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By Randy [email protected]

A real life version of the hit cable television series is be-ing played out in the middle

of Artesia has City Council mem-bers on one side of a complex issue, and influential Catholic priests, parishioners and local area residents on the other side.

Artesia is one of several local municipalities who are in tight fiscal problems due to tough eco-nomic times.

Now, tempers are have reached a boiling point as both sides find themselves in a battle over the use of 120 plus public parking spaces at Artesia Park that is located on Clarkdale Avenue between 183rd Street and South Street.

On both Saturday and Sun-day, thousands of local Artesia, Cerritos, and Hawaiian Gardens residents who attended Mass at Holy Family Catholic Church were greeted with a stern mes-sage from their priest, Fr. Ray-mond Decipeda, who decried last week’s city council decision that calls for a stern crack down on those in his congregation who utilized parking spaces in the taxpayer owned parking lot that is located literally feet from the entrance of the local iconic land-mark church.

Fr. Raymond told Los Cer-ritos Community Newspaper in an interview that he was “taken back by the harsh tone” and “ag-gressive nature” from city coun-

Newspaper was the first media outlet in Southern California to disclose information about the “pay-to-play” scheme.

Cooley said the arrests and charges are part of a continuing investigation into public cor-ruption at the Assessor’s Of-fice. Noguez, who announced he would take a leave of absence

in June, returned to work briefly before going out on an indefinite medical leave.

When members of the Dis-trict Attorney’s Office of Public Integrity went to the Olive Street home of Noguez in Huntington Park to arrest him early Wednes-day morning, Noguez answered the front door wearing a pair of See NOGUEZ page 10

By Randy [email protected]

In one of the most heated meet-ings in recent memory, the Cer-ritos City Council voted down

a plan that would have brought a second Goodwill Thrift Store to the east side neighborhood shop-ping complex which has been left half vacant for the past three years.

Voting to shelve the plan was Cerritos Mayor Jim Edwards, Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Barrows, Councilman Joseph Cho and Councilwoman Carol Chen. The lone supporter of the project was Councilman Mark Pulido.

More than 200 opponents of the project attended the Oct. 11

meeting, many of them carrying protest signs against the project that read “No Second Goodwill Store in Cerritos,” and “Goodwill Stores Bring Crime to Communi-ties.”

Richard Lee, one of more than 30 residents who spoke in oppo-sition to the project, presented a petition signed by Cerritos resi-dents who lived in the immediate area where the store was to be located at the corner of Artesia Boulevard and Carmenita Road.

“We have 1,031 Cerritos families who live near this pro-posed store who have signed this petition demanding that you, our elected city leaders reject this poorly planned project,” Lee said.

Another one of the nearly 30

residents to speak out against the proposal, Christine Nguy-en stressed the city of Cerritos “would receive no sales tax rev-enue” to its coffers since “Good-will is considered to be a char-ity.”

“Goodwill Industries made $4 billion last year in profits. For them to call themselves a non-profit business is a lie. Goodwill Industries is all about big busi-ness, and no one else wins except for Goodwill,” Nguyen said.

Joyce Corrigan, a resident on the east side of Cerritos “since the cows were here,” said “my neighbors feel this isn’t the best place for Goodwill.” Corrigan said “I don’t want a place that looks like a jail; I would rather

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‘Parking Lot War’ Erupts Between Artesia Council, Holy Family Church

Cerritos Council Votes Against Second Goodwill Store

ASSESSOR NOGUEZ, TWO OTHERS ARRESTEDLCCN Investigation Culminates With Arrests

By Randy Economyand Brian [email protected]@cerritosnews.net

LOS ANGELES – Los An-geles County Assessor John Noguez, Property Tax Agent Ramin Salari and Major Property Appraiser Mark McNeil were ar-rested on Wednesday in a mas-sive political corruption scheme District Attorney Steve Cooley called the “biggest political cor-ruption case” in the forty years as a professional criminal prosecu-tor.

Noguez, Mc Neil and Salari are being accused of engaging in an elaborate and complex con-spiracy to slash property values and save millions in property taxes to help Salari’s clients.

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Within an hour of the Noguez arrest, both Mc Neil, and Salari were handcuffed and taken into custody at two other locations in Los Angeles County. McNeil at his home in the Venice area, and Salari at his multi-million dol-lar mansion in the San Fernando

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JUAN REYNALDO RODRIGUEZ aka: John Noguez13 Counts of Embezzlement 5 Counts of Perjury 4 Counts of Soliciting Bribes 2 Counts of Conspiracy to Misappropriate Funds

sleeping shorts and a t-shirt. After being allowed to change clothes, the Assessor of the nation’s larg-est property tax collecting agen-cy was handcuffed, and escorted to the back seat of an unmarked Sheriff’s car.

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LOS CERRITOS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPEROver 50 Investigative Articles PublishedOver 3,000 Interviews Conducted With SourcesOver 3,000 Emails Obtained Between Noguez, Salari, and Property Tax Agents, Assessor Staff139 Visits to the LA County Hall of Administration, LA County Government Offices

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More than 300 Democratic activists and friends gathered at Cerritos Park East on, Oct. 12 to support President

Barack Obama and Democratic victories throughout Southeast Los Angeles Coun-ty. The event was sponsored and hosted by former Cerritos Mayors

Joseph Cho, PhD and Laura Lee, the Hubert Humphrey Democratic Club, and elected officials from the surrounding cit-ies of Artesia, Hawaiian Gardens, Lake-wood and

Norwalk. Artesia councilman Victor Manalo

welcomed those who attended and said that only at a Democratic event could they see such diversity in the room. Many ethnic groups were represented including Chi-nese, Korean, Filipino, Indian, Pakistani, Latino and African American.

Former Cerritos Mayor Laura Lee spoke about the difference in philosophy between the two major political parties and said, “It is important for all of us in this room to work hard to support our can-didates and officials so that we have many Democratic victories on Nov. 6.” States Senator Alan Lowenthal, Assemblymem-ber Tony Mendoza, and Assembly candi-dates Ian Calderon (AD57), and Cristina Garcia (AD58), echoed Lee’s remarks and Gary Guthman, representative of AFSC-ME 36 urged NO on 32.

Keynote Speaker, Congresswoman Linda Sanchez fired up the group with her speech and warnings of more problems if the Republicans were to take over the

White House or Congress. “Let us not for-get how we got into this economic crisis in the first place, and the Republicans want us to go back to those same policies again. We have already tried them in the past, and they don’t work!” Sanchez reminded many of the business people in the room that the Republican Party says it is for business. “And it is, but only for big business and the corporations—not small business owners such as yourselves!” Sanchez encouraged everyone to get their friends and family out to the polls and vote.

Artesia Councilman Manalo and Cer-ritos Commissioner Cindy Yen Chen intro-duced the local officials from surrounding cities including Artesia council members Miguel Canales and Tony Lima, Cerritos Councilman Mark Pulido, Hawaiian Gar-dens Mayor Pro Tem Victor Farfan, Lake-wood Councilman Steve Croft, La Palma councilman Ralph Rodriguez and Nor-walk councilman Marcel Rodarte.

Guests included State Assembly Can-didates Ian Caldron and Cristina Garcia, Host Committee members Artesia Coun-cilmembers Miguel Canales, Tony Lima and Victor Manalo, Cerritos Councilman Mark Pulido, Hawaiian Gardens Mayor Pro Tem Victor Farfan, Lakewood Coun-cilman Steve Croft, La Palma councilman Ralph Rodriguez, Norwalk councilman Marcel Rodarte and Event Committees members Hubert H. Humphrey Democrat-ic Club members Mary Ann Tipton, Larry Caballero, Chris Duvali, and Beverly Por-ter, Cerritos Commissioner & Committee members Sultan Ahmad, Cindy Yen Chen, Sam Chu, Nick Kim, Kiyoung Ma and Richard Yu, Ph.D. and NKACOC Secre-tary Phil Ahn.

Photo by Rico DizonCongresswoman Linda Sanchez, State Senator Alan Lowenthal, State, Former Cerritos Mayors Laura Lee and Joseph Cho, members of the Hubert Humphrey Democratic Club and local city officials greeted more than 300 guests who gathered at Cerritos Park East Oct. 12 to support Democratic victories in November.

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Artesia Council Denies Church Parking VarianceBy Rico Dizon

A Request by the Cerritos Presbyte-rian Church [CPC] for an off-street park-ing variance and modification to a Condi-tional Use Permit to convert an incidental gymnasium into a multi-purpose room for the property located at 11840 E. 178th St. was denied by the Artesia city council at its Oct. 8 meeting. Mayor Pro Tem Sally Flowers was absent. .

Planning Director Okina Dor said the existing child care and youth educational center and gymnasium use were devel-oped and approved by the City of Artesia in 2000 with low-impact uses on the sur-rounding residential neighborhood. In de-nying the request the council said approval of the variance would allow for a higher impact multi-purpose room use and would be inconsistent with the City’s original ap-proval.”

The council also noted granting of the variance for additional parking spaces

would be detrimental to the public wel-fare since the applicant did not meet the requirement of 215 parking spaces for the proposed multi-purpose room use under the City Municipal Code. The council said the parking spill -over would be detrimen-tal to those residents that rely on the avail-ability of street parking.”

In his report to the council, Dor said the CPC has started using the gymnasium for other uses including a place of worship and assembly “They need to bring it back to the original set up to comply first within a specified time line before anything else,” clarified the City Planning Director.

Following its request for more time to come up with alternative options, CPC’s latest status report by Session Clerk Woonsup Park on Oct. 8 mostly on the use of shared parking and parking space leases in separate locations failed to convince the City Council and justify the granting of a parking variance and CUP modification to the property.


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“Did you watch the vice presi-dential debate

last week?,” my Friend from Fruitcake, Flori-da asked as he sat him-self down by my desk.

“As a matter of fact, I did,” I replied.

“What did you think of it?”“Well,” I said, “I thought it was a good

one. Both candidates for the most part didn’t beat around the bush. “

“I thought so to,” my friend answered. “How would rate it?

”I call it a draw. If you’re a Democrat you probably would say the Vice President won. If you’re a Republican, I guess you’d say Ryan won.”

“My opinion exactly, “ my Friend said. “They didn’t dance around the issues. That in itself was refreshing. You know,” he added, “It would be nice if Sacramento did the same thing. The legislature votes on a measure but seldom explains its ramifica-

tions to their constituents ““Probably because our representatives

don’t know themselves,” I replied.. My Friend was leading up to something, so I decided to sit back and see where he was going.

“Back in Fruitcake the city council voted to place a measure on the ballot for voter approval. They wanted to initiate a park tax in order upgrade the little league baseball field and adjacent park. They said the measure would only add one cent to the existing park tax and would only be for one year.”

“So what happened?” I asked.“Our good citizens of Fruitcake ap-

proved it. The ball field was redone, but the adjacent park, which I might add needed a makeover, wasn’t touched. The council said it had underestimated the cost of the two projects and decided to put the unused portion of the tax into the city’s general fund.”

“What was wrong with that,” I asked. “Everyone thought that was a good idea.

The good citizens of Fruitcake were led to believe the money would be put aside, with the council budgeting additional funds the following year to tackle the park.”

”What happened?” I asked.“Nothing. The money was used to bal-

ance the budget .” He paused for a moment and then added. “The citizens had had enough and voted those up or re-election out of office. You know the whole episode reminds me of what’s going on in your state capitol.” He paused a for a moment and then continued.” California voters are being asked to approve Proposition 30, which the Governor and Legislature say if approved the money will go to the state’s schools when actually it will go into the state’s general fund to help balance the budget.

“Yes, “ I interjected,” but the state will

not sock the schools and colleges this year with additional cuts the school year.”

“I have a question for you,” my Friend from Fruitcake, Florida said, “This propo-sition will raise approximately $6 billion. The state deficit is close to $15 billion. How’s the State going to meet the balance of the deficit? And what will happens dur-ing the 2013-14 school year.”

“The answer to your first question,” I stated, “is the governor and legislature will use the money to lower the deficit and the schools will not get hit with new cuts this fiscal year. As for the deficit balance I don’t have an answer. As for the 2013-14 fiscal year your guess is as good as mine.

What about Proposition 38? he asked. “Doesn’t the money raised from that go to the schools.”

:Approximately 60 percent of the rev-enue will go to schools for the first four years. After that 85 percent will go to the schools. The balance will go into the gen-eral fund.” I answered. Proposition 38 rev-enue would be placed in a fund out of reach of the legislature and governor and could only be used for the schools. The catch is the money will probably not be available until after the new school year begins in June.”

“What happens in the meantime?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” but it seems to me it’s the better of the two. If they both pass, the one with the highest number of votes wins,” I added.

My Friend from Fruitcake, Florida didn’t answer. Finally he said, “I have to get going, I’m meeting VAL LYNDER, DEFENDER OF ALL THAT IS TRUE and her cousin “MATILDER for lunch.. I’m sure they’ll have a few things to say about the deficit and both propositions.

“Good luck,” I said as he left the office.

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Vicki Doolittle, Su Casa Executive Di-rector said the agency will use the grant to provide shelter, food, and healing services for victims of domestic violence and their children. “We are enormously grateful to the Mary Kay Foundation for this grant award because it will support the critical services that Su Casa provides to victims and their children. Our organization relies

Mary Kay Foundation Awards SU CASA $20,000 Grantupon the community for support to keep families safe and this funding comes at the perfect time for Su Casa. We are proud to partner with the Mary Kay Foundation in breaking the cycle of abuse. “

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The ABCUSD has much to be proud of. API scores for the ABC Unified School District rose from an average of 832 in 2010-11 to 848 based on the current enrollment of 20,976 students in the 30 District schools.

Twenty ABC schools have met or ex-ceeded the 800 API point score, up from the 18 schools last year. Schools with the highest scores included Leal Elementary (967), Carmenita Middle School (946), and Whitney High School (995). Superin-tendent Dr. Mary Sieu noted that four out

of five of the District’s elementary school s are at or over the API mark of 800.

Members of the school board have all expressed pride in the District’s teach-ers, noting that despite budget cuts and furlough days made in the last four years they have remained focused on teaching and learning, Dr. Sieu said,” In light of diminishing resources that all public schools are facing, it is incredible that ABC has been able to raise the student ac-ademic achievement the past five years.”

Schools with the biggest API scores are: Niemes Elementary, +35; Burbank Elementary, +46; Fedde Middle School, +56; Artesia High School, +28; ABC Sec-ondary, +73; Tracy High School, +104.

One of the largest shifts took place at Fedde Middle School in Hawaiian Gardens, where the school’s API score improved from 685 to 741, an increase

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CERRITOSWeekly Crime SummaryOct. 8–14, 2012

There were 28 Part I felony investiga-tions conducted by members of the Cer-ritos Sheriff’s Station last week, up from 22 the week before. Increases were noted in robberies, commercial burglaries and vehicle burglaries. Residential burglaries declined and vehicle thefts remained the same. There were 277 calls for service handled by patrol personnel, down from 282 the previous reporting period. The new 2012 weekly average in calls for ser-vice is now 291.

Two robberies were reported and both involved shoplifting incidents that esca-lated into physical contact. At 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday October 9 a loss prevention offi-cer was attempting to detain a suspect at a retail store in the 11500 block of South Street when the suspect struggled in an at-tempt to flee. He was subdued and arrest-ed. Just over an hour later another suspect fought with the same loss prevention of-ficer while attempting to get away. He too was ultimately placed in custody.

Residential burglaries dropped from seven to three last week. Two entries were made possible by open/unlocked doors or windows and a window was shattered in the third case. Cash, a safe, coins, jewelry, a camera and wallets were stolen. The 2012 weekly average in residential burglaries is now 4.9.

We have previously mentioned that the residential burglar will try to enter the home with the least amount of effort. Leaving doors and windows open creates that effortless opportunity. In one case last week, a second story window was left open and was used as a point of entry. Re-gardless of where the door or window is located, make sure that you check and se-cure them prior to leaving the residence.

Four commercial burglaries were logged last week, up from two the week before. Two school lockers were targeted for cell phones. A warehouse and a closed business were the other crime scenes where laptop computers were stolen. Two were recovered in the warehouse case. The 2012 weekly average in “other structure”/commercial burglaries is 2.2.

Vehicle burglaries rose from four to eight. Five occurred in high-volume com-mercial parking lots and two were SUVs. Cash, purses, a stereo, wallets, credit cards

and a third-row seat (from an SUV) were taken. The 2012 weekly average in vehicle burglaries is 7.1.

If a vehicle burglary suspect can see your property inside of the vehicle, he or she can steal it in seconds and leave you a shattered window to repair as well.

Vehicle thefts remained the same at three last week. Two of the thefts involved high-volume commercial parking lots. An SUV, a Honda and a Toyota were stolen. The new 2012 weekly average in vehicle thefts remained at 3.9.

There was no information to suggest that any of these vehicles were equipped with any type of anti-theft device. Trans-portation is the primary cause of vehicle thefts, therefore to the thief, any make or model will do. Consider a steering wheel locking device that serves as a good visual deterrent.

Go to www.safercerritos.com for an extensive library of crime prevention tips, disaster preparedness information, and a variety of links to other pertinent sites.

OpportunitiesVolunteers on Patrol WantedThe Cerritos Sheriff’s Station is seek-

ing Volunteers on Patrol (VOPs). Patrol-ling the City in distinctly marked vehicles, VOPs assist with crime suppression, traf-fic control, vacation checks, special events and park security checks. They serve as additional “eyes and ears” for the Sheriff’s Department and train as first responders in the event of a major emergency or di-saster.

If you are interested in helping Cerritos maintain its reputation as a safe place to live and work, the Cerritos Sheriff’s Sta-tion encourages you to apply to be a VOP. For more information, contact the Cerritos Sheriff’s Station at (562) 860-0044, or visit the Cerritos Sheriff’s Station to obtain an application.

Block Captains WantedIf you are interested in becoming a

Block Captain in the Cerritos Neighbor-hood Watch, contact the Community Safe-ty office at 562-916-1266. Block Captains act as contacts for the Sheriff’s Depart-ment and the Community Safety Division on behalf of their neighbors. They are also responsible for distributing informa-tion and do a great deal to promote public safety in Cerritos.

Remember, informed citizens who use safe living strategies are safer citizens! We encourage residents, business owners, and their employees to consider joining the Virtual Block Club (VBC). If you are interested in helping our Sheriff’s Depart-ment prevent and reduce crime, and en-hancing your own personal and neighbor-hood safety, join the VBC on-line at our website devoted to public safety in the City of Cerritos. We encourage you to share the information with your family, friends, and co-workers. Go to www.safercerritos.com to sign up.


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In a stunning announcement, Demo-cratic State Assembly candidate Cristina Garcia admitted that she does not have a Doctoral degree from the University of Southern California less than one month before voters decide her fate at the ballot box.

Garcia is in a tight November election campaign in the newly drawn 58th State Assembly District against Downey busi-nesswoman Patricia Kotze-Ramos.

Garcia has campaigned heavily on “cleaning up corruption” and for “open transparency in Sacramento.”

Garcia told Los Cerritos Community Newspaper in a statement on Thursday af-ternoon:

“In my campaign literature for state assembly, I stated that I have a PhD from USC. While I have finished all of my course work, I technically am only a PhD candi-date. I have yet to finish the final process of my PhD, which is defending my disserta-tion. I will fulfill that final responsibility in the near future.”

“As such, I take full responsibility for using the term PhD instead of PhD candi-date in my campaign literature. For that I humbly apologize and ask for the forgive-ness and understanding of all the voters of the 58th Assembly District,” Garcia said.

“The facts of the matter are these. In the fall of 2009, I completed all my required class work and took my qualifying exams to receive my PhD in Public Administration for the University of Southern California. I completed my dissertation in 2010. My dis-sertation included a more than one hundred pages thesis detailing social barriers that discourage volunteerism among women in the United States. Woman participating in public service is something near and dear to my heart,” she said.

“It is the reason I decided to vigilant-ly participate in anti-corruption efforts throughout southeast Los Angeles County. I have included a copy of my transcript to provide documentation of these facts.”

“Again, I ask forgiveness and under-standing of all the voters of the 58th As-sembly District. I remain dedicated to help-ing to provide the people I hope to serve with government that is transparent and ethical,” Garcia concluded.

Kotze-Ramos, who is challenging Gar-cia for the newly created Assembly seat told LCCN, “I did know that Cristina lied about her credentials. I think it is commendable that she came forward to tell the truth. It is not the worst thing in the world. I am not into mudslinging. This campaign is about who is going to be the best representative for our community.”

Kotze-Ramos, who oversees a private

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cil members, including comments made by Artesia Councilman Victor Manalo who actually serves as a Cantor, Reader and who plays an active role during Masses at Holy Family.

During the public discussion of the matter last week Manalo tells members of the public that “on Saturday, I was ac-costed in the parking lot, I’m just kidding, but, the (Artesia-Cerritos) Lions Club had their high school kids out there at the en-trances (at Artesia Park) because there was a Mass going on where the Bishop (The Most Reverend Jose Gomez, who oversees the entire Los Angeles Catholic Archdio-cese), so there was a lot of people coming to Church that morning, and they (the Li-ons Club) were worried that they had their pancake breakfast (put in jeopardy).”

“The way we change this behavior is to start giving tickets, and we tell the Church, and this is my Church, so I will also tell them that they have to tell every singly Mass not to park over there or you’re go-ing to get a ticket,” said Manalo.

Manalo went on to say during the meet-ing “and I know they are all going to call me, and that’s okay, I’ll deal with it, that is something they need to know that we need for our users as well.”

Theresa Prumatico, who is the Presi-dent of the Artesia Cerritos Lions Club, told city officials that “people were fly-ing in the parking lot to get to our event, but they (Parishioners at Holy Family) ig-nored the barricades, endangered the lives of our poor kids. In fact, they almost hit me several times. We put our children at risk because they have to monitor the main parking lot. They (Holy Family Church at-tendees) blatantly ran through the barri-cades. I went up to Manalo and asked ‘what

can I do about this, because that time they were trying to hit our poor kids.”

Councilman Miguel Canales said he “urged the city council to explore the idea of charging for parking” during Holy Fam-ily’s upcoming annual October Fest that attracts thousands of attendees during the upcoming weekend of October 26-28. Fr. Raymond told LCCN that the “Oktober-fest” is the biggest fundraiser at the church each and every year.

Canales said he believed that charg-ing for parking at Artesia Park during the Holy Family Oktoberfest would “generate money” for the Artesia City Foundation. Canales said he advocates the installation of parking meters at the site.

“I know that’s not going to go well,” Canales said.

Councilman Tony Lima said he wanted to see if Artesia city staff members could “isolate the parking lot from the church.”

Manalo then told Lima “if we ticket them, they will stop.”

Mayor John Lyon said “we need to move forward with the signs, and have parking enforcement officers there during (Mass) times. If they walk away for the parking lot (at Artesia Park) and head to Holy Family he can holler at them and if they walk away they can get a ticket.”

City Manager Maria Dadian told Lyon, “That will happen. I guarantee it.”

Manalo continued by telling Dadian “if the church is going to be impacted by this, we should send out a letter to the church and let them know that this is the direction of the city council and that cars will be ticketed and you better start letting people know.”

Dadian then tells Manalo, “they (Holy Family officials) were made aware that you were going to have this discussion tonight at this meeting, and that there was a repre-sentative here earlier, but the left.”

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Pulido said he took “great personal offense” from neighbor’s whom he said made “personal threats against my char-acter here tonight.”

“I live here. I plan to die here. This is Democracy at play. My views align with hundreds of friends of mine. We have to live with ourselves. I grew up in a family that wasn’t affluent. I take my family to Goodwill, I shop at Goodwill,” said Pu-lido.

Pulido also vehemently lashed out at the many residents who had spoke out against his support of the proposed store. “I take exception to your threats. This is politics. I recognize this. You need to re-spect me,” Pulido said.

Cerritos Mayor Pro-Tem Bruce Bar-rows said he opposed the project because “it was the wrong fit for the community.”

Councilwoman Carol Chen said that “the City Council appreciates the voices of the community. I am glad to see the prop-erty owner wanting to get a tenant into the shopping center. This particular project may not be suitable due to the close prox-imity where the neighbors live.”

Councilman Joseph Cho, a previous supporter of the project said “I commend Goodwill to have made the modifications, and for holding two open houses for the community to visit the inside of the store. I support diversity of all people. Residents have concerns about this in their neigh-borhood. I feel no obligation to Goodwill, so I will not support this.”

Cerritos Mayor Jim Edwards ended the discussion by adding, “this has been a long night. I exclusively give to Vietnam Vets organizations. We don’t like to be threatened by residents. After eight years of hearing threats, I vote for the things you asked me to do. This project is not located in the right place.”

have the cows back instead.”Jonathan Doty, who oversees the own-

ership of the property site tried to assure the angry crowd that “it would not look like a jail. We have complied with all of the concerns of the residents and from the Cerritos planning staff.”

Doty also pointed out that the plan would have included nearly 7,000 square feet of landscaping and that a proposed donation drop off site would not be in-cluded in the plan.

Cerritos resident Charles Joslin, who has lived in the neighborhood for five year’s said that he supports Goodwill, but “they haven’t been a perfect steward on this particular project.” “There will be transients, and lots of dumping of used goods in the entire parking lot, and none of us deserve having to be subjected to this type of potential harm and abuse,” Joslin said.

One of the most vocal opponents to the project was Cerritos resident Shaileish Patel who lashed out at Pulido by stating “Mr. Pulido, did you promise these peo-

ing into City Hall and who is going into the Church. I have seen (Holy Family Church) members even park at city hall in our park-ing lot.”

Earlier Tuesday morning, Manalo told Los Cerritos Community Newspaper in an email “I had a meeting this afternoon with Fr. Raymond and two members of his administrative staff. I listened to their concerns about the impact of the council's decision regarding the parking lot of the Artesia Community Center, and I was able to share my rationale for my decision. I am happy to report that we have pledged to work together to ensure that Holy Family's concerns are adequately addressed.”


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RANDY ECONOMY PHOTOBrian Hews, Publisher of Los Cerritos Community Newspaper reviews the formal in-dictment document of Los Angeles County Assessor Juan Reynaldo Rodriguez (aka: John R. Noguez) with an member of the Fox News Investigations Unit.

Valley.All are being held on bails of at least

$1.1 to $1.3 million. They are expected to appear in Division 30 of at the Claire Shortridge Justice Building on Friday. Los Cerritos Community Newspaper will be present during the appearance.

“Los Angeles County voters and tax-payers deserve honest, hardworking elect-ed and appointed officials who will serve the best interests of the people,” Dist. Atty. Cooley said during a press confer-ence Wednesday. “Residents must have confidence that their government is not for sale to the highest bidder or the high-est briber.”

Cooley reminded members of the me-dia on Wednesday that “his real name is Juan Renaldo Rodriguez.”

“Even his name John Noguez is a lie,” Cooley said.

Salari, the flashy tax consultant and campaign contributor to Noguez, was ar-rested at a residence in Encino by D.A. in-vestigators. The 49-year-old is being held on $1.36 million bail. All of Salari’s finan-cial assets were frozen on Wednesday as well, Cooley said.

McNeil, a principal assessor promoted by Noguez to head the Major Appraisal Division, was arrested at his home in West Los Angeles by D.A. investigators. The 54-year-old is being held on $1.16 million bail.

The complaint’s Overt Acts allege that Noguez accepted $185,000 in bribes from Salari between February and September, 2010. Noguez also received a list of prop-erties represented by Salari.

Soon after receiving the checks and the list, Noguez’ chief appraiser, McNeil, appeared at hearings and reduced the as-

of Noguez past political donors, as well as campaign advisors are considered to be part of the massive probe.

Court documents filed claim that Sal-ari was listed as owning more than $3.3 million in assets, including property in Calabasas now in escrow, a new Ferrari worth $229,000, a Mercedes, BMW and Infiniti.

"The chutzpah is way out there," Cool-ey said.

"I've been with this office for nearly four decades," he added. "This particular case strikes me as the largest, most sig-nificant public corruption case in terms of county government during that time frame."

Also in the indictment, the Los An-geles County Property Appeals Board reviewed nine different properties repre-sented by Salari. Assessor Representative Roger Walls, who has not been arrested or charged but is named in the complaint, recommended an assessed value well be-low the value recommended by the testify-ing appraiser, according to the complaint.

Noguez's lawyer, Michael Proctor told media members that the arrest “con-tradicts earlier promises” made by the Cooley office during the course of the in-vestigation.

"John Noguez has been given assur-ances by the District Attorney's Office that he would have the opportunity to tell his side of this controversy before any final charging decision was made," Proctor said in a statement Wednesday. "By arresting Mr. Noguez today, before honoring that commitment, the District Attorney's Of-fice is communicating that this was not in fact a search for truth, but a one-sided, result-driven investigation aimed at `get-ting' Mr. Noguez."

Cooley responded: “All Noguez has to do is waive his Miranda rights and I have plenty of prosecutors willing to talk to him."

sessed value on numerous properties, in-cluding the Old Spaghetti Factory, and properties in Santa Monica, Hermosa Beach, Torrance and Los Angeles.

The complaint also alleges Noguez also told appraiser Scott Schenter to “take care of our buddy Ramin,” and, “We have to take care of our donors.” Schenter was charged previously in a separate com-plaint.

Noguez is charged with 24 felony counts, including four counts of accepting bribes; five counts of perjury, two counts of conspiracy; and 13 counts of misappro-priation by a public officer. The complaint alleges the fraud and embezzlement ex-ceeds $500,000.

Salari is charged with 23 felony counts, including eight counts of bribing an ex-ecutive officer; two counts of conspiracy; and 13 counts of misappropriation. In ad-dition to allegedly bribing Noguez, Salari is charged with four counts of paying ap-praiser Scott Schenter $100,000 in bribes.

McNeil is charged with 14 felony

counts, including one count of conspiracy and 13 counts of misappropriation by a public officer.

Schenter, who worked from 1988 to early 2011 as a county appraiser, was charged in a separate complaint with al-legedly slashing values on multi-million dollar homes, condos and businesses in Beverly Hills, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades. He allegedly secured campaign contributions from the owners of those homes and business for Noguez.

Deputy District Attorneys Susan Schwartz and Michele Gilmer are pros-ecuting the case.

If convicted as charged, Noguez faces up to 30 years, four months in state prison; Salari faces up to 29 years, four months in state prison; and McNeil faces up to 20 years, eight months in state prison.

During the press announcement about the arrests, Cooley told LCCN that addi-tional arrests are “pending.” “This crimi-nal case is still evolving,” he said.

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Douglas D. Dumhart, Community De-velopment Director of La Palma, said that a living testimony of helping people real-ize a part of their American Dream is the Tapestry Walk Affordable Town Homes located on the north side of La Palma Ave. east of Denni St. and adjacent to Luther Elementary School, the first such project in the City.

Dumhart told the Community News “the City signed an Agreement with Ol-son Company in June of 2011 to develop f affordable housing on approximately one acre bought by the City for $1.4 million in December of 2010 with redevelopment funds.” A part of the City General Plan in 1999 and updated in 2009, the objective of the Agreement, was to provide owner-ship housing opportunities to low income eligible buyers who otherwise may not be able to purchase a home in La Palma.

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could only accommodate 12 units.” Twelve town home units were constructed for mixed income households: six units at fair market rate of $415,000 and six units for low to moderate income families at price range of $165,000 to $299,000 each. By low income it meant household with two to five members earning a combined in-come of $38,000 to $61,000 while moder-ate income household are those with total income of $61,000 to 81,000.

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There were so many turning points in last Friday’s pivotal Suburban League football game between host Norwalk

and Bellflower but the one that hurts the most is the one that ended the game. A hold-ing call following a sack on fourth down gave new life to Bellflower and Swain Wil-liams tossed a five-yard touchdown pass to Andrew Gose in overtime to lift the Bucca-neers to a 45-44 win on homecoming night.

The Lancers had gone ahead 44-38 on a 14-yard run from senior fullback Malcom McAllister. But the two-point conversion was botched and images of last season’s game at Bellflower were beginning to come back. Norwalk lost to Bellflower 28-27 in overtime last season on a missed extra point, the second straight one-point overtime loss last season.

After the McAllister touchdown, the Bucs had driven to the 11-yard line. But star running back Ryan Hunley was pushed back on consecutive plays. Then on fourth and 13 from the 14-yard line, McAllister appeared to have sacked Williams to end the game. But a late flag was thrown, giving new life to the Bucs. Following the game, Norwalk head coach Jesse Ceniceros was stunned as was the partisan crowd at Excelsior Sta-dium.

“It was a hell of a game but that was a bad call,” Ceniceros said. “I’m sorry. It’s fourth down and you’re going to call a holding call in the end zone? He was sacked already and I saw the flag coming up.

“There were referees who did a poor job today and I’m not going to take anything away from our kids because they played their hearts out,” he continued. “It’s getting bad because we’ve already had three weeks in a row where we’ve had poor [officiating].”

Norwalk (6-2 overall, 2-2 in the league) had entered the game as the third ranked team in the California Interscholastic Feder-ation-Southern Section’s Southeast Division and the game was a match-up of the league’s top two running backs-Hunley and Norwalk junior Rashaad Penny. Those two didn’t disappoint as they combined for over 550 yards. The Lancers took a 7-0 lead on their first play from scrimmage when Penny went around the right side, then cut back and went to the other side of the field where he jaunted for a 55-yard score.

Then on Norwalk’s third play from scrimmage, Penny busted loose for a 91-yard touchdown run and nearly seven minutes in, it was 14-0 and all signs pointed towards

a Norwalk rout. But Gose returned the en-suing kickoff 96 yards and that score was followed by a successful onside kick from Diego Sanchez. Two plays later, Hunley’s 35-yard run tied the game at 14-14. Bellflow-er again would successfully recover another onside kick but was held on downs. Norwalk gained 181 yards in the first quarter but had the ball for 3:20.

“We were up 14-0 and it looked like it was going to be a blowout,” Ceniceros said. “Then they got some hope and they came back.”

The Bucs took their first lead early in the second quarter as Hunley raced down the left sideline for an 84-yard score. But just over three minutes later, McAllister tied the

game at 21-21 on his seven-yard run. After Bellflower regained the lead, the first half ended when junior Jorge Perez booted a 43-yard field goal.

The Lancers took their second lead of the game on their first play of the second half when Penny took it to the house for an 82-yard run. That would be the only score by either team in the third quarter. Penny has now scored 19 touchdowns on the ground with five going for at least 55 yards.

The lead would trade hands twice and after Penny picked off Williams deep in Bellflower territory, it looked as if the Lanc-ers would ice the game. But with 3:02 re-

Norwalk’s Roller Coaster Game Ends in Disputed Call, Loss to Bellflower

PHOTO BY ARMANDO VARGAS, SR.Norwalk sophomore Jacob Carr gets a grasp on Bellflower's Ryan Hunley in last Fri-day's Suburban League game. It was one of Carr's team-high seven and a half tackles.

[See FOOTBALL page 13]


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Just two seasons ago, the Norwalk girls volleyball program had hit rock bottom, going 1-13 overall and fin-

ishing dead last in the Suburban League. But in 2012, the Lady Lancers aren’t just primed to go to the playoffs for the second straight season.

If all of the cards fall into place, Nor-walk could finish as high as second place, or at the very least third place, which hasn’t happened since 2001. This past Tuesday afternoon, Norwalk swept visiting John Glenn 25-22, 25-16, 25-23 to improve to 6-5 overall and 5-2 in the league.

“I kind of played my reserves today,” said Norwalk first-year head coach Jesse Gonzalez. “I have strong four but I just fig-ured I’ll play some of my subs.”

Both teams traded points throughout the first rotation of the first set and when the score reached 9-7 in favor of Glenn, Gonzalez called a timeout but didn’t speak to his team. Instead, he made the players run sprints across the court. That didn’t seem to make much of a difference imme-diately as the Lady Eagles took a 12-7 lead on back to back kills from senior setter Gabby Cruz. Glenn’s lead reached 16-10 before it all fell apart.

“It was just a form of waking them up,” Gonzalez said of the timeout. “They know what they’re supposed to do and they know what they’re capable of doing.”

Following a kill from junior outside

hitter Viviana Gomez, she served seven straight points with five aces. Glenn was able to tie the set three more times but kills from 5’ 9” senior middle blocker Mi-chelle Macias, senior outside hitter Bre-nae Brown and 5’ 8” sophomore middle blocker Jazmin Guzman allowed Norwalk to steal the first set.

“We don’t have a lot of hitters that kill the ball or that hit the ball real hard,” said Glenn head coach David Cruz. “So we don’t have anybody that we can rely on to get points. We’re fortunate that they serve into the net, which they did a lot. That’s the way we were getting our points and that’s the way we got our lead.”

It was all Norwalk in the second set, racing to leads of 8-2 and 13-6. But after the Lady Eagles (1-11, 0-8) rallied to trail by a point at 16-15, a Guzman kill gave the serve to freshman defensive specialist Kathleen Perez, where she reeled off five straight points.

The third set featured five ties in the early going before five straight points from Gomez put the Lady Lancers in front to stay. A kill from Glenn senior libero Jayme Leal made it 24-23 before junior setter Dayna Moreno’s kill capped off Norwalk’s second straight sweep and fifth of the season.

Guzman and Macias led everyone with 14 kills followed by nine from Gomez and eight from Brown, giving Norwalk a for-midable offensive attack that can go toe to toe against Cerritos and La Mirada within the final week of the regular season. Nor-walk hosted first place Mayfair on Oct. 18 and will travel to Artesia on Tuesday and Cerritos on Thursday. The Cerritos match could likely decide third and fourth place.

Over the past 15 seasons, the best league mark for the Lady Lancers was 8-4 back in 1999. Two seasons later, they went 7-5 and three times since then, the best Norwalk did was 6-6.

“We’re trying to do better than we did last year,” Gonzalez said. “I think we can get second. It just takes hard work at prac-tice.”

“They play excellent defense,” David Cruz said. “They don’t let anything fall. They move their feet. They’re excellent in serve receive and it seems like they have flawless fundamentals defensively. And, they have some girls who are aggressive and can put the ball away. I can see them beating Cerritos a second time.”

The Lady Eagles, who are mired in their worst season in over 15 seasons, were led by senior outside hitter Denise Miranda (nine kills) and Cruz (six kills).They visit Mayfair on Tuesday and host Artesia on Thursday. Two seasons ago, Glenn went 3-15 overall and 2-10 in league.

“I was frustrated about two weeks ago,” David Cruz said. “I’m pretty much over that. Against Cerritos [on Oct. 9] when I saw the [lack of] fight in our team…it kind of summarized our season. We find ways to lose a game and once we get down, there’s not a lot of fight in us to get back in the game.”

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Although Penny led everyone with 292 yards on 21 carries, it was the work of Hun-ley that frustrated the Norwalk defense. Hunley rushed for 264 yards on 44 carries while two other players combined for 26 yards on nine touches.

“They had a good game plan and obvi-ously he had some yards on us,” Ceniceros said. “We didn’t end up playing good today. You have to be able to win the big games and obviously we didn’t.”

McAllister added 77 yards on 10 car-ries while senior wingback Bryan Sullivan

chipped in with 60 yards on eight carries. Penny also caught a 21-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Jacquise Hooper midway through the fourth quarter. On de-fense, junior Aaron Armendarez and sopho-more Jacob Carr each had seven and a half tackles. Norwalk’s offense ran two more plays and the number of carries Hunley had and the Lancers were on the field for just un-der 16 minutes. Norwalk will be off tonight before closing the regular season on Oct. 26 against its city rival John Glenn. The Lanc-ers dropped to fourth place in the league with the top three getting automatic playoff berths. Norwalk will also get a forfeit vic-tory over Cerritos and could end the regular season at 8-2 overall and 4-2 in the league. The Lancers still have an outside chance of becoming co-league champions or still sec-ond place outright.

“This was a tough loss and it’s going to be tough for me to get over,” Ceniceros said.

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CITY OF CERRITOSSTATE OF CALIFORNIA

NOTICE TO BIDDERS OF THECONSTRUCTION OF 183RD STREET IMPROVEMENTS,

GRIDLEY ROAD TO PALO VERDE AVENUEPROJECT NO. 13055, BID NO. 1153-13

Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Cerritos, County of Los Angeles, State of California, hereby invites sealed bids for the following:

“CONSTRUCTION OF 183RD STREET IMPROVEMENTS, GRIDLEY ROAD TO PALO VERDE AVENUE, PROJECT NO. 13055, BID NO. 1153-13.”

The work or improvement to be performed generally consists of cold milling 2" of existing asphalt concrete (AC), crack sealing the existing AC, and construction of a 2" AC overlay. Additional improvements also include the removal & replacement of deficient curb & gutter, sidewalk, and wheelchair access ramps; adjustment of utilities to grade; and re-striping of stop bars.

Sealed bids shall be delivered to the City Clerk of the City of Cerritos at or before 11:00 AM on November 13, 2012, at the office of the City Clerk, City of Cerritos, First Floor, 18125 Bloomfield Avenue, Bloomfield Avenue at 183rd Street, Cerritos, California 90703 and marked “CONSTRUCTION OF 183RD STREET IMPROVEMENTS, GRIDLEY ROAD TO PALO VERDE AVENUE, PROJECT NO. 13055, BID NO. 1153-13.”

A set of Contract Documents, including the Plans and Specifications, may be purchased at the Engineering Division of the City of Cerritos for $25.00 ($30.00 if mailing is requested). There will be no refund for return of the Contract Documents. Return of such documents is not required.

The City of Cerritos reserves the right to reject any and all bids, or portions of any and all bids, or waive any informality or irregularity in a bid to the extent allowed by law.

No bid will be accepted from a contractor who has not been licensed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 9, Division III of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California. The contractor must possess a license of the following classification at the time the contract is awarded (and must maintain this license classification through completion of the project): “A” or “C12” is required. The bidder's attention is also directed to Section 7028.15 of the Business and Professions Code.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1776, et al. of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Director of Industrial Relations for the State of California has determined the general prevailing rate of wages and employer payments for health and welfare, vacations, pensions and similar purposes applicable to the work to be done. These rates shall be the minimum rates for this project. Rates are available on the Internet athttp://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. In addition, the information can be obtained by calling the Division of Labor Statistics and Research’s Prevailing Wage Unit at (415) 703-4774, or by faxing the Prevailing Wage Unit at (415) 703-4771, or by writing to: California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Statistics and Research, Prevailing Wage Unit, P.O. Box 420603, San Francisco, CA, 94142.

This is a federally assisted project and the provisions of the federal standards, rules, regulations and requirements including Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rates will be enforced. The higher of the two, state prevailing wage or Davis Bacon, shall apply.

By order of the City of Cerritos

Dated/posted/published: October 19, 2012

Published at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper 10/19/12


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In a match that was decided by nine points, an error here or there could make

the difference in who comes away with a sweep and who gets swept. Valley Christian hooked up with Maranatha this past Tuesday night in a key Olym-pic League girls vol-leyball tilt and the Lady Crusaders were a few plays away from sweeping the Minute-men.

Instead, it was the other way around as V.C. was stunned at home, 25-20, 28-26, 26-24 and lost a home match to Marana-tha for the first time since Oct. 3, 2000. The loss was even more devastating to the Lady Crusaders because they were hop-ing to avenge an earlier four-set loss to the Minutemen while at the same time stay close to front-running Whittier Christian.

“The first game was [25-20] and re-ally that’s two plays,” said V.C. head coach Brett Rinks. “That’s a four-point swing with two errors. Games two and three were both two-point games, so that’s a one-error difference. It was a sweep either way with just a four-point difference in our errors.”

The first set was played as close as anyone could play an opening set. The set was tied 16 times and there were eight lead changes. The largest lead for V.C. was only one point, which occurred seven times. Maranatha’s biggest lead was just two, which happened five times until a kill from Julianne Tyler made it 23-20. In fact, Maranatha scored the final six points of the set.

V.C. (15-5 overall, 2-3 in league) seemed to have its first burst of momentum when it owned leads of 11-6 and 14-7 in the second set. Senior opposite hitter Morgan Haner and sophomore opposite hitter Karly Dan-tuma each slammed three kills as part of those first 14 points. The Lady Crusaders continued to lead until a kill from Emily Anderson tied the set at 22-22.

A kill from senior outside hitter Alyx Henry temporarily prevented Maranatha from winning the set and made it 24-24. Then V.C. was serving for the set after a kill from junior middle blocker Amanda Chamberlain. However, a kill from Lau-ren Holstein, a block from Kendra Logan and an ace from Taylor Chamberlain foiled that chance.

The third set was similar to the first set and had eight ties and four lead changes. Again, the Lady Crusaders, ranked ninth in the California Interscholastic Feder-ation-Southern Section’s Division II-A, were unable to mount any strong surges and didn’t have a lead of greater than two, which came at 7-5. But, V.C. held Marana-tha at match point five times thanks to three aces from senior libero Cayla Palm-er, a kill from Amanda Chamberlain and a block from junior outside hitter Maggie Streelman.

“I think we really confused them at the net,” Rinks said. “Our kills kind of show it. We had a lot of kills for a three-set match. That was part of our new offense we’re running.”

But Logan and Holstein posted kills to end that rally and send the Lady Crusader fans home much earlier than anticipated. It

was only the third three set match all sea-son for V.C., having swept Mayfair back on Sept. 6 and losing in three to Whittier Christian on Oct. 9. In fact, since 2007 and against the current Olympic League mem-bers, V.C. has been involved in 12 league matches that have gone five sets, more than the other four league teams.

“All of these are going to be bat-tles, whether they go three, four

or five,” Rinks said. “It’s just depending on the night and both teams and all that kind of stuff. But all of the games are going to close between us, Maranatha, Village [Chris-tian] and Whittier [Christian].

It just comes down to the team who steps up that night.”Haner led V.C. with 14 kills and

five aces while Henry added 10 kills. Amanda Chamberlain and Dantuma each chipped in with seven kills as the Lady Crusaders visited Village Christian on Oct. 18 and will cap their regular season home slate on Tuesday against last place Heritage Christian. With Whittier Chris-tian knocking off Village Christian this past Tuesday night, the Oct. 18 match will most likely decide third and fourth place.

Valley Christian Slips Back in Standings, Suffers Rare Home Loss to Maranatha

Whitney High School graduate Meghan Fong was awarded an Air Force ROTC schol-arship and is currently at NYU, studying Pre-Law. This year, there were over 16,000 ROTC applicants and only 400 awards for Type 1 and Type 2 scholarships. Meghan is a product of the ABC Unified School District, starting at Cerritos Elementa-ry, then one year at Carmenita Junior High, and entered Whitney High in the 8th grade. She was a member of the National Honor Society, varsity tennis team captain, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and graduated Whitney with high honors.She is currently a freshman at New York University, as well as a cadet at Air Force ROTC Detachment 560 in New York.

Whitney Graduate Awarded ROTC Scholarship


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