🌱 Shots On PCH, Nebraska, Ocean + Serving Homeless Bad For Business?

Thanks for hanging out with us at the Long Beach Daily during what turns out to be a very newsy National Coffee Ice Cream Day. (No lazy days of summer here!) Today we’re looking at:

• 🚓 Guns and shots fired across the City
• ✝️ A petition to make Christian Outreach in Action at 3rd & Linden go away
• 🌡️ Heat records that are being broken

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☀️ First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny, warm and humid. High: 88 Low: 73.

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⛽ Three Of The Cheapest Gas Stations In Long Beach

• Noil USA at 1234 W Cowles St., $4.69
• Arco at 6001 Long Beach Blvd., $4.69
• Arco at 3201 E 7th St., $4.75

🗳️ November Election Poll!
Beginning October 6, and continuing through October 10, every registered voter is mailed a ‘Vote By Mail’ ballot. How are you planning to vote this November? Please let us know! So far, 13.2% plan to vote in person on election day, 73.6% will be voting by mail, 9.4% intend to vote early in person, and 3.8% plan to sit this one out.

📰 Here are the top five stories today in Long Beach:

1) What has the LBPD been up to this weekend? It’s fair to say they were busy. On Saturday evening, there was a shooting in “the 100 block of East Pacific Coast Highway,” but the victim is uncooperative. Sunday morning, officers arrested a 33-year-old Lancaster man who allegedly fired into the air in the “400 block of Nebraska Avenue.” Officers also met up with a group of juveniles in the “100 block of South Pine Avenue.” Two young men were arrested on gun charges; “one firearm was determined to be an unserialized Polymer 80 firearm and one firearm was an unregistered Glock.” On Monday morning, they connected with a man who said he was shot “in the 5200 block of East Ocean Boulevard.” (LBPD, 2)

2) Christian Outreach in Action (COA) is bad for business – if you believe the people behind a petition. We learned on Sunday that a group criticizes the organization at 3rd Street and Linden Avenue for “an increase in crime, violence, drug use, yelling, loitering, trash, urine and public defecation near their residences and business.” For the last 40 years, COA has served hot meals, offered clothes and other services to the homeless at that location. According to the petition, “providing food on a daily basis is to blame for the increase in delinquency near the area.” Proponents of COA’s activities say that the problem is the 62% increase in homelessness in Long Beach. (Long Beach Post)

3) Has Mother Nature put Long Beach on broil and forgotten to turn off the oven? As of Sunday, the City reached record temperatures, measured at the airport, of 109 degrees. “The National Weather Service said the previous record for the date was 107, set in 1988.” Hand in hand with this heat are the Flex alerts that urge residents to refrain from powering appliances between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. So far, we have had six Flex Alerts back to back. By the way, beginning today is also the request to stop watering your landscape altogether until Sept. 20. (ABC, Patch)

4) Canvassing season is beginning! City Council member Rex Richardson, who is a candidate for mayor, announced his campaign canvass launch on September 10. He encourages supporters to “join our growing movement to knock on doors and get our community excited for the upcoming election!” The launch takes place at 10:30 a.m. at 295 East 4th Street. (Rex Richardson)

5) Mark your calendars! Long Beach is getting a Zankou Chicken on the corner of Lakewood and Willow! The company announced on Saturday that the venue will go in “next to the new Starbucks” some time in January or February 2023. If you are unfamiliar with the brand, its garlic spread is so popular that there are specific rules for customers wanting extra! (Zankou Chicken)

📆 Today in Long Beach:

• Break Up With Overthinking in your dating life via Zoom (9 a.m.)
• Mama Coffee Meetup by Looma Birth at Ubuntu Cafe (10 a.m.)
• Bixby Park Farmers Market on Junipero between 1st and 2nd streets (3 p.m.)
• City Council Meeting at 411 W. Ocean Blvd. (5 p.m.)
• NA Weekly Meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach/Zoom (6:30 p.m.)

📓 From my notebook:

• Incredible skill from Lena Silano makes her Long Beach State Athletics' Player of the Week! Silano's 🚲🤯 equalizer capped a memorable week for the senior and Long Beach State Soccer! (Long Beach State Athletics via Instagram)
• 🗣 The City needs the community's feedback and recommendations for the MacArthur Park Improvements Project through an online community survey available now through Sept. 12. The City is committed to hearing from community members. (Long Beach City via Facebook)
• A Grant neighbor wonders if anyone knows of maid/cleaning services that are good (and if possible, affordable)? 🥵 (Nextdoor)
• Our South of Conant neighbor says if anyone needs to cool off, Hobby Lobby! Their A/C is delightful. (Nextdoor)
• A surprised neighbor in Belmont Heights South asks if someone is missing a HUGE tortoise? It is currently sitting on the front porch on Vista. (Nextdoor)

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Alrighty, you're all good for today. I'll catch up with you bright and early 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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