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Santa Monica Daily Press October 8-9, 2005 DAILY LOTTERY
A newspaper with issues
Volume 4, Issue 284
Davies Estate getting a facelift
In a maze of haze
SUPER LOTTO 8 13 19 22 40 Meganumber: 17 Jackpot: $9 Million
FANTASY 5 8 12 13 24 30
DAILY 3 Daytime: Evening:
262 056
DAILY DERBY 1st: 2nd: 3rd:
10 Solid Gold 12 Lucky Charms 07 Eureka !
RACE TIME:
1:42.26
Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the winning number information, mistakes can occur. In the event of any discrepancies, California State laws and California Lottery regulations will prevail. Complete game information and prize claiming instructions are available at California Lottery retailers. Visit the California State Lottery web site: http://www.calottery.com
BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
(1) Rumors of dead people registered to vote in Venezuela are plentiful, but according to a Financial Times dispatch from Caracas, among the names (with ID numbers) appearing on the rolls in July was that of Henri Charriere, the reputedly awesome escapee-criminal known as Papillon, who died in 1973. (2) A truck hauling 8,000 live chickens overturned after being forced off the road near St. John’s, Newfoundland, in July when, on a two-lane highway, a car veered into the wrong lane and headed for the truck. (Thus, the car driver might be said to have won the inadvertent game of “chicken” with the chicken-truck driver.)
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 281st day of 2005. There are 84 days left in the year. On Oct. 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupted while another deadly blaze broke out in Peshtigo, Wis.
INDEX Horoscopes Movie? Dinner? Libra
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Surf Report Water temperature: 64°
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Opinion Reality soundbites
4
Q-Line Further developments
4
Health Rust never sleeps
6
State Spirit of 76
7
National Katrina hits economy
12
Comics Laugh it up
23
Classifieds Ad space odyssey
24-26
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Fog rolls into the Santa Monica beach on Friday, obscuring much of the pier. A foghorn could be heard much of the day.
STATE
Waging battle with state’s pay standard BY JENNIFER COLEMAN Associated Press Writer
415 PCH — A $24 million project is underway to restore a historic estate on the beach built in the 1920s by newspaper giant William Randolph Hearst. Project leaders last weekend met with community members to discuss the emerging design schemes for the five-acre Marion Davies Estate, located at 415 See DAVIES ESTATE, page 15
Sustainability: Barnyard ani-males An ‘A’ for effort, but that’s about it BY RYAN HYATT
SACRAMENTO — A coalition of labor and social welfare groups is proposing ballot initiatives to raise the state’s minimum wage, a reaction to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s vetoes of wage bills the past two years. Californians for Fair Wages is pushing two proposals to raise the minimum wage from the current $6.75 an hour. One would phase in an increase by raising the hourly wage to $7.25 in 2007 and $7.75 a year later, with future increases pegged to inflation. The second proposal would raise the wage to $8.75 an hour over three years and also would See MINIMUM WAGE, page 10
We’re in Culver City too!
CITY HALL — If taken at face value, Santa Monica is a “C” student when it comes to its sustainability performance. So says a September report issued by City Hall, which for 10 years has used 70 indicators to track progress in eight areas of its sustainability plan, adopted in 1994. While Santa Monica is an “A” student when it comes to effort, that effort doesn’t always translate into the same outstanding results, according to city staff. “Sometimes there are regional issues outside our control,” said Dean Kubani, City Hall’s sustainability coordinator and architect of See REPORT CARD, page 17
Glenn Bolan/Daily Press A CAUTIONARY SIGN: A reminder hangs outside the Big Blue Bus barn off of Colorado Avenue that “they” are indeed everywhere.
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