FAIRMONT MIRAMAR — Pacific Park’s CEO and general manager Mary Ann Powell received the Roy E. Naylor Lifetime Achievement Award Thursday at the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce Installation Dinner held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel.
DOWNTOWN — Continuing a tradition stretching as far back as 1905, the Santa Monica Rugby Club on Saturday hosted an exhibition match with the 7th Parachute Regiment of the British Army.
Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier is honoring Special Olympics athletes, emergency response members and volunteers this Thursday by giving them free tickets for unlimited rides throughout the amusement park.
Santa Monica High School’s orchestra program proved once again why it is considered one of the nation’s best, with the Samohi Philharmonic Orchestra taking first place and a gold rating in the full orchestra category at the San Francisco Bay Area Heritage Music Festival on May 31.
Vintage Hollywood Foundation will hold its annual wine and food event Saturday, June 11 at a private home in the Pacific Palisades. Homeless services provider OPCC will be the primary beneficiary of the fundraiser.
Barricades were placed Friday on a 1/2-mile stretch of southbound Pacific Coast Highway, as a summer-long wastewater diversion project begins. The key beach road is constricted so crews can bury 3,100 feet of new pipe at the foot of Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica.
The Commission on the Status of Women is accepting applications for three open seats. Established in 1981, the commission acts in an advisory role to the City Council and City Manager’s Office on matters pertaining to women and girls in Santa Monica.
Santa Monica police arrested two people Friday for driving under the influence during a sobriety/driver’s license checkpoint. SMPD Sgt. Richard Lewis said a total of 1,616 vehicles drove through the checkpoint, the location of which was not released by law enforcement.
The Public Technology Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have recently recognized City Hall as a leader in the application of Web 2.0 technologies and social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Grand marshals for the fifth annual Fourth of July parade on Main Street will be Santa Monica’s lifeguards, led by Capt. Angus Alexander, a 31-year veteran who oversees operations at the Central Section Lifeguard Headquarters, located just south of the Santa Monica Pier.
Santa Monica police officers, fire fighters and kids with the Police Activities League will be at Muscle Beach this afternoon, May 26, to honor former SMPD Officer and Marine Rick Crocker with a CrossFit “hero workout.
This year’s installment of the popular Brand X Santa Monica Drive-In will feature free movies every Friday during June. The free series on the Santa Monica Pier parking deck kicks off June 3 with the season four premiere of Animal Planet’s reality series “Whale Wars.
