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SMDP Graphic-Data from Johns Hopkins, WHO,LA County Public Health Mar 10 Jun 16 Councilman Morena resigns Juneteenth takes on new to focus on family business significance for local activist MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor Councilman Greg Morena has resigned from the Santa Monica City Santa Monica’s Juneteenth Council effective June 24 to focus on celebration will be held online his family restaurant business. this year due to ongoing fears Morena’s family owns the Albright over the spread of COVID-19 restaurant on the Santa Monica Pier. and while the event’s organizer In a statement he said he has to understands the need for safety, renegotiate the lease for the business she is also keenly aware that the or face closure and as the Pier is celebration marking the end of owned by the City of Santa Monica, slavery is desperately needed this he cannot manage the business year. interests at this time while sitting on The first local Juneteenth was File Photo a small celebration held at the SEE MORENA PAGE 11 GREG MORENA Third Street Promenade 28 years ago. LaVerne Ross brought the event to Santa Monica and said it was a small, sparsely populated Illegal firework celebration but it has grown with the help of her Juneteenth Committee and Virginia Avenue calls increasing in Park to a large, uniting festival. The term Juneteenth is a blend of the words June and nineteenth. neighborhoods The holiday has also been called Juneteenth Independence Day or MATTHEW HALL are being fired throughout the city. Freedom Day. The celebration Daily Press Editor Residents from all parts of the started with the freed slaves of city have been reporting booms Galveston, Texas. Although the Santa Monica’s Independence Day throughout the night for the past Emancipation Proclamation freed File Photo celebrations have been canceled for couple of weeks and the police JUNETEENTH: Longtime Santa Monican LaVerne Ross has been the the year but one problematic annual SEE JUNETEENTH PAGE 3 driving force behind the Santa Monica celebration. trend has returned, illegal fireworks SEE FIREWORKS PAGE 11 News 2 THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2020 Visit us online at www.smdp.com US coronavirus outbreaks spur debate over personal freedoms TERRY TANG, KEN MORITSUGU AND LISA MARIE seven-day average positive test rate: 17.7%, PANE or about double the national average and well Associated Press above the 10% threshold that health officials find worrisome. It also has the most new cases When the coronavirus flared in China this per capita in the U.S. in the past 14 days. The week, the country canceled flights, suspended state’s leading hospital system says it’s almost reopenings and described the situation as running out of beds. “extremely grave.” But with cases rising in some Several restaurants and other businesses WELCOME U.S. states, local officials have balked at even also have closed because staff tested positive in LOS ANGELES LEXUS DEALER ASSOCIATION requiring people to wear masks. the last week. In the United States, which has the most The same thing is happening in parts of reported cases and deaths in the world, Florida, where people under 35 are testing authorities are wrestling with balancing positive at a higher rate since the pandemic demands for constitutional rights and personal began, contributing to a surge in cases, officials freedom with warnings from health officials said Wednesday. that being lax will have deadly consequences. The coastal city of St. Petersburg had three China responded Wednesday to a new popular bars close after employees tested outbreak in Beijing by scrapping more than positive. ROOM SERVICE 60% of its flights to the capital, canceling “This is happening statewide. Ideally, we classes and strengthening requirements for would have leadership from the top and this social distancing. It was a sharp retreat for the would be a statewide decision,” Mayor Rick nation that declared victory over COVID-19 Kriseman said. ORGANIC 7OZ. WAGYU “KOBE” FLATIRON in March. The Democrat said Republican Gov. Ron “This has truly rung an alarm bell for DeSantis has encouraged people to use masks us,” Party Secretary Cai Qi told a meeting but not mandated them. [email protected] | 310.989.9444 | peprinting.com of Beijing’s Communist Party Standing Cases in Pinellas County, where St. Committee. Petersburg is located, have shifted from China’s response to about 137 new cases assisted living residences and nursing homes amounted to a fraction of the number some to younger people, county Commissioner Ken states see each day. In Arizona, more than Welch said. He said 25% of the cases are in the 1,100 people visited emergency rooms on African American community. Tuesday alone with positive or suspected cases. DeSantis said he has no intention of closing Alabama is also fast running out of hospital Florida’s economy again despite the new cases, space, leading to impassioned debate over saying many of those getting sick are young whether to require masks. Other states that and thus unlikely to suffer serious illness or haven’t mandated face coverings, like Texas death. and Florida, also are seeing infections soar. For most people, the coronavirus causes With masks becoming a political symbol, mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and cough. For some, especially older adults has taken aim at President Donald Trump’s and people with existing health problems, approach to the pandemic. it can cause more severe illness, including “Donald Trump wants to style himself as a pneumonia and death. wartime president. Unlike any other wartime Fears about growing numbers of infections leader, he takes no responsibility, he exercises in younger people pushed officials in the San no leadership, now he has just flat surrendered Antonio area to order masks in public as Texas’ the fight,” Biden said Wednesday. COVID-19 hospitalization rates keep rising. Biden has worn a mask repeatedly at public “What we are doing here is to protect the events, while Trump hasn’t, even on occasions life and safety of the San Antonio community,” such as touring auto factory floors where they Mayor Ron Nirenberg said, adding that most are required. Aides say Trump believes them to infections in the area are in people younger be unflattering and that wearing one projects than 40. weakness. It comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott The mask debate is playing out nationwide, urged people to take greater responsibility for notably in hard-hit states where face coverings stopping the spread of the virus but said he have become a political and cultural debate. would not require masks. The second-most- Hundreds of medical professionals signed populated state hit a record high for COVID- a letter urging Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey 19 hospitalizations Wednesday with 2,793, an to require them. He’s encouraged people to 85% increase since Memorial Day. use masks but hasn’t worn one during news In Montgomery, Alabama, where cases are conferences and has rebuffed calls to require spiking, the issue of masks erupted during them. He also has resisted imposing new a City Council meeting, where members restrictions on businesses, attributing Arizona’s rejected a proposal to mandate them at public surge in cases to increased testing. gatherings of 25 or more. Health officials said Arizona has been doing more tests, which they are critical to stemming the tide. can yield more cases, but health experts say Dr. Bill Saliski, a lung specialist at Jackson a better way to see if more people are getting Hospital in Montgomery, called on the city to sick is to look at the percentage of positive pass a mask requirement and declared: “If this tests. 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because African American men have reason to JUNETEENTH fear even minor interactions with the police. FROM PAGE 1 “Certainly I could see how some of them are running scared,” she said. “(The police) the slaves in the South in 1863, it could not have the guns and handcuffs but it appears be enforced in many places until after the end the men that have been murdered by the legal of the Civil War in 1865 with the final slaves system and police force, it appears that the being freed on June 19. person they are detaining is at a disadvantage Ross said she understands why the event and to say that you resisted arrest when you has become digital this year. have nothing to your defense, no gun, and the “With the protests and the virus, that ones that are handcuffing you have guns and happens to be something that we have to pay the back-up and you end up getting killed? I attention to with the social distancing and don’t understand that.” we certainly wouldn’t want anyone to catch She said individuals who encounter police it,” she said. “With this social distancing and are not always correct in their actions but they being on the internet, that seems to address didn’t deserve to be killed for their actions. She the protective part.” compared the treatment to the very institution While the 79-year old Ross has been Juneteenth meant to celebrate the death of. confined to the house, she hasn’t been “We are revisiting slavery,” she said. “We disconnected from the massive cultural shifts were three fifths of a person, and these men, swirling around the nation and her passion to these people in 2020 and not just men are celebrate Juneteenth has an additional edge being treated as slaves were as three fifths of a this year. human being.” “I can appreciate so many people that are Despite her frustration, Ross is still looking agreeing with Black Lives Matter,” she said. forward to the celebration and she is hopeful “As far as Juneteenth is concerned, I as the the current momentum will grow Juneteenth founder, I am certainly in favor of the protests to a national holiday. and looking at the legal system and the justice “The great part about it is the young people system as far as the police are involved with in schools, students, are addressing the facts the injustice.” with this protest,” she said. “They are coming Ross said she doesn’t think every out in droves, wanting to combat the injustices police officer is to blame but she is deeply all over America with African American people disappointed that the discrimination against where we are stressing the fact that Black Lives African Americans has persisted throughout Matter and it’s time for the Blacks to get the all of her 79 years and while the ongoing attention they need.” killing of minorities by police causes her deep Santa Monica’s Juneteenth event will be stress, she is motivated by the new wave of held on June 20 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. activism. The program will be emceed by community “We are in the middle of an additional member Kathleen Benjamin and will include: revolution and that is with us battling to get Traditional opening drum call performed justice,” she said. by Chazz Ross. “We pay money for the protection of Welcome and introduction prepared by people in America and we don’t expect that founder LaVerne Ross and read by Kathleen we are going to have to run and hide from Benjamin. our protectors. We want to continue to be A panel discussion introduced by Eula protected as it’s our money that is spent or I’m Fritz, with presenters Dr. Kim R. Harris, in favor of the money being cut back or cut Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at completely if we don’t get the justice we need Loyola Marymount University and Captain through the police department.” Darrick Jacob of the Santa Monica Police Ross said the size and scope of the modern Department. protests are important to her. Musical performance by Aaron Nigel “I’m totally disappointed with the fact that Smith presented in collaboration with The there are injustices in the police system but Broad Stage. I’m happy to see the peaceful protests because Visit https://bit.ly/juneteenthsm to join I believe that silence is violence. Those that sit from a computer or install the app onto your back in their homes and not protest verbally, I mobile device at https://primetime.bluejeans. believe silence is violence, because something com/a2m/live-event/rtqzccdf. that is not said can be more dangerous than The event code is: rtqzccdf what is said.” For questions, email [email protected] or call Ross had a son who died of an illness (310) 458-8688. several years ago and she said she always prayed that nothing would happen to him [email protected] TAXES ALL FORMS • ALL TYPES • ALL STATES

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Mighty Clouds of Joy, Steve Earle, Ziggy to find a doctor near you. That meant leaving by 8 a.m. to then park Marley — on the kids’ stage, too charming — and walk to the park, juggling my map and Zap Mama, Del McCoury Band, Asleep At annotated list of performers-times-stages, the Wheel, Beau Soleil, Grace Potter, Charlie and soldier on until past the scheduled end Musselwhite, Billie Joe Shaver, the Gospel time of 10 p.m., staggering out with those Silvertones and a local duo called Ghostland hundreds of thousands of other sated music Observatory who put on one of the best sets fans, driving back to Wimberley by after of the festival, much of the time with only midnight — if I didn’t go to the Continental one instrument and a whole lotta charisma. Club for some must-see after-festival show, As I headed toward the stage for Dylan, till 2 a.m. — to finally set an alarm for 8 and I could overhear excited conversations from start all over again. Didn’t have to do it that others, really looking forward to it, many way. But then, you wouldn’t get to see and their first time to see the legend. Yikes, I appointments. Call for information and hear what I did. thought, having been underwhelmed the last time I saw him a couple of years before THE BEST FEST? that, and by recent albums where his voice One day I decided to avoid an hour-long seemed to have diminished to a croak. Also, search for non-existent parking to opt for I knew even then he usually wasn’t playing a lot with shuttle buses. Ah, much smarter, guitar, various reasons given. I congratulated myself, as everything went Sure enough, he was pretty awful. Barely pretty smoothly. But that night, the line to said a word the whole time. The band was get on a bus looked like the exit crowd for boring. I left halfway through, because I Woodstock. It took me almost three hours had seen him a few times when he was to get out of there. But dawn breaking over electrifying, and — there were still other Wimberley is such a beautiful thing, isn’t it? acts to catch. But I felt sorry for those who Unless you have to get up in two hours. were so looking forward to it, and wondered I passed a bit of that time in line chatting what they thought. Was it still a thrill? That with two young guys just in front of me, performance in 2007 convinced me: Dylan Americans but not from TX, and they both was done. No sense ever seeing him live enthusiastically agreed ACL was the best again. Maybe he still had some good songs festival of them all. Sorry, Coachella. They left in him, but that voice was so far buried in had gone to Coachella, every year, and croakdom, I was skeptical of that too. — everywhere else. They started naming off festivals, from Australia’s Splendour DON’T EVER COUNT HIM OUT in the Grass to Tennessee’s Bonaroo to I don’t know about Dylan live, but no one Glastonbury; it sounded like these hard-core has come back from long fallow recording festival fanatics had hit them all. Thanks for periods to surprise everyone with something doing the research, guys. shockingly good, like he has. And no one hits the creative payload 60 years after their ACL ALWAYS SELLS OUT first recording. But Friday sees the release of Long before the line-ups are announced. his 39th studio album, the new “Rough and Cheap tickets now cost 280 bucks for one Rowdy Ways,” a double album, 10 songs, his weekend. My most memorable year, 2007, first release of new originals in eight years. was only the fifth ACL, a lot cheaper, and Top critics everywhere are falling all over the reason I went was because I saw the themselves. I’ve heard three cuts and they line-ups. Headliners were Bob Dylan, the are fascinating, and really good. He had to White Stripes, Björk… Amy Winehouse (no cancel summer festival concerts and a tour show), the Killers, Muse, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, depends on your SEE NOTEWORTHY PAGE 11 Local Visit us online at www.smdp.com THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2020 7 Prepare for power outages with a Generac home standby generator

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we’re telling people to call us when you’re MORENA financial management consulting company and FIREWORKS hearing them. All neighborhoods are being FROM PAGE 1 worked for several fashion brands including FROM PAGE 1 affected by it.” Undefeated, The Hundreds and Bleach Group He said it’s important to receive calls from Council. USA Holdings. He graduated from CSUN with department said they expect calls to grow up everyone who can hear the booms because the “Like so many small independent businesses, a degree in Business Administration. to July 4 and then decline in the subsequent descriptions will help officers triangulate where I have struggled over the last three months to Before joining council, he was a member weeks. the actual launch is happening. protect my family and my employees and their of the City’s audit commission, Transit All types of fireworks are illegal in the City “Ultimately it comes down to people families who work at my restaurant on the Pier. Management Board, Pier Lesse Board and the of Santa Monica including so-called “safe and reporting them,” he said. As it’s not one specific I have taken out loans and gone into the red Chamber of Commerce Board. He said he sane” fireworks, which may not be used in area, we can’t patrol a specific place or time to feed them, keep up their health insurance, plans to remain involved with civic matters and Santa Monica even if they are legal in the city because they’re happening throughout the city. and do everything possible to have jobs waiting at the forefront of the City’s recovery efforts. in which they are purchased. Possession of The key way we can address it is by going off of for them once this crisis is over. But unless I According to the City charter, the Council fireworks is considered a misdemeanor and what people are reporting.” am able to renegotiate my lease for July and has 30 days to appoint someone from the time may be punishable up to $1,000 fine, and or Navarro said in his 20 years of patrol, this is onward, I will no longer be able to remain in a vacancy is declared to fill the seat temporarily. 6 months in jail. The fireworks will also be an annual trend. He said while the city does see business,” Morena said. Officials expect that timeline to start at the June confiscated. some firework calls over New Years, it’s really Morena has lived in Santa Monica for 37 23 window. A full-time replacement will likely The only local, legal, fireworks show used to the July 4 holiday that brings them out in large years, lives on the same street he grew up on be chosen during this November’s election. be held at Santa Monica College. However, the numbers. He said the trend will be to hear them and is married to his former next-door neighbor SMC show was canceled this year due to the for a few weeks before July 4 and then calls will whose family owned the restaurant. Prior to [email protected] ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions continue, but decline, for a couple of weeks joining the restaurant, Morena started his own of large-scale, in-person events. Marina Del Rey after the holiday. has also canceled its show. “Some families think they are legal because Neighborhood Resource Officer Edgar of where they bought them,” he said. “For some Navarro said he has recently transitioned from families, as soon as you tell them they are illegal working the Pico/Mid City beat to the Ocean and confiscate them, most of the time that’s Park area and fireworks have been a concern going to make it stop but some continue to everywhere. push the envelope and those are the people we “We’re getting firework calls from all areas have to cite.” of the city, it’s going on throughout the city and Residents can call SMPD dispatch directly at as we get close to July 4, we hear more about (310) 458-8491 to report illegal fireworks. fireworks than we do the rest of the year,” he said. “In terms of what we’re recommending, [email protected]

Hopkins University. Experts say the true toll is COVID-19 OUTBREAKS much higher. The U.S. death toll has exceeded FROM PAGE 2 117,000. European nations, which embarked on a Montgomery County has added more than wide-scale reopening this week, watched Asia 700 coronavirus cases in the past week, more and the Americas with trepidation. than any other county in Alabama, with a After lockdown restrictions were relaxed in total of 2,922 infections. The virus has affected Iran, Health Minister Saeed Namaki said he the African American population there at realized the extent of the challenge when he disproportionate levels. took a domestic flight. Some city leaders voiced concern about “Many people have become careless, trampling on people’s rights. frustrated with wearing masks,” he said. “They “I think to make somebody do something did not observe (social) distancing in the or require somebody to wear something is an flight’s seating and the airliner’s ventilation overreach,” councilman Brantley Lyons said. system was not working.” Since the virus emerged in China late last year and spread worldwide, there have Moritsugu from Beijing, and Pane from Boise, Idaho. been more than 8 million confirmed cases Associated Press reporters around the world con- and over 445,000 deaths, according to Johns tributed.

NOTEWORTHY the black experience; films about jazz, FROM PAGE 6 afrofuturism, blues, soul (I was lucky to tune in for “Wattstax” (1973), the documentary of Japan, he’s released another of his Bootleg about the Afro-American Woodstock concert Series (#15), always outstanding, this one commemorating the seventh anniversary of 47 previously unreleased recordings, 1967- the Watts Riots, with interpolating scenes 69, including never-before-heard Nashville from the concert, interviews with local Watts sessions with Johnny Cash. There’s the recent residents about the black experience, and Rolling Thunder Revue doc by Scorsese, he’s clips from an intimate Richard Pryor stand- got new books including his Nobel Laureate up performance); films not explicitly about dinner speech, still painting and selling his music but featuring great music, like “Cooley art (he’s good), a line of whiskeys in really High” (1975), the list goes on and on. cool designer bottles, and, for pete’s sakes, Curators Jesus Antonio Rivera, Christopher a line of clothing. I’d be surprised if any of Reid Martin, and Jonnie Prey post the it isn’t top shelf. The man is 79. Don’t ever evening’s schedule on their Instagram (@ count him out. cathodecinema) the day of, which you can tune into via their twitch stream: www. NICOLE RECOMMENDS: twitch.tv/cathodetv (Warning: some of these CATHODE CINEMA — is an online film are for mature audiences only) series run through the Los Angeles Coaxial Arts Foundation, showcasing contemporary Charles Andrews has listened to a lot of music of and archival experimental film, animation all kinds, including more than 2,000 live shows. He and television. This past week has been has lived in Santa Monica for 34 years and wouldn’t nothing short of outstanding and would live anywhere else in the world. Really. Send love be impossible to condense into one small and/or rebuke to him at therealmrmusic@gmail. paragraph. On the docket have been films com and documentaries centering around 12 THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT home away home away fromfrom home home at home A place to work,at home earn and learn. A place to work, earn and learn. $145K* all in. An investment in NOW! $145K*Be smart, all in. let's An investment start. in NOW! Be smart, let's start.

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