Monday Essentials: Hammocks, Ice Cream, Connecting With Manhattan Beach Patch

Here are five things for your Monday morning in Manhattan Beach: 

1. Monday, July 22 is Hammock Day! Quaint, eh? Have a great hammock story to tell? Tell it here.
2. Make sure you're "Patched In" to get alerts on breaking news as it happens in town this week (and after), make sure you are signed up to get our emails. Click on the 'get the daily newsletter' at the top, right corner of this page. (If you see something that says, "hi, username," then you're already registered. In that case, click on "email settings" under the drop-down tab under your name.)
   
3. The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Westwood and Santa Monica campuses scored as tops in the state and fifth in the entire country, according to U.S. News & World Reports. UCLA got high marks in fields such as geriatrics and opthalmology. 
   
4. Long Beach may be the top-spending city in the nation for spending on ice cream but Manhattan Beach has the best ice cream. One bite of Manhattan Beach Creamery's homemade ice cream and you're bound to be hooked. What do you say? 
   
5. Submit a photo to Manhattan Beach Patch so we can share your scenic, unusual or captivating shot. Email it to liz.spear@patch.com; tweet it to @ManhattBchPatch; post it on the Manhattan Beach Patch Facebook page; or tag it #ManhattBchPatch on Instagram. Patch reserves the right to publish any submitted photos at its discretion.