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Santa Monica Daily Press MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2015
Volume 14 Issue 172
CLASS SIZE REDUCTION SEE PAGE 4
In Haiti, a humbling experience LOCAL RESIDENT VOLUNTEERS ON WEEKLONG SERVICE TRIP
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
HATI Sleeping with a mosquito net in a facility with no air conditioning was an unusual experience for Leonard Anderson. It was also a reminder. Anderson has a place to live comfortably in Santa Monica. He has a job in finance in Century City. He has access to medical care. He doesn’t have to worry about his next meal. But in Thomazeau, Haiti, where
he recently spent a week as a volunteer on a service trip, he came to see those resources as luxuries. “It would make one appreciate how organized things are in the United States and how good we really have it,” he said. “People there generally live in squalor. Most people have dirt floors. Housing is built with aluminum or metal plating. There’s a lot of poverty, a lot of people who are legitimately hungry. Any time you see anything like that, you are of course reminded of the abundance of where we live.” Anderson, 40, served as an assistant in a medical clinic, helped out in a local school and visited resi-
dents in their homes during his trip to Thomazeau, which is about 25 miles northeast of Port-auPrince. The mission was organized by LiveBeyond, a Nashville-based humanitarian organization with a base in Thomazeau. The Christian nonprofit group provides medical care, clean water and education to impoverished Haitians. Anderson decided to get involved after hearing about the trip from clients and friends who work as doctors in Santa Barbara. “This was my first time really doing anything like this,” he said. “It sounded interesting.” Anderson covered his own trav-
el expenses and eschewed his phone to immerse himself in the community. In the mornings he worked in medical clinics, where hundreds of patients were treated for common skin infections like ringworm and scabies as well as sexually transmitted diseases and other ailments. In the afternoons he made home visits, bringing food and hope to people who were sick, injured or shunned by their neighbors. Anderson and his fellow volunteers also assisted at a school, where children learned in English
LEONARD ANDERSON: During a
SEE HAITI PAGE 5
recent trip to Haiti Anderson did volunteer work.
PYFC faces total funding cut
Samohi picks new football coach
BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
HAWAII NATIVE TABBED TO REPLACE CLARK
CITY HALL It’s budget time so that
means it’s also time for drama surrounding the future of the Pico Youth and Family Center (PYFC). This time around, City Council is considering completely cutting the funding for the nonprofit youth organization run by Board of Education member Oscar de la Torre. At the start of the current fiscal year, council agreed to cut a onetime check of $190,000 to keep the organization afloat. Human Services Manager Setareh Yavari told council the one-time payment would “help them close that gap so that they could continue to look at ways to diversify their funding stream, and we feel that’s one of the issues that continues to remain.” She said PYFC requested another $190,000 and the combined total would make up about 40 percent of PYFC’s programming SEE PYFC PAGE 3
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BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
SAMOHI There’s a new man in charge
K-9 GRADS Matthew Hall editor@smdp.com
Students from Olympic High School’s K9 program held a graduation and dog show on May 29.
of the Santa Monica High football team. Drawn by the location of the school and the history of the program, Ramsey Lambert will be tasked with leading the Vikings after a one-year stint at La Canada. Lambert inherits a Samohi squad that went 5-6 overall and 32 in Ocean League play last year, when it finished behind El Segundo and Lawndale in the conference standings and fell to Torrance-West in the first round of the CIF Southern Section playoffs. “It’s a great, diverse community and school, which is something I’m very familiar with,” he said during a phone interview Friday. “It was a great fit and a great location. SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 6
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