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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL

All-Ocean League team dominated by Samohi players BY PATRICK HOURIHAN Special to the Daily Press

SAMOHI The Santa Monica High School girls’

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volleyball team had a lot to celebrate in November at the end of their season after winning the regular season Ocean League title and qualifying for the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section playoffs. However — in addition to the team’s success in dominating their league this season — several individual players from the Vikings were selected to the All-Ocean League team for 2010, and one underclassmen also garnered state-wide recognition. Selected as the Most Valuable Player from the league was junior Dana Ritchie. Junior Sarah Krenik was the Most Outstanding Player in league play this season. Krenik was also recognized for her outstanding play all season long and during the postseason as she was named to the All-CIF team. The Ocean League’s first team selections from Samohi were all sophomores — Jordan Levy, Greta Schmittdiel and Joslyn Hayes. The second-team consisted of some soon-to-be graduated seniors, including senior team captain Tessa Walther and senior Lindsey Nakatani; as well as junior Abby Southam and sophomore Avalon Lennon.

A home on 11th Street just north of Montana Avenue is decked out in a colorful holiday light display. news@smdp.com

Providing homeless with a place to recover BY GARY HOPKINS Special to the Daily Press

MID-CITY At night, following her breast cancer surgery, Patricia Parker would lie awake in her battered, 40-year-old pickup truck parked curbside on a Santa Monica street, wishing she was anywhere else. The skin on her back and breast was burned raw from the radiation therapy she was undergoing to keep her cancer at bay. The depression that had sent her into a tailspin ever since the death of her 23-year-old daughter from uterine cancer 16 years before overwhelmed her. It didn’t help that

Parker’s boyfriend of 17 years walked out on her three days after she was diagnosed with cancer, taking everything she owned. At 56, she had no money, no home, no companionship and no hope. “I was beside myself,” Parker said with tears in her eyes. “I was ready to give up. I was telling everyone goodbye.” Parker’s lifeline was the offer of a bed in the respite care program operated by OPCC and the Venice Family Clinic, in collaboration with Saint John’s Health Center. The program — the only such service within a 20-mile radius — provides food, shelter, supportive services and medical care at

OPCC’s shelter in Santa Monica for homeless people who need a clean, warm place in which to recover after being treated in an emergency room or in a hospital. “If it wasn’t for that bed, I couldn’t even tell you where I’d be today,” said Parker, who has been in the respite care program since January and is now working with an OPCC housing coordinator to find a permanent roof over her head. “The greatest thing about this program is that it puts you back on the right track,” Parker said. “It gives you hope. It’s given a lot SEE RECOVER PAGE 10

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ON THE MEND: Patricia Parker is a breast cancer survivor who participated in a respite care program operated by OPCC, the Venice Family Clinic and Saint John's Health Center. The program provides homeless patients with a safe, clean place to recover from their injuries.

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