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Vol. 35 No. 48
NoVEMBER 21 - 27, 2024
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A long, cold healing journey Long Beach’s Mindi Dovberg prepares to mark 600 straight days of plunging journey began.” Cold-water immersion, which is just what it sounds For most, a dip in the chilly like, plunging into water colder Atlantic Ocean anytime after than 60 degrees, has been assoSeptember might be reserved ciated with an array of benefor a dare or Long Beach’s fits, according to Dovberg, Polar Bear Plunge. For resident including reduced inflammaMindi Dovberg, it has become a tion, improved circulation, fastlife-altering daily er recovery from ritual, and on Suninjuries and heightday she will celeened mental clarity. brate 600 consecuFor Dovberg, these tive days of coldeffects were immewater immersion, diate, and the occain the Atlantic and sional practice elsewhere. q u i c k l y evo l ve d Dovberg, 51, a into a daily discisingle Reiki master MINDI DoVBERG pline, fueled by her teacher and mind- Long Beach resolve to confront set speaker, took discomfort and her first dip in the push beyond limitspring of 2021, following the ing beliefs. death of her father, when, she Dovberg’s experience is all said, she sought something to the more remarkable given the “shock the grief out of my sys- health challenges she has faced tem.” The idea of immersing over the past two decades. A herself in freezing water reso- devastating car accident on nated as a physical and emo- Sept. 11, 2001 — the day of the tional reset. attacks on the World Trade “I was visiting my family at Center — left her with severe the time in northern Virginia, injuries, including complex which is where I’m originally re gional pain syndrome, a from, and I just started going c h r o n i c c o n d i t i o n o f t e n into the lake, the cold lake, described as one of the most every single day I was there,” painful disorders known. Over Dovberg said, referring to Lake the years, she underwent a Montclair. “And that’s when the Continued on page 10
By ANGElINA ZINGARIEllo
azingariello@liherald.com
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Turkey trottin’ for the 19th year Sara Dowling, of Long Beach, was the first-place female finisher in the 19th annual Turkey Trot last Sunday, in 39 minutes, 48 seconds. Story, more photos, Page 3.
With federal grant, LBPD will re-establish narcotics unit By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
The City of Long Beach and the Long Beach Police Department have been awarded a grant that will fund not only the monitoring of drug use in the city, but also more advanced methods to combat it in an entirely new division of the department. The city announced the $300,000 grant at the Nov. 6 City Council meeting. It was awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, and is part of the Rural and
Small Department Crime Reduction Program. To qualify, a police department must have fewer than 250 members. “With this money, we’ll be able to recreate a narcotics unit,” Acting Police Commissioner Richard DePalma said. “The narcotics team is very important. The city hasn’t had a narcotics unit the past three years.” There hasn’t been enough money in the budget for a narcotics division during those years, but now, thanks to the DOJ, there will be. The funding will be distributed over the course of three years, at $100,000 per year. It will allow for Continued on page 5 November 21, 2024
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