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10.07.15 Volume 14 Issue 282
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WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2 CURIOUS CITY ................................PAGE 4 WHAT’S THE POINT? ......................PAGE 5 CRIME WATCH ................................PAGE 12 MYSTERY PHOTO ..........................PAGE 13
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A collaboration to dine for
At Samohi, a ‘lessen’ on language barriers
Chefs Yousef Ghalaini and Raphael Lunetta team up for a pop-up dinner at FIG
Viking Voice newsletter seeking translators for Spanish edition BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
In a short message to Santa Monica High School families last year, district Superintendent Sandra Lyon weighed in on the implementation of California’s new academic system. “There is much discussion in
the education world and many local communities right now about the Common Core State Standards,” she wrote. “Are they bad? Good? Designed to undermine the economy? Boost our standing in the global marketplace? Will they challenge students, or set them up for failure?” The note was part of Lyon’s
contribution to Viking Voice, a newsletter published approximately every six weeks that aims to keep Samohi parents abreast of school initiatives, administrative priorities, policy updates, student activities and more. But what about the parents who SEE SPANISH PAGE 7
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DELICIOUS DUO: Chefs Yousef Ghalaini and Raphael Lunetta teaming up.
BY JENNIFER MAAS Daily Press Staff Writer
When chef Raphael “Raffa” Lunetta closed the doors of his beloved Santa Monica restaurant JiRaffe in February, he didn’t know what he would do next. But he knew he wanted it to be something new and different. Now, nine months later, he’s achieved that goal. Lunetta is being welcomed into the kitchen at the Fairmont Miramar’s FIG Restaurant to col-
laborate with its chef, Yousef Ghalaini, on a four-night pop-up dinner event. “With chef Raffa in between projects at the moment, we knew the community would be missing him,” Ghalaini said. “We thought it would be a really cool concept to bring him into our kitchen at FIG and see what a collaborative menu might look like, how we could build off of each other, and what we each could bring to the table.” SEE CHEFS PAGE 6
CROSS-COUNTRY:
Pack mentality propels Crossroads girls Roadrunners vying for first state berth in three seasons BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
David Olds started talking about the top runners on this year’s Crossroads girls cross-country team. Then he paused as if to second-guess his own analysis. There are key contributors worth mentioning, he said, but
arguably the biggest storyline goes beyond that. “What’s great about my girls team is that any one of my top five or six could be my top runner on any given day,” the longtime Roadrunners coach said. “The spread time between 1 and 5 is
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Members of the Unite Here Local 11 hotel union held a protest outside the Shore Hotel on Oct. 6. in support of Krista Fonseca who was fired from the hotel on Sept. 9. The union claims Fonseca's firing was retaliation for her testimony at a recent Costal Commission Meeting.
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