| Green Dog Dental & Veterinary Center Joins OPA as a Silver Member! Green Dog has long called the Westside home, supporting Main Street events, caring for local pets and families, and hosting Adoptapalooza. Here’s a message from them to the community: “We’ve been part of this neighborhood for a long time — and now we’re proud to officially become members of the Ocean Park Association. Green Dog has deep roots on the Westside. Many of our team members live right here in the surrounding community, our Venice hospital cares for pets from across Ocean Park, Venice, and the rest of Santa Monica, and we’re proud to serve as the pet medical providers for many Main Street events throughout the year. We also host Adoptapalooza, one of the area’s largest annual dog and cat adoption events, bringing together local rescues, pet lovers, businesses, and neighbors for a day centered around finding animals homes. For us, being local has always meant more than simply having an address here. It means showing up, supporting the businesses and organizations around us, creating local jobs, participating in neighborhood events, and being an active part of the community we call home. We’re excited to make that connection even stronger as proud members of the Ocean Park Association — and to keep doing our part for the pets, people, and neighborhood around us.” Learn more here: greendogdental.com |
| September OPA Monthly Meeting Monday (Sept 14): The meeting is at the Ocean Park Library @ 2601 Main St. starting with food and mingling at 6:00pm. We will also be hybrid on Zoom. Click here to add the OPA monthly meeting and Zoom link to your calendar. Here’s the zoom link, and here’s the schedule: |
| 6:00 – 6:30: Food, refreshments and mingling6:30 – 7:30: Guest Speakers:SaMo Police DepartmentSaMo Fire DepartmentWestside Food BankJacob Wasserman from the Planning CommissionAshley Oelson discussing landmarking the WHALE MURAL on OP BLVD7:30 – 8:30: Board business, including the upcoming calendar of events. |
| Ocean Way Festival is Coming to Santa Monica Sept. 26 & 27: The City published this guide on what the community can expect, including Festival Details, Event Preparation (setup for the festival on Sept. 14), Pier details, and more. |
| Blue Notebook – A Weekly Recap August 16-22: SMPD made 110 arrests while responding to significant incidents across the City and maintaining focused enforcement in downtown, beach, residential, and school areas. More details here. |
| Santa Monica seeks cafe operator for Camera Obscura, Switzerland’s 2028 Olympic house: The city of Santa Monica is searching for a cafe operator to run the historic Camera Obscura Building on Ocean Avenue, opening a competition that will help shape the future of a coastal landmark set to double as Switzerland’s official hospitality house during the 2028 Olympics. The city released a request for proposals Aug. 20 seeking qualified cafe operators, hospitality professionals and food-and-beverage concessionaires to program and operate up to 2,000 square feet of cafe and warming-kitchen space inside the building at 1450 Ocean Ave. Proposals are due Oct. 1. More details here. |
| Fitoor Named OpenTable 2026 Diners’ Choice Winner: The modern coastal Indian restaurant Fitoor has been named an OpenTable 2026 Diners’ Choice restaurant. Based directly on verified diner reviews and reservations, the award spotlights the hotspot’s bold regional Indian flavors, creative cocktail menu, and vibrant atmosphere. It is one of my favorite SaMo spots and am excited for it to get the accolades it deserves. 1755 Ocean Ave. instagram.com/eatdrinkatfitoor |
| Eater Gives West Side Oyster Club a Shucking Good Review: Eater has named West Side Oyster Club one of the best places for oysters in Santa Monica right now, praising its high-quality shellfish, lobster rolls, clam chowder and fish and chips. The review calls it a more affordable alternative to some of Santa Monica’s pricier seafood destinations. la.eater.com/dining-report/306278/west-side-oyster-club-review |
| Councilmember Dan Hall Newsletter: He published this summary of the Recreation and Arts Impact Report with his thoughts on accomplishments to date, what’s coming up, and much more. One interesting note is how many people use the swimming facilities (over 200k), followed by pickleball (40k+), and the a huge drop off from there. Guess we need more pools and pickleball courts. |
