As reported over the weekend by LBReport.com, and today by the Press-Telegram, one of the guys I toiled with 20 years ago at Poly High, the affable Alex Cherin–your 2004 candidate in the Seventh District city council race–may become the Port of Long Beach’s new executive officer to the board.

That is, he’ll get the job if the harbor commissioners like the cut of his jib–but we’re guessing they already do. Why, they’re jib experts.

Assuming he’s hired, Cherin–who studied maritime law after he finished with Poly–will be the personal adviser to the port director, and do things like make recommendations on public policy.

(For those of you who really have to wonder, I didn’t study maritime law–but twice I came very close to getting a flat-bottom drag boat. Also, I dance.)

Elsewhere, the Press-Telegram reports on a Long Beach institution–the annual koi fish auction at Cal State Long Beach.

Koi are expensive fish, but the yearly ZNA Koi Club extravaganza is known for offering department store fish at low, low prices. (Though even here, a handsome koi will still fetch more than $100.)

As the P-T’s Kelly Puente observes–much to the horror of koi enthusiasts everywhere–”Koi can be eaten, but they are generally considered to be too bony.”

Yes, bony–and delicious!

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