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To P a N G A' S I N D E P E N D E N T Vo I C E S I N C E 19 76 ECRWSS EDDM PRESORTED STD POSTAL CUSTOMER US POSTAGE P A I D GARDENA CA PERMIT NO. 40 March 19, 2021 • Vol. 2, No. 5 No. 2, Vol. • 2021 19, March Topanga’s Independent Voice Since 1976 Since Voice Independent Topanga’s SOLD ABOVE ASKING PRICE! 2124 Tuna Canyon Road, Topanga | $1,800,000 Inventory in the canyon is extremely low, and median prices are the highest, ever! The Median Price for all Topanga Homes in the past 3 months is $1,665,000! If you’ve had thoughts of selling your home, now is the time. Vaccines and the world reopening even more have only added to the strong Topanga Real Estate Market! The Wright Way Team has highly qualified buyers for your home. Buyers are eager to leave congested cities, and Topanga is the place! Hundreds of Buyers have reached out to our team about buying property in Topanga in the past year, at all price points! We need more homes to meet the demand. Join the fast growing ranks of Topanga homeowners choosing to sell with Compass. As the #1 Compass Team in 2020/2021 in Topanga Home Sales, and the #2 Topanga Team overall, we are well positioned to match your home with the perfect buyer. Let us leverage the industry defining Compass Platform and exclusive tools, to get your home sold quickly, and for top dollar. INTERESTED IN LEARNING HOW COMPASS CAN DELIVER A BESPOKE, WHITE GLOVE, SMOOTH, SAFE, AND SUCCESSFUL TOP DOLLAR SALE OF YOUR HOME? CALL THE WRIGHT WAY TEAM TODAY. WE LOOK FORWARD TO BEING OF SERVICE. @thewrightwayteam 2020 TOP SELLING COMPASS TOPANGA AGENTS. PASSIONATE LOCAL AGENTS. UNPARALLELED MARKETING REACH. INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY. RESULTS DELIVERED. AN EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER. Adrian Wright Jordan Wright 818.939.6415 818.746.6987 [email protected] [email protected] DRE 00935559 DRE 01952694 Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. Market share based on available MLS and off market data from 2020 90290 SFR sales. Thinking Out Loud In Praise of… ometimes, it feels right to give over this editorial space to community voices because someone said, better Sthan I ever could, what needs to be heard. As the pandemic progressed through more than a year now, Jean Colonomos kept a diary, a COVID-19 Diary, which brought to us terse colloquies of people we don’t Publisher / Editor know, yet we heard their voices, not unsimilar to ours, during dark days. Now, it’s time to praise those “who Flavia Potenza speak the frequency of humanity,” and name some of our own. —Flavia Potenza, Editor Creative Director Nira Lichten Associate Editor COVID-19 Diary Kait Leonard By Jean Colonomos nascent in movements like Black Lives Matter, Senior Reporter StopDiscriminAsian, Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Annemarie Donkin Dear Reader, about national voting rights, Say Her Name, the Join me as I praise Women’s marches, #neveragain formed by high Creative Consultant Jthose who speak school students from the Stoneman Douglas the frequency of shootings fighting for tighter gun control and in Eiffel Nazaryan humanity. Join me our electing Kamala Harris, an African American Contributors in praise for doctors Vice President with Indian heritage. I praise and health care Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives’ Linda Ballou workers who, in double impeachment of the former Destroyer-in- Joel Bellman the beginning of the pandemic, lacked personal Charge. I praise the American people for electing Kathie Gibboney protection equipment, had to breathe through Joe Biden and for all the positive actions he’s taken headache inducing N95 masks and wore makeshift from Day One, among them, halting construction Paula LaBrot plastic garbage bags to protect themselves and their on the Keystone Pipeline, rejoining the Paris Amy Weisberg patients. I praise frontline workers who were denied Climate Accord, taking action on LGBTQ rights, protective gear. Church bells toll to mourn and praise reuniting families in the U.S. forcibly separated, Copy Editor / Distribution those who died in isolation with only a phone call and safe access to abortion, among others. I praise Ellie Carroll for a final “good-bye.” I praise those like my hustle- Mother Nature and the endless reams of beauty bustle friend, Ann, who found new appreciation in she provides: dark swallows in flight lighting up staying home. I praise Topanga’s stores, restaurants, the pale sky; how skinny legged sand pipers scurry Contact US the Topanga library and their workers for putting in [email protected] place necessary safety measures so our community General inquiries: could thrive. I praise Helen and Simon, owners of [email protected] the Topanga General Store who stock a cereal for Advertising inquiries: elderly me so I won’t have to venture into a big [email protected] supermarket. Further praise for the kind Ahrens- P.O. Box 1101 Pigott family who shop and deliver my groceries, Topanga, CA 90290 and Karla and Joe of Morrison’s Heating and Air (310) 460-9786 who help the community and me in countless ways. Every morning Karla and I check in and I’m Follow us on Instagram @thecanyonchronicle, reminded of how these phone calls reflect a loving & Facebook and twitter @CanyonChronicle friendship that grounds me. I praise her industrial engineer husband who speaks like an artist when The Canyon Chronicle is an he shares, “I talk to my machines.” I praise the independent community newspaper question Leslie asks, “What if fear is safe?” I praise published bi-weekly by Canyon Media, editor Flavia Potenza and The Canyon Chronicle’s Inc.©2020. All rights reserved. staff for keeping our community current with thecanyonchronicle.com local and world news. I praise my daughter’s mantra, “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” I praise the Topanga Women’s Circle that outfits apartments for veteran’s families when they move PHOTO BY into a new place while reorienting themselves to The view from Jean Colonomos’ home that inspires her to write, “I praise Mother Nature…when a deer civilian life. I praise the generosity of citizens like Topanga’s Independent Voice Since 1976 shows up and its spirit reminds us to be gentle to March 19, 2021 • Vol. 2, No. 5 Jon Rivera, Artistic Director of Playwrights’ Arena, ourselves and others.” who often cooks Filipino dishes from his native country. Since theatre has been closed, he sees his on the beach then swerve in unison; the monarch chef role as a new creative endeavor. “Two months butterfly’s stained glass wings; the intoxicating smell into this year, he’s whipped up two dishes a day, of lavender; and the wonders of imagination nature six days a week.” The food he offers is free. I praise provides. I praise Sheila, co-owner of Ashland’s undocumented workers who risk their lives for a Bloomsbury Books and our 50-year friendship better future in America. I praise organizations like where we live between the words; my daughter and No Kid Hungry, Feeding America, and Mazon who son-in-law, my three young grandchildren whose provide free food to countrywide food banks. I love and laughter fill me with happiness. I praise praise the doe that showed up and spent two hours my diary contributors who’ve generously given me on my land because something “interested” her. permission to use their words—Andy, 2 Anitas, When a deer shows up, its spirit reminds us to be Cathy, Clare, Jay, Karen, Karla, LM, Lou, Marsha, gentle to ourselves and others, this messenger that Mary Kay, Sarah, Star, Uncle Red, Yves, and many harbingers an awakening about to be born. I praise others. I end in praise for all that we have come the worldwide goddesses and gods of science who through and for new vulnerabilities that have quickly developed three vaccines though they’re become part of our lives. PERMIT NO. 40 NO. PERMIT GARDENA CA GARDENA P A I D I A P US POSTAGE US now researching what to do about dangerous new CUSTOMER POSTAL PRESORTED STD PRESORTED strains. I praise Dr. Fauchi where, in his recent Epilogue by Phil Taggart: “a / cartoon / bubbles EDDM ECRWSS interview with NPR’s Teri Gross, I learn how / a question / and then / blinded / by / expedience Photographer Stephen Berger has been to scientists found that some of the 20 years of AIDS / the answers / are boxed, wrapped / and never the Sepulveda Basin at dawn many times research was essential to create these vaccines delivered // mostly we are forgotten / like angels to photograph birds and such but on that morning, it was cold enough that mist was in such a short time. I praise the planets that on dancing on pins / like moths caressing the flame / rising from the lake. “It was the first time I’d Dec. 21, 2020, birthed us into the Age of Aquarius self reconciled / as our pyramids crumble / god is seen it do so, and when the sun peeked over the where in the next 200 years we’ll gain enhanced in the box / dreaming / and all we really know / is horizon, it was so beautiful I couldn’t help but perceptions and a greater social conscience already now / and all we really want / is to be loved.” n push the shutter.
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