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VOL. XLIII NO. 43
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Serving Bixby Knolls, California Heights, Los Cerritos, Wrigley and Signal Hill
Friday, October 22, 2021
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Students walk across the playground after recess at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School for the first day of school on Aug. 31, 2021.
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Larry Holmgren places one of his white stones on the Go board while Terry McIntyre waits to make his move on Oct. 16, 2021, at Signal Hill Park.
‘If chess is a battle, Go is a war’ This centuries-old Chinese strategy game is alive and well in Signal Hill
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ach Saturday, residents of Long Beach and Signal Hill gather under a shaded picnic table in Signal Hill Park and play the centuries-old game Go, otherwise known as Weichi or Weiqi. One might mistake the game for a complicated match of checkers with its alternating black and white pieces. But Go dates farther back than checkers and even chess, first invented in China over 3,000 years ago, where it remains widely popular. It’s believed to be one of the oldest board games in the world. “If chess is a game, Go is a war,” Signal Hill resident and Go player Paul Feldman said. “Every move has implications all over the place. There’s battles going on everywhere.” The Long Beach Go Club–which has formally existed since 2013–recently moved its meetings from Tuesdays at Royal Cup Cafe to Saturdays at Signal Hill Park in an effort to attract new players. On the morning of Saturday, Oct. 16, player Terry McIntyre and club founder Larry Holmgren were seated across see LB GO CLUB page 9
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Larry Holmgren places one of his white stones on the Go board while Terry McIntyre waits to make his move on Oct. 16, 2021, at Signal Hill Park.
LBUSD still negotiating with classified employees over raises, with contract set to expire Oct. 31 n A ita W. Harris eS nior Writer
The California School Employees Association’s (CSEA) Long Beach chapter held a rally outside the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 20, to protest LBUSD’s salary increase proposal for CSEA employees. CSEA and LBUSD have been bargaining since March over a new labor contract to replace the current one expiring on Oct. 31. Though the two parties have agreed to 20 sections of the contract, according to an Oct. 18 LBUSD bargaining update, they continue to disagree about salary increases. CSEA represents about 2,100 of the district’s classified employees, including instructional aides, nutrition-services workers, bus drivers, custodians and gardeners. Most LBUSD teachers are represented by a different union, the Teachers Association of Long Beach (TALB). In its rallying call, CSEA said LBUSD is offering a two-cent per hour raise while teacher substitutes are getting a 16% raise, or about $4.50 per hour. LBUSD maintains it is offering CSEA the same “fair and competitive” package accepted by TALB in April. LBUSD’s proposal includes a combination of retroactive raises totaling 3% for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years, and a one-time “off-schedule” raise of 2% for 2020-21. see NEGOTIATIONS page 8