🌱 LB Blvd Closed Due To Device In Trailer + Community Hospital Update

Hi there, Long Beach, and happy National Good Neighbor Day! I'm here in your inbox per usual to get you up to speed on everything you need to know about what's going on in town, including updates on:

• 🎈 A new Grocery Outlet Bargain Market opening Thursday
• 🌊 The fallout of port labor strike worries
• 💰 Another reason why the Department of Energy Resources needs “significant” funds

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☀️ But first, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and warm. High: 88 Low: 66.

🌡️ FYI: Long Beach Cooling Centers are open daily from noon to 6 p.m. You find them at the Houghton, McBride and Admiral Kidd community centers as well as the Senior Center and El Dorado Park West.

⛽ Three of the Cheapest Gas Stations in Long Beach

• VP Racing Fuels at 3605 E 7th St., $4.99
• Vons at 1818 Ximeno Ave., $5.11
• ARCO at 3401 Long Beach Blvd., $5.13

🤔 Aggressive Urban Coyotes or Regular L.A. County Wildlife? Poll!

We live with raccoons and opossums. Do coyotes fall into the same category? They don’t need open space, have no problems building dens close to humans, and are becoming more and more visible on our neighborhood streets. What do you think? So far, 59.1% think we need to learn to live with them, 37.9% want them gone, and 3% don’t care one way or the other.

📰 Here are the top stories in Long Beach today:

1) What was happening on the 2400 block of Long Beach Boulevard Monday afternoon? At around 3:21 p.m., reports of a suspicious device came in. “An officer at the scene said the device was found in a trailer on 25th Street east of Long Beach Boulevard.” The PD evacuated the area and closed Long Beach Boulevard between Willow and Hill. By 7:10 p.m., the bomb squad had done its work, and the PD reopened the streets. (LBPD, Long Beach Post)

2) Next Tuesday, the Long Beach City Council will have the opportunity to vote on the future of the Community Hospital at 1720 Termino Avenue. Seismic retrofits made the lease signed by John Molina and Molina, Wu, Network, LLC unprofitable. Now, the City could transfer the title to the venue to the company for $0, share closing costs, and pay seismic retrofit costs. (Press-Telegram)

3) For three decades, Long Beach has burned its trash on Terminal Island, “using the heat to generate electricity.” We learned on Tuesday that Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1857, which stops the practice. The bill’s author pointed to the practice as “environmental racism” while the City disagreed that the facility “emits toxic gas or that the ash is hazardous waste.” According to the City’s Department of Energy Resources, “we’re going to need significant capital.” (Press-Telegram)

4) The Port of New York and New Jersey has taken away significant cargo volume from container ships that no longer come to Long Beach. There’s a move to avoid the West Coast because “logistics managers (are) worried about a labor strike or lockout,” we learned on Monday. (Axios)

5) Mark your calendars! Grocery Outlet Bargain Market will celebrate the grand opening of its fourth property Thursday morning starting at 8 a.m. Located at 300 East Willow Street, “the first 100 adult customers will receive a mystery gift card worth anywhere between $5 and $500.” (LB Business Journal)

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📆 Today in Long Beach:

• Long Beach Young Professionals Networking Breakfast at the Holiday Inn Long Beach Airport (7:30 AM)
• LGBTBE® Certified? Now What? Webinar For LGBT-Owned Small Businesses (12 PM)
• Marina Stadium Farmers Market at Appian Way and Nieto Avenue (3 PM)
• Pub Quiz at the Long Beach Beer Lab (7 PM)
• Bear City Stand-Up Comedy at Que Sera (7:30 PM)

📓 From my notebook:

• Summer Laskey of Long Beach State Soccer is the program's Player of the Week, presented by the Port of Long Beach! "Laskey played a big part in Long Beach State's 3-0 win over CSU Bakersfield, finishing with a goal and an assist in the dominant victory." (Long Beach State Athletics via Instagram)
• ❗️PUBLIC NOTICE❗️Excessive temperatures are expected this week. 🚰Stay hydrated 🎽Wear loose-fitting, light clothing 🧴Apply sunscreen (at least SPF 15) 👶🐶Never leave a child or pet in a parked car or asleep in the direct sunlight. (Long Beach City via Facebook)
• Our Willmore City-North neighbor is wondering if anyone else is "experiencing electricity gremlins?" Light fixtures are flickering, TV and microwave have suddenly quit working. (Nextdoor)
• A Rose Park South neighbor wants to know if anyone has been "getting crazy itchy mosquito bites on their ankles???" (Nextdoor)
• A neighbor in the Wrigley-Memorial Park area is looking for a piano tuner to help tune up a Wurlitzer grand piano. (Nextdoor)

😸 The Adoptable Cat of the Week from LB Animal Care Services

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That's it for today. See you all tomorrow morning for another 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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