Earth Day beach, park cleanup day is on April

It is time to celebrate Earth Day. Here’s a chance make the Huntington Beach coastline and a park a cleaner, happier place for humans, plants, and animals, and become part of the solution to pollution. The event is Saturday, April 22 from 9 a.m.-noon for Coastal & Inner Coastal Cleanup Day.

This is a day when residents and beach-goers as a community gather to clean up the beach and park.

1. Choose the location you want to join

• Beach Location (21579 Pa-

22

cific Coast Hwy.)

◦ Near Zacks Too, Free Parking with mention of event

• Bartlett Park (19822 Beach Blvd.)

◦ Behind Mothers Market, Free Parking

2. Register here: https://forms. gle/d6utPwDjytWN55jt8

3. Print, complete the waiver, and bring with you to the cleanup (one waiver per volunteer required)

4. Gather the supplies that you will need to bring with you (think reusable)

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In Garden Grove’s rural days, many a farm or orchard was ringed by eucalyptus trees to serve as a windbreak.

It’s likely been a while since anybody planted a new, real eucalyptus tree in town, but a fake one may be on its way.

If you do receive such a call or message, call the WPD nonemergency line at (714) 5483212.

EUCALYPYUS TREE, a real one, not a cell tower.

At the April 20 meeting of the Garden Grove Planning Commission, there will be a public hearing on a request for a conditional use permit for the construction and operation of a 60-foot tall wireless telecom- munications facility disguised as a eucalyptus tree at the northeast corner of Lampson Avenue and 9th Street.

HUNTINGTON STATE BEACH needs love as well.

Also on the agenda is a request for a conditional use permit to operate a new billiard/pool hall at an existing building at 10882B Westminster Avenue.

The commission meets at 7 p.m. in the Community Meeting Center, 10331 Stanford Ave.