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At Beverly High there is currently not enough “To promote better understanding within parking for all of the attending students, according our community of Beverly Hills’ finances, to Stepenosky, because of the construction of the sources of revenue and distribution of expens - & es.” city schools Science & Technology Center on what was for - merly parking lot A. -- Eliot Finkel, School parking permits cost $195 a year. Beverly Hills City Treasurer “We can accommodate our seniors and juniors New Driving Laws Impact New reasonably well, but as our sophomores get their “The year 2005 was a very tumultuous year drivers permits, we [will] run out of spaces,” for education in California generally and in Stepenosky said. Beverly Hills specifically. The battle over the Drivers In The New Year Stepenosky added that school officials encour - governor’s initiatives in the special election last November generated much concern and frus - Two new laws are passed to promote safer driving amongst first-year drivers. age students to walk, bike or have their parents car - pool. tration among so many educators throughout By Jennifer Kamm If students are seen getting into a car together on the state. The levels of anxiety were further As part of the Provisional Licensing Program,, The changes that have been made are going to save campus, Stepenosky maintains that security offi - heightened by the new education policies being the California Department of Motor Vehicles lives,” McCann said. cers will ask students for identification to verify introduced by the district. I resolve to remain issued two new laws this year that affect first-year While drivers will not be pulled over for looking that they have had their license for more than one focused on the positive reasons behind my drivers under the age of 18, those of which the young, McCann says if someone is pulled over for year. actions rather than becoming overwhelmed by BHPD hopes will reduce the amount of accidents another reason and is found in violation of the pro - Presently, there is no law in Southern California feelings of negativity and frustration. Similarly, in and around the city. visional laws, then proper action will be taken. regarding the use of cellular phones while operat - I resolve to be positive and supportive of sound The law states that all provisional licensees (first “We’re not going to let illegal activity continue,” ing a vehicle. By prohibiting carpooling among educational policies that will clearly work year drivers) cannot carry passengers under the age McCann said. “We’ll make them park the vehicle provisional licensed drivers, many may wonder if toward improving the learning environment for of 20 in their car unless they are accompanied by a and have someone come pick them up.” this will lead to increased cell-phone usage, and in our students in the district.” licensed parent/guardian, certified instructor or Beverly High has joined forces with the Beverly turn, more accidents. — Mark Frenn, licensed driver over the age of 25, during the first Hills Police Department to ensure that students fol - McCann says he thinks that using cell phones Beverly Vista eighth grade teacher year of receiving a license. The new law also pro - low the new provisional laws. Although the school will not affect new drivers, however, believes that hibits provisional licensees from driving between does not have the authority to enforce state driving not having passengers in the car will reduce the “Not let a day go by without telling family the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. laws, according to Beverly High Principal Dan number of accidents because it will reduce the and friends how much I appreciate them.” Prior to Jan. 2006, provisional licensees had to Stepenosky, “We do work closely with our School number of distractions. -- Ronit Stone, wait only six months before being permitted to Resource Officers and assist them as they enforce According to McCann, traffic supervisors Incoming El Rodeo PTA President carry passengers and were not allowed to drive driving codes and laws.” remember many serious collisions that have between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. In addition to notifying officials and parents if occurred over the last few years where provisional “My resolution for this year is to keep in “I know the CHP [California Highway Patrol] students break any laws, Stepenosky says, “If our drivers have been responsible. One accident, in touch better with old friends. Of course, that has was very big in supporting the change because of students have created an unsafe situation or also particular, occurred on Valentine’s Day about two been my resolution for the last two years, and I the sheer number of accidents occurring,” BHPD broken our rules and policies, we do have progres - years ago on Sunset Boulevard involving Beverly haven’t done a good job of keeping it. Maybe Lt. Mitch McCann said. sive steps or consequences which include suspen - High student Elana Rosenberg, who was left in a if you publish this in the newspaper, it will By prohibiting new drivers from operating a sion and/or removal of the parking permit.” coma and is now recovering. motivate me to do a better job of keeping the vehicle after 11 p.m., McCann believes that the While altering the provisional driving program To educate new drivers about driving safety and resolution. (In fact, if that works, I may ask you number of fatalities will decrease. may create a safer driving environment for first- current laws, every year Beverly High conducts a to publish my resolution next year as well.)” “There will be fewer kids driving at later hours. year drivers, it may also lead to increased parking school-wide assembly with the BHPD. -- Larry Wiener, Beverly Hills City Attorney WHAT ARE YOUR “My New Year’s resolution is to ‘listen.’ NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS? Listening as opposed to just hearing. Listening is the foundation of communication; and “I typically have the same resolution every communicating our thoughts, feelings and year which is to make the world a better place emotions is the foundation of all relationships. for young people. But on a personal note, I just Once we master the ability to listen we have Modern & Estate Jewelry finished my doctorate, so it is not to go to col - mastered the art of communication. I hope to lege this year. It’s now Dr. Hubbard. And anoth - extend this resolution to further my relation - er resolution is to get more exercise.” ship with my family, friends and colleagues. -- Jeff Hubbard, This year I’ll be all ears!” MOST COMPETITIVE PRICES BHUSD Superintendent -- Maggie Soleimani, Beverly Hills resident “I have the standard resolution like everyone- - to get in better shape and lose a few pounds. I BB UU YY “To try to be a more tolerant and less stress - P CASH also have a resolution to become a better person TO ful when driving in L.A, and to get a complete UR SS EE LL LL this year through regular reading of the Bible FOR YO physical examination once a year. I also have and praying.” DS • RR EE DD EE SS II GG NN one annual resolution, or I should say annual • DIAMON -- Lt. Mitch McCann, commitment that never changes, that is to give CHES • BHPD Public Information Officer • WAT Loose Diamonds my wife and each of my three children a hug OLD • Any Size & Shape and kiss and tell them I love them every day.” • G “I eat a lot and sometimes I keep eating because -- Bruce Horowitz, I don’t feel full. So my New Year’s resolution is With Certificates BHUSD Citizen’s Oversight Committee GIA to eat healthier and learn my eating limit. I also member plan on hitting the gym more often… not to lose weight, but to build muscle and tone up.” “I usually don’t make New Year’s resolu - -- Jackie Perez, tions because I tend not to keep them, how - Administration Clerk ever, this year I’m going to be optimistic and vow to eat healthier-- fruits, veggies, chicken “Work less, play more, savor every moment.” and limited junk food. Gone are the days of -- Dr. Connie Brien, La Valencia Jewelry my lunching on Cheetos and Dr. Pepper!” Solicitations Advisory Commission -- Pat Agnitch, 256 North Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills Vice Chairperson Recreation and Parks Deputy Director Tel. 310-859-7915 Open 7 days a week 10 am - 5 pm January 5 - January 11, 2006 • Page 3 step up. teachers. They really devote an extraordi - nary amount of their life to what they’re What was the doing. impetus for you where are to move dis - We just recently spoke with former El tricts? Rodeo teacher Jim Quider [issue #318] Smaller dis - and he described the teaching staff at that trict and I just time as: “We’re talking about a top notch was ready for a faculty and first rate community as far as they now? change. education was concerned and giving their Originally when kids the best things they needed.” What is I got my your comment? Master’s degree I Well, I definitely agree with what he said Brenda Colfer was planning to go back to Long Beach. But because he’s talking about when he and I El Rodeo Fourth Grade Teacher, 1966-2000 the single life got pretty stale after a while were both teaching there. I would say that Manhattan Beach, CA and I thought, “There’s gotta be better things that pretty well covers it, but I also feel that than this.” So when you’re younger, you’re the kids through their home life have the ready to change things whenever you feel impression that education was extremely How did you get to Beverly Hills? Was fourth grade your grade of choice? like you need to. important and that they needed to do the best I went to Purdue University and Long Well, actually yes. And I taught fourth work they could in school. Parents coddle Beach Unified School District interviewed grade in Long Beach and that’s the grade Tell us about El Rodeo in the 1960s. their kids so much more today and give them out there at Purdue and I got a job. And of I’ve always taught in Beverly Hills. It was just a close knit faculty and it excuses for not doing well. Blame it on the course I’m 22-years-old when I graduated in seemed like you decided on a lot of stuff at teacher, blame it on anybody and let the TV 1961 and you know, you’re, “Oh boy, Compare Long Beach to Beverly Hills? the school level. Frank Scott was the princi - do the babysitting. I guess I’m biased California, okay!” So I went up to Long At the beginning when I started teaching pal at the time and he was really great. You because I haven’t had a TV for about 35 Beach and taught there for four years, then I in Beverly Hills it was terrific because you were left to do things the way you wanted to years now. When the TV broke I said, decided I needed to further my education had low class sizes; you [taught] like 20 to in your own room, so you had a lot of indi - “Look, forget it.” and do something else, so I got a Master’s 22 kids in a class and that was fantastic. It vidualism, you could be creative, you could degree at UCLA in Education and then I was a real family type feeling where every - teach the way you wanted to teach and real - What teachers do you remember work - applied at various school districts. Los body in the district knew each other and the ly enjoy the children. You had time to read to ing with most? Angeles wouldn’t have me because I didn’t administration really cared about you, or at them, you had time to do all these things that There’s been a lot of teachers with whom get a high enough score on their test of least you felt that way. And they [taught] for - eventually by the year 2000, I said, “Wait a I’ve worked. I’ve worked with Mary Ann California history. So then you wonder why eign language in the fourth grade, and they minute, I’m not teaching anymore.” By that Schliewe a lot. She has a very interesting the LAUSD is in a bad situation, and I had had P.E. teachers, where in Long Beach you time, screws tightened constantly because background and she did a lot of teaching in no trouble getting hired by Beverly Hills. taught your own P.E. and you had about 37 you are teaching for test scores. As long as military areas. Although I’m not in touch And that’s how I got to Beverly Hills. kids in a classroom. Coming to Beverly Hills you’re teaching for test scores, you’re going with her because she really keeps to herself. at that time was a big change and I felt a real by the book, everyone has got to do the same I taught with her for a long time, but she thing. And when I got to the point where I retired a bit before me. And then the girls said, “God, I can’t even find time to read to that eventually replaced her that I taught the children anymore,” I thought, “I think with for the last four years that I was there I’m ready to go.” I see a lot of wonderful, were all younger and they were wonderful confident, skillful teachers coming in and and I still am in contact with them. it’s time to pass the baton. I learned a lot from the younger girls. I wasn’t as computer literate as these younger Do you think the kids are still learning people and so all the little tricks that you can in the same way? do, like newsletters, I wasn’t able to do so I Another plus when I first came in was the got a little intimidated by not being to work children seemed to be so studious. There the computer like they could. And I was was so little discipline problems. The kids happy to not have to learn any more than I just really took their work seriously and you had already learned. When you think of how could just teach like you thought you’d technology has changed since the 1960s, it’s never be able to teach. I do remember think - amazing. ing what little policing I had to do and it made teaching very satisfying. And then my What would you consider your greatest personal opinion is that as television invad - memory of El Rodeo? ed the household and more and more kids There are so many. One of the things that just watched TV a lot, their attention span my husband and I did in 1974 was we built got to the point where if you weren’t on live a garden at El Rodeo. Eventually we had to action camera and performing in front of redo it, but it’s still there today. It’s 30 indi - your class all the time to keep their attention, vidual raised beds built in a rectangular con - that you couldn’t do it. You had to be on a figuration. It’s got a six-foot tower all stage, constantly thinking up faster and around it, it’s got a compost bin. And so quicker ways to get their attention, which is what we had since 1974 was the fourth grade a good thing too, but it’s just that when I garden and at first I had only my homeroom started teaching in Beverly Hills the kids just gardening and we worked that into the sci - seemed to take teaching more seriously and ence unit and everything and it was really you had great support from the parents fun and then I felt a little bit of pressure that which I’ve always had. I’ve always thought I put on myself to incorporate the other that the parents were just terrific. And the classes. And that put a lot more pressure on teachers were wonderful. Teachers are me because if a teacher didn’t want to give extremely conscientious, and if you’re in up any science time or didn’t want to coop - that profession, you’re in it because you erate in one regard or another, then eventu - want to be most of the time. Those that don’t ally I had to do it during my recess time. But want to be usually leave soon after because it worked out very well and I guess one of they can’t take it. So my hat’s off to all the things that really made me happy was

Page 4 • Beverly Hills Weekly where are they now? cont. from page 4 retired. I never went to movies, I never did study Japan and California. So we’d have a why I retired. It had nothing to do with the when kids would come back to see me after anything except grade papers, do lesson Japanese festival and we’d make tied-dyed children, it just had to do with the times. they had graduated from high school or col - plans, plan for the classroom, do report robes, kimonos, and the mothers would all And that was basically it. I was counting lege or they were out of college and it was cards. That was really the way it was, now get in there and they would have a meal. The down two years before, and I was waiting to so neat because oftentimes I’d recognize fourth and fifth grade level is a really heavy kids would all help cut up the food and do reach a maximum age where my pension them and I’d just know who they were and workload because not only do you have stuff for the meal and then we did several would be beneficial to me. As it is, I retired the first words out of their mouth always larger class sizes up to 30 kids, but you’ve activities and the kids would rotate. I a semester too soon. I retired before they was, “Is the garden still there?” So I felt that got the kids now writing essays and you’re remember I did a park lesson with flower gave teachers a bonus for having taught 30 if nothing else, that was my legacy. And I teaching them all the things they have to do arranging and we did some origami and the years or more, where they gave you a tax was very happy; I went to the Christmas to prepare them going into middle school. kids would rotate between the rooms and the credit for all the things you bought for the party this year for the faculty and met the They can hopefully do work now, not just a teachers would specialize in teaching each classroom, they didn’t base your pension on guy that has taken over the garden. After B and a C and how you do the alphabet. So group something and that was always fun. the average of your three highest salaries, four years they finally have something I really would have to say that the biggest Then when we switched completely to just they gave it to you based on your highest going on in the garden again which I’m very challenge was trying to teach everything teaching California, we’d have a culmina - salary. All these little things, and I remem - happy about. The first year after I left, I did you wanted to teach and to do it effectively. tion activity at the end of the year. We had ber when I found that out I thought, “Oh my go back to work with one of the fourth grade our square dancing, which the P.E. depart - god, you know, look what I did,” and then teachers and I was going go every week to What students to you remember teach - ment would really help out with and the par - my husband said to me, “Would you have work with the garden and that’s when the ing? ents would be invited to all this stuff. They wanted to have taught another year?” and I construction, the renovating of that wing The first one that pops into my head was put on a little luncheon of Mexican type said, “You know what, I don’t think I could that faces Wilshire Boulevard, that’s where Ashley Hamilton, George Hamilton’s kid. food. Often with the gardening too, we’d have done it.” That tells you where I was at the garden is. I was told that would be all Although he doesn’t remember it, I did harvest our stuff and go up to the home-ec by that time. I knew that someone would disrupted with guys using the sidewalk next teach Bob Dylan’s kid just for math, Jacob room, which used to be there, which isn’t take over, I didn’t need to worry about that. to the garden so we wouldn’t be able to Dylan. And he came back once to school anymore. They don’t have home-ec and water it and this and that so we sorted when he was at the high school and I saw shop anymore. What are you doing now? stopped midway. As usual the schedule was him in the hallway and I greeted him and he It really is [too bad] especially after the I’m so enjoying my life. I have time to delayed so we could have gardened that had no idea who I was. And I had Joan gender bias disappeared and the girls used to exercise and the last cat I adopted was a gift whole year, but that’s okay. It was fun, we Collins’ kid; she was on TV; I had her be able to take shop and the boys would par - from a student who always got my attention, really utilized it and kids worked in groups. daughter Katie for math. She was a very ticipate in home-ec and everything and then Sam Mandel, when I retired. I’d always said sweet girl. Angie Voight [now Angelina it just disappeared because it couldn’t afford that when I retired I wanted to do stained What would you consider your biggest Jolie]. And I could see at that time, “Oh boy, to and you didn’t have space and you had to glass and finally be able to garden around challenge as a teacher? that kid is going to be trouble; she’s so gor - pass the test; keep those scores up. my own home because that was staring to I think the biggest challenge overall was geous.” get very neglected. So that’s both of the two to accomplish everything that needed to be Tell us about former principal, Steve primary things that I do, I’m doing stained done. Now that’s pretty mundane, but in How did you make the fourth grade Fisher? glass and gardening and I have a vegetable essence that’s really what it came down to. exciting? He came to El Rodeo as a teacher the garden in my backyard and a big front yard So little time to do everything you have to We had a culmination of activities often same year that I did in ’66. He taught where I have all my flowers and everything do. Believe me, I didn’t have a life until I geared to social studies, like we used to History for a long time. The staff usually and we have a compost bin and I have cats had Christmas parties at somebody’s house that I can enjoy. I enjoy being home because and he’d play Santa Claus, and I mean, he’s when I taught I never had a chance to be a non-stop comedian anyway so he was home and just enjoy being home. Now I can FREE always funny. He just had a lot of empathy read the paper and I can listen to the radio In Office Whitening With for people in general, whether they’d be and I can go out to lunch and “meet with the Veneer Restorations. teachers or parents or children and he was girls” when I want to. I do tutor three little easy to get along with, and that’s part of boys, the child and cousins of my cleaning

AS SEEN ON being an administrator is to have people like lady, and that’s about all I need to do in ABCʼ s HIT SHOW you enough to go along with things that you order to stay in touch with teaching. I don’t EXTREME think are important. He was able to accom - even need that, but I feel like these kids need plish that most of the time through humor. attention and since I always felt that a low MAKEOVER Since he left, and I don’t think you want to class size would be really good, well this is say this, it just has not been the same at El like one-on-one, so if I can’t accomplish Rodeo. Usually the staff has been very cohe - something, then I’m a failure [laughing]. sive and helpful to each other, and I don’t know how it is now. When you’re frustrated What advice would you give a young $ with the people who are telling you what to teacher today? .00 do it cannot be very happy. I know that I’d say this is a little bit colored because 395 when Frank Scott left, then we ended up of the pressure I know these people are *Zoom & In-Home Whitening In- Home To Be Used For Maintenance Or with a guy that was just horror. And he only under, but to just enjoy it as much as you As A Gift To A Friend (Reg. $700) lasted two years, Steve Enoch [interviewed can, try to block out the pressures that are in issue #267]. There were very few people being brought upon you and enjoy the chil - ADULTS & CHILDREN CARE PACKAGE who could stomach him, so we were very dren. Sneak in as many fun activities that $ $ No cost to happy when Steve Fisher came back. He you can do with them and try to ignore the .00 Insurance and 49 0 Medi-Cal Patients started off teaching, then he was vice princi - static that might be reaching you. And then Complete X-Rays pal at Horace Mann and then he came back again, you know, it depends on the school Thorough Cleaning & Polish to El Rodeo as principal. and the conditions under which someone is Comprehensive Exam & Diagnosis teaching. I was pleased at the staff party, so Oral Cancer Screening Why did you decide to retire? many of the people have changed, there’s a Complete Periodontal Exam I was 62 by that time, and that’s a pretty lot of new teachers and they’re lovely, and I good age to retire first of all, and like I had met a lot of them and they’re just wonderful Children and Adults mentioned before, it was getting to the point people. So I know that they are putting their General and Cosemetic Dentistry where you just didn’t feel like you were all into it just like I did too. Smile Makers teaching and enjoying it because there was Fariba Salehani D.D.S so much pressure, constant pressure, to -- Interview by Andrea Simpson Corner of Robertson & Olympic teach academics and teach things that you didn’t go along with. Coming next week: Former Horace (310)358-1200 So it just got too frustrating. Frustration is Mann Principal Helene West Feldman

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4%15),!< (.41 32#!  0?$? #OMPOSITEä,IVEääXä .ONä"LEEDä"7 )NSERTIONä$ATEä "EVERLYä(ILLSä7EEKLY 6ERSIONä## lounge-cocktail room opposite. But somehow, while all this was in the works, they redid the front restaurant, gave it a new name “BLVD” and changed it from casual dining to one of from the hills ofbeverly the best places to eat, and, more surprisingly, most popular rooms in town. Very, very busy the parking staff at the Beverly Hills. Front bar scene and the best schnitzel to be found Places To Dine and Shop, desk people at the Peninsula and Regent are west of Vienna. Service is either very good or also excellent. slow and indifferent, depends on the luck of Best buffet: The Beverly Hilton has by far the draw. Of course, the best dining experi - Some To Avoid the best at three meals every day. Of the three, ence and the most elegant setting remains the lunch is the most value for your buck. Good Belvedere at the Peninsula. The room itself is An event, a passing and a correction. hot stations and selections and diverse salad marvelous, the food equal to the best in the bar. state and the service always perfect. No mat - By Rudy Cole Best deli: Of course, Nate ‘n Al. Still our ter how busy, you never feel rushed. The adja - most popular deli even though we miss Kaye cent cocktail lounge has our city’s best bar Time for our annual best, moderately Most improved: Crustacean, at Little Santa and the efficient but grouchy guys that used to tenders and servers and they manage to keep acceptable and not so wonderful places to Monica and Bedford. I’m not sure how or work the take out counter. Don’t expect the veterans on staff. Good people watching, dine, drink (no New Year’s resolutions apply), when, but the food and service, at least at instant service, not part of the culture here, the always. For more casual dining, try the open shop and be served or ignored. lunch, have returned to the nearly excellent diner is expected to accommodate the servers space on the roof next to the spa. Newest, most unusual entry: Fogo De standards they promised, and delivered, when who will not be rushed and respond with a Best political spotting: Outside Chao, 133 North La Cienega, Many have tried they first opened. Attractive entry, cozy if smile when you try. But the food quality is Sacramento, you can find more politicos at and flopped at this venue, but if you are total - somewhat crowded dining area, again one of always first rate and the juice is freshly Caffe Roma than any restaurant in the state. ly beyond nouvelle cuisine, this could be the the best Pacific dining experiences in town. squeezed. Arnold hasn’t deserted the place-- he was a place. In the event you are not familiar with However, park your own car at the city lot Best places to eat, atmosphere included: regular before he gave up terminating villains the Brazilian tradition of continuous food across the street or at the lots between the two Spago is our most elegant, non-hotel dining on film for jousts with unions and Democrats, service delivered to your table on oversized Santa Monicas or be prepared to wait. Not room. Best greeters at door, Wolf is usually and our City Council incumbents are often skewers, be prepared to manage the green and their fault, but the one-way Bedford makes around to make you feel welcome and found on the patio or inside. Beverly Hills red signs that tell the servers you want more or retrieving your vehicle a challenge. Fred Hayman and other local celebs are at Symphony’s Debbie Grossman and realtor need a breather. All kinds of meats arrive as Speaking of parking: A bad experience their usual tables. The Grill is the only restau - Elaine Young , and some venerable movie soon as you flip to green-- no waiting and no when you arrive or leave can impact your rant in our city that reminds you of New York folks such as Jackie Cooper are also regulars. need to fear being ignored. enjoyment almost as much as a poorly pre - -- design and menu. Interesting note: Seldom The owner brothers are fine greeters and a The salad bar is first rate, but this open for pared steak. Best parking services: Regent see regulars of either at the competition. good pasta/salad bar is the best assurance you dinner and lunch eatery is very pricey. With Beverly Wilshire and Peninsula. Both have Each has a very loyal following. can eat and still return to the office on time. cocktails and dessert expect to put 80 to 90 people that actually try to bring you car quick - Best hotel dining: The Regent Beverly Assemblyman Paul Koretz , a longtime anti- bucks per person on your Visa. Service is ly and make you feel welcome when you Wilshire will soon have a Wolfgang Puck smoking advocate, even put up with my pipe very, very attentive, if somewhat cold and arrive. Not as speedy, because of their limited steakhouse in the space that housed their fine professional. (Less expensive for lunch). parking options, but courteous and helpful are dining room. They are also redoing their large rudy cole cont. on page 8

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January 5 - January 11, 2006 • Page 7 rudy cole cont. from page 7 giving back-- not true of all the retailers of upscale, highly successful operation now in Wing” who died recently. His name is John and Arnold’s cigar recently. our city. Manhattan, will open next year in the Rodeo Spencer and not John Seymour, as reported Traditional favorite: Lawry’s would not Highly successful and still clueless: How Collection. here. Also, there is no real conflict in the survive if it depended on locals-- many of can you argue with the legions of people who Steakhouses are back: Good meat, better Assisted Living event honoring Ron Haft their regular patrons, from as far away as shop at Rite Aid, and I am still among them bar scene: Mastro’s. Most comfortable, great and Abbe Land and the BH Theatre Guild Orange County, keep their large dining room despite dozens of frustrating shopping expe - meat: Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse on South party recognizing the great works of Sooky full almost every night of the week. For some riences. If Staples’ slogan is, “Yes, we have Beverly. However, best all around steaks: Goldman and Janet Salter on Jan. 29. The reason, the more sophisticated of Beverly that”, Rite Aid on Canon could well coin the Porterhouse Bistro between Robertson and Guild will take over The Four Seasons at Hills seldom arrive. The service is consistent phrase, “We have no idea.” Not having items La Cienega on Wilshire. They are in the for - lunch and Assisted Living will be in the and very professional-- most of the servers in stock and not having any idea where they mer Andre’s space and across from evening at Shutters. Want more info.? E-mail are not trying to find an agent or peddle a are located is the rule, not the exception. Dr. Ron Grusd’s Advanced Radiology. An us and we will do the honors. script. Best salad dressing: French. Long lines appear quicker than additional MRI and a steak in one block! Best places to shop for food and basics: checkers and staff seems on a rotating Best supporters of charities : We have a *** Pavilions quality cannot compare with employment wheel. whole army of corporate donors, but we sin - My condolences to the Stern and Gelson’s-- still the best food shop in West Well worth saving: We now have a full gle out the Athens Group for only one reason: Harris families on the passing of Los Angeles and improved with the move of service book store, Dutton’s on North Canon. They won their Montage hotel fight, but con - Ellen Stern Harris (see brief on pg. 9). the deli section to the front of the store, but For all the years we complained about our tinue to back worth causes, generously. They Pavilions, the only remaining full service lack of bookstores, we now should make sure are a good corporate citizen. Lacking in giv - *** market in the city, has the most helpful staff this one succeeds. Good inventory, fine sales ing back are many of our larger retailers, Final thought: This is so revolutionary, I of any market its size in the western area. staff. Another resource worth supporting is including my absolute favorite drug store: hesitate to even suggest it. But just maybe From cashiers to managers, there is a will - Pioneer and Lucerne Hardware on North Rite Aid. this year we can find more reasons to agree ingness to help you find items and make your Crescent Drive, the only one we have left. Art events: A “rediscovered” work of on community goals and needs, than we can shopping experience pleasant. Whole Foods High marks for diverse inventory and knowl - Rembrandt is part of a special preview show - to differ or fight. Despite constant moans of is always a mixed bag of service. edgeable staff. ing of an auction of “Old Masters” Sotheby’s doom and gloom, this remains one of the best Clearly, the best in produce and meats, but Quick bites: Best chopped salad: La will hold later this month in New York. managed, served, public education providing some of the staff seem in a perpetual state of Scala. Most romantic setting: Il Cielo. Best “Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White and attractive places to live, work and shop in angst. On a recent visit, two “team” members Chinese, but overpriced: Mr. Chow. Best on Beret”, whose estimated value is $3 to $4 the world. We can disagree on our future, but sent me to two different aisles to find a Rodeo: Luxe Hotel in and outdoor dining and million, can be seen, along with other great why not enjoy and appreciate what we have? whipped cream item. Both were wrong. McCormick & Schmick’s at Two Rodeo. master’s works, from Jan. 10-12 between 10 Stores in Brentwood and West Los Angeles Best small deli: Judi’s on Bedford. a.m. and 5 p.m. at their Beverly Hills gallery, Rudy Cole served for eight years as a have larger selections, better service. This Beverly Hills Weekly Publisher Josh Gross 9665 Wilshire Boulevard, at Bedford. member and chair of the city’s Recreation was not true when Whole Foods first arrived likes Piccolo Paradiso on South Beverly Parking off Bedford. Preview here, auction and Parks Commission. He also was in Beverly Hills. For smaller grocery stores, Drive. He recommends the Ahi Tuna. later in New York. President of the Greystone Foundation and Owen’s and Beverly Hills Market are very Best small jeweler: Jackel’s in our build - served on three other city committees. Rudy service oriented. 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Page 8 • Beverly Hills Weekly Harris was also the lead amicus in the federal was a good citizen lawsuit to clean up the Santa Monica Bay, and with extraordi - represented the City of Beverly Hills and the nary integrity her - Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water self. She was brief s District of Southern California. There, she advo - involved with so cated for a fair rate structure so that residential many important Ellen Stern Harris rate payers would not have to subsidize agricul - issues in Southern Passes Away tural and other commercial water users. She was California and she Ellen Stern Harris, a also part of the Montage hotel opposition. wanted our com - longtime activist on Harris served on the City of Beverly Hills’ munity to be a behalf of the City of first Recreation and Parks Commission, the model of integri - Beverly Hills, the envi - city’s Cable Television Advisory Committee and ty-- integrity ronment, good govern - most recently on the Technology Committee. between residen - ment and other public Harris also ran unsuccessfully for Beverly Hills tial and develop - interest causes, passed City Council in 1988. ment issues-- and away on Monday, Jan. 2, Ellen Stern Harris Former Mayor Allan Alexander met Harris I greatly respected after losing her battle when they, along with 11 others, ran for the that.” Officers from the Beverly Hills Department were on hand to thank The with cancer. She was 76. council. Harris also Ladies Auxiliary at the Los Angeles Country Club for their generous A third generation Beverly Hills resident, “She was a person of great knowledge and taught public poli - donations supporting the Benjamin Banneker Special Education School Harris, editor of The Beverly Hills Citizen and strongly held opinions, especially with regard to cy at UCLA, and in Los Angeles. More than 100 gifts were donated at this annual event. founder and president of Fund For The environmental issues. I very much admired the was named Pictured (L-R) are General Manager Kirk Reese with Officer Andrew Environment, received many well-deserved Myers, Sergeant David Perez, Officer Michael McKessy and Officer passion and commitment she brought to the dis - Woman of The Blake Nance. honors. Among these was a salute from the Los cussions during the campaign,” Alexander said. Year by the Los Church, which later became the Beverly Hills Angeles County Board of Supervisors on “Although she was not elected to the City Angeles Times, where she wrote a consumer Presbyterian Church, on October 16, 1928, the October 2, 2004. Council, I thought the City of Beverly Hills advocate column for seven years. She has been first couple to be married in the church’s sanctu - Harris was prominently involved in water would benefit by her active participation and recognized for her work with awards from The ary. quality and coastal protection issues for years, recommended her appointment to the Parks and Sierra Club, The Audubon Society and the Violette was involved in many city activities co-authoring Proposition 20, an initiative passed Recreation Commission and later to the United Nations Association. and organizations, including as a charter mem - by the state’s voters in 1972 that created the Technology Committee. She served admirably Beverly Hills Municipal League Chairman ber of The Amazing Blue Ribbon of The Music California Coastal Act. She also served as Vice on both boards. Ellen was an outstanding mem - Thomas White attributes his involvement in city Center, the Beverly Hills Garden Club as the last Chair of the State Coastal Commission for its ber of the Beverly Hills community and she will affairs to Harris herself. surviving founder, Achievement Rewards for first four years. be missed.” “Ellen was responsible for my first involve - College Scientists, the Los Angeles County She previously served on the Los Angeles Another friend and former Mayor Robert ment in Beverly Hills community affairs, and Museum of Art, and as a charter member and Regional Water Quality Control Board, where Tanenbaum said Harris was a person who will was generous with her wisdom, ideas and good past-president of The Junior Philharmonic she helped to clean up the heavily polluted Los be desperately missed. counsel. 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San Fernando Valley residents also rose up against August for an all-services area code overlay to the existing 310 area code in Southern a similar proposal for the 818 area code. California. This means that phone customers in the South Bay and Westside, including Former Assemblymember Wally Knox (D-Los Angeles) headed legislation in 1999 mak - Beverly Hills, will have to dial 11 digits for all calls and residents could begin using this ing it harder for new area codes, including overlays, to be implemented. dialing pattern last Saturday, Dec. 31. But some in Beverly Hills hope to put this “What we succeeded in doing was create a commitment to a much higher demonstration telephone plan on hold. of need,” Knox said. “The issue we discovered was that there was a very lackadaisical The Commission ordered implementation of the new area code, 424. demonstration of need and for years the companies claims were taken for granted.” In Beverly Hills the City Council was provided with an overview of the PUC proposal and Knox says although he could not comment on specifics of today’s issue, the same question staff attended a PUC hearing to oppose 10-digit dialing and the city proposed at the hearing still remains. that Beverly Hills and the Westside area maintain the 310 area code and designate the South “Is there actually a need? Because of course none of us want to run out of numbers,” Knox Bay area as 424. said. “We suggested a phased-in approach to retire 310 area codes in the South Bay as telephone When an overlay is created, all new phone numbers in that area get a new area code, while numbers were taken out of service and new ones instituted,” Mayor Linda Briskman said. existing numbers keep the old one. But all callers in the zone must dial area codes for all “In the staff presentation the City Council directed staff to provide public information to the calls, even local ones. community over and above what the PUC was planning to disseminate.” The commission’s action in 1999, approved on a 3-2 vote, halted the 424 area code over - An overlay will not require consumers with existing telephone numbers to change their lay, but six years later in a decision made in August 2005, the PUC reversed its decision. area code. Instead, consumers who want new telephone numbers may have to accept tele - Beverly Hills resident and telecommunications CEO Marc O’Krent said he is in favor of phone numbers with the new 424 area code. Some consumers may be assigned a different the overlay because no one has to change their phone number, but he is not in favor of the area code for new telephone numbers within the same residence or business where multiple way the PUC is implementing it, and like in 1999 he doesn’t think people will accept it. telephone numbers already exist. “What I found last time when I worked on it was people did not like dialing ‘1’ plus 310 Under the new overlay plan, all calls within the 310/424 overlay region must include a “1” to call a local number down the street,” said O’Krent, President of The Telephone followed by the three-digit area code and seven-digit line number. Customers may begin Connection. “I’m in favor of an overlay because I don’t want a split. There has been a big using this dialing pattern beginning Dec. 31, 2005, and must use it starting July 26, 2006. political battle between the Westside cities, including Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and New numbers will begin to be issued using the new 424 area code on or after Aug. 26, 2006. Malibu, and neither one of those wants to give up their 310 area code. So overlay makes In 1999, the state PUC voted to kill the 310 area code overlay sought by telephone com - sense because nobody has to change their phone number. 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Cadillac at Robertson Sepulveda at National Hawthorne at Torrance 310.837.6046 310.477.8460 310.540.2077 January 5 - January 11, 2006 • Page 11 What O’Krent doesn’t like about the new plan is that most other states implement 10-digit “[Today telephone companies] do have a lot of numbers they’re not giving out, but they’re dialing, but California has always had ‘1’ plus 10-digit dialing. Recently, O’Krent has been not contiguous. Right now the way the phone network works is that numbers are assigned to working to try to get the ‘1’ thrown out, and he says he’s been losing. phone companies in contiguous blocks of a 1,000 numbers. They may have millions of num - Briskman too said her biggest objection was the 11-digit dialing versus 10-digits, which bers that are not being used, but they’re not in these blocks and the switching technology can is done all over the country. “Why dial 1 first?” Briskman said. only handle things in blocks of 1,000,” O’Krent said. “So technologically we should be mov - O’Krent has filed about five motions with the PUC to have them overturn the ruling, and ing to something where if there is a free number, it’s put into a pool and any carrier that wants he’s also filed a motion to complain to the FCC in conjunction with the South Bay Council to assign one to a customer can pull it out of a pool. We don’t have that with local numbers of Governments, which includes 16 other cities in the South Bay and Los Angeles County, yet, and the big driver of this whole thing is wireless. The wireless carriers are running out asking them to change the PUC ruling. of numbers. A lot of our customers who want numbers in Beverly Hills for their cell phone “It created a situation where they actually condoned two different types of dialing. On your can’t get them now; they have to get numbers in 323 or in the South Bay.” cell phone you don’t have to dial with a ‘1.’ But they are going to force the wireline carriers, Local business owners do not cheer the decision, but they are not too concerned like SBC and Verizon, to have 11-digit dialing. There’s a federal rule that says you cannot “I don’t think it’s going to make that much difference if we have to dial a ‘1’ in front of have two different dialing patterns in the same area for two different classes of carriers, wire - 310,” said Norbert Wabnig, owner of The Cheese Store. less and wireline,” O’Krent said. Fran Berger of The Farm expressed the same sentiments. The County of Los Angeles also filed a complaint Dec. 23 arguing that it does not need two “It’s going to be like dialing 323 even though it’s next door. There’s nothing I can do. What numbers because there’s millions of numbers that phone companies are hanging on to. can we do? It’s a public utility,” Berger said. “I think that people are getting concerned The coalition of South Bay officials has charged that a state agency has failed to count because it’s something they haven’t had to do yet. But I’m not concerned.” remaining telephone numbers in the 310 area code and implement additional available con - Briskman said she thinks the Westside should remain with 310, not 424. servation measures, and an overlay will violate a state law authored by state Sen. Debra “If, as the PUC and telephone providers state, additional telephone numbers are needed, it Bowen, requiring the commission to “perform a telephone utilization study and implement would have been better to maintain the 310 area code in Beverly Hills and the Westside and all reasonable telephone number conservation designate the South Bay with the 424 area measures.” “It will be confusing to residents, businesses and code,” Briskman said.“It will be confusing to The last such study was done about five residents, businesses and visitors to have to dial years ago, when state officials discovered visitors to have to dial so many digits, especially so many digits, especially from neighbor to telecommunications companies were hoarding from neighbor to neighbor. We will do our best to neighbor. We will do our best to make sure our 3 million unused numbers in the 310 area code. residents understand what they need to do. We Last year, more than 2 million remained make sure our residents understand what they especially need to emphasize that emergency unused. 911 calls are not affected by this.” The argument was made in a 10-page written need to do. We especially need to emphasize that Briskman added that she believes today there letter to the PUC in response to an earlier rec - emergency 911 calls are not affected by this.” is no shortage of phone numbers. ommendation by an administrative law judge “This could be an industry manipulated ‘cri - endorsing a 424 overlay, the first of its kind in -- Mayor Linda Briskman sis.’ A geographic split would be preferable, the state. but despite the city’s efforts, this is not a deci - The coalition consists of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments including 16 cities sion the city could make. It was not within the city’s control,” Briskman said. from the airport to the port of Los Angeles; Rep. Jane Harman (D-El Segundo), In 1999, activism on the Westside may have played a large role in the overlay’s defeat, Assemblywoman Jenny Oropeza (D-Carson), Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe; including a series of opinion columns by Robert Scheer in the Santa Monica and Westside the South Bay Association of Chambers of Commerce; and Sen. Debra Bowen. editions of Our Times , a now defunct community newspaper published by the Los Angeles “Our feeling is that there is really no reason for this overlay; that there are numbers left in Times . At the same time, Steven Teitelbaum, a Santa Monica-based plastic surgeon launched the 310 area code that are not being conserved and the PUC has done a really great job over an Internet website, www.stopoverlay.com, where thousands of people joined him in his fight the last five years of number conservation measures, but there is more that can be done” said against the overlay. Jacki Bacharach, Executive Director of the South Bay Council of Governments. “The phone companies lied blatantly saying they were in imminent crisis of phone num - The coalition’s first position is that there should be no overlay. bers and with this many years later they still have plenty of 310 phone numbers. So we caught “What’s happening is that pager companies, for example, have 750,000, the phone compa - them lying [in 1999] and they’re lying today,” Teitelbaum said. nies are saying that they’re losing numbers because they’re in different rate centers and there Teitelbaum said he planned on starting up the website once again this time around, but are certain rate centers that are running out of numbers. But what technology is today, they changed his mind when he found out the date of the public hearing. don’t have to be giving numbers out of rate centers. Wireless numbers are not given out that “The problem is the deck is so stacked by them that the public has no one speaking for way. So the case is made that they’re using these artificial, or old standards, for deciding that them. You get a notice that there’s a hearing on a Tuesday at 10:30 in the morning in some there aren’t enough numbers. Whereas, if they just said you don’t need rate centers, you’d building in Culver City. So who can take off work and find this building in Culver City? Then have a lot of numbers available,” Bacharach said. they say, ‘This is what the public wants,’ but they stack the room with the wrong people. So The South Bay Council of Governments has also joined O’Krent in his battle at the FCC they make a hearing that no reasonable person can attend and then they stack it with their own asking that it order the PUC to be consistent with wireless and wireline. attendees. So the whole process is corrupt, it’s dishonest,” Teitelbaum said. “We joined [O’Krent] in his petition because we feel that if this ends up happening, we “The concept of dialing 11 digits to call your neighbor across the street is asinine and want it to be as easy for people as possible and why should we have to dial a ‘1’ if it’s not unnecessary and illogical and people get outraged at this; it’s the ultimate example of red tape necessary,” Bacharach said. “It just makes it more inconvenient and if this has to be done at and government bureaucracy and government mishandling of a public issue,” Teitelbaum all, we want it to be as convenient as possible.” added. The most recent PUC decision is a victory for telecommunications companies which main - At the end of 1998, more than 70 million phone numbers were being used by wireless tain that the overlay is needed to handle the surging demand for phone numbers. Nationwide, phones nationwide, up 25 percent in one year. To meet that demand, state regulators in the the need for new phone numbers has escalated to feed a seemingly insatiable demand for cel - past would split off new area codes-- creating 818, 310, 562, 323 and 626 out of what was lular phones, faxes, modems and other phone lines. once the 213 area. Back in 1999, the FCC granted the commission permission to allot numbers in blocks of The city’s Communications & Marketing office will supplement the PUC materials to 1,000, instead of 10,000, and to force telephone companies to return unused numbers. That inform residents of this change. Residents will be referred to their telephone provider and the same year, the state Legislature approved AB 406, putting a greater burden of proof on tele - PUC to address problems and concerns. phone companies seeking to create area codes or overlays. O’Krent says he believes though that there is a great lack of 310 numbers. GENERAL PLAN GETS MORE SPECIFIC Updated information illustrating Beverly Hills’ existing conditions, helping to formulate policies and programs is now available to the public. By Jennifer Kamm The comprehensive, seven-chapter, report addresses the existing characteristics, trends and forecasts, as well as overall issues that affect each resource area. The TBR will serve as the After years of research and analysis, the General Plan Technical Background Report (TBR), basis from which any subsequent policies and programs will be formulated into the updated a document that describes Beverly Hills’ current conditions for physical, social and economic General Plan. The information will provide the baseline against which the proposed land use resources, was distributed to council members Tuesday at the informal meeting. plan, when it is developed, will be compared in the Environmental Impact Report that will be prepared. It also provides a factual “snapshot” of the existing state of the city’s infrastructure, are 14 different educational facilities. According to the report, currently some of the schools demographics and land use which is useful to bear in mind when considering new policies, are operating below allowable capacity and student enrollment is decreasing. said Mahdi Aluzri, Community Services Department Director. As the city’s population continues to grow, especially the number of children, there will be At the conclusion of each chapter, the General Plan consultants, EIP Associates and the city, more of a demand for parks and recreational facilities in the area. Presently, there is not a stan - lists issues that should be considered when discussing future plans. dard for open space-to-population, and according to national standards, the city is deficient in “These are issues that the consultants and staff felt the data felt merited particular attention its amount of park acreage. The council is now aggressively exploring the idea of an 80,000 when developing the prelim - square foot indoor/outdoor community recreational center. inary goals and objectives,” Citizens with a love for literature have the option of visiting either the main Beverly Hills Aluzri said. Public Library or the smaller, Roxbury Senior Library. In order to prolong the use of the main Chapter 2 describes the library, key issues such as security, storage and general maintenance and upkeep of the facili - existing and expected land ty need to be discussed, according to the report. uses, population and demo - Chapter 5 discusses the city’s existing environmental resources, including plants and ani - graphics within the City of mals, water quality, topography and historic elements. Due to the abundance of steep hillsides Beverly Hills. Residential and mountainous areas nearby, fires, floods and landsides are especially threatening for the development is the leading city. While a Hazard Mitigation Plan does exist, it needs to be continuously implemented and existing land use within the updated in order to remain effective. city, comprising 2,367 acres, Since Beverly Hills is not a major industrial area, the primary source of air pollutant is motor or 85 percent of the total vehicles. Fortunately, these emissions can be reduced if residents take advantage of rideshare acreage. Nonetheless, com - or other public forms of transportation. Also, by promoting mixed-use development in com - mercial development still mercial areas, the amount of plays a prominent role in the emissions from motor vehi - Beverly Hills Hotel at 9641 Sunset Boulevard city, especially in the forms cles owned by residents of office space, retail facili - would also be decreased, as ties and medical offices. In fact, more than 38 percent, an astounding 10,289,999 square feet, stated in the report. of the city’s non-residential areas are comprised solely of offices. Despite the contention that Nonetheless, as continued there may be nowhere to park, the city is actually home to 1,057,350 square feet of public development occurs, the parking facilities. number of stationary air pol - The newest trend to enter Beverly Hills is mixed-use development. Currently, planning and lutant sources will also construction are underway for mixed-use projects that would allow both commercial and res - increase. According to the idential development at the same location. Such expansion is highly controversial amongst TBR, construction activities residents because according to the TBR, the city has not yet established any standards for iden - and boilers (that provide heat) tifying locations where mixed-use development would be appropriate. will be the cause behind As indicated in the TBR, there are almost no vacant properties within Beverly Hills. As a increased pollution. To regu - result, any additional development will have to occur as infill or re-use of existing properties. late the amount of emissions This creates discrepancy among residents because older, one-story houses are being replaced released into the air, the with larger, two-story mansions. As the desire to “keep up with the Jones’” continues, many South Coast Air Quality feel that the character and uniformity of Beverly Hills will begin to change. Management District, the Like many other cities with a high-employment rate, the city’s daytime population greatly agency primarily responsible surpasses its resident population. While this aids the city economically, it puts citizens at risk for air pollution control, will should a disaster or large-scale emergency situation occur during the day. As a result, the city’s rely on their New Source public safety agencies need to take extra precautions in emergency preparedness and disaster Review permitting proce - planning efforts. dures. According to Aluzri, the city has a Multi-Hazard Functional Disaster Plan that defines how Throughout the years, Beverly Hills plans, prepares, responds and recovers from an event. “Each day the city works Beverly Hills has become to plan and prepare for a disaster which includes holding trainings and exercises. Scenarios home to numerous amounts can include both day and nighttime response,” Aluzri said. of historic resources. Chapter 3 depicts the existing conditions of the city’s public infrastructure and utilities sys - According to the National tems including water, sewer, drainage, electricity, natural gas, telecommunications and circu - Register, six properties within Beverly Hills City Hall at 450 North Crescent lation. At present, treated water is purchased from the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) and the city are historic, including supplied to more than 9,400 residents and businesses throughout Beverly Hills. Although 90 the Harold Lloyd Estate (also known as Greenacres), Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the percent of city’s water is imported, the remaining portion comes from four local groundwater Anderton Court Shops, Virginia Robinson Gardens, Greystone Mansion and Park, and the production wells. Three of the wells are located in the Beverly Gardens Park, with the other Beverly Hills Post Office. Although not listed on the National Register, the Historic Resources in the Burton Way median. Additionally, there are also 10 reservoirs (five above ground and Inventory lists an additional 35 residential and 14 commercial properties as having cultural or five below) within the Beverly Hills water systems that range in size from one million gallons historical significance that make Beverly Hills one-of-a-kind. to more than 19 million gallons. Chapter 6 examines conditions pertaining to the health and safety of the community. The The city also has two emergency water service connections from the Los Angeles conditions range from geology and mineral resources, to seismic hazards and emergency pre - Department of Water and Power. Given the amount of tourists and employees that travel to paredness. To reduce risk associated with seismic activity, the Beverly Hills Community Beverly Hills every day, the city needs to become less reliant on water imported from the Development Department Building and Safety enforces building codes and sets standards for MWD and create facilities for additional water storage should there be an emergency situa - design and construction. According to the California Building Code, all buildings that have at tion, according to the report. In order become less reliant on imported water, the city needs to least one reinforced masonry bearing wall that must comply with the requirements of the pro - reduce the amount of water used for private and municipal irrigation. As a result, in April gram. 2004, the city opened a reverse osmosis water treatment plant as part of the Groundwater Also, as a result of increased paving within the city, after severe rainfall, there is more of a Recovery Program that enables member agencies to develop local groundwater supplies. propensity for flooding to occur. Although there is generally little precipitation between May Like other cosmopolitan areas, the amount of available landfill space is not enough to and October, an average of 17.3 inches of rain is measured each year. One type of flooding accommodate the amount of waste produced by the city. As a result, the city may face that can affect the city is “asphalt creep.” As streets continue to be resurfaced and new layers increased hauling costs in years to come. A more aggressive approach to decrease waste and of asphalt are added, the street’s water-carrying capacity is reduced. Over time, the storm drain encourage recycling is needed, the report said. system becomes less effective. The city’s steep hillside areas are also also more susceptible to Also, the city does not currently have a comprehensive energy conservation program that runoff and slope failures. To combat this issue, these areas need to be more respectful of cur - would guide the provision of energy as new or expanded development occurs. rent grading, soil compaction, slope and grading regulations, the report stated. “There is no city-specific program, but in corroboration with other city departments, we are Chapter 7 consists of the City of Beverly Hills Planning Issues Report and summarizes the working on developing a sustainable development program that addresses issues more than key issues identified in previous chapters. By reviewing these issues, citizens can become just energy conservation. Sustainable development addresses water conservation, use of recy - more aware of the planning, goals, policies and programs that will affect them in the future. clable materials and other environmentally friendly design criteria,” Aluzri said. The next phase for the TBR, according to Aluzri, is the development of preliminary goals Chapter 4 describes existing public services and facilities within the city, including schools, and objectives for the General Plan update. The TBR can be found on the city’s website at libraries and parks and recreation. In the five-mile radius that comprises Beverly Hills, there www.beverlyhills.org.

January 5 - January 11, 2006 • Page 13 Menzies scored and Rebecca Gold recorded the Both teams scored 16 points in the fourth quarter. shutout for the Normans in a first-round game Dec. George Medrano scored 15 of his 17 points over 27. the final three quarters for Beverly Hills. Cosmo “We were able to move the ball around, create Morabbi and Ben Smyth each added nine, Mahbod sports & chances in the box,” Franks said. “We were aggres - Zargar seven, Daniel Leisner five, Eric Lee and sive in the box.” Julian Wheeler two each and Cliff Frazier one. Beverly Hills 1, Laguna Beach 1 Smyth made two three-point baskets in the first (Beverly Hills advances on penalty kicks, 4-3) quarter. scores Sharaf scored the tying goal on a 70th-minute Jet lag and arriving two days before the start of penalty kick in the 80-minute game after the the tournament contributed to the loss, Norman Breakers were called for a hand ball in the penalty coach Luis Turcios said. BHS Girls’ Soccer Team area in a championship quarterfinal Dec. 28. Beverly Hills made four of 13 free throws in the Beverly Hills 0, Cathedral City 0 first half, four of five in the third quarter and six of Finishes Second In (Beverly Hills advances on penalty kicks, 2-1) eight in the third. Gold recorded her fourth shutout of season in a Beverly Hills 86, Lahainaluna (Hawaii) 32 championship semifinal Dec. 28. The Normans outscored the Lunas 22-3 in the Tournament “It was a pretty wide open game and neither first quarter and 25-9 in the second to take a 47-12 team could capitalize,” Franks said. “Both teams halftime lead in a consolation quarterfinal Dec. 20. Norman boys’ basketball team wins three of four games in Hawaii. had a ton of chances. It could have been 3-3 as eas - Beverly Hills increased its lead to 73-23 entering By Steven Herbert we’ve been really solid lately. We patched up a lot ily as 0-0. Cathedral City had some really, really the fourth quarter by outscoring Lahainaluna, 26- of holes on defense. Getting [sweeper] Tess Callner good attacking players that we were able to control 11, in the third quarter. After winning its previous two games on penal - back has made a huge difference.” and slow down.” Medrano scored 22, all over the first three quarters. ty kicks, Beverly Hills lost to undefeated Murrieta Callner had been sidelined early in the season What’s Next? Morabbi and Smyth each added 11, Meyer Linter 10, Vista Murrieta, 5-4, on penalty kicks last Thursday because of an injured shin that became infected, The Normans are scheduled to play at Zargar nine, Amit Friedman eight, Leisner six, Lee in the final of the Palm Desert girls’ soccer tourna - Franks said. Inglewood Wednesday at 3 p.m. in their Ocean and Wheeler three each, Dominique Sandifer two and ment after regulation play ended in 1-1 tie. “She’s physical, she’s fast and is covering up all League opener. Sherwin Batac one. Nikki Sharaf put the Normans (5-4-4) ahead our mistakes on defense,” Franks said. The tourna - Smyth made three three-point baskets, Zargar two, with a goal in the 20th minute. The Broncos tied the ment helped “to develop confidence,” Franks said. Boys’ Basketball while Lee, Medrano and Morabbi each made one. score early in the second half of the 80-minute “We’re learning how to fight against a good Maui Christmas Classic game. team,” Franks said. “Whether we have as much as Campbell Westmont 67, Beverly Hills 52 Steven Herbert also covers sports for the Los Vista Murrieta was “out-playing us,” with a wide much talent as them or not is not the question. It’s The Normans trailed by one at halftime, but were Angeles Times and The Associated Press. He margin in shots, Beverly Hills coach Ryan Franks whether we can compete against a team that’s bet - outscored by 14 in the third quarter in a first-round welcomes feedback and suggestions. He can be said. ter than us. Now we know we can compete with game Dec. 19. reached by e-mail at [email protected], “We just kind of hung in there,” Franks said. anybody.” Beverly Hills was outscored 15-11 in the first by telephone at (310) 275-7943 or by fax at “They were definitely the more talented team.” In other tournament games: quarter, but outscored the Warriors, 15-12 in the (310) 273-4519. The Normans have “come a long way since the Beverly Hills 3, Indio 0 second quarter to trail 27-26 at halftime. The beginning of the year,” Franks said. “Defensively, Rachel Kove, Rebecca Rosen and Ashely Normans were outscored 24-10 in the third quarter.

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