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Santa Monica Daily Press
August 20-21, 2005 DAILY LOTTERY
A newspaper with issues
Three’s a crowd ... pleaser
SUPER LOTTO 16 19 21 31 42 Meganumber: 9 Jackpot: $14 Million
FANTASY 5 10 27 31 35 36
DAILY 3 Daytime: Evening:
170 973
DAILY DERBY 1st: 2nd: 3rd:
02 Lucky Star 10 Solid Gold 12 Lucky Charms
RACE TIME:
1:49.74
Daily Press Staff Writer
KEN EDWARDS CENTER — The debate over how to deal with some 500 ground squirrels believed holed up beneath Palisades Park reared its head again on Thursday, when a local group voted to continue eliminating the rodents at the county’s request. The Recreation and Parks Commission narrowly voted in favor on Thursday of upholding a Los Angeles County Department of Health Services directive which would likely require the ground squirrels at Palisades Park continue to be killed in the future, in order to keep the rodent infestation at appropriate health levels, officials said.
CITY HALL — Officials here have received more than $700,000 from the federal government to help pay the rents of Santa Monica’s most chronic homeless residents. The catch? They must be alcoholics who are ready to get help. Individuals who have been on the streets of Santa Monica the longest and have chemical dependency problems qualify for the rent subsidies. They also can’t have used government-funded transitional or permanent housing in the past five years. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) granted the city of Santa Monica $717,000 earlier this month as part of a $10 million nationwide program aimed at getting chronic homeless alcoholics off the streets. Santa Monica is the only city in Los Angeles County that is part of the two-year pilot program which includes 11 cities. The program, dubbed “Housing for People Who Are Homeless and Addicted To Alcohol,” includes such cities as Chattanooga, Tenn., which received the largest grant of $999,936, and New York, NY., which received $637,560, the lowest grant amount. A recent survey that encompassed 88 cities in the Los Angeles region found that nearly 90,000 people are homeless in LA County, 42 percent whom are chronic — meaning they’ve been on the streets for more than a year, or have had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three
See SQUIRRELS, page 13
See HUD HELPS, page 14
NEWS OF THE WEIRD SHEPARD
In July, after word got out that the video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" could be fitted with an online update to make some of its scenes explicitly sexual, an 85-year-old grandmother in New York sued the company, Rockstar Games, for having failed to rate the game AO (adults only, age 18 and up) to take account of the modification. However, Florence Cohen apparently freely purchased the M-rated version (age 17 and up) for her then-14-year-old grandson, even though it invites players to murder, steal and engage in gang violence and attacks on police. She complained only when she found out that the M version's unexplicit sex and partial nudity could be made explicit.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 232nd day of 2005. There are 133 days left in the year. On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek’s regime.
INDEX Horoscopes You’re the party, Taurus
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Surf Report Water temperature: 68°
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Opinion Might I have another?
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Q-Line Safety deposits
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Commentary Comfortable in own skin
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State Fire down below
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National What’s in Donnelly?
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Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Getting into the swing of things are (left to right) Bob Summers, on trumpet; Eddie Daniels, clarinet; and Brian Scanlon, on saxophone, as Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band jams on Thursday night at the Santa Monica Pier.
NATIONAL
Hawaiian coastal flap mirrors Malibu BY TARA GODVIN Associated Press Writer
HONOLULU — Low thickets spill onto the sand from a number of oceanfront yards along the beach where Nancy Taylor has been walking for 35 years. By law, every beach in Hawaii is public. However, Taylor and others say the beaches have narrowed drastically over the years and it is increasingly difficult to discern between public beach space and the yards of affluent beachfront homes. “That’s not public land anymore. I can’t go there,” she said during a recent afternoon stroll on Oahu’s Kailua Beach, pointing to a verdant clump connected to the backyard of a private residence. Disputes over the reaches of beachfront property aren’t limited to Hawaii. The California Coastal Commission has ordered residents of a
Classifieds Ad space odyssey
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Squirrels better get their nuts in a row BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
See HAWAII, page 12
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Wishes granted for alcoholics, chronic homeless BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON
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Carolyn Sackariason/Daily Press A person rests in the alley off the Third Street Promenade on Friday. City Hall recently received more than $700,000 in federal funding to help chronically homeless people get off the streets.
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Smugglers’ script warns of road ahead BY ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO — An immigrant smuggler assures a woman he has years of experience sneaking people into the United States from Mexico inside car trunks. “Don’t worry, everything will be OK,” the mother assures her fearful daughter. “This man will take care of you.” See SNEAKERS, page 7
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