MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006
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Volume 5, Issue 235
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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Tenants banking on city
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Building’s landmark designation could stave off evictions
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BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
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THIS WEEK IS NATIONAL ELVIS WEEK
CHUCK
SAN VICENTE BLVD. — A synagogue is planning to displace dozens of tenants here so it can demolish what may be a historic, 28-unit
apartment complex and replace it with a combination of subsidized housing and high-end condominiums for Jewish refugees persecuted in the Middle East. Tenants of Teriton Apartments, many of whom are seniors, learned
about the plan last Friday during a contentious meeting with property owners Or Khaim Hashalom, an alleged non-profit, religious organization that is requesting City Hall make a determination as to whether the complex should be considered a
historic landmark. If so, Or Khaim Hashalom would be prevented from demolishing it and from evicting tenants, something which would create a significant financial hardship for the group and deprive it of full use of the site, said members of Hashalom’s execuSee TERITON, page 8
Whatever floats their boats
SHEPARD
■ A 47-year-old man was arrested in Milwaukee in June and charged with stabbing a 54-year-old man in (according to the police report) an argument about not having an argument. ■ Marine veteran Christopher Marlowe, 25, was arrested in New Orleans in June and charged with shooting Army veteran Erik Beelman after an argument over which branch of service is tougher. ■ Pamela Majdan, 23, was charged with domestic battery in Wood Dale, Ill., on Memorial Day after allegedly repeatedly beating her sister, Joyce, 31, in a dispute over who had caught the most pieces of candy tossed during the town’s holiday parade. ■ In June, Betty Jean Barachie was sentenced to 27 months in prison for embezzling $1.5 million from her employer so that she could indulge a mindless compulsive-shopping habit; among her inexplicable, 1,500-item haul were 58 coats, 16 chain saws, more than 3,000 books, and a John Deere tractor. ■ Nurse Christopher Irvin, 32, was charged in April with molesting a comatose 4-year-old girl under his care at Children’s Hospital in San Diego; he told police he had touched the girl’s genitals only “to see if I liked it.” (He said he didn’t and that, because he wasn’t sexually aroused, he must not be attracted to children.)
INDEX Horoscopes Easy does it, Virgo
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Surf Report Water temperature: 72°
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Opinion Fess up, Mel
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Commentary Dead Man grinding
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Local Know Before You Go
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Kayakers paddle in the harbor off Marina del Rey over the weekend. The harbor is the largest man-made pleasure-craft harbor in the world.
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State Dean’s demands
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National Cabin more than a curiosity
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Sports Tabling the issue
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Bringing martial arts out of shadows BY KEVIN HERRERA
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Jesse III, stood strong and blocked a right-handed blow from his Goju Karate master, Sensei Vassie Naidoo. The two were practicing kata, also known as shadow boxing — an ancient Japanese exercise in which
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