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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
Volume 5 Issue 266
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
DAILY LOTTERY 6 26 33 39 55 Meganumber: 1 Jackpot: $12M 17 24 30 31 36 Meganumber: 12 Jackpot: $17M
Effort to end gang violence BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
THIS WEEK IS NATIONAL FARM ANIMALS AWARENESS WEEK
ST. ANNE’S CHURCH — Elected officials Sunday joined with the faithbased community in launching a regional effort to address gang violence. Before a crowd of roughly 150 residents, City Council members said they will embark on a campaign with LA Voice to bring other municipalities together to save
youth. LA Voice is an interfaith community organization that is committed to working on public safety, homelessness/housing and access to health care for all. The announcement marks the first time that elected officials have publicly committed to a regional approach that would mirror efforts made to address homelessness. “Every day we walk around with a cloud over us, the cloud of gang vio-
lence,” said Councilman Richard Bloom. “I don’t believe any of us have all the answers … We must look inward to our community, our families, churches and synagogues and communicate with those who would take up arms … The faithbased community has always been there, but now we are all coming together, interacting together.” The announcement comes on the heels of a $246,000 grant from the
Senior spots spur screams BY NORA SORENA CASEY Special to the Daily Press
SAMOHI — There is a very big problem when roughly 3,500 people are trying to get to the exact same place at the exact same time and have only 40 parking spots between them. That problem is called parking at Santa Monica High School. Sept. 12 was for many the most important moment of their time at Samohi — the senior parking drawing. Forty lucky seniors were picked randomly out of a hat and given a space in the senior lot on campus. For those lucky few, life just got a lot easier. From the first day of ninth grade, when students finds themselves running to catch a loaded bus or sitting
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 261st day of 2006. There are 104 days left in the year. Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. 1793President declared its independ1810Chile ence from Spain. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which 1850 allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states. the first edition of The New York Times was published. actress Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
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One tasty treat
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Loneliness ... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press The fifth annual Taste of Santa Monica offered partons a variety of culinary delights from local merchants and restuarants at the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday. Check out more photos from the event on page 13.
THOMAS WOLFE
See PARKING SPOTS, page 12
AMERICAN AUTHOR
INDEX 2
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGELIQUE DOLAN
Surf Report Water temperature: 66°
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Opinion Make local politics hip
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State
BY AMY KAUFMAN
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National Measure 39 on the Oregon ballot
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People in the News 15
MOVIETIMES 15
Comics 16
Classifieds Ad space odyssey
Cheers to local bartender Special to the Daily Press
Drivers must put down cell phones
Yak it up, yakmeister
A W E E K LY S E R I E S T H AT A P P E A R S E A C H M O N D AY A N D D E LV E S I N T O T H E L I V E S O F P E O P L E W H O L I V E , W O R K A N D P L AY I N S A N TA M O N I C A .
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See GANG VIOLENCE, page 12
SHEPARD
■ A Connecticut company (454 Life Sciences) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute have made recent breakthroughs in developing the genome of a Neanderthal man, which shows a 99 percent-plus similarity with that of humans, according to a July New York Times report. If they succeed, it might be possible to bring the species back to life by implanting the genes into a human egg (provided, of course, that some woman volunteers to bear a Neanderthal baby).
Bono’s charity continues
U.S. Department of Justice to fund a gang intervention program called Night Bridges at Virginia Avenue Park. The grant will go towards expanding activities at the park, extending current evening hours from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. three nights a week while providing life skills training and parenting classes to help mothers and fathers identify
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SM BEACH — Everybody knows T.J. Sorady. “This is the guy,” a passerby on Third Street Promenade shouts towards Sorady, pointing at his grinning face. “How are you, man?” Sorady replies, offering the friend a hearty handshake. Sorady is a local celebrity in Santa Monica — just while strolling down
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the busy street, he greets nearly 10 acquaintances who recognize him as the bartender at Big Dean’s Muscle Inn Café. Established in 1903, Big Dean’s is the local watering hole home to the eclectic crowds who frequent the bar just south of the Santa Monica Pier on Santa Monica Beach. And for the past 14 years, Sorady a former New Yorker, has served up beer to everyone from knotty-haired surfers to local characters such as 81year-old “Skateboard Momma.” He began bartending in 1985 at his almaVONS
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mater, SUNY Buffalo, where after winning a fraternity-sponsored beerchugging contest in a campus bar, the bar’s owner offered Sorady a job and taught him the tricks of the trade. Warm weather beckoned the east coaster to the westside four years later as Sorady moved to California to become what he calls “a professional beach bum.” Soon, Sorady found himself on Big Dean’s patio and he’s stayed as the establishment’s
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