🌱 Shoutout To Susan Watson + Housing Project At 3590 East PCH A Go!

Happy National Make Your Bed Day! It's Sylvia, your host of the Long Beach Daily — here to tell you all the most important things happening in town these days. Keep scrolling for the scoop…

• 🥇 Language teacher Susan Watson is the California Language Teachers Association Teacher of the Year
• 🏗️ Affordable housing is coming to 3590 East PCH
• 💧 Some Long Beach areas came close to flooding

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Partly sunny and humid. High: 84 Low: 74.

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

1) Shoutout to Susan Watson! After having “taught Japanese at Long Beach Poly High School for the last 13 years,” she has been named the California Language Teachers Association Teacher of the Year! We learned on Saturday that she was previously “named a CLTA Outstanding Teacher in 2016 and the 2016-17 LA County Teacher of the Year.” Congratulations! (Long Beach Post)

2) An affordable 76-unit housing development is coming to 3590 East Pacific Coast Highway. Saturday’s report noted that Farmers & Merchants Bank “partnered with Harbor Interfaith Services and Excelerate Housing Group” to create the project named 26 Point 2. Groundbreaking is expected to take place in February and completion in December 2023. (Press-Telegram)

3) Long Beach, which has been put on broil by Mother Nature for the last week, got some rain showers on Friday. Remnants of Hurricane Kay brought much-needed water to the area. However, “at the 72nd Place lifeguard station, access to the peninsula was closed off Friday night, as rainwater came onto the streets.” Crews anticipated high tides and worked on shoring up berms. “This is the closest it has come to flooding in nearly two decades,” residents said on Saturday. (CBS)

4) Have you been to veteran-owned Got A Leaf at 5263 Atlantic Avenue? Open since June, we learned on Thursday that this plant shop “features amenities such as a make-your-own soil bar and a ‘plant hospital’ for ailing plants.” “A lot of thought goes into Got A Leaf’s inventory. Its current selection of plants includes a 22-year-old, 6-foot-high money tree and a couple of rare acacia.” Check it out! (The Signal Tribune)

5) Today is the 21st anniversary of 9/11. “We will observe a citywide moment of silence at 9:11 a.m., on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, in honor and remembrance of the lives of those who were lost. (City of Long Beach)

📆 Today in Long Beach:

• Long Beach Hi-Performance Swap Meet at the Veterans Memorial Stadium (6 a.m.)
• Belmont Shore Car Show on 2nd Street (9 a.m.)
• Long Beach Southeast Farmers Market at 6602 East Marina Drive (9 a.m.)
• R&Brunch presented by Urban Society Long Beach at Shannon's At The Top (11 a.m.)
• Flute Maestro Jean Ferrandis performs at First Congregational Church of Long Beach (7 p.m.)

📓 From my notebook:

• REMINDER ❗️ Do your part and be sure to turn your sprinklers off. (Long Beach City via Facebook)
• If you see a tree that is down, leaning, has broken branches, hanging limbs, or any defects you perceive to be unsafe, please give call 📞 (562) 570-2700. (Long Beach Fire Department via Facebook)
• 🇺🇸 9/11 Remembrance & Station 49 Grand Reopening🇺🇸 - Come join us at Station 49 in Laguna Niguel on Sunday, September 11 for the remembrance of 9/11. In addition to the remembrance, we will also be conducting a grand reopening of Station 49. (Nextdoor)
• Our Belmont Heights South neighbor is wondering if there is anywhere they can throw the ball with their dog off leash that isn’t Rosie’s beach ? Love Rosie’s, but their furry guy needs a shower every time which is fine for every other day but need somewhere for no beach days. Or local hikes? (Nextdoor)
• A Willmore City-South neighbor lost their cat. It was last seen at Magnolia Ave between 4th & 5th Streets. (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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