Redondo Beach Springfest This Weekend
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Bring your family and celebrate Spring at Redondo Beach’s annual SpringFest carnival and Community Festival. located in Aviation Park at the corner of Manhattan Beach Blvd. & Aviation Blvd, 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd.
There’s ton’s of fun for the entire family!
- Carnival Rides
- Kids Zone
- Arts & Crafts
- Food Court and Food Trucks
- Community demonstrations
- and lots, lots more!
Admission and Parking is Free!
People interested in a greener lifestyle can find everything they need at the Sage (Sustainable And Green Environments) Expo to be held Saturday April 20 and 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. , at the National Guard Armory in Manhattan Beach. The free two-day event is focused on serving the South Bay communities with a one -stop tour of local business offering their brand of green. Vendors, Exhibitors, Speakers, and Workshops representing the full spectrum of green goods and services drawing from local businesses and community leaders and non-profits. Attendees can learn practical information on how to lower their utility costs and generally lead a healthier lifestyle. Sage Expo offers goods and products to help make our lives greener so we can enjoy a healthy life while also sustaining our beautiful beach communities and its environment. The Manhattan Beach National Guard Armory is located at 3601 Bell Ave., Manhattan Beach. For more information, go to 
The Green Idea House in Hermosa Beach is the Fortuna family’s project to affordably retrofit their house into a net zero energy, zero carbon case study. With its aim to be environmentally friendly, the building has reduced its energy load by more than 75 percent, harvesting more renewable energy than it uses and using the extra energy to help reduce the carbon footprint even more by charging electric vehicles. The home, which features solar panels and recycled glass bathroom tiles, even has a laundry machine that recycles water directly to the garden hose. The home makes so much more energy than it uses it is able to power the families electric car. During building, the project kept more than 97% of construction waste out of landfills. The home has won numerous environmental honors, including the 2012 Green Leadership Award for Los Angeles County. Southern California Edison is using the home as a model for its residential energy initiatives. Learn more at 
Hermosa’s rich and legendary surfing culture shines this weekend as the Hermosa Beach Historical Society hosts a kick-off party Friday night for the Surfers Walk of Fame Induction and Spyder Surf Fest. Doors for the evening open at 6 p.m. at the HB Playhouse Theatre, 710 Pier Ave. 2013 Surfers Walk of Fame inductee Mike Doyle will be introduced at 7:30 p.m. followed by a screening of John Florence’s surf film, “Done.” The party will give attendees a chance to mingle with notable surfers, enjoy a silent auction courtesy of Spyder Surfboards, enjoy live music from Bullys & Matadors on the patio and see local art displays and a surf museum exhibit. Food and drink will be available for purchase. An after-party in the museum will begin at 9 p.m.
Want to learn more about the Leadership Manhattan Beach program? Attend their information night Tuesday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in the Manhattan Beach City Council Chambers. The nine-month leadership training program introduces its members to various community services and programs as you work collaboratively with your 25 to 30 classmates, that may consist of adults and high school students. Each “class” tackles a project they come up with together, using the skills taught in the class. The emphasis is on results and teamwork. The capstone to the class experience is the class project: doing something real to benefit the Manhattan Beach community. Since beginning in 1992, the leadership training program has graduated close to 400 community members, including commission members, service organization officers, city council members and even city mayors. For more information, contact Mark Lipps, director of recruiting, at (310) 849-9181 or visit 
Started as an after school program in Philadelphia in 2002 and popularized with a Jack Black movie of the same name, the School of Rock aims to teach music by helping kids learn how to play classical rock songs on a variety of instruments. The 
The 18th Annual Hermosa Beach St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be commencing on Saturday, March 16th, 2013 at 11:00AM. 2013 will put another milestone on the nineteen years of continued tradition and mark the third year that the parade is presented by the Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau. Attendees can expect to see bagpipers, floats, band, classic cars, government officials, four-legged friends from the Irish Setters Club of Southern California and all things wacky will traverse the parade route downtown . The parade begins at the staging area near City Hall on Valley Drive, makes a left onto Pier Avenue and ends at the corner of Hermosa Avenue and 10th street. There is no reserved seating along the parade route; attendees are advised to arrive a tad before start time to get a spot from which to watch the festivities. Check out the details here: www.hbchamber.net/news_events/st_patricks.aspx
The Redondo Beach Festival of the Kite is one of Southern California’s longest running kite festivals and is fun for all-ages. The 39th annual event begins Sunday at noon at the pier, 100 Fisherman’s Warf, Redondo Beach 90277 and features prizes awarded in various categories from the youngest kite flyer to the youngest at heart. Watch spectacular kites flown high above the pier—from the acrobatic kites of world champions to the hand-made entries of amateurs. Free kites will be provided to kids of all ages.Free, open-air, eco-friendly fun for kids and families. Contests, kite making, and kite flying demonstrations. Giant kites, tiny kites, stunt kites, exotic kites, kite buggies, kite boards, kite boats and thousands of amateur and professional kite fliers. There will also be live music, a hot dog eating competition and demonstrations all along the pier.
Los Angeles County house prices jumped 12.2 percent in January from the year before, the second-biggest gain among large U.S. metro areas, housing data firm Core-Logic. The increase is the biggest annual price gain in single-family homes since April 2006, figures from the Irvine-based data firm show. Los Angeles County house prices have risen for eight consecutive months. Orange County had the nation’s fourth-highest price increase in January, with single-family homes selling for 11.7 percent more than in January 2012. Prices rose 12.1 percent in the Inland Empire, the third-biggest large metro-area gain in the nation. With these gains, the housing market is poised to enter the spring selling season on sound footing.
CenterCal the developers inspiration for the impending redesign of the Redondo Beach waterfront pier and marina come from many sources, among them projects in Washington, Oregon and Utah. Elements of Pike’s Place Market in Seattle, the stylized outdoor marketplace of Bridgeport Village in Portland, Ore., and the grand water features at Station Park in Farmington, Utah. The companys vision for the waterfront includes a small boutique hotel by the shore as well as a small movie theater that would serve dinner. Not only is the waterfront due for renovations to plan for rising sea levels, but many buildings need refurbishment for quality purposes as well. The design, will be “open, inviting and green,” and efforts would be taken to keep the new layout from obstructing ocean views. The plans also will create more bike and pedestrian access to the waterfront. Because the community’s input is important to the developers, CenterCal has had multiple meetings over the course of the past year with groups of waterfront residents.
