East Long Beach's 1st Wine Lounge

East Long Beach's first "Wine Lounge Bistro" -The Red Barrel opens in the Circle Center

The first East Long Beach "wine lounge" and bistro, The Red Barrel, opened this Saturday February 22, 2014 in the Circle Center.

Co-owners Vanessa Durand and her mother Nancy Durand got their business license on Friday and had everything up and running within 24 hours for the Saturday opening. 

The concept for The Red Barrel is a comfortable lounge with great food and soothing music to accompany good wines in an environment for great conversations.

The restaurant seating includes tables for eating, a cozy wine bar with seating and an expansive "lounge" conversation area with comfortable sofa's, chairs and "coffee tables"  specifically for your drinks and plates  of "wine foods"-all lighted by a row of chandeliers.   Those paired "wine foods" include East Long Beach's first charchuterie plates- prepared deli-style meats, cheeses, breads and fruit.  The menu also includes tapas, cheeses and main entries. The main entries include salads, filets, chicken and pastas.  

On Saturday March 1st, the Red Barrel hosted full house as friends and local "foodies" came by to check the newest eatery out.

To see the COMPLETE write-up-with photos of the inside of The Red Barrel on the Long Beach 4th District BLOG-CLICK ON: RED BARREL

City Prosecutor meeting in Los Altos

City Prosecutor Doug Haubert neighborhood coffee this Monday in Los Altos 

City Prosecutor Doug Haubert will be holding a neighborhood on Monday February 10. The event is being hosted by  Mario and Elisabeth Cruz at their home on Charlemagne Street.

Haubert is a 4th District resident and is very familiar with neighborhood issues.

The neighborhood  coffee will be from 6:30 pm- 8:00 pm at 2315 Charlemagne Ave.

For more information email:

cityprosecutordoughaubert@gmail.com

or visit: www.DougHaubert.com

Subway coming to Los Altos Center

Subway sandwiches to replace former Quiznos at Los Altos Center North

Just a few short months after Quiznos closed next to the new Starbucks at the Los Altos Center North, a new Subway store will open in the exact same space. 

Ironically, at the Palo Verde and Stearns shopping center that is the home to Los Altos's original Starbucks, a Subway store is also located there.

No information on the opening date of the new Subway store in the Los Altos center was available.

Stearns Park house fire proves Los Altos has a fire engine problem..

Los Altos Center Adjacent Neighborhoods and Los Altos Center businesses lost the closest fire engine (water carrier)  from Station 17 by Stearns Park due to budget cuts

     LBReport.com picture by John Jayes-more pictures on LBreport

LB Report.com has a story (LB Home Burns Across Street From Fire Stn 17 ) about the results of a very late night fire ACROSS THE STREET from Fire Station 17 this week (CLICK here for story and photos: LBREPORT ).  

Fire Station 17 does not have a water carrying "fire engine" located at the station.  With the removal of the water carrying "fire engine" from Station 17, the closest water carrying fire engine to the Los Altos Center businesses and neighborhoods now comes from Station 22 at Atherton and Palo Verde Streets by CSULB.  Los Altos residents are keenly aware of how impacted the CSULB area surface streets get at certain times of the day.

Map of LACAN ( in blue)  with surrounding Fire Stations

When Engine 22 (Atherton/Palo Verde) is unavailable, LACAN's nearest fire engine would come from Station 19 (near Vet's Stadium) or Station 5 (on Wardlow in El Dorado Park).  

It should be notes that Engine 22 is a "paramedic assessment" engine company, meaning that a firefighter-paramedic rides aboard the fire engine. That designation requires the engine company respond to medical emergencies in addition to fires. That includes local freeway accident emergencies. When Engine 22 is on any type of an emergency call ( or otherwise unavailable), the closest water carrying fire engines to the Los Altos neighborhoods are Engines 5 and 19. 

Station 5 is on Wardlow Road in El Dorado Park and Station 19 is on Clark Ave.  near Vet's Stadium. The engine company from Station 18 at Wardlow and Palo Verde (much closer than Station 5-see map) was also eliminated a few years ago in a round of budget cuts.