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November 27-28, 2004 SUPER LOTTO 1 3 12 28 47 Meganumber: 9 Jackpot: $21 Million
BY JOHN WOOD Daily Press Staff Writer
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY CHUCK SHEPARD
Ultra-Orthodox California rabbi Nachum Shifren, 53, cuts a dashing figure on the beach at Malibu, where he is the legendary surfer “Shifty,” easily spottable on 20-foot waves by his long beard, according to a September profile in the San Diego Union-Tribune. In his spare time (he says he is ready to ride 24/6, allowing for the Sabbath), he has conducted “Passover surfaris” and beach bar-mitzvahs, and his lectures on Deuteronomy include the observation that “surf punks” paddled out into the Red Sea during the Jews’ exodus from Egypt. “(T)he whole religious experience,” he told the reporter, “the outer body experience, is encompassed in the act of surfing.”
POLICE HDQTRS. — In the wake of a recent midday shooting in front of a Santa Monica school, Police Chief James T. Butts Jr. this week reaffirmed his longstanding commitment to fighting crime while strengthening ties to the community. Butts pointed to his “Neighborhood-Centered Policing” model, which puts each of the city’s major neighborhoods
under the personal watch of highranking police officers with the knowledge and power to affect change. The officers meet regularly with community members and groups, and return to meet monthly with the police department’s command staff, which reassigns resources as needed. “For 13 years, I have been a leader of action in this community,” said Butts, who has been under heightened observation from some residents since the non-fatal school shooting. “For 13 years, this
department has worked on a daily basis at planning, strategizing and engaging the community, and improving public safety — and most importantly, our relationship with the people we serve.” After hearing from a half-dozen frightened and angry mothers earlier this month, the City Council agreed to hold a special meeting or series of meetings to address the ongoing gang-violence problem. Some council members also criticized Butts, saying residents and elected leaders ought to know
Daily Press Staff Writer
INDEX Horoscopes Could be a late night, Scorp
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Surf Report 3
Opinion 4
Q-Line Water under bridge
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State Critical decision
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National Great giblets
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International WTO says ‘no’
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Comics Tickle your funny bone
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People in the News Wham! bam
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BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON
Ten years ago: Defense Secretary William Perry, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” suggested the Bosnian government had lost the war in the Balkans, and acknowledged NATO was powerless to stop the Serbs.
It’s a small world
more about his neighborhoodbased strategy. Butts this week said his department will press ahead with the work it’s doing, pointing out Santa Monica has seen a 62-percent drop in crime over the last 10 years and another 10-percent drop this year alone. Though he hadn’t been asked to attend the special meetings on gang violence, Butts said he would if invited. “It would be incongruent to think that, as a result of the com-
For art’s sake: Program jams to raise bread
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John Wood/Daily Press After a full day of shopping Friday, an exhausted Joe Talamo, of Philadelphia, waits for his wife and daughter on the Third Street Promenade. Business was heavy for merchants in Santa Monica on the traditional post-Thanksgiving shopping day known as ‘Black Friday.’
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A foundation set up specifically to support arts education is jamming along in its effort to raise millions of dollars for local schools. For The Arts, a campaign launched four years ago as part of the Education Foundation of Santa MonicaMalibu, is gearing up for its next round of fundraising, bringing it closer to its $15 million endowment goal so programs in music, visual arts, dance and drama are in every school in the district. Its last fundraising campaign this past spring — highlighted by a concert by local band Venice and legendary singer-songwriter Jackson Browne — raised $150,000, bringing the total for For The Arts to $1.6 million. An arts auction last spring also raised $165,000 for arts programs. While organizers had to lobby quite heavily to get the exposure it did with the spring fundraiser, this season’s effort — which features Usher and Earth, Wind & Fire — came with a bit more ease. The difference this time is the entertainment industry has taken notice of local efforts to bring the arts back into schools. The Los Angeles Chapter of the Recording Academy & the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), which is presenting “Grammy Jam” on Dec. 11, named For The Arts one of five beneficiaries. “We’ve reached a critical mass ... they are coming to us now and people are starting to pay attention,” said
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