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07.13.16 Volume 15 Issue 198
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2024 Olympic plans envision Santa Monica as a beach venue
WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2 CITY ANNIVERSARY ......................PAGE 3 CURIOUS CITY ................................PAGE 4 CONSUMER CORNER ....................PAGE 5 MYSTERY PHOTO ............................PAGE 9
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From Santa Monica to Rio de Janeiro Former resident qualifies for 2016 Olympics in track
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RENDERING: The proposed beach volleyball venue would seat 12,000.
BY MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
If the Olympics come to Los Angeles in 2024, Santa Monica could host the beach volleyball event in a temporary 12,000-person venue adjacent to the Santa Monica Pier. Officials from the LA 2024 campaign to bring the Games to Los Angeles are visiting several city commissions in the coming weeks
to provide more information on the proposal. At their first meeting Monday night, officials outlined the process to a handful of residents. Jeff Millman, Chief Communications Officer for LA 2024, said the Olympic bid is actually an international political campaign. The Los Angeles committee is competing against Paris,
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN SEE BEACH PAGE 7
Acting SMMUSD chief signs contract Interim co-superintendent making more than $1,000 daily BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
He’s king for a day ... well, more like six months. Chris King will earn $1,071 a day while serving as the Santa Monica-Malibu school district’s interim co-superintendent for the rest of the calendar year, according to the contract he signed last week. King’s daily pay is based on an
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OLYMPIAN: Kate Grace grew up in Santa Monica and has qualified for this year’s Olympic Games.
annual salary of $240,000, slightly above the $239,200 that Sandra Lyon was making as the local school district’s top administrator. Lyon started July 1 in her new job as superintendent of the Palm Springs Unified School District. King and the district’s other interim co-superintendent, Sylvia Rousseau, will spearhead
About two decades before crossing the finish line first in the 800 meters at this month’s Olympic Trials, Kate Grace was already on the move. Maybe the children’s 1-kilometer race near her home in Santa Monica wasn’t the true start of her running career, but it was the foundation for a fitness-filled lifestyle that prepared her for the opportunity of a lifetime. Grace, now 27, who grew up in Santa Monica, earned a trip to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with the win in her signature event at the trials in Eugene, Oregon. “Even though I had not made a U.S. team [previously], my training has been going really well,” she said in a phone interview. “It’s been a
consistent building of momentum. In a weird way, I feel like this was a step I was ready for, and I thought might happen — not winning, but making the team. I was ready to do that.” The victory gave Grace the chance to reflect on her upbringing in Santa Monica, which played a big role in her development into one of the country’s most talented middle-distance runners. Grace spent plenty of time outside Santa Monica after moving to the coastal city from West L.A. as a young child, attending what was then known as University Elementary School (now UCLA Lab School) in Westwood and finishing her secondary education at the all-girls Marlborough School in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles. SEE TRACK PAGE 6
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