MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011
Volume 10 Issue 180
Santa Monica Daily Press
NOT SO FAST, YAHOO! & SAINT JOHN’S SEE PAGE 4
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THE RACING BY THE PIER ISSUE
SMC’s childhood education center receives approval BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CIVIC CENTER To the list of developments planned for the Civic Center Auditorium and surroundings, it’s finally time to add the Early Childhood
Education Center, a learning lab for Santa Monica College that has been several years in the making. Planning commissioners approved a change to the Civic Center Specific Plan Wednesday to allow the center, designed in 2008, to span 16,000 square feet rather than
the 12,500 originally built into the CCSP. The proposed expansion came when SMC designers realized that the 12,500 square foot limitations in the CCSP wouldn’t fit all of the classes and programming planned for the lab site. With this change, City Hall and SMC can
finally begin the process of getting the project approved through the various channels of public process, including the Architectural Review Board and eventually the Coastal Commission, and make the cenSEE SMC PAGE 10
COMMUNITYPROFILES
ANDREAS HOENIGSCHMID
Artist uses coastline as his canvas BY KEVIN HERRERA Editor in Chief
SM BEACH His name is Andreas Hoenigschmid, but he might as well call himself Mr. Sandman. The artist, husband, father and former fire dancer has been following his own dream, using a love of geometry and a passion for the visual and performing arts to create grand, crop circle-like designs in the sand south of the Santa Monica Pier. Paying close attention to the changing tide, Hoenigschmid takes a stick, some string and a rake and heads down to the sand Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com
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INTERESTING INSPIRATION: Artist Andreas Hoenigschmid is surrounded at his home by just a few of his intricate geometric designs.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ROUNDUP
Crossroads softball, baseball players earn all-league honors BY DANIEL ARCHULETA Managing Editor
XRDS The Roadrunners’ spring sports yielded a number of all-league selections this season. Crossroads’ softball team, which made a
surprise trip to the quarter-finals of the CIF-Southern Section Division 7 playoffs this year after winning a wild card game, placed three players on the All-Delphic League team. Jasmine Anderson made the first team while Shayna Elian and Izzy Gaw made the
second team. The softball team wasn’t alone in earning all-league honors. The baseball team, which didn’t make the playoffs this season, also had a trio of Roadrunners receive honors. Holden Miller was tabbed for the first team, with
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Andres Leyva and Max Robinson making the second team. All three players are seniors. Crossroads’ baseball team finished the season 8-11 overall and 2-10 in league. daniela@smdp.com
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