For 76 years, locals have gathered at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica’s Pico Neighborhood for the bay city’s annual Memorial Day celebration. This year, along with the usual food, music and military flyover, City officials unveiled a new monument to Santa Monica’s native sons and daughters who died while serving in the armed forces during wartime. – JI
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Saul Rubin
Saul Rubin is a professional journalist, travel author and media professor who has worked in Sana Monica for a quarter of a century. Saul was a reporter for the Santa Monica Outlook before helping to found the Santa Monica Lookout. He is currently the senior journalism professor at Santa Monica College where he teaches introductory news writing and multimedia story production. He is also the advisor to the student media operation, The Corsair.
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