Local News in Brief : Huntington Beach : PIER Group to Get Help From Sister City
Visitors from Anjo, Japan--Huntington Beach’s sister city--will contribute $3,000 today to the PIER Group, a band of citizens and local merchants raising money to help rebuild the city’s storm-crippled pier.
The check will be given to PIER organizers during a brief ceremony at 10 a.m. at Huntington Beach City Hall’s courtyard, 2000 Main St.
Members of Anjo’s sister city program sold Save the Pier T-shirts to collect the $3,000 for a proposed pier restoration project, which could cost up to $10 million. The tip of the Huntington Beach Pier, with the End Cafe perched on top, toppled into the ocean Jan. 17 by high seas.
The City Council has yet to decide whether to fix the pier or, as an Irvine engineering consultant has recommended, replace it.
The Anjo representatives came to visit Huntington Beach in time to see the city’s annual Independence Day parade and will be leaving later this week, city officials said.
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