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The Boys and Girls Club of Malibu mission states: “Our mission is to significantly enhance the lives of all youth to fulfill their potential as caring, productive, contributing citizens.”
This will “create solution-based proposals for current real-world social injustices related to Policing, Education, Homelessness, or the Environment. Students will have the opportunity to create proposals, which will be pitched to a local representative at the state level,” explained the Boys and Girls Club of Malibu. “Students will gain the ability to customize their portfolios, strengthen their resume and college applications, and build their own website! Teens will utilize creative problem solving for real-world issues.”
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The following letter-to-the-editor was sent to Patch on behalf of two SMMUSD school board members, Jon Kean and Laurie Lieberman.
January 5, 2021
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Although he was sworn in as a member of the Santa Monica City Council on December 8, 2020, Oscar de la Torre persists in falsely claiming that he is still a member of the School Board. As part of his distorted reasoning, he also insists on denigrating the work of the Board of Education, deliberately fomenting discord rather than constructive engagement as our school community faces the dual challenges of educating students during a once-in-a-century pandemic and pursuing and achieving racial and social justice.
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Extending along the public face of the John Adams Middle School (JAMS) campus on Pearl Street in Santa Monica, California, the new Center will establish a strong visual identity for the school. The openness of The Center’s design aims to reflects the school district’s goal of creating a thriving, active hub that promotes community building around the arts. Performance and rehearsal spaces open to an outdoor courtyard that takes advantage of the temperate climate to create flexible spaces for informal gathering.
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In addition to serving its host middle school campus, the Center will support Santa Monica College as a venue for its performing arts and educational programming, strengthening the relationship between the two schools. The Center will feature a 750-seat auditorium to meet the needs of the JAMS music program. A large, flexible rehearsal space will be included alongside the auditorium, supporting music and dance as well as hosting community
Year in Review Part 4: October
Dec. 30, 2020 at 6:00 am
Local street performers were banned from entertaining tourists visiting Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade, Pier and Transit Mall during peak afternoon and evening shopping hours, as part of the city’s Twenty-Seventh Supplement. While the recent safer-at-home orders had affected the number of acts performing in recent months, performers had found ways to continue with a few creative adaptations.
California eased its coronavirus restrictions to allow up to three households to socialize outdoors, an expansion of rules aimed at people tempted to have even larger gatherings around Halloween, Thanksgiving and end-of-year holidays. The goal was not to encourage larger gatherings, Newsom said, but to recognize the increasing pressure for get-togethers and provide ways for people to act appropriately.