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City Honors Beginnings and Endings Community Human See page 7 Mourns Volume 39, Number Trafficking14 Those June 10, 2021 Fighter Who Passed ***When stripping in - take out date line below Valley Vantage - we’re getting double lines!!! See Page 5 See Page 3 L A S V I R G E N E S A N D CALABASAS ENTERPRISE Volume 51, Number 14 Serving Calabasas Since 1963 June 10, 2021 News in Brief Saving the Smallest House in Woodland Hills The tiny, 100-year-old house at Ventura Boulevard and Glade has withstood nearly a century of weather, various tenants, earthquakes and more, but is succumbing daily this year to the ravages of a homeless encampment. The house dates from the early 1920’s, and is, according to county records, a scant 192 square feet. It sits on a lot that runs down Glade for about 2,900 square feet, that at various times has hosted Storybrook landscape Center, an antique store called Dove Creek and a high tea house called The Cottage. CHP Save Baby on 101 in Woodland Hills The cottage itself has a storied past. The house at Ventura and Glade circa 1920. A parent’s worst nightmare had a happy ending. According to one previous tenant, she CHP officers saved a baby who was choking in the back actually met a man who grew up in the single mother, he related, have engendered the rumor that seat of a car on the 101 freeway in Woodland Hills. Dash- cottage during the 1920’s. According “entertained” the men at the building was once a house cam footage, above, shows Officers Ramstead and Cato to him there was no bathroom, and he the bar at Topanga and of ill-repute, which was hotly responding to the call. Ramstead, a licensed paramedic, and his brother slept in the rafters. His Ventura. This story may (Continued to page 12) used back slaps to help the baby clear his airway and begin breathing normally. The infant had choked on cherries. The Power of Community: Cleaning Up the Blvd. The Dash-cam also shows Ramstead gently putting the child back in his car seat to continue his journey. Who Will Get Hazard Pay in Calabasas? The Calabasas City Council has received multiple requests for the disbursement from their Hazard Pay Program funded by a $4.4 million American Reserve Plan Act grant. Grocery workers in Calabasas have made a strong vocal plea that the 450 grocery store workers within the city limits be paid hazard pay for their employment during the pandemic. At the May 26 City Council meeting the council started a discussion on hazard pay recipients and The Great Woodlands Hills Cleanup last were Gaspar and his family, residents, chamber is studying the various applications and issues, including Saturday, organized by Tim Gaspar of Gaspar members and execs, current City Councilman Bob how many average hours workers a grocery store employee Insurance, filled a trailer full of trash and debris Blumenfield as well as past Councilman Dennis Zine. worked from March 2020 to March 2021. collected from Ventura Blvd. Gaspar’s insurance office is at Ventura near Woodlake Congratulations to All Graduates! Cleaning up the west side of the boulevard and he reguarly organizes clean ups of the area. It seemed like every school in the valley had graduations this week. Due to COVID, tickets were limited, so extended family members and friends were able to watch most ceremonies on Zoom. Congratulations to all graduates who made it through an amazingly tough senior year during a pandemic. Congrats to the publisher’s nephew Michael Bercsi, right, whom she watched on Zoom today graduate from Calabasas High! Councilman Blumenfield helps scoop up debris. Organizer Tim Gaspar shows off a trailer full of trash. Page 2, Valley News Group, June 10, 2021 COMMUNITY JUNE County Holds Hazardous Waste Roundup at Landfill COMMUNITY County of Los Angeles needles, syringes, lancets, and Waste Roundup this Sunday, June residents will have the intravenous needles, universal 13, from 9 am to 3 pm. Bring CALENDAR opportunity to safely dispose waste including household all material to the Calabasas CALABASAS: of household hazardous waste batteries, fluorescent light bulbs, Landfill, 5300 Lost Hills Road in Tickets are now on sale for Calabasas Rotary’s Zoom such as antifreeze, unused and electronic waste (e-waste) Agoura. “Beach Blanket CalaBingo” on Thursday, June 24, at 6 pm. $20 includes pharmaceuticals, car batteries, such as TVs and monitors, For more information lacsd. five games with two bingo cards per game. There will be opportunity used motor oil, paint, pesticides, computers, VCRs, stereos, and org/services/solidwaste/hhw_e_ drawings, gift card payouts and prizes - with a prize for the best beach home-generated sharps waste cellphones at the free countywide waste/unincorporatedagoura.asp attire. Register and pay at calabasasrotaryevents.org. For questions call such as hypodermic needles, pen drive-thru Household Hazardous or call (888) CLEAN LA. Susan Renick, Event Chair, at (818) 303-6004. CANOGA PARK: Tickets are on sale now for West Valley Playhouse’s first production live on stage July 9. Director Jon Berry and cast will present Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest. The play will run July 9 through August 8. Tickets are available now at wvplayhouse.com or by calling (818) 884-1907. The West Valley Playhouse is located at 7507 Topanga Canyon Blvd. CALABASAS: The Las Virgenes Triunfo Joint Powers Authority is OPEN DAILY 9 AM - MIDNIGHT inviting residents to “Taste the Water, Tour the Garden.” On select dates RESERVE LANES ON-LINE www.winnetkabowl.net tours will be offered of the new Pure Water Demonstration Facility, where you can taste the pure water and tour the sustainability garden in full bloom. For more information and tour dates visit ourpureh2o.com/ (SUBJECT TO LANE AVAILABILITY) PWtours. Lane 33 Bar & Grill AGOURA: Marlon Hoffman, whose original music is an embodiment Daily 5 pm - Midnight of good old Americana paying respect to the classics, will take the stage at the Canyon Club on Sunday, June 27, at 7 pm. Joining Hoffman will be T-Bear and Root 66. Tickets are available at ticketmaster.com. Winnetka Bowl & Entertainment Center 20122 Vanowen St. Winnetka, CA VALLEYWIDE: The Fernando Award Foundation is now accepting 818-340-5190 applications for 2021 nominees. The Fernando Award is the valley’s highest honor for volunteerism. For more information and nomination In accordance with Health Department policies, bowl forms visit fernandoawards.org. capacity is limited and occupancy will be monitored. CALABASAS: Thank you for your compliance. The Calabasas Library’s Wednesday Morning Book Club will be meeting on June 16 at 11am. For the book title and more information, please email [email protected]. Valley News Group, June 10, Page 3 People in the News COMMUNITY On April 3, 2021, Harold of Iowa. They had a long, (“Ark”) Arkoff, above, a successful business partnership. longtime Calabasas resident, Arkoff and his family passed away at the age of 95. moved to Calabasas Park in Arkoff was born in Fort September, 1972. Harold was Dodge, Iowa in 1925, and he was one of the founding members of raised by his immigrant parents the Calabasas Park Homeowners during the Great Depression, Association, and he was actively along with his four siblings. After engaged in Calabasas politics graduating from high school at through the rest of his life. Helen age 17, he enlisted in the Army was a longtime volunteer at the in World War II, and served in Calabasas Library. The Arkoffs a cannon company of the 41st loved to play golf, and they were Infantry Division. He was in active members of the Calabasas combat in New Guinea and the Country Club for over 40 years. Philippines, and he was part of They both even had hole-in-ones the occupying army in Japan. there after the age of 79! After returning from the war, Late in life, Arkoff became he attended the University of active in veterans’ organizations Iowa and received Bachelor’s and and events. He was a member of Master’s degrees in Journalism. the local Veterans of Foreign Wars Old paint. Solvents. Batteries. Computer monitors. He met the love of his life, Helen, and Wings Over Wendy’s groups, These are some of the household hazardous waste married her at Temple Israel in and he served as national secretary TOO and electronic waste items you can bring to a Roundup Hollywood on July 21, 1957. for the 41st Infantry Division They had two children, Vicki and Association. He appeared with for recycling. It’s a great opportunity to clean out Dan. Later, Vicki had a daughter, other veterans at Veterans’ Day your garage and clean up the environment. Our free Sophia, who was Harold’s only and Memorial Day events at drive-thru, drop-off events are a quick, grandchild. local schools, and he spoke at convenient, and common-sense For a few years, Arkoff was the dedication of the Calabasas TOXIC part owner of San Fernando Veterans’ Garden in 2019. way to dispose of materials too Valley radio station KGIL, which In 2010, he was featured in toxic to trash, pour down a played his favorite kind of music: a “Calabasas, a Living History” TO sink, or dump in a storm drain. big band swing. video interview for the City of In 1966, he became partners Calabasas TV Channel. In 2017, in a publishing company, the Homeowners Association CALABASAS LANDFILL Specialist Publications, with commemorated a bench Scale Area Howard Olansky, who was a overlooking Lake Calabasas to TRASH friend of his from the University Harold and Helen.