ST. MARY MEDICAL CENTER welcomed the first baby of the New Year on Jan. 1 to Long Beach residents, Christina Yem (mother) and Rodtanna Onn (father). Baby girl, Ava Yem, was delivered by Dr. Michael Cogan at 12:35 a.m. weighing 9 pounds 14 ounces and 20 inches long.
The Long Beach City Council is scheduled to vote Jan. 16 on whether to approve a proposal that would involve consolidating oil drilling operations in the Los Cerritos Wetlands to nearby sites and restoring the degraded marsh back to its natural habitat.
The New Year 2017 began with the January 1 closing of Baja Sonora on Clark Avenue, replaced by a taco truck. Word from the operators of Time Square was to expect a return in nine months. Right.
2400 block of Ostrom Ave. At 3:10 p.m., a porch pirate garbed in a white hoodie escaped with a package in a white truck, which matched all the other white trucks in the vicinity, most of them as innocent as their color
Player of the Week: Temidayo Yussuf, Men’s Basketball – Junior Temidayo Yussuf scored a season-high 18 points off of the bench to lead LBSU at Colorado State. Yussuf was 5-for-7 from the field and a perfect 8-for-8 from the free throw line against the Rams.
Beachcomber Movie Critic John Thomas, a resident of Long Beach and New York City, snapped this photo of his sister, Karen Hilburn of Long Beach, donating a fur coat to a NYC homeless woman, Ana, on 42nd Ave. near Grand Central Station on Dec. 27. Ana hugged the coat, then hugged Karen.
