Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Twelve residents were displaced after a fire erupted early Thursday morning November 30, at a three-story apartment building in Ocean Park, SMFD officials said. The blaze was reported at 2:05 a.m. after a man smelled smoke at a residential structure in the 300 block of Ashland Avenue, according to the Santa Monica Fire Department. Firefighters responded to the scene, where intense flames burned through two floors and multiple rooms. The fire was extinguished about 35 minutes...
Santa Monica Police broke up the fight on the pier at 1:18 Sunday morning. Two groups of guys had an “altercation. Neither party was desirous of prosecution, and that both groups went their separate ways," police said in a press release. Presumably meaning neither side wanted to press charges against the other. However, at 4:30 am one of the men came back to the pier to retrieve his car. Daniel Arroyos, 21, got into another argument with the other group of men. He tried to r...
Update: As of 2 PM Wednesday, two lanes only are closed in the northbound direction between Getty center and Mulholland Drive. The Southbound lanes of the 405 Freeway are now open through the Sepulveda pass, but the Northbound lanes are closed. There is now a mandatory evacuation zone for residents on either side of the 405 freeway, map is below. A fire east of the 405 freeway near the Getty Center has closed the 405 freeway in both directions north of the 10 freeway, says...
At 6:30 am on Wednesday, 12/6/17, the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District announced that "ALL SMMUSD SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED TODAY (12/6) DUE TO NEW FIRE DEVELOPMENTS." Update: The Los Angeles Unified School District has closed 50 schools due to the fire in the Sepulveda pass. Schools closed include Community Elementary Magnet Charter, Kenter Canyon Elementary, Roscomare Road Elementary, and Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet (students relocated to Dorsey High...
Santa Monica residents awoke Tuesday morning to the smell of smoke. A reddish haze covered the rising sun. 31,000 acres are on fire in Ventura County, 30 miles away as the crow flies, and the smoke was settling on the bayside city of 100,000 residents. Wind blew the smoke south and east, it seems. SMMUSD schools declared a half day. The press release from the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District is below. Ash was falling and the smoke had the appearance of fog. "The...
Imagine answering your phone and hearing a caller say they were from Southern California Edison and you must pay $500 by noon or your power would be disconnected. What would you do? Phone scammers are "spoofing" SCE's phone number, claiming to be from SCE's "disconnection department" (SCE has no such department), and demanding payments within a few hours or else power will be cut off. More than 8,800 scam attempts have been reported to Southern California Edison this year,...
As a result of a car versus pedestrian accident around 7:25 pm Tuesday evening a pedestrian was on the ground at 9th Street and Montana Avenue in Santa Monica. Paramedics were treating him. Enough paramedics to fill a hospital, in fact. Details are pending. 2017 has been a particularly bad year for pedestrians in Santa Monica. Trains and automobiles, as well as busses, have killed 8 pedestrians and injured over a dozen, by our count in the congested Westside City. This is...
2/29: Pacific Coast Highway was closed in both directions at Latigo Canyon Road Wednesday morning, after a police pursuit ended in a crash. The person who died was apparently another driver. Authorities pursed the car for a short time before deciding to back off because the driver was behaving so erratically, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Brad Johnson said. The stolen car then crashed near Latigo Canyon Road, in a wreck that involved at least three other...
A woman in Palm Desert, California claims to have purchased Chicken of the Sea White Albacore Tuna in water, containing glass shards. We have reached out to the company for comment. The unnamed consumer says she purchased a package of six cans at the local Costco in the Palm Springs area. Product code SASAD AS2GP17:09. UPC: 048000000989. The product is called: Chicken of the sea solid white albacore tuna in water Chicken of the Sea is a provider of packaged seafood, formerly...
Mike Feinstein has informally announced through Facebook that he is running for California Secretary of State. Feinstein is considered a founding member of the Green Partylocally. Feinstein has been involved in political activism since 1988, after he attended a conference at the Findhorn community in Scotland entitled "The Individual and the Collective: Politics as If The Earth Mattered". He first became active with the Westside Greens in the Santa Monica/West Los Angeles...
A young man crossing PCH at 5:30 am was hit and killed by a 70 year old male driver in a Honda Civic, the Santa Monica Observer has learned. The collision closed traffic in both directions on PCH. It forced enormous amounts of traffic into the area around the Santa Monica Civic Center, into the late morning on Tuesday. Santa Monica Police report that a collision in the 300 block of Pacific Coast Highway, has closed lanes of the important artery at 5:30 Tuesday morning....
Charlies Manson died tonight, in prison. He was most famous as the instigator of the Tate-Labianca murders, in which the Manson Family killed the pregnant wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski. By doing so, Manson hoped to set fire to the U.S., start a race war, and somehow save the world. i.e. he was nuts. Charles Manson, 83, was an American criminal and former cult leader who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s....
Glenn Hirsch is on a 10,000 mile bicycle ride around the US, ending at the Santa Monica Pier. He rides to honor the memory of his nephew Ian Besner, who died of Leukemia in 2006, and to raise money to fight cancer. His wife, Lynn Hirsch, sent us the following e mail: My husband, Glenn Hirsch, is 67 years old and has been an avid cyclist as long as I can remember. He has been a family physician for forty years and has always lived a healthy lifestyle. In 2000, he took on a...
It has been over fifty years since circus performer and attorney Paul Fegen invented the concept of renting a floor and subdividing it into offices for different companies, with a central reception and mailroom. Now Spaces Santa Monica has taken the concept one step further. Where can you go to hang out with other professionals, create important projects, and just generally make money while being yourself, on an entrepreneurs budget? Amsterdam-born creative workspace pioneer,...
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department SWAT team dealt with an emergency situation this morning, by taking an armed suspect into custody. The quiet area of homes on Menlo St had to be barricaded, as military style officers and vehicles confronted the man. Ultimately, the situation was concluded peacefully....
In the third serious collision involving an Expo Line train in Santa Monica this year, an Expo Line Train collided with a pedestrian near the 17th Street Station Sunday night. The man died before the police arrived. Here is the SMPD press release: On November 5, 2017 at about 11:00 p.m., the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) responded to a radio call for service regarding a traffic collision involving a Metro Expo Line Train and a pedestrian near the 17th Street Station. U...
SMPD Seeks Assistance in Identifying Stabbing Suspect. Considered armed and dangerous. Santa Monica Police Seeks Community Assistance in Stabbing On November 3, 2017 at about 11:25 AM, Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) officers responded to a radio call for service of an assault with a deadly weapon incident in the area of Fourth Street / Santa Monica Blvd. When officers arrived on scene they located a male victim with multiple stab wounds to his upper body area. Santa...
A bus to bus shooting just before 1 am Saturday, killed one woman right in front of the Santa Monica Pier Arch. Two people were hospitalized. The area remained closed to traffic at 9 am Sunday, as police investigate. Police say that two groups of people got out of two different busses and started to argue with each other. Shots were fired from one group into the other, and the suspects fled into Palisades Park. Police could not immediately find them. The intersection of...
It's not every day that astronauts circling the globe in theInternational Space Station (ISS) take time out from space walks and science missions to talk to elementary, middle school, high school, and college students, live from space. But that's exactly what NASA Astronauts, Commander Randy Bresnik and Joe Acaba did during a NASA Educational In-Flight Event, on Monday morning, October 30, in Barnum Hall at Santa Monica High School (Samohi). Students from Santa Monica-Malibu...
Deportation officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) on Tuesday removed a former Colombian national army battalion commander accused of human rights violations. Retired Lt. Col. Oscar Gomez Cifuentes, 53, was implicated in five killings in Colombia that allegedly occurred while he was the commander of Infantry Battalion 43 Efrain Rojas Acevedo. These allegations relate to a disputed report stating that five persons...
LA Firemen responded about 1:35 p.m. Monday, to a report of a natural gas leak in the area before the containers were found at 2013 S. Walgrove Ave., near Palms Boulevard, said Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. "When they arrived, they identified what they believed was a tampered gas meter, and there were some unidentified items near that meter," Det. Meghan Aguilar told reporters Monday night. It was not immediately clear whether the line had been tampered...
Just as the Pen Factory added more space to the office parks on Olympic Blvd near 26th Street, Amazon's expanding studio division announced Monday that it is relocating from Santa Monica to Culver Studios in Culver City. All entertainment divisions of the giant corporation, IMDB, Amazon Video and World Wide Advertising, will move by January 1, 2018. Reportedly, Amazon will move into Culver Studio's historic mansion featured in the opening credits to the movie "Gone with the...
Update 2:President Donald Trump says that he will ask Congress to end the Diversity Visa Program, saying that Saipov should never have been allowed to use it to enter the United States. Update: Ridesharing companies Uber confirms that the suspect in this case was an Uber driver. " he passed our background check. Nevertheless, he has now been banned from the app," says an Uber spokesman Ann Coulter just tweeted: "Hey, I have an idea: How about a zero immigration quota for the A...
NICU Babies Dress Up for Halloween To earn her Girl Scout Silver Award, Santa Monica resident Emma Crawford and a friend, Ella Rose, have made tiny Halloween costumes for babies in Cedars-Sinai's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The costumes are inspired by famous children's book characters and are designed for hospitalized infants as small as two pounds. They are created in such a way that they do not disturb tubing or other medical apparatus. This year's costumes are inspired...
A bill before the State Legislature could reverse the Costa Hawkins Law. This 1995 law allows a landlord to get out from under rent control by declaring a kind of bankruptcy, and going out of business. It modified Santa Monica's 1978 Rent Control law. Costa Hawkins also excludes from rent control single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. The new law would repeal Costa Hawkins through an initiative on the 2018 ballot. California is in the grip of a housing crisis....
