Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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In the wake of the recent Brussels airport and subway bombings, 83 student musicians, 11 parents and 3 teachers have been informed that the Santa Monica School District has cancelled their European tour this week. In an email to district officials and teachers, SMMUSD Superintendent Sandra Lyons stated that she and others, had been monitoring safety considerations in Europe since the November Paris massacre. She and SamoHi principal Eva Mayoral sent an email to parents Tuesday...
Jenny Resnick, who teaches accounting and personal finance courses at Santa Monica College (SMC), was shocked to hear her daughter – a recent college graduate – say that her contemporaries consider themselves "the generation of despair; the American dream is not alive [for them]." SMC Associate Professor of Accounting Ming Lu hears students bemoan the costs of their education but notices that they're wearing expensive clothes and carrying the latest gadgets. Eleni Hio...
Eat|See|Hear Presents: Edward Scissorhands Outdoor Movie Event June 20th, 5:30pm - 10:30pm Eat|See|Hear, a premier LA outdoor movie series presented by SHOWTIME, will be showing Edward Scissorhands at Santa Monica High School. The event will also include live music beforehand and the following food trucks: The Schmuck Truck, Let’s Roll It, Rounds Burger, LuckDish Curry, The Chili Philosopher, Seoul Sausage, Postcards CAS, Peaches Smokehouse BBQ, No Toros Mexican Kitchen, Crepe de Ville, Coolhaus and Brasil Kiss. $12 a...
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I reach out to inform you that we have lost a student member of our Samohi family. This morning we learned that S House freshmen, Leo Castillo, was hit by a car last night while crossing Olympic Blvd on his razor scooter. While the owner of the vehicle stopped immediately and called for help, Leo died at the scene of the accident. This news has deeply shaken and shocked each of us who knew and loved Leo. Samohi as a whole is in mourning. Students who we knew were particularly close to Le...
Those who live in the tech Mecca of Silicon Valley enjoy the highest level of well-being in the nation. Residents live more than four years longer than the average American, earn nearly double the income and have nearly triple the number of graduate degrees, according to a recent report measuring opportunity in the nation's 435 congressional districts and Washington D.C. In Santa Monica, residents enjoy the highest life expectancy in Los Angeles County (though other beach...
The Little Mermaid April 18 - May 17 Sunday, Saturday, 2:00 – 3:00 PM Come join us in the classic Hans Christian Anderson tale of the teenage mermaid who falls in love with a human prince. She is willing to give up her life under the sea to become a human but finds out making a deal with the sea witch can lead to trouble! This adventure is audience interactive and will have children from ages 4 to 90 singing along, cheering for the hero’s and booing for the villains! The show begins at 2pm and runs for 60 minutes. Stay aft...
Due to unforeseen expenses and mistakes in construction management, SMMUSD facility projects funded by Measure BB are expected to go over-budget by 31 Million dollars. During the March 5th School Board meeting, district staff shared news about the budget shortfall and offered possibilities to the board about what to do. All eight of the district’s major projects went over budget, with seven of the projects over budget by at least one million dollars. According to district staff, some of the money may be recuperated after n...
After publicly interviewing nine applicants over the course of nearly three hours, the SMMUSD Board of Education voted to re-appoint architect Ralph Mechur to the school board. Mechur was chosen to fill the seat of recently elected State Senator Ben Allen. Senator Allen was forced to vacate his seat on the school board as a result of his election to the state legislature. In the same November election Senator Allen won a seat in Sacramento, Mechur lost his re-election campaign to the school board by less than 500 votes. At...
Insomnia April 12 - 26 Sunday, 5:30 PM Join modern conjuror Derek Hughes in a private suite at the illustrious Hotel Casa Del Mar for his mind blowing new work: INSOMNIA! Loosely inspired by the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. INSOMNIA is a comedy and magic experience that explores the line between waking and dreaming. Ticket includes show admission & valet parking. (310) 581-5533 Hotel Casa del Mar 1910 Ocean Way Admission: $55 The Little Mermaid April 18 - May 17 Sunday, Saturday, 2:00 – 3:00 PM Come join us in the c...
Unswayed by a relentless parade of opposition, a key Senate panel on Wednesday passed an incendiary bill that would strengthen California's vaccination requirements, capping an emotional hearing that marked the beginning of a battle over what has become Sacramento's most contentious issue this year. For more than 11/2 hours, an extraordinary wave of parents and children from across the state crept one by one to a microphone to implore the Senate Health Committee to kill the...
by David Ganezer Observer Publisher Lincoln Middle Schools principal Suzanne Webb has announced that she is leaving to take a new position as Director of Human Resources for our Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. She will leave effective July 1. "It has been a true honor to serve the Lincoln community as principal for the last seven years. Each and every one of you has had an impact on me and I will never forget everything I have learned. The Lincoln Staff are true...
This past Saturday, SaMoHi Team Marine members Martin Liu, Kimberly Fuentes, and Zoe Parcells were awarded first place out of 16 teams in the Environmental Management category at the Los Angeles County Science Fair and will now advance to the state fair. Their project titled, Cigarette Pollution and Mitigation in Santa Monica, CA, examined short-term (≤ 7 days) and longer term (≤ 2 months) cigarette accumulation rates for seven urban streets over a one year period. Their stu...
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has announced plans for sampling of building materials for PCBs at the technology building at Samohi, prior to planned demolition, and in all four buildings at Olympic High School, prior to planned renovation. Sampling will take place over spring break starting Monday, March 30 and will conclude by Friday, April 10. Building materials sampling will be conducted under controlled conditions, and in general accordance with applicable...
A 28-year-old man was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his roommate and longtime friend. Ryan Taylor Bright killed 27-year-old Jensen Gray early on the morning of July 11, 2012, at a Santa Monica apartment in the 400 block of Broadway following a party. Bright and Gray had known each other since middle school, attended Laguna Beach High School together and had become roommates not long before Gray's death, according to the victim's mother. The...
1. Transit Village Killed by Popular Revolt: 2/18/2014 Texas-based developer Hines will have to go back to the drawing board with its nearly 1 million-square-foot, five-building development proposed for the Papermate location on the north side of Olympic Boulevard between 26th and Stewart streets. The City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously that major adjustments needed to be made to the project before it could receive the council's blessing. Slow growth advocates and...
Santa Monica resident and Santa Monica High School graduate, Nikki Michelini, has been named as one of the Top100 Women Financial Advisors by Financial Times newspaper. Michelini is a Principal and Director of Wealth Management for Los-Angeles headquartered Aspiriant, a leading independent registered investment advisor with offices in seven US cities and more than $8 billion of assets under management and advisement. She was one of more than 400 women financial advisors with...
Big Blue Bus will soon bid adieu to four long-time team members with nearly 150 years of combined service. BBB employs a team of 300 Motor Coach Operators to deliver 61,000 trips per day and 43 Mechanics who maintain a fleet of nearly 200 vehicles. Big Blue Bus commends these experienced road ambassadors for their many years of service to BBB customers in Santa Monica and BBB's greater Los Angeles service area. Tim Giroux, Santa Monica Resident and BBB's longest driving Motor...
Santa Monica, CA, December 12th, 2014: Local high school students, disappointed by the recent lack of justice for the victims of police brutality Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, and Eric Garner, turned their disappointment into motivation by organizing a large, youth-based protest in their Santa Monica community. The movement began when the students decided on impulse to walk out of their school and circle the block to join a national walk out on December 5th. Inspired by the act...
Dumpster Diving Called Lifestyle Crime When Ismail Aguirre removed old computers from a recycling bin, he never imagined that it might be a crime. An ever vigilant SMPD officer charged Aguirre with removing property from a city owned bin. Santa Monica City Attorney Jennifer Grigsby moved to dismiss the case, in Dept. 147 of the LAX Los Angeles Superior courthouse. Judge Deborah Brazil admonished Aguirre, “that it is illegal and you will be arrested if you remove materials from a city owned bin in the city of Santa M...
Following several postponements, jury selection in the Ryan Bright murder trial will begin December 4 at 10:00am at the Airport Courthouse E. Attorneys expect the trial to last 2-3 weeks. Ryan Bright is charged with one count of murder with premeditation and deliberation (Penal Code section 187(a)) with a knife enhancement. This is considered first degree murder. The victim’s name is Jensen Gray, 27. Bright and Gray were both from Laguna Beach and attended Laguna Beach High School together. At the time of the incident, w...
Santa Monica College student film Solidarity won the “Prix Interculturel Special Mention” for Best Film Fostering Intercultural Dialogue at the 2014 FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH in Germany, held from November 16-22. SMC was the only film school from the United States to receive an award at the festival, one of the most respected student film festivals worldwide. The other two film schools invited this year were UCLA and Chapman University. “I am very proud of Dustin [Brown] and of SMC’s film program because we are a high-quality, lo...
At its meeting on November 20, 2014, the Board of Education approved the appointment Dr. Mark Kelly as the new Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources and Student Services and Ms. Bertha Roman as the new Director of Educational Technology for 2014-15. Ms. Debra Moore Washington, the district's current Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources, will be retiring at the end of January 2015. The Director of Educational Technology is a new position that will cultivate and...
Winterlit in Downtown Santa Monica November 1 - January 22 Various dates and times Every year Santa Monica hosts a series of holiday events and activities that light up Downtown, bringing a festive holiday spirit to this idyllic seaside city. In fact, we’ve managed to engineer some true holiday magic, turning a busy urban corner into a magical winter wonderland with the annual ICE at Santa Monica skating rink, open November 1 through January 22. More Downtown Santa Monica & Third Street Promenade (310) 393-8355 Neil Young Spe...
Winterlit in Downtown Santa Monica November 1 - January 22 Various dates and times Every year Santa Monica hosts a series of holiday events and activities that light up Downtown, bringing a festive holiday spirit to this idyllic seaside city. In fact, we’ve managed to engineer some true holiday magic, turning a busy urban corner into a magical winter wonderland with the annual ICE at Santa Monica skating rink, open November 1 through January 22. More Downtown Santa Monica & Third Street Promenade (310) 393-8355 Neil Young Spe...
