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# Opening Day
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/opening-day/
- Published: 2008-10-07T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T20:37:35.000Z
- Description: Dancers from Virginia Avenue Park on Saturday celebrate the grand opening of the new Pico Youth and Family Center, which relocated to a bigger building adjacent to Santa Monica High School.
- Author: Admin
- Tags: News, Samohi, santa monica high school, santa monica malibu unified, School, school district, vikings, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:04

Dancers from Virginia Avenue Park on Saturday celebrate the grand opening of the new Pico Youth and Family Center, which relocated to a bigger building adjacent to Santa Monica High School. The center, which was created in 2002 in response to an increase in gang violence, provides kids with a place to do homework, surf the Internet, and record music in a studio with two turntables and a beat machine. “We like being here and helping out. It’s a place where we are always comfortable,” Samohi senior Jasmine Mier said of the center.