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Brief: SMFD hosts free CPR training

Get some hands-on, hands-only CPR training for free, in honor of National CPR Week. The American Heart Association is collaborating with the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency to coordinate a countywide effort to instruct hands-only CPR. Throughout the week, emergency responders and healthcare providers will be going out to demonstrate and teach how to save a life. The Santa Monica Fire Department will join the effort by hosting a CPR training session on June 4 at Santa Monica [...]
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Briefs News
Briefs: BBB changes for Memorial Day

The Big Blue Bus announced that buses will run on Memorial Day. BBB will run its Sunday schedule on Monday, May 27, to accommodate users of public transportation during the holiday. Regular service resumes on all routes on Tuesday. Routes that do not operate on Sundays will not operate on the holiday. For more information, call (310) 451-5444.
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Brief: Local man commits suicide at UCLA

The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office declared on Thursday that a body found near Boelter Hall at UCLA was that of a Santa Monica resident who committed suicide. The deceased was identified as Reynaldo Quitos, 47, a UCLA library employee who suffered “multiple traumatic injuries.” Quitos was an assistant in the Southern Regional Library Facility located across the campus. His body was found Tuesday. Quitos’ passing marks the second suicide this month on a college campus in the Los Angeles [...]
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Briefs News
Miriam battles the bulldozers

The recent $4 million beautification of Ocean Park Boulevard between Main Street and Lincoln Boulevard has received rave reviews. But Miriam Ginzburg, an Ocean Park resident since 1948, wasn’t one of them. One day during the construction Miriam was sitting in the house she’s lived in since 1957, when she had an unsettling experience. (Pun intended.) When the asphalt-flattening bulldozer rolled back and forth, Miriam’s walls shook, or, as she recalled, “It felt like a 7.0 earthquake.” She suddenly saw [...]
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Columns Featured Laughing Matters Opinion
Is this really how we honor our nation’s veterans?

Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians, corporations and others with similarly self-serving motives eager to go on record as being pro-military. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring for her veterans. We erect monuments for those who die while serving in the military, yet for those who return home, there’s little honor to be found. Despite the fact that the U.S. boasts [...]
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Columns Opinion That Rutherford Guy
Letter: Not a fair measurement

Editor: At the historic Jan. 8 City Council meeting, over 200 people marched to save the Pico Youth & Family Center (PYFC), the only organic youth center built by Pico Neighborhood residents, and decry the City Hall reports as false. Twenty eight of 29 benchmarks were met, yet the city staff, under the direction of City Manager Rod Gould, asserted that PYFC did not pass the test. This is what rhetoric scholar Ralph Cintron calls the “Discourse of Measurement.” The [...]
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Letters Opinion
Letter: Tax plan

Editor: It seems to me that there is a way to make sure all companies pay their fair share of taxes regardless of where they have set up their corporate offices. My proposed change to the IRS tax code: A corporation selling products or services operating in the U.S. pays taxes on all worldwide sales regardless of where an item was sold. The company can deduct taxes paid to other countries, but must deduct from those tax payments any incentives [...]
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Letters Opinion
City Hall rethinking water usage

CITYWIDE — Taking a shower, flushing toilets, watering the lawn — daily life requires water, and managing that need in a town of 90,000 residents and upwards of 200,000 workers and visitors is a challenge that City Hall is trying to conquer. City officials saddled themselves with a stringent goal in 2010, the last time that they took on the Urban Water Management Plan required by the state, committing the city to consume only 123 gallons per person, per day [...]
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Environment Featured News
Mr. Checkpoint goes to court

CITY HALL — A Santa Monica resident known for his website that shares DUI checkpoint locations has found himself on the other side of the coin fighting a civil rights case with City Hall over a 2011 incident in which he was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk. Sennett Devermont, the man behind MrCheckpoint.com, alleged in a lawsuit filed last year that the Santa Monica police officer who pulled him over for an illegal right-hand turn against a red light [...]
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Crime Featured News
Playoffs: Samohi moves on; New Roads out

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Santa Monica softball used the long ball to dispatch No. 1 seeded Segerstrom from the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 playoffs on Tuesday. Samohi’s Sara Garcia blasted two home runs in the contest and starting pitcher Whitney Jones overcame two early runs to shut down Segerstrom’s offense. The win sends Samohi to the third round of the playoffs today, Thursday, at home against Paloma Valley. The game begins at 3:15 p.m. Samohi finished [...]
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Brief: Art for a cause

The seventh annual ART for CLARE event will be held at Bergamot Station on Sunday, June 2, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The charity event will include an art action with works by Ed Ruscha, Kim McCarty and actor Anthony Hopkins; a silent auction with items ranging from luxury vacations to sports memorabilia; live music and food from some of the area’s best eateries, including Lemonade and El Cholo. Bergamot Station is located at 2525 Michigan Ave. Advance tickets [...]
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Arts Entertainment Life Non Profits
Brief: Civic to have one more show

The Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra will perform a farewell concert for the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Saturday, May 25, before the historic venue closes at the end of June. The concert will feature works from renowned composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, such as movements from “The Sleeping Beauty Ballet” and his “Fifth Symphony.” The finale of the “1812 Overture” will end the concert. Santa Monica resident, professor of cello at UCLA and Grammy Award-winner Antonio Lysy will be a featured [...]
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Entertainment Featured Life
Premiere with Placido a rare treat

It’s not everyday that an opera conducted by a superstar premieres in your backyard, but that’s what took place at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica last Friday. LA Opera Off Grand is a new series that will bring opera to venues beyond LA Opera’s Music Center homebase. “Dulce Rosa,” based on a short story by Isabel Allende, marks the series debut and the first time The Broad has hosted a fully-staged opera. LA Opera General Director Placido Domingo conducts [...]
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Culture Watch Featured Life
If your name is ‘mud’ can ‘grunge’ be far behind?

Matthew McConaughey is the personification of mud, physically and emotionally. “Mud” is the story of a lovelorn loser and the teenage boys who help him evade the avenging family of a man he’s killed. It’s also a love story in which everyone loses. And a bittersweet coming-of-age story — for Mud (McConaughey) as well as for the boys. While the plot and the surroundings would lead one to assume that the film is going to be an emotional downer, it [...]
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Featured Life Play Time
New source of natural gas

The name “natural gas” might be a puzzle. After all, how could there be such a thing as unnatural gas? The reason we call natural gas what we do has to do with history. There was a day that people made burnable gas by heating coal. The gases that came off the coal were piped around cities where they did things like light street lamps and even power cook stoves in homes. Coal gas had its downside. For one thing, [...]
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Columns Opinion Your Column Here
Letter: Who’s it for?

Editor: Will the light rail really serve the residents of Santa Monica? The more I read about the Expo Metro rail, the more I get an impression that it is built only to bring more people to Santa Monica and not to serve the residents of the city. There is no mention of the parking arrangements if you want to use the Metro rail. After all, very few people live within walking distance from the rail stations. At least in [...]
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