The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) will open an exciting and extraordinary exhibition by Ukrainian-born artist Valentin Popov on Jan. 12, 2017 through March 19. The exhibition will feature, for the first time, the modern painter’s work in a Southern California museum.
Disposable food containers and other packaging materials made out of polystyrene, a plastic material considered to be the second largest source of pollution on beaches throughout the state, may become a thing of the past in Long Beach.
President Barack Obama recently signed into law legislation introduced by Congressman Alan Lowenthal to rename the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, as the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in honor of Holocaust survivor and Medal of Honor recipient Tibor Rubin.
DIGNITY HEALTH – St. Mary Medical Center welcomed its first baby of the New Year On Sunday, Jan. 1, at 6:30 a.m. Jayme Monse Rodriguez was born to Long Beach locals Erika Gonzalez (mother) and Jimmy Rodriguez (father) at a healthy 6 pounds, 13 ounces and 18-¾ inches.
Several significant happenings in Long Beach of 2016 centered around grass and trees. Like the trees that toppled on the first day of February when high winds blew through East Long Beach. On 23rd St., near the F&M Bank, a large sycamore tree fell, destroyed two vehicles and trapped a man.
Mollie Beck was recently announced as president-elect nominee of Long Beach Rotary. She will follow Steve Keesal (2017-18 president) and Gail Schwandner (2018-19 president) to become the 103rd club president in 2019-2020.
