MONDAY, JULY 3, 2006
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Volume 5, Issue 199
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
DAILY LOTTERY 20 40 46 48 54 Meganumber: 27 Jackpot: $.14M 1 17 19 32 43 Meganumber: 25 Jackpot: $106M
Rethinking a city landmark Downtown offices may re-emerge as budget hotel rooms
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BY JACQUELINE LEE
MIDDAY: 9 4 3 EVENING: 4 8 2
Special to the Daily Press
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
Rendering courtesy Howard Laks
COZI CORNER: A 1930s office build-
■ Audio software programs whose sole purpose is to re-create the hubbub and screaming of orders on an active stock-exchange floor are coveted by some traders who formerly worked such floors but now buy and sell in quiet offices. Those traders, according to a June Wall Street Journal story, say they miss the energy and wisdom they get from trading-floor chaos. ■ In May, Lester Clancy was awarded a U.S. patent for a ropeless jump rope (a handle that electronically duplicates the feel of a jump-rope handle), which he said would be practical for, among other places, mental institutions and prisons where actual rope is banned.
ing may soon be welcoming tourists.
DOWNTOWN — Most of the tenants and nearby residents of a City Landmark building here know something is in the works for the Wilshire Boulevard offices, they’re just not sure what exactly. At Lucy’s Lunchbox, which is situated inside the historic building at 710 Wilshire Blvd., one employee
reported being aware of redevelopment plans, but not notified as to when the construction would begin. That’s because plans to build an affordable hotel and mixed-use space at the existing building site and its adjacent parking lot are still in preliminary stages, according to Howard Laks Architects, designers of the new space. “I was looking for a good project,” property owner Alex Gorby
BY MICHAEL J. TITTINGER Daily Press Staff Writer
Today is the 184th day of 2006. There are 181 days left in the year. On July 3, 1863, the three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., ended in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
INDEX Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press
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TAKING THE FOURTH: Thousands of spectators descended on SMC’s Corsair Field on Saturday for ‘Celebrate America.’
Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 60°
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Opinion Something smells fishy
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Commentary Pay freedom forward
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State Ralph’s bagged
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National Putting money where youths are 12
People in the News What Simon says
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Comics Strips tease
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
COMMUNITYPROFILES
A W E E K LY S E R I E S T H AT A P P E A R S E A C H M O N D AY A N D D E LV E S I N T O T H E L I V E S O F P E O P L E W H O L I V E , W O R K A N D P L AY I N S A N TA M O N I C A .
Living well is best revenge BY EMILIE PHELPS
Local Before you head out
See 710 WILSHIRE, page 10
Still plenty of Fourth to be had
TODAY IN HISTORY
Where the party is, Leo
said. “We’d like to work with the people of the city. I’d like to contact groups that have an interest like I do, in preserving and renovating the building — people who live there, neighbors and tenants, who see the property every day, and see where we can go with it.” Gorby, a real estate investor, owns the 10,000-square-foot prop-
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Special to the Daily Press
PICO BLVD. — For nearly Jennifer Carslake’s entire existence, drugs and alcohol have been her passion. For the first half of her life, it was about abusing them. Now, at 41, it’s about helping others become free of them. After nearly three decades of addiction and the effects of it — living in abusive relationships, numerous run-ins with the law, losing cus-
tody of her daughter and living out a truck, Carslake has spent the past three years sober. She hopes to soon be a drug and alcohol counselor at the CLARE Foundation in Santa Monica — the rehabilitation center that helped her clean up her life. The CLARE Foundation is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center that has facilities throughout Los Angeles, but primarily in Santa See PROFILES, page 6
MARINA DEL REY
Marina del Rey will stage its annual fireworks extravaganza on Tuesday, choreographed to patriotic music being broadcast over FM radio KXLU, 88.9. The pyrotechnics will be on display over the main channel in the marina del Rey, beginning at 9 p.m. Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and JENNIFER CARSLAKE
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Not so fast. The holiday weekend’s only half over, and despite a grand old time being had at Santa Monica College’s Corsair Field on Saturday night, the kids are liable to be wanting more. The Fourth of July is still held on the Fourth of July, no matter our own city’s events calendars. So when the kids are clamoring, the spouse espousing, and even the doggie barking to get out and about tomorrow night, there’s still freedom to be rung elsewhere in the region. Drive to celebrate Independence Day within the community? This is still Southern California, after all. With that in mind, here are some options for those of the mindset they still want to get their liberty on.
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