Archive for the 'Libraries' category
1,000 Served: Good Neighbor Festival and Picnic a Great Success
If you count the number of hot dogs and hamburgers cooked and given out yesterday, 1,000 people attended the first Annual Good Neighbor Festival and Picnic at El Dorado Park near the Senior Center. (Thanks to the Long Beach Police Officers Association for cooking hamburgers — and then going to get more when they ran […]
Smithsonian Exhibit Opening a Success
Thanks to my hard working staff, the Port of Long Beach, Verizon, BP America, the City Library Services, Public Works and Parks, Recreation and Marine Department for making yesterday’s opening of the Smithsonian and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s exhibit: “From Sea to Shining Sea: 200 Years of Charting America’s Coasts” such a wonderful success. […]
Ben Franklin Comes to Long Beach
Tonight, I am expecting a special guest at the opening of the “Sea to Shining Sea” exhibit at the El Dorado Library Community Room. Rumor has it that a certain historical figure will be attending this kick-off of the Smithsonian Institution and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 20 poster display of the 200th Anniversary of […]
5th Council District Library Round-Up
April is National Library Month. It is also the month that the 5th Council District gets the operating hours of both of its branch libraries restored. Finally.
April is also the month that I am kicking off an annual event to raise funds for books, tapes and other materials for both the El Dorado and Ruth […]
Get Ready for Read Across America Day
From coast to coast, more than 45 million readers, both young and old, are gearing up for the nation’s largest reading celebration–the National Education Association’s (NEA) Read Across America Day.
Here in Long Beach, parents, the Teachers Association of Long Beach and its member teachers, education support professionals, students, firefighters, and elected officials are doing their part […]
Library Hours Still Not Restored in the 5th District
5th District library patrons are anxious to have the operating hours of the two branch libraries — El Dorado and Bach — brought back to pre-budget cuts.
Council has just received a notice from Library Services that six libraries will be open an additional day beginning February 3 and four more libraries plan to be open […]