It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...

crossing paths

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Surfers head out Wednesday morning to catch some waves at the end of Bay street in Santa Monica. Waves were 4 ft high and the water temperature was 59 degrees.

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 10:37AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Student art sale

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Debby Perkins, a Santa Monica College art student,  displays her ceramic jaguar vase during the 28th Annual Holiday Student Art Sale that was held on the SMC Bundy Campus on Wednesday December 14, 2005.

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Christina Bullard, a SMC art student, displays her hand blown glass sculpture.

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Suzanne Yankovic, a SMC art student, browses at all the art on sale.
Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 09:45PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz in | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

The world is a rainbow

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Kindergartners from Grant Elementary School sing, "The World is a Rainbow" at the Santa Monica Place on Wednesday December 14, 2005.

Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 09:33PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz in , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Holiday soldiers

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(Right to left) Nate Scribner, Luke Cezer and Zach Scribner from the Lighthouse Church lead a caroling procession down the Third Street Promenade on Sunday. The event marked the opening of the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes, an annual display of the Christmas story in Palisades Park at Ocean and Arizona avenues. The interdenominational display stretches along Ocean Avenue from Arizona Avenue to Santa Monica Boulevard and includes 14 scenes with lifesize figures depicting events surrounding Christ’s birth. The lighted scenes will be on display until the end of the year. For motorists, the lane along Ocean Avenue next to the booths is expected to be reserved for passing vehicles to view the scenes on weekends until Christmas and from Christmas to the end of the year.
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 05:28AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Lifes a beach

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Tuesday December 12, 2005 at 4 pm and 60 degrees at the end of Bay st.
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 at 04:43PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

The Return to Nazareth

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Nativity Scene: On Saturday,  December 10, 2005, John Forbes, a board member from the Calvary Baptist Church and Bernice Hodnett, coordinator of the church, worked on setting up their nativity scene titled,"The Return to Nazareth" - 'and he came and dwelt in a City called Nazareth.' Mathew 2:23
The Nativity Scene is located on Ocean Avenue, just north of the Santa Monica Pier.
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 11:34AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

LA Roadrunners

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Group 8 of  the Los Angeles Roadrunners, who are training for the LA Marathon, ran pass the Palisades Park on Saturday morning. This is the 11 mile per hour group.

Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 10:05AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Red Kettle Day

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Nat Trives, the MC during the Red Kettle Day and a Rotarian, and Edward Guerboian , a Kiwanis and the current Santa Monica Chamber of commerce  president, rally the troops to dig deeper for pledges as they compete to raise the most amount during Red Kettle Day

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Tony Prestby, Vice Chair of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, keeps tally of all the service clubs totals donations collected during Red Kettle Day.

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Tony Prestby, Vice Chair of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, and Myriah  Begonia, A Salvation Army Solder, counts all the money collected by the service clubs during Red Kettle Day.

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The Salvation Army Brass Band played during the Red Kettle Day.
Twealve Santa Monica Service clubs raised money and competed amongst each other to see who could raise the most money during the Salvations Army Red Kettle Day on Friday December 9, 2005 at First Private Bank and Trust. The twelve service clubs raised more than $31,000 during the event. Leading the way was the Rotary Club of Santa Monica with $7027.00, followed by the Kiwanis of Santa Monica with $5609. In third place was the Santa Monica Lions club with $2550.
Posted on Friday, December 9, 2005 at 11:59PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz in , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint