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October 1, 2007
Extra, Extra: Sam's Staying, Kobe's Grinning and It's October!
- Welcome to October! Metroblogging wants to know how you and your neighborhood will celebrate the run up to All Hallow's Eve.
- Kobe "I can't live with you, I can't live without you" Bryant was in a jolly mood today as the Lakers greeted the media at its El Segundo practice facility.
- Construction on a proposed child-care facility, once touted as the centerpiece to Panorama City redevelopment, is hampered by political and building delays. I guess that Wal-Mart will have to be the centerpiece now.
- Citing a fatal palm tree disease, officials will no longer hand out palm fronds to Jewish families for the harvest festival Sukkot after this year. Oh well. I guess we'll have to resort to papier mache Sukkah's.
- Eschewing small town life for big city fun (and a job, friends and family), Mayor Sam is staying in Los Angeles. He toyed with the idea of moving back to the place of his birth but ultimately decided that L.A. is just too darn swell. That sigh of relief City Hall almost breathed went right back into their bureaucratic lungs.
- A driver struck two women and five girls, at the same freakin' time, at a crosswalk in South Los Angeles last night. All escaped major injury and the man was questioned by police who released him after neither alcohol nor high speeds were a culprit. Maybe now they will fix that crosswalk residents have called a "danger zone."
- A Long Beach husband and wife, apparent victims of a murder-suicide, were found dead by their small children in their homes. The children ran out of the house after the horrific finding, reportedly yelling, "fix my mom, fix my dad."
- Time to put that cigarette out in Beverly Hills. A smoking ban in the city took effect today at most outside dinning areas. This follows similar laws in Calabasas, Burbank and Communist China.
- Lock your doors! The main suspect in the videotaped rape of a little girl may be heading to Southern California where he reportedly has a connection.
- And because we can't end on a sour note: Homeboy Industries is rising from the ashes. The organization, whose slogan "Nothing stops a bullet like a job," will hold its grand opening for its new, $12.5 million facility tomorrow.
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Some gang programs are just opportunities for current gang members to claim they're out of it and helping young ones from joining, and are a scam. This one seems legit, and they apparently even have stuff for sale at their headquarters to raise money. Support them, and let's hope they're the real deal.
As for Mayor Sam on his blog, he never really planned to go anywhere, sad to stay, was just trying to drum up businesss for a dead blog that people read just to see how weird it is. Steady readers are maybe 3-5 people with a pathological fear of illegal Mexicans who they blame for everything, and a pathological hatred of the Mayor, ditto. Even by the standards of blogging, totally odd. One of the regular contributors just posted saying that while he's out of state, he's sure someone from L A City Hall has followed him there and is spying on him as he eats pie at the local diner, and has reported back on what flavor it is, too. Uh-huh. It's not meant as a joke.
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Actually I am a San Fernando Valley native, its my parents who were from Iowa (though technically my mother was born in New York while her father was in the service). But thanks for the mention!
Mayor Sam
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October! October! One of my favorite months of the year! Do wonder why? Because There are a lot of festivals all over the world and especially in Europe! I can name just some of them... Octoberfest in Bavaria, and wine fest in the Eastern Europe countries...
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