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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004
Volume 4, Issue 14
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Promenade in-line skating law fails
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CITY HALL — There will be no in-line skates allowed on the Third Street Promenade. In his last meeting on the dais, City Councilman Mike Feinstein last week failed to convince his colleagues the ban on rolling transport shouldn’t be applied to skates. Feinstein, an avid in-line
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lars to create essentially a skater, spoke passionately public watering hole, and against the current law, it’s not about whether saying it unfairly discrimone goes there to shop, inates against a group of it’s about whether our residents that doesn’t city center is open to readily organize. Biking, skaters as well as anyone skateboarding and skatelse,” Feinstein said. “We ing currently are banned are in effect banning on the popular, pedestrithem from going there as an-only walkway. MIKE FEINSTEIN far as when they go out.” “This is a public space In-line skaters, unlike skatethat we have spent millions of dol-
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY CHUCK SHEPARD
In September, a Roanoke (Va.) Times story documented the righteous complaint of Melissa Williamson, 35, that street construction noise outside her home in southeast Roanoke, especially by jackhammers, would have a harmful effect on her unborn child, then two months from term. The published Times story ignited a firestorm of reader mail because it was accompanied by a candid photo of Williamson in her front yard, looking annoyed at the construction mess, but puffing away on a cigarette.
BY KATHLEEN BISHOP Special to the Daily Press
In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43. In 1986, actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82. In 2001, former Beatle George Harrison died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58. Ten years ago: The House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade by a vote of 288-146. Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic end its civil war. One year ago: Gunmen in Iraq ambushed and killed two Japanese diplomats; seven members of Spain’s military intelligence agency were killed in Mahmudiyah. Thirty-three people were killed in the crash of a military plane in Congo.
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dozens of sea birds throughout the area this year, mostly during the busy spring season. Wallerstein was performing multiple rescues a day during this year’s outbreak of domoic acid poisoning, which mostly affects pregnant sea lions. The poisoning forces the animals onto the beach and causes disori-
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Happy Days are here again for Marion Ross BY PAM WIGHT
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File Photo Peter Wallerstein, who was recently named as the first responder in Santa Monica for marine-mammal rescues, patrols the beaches in search of sick animals. He’s seen at work here in 2002 along the shores off Bay Street as he rescues a sea lion poisoned by algae.
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Despite having a contentious relationship in the past, city officials this month handed over their marine-mammal rescue operation to the Whale Rescue Team, a specialized nonprofit organization. Don Umber, manager of Santa Monica’s animal control division, said last week a collaborative decision was recently made between City Hall and animal control officials to make the Whale Rescue Team’s founder, Peter Wallerstein, the first person to call for any marine-mammal rescue. Animal control had been in charge of rescues, but will now be used to assist the Whale Rescue Team on an as-needed basis. Marine mammals include seals, sea lions, dolphins and whales. Santa Monica had been the only city from Will Rogers State Beach to Wilmington that didn’t call on Wallerstein first when marine mammals needed to be rescued. The Whale Rescue Team has rescued 152 marine mammals and
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boarders, don’t pose a threat because the skates are attached and can’t get away from the rider, argued Feinstein, who said banning skates on the Promenade unfairly shuts out skaters, who don’t normally carry shoes with them. “There’s a disturbing trend that I felt on this council the last few years of a lack of tolerance for alternative lifestyles,” Feinstein
WOODLAND HILLS — Albert Lea, Minn., is a long way from Hollywood. But that didn’t stop actress Marion Ross from leaving her tiny hometown and forging ahead with
her Tinsel Town dreams. Best known as Mrs. Cunningham on the classic 1970s sitcom “Happy Days,” Ross will be the guest of honor for the annual Christmas lighting ceremony on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade on Dec. 3. She will officially turn on the holiday lights
above the Promenade, which will be lit through January. Despite growing up in a town of only 15,000 people, far from the bright lights of Hollywood, Ross was determined to someday see her name on the marquee. “My mother was an IrishSee PROFILES, page 6
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