MONDAY, MAY 26, 2014
Volume 13 Issue 162
Santa Monica Daily Press
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FACES OF SILICON BEACH
A new memorial
Parking made easy for travelers BY ERIK HUBERMAN Special to the Daily Press
DOWNTOWN Thomas Lombardi is the President and CEO of AirportParkingReservations.com and ParkSleepFly.com, the world’s largest Internet aggregators of airport parking and hotel packages. Q: Give us your background and a bit about how you became an entrepreneur? A: I have a non-entrepreneurial background in banking and private equity. We wore pleated pants and worked in spreadsheets all day. An Internet travel company asked me to run an acquisition process for them back in 2010, and now I am their CEO. The transition from the institutionalized banking system into the entrepreneurial tech world was a blessing. Q: What does your company do? What distinguishes you from competitors or similar businesses? A: We help millions of travelers find airport parking and airport hotels packages. Our future venture will also include airport taxis, limos, rideshare and public transportation to provide a one-stopshop for airport transportation. I have 22 amazing teammates to blaze our path into the LOMBARDI future.
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MAKING PROGRESS: Designer Danny Welch surveys the progress of a new war memorial at Woodlawn Cemetery on Thursday. The memorial will be unveiled today during the cemetery's annual Memorial Day Observance.
BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
WOODLAWN CEMETERY Santa Monica opens its newest war memorial at the Woodlawn Cemetery today. At 11 a.m., city officials and families
of fallen soldiers will unveil the Commemorative Wall, six simple pillars, each representing a foreign conflict, inscribed with the names of Santa Monicans who died in action. Councilmember Bob Holbrook, who came up with the idea last year, will speak for a few minutes and then
people will read off all of the inscribed names. The vast majority of the names, he said, are of fallen soldiers who are not buried in Santa Monica. The memorial will give family members a place to go. SEE MEMORIAL PAGE 7
SEE FACES PAGE 6
Bloom’s bill would ban plastic microbeads in cosmetics FENIT NIRAPPIL Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. The state Assembly has passed a bill banning the use of plastic
microbeads in soaps and cosmetics. Manufacturers already are phasing out the ingredients, which are considered harmful to the environment in part because they are not biodegradable. AB1699 passed Friday on a 45-10 vote.
Former mayor and Democratic Assemblyman Richard Bloom of Santa Monica says his bill responds to the tiny exfoliating beads making their way past filters and treatment plants. They end up in waterways, where they are swallowed by fish.
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The bill heads to the Senate, where Bloom says he will push for amendments to win manufacturer support. He already pushed back the timeline of the phase-out to 2019. Similar bills are moving through the legislatures in Illinois and New York.
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