Monday Essentials: City Councils, Candidate Debate

Here are five things Palos Verdes residents should know this week:

1. The Rolling Hills Estates City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, while the Palos Verdes Estates City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. the same evening. The meetings will be at the cities respective city halls.
   
2. Candidates for Rancho Palos Verdes City Council will debate the issues at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday at Fred Hesse Community Park. The Council of Homeowners Associations is hosting this week's debate.
3. Have you signed up for breaking news alerts? Just visit our breaking news category and click "Get email updates." (If it says you're signed up, but you're not receiving the alerts, click "Unsubscribe." Then click "Get email updates" to resubscribe. That should fix the issue.)
4. Check out one of Palos Verdes Patch's newest bloggers, Rebecca Glen of the Book Frog independent bookstore in Rolling Hills Estates. Her blog, Small Pond, offers new releases, book recommendations, reviews and more!
5. Today's photo of the day was uploaded by Kevin Jones to Flickr's Creative Commons collection. Want to submit your own? Email it to palosverdes@patch.com; tweet it to @PVPatch; post it on the Palos Verdes Patch Facebook page; or tag it #pvpatch on Instagram. Patch reserves the right to publish any submitted photos at its discretion.