Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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My daughter Natalie Schoemann, who is a Senior at Palisades Charter High School, recently completed her Girl Scout Gold Award Project. She put together a reading program to support parenting classes at Cornerstone Church in West Los Angeles. Natalie suffers from dyslexia and reading and writing have been a struggle. As such, she felt it important to help children get a 'jump start' with reading. Generally, those who attend the parenting classes can't afford babysitting. Natalie designed the...
2/17/19: On Sunday, Samantha Macklin competed in the Royal International Miss Pageant in Fullerton CA. She walked away with the title "Queen of RIM's Miss West Coast Jr. Teen." Samantha has been invited to attend Nationals, to be held in Orlando Florida this July. Samantha's platform for her reigning year is, "Paws for Pets" collecting money, towels and blankets for smaller Santa Monica shelters. Macklin is a 9th grader at Pacifica Christian High School and lives in Santa Monica. At 14, she has...
This past Saturday, 2/9, Fitdog hosted its fourth annual Smooches 4 Pooches event, benefitting Adopt & Shop and Operation Blankets of Love. Adopt & Shop brought dogs to be adopted, while Operation Blankets of Love was there collecting donations for shelter pets all over Southern California. Two dogs were adopted at the event, and donations for both organizations were collected. Those who donated to Operation Blankets of Love were entered into a raffle for a free dental cleaning with Smile...
LONG BEACH, CA (02/04/19) Marie-Claire Follett was a teenager in London looking for a singing job when she auditioned for a spot in an ABBA tribute band. She got the gig all right, and something else - a career. "I was just a singer looking for a job, and it's kind of become my life's work," Follett says. She isn't complaining. That's because she and her husband Andy Marshall, who's also her partner in the ensemble known as The ABBA Show, now have three casts of the show. Two are in Europe - inc...
At the Commission's 1/28/19 meeting multiple speakers expressed their frustration with the Commission's reluctance to act. Public comments by Olga Zurawska are below. The Santa Monica Social Services Commission has been hearing about the failures of the City's homeless services provider, OPCC dba The People Concern, for about fourteen months now. The Commission has heard multiple times about the warehousing of homeless clients, about the intimidation and civil rights violations including elder n...
The 17th Street Expo line station was the scene of a fatal accident on Tuesday. Police have not yet identified the victim. It was unclear whether the pedestrian was chasing after the train, or just oblivious to it. The death was the latest in a string of mishaps involving Santa Monica train, but the first fatal accident since April 2017. Paramedics pronounced the victim dead at the scene about 8:30 a.m., said Ramon Montenegro of the Sheriff's Transit Services Bureau. The woman may have been...
2 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica, CA Date: Sunday, December 9 from 2pm - 5pm Website: https://www.fairmont.com/santa-monica/ Cost: Free Charity Partner/Donations: Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows is joining forces with Santa MoniCares to benefit Chrysalis, Police Activities League (PAL) and West Side Food Bank. Guests are asked to bring gently warn clothing or non-perishable food items to donate to Santa MoniCares who will distribute to the after mentioned organizations. Activities: Guests...
The County of LA adopted an inspection program to ensure that housing facilities for the homeless are clean and responsive to needs of residents. The official COLA press release follows below. We asked Olga Zurawska, an advocate for the new legislation, whether higher standards will make it more difficult for cities to provide shelter to the homeless. She wrote back to us: First off, the standards are a moral necessity as homeless clients have been mistreated and abused by service providers for...
A group of alleged gang members and associates has been charged in a multi-city burglary ring targeting celebrity homes and other properties, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. The criminal complaint lists 33 felony counts, including criminal street gang conspiracy; first-degree residential burglary; first-degree residential robbery; first-degree burglary, person present; home-invasion robbery; second-degree commercial burglary; and elder or dependent adult...
An employee at a Chinese-language newspaper in Alhambra has been charged with fatally shooting his boss, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Zhong Qi Chen, 59, of El Monte faces one count of murder with allegations that he personally used a handgun and caused great bodily injury and death, according to the criminal complaint in case GA104674. Chen pleaded not guilty today and is scheduled to return on Dec. 18 in Department 5 of the Los Angeles County Superior...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department announced Sunday evening that it would allow the repopulation of most areas impacted by the #WoolseyFire - effective Monday, November 19, 2018 at 9:00 A.M. Approximately 6,400 firefighters covering 617 fire engines, 91 dozers, 159 hand crews, 68 water tenders, 34 helicopters and numerous firefighting air tankers from throughout the state, along with numerous out-of-state resources, are still battling two large wildfires in California. These...
SMMUSD Schools in Malibu are closed to the end of Thanksgiving weekend due to the Fire. They will reopen on Monday, November 26th. Most of the City of Malibu is still under evacuation order, wrote District Superintendent Ben Drati on November 11th. "All four of our schools are still in the current evacuation area."http://www.smmusd.org/superintendent/DratiUpdate111418.pdf Malibu High School, Juan Cabrillo Elementary School, Point Dume Marine Science School and Webster Elementary School will...
SAN QUENTIN – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the deaths of two condemned inmates that occurred over the weekend. On Friday night at about 11:15 p.m., staff found Andrew Urdiales, 54, unresponsive during a security check in the Adjustment Center. Correctional officers performed CPR. Urdiales was pronounced dead at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3. Urdiales was sentenced to death on Oct. 5, 2018, by an Orange County jury for the first-degree m...
On Monday, November 12th the Santa Monica Landmarks Commission will decide whether to designate a handful of Craftsman-style bungalows on 11th Street to become the City's fourth historic district. Commissioners will meet at 7:00pm in City Council Chambers, 1625 Main Street in Santa Monica. Mid City Neighbors, a neighborhood organization, filed the nomination application which includes bungalows built in the first two decades of the 1900s located on the 1200 block of 11th Street (south of...
The ghouls and goblins were not the only one's threatening Santa Monica revelers on Halloween. The Uber drivers were pretty bad, too. Wednesday at about 6:43 p.m. the SMPD responded to a radio call for service in the area of 23rd Street and Santa Monica Blvd. A woman called 911 and said that her Uber driver refused to stop and let her out of the vehicle. Three other passengers called 911 reporting similar accounts involving the same vehicle. The victims involved were unharmed and reported the...
SAN LUIS OBISPO - California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are looking for inmate David Gray Hall, who was found missing this morning during count from California Men's Colony (CMC) in San Luis Obispo. Hall, a minimum-security inmate who is assigned as a worker in the CMC garage, was last seen at approximately 10 a.m. When CMC staff members went to check on Hall for the inmate count at about 10:15 a.m., they found that a state vehicle, a white 1997 Ford Aerostar...
A murder in Tongva Park last night, the third murder in Santa Monica this year, resulted in an arrest. Santa Monica Police did not release any information about the victim, including his name or whether he was a homeless person living in the multi million dollar, 1 acre park. A suspect has been arrested for his possible involvement in a homicide. The suspect has been identified as Joseph Ramirez Perez, a 21-year-old male. "I am not certain where he was "living" but our initial intelligence...
9/20/2018: The Santa Monica Police have discovered a body underneath the 100 year old Santa Monica Pier. Thursday morning at about 6:40 a.m., SMPD responded to a radio call for service regarding a dead body discovered underneath the pier. Officers say he dead man, a white male in his 30's, "suffered an injury consistent with blunt force trauma to the head." The Pier is the most popular tourist attraction in Santa Monica, and also the source of the most crime, statistically speaking. The LA...
Heal the Bay conducted its 29th annual cleanup day on Saturday, September 15th. "Our final totals are in for our 29th annual Coastal Cleanup Day," said the group in a press release. Some 13,342 volunteers joined us last Saturday morning at 75 sites spread all across Los Angeles County. Thanks to their hard work, we removed 40,066 pounds of ocean-bound debris from our shoreline and neighborhoods. Oddball items found this year: chainsaws (Palos Verdes), wedding rings (various sites) and three...
Samohi inducted new members into the ranks of the Samohi Hall of Fame and Samohi Distinguished Alumni. A celebratory brunch was held at the Santa Monica Elks Lodge at 1040 Pico Blvd on Sunday, September 16. Fewer than 100 people have achieved this level of recognition in Samohi's 127-year history, said Crystal Reed, SAA Secretary. The current inductees include author and radio personality Sandra Tsing Loh; astronaut Randy Bresnik; Nobel Prize winner Jeremy Pal; John Dahlem, one of only 41...
9/12/18 The American Film Market (AFM) has announced today the expansive programming lineup for its Conferences, Roundtables, Workshops, and Spotlight Events which will feature international industry experts, decision makers, and academics, and run alongside the AFM's industry screenings and marketplace. This year's market is taking place October 31- November 7 in Santa Monica. AFM's panel programming is anchored by its renowned five-day Conference Series which this year launches with The...
Actor Vince Vaughn has been charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence after he was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in Manhattan Beach earlier this summer, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Vincent Anthony Vaughn is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. Vaughn began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before attaining wider recognition with the 1996 comedy-drama film Swingers. Vaughn Starred in "Swingers" in...
Santa Monica, 8/22: With beach season in full swing, environmental nonprofit Heal the Bay today launched the Beach Report Card mobile application, which offers beach water-quality predictions each morning to millions of California ocean users. The group says that its predictions come from its proprietary NowCast system, which warns the public by 7 a.m. if monitored beaches have a high likelihood of exceeding state standards for bacterial pollution that day. The NowCast system was developed by a...
They charge $800 a night for their smallest rooms, but the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica apparently wasn't paying all their illegal alien labor, the $15 or so an hour the law guarantees them. The Santa Monica City Attorney's Office inand the Wage Enforcement Program of the County of Los Angeles Department of Consumer and Business Affairs (DCBA) say they have settled two wage enforcement cases at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. One case was against Loews Hotel itself and the second case was...
The statue of the Virgin Mary that stands at the corner of 7th Street and California Avenue was vandalized early Friday morning. Someone tagged the statute with yellow paint, possibly between 1 and 5 am, police said. This is in a week when the priest sex abuse allegations have caused church officials to apologize, but it is not clear if the vandals were so motivated. Church employees cleaned off the statue that same day, August 17 2018. The statue was been a target of vandals before. Santa Monic...
