Before Voting, Examine LAUSD’s Measure US

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

LAUSD says it needs the $9 billion bond, Measure US, to renovate and repair its schools.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is asking voters to approve a $9 billion bond, Measure US, in the upcoming November election.

If LAUSD’ Measure US were to pass, it would authorize $9 billion that would have to be paid back — with interest — through local property taxes – that could last up to 35 years.

The district estimates that if the entire bond is issued, it will cost nearly $16 billion to repay.

(This measure is different than State Proposition 2, in which voters are asked to authorized $10 billion in bonds on a state-wide level for renovating schools and is also on the ballot and will be examined tomorrow.)

The LAUSD Board approved the bond on August 7, two days before the deadline to submit local measures for the general election. That meant there was little time for community members or other stake holders to review the details of the bond.

Even though 43% fewer students attend LAUSD schools than two decades ago, the money generated would be used to renovate and repair existing structures.

It is estimated that at least 60% of its facilities are at least 50 years old. LAUSD School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said there are no other resources available. The measure does list schools that could benefit from improvements, but the list is not a guarantee that those projects will be funded.

A Bond Oversight Committee would review the spending and then a project would need to be approved by the LAUSD board.

Some residents might ask about the lottery, which was supposed to contribute money to schools. When voters approved of the lottery, 34 cents of every dollar was slated for education. In 2020, The California State Auditor found the lottery had shorted schools tens of millions of dollars. (https://information.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-112/summary.html)

LAist has provided the following table so that residents can figure the amount of tax he/she would have to pay that is associated with the proposed $9 billion bond if it passes:

To Calculate the impact of Measure US on your property tax

    • Find your property’s assessed value on the L.A. County Assessor’s website.
    • Divide your assessed value by $100,000 and multiply that number by $24.05.
    • The resulting number is the estimate of the annual property tax increase associated with Measure US.
    • Remember: Your property’s assessed value will change, but increases are limited to 2% per year,  except when a property changes ownership or undergoes new construction.

Endorsements:

Daily News “No.” The rushed nature of this measure, Measure US, is an insult to the taxpayers of LAUSD. If LAUSD knew a bond would be forthcoming, they should have had the decency to conduct thoughtful hearings vetting out how such a measure should look like.

Susan Shelly Columnist for Southern California News Group “No.” This is a massive and last-minute $9 billion bond, rushed to the ballot. It would raise property taxes another $25 per $100,000 of assed value on top of the current $128 per $100,000. On an $800,000 house that’s $1,224 per year just for LAUSD school bonds.

L.A. Times: “Yes.”  This $9-billion bond measure is designed to help the Los Angeles Unified School District address the backlog of construction projects and the inevitable maintenance work that will arise in the coming years. Despite concerns that the district rushed this big bond to the ballot, it’s worth supporting because the needs are great, and students deserve safe and welcoming schools.

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Receive a Free Flu Shot this Weekend

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

The Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club will be holding its annual “drive thru” free Flu & Covid Vaccine Clinic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 19. The club is located at 901 Haverford Avenue.

The vaccines will be administered by Pharmacy 986 in collaboration with the Los Angeles Department of Public Health.

The Centers for Disease Control have recommended the updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines and the updated 2024-2025 flu vaccines to protect against severe illness this winter.

The flu season is expected to be similar to last fall and the trivalent flu vaccine is targeting the FluA (H1N1 and H3N2) strains and a FluB strain.

As far as the best time to get vaccinated for the flu, the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse says ideally in September or October.

“We recommend getting the vaccine before the end of October, since we tend to see cases of influenza increase in November, December, January. You want to make sure that you’re protected going into that time of increased influenza circulation,” Rajapakse said.

The vaccines are free for members in the community, and will include infant, regular and senior doses while supplies last. Doctors say it is safe to receive COVID-19 and flu vaccines at the same visit.

Data continues to show the importance of vaccination to protect against severe outcomes of COVID-19 and flu, including hospitalization and death. In 2023, more than 916,300 people were hospitalized due to COVID-19 and more than 75,500 people died from COVID-19. During the 2023-2024 flu season, more than 44,900 people are estimated to have died from flu complications.

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L.A. County Protects the Vote for Criminals

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

 

Many residents may have missed the Los Angeles Country Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk September 24 press release that it was honored for its in-prison voting system for criminals.

Dean C. Logan, the County Clerk, announced that the National Association of Election Officials (Election Center) awarded the RR/CC with the 2024 Professional Practices Independence Award for Outstanding Service and Accessibility for its In-Person Voting in the Jails Program.

“It is an honor to be recognized by the National Association of Election Officials for our program that ensures eligible system-impacted individuals have the opportunity to exercise their fundamental right to vote,” Logan said. “Inclusivity and accessibility are foundational pillars guiding our mission and principles to enhance the voting experience for our voters and the Department in the administration of elections in Los Angeles County.”

Residents may have also missed that when Los Angeles County implemented its new voting model and system, Voting Solutions for All People, in 2020, voting access was expanded to include the “in-person voting experience in jails.”

“When Democracy includes everyone, it makes our communities safer, our policies stronger, and our people more engaged in California’s future,” said Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, who has advanced legislation to expand voting options for system-impacted individuals. “We are investing in our communities when we make sure every Californian who is eligible to vote has that opportunity.”

In the 2024 Presidential Primary election, in-person “voting experience was in all County jails for the first time.”

The in-person experience will be available to all eligible inmates again in all County jail facilities for the November 5 election.

Have the inmates been polled to see if they prefer George Gascon over law-and-order candidate Nathan Hochman? Do inmates think that Prop. 47 should remain in place because it would provide less penalties than the proposed Prop. 36?

(Editor’s note: If criminals are in jail for breaking the law, why should they be allowed to vote, until they can prove they are members of the community that can follow laws.)

Inmates in L.A. County can vote in jail.

According to the California Secretary of State:

Persons with a prior felony conviction who can register to vote:

  • In local detention facility:
    • serving a misdemeanor sentence (a misdemeanor never affects your right to vote)
    • Because jail time is a condition of probation (misdemeanor or felony)
    • Serving a felony jail sentence
    • Awaiting trial
  • On parole
  • On probation
  • On mandatory supervision
  • On post-release community supervision
  • On federal supervised release
  • A person with a juvenile wardship adjudication

Persons with a current felony conviction who cannot register and vote:

Currently serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony in:

  • State prison
  • Federal prison
  • A local detention facility*

*California Penal Code section 2910 allows the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to make agreements with local governments to house felons in local detention facilities. A person serving a state prison sentence who is housed in a local detention facility under these circumstances is not allowed to register and vote. Additionally, a person in a local detention facility who is awaiting transfer to a state or federal prison following a felony conviction is not allowed to register and vote.

 

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Bank Heist Took First Place in the Scribe Category

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

At the writing contest ceremony, actors Bill Jones and Chrsitine Kludjian entertained the writers with the acting of the stories. Two of the Grade 7 & 8 winners were on hand to receive their prizes.

 

The annual summer youth writing contest winners were announced at a ceremony at the Palisades Library on October 9. The contest, with the theme “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to . .. ” opened in June and closed on September 5. Submissions were judged on creativity, originality, effort, plot and theme.

The top three stories in each of the categories were read/acted by professional actors Bill Jones and Christine Kludjian. Mr. X, the main character in The Bank Heist, was so well played by Jones, it was truly an entertaining story and presentation.

In the Scribe category (Grades 7 and 8), first place went to Rohan Mukhopadhyay for The Bank Heist. Taking second was Syndey Lee and third went to Hudson Marks.

The Bank Heist

By ROHAN MUKHOPADHYAY

Mr. X threw open the front door to his house and stepped outside. The sun was shining, birds were singing, and it was a beautiful, spring day.

“Bleh, what a terrible day” muttered Mr. X, “At least I’m going to rob the bank today.”

He tightened his trench coat around his tall frame and jammed his hat onto his bald head. Mr. X had been planning this bank heist for a long time. For the past year, he had been learning martial arts, studying safe cracking, and doing 10,000 pushups a day. He was especially proud of his stealth skills. He had been practicing sneaking into buildings by hiding in potted plants. He had even legally changed his name to Mr. X to remain anonymous.

As he set off down the street towards the bank, Mr. X noticed a cat stuck at the top of a tree. A little old lady was begging people to help rescue her cat, who was meowing pitifully. Mr. X’s eyes gleamed when he saw that the cat was wearing a sparkling diamond-studded collar. He took out his chainsaw and chopped down the tree.

Mr. X caught the fluffy cat as it fell, but to his dismay he realized the collar was fake. He threw the cat in the air in frustration, and it landed on the old lady’s head. She thanked him, but Mr. X didn’t hear her over his grumbling.

As he continued walking, Mr. X came across a little boy who had dropped his ice cream cone on the ground. The frazzled ice cream cart owner was pleading with the boy to stop crying.

“Kid, I would give you a whole tub of ice cream if I could just open this lid, but it’s jammed,” he said as he struggled with the cart.

Mr. X decided that a scoop of ice cream would hit the spot, so he quickly grabbed the ice cream cart and pried open the lid with his safe-cracking crowbar. He grabbed a tub of strawberry ice cream, served himself a scoop and then tossed the tub at the boy. The kid and ice cream vendor shouted their thanks, but Mr. X ignored them and kept walking.

As he approached the bank, Mr. X found his path blocked by a mover who was struggling to carry a huge couch across the sidewalk. The mover had injured his back and was barely able to lift the couch. Mr. X was annoyed that the sidewalk was blocked, so he grabbed the injured mover, threw him onto the couch and threw them both into a nearby house with its door open.

“Thank you” yelled the mover weakly, but Mr. X didn’t hear him as he stormed down the path.

When Mr. X reached the bank, he noticed that there were FBI agents surrounding the building, and the alarms were blaring.

“Oh no,” he thought, “Someone else is robbing the bank!” Mr. X was infuriated that someone had beat him to his diabolical plan, “Don’t they know that I’m the criminal mastermind in this town?” he fumed.

Mr. X decided to teach them a lesson. He used his expert stealth skills and blended in with the potted plants to sneak into the bank. Mr. X crept up behind the robbers as they exited the vault. He quickly karate chopped one robber and drop kicked the other to knock them out. He grabbed the bags of loot and used his dynamite to blast a hole to escape.

When Mr. X. emerged into the daylight, he ran smack into the bank manager and FBI agents. They all stared at each other in shock, their mouths agape.

Mr. X started mumbling excuses and trying to hide the loot. Suddenly, the cat, the old lady, the little boy, the ice cream cart owner, and the mover all came running around the corner.

“There you are, thank you so much for helping us” they said to Mr. X. As they began explaining how Mr. X had helped them, the FBI agents entered the bank vault and found the robbers. The bank manager said, “And now he has stopped a bank heist. He has saved the day.”

Mr. X smiled awkwardly as everyone thanked him profusely. “Now,” said the bank manager, “Let’s make sure everything is accounted for.” He began opening the bags and counting the money. When he got to the last bag, he yelled “Wait a minute, what’s this?”

In the bag, instead of the loot, they found a chainsaw and a crowbar. The FBI agents ran to their car only to realize that it was missing. They looked up in shock, but Mr. X had disappeared, leaving a trail of potted plants in his wake.

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Take Time to Nominate ‘Citizen’ and ‘Sparkplug’ Activists for Annual Awards

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Skydivers start the annual 4th of July Parade.
Photo: RICH SCHMITT

Almost every year since 1947, a Pacific Palisades resident has been honored as Citizen of the Year. That person is selected for his or her outstanding volunteer service, underscored by a recent notable accomplishment that resulted in a substantial benefit to the Palisades community. The recipient must be an adult resident of the Palisades (including Santa Monica Canyon).

The event was sponsored annually by the Palisadian-Post until 2013, when the new owner elected to discontinue the tradition.

Fortunately, in 2014, under President Barbara Kohn, the Community Council stepped up to keep the tradition alive. Several local groups including the American Legion, Caruso Affiliated, DLA Piper, Huntington Palisades Property Owners, Keller Williams and the Palisades Highlands Presidents Council helped sponsor the dinner, which saluted attorney Rob Weber for his multi-year leadership of PAPA, the volunteer committee that organizes the Fourth of July parade, concert and fireworks show.

The Community Council is now soliciting nominations for the 2024 Citizen of the Year.

2024 Citizen of the Year

CTN thinks it is time that Matt Rodman is recognized as Citizen of the Year. He stepped up to lead the PAPA (Palisades Americanism Parade Association) in 2018 and has volunteered and headed the organization ever since. He even managed to arrange events during Covid. The volunteer hours he spends every year so that this tradition continues should be recognized.

Matt and Rene Rodman at the Fourth of July parade. Rodman is president of the group of volunteers that organize the parade.
Photo: Craig Weston

GOLDEN SPARKPLUGS:

Golden Sparkplugs are honored for igniting ideas and projects into community action that benefit Palisadians. The project must have been initiated, in progress or completed during the current or previous calendar year. Adults and youth are eligible, and must either own real property in, reside in or operate a business in the Palisades at the time services were rendered.

In the case of both awards, the accomplishment must have been voluntary and not related to the nominee’s business or occupation.

CTN can suggest several deserving Sparkplugs.

Martha Hunter
Photo: RICH SCHMITT/CTN

  1. Martha Hunter, who has been volunteering at Theatre Palisades for the past 20 years. In 2013, she started Palisades Actors Troupe, which routinely allows Palisades residents the opportunity to act scenes with others. During Covid she kept PAT alive on Zoom and every December, the group presents a radio play for the community, which is a free event. She is a volunteer, and also helps produce numerous shows during the year—which means she spends time ensuring that the show goes forward – no compensation, other than her satisfaction and that of the communities.

 

 

2. Another Sparkplug to consider are the people who started the Palisades Thanksgiving Turkey Trot in 2012. Annually, it provides residents with the opportunity to meet and have a leisurely run through the El Medio bluffs before people settle down to feast on a Thanksgiving Dinner. Proceeds from the race go to a nonprofit. Event founders were David Houston and David O’Connell.

Photo: RICH SCHMIT/CTN

3. Another name to consider posthumously is Michael Terry. For years, he worked as a volunteer for the NEXT garden, a xeriscape garden, on Temescal Canyon Road, weeding, and trying innovative methods to ensure native plants would thrive.

4. Also consider Cindy Simon and John Alle, the local graffiti busters in Pacific Palisades. This editor has seen emails in which they share the best ways to take graffiti off buildings, rocks and walls. This is volunteer work they do consistently, to ensure that if graffiti pops up, it is almost instantly wiped out.

5. Carlos Rodriquez is an unsung hero with the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness. Although he is paid by the Huntington Homeowners Association to help keep the bluffs area clean, the amount of time he volunteers to help haul out trash at other abandoned homeless sites is amazing. This editor has been on numerous cleanups with him and his “muscle” is necessary to carry some of the items out of hidden campsites, to ensure no one comes back. He has helped load up truckloads of junk on his own time to keep this community pristine.

PRIDE OF THE PALISADES:

Okay. Enough already. It is time this group, which ensured that HO!HO!HO! a seven-decade tradition in Pacific Palisades has continued, is honored. When the Chamber of Commerce abruptly dropped the event in 2018, local residents led by Head Elf Lou Kamer, organized to keep the event alive.

The group even managed to hold HO!HO!HO! during Covid, with Santa and Mrs. Claus sitting on chairs, allowing people in cars to drive by and see the “magical” figures.  In 2020, CTN wrote that we hoped “that these residents are recognized for their heroic efforts pulling Ho!Ho!Ho! together:  Lou Kamer, Chase Holiday, Rosalie Huntington, Buddy Chancellor, Rena Repetti, Lisa Glantz, Heather Lyle and Michael Kafka.” Some of the volunteers have been replaced by others, but the core group has already started planning for the 2024 HO!HO!HO! They are all volunteers; they’ve kept a town tradition alive and annually they spend hours planning and executing the event.

For heaven’s sakes, it’s time they were recognized.

Although this editor has suggested a few names, there are certainly other worthy residents this year—it is up to you to get your selection to the PPCC committee. Let’s recognize those who have gone above and beyond.

Nominations should be submitted to [email protected] or to [email protected]. The deadline is 8 p.m., Saturday, October 26.  Visit: pacpalicc.org and click on the tab for Citizen of the Year and Sparkplug Awards.

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Will Rogers Movie Deal Includes Popcorn and a Drink: Oct. 17

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Bill Hamm, the interpretative director at the Will Rogers Historic State Park, invites residents to a screening of the 1934 Will Rogers movie Judge Priest at the Bay Theater at 1035 Swarthmore.

The movie, directed by John Ford, will screen at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 17. It is only $10 a ticket, but you receive free popcorn and a soft drink. High school and college students are free with identification.

Will Rogers was the number one box office star in 1934 -yet few have seen one of his movies. The good news is Will’s films gave some of the first opportunities for Black actors, including Hattie McDaniel, Lincoln Perry and Bill Robinson, who appear in costarring roles in his films.

The film was a success at the box office. It was one of Fox’s biggest hits of the year (five of the studio’s seven big hits starred Rogers).

In 1998, Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader, included the film in his unranked list of the best American films not included on the AFI Top 100.

As the hero of Irvin S. Cobb’s classic stories, the title character William “Billy” Priest is a widowed judge (and proud Confederate veteran), played by Rogers, who uses common sense, a laid-back air and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in 1890 Kentucky—and now faces his toughest case yet

In reviews, the film was dubbed “extreme racism,” by one critic, but yet another wrote “Terrific cast, Will Rogers does an excellent job in a typical laid back role for him. Very well written, short and to the point with a good moral. Interesting direction by John Ford.”

Another wrote it’s best “to view this as a historical artifact. . . .Stepin Fetchit and Hattie McDaniel are in the film, and although Will Rogers treats them like he does any other character in the film (perhaps overtly so), they do embody alarming and exaggerated racist stereotypes. However, the overall feel of the film remains good-natured.”

Hamm wrote, “black performers parts were often stereotypical and relegated to playing servants. Before the screening there will be a panel of film experts, Randy Haberkamp, Brianna Brown, Dylan Brody, with Moderator Larry Nemeck, to discuss early 1930’s sound films and provide some context for the era.

Residents are invited to come and see why Will Rogers was one of the nation’s most popular movie stars of the twentieth century.

To register: click here.

 

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Allied Artists Present Annual Art on the Green Show

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Allied Artists will hold an art show at the Village Green on October 20.

The Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore, whose motto is “Painting and Preserving the Santa Monica Mountains” will hold its 7th Annual Art on the Green Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Sunday, October 20, at Pacific Palisades Village Green, 15290 Sunset Boulevard.

Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore is a 20-year-old organization of local fine artists that paint representational art of the Santa Monica Mountains and beaches to promote appreciation of our environment.

The exhibit will feature many local artists displaying original, representational landscape and seascape paintings of the Santa

Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and National, and other Southern California National, State and local parks.

A portion of all sales supports the Palisades Village Green and local and national conservation organizations. The artists’ group also collaborates with national and local agencies such as National Wildlife Federation, #SaveLACougars, Mountains Restoration Trust, Western National Parks Association, National Park Service and King Gillette Visitor Center to present art shows and raise funds to help preserve the mountains and beaches.

Artists also support conservation and maintenance of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The 156,000-acre recreation area stretches from Runyon and Franklin Canyons in Hollywood to Point Mugu State Park in Ventura County and contains more than 500 miles of trails including the 67-mile-long backbone trail that follows the crest of the coastal mountains from Will Rogers State Historic Park to Point Mugu State Park.

In addition to sponsoring art shows, the group also holds free monthly paint-outs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the second Saturday of the month. A painting demonstration and friendly critique are usually held at the paint-outs. The free paint-outs are open to any artist and any media and at any skill level. Contact the allied artists at www http://allied-artists.com for more information.

 

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Book Donations Will Once Again Be Accepted

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Books that are donated by residents are then categorized by volunteers and sold during a book sale to raise funds for the library.

Donate books on Wednesdays and Saturdays in October and November through November 23. Gently read books will once again be accepted INSIDE the Palisades Library, 861 Alma Real.

Volunteers will be available to accept gently read books between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Donation days are: October 16, 19, 23, 26 and 30, and November 2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20 and 23.

Friends of the Library’s Seem Wolsefer said “Please note that we can only accept books in very good condition. Books should not be written in or highlighted or show signs of excessive wear and tear.

“We cannot accept magazines, textbooks, CDs, DVDs, encyclopedias or library books,” Wolsefer said and added, “Donating items that cannot be sold in our book sale puts extra work on our volunteers who then have to find other places that can accept the books.”

REMINDER: Please do not leave book donations at the library other than the specified days and times. Do NOT drop off donations when volunteers are not present.

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Taylor Takes First Place in the Scrawlers Category

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Actors Bill Jones and Christine Kludjian acted out the winning stories from fifth and sixth grade authors at the ceremony on October 9 at the Palisades Library.

 

The annual summer youth writing contest winners were announced at a ceremony at the Palisades Library on October 9. The contest, with the theme “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to . .. ” opened in June and closed on September 5. Submissions were judged on creativity, originality, effort, plot and theme.

The top three stories in each of the categories were read/acted by professional actors Bill Jones and Christine Kludjian. “Writers” are generally thrilled to hear their words come alive and Jones and Kludjian joked they’ve been reading the winning stories “about 40 years.”

The event was extremely entertaining, as Jones and Kludjian dramatized and found humorous moments in each story.

The winners in the Scrawlers category (Grades 5 & 6) was Scarlett Taylor, who took first, and Ella Kervin, who took second. (Editor’s note: the stories are not edited, by reprinted as they were entered in the contest.)

A Voice of Encouragement

By SCARLETT TAYLOR

I’m never bored when I’m on my skateboard. The dirty white wheels tell a story– practicing a single trick dozens of times until I get it right. I was told I couldn’t do it, that I should try something more for a girl like me.

“What about gymnastics or ballet?” my teacher asked me. But I ignored her. I ignored the people and the voices in my head that were telling me to stop. To “be realistic.”

“It’s a phase,” my friend said when I started. A five-year phase? I don’t think so.

The voices in my head got louder, and I felt hopeless. But I stuffed those feelings down and acted strong. At least I tried to. And I kept going. My knee pads became a part of me. The skate park became my second home. I practiced everyday, deep in the zone. Nothing could stop me. Or so I thought.

And then I fell. Boom. There I was. Laying on the ground, stars spinning above me in the summer afternoon. I saw someone pointing at me and laughing, sticking out his finger. I could hear his muffled voice: “I knew she couldn’t do it.”

I felt my cheeks go hot and red. Once my dizziness lifted away, I could see that he was actually reaching out his hand to help me.

“Are you okay?” asked a boy.  “Yeah, I’m okay,” I said as he pulled me up from the ground. “I’m Caleb,” he said. “I’ve seen you skating here. You’re pretty good.”

I knew he didn’t mean it. No one thinks I’m good. But I reluctantly pushed out a “thank you” and walked away. However, his compliment lingered in my head. I was not used to those words. Was he being genuine? Usually, fellow skaters only talk to me when they’re asking who I’m borrowing my board from. They can’t imagine a girl skating herself.

The next day, I went back to the skate park, bruises still on my knees. The first person I saw was Caleb. He seemed as if he was waiting for someone. Strange. And then a funny thing happened on the way toward him. We locked eyes and he nodded with a smile. I stepped onto my board with a boost of confidence. His words, “you’re pretty good,” still lingered in my head.

And I started to skate.

When I’m on my board, I feel like I’m flying. This time, I was soaring.  “That was incredible!” Caleb shouted as I slowed to a stop. And I smiled because this time I knew he meant it.

“You know, Caleb added, “you were really born to be a skater.” And that was all it took. One person said I’m good enough.

One person made me feel like I could achieve my dream. One person made me believe in myself. And that one person overpowered all the people who told me I could never be a skater. A funny thing happens when someone believes in you.

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Help Vittorio Celebrate “Throwback to 1984”

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Sue Pascoe

Vittorio owners Mercedes, Vanessa and Sabrina invite you to help them celebrate 40 years in business with a “Throwback to 1984” menu.

That’s right. On Saturday, October 19, all restaurant goers will pay 1984 prices. A house sale is $5, lasagna is $7, baked pasta is $7, stuffed eggplant is $11 and chicken parmigiana is $12. This menu is only available until the food runs out and people are reminded, “Please be kind, and tip your servers according to 2024 prices.”

This menu will only be dine-in only. No takeout, no delivery.

There is a limit of 90 minutes on tables of 2 to 4 people. Larger parties are available by request only.

Reservations are required. Call (310)-459-9316/(310) 459/3755 or email [email protected] .

“Our family and amazing team would like to thank you for keeping us here, and for the 40 amazing years of being a part of the family,” the owners said.

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