MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Volume 14 Issue 4
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Election night results hold BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE Early in the morning following election day, after the election night ballots were counted, the smoke hadn’t completely cleared. A percentage point separated second through fifth place in a race for four Board of Education seats. Third and fourth places in the race for three City Council seats were just under 600 votes apart. The Los Angeles County Registrar, which was handling Santa Monica’s election, still had more than 300,000 provisional and vote-by-mail ballots to count countywide. More than half of those have been counted, as of Friday, and (with the excep-
tion of some insignificant changes) results have stayed the same. At least 4,000 ballots have been added to the 20,479 counted in Santa Monica on election night. Board of Education member Ralph Mechur remains the odd man out in the Ed Board race - still about 300 votes behind Board of Education member Oscar de la Torre. Challengers Richard TahvildaranJesswein and Craig Foster have swapped positions. Foster held the second place spot by a couple dozen votes on election night but Tahvildaran-Jesswein now holds it by a couple hundred. Incumbent Laurie Lieberman won reelection easily, currently holding a more than 2,500-vote lead on Tahvildaran-
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Jesswein. Boardmember Ben Allen, who still has two years left on his term, was elected to the State Senate in a landslide victory against reproductive rights advocate Sandra Fluke. This will open up a new slot on the board, which Mechur told the Daily Press he’d be very interested in filling. “When a vacancy occurs four or more months before the end of a Board member’s term, the Board shall, within 60 days of the date of the vacancy or the filing of the member’s deferred resignation, either order an election or make a provisional appointment, unless a special election is mandated,” the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s bylaws state.
DOWNTOWN With Thanksgiving fast approaching, it’s not a good time to be a turkey (or a crab, ham, beef joint or really any protein). Tables far and wide will be centered on the entrée, but meat alone does not make a meal. Side dishes will be the bulk of the calories consumed during Thanksgiving dinner and all too often; they are overlooked in anticipa-
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DEL FRISCO’S CHEF SHARES A FAMILY RECIPE FOR THANKSGIVING
BY MATTHEW HALL Editor-in-Chief
S.T.E.A.M. MACHINES
Matthew Hall matt@smdp.com Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium hosted, the Los Angeles area Rube Goldberg Contest on Nov. 15. High school and college teams demonstrated this year’s S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering and math) theme with “creative contraptions” alongside a variety of free activities for adults and youth. Additional participants included Time Warner Cable (TWC), Bricks 4 Kidz, Two-Bit Circus, Marbles the Brain Store, Peddler’s Creamery, Pacific Park, Trash for Teaching, reDiscover Center, ToyBuilder Labs, Vocademy and demonstrations at Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.
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