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Volume 8 Issue 288
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Stabbing suspects arrested BY DAILY PRESS STAFF PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY A pair of suspects were recently arrested in connection with a stabbing that took place after a Santa Monica High School football game last month. Kenneth Keith Jones, 19, and Christopher Jerome Diaz, 18, were taken into custody on Oct. 2 and booked for attempted homicide and assault with a deadly weapon, which wasn’t a firearm yet caused great bodily injury. A 17-year-old Inglewood resident was stabbed multiple times on Sept. 23 after Samohi’s game against Venice High School at Santa Monica College’s Corsair Field. The incident occurred as the victim left the game in which Samohi lost. The suspect suffered non-life threatening injuries and is expected to recover. While police said at the time that the attack did not appear to be gang-related, the suspects were booked under California Penal Code Section 186.22, which concerns individuals involved in criminal street gangs. Police had no further information on the arrests.
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Santa Monica native returns from the White House BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
CHICAGO On a chilly historic night in Grant Park, Alejandra Campoverdi witnessed history, standing up against the stage as her employer for the past few months — newly elected President Barack Obama — took the stage to address an electrifying audience. “Being there in Grant Park that night was amazing because obviously we had all worked really hard and spent all this time working for something we really believed in and to experience that moment … and watching the crowd getting more excited when we realized it had gone our way is one I will never forget,” she said. “Everyone was crying and
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screaming and the streets were filled with people. “It was basically a whole night of celebration for everyone.” Nearly a year after the election, Campoverdi is still working for the same boss, this time in the White House where the Santa Monica native is the assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. It’s been a long journey to the nation’s capital for Campoverdi, the daughter of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Ocean Park, attended St. Monica Catholic High School and later graduated from USC with a degree in communications in 2001 and a masters from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government eight years later, volunteering in between with an organization that advocates for the
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rights of migrant farm workers. But it’s the Virginia Avenue Project that Campoverdi credits with helping her get to where is today. She will return home tonight to be honored with the Community Hero Award during Virginia Avenue Project’s 17th annual birthday gala at Casa del Mar, an event that will raise money for the nonprofit organization that has served more than 600 children in the community. It was founded by actor and writer Leigh Curran, who moved to the West Coast after working with the 52nd Street Project in New York City, which is similarly a free afterschool performing arts and mentoring program for children. SEE WHITE HOUSE PAGE 10