FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013
Volume 12 Issue 191
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE ON THE WAY OUT ISSUE
Post office to close at end of June BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
FIFTH STREET The historic post office on Fifth Street will shutter its doors at noon on June 29 and a new location across town will
open the following Monday, it was announced Thursday. The release marks the end of a year-long battle to keep the Downtown location, which will be replaced by a new customer service office at the Santa Monica Carrier
Annex on Seventh Street near Olympic Boulevard. The United States Postal Service (USPS) planned to invest $400,000 in the office to prepare it for its new role, even as it works to sell the New Deal-era building as part of a
national plan to pawn off properties to plug the multi-billion dollar hole in the semi-private organization’s budget. The new location will be open for busiSEE CLOSURE PAGE 8
PYFC’s funding, role cut in proposal Remainder of cash would support Cradle to Career effort BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
PICO BLVD The Pico Youth & Family Center will stay open for another year on city funds as a drop-in and referral center under a proposal that will go before the City Council Tuesday night. The center would get $225,000 to remain accessible to its clients through the 2013-14 year, almost $100,000 less than the funds for which it competed with a coalition of other SEE FUNDS PAGE 10
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL
Samohi awarded for strong season Garcia makes All-CIF, 8 are All-Ocean League
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Paul Alvarez Jr. editor@smdp.com Fitness trainer Tadeo Arnold, left, leads a class of his Cuerpaso workout on Santa Monica State Beach on Wednesday evening. The workout incorporates soccer drills to improve overall conditioning. For more information on this ongoing class, visit cuerpaso.com.
BY DANIEL ARCHULETA Managing Editor
Police arrest sex offender; looking for possible victims BY KEVIN HERRERA Editor-in-Chief
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PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY Santa Monica police are wondering if there are any more victims of a sexual predator arrested Wednesday for
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allegedly trying to rape a woman on a bus bench. Kelechi Amadi, 34, is a registered sex offender and has been booked for sexual battery and assault to commit rape, said SMPD Sgt. Richard Lewis.
SAMOHI it was quite a year for Santa Monica
Amadi was arrested around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday after officers saw him allegedly attacking a woman on a bus bench located on the 400 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. The
softball. The upstart Vikings captured their 90th straight Ocean League win, they bucked their seeding and beat the No. 1 and No. 4 seeds in the playoffs and even reached the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 championship game where they fell to Hemet.
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