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Students Connect with Global Executives
SAN PEDRO — On March 27, the International Trade Education Programs will honor 23 student scholars from six Southern California high schools at its 14th Annual Scholarship Dinner, themed “Crafting Future Careers,” on March 27, 2014 at Crafted at the Port Los Angeles in San Pedro.

More than 400 global and civic leaders representing some 100 major companies and organizations join 270 students to showcase the yearly achievements from 2,200+ students in International Trade Education Programs academies from Barstow, Carson, Gardena, Long Beach, and San Pedro High Schools, plus four at Wilmington’s Phineas Banning High School.

The annual, sold-out event will also recognize special student achievements. Phineas Banning High School student Jasmine Valdez will receive the year’s memorable Carol Rowen 180 Degree Award for her dramatic turn-around from a 1.5 GPA to a college-bound student and academy council member. In addition, the newly established Martin D. Chavez Scholarship Fund will present its second annual awards to six International Trade Education Programs students.

Other scholarships include awards from the Los Angeles Air Cargo Association, the Foreign Trade Association and the Harbor Association of Industry and Commerce.

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Health Care Enrollment Fair

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Health Care Enrollment Fair

March 27

Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in collaboration with the Office of Rep. Janice Hahn is having a health care enrollment fair, from 4 to 8 p.m. March 27.

Certified enrollment counselors will be available to enroll community members into Covered California and insurance programs.

Details: (310) 833-3223; http://mtsinaisanpedro.org
Venue: Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church
Location: 225 S. Mesa St., San Pedro

Dine With a Queen in Long Beach

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Dine With a Queen in Long Beach

By Lyn Jensen

Beachfront dining is an everyday sport here in the South Bay, and 2014 has brought a remarkably summery winter and spring, even by California standards. That means we can enjoy Long Beach’s waterfront before tourist season hits. If you’re visiting the city harbor and looking to get away from chain restaurant menus, you’ll find Parkers’ Lighthouse offers a variety of unique dining experiences.

Having recently added Queensview Steakhouse on its top floor, Parkers’ Lighthouse now offers two restaurants in a single location. The building itself is one of Long Beach’s landmarks, with architecture that slightly resembles San Diego’s world-famous Hotel Coronado. It’s the place across the channel from the Queen Mary, dominating the Shoreline Village complex against a backdrop of the Long Beach downtown skyline.

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Getting Older, Not Always Gracefully

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By Lionel Rolfe

Getting older was supposed to be easier than this–more like a wonderful long vacation. But of course, it hasn’t been that way. My wife left me just before I turned 70 and I’m still not getting along with it too well a couple of years later. I don’t have enough on Social Security to survive, so I’m still working part time at my old high-stress journalism job. And becoming something of a lonely and grumpy old man in the process.

Environment Advocate Seeks LB Council District 7 Seat

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Environment Advocate Seeks LB Council District 7 Seat

By Zamná Ávila, Assistant Editor

Joan GreenwoodFor more than 25 years Joan Greenwood and her late husband, John Gailey, have embraced the Long Beach community as their own.

Now, Greenwood is looking to leave her mark by running to represent the city’s Council District 7.

“I have been inspired to run for the 7th District council office based on my 20 years of commitment to improving the quality of life and the environment in District 7,” Greenwood, 65, said. “All initiatives start at the neighborhood level. So, I have focused on the air quality impacts and opportunities within the neighborhood to provide activities for younger children.”

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Greenwood, a project manager and environmental consultant for CSC Targee Inc., is best known for her work on the board of the Friends of the Los Angeles River. She became concerned with air quality issues in 2000. She was the president of the Wrigley Association from 2004 to 2007 and a founding board member of the Wrigley Area Neighborhood Alliance. As resident of Wrigley, a neighborhood that is directly adjacent to the Interstate 710 Freeway, she lives in a high-risk zone for pollution impacts.

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Homeboy Industries Honored at Noche de Estrellas

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Homeboy Industries Honored at Noche de Estrellas

By Zamná Ávila, Assistant Editor

Aquarium of the Pacific Trustee, Dr. Martha Molina-Bernadett, presented Homeboy Industries with an award on March 14. Jose Osuna is the director of employment services at Homeboy Industries and a Long Beach resident. He accepted the award on behalf of the organization.
Aquarium of the Pacific Trustee, Dr. Martha Molina-Bernadett, presented Homeboy Industries with an award on March 14. Jose Osuna is the director of employment services at Homeboy Industries and a Long Beach resident. He accepted the award on behalf of the organization.

Aztec dancers greeted an audience of about 200 people — mostly Latino families — March 14, at the annual Noche de Estrellas (Night of Stars inSpanish) that the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach organizes.

Noche de Estrellas is a bilingual (English and Spanish) evening filled with environmental educational opportunities for all ages, Latino music bands, disc jockeys, arts and crafts, food and drinks, and the experience of visiting the Aquarium and its animals at night. This event began in 2010. Its first award recipient was actor and activist Edward James Olmos.

This year the aquarium honored Homeboy Industries, an organization serving high-risk, recently incarcerated and former gang members, who are trying to change their lives in Los Angeles. Rev. Gregory Boyle founded Homeboy Industries in 1988, using as its slogan, “Jobs Not Jails.” The nonprofit offers tattoo removal, job training, employment, legal services, case management, and mental health and substance abuse services.

“Homeboys Industries does so much for so many and they’ve done it for so long that I believe it’s always a good time to honor them,” said Dr. Martha Molina Bernadett, an Aquarium of the Pacific trustee. “This is an especially important time as Latinos are such an important fabric of Southern California and Father Boyle’s work is so lasting.”

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

LONG BEACH

Charges Filed for Suspect in February Murder

LONG BEACH — On March 14, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed murder and weapons charges along with gang enhancements against 24-year-old Joseph Avila.

Avila was arrested March 12, at his Long Beach residence for the murder of Robert Anthony Proano. Proano was shot and killed Feb. 10, near Myrtle Avenue and Artesia Boulevard in Long Beach. The motive of the murder is believed to be gang-related.

Anyone with information regarding this murder is urged to contact Long Beach Police Homicide Detectives at (562) 570-7244 or visit www.LACrimeStoppers.org.

POLB Cargo Dips in February

LONG BEACH — On March 18, the Port of Long Beach announced that import volume was down 2.7 percent, while exports were up 2.1 percent at the POLB in February, compared to the same month in 2013.

Overall cargo volume dipped 2.6 percent due to an 8.3 percent decline in empty containers.

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Buscaino Advocates for Harbor Area in D.C.

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Buscaino Advocates for Harbor Area in D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On March 14, District 15 Councilman Joe Buscaino discussed his recent travel to Washington, D.C. in his e-newsletter.

Buscaino traveled with seven colleagues for the annual National League of Cities conference and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce’s Access DC program.

Their presence in D.C. is critical because Californians get back only 76 cents of services for every dollar of federal taxes paid, Buscaino wrote.

He said that he advocated three things:

1) Councilman Mitchell Englander and his “Save Our Streets” initiative, a multi-billion dollar project to fix Los Angeles’s failed streets and sidewalks, while creating 40,000 jobs.

2) The revitalization of the Jordan Downs Housing development in Watts, which could potentially receive a $30 million Choice Neighborhoods Initiative planning grant. That, will be leverage into a billion dollar investment.

3) The Port of Los Angeles, one of the most important economic engines of the region.

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UC Patient Care Workers Authorize and Announce Five Day Strike

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UC Patient Care Workers Authorize and Announce Five Day Strike

OAKLAND — On March 14, the University of California’s 13,000 Patient Care Technical Workers, represented by AFSCME 3299, announced that they voted 97 percent in support of authorizing an Unfair Labor Practice Strike and informed the University of their intent to strike March 24 through 28.

The strike stems from growing incidents of illegal, bad faith bargaining by university administrators. This includes unilateral implementation of contract terms and benefit cuts, and the university’s 11th hour demands for sweeping new layoff powers, which could leave UC Health facilities short-staffed and patients vulnerable in the event of medical emergencies.

AFSCME 3299 has filed unfair labor practice charges detailing each of the violations with the Public Employment Relations Board.

Read the chargeshere,hereandhere, and the strike notice letterhere.

Though UC has repeatedly suggested that financial constraints are contributing to its collective bargaining practices[1], UC Hospitals netted more than $632 million in operating profit this past year.[2]Since 2009, annual hospital administration payroll costs at UC have swelled by more than $100 million, equivalent to an increase of 38 percent.[3]

Two UC Hospital CEOs (Mark Laret of UCSF, and Ann Madden Rice of UC Davis) just made the Becker’s Hospital Review list of CEOs of the top 25 highest grossing “non-profit” Hospitals[4], each receiving more than a million dollars in compensation. Laret’s arrangement, in particular, includes six figure cash bonuses tied to profit goals.[5]

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Garcetti Launches Interactive Budget Website

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Garcetti Launches Interactive Budget Website

LOS ANGELES — On March 19, Mayor Eric Garcetti launched a new website that makes it easier for people to review the city’s finances by offering interactive graphs of the current and past budget, including multi-year trends and departmental revenue and expenditure details.

Garcetti’s budget website is atwww.lamayor.org/openbudgetand uses the cloud-based OpenGov platform. It is being launched as Garcetti prepares to release his first budget as mayor, which will be available in April.

Garcetti’s back to basics agenda is focused on making city government more efficient, responsive, transparent and accountable, and he has used technology as a key way to achieve this. The new budget information site compliments ControlPanelLA, the web tool launched late this past year by Controller Ron Galperin. ControlPanelLA is a searchable database of actual expenses and revenues going back to July 2011, when the city installed its current financial software system. Open Budget is a searchable database of budgeted expenses and revenues going back five years to July 1, 2009.

ControlPanel LA is best for looking for specific financial information — Open Budget is best for analyzing budgeting information and trends. Together, they provide an unprecedented interactive window into the details of the budget and finances of Los Angeles for citizens and researchers.

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