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Nearly ten years after SantaMonica banned polystyrene take-out containers – also known asStyrofoam – the rest of Californiamay be catching up.

A bill from Senator Ben Allen(D-Santa Monica) would banpolystyrene foam containersthroughout the entire state startingJan. 2020. SB 705 is scheduled forits next hearing Thursday with theSenate Appropriations Committee.Polystyrene breaks down intolightweight, buoyant particles that

flow easily into the ocean, contam-inating the water and clogging thedigestive systems of fish and birds,according to Heal the Bay.

“Ultimately, it’s bad for ourenvironment, bad for public healthand it ends up costing cities andcounties millions of dollars incleanup costs,” Allen said at a pressconference Monday with LosAngeles City CouncilmembersPaul Koretz and Bob Blumenfield.

“White polystyrene foam iseverywhere you look and it nevergoes away,” Koretz said, noting that

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BY KATE CAGLEDaily Press Staff Writer

The city’s largest affordablehousing provider believes its nextproject will break ground in sus-tainability in California.Community Corp of Santa Monicaplans to retrofit some ocean viewapartments it purchased from theCity in 2016 to be zero-net energy.

“It’s not something that’s beendone before at least to my knowl-edge,” Community Corp ExecutiveDirector Tara Barauskas said.

“Definitely not for affordablehousing.”

Along with plans to open upsome walls, seismically retrofit andmake 1616 Ocean Avenue ADAcompliant, plans for the refurbish-ment include installing solar pan-els on the roof that will power theresidences and common areas.

The project has a $200,000funding gap that just received a bigboost from the City Council. OnTuesday, the Councilmembersvoted unanimously to contribute$50,000 in discretionary funds for

the energy upgrade. CommunityCorp says efforts to get grant fund-ing for the project have beenunsuccessful.

“To our knowledge, it will bethe first multi-family zero-netenergy retrofit in California,”Project manager John Mimmssaid.

“It’s important to have ademonstration project to showpeople it can be done,” Mayor ProTempore Gleam Davis said at the

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ROLE REVERSAL Marina AndalonSanta Monica High School partnered with the Santa Monica Police Department to run a 3-week pilot program thatprovides seniors a chance to interact with officers as well as understand the mindset and responsibility of an offi-cer. On May 24, SMPD brought seven officers to the campus to allow the students a chance to role-play in real lifescenarios. Overall 70 students participated in the various traffic stop scenarios.

Bill would ban foam takeoutcontainers in California

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Thursday, May 25Current Events DiscussionGroup Discuss the latest news with yourfriends and neighbors. FairviewBranch Library, 2101 Ocean Park Blvd.1 – 2:30 p.m.

Celebrate Ramadan Celebrate the start of Ramadan withstories and a craft. Ages 4-11. MainLibrary, 601 Santa Monica Blvd. 3:45 –4:45 p.m.

GED Prep Class Get prepared to take the ReasoningThrough Language Arts subject test ofthe GED. Class will be held in the Annex,next to Pico Branch Library. Pico BranchLibrary, 2201 Pico Blvd. 6 – 8 p.m.

Ocean Park Baby TimeStory Series for babies ages 0 to 23months. Ocean Park Branch Library,2601 Main St, 10 - 10:20 a.m.

Toddler Time Story series for toddlers ages 18 to

35 months. A ticket is required toattend each session. A limited num-ber of tickets are given out on a first-come, first-served basis, the morningof the program, at the YouthReference Desk. Main Library, 601Santa Monica Blvd. 10:15 - 10:35 a.m.

Friday, May 26Guest House Open Free tours begin at 11 a.m., 12 p.m. and 1p.m. No reservations needed. AnnenbergCommunity Beach House, 415 PCH.

Saturday, May 27Downtown Walking TourExplore more than 130 years of SantaMonica history in approximately twohours and six blocks on a docent-ledwalking tour of downtown. Learnabout Santa Monica from its Wild Westfrontier beginnings to the sophisticat-ed metropolis of today. Make yourreservation today. $10 for public; $5for members. Docents lead guidedtours every Saturday at 10 a.m.. Meetat 9:45 a.m. at HostellingInternational, 1436 Second Street

(between Broadway and Santa MonicaBoulevard). Reservations are suggest-ed. www.smconservancy.org/events-programs/downtown-walking-tours/

A Family HistoryBookmaking WorkshopAs part of “Californians: CommunityConversations about Immigration.”Explore the arts of storytelling andbookmaking through this workshoptaught by Debra Disman of theArtifactory Studio. Leave with a one-of-a-kind book that tells your family’sunique history. Supplies provided.Fairview Branch Library, 2101 OceanPark Blvd., 2 – 3 p.m.

Shadow-printed cotton totewith Tracy BromwichCreate a shadow-printed cotton totebag with Studio Resident TracyBromwich using Lumi Inkodye andsome artfully cut and arranged pro-duce from the Farmer’s Market. Cost:$5. 1450 Ocean, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.Register at http://apm.activecommu-nities.com/santamonicarecreation/Activity_Search/58534or call (310) 458-2239.

What’s In Your Bowl? Fruit!The Santa Monica Farmers Marketswill host a series of chef demos fea-turing recipes of farmers market pro-duce deliciously prepared and pre-sented in a bowl. And in recognition ofthe start of the California cherry sea-son, all bowls will be prepared with acherry on top! Demonstrations takeplace every half hour from 9:30 a.m. –12:30 p.m. at each market and arefree and open to the public. SaturdayMay 27 at the Virginia Avenue ParkMarket: FRUIT BOWLS. VirginiaAvenue Park, 2200 Virginia Avenue

Sunday, May 28Mozart: Truth ThroughBeauty - Live LA OperaYoung Artists ConcertLA Opera presents a recital tour explor-ing Mozart’s unique artistic trajectoryfeaturing artist-in-residence MatthewAucoin joined by the rising stars of thecompany’s Domingo-Colburn-SteinYoung Artist program. Main Library,601 Santa Monica Blvd., 2 – 4 p.m.

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LOS ANGELESLA to install rumble strips to try and stop street racing

The Los Angeles City Council has approved funding for a pilot program to install rum-ble strips on a roadway in the San Fernando Valley known for illegal street racing.

The motion, passed Tuesday on an 11-0 vote, was introduced by Councilman MitchEnglander, who represents the area where the stretch of road dubbed the “CanogaSpeedway” runs.

Englander says rumble strips are similar to speed bumps but are much more disrup-tive to vehicles traveling at high speeds.

Two spectators were killed at the scene of a street racing crash along PlummerAvenue in February 2015. The driver was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The councilman says the $14,000 pilot project will explore how effective the strips areat stopping street racing.

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NEW YORKNeed cash? Facebook expands personal fundraising tools

Facebook is expanding its fundraising tools that let users ask friends and strangers togive them money to help pay for education, medical or other expenses.

The company has been testing the tool, which is similar to online fundraising servic-es such as GoFundMe, since March. With the latest update, it has added sports and com-munity fundraisers as options. It’s also possible to raise money for medical expenses forpets, crisis relief, funerals, and a slew of other categories.

To start a fundraiser, scroll down the “menu” icon on mobile until you get to the“fundraisers” category. On desktop, visit facebook.com/fundraisers . Facebook says itwill review all fundraisers within 24 hours. There is a fee of 6.9 percent plus 30 cents forpayment processing, vetting and security.

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LOS ANGELESCalifornia man suspected of attacking his mother with bat

Authorities in Southern California say an 18-year-old man has been arrested on sus-picion of beating his mother with a bat.

Anaheim police say the woman was hospitalized in critical condition following theattack Tuesday evening at the Friendly Village mobile home park.

Police say the victim’s son was spotted running away from the scene and was takeninto custody a short time later. His name has not been released.

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LOS ANGELESHikers discover decomposed body in LA’s Griffith Park

Los Angeles police say two hikers found a decomposed body in the city’s sprawlingGriffith Park.

Coroner’s officials say the body discovered Monday evening had likely been at thelocation for about a month.

It was so decomposed that the age and gender of the person could not be determined.Police say no foul play is immediately suspected but they’ll await a coroner’s investi-

gation before making a final determination.Covering 6 ? square miles in the eastern Santa Monica Mountain range, Griffith Park

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SAN FRANCISCOJudge will reconsider ruling blocking sanctuary cities order

A federal judge Tuesday agreed to reconsider his ruling blocking President DonaldTrump’s executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with U.S. immi-gration authorities.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick accepted the administration’s request to reconsid-er his April ruling. He gave the two California counties that challenged the executiveorder — San Francisco and Santa Clara — two weeks to file any documents opposing therequest.

The administration was facing a Tuesday deadline to file paperwork to seek a secondreview by Orrick.

The Trump administration sought reconsideration in light of a new memo by AttorneyGeneral Jeff Sessions.

The memo issued Monday reasserts the department’s position that Trump’s executiveorder applies to a relatively small amount of money administered by the U.S. Departmentof Justice and U.S. Department of Homeland Security that require localities to complywith a specific immigration law related to information-sharing among police and federalimmigration authorities.

The Trump administration said the memo is “binding guidance” that undercutsOrrick’s preliminary injunction. Santa Clara and San Francisco argued that Orrick hadalready considered the arguments in the memo in his ruling.

Orrick cited Trump’s reference to the order as a “weapon” as evidence that the admin-istration intended to cut off a broad swath of federal funding, not just three U.S.Department of Justice and Homeland Security grants as government attorneys argued.And the judge said the order’s “plain language attempts to reach all federal grants.”

The judge said President Donald Trump cannot set new conditions on spendingapproved by Congress.

The president called the ruling “ridiculous” and vowed to take the fight to the U.S.Supreme Court.

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THINGS WERE A LOT SOFTER IN 1966. IFyou were old enough to go to movies inthose relatively tranquil days, you willundoubtedly remember with a smileClaude Lelouch’s beautiful romantic film “AMan and A Woman.” It was a simple tale ofa widow (Anouk Aimee) and a widower(Louis Trintignant) falling in love as theyshared a ride from their children’s boardingschool in the south of France to arguablythe most exquisite city in the world at thattime: Paris.

Now, exactly 50 years later, a new film,“Paris Can Wait”, reprises that story, butupdated with the free-wheeling attitudesand behaviors of the 21st century.

Again, it’s the story of a man and awoman on a leisurely drive from the south ofFrance to Paris. But in this case the woman,Anne, (Diane Lane) is married. Her hus-band Michael (Alec Baldwin) is a busy anddistracted executive who, when he isn’t fly-ing around the world on business, spendsthe rest of his time on the phone.

It isn’t that they are indifferent to eachother In fact, they appear to love each otherin a casually friendly way. But she is con-scious that she is no longer as young andbeautiful as she once was and has begun tofeel a tremor of uncertainty about the quali-ty of her life and her future.

Into that disquieting situation comes abusiness associate of her husband’s, aFrenchman named Jacques (Arnaud Viard),who is attractive, charming, and attentive.And being something of a roue, he lets herknow that he sees her as a beautiful, intelli-gent, and desirable woman.

Anne, for her part, is both flattered and

amused. And when her husband is sudden-ly called away on business and arranges forher to drive back to Paris with Jacques, shehesitantly agrees.

But the trip, which would ordinarily takea few hours, becomes a three-day journey asJacques entertains her by introducing her tothe glories of his native country and stop-ping to show her locations and landscapesthat he had treasured since childhood. Inaddition to plying her with the finest winesand exotic gourmet meals in the most ele-gant hotels along the way.

He is, however, a gentleman, and treatsher throughout with the traditional chivalryof an earlier century.

Meanwhile, Michael has been growingfrantic as he continues to receive no answerwhen he calls home. Eventually he returnsto their Paris apartment and greets her notwith anger, but with relief and tenderness.And Jacques returns with an armful ofroses and asks her to meet him in the city ata later date.

She stands there twinkling and noncom-mittal and you are left wondering how herfuture will turn out.

It remains a mystery known only toEleanor Coppola, who wrote and directedthis lovely film — a far cry from the murder-ous action-packed blockbusters of her hus-band, Francis Ford Coppola.

“Paris Can Wait” can be enjoyed current-ly at theaters all over Los Angeles.

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Notice is hereby given that a public lien sale of the following personal property will be soldat the hour of 11:30am on Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 1620 14th Street, Santa Monica, County of Los Angeles, State of California. The property is being stored atSANTA MONICA MINI STORAGE. This lien and its enforcement are authorized by chapter10 commencing with section 21700 of the California Business and Professions Code.

Unit #’s: 160A Dr. John Hertz, 181B Bradford Romano, 241A Dr. John Hertz, 475A ChaseWentzell, 517A Patrick Church, 537A Dr. John Hertz, 638A Gerard Peluso. Generalhousehold goods such as furniture, artwork, luggage, clothing, electronics, office furnitureand or miscellaneous items.

Purchases must be paid for at the time of sale, cash only. Items sold as is and must beremoved at the time of sale. There is a $100 cleaning deposit, refunded after units arecompletely empty and cleaned. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlementbetween owner and obligated party.

CITY OF SANTA MONICANOTICE INVITING BIDS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received by the City of Santa Monica locat-ed at 1717 4th Street Suite 250, Santa Monica, California, 90401 until 3:00 p.m. on thedate indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

BID # 4275 FURNISH AND DELIVER PLASTIC REFUSE CONTAINERS.

Submission Deadline is June 6, 2017 at 3:00 PM Pacific Time.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Monica. Bid packagescontaining all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained on the CITY’S ONLINE VENDOR PORTAL. The website for this Notice of Inviting Bids and relateddocuments is: Planet Bids or http://vendors.planetbids.com/SantaMonica/bidsearch4.cfm.There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

CITY OF SANTA MONICANOTICE INVITING BIDS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received by the City of Santa Monica locat-ed at 1717 4th Street Suite 250, Santa Monica, California, 90401 until 3:00 p.m. on thedate indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

BID #4280 FURNISH LABOR AND MATERIALS FOR GRAFFITI REMOVAL CONTRACTORSERVICES.

Submission Deadline is June 8, 2017 at 3:00 PM Pacific Time.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Monica. Bid packagescontaining all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained on the CITY’S ONLINE VENDOR PORTAL. The website for this Notice of Inviting Bids and relateddocuments is: Planet Bids or http://vendors.planetbids.com/SantaMonica/bidsearch4.cfm.There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

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It would be easy to brush off fitness guruTaryn Toomey’s The Class as another hippietrend, but you’d miss the magic. (She sprin-kled crushed crystals underneath the studiofloors, which she says is designed to drawout energy.)

You’d also miss stargazing at celeb devo-tees like Naomi Watts, Jennifer Aniston andsupermodel Christy Turlington Burns.

Within minutes, the music swells, themirrors in the 85-degree heated room beginto fog and sweaty ponytails come undone asparticipants perform 5 grueling, uninter-rupted minutes of squat jumps whileToomey unleashes occasional expletive-laced insights.

“We’re really using the physical body as ametaphor to deal with what’s out there,” saidToomey, a former fashion executive forRalph Lauren and Dior, who opened a luxestudio in Tribeca in January.

The goal of her 75-minute class is to trainthe mind to create new ways to respond —rather than react in the moment — to chal-lenging external triggers. Other spiritualworkouts gaining popularity around theU.S. include the intenSati Method, Qoya andEquinox’s Headstrong. Yoga and tai chi havedrawn from these principles for years, but anew crop of workouts includes more cardioand strength-training moves as many fitnessbuffs seek more than a six-pack from theirworkouts.

Toomey leaves a moment at the end ofeach song to stop the physical movementand encourage participants to reflect. “Howare you feeling, not what are you thinking?”she asks the class.

Headstrong uses high-intensity intervaltraining and changing stimuli to challengethe body and brain. The first three sectionsof the class focus on stretching, agility andintensity; the class ends with a 15-minuteguided meditation.

Qoya founder Rochelle Schieck incorpo-rates lots of free movement into her women-only workout that refers to “movement asmedicine.” It’s the least physically challeng-ing of the bunch and is good for beginners,but it has a powerful emotional takeaway.

Each Qoya class has a theme. If the themeis freedom, participants are given a momentto reflect on what it feels like when theydon’t feel free. Then they express those emo-tions through free-form dance. Schieck saysthere’s immense value in acknowledging

uncomfortable emotions like fear or angerand “letting people embrace their wholenessinstead of pretending I always feel free.”

Part of the class includes a few minutes ofshaking, which is designed to shake fear anddiscomfort out of the body to calm the nerv-ous system. The class ends with a fun, chore-ographed dance that might include kickbox-ing moves to “Eye of the Tiger.”

Both Toomey and Schieck followed asimilar journey in creating their workouts.Yoga wasn’t enough for Toomey, who longedfor more fire and cardio. Schieck was a yogainstructor but also felt something was miss-ing. She also took pole dancing classes andloved its physicality, but kept getting injured.

“Women kept saying as I was just devel-oping it, ‘I’ve been waiting my whole life forthis,’” said Schieck, who has trained some300 Qoya teachers.

Nadine Abramcyk, a 38-year-old smallbusiness owner and mother of two, attendsone or two of Toomey’s classes a week, call-ing it her “personal therapy.”

The change was so dramatic, her husbandstarted going.

“I had a very cathartic experience with it.... It really isn’t about the physical for me. It’sreally about the mental combined with thephysical. It’s so multidimensional in thatway and does something that regular exer-cise can’t.”

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is an associateprofessor of history at The New School whois researching feminism and group fitness.She spent years working out at the gym, “butas a feminist, I was so disappointed in theculture and the language ... there was thisdominant language, ‘This is for your bikinibody, what did you eat last night, how manyinches did you lose ladies?’ It just fell short inmany ways of the much broader, deeperpotential of what exercise can mean towomen.”

Petrzela started teaching the high-energycardio and strength intenSati Method, whichincludes vocal affirmations. “When you’resweating, your heart is pumping (and) thereis science that shows you’re open or particu-larly susceptible to your mind-set,” she said.

IntenSati, created by Patricia Moreno,starts with an affirmation reminder that youcan choose how you react to things. Theclass includes squats, lunges, side round-house kicks and punches while chantingsomething like “I am strong.”

“I felt I finally had the words to expresssomething I’d been feeling but didn’t havean outlet to,” said Petrzela.

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all new single-family homes to be zero netenergy, meaning the value of energy pro-duced on-site by renewable resources mustbe equal to the amount of energy consumedannually by the building.

“Since we can no longer count on theFederal Government to pursue policies toreduce carbon emissions and mitigate climatechange, progressive states and cities must leadthe way on cutting back our country’sreliance on fossil fuels,” Mayor Ted Winterertold the Daily Press. “It will in addition makethe housing at this site more affordable for

low-income households who will no longerhave to cope with high utility bills.”

Barauskas says while the non-profit looksforward to the long term benefit of reducedenergy costs, they decided to pursue thestrategy because of their commitment tosustainability. She has reached out to theOffice of Sustainability and Los AngelesCounty Supervisors to help with the remain-der of the funding gap.

“We’re still in the early stages of making thishappen but the City Council commitment hasgiven us the confidence we need to move for-ward with this concept,” Barauskas said. “Partof our goal with his pilot is to demonstrate toothers that you can take an existing buildingand retrofit it with zero-net energy.”

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LOS ANGELESWriters Guild overwhelmingly ratifies new 3-year contract

Members of the Writers Guild of America have overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract with television and film producers.

The guild announced Wednesday that the new agreement passed by a 99 percentmargin, with only 30 members voting no out of nearly 3,650 ballots cast. The agreementwill remain in place until May 2020.

The ratification comes three weeks after a tentative deal was reached with produc-ers, averting a costly strike that would have caused several popular television seriesto go dark.

The guild has said it won gains across the board, including contributions to the union'shealth plan and better pay for series with fewer episodes. A memo about the new con-tract stated members will net $130 million more over the contract's life than earlier pro-posals from producers.

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Los Angeles banned the containers in 2008.“I frankly can’t believe we’re still talkingabout it in 2017.”

Santa Monica banned the material fromall city facilities and events in 2007 and fromprivate food service providers in 2008.Business owners get a warning on their firstviolation and escalating fines up to $250after that. Under the proposed state ban,fines would skyrocket to $1,000 per day forthe first violation and up to $5,000 for repeatoffenders.

A similar bill, AB 568, failed on theAssembly Floor in 2011. The new billexempts K-12 schools from the ban. Mostlarge school districts like LAUSD havealready discontinued use of the material.

The industry group GoFoam Californiaopposes the ban and instead supportsexpanding polystyrene recycling centers.Polystyrene can be recycled in Los Angelesblue bins but not in Santa Monica and canbe made into picture frames, crown mold-ing, ballpoint pens and other products.

“Forcing stores and restaurants to switchfrom foam to more expensive alternativeswill hurt small businesses and localeconomies,” the organization wrote on their

website in response to Allen’s bill. “When asmall business has to use more expensiveproducts, they have to either increase pricesfor customers or eat the sunken costs.”

But despite the presence of 18 poly-styrene recycling plants, the education andoutreach manager for Heal the Bay, NancyShrodes, says food containers are rarelyclean enough to be recycled. If not in pris-tine condition, recyclers typically toss thecontainers.

Every year, the cost of cleaning up theState’s beaches exceeds $1 billion, accordingto the Ocean Protection Council. Land-based litter makes up nearly 80% of marinedebris and 90 percent of it is plastic, accord-ing to a report from the SenateAppropriations Committee.

The bill will likely be enforced at the locallevel and the shift from polystyrene to recy-clable plastic containers won’t be easy for theentire state. The Senate Committee onEnvironmental Quality analyzed Allen’s billand questioned whether every city andcounty in California will have the infrastruc-ture to cost effectively recycle or compostfood-soiled plastic containers by 2021. TheCommittee suggested adding circumstanceswhere a locality may qualify for more time tocomply with the ordinance.

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DAILY POLICE LOG

The Santa Monica PoliceDepartment responded to 398calls for service on May 23.

HERE IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE CALLS CHOSEN BY THE

SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF.

Defrauding innkeeper 1300 block 3rdstreet prom 12:57 a.m. Person down 5th/Wilshire 1:07 a.m. Encampment400 block Santa Monica Pier1:51 a.m. Person with a gun 1500 block Lincoln6:32 a.m. Theft of recyclables 2600 block 6th 6:59 a.m. Indecent exposure 1200 block 3rd StreetProm 7:14 a.m. Encampment1800 block Ocean Front Walk7:16 a.m. Indecent exposure 800 block 5th 7:25 a.m. Petty theft 2500 block Beverley 7:39 a.m. Hit and run 1500 block 4th 7:54 a.m. Overdose 2400 block Virginia 8:17 a.m. Encampment800 block Palisades Park9:01 a.m. Indecent exposure 1600 block 11th 9:39 a.m. Animal related 1300 block 18th 9:40 a.m. Identity theft 1300 block Sunset 9:44 a.m. Burglary 1300 block 7th 10:10 a.m. Fight 2300 block Lincoln 10:17 a.m. Grand theft 1700 block Cloverfield 10:55 a.m. Petty theft 1500 block Stanford 11:32 a.m. Battery 1700 block Ashland 11:38 a.m. Traffic collision 500 block Pico 11:44 a.m. Petty theft 4th/Colorado 11:53 a.m. Hit and run 2900 block Ocean Park 11:55 a.m. Person with a gun 1800 block 14th 12:01 p.m. Auto burglary 1400 block 18th 12:52 p.m. Animal related 2800 block Ocean Front

Walk 1:00 p.m. Auto burglary 1000 block 12th 1:04 p.m. Encampment700 block Ozone 1:21 p.m. Vandalism 700 block Strand 2:13 p.m. Harassing phone 1800 block 18th 2:25 p.m. Traffic collision 26th/Wilshire 2:39 p.m. Battery 2200 block Virginia 2:56 p.m. Traffic collision 1200 block Euclid 3:27 p.m. Speeding 14th/Pico 3:34 p.m. Injured person 300 block Santa MonicaPier 3:51 p.m. Animal related 1200 block 24th 3:52 p.m. Petty theft 1400 block 23rd 3:52 p.m. Assault 1400 block Lincoln 3:55 p.m. Petty theft 1700 block Lincoln 4:04 p.m. Petty theft 1600 block Cloverfield 4:17 p.m. Traffic hazard 4th/Interstate 10 4:21 p.m. Identity theft 100 block California 4:26 p.m. Petty theft 800 block Wilshire 4:39 p.m. Hit and run 1200 block Euclid 5 p.m. Traffic collision 200 block Santa MonicaPier 5:22 p.m. Found senile person 2600 block Main 6 p.m. Battery 1500 block Palisades Park 6:02 p.m. Burglary 31st/Ocean Park 7:11 p.m. Pedestrian stop 400 block Colorado 7:22 p.m. Encampment600 block Santa Monica7:48 p.m. Grand theft 2600 block Centinela 7:57 p.m. Encampment700 block Broadway 8:26 p.m. Grand theft 1100 block Santa Monica 8:27 p.m. Petty theft 300 block Santa Monica Pier8:34 p.m. Battery Centinela/Pearl 9:11 p.m. Battery 2300 block Ocean Park 9:24 p.m. Encampment1300 block Pacific CoastHwy 9:31 p.m. Drunk driving Main/Hill 9:39 p.m. Encampment2900 block Glenn 9:42 p.m. Runaway 500 block Bay 10:15 p.m. Encampment1100 block 4th 10:34 p.m.

DAILY FIRE LOG

The Santa Monica Fire Departmentresponded to 51 calls for service

on May 23.HERE IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE

CALLS CHOSEN BY THE SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF.

Elevator rescue 1700 block ocean 12:02 a.m. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) 1300block Stanford 12:38 a.m. EMS 300 block Santa Monica Pier 1:10 a.m. EMS 800 block 2nd 2:55 a.m. Automatic alarm 1300 block Pico 3:06 a.m. EMS 1800 block Ocean Park 7:59 a.m. EMS 2000 block Ocean Front Walk 8:07 a.m. EMS 2400 block Virginia 8:35 a.m. Automatic alarm 1900 block Ocean 9:03 a.m. EMS 400 block San Vicente 9:20 a.m. EMS 200 block Pacific 9:50 a.m. EMS 1100 block 21st 10:21 a.m. EMS 1900 block Pico 10:21 a.m. EMS 0 block Pico 10:43 a.m. EMS 1700 block Main 10:58 a.m. EMS 700 block Pico 11:44 a.m.

EMS 1100 block Ocean Front Walk 12:18 p.m. EMS 1300 block 17th 1:03 p.m. EMS 800 block Wilshire 1:45 p.m. EMS 0 block Pico 1:55 p.m. EMS 100 block Hart 2:23 p.m. EMS 900 block 21st 2:42 p.m. Automatic alarm 2400 block Montana2:42 p.m. EMS 1300 block 20th 3:28 p.m. EMS 1200 block 2nd 3:40 p.m. EMS 1400 block 5th 3:48 p.m. EMS 300 block Santa Monica Pier 3:52 p.m. EMS 2000 block Santa Monica 3:59 p.m. EMS 1300 block 20th 4 p.m. EMS 900 block Montana 4:27 p.m. EMS 1600 block Ocean 4:30 p.m. Automatic alarm 2400 block Montana4:48 p.m. EMS 200 block San Vicente 4:59 p.m. Flooded condition 800 block 20th 5:10 p.m. EMS 2000 block Euclid 5:17 p.m. EMS 700 block 10th 5:30 p.m. EMS 1100 block 11th 5:32 p.m. EMS 600 block Santa Monica 6:23 p.m. Automatic alarm 1500 block Ocean 7:13 p.m. Automatic alarm 1400 block Ocean 7:35 p.m.

Crime Watch is culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

ON MAY 8, AT ABOUT 8:10 A.M.Officers responded the Starbucks – 1447 Lincoln Blvd regarding a subject who selectedfood/merchandise from the location. The subject selected several items and sat on achair. The subject ate all of the items without paying for anything. Officers spoke with thesubject. The subject did not have any money or intentions on paying for anything. Thesubject was taken into custody without incident. Adam Matthew Haines, 36, homeless,was issued a citation for petty theft.

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Angeles County District Attorney’s

office for review.

The Santa Monica Coalition for

a Livable City filed a complaint last

month against O’Connor alleging

violations of the City Charter in

connection with the firing of

Elizabeth Riel and at least one part

of that complaint has been sent to

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Daily Press Editor

Prices are going up for the Big Blue

Bus and officials are holding a public

meeting on Sept. 10 to preview changes

and hear public feedback.

BBB will host a meeting from 6-7:30

p.m. at the Main Library (601 Santa

Monica Blvd.) to update customers on its

proposed fare updates and service

changes.According to staff, BBB will be adding

11 percent more service over the next 12

months as part of the Evolution of Blue

campaign to provide connections to the

upcoming Expo Light Rail Line.

To offset costs and bring some if its

products inline with regional averages, the

base fare will increase by $0.25 to $1.25

per ride. Express fares increase to $2.50

(50 cent increase), seniors/disabled fares

will be unchanged, tokens will increase to

$1.25 (25 cent increase), day passes are

unchanged, the 13-ride ticket increases to

$14 ($2 increase), a 30-day pass goes to

$50 ($10 decrease), a youth 30-day pass

drops to $38 ($2 decrease), an express 30-

day increases to $89 ($9 increase). A new

rolling 7-day pass will be available for $14.

According to the staff report, the goal is to

incentivize prepaid media and limit the

amount of cash transactions as a means of

increasing efficiency. Currently, cash cus-

tomers take an average of 23 seconds to

board while prepaid customers take less than

4 seconds.“Currently, 2 percent of customers use

30-day passes, 2 percent use 13-ride pass-

es, 3 percent use day passes, and 1 percent

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NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DB STRONG, INC. (a Nevada Corporation); BRYAN TIMMERMAN, (an Individual); MARK SIBUS (an Individual) and DOES 1 through 50 Inclusive

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DE-MANDANTE):TOM TURLEY, an Individual

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more informa-tion at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse near-est you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, askthe court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and propertymay be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eli-gible for free legal services from a non-profit legal services program. You can lo-cate these nonprofit groups at the Califor-nia Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelp-califomia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by con-tacting your local court or county bar asso-ciation. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees andcosts on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no re-sponde dentro de 30 dias, Ia corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su ver-sion. Lea Ia informacion acontinuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entrequen esta citacion y pape-les legales para presentar una respuesta

Noticespor escrito en esta corte y hacer que se en-tregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo prote-gen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es pos-sible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede en-contrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le pordra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recom-mendable que llame a un abogado inmedi-atamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remission a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abo-gado, es possible que compla con los reui-sitos para obtener servicios legales gratui-tos de un programa de servicios legals sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos gru-pos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelp-california.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en con-tacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el grava-men de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desecher el caso.

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es):Los Angeles County Superior Court111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del de-mandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):

John D. Ott, 550 Parkcenter Dr., Suite 204, Santa Ana, CA 92705 (714) 564-9033

NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendantPublished: SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS05/19/2017, 05/26/2017, 06/02/2017, 06/09/2017

“PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff Tom Turley reserves the right to seek $1,000,000 in punitive damages when Plaintiff Tom Turley seeks a judgment in the suit filed against you.”

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