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Effects of Healthcare Bill Eagerly Awaited INSIDE • Improvements planned in Partly cloudy, Hollywood. pg. 3 with temps • Getting creative with around 63º Passover foods. pg. 6 Volume 20 No. 12 Serving the West Hollywood, Hancock Park and Wilshire Communities March 25, 2010 Effects of Healthcare U.S. Labor Secretary Tours Hollywood n Hilda L. Solis Meets Bill Eagerly Awaited With Residents at FamilySource Center n Fairfax Resident is One of Millions to Benefit From New Regulation BY AMY LYONS BY AMY LYONS associated with her sons’ condition uke is 56 years old and has make it hard to get by. The new been looking for job aren Coleman has a 23- healthcare bill, which was signed Lopportunities in real estate year-old son entering grad- into law on Tuesday, might not for several years. Since the Kuate school and a 15-year- change those costs, but it will do Young Policy Institute (YPI) old son in high school. Both young two things that are very important opened the doors of its new men are hemophiliacs, and to Coleman: extend the length of FamilySource Center in East Coleman, a Fairfax area resident, time a child can be covered by his Hollywood in February, Luke has works one job in Long Beach and or her parents’ health insurance to been coming to the center almost another job in Burbank to pay for age 26 and eliminate the pre-exist- every day, taking financial litera- her health costs, which she esti- ing conditions block that currently cy workshops, using the center’s mates are $900 per month. Her hus- prevents many people from buying computers to search for job band is currently unemployed, so health insurance. opportunities and networking the family relies on her for health “My sons can continue their edu- with a community of like-mind- insurance. cation and still get the treatments ed, low income people looking photo by Amy Lyons Though Coleman is insured by they need for hemophilia by stay- for steady income and a brighter Aetna, her out-of-pocket expenses U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis toured the YPI FamilySource See Healthcare page 22 future. “They really teach you about Center in Hollywood, and listened to the struggles local residents are the problems you can have with facing. Solis was joined by Los Angeles City Council President Eric credit card debt and about lenders Garcetti, 13th District. you should stay away from, like Payday Loans,” he said. of Labor and the Los Angeles nities in the health care industry The YPI FamilySource Center, Community Development for 400 participants over a three- which opened February 11, offers Department. Last week, the year period. a range of education and training FamilySource center got a big Solis explained that her depart- for low-income families. Though boost, when U.S. Secretary of ment provided $750 million in the center is brand new, YPI has Labor Hilda L. Solis visited on jobs grants, $500 million of been around since 1983. First Thursday. During her visit, she which went to jobs in the energy established in Washington D.C., spoke in Spanish to students in efficiency/green sector, and the YPI has been serving families in more than four classrooms as they remaining portion toward health- Los Angeles at 95 sites through- worked on resumes, searched job care careers, the latter of which out the city since 2001. The East boards and learned about what it includes the grant to YPI. Hollywood FamilySource Center takes to get a job in this tough econ- “We need people to get trained is YPI’s most recent facility to omy. Solis brought good news with and involved in the allied health- open. They are funded through her, the announcement of a $3.6 care jobs, like x-ray technicians, their own fundraising efforts and million grant from the U.S. pharmacist assistants, ambulance a mix of public and private enti- Department of Labor to provide drivers, all those jobs that I see in ties, including U.S. Department training and employment opportu- See Labor Secretary page 22 LAFD Teaches Students Safety First BY EDWIN FOLVEN photo by Travis Wilkerson Protesters united on Hollywood Boulevard last Saturday for an anti- ore than 100 fourth war demonstration. graders from Vine Street MElementary school received a lesson in fire and earth- quake safety on Wednesday as part Thousands March to Call for of a program by the Los Angeles Fire Department and MySafe: an End to War and Violence L.A., a non-profit emergency pre- paredness organization. BY EDWIN FOLVEN wounded during the Vietnam War Firefighters from the LAFD’s whose story was the basis for the Battalion 5 in Hollywood visited pproximately 5,000 peo- film, “Born on the Fourth of the school and discussed the ple participated in an anti- July”. importance of having a plan if an Awar demonstration in The crowd marched on emergency occurs. The visit was Hollywood on March 20 to call Hollywood Boulevard between part of the new program offered by for an end to the wars in Iraq and Vine Street and Orange Drive and the LAFD and MySafe: L.A. that Afghanistan. The event was orga- carried mock coffins of soldiers was created last year, where fire- nized by ANSWER L.A. and killed in action. Demonstrators fighters visit elementary schools included many well-known advo- also carried large tombstones to for similar presentations. photo by Amy Lyons cates against war and violence, draw attention to what they called Cameron Barrett, a director for including Ron Kovic, a veteran LAFD Capt. Steve Owens explained fire and earthquake safety to fourth See Protesters page 21 See Students page 20 grade students at Vine Street Elementary School on Wednesday. !"#$ #%($!#( 0#1'")3 &($ ( 48B74F (6AD9E6549 249@DC ! ! " 2 March 25, 2010 Park Labrea News/Beverly Press 26 Twilight in Venice International n Friday, March 26, a production Calendar Curators Exhibit Oof “Richard and Felix: Twilight AX ART will present a screening in Venice” will open at the Met Lof Independent Curators Theatre. Richard Wagner, the most Twilight Zone International’s “Project 35” on influential composer of the 19th Writer Honored Tuesday, March 30 at 7:00pm. The Century, was famous for being exhibit is an evolving exhibition of n Saturday, March 27 at 3:00pm, Adolph Hitler’s favorite composer. video works selected by 35 interna- American Cinematheque at the The play follows Wagner near the end O tional curators. For “Project 35”, each Egyptian Theatre will screen a docu- of his life, in his adopted city, Venice, curator has been invited to select one mentary about a writer for “Twilight where he is visited by the ghost of fel- artist’s video that they think is impor- Zone” who died mysteriously. low composer Felix Mendelssohn. tant for contemporary art audiences “Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of The two talk about women, politics, across the globe. The event is free. Twilight Zone’s Magic Man” tracks music and the public perception of LAX Art, 2640 S. La Cienega Blvd. the successes of one of the primary Wagner as an anti-Semite. Tickets are Call (310)559-0166. $15. The Met Theatre, downstairs in writers on the sci-fi TV hit. He was the Great Scott Theatre, 1089 N. consumed by a mysterious illness that Oxford Ave. Call (323)957-1152. ended his life when he was 38 and the 31 Ebell’s Live film pays tribute to his work. It includes interviews with Roger in the Lounge 27 Bach’s St John Corman, writers Richard Matheson ead to the Ebell of Los Angeles n Saturday, March 27 at 8:00pm and Harlan Ellison, and others who Hfor a fun-filled happy hour and Oat First United Methodist knew or admired Beaumont’s work. concert on Wednesday, March 31 at Church in Pasadena, Musica Angelica Tickets are $10. The Egyptian 6:30pm. Lesa Terry and her ensemble will present a concert featuring the Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Call will perform jazz and gospel music “St. John Passion” as Bach presented (323)466-3456. and a cash bar will be available. it almost 400 years ago at Good Tickets are $25 for members, $30 for Friday services in his Leipzig church. non-members, which includes free Eight solo singers will perform all the 30 Retirement hors d’oeuvres. For tickets, call roles. Soloists taking part in the pro- Planning Fairs (323)931-1277 ext. 131. The Ebell of duction include tenors Tilman Lichdi he California Public Employees’ Los Angeles, 4400 Wilshire Blvd. and Pablo Corá; sopranos Mary TRetirement System (CalPERS) is Wilson and Catherine Webster; and hosting a series of retirement planning bass-baritone Scott Graff. Tickets are fairs this spring to help its members Theatre 40 Does The $49 -$55. For more information, call plan for a more financially secure Drawer Boy (310)458-4504. The First United retirement. The fairs begin in Los production of Michael Healey’s Methodist Church, 500 E. Colorado Angeles on March 30 at the Sheraton Amulti-award-winning play, “The Blvd., Pasadena. Los Angeles in the downtown area. Drawer Boy”, will open at Theatre 40 CalPERS members who attend the on Wednesday, March 31 at 8:00pm. Chopin’s Piano photo by Dawid Jaworski fairs will receive information on ben- The play is a heartwarming and Concerto No. 2 Alina Phelan and Silas Weir Mitchell star in a production of “Lascivious efits, programs, and services that help thoughtful tale of two elderly friends, them plan for a more secure retire- one of whom is brain damaged and n Saturday, March 27 at 2:00pm, Something”, which will open at Inside the Ford on Saturday, March 27 at ment.
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