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Use It Or Lose It MONDAY,APRIL 23, 2012 Volume 11 Issue 139 Santa Monica Daily Press THINK LIKE A BOX OFFICE WINNER SEE PAGE 3 We have you covered THE CREATIVE COMMUNICATION ISSUE Surviving 120 days of rest BY SAMANTHA MASUNAGA Special to the Daily Press MID-CITY On a late December day, Jessica Fisher was rushed to the Santa Monica- UCLA Medical Center in a panic. Her doctor had discovered cervical incompetency during a routine ultrasound, a find that could have endangered the lives of her twins, if left untreated. She was only 19 weeks pregnant. Fisher underwent a cerclage procedure to stitch up her prematurely opening cervix and was placed on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy. She delivered two healthy babies, Ella Madison and Ethan Tate, via Caesarian sec- tion surgery Saturday. But it is the 120 days in between that set her story apart. Over the course of four months, her bland hospital room was transformed into a den for all seasons. In one corner, gold metallic streamers spelled out “Happy New Year’s!” while red heart decorations marked Valentine’s Day. ALL IN Brandon Wise [email protected] Orchids in the windowsills and a large Men and women enter into the water during the annual Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race on Saturday morning. canvas portrait of her wedding day added a home-y taste. A rack of baby clothes — one side pink and the other blue — gave her hope to continue her time in the hospital, Fisher said. “It was such a shock to the system,” she said of the cervical discovery. “Bed rest is Use it or lose it really hard to do because it’s just very isolat- ing.” Housing Commission strives to keep options open on affordable housing The extended stay was made even more difficult because of its clash with her previ- ASHLEY ARCHIBALD owners of Village Trailer Park succeed in Homes West, the company that builds and ous lifestyle. Fisher and her husband, Brett, Daily Press Staff Writer closing the facility as planned. installs the units. were constantly active and the couple loved Though current residents of Village If City Hall doesn’t move to use it before to run outdoors or go to see theater plays. DOWNTOWN City Hall is one step closer to Trailer Park are shortlisted as potential the contract expires, the cash reverts back to They had even planned a trip to Las Vegas opening up new low-income rental units at renters for the new units, the vote was more state coffers under the byzantine rules that and a Mexican cruise to celebrate Fisher’s the Mountain View Mobile Home Park about preserving an ever-dwindling num- the Legislature developed when it dissolved 30th birthday, which came five days after she after a unanimous vote by the Housing ber of resources to expand the amount of redevelopment agencies statewide in was admitted to the hospital. Fisher urged Commission Thursday recommended to affordable housing in Santa Monica, said February, and Santa Monica loses 44 poten- her husband to take his mother on the cruise move ahead with a plan to purchase new Chloe Edwards Bird, vice chair of the tial very low- and low-income housing units. instead, to prevent the tickets from going to units at the site. Housing Commission. Those are units City Hall can ill-afford waste. The decision came over protestations of The City Council set aside over $9 mil- to pass up. To deal with the stress of being constant- some residents of the privately-owned lion from its now-defunct Redevelopment A recent report to the City Council on ly cooped up inside, her husband suggested Village Trailer Park, for whom the presence Agency in 2010 as part of a three-prong Santa Monica’s affordable housing needs she start a blog to chronicle the experience of city-owned Mountain View has become plan to finance sustainable units at indicated that the city will have to create and keep family in the know about her a threat because it is one of the potential Mountain View. Much of that money is places they will be relocated should the wrapped up in a contract with Golden SEE PARK PAGE 9 SEE REST PAGE 11 Gary Limjap TAXES (310) 586-0339 ALL FORMS, ALL TYPES, ALL STATES In today’s real estate climate ... BACK TAXES • BOOKKEEPING • SMALL BUSINESS SAMUEL B. MOSES, CPA Experience counts! 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The 22-year-old Blue Line, which runs from Long Beach to downtown L.A., has seen at least $239 million in maintenance put off over the last decade — mostly on critical elements such as tracks, signals and passenger cars. That amount represents only part of $1.3 billion in deferred maintenance required on the entire rail and bus network run by the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation STARRING ROLE Brandon Wise [email protected] Authority, the Times said. Actor Denis Leary speaks to the crowd gathered for the Santa Monica Red Cross’ annual Red Tie Affair on Saturday. Some officials told the newspaper that in its rush to build new rail lines, Metro has not assigned sufficient resources to maintenance of the old ones. “The Metro Board and staff who were ‘Think Like a Man’ muscles in at No. 1 with $33M in charge weren’t paying close enough attention to the ongoing day-to-day,” said DAVID GERMAIN about $13 million and took in nearly that Hollywood’s overall revenues dipped for board member Richard Katz.
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