“After careful discussions with the City of Long Beach, the Aquarium of the Pacific will be closing to the public starting Saturday, March 14, through Tuesday, March 31, 2020. During this time, staff members will continue to work and be paid. We will be offering a variety of online programming so that the public may continue to engage with our exhibits and animals and learn about our ocean. We invite you to visit our website for updates at aquariumofpacific.org. We thank you for your support and we send you our best wishes.”
In a Facebook posting, Run Seal Beach announced the cancellation of the 5K, 10K and Kids Fun Run scheduled for Saturday, March 28.
“At this time, the Run Seal Beach Board of Directors is evaluating options for a revised 2020 race date, along with registration refunds or deferrals processing. We ask for your patience as we work through different options in light of current unfortunate circumstances. Communication updates will be sent regularly via email and social media channels,” the post read.
Save Our Beach is cancelling its monthly scheduled beach clean-up that was slated for Saturday, March 21. In a posting on its Facebook page the group wrote: “We hope as things progress, we will be able to hold all regularly scheduled cleanups in the future, beginning April 18th.”
Seal Beach PONY Baseball League is temporarily suspending its season. The league uses the fields at J.H. McGaugh Elementary school and the Los Alamitos Unified School District has cancelled any use of its facilities by outside groups. “We will do our best to closely monitor the situation, and keep you apprised of all future developments as they are received,” a post on the leagues Facebook page read.
The Orange County Public Libraries have been closed. “The health and wellness of our OC Public Libraries’ staff and customers is our main concern. Based on recommendations from the County of Orange and in concurrence with guidelines issued by the Governor of the state of California, all OC Public Library branches will be closed from March 16 through March 31, 2020 to limit the number of people in a public building and to help curtail further spread of COVID-19 in our communities.
In this interim time, although our doors may be closed, there are many ways you can still connect with our library services. OC Public Libraries’ robust digital services give library card holders 24/7 free
access to ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, movies, resources and
More. For official updates about the coronavirus visit the OC Health Care Agency website.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and look forward to resuming full library services as soon as we can. Thank you for being a patron of the OC Public Library system.”
