IS THAT WHAT’S IN MY CANDY? Vol. 1, No. 7 • February 4, 2015 Uniting the Community with News, Features and Commentary Circulation: 14,500 • $1.00 See Page 15 California Yeah! Exercise and Eat Right Incline Update he Santa Monica City Council ap- proved a contract with MCM Con- Tstruction on January 27 for con - struction and replacement of the California Incline Bridge. The bid awarded was almost $16 million. An additional almost $3 million will be paid for technical support to Wal- lace, Roberts & Todd (engineer of record). The Incline’s closure will occur some- time after March 16—the date of the L.A. Marathon. Once the 1930 bridge is demol- ished and removed, construction can start on the new one. The project was bid as 365 days of work; construction is slated to be completed in the summer of 2016. The City of Santa Monica will put out dynamic message signs for the duration of the project (three on Highway 101, four in Pacific Palisades and one in Santa Monica) to alert motorists of the closure and best traffic routes. Santa Monica will pay for a traffic officer at Canyon Elementary School for morning and afternoon school opening and dismissal during the Incline closure. Fitness Icon Jake Steinfeld addressed Marquez Elementary students, challenging them to get moving and stay fit during Councilman Mike Bonin’s office will re- Fresh Kids Week (see story p. 15). Agreeing to participate, with gusto: (left to right) first graders Mechal Green and Will quest that the LAPD patrol the area more Petroyan and kindergarten students Abigail Hanelin, Carolynn Burkholder and Neha Mathews. Photo: Bart Bartholomew often during key times, with an emphasis on police visibility. Santa Monica officials are also checking to see if its police depart- ment can extend its patrols along Seventh Homeless Counted in Palisades Street and Ocean into the Canyon to add to enforcement visibility. By SUE PASCOE first time, every community in District 11 Team 3A included Bonin’s senior deputy Los Angeles City Department of Trans- Editor is participating.” Norm Kulla, Assemblymember Richard portation has approved a “no left turn” Volunteers were told to visually count Bloom’s field deputy Tim Harter and co- from Ocean Avenue onto Mabery Road, acific Palisades was divided into 12 individuals and families (one adult plus one logistics organizer Brian Deming, accom- and physical barriers may also be placed to areas, and 50 residents participated or more children). Counted as shelters were panied by ACS Security’s Jabarha Henry discourage the turn. Pin the first homeless count conduct - vans, cars, makeshift tents, cardboard boxes and Rocky Piscottano. PCH traffic may be worse during the first ed here as part of a citywide effort, over- and tarps. The counters were asked to main- Harter said that Bloom, the former 90 days, because the Coastal Interceptor Re- seen by the Los Angeles Homeless Service tain a respectful distance and not to ap- mayor of Santa Monica, has long advocated lief Sewer (CIRS) project that was expected Authority (LAHSA). proach individuals. having City and State representatives work- to be completed in April will not likely be At 5 a.m. on January 29 at Palisades The final tally for the Palisades was 70 ing together to solve the homeless issue, finished before June 15. The $10-million High School, Councilman Mike Bonin people and 74 shelters. rather than simply applying a band-aid. clean-water project, which includes install - welcomed the residents, plus 30 additional This reporter traveled with Team 3A, “It’s time to stop the food and money ing a new sewer line that will take rain- volunteers, and representatives from ACS which counted the area embracing Los Li- handouts,” Harter said, noting his boss was water runoff from Pacific Palisades to the Security, Palisades Patrol and the Los An- ones Gateway Park, Sunset to Gladstone’s one of the leaders who pushed for getting Hyperion Treatment Center, initially ran geles Police Department. and the beach from Gladstone’s to the the homeless off the street in Santa Monica into drilling problems in the 900-ft. stretch “This is one of the biggest turnouts of Getty. The count totaled 14 individuals and into shelters. near the Annenberg Beach House. any area in my district,” Bonin said. “For the (three were women) and 13 shelters. On the beach, near Castellammare, one Soil subsidence (caving in as soil shifts homeless man said he grew up in the Fin- downward) and the need for compaction ger Lakes area of New York and had lived was greater than anticipated. The tunneling Postal Customer Postal in Hawaii, but now considered himself a machine has now been removed, but the Californian. actual sewer line needs to be installed and “Look at what they did,” he said, pointing grouting around pipes and below the road- **************ECRWSSEDDM************* to recent graffiti on a stairwell and wall. “I way needs to be put in place. caught them doing it. I guess I’ll have to go Santa Monica Canyon and BOCA Neigh- get some cheap stuff and paint over it.” borhood groups met with representatives Permit #422 Permit Pasadena, CA Pasadena, Another area with a high concentration from Los Angeles and Santa Monica to re- PAID of homeless encampments was between view Incline closure details and accommo- U.S. Postage U.S. Chautauqua and Temescal Canyon Road— dations. The groups will meet again one Presorted Standard Presorted along PCH and below the bluffs. This week after the closure of the Incline to see if (Continued on Page 18) additional guidelines need to be established. 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Call Anthony 310.293.9280 [email protected] CalBRE#01173073 February 4, 2015 Palisades News Page 3 Left: Many of the over 500 students who toured the Children’s Rights Camp at Palisades High on January 21 advocated for ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by calling President Obama’s comment line or emailing messages to the White House. Right: As part of the traveling Children’s Rights Camp, STF member Ismael Yanez (right) explains the hazards facing child migrants entering the U.S. on desert trails in Arizona. Clothing of young migrants found on the trails hangs behind Ismael. Photos: Bart Bartholomew PaliHi Students Urge Treaty Protecting Children’s Rights By LAUREL BUSBY tobacco worker tent. “I think it’s great that outlining children’s rights, which range zona desert was painted, and actual clothing Staff Reporter they’re doing this event, and I hope they from protecting children from sexual ex- worn by very young child migrants hung in keep doing it each year.” ploitation to upholding children’s right to front of it. Plastic bottles lay on the ground hild tobacco workers commonly English teacher Paul Mittelbach brought quality health care. to demonstrate how some Americans place don plastic trash bags as protection his students to the event for the same rea- “It’s the most widely ratified treaty in the the jugs on migration trails so that mi- Cfrom pesticides sprayed on the son that Kirshner described. “These are sto- world,” club president Crystal Eshrahi, a grants will have water to drink. However, crops they pick in the Southeast U.S., two ries they don’t necessarily hear in class,” said senior from Beverly Hills, told the touring slashed jugs were also present to show that Palisades Charter High School students Mittelbach, who, like a number of students students. She mentioned that Somalia rat- other Americans, opposed to illegal immi- told their peers. throughout the day, shared his own family’s ified the treaty the previous day, and “The gration, commonly vandalize the jugs. Other teens in four tents on the PaliHi immigration story outside the child mi- United States is basically being a hypocrite Art teacher Angelica Pereyra, who co- quad shared the stories of child migrants suf- grant worker tent. His father fled Nazi Ger- [espousing human rights while failing to sponsors the HRW Student Task Force fering from dehydration in Arizona deserts, many as a child. The event “tells them about ratify the treaty itself]. We want our coun- chapter with fellow teacher Sandra Martin, the takeover of children’s schools in war other kids. It’s something they can relate to, try to become what we always say we are.” said that working with PaliHi students on zones in over 25 countries, and the reality and the kids who are presenting it are really Thirteen Los Angeles-area schools came these issues is incredibly important to her.