🌱 Riverbed Shooting Near LB Blvd + Health Dept Closes Tacos Lionydas

Good morning, Long Beach, and happy International Raccoon Appreciation Day! I'm here in your inbox this morning to tell you everything you need to know about what's going on around town. In this issue, we'll touch on:

• 🏈 Girls’ flag football at Poly
• 🦆 A duck pond update
• 🚢 A nixed Queen Mary reopening date

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📰 Here are the top stories in Long Beach today:

1) There was a shooting Thursday evening in the LA Riverbed near Long Beach Boulevard. Officers went to the 6500 block of Atlantic Avenue at 7:15 p.m. where they found an adult male with a gunshot wound. “Officers learned the victim was riding his bike on the LA Riverbed near Long Beach Boulevard when he was shot by a male adult suspect.” (LBPD)

2) Tacos Lionydas at Atherton and Clark recently made headlines when a man hurled racial insults at the people working there. However, on Wednesday, it made news because it got shut down “by a police-assisted Long Beach Health Department.” The vendor’s meat was confiscated. Officials said they received a complaint on Wednesday, and “found that the stand was in violation of many food and safety codes.” A second location at 2200 North Marwick Avenue is, so far, still open for business. (Patch, L.A. Taco, Long Beach Post)

3) Long Beach Duck Pond Update: The City said that the duck pond at El Dorado Park would be upgraded by November 2023. However, we learned on Thursday that there’s no plan for the 50-or-so birds residing there that can’t fly. It appears that the City didn’t apply for a permit to move the birds. The City says it put the company that works on the permits in contact with “permitted trained bird relocation specialists.” (Fox LA)

4) The Jackrabbits are getting a girls’ flag football team next month! The CIF Southern Section voted on Thursday to “to establish girls’ flag football as an official CIF-SS-wide sport in the Fall starting next school year.” Long Beach Poly is one of the pilot programs. (The562.org)

5) Mark your calendars! Cross out the proposed Queen Mary October reopening date. We learned on Thursday that “the city is still working on the ship and will soon release more details.” You may remember that the ship is currently undergoing a $5 million repair, which included the removal of 20 heavily damaged lifeboats. (Long Beach Post)

📆 Today in Long Beach:

• The Makeup Show at 200 S Pine Ave (9 AM)
• The Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre at the Rancho Los Alamitos (5 PM)
• Shaqtoberfest Trick-Or-Treat & Twisted Trails alongside the Queen Mary (7 PM)
• Long Beach Symphony Opens the 2022-2023 Season with Beethoven’s Fifth at the Long Beach Terrace Theater (8 PM)
• MARTIAL ARTS MOVIE NIGHT - Street Fighter Double Feature at the Art Theatre (11 PM)

📓 From my notebook:

• "It is with deep sadness that the LBFD announces the off-duty death of Long Beach Firefighter Gavin Escobar. Hired on February 5, 2022, Firefighter Escobar was assigned to Fire Station 3 on B-shift." (Long Beach Fire Department via Facebook)
• "Get excited, LB Nation! 🤩 Tomorrow is the first serve of the Fall season for the Long Beach State Athletics Women’s Tennis team as they head to the San Diego State Fall Tournament!" (Long Beach State Athletics via Instagram)
• "The Leadership Long Beach Candidates Forum is coming up soon, this Monday, October 3rd! This event is free to attend at the Aquarium of the Pacific in the Pacific Visions Theatre." (Leadership Long Beach via Facebook)
• ⚾️ "The Long Beach Parks, Recreation & Marine will offer their popular adult baseball league this fall, with the new league kicking off Oct. 16. Team and individual registration begins Tuesday, Oct. 4, online and in person." (Long Beach City via Facebook)
• Our Cal Heights neighbor announced a "Block Sale Extravaganza! Saturday Oct. 1, 3700 Block of Rose Ave. in California Heights, Long Beach. 8 yard sales on one block! Jewelry, Antiques, Furniture, Kitchen Stuff, Dozens and Dozens of Rare Live Rock Concert CDs, 50 cent DVDs" ... (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.

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