MADELEINE PAUKERSMDP Staff Writer

A local filmmaker is tackling the nation’s most pressing political issues through the lens of food in a five-part television series.

Brian Falk, a Santa Monica-based producer, writer and director, worked with James Beard Award-winning TV personality and chef Andrew Zimmern on “What’s Eating America,” a series airing each Sunday at 6 p.m. Pacific time on MSNBC through March 15. Zimmern calls the series a “return to kitchen table civics” at a time when Americans are deeply polarized over how to address the nazztion’s problems.

Falk started producing and directing food series for Zimmern three years ago and has worked on feature and documentary films about a range of political issues, including

the war in Rwanda, children’s health in Nepal and the plight of Sudanese refugees.

For Falk, who calls himself a “storyteller” who “gets bored easily,” “What’s Eating America” presented an opportunity to dive into new territory by blending food and

politics for the first time.In the series’ first two episodes,

which aired Feb. 16 and Feb. 23, Zimmern investigates how America’s food system depends on the labor of immigrants and how climate

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Tyra Banks’ modeling theme park will open May 1, the supermodel announced Wednesday.

Banks said she aims to “bring modeling to the masses” with ModelLand, a 21,000-square-foot theme park in Santa Monica Place that will offer interactive beauty experiences such as photoshoots and

style consultations. On ModelLand’s website, Banks

described the theme park as a “first-of-its-kind experiential attraction that will emulate a fantasy version of the modeling world with state-of-the-art interactive entertainment where beauty, fashion, tech, theater, retail and an eating extravaganza collide.”

Banks said she wants to “redefine what a model and modeling means” and help visitors feel more confident

in their inner and outer beauty.“At ModelLand, yes, you’ll learn

how to take amazing photos … but we will go deeper than that,” she said on the theme park’s website. “It is my hope that ModelLand will elevate your ‘selfie-esteem.’ Not just how you look in the mirror but how you FEEL about yourself when you look in that mirror.”

Courtesy photos BEACH: On Jan. 21, The Bay Foundation staff’s Karina Alvarez and Nick Pilaud gave a tozur, along with the City of Santa Monica’s Andrew Basmajian, on the successful and influential Santa Monica Beach Restoration Project. The tour was for a local Girl Scout group, K-12.

Fundraiser offers bowling for brain cancer researchTEDDY ROSENBLUTHSMDP Intern

A fundraiser, organized by the Uncle Kory foundation, for brain cancer research will be held in a local bowling alley in March.

The money from this event will go towards funding the John Wayne Cancer Institute, an affiliate of Saint John’s Health Center based in Santa Monica.

Research on brain cancer is one of the most common cancers among adolescents and children but receives significantly less funding than other common cancers like breast and prostate cancer, according to the American Cancer Society,

Michele Hunter, who began a series of awareness and fundraising

Tyra Banks’ ModelLand will open at Santa Monica Place this May

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Friday, February 28

Music and Movement at the LibraryA musical story time that will have little ones singing and dancing along as they learn important early literacy concepts. Fairview Branch Library, 3:30 - 4 p.m.

Saturday, February 29

Intro to Natural Textile Dyeing with Laura DavisCover the basics of fiber preparation for natural dyeing, including scouring and mordanting and some basic resist techniques, as well as a basic overview of how to prepare the dyes. Cost: $60 + $15 cash material fee. 1450 Ocean. 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Register at https://apm.activecommunities.com/santamonicare-creation/Activity_Search/79271 or call 310.458.2239.

Next Step Natural Dyeing: Overdyeing & Multi-Color Patterns with Laura DavisThis class can be taken as a stand-alone, but is designed to build on the basics included in the Intro class offered in the morning. We’ll talk about how procedure and chemistry can work for or against you in creating textiles with multi-color patterns, and complex colors created by applying one natural dye over another. Cost: $60 + $15 cash material fee. Register at https://apm.activecommunities.com/santamonicare-creation/Activity_Search/79272 or call 310.458.2239. 1450 Ocean.

RE/CITE: Poetry Reading with Natalie PattersonPoet and Educator Natalie Patterson reads a poem created to honor the pat-terns of migration, displacement, and settlement that led us to this place. This reading is one of several community events hosted by April Banks as part of the Belmar History + Art project. 12:45 - 1 p.m. Optional: stay to join a group dance at 1:15pm with participants from the d. Sabela grimes dance workshop (starts at 12:30 p.m.) and show off your dance moves and teach others so we can all dance together. To view & make reser-

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Black History Greens FestivalVirginia Avenue Park’s Parent Connection Group presents a celebration of Black History with crafts, live music, pop-up museum, food and culture, book read-ing and more! Enjoy soul food cooking and tasting at this annual celebration! Virginia Avenue Park, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

SAT Post Course Practice ExamThis guided workshop by Study Smart Tutors outlines all of the important infor-mation you need to know about the SAT test so you can prepare correctly, reduce your stress, and get your best score. Registration required. Presented in collaboration with Virginia Avenue Park. SAT, JAN 25/ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Pre-course SAT practice exam. Register by calling (310) 458-8684 or via email at pbuser@smgov.net Pico Branch Library

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Julia Morgan Legacy Event - Guest Speaker followed by Guest House visitIn honor of Women’s History Month and the pioneering work of Beach House architect Julia Morgan, the Santa Monica Conservancy & Beach House present a talk and Q & A with Chris Marino, Curator of the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley which include Morgan’s Collection. 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Talk. 12:30 - 2 p.m. - Visit the Julia Morgan-designed Marion Davies Guest House. Annenberg Community Beach House

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL

SUBJECT: Appeal 19ENT-0428 of Landmark Designation 19ENT-0281 1531 Georgina Avenue

APPLICANT: Real Santa Monica, LLC APPELLANT: Hee Yun Kim and Yee Meen Chai PROPERTY OWNER: Hee Yun Kim and Yee Meen Chai

A public hearing will be held by the City Council to consider the following request:

Appeal of the approval of Landmark/Structure of Merit Designation application 19ENT-0281 for the property located at 1531 Georgina Avenue. The City Council will consider the designation application to determine whether the subject property should be designated as a City Landmark or Structure of Merit and, if designated as a Landmark, whether an associated Landmark Parcel should be defined and described in order to preserve, maintain, protect, or safeguard the Landmark.

DATE/TIME: TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2020 at 6:30 PM

LOCATION: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, East Wing 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica

HOW TO COMMENTThe City of Santa Monica encourages public comment. You may comment at the City Council public hearing, or by writing a letter. Written information will be given to the City Council at the meeting.

Address your letters to: City Clerk Re: 1531 Georgina Avenue 1685 Main Street, Room 102 Santa Monica, CA 90401

Or email to councilmtgitems@smgov.net

MORE INFORMATIONIf you want more information about this project or wish to review the project file, please contact Steve Mizokami, Principal Planner, City Planning Division, at (310) 458-8341 or by email at steve.mizokami@smgov.net. The Zoning Ordinance is available at the Planning Counter during business hours and on the City’s web site at www.smgov.net.

The meeting facility is wheelchair accessible. If you have any disability-related accommodation requests, please contact (310) 458-8431 or TTY (310) 458-8696 at least three days prior to the event. All written materials are available in alternate format upon request Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Lines 1, 2, 3, Rapid 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18 serve City Hall and the Civic Center area. The Expo Line terminus is located at Colorado Avenue and Fourth Street, a short walk to the Civic Auditorium. Public parking is available in front of City Hall, on Olympic Drive and in the Civic Center Parking Structure (validation free).

Pursuant to California Government Code Section 65009(b), if this matter is subsequently challenged in Court, the Challenge may be limited only to those issues raised at the Public Hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Santa Monica at, or prior to, the Public Hearing.

EspañolEste es un aviso de una audiencia publica sobre una solicitud para remodilar un edifecio que tiene valor historico importante. Para mas informacion, por favor llame a Carmen Gutierrez en City Planning Division al numero (310) 458-8341.

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High-stakes Los Angeles DA’s race: Status quo vs. reform

BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press

Jackie Lacey, the first black woman to lead the nation’s largest local prosecutor’s office, is fighting for a third term as Los Angeles County district attorney against a former police chief who says Lacey is too protective of law enforcement and puts too many people of color behind bars.

Her chief opponent, George Gascon, and a third candidate, former public defender Rachel Rossi, accuse Lacey of having an outdated vision of justice and locking up large numbers of mentally ill people and minorities, often for low-level crimes. They criticized her for continuing to seek the death penalty despite a statewide moratorium, and challenged her record of not prosecuting officers for shootings.

“She’s just incapable of holding police accountable when they do something wrong,” said Gascon, who led San Francisco’s police department before becoming that city’s district attorney. “She’s so tightly allied with police unions that she’s incapable of doing the work.”

Lacey claims Gascon coddles criminals and did the very things for which he’s criticizing her, such as failing to prosecute police shootings. She said his authoring of California’s Proposition 47, which reduced some felonies to misdemeanors, led to the nation’s highest property crime rate per capita in San Francisco.

Lacey says she’s done more in the name of reform than Gascon.

“He now moves down to LA and says, ‘I’m here to fix things, and I’m here to save you, and I’m the true progressive,’” Lacey said. “But a lot of things he’s saying he didn’t fix in San Francisco.”

The district attorney race is nonpartisan and will be decided if one of the candidates receives more than half the primary votes on Tuesday. If no one achieves a majority, the top two will face off in November.

Lacey’s challengers are trying to ride a wave of criminal justice reform that has put a new generation of progressive prosecutors in district attorney offices in Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis County, Missouri, Denver and Houston.

Those district attorneys have won by advocating for racial justice, increasing focus on serious and dangerous crime, challenging the wisdom of cash bail, and ending a lock-em-up mentality by using programs that divert lower-level criminals from jail.

Miriam Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and now executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, a group pushing for criminal justice reforms, sees the race as a test of how far those changes will go.

“I absolutely think that voters in Los Angeles and throughout the country are tired of a starting point that has presumed we can and should incarcerate our way out of poverty, out of substance abuse disorder, out of ... mental illness,” said Krinsky, who has worked with Gascon but is not taking sides in the campaign.

The Los Angeles district attorney oversees the largest prosecutor’s office in the U.S., with nearly 1,000 lawyers, and a territory that

covers the nation’s second-largest city and 10 million residents spread over 4,700 square miles (12,150 square kilometers).

The stakes are high. Money is flowing into both campaigns, and some of California’s top Democrats find themselves on opposite sides.

Lacey has strong support from law enforcement groups, including $1 million spent by the Los Angeles police union through political action committees. Lacey has the endorsements of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and, in a snub to Gascon, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, that city’s first black female leader.

Gascon is endorsed by California’s other senator, Kamala Harris, whom he replaced as San Francisco DA. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, whose heavily minority district includes South Los Angeles, and the editorial boards of the Los Angeles Daily News and Los Angeles Times also back Gascon. An independent expenditure committee for Gascon received $1 million from Patty Quillin, the wife of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who lives in Northern California.

Lacey, who grew up in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood, has spent her professional career in the office. She was an upset winner in 2012 and ran unopposed four years ago.

Lacey is not a highly visible DA but recently has ramped up public appearances. She held news conferences to announce an $18.8 million settlement with Time Warner for misleading customers over internet speeds, the dismissal of 66,000 old marijuana convictions, and criminal sex abuse charges against film mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted this week in New York on similar charges.

But she’s ducked other events after routinely being heckled by members of Black Lives Matter and people who have challenged her record prosecuting cops and the well-connected like Ed Buck, a Democratic operative and donor who gave to her campaign and now faces federal charges for allegedly injecting methamphetamine into two men who fatally overdosed in his apartment.

Gascon spent his adolescence in LA after fleeing Cuba with his family. He became a police officer, got a law degree and rose through the ranks to assistant chief of the Los Angeles Police Department before being appointed top cop in Mesa, Arizona, and then San Francisco.

Then-Mayor and now Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped Gascon to be San Francisco district attorney in 2011, and he then was elected to two terms.

Gascon has touted his work in San Francisco to close juvenile hall and divert cases involving the mentally ill from jails to treatment. During a boisterous debate last month, he criticized Lacey’s diversion program, saying it’s understaffed and run by someone with no expertise. He also alleged prosecutors are told to not divert defendants from the court system.

Rossi added that about two-thirds of inmates in Los Angeles jails have mental health problems, and public defenders say they are consistently turned away from

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CITY OF SANTA MONICA

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Santa Monica invites sealed proposals for

RFP: # 259 PRINTING SERVICES

• Submission Deadline is March 12, 2020 at 1:00 PM Pacific Time.

Proposals must include forms furnished by the City of Santa Monica. Request for Proposals may be obtained on the City’s Online Vendor Portal. The website for this Request for Proposals and related documents is: Planet Bids or http://vendors.planetbids.com/SantaMonica/bidsearch4.cfm. There is no charge for the RFP package.

CITY OF SANTA MONICA

NOTICE OF A CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARINGBEFORE THE SANTA MONICA LANDMARKS COMMISSION

A discussion will be held by the Landmarks Commission on the following:

909-911 Montana Avenue, 19ENT-0050, Zoning: NC (Neighborhood Commercial) District. The City Landmarks Commission will be conducting a public hearing to consider a Certificate of Appropriateness application for design approval of a one-story addition to the existing commercial building, and alterations to the residential portion of the property, including but not limited to window rehabilitation, stucco siding repair and building repaint, landscape, hardscape, and site lighting improvements at the subject residential and commercial courtyard complex, a designated City Landmark. This item is continued from the April 8, 2019 Landmarks Commission meeting. Applicant: Howard Laks Architects. Owner: Jeff Appel, United El Segundo, Inc.

WHEN: Monday, March 9, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Santa Monica Institute (SMI) Training Room 330 Olympic Drive (2nd Floor) Santa Monica

Questions/CommentsThe City of Santa Monica encourages public comment. You or your representative, or any other persons may comment on the application at the Public Hearing, or by writing a letter addressed to Steve Mizokami, Senior Planner, City Planning Division, 1685 Main Street, Room 212, Santa Monica, California, 90401-3295. Or, you may contact Mr. Mizokami by phone at (310) 458-8341 or by email at steve.mizokami@smgov.net.

More InformationThe meeting facility is wheelchair accessible. If you have any disability-related accommodation requests, please contact (310) 458-8431 or TTY (310) 458-8696 prior to the event. All written materials are available in alternate format upon request. Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Lines 1, 2, 3, Rapid 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18 serve City Hall and the Civic Center area. The Expo Line terminus is located at Colorado Avenue and Fourth Street, a short walk to City Hall and SMI. Public parking is available in front of City Hall, on Olympic Drive and in the Civic Center Parking Structure (validation free).

Pursuant to California Government Code Section 65009(b), if this matter is subsequently challenged in Court, the challenge may be limited to only those issues raised at the Public Hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Santa Monica at, or prior to, the Public Hearing.

ESPAÑOLEsto es una noticia de una audiencia pública para revisar applicaciónes proponiendo desarrollo en Santa Monica. Si deseas más información, favor de llamar a Carmen Gutierrez en la División de Planificación al número (310) 458-8341.

OPINIONS EXPRESSED are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of the Santa Monica Daily Press staff. Guest editorials from residents are encouraged, as are letters to the editor. Letters to the Editor can be submitted to letters@smdp.com. Receipt of a letter does not guarantee publication and all content is published at the discretion of the paper. All letters and guest editorials are subject to editing for space and content. All submissions must include the author’s name, address and phone number for the purposes of verification.

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events after her son, Sean Hunter, died at 20 from an inoperable brain tumor, said she was frustrated when she realized the lack of funding for brain cancer research.

“Why are children not the number one priority?” she asked.

The organization has raised more than $450,000 for brain cancer research and clinical trials since 2017.

Small hospitals like Saint John’s often don’t receive large grants to fund their research, Hunter said. The money from these fundraising events will help fund Kersari’s clinical trials.

While her son was sick, Hunter sent his brain scans to some of the top oncologists in the country who prescribed radiation and chemotherapy treatment, she said. But when those treatments were exhausted, they sent him home with hospice care and a 7 month life expectancy.

Desperate to help her son, who was left with severe headaches, no ability to speak and partial paralyzation, she contacted Santosh Kesari, the chair of the Translational Neuro-oncology and Neurotherapeutics department at the John Wayne Cancer Institute.

She said the ‘out of the box’ treatments Kesari prescribed allowed her son to live five months longer than expected and with

a higher quality of life— he was able to walk, drive his car and even go to the gym.

“I support (Kesari) because he uses everything he can,” she said. “He will try anything before he will go down that route of radiation and chemo.”

Hunter said she hopes to help some of Kersari’s patients pay for treatments, which can cost more than a million dollars.

Although her son’s tumor came back eventually, she said she thinks the treatments could be effective in patients who have access to these treatments earlier in their prognosis.

“Even if I can just help one person, I’ll be happy,” she said.

The fundraisers were initially held in the Pacific Palisades at her son’s highschool and parish but she said she moved the event to Santa Monica to reach a broader audience.

Those who attend the event will be able to bowl, play arcade games, take pictures in a photobooth and enter raffles. One of Kersari’s current patients will also be speaking at the event.

The event will be held on Sunday, March 1, from 4-7 p.m. at Bowlmor Santa Monica (234 Pico Blvd.)

Tickets to the event start at $50 and can be found online at https://support.unclekory.org/event/sean-hunter-research-in-action-bowl/e260124.

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DowntownDUI crash on Ocean

The Santa Monica Police Department is investigating a late night traffic accident that tem-porarily closed the 900 block of Ocean.

According to SMPD, a pickup truck and a Tesla collided at about 10:30 p.m. One driver attempted to flee the area on foot but was arrested near the crash by officers.

Jose Louis Rodriguez was arrested for felony DUI and felony hit and run. He is being held on $100,000 bail.

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CitywideSanta Monica monitoring Coronavirus information

The City of Santa Monica is working closely with the L.A. County Department of Public Health to monitor the novel coronavirus. Novel coronavirus (2019 nCoV) is a new, viral disease that produces symptoms similar to the flu or pneumonia. In the United States, immediate health risk to the general public remains low at this time. There have been no novel coronavirus cases reported in Santa Monica. The lead local agency and our partner in monitoring the coronavirus is the L.A. County Department of Public Health.

“Santa Monica is monitoring the situation very closely, and we’re working hand in hand with the L.A. County Department of Public Health to

communicate accurate information and be prepared to support community needs,” said Mayor Kevin McKeown.

The L.A. County Department of Public Health is encouraging the public to: • Stay at home when sick • Wash hands frequently • Cover sneezes/coughs, appropriately dispose of soiled tissues, and wash

hands afterward • Avoid close contact with those who are ill • Get a flu shot to prevent influenza if you have not done so this flu seasonThe City always encourages residents to prepare for any emergency, including a potential

coronavirus emergency in the United States, by ensure their families have a disaster kit at home with seven days of household essentials including food, water, sanitation supplies, and basic medications. Visit https://www.smgov.net/Departments/OEM for more information.

If members of the public have inquiries regarding coronavirus, please refer to Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s website below or call 2-1-1 for information and referrals for all health services in L.A. County.

Additional resources can be found at: • Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Coronavirus Information

(http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/) • LA County 2-1-1 (https://www.211la.org/) • California Department of Public Health Coronavirus Information (https://www.

cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/nCOV2019.aspx) • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Coronavirus Information

(https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html) • World Health Organization Coronavirus Information (https://www.who.int/

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CITY OF SANTA MONICANOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING

SANTA MONICA ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD

SPECIAL MEETING

DATE/TIME: Monday, March 2, 2020, 7:00 p.m. LOCATION: SMI Training Room, (wheelchair accessible) 330 Olympic Boulevard, Santa Monica PROPERTIES: • 19ARB-0564: 949 10th Street: Mixed-Use: • 20ARB-0010: 2002-2018 21st Street (2020 Virginia Avenue): Residential • 20ARB-0035: 1834 14th Street: Mixed-Use / Affordable Housing • 20ARB-0011: 1115 14th Street: Landscape

PRELIMINARY REVIEW(S): • None

More information is available on-line at https://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD/Boards-Commissions/Architectural-Review-Board/ or at (310) 458-8341 (en espanol tambien). Plans may be reviewed at City Hall during business hours. Comments are invited at the hearing or in writing (FAX 310-458-3380, e-mail regina.szilak@smgov.net, or mail Santa Monica City Planning Division, 1685 Main St., Rm. 212, Santa Monica, CA 90401). The meeting facility is wheelchair accessible. For disability-related accommodations, please contact 310-458-8701 or TTY 310-450-8696 a minimum of 72 hours in advance. All written materials are available in alternate format upon request. Santa Monica “Big Blue” Bus Lines #1, #2, #3, Rapid 3, #7, #8, #9, Rapid #10, and #18 service City Hall and the Civic Center area. The Expo Line terminus is at Colorado Avenue and Fourth Street, a short walk to City Hall and the Civic Auditorium. Public parking is available in front of City Hall, on Olympic Drive and in the Civic Center Parking Structure (validation free).

NOTICE OF LOTTERY FORAFFORDABLE HOUSING IN SANTA MONICA

There will be a Random Buyer Selection Lottery to purchase a manufactured home in the Mountain View Mobile Home Park located at 1930 Stewart Street, Santa Monica CA 90404

Caritas owns and operates the Mountain View Mobile Home Park located in Santa Monica. Mountain View Mobile Home Park is an all age community comprised of 105 spaces, of which 80 spaces are currently occupied. Caritas will have new manufactured homes delivered to the community and put on the market for sale to individuals with very low, low, and moderate income. The homes are manufactured by Fleetwood and will feature 1 bedroom/1 bath manufactured homes, 2 bedroom/1 bath homes, and 2 bedroom/2 bath homes. Most of the homes will be single story with a few two story manufactured homes.

The first round will have six manufactured homes for sale. The price of the manufactured homes will range from $110,000 - $250,000.

Mountain View Mobile Home Park is located 2.5 miles from the Santa Monica Pier, 3.8 miles from City Hall, 2.6 miles from downtown where there are great restaurants and shopping.Applications may be picked up at Mountain View Mobile Home Park or download from the Caritas website (www.caritascorp.org) from February 17, 2020 to March 16, 2020. If you need reasonable accommodations, you may call the Mountain View Mobile Home Park office (310-828-4078), email the office (MVMHPLottery@Caritascorp.org), or visit the office and request an application.

Applications must be received at the park, or postmarked, by March 16, 2020. If you hand deliver your application, you will be given your lottery number at that time. If you mail in your application, a lottery number will be mailed to you USPS.Every application received fully completed and signed will receive a lottery number.

A drawing of the winning lottery numbers will be held at noon on Monday, March 23, 2020. The numbers will be drawn by Caritas and city officials.

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ON FEBRUARY 15 AT APPROXIMATELY 3:15 P.M.Officers responded to a “suspicious person call” in the 1100 block of Ocean Park Boulevard. Comments to the call indicated a community member was driving southbound on 11th Street approaching Ocean Park Boulevard when they observed a person peering into the window of an apartment. The motorist called the police and followed the person who fled the location on foot. The motorist directed officers to the person’s current location, where he was detained without incident. Follow up was conducted at apartment. The unit was an occupied dwelling. The suspect was also found to be in possession of a small quantity of methamphetamine, and narcotics paraphernalia. William Joseph Igbo, 24, was booked for peeping in to inhabited dwelling, possession of controlled substance and possession of narcotic paraphernalia.

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During Black History Month twelve days into Donald Trump’s presidency, he inexplicably referred to Frederick Douglass as, “Someone who has done an amazing job that is being recognized by more and more people.” (Say what?) Obviously Trump thought Douglass was still alive which prompted famed New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz to write a spoof wherein Trump blamed Betsy Devoss, his controversial Secretary of Treasury. “‘She’s the one who prepped me,’” he whined.

Joking aside, it’s always seemed like adding insult to injury that Black History was given February, the shortest month on the calendar. In reality, February was chosen because it covered the birthdays of Lincoln (12th) and Douglass (14th.) And it didn’t start out as a month.

It began as “Negro History Week,” founded by historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926. Republican President Gerald Ford, in 1976, expanded the celebration into Black History Month to. “Honor the neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of our history.”

Because this is a “leap year,” Black History gets an extra day. And because of acclaimed historian Alison Rose Jefferson, PhD, this year Black History also benefits from her new book which was a decade-long in the research and writing. Her tome is likely of special interest to our city given a chapter entitled, “Race, Real Estate, and Remembrance in Santa Monica’s Ocean Park Neighborhood.”

The time period Jefferson focuses on was from 1900-1960, also known as the Jim Crow era. As Southern California was positioning itself at the center of the American Dream, African-Americans worked hard to be a part of that dream and make it an inclusive reality. By occupying recreational sites such as beaches and public parks for example, African-Americans challenged racial hierarchies and marked a space of black identity on the regional landscape and social space.

In “Living the California Dream”, Jefferson examines how African- Americans pioneered our “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population. By presenting stories of African-American oceanfront and inland leisure destinations that flourished from 1910 to the 1960s, Jefferson illustrates how these places helped create leisure production, purposes, and societal encounters. But, contrary to California’s advertised reputation of racial harmony, these pursuits by African-Americans were met with considerable conflict.

In the early 1900’s, Bruce’s Beach in Manhattan Beach was owned by and

operated for African-Americans. It gave that community opportunities unavailable at other beach areas because of discrimination. So it was, in 1912, Willa and Charles Bruce bought a property in the strand area for $1,225.

The couple established a resort that included a bathhouse and dining house for blacks and named it for Mrs. Bruce. That a black-only beach resort would open up there was all the more notable because Manhattan Beach was an otherwise “lily-white community.”

But in the 1920’s the resort was attacked by the KKK. Soon racist white neighbors pressured the city until the property was seized using eminent domain to build a park. African-Americans were run off the property and their presence was virtually wiped clean from history for more than 80 years.

Finally, in 2007, the historical wrong was recognized when Manhattan Beach formally commemorated the property with a park name and plaque as “Bruce’s Beach.” (And here all along I had thought “Bruce” was a surfer dude.)

Santa Monica had its own share of racial “sins,” perhaps the most prominent taking place where Shutters is today. It was called “Ink Well,” a pejorative reference to the skin color of the beach goers. From 1905 until 1964, Ink Well was one of the few areas in California where African-Americans were allowed to enjoy beach access in a largely segregated society. In 2008, the city of Santa Monica erected a monument labeling Ink Well “A Place of Celebration and Pain.”

Thankfully, Santa Monica also had many who followed their better angels. In 1952, the Boys and Girls Club held their annual dance at Samohi featuring the year’s “King and Queen.” By tradition the pair were to kick off the festivities with the first dance. But the much-beloved football coach who seemed admirable in many respects, objected because the “King” (football star R.C. Owens, a future All-Pro with the 49ers) was black and the Queen was white.

Sensing this was flat wrong, Nathaniel Trives, a courageous African-American Student Body President, met with Samohi’s principal who quickly overruled the coach. Trives’ life would be filled with many “firsts including, in 1975, becoming the first African-American Mayor of Santa Monica.

Published by University of Nebraska Press, “Living the California Dream,” is available at Amazon and wherever books are sold. To find out more, visit Alison’s website at www.alisonrosejefferson.com.

Jack is at jackdailypress@aol.com.

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“I’m inspired by Walt Disney,” she said. “He created a legacy brand and destination that exists beyond his time on earth and continues to delight people of all ages through fantasy and story.”

The two-story space at Santa Monica Place that ModelLand will occupy was vacated by pop-up museum Candytopia in early 2018 and has been under construction for the past year. When the theme park was first announced last February, Banks said she intended it to be the first location of a global enterprise.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). To run your whole life on adrenaline is not a sustainable model. It won’t work in the long term. Though, certainly, the adrenaline challenges you set up in the short run will be a burst to get you to the goal.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). People do well-intended and super embarrassing things in the name of peer-pressure, connection and fitting in. You’ll be an observer in this today, resisting participation, as you should in this case.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The energy that goes into making an impression will be well spent. It’s not because you’ll make the intended impression; rather, it’s that you’ll learn something about yourself, what matters to you and how much.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Diversity makes groups strong. This is true for your friend group as well. A mix of people with different strengths will add to your life, whereas a group that is too much of one thing won’t have the spark.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re an original. Saying the lines that others have said, sticking to the script, using the cliches, well, that gets old fast. It’s invigorating to express your uniqueness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your best is good enough. Your pie wins the contest, and your special sauce garners worldwide intrigue. This is the stuff of fantasies and diary entries, so make sure you put the events and potential events of the day into both.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The sparkling parts of life are the in-between moments when you have nothing to gain, nothing to lose and nothing to tally in general. What’s most valuable is unquantifiable.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The correct next move is often not to the right or left or even straight ahead. The best move might be no move at all. To stand there until the world shifts is a real test of patience that will pay off.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The self-help gurus insist it: In every moment, we have a choice. But many moments go the way of programming. If there are choices, we are unaware. There’s no shame in this; it’s human. Waking up is step one.

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alternatives to incarceration.“I think we need to see more action and

not just words,” Rossi said. “I think we need to put more resources to actually expanding access to the program.”

Lacey has labeled Rossi a lightweight with no prosecutorial experience. And she said Gascon didn’t know what he was talking about regarding the diversion program. During a recent interview, Lacey said she would try to push for more treatment facilities for people with mental illness and drug abuse issues.

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change is already affecting the country’s seafood harvests.

The opening, two-hour episode on immigration, “Who’s Feeding America,” tracks the supply chain of food served at Trump Grill and on Capitol Hill to juxtapose the reality that the country’s food system would collapse without immigrant and migrant workers against the federal government’s hostile immigration policy.

A segment on the large population of Marshallese people who work for the Springdale, Arkansas-based poultry processor Tyson Foods underscores that dissonance. After conducting nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands in the late 1940s through the early 1960s, the U.S. government allowed Marshallese people to work in the country without a visa and many settled in Springdale to work for Tyson.

Falk said the episode dispels the fallacy that migrants, whether they’re documented or undocumented, are stealing jobs from native-born Americans, who rarely take the type of labor-intensive farming, manufacturing or cooking jobs that keep the food system running.

In fact, he said, the rhetoric and policies coming out of the White House are making it difficult for food producers across the country to find workers.

“To the extent that we demean people and hunt them down with ICE raids, we affect our food system,” Falk said. “We are literally making it more difficult for us to eat.”

Last week, Zimmern visited communities that have been reliant on populations of fish and shellfish that are now disappearing. Florida’s

Apalachicola Bay used to produce 10% of the country’s oysters, but rising ocean temperatures have decimated the bay’s ecosystem.

“We spent five or six hours on the water there and managed to rake up one live oyster,” Falk said.

The reason why the oysters vanished wasn’t immediately clear to the people of Apalachicola, though.

“They had been told by the previous Florida government that didn’t want the use of the term climate change in any of their documents that it was because of other reasons: the BP oil spill, or Atlanta holding back freshwater,” Falk said. “It’s a narrative created to boost the fossil fuel industry at the expense of the environment.”

Over the next three weeks, the show will tackle the growing problem of addiction in the restaurant business, voter suppression and the relationship between processed food and health.

The addiction episode, “A Chef ’s Story,” will air Sunday. The episode reflects Zimmern’s personal connection with the topic — at the beginning of his career, he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and was homeless for one year.

The episode features Ben’s Friends, a support group for culinary professionals dealing with addiction, and Zero Proof, which brings together award-winning chefs to create a dinner party with alcohol-free drinks.

“One of the things we made sure we were doing is spending some time being solution-oriented, looking at the fixes that are being made, the attempts being made to right the ship on whatever the issue is,” Falk said.

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