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Volume 10 Issue 283
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Helping students help themselves Foundation formed following student’s death plans to bring free tutoring to SMMUSD BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
DISTRICTWIDE A nonprofit organization established in memory of a former Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District stu-
dent aims at increasing access to specialized tutors for students with learning challenges. Ellen Shane, whose daughter died in a car crash last April, presented the concept to the Board of Education at its meeting Thursday. Ellen Shane’s daughter Emily Shane, a
former eighth grader in Malibu, was struck by a car and killed while walking down the 29000 block of the Pacific Coast Highway. The man charged with hitting her, Sina Khankhanian, will go to trial on a murder charge later this month.
Since her daughter’s death, Ellen and her husband Michel Shane sought ways to honor their daughter’s memory by giving back to others. SEE SHANE PAGE 10
City Hall’s healthcare costs rise BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas. Consent agenda items are routinely passed by the City Council with little or no discussion from elected officials or the public. However, many of the items have been part of public discussion in the past.
HERE COMES THE SUN?
Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com Dense fog rolled into Santa Monica on Monday, with visibility reduced to a quarter-mile or less at times, according to the National Weather Service. The fog is expected to stick around today and then depart Wednesday when temperatures should be in the 80s.
‘Whitey’ Bulger tipster revealed BY DAILY PRESS STAFF DOWNTOWN A former Icelandic beauty queen and actress collected the $2-million reward for turning in Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger and his longtime
girlfriend to the FBI, the Boston Globe is reporting. Anna Bjornsdottir, who was named Miss Iceland in 1974, intermittently lived in the SEE TIP PAGE 12
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CITY HALL Even as cities look for ways to conserve precious dollars, costs on essentials are going up. The City Council will be asked to approve a $17.3 million expenditure on health contracts for municipal employees for the 2012 calendar year, an 11 percent increase from the year before. Gallagher Insurance Services, Inc., a feebased insurance brokerage firm, negotiates insurance rates for City Hall. After discovering that CIGNA, the company that currently provides medical insurance, was projected to raise fees by approximately 19.6 percent, city officials asked Gallagher to put out a request for proposal and reach out to Aetna, the previous carrier. SEE CONSENT PAGE 11
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