Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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In one of those moments that shortens the seven degrees of separation between Santa Monica residents and the power brokers in Washington, Samohi alumnus Dean Chien was chosen to ask Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a pointed question at the Town Hall in our nation's capital on December 5. Chien was president of Santa Monica High School's student body when he graduated in 2016. Now, as a senior at Johns Hopkins University, he's once again student body president and has been...
Winter Storm in Santa Monica By Samuel Alioto 11/27: A storm from the Gulf of Alaska dropped rain on Southern California Wednesday. Snow in the mountains, and cold winds were expected through Thanksgiving making roads dangerous for travelers. In Santa Monica, homeless men gathered under awnings in Reed Park. On a normal day, they would be lying on sleeping bags and blankets throughout the Park at Wilshire and Lincoln. But the ground was far too wet for that. Many employed...
A free screening of "A Military Family Documentary - While Time Stands Still" will be presented by the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, this Saturday Nov. 9 in Santa Monica. The documentary follows three military wives before, during and after their husbands' combat deployment. Along the way you meet amazing families whose daily bravery will inspire you. The event is free and open to the public. The screening is at 10 a.m. and the doors open at 9:30 a.m. It will be followed by...
Three men were shot dead and nine other people were injured in a shooting that took place at a home next to a Long Beach nail salon at Seventh Street and Temple Avenue. The shooting happened just before 11 pm Tuesday night, Oct. 29 2019, in the back yard of a home at Temple Avenue and East Seventh Street in Long Beach. Three men were killed, all in their 20's, and all attending a Halloween party at a residence. Jake Heflin, Public Information Officer for the LBPD, said that...
As several fires burning in the San Fernando Valley, Ash has begun to fall in Santa Monica. The largest fire is a 3700 fire in the Santa Clarita Valley called the tech fire. There is also a fire in Castaic called the "#Oldfire," and another fire has burned 10 acres in the supposed a basin. This last fire is in Van Nuys making it the closest fire to the Westside currently. The city of Santa Monica alert system warned people to stay indoors, close windows, and avoid the smoke...
The fire emergency in Southern California has caused the SMMUSD to close all schools on Friday, the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District announced at 8 pm on Thursday night. The largest fire, the Tick Fire near Santa Clarita, has burned 5000 acres and caused the evacuations of 300 homes. The SMMUSD press release reads: Dear media friends, Please share and announce: All four Malibu schools in the Santa Monica-Malibu USD will be closed Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. This...
Yes.....that's right folks. No need to order new contact lenses or clean your eyeglasses. Local dentist and residents Lynn Watanabe and John Chien actually founded this amalgam (yes....pun intended) of words to form this niche association in 2002. So what is the International Dental Spa Association? For that matter, what exactly is a dental spa? Yes...that's right. Your first reaction was correct. Lynn Watanabe opened her dental practice, "Dental Spa" in Pacific Palisades in...
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...
According to Heal the Bay's annual Beach Report Card, the beach at Santa Monica Pier improved its water quality. For the first time since 2013, the Pier missed getting put on Heal the Bay's "Beach Bummer List." The beach at this location did receive a C grade, however, even in dry weather, when bacteria levels are usually lower. Heal the Bay assigns A-F letter grades for 500 California beaches with the grades based on the weekly levels of bacterial pollution found in the...
Normally, there is one security guard standing outside the door of Kehillat Ma'arav Synagogue in Santa Monica. For this Sunday morning lecture, however, there were two guards. The reason: the speaker was Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a medical doctor and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). Jasser, a devout Muslim, began AIFD in order to advocate for Muslim communities around the world to embrace the principles of gender equality, freedom of conscience, and...
Apparently, A Man Needs caffeine to get through a dark and stormy night on Westeros. A Starbucks coffee cup was spotted in a scene of "Game of Thrones" on Sunday night. Many such errors have become famous in movie making. Nevertheless, the coffeecup took on a life of its own on Twitter after the episode aired. "Movie blunders: Daenerys' Starbucks cup. Because even the Mother of Dragons needs a good cup o' Joe." wrote former US Presidential candidate, Ted Cruz. "Surprised ppl j...
Over a year after the fatal shooting of a young woman on a party bus and the shooting injuries of four others, the Santa Monica Police have arrested a man as a person of interest. Camron Aaron Lee, 22, a resident of Los Angeles has been booked for murder, according to Lt. Saul Rodriguez of the SMPD. Lee has three prior felony and one misdemeanor arrests. Lee is the first arrest made in this party-bus murder, a situation which was highly publicized at the time. The shooting...
The greatest concentration of population anywhere in Santa Monica is the Santa Monica shores, at 2800 Nielson Way. Built in the 1970's the apartments start at around $5000 a month for two bedrooms. They can be double that with a view. Somehow a unit in the pricey South Tower caught fire Friday evening, February 8th 2019. At 7:15 p.m., the SMFD responded to the 14 floor tower, to investigate a fire alarm activation. When firefighters discovered smoke billowing from an...
In her first campaign speech as a presidential hopeful for the 2020 election, Kamala Harris, presently the junior Senator from California, roused the crowd with her progressive agenda and enthusiastically included the now-requisite alarm sirens regarding climate change. "Let's speak truth - climate change is real, and it is happening now," Harris told her adoring crowd. She added, "Everybody here knows from wildfires in the west to hurricanes in the east, to floods and...
I must confess nothing about the Superbowl is interesting to me, except the guys at football parties. Do you secretly feel like I do? If you don't want to watch the superbowl, the Los Angeles Area museums are offering free admission on Superbowl weekend. The following museums will be open both Saturday and Sunday: Armory Center for the Arts Automobile Driving Museum The Broad (Free advance general admission tickets strongly recommended to avoid waiting in the standby line....
Now why would the richest man in world history leave his wife and 4 children? For a good friend's wife, that's why. Numerous sources report that Jeff Bezos had a long time affair with a married woman named Lauren Sanchez, a judge on "So you think you can dance." See for example, https://www.ccn.com/jeff-bezos-affair-with-married-lauren-sanchez-puts-worlds-largest-fortune-at-risk/ Jeff and MacKenzie were friends with Lauren and her husband, a talent agent named Patrick...
Update 8pm: power has been restored to affected areas of Santa Monica. A morning transformer explosion dimmed lights in Santa Monica North of California Avenue and East of 11th Street, residents reported. It occurred on New Years Day, a National holiday. Southern California Edison tweeted no statement concerning the outage. Calls to a recorded line said the power would be restored by Tuesday at 9 pm. One resident reportedly heard a transformer explode at at 10:27 am Tuesday,...
It may come as a disappointment to city cheerleaders and cause an eye-roll to the rest of us that the city has announced their plan to become "self-sufficient" in water use has been delayed by three years. Back in 2011, the Santa Monica City Council - largely the same people it is today, seven years later - set a goal of reaching water self-sufficiency by 2020. One can only speculate that their idea was it was somehow more environmentally friendly and also cost-efficient to us...
On Tuesday, 12/11/18, the Los Angeles City Council voted to construct a temporary homeless shelter on a former Metro bus yard located at Sunset and Pacific Avenues, blocks from the beach. Designated a temporary shelter, it will open next year. Funding will come from Mayor Eric Garcetti's A Bridge Home initiative. In April, Mayor Garcetti announced the initiative he called A Bridge Home. The idea was to see the creation of temporary homeless shelters in each of the city's 15 co...
Less than two months after the arrest of Eric Uller, a systems analyst with the Information Services Department, for lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, another city-related employee has been arrested for crimes against children. Transit Operations Superintendent Larry Jamieson of Big Blue Bus was arrested on Monday by the Los Angeles Police Department for alleged possession of child pornography. The news of Jamieson's arrest was posted on the Residocracy Facebook page via...
An early-morning shooting between two party buses near the Santa Monica Pier last year resulted in the death of 28-year-old De'Ommie de la Cruz. Now her friends and relatives are suing the city and the bus company for negligence they say contributed to her demise. De'Ommie de la Cruz was on the Lion Limousine Corp. bus on November 3, 2017 in order to celebrate the birthday of a friend. When the passengers asked for a bathroom break just before 1 a.m., the driver pulled over in...
Providence St. John nurses will strike on Tuesday, November 27 from 8 AM to 8 PM, wrote Labor and Delivery Nurse Lizabeth Baker-Wade, in a post on Facebook. "Since the Providence take over things have gone downhill," she wrote. "Providence is expanding so quickly that the nurses who take care of our community are left with poor staffing, increased workloads, decreased ancillary staff and a host of other internal problems. Providence has seen a profit of hundreds of millions...
In a video posted on YouTube, women charge that Gardisil, a vaccine intended prevent infection with human papilloma virus, instead causes sterility, blindness, autoimmune disorder and death. The problem is that HPV has at least 200 strains that afflict human beings. Vaccines only prevent 10 or 15 of these strains, and while this number does include some of that cause cancer, it does not prevent others. In addition, the vaccines have numerous side effects. At least 20 depths...
A project begun in the early 2000s to construct a satellite campus for Santa Monica College in Malibu finally won all the necessary approvals for construction, roughly 18 years later. The 27,5000-square-foot project will include six classrooms and a Los Angeles County Sheriff substation. Located in the Malibu Civic Center near the Malibu Farmers Market and Pepperdine University, it has not yet been decided what classes will be offered in the new building, which is scheduled...
"Among examples of sexual behavior includes grinding his genitals against someone else, and horseplay." Dr. Ford has stated that somewhere between 5 or 6 people were present at the gathering. You, Mike Judge, Patrick PJ Smith, Dr. Ford, Leland Kaiser and 2 other other people. How do you know Mike Judge? A friend starting in 9th grade. We were a friendly group at Georgetown Prep. He was a funny guy, bright, developed an addiction problem, nearly died from his addiction. I...
