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Santa Monica Daily Press
June 18-19, 2005
A newspaper with issues
Volume 4, Issue 187
Parking permits nudged forward
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BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
(1) In six weddings this year in India, two boys and four girls were married in tribal-custom ceremonies to dogs, which is believed to bring better luck to children who have been cursed by teething first from the upper jaw ("dog teeth"). (Agence France-Presse reported that the four February marriages in Jharkhand state involved, thank goodness, dogs of the opposite gender from the spouse.) (2) In February, a Pakistani tribal council in Kacha Chohan (Punjab state) ordered a 2-year-old girl to marry a man, age 42, to punish the girl’s uncle for having sex with that man’s current wife (although the marriage will not be official until the girl turns 18).
Retro-fit: Skatepark lets loose BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 169th day of 2005. There are 196 days left in the year. On June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.
INDEX Horoscopes Get the check, Libra
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Surf Report Water temperature: 64°
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Commentary Going out of his way
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Q-Line A new environment
4
State Rattlin’ and rollin’
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National Card carriers
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Comics Strips tease
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
MID-CITY — School’s out for the summer, but Santa Monica skaters have a new destination where they can drop in. The city of Santa Monica opened the Cove Skatepark on Friday, named after the Santa Monica surf spot that many Dogtown and Z-Boy skaters frequented in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The 20,000-square-foot facility includes ramps, bowls, stairs, a skate pool with tile and coping, an over-vertical bowl and the Douglas Park rail — a stair rail made famous in 1990s skate videos that was salvaged from demolition. More than 400 people attended Friday’s opening, in which guests enjoyed food, music and demonstrations by professional skaters and bike riders. Among those honoring the opening of the park were the famous Dogtown and Z-Boy
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See SKATING, page 10
Fabian Lewkowicz/Special to the Daily Press Pro skaters put the newly opened Cove Skatepark to the test on Friday, taking advantage of 20,000 feet of ramps, bowls, stairs and even a refurbished stair rail.
See PARKING, page 5
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CITY HALL — Employees may have gained more bumper room in the citywide parking crunch as a program moves forward that would allow some businesses preferential permitting in residential areas. The Santa Monica City Council voted in favor on Tuesday of developing a program that would allow businesses along certain commercial corridors to obtain preferential parking permits for their employees in nearby neighborhoods. The council instructed City Hall staff members to move forward with the permitting program that would be restricted to residential blocks virtually “vacant” during the weekdays, which is the only time the permits would likely be applicable. The program would be piloted for a year in areas near Montana Avenue, Pico and Ocean Park boulevards. Staff will return to the council in the next few weeks to determine how to issue and regulate the permits. The permits would either be issued to the employer to maximize flexibility in the program or to the actual motorist in order to minimize abuse — officials warned of a black market of permit swapping occurring if the program is not developed correctly. If approved in the final stages, the proposal would be the first time in Santa Monica history that a preferential parking program is
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