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12.18.15 Volume 15 Issue 26
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Local jeweler’s custom pin worn at ‘Star Wars’ premiere Disney CEO dons accessory made by Readers Fine Jewelers BY JENNIFER MAAS Daily Press Staff Writer
Avedis “Avo” Guerboian usually requires three weeks to make a custom Edward Avedis piece at Readers Fine Jewelers. But when you get a call requesting a custom piece for the CEO of Disney to wear to the world premiere of the eagerly anticipated next chapter in the “Star Wars” saga, even if you only have 10 days to make it, you say yes. “I got a call asking me to create a custom piece as a gift on December 1st, saying, ‘We need you to make something by the 10th,’” Guerboian Courtesy Photo said. “I said that, depending on PIN: Readers Fine Jewelers brought a Santa Monica flair to the year’s biggest what it was, OK. They said, ‘It’s a movie with a custom made pin depicting BB-8, one of the characters in the gift for Bob Iger, the CEO of new Star Wars film. Disney.’ They wanted to give him a gift of the new character called BB- miere. So I love Disney, and I love sent Guerboian a picture of the 8. Then they said they wanted him ‘Star Wars,’ so I’m in.” character, a new droid that will to have it to wear at the world preThe customer, a friend of Iger’s, appear for the first time in “The
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Force Awakens,” and told him they wanted a lapel pin. “They said they wanted something fancy, so at least gold, maybe some diamonds,” Guerboian said. “We talked about whether to make it solid gold or add coloring, or if that would make it look fake. But I told them anything they wanted was possible, so we really collaborated throughout the process.” Guerboian started with a hand sketch, as he usually does, showing the customer three or four versions of what he could do. “I didn’t know how we wanted the size to be, or if it should be a traditional pin where you open and close it in back,” he said. “But this customer thought a stem lapel pin would hold up better.” The designer then picked a close to 2-inch size for the pin and once SEE BB-8 PAGE 7
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SMMUSD mulls costs, benefits of career education Industry partnerships could complement federal, state aid BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
Members of the local Board of Education and other school officials have plenty of ideas for how to prepare students for life after graduation. What they need to figure out soon, though, is how they’re going to pay for it. The long-term financial stability of the Santa Monica-Malibu school district’s career technical eduSEE JOBS PAGE 8
Matthew Hall editor@smdp.com
Olympic High School held its STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) Fair on Dec. 17. Students showcased a variety of projects to officials and community members.
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