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Neighborhood Clean Up, Fourth Fridays on Retro Row & Save the Date for the next Neighborhood Meeting in April

Neighborhood Clean Up

Fourth Fridays on Retro Row

This Friday, March 22nd from 6pm to 9pm Retro Row is transforming into Reader’s Row. Readers, book worms and zinesters welcome!

Neighborhood Meeting in April

SAVE THE DATE for the next Rose Park Neighborhood meeting at Lola’s on Retro Row at 2030 E 4th St. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 3 from 6 to 8PM.

Attendees will:

  • Receive updates regarding the Rose Park improvement project
  • Provide ideas for future improvements at Rose Park
  • Learn more about public safety in our neighborhood

We hope to see you there! Questions? Email info@rpna.org or DM us on Instagram @roseparklb

Litter Free Long Beach, Graffiti on 7th Street & 2nd Sundays on Broadway

Litter Free Long Beach

Neighborhood leaders with Vanessa Acosta and Public Works team at the Long Beach Art EXPO

Neighborhood Associations from across the city of Long Beach gathered at the Long Beach Art EXPO in Bixby Knolls for a neighborhood champions meeting on Thursday, February 29th. Vanessa Acosta of Public Works Litter Abatement & Awareness Campaign, organized the meeting to get feedback from neighborhood leaders as to how to better connect residents with programs and services provided by the Public Works Department. More HERE …

If you are not aware of the many clean-up efforts going on in the city, we hope you will connect with one or start your own on your block or in your alleyway. Sign up HERE … or you can email us to get started at info@rpna.org. Vanessa Acosta of Public Works and her team will bring equipment, supplies and haul the trash away to help with the clean up.

We hope you will join us for another clean up on Saturday, March 16th starting at 9AM. We will meet in the parking lot with the mosaic flower mural on 7th and Dawson, AKA “The Friendship Corner.” Donuts, coffee and trash supplies will be provided. Feel free to RSVP to info@rpna.org.

The goal is to reduce the amount of trash we accumulate, and reuse when possible. Questions? Ideas? Email us at info@rpna.org.

Graffiti at Rivera’s on 7th Street

Rivera’s Restaurant on 7th Street was tagged with graffiti

Rivera’s Restaurant was tagged with graffiti this week and Roses for Rose Park Artist Cody Lusby and volunteers were quickly out cleaning it up. Please use the GO Long Beach app to report issues such as graffiti or DM us directly on Instagram @roseparklb.

Second Sundays on Broadway

It’s another 2nd Sunday of the month on Broadway! This Sunday, March 10th neighbors are invited to walk, skate, bike, stroll from Alamitos to Loma along Broadway from 12pm to 4pm. This event is organized by business along the Broadway corridor.