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Long Beach plans new rules for beach access ticket booths and closing certain staircases. The closed stairs will be converted into Long Beach City Manager shower areas at the boardwalk Dan Creighton detailed a series level, allowing visitors to clean of planned changes to beach off more easily. The goal is to access and enforcement in his create a more controlled entry City Manager’s Report at the system with a single access March 18 City Council meeting. point at each entrance to reduce unauthorThe updates aim ized access. to improve compliTo improve ance with beach entrance enforcepass re gulations, ment, the city plans increase revenue to hire more experiand create a more enced staff, includefficient system for ing members of managing beach local organizations entry and visitor such as the VFW tracking. and retirees. “There are 38 disC r e i g h t o n r e f e rtinct access points enced a 2024 pilot onto the beach — 38 DAN CREIGHToN program in which different entrancsanitation workers es,” Creighton said. city manager were posted at “We have a problem select entrances, with people ignoring the gate pass collectors. I which discouraged scofflaws, won’t say what they say to them and resulted in increased revetypically, but it’s not nice. We nue from beach pass sales. The also have a problem with some city plans to expand this of the ticket collectors not nec- approach this season. Another update involves essarily collecting the tickets. So we’re looking at just differ- adding barcodes to beach passent ideas on what to do to con- es to track their use more accutrol enforcement of ticket col- rately. This will allow the city to monitor how many people lections at the beach.” The city plans to consolidate use each entrance and how entry points by relocating some Continued on page 7

By ANGElINA ZINGARIEllo

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Recognized for a dominant season Long Beach wrestling coaches Miguel Rodriguez and Ray Adams, second and fifth from left, and state champion Dunia Sibomana-Rodriguez, third from left, were among those honored by county and city officials on Monday for the team’s success. Additional photo, page 19.

Artists in Partnership turns 25 Events planned throughout year to celebrate anniversary By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com

Twenty-five years ago, Long Beach resident Susan James, who had a background in acting and singing and loved the arts, felt that the city didn’t offer residents enough opportunities to experience them. There was the Long Beach Art League, but that was about it. So James came up with a plan. She sent out fliers inviting people to come to the public library with ideas about what they’d like to see added to the city’s arts calendar. She didn’t expect a massive turnout, maybe a couple of dozen people. Nearly three times that many showed up.

So many ideas came out of that gathering that Artists in Partnership, complete with a board of directors, was born. Now the group is highlighting its 25th year of celebrating the arts in the community. It is considered by many to be Long Beach’s premier arts organization, and supports many events on what is now a much busier annual calendar of cultural offerings. “The big thing is being able to let people discover us and understand what we can bring to them that will enrich their lives,” James said. “That’s what AIP is about. It’s not just another organization.” In its early days, Artists in Partnership, a nonprofit, hosted programs at the library, where Continued on page 14

e have a problem with people ignoring the gate pass collectors.