MONDAY, MAY 16, 2011
Volume 10 Issue 158
Santa Monica Daily Press
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MIYOUNG MICHELLE SUH
Working it in the real world BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
SUNSET PARK Today, Miyoung Michelle Suh, a chef-instructor at the Art Institute of California in Santa Monica, is in South Korea, en route to Kajikistan to support members of her church as they perform mission work in the former Soviet bloc country. Three weeks ago, she was scouring every supermarket in Scottsdale, Ariz. for perfectly-sized miniature Granny Smith apples. “When I designed the recipe, Granny Smiths were in season,” Suh explained. “As the months passed by, they got harder and harder to find.” Suh, an accomplished chef with a resume spanning multiple five-star restaurants and a host of instructional experience, was battling against one of the most accomplished pastry chefs in the country for the title of the western region’s Pastry Chef of the Year. The theme: apple. Suh got the word that she had beat out hundreds of other applicants for the shot at the title in January, and set about creating a work of
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Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com The Jimenez family tours a truck at Fire Station No. 5 during the Santa Monica Fire Department’s Open House on Saturday afternoon.
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Quarter of state Lawmaker wants to end new parole law parks may close DON THOMPSON Associated Press
ADAM WEINTRAUB Associated Press
SACRAMENTO A quarter of all state parks would close because of budget cuts approved by the state Legislature — from redwood groves along the North Coast to historic mining sites in the Sierra foothills and the Salton Sea in Southern California — under plans announced Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration. The state would close 70 of its 278 state SEE PARKS PAGE 9
SACRAMENTO A state senator is seeking to halt a newly enacted state law that allows unsupervised parole for thousands of California convicts released from prison after one former inmate was charged with a double homicide in Southern California. Zackariah Timothy Lehnen, 30, is charged with fatally stabbing and beating a woman and an elderly man this month in Culver City, west of downtown Los Angeles, and faces arraignment late this month. He was placed on unsupervised parole in November after serving less than five months of a 16-month prison sentence for
drug possession. The Legislature passed the law allowing what it termed “non-revocable parole” in 2009 as a way to save money by returning fewer lower-level offenders to prison for minor parole violations. The law took effect in January 2010. Today, more than 13,000 ex-convicts are in the program and are not being monitored. That means they do not have to report to parole agents and can be returned to prison only for committing new crimes. That’s different from traditional parole, which requires offenders to report regularly to parole agents and meet other conditions, such as abstaining from alcohol and drugs
and avoiding other felons. State Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, criticized the computerized risk-assessment program the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation uses to decide when it is safe for parolees such as Lehnen to go unsupervised once they are released from prison. He called the risk assessment “fatally flawed” in a letter sent this week to Corrections Secretary Matt Cate. “We are now seeing not just the potential public safety consequences, but actual consequences. More lives need not be lost,” he wrote in the letter, which he provided to SEE PAROLE PAGE 10
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