Every year, starting a day or two after the first day of summer, we get all stewed up over Signal Hill.

Over the years, we’ve tried to fire up the troops of Long Beach to rise up and storm the hill and plant the glorious flag of Long Beach at the peak.

Tactically, we have a huge advantage in that we already have the place surrounded. It should be cake to take, but for some reason the Long Beach troops have been lazy and complacent, leaving Signal Hill to enjoy its sovereignty and to issue its annual high-handed decree that, after 6 p.m. on the Fourth, no Long Beachers (or any other non Hillions) are allowed to drive up the hill to watch the fireworks of Long Beach and other cities along the coast.

It’s undeniable that the best views of the local skies as they explode on Independence Night are from Signal Hill’s Hilltop Park or Panorama Drive, and the last thing Signal Hill officials want are huge crowds clogging the little town’s roads and parks to watch the fireworks that are provided for their enjoyment by the very city that is being barred from the hill.

These officials and their police department will reply, “Well, you can walk up the hill. It’s only closed to cars.”

Yeah, that’s not gonna work for us.

What will work for us is barring Signal Hillbillies from driving on our streets forever. Same reason. We don’t want our roads and parks all fouled up with cars from out-of-towners. You live on Signal Hill, prepare to spend a lot of time at Applebee’s.

Also, quit looking at our fireworks.

In other relatively insignificant news that we feel obliged to blather about, 5th District Councilwoman Stacy Mungo is proposing changing the name of our beloved El Dorado Neighborhood Library to the Jackie and Ernie Kell Neighborhood Library. She and the library will be setting up community outreach (bickering) meetings in August, with the first one set for Aug. 3 at 6:30 p.m. at a location still to be decided, or, perhaps, named.

We can’t make it, but how about: No.

No offense is meant, of course, to the recently departed Ernie, or his widow Jackie. Both were serviceable city servants: Ernie was Long Beach’s first elected mayor and Jackie was a two-term councilwoman in the 5th. But we don’t think library when we hear their names. Ernie was an enthusiastic aviator, so if we’re looking for something to put the Kells’ name on, it might be something at the airport, or, perhaps, something at the Convention Center, probably Ernie’s most beloved project as mayor.

For the library, our name preferences are, in order:

1. Marie Reidy, who served as children’s librarian for a few decades at, first, the then-new Los Altos branch library and, after it opened in 1970, the El Dorado branch. We owe her our literary life.

2. Barbara Egyud, known as the “Angel of Literacy” in Long Beach for her devotion to the library and reading in general. She died earlier this month at 75.

3. El Dorado Neighborhood Library. Because there’s nothing wrong with it.

You can offer your own thoughts and suggestions by sending an email to Mungo’s officew at Distrcit5@longbeach.gov.

Contact Tim Grobaty at 562-714-2116, tgrobaty@scng.com, @grobaty on Twitter.