🌱 Immersive Play At All Saints + Maintenance To Dismantle Encampments

Hello, people of Long Beach; today is National Empanada Day! It's me again, Sylvia, your host of the Long Beach Daily.

Twenty minutes could change the way you look at Good Friday. Also, the bike path maintenance is actually a homeless encampment cleanup. Finally, if you’re a contractor who wants to be an administrator for future cleanups, submit your proposal to the City!

First, today's weather:

Record-breaking heat. High: 94 Low: 61.

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Here are the top five stories today in Long Beach:

1. Would you like an up-close and personal experience involving the Christian Good Friday tradition? All Saints Anglican Cathedral on Termino Avenue makes it possible. Today and Saturday, you are “led through Jerusalem and meet people who had something to do with” the day Christ died. “It’s not like street theater, because street theater you can walk away from. You can’t walk away from the characters that you meet.” (Press-Telegram)
2. L.A. River Bike Path Maintenance Update: We recently talked about the City’s plans to do maintenance work on the bike path. We learned on Thursday that this maintenance is actually “a sweep of the encampments along the river’s embankments.” Notices warn individuals they are trespassing and promise to store belongings left behind, but no address is given. Also, “there are usually promises of connecting people to housing;” not this time. (LB News)
3. On Wednesday, the City published a notice, “seeking proposals from highly experienced contractors interested in serving as the administrator for the cleanup and restoration of sites affected by encampments in parks and open spaces.” Applicants have until April 28 at 11 a.m. to submit their proposals. (City of LB)
4. Habitat for Humanity for Greater Los Angeles partnered with the Arts Council for Long Beach and facilitated “a mural and the installation of about 20 solar lights on Chestnut Avenue from Pacific Coast Highway to 16th Street.” You can see the mural, “which faces an alley outside the Long Beach Day Nursery.” The artist is Daniel Toledo. (The HiLo)
5. This Sunday, you have the opportunity to rub shoulders with the inimitable Justin Rudd during Operation Easter Basket. The event runs from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. and is a “scaled-down, one-day volunteer effort to put together baskets at Bay Shore Church.” The goal is to put together 2,000 baskets. Prior recipients included Aloha Elementary, the Boys and Girls Clubs, and Love Beyond Limits. (Patch)

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Today in Long Beach:

• Little Kids Yoga at Hickory Park in Torrance (10:30 AM)
• Is It A Good/Bad Idea To Be Friends With Employees (Webinar) (2 PM)
• Scholarly Intersections Symposium: Breaking Down The Walls, Deaf & Disabled Immigrant Experiences at California State University Long Beach (3:30 PM)
• Porsche Carrera Cup Qualifying at 300 East Ocean Blvd (4:30 PM)
• Old Time Radio Play: Thin Man & X Minus One at the Long Beach Shakespeare Company (8 PM)

From my notebook:

• Heads up! Three F/A-18 aircraft will be conducting operations at Long Beach Airport this weekend. We anticipate the aircraft will arrive in the afternoon on Friday 4/8, and depart in the morning on Monday 4/11. They are significantly louder. (Instagram)
• There are gardener job openings at the City of Long Beach! (Facebook)
• Now, through April 15, teams and individual players can register for the Long Beach Parks, Recreation & Marine spring 2022 adult basketball and volleyball leagues. Games will be scheduled at various City and school facilities in LB. (Facebook)
• A frustrated Hamilton area neighbor is wondering if anyone has been having problems with nails in their tires? (Nextdoor)
• Our Coolidge Triangle neighbor is looking for witnesses. A car hit theirs on the driver's side and took off. The intersection is Neece at Butler St. (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.