SEPTEMBER
nMalibu conservation of water dropped from 20% of total water conserved in April to 10 percent of the water conserved in July; in other words, the savings were cut in half. The governments probably have only themselves to blame for the change because when the state mandates and restrictions were lifted they implicitly said, “Don’t worry; drought’s over,” which apparently wasn’t the message they wanted to send.
nErwan McKeown, age 19, a former student at Malibu High School, was killed in an alleged hit-and-run accident in the Valley when his motorcycle collided with a large truck. He was en route to his job at Cafecito Organico in the Point Dume Center when the accident occurred.
nSpeakers at a climate seminar in the Malibu Library Speaker Series predicted sea levels in Malibu would rise anywhere from 16 inches to four-and-a-half feet by the year 2100 depending on what action people take to combat global warming. Three major climate events have already occurred this year: The melting of the ice sheets in the Arctic and other places, bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef corals because of warmer ocean temperatures and the acidification of ocean waters. Science has confirmed much of this by taking deep core samples from the bottom of the ocean to help track historical climate temperature shifts. The last half-century has been climactically relatively calm along the Pacific Coas,t and that’s when most of the development has occurred.
nThe 18-hole Malibu Golf Club, situated on a 650-acre parcel, high in the hills above Malibu and closed since 2015 , was purchased out of bankruptcy for $30.5 million by a Chinese investment group. Their current intentions for the property are unknown.
nDuring a school board meeting in Malibu, two members of the board, Craig Foster of Malibu and Oscar de la Torre of Santa Monica, chose to kneel during the Pledge of Allegiance, which brought the issue of police conduct to the local public awareness.
