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02.09.17Volume 16 Issue 76
WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2
YMCA YOUTH BASKETBALL ..........PAGE 4
CULTURE WATCH ............................PAGE 5
PLAYTIME ........................................PAGE 5
BASKETBALL GAME PHOTOS ......PAGE 6
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Love is all around the Santa Monica Pier.With Valentine’s Day around the corner,
Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquariumwill celebrate the love of the Pacific gray whale
this weekend.Heal the Bay is an environmental non-prof-
it, dedicated to making the coastal waters ofGreater Los Angeles safe, healthy and clean.
“We are all about protecting the wildlife,especially when they are in the ocean,” saidHeal the Bay Outreach Manager, Randi Parent.
Heal the Bay Aquarium’s annual Whale of aWeekend takes place Feb. 11 and Feb. 12. Thiswill be the twelfth year that the organization willhost whale related activities that will be ongoingon both Sat. and Sun. from 12:30 - 5 p.m.
Each winter Pacific gray whales completeone of the largest migrations of any species,traveling 10,000 to 14,000 miles round tripbetween the Artic seas and the warm lagoons ofBaja California in Mexico.
The migration takes the whales past theSanta Monica Pier, sometimes within viewingdistance from the Pier’s west end observationdeck. These whales can reach a length of 50 feet
BY MICHAEL BIESECKER &CATHERINE LUCEYAssociated Press
A push by a group of seniorRepublican statesmen for a tax oncarbon to help lessen the effects ofclimate change is already meetingentrenched opposition from with-in their own party.
Former Secretary of State JimBaker went to the White House onWednesday to gain Trump admin-istration support for the plan,which would place a new tax onoil, natural gas and coal and thenuse the proceeds to pay quarterlydividends to American taxpayers.They said the payments wouldamount to about $2,000 total eachyear for families.
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BY SOPHIA BOLLAGAssociated Press
Amid nationwide legal battlesover the president’s temporaryrefugee ban, California lawmakersare taking steps to make their statemore welcoming to people fleeingwar, persecution or disasters intheir home countries.
Assembly Democrats announcedbills Wednesday to grant refugeesin-state tuition at public collegesand provide money to school dis-tricts with large child refugee popu-lations. The bills would also giverefugees with Special ImmigrantVisas who served the U.S. ArmedForces or State Department in Iraqor Afghanistan priority enrollmentin public colleges and help them
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BY KATE CAGLEDaily Press Staff Writer
A new report shows the City ofSanta Monica is struggling to meetits affordable housing quota, a ratioset by voters back in 1990 when theypassed Proposition R, according to anew report released by the City.
During the 2016 fiscal year, devel-opers built seven new apartmentbuildings in the City. Prop R requiresthirty percent of all new multi-fami-ly housing go to middle or low-income households. With 175 brandnew apartments open for rent in2016, only 34 of them were belowmarket-rate, or just 19 percent. This
is the third year in a row the City hasfailed to meet the benchmark.
Low-income is defined as some-one making less than $48,650 ayear. Moderate-income is definedas a single person making less than$54,450 per year.
Developers have four optionswhen constructing new buildingsto help the City meet those goals.They may reserve units in newbuildings for low-income house-holds, build affordable housingsomewhere else, pay a fee, or dedi-cate or sell land to the City or non-profit housing providers.
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SEE LOVE PAGE 7
Courtesy PhotosWHALE OF A TIME: Heal The Bay will celebrate Gray Whales this weekend.
Love and devotion to Gray Whales
REPORT:
City failed to build enoughaffordable housing for
third year in a row
Carbon tax push fromformer GOP officials
faces uphill slog
California lawmakersintroduce bills to
help refugees
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Thursday, February 9Rent Control Board MeetingRegular Rent Control Board Meeting.City Hall, 1685 Main St., 7 p.m.
Feng Shui WorkshopLaura Cerrano, founder of Feng ShuiManhattan in New York, discusseshow “environmental psychology” canbe used to lower stress, while increas-ing vitality, by altering a person’s sur-roundings. Ocean Park BranchLibrary, 2601 Main St., 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Recent French Cinema:Neither Heaven Nor Earth(2015)French Army Captain AntaresBonassieu and his squad are assignedto monitor a remote valley of Wakhan,Afghanistan on the border of Pakistan.Negotiating control of the regionbetween local shepherds and possibleTaliban sympathizers grows more andmore tenuous for them as men fromall sides start mysteriously disappear-ing. Unable to explain this eerie phe-nomenon, the soldiers find themselvesembroiled in an existential nightmare,desperate for their own safety (104min). Montana Avenue Branch Library,1704 Montana Ave., 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
“Found Mosaics” withreDiscover CenterCome make a unique piece of art forthat special someone using foundobjects provided by reDiscoverCenter. Ages 6 & Up. Main Library, 601Santa Monica Blvd., 3:45 - 4:30 p.m.
Kids in Planes DayThe Santa Monica Airport Associationwill host Kids in Planes Day, from 10a.m. to Noon. The event will be at thepublic observation deck. Free parking inthe Airport Administration parking lot:3223 Donald Douglas Loop South.Bring your kids out to sit in an airplane.This is free event is appropriate for chil-dren ages 3 to 9. They will get to sit inan airplane and get their picture taken(sorry, no flying involved at this event).Registration is necessary but free.Please go to the Eventbrite link andregister. www.eventbrite.com/e/kids-in-planes-at-santa-monica-airport-tick-ets-31548434216
Dramatic readingIn celebration of Black History Month,Actor Arnold Weiss will perform a dra-matic reading of Mark Weston’s play,“The LIfe and Adventures of James P.Beckwourth,” at the KaufmanBrentwood Branch Library, 11820 SanVicente Blvd at 2 p.m. Beckwourth(1798-1866) was a fur trader, moun-taineer, scout, author and explorer.Admission is free. For information,call (310) 575-8273.
Friday, February 10Feng Shui WorkshopLaura Cerrano, founder of Feng ShuiManhattan in New York, discusses how“environmental psychology” can beused to lower stress, while increasingvitality, by altering a person’s surround-ings. Montana Avenue Branch Library,1704 Montana Ave., 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Writing & RevisionStrategies with JenniferCaloyerasIt’s post NaNoWriMo and you’ve writ-ten a draft of your novel. Now what?Come learn about revision strategiesfrom novelist and short fiction writer(and former Annenberg artist-in-resi-dence) Jennifer Caloyeras. She willguide you through the revisionprocess from line edits to overall tone,as well as the next steps in the writingprocess: querying agents and publish-ers. Participants will leave with aroadmap for revising their drafts.Cost: $10. 1450 Ocean, 12 – 1:30 p.m.Register at https://apm.activecommu-nities.com/santamonicarecreation/Activity_Search/55064or call (310) 458-2239.
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The Santa Monica YMCA has opened registration for its Spring 2017 youth basketballleague. with registration running until March 8 on line at ymcasm.org and in person atthe YMCA, located at 6th Street and Santa Monica Blvd. (free underground parking.)
The league is for ages 5 through players not yet in high school, and is divided into four,skill based co-ed divisions in which teams play nine games between march and mid-June.Evert player receives a uniform they can keep, there are awards at a pizza party foreveryone at season’s end and all teams practice and play in the Y’s indoor gym.
All players not currently playing in the winter league must be evaluated on March 6,7 or 8 in order to be placed on a team, but everyone makes a team, and no one is turnedaway for inability to pay.
The league emphasizes sportsmanship, fundamentals and competition under trainedcoaches and referees.
Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer coach or paid game referee (ages 18+please) should contact league Director Peter Arbogast at (310) 393-2721 or [email protected].
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Most developers are opting to pay the fee,according to the data complied by the City’sdirector of housing and economic develop-ment.
“If a developer is allowed to pay a fee,those fees are typically not equivalent to thecost to build affordable housing so the num-ber of homes that are created, tend to belower when a fee is paid,” Director Andy Aglesaid in an interview with the Daily Press.
Proving on-site housing for low-incomefamilies also allows those people to get intoneighborhoods they can’t otherwise afford.Last year, only two for-profit developers pro-vided onsite, or inclusionary, housing.
Three developers opted to pay the fee,totaling $481,232. That money will go into afund to pay for affordable housing develop-ments in the future.
The final development, Step Up onColorado, was subsidized by City housingtrust funds and provided 32 affordable apart-ments, making up more than 90 percent ofthe increase in affordable housing stock.
City staff report they are struggling tokeep up with the benchmark since the statelegislature eliminated redevelopment fundsin 2012. In the past, those funds went into
loans for non-profits to build affordablehousing. Back in 1996, for example, Cityfunding resulted in 98 affordable units, ver-sus only 10 market-rate apartments builtthat year. Overall, redevelopment fundsaccounted for more than 80 percent of fund-ing for affordable housing.
So what happens now? In the event thethirty percent threshold is missed, theproposition simply dictates, “the CityCouncil shall take such action as is necessaryto ensure that the provisions will be met inthe future.”
The City Council did take action in 2016by placing a measure on the November bal-lot to raise the money. Voters increased thelocal sales tax by one-half percent. Thatincrease combined with loan repaymentsand property taxes may help restore afford-able housing funding, although it may takeyears to see projects come down thepipeline. The new funding has Agle feelingmore optimistic.
“We anticipate going forward that we’llbe able to increase the number of loans we’remaking for affordable housing,” Agle said.
Progress will take time. This year, thirteennew developments will put 126 new apart-ments on Santa Monica’s rental market. Onlyfifteen of those are slated to be affordable.
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THERE ARE SOME AMAZING PERFORMANCEevents taking place in Santa Monica andaround town this week and beyond. Not theusual stage dramas but rather dance, music,spectacle, acrobatics and more.
Let’s start with The 7 Fingers (Les 7doigts), whose “Cuisine and Confessions”will dazzle the Broad Stage in Santa Monicawith four performances only, Feb. 16 – 18.
Music will be played. Food will be pre-pared. Whisks and bowls will be employed.Flour will be tossed in the air, as will per-formers. Aerial and acrobatic artists will leapthrough the air, tumbling through highframes and dancers will kick up their heelson the table. Please, kids, do not try this athome!!
This Montreal-based company is an off-shoot of Cirque du Soleil. Described as cir-cus built on a human scale, their nametranslates literally as “the 7 fingers of thehand,” describing distinct parts, unitedtightly, moving in coordination toward acommon goal.
The show is about storytelling throughfood, and life happens in the kitchen.
All individuals are composed of ingredi-ents, a unique recipe of blood memories.“Cuisine & Confessions” weaves the per-formers’ first person memories about thecomestibles that are a part of their lives withThe 7 Fingers’ dazzling circus skills. And atthe close, the audience leaves the theatre nib-bling the banana bread that has been cook-ing all evening.
Real cooking, real food, and you’ll reallybe wowed. Call (310) 434-3200 or visitwww.thebroadstage.com quickly before tick-ets sell out. Thursday through Saturday, Feb.16-18 at 7:30 p.m. with one matinee onSaturday at 2 p.m. Not to be missed!
WONDROUS AT THE WALLISIf you were among those lucky enough to
see the magical “Brief Encounter” byKneehigh Theatre, it was an inventive,ingenious and enchanting production thatreceived raves everywhere. Quite literally,you walked into a living movie onstage; bothvisually and emotionally, it blew me away. Isaw it at The Wallis Annenberg PerformingArts Center in Beverly Hills in 2014.
The UK-based Kneehigh returns to the
Wallis for a preview tonight, opening tomor-row night through March 5 with another ofits masterful, family-oriented but adult-engaging stage productions, “946: TheAmazing Story of Adolphus Tips.” It’s ahomecoming for Kneehigh’s formerExecutive Producer, Paul Crewes, who isnow Artistic Director of The Wallis, so it’ssure to be special to everyone involved.
Live music, puppetry, dance and visualsorcery highlight every theatrical event thatKneehigh stages. This one is an adaptationby Emma Rice, Artistic Director ofShakespeare’s Globe, of a novel by authorMichael Morpurgo (“War Horse”), based onthe true story of British townsfolk in a smallseaside village far from the warfront, and theAfrican-American soldiers sent there torehearse the Normandy invasion from theirshores, as seen through the eyes of a little girland her beloved cat.
With its live swing band, its energeticdancing, singing and leave-your-seat-whistling tunes, the kids will love the actionwhile the grown-ups will be touched by theultimately life-affirming story of love, warand prejudice that spans generations, geog-raphy and time.
Performances take place Tuesday throughSaturday at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m. withmatinees at 2 p.m. on Saturdays andSundays. You’ll find tickets online atwww.thewallis.org or by calling (310) 746-4000. Bring the family. The Wallis is locatedat 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd. in BeverlyHills. Check it out on YouTube.
PARADISE LOSTRemember this line? “The mind is its own
place, and in itself/Can make a Heaven ofHell, a Hell of Heaven.” Well, English majors– rejoice! It may not be a movie adaptation,but you are going to want to see Not ManApart’s production “Paradise Lost:Reclaiming Destiny,” a new interpretation ofJohn Milton’s epic 17th century poem whichmany of us struggled through in our under-graduate years.
Not Man Apart Physical TheatreEnsemble was founded by John Farmanesh-Bocca, who brought us those memorable
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IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURYthe Brits, with their impeccable enunciationand dramatic gestures, set the standard fortheater performances —Shakespeare and allthe rest. In the last half of the centuryCanadians, with their informal American ver-nacular, added a generation of comedians tothe mix. And in more recent times some veryfine Australian actors — Geoffrey Rush, CateBlanchett, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, etal — have represented their country well inthe acting awards sweepstakes.
Now comes Australian writer/directorSimon Stone’s film “The Daughter” featur-ing a group of actors with accents so impen-etrable as to render the story line nearlyincomprehensible. The film was half overbefore I could figure out who belonged towhich family and who their siblings were.
To digress for a moment: I have spent agreat deal of time on multiple trips toAustralia, where my South African-borndaughter lives with her British-born hus-band and their nine Australian-born chil-dren. And I have never had a problem withany of their various accents, even when theywere all talking at once.
So it was with some dismay that I tried toreconcile the dialogue in the film with theaction that was going on onscreen. For onething, the title of the film was ambiguous,since, for me, it was uncertain whose daugh-
ter was being referred to and why. The themeof the film was, in fact, rejection — multiplerejections of the main character (when Ifinally figured out who she was) by everyonefrom the duck she made a pet of after herfather had shot it down to the erstwhileboyfriend who awkwardly and unsuccessful-ly attempted to make love to her.
“The Daughter” is an adaptation of the1884 play “The Wild Duck” by Norwegianplaywright Henrik Ibsen. “The Daughter,”like “The Wild Duck,” deals with a dysfunc-tional family and a host of interrelated char-acters, a destructive lie that some of themknow but have never revealed, and theinevitable alienation and desolation thatengulfs the individual members of the fami-ly in the end. But although Simon’s film hasfewer characters and fewer extraneous sub-plots than Ibsen’s play, it still winds up as acomplicated and confusing tale, even thoughit has some lovely photography, a suitablygrim musical score, and the always wonder-ful presence of Geoffrey Rush.
“The Daughter” opened in West LosAngeles at the Laemmle Royal Theatre,11523 Santa Monica Blvd. on Feb. 3.
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Shakespeare Santa Monica productions ofthe Bard’s classics presented in such unlikelyvenues as the tennis court at Christine ReedMemorial Park. He now serves as DirectorEmeritus of Not Man Apart (NMA) whichspecializes in re-examining the classics of lit-erature and elevating them through athleticsand dance into a visceral interpretation.
Paradise Lost tells the Biblical story of thefall of man, the temptation of Adam and Eveby Satan and their expulsion from TheGarden of Eden in Milton’s words, “to justi-fy the ways of God to men.” And the words,they are many: written in twelve books, thereare nearly 10,000 lines of blank verse, all ofwhich the blind poet dictated.
And while this isn’t the Cliff notes edi-tion, NMA’s Paradise Lost will feature dance,
acrobatics, bodies flying across the stage onharness and chains, digital animation andvideo installations. While the ensemble bat-tles as angels and demons, visual images
images of the creation of the universe andthe Garden of Eden will be projected live onstage to weave an emotional tale surroundedby evocative original music and costumes.
The production takes place at one ofL.A.’s lovelier small venues, the GreenwayCourt Theatre, 544 N. Fairfax Ave., and youhave plenty of time to get tickets.Performances take place Friday — Sunday,March 3 – 26. Tickets at (323) 673-0544 orwww.greenwaycourttheatre.org.
SSAARRAAHH AA.. SSPPIITTZZ is an award-winning publicradio producer, now retired from KCRW, whereshe also produced arts stories for NPR. Shewrites features and reviews for various print andonline publications. Contact her at [email protected].
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In addition to Baker, former Secretary ofState George Shultz and other former offi-cials from the Reagan and Bush administra-tions support the effort, billed as the ClimateLeadership Council. Republicans, the groupargued, need to take a leadership role onfighting climate change, a problem for whichthey said the evidence is growing too com-pelling to ignore.
A delegation led by Baker met Wednesdaywith White House Chief of Staff ReincePriebus, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conwayand Gary Cohn, director of the NationalEconomic Council. Baker also spoke brieflywith Vice President Mike Pence.
A his daily briefing on Tuesday, WhiteHouse Press Secretary Sean Spicer declinedto comment on whether Trump might con-sider supporting of such a plan.
“We have nothing to announce on that,”Spicer said.
Speaking to reporters prior to the meet-ing, Baker conceded the group faces longodds for political success.
“This makes such good sense from a con-servative, limited government, free market,pro-competitive approach, that at the veryleast we hope they’ll take a look at it,” Baker
said. “But we know we have an uphill slog toget the Republicans interested in this.”
Within hours of their announcement,influential conservative anti-tax crusaderGrover Norquist took to Twitter to suggestany proposal that includes a carbon tax isdead on arrival at Capitol Hill.
“Now that the GOP can repeal all theanti-energy, anti-job regs--the Left offers totrade those regs for a carbon tax,” tweetedNorquist, president of the group Americansfor Tax Reform. “Nice try. No.”
Congressional Republicans have repeat-edly beaten back proposals for instituting acarbon tax, which would raise the cost of fos-sil fuels to discourage consumption. In June,the GOP-lead House voted overwhelminglyin support of a resolution opposing carbontaxes, which Republican leaders have saidwould be “detrimental to the United Stateseconomy” and lead to skyrocketing costs forfood, gasoline and heating oil.
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s officedeclined to comment. The office of HouseSpeaker Paul Ryan did not immediatelyrespond to a request for comment.
Baker and Shultz are pinning their hopeson the political appeal to conservatives ofsending out regular dividend checks to tax-payers.
According to an outline of the plan, thegroup is calling for a gradually-increasing
carbon tax that “might begin at $40 a tonand increase steadily over time.” They esti-mate it would raise $200 billion to $300 bil-lion annually, which would be redistributedback to taxpayers.
With the “carbon dividends” potentiallyreaching about $2,000 annually for a family offour, the group estimates that about two-thirds of Americans would receive moremoney back than they would pay in increasedfuel costs. That would provide an economicincentive to embrace more fuel efficient carsand greener sources of electricity.
As part of the proposal, the group alsorecommends repealing nearly all carbonemissions regulations approved underPresident Barack Obama, including theClean Power Plan.
So far, Trump has sent mixed signals onwhether or how he will try to slow Earth’swarming temperatures and rising sea levels.He has called global warming a “hoax” andhas pledged to reverse Obama’s efforts tocurb emissions from coal-fired powerplants. But the president also recently metwith prominent climate activists Al Goreand Leonardo DiCaprio. Ivanka Trump, aclose adviser to her father, has indicatedinterest in working on the issue.
The overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed studies and climate scientists agreethe planet is warming, mostly due to man-
made sources. Under Obama, the U.S. hasdramatically ramped up production ofrenewable energy from sources like solar, inpart through Energy Department grants.
Some environmentalists support a tax onemissions to help transition off fossil fuels.Sen. Bernie Sanders advocated for a carbontax as part of his bid for the Democraticnomination last year.
Trump’s secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,was the longtime chief executive officer ofExxon Mobil, an oil company that long lob-bied to defeat efforts to reduce greenhousegas emissions from burning fossil fuels. Butunder Tillerson’s leadership, Exxon hadstarted planning for climate change andeven voiced support for a carbon tax.
Ted Halstead, president of the ClimateLeadership Council, said the group said thatsooner or later Republicans will have to sup-port some sort of action to reduce carbonemissions.
“The climate problem is not going away.It will only get worse,” said Halstead, whoattended Tuesday’s meeting at the WhiteHouse.
But, he added: “To be blunt, in this polit-ical environment I don’t think this movesunless it has White House support.”
Associated Press White House correspondentJulie Pace contributed.
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GIRLS WINThe Santa Monica High Schoolgirls basketball team hostedCulver City in an OceanLeague basketball game andwon 39-33 to improve theirrecord to 6-3 in league playand 14-12 overall on Feb. 7.Pictured are Culver City’sAngel Morris blocking thelayup of Lily Auerbach, AylinFernandez shooting overMorris, Dawny MahfouzTiffany Minney and AylinFernandez celebrating,Fernandez dribbling down thecourt and Auerback jumpingfor a layup.
apply foreign work experience toward a pro-fessional license.
“These SIV individuals pretty much areveterans,” said Assemblyman Kevin McCarty,D-Sacramento. “They served alongside ourvets on the front line and so we want tohonor and recognize their service.”
The announcement comes as the federalgovernment is fighting in court to reinstate atemporary suspension of the country’srefugee program and a 90-day travel ban onresidents of seven Muslim-majority countries.
“We’re not taking part in this fear mon-gering and this hatred, and in fact we’regoing to do the opposite,” saidAssemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher,D-San Diego. “We’re going to open ourarms. We’re going to continue to find waysto support them and say, ‘You are welcome.’”
The plan would also provide $5 milliondollars to school districts with large child
refugee populations. Cost estimates of theother proposals are not yet available.
McCarty said he does not expect the costof providing in-state tuition to refugees tobe “insurmountable,” particularly becauserefugees already become eligible for in-statetuition after living in the state for a year. Hesaid he expects the bill would apply mostlyto community colleges.
California took in nearly 8,000 refugeeslast year, McCarty said.
President Donald Trump signed the exec-utive order on immigration and refugeesJan. 27. A week later, a federal judge inSeattle ordered a halt to enforcement of theban, which the federal government isappealing. That filing is currently playingout in a San Francisco federal appeals court.
A refugee himself, Assemblyman AdrinNazarian, D-Los Angeles, immigrated to theU.S. from Iran as a child.
“That’s who we’re closing our doors onright now,” Nazarian said. “I’m not going tostand for that, and I’m glad to see that mycolleagues also will not stand for that.”
and weigh nearly 40 short tons.“The whales past by Santa Monica Bay twice
each year,”said Parent.“They travel north duringthe summer and during late Fall, early Winter,they travel back down to Baja, California.Because they recently had their baby they typi-cally stay closer to shore this time around, whichgives us an opportunity to see them.”
Visitors at this event can explore the 100+species within the aquarium and be able tofeel the heft of a whale rib, and have theopportunity to try on a layer of simulatedwhale blubber for warmth.
“It is always neat to see a kid learn wherehis rib is and then compare it to a whalesrib,” said Parent.
The aquarium will also be offering facepainting, and a crafts station.
On Saturday, there will be a WildlifeObservation Station on the West End of Pierfrom 1 - 4 p.m. There will also be a Whale ofa Tale Story Time for the little ones at 2 p.m.
Tables and tents will be set up on the Pierwith staff to talk and explain about thewildlife that surrounds Santa Monica. Therewill also be binoculars available to catch aglimpse of the dolphins, sea lions and maybeeven a calf.
On Sunday, the Aquarium will host aShark Feeding activity along with a presen-tation at 3:30 p.m.
To be part of this lovely devotion to thegray whales visit the Aquarium at 1600Ocean Front Walk. Beach level beneath thePier’s Merry Go Round.
Admission is free for children 12 andunder, and for all others admission is $5. Formore information call (310) 393-6149.
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Complaints against
Councilwoman Pam O’Connor
filed by a local activist organization
have been forwarded to the Los
Angeles County District Attorney’s
office for review.
The Santa Monica Coalition for
a Livable City filed a complaint last
month against O’Connor alleging
violations of the City Charter in
connection with the firing of
Elizabeth Riel and at least one part
of that complaint has been sent to
the county.
Riel was offered a position with
the City of Santa Monica in 2014,
only to have the offer rescinded
before her first day of work. Riel
sued the city and the case was set-
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Prices are going up for the Big Blue
Bus and officials are holding a public
meeting on Sept. 10 to preview changes
and hear public feedback.
BBB will host a meeting from 6-7:30
p.m. at the Main Library (601 Santa
Monica Blvd.) to update customers on its
proposed fare updates and service
changes.According to staff, BBB will be adding
11 percent more service over the next 12
months as part of the Evolution of Blue
campaign to provide connections to the
upcoming Expo Light Rail Line.
To offset costs and bring some if its
products inline with regional averages, the
base fare will increase by $0.25 to $1.25
per ride. Express fares increase to $2.50
(50 cent increase), seniors/disabled fares
will be unchanged, tokens will increase to
$1.25 (25 cent increase), day passes are
unchanged, the 13-ride ticket increases to
$14 ($2 increase), a 30-day pass goes to
$50 ($10 decrease), a youth 30-day pass
drops to $38 ($2 decrease), an express 30-
day increases to $89 ($9 increase). A new
rolling 7-day pass will be available for $14.
According to the staff report, the goal is to
incentivize prepaid media and limit the
amount of cash transactions as a means of
increasing efficiency. Currently, cash cus-
tomers take an average of 23 seconds to
board while prepaid customers take less than
4 seconds.“Currently, 2 percent of customers use
30-day passes, 2 percent use 13-ride pass-
es, 3 percent use day passes, and 1 percent
use tokens,” said the staff report. “These
low percentages of current prepaid fare
media use are directly attributable to the
BBB outreaching to explain fare increasesCase against
O’Connor forwarded to
County District
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CHANGES COMING: There will be a meeting on Sept. 10 at the Main Library to discuss impending fare increases at the Big Blue Bus.
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DAILY POLICE LOG
The Santa Monica PoliceDepartment responded to 332
calls for service on Feb. 7.HERE IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE
CALLS CHOSEN BY THE SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF.
Petty theft 500 block of Santa MonicaPier 3:56 a.m. Encampment 2000 block of the beach5:37 a.m. Missing person 2500 block of Pico 6:11 a.m. Vandalism 1500 block of Euclid 6:35 a.m. Burglary 3400 block of Airport 6:44 a.m. Encampment 1400 block of Olympic 8:36 a.m. Public intoxication 1400 block of Wilshire8:44 a.m. Person down 4th/Civic Center 8:49 a.m. Panhandling 2600 block of Main 9:20 a.m. Auto burglary 1500 block of 19th 9:28 a.m. Grand theft auto 1000 block of 4th 9:46 a.m. Encampment 1900 block of 18th 9:52 a.m. Vehicle with excessive tickets 700 blockof San Vicente 10:22 a.m. Burglary 1300 block of 26th 10:34 a.m. Identity theft 1700 block of Oak 10:34 a.m. Auto burglary 900 block of 5th 11:06 a.m. Hit and run Centinela/Pico 11:16 a.m. Child endangerment 2200 block of SantaMonica 11:39 a.m. Burglary 2900 block of 2nd 11:39 a.m. Fraud 800 block of 18th 11:42 a.m. Strongarm robbery Stewart/Delaware
11:44 a.m. Identity theft 2800 block of Main 11:45 a.m. Traffic collision 18th/Wilshire 11:47 a.m. Bike theft 2500 block of Virginia 11:47 a.m. Battery Main/Hollister 12:06 p.m. Auto burglary 1300 block of 19th 12:09 p.m. Kidnap 2500 block of Crenshaw 12:16 p.m. Fraud 1300 block of 4th 12:29 p.m. Auto burglary 400 block of 20th 12:46 p.m. Domestic violence 7th/Colorado 12:55 p.m. Battery 1300 block of 17th 1:03 p.m. Burglary 3400 block of Airport 1:30 p.m. Bike theft 900 block of 5th 2:30 p.m. Auto burglary 1800 block of Hill 3:04 p.m. Encampment 300 block of Wilshire 3:10 p.m. Traffic collision 2900 block of Wilshire3:19 p.m. Bike theft 1600 block of Cloverfield 3:23 p.m. Person down 300 block of Broadway 4:11 p.m. Burglary 600 block of Pico 4:16 p.m. Battery 2300 block of 3rd 4:18 p.m. Petty theft 1200 block of 3rd Street Prom4:20 p.m. Vandalism 700 block of Santa Monica4:30 p.m. Auto burglary 1300 block of 19th 4:36 p.m. Identity theft 2000 block of Pearl 4:53 p.m. Child abuse 700 block of Broadway 7:03 p.m. Runaway 1200 block of 11th 7:05 p.m. Traffic/vehicle stop 1200 block of Alta7:47 p.m. Found senile person 100 block ofCalifornia 7:58 p.m. Encampment 3000 block of Pennsylvania8:50 p.m.
DAILY FIRE LOG
The Santa Monica Fire Departmentresponded to 44 calls for service
on Feb. 7.HERE IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE
CALLS CHOSEN BY THE SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF.
Emergency 1700 block of Delaware 1:58 a.m. Emergency 500 block of Colorado 3:11 a.m. Emergency 2100 block of Ocean 5:49 a.m. Emergency 2000 block of Arizona 5:58 a.m. Emergency of 4th/Civic Center 8:50 a.m. Wires down of 4th/Hill 8:57 a.m. Automatic alarm 200 block of Montana9:15 a.m. Emergency 1700 block of Main 9:25 a.m. Emergency 1300 block of 15th 9:31 a.m. Automatic alarm 2400 block of La Mesa9:36 a.m. Automatic alarm 600 block of Pico 9:44 a.m. Elevator rescue 1300 block of 4th 9:48 a.m. Automatic alarm 1300 block of Pico 10:06 a.m. Automatic alarm 300 block of CivicCenter 10:19 a.m.
Emergency 1400 block of 3rd Street Prom10:20 a.m. Automatic alarm 1500 block of OceanPark 10:51 a.m. Emergency 1400 block of 18th 11:09 a.m. Emergency of 18th/Wilshire 11:47 a.m. Emergency 3300 block of Barnard 12:00 p.m. Emergency 700 block of Wilshire 12:07 p.m. Structure fire 800 block of 9th 12:36 p.m. Emergency 2000 block of 19th 12:37 p.m. Emergency 1500 block of Ocean 1:44 p.m. Emergency 200 block of Arizona 1:53 p.m. Emergency 1300 block of 15th 2:45 p.m. Emergency 1700 block of Ocean FrontWalk 3:11 p.m. Automatic alarm 1400 block of Stanford3:45 p.m. Emergency 2400 block of Wilshire 4:06 p.m. Emergency 300 block of Broadway 4:11 p.m. Emergency 2900 block of 31st 4:30 p.m. Emergency 1200 block of 6th 4:36 p.m. Emergency of Cloverfield/26th 4:47 p.m. Emergency 1300 block of Wilshire 5:24 p.m. Automatic alarm 1400 block of 6th 6:08 p.m. Emergency 1300 block of 20th 7:42 p.m. Emergency 400 block of Expo Line 8:29 p.m.
Crime Watch is culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
ON FEBRUARY 2, AT ABOUT 3:35 P.M.Officers responded to Sephora-1244 3rd Street Promenade regarding a theft that justoccurred with two suspects detained by Loss Prevention. Officers arrived and met withLoss Prevention Staff. Officers determined the suspects were monitored by LossPrevention as they selected several items from the sales floor. One of the suspectssecreted the merchandise in his pants. The suspects exited the store without paying forany items. The suspects were followed out by Loss Prevention and contacted at 3rdStreet and Arizona Avenue. The suspects were taken into custody without incident.Approximately $521 worth of cosmetics was recovered. A search of the suspects yield-ed the recovery of several burglary tools.Randall Matthew Gentner, 26, from La Puente was arrested for burglary and possessionof burglary tools. Bail was set at $20,000. Brianna Lynn Eddington, 29, from La Puentewas arrested for burglary and possession of burglary tools. Bail was set at Bail $20,000.
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The City of Santa Monica is soliciting bids for construction quotes for a multi-phased proj-ect with incremental utility undergrounding and excavation for a term not to exceed two(2) years. Parties shall submit one construction cost proposal with line item costs for eachphase specified in the bidding instructions. Bids shall be delivered to the City of SantaMonica, Office of the City Clerk, Room 102, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, California,90401, not later than 2:30 p.m. on Monday, March 27, 2017, to be publicly opened andread aloud after 3:00 p.m. on said date in City Hall Council Chambers. Each Bid shall bein accordance with the Request for Bids.
MANDATORY PRE-BID JOB WALK: Bidders must meet City staff at the Northwest Corner of 17th Street and Pico Blvd SantaMonica, CA on February 23, 2017 at 8:00 am for the mandatory pre-bid job walk. Citystaff will take all those in attendance to all locations mentioned in the bidding documents.Submission of the Bid by the Bidder shall be conclusive evidence that the undersignedhas made such examinations and included all costs associated with preparing the Sitesfor the intended Work. The engineering drawings for the Work show conditions as they aresupposed or believed to exist. The conditions shown do not constitute a representation orwarranty express or implied by the City or its officers that such conditions actually exist.
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The trouble with reading, saying and doing things to bolster your self-esteem is that every attempt to raiseyour opinion of yourself backwardly affirms that you have a low opinion of yourself. Fortunately, as themoon shifts into the passionate, fiery realm of Leo, the solution gets simple: Stop thinking about yourself,and focus on the task at hand.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)Your journey in the world of commerce mayhave a few bumps. Handle business, howeverinconvenient it may be. The customer is notalways right, though it behooves the merchantto lend the benefit of the doubt.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)Take up space and command attention withyour communication style. You’ll gain the sup-port of authority figures and the approval ofthose who see you as an authority.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)There are many ways to say it. Because of yourdesire to leave people with a good feeling,you’ll give thought to how you’re going to relayinformation from important news to the sim-plest of salutations.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)Artistic expression is stress relief. A regularcreative practice ensures that you’ll be notonly calmer and more centered but also quitemasterful at the craft of your choice.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)You’ll have your choice of a few differentinvestments. It will be better to invest in a per-son than it will in an object or commodity.Tonight: Fortune favors you when you expressyour love in actions instead of words.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)People will have a strong need to categorizeyou today, only because they’re trying to fig-ure out where you fit into their lives. Just don’tlet them define you. You define you; and thatdefinition is ever-evolving.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)If love is a game, this will be a prize winninground. Hand on the buzzer, you’re ready tocome up with the right answer. Make yourmove. Don’t wait to be sure.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21)Your close friends and loved ones will want toknow what you think, but beyond that there islittle to gain (and much to lose) from dis-cussing personal and political views with thegeneral public today.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)You’re probably feeling nostalgic for anothertime. It was no better or worse than this timereally, but it was lovely and inspiring in its ownway. Channel the energy of the past intotoday’s work.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Driven people do not find it difficult to pushthemselves hard. The real challenge for anoverachiever is in setting limits that will leadto optimum gains over the long term.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)You never know who is hurting inside. When indoubt, reach out. Your handshakes and hugsare healing. You won’t regret being a littlemore friendly or affectionate than was reallynecessary.
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You can be subtle and sly when you need to be, and you’ll maneuver a situation that requires diplo-macy. You’ll advance through the politics of a scene and become quite powerful. March and Juneoffer a different kind of work and the chance at big money. A special friendship will send you on aJuly adventure. Scorpio and Aries adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 9, 25, 34 and 19.
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The City of Los Angeles agreedWednesday to pay $1.5 million to the familyof a mentally ill black man who was shot andkilled in 2014 by Los Angeles police during astruggle over an officer’s gun.
The settlement in a civil rights lawsuitbrought by the family of Ezell Ford, 25,came two weeks after prosecutors said thetwo Los Angeles Police Department offi-cers acted lawfully and in self-defensewhen they shot and killed Ford in August2014. More than a year ago, a police over-sight board found the officers had nolegal reason to stop Ford, violatingdepartment policy.
The Los Angeles City Council approvedthe settlement with Ford’s family onWednesday with a 10-2 vote. An attorney for
Ford’s family did not immediately respondto a request for comment.
Los Angeles prosecutors said OfficersSharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegaswere in fear for their lives when they shotFord on Aug. 11, 2014, as Ford struggledwith Wampler over the officer’s holsteredgun. The shooting happened days after thatof Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,and led to a series of Black Lives Matterprotests in Los Angeles.
Authorities said the officers hadapproached Ford, whose family has saidhe struggled with an array of mental ill-nesses, after seeing him in a known gangarea, but said Ford walked away and theofficers believed he was trying to discardan illegal substance.
Prosecutors said Wampler had placed hishands on Ford’s shoulders before Ford spunaround and grabbed the officer at the waist.
Ford fell to the ground with the officer andthe two started tussling as Ford tried to grabWampler’s gun from the holster on his waist,prosecutors said.
Villegas shot Ford twice during thestruggle, but Ford continued to fight withWampler, Los Angeles County DistrictAttorney Jackie Lacey said last month.Wampler was eventually able to retrievehis backup weapon, which was affixed tohis bulletproof vest, reached aroundFord’s body and shot him once in theback, she said.
After prosecutors reached their determi-nation in the case, Ford’s mother, TritobiaFord, told reporters there would “be no jus-tice” for her son. She said the officers “justgot away with murder.”
The officers’ union decried the citycouncil’s decision to settle the case, argu-ing the city should have fought the “base-
less civil suit.”“This fiscally irresponsible pattern of set-
tling civil claims, in spite of legal and inves-tigative findings supporting police officers’actions, is sending the wrong message totrial lawyers that the city’s treasury is noth-ing more than an ATM,” said Craig Lally, thepresident of the Los Angeles PoliceProtective League.
The Los Angeles Police Commissionruled in June 2015 that the officers had noreason to stop and question Ford, and thatviolation of department policy led to analtercation that ended with Ford’s death. Thecommission found that Wampler was unjus-tified in shooting Ford and Villegas waswrong to draw his weapon but acted appro-priately in firing it because he believedWampler’s life was in danger.
The officers have been on administrativeduty since the shooting.
$1.5M settlement reached in LAPD killing of black man
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The Disabled American Veterans (DAV)A Non-Profit Organization serving California Veterans.. Needs dedicated Volunteer Drivers to transport Veterans to the West Los Angeles V.A. HospitalVehicle and Gas is provided.For more information please contact Blas Barragán at (310) 478-3711 Ext. 49062 or at (310) 268-3344.
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