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Volume 6 Issue 78
Santa Monica Daily Press Down in the dumps
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Since 2001: A news odyssey
THE RUNNING THROUGH OUR MINDS ISSUE
Plans for city trash may include bringing in more BY KEVIN HERRERA
The sky was falling
Fabian Lewkowicz fabianl@smdp.com A forebouding cloud cover spread out over Santa Monica on Saturday, preceeding the overnight rain shower. The phenomenon known as mammatus is a meteorological term for a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud.
COMMUNITYPROFILES JOE REGALBUTO
From ‘Murphy’ to family affair BY KRISTIN MAYER Special to the Daily Press
NORTH OF MONTANA Joe Regalbuto entered the makeshift darkroom and emerged enthralled. In the corner of his former apartment, fellow beginning actor William H. Macy helped him develop his first roll of film. With the simple click of a shutter on his new 35 mm camera, he had captured a moment and, with chemicals, developed it into an image. “It was that magical experience, when you put something in chemicals, and all of a sudden you take it out and it’s an image,” Regalbuto recalled last week. For Regalbuto, who would go on to become an Emmy-winning actor during his 10 years playing Frank Fontana on the hit show “Murphy Brown,” the new-
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CITY YARDS — Talk that the city’s waste disposal and management is a cut and dry matter ... well, that’s rubbish. City staff has issued a request for proposals from a host of private companies, and the city’s own Solid Waste Management Division (SWMD), to see who will be in charge of collecting and disposing all of the city’s trash, and possibly other cities’ trash as well, over the next 15 years. Under the four options on the table, a private company or city sanitation workers could be responsible for building a new, state-of-the-art transfer station at the City Yards, located just off Cloverfield Boulevard near Interstate 10. Another option would be closing the facility down completely and transferring all trash and recyclables to another location within Santa Monica or at a site outside the city. That could mean a host of things for residents and businesses, including new rates for trash pickup as well as an increased amount of garbage making its way into the city from other municipalities. The City Council’s goals are to equalize rates instead of having residents subsidize commercial collections; keep the city “clean and green;” increase recycling; minimize impacts on the community and environment by improving efficiency; and enter into long-term contracts for secure arrangements and predictable costs. One thing is for certain, whatever happens, City Hall will continue to retain ownership over the 10 acres where the current transfer facility sits, along with a recycling center and a closed landfill. The facility is considered by many within City Hall and in the trash disposal industry as a valuable asset, given the lack of such sites on the
ART THOU: Joe Regalbuto’s latest project is an updated ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that not only
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features his daughter, but supplants red and blue states for Capulets and Montagues.
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