Photos by Sebastian Echeverry | Signal Tribune California State University, Long Beach officials hosted a “turning on the switch” ceremony on Friday, Sept. 15 to unveil the new solar panels on campus, the largest solar power system installed on any of the 23 Cal State University campuses. Key speakers at the event included Long Beach…
The September 15 issue of the Signal Tribune newspaper features– a story about 14,000 origami paper cranes that form a cancer-awareness ribbon in the lobby of the Todd Cancer Institute, the unionization of Westin Hotel employees and a recap of the Signal Hill City Council meeting.
It took a community, but now it’s done and ready to provide comfort and inspiration to patients and their families. Volunteers from various organizations as well as staff from Long Beach Memorial Hospital pitched in to fold 14,000 paper cranes to form a large art installation in the shape of a cancer-awareness ribbon for the…
Westin Hotel employees announced that their fight for hotel unionization had come to a successful conclusion, during a press conference Sept. 8. Unite Here Local 11, the labor union in charge of the Westin Long Beach union campaign, expressed their sense of relief, following a two-year struggle with previous hotel owners to come to an…
With a packed agenda at its Sept. 12 meeting, the Signal Hill City Council approved an ordinance requiring owners of vacant parcels of more than one acre to install sediment controls by April 2018. It also approved a conditional-use permit allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption at the future Mother’s Market and…
Photo by Wendy Hansen The Rotary Club of Signal Hill on Sept. 8 delivered backpacks and school supplies to Jessie Elwin Nelson Academy, the first school to benefit from the Rotary Club’s backpack program. Other schools included Alvarado Elementary on Sept 13 and Signal Hill Elementary on Sept. 19. Each year, as its community project,…
Some experiences can only be had in the theatre. All in the Timing by David Ives, continuing at the Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre through Sept. 30, provides just such an event through a set of six rollickingly absurdist one-act comedies. Each of the six pieces was chosen from Ives’s collection, and dynamically directed, by…
The public had a chance to learn about statewide and city issues and express their own opinions on those topics at a community event last Saturday at the Expo Arts Center. Seventieth District Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell hosted a community-coffee event on Sept. 9 to discuss questions, concerns and ideas on legislative matters. Eighth District Councilmember…
Over the past year, developments have been in action to start up Long Beach’s first children’s choir. Minister of Music at Grace First Presbyterian Church Stan DeWitt explained that the formation of the group originally began with the idea of a program that kids could get involved with after school. “Last year we were looking…
Photos by Denny Cristales | Signal Tribune GD Bro Burger, 1798 E. Willow St., hosted an honor-wall unveiling event on Sept. 13 that recognized fallen veterans who served in the U.S. military. The unveiling featured a banner that displayed the credentials of the late Army Sgt. Sammy Nguyen, who died during physical combat training in…
I faintly remember that kids were supposed to stand up and tell the rest of the class what they did over their summer. Or maybe write an essay about it? I think I was actually only asked to do this once, so perhaps it was just a suburban legend in my failing memory. But I…
FOR ART’S SAKE What Art exhibit Who Hosted by Club d’Art and the Long Beach Art Museum When Friday, Sept. 15 to Sunday, Nov. 5 all day Where The Art Exchange, 356 E. 3rd St. More Info A new generation of young artists from LBCC will be presented in an outdoor exhibit. Visit artexchangelongbeach.org/event/lbcc-show/. MEDICINE,…
‘Waging’ a campaign against AB 168 We are deeply concerned with the passage of AB 168 and are urging Gov. Jerry Brown to veto this bill as it exposes all employers to unnecessary litigation, creates hurdles in the hiring process and seeks to tackle an issue already addressed by existing law. California has taken great…
The Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) on Sept. 11 reported two traffic fatalities that had occurred within the last two weeks. On Wednesday, Aug. 30, at approximately 7:40pm, officers were dispatched to the area of Santa Fe Avenue and Willow Street regarding a vehicle-versus-pedestrian traffic collision. When officers arrived, they located an elderly male pedestrian…
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra– joined by the attorneys general for Minnesota, Maryland and Maine– filed a lawsuit Sept. 11 against the Trump administration over its decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative (DACA). The four states filed the suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California…