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NEWS IN BRIEF Reseda Mother Arrested After Murdering Her Three Children Reseda resident Liliana Carrillo, 30, was taken into custody Saturday morning after murdering her three children, hijacking a vehicle and evading the police for several hours. The grandmother of the three victims found the children (a three-year-old, two-year-old and six-month old infant) when returning home to the 8000 block of Reseda Blvd. Carrillo was eventually found and arrested in Tulare County and remains the sole suspect in the case. While there is no clear motive at the moment, according to court records, Carrillo was engaged in a complicated custody battle with the childrens’ father, Erick Valley Cultural Foundation Denton, who reached out to DCFS multiple times for aid in the matter. Announces Park Summer ArcLight Sherman Oaks Entertainment Lineup! Theatre to Close Doors For Good The Valley Cultural Chicago Experience - A From top: View from Foundation (VCF) will be Tribute to Chicago the park concert stage (photo: In a major blow to the movie industry and a large returning this summer for the July 18 – The Coma La Jim Brammer) and July 4th’s indicator of the financial impact of COVID, Pacific Theaters 46th concert season at Warner Flor Band - Tribute to Selena headliner, Ticket to Ride. announced that they will be permanently closing their ArcLight Ranch Park. Nora Ross, CEO, July 25 - Surf City All Cinemas and Pacific Theatres locations. This includes ArcLight said, “After this last year we are Stars, tribute to The Beach Boys their own chair, sitting on blankets Sherman Oaks within the Sherman Oaks Galleria, one of the all looking forward to returning to August 1 - Heart vs. is not allowed. biggest retailers in what is quickly becoming a defunct shopping the park to enjoy music, friends, Fleetwood Mac tribute battle -All aisles must stay center. On the company website, Pacific indicates that while and the return to normalcy, August 8 - Rising bands clear throughout the entirety of they explored all potential options for reopening, the company although a somewhat different Plastic Culture, Beyond the the events- no dancing outside of “does not have a viable way forward.” normal.” Reserve, and Strange Brew your designated seating area. In line with COVID August 15 - One Hit - Groups can have up restrictions, the season will Wonders with the Tribe and to six people (from the same be opening later than usual, special guests household) in the same area. Johnson & Johnson Vaccines starting June 27, 2021. There August 22 - The Long - Masks will be required will be 10 concerts through Run, Tribute to the Eagles throughout all events when out- On Hold After Blood Clot Reports September 5, as well as August 29 - Tierra side of your core group. Councilman Bob Blumenfield’s Sept 5 - To be announced - Food Truck orders Johnson & Johnson have temporarily suspended all July 4th Extravaganza hosted by With the COVID must be placed in advance. COVID-19 vaccines after various reports of serious blood Woodland Hills Porsche. restrictions there will be changes -Vendor booths will clotting in vaccinated females. Six women between the ages The Concert Season in the park during the events and include a wider separation of 18 and 48 developed blood clots six to 13 days after being includes: they ask that all that attend, for between them and no more than inoculated, leading to one death and one hospitalization. Johnson June 27 - An evening of the safety of others, that all adhere three allowed at each booth at one & Johnson was currently making up 4% of California’s vaccine original R&B music starring the to the guidelines set forth by time with a six foot separation. supply. The CDC is currently reviewing the blood clot cases and rising talents of Terrell Edwards, the Los Angeles County Health -There will be no Beer decided to suspend vaccines in an abundance of caution. The Brittney Crush, and AV!VA Department and Department of and Wine Garden this summer. CDC still encourages all who are eligible to get the COVID-19 July 4 - Councilman Recs and Park of Los Angeles. Alcoholic beverages are not vaccine, citing these effects are extremely rare and should not Bob Blumenfield’s July 4th New guidelines as of allowed in the park at any time. discourage anyone from getting vaccinated. Extravaganza presented by April 15: - As of April 8, 2021, Woodland Hills Porsche starring - There is a required LA County Health Department is Ticket to Ride with opening act minimum of six feet separation requesting all large-scale outdoor Illunis between you and the next group. event attendees have July 11 - Kenny Cetera’s - All guests must have (continued on page 14) Encino Enterprise, April 15, 2021, Page 2 CALENDAR APRIL

Community Calendar * Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino will be holding an Open House for prospective students on Friday, April 16. To schedule your appointment, email [email protected] or call 818-654-1329.

* Join the West Valley Regional Library, in partnership with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, on Tuesday, April 20, at 4 pm for their Artist in Residence program. Debra Disman, a skilled bookmaking artist will be the guest. For the Zoom link, send an email to [email protected] with AIR in the subject line.

* Van Nuys Airport, in association with The Valley Economic Alliance and Councilwoman Nury Martinez, will be hosting a virtual Aviation Career Day on Friday, April 30, from 10 to 11:30 am. Find out the myriad of career pportunitues that exist in the aviation field. Space is limited so reserve your spot today at eventbrite.com/e/ aviation-career-day-2021-registration-146836358501.

* The Encino Neighborhood Council will be holding their General Board Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, April 28, at 7 pm. For the link, visit encinonc.org.

* Join the Encino Tarzana Library on Wednesday April 21, at 9:30 am for magical spring songs and stories with Miss Rebecca. For ages K through 3rd grade. For the Zoom link, email ecalla@ lapl.org.

* The Encino Chamber of Commerce will be hosting their next Chamber lunchtime meeting on Tuesday, April 20, from 11:45 to 1 pm. The guest speaker will be Leila Lee, Community Business Manager at the office of Mayor Eric Garcetti. Lunch is free for members and $10 for non-members. To rsvp, email info@ encinochamber.org.

* ONEgeneration, in partnership wtih UCLA Health, is hosting a “Heart Health and COVID-19” workshop on Thursday, April 29, from 10:30 am to 12 pm. Cardiologist Boris Arbit will discuss how to maintain a healthy heart in conjunction with COVID-19. To sign up for this free event, register at tinyurl.com/ sjobhd4w or call 800-516-5323.

* “From the Eyes to the Hands” is a new exhibit featuring artists Farideh Azad and Donna Geist Buch at the Topanga Canyon Gallery. The exhibit runs from April 16 to May 16. For more info, visit topangacanyongallery.com.

* April is Occupational Therapy Month and Rehab Specialists want to help you avoid injury and optimize function through proper ergonomics. Join them via Zoom on Wednesday, April 21, at 5 pm as they teach you the proper work-from-home ergonomics and tips for creating a proper workstation. Email info@ rehabspecialistsinc.net for the link. Encino Enterprise, April 15, 2021, Page 3 People in the News COMMUNITY

* An IT specialist posed this interesting question the other day...Do British websites use biscuits instead of cookies?

* Stefania Simmons, a teacher, tells the one about the teacher who asked her first graders to spell the word “straight.” One little boy spelled it correctly so the teacher asked him what the word meant. “It means without ice,” he replied without hesitation.

* The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was now a small medium at large.

* One wiseacre reader reports it takes 46 muscles to frown but only four to flip the bird. Remember that!

Local Sherman Oaks author E.T. Page is * While we’ve all seemed to up our online shopping this past celebrating the release of a debut novel entitled A year, one astute individual made the quip that USPS seems to have Marvel of Magick: Madden and the Dark Unicorns of two tracking updates: 1) We’re not sure this package exists or 2) It’s arrived. Danuk. This is the first in what is intended to be a series of stories about a boy in the LGBTQ community who occasionally finds himself tasked * Sign of the times: A notice outside a local strip club: Sorry, with saving the world. When main character Madden Edwards encounters a real unicorn we’re clothed until further notice. in peril and manages to help save its life, he is given the chance to transform his own life into one of real magic. The book is scheduled for release on May 1 and is available on * Tammy Silver asks what do you call a fish without eyes? A fsh. Amazon and Barnes and Noble. * Word of advice: If you don’t pay your exorcist, you could be repossessed.

* Thought for the day. Doesn’t “expecting the unexpected” make the unexpected expected?

* And is it good if a vacuum really sucks?

* Finally, in honor of 4/20 coming up- some pot jokes: How do fish party? Ans: Seaweed.

What do you call a person who remembers what they did at Woodstock? Ans: A liar.

After months being benched due to coronavirus, the Encino Little League was finally able to get back on the field and celebrate Opening Day last Saturday. Baseball is back on the schedule and the little ones were masked up, uniformed and ready to batter up! Good luck this season!

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Dan Brin While most may have Joyce Fletcher previously downloaded the Martin Cooper app “ShakeAlertLA,” it has Rickey Gelb been officially retired as of messages to mobile devices to magnitude greater than 5.0. Glen Kovacs December 2020. Rather, the warn users of imminent threats in Users must “opt-in” Brad Rosenheim City is encouraging everyone to their area. on their mobile device settings Miri Rossitto download the latest “MyShake” Authorized national, to allow WEA notifications and Richard Sherman which covers the whole state, not state, or local government allow location services to be on. just LA. Scott Silverstein authorities can send WEA The app is free for both Apple and Molly Unger Wireless Emergency warnings for incidents such as Android users. John Walker Alerts (WEA) send Amber Alerts, severe weather For more info, visit geographically targeted, text-like warnings, or earthquakes with a earthquake.ca.gov. 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Email “Register Me” to [email protected] valleynewsgroupwoodlandhills Encino Enterprise, April 15, 2021, Page 6 BUSINESS His “Next Chapter” on Retiring Was Opening a Used Book Store By Kathleen Sterling biographical, photograph and art LAW OFFICES OF LAURA WHITEFIELD “Oh, to be surrounded books. by books,” said Lemony Snicket. “There are some It’s the dream of many collectible books in a glass case a serious reader, (including this near the front desk, but Next writer) to have books within reach Chapter is more where you at any time, to be surrounded by go for copies of the classics, a books, to own a book store. (If paperback novel, a book on a you don’t know who Lemony subject of interest, or a one-off Snicket is though, perhaps it’s title from years ago.” In a nod not your dream.) to his past occupation, there’s a But it was for Boyd large military books section. Davis, a retired naval navigator, It’s what sets him off who decided to navigate the from a Barnes and Noble, Davis world of booksellers instead. told Valley News Group. “I’ve In 2006, Davis rented a got a zillion more titles, and small store in Canoga Park and some really obscure ones. I had opened Next Chapter Books. He a customer looking for a mystery had no inventory, but borrowed written in 1948. He only knew it books on consignment from other had ‘time’ in the title. But combing Boyd Davis and his books. FAMILY LAW independent bookstores to fill through our mystery section he some of his shelves. found that one particular book. literature, spy novels, children’s DISSOLUTION • LEGAL SEPARATION He then went hunting He’d been looking for it for six or and young adults books, mystery on his own, had people walking seven years.” and fantasy. PATERNITY • CUSTODY • VISITATION in the door to sell books and had Davis cleans and makes And does the reality of PROPERTY DIVISION book scouts bringing boxes of minor repairs to the books if running a bookstore live up to the CHILD & SPOUSAL SUPPORT books to sell, until he reached the needed. He’s got good lighting fantasy? over 38,000 volumes he has in above the stacks, so searching Davis laughed. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE the store today. for titles is easy. The main part “Moderately well. It takes a lot When you walk into of the store is divided between of work so I don’t get as much the store you walk through what non-fiction - history, philosophy, time to read as I thought.” Has he (818) 704-9500 State Bar #174249 Davis calls the “Fine Arts Lobby,” general biographies, metaphysics, read them all? Davis laughs and which contains poetry, music, sports business, science and more, says he’s a big reader - but a slow theatre, entertainment industry, and the rest of the selection is reader! The store also keeps him busy as he runs it himself. “I’m always trying to replace books on the shelves, handle incoming books and buying new ones. I try to read while having lunch at my desk.” He prides himself that he’s one of a few independent bookstores still open in the valley. He credits that to a lot of SCORE counseling he got when he opened. And now 15 years later, he’s still working his way through reading - and sharing - those 38,000 books. Next Chapter Books is located at 21616 Sherman Way. Phone 704-5865 or visit nextchapterbooks.com. Gift certificates and book trade-ins available. United Chambers Hosting Virtual Spring Mega Mixer The United Chambers is hosting a virtual “Spring Fling” Mega Mixer on Thursday, April 29, from 4 to 5:30 pm. Connect with old friends, make new ones and network with chamber members from 17 valley chambers. Hotsheets of attendees will be provided. Cost of the event is $20 for chamber members, $30 for non-members. Register with your cowe.com | 1-800-527-3646 individual chamber today (info@ encinochamber.org). For more 20969 VENTURA BLVD, SUITE 216A, WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364 information, email florine31@ sbcglobal.net. Encino Enterprise, April 15, 2021, Page 7 BUSINESS

Community members organize the donated books (above) while kids paint one of the lending libraries (below). Encino Lending Libraries Hope to Spark the Love of Reading in Kids Local elementary installing the first lending library school teacher Aarika Rhodes filled with donated books. is on a mission to instill the Not only are the kids a love of reading in the hearts of part of the process but they are community children. encouraged to utilize the free Rhodes is running library to create a community for Congress in the West San of readers. In utilizing a lending Fernando Valley and one of library where the idea is to her biggest initiatives is the borrow a book or swap out one education of kids, including their for another, monetary restrictions learning about and engaging in are not in play and lenders are democracy. In doing so, Rhodes is free to use the library at will. committed to inspiring the youth The first event was April in the community to acquire a 10 at Balboa and Burbank within passion for reading, the stem of the Sepulveda Basin Recreation knowledge. To spark this idea, area where participants created Rhodes has established the first, libraries that are now stationed of what is to be multiple, lending in Sherman Oaks and Reseda. libraries in the local communities. The next set of libraries will be To kick off the program, located in Encino, Northridge and Rhodes invited local children and an additional spot in Sherman their parents to be a part of the Oaks. process; building, painting and Happy reading!

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The Westfield team: left to right: Brian Parent, General Manager; Ashley Itliong, Marketing Director; Eliza Jeschke, Marketing Manager; Ryan Selvin, Assistant General Manager.

VNG: One year ago, measures we’ve taken at Westfield VNG: E-commerce took an Instant Deals, flash offers from restaurants and fast casual eateries. Westfield Topanga & The Topanga & The Village include but increasing share of retail sales in your favorite brands at Westfield We also have outdoor fitness events Village had to shut its doors due are not limited to enforcing mask 2020. How did Westfield Topanga Topanga & The Village exclusively at The Village in partnership with to COVID-19. This put a lot of wearing, regularly disinfecting our address this and the growing available on the Westfield app. 24 Hour Fitness and Healthy Spot, pressure on brick and mortar common areas such as restrooms, expectations of customers today? VNG: Now that LA County and our upcoming Mother’s Day retail. What was that like and how seating, dining, and any other Ashley Itliong: From a has moved into the orange tier, Gift with Purchase event where did you overcome this? high touch areas, providing our customer service and amenity what can guests expect to find Westfield Rewards members can Brian Parent: The impact employees and mall guests with standpoint, we launched and when they make their way back to redeem a complimentary floral of COVID-19 was challenging for sanitizer stations, promoting social continue to deliver programs like your center? arrangement from Via Floreal and both Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield distancing with distancing markers Curbside Pickup, which allows Eliza Jeschke: Valley up to $300 cash back. 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VNG: Ensuring a safe SafeGuard™ certification verifies of shopping in person, they can For those who miss live To learn more visit www. shopping environment is no easy that a facility has met stringent now skip the crowds and shop concerts, we’ve brought back our westfield.com/topanga and follow task. What kind of precautionary requirements to minimize the efficiently through Line Pass, Village LIVE! music series where @westfieldtopanga on Facebook measures were implemented at onsite risk of virus spread and is a Westfield app-based virtual you can listen to classic hits from & Instagram to stay up-to-date on the center? adhering to best-in-class hygiene queuing and appointment service. various genres while dining-in or new stores, special retailer offers, Ryan Selvin: Some of the and safety protocols. Most recently, we went live with grabbing take-out from over 20 events, experiences and more! Encino Enterprise, April 15, 2021, Page 9 VALLEY ValleyENTERTAINMENT News Group, April 15, 2021, Page 7 VALLEY ENTERTAINMENT Navigating The Leading Retail Destination Through A Pandemic: Meet The Leadership Team Behind Westfield Topanga & The Village, The Heart And Economic Engine of the San Fernando Valley Encino Enterprise, April 15, 2021, Page 10 HEALTH & FITNESS Spring Back Into Fitness! By Allie Priore different than what you were used changes in the months ahead. The time has come that to pre-pandemic, due to certain Overall, it is exciting the city is beginning to fully open restrictions and requirements. to be able to return to group back up after the catastrophe that Most gyms or fitness studios classes or a 24-hour gym and was 2020. After a year of being require masks while working feel that sense of comradery. It shut down, many industries are out, socially distanced classes or is an awesome feeling to feel Wear a finally able to re-open their doors limited capacity. Class schedules empowered when completing for indoor services for the first seem to be limited as we, as a a hard exercise and leaving a time. There were many months society, begin to ease back into class feeling sore and sweaty. It of speculation about what this normal everyday life. is so nice to have accountability Mask process would look like and if After having taken a and somewhere to go that is not many smaller boutique fitness few fitness classes back indoors your living room. But most of establishments would even I can tell you this: the energy all, it is nice to have that sense of survive. Those that did are ready in classes is excited, motivated community again. to welcome you back in and help and determined; and instructors you begin your fitness journey are being extra supportive, After having taken a few Get once again. encouraging and inspiring. For many fitness studios After a year of living a fitness classes back indoors or gyms, there was an ongoing lifestyle with little to no routine I can tell you this: the fear that people would not want and one that may have been more Vaccinated to return to in-person classes. sedentary than we liked, there energy in classes is excited, Luckily, it seems that there are can definitely be nerves about motivated and determined; many individuals eager to return returning. Most people are not at to classes or private training and the same fitness level they were and instructors are being extra leave the virtual sphere behind. prior to the pandemic. More so, supportive, encouraging and Now it will of course look our mental and emotional well- inspiring being has changed over the course of the last year. It is important to give yourself grace as you begin to come back to in-person fitness If you are comfortable activities. to return to in-person fitness, do Fitness professionals it. Your mental, emotional and are aware of what our world physical states will all thank you. has gone through over the last And if you are not quite ready year. It is understandable to feel to return just yet, there are still overwhelmed and frustrated as wonderful online opportunities you begin your fitness journey out there. Take time with yourself again. Just know that it will be as you begin to navigate this post- temporary, and your will power pandemic world. Remember to be and strength will return. kind to yourself, be patient and While this is an only do what you are comfortable exciting time to start venturing doing. out and revisiting your favorite If you are looking for fitness places, remember to be some fun, in-person and safe patient with them as well. These local fitness establishments check establishments are trying to out pilates at Benefit Body in navigate this opening in the safest Tarzana! way possible. Yes, it may not be Allie Priore is a certified ideal to work out in masks; yes, Pilates Instructor and teacher of you may have to book out a little mindful movement. She teaches more in advance due to limited at various studios and now capacity – but remember that this offers both private sessions and is a fluid situation and things are classes on the virtual sphere. For Your whitest teeth. changing weekly. Be adaptable inquiries about sessions, email Not in three months. and be kind to yourself and these her at alessandra.c.priore@ businesses as we all anticipate gmail.com. Not in three weeks.

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If Ben offers to cook for you, take him up on the offer, he is a great cook. His pasta with absolutelygrounded.com shrimp is incredible. Until recently Ben played basketball on a Special Olympics team. He loved playing - for the comraderie, the exercise, the crowd response when you make a great play. Sort of a typical thing? You bet. Society thinks of many adults with autism as atypical. But autism is a spectrum with varying characteristics. Where many people don’t understand humor, Ben has a wicked sense of humor. Lots of adults and children with autism have very limited diets, Ben has a very expansive palette. What he isn’t is scary to be around, weird or strange. He is Ben. Just Ben. And just as no one of us want to be thought of as any of those things, neither does he. He is just one more person living his life every day. Until it closed, he had a job at the ReStore in Chatsworth. He was in charge of the merchandising of the tile and flooring department. 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The Movie Houses – After the War: Part II The luxurious movie screen named after the are in my opinion two of the palaces that dominated the cinema and 1,000 communities finest pictures ever produced, in the first half of the 20th century seats, in which they with a wonderful cast that often featured ornate lobbies playing were situated, includes Montgomery Clift, Paul and auditoriums, plush seats, Always including the Douglas, Rosalind Russell and and huge, glittering chandeliers. Leave Burbank, Reseda, Ray Milland. Here is a program Los Angeles boasts the first and Them Northridge, and that I can GUARANTEE largest historic theater district on Laughing, Woodland Hills. UNCONDITIONALLY. With the National Register of Historic with One of the more that thought in mind I invite you Places. Along six blocks of Milton elegant motion to see this show and if you do not South Broadway, 12 theaters, Berle and picture houses think it is a wonderfully balanced built between 1910 and 1931, Virginia was the Encino program, I will personally refund dominated the area. Mayo; Theater, at 16342 the cost of admission. But that’s not the story of actor Andy Ventura Boulevard. -- EMMETT SHANE, movie theaters in the San Fernando Devine According to the Manager Valley. With the post-World War was on December 18, 1948, No records exist to show II boom, neighborhood theaters hand issue of Boxoffice the number of refunds Mr. Shane proliferated; architecturally, for the magazine, made. they were usually spartan rather opening “Contract has Martin Cooper, than sumptuous. Like a book cere- The Encino Theatre opened on August 10, 1949, with Bob Hope in been awarded President of Cooper with a glorious four-color cover monies. Sorrowful Jones. It was torn down in the mid ’70s. Today it’s the site of a for construction Communications, supervised but black-and-white pages, the She large retail building, with Claudine’s Bakery. of Charles public relations for the Academy Valley’s theaters’ marquees recalls that Menderson’s new of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hinted at an elegance that rarely the theatre called them, and having crushes theatre at Ventura for 10 years; held executive existed within their four walls. featured a “crying room,” with on the ushers. I also remember Boulevard and my sister and I being allowed Neoline [sic] to go up to the projection room Street here. The with Forest, the projectionist, and structure will watch the movies from there. It provide 950 seats always had a wonderful musty and will be built smell combined with the smell of with wood trusses buttered popcorn.” and gunite walls With a tip of the usher’s and some redwood cap to the tons of popcorn exterior work. An devoured, candy bars consumed, air conditioning and soft drinks guzzled, these system will are a few of the Valley’s movie be installed. theaters that flourished in the Designed by decades following World War II: architect William On Oct. 26, 1965, The Topanga Theatre, with 1,350 seats, opened •Burbank: Loma, Pereira of Los with The Bedford Incident, starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. Magnolia, and Major. Angeles, the new Competition became increasingly tough, with the 16-screen AMC multiplex •Canoga Park: Baronet, showcase will… opening a block away, and nearby, were the GCC Woodland Hills Triplex, Canoga (now the Madrid), and cost $145,000.” the UA Warner Center 6, and the Baronet Theatre. It eventually became a Mann Fallbrook Twin. furniture store and died an ignominious death in September 2007. Y o u •City of San Fernando: could enter and Among those who lived about 20 seats, where parents Centre, Crest, and Fernando. enjoy its darkened •North Hills: Airport. in the Valley in this era there could bring their small children delights for a mere The Cinema Chatsworth, on the southeast •Panorama City: is great nostalgia for the more or infants. The crying room had 50 cents until 7 corner of Devonshire Street and Mason Avenue, America, Loew’s Panorama, and than 30 neighborhood theatres a sound system and a large plate pm in the 1950s. opened on June 29, 1966 with Arabesque, starring Panorama. that dotted the region. Mention glass window, so parents could It also featured Gregory Peck. Over its short life, it was managed by to anyone who was a Valley kid enjoy the film without a crying •Tarzana: Corbin. some interesting various chains, including Century Theatres, Loews from the forties to the sixties a child disturbing the rest of the •Sherman Oaks: La advertising and General Cinema. In 1980 it was renamed favorite theater and a smile of theater’s patrons. Reina, now converted into a approaches, such Cinema 76 and screened Spanish-language movies. fond memories instantly appears. On the Cinema shopping destination, and Action. as this all-copy By the early-1990s, it was shuttered and converted Jan Sobel, the retired Treasures website, one reader •Studio City: Fox advertisement that into retail space. CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of commented, “My grandfather, Studio. ran in the Valley the West Valley, recalls that her Max Torodor, was one of the three •Van Nuys: Capri and Times: positions with Disney and uncle, Max Torodor, owned and original partners. My father, Don Fox Van Nuys. Dear Patron: Universal Studios; and served operated the Panorama Theatre Torodor, managed the theater for •West Hills: Holiday. I want to call to your as Chairman of the Board of the at 9110 Van Nuys Boulevard many years. I remember spending •Woodland Hills: Art, attention to two excellent pictures UCLA Film & Television Archive. in Panorama City. It opened on so much of my childhood there Valley Circle, and Topanga. that we are now playing: The Big He has written four books, two of December 19, 1949, with a single helping the ‘candy girls’ as we Many theaters were Lift and Woman of Distinction them on the San Fernando Valley. Encino Enterprise, April 15, 2021, Page 14 REAL ESTATE Los Angeles Zoo Launches Walk for the Wild on Earth Day The Next Issue of the The Greater Los Angeles challenge period from April 22 Zoo Association (GLAZA) is through Endangered Species Day launching its first-ever fitness on May 21, participants will take fundraiser—Walk for the Wild— a virtual walk “around the world” Encino Enterprise on Earth Day, April 22, to raise to explore the global conservation critical funds to support the Los impact of the L.A. Zoo and learn Angeles Zoo and its species- about efforts to save threatened Will Be Out May 6 saving work. species. During the fitness Participants will be rewarded throughout the journey with digital fitness and fundraising badges, exclusive content, plus rewards based on fundraising level. Join individually or as a team and participate in a little challenge period, participants friendly competition to win can choose when and where to prizes. walk (or bike, run, swim, dance Proceeds benefit the etc.), tracking their real-world Los Angeles Zoo and GLAZA, movement on an integrated virtual the nonprofit organization that map to eight global destinations, supports the Zoo and plays a including Paraguay, South Africa, central role in making its vital and India among others, and conservation work possible. receive special content at each Registration has already begun so stop. to learn more and to register, visit Participants’ goal is lazoo.org/walkforthewild. to walk a collective 14,000 “Because it’s easy for miles across the globe to raise anyone to participate, Walk for awareness and funds for work to the Wild encourages the entire save endangered species. Los Angeles community to The fitness challenge engage in a lifelong philanthropic concludes on May 21 at 11:59 relationship with the L.A. pm. The winners of the Largest Zoo’s wildlife conservation Team, Top Individual and Team mission, from schoolchildren Fundraising and Longest Distance to grandparents. Whoever you awards will be announced on May are, you can save species from 22, as well as the total amount extinction and be a conservation raised by this incredible global hero,” says GLAZA President fitness adventure. Tom Jacobson. Walk for the Wild is open Happening now and to the public, and participants through the end of the fitness ages 13+ and all abilities are challenge on May 21, participants encouraged to participate in the can register and create a activity of their choosing – any fundraising page, set fitness physical movement will propel goals, get moving, and make an them towards their fitness goal. impact on wildlife conservation. Fundraising rewards Prior to the virtual start at the $150 level (inclusive CONSTRUCTION Opening Ceremony on April of registration fee) and include a 22, there will be fun weekly plush toy and Walk for the Wild challenges that will prepare and branded merchandise. & HANDYMAN inspire participants for the walk To get inspired and help them meet their fitness and to learn more on how to SERVICES and fundraising goals. participate, please visit lazoo.org/ Repairs to Remodels During the fitness walkforthewild. Garage Conversions Entertainment Lineup Cont’d From Demo to Design (continued from page 1) Concerts are held on proof of vaccination or a negative Sunday afternoons beginning COVID test within the last 72 at 5:30 pm, with an opening act hours of the event. from VCF’s Emerging Artists -All regulations are Showcase performing original subject to change based on LA work. County Health Orders. The headline act will VCF’s entire schedule begin at approximately 6:30 pm, of free programming and events continuing through 8:15 pm. can be found on its website by Founded in 1975, the visiting www.valleycultural.org, VCF’s mission embraces diversity On Site Design or by calling the hotline at (818) of talent, community, business 888-0822. and education, by providing & Installation Parking for concerts is live entertainment programs and available for a $15 donation in events in the arts. 310.869.9079 the adjacent parking structure Warner Park is located Bercsi Development Inc. located directly behind the stage at: 21820 Califa Street, Woodland Licensed and Insured on Califa Street - accessible on Hills, CA 91367, (Lou Bredlow Lic# 945461 After... Califa between Topanga and Pavilion). Owensmouth.

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