Goldberg Files Suit Against Accuser, City of Beverly Hills a Year After the Incident, Many Unanswered Questions Remain
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second generation photos • Pages briefs • Brien slams The Courier, does briefs • Venoco files for sports • Beverly High boys’ track team not indicate resignation date Page 2 bankruptcy Page 3 defeats El Segundo Page 6 Issue 860 • March 24, 2016 - March 30, 2016 Goldberg files suit against accuser, City of Beverly Hills A year after the incident, many unanswered questions remain A Tree Grows in L.A. Newly appointed TreePeople CEO Cindy Montañez on creating a climate-resilient Los Angeles cover stories • pages 7 and 10 briefs cont. on page 3 second generation photos • Pages briefs • Beloved El Rodeo Principal photos • 9th Annual sports • Beverly High promotes assistant ed to the children, teachers and parents Steve Fisher passes Page 3 Purim Ball Page 5 to be new football coach Page 7 of El Rodeo. He loved the Beverly Hills Unified School District. Steve was an out- letters standing teacher and Principal who stands among the very best educators I have Issue 859 • March 17, 2016 - March 23, 2016 known and worked with. In our many conversations before and after retirement, Beverly High Alumni inducted & email I never once heard him complain despite into Hall of Fame the ravages of the disease he fought for BHTV City Council and Commission Honorees discuss how Beverly High Schedule – Channel 10 so many years. His positive attitude shaped their lives • Planning Commission: March 24 at “Beloved El Rodeo was infectious. Marilyn and I extend our 1:30 pm, March 29 at 5:00 pm Principal Steve Fisher pass- heartfelt condolences to Shahla, his loving • Health & Safety Commission: March 28 es” [Issue 859] wife, and the entire family. at 4:00 pm Steve Fisher was an exceptional man Sol Levine • Mayors’ Forum: March 28 at7:00 pm, who made a positive difference in all of March 30 at 4:00 pm Retired BHUSD Superintendent the lives he touched. He was totally devot- • Beverly Hills View – David Ryu: March Thousand Oaks 29 at 4:00 pm cover story • pages 8-9 • Beverly Hills View – Willie Brien: well as our opportunities, which often turn out March 30 at 3:30 pm to be one and the same,” Brien said. WHAT’S ON YOUR Though Brien was expected to step down MIND? March 16, he did not address the matter. briefs The councilmember did, however, share his You can write us at: Receive Beverly Hills thoughts on the Beverly Hills Courier, after 140 South Beverly Drive #201 Weekly in your e-mail invoking the spirit of his grandfather, former Brien slams The Courier, does Beverly Hills, CA 90212 inbox every week! U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren. not indicate resignation date “[Earl Warren] said, ‘Everything I did in You can fax us at: Councilmember Willie Brien did not my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell 310.887.0789 Sign up here: http:// announce his resignation date at last week’s for,”’ Brien said. “So here goes: Beverly Hills installation ceremony, despite the city playing email us at: eepurl.com/zfU-L deserves better than the Beverly Hills Courier. [email protected] a four-minute “farewell” video recognizing Beverly Hills deserves a real newspaper that the former mayor and Board of Education reports without editorializing, distorting or president. walking up to the edge of defamation and Instead, when Brien took the podium at the Correction, Issue #859 libel. Beverly Hills deserves a Courier so Samuel Goldwyn Theater March 16, he began A letter that appeared in last week’s issue many of us grew up with: a paper that served by thanking city staff members, his past and supporting the Hilton project should have the best interest of the residents by delivering been attributed to Inggrit Hidajat. present colleagues, and his family. SNAPSHOT “Truly, we are blessed with our problems as briefs cont. on page 3 WeBeverlye Hillskly Issue 860 • March 24, 2016 - March 30, 2016 Beverly Hills Weekly Inc. Founded: October 7, 1999 Published Thursdays Delivered in Beverly HilIs, Beverlywood, Los Angeles ISSN#1528-851X www.bhweekly.com Publisher & CEO Josh E. Gross Reporter 1 year Mina Riazi subscriptions Sports Editor are available. Steven Herbert Sent via US Mail $75 payable in Contributing Editor advance Rudy Cole (1925-2013) Advertising Representatives Adjudicated as a Karen Shilyan newspaper of gen- Daniela Nissani Sarah Benyamin eral circulation for the County of Los Angeles. Legal Advertising Case # BS065841 of the Mike Saghian Los Angeles Superior Eiman Matian Court, on November 30, 2000. 140 South Beverly Drive #201 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 310.887.0788 phone 310.887.0789 fax CNPA Member [email protected] All staff can be reached at: first name @bhweekly.com MISTER MAYOR Unsolicited materials will not be returned. SAMUEL GOLDWYN THEATER ©2016 Beverly Hills Weekly Inc. John Mirisch (center) was sworn in as the 51st Beverly Hills Mayor by Pete Peterson (left), the 2014 Republican candidate for California Secretary of State and dean of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, at the City Council installation cer- emony March 16. Mirisch was accompanied onstage by his son Vin (right). Page 2 • Beverly Hills Weekly Lauren Meister to become Countess Maritza Renée Burkett 5. “To Life” from Fiddler on the Roof next West Hollywood mayor 6. “Poppy Trail” by late Beverly Hills resi- Lauren Meister will be installed as West dent Dr. Ernst Katz Hollywood mayor April 18. 7. “Un Bel Di” from Madame Butterfly “Lauren Meister is a very pro-resident 8. “Happy Trails” councilmember who I think understands that 9. “No Business Like Show Business” from local government is meant to serve the resi- Annie Get Your Gun dents, and not special interests,” said Beverly 10. “I Could Have Danced All Night” from Hills Mayor My Fair Lady John Mirisch. 11. “Easter Parade” from Easter Parade Prior to 12. “Anything Goes” from Anything Goes her election 13. “Climb Every Mountain” from The last March, Sound of Music Meister 14. South Pacific medley served on several com- missions and Apple Awards recipients committees, announced Councilmember Willie Brien Cherry Meltdown by Desire Obtain Cherish including Honoring BHUSD teachers, administrators the Planning and staff members, the 2016 Apple Awards briefs cont. from page 2 Fine Art Commission rejects will be held April 13 at 5:00 pm at the Beverly Commission, Lauren Meister the news as news. The Courier operates with two artwork loan requests the Campaign Hilton. the presumption of power, intimidating public At their meeting last Thursday, the Fine Art Finance Reform Committee and the District 1 The ceremony will recognize Beverly Vista servants and ultimately discouraging good, Commission turned down two proposals for Parking Committee. She worked on mitigat- music teacher Judith Chan, El Rodeo 1st decent people from running for public office; loaned artwork. ing traffic and parking impacts of new and grade teacher Janna Lightner, Hawthorne 2nd bullying our city employees simply because UNIX Gallery had requested the city host proposed city projects. grade teacher Amy Whitney, Horace Mann they can, knowing that our good and decent LA-based artist Desire Obtain Cherish’s “It’s great for West Hollywood that they STEM-Science teacher Helen Hixon, Beverly employees—real people with families—can- Cherry Meltdown for one year. are going to have a truly pro-resident mayor, High English and Service Learning teacher not fight back. This, my friends, is just plain “I think it’s great fun and I’d love to see and I’m very happy for her,” Mirisch said. “I Jamie Marrs, Beverly High Special Education wrong.” this somewhere,” said Commissioner Carolyn look forward to working with her to address teacher Michele Mendelsohn, Beverly Vista Brien then assured City Manager Mahdi Hiller. the concerns of the residents from both of our Principal Christian Fuhrer and BHUSD deliv- Aluzri, who has been attacked by The Courier Commissioner Michael Smooke had differ- cities.” ery driver Don Johnson. in recent months, that he “has the support of ent thoughts on the sculpture. In 2013, Meister chaired the “Yes on Event sponsors include the BHUSD, many, including me.” “This is not my favorite,” Smooke said. “I Measure C” Term Limits for West Hollywood Beverly Hills PTA Council, BHEF and the don’t know that it meets the same criteria as committee, which limited all councilmembers Beverly Hilton. the other work that we’ve been dealing with.” elected on or after March 2013 to no more Later, the Commission unanimously reject- than three full or partial terms. City to honor Shakespeare ed artist Stuart Kusher’s proposal that the city A 25-year West Hollywood resident, anniversary, kick off host his piece Contessa for five years. Meister formed marketing research firm Meister & Associates in 1991. She earned a BritWeek Mayor John Mirisch and BritWeek founder WeHo Mayor denounces Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the Bob Peirce will host a press conference March University of California, Santa Barbara. Trump 24th in recognition of the 400th anniversary of In an email announcement Tuesday, William Shakespeare’s death and the start of West Hollywood Mayor Lindsey Horvath Sing-Along tonight the 10th annual BritWeek. denounced Republican presidential candidate A free concert and Sing-Along featur- “So much of life’s wisdom is found in Donald Trump. ing the City Council and the L.A. Lawyers Shakespeare,” Mirisch said in a statement. “I am compelled to state for the record Philharmonic will take place tonight at 7:30 “We are forever enriched because he saw the how deeply disturbed I am by the Trump pm at the Academy Theater. world as ‘this great stage of fools’ with all its presidential Conducted by Philharmonic founder Gary humor, sadness and desire.” campaign,” S.