The last day to visit the temporary library located in Clubhouse 3, Room 8, is Wednesday, Jan. 31. The main library building will reopen the following week. The exact opening date has not yet been determined.

CERT stands for Community Emergency Response Team. The LW CERT Club is dedicated to learning and teaching skills to keep ourselves and others safe in an emergency. The club conducts CERT classes every month, and classes are open to all residents. January’s safety topic is creating a personal “Family Emergency Communication Plan.” Every class is 40 minutes, and includes simple,

SEAL BEACH POLICE During the 2023 holiday season, the Seal Beach Police Department conducted several of what it calls “organized retail crime directed enforcement operations.” Those operations resulted in multiple arrests, recovered stolen vehicles and recovered stolen merchandise. Organized retail crime is a growing problem in California, with estimated losses totaling $8.7 billion,

MEMBER COLUMN by Bonnie Coomes LW contributor Last year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I listened to a speech made by Dick Gregory in 1983, and it brought back a profound memory for me. I first met Dr. King in 1963, and I was just beginning to date a young man from my home state, Wisconsin. We were students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. We were both Methodist and members