Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Nobody wants to touch this one, do they? In case you left town the last 2 days, SamoHi's wrestling couch Mark Black (Yeah, the same 60 year old dude who was involved in the whole wrestling dummy thing 2 years back), was trying to confiscate a bag of weed from an 18 year old, male student. The student refused. The story from here varies, but there's agreement that the kid put the weed back into his backpack, and the two tussled in the classroom, while another student filmed...
Santa Monica Public Library (SMPL) begins its Big Read celebration of Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea with a free outdoor concert and festivities on Saturday, March 29 at 12:30 p.m. in the Main Library North Courtyard at 601 Santa Monica Boulevard. Alfredo López, Isaac Ruben Izquierdo and Jorge Andres Herrera take us on a musical tour of Mexico highlighting the richness and variety of traditional Mexican music. A master of more than 20 styles of Latino...
The 6th annual Sustainable Santa Monica Student Poster Contest will raise awareness about Santa Monica's Water Self-sufficiency Plan & educate the community about water conservation. Rules and Guidelines - Open to all K-12 students who live or attend school in Santa Monica - Only original artwork will be accepted - Only one poster submission per student - Students may work in 2 person teams but the prize will be shared. - Posters must be hand drawn on white paper, bright...
Santa Monica restaurant, Upper West welcomes artist Vicki McClay with an opening reception Sunday March 9th. An advocate of art, at any day of the week, you can walk into Upper West to find the walls filled with art. On March 9th, Vicki McClay takes her turn. The artist was first introduced to the restaurant when she attended an opening reception at the restaurant for her friend. She explains, "I met the owners through an artist friend, Imelda Healy, when she showed her work...
What If Wooden's Prized Assistant Had Stayed? John Wooden won 10 national championships as the UCLA basketball coach from 1964 to 1976, the greatest dynasty in the history of the sport. Since Wooden retired, UCLA has won only one more in 37 years. In an intriguing new book by Southern California author Steve Bisheff, In The Shadow Of A Legend, the case is made that the Bruins missed out on several more championships because Wooden's prized assistant coach, Jerry Norman left...
Letter to the Editor regarding proposed "Safe Routes to School" changes to Michigan Avenue near Santa Monica High School: I have been involved with this project since then trying to see the traffic analysis and mitigation plan that they said they would do. Of course they were delayed in doing it. After being told repeatedly by the City Planner that I would be able to see it when it was completed, she then came back and apologized and told me it wouldn't be available until a...
The work of more than 40 local artists will be featured in a silent auction to benefit youth services for local youth who receive support and essential programming at the Pico Youth & Family Center in Santa Monica. PYFC will host its 5th Annual Art for Hearts Benefit on Saturday, February 15, 2014 from 7pm to 11pm at the Jennie Madsen Gallery located at: 1431 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90401 ART FOR HEARTS will include a silent auction of uniquely-crafted hearts by established artists: Alex Kizu, Ernie Lucero, JC Hernandez...
The Culver City High boys basketball fans were treated to an early Ocean League showdown between the Centaurs and visiting Santa Monica High last Friday night in Del Goodyear Gymnasium. But to their dismay the Centaurs fell to their arch rival, 62-53, as the Vikings' consistent pressure and execution earned them a comeback victory. The loss dropped Culver into a third place tie with Inglewood at 1-1 each in early Ocean League standings. Santa Monica's victory kept them in a...
A bombshell announcement may be heading to the Culver City High football program. If Stanley Norman transfers to Serra High in Gardena, as is being speculated, the Centaurs would be without perhaps their best player next season. The Los Angeles Times' Eric Sondheimer, the premier high school sports reporter in Southern California, writes that Norman has taken out application papers to transfer to perennial powerhouse Serra. Norman is considered one of the top juniors in the...
Winners in all age groups to move on to district tournament Four Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica members were winners in the Santa Monica Elks Lodge 906 Hoop Shoot Contest held last week. This free throw program is open to youth ages 8-13, and provides participants an opportunity to compete, connect and succeed. The Hoop Shoot was held at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica's Main Branch, and the winners were: Luis Espinoza (Boys 8-9), Adrian Smukvitz (Boys 10-11), Deja...
Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences has announced the inaugural honorees into its newly created Athletics Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was created to maintain the rich heritage and tradition of successful athletics at Crossroads. It will also serve as a means of recognizing, preserving and honoring the student-athletes, coaches, teams and individuals who have made significant contributions to the school’s athletic program, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The Class of 2014 inductees include: MEN Austin...
A special meeting was held Thursday night at Malibu City Hall, to address the community’s concerns about PCB contamination at Malibu High School. Recently, the faculty, students and their parents learned that soil samples from the school property showed PCB levels some 37 times the level required to trigger Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) involvement. Tonight, a special meeting will be held to discuss that environmental report and ongoing health issues. Speakers at the meeting included - Steve Armann, PCB Program C...
Santa Monica decided last March to push forward the environmental goal of making the city zero waste. The issue went to the City Council last March and it was decided that the city would try to become 95% waste-free by 2013. In 2009, the city found that that city diverted 74% of its waste from landfills, which is already higher than the Federal Waste Diversion requirement of 50% by 2015 according to the EPA website. “Zero waste is a change of perspective,” a City Council Report on the issue from Director of Public Works Mar...
Preliminary testing at Malibu High School has uncovered toxic chemicals at levels that exceed regulatory limits, according to a statement released Friday by the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. The findings trigger what could be a “very large, very expensive” remediation plan in which the district will have to conduct additional testing and ultimately clean up the chemicals, district Supt. Sandra Lyon said. That potentially years-long process will be overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, she add...
Members of the Santa Monica High School Symphony Orchestra perform Holiday oriented music to kick off the season, at the Whole Foods Market on Lincoln and Rose on November 25, 2013. Students were fund raising for a musical tour of Vienna, Prague and Baden-Baden over Spring Break 2014. at www.samohiorchestra.org, or mail checks to: Samohi Orchestras, 601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405. Please make checks payable to "SMAPA - Samohi Orchestras." Santa Monica High School has...
Suzanne M. Bianchi, a social scientist who explored the changing landscape of late-20th-century American families, tracing how divorce, the shrinking gender gap and women’s careers affected children, parents and their households (“Is Anyone Doing the Housework?” was the title of one of her papers), died on Nov. 4 in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 61. Enlarge This Image Suzanne M. Bianchi, a social scientist, studied surveys of how parents balance the demands of work and children. Professor Bianchi, who was on the faculty of th...
A new smoking trend has arrived, and it has become especially popular with teens and high school students. Electronic cigarettes, e-cigarettes or “e-cigs” are battery-powered cigarettes that use vapor that can contain nicotine and flavorings to simulate the effect of smoking. Although these may be less harmful than regular cigarettes and have been advertised to help people quit smoking, their use among teens is beginning to gain national attention. “Altogether, in 2012 more than 1.78 million middle and high school stude...
