Detective Sgt. Raul “Sal” Saldana, who has worked many of the town’s most high-profile and difficult crime investigations, is hanging up his badge after a quarter century with the Hermosa Beach Police Department.
Mayor Howard Fishman said he wants to replace Hermosa’s coin-operated parking meters with meters that use credit cards, saying they are more customer-friendly and would save the city the cost of its workers who go meter-to-meter collecting the coins.
Abby Kahan, a bartender at Palmilla Cocina y Tequila on the Pier Plaza, stood at one of the central pay stations for the 300-plus parking meters at the municipal garage on Hermosa Avenue, peering at the screen through shades to shield her eyes from the Friday afternoon sun.
The remodeled Becker Surfboards store will celebrate the grand reopening of its flagship store on upper Pier Avenue with music by Bullys and Matadors, Whitley Heights and The Parted, plus food, ping-pong battles, discounts and giveaways, noon to 7 p.m.
City Attorney Michael Jenkins called a lawsuit by tattoo parlor critics “an unfortunate waste of public resources,” on the heels of another ruling favorable to the City of Hermosa Beach.
Have a heart
The Hermosa Beach Education Foundation presents its annual “Hearts of Hermosa” dinner dance to benefit the city schools Saturday, March 24 at a private venue next to the Hermosa Beach Community Center, 720 Pier Ave.
Architect James Meyer updates a 1950s classic for life in the new millennium
Architect James Meyer approached redesigning his clients’ midcentury, single family residence on Hermosa View Drive in Hermosa Beach with an eye toward unveiling its original beauty, while adapting it to meet the twenty-first-century needs of its residents.
Civic leaders, artists and others crowded onto a spacious third-floor rooftop to watch Saturday’s formal unveiling of a 52-foot long, 14-foot high mural depicting a 1909 Hermosa landscape, painted along the eastern wall of New Orleans Café on Pier Avenue.
News of a slowly recovering economy was found in a mid-year Hermosa Beach budget report, which estimates a 4 percent rise in revenues flowing to City Hall, on the heels of a 1 percent revenue increase the year before.
The Hermosa Beach city school board has hired consultants to survey voters about a possible parcel-tax measure, and to aid in the campaign for the tax if it is eventually placed on the ballot.
