Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Update: The woman in this accident reportedly later died. The Santa Monica Police are appealing for the public's health in identifying a hit and run driver who struck a pedestrian an hour after midnight on Halloween morning. On October 31, 2021 at about 12:57 am, the vehicle pictured above, struck a pedestrian in the crosswalk at the intersection of 3rd Street and Wilshire Blvd., causing serious bodily injury to the pedestrian before fleeing, writes SMPD Lt. Rudy Flores. "The vehicle is...
Local Briefs A group of local residents and business people are trying to talk the City out of an ill considered plan to tear down a downtown Santa Monica parking structure, and replace it with "affordable Housing." The group says it has gathered 5000 signatures on a petition. The group's press release reads as follows: "This morning a group of Santa Monica residents and business owners delivered individual packages to Mayor Sue Himmelrich, members of City Council and the City Manager,...
Annenberg Beach House conducted its 8th annual cardboard yacht races on Saturday. 47 teams participated. The results of the soggy sailing competition were as follows: Youth/Youth category, 1st place The Zeetano, 2nd place EMS, 3rd place Titanic 2.0 Youth/Adult category: 1st place Old Faithful, 2nd place The Duct Tape Duck, 3rd place Ships-a-Wreck Adult/Adult category: 1st place SS Whale Shark, 2nd place Bowser’s Airship, 3rd place Kon-Leaky And award winners: Marion Davies Award for Fanciest...
August 25, 2021 - In an email addressed to the Santa Monica City Council and the Downtown Santa Monica Inc business improvement district, Promenade property owner John Alle described a Monday afternoon series of incidents at Parking Garage 3. Alle has been documenting stories of vagrants camping out in areas of the garage, distributing their trash and human waste, and harassment of the public for over a year now. Even after a horrific attempt to rape a woman and murder her boyfriend by running...
CuratedCare.Com, an innovative NYC-based babysitting website that connects parents with a unique community of teachers and artists, is launching in Los Angeles. For five years, Curated Care has made the impossible possible by helping NYC families find vetted and inspiring options for after school sitters, date night sitters, pod teachers, and tutors. Now in LA, serving families from Santa Monica to Pasadena, Curated Care aims to revolutionize the child care industry with an inspiring provider...
St. Mark School in Venice is a gem of a Catholic school that fosters the development and education of the whole child while also providing opportunities to practice the faith through community service, philanthropy and artistic creativity. St. Mark first opened its doors to students in 1949, and continues to serve the Westside of Los Angeles as an elementary school with classes from TK to 8th grade. Graduates from St. Mark continuously are accepted into the high school of their choice. St. Mark...
A member of the Compton City Council was charged with conspiracy to commit election fraud and attempted bribery to win an election on August 13. Isaac Galvan, 34, is alleged to have managed to retain his seat in District 2 of Compton by securing the votes of four nonresidents. Kimberly Chaouch (dob 11/20/72), Toni Morris (dob 3/10/87), Barry Reed (dob 8/21/59) and Reginald Streeter (dob 7/16/70) all registered to vote at the address of Galvan's alleged co-conspirator, Jace Dawson (dob 3/30/87)...
August 4, 2021 - Santa Monica Police announced murder charges against Nicholas Ralph Sloan, the suspect involved in the hit-and-run fatal incident on Monday morning in the 3100 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. According to witnesses, the suspect intended to hit a patron of Busby's Restaurant and Bar after being asked to leave the establishment around 1 am. After fleeing the scene, Sloan was coincidentally stopped by California Highway Patrol for speeding when on Ventura Boulevard near Corbin in...
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Santa Monica early Monday morning, Santa Monica police told reporters. The crash happened about 1 a.m. in the 3100 block of Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica Police Sgt. D. Oshiro told City News Service. The pedestrian died at a hospital after transport by paramedics, Oshiro said. Santa Monica Boulevard was shut down between Berkeley and Franklin streets for an investigation, he said. That included checking surveillance video in...
July 28, 2021 - County health authorities are once again warning residents against going into the water at several Southland beaches, including from the Santa Monica Pier all the way up to Temescal. High bacteria levels measured in these areas are causing the advisory, but officials are reluctant to blame the pollution on the July 11 sewage spill from the Hyperion treatment plant, instead blaming the recent rainfall. Investigations are ongoing into the reasons for the Hyperion spill. The County...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon condescended to add a sentencing enhancement to a defendant accused of assaulting and attempting to rob a Korean woman in the middle of the day in downtown Santa Monica. The defendant made the mistake of adding racial slurs as he tried to coerce money from the woman. According to Gascon, that makes the crime of pinning the woman by her car door, striking her, and grabbing her phone and her purse sufficient to actually press charges. Below are...
This program will be offered as a part of the Montessori curriculum in our early childhood classrooms for children ages 3-6 years. Montessori discovered that children between the ages of 0-5 years have a heightened ability to distinguish between different sounds in language. As we age, our ability to pick up another language fades. Preschool is the perfect time for a child to become familiar with the sounds of a new language and to attempt to reproduce those sounds. Of the two adults in the...
7/15 (AP) Los Angeles County reinstated a mandate requiring residents to wear masks while indoors, regardless of vaccination status. This as LA county experienced an alarming increase in COVID-19 transmission. County health department chief Barbara Ferrer announced the new mandate on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 pm PST. LA county previously only recommended mask-wearing indoors. The new mandate will take effect at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. Many speculated that the indoor mask mandate presaged the...
Santa Monica High School has announced another Covid case among its students attending one of its summer programs. The text of the email is below. While 60% of adults in Los Angeles County have been vaccinated and are not at risk for Covid-19, many younger people are not vaccinated. Opinions vary about how much risk teenagers have with respect to Coronavirus. Text of the email from SamoHi follows. Dear Samohi Summer School families, You're receiving this email because your child was enrolled or...
More than 30 Elegant Tern chicks that were startled off their nesting site in Long Beach Harbor are now in care at International Bird Rescue in San Pedro, reports an organization called Bird Rescue. More of these young seabirds are en route. "These rescued seabirds are a part of a large tern colony nesting on an anchored barge located in Long Beach Harbor that may have been disturbed by boaters and fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend," writes Bird Rescue. "These young terns are in crisis...
Beginning Thursday, July 22, Fort Gansevoort will present Women Who Work, a solo exhibition of works on paper by Zoya Cherkassky. This online presentation is accompanied by a conversation between the artist and curator Alison M. Gingeras. Born in Kiev in 1976, Cherkassky grew up in the Soviet Union before migrating to Israel in 1991. Her personal experiences and the visual landscape of her youth appear as common themes throughout her work. For Women Who Work, the artist takes a detour to...
A man was killed and a woman wounded in a car-to-car shooting in Venice early Monday morning, July 5. A gunman in a passing car shot into a white sedan near the corner of Brooks and 7th Street in Venice. The driver managed to continue for another two blocks before overturning the car on the front lawn of a house near the intersection of Rose Avenue and Lincoln Blvd in Venice. The gunman remains at large. The police did not immediately announce a motive or a suspect. This from Twitter: "This is...
The City of Santa Monica will be present an online, workshop series, "Calling All Trades: Jobs for a Green Economy," beginning July 7. The 8-part speaker series will be held via Zoom on Wednesdays, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. This online series intends to inform, prepare and encourage people who may be interested in having a career in the following trades: electrical, plumbing, electric vehicle infrastructure and renewable energy. Speakers will discuss the importance of recognizing...
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed 5 new deaths and 172 new cases of COVID-19. Of the five new deaths reported today, three people that passed away were over the age of 80, one person who died was between the ages of 50 and 64, and one person who died was between the ages of 30 and 49. To date, Public Health identified 1,247,899 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County and a total of 24,445 deaths. There are 220 people with...
LAPD has announced that it has arrested a suspect in the bludgeoning murder of a homeless man inside a tent on the Venice Boardwalk Friday 6/25/21. The man died from blunt force trauma, meaning the suspect allegedly hit him over the head hard enough to cause death. 38-year-old Michael McClain, of Venice, was booked for Murder. The LAPD's press release is below. Man Found Dead Inside a Tent NR21167rc Venice: The Los Angeles Police Department's West Bureau Homicide detectives announce the arrest...
In a typical year, Santa Monica has an Independence day celebration at Santa Monica College. It's held the Friday before the holiday, a result of local disgust with a number of murders on July 4th 1998. Fireworks are launched from SMC, close to the center of the eight mile square town, so they may be seen from all over. The Main Street Independence Day parade has also been cancelled. Both events were cancelled on July 4th, 2020 as well. “SMC Event Producer and Associate Dean of Facilities...
An apparent aftershock of the earthquake Tuesday was felt over a wide area of Southern California Friday afternoon, June 25 2021. The rolling motion did not cause any apparent damage. It came a few minutes after an earthquake in Woodlawn, Maryland, but that is an apparent coincidence and is not connected. USGS reports a M-0.08 earthquake, 21km E of Little Lake, CA on 6/25/21 @ 6:20:55 UTC https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci39718391 #earthquake Little Lake is a former settlement...
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake rumbled through southern California on Wednesday afternoon, centered just northeast of Los Angeles International Airport. The mainshake which hit at 5:11 pm PST, was felt across a wide area of southern California, East to downtown LA and North to Van Nuys. USGS seismographic data showed that the earthquake was felt over a wide area of Los Angeles County. The Santa Monica Police Dept and Fire Depts reported no damages or injuries connected to the earthquake. Minor...
On Tuesday morning, when most people were going back to work after the Memorial Day weekend, three youths, either drunk or on Xanax, crashed their Honda into a series of parked cars in the Ocean Park neighborhood and landed on a homeowner's lawn. The one female of the trio tried to make off with a sawed-off rifle. Police arrested and booked all three, including one male passenger whose only offense was public intoxication - and hanging out with the wrong crowd. Below is the official press...
5/13: A homeless man jumped or fell from the 4th Street freeway overpass just before 2 pm on Thursday, police said. "The reporting party informed dispatch that they observed a male at the 4th Street overpass hugging the guardrail," writes SMPD's Lt. Rudy Flores. "The male then jumped over onto the westbound lanes, striking a vehicle as he landed. Santa Monica Fire Department personnel arrived on scene and pronounced the male deceased." "All I-10 westbound lanes were closed off and traffic was...
