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Improved lighting was added to the Centinela Bridge in Del Rey this month, completing an important community safety upgrade for the neighborhood. 
 
Thanks to a Bureau of Street Lighting crew for #GettingThingsDone and installing six light poles on both sides of the Centinela Bridge over the Ballona Creek (intersection of South Centinela Avenue and Culver Drive) in Del Rey. The new lights illuminate the sidewalk and roadway making the area safer for pedestrians, commuters, and bicyclists.

 
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Improvements are underway at the Del Rey Lagoon Park in Playa del Rey!
 
A crew from the Department of Recreation and Parks resurfaced two full-size, blacktop basketball courts at the Del Rey Lagoon Park on Pacific Avenue, near Dockweiler Beach. The resurfacing is thanks to the generous donation of the LA Clippers Foundation and is part of a package of improvements for the community park that includes, parking lot upgrades to make the lot ADA accessible, lighting improvements to increase public safety for families using the area at night, parking stall restriping, and a series of stop sign and crosswalk installments so people can get to and from the lagoon safely.
 
Thanks to the city crew and the Clippers for helping to #GetThingsDone for our neighborhoods!


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The Gillis Volleyball Tournament #48

5/17/2018

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Coming July 28th... Toes Beach

The Gillis Volleyball Tournament was started in 1971 by Steve and Dave Cressman at Gillis Beach, in Playa del Rey, California. That first year, 17 teams participated, playing on one court. At this year’s 40th tournament, there will be 170 teams with over 600 players, playing on 28 courts.
Gillis Beach was named after a one block-long street in Playa del Rey called Gillis Street that ended at the sand. Junior high and high schoolers from Westchester High and St. Bernards High learned what the Southern California beach lifestyle was all about. The beach shoreline community was wiped out though in 1974 by expansion of the LA Airport’s west runway. Although the neighborhood and homes were gone, The Gillis tournament continued there until 1980. It was that year when the city dredged the marina of sand and dumped it on Gillis Beach, destroying the 10 courts that had been built over the previous 10 years. The tournament was then forced to moved to Toes Beach, 1 mile north, for a run of 25 years. In 2005 the county forced another move on The Gillis to the southern-most point of Playa del rey called Dockweiler Beach. The history of Playa del Rey and of Gillis Beach is preserved through the tournament each year as a reunion for those that grew up here. This makes the Gillis a “locals” event like none other.
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