Angeles County Fire Department 

expected full containment on Thanksgiving 

Day, Nov. 22. 

The fire has claimed 1,500 structures and 

damaged another 341 structures, according 

to officials, who have completed 95 percent 

of burn assessment. 

Three people have died — two in unincorporated 

Malibu on Mulholland 

Highway and one in Agoura Hills; their 

identities remain unknown as of press 

time. Three firefighter injuries have been 

reported, while there are no firefighter fatalities. 

The cause of the fire, which began Nov. 

8, remains under investigation. 

Over the past weekend, President Donald 

Trump visited Malibu to survey the 

damage, and Malibu opened its disaster 

assistance center at the old Malibu courthouse, 

located at 23525 Civic Center Way. 

The center, which offers residents access 

to various emergency resources, is to run 

through Dec. 8; hours and dates of operation 

can be found at www.lacounty.gov/ 

woolseyfire-disaster-assistance-centers/. 

The National Weather Service is anticipating 

0.2-0.7 inches of rain, which could 

cause rockslides, mudslides and minor debris 

flows in burn areas the afternoon of 

Wednesday, Nov. 21, through early Thursday 

morning. Rockslides and mudslides 

are likely to affect canyon roads and Pacific 

Coast Highway, according to NWS. For 

details, visit lacounty.gov/LARain. City 

Manager Reva Feldman said evacuations 

could be ordered by the fire department. 

“As of this afternoon, the entire city will 

be open to the city boundary to both ends 

on PCH, and to the city boundary on the 

mountainside, with the exception of certain 

canyon roads,” Feldman said Nov. 20. 

As of press time, Kanan Dume Road, 

Latigo Canyon Road and Corral Canyon 

Road were open from PCH to the Malibu 

city limit, but not further north.

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Lost property, lost memories 

Malibu residents 

who were displaced 

by fire share their 

harrowing stories 

JOE COUGHLIN, Publisher 


They called it the “exhusband/dead-wife 

storage 

locker” — an attempt at humor 

amid heavy burdens. 

In it, Malibu couple 

Dave Teel and Nicole Fisher 

stored keepsakes from 

their exes so that one day, 

they could pass those items 

to their children. 

County regulations, however, 

forced Teel, a Surfside 

News freelance photographer, 

and Fisher to give 

up the fire-strong shipping 

container that was on their 

land when they bought it 11 

years ago, Teel said. 

The replacement structure 

was one of 1,500-plus 

buildings destroyed by the 

Woolsey Fire. 

Living on Thrift Road, 

just southeast of Calamigos 

Ranch, Teel and Fisher lead 

a blended family of five 

children, only one of whom 

was with them at the time 

of evacuation. 

The family, Teel said, 

lives near a retired fireman, 

who would always 

warn them that if a wildfire 

jumped the 101 freeway 

around Cheseboro, it was a 

matter of “when, not if” it 

would approach their little 

valley community. 

News of a brush fire in 

Woolsey Canyon broke on 

Thursday morning, Nov. 

8, and Teel said his family 

wasted little time. 

“My wife, Nicole, said 

we should go,” he said. “I 

wasn’t sure yet, but she 

said she had a bad feeling 

and we needed to go now.” 

So, the three loaded up 

three cars with necessities 

and personal effects and 

drove to a friend’s home in 

Malibu West. There, they 

watched the news overnight 

Thursday, when the 

fire jumped the 101 near 

Cheseboro. 

Early Friday, the family 

took the three cars down to 

Zuma Beach, where Dave 

realized at the house was 

still one car, that of daughter 

Hayley Gorak, a student 

at Tulane University. 

Teel briefly returned to 

the home, packed up Hayley’s 

car and, for a moment, 

stopped to appreciate the 

atmosphere around 8 a.m. 

“I have the freakiest 

picture of the sky around 

the canyon all orange and 

smoky, but above it was 

clear, calm,” Teel said. 

Teel estimates that between 

9 or 9:30 that morning 

is when the canyon 

burned, taking out his home 

and many of his neighbors’. 

With the four cars, Teel 

said, the family made its 

way to Nicole’s mother’s 

home in Ventura, where 

they received photos from 

a neighbor confirming what 

they knew: The family 

home was gone, Teel said, 

along with 13 other homes 

in the neighborhood. 

“It was traumatic,” he 

said. “We had so many 

cry-wolf episodes up there: 

We’d back cars in and load 

them up and wait and nothing 

would happen. When 

it finally did happen, you 

say, ‘Oh I wish would have 

taken this or that.’ We got 

some stuff, but everything 

else is gone.” 

During past scares, Teel 

said, a fire official or sheriff’s 

deputy would come 

door to door to make sure 

everyone was OK. 

This time, he said, nobody 

came, not even when 

the fire did. 

“I think the thing I’m 

most upset about is the 

same thing a lot of people 

are,” Teel said. “The firemen 

were spread so thin 

that they couldn’t help with 

anyone. ... Malibu West 

was burning, and I saw the 

first fire trucks arrive 40 

minutes after. It was really 

way too late.” 

Officials have said that 

much of the early response 

to the fire was tied up in 

“life-saving” ventures, as 

they said many who stayed 

in Malibu were calling 911 

and in danger. Add that to 

limited resources, and fires 

burned through many Malibu 

homes without the presence 

of first responders. 

‘The only thing I care about 

is the animals’ 

Susan Tellem and Marshall 

Thompson thought 

they were fire-ready. 

Their Malibu Park home 

was covered with fire-resistant 

Hardie board siding 

and fireproof paint, and 

the family’s eight sheep 

kept their brush well-maintained. 

Just before 6 a.m. on 

Nov. 9, a neighbor pounded 

on their door and told them 

to be ready to evacuate. 

“That gave us a lot of 

time to get ready,” Tellem 

said. “ ... Marshall and 

I have been training for 

this and have our go bags 

ready.” 

Several hours later, with 

the Woolsey Fire steadily 

making its way toward 

Malibu, the husband-andwife 

couple, who runs 

American Tortoise Rescue 

and has more than 100 

turtles between their home 

and backyard, gathered 

their three cats and more 

than 35 turtles. 

Tellem added more water 

to the backyard ponds and 

attempted to wrangle their 

roosters and more turtles 

and tortoises, to no avail. 

As Tellem and her husband 

drove to Zuma Beach, she 

took comfort in the fact that 

the turtles they left either 

had a pond to duck under 

or concrete houses topped 

with Hardie board, offering 

a fire-resistant shelter. 

At Zuma, Tellem and 

Thompson helplessly 

watched their neighborhood 

and Point Dume alike 

go up in flames. 

The next morning, they 

were able to briefly return 

home to assess the damage, 

and it left them stunned. 

Their house and many 

houses around them were 

gone, but their animals 

were largely unharmed. 

Eight sheep and seven 

turtles were killed — a 

small number in the grand 

scope of their operation, 

but still a tough one for Tellem 

to swallow. 

A statue of Saint Francis, 

patron saint of animals, still 

stood in the front yard. 

“I think he protected our 

animals,” Tellem said. 

Also unharmed was a 

plastic container of chicken 

seed, a pumpkin and some 

plants, allowing Tellem to 

feed the animals which currently 

remain at their former 

home before heading 

to Culver City, where her 

44-year-old son, John Tellem, 

lives. 

One day, Tellem said 

they to rebuild in Malibu, 

but, for now, the couple and 

Malibu residents Dave Teel and Nicole Fisher lost their 

home as well as some irreplaceable mementos to the 

Woolsey Fire. PHOTOS BY DAVE TEEL/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

Shown is what was left of the Malibu Park home of Susan 

Tellem and Marshall Thompson as of Nov. 10. 

PHOTO SUBMITTED 

a portion of its animal companions 

are resting their 

heads in Culver City. And 

despite the family’s loss, 

Tellem remains optimistic. 

“The only thing I care 

about is the animals,” Tellem 

said. “The rest of it is 

replaceable.” 

Dave Teel 

snapped this 

photo of the last 

time he saw his 

home before 

evacuating to 

Zuma Beach. 

ATR has launched a fundraiser 

on its Facebook 

page. As of Monday, Nov. 

19, it had raised $9,864. 

ATR also launched a Go- 

FundMe page: www.go 

fundme.com/turtlestrongmalibu-fire-relief.



Malibu businesswoman fronts 

hotel bill for displaced employees 


For Malibu resident 

Dr. Kim Chilman-Blair, 

and for many, Nov. 9 

was a day filled with 

worry. 

Chilman-Blair was 

boarding a flight in New 

York — more than 2,500 

miles from her home, 

husband and children — 

when she received word 

of the evacuation order 

for Point Dume. 

While Chilman-Blair 

flew back to Los Angeles, 

her husband, Michael 

Frampton, and 

their boys — Ace, 7; 

Wolf, 3; and Reef, 2 — 

were able to leave their 

home with the help 

of the family’s nanny. 

Meanwhile, several employees 

of Medicine X, a 

medical startup of which 

Chilman-Blair is the 

founder, also were fleeing 

their homes. 

“All the way on the 

flight home I was concerned 

about the staff 

and how everyone was 

faring,” Chilman-Blair 

said. 

Though Chilman- 

Blair’s home was spared, 

two of her employees’ 

Malibu homes were destroyed 

by the fire — 

news that was delivered 

after another employee 

was able to return to 

Point Dume on Nov. 10 

and provide video and 

photos of the damage. 

“We thought that our 

house was gone so to go 

through that and to think 

that for 24 hours we’d 

lost everything and to 

get this report back from 

one of the employees 

... it’s just such a roller 

coaster, it’s insane,” 

Chilman-Blair said. 

With the evacuation 

orders still in place for 

Point Dume as the evening 

of Nov. 9 wore on, 

Chilman-Blair offered to 

pay for hotel rooms for 

displaced employees. 

“It would be wrong of 

me to not want to take 

care of them as part of 

my family,” she said. 

As of Nov. 14, five 

employees, as well as 

several of the employees’ 

pets and children, 

were staying in the hotel 

in LA, while other 

employees were staying 

with friends and family. 

Some members of the 

team, unable to access 

Medicine X’s Malibu 

office on Pacific Coast 

Highway, have kept 

Several employees of Medicine X, which has 

an office in Malibu among other locations, have 

been working out of a shared office space in the 

Santa Monica Regus after many employees were 

displaced from their homes by the Woolsey Fire. 


working, with some 

working from home and 

others from the hotel. 

“We’re all kind of this 

crazy den of people, but 

it’s this great sense of 

kind of camaraderie to 

come together,” Chilman-Blair 

said. 

Looking forward, 

Chilman-Blair said she 

also planned to open her 

home to the family of 

the employee who lost 

everything. 

“We’re counting ourselves 

extremely lucky,” 

Chilman-Blair said. 

NEWS BRIEFS 

Free mailbox rental offered 

to fire victims 

Those impacted by the Woolsey Fire 

can receive six months of free mailbox 

rental at PostalAnnex+ and AIM Mail 

Center locations in the Conejo Valley, 

the companies announced in a Nov. 13 

press release. The companies also are 

offering a free pair of work gloves. 

For more information, visit postalannex 

.com/fire or aimmailcenters.com/fire. 

Malibu Library extends due dates 

Like many businesses in Malibu, 

Malibu Library is uncertain of when its 

operations might resume. In the meantime, 

though, residents are assured that 

due dates will not be enforced. 

“During this difficult time for our 

community, we don’t want you to worry 

about your library materials,” Malibu 

Library wrote in a Nov. 12 Facebook 

post. “We have extended due dates a 

couple weeks, and if you need more 

time, just let us know when we reopen. 

We’ve also extended hold pick ups. 

Please hang on to your library materials 

until we reopen as our book drops 

are full.” 

News Briefs are compiled by Editor Lauren 

Coughlin, lauren@malibusurfsidenews. 

com. 

HEROES 

From Page 3 

house worth that.” 

Roughly an hour-and-ahalf 

after seeing the funnel 

of fire, Fote, who had 

retreated to the swim club, 

went back out and found 

active fires, including one 

fueled by a broken gas 

line. 

Fote said firetrucks from 

San Diego pulled up, and 

the firefighters spared 

Fote’s house and one other 

before heading down the 

street. 

“It’s not like there was 

no firefighter presence,” 

Fote said. “It’s just that it 

was overwhelming — completely 

overwhelming.” 

Palm trees resembled roman 

candles, Fote recalled, 

as the brigade members 

continuously wet them and 

any remaining brush. Railroad 

ties, too, served as ignition 

for the flames, Stoker 

said; even a fire extinguisher 

was no match. 

“You don’t know you’re 

tired at the time because 

your adrenaline is so 

pumped,” Stoker said. 

In their training sessions, 

brigade members were 

taught to attack fires from 

as many angles as they 

could. With that in mind, 

they teamed up to tackle 

spot fire after spot fire. 

At one point, Fote realized 

that Biglow’s home 

had ignited while Biglow, 

the Piersons and others 

had gone to Point Dume 

to protect Biglow’s childhood 

home. Fote gathered 

a crew of residents who 

were able to extinguish the 

flames and put out more 

hot spots. 

Things calmed down after 

Friday, Stoker said, but 

a good night’s sleep was 

hard to come by. 

“You’re sleeping in your 

clothes on top of your bed 

with your shoes on, waiting 

to pounce,” Stoker said. 

Pierson, too, said he and 

his son tried to go to bed 

three or four times only to 

be woken up by a knock on 

the door. 

When Pierson’s head finally 

hit the pillow, the last 

thing he saw out of his bedroom 

window was flames at 

a “fully engulfed” home on 

Trancas; luckily, he could 

see that firefighters were on 

scene, but he still called it a 

“surreal visual.” 

On Saturday, he awoke 

to more flames, as spot fires 

continued throughout the 

day, with some significant 

ones in the morning, Pierson 

said. 

Corinth returned Saturday 

morning, walking the 

neighborhood and informing 

those who had lost their 

homes of the grim news. 

“It’s never fun being the 

bearer of bad news, but 

due to the road shutdowns 

people had to know,” he explained. 

He also coordinated supply 

drops. 

“Every day, I would skirt 

another roadblock after 

finding out what’s needed 

on the ground, bring it to 

them, gather info, fight 

more spot fires that would 

rise up without a moment’s 

notice, then head back into 

town where I could get the 

info ready to send back to 

the residents the next day,” 

Corinth wrote. 

All things considered, 

Stoker said Malibu West 

was lucky. In some residents’ 

eyes, though, luck 

has little to do with it. 

“I have such praise for 

our locals who stayed back 

to fight the fires and saved 

many homes,” wrote Malibu 

West resident Maggie 

Luckerath, whose home 

was intact, in an email to 

the Surfside. 

Corinth, too, called his 

neighbors heroes. 

“I have been all over the 

world and can honestly 

say this is the best place in 

the world to live,” Corinth 

wrote. “The true locals, 

these are the ones whose 

families moved here decades 

ago when Malibu was 

still a quiet beach town, are 

the heroes here. 

“They are the ones that 

stayed to fight the fire. ... 

There are many of us that 

just do anything possible to 

stay here.”



Step by step 

Crews begin firerecovery 

efforts 

throughout Malibu 

SUZY DEMETER 

Freelance Reporter 

The beginnings of the 

Malibu Woolsey Fire recovery 

efforts were underway 

Nov. 14. 

California Department 

of Transportation crews 

were clearing the roads 

from debris, removing 

burnt branches and cutting 

charred remains. 

Utility companies were 

assessing where they need 

to make repairs and had 

begun the long haul to replace 

and repair lines and 

telephone poles along the 

Pacific Coast Highway corridor. 

Mobile cell tower units at 

Zuma Beach were bringing 

connectivity. 

A gas company crew was 

at Point Dume with multiple 

trucks. 

Crews were in Phase 1 

of assessing damages, the 

preparations needed for the 

Phase 2 of repairs. 

Kenn Miller, of the Los 

Angeles County Fire Department 

Air Operations, 

was stationed at El Pescador 

State Beach, one of 

the helicopter fill sites. He 

was operating a water tender 

that holds 5,000 gallons 

of water. Helicopters 

draw water from the tanks 

through a snorkel for their 

a california Department of Transportation crew clears 

charred brush and cuts down burned tree limbs 

Nov. 14 along Pacific coast Highway. PHOTOS BY SUZY 

DEMETER/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

air drops. The water is provided 

by the fire engines, 

which hook up to a hydrant 

and fill the tender. 

Community members 

were seen unloading supplies 

at Zuma Beach from 

a truck. 

The local firehouses 

were open to community 

members who needed provisions, 

according to fire 

crew overlooking the activity. 

Much of Malibu looked 

nothing like it once did, 

but signs of repair were all 

around. 

county Fire Department air operations, oversees the 

filling of a water tender Nov. 14 at a helicopter fill site. 

community members unload provisions brought in by a 

truck at Zuma Beach. 

utility companies start to repair lines and poles. 

Mobile cell towers are set up at Zuma Beach to allow 

better connectivity. 

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Malibu’s homeless outreach team continues efforts amid Woolsey Fire 

BARBARA BURKE 


As Malibu tries to recover 

from the effects of the 

devastating Woolsey fire, 

the homeless population is 

among those suffering. 

Alex Gittinger, program 

manager with The People 

Concern, was able to conduct 

a status update on 

Nov. 13, but was not able to 

get further than the Malibu 

Library and Colony Plaza. 

“Of the few homeless 

clients that remained in the 

area, they all reported to be 

OK,” he said. “There were 

two people we took to shelter 

and additional services 

in Santa Monica.” 

The Malibu outreach 

team planned to again go 

out Thursday, Nov. 15, with 

a medical-psychiatric team 

from Venice Family Clinic 

to check on clients in various 

locations in Malibu, 

including Zuma Beach and 

the Trancas area, Gittinger 

said. 

“There are several clients 

who need medication, 

which the medical team 

will bring, along with basic 

medical supplies, such 

as respiratory relief meds, 

eye drops, masks and other 

needed supplies,” he said. 

Gittinger stated that the 

outreach team will have 

food and water as well. 

“We are also coordinating 

with Los Angeles 

Homeless Service Authority 

regarding potential rescue 

efforts in case of the 

rain that is forecast for next 

week,” he said.



SMMUSD BOARD OF EDUCATION 

Malibu schools largely unscathed by fire 

Extensive cleanup, 

air tests to take 

place prior to 

schools reopening 

MICHELE WILLER-ALLRED, 


Santa Monica-Malibu 

Unified School District officials 

have assessed the 

damage at Malibu schools 

and report that there is “no 

apparent damage” from the 

fires to any of the campuses’ 

permanent buildings. 

“That is something to 

be very, very happy and 

thankful for because, in 

particularly around Malibu 

High School, Juan Cabrillo 

and Point Dume [elementary 

schools], many, many 

homes were lost and all the 

hillsides in those areas were 

rather badly charred,” Carey 

Upton, the district’s chief 

operations officer, said at a 

Thursday, Nov. 15 Board of 

Education meeting. 

A “rather substantial 

cleanup” of all the campuses 

is expected to start once 

evacuation orders are lifted 

and electricity is restored, 

officials said. 

Superintendent Ben Drati 

said the district is optimistic 

about reopening its campuses 

by Monday, Nov. 26. 

Upton said the slopes and 

hillsides surrounding the 

Malibu High School campus 

were “completely charred,” 

and a number of construction 

trailers and buildings were 

destroyed on nearby Morning 

View Drive. 

Upton credited firefighters 

with saving permanent 

buildings and new construction 

from being damaged at 

MHS. 

While there was no damage 

to athletic fields and 

The sound of the fire alarm pierced the charred hills above 

Malibu High School, pictured Nov. 11, but Malibu schools 

are largely unharmed. SMMuSD aims to reopen Malibu 

schools Monday, Nov. 26, but facilities will need to undergo 

an extensive cleanup. SUZY DEMETER/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

courts at MHS, Upton said 

the campus pool is filled with 

soot and ash and will require 

a “rather deep restoration.” 

At Cabrillo, Upton said 

the smell of smoke and ash 

collection in classrooms varied 

from “faint” to “more 

substantial” depending on if 

windows were left open. 

No substantial fire damage 

of any kind was found on the 

Point Dume campus, even 

though the fire damaged 

many homes in the surrounding 

neighborhood. 

There also was no fire 

damage reported at Webster 

Elementary, where electricity 

and water were already 

restored. 

Upton said Gary Bradbury, 

the district’s risk management 

specialist, also 

analyzed the school sites and 

determined a top-to-bottom, 

full cleanup of all the campuses 

was needed, including 

pressure washing the outside 

surfaces and cleaning the air. 

Air tests are to be completed 

to make sure there is no 

contamination at the schools. 

Upton said the cleanup is 

a “rather substantial process” 

which could take time and 

could impact when schools 

actually open. 

“Overall, we’re very relieved 

that our properties, 

buildings and schools can 

be open significantly sooner 

than if we would’ve had major 

losses,” Upton said. 

Resources for students 

[hed] 

School officials said they 

are working with a “high 

degree of flexibility” with 

assignments and grades for 

Malibu students, and looking 

to offer independent study 

programs and remote and 

online learning options for 

those displaced by the fires. 

Displaced families also 

have the option of resuming 

their children’s education at 

any of the district’s schools 

in Santa Monica, or they can 

attend school at neighboring 

school districts. 

College and career guidance 

will be available to 

Malibu students at Olympic 

High School in Santa Monica. 

College application extensions 

have been given by 

University of California and 

Cal State University campuses. 

The district has no plans 

to extend the school year to 

make up for missed time, but 

they are looking to possibly 

extend the first semester for 

Malibu students. 

Tara Brown, the district’s 

director of student services, 

said a number of various 

counseling and emotional 

services through various 

organizations also are available 

to Malibu students and 

their families. 

Brown said many Santa 

Monica school campuses 

have organized drives and 

collections to help Malibu 

residents. 

“Our Santa Monica 

schools and our students’ 

hearts are breaking for the 

situation in Malibu and they 

want to help,” Brown said. 

Gail Pinsker, SMMUSD’s 

community and public relations 

officer, said it is important 

for people to ensure that 

charities they plan to donate 

to are legitimate. 

Pinsker said there is an information 

box with the latest 

information and links to resources 

for Malibu students 

and their families at the top 

of www.smmusd.org, and 

also at each Malibu school 

website. 

Also available on those 

websites are surveys for all 

impacted families and school 

staff to fill out. Drati said the 

district is collecting this information 

in an effort to better 

understand current needs. 

“Our hearts go out to 

the families in these tragic 

events in Malibu and also the 

neighboring communities,” 

Drati said. 

“We know that a lot of our 

family members and a lot of 

our staff have lost property,” 

he said. “Some properties 

are completely destroyed. 

Some are unlivable.” 

BUSINESS BRIEFS 

REX provides rebate to homeowners displaced by 

wildfires 

California-based real estate services company REX 

has announced a program aimed at providing aid for 

residents displaced by the recent wildfires in Southern 

and Northern California. REX is offering to rebate the 

entirety of their commission to displaced residents who 

need to buy a new home. Normally, REX collects 2.5 

percent to 3 percent commission of the home’s sales 

price as the buyer’s agent and rebates half to buyers. In 

this case, that entire commission will instead be given 

to the buyer in the form of a check two days before 

closing on their new home. 

“We are heartbroken to see the devastation of the recent 

wildfires in California,” REX CEO Jack Ryan said. 

“While we know that the homes lost will never truly be 

replaced, we hope that we can do our part to aid victims 

in returning to some type of normalcy.” 

Every resident that chooses to participate in the relief 

program will receive full representation from a licensed 

REX agent at no cost. There is also no limit on the size 

of the commission rebate that customers will receive, 

as it will solely be based on the purchase price of the 

home. 

Displaced residents who would like more information 

about this rebate can contact REX directly at (855) 

342-4739. 

AT&T supports wildfire victims with donation, more 

AT&T deployed three satellite trucks to provide temporary 

mobile support services at Zuma Beach, Firehouse 

99 and Firehouse 56 in Malibu. 

The company also will be offering unlimited talk, 

text and data access from Nov. 9-30 for AT&T wireless 

and AT&T prepaid customers impacted by the Woolsey 

and Hill Fires in Malibu and beyond, according to a 

Nov. 14 press release. Impacted customers may still receive 

data alert notifications, AT&T said, but their bills 

will reflect the credits and/or waived data charges. 

“We are donating $150,000 to aid communities 

impacted by the wildfires in Northern California and 

Southern California,” the release states. “We will work 

with local communities and officials to direct the donations 

where they can be most beneficial. 

“We encourage anyone who wants to help our California 

friends and neighbors affected by the wildfires to 

text “CAWILDFIRES” to 90999 to make a $10 donation 

to support Red Cross disaster efforts.” 

Those who rely on AT&T for video and home internet 

services may direct questions/service requests to 

1-800-288-2020, and Legacy DIRECTV customers can 

contact 1-800-531-5000. 

AT&T wireline telephone customers impacted by the 

fires can call (855) 713-0449 for customer assistance, 

including waiver of fees for remote call forwarding and 

voicemail. 

Business Briefs are compiled by Editor Lauren Coughlin, 

lauren@malibusurfsidenews.com.

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DON’T PANIC, IT’S ORGANIC 

Helping trees, plants recover from fire 

With the recent fires in 

Malibu and surrounding 

areas, homeowners will 

not only have to deal with 

rebuilding but also with 

what to do for their dam- 

aged trees. 

If your trees survived 

then you will need to know 

if they are capable of new 

ANDY LOPEZ 

growth or totally dead. 

It is CONTRIBUTING possible COLUMNIST that a tree 

may look Invisible dead Gardener and still be 

alive! If it is alive, with the 

proper care, it will come 

back very fast. 

Here are some things to 

look for that will tell you if 

the tree can be saved: 

• Check to see if the tree 

is still green underneath 

any burned areas. You 

can do this by gently 

scraping a thin layer 

of the burned area. If it 

is green, then it is still 

alive. 

• Look to see if the trunk 

is completely damaged 

all the way around. Trees 

will not recover if the 

trunk is severely damaged 

all the way around. 

• Look for any signs of 

any leaves that survived. 

That will tell you that a 

tree is not entirely dead. 

If you are not sure if it is 

still alive, get an arborist 

to take a look. Do not 

ask your gardener; they 

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will not know. 

If you decide that your 

trees are alive, there are 

steps you can take to help 

with recovery. 

First off, do not add any 

chemical fertilizers. That 

is not what the trees need 

now. Also, do not overwater. 

The first thing you must 

do is get someone to cut 

off all dead branches. 

Don’t worry about removing 

any burned areas, as 

they will fall off over time, 

and you may cause more 

damage than good. 

Concentrate on amending 

the soil with rock dust, 

compost and azalea mix 

mulch. Add an organic 

tree fertilizer with all the 

proper nutrients. This 

will slowly help the tree 

recover. It also is vital 

that you learn how to 

foliar spray the tree. Foliar 

spraying provides immediate 

nutrients to the tree. 

But, you say, the tree was 

burned, and it doesn’t have 

any leaves to spray? No 

problem, spray the trunk! 

The nutrients will be 

absorbed directly into the 

trunk! 

This is important, as the 

tree will die if it cannot get 

food as needed and it will 

need a lot to recover. You 

will need to foliar spray at 

least once or twice a week 

for the next few months. 

It will be around this time 

that you will finally know 

if your trees will survive. 

If it is too far gone, the 

trees will not show any 

signs of recovery and the 

green you saw when you 

scratched the surface will 

have disappeared. If, on 

the other hand, your trees 

show signs of improvement 

then you are on your 

way to helping it get well. 

It will take all of next year 

for it to show lots of new 

growth. This is the same 

for your fruit trees, roses, 

etc. 

So, you ask, what do I 

spray? 

One option is milk. Yes, 

milk. It is rich in calcium 

needed for healthy tree 

growth. Mix one part milk 

to 10 parts clean water. 

You will need to rotate 

with other foliage products 

since it is not complete 

plant food. You can add to 

the milk molasses at 1/4 

cup for a gallon of water. 

Try Granny Smith’s since 

it is rich in trace minerals. 

You also can spray liquid 

seaweed. 

You also can spray with 

a trace mineral rich product 

like Sea-90. Just follow 

instructions and never 

overdo it, as this can kill 

your trees if you overdo 

the trace minerals. 

Compost tea is an 

excellent foliar spray. Just 

make sure that the compost 

comes from a good source 

and is not store-bought. 

Join a local gardening club, 

as many gardeners make 

their own compost. 

There are many wonderful 

foliar sprays on the 

market that are organic. 

You should use Bio- 

Char, as this also will help 

the trees to recover. I use 

SuperChar, which is made 

from earthworm castings 

and BioChar. 

You should buy any of 

the microbial liquids available 

on the internet that 

will provide the trees with 

a wide variety of microbes 

for the soil. You can not 

only spray the trunk etc. 

with it but also use it as 

a soil soak to add the 

beneficial bacteria back to 

the soil. 

You can make a foliar 

spray from rock dust. Just 

add 1/2 cup of a rock dust 

blend into a pantyhose, 

soak it in 5 gallons of clean 

water and spray. I like buying 

various sources of rock 

dust and blending them 

together for a complete 

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mix of minerals. 

Please be careful not 

to overwater, as this will 

drown the soil and kill the 

tree really fast. 

It’s best if it is on a drip 

system. 

Make sure to protect the 

soil from future fires by 

adding a generous layer 

of compost several times 

per year. Compost will not 

burn. 

Once we get through this 

month and into December, 

we should see conditions 

change and cool off, allowing 

trees to recover. Expect 

temperatures to be high 

come early spring and, 

therefore, make sure you 

have installed drip systems 

and provided adequate 

compost and azalea/gardenia 

mix. This type of 

mulch will not burn, but do 

not overdo it as too much 

will kill the trees. Times 

are changing fast. We can 

learn from this and survive 

while also helping the trees 

to survive. 

May everyone be safe. 

Let’s work together to 

make it through. 

Any questions? Email me at 

andylopez@invisiblegardener. 

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ASHLEY’S ANGLE 

In gratitude 

— even now, 

even here 

ASHLEY HAMILTON 

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST 

Malibu resident 

Before we give thanks, 

let us give thought to the 

faces we do not see and the 

voices we do not hear. 

Let us honor the victims 

of the Woolsey Fire. 

We can summon their 

images and replay the 

sound of their voices in the 

virtual world of video clips 

and audio files: an ethereal 

world — with an Ethernet 

connection — where what 

the physical world hath 

reduced to dust and ashes 

the digital realm automatically 

converts into ones and 

zeros. It is, however, little 

comfort to see what we 

cannot touch. It is hard to 

listen to what we may not 

want to hear. 

The burden is nonetheless 

ours to bear, as we are 

lucky to be alive. 

Let us, therefore, be 

thankful for our lives. 

Let us also be mindful of 

the friend who never complains; 

because we never 

asked, and he never told us, 

about the pain he suffers 

and the silence he endures 

— alone — when he goes 

home to an empty apartment, 

when he has a house 

but no home, when he has a 

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Year after year, Thanksgiving 

is a time to express 

gratitude. 

GRATITUDE 

From Page 10 

Given Malibu’s recent 

events, that is much easier 

said than done. Traditions 

are sure to be uprooted, 

and homes full of happy 

memories have vanished. 

The path to recovery and 

relief has no doubt begun, 

but there are plenty of 

tough days ahead. In times 

of grief, a strong community 

is the backbone 

one needs — and a strong, 

resilient Malibu is the city 

I know and admire. 

The generosity of area 

residents has been apparent 

in this trying time. From 

supplies and monetary 

donations to mental health 

support, there are many 

people who are willing and 

ready to help those who 

need it. 

And this Thanksgiving 

week, there also are some 

opportunities to gather and 

to heal. 

Events aside, there are 

people who are willing to 

lend an ear no matter what 

hour. 

phone but no messages. 

The quiet time is when our friend is 

most vulnerable. 

We owe the quiet man the sound of 

our voices and the sight of so many 

helping hands. We owe the widow the 

same, just as we owe the orphan the 

present of our presence. 

Thanksgiving is meaningless otherwise. 

It is neither a day to be thankful 

nor a holiday to give or receive love, 

unless we not only call a friend but 

act as his keeper — so he may feel the 

warmth of our kindness, so he may 

warm our hearts, too. 

We owe it to ourselves to acknowledge 

the lost and to accommodate the 

dispossessed. 

It is our obligation to conquer the 

quiet, so a chorus of humanity can 

outperform a crescendo of harm, so a 

concert of charity can outlast a concerto 

of hardship, so an encore of love 

can outlive an ensemble of hate. 

This Thanksgiving, let us bring the 

music. 

Let it ring throughout Malibu, and 

echo from the mountains to the valleys. 

Let it be a chord of brotherhood 

— and a chime of sisterhood — so 

the quiet may pass and the best of 

Thanksgiving may never die. 

Let our works be louder than our 

words, because it is easier to do what 

we say than it is to struggle to find the 

right words to say. 

If I struggle to write my intentions, 

despite my intention to do the right 

thing, I know what to do: call a friend 

or visit a neighbor. 

I call upon you — as I hope you 

will call upon me — to make Thanksgiving 

a day of action. 

Our acts can bless a life, or at least 

better a day in the life of a friend, 

thereby repairing the world. 

It can be a less harsh world. It 

Those in need of mental 

health support are encouraged 

to call Los Angeles 

County’s Disaster Distress 

Helpline at 1-800-985- 

5990. 

In the weeks ahead, we 

will continue to share any 

outlets of support that we 

are made aware of, and we 

will continue to honor the 

heroes in Malibu’s own 

backyard. 

Slowly but surely, 

Malibu will recover. 

should be a world worth living to see, 

rather than existing to have an everlasting 

life in the world to come; in a 

world that may never come, because it 

may not exist, while the choice is ours 

to live well — or die quietly — in the 

world of the here and now. 

It is an imperfect world. 

It is a world of poverty and privation, 

of tyranny and terror. 

It is also a world of grit and gallantry, 

of dash and daring. 

It is a world in which Thanksgiving 

thrives. 

Ashley’s Angle is a monthly column from 

Malibu resident Ashley Hamilton. Hamilton 

is an artist and father who seeks to express 

the truth through his work. Ashley’s 

Angle will cover issues and politics which 

are relevant to the Malibu community at 

large. The opinions of this column are 

that of the writer. They do not necessarily 

reflect those of the Malibu Surfside News. 

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heartbreaking COUPLE OF weekS for the Malibu 

community. In times like these, we see how 

much stronger we are when we unite to 

support each other, practice compassion and 

begin healing together. 

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CHIPPING IN 

Area businesses, residents offer 

aid to fire victims, Page 14 

CURING, CARING 

Medical professionals aid residents 

in time of need, Page 15 

Jones Builders Group leads donation effort, purchases generators for Malibu, Page 15 

Jones Builders Group team members gather for a photo Thursday, Nov. 15, after making a donation drop in Malibu. 

The business is currently raising money through a GoFundMe page to purchase generators. MEGAN CUNHA

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Community members band together, 

provide relief to Malibu in time of need 

HEATHER WARTHEN, 

Contributing Editor 

While more than half of 

Malibu is still unable to 

return to their homes and 

businesses, fellow Malibu 

residents and local businesses 

are stepping in to offer 

relief. 

With Thanksgiving a 

week away, Vintage Grocers 

is offering thanks for 

first responders and giving 

support to displaced victims 

of both the Woolsey 

and Hill fires by offering a 

free turkey for Thanksgiving. 

The grocer’s popular 

Trancas Country Market 

location in Malibu is still 

closed as of Thursday, Nov. 

15. 

“It’s the right thing to 

do,” Vintage Grocers brand 

ambassador Melissa Darpino 

said, of the free turkeys. 

“Malibu is a tight community 

and this particular part 

of Western Malibu even 

more so. We want to be 

open as soon as possible so 

OTHER RELIEF EFFORTS 

•Ralph’s, Food4Less donate supplies 

According to a post on the California Grocers 

Association Facebook page, Ralphs, which has a 

Malibu location, and Food4Less donated several 

pallets of water, fruit, snacks and feminine products 

to the American Red Cross evacuation center at 

Pierce College in Woodland Hills and the Los Angeles 

Regional Food Bank. 

• Salvation Army California South Division 

According to a Nov. 14 news release on its website, 

the Salvation Army California South Division has 

consolidated five evacuation shelters in Ventura 

County to one at California Lutheran University in 

Thousand Oaks. Since Nov. 9, they served more 

than 1,200 meals and nearly as many snacks 

to evacuees of the Woolsey and Hill Fire. The 

organization is seeking donations to help locally 

with rental assistance programs as well as food and 

gift card distribution. To contribute to the Salvation 

Army’s relief efforts, text “Wildfire” to 41444 or visit 

www.salvationarmy-socal.org. 

we can give some sense of 

normalcy to guests. 

“With Thanksgiving on 

our doorstep and the desire 

to be together – friends, 

family, neighbors – we 

wanted to offer the turkey 

as the centerpiece of this 

time of sharing.” 

The turkeys, which include 

a fully-cooked Diestel 

Farms turkey or a raw, 

natural turkey, are available 

while supplies last at 

the Westlake Village store 

at 140 Promenade Way or 

the Pacific Palisades location 

at 15285 W. Sunset 

Blvd. Reservations also are 

taken by emailing thanks 

giving@vintagegrocers. 

com. To receive the turkey, 

a valid first responder ID or 

driver’s license is needed. 

Darpino, who also was 

an evacuee from Liberty 

Canyon in neighboring 

Agoura Hills, said the Malibu 

location was “virtually 

untouched” and that they 

will be posting information 

on their social media channels 

over the next few days. 

“We remain standing 

and we cannot wait to open 

our doors again,” she said. 

“We are going to be opening 

as soon as possible and 

much sooner than we ever 

thought.” 

Nonprofit World Central Kitchen serves 55,000 meals 

HEATHER WARTHEN, Contributing Editor 

If anyone knows what a hot meal 

can do for a fire evacuee, it’s chef Tim 

Kilcoyne. 

Last December, Kilcoyne was forced 

to evacuate his Ventura home during 

the Thomas Fire. It was after that experience 

he started working as a team lead 

with World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit 

founded by Chef José Andrés after the 

2010 earthquake in Haiti. The organization 

helps establish disaster-relief kitchens 

and provide meals to first responders 

and disaster victims. 

World Central Kitchen is a partner 

with the American Red Cross and 

Kilcoyne said they are delivering meals 

to about 25-30 locations for those affected 

by the Woolsey Fire which 

burned through portions of Malibu. 

“We are delivering to shelters in Los 

Angeles and Ventura counties,” he said. 

“We also are set up with three animal 

shelters to help feed their volunteers. 

We’re also feeding everyone that’s 

working.” 

Even the animals in the shelters are 

benefiting from World Central Kitchen, 

as Kilcoyne said vegetable scraps from 

the meals were given to them. 

“Especially since I went through it 

and was evacuated [from my home], it’s 

really heartwarming seeing the community 

come together,” he said. “It’s amazing 

and so important.” 

Kilcoyne said they have about 150- 

200 volunteers who are helping take 

care of lunches and dinners and as of 

Friday, Nov. 16, had made approximately 

55,000 meals in the past week. 

“We’ve got a lot of hands helping to 

push everything out,” he said. 

He also knows they are making an 

impact on both evacuees and first responders. 

“These people are in shelters and just 

lost their homes,” Kilcoyne said. “A 

hot meal goes a long way with people 

and it can turn their day around. It’s the 

same thing with first responders who 

are working 24-hour shifts. They don’t 

have the chance for a hot meal and now 

they have one.” 

To donate or help volunteer, visit 

www.worldcentralkitchen.org. 

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Volunteers take to the sea to bring 

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Three california Highway Patrol officers, five explorers, 

Ventura county Fire Department members and other 

volunteers helped unload supplies from various boats 

Thursday, Nov. 15, near Paradise cove Beach cafe in 

Malibu. The effort was coordinated by Dive N’ Surf, a surf 

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Malibu contractor lends 

aid to local relief efforts 

HEATHER WARTHEN, Contributing Editor 

When one of his employees got the call to 

evacuate during the Woolsey Fire, Malibu 

resident Nathan Jones invited him to stay at 

his home. 

What Jones didn’t know is that he would 

soon be evacuating, too. The owner of Jones 

Builders Group, a Malibu-based residential 

contractor, and his family were among the 

thousands who evacuated Malibu Nov. 9. 

Jones, along with his wife, Maura, and 

two children Charlie and Frankie, as well as 

their pets, drove to Santa Monica to stay with 

friends. It was there he heard about a donation 

drop-off in Santa Monica. 

“I grabbed my kids because I thought it 

would be good for them to do this,” Jones 

said. 

Jones said they purchased about $2,000 in 

supplies, clearing out travel-sized items at a 

local drugstore and picking up cases of water. 

They then drove the supplies over to the donation 

drop-off where they discovered a front 

yard filled with donations. Jones asked the 

organizers what they were going to do with 

the supplies, but with uncertainty on when 

they could get back into Malibu they were 

waiting to take it in. 

It was then the idea of using boats to take 

supplies popped into his head. 

“I said, ‘People need this now,’” Jones 

said. “I said, ‘Let’s work on getting boats.’” 

Jones started texting everyone he knew, 

from friends and neighbors to present and 

past clients. Within two hours, they had boats 

ready to go out of Marina del Rey. Jones put 

his staff to work and had them help load the 

donations onto the boats. Altogether, they 

had approximately seven boats ferrying the 

supplies to Malibu, including one trip with 

the 143-foot Leight Star Yacht owned by 

Howard Leight, who owns Malibu Rocky 

Oaks Estate Vineyard. 

“The goodness came out in everyone,” 

said Jones, adding curious people at the marina 

also offered up their boats. 

During those drops, Jones made connections 

with those still in Malibu, asking them 

what the greatest needs were so they could 

fulfill them. He began posting through social 

media, where they detailed needs a few times 

a fleet of vehicles organized by Jones 

Builders Group delivered supplies to 

Malibu Nov. 14. NATHAN JONES/JONES 

BUILDERS GROUP 

a day with a drop-off location. 

Eventually, Jones found a way to take a 

U-Haul and other vehicles filled with supplies 

into Malibu. By Nov. 14, they had nine 

trucks in their supply convoy. 

“A lot of these people [in Malibu] are helping 

to put out hot spots and also take care of 

the elderly,” he said. “They can’t sleep and 

they are exhausted.” 

The biggest needs, Jones said, are gasoline 

and generators. 

“There’s no power and everyone wants 

power,” he said, adding they have purchased 

$30,000 in generators. “They don’t need 

blankets because they have their homes. The 

focus is on getting generators.” 

Jones started a GoFundMe page (www. 

gofundme.com/6esipxc) to raise $150,000 

to purchase generators for Malibu residents. 

As of Monday, Nov. 19, they had collected 

$28,753. 

“We cleaned out western Los Angeles of 

gas cans and generators,” Jones said. 

During a trip for generators at a local Harbor 

Freight, one plumber overheard Jones. 

“He offered to drive in with us,” Jones 

said. “I’m finding that people have a willingness 

to step up. 

“This disaster is like a magnifying glass 

where whoever you are is magnified. If you 

are a generous person, your generosity is 

magnified. I’m finding out so much about 

people.” 

Malibu doctors render care during disaster 

BARBARA BURKE, Freelance Reporter 

Malibu Urgent Care stayed open for as 

long as it could. 

Ultimately, it faced fire officials at its 

door, who told staff members to evacuate 

from Malibu around 2 p.m. Nov. 9. The 

urgent care facility was closed until the 

morning of Nov. 12. 

“With the help of the City Manager, 

we were escorted back into Malibu on 

Monday and we opened at 10 a.m.,” said 

Dr. David Frankle, of Malibu Urgent 

Care. “Since then, we have been seeing 

patients with insurance as well as gratis. 

I would never compound a horrible situation 

by not seeing people without financial 

means during this disaster.” 

The facility, located at 23656 Pacific 

Coast Highway, has primarily treated 

patients with respiratory conditions, including 

asthma and smoke inhalation, as 

well injuries attributable to objects flying 

in victims’ eyes and burns and abrasions, 

Frankle said. 

“I want to remind people that it is very 

important for them to get flu shots,” 

Frankle said. “Remember, last year was 

the worst flu season in history.” 

Dr. Jeff Harris, who also had to evacuate 

from the city, tirelessly provided 

medical advice via telephone to his patients. 

He also treated Malibuites and 

others who were evacuated to the Red 

Cross evacuation center at Palisades 

Charter High School. 

“I’ve been treating people who suffered 

primarily from respiratory conditions,” 

Harris said. “I have also been 

helping people who need to refill their 

prescriptions, whether they have just run 

out of their prescription and need a refill 

or have lost their medications in the 

fire.” 

Mental health support 

Physical manifestations aside, many 

affected by the fire need counseling. The 

Red Cross has hosted evacuees and coordinated 

volunteer mental health services 

and spiritual care professionals 

who provided more than 6,600 contacts 

to provide support and care to evacuees, 

according to a Nov. 15 press release. 

Los Angeles County also offers mental 

health support. Impacted residents can 

call the county’s 24/7 Disaster Distress 

Helpline at 1-800-985-5990, or they can 

text “TalkWithUs” to 66746 for mental 

health support and resources. 

Roots & Wings plans to coordinate 

efforts that will involve therapists, acupuncturists, 

massage therapists, yoga 

classes and more to anyone affected by 

the fires. Session dates were not available 

as of press time. 

Dr. Rhonda Jessum also is offering 

free, individual crisis counseling for residents 

of Malibu and surrounding communities 

at 21217 Pacific Coast Highway. 

Contact Jessum at (424) 330-0088. 

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16 | November 23, 2018 | MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS PUZZLES 


SURFSIDE PUZZLER CROSSWORD & SUDOKU 

This is more than your average crossword. The Surfside Puzzler features clues pertaining to Malibu each week. 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur 

ACROSS 

1. Account amt. 

4. ‘’Deep Space Nine’’ role 

7. Decision maker, abbr. 

10. Funny guy 

13. Prior to, in poems 

14. “Jeopardy!” phenomenon 

Jennings 

15. Corinne Bailey ___ 

2007 Grammy nominee 

16. Have a meal 

17. He performed juggling 

acts in the Malibu 

library 

20. Vientiane citizen 

21. “Phantom of the Opera’’ 

title character 

22. Beach footwear 

24. Glide behind a motorboat 

28. It has its faults 

31. Pig pad 

32. Famous historic British 

school near Windsor 

33. Garden tools 

34. Ideal 

36. Aspiring atty.’s exam 

37. It’s trolled at Christmas 

38. Ming things 

40. Seagoing, abbr. 

42. Yellow fruits 

44. Didn’t shuffle 

46. Pinball paths 

47. Piggy 

50. Rooftop sight 

51. Hair coloring, e.g. 

53. St. Francis’ home 

55. German composer, Carl 

__ 

56. 2,000 lbs. 

58. Fear of public places 

62. Gallery display 

63. Ice hockey org. 

64. Haggard title 

65. Duke’s grp. 

66. Many college grads 

67. Japanese leader Hirobumi 

68. Payroll processing 

company 

69. Formerly 

DOWN 

1. Moistens, in a way 

2. Genesis landing spot 

3. Funny business 

4. Authorized 

5. End of the year 

month, for short 

6. Musical Yoko 

7. Major or Minor Bear 

8. 5,000 mile once-over 

9. Awaiting 

10. Broad subject relating 

to health 

11. Car club 

12. Ford muscle car 

18. President, for short 

19. Occupying 

23. Aspects of problems 

25. Back of the house 

26. Dance floor illuminator 

27. Australian marsupial 

29. Bank offering, for 

short 

30. Past fast flier 

34. Argot 

35. Egg producer 

37. Fruits 

39. Get smart 

40. Government security 

agency, abbr. 

41. Dined 

43. The lowest point 

45. Bottled water brand 

47. Brimless headgear 

48. Workstation 

49. Obliterate 

52. Additionally 

54. On your own 

56. Check 

57. A Feast ____ famine 

59. __ __ rule (usually) 

60. Doctorate 

61. In the know 

How to play Sudoku 

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that has 

been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3 squares. 

To solve the puzzle each row, column and box must 

contain each of the numbers 1 to 9. 

LEVEL: Medium 

3 4 

4 

8 2 1 

2 3 7 

3 5 9 

1 9 8 4 2 

8 5 2 

9 2 7 

5 3 

Sudoku by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan 

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30 

6 1 3 7 9 2 8 5 4 

2 4 5 1 6 8 7 9 3 

8 9 7 4 3 5 6 2 1 

4 5 9 2 1 6 3 7 8 

3 2 8 5 7 4 9 1 6 

1 7 6 9 8 3 5 4 2 

7 8 4 3 5 1 2 6 9 

9 3 1 6 2 7 4 8 5 

5 6 2 8 4 9 1 3 7 

T O A 

68 D P N 

69 E E 

A S I 

67 

37 

C A R O L 38 V A 39 S E S 

U T B A A N A S 

42 43 N T R O D O 

45 E 46 A R C S 47 T 48 

E R I A L 51 D Y E S 52 

T U F F 

53 

A S S I 54 S I 55 O R F F 

N A G O R O B I A 

58 59 A 

60 P 

61 H R T N 63 H L 64 S H E 65 A C C 

R I K 22 S A N D 23 A L 

A T E 25 R 

26 S 

27 28 

29 

K I T E N N I 

T Y 32 E T O N 33 E D G E R S 

34 

P A R A G 35 36 

O N L S A T 

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 

A L O D O U M P W A G 

R E K E N R A E E A T 

14 15 16 A V 18 

I D C O 19 U S I N 20 

L A O 

O 

57 

A 

41 

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B 

66 

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56 

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44 

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40 

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24 

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21 

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17 

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13 

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ANSWERS 

FAITH BRIEFS 

Malibu United Methodist Church (30128 Morning View Drive, 

310-457-7505) 

Sunday Worship 

10:30-11:30 a.m., Sundays. Child care 

available. 

Chabad of Malibu (22943 PCH, 310-456-6588) 

Saturday Services 

9 a.m., Kabbalah on the Parsha; 10 a.m. 

Shabbat service; 11 a.m. Words from the 

Rabbi & Torah Reading; 12:30 p.m. Kiddush 

lunch 

Sunday Services 

9 a.m.. 

Malibu Presbyterian Church (3324 Malibu Canyon Road, 

310-456-1611) 

Sunday Services 

10:15 a.m. Sundays 

St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church (28211 Pacific Coast Highway, 

310-457-7966) 

Contemplative Worship 

8 a.m. Sundays 

Traditional Worship 


University Church of Christ (24255 Pacific Coast Highway, 

310-506-4504) 

A cappella Service 

10:15 a.m. Sundays, Elkins Auditorium 

Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue (24855 PCH, 310-456- 

2178) 

Tot Shabbat 

11:30 a.m.-noon. Fridays. Celebrate 

Shabbat with prayers, music and dancing. 

Vintage Church (Webster Elementary School, 3602 Winter 

Canyon Road, 310-395-9961) 

Sunday Service 

4-5:30 p.m. Sundays, with children’s 

ministry 

Calvary Chapel Malibu (30237 Morning View Drive, 424- 

235-4463) 

Service 


Have an event for faith briefs? Email lauren@malibusurfsidenews.com. 

Information is 

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publication.

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COMEBACK KIDS 

Pepperdine men’s basketball rebounds 

to claim third at Islands of Bahamas 

Showcase, Page 18 

A MAJOR HONOR 

MLB’s Yelich crowned National 

League’s Most Valuable Player, 

Page 20 

Waves’ tennis player Lahey to again represent 

Team USA in France, Page 19 

Pepperdine junior ashley lahey, pictured last season, will return to eastern France next week, 

looking to reclaim the Master’u international collegiate Team competition title from Great Britain. 

BILL KALLENBERG/PEPPERDINE ATHLETICS

18 | November 23, 2018 | MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS SPORTS 


PEPPERDINE ATHLETICS 

Men’s basketball nets 

KEEPING THE PACE 

Repeat competitor completes Malibu Half Marathon 

third in the Bahamas 

The Pepperdine men’s 

basketball team closed out 

the Islands of the Bahamas 

Showcase with a comeback 

for the ages, rallying from 

18 points down in the second 

half and scoring the 

game’s final eight points to 

beat Miami (Ohio) 86-80 

in the third-place game on 

Sunday, Nov. 18. 

The Waves (3-2) trailed 

the RedHawks (2-3) 46-33 

at halftime and 65-47 with 

13 minutes left. But Pepperdine 

outscored Miami 

39-15 the rest of the way. 

There were five lead 

changes in the final five 

minutes, but a 3-pointer 

by freshman forward Kessler 

Edwards put the Waves 

ahead to stay at 81-80 with 

1:44 left. 

Sophomore guard Colbey 

Ross and Darnell Dunn 

each tied career highs with 

25 and 18 points, respectively. 

Ross added five assists 

and a number of late 

buckets for the Waves. 

Senior guard Eric Cooper 

Jr. sank four 3-pointers 

and scored 17 points, while 

Kessler Edwards notched a 

season-high 14 points. 

The Waves shot 57.1 

percent in the second half, 

while holding the Redhawks 

to 36.7 percent in 

that half. Pepperdine forced 

14 turnovers and committed 

only nine. 

Edwards sank a 3-pointer 

with 1:44 left to put Pepperdine 

ahead 81-80. As 

the Waves were getting 

defensive stops, Ross hit a 

pair of close-range, difficult 

shots to put Pepperdine 

up 85-80 with less than 30 

seconds to go. 

The Waves made Miami 

miss its final three shots 

while forcing one turnover. 

In the semifinals on Saturday, 

Nov. 17, the Waves 

couldn’t hold off Georgia 

Southern’s second-half 

charge and fell 88-78. 

The Waves (2-2) led by 

11 at 63-52 with 14 minutes 

left, but the Eagles (4- 

0) scored the next 10 points 

and extended the run to 

18-2 and 22-4. 

Ross tied his career high 

with a game-high 25 points 

(18 in the first half) to go 

with five assists. It was his 

second straight 20-point 

game and the 10th of his 

career. 

Dunn made all six of his 

shots and all three of his 

3-pointers for 15 points. He 

also had six rebounds and 

three assists. 

Junior forward Kameron 

Edwards just missed a double-double 

with 15 points 

and nine rebounds. He had 

13 points in the second half. 

Kessler Edwards had 13 

points. 

Pepperdine forced more 

turnovers (19 to 17) but 

Georgia Southern had a 23- 

16 edge in points off turnovers. 

The Eagles got to the 

foul line more often and 

went 21-for-31 there, while 

the Waves were 13-for-17. 

Five Georgia Southern 

players scored in doublefigures, 

led by Tookie 

Brown’s 21. 

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL 

Waves sweep rival Loyola 

Marymount 

A straight-set win over 

PCH Cup rival Loyola 

Marymount at the Gersten 

Pavilion helped the Pepperdine 

women’s volleyball 

team to its 20th win of the 

2018 campaign on Sunday, 

Nov. 18. The 25-21, 25- 

19, 25-23 win pushed the 

Waves to a 20-8 overall record 

and a 13-4 West Coast 

Conference record, the program’s 

best overall output 

since the 2012 campaign. 

Shannon Scully led the 

team with her 12th double-double 

of the season, 

recording 14 kills and 12 

digs, while Tarah Wylie (3 

blocks) led the Waves with 

three aces for the third consecutive 

match. 

Also pitching in were 

Hannah Frohling with 10 

kills, Alli O’Harra with six 

kills and two blocks, Blossom 

Sato with 32 assists, 

and Hana Lishman with a 

96 percent serve receive. 

All-time, Pepperdine 

leads Loyola Marymount 

56-24 all-time, dating back 

to the 1976 season when the 

Waves won a match on the 

road in straight sets. Earlier 

this season, the Waves 

downed the Lions with a 

sweep at home. 

MEN’S WATER POLO 

Team takes third in league 

championships 

The Golden Coast Conference 

Championships 

came to a close on Sun- 

ani Dermenjian, of coldwell Banker - Malibu colony, poses after finishing the 

Malibu Half Marathon on Nov. 4. She has run in the race eight of 10 years and 

finished this year’s event with a time of 2 hours, 47 minutes and 56 seconds. 


day, Nov. 18, with the No. 

7 Pepperdine men’s water 

polo team taking third 

place after defeating UC Irvine 

10-8 in the final game 

of the season. 

Balazs Kosa had four 

goals for the Waves and 

also was named to the All- 

Tournament Team. 

The first period of play 

was even, as both teams 

scored twice. Irvine started 

the scoring, followed by 

Kosa’s first goal. Sean Ferrari 

scored the second goal 

of the period for the Waves. 

After one, the game was 

tied at two. 

Irvine started the scoring 

in the second period as 

well, but the Waves quickly 

took the game over. 

Kosa scored his second 

of the game, tying the game 

at 3, the start of four straight 

goals for the Waves. 

Mate Toth, Sam Paur 

and Curtis Jarvis gave the 

Waves a 6-3 lead going into 

the half. 

The third quarter was 

much like the first, with 

each team scoring twice. 

Kosa finished his hat trick, 

and Michael Dakis added a 

goal. 

After three quarters of 

play, the Waves led 8-5. 

In the final period of play, 

Irvine started the quarter 

with two straight goals to 

bring the game to within a 

goal before Dakis got his 

second goal of the day to 

extend the lead to two. 

After another Irvine goal 

brought the game to back 

within a goal, Kosa got his 

fourth goal of the game to 

seal the third-place victory 

for the Waves. 

Information from Pepperdine 

University and www.pepper 

dinewaves.com. Compiled 

by Editor Lauren Coughlin, 

lauren@malibusurfsidenews. 

com.

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Pepperdine’s Lahey seeks redemption in France 

Team USA, defeated 

by Great Britain last 

year, ready to return 

CHRIS MEGGINSON, Freelance 

Reporter 

There is unfinished business 

in France. 

Pepperdine University 

women’s tennis junior Ashley 

Lahey and USC’s Brandon 

Holt, both ranked preseason 

No. 4 in the NCAA, 

will return to eastern 

France next week as members 

of Team USA, looking 

to reclaim the Master’U International 

Collegiate Team 

Competition title from 

Great Britain. 

Lahey and Holt, who 

each competed in the 2017 

Master’U, are the only two 

returners on the six-person 

Team USA for the 13th annual 

Master’U, sponsored 

by BNP Paribas. 

“It’s a huge opportunity 

and a super, super fun experience,” 

Lahey said. “I feel 

extremely blessed to get 

to experience once more. 

It’s a great opportunity to 

represent my country. You 

don’t really get a whole lot 

of chances to do that. 

“The fact that they picked 

me twice makes me feel really, 

really special. There 

are so many awesome players 

they could have picked 

and would have loved to 

have this experience.” 

The tournament will 

bring together more than 40 

players from eight nations 

to battle on one court over 

three days, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 

in confrontations of seven 

matches each. This year’s 

event will be played in Seyssins, 

France, a small city 

Pepperdine tennis player ashley lahey ranked as high as No. 3 in the nation last year. 

BILL KALLENBERG/PEPPERDINE ATHLETICS 

in the metro area of Grenoble, 

which is known as the 

Capitol of the Alps and located 

near the France/Switzerland 

border. 

Great Britain defeated 

the U.S. in the finals last 

year, ending a six-year run 

by the U.S. This year, Great 

Britain will look to defend 

its crown against not only 

the United States, but Belgium, 

China, France, Germany, 

Ireland and Italy. 

“I’d love to go back and 

get some redemption and 

hopefully get a rematch 

against Great Britain,” Lahey 

said. “I love playing 

for Pepperdine, it gives me 

such pride, but playing for 

my country is on a whole 

other level. I’m fighting 

for something bigger. It’s 

fun to put on the jersey that 

says USA on it and going 

out there competing my 

hardest.” 

Lahey, who is from 

Hawthorne, California, 

says one of the best parts 

of Master’U is experiencing 

the atmosphere of all 

matches being played on 

center court at the Seyssins’ 

League Center in front of 

an expected 2,000-3,000 

spectators. 

“Everyone is just going 

wild,” said Lahey, who says 

she is ecstatic to play in that 

kind of environment again. 

“The atmosphere is so incredible. 

You’re coming up 

with team cheers, hanging 

out with your teammates 

who have become really 

close friends, really quick 

… and playing when everyone’s 

watching. I love it. I 

thrive on it.” 

The tournament is formatted 

in a style which is 

part Fed Cup and part Davis 

Cup, as each confrontation 

includes the best-of-seven 

matches: two women’s 

singles matches, two men’s 

singles matches, a women’s 

doubles, men’s doubles and 

a decisive mixed doubles 

if the confrontation is tied, 

3-3. 

Lahey, who finished runner-up 

in the 2018 NCAA 

Singles Championships 

and was runner-up at the 

ITA National Doubles earlier 

this month, says her 

main focus for the week is 

to enjoy the atmosphere, 

explore a new city at the 

base of the Alps and make 

new friendships with her 

Team USA teammates and 

players from around the 

world. 

“It’s so far removed 

from anything else I’ve 

ever done,” she said. “You 

spend so much time together 

within the few days that 

you really get to know each 

other.” 

Ranked as high as No. 3 

in the nation last year, Lahey 

says she plans to take 

the same approach when 

her Pepperdine season resumes 

in January. 

“I don’t want to go into it 

with any expectations, because 

I don’t want to put the 

priority in the wrong place. 

Results is not the priority,” 

Lahey said. “I just want to 

improve and focus on getting 

better in every match, 

getting better in practice … 

soak up the experience and 

let go of the results.” 

Lahey and Holt will be 

joined in France by UCLA’s 

Jada Hart, Duke freshman 

Maria Mateas, Florida’s 

Oliver Crawford and Georgia’s 

Emil Reinberg. 

The team will be coached 

by Greg Patton, who has 

been a USA National Team 

coach at various levels for 

the last three decades and 

recently retired as Boise 

State University’s coach. 

Patton will be joined by 

Cal head coach Amanda 

Augustus and Cal Poly associate 

head coach Garrett 

Patton. 

Coverage of the tournament 

can be found at www. 

master-u-bnpparibas.com.

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 

10 Questions with Henry Saver 

Henry Saver, 17, is a senior 

who is on the Malibu 

swim and water polo 

teams. 

What first got you 

interested in water sports? 

When I was in fifth grade 

I had tried a lot of different 

sports and wasn’t really enjoying 

a lot of them and one 

day I heard my good friend 

Harry was going to try water 

polo and my parents 

suggested I try it as well. I 

hadn’t really heard of it before 

but I fell in love really 

quickly and have played 

ever since. 

What will you remember 

most about this past water 

polo season? 

I will never forget our 

tournament in Irvine this 

season. It was our first time 

playing in a new tournament 

and we were aware 

a lot of the teams were going 

to be very challenging. 

[The morning] we were 

supposed to leave, our 

coaches surprised us with 

a party bus to take to and 

from the games. It was an 

hilarious experience that I 

will never forget with my 

boys. 

What would you say the 

biggest lesson you learned 

in sports this year was? 

I would say to always 

hold your head up high 

regardless of the situation. 

We had easy days and hard 

days but putting in a negative 

attitude doesn’t help 

anyone. 

What are your hobbies 

outside of water polo? 

I really enjoy going to 

the beach and I also like 

programming when I can. 

I have been working on a 

game in my spare time. 

What are your plans for 

next year? 

I’m hoping to get in to 

some fun university and 

start lots of new adventures. 

What would your dream 

job be? 

I would love to work in 

the FBI when I get older. 

It’s been a dream of mine 

for a pretty long time. 

What is your favorite TV 

show? 

I really like “Stranger 

Things.” 

Who were your role models 

growing up? 

I always looked up to 

my older siblings Nick, 

Sam and Jon, and wanted 

to be exactly like them. 

They each really taught me 

so many important things 

about life in general. I also 

looked up to my coaches 

DAVE TEEL/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

Hayden Goldberg and 

Mike Mulligan from when 

I started with Malibu water 

polo all the way to now. 

They have taught me so 

many lessons, on and off 

the pool deck. 

What’s the best advice a 

teammate has ever given 

you? 

The best advice I ever 

got was to use my body my 

own way. I was never as 

beefy as a lot of my teammates 

but I’ve had really 

long arms and hearing this 

really made me rethink the 

way I played and led to me 

gaining more confidence in 

my play style. 

In the spirit of 

Thanksgiving, what are you 

thankful for? 

I am thankful for the 

safety of all my friends, 

family and my water polo 

Ohana during these ruthless 

fires. 

Interview by Freelance Reporter 

Ryan Flynn 

Malibu’s Christian 

Yelich wins National 

League MVP honor 

Announcement comes at tough 

time for player’s hometown 

CHRIS MEGGINSON, Freelance Reporter 

One couldn’t go to Miller Park in Milwaukee 

this year without hearing the chant 

“MVP, MVP” nearly every time Milwaukee 

Brewers’ outfielder Christian Yelich 

came to the plate. 

That chant came true Thursday night, 

Nov. 15, when the Baseball Writers’ Association 

of America named Yelich, 26, 

Major League Baseball’s National League 

Most Valuable Player. He beat out Colorado’s 

Nolan Arenado and Chicago Cubs 

middle infielder Javier Baez. Milwaukee 

County, Wisconsin, celebrated the next 

day, Nov. 16, with Christian Yelich Day. 

“When the crowd started chanting it, it’s 

something that’s really hard to describe 

what that feels like,” Yelich told the MLB 

Network in a live video feed during the announcement 

show. “I remember having to 

calm myself down the first time they started 

doing it. 

“You try to push it from your mind because 

you have so much at stake as a team 

you’re just trying to focus on winning that 

day and figure all of that stuff will play out 

afterwards. … It’s been an unbelievable 

ride.” 

In the video, Yelich, a Malibu homeowner 

and a native of Thousand Oaks, was 

seen wearing a Los Angeles Fire Department 

hat in honor of those fighting the 

Woolsey Fire. 

Yelich also briefly appeared on KCAL 

Channel 9 last week, saying he was in 

Westlake Village when the Woolsey Fire 

began to burn out of control. He spoke of 

the tight-knit community, one that he said 

has come together despite the devastation 

caused by the blaze. 

Yelich’s MVP honor comes on the heels 

of Yelich’s most successful season in his 

six-year MLB career, and one of the most 

successful seasons by a National League 

player in at least a decade. Yelich led the 

National League with a .326 batting average 

and had 110 RBI and 36 home runs. 

He was one RBI and two home runs shy 

of leading the National League in all three 

categories, falling just shy of claiming the 

first National League Triple Crown since 

1937. 

His slugging, including 187 hits and a 

1,000 OPS, didn’t go unnoticed. 

In addition to the MVP honor, Yelich was 

recognized during the World Series as the 

National Leagues’ Hank Aaron Award recipient, 

which goes to the top hitter in each 

league. He also recently received the Silver 

Slugger Award for the second time in three 

years as the best offensive left fielder in the 

National League. 

He was a finalist for the NL Gold Glove 

for left field, the top defensive honor a 

player can receive. Yelich finished the year 

strong, collecting nearly a third of his offense 

in his last 30 games of the season. 

He closed the season hitting .396 with 11 

home runs and 38 RBI in his last 30 games, 

including hitting for the cycle twice in September 

against the Cincinnati Reds. 

The September run pushed the Brewers 

to a tie-breaking 163rd regular season 

game against the Chicago Cubs, which 

Milwaukee won to claim the National 

League Central Division and went on to 

advance to the National League Championship 

Series, before losing to the Dodgers. 

Drafted by the Miami Marlins in 2010, 

Yelich made his MLB debut in 2013 and 

spent five seasons with Miami before being 

traded to the Milwaukee Brewers in January 

2018. He now has 906 career hits, 95 

home runs, 403 RBIs and 94 stolen bases 

through 5.5 seasons. 

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