SMC — Former Mayor Nat Trives, known around town as “Mr. Santa Monica,” and world champion surfer and expert on coral reefs Dr. Richard Grigg will receive the 2009 SMC Alumni Recognition Award from the Santa Monica College Foundation.
Cleaning out the closets, organizing the desk, saying good-bye to dust bunnies and vacuuming Mollydog’s fur from the back of my wagon; phew, makes me exhausted just thinking about it.
I finally get it. Last Friday morning I was lying in bed and couldn’t move. The shades were cracked just enough so that I could see the cold, drizzly rain outside, making the thought of divorcing myself from my perfectly warm sheets incomprehensible.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. … There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it,” was how Lord John Acton worded his rejection of the idea that popes and kings could do no wrong.
Microorganisms are the most predominant creatures on our planet. Although technology has made great inroads in saving lives, nature’s medicine chest has a proven antidote just waiting to be unleashed.
MAIN LIBRARY — The days of duping the librarian without consequence are over. Most people who have ever checked out a library book have had to deal with some sort of overdue penalty at least once in their lives, but very few have had the pleasure of dealing with Unique Management Services, Inc.
Tuesday’s election saw the sound defeat of five statewide ballot propositions designed to help “solve” California’s financial problems. The sixth measure, which freezes legislator’s pay in deficit years, passed by nearly a three-to-one vote.
The fact that California is in bad shape financially does not make it unique. What makes it unique is Gov. Schwarzenegger’s suggestion to help get California back on its sandaled feet.
I have been on the East Coast for the past week visiting friends and family who I have not seen in several years. I’ve known most of my friends over 25 years.
SM MOUNTAINS — A recent flora survey of the Santa Monica Mountains near Sandstone Peak, the highest point in the region at 3,000 feet, revealed a species of plant not known to inhabit the area.
DOWNTOWN — Detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating a jewel thief suspected of stealing four Omega watches valued at $17,000 from a local jewelry store earlier this month.
Read the papers. It happens around us. You can’t seem to not see at least one story of a child abduction. This book is needed to help give your child a way to fight back.
