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Blackburn to travel around the world from Venezuela to Canada to Israel where Blackburn won several gold medals in the World Maccabiah Games. The Jewish athletic event is held every four years and is much like the Olympics. As a player, Dave Blackburn has pitched nearly 1,800 games over the last 33 consecutive summers, and has pitched in 10 International Maccabiah Tournaments. Blackburn’s contributions to softball move just beyond those of a player. Blackburn was a pioneer in live streaming ISC tournaments on the Internet, starting with the championship game in 2005. His recent induction and his two previous inductions into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and in the Israel Softball Hall of Fame in 2009, as the first American athlete, are due in part to his contributions toward creating a thriving international softball community. Appropriately, his induction was streamed live and surrounded by friends and family Dave Blackburn took the podium for his speech. Starring at the sky, he said, Dave Blackburn thought of his mother Charlotte who had died at age 78 while he was in the coma last summer. He had missed her funeral and the chance, he said, to say goodbye. “I told [my mother] in my speech that all her worries that softball didn’t pay the bills were for nothing because today I feel like the richest guy in the world,” he said.
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Expo Light Rail Line Project Follow daily construction updates on Twitter at twitter.com/EXPOinSM. Exploratory excavation and sewer inspection will occur for this project in order to plan the initial layout of upcoming construction activities. Primarily, work remaining will be on Colorado Avenue between Fifth Street, Fourth Street and Lincoln Boulevard. Only one lane will be open in each direction. Where necessary for work zones, left-turns may be prohibited from/to Colorado Avenue. Camera inspection work on sewer mains will occur after-hours from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Night work will occur at the following intersections: Colorado Avenue and Fifth Street, Sixth Street and Lincoln Boulevard. Parking Meters on Colorado Avenue will be taken out of service only when work is ongoing in a specific area. Signs will be posted at least 24 hours in advance of temporary parking restrictions. Detour Information: Use alternate east-west routes such as Broadway, Santa Monica Boulevard, Olympic Boulevard, or Arizona Avenue to avoid traffic backups on Colorado. For questions regarding this project contact Expo Light Rail Line Community Relations at (213) 922EXPO or www.BuildExpo.org.
Alley Resurfacing Project The alley in the 3000 block of Colorado Place South will be resurfaced. Please be advised that resurfacing operations will generate noise and dust. There will be certain times when the alley will not be accessible during construction, but city workers will minimize these times of closure during the day.
Borderline Neighborhood Improvement Project New water main installation, new various street pavement finishes, new landscaped areas, trees, and pedestrian lighting. Street lights will be installed along Longfellow and near Longfellow on Marine, Navy and Ozone. Please observe posted detour signs.
Street & Park Lighting Project The work consists of modifying existing high-voltage series streetlight circuits to lowvoltage multiple circuits on 26th Street from Montana Avenue to San Vicente Boulevard. Partial roadway closures or detours are expected but impact to traffic should be minimal.
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“I was taking a calculated risk, but I wasn’t going to miss [the induction ceremony] unless it was for my funeral,” Blackburn said. In the same fashion as he stared down the grim reaper he staunchly told the doctors that he had family and friends and a hall of fame waiting for him. Blackburn signed a medical waiver on the condition that he return early to Los Angeles after the Aug. 14 ceremony. Blackburn was operated on last Tuesday and the fate of his leg is still undetermined. Blackburn attributes his strength as well as his love for softball to his father, softball legend Ernie Blackburn, who to a young Blackburn was “larger than life.” “As far back as I can remember I remember weekends piling into the car with my brothers, mother and father for my father’s softball games,” Blackburn said. Dave Blackburn, who in his career pitched 70 no hitters, just shy of his father’s 99, was inspired by his father’s success, but most of all he was awestruck by the opportunity that jumping into a car with his family allowed him. He was able to see all the Midwest and all of its elite softball players. Blackburn left his hometown in Indiana and attended the University of Illinois in Champagne and in 1982 first stepped foot in Southern California as a recruit for the ISC defending world champs. His team won the championship again and Blackburn, who had come to love California, stayed. However, softball allowed Dave
Installation of the Transit Priority System (TPS) at 80 traffic signals along major corridors within the City of Santa Monica. Partial roadway closures or detours are expected at various locations on Wilshire, Santa Monica, and Pico boulevards, but impact to traffic should be minimal.
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