WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013
Volume 12 Issue 105
Santa Monica Daily Press
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City’s first skyscraper moving toward landmark
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POSE: The Santa Monica High School football team goes through an intensive yoga workout with instructor Jason Battung in 2010.
High school stretches yoga offerings
BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL Landmarks commissioners moved Monday night to give special status to the Central Tower building on Fourth Street, a 102-foot-building that was dubbed Santa Monica’s first skyscraper. The building, constructed on the eve of the Great Depression, met between three and four of the six criteria under the land-
BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
SAMOHI Santa Monica is known for its love of yoga. Women in tight pants and men in equally loose shorts can be seen with rubber and foam mats slung under their arms or over their backs as a matter of course. Even the high school football team incorporates the eastern practice into their regular workout regimen. Soon, the students will become the masters, at least if Jason Battung has anything to do with it. Battung is working to establish a new yoga class at Santa Monica High School, one that not only teaches poses, but actually gives students the tools they need to become fully-accredited yoga instructors through the national organization Yoga Alliance.
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Supervisors put clean beaches tax on hold CHIPPING AWAY
BY DAILY PRESS STAFF
Daniel Archuleta daniela@smdp.com A crew works on a new pedestrian path Tuesday on the bridge that connects the Santa Monica Pier and Ocean Avenue. The project will create one path for pedestrians, instead of the two that most visitors have become accustomed to. The project is slated to end March 22.
The group, calling itself Common Ground, issued a report to emphasize that message. The study by a University of Utah professor points to the state’s record in building alternative-energy projects and
Board of Supervisors Tuesday decided to put on the back burner a proposed property tax measure to clean up storm water pollution. Heal The Bay, The Coalition for Our Water Future, and other groups gathered in a show of support for the ballot measure, which would add about $54 a year for most single family homes and tens of thousands of dollars for large business properties in an effort to comply with clean water standards and help improve the water supply. Under the proposal, most property owners within the Los Angeles County Flood
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Coalition forms to defend environmental law LAURA OLSON Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Labor and environmental groups on Tuesday joined some of the more liberal Democrats in the state Legislature in announcing a coalition to
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