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It’s Beginning NCL Debuts New Debs Pop Open to Look at Lot See People in the News Page 3 a Party! Like Grinchmas! See Valley Entertainment See Page 6 See Page 7 Volume 37, Number 42 Serving Warner Center Since 1982 December 12, 2019 ***When stripping in - take out date lineCandy below Valley Cane Vantage Lane - we’re - Sweet getting Beginningdouble lines!!! and Still Going Strong News in Brief It was the brainchild of just two women meeting for a “coffee Hate Crime Hits Topanga klatch.” The year was 1950, and Mooie Harrington and June A swastika and graffiti reading “mass shoot everyone” was Ashen lived on Lubao Avenue found Tuesday near Topanga Elementary Charter School in Woodland Hills and decided to in Topanga Canyon. This follows other threatening graffiti “spruce up the neighborhood for found earlier this month around the school. LLAPD A and L.A.S V I R G E N E S A N D the holidays.” County Sheriff’s were called to investigate and the school has Ashen was the first resident arranged for increased police presence while the hate crime on Lubao, moving there in is being investigated, even though the threat was deemed 1948. Harrington was third - her non-credible and there was no evidence of a direct threat to husband built their house in 1949. the school. L.A.A School LBoard memberABASAS Nick Melvoin said, NTERPRISE C As the neighborhood E grew “I am Vespeciallyolume 49,saddened Number when 42 these hateful messages Serving Calabasas Since 1963 December 12, 2019 the two friends corralled other threaten to disrupt a place of learning, just outside the walls neighbors to simply decorate where we teach our children every day to act with kindness their mailboxes as candy canes. and compassion.” But soon the whole block got in on the project and a local plumber T.G.I.Friday’s Closing Sunday donated tin stove pipe to make Candy Cane Lane continues to attract visitors at holiday time. actual candy canes, which were After almost 40 years in Woodland Hills, T.G.I.Friday’s painted white and then wrapped at 5919 Canoga Avenue is closing their doors this Sunday with red tape. - just short of 2,080 Fridays serving up potato skins, wings Eventually, their husbands and more. The iconic red and white awning will be taken got involved, and brought out down and over 60 employees will be let go. Management skill saws and electrical cords and could give no conclusive reason for the closure but five other started adding to the decorations. T.G.I.Friday’s have closed in 2019. Rumors are floating on Mooie recalled that every Facebook about another restaurant taking over the site but year, “we added something new, nothing has been confirmed as of presstime. but there was always Jesus, Mary and Joseph.” “We started planning on Halloween,” she recalled, “but wouldn’t actually start decorating until the day after Thanksgiving.” (Continued to page 19) The sweet, simpler beginnings of Candy Cane Lane. Calabasas Passes Gavel to New Mayor The City of Calabasas official representative of the City held its reorganization meeting for all legislative and ceremonial Wednesday night in council purposes. chambers. Weintraub began her city At that meeting Alicia career on the Bicycle Advisory Weintraub was officially named Committee, and from there the city’s new mayor, with moved to the Environmental James Bozajian named mayor Commission ad hoc committee, West Valley Playhouse Gets New Stage pro tem. Current Mayor David becoming a commissioner. The West Valley Playhouse will soon have a new home! Shapiro stepped down from She served as Vice Chair of Director Jon Barry confirmed that they have leased the old the post amid numerous kudos the City Planning Commission Guitar Merchant building at 7507 Topanga Canyon Blvd. and commendations from city from 2013 to 2015. She was Move-in date will be sometime early next year when they officials, chamber members, elected to the Council in 2015. will leave their temporary stage at Westfield Promenade. Rotary members, elected officials She has served on the board Currently they have launched a fundraising campaign and more. He will remain on the of directors for Temple Aliyah, entitled “Building it Together” to raise funds to renovate the council. Bay Laurel Elementary and The building. The Phase 1 fundraising goal is $25,000. For more Every year the mayor is Foundation for Las Virgenes information or to donate contact Barry at (818) 884-1907 or selected by the City Council Schools. visit wvplayhouse.com from one of its members for a Weintraub holds a Masters one-year term and serves as the Mayor Alicia Weintraub in Public Policy from Pepperdine. Page 2, Valley News Group, December 12, 2019 DECEMBER COMMUNITY COMMUNITY Old paint. Solvents. Batteries. Computer monitors. These are some of the household hazardous waste and electronic waste items you CALENDAR TOO can bring to a Roundup for recycling. It’s a great opportunity to clean out your garage and clean up the environment. Our free drive-thru, drop-off events are a NORTHRIDGE: Elizabeth Waldo and company will present “Holidays at the TOXIC quick, convenient, and common-sense way Rancho” and the world premier documentary of “La Maestra” on Sunday, to dispose of materials too toxic to trash, December 15. The festivities will begin with a wine and hors d‘oeuvres pour down a sink, or dump in a storm drain. TO reception at 5:30 pm, followed by a traditional candlelight procession at 6:30 pm. The concert theatre show starts at 7 pm. The event takes place at the New 101 . d Mission Theatre, located at 9015 Wilbur Avenue. For reservations call 993- R s e n e 1669 or email [email protected]. g r i TRASH V . s Rd a ma Household Hazardous Waste L Piu . WEST HILLS: u d The Woodland Hills Woman’s Club will hold their December b R i l & E-Waste Roundup . a n MALIBU CIVIC y M CENTER C PARKING LOT general meeting on Thursday, December 19, from 10 am to 1 pm. Live music Exit Only Cross Creek Rd. Enter will be provided by the El Camino High School Camerata, performing a Saturday, December 14, 2019 Paciﬁ c Coas Civic from Civic t Hwy 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Ctr. Way Center Way medley of holiday music. The meeting will be held at Shepherd of the Valley 1 Lutheran Church, 23838 Kittridge St. RSVP to Jane Leisure at 225-0843. Malibu Civic Center PACIFIC CALABASAS: The United States Youth Volleyball League registration Rear Parking Lot OCEAN for their 2020 spring program is open. The instructional volleyball league 23519 West Civic Center Way No Business Waste Accepted provides boys and girls ages 7 to 15 the opportunity to learn and play volleyball in a fun, safe and supervised environment. Practices will begin Malibu Brought to you by the County of Los Angeles and presented by the Department of Public Works and the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County in cooperation with the cities April 4 with practices on Tuesday and Saturday. Register online at www. For more information of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, Los Angeles, Malibu, and Westlake Village. usyvl.org. Call (888) 988-7985 for more information. or an event schedule, contact: Home-generated sharps waste such as hypodermic needles, pen needles, syringes, 1(888) CLEAN-LA, lancets, and intravenous needles SHOULD NOT be placed in your trash. Bring them to www.CleanLA.com the Roundups or visit www.CLEANLA.com for alternate disposal options. MALIBU: The County of Los Angeles will hold a free household hazardous or 1(800) 238-0172 You can also take your used motor oil to more than 600 oil recycling centers and e-waste roundup on Saturday, December 14 from 9 am to 3 pm. Safely www.lacsd.org in Los Angeles County. Call 1(888) CLEAN-LA for a complete listing. dispose of waste such as antifreeze, unused pharmaceuticals, car batteries, motor oil, paint, pesticides, sharps waster, fluorescent light bulbs and electronic waste at the Malibu Civic Center rear parking lot, 23519 West Civic Center Drive. For more information visit www.lacsd.org/services/ solidwaste/hhw_e_waste/cityofmalibu.asp. CALABASAS The sixth annual Calabasas Speakers Series registration will be open as of December 11. Tickets can be purchased online through active. net or at the Calabasas Senior Center. Speakers include Michael Scott Moore on January 24 about his book The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast, Razmik Madoyan On February 28 on art and antiquity smuggling and Louise Aronson March 20 on elderhood - redefining aging, transforming medicine and reimagining life. For more information visit cityofcalabasas.com or call 224-1777. VAN NUYS: Friends in Astrology will meet Wednesday, December 18, at 6 pm at Denny’s Restaurant. Our speaker Elise Hicks, with over 40 years experience as an astrologer and metaphysician, will lecture on the three major eclipses in 2020 which will affect us personally and financially and may change world history. For more information call (661) 755-6233 Valley News Group, December 12, 2019, Page 3 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS COMMUNITY Calabasas resident Ray Parker Jr., received the FestForums’ “Living Legend” award. FestForums is an industry conference for festivals producers, promoters and professionals. Guitarist/songwriter/ producer Ray Parker Jr. had hits as Raydio (the million-selling “Jack The New LA Yard and Jill,” “You Can’t Change That”), Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio (“Two Get up to $15,000 rebate when you replace your grass Places at the Same Time,” “A Woman Needs Love [Just Like You ® Do]”), and Ray Parker Jr.

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