Techies Day: Celebrate the Technician in Your Life

Happy Thursday! Here are five things Redondo Beach residents should know today: 

1. Today is Techies Day, a day to shower your local technicians—whether they work on computers, in a veterinarian's office or somewhere else—with extra appreciation, according to HolidayInsights.com.
2. Patch wants to see your photos! Add them to our Redondo Beach Snapshot open blog. For more information on the open blog, check out this introductory post.
3. To sign up for breaking news alerts, visit our breaking news category and click "Get email updates." (If it says you're signed up, but you're not receiving the alerts, click "Unsubscribe." Then click "Get email updates" to resubscribe. That should fix the issue.)
4. In case you missed it, Wednesday's top headline was California Energy Commission Hosts Public Hearing.
5. Today's photo of the day was uploaded to Flickr's Creative Commons by derriel street photography. Want to submit your own photo? Email it to redondobeach@patch.com; add it to the Redondo Beach Snapshot open blog; tweet it to @RedondoBchPatch; post it on the Redondo Beach Patch Facebook page; or tag it #rbpatch on Instagram. Patch reserves the right to publish any submitted photos at its discretion.