Road Rage + Lola’s Permanent Parklet + $90,000 In New Grants

Get on up, Long Beach! It's Monday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on in town today.

Have some of our neighbors turned feral? How else do you explain the recent increase in road rage incidents? Also, Lola’s Mexican Cuisine is making its parklet a permanent fixture. Finally, personal care business owners might be able to qualify for a grant!

First, today's weather: Partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 78 Low: 65.

Here are the top stories in Long Beach today:

1. The video of a May road rage incident is just now surfacing. It shows an assailant pulling a driver out of his vehicle after a fender bender on the 700 block of West Willow Street. (NBC Los Angeles)
2. Lola’s Mexican Cuisine in Bixby Knolls is making its parklet permanent. What started as an open-streets program to keep restaurants in business has now become a guest favorite. With other parklets likely disappearing at the end of September, many restaurant owners are looking for ways to make theirs permanent, too. (LB Post)
3. The Downtown Long Beach Alliance is accepting applications through August 31 for its Personal Care Services and Health & Wellness Grant to support “brick-and-mortar businesses within the personal care service and health and wellness industries in Downtown.” Funding ranges from $1,250 to $4,750 until a total of $90,000 is spent. (DTLB)
4. Shirley Raines of Beauty 2 the Streetz spends a day each week on Skid Row with a group of volunteers doing hair, makeup, and barbering. (KTLA)
5. Shawdee Wilson is back in LB. The award-winning barber is now at Blue City Blendz on Willow Street. And yes, he does cut women’s hair. (LB Business Journal)

Today in Long Beach

• Compliance Solutions offers training in DOT hazmat shipping regulations for certification at 200 East Willow Street. (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
• Summer Soccer Camp for players between 4 and 14 at St. Maria Goretti Catholic School, 3950 Palo Verde Avenue. (9 a.m.-12 p.m. or 9 a.m.-3 p.m.)
• Beach Yoga near the 5400 East Ocean Boulevard parking lot, to the left of the Claremont Lifeguard Tower and community toilet block. (10:30 a.m.)
• The Surfrider Foundation hosts its first in-person chapter meeting and encourages prospective new members to attend. At K.C. Branaghan's, 5734 2nd Street. (6 p.m.)

Long Beach Patch Notebook

• Long Beach Police Department (CA): "Even with temperatures rising in Long Beach, our Neighborhood Walks rolled on. This week, North Division officers wal..." (Facebook)
• Beauty 2 the Streetz is accepting donations from its curated Amazon Wish List. Helping has never been easier!
• MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach’s mascot dolphin, Millie, is famous. Now the hospital needs suggestions to name her baby. You have until August 2 to offer your suggestion.

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— Sylvia Cochran

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