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BY STEPHANIE MINASIANSTAFF WRITER

The man who once jammed with the Beatles and helped to import Eastern music to the West-ern hemisphere, Ravi Shankar, is set to bring his renowned Indian music to Long Beach this week-end. Shankar, known for his talent as a Sitarist, will perform a con-cert benefi tting the Ravi Shankar Foundation at 7:30 p.m., on Sun-day, at the Long Beach Terrace Theater, at 300 Ocean Blvd. George Harrison once de-scribed the 91-year-old musical ambassador as “the Godfather of world music.” “I was the fi rst one who started to bring music abroad and bring it

all over the world,” Shankar said. “Because I could explain and talk about it, I became very popular. It became very attractive to listen-ers who learned it.” Shankar has worked as a com-poser and musician for nearly six decades, and has penned violin-sitar compositions for Yehudi Menuhin, written music for fl ute virtuoso Jean Pierre Rampal, Japan’s Shakuhachi player Ho-zan Yamamoto and for Russian Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich. Shankar also is known for his col-laboration with composer Phillip Glass. His style of music is thou-sands of years old and is learned through a teacher called a guru. “Unlike Western music, which

is written down, we depend on learning it through a guru,” Shan-kar said. “We follow this age-old system, and at the same time, we dwell upon ragas (the melodic mode in Indian music). There are hundreds of thousands of ra-gas — some with more detailed scales and different sentiments.” He said that some of these ra-gas are happy, some are festive and others depend on the time of day and the season. “This is the main melody, which is very, very rich,” he added. “We dwell upon what we call melody forms, known as tala, which are three beat, four, and fi ve beat cycles. It’s a very com-plex system, but at same time,

World-Famous Sitarist Plays

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—Photo courtesy Ravi ShankarPLAYED WORLDWIDE. Sitarist Ravi Shankar is bringing his music to the Long Beach Terrace Theater this weekend.

BY JONATHAN VAN DYKESTAFF WRITER

With the Long Beach Rescue Mission’s winter shelter clos-ing its doors last week, offi cials said that some of that homeless population would fi lter back onto the streets — but it’s diffi cult to tell whether those populations around the city have increased, decreased or stayed steady since the last homeless counts about a year ago. According to LBRM’s Presi-dent and CEO Jim Lewis, the shelter served 1,065 homeless people this last winter season. To get an idea of the complexity of the situation, Lewis said that of those people, 13 were placed in other emergency shelters, 23 into transitional housing, two into detox and 12 into permanent housing. Of the 30 families that sought help from the shelter, fi ve transferred to other emergency shelters, fi ve went into transi-tional housing and 10 got into permanent supportive housing. “We fi nd that the majority of the people utilizing the winter shelter are repeat clients over the years, and many are those who will only come off the street into a shelter during inclement weath-er,” Lewis said. “As the number of clients cycle according to the timing of general relief and other forms of welfare or disability

payments, the numbers rise and fall during the month.” The shelter ran from Dec. 1 to March 14 and averaged about 130 people per night, with a high of 190 and a low of 60. Lewis said that some of his guest/clients will head to shelters in Los Ange-les or Bell counties, but about 50 to 75% of the people never enter a shelter except during the win-ter. “It is the weather that drives them in and that is the purpose of the winter shelter system in California,” he said. “While this may paint a bleak picture of the effectiveness of such temporary shelter operations, the opportu-nity to be a safety net for many of those becoming homeless for the fi rst time helps get these people off the street and into sup-portive programs. For all of the heartache and return visits of the chronic homeless, it is worth it to be there for those truly in critical need. And sometimes those who may have become hardened to existence on the streets respond to this hand out and make their fi rst decision to accept our hand up.” Perception and reality of where the Long Beach homeless popu-lation is at can vary from place to place and person to person, offi cials said. In downtown Long

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Shelter Closes AsSeasons Change



A newly formed network of advocates against domestic vio-lence, especially in the African American community, will be reaching out to the public this weekend to discuss the issue and prevention methods, and pro-vide information on how victims can fi nd safety. The African American Net-work for Violence-Free Rela-tionships (ANFVR) is a new project of the Interval House Crisis Shelters, which will host a launch event from 9 a.m. to noon, on Saturday, March 24, at the St. Mary Medical Center-Parr Health Enhancement Cen-ter, 1050 Linden Ave. “We are tying to introduce the community to concept of do-mestic violence prevention, and format of the African American Network,” said ANFVR founder Rev. Dr. Mary L. Walton, who also is the senior management adviser at Interval House Crisis Shelters. “On Saturday, we’re going to celebrate the fact this project is now supported by In-terval House and Blue Shield of California Foundation against this type of violence in Califor-nia.” Those involved in the ANFVR Network include former victims,

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—Gazette photo by Jonathan Van DykeSewer repairs mean delays on Ocean Boulevard between Elm Av-enue and Long Beach Boulevard. Story on Page 5.

EXPECT DELAYS

PAGE 2 | GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS | March 23, 2012GAZETTE COMMENTARY

Chance to ChangeTo The Editor, Attributed to Rita Mae Brown in her 1963 book “Sudden Death,” is the quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting differ-ent results.” This quoted insanity has domi-nated the political landscape, both in California and Washing-ton D.C., for many, many years.

Every election cycle, we are asked to return John or Jan Q. Politician to Sacramento or to Washington D.C. As evidenced by the continued fi nancial messes and gridlock in both capitals, I’d say the electorate is guilty of in-sanity on local, state and the na-tional level. There are candidates on our 2010 mid-term ballots that are new and different regardless of

party. In some cases that candi-date is running against an incum-bent, or, in other cases, for an open seat with distinctly new and different ideas. Ideas that they will be held accountable for to enact into law. Instead of blindly voting along party lines, look at what a can-didate with a new perspective would bring. This opportunity is


Don’t call the offi ce looking for me this week — I won’t be there. Oh, I’ll be in town. But I’ll be busy wearing another one of my hats — the one that says I Love Parks on it. The region-wide California Park & Recreation Society con-vention is in town. Technically, it is called the California & Pa-cifi c Southwest Recreation & Park Training Conference, and it draws professionals and advo-cates from Arizona, Nevada, even Hawaii. I’ve been a Long Beach Parks and Recreation Commissioner for going on 11 years now, and have had the good fortune to attend several of these state conventions. I’ve also experienced a couple of national conventions, which was a real treat since Long Beach was being honored as the best Parks and Recreation Department in the country. Why should you care? Well, outside of knowing that you’re probably safe from me for a few days, your city representatives are there with me, learning how to make a better city with fewer resources. That fewer resources has, sadly, been a primary topic at literally every convention I’ve at-tended. Cities across our region, across our country, are facing the same budget squeeze Long Beach has suffered for the last decade. Sometimes it’s a bit better, and sometimes it’s a bit worse, but rare has been the parks and rec-reation offi cial who is looking to fi nd ways to spend more money. We’re going to go through the same thing again this year. Our city fathers and mothers at 333 W. Ocean already are debating budget scenarios, all of which involve another round of cuts in

the Parks, Recreation and Marine (and every other) Department. The real question is not whether, it’s how much. Here’s the mantra I’m guaran-teed to hear over and over this week, and one I want you all to remember: Parks and Recreation are Public Safety, too. You can add libraries to that mantra if you like. The libraries certainly will. The concept is pretty simple, and has been proven over and over again. It’s called prevention. Recreation programs provide the alternative, particularly the after-school alternative, to gangs, drugs and all that other bad stuff our police departments are forced to handle. Having parks, particularly parks with organized, super-vised recreation opportunities, has proven to be a powerful crime-fi ghting tool where crime begins — with our youth. It is a cost-effective approach, too. One recreation leader with a ball can engage 20 or more youths. Com-pare that to two cops arresting one gang-banger. Those activities don’t even need to be overly organized. Can you say skate park? The skate-board godfather, Mike Donelon, can offer some eye-popping fi g-ures about how a neighborhood skate park can eat into crime sta-tistics. But all that good recreation takes at least a little nurturing. Community centers with locked doors are criminal opportunities, not crime stoppers. A shabby

park, skate or otherwise, with lit-tle maintenance breeds contempt, not healthy bodies. I’m not saying we should sup-port parks and ignore police. Far from it. A one-legged stool falls down no matter which leg you cut off. But when there are no options to gangs for socialization, no alternatives to drugs for experi-ence, no outlet for energy outside of trouble, we are creating a situ-ation where the need for police becomes greater and greater. You’ll need far fewer cops to hold up the stool of public safety if you have a strong prevention leg sharing the job. To be fair, I think that many of our city leaders understand this philosophy. Police Chief Jim Mc-Donnell has been known to utter the phrase prevention is impor-tant too. Eighth District Coun-cilwoman Rae Gabelich, who is currently leading the charge to take money from other depart-ments to give more to the cop shop, continues to say that parks and recreation are part of public safety. The question is, how big a part? I truly wish that I could con-vince some of our decision mak-ers to hang out with me this week. I think they’d gain a new understanding of the importance of parks and recreation. We often call this work the toy department of municipal government — we do the feel-good things. But we do the important things, too. Maybe I’ll be able to better ex-plain that next week, when I put the green eyeshade hat of news-paper guy back on. See you then.

In our reporters’ ongoing series of interviews with candidates, no matter what the offi ce being sought, the politicians invariably ask one question — “Do you en-dorse?” The answer, just as invariably, is “No.” That response has become more popular in recent years, but we’re still in the small, small mi-nority when it comes to media in general and newspapers in par-ticular. An endorsement from the local newspaper long has been one of the top feathers in most successful politicians’ hats. We don’t mean to belittle the importance of endorsements. On the contrary, the endorsements a candidate goes after, and those they play up, can tell a lot about how they will react when they are in offi ce. It’s a pretty safe bet that those folks who put labor union en-dorsements on the front of their fl yers are going to lend a sym-pathetic ear to labor issues. By the same token, an endorsement from the Chamber of Commerce usually signals what is known as a business-friendly attitude. Voters are left to decide exactly what those categories mean for themselves. Party endorsements usually are less revealing. After all, the can-didates, even in non-partisan rac-es like the City Council and the school board, are seldom shy in announcing what political party they are affi liated with. Of course, there’s the situa-tion where you have more than one member of the same party running for the same seat. It hap-pens in primaries, and it happens in those previously mentioned nonpartisan races (which seldom are truly nonpartisan). Those en-dorsements say one thing — the establishment backs one candi-date over another, or one wing of a party (think Long Beach Lam-da Club) prefers this Democrat over that one. That can be either a good or a bad thing, depending on your point of view. Personal endorsements may be of the most value, at least in terms of helping voters decide who to support. Those endorse-ments usually come from people with a track record, and they typ-ically endorse people who are of a like mind on the most important issues. So if you like how Poli-tician A has been doing the job, chances are you’ll be okay with endorsed Politician B, and vice versa. But in all these cases, you are

dealing with personalities as well as affi liations. It can be tough to understand the motivations for an endorsement. Worse, there might be hidden — or not so hidden — reasons for an endorsement: a promise for a job, support for future positions, etc. Believe it or not, that union expects that poli-tician to remember who backed them when it comes to negotiat-ing that new contract. So what’s in it for the news-papers that endorse candidates? As far as we can tell, not much. For the most part, those edito-rial boards are trying to do what they do the other 364 days of the year — offer advice to their readers based on the information they have. Less talked about, and hopefully less frequent, are the endorsements designed to show how much power a paper has to sway the outcome of an election. We are not interested in the later, we’re not to confi dent about the value of the former and we’re loathe to get involved in the whole personality issue. So, short of having a truly dangerous can-didate with the ability to severely harm the community if they win, we’ll be leaving the election de-cisions to you.

By the way, that doesn’t mean we don’t have an opinion. Of course we do. But we see the election of representatives as ul-timately an exercise in personal trust, and see no reason to get in the middle of that process. There are a couple of excep-tions to this rule, just like there are to any rule. Most importantly, we will always weigh in when is-sues are involved. It’s our job to research those issues, whether it is a tax increase for schools or the legalization of marijuana, and we do feel qualifi ed to provide rea-soned arguments to vote one way or the other in those cases. The other caveat is, as men-tioned above, when we think that a candidate could do irreparable harm if elected. That’s only hap-pened once in the Gazette’s 37+ years of existence. Finally, we will offer one elec-tion recommendation. Vote. Ex-press your opinion. We will, on our ballot. Unless you do, too, your voice has been lost.

No EndorsementsFrom Gazette Board

“We see the election of representatives as ultimately an exercise

in personal trust.”

Parks’ Public Safety Value Key

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happening all over the country, bringing fresh candidates to the chase.

Many voters look at the election and say, “my elected representa-tive is fine, change the representa-tion in the other district.” That is the insanity mentioned above.

Do some research, read en-dorsements from trusted sources and vote to end the insanity. On the other hand, if you are too lazy to do the research, stay home on Election Day. You could be voting for something you don’t want.

Jim MitchellLong Beach

Fair Parking?To The Editor,

Those of you who have received tickets on street sweeping day in Long Beach might be interested to know that, if you have a handi-capped sticker on your license plate, you can ignore the street sweeping days and not get tick-eted.

In this particular case, the per-son owning the vehicle not only does not live on this block and would have had to walk a distance to her residence but arrived late in the evening making a lot of noise and disturbing the resident whose house she parked in front of. Then, to make matters worse, she leaves this car past noon on street sweeping day so that the street cannot be swept.

Does this make any sense? What kind of handicap must this person have that would allow her to drive a vehicle but not be able to move it on street sweeping day from in front of a residence where she does not reside? And I won-der how far this “handicapped person” had to walk to her real place of residency. Does anyone check on the validity of these handicapped licenses?

Deborah BartonLong Beach

Second District VoteTo The Editor,

The article about Suja Lowen-thal running for reelection listed a bike friendly environment as one of her accomplishments. Not mentioned was the pollution and traffic congestion along Third Street & Broadway where a traffic lane was removed and turned into a bike path.

Unfortunately, the bike paths are underutilized. I frequently drive between Pine and Alamitos on both these streets and usually see more bikes on the sidewalks than using the bike lanes.

If rather than eliminating a traffic lane, the bike lanes could have been painted bike lanes on the asphalt (as is done Belmont Shore), that would allow vehicles to use the bike lane when bikes are not present. And the painted lane would provide a right-of-way for bicycles. As one who owns and rides a bike, I would feel every bit as safe riding in a painted bike lane. Unfortunately, pedestrian safety is not her concern. I called her of-fice the first time I was stuck from behind by a bicyclist crowding through the sidewalks downtown. The answer was sorry about that. The city ordinance that prohibits riding bicycles on downtown side-ways is not being enforced. Air pollution from vehicles waiting to make a left turn is an-other area of concern. Trucks park on Broadway and Third Street to unload inventory to restaurants and stores. When this happnes, these two streets become one lane for vehicles. These two streets are corridors to and from the I-710 freeway and thus tend to have more traffic than say, 4th St. Traffic congestion on weekdays between 4pm and 7pm is much greater than it was before a lane was eliminated.

If these lanes were used more frequently, I would not have a problem with them, but I would still prefer not having a lane closed for bikes only.

Steven D. AriasThe Promenade

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Can a poet be a rock star?Derrick Brown, poet and presi-

dent of Write Bloody Press, has

tried during his 17-year writing career to answer that question in the affirmative. Friday (tonight), he will be performing a bit of a farewell show, reading from his

latest poetry book and showing off part of a recent documentary. “I’ve always been trying to bring poetry back into rock and roll status — where it’s as easy to go and enjoy a poetry show as it is to go to a concert or movie,” he said. “The days of long open mics and stoic features from authors are over. The days of fun book readings that can also be mean-ingful and powerful are taking over.” Brown said he might be most well known as the “poet who opens for all those rock bands.”

Before musicians like the Cold War Kids, Delta Spirit and Flam-ing Lips took to the stage, Brown was tasked with entertaining the audience. The documentary “You Belong Everywhere” will take a look at his experience opening for the Cold War Kids in Europe — he will show excerpts of the movie at the event. “We’re doing one final show with one of my favorite bands in Two Guns and we’re taking to this venue that’s never really done a poetry event,” he said, noting the venue First Congregational

Liberal Social Justice Church. Brown’s father worked the naval shipyards in Long Beach during the 1970s and 1980s and Brown himself went into the army as a paratrooper after graduating high school. “When I got out, I fell into po-etry — I had no idea I would be drawn to a poor-man’s craft like that,” he said. So in order to get his work in front of more audiences, Brown said he worked on making the ex-perience and buildup more like a concert — creating fancy posters and fun T-shirts for merchandise. The performances became very important, and they helped sell books, he said — which led to the formation of his Write Bloody Press, which has operated out of Long Beach for about a decade. Brown has been involved with a number of different writing projects, and recently his poetry was set to dance for a project in Holland. For now, he said, he is hang-ing up the art form and moving to Austin, Texas. There, he will help his father with their property and start a 10-year mission to become a playwright. But on Friday, he said, the fo-cus will be on his first love — po-etry. “I often say that prose is like a slow strangle that is effective in reaching you, but poetry is a bullet and a fast kill in that it can move you with one line,” he said. “I’ve always been drawn to that sort of attack.” Derrick Brown’s farewell read-ing will take place at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 23, at the First Congregational Liberal Social Justice Church, 241 Cedar Ave. The cost is free to attend. For more information and ex-amples of Brown’s work, visit www.brownpoetry.com.

Derrick Brown Farewell Event Touts Poet

DERRICK BROWN

Long Beach Fire Department Chief Alan Patalano announced his retirement Wednesday. Patalano took the position in May 2010, and dealt with a num-ber of issues during his tenure — including two years of diffi-cult budget cuts. He is a 27-year veteran of fire services and was the 16th fire chief of the LBFD’s 115-year history. He previously served at the LBFD’s Deputy Chief of Support Services, Deputy Chief of Oper-ations and Deputy Chief of Fire Prevention. Beyond dealing with budget cuts, Patalano also developed and implemented the Basic Life Sup-port Transportation Program — which was successful in provid-ing medical services to residents in their times of need. He helped reinstate the Joint Fire and Police Arson Investigation Task Force, which has made several arrests, as well. “I am extremely proud to have served as chief of the Long Beach Fire Department,” he said in a statement. “The women and men who wear the Long Beach Fire Department uniform are truly the best in their class.”

With his new free time, Pata-lano said he was looking forward to spending more time with his friends and family. The city will soon begin the process of hiring a new chief, and it will consider both internal and external candidates, officials said. “Chief Patalano will be greatly missed and I’m incredibly appre-ciative of his service to the city and this community,” City Man-ger Patrick West said in a state-ment.


Emergency sewer repairs are slated for a stretch of Ocean Boulevard, which began to af-fect traffic this week, officials said.

Work began on Monday, March 19, for the area of Ocean Boulevard between Elm Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard. Construction teams are expect-ed to work between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., every day of the week, un-til April 5.

The work is necessary to en-act emergency repairs to sewer infrastructure in the area.

Officials said that drivers looking to use the road in that area should expect delays due to the construction work and lane closures. During non-construc-tion hours, two lanes of west-bound traffic are expected to be open.

Here is a list of the traffic im-pacts: • For westbound traffic onOcean Boulevard between Elm Avenue and Long Beach Bou-levard — both inside lanes will be permanently closed, during construction hours only one lane will be open and during non-construction hours two lanes will be open. Also, access to the Westin Hotel from Ocean Bou-levard will remain open. • For eastbound traffic onOcean Boulevard between Elm Avenue and Long Beach Boule-vard — no lane closures except for the left-hand turn lane onto northbound Elm Avenue. •Theleft-handturnlanefromwestbound Ocean Boulevard onto southbound Elm Avenue will be closed. • During construction hoursbuses will not be picking up or dropping off passengers at the bus stop in front of the Westin Hotel, but during non-construc-tion hours operations are expect-ed to resume.

—Jonathan Van Dyke

Sewer RepairsMean Delays OnOcean Boulevard

Fire Chief Patalano Retires

ALAN PATALANO



The tragic small plane crash a year ago that took the lives of five men had few silver linings — but emergency officials said they were proud of the response that resulted in one survivor. At about 10:30 a.m. on March 16, 2011, a twin-engine Beech-craft King Air that took off from the Long Beach Municipal Air-port’s Runway 30 abruptly turned around and crashed near Runway 25. The accident took the lives of Thomas Dean (Naples), Mark Bixby (Long Beach), Jeff Berger (Manhattan Beach), Bruce Krall (Ladera Ranch) and Kenneth Cruz (Culver City). Miraculously that day, firefighters were able to pull out Long Beach resident Mike Jensen from the plane. “In this case, specific to that incident, we had two or three fire-fighters who were standing right out in front of the station, and

they had just completed training at the airport,” Long Beach Fire Department Deputy Chief Mike DuRee said. Fire Station 16 faces airport grounds, DuRee noted, and those firefighters saw and heard the crash. “Our response time was instan-taneous,” he said. Within about 60 seconds, fire-fighters had mobilized the special apparatus at Fire Station 16 and began to douse the plane with water and foam — there also was 150 yards of fire stretching on grass behind it. “If there is anybody in there, we have to knock down the fire at the plane first,” DuRee said. Fire Truck 11 arrived within several more minutes and its crew was tasked with going through the smoke and getting into the plane. “They actually went in when the fire was still very much go-ing on at the front end of the air-craft,” DuRee said. “They opened up a big hole on the side of the fuselage with metal cutting tools and physically pulled the plane open and went inside looking for survivors.” The part of the plane they cut out was right at the back of the passenger part of the plane and firefighters quickly identified a passenger they believed was still alive — transporting him as quickly as possible to a local hos-pital. DuRee estimated that the bulk of the fire suppression and action occurred within five min-utes of the crash. “I don’t think I can ask, as a chief, for any better levels of performance — all their training came into play that day,” he said.

Jensen, who is a broker with Pacific Retail Partners, was treat-ed at the UCI Burn Center, and he was at one point on a ventilator. In a touching moment, he gave a speech about Bixby that cham-pioned his enthusiasm for many different projects that impacted the city — including his love for bicycles — during the January Celebrate Downtown event. Jen-sen presented a Spirit of Down-town Award to the Bixby fam-ily — wife Theresa and children Ryan, Kirra and Jessica. “The Long Beach Airport along with its family of employees, vol-unteers, tenants and friends are very sensitive to the community tragedy that occurred on March 16, 2011,” LGB Director Mario Rodriguez said in a statement. “Our heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those who were involved remain ever pres-ent with us still today. “We are very proud of every-one’s immediate and professional response to the incident and the collaborative nature that all par-ties demonstrated throughout the process under extreme and diffi-cult circumstances. Long Beach Airport’s number one priority remains the safety and security of all passengers, employees and visitors at all times, and the air-port continues to operate at the highest levels of safety in accor-dance with the Airport Emergen-cy Plan.” The National Transportation Safety Board is conducting an investigation on the accident, but it has not released the report yet — at the time of the crash, it was estimated an accident investiga-tion would take between 12 and 18 months.

Officials Reflect On Plane Crash Anniversary



Despite the tumultuous fiscal climate for public education, the Long Beach College Promise is still going strong and continuing its mission of turning area high school graduates into successful college students. A celebratory progress report ceremony for the Long Beach College Promise was hosted Wednesday at Cabrillo High School, where Long Beach Uni-fied School District Superinten-dent Chris Steinhauser, Long Beach City College Superinten-dent-President Eloy Ortiz Oak-ley, California Community Col-leges Chancellor Jack Scott and California State University, Long Beach, President F. King Alexan-der spoke about the importance and success documented from their collaboration. Four years ago, the Long Beach College Promise was formed as a partnership between LBUSD, LBCC and CSULB, to provide clear pathways to success for Long Beach high school gradu-ates. The goal was to increase the number of LBUSD students who are prepared for and attend higher education by providing them with valuable resources, according to Steinhauser. In 2011, nearly 74% of LBUSD graduates attended college at ei-ther LBCC or CSULB, with 729 of those grads entering CSULB as freshmen. “This is a very exciting time,”

Steinhauser said. “We’re truly blessed to live and work in Long Beach. Our 84,000 students don’t have to leave the city for an edu-cation that will lead them to be-come gainfully employed.” When LBUSD students reach middle school, they are asked to sign a pledge to stay committed to pursuing a higher education. They learn about what colleges have to offer, take tours of LBCC and CSULB and begin taking preparatory classes throughout their remaining years in LBUSD. After high school, the qualifying graduates are granted a free first semester at LBCC, as well as pri-ority registration for their classes. After completing the correct pre-requisites at the community col-lege level, those transfer students will be granted guaranteed admis-sion to CSULB. Terrence Swinton, a fifth grader at Hudson K-8 School, spoke to the crowd about his experiences touring the college campuses, and how he plans to stick to his aca-demic goals. “The College Promise is im-portant because going through college can be expensive,” Swin-ton said. “I now know I have to stay on track to pursue my college dreams.” With community colleges across the state taking a 7.5% cut in funding from the state, the Long Beach City College Foun-dation stepped in and raised more than $6.5 million and has estab-lished an endowment to continue

to pay for the first-semester en-rollment fees for those qualifying LBUSD high school students. “Individuals who wouldn’t nor-mally have gone on to college are

going,” Scott said. “There were 1,675 freshmen at LBCC who were from LBUSD last year. The magic is the hard work done in this collaboration.”

The education officials also presented 27 scholarships ranging from $50 to $250 to Long Beach eighth graders, who have shown academic improvement.

Four Years Later, College Promise Still Going Strong



Activating spaces can be key to a blossoming artistic commu-nity, and that’s what the founders of the Cultural Alliance of Long Beach hope to do as they gather input for a burgeoning group. “What are some of the needs that need to be addressed en masse?” asked Logan Crow, programming director of Long Beach Cinematheque. “What do they (the arts community) want to see more of? What if we could work on identifying those as a collective and be part of a move-ment that really brings in artists?” Crow, Karen Reside (princi-pal of Reside & Associates) and developer Michael Wiley have teamed up to create the Cultural Alliance of Long Beach, and Wi-ley has helped by lending some building space to help make the alliance more of a reality. The group’s mission statement is “to support working artists in all artistic disciplines and connect

them with the public in Long Beach, California and through innovative collaborations, dia-logues, promotions and education in a cutting-edge environment.” Right now, the alliance can begin to use a space called The MADhaus (musical, art, digital media), 624 Pacific Ave. Wiley is also beginning to renovate and prepare a building they call the Bungalow, 737 Pine Ave. “It’s being worked on, but it’s going to be a work in progress,” Crow said. “We’re just now be-ginning to formulate what it will look like — the entire first floor is empty right now. For the most part, it had been rented by an ab-sentee tenant. Rather than put that on the market, we decided we should activate these spaces for art.” The idea is that the satellite art centers would provide office space, art gallery space, dance studios, meeting spaces and art studios. As that becomes more of a reality, the founders would like

classes available and resources to help artists receive grants, as well. “It’s not going to be a concert hall, or a dance studio or a gal-lery — it’s going to be all those things,” Crow said. The MADhaus has already been used for some smaller music events and as a space to show off California State University, Long Beach students’ graphic design senior semester project. There will be a poetry slam in early April. “As a physical location, Mike is going to start to develop work-shop space, studio space and po-tentially an outdoor art space for performances and installations,” Crow said. “The MADhaus has already really opening itself up.” For the most part, right now, the founders are seeking as much input from the artistic community as possible. They have hosted several meetings to gain input so far, Crow said, and they will host more. “We have no shortages of amazing artists and visionaries in Long Beach,” he said. “What’s important to talk about is what they need. What, really, at the end of the day, are the steps we need to take to help smooth things out for them?” For more information, contact Crow at 323-428-7411 or email [email protected]. There should be a forthcoming website.

Cultural Alliance Seeks Artist Input

A FAUX PAINTER


“Let’s Move Long Beach,” a free health and wellness fair fea-turing Zumba dancing, runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at 604 Pine Ave. The event features a climbing wall, a bike rodeo, free Zumba

dancing at 11 a.m. and more than 40 vendors. Let’s Move Long Beach was created by the City Council to work with the national initiative, “Let’s Move,” to pro-mote exercise and healthy eating. The event is made possible

through the assistance of Molina Healthcare, Long Beach Memo-rial Medical Center, St. Mary Medical Center, The Children’s Clinic, Centro CHA and Mecca Fitness. Visit www.letsmovelb.com.

Healthy Living Promoted At Wellness Fair Downtown


For the last 16 years, Mike Do-nelon has been flying by the seat of his pants.

As the founder of the Action Sports Kids foundation (ASK), Donelon has helped many teens and young adults become active in the community, promote skate-board and BMX safety, and give Long Beach youths a positive al-ternative to gangs and street life.

ASK is now launching a web-site to promote its recently gained nonprofit status to continue to en-gage and perform outreach.

“It’s a bit emotional for me be-cause I have been working with the kids hands-on for so long,” Donelon said. “To take this to a new level, we have to have fund-ing. And the website is going to have a great impact.”

Donelon has worked with groups of young adults in the area, and has seen four genera-tions of teens come and go. This fourth generation will be the last he directly works with, he said.

To go along with the new nonprofit status and website, Donelon has set up a panel of ASK board members — some of whom were part of the program as teenagers. He and his board members presented themselves at Tuesday’s City Council meet-ing to introduce the new board and website, and thank the city for their avid support, he said.

“The city has been so support-ive of what we do,” he said. “We are going down there to thank them and let them know that our site is up, what we will be doing

with kids this year, and ask for continued support.” The group is also forming a youth team, which will consist of a group of ASK members young-er than 18 years old, who will help out the organization’s board. ASK’s main objective is to take at-risk youths and get them interested and engaged in the community by hosting art events, park cleanups, teaching safety and giving back. As part of its outreach, ASK youths have worked with autistic children in Long Beach, as well as working in schools and park cleanups to spread the productive change. “We try to connect these kids with programs in the area,” Do-nelon added. “All of our events focus on skate park and street safety. Last year, they partici-pated in an essay contest with the Jefferson Academy. We just want to involve these kids in any edu-cations programs as we can. It’s good to direct them to programs that already exist.” In 1996, Donelon reached out to youngsters hanging around the Belmont Plaza Pool, and began teaching them to have a posi-tive impact on the community, he said. Once a group of children grew up, he’d take a new cluster to mold for the better. “They grow up every four or five years, and then we would scoop up another group to help. The kids who are involved are all local and we are just getting them involved and engaged with the different skate parks around Long Beach.” Visit www.asklongbeach.org.

Nonprofit Action Sports KidsLaunches Website Resource

—Photo courtesy of Action Sports KidsPLACE TO SKATE. Action Sports Kids (ASK) volunteers repaint some equipment that skateboarders will use.


A new $200 million trigger cut is threatening to hit the Califor-nia State University system if

Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiative to provide more state revenue to California public schools fails to pass in the November election, officials said Monday. This potential hit will require the entire CSU system of 23 cam-puses to cancel spring 2013 ad-missions, with the exception of community college transfers who are part of legislation SB 1440, which allows about 500 of these transfers to attend one of eight CSU universities next spring. Those eight campuses ac-cepting these exceptional spring transfers include San Bernardino, Los Angeles, San Francisco, East Bay, Sonoma, Channel Islands, Chico and Fullerton. “This has been an ongoing saga of cuts for several years,” said Assistant Vice Chancellor of Budgets Robert Turnage. “If the CSU waits to see what happens with the election before reaction, it will be too late to close the gap that has opened up in the budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year.” If the tax initiative does not pass, between 20,000 and 25,000 students will be cut from enroll-ment — a 3% decrease from its current enrollment numbers. This is in lieu of further tuition in-creases, officials said. “I think its clear that the toler-ance around the state for fee in-creases is not there,” he contin-ued. “No one seems to like fee increases. It comes down to either

revenue or spending. Either you increase revenue, or if you’re un-able to that, then you cut spend-ing. This is what cutting spending an additional $200 million en-tails.” Across all of the CSU campus-es, there are currently 417,000 students enrolled. The decrease will cut down its population to about 392,000. On top of the admission freeze for spring 2013, all student appli-cants applying for the 2013-2014 school year starting in the fall, will be wait-listed until the out-come of the November election. These student applicants will receive notification on the status of their admission in January and February 2013, Turnage said. If California voters pass the gov-ernor’s tax plan, the universities will enroll its original number of students as planned. “There is still time for things to play out,” he added. “We have several months before we see final legislation on the budget. There’s a great deal of uncertain-ty in many respects around the governor’s budget, but the fact that we’re facing a $200 million trigger cut tells us that there’s no guarantee that this couldn’t grow.” Last year, the CSU system was hit with a $750 million cut to its budget, but if the tax initiative passes, the universities budgets won’t fall any further.


CSU Freezes Spring 2013 Admissions

The water will be shut off on a portion of Atlantic Avenue start-ing at 8 a.m. this Saturday, March 24. A recently installed water main

system can be connected. The area affected is between 68th and 70th streets. The shut off is scheduled to last until ap-proximately 3 p.m.

Neighborhood Water Shut Off Saturday


Beach, the Occupy Long Beach movement shed a light on many of the homeless who reside near Lincoln Park — however, many think gains have been made in that area of town.

“The DLBA’s (Downtown Long Beach Associates) safety guides and staff works closely with the Multi-Service Center’s Continuum of Care, which part-ners with organizations such as Mental Health America and Vil-lages at Cabrillo, to provide out-reach to individuals experiencing homelessness in downtown,” said Mary Coburn, DLBA operation manager.

“Recently the DLBA partnered with Long Beach Connections and other community organiza-tions to conduct a survey of peo-ple experiencing homelessness in Downtown. This survey showed a marked improvement in down-town’s homeless population. In the two years since the survey was first administered, homeless-ness has decreased by 12% in Downtown.”

While some residents have wondered about Second Street’s homeless population, evidence hasn’t been readily available to say there has been any increase, officials and experts said.

Belmont Shore Business Asso-ciation Executive Director Dede Rossi said that she and business owners have noticed maybe a few more people sleeping in walkups of alleyways, but that the problem doesn’t seem dramatically differ-ent from years past.

“If anything, it’s because our

weather has been super, and if you’re going to be anywhere, it may be best to be around here,” she said. Belmont Shore Residents As-sociation President Kurt Borsting said the BSRA has talked with police about options, but there haven’t been a lot of comments on it from residents. “The question does come up occasionally in how to best re-spond, and occasionally there are concerns — especially when it concerns folks doing overnights in residential areas and the prob-lems that can come from that,” he said. “It’s something we’re al-ways mindful of — to help with resources, and anything that is illegal we bring that to law en-forcement, but I don’t think I’ve heard that as an issue of growing concern.” Commander Michael Beckman of the Long Beach Police Depart-ment’s East Division said people who wish to report instances of loitering, trespassing and nui-sance behavior can call 9-1-1 or 435-6711. “To enhance our responsive-ness, callers should be prepared to describe the activity, provide the location of occurrence, and give a physical description of the involved person, including a last known direction of travel, if ap-plicable,” he said. “On those occa-sions where officers contact per-sons experiencing homelessness, our response is often prompted by a number of conditions, such as evidence of a crime, the exis-tence of a victim, or a victim’s wish to either prosecute or to not prosecute. When circumstances dictate that an arrest should be

made, this course is followed. However, in many cases, officers encounter situations where they are only able to refer homeless persons to available social ser-vices and assist them to contact these resources to the best extent possible.” The next city homeless count, which is conducted every two years, will take place in January 2013. Comparing the 2009 and 2011 numbers, there hasn’t been any noticeable difference in Bel-mont Shore, at least, said Elsa Ramos, coordinator of the city’s Multi Service Center. “There is homelessness city-wide, and there are pockets where they tend to reside — but I haven’t heard anything particu-

lar to east trends and rising,” she said. If people run into a homeless person they’d like to help, they can call the center at 733-1147 or go to www.longbeach.gov and search homeless services. With the winter shelter closing, there

will be some strain on services, she added, but the center is almost always able to help as long as the person is willing to work with them. “There are waiting lists, but you can do a good job of being creative,” she said.


Shelter Closes

BY JAQULEEN LARSONSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

On the eve of the Ides of March, Peter Frampton did in-deed “Come Alive” for a packed house of devoted fans — and me, an observer of the madness and convert by his encore. Let me emphasize something: this man filled the Terrace Theater in Long Beach. On a Wednesday. Walking in, I was amazed to see four radio stations broadcast-ing from outside the venue, end-less lines at an endless number of pop-up bars, and a definitive age gap that separated me from, well, everyone else. The show had already started by the time I got to my seat. Framp-ton had the feeble but fit body of an aged rockstar. He flailed rhyth-mically on stage while he proved he could still punish a guitar. His fans never doubted that he lost his stuff. When the lights from the stage were bright enough to cast a glow on the audience, I

saw it in their faces. I was sur-rounded by the Class of ‘75 who sat transfixed by their rock-n-roll god. Rows and rows, levels and levels of middle-aged faces mes-merized by Frampton’s melodies and synth-y solos. The screen behind the band was illuminated with images from Frampton’s younger days. Snapshots of recording sessions, tour buses, festival performances, and old bandmates faded in and out, educating me and helping others to reminisce. Frampton would often break from a two-song set to swap his guitar, take a sip of English tea, and chum it up with the audi-ence. When he started back up, he seemed to be singing his songs to the audience, his family and friends, by sharing a smile, a point to the crowd, or an inflec-tion in his voice that let the fans know he was talking to them and the years they’ve shared. The setlist loosely followed that of the “Frampton Comes Alive!” vinyl, complete with a formal switch to the B-side. The

show culminated in a series of Frampton vs. instrument duels. Once he battled another guitar and the Fender-Rhodes, the leg-end showed off his voice synth skills. That’s when the ladies re-ally lost it. Arms flailed in the crowd and their shrieks of joy and overstimulation rang above the music. By the encore, couples began trickling out to get to beat the crowd in the parking lot or get home to the sitter. But Frampton played on. Women flocked to the stage, rocking and remembering a time when this had all happened be-fore. Their spouses were sprin-kled throughout. They stood by, entertained but nowhere near as enthralled. The band was just freestyling at this point. Framp-ton had to change his shirt. I left while things were still tame. There is no telling the de-bauchery that went down in the hours that followed. I felt that time was sacred. Something special only to be shared with Frampton and his family. They came alive.


Peter Frampton Wows At Terrace Theater

They’re the Big Three of the Baroque era.

That would be Johann Se-bastian Bach, George Friderich Handel and Antonio Vivaldi. And works by these three geniuses made up the program by the Long Beach Camerata Singers at Cov-enant Presbyterian Church one blustery Sunday evening.

The audience for the Camerata seems to have grown, at least as I eyeballed it the other day. That’s a good thing, and artistic director Robert Istad has his group sound-ing great. He also puts together innovative programs.

This particular concert is the culmination of the 38th annual Long Beach Bach Festival, which has included a fascinating recital by Laura Harrison combining pop, jazz and classical selec-tions, an interesting juxtaposition of a contemporary piece, a little Mahler and one of the Branden-burgs arranged for piano quartet, and an evening of jazz at The Wine Bar.

This final concert was kind of a jolly sandwich, with sunny, up-beat works in the Italian style sur-rounding a somber German mas-terpiece. The program opened with Handel’s festive “Laudate Pueri,” with guest soprano Claire Fedoruk contributing some daz-zling coloratura filigree (and a thrilling, and surprising, high note at the end) while the Camer-ata negotiated Handel’s intricate lines with aplomb.

One noticed right off the bat

that the Camerata’s sound just keeps getting better and better, the tenors especially solid and satisfying but everyone sounding terrific. Bach’s Cantata No. 4, “Christ lag in Todesbanden,” is a mi-raculous work, richly composed, deeply emotional and quite mov-ing. When performed as well as it was here, by the Camerata and an excellent bass soloist named Kev-in Long, the results are breathtak-ing. And the Vivaldi Gloria has al-ways been a favorite, a piece that simply reeks of pure joy. Solo-ists from the Camerata more than

held their own alongside Fedoruk, with soprano Janette Anastasia and mezzos Jade Clavesilla and Shannon Kao offering remark-able, professional-quality perfor-mances. A word about the instrumental-ists. Principal cello Erin Breene put in a full day of distinguished continuo work, and it’s a shame that the oboes weren’t named in the program. The oboe solo in “Domine Deus” was lovely. Throughout the evening, the small pick-up orchestra was ex-cellent, supported by Peter Bates at the organ and Na-Young Moon on harpsichord.

Istad and his crew are to be congratulated, for their excellent performances, innovative pro-gramming and audience growth. Let’s hope they can keep up the remarkably high standard they’ve set for themselves. Visit long-beachcameratasingers.org to learn more.

And if you’re reading this, maybe it’s because you like choral mu-sic. If so, you’ll want to check out the performances of Haydn’s monumental “The Creation” by Long Beach Chorale, our other fine local chorus, this weekend at Grace First Presbyterian. Check out longbeachchorale.org.


Camerata Songs Close Bach Festival


BY STEPHANIE MINASIANSTAFF MINASIAN

The field of 27 applicants vy-ing for the empty District 5 seat at the Long Beach Unified Board of Education were narrowed down

to three final candidates on Tues-day. Independent educational con-sultant Nancy Manriquez-Dow-ell, administrator Maria Wil-liams-Slaughter, and homemaker

and volunteer Diana Craighead, were chosen as the final three by the board. A decision for the definitive candidate will be made at a spe-cial meeting at 9 a.m., Friday (to-

day), at 1515 Hughes Way. “We’re proud that 27 people applied for this position and that the screening and interview pro-cess has been very transparent,” said Christopher J. Steinhauser, superintendent of schools for the Long Beach Unified School Dis-trict. “The result is that we have three outstanding finalists who were interviewed publicly today. District 5 and the entire school district will be represented well.” Once appointed, the new board member would complete the re-minder of the District 5 term — set to expire in July 2014. The District 5 seat includes East Long Beach and Lakewood, with Mil-likan and Lakewood high schools set within the district. Manriquez-Dowell, who has resided in District 5 for 27 years, said she decided to apply for the position after seeing her three children go through the district during the last 19 years. She has worked as an employee, a parent and a volunteer at LBUSD. Williams-Slaughter also has seen her children learn at LBUSD schools, and has worked as a Vol-unteer in Public Schools, as well as for the LBUSD Drop-Out Pre-vention Committee, the Twain Leadership Council, the Parent-Teacher Association and for Con-cerned African American Parents. Craighead’s two sons have graduated from Wilson and she currently has a daughter in 10th grade at Millikan. She has been involved on the LBUSD budget advisory committee, the health advisory council, A through G College Entrance Requirements committee, EPIIC committee and the Academic Success Advisory committee. This seat became vacant on Jan. 25, when board member Da-vid Barton resigned to health rea-sons. The rest of the five-member board decided Feb. 7 to fill the vacancy by appointment, rather than host a special election.

Education Board Candidates Narrowed To Three


For at least one extended weekend, toys are taking back the children’s entertainment marketplace. ToyFest West will showcase 650 exhibitors looking to mar-ket a new wave of toys for 2012. The trade show is not open to the public, but will be having its last year in Long Beach this weekend before it moves to Las Vegas. It pairs the Westin Hotel and the Long Beach Convention Center as site hosts. “(Buyers) come to see what is new and sit down to place orders while being able to test out the newest products,” said Fran-ces Mendez, show coordinator. “The exhibitors are manufac-turers. If anyone has invented a game and you want to market it and you have samples and in-ventory, you definitely want to be at this show.” In the past, big-time toy names like Mattel and Hasbro have been a part of the show. The show is regional, so it has a bit of a smaller feel, Mendez said. “Ours is more for the mom and pop shops,” she said. “I know there aren’t too many of those left, but they love to come to our show.” The event will showcase toys of all kinds, from flying objects to board games. Toys will be marketed to all ages, from tod-dlers to teens — although the younger children are where the market is strongest, Mendez said. For more information on the industry-only event, go to the website at www.ToyFestWest.com.

Toy IndustryPlays AtToyFest West


A public celebration of life re-membering Nini Horn is sched-uled for 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at the Steve and Nini Horn Center on the campus of Califor-nia State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd.

Horn passed away Feb. 21, af-ter a long battle with breast can-cer. She was the wife of the late Congressman Steve Horn and a supporter of the arts community in her own right. She was 80 at the time of her death.

During her life, she served on boards of the California Com-munity Foundation, the Greater Long Beach Community Founda-tion and many others. RSVP to 985-7536 or email to [email protected].

Public Celebrates, Remembers Nini Horn’s LifeBY JULIAN BERMUDEZ

ARTS WRITER

With the discovery of the Uni-versity Art Museum’s (UAM) “Collections Kiosk” — a new digital archive of the museum’s holdings available to the pub-lic on site or online — curiosity arose about other online resourc-es of Long Beach museums.

After a few short keystrokes and clicks, a virtual art fair was revealed, illustrating this city’s historic and world-class cultural treasures.

Using the same web interface software as the UAM, the Long Beach Museum of Art’s (LBMA) “Collections Online” is similar in function and navigation. Easy to use and iPad-ready, LBMA’s “Collections Online” features a collection overview and intro-duces visitors to many important collections given to the museum over the years. Significant works by early European Modernists such as Alexej Jawlensky, Vas-ily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Maholy-Nagy and Oskar Fischinger were given by “The Milton Wichner Collection.”

Contemporary American and Latin American artworks given by “The Wilma and Roland Du-quette Collection” include artists such as Peter Alexander, Charles Arnoldi, Billy All Bengston, Wil-fredo Lam, Jose Clemente Oroz-co, Carlos Merida, Michael Todd and Francisco Toledo.

LBMA also boasts works by Karl Benjamin, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Shoji Hamada (a preeminent 20th Century Japa-nese ceramist and folk artist), and furniture by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen. Aside from specific collections, visitors can search LBMA’s holdings in many ways — artists, subject/theme, period, medium, region and/or style; with sub-categories includ-ing religion, nature, food, sculp-tural, functional and decorative.

Although not as flashy or slick as other museum web sites (and only available online), LBMA’s database is rich with information, making it a worthy tool for both research and pleasure.

While the Museum of Latin

American Art (MoLAA) is no stranger to conceptual and groundbreaking exhibits, its on-line presence is somewhat lim-ited. When exploring MoLAA’s collection online, visitors will find information about its perma-nent collection along with a slide-show (with basic tombstone in-formation) featuring eight works from its near 900-item inventory; MoLAA’s “Spotlight” features new acquisitions, including in-depth information about the artist and artwork. The “Artist Listing” is a veri-table “who’s who” within Mo-LAA’s collection and includes the likes of Javier Arevalo, Fer-nando Botero, Vladimir Cora, Kcho, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Zuniga. Approximately 40 artists listed are given links to pages provid-ing in-depth information about the artist, but not necessarily im-ages to their works. Given MoLAA’s exhibits — oftentimes visual powerhouses — and its sophisticated, modern-looking web site, it’s surprising to see the lack of interactivity online, especially as the museum positions itself into an interna-tional institution. Still, something is better than nothing. And, while the neither UAM, LBMA nor MoLAA has a perfect online presence, the fact that these institutions have placed their collections online shows the importance of offering greater visibility of themselves and the artistic movements they represent to the larger world. Hopefully, each museum will evolve their product and, in turn, revolutionize art online. To access LBMA’s Collections Online database, visit www.lbma.org and click on the “Online Col-lections” tab; to see a sampling of MoLAA’s collection, visit www.molaa.org and click the “Collec-tion” tab.

Collections Showcased Online



International sailing stars will converge on Long Beach’s big-gest and most community-friend-ly sailing competition of the year next week. This will be the 48th year for the Congressional Cup, which is presented by the Long Beach Yacht Club. It will host some of the top ranked skippers in the world.

“There are a lot of traditions

involved with it and it is taken very seriously,” said Rich Rob-erts, press officer for the cup. “We have about 300 volunteers helping from the club during the week.” The festivities begin from March 22-24, with the Ficker Cup qualifying event — the win-ner fills out the 10-team bracket of the Congressional Cup. The rest of the competitors for this year’s race will be Ian Williams (ranked No. 1 from Great Brit-

ain), Johnie Berntsson (ranked No. 7 from Sweden), Laurie Jury (ranked No. 11 from New Zea-land), Staffan Lindberg (ranked No. 14 from Finland), Eric Mon-nin (ranked No. 15 from Switzer-land), Simone Ferrarese (ranked No. 17 from Italy), William Tiller (ranked No. 19 from New Zea-land), Taylor Canfield (ranked No. 27 from the U.S. Virgin Is-lands) and Gavin Brady (ranked No. 324 from New Zealand). Williams won the event last year and has returned to defend his championship. The winner receives the coveted Crimson Blazer. The Congressional Cup re-ceived its full name in 1964, when Rear Commodore Bill Dalessi persuaded Congressman Craig Hosmer and Senator Tom Kuchel to sponsor official legislation en-dorsing the name. For about the last 20 years, the race has been known for its Catalina 37 boats,

which organizers said are prime for sailboat racing. “They’re built like tanks or the SUVs of sail-racing,” Roberts said. “They’re taken very good care of. They aren’t that fast, but most importantly, they’re all equal.” Because of the equality of the boats’ construction, they are suit-ed to compare skipper skills. The unique match play components of the races make the cup even more cerebral, he added. For the Congressional Cup, each skipper must race one-on-one against the other nine skip-pers twice. The top four skippers with the best round-robin records move onto the semifinals and then the final two square off in a final — both of which are best two-out-of-three races. “All you have to be is faster than the other guy and using bet-ter tactics,” Roberts said, noting that head-to-head wins matter, not overall times. “It’s a more aggressive race, since you don’t have other boats to care about other than the guy you’re racing against.”

Part of the small-town feel of the race is attributed to the fact that skippers stay with Long Beach families and there are many events during the week to make them feel like part of the community. From 5 to 10 p.m., on Friday March 30, there will be the Sail and Savor, which includes a num-ber of area restaurants serving sample-sizes on the Belmont Vet-erans Memorial Pier. From 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Saturday, March 31, there will be a vendor expo at the pier. Racing days take place start-ing at noon each day from March 27-31. Spectators are encouraged, Roberts said, and there is parking and grandstands at the pier. “They’ve done everything they can to make this easy for people to watch the race,” he said. “You can actually come away with some understanding with what the race is all about. The skippers love it because they get to connect with an audience.” For more information on all the various events and race days, visit www.ConCup.com.

Skippers Sail Congressional Cup

—Gazette file photoSAILING. Two Catalina 37 sail boats race each other near the Belmont Pier at last year’s Congressional Cup race.


Prime Time Business Giving Long Beach’s busi-nesses an opportunity to high-light their services and any job openings available, “Prime Time For Business” segments started Tuesday night at the regular Long Beach City Council meeting. One local business each month now (rotating through each of the council districts) has the op-portunity to make a five-minute presentation during the third council meeting of each month. Their City Council will select the businesses; business owners interested in the program should contact their councilman or coun-cilwoman. “This is the least the City Coun-cil can do to show local business-es that we appreciate that they are doing business in Long Beach,” Fifth District Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske said in a release. “These businesses not only pro-vide tax revenue, they provide jobs and community services that sometimes go unnoticed. Small businesses are the backbone of our economy… I hope the City Council taking time to listen to these businesses will send a mes-sage that we appreciate what they do for our economy.” The first business to take ad-vantage of the opportunity to make a presentation at City Hall was Baja Sonora, a Mexican restaurant with two locations in

Long Beach (in both the Fifth and Seventh districts). The business, which has op-erated in Long Beach for 14 years and has donated more than $30,000 to local schools, spon-sors Parent Teacher Association Mondays and donates 10% of purchases made every Monday to any PTA selected by its custom-ers. The restaurants are located at 2940 Clark Ave. and 3502 Atlan-tic Ave. “Prime Time For Business” is a pilot program that will run through December, highlighting one business in each of the coun-cil districts. At the end of the pilot program, the City Council will evaluate the program and con-sider permanently continuing the segment.

Molina Center Unveiled In December 2011, Molina Healthcare, Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Mo-

lina Center LLC, had closed on its acquisition of a 460,000-square-foot office building at 200 and 300 Oceangate in downtown Long Beach. The building, better known as the Arco Towers, consists of two conjoined fourteen-story of-fice towers on approximately five acres of land. This Friday, March 23, Mo-lina Healthcare is celebrating the renaming of the towers with the reveal of new signage for the Mo-lina Center. The unveiling ceremony, set to take place at 2 p.m., officially introduces the new name for the towers. For the last several years Moli-na Healthcare has leased approxi-mately 155,000 square feet of the 200 Oceangate tower for use as its corporate headquarters and also for use by Molina Healthcare of California, its California health plan subsidiary. The purchase price of the building was $81 million, which was paid with a combination of cash on hand and bank financing at closing. At the time of the acquisition,

Mario J. Molina, president and chief executive office of Molina Healthcare, said that the purchase of both towers will mean Mo-lina Healthcare headquarters will have room to expand into both 200 and 300 Oceangate. “We need to continue to grow right here in Long Beach,” he said. “We just felt we needed ad-ditional space. We were going to run out of space eventually. This will allow us to keep everyone in the same space, which is a beau-

tiful location in downtown Long Beach.” Molina Healthcare, Inc. pro-vides quality and cost-effective Medicaid-related solutions to meet the health care needs of low-income families and individ-uals and to assist state agencies in their administration of the Medic-aid program. Additional information about Molina Healthcare can be found on its website at www.molina-healthcare.com.


even if you don’t understand, it can be interesting and hypnotic.” When the 1960s rolled around, Shankar was invited to play three concerts for the younger genera-tions at the Monterey Pop Festi-val, a concert for Bangladesh and the 1969 Woodstock Festival. “I met a number of musicians

who became friends of mine and helped me a lot,” Shankar said. “They became my students in 1966 during a time when pop and rock music was coming up very strong. That brought me to the younger generation in Amer-ica. With the Woodstock festival in 1969, I became much more known to the younger generation, but I was already playing all over the world.”

Some of his awards and honors include 14 doctorates, the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan, Desikottam, Padma Bhushan of 1967, the Music Council UNES-CO award 1975, the Magsaysay Award from Manila, two Gram-my’s, the Fukuoka Grand Prize from Japan, the Polar Music Prize of 1998 and the Crystal award from Davos, titled “Global Am-bassador.”

The musician’s foundation was founded in 1997 to archive his works, on top of being a re-source for others interested in, or researching Indian music. The foundation also is aspiring to build libraries, classrooms, per-formance spaces and art galleries in California. During this weekend’s perfor-mance, Shankar will be accompa-nied by a few of his students, who

also will play sitar, the fl ute and a one-piece drum from South India. Tickets range from $35 to $70 dollars. To charge by phone, call TicketMaster at (800) 745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com. They can also be bought at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center Main Box Offi ce, at 300 E. Ocean Blvd. For more information, visit www.RaviShankar.org.


Shankar

church leaders, African American advocates, scholars and business professionals in the community, Walton said, who will work and grow to foster a culture of peace. The campaign for ANFVR began about two years ago, af-ter leaders from Interval House attended a conference in Long Beach hosted by the National Institute on Domestic Violence. Despite the amount of shelters available to those in need, com-munity leaders are needed to get involved to see an end to the problem, according to Walton. “We’re looking at the diversity within our community, as well as conveying ways for the greater community to work with this particular culture,” she added. “The idea that domestic violence within in a family, whether it’s another ethnicity, can evolve into other kinds of violence.” In some cases when children grow up in an abusive home, they’re more likely to turn to gangs and to the streets as their “family” when they get older.

“Children see it and don’t know what to do about it,” Wal-ton said. “Some grow up to be a victim or perpetrator. They may grow up in situations where they are dominated and controlled in violent way.” But the signs of domestic vio-lence are not always physical. Abusers are known to call their victims excessively, which can sometimes be mistaken as fl atter-ing attention in the beginning. Abusers also tend to isolate their victims from their friends, family and coworkers and heav-ily scrutinize or question their victims. Money or cars can also be used as a means of control, leading to isolation. “Families with this type of vio-lence, unless they get help, the familiar cycle can go on for gen-erations,” she said. Those who attend event will be treated to a free breakfast, followed by videos, stories of survival from former victims of domestic violence and an intro-duction to ANFVR’s Community Advisory Board. For details about ANFVR or Interval House, call 594-9492.


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