SPRING HAS SPRUNG
And the annual garden tours are underway.
photo by Michael Rosenthal
Council Asked To Create Disabilities
Commission
The final report from Santa Monica’s Disability
Community Accessibility Committee (DCAC) recommends that the City
Council create a City Disabilities Commission...
Council Agrees: Civic Is
Landmark
Following the Santa Monica Landmarks Commission’s
designation of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as a landmark...
Historic Resources
Inventory Unveiled
During a special study session of the Santa Monica City
Landmarks Commission that was later characterized by a local resident
as “angry and unruly...”
First Charges Filed in Maran Case
Last week the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office
filed the first charges in connection with the death of 15-year-old
Santa Monica High School student Deanna Maran...
RAND Augments External
Communications Staff
RAND Corporation President and CEO James A.Thomson has
announced the appointment of David Egner as director of external
communications and Shirley Ruhe as director of Washington external
affairs...
Palisades Council To Meet
Thursday
The Pacific Palisades Community Council will meet on
Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the Oak Room at Mort’s, located at
1035 Swarthmore...
Pavley Is Named Assistant Whip
State Assembly member Fran Pavley, who represents Santa
Monica, is one of five Assistant Majority Whips appointed last week...
LULAC Holds Awards Luncheon
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC),
Santa Monica-Venice Bay Area Council 2010 will host its annual
Community United Awards Luncheon and Silent Auction on Sunday...
Project SafeTeen Training April 12
Project SafeTeen will hold a training entitled
“Identifying and Preventing Relationship Abuse,” for teachers,
counselors, and others who work with teens, on Friday...
Planning Board Nixes Car Rentals
In Auto Shops
The Santa Monica Planning Commission denied a requested
modification in the City of Santa Monica’s municipal code that would
permit car rental agencies to operate out of automobile repair
facilities...
UCLA Kids’ Walk Seeks Entrants
The UCLA Student Welfare Commission will hold its third
annual UCLA Children’s Walk/Run for Life on Sunday...
PATH Launches New Regional Homeless
Center
People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) will introduce its
new regional homeless center in Los Angeles on Thursday...
Huerta to Receive Chavez Award
Dolores Huerta, one of the nation’s pre-eminent Chicana labor leaders and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of
America (UFW) will receive UCLA’s Cesar E. Chavez Spirit Award...
Crime Report for Week Ending April 8
On the morning of April 4, a man was robbed at gunpoint
in broad daylight on the 1300 block of 5th Street...
UCLA Extends Fundraising
Campaign, Hikes Goal
UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale has announced that the
university fundraising campaign has been extended to 2005, with a
significantly higher goal of $2.4 billion...
Rotarians Stage Literacy
Program
During the sixth annual “Rotary Reads to Kids” week,
March 18 to 22, members of the Rotary Club of Santa Monica read to
students...
The Evolution of Abbot Kinney
Boulevard
The Street. That’s what Venice locals call the
mile-long eclectic, ultra-hip business district better known to
outsiders as Abbot Kinney Boulevard...
Rally to Save Ahmanson Ranch Cranks Up
Its Campaign
Now in “Phase 2” of their campaign against Washington Mutual’s
proposed Ahmanson Ranch development, members of Rally to Save Ahmanson
Ranch demonstrated at the company’s banks all across Los Angeles last
Saturday... |
