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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2002
Volume 1, Issue 261
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
City remembers victims from Sept. 11 attacks
Rallying the team
BY ANDREW H. FIXMER Daily Press Staff Writer
Carolyn Sackariason/Daily Press
Santa Monica High School head coach Norm Lacey prepares his team during practice on Tuesday afternoon for their season opener Friday night against La Costa Canyon at Santa Monica College. Look for continued coverage of the Samohi Vikings in the Daily Press throughout the season.
Charges dropped against Santa Monica Henna artist Criminal case was headed for a jury trial
inate the practice. But Chanthadara has continued to perform — and has continued to be cited by police — arguing that it’s his First Amendment right to do so. But that all ended July 20 when police BY ANDREW H. FIXMER seized Chanthadara’s property and arrestDaily Press Staff Writer ed him on the Third Street Promenade. The city has dropped seven of the eight Between four and six plain-clothed police charges against a Henna artist who has officers equipped with a video camera been repeatedly fined and arrested for arrested Chanthadara while he drew nonperforming his craft on the Third Street permanent designs on the skin of tourists. “I would say it’s a fairly lenient dispoPromenade. In exchange for a plea of no contest to sition,” said Deputy City Attorney David Fairweather. “Our purpose one charge of operating a busiwasn’t to punish or put him in ness without a license, the city jail for this. Our purpose is to attorney’s office agreed last make sure the laws are week to drop all but one charge enforced and the violations do against Luke Chanthadara. not continue.” A $100 fine stemming from The agreement between the one unchallenged misdeboth sides was finalized on meanor charge will be susFriday, three days before the pended for one year as long as case was to be sent out for a Chanthadara doesn’t perform Henna without a proper perjury trial, which was expected mit. If Chanthadara complies, Luke Chanthadara to last for weeks. the charge will be dropped permanently. “My primary goal is to see that (that) Chanthadara has promised that he activity is not repeated,” Fairweather won’t continue protesting the city’s street said. “I said as long as he is placed under performers ordinance by practicing his art. those specific probation terms, then I Henna artists have been banned from would be satisfied.” performing on any public street after the See ARTIST, page 6 city council in October voted 4-3 to elimbosco, ward & nopar
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While the terrorist attacks that took place one year ago today may have occurred thousands of miles away, the effects still resonate here. Santa Monica residents Dora Menchaca, 45, and Carolyn Beug, 48, were aboard airplanes that were hijacked and flown into the Pentagon and the north tower of the World Trade Center, respectively. Menchaca was on American Airlines flight 77, which took off from Dulles International Airport in Virginia. Beug was aboard American Airlines flight 11 that originated from Boston. Menchaca, who was a Sunset Park resident, is survived by her husband Earl Dorsey, a 19-year-old daughter, Imani Dorsey, and a 5-year-old son, Jaryd Dorsey. Beug, who lived in a north of Montana Avenue neighborhood, is survived by her husband John Beug, twin 19-year-old daughters Lauren and Lindsey MayerBeug, and a 13-year-old son, Nicky. Both were proud mothers of local student athletes. Menchaca’s daughter, Imani, was a star soccer player at Harvard-Westlake before joining the soccer team at the University of Portland as a starting middle forward. Menchaca and her husband were known for not missing any of their daughter’s games, even after she moved to Portland. Imani Dorsey said through a University of Portland spokesperson that she did not want to give any interviews
during the one-year anniversary marking her mother’s death. “She needs to circle the wagons and try to deal with this if that’s at all possible,” said Loren Wohlgemuth, the university’s spokeswoman. Because of a rigorous soccer schedule, Imani will not be returning to Santa Monica today, he said.
“People say they want to keep the memory alive, but I don’t expect to feel any more pain that day than I feel every day.” — IMANI DORSEY Victim’s daughter
University administrators said a recent interview Imani had given to The Oregonian newspaper overwhelmed her. In the article, published last Wednesday, Imani said she doesn’t want to be reminded by the anniversary of the tragic event. “For me, I wish it wasn’t such a big deal,” she told The Oregonian. “People say they want to keep the memory alive, but I don’t expect to feel any more pain that day than I feel every day.” She told the newspaper that dwelling See 9-11, page 5
City struggles with homeless, crime in commercial district Santa Cruz faces same issues as Santa Monica BY MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer
SANTA CRUZ — There are bad vibes downtown these days in this liberal beach town. City leaders, frustrated by aggressive beggars and obnoxious sidewalk behavior, want to ban Hacky Sack games and limit panhandling, political tabling and street music. As a result, topless women, Uncle Sam on stilts, and “Jerry’s kids” who would rather be following the Grateful Dead (if
there was still a Grateful Dead to follow) have been marching past surf shops, book stores and cafes chanting: “We’re here, we’re poor, we’re not going shopping.” For several months, city leaders have been developing a package of complex new rules for the 10-block stretch in a rowdy and public process that has included dozens of meetings and protests. At the same time, there’s been an unusual rash of violent crime — a shooting, a gang fight and several late night assaults. “There’s an increasing number of people who aren’t being respectful to each other,” City Councilman Tim Fitzmaurice said Tuesday. “We can’t change their See HOMELESS, page 6
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