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WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2 LETTER TO THE EDITOR ..............PAGE 3 LAUGHING MATTERS ....................PAGE 4 MARGARITA FRIDAY ......................PAGE 5 MYSTERY PHOTO ............................PAGE 9
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Benefit concert honors late SMMUSD principal
EXPO LINE TOUR:
A sanctuary for sports fans near DTLA
Money will support school construction in Ethiopia BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
Before Irma Lyons lost her long battle with cancer in 2009, she poured her heart into her job as principal of Will Rogers Learning Community. She wanted desperately for each child to succeed, and she maintained her connections with students and families even as she moved from the classroom into the administrative ranks. “Irma was a visionary,” said Liane Curtis, whose daughter, Jaq Mackenzie, attended the Santa Monica elementary school. “She was all about leaving no child behind. ... She really thought outside the box.”
JAQ MACKENZIE
Lyons will be posthumously honored at a benefit concert Sept. 11 at Genghis Cohen in Los Angeles, where Mackenzie and other musicians will raise money to support education in Ethiopia. The event came together with the leadership of Mary Anna SEE CONCERT PAGE 6
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MUSEUM: The Sports Museum of Los Angeles makes for a worthy stop on the Expo line.
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica Nurse Goes Above and Beyond
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
Editor’s note: With the opening of the Expo Line’s extension to Santa Monica, locals have a new way to explore neighboring areas. The Daily Press will publish a weekly travelogue about what to eat, see and do near each of the stations along the Expo Line, continuing this week at the LATTC/Ortho Institute stop.
In the past you could’ve called Gary Cypres a hoarder, his massive private assortment of sports memorabilia sitting dormant in a warehouse for the sake of posterity and his own enjoyment. He has a game-worn Don Drysdale home jersey from 1965, the Hall of Fame pitcher’s first year in with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He’s got plenty of hardware, including a World Series trophy from 1981. He even owns a handful of dirt and a ball thrown out upon the 1913 opening of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, where the baseball club used to play. Now that the longtime collector has made SEE SPORTS PAGE 7
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Longtime UCLA Medical Center Pediatric Nurse, Terri Bercier has gone above and beyond when it comes to providing the public with medical services. UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica has recently attained Magnet recognition as part of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program. Officials at UCLA said Magnet recognition has become the gold standard for nursing excellence and that the award is shows the quality of care provided by local nurses. It is not an easy job unless you have the passion and heart to do so, and Terri Bercier has exactly that. Bercier is 62 years of age, and
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