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Men’s Health Week: See Page 13 Consider Checking Your Genes - See Page 9 See Page 11 ENCINO ENTERPRISE Volume 2, Issue 29 A Compendious Source of Information June 17, 2021 Summer is Heating up with Local NEWS IN BRIEF Live Entertainment Cal-OHSA: Vaccinated Individuals Summer is here, Tickets quarantine is over and people are are just $5 at the Can Shed Mask at Work flocking outdoors to enjoy local, door and beverages live entertainment! From movies and snacks will Following the decision by Cal-OSHA, it is now legal to live music and mall events to be available for in California to unmask at work if you are fully vaccinated. murder mysteries, there is an purchase. Upon this announcement, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an array of events for everyone. Rather executive order to immediately implement the new guidelines. Tarzana Community and investigate than Cal-OSHA, or the California Division of Occupational Safety Cultural Center brings back live relax? Make note and Health, who regulates workplace safety, still states that music for their Tarzana Music of the center’s unvaccinated individuals should continue to wear a mask in Night on Friday, June 25, from 7 special murder the workplace. Ultimately, it falls to individual employers on to 9:30 pm at the center. mystery premiere whether or not they will enforce the policy. This stellar showcase event from Dainty will feature local singer- Dames later next songwriters performing original month. Coffee with a Cop Returns songs and unique covers. Special Looking Now that establishments are safely reopening, Coffee guest for this post-pandemic for some daytime with a Cop is back in-person on Monday, June 21, from 12 to concert is Jay Asher, who will entertainment 2 pm. Visit with your LAPD West Valley Senior Lead Officers do a four-song set at 8 pm. Other to enjoy with offering libations and a host of who will be available to chat with locals about community musical guests include Ivan the kiddos? My Valley Pass, games, scratcher giveaways and issues. Their first post-COVID event will take place at the new Cofler, Art Podell, Ric Taylor, in partnership with Westfield more will be at play! Starbucks location at 6360 Reseda Blvd. Tracy Newman, Sal Guitarez, Fashion Square, will be hosting Or grab the whole family Ken Charlson, Kathy & Marc a day of fun and giveaways on for a local concert, kayaking Sanders, Scott Memmer, Jimi Saturday, June 26, from 6 to 10 adventure at the Sepulveda Yamagishi, Jason Gutierrez, pm. Basin, free movie in the park and Tarzana Grocery Store Evacuated Robert Morgan Fisher, Diana Head to the rooftop near more! Check out the list of Valley McGrane, Diana Weynand, the food court entrance where a entertainment options spread after Hazmat Scare Stephanie Jane Markham, Nick DJ will be spinning tracks, food throughout this issue (pages 11, Goodman, Claire Bloom and Jeff trucks will be on offer, an 818 12, and 15) and enjoy all summer Cleanup on aisle three? Firefighters were called to the Gold. Brewing beer garden will be has to offer! Vons grocery store in the 18400 block of Ventura after reports of a ruptured refrigeration line around 1 pm. Due to the nature of the refrigerant and chemicals at bay, the store was evacuated as a hazmat squad cut power to the store, opened roof hatches and used blowers to clear any contaminated air in the grocery store. There were no medical injuries reported but the store remained closed for a few hours out of an abundance of caution. Reseda Community Cleaning Event at Tampa Bridge Join the West Valley Warner Center Chamber of Commerce and fellow locals in cleaning up the neighborhood! Norms Encino to Hold Hiring Fair Volunteers will be meeting on Saturday, June 26, from 9 am Quarantine is over and with the restaurant, this is a great employees also receive health, to noon to paint the south side of the Tampa and LA River Norms Encino is getting ready to opportunity for those searching dental and vision insurance plus bridge underpass, from the west to the east. Park at the Victory open their doors for the first time! for a local job. Immediate hiring free life insurance! and Ventura plaza and meet at the bikeway on the west side Starting Monday, June and training are available so why Apply in-person at their of Tampa, just north of Starbucks. Wear old clothes and shoes 21, and running until Saturday, wait? week-long hiring fair from 7 am you don’t mind paint potentially getting on as well as a hat and June 26, Norms Encino will be Norms Encino offers top to 7 pm at 16573 Ventura Blvd in sunscreen! Call Sean McCarthy to volunteer at 818-389-1876. holding a job fair to fill a variety of pay, employee meal programs, Encino or online at Norms.com/ positions. Looking for candidates paid vacation hours and student careers. Join the Norms team for all shifts and all positions tuition assistance. Full time today! Encino Enterprise, June 17, 2021, Page 2 CALENDAR JUNE

Community Calendar

* The Encino Neighborhood Council will be holding their monthly General Board Meeting on Wednesday, June 23, at 7 pm. For the meeting link and agenda, visit encinonc.org.

* Westfield Fashion Square will be holding a free e-waste collection day on Friday, June 18, from 12 to 1:30 pm in the parking lot. They will accept a wide range of office e-waste including televisions, fax machines, computers, cameras, etc. that are eligible for disposal. Contact Elian Electronics Recycling at (714) 494-3242 if you have any questions.

* The Los Angeles Public Library has kicked off their Teens in LA Film Fest! Young filmmakers are invited to showcase their talent, enthusiasm and creative spirit by sending in their short film in any of the listed categories. Categories include book trailer, documentary short, experimental short, live action or animated short, micro short and public service announcement. Submissions are free and must be received by June 30. Participants must be entering grades 6 through 12 and be under the age of 19. For more info, visit lapl.org/teen-film- festival.

* Little Angels Project, with host Child Development Institute, will be hosting a low-income free veterinary wellness clinic on Saturday, June 19, at the Institute (18050 Vanowen St., Reseda). Appointments are needed and will include exams, microchips and vaccines. Sign up at littleangelssproject.org/wellness-events or call (818) 515-5461.

* The Encino-Tarzana Library invites teens to their Teen Movie Club on Tuesday, June 22, at 4 pm. The movie being watched and discussed is Knives Out. To sign up, visit bit.ly/teenmovieclub.

* Join the West Valley Warner Center Chamber of Commerce for a Cocktail and Comedy Mixer on Wednesday, June 23, at 5 pm on Zoom. Meet fellow business leaders in Tarzana and Reseda over a carefree online mixer. To register, visit woodlandhillscc.net/readpost. php?news_id=9718&rob=y. There is no cost to attend but there is a donation link.

* Friends of the LA River, in partnership with the San Fernando Audubon Society, will be hosting a Haskell Creek cleanup at the Sepulveda Basin on Saturday, June 19, from 8:30 am to noon. To register, visit eventbrite.com/e/the-great-la-river-cleanup-haskell- creek-registration-151737560127.

* New Directions for Youth will honor their past Honorary Chairman of the Board on Sunday, July 25, at 10 am. At the free virtual event they will dedicate the new Athletic Center as The Rafer Johnson Athletic Center. Register online at www.ndfy.org. New Directions for Youth is a comprehensive youth development agency that provides direct services and programs to more than 3,000 at-risk youth and families annually. Sponsorship opportunities are available and will be recognized on the donor plaque to be displayed inside the athletic center. For sponsorship opportunities email pattijowolfson@gmail. com. Encino Enterprise, June 17, 2021, Page 3 People in the News COMMUNITY

Actor and Encino resident Matthew Hancock (at left) is currently starring as a modern-day Black playwright struggling to find his voice among a chorus of people telling him what he should and should not be writing in the latest production of An Octoroon at the Fountain Theatre. An Octoroon is a radical, incendiary and subversively funny riff on Dion Boucicault’s once- popular 1859 mustache-twirling melodrama set on a * A little alphabetical fun fact for ya: the only word in the Louisiana plantation. A spectacular collision of the English language with all five vowels in their precise alphabetical antebellum South and 21st-century cultural politics, order is facetious. An Octoroon twists a funhouse world of larger-than- life stereotypes into blistering social commentary to * As lovers of words, we know what a bookworm is but how create a gasp-inducing satire. This production is being does that translate in other cultures? performed at the Fountain Theatre’s brand new covid- -Indonesia: Book flea safe outdoor stage now through September 19. -Romania: Library mouse When not on set or on-stage Matthew loves -Germany: Read-rat to exercise his musical alter ego Michael Siren, having -France: Ink drinker trained exclusively at the Imagined Life Studios in Los -Denmark: Reading horse Angeles. * Linda Arsenault checks in with this one: A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing into the car he was astounded to see that the woman behind the wheel was knitting! Realizing that she was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, “PULL OVER!” No, the woman yelled back, “IT”S A SCARF!”

* Didja know: Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes and sharks. So watch your ass.

CIF-SS Commissioner Rob Wigod * And in honor of Father’s Day, we present our favorite dad presented Encino Crespi Carmelite student jokes: Chris Salerno ‘21 (at right) with his 2020- - It’s inappropriate to make a ‘dad joke’ if you’re not 2021 CIF State Scholar-Athlete of the Year a dad. It’s a faux pa. Award. Graduate Salerno was a Celt football player and has committed to Notre Dame as a -When does a joke become a dad joke? When it kicker where he will join his brother who also becomes apparent. plays for the team. Congratulations! -If two vegetarians get in an argument, is it still called a beef?

-What starts with an “O” and ends with “nions” and sometimes make you cry? Opinions.

-WebMD is updating its server because of a virus. Well, they think it was a virus, but it could also be malaria, kidney failure, a heart murmur, gallstones, or possibly...

-And finally, an astute observation from Dad: “I know when my kids need money because that’s when they laugh at my jokes.”

American Heart Association recently honored Encino resident and cardiologist Richard Allen Williams, MD (above), Founder of the Association of Black Cardiologists, with the Heart of Los Angeles Award for outstanding contributions to advancing health equity in their respective fields. The author of numerous books and publications, his seminal 1975 Textbook of Black-Related Diseases documents the medical conditions experienced by Black people and highlights the need for a culturally competent approach to health care for African Americans and other people of color. He founded the Association of Black Cardiologists, which he served as president for 10 years, and the Minority Health Institute. Both organizations are dedicated to promoting deeper understanding of the adverse impact of cardiovascular disease on African Americans, addressing health care disparities and promoting diversity in the health care workforce. Encino Enterprise, June 17, 2021, Page 4

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photographs. Facets fraudulent Internet connections. of My Soul is full of They are children who live lives her new poetry. Each of unspeakable horror,” she photograph has been related. selected to enhance the Saltzman, whose 100 Reasons to Celebrate mood of the poem. husband Jay is a long-time Even COVID couldn’t keep Monique Taylor down! Taylor, The book is member of Woodland Hills left, turns 100 this month. A graduate of Howard University in Music a beautiful way to Rotary, joined another club - the education, the retired teacher of the year, sister, mother, grandmother help fight a horrible new Rotarians Fighting Human and great grandmother refused to let the pandemic stop her from her problem. Trafficking, which is focused job. Prior to the quarantine, she taught in-person piano at Piano Play in “With human solely on battling the growing Sherman Oaks. At 99, she transitioned easily to teaching Zoom lessons trafficking, children scourge. from her baby grand at home and continues to teach four days a week. are kidnapped or Saltzman pleaded, “Help On Saturday, June 19, she will be presented with a citation from the dragged off the street me save these innocent young Mayor’s office and the U.S. Congress at a special event at Arrika into vans. Runaways girls.” Rhodes Congressional campaign launch at the Tarzana Community are seduced by false To order her book visit and Cultural Center. Taylor is especially proud to be honored on offers of protection or leadingwithmyheart.org or email “Juneteenth” commemorating the end of slavery. they are snatched by [email protected]. Ferne Saltzman (above) is used to looking at the world through a lens, but definitely not a rose-colored one. The accomplished nature and horse photographer has taken a hard look at a menacing problem in our community, and has dedicated the profits from her new book to fight it. “There is nothing so precious in this world as the beautiful innocence of a child - and nothing so vile as having it ripped away from them through human trafficking,” said Saltzman. During COVID she wrote an inspirational book of metaphysical, meaningful poetry illustrated by her own Encino Enterprise, June 17, 2021, Page 8 BUSINESS

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To learn more , please visit: https://www.westfield.com/topanga/hello-sunshine Encino Enterprise, June 17, 2021, Page 12 VALLEY ENTERTAINMENT The Hollywoodland Murder Mystery Premiere at Tarzana Community & Cultural Center The Tarzana Community blankets/pillows, your trusted blankets/chairs. VIP tickets get and Cultural Center is the host to entourage, and most importantly, priority seating (with on time the first post-pandemic in-person your sleuthing skills. You’ll dine arrival) and a complimentary murder mystery event from from local vendors under the stars, glass of wine! Dainty Dames on Saturday, July take photos with Hollywood’s You may pack your own 31, at 7 pm. elite, while the stars of the most picnic basket or local vendors will In the Heights Delivers Dainty Dames Events coveted film premiere delight you be available to purchase delicious welcomes you to the premiere with their talents. cuisine. Dainty Dames Events that everyone is DYING to As the film premiere is excited to host this outdoor see! The year is 1949 and the begins, it’s evident that someone COVID-compliant event. Masks But Fails to Truly Soar Black Dahlia murder still haunts will stop at nothing to see it are required when not eating or Hollywoodland. One man destroyed. It is your task to drinking, and stay socially distant By Katie Sterling even come out that while helmed has dared to create a film so unwind the killer’s twisted little and be respectful of the actors, Musicals are polarizing. as representing a strong Latinx controversial that it may crack game before the body count the beautiful outdoor venue, and When they get adapted for the community, Miranda failed in the case and you are invited to the rises...do you dare solve The to each other. big screen, you’re certain to truly diversifying by omitting premiere! Hollywoodland Murder? For tickets and further have even further mixed reviews. darker skinned individuals in Dress to impress, grab This event is an outdoor details, visit daintydamesevents. Some of praise, some highly leading roles. Yet in the end, your “director chair” or finest event, so please bring your own com/showtimes--tickets.html. critical or as one friend astutely while at times a bit over the top, commented, “there was more many have flocked to see it on music than I thought there would the big screen as it does perfectly be...” encapsulate a kick-off of summer Valley Cultural Foundation Lin-Manuel Miranda’s splashed on the screen. highly anticipated Tony award- While watching the winning musical In the Heights musical, it’s hard not to think that Releases Summer Movie Lineup debuted to both much fanfare and the possibility of In the Heights much fizzle. being made was slim if it weren’t for the success of Hamilton. After Concerts in the Park Saturdays will be Brave on performing arts non-profit all, musicals are nothing new, but may be kicking off summer August 14, The Secret Life of Pets organizations, Valley Cultural While watching the Miranda introduced a genre that entertainment, but Valley Cultural 2 on August 21 and Toy Story 4 on Foundation provides a variety of elevates the sung word to new Foundation is also brining back August 28. enjoyable fundraisers that help musical, it’s hard not to breaths. its highly popular Movies in the All movies are rated keep performances free and open Those who saw Park! either PG or G and are therefore to the public. Learn more about think that the possiblity Hamilton will know that he packs Based at the same appropriate for all ages, from what the Foundation has on offer, of “In the Heights” being a lot of dialogue, and syllables, location at Warner Park, mark little kids to the inner kid within. from podcasts to virtual concerts, into fast-paced, pay-attention- your calendars for some family- Parking will be available at valleycultural.org. made was slim if it or-you’ll-miss-it versing. In friendly entertainment. Each in a nearby structure or on Keep an eye on this weren’t for the succes of the Heights takes note of that Saturday in August, enjoy a surrounding streets as permitted. space to see which Movies in the style and furthers it by blending different movie that will begin August will be the dog Park and Concerts in the Park “Hamilton.” English and Spanish as reflective at dusk. Gather the kids, grab a days of summer so why not enjoy that Valley News Group will be of the community it highlights. picnic and come to the park early some free entertainment before sponsoring! Focusing on a Those who had trouble with for a perfect viewing spot! the kids get ready to go back to Listen to live music, Washington Heights community Hamilton may struggle a bit at The first movie to kick school?! discover new artists on their threatened with the pressures first, but as the subject matter off the summer series will be As one of Southern podcast and enjoy the movie, all of gentrification, the musical is not nearly as heavy as the Shrek on August 7. Following California’s most respected thanks to VCF! highlights the dreams of a tight- Revolution, it’s easier to jump knit community who may not back in. Astute viewers will even always get the better life they notice subtle nods to Hamilton hoped for, but have each other to within the movie. lean on for endless support. And Fans of musicals, at just under two and a half hours, and die-hard In the Heights audiences get a detailed foray into enthusiasts, are sure to enjoy it but the diverse Latinx community others may sway on committing and the personalities that call themselves to this melodious these city blocks their home. movie. While leading man Caught up in the Anthony Ramos (of Hamilton impressive craft of a lyrical fame) acts as the de facto narrator journey, the plot is enjoyable, of the tale, it’s impossible to grasp but similar to when the heatwave his story without understanding breaks in the movie, you find the history of those closest to yourself coming out of the fog him. and moving on with your life not It’s both a melancholy necessarily regretful of your time and jubilant sense of community, spent but not looking to return with energizing songs leading anytime soon. the plot along from one scene to In the Heights has a the next. While Miranda does a running time of 2 hours and 23 great job in presenting a multi- minutes and is rated PG-13. generational cast, at times it Directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy seems that there are too many Rich Asians) with music by Lin- storylines to follow, and some Manuel Miranda. In the Heights simply fall flat. is now playing in theatres and on Some criticism has HBO Max until July 11. Encino Enterprise, June 17, 2021, Page 13 VALLEY ENTERTAINMENT

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Anyone’s list of the created the close-up, long Robert Henderson, on July 23, 1948, he died on the 10 most influential names in shot, fade-out, soft focus, author of D.W. Griffith: The way to the hospital. He had been movie history would invariably flashback, tinting, the Years at Biograph, was no living alone in the Hollywood include those of the Lumiere moving camera, cross- kinder to the Valley: “Griffith Knickerbocker Hotel. Brothers, Thomas Edison, Sergei cutting, and many other directed…Over Silent The California Eisenstein, and Charles Chaplin. cinematic innovations. Paths, at the San Fernando Historical Landmark Marker at And while any such list would be His best- Mission...22 miles from Los 12685 Foothill Blvd at Vaughn subject to individual tastes, one is known pictures, such as Angeles with inadequate train St., Sylmar, reads: “Originally immutable: David Wark Griffith. Intolerance (1916), Broken service, and the dirt roads, part of the San Fernando Mission Film critic James Agee Blossoms (1919), and most after the first winter rains, lands, this ranch was purchased wrote of Griffith: “He achieved controversially, The Birth had swelled the ‘rivers’ and by David Wark Griffith, revered what no other known man has of a Nation (1915), are but washed away the bridges… pioneer of silent motion pictures, ever achieved. To watch his three of an incredible body it was often impassible by in 1912. It provided the locale for work is like being witness to of work. Between 1908 motor…The desertion and many western thrillers, including the beginning of melody, or the and 1931, Griffith directed desecration of the picturesque Custer’s Last Stand, and was first conscious use of the lever 518 films, and many of place was complete.” the inspiration for the immortal or the wheel; the emergence, them were shot in the San Most of the big battle production, Birth of a Nation. In coordination, and first eloquence Fernando Valley. scenes in Griffith’s films were 1948 it was acquired by Fritz B. of language; the birth of an art: For a number of shot in the San Fernando Burns, who has perpetuated the and to realize that this is all the years, he traveled between Valley, in the area between Griffith name in memory of the work of one man.“ New York and the Valley, the today’s location of the great film pioneer.” an area he loved for Burbank Studios both its unspoiled and Universal cinematic D. W. Griffith produced and Studios, including opportunities and a directed the first movie made in Hollywood, part of present- place to refresh and In Old California (1910). It became the first day Forest Lawn recover from his of scores of films he made in Los Angeles Cemetery. hectic lifestyle. and the San Fernando Valley. In May The first movie 1913, a trade he filmed in the Valley no fan of the Valley, later writing paper, Motion Picture was Over Silent Paths in of a shoot: “A great wind came World, reported 1910. howling down out of a cloudless that Griffith “was In 1912, Griffith bought sky to the north, bringing a having an imposing land in the north end sandstorm of flying grit from the Western town of the Valley that had barren waste that was the San constructed in the San belonged to the Fernando Valley.” And even later: Fernando Valley for San Fernando a forthcoming Mission, named film, The it the Griffith Battle of Ranch; many of Elderberry his best-known Gulch. The pictures were following filmed there. month, he The author standing by California Cine- directed two Historical Landmark No.716, honoring Filmed on the Griffith Ranch in matographer one-reelers what is today Sylmar, 1913’s The Battle D.W. Griffith, on the site of Griffith’s Ranch Karl Brown (a reel was in the north Valley. of Elderbush Gulch is a 29-minute silent worked with approximately featuring Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, and Griffith for 12 minutes), An Indian’s Martin Cooper, President Lionel Barrymore. Griffith built an entire many years; Loyalty, according to one of Cooper Communications, Western town on his Valley ranch for the he was with biographer, “in the desert supervised public relations for film. Griffith in 1916 A still from D.W. Griffith’s 1910 short film, of San Fernando.” At the the Academy of Motion Picture for Casey at the Over Silent Paths, shot entirely in the north San same time, Griffith had Arts & Sciences for 10 years; held Chaplin called him “the Bat. In his book, Brown Fernando Valley, near the corner of San Fernando sets built in Chatsworth executive positions with Disney teacher of us all,” and his leading describes the filming: Road, just below Maclay Ave. Here the heroine turns Park for his Biblical epic, and Universal Studios; and lady, Lillian Gish, called him “The action takes place in the man who killed her father into the town’s marshal. Judith of Bethulia, the first served as Chairman of the Board “the father of film.” Film pioneer a town called Mudville. four-reel feature made in of the UCLA Film & Television Mack Sennett praised him as “My Fortunately, Mudville was just “There were real-estate offices America. Archive. He is a Fernando Award day school, my adult education over the [Cahuenga] pass, perfect with no buyers all over Southern Sadly, Griffith was Honoree and Past Chairman of program, my university.” in every bucolic detail, in a tiny California, especially in the a better filmmaker than a VICA. An award-winning author, In tandem with his rural village called Lankershim.” cactus-strewn wastes of the San businessman. His last film, The he has written four books, two of cameraman, Billy Bitzer, Griffith Brown was obviously Fernando Valley.” Struggle, was made in 1931; them on the San Fernando Valley.

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