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Malibu City Council Candidate Jimy Tallal drops out of race Part three of getting to know your now five candidates campaigning for your vote this November Q&A By THE MALIBU TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
On Friday, Oct. 14, Malibu City Council Candidate Jimy Tallal announced that she was dropping out of the race. Tallal released the following statement: “I want to thank all of my many supporters for their ongoing help during my run for Malibu City Council. Unfortunately, some things have come up, and I’ve decided to drop out of the race for personal reasons. Instead, I ask my supporters to vote for Marianne Riggins and Doug Stewart for City Council, both of whom are excellent candidates.” Tallal had no further comment at this time. City Council Candidates 2022 Q&A Part III
As Tallal drops out of the race, campaigning continues for the five remaining candidates seeking election for the two open seats on Malibu’s City Council. In alphabetical order by last name, the five candidates are Ryan Embree, Hap Henry, Marianne Riggins, Bill Sampson, and Doug Stewart. As a follow-up to the last two weeks’ City Council Candidates 2022 Q&A, each candidate had the opportunity to answer the same list of questions from The Malibu Times Editorial Board in 150 words or less in addition to their introduction and statement at 200 words. In light Winners of the various categories of the pie-baking contest pose together Oct. 15 at the Malibu Pie Festival at Malibu United Methodist Church. Photo by Devon Meyers/TMT of Tallal’s exit from the election, we have removed her answers from the questionnaire. The candidate’s answers are presented in alphabetical order by last The Malibu Pie Festival nual Malibu Pie Festival on Satur- val was well-attended. DeAngelis grew up attending the name. Please refer to last week’s paper returns in-person after day, Oct. 15. Pastor Erin Stenberg said she Pie Festival and said she has been for Part II and Oct. 6 for Part I. The free admission event fea- was excited to have the commu- attending as long as she could retwo-year hiatus tured activities, entertainment, nity come together for some pie. member. She has participated in Question: Can Malibu support and food selections for the whole “To be back here again in per- the event as a pie contest baker and By EMMANUEL LUISSI family, and proceeds from sales at an independent school district with son, we were ready and I think the a pie judge and said the event is Special to The Malibu Times a dwindling population and fewthe event benefited church youth community was as well because important for the community. “I think everyone is happy to er children enrolled in local public Malibu United Methodist and family programs as well as they didn’t let a little mist keep be back. I’m certainly happy to schools? them away,” Stenberg said. Church welcomed residents and community service projects. Despite a gloomy day, the festiCONTINUED ON PAGE A9 community leaders to the 31st anMiss Teen United States Rachel CONTINUED ON PAGE A8
Pies delight at Malibu United Methodist Church
Malibu Farmers market is squeezed out of regular Civic Center location Farmers Market entreats officials to help find new location during construction phase of SMC satellite campus By JUDY ABEL Special to The Malibu Times
Writer and Malibu native Nancy Walecki shows off her article in Cosmopolitan about the cumulative trauma experienced by students affected by the Borderline mass shooting and Woolsey Fire in 2018. Contributed Photo
2016 Malibu High School grad’s first article appears in national publication Story chronicles Pepperdine students’ trauma losing a fellow classmate at the Borderline shooting and Woolsey Fire one day later By JUDY ABEL Special to The Malibu Times
As a little girl growing up in Malibu, Nancy Walecki was often called “the little girl with the big voice.” She earned the nickname due to her impressive singing ability that was often heard at Webster Elementary talent shows and as a standout
member of the award-winning Malibu High School choir that performed at prestigious Carnegie Hall in 2014. Now just out of college Walecki has found her voice as a writer with her first national magazine feature published in this October’s issue of Cosmopolitan. “Cosmo,” as it’s known, is a young women’s empowerment publication with 61 million readers typically known for sex tips and dating advice, but Walecki’s piece focuses on a serious topic that affects many young millennials and Gen-Z’s. It’s about the Borderline mass shooting and Woolsey Fire resulting in compounding cumulative trauma and how it affects “young people
coming of age now.” The well-researched article took a year to write. It chronicles a group of Pepperdine girls who went to the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks for college night country line dancing on Nov. 7, 2018. That’s the tragic night a mass shooter took 13 lives, including his own and that of Pepperdine student Alaina Housley. The very next night, the Woolsey Fire forced the same girls, in shock over the death of their friend and some recovering from injuries suffered while escaping the shooting, to shelter in place with fellow dorm mates. CONTINUED ON PAGE A8
The organizer of the Malibu Farmers Market is imploring city officials to find a space for the weekly market and gathering space that’s being displaced by construction of the new Santa Monica College satellite campus. Years ago, the Civic Center location was designated for construction amid worries that the market could lose its Sunday spot in the county-owned property in front of the Malibu Library. In 2016 a deputy from LACO Public Works assured the Malibu Planning Commission that the market could keep its designated area, but that was upended after Labor Day when Debra Bianco of the Cornucopia Foundation went to set up the market and, without prior notice, discovered a fence erected at the site and half the space eliminated. Without the proper ingress and egress to the library parking lot, the market was forced to set up across the street at Legacy Park, but that appears to violate the park’s Conditional Use Permit (CUP) restrictions. Bianco says
this not only affects the Malibu community, but also the vendors who travel far distances to provide fresh fruit and vegetables. “We never know how the Farmers Market is going to look each week, due to the lack of communication. This upsets the vendors and the residents because they have to find their new spot every week, and it creates a bit of chaos and confusion.” “It keeps coming up in City Council,” Malibu City Councilmember Steve Uhring said. “We need gathering places. After the fire we lost 400 and some odd homes. People left Malibu; they had to move to different cities because there wasn’t enough rental housing here for them. Some have come back; some haven’t. It’s changed our community. These community gathering places are extremely important because it gives you a chance to meet your neighbors, you can swap a beer, you can tell stories, you can complain about stuff or say how good everything is. It helps build the community. Malibu Farmers Market is one of the important components of that. If you’re there on Sundays you see your friends. We’re buying fruit, food, it’s a good thing to do. Why the city has not become more aggressive in trying to help I don’t really understand?” CONTINUED ON PAGE A8
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this week
Joshua Malina stars in world premiere play at the Old Globe | B1
Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . .A2 News Briefs . . . . . . . . . .A3 • Missing person found dead in Santa Monica Mountains; foul play suspected
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . .A4 • Events
Real Estate . . . . . . . . . A7
Malibu Life . . . . . . . . . .B1 • Salt Salon + Shoppe holds Grand Opening party in Point Dume Village last Friday
People . . . . . . . . . . . . .B2 • Malibu activism in action at museum soiree
Community . . . . . . . . . .B3 Legal Notices . . . . . . . . .B4 Business & Directory . . . B7 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . B7 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . B10 • Pepperdine’s Mallette shooting for more wins