Attention all firefighters, Matt Branham wants to speak to your manager!!

Photo: @Rebecca_drives

Supposedly registration is open for this event, but there is no link for it. Flyer above has some phone #s and an email, so maybe that is how you register.

Date: Sat. Nov. 19, 2022
All ages event
Registration at 9:00 a.m.
Small Bowl & Snake Run
PUP Cup 10 a.m. beginners only
10a nd under 11:309 a.m.
11-14 at 1:00 p.m.
15-24 at 2:00 p.m.
25 and over 3:00 p.m
Masters at 3:30 p.m.

SPECIAL NOTE: The last event these organizers were supposed to hold was cancelled "due to threat of violence", which was basically just money drama between one of them and a potential out-of-state event sponsor.

Homeless squatting in a house that was under construction set a fire that burnt down that house along with the house next door, as well as badly damaging other houses. Here is the aftermath, homeowners talk about what happened, a politician visits, etc...​APparently according to the residents speaking to the politician, their reports about the homeless setting fires were going unheard.

From Santa Monica Close Up:

"The aftermath of a fire from a homeless encampment on Lincoln Blvd and Flower Street in Venice on Monday, October 3, 2022."

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Photo from Sunday night of a the dumpster behind the Smart & Final On Lincoln.

BREAKING NEWS: Fire rages through several houses along the Venice Canals in Venice Beach late Sunday night. Homeless that were constantly hanging out in one of that house that was currently under renovation were said to be the cause of the fire, according to residents of both houses next door that got destroyed.

California Clean Air Day is Wednesday, Oct. 5, and Metro is offering free rides on our bus, rail and bike share systems! Use the Transit app or the trip planner on metro.net to plan your trip.