Amy Alkon
There are always little unexpected gems in Update. For me, in this one, it was Roxanne Brown’s photo of the binoculars on the building at Rose and Main getting cleaned. That’s one of the buildings I first saw when I got to Santa Monica/Venice, and it made me think this was a magical place I wanted to live.
Robin Murez
You missed my studio from the list of who has moved from Abbot Kinney to Main St. Was: Robin’s Sculpture Garden 1632 AK; Now: Robin Murez Studio 2935 Main St.
Of course, I keep installing my Venice Public Art sculptures along AK – recreating a bit of the magic. www.venicepublicart.com
Debbie Dyner Harris
Reference story on the Bollards/Bike Racks
the public address system will be included in the hopefully soon to be installed state of the art cameras.
Deborah LaShever
Bohemian Exchange was on Abbot Kinney for 6 years.
Nancy Poertner
Regarding the growing homeless camps behind our Oxford Triangle walls; I moved a camp from behind our neighbors’ house yesterday. They agreed to move but told me that ‘the people on the beach told them to come here to camp at night because they were not allowed on the beach’. The drifters went on to tell me they were here from San Bernadino – startling realization that the homeless are being directed to our neighborhood by other homeless – don’t know why I’m surprised!
Heather Kahler
I am amazed police showed up for Miller car burglary and also came to nab the “car Tampere’s.”
They usually blow off concerns (especially about transients) or never ever show up or show up far too late to catch anyone. Kids can’t go to the park without running into this criminal element. Does anyone care about families and kids in our community?
I often feel like we are a pain in the butt to them for calling and they are unconcerned unless the caller says there is a gun pointed at them.
Mark Ryavec- you are spot on and apparently the only person with clear vision not clouded with a bunch of hooey any nonsense. Too many people sugarcoat the problems. What about empathy for the people who work their asses off in this community and live and work here and raise families here? Where is the empathy for lawful citizens safety? Does my child deserve any less empathy than the meth head? Does my safety as a mother matter less than a heroine addict conning people for money carrying a sign that says “homeless mother” – who we all know locally is NOT a mother, but a heroine addict who then spends her con-donated monies at Walgreens to buy fresh needles with quarters dimes and nickels? (I was witness to this as I stood inline at the pharmacy with my child.)
And as a mother, no one is helping ANYONES child that is abusing drugs and living on the street by coddling and enabling the situation. Holding people accountable for their actions protects us and them, and likely just might make a lost soul or criminal get their act together with a big fat wake up call of someone saying ” NO. This is NOT ok.” Helping homeless people with “homelessness” is not going to solve their problem. Helping them by giving them a wake up call by saying “NO you can’t sleep, defecate, shoot up, smoke crack, steal stuff for drugs, sleep on someone’s front lawn” just might help them more than anything else. Who do we help by just leaving them be and saying “”oh it’s ok, they are so helpless” – that doesn’t help anything but our consciences. The hard thing to do as a mother or a leader is to say “NO”. If I was the mother of a drug addicted petty criminal living on the streets I’d pray to God someone would hold them accountable, say NO you cannot do this. It would likely save that kids life. Laws are meant to protect all. Overturning laws or ignoring laws that encourage sleeping on the streets and panhandling makes things worse and helps no one, least of all the troubled, addicted, lost souls, veterans, people fallen on hard times that live on the street. Services and enforcement must be “utilized” in a symbiotic relationship. Key word is “utilized” – services as a method to reach out but also utilized by those being offered!! Enforcement for those who create an unsafe environment for all.
Reta Moser
The “approve/unapproved” wordage that I have used in referencing LUPC and VNC projects is not appropriate, incorrect. It should be VNC or LUPC recommends support/denial of such and such project. Only Planning or Coastal or in rare cases City Council can “approve” or “deny” a project. That was brought to my attention by a reader who didn’t want to be named. I know that but have done it because it is less burdensome to write. The problem with my using incorrect verbiage is that residents might think the case is over. Many people believe that if it goes thru LUPC, VNC, it doesn’t go thru Planning.
Sandy Banks, columnist for LA Times, has great story on Venice “Travelers.”
Don’t miss Nick Antonicello’s comments on web site at veniceupdate.com.
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Comments–2 June 2015
Amy Alkon
There are always little unexpected gems in Update. For me, in this one, it was Roxanne Brown’s photo of the binoculars on the building at Rose and Main getting cleaned. That’s one of the buildings I first saw when I got to Santa Monica/Venice, and it made me think this was a magical place I wanted to live.
Robin Murez
You missed my studio from the list of who has moved from Abbot Kinney to Main St. Was: Robin’s Sculpture Garden 1632 AK; Now: Robin Murez Studio 2935 Main St.
Of course, I keep installing my Venice Public Art sculptures along AK – recreating a bit of the magic. www.venicepublicart.com
Debbie Dyner Harris
Reference story on the Bollards/Bike Racks
the public address system will be included in the hopefully soon to be installed state of the art cameras.
Deborah LaShever
Bohemian Exchange was on Abbot Kinney for 6 years.
Nancy Poertner
Regarding the growing homeless camps behind our Oxford Triangle walls; I moved a camp from behind our neighbors’ house yesterday. They agreed to move but told me that ‘the people on the beach told them to come here to camp at night because they were not allowed on the beach’. The drifters went on to tell me they were here from San Bernadino – startling realization that the homeless are being directed to our neighborhood by other homeless – don’t know why I’m surprised!
Heather Kahler
I am amazed police showed up for Miller car burglary and also came to nab the “car Tampere’s.”
They usually blow off concerns (especially about transients) or never ever show up or show up far too late to catch anyone. Kids can’t go to the park without running into this criminal element. Does anyone care about families and kids in our community?
I often feel like we are a pain in the butt to them for calling and they are unconcerned unless the caller says there is a gun pointed at them.
Mark Ryavec- you are spot on and apparently the only person with clear vision not clouded with a bunch of hooey any nonsense. Too many people sugarcoat the problems. What about empathy for the people who work their asses off in this community and live and work here and raise families here? Where is the empathy for lawful citizens safety? Does my child deserve any less empathy than the meth head? Does my safety as a mother matter less than a heroine addict conning people for money carrying a sign that says “homeless mother” – who we all know locally is NOT a mother, but a heroine addict who then spends her con-donated monies at Walgreens to buy fresh needles with quarters dimes and nickels? (I was witness to this as I stood inline at the pharmacy with my child.)
And as a mother, no one is helping ANYONES child that is abusing drugs and living on the street by coddling and enabling the situation. Holding people accountable for their actions protects us and them, and likely just might make a lost soul or criminal get their act together with a big fat wake up call of someone saying ” NO. This is NOT ok.” Helping homeless people with “homelessness” is not going to solve their problem. Helping them by giving them a wake up call by saying “NO you can’t sleep, defecate, shoot up, smoke crack, steal stuff for drugs, sleep on someone’s front lawn” just might help them more than anything else. Who do we help by just leaving them be and saying “”oh it’s ok, they are so helpless” – that doesn’t help anything but our consciences. The hard thing to do as a mother or a leader is to say “NO”. If I was the mother of a drug addicted petty criminal living on the streets I’d pray to God someone would hold them accountable, say NO you cannot do this. It would likely save that kids life. Laws are meant to protect all. Overturning laws or ignoring laws that encourage sleeping on the streets and panhandling makes things worse and helps no one, least of all the troubled, addicted, lost souls, veterans, people fallen on hard times that live on the street. Services and enforcement must be “utilized” in a symbiotic relationship. Key word is “utilized” – services as a method to reach out but also utilized by those being offered!! Enforcement for those who create an unsafe environment for all.
Reta Moser
The “approve/unapproved” wordage that I have used in referencing LUPC and VNC projects is not appropriate, incorrect. It should be VNC or LUPC recommends support/denial of such and such project. Only Planning or Coastal or in rare cases City Council can “approve” or “deny” a project. That was brought to my attention by a reader who didn’t want to be named. I know that but have done it because it is less burdensome to write. The problem with my using incorrect verbiage is that residents might think the case is over. Many people believe that if it goes thru LUPC, VNC, it doesn’t go thru Planning.
Sandy Banks, columnist for LA Times, has great story on Venice “Travelers.”
Don’t miss Nick Antonicello’s comments on web site at veniceupdate.com.
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