Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017 Vol. 16 No. 38 SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT NEWS HEALTH Scholarship to What’s new on Downey’s Rose Paging Fresno State Netflix, Hulu Parade float Dr. Frischer SEE PAGE 2 SEE PAGE 7 SEE PAGE 4 SEE PAGE 4 Downey City revokes hookah lounge’s restaurant live entertainment permit grades El Rey Quick Stop PUBLIC NUISANCE: Police have 13000 Paramount Blvd. JANUARY 20 responded to the hookah lounge 18 Date Inspected: 12/20/17 FridayWeekend80˚ Keep Downey Beautiful clean-up times since November 2016. Grade: A DATE: Saturday, Jan. 20 at a By Alex Dominguez Glance TIME: 9 am Pizza Man Staff Writer 8720 Imperial Hwy. LOCATION: 12152 Woodruff Ave. Saturday 6873˚⁰ Date Inspected: 12/20/17 Friday Downey Symphony DOWNEY – A downtown Grade: A hookah lounge will have to severely DATE: Saturday, Jan. 20 adjust its operation after the Potato Corner Sunday 70˚ TIME: 8 pm 70⁰ Downey Planning Commission last 407 Stonewood St. Saturday LOCATION: Downey Theatre week made several changes to its Date Inspected: 12/15/17 conditional use permit. Grade: A JANUARY 27 Changes at Mosaik Hookah Astronaut Commemoration Lounge, located at 11029 Downey Sbarro THINGS TO DO Ave., include the removal of live 131 Stonewood St. DATE: Saturday, Jan. 27 entertainment, the exclusion of Date Inspected: 12/15/17 TIME: 10 am to 5 pm Excessive police calls and building violations prompted the Planning customers under the age of 21, and Commission to alter Mosaik Hookah Lounge’s conditional use permit. Grade: A LOCATION: Columbia Memorial the prohibition of loitering outside Photo by Alex Dominguez Space Center the business, with the exception of Charley’s Philly Steak a queue along Downey Avenue for 110 Stonewood St. Parks & Recreation job fair entry. Date Inspected: 12/15/17 DATE: Saturday, Jan. 27 Saab is a distant third cousin of including modified floor plans that The Planning Commission also Downey councilmember Alex Saab. had not been approved by the city, Grade: A TIME: 12-4:30 pm rolled back the hookah lounge’s live entertainment during hours 80’s New Year’s Eve LOCATION: Barbara J. Riley Downey Police have been called hours of operations. It now must not permitted, dancing, and the Baby Bros Pizza Sunday - New Wave Bar in Bellflower, to the hookah lounge 18 times Community Center close by midnight when it previously lack of a security plan submitted to 9641 Lakewood Blvd. 8 pm since Nov. 13, 2016, for a variety of stayed open as late as 4 a.m. Downey Police. Date Inspected: 12/14/17 Blood, Sweat & Tears ft. Bo Bice complaints, including arguments, Ring in the New Year while dancing to According to the agenda item, Grade: A the best music from the 1980s. DATE: Saturday, Jan. 27 yelling, fighting, theft, and drinking The fire department also found representatives from police, fire, $10 admission sold online. TIME: 8 pm in public. Many of the incidents numerous fire and building code Sunland Donuts planning, and the city prosecutor’s occurred after midnight. violations. LOCATION: Downey Theatre office met with Adnan Saab, 7375 Stewart & Gray Rd. owner of Mosaik Hookah Lounge, The meeting with Adnan Saab Some of these violations have Date Inspected: 12/13/17 JANUARY 28 in September to discuss recent included a new site inspection already been addressed and the Grade: A of the hookah lounge in which hookah lounge has until Jan. 4 to The Dance Co: Planet Dance incidents that have happened at or as a result of the lounge. several violations of the business’s comply with the fire department’s Red Iron Mongolian BBQ DATE: Sunday, Jan. 28 conditional use permit were found, lists of corrections, officials said. 251 Stonewood St. TIME: 2 pm Date Inspected: 12/13/17 LOCATION: Downey Theatre Grade: A 80’s vs. Spanish rock FEBRUARY 3 El Chilito Restaurant 12812 Paramount Blvd. Sunday - Hully Gully, 9 pm John Tesh New California laws going into Date Inspected: 12/13/17 Two rooms and two dance floors Saturday, Feb. 3 playing 80s music and Spanish rock. DATE: Grade: A TIME: 8 pm effect in 2018 $10 admission sold online. LOCATION: Downey Theatre Las Champas No. 13 2018 LAWS: Among the new laws are Disability (SDI) insurance programs. unincorporated areas 11851 Paramount Blvd. Date Inspected: 12/13/17 FEBRUARY 24 greater oversight over unprocessed SB 63: Job-protected family AB 785: Guns — Hate crimes: rape kits and tighter gun control. Grade: A Healthy Downey 5K leave: Expands job-protected Prevents those convicted of hate new parent leave to workers at crimes from owning a firearm for DATE: Saturday, Feb. 24 businesses with 20+ employees 10 years Tamales Guadalajara TIME: 7:30 am SACRAMENTO – Several new (previously was 50+). 9134 Telegraph Rd. AB 424: Guns — School LOCATION: Apollo Park laws are slated to go into effect Date Inspected: 12/12/17 AB 10: Tampons in schools: grounds: Bans firearms on Jan. 1, 2018, including several Grade: A Smart Gardening workshop aimed at protecting drivers and Requires schools serving students school grounds, removing the George Lopez in grades 6-12 with at least 40 ability of school officials to grant Saturday - Microsoft Theatre, 8 pm DATE: Saturday, Feb. 24 employees. El Chymal percent of students living in exemptions TIME: 9:30 am Here’s a look at some of the 10815 Studebaker Rd. The raunchy comedian performs new poverty to stock bathrooms with material intended for mature audiences AB 390: Pedestrian crossing Date Inspected: 12/12/17 LOCATION: Wilderness Park most notable pieces of legislation: tampons and other feminine only. $39.50 and up signals: Allows pedestrian to enter hygiene products. Grade: A AB 1008: Criminal history: crosswalk after “DON’T WALK” MARCH 10 Prohibits employers from inquiring SB 27: Livestock — Use of sign begins flashing if there’s a Nelly’s Mexican Food about or considering a job Era of a King: Elvis Presley tribute antimicrobial drugs: Prohibits countdown timer, and if pedestrian 10811 Studebaker Rd. applicant’s criminal record prior to show routine use of antibiotics on completes crossing in time. Date Inspected: 12/12/17 a conditional offer of employment. DATE: Saturday, March 10 livestock in California. Livestock Previously, it was a crime to even Grade: A TIME: 7 pm AB 168: Salary history: managers can only use antibiotics enter a crosswalk when “DON’T if they’ve got a prescription from a WALK” is flashing. LOCATION: Downey Theatre Prohibits employers from asking El Tequilense veterinarian. job applicants for previous salary AB 41: Rape kits — Rules for 9126 Telegraph Rd. MARCH 17 history. Date Inspected: 12/12/17 State Budget: Dental benefits law enforcement: Requires law NYE at the Aquarium SB 3: Minimum wage for Medi-Cal: The 2017-18 state enforcement agencies to count, Grade: A Arc Walk Sunday - Aquarium of the Pacific, 8 pm increase: Raises minimum wage budget restores full dental benefits preserve and report on the reasons DATE: Saturday, March 17 from $10.50 to $11/hour for to adult Medi-Cal patients effective for unprocessed rape kits. Carl’s Jr Ring in 2018 with the animals at 7:30 am TIME: employees of businesses with 26+ January 1, 2018. 9002 Firestone Blvd. Aquarium of the Pacific. Plus live music, AB 1312: Rape kits — contortionists, acrobats, drinks and LOCATION: Stonewood Center employees and from $10 to $10.50 Date Inspected: 12/6/17 AB 1127: Diaper changing Survivors’ rights: Expands food. $25, 18+ for employees of businesses with stations: Requires that at least one survivors’ rights to notice about Grade: A MARCH 18 25 or fewer employees restroom diaper changing station the location and status of their Treasure Island Proposition 64: Marijuana be accessible to both women rape kits, and prevents the Golden Bakers Legalization: Under California’s and men in newly-constructed destruction of rape kits for at least 9444 Telegraph Rd. DATE: Sunday, March 18 legalization of recreational or renovated state and local 20 years. Date Inspected: 12/7/17 TIME: 6 pm government buildings, large retail marijuana approved by voters in AB 295: Sky diving: Makes it Grade: A LOCATION: Downey Theatre and entertainment venues, and 2016, adults 21 and older can buy illegal to sky-dive while intoxicated. marijuana for recreational use from restaurants that hold at least 60 Anatel Liquor MARCH 24 a licensed dispensary starting Jan. people. SB 1: Transportation funding: 9414 Telegraph Rd. The same law that raised gas Carnival of Champions 1, 2018. The state is now issuing SB 219: “LGBT Seniors Bill of Date Inspected: 12/7/17 The Blasters commercial licenses for cannabis and diesel taxes effective Nov. DATE: Saturday, March 24 Rights”: Gives legal protections Grade: A Sunday - Maui Suger Mill Saloon in cultivation, manufacture, testing 1 also raises vehicle fees for 9 am to lesbian, gay, bisexual and Tarzana, 9 pm TIME: labs, distribution and retail sale. drivers registering (or renewing transgender seniors living in long- Junction Downey rock band The Blasters LOCATION: Warren High registrations for) their vehicles term care facilities. 9370 Telegraph Rd. will welcome 2018 with a live show SB 65: Marijuana — Ingesting starting Jan. 1. Date Inspected: 12/7/17 alongside The Rocketz. $25 Brunch with the Bunny while driving: Bans smoking or SB 442: Swimming pool ingesting marijuana while driving AB 1625: Meter parking: Saturday, March 24 safety: Requires residential Grade: A DATE: Allows parking at inoperable or riding in a car, just like alcohol. swimming pools to adhere to new TIME: 9:30 am parking meters. However, local TWEETS OF THE WEEK safety standards and additional Southern Calif. Gas Co. LOCATION: Golden Park SB 250: School lunch: jurisdictions can restrict the inspections.