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🌱 Patch AM: Business Finds 'New Ways To Bring Music To The Community': Best Of 2025

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In today's newsletter:

  • Beloved Long Beach record shop earns praise for community-focused music events
  • Long Beach DUI checkpoint nets one arrest and five citations
  • How a former addict now leads Long Beach’s largest homeless mission

Also on today's calendar: Christmas Car Wash and 8 more events.

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Today's riddle: What did one magnet say to the other magnet? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: A couple of afternoon showers, with a high of 65 and low of 61 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Heavy rain, thunderstorm, temps: high: 65, low: 58.
  • Thursday: Occasional rain, with a high of 66 and low of 57 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Business Finds 'New Ways To Bring Music To The Community': Best Of 2025 (patch.com) — Long Beach residents are celebrating Fingerprints records as a standout local business in Patch’s Best of 2025 series, praising owner Rand Foster for years of bringing national and local music to the community. The nomination highlights the shop’s interactive events for music lovers and its role in preserving Long Beach’s small-town feel within a big city.
   

2. 1 Driver Arrested, 5 More Cited At DUI Checkpoint In Long Beach (patch.com) — Long Beach police reported one DUI arrest and five citations for unlicensed driving after screening 157 motorists at a checkpoint at Artesia Boulevard and Cherry Avenue. The operation, which saw 249 vehicles pass through, was aimed at boosting safety and deterring impaired or unlicensed drivers in the city.
   

3. ‘A Shepherd's Heart' — How Long Beach Rescue Mission CEO Jeff Levine found his calling (sigtrib.com) — Long Beach residents can learn how Rescue Mission CEO Jeff Levine turned addiction and hardship into two decades of leadership serving the city’s unhoused neighbors. The story traces his faith-driven recovery, expansion of shelter beds, response to crises like the Lydia House fire, and plans to add more space and holiday support for struggling families.
   

4. Denmark selects Long Beach for 2028 Olympics base of operations (sigtrib.com) — Denmark has chosen Long Beach as its base of operations for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, centering activities at the Westin in Downtown. The city will host the House of Denmark and, pending approvals, the historic training ship DANMARK, bringing cultural events, athlete support operations, and international visitors to local waterfront areas and venues.
   

5. High-speed chase along 22 Freeway ends with multi-car crash on Studebaker Road (lbpost.com) — A police pursuit of a reportedly stolen Kia that began in Garden Grove ended with a multi-car crash at Seventh Street and Studebaker Road in Long Beach Monday afternoon. The driver was hospitalized for evaluation after reporting pain, and no other injuries were reported, but the intersection was blocked off by multiple agencies while they secured the scene.
   

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    Tuesday December 23
  • Christmas Car Wash
    Carwood Car Wash & Detail Center, 2729 E Carson St, Lakewood
    5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Thank neighborhood secret Santa!!
    What a wonderful bunch of delicious holidays treats left on our porch!! Merry Christmas!!! (Nextdoor Woodruff/Wardlow/LCD)
  • I know this is a long shot to actually find the person but…to the person (I assume homeless) who decided to take my tan slides off my front stoop (56th street on the peninsula), and leave their old beat up black ones…let me know if you need anything
    else? Jackets? Blankets? Sweatshirts? Happy to just leave anything you need outside. Merry Christmas. (No this is not sarcastic…just let me know… (Nextdoor Belmont Shore-Ocean)
  • Burger King posted a job opening for Team Member in Long Beach. Apply here.
  • University of Southern Mississippi posted a job opening for Instructor or Assistant Teaching Professor in Ocean Science in Long Beach. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Long Beach here.

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