Marina del Rey
Volleyball champion Walsh Jennings named boat parade grand marshal For its 50th anniversary Saturday, Dec. 8, the Marina del Rey Boat Parade will have three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings leading the way. Manhattan Beach resident Walsh Jennings, who won gold in beach volleyball with teammate Misty May-Teanor in 2004, 2008 and 2012, has been named the grand marshal for the parade’s 50th year. The theme of this year’s event is fittingly, “A Solid Gold Christmas.” Walsh Jennings began her career on the indoor volleyball court at Stanford University and garnered a number of records before transitioning to the sand where she has become one half of the winningest team in beach volleyball history with partner May-Treanor. Walsh Jennings was Association of Volleyball Professionals’ Best Offensive and Most Outstanding Player in 2003 and 2007, and only the second player in NCAA history to receive First-Team All-
American honors all four seasons while at Stanford (1996 – 1999). Off the court, Walsh Jennings has formed the “Chase the Stars” foundation, whose mission is to make an immediate and positive impact on the lives of as many children as possible. Walsh and the organization have supported various charity partners from St. Jude, to the Boys & Girls Club of Silicon Valley. The boat parade will kick off with a traditional fireworks display at 5:55 p.m. Dec. 8, followed by a procession of boats of all sizes decorated festively, circling the main channel from 6 to 8 p.m. A team of judges will select winners of the following categories: “Best Overall,” “Best Sail,” “Best Power,” “Best Yacht Club,” “Best Organization,” “Best Individual,” “Best Charter,” “Theme,” “Music,” “Band,” “Animation,” “Spirit,” and “Lights.” Information, mdrboatparade.org.
Santa Monica
Sunset Park residents donate 1,800 pounds of food for Thanksgiving drive Residents of the Sunset Park neighborhood of Santa Monica donated over 1,800 pounds of food for an annual Thanksgiving food drive organized by Keller Williams realtors Scott Price and Janice Hou. For the fourth consecutive year, bags were dropped off at residents’ doorsteps in the first week of November and food donations were picked up at the end of the week. Price and Hou said that after the initial pick-up, 1,300 pounds and over 10 barrels of food were filled to be given to the Westside Food Bank. An additional 500 pounds of food were collected over the weekend during another round of pick-ups. The 2,000 brown bags left at residents’ doorsteps were donated by Yummy.com and later gathered by Price, Hou and three volunteers. In total, six carloads of food from Sunset Park residents were transported to the Westside Food Bank at 1710 22nd St. in Santa Monica.
CITY COUNCILMAN BILL ROSENDAHL was honored by Gateway to L.A. at the organization’s holiday concert Nov. 20 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Westchester. The organization includes a business improvement district of properties adjacent to Los Angeles International Airport.
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KELLER WILLIAMS REALTORS Scott Price and Janice Hou organized a fourth annual Thanksgiving food drive in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Santa Monica, collecting 1,300 pounds of food in the initial pick-up.
LAX to see slight increase in Thanksgiving travelers Nearly 1.8 million passengers are expected to travel through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) this Thanksgiving holiday travel period, a slight increase of 0.3 percent over last year, airport officials predict. The busiest travel day between Nov. 16 and 26 is anticipated to be Sunday, Nov. 25, not the traditional day before Thanksgiving, officials said. Another busy day is expected to be the end of the travel period, Monday, Nov. 26. According to online travel agency Orbitz Worldwide, LAX will be second to ChicagoO’Hare International Airport in terms of the number of passengers this Thanksgiving. This means passengers should expect to see busy ter-
minals and many domestic flights 90 percent full, airport officials said. To help departing passengers catch their flights on time, Los Angeles World Airports, the city agency that operates LAX, will repeat a well-received program from past holidays, where volunteer employees wear red vests and roam the Upper/Departures Level in all terminals on the day before and the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Airport officials recommend passengers departing LAX during daily peak travel periods – from 6 to 9 a.m.; from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and from 7 to 10 p.m. – arrive in their airlines’ ticketing lobbies two hours before domestic flights and three hours before international flights.
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