You might not be able to point to Lakewood on a map. It’s a charming suburb of Los Angeles near Long Beach. But you know what, that’s part of what makes it so charming! When you live in Lakewood, you get all of the sunshine and beaches of California without the crowds. Lakewood might be a small town, but there’s way more to do here than you might think! It’s a great time to shop for a home in Lakewood. Let’s see some of the variety you can find here.
Brewery in town
A trip to Lakewood, CA, no matter how short, should definitely include a stop at Timeless Pints Brewing Company, Lakewood’s only microbrewery, located just behind Long Beach Airport. Here, you can relax with a pint of craft beer in your hand or sample their wide variety of beers available on tap, including IPAs, stouts, and ales. You can sit outside and order something to eat too, to go with your drink.
Lakewood Equestrian Center
When in town with the kids, Lakewood Equestrian Center is always a good idea for family time and outdoor fun. The horseback riding center is a training facility that offers pony rides, a petting zoo, and a variety of equestrian activities, including riding lessons and horse training. Pony Time, a private company located on the center’s grounds, offers different kid-friendly activities and events, including camps and birthday parties. Through Shoestring City Ranch, a non-profit organization, the center also helps rescue horses.
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West San Gabriel River Parkway Nature Trail
There’s no better way to relax than by reconnecting with nature, breathing fresh air, and taking the time to look around to witness its glory. When in Lakewood, one of the best places for taking walks is West San Gabriel River Parkway Nature Trail, a tree-lined trail that stretches along the San Gabriel River, offering beautiful vistas, bird watching, and biking and jogging options. Your dog is welcome to join you on your walk, as long as it’s kept on a leash.
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Lakewood is close to Long Beach Airport, LAX, and Popular Socal amusement parks too.
Happy Thanksgiving from the Corey Chambers Real Estate Team
The month of November brings about an extra opportunity to say Thank You for being a valuable part of our business. As most begin to prepare for the Holiday season, plan Thanksgiving get-togethers and the like, it’s easy to become wrapped up in all that we have to do to ensure a fun, joyful time for all we are responsible for — while overlooking all that we have to be thankful for. Gratitude, though, is a contagious attitude! | VIDEO
Unfortunately, many homeowners are desperate to exit their current homes. Actually, loathing this time of year adds to the frustration of not being settled for the Holidays. You may know someone or a family that fits this description.
Here is where you and I can HELP!
AND remember… YOUR referrals help the kids.
Therefore, our Mission is to Go Serve Big!!! Serve you, serve those you refer to us and of course, serve a great cause.
As a result of working with many families over the years, we have developed a unique program to help the homeowners wanting to make a move and Sell Fast, For Top Dollar, and with the Least Hassle!
For November, we will guarantee, in writing, the sale of an area home for 100% of Market Value, or I will Pay the Difference.
I know there is some risk on my part to make such an incredible guarantee like that. Still, we sell just about every home we list for the market value price, sometimes even more. So there is no reason for area homeowners, your friends, and your family to fret about selling right now.
This is where you can help!
If you or anyone you know is considering making a move, we offer them a FREE Consultation. We will show them in this No Obligation to Move Consultation how they can make their move. Thus, allowing them to get what they want and do it with the least hassle.
Just like we are thankful for you and your business, I am confident your referrals will be thanking you for steering them in the right direction on getting their home sold!!!
AND remember… Your referrals help the kids.
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Your Referrals Help the Kids. For every referral I receive, I donate a portion to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. With your referrals, you are helping Children’s Hospital ensure that critical life-saving care is available to every child they treat. http://www.ReferralsHelpKids.com
Your referrals help kids!
We are still boldly on a mission to raise $25,000 for Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles this year, and we are getting close! We do this by donating to them a portion of our income from homes we sell. As you know, CHLA does AMAZING work in helping kids fight through and survive nasty diseases like cancer, Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia, and others. They also lead the way in many other fields.
They can provide this care and keep patient costs to a minimum due in large part to and Donations and Sponsorships. We are proud to be an official sponsor of Children’s!
Why I support Childrenʼs Hospital, Los Angeles
Corey Chambers Serving the community with your help.
I grew up in the Greater Los Angeles Area, born in Los Angeles County at St. Francis Hospital. When I first heard about a young person close to our family suffering from a nasty disease and getting treated for that at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. It was then that I began to pay closer attention to the work they do at that hospital. Since then, I have learned that it is a collection of hard-working health care professionals, most making their home right here in the Los Angeles area, all coming together for a common cause. That cause is to help young people overcome unfortunate health issues that life sometimes throws our way. Being a Los Angeles Area California native, I take pride in supporting in a way that I can do the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rallies around our annual goal of raising money and donating portions of our income to help Children’s in their quest to heal young people when they need healing. My team and I are committed to providing outstanding results for buyers and sellers referred to us by our past clients. I have discovered that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles shares a similar commitment to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations, we are happy to contribute and proud to support them. Sincerely,
Corey Chambers
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A real estate company with experience, proven results, and a give-back philosophy!
Over the years of helping many families sell their homes and/or buy another, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring people. People like you! So your referrals can rest assured that not only will they get the award-winning service we are known for and the guarantee to back it up, but that a solid portion of the income we receive will go toward helping the kids.
Refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move
You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info online or forward the link to someone you know considering a move.
Of course, you can always call me direct as well at 213-880-9910
A breakthrough surgery performed at only 10 hospitals in the country significantly improves a 5-year-old’s vision.By Stephanie Cajigal
No Longer Night-Blind, Natalia Isn’t Afraid of the Dark
Natalia loves animals—especially the goats, horses, and ponies that live on a ranch near her family’s home in Palmdale, California. She and her seven brothers and sisters go to the ranch all the time to walk the animals, brush the pony’s hair or just play in the dirt. But for 5-year-old Natalia and two of her siblings, the fun ends when the sun starts to go down. That’s because they have a rare genetic disorder that makes it nearly impossible for them to see in dim light.
“Once it gets dark, Natalia begins to say, ‘My belly hurts, I want to go home.’ And I say, ‘Why, because you can’t see?,’ and she says, ‘Yes,'” says her grandmother Juana, who explains the darkness gives Natalia anxiety.
As darkness descends on the ranch, Natalia and her 9-year-old brother and 12-year-old sister climb into their grandparents’ pickup truck for the 10-minute ride home. Juana uses the light from her cell phone to help them out of the truck and into the house.
For years, Juana knew three of her grandchildren had something wrong with their sight, and repeatedly asked their pediatrician about it.
“When I take them to school, we walk, and when we go outside, I have to sit them down for 10 to 20 minutes so that their eyes adjust from being in the bright inside light to the darker light outside,” she says.
Photos and story courtesy Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
A diagnosis and potential cure
Juana was eventually referred to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she finally got the answers she was looking for. Aaron Nagiel, MD, Ph.D., Attending Surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, ordered a genetic test and learned that Natalia has two mutated versions of a gene called RPE65. The defective genes prevent cells within the retina, the part of the eye that detects light and color, from functioning properly. This can make it difficult for people to see things in their periphery and in low lighting. The mutations can also cause vision to decline over time and ultimately cause blindness.
Approximately 1,000 to 2,000 people in the U.S. have this retinal dystrophy caused by inheriting a mutated RPE65 gene from each parent, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Natalia, for example, received two defective copies of the gene, one from her mother and one from her father. People who are born with only one defective copy do not get the disease.
“It’s pretty devastating,” Dr. Nagiel says. “Some parents will notice shortly after birth that their kids don’t really make eye contact or they are constantly staring at lights. And they have a lot of trouble in the dark—they just cannot navigate anything, or identify their toys, or identify objects or obstacles on the ground in poor lighting.”
Symptoms can sometimes appear subtle, however, especially when children are young. “In a brightly lit office setting, a doctor may think the vision is fine or that the child has some kind of motor or social delay,” says Dr. Nagiel.
A gene therapy approved by the FDA in 2017 has brought hope for the condition, which previously had no other treatment. To deliver it, surgeons inject an inactivated virus whose job is to deliver a normal copy of the RPE65 gene to the cells in the retina. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of 10 countries that performs this therapy and the only one in California. Since the therapy was approved in 2017, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has performed the procedure on 17 children and 10 adults.
Persistence pays off
Natalia underwent surgery in July. Following the standard practice for the procedure, she had the surgery in one eye first and in the other eye a week later. Dr. Nagiel uses very fine instruments to make tiny holes in the white part of the eye to access the retina. He removes the vitreous, the gel-like fluid that fills the middle of the eye, and then injects the gene therapy drug using a tiny cannula. Each procedure lasts about an hour, after which he covers the eye with a patch. Patients lie flat on their backs for the first day and night to allow the medication to be absorbed.
“We take the eye patch off and usually their eye feels uncomfortable or like there is sand in it. But we start eye drops and ointment and within days the eye is feeling almost back to normal,” Dr. Nagiel says.
In the first few days after surgery, patients tend to remark that things appear very bright, he says. About a week after surgery, they might start seeing things that once appeared too dim to see.
“We’ve had kids within the first week see a cloud in the sky for the first time, or notice animals at the zoo for the first time,” Dr. Nagiel says.
Treated children end up being able to see much better in dark lighting.
“I have a picture of one of my patients biking at night, which she never could have done otherwise,” Dr. Nagiel says.
As for Natalia, the first hint that her eyesight had improved came a few days after both surgeries, when Juana noticed she woke up in the night to use the bathroom and was able to walk in the dark without holding on to the walls. Now at home, Natalia can see better and is less scared of the dark. Her brother Mariano and sister Daniela are scheduled to have their surgeries in October.
Dr. Nagiel says all the credit for the kids’ diagnoses goes to their grandmother, who navigated the medical system even though she spoke very little English, and whose careful monitoring and descriptions prompted Dr. Nagiel to order genetic testing.
“If she hadn’t been persistent and gotten these kids to me, it could have been—who knows—not until their teens or 20s when they got treated,” he says.
Dr Nagiel
How You Can Help
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