Trinity Audioplayer ready... “I’m nervous about going to my first summer camp, but I’m also excited about going to the mountains,” said Sophie,11, of the YMCA of Greater Long Beach. “I can’t wait to go canoeing and seeing the stars at night.” Sophie is li... See more
Trinity Audioplayer ready... Everybody loves Charles Schulz’s Snoopy and Charlie Brown on newspaper comics pages, but what about the 400-pound version of the “Peanuts” characters cast in bronze by Long Beach sculptor Stan Pawlowski? “We love that, too,” s... See more
Trinity Audioplayer ready... Pontac was a fitness wonder. He ran in more than 400 marathons worldwide, many with his wife, Jeanne Haislett. He started the Leisure Leggers running/walking club at Leisure World. He ran a virtual half-mile last year to conti... See more
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jim Michaelian’s love of auto racing began when he was 12 or so, when he learned to drive a car on the back roads of his grandmother’s vineyard in Fresno. As a teenager back at his home in Alhambra, he graduated ... See more
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Chris Pook came up with his idea in the 1970s to run race cars on the streets of Long Beach, many people thought it was “a crazy idea” that would never work. But Pook, then a young travel agent in downtown L... See more
