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Michelin Guide 2026: Seline Awarded a Michelin Star and Four More L.A. Restaurants Win Michelin Distinctions Reminder: McCall’s Meat and Fish weekly $1 oyster deal and Saturday French Dip special Gott’s Roadside Sets Opening Date for Santa Monica Location Caltrans Details Extensive PCH and Topanga Canyon Lane Closures for Recovery Work This Week Scenes From a British Santa Monica Pub During the World Cup (Video)

December 7, 2006

Bookfair Brings Out Young Local Authors:

The Barnes & Noble on the Third Street Promenade hosted students from Castle Heights Elementary School for Bookfair. Several students in each class at Castle Heights were chosen to read their own work for one minute at the store.

First grader Amanda Toothman chose her latest work, A Homework Machine:

“I wish that I can invent a machine that does my homework. It looks like a person but it is a machine. A homework machine is made to do kids’ homework. I want a homework machine to do my homework for me.”

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