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Volume 8 Issue 290
Santa Monica Daily Press THEY LOVE US SEE PAGE 4
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THE TALKING IT OUT ISSUE
No more Friday lights in Malibu BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
MALIBU The high school football games under the Friday night lights will now be played beneath the late afternoon sun. The California Coastal Commission on Thursday denied a request to allow the use of temporary field lights at Malibu High School for 16 evenings out of the year, including during eight football games and practices. MHS officials are now rescheduling remaining home games this month to 3:30 p.m. and likely even earlier for all meetings SEE LIGHTS PAGE 13
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ONE DONE: Registered Nurse Liz Pena administers the swine flu vaccination to Fernando Martinez, 6, at the Venice Family Clinic. Kevin Herrera kevinh@smdp.com
SUSPECT: A section of Wilshire Boulevard was shut down Friday morning after police responded to a report of a suspicious package, which turned out to be concrete wrapped with brown packing tape. The bomb squad was called and streets were reopened around 10 a.m.
Bomb threat closes Wilshire BY KEVIN HERRERA Editor in Chief
DOWNTOWN A suspicious package found near Panera Bread on Wilshire Boulevard and Fifth Street on Friday prompted a call to a bomb squad to remove the item, which proved to be nothing more than a bag of cement wrapped in brown tape, police said. The object was discovered about 7 a .m. SEE THREAT PAGE 12
Swine flu vaccine arrives, but some are hesitant BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
DOWNTOWN Swine flu vaccinations have finally arrived. The Venice Family Clinic welcomed the long-awaited vaccines for the H1N1 flu virus on Tuesday, receiving 500 doses of the FluMist nasal spray, which are being administered at the Rose Avenue medical facility and Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center on Pico Boulevard. As directed by state public health officials, the clinic is targeting the initial dosages to children 2-10 years old and healthy people 2-49 years old who live with
infants younger than 6 months, Nurse Manager Darcie Miller said. While concerns over swine flu have at times reached paranoiac levels, particularly when cases were initially reported in the spring, the demand for the vaccination has been surprisingly low. The clinic has only given 15 doses of the FluMist spray over the first few days, about a third of which have been to children. Miller said that she’s noticed parents declining the vaccine for their children. “People are seeing so much in the news that it’s arriving this week … that it gives the feeling that it’s so new and somehow untried,” she said.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Thursday received a shipment of 92,000 doses of FluMist, which will be allocated to pediatricians, family practitioners and clinics. More than 3,000 providers in the county have requested the vaccine. Jonathan Fielding, the county director of public health, said he expects to receive larger shipments in the coming weeks, bringing the total to more than one million by the end of the month. “There is not a shortage,” he said during a press conference on Thursday. “There will SEE FLU PAGE 12
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