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Photos: 46th annual Catalina Classic Paddle Board Race

Also, Manhattan Beach last week unveiled a life-size statue commemorating the race's 46 years of tradition and the more to come

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Catalina Classic statue commemorates 46 years of Manhattan Beach paddling history

The city, along with the South Bay Boardriders Club, cut the ribbon this week on a statue commemorating the Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race

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Baywatch Community Calendar 6-22-23

Spotlight Summer festival The Riviera Village Summer Festival celebrates its 45th year this weekend, June 23, 24, and 25. Enjoy artisan and craft vendors…

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Group Fights to Name Velzy Surfboards 'First Surf Shop Ever'

Dale Velzy is widely considered to have started the first surf shop. A group wants to erect a commemorative plaque in his honor. But there's opposition.

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Season's Lost, Joy Regained

In 1927, a Black seaside resort called Bruce's Beach was stolen from its owners. Nearly 100 years later, the land has been returned to the family—but what was taken can never be replaced.

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Letters to the Editor 8-11-22

Young and the reckless Dear ER: My wife and I took our 10-year-old grandson to see the Lifeguard competition next to the Hermosa Pier Saturday evening, August 6.

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Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach: Passings 2021

[Editor’s note: The following stories are excerpted from Easy Reader stories about Beach People who passed away in 2021. For their complete stories…

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Manhattan Beach was once home to Black beachgoers, but the city ran them out. Now it faces a reckoning

Before Manhattan Beach shut it down, Bruce's Beach was a famous Black-owned beach resort. Now, some want the city to atone for its actions.

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Bruce's Beach, Manhattan Beach: Dispossession

Meda Simmons Bruce, Harvey Bruce, and Willa Bruce at Bruce’s Lodge. date unknown. Photo from the California African American Museum
An American dream came to an end at Bruce’s Beach, but the memory of what happened survived
Third in a series
by Mark McDermott
By the first years of the 1920s, Manhattan Beach was coming together. In the decade since its founding, what had been mostly a scattering of sandswept shacks emerged as an actual town. A city hall was built and residents approved bonds to construct both a waterworks and a pier with a distinctive octagonal roundhouse at its end. The city’s population had increased, albeit modestly, from 600 people to almost 900. But one particular segment of the population was growing in a way that some people in the city found concerning.

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