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Volume 7 Issue 74
Santa Monica Daily Press EYE ON CRIME SEE PAGE 6
Since 2001: A news odyssey
THE GO VIKINGS ISSUE
Friends identify Web site GM as crash victim
District looks into sexual harassment allegation
BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
SM AIRPORT The head of a popular aviation
BY MELODY HANATANI
Web site was one of two victims who perished in a fatal plane crash here on Wednesday night, according to friends and colleagues. The forum for Airliners.net was flooded with messages of condolences on Thursday as news spread that Paulo Emanuele, the site’s general manager, died when the Marchetti F260 he was aboard headed nose first into the ground and erupted in flames at Santa Monica Airport shortly after takeoff. The Los Angeles County Coroner has yet to release the names of the victims but officials with Airliners.net issued a statement on Wednesday night, identifying one of the victims as the aviation enthusiast. “Paulo loved Airliners(.net) and everything it stands for,” the statement on the site’s main page said. “He will be remembered for his passion, his kindness, and his love for life.” The Web site is part of Demand Media, a Santa Monica-based company specializing in social media and technology. The experimental single-engine aircraft took off from the airport shortly after 5 p.m. when the pilot reportedly experienced engine trouble. As he attempted to land, the pilot lost control of the plane, which crashed roughly 1,000 feet from the west end of the runway. No one on the ground was injured. “The indication that I got was that he apparently had attempted to make contact
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KANSAS AVENUE School district officials plan to launch an investigation into a sexual harassment allegation involving a male teacher at Edison Language Academy and two female colleagues. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District was notified several weeks ago that an instructor reportedly made an anti-gay comment to the teachers about two male students kissing in class, adding that he would not have minded if the interaction had instead involved girls. He then proceeded by suggestively putting his arm around the female teachers, according to one of their husbands, Rafael Garcia-Rangel. Garcia-Rangel, whose wife is first grade teacher Veronica Nuñez-Garcia, contacted Mike Matthews, the assistant superintendent for human resources, on Jan. 16 about the alleged incident earlier that week, describing the encounter between the school employees. “The coach … notified my wife and her colleague that ‘two of your boys (students) were playing a kissing game with each other,’” Garcia-Rangel wrote in an e-mail to Matthews. “Then he said, ‘had it been two girls though I wouldn’t have said anything. “My wife responded by stating ‘this is when I walk away’ and did so.” Nuñez-Garcia, who declined to comment for the article, later told the teacher that his
GETTING ON TRACK
Morgan Genser news@smdp.com Santa Monica High School's Jerome Hatchett looks for an open teammate against Hawthorne High School Wednesday at Samohi. The Vikings won the Ocean League game, 70-64. With the victory, Samohi improves its record to 16-5 overall and 4-3 in league.
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Heavy hitters coming to Santa Monica’s Broad Stage BY TAYLOR VAN ARSDALE Special to the Daily Press
11th Street Musical icons Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour debut their latest classical
crossover venture “Amparo” at the Broad Stage on Saturday. Grammy nominated “Amparo” — the follow up to Grusin and Ritenour’s successful 2000 release of “Two Worlds” — is the
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