MONDAY, JULY 18, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 212
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Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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■ A pregnant woman named Akono was quoted in a March Agence France-Presse dispatch from London during demonstrations against U.S. policy in Iraq as saying she planned to intensify her own protest by soon going on a hunger strike, reasoning that she wants “to do everything I can to make sure my child has a secure future.” ■ Montana State University student Jeffrey Pumo, 21, arrested in connection with some shootings of marbles at people in February, was quoted in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle as saying, “I’m looking forward to proving my innocence on the majority of these counts.” ■ Veteran criminal George Kaminski, 53, complained in March to a Sharon (Pa.) Herald reporter about his most recent prison assignment, to a minimum-security facility in Mercer, Pa., because the grounds were short on clover. Kaminski has collected 72,927 four-leaf clovers in the last 10 years, entirely on the grounds of various prisons, but he is alarmed that an Alaskan man now claims to have 76,000 and has applied to the Guinness Book for recognition. “The (Alaskan) guy’s got the whole world,” said Kaminski, “(but) I have two or three acres.”
BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 199th day of 2005. There are 166 days left in the year. On July 18, 1947, President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press One boy’s approach to keeping cool draws another’s marvel over the weekend at the fountains in Douglas Park. Area temperatures, however, are only expected to hover around the mid-60s this week.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.”
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INDEX Horoscopes Get extra rest, Capricorn
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Surf Report Water temperature: 67°
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Commentary Short arm of the law
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State LAPD under fire
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National Texans have seen the light
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Comics Yuks redux
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
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Aero takes viewers back to Depression BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
MONTANA AVENUE — A group committed to preserving Santa Monica’s past last week screened a cinematic classic filmed in the city, prompting an evening of reflection on how far we’ve come as a society. The Santa Monica Conservancy on Wednesday screened “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” at the recently refurbished Aero Theatre on Montana Avenue. The movie, based in Santa Monica, was shown as part of the conservanSee AERO, page 7
Barbara Held: First responder fights fires and tames the waters Special to the Daily Press
Opinion Read-letter day
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COMMUNITYPROFILES | COMMUNITY PROFILES IS A WEEKLY SERIES THAT APPEARS EACH MONDAY AND DELVES INTO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY IN SANTA MONICA.
BY SARA MILSTEIN 3
CITY HALL — The question as to when a building is fit for preservation, or demolition, caused some heated remarks among city officials as they tried to gauge the historical status of an 87-year-old Santa Monica bungalow. The City Council last week determined that a Craftsman-style bungalow at 921 19th Street should be open to re-development. The appeal was in response to an October determination by the Landmarks Commission which had designated the 1923 bungalow a historical building, and as such, would be prohibited from plans for its demolition. The appeal of the Landmarks Commission’s decision was made by Santa Monica attorney Michael Klein, Esq., on behalf of property owner 19th Street Townhomes, LLC, a firm seeking to raze the home to create multi-family housing. Meanwhile, City Hall said in a related staff report that designating the bungalow as a historic
landmark would be a broadening of current criteria. As such, the move might be construed as an attempt by the Landmarks Commission to try halting development citywide, since more and
In the past, firefighter and paramedic Barbara Held has overcome obstacles great and small, but on July 3, she found her greatest challenge to be 100 meters of chlorinated pool water. Held, a first responder with Santa Monica Fire Department’s Station No. 2, is also an accomplished athlete, winning the 100m women’s freestyle swimming competition in her age group at the 2005 World Police and Fire
Games held in Quebec. At 51, Held stands in stark contrast to any existing stereotype of a public safety official. She is as serious about health and fitness as she is about her job as a firefighter for Santa Monica, which she began 21 years ago. Her commitment to athleticism began when she was a young girl on the swim team. She notes that her childhood in Southern California helped cultivate her interest in water sports. She swam competitively in school, where she remembers doing laps and drills
between two and six hours a day. When she enrolled in Arcadia High School, she realized that there was no college athletic scholarships for women at the time. Held decided to quit swimming. After her education, Held began work as a telephone installer. Her work took her in and out of business meetings, but it was really from her time on the job that she came to know success in the tasks that tested her physical
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