The Hughes Amateur Radio club (W6HA) will be teaching a free technician license class on April 23 and April 30. Space is limited; reserve your spot in this free class. Send email to w6haclass@vsummits.com. For more information see http://vsummits.com/w6ha
When all else fails – Amateur radio is the communication path that federal and state agencies depend upon. Frequently ham radio operators are called upon to provide communication during emergencies such as wild fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and even in the after math of 9/11. Amateur Radio, often called “ham radio,” has consistently been the most reliable means of communications in emergencies when other systems failed or were overloaded.
Unlike some other types of radio services, you need an FCC license to communicate with
a ham radio. There are three levels of Amateur Radio licenses, and getting your first one is not all that hard. Many people pass their FCC exam in a week of spare time study and there are lots of groups and people who will help you.
Class is two Saturdays. Preregister via email. Recommend ARRL Technician License Handbook 3rd edition be read before class.
No experience required. Open to anyone interested in amateur radio.
During the month of April, the Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Hermosa Beach Public Libraries invite the community to participate in a Beach Cities Read with a Book-to-Action series featuring the title Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans by Captain Charles Moore. The Book-to-Action program encourages participants to not only collectively read and discuss a book and meet the author, but also to engage in community service projects related to the book’s topic.We’ll join the Surfrider Foundation and the City of Manhattan Beach for an Earth Day Beach Cleanup south of the Manhattan Beach PierFind more events in the month-long Beach Cities Read program!
Manhattan House restaurant, a seed-to-plate gastropub, is now offering a weekend brunch menu!
With acclaimed Executive Chef, Diana Stavaridis in the kitchen, brunch is taking on a whole new meaning. Through her experience working under chefs like Neal Fraser, Stavaridis has launched homegrown, seed-to-plate, and locally sourced breakfast dishes ranging from Short Rib Pastrami Hash with sunny side up eggs, Yukon potatoes and caramelized onions, to Cornflake Crusted French Toast made with a brioche base, coconut curd and citrus marmalade. Right now, they’re also giving out a free Bloody Mary or mimosa with every brunch entrée purchase through May 31st! They will be offering bottomless mimosas throughout June as well. Please see the press release below for more information.
Brunch like you’ve never brunched before!
A heartwarming story with adorable art, this irresistibly charming picture book debut invites readers to meet Georgie and friends — and find the answer to the most important question of the day: Where’s the Party? Join us to find out at Storytime featuring Where’s the Party? Activities to follow.
Join us at GirlTalk LA’s first signature charity launch event. Connect+Inspire will take place at Shade Hotel Manhattan Beach on April 23rd. Mingle and network with like-minded women over bottomless cocktails and a lavish seated brunch while in a beautiful environment. Get access to an empowering panel of fashion, beauty and lifestyle experts, local celebrity speakers and female entrepreneurs who will talk about their journeys, do Q&A’s, share tips & tricks of their trade & more! Oh and did we mention!? You will be enjoying: Complimentary glam booths (mani’s, massages, beGlammed blowdry’s + make-up, braid bar and more!), pop-up shops, a not to miss silent auction, door prizes and amazing Gift Bags ($250 value). Many more surprises to come! Event proceeds going to the Kind Campaign.
8 week class dates: April 4, 11,18,25, May 2,9,16,23, Spaces limited; for students 5-7th grade THE LOVE4LIFE PROGRAM Delivers easy to use interactive mindful tools to help students think, act and live with compassionate and confident choices for increased success in their life outlook, happiness, school, career, personal friendships and other relationships. SELF-AWARENESS: Recognizing one’s emotions, thoughts, and strengths leading to confidence and optimism; be mindful SOCIAL-AWARENESS: Ability to empathize, be open-minded and recognize how/when to ask for help from others SELF-MANAGEMENT: Ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors with stress, anger, motivation and achieving personal and academic goals RELATIONSHIP SKILLS: Ability to create healthy happy relationships through communication, listening, cooperation, respect and conflict resolution RESPONSIBLE DECISION MAKING: Ability to make healthy respectful and ethical choices for self/ others What is SEL? SEL is short for social and emotional learning. Per CASEL definition, its “the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.” Today, academic performance is not enough to stay successful, happy, healthy and optimistic in today’s competitive and stressful world! And, with numerous research and reports supporting the need for SEL, educators across the country strongly agree that teaching these life skills positively impact students’ academic performance as well as enforce critical character traits for a child’s success in life. (Casel.org) But, do you wonder if your child is being taught these necessary social and emotional life skills to lead an optimistic, conscientious, confident and compassionate life? Is your child equipped to persevere, be authentic and successfully manage emotions and relationships? Well, if your family is like most; very busy with academics and sports that sometimes family talk of critical topics like respect, gratitude, integrity happiness self-acceptance, open minded and responsibility seem to fall through the cracks. PS I Love You can help! REGISTER your child today for Love4Life’s invite-only 10 week Social and Emotional Intelligence Program. Give Life Skills! www.Love4Life.Life When: Mondays/April 4th – May 23rd Time: 3:30pm-4:45pm Where: MB Library Ages: 5th-7th graders Cost: $200 for 8 classes Bring: a snack and water Guests: Kerri Walsh, Mayor Burton, AJ Delagarza (schedules may change)
In pre-Civil War Missouri, near St. Petersburg, the vagabond child Huckleberry Finn describes the events by which he and Tom Sawyer had discovered a fortune. Huck has been adopted by the Widow Douglas and her spinster sister Miss Watson, and his guardians, Judge Thatcher, Huck’s best friend Tom Sawyer, and practically the entire town inform Huck that he needs to learn to read and write and read the Bible if he ever hopes to go to Heaven (“Do Ya Wanna Go To Heaven?”). The only one who does not attempt to pass judgment on Huck is Miss Watson’s slave, Jim, who predicts that he will lead a life of “considerable trouble and considerable joy”. Exasperated with the constraints on his daily life, Huck escapes his bedtime and steals away to Tom Sawyer’s “hideout”, an old cave. In the cave, Tom, Huck and a group of their friends plan to form a band of robbers who will rampage around the countryside (“The Boys”). Huck, on his way home, thinks about the confines of his life and his wish that he will find meaning in his life. (“Waitin’ For the Light To Shine”) Huck returns home in the darkness to find his Pap, a violent drunk, waiting for him, who drags him off to his cabin in the woods. In his drunkenness, Pap swings from tomfoolery to extreme violence as he rails against a government that would take his son (and his son’s money) away from him (“Guv’ment”). Pap attempts to kill Huck, hallucinating that he is the Angel of Death, but passes out in an inebriated mess. The next day Pap goes off to trade and Huck takes the opportunity to escape. He kills a pig and scatters the blood and gore around the cabin in an effort to make it appear as if he’s been murdered. Huck reflects that this is just the sort of thing Tom Sawyer would do, and Tom appears to sing a vaudeville-style turn about the usefulness of Hogs (“Hand For the Hog”). Huck flees to the nearby Jackson’s Island, where he, alone, asserts his self-assurance (“I, Huckleberry, Me”). But Huck is not alone; Miss Watson’s slave, Jim, is there as well. He has run away to avoid being sold down the River to New Orleans. Despite his unease with the concept of abolitionism Huck offers to help Jim reach freedom in the North. A posse is after Jim: with only moments to spare, they find a raft and get it afloat in the of the mighty Mississippi River (“Muddy Water”). Jim and Huck travel only at night and don’t get far from Jackson’s Island before they are reminded of the seriousness of their actions: a boat carrying runaway slaves back to their masters passes them in the night (“The Crossing”). The days are long as the two forge their way down the river. They pass a flooded house, and a dead man floating in the water that Jim will not let Huck look at. As they sing of the beauty of the River (“River In the Rain”) in a fog, they sail past the mouth of the Ohio their path to freedom. Soon after, they pick up two drifters who commandeer the small raft as they escape the latest mob on their tail. The con men claim to be a Duke and a King, the long lost heirs to the Duchy of Bridgewater and the French Throne. Huck is intrigued by the delinquent “royals”. The King and the Duke commandeer the raft and plot to sell Jim back into slavery for their own profit, unbeknownst to Huck (“When the Sun Goes Down In the South”). Huck, Jim, the Duke, and the King wash ashore in Bricktown, Arkansas, and attempt to fleece the rubes they find. The Duke and King come up with a scheme to make money (“The Royal Nonesuch”), tricking the townspeople. By the end of the evening, Huck can appreciate a new way of life the three are now several hundred dollars richer. When he returns to the raft, Huck plays a horrible trick on Jim by assuming the guise of a slave hunter. Unamused, Jim rebukes Huck for the first time. After some thought, Huck realizes that Jim, though a slave, is still a human being and deserves an apology (“Worlds Apart”). The King and Duke reappear to dragoon Huck into their next escapade. While Jim is, again, left alone with the raft, the three encounter a young fool on a dock, singing of his love of his home state (“Arkansas”). Through no fault of his own, he tells the con men everything they need to know about a fortune to be inherited in the Wilkes family, and they crash the funeral as impostors to go about securing their riches (“How Blest We Are”). Huck through it all a pure soul sees that the beautiful and innocent Mary Jane Wilkes is being robbed of her rightful inheritance by these “rapscallions”, and steals back her money from the King and the Duke as she mourns her father’s coffin (“You Oughta Be Here With Me”). He quickly stuffs the gold into her father’s coffin and hides behind it to avoid notice. When Mary Jane realizes what Huck has done, she asks that he remain with her and become her friend. For the first time in his life, he is moved by the actions of another (“Leavin’s Not the Only Way To Go”), yet he realizes that he has made a promise to Jim: one that transcends mere friendship. Huck returns again to the raft and finds the Duke tarred and feathered: he has sold Jim back into slavery for a mere forty dollars. Feeling guilty about what he has done, Huck pens a letter to Miss Watson, telling her where she can find the runaway Jim. After a momentary reprieve, Huck ends up feeling worse than ever. He tears up the letter and resolves to free Jim again, even if it means he will go to Hell (“Waiting For the Light To Shine” (Reprise)). Huck visits Mr. Phelps, the farmer to whom Jim has been sold, and is shocked to discover that he has been mistaken for Tom Sawyer, the Phelps’ nephew who is expected for a visit. Tom arrives later and is intercepted by Huck before he reaches the farm. Huck explains everything and Tom, delighted by the prospect for a grand adventure, decides to help Huck free Jim from his captors while pretending to be his own brother Sid. They find Jim imprisoned in a tiny cell and work to free him as he laments his desire to be free (“Free At Last”). Progress is slowed by Tom’s insistence of making sure that the circumstances of the escape match the adventure novels he has read, which includes notifying Phelps of the escape by an anonymous letter. As they free Jim, Tom is shot in the leg. Jim sacrifices his freedom to ensure Tom gets a doctor, and is about to be locked up again when Tom admits that Miss Watson has died, freeing Jim in her will. Jim decides to continue his trek to the North so that he may buy his family out of slavery, and Huck decides to continue westwards to escape any attempts to “civilize” him. They sit for a moment at the banks of the river, recalling their adventures together (“River In the Rain” (Reprise)). Jim reveals to Huck that the body they saw in the water was the dead body of Huck’s Pap. Jim leaves Huck alone for the last time, and Huck decides, “It was like the fortune Jim predicted long ago: considerable trouble and considerable joy.” He begins his next journey (“Muddy Water” (Reprise)).
Thinking about trying yoga or looking for a supportive community class? Join local instructor Anne Spinner for a beginning yoga workshop in our beautiful space. Please bring a yoga mat and water.
8 week class dates: April 4, 11,18,25, May 2,9,16,23, Spaces limited; for students 5-7th grade THE LOVE4LIFE PROGRAM Delivers easy to use interactive mindful tools to help students think, act and live with compassionate and confident choices for increased success in their life outlook, happiness, school, career, personal friendships and other relationships. SELF-AWARENESS: Recognizing one’s emotions, thoughts, and strengths leading to confidence and optimism; be mindful SOCIAL-AWARENESS: Ability to empathize, be open-minded and recognize how/when to ask for help from others SELF-MANAGEMENT: Ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors with stress, anger, motivation and achieving personal and academic goals RELATIONSHIP SKILLS: Ability to create healthy happy relationships through communication, listening, cooperation, respect and conflict resolution RESPONSIBLE DECISION MAKING: Ability to make healthy respectful and ethical choices for self/ others What is SEL? SEL is short for social and emotional learning. Per CASEL definition, its “the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.” Today, academic performance is not enough to stay successful, happy, healthy and optimistic in today’s competitive and stressful world! And, with numerous research and reports supporting the need for SEL, educators across the country strongly agree that teaching these life skills positively impact students’ academic performance as well as enforce critical character traits for a child’s success in life. (Casel.org) But, do you wonder if your child is being taught these necessary social and emotional life skills to lead an optimistic, conscientious, confident and compassionate life? Is your child equipped to persevere, be authentic and successfully manage emotions and relationships? Well, if your family is like most; very busy with academics and sports that sometimes family talk of critical topics like respect, gratitude, integrity happiness self-acceptance, open minded and responsibility seem to fall through the cracks. PS I Love You can help! REGISTER your child today for Love4Life’s invite-only 10 week Social and Emotional Intelligence Program. Give Life Skills! www.Love4Life.Life When: Mondays/April 4th – May 23rd Time: 3:30pm-4:45pm Where: MB Library Ages: 5th-7th graders Cost: $200 for 8 classes Bring: a snack and water Guests: Kerri Walsh, Mayor Burton, AJ Delagarza (schedules may change)