Monday Essentials: Ruby's Deal, Los Al Job Openings, and Fun Fundraisers

½ Off Is the Secret Sauce: Ruby’s Diner celebrates its namesake’s 91st birthday Monday by offering its new NEXT GEN burger for $3.10. The new menu item features USDA Choice beef, lettuce, tomato, raw or grilled onions, a new freshly grilled artisan bun and a new sauce. After Monday, the NEXT GEN burger will sell for $7.99 at all Southern California locations for a limited time. The pier location may be closed, but there is still a Ruby’s nearby at Westminster and PCH in the Trader Joe’s shopping center.

Help the Library: Eat Pizza! Stop by Zpizza at 12430 Seal Beach Boulevard this Wednesday, Jul 31st, from 11:00am to 9:00pm, with a coupon from the Rossmoor-Los Alamitos library's checkout desk and ZPizza will contribute 25% of the sale to the Friends of the Library’s Front Porch Project..

The Friends plan to remodel the library's front entrance to increase the outdoor usable space by over 300%. Learn more about the project at the Friends Facebook page, Friends of the Los Alamitos-Rossmoor Library, or at http://www.friendsoflarlibrary.org

Job Openings in Los Alamitos: Did you know Patch has a page for local job listings? You can find it here. This week, there are some decent ones including an opening for an accountant for a nonprofit in Los Alamitos with a salary range of $42-52K. There are also some aerospace, sales, account management, engineering, manufacturing and healthcare positions open in Los Alamitos this week.

Good Food, Good People, Good Cause: It’s true, there have been fewer food trucks at the Picnic at the Plaza lately on Thursdays in Los Alamitos, but the folks trying to save the St. Isidore Historic Plaza are keeping it lively with a wine and beer garden and live music all summer long. Foodies can bring their food truck finds to the plaza picnic tables or try out some of the tacos or tamales volunteers frequently cook up for the cause. The next musical performance will be this Thursday. Proceeds go to the effort to save the St. Isidore Historic Plaza.

Movie in the Park: A free showing of “The Phantom of the Opera” and several animated shorts are on the bill for this week’s outdoor movie night at the Segerstrom Arts Center in Costa Mesa. Find details on the dusk series here.