(above) Monsignor Lloyd Torgerson of Saint Monica's Catholic Church tees-off during Santa Monica Police Activity League's (PAL) Charity Golf Classic at Mountain Gate Country Club on Monday, June 15, 2009. (center) Santa Monica Police Chief Timothy J. Jackman putts during PAL's Charity Golf Classic at Mountain Gate Country Club. (top) Golfers drive by as a doe and her fawn graze during PAL's Charity Golf Classic at Mountain Gate Country Club on Monday, June 15, 2009. Money raised through the classic helps support scholarships for PAL youth, SAT and ACT prep courses and and homework assistance.

Santa Monica High School (SAMOHI) volunteers Rich Gates (left) and Chuck Kearsley, sand the 'SS Viking' on Saturday, June 13, 2009, at SAMOHI. The giant blue and gold ship is 85 ft. long by 30 ft. tall and is made from plywood. The vessel will stage the19th Annual 'Grad Nite' celebration on Thursday, June 18, for the 2009 graduating senior class.The vessel takes three weekends to constructand and one weekend to dismantle. Two hounded and fifty volunteers worked on the Grad Night project. The evening will include a DJ, dancing, carnival and casino games, food, a complimentary DVD of the evening, lots of prizes and much more.

Santa Monica High School's Grad Nite is one of the city's most elaborate events - an all-night party of thoroughly extravagant proportions thrown each June exclusively for the graduating class by the parents, district teachers, staff, local businesses and community. Grad Nite is drug and alcohol-free graduation party that keeps students safe, sober and alive on what is statistically the most dangerous night of their lives.

(top) Children enjoy Richard Woloski's 'He Be Buggin' Puppet Show' at the Santa Monica Library during the celebration of children’s author/illustrator Eric Carle 40th publication anniversary of his children’s book, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” on Saturday June 13, 2009. (above) Kadin Kloss, 5, and TJ Keith, 4, make a collage art work during the 'Happy Birthday, Very Hungry Caterpillar!'

Santa Monica College Music Chair Rhoda Tuit and Yulia Kozlova perform "Mother Goose Suite for Piano, 4 hands" (1908-10) during SMC Associate's 'Musical Afternoon' on Sunday, June 14, 2009, at the home of Marvin and Simona Elkin.

(top) Santa Monica College Music Chair Rhoda Tuit and Yulia Kozlova perform "Mother Goose Suite for Piano, 4 hands" (1908-10) during "Appasionata: A Voice & Piano Faculty Recital" at SMC Performing Arts Center's Edye Second Space, on Friday, June 12, 2009. (center) Mezzo Soprano Gale Oliver sings "Selection de Fetes Galantes (I)" as Greg Schreiner accompanies on the piano during the Voice & Piano Faculty Recital. (above) Soprano Linda Jackson sings "Voices in the Void" as Dr. David Goodman accompanies on the piano during the Voice & Piano Faculty Recital at Edye Second Space on Friday.

City employees test the new “Green Street Project" by poring 2,000 gallons of water onto Bicknell Avenue on Friday, June 12, 2009.  The demonstration project is intended to improve water quality by constructing landscaped biofilter swales, underground holding tanks and laying permeable concreate to capture urban runoff and let it seep back into the soil before it reaches the bay. This project, which can also help replenish groundwater supplies, is funded by Clean Beaches & Ocean Parcel Tax (Measure V) funds and a grant from the State Water Resources Control Board.

Senior clients "Stand-In" at the WISE & Healthy Aging's Adult Day Service Center on Friday, June 12, 2009. More than 2,000 seniors at 27 locations from Palmdale to South Bay and from Santa Monica to Claremont staged a massive 10-minute "Senior Stand-In" at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 12.The show of solidarity is in peaceful protest of Governor Schwarzeneggar's proposed $14 million budget cut which would completely eliminate funding statewide for vital programs that primarily or exclusively serve older adults. In Los County, alone, this would impact thousands of seniors and caregivers. There are an estimated 882,000 seniors age 60 and above living in Los Angeles County.

The proposed budget cut comes on the heels of the Governor's eliminating last Fall the State's $6 million budget for the long-term care Ombudsman program, which provides advocacy services for residents of long-term care facilities. The proposed additional cuts on the "chopping block" would eliminate funding for such critical services as food distribution, Alzheimer's care, care management, support to working families with caregiver obligations, adult day health care, the Senior Companion program, and more.

"Eliminating aging programs will only shift millions of dollars in expenditures, as many older persons become inappropriately placed in nursing homes," said Grace Cheng Braun, president and CEO of WISE & Healthy Aging in Santa Monica, and one of the Senior Stand-In organizers. "We strongly believe that as the demographics of California begin to shift to an aging society, that it is crucial that we commit the necessary resources to helping frail older persons remain in the community and live with dignity and independence."

(1,2) Nathaniel Trives, Master of Ceremonies, swears-in and installs Iao Katagiri, Director of Community Relations for the RAND Corporation, as Chairman of the Board during the 84th annual Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce's Installation dinner at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel on Thursday, June 11, 2009. (3) Paul Hortobagy, (left) Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce's out-going Chairman of the Board receives a farewell photo donated by Iao Katagiri during the installation dinner. (4) Thomas Larmore, immediate past Chairman the Board and Nathaniel Trives auction off a UCLA basketball signed by John Woodman.