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Walmart Hiring for the New Neighborhood Market in Torrance
Walmart will open one of the new Walmart Neighborhood Market scheduled to open this summer. They have opened the employment office, so now is them for you or possibly your teenager to apply for that summer job. (Or do kids still get summer jobs?) This store is hiring approximately sixty five full or part time jobs for many different shifts. Walmart is also accepting applications online.
The produce, deli and bakery departments (above) inside a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market supermarket.
As part of its commitment to hiring 100,000 veterans in the next five years, Walmart says it will offer a job to any honorably discharged veteran within his or her first 12 months off active
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.
Inventory Low for South Bay Home Buyers
According to the the California Association of Realtors Los Angeles presently has a very tight real estate market. Stating that it is even tighter that the San Francisco market. An example of this is that in March, there was a 2.7-month supply of available houses in Los Angeles County and houses were only on the market for an average of 31.5 days. Statewide, inventory was down 36 percent from last year and the availability of homes priced below $300k plunged more than 50 percent from the previous year.”
San Pedro’s “Ports of Call”
When San Pedro’s “Ports of Call” renovation is complete, It may not be called “Posts of Call”. The LA Waterfront Alliance fears that the Brand will continue to foster memories of the this rundown retail area. This writer believes it would all depend on the marketing. The developers need to do their job at marketing and the name can remain the same. Why break the a tradition.
Ponte Vista: San Pedro New Development
According to Donna Littlejohn of the Daily Breeze there is once again a stall on the development Ponte Vista.
Ponte Vista means “Bridge View, And acknowledges the view of the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the horizon.
The project was first proposed eight years ago to solve the problem of what to do with the large parcel of land.
It’s been eight years since developer Bob Bisno first proposed the project he named Ponte Vista – which means “Bridge View” and pays homage to the Vincent Thomas Bridge that can be seen on the horizon from the hilltop. The project originally was a 2300 home planned community. Now it just keeps shrinking.
It is amazing that the city of Los Angles has such a difficult time approving development plans for an abandoned 62 +acres of prime San Pedro real estate . This property was once housing for Navy families. You would think they would be delighted with the improvement to the harbor town. And where else in Los Angeles can you find that many acres of prime real estate for development.
Oil Drums’ Journey Through South Bay
The effort to move Chevron’s drums through the streets of Los Angeles has joined the ranks of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and LACMA’s Levitated Mass — it now has a time-lapse video. The six steel drums were maneuvered through the South Bay, two at a time overnight on Feb. 20, 27 and March 6.
