For the past two years The Youth Center has received a request from a member or a group in the community to select a family in need for the holidays, which they can “adopt” to provide gifts and meals for the holidays.
Los Alamitos mayor says pensions are a problem
With the city’s pension liability growing a pace of nearly half a million dollars per year, newly installed Mayor Troy Edgar says dealing with it is going to be a challenge.
Edgar is serving his last year on the Council, having completed three full terms, the maximum allowed by the charter.
Outstanding service to our nation
The commander of the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station has announced the “best of the best” sailors as he also announced the unit’s top honoree.
Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Commander, Captain Noel Dahike, thanked Grampaw Pettibone Squadron for their continuing support of the sailors at the base, he also noted that the sailors from the base who were being honored today fully deserved the title of “Sailor of the Year.”
Precious Life Shelter in Los Al ‘like’ family for pregnant women
Raised by an alcoholic mother and without her birth father, Cordiella James found out she was pregnant while she was in jail in Orange County.
Her future at the time seemed bleak, but today, James says her life is full of blessings. She has learned how to manage her finances, is an office manager at a manufacturing employment agency, and has an apartment where she lives with her son.
Flachmeier to fill vacant La Palma council seat
The La Palma Council has appointed Kathy Flachmeier to fill the unexpired term of a council seat that was vacated by the resignation of Steven Hwangbo.
She was among four applicants for the position and was appointed to the City Council by unanimous vote on Jan. 3. She will be sworn in at the council’s Jan. 16 meeting.
Burst of excitement: Disneyland planner for 2018
Readers of the News Enterprise are fortunate to live within driving distance to Disneyland, one of the most popular family attractions in the world.
Guests visiting the Disneyland Resort in 2018 will enjoy new experiences plus exciting new elements added to some of their favorite shows and attractions at the Happiest Place on Earth. Pixar comes to life like never before at both Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park in 2018 to celebrate friendship and beyond, with the first-ever Pixar Fest opening April 13 and a new land, Pixar Pier, opening for summer.
The power of choice
As a kid growing up, and even today, I was, still am enamored with people’s stories. I love to hear how they got to where they are. I love to know what made them make the choices they did and how come they are so successful in their business, so happy in their marriage, so sought after for their wisdom, so amazing as parents in raising great kids who are themselves incredible people, and what made them just an all around good person. I wanted to know what they knew so I could learn from their lives and seek to be all that God intended me to be.
Your California legislature at work
Next week, Californians will be subject to hundreds of new laws passed by the California legislature. According to an analysis posted Dec. 28 by the L.A. Times, the laws taking effect Jan. 1 range from restrictions on video streaming to naming the first-ever state dinosaur.
Here is a selection from a synopsis of the new state laws compiled by John Myers and Priya Krishnakumar published in the L.A. Times.
Teachers, firefighters, and police officers endorse Benitez
Dr. Juan M. Benitez, candidate for Long Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education, 3rd district seat, received the endorsements of the Teachers Association of Long Beach, the Long Beach Firefighters Association Local 372, and the Long Beach Police Officers Association.
Crime: Orange County Sheriff seeks public assistance in Rossmoor burglaries
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the help of the general public in identifying suspects revealed in surveillance video recovered from a Rossmoor home burglarized this week.
Three men who apparently dismantle a security camera in the video footage are suspects in multiple Rossmoor burglaries, according to the Sheriff’s Department..
OCSD released video images last week in hopes that the public can help detectives identify the trio suspected of burglarizing multiple homes, according to the department.
Allen calls Supreme Court decision “mockery of justice”
Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) has denounced the Supreme Court’s decision to not hear his case against Attorney General Becerra for “intentionally misleading voters” on the ballot title and summary for the Repeal of the Gas Tax.
Free mobile mammography screening at Los Al racetrack Jan. 16
The Los Alamitos Race Course Division of the Race Track Chaplaincy of America will sponsor a mobile mammography service for women aged 40 and older on Tuesday, Jan. 16 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the track’s parking lot located at 4961 Katella Avenue, Los Alamitos, 90720.
Long Beach shocked by law firm shooting
Authorities say two men are dead, including the shooter, after a holiday gathering turned deadly Friday at a well established Long Beach law firm.
Major Langer, 75, one of the founders of Parsons, Langer, Beck, Serbin, Mendoza and Harrison, was shot and killed in the apparent attack. The alleged shooter, John A. Mendoza, 58, shot Langer and another attorney, Ronald Beck, 64, before apparently turning the gun on himself.
New Los Alamitos drone law becomes effective Jan. 18
Residents of Los Alamitos are soon expected to be able to legally fly unmanned aerial systems, commonly called drones within the city as the Council has approved a new ordinance to govern their use.
The city council, in December, passed the law without objection after hearing a detailed overview of the ordinance presented by the staff. The law, in development for a year, becomes effective Jan. 18, according to the city.
From Roy Rogers to Gene Autry, she trailed along
It’s an annual Christmas Concert in Los Alamitos that continues to grow each year, along with other monthly in-home concerts.
“In Music there is Harmony and in Harmony there is Peace,” reads performer Joanie Jay’s invitation to the “Joanie Jay and Ron Kobayashi Trio” concert.
“I’m so glad you share your lovely voice and love of music with your friends,” say some concert goers.
Patriots defeat Edison for 5th place in Marina tourney
After suffering their first loss of the season, to CIF-SS Division 1, 12th ranked Brea Olinda, the Patriots bounced back to win the 5th place game at the Marina Tournament, 49-47, over Edison High.
Sophia Chan hit a baseline runner in the final minute for the game winner. Austyn Masuno led the Patriots with 22 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks. Chan had nine points and Angie Choi had six points and six steals.
When fighting a wildfire, even at Christmas, becomes part of the mission
When the bell sounded in early December for the California National Guard to activate in support of fire relief efforts in Southern California, the California State Military Reserve Installation Support Command (ISC) answered the call.
Two dozen soldiers from the ISC at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, stood up on emergency state active duty to help the base as it transformed into a staging area for personnel and supplies heading into communities ravaged by fire. Even through the holidays, the servicemen carry out their mission.
Los Al band at Buckingham Palace
An event that took a year to plan and which hasn’t happened in four decades went off without a hitch Monday as 80 members of the Los Alamitos High School marching and concert bands, marched and played through the streets of London on New Year’s Day.
The Los Al band was accompanied by the school’s color guard.
Should You Be Popping Probiotics?
Khloe Kardashian has been hitting the gym hard and has not been letting herself slack, no matter what is going on in her life, as well as making sure that she sticks to a very strict diet. Khloe has since gone on to lose around 35lbs.
“Khloe gives as much to the gym as the gym gives to her”
Gunnar Peterson has praised Kardashian for her dedication. Her Beverly Hills-based trainer explains why Khloe’s physical transformation has been so major: “We keep her mind challenged and her body guessing, and the focus is on building strength. She never cancels! Some days it’s more heart-rate intensive, some days it’s more lower-extremities intensive, some days the upper extremities get a little extra love.”
He added: “As the changes have come, the diet has tightened up … She’s made better choices when she eats. She’s been more conscious about working on sleep habits. She hydrates better. She keeps getting after it and she keeps getting better. We’re always playing with our workouts. We’re always making it that much more challenging.” And that hard work and intense focus has helped our September cover star score what some might call a post-breakup revenge body.
“Yeah, it’s a revenge body”
Khloe says. But it’s just as much for all my critics who called me ‘the fat one’ for my entire existance.” Her workout consists of a complete routine, two or three times a week, on nonconsecutive days. You can try it yourself! Starting with the first exercise, do the prescribed number of reps, then rest 10 to 30 seconds. Do two to five sets of each move, then continue to the next move and repeat until you’ve done the entire routine.
The biggest obstacle most people face when trying to add exercise into their day is time. Many also (mistakenly) think that the only way to stay fit is to hit the gym or spend at least an hour doing aerobic exercise. While it’s true that you increase your fitness level when you increase the intensity, frequency and duration of your program, it’s possible to gain moderate fitness benefits from making small, consistent changes to your daily life.
The latest and probably one of the most common sense ways to get fit and lose excess body fat is by making painless additions of exercise to your day, combined with small diet modifications. For example, current research has shown that by consuming just 100 fewer calories per day, a woman can avoid the 1-2 pound gain most of us take on each year.
If you want to lose weight, you need to increase your daily caloric deduction by 500 calories, but you can do this by cutting 200 calories out of your daily diet and burning 300 calories more through exercise.
Add that up over a week and you’ll have nearly a pound of fat loss with very little pain or diet deprivation.
It’s the little things you do everyday that can make the difference between keeping fit or packing on additional pounds every year. Don’t underestimate the power of tiny changes: consistent, lifestyle changes are always more successful for losing and maintaining weight loss.
Here are a few tips to help you find painless ways to stay fit:
All rise! The average person burns 100 calories per hour while sitting and 140 per hour while standing. Get on your feet two hours a day while you work and you could drop 6 pounds over the course of a year. Stand while you talk on the phone and set up an area where you can work in a standing position (great for people with back pain!).
Take the stairs, not the elevator A 130-pound woman will burn nearly 20 calories each time she goes up and down the stairs. Do it all day watch how quickly those add up!
Dust while you talk on the phone.
Lose the remote. Get up to change the channel! And while you’re up grab some weights for a set of bicep curls or shoulder presses. You can work through a full strength training routine in an hour if you do a set during each commercial.
Park so you have to walk.
Walk and talk! Catch up on phone calls while your take a walk.
Be creative! Instead of thinking of all the ways you don’t have time to exercise, make it a game to see how many ways you can carve out time for little bouts of exercise. Lose your all or nothing mindset and look at exercise as a daily accumulation of activity.
Remember, to lose weight you still need to take a look at your diet and try to eliminate excess calories, especially those that come from junk. Your goal isn’t difficult cutting 200-300 calories from your daily diet can be easy if you choose foods that you won’t miss too much. Think about switching from a can a soda every afternoon to unsweetened iced tea or a flavored sparkling water. But remember, don’t cut something that you look forward to everyday (for me cutting cream in my coffee would be a deal breaker), instead look for little changes you can make that won’t make a big difference in the foods your enjoy.
“We’re always playing with our workouts”
Hot on the heels of her steamy spread in Complex magazine, Khloe Kardashian has revealed she’s lost about 35 pounds from hitting the gym. The 31-year-old told Australian radio show “Fitzy & Wippa” on Friday about her weight loss journey. “I’ve lost like, 35 pounds. I don’t really weigh myself … but I know how I want to feel in clothes and it does become addicting once you start losing weight and seeing results. I want to see more,” she said.
Kardashian recently slammed critics who accused her sexy shoot of being digitally altered, posting an un retouched photo alongside the one that appeared in the magazine.
loe Kardashian channeled her inner Beyonce by doing a booty pop on Instagram after her recent 13-pound weight loss. Khloe said Beyonce, who wowed fans with her sexy Met Gala ball gown, is her fitness inspiration.
“I just got my motivation for the year!” Kardashian gushed after seeing Beyonce’s super-fit body in a nude Givenchy dress. Beyonce has maintained her 65-pound post-baby weight loss with a vegan diet, according to her longtime trainer, Marco Borges.
Khloe posted several Instagram photos May 12, where she proudly showed off her tiny waist and toned booty. Kardashian previously revealed on Instagram that her weight loss secrets are a dairy-free diet, waist training and intense workouts with celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson.
Peterson, who helped Khloe’s sister, Kim Kardashian, lose 56 pounds just six months after childbirth, said Khloe is extremely dedicated to diet and exercise. Peterson said Khloe has never looked better following her recent weight loss.
“Khloe’s a full-on animal in the gym”
“The changes she’s made to her body are incredible. She’s done it the right way. Nothing fast, just hard work. Her body is bangin’ right now.”
Khloe gets laser treatments to zap the cellulite off her butt and thighs, but said the rest of her body is all-natural, not due to plastic surgery. Kardashian feels great after losing 13 pounds recently by following a dairy-free diet and exercising five days a week.