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The Long Beach Department of Health and Human services needs 300 volunteers to conduct the upcoming 2024 Homeless Point In Time Count — a street count that records how many people are experiencing homelessness.Commit to a four-hour-long canvassing shift on Thursday, Jan. 25. Volunteers should report at 4:30 a.m. for shifts that start at 5 a.m.
All that would change that night at the Biltmore. Exhausted after a day of driving with my parents in the rain, I was happy to spend a cozy night with them in their suite. The dated suite wasn’t exactly luxurious, but it was huge, with a sitting area, two beds, and large windows with views of a soggy Pershing Square. After a night of watching college basketball on the room’s TV while eating Subway sandwiches, we all turned in around eleven.
No one had. It was 3a.m. “That’s so freaky!” my mother said. Then she chuckled — “Maybe it was a ghost!.” I was not laughing, and was now even more fearful — who the hell had turned the TV on? My dad got out of bed to turn off the TV, and then climbed back into bed. I wanted to say something more, but I resolved to attempt to forget it and go to sleep. I was exhausted, and felt as if I had just been engaged in a monumental fight.
When I went to pick up my parents in the morning for another sodden museum day, they had news for me. The TV had turned on again at 3 a.m. It would turn on in the dead of night for the rest of their stay. They messed around with the TV, but could not discover any timer that had been set. Being the tight-lipped Southerners they are, they never complained to the Biltmore or told them what had happened. Neither did I.
As people hike, bike and camp in the forest, it gets a lot of wear and tear. Not to mention the effects of big storms and fires. These volunteer groups, which are trained by the Forest Service, work to keep people — and the forest itself — safe. There is a shared stewardship of the land, Erin reports.for more. She reports on why the Forest Service has struggled to keep paid staff, and why volunteers have turned this huge problem into a meaningful solution of their own.
who were moving and grooving on foot and bikes Sunday morning. The whole motorway was closed down for the second annual ArroyoFest at the Arroyo Seco Parkway this weekend. The first one took place 20 years ago. The deserts are much cooler as we head into winter — a high of 65 in the high desert and up to 79 in the low desert.Remember,"any fire starts will have really conducive weather to rapid and dangerous fire growth," said National Weather Service meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld."It's important to take precautions with regards to anything flammable, different vehicles can spark things, and it means that there's a possibility of power outages as well.
As part of the project, Kinch and his colleagues restored the land around the newly installed panels. , saying that in the next few decades the world could see up to 78 million metric tons of solar waste. To put that in perspective, that’s about 5 million school buses.By 2021, Anctil’s research was finally funded. And she’s been working on that ever since as an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan State University.
At the end of the whole process, they’re left with around five pounds of plastic, which they’re trying to find a way to reuse.actually has regional warehouses in places like Chicago, where they store panels until there are enough to justify shipping them to their center in Arizona.as technology improves, waste accumulates and demand for materials goes up.
Spears is 74, a retired L.A. Unified School District English teacher and former volunteer firefighter. Now, he’s the lead trail maintenance volunteer for the first 3.5 miles of the Mount Wilson Trail. A popular nearby hiking trail — Chantry Flats — is still being repaired after the 2020 Bobcat Fire tore through, followed by last winter’s storms. Spears says that trail’s closure has also meant the Mt. Wilson trail has been getting even more traffic, so it also needs more maintenance.
It’s the first bridge that’s ever been installed on the trail in historic memory — a route that’s been usedBob Spears, lead trail maintenance volunteer for the first 3.5 miles of the Mount Wilson Trail in the city of Sierra Madre, stands by a new bridge he and volunteers installed across a section of the trail that was washed out during last winter's storms.But the bridge is only temporary.
“I'm going to try to do whatever I can to stabilize this trail, but if we get the second flood from Noah, I’m not going to be able to sustain it,” Spears said.The Sisyphean effort of maintaining trails feels like a metaphor for dealing with the climate crisis as a whole.— Bob Spears, lead trail maintenance volunteer for the Mt. Wilson Trail in Sierra Madre.
The group is made up primarily of mountain bikers who have long loved and used these trails, but volunteers of all backgrounds and physical abilities are welcome and have assisted with trail restoration.“We're all from different walks of life, but everybody is coming together with this love of trails,” said Erik Hillard, the CFO of Lowelifes.
Erik Hillard, CFO of Lowelifes talks with Matt Baffert, CEO of Lowelifes ahead of a trail work day.As the area swings between drought, deluge and fire become more extreme, the Forest Service simply doesn’t have the resources to keep up with maintaining so many trails among other more pressing responsibilities — namely these days: wildfire prevention and management.
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