|
Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
|
He was elected to the Cerritos City Council in 1980 and served as a councilman for eight years, including two terms as mayor.
In Cerritos, 65% of the citizens and many from neighboring cities were registered, borrowing 450,000 individual items each year.
|
|
John Fielding,
CEO
|
The City of Cerritos has attained Affiliate status with the Smithsonian Institution in an effort to enhance these exhibit offerings.
|
|
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
|
Cerritos was first incorporated in 1956 as the City of Dairy Valley, home to 100,000 cows on more than 400 dairies and 106,300 chickens on licensed poultry farms.
Cerritos would not be as seriously affected as many other cities, as local citizens had never been charged a city property tax, but the council made economies to pare $4.
The City of Cerritos web site offers information on local organizations, churches, city history, transportation, lodging, Chamber of Commerce and performing arts.
|
|
Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
|
Which California city on San Pedro Bay is home to the Queen Mary and Los Cerritos, a Spanish adobe house?
Rancho Los Cerritos was purchased from the Bixby family by the City of Long Beach in 1955.
|
|
John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
|
Cerritos won legal victories when the state supreme court upheld the city's right to make zoning changes in local land use and the county superior court upheld the Cerritos sign ordinances.
|
|
Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
|
City council members and the then current “Miss Cerritos” were kept busy with “grand opening” ceremonies, cutting ribbons and, at one time, a long string of pearls to open the new stores.
|
|
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
|
Their city, Cerritos, at the junction of 2 major freeways, the scene in 1987 of a horrific mid air collision between an Aeromexico DC-9 and a small private plane that devastated a neighborhood with massive falling debris.
|
|
Josh Hogan,
Commander
|
Cerritos since 1972 was the first city to make the buffers a requirement for tract developers, and the city began construction of walls near the older tracts on the freeway routes.
|
|
|
