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Denied 

Planning Commission votes down permit for 

home that exceeds prior footprint, Page 5 

Quality check 

SMMUSD parents share concerns with district 

regarding post-fire air quality, Page 6 

Taking turns 

Families get up-close look at various vehicles 

during Touch a Truck event, Page 10 

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THURSDAY 

Kindergarten Round-Up 

9:30 a.m. Jan. 31, Webster 

Elementary School, 

3602 Winter Canyon Road, 

Malibu. Prospective parents, 

as well as incoming 

transitional kindergarten 

and kindergarten parents, 

may visit and learn more 

about the school. 

Getting Started with 

Scratch 

3:30-4:30 p.m. Jan. 31, 

Malibu Library, 23519 Civic 

Center Way. Learn the 

basic tools and concepts for 

coding with Scratch, a visual 

programming language 

created by MIT. Staff from 

the LA County Library 

MakMo vehicle visits for 

this STEM program. For 

beginning coders, ages 

8-18. For more information, 

call (310) 456-6438. 

Webster Talent Show 

6-8 p.m. Jan. 31, Webster 

Elementary School, 3602 

Winter Canyon Road, Malibu. 

The school will present 

its rescheduled talent show. 

SATURDAY 

Poetry Open Mic 

11 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 2, 

Malibu Library, 23519 Civic 

Center Way. Join local 

poets for a morning open 

mic hosted by Malibu Poet 

Laureate Ricardo Means 

Ybarra and featuring Bill 

Mohr. Poets — published, 

aspiring, or otherwise — 

can bring a poem to share 

at this program for adults. 

Sponsored by the Friends 

of the Malibu Library. For 

more information, call 

(310) 456-6438. 

MONDAY 

Planning Commission 

6:30 p.m. Feb. 4, Malibu 

City Hall Council Chambers, 

23825 Stuart Ranch 

Road. The Malibu Planning 

Commission will meet. For 

more information, or to 

view an agenda, visit www. 

malibucity.org. 

TUESDAY 

Sunset Mixer 

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

Glamifornia Style Lounge, 

21323 Pacific Coast Highway, 

#103, Malibu. The 

Malibu Chamber of Commerce 

will gather for a 

sunset mixer. Admission is 

$20 for members, $35 for 

non-members and $0 for 

first-time attendees. For 

reservations, visit www. 

Malibu.org. 

WEDNESDAY 

Garden Club Meeting 

9:30 a.m. Feb. 6, Point 

Dume Club House, 29500 

Heathercliff Drive, Malibu. 

Curtis Thomsen will present 

“Spring Garden Preparation.” 

All are welcome. 

For more information, call 

(310) 457-3860. 

Microphotography for 

Teens 

3:30-4:30 p.m. Feb. 6, 

Malibu Library, 23519 

Civic Center Way. Shoot 

photographs of microscopic 

subjects using a combination 

of microscopes and 

cellphone cameras. Participants 

can bring something 

they would like to examine 

to this program, for teens 

12-18. For more information, 

call (310) 456-6438. 

Public Safety Commission 

5 p.m. Feb. 6, Malibu 

City Hall Multipurpose 

Room, 23825 Stuart Ranch 

Road. The Public Safety 

Commission will meet. For 

more information, or to 

view an agenda, visit www. 

malibucity.org. 

Intro to Arduino 

6-7:30 p.m. Feb. 6, Malibu 

Library, 23519 Civic 

Center Way. Learn the 

basics of building on and 

programming an Arduino, 

an open-source electronics 

platform which enables 

users to create interactive 

electronic objects, at 

this adults program. No 

programming experience 

needed. For more information, 

call (310) 456-6438. 

THURSDAY 

School Board 

5:30 p.m. Feb. 7, Malibu 

Correction 

Malibu High School 

senior basketball player 

Buckley Ventress was 

misidentified as Justin 

Lapinski in the story, 

“Turnovers doom MHS 

in team’s 54-41 loss,” 

which appeared in the 

Jan. 17 edition. The 

Surfside recognizes 

and regrets this error. 

City Hall Council Chambers, 

23825 Stuart Ranch 

Road. The SMMUSD 

Board of Education will 

meet. To view the agenda, 

visit www.smmusd.org/ 

board/meetings.html. 

UPCOMING 

Vietnamese Home Cooking 

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 

Feb. 9, Malibu Library, 

23519 Civic Center 

Way. Learn how to make 

healthy Vietnamese street 

foods with Chef Vivien. 

This adults program is 

limited to 30 participants. 

RSVP by calling (310) 

456-6438. 

Correction 

The cause of death 

for Debbie Lynn Marie 

Robinson Purucker, 

whose obituary was 

published in the Jan. 

10 edition of the 

Malibu Surfside News, 

was due to a variety 

of natural causes 

rather than smoke 

inhalation, according 

to James Baroni, of the 

Ventura County Medical 

Examiner’s Office. 

The Surfside News 

recognizes and regrets 

this error. 

ONGOING 

YAP Shows 

7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1; 2 

p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday, 

Feb. 2; 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. 

Sunday, Feb. 3, Malibu 

Playhouse, 29243 PCH. 

Young Actors Project will 

perform “A Wrinkle In 

Time” and “Once Upon A 

Grapevine.” For tickets, 

visit wrinkleintime.bpt.me 

and grapevine.bpt.me.

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Malibu surfside news | January 31, 2019 | 3 

malibu city council 

Review of City manager, staff ’s fire response considered 

michele willer-allred, 

Freelance Reporter 

The Malibu City Council 

unanimously agreed at its 

Monday, Jan. 28 meeting 

to allocate up to $50,000 

to hire an independent investigator 

to evaluate the 

City manager and staff’s response 

to the Woolsey Fire. 

Mayor Pro Tem Karen 

Farrer and councilmember 

Mikke Pierson, of the City’s 

Disaster Response and Recovery 

Ad Hoc Committee, 

were tasked with getting financial 

quotes from investigators 

who could be hired 

by the council at its first 

meeting in February. 

Separately, the council 

decided to have a closed 

session meeting later in 

February to evaluate City 

Manager Reva Feldman’s 

performance during the 

fire. 

Councilman Skylar Peak, 

who suggested hiring the 

investigator and reviewing 

Feldman in response to public 

criticism, said the closed 

session meeting is the only 

way the council can legally 

discuss the item. 

“There’s been a lot of 

different comments that 

have flown on social media 

and outer space and things,” 

Peak said. “I would kind of 

guard people that a lot of 

that stuff is not true.” 

He requested that the 

council hire the investigator 

“to help the City as it 

moves forward as we focus 

on the rebuilding process.” 

Peak said the evaluation 

of the City and Feldman 

will help grieving individuals 

“that don’t understand 

how all the mechanisms in 

the city [work].” 

“I think those answers 

would be better off coming 

from someone else rather 

than one of us,” he said. 

Both Farrer and Pierson 

agreed to the evaluation, 

but disagreed on the role 

of the ad hoc committee, 

which is tasked with coordinating 

disaster and fire 

evacuation preparedness 

and making recommendations 

to the council on additional 

emergency preparedness 

actions. 

“I think in order to have 

community confidence, an 

independent review, in my 

opinion, is warranted,” Farrer 

said. 

Peak said the quotes to 

hire an investigator should 

come from the ad hoc 

committee because Farrer 

and Pierson were the only 

councilmembers not in office 

during the fire. 

Mayor Jefferson Wagner 

also agreed with an independent 

evaluation, saying 

an in-house one will “appear 

to many people that it 

was whitewashed.” 

“I hear that all the time, 

[that it’s whitewashed],” he 

said. “ ... I say, let’s do this, 

and the glaring issues that 

everyone points out to me 

every day may be clarified 

by an outside resource.” 

Mullen took issue when 

Peak first used the term 

“investigation” to describe 

what he would like done. 

“I think when you say 

investigation, it sounds like 

there’s something that needs 

to be investigated,” Mullen 

said. “I think what we need 

to do is, we need to look 

at how things worked in a 

constructive fashion. So, 

when the next giant disaster 

comes to town, we’re more 

resilient and more ready.” 

Mullen added that he believes 

a lot of complaints 

regarding the fire actually 

have nothing to do with the 

City manager, but rather 

actions by the sheriff’s and 

fire departments as well as 

California Highway Patrol. 

Mullen said that blaming 

Feldman for responsibilities 

she wasn’t in charge of “have 

been very corrosive for the 

town, and it’s not an accurate 

reflection of her responsibilities 

during a disaster.” 

Feldman said she didn’t 

mind an early performance 

evaluation to help “put some 

of these things to rest.” 

“There are certain things 

we could improve upon that 

happened during this disaster,” 

Feldman responded. 

“But I can assure you that 

I’m open and welcome to 

anyone asking or following 

up on anything that did occur.” 

The council also unanimously 

agreed to appoint 

Wagner to represent Malibu 

as a member of the Woolsey 

Fire Task Force chaired 

by Los Angeles County Supervisor 

Sheila Kuehl.

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Tempers flare at town hall on fire response 

Fire chief attends 

but is unable to 

address all queries 

Suzanne Guldimann 


Los Angeles County Fire 

Chief Daryl Osby offered 

assurances for the future 

and some clarification on 

fire command’s decisionmaking 

process during the 

Woolsey Fire, but provided 

few definite answers to 

questions from the audience 

at a highly charged community 

town hall meeting. 

Malibu City Hall was 

packed for the Saturday, 

Jan. 26 event, with a largely 

angry audience that heckled 

the speakers and actively 

booed Malibu City Manager 

Reva Feldman. 

Mayor Jefferson Wagner 

worked to keep the peace. 

“We need to prepare for 

when the east end [of Malibu] 

burns,” Wagner said. 

“I’m with you on this, but 

we’ve got to get answers 

and we need to do it constructively.” 

“To be quite frank, I came 

here for this reason, to hear 

this,” Osby said. “People 

who lost homes, have damaged 

homes, are upset. I 

want to hear this. There is 

not a major incident in my 

profession that has gone 100 

percent well and it’s obvious 

that this didn’t.” 

Osby said the main thing 

that didn’t go well was a 

lack of outside fire support. 

He stated that resources 

were spread thin because of 

the Camp and Hill fires, and 

that the county firefighters 

were largely on their own. 

“We requested a significant 

amount of resources 

“I can’t answer all the questions, 

because I don’t know. If we did 

have firefighters out there and 

they weren’t engaged, then I am 

disappointed.” 

Daryl Osby — LA County Fire chief 

through mutual aid but, 

because of competing incidents, 

it was not available,” 

he stated. “We had to make 

due with what we had. We 

didn’t get significant aid until 

Day 3. [The fire] got to 

Malibu on Day 2.” 

Osby described the challenges 

the crews faced as 

70 mile per hour winds propelled 

the fire into Malibu. 

“As the fire was coming 

over the hill, we couldn’t 

get in front of it,” he said. 

“And we couldn’t follow 

it over the hill. Power lines 

were down, there were landslides, 

multiple accidents. 

We were doing all we could 

to get over hill, and sending 

people up PCH.” 

Mike Sagely, a senior pilot 

for LA County Fire Air 

Operations, flies the department’s 

Sikorsky S-70 Firehawk 

helicopters. He stated 

that the Woolsey Fire was 

unlike anything anyone had 

seen before in this area. 

“I have been flying a little 

over 32 years,” Sagely said. 

“These were some of the 

most challenging conditions 

I’ve seen or probably will 

ever see.” 

Osby said he made the 

decision to implement the 

wide-scale, mandatory 

evacuation after receiving 

news of the high number of 

fatalities at the Camp Fire. 

“We don’t know how 

many fatalities we had, but 

we knew it was a significant 

amount,” Osby said, adding 

that he “owns” the fact that 

the decision to evacuate the 

entire area came “at the cost 

of losing houses.” 

“When [the fire] jumped 

the 101, that was the signal 

to evacuate 250,000 people,” 

Osby said. 

He described the evacuation 

as “not perfect but effective,” 

drawing more boos 

from the audience. 

“In this incident, we lost 

three lives [and] lost over 

1,000 homes in LA County; 

I am deeply saddened by 

that, but there were over 

57,000 homes that were 

saved,” he said, explaining 

that the order of priority was 

lives, property and only then 

environment. 

That assertion did little 

to assuage the anger of an 

audience that included dozens 

of Malibu residents who 

lost their homes. Nearly 

200 questions were submitted 

in writing at the start of 

the two-hour event. There 

was only time to respond 

to a small number of them, 

although Osby expressed 

willingness to return for additional 

meetings and said 

he would arrange a way for 

concerned residents to submit 

their questions by email 

or on a website. 

David Richardson, chief 

Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby talks with 

attendees of the Saturday, Jan. 26 town hall. 

Suzanne Guldimann/22nd Century Media 

deputy of emergency operations 

for LA County 

Fire, rebutted a high-profile 

news story that indicated 

the response to the Woolsey 

Fire was insufficient. 

He described the county 

fire department’s response 

as “robust.” He confirmed, 

however, that the department 

was unable to obtain 

mutual aid. 

“We knew we needed 

resources,” he said. “The 

response was ‘You are not 

going to get it.’ Why? Multiple 

fires. It was like a kick 

in gut.” 

Richardson explained 

that LA County relies on 

a mutual aid system and 

blamed cuts to that program 

for the lack of firefighters at 

the Woolsey Fire. 

“In 2003, there were over 

1,200 fire engines available,” 

he said. “Today there 

are under 700, because other 

cities have restructured. 

Other engines are not available.” 

“You may not have seen 

firefighters in your area,” 

Osby acknowledged, after 

being shouted at by the audience 

about the lack of crews 

in areas like Point Dume. 

“That’s true. I can’t answer 

why all the resources didn’t 

come. We are going to look 

at [it in] an after-action review 

from the state.” 

In response to numerous 

accounts from the audience 

of fire crews that appeared 

unwilling to come to the 

aid of residents in areas like 

Point Dume, where steep 

roads or death-trap conditions 

were not an issue, 

Osby initially reiterated that 

firefighters were “completely 

engaged,” but acknowledged 

he would take the allegations 

seriously. 

“Children were fighting 

the fire,” one audience 

member shouted, recounting 

how engines drove past 

a burning home without 

stopping. 

“I am not discounting 

what you said,” Osby acknowledged. 

“I accept what 

you are saying, and we 

are going to do a review. I 

can’t answer all the questions, 

because I don’t know. 

If we did have firefighters 

out there and they weren’t 

engaged, then I am disappointed.” 

Looking ahead to rebuilding, 

Osby said his department 

is committed to doing 

“what is reasonable” with 

regard to older homes meeting 

current fire code. 

“We will look at each 

property and do what is reasonably 

safe,” he said. 

When members of the 

audience expressed concern 

that they need fire department 

input before deciding 

whether to rebuild, Osby 

said he was in discussions 

to provide staff to the City. 

“Before you have architectural 

fees, we will talk to 

you,” he responded. 

City Councilmember 

Skylar Peak suggested that 

Osby make someone available 

at City Hall who could 

help streamline the process 

and is qualified to make determinations 

about things 

like driveway width, turnarounds 

and water pressure. 

During a brief discussion 

of future wildfire prevention, 

Osby said he is open 

to the idea of more “call” 

firefighting crews, highly 

trained volunteer firefighters 

like the team in Corral 

Canyon that formed 

after the 2008 Corral Fire, 

and who saved numerous 

homes during the Woolsey 

Fire. 

Osby also stated that the 

issue of falling water pressure, 

because the power 

to keep pumps operating 

goes down during a disaster, 

is being addressed in 

Sacramento. A new legislative 

measure which would 

mandate that all waterworks 

most provide backup generators 

has the support of the 

governor, he said. 

Osby made one request 

before the meeting ended. 

“Your local firefighters 

did all they could do,” 

he said. “I hope you could 

acknowledge that. There 

are some things we did 

well. I also recognize there 

are challenges, lessons 

learned.”

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Malibu Planning Commission 

Home application entangled in mansionization debate 

Commission 

denies application, 

requests council 

guidance on topic 

Michele Willer-Allred 


The majority of the Malibu 

Planning Commission 

recommended denial of 

plans for a new residence 

on Busch Drive, basing its 

decision partly on the belief 

that the home is the definition 

of “mansionization” 

and is inconsistent with the 

neighborhood’s character. 

At its Tuesday, Jan. 22 

meeting, the Planning Commission 

voted 4-1, with 

Commissioner Jeff Jennings 

dissenting, to deny 

the Coastal Development 

Permit for the construction 

of a new 7,350 square-foot, 

two-story single-family 

residence (including an 

attached garage and basement) 

at 5939 Busch Drive. 

The new, larger 

home would replace a 

1,596-square-foot, singlestory 

home and 474-squarefoot 

attached garage destroyed 

by the fire in the 

rural residential two-acre 

zoning district. The original 

application dated back 

to 2014. 

Mansionization is the 

practice of building the 

largest possible size of 

home, often much larger 

in comparison to surrounding 

dwellings. The practice 

can change the character 

of neighborhoods and possibly 

add traffic and other 

impacts. 

Planning commissioners 

said it can be a large problem 

right now in the City 

because of all the fire rebuilds, 

and they want longoverdue 

guidance from the 

City Council on the mansionization 

issue. 

“This issue of large 

houses and what’s going to 

be built is really important 

right now,” said Planning 

Commission Chairman 

Steve Uhring. “Because, 

without some guidance and 

some forward vision that 

says this isn’t what we want 

to be, we can end up having 

9,000-square-foot houses 

all over Malibu.” 

Commissioners urged 

the Hubschman Family 

Trust, the applicant, to delay 

its application until after 

a council decision next 

month. 

City staff is bringing a 

recommendation to the 

council on Feb. 25 to determine 

the policy on mansionization 

as well as what 

the rules are on how people 

should design their home 

projects. 

A Hubschman Family 

Trust representative instead 

requested that the Planning 

Commission still take a 

vote on the rebuild application, 

which was originally 

submitted to the City in 

2014 so the family could 

redesign their home. The 

Planning Commission’s 

decision can be appealed at 

the council level. 

The denial of the home’s 

application by the Planning 

Commission also was 

based on other factors such 

as encroachment into environmentally 

sensitive habitat, 

but mansionization was 

the main factor. 

Commissioner John 

Mazza said the Planning 

Department recommended 

the approval of the permit 

basically because other 

homes in the neighborhood 

also are two story, though 

the proposed home would 

be double the size. 

The applicant, in turn, 

said the size of the home 

isn’t quite twice as big if 

you look at other factors, 

and that size of the home 

should be proportional to 

the lot size. 

Mazza said the Planning 

Commission’s guidance 

from the City Council has 

been “so vague that I cannot 

make a finding that this 

is not mansionization due 

to the size.” 

Uhring said there are 

fairly consistent guidelines 

in the City’s Municipal 

Code and General Plan that 

“neighborhood character” 

is important and that the 

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SMMUSD parents express air-quality concerns 

District stands by 

on-campus sensors 

Lauren Coughlin, Editor 

With the fires and mudslides 

behind them, Malibu 

students are back in 

school, but not all parents 

are convinced that is the 

best place for their children. 

Malibu High School parent 

Beth Lucas is one of 

what SMMUSD describes 

as “a handful” of Malibu 

parents who have regularly 

expressed post-fire 

Whole Foods developers divulge details on vendors, more 

Well-attended 

Chamber event 

offers sneak peek 

Barbara Burke 


Whole Foods and The 

Park at Cross Creek is 

not expected to open until 

April, but a standingroom-only 

crowd at a recent 

Sunset Mixer got the 

latest scoop on the development 

last week. 

The Malibu Chamber of 

Commerce organized the 

event, held Thursday, Jan. 

24, at Duke’s Restaurant. 

Anchor store Whole 

Foods is to be flanked by 

four buildings in an openair 

layout. Vendors who 

plan to open at the Park include 

Blue Bottle Coffee, 

crystal interactive wellness 

gallery Sorenity Rocks and 

Doortodoor Cleaners. 

Malibuite Howdy 

Kabrins, who operated 

Howdy’s Taqueria in Malibu 

for years, plans to hire 

back old employees when 

he opens his new restaurant 

in the Park. 

“This event tonight is 

symbolic for me given what 

we’ve all been through,” 

Kabrins said. “This is all 

about resilience and new, 

well-deserved starts.” 

Further, pizza-maker 

Joe D’Amore plans to 

open Café D’Amore — a 

new restaurant which is to 

serve breakfast, lunch, dinner, 

beer and wine — and 

Barefoot Dreams — an 

online venue for cozychic 

fashions operated by 

Malibuite Stan Cook — 

is to open its first brickand-mortar 

location at 

the site. 

“The Whole Foods and 

the Park are all about 

supporting Malibu and 

building our community,” 

project developer Steve 

Soboroff said as he introduced 

some of the vendors. 

“In today’s retail environment, 

stores need to 

be small. The stores in this 

project will range between 

concerns about air quality 

on the Malibu High School 

campus. 

The district, meanwhile, 

stands by the results from 

14 air-quality sensors — 

which test for carbon monoxide, 

nitrogen dioxide, 

ozone, particulate matter 

less than 10 microns and 

particulate matter less than 

2.5 microns — it installed 

inside and outside of Malibu 

schools in December. 

The data, however, do 

little to assuage the concerns 

of Lucas, whose 

daughter, Amanda Pierce, 

a junior at MHS, reportedly 

has experienced 

post-fire headaches, a sore 

throat, coughing, wheezing 

and fatigue while at 

Malibu High School. 

On Jan. 22, after receiving 

texts from her daughter 

about not feeling well 

on campus, Lucas again 

emailed district officials to 

ask that they restrict outdoor 

activities and keep 

the schools’ doors closed. 

“This is a complex situation 

and I am not convinced 

the air monitors are always 

reflecting what is actually 

happening on campus and 

how it is affecting people’s 

Whole Foods and The Park at Cross Creek is under 

construction at Civic Center Way and Cross Creek Road. 

Seth Cheshire/CheshireBeane 

health,” wrote Lucas. 

Lucas said her daughter 

previously had mild seasonal 

allergies but now has 

an inhaler for the first time 

after a doctor’s visit last 

week. Two of her daughter’s 

friends also have 

complained about feeling 

sick on campus, she said. 

SMMUSD Superintendent 

Dr. Ben Drati sent an 

email to the community, 

stating in part, “Though 

the winds were up, all 

sources supported the air 

quality being good.” 

The readings, he explained, 

are a combination 

500 and 1,000 square feet, 

and they will be wide open 

with 20-feet ceilings and 

30-feet frontages.” 

The Park, he said, is 

intended to provide a 

venue where the community 

can gather. It will 

feature an amphitheater 

and a state-of-the-art, 

all-abilities playground 

that will enable special 

needs and typical children 

to engage in healthy 

play in a project sponsored 

by Charlene Sperber 

and her son Richard 

Sperber. The playground, 

designed by Shane’s Inspiration, 

is the first privately 

funded all abilities 

play venue, according to 

Soboroff. 

“Malibu has approximately 

200 special needs 

children and before this 

new playground, they 

had no place to gather,” 

he said. “This will allow 

wheelchair access and it 

will provide a play venue 

for all Malibu children. 

of what is reported by the 

South Coast Air Quality 

Management District, the 

Environmental Protection 

Agency and SMMUSD’s 

sensors. 

“Our process of interpreting 

the air quality has 

been vetted and certified 

by a licensed industrial hygienist 

and is in line with 

SCAQMD/EPA standards 

so we stand by the readings,” 

Drati wrote. “There 

are, however, certain families 

that have concerns regarding 

blowing soot and 

ash so we are limiting outside 

activities as much as 

The playground has a fire 

engine, police car and 

lifeguard station because 

Malibuites love first responders.” 

Lenise Soren, owner of 

Sorenity Rocks, will be 

in charge of amphitheater 

programming, with plans 

for fundraisers, Broadway 

stage performance readings, 

a singer-songwriter 

night, a speakers series and 

other community-friendly 

events. 

“The amphitheater is going 

to be a game-changer, 

both for Malibu and for 

the city being a destination 

to drive more business to 

Malibu,” Soren said. 

Soboroff was optimistic 

about the project’s future 

impact on the economy 

and more. 

“I hope that the Park 

project is an integral and 

happy part of Malibu’s renaissance,” 

he said. “This 

isn’t about another shopping 

center. It’s about establishing 

a neighborhood 

place, and I hope it will 

possible during extremely 

windy conditions even 

with the good air readings. 

“Each principal has and 

will continue to communicate 

with their respective 

school community about 

the air quality as it pertains 

to outdoor activities.” 

Malibu High School 

parent and activist Jennifer 

deNicola, who served 

on a committee that talked 

about air quality and more 

following the fire, shares 

Lucas’ concerns. 

DeNicola acknowledged 

Please see smmusd, 10 

prove to be a special place 

with a lot of heart for the 

people of Malibu during 

this city’s rebirth.” 

Most attendees shared 

Soboroff’s enthusiasm 

for the venue. Local Julie 

Hoffman, however, had 

reservations. 

“I am a loyal PC Greens 

fan and a fan of Malibu 

Kitchen,” Hoffman said. 

“Everybody’s got to step 

up and support the local 

businesses who have supported 

Malibu through 

thick and thin. We have 

four grocery stores in Malibu 

and I do not think that 

we need another.” 

Others felt the project 

will be beneficial to Malibu. 

“It’s heartwarming to 

have this event just more 

than two months after the 

devastation,” attendee 

Nagy Heinein said. “Malibu 

has been a little stagnant 

since the fire and this 

event tonight demonstrates 

that it is focusing on revival 

now.”

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TheCity of Malibu is Here to Help 

Ourhearts go out to all those affected by the devastating WoolseyFire. The City is committed 

to doing everything possible to help community members with theirimmediate needs, to 

provide asmooth process forthosewho lost homes toestablish temporary housing ontheir 

property and to rebuild, and to resume normal City services and activities. 

NEW -DEBRIS REMOVAL OPERATIONS CENTER OPEN IN CALABASAS TO 

ASSIST RESIDENTS 

LA County has opened aDebris Removal Operation Center (DROC) in Calabasas where 

residents can ask questions and get guidance through the fire debris removal process. The 

DROC is located at 26610 Agoura Road, Calabasas (near the 101 Fwy and Las Virgenes Rd) 

and is open Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Saturdays 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. 

For more information, call LA County's Woolsey Fire Recovery Hotline at 626-979-5370. 

FIRE REBUILD DESK AT MALIBU CITY HALL 

Awalk-up counter staffed by aplanner is available during City Hall open hours. Meet one-onone 

with aCity planner who can walk residents through the process of getting atemporary 

mobile home or trailer placed on their burned property, and help them begin the rebuilding 

process. 

Location: 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu, CA 90265 

Hours: Mondaythrough Thursday, 7:30 AM –5:30 PM, Fridays 7:30 AM –4:30 PM 

CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING FEB. 11 ON CODE AMENDMENTS TO 

HELP RESIDENTS REBUILD 

During the City Council meeting on Monday, February 11, 6:30 PM at Malibu City Hall, the City 

Council will hold apublic hearing to consider amendments to Title 17 (Zoning) of the Malibu 

Municipal Code and to the Local Coastal Program. The Council will also review the Planning 

Commission’s recommendations to modify standards and procedures to facilitate the 

rebuilding of structures damaged or destroyed by the Woolsey Fire and provide relief for the 

victims of the fire. Details regarding the amendments are included in the attached notice. For 

more information, call the Planning Department at 310-456-2489, ext. 485, or email 

mplanning@malibucity.org. The agenda will be posted at least 72 hrs. in advance at 

www.MalibuCity.org/AgencaCenter. 

LOOK UP YOUR PROPERTY TO CHECK IF HAZ-MAT INSPECTION IS COMPLETE 

The inspection and clearance of Household Hazardous Materials from properties burned in the 

Woolsey Fire is nearing completion. This must be completed on a property before the owners 

can move forward with fire debris removal. If your property has not been inspected, please call 

LA County Fire Haz-Mat Division at 323-890-4000. The list of inspected properties and debris 

removal information is available at www.MalibuCity.org/Debris. 

CHECK THE STATUS OF YOUR APPLICATION FOR DEBRIS 

REMOVAL PROGRAMS 

Owners of burned propertes can chec on the status of ther applcaton for the state-run fre 

debrs removal program (ROE -Rght of Entry form) or ther applcaton for the local fre debrs 

removal program onlne at https://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/WoolseyFire/ApplicationStatus.aspx. 

REBUILDING FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) 

The City offers astreamlined process for residents to get back into their homes. Planning & 

Environmental Sustainability staff are available to help residents navigate this process. Contact 

the Planning at 310-456-2489 x485 or mplanning@malibucity.org, and the Environmental 

Sustainability at 310-456-2489 x371 or mbuilding@malibucity.org. For in-person assistance, visit 

the Fire Rebuild Desk at City Hall Mon -Thurs, 7:30AM -5:30PM, Fri, 7:30AM -4:30PM. To see the 

Frequently Asked Questions about the rebuilding process visit www.malibucity.org/ 

WoolseyRebuildFAQs. 

PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS FOR PERMITS &PLANS 

TO REBUILD ABURNED HOME 

Those rebuilding damaged or destroyed homes may need to request permits, plans and other 

records from the City. The City's Permit Search web page has step-by-step instructions at 

www.MalibuCity.org/912/Permit-Search. 

ALL LEAF BLOWERS BANNED WEST OF MALIBU CANYON 

To protect public health from potential hazardous materials in the fire debris and ash, 

the City has banned the use of ALL leaf blowers (both gas and electric) in City limits 

west of Malibu Canyon Road effective immediately, through August 1, 2019. 

PROHIBIDO USAR SOPLADORES DE HOJAS AL OESTE DE MALIBU CANYON 

Debido aque los escombros ylas cenizas del fuego ylas estructuras dañadas pueden 

contener materiales ypartículas que son peligrosas para la salud ylaseguridad, La 

Ciudad de Malibu prohíbe el uso de sopladores de hojas dentro del área de la ciudad al 

oeste de Malibu Canyon Road hasta el límite de la ciudad. La prohibicion esta en efecto 

inmediatamente yterminara el 1° de agosto del 2019. 

SWIMMING POOL GUIDANCE 

Discharging pool water to storm drains is prohibited. If apool must be drained because it has 

been impacted by smoke and ash, the Civic Center Water Treatment Facility may accept the 

water on acase-by-case basis. Learn more at www.MalibuCity.org/WoolseySwimmingPools 

AGOURA HILLS DISASTER RECOVERY CENTER (DRC) TO CLOSE ON JAN. 31 

The Agoura Hills DRC is scheduled to close permanently on Thursday, January 31. The 

Malibu DRC closed on January 18. City staff from the Building &Safety, Environmental 

Sustainability, and Planning Departments will continue to be available at City Hall to help 

community members with recovery needs. 

Phone and OnlineResources 

Malibu City Hall main phone: 310-456-2489 

Malibu City Fire Rebuild webpage: www.MalibuRebuilds.org 

Malibu City Debris Removalwebpage: www.MalibuCity.org/Debris 

Malibu City Planning Department questions: mplanning@malibucity.org 

Malibu City Planning Department phone: 310-456-2489,ext. 485 

Malibu City Building Division questions: mbuilding@malibucity.org 

LA County WoolseyFire Recovery webpage: www.LACounty.gov/LACountyRecovers

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February’s speaker to share spring gardening tips 

Submitted by the Malibu 

Garden Club 

Curtis Thomsen, of the 

Los Angeles 

Country 

Smart 

Gardening 

Program, is 

to speak on 

“Spring Garden 

Preparation” 

at the 

Thomsen 

next Malibu Garden Club 

meeting on Wednesday, 

Feb. 6. 

The 9:30 a.m. meeting 

will be held at the Point 

Dume Club House, located 

at 29500 Heathercliff Drive 

in Malibu. 

Thomsen will discuss the 

restoration of properties 

after the fire, laying out a 

garden, composting and efficient 

water usage. 

Thomsen teaches the 

principles of composting 

and vermicomposting as 

the basis of building good 

soil for improved yards and 

gardens by recycling organics 

generated at home. 

His mission for 2019 is to 

also reduce the carbon footprint, 

bringing the consumer 

products that are made in 

the U.S. Some of the products 

he is introducing are 

made locally in California 

and made from recycled 

products from Los Angeles 

and Orange County. 

Thomsen is president of 

BioContractors, Inc. and 

an experienced environmental 

planner and manager 

with over 28 years 

total experience, including 

over 22 years in the solid 

(recycling, composting, 

vermicomposting) and 

hazardous waste management 

(AB 2464 Hazardous 

Waste Reduction, Used Oil 

Programs, HHW recycling, 

Haz/Mat First Responder) 

fields, beginning with Mt. 

St. Helens in 1980. More 

recently, Thomsen worked 

for the County of Los Angeles 

implementing the 

Countywide Smart Gardening 

Program. For the past 

21 years, he has worked 

on this project that has 

been educating the public 

on composting, vermicomposting, 

grass recycling, 

water-wise and fire-wise 

gardening reducing solid 

waste, improving yards and 

gardens, teaching master 

gardeners, reducing water 

use and increasing productivity 

in fruit and vegetable 

gardens 20 to 200 percent. 

This outreach program for 

California residents teaches 

the public the basics of recycling 

organics to build a 

better, sustainable environment 

at home, while making 

one’s yard safer for the 

family. 

Photo Op 

Sue Parker, of Malibu, shared this image from 

Pepperdine in late November. 

Want your photo to appear in our newspaper? Email lauren@ 

malibusurfsidenews.com. 

SMMUSD polls community for 

new Malibu school’s name 

Suggestions can be 

made online through 

Friday, Feb. 1 

Staff Report 

The Santa Monica-Malibu 

Unified School District 

is gathering name suggestions 

for the soon-tobe-combined 

elementary 

school campus in Malibu. 

Point Dume Marine Science 

School and Juan Cabrillo 

Elementary School 

are to merge onto the Point 

Dume campus this coming 

August, and students 

at both schools are being 

given an opportunity to 

share name suggestions in 

class. Meanwhile, parents, 

staff and community members 

can offer their input 

online at goo.gl/forms/Ey 

l1mwkXTH0tlgk72 now 

through 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 

1. No more than one entry 

per person is requested. 

“All suggestions will be reviewed 

and a task force will 

consider and select a name 

that will be recommended 

to the SMMUSD Board of 

Education for approval,” 

SMMUSD explains. “The 

School Naming Task Force 

will be comprised of teachers, 

classified employees, 

students, City leaders, school 

board members, district 

leadership, community liaison, 

and members of Malibu 

Schools Leadership Council, 

the Malibu Facilities DAC, 

Shark Fund and the Malibu 

Special Education Foundation.” 

Once a name is selected, 

students at each school will 

play a role in selecting a new 

mascot and school colors. 

All decisions are expected 

to be unveiled at a Board 

of Education meeting this 

spring. 

School News 

College admissions 

presentation to be held 

Crystal Reed, of No 

Drama College Counseling, 

is to present the 

second in her series of 

two free college admissions 

events on Thursday, 

Feb. 7. 

The free college admissions 

presentation, titled 

“What to expect on a college 

application,” is open 

to local high school juniors 

only (no parents or 

students from other grades 

are permitted). 

The presentation will be 

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Reed, who has been 

helping students with the 

college admissions process 

for more than 15 

years, will go through 

a live college application 

and answer audience 

questions. 

School News is compiled 

by Editor Lauren Coughlin, 

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Pulling out all the stops 

Emergency vehicles, more wow little ones at Touch A Truck event 

Julian (left) and Liana De La O honk the horn of paramedic squad vehicle #88 during the Saturday, Jan. 26 Touch a 

Truck event. Photos by Suzy Demeter/22nd Century Media 

Kylie Ivanyi, 5, checks out the cab of a backhoe and 

honks the horn. 

ABOVE: Three-year-old twins Coleman and Landon 

Steurer explore the inside of a backhoe. 

LEFT: The free, well-attended event was co-hosted by the 

City of Malibu and the Malibu Library. 

smmusd 

From Page 6 

that the district’s sensors 

monitor small and invisible 

particulates that can 

be very harmful, but said 

they don’t pick up on the 

larger debris that ends up 

on campus on windy days. 

“Usually with the fire 

[the large particulates 

are] what you’re going to 

see,” deNicola said. “ ... 

That has to be called at 

the school, because the 

machines aren’t going to 

pick it up and there’s no 

district personnel here [in 

Malibu].” 

Gail Pinsker, community 

and public relations 

officer for SMMUSD, explained 

in an email to the 

Surfside that principals review 

the air quality results 

and make decisions. 

“The Malibu Pathway 

Directory and district office 

leadership are available 

for consultation if 

questions by site administrators 

arise,” Pinsker said. 

“There are frequent communications 

between all 

on this topic.” 

Since the fires, SM- 

MUSD’s sensors determined 

that an inadequate 

air quality (unhealthy for 

sensitive groups) existed 

on Jan. 11, and the district 

canceled outdoor activities 

and programs that day. 

DeNicola and Lucas 

alike expressed concerns 

about the days ahead once 

debris-removal processes 

begin, seeing as many 

properties above the high 

school burned. 

“We need to be very diligent 

in being protective of 

the staff and the students at 

the school,” deNicola said. 

SMMUSD states that it 

has been in touch with the 

City of Malibu regarding 

the removal of hazardous 

waste and clearing of the 

burned buildings. 

“Prior to ‘raking’ the 

property, the Department 

of Public Health must inspect 

the property and 

permit the removal of hazardous 

materials,” a letter 

from SMMUSD states. 

“The removal of hazardous 

materials is to follow 

strict guidelines intending 

to reduce making the 

materials airborne. These 

notifications will provide 

the information necessary 

to adjustments in outdoor 

activity if indicated.” 

Both Lucas and deNicola 

are among supporters of 

alternate learning options 

such as virtual, interactive 

learning or portable classrooms 

in an off-campus 

location with fewer neighboring 

burned properties. 

“I get that everyone 

wants kids in school,” 

deNicola said. “We just 

have to be vigilant in making 

sure that everyone 

is safe so that we’re not 

compromising long-term 

health for short-term education.” 

On Monday, Jan. 28, Lucas 

confirmed that she will 

be enrolling her daughter 

in Oaks Christian School 

because of the air quality 

issues as well as concerns 

over missed classroom 

time in the wake of the fire. 

“I kind of feel like I’m 

hitting a brick wall, and 

right now this is a pivotal 

and critical year for my 

daughter, and she’s ill and 

I cant keep her there,” she 

said. 

The district plans to 

continue monitoring air 

quality until levels reach 

prefire measurements. Updates 

are posted by 7 a.m. 

on each school’s website. 

“We understand there is 

some ongoing fear about 

the air quality in Malibu,” 

Pinkser wrote. “We are doing 

everything in our power 

to ensure the health and 

safety of our students by 

taking these daily readings 

seriously.”

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Authorities investigate human 

remains found in Malibu hills 

Lauren Coughlin, Editor 

Human remains reportedly 

were found in the late afternoon 

of Jan. 21 in the hills of central 

Malibu. 

Officials, including the Los 

Angeles County Sheriff’s 

Department Homicide Bureau 

and the Los Angeles County 

Department of Medical Examiner 

- Coroner, responded to Latigo 

Canyon Road and Calicut Road 

at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 22. According 

to a press release from LASD, 

officials were waiting for sufficient 

daylight before responding and 

beginning their investigation. 

Sarah Ardalani, public information 

officer for the coroner’s 

fire 

From Page 5 

acter of Malibu’s unique neighborhoods 

by discouraging mansionization.” 

Jennings said the home being 

proposed is in his neighborhood, 

which was largely destroyed in the 

fire and the neighborhood character 

right now is “sort of Berlin 

1945.” Right now, he said, nobody 

knows what the character of the 

neighborhood is going to be like 

in the future and what’s going to 

be rebuilt there, so it’s difficult to 

determine neighborhood character. 

In response, Mazza said Malibu 

is going to change when all the 

homes destroyed in the fire are 

rebuilt. He asked, does the City 

want “communist modern architecture 

in size, or is it rural residential” 

when it is rebuilt? 

“That’s an extreme example, 

but we’re talking about a city 

that lost 20 percent of its housing 

From jan. 22 

office, said the individual’s identity 

was unknown as of Friday, 

Jan. 25. The deceased’s sex also 

was not being released. 

“The investigation is ongoing 

and there is no additional information 

available at this time,” the 

LASD press release states. 

Anyone with information on the 

incident is encouraged to contact 

the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s 

Department’s Homicide Bureau 

at (323) 890-5500. Anonymous 

tips also may be provided by calling 

(800) 222-8477, through the 

“P3 Tips” mobile app, or online 

at Lacrimestoppers.org. 

For more on this and other Breaking 

News, visit MalibuSurfsideNews.com. 

stock,” Mazza said. “So, these are 

important things.” 

“The way I look at it is that the 

City got elected to make these 

kinds of decisions, not us,” Mazza 

said. “And they left us with a 

really vague idea what to do. But 

the law also requires us to make 

a finding that this is consistent 

with the Municipal Code, and it 

flat out isn’t at this point, in my 

opinion.” 

Mazza noted that applicants 

looking to rebuild their samesize 

home on the same lot can be 

quickly permitted to do so with 

the planning department without 

appearing in front of the Planning 

Commission. Uhring said he 

felt bad for the applicant, who he 

believed has done the right thing 

with their application over the 

years. 

“Hopefully, when the City 

Council does decide, they may 

consider grandfathering people 

who have already come forward 

with plans and say, ‘Let them 

go,’” he said. 

Police Reports 

Porsche headlights reportedly swiped in Malibu 

Two Porsche Panamera S 

headlights valued at $4,000 reportedly 

were stolen from a vehicle 

parked in front of a residence 

on Malibu Road, according to a 

police report which was filed on 

Jan. 18. 

The alleged victim said that 

he secured his vehicle in front 

of his home before the theft, 

which occurred between Jan. 

17-18. 

Jan. 12 

• A package containing female 

Officials offer disaster unemployment aid, more 

Submitted by FEMA 

Workers and self-employed 

wildfire survivors who lost their 

jobs or businesses or had their 

work hours substantially reduced 

because of the fires, may be eligible 

for Disaster Unemployment 

Assistance. 

In addition, small businesses 

that, because of the fires, are 

struggling to maintain a reasonable 

working capital position 

during the recovery period, may 

be eligible for a low-interest Economic 

Injury Disaster Loan from 

the U.S. Small Business Administration. 

Disaster Unemployment 

Assistance 

DUA is funded by the Federal 

Emergency Management Agency 

and administered by the California 

Employment Development 

Department. DUA provides temporary 

unemployment benefits to 

survivors whose job or work-hour 

losses, or losses of business, are 

a direct result of the wildfire disaster 

and who do not qualify for 

regular state unemployment insurance 

benefits. 

To be eligible for DUA, an applicant 

must have: worked in, or 

was scheduled to begin work in, 

Butte, Los Angeles or Ventura 

county, but was prevented from 

doing so by the wildfire disaster; 

been self-employed in or scheduled 

to begin self-employment 

in, Butte, Los Angeles or Ventura 

county, but was prevented from 

doing so because of the wildfires; 

been unable to work because he/ 

she was injured as a direct result 

of the wildfires; become the 

major support of the household, 

because the head of the household 

died as a direct result of the 

wildfires; or lost most of his/her 

income or revenue because the 

employer or self-employed business 

was damaged or destroyed 

by the wildfires. 

Qualified applicants may receive 

assistance of up to $450 

per week for a maximum of 27 

weeks. DUA applies to losses 

beginning the week of Nov. 11, 

2018. For more information, or to 

apply, visit www.edd.ca.gov/Un 

employment/UI_Online_Regis 

tration.htm or call (800) 300-5616 

between 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Monday 

through Friday. The deadline to 

apply for this benefit is March 15. 

Economic Injury Disaster Loans 

Under SBA’s EIDL program, 

hormone supplements, valued 

at $150, reportedly was stolen 

from a residence on Topanga 

Beach Drive. The alleged victim 

said she was expecting the 

package to be delivered at her 

home on Jan. 12 via the United 

States Postal Service, but 

she never received it. An eBay 

representative confirmed the 

package was delivered, but the 

victim said she was never sent 

email verification that the package 

arrived. She said she waited 

a month to report the theft because 

she was trying to fix the 

issue with eBay, but they ultimately 

told her she needed a 

police report to get a refund. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Malibu 

Surfside News police reports are 

compiled from official records on 

file at the Los Angeles County Lost 

Hills/Malibu Sheriff’s Department 

headquarters. Anyone listed in these 

reports is considered to be innocent 

of all charges until proven guilty in 

a court of law. 

working capital loans are available 

to help small businesses, 

small agricultural cooperatives, 

small businesses engaged in 

aquaculture, and most private 

nonprofit organizations of all 

sizes to meet their ordinary and 

necessary financial obligations 

that cannot be met as a direct result 

of the disaster. These loans 

of up to $2 million are intended 

to assist through the disaster 

recovery period if the small 

business, small agricultural cooperative 

or private nonprofit 

organization: suffered wildfirerelated 

cash flow problems (regardless 

of physical damage 

to property); needs funds for 

working capital to recover from 

the disaster’s adverse economic 

impact; and is unable to obtain 

credit from banks and normal 

lending channels. 

For more information about 

SBA’s EIDL program, contact the 

SBA Disaster Assistance Customer 

Service Center by calling (800) 

659-2955, emailing disastercust 

omerservice@sba.gov, or visiting 

www.sba.gov/disaster. 

Anyone who is deaf or hard-ofhearing 

may call (800) 877-8339. 

The deadline to apply for the 

EIDL program is Aug. 12.

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An original Von Dutch 

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Fireball Tim Lawrence 

Contributing Columnist 

Malibu resident 

I’m always amazed 

at how the universe 

manages to pull things 

together based on people’s 

passions. And this story 

exemplifies that in many 

ways. 

A longtime friend of 

mine, Bob Clark, and 

his co-conspirator, Greg 

Weier, were minding their 

own business back in 1971 

when Weier spotted a used 

motorcycle on the side of 

a trailer park in the Valley. 

He consulted Clark and 

they went to look at the 

bike together. 

It was a classic Velocette 

owned by a guy who live 

in the park itself. After 

looking the bike over, 

Weier (with some prodding 

from Clark), bought 

it for $350. The seller was 

none other than infamous 

pinstriper Kenny Howard, 

also known as Von Dutch. 

Yes, that Von Dutch. 

“He didn’t call himself 

Von Dutch at the time,” 

Weier said. “But he was 

known as a really great 

pinstriper.” 

Clark and Weier took 

the bike home and immediately 

began to pull 

Bob Clark (left), Greg Weier (middle) and Johnny Martinez 

are working together to restore a Von Dutch motorcycle 

Weier bought in 1971. 

Fireball Tim Lawrence/22nd Century Media 

it apart, re-chroming and 

painting with the idea of 

turning it into a chopper. 

But over the next several 

years, Weier basically rode 

the bike around town and 

it eventually went into 

storage in the early ’80s. 

And there it sat for almost 

30 years, in Weier’s garage 

collecting dust and getting 

covered with a variety of 

garage material. 

In 2012, Clark and Weier 

began to get the bug again 

and started tinkering. Over 

the next seven years, they 

off and on fixed the bike 

up. But, now knowing 

that it was a Von Dutch 

original, the idea of a 

chopper waned in light of 

a full, original restoration. 

And that’s exactly what 

they did. 

Then, about two months 

ago, Clark came to me and 

mentioned that the bike 

was nearly finished but 

needed to get pinstriped. 

And that’s when I called 

my buddy, master pinstriper 

Johnny Martinez from 

Ventura. 

“Hey, Johnny, wanna 

stripe something truly 

unique?” I asked. 

If he wasn’t wearing his 

black glasses, I’m pretty 

sure his eyes would have 

popped out of his head. 

(I’m glad I didn’t see 

that.) 

And that’s where we 

came up with the idea for 

Martinez to stripe the tanks 

Please see rotw, 15

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Don’t Panic, It’s Organic 

Soil replenishment following fire, rain 

Andy Lopez 

Contributing Columnist 

Invisible Gardener 

All that beautiful 

rain was needed 

by the soil. It will 

really help in recovery 

but, to be sure things come 

back healthy, there are 

several things one should 

be doing. 

This goes for anyone 

who loves their property, 

regardless of if it burned. 

Let’s start with the soil. 

Everything begins with the 

soil, so it is imperative to 

provide the soil with the 

necessary tools it needs 

to function correctly. You 

should be applying rock 

dust, live compost, organic 

fertilizer and an acid mulch 

like azalea/gardenia mix. 

You should also utilize a 

microbial activator. There 

are many on the market. 

Try Anawalt. Ask them 

what they have for organic 

fertilizers and microbial 

life applications. 

I would also go to Green 

Thumb in Ventura and 

check out all the organic 

products they have. While 

both carry the same company 

brands, Green Thumb 

has a bigger selection and 

carries some excellent 

mycorrhiza products. 

You can always get 

products from the internet, 

too, but you will need to 

get live compost from a 

local source. Last week, I 

mentioned a few, and there 

are many. Ventura is a significant 

agricultural place, 

and there are many sources 

here as well. The trick 

is to read the labels and 

buy the type of fertilizer 

that works best with the 

plants you are fertilizing. 

Right now, it is essential 

to use organic fertilization/ 

remineralization/microbial 

applications. 

Anything you apply this 

month or next will not be 

available until the following 

months. This especially 

holds true for minerals. 

Trace minerals need 

to be applied in trace 

amounts on a regular basis 

along with the microbial 

support system. They are 

called trace minerals for a 

reason — if you apply too 

much, it becomes toxic. 

People have been trained 

that if a little is good, more 

is better. This is not always 

the case. When it comes 

to trace minerals, the soil 

has trace minerals that are 

locked and not available to 

the plants. This is primarily 

because of chemical 

fertilizers and other toxic 

sources. Humans are very 

destructive to the environment. 

I have found that these 

minerals are not released 

because the army of 

microbes that carries out 

that task is not there. The 

microbes have died. 

This is what I mean by 

live soil and live compost. 

It really is alive with millions 

of “little beings,” an 

army of workers. Restoring 

this army will take time 

and patience. 

Fires are good for the 

soil because it is nature’s 

way of restoring carbon to 

the soil, along with trace 

minerals from plants and 

animals consumed by the 

fires. The only real difference 

is that most often, 

when we have a fire, it 

is not just trees or animals, 

etc. that are burned 

down, but also the toxins 

not found in nature. This 

toxin kills off all living 

microbial life, making it 

impossible for the carbon 

to be available. Generally, 

after a fire, the soil is not 

entirely dead, and the army 

moves in to work on the 

carbon and minerals now 

available. 

The fires also help new 

growth in this way. It also 

eventually helps everything 

from birds to animals. 

So, build up healthy 

soil, and everything that 

grows and depends on it 

also will be healthy. 

This also is the time to 

prune your roses and fruit 

trees. 

Get organic fertilizer 

for roses and one for fruit 

trees. They require different 

formulations. I talk a 

lot about foliar applications 

not only because I 

have been doing it since 

1972, but also because it is 

a very important yet oftenmissed 

part of gardening 

and soil care. 

In nature, all plants, 

trees, and even humans 

and animals are sprayed by 

nature in the form of rain. 

The rain carries microbial 

life, whose job is to help 

us absorb the minerals the 

water brings. Around now, 

you will see in gardening 

publications that you 

should be spraying your 

fruit trees and roses with 

a product that will control 

various diseases. This has 

been the standard approach 

since man started making 

and selling fertilizers and 

pesticides — the logic 

being that the sprayings 

are part of growth, and you 

cannot grow it organically 

without the chemical fertilizers 

and/or pesticides. 

This is a reactive approach 

rather than a proactive 

one. It is easier to 

prevent diseases and pests 

than to try to control or 

remove them. Guess which 

makes more money for 

companies? 

I never see any gardening 

publications (unless 

they are organic) telling 

folks to spray compost tea 

for pests and diseases. An 

organic gardener rarely has 

pest and disease problems. 

The biggest challenge will 

be your non-organic nextdoor 

neighbor! 

You are in luck concerning 

compost tea, as there 

are many local sources 

from which you can buy. If 

you make your own compost 

and are making it the 

right way and it is alive, 

you can make compost tea. 

Apply a different variation 

of the compost tea yearround. 

Your compost tea 

should be a microbial and 

mineral-rich liquid. 

Any questions? Email me at 

andylopez@invisiblegardener. 

com. 

Poet’s Corner 

Ann Buxie, Malibu resident 

A sign in front of a 

church asks 

if I want more meaning 

in my life. 

NO. I want less meaning. 

Maybe I’ve bitten off 

more 

than I can chew. Maybe 

I admit to a certain contrariness 

there’s too much information. 

I know what’s good for 

me. 

I need things the natural 

way, 

no droned voice telling 

me 

very important messages 

(I hang up immediately) 

or correcting my route 

from here to there. 

Maybe I need to be lost, 

today, 

on this earth, beneath 

this sky 

promise filtering through 

every every 

the way I feel something 

when a rainbow appears 

or when I smell a mustard 

flower 

earthy musky nodding 

on ripples of air 

or when a court of butterflies 

and bees 

comes to the wild bush 

near my window 

or when I see the fox 

dead 

by the roadside, maggots 

swarming from her 

mouth 

and bees looking for 

anything sweet 

left to suck, reclaiming 

her body 

the natural way, for 

earth’s sake. 

I see how life and death 

partner, 

seamlessly, and weeping 

only comes 

when life is carelessly 

deliberately 

squandered. 

Want to submit a poem to the 

Surfside? Email 

Editor Lauren Coughlin at 

lauren@malibusurfsidenews. 

com.

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On Common Ground 

Knowing when, how to help local seabirds 

Heather Henderson 

Marine Animal Stranding 

Coordinator 

California Wildlife Center 

Malibu beaches 

are beautiful 

and have varied 

coastal habitats. 

Whether visiting for the 

first time or taking a daily 

walk, you are likely to 

view dozens to hundreds 

of seabirds, ranging from 

shorebird species that 

are present year-round to 

numerous pelagic species 

(those that live primarily 

on the open seas) passing 

through while migrating, 

primarily during the winter 

months. Unfortunately, 

while viewing these 

beautiful animals, we may 

observe individuals in 

need of assistance. 

How do you determine 

if they need help? Injuries 

are often easy to spot. 

They may be entangled 

in fishing gear or ocean 

trash, are unable to fly, 

have visible oil contamination 

on the body, or 

even have lacerations and 

fractures with blood present. 

There are, however, 

other challenges which are 

not as easy to recognize 

that a wild aquatic bird 

may face, such as malnutrition 

and ingestion of 

trash or debris. 

A juvenile Western grebe — one of several pelagic birds commonly seen in Malibu — is 

cared for at the wildlife center. photos by cambria Wells/California Wildlife Center 

Shorebirds that are common 

to the Malibu area 

include brown pelicans, 

cormorants, gulls, terns, 

egrets, plovers and sandpipers. 

Shorebirds forage 

at the water’s edge or near 

the coastline. They are 

able to perch and walk on 

land, so it can sometimes 

be tricky to determine if 

they are injured. A good 

rule is that if you approach 

a shorebird and it does not 

move away to maintain a 

safe distance from you, it 

is probably not doing well 

and would benefit from a 

visit to California Wildlife 

Center for care. 

Pelagic bird species 

commonly sighted in Malibu 

include loons, grebes, 

murres, scoters, fulmars 

and petrels. Pelagic birds 

only beach themselves 

when in trouble. If you 

observe a pelagic bird on 

the sand, it requires rehabilitative 

care to address 

the challenge it is experiencing. 

While pelagic 

species forage and live 

exclusively in the ocean, 

they should not be pushed 

back into the water once 

beached. Transporting the 

bird to the rehabilitation 

facility is essential in order 

to give them a second 

chance at survival. 

May I legally rescue the 

injured bird, you may ask? 

Yes, as long as you bring 

it to a licensed rehabilitation 

facility ASAP. This 

is fortunate, since the 

sheer number of aquatic 

birds that will likely need 

assistance each year is 

more than any rescue 

team can respond to in a 

timely manner. Although 

not all animals are able to 

recover from the ailment 

they are faced with, in 

general, the sooner that an 

injured animal arrives at 

a specialized rehabilitation 

facility, the better the 

chance of recovering. 

When you spot the bird, 

call the CWC hotline 

at (310) 458-9453 and 

choose option 2. Take a 

photo of the bird. Our 

technician will confirm 

the species and guide you 

through the next steps. 

If you are able and 

willing to transport the 

injured bird to our center, 

the following tips should 

be followed in order to 

keep you and the aquatic 

bird safe: 

• Cover the animal with 

a towel or T-shirt. At least 

cover their head in order 

to minimize stress, however, 

covering more of 

the body will aid in safer 

handling. 

• Hold the bird at hip 

level. Most sea birds have 

pointy and sharp bills. It 

is their primary weapon to 

use against predators, so 

hip level is safest for the 

rescuer. 

• Place the bird in a 

box or carrier that has a 

secured top with plenty of 

air holes. When possible, 

line the bottom of the box 

with a towel or sheet in 

order to cushion their keel 

bone. 

• Keep warm. 

Brown pelicans, a common shorebird, may be ill if they 

allow humans to get too close. 

Loons also are among pelagic bird species found in the 

Malibu area. California Wildlife Center 

• Limit activity (including 

talking) around the 

bird to avoid unnecessary 

stress. 

We thank everyone who 

reports and transports ailing 

wildlife to California 

Wildlife Center! 

On Common Ground is a 

monthly column written by 

various California Wildlife 

Center employees. CWC, a 

nonprofit located in Calabasas, 

cares for injured wildlife 

in Malibu and beyond.

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From the Editor 

One week, 500 words to go 

Lauren Coughlin 

lauren@malibusurfsidenews.com 

This past holiday 

season in Malibu 

was tough on many, 

but there were glimpses of 

joy, kindness and strength 

despite the challenges so 

many in the community are 

facing. 

Now, Valentine’s Day 

is on deck, and we’re 

carrying on with one of 

our personal favorites: 

the Surfside’s How We 

Met contest. As seemed 

to be the case with many 

of the holiday traditions 

and festivities held in 

Malibu, we hope it can 

offer some joy and remind 

that the best things in life 

are not things, but rather 

the people we surround 

ourselves with. 

Malibu lovebirds now 

have one week left to 

enter, with the contest 

deadline being 5 p.m. 

Thursday, Feb. 7. 

For those who are unfamiliar, 

we just ask that 

you write the story, in 500 

words or less, of how you 

and your significant other 

met and email it to lauren 

@malibusurfsidenews. 

com. Submissions should 

include a photo of the couple, 

as well as your names 

and a phone number at 

which we can reach you. 

In our Feb. 14 edition, 

we will share the winning 

story, and the couple also 

will receive a one-night 

stay in a king premier 

oceanfront guest room at 

Malibu Beach Inn (22878 

Pacific Coast Highway) as 

well as a $150 gift certificate 

to Geoffrey’s (27400 

PCH). 

We’ve read some truly 

powerful and beautiful 

stories over the past 

couple years, but we know 

there are more just waiting 

to be told. Plus, a declaration 

of your love in the 

local newspaper beats any 

Hallmark card out there if 

you ask me. 

Any questions? Feel 

free to contact me at laur 

en@malibusurfsidenews. 

com or (310) 457-2112 

ext. 1. 


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From Page 12 

and fender at last weekend’s 

Wheels and Waves 

here in Malibu. Martinez 

did his job with about 30 

people watching, blasting 

music and, yes, with his 

black specs on. It was a 

sight to behold. 

This week, the final 

stripes will be placed and 

full assembly of the bike 

will begin. According to 

Clark and Weier, with their 

schedules — Clark is a 

sculptor in the film industry 

and Weier is a contractor 

— the bike should 

come together over the 

next few months. And if it 

turns out half as good as I 

expect, it should command 

a pretty penny at auction. 

How many original Von 

Dutch bikes are out there? 

Who knows, but this one is 

spectacular. 

The goal is to tour the 

bike through the museums 

and shows to get the word 

out, let people see it and 

maybe let a few select 

people ride it. But one 

thing is for sure. We can 

thank Clark and Weier for 

securing a piece of motorcycle 

history — a memory 

we can all appreciate and 

one that may get us looking 

through our garages to 

see what we might have 

missed. 

Good on ya, boys! 

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the Week? Send Fireball an 

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Spoonful of 

sugar Malibu’s Sugardust 

Bakery strives 

to make desserts 

satisfying without too 

much sugar, Page 18 

Back on 

deck Malibu High 

to perform previously 

canceled musical, 

‘Spring Awakening,’ 

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Community members honor local fire heroes, more at barbecue, Page 19 

Malibu residents who were recognized as local heroes during the fire gather for a group photo at the Saturday, Jan. 26 Malibu Strong Community Barbecue. 

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18 | January 31, 2019 | Malibu surfside news dining out 


The Dish 

Sugardust Bakery caters to locals’ sweet tooth 

Barbara Burke 


Festive, fanciful baked 

delights grace the countertop 

in the kitchen of Alexandra 

“Zan” McDougall’s 

home-based bakery. 

“One of the compliments 

that I get most frequently 

with regard to my desserts 

is that they’re not overly 

sweet,” said McDougall, a 

Malibu resident. “As much 

as I like sugar, ‘too sweet’ 

is cloying. If the filling and 

the cake and the frosting 

are all too sweet, it is too 

much and, therefore, I cut 

down the sugar from every 

recipe.” 

When Malibu Surfside 

News visited, McDougall 

made a red and white, chocolate 

gingerbread cake with 

milk chocolate filling and 

white chocolate drizzle. The 

gorgeous creation – almost 

too pretty to cut into – costs 

$75 and serves 12 people. 

McDougall grew up baking 

with her mother, grandmother 

and great-grandmother. 

“My mother was flamboyant, 

fancy and flashy 

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with her baking,” Mc- 

Dougall said. “But my 

grandmother and greatgrandmother, 

Emma, were 

practical and utilitarian in 

their baking, and I learned 

very different skills from all 

three of them.” 

McDougall’s culinary 

creations strike a balance 

between practicality and artful 

flair. Many of her cakes 

cost $4 per slice, but her favorite 

things to bake include 

incredible creme brulee and 

pots de crème — custard 

wonders often served in ramekins 

at fancy schmancy 

parties. 

McDougall’s Pinot Noir 

chocolate truffles ($15 a 

dozen) make for a perfect, 

quick dessert that can grace 

even the finest table. 

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This chocolate gingerbread bundt cake ($60) is filled with 

vanilla bean pastry cream and topped with chocolate 

ganache and sugared cranberries. 

parties, as well as to Valentine’s 

Day, McDougall’s 

carefully curated cookies 

are a good option ($3.50 to 

$4.50 each), and she makes 

her own tasty sprinkles ($5 

a bag). 

“I serve a lot of parents 

wanting to give something 

special to their kids, whether 

they be in area schools 

or in college,” McDougall 

said. “My dessert bars and 

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cookies are good options.” 

McDougall is a conservationist 

and a thoughtful 

baker. 

“All my products are ethically 

sourced and are fair 

trade, especially chocolate, 

because, if you don’t buy 

organic chocolate, you’re 

buying slave chocolate,” 

she said. “I also do a great 

vegan marble cake for $5 a 

slice.” 

Items may be picked up 

in Malibu, and customers 

looking to have baked 

goods delivered receive 

their first delivery for free. 

After that, local deliveries 

cost between $10-$15, depending 

on the size of the 

order. Deliveries to outlying 

areas cost $20. 

Zan’s customers have 

plentiful compliments for 

the local baker and her 

products. 

“My favorite baked goods 

come from Zan at Sugardust 

Bakery,” said Corie Tappin. 

“She’s my go-to for any 

special event or holiday because 

her decorated almond 

Alexandra McDougall, of Sugardust Bakery, proudly 

displays a chocolate gingerbread cake ($75), with milk 

chocolate filling and white chocolate drizzle. Photos by 

Barbara Burke/22nd Century Media 

shortbread cookies are not 

only beautiful, but delicious 

– they have just the right 

combination of crunchy and 

soft.” 

McDougall can tailor her 

creations to fit any taste or 

need, including those of 

Tracy Park, who is diabetic. 

“Zan comes up with the 

most delicious, sugar-free, 

low carb desserts that are so 

great that I don’t even feel 

like I’m missing out,” Park 

said. Park also shared how 

McDougall’s creations have 

been received by her guests. 

“I brought one of Zan’s 

chocolate ganache cakes 

with candied cranberries 

to a party and guest Siulan 

Cantor said, ‘It tastes 

like it came straight from 

a European bakery, like it 

has a pedigree; this baker 

has some royal baking lineage!’” 

The dense, dark chocolate 

cake ($60) features gingerbread 

cake with milk chocolate 

vanilla bean pastry 

cream, a chocolate ganache 

and sugared cranberries. 

“Zan’s cakes are stunning,” 

Tappin said. “Whether 

it’s a flag cake for the 

Fourth of July or a basketball 

cake for a kid’s birthday 

or a buche de noel, they are 

all a delight.”

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Camaraderie, commiseration drive community barbecue 

Barbara Burke 


The Malibu Strong Community 

Barbecue “celebrated 

Malibu’s resilience and 

expressed the community’s 

appreciation to those brave 

citizens who saved many 

homes by putting out fires 

and hotspots,” explained 

organizer Terry O’Rourke, 

a native of Point Dume. 

As the crowd gathered 

Saturday, Jan. 26, at Point 

Dume Club, neighbors 

greeted one another and 

busied themselves arranging 

dishes, starting the barbecue 

and setting tables. 

“The event tonight shows 

that when the community 

comes together, it makes us 

stronger because Malibu is 

very resilient,” Gino Cordos 

said. “Now, we just 

have to deal with the situation, 

work hard and keep 

rebuilding our lives.” 

Wolcott Sprague agreed. 

“When my neighbor Terry 

told me that he wanted to 

have this event to show our 

appreciation to those who 

stayed here and saved houses, 

my wife and I got right 

on the phone to contact the 

guys who were patrolling 

the Point Dume clubhouse 

while the fires raged,” he 

said. “It’s a wonderful thing 

to gather here to celebrate 

someone who has literally 

saved your home.” 

Sprague pointed to Jeff 

Shafer who, along with 

Howard Ferguson and a 

few others, managed to 

prevent the devastation at 

the trailer park from being 

worse. 

Attendees who stayed in 

Malibu during the evacuation 

recounted how the 

unpredictable inferno was 

faster and stronger than any 

fire in memory, and how 

the winds incessantly blew 

embers that started hotspots 

and set structures on fire. 

“Firefighters just 

couldn’t make a stand in 

this fire anywhere,” Shafer 

said. “It came down the 

canyons like a freight train, 

moving at 60 miles per 

hour and 1,800 feet a minute, 

and almost every time 

they tried to get ahead of it, 

it was just too late because 

the fire was that fast and 

strong.” 

Shafer recounted how 

the fire on Wandermere 

Road, which borders the 

canyon that cuts through 

Point Dume, “was raging at 

the size of football fields a 

minute.” 

Noting how horrific the 

damage to Point Dume 

was, Ferguson emphasized 

that the devastation could 

have been much worse. He 

noted that he, Shafer and 

two others stayed behind in 

the Point Dume clubhouse 

community. 

“Frankly, we got a little 

lucky because of a bit of a 

fluke,” Ferguson said. “We 

got a little bit of help from 

the wind patterns late on 

the first night of the fire, 

about 11:30 p.m., and if 

that had not happened, we 

would have most likely lost 

all of the trailer park.” 

In the end, three trailers 

at the end of the park were 

totaled, Ferguson recalled. 

Amidst posters listing 

the names of “Malibu’s 

heroes” who stayed during 

the evacuation and contributed 

to fighting the fire, a 

documentary produced by 

Adam O’Rourke showed 

haunting images of the fire 

as Ben E. King’s “Stand by 

Me” played in the background. 

Community barbecue organizers (left to right) Adam 

O’Rourke, Terry O’Rouke, Margaret Maglione, Wolcott 

Sprague, Barbara Fish, Sal Fish, Caroline Thomas, Jim 

McGowan, Audrey Shubin and Gemma Rose pose for a 

photo Saturday, Jan. 26, during the event held at the Point 

Dume Club of Malibu. Maile Mason/22nd Century Media 

Steven Moak, a thirdgeneration 

Malibu native 

and a firefighter by trade, 

first heard of the Woolsey 

Fire when he got word 

that Seminole Springs was 

aflame. 

“When I got to Seminole 

Springs, my sister’s house 

was burned down,” he said. 

“That’s when this fire got 

personal.” 

Moak and others held the 

fire at bay in many parts of 

Point Dume. 

“My wife, who is originally 

from the Philippines 

and who had never experienced 

anything like this, 

joined me as we fought all 

night to defend our home,” 

O’Rourke said. “When the 

morning came, I gave my 

wife a diploma and made 

her a captain on the front 

line. If we ever have another 

fire, she’ll be ready and 

say ‘Let’s go and fight this; 

let’s put our boxing gloves 

on.’” 

Karen Goddard shared a 

book of photos recounting 

her family’s evacuations 

and how her husband, Larry, 

stayed behind and saved 

their home. 

“First, one of my daughters 

evacuated from Westlake, 

bringing two little 

ones to the house on the 

night Nov. 8,” Goddard 

said. “Then, at 2:30 a.m. 

the next day, my other 

daughter was evacuated 

from Thousand Oaks and 

we ended up having six 

little ones under the age of 

6 at our home.” 

Goddard thumbed 

through the book, showing 

pictures of the trauma that 

her family experienced. 

On Nov. 11, Goddard returned 

to find that her husband 

had saved their home. 

“6.3 miles, 94 floors, 

16,354 steps,” stated an image 

from her husband’s activity 

tracker app. 

“He fought long and hard 

during those first hours, going 

from our lower property 

to the attic,” Goddard said. 

“See, here’s a video of a 

coyote running across our 

property for its life and look, 

see these pictures showing 

how my husband and son 

and son-in-law fought hard 

to save property and to help 

save neighbors’ properties 

as well.” 

Goddard’s book showed 

images of flash flood warnings 

after the fire and how 

three weeks post-fire, huge 

trees were blown over in 

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Faith Briefs 

Malibu Presbyterian Church (3324 

Malibu Canyon Road, 310-456-1611) 

Big Game Party 

2:30-6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 

3. Watch the game. The 

church will have chips and 

drinks. Bring a snack or 

appetizer to share. Contact 

Joel Dunn at jdunn@mali 

bupres.org for more information. 

Father-Daughter 

Valentine’s Dance 

5-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 

9. Join for an “Alice in 

Wonderland” themed Valentine’s 

Day dance. Tickets 

are $40. To register, visit 

malibupres.org/dance. 

Sunday Worship Services 

10:15 a.m. Sundays 

Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue 

(24855 Pacific Coast Highway, 310- 

456-2178) 

Men’s Club Super Bowl 

Screening 

3-7 p.m. Feb. 3 

Torah Study 

10 a.m. Saturdays, with 

Rabbi Michael Schwartz. 

Open to all. 

Baby & Me Class 

9:30-11 a.m. Thursdays. 

The synagogue hosts weekly 

classes where babies and 

toddlers are welcome to 

explore the school through 

puppets, music, sensory 

play and more. There will 

be a weekly discussion 

pertaining to babies and 

toddler’s beginning years. 

Religious School 

3:45-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays 

Tuesday Mamas 

4 p.m. Tuesdays 

Malibu United Methodist Church (30128 

Morning View Drive, 310-457-7505) 

Support Group 

Anyone impacted by the 

fire who is in need of support 

may call the church’s 

office or email the Listening 

Post at TheListening 

PostMalibu@gmail.com to 

arrange a support group appointment. 

Co-Dependents Anonymous 

7:30-9 p.m. Mondays. 

By the time one reaches 

co-dependents anonymous, 

they have lost touch 

with themselves by focusing 

on another. This meeting 

begins with an affirmation 

of each individual’s 

own authenticity and attendees 

write on their experience 

with one of the 55 

traits. Members then share 

what they’ve written or 

pass, then have open sharing. 

For more information, 

contact risk2change@ 

gmail.com. 

Malibu Music and Art Youth 

Group 

3-5:30 p.m. every Monday. 

The Malibu Music and 

Art Youth Group, supervised 

by Devon Meyers, 

will meet in the Mayhugh 

Education Center Community 

Room located next 

to the Malibu Methodist 

parking lot. The group is 

open to local middle and 

high school students, interested 

in the arts, free of 

charge. Students are welcome 

to bring their instruments 

and imagination and 

play, write, collaborate, 

sing and jam with fellow 

students. Photography and 

art students are welcome, 

too. For more information, 

contact Devon Meyers 

at (310) 442-9380 or 

email devonmeyerspro 

ject@gmail.com. 

Alateen Meeting 

10 a.m. Saturdays, Alateen 

meeting 

Yoga with Jodi 

6:30 p.m. Mondays and 

Wednesdays. 

AA Meetings 

6:30 p.m. Sundays; noon 

and 7 p.m. Mondays and 

Tuesdays; noon and 7:30 

p.m. Wednesdays; noon 

and 6:30 p.m. Thursdays; 

noon and 8 p.m. Fridays; 

noon and 5 p.m. Saturdays. 

Bible Kids 

3-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays 

for kindergarten through 

second-grade children; 

3-4:30 p.m. Thursdays for 

third through fifth-grade 

children. Bible Kids is an 

after-school child care program. 

Al Anon Meetings 

7:30 p.m. Thursday and 

10 a.m. Saturday 

Sunday Worship 

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

Child care available. 

Children’s program held 

during worship. 

St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church (28211 

Pacific Coast Highway, 310-457-7966) 

Sacred Yoga 

7:15-8:15 p.m. Thursdays. 

Class with Liz 

Krystofik. 

Contemplative Worship 

8 a.m. Sundays 

Traditional Worship 


Martial Arts 

4-7 p.m. Mondays, 

Wednesdays, Thursdays. 

Class with Kurt Lampson. 

Sunday School 

10-11 a.m. Sundays. 

Chabad of Malibu (22943 Pacific Coast 

Highway, 310-456-6588) 

Evening Shabbat Services 

7:30 p.m. Fridays. 

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. 

Parent and Me Program 

9:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesdays. 

This program is held 

at Gan Malibu Preschool, 

22933 PCH. For more information, 

call (310) 456- 

6573 or email sarah@gan 

malibu.com. 

Our Lady of Malibu Church (3625 Winter 

Canyon Road, 310-456-2361) 

Centering Prayer 

8:30 a.m. second and 

fourth Thursdays 

Learn About Catholicism 

Join for an informal 

meeting with no obligation 

over a cup of coffee or tea. 

The group meets on Sundays 

and shares stories of 

faith and community. Contact 

the rectory office for 

meeting times. 

AA Meetings 

6:30 p.m. Mondays, 

Sheridan Hall. 

Narcotics Anonymous 

7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, 

Sheridan Hall. 

OLM Book Club 

6:30 p.m. Second Tuesdays. 

This club meets to 

discuss short stories. 

Morning Bible Class 

10:30 a.m.-noon Thursdays, 

Lower Conference 

Room. 

Men’s AA Meetings 

6 p.m. Fridays, Okoneski 

Room. 

University Church of Christ (24255 


A cappella Service 

10:15 a.m. Sundays, in 

Elkins Auditorium 

Instrumental Service 

5 p.m. Sundays, in 

Stauffer Chapel 

Adult Bible Class 

9 a.m. Sundays, in Payson 

Library 

Children and Youth Bible 

Classes 

9 a.m. Sundays, various 

locations 

Waveside Church (6955 Fernhill Drive, 

310-774-1927) 

Sunday Worship 

10:10 a.m., children’s 

ministry 

Wednesday Home Groups 

6:30 p.m. at various locations. 

Call for locations. 

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 


First Church-Christ Scientist (28635 


Wednesday Meetings 

8 p.m. Wednesdays. Testimony 

meetings include 

readings from the Bible and 

“Science and Health with 

Key to the Scriptures.” 

Have an event for faith briefs? 

Email lauren@malibusurfside 

news.com. Information is due 

by noon on Thursdays one 

week prior to publication. 

In Memoriam 

Barbara Ann 

Bick 

Barbara 

Ann Bick, 

M.D., 77, 

of Malibu, 

died Nov. 27, 

2018. Bick 

Bick was born in 

Brooklyn, New York, on 

May 27, 1941. She graduated 

from Lincoln High 

School, Barnard University 

and New York Medical 

College. After graduation, 

she earned a fellowship 

degree in hematology/ 

oncology at Columbia 

University Medical Center 

and was chief medical 

resident at Cedars-Sinai 

Medical Center, where 

she met her husband, 

cardiologist-author Dr. 

James S. Forrester. She 

practiced oncology at Cedars-Sinai 

before moving 

to practice internalmedicine 

in Malibu and preventive 

medicine at Pritikin 

Longevity in Santa 

Monica. 

A lover of the beach, 

Bick lived in Malibu for 

the past 48 years. She is 

survived by her husband, 

their son, radiologist Justin 

Bick-Forrester M.D., 

of Malibu, and her brother, 

chef Michael Bick, of 

Danbury, Connecticut. 

Have someone’s life you’d 

like to honor? Email lauren 

@malibusurfsidenews.com 

with information about a 

loved one who was a part of 

the Malibu community.

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22 | January 31, 2019 | Malibu surfside news life & arts 


MHS readies for delayed presentation of ‘Spring Awakening’ 

Show rated ‘PG-14’ 

Staff Report 

Malibu High School’s 

fall musical, “Spring 

Awakening,” which was 

previously scheduled to 

occur Nov. 15-17, is back 

on track and set to take the 

stage Feb. 1-3. 

Shows will take place 

at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 

and Saturday, Feb. 2, and 

at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 

at Malibu High School, 

30215 Morning View 

Drive. 

The production, which is 

rated “PG-14” for explicit 

content and language, 

will star Malibu High 

School seniors William 

Hammond, as the cool 

guy, Melchior, and Claire 

Anneet, as the innocent 

Wendla. 

“Spring Awakening” 

includes heavy topics including 

death, abuse, sex, 

abortion, suicide and more, 

and High School Theatre 

Arts Director Jodi Plaia 

said the students have embraced 

the show’s serious 

themes. 

“The story of teenagers 

coming of age and wanting 

to be seen and heard in 

a world where adults are 

sort of the ones in charge 

is very relevant to teens 

in high school,” Plaia previously 

told the Surfside 

News in November. 

“Spring Awakening” 

has received eight Tony 

Awards, including Best 

Musical. 

Tickets, which may 

be purchased at malibu. 

smmusd.org, are $25 for 

adults, and $15 for students 

and seniors. 

RIGHT: Malibu High School 

seniors William Hammond 

(left) and Claire Anneet 

are to take the stage Feb. 

1-3 as the lead characters 

in MHS’ performances of 

“Spring Awakening.” Jodi 

Plaia/Malibu High School 

barbecue 

From Page 19 

and that’s in the rain weeks 

later.” 

As the evening came to 

an end, attendees expressed 

gratitude. 

“It was great that Terry 

O’Rourke was gracious 

enough and took the time 

to help coordinate this 

event to bring many community 

members together 

who stayed to help during 

the fire,” attendee Quentin 

Lilly said. “They stayed to 

help and to stand our ground 

against the fires in our Malibu 

neighborhoods. 

“We were very fortunate 

to have a committed group 

of neighbors on Bonsall 

Drive who worked together 

to protect our homes over 

multiple days. Clearly, we 

would have lost our homes 

if their community efforts 

were not put forward.” 

As attendees left, packets 

of seeds donated by Trancas 

Nursery sat in a basket at 

the exit with an accompanying 

placard that summed 

up the evening’s sentiments. 

The placard simply stated: 

“From ashes to flowers; together 

let’s bring the bloom 

back to Malibu.” 

Going rate 

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MALIBU. TOGETHER IS BETTER. 

As a Malibu resident and property owner for 50 years and Malibu 

Realtor for the last 30 years, I lost several properties in the Recent 

Fires and am going through the rebuilding process with you. If you 

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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. Friend 

4. Arum lily 

9. Honeycomb parts 

14. Dusk, to Donne 

15. Pleasant way to 

walk 

16. Excite 

17. Mule kin 

18. Pageant winner 

20. Immaculate 

22. Assist illegally 

23. In view 

27. World famous 

rum brand 

32. Vehicle’s speed 

maintainer 

34. ____ new world 

record 

35. Tragedy 

36. Epiphanies 

39. “ER” personnel 

41. Negative question 

42. Hurting 

43. Not us 

45. Celeb who is a 

big Lakers fan and 

lives in Malibu 

50. Beauty pageant 

wear 

51. Gizmos 

54. Scarf material 

57. Of hearing 

58. UN has this role 

65. Chinese philosophy 

66. Neuters, as a 

horse 

67. Former Mrs. 

Trump 

68. Go wrong 

69. Select group 

70. “Mulholland 

Drive” director 

71. One kind of 

bread 

Down 

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2. Take in again 

3. How some scripts are written 

4. Net alternative 

5. Singer-songwriter DiFranco 

6. Much of “Deck the Halls” 

7. One of the Simpsons 

8. Kuwaiti or Qatari 

9. El Greco, by birth 

10. Ballad’s end? 

11. Year in Nero’s reign 

12. “March of the Penguins” 

director Jacquet 

13. Pool locale 

19. Exec’s note 

21. Black, viscous liquid 

24. Kiss 

25. Deception 

26. Cornerstone abbr. 

28. Old Fords 

29. Anemia fighter 

30. Sack 

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33. Fifth largest planet 

36. Diminutive battery size 

37. Bar sounds 

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40. Like show horses 

41. “___ Excited” (Pointer 

Sisters hit) 

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for short 

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47. Avoided serious injury 

48. ___meter (measures distance 

traveled) 

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52. A personal journal 

53. Serrate 

55. Eye, at the Eiffel Tower 

56. Tax 

58. Golf tour 

59. Wriggler 

60. “I am the greatest” boxer 

61. Saving option 

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64. Cheerleader cry 

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been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3 squares. 

To solve the puzzle each row, column and box must 

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answers 

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Back on track 

Pepperdine hurdler recoups from 

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On the sidelines 

Surfside chats with MHS basketball 

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Goalie Ben Silbar (in 

pink) is recognized 

on the Sharks’ senior 

night Friday, Jan. 25, in 

Malibu. 

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Century Media 

Sharks boys soccer team stays optimistic as tough season winds down, Page 27

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Women’s Track and Field 

Tongco back ‘stronger than ever’ 

Michal Dwojak 

Assistant Editor 

Caila Tongco felt relieved 

when she crossed the finish 

line of the 60-meter hurdles 

at the Dr. Martin Luther 

King Jr. Invitational hosted 

by New Mexico. 

The Pepperdine women’s 

track and field runner had 

just broken her own school 

record for the second time 

that day with a time of 9.21 

seconds, but she didn’t really 

worry about that. More 

importantly, the invitational 

was the first time the sophomore 

competitively raced 

for the Waves since missing 

most of her outdoor season 

last year because of an injury. 

When she crossed the finish 

line of the final hurdles 

race, she knew she was 

back. 

“I felt like I needed this 

meet a lot to help boost my 

confidence,” Tongco said. “It 

felt good to know that coming 

back I’m stronger than 

ever, and I worked hard to 

get me where I’m at now.” 

Tongco has battled injuries 

since her senior year 

of high school when she 

ruptured her Achilles tendon. 

The injury forced her 

to miss the rest of her high 

school career and delayed 

her training ability until 

mid-October of her freshman 

season. 

She returned in full force 

during the indoor portion 

of her first year, when she 

broke the school record in 

the 60 hurdles at 9.46 seconds, 

but she battled another 

setback. The top of her 

previously injured foot hurt 

after her first outdoor meet 

of the season, and she found 

out she suffered a mild 

stress fracture. 

Pepperdine University sophomore Caila Tongco, pictured 

last season, recently broke her school record in the 

60-meter hurdles twice in one day. 

Jeff Golden/Pepperdine Athletics 

She missed the rest of the 

season after reaching success 

early. 

“It left me very, very hungry.” 

Tongco said. “I was 

so bummed to find out that 

I couldn’t compete for the 

rest of the season, it was 

devastating.” 

While she was still 

around the team and felt 

close with her teammates, it 

wasn’t totally the same. She 

didn’t travel with the Waves 

since she couldn’t compete, 

which at times made her 

feel left out or isolated. She 

felt discouraged at times 

having to always focus on 

coming back from an injury 

— she hadn’t run a full season 

since her junior year of 

high school. 

Tongco worked at getting 

back to her right mindset 

after battling adversity with 

her injury. She continued to 

work and ran with her club 

team back at home to keep 

herself in shape and find 

that motivation that helped 

make her a top runner in 

high school. 

But during her battle, she 

went through a process that 

helped her fall in love with 

the sport again. 

“Track has always been 

something that’s been a passion 

for me,” Tongco said. 

“Just keeping that passion 

alive. That’s one of the pros 

of being injured is you regain 

that love for your sport. Once 

it’s taken away from you, it 

helps you regain and regrow 

your love for the sport.” 

So, when she came back 

to running in New Mexico, 

she didn’t think about her 

return too much because 

she knew she’d make herself 

nervous. Her first race 

back was the 200-meter 

open, which she wasn’t too 

focused on since she just 

wanted to get back to collegiate 

racing — she set a 

personal record in the 200. 

She went on to break the 

school record in the 60, 

but that wasn’t too impressive 

to Tongco. That number 

wasn’t her own PR in 

the race, which only makes 

her hungrier to get back out 

there and break the record 

each time she races. 

“I know that I am not as 

fast as I can be,” Tongco 

said. “I know breaking the 

record is just the stepping 

stone of where I want to be 

for the rest of the upcoming 

meets. I carried that hunger 

into this year.” 

She’s just relieved to be 

back. 

Pepperdine Athletics 

Ross leads men’s basketball past Saint Mary’s 

Colbey Ross scored 

11 of his career-high 29 

points in overtime to help 

lift the Pepperdine men’s 

basketball team to an 84- 

77 victory over visiting 

Saint Mary’s on Saturday, 

Jan. 26, in West Coast 

Conference action. 

Kameron Edwards added 

a season-high 24 points 

to help the Waves improve 

to 10-11 overall and 3-4 in 

the WCC, while dropping 

the favored Gaels to 13-9 

and 4-3. 

In the first half, Pepperdine 

led 18-15 but an 8-0 

Gaels run made it 23-18. 

They took their biggest 

lead of the game at 29-23 

and 31-25, but the Waves 

scored the final seven 

points of the second half 

to go into the break with a 

32-31 lead. 

The Gaels hit their first 

six shots of the second 

half and went up by four 

a couple of times, but an 

8-0 run with five points 

by Smith gave Pepperdine 

the lead back at 49-45. The 

Waves’ lead grew as large 

as nine at 59-50 with nine 

minutes left after two Ross 

free throws. 

Saint Mary’s rallied, 

however, eventually taking 

the lead back at 67- 

66 with 2 1/2 minutes 

left. Ross made two free 

throws with 1:54 to go to 

put Pepperdine in front 68- 

67. It stayed that way until 

This Week In... 

SHARKS ATHLETICS 

Girls Water Polo 

■Jan. ■ 31 - host Santa Paula, 

3:15 p.m. 

PEPPERDINE ATHLETICS 

Men’s Basketball 

SMC’s Ford scored with 

22 seconds left. On Pepperdine’s 

final possession, 

Ross made one of two free 

throws to tie the game with 

six seconds left. SMC had 

a chance to win but committed 

an offensive foul in 

the final second. 

Ross scored the Waves’ 

first six points of overtime. 

After he made two free 

throws, an Edwards lay-up 

made it 77-72 with 1:30 

left. SMC drew within two 

points after a Ford 3-pointer 

but Ross came right 

back with a basket. After 

Ford made two free throws 

to cut Pepperdine’s lead 

to 79-77 with 53 seconds 

left, Ross came up big 

again, sinking a 3-pointer 

from the top of the key. 

The Waves got a defensive 

stop, and then Edwards 

iced the game with two 

free throws with three seconds 

left. 

Pepperdine outscored 

SMC 15-8 in the overtime 

period. 

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 

Robinson-Bacote nets 

another career-high game 

Yasmine Robinson- 

Bacote had her fourth career 

30-point game as the 

Waves fell to Pacific 78-67 

in Stockton Saturday, Jan. 

26. 

The Waves (11-8, 5-4 

WCC) could not seem to 

find a rhythm against the 

■Jan. ■ 31 - at Portland, 

7 p.m. 

Women’s Basketball 

■Jan. ■ 31 - host San Diego, 

7 p.m. 

Track 

■Feb. ■ 1 - at Jackson’s Nike 

Tigers (13-6, 6-3 WCC), 

who were deadly from the 

field. 

Pacific started the 

game scoring the first 

four points, followed by 

a nine-point run to take a 

14-2 lead. Thanks to seven 

points from Robinson-Bacote, 

the Waves ended the 

first quarter on a 14-7 run. 

Pacific led 22-18 after the 

first 10 minutes of play. In 

the second quarter, Robinson-Bacote 

picked up right 

where she let off, scoring 

all 16 of the Waves’ points 

in the quarter. Pacific led 

40-34 going into the second 

half of the game. 

In the third quarter, the 

Waves came out hot, scoring 

the first seven points of 

the half to take their first 

lead of the game at 42-40. 

The Tigers retook the lead, 

and would not give it back 

in the quarter, taking a 57- 

54 lead into the final 10 

minutes of the game. The 

Waves tied the game at 57 

two minutes into the fourth 

quarter, but a 6-0 run from 

the Tigers put the game 

out of reach, as Pacific led 

by as many as 13 points, 

eventually winning by 11. 

Information from Pepperdine 

University and 

www.pepperdinewaves. 

com. Compiled by Assistant 

Editor Michal Dwojak, 

m.dwojak@22ndcentury 

media.com. 

Boise Invitational 

Women’s Tennis 

■Feb. ■ 1 - host California, 

1:30 p.m. 

Men’s Volleyball 

■Feb. ■ 6 - host BYU, 

7 p.m.

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With heads up, seniors, Sharks move forward 

Boys soccer team 

winless in league 

but starting to jell 

Ryan Flynn 


A trying season for Malibu 

boys soccer is winding 

down. 

There are three games remaining 

on the schedule for 

the 1-8-1 Sharks, who thus 

far are winless in league. 

The fires led to a late start 

for soccer and took away 

valuable practice time, as 

they did for all of Malibu’s 

teams. Playing catch-up all 

year has had an effect on 

this senior-laden team, but 

the boys in teal and black 

have done their best to keep 

their heads up. 

“It’s been a rough season,” 

senior Harry Lang 

said. “The fire left us stirred 

up mentally and screwed 

up our schedule big time. 

We haven’t been able to 

have even half the practices 

we were supposed to, we 

had basically no preseason 

and league has been even 

tougher. 

“But, we are making due 

with what we have. The 

team has really started to 

come together recently, but 

the season is almost over so 

now we are just trying to 

enjoy what’s left of it.” 

Close losses have defined 

the season for Malibu. Of 

their eight losses, half have 

come by just one goal. The 

team is currently on a seven-game 

losing streak, but 

especially of late the scores 

have been very close. It is 

too little, too late for Malibu, 

but the makings of a 

good season were here, if 

not for circumstances outside 

their control. 

Lang said that the teammates 

have relied on one 

another to get through this 

tough season. The leadership 

of senior captains Ben 

Lansbury, Mo McDonnell 

and goalkeeper Ben Silbar 

have been especially important. 

“They are all great leaders 

and give the rest of 

my teammates and I tactical 

information as well as 

making sure everyone is 

happy,” Lang said. 

On Friday, the Sharks 

celebrated senior night 

and dropped a 4-2 game to 

league opponent Fillmore. 

It is an uncommon position 

for Malibu, which is coming 

off back-to-back 10- 

win seasons under coach 

Ignacio Rodriguez. The 

production has been there 

for key players, however. 

Entering Friday night’s 

Harry Lang tries to gather the loose ball as the Sharks face Fillmore Friday, Jan. 25, in Malibu. Suzy Demeter/22nd 

Century Media 

game, Silbar had 72 saves 

on the season. Lansbury 

entered the game with 24 

career goals and eight assists. 

His scoring ability 

will surely be missed when 

he graduates this spring. 

The team will have five 

returning juniors and four 

sophomores, so while this 

is the end of the run for 

stalwarts like Lansbury, 

McDonnell and Silbar, the 

reinforcements are coming 

for Malibu soccer next 

year. The team is looking to 

finish off the year on a high 

note. 

“We have three games 

left and we are looking to 

win all of them or at least 

play well, create a lot of 

good chances and play 

good defense,” Lang said. 

Bidding adieu 

Seniors on this year’s MHS 

boys soccer team are: 

Garret Le, Alex Jemelian, 

Luke Wong, Harry Lang, 

Simon Johnson, Gianni 

Otero, Ben Silbar*, Mo 

McDonnell* and Ben 

Lansbury.* 

* denotes senior captains 

Seniors on the Malibu High School boys soccer team 

gather for a photo. Suzy Demeter/22nd Century Media

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Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Erin Muldoon 

Girls Water Polo 

Musketeers outmaneuver Malibu 

Maischoss nets 2 for Malibu, Sharks fall 12-2 

Erin Muldoon, 17, is a junior 

who plays basketball 

for Malibu High School. 

How did you first get 

into basketball? 

I started playing in the 

Malibu City League at a 

very young age. However, 

I really got into the sport 

when Russ Purtell formed 

an all girls travel team to 

play in the CYBA league 

during middle school. 

What do you enjoy 

about the game? 

I enjoy the fast pace of 

the game and being part of 

a team. I love how everyone 

works together. 

Is there any pro or 

college athlete you’ve 

tried to model your 

game after? 

I really like the way 

[Golden State Warriors 

guard] Steph Curry plays. 

He’s always creating space 

for his shots, which I want 

to incorporate in my games. 

As a point guard, 

what do you try to 

do to keep everyone 

involved? 

I try to always look for 

space and get the ball to the 

people with a good shot. I 

like to drive the lane and 

pass it out to open players 

as well as work the post. 

What is your favorite 

place to eat in Malibu? 

I love eating at Bui Sushi. 

I’m obsessed with their 

edamame. 

Who has the best 

nickname on the team? 

Amelia Goudzwaard 

definitely has the best nickname. 

We all call her ‘Pip,’ 

which actually came from 

softball. 

What are your goals 

this season? 

My goal for this season 

is the same as every other 

season, which is to always 

improve as a team, as well 

as work on individual 

skills. 

What are your hobbies 

outside basketball? 

22nd Century Media File Photo 

I enjoy hanging out with 

friends and going to see 

movies. 

Who were your role 

models growing up? 

I’d say my parents because 

they work so hard. 

They’ve always been there 

for me and I really appreciate 

everything they’ve done 

for me. 

If you could have one 

superpower, what 

would it be? 

I would love to be able 

to teleport because I could 

travel instantly to any 

place I wanted and I could 

see all kinds of different 

places. 

Interview by Freelance Reporter 

Ryan Flynn 

Malibu High School girls water polo player Lauren Maischoss takes aim Thursday, Jan. 

24, as the Sharks take on the Moorpark Musketeers. Maischoss scored twice in the 

second quarter to make the score 8-2. Photos by Suzy Demeter/22nd Century Media 

A heavily defended Luna Salinas shoots as the Sharks face Moorpark in Malibu.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATE- 

MENT FILE NUMBER: 2018319696 

ORIGINAL FILING. This statement was 

filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGE- 

LES on 12/26/2018. The following person is 

doing business as KELTECH, 8700 

PERSHING DRIVE UNIT 2309, PLAYA 

DEL REY, CA 90293. The full name of registrant 

is: ERIC KELLEY, 8700 PERSHING 

DRIVE UNIT 2309, PLAYA DEL REY, CA 

90293. This business is being conducted by: 

an Individual. The registrant commenced to 

transact business under the fictitious business 

name listed above: 12/2018. /s/:ERIC KEL- 

LEY, ERIC KELLEY, OWNER, KELTECH. 

This statement was filed with the County 

Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 

12/26/2018. NOTICE: THIS FICTITIOUS 

BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EX- 

PIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT 

WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE 

COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS 

BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST 

BE FILED PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The 

filing of this statement does not of itself 

authorize the use in this state of a fictitious 

business name statement in violation of the 

rights of another under federal, state, or common 

law (see Section 1441et seq., Business 

and Professions Code). MALIBU SURF- 

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01/17/2019, 01/24/2019, 01/31/2019 






doing business as MAAM, 815 MORAGA 

DR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90049 (Articles of 

Incoporation: 4222104). The full name of 

registrant is: MORAGA ADVERTISING 

AND MARKETING INC, 815 MORAGA 

DR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90049 (State of Incoporation: 

CA). This business is being conducted 

by: a Corporation. The registrant 

commenced to transact business under the 

fictitious business name listed above: 

12/2018. /s/:SANDY MILO, SANDY MILO, 

CEO, MORAGA ADVERTISING AND 

MARKETING INC. This statement was filed 

with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES 

County on 01/02/2019. NOTICE: THIS FIC- 

TITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 

EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE 

IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE 







FICTITIOUS rights of another BUSINESS under federal, NAME state, STATE- or common 

law FILE (see Section NUMBER: 1441et seq., 2019002818 Business 

MENT 

ORIGINAL and Professions FILING. Code). This MALIBU statement SURF- was 

filed SIDEwith NEWS the County to publish Clerk of LOS 01/10/2019, ANGE- 

LES 01/17/2019, on 01/04/2019. 01/24/2019, The01/31/2019 

following person is 

doing business as PLAN FOR GOOD, 279 

REDONDO AVE, LONG BEACH, CA 

90803. The full name of registrant is: JENNI- 

FER ALLEN, 279 REDONDO AVE, LONG 

BEACH, CA 90803. This business is being 

conducted by: an Individual. The registrant 

commenced to transact business under the 

fictitious business name listed above: 

01/2019. /s/:JENNIFER ALLEN, JENNIFER 

ALLEN, OWNER, PLAN FOR GOOD. This 

statement was filed with the County Clerk of 

LOS ANGELES County on 08/29/2018. NO- 

TICE: THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 

NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE 

YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED 

IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY 

CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 

NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED 

PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this 

statement does not of itself authorize the use 

in this state of a fictitious business name 

statement in violation of the rights of another 

under federal, state, or common law (see Section 

1441et seq., Business and Professions 

Code). MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS to publish 

01/17/2019, 01/24/2019, 01/31/2019, 

02/07/2019 

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Notices 

Statement of Abandonment of Use of Fictitious 

Business Name 

Previous File No: 2018203152 

Current File No: 2019002104 

Name of Business: PARTICLES 

11629 Fireside Drive, Whittier, CA 90604 

State of California, County of Los Angeles 

The following person has abandoned the use 

of the Fictitious Business name: 

IVONNE TIU, 11629 FIRESIDE DRIVE, 

WHITTIER, CA 90604 

The fictitious business name referred to 

above was filed on 08/10/2018 in the county 

of LOS ANGELES 

Registered owners: IVONNE TIU, 11629 

FIRESIDE DRIVE, WHITTIER, CA 90604 

This business is conducted by an Individual 

/s/IVONNE TIU, IVONNE TIU, OWNER, 

PARTICLES 


Clerk of Los Angeles County on 01/02/2019 

MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS to publish 

01/17/2019, 01/24/2019, 01/31/2019, 

02/07/2019 






doing business as OVERBOARD MAN- 

AGEMENT, 7917 YORKTOWN AVE, LOS 

ANGELES, CA 90045. The full name of registrant 

is: MATTHEW PARRISH, 7917 

YORKTOWN AVE, LOS ANGELES, CA 

90045. This business is being conducted by: 

an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced 

to transact business under the fictitious 

business name listed above. /s/:MAT- 

THEW PARRISH, MATTHEW PARRISH, 

OWNER, OVERBOARD MANAGEMENT. 

















01/24/2019, 01/31/2019, 02/07/2019 

NOTICE OF HEARING TO CONDUCT 

ENTERTAINMENT-GEN. W/DANCE, 

ANNUAL DANCE & HEALTH 

SPA/CLUB 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AP- 

PLICATION HAS BEEN MADE TO THE 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BUSINESS LI- 

CENSE COMMISSION TO CONDUCT 

ADDRESS OF PREMISES: 327 S. LATIGO 

CYN RD., MALIBU, CA 90265 

NAME OF APPLICANT: THE GUESTOL- 

OGY GROUP, INC. / GARRETT GERSON 

DATE OF HEARING: 02/20/2019 

TIME OF HEARING: 09:00 A.M. 

``ANY PERSON HAVING OBJECTIONS 

TO THE GRANTING OF THE LICENSE 

MAY, AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO THE 

DATE ABOVE NAMED, FILE WITH THE 

BUSINESS LICENSE COMMISSION HIS 

OBJECTIONS IN WRITING GIVING HIS 

REASONS THEREFOR, AND HE MAY 

APPEAR AT THE TIME AND PLACE OF 

THE HEARING AND BE HEARD RELA- 

TIVE THERETO`` 

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSION: 

BUSINESS LICENSE COMMISSION 

500 W. TEMPLE STREET, RM 374 

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doing business as FLYING DUTCHMAN 

CANNABIS, 909 W TEMPLE STREET, 

APT 614, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012. The 

full name of registrant is: FLYING DUTCH- 

MAN CANNABIS LLC; FLYING DUTCH- 

MAN GREENHOUSES, LLC; FLYING 

DUTCHMAN TOURING & EDUCATION, 

LLC, 909 W TEMPLE STREET, APT 614, 

LOS ANGELES, CA 90012-4444. This business 

is being conducted by: a Limited Liability 

Company. The registrant has not yet commenced 

to transact business under the fictitious 

business name listed above. /s/:BOB 

DE GROOT, BOB DE GROOT, CEO, FLY- 

ING DUTCHMAN GREENHOUSES, LLC. 

















01/31/2019, 02/07/2019, 02/14/2019 






doing business as BIRTH AND BEAUTY; 

LEONA DARNELL PHOTOGRAPHY, 633 

1/2 E CYPRESS AVE, BURBANK, CA 

91501 . The full name of registrant is: 

LEONA DARNELL, 633 1/2 E CYPRESS 

AVE, BURBANK, CA 91501. This business 

is being conducted by: an Individual. The 

registrant has not yet commenced to transact 

business under the fictitious business name 

listed above. /s/:LEONA DARNELL, 

LEONA DARNELL, OWNER, BIRTH 

AND BEAUTY; LEONA DARNELL PHO- 

TOGRAPHY. This statement was filed with 

the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County 

on 01/14/2019. NOTICE: THIS FICTI- 

TIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 













01/31/2019, 02/07/2019, 02/14/2019 






doing business as TOLLROASTING.COM, 

5051 W. JEFFERSON BLVD, LOS ANGE- 

LES, CA 90016. The full name of registrant 

is: CITY BEAN, INC., 5051 W. JEFFER- 

SON BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90016. 

This business is being conducted by: a Corporation. 

The registrant commenced to transact 

business under the fictitious business 

name listed above: 08/2018. /s/:GARY SAL- 

ZER, GARY SALZER, PRESIDENT, CITY 

BEAN, INC. This statement was filed with 



















doing business as TOLLROASTING.COM, 

5051 W. JEFFERSON BLVD, LOS ANGE- 

LES, CA 90016. The full name of registrant 

is: CITY BEAN, INC., 5051 W. JEFFER- 

SON BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90016. 

This business is being conducted by: a Corporation. 

The registrant commenced to transact 

business under the fictitious business 

name listed above: 08/2018. /s/:GARY SAL- 

ZER, GARY SALZER, PRESIDENT, CITY 

BEAN, INC. This statement was filed with 



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doing business as SPARROW CAFE, 23847 

STUART RANCH RD, MALIBU, CA 

90265 (Organization Number: 

200717810037). The full name of registrant 

is: MALIBU RACQUET CLUB, LLC, 

23847 STUART RANCH RD, MALIBU, 

CA 90265 (State of Organization: DE). This 

business is being conducted by: a Limited Liability 

Company. The registrant commenced 

to transact business under the fictitious business 

name listed above: 03/2017. /s/:ERIK 

M. BLACKMORE, ERIK M. BLACK- 

MORE, MANAGER, MALIBU RACQUET 

CLUB, LLC. This statement was filed with 
















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