NBA STARS TURN OUT FOR THE KIDS Vol. 1, No. 20 • August 19, 2015 Uniting the Community with News, Features and Commentary Circulation: 14,500 • $1.00 See Page 18 Caruso VP Updates Palisades Village Plan By SUE PASCOE at Swarthmore, and the former parking lot Editor behind the buildings on the north side of Swarthmore will be eliminated. The garage aruso Affiliated’s Palisades Village will have electric-vehicle charging stalls and project is still more than two years lighting powered by solar panels. Cfrom opening, but the official Swarthmore will become one-way be- building plans will be unveiled this fall, tween the alley and Monument, enabling and construction should get underway Caruso to add eight on-street parking next summer. spaces (for a total of 29 spaces) by using In an interview with the Palisades News angled parking. on August 3 and through a subsequent e- “By changing parking from parallel to mail exchange, Project Manager Michael angled, it slows down vehicular traffic, re- Gazzano provided various updates and duces the width of the crosswalk, promotes new details about Caruso’s plans. walkability and acts as a buffer between the Gazzano, the company’s VP of develop- sidewalk and street,” Gazzano said. ment, said all the buildings owned by The eight residential apartments that will Caruso Affiliated on Swarthmore and be built above a building on the current Sunset will be torn down “next summer,” Mobil property will have dedicated and and the existing open-air parking lot will secured parking in the underground lot— be excavated. with elevator access to the units above. All the current businesses (including Gazzano continued, “We have submitted Benton’s, Maison Giraud, Michelle Inter- our land-use application, and in a few national, BOCA, Puzzle Zoo, First National weeks we’ll be filing our mitigated negative (Front) K.C. Cord, 22, and her sister Lexi, 20, were two of 30 people who donated blood Bank and Carly K.) will have to relocate or declaration [a determination that no sig- at the Community Blood Drive on August 12. Photo: Sue Pascoe make other arrangements until about No- nificant environmental effects will occur vember 2017—the projected grand-open- because measures will be implemented to ing month. reduce significant impacts] and environ- Blood Drive Reaches Goal “Everybody has been invited to come mental reports.” Pacific Palisades community blood checked in with Ryan Tahmassebi, an back, and we hope they all return,” Gazzano drive, held August 12, yielded 30 Amalfi Estates intern and Loyola High said. “They will be given plenty of notice n its August 6 story about the Caruso Apints of blood and was deemed a School student. He gave them free tickets before demolition begins.” Iproject, the Palisadian-Post was in error success by organizers. to the Laugh Factory, the Grammy Mu- He noted that “the new parking structure when it stated, in reference to the Palisades The event, held in the Palisades Library seum, Madame Tussauds Hollywood and will be built two layers below grade and Specific Plan, that “Caruso Affiliated worked community room, was arranged by Amalfi discounted tickets to the Padres. have 470 parking stalls,” and will extend closely with the city to create a new, unique Estates owner Anthony Marguleas and as- “We had 17 people at 1 p.m., and we from below Benton’s to the Mobil station Sub-Area (North Swarthmore Sub-Area) sistant Sarah Knauer. were hoping for 19, so it was a good turn - and over to Carly K. The structure will end specifically for the Palisades Village project, “We wanted to align our company with out,” Tahmassebi, a Palisadian said. Caruso revealed.” a great community event and Sarah came He sent donors to a private screening Referencing a letter from Councilman up with the idea because she has given area, where a medical history was taken, be- Brush Clearance Mike Bonin’s office, the Post published a blood every year,” Marguleas said. “She fore blood was drawn. correction noting that “no sub-area of the also helped organize blood drives during K.C. Cord, 22, and her sister Lexi, 20, came Palisades Specific Plan has yet been created,” high school and gave platelets to a friend’s in together to give blood. “I try to give as (Continued on Page 5) uncle who had cancer.” much as I can,” said K.C., who attends Dart- Marguleas also had cancer as a young mouth. “It’s important to me because we lost adult and needed blood. “In college I my mom [Georgia] to cancer two years ago.” Council Agenda helped organize them as well,” he said. “It Lexi, who attends the University of Denver. is one of the truly selfless things one can “We envision this getting bigger every Features Alcoholic do and directly save lives.” year and becoming one of the biggest Donors arriving at the library first blood drives in the city,” Marguleas said. Beverage Sales The only Pacific Palisades Community Postal Customer Postal Council meeting this month will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, August 27, in the Palisades Library community room, **************ECRWSSEDDM************* 861 Alma Real Dr. The public is invited. There are three agenda items: 1.) permits for alcoholic beverages sales at the new Permit #422 Permit restaurant and gourmet market in the High- Pasadena, CA Pasadena, PAID The brush was cleared 10 ft. from Pacific lands; 2.) permit for onsite instructional U.S. Postage U.S. Coast Highway and dead trees removed tastings of alcoholic beverages at Ralphs Presorted Standard Presorted on August 6, between Potrero Canyon and Market; and 3.) sidewalk vending proposals Chautauqua. Photo: Sue Pascoe going before the Los Angeles City Council. 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Photo: Craig Hunter Holds Awards Show By SUE PASCOE Hay Fever, On Golden Pond, Vanya and Editor Sonia and Masha and Spike and The Spitfire Grill—were performed by the Theatre Pali - t was the Tony Awards—Theatre Pali - sades Actors Troupe. sades style—on Sunday, August 9, at The Best Director category saw a tie be- Ithe Pierson Playhouse. tween Sabrina Lloyd (Diary) and Sherman The top winner among TP productions Wayne (Wedding). this past year was The Diary of Anne Frank “Thank you for giving me one of the most with seven awards, followed by the British emotional experiences of my life,” Lloyd said farce Perfect Wedding with five. in accepting the award. Wayne thanked his Shows in consideration in acting and cast, noting, “It was fun and we had a ball.” production categories also included The Top production honors went to Wayne Marvelous Wonderettes, Black Coffee and and Nona Hale for Diary. Hale urged others Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. to try producing a play. Emcees Martha Hunter, Maria O’Connor There were also ties in both the lead actor Elle Baker, Andrew Shimanovsky, Mia Ruhman, Rachel Grossman and Kerry Cooper and Wendy Taubin kept the evening light and actress categories. Winners were Brian delighted the audience with a song from Bugsy Malone, Jr. Photo: Credit with good-natured banter. Robert Harris (Brick) in Cat on a Hot Tin sound design (Diary), she said: “I want to publicity—including going to the Swarth- The talented Doug Green, who for the Roof and Phil Bartolf (Mr. Frank) in Diary thank Andy [Frew] and other people who more Farmers’ Market on Sundays—and past 15 years has written and performed a and Sigi Gradwohl (Anne Frank) and Lau- work in the booth. I design it, but they run it.” has convinced the Daily Breeze in Torrance funny song parody of each show, quipped: ren Gaw (The Marvelous Wonderettes). O’Connor, the Perfect Wedding actress, re- to review our next play. She helps wherever “I have covered seasons that included All My Bartolf said, “I’m grateful, surprised and ceived the Cristofer Cariello Award, which she’s needed—and she lives in Long Beach.” Sons, Glass Menagerie and Rabbit Hole. But thankful to everyone in the cast. To my wife is given in honor of the late TP member, di- O’Connor said, “I’m never without words, this season people kept asking me, ‘How are I am eternally grateful.” rector, set designer and jack-of-all trades.