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Help support Special Olympics SoCal athletes with Long Beach Plane Pull

If you want to find out how strong you really are — while supporting athletes competing in the Special Olympics Southern California — get ready to help pull an entire aircraft on Saturday, Sept. 13.
The annual Plane Pull challenge pits teams of 25 against each other to see which one can tug a 124,000-pound UPS jet 12 feet the fastest. This year’s Plane Pull will take place at Jet Zero at the Long Beach Airport, 4150 E. Donald Douglas Drive.
“All funds raised through the Plane Pull will help empo...
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Salvation Army’s ‘Night of Hope’ fundraiser returns Sept. 13

The Salvation Army will soon host its second annual “Night of Hope” — honoring graduates from its Long Beach Adult Rehabilitation Center program — on Saturday, Sept. 13.
The rehabilitation center, also called LB ARC, is capable of housing up to 100 men and is home to various residential recovery programs for people experiencing substance abuse issues, according to the Salvation Army.
This year’s Night of Hope event will feature the story of Leonard James Russell — a Long Beach native and Poly Hi...
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Photos: Culture, food, and more on display at 76th annual Long Beach Greek Festival

Hundreds of food, music, and Greek culture lovers gathered at the grounds of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church on Sunday, Aug. 31 to celebrate the second day of this year’s Long Beach Greek Festival.
The event kicked off in earnest on Saturday, Aug. 30. The festival grounds open at noon each day, welcoming in visitors eager to delight in classic Greek cuisine, dance, music, and more.
And Sunday was no exception — with revelers delighting in Greek such classics as gy...
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Long Beach Greek Fest returns for 76th year starting Aug. 30

The Long Beach Greek Festival, a longstanding celebration of the country’s culture, cuisine, and music, will return for its 76th iteration from Saturday, Aug. 30 to Monday, Sept. 1.
The beloved local event will get underway at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church, 5761 E. Colorado Street, with the festival grounds opening at noon each day. It’ll cost $5 to get in.
A huge draw of the festival is, of course, the food — with dozens of traditional Greek cuisine offerings avail...
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Care about the future of city trees? Long Beach wants your input

If you’re passionate about how Long Beach manages the thousands of trees under its care — at parks, in neighborhoods, and along city streets — you can share your opinion in a new community survey.
The survey will help inform how Long Beach develops its new Urban Forest Plan. That plan will essentially serve a governing document guiding how the city will grow, maintain, and protect its trees in an effort to make the city more climate-resistant, sustainable, and generally livable.
“Trees in Long B...
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Applications for Long Beach’s ‘Love Your Block’ grant program open

If you’re a West Long Beach resident looking to solve a problem in your neighborhood, the city has officially opened applications for a mini-grant program that could help bring your solution to life.
The program, dubbed Love Your Block, offers grants of up to $2,500 for individuals with project ideas aimed at creating positive change in their neighborhoods. Long Beach signed on to a nationwide network of cities also participating in the program in partnership with the Bloomberg Center for Public...
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Catalina Island Conservancy launches new fire danger program — with an island fox mascot

The Catalina Island Conservancy has officially launched a new program aimed at educating the island’s residents and visitors alike about wildfire danger and prevention — with help from a new mascot based on Catalina’s native fox subspecies.
Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of Long Beach, is home to about 4,000 year-round residents, thousands of acres of wildland, and more than 60 native plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth, according to the conservancy.
Its unique ecosystem,...
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Long Beach ‘Bring Your Own’ campaign returns this October

Come October, Long Beach will urge its resident to take on more sustainable practices in an effort to reduce single-use plastics.
The “Bring Your Own” campaign, returning for its third year in October, is a collaboration between the Department of Public Works, the Long Beach Reuses Coalition, and a smattering of local businesses and community groups.
The campaign encourages people to bring their own reusable containers, bags, cups and utensils to participating local businesses and certain specia...
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Long Beach’s longstanding Olympics history to be on display at new Historical Society exhibit

If you’ve ever been curious about how the Olympic Games have shaped Long Beach — from its infrastructure and economy to cultural relevance on the global stage — the Historical Society of Long Beach has something in store to scratch that intellectual itch.
The Historical Society, 4260 Atlantic Ave., will celebrate the launch of its newest exhibit, “Olympics on the Golden Shore,” on Thursday, Aug. 21. The exhibit features hundreds of artifacts, photos, Olympic ephemera and more, all of which docum...
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DOJ wants non-citizen voter registration requests, including sensitive data, from Los Angeles County

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested information about the removal of non-citizens from voter registration lists from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder — including sensitive data, such as Social Security and driver’s license numbers and birth dates.
The ask, sent to the county registrar last month, follows a slew of similar Justice Department requests to election officials in at least 19 other states, seeking information about voter fraud and non-citizen voting.

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Long Beach Public Works Director Eric Lopez to leave the city in September

Long Beach’s Department of Public Works director, Eric Lopez, will soon exit his position, which he’s held since 2020, according to a recent city news release.
Lopez’s last day at the department’s helm will be around Friday, Sept. 19, the city’s Wednesday, July 30, news release said. He will take up the position of senior vice president with Pasadena firm Pacific Services Inc.
“We are deeply grateful for Eric’s many years of dedicated service and outstanding leadership. His commitment to innovat...
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Long Beach cuts free HIV services after federal funding loss

Long Beach’s Department of Health and Human Services has been forced to cut some of its HIV and STI services after losing a significant chunk of federal funding that had paid for the programming for years, according to a recent city announcement.
The health department has lost $1.3 million in funding from the federal government “as a result of funding cuts brought by recent executive orders and policy shifts under the current presidential administration,” according to the city’s Wednesday, July...
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Artists paint the town during 10th annual Long Beach Walls

Artists have once again taken to the streets to turn Long Beach into a work of art, with the 10th anniversary of Long Beach Walls finishing up — for the most part — on Saturday, July 26.
This year marked the 10th anniversary of Long Beach Walls and Art Renzei, which has celebrated Long Beach’s artists with new murals, art installations and other events during a weeklong celebration each year over the past decade.
Since its 2015 inception, more than 140 murals have been painted across more than 4...
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Environmentalists sue EPA to ban toxic chemical at refineries, including in Torrance, Wilmington

Efforts to more strictly regulate a toxic chemical used to make high-octane gasoline at refineries across the nation — including at PBF Energy’s Torrance Refinery and the Valero Refinery in Wilmington — are once again ramping up.
This time, several environmental organizations — including the National Resources Defense Council, Communities for a Better Environment and the Philadelphia Clean Air Council — have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its regulation of the chemical, hydro...
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