KBUU Newswire Day 131: Tues Mar 18 – 2 Deadly Incidents In Cars Near Malibu – Bill Would Underground Powerlines – Traffic Signal Proposed For Malibu Seafood

This is KBUU News – Day 131 – the Tuesday headlines:

• =   A speeding car … headlights out … smashes into Mugu Rock. 1 dead.
• =   Power lines underground in high fire risk areas go underground after all.
• =   Caltrans wants to add a traffic signal in the middle of Malibu.
• =   A Malibu attorney attacks the powers that be in Santa Monica … again.
• =   Stairway to the Stars … tonight … in Santa Monica.
• =  And Malibu remembers Dick Dale … king of the surf guitar … longtime fixture at Trancas.
• Malibu’s Only Local Daily News …from Radio Malibu  …. F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.

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Rain is approaching Malibu tomorrow night,.

There is a 60 percent chance of rain starting late Tuesday night.

Not much of rain … about a quarter inch.

A second rain storm will arrive Thursday … that one possibly stronger … and possibly embedded with a few thunderstorms.

No chance of mudflows … says the L A County flood control desk.

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Ventura county homicide detectives are at Point Mugu this morning … investigating a suspicious car wreck.  And there was a person found dead in a vehicle at Malibu Canyon’s tunnel yesterday.  Limited details:  https://www.radiomalibu.net/2-possible-suicides-on-local-roads/

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Public electric utilities would have to put up half of the money necessary to underground powerlines in the state’s most hazardous fire risk areas.

And rat poison would be illegal statewide.

Two bills up for consideration in Sacramento … of great interest to Malibu:  https://www.radiomalibu.net/utilities-would-pay-underground/

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Should a traffic light be installed on Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu Seafood???
Caltrans says yes … but some Malibu people are not so sure.  Details:  https://www.radiomalibu.net/proposed-malibu-seafood-stoplight/

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Speaking of outreach meetings ….

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Also coming up, … an outreach meeting for kids.

The city plans to present ideas and conceptual designs for the replacement of two small playground areas for the playground equipment at Malibu Bluffs Park.

Recommendations include a fitness station in the current zip-line area and a small climbing and agility playground for children ages 2-5 in the sand-digger area.

Kids and parents are invited to give their feedback on the conceptual designs and share your preferences on the type of equipment that will be installed in the playground.

That meeting will be  from 6 to 7 on Tuesday April 2nd at City Hall.  

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You are listening to the latest news from Radio Malibu … F-M 99 point 1 K B U U.  ((( time  ))))

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Malibu attorney Kevin Shenkman has won an early skirmish in a lawsuit he has filed against the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.

Details:  https://www.radiomalibu.net/malibu-lawyer-sticks-it-to-sm/

Santa Monica Lookout article: https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2019/March-2019/03_14_2019_Superior_Court_Judge_Rejects_School_Districts_Motion_to_Dismiss_Free_Education_Lawsuit.html

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The annual Stairway to the Stars series of concerts hit its 70th year anniversary this week.

Musicians from Malibu and Santa Monica public schools will play nights of Choir, Orchestra and Band music.

Stairway used to be a big joint appearance in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium … but that venue is no longer available so there will be three performances in the Samohi’s Barnum Hall

Musicians will play in Santa Monica High’s Barnum Hall… over three nights.

Santa Monica-Malibu  is celebrating their school district’s successful music program with a series of concerts and an honoring of a former student.

Nearly 1,000 elementary, middle, and high school students will participate.

Students’ music education journey begins at SMMUSD in third grade with a basic music class from a certified teacher.

In 4th grade, they’re given an instrument.

Music teachers in elementary school are very unusual in California public schools.

Fundraising by parents and other supporters … pay for music classes.

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The music world and Malibu are mourning the death of Dick Dale.

He was 81, he died Saturday after a long bout with cancer.

Dick Dale in the 1950s influenced the Beatles and Rolling Stones … Neil Young … long before Dick Dale had hit the top 40 charts and found fame. 

In the 1960s  … Malibu musician John Zambetti heard those Dick Dale’s songs as a teenager growing up in New jersey … and studied Dick Dale’s technique … and formed a surf band called the Malibooz that has performed for four decades.

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“Dick Dale created the rhythms of the ocean, working with Leo Fender he created the Fender Reverb backboard technique,  that led to the reverb sound which really emulated the sounds of waves crashing.

“And his double clicking sound, going up and down the strains, thse big fat 60 gauge strings, emulated the sound of the board slashing through waves.”

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Dick Dale’s father was from  Lebanon.

And his music Incorporated middle eastern scales … minor keys … techniques from worlds that America was unfamiliar with just as surf music crashed ashore in the late 1950s.

Writes the LA Times: “`Misirlou’ represented a cross-cultural blend, coupling minor key motifs and Middle Eastern musical scale with pounding drums and throbbing bass, all fueling Dale’s stinging “wet” electric guitar pyrotechnics.”

Hear the mariachi trumpets in the bridge???

A decade ago Dale battled back from cancer.

Thirty years ago … Dick Dale played every week at the Trancas Beach restaurant.

His music gained a new audience when the movie “Pulp Fiction”.

One KBUU listener reminds us that “not many people are credited with creating a genre of music” … but Dick Dale did just that with surf music.

Dick Dale … dies of cancer … at age 81.

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Sue Murphree helps us with these sports stories:

Malibu Seawolves simmer Filip Kurial age 12 competed this weekend in the Spring Junior Olympics at the Rose Bowl Aquatics in Pasadena.  

Filip competed in the 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 500 Free, 50 Back and 100 Back.

New team records were set in all 6 events (in 5 events he broke his own team record and he also took the team record for the first time in the 500 Free).

Filip made it to the Finals in 5 out of 6 of his events.  Only the top 20 swimmers make it to the finals.  

He received a medal for 10th place in the 100 Free.

He has qualified for the Speedo Far Western Championships to be held the weekend of April 4-7 in Santa Clara in all six events.  This swim meet is a more competitive meet than the Spring Junior Olympics.

Filip who turns 13 in June has already qualified to compete in the 13/14 age group at the Summer Junior Olympics in July for the 200 Free, 500 Free and 100 Back.

Malibu Seawolves are signing up swimmers for the Spring Quarter.  See www.malibuseawolves.com for more information.

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The AYSO U12 Girls Allstars tournament team participated in the Pot O’Gold tournament this weekend in Thousand Oaks.  The team won their pool after playing 3 games and qualified for the Championship game.  The team lost 1-0  in the Championship game to take home the Runners-Up trophies.

The AYSO U14 Girls Allstars team participated in the Western State Championships this weekend.  (Not sure what to say here as they lost both games however it was a tremendous achievement to get that far).

AYSO will be signing up players for the Fall season starting in April.  Rates have been lowered to $200(first player), $175(second player) and $150(third player).  

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Weather for the Malibu ….

((((   Sunny, with a high near 68.  ))))    )))) beaches … ((((   75   )))) mountains and canyons.

Winds …  (((   will be negiligble   )))) this afternoon.

Sunset tonight is at   ((((   7:02    )))).

After that … (((  partly cloudy   )))) tonight … low ((((    54    )))) beaches …  ((((  51   )))) mountains and canyons.

Tomorrow should be   ((((      )))).

Chance of rain tomorrow night … 60 percent.

About a quarter inch of rain predicted to fall overnight into Wednesday.

At 8:0Day 1315 … at Trancas it’s ((((    61    )))) degrees.

Leo Carrillo Beach …   ((((   60    )))).

Upper Malibu Canyon …  ((((    62    )))) .

And at Civic Center Los Angeles … ((((   58   )))).

In the ocean … it’s ((((   54    )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.

The lifeguards say the waves today are   ((((    )))) feet high ….

High 7:52

2:44 low

Those are ((((  fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.

(((((   tide is at     ))))

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