Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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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...
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 passenger placed a radio on a seat aboard a Beach Cities Transit bus Wednesday in El Segundo, told the driver it was a bomb, and ordered him to drive him to Santa Monica, police said. The man, whose threat resulted in the closure of an El Segundo street for an hour, was arrested. His “bomb” was X-rayed and determined to be a harmless radio, El Segundo police Lt. Jaime Bermudez said. The man boarded the bus at Mariposa Avenue and Main Street at 12:35 p.m. He put the radio down and told the driver somebody had given him a bom...
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...
When a resident or business owner requests the Police Department to arrest a trespasser, it is necessary for the requesting party to perform a private-person arrest. A private-person’s arrest, in part, involves telling a Police Officer that they have authorization to place the trespasser under arrest, and then make that same request in writing, typically by signing a document. Police officers cannot arrest a trespasser without the written approval of the property owner or agent. This can sometimes be problematic for a...
About 1,000 customers were without lights in Santa Monica on Wednesday night in the second power outage in the city in as many nights, officials said. Southern California Edison said the cause of the outage was not immediately known and that crews were responding to the city. The blackout appeared to be tied to transformer problem in the 100 block of Fraser Avenue, according to the Santa Monica Police Department. On Tuesday, 5,800 people were without power for several hours after downed power lines were reported near 7th and...
$45,000 worth of repairs for Santa Monica’s street lights were approved by City Council Tuesday. With the price of copper up to more than $3 a pound, the street lights’ internal wiring had become the target of a wave of thefts that began in September. No “significant arrests” have been made in the ongoing investigation, according to police officials. Street lights had gone out in the 800 block of Yale, which police later confirmed was the result of stolen wires. There have been more thefts, though police did not disclos...
The 36th annual Santa Monica – Venice Christmas Run will be held this Saturday, December 7th, 2013, from 6am-11am. To participate, click here! Check out the map for street closures, the full street closure times are listed “after the jump”! Street closures are as follows: 6 am – 11 am Pacific Ave. between Navy Street and So. Venice Blvd. (with some openings at selected times, see below) 6 am – 10 am So. Venice Blvd. between Pacific Ave. and Lincoln Blvd. 6 am – 10 am Abbot Kinney Blvd. between So. Venice Blvd. and Washing...
Woman faces four years for DUI death of Australian rugby player A 28-year-old woman pleaded no contest Thursday to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the August 2012 death of a retired Australian professional rugby player who was vacationing in Santa Monica with his family, prosecutors said. Cara Maree Cameron of Westchester was allegedly drunk on Aug. 21, 2012, when she struck Gary Mara as he crossed the street. He was with his wife and 8-year-old daughter to celebrate his 50th birthday, according to the Los...
Someone tried to burglarize the HH shoe store on Main Street, here in Santa Monica early this AM. The crime went unreported until the manager arrived at the store to open. Nothing was taken in the attempted theft. Photo by Zoey Tur....
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...
These diminutive dogs have the face of a mischievous alien bat from the planet Cute Overload. They're popular and they're adorable. They're also expensive. A purebred French bulldog from a reputable breeder will cost $2,000 and up. But a "Frenchie" born with a health defect is nothing but a liability to a breeder. Not only is the dog impossible to sell, but also the defect reflects poorly on the breeder's reputation. Such dogs are sent to shelters or even euthanized. Unless...
Santa Monica has shunned the idea of medical marijuana dispensaries for years, but a proposed ordinance might change that. A new ordinance has been drafted that would allow two dispensaries to begin operations next year near hospitals. If the Santa Monica City Council passes the proposed law, dispensaries would be allowed to operate only within healthcare districts near UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica and St. John’s Health Center. Under the ordinance, dispensaries would not be allowed within 500 feet of schools, parks, d...
A 25 year old man is dead after apparently jumping from the roof of a medical building near Santa Monica Boulevard and 20th Street Monday afternoon, according to Santa Monica Police. While authorities have not yet released the man’s identity, SMPD confirmed that he died after falling from the building’s roof, about 15 stories up, around 1 p.m. Witnesses said that they saw the man smoking a cigarette on the roof of the building shortly before they saw him step to the ledge. Police had been notified about the man’s behav...
About two hours after a car sped onto the Venice boardwalk and barreled through the crowd, killing an Italian honeymooner, Santa Monica police say Nathan Campbell walked into their station and confessed. “I’m the one you’re looking for,” Campbell said, according to the front desk officer. “I hit all those people.” Santa Monica police Officer Brent Wilkening testified Wednesday, the second day of Campbell’s preliminary hearing, that Campbell said little besides the initial confession to him just before 8 p.m. on Aug. 3. Accor...
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...
An arbitration panel has ordered that Santa Monica, Calif., broker-dealer National Planning Corporation pay nearly $6.2 million to two investors for losses they suffered in real-estate-related investments. Ronnie and Stacy Erickson, individually and on behalf of related trusts, accused National Planning Corporation of breach of fiduciary duty and negligence, among other claims, according to a ruling by a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel. Their broker at National Planning Corporation recommended...
