LB Gun Buyback + Storm Water Treatment + Playhouse Reopens

Good morning, Long Beach! Here's everything you need to know to get this Thursday started off right.

As the numbers of shootings in the city are skyrocketing, the City Council is mulling over the details of setting up a gun buyback program. Also, LB will have a storm water treatment facility to handle the occasional rainfalls we get. Finally, the Playhouse will pick up where it left off when reopening September 10.

First, today's weather: Clear throughout the day. High: 80 Low: 66.

Here are the top stories today in Long Beach:

1. The City will establish its own gun buyback program in response to shootings being up 58.9%. The last time LB hosted a buyback event, it spent $17,000 in gift cards to take 168 guns off the streets. (LB Post)
2. The LB City Council approved a $19 million contract for the construction of a storm water treatment facility near the Shoemaker Bridge. Simic Construction Company will handle the project that intends to “capture and purify rainwater spills to improve local water quality.” (California News Times)
3. The Long Beach Playhouse announces a September 10 reopening with “Noises Off,” the production that was halfway through its run in March 2020, when everything shut down. (Broadway World)
4. The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) is one of the recipients of the Bank of America 2021 Art Conservation Project Grant. Funding benefits conservation of sculptures by José Luis Cuevas, Carlos Luna, Luis Torruella, and Noé Katz. (Bank of America)
5. “Children of the Avenues” is the brainchild of Myesia Lowery and Noel Russell IV. In addition to using the space to sell their own products, they rent shelf space and pop-up space to other minority entrepreneurs. (LB Business Journal)

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Today in Long Beach

• Birding at Rancho Los Cerritos. (8 a.m. to 9 a.m.)
• Uptown Certified Farmers’ Market on the east side of Atlantic Avenue at 46th Street. (3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.)
• El Dorado Nature Center, FREE outdoor concert featuring Corday (classic rock). (7 p.m. to 8 p.m.)
• Salsa Bachata classes at the PCH Club, 6285 East Pacific Coast Highway. (9 p.m.)

Long Beach Patch Notebook

• Long Beach State Athletics: "#BeachisBack ️ @longbeachstatesoccer returns to the pitch August 9th, visit longbeachstate.com to check out the ful..." (Instagram)
• Long Beach Antique Market: "Sunday July 18! Tag who you’d shop with to enter to Win a Free Pass for you and your guest - over 800 sellers! #lbfl..." (Instagram)
• Grace First Presbyterian Church offers a “School of Rock Camp” for high school musicians from 7-19 to 7-23. Registration is open!
• Long Beach State Athletics: "Alyssa Waite has been hired by @LBSU as the new head of the Long Beach State Women’s Golf program! Waite is coming of..." (Instagram)

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• Free Estate Planning & Living Trust Workshop Live Q&A Friday 3PM (July 9)
• 'Alone Together' Pie Baking Class Online 2021: Pie Hole, LA/OC (July 9)
• Summer Movies In The Park 2021: Lynwood (July 9)
• Summer 'Movies In The Park' 2021: Santa Ana (July 14)

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— Sylvia Cochran

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