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WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2 WHAT’S THE POINT? ......................PAGE 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ............PAGE 5 CRIME WATCH ................................PAGE 12 MYSTERY PHOTO ..........................PAGE 13
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Local ski legend inducted into hall of fame
The Uber of movers Santa Monica-based company aims to create on demand moving service
Salerno now teaches with indoor simulators
BOB SALERNO BRYANT EZEJI
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN BY JENNIFER MAAS
Daily Press Staff Writer
Daily Press Staff Writer
If your friends won’t help you move anymore, Bryant Ezeji and Julia Cook will. Well, their new app Trekk will. “Trekk is essentially Uber or Lyft, but instead of moving people, we just move their stuff,” CEO of Trekk, Ezeji, 26, said. “However our service doesn’t end at the curb. We take it where you need it. And if you have a couch or a piano, any large or awkward item, that is kind of what we dial in on. “ Trekk, a new company based out of Santa Monica, has a focus on short regional moves. The company currently has between 700 and 800 users and has done 1,121 moves, mainly within the Santa Monica and Venice Beach area, since opening shop in July. “We don’t do interstate or SEE MOVERS PAGE 9
many more. His only apparent motive, police said, was robbery. For five years, the Los Angeles Police Department has been trying to track him down. On Monday,
Bob Salerno is no stranger when it comes to exhilarating thrills. He’s carved his way down myriad mountains, soared off ramps to perform aerial acrobatics and won world titles with his skiing skills. But even those excitements couldn’t compare to the way he felt when he heard that he would be inducted with this year’s class into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. “I was quite elated,” said Salerno, a Santa Monica-based businessman who trains skiers of all levels on virtual simulators at his local facility. “It’s exciting. It’s a huge award, so I’m really quite excited. It’s hard to put it in words.” Salerno will be honored during an induction ceremony April 9 in Aspen, Colo., and he will be formally enshrined in September at the hall’s home in Ishpeming, Mich. Joining him in the 2015 class are
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HALLOWEEN IS NOT JUST FOR KIDS
Courtesy photos
WISE & Healthy Aging Adult Day Service Center clients went trick or treating down the halls of the Ken Edwards Center in costume and make up last week. The nonprofit organization serves older adults and caregivers.
Arrest in LA serial shooting case that killed 2, wounded 6 BY AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press
LOS ANGELES He would approach his
victims as they went about their daily routines on the streets of Los Angeles, usually in the late evening
or early morning. First he would shoot, and then he would steal whatever he could grab before fleeing. Between November 2011 and December 2014, the man known as the “Western Bandit” shot eight people, killing two of them. He fired on
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