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News, Ucla, Hometown Hero, Santa Monica, Lifestyle
Hometown Hero: Dr. Lester Breslow (1915-2012)
Posted Apr. 29, 2012, 2:23 am
You may have seen Dr. Lester Breslow, a man in his 90s, taking his regular walk on the Boardwalk in Santa Monica. Breslow, a physician who pioneere...
Hometown Hero, Santa Monica, Columnist, Santa Monica Airport
Hometown Heroes: Pancho Barnes and Donald Douglas Sr.
Posted Apr. 2, 2012, 7:11 am
Pancho Barnes (1901-1975) joined 19 other women pilots, including the most famous woman aviator of the time, Amelia Earhart, as they took off from ...
Hometown Hero, Santa Monica, Columnist
Hometown Hero: John Byers, Santa Monica Architect
Posted Jan. 27, 2012, 10:38 pm
John Winford Byers, Santa Monica’s most important architect and builder in the period between WWI and WWII, told the Los Angeles Times on May 17,...
Hometown Hero, Santa Monica, Columnist
Hometown Hero: Barbara Stinchfield
Posted Dec. 31, 2011, 12:58 am
“I came to Santa Monica at a time of high activism in the City. There were many ideas being discussed and many people interested in the things I ...
Opinion, Hometown Hero, Santa Monica, Columnist
Hometown Heroes: Suffragists
Posted Oct. 27, 2011, 5:42 am
Meetings in public parks, speaking from makeshift platforms, using the media to get the word out - sound familiar? In 2011 it’s “Occupy Wall St...
News, Hometown Hero, Santa Monica
Celebrate The Life Of Santa Monica Civic Leader Millie Rosenstein This Saturday, September 24
Posted Sep. 22, 2011, 7:13 am
The life of civic leader Millie Rosenstein, who died in August at the age of 96, will be celebrated this Saturday, Sept. 24 at 3 p.m. at the Broad ...
Opinion, Hometown Hero, Santa Monica, Columnist
Hometown Heroes: Bainbridge Islanders
Posted Aug. 25, 2011, 5:59 am
An hour in a day, dedicated to celebrating a story that started during WWII, healing old wounds and honoring an honorable community. In 1942 Bainb...
Opinion, Hometown Hero, Santa Monica, Columnist, Police Department, Wilshire Boulevard
What We Can Learn From Granny, Baby Attack
Posted Jul. 31, 2011, 3:20 am
A sunny, summer day, a good day for a grandmother to push her one year old grandchild in a stroller along Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica. Then...
Opinion, Editorial, Hometown Hero, Santa Monica
Marquez Family's Legacy is Santa Monica's Foundation
Posted May. 31, 2011, 12:43 am
Ernest Marquez, the historian of the Marquez family, was born in 1924 at Mary Martin Hospital in Santa Monica. He grew up in the family home in San...
Opinion, Hometown Hero, Columnist
Hometown Hero: Janet Salomonson M.D.
Posted May. 1, 2011, 3:00 pm
Santa Monica plastic surgeon Janet Salomonson will be in Guatemala this coming summer performing operations to correct the birth anomaly of cleft p...
Opinion, Editorial, Hometown Hero, Columnist
Planning Director's Unforgettable Achievements
Posted Mar. 25, 2011, 6:33 pm
“Values frame opportunities,” said Eileen Fogarty, speaking of why she came to Santa Monica in 2006 to lead the City through the process of cre...
Opinion, Editorial, Hometown Hero, Columnist
Mentoring Students to Find Meaning Through Music
Posted Feb. 26, 2011, 11:53 pm
Two students walked into music class at St. Anne School in Santa Monica. “They were bickering and calling each other names,” said Mayumi Kanaga...
Opinion, Hometown Hero, Columnist
Arcadia Bandini, Santa Monica Shaper
Posted Nov. 29, 2010, 12:37 am
I wish I could time travel, sit with Arcadia Bandin on the porch of her home on Ocean Avenue, and talk about her life. I would tell her that her g...
Opinion, Hometown Hero, Columnist
Anna Cummins
Posted Aug. 27, 2010, 3:14 am
Anna Cummins recalls, “The creek next to my house was my favorite place to explore. One day, following the creek far north of my house, I saw ho...
Opinion, Hometown Hero
Hometown Hero: Ted Winterer
Posted Jun. 24, 2010, 7:33 am
2010 will be the first time Ted, his wife, the designer Beck Taylor, their children, Eleanor and Steele, and their dogs will join the marchers. Fo...
