Sand snowmen
The city’s annual Sand Snowman Contest will be held 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 11 at the shoreline north of the pier, where sand sculptors of all ages and abilities build sand snowmen and snowomen, and bring their cameras for photos with Surfing Santa.
Categories include most unique, most traditional, best dressed, funniest and “Hermosa Beach Favorite.”
Registration is 8:45 a.m. For info call 310-318-0280.
Yard sale
The nonprofit Peter Zippi Fund for Animals holds a yard sale featuring leaded glass windows and entry doors, lock sets, hardware, jambs, base and case, various hardwoods, a 1950-90 record collection, gently used household goods, pet supplies, collectibles, books, videos and home decor, Saturday, Dec. 11.
It’s at 802 16th St. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Although the organizers love animals, they ask, “No early birds, please.”
Towers restored
Some 240 people – half of them Hermosa kids and their parents, and the other half high school students primarily from Mira Costa and Vistamar – showed up to repaint the railings of 24 lifeguard towers in Hermosa and Manhattan Beach.
“There were homeless people painting next to millionaires,” said Diane Allen, who helped her son, Mira Costa High School student Christopher Allen, recruit the volunteers.
Lifeguard towers up and down Los Angeles County were covered with railing paint and temporary, painted wall panels in a five-month public arts project. The panels were removed, some of them donated to schools, before the railings were repainted the traditional blue.
The “Summer of Color” installation, billed as one of the largest such civic efforts in the world, utilized 8,000 volunteers to gussy up the towers. ER
