🌱 Deodorizer For Stink + Sedative Update + Homeless Camps Okay?

Good morning, Long Beach! Let's get you started this Sunday with everything you need to know going on today in Long Beach.

You know that commercial where they tell you not to cover the stink with a bouquet of flowers? Also, there’s been some backlash about the sedative use policy. Finally, after throwing countless millions of dollars at the local homelessness problem, sanctioned encampments are the latest gimmick.

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First, today's weather:

Cooler with lots of sun. High: 74 Low: 57.

Here are the top stories in Long Beach today:

1. Stink update: Yep. It still stinks. Also, some residents “began noticing discolored, foul-smelling water coming out of their drains.” Officials are now dealing with the problem by spraying a biodegradable deodorizer into the Dominguez Channel “to help diminish the smell.” Next, they’ll install “a dozen aeration devices.” (KTLA)
2. Sedative update: The LBPD and FD have been using the sedative Midazolam (Versed) to help “someone's who's acting extremely agitated, very sweaty, super human strength, incoherent.” Critics say that the drug is unsafe. The FD counters by stating that they can use “a total of 20 milligrams of Midazolam in the field.” (ABC)
3. Are sanctioned homeless encampments the answer to impromptu tent cities springing up across the City? Services officials are said to be “in the beginning stages of studying the possibility,” which is already a thing in Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland. They may have more clarity at their next meeting in early November. (LB Post)
4. There was a high-speed chase that ended in LB. The California Highway Patrol made the arrest in a cul-de-sac near 12th Street. Before that, the driver endangered other motorists and pedestrians in Garden Grove and surrounding cities. (ABC 7)
5. City Attorney Charles Parkin intends to retire. Assistant City Attorney Dawn McIntosh seems like the replacement whom everyone likes. Endorsements include the retiring CA, the Mayor, a former mayor, and two city council incumbents. (LBReport)

Today in Long Beach:

• Sing-a-long Bible songs (9:30 AM)
• Jazzville's Live Jazz and Burlesque Brunchette (11:00 AM)
• Long Beach Open Studio Tour in Downtown/Wrigley neighborhoods (12:00 PM)
• LBPD and NAACP LB host a Zoom panel on domestic violence awareness (1:30 PM)
• Brewmance Screening at Ten Mile Brewing (6:00 PM)

Long Beach Patch Notebook

• Long Beach City: You're invited to remember loved ones who have died by joining Long Beach’s lively 6th annual Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday and vibrant celebration of the cycle of life. It's happening Saturday, 10/30, 2 p.m. - 10 p.m. (Facebook)
• Long Beach Public Library: Join Elizabeth, the new Youth Services Librarian, to read My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero. Acompaña a Elizabeth, la nueva bibliotecaria juvenil, para leer My Papi Has a Motorcycle de Isabel Quintero. (Facebook)
• Long Beach Public Library: Come out to Burnett Neighborhood Library on Oct. 23 from 1 - 3 PM for a Fall Festival! With crafts, free school supplies, and community resources, there will be a little something for everyone! (Facebook)

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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. Her SEO-optimized internet copy includes social media marketing projects and German to English business translations. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Fishdom (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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