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Lulu Kamatoy Passing Shoes for Soles Nighttrek Report: Kids and COVID: Collecting What to See A UCLA Doctor Volume 39, Number 52 Footwear at in the March Sky on Keeping March 4, 2021 Calabasas See Page 11 Kids Safe ***When stripping in - take out date line below Valley Vantage - we’re getting double lines!!! Senior Center See Page 8 Page 7 L A S V I R G E N E S A N D CALABASAS ENTERPRISE Volume 50, Number 52 Serving Calabasas Since 1963 March 4, 2021 NEWS IN BRIEF Going Hungry in the Valley West Valley Animal Shelter to Reopen By Laura Levinsky Call it rationing. Call it Following months of speculation around a proposed plan to money management. Call it food convert the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services’ (DAS) insecurity. West Valley Center into a Community Resource Center, and I don’t know who put the tentative plans to reopen it, Los Angeles City Councilmember fancy label on it, but trust me, John Lee announced today that the animal shelter reopening when you’re hungry you don’t is finally confirmed. say you’re “food insecure.” “Since last summer, I have fought to get the West Valley You’re just hungry. Center reopened as a City-operated animal shelter and I’m How is it that in such a very glad to let our residents know that we succeeded,” said prosperous country, we have Lee. “Without this facility, the entire San Fernando Valley thousands of people going would only have one City-operated animal shelter and neither hungry? How is it that I nor the Valley’s millions of taxpaying residents were okay thousands of children with that outcome.” go to bed hungry every The West Valley and North Central animal shelters were night? Yet, the number temporarily closed last April in order for DAS to respond to a of people visiting food reduction in staff and resources due to the COVID-19 pandemic. banks is up between Cars line up at the “COVID-19 has upended our lives and our sense of normalcy, two and four times West Valley Food Pantry, and it has reinforced the necessity of facing unprecedented the average from challenges with creativity, compassion, and resolve,” said before the pandemic. above, for boxes of dairy, Mayor Eric Garcetti. “Reopening this shelter will help save the Not nationwide, (left), meat, produce lives of countless animals in the West Valley and ensure that they not statewide, but here and more. each have a home where they are loved, cared for, and valued.” in our own community. The West Valley Animal Services Center located at 20655 In this country it’s a travesty living on the street. I’m talking Several local agencies are Plummer Street in Chatsworth will reopen on March 15 to that even one person goes to about the tired woman in the doing their best to address this once again serve the people and animals of the San Fernando sleep hungry. It’s even worse line behind you. The student problem and insure that the people Valley. now during the pandemic, struggling to study on an empty in their respective catchment area when so many more are out of stomach. The family that can’t are fed. VICA Presents Women in Leadership work, homeless and hurting. feed their children, right here in The West Valley Food Pantry And it’s just not about those Woodland Hills and Calabasas. (Continued to page 13) The Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA) will present “Extraordinary Women in Leadership” at a virtual event on Friday, March 19, from 9 to 11 am. Community Leader Lulu Kamatoy Passes The event will feature two panelists and a keynote speaker who will discuss what we have learned from this last year and Community leader Lulu Arthur Anderson as a supervisor, what we can look forward to in the near future - as women Kamatoy passed away last night, she returned to her first love, leaders and business owners, parents and residents of this March 3, from complications of theatre, in the artistic and musical crazy new world we live in. COVID. community of Evansville, Opening speaker is Angela Reddock-Wright, attorney Born Lourdes Aguas in San Illinois. with Reddock Law Group, and the keynote speaker is Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines, There she was an artist Stephanie Hseih, Executive Director of Biocom LA. A she received a Bachelors in representative, President of the special guest speaker is Erika Beck, President of CSUN. English at the University Santo Evansville Arts and Education Panelists include California Assemblywoman Laura Tomas in Manila. After studying Council, Vice President of the Friedman, California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, California in England, she got a theatre of the University of Evansville Assemblywoman Luz Rivas, L.A. City Councilwoman Monica degree at Rose Bruford College in Theatre Society, on the board of Rodriguez, School of Engineering and Applied Science at Kent, then moved to New York to Arts Insight and the USI Society UCLA’s Jayathi Murphy, VP of Risk Management at Southern get an MA in Educational Theatre of Arts and Humanities and California Gas Company Deana Ng, Senior Vice President at NYU. a panelist at the Indiana Arts and Management Director of Trust Advisory for U.S. Bank In New York Kamatoy was Commission. Kate Phelan, and Chief Communications Officer of Metro part of the 1960’s Greenwich She and Ernie moved to Yvette Rapose. Village art scene, with Andy Los Angeles in 1992 with Tickets for the event are $100. VICA Circle of Influence Warhol and other pop artists. their daughter Lisette. She and Business Leader members receive a free ticket. To reserve There she met her husband, immediately became active in a ticket call Cathy at VICA at (818) 817-0545 Ernie Kamatoy, a graphic artist. the community, and served on After a seven-year stint at Lulu Kamatoy (Continued to page 2) Page 2, Valley News Group, March 4, 2021 COMMUNITY MARCH COMMUNITY Lulu Kamatoy Passing (Continued from page 1) fashion show and luncheon program for girls and women in CALENDAR the board of directors of Valley fundraiser, which featured many the Philippines. Cultural Center beginning in other community leaders on the Due to COVID services are 1996, serving as Vice President runway. pending and will be announced at from 1997 to 1998. She was a proud Rotarian, a later date. WOODLAND HILLS: Tim Gaspar of Gaspar Insurance’s next In 2001 she took the helm as first with the Warner Center Those wishing to make neighborhood cleanup will be focused on Ventura Blvd between Canoga Executive Director of the Valley Rotary, where she was named donations in her name can send Avenue and DeSoto Ave on the south side of the street this Saturday Women’s Center in Canoga Rotarian of the Year in 2000, them to City of Hope (1500 E. March 6. There will be fresh breakfast burritos from Pickwick’s Pub Park, which offers treatment and then Calabasas Rotary, where Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010), for those of you that can help and of course fresh coffee. They will programs for men, women and she was president 2015-2016, Rotary International for their meet in front of Pickwicks Pub at 9 am this Saturday, March 6. Please children suffering from substance then most recently the San Rotoplast Cleft Palate Program call Gaspar Insurance at (818) 302-3060. use disorders, domestic violence Fernando Evening Rotary. She (Rotary International, One Rotary and other threats to family was Assistant District Governor Center, 1560 Sherman Ave., CALABASAS: The Calabasas Library is offering a series of free stability. for Rotary International District Evanston, IL 60201-3698, USA) online instructional programs for adults on art, crafts and healthy living. There Kamatoy was 5280. and PACE International, (the The series called “Spring into Creativity” will start on Wednesday, instrumental in growing the During her retirement she Indian school) 1 N. Calle Cesar March 10 from 1 pm to 2 pm and continue every Wednesday through small nonprofit into a substantial didn’t stop, getting involved Chavez, Suite 102, Santa Barbara May. The first class is a Creative Collage art workshop. Free art kits community organization. She with a girls school in India and CA 913102. will be provided to patrons beforehand by appointment or a drive pioneered its “Vanity Faire” planning to develop a similar thru. Patrons 16 and older can sign up for the classes on the library website as well as get more information on the full program schedule. For more information, email Barbara Lockwood at blockwood@ calabasaslibrary.org. WOODLAND HILLS: Woodland Hills resident Jackie Goldberg, aka the ATTENTION! Pink Lady, will host America’s Got Talent star Ronee Martin on her Pink Lady Presents television show this Sunday, March 7, at 5 pm. 2021 SeniorS Tune in to KSCI Channel 18. For more information email pinklady7@ earthlink.net or call Goldberg at (818) 606-6679. The GELB Charitable Foundation is accepting CALABASAS: The Calabasas Chamber will present UCLA Health’s Scholarship Applications for FALL 2021 Dr. Sharon Macaluso at their Zoom meeting March 11 at 11:30 am. The topic will be “COVID-19, Where Are We Today?” For more information call the chamber at (818) 222-5680. $1,000 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS SCHOLARSHIP CONSIDERATION IS BASED UPON APPLICATION • Student’s Financial Need DEADLINE • Community Involvement March 31, 2021 • Completed Application • Student must attend a University, College or Trade School located in the San Fernando Valley Download an application at www.gelbgroup.net/community Or email your request for an application to [email protected] Gelb Charitable Foundation 6200 Canoga Ave., Suite 201 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 818-377-2277 El Camino Defends Decathlon Championship The Academic Decathlon team, above, from El Camino Real Charter High School (ECR) successfully defended its regional championship at the Southern California Independent Charter Academic Decathlon Regional Competition that took place on January 30 and February 6 of this year.
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