🌱 LAPD, SUV Collide At Wilshire & Hauser + New Doritos Menu At Pop-Up

Hello again, friends! Today, we continue our food trend with National Chocolate Covered Anything Day! I'm back in your inbox this morning with your fresh copy of the Los Angeles Daily. Here's all the community news you need to know right now.

• 💰 A $500 Visa gift card pilot program in Council District 7
• 🏗️ Firmin Court’s nearing completion
• 👀 The “Bugsy” Siegel murder house for sale

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🌤️ But first, today's weather:

Clouds giving way to sun. High: 67 Low: 43.

📰 Here are the top stories today in Los Angeles:

1. A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) patrol car collided with a dark-colored Volkswagen SUV close to the intersection of Wilshire and Hauser boulevards. The accident happened Thursday morning around 1:34 a.m. According to the SUV’s driver, “the officers ran a traffic light with no sirens or lights, then collided with his vehicle.” Two officers were transported to the hospital, and the LAPD did not comment at the time. (Patch, KTLA)
2. The Los Angeles City Council is considering giving people living in RVs $500 Visa gift cards to get them to accept housing placement. We learned on Thursday that a pilot program is already ongoing in Council District 7 (Sylmar, Pacoima, Sunland-Tujunga, North Hills and La Tuna Canyon). Councilmember Monica Rodriguez reported that the program “was successful in removing 20 RVs off city streets and housing 25 homeless individuals, with another 12 enrolled and waiting for housing placement, between Feb. 1 and Sept. 15.” At this time, the City Council is on holiday break until next year. (Daily News/paywall)
3. Firmin Court at 418-430 North Firmin Street “is all but finished.” Wednesday’s update outlines that the property is seven stories tall and features “45 units of permanent supportive housing and 19 apartments for low-income households.” While projected rents for “the general affordable units at Firmin Court are set at $1,470 per month,” the application process is already closed. (LA Urbanize)
4. Do you want to own the North Linden Drive mansion where gangster “Bugsy” Siegel was murdered? We learned on Tuesday that the seven-bedroom Spanish Colonial-style mansion can be yours for $16.995 million. “You walk in the entry with the staircase and the balcony and all of that has been completely maintained just the way it was done in 1928. Even the bathrooms are the original,” the listing agent explained. (Hollywood Reporter)
5. Celebrating the Winter Solstice on December 21, Doritos will debut its “Doritos After Dark” menu with a pop-up shop at 4 p.m. sharp. No, they won’t tell us where; all we know is that it will be in L.A. You have to make a reservation online. If you don’t care about attending the unveiling in person, you can also order the menu via several food delivery services. (KTLA)

📆 Today in Los Angeles:

• Seated Exercises at the Chatsworth Branch Library (11:30 AM)
• Echo Park Farmers Market at Sunset & Logan (3 PM)
• Teenage Priest performs at the Moroccan Lounge (6:30 PM)
• Candlelight Christmas Favorites performed by the Vitamin String Quartet at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church (6:30 PM)
• Mickey Avalon is at The Bourbon Room (9 PM)

📓 From my notebook:

• "Join us for a frightfully fun evening of Christmas stories and learn about the ghostly history of the holiday as portrayed by writers like Charles Dickens and Washington Irving. 🗓 December 20 at 6 pm ✉️ Email eden@lapl.org for the Zoom link." (Los Angeles Public Library via Facebook)
• "With well over 10,000 ocean rescues this past year, our Rescue Water Crafts are a valuable and versatile tool in particularly large surf and rip currents. Here, we get a victim's perspective on just exactly what it would look like getting rescued." (Los Angeles County Fire Department, Lifeguard Division via Facebook)
• "Today, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson recorded her last Poems on Air podcast. Catch up on past episodes: http://lapl.me/tmG4aAC" (Los Angeles Public Library via Facebook)
• "The men and women of your Los Angeles Fire Department warmly welcome you to watch today's graduation ceremony of LAFD Recruit Training Academy Class 22-2, being streamed live (and archived for later viewing)." (Los Angeles Fire Department via Facebook)
• "On Bill of Rights Day, we commemorate the ratification of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution that protect our society’s rights and freedoms." (Los Angeles Unified via Instagram)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Friday. I'll see you around!

— 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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