Bolsa restoration meeting
State and federal officials will update residents on long-awaited
plans to breathe new life into the Bolsa Chica Mesa at a town hall
meeting on May 20.
Funded largely by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach,
restoration of the Bolsa Chica Wetlands calls for 370 acres of full
tidal and 180 acres of muted tidal habitat.
The project is set to begin this fall and will include
construction of a new ocean channel, tidal basins, island habitats
and pedestrian bridges that connect the wetlands to the beach via
Pacific Coast Highway.
Officials at the meeting will brief the community on construction
of the first phase of the project to give them time to prepare, said
Shirley Dettloff, a longtime activist, former mayor and president of
the Amigos de Bolsa Chica.
The first phase, which is expected to take about two years to
complete, will involve cutting a tidal inlet through the south end of
Bolsa Chica State Beach and across Pacific Coast Highway, allowing
ocean water to flow into the degraded marshes at the long-neglected
Bolsa Chica lowlands.
Speakers will include Jack Fancher from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Jim Trout from the State Lands Commission and Bob Hoffman
from the National Marine Fisheries Service.
At a meeting in Laguna Beach in March, the State Coastal
Conservancy approved the final $10 million needed to move forward
with the process. And in April, the State Lands Commission to grant
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a four-year lease of land.
“I think they’re ready to go,” Dettloff said. “Contracts have been
issued, money’s in place and we’re ready to go. And we’re certainly
100% behind it. It was save, then acquisition and then restoration.
This is the third goal.”
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Talbert Room at the
Huntington Beach Central Library.
Applications open for youth board
The Huntington Beach Youth Board is looking for five high school
students to fill vacancies it needs to fill. The youth board acts as
a voluntary advisory board to the Huntington Beach City Council
regarding youth achievements, problems and needs.
All members must be Huntington Beach residents, attend school and
be in high school. Huntington Beach employees are not eligible.
The deadline for application deadline is May 31.
New members of the board will be selected by the City Council in
June.
For questions, contact Gisela Campagne at (714) 374-5397.
Enjoy a happy Mother’s Day
Surf City’s newest senior living center is celebrating mother’s
day, vintage style. The theme of the Mother’s Day event at the
Sunrise Senior Living Center is “Memories of our mothers, past and
present.” The center will host a fashion show, where teenagers will
model period clothing from different decades as residents may share
memories of their mothers.
“The ladies have contributed memories of their mothers from when
they were growing up,” said Lori Williamson, the event’s organizer.
The Sunrise Senior Living Center, which opened in March, offers
housing and care options for seniors. It offers assisted and
independent living, and there is an area designed specifically for
residents battling Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory
impairment.
Most of the residents at the assisted living community are in
their 80s and 90s.
Williamson expects the event to draw about 80 people.
The center is located at 7401 Yorktown Ave. The show will be held
at noon on Saturday. For more information on the fashion show, call
(714) 536-3032.
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