Around Hermosa Beach
Web upgrade
The City of Hermosa Beachhas upgraded its website hermosabch.org, offering easier navigation, updated content and a sleeker design.
“In our ongoing efforts to ensure transparency and accountability, the city created this new website to make information more easily and readily available and accessible to the public,” Mayor Howard Fishman said.
“Visitors to the website can find recreational programs for their children, apply for parking permits, watch videotapes of council meetings, identify the closest park and get information about all the services the city offers.”
City staff is now able to make changes to the website without outside assistance, and the site offers a new e-notification feature for news items, job postings and city calendar items.
Sidewalk festival
The Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce will host the second annual downtown Holiday Sidewalk Festival noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19.
Local businesses will decorate for the holidays and feature merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores, while holiday carolers sing in the evening.
The event will feature live music throughout the day, children’s activities from Starfish Developmental Activity Center, and a holiday themed scavenger hunt with prizes from local businesses.
Scavenger Hunt entry forms are available at hbchamber.net and will be available for pickup at participating businesses on the day of the event.
Updates can be found on the Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce Facebook page.
Book sale
Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library will hold a sale of used books, VHS tapes and DVDs Saturday, Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to noon at 1309 Bard St., a half-block west of the public library.
“Come in and browse, and take advantage of our low, low prices — 25 cents for most paperbacks, 50 cents for most hardcover fiction and nonfiction, and $1 for most recent books and DVDs. You’ll be amazed, and it’s right in your own community,” the Friends said.
Donations are welcome. For more information call 310-379-845 or see hbfol.org.
Mural raffle
The Hermosa Beach Murals Project is holding aHoliday50/50 Raffle Drawing 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26 at the site of the group’s second large outdoor wall mural on the east-facing wall of New Orleans Restaurant,140 Pier Ave., with 20 cash prizes including the $2,000 grand prize.
Project members have $100 raffle tickets for sale; see Hermosamurals.org for details.
Healthy donation
The Hermosa Beach City School District has received a $5,000 grant from the Murad Family Foundation, which will be used for the district’s Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds program.