Site Seeing in Palos Verdes
A pretty drive is up Crenshaw Blvd. to the top of the hill so that you can walk the trail just South of Del Cerro Park or so that you can witness the beauty that this parks views reveal. This was taken on Thanksgiving. The other side:...Facelift for Peninsula Center in Rolling Hills Estates
The Rolling Hills Estates Planning Committee has approved the $12 million Peninsula Center remodel shown in this artist’s rendition.
New Home Sales Sored in June
June new home sales soared across the nation to it’s highest levels in 5 years according to the U.S. Commerce Department. Sales across the country rose almost 8.5% over Mays sales. Overall sales have risen 38% in the last 12 months making the biggest annual gain since January 1992.
Housing sales have been instrumental in the nations economic growth and overall health. While new-home sales make up only a small portion of the market, each home built creates an average of three new jobs and spurs more spending at furniture stores, moving companies, home improvement stores, hardware and of course, helps keep the real estate business successful. To these companies you have to add escrow, title companies, appraisal companies, mortgage finance companies, landscapers and architect companies, and all the construction trade companies involved.
South Bay Beach Report
Heal the Bay has released its annual Beach Report Card on Los Angles County beaches. Meanwhile, four South Bay Beaches out of the seven LA County beaches made Heal the Bay ‘s Honor Roll with perfect A-pluses:
Leo Carrillo Beach at Arroyo Sequit Creek
Zuma Beach at Zuma Creek mouth
Las Tunas County Beach at Pena Creek
Hermosa City Beach at Twenty-Sixth Street
Palos Verdes (Bluff) Cove, Palos Verdes Estates
Abalone Cove Shoreline Park in Rancho Palos Verdes
Cabrillo Beach, On the Ocean Side
Congratulations Lunada Bay Elementary for Winning Award for Lunchtime Trash Reduction
Can you imagine having 8 large bags of trash every day after school lunch? That is 240 commercial size trash bags per month. Thanks to some environmentally conscience school children at Lunada Bay Elementary School in Palos Verdes Estates now has one bag of trash per week-four per month. What a difference. Just think of the trash reduction if each school in the State would get involved.
Young student sorting trash after lunch.(Robert Casillas / Daily Breeze Staff Photographer).
And because of this reduction in trash Lunada Bay Elementary won the Contest sponsored by Manhattan Beach Environmental nonprofit “Grades of Green” with Chevron donating the prize money. Washington and Riviera were named runners-up.
The program called the Trash-Free Lunch Challenge. The program is most successful in our South Bay region In fact it claimed thirteen of the seventeen participants. And we can be proud that five of these are from Torrance Unified.