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Santa Monica Daily Press March 25-26, 2006 DAILY LOTTERY
A newspaper with issues
Volume 5, Issue 114
Selling the city is task at hand
Just off the tops of their heads
SUPER LOTTO 1 2 4 6 35 Meganumber: 17 Jackpot: $31 million
FANTASY 5 6 15 21 25 26
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DAILY DERBY 1st: 2nd: 3rd:
11 Money Bags 06 Whirl Win 08 Gorgeous George
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BY KEVIN HERRERA
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
It's All About Meeee! Prominent interior designer June Matheson, 72, pleaded guilty in January to poisoning several majestic trees bordering Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, just so they would no longer obstruct her view of the Pacific Ocean (and to enhance the value of her home, which she was preparing to sell). In Media, Pa., Colleen Lacombe, 34, was sentenced in December to two years' house arrest for embezzling $325,000 from the First Church of Lansdowne, whose charity and repairfund money she used to buy a second home and to get breast implants. (With the help of relatives, she made full restitution to the church.) It's All About Meeee!
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 84th day of 2006. There are 281 days left in the year On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. In 1634, Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.
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See LIBRARY ASSAULT, page 13
See REI, page 11
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Q-Line 4-5
State Medical marijuana won’t go away 6
National From the ground up
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Comics Strips tease
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Opinion Anybody want a lifesaver?
BY JACKSON HOLTZ
MAIN STREET — The head librarian of the Ocean Park Library was assaulted last week by a homeless man who spent the majority of his time sitting outside the facility, sources said. Celia Carroll was outside of the library, 2601 Main St., on March 16 at 5:35 p.m. when she was attacked by Melvin Winston Hardy, 39, a transient, police said. Apparently, Carroll was talking to Hardy near the bus stop on Main Street in front of the library. As she walked away from him, he
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Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 55°
Assault stirs REI heeds call of the outdoors Santa Monica location getting set up for business debate over public safety BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON Daily Press Staff Writer
Horoscopes More privacy, Pisces
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Patrons take five while listening to music from ‘The Cutting Edge,’ with its circular signal for a true surround sound, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium during ‘CA Boom 3,’ a three-day contemporary design show.
KENT, Wash. — To get people outside, REI brings them in. At stores around the nation, climbing walls and indoor hiking trails mix with racks of backpacks and rows of bicycles. There are snowshoes, camp-sized espresso makers and more synthetic fleece than a flock of polyester sheep. Recreational Equipment Inc. started as a basement co-op in 1938 by Seattle mountain-climbing buddies selling ice axes, sleeping bags and tents. Today it is the toy store for devotees of musclepowered recreation and people who want to look like them. “They have everything,” said Sunni Rudd, 53, who was shop-
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Carolyn Sackariason/Daily Press A welder goes to work on Friday in REI’s new location in Santa Monica.
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OCEAN AVENUE — When you think of Santa Monica, what comes to mind? Progressive political views, gourmet cuisine and high-end retail shops? Or, perhaps panhandling, traffic congestion and high prices? Those are just some of the impressions shared by residents and tourists who participated in a series of meetings with the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) as part of a twoyear effort to create an image of the city that captures its distinctive qualities and unique attributes — commonly referred to in the industry as a destination brand promise. The result: “Santa Monica … the best way to discover LA; an unforgettable beach city experience filled with eye-catching people, cutting-edge culture and bold innovations. It is the essence of the California lifestyle.” That’s what the CVB, city officials and business leaders want visitors to think and feel so that they will spend their time and money in Santa Monica It’s also what they hope residents believe as well when they wake up in the morning, filled with pride for their city, which may translate into a stronger, more amicable relationship with the millions of tourists who visit each year. “Perceptions are everything,” said Misti Kerns, president and CEO of the CVB. “People’s percep-
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