THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2004 Volume 3, Issue 252 FREE Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues DAILY LOTTERY Chain gang SUPER LOTTO Fundraiser guilty 17 18 28 33 39 Meganumber: 19 Jackpot: 7 Million FANTASY 5 of bilking school 15 39 21 11 37 DAILY 3 Daytime: 7 2 3 Evening: 9 9 8 to turn himself in DAILY DERBY BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON 1st: 01 Gold Rush him on supervised release for three 2nd: 07 Eureka Daily Press Staff Writer years. Tonken was ordered to 3rd: 04 Big Ben report to United States Marshals, RACE TIME: 1:44.23 A celebrity fundraiser who who will designate a correctional bilked a private school in Santa institution for him on Sept. 22. NEWS OF THE WEIRD Monica out of more than $500,000 Tonken, who faces separate BY CHUCK SHEPARD will turn himself into authorities civil lawsuits with similar charges, this month. ■ Games Floridians Play: Shannon pleaded guilty on Dec. 9, 2003, to Kramer, 35, was hospitalized with seri- Aaron Tonken was sentenced mail and wire fraud for setting up ous burns after (according to police) try- last week to 63 months in prison elaborate charity fundraisers, and ing to toss a lighted firework at his girl- for his scheme to defraud donors then keeping profits for himself. friend from his car during an argument; however, he overestimated the burn and underwriters in connection He has since filed for bankruptcy. time, and it went off in his hands with his promotion and production Westside Waldorf School on (Jacksonville, Fla., March). And Aravis of charitable events. United States Fourth Street is one of the victims Walker, 23, was killed when his car exploded during a session in which he District Court Judge Dale S. named in a civil suit, which was would light fireworks and toss them out Fischer ordered Tonken to pay levied by the State of California the window at passersby; one of the fire- approximately $3.8 million in resti- Attorney General’s Office this works didn’t clear the window but rico- cheted to the back seat, where it ignited tution to his victims, and placed See CHARITY CASE, page 6 the rest of Walker’s fireworks. ■ In July, a transit system police officer in Washington, D.C., arrested, hand- cuffed and searched Stephanie Willett, Surf and turf: PCH 45, an Environmental Protection Agency scientist, detaining her at a police station for about three hours because she was finishing up the chewing of her PayDay a dangerous divider candy bar inside a Metrorail station, in violation of the no-eating rule. Transit BY GENEVA WHITMARSH traffic to get to the beach. It’s a officials pointed out that Willett had been Daily Press Staff Writer risk he says is worth the reward, as warned by the officer a minute before the waves along the coastline are not to enter the station while eating the PCH — Rich Sproul is a self- candy bar, but she thought if it was com- Crill Hansen/Special to the Daily Press widely known for their appeal to pletely in her mouth as she walked in, described risktaker of a surfer who surfers. A group of kids play their day away on Wednesday at Clover Park. braves crushing waves on a regu- she was safe.. There haven’t been any acci- lar basis. But the one thing that dental pedestrian-vehicle colli- QUOTE OF THE DAY truly frightens him? The dart he must make across the Pacific sions this year in the area from “My music is best understood by Chamber urges to up the ante Topanga Beach to Mulholland children and animals.” Coast Highway each time he parks By Daily Press staff Highway, according to officials at IGOR STARVINSKY (1882-1971) Commerce Board of Directors his car and heads for the ocean. recently endorsed the multi-mil- “I’ve almost been hit at least 20 the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s INDEX SIXTH STREET — The local lion dollar bond introduced by times by people who are on the Department Lost Hills station. Horoscopes chamber of commerce has thrown Santa Monica College a few white line or a little over it,” said Last year, there were four acci- Do something fun, Virgo! 2 its support behind both a $135 months ago. If approved by 55 Sproul, 45 and a Santa Monica dents, with alcohol considered a Local million bond measure and a tax percent of city voters, the bond resident. “I’m not scared of much, contributing factor in two of the Conventional wisdom 3 increase on hotel rooms, both of will provide for the construction but that highway does scare me.” mishaps. Surf Report which will be decided on by vot- and upgrades to several buildings Sproul is one of hundreds of But earlier this week, Sproul Water temperature: 70° 3 ers this November. at SMC, new open space in Santa pedestrians who routinely park happened upon a vehicle-pedestri- Opinion The Santa Monica Chamber of See CHAMBER, page 7 along the highway, then dodge See ROAD RAGE, page 6 Life on the edge 4 Business Bet your assets 8 Sax great Clemons to headline Twilight’s swan song National By Daily Press staff tributed to bands such as his own The Temple of Soul, is the A who’s who 9 Red Bank Rockers, the Jerry crowning achievement on Clem- Summer is drawing to a close Garcia Band, The Grateful Dead, ons’ long and distinguished list of International and, tonight, so is the weekly Mucho dinero 11 and Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band. accomplishments. A 12-piece Thursday Twilight Dance Series. 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