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Santa Monica Daily Press FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015
Volume 14 Issue 194
FILM REVIEW SEE PAGE 7
Planning Commission allows more kids at residential child care center
Matthew Hall editor@smdp.com
MUSIC: There will be dancing in the streets, or at least, on Main Street.
Music, dancing and sales on Main St.
Nicholas Salazar editor@smdp.com
ACTIVITY PLACE: A child care facility will be allowed to expand its services following approval by officials.
BY NICHOLAS SALAZAR
BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON
Daily Press Intern
Daily Press Staff Writer
MAIN STREET This Sunday, the 15th Annual Summer SOULstice returns to Main Street for a day of live music, shopping, restaurants and bars. The 2015 SOULstice features 24 bands on six different stages located on streets off of Main Street, as well as accompanying sidewalk sales from some merchants and an entertainment area for children. What has become a summer tradition began in 2001 as an idea to use the area’s outdoor spaces to provide entertainment for visitors to Main Street’s Farmer’s Market. Gary Gordon, the Executive Director of the Main Street Business Association, recalled the festival’s humble beginnings of a “six or eight channel amp
22ND STREET Despite complaints from numerous neighbors, the Planning Commission agreed to let a residential child care center double the number of kids allowed on site. The Activity Place, which cur-
SEE SOUL PAGE 4
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rently looks after 14 kids, will be allowed to serve 30 kids, assuming an appeal is not filed. Five neighbors complained about the center as it currently operates, citing excess noise, parking issues, and traffic on the street. The approval passed 6 to 1, with Commissioner Jim Ries being the
lone dissenting vote, but several of the affirmative voters expressed reluctance, given the public testimony. City planners noted in their report to the commission that there’d never been any official SEE CHILD PAGE 5
California vaccine bill clears major legislative hurdle JULIA HOROWITZ Associated Press
SACRAMENTO California’s Assembly on Thursday approved a hotly contested bill requiring that nearly all public schoolchildren be vaccinated, clearing one of its last major legislative obstacles before the measure heads to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.
The bill aims to increase immunization rates after a measles outbreak linked to Disneyland in December sickened over 100 people in the U.S. and Mexico. It would give California one of the nation’s strictest vaccine laws by striking the state’s personal belief exemption. Only children with serious health issues would be allowed to opt out of mandatory
vaccine schedules. Unvaccinated children would need to be homeschooled. If the bill becomes law, California would join Mississippi and West Virginia as the only states with such strict requirements. “Do we wait until we have a full-fledged crisis to protect the SEE VACCINE PAGE 6
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