Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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One of America's most famous and beautiful streets, Ocean Avenue remains closed to traffic this week as workmen excavated a water main on an emergency basis to repair an underground water pipe. According to a warning from the City of Santa Monica, Ocean Avenue will be closed to traffic in both directions until Friday 8/16. Northbound lanes will be closed from Monday 8/19 to 9/13/19, said the auto notification,. At noon Saturday August 10, the City of Santa Monica announced...
All 16 public schools in the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District begin classes on Thursday, August 22nd. Parents and kids will need to figure out where they are going to be dropped off. The SMPD says this will cause increased traffic, and urged local drivers to leave early and be patient. LAUSD ended summer and began its school year on Tuesday August 20th. SMMUSD has about 12,000 students. It has ten elementary schools, two middle schools, three high schools, an adult...
Santa Monica Downtown Ambassadors vow that they will clean up Santa Monica's parks, one by one. They are already present by the bathrooms in Reed Park and Tongva Park. We spoke to George Caragea, the General Manager of the Ambassadors in Reed Park Thursday morning. He says they arrive at 7 am and are sometimes there as late as 9 pm. The Ambassador program is ten years old, but their familiar umbrellas and kiosks have been parked near the bathrooms at Reed Park since August 1....
As if it weren't difficult enough running a retail establishment in Santa Monica, the Santa Monica Vice Squad send underage people younger than 20, in to local businesses to see if they could buy booze. The press release from Santa Monica PIO Lt. Candice Cobarrubias, follows: On August 8, 2019, officers from the Santa Monica Police Department's Vice Unit conducted a minor decoy operation with assistance from members of the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control targeting...
A video newly posted on Youtube rolls video or homeless people living in tents on LA's infamous Skid Row, as a voice implores people to visit Los Angeles and engage in all the activities LA has to offer. Republicans from President Donald J. Trump on down have pilloried Democratic run big cities like Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco, for the large numbers of homeless people living on its streets and sidewalks. The conservative view is that these people are...
What participants described as a spontaneous protest against the University of Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope atop the worlds highest mountain, Mauna Kea, reached the Santa Monica Pier Sunday morning. "Why are people rallying against TMT?" Reads a flyer passed out by the protesters "University of Hawaii's decades of poor management of Hawaii's natural resources and prioritizing economic interests ahead of community interests, has resulted in a large opposition to TMT." The...
Having grown up in both a cult and suburban Americana, artist Timothy Uriah Steele provides a unique and provocative journey with his work to showcase transcendence. When asked for his personal definition of transcendence, he described it as a "means to pass beyond the confines of an everyday...reality into something that's beckoning you into something other or... a broader perspective of life and what it means to exist." Instead of the results of before and after or known...
International Society for Krishna Consciousness sponsored the 43rd Annual Festival of Chariots, in Santa Monica and Venice last Sunday, August 4th. "The Festival of the Chariots is based on an ancient annual festival in the holy town of Jagannatha Puri. Every year in India the festival attracts over one million pilgrims. It is second only to Kumbha Mela, the largest gathering of humanity on Earth. The crowds participate by hand pulling the chariots with maximum thickness jute...
A 59-year-old Santa Monica man has been charged with distributing and possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Guido Germano, 59 was charged with one felony count each of distribution of obscene matter and possession of child or youth pornography. Germano, who is the director of artificial intelligence medicine at Cedars-Sinai hospital, is accused of distributing child pornography videos using peer-to-peer software and...
From Pico and Sawtelle to Bundy and Wilshire, the lights were out across a wide section of West Los Angeles Friday night. The blackout began around 7:39 pm PST. The power outage reportedly affected an area of around 4 square miles, ranging from pricey homes, to extremely pricey homes. Traffic officers directed traffic through dark intersections such as Sepulveda and Olympic during the power outage. At Bundy and Olympic, the Bed Bath and Beyond was illuminated, apparently by...
Authorities announced that they have filed charges on Fernando Venancio Jr., a 43-year-old male from Lynwood CA., for his involvement in a series of robberies and sexual assaults that occurred in Santa Monica. Police arrested Venancio for two assaults on 18th and 19th Street, neighborhoods not typically frequented by violent crimes. The press release from SMPD reads: "On July 22, 2019 at about 4:16 p.m., officers from the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) responded to a ra...
Even a fifty year old restaurant is not safe in the era of food delivery apps. Or maybe it was the cockroaches that did Lenny's in. Lenny's Deli has announced that they will not be opening their double doors again. This is sad news for those of us of a certain age, who remember going to Junior's Delicatessen as kids, with our parents and grandparents. The West LA eatery, formerly known as Junior's Deli, had been closed by the LA County Health Dept due to a cockroach...
A lightning strike on a beach in Marina Del Rey closed local beaches for about an hour Tuesday morning. This according to alerts from the City of Santa Monica. SM Alert Lightning Advisory - An electrical storm with lightning has been reported in Santa Monica. Please evacuate all ocean and beach/sand areas. If on the beach or on the Santa Monica Pier, seek shelter indoors until the storm has ended.” 10:53 update “LA County Lifeguards have reopened all beaches. Please res...
While California's biggest city deploys rat poison, the California State Legislature simultaneously considers a ban on rat poison. As former US Vice President Dan Quayle said, irony is pretty ironic sometimes. The recent release of a study saying that the Los Angeles county rat population has doubled in a year, has touched off a controversy. Some blame the homeless, others blame restrictions on rat poison said to kill mountain lions and other wildlife. Carl Demaio of Reform...
According to the assessment roll from the LA County Assessor, Santa Monica's 25,000 or so assessor's parcels are collectively worth $39.5 billion. This places Santa Monica 3rd in the County of Los Angeles for property values, which is totally impressive when you consider the relative populations of the top 3 cities. Los Angeles, which has a population of 4 million, has $652.9 billion in real estate. Long Beach, with a population of 600,000, has $60.2 billion in assessed real...
Early Sunday morning, Santa Monica Police were attacked by Wolfgang Mountford, 29, in an alley off Lincoln Blvd, near Grant Avenue. Police say the man rushed them, an officer pulled his sidearm and fired one shot which struck the man. Fire department paramedics treated the man, who was taken to a hospital. Later he was treated and released. Police say they had encountered the same suspect earlier in the day. The press release from the SMPD is below. Santa Monica, CA: On July 1...
After three years of preparation, construction began this month on the modernization of the 14.7-acre Santa Monica City Yards located adjacent to Bergamot Station on Michigan Avenue. The City Yards hosts the city's maintenance and industrial services, such as water operations, street maintenance, and fire training. Until last month, the Yards also hosted a recycling center. The recycling center, operated by private contractor Allan Company, was closed by the city in June in a...
On Sunday afternoon at 12:40 pm PDT, many residents of Hollywood felt a small aftershock from the July 5th Earthquake. On July 4, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurred at 10:33 a.m. PDT in a low population density area of San Bernardino County. The earthquake happened during Santa Monica's annual 4th of July parade. Stilt walkers did not fall off balance, and few people seemed to notice it. On the other hand, residents in building reported swaying and the distinctive noise...
Federal agents and New York Police Department Detectives said that they have arrested Grammy award winning singer R. Kelly, on sex crime and kidnapping charges. On July 11, 2019, Kelly was arrested on federal charges alleging sex crimes and obstruction of justice. Kelly faces a total of 18 federal counts including child pornography, kidnapping, and forced labor as of July 12, 2019. Since the 1990s, Kelly has been the subject of numerous allegations of sexual abuse and...
Tropical Storm Barry did not cause major flooding in the Big Easy, and an alert for New Orleans has been cancelled. Mayor Cantrell held her last news conference on the storm, and the floodgates built after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, were reopened. An alert from Thursday night: Tropical Storm Barry is a currently active tropical cyclone that is threatening the Gulf Coast of the United States. The system emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on July 10 and was classified as a potentia...
According to Merriam-Webster, exceptional is defined as better than average or superior. To me, 85 year old Don Bachardy fits that definition to a T. He is well renowned and has his artwork in many museums, such as the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I have now spent quite a bit of time with the well known portrait artist: I observed him paint a colleague, I have now sat for him twice, I toured his home, and I plan on...
WASHINGTON, DC, July 8 -- Seniors may get robocall relief if a new Federal Communications Commission [FCC] ruling prompts phone companies to implement technologies that automatically block them. Dan Weber, an advocate for older Americans, says the ruling is a step in the right direction. Verizon issued a statement hours after the FCC announced its decision. In it, the company stated that it is "putting robocallers on notice. We've got their number and we're taking big steps...
An earthquake at 10:33 am PST on July 4 was felt from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and as far East as Las Vegas. The temblor went on for over a minute. It was felt throughout the Westside of Los Angeles County as a powerful rolling motion. The quake was centered 12 KM southwest of Searles Valley California. It registered a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale, ranking it as probably the biggest southland shock in 20 years, since the 1999 Hector Mines Earthquake...
In what I thought would be a privatized business, ShakeAlertLA, which has been heavily criticized in the last few days, was actually created by the city of Los Angeles and its Mayor, Eric Garcetti. The app which is available on the App Store or Google Play ties into the national ShakeAlert system to inform users on earthquake activity. The recent critiques that ShakeAlertLA has gotten has been in light of the two recent earthquakes in California, the 6.4 on July 4 and the 7.1...
Despite the earthquakes, Santa Monica conducted its annual parade on Thursday July 4, 2019. It lasted from 9:30 to 11 am. The 6.4 Richter scale temblor occurred at 10:19 am. The parade featured more than the usual protests, this is after all the Trump era. One lady had a shirt that said "children in cages." And local peace activist Jerry Rubin was there. The Santa Monica High School marching band was there, as were the usual stilt walkers. The quake did not throw them off...
