Here We Go Again! Jazzin’ With the Kids Benefits Terminal Children Historic OPEN Our List of See Page 8 Celebrity FOR Restaurants Home TAKE Offering Take Out Demolished OUT See pages 6&7 See page 13 ValleyVolume 37, Issue 40 A Compendious Vantage Source of Information December 10, 2020 News in Brief Light Up Your Holiday... Pop Up Holiday Market This Weekend Candy Cane Lane Still as Sweet The City of Calabasas and the Calabasas Chamber are sponsoring a “Pop Up Holiday Market” this Saturday and Sunday, December 12 and 13, from 10 am to 5 pm. Participating retailers at The Commons at Calabasas, the Courtyard at the Commons, Gelson’s Village, Old Town Calabasas, Plaza Calabasas and the Summit at Calabasas will offer special offers and discounts. A full list of offers is posted online at calabasaschamber.com. When shopping in person or online mention “Pop Up Market” for the special discounts. New COVID Site Testing Opens Calabasas Mayor Alicia Weintraub has announced that a new drive-thru COVID testing site has opened in Calabasas. The site at the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center is Woodland Hills Candy Cane Lane, located off now open. This testing site is being run through Universal Winnetka Avenue and Oxnard Street, has been a Diagnostic Laboratories and is not run by LA County or the holiday favorite since 1948! 2020 has brought so City of Calabasas. There is a fee - which must be paid before many changes, and Candy Cane Lane definitely is receiving the test; you will then be given a receipt to submit to part of that. Yes, there are fewer decorated houses your insurance. You can also drive-up without an appointment than in previous years, but it is still a lovely drive but you may have a longer wait. It will be open 8 am to 6 pm to celebrate the holidays. El Segundo’s version on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. If the demand is there, of Candy Cane Lane, which had thousands of additional days will be added. Results will take anywhere people walking through, shut down this year due from 15 minutes to 24 hours, depending on the type of test you to Covid-19. The residents of the College Acres order. Costs for an anitibody test is $69; Antigen rapid test neighborhood, which encompasses the streets of is $89 and a PCR is $110. Reservations and payments can be Candy Cane Lane in Woodland Hills, have opted made at www.UDlab.com. to continue the celebration. From 6 to 10 pm every night until Christmas they will be bringing Where to Donate Toys This Season joy to thousands. (Drive-thru only, This year due to the pandemic there are more families no pedestrian traffic allowed). in need. Several locations are accepting toy donations for holiday gift giving. The West Valley Warner Center Chamber Nights of the Jack Gets Frosty With Holiday Road is accepting new toys this Saturday, December 12, from 10 am to 5 pm at Winn Volkswagon, 21141 Ventura Blvd. Toys for Nights of the Jack is getting Tots is accepting donations at drop boxes in Ralph’s stores in frosty…Jack Frost that is! Woodland Hills, Calabasas and Agoura. The Calabasas Senior From the same team that Center is hosting their 4th Annual Toy Drive and unwrapped brought you a Halloween drive- new toys can be put in the box in front of the Center (300 thru spectacular, comes “Holiday Civic Center Way) Monday through Friday 9 am to 5 pm. Road,” a magical installation for the most wonderful time of the year. This drive-thru, again located at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, will have larger than life festive installations, thousands of Christmas lights, Santa and Mrs. Claus, elves, countless candy canes and of course, some holiday cheer! Kids and kids-at-heart will Delivering Holiday Cheer delight in the various installations You can still enjoy holiday fetivities at the drive-thru Holiday Road. from a small snowy village to the Our on-the-spot reporter Connnie Hein caught West towering majesty of commanding make sure to hit the bathroom the perfect opportunity for Hills postman David Pacheco in his fully-decorated and nutcrackers. SoCal will also before you head out as lines can families to get out of the house lighted mail truck. Pacheco has been delivering Christmas experience a bit of snow as you get a little long upon entry. In and celebrate the glittering mail for seven years - and tries to deliver not just mail - but traverse down the winding roads. a season where festivities are lights of the holidays in a safe holiday cheer on his route. Pack the car with snacks and limited, Holiday Road provides (Continued to page 8) Page 2, Valley News Group, December 10, 2020 COMMUNITY DECEMBER COMMUNITY Old paint. Solvents. Batteries. Computer monitors. These are some CALENDAR of the household hazardous waste and electronic waste items you TOO can bring to a Roundup for recycling. It’s a great opportunity to clean out your garage and clean up the environment. Our free drive-thru, drop-off events are a ONLINE: quick, convenient, and common-sense way Do you like trivia? The West Valley Playhouse will be TOXIC to dispose of materials too toxic to trash, hosting their Virtual Trivia Night on ZOOM this Saturday night, pour down a sink, or dump in a storm drain. December 12, from 6:30 pm until 8:30 pm. Bring a drink, bring your dinner, and bring your trivia expertise. They will put you on a team TO and you will virtually play trivia live as a group. Teams will win prizes 101 . d and have some fun as a theatre community. Come join THEM for some R s e n e ZOOM Trivia! Suggested donation is $25 or pay what you can. Get g r i V . s Rd tickets at www.wvplayhouse.com. a ma TRASH L Piu . Household Hazardous Waste u d b R i l . a n MALIBU CIVIC MALIBU: y M CENTER County of Los Angeles residents will have the opportunity & Electronic Waste Drive-Thru C PARKING LOT Exit Only Cross Creek Rd. to safely dispose of household hazardous waste such as antifreeze, Collection Event Enter Pacifi c Coas Civic from Civic t Hwy Ctr. Way Center Way unused pharmaceuticals, car batteries, used motor oil, paint, pesticides, Saturday, December 12, 2020 1 home-generated sharps waste such as hypodermic needles, pen 9:00 am - 3:00 pm needles, syringes, lancets, and intravenous needles, universal waste including household batteries, fluorescent light bulbs, and electronic PACIFIC OCEAN waste (e-waste) such as TVs and monitors, computers, VCRs, stereos, Malibu Civic Center and cell phones at the free Countywide Household Hazardous Waste Rear Parking Lot No Business Waste Accepted Roundup this Saturday, December 12, from 9 am to 3 pm. The roundup 23519 West Civic Center Way Brought to you by the County of Los Angeles and presented by Los Angeles County will be held at the Malibu Civic Center Rear Parking Lot, 23519 West Public Works and Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts in cooperation with the cities Civic Center Way. For more information visit CLEANLA.com. Malibu of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, Los Angeles, Malibu, and Westlake Village. Home-generated sharps waste such as hypodermic needles, pen needles, syringes, CALABASAS: The Calabasas Library’s Wednesday Morning Book lancets, and intravenous needles SHOULD NOT be placed in your trash. Bring them to For more information or an event schedule, the Roundups or visit www.CLEANLA.com for alternate disposal options. Club will be meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, December 16, at 11 am. call (800) 238-0173, or visit: For the book title and the Zoom meeting link, please email ksteward@ You can also take your used motor oil to more than 600 oil recycling centers www.CleanLA.com, or www.lacsd.org/hhw in Los Angeles County. Call 1(888) CLEAN-LA for a complete listing. calabasaslibrary.org. WOODLAND HILLS: The Law Collaborative will offer a free divorce telephone workshop where experts will answer your confidential questions on Saturday, December 12. Call in to (609) 663-6560 between 10 am to noon. CANOGA PARK: The West Valley Playhouse will present “All By One’s Elf” holiday show for kids of all ages via Zoom on Saturday, December 12, at 11 am. Tickets are $10 per family and available at wvplayhouse.com. VALLEYWIDE: Download Valley Cultural Foundation’s “Voices of Hope” album from their emerging artists of all-new songs for the holiday. $5 for the download at valleycultural.org/2020holidayalbum. ONLINE: With the popularity of the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit” chess has taken off! The Los Angeles Public Library offers Chess Club Thursdays at 3 pm. Play chess via Lichess. Contact teens@ lapl.org at least one hour in advance of the program for the meeting. Valley News Group, December 10, 2020 Page 3 COMMUNITY People in the News COMMUNITY Woodland Hills chiropractor Kevin McNamee, left, owner of the California Health Institute, is a resident of Thousand Oaks. He has CALENDAR been elected to the Thousand Oaks City Council. He was confirmed on December 8 with a lead of 79 votes. California Health Institute offers the best of many treatment options, including Asian medicine (acupuncture and herbal medicine) and chiropratic (joint manipulation, nutrition, Functional Rehabilitation/ physiotherapy). In the spirit of Giving Tuesday, blk. Beverages has partnered with the West Valley-Warner Center Chamber of Commerce to provide pallets of water to West Valley charitable organizations, including Guadalupe Center, ONEgeneration, Valley Village, West Valley Boys and Girls Club, West Valley Community Benefit Foundation, West Valley Food Pantry and the West Valley YMCA.