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Buy Local, Give Local on Ocean Park supports Health Center BY MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
Buy Local, Give Local returns to Santa Monica Sept. 12 - 20 to maximize support for local charities. Santa Monica’s Buy Local program encourages residents to keep their purchases within the city and with locally focused merchants. The Buy Local, Give Local program takes the philosophy a step further by asking local merchants to help support a charity of their choice. Along Ocean Park Boulevard, the merchants are backing the Westside Family Health Center. The organization, founded in 1974, is a non-profit community health center providing a wide range of low-cost health care services. WFHC serves close to 10,000 low-income and uninsured women, men and children, regardless of one’s ability to pay. Participating businesses said WFHC was a deserving choice. “It’s important the WFHC be recognized for all they do to keep our community
healthy and united. That’s what makes Santa Monica special; and Kimba is very Santa Monica,” said former world figure skater & current managing director of rumba/Kimba Hills Design, Adam E. Schmidt. LaFayette James, the store supervisor of Bob’s Market, said the store supports numerous, local non-profits through donations, food and scripps, including Westside Family Health Center, Samohi, the Church of Ocean Park, John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica Little League, Mt. Olive Lutheran Preschool, the Santa Monica Synagogue, Circle of Friends, the YWCA of Santa Monica and Grant Elementary School. “We like to support the community, because they support us,” James said. “We are an anchor for the community in Ocean Park and the owner of Bob’s Market has always believed in giving back. We are community-based and there is growth in supporting local.” Maire Byrne owner of Thyme Café and Market kicked off fundraising with
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OCEAN PARK GIVES BACK: Ocean Park
Boulveard businesses like rumba/Kimba Hills Design, Thyme Cafe and Market and Shaka Shack Burgers are all gearing up to participate in Santa Monica’s Buy Local, Give Local week. Ocean Park businesses will be raising money for the Westside Family Health Center.
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Where does old SMMUSD equipment go? OUTDATED HARDWARE TO BE SOLD, DONATED OR RECYCLED
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
With the help of millions of dollars in bond money, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified school district is in the process of renovating its campuses and upgrading its classrooms with new technological equipment. So where does all of the old stuff go? That question was answered in part by the Board of Education during its meeting Wednesday night, when it reviewed a long list of equipment that the district intends to sell, recycle, donate or throw away. The school board typically approves similar measures a couple times each year, district
spokeswoman Gail Pinsker said. “All items are obsolete, beyond economic repair, unusable or deemed as surplus,” according to the district report. Money from equipment sales must be placed in the fund from which the money originally came, or in the district’s general or reserve funds, according to state education code. The district must also give public notice, according to the education code. “There shall be no sale until notice has been given by posting in at least three public places in the district for not less than two weeks, or by publication for at least once a week for a period of not less than two weeks in a newspaper published in the district and having a general circulation there,” a statute reads. The district’s current equipment list includes
a dozen smartboards at Juan Cabrillo Elementary School that the district acquired in 2011, according to the report. The Malibu campus is also getting rid of nine television sets, most of which were acquired in the early 1990s. John Muir Elementary School is shedding 14 Apple iBook computers and 22 other Apple computers, most of which are about 10 years old. A smartboard and a projector screen have also been deemed outdated. At Point Dume Elementary School, there are 11 smartboards from 2006 that are no longer in use. There are also 12 television sets and four VCRs slated for removal. Webster Elementary School is shedding 17 smartboards and 17 televisions, including one
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Wilimovsky named Team USA award finalist LOCAL SWIMMER RECENTLY QUALIFIED FOR 2016 OLYMPICS
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
A 5-foot-9 kid from Malibu is in the same figurative pool as arguably the most famous competitive swimmer in the world. Team Santa Monica club SEE SWIMMER PAGE 9
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