may 3, 2013 edition

Publisher’s Note .......................................page 2

Community Calendar .......................................page 2

An “I” on Religion .......................................page 2

Letters to the Editor .......................................page 3

“Greetings from Mike” by Council Member Stevens .......................................page 4

Rhonda’s Wellness Column .......................................page 5

Hoof Beats Limited .......................................page 5

Dining with Rhonda at LARRY’S JAMAICAN RESTAURANT .......................................page 6

Anne on ArchitectureRANCHO AGUAJE DE LA CENTINELA .....................page 6

Book Review: Family Trees.......................................page 7

D E P A R T M E N T S

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I Spy...Lady Justice on a local city tour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5All about St. EugeneCatholic School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6Holly’s playful musical mayhem in Arbor Village. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7Nan Schneider obituary, 1951-2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7“State of the city” congratulates cronies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8Voter Bill of Rights—you need to know!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8Centinela Hospital judged “disingenuous”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8A coup grows in Ingle-wood, by Joyce A. Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9Is Inglewood city attor-ney to resign soon?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 By Teka-Lark FLeming

On a early spring morn-ing at Inglewood High School’s Sentinel Field, Inglewood baseball alum-ni from the 20th and 21st centuries competed for the second annual Green and White Classic, a fund-rais-er to help support the In-glewood High School Sen-tinel baseball team. But above all, the an-nual event has become a bringing-together of In-glewood’s recent past to help fund, support and mentor Inglewood’s fu-ture. It began when Kevin Gidon, one of the alum-ni of the Inglewood base-ball team, found out In-glewood High School was rationing baseballs.

“I was just driving down Inglewood Ave-nue with my nephew and I saw some kids practic-ing. I got out of the car to speak with them and they told me [Inglewood High] is rationing baseballs. I said, ‘Let me make some calls,’ and I got the ball rolling,” he said. He literally did get the balls rolling. “Kevin told us they are rationing baseballs, so we had to do something about that,” said coach Robert McDonald, Ingle-wood High Class of 1980. Baseball is huge in In-glewood. Some towns are football towns and other towns are basketball towns. In-glewood, however, is def-initely a baseball town.

This year’s Green and White Classic was in hon-or of three baseball alumni who recently passed away: Jeff Alexander (Class

of 1982), Cedric Ingram (Class of 1982) and Mike Andrews (Class of 1980). “The first few months

Is Inglewood Today written by Inglewood Mayor Butts?By randaLL FLeming

According to campaign finance documents avail-able at the city clerk’s of-fice, Inglewood Today is a “news”paper that is owned by a paid political con-sultant to mayor James T. Butts. It’s sad to have an “official” city newspa-per that fails to disclose that its primary reve-nue resource—a veter-an city clerk—not on-ly is featured weekly but signs the “news”paper’s checks. It’s sad that such a “news”paper has glar-ing typos in its headlines (See the March 14 edi-tion, if there are any left rotting on the sidewalks where they are thrown ev-ery Thursday.) And it’s sad that the paper that rep-resents the mayor fails at math (2013-1913=113,

Annual Green and White Classic Game

Stevens Opens Campaign HQ

By randaLL FLeming

The campaign to re-elect District 1 councilman Mike Stevens is underway and heading full steam for the June 11 run-off. Stevens will honor the residents of his district by opening a campaign headquarters in the heart

of District 1 at 2542 W. Manchester. The grand opening will be held on Wednesday, May 8 at 6 p.m. Located at the corner of 5th Avenue directly across from the 5th Av-enue Theatre, the huge building is already a bee-hive of activity.

Stevens will hold in-vitation-only Town Hall meetings to insure every-one will have a chair. He will offer everyone bot-tled water and a snack or two because most peo-ple will be coming home from work. Councilman Stevens

Inglewood residents gather at Councilman Mike Stevens new HQ at 2542 W. Manchester just days before the grand opening on Wednesday, May 8 at 6 p.m.

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At the April 2013 Green & White Classic Baseball Alumni Game at Sentinel Field, City Honors High School senior Alex Escobar sweeps to the left to catch the ball while Inglewood Alumnus (Class of 1981) Keith Dillard holds back from batting.

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Our Public Schools Your schools are the centerpiece of your community; when you let corpo-rations run your centerpiece, you’re setting up your community for failure. I’m not a fan of charter schools’

exclusionary policies for children with low-incidence dis-abilities. I’m also not a fan of charter schools’ tendency to take credit for the hard work of parents of black and Latino children. I was a great student in school. My parents made sure I valued education. Charter schools feel that in order for black and Latino children to succeed, corporate America must take over their families and their communities. The home is a child’s educational foundation, and every household with students that achieve understands that. If we want to reform something how about we reform our family leave policies or pass the ERA? Why is corporate America so concerned with educa-tion? Because education is where innovation and radical-ism is born. You can’t have happy factory workers if the factory workers know how to think. The great thing about public schools—real public schools that don’t require a mountain of paperwork to at-tend—is that a community can volunteer and change their public school. Charter schools supported by Bill Gates, Eli Broad and the Wassermans don’t care what you think. Rich people aren’t for choice for you. Those of us in Morningside Park know very well how little it matters to corporate America what we think. In the 1990s, there were lots of independent bookstores. You could find different books at different bookstores. Borders came along and carried all the books that all the little bookstores carried until all those little bookstores closed. Then Borders carried just the best-selling books. Then came Amazon and all Borders’ stores closed. That is what will to happen to our public schools. The public schools will close, the charter schools that caused public schools to close will themselves close, and you’ll be left with on-line classes for third-graders. Corporations do not want local stores, they don’t want public schools and they don’t want single-family homes. The way to take over education isn’t to get rid of the public schools, it’s to work with the public schools—just like the way to make Inglewood better isn’t to get rid of the mayor and replace him with a CEO.Teka-Lark Fleming

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Writers & Contributors: Adia

Birtram Birtran

Rhonda Kuykendall-Jabari

Anne Cheek La Rose

Gerald Morales

Joyce A. Smith

Diane Sombrano

Mike Stevens

Brad Elliot Stone

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Speeches and Sermons to be displayed at Cali-fornia African American Museum (CAAM) in rare showcase. The King Center Imaging Project opens in L.A. Hundreds of digitally preserved speeches, sermons and correspondence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be on view at the California African American Museum (CAAM) May 5 -11 as part of an unprecedented effort to showcase the work of the MLK, Jr. For more informa-tion, please visit www.CAA-museum.org. The museum will be closed on Monday, May 6. Parking is $10.00 in the adjacent lot. CAAM is located at 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, 90037.

• • •Assembly member Steven Bradford Interactive Town Hall to Discuss the Budget Saturday, May 11, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Inglewood City Hall, One West Manchester Blvd.. Inglewood, CA 90301 Motherland Drum Circle

Every Saturday at Moth-erland Music. For more information, please call (310) 673-8000 or e-mail [email protected]. No charge for this event. Drum rentals are $5.00. 601 N. Eucalyptus Avenue at the intersection of Juniper and Eucalyptus, Inglewood 90302.

• • •Pure Pleasure Blues Club One of the original blues clubs in L.A. Enjoy a great time in the neighboring com-munity of Gramercy Park at 1520 W. Manchester Blvd.., Los Angeles, CA 90047. (323) 778-8497.

• • •E-Waste Collection DriveWhen: Saturday, May 4, 2013 Time: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Inglewood High School (Manchester Blvd.. side, one block west of La Brea) Bring anything with a plug! Bring old appliances, computers, printers, stereo equipment. Proceeds from this event benefit Inglewood High School’s activities and athlet-ics programs.

El Camino College Li-brary Seeks Artists. The El Camino College Schauerman Library is accepting applica-tions from artists interested in exhibiting their paint-ings, photographs, drawings and/or sculptures during the 2013-14 academic year. Deadline for applications is May 15. More information and exhibit applications are available by contacting Ed Martinez, El Camino Col-lege Public Access Librarian at 310-660-3593, extension 3876; [email protected]; Schauerman Library, El Camino College; 16007 Crenshaw Boulevard; Tor-rance, CA 90506.

• • •Morningside Park Sustain-able Talks presents “(re)Think-ING” the Manches-ter Project. For updates on the Clock on Manchester and Van Ness, come to the Wed., May 22 meeting, 6-8 p.m. ICOP Center 2901 W. Manchester, 90305. For more information, please call (424) 261-3019.

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By Brad eLLioT STone

In a country with both freedom of religion and the separation of church and state, it is sometimes hard for religion to play its proper place in the public sphere. On the one hand there are too ma-ny different voices in the name of religion, all of which claim to be funda-mentally right on the giv-en issue, that they stifle other voices from being heard (“My Bible says X, so I do not need to learn scientific theories.”). On the other hand, there is wisdom in our religious traditions, and there is no need to be silent in public simply because the idea in one’s mind is in religious language (“Jesus tells us to have compassion for the poor, so I am in favor of public housing.”).

There are two rules for the use of religious language in the pub-lic sphere. The first rule is that religion can in-deed be used in public if it is the honest reason why someone holds a par-ticular view. For exam-ple, if a group is delib-erating what to do about homeless people in our city, I might state my po-sition in terms of my reli-gious conviction that we have a duty to assist those in need insofar as they too are children of God. Oth-er people might give po-litical, economic, and hu-manist arguments, but such arguments are not automatically better be-cause they are in non-reli-gious terms. Yet we all have been in the presence of some-one who thinks that, since they expressed their

ideas in religious lan-guage, there is no fur-ther room for discussion. This is abusive, and it of-ten causes people to fight against religious language use in the public sphere. A second rule is that re-ligious language has no trump value. “Because my Holy Book says so” does not imply that oth-er people (even other reli-gious people) have to ac-cept it as their rationale. Religion is useful in public debate—but on-ly when it is a part of a multitude of positions. Thus there is room for re-ligion in democratic de-liberation, but only inso-far as it explains the ratio-nale of a given person’s position. Both religious and non-religious citizens must become able to lis-ten to each other in a spir-it of compassion.

An on ReligionIi

BRAD ELLIOTT STONE is Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is a lay preacher in the Baptist, Congregational and Episcopalian traditions and is a proud resident of Inglewood’s beautiful D-1.


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letters readersfromour

Dear editor, People are pointing at Mike Stevens and Judy Dunlap as being obsta-cles to city business. They should take a look at the leadership: Butts. A lead-er should be a unifying force, a compromiser, a fence builder and mend-er—not someone who foments divisiveness when he can’t get his way. I asked the mayor in a meeting about cleaning up the appearance of Man-chester Boulevard. He made it clear that was not his priority. He acted like Manchester was not even in Inglewood. He was fo-cused (obsessed) with improving Century Blvd.. Can’t we walk and chew gum at the same time? He wouldn’t entertain the idea of doing both. But I guess the real rea-son is that a good portion of Manchester (in Ingle-wood) goes through D1 and all of D1 must be punished.

Ethel Alexander

• • •Dear editor, From my 20+ years of working with and for non-profits in Los An-

geles County, I’ve found that the poverty narrative is just one more of the excuses that non-profits regularly use to prepare us for the inadequate out-comes of the work that they do—or don’t do. By continually using the poverty narrative excuse, they are able to later ab-solve themselves of being accountable for the con-sistently poor outcomes that they are responsible for producing. Using their consistent poverty narra-tive, they are essential-ly saying that they have no intention of producing positive outcomes for the communities served. “Af-ter all, there is so much poverty,” is what we al-ways hear in return for the money they collect. When they are asked why their outcomes are so inadequate (and some-times even damaging) for the communities served, the standard excuse is the poverty narrative—which they consistently beat the drum for in the media, to each other, to their peers and at all of their con-ferences. The implica-tion is that the people in the communities that they serve are so “poor” that

it would take “miracles” (and their continued fund-ing) to be able to success-fully strengthen the com-munities served. Also, by continually pro-moting how “poverty-stricken” their non-prof-it-served clients are, the non-profits often are per-ceived as “heroes” for just

“being” in such a “poor” community. Sometimes, the media and their peers see the nonprofit person-nel as victims for just be-ing in such forsaken com-munities. So, they not only just beat the “poverty nar-rative” drum, they also see themselves as the “vic-tims.” And we know about the cult of victim hood. I’m just saying…

Sincerely,Kalem Aquil

• • •Dear editor, I saw your paper fea-tured in a piece by KCET. I just wanted to say con-gratulations on this wonderful endeavor. I read part of your paper and was duly impressed. Keep up the great work. I wish we had something like this in Riverside!

Ellen Snyder

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according to a February 7 edition that added 13 years to a woman’s birth date). We all make mistakes. Ed Vincent—God bless his soul—made a mistake turning over his promo-tional pamphlet to a peo-ple who shouldn’t publish a coloring book. But what cannot be overlooked are outright lies. When it comes to what happens at city coun-cil meetings, videos have been edited—a violation of California Brown Act Laws. At other meetings, false fire alarms have been engaged at moments when the mayor’s ordinanc-es are threatened. And in no fewer than three re-cent editions of Inglewood Today, items that were dropped from the agenda were nevertheless stated as having happened. The latest deception printed in Inglewood Today stated that “the council agreed to pro-

vide...$20,000 to...home-less residents” as well as that “a budget was amended to approve en-cumbrances for Phase 9 of [RSI] totaling $756,525.00.” Neither item was dis-cussed during the meeting. At the beginning of the agenda, the mayor moved that both items be dropped; the motion was seconded. Inglewood Today has twice before presented items that were never dis-cussed during city coun-cil meetings—once in 2011 and again in 2012. This latest “mistake” es-tablishes a pattern of du-plicity that makes clear that Inglewood’s “offi-cial” newspaper is not on-ly owned by a paid politi-cal consultant to the may-or but is not ashamed of printing city council items that were never discussed. How can anything print-ed in Inglewood Today be trusted if what is print-ed about video-taped city council meetings is eas-ily seen to not have hap-pened?

Lies, from pg. 1

was really rough for the Sentinel family. But we let [the families know] you didn’t lose a son, you gained a bunch of sons and daughters. Baseball is like a fraternity: we sup-port you forever,” said McDonald. Many of the alumni go back even further than high school. “Harrison Sherman [Class of ‘80] and I go back to when we were 12, so that’s 35 years of play-ing ball,” said McDonald. General manager Mo-nique Bryant-Cathey, the alumni and the coach-es want to stress that it’s important for people to come out and support In-glewood’s rich baseball history. “We want to see base-ball continue,” said Mc-

Donald. I want to see baseball continue in Inglewood too. What a great resourc-es we have with Senti-nel Field, which has been helping to house the fra-ternity of Inglewood baseball players since 1937. “Reconnecting with guys who want to see baseball continue has been nothing less than a blessing to be a part of,” said McDonald just be-fore he began the game with a prayer. The final score: Alumni, 14-7. You can ration base-balls, but you can’t ra-tion the love of the game, even in 40-year-olds! If you want to sup-port the club or play ball, e-mail Sentinel Alum-ni Baseball Club (SABC) [email protected].

Sentinels, from pg. 1

will share his vision for the future of Inglewood and show everyone the many things that he has accomplished in only two short years. He will also explain to residents why it is important that they re-elect him. Stevens looks forward

to speaking with the resi-dents at his invitation-on-ly Town Hall meetings. The Stevens HQ meet-ings will lead up to the much-anticipated debate with George Dotson. To find out more about what Stevens has done and will do, please vis-it http://councilman-mikestevens.com.

Stevens, from pg. 1



May 3, 2013

By mike STevenS, Inglewood CounCIl MeMBer, dIstrICt 1

Inglewood is the recipi-ent of $10s of millions of dollars of grant money on a yearly basis; I’ll refer to that money as “pie” in this column. Noise Mitigation Funds have been a $200 million pie. Back in the 1980s and ‘90s, Inglewood lead-ers were utilizing these funds for “land recycling.” In other words, the City of Inglewood was buying up residential properties under the flight paths, clearing the land, and selling the land to devel-opers. The residents did not even get the crumbs from the pie. I started learning about the proposed LAX Ex-pansion in August of 1997 after a chance meet-ing with LAX Executives as well as El Segundo and Westchester residents. They were puzzled as to why there were no Ingle-wood residents at the un-veiling of Mayor Richard Riordan’s proposed plan at the Proud Bird Restau-rant. Afterward I just started walking and talk-ing and trying to share the little information I had as-sembled (thanks to my friends in El Segundo) with Inglewood residents. In 1998 I went on to be-come a co-founder of ARSAC; in 1999 I found-ed LAX Expansion No (LAXEN). One of the battles we took on against Mayor Dorn and the city council at the time was getting the Noise Mitiga-tion funds used for sound-insulating residents’ homes instead of “land recycling,” i.e., getting the residents a big piece of that $200,000,000 pie. LAXEN and its 7,000 members demanded that

Mayor Dorn and the council use the funds for sound insulating homes. We succeeded. Three groups of 50 homes will have come to council in the past month for approval of the final sound insulation con-struction phase. I find it very rewarding to see the Residential Sound Insula-tion project gathering speed during my first term as your Councilman. I’ve more than a few more battle scars from ap-plying pressure on past and present mayors and the rest of the council to get this program initially started as well as back on track. Other grants are made available yearly that resi-dents are getting very lit-tle or even negative benefits from. For exam-ple: if government subsi-dized housing is built for Section 8 renters, next to single-family home neighborhoods, the home values drop. HUD HOME (Home Ownership Made Easy) Funds are a pie where a much bigger slice could go to the residents. A project nearing comple-tion is an example of HUD HOME pie being used in a development project. The Chandler Partners Regent Square develop-ment on Regent and Flor-ence is a $42 million project funded with $13.9 million in housing set-aside funds, $4 million in HUD HOME pie, $20 million in tax exempt bonds and tax credit equi-ty. That means they had no skin in the game at all—except their good name. The $4 million in HUD HOME pie in this project could also have been used for small grants to elderly

homeowners to re-pipe with copper plumbing, paint, re-roof, or other-wise rehabilitate many of our single family homes for free that have aged greatly in our otherwise excellent Morningside Park single-family resi-dential neighborhoods. Another example of cut-ting up pie is the Abode Project located at 100 East Nutwood Street. You remember the old gas company building across from Inglewood High School where we paid our gas bills in the 1970s and early ‘80s? That building became known as the Abode Project and used up $2.8 million dollars in Home Pie Funds to pur-chase the former 100 Black Men building and develop it for extremely low-income housing. I was opposed to this pur-chase because I felt the residents of Inglewood not living in the noise contour should get their slice of pie in the form of housing rehabilitation of their homes with sound proof windows, copper plumbing, new roofs and driveways etc. Today the City of Ingle-wood owns the former 100 Black Men property with $2.8 million dollars invested and no buyer in sight. What happened to

Cutting Up the Pie: How Big is Your Slice?

Inglewood District 1 council member Mike Stevens

please see Pie, page 10

[ GREETINGS from MIKE ]

Warmest Regards Councilman Mike Stevens

District 1(310) 412-8602

[email protected] • www.CouncilmanMikeStevens.com

“Follow the Money” -W. Mark Felt Jr, aka “Deep Throat,” in the midst of catching Tricky Dick and the Plumbers of Watergate

By randaLL FLeming

It is said that the ballot box is but one place to vote. What does that mean? It means that every dollar you spend is a ballot—and that means you vote sever-al times a day, hundreds of times a week and perhaps several thousands of times a month. As such, you should know who is taking that dollar and voting with it against you. How does one acquire such information? Public documents known as Cali-fornia Forms 460 filed by candidates at the City of Inglewood city clerk’s of-fice are by law to made im-mediately available upon request by any resident. (See the Chronicle dated April 19, 2013 for more in-formation.) These cam-paign disclosures are a road map leading out of the cursed darkness and into the light of revelation. This episode of “Follow the Money” takes us through the campaign vault of District 1 challenger George Dotson. Dotson’s campaign is primarily financed by In-glewood mayor James T. Butts, Hollywood Park Land Co. and Dotson’s wife, Ida Dotson. Dotson did not spend much money in Inglewood; he preferred to hire cam-paign consultants out of Beverly Hills and rent ven-ues for fund-raisers in Ma-rina del Rey. First and foremost of Dotson’s campaign con-tributors was Butts for Mayor 2015, which gave George $100,000.00 over the last 10 months. A distant second was George’s wife, Ida. Her contributions were approx-imately $36,000.00—a third of what Butts gave

her husband. In an even more distant third place was Hollywood Land Co. Or at least it was third on paper; Butts re-ceived a great amount from the firm and may well have funneled it to Dotson. For TV ads, George was paid $5k by the L.A. Coun-ty Fire Department’s Local 1014 to run some spots on Time-Warner cable. (Time-Warner is Inglewood’s ex-clusive broadcaster of “public” TV broadcasting; T-W also contributed $25k to Yvonne Horton’s non-profit, California Educa-tional Solutions.) Other contributors in-cluded former mayor Dorn (for as much as he “bor-rowed” way back when, one would think that ol’ Roosevelt could drop more than $500.00 to his old friend), Hall for Senate (whose #1050-B, Wilshire Ave., 90010 address is the same exact suite as George’s campaign office), Willie Agee (a frequent contributor to and spokes-person for Inglewood To-day, in which he is also regularly quoted) and for-mer Inglewood councilman Virgle Benson. On the flip-side, Dotson paid Ingle-wood Today and the Sentinel each $1,500.00 for ads. He slipped $2,000 to the Ritz Carlton in Marina del Rey—two blocks (or in this instance, two docks) from Willie Brown’s resi-dence—for a fund raiser, $2k to Alicia Smith and Maxine Toler $750.00. Also notable was the $4k George paid to the Sankofa Group for Civic Engage-ment, an entity that appears to be hired by candidates whose “greatest needs...have been hard hit by...lim-ited civic engagement...and [have] a limited knowledge of the ever-changing politi-cal landscape.”

Dotson’s Dollars:



by Birtram Birtran

Hoof BeatsLIMITED

Hollywood Park is now known as Betfair Hol-lywood Park because of an agreement that was signed in March of 2012 by the owners of TVG Network (which runs on Time Warner cable chan-nel #270 and which I often watch). TVG broadcasts most of the major horse rac-ing tracks that run on any given day. They also take bets from members in good standing (those who have transferred mon-ey to their account). Most of these tracks can be bet by patrons who visit the Finish Line room at the Hollywood Park Casino. Hollywood Park race-track was opened in 1938 by the Hollywood Turf Club who were digni-taries of the Hollywood movie industry. Some of the noted persons were Walt Disney, Jack and Harry Warner, Al Jolson and Raoul Walsh, ma-ny of whom were also members of the Found-ing Board of Directors.

Mervyn Leroy (a top Hol-lywood movie director in his day) was the director of the board from 1941 to his death in 1987. Hollywood Park closed its doors to racing in the years 1941 through 1944 because of World War II . During that time it was used as a storage facility. In 1981, it was incor-porated under the name Hollywood Park Realty Enterprises Inc. In 2000, it was sold to Churchill Downs Incorporated for $140 million; it was later sold to Bay Meadows for $260 million. Bay Mead-ows bought the track in hopes that the State of California would give the OK for the casino to have slot machines. Califor-nia does not allow casino owners to have control of the casino and the race track interests at the same time. The track has two types of running surfaces. A grass track (turf) and a synthetic track (cushion) which has been proven

to be less of a hazard to racing horses and better as a racing surface in all weather conditions. This may be the last year for Betfair Holly-wood Park to have horse racing because it is due to close the track this year. I personally will miss it because I have always thought it was a boon to the City of Inglewood—which used to be known as the City of Champions. Located five miles from LAX, the weather here is the best in the world. If I were a horse, I would love this place. But life and chang-es must go on and I hope that new ventures will be as successful as it once was. Until next time, neigh-bors, bet with your head and not your heart—un-less you just love that horse’s name.

Children are taught that it is better to give than to re-ceive. This is a good lesson for children, who tend to be takers by necessity and by nature. It begins in the womb. If a pregnant mother is undernourished, the fetus will rob her of available nutrients in order to survive. This is how mothers with low iron or other deficiencies give birth to healthy babies. It’s nature’s way of providing for those who cannot provide for themselves. As we mature, we learn that giving is essential to bal-anced living. We give to our jobs in exchange for the money we need to live. We give to schools our children attend in hopes of securing a brighter future for them. If we’re lucky, we live long enough to give to our parents to reciprocate the love and care they gave to us (and maybe ease them into Heaven). Responsible, compas-sionate adults become such expert givers that it is as natural as breathing. But as years pass, adults give less and less to other able-bodied adults. This leaves a gap in the lives of people who tend to over-give and under-take. Taking, receiving, procuring, getting...it’s all the same. So, like the fetus in the womb, we must return to the fine art of graciously receiving what we need to survive and thrive. It is assumed and expected that we know what we need and how to get it. Responsible taking is not a selfish act. Taking what we need to thrive helps us become better givers. It also relieves others of the burden and strain of giving us what we are able to get for ourselves. • Take time to commune with your higher self in si-lence. It is a basic human need to be alone with our own thoughts and feelings. Technology has created an expec-tation of instant and constant availability that can prevent us from meeting this basic need. It began with pagers and has expanded to e-mail, cell phones, social networks and handheld computers. We tweet, post, link and share 24/7. Set healthy boundaries. Turn your cell phone off when you’re home. It is not likely that the world will end if you’re unavailable for a brief period of time. Take time to care for your physical body and your spirit. Realign yourself with what your deep desires for your life. Do it privately and quietly that you may receive and respond to divine guidance. • Take control of your personal resources. A resource has three main characteristics: (1) utility or usefulness; (2) quantity or availability; and (3) use in producing other resources. Each person has specific skills and assets that are useful to the universe. Money, love, time, wis-dom, knowledge and abilities (natural and acquired) are aspects of your resources. It is important to understand and embrace your usefulness to the world. Be aware that you are not a bottomless well, so don’t waste yourself by giving to entities and individuals that do not or are unable to give something in return. The “something” can be as simple as a thank you or as extravagant as large sums of money. This is how you will make a unique and sustain-able contribution to the universal energy that is inherent in all living things. It is how we remain connected to past and future generations. • Take responsibility for your life. This is the key to authentic empowerment. Stop making excuses and giv-ing your power away. Stop hiding behind your children’s

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By anne Cheek La roSe

Like much of Southern California, Inglewood is situated on old ranchos. Though we seldom think about it as we move through our days, we are literally walking on histo-ry. Inglewood was carved out of the Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela and the Rancho Sausal Redondo. Before the ranchos were carved up, they were vast grazing lands for sheep and cattle. In this semi-arid land, the thing that made Rancho Centinela so attractive were the natural springs beneath it. Hav-ing existed since the Pleis-tocene era, these springs gave continuous water for

the herds and was the wa-ter supply for early Ingle-wood. Long before the Spanish came to California, the Gabrielino Indians (named by the Spanish as they were within the Mission San Gabriel jurisdiction)

inhabited the area. They too were attracted by the gushing springs. They were hunters but grazed sheep once the animals were introduced by the Spaniards in the 1800s. When Mexico succeeded

Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela

please see Rancho, page 10


[ ANNE on ARCHITECTURE ]

Larry’s Jamaican Res-taurant is in the building formerly occupied by Col-ey’s Jamaica’s Best Cui-sine on the corner of Flor-ence Avenue and Market Street in Inglewood. It’s in the shopping centered an-chored by CVS on the far end. Larry Murphy took over this community hub about two years ago. The change of ownership a few years ago took place qui-etly and quickly. The din-ing experience there has changed quite a bit. Hav-ing made the prestigious Los Angeles Magazine’s “Best of...” list four times between 1996 and 2000 (North Hollywood loca-tion), the Coleys were well known and the name was respected. Larry has big shoes to fill. I wanted to experi-ence the lunch rush to get an idea of the quali-ty of service and the di-versity of diners in the ar-ea. I arrived on a Thurs-day at about noon and was shocked to see only one table occupied. The staff was casual and warmed up after a brief conversation. When asked the owner’s last name, the initial re-

sponse was, “Who is ask-ing”? The waitress replied only after I explained who I was. I was sorry to miss meeting the man himself. Having heard once that any good Caribbean res-taurant can make a great roti, I opted for a vege-table roti. Unfortunate-ly, there was no roti skin available. I decided to get a sampling of sever-al items from the $11.99 lunch buffet and a bot-tled ginger beer. The buf-fet included curried goat, jerk chicken, fried chicken, rice & peas, mac & cheese, steamed vegetables, fes-tival bread, plantains and soup. The buffet was slight-ly disappointing. The soup dishes were empty (but available from the back) and the large curried goat pan was nearly empty. There’s something about a poorly stocked buffet that takes away from the din-ing experience. Part of the fun is seeing and smell-ing the various colors and spices of all the wonder-ful dishes. I asked the waitress if they could re-stock the buffet so I could

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please see Larry’s, page 10

1890 Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela Adobe, Inglewood

By adia

St. Eugene Catholic School is a great school to attend. The school has lots of activities. Some of them are track and field, Girl Scouts, dance les-sons, basketball, girls’ vol-leyball, flag football, Boy Scouts and cheerleading. St. Eugene is also a Catholic school, and it has kindergarten through 8th grade. St. Eugene also has a lot of upcoming events. I want to be a part in one of the events, the annual spelling bee. A lot of people in my class are waiting for the event which is coming up on May 16. The top three winners in each class get to be in the May 23 finals. There’s another special event my teacher is wait-ing for: the First Holy Communions. St. Eugene doesn’t just celebrate it; we listen and respond to God’s words. We also go to Mass on Fridays. That’s why my school is so awesome. Adia is a grade-school-er at St. Eugene where she is also active in ma-ny of the sports and af-ter-school activities. Her column is in the Chroni-cle when she has the time apart from studying and playing video games.

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The Arbor Village, In-glewood-based band Hol-ly got its name from the street where most of its members grew up. Adrian Lopez is on bass, Juan Ruiz on drums, Jorge Gutierrez plays gui-tar and Zury Ruiz is on vocals. Cousins Jorge Gutierrez and Juan Ruiz had been playing the guitar and

drums in bands since 2003, but it wasn’t until the winter of 2010 when they met their soon-to-be bass player Adrian and the newest incarnation of their Inglewood band started to form. While the three had just about all the pieces to-gether they still lacked one instrumental part for a band: the vocalist. After holding auditions after auditions they came up

short on landing someone that fit the style of music they wanted to create. As time went on there was no luck until the spring of 2011 when Jorge and Juan asked their cousin Zury to join as vocalist. She brought the exact style and tone they want-ed in a band. “I’d like to consider our band rock, although it var-ies now hearing at what

Holly’s Playful Musical Mayhem in Arbor Village

(l to r) Adrian Lopez, Juan Ruiz, Jorge Gutierrez; front and center: Zury Ruiz.

Family Treeswritten Francois Weil Genealogy is a huge top-ic these days. In Family Trees, Weil seeks to open a discussion regarding those who have sought to manipulate gene-alogy to conceive or main-tain their “racial concerns” and “visions of blood, he-redity, purity, and trans-mission” and may feel they are under attack. Recent revelations about the living ancestors of nation-founder Thomas Jefferson and his slave concubine Sally Hemmings may have been why the fanatical “birther” movement went haywire when former senator Barack Obama was elected U.S. President—but it was by no means the beginning of the rampage against he-redity. In the centuries leading

up to the peculiar birth of this nation, pseudo-scien-tific theories such as “one-drop” formed a dubious basis for an entire culture’s belief of genetic superiori-ty. As such, the scientific unraveling of any such

“superiority” is one that is prompting a great amount of resistance; that such a

[ READING with RANDALL ]

Nan Schneider1951-2013

By diane SomBrano

Nancy Schneider loved her community. Nan’s smile, greeting, laughter, warm welcomes, gentle giggles and thought-ful encouragement were a common sight to all in Westchester, Los Angeles Airport meetings and L. A. city council meetings. Nan’s deep love for others

and her commitment to make her world a better place because she was in it were an example of putting feet and heart on what some might consider im-possible clichés. She was a living example of commu-nity-minded selflessness. Early school teachers and later counselors at In-glewood High encouraged

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On April 25 the Ingle-wood “state of the city” address was held—in Westchester. The mayor, James T. Butts, read closely from a script about the state of af-fairs for those in atten-dance. The event was far shorter than the printed program implied. After a quick hon-or guard ceremony and a few introductions, Butts ran through his speech as if he were in a hurry to depart. A projector and screen set up were never used,

and the promised Question & Answer Period that was to be hosted by Butts never occurred—just like at Butts’ “Town Hall” event on March 16. Also like the mayor’s sparsely attended March Town Hall, the state of the city address was filled al-

“State of the City” Addresses Few TopicsMayor’s campaign contributors and close friends comprise majority of crowd

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Where’s the beef? Butts wouldn’t answer questions about can-celed Q& A Period.

resistance is based almost entirely on easily falsified records should be of no small concern. Such imagined heritage

is nothing new. Weil writes of how “the recording of a pedigree was a political act and a testimony to the ge-nealogist’s obedient cre-ativity” regarding 11th Century Normandy.

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Calling Prime Healthcare “disingenuous,” “evasive” and “less than serious,” a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge has found that Prime Health-care negotiated in bad faith and must reimburse em-ployees at its Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood for increased healthcare costs they in-curred after the compa-ny illegally tried to reduce workers’ healthcare bene-fits. In recent years, Centinela Hospital has been a signif-icant campaign contributor to Inglewood mayor James T. Butts’ campaign. The first of many large contri-butions came on February 14, 2011, for $2,500. An-other $1,000 was donated to the mayor on March 15, 2011. A year later, in June 2012, the mayor paid lip ser-vice to SEIU workers and used them for a photo-op. He pretended to care about

the union workers’ prob-lems at the hospital. What Butts failed to tell the SEIU was that he had received yet another $1,000 campaign donation from Centinela Hospital on April 13. The hospital also hosted a March 21 event at which the Butts-backed candidate George Dotson was pre-sented. A few months earli-er, Dotson visited the 3rd Annual Health and Safe-ty Fair at Centinela Hos-pital Medical Center. He

didn’t waste time taking photos with SEIU workers. George took photos with the hospital’s CEO, Linda Bradley. The judge’s decision af-fects nearly 700 members of SEIU-United Health-care Workers West (SEIU-UHW), who are eligible for up to $8,800 in reim-bursements from Prime – or potentially more than $6 million – just for their pre-miums. In January of 2011, the

Judge Labels Centinela Hospital’s Prime Healthcare “Disingenuous”

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By JoyCe a. SmiTh

I have attended many City Council meetings; I am a 41-year resident of Inglewood, and I love Inglewood very much. Things have been going on lately that have caused me to be concerned—con-cerned that our city gov-ernment is about to be “taken over” by people who, in my opinion, do not really care about the city of Inglewood. It is my opinion that they want to enrich themselves, and, if left unattended, Inglewood will become a bankrupt slum. The mayor of Inglewood wants to totally control this city. He even wants to control councilpersons who have been duly elect-ed by their own constit-uencies. Council mem-bers who don’t agree with him, and say so, (there are two), are practically told to “shut up.” He wants NO objections raised to any-thing he does! At one meeting resi-dents were told by the City Clerk that she received a petition from senior citi-zens who wanted council meetings held during the day instead of at 7 p.m. as they have been held for decades. No one, to my knowledge, has seen this petition. Residents at the council meeting strong-ly objected to this, and re-quested that the meetings continue to be held in the evenings. What has hap-pened? The first and third

meetings of the month are held during the day, thanks to the votes of the mayor and his two “bob-ble-heads”, Morales and Franklin. They pass what-ever they want to pass re-gardless of what the cit-izens want. Seniors are bussed into the meeting in their wheelchairs and walkers and canes, causing a fire hazard. Did the se-niors request to be bussed in? They are bussed in on City of Inglewood busses. This has never happened before. Another thing is sound insulation. The residents feel that single-fami-ly homes should be do-ne first, and that a single-family home is a home housing a single family. What has been done is that apartments and multi-fam-ily dwellings get sound in-sulated, and then the own-er of the property evicts the tenants and raises the rent and gets new tenants, making a tidy sum cour-tesy of Inglewood taxpay-ers. Councilwoman Dun-lap explained what was going on and insisted that single-family homes be in-sulated first. Well, Butts, et al., passed a resolu-tion defining single-fam-ily homes as homes with four units or less! A four-unit apartment is consid-ered a single-family home! Dunlap and Stevens vot-ed “no” on this resolution, but of course it was passed anyway. This is insulting! Another thing is the Channel 35 local TV sta-

tion, the city government’s access channel. The sta-tion used to have pro-grams showcasing In-glewood residents—dis-cussion programs, tal-ent shows, little league games, etc. Councilwom-an Dunlap proposed that the channel show Cesar Chavez and Martin Lu-ther King Day celebrations and allow each councilp-erson to have two hours a week for their use. Coun-cilman Stevens requested that comparisons be made with other cities to find out how they handled their government access chan-nel. What happened? Butts et al passed a resolution that the only things to be broadcast on this channel are city council meetings and city council-approved programs and town hall meetings. Nothing else. I could go on and on, but the point is that Butts and his two cohorts are running this city as they please, regardless of the wishes of the residents. The election coming up is very important. They want to silence the only two councilpersons who stand up to Butts and raise ob-jections to what he is do-ing and explain to the res-idents what is going on. If they succeed, there will be NO dissident points of view, NO meaningful dis-cussions of the issues, NO ONE to speak on be-half of the residents. This is a coup, where power has been seized by some-

A Coup Grows in InglewoodUnrest rumbles in the city as the mayor pretends the state of it is good for business

By randaLL FLeming

Inglewood city attor-ney Cal P. Saunders has not denied allegations that in April he has informed the current Inglewood ad-ministration that he “may leave any day.” Saunders formerly served as a Deputy City Attorney III in the City of Compton until 2006. L.A County D. A. Jack-ie Lacey sent a formal let-ter dated April 3 request-ing a vast number of files including “all documen-tation relating to car al-lowances (2005-present)” from the Compton city at-torney’s office and sever-al other positions for the same time period. On March 27, KCET reporter Laurel Erick-son broke a story regard-ing “questionable expen-ditures, big loans that haven’t been paid back,

and council members making up to $1,500 an hour.” The loan under re-view was prompted by a note that appeared to re-veal that “Danny Bakewell owed Compton $3.1 mil-lion, but that debt was for-given and the city ex-pected to receive just $327,000.” Danny Bakewell is the owner a Compton-based newspaper as well as Bakewell Company of California, LLC, which owns Turner/Bakewell. The recently built La Ti-jera school, in the Ingle-wood Unified School Dis-trict, was built by Turner/Bakewell in 2010. The D.A. also request-ed “all City of Compton Council votes, contracts, Mutual Release of Claims and Settlement Agree-ments, and resolutions re-lated to Bakewell and

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needs or your parent’s character defects. You are responsible for living up to your greatest potential. Be responsible for making sure you’re ready for every wonderful opportunity this life may offer. Be respon-sible for your successes and for learning life’s lessons along the way. Be responsible for putting a period on past hurts. Make amends, accept others’

apologies, atone and be accountable to The Cre-ator who blessed you with breath, bone, flesh and this awesome experience we call life. When we master the art of taking responsibly, lovingly, consciously and compassionately, we move into alignment the universal life source that sustains all of mankind. Taking, then, is ultimately transformed into selfless giving.

Gracious, from pg. 5

• • •Rhonda Kuykendall-Jabari is a Morningside Park resident where she lives with her ‘tween’ son, Damani, and his father. She has a BA in Spiritual Healing and is certified as a Reiki Master Teacher and Holistic Health Practitioner. “Like” her page at www.facebook.com/wellness.uprising, or visit her on the web: www.wellnessuprising.com.

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the $2.8 million? Stay tuned for Part 2 of “Cut-ting Up Pie, Inglewood Style.” Owing to my pressing the issue, demanding an-swers of staff from the be-ginning of my term and asking the tough questions in council meetings (for which I have been harshly criticized) for doing dur-ing this campaign, the City of Inglewood will begin in June of 2013 to make

available up to $35,000 per home rehabilitation and $8,000 dollars per home for code violations remediation. There are low-interest loans avail-able to homeowners with moderate income levels from the HUD HOME Program. There is $8,000 dollars for code violation remediation. These funds are packaged as a loan that will be made available to homeowners. Many Homeowners have not been able to bring their

homes up to current code and be eligible to partici-pate in the sound insula-tion program because of the financial cost of re-pairing the code violations cited on their houses. I will continue to speak up and fight for Ingle-wood District 1 residents to get a bigger slice of the pie they helped bake. (If you want to find out who else got a piece of your pie, be sure to catch the next edition of the Chronicle on May 17.)

most entirely with contrib-utors to Butts’ campaigns of 2010, 2011 and 2015. Yes—2015, when Butts plan to run for mayor. Much of the funds that have been contributed to Butts in the last several months were apparently handed over to George Dotson for his latest cam-paign, according to finan-cial disclosures turned over by the Inglewood city clerk’s office. In attendance was a who’s who of Butts’ cam-paign contributors and very close friends: Melanie McDade (Butts’ former campaign manager, current executive assistant and re-cipient of no less than $15,000 for “campaign miscellaneous”), Ted & Glenda Brass (of Brass Realty, who recently bene-fitted from selling city properties at below-market rates), George Dotson, Artie Fields, Linda Ta-tum, Jay Fowler (of CDS/Republic Services, for whom the mayor’s brother, Michael Butts, was given a supervisory position just

months after the mayor spearheaded a successful effort to give Republic a taxpayer-rate-raising con-tract in late 2012), Nick Spampanato (General Manager of the Forum), Willie Brown (newspaper owner and a paid campaign consultant to Butts), Willie Agee (the chair of the Parks & Rec commission and a Butts campaign con-tributor), Alicia Smith (vice-chair of the Police Oversight Commission and a Butts campaign contribu-tor), Alex Padilla, city at-torney Cal Saunders and Marc T. Little of Faithful Central Church (the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt church where Butts regularly holds his overtly politi-cized meetings) were among the many campaign contributors and close friends to Butts who at-tended the inexplicably shortened $60.00 per seat salad, steak and short speech event. When asked why he did not have the Question and Answer Period that was promised in the program guide, Butts refused to an-swer the question.

Butts’ City, from pg. 8 Pie, from pg. 4

have curried goat. She ex-plained that “people come in and load their plates with the curried goat” so they run out. Shame on those two “people” sit-ting at the only other oc-cupied table for eating all of the curried goat before the lunch hour even be-gan! Not to worry. There were heaps and heaps of fried chicken, jerk chicken and peas & rice. Perhaps Larry might consider add-ing more of what people load on their plates (like curried goat), and less of those items that aren’t as popular. The rice and peas were a little dry, but the mac & cheese, steamed vege-tables (also scant in sup-

ply), plantains, festi-val bread and jerk chick-en were very good. The meats were tender with distinct flavoring, and the festival bread was just the right texture. The plan-tains were slightly firm, not too dry or mushy like in some Jamaican restau-rants. The curried goat was especially good (or maybe that was because I had to work so hard to fish two or three bits from the bottom of the pan). The meal was enjoyable and a bargain for $11.99. Larry’s is spacious and clean. At midday, they were showing Living Sin-gle (the ‘90s sitcom) on the TV in the main din-ing area. Other than that, it was fairly quiet. The WiFi connection kept dropping;

perhaps it was the location of the table. All in all, I say Larry’s is a good choice for lunch in Inglewood. Two of us ate for $25.98 (before tax), and there was no crowd or wait time. For Inglewood residents, we might do well to add it to the list of regular stops. The food is delicious and reasonably priced. Besides, a vacancy in this highly visible loca-tion would be an eyesore. Support Larry’s Jamaican Restaurant.Larry’s Jamaican Restaurant300 E. Florence AvenueInglewood, CA 90302Parking: Shared LotWiFi: YesAccepts Cash, Credit and ATM DebitAttire: Casual

Larry’s, from pg. 6

in getting out from under the thumb of Spain in 1821, the Mexican governor of Alta California began to is-sue permits for using various ranchos for grazing animals and farming. Antonio Ygnacio Avi-la was the first of eight to own these ranchos; Daniel Freeman was the last. Under Freeman, the combined acreage of the Sausal Redondo and Aguaje de la Centine-la became known simply as “The Centinela.” In 1873, Freeman paid $7,500 per year in rent—at $625 per month, it was a pretty penny at the time. He also had an option to purchase the ranch for $150,000. He raised sheep and planted more than 10,000 trees, including 7,000 orange and 2,000 al-mond trees on the ranch. After a drought that killed 22,000 head of sheep, Freeman turned to grow-ing barley, and eventually

was producing a million barrels a year. In 1882, he exercised the option to buy the ranch for $16,243 in gold. Freeman turned to farming and amassed a fortune farming barley, ol-ives, lemons, limes and almonds on the ranch. Inglewood originally oc-cupied only a portion— 11,000 acres—of the area covered by the 25,000 acre ranchos. From his Land Office (preserved on the grounds of the Centi-nela Adobe complex), Freeman eventually sold the entirety of the rancho lands. Together the ran-chos comprise all of the land from Playa del Rey to the north, down to Redon-do Beach Blvd. on the south, and Van Ness Blvd. on the east to the Pacific Ocean. Out of this came parts of the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and the whole of the cities of Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, as

well as part of Redondo Beach. The word Centinela (originally spelled Centi-nella) is Spanish for

“sentinel,” meaning those that watched over the herds. “The Gathering Waters of the Sentinel” is the translation of Aguaje de la Centinela. The Eng-lish translation of Rancho Sausal Redondo is “Ranch of the Circular Willow Grove.” The original settlement was called Centinela, and the area was named Ingle-wood upon incorporation in 1908. The name Centinela is such a part of our lives. We have a street, an ele-mentary school and a neighborhood that bears the name. There is also the Centinela Valley in which we live and the Centinela Valley Unified School District to our south, and our own Inglewood High students are the Sentinels. It is a proud heritage for a proud city.

Rancho, from pg. 6

Bunkley Investments.” Saunders has significant experience in landlord-tenant law, according to his profile on the Web site Avvo.com. Shortly after alleged-ly making the possibili-ty of immediate resigna-

tion known to the may-or, Saunders took a 10-day vacation. During his absence, as-sistant city attorney Ken-neth R. Campos filled in for Saunders. Saunders did not return any of the many phone calls and e-mails sent re-questing comment.

Cal Gone, from pg. 9



company falsely claimed an “impasse” in contract negotiations and improp-erly forced workers to pay more for their fam-ily healthcare coverage, ruled Administrative Law Judge Gerald Etchingham. A properly declared im-passe allows a company to unilaterally impose its own terms and conditions. “The judge’s decision means employees and our families will get the health-care we need, and that Prime will have to pay us back for all the costs we shouldn’t have paid in the first place,” said Hernan-do Torres, Registration As-sociate in the Admitting Department at Centinela Medical Center. “It never made sense that the compa-ny would eliminate health-care coverage for the same

people who work in a hos-pital every day. This is Prime’s opportunity to start over and we urge them to bargain in good faith.” Etchingham said the company refused to pro-vide documents and infor-mation union members had a right to review during ne-gotiations and failed to bar-gain in good faith with the union, and therefore Prime could not require employ-ees to pay more for their health insurance plans be-ginning in January 2011. Prime Healthcare re-cently disclosed it is under federal investigation for al-leged overbilling of Medi-care. The hospital chain di-agnosed more than 1,000 seniors with an extreme-ly rare form of malnutri-tion typically found among starving children in impov-erished nations.

Judgement, from pg. 8

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CONTENTSSa’brak Boutique..................................page 2

DVD Ave “Street Fight”..................................page 2Paul R. Williams..................................page 4

Aircraft Noise Harms Kids..................................page 4Inglewood Blackhawks..................................page 5

Hoof Beats Limited: We Bet you’ll love this series!..................................page 5Fox Theatre to be Re-stored at long last?

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It’s Casual on Metro, Red Line and Black Flag..................................page 7

By Gerald Morales

This year marked the sixth Inglewood Open Studios, an event hosted by the artists whose studios are open to the public during one Novem-ber weekend every year. Lov-ers of art from Inglewood and elsewhere turn out to visit the studios via the shuttles pro-vided by the city. This year’s event took place Saturday and Sunday, November 10 and 11. A total of 12 venues were made available to view art. The two main locations were the Beacon Arts Building, lo-cated on 808 N. La Brea Av-enue, and the Beacon’s sister studios, affectionately known as 1019 West, located at 1019 W. Manchester Blvd. Both buildings, as well as all the tour stops, are in Inglewood. Inglewood Open Studios was founded by Rene Fox, the current gallery direc-tor. After a 2009 article in the L.A. Times, the event started

to gain attention. Since then, many artists from the Ingle-wood and the surrounding area have come together to help this event grow. Current-ly there are approximately 70 artists in the two main build-

ings as well as many others in their respective workspaces throughout Inglewood. Each of the two days was accompanied by a perfor-mance courtesy of Fisher En-semble, which is an act in

progress from Seattle com-poser Garrett Fisher. Those who attended the perfor-mance were witnessed the work’s debut performance

Mike Stevens Breaks the Sound Insulation Barrier in InglewoodBy randall fleMinG

In the decades since the many variations of the Resi-dential Sound Insulation Pro-gram (RSIP) was institut-ed, LAX—which is owned by Los Angeles World Air-ports (LAWA)—has prof-fered many changes to the residents of Inglewood. From contract passages that whol-ly indemnify LAX from any further legal action, to fund-ing a city program that has been “mismanaged” to the point of building and sound-proofing new luxury apart-ment complexes while exist-ing houses remain uninsulat-ed, to changes in contract lan-guage that the city attorney allows to let “slip,” the LA-WA’s LAX Master Plan Pro-gram, wherein is found the Community Benefit Agree-ment (CBA), has been altered

in many ways. The result has been a largely unfulfilled pro-gram, nearly $100 million dollars “lost,” and a deadline approaching in Dec. 2015. Fortunately, Inglewood has a proponent working for the residents. District 1 Coun-cil Member Mike Stevens, whose decades of work to get the CBA fulfilled, contin-

ues to root out the problems that appear to be intentionally presented to usurp the sound insulation program. Despite refusals by the ap-pointed city officials who are responsible for the city bud-get, he has pushed for an ini-tiative to execute a “detailed forensic level audit of the

Two Decades of Dirty Tricks Who is responsible for Ingle-wood’s decades of misery? Whether it is the City of Inglewood firing people and shutting down Town Hall meetings, contracts to in-demnify LAWA against fur-ther legal action for nothing more than insulated window dressings or expensive cam-paigns to discredit citizens’ groups protesting the unethi-cal and illegal expansion ef-forts, the problem has been to bring to justice those re-sponsible for the complicat-ed schemes carried out to si-lence opposition to LAX ex-pansion plans. Attempts to follow the money tend to

please see Open Studios, page 8

Inglewood Open Studios’ Sixth Year

Artist Muriel Mandel kneels beside her mural during the Inglewood Open Studios’ 2012 tour.

please see Mike, page 10

please see Tricks, page 5

Inglewood resident Prentis Bolden, after conferring with D-1 Council Mem-

ber Mike Stevens about years of empty promises to have his eligible house

sound-insulated, points to the much newer apartment complex across the

street which was being sound-proofed.

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Rhonda’s Wellness Column

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Hoot Beats Limited

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Dining with Rhonda

STUFF I EAT ....................page 6

Anne on Architecture..page 7

Book Reviews ...............page 9


CONTENTS

Joe’s Barbershop

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“Pet Peeves”column

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 2

Mark Fronterotta ap-

pointed new IPD Chief

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 3

Supervisor Mark

Ridley-Thomas

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 4

Fox Theatre now

on National Register

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 4

Feature book review:

Word for Word

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 7

Fruit Tree Giveaway

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 6

Michael Massenberg

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 7

Your Block Rocks,

W. 102nd Street!

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 8

Dinglewood!

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 8

Dotson’s Drug Den

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 9 By RAnDALL FLeMinG

The cumulative safety haz-

ards of the Osage Senior Vil-

las have been a part of daily

life for the center’s residents

shortly after the City of In-

glewood, the Redevelopment

Agency and Planning Com-

mission declared, “The proj-

ect was completed and re-

ceived a certificate of occu-

pancy” in June 2003.

On October 4, 2005, the

aforementioned agencies

signed the “Release of Con-

struction Covenants Certifi-

cate (formerly called a Cer-

tificate of Completion) of the

project.” However it was not

disclosed that there were “nu-

merous revisions, change or-

ders and building modifica-

tions were necessary…” and

that the “Osage Senior Vil-

las Limited Partnership, LLC

(OSVLP) also contends that

the building modifications

and change orders have re-

sulted in a project cost over-

run of 15%…” from a letter

from the city administrator’s

office. The city administrator

at the time was Mark Wein-

berg. Weinberg has since

been retained by the City of

Inglewood as a consultant un-

der a contract to receive near-

ly $70k annually. Weinberg

was also investigated by the

Inglewood native Crystal

Chavis sings at Lakers Game

By GeRALD MORALeS

What is the sound of in-

spiration drawn from inspi-

ration? One Inglewood na-

tive with a remarkable talent

might have an answer. Crys-

tal Chavis, a 17-year-old ju-

nior student of Inglewood

City Honors High School,

found her passion in music

four years ago. Her roots in

the entertainment industry,

however, date back much fur-

ther. At only three weeks of age

Crystal received her first

glimpse to the industry when

she was in a film for a com-

mercial for Fidelity Financial.

She continued getting acting

gigs in commercials for State

Farm and Jeep as well as ma-

ny other well-known compa-

nies. Throughout elementary

and middle school, she partic-

ipated in many performanc-

es and activities in and out of

school. Her mother, Allison

Queen, is a publicist who spe-

cializes in local and nation-

al media placements. From a

young age decided she want-

ed Crystal to develop into a

well-rounded individual. She

enrolled her daughter in ice

skating and dance classes and

even had her try horseback

riding. “I tried to support Crys-

tal in every endeavor she pur-

sued and I knew it was im-

portant for her to be well-

rounded. I wanted her to

know she could do anything

she put her mind to, which

is why I wanted her to be ac-

tive,” said Mrs. Queen.

Crystal spent a lot of time

acting as well as participat-

ing in various activities—but

Residents Claim

Victory Against

728% Tax Hike Mayorʼs Property Tax

proposal shot down

By RAnDALL FLeMinG

In a quietly announced last-

minute city council meet-

ing for January 23, Ingle-

wood mayor James T. Butts

moved to reject a proposal to

place a 728% increase of the

city’s property transfer tax

on the April municipal ballot.

The city clerk was directed to

withdraw Resolution No. 12-

157 (adopted December 18,

2012) from the April 2 ballot.

The mayor had argued

through no fewer than two

previous council meetings to

push the remarkably high tax

hike proposal forward for the

April ballot. It was rumored

that the reason for the pro-

posal was to upset the unions

that would benefit from the

increase, should any council

members oppose the new tax

hike. The mayor remarked that

such a tax hike is not an un-

usual one. “The city of Los

please see Rusty Tub, page 10

A Decade of Rusty Bathtubs at Osage

Rusty pipes, fire-hazard stoves at Senior Center were approved by Planning Commissioner George Dotson

All the bathtubs in the Osage Senior Villas look like this. The rust staining the plastic bathtubs is a result of iron

pipes that for over a decade have drained condensation from the residents’ heating and air conditioning units. The

non-ceramic tubs, lack of safety bars and other safety hazards were approved by Inglewood Planning Commissioner

Dotson in 2003. INSET: A shot of the iron drain pipe from which rusty water has dripped since 2003.

please see Crystal, page 11please see Victory, page 11

Crystal Chavis sings the national anthem at the Lakers v Jazz game

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people have been consid-ering us in. Musically we reach for the idea to al-ways deliver quality music where people enjoy it,” said Gutierrez. “We try to be diverse within a range of tones that root from the music/inspiration we’ve been exposed to, i.e., The Strokes, Black Keys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Led Zep-pelin. “We don’t ever plan a direction especially when it comes to the sound we one day want to put out. We just sit in a room to-gether rehearse and jam and let things happen or-

ganically. We never try and force things to sound a certain way, everything works itself out. Inspira-tion personally come from bands who weren’t supposed to make it and did so by working their asses off… Black Flag is a good example.” Holly is a band that sticks to its love for or-ganic music They are on Soundcloud so make sure you check out their music http://soundcloud.com/hollytheband. You can also add their Facebook page to get the latest updates from Holly: www.facebook.com/hol-lytheband.

Holly, from pg. 7

one who doesn’t even live in Inglewood and, in my opinion, doesn’t have the best interests of the city in mind. Where is our senior cen-ter? When will Centu-

ry Boulevard be paved? What is the status of the Forum and of Hollywood Park? Why are there so many vacant lots in the city? If Inglewood residents don’t wake up and pay attention to what is go-

ing on, and if they don’t vote (participation in the last election was less than 10%), these three council-persons who are running this city now will be gone on to higher office, and we will be left in a bankrupt slum!

Coup, from pg. 9

Publisher’s Note

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Community Calendar

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Church Calendar .........page 3

Letters to the Editor

.......................................page 3

“View from District 2”

by Council Member Dunlap

.......................................page 6

“Greetings from Mike”

by Council Member Stevens

.......................................page 6

Dining with Rhonda (res-

taurant review) by Rhonda

Kuykendall-Jabari .......page 6

Book Reviews ...............page 9


CONTENTS

Dr. LeRoy Vaugn, MD

.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 2

Los Acosta Tacos

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 2

Friends of the

Inglewood Library

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 4

Hoof Beats races over

the year in review

.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 5

Rhonda’s “Wellness”

column debuts

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 5

Googie Architecture

in Inglewood

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 6

Your Block Rocks:

Ash Avenue

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 6

Feature book reviews:

The Tribunal

and Bitter Inheritance

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 7

The Wood Class

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . page 7

Double-barrelled film review:

Django Unchained

. . . . . . . . . . . . pages 8 & 9

By Teka-lark FleMing

When the owner and den-

tist of Smile Studio, Dr. Carla

Thomas was a little girl grow-

ing up in the Inglewood com-

munity of Century Heights

she wanted to be a dentist.

Smile Studio caught my

eye while I was riding my bi-

cycle up Morningside Park’s

business district on Man-

chester. It was a modern and

beautiful facility. While at a

community meeting in Briar-

wood, I met the charming Dr.

Thomas. She was discussing

the importance of dental care.

As a person who is regularly

at the dentist office owing to

doing ten years as brace face

and a black coffee addiction

the art of dentistry has be-

come a major part of my life.

I went to Dr. Thomas’ of-

fice to find out about her

lovely facility and to ask how

did she come into the helpful

field of dentistry.

“When I was very small my

mother took us to the dentist

every six months. I had a re-

ally nice dentist when I was a

child. He let me play with all

the equipment and touch all

the buttons. I was fascinated.”

Dr. Thomas has always

wanted to be a dentist. And

it shows in her facility. Even

sitting in the waiting room

you feel at ease. It feels more

like a health spa than the

white bright dentist office

you may be used to.

“From the sixth grade I

knew I was going to be a

dentist and I would always

say that. People said I would

change my major a few times

once I went to college. I nev-

er did. I have yearbooks from

junior high through high

school where they would ask

you what you want to do, and

all of mine said, ‘Dentist,’”

said Dr. Thomas.

Dr. Thomas did her under-

grad work in biology at the

University of the Pacific and

earned her Doctorate of Den-

tal Surgery at the top ranked

University of Southern Cali-

fornia. She has been practic-

ing dentistry in Inglewood for

16 years.

Even though I regular-

ly go the dentist I have many

friends who are very nervous

about going to the dentist. I

tell them that it’s not that bad.

“If you go to the dentist

regularly, every six months

and you do things that are

preventative. Then it’s not as

expensive,” she posited.

Dr. Thomas office is relax-

ing and tranquil. Her front

Stevens Opposes 728%

Property Transfer Tax Hike

Councilman Mike Stevens favors modestly increased tax hike—but not at 728%

By randall FleMing

District 1 council person

Mike Stevens has announced

that he wishes the recent-

ly proposed property tax rate

increase to be readjusted. A

new rate was proposed by

Mayor James T. Butts and

was on the city’s agenda dat-

ed December 18, 2012 but

was not voted until the fol-

lowing day.

Inglewood has one of the

lowest such property tax-

es in Los Angeles County, at

$1.10 per $1,000.00. Of that

amount, $0.55 goes to the

City of Inglewood. The may-

or’s intention is to place the

resolution on the April 2 bal-

lot to increase the city’s tax

portion 728%, to $4.00.

Were Stevens to whole-

heartedly oppose the tax—

which would be put into the

city’s general fund and from

which unions such as the

SEIU could benefit—then it

would not fare well for In-

glewood’s on-going financial

strife. However, the coun-

cilman has made it clear that

it is not a transfer tax rate

increase he opposes, but a

728% tax rate hike.

Stevens declared that he

was “not against a transfer

tax; I’m against a transfer

tax that is extremely exces-

sive, like this approximately

725% increase.” The trans-

fer tax rate increase resolu-

tion was pushed through by

the mayor and was approved

by District 3 and 4 council

members Eloy Morales, Jr.,

and Ralph Franklin.

The resolution does not

fully divulge the nature of

the increase. By mention-

ing only the portion that the

Danny Tabor

Runs in D-1 Claims “No problem”

regarding misappropri-

ated Darby Park funds

Former Inglewood mayor

Danny K. Tabor filed his run-

ning papers just in time for

the city’s deadline on Mon-

day, January 7. He had pulled

his papers the previous busi-

ness day (Thursday, January

3) just before the city clerk’s

office closed at 12:30 p.m.

Tabor, who has a political

history as District 1 council

member and a short-term

mayor, was also known for a

series of political and finan-

cial concerns.

please see Smile, page 4

Smile Studio Lives Up to Its Name

Century Heights native Dr. Carla Thomas takes a moment to smile for the camera at her dental studio.

please see 728%, page 11

please see Tabor, page 9

District 1 council member Mike

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Nan and her fellow stu-dents to pursue a college education and positively use what was learned to impact the world for fu-ture generations. Nan’s life proved that she took those words seriously. She by word and action en-couraged others to em-brace these ideals also. College provided the opportunity to meet the love of her life, Denny. They purchased a house in Westchester close to the aerospace plants where he would work; it was also close to her childhood home. Soon the house became the neighborhood’s home—a safe place for community relationships to grow. Nan’s devotion to young people found her volun-teering for some 20 years in the Westchester schools. Even after her children, Aaron and Beth, graduated college, Nan continued to

raise funds for less-fortu-nate students to receive much-needed educational supplies. Nan served as a director on many commu-nity organizations, work-ing day and night for the causes she held dear. Her efforts to raise funds for asthma research and edu-cational foundations would have kept anyone else busy. Nevertheless, Nan found time to serve on the board of directors for the Westchester Neigh-borhood Association (WNA) as well as the Alli-ance for Regional Solu-tions to Airport Congestion (ARSAC). Nan and Denny were the host and hostess, opening their home for a multitude of decision-makers to meet the people whose lives their decisions would impact for years to come. Nan’s battle with cancer was long and difficult, but even until her final month she participated in the battle that she considered

a major threat to her /our neighborhood: the expan-sion of LAX. Nan voiced her concerns and wrote her response to Environ-mental Impact Reports regularly at L.A. city council meetings and Air-port Commissioner meet-ings. She remained strong in her conviction that the air pollutants of airplane exhaust contributed to the unhealthful air quality surrounding LAX and that regionalization was the best approach to meet the need of future airline passengers. At only 62 years young, Nan Schneider spent the final years of her life fighting so her neighbors might enjoy the quality of life that those in other parts of Los Angeles take for granted. Nan’s gracious charac-ter will be missed by all who knew her. Her in-sights and calm spirit will be greatly missed by those left to carry on.

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Dear Voters,

Thank you for your vote!

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I was elected by you to look out for your interest and not special interest.

You voted for me to be your elected representative because you wanted

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I have broken the chain of anointed individuals and am independent of

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