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San Bernardino to Hold Multi-Unit Owners Accountable for Safety The City of San Bernardino is continuing work to ensure property owners of multi-unit complexes create a safe and crime-free environment for residents and surrounding neighborhoods. The City is taking steps to prioritize enforcement at those multi-family properties that generate the highest number of calls for law enforcement service and which have the most code violations. The high priority enforcement properties are generally located in two areas that include Golden Ave. to the east, Del Rosa Ave. to the west, Lynwood to the north, and Date Street to the south; and north of 40th Street. The complexes in this area have collectively amassed 1,924 calls for police service in the past year alone. Also of concern is the more than 888 code enforcement cases processed in the last nine years, each one of those cases involving multiple units. Crimes at these complexes include gang and drug activity, as well as a number of other issues associated with violent crime. “The residents and property owners must begin to work hand-in-hand with the City to cure these problems,” said City Manager Andrea Miller. “Making multi-unit properties safe and crime-free boils down to two main things: 1) the landlord is screening future tenants correctly, and 2) proper safety and security measures are in place by the property owner to
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City of Long Beach Receives Prestigious Helen Putnam Award for Excellence
The coveted award recognizes outstanding achievements by California cities to improve quality of life and services provided to local communities. - Courtesy photo / City of Long Beach
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he City of Long Beach has received a prestigious Helen Putnam Award for Excellencein the “Economic Development Through the Arts” category from the League of California Cities. The coveted award, which recognizes outstanding achievements by California cities to improve quality of life and services provided to local communities, honors the City’s partnership with the renowned Pow! Wow! Long Beach art festival. “We are proud to be recognized for what is truly a community-wide effort to support urban art and beautify our neighborhoods at the same time,” said Mayor Robert Garcia. “We are thankful to the sponsors, volunteers, and everyone who brings the annual Pow! Wow! Long Beach festival to life so that world-renowned artists can bring the gift of larger-
West Anaheim Medical Center Nurses Reach Agreement for First-Ever Contract Registered nurses at West Anaheim Medical Center are celebrating their first-ever tentative collective bargaining agreement that they say will greatly improve their ability to provide and advocate for safe patient care, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) announced today. Ratification of the contract will take place next week. “This is really historic. We are really happy
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than-life street art to our residents and visitors.” Pow! Wow! Long Beach launched in 2015 through the spearheading efforts of local entrepreneur, Julia Huang, CEO of InterTrend Communications, and Pow! Wow! founder and artist, Jasper Wong, who created the original event in Hawaii as a week-long gathering of local and international artists to create murals, music, and other forms of art. The City supported bringing the festival to Long Beach with the aim of enhancing quality of life through investment in the arts. Supporting public art and enhancing businessattracting assets such as the Convention and Entertainment Center are some of the approaches to building a more inclu-
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Six Arrested After Warrant Sweep By Riverside Deputies On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at approximately 9:00 AM, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, Hemet and Southwest Stations, along with Riverside County Code Enforcement officers, responded to the area of Highway 79 x Highway 371 in Aguanga to serve various arrest warrants and evaluate Code violations in the area. During the operation, officers located stolen property including an AR-15 Semi-Automatic Assault rifle taken in a residential burglary. Code Enforcement Officers also addressed multiple code enforcement violations during the operation. The following subjects were arrested and booked into the Cois Byrd Detention Facility for the listed charges: • Janice Castro, 42 for Child Endangerment • Dominique Mari WilsonSanborn, 26, for a Burglary Warrant. • Anthony Martin, 45, for Child Endangerment • Robert Lewis McClure, 45, for Petty Theft and 2 counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance. • Luis Ramos Meza, 25, DUI warrant, Negligent Discharge of a Firearm, and Possession of Stolen Property. • Carlos Thorell, 30, for Resisting Arrest, 13 counts of Petty Theft, Possession of Stolen Property, Vandalism, Burglary and Probation Violations.
Citrus College Student Named Phi Theta Kappa International Vice President Citrus College student Philippe Schicker was recently elected international vice president of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), Division IV. PTK is the world’s largest and most prestigious honor society for two-year college students, with a mission of recognizing the academic achievement of community college students and providing opportunities for them to grow as scholars and leaders.
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