🌱 Patch AM: How Redondo Beach’s smoke shop crackdown could affect your neighborhood

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In today's newsletter:

• How Redondo Beach’s smoke shop crackdown could affect your neighborhood

Also on today's calendar: You Are Enough 5k Run/Walk and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: If you have 13 apples in one hand and 10 oranges in the other, what do you have ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high of 69 and low of 61 degrees.
• Sunday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 69, low: 62.
• Monday: Partly sunny, with a high of 70 and low of 63 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Redondo Beach Cracks Down On Illegal Sales At Smoke Shops (patch.com) — Redondo Beach officials are aggressively enforcing laws against illegal flavored tobacco and cannabis-related sales at local smoke shops, resulting in one permanent closure and a costly suspension for another business. The city, police, and state tax authorities plan ongoing surprise inspections and education efforts, and residents are urged to report suspected illegal tobacco or vape sales to Redondo Beach authorities.    

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📸 Around Redondo Beach

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Redondo Beach

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday May 30

• You Are Enough 5k Run/Walk →
  Schumacher Plaza - Tim Kelly Memorial Surf..., Pier Ave, Hermosa Beach
  9:00 am
• America's 250th Birthday fundraiser →
  Redondo Beach Public Library Main Branch, 303 N Pacific Coast Hwy, Redondo Beach
  2:00 pm

Sunday May 31

• Artists Of The Future →
  Beach Cities Symphony,
  5:00 pm

Want to see your event featured? Click here!

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Other local events

Saturday May 30

• 2026 Hills Are Alive 5K/10K Race in Rolling Hills Estates →
  Ernie Howlett Park - Rolling Hills Tennis, 25851 Hawthorne Blvd, Rolling Hills Estates
  8:00 am

Tuesday June 2

• Virtual Social Chat with BCHD Care Managers →
  10:00 am

Wednesday June 3

• Virtual Mindfulness Drop-In →
  4:00 pm

Saturday June 6

• Pastel Society of Southern California's 17th Annual Members' Exhibition Gala Reception →
  1815 213th St, Torrance
  3:00 pm

Sunday June 7

• S.A.F.E. Self-Defense Seminar →
  1628 S Pacific Coast Hwy, 1628 S Pacific Coast Hwy, Redondo Beach
  2:00 pm

Monday June 8

• In-Person Social Chat with BCHD Care Managers →
  1601 N Valley Dr, Manhattan Beach
  2:00 pm
• Beach Cities Summer Free Fitness →
  Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach
  6:30 pm

Tuesday June 9

• Virtual Families Connected Parent Chat →
  10:00 am

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📣 Redondo Beach Shout Outs!

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• If this cat belongs to anyone, it is in my neighbors backyard right now.
  I tried to capture it but started to claw me. I FaceTimed with Lucus who verified it is not his lost cat. I live right by Beryl Elementary (Nextdoor Beryl Heights)

• Domino's Pizza, Inc. posted a job opening for Assistant Manager(07841) - 201 Pacific Coast Hwy in Hermosa Beach. Apply here.
• UCLA Health posted a job opening for Front office Admin Support-Manhattan Beach Pediatrics in Manhattan Beach. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Redondo Beach here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Hermosa Beach

• For a Good Cause: At Hermosa's new laundromat, the real spin is community (dailybreeze.com)
• Hermosa club trades cold beer for cold plunges (easyreadernews.com)
• Letters to the Editor May 28, 2026 (easyreadernews.com)

Manhattan Beach

• ‘Bridgerton' author Julia Quinn cautions Manhattan Beach fans about book bans (easyreadernews.com)
• Almost nothing inside! This is Luka Doncic $25M California home (latination.com)
• A La Carte (easyreadernews.com)

Long Beach

• Man Killed In Broad-Daylight Long Beach Shooting, Gunman At Large (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Big hands ! (Thank you Gary M. for sending it in!)Got a good riddle for PatchAM? Submit it here!

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