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Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch
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CITYWIDE ISSUES
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FREEWAYS MAY THREATEN LUNG HEALTH OF CHILDREN
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NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: NEW REPRESENTATIVE NAMED
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FREE BUS TO SANTA MONICA COLLEGE BEGINS FEB. 5
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FREEWAYS MAY THREATEN LUNG HEALTH OF CHILDREN
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(WebMD) Children living close to freeways may have slower lung development between ages 10 and 18 than those living farther away.
That's according to a study of more than 3,000 southern California children, published in The Lancet's online edition.
"Since lung development is nearly complete by age 18 years, an individual with a deficit at this time will probably continue to have less than healthy lung function for the remainder of his or her life," write researcher W. James Gauderman, Ph.D., and colleagues.
The study may raise "important questions for society about the structure of the transportation system, engines, fuels, combustion, and road dust in urban areas," editorialists write in The Lancet.
Gauderman works in the University of Southern California's preventive medicine department. He and his team studied 3,677 children in 12 communities in southern California.
The children were in the fourth grade (average age: 10 years) when the study started in the 1990s. They took yearly lung function tests for up to eight years.
Children 10 to 18 go through a period of rapid lung development, the researchers note.
The researchers also looked at how close the children lived to freeways and found that 440 lived less than a third of a mile from one.
Their results showed that the children living that close to a freeway had slower lung development |
during the study, compared with those living at least three times farther from a freeway.
The findings held after the researchers took other factors into account, including family income, race, asthma, smoking, regional air quality, and kids who moved during the study.
Local roads that weren't freeways were not associated with slower lung development. The children weren't followed beyond age 18, so it's not clear how well their lungs functioned later in life.
The concentration of pollutants in the area near major freeways may be the problem, but it's hard to rule out other influences, note Gauderman and colleagues.
It's also not clear what factors, if any, influenced the kids' lung development before age 10, say the editorialists. They included Thomas Sandstrom, M.D., Ph.D., of the respiratory medicine and allergy department of University Hospital in Umea, Sweden.
"However, these questions should not distract from the major achievement of follow-up of such a large group of children through secondary school with repeated lung function tests," write the editorialists.
The study was funded in part by the California Air Resources Board, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
SOURCES: Gauderman, W. The Lancet, Jan. 26, 2007; online edition. Sanstrom, T., The Lancet, Jan. 26, 2007; online edition. |
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FRONDS FROM THE PALMS
Neighborhood Council kicks off the new year
Its governing body got down to business on Jan. 3
• Charles Buffa, a Venice Blvd. business property owner who lives in a Jasmine Ave. apartment, was appointed to the Palms Representative Assembly as representative for Studio Residential District D. The post had been vacant since May 2006; nobody filed to run in the 2006 election.
• The council learned that a new civic group has been formed: Krista Colson introduced the Motor Ave. Improvement Assn., which is designed to keep an eye on that thoroughfare from Pico Blvd. down to Washington Blvd.
• The Representative Assembly approved a formal request to the city to move Palms's borders north to the 10 Freeway east of Overland. It will not be sent to the Department of Neighbohood Empowerment until it is determined that it's consideration won't interfere with the spring council election.
• President Pauline Stout asked stakeholders to submit more ideas for Neighborhood Council projects. A proposal for a 'Taste of Palms' endeavor was presented but its consideration was delayed because the idea had not been put on the agenda. The project envisions a big celebration featuring ethnic food and other delicacies from Palms restaurants. It would involve the hiring of a professional manager to run the shindig.
• The Assembly authorized $4,200 to pay Eugene Ferriter for design and maintenance of a new Web site for the Neighborhood Council. Click here to see the present Web site.
• Assembly members learned to their dismay that the submission of May, 2007, election procedures missed the deadline set by the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, even though they were submitted in advance of the Dec. 31, 2006, cutoff. Deanna Stevenson, the city's representative, explained that the procedures had not been 'logged in' until Jan. 2, 2007. The result: The election will be delayed until June.
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PALMS BANNERS NOT ON POLES: NOBODY SALUTES
You may remember that Palms celebrated — well, observed — no, ignored — its 120th anniversary in December 2006. One idea was to post some banners around town to let people know all about Palms and its historic business areas.
Residential Representative Mario Bruhwiler and Business Rep Neal Anderberg put in several zillion hours in designing the banners and seeking the city's permission to get them posted.
Lo! One city department after another had a whack at the banners. The City Attorney wanted a city seal added. Another official said that Palms couldn't use the phrase "Historic Business Area" (this dumb ruling was reversed after City Council Member Herb Wesson's office interceded).
Another problem: At virtually the last moment, Bruhwiler learned that the $10,000 budgeted by the Neighborhood Assembly for the project would cover only the cost of printing and manufacturing the banners — not for installing them. Now he's scaling down the project to fit within the budget.
So? The banner project is still making its way through the maze. Sometime this year we will have our celebratory banners. They'll probably be posted for two months or so.
And we'll be able to send them aloft to flutter every year hereafter.
At least that's the plan.
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PALMS IS GOING POSTAL
Carrier couldn't find clearly marked apartment address; other complaints abound
 Complaints about the Palms post office continue to arrive. They range from shoddy mail delivery to a pesky bush that blocks the view of Motor Ave. as you exit the postal garage. As anybody who visits the post office can attest, the interior of the place looks — and sounds — pretty awful, too.
Reza Akef, field deputy for Congress Member Jane Harman, has taken some of the complaints to James Smith, the L.A. regional director for the Postal Service. Smith has promised to set up a meeting with his local managers and neighborhood council officials from Palms and other areas. (Akef is leaving his job to become a law student, but he assures us that his successor will continue with this project.)
But first there must be a list of complaints, Akef told The Sun. That's where YOU come in. Send your complaints here. We'll add them to these problems that we already know about, and we'll forward them to the Neighborhood Council:
 Mail addressed to 10210 Woodbine Street was returned with a label "No Such Number / Unable to Forward." Hint to the letter carrier: This big apartment bldg. is at the corner of Jasmine (photo).
- "My neighbors and I are not getting mail delivered, getting it weeks late, delivered to wrong address and we have to walk a few doors down to deliver to each other. I have a zerox copy of a letter I put to forward to the correct address and place the letter back in my mail box as a 'pick up' mail for the mailman and they ignored and pushed it back down into my mail box. My mail box drops down into my house."
- Faced with 30 Media Mail packages all addressed to California locations, all weighing the same, all costing $2.55 to deliver, a bored postal clerk laboriously entered each zip code into his system, printed out labels individually, affixed them one by one to the packages, which he placed in a bin behind his station (pausing once to stretch out his aching back), while the television monitor in the lobby screamed out a really dumb reality show. (The solution would have been to print out all the labels at once and to have done so with a smile and a thank-you. And to turn off the TV.)
- "I contacted the . . . Palms Office as you suggested, and received the same answer: 'Your information will be given to the supervisor.' Nothing has been done for 3 months, and we just want a lock on the mailboxes! I have been very patient with your office, but this is completely insane. If you want to mail me an approved lock to the address below, I will be happy to install it myself. I cannot waste anymore time on a $5.00 lock unless your office wants to pay me $95.00/hour for my follow-up services."
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FREE BUS TO AND FROM SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
BEGINS FEB. 5
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SMC-Palms Commuter Line — Weekdays
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Leave
Westwood- Pico
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Arrive
Main Campus
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Leave
Main Campus
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Arrive
Westwood-Pico
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1:36 p.m.
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2:10 p.m.
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