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L.B. gets large mask donation Donating company’s roots date back four decades to China grain and grain products,” Gallo, who is originally from New York, said in a phone Long Beach city officials, interview. “I moved agriculturwho are cautiously watching a al products all over the world.” new uptick in local Covid-19 This year it occurred to him cases, received a gift last week that he could use the business from a company whose roots contacts he had made to bring date back 40 years, much-needed to Mainland China. masks to the U.S. The city received “We know how to 50,000 3-ply Level 2 do this,” he said. masks and 4,000 Gallo’s son, Darunits of hand saniren, 40, is president tizer from Emerof Long Beach Livgency Medical Solui n g L L C , a re a l tions LLC, in Jeriestate development cho. The company’s company, and lives president, William in town. He knew Gallo, 72, of Jerithat the financially cho, got his start in strapped city could business four use the masks. decades ago, dealOn Nov. 12, Daring in g rain and ren Gallo, represoybeans with DaRREN GallO senting his father, China. and two executives He retired in of Emergency Med2017, but mainical Solutions — tained his ties with Chinese Michael Hughes, the company’s business executives, and in head of logistics, and Chief March, as the began to spread Financial Of ficer Andrew across the U.S., Gallo estab- Staulcup — showed up at Long lished Emergency Medical Beach City Hall with boxes of Solutions, which has about 10 masks and sanitizer. “This is a employees in the U.S. and four company my father started in China. The masks are manu- because of the pandemic and factured in China. “I spent four decades trading Continued on page 10
By JaMEs BERNstEiN jbernstein@liherald.com
Courtesy Long Beach Public Schools
Honoring Dr. King At a small ceremony on the boardwalk at Riverside Boulevard on Nov. 7, Long Beach students and community groups dedicated a plaque in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who visited Long Beach in 1968. Story, Page 5.
Covid-19 cases rise in the city
Eateries, bars struggle as state orders earlier closings By JaMEs BERNstEiN jbernstein@liherald.com
Cases of Covid-19, which were reported less frequently during the late summer months, have been rising in Long Beach in the past few weeks, officials warned at a City Council meeting Tuesday night. John McNally, executive assistant to the city manager, said there had been 57 positive cases in the preceding seven days, and that the city had been seeing six to eight cases per day. By con-
trast, in the spring and early summer, there were about 100 per day. “We’re not there,” McNally said, “but we have a level of concern.” Long Beach’s restaurants and bars, wobbling ever since the pandemic spread to New York in March, were hit with more bad news last week, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered them, along with gyms and bowling alleys, to close at 10 p.m. — in some cases, several hours earlier than in the recent weeks.
Business had picking up in the warmer weather two weeks ago, and 50 percent seating capacity seemed to be working out well, a number of proprietors said. According to the Nassau County Department of Health, there were 54,309 Covid-19 cases in the county as of Monday. In Long Beach, there were 1,048. Countywide, officials said, the number of cases has risen about 3 percent in the last few weeks. Cuomo’s earlier-closing order Continued on page 10
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his is a company my father started because of the pandemic and what needed to be done.