January
2009

#327

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CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

24 Years of a Venice Institution End with Death of Mark Sponto

  • Sponto is gone - Suzy Williams
  • Remembering Sponto - Leland Auslender
  • My Friend Sponto - Carol Fondiller
  • Photo: Ron Proulx
  • Photo: Jim Smith
  • Memorial on Jan. 11

Then: Photo - Martin Luther King with Lyndon Johnson
Now: Photo - Barack Obama

4,219 U.S. Casualties in Iraq; 1,305,837 Iraqi Dead; 630 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan, Cost of Iraq: $584 billion

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

  • We Can, We Have, We Will - Steve Freedman
  • Buying Lincoln Place? - 1 - Barbara Eisenberg
  • Buying Lincoln Place? - 2 - Sheila Bernard
  • Buying Lincoln Place? - 3 - Response from Beachhead
  • City Controller Sues City Attorney - Laura Chick
  • Homeless Committee - 1 - Carolyn Rios
  • Homeless Committee - 2 - Reponse from Mark Lipman

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PAGE THREE

Letters:

  • Westminster Elementary Is Growing (plants) - Nora Drosin
  • Photo: Westminster Garden
  • Keeping up the struggle - Rafael "Chino" Melgoza

In Brief:

  • Neighborhood Council - Mark Lipman
  • Venice Town Council Takes Appeal of Permit Parking to the Coastal Commission - Jim Smith
  • Paul Robeson (play) in Venice - Alice Stek
  • Photo: KB Solomon as Paul Robeson
  • Post Office Selling Out - Jim Smith
  • Fire on Palms - Mark Lipman

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PAGE FOUR

New Year's Evolution - Amy V. Dewhurst

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PAGE FIVE

Poem: Big Bill's - R F Wagner, Jr.

  • Photo: Big Bill's by annalaurent

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Murder Unsolved - Mark Lipman

Windward Avenue Resident and Sculptor Robert Graham - Jim Smith

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PAGE SIX

Remembering Sponto - Leland Auslender - continued from page 1

My Friend Sponto - Carol Fondiller - continued from page 1

Sponto is gone - Suzy Williams - continued from page 1

  • Photo of Sponto - Leland Auslender
  • Photo of Sponto - eye~m~drc
  • Photo of inscriptions to Sponto - Jim Smith

PAGE SEVEN

40th Anniversary of the Free Venice Beachhead: - A Night to Remember - erica snowlake

  • Photo of Collective - Herbert B. Fishberg

My Friend Sponto - Carol Fondiller - continued from page 6

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PAGE EIGHT

Venice History – Was the Annexation of Venice to Los Angeles in 1925 a good idea? - Part 1 - Jeffrey Stanton

  • Photo: Venice in 1925 - from Venice California - Coney Island of the Pacific, by Jeffrey Stanton

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he Died and Why it Matters - Reviewed by Jack Neworth

  • Photo of the book cover

PAGE NINE

Poems for a New President

  • Inauguration Day - Sherman Pearl
  • Uncle Sam and Aunt Emma - Jim Smith
  • January 16, 2009 - Mark Lipman

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PAGE TEN

Was Annexation a good idea? –continued from page 8

  • Photo: Windward Avenue in 1906 - - from Venice California - Coney Island of the Pacific, by Jeffrey Stanton
  • Photo: Canals in 1907 - from Venice California - Coney Island of the Pacific, by Jeffrey Stanton

Political Cartoon: The Shoe That Was Heard Round The World - Khalil Bendib

PAGE ELEVEN

Poetry

  • Mystery - krista schwimmer
  • Half Heartedly - hillary kaye
  • House of Cards - Doug Eisenstark
  • Breaking Free - Janet C. Phelan
  • repeat after me - Rex Butters

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PAGE TWELVE

Calendar

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