Seal Beach Surf Contest
January 22, 2009 by Patty
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Unfortunately the predicted big swells didn’t make it but the local talent got all they could out of smaller sets.
Should have waited for the one in back?
Getting the most out of a very small wave
Kanvas by Katin & other contest supporters
Paramedics working on a man saved by surfers ...
All photographs taken by Kevin Halpin
Carlo the Cat
UPDATE 01/26/09: Carlo has been adopted into a new home!
Info: Tabby – Brown (mix) , Male, 10 months old, altered
Carlo is the strong silent type. A little shy at first but he is a lover at heart.
Additional information: *Housetrained *Current on shots Seal Beach Animal Care Center
Phone: (562) 430-4993
E-Mail: cats@sbacc.org
Contact:
Adopt a Dog – Tramp
Info: Terrier, Male, 2 1/2 years old
Tramp is our Disney dog with a great personality. He can sit, shake, lay down on command. He’s very very housebroken! Tramp is a real love. He enjoys car rides and is such a gentleman. He will make a perfect house pet. Just look at that wonderful, expressive face.
Additional information: *Housetrained *Current on shots
Contact: Seal Beach Animal Care Center
Phone: (562) 430-4993
E-Mail: contact@sbacc.org
Adopt a Cat – Pussywillow
Information: Calico – Tortoiseshell (mix), Female, Altered
Pussywillow is a beautiful lady. She is still unsure as to what she is doing here with us but she’s learning to settle in. PW enjoys attention but also enjoys her “private time.”
Additional information: *Housetrained *Current on shots
Contact: Seal Beach Animal Care Center
Phone: (562) 430-4993
E-Mail: cats@sbacc.org
Featured Pet Taser
Tall, dark and handsome, Tazer is our big beautiful purebred German Shepherd. He’s our black beauty of the dogs here in the shelter. He can do doggie sit ups for ever (if you have a treat)! That is by a hand signal “up, down, up, down” too cute. He is doing well with his walks learning to heal. He is such an intelligent dog and so eager to please. He just needs a loving home and to put on some weight. Shepherd don’t like being in a pen, it’s too confining for them. Taser is used to being the pack leader and so needs a dog-savvy home.
Info: German Shepard (mix), Male, 5 Years
Additional information: *Housetrained *Current on shots
Contact: Seal Beach Animal Care Center
Phone: (562) 430-4993
E-Mail: contact@sbacc.org
Weapons Station to Clean Water Faster and Cheaper
January 19, 2009 by Patty
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SEAL BEACH, Calif. — A cutting-edge treatment of contaminated groundwater at Naval Weapons
Station Seal Beach will save the Navy more than $3 million and cut cleanup time by two-thirds.
In the largest use of bio-augmentation to date, a bacteria culture will be used to treat chlorinated solvent contaminants in the groundwater beneath the base in an area about two-thirds of a mile long, half of a mile
wide and 180 feet deep.
“We are injecting emulsified vegetable oil (EVO) and a bacteria culture called KB-1 that is capable of degrading the solvents in the ground,” said Pei-Fen Tamashiro, installation restoration program manager at station.
Researchers believe that the water was contaminated in the 1960s when the facility was used to manufacture the second stage rocket of the Saturn V launch vehicle for the Apollo space program. Although the contaminated plume is not used as a drinking water source, if it is not treated it could eventually contaminate other aquifers in the area.
Tamashiro will supervise the injection of EVO and KB-1 in more than 200 injection wells around the contaminated area to form six bio-barriers. From there, the contaminated water will flow through the barriers encountering the microbes that will treat the solvents.
If the Navy were not to employ this program, the water would have to be pumped to and treated on the surface. Doing so takes longer to treat the site and would cost the Navy more money. With the bioremediation process the cleanup will take 15 years, instead of the 50-plus years it would take using the traditional pump-and-treat method.
The microbes used at the Seal Beach site are a natural culture the area lacks.
For more news from Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, visit http://www.navy.mil/local/sealbeach
Blue Heron Home for Lease
January 18, 2009 by admin
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FANTASTIC VIEWS!!! Built in 2006, Gated Community w/in 1 Mile of the Sand! PRIVATE Lot Backs to SB Wetlands. Forever Views – Sunsets, Alamitos Marina, Palos Verdes, DT LB, Spruce Goose, etc.. Fabulous Custom Touches & Floor Plan – 2 Bedrooms, 1 1/2 Baths Down. Awesome Granite Kitchen w/ Viking Apps, 3 FPs, Hardwood Floors. Incredible Master Suite – Has FP, WIC & Exercise Rm. Tons of Closet Space & Storage. Fantastic Family Friendly Community w/ Parks & Bike Trails. Close Enough to Walk to Main St or the Beach. Live the Seal Beach Lifestyle!! This Is The ONE You Do Not Want To Pass Up!! LOS ALAMITOS School District, too!!!
Offered at $5,995 by Julie Hughes. For more information visit http://www.julierhughes.com or 562ForRent.com.
Seal Beach Animal Shelter
The Seal Beach Animal Care Center is a non-profit animal shelter dedicated to aiding lost and abandoned pets, helping people with pet related problems, promoting responsible pet ownership and pet population control, and preventing cruelty to animals through educational programs.
We encourage all of our Seal Beach and surrounding area residents to visit the Seal Beach Animal Care Center when searching for their next pet! Please support our local shelter.
For more information visit http://www.sbacc.org/.
Monthly Beach Clean Up
Jan 24, 2009-11 to 2
On one Saturday per month, normally from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. meet at the 1st Street Beach Parking Lot (where River’s End Cafe is located), corner of 1st Street and Ocean Avenue in Seal Beach and help us keep trash off of our beach and out of our ocean. Kids of all ages are welcome!
As always, we provide parking passes, garbage bags, protective gloves, drinking water, hand sanitizers (AND certificates if you need one for school credit or community service).
All you need to bring is closed toe shoes and sunscreen! We’re there rain or shine. More questions? Please visit http://www.saveourbeach.org/ or call Kim at (562) 884-6764. Hope to see you in the sand!
Katin 11th Annual Seal Beach Surfing Championships
January 17, 2009 by admin
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This weekend the 11th Annual Katin Surfing Championships continue. Come out to watch the competition!
This year it will be a two-day event that will begin at 7am Saturday morning. Besides the exciting action in the water there is plenty to do on the beach. Sponsor tents will line the shore throughout the two-day event with tons of giveaways and new cutting edge products to be showcased. There will also be a raffle with tons of products from Katin Surf Shop, Harbour Surf Shop, Stamps Surfboards, Bettis Surfboards, Labreau Surfboards, Rich Payne Surfboards, Mana Surfboards, Bruno Surfboards, Bruce Jones Surfboards and much more. Thousands of dollars in prizes will be given away throughout the event with the big-ticket items given away at the awards dinner. This is an event you dont want to miss…see ya at the beach!!!!