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Volume 41 Number 9
Summer Stampede Car Show returns to Lakewood
Summer is slowly drawing to a close but the fun doesn’t have to end! Bring your friends and family to the 23rd Annual Summer Stampede Car Show, presented by the Greater Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, for a day filled with fun, food and fantastic classic cars. It’s the perfect way to finish off the summer! This year’s event is right around the corner on Sun-
For more information, please call the Lakewood Chamber office at (562) 531-9733 or email events@ lakewoodchamber.com. In addition to the fun and exciting car show, the planning committee has decided to invite everyone to a “Post Car Show Celebration” being hosted at our newest chamber member, O’Connor’s Irish Pub in Lakewood, This new location has 300 parking spaces, friendly staff and great Lakewood residents who patronize this new and improved business. Please bring the coupon on the lower part of this page and join us for this first ever post celebration. Supportday, September 26th from ing Lakewood events and 9am to 2pm at Mayfair businesses at its best. ♦ Park, 5720 Clark Ave in Lakewood. This family-friendly Turn to page 6 event features food trucks, for the driver’s contests and live entertainregistration ment, along with dozens of classic and custom cars to form, and page feast your eyes on. 9 for the Sponsorships and vendor vendor booths are still available, registration and we are also accepting donations for raffle prizes form and driver goody bags.
New member of city Recreation & Community Services Commission
New RCS Commissioner Veronica Lucio and family at Bloomfield Park.
Veronica Lucio is replacing retiring member Winnie Heiss. Veronica has lived in Lakewood for 16 years. She’s a music teacher at Gompers Elementary and
Middle School in Lakewood. She received a bachelor’s degree in music education and a master’s degree in educational administration from California State University, Long Beach. She and her husband Richard enjoy taking their fouryear-old daughter Mina to Bloomfield Park near their home. (They are pictured at the playground at Bloomfield Park.) Five Lakewood residents serve on the Recreation &
Community Services Commission. They meet monthly; hear reports on Lakewood’s recreation, senior and social service programs; and study related issues in order to keep the programs helpful, useful and fun for Lakewood residents. Each Lakewood City Council Member appoints one of the commissioners. Please wish Veronica well in her new role as a city commissioner! ♦
September 2021
Patriot Day ceremony on September 11
A flag-lowering ceremony will be held at City Hall.
Just two weeks after the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, the City of Lakewood organized a community gathering of solidarity at the Lakewood Civic Center. And every year since, on Sept. 11, residents have again gathered to remember and to show appreciation for our first responders and military personnel who protect and serve us at home and abroad. For 2021, the City of Lakewood invites residents to a flag-lowering ceremony at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11 outside City Hall at 5050 Clark Ave. This year’s expanded ceremony will include the presentation of the colors, remarks from Lakewood’s
mayor, a keynote speaker, a musical performance by the Golden Sands Chorus and a moment of silence. At the conclusion of the event, the Los Angeles County Fire Department will conduct a bell ringing ceremony and trumpeters from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will play Taps as our nation’s flag is lowered for the night. To help commemorate this 20th anniversary of Patriot Day, the city is also organizing a special Lakewood Day of Service earlier in the day on Sept. 11. Dozens of Lakewood volunteers will work on projects to help their neighbors in need of exterior home fix-up projects. ♦