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Volume 12 Issue 283
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Council to vote on outdoor fitness ordinance BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
PALISADES PARK City Council will vote Tuesday on regulations for fitness companies operating in public parks. All parks will be subject to the regulation
but Palisades Park is the focus of the ordinance. The park has seen an increase in fitness trainers in recent years, said Parks and Recreation Commissioner Phil Brock, who first brought the issue to City Council. “A lot of those trainers started using the park five, six hours a day,” he said. “We ended
up with trainers not only using it as their place of business but also attaching resistance bands to light posts and to the fence. Then we further started having trainers who started bringing weights, sometimes in large pickup trucks.” The proposed ordinance would split
Palisades Park into four quadrants and allow only 20 permits. Class sizes are set at a maximum of 15 students. Permits will cost the trainers 15 percent of their annual revenue. All other city park permits require a 10 SEE FITNESS PAGE 8
GOP tensions on display at California convention MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer
AHAHEIM, Calif. Tea party activists made an energetic showing Saturday at a California Republican Party convention, promoting resolutions to block the state’s high-speed rail project and require voters to show photo identification at the polls as part of a push to influence the direction of the struggling state organization. The loosely formed tea party has long been uncomfortable with traditional party politics. But Mark Meckler, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, told a room packed with cheering supporters at an afternoon meeting that the state GOP could be revitalized by tea party activists and he stood with those trying to make a change. “I’ve been to a lot of tea parties, but I’ve never been to a Republican Party convention before,” Meckler said, noting that he withdrew from the GOP more than a decade ago after becoming disillusioned with its direction. Meckler said he’s listened to much debate about whether activists should become involved in the GOP but “the reason I decided to be here is because the people who are here are fighting ... for the heart and soul of the Republican Party in California.” The meeting represented the best organSEE GOP PAGE 9
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Morgan Genser editor@smdp.com Father Patrick Comerford blesses the entry to the newly completed Saint John's Health Center on Saturday during a community celebration. The final part of the construction project was the Mullin Plaza, which connects the hospital to Santa Monica Boulevard.
Santa Monica can’t hold lead, falls to Hart BY DANIEL ARCHULETA Managing Editor
CORSAIR FIELD A first-half 14-0 lead had Santa Monica football thinking upset, but the Vikings’ hopes were dashed Friday at
Santa Monica College by a 26-0 Hart run that sealed their fate. Entering the game a long-shot, Samohi’s offense got going in the first quarter when junior quarterback Nico Basile passed to Kevin Person for the game’s first score.
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Hart, ranked No. 1 in the CIF-Southern Section Northern Division, sputtered on offense without running back Connor Wingenroth, who injured himself early in SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10
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