Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Santa Monica Public Library presents The Affordable Care Act: Past, Present and Future on Sunday, January 19, at 2:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s MLK Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Boulevard. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the most expansive regulatory overhaul of the American healthcare system ever enacted. UCLA family medicine physician David Cutler, MD, examines the impact of this new act and how it will affect you in the months and years ahead. Dr. David Cutler is Board Certified in Family Medicine a...
A Los Angeles judge has postponed final arguments in the preliminary hearing of charges against a man who allegedly drove his car through crowds on the Venice Beach boardwalk last summer, killing a newlywed woman and injuring others. Superior Court Judge Antonio Barretto rescheduled the arguments for Jan. 8 after defense attorney Philip Dube said Thursday that he had only just received transcripts of the hearing and was not ready to argue. The hearing will determine whether defendant Nathan Campbell must stand trial on one...
A security guard found shot to death outside an upscale apartment complex in Marina del Rey has been identified as a South Los Angeles man. Patrick Odoikyene, 47, was discovered in a parking lot early Monday with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation by sheriff’s homicide detectives continued Tuesday. According to a statement from the sheriff’s department, witnesses heard multiple gunshots and saw a man “wearing dark clothin...
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...
On Monday, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced it has authorized the Navy to use sonar and explosives in a massive swath of ocean between Southern California and Hawaii. The ruling, good for five years starting in January, was no surprise to either side. Environmental group Earthjustice filed a lawsuit the same day in Hawaii federal court. A spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Santa Monica said his organization is looking at all options,...
This typically isn't the time of year most head out for a restaurant meal, but the city of Santa Monica wants to change that. "It's really important for us at the Convention and Visitors Bureau to make sure we're keeping our restaurants busy during off-peak season," said Kelly Nagle, a spokesperson at the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau. Warm temperatures and the Rose Bowl helped fill local hotels, but Nagle says generally the hospitality industry sees a drop off...
Somehow, it didn’t seem that it was the end of the story back in August when the Los Angeles Times brought to people’s attention that L.A. officials had approved the huge Millennium Hollywood development without checking to see if it sits on top of an active earthquake fault, which it very well might. It quickly became apparent that a handful of other proposed projects might also be at risk because California officials never finished officially mapping 300 earthquake faults in the state, and local governments were poised to...
On a recent Saturday morning, Ed Williams stood off to the side at Santa Monica's downtown farmers market, scrutinizing a bright red mango like a detective trying to solve a mystery. "It looks damaged by hot water treatment, which is only used on imported mangoes," Williams said to market supervisor Laura Avery. Pointing to tiny white specks on the fruit, he added, "I think these are dead scale insects." Williams is deputy director of the Los Angeles County agricultural...
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is inviting all parents to participate in the district's online Homework Survey. Principals will use the results of the survey to develop and improve each of their schools' homework plans. Parents with more than one child in the district are invited to take the survey for each of their children. The survey is anonymous and will take approximately ten minutes to complete. Results of the survey will be reported at the group level...
Leaders of The Georgian Hotel presented the Santa Monica Conservancy a check for $7,200 as part of a fundraising event held at the historic hotel in October. “We’re just delighted,” said Carol Lemlein, conservancy president. “The Georgian has been a strong partner. And this is where we bring visitors and residents to participate in the downtown walking tours.” The Georgian, built in 1933, celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Former guests included Clark Gable, Carol Lombard and Rudolph Valentine. Later on it became a...
Authorities are investigating the brutal beating of a transient by two men along the Venice Beach boardwalk that was caught on video. The incident happened early Friday morning in the 1300 block of Ocean Front Walk near Horizon Avenue, according to police. The video shows one of the men repeatedly hitting the transient with a folding chair and kicking him multiple times. A nearby resident recorded the video after a neighbor called 911 to report the attack. Police said they...
One of the most contentious debates surrounding the so-called “War on Christmas” in recent memory involves Santa Monica, Calif., a place once so filled with the holiday spirit it was nicknamed the “City of the Christmas Story.” Today, the situation in Santa Monica is starkly different. After housing a 14-scene nativity display for nearly six decades in Palisades Park, atheist pushback led officials to ban all unattended displays last year. This meant that the privately owned nativity was no longer welcome in the locatio...
Other areas of the country may be getting snow, ice or other bits of weather to remind them what time of the year it is — but in southern California, residents are retreating to the beach to escape the heat. On Christmas morning, the beaches of Los Angeles were packed with surfers and sunbathers, with no shortage of outdoor enthusiasts taking part in other recreational activities. “I usually spend (Christmas) in a very, very cold Boston,” Christine Lam said during her beach picnic. “It’s nice to have a second family. A...
You'll know it's springtime in the Santa Monica Mountains when wildlife biologists start alerting curious visitors to keep their distance from the first red-legged frog reintroduction effort ever attempted in Southern California. Biologists are gearing up to transfer fragile batches of California red-legged frog eggs from a tiny, isolated population in the nearby Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve to separate streams in the Santa Monicas where the species has not...
Police are searching for two men, one of whom was armed with a folding chair, in an attack caught on video at the Venice Beach boardwalk. James Karhu shot the video Friday from his apartment, located above the street, as neighbors called 911. The video shows two men punching and kicking the victim on a sidewalk. “My heart was beating out of my chest,” said Karhu. After one of the attackers ran away, the second man continued to strike the man with a folding chair. The beating continued for about two minutes as the att...
A small earthquake has rattled the west side of Los Angeles and coastal suburbs. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 8 a.m. Thursday quake measured magnitude-2.8 and was centered a mile northwest of Marina del Rey. Residents of Marina del Rey, Venice, Santa Monica and Culver City reporting the quake on the USGS website mostly describe it as weak....
On November 27, 2013, Francisco Leon-Urbalexo of Sonora, Mexico, plead guilty to one count of attempted, second-degree murder for the stabbing of Jarred Hill of Los Angeles. Urbalexo was sentenced to nine years in State Prison. Upon his release from prison, he will be released to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for deportation back to Mexico. The stabbing took place at the intersection of 4th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard on August 13, 2012,...
Proving that the holidays are truly a time for giving back, the City of Santa Monica opened the new Parking Structure #6 on 2nd Street in Downtown Santa Monica on Dec. 19. The project which began construction in Mar. 2012 is now ready for its much-anticipated debut just in time for the upcoming final days of the holiday shopping season. In addition to providing much needed additional parking for Downtown Santa Monica and Third Street Promenade, Parking Structure #6 has been designed to the U.S. Green Building Council’s L...
The Santa Monica Police Department is currently investigating several reports in which senior citizens have been targeted as victims of an elder abuse scam. The scams involve one or two suspects who stage a minor traffic accident in a store parking lot involving the suspect’s vehicle and the victim’s vehicle. The suspect(s) approach the victims as they are leaving the lot and claim the victim hit their car. They demand money from the victim; claiming the damage is less than their insurance deductible. Police have noted tha...
Witnesses and the first victim struck by a car that plowed through the Venice Beach boardwalk in August testified Tuesday they could not believe the Dodge Avenger continued after striking a vendor’s tent. They recalled in the preliminary hearing a car smashing an ATM near the corner of Dudley Avenue and Ocean Front Walk at sunset. It came toward them across the walkway, knocking over a trash can and a booth near a patch of grass. They said they expected the car to stop at this point. Instead, the vehicle swerved to the l...
For the 23rd year in a row, Santa Monica College is No. 1 in transferring its students to the prestigious University of California. That’s according to the California Community College Chancellor’s Office, which recently released the 2012-13 data for community college students transferring to the University of California and to the California State University systems. The numbers also show that Santa Monica College is tops for the third consecutive year in transferring African American and Latino students to the Uni...
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...
The City of Santa Monica is considering a plan to allow dispensaries as part of a new draft zoning ordinance. So a wave of medical marijuana dispensaries that have opened up throughout Los Angeles in recent years could soon be coming to the Westside. The proposal included in the city’s November Zoning Ordinance Update (PDF) would allow no more than two medical marijuana shops no larger than 2,500 square feet in the city’s Healthcare District south of Wilshire Boulevard, which encompasses the UCLA Medical Center and Saint Joh...
CANDY CANE DRIVE: Santa and his public safety helpers (SMPD and SMFD), distributed good cheer all over town, and thousands of candy canes as part of the twenty-first annual "Candy Cane Drive." Photo by Nick Steers, courtesy of the Santa Monica Police Dept....
Santa Monica officials are considering four designs to replace the 1939 era bridge, connecting downtown to the 100 year old pier. Officials regard the current bridge as antiquated, and desperatel in need of replacement. Over the years, a number of designs have been considered. In 1990, the council tabled discussions on it’s replacement, hoping CalTrans would provide the funding. That never materialized. A 2006 proposal to rehabilitate the current bridge said 3667 pedestrians cross the bridge on a busy weekend day. One w...
