Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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PCH Construction Threatens Business: Construction work along Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica is being blamed by some local businesses for a steep drop in revenue. Traffic along State Route 1 has slowed considerably since the city of Los Angeles began construction in early April on a sewer line that will divert polluted dry-weather water runoff from canyons leading to the Santa Monica Bay and transfer it to the Hyperion Treatment Plant. The effort marks the city’s second attempt after plans to build more than a mile o...
The fish kill in Marina Del Rey on May 18 was likely caused by the lack oxygen in the water and is nothing too unusual according to Wildlife officials. "A large anchovy school traveling outside the surf may have sought cover from a predator species. Once in the harbor, the fish school became trapped, and subsequently depleted all of the available oxygen in the water, " said Janice Mackey with California Department of Fish and Wildlife in a statement. Parts of A basin between...
The severe drought has given Los Angeles County residents another reason to flock to local beaches - water quality has significantly improved up and down the coast in the summer months, according to Heal the Bay's annual Beach Report Card released Thursday. In what has become an annual tradition before the Memorial Day weekend, the Santa Monica nonprofit doled out grades based on the amount of bacteria in the ocean for all the beaches along the West Coast over the past year....
A transformer may be to blame for a late night apartment fire in Santa Monica, officials said Friday. The fire was reported around 10:45 p.m. Thursday at 850 2nd Street, the Santa Monica Fire Department said. When crews arrived on scene, they saw heavy fire and smoke coming from the third floor of the complex. Firefighters were quickly able to put out the flames in under an hour and limit the damage. The cause of the fire was under investigation, but "witnesses accounts have...
Authorities were looking Tuesday for a man who slashed up to 80 tires on cars parked in Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood. KTLA-TV reported that the man argued with an employee at ZJ Boarding House, a surf shop on Main Street, about 3 a.m. Sunday. After the argument, the man walked around a corner, approached a van believed to belong to the employee and slashed one of its tires. But the rubber rampage didn't stop there. The man can be seen on surveillance video from a...
Santa Monica Fire Department to Host Third Annual Sidewalk CPR In recognition of National CPR Week, the American Heart Association (AHA) is collaborating with the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency to coordinate a County wide effort to teach the public how to perform hands only CPR. Emergency healthcare providers, such as fire departments, ambulance companies, hospitals and education programs will be going out into the community to teach residents how to save a life with CPR. This service is free to the...
One woman was treated for smoke inhalation and as many as 20 are left without housing after a transformer exploded in an alley behind the 800 block of Second street at around 11:30 PM on May 15. At least one apartment was destroyed, and the rest of the third floor was cordoned off limits afterward. 42 firefighters from both Santa Monica and Los Angeles were called to the scene, which is still under investigation. With wildfires raging throughout the state and extreme drought...
On May 10th, 2014 at 08:00 hours the Santa Monica Fire Department graduated 8 new recruit Firefighters from the first SMFD fire academy of 2014. Please join us in welcoming (L-R): Jeff Cusick, Armando Reyes, Benjamin Braun, Andrew Klein, Jason Silva, Eric Wickland, Jeff Adams, and Evan McManus....
Man Caught Riding His Bike Against Traffic Ends Up with Drug Charges Santa Monica Police say officers stopped a man for riding his bicycle against traffic and on the sidewalk on May 9 at around 9:30 at night. They say the suspect, homeless Terry Richards, started sweating profusely and acting jittery when they confronted him. Lawmen report Richards had no identification on him and consented to a search. Officers say they found a plastic container with methamphetamine inside....
SM Fire Department Deployed to San Diego Wildfires On Tuesday, May 15, at 6:54am, The Santa Monica Fire Department was deployed as part of a mutual aid request to assist with the Cocos Fire in San Diego. Two SMFD Engine Companies were dispatched as part of Strike Team XLA-1075A with other resources from Beverly Hills, Culver City, and Los Angeles City Fire Departments. The Strike Teams arrived at the staging location at Cal State San Marcos at 10:24 a.m., and were immediately...
The Federal Aviation Administration is checking the story of a San Francisco writer who claims his flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles was nearly involved in a mid-air collision with another passenger jet last month, one that could have been the worst aviation disaster ever. Kevin Townsend wrote in an essay his United Airlines flight 1205 pitched into a steep dive at 33,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean to avoid hitting a US Airways flight. He told KPIX 5 the collision happened...
Missing radio icon Casey Kasem has been found and was on vaction -- not in danger -- during his disappearance, authorities said. Kasem's family confirmed early Thursday that the longtime "American Top 40" host had been located in Washington state, three days after a California judge ordered an investigation into the 82-year-old's whereabouts. The sheriff's office in Kitsap County, west of Seattle, tracked him down. He was at a home where he and his wife, Jean, had been...
Following community outcry and a successful referendum campaign, the Santa Monica City Council has rescinded a controversial development agreement for one of the city's largest projects. The Bergamot Transit Village - a 765,000-square-foot office, residential and retail development near a coming Expo Line rail stop - was narrowly approved in February after years of debate. But when council members were forced to decide Tuesday between putting the project's fate on the ballot...
President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive today for a two-day visit to Los Angeles for two political fundraisers and a speech at a gala for an organization founded by Steven Spielberg to keep alive memories of the Holocaust and other genocides. The trip will be Obama's 17th to the Los Angeles area since taking office in 2009. All but three of his trips have included political fundraisers. He has made 10 trips to the area solely for fundraising. "Since the Clinton...
Couple Assaulted in Local Hotel Santa Monica Police say they were called to the Ocean Luxury Lofts and Suites at 107 Broadway, regarding an assault in progress. It happened on May 6 at about 3:45 in the morning. They say they found and detained the suspect, Ricardo Mathews of San Bernardino, on the 2nd Floor while other officers contacted two victims on the 3rd Floor. Lawmen report that Mathews broke into a storage room in the hotel and stole a basket with spare keys for each...
Tony the Tiger Voice Actor Dies Lee Marshall, one of the actors who supplied the booming voice of Tony the Tiger in commercials, has died. He was 64. His son, Jason VanBorssum, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://bit.ly/1uH8hbv ) Marshall died of esophageal cancer on April 26 at a Santa Monica hospital. Marshall began voicing the Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes mascot in 1999, filling in for the original actor, Thurl Ravenscroft. Marshall got his first full-time radio job at the age of 14 in Phoenix. He had a prematurely deep v...
The woman who recorded Donald Sterling's racist rant has two shoplifting arrests under her designer belt - but the cases were later expunged, sources said. V. Stiviano first was busted for sticky fingers at a Ross Dress for Less store in Los Angeles in 2002 and was picked up again in 2004 at an Old Navy in Santa Monica, the sources said. Going by the aliases Monica Gallegos and Vanessa Perez, Stiviano entered the Old Navy store at 7:40 p.m. one night in January 2004 and...
Two Allegedly Drunk Men End Up in Jail after Resisting and Threatening Police Santa Monica Police say officers responded to the area of 4th St. and Colorado Ave. regarding a report of two men threatening to shoot mall security. They say the incident happened on April 27 at approximately five in the afternoon. Lawmen report it all started when the two were causing a disturbance at the Nike store located at the Santa Monica Place Mall. When security intervened, they say, one of...
By Christine Peake Local Santa Monica High School senior Ryan Roberts was deservedly named the first–place grand prize winner in the classical instrumental category (oboe) at the 26th Annual Music Center Spotlight Awards. Born and raised in Santa Monica by parents Birgit (Exec producer at HIFI music company) and father Kevin who is a renown Director of Photography, Ryan was surrounded by the arts and music as he grew up as a big brother to pretty sister Maya, herself an a...
Fire agencies across Southern California were on high alert and planning to beef up crews in wildland areas due to hot weather and powerful Santa Ana winds expected to last through Thursday. The Los Angeles Fire Department announced that extra crews would be deployed in brush areas beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday and be on duty for at least 24 hours, depending on weather conditions. The crews are scheduled to staff 21 additional fire engines and five lightweight brush patrol...
The city of Santa Monica's efforts to discourage aviation activity at Santa Monica Airport (SMO) have had the desired effect. Piston aircraft operations have dropped 29 percent since landing fees were raised 2.5-fold last year and made applicable to all airport users, including based tenants. At the same time, the effect on business aircraft users of the airport doesn't seem as profound. One corporate operator toldAIN that even though his company is now paying almost three...
New CityTV Live Call-in Program "It's Your Call" Tackles SM Parking and Traffic on May 1st CityTV's new live call-in program "It's Your Call" premieres on Thursday, May 1st from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on cable channel 16. Viewers can call in with their questions about parking and traffic in Santa Monica. Guests Sam Morrissey, the City of Santa Monica's Traffic Engineer, and Frank Ching, the Parking Administrator for the City, will be on hand to give answers, background and...
Colorado Closed: If you've driven in Santa Monica at all this week, you've probably noticed that Lincoln Blvd, the City's main North South artery, is closed at Colorado Blvd. Here, workers scramble to lay down tracks for the Metroline, within the one week closure period....
Within months, Los Angeles County will have the power - for the first time - to enforce tougher restrictions on development in its scenic Santa Monica Mountains, including banning the building of mansions on ridgelines and vineyards on hillsides. Under a land-use plan debated for decades but now approaching final approval, the county would become the primary guardian of an 80-square-mile area with gorgeous landscapes and fragile ecosystems that impacted by multimillion-dollar...
The City Council seems inclined to allow a referendum on the Bergamot Transit Village project to go to voters. The council unanimously voted to "receive and file" the petition. Over 13,500 signatures were gathered over the course of 30 days in February and March by opponents of the 765,000 square foot project, which the City Council had previously approved. The Council scheduled a hearing at its May 13 meeting to decide whether to rescind approval of the project, schedule a...
