Sophisticated duck lovers: Love rubber ducks? Enjoy tasting wine? This weekend Huntington Beach will be hosting the 18th Annual Duck-A-Thon to raise proceeds for the local AltaMed Community Clinic. Friday, May 14 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. there will be a wine tasting event downtown. Tickets cost $40 in advanced or $50 at the door. Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. children can enjoy bounce houses, decorate rubber ducks, play games. Adults can go shopping for
jewelry, home decor, as well as arts and crafts.
Finally at 3 p.m., the
contestants can drop their rubber ducks off the pier and watch them surf towards the shore. More information can be found at http://duckathon.org/.
Automobilists: Saturday, May 15 is a car show fundraiser for Our Lady in Refuge Catholic school. Hot rods, Harleys, Street customs and more. Admission is free, participation is $25 for pre-registered vehicles, $30 at the gate. Ice cold beer and wine is available. Located at 5195 Stearns St., Long Beach, CA 90815, more info at http://www.olrcarshow.com/.
Local Tunes: For those 21+, Da Kooks are playing at Perqs in Huntington Beach on May 12, 2010 at 9 p.m. Go and enjoy the music and who knows maybe you’ll discover a new favorite band and meet some new people.
Perqs also presents Open Jam nights every Thursday at 8 p.m. If you think you’ve got fresh talent head over and play that guitar like you’ve never played it before! Perqs is located at 117 Main St., Huntington Beach. Their phone number is
(714) 960-9996 or you can visit: www.perqs.com.
Men in tights: Are you into bows and arrows, chivalry, and leather
armor? Or maybe you’re just nostalgic for good old fashioned classic tales of heroism? The new “Robin Hood” movie directed by Ridely Scott starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett comes out Thursday May 14 in theatres everywhere.
By Kira Keleher
Unemployed for a year, I went to the HB AltaMed clinic as they were supposed to offer an inexpensive physical required for medical training I’m taking. It went something like this:
I tell the nursing assistant at the front desk “I’d like to get a physical”.
She said “we need to triage you” and indicated that they were too busy to see me.
I don’t think she even knew what the word meant which is scary. Triage is when people are seriously ill and you need to determine who to treat first. I didn’t need ‘triage’, I needed a basic physical for my medical course.
It seemed more like she had snap-judged me and thought I looked too un-needy or non-hispanic for her. I asked if I came in the next morning if they could see me but she indicated they could be too busy then too. I didn’t see any nurses or medical personnel anywhere, the place looked empty.
It seems to me there is something wrong with AltaMed. I would suggest that if they are getting public funds that they be checked as to how many people they served and what the public paid for this.
Sorry but they asked for this from their incompetent front desk people.
I went to another clinic and they happily gave me a back to school physical immediately without asking to ‘triage me’. This place made me shudder.