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05.22.17 Volume 16 Issue 163
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Local business Bourget Bros celebrates 70 years KATE CAGLE Daily Press Staff Writer
It all started with just $300 and an offer to buy a business. It was 1947 and Henry, Lawrence and Leo Bourget had just come back from WWII. To them, that $300 was a big investment but one that certainly paid off over the next seventy years. The money went to purchasing a concrete manufacturing plant on the corner of 10th Street and Olympic Boulevard. Just three years later the product line was already expanding. By 1950, Bourget Bros Building Materials was selling plumbing fixtures, masonry, landscaping supplies and tools as well as concrete. “The three of them worked their tails off,” the company’s current CEO Debbie Kanan said. “It was hard labor. It was literally making cement blocks down on that corner.” Over the next seven decades, the business changed hands from older brothers to younger brothers and eventually became a corporation. The three founders have passed away but their siblings John and Leonard remain at the helm as President and CFO. Their brotherin-law, Roy, had also been involved in the business but recently passed away after a decades long retirement. Kanan says the whole family would have been proud to see the company where it stands today, thriving on its 70th anniversary. “It’s a tremendous milestone for any company now,” Kanan said. “It’s kind of a cool thing to have such an institution here for so long that so many generations of people have come to. I don’t know where else you can find that nowadays.”
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MAINopoly is back for Memorial Day BY MARINA ANDALON Daily Press Staff Writer
Everyone is invited to eat and play for a good cause on Memorial Day weekend when Santa Monica hosts the 4th Annual MAINopoly event on Main Street. What started as a simple fundraiser has grown into a destination celebration for that part of town and officials are hoping for another successful day on May 28. “The first MAINopoly came together four years ago while we were planning for the SOULstice, and we were looking for a way to raise money,” said Main Street
Business Improvement Association, Executive Director Gary Gordon. “Since then it has been an excellent event.” The spring into summer event will benefit the upcoming Summer SOULstice as well as the Santa Monica based non-profit Heal the Bay. “As a grassroots organization, we rely on the support of individuals and small businesses in our hometown,” said Heal the Bay Communications Director, Matthew King. “We are honored that the participating merchants
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TASTY GAME: The Mainopoly fundraiser supports Heal the Bay and the Summer SOULstice concerts.
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FIRST ROUND WIN Morgan Genser
The Santa Monica High School girls varsity softball team hosted St. Paul High School in the first round of the southern section Division 2 softball playoffs and won 7-2 to advance to the next round. Pictured are Isabel Gusman hitting, Gusman fielding and Makensey Druckman reaching back to tag Tatum Anzaldo.
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