To help keep people safe while biking or walking, the SBPD will conduct traffic safety operations throughout May focused on driver behaviors that put bicyclists and pedestrians at risk, such as speeding, making illegal turns, failure to yield right of way, and stop sign/red light running. Safety Tips for Drivers • Slow down and follow the speed limit. Be careful traveling through intersections.

knows the residents by name. Miguel Perez Ruiz and Antonio Fernandez have cleaned the carports for 28 and 18 years, respectively. Three shift supervisors, Selvin De Leon, Enrique Arretche and Ana Gomez, keep busy checking the custodians’ work, delivering supplies, assisting GRF Recreation staff at special events and managing special cleanups. All have been here for several years. They and their

The City of Seal Beach will host a free suicide prevention training on Tuesday, May 21, from 7-8 p.m. at the Orange County Fire Authority Station No. 48, 3131 North Gate Road, Seal Beach, as part of Mental Health Awareness Month. RSVP at https://forms. office.com/g/vJsvmePUeA.

The Emergency Information Council (EIC) meeting will meet today, May 9, at 1 p.m. in Building 5, Room B. Among the topics to be discussed will be an assessment of the EIC’s recent presentations and services connected with disaster preparedness. New initiatives and other avenues to help the community better prepare for emergency disasters are welcome. Everyone is welcome to attend and

Editor: The GRF Board is proposing a new transit service to replace the Minibuses with fixed routes for all-electric GEM cars as a cost-savings service. First, GRF just spent considerable sums to replace obsolete buses with new ones. Second, ridership has decreased due to COVID and other factors such as unreliable vehicles that didn’t make it out of maintenance, routes being cut back

An April 25 story headlined “New proposal could save GRF a quarter million dollars annually” did not specify where the proposal originated. An editor’s note attached to a May 2 letter from Mutual 2 resident Maureen Ashley should have specified that the proposal came out of a closed executive session, so as to avoid confusion for some residents who wanted more information about it. The reason

Mutual 14 is the first Mutual to receive the voting ballots to elect their Mutual Board of Directors. All other Mutuals will receive their ballots according to the election schedule on page 8. The shareholders will receive cumulative and non-cumulative voting ballots in the mail. Cumulative voting offers multiple votes (based on the Mutual) to give to certain candidates. It allows shareholders

CITY OF SEAL BEACH The Senior Shuttle Service is a free 20-passenger shuttle that runs on a fixed route throughout major city stops, including Seal Beach Pier/Old Town area, Leisure World, and Rossmoor Shopping Center/North Seal Beach Community Center. This shuttle can accommodate wheelchairs and scooters, and hold two bikes. To register, submit the following to the City of Seal Beach recreation

The Seal Beach Senior Services spring guide provides consolidated information for all available programs that the city offers for seniors this spring. The guide is available online at https://shorturl. at/cgA78 and at the community centers. For more information, contact Nathan Caukin at 562-431-2527 ext. 1307.