🌱Glen View Park Playground Re-Opens + Trash Cleaned At Bartlett Park

Morning, Huntington Beach; today is National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started.

Attend the official re-opening of the Glen View Park playground. Also, Bartlett Park is 1,500 pounds of trash cleaner. Finally, Sahara Sandbar & Pizza is officially opening this weekend.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 65 Low: 57.

Here are the top five stories today in Huntington Beach:

1. Today you are invited to join the City “in celebrating the new playground equipment at Glen View Park.” The event is scheduled to run from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Improvements “include a new custom play structure, swings and rubber play surface. New sidewalks were added for enhanced accessibility.” (City of HB)
2. Saturday’s cleanup at Bartlett Park was a huge success! Sponsored by the city, “local residents came to help beautify the passive park behind the historic Newland House Museum.” Volunteers brought their own gloves, reusable water bottles, and buckets. At the end of the event, several dumpsters were filled. According to the Public Works Department, the attendees “collected over 1,500 pounds of trash.” (HB News)
   
3. Sahara Sandbar & Pizza on Magnolia will open on Saturday. “The fun fact about this particular location of Huntington State Beach is that it happens to be the widest gap of sand on the Western hemisphere,” the owner said when explaining how the name came to be. That said, the eatery had a soft opening on 4-20 at 4:20 p.m. that went on until the pizza ran out. (OCR/paywall, Sahara Sandbar)
4. Do you want to participate in an NFT giveaway? Does free food sound good? Then plan to attend the HB cleanup event on Main Street and PCH Sunday. It runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you can’t make it, you can clean up somewhere else, post before and after pictures, and still participate in a raffle for NFTs. (Hungry Hippos)
5. If you’re thirsty for a beer, and of age, there’s an app. The Surf City USA Barrel Trail introduces you to “12 craft breweries, distilleries and tasting rooms with exclusive discounts and offers in Huntington Beach.” Besides that, you could “earn prizes as you check in to each participating location with the unique four-digit code.” However, you have to finish by April 30! (Surf City USA)

Today in Huntington Beach:

• Touch A Truck Storytime with Republic Recycling at the Huntington Beach Public Library (10 AM)
• HBHS Field Hockey Fundraiser at Slater's 50/50 (10 AM)
• Oak View Branch Library Homework Club Program (2 PM)
• Walking Audiobook Club meets in front of the Huntington Beach Public Library (5:30 PM)
• HBHS MUN Board Meeting at Huntington Beach HS (7 PM)

From my notebook:

• The Pacific Airshow returns to Huntington Beach September 30 - October 2. Air Force Thunderbirds and Canadian Forces Snowbirds are headlining the show. Who’s stoked?! (Facebook)
• The Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce invites you to a State of the County, OC 2022 on April 28 from 8am - 9:30am via Zoom! (Facebook)
• Our neighbor in the Suburbia Park area is looking for a good Italian restaurant in the area. (Nextdoor)
• A Downtown Huntington Beach neighbor is looking for a reliable and reasonable contractor company who can fix a balcony damaged due to the rain. (Nextdoor)

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— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.