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Labor Day coming up … the 9-11 flags and Chili Cookoff overlap this year … traffic jam alert.
A Malibu state senator is in favor of a bill … that would add hotels on parkland at the local beaches.
And Sacramento may tie local cities’ hands .. on refrigerator-sized boxes to relay wireless signals.
This is Malibu’s only local daily news.
It’s the (((( Thursday ))) edition of the news … from Radio Malibu …. 97 point 5 K B U.
Good morning Selfridge Drive.
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Weekend traffic Malibummer
The fields at Pepperdine’s broad lawns are being prepared for the annual 9-11 flag memorial.
And the carnival rides are being assembled near City Hall for the annual Chili Cook Off.
This year … the two events overlap.
Plus … there’s a major heat wave.
What can go wrong … traffic wise.
Lay in your supplies now.
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Sherman’s Place in Texas
Animal rescue efforts from Malibu and the Santa Monica Mountains area are multiplying.
Zuma beach animal activist Sherman Baylin is reportedly en route to Texas this morning … with emergency supplies for animals hurt or abandoned in the massive flooding.
Donations are still being accepted at her pet grooming store … Sherman’s Place … at P C H at Busch Drive.
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Strawberry Fields Forever? Maybe Not
In news from just up the coast … 172 farmworkers in Oxnard are going to lose their permanent jobs … as the Dole Food Company is ending its strawberry-growing operations in Ventura County.
It’s shutting down its cooling and packing plant by next month.
It’s the second major berry company to go out of business in Oxnard in the last year.
Dole is 1.3 point three billion dollars in debt …. and its private owner is lining up for a public stock offering.
Farmworkers union officials say the berry industry is undergoing fundamental buisness changes.
But they are optimistic that berries will continue to be grown in the Oxnard plain … and that the farmworkers will work for other processors.
The chief of the local farm bureau tells the Ventura County Star that everal local berry farms have shut down or cut workers in recent years due a variety of economic issues.
It’s been a terrible few years for berry growers … he says … and we’ve seen reductions in acreage and jobs moving to Mexico.
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State May Force Motels Into Malibu
With a brief slowdown in Malibu news … we’re taking a look this morning at the state Legislature … and two bills working their way through Sacramento that could profoundly affect Malibu.
First … Assembly Bill 2-50.
It’s aimed at increasing motel development along the California coastline.
Existing parkland … such as the M R C A land in and around Malibu … would be targeted for construction of overnight visitor accommodations.
The idea is to open access to the coast to people who live inland … and who cannot afford the 400 dollar a night hotels that seem to be all that is left.
Malibu is the obvious target … where the city has seen all of its inexpensive tourist motels remodeled into expensive high end accommodations.
The bill would direct state agencies to plan motels on state, regional, and local parks … and lands held by open space districts.
This would include California State Parks … the M R C A … and under terms of the law even the City of Malibu.
Malibu’s state Senator …. Henry Stern … has signed on as a supporter of the bill.
City planning commissioner John Mazza has been hittng the alarm buttons about it.
He told the city council over the summer that this bill would allow camping on the two square miles of public lands within the city limits.
And he says the bill authorizes state agencies to go to private developers and get them to add overnight accommodations.
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State May Force Cell Towers Into Malibu
Another bill we’re looking at is Senate Bill 649, … which supposed aims to streamline bureaucratic processes for telecommunications firms.
What it really would do … according to legislative analysts … would strip the power of municipalities to impose conditions on new cell phone antennas.
Under Senate Bill 6-49 …. companies like Verizon and and AT&T, could put in a pole on any public street … and add boxes as large as refrigerators.
And cities would be powerless to regulate that.
Backers say Americans are clamoring for more and better wireless service … and the communications companies are hamstrung by having to design facilities that meet neighborhood objections.
The federal Congress has already severely hamstrung city effort to regulate wireless antenna and base station facilities.
If California Senate Bill 6-49 passes … it will hammer shut the last door … and prevent cities from any regulations at all over where these things go in … and what they look like.
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Weather for the Malibu ….
The combination of strong high pressure and weak onshore flow will continue to produce dangerously high temperatures across the region through at least Saturday. The highest daytime temperatures today are expected across the Antelope Valley, in lower mountain elevations, and inland valleys.
Temperatures will rise to between 100 and 112 each day.
Thunderstorms to the east of us early today will not reach Malibu.
But it may be ore humid today … high of (((( 83 )))) degrees today on the beach … (((( 105 )))) in the mountains above Malibu.
Winds will be a bit stronger.
Downcoast winds will be ((( 15 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 7:19 )))).
After that … expect it to be ((( partly cloudy )))) tonight … a low of (((( 68 )))) on the beach … down to (((( 74 )))) in the canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( hotter )))).
Right now … at Trancas it’s (((( 68 )))) degrees.
In upper Malibu Canyon … (((( 87 )))) .
And at Civic Center Los Angeles … (((( 74 )))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( 67 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( 1 to 3 )))) feet high ….
(((( There is a S/SSE swell from Tropical Storm Lidia off Baja. …. generally from Paradise Cove west. ))))
(((( fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( High tide is at 7:55 this morning.
Low tide is at 12:24 this midday.
High tide is at 6:32. ))))
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