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COMMUNITYNEWS Hawaiian Gardens Council Reviews Storm Drain Master PlanBy Jerry Bernstein

The Hawaiian Gardens City Council reviewed the city’s Storm Drain Master Plan

[SDMP] at its Feb. 24 meeting with a presentation by Norris-Repke Engineers Inc.

Project Engineer Ludwig Smeets with Norris-Repke, said the objectives of the master plan is to provide the City with a comprehensive long-term plan for improvements to the city’s drainage facilities and provide the level of flood protection as recommended by Los Angeles County and develop a cost effect plan.

This entailed information gathering and field reviews including meetings with City staff, the County of Los Angeles, and the Cities of Lakewood, Long Beach and Cypress to obtain

Members of the Artesia-Cerritos Soroptimists take time out from preparing for the opening of the 17th Annual Monte Carlo Night held Mar. 7 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

ABC School Board Adopts Mid-Year BudgetBy Jerry Bernstein

The ABC School Board adopted a $165 million budget for the fiscal

year 2008-9. This reflects approximately $16.5 million in state revenue cuts.

Superintendent Dr. Gary Smuts said, “When this year’s state budget was adopted it was 88 days late. The day after it was adopted, we were told the budget was out of balance and we would be faced with a mid-year adjustment that eventually came on Feb. 19—about seven months after the fiscal year began. He said school districts were finally told how much money was cut from this year’s already spent categories with only 4 months left in the school year.

In June of 2008, the ABC School Board adopted a budget that trimmed $1.25 million. “ Our mid-year cuts for 2008-09

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By Jerry Bernstein

A college student center usually has students who are studying, eating lunch or having a snack, or just visiting. Last Saturday, Mar. 7, the student center at Cerritos College

was the site for the 2009 Chinese Spring Festival celebrating The Year of the Ox, presented by Cerritos College Chinese

Culture Association of Southern California, affiliated with the Cerritos Chinese School.

Highlight of the event was a Royal Fashion Show coordinated by Olympia Chen and Ellis Fu. Choreography

was by Linda Yao. A total of 14 dances were performed, including a Lion

Dance , Taiwan Aboriginal Dance, Little Drummer and a Yuan Chi Dance all performed by Chinese School students. Other performances included a Girl Quartet Dance by the First Evangelical Church of Cerritos, Lily’s Pond Dance by the

Ling’s Dance Academy, Kung Fu Panda by Hua Mei Tau Chi Wushu Education Center, Spring Sewason Dance and Red Coral

Dance performed by Ling’s Dance Academy and singing by the Cerritos Chinese Senior Choir and the Voice of Little Ariang.

Workshops included Mah Jeong, Calligraphy, Dice Game, Paper Lanterns and Paper Cuts.

Program coordinators were Danita Kurtz, Holly Bogdanovich, Cindy Yen Chen and Jim Chang, with the latter two emceeing the

program.

Chinese Spring Festival Celebrates Year of the Ox at Cerritos College

Dressed in historic costumes Community members gave the audience attend-ing the Chinese Festival held in the Cerritos College Student Center Mar. 7 a look at the fashions throughout China’s history.

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By Jerry Bernstein

The Soroptimist Interna-tional of Artesia-Cerritos held its 17th annual Monte

Carlo Night Mar. 7 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Theme for the evening was Night on the Nile. This year the So-roptimists raised approximately $44,000 Co-Chairs were Mela-nie Broad and Gail Reidy who thanked all those who participat-

ed in making the event success-ful. President Tammy Cannon expressed the Club’s appreciation to local businesses and attendees for their donations and support.In addition to the colorful theme, a buffet was catered by Turnip Rose with added dinner seating. There were ca-sino-type games with donated prizes totaling in the thousands of dollars. Monte Carlo is the major fund-

raiser for the local chapter of Soroptimist International..Funds raised by the chapter benefit many charities, includ-ing Community Family Guid-ance Center, a non-profit mental health center serving Los Ange-les County that provides coun-seling for emotionally disturbed children as well as child abuse victims and their families, Su

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Bruce Barrows Named Cerritos Mayor

Members of the City Council present plaque to outgoing Mayor Jim Edwards at May-oral Transition held Mar. 11 in recognition of his year as Mayor of Cerritos for 2008-9. They are (l-r) Councilmember Laura Lee, Mayor Pro Tem Joseph Cho, Mayor Bruce Barrows, Edwards, and Councilmember Carol Chen.

It was standing room only in the Cerritos Council Chambers Mar. 3 for the “changing of the guard” when outgoing Mayor Jim Edwards presented the Mayor’s gavel to Bruce Barrows. His colleagues on the Council elected Councilmember Joseph Cho Mayor Pro Tem.

By Jerry Bernstein

The Artesia City Council approved the first reading of a water conservation plan at its Mar. 9 meeting calling for permanent restrictions on the use of potable water. The ordinance is based on those adopted by Los Angeles County for unincorporated areas and by the Metropolitan Water Dis-trict.

The new measures prohibit:Watering lawns and landscapes more

than once per day and is prohibited be-tween the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. ex-cept by hand-held bucket, a hand-held hose equipped with a positive self-closing water shut-off nozzle or device, or for short peri-ods of time for the express purpose of ad-justing or repairing an irrigation system.

Watering lawns and landscapes using steam rotator-type or gear driven sprin-klers is limited to 15 minutes per day, per station. Watering lawns and landscapes using steam rotator-type or gear-driven sprinklers is limited to 15 minutes per day/

per station. All other types of sprinklers are limited to 10 minutes per day. This does not apply to irrigation systems that exclu-sively use very low-flow drip type of ir-rigation systems when no emitter produces more than two gallons of water per hour and weather based controllers or stream rotor sprinklers that meet a 70 percent ef-ficiency standard.

Watering that causes excessive water flow or runoff onto adjoining sidewalks, driveways, streets, alleys, gutters or ditch-es is prohibited.

Washing hard or paved surfaces is prohibited, except when necessary to al-leviate safety or sanitary hazards, and then only by use of a hand-held bucket, or hose equipped with a positive self-closing water shut-off device, or low-volume, high pres-sure cleaning machine equipped to recycle any water used.

Excessive loss of water due to breaks or leaks or other malfunctions for a period of time after the break and/or leak should be reasonably corrected no more than 48 hours after receiving notice from the City,

is prohibited.Operating a decorative water feature

that does not use re-circulated water is pro-hibited after three months following the ef-fective date of the ordinance.

Washing vehicles is prohibited, ex-cepted by use of a hand-held bucket or a hand-held hose equipped with a posi-tive self-closing water shut-off nozzle or device. The restriction does not apply to commercial car wash facilities.

Eating and drinking establishments, unless expressly requested by customers, are prohibited providing drinking water. First time violators of the plan will be is-sued a warning prior to issuance of a no-tice of violation and the imposition of civil fines.

In other business the Council approved a an amendment to the city code to include “community halls” as a principal use in a single family residential [R-1] zone and approved a design for an expansion to an existing community hall located at 11903 Ashworth Avenue in a R-1 zone.

Mayor Sally Flowers inquired if the

Artesia City Council Approves First Reading on Water Conservation Planamendment would mean an owner could convert his/her house into a community hall. City Attorney Kevin Ennis replied no. Only buildings built before 1959 in an R-1 zone at the time the city was in-corporated and used for a community hall are affective. The amendment will permit such buildings to be rehabilitated.

The Council continued a public hear-ing on a Planning Commission denial for a variance and conditional use permit permitting the sale of alcoholic beverages at an existing service station located at 16725 Pioneer Blvd. in the Commercial General [C-G-] Zone. Seeking the appeal is Ed Pouldar, Pioneer Chevron.

In denying the conditional use permit and variance, the Planning Commission said approval would open the door for oth-er gas stations to apply for beer and wine licenses.

Alley VacatedIn other business the council approved

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Celebrating 50 Years of service to Our Business Community

Martinez, Jr., Ph.D., Superinten-dent/President of Rio Hondo College was named one of the Top 25 Latino in Educa-tion by Latino Leaders Magazine in the September 2008 issue. The publication is distributed eight times per year throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The magazine features interviews with major Latino players in all fields of expertise with editorials that focus on social, politi-cal, and business leaders. Other educators selected for this honor include France Cordova, Presi-dent, Purdue University; Elsa A. Murano, President, Texas A & M University; and J. Michael Ortiz, President California State Polytechnic University. “The Board of Trustees extends our congratulations to Dr. Martinez for this much deserved honor,” said Angela Acosta-Salazar, president of the Rio Hon-do College Board of Trustees. “We are very pleased with our decision to appoint Dr. Martinez as the eighth Superintendent/President of Rio Hondo College, for his accomplishments and for his commitment to meeting the needs of our community.” The magazine praised Dr. Marti-nez for his commitment to creating and fa-cilitating collaboration within the college itself, and with the communities it serves. They describe him as being focused on all of the elements of student success,

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Captain Michael Rothans Receives Champions of Exploring Award

Learning for Life, an affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America honored Michael Rothans, Captain of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Pico Rivera Station with the Champions of Exploring Award on Tuesday, November 18, at the Whittier Radisson, Whittier, California. Learning for Life serves young men and women, between 14 and 20 years of age, who participate in Explor-ing, part of the program’s career educa-tion activities. Its purpose is to instill core values that prepare participants in making ethical choices which help them to achieve their full potential throughout life. The organization recognizes com-munity leaders whose commitment to the principles of Exploring is exemplary and whose personal and professional charac-ter lend themselves to the core values of Learning for Life. Learning for Life Director, Greg Salce stated, “Captain Rothans’ commit-ment to public safety and civic service has made him well-deserving of this award. As this year’s recipient, he has been instrumental in positively affecting thousands of young people in Los Ange-les and surrounding communities through his support of Learning for Life School-based programs.” Captain Rothans has been associ-ated with the sheriff’s department since 1984 and was assigned to the Pico Rivera station in 2004 where he was promoted to Captain in 2006 and serves 100,000 residents in the City of Pico Rivera and unincorporated areas of Whittier. Rothans has been an executive board member of Learning for Life since 2004 and was Chairman of the Los Angeles Area Learn-ing for Life Exploring Division from 2004 through 2007. He was also the recipient of the LA Sheriff’s Department’s Dis-tinguished Service Award in 1997; the Exemplary Service Award in 2001 and 2005, and the Meritorious Service Award in 2008. According to Salce, in the Los

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5th Annual Community Business and Health Expo. A huge success.

Salsa contest winners

The Salsa contest drew 10 contestants this year. The winners from left are Third Place Ronnie Winans $50.00, Second Place Diana Aguayo $75.00 and for the second year in a row Teresa Martinez won the top prize of $150.00

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Judges for the Salsa Tasting Contest were, from the left, Director Judy Gilleland -Tri-Cities ROP, Director Vera Diaz Powers - John R. Diaz & Associates, Director and

Event Chair Alex Saulus - HealthFirst Medical, Director David Briano - State Farm In-surance, Chamber President Koko Judge - Crowne Plaza Hotel and Ambassador Omar

Martinez - Farmers Insurance

The Pico Rivera Chamber of Commerce held its 6th Annual Community Business & Health Expo on November 5, 2008 at Pico Park 9528 Beverly Blvd. in Pico Rivera. This years theme was: “The Chamber is 50 and Still Red Hot”! Over 40 exhibitors were at the event that was very well attended by both residents and businesses.

Platinum Sponsors were: ALMA Family Services, Vernola Towing and Washington Mutual-Chase. Gold Sponsors were: HealthFirst Medical and Crowne Plaza. Silver Sponsors were: Bright Health Physicians, AltaMed Health Ser-vices and Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill. Exhibitors offered services such as: blood pressure tests (HealthFirst Medical), bone density readings (MD Care & PR Clinica Medica Familiar), glaucoma testing (Lion’s Club of Pico Rivera), And CareMore Medical offered free flu shots. Food vendors: Café N Stuff, Casa Gamino, Edible Arrangements, Magic Bakery and Java Jo’z. offered tastes of their cuisines. Downey Plumb-ing, Heating & Air Conditioning and

Central Basin Municipal Water Dis-trict offered water to all attendees. The “Salsa Tasting Contest” brought out 10 local residents: Linda Martinez, Teresa Martinez, Ronnie Wi-nans, Maria Juarez, Hilda Juarez, Hilda Rodarte, Diana Aguayo, Mary Conchola, Rocio Davalos and Flor Osorio. The 3rd place winner of $50 was Ronnie Winans; the 2nd place winner of $75 was Diana Aguayo and the 1st place winner of $150 was Teresa Martinez (second time in a row). 50 Chili’s (door prize tickets) and numerous door prizes donated by the exhibitors went to very happy attendees. The 50/50 raffle of $150 went to a lucky winner and the best decorated table win-ner of a $100 gift card to Staples was Edible Arrangements. Congratulations to all the winners.

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President’s MessageNovember’s elections have come and

gone, and we are heading quickly toward the holiday season.

It seems like everyone I talk to can’t believe that it is almost the end of another year. We are all busy trying to see how we can fit all the events into our schedules, as well as into our budgets and still have a great holi-day! On behalf of the Norwalk Chamber of Com-merce, I would like to extend best

wishes for a healthy, successful, and joy-ous Holiday.

As we approach the final weeks of 2008, we are busy planning our chamber events for 2009. We need to know what you would like to see more of next year. Every suggestion we receive from our membership is valued and welcomed. To better be able to serve you, we need to know what you enjoyed attending and what you felt we could improve upon. Hearing from our membership on how we can be a greater value to yourself and your business is crucial to our chamber. The more input we have from our membership, the more effective our 2009 will be.BUT WATCH OUT FOR 2009!!! Mark your calendars to GET INVOLVED IN THE JANUARY 2009 NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES!! NETWORK LUN-CHEON, THURSDAY JANUARY 22ND.

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Message from the Membership Services Directorby Bryana Mason

It’s typical for the vast majority of small businesses to be local not only in location but in marketing focus. The wider your marketing base, the more people you are likely to reach. In hard times, looking be-yond the regular geographical boundaries of your business is good business. Do not be afraid to market on a larger scale, but while utilizing cost-efficient marketing.

When a recession or other difficult times hit, the marketing function of a busi-ness is usually the first to go. Remember with less advertising and marketing, the funnel of incoming prospects is reduced creating even more revenue decreases and setting up a vicious cycle that you do not want to get caught in. One key to salvage any business in hard times isn’t to reduce your marketing activities but to replace them with low-budget marketing. Low-budget marketing included tactics such as PR, NETWORKING, PUBLIC SPEAK-ING, AND MORE. Get involved in the community, for example, join your local Chamber of Commerce, these organiza-tions are not in it for themselves, but for you and the future of your business. They want to help you create contacts and busi-ness relationships with other business own-ers in your area.These meetings can create strategic partnerships that can help further your business and clientele base. This goes back to the LOWBUDGET marketing I mentioned earlier.

Surviving hard times requires going BACK TO THE BASICS, back to the fundamental principles of business. Some things to remember: make sure you are doing regular financial checks, providing sales training, and managing your customer relationships; these basic steps can help retain customers and create a rapport with new clientele.

Have a Happy Holiday Season!!!

On Friday, November 8th the Nor-walk Chamber of Commerce had their annual Casino Night. With over 70 attendees, this event was fun for all! You could hear people really enjoying the various gaming tables available for them , whether it be Blackjack, Roulette, Texas Hold’em or Craps; everyone was having a good time.

We had over 30 raffle items to give away, they were donated by: Teri Bazen, Bally’s Total Fitness, Whaley House, Birch Aquarium, Casino Concepts, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Applebee’s, Dr. John Larcabal, Sizzler, Golf N Stuff, Hearst Castle, Sunstone Vineyards, Karen Codman FSC, Laemmle Theatre, Legoland, L.B. Symphony Orchestra, Norwalk Chamber, NLM Plumbing, Norwalk Toyota, Paintball USA, Pechanga, Primm Nevada Terribles, Spirit Cruis-es, La Mirada Curves, and Wal-Mart. The Norwalk Chamber and the attend-ees to the Casino Night would like to

extend a big THANK YOU for the donations to this event; you helped create this success of an evening!

The Casino Night had different levels of sponsorship that were avail-

able to Cham-ber members to participate in and we would like to also extend a very big THANK YOU to these members who contributed to this cause. Wal-Mart, AFLAC, Big Truck & Equip-ment Sales, Com-munity Family Guidance Center, Dr. Ethan Allen, State Farm Insur-ance, Gordon Ste-fenhagen, Norwalk La Mirada Plumb-

ing, Mary Jane McIntosh and Nor-walk Auto Auction. Your sponsorship donations are greatly appreciated, you help keep the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce moving forward in help-ing the local Business Community continue to thrive!

We look forward to the upcom-ing events, and hope you mark your calendars to attend!

Employee who quits job may be eligible for unemployment insur-ance.

One of my employees quit to go to work for one of my competitors. After a few months she got laid off from her new job and now she’s col-lecting unemployment insurance from my reserve account. How can she do that when she’s the one who decided to quit my firm?

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An employee also would be eli-gible for UI benefits if she quit her job for a substantially better job and then, for reasons beyond her control, the new job did not materialize. This might occur when an employee quits her job based on being given a definite start date by the new employer, who then rescinds the job offer or delays the start date.

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Marketing on a ShoestringMonthly Cerritos Chamber luncheon at the Cerritos Sheraton.

By Jerry Bernstein

With the economy in a tailspin, the question asked is how do you keep your customers?

Mary Kay Consultant Karen Baker, guest speaker at the monthly Cerritos Regional Chamber of Commerce Mar. 5 held at the Sheraton Cerritos Hotel, said when you have to do your marketing on a shoestring budget and in good times too, listen to your customers and at the same time build trust with your customers as well as good relationships. “It’s worked for me, and there is no reason it shouldn’t work for you,” she asserted.

When selling a product, show en-thusiasm for the product, also, know your product. “If you have a community

newspaper use it to adver-tise your merchandise,” she said. “Utilize your Chamber of Commerce too,” she added. She also urged the retailer not to be shy about speaking before groups. “Volunteer to speak,” she said, “and sponsor and/or participate in community events.” She said in order to have your business continue to grow you have to build relationships. Get people’s opinion of your product/merchandise. Prepare your sales pitch and talk to people on a level they will understand.

If you want to mar-ket your business know what to ask. She also said new technology means now ways to market your product and at lower costs. Utilize the Internet. Learn to text message. It’s a good way to keep in touch with your customers and it adds a personal touch.

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Corporate Challenge is similar to the Olympics with various competitions held over a period of two weeks. Each competition crowns a winner and points are earned and tallied at the end of each event. At closing ceremonies, an over-all Corporate Challenge Champion is crowned based on total points earned.

The goals are to improve Company Morale, establish positive working re-lationships with different businesses & organizations and network with fellow co-workers and meet their families. Events

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ABCUSD Finances I read with interest Gavin Riley's

commentary on the state of education in California. Like the commercials I hear daily from the unions, I am led to believe that as a citizen of this state, I have to feel ashamed of our states spending on public education, so I decided to see if I could gather a few facts before I slit my wrists in protest for "the children".

It is difficult sometimes to come up with current numbers since yearly totals are not published for a few years, but here are some of the items I was able to Google. A report by the AFT (www.aft.org), stated that California for 2006-2007 had the nations highest average teacher salary at $63,640. The average teacher salary in the ABCUSD for the same period was $69,923 (www.cde.ca.gov).

According to a US Census Bureau Report (www.census.gov) that was published in April of 2008 for year 2006, California ranked 25th in per pupil spending.

At that time we had a school popu-lation of roughly 6.2 million students. Runner-up is Texas which had a school population of 4.4 million and was ranked 39th in per pupil spending. When you look at these kinds of numbers, and with a state that is in the tank both in unem-ployment numbers and debt, I think I can put the razor blades back in the medicine cabinet, Mr. Riley.

John Transue Cerritos

Thanks from 1st CEB On behalf of Lt. Col. Callanan and the

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Lt. Col. Callanan was recently in Afghanistan to prepare for the battalion's deployment there. We continue to build our family support program that the Friends of the 1st CEB have helped fund. This is having a positive impact on our families by having them get involved and help prepare us for our upcoming deploy-ments. We plan to have a family day at San Onofre Beach area at Camp Pendleton in March, perhaps the last one before the battalion deploys. The money you donated to our unit has also helped out some of our injured Marines. $170 was used to cover the difference of a regular rental car upgrade to an SUV for Cpl Rist (double leg amputee) and L/Cpl Knowles (single leg amputee) from the Palm Springs, CA airport to a variety of events. They used these vehicles to help transport the Marines and their wheel chairs as they welcomed their fellow Marines back from

Afghanistan, attended the Marine Corps Ball, and so they could attend the unit they were attached to (2nd Battalion 7th Marines) memorial service at 29 Palms. We also used $250 to help cover the extra hotel expenses they occurred so that they could attend 3d Combat Engineers Bat-talion's Ball. Both Marines and their wife's really appreciated the extra support so that they could take this trip from Walter Reed to California. Both wives mentioned that the experience for their Marines was very uplifting and was extremely good for their morale.

The Marine of the Month program has continued to be a morale booster for the Marines and their wives/fellow Marines. The treatment you give them on their visit to Cerritos is unbelievable. It is patriotic Americans like you that make Marines proud to serve our great country. My thanks to the City of Cerritos, the Friends teamwork, and the Los Cerritos Com-munity Newspaper for their support of 1st Combat Engineer Battalion.

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Message from the ABCUSD Superintendent

Our learning community is facing the worst fiscal crisis in the history of California public education. The “perfect storm” of economic calamity in California combines an unemployment rate above 10%, a nearly $42 billion budget deficit, and poor governance from Sacramento. This year’s budget was adopted 88 days late. It was immediately announced that the late budget was out of balance and we would be faced with a mid-year adjust-ment that eventually came on February 19, 2009—about 7 ½ months after the

fiscal year began. School districts were finally told how

much money was cut from this year’s already spent categories with only 4 ½ months left in the school year. In June of 2008, the ABC Board of Education wisely adopted a budget that trimmed $1.25 million. Our mid-year cuts for 2008-09 amounted to nearly $8 million. Cuts to next year’s 2009-10 budget are estimated at $8.6 million. School districts surrounding ABC are faced with simi-lar or even deeper cuts. Some of them have responded by issuing layoff notices, discussing salary rollbacks, cutting or reducing programs, charging families for bus transportation, and raising class sizes. Some have even suggested raising class sizes to 60 students for each teacher.

The ABC Board of Education has re-acted to this fiscal crisis with balance and prudence. The following is a description of the actions taken by the ABC Board of Education at the March 10th Board meeting to respond to the state budget reductions.

In 2009—2010 ABC Unified School District…

•will not lay off any permanent em-ployee or reduce health benefits

•will not implement any furlough days•will not recapture schools’ carryover

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To prepare to meet this budget crisis, the Board instructed me in December to gather suggestions, ideas, and feedback from our dedicated employee unions. Laura Rico, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Rebecca Michel-Macias, president of the California School Employee Association; and Ray Prado, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employ-ees, ABC Management Association, and Cabinet members all pitched in and con-tinuously provided valuable advice and insight. In addition, we spoke to ABC’s Budget and Audit Finance Audit Com-mittee, school site councils, PTA’s, and our principals. This collaborative process with our colleagues and community was important to the Board as they struggled to solve this problem.

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the vacation of a public ally from 166th Street to Arkansas Street located approxi-mately 172.5 feet west of the centerline of Pioneer Boulevard.

Associate Planner Okina Dor said originally the ally was a “T” shaped ally. However, the City had previously vacated the east-west portion of the alley. The lots immediately adjacent to the proposed va-cation of the north-south area are gener-ally zoned commercial with some remnant residential uses.

Seeking to have the ally vacated is Pete Ochoa who owns several lots along the east side of the ally and who will ac-quire the half of the ally next to the lots he owns. He has also entered into an agree-ment with an owner of a lot on the west side of the ally to acquire his half of the al-ley as well as the east half of the ally next to his property.

The Council continued a request for a code amendment that would identify “dead spaces” within commercial, manufactur-ing, and industrial buildings and exclude dead spaces from calculation of the park-ing ratio requirement.

The Council also approved an ordi-nance establishing a mixed Commercial/Single Family Residential (MCR) zone for properties bounded by the east side of Norwalk Boulevard, south of Hibbing Street, westerly of properties zoned Sin-gle Family Residential [R-1], and north of Flora Vista.

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Reading is an important part of a child’s education. Community volunteers are often asked to come into a school’s classroom and read to the students from books selected by the school. Often, following the reading, a short discussion will occur about the story read to the students and/or students will ask the reader about himself/herself. This part of the program often turns into an education lesson not only for the student but the reader as well. On Mar. 6 members of the Student Council greeted readers at Palm Elementary School. They told the visitors they and students from other ABC schools recently attended a leadership meeting at Whitney High School where they learned how to do a Mixer [a “fun” exercise routine]. Demonstrating the Mixer, the readers were asked to participate. The Mixer teaches the students leadership qualities not only by encouraging others to join them in the exercise but also by reciting a story that is part of the routine, thus giving them confidence in themselves. The students are Mathew Velázquez, 5th grade; Steven Velasquez; Sabrina Sanchez, Secretary; Serina Guerrero, secretary; Johanna Panoee, vice president; and Ashley Lopez, president

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Indian American Chamber of Commerce Holds First Installation of OfficersBy Linda Bock

The Indian American Chamber of Com-merce (IACOC) held its first installation of its Board of Directors at the Panda Inn re-cently. Supervisor Don Knabe was present to install the new officers.

The IACOC was formed in September 2008 by members of the professional and business community. Although focused here in the Cerritos/Artesia area, the group seeks to become a primary Indian-Ameri-can business organization and a major link

for national and international trade delegations and cham-bers of commerce. IACOC is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious, and non-aligned, member driven organization that has no geographical bound-aries. It welcomes membership from business owners small and large, as well as institutions like banks, utility companies and large corporations.

The IACOC seeks to con-tribute to the economic health and vitality of its business com-munity by becoming an indis-pensible resource center for those seeking to do business nationally and globally.

The IACOC will provide support, service, resources and opportunities for existing and new businesses.

The Board of Directors for the Indian American Chamber of Commerce were installed by Supervisor Don Knabe. The Board includes Mr. Naresh Solanki, Chairman, Mr. Deepak (DJ) Jhaveri, President, Siva Subramaniam, Secretary, Dr. Piyush Karia, Dr. Bhavin Gandhi, Sam Trivedi, Mrs. Amarjeet Dhamija, Pinakin Pathak, Dr. Nitin Shah Anil Parekh, Joe Mathai. Mayor of Artesia Sally Flowers (far left) also attended.

3 Mo’ Divas at the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts Fri. April 10, 8:00 PM & Sat., April 11, 8:00 PM

Three dynamic singers. Eight musical styles. Add it all up and you’ve got 3 Mo’ Divas, an exuberant celebration of class, sass, and style. The high-energy produc-tion is presented at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA) at 8:00 PM on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11. Tickets, which range from $75-$30, are on sale at www.cerritoscenter.com and the CCPA Ticket Office, or by calling (562) 467-8818.

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Pat, Marianne, Maynard and I were talking several months ago and were surprised to discover that Pat and I had long harbored a desire to see the Carlsbad Cav-erns in New Mexico. Further conversation yielded the additional nugget that both Maynard and Mari-anne were just shy of phobic about being cooped up in tight places. Throwing caution to the wind (and it was a hefty toss, mind you, given the degree of two of us not wanting to go under the ground into a dark hole) we com-mitted to going on a road trip this Spring with an eastern terminus of the caverns and stops at various points of mutual interest in between.

Assuming that the best approach would be to rent a motor home to make the circuit we also set out to figure out costs, rental lo-cations, size, speed, etc, etc. Ah the simple life driving the states like Tod and Buzz in their spiffy ‘vette many years back – if you know who Tod and Buzz are you are among the chosen few; if you don’t, fire up your twitter machine or whatever its called these days and look them up.

But then reality hit. Turns out that you can indeed rent a large motor home from many places but when you take a pencil to the cost of insurance, gas, daily rental, mileage, the charge for motor courts each evening and the grape Nehi in the soda ma-chines outside the state of California you can save money by renting a fully equipped limo – with driver. So being your basical-ly resourceful Cerritans we quickly turned

to plan “B” – roughing it.We figured that by combining our Ford

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save enough money to buy at least 5,000 shares of General Motors stock when we returned (assum-ing that GM was still in…..oh, nevermind). Oh, and of course we needed the car carrier to stow away the four sets off golf clubs we plan to use at such exotic lo-cales as the White Sands A-bomb

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So with our most important particulars seen to, we sketched out the rest of our trip. Las Vegas quickly made the final cut as did Bryce and Zion National Parks. We also gave a “yes” grunt to most of the museums on the list of potential stops and saved a day or two to bumble around in artistic

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games of the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Division III-A playoffs, the Gahr boys basketball team showed they can play with the best. Last Saturday morning at the Honda Center, the Gladiators almost showed they could fin-ish as the best in the division.

Gahr held a two-point lead heading into the fourth quarter against Harvard-Westlake and led by three points with 6:42 remaining. But the Wolverines outscored Gahr 31-17 in the final stanza and pulled out an 87-75 victory that snapped Gahr's miracle run through the divisional play-offs. The dagger in the heart for Gahr came during a four minute span when the Wol-verines went on a 14-1 run. A 63-60 lead quickly turned into a 74-64 deficit with 2:27 remaining. The at-large representa-tives from the San Gabriel Valley League shot 29 percent from the field in the fourth quarter.

Even an 18-minute delay to begin the game due to a scoreboard malfunction couldn't discourage the starting group of seniors Devin Golston and Gipson Lyles, junior Cameron bell and sophomores Davon Potts and Javonte Sales for this early morning affair. The Gladiators never trailed by more than a basket in the first quarter and led by as many as six points with 1:30 remaining in the first quarter on a lay-up from sophomore Jarion Henry.

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nervous in our game with Monrovia when we opened the playoffs on the road," said Gahr head coach Bob Becker. "For a quar-ter, I didn't like how we were playing. But in every game since then, I really thought we came out playing well. Again, for these sophomores especially, it's just amazing that they handled themselves so well. They really matured beyond their years."

Both teams shot 50 percent from the field in the first quarter but it was Gahr which owned the edge in rebounding (9-7) and steals (6-2). The Gladiators, who last made a trip to the divisional finals in 1999, refused to give in and led until there were over three minutes left in the half. By this time, the lead had changed hands eight times. But Harvard-Westlake couldn't find an answer to Gahr's youth at this point and the Gladiators ended the half on a 7-4 run to head into intermission tied with the Mis-sion League co-champs, ranked third in the division. Again, both teams were even in the shooting department at 46 percent and Gahr still owned the boards by a margin of four.

Gahr would control most of the third quarter and when freshman Anthony Mar-tinez came off the bench to drain a three-pointer, his only points of the game, with 3:42 left in the stanza, the eighth ranked team in the division had a 54-48 lead. But the Wolverines rallied back and forced a turnover which led to a go-ahead basket with 1:51 left in the third. Gahr would then turn the ball over six times in the fourth quarter which led to 11 points.

"I'm really proud of my guys," Becker said. "They worked as hard as any team I've ever had and they deserved to be here. [Harvard-Westlake] did to us what we have been doing to everyone else throughout the playoffs. They hit big shots at critical times and we came down [the court] and couldn't convert."

"This team is incredible and I learned a lot this year," Potts said. "The next few years, hopefully we can just play as hard. Basically this game prepared us for the fu-ture, for me and Javonte and the rest of my underclassmen. There's no reason to keep our heads down because now we know how it feels, to come back and be in this type of environment the way we were in."

Golston and Lyles each scored 17 points while Potts added 15 points and Henry an-other 13 along with 13 rebounds.

"Basically we just have to keep our heads up high and focus on our next game," Golston said. "We can't let this loss deter-mine how we play the next game. We have to stay positive."

That's exactly what the team did this past Tuesday night in the quarterfinals of

the Southern California Division III Re-gionals. The Gladiators took out their frus-tration and beat Hanford West 74-54 to earn a rematch with the Wolverines, who they played on Mar. 12. Potts scored a career-high 27 points while Bell also had a career-night with 17 points. Golston and Lyles added 13 and 11 points respectively as the Gladiators improved to 19-15 and won for the seventh time in the past 10 games.

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Artesia, Cerritos Hope To Escape Bottom Of Suburban League, Gahr's Youth Getting Stronger By Loren Kopff

While the Suburban League has been

consistently dominated by La Mirada and even with Mayfair always getting to the playoffs, last season was a chance for Cer-ritos, John Glenn and Norwalk to return to the postseason for the first time in two to 10 years, and even longer depending on who you were. Artesia was just hoping to win some games with its youngest and most inexperienced teams in years while Glenn finally turned the page with its senior lead-ership. Gahr dropped to a rare third place finish in the San Gabriel Valley League while Valley Christian barely missed the playoffs.ARTESIA (3-22-1 last season, 2-10 in the Suburban League, seventh place)

Head coach: Michael Gaoghagen (sev-enth season, 73-89-1)

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Key losses: Carlos Candelas, Erik Rocha, Frank Rocha, Ryan Ragas, Rosalio Vidal

Projected starting lineup:P-Osbaldo De La Rosa (SO)/Tyler

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prised no one, including head coach Mi-chael Gaoghagen, who predicted as early as the fall of 2007 that his team was going

to be young despite the Suburban League having a "down" year all the way across. But now that 2008 is behind the Pioneers, they can focus on what Gaoghagen hopes to be a much better 2009, one that has a better mix and one in which most of the po-sitions are already taken, unlike this time last season.

"To be truthful, as far as five tools, we really didn't have any of the tools," Gaogh-agen said. "We decided we're going to have to build young and even with the guys that we had who were young, we knew they didn't have the ability yet. This year, which is nice, they're ahead of where they should have been as freshman. We should be a lot better."

Gaoghagen says almost anyone is a candidate to be on the mound and that there really isn't a true number one pitcher, at least not until the league season begins on Mar. 25 at Cerritos. The Pioneers didn't win their first game until game number 17 and by that time, had collected a total of 65 hits and had crossed the plate 45 times. Bryan Ji, who was primarily a designated hitter last season, and Wilfredo Ortiz fig-ure to have some power while De La Rosa is the most experienced pitcher returning, although he didn't make one start in league action.

"I don't know if we'll have the power to move on in a great deal but we'll be much, much better," Gaoghagen said. "We have some guys who will actually be able to hit it out who we didn't have last year. We had one home run the entire year; that's pretty pathetic."CERRITOS (7-19 last season, 3-9 in the Suburban League, tied for fifth place)

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2002 to sixth in 2004 and fifth the past two seasons. Now, head coach Will Stecher has to make the guys believe that they can win and compete rather than just compete.

"Like I said from day one last year, it's a matter of if these guys can persevere," Stecher said. "I wasn't sure about that. I knew they could play and the first few games of the season showed they could play ball. We gave La Mirada two close scares. We can play and these guys know it. It's just a matter of if they can come out fired up."

Of the nine league losses last season, three were by one run and two others were by a combined seven runs. But defense badly plagued the Dons and during the five games in the Anaheim Lions Tournament, they committed 21 errors. Offensively, Cer-ritos will be led by Min, who batted .300 and drove in 11 runs. Kamiyama is right behind him at .291. But the pitching is in-experienced and will be put to the test with another tough preseason slate that includes the Newport Elks Tournament again, the St. Paul Tournament and Valley Christian.

"Our goal is to compete for a cham-pionship, whether it's league or if it's not league, then to get into the playoffs and compete for a CIF championship," Stecher said. "La Mirada is a solid squad but we can compete with those guys."GAHR (13-16 last season, 9-6 in the San Gabriel Valley League, third place, lost to Crespi in the Division III first round)

Head coach: Geraldo Perez (fifth sea-son, 75-40-1)


Key losses: Chris Devenski, Efren Gutierrez, Frank Gutierrez, Aaron Labreau, Anthony Nunes, Jacob Showers

Projected starting lineup:P-Sonny Burgueno (JR)/Ruben Resen-

dez (SR)/Darian Dominguez (SO)/Chris Salmones (JR)/Michael Lugo (JR)

C-Brandon Krause (SR)/Daniel Lack (JR)/Alex Hernandez (JR)

1B-Burgueno/Dominguez2B-Marcus Tomlin (JR)3B-HernandezSS-Josh Cabula (JR)OF-LackOF-Lugo/Broderick Vanwjngaerde

(SR)OF-Brenton Allen (JR)The Gladiators have been used to win-

ning the San Gabriel Valley League almost every year. So, when they came in third place last season, it was a something no one had witnessed since a fourth place fin-ish in 1998. Despite the losing campaign, head coach Geraldo Perez did what he is best at doing-molding young guys into tal-ented players that eventually end up play-ing college baseball.

"Two years ago we lost a real quality group with certain guys who are now play-ing in college and doing well playing in college," Perez said. "We've replaced those kids with six 14-year olds and 15-year olds competing against an improved San Ga-briel Valley League at the same time. Part of it was physical; maturity and part of it is the mental and emotional that go with the details that are necessary to overcome the lack of being physical at that age."

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base and Tomlin at third. Lugo batted .310 in 2008 and drove in 14 runs while Krause, who has already committed to California State University, Los Angeles, is one of the top, if not the best catcher in the league. He batted .296 last season and drove in a dozen players. The pitching could be a little suspect with Burgueno working only five innings last season. But with a large contingent of juniors, this has the makings of a huge turnaround that could give Para-mount a serious battle for the top position in the circuit.

"The question is not going to be if we have enough guys to throw strikes," Perez said. "It's just if we have guys to be able to match the league's best pitchers."JOHN GLENN (15-11 last season, 7-5 in the Suburban League, fourth place, lost to South Hills in the Division III first round

Head coach: David Cruz (fourth sea-son, 32-41)

Team's record previous five seasons: 43-79

Key losses: Adrian Gomez, Marc Gomez, Tony Gomez, Raul Sanchez, Ste-ven Sanchez, Tim Soonthorngarun

Projected starting lineup:P-Juan Vera (JR)/Efrain Ramirez (SR)/

Jose Reyes (SR)/John Lemos (FR)C-Enrique Medina (SR)/Adrian Rodri-

guez (SO)1B-Luis Ruezga (SR)2B-Josh Carr (SR)3B-Ramirez/Juan Rojas (SO)SS-Davon Foggie (JR)OF-LemosOF-Jose Reyes (SR)OF-Alex Hernandez (SR)/Vera/RojasNo one was laughing at the Eagles last

season when they made the playoffs for the first time since 1994 and had a winning re-cord for the first time since 1999. Glenn had it all going with solid pitching and an equally powerful offensive attack that in-cluded five players batting over .400 and a team average of .363. But the loss of seven players have left head coach David Cruz wondering if he'll get that same hitting pro-duction in 2009.

"I felt a lot more confident last year, go-ing into league just because we had Tony [Gomez] and we had Timmy [Soonthorn-garun] who was an instant base hit," Cruz said. "But I like my team this year. I have a lot of confidence when Juan [Vera] is on the pitcher's mound and I have just as much confidence when Efrain [Ramirez] is on the mound. The only question I have is our sticks."

Vera batted .422 last season and scored 15 runs while Medina was just under .400 (.397), drove in 16 runs and crossed the plate 13 times. Vera will be asked to lead the pitching staff where he won three times in eight decisions. Helping out the pitchers will be Ruben Hernandez, a former hurler at Cal State Fullerton who has a College World Series championship to add to his resume. Cruz says the Eagles are more fundamentally sound and they're keeping things simple this season.

"It was a pleasant surprise for Tony Gomez to shut teams down," Cruz said. "And he was one of the key elements for us to be successful. Also, the seniors really stepped up...and led us to the playoffs."NORWALK (8-16 last season, 3-9 in the Suburban League, tied for fifth place)

Head coach: Ruben Velasquez (first season)


Key losses: Art Lopez, Anthony Perez, Christian Rodriguez, David Sanchez, Ra-mon Tellez

Projected starting lineup:P-Jerry Gonzalez (SR)/Johnathan Vil-

lapondo (JR)/Skyler Bautista (SO)/Chris Hernandez/Johnny Lopez (SO)/Steven Mendoza (SO)

C-Nick Landaros (SR)/Randy Garcia (SR)

1B-Gonzalez/Anthony Lopez (SR)/Andrew Rubeledo (SR)/Villapondo

2B-Brock Carillo (SR)/Steven Alatore (SR)

3B-Lopez/MendozaSS-Moises Acosta (JR)/BautistaOF-GarciaOF-Roland Ochoa (SR)OF-VillapondoThe Lancers, who are seeing their

fourth head coach in the past five seasons, haven't been to the playoffs since 2006. But Ruben Velasquez is no stranger to the program, having been an assistant for sev-eral years. And even a blast from the past has joined the coaching staff as former Lancers Anthony Topete and Tony Zarco join Velasquez. Those three were also part of the 2002 Pony World Series champion-ship team and plan to bring that winning attitude to this season's squad.

"It feels good; I waited a while to get the job, which is fine," Velasquez said. "These kids are a lot more talented than how they showed it on the field. They were a little bit young mixed in with some older guys who didn't have a lot of experience."

Velasquez says there can't be anymore excuses about the team being young. It's time for them to "show up and play". Nor-walk won't be a big hitting team, but the squad will be a bunch of scrappers, accord-ing to the new mentor. The strength of the team lies in the pitching staff with Gonza-lez and Villapondo accounting for half of the teams' victories last season. Gonzalez is also a strong hitting first baseman while Acosta could be among the finest short-stops. Norwalk will also put a huge em-phasis on defense.

"It's always priority number one for us to try to win the league and get to the play-offs," Velasquez said. "I think it's going to be a very competitive league once again. I think La Mirada will bounce back to get to the top."VALLEY CHRISTIAN (10-18 last sea-son, 5-7 in the Olympic League, tied for third place)

Head coach: John Tompkins (second season, 10-18)


Key losses: Ryan Bustillos, Garrett Feikema, Dean Ortiz

Projected starting lineup:P-Brad Vander Grift (JR)/Brett Struiks-

ma (SR)/Ryan Franke (SO)/Chase De Jong (FR)

C-Kyle Cameron (SR)1B-Greg Saarloos (SR)2B-Daniel Hernandez (SO)/David He-

fley (JR)3B-StruiksmaSS-Julian Bustamante (SR)/Saarloos

OF-Matthew Bynum (JR)/Bustamante/De Jong

OF-Kyle Kurian (JR)/Eric Fasnacht (SR)

OF-George Taylor (JR)Head coach John Tompkins had a

rough go around during his first season with the Crusaders but when it was all said and done, he got the team in a position to claim an automatic berth in the playoff. However, that was denied in a winner-take-all play-in game with Paraclete after the regular season had concluded. Still, the young Valley team showed a lot of prom-ise, especially offensively, and better re-sults are expected this season.

"I think we had a lot of learning to do on everybody's part," Tompkins said. "The first 10 games were rough. I best game we played was the game we played against Paraclete. We're really happy with how we finished; we would have liked to get in, but we didn't."

Valley scored in double figures seven times last season and was paced by Struiks-ma (.589, 38 RBI, 33 runs, 11 home runs) and Cameron (.360, 25 runs). The Crusad-ers only lost three impact players and are still loaded with talented underclassmen. On the mound, Vander Grift and Struiks-ma may be the best one-two combinations in the area but don't discount Franke and De Jong. Early season injuries may ham-per Valley in the first few weeks, but the team plans to get it going by the time the Olympic League season begins.

"I think we're anchoring around Struiksma and Cameron," Tompkins said. "We've got some pretty fine pitching com-ing back. I think a lot of the younger guys who had success last year are going to be good for us this year. Then we have some pretty talented young freshmen and soph-omores."

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Cerritos Sheriff's Crime SummaryMarch 2-8, 2009

Thirty-four Part I felony crimes were investigated last week, up four cases from the previous one. Commercial and vehicle burglaries were up, residential burglary and vehicle thefts remained the same, and rob-beries were down. Calls for service were also down as 308 were handled compared to 319 the previous reporting period.

The 2009 weekly average in calls for service is now 313. A woman was walking in a lot on South Street near Ely Avenue on Tuesday March 3, at 8:15 p.m. when a male suspect grabbed her purse and ran. The suspect tripped on the curb, dropped the purse, and continued to run away from the victim. For the second consecutive week, two residential burglaries were investi-gated. Open/unlocked doors or windows were involved in one, and a pried window in the other. In the latter case, a relative is suspected of taking a dog. A Play Station and a safe were taken in the other burglary. An acquaintance is suspected in that crime. The 2009 weekly average in this category is now 2.6.

There have also been recent residential burglaries reported in neighboring cities that involve the kicking in of front doors. Double doors can be susceptible to this be-cause many are not reinforced in the center to make them more difficult to force open. There are removable bars on the market that can help strengthen these doors Two commercial burglaries were investigated last week. Two separate high schools were involved where wallets, cameras, and cur-rency were stolen. One suspect is in cus-tody. Vehicle burglaries rose to eleven inci-dents compared to ten the week before.

High-volume commercial lots were the crime scenes in eight cases. Eight involved SUVs. One car stereo and a GPS unit were among some of the items taken. Others in-cluded wallets, cell phones, purses, credit cards, and tools. The 2009 weekly average in vehicle burglaries now stands at 8.3. Ve-hicle burglars rarely enter your vehicle to just look around, but are instead attracted to an item that they can see from outside. If your property is valuable and important to you, consider leaving it at home or taking it with you when you exit the vehicle.

Regardless of the make or model of ve-hicle that you drive, any form of vehicle security is better than none. Car thieves are not always as selective as you think, but statistically, Hondas and Toyotas are more likely to be stolen. Consider a steering wheel locking device that serves as a good visual deterrent

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TSG No.: 3934967 TS No.: 20089070810180 FHA/VA/PMI No.: Notice Of Trustee's Sale YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 8/2/2007 UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 4/2/2009 at 11:30 AM First American Loanstar Trustee Services, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 08/10/2007, as Instrument No. 20071879572, in book , page , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California. Executed by: EDWARD KIM, will sell at public auction to highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check/cash equivalent or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) At the front entrance to the Pomona Superior Courts Building, 350 West Mission Blvd., Pomona, CA All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: As more fully described in the above mentioned Deed of Trust APN# 7010-004-029 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 16022 SUGARPINE LANE , CERRITOS, CA 90703 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remain-ing principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and ad-vances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $466,367.93 The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. Date: 3/12/2009 First American LoanStar Trustee Services 3 First American Way Santa Ana, CA 92707 First American Loanstar Trustee Services may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Original document signed by Authorized Agent For Trustee’s Sale Informa-tion Please Call (714) 573-1965 P538963 3/13, 3/20, 03/27/2009

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM

FOR THE 2009-2010 FISCAL YEAR

Notice is hereby given that City of Hawaiian Gardens will conduct a Public Hearing pertaining to the item(s) listed below: DATE OF HEARING: TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2009 TIME OF HEARING: 6:00 P.M., or soon thereafter. LOCATION OF HEARING: City Council Chambers City of Hawaiian Gardens 21815 Pioneer Boulevard Hawaiian Gardens, Ca. 90716

HEARING ITEM:

The City of Hawaiian Gardens City Council will hold a public hearing on March 24, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 21815 Pioneer Blvd., Hawaiian Gardens, California, to approve the City’s Fiscal Year 2009-2010 Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) program and budget. Program resources for the CDBG program total $820,824 including: estimated CDBG entitlement funding in the amount of $240,025 for the 2009-2010 fiscal year; $97,731 of available unallocated CDBG funds from prior years; and $483,068 of acquired 2009-2010 and prior years CDBG funds. These funds can be used for a wide variety of purposes. However, eligible activities under the CDBG program must meet one of three national objectives to: 1) benefit low- and moderate-income persons; 2) help to eliminate slum and blight conditions; or 3) address an urgent need.

The Hawaiian Gardens City Council will consider for approval its CDBG funds for the following activities: HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAM $185,000 CODE ENFORCEMENT 275,329 NEIGHBORHOOD CLEAN-UP 81,525 LEE WARE PARK PARKING LOT CONSTRUCTION 143,970 RESIDENTIAL STREET OVERLAY 2009 100,000 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 35,000 CDBG PROGRAM YEAR TOTAL $820,824

The City of Hawaiian Gardens City Council will also consider for approval at the March 24, 2009 meeting the purchase of CDBG funds from the Cities of Agoura Hills, Bradbury, Beverly Hills, La Habra Heights, Manhattan Beach and Rolling Hills Estates. Interested persons are invited to attend and comment on the CDBG program. INVITATION TO BE HEARD

Those persons desiring to testify in favor of or in opposition to the proposal listed above will be given an opportunity to do so at the public hearing. If you challenge the subject application in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence submitted to the City Council at, or prior to the public hearing.

Further information may be obtained by contacting the Hawaiian Gardens Administration Department at (562) 420-2641.

Si desea obtener mas informacion, llame al Departamento de Administracion al (562) 420-2641.

Lucie Colombo Acting City Clerk

Published: Los Cerritos Community News – March 13, 2009

amounted to nearly $8 million. Cuts to next year’s 2009-10 budget are estimated at $8.6 million. Dr. Smuts said school districts surrounding ABC are faced with similar or even deeper cuts. Some have responded by issuing layoff notices, discussing salary rollbacks, cutting or reducing programs, charging families for bus transportation, and raising class sizes. Some have even suggested raising class sizes to 60 students for each teacher.

To prepare to meet this budget crisis, the Board instructed him in December to gather suggestions, ideas, and feedback from ABC’s employee unions. Laura Rico, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Rebecca Michel-Macias, president of the California School Employee Association; and Ray Prado, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, ABC Management Association, and Cabinet members all pitched in and provided valuable advice and insight. In addition, he explained, we spoke to ABC’s Budget and Audit Finance Audit Committee, school site councils, PTA’s, and our principals. This collaborative process with our colleagues and community was important to the Board as they struggled to solve this problem.”

Dr. Smuts said ABC would have a balanced budget this year, “with the money on hand.” He said no permanent employee would be let go. “We will not cut the quality in our programs. What this means is we will have fewer in number and have to narrow our choices.” He also said school sites will keep carryover moneys.

The Board approved four components of a budget reduction plan: strategic hiring, cost containment, categorical flexibility, and spending the District’s reserve.

Strategic Hiring: ABC is currently not replacing employees who retire or move on to another job. This includes three site administrators, a painter, a roofer, the Director of Special Education, and a Division Assistant.

Cost Containment: The District is cutting school and department budgets by 10% and shifting half of the expense for school bookkeepers to the high schools. It is also shifting the expense of managing magnet grants to a current district office employee and instituting an energy management program to conserve costs tied to electricity, heating, water, natural gas, and fuel.

Categorical Flexibility: The State has provided school districts relaxed flexibility to programs that normally have many rules attached to how District’s spend the money. ABC has raised the K—3 ratio of students to teachers from 20:1 to 22:1. It is also eliminating the 20:1 ratio of students to teachers in ninth grade English and math classes. and moved part or all of the money out of 11 more programs into the District’s general fund.

Spending the Reserve: ABC is spending an additional $1.57 million out of its “savings account” to balance the budget. This will leave approximately $400,000 left in its reserve. Dr. Smuts said the balance is very low for a district the size of ABC, but these are tough times.

“In meeting the state cuts to ABC’s revenue, the Board has reacted to this fiscal crisis with balance and prudence,” stated Dr. Smuts. Its response to the state budget reductions are as follows.

In 2009—2010 ABC Unified School District…

- will not lay off any permanent employee or

reduce health benefits- will not implement any furlough days- will not recapture schools’ carryover

savings- will preserve health and safety as a

priority- voted to modify K—3 class size

reductions- maintain core art, music and athletic

programs, after school intervention programs, no charge home-to-school bus transportation and continue the summer school program.

At Tuesday’s Board meeting, parents questioned if there would be cuts in the Adult School’s Parent and Infant programs. Dr. Smuts said there would be no cuts in those programs. He said Adult School Principal Dr. Pao-Ling W. Guo said the school would make cuts elsewhere, but those two programs would not be cut. However the District will take $924,000 from the Adult School’s reserve for the next five years. He also said the excess $25,000 in Gate money will be transferred to the District General Fund. He also said Community Based English tutoring at three ABC schools. Will be transferred to the Adult School where they are actually receiving those classes now.

Dr. Smuts said the reduction in the state budget for Education meant cuts of $7.98 million in revenue for ABC. This includes $4.7 million in unrestricted funds and $3.28 million in restricted funds. For the balance of this school year, the District will maintain Class Size Reductions, Art, Music and Athletic Programs, After School Intervention Programs and Home to School Transportation.

Dr. Smuts said the District has about 21,000 students. He said for each student enrolled in ABC the State pays the District so much money. “That’s been reduced by 2.63 percent. In addition most categorical (restricted) money has been reduced by 15.4 percent. Again some of that has already been spent and will have to be made up from General Fund money.

For 2009-10 the State adopted budget will reduce K-14 schools by $2.9 billion. The impact on ABC will be a budget deficit of $8.6 million with $6.7 million in unrestricted funds and $1.9 million in restricted funds. This will affect 23 District programs.

He concluded by saying if the economy doesn’t get better or doesn’t stay the same we will have to come back and make further cuts.

facilities lists and location maps of the existing storm drain systems within the City, as well as adjacent systems.

He said Norris Repke mapped and platted the existing systems based on City and County records and field verifications. After establishing record data, they determined tributary drainage areas and sub-areas and calculated the potential depth of flows based on 10-year, 25-year and 50-year storm occurrences relative to the 100 percent built-out of the City’s development.

The existing drainage basins and supporting storm drain systems were analyzed and based on study results, eleven drainage areas were determined to be short of the standard.

Preliminary cost estimates to upgrade the eleven storm drain systems is approximately $6 million. For a seven year CIP program, this amounts to approximately $1 million a year to improve the City’s drainage system overall. Currently there is no allocation for drainage improvements except as a conditional requirement for a new development or redevelopment project if necessary.

Aside from using General Funds, development or redevelopment funds, he said there wee several other funding opportunities including Community Development Block Grant Funds [CDSBG], Gas Tax funds related to street improvements, or acreage fees and utility fees based on City-wide funds related to street improvements, or acreage fees and utility fees based on City-wide or basin-wide benefited areas should be studied to fund the proposed improvements.

Councilman John Heckerman, who was raised in what is now Hawaiian Gardens, said he could remember floodwater from the San Gabriel River to Coyote Creek being knee high

in depth. We’ve come a long way. He said, “At least we don’t have Carson River anymore,” referring to the floodwaters that raged down what is now Carson Avenue.

Community Development Director Joseph Colombo said this was a seven-year plan and the council was not being asked at this time for fund to implement it. HE said money was being put aside as

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a contingency fund.Heckerman said, “We don’t want to

wait too long to implement it, saying the city didn’t want to be hit by a major flood because it waited to long.

Street ImprovementsThe Council approved plans for the

repaving, striping and minor concrete repair on eight city streets at am estimated $600,000 in construction costs. Colombo said all of the street are eligible for CDBG funding with the improvements having rubberized asphalt concrete overlay, slurry seal, curb and gutter repair, driveway approaches, sidewalk repair, handicapped ramps where needed and restriping.

In addition to the original work, the City has requested the Belshire Avenue from Carson to 215th Street be resurfaced, sections of Civic Center Drive, Violeta Avenue be slurry sealed and that three driveway approaches on Norwalk Boulevard be added to the project.

In other business the Council approved a donation of $1,800 to the ABC Adult School for the 13th Annual Parent Leadership Conference on Mar. 7 enabling 45 Hawaiian Gardens parents of at-risk students to attend the conference.

The one-day Conference hosts a variety of workshops for parents. The donation also reduces the cost in the schools, freeing those funds for future school based activities. The event directly serves 10 families from each of the six schools within Hawaiian

Gardens.The Council said also approved a

$5,000 donation to the Hawaiian Gardens Little League. Mayor Michael Gomez said member of the Little League also hold fundraising activities during the year, including having booths at the city’s various celebrations. He said the money raised goes toward purchasing equipment, uniforms, supplies, insurance, umpires, and awards to the youth at the end of the season. Councilman John Heckerman noted the League recently received a check for $10,000 from the Irving Moskowitz Foundation

Mayor Pro tem Victor Farfan said it might be time for the City to sit down with the league and go over their budget with them so we can update our records. At one time their budget was $15,000. Now it is $25,000.


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