🌱 Wood Warbler At Willow Springs Park + Gun Arrest At Traffic Stop

Hello, Long Beach, and happy World Pasta Day! I'm here in your inbox per usual to tell you everything you need to know about what's going on in town, including news about...

• 🥇 A Poly HS graduate winning a Brower Youth Award
• 💰 An end to the business license, tax and fee deferment
• 🥂 A celebration of La Traviata’s 25th anniversary

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📰 Here are the top stories in Long Beach today:

1) Police officers conducted a traffic stop at Long Beach Boulevard and 45th Street and pulled over a 30-year-old Lakewood resident. In his car, they found an unregistered, loaded firearm. The suspect was booked “on carrying a loaded firearm in public under specific circumstances, carrying a loaded firearm – not registered owner, and carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle. Bail was set at $35,000.” (LBPD)

2) Migratory birds sometimes get lost, and it appears that a Wood Warbler did precisely that. We learned on Monday that a Wood Warbler was seen in Willow Springs Park. You may see it for yourself if you head to 2745 Orange Avenue and pay attention to the birds in and around the cottonwood, willow and sycamore trees. It's the first time this bird has been seen in the U.S. outside of Alaska, where some birds have stopped on their migration to Africa. (Subscription/Press-Telegram)

3) Hamid Torabzadeh won recognition for his leadership of the Los Angeles READYteens Program! The teen, a Poly HS graduate, is a recipient of the Brower Youth Awards, which recognize “outstanding youth leaders.” (LB Post)

4) Do you remember when the city told businesses they could defer paying businesses license taxes and fees? We learned on Wednesday that the city expects to restart business tax and fee collection in 2023’s first quarter. Business owners have to pay in full or set up a payment plan. (LB Business Journal)

5) Spend your Friday celebrating La Traviata’s 25th anniversary. The Italian restaurant at 301 Cedar Avenue will host a “Black & Silver Masquerade party from 5 to 11 p.m.” This eatery is an insider tip among wine connoisseurs. The owner credits “the Willmore Building’s board (his landlord), along with financial help from the government” for being able to stay in business during the pandemic. (Subscription/Press-Telegram)

📆 Today in Long Beach:

• FREE Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Webinar: How To Analyze Your Company's Financials For Better Decision Making (9 AM)
• Family and School Group Studio Time at Makersville (10 AM)
• FREE Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Webinar: How To Do Business With Corporate America (12 PM)
• Bixby Park Farmers Market at Junipero between 1st and 2nd streets (3 PM)
• The Diamond Eye: Online Author Talk With Kate Quinn (4 PM)

📓 From my notebook:

• "Get ready to shake The ‘Mid LB Nation📢 We’re only 2️⃣1️⃣ days from the Home Opener🏀" (Long Beach State Athletics via Instagram)
• "🗓Come to our first community visioning event for the LGBTQ+ Cultural District on Thur., 10/27, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Bixby Park Community Center! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️The LGBTQ+ Cultural District is envisioned as the Broadway Corridor b/w Junipero and Alamitos avenues." (Long Beach City via Facebook)
• "Experience the Municipal and Sunnyside cemeteries like never before. Join us for this year's Historical Cemetery Tour, happening October 29, 2022. Tickets are now on sale at https://www.hslb.org/historical-cemetery-tour/" (Historical Society of Long Beach via Facebook)
• 📢The deadline to register to vote was October 24, 2022. ➡️ If you missed the deadline, you must register to vote in person at "the LA County Registrar-Recorder’s office OR at any vote center." (Long Beach City via Facebook)
• Our Bret Harte-NLB neighbor says, "My two Belgian Shepards are lost; Mom's name 'Sunny,' daughter's name 'Tina;' they got out @10 pm on 10-23-22 if you see them please keep them safe and give me a call @ 7604493094 Lilla or 9514126029 Bryant. They were last seen on Orange and South." (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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