Aug
31
13 Los Al Food Trucks for this Thursday, 9/1/2011
Filed Under Local events, News you can use | 17 Comments
(8/31/2011, Los Alamitos) This week we’ve got a baker’s dozen trucks scheduled, including both the OC Trucks featured on the Great Food Truck Race II! (Location, addresses, and times in the graphic above.)
Call it Los Al din-din a g0-go, “Picnic at the Plaza,” or Los Alamitos Thursday night dinner to go, it’s turned into one of the biggest and most popular mid week evening food truck events around.
Not sure how many of the trucks will actually make it, but they’ve been running around 90% lately, which is pretty good for food trucks.
It’s important to Read more
Aug
31
Your 8/31 – 9/6 local media reporting and comments post
Filed Under Community News, Dean Grose, News Enterprise & other local media, Your reporting & comments | 3 Comments
(8/31/2011, Los Alamitos) It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for our weekly post where you can report and comment on items of interest you come across in any of our local media.
This week seems like a good one to focus on our ever increasing online media, since I once again couldn’t find very much news in today’s edition of the paper formerly known as the News Enterprise.
So I flipped over to our newest online news source, former News Enterprise editor Shelley Henderson’s Orange County Breeze , and found an attractive home page with lots of content, including a fair amount of reporting by Shelley as well as even more “Courtesy” content from local press releases.
I was surprised to also find a “Guest Editorial” by former Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose, ”California headed for
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Aug
30
Traffic Advisory: Los Al Schools open Wednesday, 8/31
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(8/30/11, Los Alamitos) If you’re a parent, you already know. For the rest of us, Los Alamitos Schools (except for year-round Weaver Elementary) open earlier this year. That means:
- All of us need to keep our eyes on the road, watch out for little pedestrians and cyclists, & keep our cell phones in the back seat, like we should have been doing all along.
- The commuters among us need to allow extra time to get past the “normal” congestion of all secondary students being transported to the very northern boundary of the District, incoming traffic from out of district students, & the added flow of teachers & workers.
FYI, our Middle Schools have changed their Read more
Aug
30
Labor Day Weekend Community Bulletin Board (8/30 – 9/5)
Filed Under Community News, Local business & restaurant reviews, Local events, News you can use | 2 Comments
(8/30/2011, Los Alamitos) It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for this week’s Community Bulletin Board.
This is where you get to put up news and events you’re aware of that others in Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, or our surrounding communities might be interested in:
- Labor Day weekend events that people might want to know about.
- A favorite local merchant.
- Local news you want to get out: something you saw, or heard about.
- You, your block, or a worthy group planning a rummage sale.
Just put it in a comment to this post from now through next Monday.
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Aug
28
Congratulations to H.B’s World Championship Team!
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Victory at last!
(8/28/2011, Los Alamitos, Orange County, California) Does it get any better than this?
World Series, Championship Game.
Score tied, 1 – 1.
Bottom of the last inning of regulation play.
The newly crowned U.S. Champion, Huntington Beach’s Ocean View All Stars are at bat.
They have never made it to the Little League World Series before.
They have never led in this game. They have never even Read more
Aug
28
(8/29/2011, Los Alamitos) Last week the choir sang a song that seemed especially appropriate for “Great Recession” America.
It was written over a hundred years ago, but it seems as relevant today as when it was written, maybe more so.
You probably know it, but, if not, here are the words:
When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will keep singing as the days go by.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
When you look at others with their lands and gold, Read more
Aug
25
“The Help:” A great movie to catch this weekend
Filed Under Decency, Education & Schools, Entertainment, News you can use | 6 Comments
(8/25/2011, Los Alamitos) If you live in Los Alamitos, this is one movie you probably need to see. Even if you’re not a Dean Grose supporter.
We went last Friday based on a strong endorsement from Rebecca Zeelenberg, the owner of Los Alamitos’ best hair salon, New Attitude, and we were glad we did.
It’s a little like a slightly ruder and cruder version of Driving Miss Daisy, crossed with “The Real Read more
Aug
25
Local Governance Around The World. Where Do We Fit?
Filed Under Highlands Guy's Thursday column | 4 Comments
(Los Alamitos, 8/25/2011) by Highlands Guy: The way people have been governed, for thousands of years, is an ever evolving landscape. From small, tribal, rural, communities to large modern municipalities, people have put in place, either by the populace or by a ruling party/king/dictator, rules and regulations for being a member of that group.
Los Alamitos practices a form of representative democracy that is used in many locales around the world. And as long as the rules are followed, it has proven, over time, to be the Read more
Aug
24
Los Al Food Trucks for this Thursday, 8/25/2011
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Long lines didn't seem to stifle the enthusiasm at last week's Los Alamitos "Picnic in the Plaza"
(8/24/2011, Los Alamitos) Eleven trucks scheduled, 5 – 9 p.m., U. S. Bank Parking Lot on Katella & Pine (10942 Pine St., Los Alamitos), & St. Isidore Historical Plaza adjoining. Call it what you want: Los Al din-din a g0-go, “Picnic at the Plaza,” or Los Alamitos Thursday night dinner to go, it’s turned into one of the biggest and most popular mid week evening food truck events around.
Not sure how many of the trucks will actually make it, but they’ve been running around 90% lately, which is pretty good for food trucks.
Last week I learned it’s important to Read more
Aug
24
Your 8/24-30 Los Alamitos area media reporting and comments post
Filed Under Community News, News Enterprise & other local media, Your reporting & comments | 7 Comments
(8/24/2011, Los Alamitos) It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for our weekly post where you can report and comment on items of interest you come across in any of our local media.
This week is the first for the News Enterprise without the last Read more
Aug
23
Community Bulletin Board for 8/23-29
Filed Under Community News, Local events | 3 Comments
(8/23/2011, Los Alamitos) Is something going on this weekend or next that people should know about? Got a favorite local merchant? Got some local news you want to get out? Your group or block planning a rummage sale? See something happen folks would want to know about?
If it’s in or near Los Alamitos or Rossmoor, put it in a comment on this post from now through next Monday.
This weekly post is your easiest way to get the word out instantly, for free, whenever the idea hits you, without leaving your home (or even your car if you have a smart phone or tablet).
Your imagination is Read more
Aug
22
Your reporting & comments on Monday’s Public Hearing on Rossmoor Annexation
Filed Under 2011 Issues, Commission Meetings, Rossmoor, Troy Edgar, Your reporting & comments | 18 Comments
Pete Carvajal addresses overflow Rossmoor crowd tonight, "We're all neighbors"
(8/22/2011) The Los Alamitos/Seal Beach Patch thinks tonight’s meeting could be “quite rowdy.”
Los Al Councilman Troy Edgar says the Planning Commission’s intent is not to “go Read more
Aug
21
“This is the Stuff” that drives me crazy!
Filed Under Inspiration, Sunday Sermons, Songs & Stories | Leave a Comment
(8/21/2011, Los Alamitos) [No, this time the title's not referring to our City Council. Today's Sunday, which means it's time to take a look at things of even greater significance. . . like losing your car keys:]
There’s a humorously touching song I haven’t been able to get out of my head this week. I first heard it last Sunday at the final, packed out night of Greg Lauri’s OC Harvest Crusade.
The singer/composer, Francesca Battistelli, has a way of bringing St. James words right into the 21st century America:
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. (James 1:2-4, The Message Paraphrase)
Here’s how Francesca Battistelli put it in her song, geared a little more to the challenges a young mother faces in America today:
I lost my keys
In the great unknown
And call me please
Cause I can’t find my phoneThis is the stuff
That drives me crazy
This is the stuff
That’s getting to me lately
In the middle of my little mess
I forget how big I’m blessed
This is the stuff
That gets under my skin
But I’ve gotta trust
You know exactly what You’re doing
Might not be what Read more
Aug
20
Public Hearing on Rossmoor “4th Corner” annexation Monday, 8/22/11
Filed Under Commission Meetings, Planning & Zoning, Rossmoor, Troy Edgar | 5 Comments
(8/20/2011, Los Alamitos) Our Planning Commission’s regular meeting at 7 p.m. this Monday includes a Public Hearing ” will consider the annexation of the businesses and apartments in the area known as the “Rossmoor Shopping Center,” at the southwest corner of Los Alamitos Boulevard and Katella Avenue.
Specifically, the Public Hearing deals with the Read more
Aug
18
Caught on video: How little Maggie survived the Indiana fair stage collapse
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(8/13/2011, Los Alamitos) Caught this on the nightly news, & thought it worth sharing. The live cell phone video is amazing. Real people, real heros.
(Sorry about the real ad NBC forces you to endure before the video starts.A) (For how we can be heros to starving children caught in East Africa’s famine, read on).
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
On a day when Read more