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HELP WANTED: A New CD 15 Council Rep

Do you know who’s running to replace Joe Buscaino?

By James Preston Allen, Publisher and Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

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Council District 15 candidate Anthony Santich at far left. Photo by Raphael Richardson. From left to right, DC 15 candidates Bryant Odega, Danielle Sandoval and Tim McOsker. Photos by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

Haste Makes Waste?

POLA’s hurry-up project approval process raises alarms

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

The EcoCem low-carbon cement facility proposed for berths 191-194 sounds great on first hearing — it’s been estimated that cement production is responsible for approximately 8% of CO2 worldwide, and EcoCem is a leading producer of a low-carbon alternative that could help cut that dramatically — a perfect fit with the Port of LA’s cherished image as a “green port.”

But the devil’s in the details, and they include the almost certain presence of chromium-6, the cancercausing form of the heavy metal that gained notoriety with Erin Brokovich.

The 100-year old Portland cement plant in Davenport, just north of Santa Cruz — originally built to supply cement for the Panama Canal and Pearl Harbor — was shut down in 2010 when chromium-6

was found in concentrations up to 10 times normal atmospheric levels. That was five years after the Mexicobased manufacturing giant, Cemex, purchased the plant and modernized it to produce “green cement.”

Nor is the EcoCem project alone. Since November, it’s one of three industrial projects for which port staff have issued initial studies — studies whose adequacy has been broadly questioned. A fourth project, on waterfront development, has also been unveiled.

“They are not giving a sufficient analysis to these projects,” retired port attorney Pat Nave told Random Lengths News. They were also released “with inadequate notice,” said Peter Warren, a member of San Pedro & Peninsula Homeowners Coalition. Both said that 30day comment periods are inadequate for a meaningful public comment process. And last-minute extensions are

no substitute for adequate time in the first place.

As the mayoral primary election looms, there’s an eerie sense of déjà vu.

On March 28, 2001, in the closing days of the Riordan administration, the Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a 30-year lease with the China Shipping Company without doing any environmental review.

Now, 21 years later — as the resulting lawsuit’s consequences are still being litigated — the port could be poised to make similar mistakes.

“It is obvious that the environmental department at the Port of Los Angeles is trying to get projects released and approved before a new group of commissioners and likely some top port officials are removed under the incoming new administration,” said Janet Gunter, one of three initial plaintiffs in the China Shipping lawsuit.

“This push to get projects approved with deficient environmental review could be extremely devastating for Harbor communities. I highly recommend that all environmental project reviews halt until after a new [See Haste, p. 6] 1

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A rendering of the proposed amphitheater at the new West Harbor project at the former Ports O’ Call Village site.

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ne would have thought that the entire power structure of San Pedro insiders had shown up on Saturday April 9 to inaugurate Tim McOsker’s campaign office on Gaffey and Seventh streets. This included Supervisor Janice Hahn, former councilman Rudy Svorinich Jr., two San Pedro Chamber of Commerce presidents and one from the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce and a list of Democratic electeds, LA Fire Department (some with the last name McOsker) and the current president of the LA City Council Nury Martinez. All there to sing the praises for McOsker, the former chief of staff of Mayor James Hahn.

Sergio Carrillo, vice-chair of the LA Democratic Party — well known for his campaign consulting, emceed the affair with great exuberance introducing the long list of notables. The McOsker family filled up nearly a quarter of the small corner office; the Irish are the second largest European nationality in San Pedro. The primary

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Community Announcements:

Harbor Area PVAC $5 Million Dream House Raffle

A Hillside Estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean or $5,000,000 is just a $150 raffle ticket away for the winner of the 2022 Palos Verdes Dream House Raffle.

Proceeds help fund the Palos Verdes Art Center’s education, exhibition and outreach programs, keeping them available, accessible and affordable during these challenging times.

Details: www.cadreamraffle.com/entry-form/ or call 1-833-604-1604.

Deadline: May 12 grand prize deadline: June 16

Save the Date for the Long Beach Mayoral Candidate Forum

Join the Arts Council for Long Beach and the League of Women Voters of Long Beach Area for the Long Beach mayoral candidate forum. The event takes place on May 7, at the Museum of Latin American Art. Childcare and interpretation services will be available. Attendees will have an opportunity to listen to the platforms of the candidates who will address questions from the community. This is an opportunity to learn more about issues facing the arts and how voters and elected officials can be involved in supporting the local creative economy.

Time: 10 am to 12 p.m., May 7 Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/long-beach-mayoral-candidate-forum Cost: Free Venue: Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

LBPD Blotter Provides Important Information

Student Loan Pause Extended Through August

The U.S. Department of Education announced an extension of the pause on student loan repayment, interest, and collections through Aug. 31, 2022.

The extension will provide additional time for borrowers to plan for the resumption of payments, reducing the risk of delinquency and defaults after restart.

Details: https://tinyurl.com/student-loan-pause

Medi-Cal’s Eligibility Expanded

Medi-Cal is a California state healthcare program that offers essential healthcare to you and your family for free or at a very low cost. Starting May 1, Medi-Cal will expand coverage to undocumented Californians who are 50 and older and qualify. This expands coverage for over 235,000 Californians.

Details: 213-637-1080 or text 213-632-5521

Justice For Murdered Children will hold the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week community peace walk and free pancake breakfast, April 30, in the heart of South Los Angeles. The 2022 NCVRW theme is rights, access, equity, for all victims. The theme underscores the importance of helping crime survivors find their justice.

Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., April 30 Details: 310-738-4218 Location: Ted Watkins Park, 1335 E. 103rd St., Los Angeles

By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach delayed their proposed container dwell fees again on April 22. This was the 24th time the ports have delayed these fees since announcing them in October 2021. If they were to be implemented, the ports would charge ocean carriers fees starting at $100 per day for empty containers left on the docks longer than nine days.

Rachel Campbell, media relations manager for the Port of LA, said there is no benefit to delaying the fee. “[H]owever, it was effective,” Campbell said in an email. “We saw a decline in import dwell nine days and over by almost 50% since Oct 24.

The threat of the fee has been impactful.”

Janet Gunter of San Pedro Peninsula Homeowners United, INC. has doubts that the fee will ever be implemented.

“In my view, this is nothing more than a publicity stunt that makes the port look like they are going to try and control something that they are obviously not intending to really put any backbone behind,” Gunter said. “It makes them appear as if they’re doing something, when in fact, I don’t think they ever really intended to.”

Gunter said the Port of LA is doing what it typically does.

“They put out these messages, these grand statements and pronouncements,” Gunter said.

“They use these catchphrases that make headlines and appear like they’re doing something terrific, when in fact it’s just par for the course, it’s par for their image.”

When asked if the fee would be canceled entirely, Campbell responded by saying it was still listed under the tariff portion of the Port of LA’s website.

“Reducing the number of aging containers in

Several ships idling outside the Port of Los Angeles in November 2021. Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

the terminal improves velocity,” Campbell said.

“The dwell fee is in place to keep the terminals fluid to handle the incoming vessels.”

Both ports said their executive directors would consider implementing the fees on April 29, after monitoring data for a week. This is far from the first time they have said this.

The Port of LA will charge $100 per day for each empty container left for nine days, but will increase that amount by $100 every day, according to a document on the port’s website detailing the tariff. If an empty container were to stay for 15 days, the port would charge the carrier an accumulated $1,500. There is no upper limit.

However, this is all contingent on the port actually beginning to charge these fees.

On April 1, the Port of LA implemented another long-delayed fee, the clean truck fund rate.

Despite its misleading name, this fee charges for

trucks that are not clean — zero emissions trucks are exempt. The port charges $10 for every twenty-foot equivalent unit that enters or leaves any container terminals. “[The] Clean Truck Fund rate resolution was approved in March 2020, with rate collection anticipated in about 12 months,” Campbell said.

“This was delayed approximately one year because of uncertainties in the market place due to COVID.” Campbell said that the clean truck fund rate and container dwell fee are unrelated.

Jesse Marquez, executive director of the Coalition For A Safe Environment, said the clean truck fund rate does not go far enough.

“Our organization has always supported that there be a container fee, to be able to offset the various types of mitigation impacts,” Marquez [See Container, p. 7]

Barragán Visits San Pedro to Celebrate Federal Funding

By Melina Paris, Assistant Editor

SAN PEDRO — Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-CA 44) joined board members, staff and community stakeholders from Harbor Health Community Centers in San Pedro, to celebrate funding for construction of a community health clinic.

Rep. Barragán secured this support as part of the community funded projects included in the 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on March 15.

On March 9, Rep. Nanette Barragán voted to pass government funding legislation to help lower costs for the middle class, create American jobs, support the vulnerable and improve access to healthcare. The funds total $7,535,000 for 10 local projects that directly benefit District 44 residents. This includes $1,000,000 for Harbor Community Health Centers or HCHC to support the construction of a new community health clinic on the ground floor of an affordable housing development in San Pedro.

At the event, Rep. Barragán said, “Before and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Harbor Community Health Centers has been a vital lifeline for our community. They have removed barriers and provided access to critical health

care services to those most in need. It was because of the work they already do and their record serving communities in California 44th District that I worked hard in Congress to secure the $1,000,000 in federal funding for this important project which will improve health outcomes in our community. At this new location, patients will be able to Rep. Nanette Barragán, center, presents $1,000,000 million in federal receive primary care, be- funding to the Harbor Community Health Centers. Photo by Arturo Garciahavioral health services Ayala and other invaluable resources. This future site opment is a 91-unit apartment community in will also allow Harbor Community Health Cen- San Pedro for families and individuals earnter to increase their capacity to serve an addition- ing between 30% and 80% of the area meal 3,000 patients each year.” dian income. The ground floor of 456 West On May 5, 2021, Linc Housing and National will house the Harbor Community Health CORE, both nonprofit developers of affordable Centers. The development is due to be comand supportive housing, announced a partnership pleted in early 2023. to build 456 West. The affordable housing devel-

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Ports Delay Container Fees for 24th Time

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The Long Beach Police Department has committed to provide information to the community. Through external communications, LBPD will begin posting information about recent police activity, ongoing investigations, and other LBPD updates to the department’s homepage and on the “News” tab of the department’s website. At about 10 a.m. each day, community members will be able to read preliminary information about incidents that may have occurred the previous evening, as well as any other notable incidents.

This page will be a resource for the public to learn more about enforcement efforts, arrests, and commendable events and will be updated as new incidents occur.

This information is preliminary and is intended for early information use rather than being a formal investigative report.

Details: Read the LBPD Blotter here; https://tinyurl.com/LBPD-blotter

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Who Will Represent CD15? election is still six weeks off, but the kickoff event sounded more like a victory party before the election was even held. It did get me wondering.

The traditional logic of winning the 15th District is that the weight of the voters are here in the San Pedro area, but not the majority of the population.

derpinnings of being a grudge match, yet you’d hardly know it by Anthony’s ever-present smile.

So what’s different with this election? It’s the first municipal election that coincides with an even year national election and there are now universal mail-in ballots. Will this tip the scales?

The mail-out of ballots will start arriving soon for the June 7 primary. If any of these candidates gets over 50% in the primary, there will be no runoff election in November. This is what the McOsker campaign is shooting for and it might seem more like a coronation if this happens. However, with Santich potentially breaking up the San Pedro voting block and Sandoval and Odega attracting other demographics it is plausible that there will actually be a race for the 15th Council District seat vacated by Joe Buscaino, who is amidst his quixotic run for LA mayor.

Note: Random Lengths News, in cooperation with Harbor Gateway North Neighborhood Council and the Athens on the Hill Community Association, is hosting a virtual candidate debate/forum on May 7 (see details on p. 10).

In the meantime, here is what the candidates have to say for themselves:

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MEET THE CANDIDATES

Council District 15 candidate Tim McOsker speaks with supporters at the opening of his campaign office in San Pedro.

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If you win here and do reasonably well in Watts you can lose the rest of the district and still win. This has been true since the time of Joan Milke-Flores, if not before, but is this still true?

Danielle Sandoval, the former president of Harbor City Neighborhood Council, has been working for months to rally support from both Wilmington and Harbor City. Two areas of the district that suffer from perceived benign neglect from City Hall. As the only Latina on the ballot, she may have some advantage demographically in a district where more than 51% of the population speaks Spanish. Her challenge is if she gets them to turn out to vote.

Bryant Odega, a UCLA graduate, who comes from the Harbor Gateway Neighborhood Council and has been endorsed by the Sunrise Movement, has been focused on bringing out the younger environmental activists. He is bright, intelligent and well-spoken.

Yet of all the candidates, he seems to have the highest hill to climb with little name recognition and is the only African-American candidate in a district where Black people only make up 13.7% of the population.

The wild card in this race is Anthony Santich, a businessman from San Pedro with deep family ties in the Croatian and Italian community and one of the several former San Pedro Chamber presidents not at McOsker’s opening.

Santich has been a fixture in the Los Angeles Harbor Area, especially in Wilmington for years. He almost ran against Joe Buscaino in the last election. Back then, as he was preparing to run, he claims that McOsker lobbied his then employer to pull the plug on him. So this race has some of the un-

Danielle Sandoval campaigning in Wilmington.

and that his district “has been struggling for far too long. Because our district has been one of the most hard-hit districts in the city when it comes to these issues. We must have the boldest fighter for justice, who is accountable — not to big money interests — but to the people.”

Danielle Sandoval

Bryant Odega listens to CD 15 residents at Watts Coffee House. Photos

by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

Bryant Odega

Bryant Odega is a teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District, renter, son of Nigerian immigrants, a community organizer for climate justice, and a former member of the Harbor Gateway Neighborhood Council. Aligned with Democratic Socialists of America’s Los Angeles chapter, Bryant affiliates himself with the politically progressive wing of American politics.

His campaign runs on a platform of grassroots activism, housing, economic and environmental justice. In his words, his campaign is “rooted in his love of humanity and sense of purpose.”

The goals of his city council bid include addressing the 25% poverty rate in the district, wanting to help mitigate the environmental and health impact of the massive port and urban oil field in the Harbor Area. Odega prides himself on being a candidate that refuses both corporate and big money donations, emphasizing an urge to get these sorts of interests out of politics.

“My theory of change in politics is building people power and mobilizing everyday people into having an impact on the political process,” Odega said in an interview. “In my district 60% of people are renters and they pay on average a third of their income on rent. I want to fight for all people, regardless of where they come from.”

Odega says that it was these issues that convinced him to run

Sandoval has served in multiple neighborhood councils throughout Council District 15. She is also a businesswoman who operates a paralegal service centered on intellectual property, family law and civil litigation.

Sandoval prides herself as a coalition builder and for the grassroots nature of her campaign, specifically, the rate at which she goes out to meet directly with constituents and how she self-educates on what needs to be done and where money is allocated.

On the built environment, Sandoval is very outspoken. She is against increasing the density in District 15, citing that they would increase crowding, that they are often awarded via officials giving the proposals to friends, and that the majority rental market they create is temporary and does not serve to create any generational wealth.

To address houselessness and help create homeownership, instead of density, Sandoval keeps on her an array of other tools. She pushes against the Airbnb market that consumes housing stock and is a proponent of a vacancy tax, both for business and residential buildings. Supporting this, she says, is how buildings are often simply abandoned by their owners and that the district’s residents are “being priced out of our community.”

Specifically for the unhoused, her program lines up with much of what is being done at first. She is in favor of the container housing, tiny home villages and micro-housing projects that are springing up throughout LA County. In addition, she seeks expansions and reopenings of mental health facilities and assistance for the unhoused in gaining skills and expungement of tickets.

She says she will address governmental structures both like a business and like a family. On city budgets she said, “The city is a business, I know the business. I started with looking at city budgets and realized it was upside down,” stating further that the current lack of transparency has resulted in major misallocation of departmental resources.

Parks and 15th District’s youth population are a crucial point of her platform. “I am a mom and I grew up in a high-risk area,” Sandoval said. “We need to create buffer zones around our schools and create green spaces.”

Sandoval talks about bringing affordability to youth recreation programs and fulfilling the promise of skate parks, after-school programs and youth sports. She says that these build relationships and create a sense of community, which seems to be the focal point of her entire candidacy.

[See Candidates, p. 16]

Life After Mother —

Overwhelmed by Free Gifts

By Lyn Jensen, Columnist

My parents both gave generously to nonprofit organizations, and those organizations were very generous with the “free gifts” often packaged with fundraising appeals. My parents were both good at saving everything too, so that means I have enough fundraising freebies — calendars, greeting cards, notepads (including the kind with sticky backing), address labels, stickers, postcards, appointment books, pens, pencils, bookmarks, tote bags, dreamcatchers, gift wrap, gift tags, stick pins, key chains and more — to stock a stationery store.

I’d like to support the same causes my parents did, but a look at my budget warns me not to. When I was young I gave generously to multiple nonprofit organizations. Now that I’m into my Social Security years, I need my limited fixed income to pay my bills, and I need to save thousands of dollars for the day my life becomes one long stream of health ailments.

I’ve tackled the junk mail monster, written and asked to be removed from mailing lists, but I don’t think I’ve been able to stop the flow entirely. I recycle what I can, but all these carefully saved freebies overwhelm even three bedrooms’ worth of storage space.

One reason organizing my mother’s house has taken so long is because I’ve had to sort, keep, store, use, recycle or trash years of “free gifts.” Take the stacks of greeting cards and envelopes that come with some fundraising appeals. I sorted hundreds of greeting cards and envelopes into six accordion-style expandable files.

how much goes into the waste stream? I’ve got two drawers full of notepads, enough to last me a decade, and I know not many households are going to be as scrupulous about saving and using them as I am. Just how many stickers campaigning against animal abuse or for women’s rights does any household need? I have so many address labels, they fill one drawer and spill into

another. Stickers can’t be recycled, and if there’s too many to use, they have to be thrown away.

I’ve got to question the waste of natural resources that these freebies represent. If these fundraising groups care about the planet as much as they want us to think they do, then they’d be wise to design campaigns that don’t generate so much — trash.

Dozens more just went into the recycling bin. I won’t have to shop for any greeting cards — for birthdays, holidays, “get well” or just about any other occasion — for years.

Dozens upon dozens of reusable shopping bags — almost all “swag” bearing a company’s or nonprofit’s logo — fill a drawer in the kitchen, clutter my car trunk, hang in the coat closet, on pegs in the service porch, on a hat rack in a bedroom, and some old-fashioned paper and plastic kinds are under the kitchen sink. It’s not even like I’m careless about using bags when I shop, but as fast as I move bags out of the house, more show up.

Not every freebie can be reused or recycled, so

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Will Haste Make Waste?

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mayor is elected,” Gunter said,.

Two other past mistakes are being repeated: the port is using misleading and/or inadequate project descriptions, and is potentially piecemealing projects to minimize analyzed environmental impacts.

Two of the studies substitute for full environmental impact reports, while the EcoCem study lays the foundations for an EIR, but doing so inadequately is a mistake, according Dr. Tom Campbell, who estimates he’s helped prepare or comment on close to 500 EIRs, and who called the EcoCem study’s project description “totally inadequate and incomplete.”

“EIRs kept me professionally busy for almost 40 years, so you might say I know a little bit about what I’m talking about,” Campbell told Random Lengths. “Do it right the first time.

Don’t have to do it over and over again.”

An EcoCem subsidiary, Orcem, announced a similar project at the Port of Vallejo on June 12, 2014. But five years later, on May 24, 2019, they bowed out, deciding not to appeal a decision of the local planning commission. According to the North Bay Business Journal, objections were raised by the California Department of Justice, Bay Area Air Quality Management District and California State Lands Commission. Similar objections could be raised here as well.

“It’s largely a manufacturing process that has only one displaced terminal berth and that would basically stop any further development along Berths 192, 93, 94,” Campbell said. “It just doesn’t seem compatible with the designated function of a port.”

A multitude of questions and possibilities remain. For example, a berth could be used to ship cement to Northern California in order to serve the market the Vallejo plant was intended for. The existing project would then be a case

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of improper piecemealing. Rail could be used, rather than trucks, to significantly reduce traffic impacts—which the port claims it doesn’t have to analyze under the most recent statewide guidance. Chromium-6 is only one of many devils lurking in EcoCem’s details.

Crude Oil Expansion Project

The first of the projects, the Phillips 66 Marine Oil Terminal (Berths 148-151) was released for a 30-day comment period on Nov. 18, but it was repeatedly extended until finally closing on April 22.

“Disguised as an improvement project necessary for compliance with the State Lands Commission’s Marine Oil Terminal Engineering and Maintenance Standards (MOTEMS), in reality this is an expansion project that would nearly double crude oil throughput at the Phillips 66 terminal,” a group of eight national and local organizations wrote in their comments.

The doubling of fossil-fuel capacity for a period of up to 40 years clearly violates California policy to phase them out. The repeated extensions reflect both the inadequacy of the original comment period and the level of public outrage.

But, according to Nave, repeated extensions do not allow for the kind of consultative public comment that neighborhood councils, for example, are supposed to have. Nave served as counsel to the elected charter reform commission that drafted the relevant city code.

“It says you have to give neighborhood councils a reasonable opportunity to comment,” Nave said. That means time to read and digest, pass through a subcommittee and come to a vote of the board—a roughly 90-day process.

Peter Warren made a similar point, with reference to the Port Community Advisory Committee (PCAC), established for precisely that purpose by Mayor James Hahn in 2001.

“PCAC should still be here doing all of these things, providing consulting through the subcommittee system to various community stakeholders so they could properly analyze and respond to these things,” Warren said. “It was disbanded for no good reason.”

The least stringent level of environmental review, a “negative declaration” was used for the John S. Gibson Container Parking Lot Project.

Adding insult to injury, the 30-day comment period began on Dec. 16, 2021—just before Christmas, when people are least prepared to respond.

(It was later expanded—by two weeks.)

“This project is proposed for land that has always been open space,” Gunter told Random Lengths. “Since nothing has ever been there, it clearly meets the highest threshold for a full environmental impact report.”

At the very least, “The negative declaration is premature,” Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council argued in its comments. “Several permits are required that may change the project description.”

The entire rational was faulty, they went on to argue: “The most striking thing about the document is that it says, in a number of places, that there will be no negative environmental impacts because the developer will comply with ‘all applicable laws’.

“On its face, this approach would allow a negative declaration for any project.”

Dr. Campbell also commented, calling the study “totally inadequate and incomplete,” going into specific detail on everything from construc[See Approval, p. 7]

[Hasty, from p. 6]

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tion plans (lack of “estimated cut/fill volumes, bulking, export of excess cut and import of suitable fill, and haul routes to/from the Project site”) to cultural, hydrological and seismic considerations.

“I cannot remember a project that had so many diverse groups on the same page opposing it,” Gunter said, including “neighborhood councils, environmental justice organizations, community activists, interested residents, including an ex-port attorney and ILWU Labor Unions 13, 63 and 94.”

West Harbor Amphitheater

Finally, on April 14, the port released an initial study for the West Harbor Modification Project, the latest incarnation for replacing Ports O’ Call. Most significantly, the earlier proposal for a 500-seat outdoor amphitheater has been dramatically expanded to 6,200 seats that would host “approximately 100 paid events per year, generally from April through November,” according to the Port. It “also could host smaller, local community, charity, and sponsored events year-round.”

Harbor Commissioner Diane Middleton was enthused. “No more drives to the Hollywood

Bowl or the Greek,” she wrote in an email. And Doug Epperhart, President of Coastal San Pedro, agreed, calling it “a very logical model” from a business standpoint. “The days of retail are gone,” he said. “People are going to come to the waterfront to eat, drink and be merry, and you know it looks like the eating and the drinking part is going to be provided for and now it’s the making merry that they’re looking to do.”

In addition, “You can actually have some benefit not only to the economy, but you know to the ecology of the place by providing entertainment closer to home,” Epperhart said. “The only real concern that I have heard is the noise aspect.

The port seems to have at least tried to make a serious effort to figure out how they’re going to move traffic around.”

But at least this is going to be a full EIR, so there will be plenty of time for such concerns to be fully aired. And the final judgment will be made by a new administration.

It’s worth remembering that hurried approval of the China Shipping Terminal is still reverberating through the courts 21 years later. The port’s fumbled handling of its mitigation failures is subject to lawsuits waiting to be heard in San Diego later this year. So, it might be best for the Harbor Commission not to hurry things through once again.

[Container, from p. 3]

Container Fees

said. “What had been recommended by us, and by several studies in the past, had been a fee in the $100 to $200 range per container.”

The port is not honoring these wishes with trucks, but will instead potentially charge this amount for empty containers. Gunter said this is because there’s a lot more money in the shipping industry than the trucking industry.

“These shippers have made millions of dollars from the COVID thing,” Gunter said.

Gunter said the port has not been clear as to what the collected fees will be used for.

“The bottom line comes back to the impacts on our community from all of this, and the fact that this money could go a long way in assisting to mitigate environmental impacts,”

Gunter said. “But they’ve never said where that money was really going to go. So, if it goes back to the port, in the port coffers, that of itself is meaningless.”

According to a press release by the port, “Any fees collected from dwelling cargo will be reinvested for programs designed to enhance efficiency, accelerate cargo velocity and address congestion impacts.”

Gunter argued that the money collected from the container dwell fee should be used to help the surrounding areas.

“If they’re going to do something with the money that makes sense, then that would be a great thing to do,” Gunter said. “But we’ve never seen any constructive dialogue on how if they ever did collect the money — which again, I believe is a disingenuous publicity stunt — that they would ever do that.”

SP Historic Landmark Gets Plaque

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This past week on April 23, the San Pedro Bay Historical Society unveiled the first plaque of its SPBHS Landmark Plaques Program on Pacific Avenue at the Deco Art Deco Building owned by George Woytovich and Patti Kraakevik. The building was constructed in 1930 and was once a Montgomery Ward Department Store. It still retains the classic architectural lines of the art deco style. Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

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30 Years Later The unsettled business of the 1992 Rodney King uprising

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

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Thirty years ago this week, four Los Angeles Police Department officers (Sgt. Stacey C. Koon, Officer Theodore J. Briseno, Officer Timothy E. Wind and Officer Laurence Powell) were acquitted of brutally beating a Black man by the name of Rodney King. The response in the streets of Los Angeles were both immediate and surprising as the residents of the city had witnessed one of the first video recorded examples of police brutality the year before and had waited for justice to be served in our superior courts. None seemed to be had as the fury related to the not guilty verdicts poured out into the streets, resulting in five days of rioting in Los Angeles. It reignited a national conversation about racial and economic disparity and police use of force — a conversation that was being had in the aftermath of the Watts Rebellion in 1965 — and its a conversation that we continue to have today.

In the wake of the Watts Rebellion, city leaders thought utilizing more militarized training would make the city safer. Chief Daryl Gates, if you don’t recall, is considered the father of the modern SWAT teams that exist in police departments across the country. SWAT was outfitted with antisniper units that are on-call to protect police stations and fire equipment and retaliate against rioting snipers during times of civil unrest.

Since then, they are utilized in drug raids and executing no-knock warrants with dubious success.

Anyhow, a few years before the ‘92 Rebellion, I often found refuge from a day’s work at Antes Restaurant, the last of the Croatian eateries in San Pedro. It was one of the great retro bars with a sunken well backed up with a full complement of liquors, a friendly bartender who knew your name and where longshoremen and women could sit eating and drinking at the bar. It often held a cast of characters that was as real as the people who worked the waterfront and the streets of San Pedro.

One particular character was a former LAPD officer by the name of Rod Decker who notoriously used to brag about his exploits of beating up Black and brown residents, explaining his accomplishments with a string of derogatories that I won’t repeat.

Most of the time the locals just ignored him as a blowhard. And yet one evening while I was sitting at the bar he went off on one of his racist rants. I looked around the bar at the Filipino bartender, Eddie,

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and down the row of ethnic patrons, I stood up, threw my hat on the bar and spoke quite directly, “Decker, I’ve had enough of your goddamn racist shit, so shut the fuck up!”

You could have heard a pin drop. Eddie busily hurried to wash some glasses and everyone else was just staring in their drinks waiting for some retort or perhaps a fight to break out. There was none, but in the weeks that followed every time I entered the bar Decker had some wisecrack to lodge in my direction about being a commie-pinko or worse. And I’ve heard worse from better people than him.

So it came as some surprise on the very night of the TV reports on the Rodney King beating in March 1991, you’ll recall the video was replayed ad nauseam. Today you’d say it went viral. I walked into the bar at Ante’s and Decker, seeing me in the reflection of the mirror behind the bar, turned and said quite bluntly in effectuated Spanglish, “Nolo contendere partner, that was not even a righteous bust.”

The King beating was far too brutal or blatant for even this racist cop to stomach. That says a lot about what happened a year later when the officers were all acquitted in a Simi Valley courtroom and the streets of South LA exploded.

The Los Angeles Police Department was totally unprepared and disorganized. Then the governor called out the National Guard and finally the United States military was dispatched. It was reported back on the 25th anniversary by NPR that, “When 911 calls about the violence started coming in, police were not deployed immediately.

Though LAPD Chief Gates announced early in the afternoon of April 29 that his officers had the situation under control, it would later be reported that the city was not adequately prepared for the riots. In fact, there was no anticipation of — or official plan at the department for — major social unrest on this scale.”

Here in San Pedro far, but seemingly not so far from South Central, the community was on edge just like when the Black Lives Matter protests happened, yet no one boarded up their storefronts and owners didn’t take to the rooftops with guns like they did in Koreatown. All was quiet on the Waterfront, so to speak, except that on the second night there was a major fire that broke out at the corner of 22nd Street and Pacific Ave. where Frank Acetta had started to build a motel. It wasn’t even half built and by the time I arrived on the scene it was entirely engulfed in flames.

By the looks of things the LA Riots had arrived

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in San Pedro and as I stopped to investigate the scene I was approached by an undercover cop who I knew from Ante’s. He seemed worried and then admonished me to be careful. He opened up the trunk of his unmarked car and pulled out a revolver and said, “Jimmy you might need one of these tonight.” He placed it on the fender and I looked at him, paused and said, “The fewer of these on the street tonight the better off we’ll all be.”

“Oh well that’s your call,” he said. It was later discovered the motel fire was lit on purpose to collect the insurance and was completely unrelated to the riots, but only used it as cover.

Now there’s several things that I learned from this, the motel that was destroyed 30 years ago but still hasn’t been built and has laid fallow all these years and is only now being considered for a development — that’s three decades of failure to build housing. Second, it was estimated that at the peak of the LA uprising that there were some 30,000 people involved in the riots. During the five days of unrest, there were more than 50 riot-related deaths — including 10 people who were shot and killed by LAPD officers and National Guardsmen. More than 2,000 people were injured, and nearly 6,000 alleged looters and ar-

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By contrast this is less than .01% of the total population of this great city that on this particular date chose to break the law which means that the other 99.9% of the population are comparatively law abiding citizens and yet are many times targeted even still in the same ways as Rodney King was. My conclusion is that we can’t ever hire enough police to put down an outbreak of violence where even .01% of our neighbors break the law at any given time and that our collective public safety relies more upon certain intangibles like cooperation and a justice system that is equitable.

So in this current era where certain politicians who are running for office are lighting the flames of fear about “crime running rampant” once again, we have to realize that the police rarely prevent crimes, they mostly respond to them. Prevention of crime comes from alleviating the causes that motivate desperate people to take desperate actions.

The social and environmental injustice issues that were the underlying causes in 1991, or 1965 for that matter, are still here today. I’m voting for those who want the cure, not those bent on repeating the cause.

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During some of the darkest days of World War II, American philosopher, Reinhold Niebuhr, wrote the following, “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

We’re living through another tumultuous, dangerous moment in history. All of us have been horrified by Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

A nuclear-armed despot’s response to a neighboring state whose only provocation is its desire to be independent and democratic. An invasion of this scale hasn’t been seen in Europe since World War II, and we’ve all witnessed the resulting death and destruction, and the displacement, in real time.

The stakes are enormous, and the courage displayed by ordinary Ukrainians has been extraordinary and demands our support. Unfortunately, a war in the Ukraine isn’t happening in a vacuum. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression is part of a larger trend, even if similar levels of oppression and lawlessness and violence and suffering don’t always attract

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About California as a “Transkids Sanctuary”

and that number includes Democratic voters.

Parents do not have the absolute right to do whatever they want to their children, and that includes indulging in the dangerous, destructive, demented fantasy that individuals can change their sex like flipping a switch. In study after study, researchers have discovered that children struggling with gender dysphoria will resolve their issues without any mutilation to their bodies. In further studies from the 1970s to the present day, adults and minors who receive “gender modification” do not enjoy any benefits or improved mental health, but rather tend towards higher suicidality rates.

Why would anyone celebrate or promote the mutilation of minors?! Random Lengths News, you have hit a new low.

Arthur Christopher Schaper Torrance

for the idea that we are a fad, remember that the Stonewall Riots, led by trans women happened in 1969, and you yourself state that studies on trans-ness date from the ‘70s. My own gender identity, femminiello, has been documented for centuries. In addition societies that recognize more than one gender are found on every continent at every point in history.

Secondly, as someone who has likely not had to look into the topic of medical transition for your own purposes, there is some ignorance in your words on how it works. For example “mutilation” which is often code for genital reassignment surgery, is never given to children.

The most drastic thing given to those under 18 is puberty blockers, which every endocrinologist will tell you is completely reversible should the one taking them decide against transition. Those under puberty age are not given anything medical, full stop, and only transition socially, which obviously can be undone. All of this is beneficial to the mental health of the children you supposedly care about, and this is a consensus shared by every major pediatric society in the country.

All I have to say, Mr. Schaper, is welcome to the dustbin of history, these views that you espouse will be embarrassing in the years to come, if not already so. Your transphobia of the ‘20s will make [See Letters, p. 16]

doing all of this, indeed, one of the biggest reasons for democracies weakening is the profound change that’s taking place in how we communicate and consume information.

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review on the Port of Los Angeles website at portoflosangeles.org/ ceqa. The IS/NOP is intended to solicit feedback, which helps to identify any potential environmental impacts and suggest possible alternatives for the project that can be incorporated into the environmental impact report.

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The proposed West Harbor Modification Project involves development of a 108,000-square foot outdoor amphitheater as well as an entertainment venue on 2.5 acres in the southern portion of where Ports O’ Call Village once stood. The amphitheater will feature up to 6,200 seats and would host approximately 100 paid events per year, from April through November. The venue also could host smaller, local community, nonprofit and sponsored events year-round.

The project would also replace a previously proposed 100-foot diameter Ferris wheel with an approximately 150-foot tall by 50-foot-wide tower attraction.

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Thank you Mr. Schaper for taking the time to read my piece. I am sorry to say there were several informational errors you made in your response that, as someone who has been living as a working class trans woman for seven years, I am more than happy to correct.

First is the notion that being transgender is an elitist fad. We experience poverty at 29%, more than twice the national rate. As

That too often, we’ve taken freedom for granted. What recent events remind us, is that democracy is neither inevitable nor self-executed. Citizens like us have to nurture it. We have to tend to it and fight for it, and as our circumstances change, we have to be willing to look at ourselves critically, making reforms that can allow democracy, not just to survive, but to thrive.

That won’t be easy. A lot of factors have contributed to the weakening of democratic institutions around the world. One of those factors is globalization which has helped lift hundreds and millions out of poverty, most notably in China and India, but which, along with automation has also upended entire economies, accelerated global inequality, and left millions of others feeling betrayed and angry at existing political institutions.

There is the increased mobility and urbanization of modern life, which further shakes up societies, including existing family structures and gender roles. Here at home, we’ve seen a steady decline in the number of people participating in

today, on Stanford’s campus, in the heart of Silicon Valley, where so much of the digital revolution began, because I’m convinced that right now one of the biggest impediments to

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I am really shocked at how corrupted and elitist Random Lengths News has become.

Instead of sticking up for the working man and his family, instead of fighting for the laborer and his children, you are giving into the latest woke fad of liberal Hollywood elites.

Transitioning of minors, i.e. gender modification of minors, in reality sexual mutilation of minors, is one of the most horrific practices yet to challenge our country, our communities, and the culture.

Transgenderism is a mental illness. It is impossible to change one’s sex. The notion that parents should be allowed to “transition” their children from one sex to another is an abominable crime, rank child abuse, nothing more.

Yes, I will write it once again: “transitioning” a minor is not “gender-affirming care,” but child abuse.

Some of the most left-leaning attorneys in the country, in the world, oppose such barbaric practices. If Random Lengths News bothered to ask San Pedro residents or members of the Longshore and Warehouse Union, they would find massive opposition to this vile madness. 96% of Texas voters opposes sex mutilation of minors,

the same levels of attention if they happen outside of Europe.

Autocrats and aspiring strongmen have become emboldened around the globe.

They’re actively subverting democracy, they’re undermining hard-won human rights, they’re ignoring international law.

Worse yet, democratic backsliding is not restricted to distant lands. Right here, in the United States of America, we just saw a sitting president deny the clear results of an election and help incite a violent insurrection at the nation’s Capitol.

Not only that, but a majority of his party, including many who occupy some of the highest offices in the land, continue to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the last election, and are using it to justify laws that restrict the vote, making it easier to overturn the will of the people in states where they hold power.

But for those of us who believe in democracy and the rule of law, this should serve as a wake-up call. We have to admit that, at least in the years since the Cold War ended, democracies have grown dangerously complacent.

unions, civic organizations and houses of worship, mediating institutions that once served as a kind of communal glue.

Internationally, the rise of China as well as chronic political dysfunction, here in the U.S. and in Europe, not to mention the near collapse of the global financial system in 2008, has made it easier for leaders in other countries to discount democracy’s appeal. And as once marginalized groups demand a seat at the table, politicians have found a new audience for old-fashioned appeals to racial and ethnic, religious or national solidarity.

In the rush to protect “us” from “them,” virtues like tolerance and respect for democratic processes start to look, not just expendable, but like a threat to our way of life.

So if we’re going to strengthen democracy, we’ll have to address all of these strengths. We’ll have to come up with new models for a more inclusive, equitable capitalism.

We’ll have to reform our political institutions in ways that allow people to be heard and give them real agency. We’ll have to tell better stories about ourselves and how we can live together, despite our differences.

And that’s why I’m here

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Pioneering West Coast rapper O.G. Domino, who recently released a single called 4U. Photo by Harry Bugarin/graphic

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name drops rappers past and present irrespective of region or coast they were representing. In an interview with Random Lengths News, Domino explained that one reason he made this song was to erase the divisions within hip-hop whether it’s regional, generational, or even the kind of hip-hop being produced and instead treated as one culture as it was in the beginning.

He said this song was his way of honoring the artists who paved the way so that others could financially support their families while producing music that furthered the culture.

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hen I learned Domino was coming out with a new single and that an interview with the West Coast legend had fallen into my lap, I searched on YouTube for his videos as memories of my 10th-grade year came flooding back with his song, Getto Jam, playing at every cookout, every picnic, every Juneteenth event. This single and Sweet Potato Pie from his debut album Domino joined the soundtrack of my life in the summer of ‘94.

Remembering Domino’s delivery as being closer to singing than rapping. I managed to find my fix, but found his fans filling up the comment section reminiscing about the role Domino’s songs played in their youth, while others expressed a thirst to hear Domino’s music again, live in the here and now.

Domino noted it was because of fans like these that his videos were on Youtube in the first place. Not that the Def Jam artist had anything bad to say about the label that launched his career.

He said he was thankful for his fans.

“You know, I came out on a label, Outburst [Records], and Def Jam,” Domino explained. “They were distributed by Columbia records.

“But when you go to YouTube, it’s not Universal who put up those songs or put up by any of those other companies. But the fans know. The fans are the reason for all this and for what’s about to happen. They kept all my “Getto jail” My “Sweet. Potato Pies,” all my “So Fly’s” all of my whatever it is that I did. The fans kept me relevant.”

Domino recently dropped a single entitled 4U which memorializes hiphop artists who have died from different causes.

Domino isn’t the first to do a song like this. Every so often, clarions of the culture such as Complex, XXL, and Allhiphop.com have put out best of lists. The top selections include Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s Tha Crossroads, the remixed version released four years after the album release honoring NWA’s Eazy E. The Getto Jam artist’s 4U is interesting in that he

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s COVID-19 restrictions fall away, even as COVID variants continue to pose a danger to the public, many of us have begun to take stock and reflect on what we have lost during the pandemic. As often happens with self-reflection, the spirit spurs the body to rise up to the challenge posed by the conclusion of our self-reflection. In this regard, restaurateur Nima Karimi, who runs Sebastian’s Mediterranean Cuisine and La Bocca Felice in San Pedro, is no different. Like everyone else, he has struggled with the fear of COVID-19 impacting the health of loved ones both directly and indirectly.

Iranian born, but reared in Norway, Karimi is no stranger to performing acts of kindness and thanksgiving. In the past, he has allied with other San Pedro restaurateurs to raise money for families fighting cancer, food insecurity and homelessness. Restaurateurs don’t typically broadcast these good works unless word of their good deed somehow gets out.

During the first month of the shutdown, Karimi donated 4,800 meals that came from his prior restaurant called Sebastian’s, as well as working with other organizations to help feed families in need.

Now that we are at the end of this tunnel, the light that comes towards you is not the train that destroys you, it’s more of a happiness that we see. — Nima Karimi Next month, Karimi is going to close down the restaurant and host a private dinner for families that haven’t been able, but could really use, a night out without any worries or cost. He said he won’t be publicly disclosing the date or time of the dinner, but if you or someone you know

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Nima Karimi, owner of Sebastion’s Mediterranean Cuisine and La Bocca Felice. Photo by Arturo GarciaAyala

would like to be a part of it, you are more than welcome to go on their Facebook page to check out the date or contact them directly.

Karimi said this was never about the money for him, but about bringing less fortunate families together. With COVID-19 and the accompanying restrictions that came with it, Karimi

just wanted to bring smiles to people’s faces. It’s about giving back to the community, but his target audience are those who haven’t been fortunate enough to visit his restaurant before.

This is about making people enjoy themselves with their families for one night, making them happy. It’s not a dream he’s trying to pro-

Dymally Jazz and Arts Festival Celebrates the Healing Power of Music

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Grammy Award winners David Sanborn and Poncho Sanchez are teaming up to perform at the Dymally International Jazz and Arts Festival April 30 at the Dignity Health Sports Complex at the California State University Dominguez Hills campus in Carson.

In partnership with Rainbow Promotions and benefitting the Dymally Institute, the outdoor concert supports leadership development for African American students enrolled at CSUDH, pursuing careers in public policy, education and beyond to serve communities that have minimal resources.

Collaborating with Rainbow Promotions, the festival features iconic artists, including

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Poncho Sanchez, David Sanborn, The Original Wailers, Kirk Whalum — with special guest Kevin Whalum, Avery Sunshine, Keyon Harrold and the Fernando Pullum Junior Jazz Band.

As Los Angeles slowly emerges from the isolation of the pandemic, the festival celebrates the healing power of music as jazz lovers convene for an afternoon of culture where music and art take center stage.

“We are thrilled to share our mission at a time when the world desperately needs solidarity,” said Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, executive director of the Dymally Institute, which uses music and art to underwrite thought. “The past two years have been physically and emotionally devastating. The city deserves the joy that comes from melodies that speak to the soul.”

A signature fundraiser for the Dymally Institute and CSUDH, the festival supports the organization’s mission to develop the next generation of political and community leaders who will advocate for systematic change to combat inequality. With the goals of using music, art and culture to create pathways to success for African Americans and other historically disadvantaged people of color, Dymally Institute prepares students to

Saxophonist David Sanborn, who will be performing at the Dymally International Jazz and Arts Festival on April 30. File photo

examine political and economic structures that impact marginalized groups.

“We’ve been through such devastating times as a global community,” said musician David Sanborn. “It feels great to be together again, especially as we rally behind such an impactful cause that creates opportunities for the next gen-

vide but simply a break.

“We have this cake and we can all share it,” he said as he explained the reason as to why he was going to host a special event in the upcoming month.

“A night off, their kids being next to them instead of mommy being in the kitchen or daddy having to be at work because they need the money and all these things, why don’t you guys come here? Like a normal customer, I give you the menu, order whatever you want on the menu, drink whatever you want to drink, whatever, and then, you don’t pay for it. It’s all on me,” he said.

Karimi said that including his two children, serving butter and bread, will be a highlight for him. Karimi explained the opportunity serves as a teaching moment for them while instilling the value of caring for their fellow man.

Perhaps the greatest lesson Karimi hopes to teach his children is the expression of gratitude, especially to the community and staff that has supported their restaurants and family throughout the family’s hardships. He reiterated that it didn’t matter how good he could be at doing what he does, he wouldn’t be anywhere without them.

While Karimi doesn’t have a formal description of the kind of families that would get a seat at his restaurant on this day, he was clear he was looking to serve those who have experienced hardship over the past year. Families can send him a direct message via Facebook to get a potential seat at the table.

Location: 301 W. 6th St., San Pedro Details: 310-935-2135 https://www.facebook.com/Boccafelice.la/ eration of leaders.”

The festival features a visual arts pavilion, a community fair with health and wellness resources, community retail vendors, and two performing stages of diverse international music.

Attendees can enjoy either general admission or VIP seating.

The organizers have installed hand sanitizing stations throughout the venue and have implemented other measures to keep the audience safe.

All proceeds benefit the Dymally Fellows Program, Sisters United Mentoring and Leadership Program and the Presidential Scholars at CSUDH. Time: 1 p.m., April 30 Cost: $75 to $120 Details: www.axs.com/third-annual-dymallyinternational-jazz-arts-festival Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park, Tennis Stadium, 18400 S. Avalon Blvd., Carson

Cambodia Town Founders to be Honored On May 6, LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva will be honoring members of the Asian American Pacific Islander community for the founding of Cambodia Town at a town hall event at the Carson Community Center.

The honorees include the leaders of the Cambodia American Group, Monorom Neth, Richer San and Sithea San. Considered the father of Cambodia Town,

Monorom was instrumental in getting the City of Long Beach to officially designate the onemile business corridor along Anaheim Street, between Atlantic and Junipero Avenues in the Eastside of Long Beach. He also established a Sister City relationship between Long Beach and the city of Phnom Penh.

From April 14 to 16, the east Long Beach neighborhood celebrated the Cambodian New

Year with Villanueva and his team of Los Angeles Sheriffs Department deputies participating in the parade as an LASD helicopter did several flyovers along the parade route. Richer and Sithea were this year's festival organizers.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva, center, with Monorom Neth, right, and his wife, Princess Kessar Norodom at the Cambodian Town Parade on April 3.

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PVAC ANNUAL STUDENT ART SHOW

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Palos Verdes Art Center/Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education proudly presents its Annual Student Art Exhibition, an exhibition featuring Palos Verdes Peninsula student work. This exhibition highlights this year’s artistic creations from PVAC school-based outreach program Art At Your Fingertips.

This exhibition and the Turner Semester Residency Program are brought together by the support and generosity of Marylyn GinsburgKlaus and chuck Klaus, as well as the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts. Opening reception April 30, 4 to 6 p.m.

The show runs through May 12.

Art At Your Fingertips, a 46-year old outreach program of PVAC, reaches 7,000 students annually on the Palos Verdes Peninsula with additional partnerships in Title 1 Schools throughout Los Angeles County. Run completely by parent volunteers, AAYF’s paramount objective is to help every child feel comfortable using art as a means of communication and expression­.

Details: www.loftartstudiosandgalleries.com Venue: Loft Studios and Galleries, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro

Opening reception on May 6, 4 to 4 p.m. The show runs through May 28.

Details: 310-541-2479; www.pvartcenter.org Venue: 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

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Folding The Maze is a group exhibition showcasing a selection of sculptures and installations by Syracuse University College of Art graduate students Jared leClaire, Angelica Starcovic and Declan Yert.

The exhibition is comprised of works completed this spring during SU’s Los Angeles Turner Semester Residency Program.

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Pepe Romero Enjoy an evening of rhythm and musical drama when Pepe Romero returns to the Terrace Theater stage to perform the evocative Medea by Manolo Sanlúcar, one of the key figures in the evolution of the flamenco guitar, in an evening also celebrating the music of Bach and Franz Joseph Haydn.

Time: 7 p.m. pre-concert talk, 8 p.m., April 30 Cost: $32 and up Details: 562-436-3203; www.longbeachsymphony.org Venue: Long Beach Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach Blues For Al Community Concert Enjoy an outdoor concert featuring the Lester Lands Band, Bill Grisolia and the New Blues Festival Allstars and Willy Aguilar.

Time: 2 p.m., April 30 Cost: Free Details: www.longbeachbluessociety.org Venue: Cesar Chavez Park, 401 Golden Ave., Long Beach

May 1

The Eagles Ronstadt Experience This show recreates the greatest hits of The Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. This tribute to the writing, performance, style and sound of the California country, folk, and rock music superstars has been carefully and thoughtfully re-created.

Time: 4 p.m., May 1 Cost: $35 Details: www.alvasshowroom. com/event/the-eagles-ronstadtexperience Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

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The PettyBreakers The Waiting is the Hardest Part when it comes to next month’s Tom Petty tribute. “The World’s Greatest Tribute to Tom Petty,” says Katie Daryl of AXS-TV, returns for a night of classics including American Girl, Free Fallin’ and Refugee.

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Time: 8 p.m., May 7 Cost: $28 Details: www.tinyurl.com/pettybreakers Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

April 30

Folding The Maze This group exhibition showcases a selection of sculptures and installations by Syracuse University College of Art Graduate Students Jared leClaire, Angelica Starcovic, and Declan Yert. Folding The Maze is comprised of artworks completed this spring. The exhibition runs April 30 to May 12.

Time: 4 to 6 p.m April 30 Cost: Free Details: 310.245.0517; www.loftartstudiosandgalleries. com Venue: Loft Art Studios & Galleries 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro

THEATER April 29

West Side Story See this timeless tale of rivalry and star-crossed lovers. West Side Story is celebrated as the greatest Broadway musical of all time.

Time: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 29 to May 8 Cost: $40 to $80 Details: www.palosverdesperformingarts.com Venue: Norris Theater, 27570 Norris Center Drive, Rolling Hills Estates If Nobody Does Remarkable Things A new play about what happens when we reach the point of no return. Anna couldn’t save the planet because she had to save herself. But now the dust storms are worse, the birds are all but dead, and Joel thinks she should try one last time.

Time: 8 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays, May 1, 8; 8 p.m.

Thursday, May 12; April 29 to May 14 Cost: $18 to $30 Details: www.panndoraproductions.com Venue: The Garage Theatre, 251 E 7th St., Long Beach

April 30

MOMIX MOMIX’s dancer-illusionists conjure the magical world of the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts in this reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s novel. Filled with visual splendor and startling creative movement, Alice reveals that nothing in MOMIX’s world is as it seems.

Time: 8 p.m., April 30 Cost: $45 Details: 562-985-7000; www.tix.com/ticket-sales/carpenterarts/momix Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach

May 5

Into The Woods Brothers Grimm fairy tales get a comedic twist in this musical of what happens after happily ever after. The late Stephen Sondheim’s tale comes to the Warner Grand Theatre in a poignantly reimagined production. When a childless baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a witch’s curse, they set off on a journey to break the spell.

Time: 9:30 a.m. May 5, 6; 7:30 p.m. May 6, 7; and 2 p.m. May 7, 8 Cost: $60 Details: www.encoresouthbay. org/events--tickets.html Venue: Warner Grand Theater, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

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Ongoing Blues-Birds at soundpedro2022 This new exhibit at Angels Gate Cultural Center features the work of Steven Speciale and his Loyola High School students. The exhibit consists of fabric birds that pay homage to Black artists while also acknowledging cultural appropriation and Black erasure. You can also view Here Hear, an exhibit about sound perception by Betsy Lohrer Hall.

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursdays to Saturdays Cost: Free Details: https://www.soundpedro. org/gallery-show-2022 Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

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Here Hear, 2022 This is a series of sound-sensitive, site-interactive activities that will take place in and around Angels Gate Cultural Center through June 4. Betsy Lohrer Hall and several collaborators will consider the physical experience of sound perception, experiment with sound making, and respond creatively.

This will culminate in a one-night show in the downstairs gallery at Angels Gate as part of soundpedro 2022 on June 4.

Time: 7 to 10 p.m., June 4 Cost: Free Details: angelsgateart.org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

April 29

Malaga Cove Library Art Exhibit The exhibit features The Artists’ Studio of Palos Verdes, a professional artist cooperative affiliated with Palos Verdes Art Center. The original artworks are offered for sale in a variety of styles and media including painting, photography and other wall hangings. Enjoy artworks showcasing the talent and expertise of local artisans and meet and mingle with the artists.

The exhibition runs through May 25.

Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., April 29 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/malaga-cove-art Venue: Malaga Cove Library, 2400 Vía Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates

Experience 51: TIME See the work of the artist who provided a feel for time for Jurassic Park, Back To The Future, Forrest Gump, Lincoln, Amistad, A.I., Star Wars and Avatar. ESMoA has invited a group of artists that will take on the challenge to play with concepts of time. TIME will feature drawings, collages, photographs, sculptures, movie memorabilia and large size paintings that will collage the ESMoA main space from floor to ceiling.

Time: 5 p.m., April 30 special preview Cost: Free Details: 424-277-1020; www.esmoa.org/period/future .

Venue: ESMoA, 208 Main St., El Segundo

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Here Hear Participate indoors and outdoors at Angels Gate Cultural Center. No previous meditation experience is necessary. Join for one workshop or both. Each session includes a brief artist talk, guided meditation, independent sound experience, creative response and dialogue.

The activity is ideally suited for those over 12 years old.

Time: 4 to 5:30 p.m. May 7 and 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. May 15 Cost: Free Details: angelsgateart.org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

May 10

Studio Soup Angels Gate Cultural Center will present Studio Soup, a quarterly series of candid conversations about art and process. The next installment, hosted by San Pedro artist Peggy Reavey and AGCC, features guest artists Michael Davis, Harold Greene and Eric Johnson. Join the virtual conversation on Tuesday, May 10.

Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m., May 10 Cost: Free Details: angelsgateart.org/studiosoup Venue: Online

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April 29

30th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival Since 1992, The Pan African Film and Arts Festival or PAFF has become the international beacon for the African diaspora film and arts communities. Annually, PAFF continues to showcase over 190 new Black films from the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, the South Pacific, Canada and increasingly, Asia. PAFF presents panels and workshops –– featuring industry professionals — and showcases films followed by filmmaker Q&As. Time: Various times, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. now through May 1 Cost: $50 and up Details: PAFF.org Venue: Online and at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 3650 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Los Angeles

DANCE May 1

CounterIntelligence: The Story of Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka, Part 1 Heidi Duckler Dance presents an episodic telenovela film told through dance in two parts, screening live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch.

Part 1 will stream live May 1 and includes An Evil Stream, the first episode and where the adventure begins for our protagonist siblings as they innocently wander into the enchanted woods. CounterIntelligence is a contemporary reimagining of a Russian folktale told in a tongue and cheek telenovela style.

Time: 6 p.m., May 1 Cost: Free Details: counterintelligence. eventbrite.com Venue: YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch

COMMUNITY April 29

Voices of the Rebellion 30th Anniversary Reflections This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the Los Angeles 1992 civil uprising. Theatrical performances will be performed live outdoors to remember, honor, illuminate, elevate and uplift the community of South LA, and the City of LA, in front of the installation, All Power to All People, a 28-foot-tall Afro pik with a raised fist. Six extraordinary artists (representing the six days of the uprising), were selected to showcase their work by a panel of judges.

Time: 5 to 7 p.m., April 29 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/voices-of-rebellion Venue: Leimert Plaza Park, 43rd Place, Los Angeles

April 30

Nature Journaling at Rancho Los Alamitos Artists and nature lovers, spend a morning at the Rancho learning drawing techniques from artist Carly Lake, immersing yourself in the site’s historic gardens and recording your observations.

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., April 30 Cost: $20 to $25 Details: www.rancholosalamitos. org/events.html Venue: Rancho Los Alamitos, 6400 E. Bixby Hill Rd., Long Beach Outdoor Volunteer Day at Abalone Cove Reserve Join the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy to volunteer at the newest restoration site on a coastal reserve helping eradicate invasive weeds to protect native species.

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., April 30 Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc.volunteerhub.com Venue: Abalone Cove Reserve, 5970 Palos Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verdes Virtual Family Nature Club Join the nature club on Zoom for special presentations and activities you can do at home designed to connect your kids with nature.

Time: 9:30 a.m., April 30 Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc.org/calendar/ Venue: Online Rainbow Connections This event is for LGBTQ+ youth ages 12 to 18. The event will feature dancing, music, food, resources and peer “rainbow connections.” There will also be a photobooth, DJ and dancing, gender affirming clothes as well as re-

[See Calendar, p. 15]

[Domino, from p. 11]

Domino

“The culture has been one-sided for a long time. You got your West Coast, East Coast, the South ... It should be just viewed as culture.

We’re losing a lot of people in the game,” Domino said.

This includes the deaths of rappers such as BizMarkie, DMX, TuPac and Pimp C. Some of them were lost senselessly.

Domino was speaking about hip-hop culture overall, but he was specifically focused on those artists living out the violence they rap about in their songs.

“We don’t stop with East and West. The West is where we lace our shoelaces,” Domino said.

He noted that in Long Beach, regardless of what gang you were repping, regardless of what set you belong to, you were first a Long Beach resident with kinfolk who made sure you were suited and booted, hair pressed and dressed in church on Sundays.

“To keep it real with you, no matter where you’re from, there ain’t no one who don’t know about church,” Domino said.

Domino explained everyone at some point gets a moment of quiet and contemplation that allows for inspiration to come tapping on your

O.G. Domino, left, with Arch1 Entertainment CEO, Howard Scott Jr. in the studio before the Random Lengths News interview. Photo courtesy of Arch 1 Entertainment

shoulder. For him, that moment came in the mid 2000s while he was sitting on a San Diego beach. At this point, he was able to put out some good music, had a hit record that reached No. 7 on Billboard charts, and chill with some of the greatest legends in hip-hop. Domino was satisfied.

“But I was still in the streets. Even when I

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., May 7 Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc.volunteerhub.com Venue: Alta Vista Reserve, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd., Rancho Palos Verdes

[Calendar, from p. 14] sources for grown-ups too.

Time: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., April 30 Cost: Free Details: rainbowconnectionslb@ gmail.com Venue: The Center Long Beach 2017 E. 4th St., Long Beach

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May 3

May 7

Outdoor Volunteer Day at Alta Vicente Reserve Come help restore habitat on the 22-acre restoration site to create a home for rare cactus wrens and gnatcatchers with beautiful views of Catalina Island.

May 13

Beachlife Festival Southern California’s premiere three-day live music, art and culinary experience. BeachLife Festival, first established in 2019, is a boutique, family-friendly beach party produced inside the surfing and skate culture of Southern California.

Time: 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., May 13 to 15 Cost: $160 and up

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Meet The Grunion Cabrillo Beach grunion runs are back. Join on the beach at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. Each grunion event includes: entry into the aquarium, timed tickets to a grunion short film, hatching experience and staff lead observation of a grunion.

Time: 9 p.m. May 3 and 17 Cost: $3 to $7 Details: www.friendsofcabrilloaquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

May 8

Northern Argentina Cacti and Succulent in Habitat From Gary Duke’s travels to Northern Argentina in November 2021, Gary will show 31 cacti genera and 15 succulent genera, including many species of gymnocalycium, lobivia, echinopsis and tillandsia, all native to Argentina.

He even found the elusive yavia cryptocarpa after much searching by his group. His talk will include some very interesting geological sites.

Time: 1 p.m., May 8 Cost: Free Details: 310-346-6206; southcoastcss.org.

Venue: Peninsula Center Library, Community Room, 701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates

May 14

Second Saturday Guided Nature Walk - Forrestal Reserve Appreciate some of the best wildflower viewing and dramatic geological formations on the cliffs of this former basalt quarry. See the faults, folds and igneous intrusions visible in the sedimentary bedding. The hike is moderate to strenuous.

Time: 9 a.m., May 14 Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc.org/calendar-guided-nature-walks/ Location: Forrestal Reserve, 32201 Forrestal Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes

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Cinco de Mayo Celebration in Carson La Sonora Dinamita with Vilma Diaz will lead this year’s entertainment line-up along with Corazon de Mana and Mariachi Santa Monica. In addition to non-stop entertainment, the fiesta also features a wide variety of food booths, game booths, arts and crafts, a car show and cultural displays.

Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 1 Cost: Free.

Details: 310-830-4925 Venue: Carson Park, 21411 Orrick Ave., Carson

George F Canyon Guided Nature Preserve Walk You will be guided by a trained naturalist to discover a unique variety of wildlife in their canyon habitat with amazing views of the LA Basin. Meet outside on the back deck of the George F Canyon Nature Center. Parking is available in the preserve lot located at 27305 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rolling Hills Estates. Rain cancels.

Time: 10:30 a.m., May 7 Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.org/calendarguided-nature-walks Venue: George F Canyon Nature Preserve 27305 Palos Verdes Dr. East, Rolling Hills Estates

Details: https://beachlifefestival. frontgatetickets.com/ Location: 137 N. Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach

was nominated for a Billboard award, I was still in somebody’s hood, rather than where I was supposed to be,” Domino explained.

The Sweet Potato Pie rapper went home and wrote the hook for a new hip-hop gospel song and wrote a few of the verses before breaking away from it for about a week. Domino went to a lowrider show at an auditorium in San Diego, after which he was approached by Pastor Sergio De la Mora of San Diego’s Cornerstone Church, who revealed he was a fan of Domino’s music.

When Pastor Sergio learned that Domino was working on what became Get It Right, Pastor Sergio urged him to finish making it into a CD that could be sold. The single wasn’t officially released until 2014.

Domino explained that the reason folks stateside haven’t seen much of him is because he’s been out there on every road in Europe doing the international thing.

“Sometimes in the states, when you do music and time goes by, it’s like a car. It depreciates,” he said. He noted the all too familiar phenomenon of having to chase event promoters, and whoever else to pay what they are owed, and even then the price negotiated pales in comparison to what he could get overseas.

“So, I’ve just been tiptoeing over there keeping my life right and taking care of my family, and doing it in a real way,” Domino said.

Between 4U and Get it Right, Domino collabed with Snoop Dogg on Baby So West Coast in 2020, the sound of which is so nostalgic, it’s like it could have been produced in the early ’90s and been a hit.

Over the years music writers, or rather, people who just didn’t know, would often try to say that the styles and sounds of Domino and Snoop Dogg were similar, while in the same breath act as if the two were rivals.

Domino explained that they were like brothers who met while they were attending John Marshall Middle School, along with Warren G, Nate Dog and the Twinz, consisting of twin brothers, Trip Locc and Wayniac.

Domino described Snoop as a young, talented battle rapper, while he was the one gifted with the pen. He explained that back in the day, before the fame, he used to write songs for Snoop.

In all, I interviewed Domino for about two hours. Some of those interviews ended up in the story while the rest is on RLn’s YouTube Channel: https://tinyurl.com/channel-rlnews.

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[Candidates, from p. 4]

Candidates Anthony D. Santich

A lifelong San Pedran, Anthony Santich has deep Croatian and Italian roots in the Los Angeles Harbor Area. His grandfather, Andy Trutanich, managed the Starkist Foods cannery which employed 4,000 residents. Santich says role models like his grandfather and parents shaped his sense of civic duty and appreciation for community involvement, engagement and advocacy.

A graduate of San Pedro High School and an All-Marine League athlete, he attended Idaho State University on an athletic scholarship. Upon graduation, he took up the professions of sales and marketing in the Los Angeles area. He later joined the business development and marketing group at the Port of Los Angeles. He held several roles and responsibilities at the port, including liaison to the Port Community Advisory Committee where he worked with Harbor Area stakeholders, and port marketing manager — in regards to container and liquid bulk terminals.

Santich volunteers for the Harbor Area Pilots Youth Organization, a football program for at-risk youth in Wilmington. He raised $50,000 for new helmets, uniforms and scholarships for financially disadvantaged student athletes who wanted to be on the team.

For more than ten years, Mr. Santich has been a volunteer with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force, which includes local, state and federal law enforcement agencies dedicated to investigating, prosecuting and developing effective responses to internet crimes against children. As a volunteer, Mr. Santich raised funds for the ICAC.

Describing the politics and institutions that animate the Los Angeles City Hall and the Port of Los Angeles as an elitist system that doesn’t work for the people, Santich has been a witness to unethical backroom deals, dubious lobbyist relationships, and systemic resistance to an open and fair process. He says these practices have led to wasteful spending of public funds, a lack of community benefits, and insider corruption.

Santich says his unique qualifications have given him an understanding of how to prevent the misuse of funds and fund employment opportunities, affordable housing, public safety and port pollution mitigation efforts.

les political scene and is close to former CD 15 Councilwoman and current LA County Supervisor, Janice Hahn. His entering of the race to succeed Joe Buscaino is a no-brainer. As of now, he has out-raised the most of any candidates leaning heavily on corporate and large union donations and paying out half of all his campaign expenditures and twice that of the total expenditures of the nearest campaign, roughly $50,000 to consulting groups Avila LLC and J&Z Strategies, ensuring that McOsker has a lot of skin in the game.

As a candidate, McOsker has five tent pole issues surrounding his campaign, houselessness, jobs, crime, climate change and transparency.

Council District 15 candidate Anthony Santich. Photo courtesy of the Santich campaign’s Facebook page

Tim McOsker

Tim McOsker is the former chief of staff to ex-mayor James Hahn and a police union lobbyist. Lately he has served as executive officer of AltaSea, an as-of-yet unbuilt institute for oceanic research, and sits on the board of a number of local non-governmental organizations.

McOsker has deep pockets in the Los Ange-

McOsker on unhoused Angelenos says he is an advocate of supportive housing and embraces such solutions as shipping containers to housing

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good company of the homophobia of the 80s and racism of the ‘60s. There is a legislative agenda right now to remove transgender people from public spaces by any means required, and I for one will not be quiet about it.

Anelia Kortkamp, Editorial Intern

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The Republican Party is pathetic, totally discredited and worthless in every respect. The complete contempt that the average corrupt conservative crackpot politician has these days for our democratic republic is cringeworthy. Right-wing GOP politicians clearly prefer Putin’s Russia and some are stupid enough to say so openly. Lock them up!

Republicans should be ashamed of themselves, but you would have to be at least somewhat self-aware to feel shame. 21st Century American conservatives are obsessed with building their bridge back to the 12th Century, but most Americans aren’t going there with you! (Enjoy your treasonous trip back to the Dark Ages, religious right whack jobs. Send us a postcard from back in time.)

Due to historical voting patterns, 2022 is a midterm election year in which the Democratic Party is likely to lose their slim majority in the US House of Representatives. However, thanks to Red State Overreach (which is far-right fascist Republicans pushing the political envelope way too far in their neck-of-thewoods, like taking away women’s constitutional right to choose and illegally attempting to end universal suffrage, for instance) will sink any chance Republicans had of legitimately winning a majority in the US Sen-

conversions, tiny homes, and renovation of existing facilities, without discerning between public or private operations.

On economic opportunities in CD 15, he proposes an emphasis firstly on local businesses and secondly on the perpetuation of well-paying union jobs.

Interestingly, McOsker’s website discusses the uptick in crime and calls for additional police funding. While true in the most micro of sense, violent crime is up roughly 0.4% statewide, he fails to mention that even with a marginal uptick we sit at historic lows since the 1970s, according to the yearly report put out by the California Attorney General’s office. This claim of his is then extrapolated to raise concerns of a lack of enforcement regarding gun laws.

In regards to climate and the dangers of climate change, he talks about ensuring a balance of greening our local industries without sacrificing the retention of workers.

His statements on transparency trend towards the confusing. He champions efficiency and transparency yet nowhere does he seem to outline how he seeks to achieve this.

Still, McOsker proves a candidate with a slew of resources and a long history of public service.

The Council District 15 Candidate debate with the above will be held virtually on Sat., May 7 at 2 p.m. see advertisement on p. 10 in this issue for zoom link or visit www.randomlengthsnews.com Editorial Intern Anealia Kortkamp contributed to this story.

ate this November.

You can’t gerrymander a statewide US Senate election, and the GOP is no longer politically capable of winning nationally without widespread election fraud after the disastrous, apocalyptic presidency of Russia’s bought-and-paid-for puppet Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin’s biggest fan and fervent follower.

Traitor Trump is guilty of pandemicide. One hundred percent guilty!

Also, because of that same conservative cluelessness that comes from living life in the ruby Red State Fox “News” bubble of bad information, don’t be surprised when several racist Republican governors who were said to be sure things for reelection in 2022 by the corporate media go down in fascist flames in their statewide races on November 8th, like Greg Abbott in Texas, Brian Kemp in Georgia, and Ron DeSantis in Florida.

Get ready to say Governor Beto O’Rourke, Governor Stacey Abrams, and Governor Charlie Crist (again).

Why? Because most Americans disagree with what policy positions the GOP has left. And if Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and Roger Stone are to be believed, all the GOP stands for in 2022 is worshipping delusional Donald Trump as their gorged golden calf and facilitating conservative cocaine-fueled senior citizen orgies with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) serving as the deviant dungeon master of sadomasochistic sexual ceremonies, according to several late-night TV comedians. Eyes Wide Shut, indeed. (R.I.P. Stanley Kubrick) Those hypocritical, bigoted, backwards Greedy Old Perverts of the GOP make me want to puke just like pre-Traitor Trump Republican President George Bush Sr. did all over Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa of Japan in 1992.

Jake Pickering Arcata, Calif.

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, Bids for the following Work: BERTH D48-50 TRANSIT SHED ABATEMENT AND RENOVATION PROJECT at 1251 PIER D STREET LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S3131A Bid Deadline:

the Port of Long Beach PB System website in order to view and download the Contract Documents, to be added to the prospective bidders list, and to receive addendum notifications when issued.

For the link to the Port of Long Beach PB System and for information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at www.polb.com/business/business-opportunities.

Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, SBE/ VSBE Program forms, Harbor Development Permit Applications and other Port forms are available at

Prior to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

Bids shall be submitted electronically via the Port of Long Beach PlanetBids (PB) System prior to 2:00 p.m.

Bid Opening:

Contract Documents Available:

Electronic Bid (eBid) results shall be viewable online in the PB System immediately after the Bid Deadline.

Download Contract Documents from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal: www.polb.com/sbe Click on the POLB Vendor Portal 1. Register and Log In 2. Click “Bid Opportunities” 3. Double-click on respective bid Project Title 4. Click on Document/Attachments tab 5. Double-Click on Title of Electronic Attachment 6. Click “Download Now” 7. Repeat for each attachment

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For assistance in downloading these documents please contact Port of Long Beach Plans and Specs Desk at 562-283-7353.

NonMandatory Pre-Bid Meeting:

NonMandatory Site Visits:

Date/Time: Location:

May 10, 2022 at 10:00 AM Microsoft TEAMS (virtual), Click here to join the meeting Tel: +1 323-451-1087 Phone Conference ID: 623 982 56#

Dates/Times: May 19, May 20, May 23 and May 24, 2022 at select times per the sign-ups Location:

Port of Long Beach Berth D48 Transit Shed 48 W. Pier D Street, Long Beach, 90802

If the Prospective Bidder is interested in accessing the interior of the warehouse building, the Prospective Bidder may request access by signing up on the following Sign-Up Genius link:

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https://www.signupgenius.com/ go/30E0B44A5AE23A1FD0-hds3131a

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Project Contact Person:

Brian Culligan; brian.culligan@associates.polb.com

Please refer to the Port of Long Beach PB System for the most current information.

NIB -1 Contract Documents. Contract Documents may be downloaded, at no cost, from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal website. Bidders must first register as a vendor on

www.polb.com/business/ permits.

NIB -2 Pre-Bid Questions.

All questions, including requests for interpretation or correction, or comments

regarding the Contract Documents, must be submitted no later than May 31, 2022, at 5 p.m. Questions received after the pre-Bid question deadline will not be accepted.

Questions must be submitted electronically through the PB System. Emails, phone calls, and faxes will not be accepted. Questions submitted to City staff will not be addressed and Bidder will be directed to the PB System.

NIB -3 Non-Mandatory PreBid Meeting and Site Visit.

The engineering staff of the City’s Harbor Department will conduct a pre-bid meeting at 10:00 AM, on May 10, 2022, via Microsoft TEAMS at the link provided above.

Attendance is optional. The presentation from this nonmandatory meeting will be posted to PlanetBids following the pre-bid meeting: all Bidders are encouraged to attend or review the posted presentation.

Requests to access and view the interior of the Transit Shed warehouse building shall be coordinated through Sign-Up Genius by navigating to: https:// www.signupgenius.com/ go/30E0B44A5AE23A1FD0hds3131a to access appointment slots. Interior site visits are not mandatory. Prospective Bidders must provide their email address when reserving an appointment date/ time with Sign-Up Genius.

Note: An appointment is NOT required to visit the exterior of the Transit Shed warehouse building and the Project Site.

Visitors without appointments shall remain in the public right of way and shall not, under any circumstances, attempt to gain access to the warehouse building or other secured areas.

It is required that Prospective Bidders use their personal vehicles for any site visit. The City will not provide vehicles or shuttle services for any site visit. The site visit appointments for interior warehouse access are limited to one (1) hour duration for each appointment time. A maximum of 5 individuals may attend at each appointment time.

Please refer to Sign-Up Genius for the available interior site visit dates/times. Only those listed dates/times are available and no other opportunities to visit the secured area will be scheduled. The City may elect to cancel the non-mandatory interior site visits should it be necessary at the discretion of the City to do so. Cancellations, should they be necessary, would occur prior to any interior site visits being conducted, with a minimum 48 hour notice required for cancellation notification. Prospective Bidders who fail to attend at their booked appointment time, and do not provide a minimum 48 hour cancellation notice, may not be granted

another interior site visit appointment time unless there are open appointments within the dates/times indicated in the Sign-Up Genius link.

or move objects. This also applies to any Prospective Bidders visiting the exterior of the Transit Shed warehouse building.

To gain entry access to the interior of the Transit Shed, all individuals must submit the following as attachments on the PlanetBids Q&A tab, no later than May 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.:

The City makes no guarantee that existing construction and site conditions matches conditions depicted on record reference documents. Should a Bidder elect not to attend the optional interior site visit, the Bidder shall not be relieved of its sole responsibility to inform itself of all conditions at the Project Site and the content of the Contract Documents.

• Signed “Agreement Assuming Risk of Injury or Damage, Waiver and • Release of Claims” provided in Appendix JJ; • Document of proof of a minimum 2-hour Asbestos Awareness training; • Document of proof of a Medical Evaluation, dated within the past one year, clearing the individual to wear a respirator; and • Document of proof of Respirator Fit test, dated within the past one year.

The City will review the provided documents, and will return the approved “Agreement Assuming Risk of Injury or Damage, Waiver and Release of Claims” form to the email address provided on the form. At the selected time/date for the reserved interior site visit, participants shall check in at the Transit Shed warehouse building with City Staff, by providing valid picture identification card (driver’s license or TWIC card). Participants must bring and don all of the following PPE to be given entry to the Shed: • Hard hat

• Steel Toe boots

• Half mask respirator as documented in Respirator Fit test • Ty-vek Suit • Gloves

• Strong operable flashlight

• Wet wipes to cleanse hands upon exiting.

All of the listed PPE must be furnished by the individual planning to use them; none will be furnished by the City.

Any Prospective Bidders lacking any of the necessary items will not be given access to the interior of the Transit Shed warehouse building; they will be allowed to walk the exterior site only.

Each Prospective Bidder who attends the non-mandatory interior site visit can inspect and examine the Project Site and perform any observations and measurements to further document existing conditions and may use photography and/or video to aid in preparation of Bid Documents.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems, i.e. drones or other similar systems, are prohibited at the site visits. Construction equipment, i.e. lifts, ladders, cranes, cherry-pickers, etc., are prohibited at the site visits. Participants shall follow OSHA safety guidelines and shall not climb on any objects

NIB -4 Summary Description of the Work. The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: hazardous materials abatement and/ or removal; buried railroad tracks removal and disposal; roofing; seismic retrofits; electrical, lighting, and communication systems decontamination and/or replacement; electrical and fiber optic systems installation; office demolition; restrooms reconstruction; fire suppression systems; interior and exterior painting; doors and windows repair and/or replacement; general civil work such as concrete work, paving, striping, fencing, and signage. Refer to Section 01 11 00, Summary of Work in the Technical Specifications.

NIB -5 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Contractor shall achieve Substantial Completion of Work within 485 calendar days and Affidavit of Final Completion of the Project within 575 calendar days as provided in Paragraph SC - 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed” issued by the City and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8.2 of the General Conditions. FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES SET FORTH IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ENGINEER’S APPROVAL OF AFFIDAVIT OF FINAL COMPLETION, WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS. NIB -6 Contractor’s License. The Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class “A” or “B”, California Contractor’s License to construct this project. In addition, the Bidder or subcontractor(s) shall hold a current and valid Class “C-22” California Contractors license to perform the Hazardous Material Abatement, and the Bidder or subcontractor(s) shall hold a current and valid Class “C-16” California Contractors license to perform the Fire Sprinkler System Modification work.

NIB -7 Contractor Performed Work. The Contractor shall perform, with its own

employees, Contract Work amounting to at least 30% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract. The amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. “Specialty Items” will be identified by the City on the Schedule of Bid Items. The bid price of any materials or equipment rental costs from vendors who are solely furnishing materials or rental equipment and are not performing Work as a licensed subcontractor on this project shall also be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees.

NIB -8 Mandatory SBE/ VSBE Participation. This project is subject to the Port of Long Beach (POLB) Small Business Enterprises (SBE)/ Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program.

The combined SBE/VSBE participation requirement for this Project is thirty percent (30%) of total bid value. The combined SBE/VSBE participation requirement shall include a minimum zero percent (0%) of total bid value as VSBE. POLB expects all Bidders to achieve the combined SBE/ VSBE participation requirements. Responsiveness of the bid will be conditioned on the Bidder submitting an SBE-2C Commitment Plan demonstrating the Bidder’s intent to meet the combined SBE/VSBE participation requirement. If the Bidder’s Commitment Plan does not demonstrate intent to meet the combined requirements, the Bid will be deemed nonresponsive. The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide information on the program requirements, including SBE certification assistance. Please contact the SBE Office at (562) 283-7598 or sbeprogram@polb.com.

You may also view the Port’s SBE program requirements at www.polb.com/sbe.

NIB -9 Prevailing Wage Requirements per Department of Industrial Relations. This Project is a public work Contract as defined in Labor Code Section 1720.

The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract. The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www.dir. ca.gov/dlsr/DPreWageDe-

termination.htm and on file at the City, available upon request. Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices.

This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. No Contractor or Subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 (with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1(a)). No Contractor or Subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5.

NIB -10 Project Labor Agreement. This project is subject to the requirements of a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), included as Appendix AA. The Contractor and all tier subcontractors must sign a Letter of Assent before commencement of construction and be bound by each and every provision of the PLA, including, but not limited to: payment of prevailing wages; payment of fringe benefit contributions to union trust funds on behalf of workers; use of union hiring halls as a source for workers; follow alternating referral procedures if employing Core Workers; and Local, Disadvantaged, and Veteran worker utilization goals.

Per the Department of Industrial Relations, projects covered by a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) are exempt from the requirement to submit electronic CPRs directly to the Labor Commissioner’s Office. In lieu, the Contractor and all Subcontractors will be required to submit electronic or hardcopies of CPRs and labor compliance documentation to the Port of Long Beach.

NIB -11 Trade Names and Substitution of Equals. With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit

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George J. Gleghorn Jr. May 27, 1927 - Aug. 27, 2021

George Jay Gleghorn, Jr. was born to Angelina Binda Gleghorn and George Jay Gleghorn, Sr. in San Francisco, California. He grew up in San Francisco, Oroville and Bucks Lake, Calif., in the company of many maternal cousins.

George attended the University of Colorado at Boulder on a special accelerated Naval officer training program, receiving a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with Special Honors in 1947. He met his future wife, Barbara Joy Meadows, at a non-Hellenic dance. They married in 1948 when he also achieved a Master of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (CalTech). He was sent to Japan as a Naval Communications Officer during the Korean conflict. When he returned, he earned his PhD cum laude from CalTech in 1955.

Dr. Gleghorn worked as a digital computer designer for Hughes Aircraft 1947-49, as a systems designer for Jet Propulsion Laboratories 1950, systems engineer for Ramo-Woolridge Corporation 1954-56, and then worked for Thompson Ramo Woolridge/Space Technologies Laboratories and many other TRW offshoots until 1990. During this time he was a manager for the Pioneer 1 and 5 and Explorer 6 scientific satellites, the Able 5 Lunar Probe, OGO and POGO geophysical observatories and worked as vice president and manager in space defense, product integrity and space vehicles, ending his career as vice president and chief engineer.

He held numerous advisory positions, including the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of California at Berkeley, 1980-1990, California Institute of Technology, 1983-1989.

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Member of the Space Advisory Board, University of Colorado, 1985-1989. In retirement he was active as an advisor to the U.S. government, authoring a NASA report on protecting spacecraft from the orbital debris and advising NOAA on satellite guided weather systems. He is the author of five scientific papers on computer science and aeronautics. He was elected as a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering in 1990. He belonged to numerous societies of electrical engineering, aeronautics and computer science.

Dr. Gleghorn was deeply involved in public service on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. He served the PVP Library Board from 1968-1983 as trustee and then president. The Gleghorns helped establish Save Our Coastline (SOC), and he and Barbara were prominently involved in the successful effort to incorporate Rancho Palos Verdes as a city. He served the new city as Chairman of the Finance Advisory Committee on Taxation, 1986-1987. He was a board member of the Harbor Free Clinic in San Pedro. He and Barbara were founding members of the Pacific Unitarian-Universalist Church. They were also founders and continuing vigorous supporters of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy.

George was known for his fine voice. He sang barbershop with friends for CalTech, played guitar and folk songs, and sang in the church choir. He was a fanatic reader, crossword puzzle master, stamp collector and creator of puns. Barbara joined him on many international and national adventures, often with friends and relatives. He and Barbara were frequent hosts of international visitors. They are renowned

RANCHO PALOS VERDES — After more than 50 years in operation, Marymount California University, a small Catholic school in Rancho Palos Verdes, announced April 22, it will close at the end of this summer.

The university, in a statement, said the decision to close stems largely from financial struggles driven by declining enrollment, increasing operating costs and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This comes after the university merged with Saint Leo University in Florida in a move that was to be an opportunity to expand each of the schools’ offerings. However the merger fell through in recent months after the regulatory approval process hit a snag.

The final slate of courses will end this summer, and the school will permanently close on Aug. 31, officials said.

for the length and loyalty of their friendships, maintaining a relationship with the Soshitsu Sen XV, Grandmaster of Tea in Kyoto since the early 1950s, and a continuing 51-year friendship with a French CalTech exchange student.

He is survived by his wife Barbara, children Beth, Brian and Alice, and grandchildren Kalia and Eric Rothlind, Kira Levin and Gianna Gleghorn.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy (pvplc.org) or the charity of your choice.

The Gleghorn children invite you to the celebration of the life of George Gleghorn on May 15, 6 p.m. at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center, 31501 Palos Verdes Drive West, Rancho Palos Verdes.

Court Rules in Favor Returning Bruce’s Beach to Owners’ Descendants

Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff denied a petition by a Palos Verdes resident asking that Bruce’s Beach not be returned to the descendants of its original owners. In 1924, Manhattan Beach City Council took the property away from Charles and Willa Bruce through eminent domain. It was a resort that catered to Black residents, and white residents were not happy about it. Judge Beckloff said that the taking of the land away was racially motivated.

The land was recently transferred by the county to the family by use of California Senate Bill 796, which eliminated statutory restrictions that previously prevented this.

Details: https://tinyurl.com/Brucesbeachreturn

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NIB -12 Prequalification of Contractors. NOT USED

ninety (90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first.

NIB -14 C o n d i t i o n a l Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights. The Board, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity.

The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder.

NIB -16 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code.

NIB -15 Period of Bid Irrevocability. Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds and other acceptable Bid Security shall be guaranteed and valid for

NIB -17 Iran Contracting Act of 2010. In accordance with Public Contract Code sections 2200-2208, every person who submits a bid or proposal for entering into or renewing contracts with the City for goods or services estimated at $1,000,000 or more are required to complete, sign, and submit the “Iran Contracting Act of 2010 Compliance Affidavit.”

Issued at Long Beach, California, this 24th day of March, 2022.

Mario Cordero, Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California Note: For project updates after Bid Opening, please contact plans.specs@polb.com

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NIB -13 B i d S e c u r i t y, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a

Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. All Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City.

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a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the non-specified item is of equal quality to the item specified, no later than fourteen (14) calendar days after City’s issuance of Notice to Proceed (NTP). Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City.

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