Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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By David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer You may have noticed the new vegan Deli in the 900 block of Montana Avenue. By opening the Deli, Brittany and Terrence Caldwell are completing their heroes' journey, and beginning where they started. "The hero's journey is to end up where you started," says Caldwell. "I never thought I would come back to this, but at the same time, I thought opening a small restaurant was what I was meant to do." B&T's Deli offers vegetarian sandwiches...
SM Budget Tops $750,000,000 Santa Monica lawmakers grappled with a three quarters of a billion dollar annual budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year. "On June 27, 2023, the City Council unanimously adopted a balanced biennial budget for FY 2023–25 focused on community priorities of a safe and clean Santa Monica, addressing homelessness, and an equitable and inclusive economic recovery," says the City's website. "Adoption of the Biennial Budget comes as Santa Monica emerges from the...
March 8, 2024 - The Sweet Lady Jane bakery branches, all of which closed to near-universal sorrow in January, has been bought by a new owner and has reopened in Beverly Hills. However, the branch on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica closed down again. According to a sign posted on the door, the new owners, "Julie and Matt," ran into a permitting glitch with the City of Santa Monica. The previous owner reportedly failed to acquire necessary permits for some remodeling work. A...
Sudden storms brought Thunder, lightning and even hail to the Westside on Wednesday and Thursday. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a severe thunderstorm warning and also a flash flood alert for Western Los Angeles County. This at 4:33 pm PST on March 6, 2024. The alert reads as follows: "Flash Flood Warning in effect for Western Los Angeles County until 10:00PM. Dangerous street flooding is possible. Avoid non-essential travel. DO NOT walk, swim or drive your vehicle...
Editor's Note: The following is an email sent to the SMMUSD community on 3/5/24: Dear SMMUSD Families, I am writing with an urgent request and I hope you will read this entire message. We rely on the Santa Monica Education Foundation to help supplement and enhance the curriculum of all students in our Santa Monica public schools. Since 1982, the Ed Foundation's mission has been to help ALL students succeed. The Ed Foundation recently finished its big fundraising campaign on...
Pacific Park's Ferris wheel will light up the night for "International Women's Day" with a stunning display of purple, green and white colors, patterns and transitions on Friday, March 8. "International Women's Day" is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. "International Women's Day" has occurred for well over a century, with the first observance in 1911, which was supported by over a million people. Today, the celebration...
The National has issued a flash flood alert for Western Los Angeles County. This at 5:53 pm PST on March 6, 2024. The alert reads as follows: "Flash Flood Warning in effect for Western Los Angeles County until 10:00PM. Dangerous street flooding is possible. Avoid non-essential travel. DO NOT walk, swim or drive your vehicle through flood waters." Over an inch of rain fell Wednesday....
The former owner of a Colorado funeral home has been arrested following allegations that he hoarded the remains of dozens of people and hid a body in a hearse for nearly two years, authorities confirmed Friday. Miles Harford, 33, was taken into custody late Thursday night, after Englewood police received a report of an intoxicated man in the 4800 block of South Fox Street, 9 News reported. An earlier warrant for Harford's arrest in Denver lists potential charges of abuse of a...
An old rusting sculpture on Venice Beach has a Notice of Pending Demolition Permit on it. The Notice was issued by the Cal. Coastal Commission, which wants to replace the artwork with other art. Some would probably prefer open space at the intersection of Windward and Ocean Front Walk in Venice. The applicant for the permit is "LA Louver," which is a closed corporation. So no one is sure who's actually behind the move or what would follow it. According to the California...
Firemen put out a car fire in the parking lot underneath the Marriott Hotel, an SMFD spokesman said Friday. Photo by Matthew Gonzalez "Santa Monica Fire and Police responded to reports of a vehicle fire in the underground parking structure of the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel. It's unknown how the fire started and it is currently under active investigation. There were no extension to any of the hotel rooms or any reported injuries. The hotel was evacuated as a precaution. " The...
City Councilmember Lana Negrete has announced that she has breast cancer. “I was diagnosed with cancer 14 days ago.... it's Estrogen positive HER2 Negative breast cancer in my right breast and in 2 of my lymph nodes in that breast,” she wrote. Negrete, one of 7 City Councilmembers, was appointed to the council in 2021 and elected to a 4 year term in 2022. She also runs a music store in Santa Monica, and is married with children. She is also Mayor Pro Tem. Her Facebook pos...
We have actually reacted to the emergency declaration a year ago with three new initiatives since I became Mayor. 1. Pathway home. 2. The community health (psychiatric) van, and 3. The Step Court. I am very proud of making real strides against the plague of homelessness in our city. Today was the most emotional day of my time on City Council, because we launched the Pathway Home. Here's our press release about the program: Los Angeles County's Pathway Home program brought 25...
A photo of Sam Bankman Fried in jail, with other inmates has surfaced on Social Media. The photo was released not by the New York Men's Department of Corrections, but my social media influencer Tiffany Fong who is on Twitter as @tiffanyfong_ . SBF basically used client deposits to back his company's own proprietary crypto currency, FTX. It is interesting to note that due to the increase in the value of crypto currencies such as FTX and Bitcoin, SBF's "victims" may recover all...
10: An Exposition line train collided with a private automobile near the intersection of 7th Street and Colorado Blvd on Saturday. The train operator was slightly injured slightly. The SMPD issued the following press release on Twitter: Santa Monica Police and Fire and Metro Rail Supervisors responded to a train vs vehicle collision scene at the intersection of 7th and Colorado. The Expo Train bound for East Los Angeles struck the vehicle as it was headed Eastbound on the...
Thursday, February 15, 2024 The Santa Monica Coalition announced it has filed a lawsuit against County Health Director Barbara Ferrer, the Los Angeles County Health Department, and the Venice Family Clinic as a real party of interest, in connection with the ongoing Needle Distribution Program which has been conducted for a period of approximately four (4) years at all three parks in Downtown Santa Monica. The lawsuit is the first of its kind to be filed by a resident and busin...
February 13, 2024 - A late January survey conducted by the California Elections and Policy Poll of USC shows Jon Hatami polling second among a field of numerous candidates for county district attorney. Only the incumbent, George Gascon, is polling better. Gascon is polling at 15% of the likely electorate. He would have needed more than 50% votes in order to win the primary outright. It is unlikely Gascon will win even the general election, however, since the same poll shows...
February 1, 2024 - The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed one case of measles in a resident who traveled through Los Angeles International (LAX) airport while infectious on January 25, 2024. This person arrived on Turkish Airlines 009 flight at the Tom Bradley International Airport (TBIT) Terminal B, Gate 157 on January 25, 2024, at 5 p.m. Individuals who were at Terminal B from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. may be at risk of developing measles...
17: The most powerful earthquake in years hit the Westside on Friday afternoon. Magnitude 4.7 earthquake, 7 miles from Thousand Oaks, in the sea off of Malibu ·hit at 1:47 PM. In some homes dishes fell off the shelves. The ground was still shaking a minute later. Cats and dogs ran to hide under beds. By coincidence, the quake fell on the 53rd anniversary of the 1971 Northridge earthquake....
February 6 - UPDATE: The estimate of raw sewage released into the Los Angeles Harbor is now 8 million gallons. Earlier: The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health updated yesterday's press release to admit that five times as much sewage had been released into the Dominguez Channel - and thereby the Pacific Ocean coastal waters. The total today is 5 millions gallons of untreated sewate released. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has issued an ocean...
The City of Santa Monica appears to have incurred little damage from 6.63 inches of rain in an event weathermen are calling “an atmospheric river.” The 6.63 inch total is the highest two day total in the City of Santa Monica’s 150 year history. "We are experiencing minor issues but nothing of consequence,” wrote Mayor Phil Brock early Monday afternoon. "Our emergency management center is activated, and we continue to monitor weather developments constantly.” On Wilshire...
Los Angeles, February 7, 2024-The Music industry had their biggest night of the year last weekend at the GRAMMY Awards. The veteran Luxury Lifestyle Gifting and special events company, Distinctive Assets honored the 2024 GRAMMY Award Nominees by hosting the GRAMMY® Gift Lounge on the 1st to the 3rd of February. Held at TOM's Watch bar @ L.A. Live, the lounge was open to presenters and performers during three full days of rehearsals. This year the guests were treated to a l...
On Sunday evening February 4th 2024, the following e mail went to SMMUSD, affirming that school will not be cancelled despite heavy rain. **Email on behalf of Superintendent Dr. Antonio Shelton** Santa Monica schools expected to be open Monday, Feb. 5, 2024 Dear Santa Monica Staff and Families, We are monitoring weather conditions in the area and at this time we are planning for all Santa Monica schools to be in session tomorrow, Mon, Feb. 5. If this plan changes, we will...
If you live here as I do, you probably already received a flash flood warning for Western LA County on your phone. That's common in the canyons, such as Topanga. But it's a little unusual for the Santa Monica area. Santa Monica is projected to receive 5 inches of rain in a 24 hour period, while DTLA is supposed to receive 6 inches in 24 hours. In a typical year, LA County gets about 14 inches of rain. So these are surprising totals for the area. Northern Topanga Canyon was...
Rapper Killer Mike was arrested at the Grammy's in Los Angeles after winning three awards. "He hit someone in the crowd and it was recorded. So they called the police, showed the video, let him receive the awards and arrested," tweeted Sri Harsha, who was there. Just before getting taken out of the Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center) in handcuffs, Killer Mike won Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. Killer Mike was heard saying: "Are you...
Massachusetts governor and Boston’s Mayor have taken a struggling black community’s recreation center and turned it into a migrant camp. Gov. Maura Healey and mayor Michelle Wu, who went viral for her ‘No Whites Allowed’ Christmas party, toured the new migrant camp which will house 400 migrants. The community is obviously fuming that they won’t be able to use the recreation center but Wu says they must sacrifice despite her showing no intention to sacrifice her own home or c...
