🌱 Desalination Plant Nixed + BeachLife Festival

Hey, people of Palos Verdes! Michael Wittner here with a fresh copy of thePalos Verdes Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and nice. High: 75 Low: 59.

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Here are the top stories today in Palos Verdes:

1. Plan Rejected to Build $1.4B Ocean Water Desalination Plant in Huntington Beach (NBC Southern California)
2. BeachLife Festival 2022: The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer & More (Patch)
3. LA County Heatwave: From Record Low To Above Normal In A Day (Patch)
4. SpaceX Launches Internet Satellites Into Low Orbit (Patch)
5. Man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing victim found inside vehicle in Carson area (KTLA Los Angeles)
6. Malala Yousafzai To Speak In Redondo Beach (Patch)
7. Port of Long Beach sees busiest April on record (Long Beach Business Journal - Long Beach News)
8. Long Beach water to return $21 million to ratepayers based on use (Long Beach Press Telegram)
9. Parkland Conservancy feeds Monarchs on Hermosa's Greenbelt (Easy Reader)
11. San Pedro: Fire crews battle blaze near homes as plumes of smoke billow over area (KABC-TV)

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Today in Palos Verdes:

• Second Saturday Guided Nature Walk - Forrestal Reserve (9:00 AM)
• Ichinobo Tea Ceremony - Miraleste Library (10:00 AM)
• Ichinobo Tea Ceremony - Malaga Cove Plaza Library (10:00 AM)
• Ichinobo Tea Ceremony - Palos Verdes Library District - Peninsula Center Library (10:00 AM)
• Pop Concert (Events) - Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (7:00 PM)
• Junior & Senior Prom (Events) - Palos Verdes High School (8:00 PM)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Saturday. I'll see you soon!

— Michael Wittner

About me: I am excited to be returning to Patch as a Roving Editor, a job that will allow me to find out what's going on in communities all over the country. I worked as a Patch Field Editor from April 2020 to June 2021, covering Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Malibu, and Northridge-Chatsworth. Before then I was the Associate Editor of the Jewish Journal, a biweekly paper covering the Jewish community north of Boston. I grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small, seaside town north of Boston, and graduated from Bard College in New York, and then got my masters in teaching from New York University. Feel free to send any story ideas to michael.wittner@patch.com.

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