KBUU Newswire – Day 178 – Fri May 3 – Whole Foods Nears Opening – Giant Harmless Sharks Return – Bev Hills Man Sent To Dume
Written by 991KBU on May 3, 2019
This is KBUU News – Day 178 – the Friday Headlines:
- = L A County moves quietly to add campgrounds to the Santa Monica Mountains.
- = Point Dume school may not have a name … but it has a new principal.
- = Whole Foods market opens in five weeks … the new center is spectacular.
- = Burned out vacant lots create new view corridors … perhaps unfairly.
- = Last year’s fire increases the possibility of a major fire this year … federal officials warn.
- = And sharks the size of a small bus … are returning to the local coast.
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Camping in Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas … ESHAs … is being proposed for the Santa Monica Mountains. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/county-may-open-door-to-camping/
The Whole Foods Market and the new shopping center called The Park At Cross-Creek will open in the second week of June. And members of the Malibu Chamber of Commerce were given a first glimpse of the new shopping center last night.
It’s dazzling. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/whole-foods-to-open-in-5-weeks/
The Woolsey Fire has given some residents of Malibu an unfair advantage over their neighbors … as it has increased ocean views across land that has burned. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/new-views-across-burned-lots/
An educator from Beverly Hills High School has been appointed to be the new principal at the Point Dume elementary school.
Chris Hertz was appointed last night … as the Santa Monica Malibu School Board met in Malibu.
Hertz brings more than 25 years of education experience to the district as an elementary school teacher, vice principal and principal.
Since 2012 he has served in director positions for the Beverly Hills Unified School District .. which we assume are what they call principals there.
He currently works as director of school safety at Beverly Hills High … and previously served as the director of student services and special projects … and director of academic excellence and technology.
Point Dume’s school has yet to get a new name … as the Point Dume Marine Sciences School merges with Juan Cabrillo elementary.
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The Trump administration yesterday dismantled safety rules for offshore oil drilling put in place by the Obama administration.
The Obama rules came after the disastrous BP oil spill fouled the Gulf of Mexico nearly a decade ago.
The rollbacks are a major victory for the oil and gas industry
The final version of the changes to Well Control Rules come shortly after the Interior Department said it was pushing back plans to open up vast new areas of coastline for oil and gas exploration in federal waters, a move that would delay the controversial expansion until after the 2020 election.
Green groups are studying the rules and looking for flaws they can challenge with lawsuits, said Chris Eaton, an attorney for Earthjustice.
Critics are also slamming Interior for a lack of transparency:
The new rules were written by the American Petroleum Institute, a trade association, and they can only be read on the group’s website.
In order to read the new offshore oil rules …. members of the public must register with the trade association on its website and pay a fee.
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Finally this morning … a shark that grows to the length of a small bus may be making a comeback off Malibu.
Basking sharks … huge sharks that do not have teeth and eat only plankton in the ocean …. are being spotted in increasing numbers in the Santa Monica Bay and off the Channel islands in Ventura County.
Christopher Lowe, director of the Shark Lab at CSU Long Beach. tells the Ventura County Star about the recent sightings.
“It has really been 30 years since we’ve seen them in any numbers,” Lowe told the Star.
The newspaper reports that basking sharks used to be found by the hundreds … maybe thousands … off the local coast.
But their population plummeted after the 1960s.
The sharks were targeted by fisheries … and in some cases … sharks were killed to prevent them from getting tangled up in fishing nets.
That practice ended decades ago … the sharks were protected by law … but the population failed to rebound.
Until now.
The big sharks move a lot … one that was tagged in Monterey Bay swam to the tip of Baja.
The story is reported in the Ventura County Star: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/special-reports/outdoors/2019/05/01/sharks-ventura-california-coast-reported-basking-sightings-increase/3556886002/
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A magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported last night in the channel about 30 miles west of Malibu.
the 3.0 quake struck at 9:11 last night … epicentered 23 miles from Port Hueneme.
The temblor was detected on the surface of the ocean floor.
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Weather for the Malibu ….
(((( Patchy clouds burning off )))) … highs (((( 75 )))) beaches … (((( 85 )))) mountains and canyons.
Downcoast winds … ((( not bad … about 10 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 7:39.
Late night and early mornign coastal clouds and mountain fog )))) tonight … low (((( 57 )))) beaches … (((( 50 )))) mountains and canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( much the same )))).
Drizzle is possible Sunday and Monday.
At 8:19 … at Trancas it’s (((( 61 )))) degrees.
Leo Carrillo Beach … (((( 58 )))).
Upper Malibu Canyon … (((( 51 )))) .
And at Civic Center Los Angeles … (((( 59 )))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( 58 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( )))) feet high ….
Those are (((( fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( High tide is at 9:35 AM … 4.1ft High
Low tide at 3:14 PM.
And another high tide … 5.2 feet … at 9:26 tonight. ))))
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