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Serving Cerritos, Artesia, Hawaiian Gardens, Norwalk, Lakewood, and La Palma • 45,000 homes every Friday • February 11, 2011 • Volume 21, No. 41 • www.loscerritosnews.net
Twelfth annual Festival of Friendship Hawaiian Gardens Council approves held at Los Cerritos Center loan with SCE on energy project By Jerry Bernstein
THE WEBSITE WILL GIVE 10% OF ITS’ SALES BACK TO LOCAL CHARITIES. Your City Coupons.net (YCC), a subsidiary of LCCN and an online coupon retailer for four years, is set to relaunch its’ new site this coming Monday January 14. Grabbing hold of this new emerging market, YCC will send an email to its’ online audience offering deep discounts on a local product or service, but with a twist; YCC will give a whopping 10% of its’ sales back to charities who sign up. “Obviously the internet has presented many challenges to the newspaper industry”, says Brian Hews, publisher of LCCN, “but now there is a risk-free way to provide a winwin for everyone involved, the charities, the merchant, and local consumers.” YCC will offer deals such as $30 worth of food for $15, a $50 spa treatment for $25, and even a whale-watching trip worth $60 for $29. Consumers go online, designate their favorite charity and purchase the coupon. When the coupon closes-typically in two to three days-YCC will total up the sales and give 10% back to all charities who were chosen during the purchase. Community-based website Unlike the larger national coupon websites, YCC is a local community-based website serving Cerritos, Artesia, Norwalk, La Palma, E. Lakewood, Hawaiian Gardens and surrounding communities “It is a great way for companies to connect to the local [See YOUR CITY Page 12]
Children from the Liberty Park Tot Lot perform for their parents and city officials at the festival. More pictures on page 8. and dances of their native cultures. In addition, a children’s By Jerry Bernstein arts and crafts area was set up The 12th annual Festival in front of the Nordstrom stage of Friendship, sponsored by with the youngsters were givthe Cerritos Let Freedom Ring en instructions how to make a Committee in conjunction with guitar using California Pizza the Los Cerritos Center was boxes. Cerritos Mayor Joseph Cho held Feb. 5 at the Center affording the community with welcomed those present and a unique opportunity to learn said Cerritos is a city of diverabout the City’s rich diversity. A sity. A city its residents can be variety of acts were performed proud of. Girl Scout Troop 1423 by local community groups on gave the pledge of Allegiance three stages in the mall and in- and Sascha Elegino sang the cluded an assortment of ethnic national anthem.
Cerritos candidates meet in second forum
Members of the Artesia-Cerritos Woman’s Club, sponsors of the second Cerritos council candidates forum, gather together following the end of the forum Feb. 1 in the city council chambers. President Nancy Sousa opened the forum with a warm welcome to the candidates and members in the audience. Gail Grossman was the moderator. The candidates answered written questions from the audience. Story on page 13.
The Hawaiian Gardens City Council at its Feb 8 meeting, in a 3-1 vote, approved a loan with Southern California Edison Company in the amount of $250,000 with no interest to complete an upgrade of the city’s energy efficiency and related improvements to city facilities. At the same time the council approved a budget adjustment in the amount of $288,200 from the General Fund and authorized the Finance Director to transfer the funds to the project. Councilmember Reynaldo Rodriguez objected to the agreement on the grounds it was too costly. He asked why some of the work couldn’t be done in-house and questioned why staff hadn’t reviewed the existing contract covering the city’s computers that he said included making the computers more energy friendly and would have been done at no cost under the existing contract. He said in this time of economic stress, he didn’t feel the city should be allocating this amount of money now for a project that could have waited. Councilmember Barry Bruce agreed but said he would vote for the agreement because a contract had previously been signed. The city had earlier applied for a grant involving the State but the application was not approved due to the lack of funds by the State. Bruce said before staff makes a recommendation to the council on the hiring of consultants there needs to be a review on whether they are needed. Bruce suggested an ad hoc committee be established to make recommendations to the city administrator before a consultant is hired, especially for a major project. He said he understands the city will need to hire
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Internet pornography crisis Page 6
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Hawaiian Gardens Casino celebrates Chinese New Year Page 9
Community Sports Page 10-11
Women's Club Candidates Forum Page 13
Whitney High School fundraiser Page 14
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