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NOVEMBER 15-16, 2014
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Volume 14 Issue 3
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE TRAIN IS COMING ISSUE
Expo construction 80 percent complete
Tips for hosting your first Thanksgiving LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press
City staff will attend several commission and committee meetings in the coming weeks to gauge the community’s priorities for the money. The first meeting will be on Nov. 17 at the Social Service Commission (7
NEW YORK The potatoes are wrong. The football game’s too loud. The kids aren’t dressed right. Thanksgiving can, of course, be a great joy, but with so many beloved traditions on the line it can also be prime ground for sniping and griping the first time the torch has been passed. Your mother, mother-in-law, father or father-in-law might be thrilled to give up hosting after many decades, but that doesn’t mean they’ll behave themselves once sidelined, said Ruth Nemzoff, author of “Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children.” Before you find yourself wrapping yellow crime scene tape around the kitchen as you slurp white wine from the bottle with a crazy straw, just listen to what Nemzoff has to say: - Give them a role, whether it’s asking mom to make her famous pumpkin pie or contribute a favorite family tablecloth, platter or candlesticks. - Don’t implode. There’s no need to convince yourself you couldn’t possibly measure up. Rather than get crazy with comparisons, let the elders know you hope to emulate them. - Make new foods but keep the old. Thanksgiving is about the familiar. Families expect to see the same dishes each year. Introduce menu changes slowly. - Don’t feel you have to make everything yourself like your predecessors. It’s fine to reach out for side dishes or - gasp - cater. Secretly or otherwise. Andrew Royce Bauer, 21, of Neptune, New Jersey, and his 21-year-old cousin, Alexandra, are doing all the cooking this year but sticking to the usual place, the largish upper Manhattan apartment of Alexandra’s mother. And they’re doing something else: providing a la carte side dishes and other menu tweaks to accommodate the Atkins groupies, Paleo followers and gluten-free folks among the 15 to 25 people expected - something that hasn’t consciously happened in the past. “We’re a little apprehensive,” he said. “It’s one of our family’s favorite holidays. They’re going to be watching over our backs to make
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CONNECTION: Crews have been working to remove poles to connect Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the expo expansion.
BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CULVER CITY Construction of the incoming Expo Light Rail is now 80 percent complete. Earlier this month, Phase 1 of the Expo line - which runs from Culver City to Downtown Los Angeles and opened in April of 2012 - was connected to Phase 2, which
will end in Downtown Santa Monica. Crews tied together electrical component of Phase 2 with the under-construction Phase 1 at the Culver City station on Nov. 8. The tie-ins were expected to be completed this weekend. “Crews worked throughout the weekend to pull the wire and fiber optic cable from Phase 2 into Phase 1 and route it into the
Communications and Systems building at Culver City Station,” Expo officials said in a release. “The existing dead-end Overhead Catenary System poles and bumper posts were removed so that rail equipment can travel onto the Venice Boulevard Bridge and along the rest of the Phase 2 alignment when SEE EXPO PAGE 7
Public input sought on spending priorities BY MATTHEW HALL Editor-in-Chief
CITY HALL The City of Santa Monica wants to hear residents’ input on the preferred uses for chunk of federal money totaling about $1.3 million per year.
The City is in the process of preparing a new Five Year Consolidated Plan for the use of Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Both are funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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