🌱Hoops After Dark At LB Blvd & Spring St. + Naples Rite Aid Closes

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The Hoops After Dark program will now take place at the Salvation Army. Also, Naples’ Rite Aid store closed for good. Finally, the airport will get some upgrades.

First, today's weather:

Clouds giving way to sun. High: 80 Low: 64.

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Residents are limited to watering their landscapes two days per week, before 9 a.m. or after 4 p.m. What else should the City do to deal with the water crisis? Please let me know your thoughts! So far, 17.9% want to mandate drought-resistant landscaping, 20% want to recycle wastewater for irrigation, another 42.1% want to build a desalination plant at the coast, and 20% don’t believe residential water use contributes to the water crisis.

Here are the top five stories today in Long Beach:

1. Hoops After Dark is coming to the Salvation Army courts at Long Beach Boulevard and Spring Street on August 1. It is the latest incarnation of the City’s Midnight Basketball leagues that came into existence in 1994. Sixty players “between the ages of 17 and 25, sometimes from rival gangs” compete and receive access to “job training seminars, guest speakers and networking.” (LB Post)
2. The Rite Aid store at 5670 East 2nd Street is no more. The store closed on Monday for good, making it one of the “about 146 locations (that) have closed over the past nine months after Rite Aid decided the stores weren’t profitable.” The store was at its location for 30 years. (Press-Telegram)
3. The City Council voted on Tuesday to approve “a $7.4 million contract with Sacramento-based Royal Electric Company to upgrade Long Beach Airport’s primary air carrier runway.” The electrical equipment needs replacing, and “existing light fixtures will be replaced with LED fixtures.” (LBC Meeting Notes)
4. The LBPD had a busy Tuesday. There were a couple of shootings to investigate. The first was a no-hit shooting at “the 900 block of Maine Avenue” at a little after 8 p.m. Officers believe that “two groups of unknown suspects in the area exchanged gunfire and fled the scene prior to officers' arrival.” The second shooting took place around 9:38 p.m. and involved two parties in a verbal dispute in a residence on “the 2300 block of East 15th Street.” (LBPD)
5. Mark your calendars! The PD’s Fraud Detail and Senior Police Partners are working with elderly residents to protect themselves from scams and frauds. There will be several presentations that highlight the current scams making the rounds. The next ones are July 27 at Cesar E. Chavez Park and July 28 at Houghton Park. Both begin at 11 a.m. (Long Beach PD)

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Today in Long Beach:

• Virtual Alzheimer’s-Dementia Caregiver Support Group with the Beverly Hospital (11 a.m.)
• Tai Chi For Beginners at Marine Stadium Park (11:45 a.m.)
• Uptown Farmers Market at the east side of Atlantic Avenue at 46th Street (3 p.m.)
• Brickersville Family Studio Time at 419 Shoreline Village Drive (4 p.m.)
• Transformando Vidas Support Group at Bienestar Human Services (4 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Receive $5,000 or $10,000 to have events for your Long Beach business! The Activate LB application deadline is approaching on July 21. (Long Beach City via Facebook)
• Our El Dorado Park Estates neighbor just got their electric bill and some of the charges are so incredible that you almost want to laugh until you pay the bill. (Nextdoor)
• The neighbor in the Carson Park area received a public notice from the city of Long Beach regarding a rate increase for refuse/recycling collection in the next six months. Cost increase of 41% ! Of course, the notice didn’t put it in those terms. (Nextdoor)
• Our Downtown Long Beach neighbor loves the beautiful moon 🌝 over Long Beach. 😊 Please add your snapshots to their thread. (Nextdoor)
• A Rose Park South neighbor noticed that the Lime scooters now make you return them to their designated parking spot, which defeats the purpose of riding them. (Nextdoor)

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You're officially in the loop for today! See you all tomorrow for your next update.

— 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.

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