The Rotary Club of Santa Monica has been participating in a program
sponsored by the Pacific Division of the LAPD.
Old cell phones are being collected to be programmed for free 911
Emergency Service. They will then
be donated to Sojourn Services of Santa Monica, where they will be given to
battered women and women at risk.
Community Police Advisory Board representative and Rotary Club Member
Harris Levey will make the presentation at the Pacific Division’s open house
on Saturday, October 13, 2001. If
you have a phone you no longer use, please consider donating it.
For more information, email HarrisJL@webtv.com
or call Maria at the Mirror at 577.6500.
In the wake of the terrorist attacks, retail business in the downtown
Promenade area has reportedly suffered. Retail
receipts are down 4% so far this year. There
is a noticeable thinning of crowds, though some of it can be attributed to the
normal end of season decline. The
hotels, once operating at near full capacity are struggling to get back to the
50& mark. Profitability does
not occur until 65% normally.