In Redondo Beach, every (police) dog has his day.

BYE-BYE BORIS: He’s 9 years old and already retiring.

No wonder. Boris, a Redondo Beach police dog who is thought to be among the longest-serving canine cops in the country, is 63 in dog years.

He’s two years shy of retirement age, but that’s OK. Boris worked hard in his eight years with the department.

The 115-pound German shepherd’s career highlights include helping to nab three bank robbers and sniffing out a murder suspect hiding under a house. In 1991, he placed third in the World Police Games, which test the skills of dogs in everything from obedience to searching out suspects.

This week, though, Boris turns in his badge. Police officials will pay tribute to Boris with a retirement party Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Redondo Beach Community Center, 320 Knob Hill Ave.

The party is open to the public and there is no admission charge. Coffee, cake and cookies in the shape of dog bones are among the refreshments that will be served.

Redondo cops aren’t sure how they will toast their longtime companion.

“What do you give a dog that’s retiring?” asked Officer Ken Greenleaf, who has been Boris’ partner and handler since he was a pup. “A set of golf clubs? A gold watch?”

Greenleaf, who will keep Boris at his home as a pet, said he expects the dog to spend his retirement walking, playing ball and catching Frisbees.

Seems like Boris was kind of slowing down anyway.

“I can see how he’s acting,” Greenleaf said. “When he runs to me, he kind of walks. He can still do the work . . . but once he’s done, he’s just dead tired.”

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LOCAL HEROES: Bobby Lopez, 43, of Wilmington is a lucky man.

Last Wednesday afternoon, when Lopez collapsed on O Street in Wilmington, resident Herbert Taft rushed to give him cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

The lifesaving effort, however, was going badly until Detective Steve Haberfield of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Harbor Division, who was driving by, was flagged down.

By this time, Lopez had no pulse, no heartbeat and had lost all color, police said.

But Haberfield stepped right in, and he and Taft are credited with reviving Lopez, who was breathing again when an ambulance arrived.

Lopez was taken to Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Harbor City where officials said he was in fair condition.

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IN THE CARDS?: Legislation that would allow Hollywood Park in Inglewood to open a card club is getting closer to Gov. Pete Wilson’s desk, and city officials are keeping their fingers crossed. They need revenue expected from the club to plug holes in the city’s shaky budget.

Inglewood voters have already approved the club, but state law prohibits publicly held corporations like Hollywood Park from owning clubs. (A publicly held corporation can have thousands of stockholders, making it hard for the state to determine if it has ties to organized crime.)

Enter Assemblyman Curtis Tucker Jr. (D-Inglewood). He has authored a bill that would allow the park to own a card club. Tucker’s bill recently passed the Senate and Assembly, although the Senate attached a technical amendment, sending the bill back for another vote in the lower house, where it is pending. It will be up to Wilson to sign the measure into law.

“If I were a betting man,” Tucker said, “I would bet (the bill) will get the governor’s signature.”

That is, if the measure gets an OK from Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren, who has opposed the legislation and may persuade Wilson not to sign it. Lungren has said that if public corporations own clubs, the state would have to have a gaming investigation division the size of those in Nevada and New Jersey to investigate all the corporate shareholders.

Tucker and Lungren are discussing the matter.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“We’ve been exploding the myth that black families do not adopt.”

--Zena Oglesby, founder of the Institute for Black Parenting, an Inglewood group that recruits black families to adopt African-American youngsters.

LAST WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS

Inglewood: A proposal to use federal funds to train dealers for Hollywood Park’s planned card club failed when the City Council split on a 2-2 vote Tuesday. Judith L. Dunlap and Garland Hardeman objected to the idea. But look for the measure to surface again soon. Councilman Jose Fernandez was home sick Tuesday and is expected to provide the go-ahead third vote when the measure is reconsidered.

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS

Carson: The City Council will consider dropping its sister-city affiliations with Robertsport, Liberia, and Sinait, the Philippines. Carson officials have said civil strife and poor communications in those countries have made it difficult to maintain contact with their counterparts.

Palos Verdes Peninsula: The Creative Solutions Committee of the Palos Verdes Library District will have its second meeting Thursday. The committee is studying the district’s finances and will make recommendations by November on how the district can come up with more money. The committee will meet at the Miraleste branch library at 7:30 p.m.