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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2010
Volume 9 Issue 234
Santa Monica Daily Press TWILIGHT DANCE SERIES SPECIAL SECTION
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THE STAR POWER ISSUE
Save Our Schools tops $1M, plans celebration BY DAILY PRESS STAFF Supporters of local public schools have raised more than $1 million to help save teachers’ jobs and close the funding gap for the upcoming school year, organizers with the Save Our Schools campaign said this week. A celebration marking the end of the campaign is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 15 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Santa Monica High Science Quad, at which time organizers plan to release a final tally of money raised. Save Our Schools was launched in May following the narrow defeat of Measure A, a $198 per-parcel tax that would have generated an estimated $5.7 million annually for the SEE SOS PAGE 9
Gang graffiti spotted near Virginia Ave. Park BY DAILY PRESS STAFF PICO
NEIGHBORHOOD A disturbing reminder that tension still exists between local gangs surfaced Sunday morning when residents living near Virginia Avenue Park awoke to find threatening gang graffiti scrawled on a wall between 20th Street and Cloverfield Boulevard. Police said the graffiti specifically called out a Santa Monica gang and included the number “187,” the California Penal Code for homicide. Graffiti was also found near the Venice border, said SMPD Sgt. Jay Trisler. Graffiti has been called the newspaper or bulletin board for gangs and communicates many messages, including challenges, warnings and pronouncements of deeds accomplished or about to occur, gang experts said. SEE GRAFFITI PAGE 9
TO YOUR HEALTH
Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com Traveling from Las Vegas, Aaliyah Galwey (right) and her father, Bryan, talk with WNBA legend and four-time Olympian Lisa Leslie (left) during a healthy nutrition event at the Downtown Jamba Juice on Santa Monica Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon.
Airport activists, officials to meet with Waxman BY NICK TABOREK Daily Press Staff Writer
WEST L.A. City Hall officials and a group of residents concerned about noise and safety impacts at Santa Monica Airport are set to meet with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-30th District) today to lobby for a full environmental review of any potential flight path changes the FAA may propose at SMO. The FAA in July completed a six-month
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test of a new takeoff route out of SMO for small piston-powered aircraft that residents in Sunset Park and Ocean Park said resulted in a sharp increase in airplane traffic over their homes. Though the FAA so far hasn’t said whether it will push to make the route permanent, residents have created the group Neighbors for a Safe and Healthy Community to oppose the agency’s possible attempt to do so.
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Members of the group point to an interim report on the test, in which the FAA reported significant decreases in flight delays at both LAX and SMO and less pollution as a result of the experimental route. The test route required the piston-powered planes to take a “250 degree heading” when flying under instrument flight rules, rather than under visual flight rules. SEE SMO PAGE 11
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