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MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2013
Volume 13 Issue 39
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Dry year spurs new conservation orders for 2014 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Paul Alvarez Jr. editor@smdp.com Children enjoy a nice skate around the ICE at Santa Monica rink on Sunday afternoon in the sunshine. Temperatures reached the upper 60s.
Plentiful New Year’s Eve options in Santa Monica for partygoers BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE Santa Monica has been a hot spot for New Year’s Eve parties since at least the 1890s.
Back then the fire department held annual masquerade balls that were the talk of the Los Angeles area. In the early 1900s, Santa Monica casinos and the church groups alike held massive late-night feasts.
On New Year’s Eve 1932, a year before the repeal of prohibition, Santa Monica cops raided a bootlegging operation on 11th Street. Surely the bootlegger, Kenneth SEE NYE PAGE 11
Latinos still face electoral hurdles in California ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press
ESCONDIDO, Calif. Aging apartment buildings and small, closely spaced houses line streets near the center of town where
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Escondido’s Hispanic population is concentrated. Whites have long since moved to the outskirts, where upscale subdivisions and wide, well-paved streets have replaced avocado and orange groves. These streets might be the city’s show-
piece in other places, but not here. It’s called the “doughnut hole,” defined by the absence of something. For the Hispanics who live there and comprise nearly half of the city’s SEE LATINOS PAGE 10
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. December has been one of the driest months in one of the driest years ever recorded in California, which is spurring some cities and counties in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region to issue water conservation orders earlier than usual. The city of Folsom on Monday imposed a mandatory 20-percent water conservation order, while Sacramento County has also asked residents in unincorporated areas to reduce water use by 20 percent. The cities of Roseville and Sacramento are also likely to consider similar measures in early January, according to the Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/JCzjwZ). If no rain falls in the remaining days of 2013, it could rank as the driest calendar year in state history. The northern Sierra Nevada, an area where snowpack is key to the state’s water picture, has received only 10 percent of its average snowfall this month While a drought has not been declared by Gov. Jerry Brown, he has assembled a task force to monitor and advise him on the issue. It would take a series of big storms in 2014 to reduce the threat, leading most water experts to believe a drought declaration imminent. “Even if we pick up with normal weather conditions in January, soil moisture is so low that runoff will be low because the soil will just suck up a lot of that precipitation,” Jeanine Jones, interstate resources manager at the state Department of Water Resources, told the Bee. The issue of low water supply in reservoirs is not only bad news for people, but for fish too. Folsom Lake dropped below 20 percent of its capacity last week, an historic low. That means the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is planning to reduce water releases from the dam into the American River, which could kill Chinook salmon eggs if the river’s levels drop too low. “From a fishery perspective, it’s a really tough balancing act,” Tom Gohring, executive director of coalition of local water agencies and environmental groups called Water Forum in Sacramento. “It’s not a stretch to say people are on alert.”
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