🌱Shots Fired On South St. + Wilson, Poly HS Students Want Gun Control

Hello all; today is National SAFE Day, which was founded in 2016 by the Brooklynn Mae Mohler Foundation. It's me, Sylvia, your host of the Daily. Let's get this Saturday started off right, with a quick review of the most important things going on these days in town.

It’s another repeat of the story in which a verbal altercation escalates into shots fired. Also, high schoolers protested for gun control. Finally, Breeze Airways is coming to the Long Beach Airport.

First, today's weather:

Clouds, then sun. High: 72 Low: 61.

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Here are the top five stories in Long Beach today:

1. On Wednesday evening, at around 7:48 p.m., the LBPD was alerted to a shooting in the 300 block of South Street. Nobody was hurt, but there was plenty of evidence, “including casings and strike marks.” They believe that two groups of suspects got into a verbal altercation that escalated. However, everyone fled before officers arrived. (LBPD Blotter)
2. Friday was a day that Long Beach high schoolers took to “protest gun violence and call for stricter gun control.” Woodrow Wilson HS students met in the school’s courtyard. Long Beach Polytechnic HS students did the same. Some wore shirts that read, "Am I Next?" (CBS)
3. JetBlue may have pulled out of the Long Beach Airport, but its founders aren’t done. Breeze Airways acquired a flight slot that Delta gave up. There’s no word yet on the destinations, but insiders point out that there aren’t yet any direct flights to the East Coast out of LB. (LB Business Journal)
4. There’s scuttlebutt that L.A. County will bring back indoor masking. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer confirmed that the current COVID-19 transmission rate could move from “medium” to “high” by the end of the month, which would “again require that masks be worn in all indoor public settings.” Alameda County already returned to wearing masks on Friday. (Patch)
5. Would you take investment advice from a 46-year-old inmate “convicted in 2015 of defrauding investors?” Somebody did because we learned on Thursday that the Long Beach man received an additional eight-year sentence “after pleading guilty to running a $1.4 million Ponzi scheme while behind bars.” (Long Beach Post)

Today in Long Beach:

• Friends of Bixby Park Monthly Cleanup + Bike Registration will meet at the Bandshell (9 a.m.)
• Getty 25 Celebrates Long Beach at Houghton Park (11 a.m.)
• LA WineFest at the Harry Bridges Memorial Park (2 p.m.)
• DUI Checkpoint by the East Patrol Division (6 p.m.)
  
• Scheherazade interpreted by the Silver-Garburg Piano Duo at the Terrace Theater (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The Long Beach Police Department is hiring! Submit your application by Friday, June 24 at 4:30 p.m. (Long Beach Police Department (CA) via Facebook)
• Join the LBPD for its Etch and Catch event! Not sure what to expect? Check out this video from one of our previous events and register soon while spaces are still available! 📅Saturday at ⏰8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Long Beach Police Department (CA) via Facebook)
• 📢Vote centers are open! Don't procrastinate. Make voting part of your weekend plans.📍Please note that the Salvation Army Long Beach location has been replaced with the Carpenters Local Union 562 Vote Center location. (Long Beach City via Facebook)
• A DeForest Park neighbor is looking for a gardener on 59th Street between Elm and Locust. It’s a small yard. They've been paying $60 for twice a month service. (Nextdoor)
• Our El Dorado West neighbor wants to know if anyone has done the Lawn to Garden program offered by the city of Long Beach? Just curious, what was your experience? How did you feel about the process? Did you use their landscape designers or your own? (Nextdoor)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Saturday! I'll be back in your inbox tomorrow with your next 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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