PCH lane closure scheduled
The City of Santa Monica began construction of its Palisades Bluffs Stabilization Project on Monday of this week. Through Nov. 25, and then from Nov. 30 through Dec. 3, there will be intermittent northbound lane closures on Pacific Coast Highway between Entrada Avenue and the California Incline during construction hours (Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.) that will affect traffic. The project is intended to make drainage improvements at the base of the Palisades Bluffs in order to decrease the rate of gradual deterioration of the Bluffs caused by localized slope failures resulting from groundwater seepage. More information can be obtained online at www.pchpartners.org.
City to host Malibu Sports Gear Drive
The City of Malibu Parks and Recreation Department will host the Malibu Sports Gear Drive from Nov. 26 to Jan. 31. The drive will collect new and gently used sports equipment and donate it to less fortunate youth in the United States and around the world. The public is invited to donate at any of the drop-off location listed below. While the drive?s initial focus is on soccer, basketball and baseball, any sport gear, uniforms and sports apparel will be accepted. Drop-off locations are: Bluffs Park, Point Dume Marine Science School and the Malibu High School Gymnasium (on City of Malibu youth basketball game days only).
The Malibu Sports Gear Drive is co-sponsored by Jimmy Loftus, a fourth grader at Point Dume Marine Science Elementary School student.
“I am trying to collect sports gear for kids in need,” Loftus said in a press release. “What made me think of this idea? I had all this sports gear that I had out grown and I did not want to throw it away.”
The sports gear collected from the drive will benefit the Global Gear Drive and the Sammy Wilkinson Foundation.
More information can be obtained by calling 310.456.2489 ext. 363, or by visiting www.nays.org.
SMMUSD alumnus blasts off to outer space
Randy Bresnik, an alumnus of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, on Monday departed with the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis on an 11-day mission to deliver and secure supplies to the International Space Station, according to a SMMUSD press release. The shuttle is scheduled to return on Nov. 27, weather permitting.
While in space, the six-person crew will be docking at the International Space Station. The mission for this flight is to deliver parts to the space station, including two spare gyroscopes. The shuttle program is scheduled to end next year, and only five final flights remain. The vehicle that will be used to travel to the space station following the final shuttle flight will not be able to carry the kinds of large payloads that flight STS-129 will be transporting.
Bresnik will be part of two of the three E.V.A.s (space walks outside the space station), the purpose of which is to attach the extra parts to the outside of the station for storage and later use.
When Bresnik returns from space, he will be the father of a new daughter. His wife, Rebecca, is scheduled to give birth on Nov. 20 while Bresnik is in space.
Bresnik graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1985. He also attended Grant Elementary and John Adams Middle School.
More information can be obtained online at www.nasa.gov.
?Friends? producer asking $17.5 mil in Broad Beach
Kevin Bright has listed for sale his five-bedroom, six-bath home on Broad Beach Road for $17.5 million, according to a report by blockshopper.com. The 1,886-square-foot house was built in 1957.
Bright is a television executive producer who spent 10 seasons on the hit NBC sitcom ?Friends.? He also served as an executive producer for the short-lived spin-off ?Joey? from 2004-06, and for the 1990s Christina Applegate sitcom ?Jesse.? He graduated from Emerson College.
There have been 112 home sales in Malibu during the past 12 months, with a median sales price of $2,012,500, the report also states.
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