Destruction before construction Dirt • Trees are demolished and parking continues to be limited as the new parking structure for lot 11 is not expected to reopen until September 2006. Jamie Rowe / Online Forty-Niner

News

• Shumard looks ahead to Special Olympics
  Cal State Long Beach Executive Director of Athletics Bill Shumard will step down from the position he has held for 10 years on July 30 and take over as chief executive officer of Special Olympics Southern California (SOSC) on Aug. 1.
  
• City offers West Nile Virus prevention tips
  For the first time this year in Long Beach, West Nile Virus has been detected in a dead crow, found in a neighborhood close to Cal State Long Beach, city officials said.
  
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Opinion

• Our view: PETA complain misguided
  Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific has received a complaint from the Fish Empathy Project for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), managed by Karin Robertson, about serving fish in its cafeteria.
  
  
• Free rays preferred despite medical risks of sunbathing
  Even though it is a known and proven fact that sun exposure is bad for skin and causes cancer, I have been performing the deadly ritual of sunbathing as long as I’ve been wearing a bathing suit.

Diversions

• 15th Annual Long Beach Tattoo Convention
  There is only one place that a six-year-old can sport a small purple tribal band across her arm: the 15 th annual Long Beach Tattoo Convention.