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MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2015
Volume 14 Issue 65
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE BACK TO WORK ISSUE
L.A. remixed in Expo terminus station art
Council Preview: City to wrestle looming $2.9M deficit BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL By 2019, City Hall could be run-
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ART EXPO: PROLIFIC Judithe Hernández has produced several large works for the Expo terminus on Fourth Street.
BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
Editor's note: This is the last installment of a three-part series about the artists selected to fill the incoming Expo Light Rail's three Santa Monica stations.
COLORADO AVE The terminus station of the incoming Expo Light Rail is arguably the most significant. Stopping at Fourth Street, it will be the first station dropping riders off at the edge of the Santa Monica Bay in decades. Judithe Hernández, who has a storied career creating public (and smaller-scale) art and can remember when trains were more prevalent in the region, is the right artist for the job. Taking THE station instead of a station meant doubling the amount of panels she'd planned on creating from 12 to 24, with only five and half months to finish them. Her pastel drawings were turned into glass mosaics. Fortunately, Hernández, who cut her teeth as a muralist back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has the experience and knows how to stay consistent (not unlike a train). “I was producing a major piece of art a week,” she said. “It was kind of crazy. But I'm very disciplined so as scary as it was, I knew I could do it as long as I stayed on my schedule.” Hernández's pastel works are evocative, colorful, and often political. Her Expo panels are designed to relate to
ning a $6.5 million surplus or a $14 million deficit. The most likely scenario, city officials said in a report to council, is a $2.9 million deficit. City Council will review the mid-year budget and the five-year financial forecast on Tuesday and consider some fiscal tweaks as a result. “The City's major tax revenues have recovered significantly and have exceeded pre-recession levels,” city finance officials said in a report. “As outlined below, most of the City's revenues are expected to show SEE PREVIEW PAGE 9
Measles case confirmed at Samohi BY MATTHEW HALL Editor-in-Chief
everyone, but especially kids, and have been stripped of the nudity and religious references that can be seen in some of her other work. She was drawn to the station work, in part, by her love for and personal history with trains. “My dad and my grandfather worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad for decades,” Hernández said, “and I've traveled on trains from the time I was an infant in this country and
in Europe and in other coauntries and I love the train. I'll be 67 in March and I can remember Los Angeles when we had trains. And then they disappeared and it was very disappointing.” She explored several themes when creating the panels, which, collectively, are titled “L.A. Sonata” as they represent the movement of music. “One of the interesting things that I SEE TRAIN ARTISTS PAGE 8
SAMOHI A baseball coach at Santa Monica High School has been diagnosed with measles. In a letter sent to parents on Jan. 23, Samohi Principal Eva Mayoral said the school received confirmation that a freshman baseball coach had measles from The Department of Public Health. Officials told the school there is only a small possibility that students could have been exposed and that no further action was needed. “We have reviewed immunization records for all baseball players and according to our records, all have been immunized against this preventable disease,” said the letter. In a separate communication released Jan. 22, the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District encouraged parents to vaccinate their children. SEE MEASLES PAGE 8
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