🌱 Prince of Peace + Alamitos Library + Hello Kitty Café Truck!

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Visit the 16 nativity scenes making up the Prince of Peace Pageant. Also, the Alamitos Neighborhood Library is open again! Finally, the Hello Kitty Café Truck is coming to Long Beach!!

First, today's weather:

A little rain in the morning. High: 59 Low: 45.

Here are the top stories today in Long Beach:

1. The Prince of Peace Pageant is back! Taking place this Saturday and Sunday along Wardlow Road starting from Bellflower Boulevard, it is the collaboration of five local churches. There are 16 nativity scenes that tell the nativity story from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (A personal favorite of prior years were the REAL sheep.) (CA News Times)
2. The Alamitos Neighborhood Library reopened Tuesday. The city’s oldest library branch underwent “a major heating, ventilation & air conditioning replacement project.” Visit the library at 1836 East 3rd Street. (@LongBeachMayor)
3. Irvine is home to the Hello Kitty Grand Café. As you might expect, it serves cookies, cakes, and other goodies. In addition to the 860 Irvine Center Drive location, the restaurant operates two Hello Kitty Café Trucks that travel across the nation. This Saturday, it’s LB’s turn to get a visit! The truck will be at 2nd & PCH from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and feature “some supercute treats & merch, while supplies last!” (Sanrio)
4. Evicting LB tenants during remodels will be more difficult and expensive. The City Council determined Tuesday “to start drafting an ordinance that will add to the protections that tenants have from being displaced from their units being remodeled.” Council member Cindy Allen wants “for the city to start tracking evictions caused by landlords remodeling units, increasing the relocation assistance given to tenants to $4,500 or two months rent, whichever is more, and to require a 90-day notice for tenants being displaced due to remodeling.” (LB Post)
5. The LBPD announced Wednesday that it is opening a murder investigation into the murder of a 33-year-old man. He was shot in a park in the 800 block of East 7th Street on November 29. The man was experiencing homelessness. According to the press release, “unknown suspect(s) approached him and began shooting.” If you have any information, please call Homicide Detectives Don Collier or JC Reyes at (562) 570-7244. (City of LB)

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Today in Long Beach:

• Birding - Rancho Los Cerritos, 4600 Virginia Road (8:00 AM)
• 9th Night - Alpert Jewish Community Center, 3801 East Willow Street (7:00 PM)
• Pop up comedy show at the Hi-Lo Liquor Market, 707 East Ocean Boulevard (7:00 PM)
• Trademark Comedy Night, Trademark Brewing at 233 East Anaheim Street (7:30 PM)

From my notebook:

• Long Beach City: On December 6, 2021, the Long Beach Department of Health & Human Services (LBDHHS) received confirmation of its first case of COVID-19 with mutations consistent with the new Omicron variant (B.1.1.529). (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. 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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