Huntington Beach News

Huntington Beach Beaches:

I'd like to start this newsletter in thinking of Patricia Speier-Torres who was recently in a Bad Car Accident. I hope you're doing better Patricia.

I'm Wishing Andrew Dasso from Belts, Rings & Curious Things a Very Happy Birthday.

Congratulations to Huntington Beach's Newest Mayor Don Hansen and to Huntington Beach's Newest Mayor Pro Tem Devin Dwyer. They were sworn into their new roles at this previous Monday's City Council Meeting by City Clerk Joan Flynn.

Karin Reed who is The Huntington Beach Police Chief Ken Small's Administrative Assitant asked that I mention this in here:

Huntington Beach Police Department - On-line crime data mapping

The Huntington Beach Police Department has an on-line crime alerting and mapping system using services of CrimeReports.com. This system provides easy to read incident crime maps and automated alerts to the citizens of Huntington Beach. The service is located at http://www.crimereports.com or directly from the Huntington Beach Police Department website at www.hbpd.org

The CrimeReports service is free to the public and allows citizens to receive automatic daily, weekly or monthly alerts if/when crimes occur near their home, office, local school, etc. Citizens can also view reported crime activity on an easy to use map for any location within Huntington Beach Police Department's boundaries. Crime incident data is updated hourly and includes:

Incident Type
Date
Location
Distance from citizen's address
Event identification/case number
Brief crime incident description

This system will empower citizens with near real-time neighborhood crime information that is available 24/7/365. This system has replaced our old calls for service log that required citizens to come to the police department during business hours to access the information in a paper form. This will save both time and money while providing an improved service to the residents and business owners of Huntington Beach.

Eric Charlonne from The Huntington Beach Public Works Department asked me to Inform You of this:

The concrete work continues along Edwards between Warner Avenue and Talbert Avenue. The actual roadway work along Edwards should begin in about 1 ½ to 2 weeks after completion of the concrete work (i.e. sidewalk curbs and ramps). Overall work on Edwards Street is progressing fine and will be completed by mid February 2012.

It should be noted that the roadway work is not the typical grind and overlay but a complete reconstruction of the roadway by a method called Full Depth Reclamation (FDR). The FDR process consists of the following elements:

· Grind in place existing asphalt and roadway base materials to a designed depth, in this case 1 foot 4 inches. This material will be pulverized in place with approximately 5 inches removed and hauled away.
· Add cement and water to the pulverized materials mix up the new pulverized materials to blend them together.
· Grade the pulverized materials to a designed depth.
· Let this material set up for approximately 7 days to allow for a proper cure. During this 7 days there will not be any work taking place so please let you readers know.
· After the new base material has cured they will use a vibrating roller to perform what is called microcraking” essentially creating small cracks in the cured base materials.
· After microcracking is completed the contractor will place a new 3 inch section of asphalt. This will leave this section, usually the middle two lanes, 2 inches below the existing grade of the street. Transitions from existing roadway to this new section will be provided so that traffic will be able to use these lanes.
· After the middle section of asphalt is in place the traffic control will be moved so that the outside vehicular lanes and bike lanes can continue with the same process as listed above.
· Once all lanes have been cured and the 1st section of asphalt is in place the final 2 inches of rubberized asphalt overlay will be constructed. This final asphalt placement should only take a few days to complete.
· Finally the striping, adjustment of utility boxes and installation of new traffic signal loops. During this portion of the work there should be minimal impact to traffic.

It should be noted that the rubberized asphalt uses what is called crumb rubber derived from used tires. For Edwards Street that means approximately 10,000 tires will be used saving the need to dispose of these tires at a special facility or dumpsite. You will also notice that the noise from the traffic will be noticeably reduced as a result of using this type of asphalt product.

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Tune into KTLA Channel 5 on Saturdays from 6AM to 7AM and Sundays from 6AM To 9AM to watch The Best New Morning News Show in Southern California with Your Host Chris Burrous and Your Hostess Wendy Burch. Also Field Reporters Chip Yost and Liberte Chan in addition to Gayle Anderson's Things To Do and Sam Rubin's Entertainment Segment. Your comments are appreciated to KTLA. E-Mail them at: weekends@ktla.com .

Also be sure to watch The Champan Report with Professor Pete Weitzner every Sunday at 11AM on PBS SOCAL. Channel 25. You'll hear the Current Economy Trends and Statistics.

Here are what events are going on in your Area:

Friday:

The Redondo Beach Riviera Village (at the corner of I Avenue and Catalina) has a Certified Farmers Market this Afternoon from 3PM to 7PM. The carefully selected Vendors include: organic, responsible and traditional from Southern and Central California presenting an array of seasonal offerings. At 4PM You'll Shop With The Chef, A local Chef walks people around and shows them what to buy. This is a fun venue.

Saturday:

Come to The Newest Certified Weekly Local Harvest Farmers Market at Peters Landing - 16400 Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach. The sensational event is from 9AM to 2PM. You'll find between 40 and 60 Vendors from Food to Crafters. You'll also find Entertainment from Duchicela, Music of the Andes and The Average Tom White Band. To get a list of participants log on to: www.localharvestfarmersmarkets.com and click on Peter's Landing. There is also a Facebook Fan Page as well. If You have any questions please contact Lee Ostendorf at : . Don't forget to come and see me when you are at the event. I'll be at The Anderson Art Gallery Booth.

Saturday & Sunday:

Santa is coming to Belmont Shore in Long Beach on Second Street in front of Chase Bank from 2PM to 6PM. There is also Two Free Hour Parking there as well. 

The Huntington Harbour Parade is happening. Click on this link for complete Information -  hhboatparade.org .

Sunday:

The Anderson Art Gallery at 16812 Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach next to Captain Jacks Restaurant from 1PM to 6PM presents an Artists Reception where you could meet Bill Anderson a Famous Painter. Also Howard Hitchcock who is a Famous Sculptur and Bea Riley who is a Famous Nautical Artist. Craig MacDonald a Pulitzer Prize Nominee Author is also there signing copies of his New Book "Old West Christmas Tales With A Twist." They'll be complimentary Refreshments. 

December 9, 2011