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Wastewater Advisory 

Committee 

6 p.m. Thursday, March 

28, Malibu City Hall Multipurpose 

Room, 23825 

Stuart Ranch Road. The 

Wastewater Advisory Committee 

will meet. For more 

information, or to view an 

agenda, visit www.malibucity.org. 

FRIDAY 

Market Beat and Financial 

Roundtable 

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

March 29, Malibu City Hall 

Zuma Room, 23825 Stuart 

Ranch Road. Join for an 

overview of the status of 

the economy, the stock and 

fixed income markets. Gain 

a better understanding of 

where the economy and the 

stock market are headed. 

Bring questions and comments. 

For more information, 

call (310) 456-2489 

ext. 357. 

SATURDAY 

Herb and Vegetable 

Container Gardening 

11 a.m.-noon Saturday, 

March 30, Malibu Library, 

23519 Civic Center Way. 

Plant a pot of seasonal vegetable 

and herb plants and 

seeds at this program, which 

is limited to 20 participants. 

Gardener Joan Borgman 

will discuss plant care and 

the benefits of growing your 

own produce. To RSVP, call 

(310) 456-6438. 

SUNDAY 

Woolsey Fire Rebuild 

Workshop for Homeowners 

Malibu City Hall Council 

Chambers, 23825 Stuart 

Ranch Road. The Malibu 

Planning Department will 

hold Rebuild Workshops 

and Consultations on Sunday, 

March 31 from 2- 5:30 

p.m., with multiple departments 

and agencies providing 

assistance and resources 

to Malibu residents 

who are going through the 

rebuilding process following 

the Woolsey Fire. 

MONDAY 

Smarty Pants Storytime 

3:30-4:30 p.m. Monday, 

April 1, Malibu Library, 

23519 Civic Center Way. 

Enjoy books, songs, rhymes, 

and movement while learning 

school readiness skills 

and having fun. For ages 

2–5 with an adult caregiver. 

For more information, call 

(310) 456-6438. 

TUESDAY 

Spring Mixer 

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

April 2, XO Bloom 

Florists, 966 S. Westlake 

Blvd., #4, Westlake Village. 

Enjoy brilliant floral 

colors and mingle with local 

business professionals 

at this Malibu Chamber of 

Commerce mixer. Admission 

to mixers is $20, members; 

$35, non-members, 

and free for first-time attendees. 


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April 3, Malibu City Hall 

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maze-making apparatus to 

build a 3-D puzzle. For ages 

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3-4 p.m. Saturday, April 

6, Malibu Library, 23519 

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books and songs, and meet 

other babies and toddlers 

during playtime. Each 

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specialist who can answer 

questions/concerns and talk 

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and services for children. 

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rhymes, and movement 

while learning school readiness 

skills and having fun. 

For ages 2–5 with an adult 

caregiver. For more information, 

call (310) 456- 

6438. 

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Series 

6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, 

April 9, Malibu City Hall 

Council Chambers, 23825 

Stuart Ranch Road. Tree 

People and the City of 

Malibu present “Rebuilding 

Resilience after Fires: 

Lessons Learned from Australia.” 

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Malibu surfside news | March 28, 2019 | 3 

SMMUSD Board of Education 

New principals appointed to lead Malibu High School, Malibu Middle School 

Michele Willer-Allred 

Freelance Reporter 

Malibu was the focus of 

several actions, taken by the 

Santa Monica-Malibu Board 

of Education at its Thursday, 

March 21 meeting, where it 

approved the appointments 

of two new Malibu school 

principals and a contract for 

mudslide cleanup at Malibu 

High School. 

The board voted 4-0 to 

approve the appointment of 

Patrick Miller as principal 

of Malibu High School and 

Melissa Andino as principal 

of Malibu Middle School. 

Board President Ricard 

Tahvildaran-Jesswein and 

board members Ralph Mechur 

and Oscar de la Torre 

were absent from the meeting, 

which was held at Malibu 

City Hall. 

Miller previously served 

as Spanish instructor and 

assistant principal at MHS, 

before serving as principal 

of Webster Elementary for 

the past two years. 

“Mr. Miller brings a 

long-held spirit and enthusiasm 

for students, staff and 

families from Malibu High 

School and will be able to 

hit the ground running. He’s 

familiar with all aspects of 

the school, including construction 

in progress,” Superintendent 

Ben Drati said. 

Miller will take over principal 

duties from Cheli Nye, 

who served in the role since 

2016. 

“I appreciate the opportunity 

to go back home. I’m 

excited about being able to 

continue to serve both the 

SMMUSD and the Malibu 

communities,” Miller said. 

Andino currently serves 

as the assistant principal for 

the middle school, which resides 

on the same campus as 

the high school. 

“As we work to provide 

to the middle school with 

its own campus starting this 

fall, we are appointing a 

dedicated administrator to 

the school,” Drati said. 

Andino has worked on 

the campus for 12 years, 

having taught middle school 

math classes there and also 

serving as math department 

chairwoman. 

She is also credited with 

starting the MHS cheer program 

and serving as ASB 

advisor for four years. 

“I am thrilled to be given 

the opportunity to be principal 

at Malibu Middle 

School,” Andino said. “In 

my 12 years at Malibu High 

School, I have been able to 

see firsthand what a tremendous 

community we have 

here, and more importantly, 

how amazing our kids are 

that we get to work with every 

day.” 

“It’s a really exciting time 

for Malibu schools,” she 

added. “We look forward 

to opening our new middle 

school building in the fall 

and working to build that 

middle school identity that 

we’ve been wanting to do.” 

The board also voted 

4-0 to adopt an emergency 

resolution authorizing repair 

work to be completed 

on all MHS athletic fields, 

basketball courts and student 

parking lots that were 

damaged by mud, rock and 

other debris 

The mud and debris flows 

were created by heavy rains 

in January and February on 

hillsides that were eroded 

by the Woolsey Fire back in 

November. 

As a result, no areas were 

available for PE classes, 

practices and competitions. 

In addition, the board voted 

in favor of a contract not 

to exceed $320,000 to South 

Bay Landscape to clean and 

remove all the mud and 

debris, restore all athletic 

fields and construct storm 

water migration. 

The board also agreed 

to amend a contract for 

an amount not to exceed 

$42,640 with Forensic 

Analytical Consulting Services 

to perform additional 

air monitoring for an additional 

two months at MHS. 

The total contract amount is 

$289,547. 

The board initially approved 

the contract with 

FACS back in January when 

it agreed there was insufficient 

air quality monitoring 

being performed in the 

Malibu burn areas by the 

Environmental Protection 

Agency and other public 

agencies. 

District officials had concerns 

that the burn areas 

would have increased pollutants 

in the air. The district’s 

contract with FACS 

includes developing and 

monitoring an air quality 

system at several Malibu 

schools, as well as air and 

wipe sampling and soil assessment 

at the high school.

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Volunteers unite to restore fire-damaged trails 

Barbara Burke 


The Woolsey Fire 

wreaked havoc on area National 

Park Service lands, 

devastating 88 percent of 

the Santa Monica Mountains 

National Recreation 

Area, including miles of 

hiking trails, retaining walls 

and overviews. 

“It’s a huge mess out there 

on the hiking trails,” said 

Tara Hallman, a trail worker 

for the Santa Monica Fund, 

a nonprofit organization 

that supports preserving the 

Santa Monica Mountains. 

“To open trails, we have to 

clear debris, both caused 

directly by the fire and due 

to creek flows during recent 

rainstorms.” 

NPS is reopening hiking 

trails, an effort that facilitates 

Malibu’s rebuilding efforts 

and provides citizens 

with a sense of normalcy. 

Early on the morning of 

March 20, a group of energetic 

volunteers, organized 

by Hallman, joined NPS 

rangers at the Zuma Canyon 

trailhead off Bonsall Drive, 

gateway to Zuma and Trancas 

canyons, the largest segment 

of federal lands in the 

Santa Monica Mountains 

National Recreation Area. 

The breathtaking canyons 

feature vast expanses of 

chaparral and shrubbery and 

afford panoramic Pacific 

Ocean views. 

Donning hard hats and 

smiling brightly under 

sun visors, the volunteers 

grabbed hand tools, dug in 

and diligently did some of 

the yeoman’s work involved 

in reconfiguring the trails 

and clearing debris. 

It is labor-intensive work 

that was a labor of love to 

UNLV student volunteers pose while on their alternative 

spring break program clearing the trails. 

Leading the event is Nathan Kunert, a two-year intern for 

Pathways, a college organization that leads students to 

work for the National Parks Service. 

for the volunteers to clear all 

of the NPS trails. 

Some volunteers heavehoed 

and relocated large 

logs that were haphazardly 

deposited on and near the 

trail by a nearby creek’s raging 

waters stemming from 

recent rainfall. 

With this year’s precipitation, 

vegetation has blossomed, 

some of it indigenous, 

some of it invasive, 

and much of it covering 

what used to be clearly defined 

trails. 

Volunteers hunched over, 

pulling weeds and plants out 

in order to clear a way using 

a two-sided, long-handled 

instrument — one side of 

which resembles a rake with 

tines, the other a flat hoe. 

UNLV students Cecelia Hanley (left) and Thuon Chen prepare to remove a log March 20 

while rebuilding hiking trails at the Zuma Canyon Trailhead that were destroyed by the 

Woolsey Fire. photos by Suzy Demeter/ 22nd Century Media 

Volunteers clear the paths of overgrown greenery on March 20. 

“It is called a McLeod and 

we use it to clear plants and 

branches,” Hallman said. 

Volunteers dug in with 

the tines, relocating newly 

spawned plants, and used 

the hoe side of the tools to 

tamp the ground, compacting 

part of the trail. 

Some volunteers were 

from Malibu and nearby 

communities, while others 

travelled from as far away 

as Las Vegas, like a group of 

students participating in the 

Alternative Breaks program 

administered by the University 

of Las Vegas. 

“I came to pitch in to help 

because it is very important 

for Malibu,” said Melissa 

Ireland, whose family operates 

the Malibu Nature Preserve 

in Nicolas Canyon in 

Malibu. 

As he swung a manual 

weed whip, Nathan Kunert, 

a NPS student intern, noted 

that clearing the trails allows 

native vegetation to 

flourish. 

Nature nurtures and this 

year, Malibu’s nature trails 

need nurturing. 

“The first year after a fire 

is the most critical time to 

prevent the spread of invasive 

plants and to protect the 

native vegetation,” said Kate 

Kuykendall, the National 

Park Service’s public affairs 

officer and acting deputy 

superintendent for the Santa 

Monica Mountains National 

Recreation Area. “We are in 

the process of hiring temporary 

staff to help us address 

this concern.” 

In the meantime, citizen 

stewards can help. 

As Malibu’s weather becomes 

nicer and spring’s 

flowers bloom, hikers 

can determine where they 

can hit a trail by visiting 

www.nps.gov/samo/ 

learn/management/upload/NPS_WoolseyFire 

Closures_20190315-revision20190319.jpg. 

For more information 

about the fund, which supports 

NPS, visit www.samofund.org/stewardship, 

or 

email contact@samofund. 

org.

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Community welcomes new poet laureate amid dramatic readings 

Barbara Burke 


Sometimes, events are so 

memorable that their audience 

sits suspended in the 

emotive essence and content 

of a performance. 

So it was at “Poetry 

Summit: Call to the Wall, 

Changing of The Verse,” 

a journey of poetry, music 

and art co-sponsored by the 

Malibu Arts Commission 

and the Malibu Library as 

part of the Malibu Library 

Speaker Series on March 

23 at Malibu City Hall. 

The stage was decorated 

with artwork created by 

fifth-graders from Juan Cabrillo, 

painters guided by 

Nicole Fisher, their visual 

arts instructor. 

Mayor Jefferson Wagner 

welcomed the crowd, 

noting how responsive the 

community has been to the 

efforts of Ricardo Means 

Ybarra, Malibu’s outgoing 

poet laureate, and how instrumental 

the Malibu Cultural 

Arts Commission has 

been in furthering the arts 

in the community. 

Wagner noted that Malibu 

is blessed with contributions 

by talented professionals 

such as Veronica 

Brady, an arts commission 

member who is an Emmy 

awardee. He also noted that 

Ybarra taught the young 

performers how to write 

poetry and helped them 

find their voice. 

Brady discussed the 

event’s history, pointing 

out that former commission 

member Catherine Malcolm 

Brickman helped the 

City of Malibu host poetry 

readings and a poet laureate 

program. 

Then, the young poets 

took the stage. 

Riley Jaret, a Malibu 

Ricardo Means Ybarra (left) introduces Ellen Reich, Malibu’s incoming poet laureate, at 

the event Saturday, March 23. Photos by Suzy Demeter/ 22nd Century Media 

High School student, recited 

a moving poem addressing 

how displaced mothers 

and displaced surfers 

hunkered down on Zuma 

Beach watching helplessly 

as fire ravaged Western 

Malibu. 

Then, her poem addressed 

how a displaced 

segment of the community 

was left to carry on. 

Sean Krasner, 10, read a 

poem entitled “Fear”, aptly 

summarizing the Woolsey 

Fire’s rage: “Run and run 

and run away, you cannot 

sway your destiny’s way.” 

Presciently, he penned 

his work, and with impressive 

stage presence, he read 

his piece. 

Krasner also shared how 

important writing is to him. 

“Poetry writing is a way 

to express my feelings and 

I use a lot of energy when 

I write,” he said. “Writing 

is spontaneous for me and 

ideas come to me, especially 

after my grandmother 

recently died. I find time every 

day to write my poetry.” 

Jaz Abbey, a ninth-grader, 

gave many attendees 

pause as she stunningly 

recited a work about how 

it feels to be alone, to be 

the last one standing and to 

wish you had passed away 

before your loved ones and 

friends. 

Bella Brown, 10, with 

grace and poise, recited her 

poem beautifully and later, 

she told Malibu Surfside 

News that writing poetry 

makes her feel happy and 

fulfilled. 

Next, a master poet, Cecilia 

Woloch, read from her 

book “Tsigan: The Gypsy 

Poem,” a strikingly intense 

piece that recounts her arduous 

journey to find answers 

lost in time. 

Woloch probed her ancestral 

roots, especially 

those of her paternal grandmother, 

a Roma, a gypsy, 

whom she never knew. 

The cadence, the imagery, 

and the sheer emotive 

force of Woloch’s work riveted 

the audience. 

Interspersed with her 

recounting the chronology 

of the relentless persecution 

of the Romas, Deepak 

Ramapriyan — whose 

stage name is DPAK, aka 

The Other Deepak, of the 

band Robot Nature — 

played his unique brand 

of pop rock. He effortlessly 

segued from guitar 

to violin. He sang a wideranging, 

lyrical accompanying 

song. 

The audience communally 

sighed in awe. 

“I look up at the Eiffel 

Tower and I think, ‘We 

have no monuments,’” 

Woloch read. “No whiteeyed 

statutes of gods and 

goddesses (the only god is 

luck.)” 

After that riveting experience, 

Ybarra introduced 

Ellen Reich, Malibu’s newest 

poet laureate, appointed 

by the Malibu City Council 

on March 11. 

Reich is well-known in 

the Malibu arts community, 

and she is a prolific, wellpublished 

poet. Most of all, 

she is a creative writer who 

Poetry reading by emerging artist Sean Krasner. 

Ybarra said is perfect as 

Malibu’s poet laureate. 

“I am taking over the 

reins and I don’t even know 

how to ride a horse.” Reich 

said. 

Many in Malibu’s arts 

community, however, appreciate 

Reich’s acumen 

and talent and they know 

that, with her leadership, 

the Malibu arts community 

will be in for a wonderful 

ride. 

At a reception after the 

event, Woloch discussed 

how important poetry and 

performing creative works 

collaboratively with other 

artists are. 

“For me, it’s magical,” 

she said. “It’s alchemical 

because it is another way 

to hear my own work and 

to enter the work through a 

different door.” 

Reich emphasized that 

poetry can help to catalyze 

Malibu’s rebuilding after 

the Woolsey disaster. 

Just as importantly, she 

noted how imperative it is 

for adults interested in the 

creative arts to focus on 

working with Malibu youth 

as they begin to write poetry. 

“I tell the young people 

that everything they write 

is right,” she said. “We all 

have our own voice and our 

own inspirations.”

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Malibu city council 

Estimated cost of emergency response: $9.2M 

City may have to 

cover costs while 

waiting for state 

and federal dollars 

Michele Willer-Allred 


The costs associated with 

emergency response to the 

Woolsey Fire in November 

and subsequent winter 

storms will be expensive 

for the City of Malibu, with 

an estimated total of $9.2 

million. 

The City, however, hopes 

the cost will be softened by 

state and federal emergency 

reimbursement in the 

amount of $8.4 million with 

the City on the hook for approximately 

$850,000. 

Those costs can change 

and reimbursements can 

be slow, said Assistant City 

Manager Lisa Soghor during 

a report to the Malibu 

City Council at its meeting 

on Monday, March 25. 

Soghor gave an update 

on the costs and how that 

amount will have to be factored 

into the City’s fiscal 

year 2019-20 budget. 

On Jan. 28, city staff presented 

the mid-year 2018- 

19 budget to the council 

while in the early stages 

of working with the city’s 

insurance company and 

FEMA to address damages 

to city facilities and infrastructure 

caused by the fire, 

as well as expenditures related 

to the city’s emergency 

response during the fire. 

Soghor said that since 

that time more accurate 

cost estimates have been 

developed for work already 

undertaken and repairs that 

still have to be made. 

“We have a much clearer 

picture, but of course that 

picture could still change 

because many are construction 

estimates,” Soghor 

explained. “When we actually 

go out to do the work 

or when we go out to bid 

for what may be significant 

repair, those costs will 

change again.” 

The current estimate for 

“The City will be reimbursed for 

those costs but it is money we 

will have to put out first.” — Lisa 

Sogohor, Malibu assistant city manager 

emergency response and 

repairs to city facilities 

and infrastructure from the 

fire is approximately $7.8 

million with the city submitting 

estimates to the 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency for the total 

amount. 

Soghor said if FEMA 

approves coverage, the 

agency will cover 75 percent 

of those costs, with 

CalOES covering an additional 

18.75 percent. The 

city would then be responsible 

for approximately 

$500,000. 

Soghor noted that a lot 

of the guard rails along 

city roads were burned and 

destroyed throughout the 

city and will need to be replaced. 

She said that Los Angeles 

County has been designing 

guard rail replacement 

in the city, and the $2 

million replacement cost is 

significant. 

“The City will be reimbursed 

for those costs but 

it is money we will have to 

put out first and get reimbursed,” 

Soghor said. 

In January, the city estimated 

that an additional 

$200,000 would be needed 

for emergency storm response 

and debris removal. 

“I think even at that 

meeting we had no idea 

what kind of impact we’d 

get,” Soghor said. 

She said that stronger 

and more intense storms 

hit the Malibu area in late 

January and February, and 

that cost is now closer to 

$1.4 million. 

“Public Works was working 

tirelessly to clear culverts 

and make sure debris 

basins were empty only to 

have them filled in every 

storm event within an hour, 

so they had to do it all over 

again,” Soghor said. 

On Feb. 28, California 

Gov. Gavin Newson declared 

a state of emergency 

due to the winter storms, 

meaning that CalOES will 

be covering 75 percent 

of those costs, with the 

city responsible for about 

$350,000. 

“The county and the 

state are currently working 

with FEMA to see if we 

can get an emergency declaration 

for the storms, but 

that hasn’t happened yet,” 

Soghor said, adding that it 

would lower the percentage 

the City would have to pay. 

Soghor said that the government 

is probably currently 

fixed on flooding in 

the Midwest, “so we’ll see 

if we get a federal declaration 

or not.” 

Soghor added that there 

is a concern that FEMA 

could take a long time to 

reimburse the City, but that 

hasn’t always been the case 

since the City has a good 

working relationship with 

the agency. 

Soghor said that a more 

detailed analysis of the 

costs will be given during 

budget discussions beginning 

next month. 

She said that estimates 

on revenues the city potentially 

lost due to sales tax 

and property tax decreases 

because of the fire will also 

be discussed. 

Soghor said the City has 

been looking at property 

taxes carefully, but are still 

waiting for final numbers. 

“With our cursory look, 

we’re pretty lucky here in 

that those numbers may remain 

flat rather than really 

take a dip,” Soghor said. 

Also during a special 

meeting closed session, 

the council discussed the 

performance evaluation of 

City Manager Reva Feldman 

but directed that the 

matter be continued to 

April 8. 

Vintage Grocers closes 2 stores, will rebrand one 



Malibu-based homegrown 

market Vintage Grocers 

abruptly closed two of 

its locations. 

Effective March 15, the 

company was down to only 

one store in Southern California, 

the Trancas Country 

Market location. 

Vintage’s store at the 

Promenade in Westlake 

Village was in business for 

a little more than two years 

while the one at the Palisades 

Village in pacific Palisades 

for less than a year. 

According to Vintage 

Grocers, it has joined forces 

with “like-minded, natural 

goods store, Erewhon 

Market.” The two independent 

grocers are partnering 

to rebrand Vintage Grocers’ 

Palisades Village location, 

which will reopen this summer 

as Erewhon’s fifth location. 

“Given Vintage Grocers’ 

and Erewhon Market’s 

shared values, this is 

a natural next step for our 

companies. Together, we 

can ensure we are providing 

the Malibu and Los 

Angeles communities with 

the highest quality of products, 

service, and grocery 

shopping experience,” said 

Paige Laurie, owner of Vintage 

Grocers. 

The forthcoming store 

will feature Erewhon’s Tonic 

Bar and Organic Café, 

providing a vibrant venue 

for people to gather and 

strengthen a sense of community 

in the Palisades. 

Customers will enjoy 100 

percent organic produce, 

while exploring highly curated 

product mixes in their 

grocery, nutrition and beauty 

departments. 

Vintage Grocers will 

continue serving Malibu at 

its original Trancas Country 

Market location, where 

it celebrated its fifth anniversary 

this month. 

The Malibu store has become 

a favorite destination 

for locals since its inception 

in 2014. 

The Westlake Village 

store is closing given its 

proximity to Erewhon’s 

market in The Summit at 

Calabasas. 

“We have been excited 

about the potential of opening 

up in the Palisades for 

some time now. When this 

opportunity arose to work 

with Vintage Grocers, we 

were immediately confident 

that together we 

could build a store that will 

proudly serve the community 

and its customers,” 

said Tony Antoci, CEO of 

Erewhon Market. 

For more information on 

Vintage Grocers, visit vintagegrocers.com. 

For more information on 

Erewhon Market, visit erewhonmarket.com.

8 | March 28, 2019 | Malibu surfside news MALIBU 


THE CITY OF MALIBU IS HERE TO HELP 

Our hearts go out to all those affected by the devastating Woolsey Fire. The City is committed 

to doing everything possible to help community members with their immediate needs, to 

provide asmooth process for those who lost homes to establish temporary housing on their 

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

REBUILD WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTATIONS MARCH 28 &31 

The City will hold Rebuilding Workshops on March 28 & 31 with multiple departments & 

outside agencies to provide assistance to Malibu residents who are rebuilding after the 

Woolsey Fire. Both workshops are open to public. The workshop on Thursday, March 28, 2 

PM –5PM, is intended for design & development professionals who assisting residents with 

rebuiding. The workshop on Sunday, March 31, 2PM–5:30 PM, is intended for property 

owners. 

VIDEO OF AD HOC DISASTER RESPONSE &RECOVERY MEETING 

The video of the March 17 and February 12 meetings of the Ad Hoc Disaster Response & 

Recover Committee are available to view online at https://www.youtube.com/user/ 

CityofMalibu/videos. Email questions or comments to the Committee at any time to 

RecoveryAdHoc@MalibuCity.org. 

FIRE DEPT.OFFICIAL AT CITYHALL TUES & THURS 

TO HELP RESIDENTS WITH REBUILDING QUESTIONS 

An official from the LA County Fire Dept. is stationed at Malibu City Hall every Tues and 

Thurs, 8:00 AM -12:00 PM to assist residents with Woolsey Fire rebuilding questions. No 

appointments are necessary. Check in at the Fire Rebuilding Desk at City Hall. 

COMMUNITY SERVICES & ENVIRONMENTAL DEPTS. 

OFFER RESILIENCY PROGRAMS 

As part of the City's efforts to offer support and resources to residents impacted by the 

devastating Woolsey Fire, the Community Services and Environmental Depts. created a 

series of Resiliency Programs throughout the year to help strengthen the community and 

foster healing and resilience. Workshops include art, music, yoga and meditation therapy, 

and fire resilient and sustainable building design &landscaping. For the schedule and other 

information, visitwww.MalibuCity.org/ResiliencyPrograms. 

CONTACT LIST OF DESIGN &CONTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS 

The Malibu Chamber of Commerce is now maintaining the list of design and construction 

professionals. Any professionals who wish to be added to the list should call the Chamber at 

310-456-9025 or email ceo@Malibu.org. The list is available online at 

http://www.MalibuCity.org/ChamberRebuildList. 

NEW -EXTENSION AVAILABLE FOR COMPLETION OF PRIVATE 

FIRE DEBRIS REMOVAL UNDER LOCAL PROGRAM 

City residents who opted out of the state-sponsored Woolsey Fire debris removal program 

and chose to do fire debris removal on their own under the Local Program, who need more 

time to complete debris removal can request an extension. The deadline for completion was 

March 15. Extensions will be granted on acase-by-case basis. For more information or to apply 

for an extension, call the Hotline at 626-979-5370 or email WoolseyFire@dpw.lacounty.gov. Get 

help in-person at the County centers: 

Public Works, Building and Safety Office (26600 Agoura Road, Suite 110, Calabasas, CA 91302). 

Open Mon-Thurs, 7:00 AM -5:00 PM. Debris Removal Operations Center (26610 Agoura Road, 

Calabasas, CA 91302) Open Mon-Fri, 8:00 AM –5:00 PM, Sat, 9:00 AM –2:00 PM. 

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 

Planning at 310-456-2489 x485 or mplanning@malibucity.org, and 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, 7:30 AM -5:30 PM or Fri, 7:30 AM -4:30 PM. To see the 

Frequently Asked Questions about the rebuilding process visit 

www.malibucity.org/WoolseyRebuildFAQs. 

NEW -FIRE DEBRIS REMOVAL LOCATIONS 

CalRecycle started fire debris removal under the California state-sponsored program the 

week of February 4, 2019 at properties that were burned in the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, as well 

as in the unincorporated Malibu area. Every week, we post the streets where fire debris 

removal work is taking place at www.malibucity.org/debrislocations. 

CRISIS COUNSELING AVAILABLE 

Stress, anxiety, and depression-like symptoms are common reactions after adisaster for both 

children and adults. Getting help as soon as possible is the best way to protect your long-term 

mental health. Mental Health Access Hotline: Call (800) 854-7771 or text “LA” to 741741 to find 

immediate mental health services. Learn more at https://dmh.lacounty.gov/our-services/ 

disaster-services/follow-disaster 

PLANNING DEPT. REBUILD FORMS &HANDOUTS 

The Planning Department offers anumber of Development Options for properties affected by 

the Woolsey Fire. Learn more at www.MalibuCity.org/RebuildOptionsForm. 

Those planning to rebuild an in-kind replacement of legally permitted structures destroyed in 

the fire may submit aPlanning Verification (PV) Submittal Checklist. Get the form online at 

www.MalibuCity.org/LikeForLikeSubmittal or call the Planning hotline at 310-456-2489, ext. 485, 

or email mplanning@malibucity.org to set up apre-submittal appointment. 

City Geotechnical staff and the Environmental Sustainability Department developed a 

flowchart to explain the geotechnical submittal requirements and review process for burned 

properties. View, download or print the chart at www.MalibuCity.org/GeotechFlowchart. 

Additional Planning Dept. forms, checklists and applications are available for those interested in 

more complex rebuild options at www.MalibuCity.org/369/Applications-Forms-Fees. 

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. Mon -Thurs, 7:30 AM –5:30 PM, Frid 7:30 AM –4:30 PM 

PHONE AND ONLINE RESOURCES 

Malibu City Hall main phone: 310-456-2489 

Malibu City Fire Rebuild webpage: www.MalibuRebuilds.org 

Malibu City Debris Removal webpage: 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 Woolsey Fire Recovery webpage: www.LACounty.gov/LACountyRecovers

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Dead whale washes up on Malibu beach 



The lifeless body of a 

gray whale was found on 

County Line Beach on the 

outskirts of Malibu Sunday 

morning, March 24. 

According to the California 

Highway Patrol in 

Ventura County a call came 

in at 3:11 a.m. about a large 

whale that washed ashore. 

The Channel Islands Marine 

and Wildlife Center 

was informed and stated it 

will determine the probable 

cause of death after performing 

a necropsy. 

The whale drew plenty 

of attention from regional 

and national news outlets 

and is at least the second 

whale to beach in Malibu 

this year. 

In January, a 9-foot-long, 

800-pound pygmy sperm 

whale was found on Zuma 

Beach. The whale was euthanized, 

after officials 

consulted with other local 

marine experts. 

Every winter, gray 

whales migrate down the 

Pacific Coast to Baja, California, 

where their calves 

are born, and in the spring, 

they had back north. 

In Malibu, it is common 

to see pods of gray whales 

moving north, because 

mothers with calves tend to 

swim closer to shore. 

In 2017, a census from the 

local American Catecean 

Society counted 1,129 

northbound gray whales. 

Gray whales can reach 

up to 36 tons and live to 

be more than 50 years old. 

For the latest on this developing 

story, visit MalibuSurfsideNews.com 

Fitness challenge to help students in Africa 



The Sycamore School in 

Malibu has developed a relationship 

with the Muddy 

Lotus School in Sierra Leone, 

West Africa, through 

its founder Tiffany Persons. 

Over the last few years, 

students have had pen pals 

and shared artwork, curricular 

activities and educator 

resources among each 

other. One of their recent 

initiatives was a way to encourage 

the idea of students 

serving students. 

The Sycamore School 

challenged their kids to dig 

in to the question, “How 

much does it cost to feed 

me for a year?” With a 

variety of approaches, the 

students came back with 

answers that spanned from 

around $5,000 all the way 

The lifeless body of a baby whale found on a Malibu 

beach received attention from the residents on Sunday 

morning. suzy demeter/ 22nd century media 

up to $22,000. 

This activity alone was 

an eye opener as the students 

learned a bit about 

economy and how resources 

matter to an area, how 

the same things can cost 

different amounts in different 

places, and much more. 

It was later revealed that in 

Sierra Leone, it costs $300 

a year to feed, educate, and 

provide health care for one 

student. 

All this led to the 100th 

Day Physical Fitness Challenge, 

a way for the students 

to earn money in 

pledges toward the goal of 

providing $300 for their 

pen pals. 

Students sought pledges 

from family and friends 

with the promise that they 

would complete 100 exercises 

put forth by the challenge. 

Students of the Sycamore 

School in Malibu complete 

fitness challenge to raise 

money for kids in Sierra 

Leone. Photo Submitted 

On March 8, students ran 

laps, did burpees and situps, 

made baskets, dragged 

sand bags, and a host of 

other things equaling 100 

exercises on the day. 

They raised almost 

$13,000, and the check was 

presented on March 21. 

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News Briefs 

Coastal Commission 

certifies proposed LCP 

amendments to help 

residents rebuild following 

Woolsey Fire 

The California Coastal 

Commission approved 

the City’s proposed Local 

Coastal Program amendments 

that are meant to 

assist residents with rebuilding 

after the Woolsey 

Fire at the Commission’s 

meeting in Los Angeles on 

March 7. 

Mayor Jefferson Wagner 

said it was heartening 

to see the approval by the 

Coastal Commission of 

these steps the City is taking 

to help Malibu residents 

rebuild the community 

as quickly and safely 

as possible after the devastating 

Woolsey Fire. 

The LCP amendment 

refines existing temporary 

housing regulations, clarifies 

that the removal of native 

trees damaged or destroyed 

by a natural disaster 

may be exempt from native 

tree protection provisions 

of the LCP, adds a de minimis 

waiver procedure that 

would allow the City to 

waive the CDP requirement 

for proposed upgrades to 

on-site wastewater treatment 

systems for structures 

that were damaged or destroyed 

by natural disaster 

and for minor access road 

improvements required by 

the Fire Department after 

a natural disaster, allows 

temporary housing structures 

necessary for use 

during reconstruction of 

a residence destroyed due 

to a natural disaster to be 

processed as an emergency 

CDP, and makes other minor 

corrections and language 

revisions. 

The amendments went 

into effect immediately following 

the Commission’s 

certification. 

Deadline for Youth 

Commission Application is 

March 29 

The City of Malibu is 

accepting applications 

for the 2019-2020 Youth 

Commission for Grades 

7-12. The Harry Barovsky 

Memorial Youth Commission 

consists of student 

appointees who are either 

reside or attend school in 

Malibu. The Commission 

may make recommendations 

to the City Council 

on matters concerning 

the City’s programs and 

projects that serve young 

people. The Youth Commission 

has the authority 

and responsibility to plan, 

organize, and implement, 

with the assistance of appropriate 

members of 

the City staff and within 

budget limits, events, 

programs, and activities 

for the young people of 

the community, and to 

hold fundraising events 

to further the work of the 

Commission. Applications 

must be submitted 

in person at Malibu City 

Hall(23825 Stuart Ranch 

Road) no later than 4 p.m. 

Bobcat killed by car in 

Calabasas 

On March 17, B-361, an 

adult male bobcat, was hit 

and killed by a car on Las 

Virgenes Road in Calabasas, 

just north of Mulholland 

Highway. Ranger Ana 

Beatriz from Santa Monica 

Mountains Recreational 

Area said in her Facebook 

post that this occurred at almost 

the same exact spot of 

the road where B-356 was 

hit and killed by a car last 

July. Being struck by a vehicle 

is the second most common 

cause of death for bobcats 

according to their study, 

second only to mange. 

This male cat, was collared 

by SMNRA biologists 

on November 6, 2018 - two 

days before the Woolsey 

Fire. 

Malibu is looking for firms 

to provide tree maintenance 

services 

The City of Malibu, 

California is requesting 

proposals from qualified 

firms to provide citywide 

tree maintenance service 

for a period of three years 

with two options to renew 

for additional one year 

terms each. Services shall 

include cycle pruning of 

a variety of species of 

trees, tree/stump removals, 

emergency response 

both during normal business 

hours and after-hour 

situations, electronic tree 

inventory, disposal of all 

debris, and tree watering. 

In total, the City’s urban 

forest consists of approximately 

7,400 trees of various 

species and diameter 

at breast height (DBH). On 

average, trees are trimmed 

every 1-5 years depending 

on the species; but approximately 

500-600 trees are 

trimmed annually. Applications 

close on April 18 at 4 

p.m. For more information, 

call Arthur Aladjadjian at 

(310) 456-2489 ext. 235 or 

email aaladjadjian@malibucity.org. 

Small-grant opportunity in 

Southern California Edison 

service areas 

California Fire Safe 

Council and Edison International, 

parent company 

of Southern California Edison, 

announced a joint collaboration 

to provide grants 

to communities in Southern 

California Edison-service 

areas. 

Funding may be used to 

enhance community projects 

such as capacity building, 

community outreach/preparedness, 

and permit-ready 

hazardous fuel reduction 

projects. Successful projects 

are easy-start, easy-finish, 

with a simple closing report 

to document project success. 

The maximum grant 

amount will be $25,00 and 

funded projects are required 

to be within SCE service-area 

boundaries. To apply, visit 

www.cafiresafecouncil.org/ 

zoomgrantslogin/. Applications 

for funding are open 

and the application deadline 

is April 15, at 5 p.m. 

Police Reports 

Residents report copper missing from exposed walls of burned-down properties 

In at least two instances 

recently, Malibu residents 

reported to police missing 

copper. 

On March 16, $3,000 

worth of copper conduit, 

as well as a $1,000 horse 

saddle, reportedly was 

stolen during two separate 

incidents at a residence 

on Newton Canyon Road. 

The alleged victim stated 

that his residence burned 

down during the Woolsey 

Fire, and he was living out 

of a temporary residence. 

While visiting his Malibu 

property on Feb. 13, he 

reportedly saw an unfamiliar 

motorcycle trailer 

parked by his open barn, 

and obtained the license 

plate number. He then 

proceeded to check the 

barn and noticed his saddle 

was missing. He told 

police when he returned 

to check on his property 

on March 15, he observed 

that about 400-500 feet of 

copper conduit was missing 

from his property. The 

police did a follow-up 

check on the license plate, 

but found no match in the 

system. 

A resident reported on 

March 9 that copper wire 

valued at approximately 

$1,500 reportedly was 

stolen from his property 

on Kanan Dume Road. 

The victim stated that between 

Feb. 9 and March 

9 an unknown person or 

persons were entering the 

property and taking the 

wiring. 

March 14 

• A Motorola XPR 8400 

Repeater valued at $3,000 

reportedly was stolen from 

a radio tower on Saddle 

Peak Road. A worker informed 

the police that he 

noticed the company’s radio 

system was not working, 

so he went to the radio 

tower where the equipment 

is kept. The equipment 

room gate and door 

were both locked and 

secured, but he noticed 

the radio frequency repeater 

was disconnected 

and missing. 

March 14 

• Several women’s clothing 

items valued at $120, 

medical documents and 

credit card statements in a 

package delivered to a residence 

on Coastline Drive 

reportedly were stolen on 

March 9. The alleged victim 

stated she was waiting 

for a package that was sent 

by her daughter from a different 

state. He checked 

for the package multiple 

times before contacting 

the post office, which he 

was told that it was already 

delivered. He said 

a camera caught a female 

suspect, as well as her 

vehicle. 

March 11 

• A passport wallet containing 

a driver’s license 

and passport, as well as an 

iPhone valued at $320, reportedly 

were stolen from 

the glove box of a vehicle 

in the parking lot of Trancas 

Country Mart, 30745 

Pacific Coast Highway. 

The alleged victim stated 

his vehicle was locked, but 

he left the driver’s side and 

passenger side windows 

down approximately 1 

inch. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The 


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.

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Malibu City Council 

Library to add security guard, expand speaker series to western Malibu 

Staff Report 

The Malibu City Council voted 

to approve the use of the 2019 

Malibu Library Set Aside funds 

to continue and expand existing 

and new services and programs 

for the Malibu community during 

the March 11 council meeting. 

“The Malibu Library is at the 

heart of Malibu’s cultural and literary 

life, so I am proud of the 

incredibly valuable, diverse, and 

top-quality programs and services 

we have been able to develop 

at our beloved Library,” said 

Mayor Jefferson “Zuma Jay” 

Wagner, who serves on the City’s 

Library Subcommittee. “We are 

making sure that the library and 

its services and programs continue 

to meet the evolving needs 

of all of the people in the community.” 

The council voted to continue 

existing funding that provides 

extended library hours, a dedicated 

security guard, a full-time 

teen librarian, the Malibu Library 

Speaker Series program 

and select programs throughout 

the county library system. 

The council also approved new 

funding for an additional guard, 

Around the world in five gardens 

to extend the Speakers Series 

programming to western Malibu, 

enclose the children’s area in 

the library, and hire an outreach 

librarian to expand program offerings. 

The new initiatives were based 

on the Library Needs Assessment 

approved by the Malibu City 

Council in fall 2018. 

The assessment was based on 

demographic trends, current service 

levels and extensive community 

input gathered through 

public meetings, an online survey, 

focus groups and one-onone 

interviews. 

In September 2008, the City 

and County executed a Memorandum 

of Understanding that 

identified the use of Library Set 

Aside Funds. The MOU established 

a structure in which the 

expenditure of excess funds generated 

from taxes that Malibu 

residents pay could be spent on 

the Malibu Library. 

On March 26, 2018, the City 

and the County executed an 

amendment to the MOU extending 

the term until 2044, with two 

possible five-year extensions. As 

of 2018, the fund totals approximately 

$10 million. 

The 2018 assessment showed 

that the community has safety 

concerns regarding the number 

of library patrons experiencing 

homelessness. Since safety continues 

to be an issue, staff recommended 

that an additional security 

guard be hired to patrol the 

library and surrounding area. 

The assessment also showed 

a desire for additional speaker 

series programming to feature 

local authors and offer speaker 

events in western Malibu and an 

increase to cover the costs to rent 

space was approved. 

Submitted by Malibu Garden Club 

Green Wonder 

What: Field trip to the 

Gardens of the World 

When: 10 a.m. April 3 

Where: Gardens of the 

World, 2001 Thousand 

Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. 

For more information, visit 

malibugardenclub.org.To 

RSVP, email glengessford@ 

gmail.com. 

The Malibu Garden Club is 

holding a member’s only field 

trip to the Gardens of the World 

in Thousand Oaks, on April 3 at 

10 a.m. 

Considered a local gem, these 

gardens are the inspiration of 

Ed and Lynn Hogan, founders 

of the travel company Pleasant 

Holidays. Their motivation was 

to commemorate the various 

cultures of the world and to give 

something back to the community 

where they live, and the desire to 

share with others their travel experiences 

and the beauty they 

have seen during their travels 

around the world. 

Gardens of the World features 

five distinct gardens highlighting 

various regions of the world. 

A French Garden is the first experienced 

upon entrance, with its 

large cascading waterfall, a pair of 

uniquely-designed parterres and 

the French Fountain, an authentic 

replica of one found at Versailles, 

France with a floral display at the 

foot of the waterfall. The English 

Perennial and Rose Garden feature 

400 rose bushes with a variety 

of colors and species, both 

Bush and Climber roses. 

The Italian Garden hosts a 

lush grape arbor featuring cabernet 

and chardonnay grapes. This 

garden also exhibits a number of 

distinctive Cypress trees often 

found at Italy’s famed gardens. 

The Japanese Garden hosts many 

features, including an authentic 

Japanese Pagoda surrounded 

by a Koi pond, Japanese-design 

bridges and bamboo shoots, and 

the decorative Dragon’s Gate 

Waterfall. And lastly, the Mission 

Courtyard exhibits California’s 

mission trail, with colorful, 

hand-painted murals of the 21 

remaining missions in California, 

Malibu Garden Club members can explore the Gardens of the World on April 3. Photo Submitted 

the Spanish Fountain in the center 

of the courtyard is surrounded 

by olive- and citrus trees. In the 

center of the gardens is an authentic 

replica of the American/ 

Victorian Bandstand with hosts 

musical performances throughout 

the year. 

Individuals can become members 

of the garden club by joining 

online on their website malibugardenclub.org. 

To participate 

in this field trip, members must 

RSVP by emailing glengessford@gmail.com.



City of Malibu Woolsey Fire 

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Don’t Panic, It’s Organic 

What to do about plants you buy from your local nursery 

Andy Lopez 

Contributing Columnist 

Invisible Gardener 

Many folks especially 

gardeners 

who are trying 

to grow organically are 

running into this same 

problem. They buy plants 

from our local nursery and 

plant them only to find 

out that the plant(s) are 

either diseased or full of 

pests, usually both. The 

plants did not appear to be 

diseased or pest-infested 

at the nursery, but within 

a few months, they are. So 

what’s up with that and 

how can we deal with it 

organically? 

First off what is happening 

is evident to me: the 

nurseries are not organic, 

to begin with. They use 

all types of chemicals to 

try and keep the plants 

looking good enough until 

they get sold. They want 

the plants to sell as fast 

as possible. They will tell 

you the plants are fine, 

but if you come back even 

within a day, they will tell 

you the plants were fine 

when they left the nursery 

and that the pest or disease 

was on your property and 

not their fault. What they 

don’t tell you is that they 

are frankly spraying the 

plants (usually after hours 

since folks can smell the 

stuff). Many pesticides are 

now systemic. That is to 

say, they do not need to be 

sprayed and is applied to 

the soil via time release. 

This is done so they can 

continue to use the pesticide 

without customers 

noticing it. I do not know 

of one organic nursery. 

One of the reasons for that 

is that they do not grow 

their plants from start to 

finish relying instead on 

major grow house to do 

that for them and these 

places are pure chemically 

grown. It is all about money 

and the cost of doing 

business. If they only realized 

that growing organically 

is cheaper in the long 

run. They obviously do 

not have the knowledge to 

grow organically and will 

tell you it cannot be done. 

They believe the false 

facts they are given by the 

chemical companies. Now, 

back to the main question 

as to what to do when you 

take these plants home. 

The first thing you do is 

not to plant directly into 

the soil you have unless 

you know your soil is 

healthy. If you have been 

treating your soil with the 

respect it deserves and 

have been applying rock 

dust, live compost and live 

mulch as well as only using 

organic fertilizers, then 

I would remove as much 

soil from the plants as possible 

without damaging the 

plants. Pests lay their eggs 

in the soil. One lady told 

me she never had snails 

until she brought home 

some plants and within 

weeks she was being overrun 

with snails. 

If your soil is not 

healthy, it will take time 

to heal, and anything that 

you have growing or just 

planted will be attacked by 

a pest followed by disease. 

Most diseases are spread 

by pests. They are called 

disease vectors. 

So if you haven’t been 

taking care of your soil, 

you must first pay attention 

to this. You can help your 

plants by applying rock 

dust, live compost, and live 

mulch as well as organic 

fertilizers. However, all of 

this will take time to heal 

the soil. Organic fertilizers 

only work if the soil is 

alive, but they do provide 

some nutrition. So you 

should start foliar spraying 

the soil, the plants, and the 

whole property. You can 

do this in several ways. 

You can get a fertigation 

unit which you connect 

into your sprinkler or drip, 

and it will apply whatever 

you place inside the unit, 

it will apply every time the 

system goes on. Inside the 

fertilization unit, there are 

many natural products you 

can add that will over time, 

heal the soil and in turn 

the plants and trees. Live 

compost tea is an excellent 

place to start. However, 

there are not too many 

places that sell compost 

tea. We are lucky in that 

Ventura is a significant 

agricultural place and you 

can Google compost tea 

available in Ventura, and 

you might just be surprised. 

You can make your 

own compost tea, and I 

would be happy to explain 

how and you want me to. 

Another product is any 

type of micro-biological 

activator. There are many 

on the market, and our 

local nursery carries a few. 

You can make your own 

from these by making a 

tea out of it. You can add 

to your own “tea bag” and 

place that into the fertigation 

unit. Just remember, 

that you must refill the 

unit every month. To be 

correct, I should say, you 

must dump out the current 

water that it has and refill 

with new liquid. The way 

a fertigation unit works is 

that it pushes water into 

the unit under pressure 

which in turn pushes out 

a certain amount of your 

“tea” into the main outflow 

which then goes to whatever 

section that line(s) go 

to. So the unit may appear 

to be full, but it will just be 

water over time. You can 

also attach a particular unit 

that will connect to your 

bib, and the fertigation unit 

will be connected to that, 

and then your hose gets attached. 

This is great if you 

want to spray everything 

yourself. Just be sure to 

follow instructions. Never 

open a unit that is under 

pressure and always fill to 

top. 

Any questions or help? Email 

me at andylopez@invisiblegardener.com 

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shining through charred pillars of trees 

midst swathes of yellow mustard, 

a blaze of brilliant orange poppies 

and bruises of purple lupins 

testify the livid power of nature 

Only weeks ago, a moonscape of sullen, black destruction 

A landscape ravaged by frenzied flames 

The fire of wrath swept mercilessly 

devouring all in its path 

homes of man and animal without favour 

No reprieve for wealth or status 

The mountains wept, earth exploded, an inferno 

bursting flames, rolling debris , mercurial embers 

Natures fury descending to purify with holy fire 

Cleansed, earth reveals itself in brazen glory 

I am awed, in rapture for this splendid power. 

Hallelujah! 

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Ride of the Week 

The practical uses of an impractical car 

Fireball Tim Lawrence 

Contributing Columnist 

Malibu resident 

Here’s a car that 

borders on supercar 

status. Although 

what separates it is 

its pricepoint. 

Basically it is as fast, as 

nimble and as spirited as 

virtually any supercar out 

there, but at over $100,000 

less. In some cases, much 

less at $86,000. 

I got the 2019 Chevy 

Corvette for a week to see 

how practical it was as an 

everyday driver here in 

Malibu. And after a week, 

it’s both totally practical 

and severely impractical. 

So, it’s understood how 

someone can be on the 

fence about the thing. 

As a practical machine 

in a heavy car culture 

town, this ride makes perfect 

sense. As car shows 

are every weekend, it’s a 

blast to drive there, puts 

smiles on people’s faces, 

has enough horsepower at 

650, and possibly gets you 

a visit to the local Police 

Car Show and stay longer 

than what’s comfortable. 

It just gives you an 

all-around great driving 

experience. 

Did I mention that it 

puts smiles on people’s 

faces, especially in this 

Cherry Pick 

the Best! 

2019 Corvette Z06. Fireball Tim Lawrence/22nd Century 

Media 

hyper-lemon yellow? 

Well it does, although 

the people are about 2 1/2 

feet tall. Basically, I’ve 

been driving a Hot Wheels 

car, and the kids love it. 

One other thing, as 

a track car, it kills just 

about anything out there. 

As long as you learn how 

to drive it and I would 

recommend that a day at 

Willow Springs Raceway 

would do wonders for increasing 

your knowledge 

and comfort with such a 

beast. 

But then there’s the 

impractical side. 

As a daily driver with 

daily tasks, it makes no 

sense whatsoever. Unless 

you want to build up your 

arms by getting out of the 

car each time. Like doing 

pushups with a bag of 

sand on your back. 

Then there’s the issue 

of your POV being so low 

in traffic that it’s a better 

idea to just look under 

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rotw 

From Page 14 

There’s also the issue of 

groceries, errands and/or 

anything else you need to 

do where there needs to be 

room in the car. 

Golfing? Forget it. 

Groceries? Sure, as long 

as you can lay the bags on 

their sides. 

Surfboard? Well, Kathie 

and I did that once and the 

board broke free on the 

highway and flew over an 

embankment. 

So, there’s that. 

Gas mileage? Yes, it 

uses gas and lots of it. 

But it begs to be an EV 

as it would be the sickest 

supecar EV out there. 

Sure, it’s completely 

impractical as an everyday 

driver and doing everyday 

normal stuff, but here’s the 

thing: We live in Malibu. 

And Malibu is not 

normal by any means. It 

is filled with completely 

impractical people doing 

impractical things. None 

Two weeks ago, I 

woke up to the 

heartbreaking news 

of Muslims being killed in 

Christchurch, New Zealand. 

As I read through the 

abysmal reports from various 

news organizations, 

a small part of me that 

believed in the inherent, 

albeit rare goodness within 

human beings, began to 

die. 

While I went through 

my inbox at work that day, 

I found an email from the 

Malibu Jewish Center and 

Synagogue. It was a statement 

from Malibu clergy 

in response to the New 

Zealand massacre and the 

clergy were outraged by 

the targeted, Islamophobic 

attacks and wished to comfort 

all those innocent lives 

that were lost. 

A sentence caught my 

of it makes any sense, so 

it makes sense to have a 

car like this to make sense 

of it all. 

Make sense? 

So, there you have it. A 

no-nonsense, makes-nosense, 

senselessly impractical 

car that is totally 

practical and makes a hell 

of a lot of sense in a town 

that makes no sense. 

Got all that? 

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attention. It read: “Nation 

will not take up sword 

against nation, nor will they 

train for war anymore.” 

The nations will indeed 

not take up sword against 

each other, but we will 

fight against religious 

intolerance. We will offer 

hope that transcends geographical 

barriers. 

A few days after this, I 

found out about the Sycamore 

School in Malibu and 

its incredible effort to raise 

money for the children of 

the Muddy Lotus School in 

West Africa. 

Kids from Malibu completed 

a variety of fitness 

challenges to help their pen 

pals thousands of miles 

away. 

The financial help will 

probably not be of help 

to them forever, but, now 

the friends in West Africa 

know that there are those 

who care. 

The degree to which 

hatred, Islamophobia and 

toxic power differentials 

is normalized and almost 

aggressively celebrated by 

some is scary; however, 

amid all the violence, there 

is hope that comes from 

the most unexpected corners 

of the world. 


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Faith briefs Bible 

classes and more for Malibu 

residents, Page 20 

For the love of 

dogs Local jam makers 

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Residents celebrate Malibu fashion Weekend at the Rosenthal Wine Bar & Patio, Page 21 

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Faith Briefs 

Malibu United Methodist Church (30128 Morning 

View Drive, 310-457-7505) 

Taize Meditation 

7 p.m. Tuesdays. Join for 10 

minutes or stay for an hour in 

quiet meditation and reflection in 

the Sanctuary. 

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 Nights 

6:30-9 p.m. third Saturday of 

the month. Malibu artists (from 

established musicians to students) 

will perform in the courtyard. To 

perform, or for more information, 

email devonmeyersproject@ 

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 devonmeyersproject@gmail.com. 

Prayer and Healing Circle 

7-8 p.m. Tuesdays. A nondenominational 

gathering of 

like-minded people united in different 

forms of focused prayer 

and healing modalities. Featured 

speakers and workshops are offered 

throughout the year. 

Malibu Presbyterian Church (3324 Malibu Canyon 

Road, 310-456-1611) 

Sunday Worship Services 

10:15 a.m. Sundays 

Connect Hour 

9-10 a.m. Sundays 

Men’s Breakfast 

7:30-9 a.m. Wednesdays at 

Marmalade Cafe, 3894 Cross 

Creek Road, Malibu. 

Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue (24855 

Pacific Coast Highway, 310-456-2178) 

Torah Study 

10 a.m. Saturdays, with Rabbi 

Michael Schwartz. Open to all. 

Tot Shabbat 

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

Shabbat with prayers, music 

and dancing. 

Waking Up to Jewish Ethics 

7:30-9 a.m. Every Thursday. A 

discussion group based on Talmudic 

sources. For more information, 

call (310) 456-2178. 

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. 

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) 

Distribution Center 

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Chabad is distributing 

women’s men’s and children’s 

clothing as well as accessories, 

shoes, toys and toiletries 

free of charge. For more information, 

visit www.onewithmalibu. 

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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 

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. 

University Church of Christ (24255 Pacific Coast 

Highway, 310-506-4504) 

A cappella Service 

10:15 a.m. Sundays, in Elkins 

Auditorium 

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 

10 a.m. Sundays 

Midweek Bible Study 

7-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays. The 

Rev. Brian La Spada holds a 

weekly Bible study at his home 

to walk through the book of Genesis. 

For more information, email 

info@calvarychapelmalibu.com. 

Pre-Church Prayer 

9:30 a.m. Sundays, Juan Cabrillo 

picnic tables. 

First Church-Christ Scientist (28635 Pacific Coast 

Highway, 310-457-7767) 

Wednesday Meetings 

8 p.m. Wednesdays. Testimony 

meetings include readings from 

the Bible and “Science and Health 

with Key to the Scriptures.” 

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Fashion weekend makes impression on Malibu 

Barbara Burke 


Malibu Fashion Week, 

where high couture met 

Malibu chic, was a two-day 

extravaganza held at Rosenthal 

Wine Bar and Patio Friday-Saturday, 

March 23-24. 

The event focused on 

fashion, beauty and lifestyle, 

and attendees enjoyed 

an ideal Malibu day by imbibing 

in intriguing wines 

and beers, surveying fashions 

displayed by cuttingedge 

designers, and grooving 

to a DJ’s playing fun, 

rhythmic tunes. 

“We’re coming to Malibu 

to support the community,” 

guest Sari Miller said. “We 

have friends and clients in 

Malibu who were affected 

by the fire as so many 

people were, but I know 

that Malibu is recovering 

strongly..” 

Miller’s friend, Mindy 

Wood, chimed in, saying, 

“It’s a joy to support people 

in Malibu as it’s such an 

amazing community.” 

Malibu Road displayed 

its fabulous fashions, as 

Malibu’ Shivali Patel displayed 

l cashmere sweaters 

from Christian Lehr, noting 

that some of the clothing’s 

fibers were twisted and 

washed before being woven 

together, resulting in both a 

better feel and look. 

27 Miles Long, 34.0259 

N, 118, 7789 N, reads the 

logo on clothing purveyed 

by one of Malibu’s most 

spirited designers, Krishna 

Jaret, who displayed her 

fashions and sweatshirts 

with fun, simple, hip messages, 

such as, “Lucky,” 

and “Brooklyn.” 

Shoppers had so many 

choices. 

“I am featuring blingedout 

bikinis with Swarkovski 

crystals,” said Sheri Bodell, 

designer. “This year, we’ve 

also added beautiful, wide 

studded equestrian belts 

and really cute corset belts 

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Dr. Nita Landry (right) shops for jewelry at the display of designer Jessica Elliot at the 

event on Friday, March 23. Suzy Demeter/22nd Century Media 

The Dish 

Happy The Golden Jam touts fresh flavor, animal welfare with each jar 

Barbara Burke 


“Happiness is homemade 

jam from Happy The Golden 

Jam,” Chef Gilles Dirat 

quipped, as he and Malibuite 

Suzanne Zimmer cooked 

in Zimmer’s aromatic kitchen, 

putting up homemade 

grapefruit-orange marmalade 

jam. 

“Because the orchard is 

so close to the ocean, the 

salt air helps beautiful oranges 

and grapefruits to 

grow fabulously here,” he 

explained. 

Guavas, figs, oranges, 

tangerines, lemons, grapefruit, 

apples, pears and avocados: 

They all thrive in the 

lovely orchard that nature 

niched in a narrow ravine 

abutting the Pacific Ocean. 

Many Malibuites look 

forward to enjoying the 

Chef Gilles Durat (left) and Suzanne Zimmer make jams 

for Happy The Golden Jam, a local favorite in Malibu. 

Photo Submitted 

jams that Dirat and Zimmer 

create every new season. 

“It’s some of the best jam 

that I’ve ever tasted,” said 

Jefferson Wagner, Malibu’s 

mayor. “The various flavors 

provide just the right blend 

of sweet and tangy tastes.” 

Dirat emphasized that the 

secret to making such delectable 

jam is to use 100 

percent of the oranges and 

grapefruits, adding only organic 

sugar but no preservatives. 

“The jam is au naturel 

and in making it, there is no 

waste because first, we boil 

the grapefruits and oranges 

and then, we use their pulp 

to ensure that all the flavors 

are fully captured,” he said. 

“The trees in the orchard 

have been here for 25 years 

and they bear beautiful 

fruit.” 

Trying the grapefruitorange 

marmalade, one’s 

taste buds tingle as the various 

zesty flavors merge and 

mingle in one’s mouth, leaving 

a memorable after-taste. 

Vegans, you are taken 

care of by Happy The Golden 

Jam because the Vegan 

Lemon Curd is full of lemon 

zest and other fantastic flavors. 

Jars of the jam, which 

cost $14, are seasonal, so 

soon, the company will feature 

Fig Love, apple cinnamon 

and guava. 

“We know when the figs 

are ready when they’re a 

beautiful purple inside,” Dirat 

said. “The ground in this 

orchard is fabulous.” 

Zimmer said that theirs 

is essentially a two-person 

operation, and they are cautious 

about quality. 

“In the 23 years that our 

family has had the orchard, 

we have used no pesticides 

whatsoever; we are very 

mindful of what is going 

into the ground and of what 

is coming out.” 

Zimmer decided to start 

the jam company in 2017. 

“I used to win the pie festival 

at Malibu Methodist 

Church,” she said. “People 

loved my pies and they really 

loved the figs from the 

orchard as well. So, it was a 

natural progression to start 

making the jams.” 

The delicious jams were 

inspired by Happy, the Zimmer’s 

golden retriever. 

The company motto for 

Happy The Golden Jam is 

“share the compassion,” because 

a portion of the company’s 

net profits is donated 

to provide medical care for 

homeless animals. 

“It is very gratifying to 

give back to the animals,” 

Zimmer said, “We do so to 

help each of them have a 

happier, healthier life.” 

Happy The Golden Jam 

is available at purveyors 

P.C. Greens and Vintage 

Grocers, as well as at Malibu 

Seafood, Malibu Beach 

House and Malibu Coast 

Animal Hospital. The jam 

is available online as well 

and if you order a minimum 

of at least one case, 

delivery is free of charge 

in Malibu and Western Los 

Angeles. 


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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. Minn. neighbor 

5. Fodder structure 

9. Director Jean-___ Godard 

12. Singer Braxton 

13. Letter-shaped fastener 

15. Wang of wedding wear 

16. Vermeer’s “Woman 

With a ___” 

17. Opera writer 

18. MIT grad., maybe 

19. Turn over 

21. Rest 

23. ‘’___ live and breathe!’’ 

25. Farm to table Malibu 

bistro 

26. Get back 

30. Internet message 

33. Terminator 

34. ___ Paese cheese 

35. Sgt., for instance 

36. 2000s symbol of corporate 

financial misconduct 

37. E or G, e.g. 

38. Reporter April of 

“Teenage Mutant Ninja 

Turtles” 

40. Flight board abbr. 

41. Put ___ good word for 

42. ____ metabolism 

43. Fraternity letter 

46. Messenger 

48. Deed 

50. Corinne Bailey ___ 

2007 Grammy nominee 

51. Drink you can enjoy at 

Malibu’s Sunlife Organics 

54. Pivot around 

58. Young codfish 

59. Field doctor 

61. Respecting 

63. Lofty lines 

64. Cease to exist 

65. Students’ stats. 

66. Employment agency, 

abbr. 

67. Beer barrels 

68. City of the Nobel Peace 

Prize 

Down 

1. Cardinal letters 

2. Heisman winner 

Flutie 

3. __-freeze 

4. Ukraine capital 

5. Jeep Liberty, e.g. 

6. Euro peninsula 

7. Wisdom 

8. Inherited wealth 

9. Listens 

10. Animal instinct 

11. Artist Emily 

14. Cousin of a canvasback 

15. Poison 

20. Moth-___ 

22. Land in “la mer” 

24. Bering, e.g.: abbr. 

26. Fashion’s Oscar de 

la ___ 

27. Captivated 

28. Big bother 

29. Construction site 

sight 

31. With no warmth 

32. Internet laughter 

36. Startled cry 

37. Unthought-through 

reaction 

38. Desert green spots 

39. Government security 

agency, abbr. 

42. Org. with merit 

badges 

44. Wharves 

45. Automated cash 

provider 

47. Be annoying 

49. Guru 

51. Fraternal gp. 

52. “Shane” star, Alan 

53. ___ fixe (obsession) 

55. Lake, in La Paz 

56. Mail service 

57. Abbr. in an abbreviated 

list 

60. Pennies, for short 

62. Spanish for bear 

Rosenthal Tasting Room 

(18741 pacific Coast 

Highway, Malibu; 310- 

456-1392) 

■7 ■ p.m. March 29: Wine 

About It: Karaoke 

Nights; hosted by Hi- 

Ho Karaoke 

■12:00-9 ■ p.m. March 

30: live music with 

Brandon Ragan and 

Amber and Smoke; 

Azteca food truck 

Malibu Wines 

(31740 Mulholland 


865-0605) 

■5-9 ■ p.m. Friday, March 

29; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. 

Saturday, March 30; 

11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday, 

March 31: Two Doughs 

Pizza 

■■12-9 p.m. March 30: 

live music (12-2 p.m. 

Bill Rotella; 3-5 p.m. 

Vinyl Gypsies 6-9 p.m. 

Dani Luv) 

■■12-7 p.m. March 31: 

live music ( 12-3 p.m. 

Rich Sheldon; 4-7 

p.m. Sean Wiggins 

Duo) 

The Sunset 

(6800 Westward Beach 

Road, Malibu; 310- 589- 

1007) 

■4 ■ p.m. Sunday, DJ 

Duke’s Malibu Restaurant 

(21150 Pacific Coast 


317-0777) 

■4 ■ p.m.- close. March 

29: Aloha Friday with 

Tahitian dancers, live 

music and $8 mai tai’s 

Moonshadows 

(20356 Pacific Coast 


456-3010) 

■7 ■ p.m.- 1 a.m. Friday 

and Saturday; 3-9 p.m. 

Sunday: Live DJ 

To place an event in The 

Scene, email editor@malibusurfsidenews.com 

answers 

How to play Sudoku 

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that has 

been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3 squares. 

To solve the puzzle each row, column and box must 

contain each of the numbers 1 to 9. 

LEVEL: Medium 

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Going rate 

Malibu Sales and Leases | Week of March 15 - 21 

Type ADDRESS LP SP D.O.M ST date BR/BA 

Single 

Family 

Lease 

Lease 

Lease 

Mobile 

Home 

fashion 

From Page 21 

20906 Pacific Coast 

Highway 

11840 Beach Club 

Way, #B 

26668 Seagull Way, 

#D102 

833 Malibu Meadows 

Drive 

29500 Heathercliff 

Road, #21 

and stunning, studded purse 

straps that can strap on to 

any purse and can also serve 

as a guitar strap or belt.” 

BEDSTU, another retailer 

that is a Malibu favorite, 

displayed a panoply of 

shoes, bags, wallets and accoutrements 

from its organics 

collection. 

“We offer genuine, 

unique, imperfect, handmade 

and hand-dyed 

leather,” said Erin Kolb, 

marketing coordinator. “It 

is ‘imperfect,’ in the sense 

that it embraces the scars of 

the animals and it is tanned 

with vegetable-based solutions 

and manufactured in 

our company-owned factory 

and tannery.” 

Shoppers didn’t have to 

be flush to purchase merchandise, 

because Marque 

Supply displayed its preowned, 

high-end designer 

bags. 

“We have everything 

from super-vintage bags 

such as this Chanel from the 

’80s to last-year’s styles.” 

said Adrian Curiel, wholesale 

executive for the vendor. 

The men got in on the action 

as well. 

$5,850,000 $5,500,000 255 3/15/19 2B/2B 

$2,850/ 

month 

$3,450/ 

month 

$9,500/ 

month 

$3,000/ 

month 

$3,300/ 

month 

$9,500/ 

month 

Trinidad Garcia, founder 

and designer for Trinidad3, 

a gentleman’s apparel company, 

shared his business 

philosophy. 

“I served in the Marine 

Corps and then went to the 

Fashion Institute of Design 

and Merchandise and started 

this business that supports 

America’s veterans,” 

he said. “Our mission is to 

empower and to employ 

veterans and I use the motto 

from the battalion company 

I served in, ‘ready for all, 

yielding to none,’ because 

I want people to feel confident 

and ready to face any 

challenge when they wear 

my designs.” 

Cares Mills and Savanna 

Joy, two colorists from Cie 

9 3/18/19 0B/1B 

50 3/19/19 1B/1B 

66 3/19/19 5B/4B 

$775,000 $725,000 305 3/19/19 2B/2B 

Statistics provided by Bobby LehmKuhl with 4 Malibu Real Estate. 

Information gathered from Combined L.A./Westside MLS, Inc. is deemed 

reliable but not guaranteed. Contact Bobby at (310) 456-0220, 

Info@4Malibu.com or visit www.4Malibu.com. 

Cares Mills (left) one of the vendors with CIE shares a 

discussion with Adrian Curiell, wholesales executive of 

Marque, that offers vintage high-end hand bags. Suzy 

Demeter/22nd Century Media 

Salon in Malibu, helped attendees 

get their glam on 

with complementary styling, 

glitter pony tails, and 

temporary vivid colors and 

extensions. 

“It’s exciting to be out 

here and to participate in an 

interactive community activity.” 

Mills said. 

Mikey Hoffman, who curated 

the two-day Malibu 

fashion event, explained its 

focus and vibe. 

“We picked Rosenthal 

as the venue because of its 

amazing, built-in clientele,” 

she said. “We’ve had more 

than 450 RSVPs in addition 

to the establishment’s customers 

attending.” 

4 Malibu Real Estate 

Achieving small victories as a community 

Bobby Lehmkuhl 

4 Malibu Real Estate 

Our homes, our lives 

and our beautiful 

Malibu landscapes 

are being rebuilt before 

our eyes in the wake of 

the Woolsey Fire. 

This process, which has 

also allowed our community 

to shine, will be 

a lengthy and emotional 

one, but if you take a step 

back, you can see how far 

we have come already. It 

is important to celebrate 

and remember the small 

victories. 

One of those for me is 

easy to see. All it takes 

is stepping outside and 

looking up along the 

mountainside to see all the 

reborn greenery. Seeing 

the new growth and the 

green landscape, is a sign 

of a fresh start and a sign 

of hope. It’s a look at a 

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United as a community, 

we are working to make 

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The City is working to 

provide resources to residents 

to make the rebuilding 

process as smooth and 

painless as possible. 

We now have access 

to debris removal as well 

as a variety of forms and 

handouts to help guide us. 

To view these forms and 

handouts, visit cityofmalibu.org. 

These forms and 

handouts are tools to help 

residents understand the 

complicated process, 

answer any questions you 

may have and guide you 

to a variety of services to 

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The City has formed a 

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These groups allow residents 

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And while the housing 

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January and February 

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but there were still noteworthy 

sales. 

In Malibu, from information 

provided by MLS 

CLAW, 13 homes were 

sold, four of them on the 

beach. In addition, we also 

had a number of off-market 

home sales. Another 

65 leases were signed (24 

on the beach), there were 

three land sales, and nine 

condo/townhomes were 

sold (five on the beach). 

While the 2019 housing 

market is still catching up, 

we are optimistic the rebuilds 

will bring opportunity 

and hope for Malibu 

after the Woolsey Fire. 

— As told to Alyssa Groh, 

22CM Boost, a content-writing 

division of 22nd Century 

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malibu surfside news | March 28, 2019 | malibusurfsidenews.com 

On the way up 

Learning Sharks pick up big 

league win, Page 24 

Athlete of the Week 

Find out more about multi-sport star 

Lexi Thomas, Page 24 

The Sharks Alec 

Morrison, who 

had two RBI on 

the day, rounds 

first base after a 

hit in his team’s 

win Friday, March 

22, in Malibu. 

Suzy Demeter/22nd 

Century Media 

Malibu making most of delayed 

start to season, wins first home 

game, Page 23

26 | March 28, 2019 | Malibu surfside news sports 


Pepperdine Athletics 

Battle of highly ranked teams goes to Waves 

In an exciting nonconference 

match, the No. 4 Pepperdine 

men’s volleyball 

team blanked No. 6 UC 

Irvine with 25-17, 25-20 

and 26-24 final set scores 

in Firestone Fieldhouse on 

Saturday, March 23. 

During the second and 

third sets, the Waves (16- 

6) honored 42 Pepperdine 

men’s volleyball alumni, 

including multiple NCAA 

Champions, Olympic athletes 

and gold medalists, 

several All-Americans and 

more. 

The first set may have 

been close for the first 

six-point of action, but the 

Waves weren’t having it 

after that, amassing a 7-0 

run with Kaleb Denmark 

at the service line. Once 

the momentum had shifted 

to the home team, kills 

from Kévin Vaz, Michael 

Wexter and David Wieczorek 

only helped the 

cause, putting Pepperdine 

up 19-12 down the home 

stretch. Wieczorek plastered 

a pair of service aces 

on the back line to earn a 

set-point opportunity and 

an Anteater error closed 

the first set 25-17 in the 

Waves’ favor. 

Pepperdine used the energy 

from the first set win 

to start the second set, and 

opened with a 10-6 lead fueled 

by big attack efforts 

from Wieczorek and Wexter. 

An ‘Asics Ace’ from 

Max Chamberlain continued 

the Waves’ roll and 

more kills from the right 

side late in the set propelled 

the Waves to a 22-17 lead. 

Although UCI put a few 

points together late in the 

set, kills from Vaz and costly 

errors from the Anteaters 

earned the Waves a second 

set win 25-20. 

The third and final set 

was the closest by far. After 

the intermission, the energy 

in the room had shifted to 

Irvine’s side of the court, 

as the Anteaters picked up 

a 10-6 lead over the Waves 

early on. 

After going down 16-11, 

the Waves rallied back with 

multiple kills from Denmark 

and three-consecutive 

smashes from Wieczorek to 

tie the set at 19’s. 

Each side went point-forpoint 

towards a 24-24 tied 

score, but a UCI service 

error followed by a sneaky 

smash from Robert Mullahey 

and the Waves earned 

the straight-sweep in Firestone. 

BASEBALL 

Waves fall to ’Dogs in 

season finale 

The Pepperdine baseball 

team got a home run from 

Matthew Kanfer, but Gonzaga 

scored twice in the 

ninth to defeat the Waves 

3-1 on Sunday, March 24, 

at Eddy D. Field Stadium. 

The Waves (12-8, 4-2 

WCC) took a 2-1 lead into 

the ninth but the Bulldogs 

(9-11, 3-3 WCC) but a 

comeback in the last inning 

fell short, giving the Bulldogs 

the victory. 

Waves junior outfielder 

Matthew Kanfer went 

2-for-4, including the solo 

home run in the first inning. 

Junior infielder Duncan 

McKinnon had the Waves’ 

other RBI on the day, a sacrifice 

fly in the second. 

Senior pitcher Jonathan 

Pendergast threw seven innings, 

allowing just a single 

unearned run and giving up 

five hits. 

In the second inning, 

McKinnon hit a fly ball 

to center, scoring Aharon 

Modlin from third. After 

two innings, the Waves led 

2-0. 

Two errors in the top of 

the sixth led to a Gonzaga 

run, cutting the Waves lead 

to 2-1. 

In the ninth inning, 

Gonzaga’s Troy Johnston 

knocked in two runs to 

give Gonzaga a 3-2 lead 

that it would hold on to to 

capture the conference victory. 

Pepperdine takes series 

from Gonzaga 

Junior Easton Lucas 

threw a complete game on 

Saturday, March 23, in a 

3-1 West Coast Conference 

win over Gonzaga. 

The Waves (12-7, 4-1 

WCC) clinch the series 

over the Bulldogs (9-11, 

2-3 WCC) for the second 

time in three years. 

The Waves got off to 

a good start in the bottom 

of the first inning, as 

three straight singles from 

Wyatt Young, Quincy 

McAfee and Matt Kanfer 

got the Waves the first run 

of the game and a 1-0 lead 

through one inning of play. 

Gonzaga answered back 

in the second on a single up 

the middle. However, in the 

bottom half of the inning, 

the Waves got the run back 

thanks to a leadoff double 

by Cory Wills, a sacrifice 

fly from Duncan McKinnon 

and an RBI single from 

Joe Caparis, to take a 2-1 

lead after three. 

Neither team threatened 

the score until the fifth inning, 

when McAfee singled 

to start the inning. He was 

brought in by an RBI triple 

from Cook to build the 

Waves’ lead to a more comfortable 

3-1 after five. 

Lucas was dealing 

throughout the whole 

game, only really being 

threatened in the second 

when the Bulldogs scored, 

and in the top of the ninth, 

when the opposition got 

runners to the corners. A 

popup to first base ended 

the threat and the game 

with the Waves clinching 

their second straight conference 

series. 

WOMEN’S TENNIS 

Waves blank PCH Cup rival 

The No. 7 Pepperdine 

Waves blanked West Coast 

Conference and PCH Cup 

Rival Loyola Marymount 

4-0 in a Saturday, March 23, 

matchup in Los Angeles. 

The match was the 

Waves’ first conference opposition, 

as they now stand 

1-0 in WCC play. Pepperdine 

will take on Pacific 

next weekend in conference 

play. 

In doubles play, the 

Waves controlled courts 

two and three as tandem 

Adrijana Lekaj and Dzina 

Milovanovic finished first 

by way of a 6-3 score. The 

16th-ranked pair of Jessica 

Failla and Anastasia 

Iamachkine fought but ultimately 

fell to their LMU 

opponents 5-6, leaving all 

eyes on court two. Though 

it took an extra rally, partners 

Ashley Lahey and 

Daria Kuczer eventually 

went on to win the doubles 

point for the Waves by a 

score of 7-6. 

Singles play was left 

up to the decision of three 

courts, as courts one, three 

and five went unfinished 

post-clinch. Anastasia 

Iamachinke finished first to 

give the Waves a 2-0 lead 

on the match, beating her 

opponent 6-1 and 6-3. Lekaj 

followed suit on court 

two, dominating her LMU 

opponent in the same fashion 

and same scores. On 

court four, 

Milovanovic defeated a 

rallying opposition by way 

of scores 6-1 and 6-4 to 

clinch the match for Pepperdine, 

as courts one, three 

and five were abandoned, 

leaving the final score 4-0 

in the Waves favor. 

Information from Pepperdine 

University and 

www.pepperdinewaves. 

com. Compiled by Assistant 

Editor Michal Dwojak, 

m.dwojak@22ndcentury 

media.com. 

This Week In ... 

Sharks Athletics 

Baseball 

■March ■ 29, host Nordhoff, 

3:30 p.m. 

■April ■ 3, host Carpinteria, 

3:30 PM 

Boy’s Tennis 

■April ■ 2, host Hueneme, 

3:30 p.m. 

Boy’s Volleyball 


4:00 p.m. 


5:00 p.m. 


4:00 p.m. 


5:00 p.m. 

■April ■ 4, host Fillmore, 

4:00 p.m. 

■April ■ 4, host Fillmore, 5:00 p.m. 

Softball 


3:30 p.m. 

■April ■ 4, host Fillmore, 3:30 p.m. 

Swim 

■April ■ 3, host Hueneme, 

3:00 p.m. 

Track and Field 

■March ■ 28, host Santa Paula, 

3:30 p.m. 

Pepperdine Athletics 

Men’s Tennis 

■March ■ 28, host Pacific, 

2 p.m. 

■March ■ 29, Saint Mary’s, 

2 p.m. 

Men’s Volleball 

■March ■ 27, host UCLA, 7 p.m. 

■March ■ 29, host Grand Canyon, 

7 p.m. 

■April ■ 4, host USC, 7 p.m. 

Women’s Beach Volleyball 

■March ■ 26, CSUN vs. Stanford, 

11 a.m. 

■March ■ 26, host Stanford, 

12 p.m. 

■March ■ 30, host USC, 10 a.m. 

Women’s Soccer 

■March ■ 30, host Cal State 

Fullerton, 11 a.m. 

■March ■ 30, host Point Luma 

Nazarene, 2:30 p.m.

malibusurfsidenews.com sports 


Sharks rally to win much-anticipated home opener 

Malibu High is 

‘stronger than 

excuses’ post-fire 

Joe Coughlin, Publisher 

Malibu High School 

baseball coach Billy Ashley 

ordered his team’s practice 

gear prior to the Woolsey 

Fire. 

When it arrived, the season 

slogan — “Stronger 

than excuses” — had a 

much deeper meaning. 

“I didn’t know it was going 

to be so poignant,” Ashley 

said. “The idea was that 

... no matter what happens 

to us, no matter how much 

our season has been derailed, 

we’re not going to let 

it stop us from playing the 

sport this spring and having 

a good season.” 

A major milestone on the 

season-long journey was 

crossed Friday, March 22, 

when the Sharks played 

their first home game of the 

season, after the fire’s aftereffects 

spoiled the playing 

surface. 

And on the special day, 

the Sharks did their slogan 

proud by converting a backand-forth 

contest into an 8-5 

win over league rival Nordhoff. 

Malibu overcame a couple 

errors early and kept 

after Nordhoff on the offensive 

end, coming back twice 

from a deficit and twice 

from a tie score to move to 

5-2 on the season. 

“It was just guys coming 

through,” Ashley said. 

“We had a couple key hits 

with runners in scoring position, 

which is not one of 

our strong suits. It’s something 

the team can build on 

in what is a shorter season. 

... The guys know that it’s 

Chase Kelly fires a pitch for the Sharks in the league 

victory. 

a matter of getting the job 

done now, because they 

don’t have as many opportunities.” 

With the Sharks up 5-4, 

Nordhoff plated one run in 

the top of the sixth to knot 

things up. 

But in the bottom half 

of the frame, Malibu went 

right back to work. 

Reef Graham reached on 

an error and promptly stole 

second and third to put the 

Sharks in business. Brodie 

Anderson plated Graham 

with a sacrifice fly to give 

the home team a late lead. 

But Malibu wasn’t done. 

Russell Kisch and Alec 

Morrison each singled to 

set up Lars Peterson, whose 

two-run double gave the 

Sharks a sizeable lead they 

would not relinquish. 

The win, Ashley said, was 

especially gratifying, seeing 

as the two teams, which 

Ashley said have a heated 

history, had a confrontation 

during Malibu’s 4-0 win at 

Nordhoff two days earlier. 

“It was a really good 

game, considering there 

were words exchanged between 

players [March 20],” 

he said. “Thought it might 

carry over, but they put a 

squash to that and it was a 

good game.” 

It was Malibu’s third win 

over Nordhoff this season, 

to go with one each over 

Port Hueneme and Santa 

Paula. The team’s losses 

came to Fillmore (2-1, Feb. 

22) and Carpinteria (2-1, 

March 11). 

The top three teams in 

the Citrus Coast Conference 

will make the CIF postseason, 

and Ashley believes it 

is a four-team race between 

Santa Paula, Fillmore, Carpinteria 

and his Sharks. 

And while Malibu had an 

early-season disadvantage 

— with no outdoor practice 

or playing fields — Ashley 

is pushing the Sharks 

to continue to be “Stronger 

than excuses.” 

“We were kind of down in 

the dumps through the offseason,” 

he said. “It’s tough 

when you can’t play and 

can’t practice and expect 

to be successful. ... I got to 

watch how I talk to the guys 

because I know that they 

haven’t had time to prepare 

themselves. 

“But these guys know 

how to play the game of 

baseball and how important 

each at-bat and each pitch 

is. We have to be stronger 

than the excuses. We have 

none. All that’s happened to 

us is in the past.” 

Malibu’s Lewis Baron runs toward third in his team’s 8-5 win Friday, March 22, in 

Malibu. Photos by Suzy Demeter/22nd Century Media 

The Sharks Lars Peterson slaps a tag on the Nordhoff baserunner during the win.

28 | March 28, 2019 | Malibu surfside news sports 


Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Lexi Thomas 

Boys Volleyball 

Comeback win is good 

sign for young Sharks 

Joe Coughlin, Publisher 

Lexi Thomas, 16, is a 

sophomore who plays softball 

and cross country for 

Malibu High School and 

also rides horseback. 

What would you say 

horseback riding has 

taught you that helps 

you as an athlete? 

Overall, horseback riding 

has taught me trust because 

my horse and I have to trust 

each other in order for us to 

work well together. 

What is it that you 

enjoy about the game 

of softball? 

What I enjoy most about 

softball is the competition. 

How would you say 

you’ve improved from 

freshman year to now 

in softball? 

I feel a lot more confidence 

in my fielding. 

Who were your role 

models growing up? 

My two older brothers 

were my role models growing 

up. 

What are your hobbies 

outside sports? 

Reading, spending time 

around my horses and hanging 

out with my friends. 

What is your favorite 

place to eat in Malibu? 

Malibu Seafood. 

Do you have a favorite 

moment from this 

softball season so far? 

Finally being able to play 

on the softball field because 

it was flooded during the 

rain storms. 

Do you have a favorite 

athlete? 

Surfside News file photo 

(Los Angeles Dodgers 

infielder) Justin Turner. 

If you could have any 

one superpower what 

would it be and why? 

I would have time travel 

because I think it would be 

interesting to be able to go 

in the past and future. 

What are your goals 

this softball season? 

To make it to CIF’s [postseason] 

with my team. 

Interview conducted by freelance 

reporter Ryan Flynn 

One of the pitfalls of inexperience 

is a lack of poise 

— allowing speed bumps 

to become road blocks. 

The Malibu High School 

boys volleyball team hit 

one when it lost the first 

set in its league match with 

visiting Port Hueneme 

Tuesday, March 19. 

“We talked after the first 

set how it was close, but we 

made a lot of errors,” coach 

Derek Saenz said. “We’re 

going to make errors. We 

need to get over that. 

“We got a little more aggressive 

and got the win 

[in the second set]. And 

the third set, we just didn’t 

make a lot of errors.” 

After dropping Set 1 25- 

23, the Sharks completed 

the comeback by winning 

the final three sets (25-16, 

25-12, 25-23) to move to 

2-2 in the Citrus Coast 

League and 2-6 overall. 

The win was a sign that 

the young Sharks may be 

swimming in the right direction. 

Past the midway point 

in the season, Malibu High 

has experienced ups and 

downs while learning to 

not just play, but compete, 

Saenz said. 

“The guys are pretty 

young. It’s a lot of teaching 

how to play the game and 

how to compete,” he said. 

“Getting out there and doing 

more than playing.” 

Spring is a busy time for 

high school boys athletics. 

Many student-athletes play 

baseball, run track or swim. 

Coach Derek Saenz talks to his team as they prepare for 

a league matchup with Port Hueneme March 19 in Malibu. 

Suzy Demeter/22nd Century Media 

This year, there are only 12 

members of the MHS boys 

volleyball program. 

In his first year, Saenz, 

who is also the girls volleyball 

coach and an area club 

coach, is hoping to endear 

his players to the sport of 

volleyball, which he said is 

half the battle. 

“We watch a lot of video, 

from U12 to Olympic 

level volleyball,” he said. 

“We talk about immersing 

yourself in the culture of 

the sport. ... It takes an interest 

and putting time in. It 

doesn’t happen by chance 

or magic. If you do the 

work, you’ll get the result.” 

He’s seeing it pay off. 

At a recent practice, 

Saenz caught libero Jimmy 

Bruele setting to himself on 

a water break. His handwork 

looked better, cleaner. 

“I asked him how he was 

doing that and he said he 

just started watching more 

video,” Saenz said. “It was 

perfect.” 

While the wins are 

not stacking up just yet, 

Saenz sees positive results 

from guys like Bruele and 

George Roth, the junior setter 

who Saenz said is one of 

the best in the league. 

He’s hoping his players 

worry about consistency 

not perfection. 

The Sharks are in the mix 

for a playoff berth, currently 

sitting tied for second in 

their conference. 

With four more matches 

in-league, they control their 

own fate. And while there 

will be speed bumps, Saenz 

hopes they keep moving. 

“The kids are buying into 

it and putting more time 

in,” he said. “ ... We talk 

about the big three: Did we 

give consistent effort, have 

a consistent attitude on the 

court and were we consistently 

being good teammates? 

If you focus on that 

more than anything else, 

the volleyball should take 

care of itself.”

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