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MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2004
Volume 3, Issue 297
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
DAILY LOTTERY
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
He’s out-raised his opponents by nearly $100,000
BY CHUCK SHEPARD
BY JOHN WOOD
Once again, housekeepers at a museum mistook part of an art installation for ordinary garbage and tossed it out (this time, a bag of newspapers that was part of Gustav Metzger’s “Re-creation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art” at London’s Tate Britain gallery, in August). And once again, a suicidal man leaped to his death off a building but landed on a pedestrian, killing him, too (this time, in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan, in August).
Daily Press Staff Writer
TODAY IN HISTORY ONE-HUNDRED-FIFTY YEARS AGO, on Oct. 25, 1854, the “Charge of the Light Brigade” took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men, facing hopeless odds, charged the Russian army in the Battle of Balaclava and suffered heavy losses. ONE YEAR AGO: To chants of “Impeach Bush,” thousands of anti-war protesters rallied in the nation’s capital and delivered a scathing critique of President Bush and his Iraq policy.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “It is an undoubted truth that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”
LORD CHESTERFIELD ENGLISH AUTHOR AND STATESMAN
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Local 3
Surf Report Water Temperature: 65°
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Letters to the Editor Inciting the inciter
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Opinion Preparing to step into the box
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State A dam shame
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National Rhetoric gone wild
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Comics/Crossword Laugh it up
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Classifieds Have some class
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Legal Notices DBAs
COMMUNITYPROFILES |
COMMUNITY PROFILES IS A WEEKLY SERIES THAT APPEARS EACH MONDAY AND DELVES INTO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY IN SANTA MONICA.
The golden years: Retiree pieces together her life’s events used to be so mousy,” said the petite 87-year-old. “I didn’t stand up for myself at all, and I was very quiet.” FIFTH STREET — For most 74Having lived most of her life in year-old retirees, joining the Peace Cleveland, Wyner set off for Corps is not on their California by herself list of plans. But when she was 61 Trudi Wyner wanted years old. She sought to help people. So a fresh start and an rather than volunteerescape from what she ing at the local hospicalled “overbearing tal or charity with her siblings.” Her huspeers, she signed up band had divorced her for a two-year adven20 years earlier, leavture in Jamaica. ing her to raise four That was in 1990. children alone. And Wyner’s choice A self-described to help people in a lifelong learner, TRUDI WYNER tiny, developing Wyner attended night island country was school since she was a not the first courageous move the teenager as a hobby, dabbling in a Santa Monica resident had made. variety of subjects. But her dream But she was not always so bold. “People don’t believe me, but I See PROFILES, page 6 Special to the Daily Press
Horoscopes
Make Halloween count
Carolyn Sackariason/Daily Press Mystery photo: The first person to accurately describe where this photo was taken will win a prize. E-mail answers to sack@smdp.com.
BY PAM WIGHT
INDEX Call it an early night, Taurus
Shriver leads City Council challengers with $162K raised
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Jacquie Banks
CITY HALL — A handful of challengers hoping to win one of four open seats on the Santa Monica City Council this November stepped up fundraising efforts in the first half of October and netted tens of thousands of dollars in donations, reports filed at City Hall last week show. Seventeen-year resident Bobby Shriver raised $57,000 in the first two weeks of the month. This Luxury hotels pump pushed his fundraising total to $170K into local more than $162,000 — nearly $100,000 more than any of his election campaign opponents. The second highest BY JOHN WOOD fundraiser is incumbent Herb Katz, Daily Press Staff Writer who has amassed about $73,000 in campaign contributions. CITY HALL — Two Santa For the first half of October, Monica luxury beachfront physician Matt Dinolfo and former hotels opened their wallets this school board president Patricia month in an effort to sway votHoffman both brought in more than $10,000, according to documents. ers before next week’s elecThe donations came in checks tion, financial disclosure of $250 or less. By law, local canreports indicate. didates aren’t allowed to accept Owners of Casa Del Mar larger contributions, and they must and Shutters on the Beach, regularly report where their money where room rates range from a comes from and how it’s spent. few hundred dollars to several With the election eight days away, thousand dollars a night, concandidates now must report within tributed $170,000 to an inde24 hours any contributions and pendent political group pushexpenses. ing four candidates also Several Hollywood luminaries endorsed by the local chamber were among those who donated to of commerce. Shriver, a Kennedy family descenBoth hotels have battled city dent who has relied upon family officials for years over their and personal connections across efforts to implement a living the country to beef up his camwage in Santa Monica, where paign war chest. Included in the non-unionized large businesses recent batch of donors were actors near the beach would have been Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Mel Brooks and Robert DeNiro. See HOTELS, page 8 Singers Neil Diamond and Jon Bon Jovi also contributed to Shriver this month, as did Motown legend Barry Gordy. Expenses also played a prominent role in the Shriver campaign. Shriver racked up nearly $83,000 in bills during the first two weeks of the month on mailers, legal counsel, an election fundraiser and a variety of campaign consultants, documents show. Following Shriver in the fundraising race was Dinolfo, who reported netting $13,300, pushing his campaigning total to more than $50,000. Dinolfo’s contributions came from, among others, City Councilman See SHRIVER, page 8
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