People always ask “What does it take to be a great

neighborhood?” The answer lies right here in the Willmore City Historic District.

2011 was the beginning of a new community event,

called Winter in Willmore. What started as a dream

of simply beautifying our historic district during the

holidays with a 50 foot tall tree of lights, has turned into much more. The 2011 Winter in Willmore event

raised over 450 pounds of canned goods for Food

Finders, a local food bank, had live music, crafts for

the children, photos with Santa, and an opportunity

drawing with bicycles for two lucky children.

The second annual Winter in Willmore Event, in

2012, really showed the enthusiasm that the City, local businesses, and residents have for our neigh-

Date: Tuesday, February 19

Time: 7:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m.

Place: Drake Park Please join the WCHA for presentations by renowned art-ist, Art Mortimer, and the City of Long Beach, Depart-ment of Public Works. Derek Wieske from Public Works and Kekoa Anderson will be speaking about the planned Shoemaker Bridge replacement, the mural and the LA River Bike Way. Art will be sharing his vision for the planned mural that will go on the 150’ wall at The Will-more Heritage Garden. There will be no Code Enforcement Meeting

until March.

The Willmore City Heritage Association is proud to

announce that Long Beach Heritage will be honor-

ing the WCHA with an award for rehabilitation for

the Jergins Pillar Project at their annual Preserva-

tion Awards Benefit. The Benefit will take place on February 21, in the

beautiful Art Deco Grand Salon aboard the RMS

Queen Mary. There will be a Silent Auction with

items from gift certificates to antiques, at 5:30 pm,

followed by a delicious dinner beginning at 7:15 pm.

There is also an opportunity drawing for $300 in “gold” coins. Tickets at www.lbheritage.org.

We hope that you will join us in celebrating the

accomplishments of the WCHA and the other

preservationists in our City while helping Long

Beach Heritage with their mission of advocacy and education.

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The WCHA Board: Jana Shields, Hulean Tyler, Patty Lund, Kathleen Irvine, Emily Kiwa Tanaka, Jim Danno and Michelle Muniz

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By Mario Gonzalez, Ewing Irrigation

Are you tired of spending both time and money on

weed control and seeing minimal results? With a

better understanding of how these products work,

you can be more successful.

Products for weed control are generally available as a pre-emergent or post-emergent. These two types

of herbicides come with their own set of unique

methods to help the informed user gain the ad-

vantage in the battle between man vs. weeds.

Preventing Weed Growth Pre-emergents do nothing to kill weeds that are

already established; however they do prevent any

further weeds from emerging. Hence the name, pre-

emergent. Pre-emergent herbicides should be ap-

plied in late winter or early spring for best results,

when soil temperatures reach 58 degrees and crabgrass begins to germinate. This is usually from

late February through March.

When you apply a pre-emergent to the ground and

water it in, a blanket-like barrier is created just be-

low the soil’s surface. Shortly after germination, weeds will start to grow and hit this barrier. The

weeds cannot penetrate the barrier to reach the sur-

face and sunlight, so they die.

BEST’s Dimension 270G is pre-emergent solution

that can be applied in either turf or landscaped are-

as. It controls 48 listed annual grasses and broad-leaf weeds for up to six months. It has no home-

owner restrictions, doesn't smell, and will not stain

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Kathleen Irvine and Jim Danno eating dinner, where else?! in Downtown Long Beach! At King’s Fish House.

By Cheryl Perry

Willmore’s very own Jim Danno and Kathleen Ir-

vine, along with Millworks Long Beach, are being recognized on February 7th by the Downtown Long

Beach Associates (DLBA) for their contributions to

the Downtown community. They are receiving the

“Spirit of Downtown Award” from the DLBA at

“Celebrate Downtown 2013”, an annual event that

lauds the accomplishments made in Downtown during the past year and honors those who have

worked to make Downtown successful.

Millworks is a development and property manage-

ment team led by John and Michelle Molina. One

of their current projects is the adaptive reuse of the former Press Telegram newspaper building and the

historic Meeker-Baker building on North Pine Ave-

nue. The buildings are being converted into office

space which will be used by Long Beach-based Mo-

lina Healthcare.

As board members of Willmore City Heritage As-sociation, Jim and Kathleen have been the guiding

force behind numerous projects in our neighbor-

hood that have integrated some of our Downtown

businesses. Through the efforts of Jim and Kath-

leen, the DLBA and numerous Downtown business-es participated in several major Willmore projects

(i.e. the Willmore Heritage Garden, the Jergins Pil-

lar Project and the Winter in Willmore event). By

working together it has been a win-win for both the

neighborhood and the local downtown businesses.

THANK YOU Jim and Kathleen for all the hard

work that you have done to improve our entire

Downtown community (both residential and com-

mercial). The initiative and leadership that you

have shown is truly inspiring and we congratulate

you on the well deserved Spirit of Downtown Award!

PLACE: Shoreline Village

DATE: February 9

TIME: 1:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m. Start out with a parade and move on with food

and music!

www.shorelinevillage.com

PLACE: Café Sevilla

DATE: February 14

TIME: 7:30 p.m. A romantic evening with tapas and Flamenco

www.cafesevilla.com

PLACE: The Sky Room

DATE: February 14

TIME: 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Enjoy the most beautiful city and ocean view in

Long Beach with dinner, artisan chocolates and

a jazz quartet.

www.theskyroom.com

PLACE: RMS Queen Mary

DATE: February 21

TIME: 5:30 p.m.—9 p.m.

Eat a delicious dinner in the beautiful Grand Salon on the Queen Mary, enjoy a Silent Auction

and celebrate the Preservationists of the Year

awards.

www.lbheritage.org

PLACE: Aquarium of the Pacific

DATE: February 23-24

TIME: 9:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. Entertainment, crafts, food and more!

www.aquariumofpacific.org

PLACE: East Village Arts District

DATE: March 6-7

TIME: 6:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m. Artists, live music and samples of signature

dishes from downtown restaurants.

www.dlba.org

PLACE: Terrace Theater

DATE: March 10

TIME: 2:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon concerts designed to be casu-

al and lower priced. This month: Stravinsky

www.lbso.org

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borhood. The call for participation was answered

loud and clear.

This year, over 1200 pounds of canned goods were collected for Food Finders. Whether it was making

fabulously delicious baked goods for the WCHA

bake sale, helping with setup, manning a booth or

just attending, the neighbors came through. Local

artists, Michael Mosselli from Brush Strokes and

Beverages, Toni Ivashkov from the Artist Factory and muralist Doug Kurtz kept kids busy doing art

projects. DJ, Jessie Lopez, the rock band, Midnight

Rider and Maria Penaloza, with her Mariachi group

provided great music. Community Partners Council

provided many crafts for the children and Piñata Fiesta supplied the most incredible Bounce House

Obstacle Course. Santa was there for photos, as

well as LBPD with their Drags Against Drugs muscle

car. Thanks to Walmart for their donations for the

opportunity drawing of two children’s bikes and the

biggest hit, 2 Razor Scooters. Long Beach Heritage opened the Bembridge House for tours of the festive

and beautifully decorated Victorian mansion and

various local artists sold their wares.

This year's light display once again featured the

50’ tall tree of lights, containing 2500 LED lights.

Jill Black, Josepha Curtain, Debbie Behar, Michelle Muniz and Jim Danno

set up the WCHA Bake Sale Booth.

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Jim the Giant Elf says we’re ready to go!

California’s Strongest Bank

Main Branch

302 Pine Ave.

Long Beach, CA 90802

Phone: (562) 437-0011

Fax: (562) 437-8672

Added this year was the "Sky Light" display: five

350’ lengths of cable were strung 50’ above the

ground with one hundred 10’ strands of white twin-kling lights suspended across the grass field. With

2000 lights overhead, the effect was like a magical

Aurora Borealis, especially when the fog rolled in.

Special thanks go out to the following people. With-

out their help this dream of a holiday event at Drake

Park could not have been accomplished. WCHA Membership and Board Members

Vice Mayor Robert Garcia and the 1st District Coun-

cil Office

Javier and Hilda from Kress Organic Market and Deli, get the hot chocolate and fresh juices ready.

The children had a fine time with Herbalist, Julie James, embel-

lishing homemade cinnamon apple decorations.

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We tried to make Jill Ann look scared! Don’t think it worked!

Michael Mosselli of Brushstrokes and Beverages gives art instruc-tion, while Dianne McNinch uses a different canvas.

Port of Long Beach

Supervisor Don Knabe

Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal City of Long Beach Parks, Recreation and Marine

City Light and Power

Moki Castaneda, Walmart SoCal Lighting DLBA Farmers & Merchants Bank

Kress Market

Food Finders

Long Beach Arts Council

Long Beach Heritage Soylar Organic Candles and Soap

Julie James, Green Wisdom Herbal Studies

Maria D'Ambrosio, Leap Frog Yoga

Anonymous

George and Lucille Borushko

Sherron Leno Tim and Becky Sutton

Matt and Jenny Sersion

Nancy and Cindy Smith

Phyllis McDaniels

Jill Anne Black

Mark and Cheryl Perry

Roz Boger

Tony Brazas Josepha and Tim Curtin

Maria Penaloza’s Mariachi Band was wonderful!

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10% off $20 worth of dry-cleaning!

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Nick and Jane Soon

Donna Hilbert

Please accept our heartfelt thanks for contributing to this community event. Your care and kindness

are what makes the Willmore City Heritage Associa-

tion such a wonderful organization and the Will-

more City Historic District such a wonderful place

to live. There are so many new neighbors buying

homes in the Willmore City Heritage Association's district; you have helped with their enjoyment of our

area. We look forward everyone’s participation in

future, bigger and better, “Winter in Willmore”

events!

Who will get the bikes this year?!

Calling all neighbors and friends of Willmore

City! It’s that time of year again - winter cleanup

getting ready for spring!

On Saturday, February 16, the WCHA will sponsor

a Neighborhood Cleanup. There will be a dumpster

located at Jana Shield’s house, 646 W. 9th, from 10:00 a.m. until we are finished. Tools and the

dumpster are provided by Neighborhood Services.

Volunteers can troll the streets, and courts and

ways with WCHA, looking for unsightly trash—last

year, over half a dozen couches along with many

other unwanted furniture pieces were collected. You may also wish to bring your own unwanted

NONHAZARDOUS trash to the dumpster.

The cleanup will include the Willmore Heritage

Garden, at 7th and Maine. Certified Horticulturist,

Kathleen Irvine, will lead the way, showing how to cut back the plants, and which ones are weeds and

which ones are wildflowers.

Free refreshments and a chance to work with your

neighbors to get ready for a fresh, new spring—

what could be better?!

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concrete surfaces. Dimension 270G should typically

be applied twice per year: once in the spring and

once in September for winter weeds. Battling Existing Weeds

In case you missed the pre-emergent application

deadline, a post-emergent herbicide can be applied

in the late spring, and fall to help prevent new weed

growth the following spring A post-emergent herbi-cide moves through the plant and into its root sys-

tem, killing weeds after they've already started

growth above the ground. For optimal results, it is

best to apply post-emergent early, soon after weeds

emerge. BEST’s Turf Supreme 16-8-8 plus Trimec

is a great fertilizer and broadleaf post-emergent herbicide combined. It controls dandelions, spurge,

oxalis, clovers and many other broadleaf weeds—

while fertilizing your turf grass in one easy applica-

tion.

Whether they are attacking the weeds above ground or preventing future weeds from growing,

these herbicides require the user to pay close atten-

tion to the product label for safe and proper appli-

cation.

Keeping an eye on your lawn and using both pre-

and post-emergent products will ensure that your lawn stays beautiful throughout the year. For spe-

cific issues in your lawn, or to learn about more

weed control options, contact your local Ewing Irri-

gation.

Mario Gonzalez is manager for Ewing Irrigation’s Signal Hill store. Ewing Irrigation is one of the Will-

more City Heritage Association’s wonderful spon-

sors.

Ewing Irrigation

2899 Walnut Ave.

Signal Hill, CA 90755 562.989.9530

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1st District Council Office 562-570-6919 Code Enforcement 562-570-2633 Barking Dogs 562-570-PETS

Neighborhood Watch 562-570-7229 Police, Non-Emergency 562-435-6711

Public Services 562-570-2700 Graffiti 562-570-2773 Pot Holes 562-570-3259 Storm Drains 562-570-2440 Alley Cleaning 562-570-2876 Bike Trails (Glass or Other Debris) 562-869-1176 Street Maintenance 562-570-3259 Recycling 562-570-2876 Stray Shopping Carts 800-252-6131

Trash Collection 562-570-2878 Special Pickup 562-570-2876 Environmental Services 562-570-2876 Get the Go Long Beach App for an easy and fast way

to report many of these problems!

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Donations are Tax Deductible 501(c)3: 33—0201588

Kathleen Irvine, President & (562) 612-0639

Newsletter Editor kathleen@willmorecity.org

Michelle Muniz , Vice-President (714) 478-9647

mmuniz717@yahoo.com

Jana Shields, Treasurer (562) 495-1729

jana@willmorecity.org

Patty Lund, Secretary 562) 435-9606 patty@willmorecity.org

Jim Danno, Community Outreach (818) 266-7110

jim@willmorecity.org

Emily Kiwa Tanaka, (562) 290-2962

Web Communications emily@willmorecity.org

Hulean Tyler (562) 755-4640

huleantyler@yahoo.com

Ph. 562-435-9606

Visit us at our website and on Facebook:

www.willmorecity.org

www.facebook.com/pages/Willmore-City-Heritage-

Association

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General Meeting will be held at

Drake Park on Tuesday, Febru-

ary 19 at 7:00 p.m.

No Code Enforcement meeting