Dennis McCarthy
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Local governments
Hey, LA County supervisors – this woman has her eyes on you: Dennis McCarthy
The bumper sticker on Genevieve Clavreul’s electric scooter tells you all you need to know about this straight-talking, no-nonsense 76-year-old retired nurse.“Don’t mess with me, I get paid to stab people with sharp objects.”For the last 18 years, Clavreul’s been surgically stabbing members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors with sharp objects every chance she gets - which is a lot considering...
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Community
A USS Arizona survivor gets beyond the past for the sake of peace
The second to the last man to be rescued from the burning USS Arizona before it sank to the bottom of Pearl Harbor sat at the dining room table of his La Mirada home in late 2013 trying to decipher the directions on how to make an origami crane.An ancient Japanese legend promised that anyone who folded a thousand origami cranes would be granted a wish by the Gods, and Lauren Bruner had a big one in mind.The phone call that had brought him to this moment had come two years...
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Individual giving
There’s still hope for books looking for a good home: Dennis McCarthy
Normally, Jim Proctor would have asked the man why he was making such an impressive donation, but he could see the donor was emotional, close to tears, as he handed over box after box of beautiful art books in pristine condition from the trunk of his car.They had obviously been in his private library, a valued possession, but now he was donating them to a local Goodwill book center, and he was having a hard time letting go.In the little over a year that Proctor has worked at...
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Travel
Rhone river cruise offers trip through France at a leisurely pace
How’s this for an opening act?It’s midnight in Paris and you’re standing within a stone’s throw of the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day with a million fun-loving, wine-guzzling French people singing “La Marseillaise” — France’s national anthem.The tower is lit up like a Macy’s Christmas tree and fireworks are shooting out from every level, lighting up the night sky. You feel like you’re in the middle of a Woody...
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Off-the-grid living
Living life ‘off the grid’ at the edge of America: Dennis McCarthy
The last flag stop train in America slows to a crawl at mile marker 239 outside Talkeetna, Alaska, where recluse Jimmy James waits by the tracks with a .44 revolver strapped to his hip, and a steel hook for a left hand he blew off cleaning his shot gun.Ever since appearing on the reality TV show Alaska Railroad, James and his wife, Nancy, have become reluctant celebrities in these parts.“I told him it was a mistake to go on that TV show, but he...
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Museums
Local actor uses Ben Franklin role to express power of the press: Dennis McCarthy
It’s doubtful there’s an actor in Hollywood today who has consistently faced a tougher, more challenging audience on stage than Phil Soinski. For the last 15 years, he’s had only one acting job, one role to play -- Benjamin Franklin in front of groups of elementary and middle school kids visiting the International Printing Museum in Carson.Nobody knows what it feels like to die on stage as a founding father better than this North Hollywood man.And now here...
