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Santa Monica Daily Press TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015
Volume 14 Issue 239
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Brotherhood of the neighborhood Family run surf, skateboard shop focuses on Santa Monica culture BY JENNIFER MAAS Daily Press Staff Writer
Galeazzo and Sante Bentivoglio grew up surfing and skating all over town. The brothers, Galeazzo, 27, and Sante, 25, skated at Douglas Park near their home, hung out at the old Boys and Girls Club skate shop and surfed as often as they could. Just like sharing a last name and DNA, they also shared a passion for skat-
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ing and surfing. So it was no surprise that 14 months ago the two decided to open Bay Street Boards, their own surf and skate shop in Santa Monica. “Basically we just kind of felt there was a need for a local shop,” Galeazzo said. “A lot of shops that used to be around closed. Now it’s the really big kind of corporate stores. A lot of what used to be in SEE SURF PAGE 8
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Tough tests abound for Samohi A game-by-game look at the Vikings’ 2015 schedule BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
SAMOHI As far as Ramsey Lambert is concerned, the Santa Monica High football team should finish with a better record than it did last year. The coach has high expectations for the Vikings in his first year at the helm, and he’s not going to use the transition or the graduation of last year’s senior class as an excuse. “No matter what the changes, no matter who you lose, you should improve on the previous season,” he said. “We want to get back to the
playoffs and compete at a really high level when we get there.” Lambert is in charge of a Samohi squad that last year went 5-6 and fell to Torrance-West in the first round of the CIF Southern Section playoffs. He said the Vikings will aim to contend for an Ocean League title after a challenging nonconference slate with games against several teams that made deep runs in last year’s postseason. “We’ll be battle-tested by the SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9
FDA: scope manufacturer waited years to report problems MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON Federal regulators have
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The Santa Monica High School class of 1975 gathered at Spitfire Grill on August 16 to celebrate their 40th anniversary reunion.
uncovered new violations by the manufacturer of medical scopes recently linked to outbreaks of deadly “superbug” bacteria at U.S. hospitals. Olympus Corp. failed to alert regulators to a cluster of 16 infections in patients who underwent procedures with the company’s scope in 2012, according to a warn-
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ing letter posted online Monday by the Food and Drug Administration. Olympus did not report the problems to the FDA until 2015, when the company was already under scrutiny for a more recent series of outbreaks. Medical device manufacturers are required to report serious device problems to the FDA within 30 days of learning about them. The infections reported to the company SEE FDA PAGE 7
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