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See Page 6 See Page 12 See Page 3 L A S V I R G E N E S A N D CALABASAS ENTERPRISE Volume 51, Number 8 Serving Calabasas Since 1963 April 29, 2021 NewsNews inin BriefBrief Finding Those He Thought Were Lost “WronglyLAPD Convicted” Captain Subject Ryan of Retiring Speaker Series Discovering Relatives That Survived the Holocaust LoyolaLAPD CaptainMarymount Maureen By Laura Levinsky lawRyan professoris retiring thisand week.oft- It is a sad story, interviewedRyan started legal with expert the but it has a happy LaurieLAPD inL. 1988 Levenson and worked will ending. bea varietythe guest of speaker assignments. at the Paul Gross was CalabasasShe was Speakerthe first Series female on born and raised in Tuesday,assigned Mayto Valley 11. Levenson Traffic New York in the willDivision discuss Detectives, “Wrongly but has 1960’s and 70’s. 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Reopen and raised in Poland The Los Angeles Public Library will launch the next phase prior to World War Paul Gross and newly found cousin Sallie Mars. of its rolling reopening on May 3 with limited in-person II, most of his family servicesTrial atDate the SetCentral for LibraryAlleged and Child 37 branch Molester libraries was murdered by the Nazis. Aron New York - he had cousins that Calabasas Rotary or for Hadassah. across the city. In the West Valley the Platt Branch Library and his brother Samuel hid in the could have been around the Another way he feels he is doing A trial date has been set for alleged child molester and at 23600 Vanowen Street, Woodland Hills, will offer Browse forest for survival, existing on corner or the next town over and that is by cherishing his family. Calabasas resident Jeff Cooper, who was arrested three and Borrow and wireless printing. The Canoga Park Library potatoes and turnips, hunted by never knew it. They are all Aron’s legacy. His years ago on eight counts of child molestation. Cooper, at 20939 Sherman Way will offer Browse and Borrow, public Nazis, including a boyhood friend Paul has been in touch with children, grandchildren and more who owns a home on Park Miramar that was used as computer services and wireless printing. The West Valley a synagogue until his arrest, was charged with three of Aron’s. branch at 19036 Vanowen in Reseda will offer library to go For all the people and generations that counts of commission of a lewd or lascivious act on a child But those weren’t stories and wireless printing. The Woodland Hills branch at 22300 under the age of 14 and one count of oral copulation or Paul heard growing up. Like Ventura Blvd. will continue as a library to go only branch. were lost in the Holocaust, he found what sexual penetration on a child under 10. He is scheduled many survivors, Aron didn’t For a complete list of libraries and the services offered at each to appear before a jury on October 4. If found guilty he really want to talk about what he little family he has left. location, visit lapl.org/reopening. Follow #LAPLreopen for could face up to 39 years in prison. After his arrest Cooper went through. “He never told me updates. pleaded not guilty and was released on $5-million bail. anything. A few comments here these cousins, but hasn’t met them will know Aron’s story - and the and there, but never the story of all in person. It doesn’t matter. fact that if he had not survived, Valley Cultural Releases New Podcast how he and Samuel survived,” he They are family. His family. For they would not exist. Las Virgenes Brush Fire Signals told Valley News Group. all the people and generations How many legacies were lost The new episode of Valley Cultural Foundation’s “Arts It wasn’t until he listened that were lost in the Holocaust, he when over 12 million people, six on the Move”Concern takes us for to ourLong, neighbors Hot Summer south of the border to an interview Aron did for found what little family he has left. million of them Jews, were killed to embrace Mexican heritage music. The May 6 podcast A brush fire broke out Thursday afternoon at the Las the Shoah Foundation that Paul Finding this all out has been in the Holocaust? How many will include Maricela Martinez, the director of the all- Virgenes offramp and the 101 Freeway. The fire burned learned the story. “I wished I had an emotional roller coaster. doctors, painters, sculptures or female Mariachi Lindas Mexicanas. With over 20 years in approximately five acres and created a jam on the freeway watched the video when he was Genealogical research takes musicians would there be in the the business, Maricela comes from a long line of Mariachi as the fire crews mopped up the scene. Hot weather and alive.” By then, both his parents a long time, especially when world if not for the Holocaust? musicians from Jalisco, Mexico. It will also feature the winds fueled the blaze though the cause was unknown at had died and he had no way of records were destroyed in the war. Paul is in the community Delgado Brothers, a well-known name throughout Southern presstime. Weathercasters are predicting more hot weather expressing all the emotions he Just sitting down and watching telling his very sad story, but it California, who have played their brand of Latin blues, roots, for the weekend ahead, and urging residents to clear brush, was feeling. the Shoah interviews is a time has a happy ending. He is here soul and reggae for over 30 years; Conjuto Jardin featuring not to use power tools outside and be careful disposing One of the things he did was commitment. and he is keeping Aron’s memory sisters Libby and Cindy Harding, who as children learned cigarette butts. Summer does not officially start until June to sign up for Ancestry.com and Paul spends time trying alive. He remembers. He will from their father, Latin American scholar and harpist Tim 20 - but with the dry brush and heat more fires are a strong take a DNA test to try and find any to find ways to honor never forget. Harding the updated and reinvigorating music of Veracruz,. possibility. As officials at Cal Fire have said, “California’s existing relatives. It worked and his father Aron’s legacy. Laura Levinsky is a life- The podcast is broadcast the first and third Thursdays of fire season now lasts all year long.” Paul was able to locate cousins One of those ways is by long valley resident and the the month beginning at 5 pm at Facebook, https://www. who were raised in New York. speaking to groups and telling the stepdaughter of a Holocaust facebook.com/ValleyCultural. New York! Paul was raised in story, like he did recently for the survivor. Page 2, Valley News Group, April 29, 2021 COMMUNITY MAY COMMUNITY CALENDAR STATEWIDE: We featured a story last week on the deadline for the California REAL ID. Subsequent to our publication the DMV announced they have extended the deadline for obtaining the REAL ID to May 2023. WOODLAND HILLS: The second annual virtual Ovarian Cancer Circle 5K will take place April 29 to May 10. Run virtually anywhere at any time during those two weeks and get sponsors to support you. Funds raised go to the Ovarian Cancer Circle inspired by Robin Babbini. Babbini lost her life to the cancer at age 20. Her mother, Paulinda Schimmel Babbini, founded the non-profit to raise money for research, networking, education and support. Register to run at theovariancancercircle.org. For more information call (323) 610-8991. CALABASAS: The Calabasas Library’s Writers’ Corner Club for third through seventh grade students will be on Saturday, May 1, at 2:30 pm as a Zoom meeting. It is hosted by Calabasas Library staff and run by high school students. No experience in creative writing is necessary; the club is for fun. If you wish to participate and receive the Zoom meeting information, you need to send your child’s name, school and grade to Karilyn Steward at ksteward@calabasaslibrary. org. WOODLAND HILLS: Woodland Hills resident Jackie Goldberg will host Mickey Stevenson, Motown’s first A&R man with such greats as Berry Gordy, Stevie Wonder Smokey Robinson, Lionel Ritchie and more on Sunday, May 2 and 9 on her “Pink Lady Presents” television show.