[ May 26, 2012; 2:00 pm; ] Downey’s Sister Cities are hosting a fund raiser from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 26 at the Columbia Memorial Space Center.
The event features a spaghetti dinner, drinks, dessert, prizes, an auction and games.
And all guests will get to tour around the Space Center.
The cost for the fun raiser is $30 per family for families …
DOWNEY – The city’s staff is in favor of new Verizon antennas and a proposed zumba dance studio, but they are asking the Planning Commission to reject a proposal to convert a home on Lakewood Boulevard to an office, according to an agenda for Wednesday’s Planning Commission.
A company working for Verizon is looking to install …
DOWNEY – Workers have officially started a construction project designed to keep trucks from destroying streets near where Florence Avenue intersects with the 5 and 605 freeways.
Crews have started ripping up gutters and curbs in the first phases of the $2.1 million endeavor.
Heavy trucks have made deep dips and waves in the asphalt, and the …
DOWNEY – Jesus, Aztec princesses and funnel cakes.
It had all the ingredients of a successful street fair. Or faire, in this case.
Orgnanizers of Saturday’s Downey Street Faire expected 10,000 revelers.
And I bet they got close. It was crowded.
I consider myself somewhat of an expert in street fairs since I live in Whittier, where we had …
The Downey Patriot has a great update on a host of new developments coming to Downey, including a Chick-fil-A.
The updates were from Tuesday’s City Council meeting. I was home with our kids and couldn’t make the meeting.
Click here for the story.
With his full beard, full physique and bicycle trailer full of hand tools, Steve Perez rolls through Downey like a modern day Johnny Appleseed. But his sacks of seed grow lawns. And he wears a straw hat, not a cooking pot, on his head. Perez runs a gardening business in which he uses no power …
I called the FBI today to see if they had updates for the raid last month on the Oncology Institute of Hope and Innovation, a company on the third floor of a medical office building at the Downey Regional Medical Center, 11480 Brookshire Avenue.
The FBI and an office in the U.S. Department of Health and …
Authorities say a Downey man has agreed to surrender to authorities after he tried to smuggle 11 pounds of cocaine through a pre-arranged security checkpoint at the Los Angeles International Airport but accidentally went to a different checkpoint and was caught with the drugs.
Duane Eleby, 28, of Downey, is expected to surrender to authorities Thursday …
A West Middle School student was just being kind, but his actions earned his team an award earlier this month at the Teen Adventure Challenge at Bonelli Park in San Dimas.
Eighth grader Bernardo Carrillo and the West ASPIRE Team won the All Star Teamwork award after Carrillo helped an injured student cross the race’s finish …
[ June 2, 2012; 10:00 am; ] DOWNEY – St. George Greek Orthodox in Downey is hosting a Greek food festival from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. June 2 and June 3 at the church, 10830 Downey Avenue.
The event features, music, dancing and tons of food.
The church is promoting the event on facebook and twitter, and they are offering discounts to twitter …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday is going to hear final arguments on Arizona’s immigration laws, which ask local police to verify the immigration of status of people they suspect are in the country illegally, among other things.
I figure a lot of people in Downey care about this issue. I’ve met a lot of illegal immigrants …
The National Weather Service is predicting a rainstorm to hit Southern California sometime Wednesday.
The Weather Service is calling for cloudy, possibly drizzly weather on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings before a storm hits later Wednesday.
The computer models relied upon by the Weather Service do not agree when the storm will hit, so the experts aren’t giving …