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Indicted 

22 members of area gang under scrutiny for 

series of murders, other crimes, Page 3 

Policy update 

SMMUSD Board of Education mulls changes 

to employee conduct policy, Page 6 

Lost time 

A look at the impact of the 21 school days 

Malibu students missed post-Woolsey, Page 7 

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THURSDAY 

Disaster Preparedness for 

Seniors and Older Adults 

1:30-2:30 p.m. July 25, 

Malibu City Hall, Multipurpose 

Room, 23825 

Stuart Ranch Road. This 

class covers general preparedness 

with a focus on 

strategies for those with 

medication or medical device 

dependencies, as well 

as mobility, vision or hearing 

challenges. Participants 

55 and older are eligible 

to receive a free rolling 

backpack emergency kit. 

Register on Eventbrite. For 

more information, contact 

(310) 456-2489 ext. 368 or 

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FRIDAY 

Jr. Ranger Program 

2-4 p.m. July 26, King 

Gillette Ranch, 26800 Mulholland 

Highway, Calabasas. 

Join in a California Native 

Plant Scavenger Hunt 

and earn a Junior Ranger 

pin. Learn how to identify 

some of California’s native 

plants and how the Chumash 

Native American’s 

once utilized them. For 

more information, call (805) 

370-2301 or email samo_in 

terpretation@nps.gov. 

SATURDAY 

Homebuilding Seminar: 

Offsite Construction for 

Wildfire Rebuilds 

10-10:45 a.m. July 27, 

Malibu Library, 23519 W. 

Civic Center Way. Plant 

Prefab will lead this workshop 

on how to rebuild faster, 

more sustainably, and 

less expensively with its 

climate-controlled homebuilding 

facility. This seminar 

is geared toward fire 

victims and other individuals 

wishing to build a home 

or accessory dwelling unit. 

Individuals and architects 

welcome. 

SUNDAY 

Adult Walk 

8:30 a.m. July 28, Malibu 

Lagoon, Pacific Coast 

Highway and Cross Creek 

Road. Beginners and experienced 

birdwatchers alike 

are invited to tour the lagoon 

with the Santa Monica 

Bay Audubon Society. 

For more information, visit 

smbasblog.com/schedule/. 

Children and Parent Walk 

10-11 a.m. July 28, Malibu 

Lagoon, Pacific Coast 

Highway and Cross Creek 

Road. Tour the lagoon 

with the Santa Monica Bay 

Audubon Society. Meeting 

at the metal-shaded 

viewing area between the 

parking lot and channel. 

SMBAS has an ample supply 

of binoculars that children 

can use. Those with a 

group of more than seven 

people must call Jean at 

(310) 472-7209 to make 

sure there are enough binoculars 

and docents. For 

more information, visit 

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Smarty Pants Storytime 

3:30-4:30 p.m. July 29, 

Malibu Library, 23519 W. 

Civic Center Way. Join for 

books, songs and a craft 

at this program for ages 

2-5 (with adult caregiver). 

For more information, call 

(310) 456-6438. 

TUESDAY 

Fun with Ozobots 

3:30-5 p.m. July 30, Malibu 

Library, 23519 W. Civic 

Center Way. Learn about 

robotics at this program, 

for ages 8-12. For more information, 

call (310) 456- 

6438. 

WEDNESDAY 

Relaxing Through Coloring 

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 

July 31, Malibu Senior 

Center, 23825 Stuart Ranch 

Road. The act of coloring 

activates different areas of 

the brain using logic, forming 

colors and creativity. 

All materials will be provided 

for this free program. 

For more information, contact 

(310) 456-2489 ext. 

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DIY Canvas Book Bags 

2-3:15 p.m. July 31, Malibu 

Library, 23519 W. Civic 

Center Way. Talk about 

new books and old favorites 

and then make a book 

bag at this program for ages 

12-18. For more information, 

call (310) 456-6438. 

UPCOMING 

Business Roundtable 

8:30-10:30 a.m. Friday, 

Aug. 2, Malibu City Hall 

Multipurpose Room, 23825 

Stuart Ranch Road. Join 

for a business roundtable, 

held the first Friday of each 

month. For more information, 

call (310) 456-2489 

ext. 232 or email mlin 

den@malibucity.org. 

ONGOING 

Summer Reading and 

Discovery Program 

June 1-Aug. 3, Malibu 

Library, 23555 Civic Center 

Way. The library’s annual 

summer reading and 

discovery program is underway. 

The library will 

have reading games for 

babies, toddlers and children, 

reading challenges 

for tweens and teens, 

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Correction 

The July 18 article 

“Mixer sheds light 

on Pepperdine’s 

programs” incorrectly 

stated the price range 

for performance tickets; 

tickets range from 

$20-$80. The date for 

the Auguste Rodin art 

exhibition also was 

misstated; it will be 

displayed in January 

2020. The Surfside 

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these errors. 

book giveaways and more. 

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Summer Sundays 

3-5 p.m. Sundays July 

21-Aug. 11, Malibu Lumber 

Yard Center Courtyard, 

3939 Cross Creek Road. 

Listen to local musicians 

and stop in Strange Wines 

for a glass of bubbly or 

Rose, or grab a Casamigos 

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Indictment outlines area gang’s 

‘especially heinous’ murders, more 

Murder and two 

instances of 

weapon possession 

occurred locally 

Lauren Coughlin, Editor 

The word Malibu appears 

four times in a 78-page, 

12-count indictment outlining 

the activity of Los Angeles 

area Mara Salvatrucha 

(MS-13) street gang members 

and associates — activity 

that includes seven murders 

over the last two years. 

One of those murders, the 

July 9 indictment notes, was 

a shooting death which occurred 

in the Malibu hills on 

July 21, 2018. The victim in 

the murder was 19-year-old 

Roger Chavez-Barihona, 

confirmed United States 

Attorney’s Office Public 

Information Officer Ciaran 

McEvoy. 

Chavez-Barihona’s body 

was found in an embankment 

near the 24300 block 

of Piuma Road. The suspects 

in his murder include 

Kevin Villalta Gomez, Yefri 

Alexander Revelo, Roberto 

Alejandro Corado Ortiz 

and Erick Eduardo Rosales 

Arias, along with others who 

are not currently indicted. 

The gang’s well-documented, 

disturbing activity 

led to a federal racketeering 

case that names 22 people 

associated with the MS-13 

gang. If convicted, 16 of 

the defendants — individuals 

who played roles in six 

murders that were deemed 

violent crimes committed in 

aid of racketeering — could 

face the death penalty if the 

government elects to seek it, 

a July 16 press release from 

the U.S. Attorney’s Office 

states. Those six murders, the 

release notes, were committed 

“in an especially heinous, 

cruel, or depraved manner in 

that [they] involved torture 

or serious physical abuse to 

the victim.” 

In one of the murders, 

gang members reportedly 

abducted and choked a rival 

gang member before driving 

him to the Angeles National 

Forest, where six people attacked 

him with a machete. 

The victim’s body was dismembered 

and his heart cut 

out. The victim reportedly 

was believed to have defaced 

the gang’s graffiti. 

Gang affiliates also reportedly 

murdered a homeless 

man who was temporarily 

living in a park 

controlled by the gang. 

According to the U.S. Attorney’s 

Office, the subset 

of the gang discussed in the 

indictment operates in the 

San Fernando Valley and it 

“has recently seen an influx 

of young immigrants from 

Central America.” Those 

wishing to join the gang 

reportedly were required to 

kill a rival or someone who 

was adverse to the gang. 

“The greatest tragedy 

in these cases is that these 

young victims likely left 

their homelands hopeful 

that in the United States 

they would find safety and 

prosperity,” Los Angeles 

County District Attorney 

Jackie Lacey states in the 

release. “Instead, these victims 

had the misfortune of 

crossing paths with violent 

gang members who preyed 

on the vulnerabilities of 

their immigrant experience. 

My office will vigorously 

prosecute these defendants 

and continue to work with 

other agencies to enhance 

public safety in the communities 

where MS-13 and 

other brutal gangs operate.” 

Three other instances in 

which the gang reportedly 

was in the Malibu area are 

detailed in the indictment. 

In May 2018, the document 

states, Corado Ortiz 

posed for a photograph in 

the Malibu area while displaying 

the MS-13 hand 

sign (in which the index 

finger and pinky finger are 

extended). 

Four months later, three 

of the defendants, along 

with one unindicted individual, 

reportedly were in 

a car near Pacific Coast 

Highway and Coastline 

Drive while possessing a 

machete and a 9-millimeter 

pistol loaded with a high 

capacity magazine containing 

17 live rounds. 

This January, in the Malibu 

hills area, two of the 

defendants reportedly traveled 

in a vehicle with two 

unindicted co-conspirators 

while possessing a loaded 

gun, two baseball bats, two 

knives, ski masks, beanies 

with “MS” embroidered on 

them, and handcuffs, the indictment 

details. 

The indictment is the result 

of an investigation by 

the Los Angeles Metropolitan 

Task Force on Violent 

Gangs, a unit comprised 

of special agents with the 

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

officers with the Los 

Angeles Police Department, 

and deputies with the Los 

Angeles County Sheriff’s 

Department. 

The effort “solved several 

murder cases and dealt 

a severe blow to members 

of the gang who engaged 

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Homeless man’s death still 

‘open, active investigation’ 

Lauren Coughlin, Editor 

The trail has seemingly 

gone cold in a death investigation 

that dates back to 

January of this year. 

Human remains found 

Jan. 21 at Latigo Canyon 

Road and Calicut Road 

were identified to be that 

of Irving Levis, a 27-yearold 

homeless man, according 

to Sarah Ardalani, Los 

Angeles County Coroner’s 

Office’s public information 

officer. The coroner’s 

office confirmed the man’s 

identity on June 7 by 

matching the bones’ DNA 

to that of Levis’ brother, 

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skeletal remains — were 

found in an area where the 

Woolsey Fire burned, Ardalani 

said, “There is no indication 

he died as a result 

of the fire.” 

The official cause of 

death is undetermined, according 

to the coroner. 

“At this point, the coroner 

has not ruled a cause 

of death and we don’t 

have any [information] as 

to what the cause of death 

was,” said Lt. Scott Hoglund, 

of the LA County 

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CineMalibu event casts a wide net 

Art projects, 

exhibits and film 

provide butterfly 

education 

Kateri Wozny 

Freelance Reporter 

Residents enamored of 

winged insects and creatures 

flocked to the City of 

Malibu’s CineMalibu: Butterfly 

Celebration on Saturday, 

July 20. 

The event, held at the 

Malibu City Hall, showcased 

butterflies, hummingbirds, 

bees and bats. 

The celebration was part 

of the Monarch Pledge, 

which declared July 23, 

2018 to July 24, 2019 as the 

Year of the Butterfly. The 

City of Malibu joined about 

400 other cities across the 

U.S., Canada and Mexico 

in signing the pledge and 

held a series of programs 

and events to help inspire 

the community to protect 

the insect. 

Adrianna Fiori, the City 

of Malibu’s recreation coordinator, 

said she hoped the 

community was able to gain 

knowledge about butterflies 

and other pollinators, and 

“most importantly, how pollination 

is vital to sustaining 

life on Earth.” 

“Through the hands-on 

demonstrations, stories, 

songs and the movie, community 

members will be 

engaged throughout this 

educational and fun event,” 

she said. 

On display at the event 

was a butterfly art project. 

Over the course of a year, 

the Malibu community 

colored one of 200 pieces 

of small, square paper that 

later created the shape of 

a butterfly, displayed on a 

foam board. 

“It was a fun way to get 

our community together to 

do this art project,” Fiori 

said. 

Attendees had the opportunity 

to create their own 

soil pot with seeds and replant 

it at their residence to 

begin a butterfly garden. 

Attendees also were able 

to color butterfly masks, 

participate in interactive 

engineering demonstrations 

with Play-Well TEKnologies, 

listen to butterflythemed 

stories and drum 

music with Books and 

Cookies, and watch a Disneynature 

documentary entitled 

“Wings of Life.” 

Cynthia Randall brought 

her grandsons Lawson 

Chandler, 6, and Bennett 

Chandler, 2, to learn about 

the world of butterflies. 

“[The event] sounded 

interesting and fun,” Randall 

said. “Lawson said he 

knows a lot about butterflies 

and I said, ‘I bet you’ll learn 

one new thing.’” 

Participants also visited 

the butterfly exploration 

booth with Monarch Arc, 

which discussed the types 

of plants butterflies eat, the 

different species of butterflies 

and the life cycle of the 

butterfly. On display were 

chrysalis made from hardened 

protein, live caterpillars, 

and live monarchs. 

Juliana Danaus, educator 

and founder of Monarch 

Arc, said that bees are the 

most efficient pollinators 

on the planet, followed by 

butterflies and moths, and 

finally bats. 

“Most bats are nectar 

feeders,” Danaus said. 

“Their tongues go through 

and pull out pollen sacks 

and as they go along, they 

are pollinating.” 

Danaus encourages the 

community to have nectar 

plants blooming in the late 

fall and winter to help the 

pollinators. 

“They are needed to 

continue to nourish themselves,” 

Danaus said. 

Kristy Brauch Clougherty, 

master gardener, citizen 

scientist and monarch 

project trainer in Los Angeles, 

said the monarch is in 

threat of extinction because 

of the reduced number of 

monarchs migrating between 

the California coastlines 

and Baja California. 

Brauch Clougherty also 

spoke about how climate 

change as well as the loss 

of trees from wildfires and 

the use of pesticides pose 

respective threats to the butterfly. 

She said the California 

Department of Fish and 

Wildlife uses a tagging system 

with coded tags to track 

butterflies during their migration. 

The unharmful tags 

are attached to the monarch’s 

wings to show the 

original capture location. A 

permitted citizen scientist 

then records the date, location, 

gender and tag number 

for research purposes. 

This past spring, Southern 

California saw a heavy 

migration of painted lady 

butterflies. With the heavy 

precipitation the region received 

during the winter 

months, Brauch Clougherty 

said the species had multiple 

host plants called mallow. 

“When [the mallow] pops 

up like crazy, they can mate 

and have success in populations,” 

she said. “It’s a good 

sign.” 

Brauch Clougherty said 

Carole Lieberman takes notes while checking out the butterfly exhibit at the City of 

Malibu’s CineMalibu: Butterfly Celebration on Saturday, July 20, at City Hall. 

Photos by Suzy Demeter/Surfside News 

Lawson Chandler, 6, plants milkweed seeds in a small pot of soil as his grandmother, 

Cynthia Randall, and his brother Bennett Chandler, 2, look on. 

the migrating painted ladies 

try to fool predators, such as 

birds, into thinking they are 

monarchs. 

“Monarchs eat milkweed 

that have a toxin and it 

makes them taste bad,” Brauch 

Clougherty said. “Unfortunately, 

the birds are too 

clever.” 

Danaus said that if 

there’s one thing she wants 

people to know about preserving 

the delicate winged 

insect, it is to stop poisoning 

them with pesticides. 

“Dandelions are a great 

source for pollinating and 

yet they are always sprayed 

with pesticide,” Danaus 

said. “But it’s a valuable 

nectar source for a pollinator.”

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6 | July 25, 2019 | Malibu surfside news school 


SMMUSD Board of Education 

Employee conduct policy set to receive ‘preventative’ revamp 

Sexual misconduct 

statistics drive 

district’s changes 

Michele Willer-Allred 


The Santa Monica-Malibu 

Unified School District 

is looking toward ways to 

protect the safety of students 

from perpetrators 

both on and off campus. 

At the SMMUSD Board 

of Education meeting on 

Thursday, July 18, the 

board discussed changing 

its employee conduct policy, 

designed to better protect 

students from sexual 

abuse by school employees. 

The item is to be brought 

back as a consent item at 

the board’s next meeting, 

scheduled for Aug. 1. 

SMMUSD’s policy 

changes are “preventative,” 

according to SMMUSD 

Community and Public Relations 

Officer Gail Pinsker. 

The district currently 

has a blanket policy on the 

books regarding unprofessional 

relationships between 

employees and students. 

The proposed policy, 

however, prohibits at least 

12 separate boundary violations 

when interacting with 

students. 

Those include attempting 

to form a romantic or sexual 

relationship with any 

student, regardless of the 

student’s age; inappropriate 

photographing and/or 

videoing students outside 

of district-sponsored activities 

or events; and making 

sexual or sexualized comments 

or communication 

about a student’s physical 

appearance. 

The proposed policy also 

outlines clear responsibilities 

for reporting boundaries, 

violations, and sexual 

misconduct; and provides 

for employee training on 

policy objectives, responsibilities 

and consequences 

for non-compliance. 

The policy also is designed 

to prevent false accusations. 

“False accusations of 

sexual misconduct can be 

devastating to the employee’s 

profession and reputation,” 

said Gary Bradbury, 

the district’s risk management 

specialist. “These 

claims are difficult and 

costly to defend and greatly 

erode the community’s 

trust of the school.” 

Bradbury said the policy 

change is necessary because 

sexual misconduct 

against students perpetuated 

by school employees has 

become a national problem. 

He cited a U.S. Department 

of Education report 

which states that an estimated 

one in 10 students 

will experience school employee 

sexual misconduct 

by the time they graduate 

high school. Most often, 

the offender is a teacher 

or coach. The offender is 

twice as likely to be male, 

and the average age of the 

offender is mid-30s. A third 

of the offenders have multiple 

victims. 

Los Angeles County is 

not immune to the problem. 

On June 26, the Los 


Department Special Victims 

Bureau announced 

its investigation of Jose 

Martinez, a former teacher 

at Rorimer Elementary 

School in La Puente, for 

lewd acts on a child under 

14. The female victim told 

deputies that in 2010 she 

was molested by Martinez, 

who was her first-grade 

teacher at the time. Martinez 

was previously convicted 

and is serving prison 

time for lewd acts on a child 

under 14. Those incidents 

reportedly occurred while 

Martinez was employed 

at Rowland Elementary 

School in Rowland Heights 

from 2015-2018. 

In March of this year, the 

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s 

Department arrested 

Rosemead High School 

track coach Fidel Camarena 

Dominguez for unlawful 

sexual intercourse with a 

minor and oral copulation 

of a minor after an 18-yearold 

female came forward 

about an alleged three-year, 

on-and-off sexual relationship. 

The prior summer, 

LASD began investigating 

Jeremy Haggerty, a 

basketball coach at several 

high schools in the Santa 

Clarita Valley, following an 

allegation of child molestation. 

On July 3, Haggerty 

was sentenced to nine years 

in state prison for sexually 

assaulting nine teenage 

boys — the victims either 

played on his teams or were 

trained by him — over the 

course of nearly a decade, 

according to the Los Angeles 

County District Attorney’s 

Office. Haggerty also 

was ordered to register as a 

lifetime sex offender. 

In October 2017, LASD 

opened a sexual assault case 

involving Johnny Arrellano, 

a volunteer high school 

track coach from Norwalk 

High School. Arrellano allegedly 

sexually assaulted 

two females while off campus. 

Bradbury said that the 

most vulnerable students 

come from low-income or 

troubled homes, are bullied 

or marginalized, or have 

disabilities. 

A focus group comprised 

of human resources and risk 

management professionals 

from local school districts 

and resource organizations 

produced a model, which a 

SMMUSD safety subcommittee 

revised to make the 

final proposed policy. 

All campus visitors to be 

IDed in the new school year 

The district also recently 

announced that all of its 

campuses will use the Raptor 

visitor management system, 

designed to strengthen 

campus safety by allowing 

office staff to screen visitors, 

contractors and volunteers 

coming onto the campus. 

All schools will have the 

new system installed for use 

during the first week of the 

new school year. 

District Superintendent 

Ben Drati said that Lincoln 

Middle School in Santa 

Monica successfully piloted 

the Raptor program this 

school year. 

Upon entering a campus, 

visitors are asked to present 

a form of identification, 

such as a driver’s license, 

which will be scanned or 

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SMC grants relief to 5 students impacted by Woolsey 

Fundraising 

campaign nets 

$51,000 

Submitted by Santa Monica 

College 

Five Santa Monica College 

students who lost their 

homes in the devastating 

November 2018 Woolsey 

Fire have received “relief 

awards” from the SMC 

Foundation. 

The foundation raised 

over $51,000; the students 

received awards ranging 

from $5,700 to $20,000 

based on need. 

SMC student and recipient 

Gina Venditti, 

whose Malibu home was 

destroyed by the fire, is 

working toward an associate 

degree in film studies. 

“The night before the 

fires, I was visiting my fiancé 

on location in NYC 

where he was shooting a 

feature film, and we were 

talking about our [wedding] 

plans,” Venditti said, 

according to the release. 

“The Woolsey Fire happened 

so fast that we were 

unable to save our animals 

and ... our belongings. It 

has been devastating and 

brings me to tears, still.” 

Venditti said that while 

things have gotten less 

difficult day by day, the 

natural disaster created a 

lot of emotional trauma. 

In the aftermath of the fire, 

Venditti began commuting 

to Los Angeles, renting a 

room with a friend when 

she was able to find work. 

She also took an SMC 

class online to continue 

her education, and “stay 

focused and determined.” 

She and her fiancé are 

slowly replacing their 

things, and are beginning 

to “feel a sense of hope for 

the future.” Venditti was 

shocked and emotional 

when SMC counselor Jenna 

Gausman called Venditti 

to tell her that she was 

one of the beneficiaries 

of the SMC Foundation’s 

Woolsey Fire fundraising 

campaign. 

The SMC Foundation 

received over 89 contributions 

through the campaign, 

launched in November 

2018. For more 

information on the campaign, 

email Sy_Dan@ 

smc.edu or call (310) 

434-4180. The foundation 

provides student scholarships, 

faculty grants to 

support innovative projects 

and curriculum, and 

program support year 

round. To learn more, visit 

santamonicacollegefounda 

tion.org.

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A lot can happen in 21 days 

How educators 

reacted to 4 weeks 

of missed school 

Joe Coughlin, Publisher 

Many things took on new 

meaning post-fire. Helicopters 

were one of them. 

During the Woolsey Fire, 

helicopters buzzed nonstop 

through the Malibu skies. 

Most dropped fire retardant, 

desperately trying to hold 

the line as the fire swallowed 

acre after acre and 

home after home. 

Their distinctive sound 

now carried with it tension, 

worry, anguish. 

After weeks of cancellations 

in the wake of the fire 

and subsequent mudslides, 

Malibu schools had returned 

to a consistent schedule in 

January when helicopters 

hovered just north of Point 

Dume Elementary. 

They hung there for what 

felt like hours, said Julie 

Siegel, Juan Cabrillo’s assistant 

principal in 2018-19. 

“Teachers who had lost 

their homes and the kids all 

started to become very agitated,” 

Siegel said. “It was 

not a regular reaction. ... It 

was much greater than it 

had been previously.” 

The bitter anecdote is emblematic 

of the challenges 

faced by Malibu school officials 

tasked with soothing 

heightened sensibilities of 

students and staff while also 

making up four weeks (21 

days) of missed learning before 

the school year was out. 

Both hurdles — caring for 

traumatized individuals and 

catching up to educational 

markers — needed immediate 

and constant attention, 

but each was fundamentally 

unique, making addressing 

them nuanced. 

“The success was that we had built 

a strong sense of community and 

gave them a safe place to go each day 

where people were there for them.” 

Julie Siegel — Juan Cabrillo’s 2018-19 assistant 

principal 

‘No. 1 priority’ 

School was going to have 

to wait. 

That was clear in the days 

after the Woolsey Fire. Hundreds 

of homes were erased. 

Lives would have to be rebuilt. 

Time to reflect, grieve 

and cope was necessary. 

District officials, however, 

weren’t standing pat. 

Malibu Pathway Director 

Isaac Burgess said the district 

made moves on multiple 

fronts during the time 

off: building cleanup and 

safety, though district buildings 

avoided major destruction; 

educational accessibility 

for displaced families, as 

digital learning opportunities 

were launched; and supervisory 

options for busy 

parents, wherein unaffected 

schools Webster Elementary 

and Olympic High School, 

in Santa Monica, acted as 

day-care centers so adults 

could handle errands and 

other tasks more efficiently. 

Just as, if not more, important, 

the district organized 

a trauma-response 

platform using both staffers 

and outside parties, such 

as the local Boys and Girls 

Club. 

“We were all very keen 

this was a very traumatic 

event,” Burgess said. “We 

wanted to make sure everybody 

had the space and opportunity 

to talk with people 

who are trained in traumainformed 

experiences, that 

everyone had some system 

of support.” 

It took weeks, as mudslides 

and building conditions 

added delays, but 

Malibu schools were finally 

ready to open in mid-December. 

During the time away, 

Siegel was multitasking — 

an understatement of significant 

proportion. 

The morning of Nov. 9, 

before the evacuation order 

and before the fire rolled 

into Malibu, Siegel was at 

Juan Cabrillo Elementary 

by 4:30 a.m., hours before 

flames engulfed her family’s 

home on Mulholland Highway 

in Western Malibu. 

“I was trying to figure out 

how I was gonna live and 

how to get ready,” she said 

of those harrowing weeks. 

She said even if her home 

didn’t burn, she would have 

been prepared for the emotional 

stresses carried by 

her students, about 140 of 

whom lost their homes in 

the fire — a number that 

doesn’t count students affected 

by damaged property, 

burned-out neighborhoods, 

displaced friends, etc. 

Siegel’s personal experience 

made her more sensitive 

to the importance of the 

psychological support necessary 

for the students. 

“Some families moved 

four times and still were not 

in anything permanent,” she 

said. “I can’t imagine what 

they were dealing with at 

home with the stresses.” 

And she was not the only 

one with those thoughts. 

She said her colleagues 

shared the burden, and the 

first day back was something 

she will never forget. 

“All the administrators 

were standing outside and 

hugging every child and 

family that arrived,” she 

said. “It was spontaneous. 

No child arrived without literally 

walking into welcoming 

arms. 

“[The teachers] gave their 

souls to make sure the kids 

felt safe,” Siegel added. “It 

was absolutely the No. 1 

priority.” 

Helping in those efforts 

were a pair of third parties, 

one for short-term and one 

for long-term support. 

When schools reopened, 

Malibu students from high 

school to elementary were 

greeted not only by the welcoming 

hands of their teachers 

but the welcoming paws 

of therapy dogs. 

“They were a big hit and 

stayed quite a while,” Burgess 

said. 

The furry companions 

eased the transition, but for 

more stable support, the 

Boys and Girls Club expanded 

hours and programming 

at its Wellness Center. 

Equipped with numerous 

mental-health professionals, 

the Wellness Center, 

which is adjacent to Malibu 

High School, allowed students 

to visit at lunch, on 

breaks or after school. It 

also extended its services to 

family members of Malibu 

students. 

Making the grade 

Twenty-one days. 

That’s a significant portion 

of a school year — 12 

percent (of 175 days) to be 

precise. 

Down trend 

Malibu High’s enrollment figures will take a further 

hit as displaced families may not return 

2016-17: 1,004 

2017-18: 952 

2018-19: 939 

2019-20: 860* 

*projected, 14% drop in four years 

The loss of classroom 

time concerned many Malibu 

parents, who worried 

about their child’s preparedness 

for the next grade and 

even after that. 

District officials, however, 

decided not to make 

up any days, and instead to 

request an exemption from 

the California Department 

of Education, an exemption 

that was approved July 19, 

according to Gail Pinsker, 

the district’s community 

and public relations officer. 

“We had families pretty 

immediately saying that 

their high school students 

had other — educational 

or personal — opportunities 

already scheduled for 

summer,” Pinsker said. 

“There were family vacations 

planned. ... People 

already had family coming 

in for graduation. We took 

a look at all aspects of that 

decision, including the educational 

component.” 

The district trusted its educational 

infrastructure. 

Malibu schools are 

equipped with curriculum 

guides that break down 

when a classroom should 

hit instructional milestones. 

In short, the teachers just 

needed to up the pace over a 

five-month stretch (January- 

May) to hit those marks by 

the end of the school year. 

“They had to adjust their 

instruction based on that,” 

Burgess said. “It was, ‘How 

do we ensure students still 

receive those skills and essential 

standards,’ so there’s 

not a gap, or ‘I was not 

taught that.’” 

Principals and other site 

leaders were tasked with 

overseeing the adjustments, 

while Burgess said parents 

and students were encouraged 

to work with their 

teachers if they thought 

any instructional piece was 

missed or under-emphasized. 

Making up the educational 

ground was easier said 

than done. 

The classroom, Siegel 

said, was filled with trauma 

victims. So, to pick up the 

pace, they first had to slow 

it down. 

“The kids definitely lost 

some ground [when they returned 

to school],” she said. 

“We had to slow down the 

pace so they were available 

for learning. We had to do it 

very, very thoughtfully so 

the kids could access their 

education.” 

Siegel said a lot of kids 

were not ready right away; 

some were acting out or 

some were shutting down. 

“We spent a great deal of 

attention making sure kids 

were available,” she said. 

So, did it work? 

There is not a simple answer 

to that question. All 

she knows is what she saw, 

and what she saw, she is 

pretty darn proud of. 

“The success was that we 

had built a strong sense of 

community and gave them 

a safe place to go each day 

where people were there 

for them,” Seigel said. 

“With academics, you lose 

a month of school or more 

with kids that were traumatized 

— I think we did really 

well. The kids didn’t get 

behind and they didn’t stay 

where they were.”

the Los Angeles County 

Long Term Recovery 

Group, a nonprofit organization, 

discussed how that 

program can assist affected 

homeowners who have 

been denied assistance by 

the Small Business Association 

or FEMA. More 

information can be found 

at 211la.org/public-healthand-safety/fire-recovery. 

“We offer disaster case 

managers for those who 

qualify for our help and 

we come to the table with 

a wealth of resources and 

coordinate volunteer organizations 

to help,” she said. 

As the evening winded 

down, Bruderlin noted, “To- 



Chamber event offers resources to navigate rebuilding process 

Barbara Burke 


With the resolve to move 

forward, individuals gathered 

for the Malibu Chamber 

of Commerce’s first 

Rebuild Malibu Together 

event on July 16 at Duke’s 

Restaurant. 

The event, which was 

free for homeowners rebuilding 

after the fire, provided 

an opportunity to 

meet with local construction 

professionals, including 

architects, designers, 

wildfire defense system 

vendors, sustainable builders 

and advocates. 

“This is a monthly event 

that the Chamber will host 

for two, four or as many 

years as it takes homeowners 

to rebuild,” Chamber 

CEO Barbara Bruderlin 

/Student 

said. “We are gathering to 

enjoy the sunset, appetizers 

and drinks at Duke’s 

Malibu Ocean Room so 

that rebuilding homeowners 

can make friends, share 

their experiences and find 

resources for rebuilding 

Malibu together.” 

For many, the event provided 

some answers, or at 

least some starting points. 

Electrician Olavi Naar, 

of Current One, and Thomas 

Schneider, of Kovac Design 

Studio, brainstormed 

with Bruderlin about offering 

a consortia to coordinate 

homeowners’ access 

to professionals. 

“This is an approach that 

they are taking in Napa after 

their fires,” Naar said. 

“It is a good way to get 

people together to start exploring 

solutions.” 

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VOYAGERS 

Attendees visited information 

tables sponsored by 

Caesi Bevis, a crisis coach 

who assists fire evacuees 

with complex cases, and 

United Policyholders, a 

resource for property owners 

who need to know their 

legal rights when dealing 

with insurance companies. 

Architects, construction 

contractors, designers and 

representatives of pre-fabricated 

housing provided 

options for those needing 

to regain control. 

John Johannessen, a general 

contractor, discussed 

Waveguard Corporation’s 

exterior wildfire defense 

systems that cover roofs 

with water and fire retardant 

in the face of wildfires, 

providing suggestions for 

building smarter. 

“Having this event is an 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electrician Olavi Naar, of Current One, speaks at the Malibu Chamber of Commerce’s 

Rebuild Malibu Together Mixer, held July 16 at Duke’s Malibu. The event connected 

those who are rebuilding their homes with area professionals. 

Cassel Photography/Malibu Chamber of Commerce 

effective and efficient way 

for designers, contractors 

and homeowners to connect,” 

said Lara Machlab, 

design coordinator at 

AAHA Studio, a familyrun 

architecture and interior 

design studio. 

“This is an awesome resource,” 

said Cricket Blake, 

a Malibuite whose home 

burned down. “I want to 

rebuild my home as fire-resistant 

as possible because I 

don’t want to lose my home 

again and, therefore, I am 

exploring Timbercrete as a 

building material.” 

Architect Kate Svoboda- 

Spanbock, of Here Design 

and Architecture, listened 

to homeowners’ experiences 

and, more importantly, 

their dreams for the future. 

“I think the Chamber has 

done an incredible thing 

by offering this event,” she 

said. “It is so hard for people 

to engage in the building 

process under normal 

circumstances, let alone 

when they’ve lost everything 

— we professionals 

all want to help, but it takes 

something like this to get 

Rebuild Malibu Together Mixer 

What: Those who are rebuilding their homes after 

the fire are invited to meet architects, engineers and 

other professionals who can assist in the process. 

Appetizers and drinks will be served. The program is 

coordinated by the Malibu Chamber of Commerce. 

When: 5-8 p.m. Aug. 20 

Where: Duke’s Malibu, 21150 Pacific Coast Highway 

To register, visit Malibu.org. 

the word out to homeowners 

needing to rebuild that 

we are all here as resources 

for them.” 

Emily Scheid, an affected 

homeowner, agreed. 

“This evening has provided 

us with information 

about options we didn’t 

know were available,” she 

said. “Having the professionals 

all in one room is 

wonderful and lets us know 

what people to consult with 

to start the process, and, 

just as importantly, that 

we’re supported.” 

As many Malibuites 

know, some people need a 

helping hand because they 

were underinsured or not 

insured at all. Jenni Campbell, 

executive director of 

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Mudslide prompts PCH lane 

closure; no damage reported 

Staff Report 

California Department of Transportation 

maintenance crews cleared two truckloads 

of mud from Pacific Coast Highway in 

Malibu on July 17. 

The mudslide occurred around 11 a.m., 

between Morning View Drive and Guernsey 

Avenue, where the northbound lane 

and shoulder was closed until the early afternoon. 

No injuries occurred, and no property 

was damaged, according to Caltrans 

spokesperson Eric Menjivar. 

It was determined that the water runoff 

was coming from a private property, Menjivar 

stated, and the water was shut off to 

prevent any further issues. 

A mudslide closed the northbound lane of 

Pacific Coast Highway July 17 as Caltrans 

crews worked to remove the mud from the 

road. Caltrans District 7 

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in acts of brutality not seen 

in the region for over 20 

years,” United States Attorney 

Nick Hanna stated 

in the press release. 

The case is being prosecuted 

by Assistant United 

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been set for Jan. 28, 2020, 

though those trials may be 

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Police Reports 

Purses reportedly nabbed from diners in Malibu 

Two diners at two restaurants 

in Malibu recently 

reported that their purses, 

among other items inside 

the respective purses, were 

stolen. 

A $1,400 Louis Vuitton 

Neverfull bag, an $830 

Louis Vuitton purse, a 

$1,100 iPhone X, a $685 

pair of Chanel sunglasses, 

a $670 Gucci Bloom wrist 

wallet, a $400 Tiffany ring 

and a $205 Louis Vuitton 

card case were among 

the items reportedly stolen 

from Nobu Malibu, 22706 

Pacific Coast Highway, according 

to a June 30 report. 

The female stated that 

she met a friend for a late 

lunch at 2:30 p.m. When 

she went to retrieve her 

wallet from her purse, she 

realized it was no longer on 

the ground next to her. 

The manager reviewed 

video surveillance, and 

informed her that a male 

adult was seen picking up 

her purse and leaving the 

restaurant. Police reviewed 

the video and noted that 

the male was standing next 

to victim’s table while she 

was involved in a conversation, 

and dropped what 

appeared to be a jacket near 

the victim’s leg before the 

video cut out. A second 

camera angle showed the 

suspect carrying the purse, 

partially covered by the 

jacket, and running once he 

reached the parking lot. 

In a separate incident 

reported on the same date, 

a purse containing a $300 

pair of Tom Ford sunglasses, 

a $150 Kate Spade wallet, 

$500 in cash, a driver’s 

license, and credit and debit 

cards reportedly was stolen 

from Duke’s Malibu, 21150 

Pacific Coast Highway. 

The diner was having 

dinner with family in the 

outside patio area of the 

restaurant, and they decided 

to move to an indoor table. 

About 15 minutes later, 

she realized she forgot her 

purse outside and when she 

went to retrieve it, it was 

gone. 

Security footage did not 

capture the area. 

July 6 

• A purse containing $200 

in cash, a $100 pair of 

Bluetooth headphone and 

an $80 phone charger reportedly 

were stolen from 

a vehicle parked at 27740 

Pacific Coast Highway. The 

alleged victim stated she 

parked and locked her Honda 

Accord at approximately 

11:30 a.m., and when she 

returned at 4:45 p.m., the 

passenger side window was 

smashed and her purse was 

missing. 

July 5 

• A duffel bag containing 

$60 swim shorts, a blanket, 

driver’s license and 

social security card, reportedly 

was stolen from Dan 

Blocker Beach, 26000 Pacific 

Coast Highway. The 

alleged victim stated he fell 

asleep on the beach, and his 

duffel bag that was next to 

him was missing when he 

woke up. 

July 3 

• A sculpture, valued at 

$400,000, reportedly was 

stolen from a residence 

on Bluewater Road. The 

alleged victim stated his 

property was vacant since 

his home was burned 

down in the Woolsey Fire, 

and that sometime between 

June 3 and July 3, 

the 12-foot tall sculpture 

was taken from its cement 

foundation. He said he purchased 

the sculpture from 

a then-unknown artist for 

$20,000, but that the artist 

has become more well 

known, upping the value 

of the piece. There was no 

video surveillance on the 

property. 

• Police responded to a burglary 

report call at the Marmalade 

Cafe, 3894 Cross 

Creek Road. A worker who 

arrived at the restaurant at 

7:30 a.m. noticed the front 

window was smashed. A 

door frame also was damaged, 

but no money was 

taken from the restaurant. 

About $210 in damage was 

reported. 

• A $1,500 Lenova Yoga 

laptop, two $100 pairs of 

sunglasses and a $60 laptop 

case reportedly were stolen 

from a vehicle parked on 

the north side of the parking 

lot at Malibu Lagoon 

State Beach, 23200 PCH. 

The alleged victims stated 

they parked their Jeep Renegade 

in the parking lot at 

approximately 3:52 p.m. 

and locked the vehicle. 

When they returned at 5:30 

p.m., the driver’s side rear 

passenger window was 

smashed and there was a 

pry mark on the door frame. 

June 30 

• Two trash cans, valued at 

$50 each, reportedly were 

stolen from outside a residence 

on PCH. The alleged 

victim stated she took her 

trashcans out in the morning 

to the street for pickup 

on June 27, and they were 

missing when she arrived 

home later in the day from 

work. 

• A sterling silver turquoise 

earring worth $261 reportedly 

was stolen at Coral 

Beach Cantina, 29350 Pacific 

Coast Highway. The 

alleged victim stated that 

on June 23, she dropped 

her earring (one of a pair 

worth $522 as a set) inside 

the restaurant and was contacted 

by one of the employees 

that they found it. 

When she returned to the 

restaurant, they couldn’t locate 

the earring which was 

last seen on the counter. 

June 28 

• A wallet containing $60 in 

cash, a driver’s license and 

debit card, as well as a backpack 

containing $150 in 

cash, were among the items 

reportedly stolen from a 

McDermott 

vehicle parked on Solstice 

Canyon Road, just north of 

Corral Canyon Road. The 

alleged victim stated that 

he and another person went 

on a hike, and was alerted 

that his debit card was 

fraudulently being used at a 

CVS store, where an unauthorized 

$224.55 purchase 

was made. While at CVS, 

he found his backpack in 

a planter in the parking lot 

with an unknown purse inside 

that did not belong to 

him. The purse was booked 

as evidence by police. Video 

surveillance showed a 

male and a female purchasing 

gift cards and clothing 

with the stolen debit card. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The 

Malibu Surfside News police 

reports are compiled from official 

records on file at the Los 

Angeles County Lost Hills/ 

Malibu Sheriff’s Department 

headquarters. Anyone listed 

in these reports is considered 

to be innocent of all charges 

until proven guilty in a court 

of law. 

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manually entered into the 

system. An alternative form 

of identification can be used 

for those without a U.S. 

government-issued I.D. 

The Raptor system 

checks the visitor’s name 

and date of birth against a 

national database of registered 

sex offenders. Registered 

sex offenders will not 

be allowed on campuses. 

If the person is cleared 

and entry is approved, 

Raptor will issue a badge. 

A visitor’s badge won’t be 

necessary for those going 

to a school to simply drop 

off an item at the front 

gate. 

“The safety of our 

students is our highest 

priority and the Raptor 

visitor management 

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quickly identify those 

who may present a danger 

to our students or staff,” 

Drati said in a statement. 

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school safety and security 

practices at your school in 

the new school year as we 

all work together to keep 

our students and staff safe 

while on campus.” 

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its pop-up store at Malibu 

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night, the homeowners have 

met and started to build relationships 

with some of the 

building professionals in a 

no-pressure environment 

and that has enabled everyone 

to lay foundations for 

going forward.” 

Nima Farrahi, president 

of Malibu Bancorp, 

summed up the general 

sentiment at the event. 

“Malibu is resilient and 

this is not the first time 

it has faced extreme trials 

after a tragedy, and the 

community love brings us 

all together,” Farrahi said. 

“The Chamber coordinating 

this event is a conduit 

of that communal love.”



City highlights wildlife preparation efforts 

Submitted by the City of 

Malibu 

Public Safety Manager 

Susan Duenas and the recently 

appointed Fire Safety 

Liaison Jerry Vandermeulen 

gave a report on the 

City’s wildfire preparedness 

plans in preparation 

of peak fire season during 

the Malibu Public Safety 

Commission meeting on 

Wednesday, July 10, at City 

Hall. 

“Community-wide preparedness 

is our best defense 

against disasters,” 

said Mayor Jefferson 

“Zuma Jay” Wagner. “We 

know that another wildfire 

or earthquake is inevitable, 

so we have to do everything 

possible to be ready for 

whatever nature brings. I 

urge everyone in Malibu to 

have a plan, assemble their 

emergency supplies, take a 

class, and get involved in 

the efforts to make Malibu 

ready.” 

In preparation for the 

peak of fire season in the 

fall, when Santa Ana winds 

create dangerous Red Flag 

fire conditions, City staff 

is engaged in numerous 

preparedness activities 

and has scheduled several 

community events — — to 

promote community-wide 

readiness. 

Planned events include: 

a Woolsey Fire Symposium 

- Lessons Learned by your 

Neighbors (6 p.m. Sept. 11, 

at Malibu City Hall); a Fire 

Safe Council Workshop (6 

p.m. Sept. 19 at City Hall); 

and a Community Fire Season 

Briefing (10 a.m. Sept. 

21 at City Hall). 

Wildfire Preparedness 

Program 

Vandermeulen has been 

engaging with residents 

and assessing the wildfire 

safety risk throughout the 

community by performing 

individual home assessments 

and meeting 

with homeowners groups. 

Community outreach is 

focused on preparing for 

the coming fire season 

through personal situational 

awareness, early 

evacuation, creating defensible 

space around 

homes, and hardening of 

homes against flying embers 

using the Los Angeles 

County Fire Department 

“Ready, Set, GO!” pamphlet 

as a guide. Vandermeulen 

has sent out more 

than 100 introduction letters 

to home and property 

owner associations to let 

them know he is available 

to meet with them. 

In addition, the City 

was recently awarded a 

Cal Fire grant to develop 

a Community Wildfire 

Protection Plan. CWPPs 

are local plans designed 

to specifically address a 

community’s unique conditions, 

values and priorities 

related to wildfire risk 

reduction and resilience. 

The grant will fund a consultant 

who will work with 

the Fire Safety Liaison to 

develop a plan identifying 

and prioritizing areas for 

fuel reduction or modification 

projects. Developing 

the CWPP will be a collaborative 

effort involving 

Public Safety staff, Fire 

Department, National and 

State Parks and many other 

stakeholders. 

Malibu Emergency 

Operations Plan Update 

The Malibu Disaster 

Council convened in June 

to review evacuation and 

repopulation procedures 

in the City’s 2018 Emergency 

Operations Plan 

and make a recommendation 

to the City Council 

for improvements to these 

procedures. The Disaster 

Council consists of the 

Mayor, City Manager and 

department heads and is 

responsible for reviewing 

emergency plans and procedures 

and making recommendations 

to the City 

Council. In February, the 

City Council adopted the 

updated 2018 Emergency 

Operations Plan after it 

was approved by the state 

and directed staff to recommend 

improvements to 

the evacuation and repopulation 

sections of the plan. 

Once approved by the City 

Council, the improvements 

will be incorporated in the 

EOP. The 2018 EOP can 

be viewed at www.malibu 

city.org/225/Emergency- 

Preparedness. 

News Briefs 

City tests, expands reach 

of Everbridge system 

The City of Malibu tested 

Everbridge, Malibu’s disaster 

notification system, 

on June 26, testing an improvement 

to increase the 

City’s ability to now reach 

more residents’ cellphones. 

Everbridge recently 

reached an agreement with 

cellphone companies to be 

able to provide government 

agencies, including Malibu, 

the cellphone numbers 

of account holders with 

addresses in their jurisdictions, 

the release from the 

City of Malibu notes. 

Previously, only landline 

numbers were provided to 

the City by the phone companies 

and the City only 

had access to individuals’ 

cellphone numbers if they 

registered it on Everbridge. 

The change is expected to 

increase the number of cellphones 

in the Everbridge 

database from about 3,600 

to about 12,000. All information 

will be kept strictly 

confidential and will not be 

shared with third parties, 

the City noted. 

The testing was conducted 

in three phases to avoid 

overburdening the system 

while also facilitating posttest 

analysis of the new 

cellphone data. The results 

were reported to the Public 

Safety Commission on 

July 10. Of the 9,013 new 

cell phone contacts tested, 

0 percent of the messages 

were deemed “unreachable” 

(meaning the system 

failed to send out those 

messages), and 2,250 (25 

percent) were confirmed as 

being received by the recipients 

— a “much higher 

rate” than in prior tests of 

the system. 

The second phase of the 

test went to 16,333 mixed 

cellphone and landline contacts 

that the City already 

had with 609 (3.7 percent) 

being “unreachable.” 

Roughly 19 percent of the 

recipients confirmed they 

received the message. 

The third phase of the 

test went to 16,170 landline 

contacts that the City 

already had, with 0 percent 

“unreachable.” The City attributed 

the low confirmation 

rate for the third phase 

to the age of the contact 

data being tested and the 

fact that these were landlines, 

many of which are 

likely not connected to telephones. 

City staff plans to conduct 

another citywide test 

in September, but it will be 

organized geographically, 

rather than by contact data 

source type. 

To sign up for the City’s 

disaster and evacuation 

alerts through Everbridge, 

visit www.MalibuCity.org/ 

DisasterNotifications. 

For more information or 

assistance, call Public Safety 

Manager Susan Dueñas 

at (310) 456-2489 ext. 313 

or email SDuenas@Mali 

buCity.org. 

Burn permits currently 

suspended 

All burn permits in Los 

Angeles County have been 

suspended as of July 2, the 

Los Angeles County Fire 

Department announced 

on July 18, because of 

increased fire activity 

throughout Southern California. 

The burn suspension is to 

remain in effect until further 

notice. 

The department further 

noted that 95 percent of all 

wildland fires within the 

department’s jurisdiction 

are human-caused. 

Officials urged residents 

to have an emergency plan 

in place in the event of a 

fire. 

For more information on 

an action plan, visit Fire. 

LACounty.gov/rsg/. For 

details on fire safety, visit 

ReadyForWildfire.org or 

Fire.LACounty.gov. 

Assessor shares snapshot 

of property values 

Los Angeles County Assessor 

Jeff Prang certified 

the 2019 Assessment Roll 

on July 15. 

According to a press release 

from Prang’s office, 

property values across Los 

Angeles County reached 

$1.6 trillion in total net value 

— with a record growth 

of $94.41 billion (or 6.25 

percent) when compared to 

2018 data. 

Leading indicators for 

the growth were: property 

sales, which added $48.34 

billion to the roll, as compared 

to 2018; the CPI 

adjustment prescribed by 

Proposition 13, which added 

$28.74 billion; and new 

construction, which added 

$11.09 billion. 

Malibu in particular saw 

$793 million in growth from 

2018 ($16.9 billion) to 2019 

($17.7 billion), which translates 

to about $793,000 in 

taxes to pay for public services, 

according to Stephen 

R. Whitmore, who heads 

communications and public 

affairs for Prang. 

Further, the release notes 

that the owners of 1,328 

properties that were severely 

damaged or destroyed 

by the Woolsey Fire have 

received tax relief totaling 

$684.8 million in property 

value. 

For more information, 

visit opendata.lacounty.gov. 

News Briefs are compiled 

by Editor Lauren Coughlin, 

lauren@malibusurfsidenews. 

com.

14 | July 25, 2019 | Malibu surfside news sound off 


On Common Ground 

Protecting, understanding the snowy plover 

Michael Remski 

Marine Mammal Program 

Manager, 

California Wildlife Center 

Visitors to the 

Malibu Lagoon as 

of late will most 

likely have noticed the 

orange plastic fencing, 

along with a roped-off area 

between the lagoon and the 

ocean. 

Each year, this portion 

of the lagoon shore is set 

aside for the snowy plover 

to lay its eggs. The breeding 

season for this species 

of bird begins in March 

and lasts through September. 

Currently, we are in 

the peak of this activity, so 

special caution is warranted 

around this sensitive 

area. 

Snowy plovers choose 

wide open beach habits, 

such as the sand between 

the lagoon and the ocean, 

in which to nest. These 

nests are simply shallow 

depressions in the sand that 

the birds carve out with 

their feet. The small size 

and sandy coloration of 

the nest and eggs within 

camouflaged well with the 

sand, making the clutch of 

around three eggs vulnerable 

to being accidentally 

trampled by beachgoers. 

This is the reason for the 

barriers. 

The birds themselves 

also blend in well with the 

sand. The adult plover, just 

slightly larger than a sparrow, 

sports white underparts 

and sandy brownish 

upper parts, grey legs, a 

short stout dark bill, and 

large black eyes. 

During the breeding season 

there also are varying 

amounts of dark around 

the neck collar or by the 

ears or forehead. The baby 

chicks are just tiny fluff 

balls, also camouflaging 

well in the sand. 

The first 28 days of the 

chick’s life are particularly 

vulnerable, as they are not 

yet able to fly. They are, 

however, able to walk and 

feed themselves almost immediately 

after hatching. 

The male parent will teach 

the young chick to forage 

and hide from predators. 

Should a threat present 

itself, the parent will act 

hurt, dragging its tail and 

displaying a broken wing 

behavior, along with vocalizing 

distress calls to deter 

predators away from its 

young. If you witness this 

behavior, it may be you 

that bird sees as a threat, 

and you should allow 

plenty of room while walking 

around the distressed 

bird, keeping careful watch 

on what may be underfoot. 

While foraging for food, 

the plovers will exhibit 

a stop, look, chase and 

repeat behavior, and unlike 

the sandpipers who 

use their sense of feel, the 

plovers highly evolved 

eyesight is the main tool in 

their food-finding arsenal. 

The plover diet consists 

mainly of invertebrates 

and insects found along the 

sandy shoreline. 

The Western snowy 

plover is a bird of concern, 

listed as a “threatened” 

species since 1993, 

and is federally protected 

under the Endangered 

Species Act. Threats to 

the species include habitat 

loss, natural predators and 

disturbances. 

As a responsible beachgoer, 

there are several 

things you can do to limit 

these threats: 

• Please respect the 

boundary fencing put in 

place during this time. 

Viewing these birds should 

be done with binoculars 

from a distance of 50 feet 

away. Be cautious even 

when walking outside the 

barriers for any young 

chicks or eggs underfoot. 

• If you are on a beach 

that allows dogs, please 

keep your dog leashed, as 

this nesting activity will 

surely gain a dog’s attention. 

• Disposing of all trash 

is especially important 

during this time because 

food items left behind will 

attract natural predators to 

the plover. 

• Leave driftwood and 

shells in place, as these 

items may be used by the 

birds for nesting material. 

Hopefully the protective 

barriers, along with the due 

diligence of everyone visiting 

the beach, will ensure 

the snowy plovers return 

for years to come. 

On Common Ground is a 

monthly column written by 

various California Wildlife 

Center employees. CWC, a 

nonprofit located in Calabasas, 

cares for injured wildlife 

in Malibu and beyond. 

A portion of Malibu Lagoon is currently sectioned off to protect the snowy plover, now 

in the peak of its breeding season. Photos by Michael Remski/California Wildlife Center 

There are various measures beachgoers can take to limit threats to snowy plovers, 

which are slightly larger than a sparrow and often blend in with the sand.

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From the Editor 

Lauren Coughlin 


Last August, many 

members of the 

Malibu community 

gathered to discuss 

community safety in light 

of the June 2018 murder 

of Tristan Beaudette at 

Malibu Creek State Park. 

At the time, Lt. Rodney 

Moore, of the Los Angeles 

County Sheriff’s Department 

Homicide Bureau, 

discussed the likelihood 

that two area murders 

were gang-related. Beaudette’s 

murder, he noted, 

was not believed to be 

gang-related. 

A little bit too familiar 

Beaudette’s murder and 

the string of shootings 

that preceded it had most 

of the community’s attention 

at that time, so much 

so that it seemed the mention 

of local gang-related 

murders was shrugged 

off. 

The public was not 

alerted again about 

the gang violence in the 

area. 

The police department’s 

ultimate arrest of Anthony 

Rauda for Beaudette’s 

murder seemingly put the 

issue to rest — though 

many questions remain 

over the lack of public 

notification about the area 

shootings, a key point 

in Beaudette’s widow’s 

lawsuit against the Los 


Department. 

Fast forward to this 

past week, and the community’s 

attention may 

have shifted. A shocking 

indictment released last 

week outlined disturbing 

murders and other crimes 

attributed to members and 

affiliates of the MS-13 

gang. As is noted in the 

full story (on Page 3), the 

word “Malibu” makes 

four appearances in that 

indictment — and that’s 

probably four times too 

many for residents’ peace 

of mind. 

Surely, the indictment 

does not contain the full 

scope of the gang’s activity 

and crimes, but the 

information it does contain 

is chilling. 

The thing is, the incidents 

it details are not all 

that recent, and it is the 

first that I and, I assume, 

many others have heard of 

them. 

I do not envy the decisions 

authorities have 

to make as far as what 

is and is not important 

information to share with 

the public, but, if I had to 

guess, many Malibuites 

are probably shocked to 

be hearing the details of 

the gang’s local presence 

months after the fact. 

It’s all just a little bit too 

familiar. 

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Allen Waldman 

Malibu resident 

When the ocean meets 

the sky 

The horizon is what we 

see 

A straight line that gives 

perspective 

To who we are and 

where we want to be. 

We strive to reach our 

goals 

And make our dreams 

come true. 

The Horizon 

They lie just beyond the 

horizon 

A little out of view. 

The horizon’s always 

there for us, 

It never really ends. 

It’s the straight line of 

the soul 

And the heart that never 

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Luke Metzler performs 

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18 Sundowner event 

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20 | July 25, 2019 | Malibu surfside news life & arts 


Student art show coming to Bluffs Park 


Malibu 

The City of Malibu and 

Cultural Arts Commission 

will host “Art Voyagers,” 

a student art exhibition at 

Malibu Bluffs Park in the 

Michael Landon Center. 

The exhibition opens on 

Friday, July 26 and visitors 

may view the artwork 

through the end of 2019, 

Monday through Sunday 

from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. when 

classes are not in session. 

Contributing artists include 

the Malibu High 

School graduating class 

of 2019. Artwork includes 

photography, mixed media, 

and digital design created 

by students from Carla 

Bowman-Smith’s and Thor 

Evensen’s visual arts class 

Anchored in 

New art sculpture 

set up at Malibu’s 

Legacy Park 


Malibu 

An art sculpture called 

the “Anchor for Malibu” 

was to be unveiled at a 

public ceremony at 10 a.m. 

Thursday, July 25, at Legacy 

Park. 

The sculpture was donated 

to the City by Malibu 

resident Dan Sandel in 

2017. It was created in 2004 

by Israeli sculptor Emanuel 

Hatzofe at his studio in the 

Jaffa port neighborhood 

of Tel Aviv, Israel. Sandel 

visited Hatzofe’s studio in 

2005 and purchased the 

sculpture for his home in 

Malibu. The six-foot, five 

inch-tall sculpture weighs 

3,300 pounds. 

throughout the year. The 

pieces included in the exhibition 

were displayed in the 

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified 

School District annual 

art show. 

The exhibition will also 

include a mobile of 1,000 

rainbow-colored paper origami 

whales made by Santa 

Monica-Malibu Unified 

School District students 

through the District’s P.S. 

Arts Program. The mobile 

was a gift to Webster Elementary 

School students, 

teachers and families from 

students from Franklin Elementary 

School in Santa 

Monica. The gift was a 

message of empathy, healing, 

and recovery after the 

Woolsey Fire and is now 

being shared with the entire 

Malibu community. 

The City of Malibu is 

dedicated to promoting arts 

and culture activities, programs, 

events, and public 

art as part of overall efforts 

to enrich the lives of residents 

and support the many 

artists in every imaginable 

The mobile origami 

project will be evolving 

and expanding over the 

course of the year and 

community members will 

have an opportunity to 

learn the art of origami 

and create artwork to add 

to the mobile installation. 

Workshops will be announced 

during the fall 

season. 

The exhibition space at 

Malibu Bluffs Park, Michael 

Landon Center is an 

expansion of the popular 

Malibu City Hall gallery 

space to showcase local artistic 

talent. 

For more information 

about the “Art Voyagers” 

exhibition or cultural arts 

programs, call (310) 456- 

2489, ext. 350 or email 

KRiesgo@malibucity.org. 

Legacy Park’s “Anchor for Malibu” has been placed at 

Legacy Park. Photo Submitted 

medium and discipline that 

call Malibu home. 

For more information 

about the “Anchor for Malibu” 

or the City’s cultural 

arts programs, call (310) 

456-2489, ext. 225 or email 

jbobbett@malibucity.org. 

Theatric double-header slated for this Friday 

Evening to include 

original play 

Submitted by Young Actors 

Project 

Young Actors Project, 

a Malibu-based performing 

arts troupe, will present 

two entertaining and 

thought-provoking plays: 

“In David’s Words” and 

“The Adventures of Ice Island” 

in one night of theater 

at Malibu Playhouse. 

Faith Briefs 

Our Lady of Malibu Church (3625 Winter 

Canyon Road, 310-456-2361) 

Annual Yard Sale 

9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 13-21. 

The church’s annual yard 

sale will feature bargains on 

furniture, clothing, shoes, 

jewelry, glassware, linens, 

sporting goods, toys, book 

and more. 

AA Meetings 

6:30 p.m. Mondays, 

Sheridan Hall. 

Narcotics Anonymous 

7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, 

Sheridan Hall. 

Men’s AA Meetings 

6 p.m. Fridays, Okoneski 

Room. 

Malibu United Methodist Church (30128 

Morning View Drive, 310-457-7505) 

Conversations 

7 p.m. first Wednesdays 

of the month. Gather in 

Gabrielson Hall to discuss 

topics you are interested in 

or concerned about. 

AA Meetings 

6:30 p.m. Sundays; noon 

and 7 p.m. Mondays and 

Tuesdays; noon and 7:30 

p.m. Wednesdays; noon 

and 6:30 p.m. Thursdays; 

The actors (ages 6-15) 

are to take the stage starting 

at 7 p.m. Friday, July 26. 

“In David’s Words” is 

an original play by Young 

Actors Project about the 

struggle for acceptance 

and popularity among high 

school teens. 

“The Adventures of Ice 

Island” by Forrest Musselman 

is an environmentally-conscious, 

adventure 

comedy about a young girl 

who travels to Ice Island 

to stop an evil figure from 

noon and 8 p.m. Fridays; 

noon and 5 p.m. Saturdays. 

Worship 

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

Child care available. 

Malibu Presbyterian Church (3324 

Malibu Canyon Road, 310-456-1611) 

Worship Services 

10:15 a.m. Sundays 

St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church (28211 

Pacific Coast Highway, 310-457-7966) 

Contemplative Worship 

8 a.m. Sundays 

Traditional Worship 


Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue 

(24855 PCH, 310-456-2178) 

Torah Study 

10 a.m. Saturdays, with 

Rabbi Michael Schwartz. 

Chabad of Malibu (22943 PCH, 310- 

456-6588) 

Evening Shabbat Services 

7:30 p.m. Fridays. 

Saturday Services 

9 a.m., Kabbalah on 

the Parsha; 10 a.m. Shabbat 

service; 11 a.m. Words 

from the Rabbi & Torah 

Reading; 12:30 p.m. Kiddush 

lunch 

melting the island. 

Families with children 

of all ages are encouraged 

to attend. Tickets are now 

on sale and are $15 for students 

and $20 for adults. 

To purchase tickets, visit 

https://yapsummer.bpt.me, 

or call (310) 447-8245 for 

more information.. 

There will be a community 

potluck immediately 

following the performances. 

Malibu Playhouse is 

located at 29243 Pacific 

Coast Highway. 

Sunday Services 

9 a.m. 

University Church of Christ (24255 PCH, 

310-506-4504) 

A cappella Service 

10:15 a.m. Sundays, in 

Elkins Auditorium 

Waveside Church (6955 Fernhill Drive, 

310-774-1927) 

Sunday Worship 

10:10 a.m. Sunday. Children’s 

ministry. 

Vintage Church (Webster Elementary 

School, 3602 Winter Canyon Road, 

310-395-9961) 

Sunday Service 

4-5:30 p.m. Sundays, 

with children’s ministry 

Calvary Chapel Malibu (30237 Morning 

View Drive, 424-235-4463) 

Service 


First Church-Christ Scientist (28635 

Pacific Coast Highway, 310-457-7767) 

Wednesday Meetings 

8 p.m. Wednesdays. 

Have an event for faith briefs? 

Email news@malibusurfside 

news.com. Information is due 

by noon on Thursdays one 

week prior to publication.

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Malibu nonprofit draws artists to gathering 

Anastassia Kostin 


Change is on the horizon. 

Artists from all backgrounds 

— music, photography, 

film, dance — gathered 

on the shores of the Pacific 

Ocean in Malibu Thursday, 

July 18, for a Sundowner, an 

evening of live music and 

mingling hosted by the Creative 

Visions Foundation 

and modeled after the African 

tradition of celebrating 

the sunset. 

Guests mingled with the 

Creative Visions team, interns, 

experienced mentors 

and senior advisors as they 

walked through the gallery 

filled with examples of the 

360-plus projects by the creative 

activist network. 

Musicians Piper Hays and 

Luke Metzler performed 

original pieces, showing 

creativity in action. 

A goal of Creative Visions 

is to spark awareness 

and ignite change through 

impact media, the arts and 

technology. From literature 

and music to multimedia 

and film projects, Creative 

Visions focuses its projects 

on critical issues and 

teaches others the concept 

of creative activism through 

the story of the Dan Eldon, 

Creative Visions Founder 

Kathy Eldon’s late son. 

Dan Eldon, a photojournalist, 

was killed in 1993 

while covering the conflict 

in Somalia for Reuters 

News Agency. Since then, 

Kathy Eldon has produced 

numerous award-winning 

social justice films and 

books in addition to humanrights 

focused educational 

programs. 

“This place is dedicated 

to a spirit,” Kathy Eldon 

said. “I call him a noisy 

spirit, and his name is Dan 

Eldon. He kind of is the 

originator of creative activism. 

It’s storytelling using 

art, music, dance, drama, 

film, theater — whatever it 

is that you can contribute.” 

With a network around 

the globe and Sundowner 

events at Creative Visions 

hubs in Los Angeles, Atlanta, 

New York and, soon, 

London, like-minded individuals 

can share ideas and 

solutions to the challenges 

they see around them. 

“It opens up minds and 

hearts to see each other as 

human beings so we can 

cut through all the barriers 

we put up,” said Creative 

Visions CEO Pat Chandler. 

“We’re about helping to create 

a just, sustainable world 

and we believe that through 

storytelling, through media, 

through movements and 

through education, we can 

do that.” 

Chandler came to the organization 

from Points of 

Light, a volunteer management 

organization, after 

awarding Kathy Eldon the 

Daily Point of Light Award 

for her work in Africa and 

beyond. 

“I chose to come here to 

work with Kathy and her 

team because I believe storytelling 

is super important 

to the changes we want to 

see in the world,” Chandler 

said. 

At the heart of Creative 

Visions is collaboration 

with organizations promoting 

creative activism, including 

Planet 911 and EQ. 

EQ Co-CEO Antony Randall 

spoke about his passion 

for social impact, innovation, 

and the importance of 

generating environmentally 

sustainable innovations. 

Noticeable problems in 

the nonprofit sector inspired 

Randall to start EQ in 2012 

and promote the protection 

of the health of the planet. 

“The nonprofit sector 

has a real problem raising 

money, raising capital and 

getting awareness to really 

scale for the size of change 

required,” Randall said. 

“Art and entertainment on 

its own doesn’t really help 

solve the problem, but in 

terms of breaking down the 

messaging and helping get 

communication around the 

causes, it really does help.” 

The intersection of art 

and activism is an underlying 

foundation for all five 

of Creative Vision’s project 

causes: gender equality, human 

rights, youth empowerment, 

climate change, and 

health and well-being. 

James Trotta-Bono is 

the fine art consultant for 

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“Artists are very much 

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Trotta-Bono said. “So, in a 

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Trotta-Bono sees events 

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to building a community by 

shared values and purpose. 

“Creative Visions is organizing 

around people, reminding 

them of what matters 

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us,” Trotta-Bono said. 

For artists like Hays, 

who has been involved 

with Creative Visions for 

12 years and was at one 

point homeless in Europe, 

the foundation is a safe 

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calls her “musical medicine.” 

“I want to be a good outlet 

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Sundowner attendees Michael Savalle (left) and Courtney 

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Malibu athletes push forward despite less-than-ideal circumstances, Pages 26-27 

Malibu High School coaches (clockwise from top left) Billy Ashley, Hayden Goldberg, Luke Davis Jr. and Andy Meyer lead their respective teams post-fire. Surfside News File Photos

26 | July 25, 2019 | Malibu surfside news sports 


Damaged fields. Damaged seasons. Pressing onward. 

How MHS teams 

reacted to and 

navigated altered 

campaigns 

Michal Dwojak 

Assistant Editor 

Billy Ashley drove his 

tractor in memorized circles 

as he prepared the 

Malibu High School baseball 

infield on a windy May 

afternoon. 

The Sharks head coach 

knows this diamond like 

his own backyard — he 

treats it as such, as well. 

Every day before practice 

he waters the grass, knocks 

in the bases and rakes the 

infield dirt. 

Water, knock, rake, repeat. 

From time to time that 

afternoon, he stared beyond 

the outfield fence, out toward 

the Malibu shoreline. 

His tractor turned west, the 

Pacific’s waters sparkled. 

Another turn on the tractor 

and he faced the team’s 

lone tool shack. He swears 

it will fall down when 

hit with a strong enough 

breeze, thanks to the eroded 

earth beneath it. 

He saw barriers erected 

so that what happened this 

school year would never 

happen again. He saw 

homes and trees in the hills, 

once blackened by flame, 

begin their respective rebirths. 

While the Woolsey Fire 

ravaged the softball field’s 

backdrop and some of its 

outfield wall, the baseball 

field did not suffer as much. 

But then the rains came. 

Once the fire was extinguished, 

Mother Nature 

had another trick. With the 

Chloe Dyne, an MHS athlete who lost her home to the fire, plays in a mid-December game. Surfside News file photo 

fire erasing all or most of 

the area’s vegetation, the 

rainfall was free to flow 

down the hills, generating 

mud and collecting debris 

for the ride. 

The mudslides hit Malibu 

High, canceling school 

again and causing major 

damage to both the softball 

and baseball fields. 

Ashley doesn’t get upset 

about the fire or the mudslides; 

that’s nature and 

it’s out of his control. But 

his emotions boiled to the 

surface when he thought 

about the mudslides’ effect 

on student-athletes, saying 

the school district lacked 

preparation when fire officials 

warned that mudslides 

could overcome the fields. 

The baseball coach 

thought sandbags could 

have been installed and in 

plenty of time. But nothing 

happened. 

“It was frustrating because 

nothing was getting 

done,” Ashley said. “I was 

talking to anybody who 

would listen.” 

Malibu’s softball and 

baseball fields were saturated 

with several inches 

of water after the first mudslide 

in late November. 

Players couldn’t tell where 

the softball infield started, 

and where it ended. 

The district did a partial 

cleanup after the first 

mudslide, but officials said 

the season would have to 

be canceled if another one 

came down the hill. 

“I said this was [expletive],” 

Ashley said, “and 

the fact that you guys aren’t 

doing anything to prevent 

the mudflows that are happening 

or had any foresight 

about the rains that were 

beginning, knowing that 

we were going to have an 

issue, being told that in 

advance that we needed to 

do something and nothing 

happened.” 

Ashley wasn’t the only 

one frustrated. The softball 

team’s lone senior, Amelia 

Goudzwaard, couldn’t believe 

she had to battle adversity 

again. 

The basketball and softball 

player injured her knee 

during her junior season, 

limiting her resume for prospective 

college programs. 

She fought all offseason 

to return to form and give 

those programs one final 

look at the type of athlete 

she was. Now, it seemed 

like it wouldn’t matter. 

“I thought, ‘How could 

this be happening?’” 

Goudzwaard recalled. 

Softball and baseball 

players, families and 

coaches urged the district 

to do more for the fields, as 

Editor’s Note 

This is the final part in 

a two-part series about 

how student-athletes 

and coaches looked 

to Malibu High sports 

for an interruption and 

respite post-fire. 

“I know that 

we could’ve 

been league 

champions if 

we had 10 more 

practices.” 

Hayden Goldberg — 

Malibu girls water polo 

coach 

each team practiced on the 

artificial turf of the football 

field. 

School officials suggested 

the teams practice at 

other local fields, but players, 

coaches and parents 

argued the distance was a 

burden and there would be 

less time for academics. 

The teams only played road 

games at the beginning of 

the 2019 season with no 

practice on actual fields. 

Ashley, Goudzwaard and 

others attended the School 

Board’s meeting in February 

to voice their displeasure. 

Superintendent Dr. 

Ben Drati informed them 

that a plan had yet to be 

finalized to deal with forecasted 

rain and resulting 

mud that could continue to 

spill onto already damaged 

fields. 

Students voiced their 

displeasure of the lack of a 

plan, calling poor measures 

to prevent the mudslides inexcusable. 

For its part, the district 

reiterated to the Surfside 

News what it said amid criticism 

in the spring. A statement 

from Isaac Burgess, 

Malibu Pathway director, 

said the district, which was 

working with LA County 

Fire and the City of Malibu, 

believes it worked as 

quickly and responsibly as 

possible. 

“During the process, our 

coaches, athletic director, 

and site leadership provided 

input into the work 

that was performed to get 

our home fields in practice 

and competition condition,” 

Burgess stated. “Our 

facilities, maintenance and 

operations teams have continued 

to partner with local 

agencies on a solution that

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we expect will prevent this 

from happening in the future.” 

The meeting took place 

on a Thursday. By the following 

Monday, trenches 

were being placed. 

The players returned to 

practice and play on the 

fields once they were fully 

repaired, but there were 

still signs of what happened, 

despite the repaired 

playing surface. 

Both teams failed to 

make their respective postseasons 

(the baseball team 

falling one win short of 

qualifying). 

It wasn’t an easy situation, 

the players and 

coaches recognized. They 

knew they were competing 

for and amid a rebuilding 

Malibu community. Each 

team played in front of 

larger-than-usual crowds 

as everyone looked for an 

escape. 

“It’s definitely sad because 

it’s a constant reminder 

of what had happened,” 

Goudzwaard said. 

“But ... I think there are 

lessons to learn from this.” 

Back on that windy May 

afternoon, Ashley finished 

preparing the field 

as his players chatted before 

practice. There was 

a makeshift speaker on a 

wooden stool that was the 

new “press box,” since the 

old one collapsed with the 

floods. 

The concrete barriers 

surrounding the field will 

stay there for another few 

years while the vegetation 

on the hills regrows. 

They are prepared now, 

but Ashley hopes the school 

district learned its lesson. 

“Ten years from now, 

if this happens again, and 

they don’t learn from this, 

if I’m still here, I’ll be sorely 

disappointed,” Ashley 

said. “It would be inexcusable 

that this could happen 

again when we went 

through it one time.” 

*** 

Chloe Dyne didn’t think 

she had to say “goodbye” to 

her home. 

She packed her belongings 

and prepared for the 

mandatory evacuation on 

the first Friday of the fire, 

Nov. 9. The fire wouldn’t 

reach their property, that’d 

be wild, she and her family 

thought. 

“It was kind of surreal 

in a way,” Dyne recalled. 

“When you were leaving, 

you were kind of saying 

goodbye and you weren’t 

sure if you were going to 

come back. I think I had a 

false sense of hope, maybe 

ignorance. 

“I didn’t think it was going 

to take our home.” 

Dyne, like Goudzwaard 

and many others, would 

never again see the house 

she grew up in. Families 

like Dyne’s sought refuge 

in hotels or with family, 

friends, teachers and 

coaches. 

Families are still weighing 

whether to return to 

Malibu, and those decisions 

will impact the 

school’s enrollment and 

already cloud the future of 

athletic teams. 

Softball and girls basketball 

have already struggled 

in Malibu to draw substantial 

participation numbers, 

and a lower enrollment 

will almost certainly affect 

those for years to come. 

Two members of the 

boys basketball teams lost 

their homes and will never 

came back to the area — 

one left the state while the 

other left the country, said 

coach Luke Davis Jr. 

Coach Hayden Goldberg 

watched the fire not 

only affect the success of 

this year’s girls water polo 

team, but also the future of 

the program. 

Malibu’s girls water polo 

team rose to new heights 

during his five years at the 

Play by play 

A timeline of events in relation to mudslides that affected Malibu High’s spring 

sports season 

Nov. 9 

Woolsey Fire hits Malibu 

Nov. 28-Dec. 6 Rain storms cause mudslides that affect MHS playing fields 

Mid-December K-rail barriers are placed around some of the fields 

Jan. 5-15 

More rain storms cause heavier mudflow, again affecting 

MHS playing fields 

Feb. 6 

MHS students, coaches speak at SMMUSD’s Board of 

Education meeting 

Feb. 12 

Sharks softball season begins 

Feb. 22 

Sharks baseball season begins 

March 12 

MHS softball plays first home game of season 

March 21 

Board of Education approves field cleanup 

March 22 

MHS baseball plays first home game of season 

helm, which included a 

league title in this third season. 

But his players never 

fully regrouped after the 

hiatus at the beginning of 

this season. 

By the time the girls got 

back into a routine, it was 

too late to build momentum 

for a deep postseason run, 

he said. 

“The thing that bums 

me out is that I know the 

caliber of girls that I have,” 

Goldberg said. “I know 

what we’re playing against. 

I know that we could’ve 

been league champions if 

we had 10 more practices. 

It was just unfortunate that 

it held us back.” 

The fire also affected 

his youth teams. Goldberg 

said he lost nine players 

combined from his 14- and 

12-year-old teams, which 

act as feeders to Malibu 

High water polo. 

Goldberg spent years 

working with young water 

polo players and looked 

forward to having them on 

his high school team, but 

that cycle looks endangered 

now. He’s also seeing a 

trend in the rebuild process 

that he believes will keep 

longtime families from returning. 

“There’s some weird 

stuff that I don’t like with 

the new real estate people,” 

Goldberg said. “I think affordable 

housing should be 

coming in for the people of 

Malibu right now. I don’t 

see people looking out with 

an open hand; I see people 

doing that money sign with 

their hand.” 

Put it all together and the 

future is unknown for many 

Malibu High programs, 

many of which always battle 

a numbers game simply 

because of Malibu’s relatively 

small population. 

MHS football made 

headlines this spring when 

it downshifted to an eightplayer 

format, and two 

years ago, girls basketball 

coach Andy Meyer did not 

have a junior varsity team 

for the first time. When 

the program brought back 

the JV team, he worried 

students would be discouraged 

from joining without 

the guarantee of playing 

varsity games. 

The numbers game has 

always been an issue, but 

now it’s magnified. 

“The thing about Malibu, 

it’s a very small school 

community,” Meyer said. 

“There have been times 

I’ve been concerned about 

numbers regardless of the 

fire. I wouldn’t say it’s 

one of my worries. But in 

my classes, I have a few 

kids in each class, so that’s 

definitely a concern. I don’t 

know how many kids we 

lost and aren’t going to 

come back. We can’t afford 

to lose a lot of people.” 

Dyne is like many. 

She isn’t sure of her family’s 

plan. She tries not to 

think about it. 

“I think I just let everything 

go and see what happens,” 

Dyne said. “I’m not 

trying to worry about it too 

much and trying to focus on 

school and sports. Otherwise 

I don’t think it would 

be best to focus on the future 

and where we’re going 

to be living. 

“I don’t have control 

over that.” 

*** 

Travel down the PCH, 

and there are still signs of 

an apocalypse. 

Burnt trees, assorted debris 

and damaged remains 

of life are common sights 

between the homes and 

businesses that survived the 

Woolsey Fire. 

Tennis and basketball 

courts lie vacant next to 

concrete slabs and tree 

skeletons where homes 

used to stand. 

Flowers and different 

vegetation have taken over 

the hillsides, filling the 

community with greens 

and plants that locals say 

they haven’t seen in a very 

long time. 

Filling the air are sounds 

of buzzsaws as construction 

gets underway and as 

some families return home. 

A banner on the side of 

the PCH encourages residents 

and passersby that the 

community will rebuild and 

remain “Malibu Strong.” 

Goudzwaard has visited 

the plot of land where 

her childhood home once 

stood. Her family plans to 

return and rebuild, but several 

building permits and 

development permissions 

have slowed that effort. 

She had a great season 

for the Sharks, but the right 

colleges didn’t come calling. 

But she won’t give 

up the game. She’ll play 

softball at the club level at 

the University of Southern 

California. 

It means so much to her, 

especially now. 

“Sports are a way to escape 

the whole picture and 

realize that you can move 

on,” Goudzwaard said. 

“You just have to take that 

extra step to do it.” 

She still thinks about the 

fires every single day. She 

can’t help it most days. 

The cold, white colors of 

her current room are a distance 

from the warm pink 

of her childhood room — 

the one she’ll never see 

again. 

Goudzwaard doesn’t 

think the guilt of leaving 

her house on that Friday 

morning will ever go away, 

but neither will the lessons 

she learned from “the 

mother of all years.” The 

MHS alumna discovered 

her true friends while her 

relationships with her family, 

teammates and coaches 

grew stronger, deeper. 

Although she’s leaving 

home for USC’s nearby 

Los Angeles campus, she’s 

excited to see how the town 

grows. She thinks it will 

transform into something 

better. Her faith in the Malibu 

community has never 

been stronger. 

She, like many, found her 

salvation.

28 | July 25, 2019 | Malibu surfside news sports 


Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Nathaniel Rucker-Jensen 

Nathaniel Rucker-Jensen 

was a member of the 

Malibu High School boys 

water polo team. 

When and why did you 

start playing water 

polo? 

I started playing with my 

friend Harry [Lang] because 

all my other friends 

were playing and I wanted 

to join in. 

What do you like most 

about the sport? 

I like how it physically 

challenges me and pushes 

me to do better. I also love 

being in the water. 

Do you have any 

superstitions before a 

game? 

I like to just hang out 

with friends and eat good 

food before a game. 

What is your favorite 

sports moment? 

When I donuted, which 

is when I shot a goal in 

front of like four or five defenders 

and shooting over 

the goalie. 

What is one thing people 

don’t know about you? 

I would say that I’m kind 

of into Dragon Ball Z. 

If you could be any 

superhero, which super 

power would you 

want? 

I would have the power 

of telekinesis. 

What would you do if 

you won the lottery? 

I would donate most of it 

and live a lavish lifestyle. 

22nd Century Media File Photo 

If you could play any 

other sport, which 

would you play? 

It would be soccer because 

I like how you can 

set up a goal, basically put 

down a ball and instantly 

start playing. You can play 

it anywhere. 

What is one thing on 

your bucket list? 

I would love to start a 

nonprofit organization to 

help others. 

If you could be any 

animal, which would 

you be? 

I would be a dolphin because 

they’re very intelligent 

and love the ocean. 

Interview by Assistant Editor 

Michal Dwojak 

Malibu’s Wilimovsky 

qualifies for Tokyo 2020 

Chris Megginson 


Malibu native Jordan 

Wilimovsky 

is Olympicsbound 

once 

more. 

T h e 

25-yearold 

distance 

swimmer, 

who was the 

Wilimovsky 

first Team USA swimmer 

to compete in both pool 

and open water events at 

the 2016 Olympic Games 

in Rio, has qualified for 

the 2020 Tokyo Olympic 

Games in the open water 

10k. 

Wilimovsky qualified 

for Tokyo with a fifth-place 

finish in a time of 1 hour, 

48:01 seconds on July 16 

at the 18th FINA World 

Championships Yeosu in 

Pepperdine Athletics 

South Korea. He was less 

than six seconds behind 

German swimmer Florian 

Wellbrock (1:47:55.9), 

who claimed gold in the 

race. 

“I’m obviously super 

stoked to get Top 10 and 

make the Olympic Team,” 

Wilimovsky told USA 

Swimming after the race. 

“Any time you get to represent 

the U.S. is super 

cool, so that’s awesome. 

I definitely wanted to do 

better than fifth, but I’ve 

got a year to work on that, 

so overall I’m happy.” 

Wilimovsky now turns 

his attention to the pool, 

racing the FINA World 

Championships 800-meter 

and 1,500-meter in 

Gwangju, South Korea, the 

next two weeks before beginning 

his Olympic training 

next month. 

“It’s huge,” Wilimovsky 

told USA Swimming. “It’s 

cool to make it a year out, 

just because now everything 

you’re doing is for 

Tokyo 2020. I’d like to 

make it in the 1,500 and 

800 [next year] as well, 

and I’m planning on that 

for Trials, but it’s going to 

be sweet to come back to 

swimming in August after 

you take your week break 

or whatever and be like, 

‘I’m training for the Olympics 

officially.’” 

In addition to Wilimovsky, 

Haley Anderson 

and Ashley Twichell also 

qualified for the 2020 

U.S. Olympic Team in the 

women’s 10k. 

Open water swimming 

at the 2020 Olympic 

Games is currently scheduled 

for Aug. 5-6 in Tokyo 

Bay. 

Women’s tennis player Lahey 

named ITA Scholar-Athlete 

Pepperdine women’s tennis 

standout Ashley Lahey 

was awarded All-Academic 

Scholar Athlete honors, the 

Intercollegiate Tennis Association 

announced Thursday, 

July 18. 

Lahey, a junior out 

of Hawthorne, Calif., 

achieved a 3.93 grade point 

average while studying 

sports medicine through the 

2018-2019 season, where 

she finished ranked No. 

27 in singles and No. 64 in 

doubles. The West Coast 

Conference also awarded 

her with All-Academic status 

where she was named to 

the first team. 

The criteria for Scholar 

Athlete status states that 

the athlete must be a varsity 

letter winner, have a GPA 

of at least 3.50 and must 

have been enrolled at the 

present school for at least 

two semesters. 

In addition, the women’s 

tennis team was announced 

as an All-Academic Team, 

which is awarded to “any 

ITA program that has a cumulative 

grade point average 

of 3.20 or above.” Five 

Waves had accumulated a 

GPA of over 3.20. 

Information from Pepperdine 

University and 

www.pepperdinewaves. 

com. Compiled by Assistant 

Editor Michal Dwojak, 

m.dwojak@22ndcentury 

media.com.

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Rose to Proposed Name: Patricia 

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Otero Stoffels to Proposed 

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doing business as COMPTINET, COMP- 

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BEACH, CA 90807. The full name ofregistrant 

is: THANH VAN TRAN, 4412 GAVI- 

OTA AVENUE, LONG BEACH, CA 90807. 

This business isbeing conducted by: an Individual. 

The registrant has not commenced to 

transact business under the fictitious business 

name listed above. /s/: THANH VAN TRAN, 

THANH VAN TRAN, OWNER, COMP- 

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ISHMAEL ESCALANTE, 555 EVER- 

GREEN STREET UNIT 17, INGLEWOOD, 

CA 90302. The full name ofregistrant is: 

URLETTE REYES, 555 EVERGREEN 

STREET UNIT 17, INGLEWOOD, CA 

90302. These businesses are being conducted 

by: an Individual. The registrant has not commenced 

to transact business under the fictitious 

business names listed above. /s/:UR- 

LETTE REYES, URLETTE REYES 

OWNER, A+ FORCLOSURE CLEANOUT, 

A+ PAINTING & FORCLOSURE 

CLEANOUT, FROM DI YAWD, ISHMAEL 

ESCALANTE. This statement was filed with 

the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County 

on 07/12/2019. NOTICE: THIS FICTI- 

TIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 

EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE 

IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE 

COUNTY CLERK. ANEW FICTITIOUS 

BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST 

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filing of this statement does not of itself 

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Petitioner Michael David Johnson 

Jr filed apetiton with this court 


follows: 

Present Name: Michael David 

Johnson Jr to Proposed Name: 

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doing business asMITCHELLDOESHAIR, 

22201 VENTURA BLVD, WOODLAND 

HILLS, CA 91364. The full name ofregistrant 

is: MICHAEL MITCHELL, 22201 

VENTURA BLVD, WOODLAND HILLS, 

CA 91364. This business isbeing conducted 

by: an Individual. The registrant commenced 

to transact business under the fictitious business 

name listed above: 07/2019. /s/: MI- 

CHAEL MITCHELL, MICHAEL 

MITCHELL, OWNER, MITCHELLDOE- 

SHAIR. This statement was filed with the 

County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 

07/11/2019. NOTICE: THIS FICTITIOUS 

BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EX- 

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doing business asPRETENTIOUS WAY, 

18954 SHERMAN WAY, RESEDA, CA 

91335; 14228 SYLVAN ST, VAN NUYS, 


JASMINE WOODFORD, 14228 SYLVAN 

ST, VAN NUYS, CA 91401. This business is 

being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant 

commenced to transact business under 

the fictitious business name listed above: 

06/2019. /s/:JASMINE WOODFORD, JAS- 

MINE WOODFORD, OWNER, PRE- 

TETIOUS WAY. This statement was filed 

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LES on 06/14/2019. The following persons 

are doing business as SO RAH JEWELRY, 

11011 HUSTON ST 104, NORTH HOLLY- 

WOOD, CA 91601, MAILING ADDRESS, 

11304 CHANDLER BLVD #422, NORTH 

HOLLYWOOD, CA, 91601. The full names 

of registrants are: MARISA DZINTARS, 

11011 HUSTON ST 104 NORTH HOLLY- 

WOOD, CA 91601 AND MICHELLE BAR- 

BIC, 5224 CARTWRIGHT ST #14 NORTH 

HOLLYWOOD, CA 91601. This business is 

being conducted by: aGeneral Partnership. 

The registrants commenced to transact business 

under the fictitious business name listed 

above: 06/2019. /s/:MARISA DZINTARS, 

MARISA DZINTARS AND /s/:MICHELLE 

BARBIC, MICHELLE BARBIC; SO RAH 

JEWELRY. This statement was filed with the 

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doing business as ENCHANTING FAN- 

TASY GARDENS, 21830 DUMETZ ROAD 

WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364. The full 

name of registrant is: SHAWN 

LOCHRIDGE 21830 DUMETZ ROAD 

WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364. This business 

is being conducted by: an Individual. 

The registrant has not commenced to transact 

business under the fictitious business name 

listed above. /s/:SHAWN LOCHRIDGE, 

SHAWN LOCHRIDGE, ENCHANTING 

FANTASY GARDENS. This statement was 











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doing business as FOUND ORGANIZING, 

17 PARK AVE. APT. 11 VENICE, CA 

90291. The full name ofregistrant is: KA- 

MILLE VANWARMERDAM, 17 PARK 

AVE. APT. 11 VENICE, CA 90291. This 

business is being conducted by: an Individual. 



name listed above. /s/: KAMILLE VAN- 

WARMERDAM, KAMILLE VAN- 

WARMERDAM, OWNER, FOUND OR- 

GANIZING. This statement was filed with 





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doing business as NAILSBYKALEE, 44650 

VALLEY CENTRAL WAY SUITE #12, 

LANCASTER, CA 93536 AND 27928 

PERIWINKLE LANE, VALENCIA, CA 

91354. The full name ofregistrant is: KA- 

LEE VALERIE ROSE RUSSO, 27928 

PERIWINKLE LANE, VALENCIA, CA 

91354. This business isbeing conducted by: 

an Individual. The registrant commenced to 


name listed above: 06/2019. /s/:KALEE 

VALERIE ROSE RUSSO, KALEE VALE- 

RIE ROSE RUSSO, OWNER, NAILS- 

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doing business as ELEVATED GROWTH, 

445 NROSSMORE AVE #313, LOS AN- 

GELES, CA, 90004 and 209 E 11TH 

STREET #2, LOS ANGELES, CA 90015. 

The full name of registrant is: SEYED 

HAFEZ ADEL 445 NROSSMORE AVE 

#313, LOS ANGELES, CA 90004. This 

business is being conducted by: an Individual. 



name listed above. /s/:SEYED HAFEZ 

ADEL, SEYED HAFEZ ADEL, OWNER, 

ELEVATED GROWTH. This statement was 











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doing business as PAWSITIVE HOUND 

DOG TRAINING, 19538 CALVERT 

STREET TARZANA, CA 91335. The full 

name of registrant is: KIM KURLAND, 

19538 CALVERT STREET TARZANA, CA 


an Individual. The registrant commenced to 


name listed above: 06/2019. /s/:KIM KUR- 

LAND, KIM KURLAND, OWNER, 

PAWSITIVE HOUND DOG TRAINING. 

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doing business as ABOVE & BEYOND THE 

CULINARY EXPERIENCE, 4069 LIB- 

ERTY CANYON RD, AGOURA HILLS, 


DAVID AFLALO, 4069 LIBERTY CAN- 

YON RD, AGOURA HILLS, CA 91301. 

This business isbeing conducted by: an Individual. 

The registrant commenced to transact 


listed above: 03/1998. /s/:DAVID AFLALO, 

DAVID AFLALO OWNER, ABOVE &BE- 

YOND THE CULINARY EXPERIENCE. 

This statement was filed with the County 

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doing business asCOSMETIC CONSULT- 

ANTS INTERNATIONAL, 29160 HEATH- 

ERCLIFF RD #4051 MALIBU, CA 90265. 

The full name ofregistrant is: CLAUDIA 

SCHAEFER, 29160 HEATHERCLIFF RD 

#4051 MALIBU, CA 90265. This business is 

being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant 

has not commenced to transact business 


above. /s/:CLAUDIA SCHAEFER, CLAU- 

DIA SCHAEFER OWNER, COSMETIC 

CONSULTANTS INTERNATIONAL. This 

statement was filed with the County Clerk of 

LOS ANGELES County on 06/14/2019. NO- 

TICE: THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 

NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE 

YEARS FROM THE DATE ITWAS FILED 

IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY 

CLERK. ANEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 

NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED 

PRIOR TOTHAT DATE. The filing ofthis 

statement does not of itself authorize the use 

in this state ofafictitious business name 

statement inviolation ofthe rights of another 

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doing business as WESTSIDE ETCH, 1000 

S. ALFRED ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 

90035. The full name of registrant is: 

ALYSSA ANNE LOWE, 1000 S. ALFRED 

ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90035. This business 

is being conducted by: an Individual. 

The registrant has not commenced to transact 


listed above. /s/:ALYSSA ANNE LOWE, 

ALYSSA ANNE LOWE, OWNER, WEST- 

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doing business as WATCHMODE, 3435 

OCEAN PARK BLVD #107D, SANT 

MONICA, CA 90405. The full name ofregistrant 

is: METEORIC, LLC, 3435 OCEAN 

PARK BLVD #107D, SANT MONICA, CA 


an Limited Liablity Company. The registrant 

commenced to transact business under the 

fictitious business name listed above: 

04/2019. /s/:BRIAN MEINHAUS, BRIAN 

M EINHAUS, PRESIDENT, 

METEORIC,LLC. This statement was filed 

with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES 

County on 07/01/2019. NOTICE: THIS FIC- 

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LES on 07/05/2019 The following person is 

doing business as TEN 79 LA &LIA AC- 

CESSORIES, 7508 DEERING AVE UNIT 

D, CANOGA PARK, CA 91303. The full 

name of registrant is: B&RACCESSO- 

RIES, INC, 7508 DEERING AVE UNIT D, 

CANOGA PARK, CA 91303. This business 

is being conducted by: aCorporation. The 

registrant commenced to transact business 


above: 11/1999. /s/: B&RACCESSORIES, 

B&RACCESSORIES OWNER, TEN 79 

LA &LIA ACCESSORIES. This statement 

was filed with the County Clerk of LOS AN- 

GELES County on 07/05/2019. NOTICE: 

THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 

STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS 

FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE 

OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A 

NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 

STATEMENT MUST BE FILED PRIOR 

TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement 

does not of itself authorize the use in 

this state of afictitious business name statement 

inviolation ofthe rights of another under 

federal, state, or common law (see Section 

1441et seq., Business and Professions 

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doing business as COLIBRI CONCEPTS 

PHOTO BOX, 18810 BIG CEDAR DRIVE, 

SANTA CLARITA, CA 91387. The full 

name of registrant is: LOURDES ROCHA, 

18810 BIG CEDAR DRIVE, SANTA 

CLARITA, CA 91387. This business is being 

conducted by: an Individual. The registrant 

has not commenced to transact business under 

the fictitious business name listed above. 

/s/: LOURDES ROCHA, LOURDES RO- 

CHA OWNER, COLIBRI CONCEPTS 

PHOTO BOX. This statement was filed with 


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