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Santa Monica Daily Press
August 7-8, 2004 DAILY LOTTERY
A newspaper with issues
Reversal of fortune: SMC board approves $135M bond proposal
Driving his point home
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DAILY 3 Daytime: Evening:
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DAILY DERBY 1st: 2nd: 3rd:
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RACE TIME:
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Measure headed to ballot amid accusations trustees violated Brown Act
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY CHUCK SHEPARD
■ The Times of London reported in 1997 that when an employee of the James Beauchamp law firm in Edgbaston, England, recently killed himself, the firm billed his mother the equivalent of US$20,000 for the expense of finishing up his office work. Included in that amount was a bill for about US$2,300 to go to his home to find out why he didn’t show up at work (thus finding his body), plus about US$250 to go to his mother’s home, knock on her door, and tell her that her son was dead. (After unfavorable publicity, the firm withdrew the bill.)
BY JOHN F. MULLER Special to the Daily Press
TODAY IN HISTORY ON AUG. 7, 1942, U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II. ■ In 1782, George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. ■ In 1789, the U.S. War Department was established by Congress.
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Music legend Richie Havens interacts with the crowd between jams during Thursday’s Twilight Dance Series concert at the pier.
SMC — In a stunning reversal, college officials here voted Friday to send a $135 million bond measure to the November ballot just four days after they couldn’t find enough support to pass a similar proposal. After college officials slashed tens of millions of dollars from the original proposal, the Santa Monica College board of trustees voted unanimously in favor of the revised measure at a special meeting called by Margaret Quinones,
Sky’s the limit for Palm pilots BY LONNIE ARNOLD
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
– ARNOLD TOYNBEE ENGLISH HISTORIAN
INDEX Horoscopes Chill at the hangout, Pisces
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Local Picture perfect
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Surf Report Water temperature: 68°
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Opinion Don’t take votes for granted
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Q-Line Stop the pussyfooting
7
National Consumers confident
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Comics Crossword puzzle
12
Classifieds $3.50 a day
13-15
People in the News A pox proxy
Volume 3, Issue 230
Special to the Daily Press
SM AIRPORT — As the fog dissipated here Friday morning, dozens of women took to the skies in a race that will ultimately see them touch down today in Oregon. The women came from as far away as Florida and Texas to participate in this weekend’s Palms to Pines Air Race. The flyers jettisoned off in 19 airplanes from Santa Monica Airport shortly before 11 a.m. on Friday. Their destination — Bend, Ore. The pilots run the gamut from veteran racers with thousands of hours logged to airline flight officers to newly licensed pilots and flight students — varying in age from as young as 23 to as experienced as 80. The oldest participant is Santa Monica resident Claire Walters, who at 80, co-piloted a plane with Cecilia Weldon, an engineer for Los Angeles Water and Power. Walters, founder of the Palms to Pines Air Race, got her license in 1941. She created the race 35 years ago, and has participated every year since. Walters earned her first flight by raising a pig for market at age 13 and began flying on her own at 17. She said her eyes were on the skies from a very early age.
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A plane gets the green flag to take off from the Santa Monica Airport on Friday in an air race that will land more than 40 women pilots in Oregon today.
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the chairwoman of the board. Friday was the last possible day the board could have accepted a bond measure and gotten it on the ballot. The new proposal apparently was good enough for two board members who had voted against the original $175 bond proposal on Monday, and another who abstained. The bond measure needed the approval of five of the seven board members. The only difference between the two proposals is $40 million and less amenities for the City of Santa Monica. “It’s not easy to vote ‘no’ on something you know is for the institution you love, the people it serves, and the people who serve
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LOS ANGELES — In one of the largest sewage cases in U.S. history, the Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, Santa Monica Baykeeper and a coalition of Los Angeles community groups have reached a $2 billion settlement with the City of Los Angeles over years of sewage spills. Under the terms of the historic agreement, Los Angeles will rebuild at least 488 miles of sewer lines, clean 2,800 miles of sewers annually, enhance its program to control restaurant grease disSee SLUDGE, page 8
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