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The Washington Neighborhood Association, in conjunction with local nonprofits, will host the block party Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at Cedar Avenue and W. 14th Street.
“It’s very important, this event, for our community so that our children feel safe and free to be out in the street without fear,” Jesus Esparza, president of the neighborhood association and a Washington resident, said in Spanish.
Residents of the Washington neighborhood have experienced a chain of violent shootings this summer and were caught in the middle of a police pursuit that ended in a crash on the street where Esparza lives.
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The survey, conducted this year and released in June, showed 40% of respondents experienced negative health symptoms on hot days, and 79% said that “heat changes how I travel.”
The survey is part of a project called Cooling Long Beach. City planners are partnering with local associations to study the impacts of extreme heat on areas in Central, West and North Long Beach, which have less tree cover and more pavement than other parts of the city.
Aside from impacts on health, researchers say that residents in the Washington area specifically are more likely to travel in a vehicle rather than on foot or using bikes in order to avoid extreme heat, which adds more pollution to the air.
A youth-led fruit stand in the Washington neighborhood means more to parents in the area than just a place to buy fresh fruit it offers a chance to keep kids away from violence.
Thanks to some “bugging” from a local nonprofit, the Michael K. Green Skate Park in the 14th Street Park in the Washington neighborhood will see some new improvements after Long Beach’s Parks and Recreation Commission on Thursday approved a plan for some community work to start next month.
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The commission received an $8,300 donation from Sk8 Dojo, a local nonprofit, to add cement pathways at the skate park on top of existing dirty pathways along the park’s skate ramp and fences. The donations must still be approved by the City Council, but Park and Recreation and Marine Department Partnerships Officer Alma Castro said that will likely happen in April with the cement pathways to be paved in the summer.