CITYSCAPE ROUNDUP:Boeing trades Anaheim for H.B.

The Boeing Company announced Friday that about 3,700 employees from its Anaheim facility will relocateover the next four years to the company’s Huntington Beach location, according to a news release.

The company is shutting down the Anaheim operation and moving the entire workforce to Huntington Beach, said Paula Shawa, Boeing’s communication manager.

“It’s just a question of economics and what makes the most business sense for the Boeing footprint in Southern California,” she said.

Construction at the Huntington Beach building will begin immediately so the facility can handle the large number of employees joining. The company will also build labs to accommodate certain programs that require it, Shawa said.

Small-scale employee moves will begin soon, with major relocations scheduled for next year.

HR task force seeking volunteer

The city of Huntington Beach is looking for a volunteer to join its Human Relations Task Force, which serves to promote diversity in the city through events, dialogues and middle-school student field trips.

The Huntington Beach Human Relations Task Force, partnered with the City Council and the police department, meets once a month to review reports of hate crimes and try to combat them with programs that advocate cultural diversity and tolerance in the city, including programs for middle and high school students. The group was started by then-City Council members Shirley Detloff and Ralph Bauer in 1996.

Those interested must live in Huntington Beach, apply before Aug. 4 and be able to attend meetings on the first Tuesday evening of the month. The volunteer’s term ends Dec. 31, 2009.

For more information, call Elaine Kuhnke at (714) 374-5307, or send an e-mail to [email protected]. Applications can be downloaded from www.surfcity-hb.org.

Advisory board apps due Monday

Monday is the application deadline for the Citizen Participatory Advisory Board.

The board assists the City Council in making recommendations for the City Council for Community Development Block Grant, a federal grant issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for city and community services.

For more information or an application, visit www.surfcity-hb.org or call (714) 536-5529.

Volunteers honored at senior center luau

Volunteers who dedicated more than 40 hours to Huntington Beach senior citizens were honored July 20 at aluau held at Newland Barn.

A ukulele trio, Aloha Senior hula dancers, entertained guests. A Hawaiian meal prepared by the Silverado Senior Living and Renaissance Huntington Terrace chefs included pineapple chicken and rice.

Volunteers at the senior center gave more than 39,000 hours to the seniors of Surf City in 2005, according to the city.

Surf Art Tour rides into town

The Togo’s Surf Art Tour hits Surf City today through Sunday in the Transworld Village at the 2006 Bank of the West Beach Games featuring the Honda U.S. Open of Surfing, presented by O’Neill.

The works of self-taught artist Drew Brophy, of San Clemente, will be on display. Brophy is most known as a surfboard artist, but he also decorates T-shirts, beach towels, boogie boards, fabrics, tattoos, skimboards and skateboards with his surf-inspired art.

Togo’s is a sponsor of the Bank of the West Games.

Comment period for street project open

A comment period for the Newland Street Widening Project’s Mitigated Negative Declaration will run through Aug. 18.

The draft is available for public review in the Planning Department of City Hall and on the city’s website.

For more information, visit www.surfcity-hb.org.

Main Street debate airs on KCET

A program featuring Surf City’s Main Street debate aired Tuesday on KCET’s “Life and Times.”

The show’s host Roger Cooper discussed the plan that would close the downtown street to vehicles, creating a pedestrian-only promenade.