{"id":202608,"date":"2026-03-03T19:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202608\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:30:22","slug":"veterans-resource-center-in-san-pedro-renamed-in-honor-of-local-vet-louis-dominguez-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202608\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans resource center in San Pedro renamed in honor of local vet Louis Dominguez \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez was recognized on Saturday, Feb. 28, with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center at Gaffey and First streets.<\/p>\n

The center \u2014 a converted hotel that has been open since 2023 \u2014 operates in partnership with Volunteers of America to provide interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans. Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn led Saturday\u2019s formal renaming dedication ceremony.<\/p>\n

A new sign and plaque was unveiled as part of the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few years ago, my office partnered with Volunteers of America to transform this former vacant motel into a veterans center that is offering not just shelter, but stability, dignity and a path forward for veterans who have served our country and now need our support,\u201d Hahn said at the event. \u201cThis place has already changed so many lives and represents what can happen when we refuse to accept veteran homelessness as inevitable.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when I was thinking about what we should name this place, I wanted to lift up the accomplishments of veterans and prove that their service to this country and to their community is not limited to the battlefield,\u201d she added. \u201cSo today, we are dedicating this center to a veteran whose life embodies service in every sense of the word \u2014 my friend Louis Dominguez.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn gives a speech during a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Congresswoman Nanette Barragan gives a speech during a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn gives a speech during a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn gives a speech during a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez (left). (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn gives a speech during a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Congresswoman<\/p>\n

Congresswoman Nanette Barragan gives a speech during a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn gives a speech during a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn gives a speech during a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez (left). (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Dozens of people gather for a dedication ceremony on Saturday, February 28, 2026, honoring Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez with the official naming of the Louis Dominguez Veterans Resource Center, which will serve as interim housing for 60 formerly homeless veterans, providing stability, services, and a pathway to permanent housing. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Dominguez, a teacher who has worked for city and state government, also led the effort to put decorative lights on the Vincent Thomas Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But before all of that, he served in the Vietnam War. He brought a reunion for his unit to San Pedro<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n

Dominguez, who hoped to have a career in the military, was shot twice in a battle that decimated Charlie Company, landing him in the hospital with a mandatory ticket home after having served for four months.<\/p>\n

Seriously wounded by machine-gun fire, he went on to dedicate his life to public service, local government \u2014 he was an aide to Vincent Thomas when he was serving in the state Assembly \u2014 and teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work happening in this building is changing lives,\u201d said Hahn, who also thanked Dominguez\u2019s wife, Suzanne.<\/p>\n

The building, 111 S. Gaffey St., originally opened as a Victorian-style hotel in 1986, later becoming the San Pedro Best Western.<\/p>\n

The mission, Hahn said, is to provide stability and a pathway to permanent housing for area veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Purple Heart recipient and longtime San Pedro resident Louis Dominguez was recognized on Saturday, Feb. 28, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,3172,131,133,132,47,137,100,1439,513],"class_list":["post-202608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-harbor-area","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-san-pedro","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}