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With the coronavirus receding locally, the Surfrider Foundation Long Beach Chapter is hosting its first beach cleanup of the year.
The event is Saturday, June 5 from 10 a.m. until noon starting at the Belmont Pier. The foundation will also discuss other volunteer opportunities.
Be sure to sign up beforehand because there are only 50 spots available in order for volunteers to maintain social distancing.
“We are excited to be able to host in-person events again and it is important to us to keep everyone safe and healthy for more events to come,” the foundation said.
Bring your mask, your own reusable bags and/or gloves, and look for the blue Surfrider banners and canopy. Parking will be free.
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One of the events offers participants the chance to paint their own birdhouse. Image courtesy Arts Council for Long Beach.
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Arts Council offers ‘Bridging Wellness’ workshop series in honor of Mental Health month
May is Mental Health month and the Arts Council for Long Beach, in collaboration 12 regional organizations including Angels Gate Cultural Center, Compound LBC and We Rise LA, have banded together to host a series of free virtual and in-person pop-ups and workshops geared toward improving mental health and wellness through art and creative expression.
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Long Beach has launched three new mobile clinics that will be deployed to parks in parts of the city that have been hardest hit during the COVID-19 pandemic as it tries to increase vaccination rates in those neighborhoods, the city announced Friday.
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The clinics will be available to all Long Beach residents 16 and older on a walk-up basis, depending on vaccine supply.
Availability of vaccines in the city could be boosted by an announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and the Federal Drug Administration on Friday that the two agencies were lifting their recommended pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after its use was abruptly stopped earlier this month in multiple states.
For many Cambodians, racial discrimination was an unanticipated part of their experience as new Americans.
Vesna Nuon arrived in the U.S. in 1982 after surviving the brutal Khmer Rouge reign under Pol Pot that killed 1.7 million people, or about a quarter of Cambodia’s population, between 1975 and 1979.
He recalls some Americans, including students at his Boston high school, were less than welcoming. “I was not only verbally harassed to go back to my country, but also during lunch breaks they spat in my food. I told cafeteria staff who were monitoring the area, but they turned a blind eye and deaf ear to me,” he told VOA Cambodian.