Local newspaper coverage to get even thinner;
Press-Telegram slated for big cuts
Trying to make do in an extremely shaky
time for the newspaper industry, the Long Beach Press-Telegram
will merge many functions with its corporate sister entitty,
the South Bay Daily Breeze and reduces its local reporting
staff to 10 reporters.
This means that the Los Al, Rossmoor and
Seal Beach communties which already are often overlooked by
the big three newspapers -- The Times, Register and Press-Telegram
-- will be overlooked even more in the upcoming future.
ROSSMOOR: LAFCO report says Rossmoor can
survive as a city
An official report generated by LAFCO -
the Local Agency formation Committee — says that cityhood
for the unincorporated community of Rossmoor is fiscally feasible
if residents are willing to pay a utility tax of seven cents.
St. Isidore Open House gives new life to
an old church
Nearly
100 parishioners and community residents gathered at St. Isidore's
Church in Los Alamitos to celebrate an agreement with the
Diocese of Orange that lets them lease the property and raise
money to buy it – church included
The church, constructed in 1922 to serve
the many Spanish speaking farmhands and sugarbeet factory
workers of the small community, was closed by the diocese
in 1999 because it wasn't earthquake safe and needed a costly
retrofit.
Parishioners, many who had grown up in
the church and the tight-knit community, joined with community
leaders to form a non-profit, and draft a plan to re-open
the church as a community chapel and create a resource center
next door. Last July, the group struck a six-year agreement
with the diocese to lease the three buildings on the property
– the first of which was renovated and re-opened Sunday
– and raise $1.2 million to buy the lot. (more
from OC Register)
LOCAL PEOPLE: Under Wendy Puzarne, Intern
Program Growing At Jewish Community Center
Grunion Gazette: By Kelly Garrison; Features
Editor— Jewish Family & Children’s Service
(JFCS) Executive Director Wendy Puzarne started her career
in social work with an internship.
Less than a decade later, she was hired
for her current position and now helps supervise that intern
program, which today is one of the fastest growing parts of
JFCS. Since her experience interning, Puzarne said, the program’s
number of participants has more than doubled and has given
many students the opportunity to develop invaluable career
skills. (complete
article)
LOCAL BUSINESS: Trend Printing
names Yandell Chief Operating Officer
Feb. 11, 2008 -- Folio Magazine - New York,NY,USA
-- Los Alamitos, California-based Trend Offset Printing has
named Ed Yandell chief operating officer.Yandell will manage
the company's manufacturing and engineering functions. Previously
he was chief operating officer at Creel Printing in Las Vegas....
READY, SET, PLUNGE
Feb. 9, 2008 -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
- Long Beach,CA,USA
Members of the O'Malleys Plungers rush into the cold ocean
water, hoisting their toilet plungers into the air at the
3rd annual Seal Beach Polar Plunge on ...
February 7, 2008 - OC RegisterEight Seal
Beach residents are vying for an open seat on the City Council,
and one is likely to be chosen at Monday's meeting.
The candidates are David W. Sloan, Charles
L. Cohen, George A. Early, Rebecca Allie, Jose G. Osuna, William
P. Peterson, Darse E. Crandall and F. Kurt Bourhenne. They
will be interviewed by council members from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
February 6, 2008 - LB Press-Telegram --
George Lucas made Mel's Drive-in a legend just before it died.
The San Francisco restaurant was about
to be demolished when the filmmaker was scouting for locations
for "American Graffiti," but the destruction was
pushed back while he made his rock 'n' roll classic with Ron
Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Suzanne Somers, Harrison Ford and
other future stars. As the hit movie opened, the bulldozers
were razing the restaurant, part of a small chain that had
first opened in 1947.
50 YEARS AGO: 2 Planes from Los Al Air Base
collide in mid-air, over Norwalk; 47 killed
February 2, 1958 - LA Times — A military
version of a DC-6 airliner and a patrol plane collide in midair,
showering five square miles of Norwalk with flaming wreckage
and bits of metal. The main portion of the C-118 plunges into
a gas station at Pioneer and Firestone boulevards, careens
across the street and starts a fire when it slams into a gasoline
supply dump at the sheriff's substation. The P-2V comes to
rest in the parking lot of the Santa Fe Springs fire station.
In addition to the victims on the two aircraft,
Edith Hernandez, 23, 12303 Jersey St., is killed by falling
metal when she runs outside to check on the safety of her
children.
As emergency personnel from across the
area converge on the scene of the disaster, thousands of spectators
swarm the area, bringing the Santa Ana Freeway to a standstill.
The crash, which ultimately claimed 48
lives, prompted a congressional investigation and a Navy ban
on low-level flights from Los Alamitos Naval Air Station.
It is California's worst air disaster, The Times says.
When Bill Yee sits on his living room
couch, he's in Los Alamitos. But when Yee steps into his backyard,
he enters new territory: Long Beach , in Los Angeles County.
CHARITY: What's the status of the Casa Youth
Shelter non-profit embezzlement?
The OC Register gives the latest. (Friday,
Jan. 25, 2008)
PEOPLE: Gen. Combs named Los Al area Chamber
Man of Year;
Los Al Chamber selects Gen. Combs as Man
of the Year.
OC Register - Jan. 25, 2008 - Chamber honors awards JFTB commander
Brigadier General James Combs who is currently developing
a base master plan in conjunction with surrounding cities.
January 15, 2007 - OC Register -- The City
Council on Monday accepted the resignation of Councilman John
Larson and will seek to fill his vacancy in the coming weeks.
Former mayor Larson resigned recently citing
health reasons. He represented District Two, which includes
Leisure World and College Park West neighborhoods. His term
would have expired in November.
Stingrays love Seal Beach, according to
a feature this month in the National Geographic. Of course,
this is probably not news to the average 251 persons each
year who suffer stingray-related injuries in the area near
the mouth of the San Gabriel River, which is warmed by the
nearby energy producing plant.
The Los Alamitos City Council has approved
plans for a $2.3 million, four-acre park along the Coyote
Creek flood channel, with funds in large part provided by
the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy.
The park would be in the area behind Oak
Middle School and the adjacent trailer park, north of Katella
and south of Cerritos Avenue.
OC Register - Dec. 13, 2007 - An electrical
failure in the attic of a Seal Beach business was the cause
of a three-alarm fire last week at a Main Street .
Dec. 12, 2007 - OC Register - Crowds were
lined up for the 5:30 am opening of the Seal Beach diner in
the landmark Parsol building at The Shops at Rossmoor.
OC Register - Dec. 4, 2007 - Ken Parker
is the new mayor of Los Alamitos and Gerri Mejia is the new
mayor pro tem, the City Council decided Monday at
Dec. 13, 2007 - OC Register
PEOPLE: Sir Speedy's McCleans named Los
Al Citizens of the Year
- Local Sir Speedy franchise owners Allan
and Lauri McClean have been named the Los Alamitos Citizens
of the Year by the Cypress College American Foundation.
Seal Beach elects new mayor, pro tem
OC Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA - Dec.
12, 2007 -- The city council Monday night voted Charles Antos
to be mayor in a 3-0-2 vote and unanimously voted Michael
Levitt as mayor ...
Grab your surfboard,
then your umbrella
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA - As the sun
came up in Seal Beach this morning, body boarders and surfers
perched on top of a 12-foot sand berm, wearing sweatshirts,
drinking coffee and ...
Seal Beach gets $1.5 million to restore
First Street trails area
OC Register - November 30, 2007 - Hoping
to renovate the area where the San Gabriel River meets the
ocean near First Street, Seal Beach has received a grant from
the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains conservancy
to upgrade trails and riverside from the beach to the 405
and 605 freeways. But the city will still need more help from
the state.
Nonprofit puts trees in Seal Beach park
Orange County Register - November 28,
2007 - Trees for Seal Beach plants 30 of them in a field once
home to an elementary school torn down because of health concerns.
Seal Beach settles in behind completed berm
OCRegister - Santa Ana,CA,USA
And the big wall of sand south of the Seal Beach pier confirmed
it. It protects the nearby area from a winter "trifecta,"
according to Seal Beach City ...
A county commission is expected to decide
today whether the unincorporated community of Rossmoor would
be better off joining with Los Alamitos, Seal Beach or staying
the same.
The Local Agency Formation Commission will
review the recommendation of its staff to place Rossmoor and
its municipal services under the jurisdiction of Los Alamitos
– putting it on a path to annexation.
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