🌱 Construction On I-10 + Wakanda Forever Mural At Whittier & McBride

Hi, all; today, we enjoy National Candy Day! I'm back with your new copy of the Los Angeles Daily. Keep reading for everything you need to know about what's happening in town these days. Today you'll read about these stories and more...

• 💰 $500 reward for shutting down a ghost gun manufacturing location
• 🚧 Downed power poles in Pico Union
• ⭐️ Discrimination enforcement division is now live.

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Mostly sunny and cool. High: 70 Low: 52.

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🦃 Thanksgiving Poll!
Thanksgiving is on November 24th. How do you celebrate? So far, 48.1% celebrate a big meal as a family tradition, while 25.9% don’t celebrate and treat it like any other day. In a smaller group, 3.7% don’t celebrate because they feel it glorifies the conquest of Native Americans; however, 22.9% choose to celebrate a traditional Thanksgiving out of gratitude.

📰 Here are the top stories today in Los Angeles:

1) The Los Angeles Police Department plans to allocate $250,000 to a program addressing ghost guns. Officials announced Thursday that they partnered with “LA Crime Stoppers, to offer a $500 reward for tips leading to the recovery of evidence of ghost gun manufacturing and trafficking activity.” To be eligible for the reward, it's not necessary for an arrest to be made “if evidence is recovered and a manufacturing location is shut down.” Drop a dime to 1-800-222 TIPS. (Patch)

2) Did you see the downed power poles on Thursday in the Pico Union area? Multiple power poles broke on South Vermont Avenue, “between West Washington Boulevard and West Pico Boulevard, just before 11 a.m.” We don’t know what broke them, but we did learn that the poles broke near the bases. (KTLA)

3) There’s construction on I-10 that affects your commute this weekend! Starting Friday at 9 p.m., there will be intermittent closures of “the southbound I-5 & westbound State Route 60 connectors to westbound I-10.” Caltrans will conduct bridge repairs during that time. (Caltrans District 7)

4) On Thursday, the city’s Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department introduced its new discrimination enforcement division. Its goal is to enable the city to enforce civil rights. The department “announced its authority to investigate alleged discriminatory practices in the private sector areas of commerce, education, employment and housing and enforce the city’s Civil and Human Rights Law.” (L.A. Sentinel)

5) Wakanda Forever has inspired a local mural artist. We learned on Wednesday that you can see the finished work on the “corner of Whittier and McBride.” "It's very important that we represent Black and Brown communities together as a unit, and so having images of people of color together in a community where normally they wouldn't be was a very important inspiration in the process," said the artist, Lilia Ramirez. The movie opens next week on Friday. (ABC)

📆 Today in Los Angeles:

• Online Yoga & Meditation with Master John from the Memorial Branch Library (10 AM)
• Canto Americano: A Gathering With Tim Harding at Cal State LA University Library North, Level B Community Room (11 AM)
• Natural History Museum FREE Admission for L.A. County residents (3 PM to 5 PM)
• RJ Album Release Show with Siete7x & DJ Swanzy at The Novo (8 PM)
• Bad Bunny Party at Ballet Nightclub (10 PM)
  

📓 From my notebook:

• "Members of LACoFD Recruit Class 169 began their Academy at the East County Training Center this past Monday, October 31, 2022. Recruits are focused as they work toward attaining their LACoFD firefighter badge." (Los Angeles County Fire Dept. via Instagram)
• "New units of supportive housing are open in Filipinotown for formerly homeless Angelenos. With over 2,000 units open and more than 4,000 units in construction, it's clear that HHH units are here faster and cheaper than anticipated." (Mayor Eric Garcetti via Instagram)
• "The Department of Public Works is partnering with the City's Personnel Department to hold a department-wide Career Fair to help fill some positions throughout the city." (City of Los Angeles - Jobs via Instagram)
• "Find your next career opportunity! LA County residents can access work readiness training, on-the-job training, transitional opportunities, supportive services and more. Get started today by visiting bit.ly/GetCareerReady" (County of Los Angeles via Instagram)
• "News Statement: Los Angeles Unified Receives Exceptional Positive Ratings From Most Prominent Investor Rating Agencies" (Los Angeles Unified via Instagram)
• "You're invited to our annual Dia De Los Muertos Chalk Festival at the Deane Dana Friendship Regional Park Nature Center on November 5th, 2022, 11 am – 3 pm! Celebrate with your community as we turn our sidewalks into works of art." (County of Los Angeles Department of Parks & Recreation via Facebook)

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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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