May 16: Chamber of Commerce Meets, Youngsters Write, Daily Queries

It’s Monday and that means Patch returns with five things you need to know each weekday. What’s the buzz around town? We’ll keep you informed about the important meetings, high school playoff games, fundraisers around town and stories you may have overlooked. Here’s what’s happing today:

1. The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce will hold their monthly meeting at Avenue Café on West Park Avenue at 7 p.m. City Council member Len Torres is a guest speaker.

2. The first of two Young Writers Workshops at the Long Beach Library will start at 5:30 p.m. This program is for children in grades 2 and up and focuses on a selected theme for children to write about.

3. East End residents, listen up! Remember that sanitation pickup is each Monday and Thursday in your neighborhoods, and citywide recycling is every Wednesday. So put your garbage curbside this morning.

4. Each morning, Patch will feature a Question of The Day that invites you, our loyal readers, to answer everything from Long Beach-related to national to general queries. Return later and weigh in with your thoughts.

5. Later today on Patch, we'll post a roundup of the Board of Education race and the school and library budgets. We'll also have a story on how a real estate agency is working to house people for a surf competition coming to Long Beach in September and is expected to draw unprecedented crowds.