Posts Tagged ‘Ninth District Councilman Val Lerch’

EXCLUDED VETS WILL MARCH IN 2008 VETERANS DAY PARADE

March 17, 2008

Members of the three veterans groups who were told they couldn’t march in last year’s 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade because they didn’t “fit the spirit of the parade”–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–now … fit the spirit of the parade.
Weird, huh? Actually, it’s pretty good [...]

EXCLUDED VETS WILL MARCH IN MLK EVENT, POSSIBLY VETERANS DAY PARADE

January 3, 2008

Lieutenant governor’s office weighs in on 2007 Veterans parade controversy

Remember the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade? So do a lot of people, especially members of the three veterans groups–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–who were told they couldn’t march in the Nov. 10 parade. Organizers said [...]

WHAT WAS THE MAYOR THINKING?

December 4, 2007

Mayor Bob Foster discusses his newest City Council agenda-changing proposal
Announcing new City Council agenda items 12 days before the Council considers them sounds like a good idea–which is how Mayor Bob Foster and Ninth District Councilman Val Lerch, the proposal’s co-signer, both present it.

 

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