MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 248
FR EE
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
DAILY LOTTERY
Problem students getting a new start
Pier patrol
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BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
The Chicago Tribune reported in June that a man waiting for a train at the Sox/35th Street station on the South Side had been taken to the hospital after a train knocked him unconscious as he bent over the rail platform looking for the cell phone he had just dropped. And WSB-TV reported in June that a man had been hospitalized in Forest City, Ga., after, according to a witness, attempting to repair a speaker wire by using, in some undisclosed way, a .22caliber bullet. “At some point,” the station reported, “the man ended up with a piece of wire in his neck.”
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 241st day of 2005. There are 124 days left in the year. On Aug. 29, 1944, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis. In 1966, the Beatles concluded their fourth American tour with their last public concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. In 1975, Irish statesman Eamon de Valera died near Dublin at age 92.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “It ain’t enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use ’em.”
- HUEY P. LONG
AMERICAN POLITICIAN (1893-1935)
INDEX Horoscopes Let your mind drift, Scorpio
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Surf Report Water temperature: 66°
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Opinion Considering a market switch
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Commentary The real price at the pump
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Local Know before you go
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National Morning-after delays
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Comics Strips tease
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Classifieds Have some class
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Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Cars entering the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday were subject to inspection by the Santa Monica Police Department as part of the increased security measures being put in place due to recent terrorism fears. Sunday marked the first day of unannounced, random car inspections, which will continue to be conducted from time to time.
COMMUNITYPROFILES |
COMMUNITY PROFILES IS A WEEKLY SERIES THAT APPEARS EACH MONDAY AND DELVES INTO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY IN SANTA MONICA.
Chelsea Williams: Refining her playlist BY ROBERT FATURECHI Special to the Daily Press
There’s something about Chelsea Williams that makes people stop and listen. Five days a week, the 19-yearold singer pierces the sleepy morning lull at the Third Street Promenade with a medley of old and new, from the Beatles’ “Rocky Raccoon” to Sheryl Crow’s “Strong Enough.” With nothing but a guitar, a microphone and two speakers, Williams draws surprisingly large crowds just as the Third Street Promenade wakes up — a time when few other street performers even try. “People will walk by and they’ll kind of be in a bad mood, and I’ll smile at them and they smile back,” Williams said. “It makes me feel really good that I had an impact on them.” Williams says she’s always loved music.
As a baby, her mother — also a singer — put her to bed with soft melodies. Later, her mom became her voice coach. The passion has spanned much of Williams’ young life — from childhood when she joined a musical theater group to adolescence
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when she finished high school two years early so she’d have more time to focus on her music. “I’ve been singing basically my whole life, I’ve been around it my whole life,” Williams says. “I’ve loved it my whole life.” Today, Williams regularly makes her rounds at Hollywood clubs, including the Roxy and the Knitting Factory. Though the halfhour sets give her a shot at singing her own tunes — she has almost 90 — Williams says her morning performances on the Promenade offer some of the best experience a singer can get. “People have given me their cards from Columbia Records and a couple other smaller record companies,” Williams said. “I haven’t gotten a record deal yet, but I’m getting closer.” For Williams, singing is more than a hobby. It’s her life and, though her aspirations sound lofty,
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MEMORIAL PARK — High school students with checkered pasts will have a shot at reclaiming their futures when they take part in a new school geared toward them this fall. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District will begin testing its community day school (CDS) on Tuesday, Sept. 6, the first day of class. The CDS will provide a smaller and personalized learning environment for high school students who have been incarcerated, expelled, missed too many classes or have had other disciplinary issues preventing them from attaining educational goals. Community members said the
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