MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 230
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Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
CITY HALL — Opportunities and challenges Santa Monicans will face in the future are now available for public review and discussion. City Hall’s planning department released on Monday the completed “Opportunities and Challenges” report, which builds on the community visions presented in the “Emerging Themes” report reviewed by the City Council and planning commission in April. As part of the two-year, ongoing overhaul of the city’s planning and traffic plan, the latest report examines existing conditions and trends that pose challenges to the
Andre Guthrie, 22, faced with a special five-year-minimum sentence under the law because he robbed a Sovereign Bank in Lowell, Mass., “while masked,” argued to his sentencing judge in June that he wasn’t actually in disguise but merely in his transvestite mode (“Andrea Guthrie”), including wig, false breasts, and a fake nose and facial moles. “This is what he does,” said Guthrie’s lawyer. “This is who he is.”
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 220th day of 2005. There are 145 days left in the year. On Aug. 8, 1974, President Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. In 1945, the Soviet Union declared war against Japan during World War II. In 1963, Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
By The Associated Press
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AMERICAN JOURNALIST (1917-1986)
INDEX Horoscopes 2
Surf Report Water temperature: 67°
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Opinion Don’t throw money at homeless
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Commentary Christian persecution on the rise
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Local Know before you go
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State Workers fired for Web posts
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Comics Laugh it up
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
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Legal Notices DBAs
STATE
City employs microbe to clear out MTBE
“Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”
You get second wind, Libra
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press John Franklin (right) and Stephen Carlson of the Cornerstone Ministries protest the Hare Krishna Festival on Sunday. “Don’t believe in false gods, read the Bible,” they yelled as the marched in front of the festival parade.
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LOS ANGELES — Bacteria is gobbling up a massive plume of the toxic gasoline additive MTBE that was migrating toward two city-operated water wells. The project, which is the first of its kind in Los Angeles, will restore millions of gallons of San Fernando Valley groundwater, which accounts for 10 percent of the city’s drinking supply. Scientists believe the bacteria will in the future offer a cheaper way to clean up water contamination. Santa Monica has faced its own share of MTBE problems. In 1996, MTBE contaminated seven drinking-water wells in the city. City Hall settled with major oil companies for roughSee MTBE, page 6
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Clark Vautier: Climbing his way out of life’s daily grind BY ROBERT FATURECHI Special to the Daily Press
Clark Vautier loves to climb mountains, the bigger the better. The Santa Monica resident recently reached the snowy peak of Mount McKinley, the continent’s highest mountain, an experience that’s left its mark on Vautier in more ways than one. “Ultimately when you get out into nature you get in touch with nature, but really you’re getting in touch with yourself,” the marketing consultant said. “It’s that connection with nature that recharges me, and I have to do it.” Though more than two weeks have passed since the native New
Zealander returned home, signs of his snowy adventure still mark his face. Along his tanned skin — peppered with snowy stubble — are the brownish burns of frost nip, a result of the cold trek along the Alaskan peak. Though his burns will likely heal and disappear, Vautier said the experience is one that will stick with him. “When we saw that marker marking the top of the mountain, there was such a great feeling of accomplishment,” Vautier said. “There’s very few things you can have such a tangible result in front
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