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PUBLIC ’S VIEW ON SHORT -TERM RENTALS SOUGHT The city is researching potential regula - tion of short-term vacation rentals located in residential neighborhoods. A commu - nity meeting will be held at 6pm on Thursday, February 18th at the Fullerton Community Center, 340 W. Commonwealth (across from City Hall and the Library. After a presentation on short-term vacation rentals such as AirBnB, HomeAway, VRBO and others, residents will be able to make comments and recommendations about potential future regulations. For more information contact Senior Planner Matt Foulkes at [email protected]. An online survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Fullert onSTVR Zika Virus Alert The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that while no locally transmitted Zika cases have been reported in the continental US, cases have been PHOTO BY BRENT ADAMS reported in travelers returning to the con - CSUF Communications majors Stephanie Wong, Angel Perez, Olivia Havelaar, Casey Barahona, tinental US from visits to affected areas. and Matt Salazar are helping organize Fullerton’s Day of Music 2016. See story on page 14. COYOTE HILLS The virus is active in many countries and PDATE -Friends of Coyote Hills is expected to continue to spread. U Flory Continued on page 8 ESALINATION by Jane Rands In December 2015, the Friends of D recommended Coyote Hills announced our intent to On February 3 the Orange County Water District OCWD take legal action as a result of the October (OCWD) Board of Directors began considering options for complete 2015 West Coyote Hills Vesting Tentative 7 . A

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T The 50-year term proposal, negotiated between OCWD then consider Measure W, the people's 2012 referendum U P E S F P and Poseidon last May, requires OCWD to purchase all building its that should have overturned the develop - 53,000 acre feet of water produced per year (14.38 billion own desal ment approvals for West Coyote Hills. gallons) from Poseidon at a decreasing percentage rate facility, rather The council's decision set in motion a (20% to 5%) above the cost of expensive, imported re-appraisal for the property as if it were Metropolitan Water District (MWD) water for the first 40 than going with entitled for development. That and the years to ensure Poseidon will have a profitable project. The the expensive acquisition timeline of basically one year desalination costs would be passed through to OCWD 50-year made it clear the acquisition plan we water customers including Fullerton’s rate payers. Poseidon deal. thought we were collaborating with the Continued on page 8 City and Chevron since 2013 was not T being offered to the public in October N

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2 lic a realistic opportunity to acquire the E After Embezzlement Revelations S E 0 R I entire West Coyote Hills site for a public E 4 R T by Tracy Wood voiceofoc.org also being restructured to include more V 6 R park. That means: - R T E parents, providing more opportunities for E 5 The top two leaders of the Fullerton

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C order that the public and habitat the best year resident of Fullerton, a N zlement and money laundering petition with value for the money. I R from the club, city officials 230 signatures current member of the By December 2015, the Friends were O confirmed Tuesday. called for the Ranger’s board of directors ready to take legal action to defend the The resignations of President and a law enforcement offi - people's referendum. The City asked us to resignation of, cer and specialist in public Raul Valdivia and Vice the now delay taking legal action until February President Raymundo Valdez relations. 15, 2016 because they had not completed were the first of several “sweep - former, “I have mandated that appraisals by November 30, 2015 per the ing” changes to the club's oper - board the organization provides VTTM. The Friends agreed. ations, said a news release from president. all necessary information to As February 15, 2016 approached, the city. city staff ensuring full com - appraisals and "reconciliations" were still “This immediate change in leadership is pliance with policies, including supplying not complete. The latter should have been required player information, following 4 the Rangers’ first step in rebuilding trust complete by January 15, 2016 per the 3 permit processes, and conforming with 8 and relationships within the community,”

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PASSION FOR JUSTICE by Synthia Tran © 2016 home and talked to my family. They also ullerton called me and left another message. F It was my first day, and I was busy learn - Observer Father Left Us & Uncle Followed ing how to do my job. My phone was in my purse in the drawer unchecked, and I When I told the doctor on duty in the his place. When father had been well, he The Fullerton Observer Community had no idea that I had just become father - Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie emergency room that my father wasn’t often told us not to visit Vietnam from less that fateful afternoon. Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is breathing regularly he told me just to September to February because of the bad My brother was by father’s side when he staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, remind him to breathe. So all day, with weather in our city. By now it was passed, and it was a huge comfort for publish, and distribute the paper throughout tears filling my eyes, I stood by his bed November, and he had been in the ER for father to know that his oldest son would our community. with my hands on his shoulder “Father, over a month. This venture is a not-for-profit one with carry out his final wishes. all ad and subscription revenues plowed back please wake up and breathe, please!” As I arrived at LAX and went through The funeral procession made three into maintaining and improving our inde - Father woke the next day and told my customs, the immigration officer said to stops before going out of town. It stopped pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - aunt who was visiting that he had left the me “Welcome home! How long have you for five minutes at his sister’s house and munity newspaper. world, but had come back. My aunt been gone?” “Over a month,” I said, “My five minutes at his brother’s to say good- Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - asked him where he had gone and if he father was sick.” “Is he okay now?” He dents about the institutions and other socie - bye. The third stop was at the temple. tal forces which most impact their lives, so had met our grandparents. He said he asked. Tears came to my eyes, “No, my After that, the entourage went on the 10 that they may be empowered to participate had traveled in the air without any direc - brother came and replaced hour trip to our village where in constructive ways to keep and make these tion, but didn’t see the grandparents. me. I have to come back father was born, and he was private and public entities serve all residents When I informed the doctor about and work.” “I am sorry,” he I saw him buried after a private family in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible what father had said he laughed in disbe - said kindly. sitting in funeral the following day. ways. lief, however, my family believed that Physically I was home Through our extensive local calendar and a folding chair In the video, when the funer - other coverage, we seek to promote a sense father had come back to the world to wait with my family, but my al convoy stopped at my uncle’s of community and an appreciation for the for his son to arrive. mind wasn’t. Every night, in front of home, I saw him sitting in a values of diversity with which our country is A couple of days earlier I had received I dreamt that I was back his house folding chair in front of his so uniquely blessed. an email from my contact at an employ - still caring for father. next to house next to a small table with SUBMISSIONS : ment agency who said there was an oppor - Sometimes I woke up in a small table candles and incense. He cov - Submissions on any topic of interest are tunity for me, and he wanted to know if I the middle of the night to ered his face and sobbed accepted from Fullerton residents and we try hard could return to the U.S. I had been realize he wasn’t around, so with candles uncontrollably. He had been to get it all in. Sorry we sometimes fail. Shorter unemployed for many months since my I cried. When I went to and incense. sick for over a year, but was pieces have a better chance. Send by email to previous company moved out of state, so the supermarket, I saw hanging in there. However, he [email protected] or by snail mail to: I really needed to work. I emailed my people checking out with passed away exactly one week FULLERTON OBSERVER brother, who took time off from his work Thanksgiving goodies, and after father did. He probably PO BOX 7051 to come to Vietnam and replace me. I wondered where the time went. Was it missed his older brother and gave up liv - FULLERTON, CA 92834-7051 ______Therefore, I prepared to leave after my really Thanksgiving? ing to follow him. That was another five weeks stay. Father didn’t say anything My brother wrote an emotional email to painful loss for our family. How To Subscribe to me about my departure, but he told my his family as this was the first time ever Subscriptions include home delivery Even though father’s physical life was and are due each October cousin that he was very sad to see me that he wasn’t with them to celebrate over, his legacy has lived on. The people $25/Fullerton • $35/Out of Town leave. My heart was crushed when he Thanksgiving. I thought about my prom - around him have really missed him and Send Check with Name & Address to: asked, “Is this the last time I see you?” I ise to come back and be with father, but I his support for various charity projects. Fullerton Observer, PO Box 7051, swallowed my tears and said, “You take had no chance. He lived a simple life. He didn’t want to Fullerton CA 92834-7051 ______care and stay strong, and I will come back Father passed away 11 days after I left spend much money on himself, yet he was to visit you again.” him, on December 2nd, 2005 at 2:20am. very generous in giving to charity and to How to Advertise My brother kept the same schedule as Vietnam was 15 hours ahead of us so it Call 714-525-6402 , the needy. He was also an easy lender. or email mine and did his best to take care of was December 1st here and I was at work. We often talked about the long, long list [email protected] father. It was raining hard at the time and My brother called my cell phone twice to of people who owed father money but ______he often got wet while riding the motor - break the news, but I didn’t answer, so he never repaid him. 10,000 issues of the Fullerton Observer cycle home after our cousin came to take left two messages. He then called my are distributed throughout Fullerton and sent through the mail to subscribers every two weeks except only once in Augie & January, July & August. Terry on Confused by Missed a Copy? Unicycles Traffic Circles Visit us online at: Tim Lovasen’s www.fullertonobserver.com photo, shown at & on FaceBook I would like to know what the reason is • STAFF• right, is reprinted • Editor: Sharon Kennedy in its original for those traffic cones at the intersection • Database Manager: Jane Buck form to replace of Pomona and Wilshire Avenues are for. I • Advisor: Tracy Wood the one which heard it is something to do with bicycles, • Copy Editors: Viveca Wolff. appeared in the but not sure. Sam & Janet Evening Anyway I have never seen a more con - • Distribution: Roy & Irene Kobayashi, Early February Tom & Kate Dalton, Marjorie Kerr, Fullerton Observer fusing street project in Fullerton in my Pam Nevius, Manny Bass & Leslie Allen page 8 story life. What used to be a four-way stop is • Photography: “Uni-Cycles on now a two-way stop. Yes, there are signs Jere Greene & Liz Marchant Fullerton Loop” posted that indicate that, but people have • Webmaster: Cathy Yang by Chuck gone through that intersection for years as • FEATURES • a four-way and now all of the sudden it's • History/Arboretum: Warren Bowen Tourdot. • Politics & other stuff: Vince Buck “The previously printed version of the shows the area where we were riding as a two-way. • Roving Reporters: Jere Greene, Betz Kuttner, photo was manipulated to show the actu - less steep than it actually was, due to his I have seen people have near and other Community Members misses.Why are those cones in the middle • COLUMNISTS • al steepness of the area. However, the camera angle. Thanks for reprinting the photographer prefers this one which original one.” -Terry Fullerton of the intersection? That just adds to the •Art: Marjorie Kerr confusion. To make a left turn or even go •Conservation Gardening: Penny Hlavac • Council Report: Need Reporter straight you have to go around those stu - •Crossword: Valerie Brickey WAR COSTS in Life & Money pid cones. They should rename it the traf - •The Downtown Report: Mike Ritto California leads the nation with 3,972 soldiers wounded and 731 dead in wars since 2001. fic obstruction instead of the traffic circle. • Movie Review Hits & Misses: Joyce Mason •Youth Columnists: C.C. Lee, IN IRAQ & A FGHANISTAN Bob L Fullerton Francine Vudoti & Sammy Howell •Video Observer: Emerson Little • 152,151 Civilians killed by Violence www.iraqbodycount.org (2/12/2016) ED: Hi Bob, and welcome as a new •Out of My Mind: Jonathan Dobrer Fullerton Observer reader. You can find •Passion for Justice: Synthia Tran US Soldiers killed in Iraq: (DoD 11/27/2015) • 4,495 numerous articles on the traffic circles in • School Board Reports: US Soldiers killed in Afghanistan (2/12/2016) www.icasualties.org Jan Youngman & Vivien Moreno • 2,381 past issues of the Observer by visiting •Science: Sarah Mosko & Frances Mathews US Soldiers wounded (DOD reports) www.icasualties.org www.fullertonobserver.com. Look for • Theatre Reviews: • 32,223 Iraq 3/2003 to present (no updates since 11/2011) anything on “Bike Boulevard” and the Mark Rosier & Angela Hatcher • 17,674 Afghanistan 10/2001 to present (no updates since 9/2012) regular Bike Notes column. (Also see page Created & Published in Fullerton 8 in this issue) by local citizen volunteers for 38 years • $1.6 Cost of Wars Since 2001 www.costofwar.com (2/12/2016) The temporary cones are up to allow Fullerton Observer LLC Trillion (rounded down) (Iraq $819 billion) (Afghanistan $727 billion) people to get used to the way traffic moves The Early March 2016 issue Cost of Military Action Against ISIL $8 billion around a traffic circle. Permanent ones will hit the stands on Feb 29 Pentagon Slush Fund $112 billion www.nationalpriorities.org will be installed if the pilot program shows SUBMISSION & AD Every hour US taxpayers are paying $8.36 million for costs of war since 2001 that people agree with the new traffic DEADLINE: Feb. 22, 2016 What Could We Be Doing Instead? calming measures. MID FEBRUARY 2016 COMMUNITY OPINIONS CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 OBSERVER Page 3

OUT OF MY MIND by Jon Dobrer © 2016 [email protected]

I L OVE POLITICS ...BUT! I love politics. I love covering the horse them dreamed in their youth of this terri - race as candidates rise and fall, triumph ble reality. Most of us walk around them and fail. I was perversely elated when or step over them. We sometimes cross the Sarah Palin resurfaced to endorse Trump. street to avoid them. We do know that What a gift to satire and farce. I love that “something must be done,” if for no other the two leading candidates of the moment reason than they’re bad for business. Can’t represent vast differences in both style and attract customers with homeless people substance. Trump obviously owns a comb blocking the doorways. while Sanders doesn’t. But Trump and We don’t want “affordable housing” in Sanders do share something in common. good neighborhoods. We don’t want shel - They both pronounce “Huge” as “Yuge.” ters in any neighborhoods. We want to I love that money doesn’t buy happiness sweep them off our streets. Our govern - or elections. Hillary and Jeb both have too ment, at times, tries to solve the problem much money, and it’s just not buying by criminalizing poverty. “If you sit, you’ll them any love. John F. Kennedy, while get a ticket.” “Sleep on the sidewalk and campaigning in Texas in 1960, get your stuff thrown out laughed off his father’s money and you may incur a fine.” by joking that his father would With the technological buy an election but wouldn’t The two ability to deliver the best Problem is No Enforcement for Water Wasters pay for a landslide. Yes, the cor - leading medicine in the world, we Dear Editor – I am wondering how construction. I reported the violation much water our city saved in the past twice, one week apart, but nothing was rupting influence of money is candidates of deliver the most expensive, older than our current events. however without the best two months since the city council done. So after three weeks, I gave up I love that Rubio not only the moment outcomes. There are still adopted the most restrictive water usage walking around that corner and repeated the same set piece three represent vast people who have to go into rules. If there are savings, I am curious switched my route. times in the Republican debate differences in bankruptcy, who lose their to know where they actually came from. I found on this new route, people also The people who have abandoned their turning on their sprinklers every night. but the next day repeated a dif - both style and homes, who must get ferent memorized paragraph 30 divorced to qualify for life- lawn, already did so and the people who I had to leave the sidewalk for the street seconds apart. The next day he substance. saving medical care. This is turn on their sprinklers every day still do each time I walked by. I see other resi - repeated a different memorized Trump outrageous. Can we have so without facing any consequences. dents also turning on their sprinklers paragraph 30 seconds apart. obviously some true family values I think the city council was quick in daily. I tried not let the situation both - imposing new restrictions on law-abid - er me. Yes, I just did that on purpose to owns a comb here? show how jarring it is. On the world stage, the ing citizens, but did they allocate any A couple of weeks ago, I thought I I love that Hillary is attacking while Sanders candidates spout mostly resources to enforce the rules or any plan should give the city drought team Wall Street and claims to know doesn’t. nonsense about the Middle to deal with violators? another try, so I called the water tip line, how to reign them in and that East, show no understand - Back in November, I saw that the not once but twice, 13 days apart. And property at the corner of Highland and guess what? The sprinklers are still on $20 million in speakers fees But Trump ing of tribalism in Iraq, doesn’t influence her. Straight Syria or Libya and pretend Orangethorpe had their plants and lawn every night as we speak. faced and irony free. and Sanders that all that is needed is soaked in water every evening, and the Choosing not to cry, I smile at the I love it all, but most of what do share “leadership” to get nations water spilled out onto the sidewalk to inaction, ineffectiveness, and indiffer - we see and hear is about nothing something in and tribes to fight where make it slippery and dirty. I normally ence! would walk on the street instead, but I of substance. The media covers common. we want them to fight and Anonymous Fullerton the horse race and not the to stop fighting where we couldn’t because the street was under issues. The media want an argu - They both want them to stop. My ment not a policy or outcome. pronounce greatest hope is that the CORRECTIONS Most of what politicians and “Huge” as politicians know how PUBLIC COMMENTS $6 MILLION ful death settlement from the city, said media talk about is numbers much they don’t know. “Yuge.” SHOULD HAVE BEEN $4.9 MILLION though he is gagged and can’t talk about and polls, and they stay away Because, if they are really In the Public Comments section of it, councilmembers could get to the from issues (too divisive) or expressing their beliefs that the Early February Council Report an truth of the case by talking to city attor - actual policies (too easy to pick they have competent and error in the amount of the settlement ney Dana Fox, and in that way get the apart). They are risk averse and coherent plans, we are was noticed by a reader. The section truth out to the public and prevent reason averse. truly lost. should have read $4.9 million not $6 future occurrences. “You haven’t signed Watching this election is like the Super But, yes, I confess, I love politics. It does million. Below is the corrected passage anything preventing you from talking,” Bowl. It’s about sports and violence. It’s make a difference who gets elected. The and thanks to our perceptive reader for he said - especially directing his com - about winning and losing. It’s about the Supreme Court is reason enough for the correction: ments to councilmembers Whitaker and spectacle. Lost are the people—the foot - everyone to vote—liberal or conservative. •Ron Thomas, Kelly Thomas’ dad, Sebourn. ball players with broken bones, broken They will examine and implement the dif - who just received a $4.9 million wrong - ED: Sorry for the error. bodies and Chronic Traumatic ficult and complex social issues that our Encephalopathy. politicians fear to engage. ERROR BARS & H OMELESS lems downtown and complaints of issues Watching politics may be entertaining, Can we admit the entertainment values related to increased homelessness. but it is cotton candy and empty calories. of politics but also dare to go deep and PUBLIC COMMENTS : “I would like to make a correction to “But the conveyance of my comments, Where are the people? When will we dis - wrestle with the human issues? It may not “Jane Rands said that the high concentra - cuss not just Flint but the poisonous lead be as much fun but it is far more impor - the comments attributed to me regard - ing the hiring of more police officers at tion of bars in one area is a problem as is infrastructure and the polluted aquifers all tant. the increase in homelessness,” appear as across this nation? Where is a real discus - the January 19 City Council Meeting. “The Observer ’s thorough reporting though I am making that claim independ - sion of air pollution and the actual social www.Dobrer.com discusses Chief Hughes’s presentation ently of Hughes’s assertion. and human costs of mining and burning Follow me on Twitter @jondobrer “I feel it is necessary to clarify what I coal and other carbon-based fuels? arguing for more police based on the increased number of bar related prob - said because later in the meeting, and in Where is an in-depth discussion of reaction to public comments, Chief homelessness? It is an issue in Los Angeles, Hughes contradicted his own argument in Orange County, in America. Mostly HOW TO VOICE YOUR OPINION that the bars and homeless people necessi - the homeless don’t die in our wet winter tated more police. streets as in the east. But far too many do Community Opinion pages are a forum for the community. The “In my comment I was referencing not die—wet, cold and alone. We lump them welcomes letters on any subject of interest. Comments are the only Hughes’s earlier stated justification together as “the homeless.” But that is far Observer opinions of the author, may be shortened for space, and typos corrected. for more police but also that of Fullerton too simple and simplistic. There are single Police Officers Association President parents without a place to live because the We must verify your identity, but you may choose to have only your initials Stewart Hamilton. job went away. They don’t have the money appear in print. Anonymous letters are accepted if the writer can make a “I feel I must also correct the statement for first month’s rent and security deposit. case that revealing their name would be a problem. that I had asked to “add conditional use How will they catch up? There are also SEND TO : permits to the existing ones.” What I did addicted people and mentally ill people— advocate for was “enforcing” the existing some of whom want help and some, mad - [email protected] or conditional use permits with the goal of deningly to many, refuse help. Fullerton Observer, reducing the problems downtown that These are all different populations of PO Box 7051, Fullerton, CA 92834 exhaust police resources.” - Jane Rands people, who have different needs. But ED: Thank you for the clarification. they are all human beings and not one of Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER CITY GOVERNMENT MID FEBRUARY 2016

CITY COUNCIL NOTES At Left: Fullerton The City Council meets at 6:30pm on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Upcoming agenda information and streaming video Police of council meetings are available at www.cityoffullerton.com. Department’s Meetings are broadcast live on Cable Ch 3 and rebroadcast at 3pm and 6pm newest officers the following Wed. & Sun. & 5pm Mon. Tori Thayer City Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton. and Danielle Contact Council at 714-738-6311 or by email to: [email protected] Riedl at their FEB 2 C OUNCIL M EETING (NEXT MEETING F EB 16) academy graduation •C LOSED SESSION ON COYOTE HILLS : Kahng, and Wesley Smith for with Chief City Attorney Jones speaking for contract Infrastructure; William Kahng, Pat Dan Hughes. attorney Jeff Oderman (who deals with McNelly, Aaruni Thakur, Monica everything Chevron-related for the city) Robaldo, and Leana Rai to Resource; PHOTO said the council had voted 4-0 (with one Nicolas Dunlap to the Planning COURTESY FPD abstention) in closed session to execute Commission; and Marty Burbank to the the Tolling Agreement with Friends of CDBG. Coyote Hills regarding the groups pend - •C OYOTE HILLS UPDATE : Jane Rands ing lawsuit against the approval of asked that more of an update be given Chevron’s development plan for the than was provided by the city in its three Fullerton’s Newest Officers Coyote Hills. This extends the decision to line paragraph for agenda item #5. The City council voted 4-1 (Whitaker, no) Fullerton Police Department’s newest April. No further details were given. public would like to hear what grants are at the January 19 meeting to hire five officers. The two graduated from the •ROP: Kathy Kent of North OC ROP being worked on; what funding sources new officers after hearing a report by OC Sheriff’s Regional Training received a proclamation from council for have been found; what the results of the nationwide expert Professor Eric J. Academy on January 14 at the top of the Regional Occupational Program appraisals are; if the dates for acquisition Fritsch of the University of North Texas their classs. Both worked at police agen - which offers career classes to high school have changed or might change due to the Dept. of Criminal Justice, hired by the cies beginning in their late teens. They students. late appraisals; whether the council is con - city to determine the number of officers represent two of the 14 female officers in •D ISTRICT ELECTION MAPPING DEMO : sidering putting a bond before voters; and needed to maintain effectiveness. His the department of 145 officers. Doug Johnson demonstrated the new information on the tolling agreement. report recommended that 23 new offi - Thayer, who grew up in Yorba Linda online program on the city website which City Manager Felz said that the cers be hired over the next five years. and served as a cadet at the Fullerton PD allows the public to draw maps dividing appraisals have been completed for parcel While Chief Hughes agreed with the from 2011 to 2013, is the sixth police the city into districts using various socio- #3 and the entire property and would be report, he asked for and got approval for officer in her family. She graduated from economic data tools. See item “District released by the end of the week. the more incremental approach of hiring CSUF in May 2015 with a bachelor’s Elections Mapping Software Online” on (However, that was not done.) He said five officers immediately, 3 more in degree in public administration. page 5 for further details. that state grants and OCTA M2 funds 2017, 2 more in 2018 and 5 more in Riedl, who grew up in Rancho Santa were being looked into. OUNCIL OMMENTS 2019. He stated that there are fewer offi - Margarita and worked at the CSUF PD C C Councilmember Chaffee said that the •W OMEN POLICE OFFICERS : cers today than there were 30 years ago as a community service officer from appraisal for parcel #1 came in at $9.6 Councilmember Chaffee congratulated despite the increase in population and 2011 to 2015, is the first officer in her million; that the appraisal for parcel #3 at the Fullerton Police Department for hir - the addition of the bar district down - family. She also graduated from CSUF $9.5 million was lower than expected ing two new police officers. Now there are town plus increased homeless issues. in May, majoring in history with a because Chevron followed through on 14 female officers among the 145 total Tori Thayer and Danielle Riedl are minor in criminal justice. deleting the infrastructure costs that it officers in the city. The two new officers, won’t have to install and savings from a Danielle Riedl and Victoria “Tori” different way of providing water (no fur - Councilmember Sebourn suggested that OCWD board, Mayor Protem Flory said Thayer, are both CSUF and OC Sheriff’s ther details on that were offered). City professional memberships could be made she is for monitoring new technologies Department Academy graduates at the Manager Felz clarified that the $9.5 mil - part of the compensation package. All but opposed to the particular Poseidon top of their class. Mayor Fitzgerald asked lion was only an estimate. Chaffee said agreed to end the membership in the Desalination Plant currently being pro - Captain Rudisil to bring the two new offi - staff will be meeting with a land and water League of California Cities. Public Works posed because of the enormous cost to cers to the next council meeting so the conservatory working group in Director Hoppe said that he would bring taxpayers for construction of the plant council could welcome them to the force. Sacramento in February which should back information on why the city is pay - which then will produce water at double •C ITY OWNED PROPERTY : open the door to further funds. He said ing $2,800 in membership dues to the the cost of expensive imported water and Councilmember Whitaker asked for a sta - that the city is asking for equity or at least Municipal Water District of OC at a because expanding the existing groundwa - tus on his request for a list of all city- 20% of M2 funding which has mostly future meeting. Passed 5-0 ter replenishment program would achieve owned properties. City Manager Felz said gone to south county. •F IREWORKS : City Clerk Lucinda a more cost effective solution. that the report would be coming at the •C ITY MEMBERSHIPS : Public speaker Williams gave an overview of the city fire - Mayor Fitzgerald suggested adding an second meeting in March. Staff is waiting David Curlee asked why the city is paying works program which permits 15 safe & item opposing the US EPA taking over for the state’s decision on what redevelop - for employees to be members of various sane fireworks stands selected by lottery to the North Basin plume cleanup contend - ment properties will be transfered back to associations such as Police Chiefs non-profits. Last year non-profits made ing that local business had solutions and the city. Association; OC Sheriffs Assoc., City $1,567 to $26,199 per group on sales. that the EPA involvement would just pro - BUSINESS Managers Association, City Planners Increasing the fees to cover city costs of long the issue for another 30 years. She •A PPOINTMENTS : Councilmember Assoc., etc. He questioned several other managing the program will be taken up in was overruled by the other councilmem - Whitaker reappointed Zonya Townsend city memberships such as OC Business a public hearing in the future. The one bers. Mayor Protem Flory said that “the to the Library Board and deferred his Assoc., United Way, OC Dept. of group per school rule was discussed. cleanup had been stalled for 50 years until appointment to the Transportation & Education, etc., and said that if these and Councilmember Sebourn suggested drop - the EPA recently got involved. Now there Circulation Committee to the next meet - other memberships which do not benefit ping that rule. Mayor Fitzgerald said it are regular meetings and responsible par - ing. the city were dropped we could hire an prevented one school from taking all the ties are finally taking the cleanup serious - Mayor Fitzgerald and Mayor Protem additional police officer. lottery spaces. Applications from non- ly. The contamination is diving down to Flory both remarked on the very qualified Mayor Protem Flory asked him why he profits will be accepted in March with the the middle aquifer and if not stopped will applicants they had interviewed for the at- refused to meet with Nicole Bernard who lottery allocations presented at the April be a major problem. We have a chance to large committee and commission posi - had offered to meet to explain each item. 19 council meeting. Stands may be set up get it under control. If our groundwater is tions. They selected Elizabeth Hansberg The information is available to you but on June 30 and sales can take place from contaminated the business community and Darren Jones for Transportation & you won’t meet with staff. She encouraged July 1st through July 4th. Everything will suffer along with us.” Circulation; John Shaffer, William him to meet with Ms. Bernard. must be removed by July 5. Passed 4-1 Councilmember Whitaker agreed saying (Sebourn, no) he did not want to put local taxpayers on LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM the hook for the cleanup. Councilmember Library: In answer to a question from Sebourn said it was too big an issue for Councilmember Whitaker, Library one city. Director Maureen Gebelein explained All supported the Bay Delta that the item supporting library funding Conservation Plan to prevent hundreds of was necessary because the state’s regular thousands of acre feet of water to drain $200,000 per year funding ended 4 or 5 into the San Francisco Bay. years ago and it is not expected to be rein - stated. •F EB . 16 C OUNCIL AGENDA FORECAST : Water: Several water quality items were West Coyote Hills Update; District discussed including an item monitoring Election Update; MSRC Grant and offering community pro and con edu - Acceptance; Downtown Fullerton Parking cation on water desalination technologies. Conditions Report; Hunt Library/Grace It was decided to go with the general International Lease, Banking Contracts wording instead of highlighting specific and more. projects. Fullerton’s representative on the MID FEBRUARY 2016 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5 CollegeTown Public Hearing by Jane Rands After eight years of planning and community meetings the Planning Commission found the CollegeTown Specific Plan (SP) is not yet ready to go to the City Council. Residents from neighborhoods near CSUF, to the south and west of the plan area, showed up in full force to ensure that their voices would finally be heard. And they were. The Commission voted unanimously to postpone the item to a date uncer - tain with the expectation that many of the changes requested at the public hearing would be incorporated into a revised plan. The plan applicants, CSUF, Hope International University (HIU), and the City of Fullerton hired the professional planning firm PlaceWorks to craft a vision of a "college town" with high density, Mixed-Use Specific Plan for 70+ acres of university-related facilities, student and faculty residential, commercial mixed-use housing with "wrap-around" retail as well as office, commer - retail, and open space Area bordered by Nutwood Ave., 57 Freeway, Chapman Ave. and State College Blvd. cial, and institutional uses. It would essentially be a lot more of what because the housing and the other uses in the ipated from increased density. But residents also the University House apartments at Commonwealth and Chapman plan have opposite peak parking hours (10am offered alternatives such as a bridge over look like now, except taller. The plan is seen as an opportunity to versus 10pm) that the overall parking could be Nutwood to move student onto campus and increase market-rate housing for students who might otherwise com - reduced by up to 2000 spaces. Commissioner lowering the building heights as a way to reduce mute to the universities. Dunlap further questioned whether even the 1.95 the density, thus lessen the number of cars. While this sounds like a good idea, the After hearing spaces per unit parking standard would be ade - There were others who expressed more unique implementation turned into a wide-reaching a consistent quate if there were 3.75 residents per unit based concerns, such as the two residents who would re-zoning of 88 acres with the potential to fur - message from on the current average. be getting a sound wall, and either a one way ther frustrate surrounding neighborhood resi - the community, Karen Haluza, Director of Community street or reduced parking in front of their homes dents with more traffic and parking problems. it became evident Development, explained that they cannot predict on the East Chapman frontage road. “I really The real kicker that stirred so much opposi - to the Planning the occupancy rate. "Some units could have 3.75 don’t want to see a wall,” said Gina Arriaga. tion was the plan to close Nutwood Avenue Commission that and some could have 1." Luis Estevez, City of Placentia Public Works and turn it into a pedestrian plaza, essentially, After hearing that intersections with currently Manager, said the EIR failed to recognize the pushing more 57 freeway bound traffic onto the concerns of the residents had not poor Levels of Service (LOS) ratings would be traffic impacts to Placentia as cited in a letter already overburden East Chapman Avenue further impaired when projects within the plan submitted by their city attorney. A representa - and Yorba Linda Boulevard. been properly are built, thus requiring some major construc - tive from the owner of University Plaza and Before the public comments started, the considered. tion, Commissioner Bennett asked whether the College Square said they don’t want to share Commission members queried the city staff, improvements would boost the LOS. The con - their parking because they already have to tow traffic consultant, and planning consultants on some key issues. sultant explained that the developer funded traf - students from their lots now. Commission Chair Shanfield questioned why the poor air quality iden - fic mitigation (estimated at $3.5 million) cannot Many residents argued against rezoning the tified in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) could not be mitigat - be used to make improvements beyond the exist - two commercial areas on the northeast (PA 6) ed. A PlaceWorks planner explained that the "unavoidable impact" was ing LOS. and southeast (PA 7) corners of State College due to the plan allowing housing within 100 feet of the 57 freeway. Nearly forty residents spoke, many proudly and Chapman. The potential loss of the only New Planning Commission member, Nicholas Dunlap, asked how a proclaiming the number of decades they have grocery store on the east end of town, Smart & shared parking district would affect the city standard requirement for lived in their neighborhood. But even more sat Final, as well as other stores that serve perma - 1.95 parking spaces per dwelling unit. A consultant explained that or stood inside and outside the Council Chamber nent residents and students alike to more hous - applauding to signify when a ing would not serve the community well. speaker’s comments resonated with Resident Scott Hess also pointed out that District Elections Community Meeting their own opinion. The most rezoning PA 7 to five stories would be “incom - common opposition heard was to patible” with the residential neighborhoods to Schedule and Online Mapping Software the closure of Nutwood and the the south. Residents interested in creating their traffic and parking problems antic - Continued on page 9 own district boundary maps may visit CityofFullerton.com and click on the “District Election Mapping” icon to locate the application and draft a map for consideration. In addition to the online mapping software, community meetings will begin later this month to gather citizen input on the mapping process in a work - shop setting. The meetings will be held: •Saturday, February 27, 10:30am- 12:30pm: Maple Neighborhood Center at Lemon Park, 701 N. Lemon Street. •Thursday, March 3, 6:30-8:30pm: Parks Junior High School, 1710 Rosecrans Avenue. •Tuesday, March 8, 6:30-8:30pm: Orangethorpe United Methodist Church, 2351 W. Orangethorpe Avenue. •Thursday, March 10, 6:30-8:30pm: Fullerton EV Free Church, 2904 Brea Blvd., Room NC190. For more information on the digital mapping software or to register to attend a community meeting, please email dis - [email protected] or call Lucinda Williams, City Clerk, at (714) 738-6355. Page 6 FULLERTON OBSERVER The DOWNTOWN Report © 2016 MID FEBRUARY 2016 text & photos by Mike Ritto [email protected]

TODAY Right now, yes today, you can see new works of art all over downtown. All The Hearts are here and there and everywhere Above: Fullerton in the 1940s when it so come down and take a look. DOWNTOWN TIME TRAVEL included “The Famous,” department store chain. The “FAMOUS” sign can be seen in It’s a fun yet unbelievable fact- some of Hidden behind layers of plaster or con - the photo above and, although extremely DOWNTOWN the stars we see at night no longer exist. crete are the original brick walls laid near - faded, is still visible on the side of the They went ‘supernova’ but the light from ly a hundred years ago. The names of long Chapman Building today, if you take a PARKING them has taken so long to get to us, we are gone contractors who built our sidewalks really, really close look. See photo below left. looking into the past and still see them as and utilities are scattered here and there. Parking is always an issue, and there are they were many years ago. Einstein had Even signs of a long gone mode of trans - solutions. The deal is, which solution do something to say about time and space, portation are still here. you want? Tear down buildings for more but it does not take a genius or a cus - Those exterior brick walls were often parking and you have a downtown with a tomized DeLorean automobile to see into the main source of identity for buildings lot of parking lots instead of a walkable the past here in our town. and what was going on inside those his - downtown with lots of nice buildings and All one needs is a good eye, and maybe toric places. Early on the south side of the places to shop and dine. a good camera. As weather and UV light Chapman Building read “Chaneys” and in Doing nothing is an option. How gang up to peel back layers of paint, some the late ’40s it read “The Famous” when it about keeping things pretty much as they signs from the past are revealing them - housed a link in a fairly well known if not are but spread the word that there IS park - selves. actually famous department store chain. ing available if you are willing to search a bit? Yes, I know, that does not sound groundbreaking but recent studies show areas that actually are under utilized, so we have to find a way to get that info when we arrive or even ahead of time. Some ideas are circulating and if you want to know more, or make some suggestions of your own, be at the next City Council meeting on Tuesday, February 16th at 6:30pm. Other local cities charge for parking in busy lots and on busy streets. Some have up to date website information and also offer an app for smartphones. We should explore all options and do what works best for all of us so we can easily Shop Fullerton First.

Interesting clues from the past can be found all around town.

GOOD YEAR : The Observer got a few calls about the low-flying Goodyear Blimp seen slowly traveling over the town on Wednesday, February 10. One spectator wondered if it might be taking photos for Google Earth but that is unlikely as Google uses satellites to get those photos. MID FEBRUARY 2016 PHOTO QUIZ, NEWS & CROSSWORD FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7

Fullerton CERT C LASSES OUR TOWN CROSSWORD © 2016 Free Community Emergency “H APPY CHINESE NEW YEAR ” by Valerie Brickey (answer key on page 19) Response Team classes in basic disaster Photo Quiz training for residents will be held from 8am-5pm on Saturdays, March 5, 12, and 19, at the Fullerton Maintenance Yard, 1580 W. Commonwealth. Sign up by calling 714-773-1316 to register or online under Fire Department CERT Training link at www.cityof - fullerton,com. Haunted Full Moon Walking Tour There is a full moon rising! The Fullerton Museum Center will mark the occasion with a special Haunted Fullerton Full Moon Walking Tour on Monday, February 22, from 6pm- 8:30pm. To register, please call the Museum at (714)738-6545. Cost of the tour is $18 for general admission, and $15 for Museum members. Patterned after the popular “Haunted Fullerton Walking Tours” QUESTION : offered in the fall, the Haunted Fullerton Full Moon Tour will include What long gone mode of trans - visits and stories surrounding proper - portation is this item pictured at right ties and locations around the city, start - for and where is it located? ing at the Museum Center and ending at the Villa Del Sol with prepaid SEND YOUR ANSWER TO MIKE at refreshments and paranormal investiga - 38. American non-females? [email protected] ACROSS tion. Prior to the tour, attendees can 1. Concur 40. ___ vera meet and ask questions of representa - 6. California wine valley 41. Drain LAST ISSUE ’S QUESTION : tives with the North Orange County 10. “Dancing Queen” group 42. Ready and willing’s partner This is world renown pedal steel guitar Paranormal Society (N.O.P.S.), from 14. Shyly 43. Break away player Greg Leisz (pictured below. Which 5:30-6 p.m. The Haunted Fullerton 15. Singles 45. Make certain Fullerton high school did he attend? Full Moon Walking Tour includes 16. Thick slice 47. “___ rather be right than wrong” approximately 1.5 miles of walking and 17. Jungle gyms 48. Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor ANSWER : the use of stairs. Attendees are encour - 19. Hombre’s home 52. The ___ atmosphere Greg Leisz made an impression on his aged to pre-register for the popular 20. Opposite of WSW 53. Gold: prefix late 1960’s classmates, when he attended event and to wear appropriate 21. Red or Black 54. Yellowfin tuna Sunny Hills High School. footwear. Tours are not recommended 22. Sports venues 57. French cleric for children under 13 years old. The 24. “Well I’ll be a ___” (amazed) 58. “Day Dream Believer” pop group Fullerton Museum Center is located at 27. Succeed 62. Scorch 301 N. Pomona Ave. 30. Cleared 63. Salinger title character 31. The winning side in World War II 64. Garlicky mayonnaise Metrolink Tickets 33. Unpleasant smell, in literature 65. Sea eagles 34. Play part 66. Savagely claw 2 for Price of 1 67. Comes down safely During 91 Shutdown 37. Slog (through)

The 91 will be closed from the 71 to DOWN 29. Hit’s opposite I-15, Fri., Feb. 19 at 9pm, to Monday, 1. Company used by Wile E. Coyote 32. Parts of a larger task Feb. 22 at 4am, to allow for construc - 2. Thug 34. Sheltered, at sea tion activities. Motorists are urged to 3. Second baseman Sandberg 35. Buffalo Bill ___ steer clear of the construction area dur - 4. Antlered animal 36. Angry, with “off” ing that time. Those traveling on the 5. Blight 39. Urban renewal target 91, the 71 or I-15 can expect travel 6. Type of easy to make dessert 40. Sore delays of three to four hours. 7. Santa ___ winds 42. Egyptian cross All 91 Line and Inland Empire- 8. Pay-___-view 44. Enduring Orange County Line Metrolink tickets 9. Hired killers 45. Records CORRECTION will be 2 for the price of 1 on Sat. & The editor added incorrect info that 10. Climb 46. Nail polish Sun. Feb. 20 & 21 due to the closure. Greg had played at this year’s NAMM 11. Toon voice Mel 48. Discontinue Visit www.sr91project.info/91-steer- event. Sorry for the error. 12. Bottom layer 49. Nobel prize winning chemist Fritz clear, or email [email protected], or 13. Degrade 50. Country singer Keith call the helpline at 877-770-9191. 18. It’s made in Japan 51. Former Dodgers pitcher 23. Regretted Hong-Chih 24. Like Alice from “The Brady Bunch” 54. Long time 25. Online actor Cesar? 55. Maintained 26. Bush’s alma mater 56. Dog’s name on “Downton Abbey” 27. Openings 59. Tax-advantage med. plan 28. Earthen pot 60. Cousin of an ostrich 61. Sedona car maker Page 8FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL NEWS MID FEBRUARY 2016

continued from frontpage waste water at a water treatment plant in for OCWD to determine who might buy OCWD Desalination Plan Carson. But this option was criticized by the water since OCWD will be required Director Sheldon who said there were hid - to purchase all of it whether or not it is On top of this, the poorly formed pub - (O&M) costs between $4 and $5 million. den costs that would make it more expen - needed. lic/private partnership would also burden The large amount of water recharge sive the other MWD water. Flory recommended the more conserva - the OCWD rate payers with the cost of would actually create a need for water pro - Director Roger Yoh asked for addition - tive approach of completing the GWRS building and maintaining a water distri - ducers, such as Fullerton’s water agency, to al analysis to include the Carson source expansion and then considering whether bution system for Poseidon’s water. construct additional wells, pipelines and and analysis of the worst case scenario OCWD might build a desalination facili - Currently, even under drought condi - pump stations to extract more water. The where none of the Poseidon ty rather than buying water from tions, the water needs of most of Orange impacts of recharging with water is used, yet OCWD Poseidon. County are met by either imported water water with a higher salinity would have to pay for it. Board President Kathy Green argued in from the Colorado River or the California would have to be analyzed by Fullerton’s During the Public favor of replacing MWD water with Water Project via MWD or from the the Environmental Impact water agency Comments a host of local Poseidon’s water because OCWD is cur - water basin managed by OCWD. Some Report. would have environmental groups and rently receiving less from MWD than cities in OC negotiate their water from A less costly recharge Orange County activists agreed to. "I don't want to be dependent MWD via the Municipal Water District option (1D) at $160 million to construct opposed the Poseidon proj - on someone who tells me how much of OC (MWDOC). But Fullerton, like and O&M around $2.7 mil - additional wells, ect. IRWD General water I can and cannot have." Santa Ana and Anaheim, is a member of lion would utilize facilities pipelines and Manager Paul Cook and Flory retorted that Poseidon would have MWD with longstanding direct access to planned for the GWRS pump stations IRWD Director Peer Swan just as much power over OCWD with the MWD water. Fullerton’s water agency expansion. The $131 million asked that the Poseidon water requirement to buy Poseidon’s water. also pumps more than two-thirds of its option (2A) with O&M at to extract at a minimum meet the same Director Roger Yoh joined Flory’s opposi - water from 11 wells in Fullerton and $3 million would sell 8 mil - more water. quality standards as MWD tion questioning whether the $60 to $100 other cities. Even with the additional lion gallons of water per day water if it is to be pumped million per year expenditure to “to buy costs of the highly successful Ground to Newport Beach and into the water basin. water we don’t need” was justifiable under Water Replenishment System (GWRS), Huntington Beach and Fullerton’s appointee to the board, the guise of “water reliability.” well water remains the most cost efficient would also utilize GWRS expansion infra - Mayor Pro Tem Jan Flory, expressed con - The directors did come together to source. But the Poseidon project threat - structure. To make up for the lost capac - cern on a number of issues. She ques - unanimously agree to continue studying ens to negatively impact both the cost and ity intended for the GWRS expansion, tioned why the Citizen’s Advisory the options as planned, excluding the quality of the groundwater. another $200 million of facilities would Committee was never allowed to consider three basin recharge options with a cost Many distribution options were consid - be needed to continue expansion plans. alternatives to Poseidon water and the no greater than $300 million. ered by the board. But without an identi - In addition, some infrastructure would bid selection of Poseidon with a 50-year The next study session will be at the fied need for this water, the water could have to be constructed by water producers water purchase agreement and with regular March 2 board meeting and will really go anywhere. All or portions of the to support the higher pumping rate and OCWD taking the responsibility for look at other topics such as water water could be injected into the ground to the on-going additional pumping cost building the delivery system. demands, water supply, desalinated used prevent saltwater intrusion into the fresh - expected to be about $80 per acre foot. She did not support compromising the for irrigation, and water chemistry. The water aquifer or to recharge the basin. It Three other configurations (2B, 3, and GWRS expansion as well as asking pro - board will also be asking Poseidon to could be pumped up stream to infiltration 4) at costs ranging from $97 to $161 mil - ducers like Fullerton to build new facili - begin funding the EIR prior to wining an basins to recharge the aquifer. Or it could lion and O&M at $2.5 million would sell ties to support increased pumping. She approval from the California Coastal be piped directly to an end user. The cost more water but would first require suggested waiting to see how well Commission (which, by the way, had and schedule for installing and maintain - approval from the West OC Water Board Poseidon’s project in Carlsbad does and been turned down in the past.) ing different combinations of these and the selling price may not even recoup options were considered for a variety of the full cost OCWD will be paying to locations. Poseidon. If state conservation require - The first three options (1A, 1B, and ments continue, these options may not be City Answers Reader’s Question 1C) are variations on recharge locations to feasible with cities limited in the amount put desalinated water into the ground. of water they may be able to take. on Mountain View Park Leak These have the highest implementation Another wrinkle to the discussion of Fullerton’s Public Works Director Don op enough pressure (at least 40~50 psi) to costs, each over $300 million, and an what to do with all this extra water is that Hoppe sent an email to answer a reader’s utilize the new irrigation system. annual operating and maintenance MWD is considering treating LA River question on why the Mountain View Park •The volume is so low, there would not leak water, now diverted through a French be any area that could completely separate drain, isn’t being used during the drought from the potable system, and we would to keep landscaping at the park alive. See then be maintaining two systems. below: •If the City were to “use” this new “The following may help provide a little ground water source, the Orange County insight as to the issues associated with the Water District would consider this essen - use of this water. tially the same as a well and the City •This source is not certified as potable would most likely be required to pay the water. Any “irrigation” use would have to standard Pump Tax. be part of a dedicated reclaimed water sys - •The City spent months and tens of tem. This type of system does not current - thousands of dollars in an unsuccessful ly exist in this area. Signage warning the attempt to determine the source. To this public wherever it might be used would day there is no way of determining when also be required. or if the flow would stop. Bottom line •A totally new irrigation piping with a really is: this water is not “free” in any main feed line, laterals and sprinkler heads sense of the word. would need to be installed parallel with •The water ultimately flows into Craig the existing system. regional park and is retained along with •The water that is produced is relatively other surface water runoff behind minor and low volume. To capture Fullerton dam, where upon, it then perco - enough water to even begin to have lates back into the ground water. We have enough for a single irrigation cycle we the water tested at least once a year to con - would need to find a location to build a firm that when it enters the surface storm tank/reservoir nearby. Not really probable water system (curb and gutter on State in a public park space. The City would College) it is not contaminated.” need to provide power to a jockey pump Director Hoppe says he will send the to get the water in the tank and then a sec - most recent water report when it is com - ond one adjacent to the reservoir to devel - pleted. Stay tuned. MID FEBRUARY 2016 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 9

OCTA to Vote on Changes by Jane Reifer Plan Still Eliminates or Cuts 19 Routes But Offers Some Fixes The Orange County Transit Authority A proposal to extend the hours of recently proposed a Bus Service Plan operation for the Same-Day Taxi NUTWOOD that would reallocate money from Program and to test a pilot program that NUTWOOD lower-ridership lines to provide more eliminates the $3.60 per trip Same-Day MIXED service on higher-ridership lines in an Taxi Program transfer cost will be con - RESIDENTIAL MIXED attempt to address a 30% ridership sidered for ACCESS paratransit-eligible E USE

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Huntington Beach, Yorba Linda, over, the public may still attend and give Mission Viejo, and San Clemente. The comments before the Board of Directors E T changes, if approved, are scheduled for votes on the revised proposal. A T the June and October 2016 bus service OCTA Bus Service Plan 2016 Board S ENTRY RESIDENTIAL changes. Vote will take place at 9am, Monday RESIDENTIAL Of the original 35 route recommenda - February 22, 2016, at OCTA tions, almost half were modified in some Headquarters, 600 South Main Street, manner based on public feedback, in Orange. The plan is online at CHAPMAN AVENUE including retaining access to transporta - http://atb.octa.net/AgendaPDF/8955.p tion centers and interregional service. df Above: In June the OCTA Board will evaluate For more information contact Transit Map of the proposed community circulators that Advocates of Orange County at: proposed uses may provide some restoration of service [email protected] for different due for elimination in October. (949) 329-TAOC (8262) areas. Proposals for these routes have not been www.facebook.com/transitadvocatesoc submitted at the current time. At Left: Artist sketch of Proposed Changes to Fullerton Bus Routes the proposed plaza which 20 – Imperial Hwy – Initial proposal: Improve peak headway from 30 to 15 would shut Eliminate completely. Current proposal: min. on short-line and from 40 to 30 down traffic Same. min. off-peak on Nutwood. 26 – Commonwealth Ave. / Yorba Current proposal: Keep service to Linda Blvd. Initial proposal: Cut east Fullerton Park and Ride. Revise fre - end back to Rose (missing Nixon quency to 20-minute peak and 40- Library and YL Main St.) minute off-peak service. COLLEGE TOWN PUBLIC HEARING Continued from page 5 Improve frequency to 15 minutes 37 – Euclid - Initial proposal: Three people spoke in favor of the plan and for construction of a pedestrian from Fullerton Park-and-Ride and Reroute and extend south end to South as presented. One was Steve Lamont, bridge rather than a closure of Nutwood. CSUF. Coast Plaza via MacArthur and Flower. Director of Building Affairs for the •Commissioner Silber was the most Improve frequency to 30 minutes Alternating trips clockwise/counter - Building Industry Association, who was supportive of the plan stating, "If we from CSUF to Yorba Linda and Rose. clockwise around new north terminus heckled by the audience asking, “Where don't do this, there will be a continued Current proposal: Same. loop (Whittier, Euclid, Harbor, and do you live?” degrading of the neighborhood.” He did - 29 /529 – Beach Blvd. Initial propos - Lambert). Peak headway improved from A representative from Hope University n’t ask for any changes, but supported the al: Add new limited-stop route 529 30 to 15 min; off-peak headway from 40 read a letter to the Commission arguing time extension saying, "I'm hoping we from Fullerton Park-and-Ride to to 30 min. that the plan should be accepted because can iron out what we are supposed to iron Goldenwest Transportation Ctr. Current proposal: Keep the current it was modeled after developments at out." Current proposal: Defer until new southern routing that serves the other universities. Michael Badal, CSUF •Chair Shanfield expressed a desire to funding can be found. Fountain Valley Crossings Specific Plan ASI President braved the unsympathetic hear more from the applicant universities 30 – Orangethorpe Ave. – Initial pro - area. The route would not be extended room noting that he does live in the when the plan comes before the posal: Cut west end back to Cerritos along Talbert Avenue/MacArthur neighborhood and hoped that the plan Commission again. She clearly stated that Towne Center and east end to Anaheim Boulevard to the South Coast Plaza area, projects would attract CSUF graduates to she is against the plan because it is too Canyon Metrolink. based on keeping Route 76 on stay in Fullerton and “help the City pros - dense, results in poor air quality, and Short-line between Fullerton Park & MacArthur Boulevard. per.” because the closure of Nutwood would Ride and State College. Improve service New: 47 – Lemon St. / Anaheim / After hearing a consistent message from not be beneficial. She too recommended to 15 minutes on short-line and 30 min - Fairview – Initial proposal: None. the community, it became evident to the no change to the current commercial uses utes on long-line. Current proposal: Extend to Balboa Planning Commission that the concerns zoned in PA 6 and PA 7 and asked that Current proposal: Retain existing Pier area (due to loss of Route 71). of the residents had not been properly residential uses be moved away from the routing and only improve the frequency Frequency reduction to 15 min. considered by the plan. However, the freeway. to 30 minutes along the entire route. 721 – Express to Los Angeles Initial commission members were not consistent •Commissioner Johnson sternly chas - 35 – Brookhurst – Initial proposal: proposal: Realign route to end at in the changes they stated they would like tised residents for being “uncivil” earlier Eliminate service from Brookhurst and Harbor Gateway Transit Center with to see to the plan. in the night. She then promptly told Commonwealth to the Fullerton Park- riders transferring to Metro Silver Line •Commission Vice Chair Gambino them, “I’m going to bring the bad news and-Ride and from Brookhurst and OR keep direct routing to Downtown said he supports the density in the sec - that we are going to continue to grow. If Hamilton to the beach. Short-line from Los Angeles and streamline by removing tions nearest CSUF and shutting down we do nothing we will still have the park - Brookhurst and Commonwealth to service on 5th, 6th, and 8th streets. Nutwood “with significant improve - ing, traffic, and air quality problems.” Talbert. Current proposal: Implement second ments.” But he also supported removing But she agreed that the plan “needs more option. PA 6 and PA 7 from the plan. He led the work” and the community’s concerns had discussion for more time. “It would not not been addressed. “I'd rather see the be serving the person who appointed me residents be a partner in planning the well if I was to push this forward now." area.” •Commissioner Bennett said that •Commissioner Pendergraft cau - CSUF “has not addressed the long stand - tioned the audience, “Don’t assume com - ing parking issues” that should have been missioners have made up their mind resolved before presenting a plan that before you come here.” He asked for “isn't solving the parking problem.” “If more public hearings and stated his non- the president of the University were here, support for a Business Improvement I'd say, ‘You haven't been a good neigh - District, the sound wall, and the closure bor.’" He dismissed the parking manage - of Nutwood, due to lack of justification. ment district as “another layer of govern - Though the Commission chose to ment” and recommended that all students postpone making a recommendation to be required to pay for a parking pass in the City Council for or against their student fees. He also suggested that CollegeTown, CSUF can still move for - the city fund traffic circulation improve - ward with redeveloping the state-owned ments from the general fund prior to con - area in this Specific Plan. Additional stu - sidering the closure of Nutwood. He sup - dent housing or any other land use change ported removing the Nutwood closure CSUF might choose to implement on and PA 6 and PA 7 from the plan. that one parcel of seven in the SP area •Commissioner Dunlap asked for could move forward without any city removal of PA 6 and PA 7 from the plan approvals. Page 10 FULLERTON OBSERVER EDUCATION & COLUMNISTS MID FEBRUARY 2016

SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTES Kids Rule! by Francine Vudoti © 2016 by Jan Youngman Francine is a local 9-year-old student who enjoys writing, video games, playing piano, composing music and playing with friends and family. Fullerton School District Board meets at 6pm on 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month at district headquarters, HANDY FLU & C OLDS GUIDE FOR KIDS 1401 W. Valencia Dr., Fullerton, 92833. For agenda go to: www.fsd.k12.ca.us or call 714-447-7400 Have you ever had a flu or a cold? Have weak immune system, or people who lack you experienced having chills, fever, colds, sleep/rest, or are stressed out are most like - cough, and body aches altogether? Have ly to get sick. Jan. 12 FSD Board Meeting (next meeting March 8) you woke up in the morning with either a How do we cure the flu or cold virus? •New Cabinet Position: (Approved 5- ed recommended improvements expect - running or clogged nose? You feel fine so People usually take medicines from the 0) Superintendent Pletka recommended ed to reduce the district’s utility costs by you go ahead with your day then you start pharmacy. However, from my experience, that the board approve the new executive 7%. Projects include: exterior lighting coughing and realize you cannot ignore I am able to get rid of the virus by using cabinet position of Assistant for all schools; replace all district lighting the symptoms anymore. natural strategies I learned from my mom. Superintendent of Innovation and with LED lights; refrigeration for the Colds and flu usually happen to people You might want to try these: Instructional Support and that Jay central kitchen; more efficient gym light - during winter because of the cold weath - •Drink hot water that has been boiled McPhail fill the position. The new posi - ing at Ladera Vista; multipurpose room er. How do you know you got the bug? with ginger several times daily. tion will replace the coordinator position and gym central controls at all schools Check out these symptoms: you wake up •Take ¼ teaspoon of honey with lemon of Chief Technology Officer which Mr. except for Parks; and the replacement of one day and your nose is congested; you in the morning and at night. McPhail currently holds. Mr. McPhail Parks Jr. High’s inefficient HVAC system can only breathe on one side; you get up •Use a humidifier or inhale steam from will directly report to the superintend - which will require temporary classrooms and you feel very cold up to your bones; the shower to ease clogged nose and mois - ent. McPhail previously reported to during project construction. Total cost you start sneezing realize your throat is turize nasal passages. Educational Services. for all improvements is $9.7 million with achy, too. •Apply Eucalyptus chest rub. Afterschool and early childhood pro - $2.7 million coming from Prop 39 fund - It is definitely not your lucky day. You •Poke a hole in a fresh onion and put it grams will now report to Educational ing, and $7 million from facility funding even have a headache and your body feels beside the bed where you sleep to absorb Services rather than Personnel Services. including developer fees, state funds, and weird. If you totally run out of luck, you your viruses. •St Jude: FSD thanked Mr. Barry Ross the district’s general fund. can even get a fever. Your throat continues •Gargle with warm water and salt to and Ms. Tracy Bryars representing St. •Vaccination Exemption Extended: to bother you and you start coughing. soothe achy throat. Jude Medical Center for providing fund - Approved 5-0. Resolution to request the Suddenly, you realize, you caught the bug. •Rest and enjoy some chicken noodle ing for a part-time coordinator at the dis - state representatives to extend the vacci - Many people are not sure if what they soup while watching a funny movie in trict to help promote wellness to district nation exemption to June 1, 2016 for have is flu or a simple cold. You know it bed. students and families. parents requesting exemption for their is simple cold if you have itchy throat, •Get plenty of sleep. •Fisler School Report: Principal Lee children. Three parents thanked the running or clogged nose and cough. It is How can we prevent the viruses from described the many awards that the board for responding to their request to a flu when it becomes more serious such making us sick? First of all, we should try school received this past year: Apple, extend the exemption time. as you have chills, fever, and body aches. to be healthy and strong so we can fight California Business for Education, 2016 •Audit Report: Approved 4-0 How do we catch the cold or flu virus? viruses better. Eat nutritious food, drink Costco Foundation School, and a (Thompson stepped out of the room) It is easy. These viruses are spread by air lots of water, take probiotics (yakult, Southern California Edison Grant. District auditors Nigro, Nigro & White when someone who has it sneezes without yogurt), play and exercise everyday, get Presenting a very informative imovie, presented results of the audit giving the covering her mouth. These viruses are plenty of sleep and stay happy. Principal Lee profiled the new leadership district a “Clean” rating. also found on the surface of almost every - I know cousins colds and flu are not the training program for students and the •CSEA new labor tentative contract thing - tables, doors, counters. When sick most popular cousins in the world. They many unique programs at the school agreement: Approved 5-0 people touch these surfaces and you touch are among the most unwelcome guests in including app development for 4th •Public Comments: Mr. Imbriano, a them, too, the viruses can transfer to you. our lives. They always ruin our days, even graders, photography, animation and community member, asked that the What makes some people sick while weeks. I hope my Flu & Colds Virus rocketry. Many of these programs are December 8, 2015, Board Minutes be others don’t get sick even if both are Handy Guide will be helpful to everyone coordinated by a group of active parent revised to include the written documen - exposed to the virus? People who have a for the rest of the winter season. volunteers. tation that he had previously provided •Proposition 39: Approved 5-0. the board requesting that the district Schneider Energy Management present - turn off wireless systems in the schools. Fullerton Technology Foundation Gifts SCHOOL PURPOSE AMOUNT Beechwood software, licenses, classroom supplies $1,017 Fisler technology supplies $235 Fisler Adobe Illustrator for 4th grade $4,400 Fisler Ozobots for middle school $2,150 Golden Hill iPads $880 Hermosa Dr. technology $2,868 Ladera Vista for the school $45 Maple for the school $25 Richman STEAM $840 Valencia Park Brain Pop software $220 Valencia Park robotics $1,500 Five District Trustee Area Boundaries Approved by County At its regular meeting on February 4th, The district has been working through held at the FSD’s boardroom, the the process since July of 2015. County Committee on School District Outreach included public hearings at Organization approved Fullerton School three regular board meetings, communi - District’s proposed change to its method ty meetings held at all the comprehensive of electing trustees to a by-trustee area junior high schools in the district, out - process, as well as the five new trustee reach to parents, numerous site meetings, area boundaries. The new method of meetings with PTA, district foundations, election and map areas will go into effect bargaining units, and other groups, calls for the November 2016 election. through the district’s all-call system, and The FSD board approved Resolution extensive use of social media. 15/16-12, establishing the boundaries County Committee members also for the five trustee areas (Map scenario complimented the FSD board on its 2a), in a 3-1-1 vote (Berryman abstain - decision to direct the demographer, who ing and Meyer opposed) at its Jan. 12 drew up the maps, to NOT consider meeting. Approval was needed from the addresses of current board members County Committee to forward the when developing the proposed maps. In change to the State Board of Education. his presentation, Larry Ferchaw from the At the County Committee meeting, Dolinka group noted that he only members saluted the district for its open became aware of board member’s and transparent process in changing the addresses after the process was complete. election method and choosing the maps. MID FEBRUARY 2016 COLUMNISTS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 11

At Left: Walt Disney modeled the Swiss Family Robinson Tree-house at Disneyland after the Moreton Bay Fig Tree in Founders' Park.

Standing inside the entryway, visitors Revolution and was moved from its origi - are able to peer down a long hallway. At nal location at the corner of Anaheim the end of the hallway, I found myself in Boulevard and Cypress Street to its cur - a sun-bleached room, housing various rent location in Founders’ Park. For twen - Victorian costumes and portraits of previ - ty years, the house was used as a meeting ous occupants. The dining room, with an spot for the Daughters of the American orderly dinner table and candles, made Revolution. It was designated a State me feel as if I was actually in the 19th cen - Historical Landmark in 1950. The City of tury. The living room through the door - Anaheim has owned the house since way to my left featured two docents, one 1954. playing a harp, which added to the atmos - Walking up the wooden porch and into phere. the Mother Colony House, I was greeted Moving upstairs, I discovered that half by another group of friendly docents, who VIDEO OBSERVER of the building was blocked off since it is were more than happy to explain the his - by Emerson Little © 2016 still being restored. Barring the path was tory of the house. In the front of the an ancient crib with a Victorian doll in it. house was a narrow bedroom with a cou - There were two bedrooms that I could ple of wicker chairs and other furniture. Finding Founders’ Park walk into. One of them had a bathroom The next room over was a bit tinier and painted white and the other had an old- housed a piano, with a few portraits and Just a step from Fullerton is Founders’ citrus era in 1894 and was added to the fashioned clock and fireplace. At the end lots of antiques. I stepped down to the Park, a must-see for local residents inter - National Register of Historic Places in of the landing was a tiny servant’s room lower level kitchen in the back of the ested in learning about the history of July 2013. This landmark is ornately dec - with a smaller staircase leading to an house, which had vintage cooking instru - Orange County. The historical park is orated and reflects the growing prosperity upper room. Looking through a window ments and a child’s bathtub. home to the oldest remaining wood- from the 19th century. The gingerbread at the end of the second-story landing, I Back outside, I hiked toward a tall tree framed structure in the county and a two- details were added during the Industrial was able to see the pointed top of the titled the Moreton Bay Fig tree, which story 19th century home. Located at 412 Revolution. It was used as a Red Cross entryway. was the City of Anaheim’s first landmark North West Street in Anaheim, Founders’ Chapter house before being donated to In back of the Woelke-Stoffel House, I tree and was originally imported from Park hosts a free open house from nine the City of Anaheim. walked to a replica of a carriage house, Australia by Anaheim’s first nurseryman, o’clock to twelve o’clock noon the first As I walked onto the porch, I noticed which had been converted into a muse - Timothy Carroll. The tree was planted by Saturday of each month. the Victorian-leaded stained glass window um. Inside were vintage photographs, the Horstmann family before 1876. In Let’s start with the Woelke-Stoffel above the entryway. Entering the historic wine barrels, orange crates, ostrich feath - 1962, Walt Disney was inspired by the House. Pictured above, the two-story house, I was greeted by a docent dressed ers and even a Victorian carriage. Next Moreton Bay fig at Founders’ Park and Queen Anne was built during Anaheim’s in Victorian-era clothing. door to the barn was a pump house next modeled the Swiss Family Robinson to a windmill. Treehouse or Tarzan Treehouse at From the backyard, I could see the dried Disneyland after it. grapevines in desperate need of water and I didn’t find out until later that I did not remembered why the Anaheim Colony have enough footage, so the next day, I was originally founded. The colonists drove back to Founders’ Park and took established a viticulture industry, which some more video clips from the outside. It suffered between 1884 and 1888 due to was a windier day and the windmill was Pierce’s Disease. By the 1890s, citrus spinning crazily. In fact, it was so windy groves had come to replace the vineyards. that the sign running between the two The Mother Colony House was built in historic homes was blowing away. The 1857 by George Hansen, superintendent sign read, “Founders’ Park Open House of the Los Angeles Vineyard Society, and First Saturday each month 9:00 am to was one of the first buildings constructed 12:00 pm.” in Anaheim. This American Territorial I went home and made my video, which style cottage was built out of redwood and is available for viewing at the following is made up of 3 small rooms. In the back link: https://youtu.be/HNiugvPQAps. To of the house, an expansion was added in view the video on the Fullerton Observer the 1870s. In 1929, the house was saved website, just click on the cover of this from demolition by the Mother Colony month’s issue, scroll down to this column Chapter of the Daughters of the American and click on the above link. Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER SCHOOL NEWS MID FEBRUARY 2016

HIGH SCHOOL BOARD HIGHLIGHTS with Commentary by Vivien Moreno The Fullerton Joint Union High School District Board meets at 7:30pm on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month at district headquarters, 1051 W. Bastanchury Rd. 714-870-2800 • See the agenda at www.fjuhsd.net

February 9 Board Meeting NEXT MEETING FEBRUARY 23 50 S TUDENTS HONORED Project Director Todd Butcher, for the Trustees honored fifty students from insightful and exciting theater and gym - CTE (Career Technology Education) pro - nasium tours they participated in recently grams throughout the district. CTE acad - in anticipation for upcoming bond proj - emies offered at the 6 comprehensive high ects. These fieldtrips visited recently built schools offer additional opportunities to sites that feature cutting-edge options and over half of the district's 14,000 students. amenities, and offered the principals Programs include agriculture, automotive, insight from the site school administrators culinary, sports medicine, JROTC, com - of what works and what just sounds great puter graphics, and renewable energy, just on paper. PHOTO DENNY BEAN to name a few. TRAIL REPAIR BEGINS 2014, young bicyclist Rafael Correa Jr. The academies allow students to take BUDGET The steep part of the Juanita Cook Trail was killed, both at the same intersection. college ready classes while simultaneously Business Services Asst. Superintendent that intersects with Bastanchury Road is Family members came to the Jan. 19 acquiring job ready skills. Ron Lebs provided initial budget infor - being redone to prevent accidents and council meeting to ask what was being mation for the 2016-17 school year should reopen in June. A bicyclist from La done to prevent such a tragedy from hap - PRINCIPAL REPORTS announcing lowered enrollment and Habra was killed in 2012 and in July of pening to another family. The principal's reports revealed that by defining one-time costs like textbooks and early February students are amassing transportation as compared to ongoing achievements districtwide in the perform - expenses of salaries and technical replace - UPDATE : Rangers Youth Soccer Trouble ing arts, academics, athletics, and com - ments. He also reiterated that the district munity service. While many of the stu - would not qualify for state supplemental Continued from frontpage including proof that 80 per - dents enjoy participating in spring sports, The new cent of the more than 2,000 money under Local Control Funding Bharadwaja was elected all students will begin preparing for the board children in its programs live Formula, and although attendance has Feb. 4, according to the news abundance of IB, AP, SAT, ACT and final president in Fullerton, a requirement declined there are no planned faculty cuts release. He credited Valdivia course tests that they take in early May. for using city-owned fields. at this time. and Valdez with a “display of called for La Vista/ La Sierra High School princi - Parks and Recreation Trustee Montoya inquired about the leadership” for “stepping the for-profit pal, Sandi Layana announced a new dual Director Hugo Curiel said 1,000 students that we need to make the down, in order to provide an high school and college credit course in Rangers in the release the city is com - supplemental funding level, but Mr. Lebs opportunity for fresh eyes to Chicano Studies now being offered at the Academy mitted to working with the answered that they made a concerted resolve current issues and to high school. This is an exciting first occur - to cease Rangers to let children use effort to identify students who qualify for move the club forward,” rence and they are all looking forward to operations the fields for recreational free or reduced lunch and did not think Former Treasurer Laura seeing the student outcomes. purposes. we would achieve the 55% level needed to Zellerbach pleaded guilty Feb. and for a The principals gave a special thanks to qualify for supplemental grants. complete City Manager Joe Felz, in 5 to four felonies and was sen - a telephone interview, added tenced to one year in jail, audit of its an immediate goal is to pro - Teacher/District Negotiations Impasse ordered to repay the Rangers books which vide “stable” use of the fields $227,000 and will spend five will be shared for the club’s members in Personal statements from students, par - faith in their teaching abilities even years on formal probation, ents and teachers concerning the teacher though they have embraced new technol - with the city. coming weeks as the other according to the District issues are being resolved. contract negotiation issue consumed half ogy and new state standards, changes that Attorney’s office. of the three hour meeting. have not been frozen like their salaries. Separately, the city has demanded a You can contact Tracy Wood at This year the Fullerton Secondary Because negotiations are closed meeting number of documents concerning the [email protected] and follow her on Teachers Organization returned to the topics the board has not officially placed club’s management and use of fields, Twitter: @TracyVOC. negotiation table with the district to ham - this issue on their meeting agenda for dis - mer out a new contract. Legally, negotia - cussion, and that legally binds them from tions are private, closed session items that responding to specific comments. are revealed to the public only after an However, President Bob Hathaway stated agreement has been accepted by both par - that the trustees hold the teachers in high ties, but this year the negotiation environ - regard, and he hoped that they would stay ment has become tense. committed to educating and supporting This issue has now consumed a majori - the students regardless of the negotiations. ty of two board meetings and the level of He announced negotiations have been distrust and feelings of betrayal the teach - declared at an impasse, and that an out - ers expressed during both meetings side mediator is scheduled to meet with reflected deeply hurt feelings and perhaps both parties on March 16th. long-time fractures in the relationship Parent Russell Miller stated that we all between the teachers, and the board mem - have the same goal, to educate and care bers and administration. for our students and each other. Many of the well-stated comments Obviously, the entire community shares expressed betrayal and a belief that a common goal to provide the highest although the teachers had soldiered quality educational experience for our stu - through the tough financial cuts of the dents, but the path to providing that care recession and helped students continue to and education has diverged and commu - achieve and prosper during that time, now nication has been severely impaired. they basically feel kicked in the face with Here is hoping for a creative and Saturday, March 5th, 8:30am-3pm the district's offerings and lack of flexibil - respectful turn in the path so that com - Ladera Vista Junior High School, 1700 E Wilshire Ave ity during the current negotiations. They mon ground toward achieving the shared feel unheard, and that the board lacks goal is found and all can move forward. Parents and kids K-12 are invited to attend the Student Safety Symposium which will feature educational sessions on what REGISTRATION Fullerton schools and community agencies are doing to protect our kids and what parents can do at home. IS NOW OPEN! Workshops on social media & cyber safety, • I NDOOR & OUTDOOR LESSONS natural disasters, healthy eating, campus intruders, • P RE -C OMPETITIVE CLASSES underage drug & alcohol use, and lock-downs. • W ATER POLO SKILLS CLASSES • P ARENT & T OT LESSONS Speakers include detectives, health educators, therapists, school specialists and first responders. Keeping our kids safe requires parents, schools, and the community working in partnership. MID FEBRUARY 2016 CONGRATULATIONS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 13

Sharleen Loh Wins Science Award LOCAL ISAAK PRESLEY STARS IN TV C OMEDY Isaak Presley stars as Ethan Sharleen Loh, a Troy High School stu - Diaz, an artistic teen who also dent, was announced as one of 13 happens to be Harley’s closest California students among the 100 award ally, in Disney Channel’s new recipients selected nationwide, for the family comedy series “Stuck in inaugural year of The Emperor Science the Middle,” beginning on Award program. February 14th at 8:45pm. The program is an initiative designed to Born on June 16, 2002, encourage high school students to explore Presley started acting at a young careers in science, specifically cancer age. His television credits research and care, through a unique men - include Disney Channel’s toring opportunity. “Austin & Ally,” “Instant Mom” Awards recipients receive an opportuni - and the series “Fuller House.” ty to work alongside an esteemed scientist He also played Jack in the TV on a rewarding multi-week cancer movie “A History of Radness,”; research project, a Google Chrome Jacques in the series “OMG!”; Notebook to enhance their studies and to Wilbur in the series “The New extend the reach of mentors, a $1,500 Normal,” and appeared in the stipend for expenses, and the opportunity short “A Killer of Men.” to continue the mentoring program, He is a multi-talented musi - through high school, to further their aca - cian, singer/songwriter and has demic pursuits. immunotherapy and epigenetics. been writing songs in English Sharleen and the other selected Students’ research interests were impres - and Spanish since age 9. You can awardees demonstrated awareness of sive and included nanotechnology, basic see a youTube video of emerging developments in cancer treat - cellular biology, gene mapping, toxicolo - “Cowboys Are Real Men,” ment including precision medicine, gy, genetics, DNA splicing, development which shows him performing of biomarkers and computational one of his first songs and check sciences, from laboratory studies out “Me + You” for an example ATTENTION SPRING CLEANERS and mouse models to exploring of his work at a later age. Pathways of Hope marine organisms and their poten - Recently he was nominated in two categories for the upcoming Young Artist Awards tial to provide “natural” cytotoxins 2016. Learn more and follow Isaak by visiting his website at isaakpresley.com Clothing Drive for cancer research. thru March 31 The opening of applications was announced in September by part - Sports Hall of Fame Honors Pathways of Hope is partnering ners Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a with Savers Thrift Store to gather program of the Entertainment for Former FUHS and Fullerton College gently used clothing donations. Industry Foundation, and PBS Athlete Victor Williams Pathway’s receives a percentage of the LearningMedia, a media-on- retail value for each item donated. demand service designed for K-12 Victor Williams, former quarterback of classrooms. Founding donors Fullerton High’s 1984 CIF Championship DROP OFF ITEMS AT PATHWAYS OFFICES Genentech, Bristol-Myers Squibb team and Fullerton College record-setter •Saturdays, 9am-12pm: and Novartis, have provided fund - when the team played for the JC National 611 S. Ford Ave, Fullerton ing to award 100 students every Championship in 1988, went on to attend •Monday-Friday, 10am-2pm year, for at least three years. Northwestern Oklahoma State University on 514 W. Amerige Ave., #C, Fullerton To view the full list of recipients, a football scholarship. He was inducted into visit EmperorScienceAward.com. the Northwestern Hall of Fame on Feb. 6. QUESTIONS ? 714-680-3691 Records he set at Northwestern stood for nearly 25 years. Williams previously held seven Northwestern records under center, many holding for 20-plus years. He held three single-game records including passing attempts (63), completions (39), and yards (425). He also held three single-season records, which include completions (197), yards (2,604) and touchdown passes with 17. Among many honors in 1989 he was named Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference Player of the Year and District 9 Player of the Year, while being the nation’s fifth leading passer. Former quarterback Victor Williams In 1990 he was selected to the 2nd Team All- at the Hall of Fame Induction OIC (QB) and earned a spot on the Ceremony. President’s Honor Roll for academics at the same time. at Fullerton High for two years before Following college graduation he became moving on to work for an equipment leas - an advertising agency account executive. ing company while assisting the Fullerton In 1993 he returned to hometown College football team. He is currently the Fullerton as a teacher and football coach owner of a financial services business. Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER THE ARTS MID FEBRUARY 2016

MUSIC DAVID BURN PLACES IN THEATER CLASSICAL DANCE STAGES THEATER CSUF Interns COMPETITION 400 E. Commonwealth, Fullerton Tickets: 714-525-4484 Help Organize Congratulations to Fullerton resident David www.stagesoc.org Day of Music 2016 Burn, 12, who competed at YAGP (Youth American Grand Prix) and placed in the top 3 •ALL MY SONS written by Arthur in the men's classical Jr. Division ages 12-14 Miller, directed by Joe Parrish, plays The Day of Music Board of Directors is dance competition. through Feb. 21, Fri & Sat at 8am, Sun at proud to introduce five new interns who Unlike many of his male peers who are play - 2pm. Set in post World War II, the play have joined the event’s organizing team. ing sports, David trains up to 20 hours a week examines the relationship between fathers All currently students at California State in classical, contemporary and hip hop dance and sons and the price of living the University, Fullerton, they are already on at CF Dance Academy in Fullerton. Currently American Dream, ethics and taking the job working to provide the best expe - there are only two boys dancing ballet at responsibility for one’s actions. rience yet for the 2016 event. David's level. The studio hopes to attract more •GRUESOME PLAYGROUND Although all five interns are from the boys in the art of classical ballet. INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Communication Arts Department, each David also belongs to the Fullerton Youth EB Banks plays through Feb. 20. A differ - brings unique talents and varied musical Ballet Company and competes in solos and ent type of love story with sharp humor interests to the team. First is Casey ensembles. In addition, he is part of a hip hop and sharper insights. An accident prone Barahona who enjoys alternative rock and crew called Bring The Noise which competes daredevil and a corrosive masochist navi - cites Lady Gaga as a huge influence. Angel throughout the year. gate a friendship, love and the squishy Perez is a fan of singer-songwriters like Ed David started dancing at the age of nine. He parts that lie in between in a series of non- Sheeran and is a big fan of reggae artist hopes to one day work in the industry as either linear vignettes that bounce over three Bob Marley. Matt Salazar is a classical gui - a hip hop dancer or a contemporary dancer for decades of a relationship. tarist who listens to the works of com - a professional company. •AUDITIONS: “DOG SEES GOD: posers such as Heitor Villa-Lobos and CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE Debussy. While a fan of jazz and R&B, BLOCKHEAD” Sat., Feb 20 at 10am. Stephanie Wong likes such bands as the some mural painted on a 40 foot long Beatles and the Eagles. Finally, Olivia ART canvas then tacked to the wall. The huge Havelaar listens to rap artists including J. mural was done by Metzger and painted CLAYES PERFORMING Cole as well as indie-music. With this Art, Music & Coffee in his skilled essence of plein air style tech - ARTS CENTER eclectic group of individuals the Day of Downtown by Marjorie Kerr nique. The image could be a remote town Cal State University Fullerton Music is destined to satisfy all music in a dry desert space in California. 800 N. State College, Fullerton lovers. My friend, Fay Colmar, and I met for Fay and I enjoyed our café latte in this Tickets: 657-278-3371 “We feel very fortunate to have these coffee at Max Bloom’s Café Noir on a festive and creative atmosphere. I bought www.arts.fullerton.edu five enthusiastic and talented individuals a black T shirt with an elegant printing of Friday morning. We were met with great •THE MIRACLE WORKER by help us with preparing for our second the café logo in white. We discovered that enthusiasm by Stephen Baxter, curator William Gibson, directed by Joseph event,” said Glenn Georgieff, president of we had better join Facebook if we want to and manager, at this art/music venue. We Arnold opens Feb. 19 and plays thru the Day of Music Board of Directors. “We keep informed of the ongoing and ever - were pleasantly surprised by a special March 13 in the Hallberg Theatre. are counting on them to reach out to a event that featured a group of musician changing art, music and coffee events held wider audience, bring new ideas and help friends playing music with a beat plus at this cozy café! with a variety of operational tasks. They Max Bloom’s Café Noir is located at BREA CURTIS THEATER vocals by guitarist/artist Steve Metzger. 1 Civic Center Circle, Brea are already working hard and they just The coffee house wall displayed an awe - 220 N. Malden, in downtown Fullerton. started.” Tickets: 714-990-7722 It’s time to mark your calendars now for www.cityofbrea.net Fullerton’s second annual Day of Music, •BONNIE & CLYDE: The Musical Tuesday, June 21, 2016. For more infor - 56th Annual Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts plays Friday Feb 19 & Saturday Feb 20 at mation, or to get involved, please visit Over 150 artists will show paintings, 8pm with music by Frank Wildhorn, www.thedayofmusic.com. - MS photography, sculpture, pottery, weaving, lyrics by Don Black, produced by jewelry, wood-turning, and mixed media Southgate Productions in association with works at the 56th annual Hillcrest Festival the Curtis Theatre, directed by Jonathan of Fine Arts on February 26, 27 & 28. Infante with musical direction by Sarah Plastics Exhibit at The hours are 10am to 5pm Friday and Weinzetl. Adult/$30; Senior/$27; Museum Center Saturday; and 11:30am to 5pm on Child/$25 Sunday at Hillcrest Congregational Fearless, shameless, and alluring, the Church, located at 2000 West Road, La Tony-nominated Bonnie & Clyde is an Plastics Unwrapped shares what life was Habra Heights, near the border of electrifying story of love, adventure and like before plastics, how they are made, Whittier. For more information call (562) true crime. This compelling musical com - and what happens after they are thrown 947-3755. bines the monumental sound of away. The exhibit runs through Sunday, The annual festival is by invitation only Broadway with blues, gospel, country, and May 1, 2016. and is a showcase of high quality art and rockabilly in a score that celebrates the •Sunday, March 6, 2pm Lecture: one of the premier juried art shows held in roots of American music and history. “Plastics in the World’s Oceans,” will be the west. Thousands of visitors from all From the team that brought you last sea - led by Fullerton College Professor of over California attend each year. son’s Into the Woods, strong voices and a Oceanography Sean Chamberlin and Features include live music, free kids large charismatic cast will bring this epic Liesel Thomas of the marine research workshops and artist demonstrations, and story of America’s most notorious couple group Algalita. Attendees are invited to a carefully selected exhibit of the works of of true crime to the Curtis stage! learn about plastic pollutants in the highly skilled artists. Lunch can be pur - MYSTERIUM THEATER world’s oceans and what can be done to chased on the grounds at the Starving sale with items from $5 to $50 in the AT THE LA HABRA DEPOT remedy the increasing volume. Artist Café. Admission and parking and a Boutique, and others ranging in price •Sunday, March 13, 2pm Lecture: shuttle service are free. from under $100 to over $1,000 in other 311 S. Euclid Ave., La Habra “The Future of 3D Printing” features Over thirty artists will be demonstrat - parts of the festival. Tickets: 562-697-3311 Fullerton College Professor Frank Guthrie ing their individual crafts and techniques This year the event is also bringing the www.mysteriumtheater.com who will discuss this emerging technology over the weekend event. The special free “Bra-Vo Art Exhibit” to the public. These •HANGING OF MARY SURRATT and its application in business and per - art studio for kids is available mid-day on works of art increase awareness of breast Feb 19, 20, 21, 26 & 27, 8pm sonal use. both Saturday and Sunday. cancer health and give patients, survivors, Both lectures are complimentary with A special exhibit of the works of local caregivers, and champions an opportunity Museum admission: $4 general, $3 stu - high school artists is also included. to express themselves creatively by turning FULLERTON FIRST FRIDAY dents and seniors, $1 children aged six to Most of the works on exhibit will be for bras into art. twelve, and children under six are free. •Every Wednesday Stoller Brigade: Downtown An early-childhood program to introduce MUCKENTHALER ArtWalk museums to toddlers and preschoolers. 1201 W. Malvern, Fullerton Children and their caregivers enjoy 714-738-6595 www.themuck.org Friday, March 4 • 6pm-10pm docent-led games, activities, and crafts in A fun, free event with the main gallery. The free program runs National Watercolor Society Plein Air Painting art venues within easy from 10am to 12 noon, on Wednesdays, walking of each other. February, March and April. The National Watercolor Society selects artwork from its members around the world See a map of venues at: The Fullerton Museum Center is locat - for this exhibit of true plein air paintings made by artists working outdoors including ed on E. Wilshire at 301 N. Pomona Ave. Thomas Schaller, Mike Bailey, Robbie Laird, Dean Mitchell, Frank Eber, David Teter, www.fullertonartwalk.com in Fullerton. Call (714) 738-6545. Stephanie Goldman, Bjorn Bernstrom, Andreas Mattern. The exhibit ends April 3. MID FEBRUARY 2016 MOVIE REVIEW & EVENTS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15

MON, FEB 15 MON, FEB 22 HITS & MISSES •8pm: The Secret Life of Plants by Walon •6:30pm: Author Victor Villaseñor: One by Joyce Mason Green at Hibbleton Gallery’s Free Film Series, Family’s Story Villaseñor talks about his own life © 2016 223 W. Santa Fe Ave., Fullerton. Time-lapse and the conflicts and struggles of first-generation photography documents the pain & joy plants Americans no matter their origins, at the experience. Soundtrack by Stevie Wonder. Whittwood Branch of the Whittier Public Library. ROOM : Two Hits TUES, FEB 16 Free Filmed in Toronto by Irish director Lenny Abrahamson and •6:30pm: Fullerton City Council Meeting at TUES, FEB 23 based on the novel “Room,” a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the City Hall, 303 W Commonwealth: West Coyote •7pm-9pm: The Racial History of Canine movie “Room” is an international effort. Irish-Canadian Emma Hills Update; District Election Update; MSRC Units in the US a Town & Gown lecture by Dr. Donoghue not only authored the book but adapted the screenplay Grant Acceptance; Downtown Fullerton Parking Tyler Parry, assistant professor of African American for this film. Set in a 10 x 10 foot shed, “Room” is a fictional com - Conditions Report; Hunt Library/Grace Studies at CSUF traces the history of canine units posite of the kidnapping experiences of several young women, International Lease, Banking Contracts/more. in the US from their roots in slave systems in the resembling in many ways the 1991 Kaycee Dugard kidnap in •6:30pm: Becoming Mexican-American at Caribbean to the present. Free at the Conference northern California. Whittwood Branch, 10537 Santa Gertrudes, Center, Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. Ma (Brie Larson), abducted at 17, has been locked for seven years Whittier, 90603. Chicano LA 1900-1945: When Commonwealth. in a windowless backyard shed with only a skylight. Continually repatriation pushed thousands to return to WED, FEB 24 raped by Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), she has had a son, who is now Mexico, those remaining in LA fought to gain •8am-1pm: Fullerton Every Wednesday turning five. Much of the story is told from Jack’s (Jacob Tremblay) civil rights as ethnic Americans through labor Farmers Market at Independence Park, next to the point of view, for his reality has been limited to the confines of this unions and New Deal politics. Presented by USC DMV on Valencia (between Euclid and Highland). tiny room and his interaction with his amazingly resourceful Ma. professor Dr. George Sánchez. Free Fresh produce, eggs, plants, and much more direct - With active imaginations, the two of them have had moments of WED, FEB 17 ly from the farmer rain or shine. humor, anger, affection and frustration as Jack creates his own uni - •8am-1pm: Fullerton Every Wednesday •1pm-2pm: Beware Health Scams Seminar at verse out of the tiny, sound-proofed room. Deft camera work Farmers Market at Independence Park, next to Fullerton Community Center, 340 W. allows us to view this space through his eyes. Yes, we as an audience the DMV on Valencia (between Euclid and Commonwealth. Learn how to recognize sophisti - do experience some of the claustrophobia of their existence. Highland). Fresh produce, eggs, plants, and cated scams including fraudulent prescription and Always hiding in a wardrobe whenever Old Nick enters the much more directly from the farmer rain or supplement claims and how to report a scam. Free. room, Jack has never interacted with any human being besides his shine. Repeats every Wednesday. Limited seating so register at 714-738-6305 mother. Nor has he seen trees, flowers, houses or roads, only the •4pm-7pm: Teen Book to Movie Club at the •5pm-8pm: OCTA Harbor Blvd. Transit sky seen through the opening in the roof. Although he watches Teen area of the Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. Corridor Study at Fullerton Community Center, people on the room’s tiny television screen, Ma has told him that Commonwealth features screening of Warm 340 W. Commonwealth. OCTA in partnership these are not real people, just make-believe figures on the screen. Bodies. Teens only are invited to read the book with Fullerton, Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa The second half of the movie deals with their eventual escape. beforehand and come watch the movie, enjoy Ana is leading a study to look at needs and develop Through interviews and her own authorial insights, Donoghue snacks and discuss. Call Shirley Ku with ques - options to improve Harbor Blvd’s transit services explores the psychological challenges that Jack and Ma face as they tions at 714-738-6326. Free from Westminster Blvd. in Santa Ana to Chapman return to the outside world. For Ma, it is even more difficult than THURS, FEB 18 Ave in Fullerton. Learn more about the study and for Jack. Reunited with her mother (an excellent Joan Allen) and •9am-11am: What to Do in the Event of an give your thoughts at the open house. her father (William Macy), no longer part of his family’s life, Ma Active Shooter presentation by members of the FRI-SUN, FEB 26, 27 & 28 feels more disconnected than joyful. Buena Park Police Dept., Buena Park •10am-5pm (except Sun start is 11:30am): Larson has already received the Screen Actors and the Golden Community Center, 6688 Beach Blvd., behind Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts at 2000 West Road, Globe Awards for Best Female Actor and is favored to win an City Hall. Free. Call Cpl. Carter at 714-562- La Habra Heights features a juried mega exhibit Academy Award. Both the movie and the screenplay have also been 3992 with questions. with over 200 artists, 30 art demonstrations, live nominated for Academy Awards. •12:30pm: TV & its Relationship to US music, free kids workshop and food for purchase. Politics & Social Movements Lecture by UCI Admission & Parking free. See article page 14 for HE EVENANT A Hit & A Miss assistant professor Allison Pearlman at Ruby more details. T R : Gerontology Center Mackey Auditorium, 800 N SUN, FEB 28 Short on dialogue and long on scenery, “The Revenant” opens State College Blvd, Fullerton. Free •2:30pm: “The Second Hundred Years” Laural with a pristine snow-covered wilderness pierced by a rushing river. •6pm: Short Term Vacation Rentals & Hardy Silent Comedy accompanied by Gene On closer view we see a landscape littered with the carcasses of dead Regulation is the topic of an informational Roberson at the Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ at animals as a band of fur trappers bind their pelts. Soon the trap- meeting to discuss potential regulations of Plummer Auditorium, 201 E Chapman (at Lemon) pers become victims when a band of native Arikara warriors show- AirBnB, VRBO, HomeAway type short-term on the Fullerton High School campus. Easy park - er them with arrows that pierce several throats and leave only a vacation rentals operating in residential neigh - ing across the street. $15 (kids under 12 are free). handful of trappers alive. borhoods. Come for a presentation and express Tickets at the door or in advance at www.octos.org. The year is 1823 and the surviving trappers need to make their your opinion. Hosted by the city at the Fullerton Call 714-870-2813 for more information. way back to an outpost of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Community Center, 340 W. Commonwealth MON, FEB 29 Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), already mythic as a mountain (across from Public Library & City Hall). •8pm: Creation by Jon Amiel stars Paul Bettany explorer and guide, has led the trappers to the Upper Missouri in a •7:30pm: Ron Kobayashi Trio plays jazz at as Charles Darwin, Jennifer Connelley as Emma homemade boat, but realizing that the Indians have spotted them Cooks Chapel in the basement of the Anaheim Darwin, Benedict Comberbatch as Joseph Hooker by their craft, Glass convinces the men to abandon the boat and Packing House, 440 S. Anaheim Blvd., and Toby Jones as Thomas Huxley at Hibbleton return overland. Anaheim. This could be the new Steamers. $7 Gallery’s Free Film Series, 223 W. Santa Fe Ave., This journey begins with disaster as Glass is attacked by a grizzly, •7:30pm: Hitchcock: Out of the Shadow at Fullerton. who leaves him barely alive. Unwilling to carry the severely injured the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 W. TUES, MARCH 1 Glass over the mountains, the trappers abandon him in a shallow Malvern, Fullerton. A rare screening of Alfred •5:30pm: Resume 101 free workshop on spruc - grave. The remainder of director Alejandro Inarritu’s two and one- Hitchcock’s first film effort The White Shadow ing up your resume. One of a series of every half hour movie chronicles Glass’s super-human journey of survival (1924) . Mabel Normand directs, stars, and wrote Tuesday workshops on kicking your job search into as he cauterizes his own flesh, eludes unfriendly Indians and shares this nonstop, riotous slapstick comedy. high gear. Fullerton Public Library Community raw bison meat with a helpful Pawnee. Composer pianist Michael D. Mortilla performs Room, 353 W. Commonwealth. 714-738-6326 Glass seeks revenge not only for his abandonment by trapper his own scores to these classic silent films. THURS, MARCH 3 Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) but for the death of his half-Pawnee son $13/members; $16/students/seniors; $25/non- •12:30pm: The Science of Sexual Orientation Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), fathered with his Native American wife members. lecture by CSUF professor emeritus Richard Lippa (Grace Dove), who has died but who now appears to Glass in SAT, FEB 20 at Ruby Gerontology Center Mackey Auditorium, moments of despair giving him comfort and inspiring him to •9am-noon: Build Your Own Robot: 800 N State College Blvd, Fullerton. Free OLLI “keep breathing.” Instructors at 23b Shop, 418 E. Commonwealth, FRI, MARCH 4 Much has been written about the ordeals endured by the cast and Fullerton beginner’s session on basics of •6pm-10pm: Downtown ArtWalk free fun crew of this movie filmed in snow and in temperatures that some- Computer Aided Drafting, 2D sketches, 3D event features art venues within easy walking dis - times dropped to 40 degrees below zero. Shooting mainly in extrusions. Intermediate session 1pm-4pm. $30. tance. see map at www.fullertonartwalk.com Canada, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, who won an Oscar http://www.meetup.com/23bshop/events/22856 SAT, MARCH 5 for “Birdman” last year, may once again be a winner as he shoots in 3230/ •7am-10am: Troop 97 Annual Pancake natural light and with dramatic imagery. •1pm: Hughes After Howard: Author D. Benefit Breakfast at Morningside Presbyterian at Also slated for an Oscar is DiCaprio, having been deservedly Kenneth Richardson talk and book signing. Free the corner of Raymond and Dorothy Lane features nominated for Best Actor several times but not previously winning. at the Community Room Conference Center, all you can eat pancakes, sausage, and eggs, milk, He has little dialogue in “The Revenant” but, clad in his bear-fur Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. OJ, and coffee, served by Boy Scout Troop 97 poncho, he is at all times believable as a figure who could have sur- Commonwealth. members. The $5 charge goes to raise money for vived the frontier’s most challenging vicissitudes. •2pm: Zev Yaroslavsky Lecture: Former LA summer camp at Camp Chawanakee and other Whether the movie will earn a third Oscar (“Birdman,” “Babel”) County Board of Supervisors and LA City events. Visit www.troop97ocbsa.org for more infor - for Inarritu remains to be seen. The movie’s spare screenplay was Councilmember at the Pollak Library, Room mation or email Elaine Moline at molines@sbc - not nominated and it’s rare for a film to win without this recogni- 130, CSUF, 800 N. State College, Fullerton. global.net tion. Free admission and parking with shuttle from •8:30am-3pm: Student Safety Symposium at Two Hits: Don’t Miss It! the parking lot to the library. Contact Ladera Vista Jr. High School, 1700 E. Wilshire [email protected] or car - Ave, Fullerton features workshops on social media A Hit & A Miss: You Might Like It. [email protected] for more information. and cyber safety, natural disasters, healthy eating, Two Misses: Don’t Bother. underage drug and alcohol use, campus intruders Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL NEWS MID FEBRUARY 2016

REST IN PEACE • W E REMEMBER YOU

Richard and Minna Van Tilburg

Above: We are saddened to note the pass - The CentraSight telescope implant ing of Richard Van Tilburg (age 90) on the tip of a finger. and Minna Van Tilburg (age 89), residents of Eugene Oregon (and At Left: former longtime residents of Barbara and Stewart Roberts Fullerton, on January 12th and 15th respectively. They will be A R ETURN TO VISION by Barbara J. Kimler much missed. Richard, known as “Van,” was Eighty-two year old Stewart Roberts was even the largest print size on his computer. born in Dunkirk, Indiana on a para trooper in the 11th Airborn Division Years earlier, Stewart recalled reading December 9th 1925. He attended in the 50s and a marketing executive in the about an experimental procedure that uti - the University of Chicago, where heavy equipment industry during the lizes a telescope in the eye and he was fasci - he met Minna at the symphony. majority of his career. He moved from nated by the technology. He was delighted They were married in 1946. Texas to Fullerton with his wife Barbara in when he learned that the procedure called After service in the U.S. Army June of 1984 and started a new chapter in CentraSight, was FDA-approved and he security agency, Van became an his life. was a perfect candidate. electrical engineer on the east coast, Force Chart and Information Service A single amputee due to a medical com - CentraSight implants a tiny telescope and then migrated with his young at the Pentagon. plication, Roberts is not one to stay idle. In into the eye of patients 65 and older with family to Fullerton, California. There In Fullerton, Minna was an active 1989, he launched a home-based export age-related macular degeneration. Only he settled into a successful 19-year member of the American Association business which he and Barbara run to this one telescope is needed in one eye for cen - career as a software engineer at Hughes of University Women, League of day. tral vision as the patient uses the other eye Aircraft Company. He was a member Women Voters, Orange County Roberts is a longtime member of St. for peripheral vision. of the Coast Guard Auxiliary (flotilla Commission on the Status of Women Andrews Episcopal Church in Fullerton Stewart’s surgery was performed by Dr. 29) and an accomplished blue-water and other civic organizations. She was and developed a special annual Eucharist Garg at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at sailor on his sloop Brunhilde. He also an avid cook and food enthusiast. for Orange County Alzheimer’s patients. UCI. Ironically, Dr. Garg was a graduate of retired in 1987. Van and Minna moved to Eugene in Both Stewart and Barbara implement and Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton. Minna was born in Honolulu, 1989, joining the Braeman Village coordinate an annual fundraiser which fea - After over a year of therapy and exercis - Hawaii on May 5th, 1926. community. There they enjoyed the tures a printed calendar generating over es, Stewart can now read fonts smaller than Graduating from Roosevelt High university, the symphony, and explor - $3,000 in support of St. Andrew’s weekly in newsprint. Needless to say, his life has School, she then attended the ing the parks and roads of Oregon and soup kitchen. improved tremendously and he’s back to University of Chicago, receiving her beyond. Both Stewart’s export business and business and activities at St. Andrews. Just MA degree in Geography. Sharing an intense curiosity to see church activities were in jeopardy as his 10- over 500 surgeries have now been done Following college, Minna was the country, their many travels took year battle with advanced macular degener - nationwide. For more details visit employed as a cartographer by the Air them back and forth across the U.S. ation was preventing him from reading http://www.centrasight.com/medi and Canada, and through the Yukon and Alaska above the Arctic Circle. Travel and the outdoors were their great delights. Orangethorpe The survivors of Minna and Van Christian include daughter Sondra Van Tilburg (California—spouse Alisha Reid and Church grandchildren Kellie, Raymond, Shandee), son Hans Van Tilburg (Disciples of Christ) (Hawaii—spouse Maria Da Silva and granddaughter Sabina) and brother Dr. Robert L. Case, Pastor Lawrence Lee and family (California). An informal memorial for Van and Sunday Service : 10 AM Minna was held with family and close friends at Braeman Village on January 2200 W. O RANGETHORPE 23rd. FULLERTON (714) 871-3400 www.orangethorpe.org LOCAL CONGREGATIONS WELCOME YOU MID FEBRUARY 2016 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17

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RE: Fullerton Rangers Trouble It was with a heavy heart that I read review the books and put the Rangers on the article about the Fullerton Rangers the right track. He will institute trans - and the embezzlement scandal. It’s parent procedures and policies that will always so discouraging when someone ensure nothing like this can happen steals from an organization that works again. Fichtelberg has been involved with children. I’m happy that the with the Fullerton Rangers since the mid Rangers worked together with the 1970s – as a child playing recreation soc - District Attorney’s office to both punish cer, a referee, and now as a parent of the embezzler and get the money back. three children involved with the organi - Unfortunately, I worry that embezzle - zation. ment will deter parents from enrolling As a board member, he will work col - Traditional Vietnamese New Year’s food includes Banh Tet wrapped in banana leaves, their kids in the program. laboratively to restore and protect the a variety of sweets, and Cha Lua, also wrapped in banana leaves. The Fullerton Rangers have appoint - integrity of the Fullerton Rangers. I ed/elected a new treasurer who I believe encourage parents to enroll their kids in RADITIONS is the right person for the job. I’ve this organization and enjoy the incredi - T : Happy New Year Food known Steve Fichtelberg for 25 years and ble benefits of recreational soccer in our by Sinh Dang wrapped into a square shape the dish is he is a man of the highest integrity and community. called Banh Chung.) character. His educational and profes - Hopefully, the Rangers organization Vietnamese New Year or Tet – The Year •The tray (above middle) contains a sional credentials have more than pre - will be able to regain the trust and ster - of the Monkey started on Monday variety of sweets including Banh In, made pared him for this task – he has an MBA, ling reputation they’ve had for most of February 8. According to the horoscope from rice or mung bean powder mixed CPA, and has been a corporate financial their 50 year history in Fullerton. reading, people born during this Year of with sugar and pressed into a square professional for over 20 years. He will Jodi Balma Fullerton the Monkey are witty, intelligent and have mold, dried and wrapped. The treats sur - magnetic personalities. They are clever in rounding the Banh In (from the left Health Insurance, Etc financial matters and career, lively and clockwise) are peanut brittle, agar agar Love Mosiacs Club versatile, gentle and kind. These traits candy, dehydrated sweetened lotus seeds, Thom Pari (Early Feb. Observer, page make them ideal partners if you want an coconut, and ginger slices. This is just a 2,, “PC, President Obama, & the & Caitlin everlasting love life. However, they also simple tray. There are many more sweet Oscars”) thinks Obamacare is the best. I also want to thank Caitlin Orr for must watch their tempers and a tendency candies and dried foods. As a responsible citizen who pays for my her excellent article about the Master toward arrogance. •On the right is the traditional food own insurance I'm proof of the lie "if Mosaics Club. I've enjoyed the "Circles So much for the horoscope; now let’s Cha Lua, a Vietnamese ham/sausage you like your insurance you can keep of Love" on the stairwell landing at St talk about the food eaten during this cele - made out of lean meat added fish sauce you insurance". Jude and have been wondering who cre - bration. Above is a picture of some typi - and also wrapped in banana leaves and Two years ago Obamacare cancelled ated the great parrots mural in the St cal food: cooked for a couple of hours. my insurance for my wife and I. Our Jude Medical Plaza I (Cancer Center) •On the left is the ultimate, must-have Like many holidays, participants gain insurance went from $800 monthly to courtyard. I've yet to see any plaque New Year dish Banh Tet, a rice cake made weight around Tet. There are many lec - over $1,200 monthly today. My identifying this artwork--guess I'll have out of glutinous rice, mung bean and tures and New Year resolutions on losing deductible tripled but if my 59 year old to look closer next time I'm up there! pork. For the vegetarians, pork is replaced weight, but the excuse is it only happens wife gets pregnant I'm covered, wonder - And, I'm also pleased to learn the his - with black bean or other ingredients. once a year, so we may as well enjoy it. ful. Regarding PC and The Oscars tory behind the "Favorite Things" lining These ingredients are skillfully wrapped Happy New Year Everyone! May you maybe they should just give out the Council Chambers, Keep up the into tube shapes using banana leaves and and your family be blessed with all the "Participation Awards". good work, MMC! cooked for at least 6 hours. (When best, today and always! Edgar Wolfe Fullerton Judy Berg Fullerton

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE Free Income Tax ANTONIN SCALIA DIED Prep for Seniors Pathways of Hope Food Center US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Free income tax preparation assis - Name Contest died on February 13 of natural causes. tance for low and moderate-income Pathways of Hope’s food distribution visit www.pathwaysofhope.us. The win - Condolences to his family. senior citizens will be offered center needs a new name to reflect added ner will be announced at the Grand Immediately after the news was announced Thursdays, beginning February 4, services including nutrition classes, gar - Reopening Ceremony held from 1pm to speculation on whether the seat on the highest 2016, at the Fullerton Community dening workshops, career counseling and 3pm, Saturday, March 19 at the center. court of the US would or would not be filled Center, at 340 W. Commonwealth resume building. The new name will There will also be tours of the center, started with Republican Senate leader Mitch Ave. replace the current name “Food games, prizes, refreshments and music. McConnell proclaiming, “This vacancy Make appointments by calling the Distribution Center.” The center is locat - Pathway’s first nutrition class will be should not be filled until we have a new pres - center at (714) 738-6305. ed at 611 S. Ford Ave. in Fullerton. held at 4pm, Monday, Feb. 22 at the cen - ident,” and Democratic leader Harry Reid Volunteers trained by the Internal Residents with suggestions are invited ter. Always welcome are unexpired canned responding, “Failing to fill this vacancy would Revenue Service will be at the Center to participate in the contest. All entries are and packaged items and surplus fresh fruit be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate’s from 12pm to 3pm. Thursdays, due by February 29. Submissions must and vegetables. Food item donations can most essential Constitutional responsibilities.” through April 14, to assist seniors. align with Pathway’s goals and be no more be dropped off at the center from 1pm to than three words in length. Email your 4pm, Mon-Fri, and from 9am to 12pm creative ideas to name.campaign@path - on Saturdays. Call Rebecca at 714-680- waysofhope.us. For submission guidelines 3691 ext 220 for more information.

WOMEN ’S PROACTIVE APPROACH While research indicates that women seems that women have learned from are more likely to have cavities than experience that good oral hygiene and men, females tend to have better over - regular dental care are essential since all dental health. Perhaps this is due to changes in hormonal levels during the fact that women are nearly twice as pregnancy and menopause can raise likely to have visited the dentist in the their risk of gum disease and associat - past year. ed problems (tooth loss). As a result of this proactive approach Estrogen deficiency after menopause to dental and periodontal care, women reduces bone mineral density, which have lower rates of gum disease (due to can lead to bone loss that is associated more frequent professional cleanings) with periodontal disease. Call us at and also a higher percentage of 714-992-0092 to make an appoint - retained permanent teeth than men. It ment for a check-up. Page 18 OBSERVER OUT-OF-TOWN NEWS MID FEBRUARY 2016 Anaheim Council Gives Final Tracks at Brea Trail Expected Opening in March The Tracks at Brea Trail Segment 3 is borhood trail entrances, benches, trash Approval to ‘People’s Map’ located between Brea Blvd. and State receptacles and a bike repair station. College Blvd. This 0.8-mile portion of the In addition vehicular access from Brea showed up to the Dec. 8 council meeting four-mile trail is expected to be complet - Blvd for fire trucks to return to Fire by Adam Elmahrek voiceofoc.org and shouted down council members until ed and open to the public by the end of Station 2 will eliminate the need of taking February 10, 2016 at 9:17 AM Mayor Tom Tait was forced to premature - March. The construction on this segment fire trucks through the residential neigh - ly adjourn the meeting. After activists includes: a striped asphalt bike path, a borhood on Orange Avenue. After months of controversy over the escalated their pressure further, the coun - separate decomposed granite (DG) pedes - For public safety the public will not be adoption of a city council districts map in cil majority flipped again and voted to trian trail, an asphalt parking lot near Brea allowed on the trail until construction is Anaheim, council members Tuesday night restore the People’s Map and put the Boulevard, trail entrance points at the end completed and the fences are removed. stuck by their decision to restore the “peo - Latino majority district up for election of three residential streets and two major Also please note that the trail segment will ple’s map” and put the district with the this year. cross streets, minimal landscape and main be under a 90-day plant establishment largest number of Latinos up for election But then there was yet another twist last line irrigation, decorative mortared stone period after the fences are removed, and this year. week when city officials revealed that the cobble, parking lot lighting, electrical the public is asked to keep clear of any Tuesday's unanimous vote was the final only Latino majority district in the map conduits for future use, and bio-swales for landscape. For more information email decision needed to implement the map was no longer majority Latino. Based on water quality purposes, enhanced neigh - [email protected]. and determine which districts will elect the latest U.S. Census estimates, the num - council members this year and which dis - ber of Latinos dropped to 49.1 percent, a California Minimum Wage Increases to $10 tricts will have to wait until 2018. 1.7 percent dip, according to a city staff “This is the people’s map. This is the report. California's minimum wage increased from $9 to $10 per hour on January 1, 2016. people’s process,” said Mayor Tom Tait. Latino activists remained in support of The minimum wage has not kept pace with the cost of living and is worth less today “Long road... we’re here tonight. This is the map. And in casting her vote Tuesday, than it was 50 years ago. This loss of purchasing power means millions of Californians an historic moment” Councilwoman Kris Murray said her are unable to afford an adequate standard of living, which harms families and the state’s The road included several twists and office had been in contact with prominent economy and budget. A full-time worker making the minimum wage in California turns. It was unclear up to the last minute Latino organizations and had received earns less than $19,000 a year. 3.2 million Californians earn less than $15 an hour. 1.8 whether council members would stick by confirmation that they still supported the million people in California earn the minimum wage, including 200,000 who are older the districts map, which has been dubbed map, meaning the estimated population than 55. More than half of minimum wage workers in California are women. 30 per - the “people’s map” because of its broad change was unlikely to draw a federal cent of minimum wage earners have children. 95 percent of minimum wage workers in community support. Voting Rights Act lawsuit. California are adults and more than half are older than 30. The map is a product of a lawsuit filed After the vote, activists cheered and cel - in 2012, which alleged that the city coun - ebrated their victory outside City Hall. $100,000 TO BE AWARDED FOR THE INFORMATION cil's at-large electoral system violated They vowed to wage a grassroots cam - California's Voting Rights Act because it paign to win enough districts to gain the THAT LED TO CAPTURE OF ESCAPEES did not allow Latinos, who make up 53 majority, an achievement made all the On January 22, inmates Hossein was located in a parking lot. Mr. Hay- percent of the city's population, to elect more likely by the map and the inclusion Nayeri, Jonathan Tieu and Bac Duong Chapman observed inmate Nayeri exit the their candidates of choice. of the most Latino district in this year’s escaped from the Orange County Central van and walk into a McDonalds restau - The city settled the lawsuit by putting a election. Men’s Jail in Santa Ana. Their escape was rant. Police arrived and Mr. Hay- measure calling for the implementation of “Our hard work has just begun brothers an imminent threat to public safety, as Chapman directed them to the van and a council-districts system before voters on and sisters,” said Ada Briceño, interim evidenced by the charges they were facing Nayeri’s location. Law enforcement the 2014 ballot. A panel of judges recom - executive director of Orange County while in custody: Bac Duong was held for quickly captured Nayeri and approached mended the map after a series of hearings. Communities Organized for Responsible attempted burglary and firearms viola - the van finding Tieu inside. Both men The map included a Latino majority Development (OCCORD). “In tions; Hussien Nayeri was held on two were taken into custody and transported district, which meant that citizen voting November, we’re going to turn this city counts of kidnapping for ransom, torture, back to OC Central Men’s Jail. (Bac age Latinos make up more than 50 per - council.” aggravated mayhem, and burglary; and, Duong had previously turned himself in.) cent of the district's population; and two Please contact Adam Elmahrek directly at Jonathan Tieu was held on charges of Mr. Hay-Chapman’s information Latino plurality districts, which means [email protected] and follow him murder, attempted murder, and street ter - directly led to the capture of the two fugi - that citizen voting age Latinos outnumber on Twitter: @adamelmahrek rorism. tives. His assistance protected public safe - other groups in the district, but don't Upon discovery of the escape, law ty. “Accordingly,” reads an agenda staff make up more than 50 percent of its pop - enforcement began efforts to capture the report submitted by Supervisors Spitzer ulation. A Nation of Flints escapees including outreach to the public and Do on February 10, “Mr. Hay- In November another battle erupted Flint’s water crisis is no isolated event. for information on their wherabouts. The Chapman is eligible for a reward of when the council majority decided that Lead poisoning is a pervasive problem in FBI and US Marshals Service posted a $100,000.” The item will be decided at the only Latino majority district would our inner cities, where some children have $50,000 reward for information leading the February 23 board meeting. have to wait until 2018 to elect a council higher levels of lead contamination than to the capture of the three men. “The public’s engagement provided law member, while other districts would be up those in Flint. In Washington, D.C.’s his - OC Sheriff Sandra Hutchens asked the enforcement with the information neces - for election this year. torically low-income Stadium-Armory OC Board of Supervisors to issue an addi - sary to capture these fugitives,” said Activists were outraged and accused the neighborhood, lead levels in the soil were tional reward for information leading to Supervisor Andrew Do. “Authorizing the council majority of a racist intent to deny found to be 10 times higher than the the capture of the escapees as a further reward is only part of our ongoing review Latinos representation on the council. accepted standards of other developed incentive to the public. process to ensure that we prevent any - Instead of allowing the district to hold countries. In Baltimore, the percentage of On a vote of urgency, the OC Board of thing like this from happening again.” its election this year, Councilman Jordan black households with lead contamination Supervisors passed a motion, on January Last week, Supervisor Todd Spitzer Brandman concluded that the map itself has increased, while the percentage of 26, authorizing a financial reward for up issued a letter to Orange County Sheriff was the problem because it only had one white households has decreased. Eighteen to $50,000 each, for information leading Sandra Hutchens requesting an expedited Latino majority district. He and the coun - cities in Pennsylvania and 11 in New to the apprehension of the three men. status report on the security of the roof at cil majority scrapped the map and restart - Jersey have higher shares of children with On January 30, Matthew Charles Hay- the Central Men’s Jail. ed the map selection process. elevated levels of lead than Chapman alerted local police in San The OC Board of Supervisors is sched - In response, hundreds of activists Flint.http://ourfuture.org Francisco that a vehicle matching the uled to receive the update in closed ses - description of a white van identified by sion at the Board meeting scheduled for the sheriff as being stolen by the fugitives February 23. BALANCE & CHANGE: A Journey by Michelle Gottlieb Life is full of challenges. Our biggest is to achieve a healthy balance in our lives. It can be very difficult to make the changes needed in order to live that healthy balance. It helps to enter into a dialog with someone. 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CSUF mathematics OBSERVERS AROUND THE WORLD professor Alfonso Agnew, and CSUF assistant professors of physics Jocelyn Read and Geoffrey Lovelace announced the discovery, along with CSUF associate professor of physics Joshua Smith, who joined on- screen from Washington DC. PHOTO JERE GREENE AT CSUF 2/11/2016 CSUF Professors Play Role in Gravitational Waves Discovery Cal State Fullerton hosted a news confer - waves. "Scientific advances in technology ence on February 11 at the Titan Student and astrophysics have now allowed us to Union featuring scientists from the CSUF observe two of Einstein's general theory of Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy relativity's most elusive predictions: the exis - Center. tence of gravitational waves and black holes. The event was held to announce that sci - From this point on, we will continue to entists have observed ripples in the fabric of observe the universe in this completely new space-time called gravitational waves, arriv - and exciting way," said Joshua Smith, profes - ing at the earth from a cataclysmic event in sor of physics who is leading the CSUF team the distant universe. This confirms a major with colleagues Jocelyn Read and Geoffrey prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general Lovelace, both assistant professors of JILA IN BANGKOK theory of relativity and opens an unprece - physics; and Alfonso Agnew, associate pro - Jila Navah (pictured above) dented new window onto the cosmos. fessor of mathematics. visited a temple in Bangkok, Gravitational waves carry information LIGO, a pair of extraordinarily sensitive Thailand. Jila owns Portal about their origins and about the nature of laser detectors that can detect ripples of grav - gravity that cannot otherwise be obtained. ity caused by unseen violent explosions of Languages at 110 E. Wilshire Physicists have concluded that the detected stars, or black holes colliding, from as far as Ave. in downtown Fullerton. gravitational waves were produced during 225 million light years away. By the time the final fraction of a second of the merger of they reach Earth the waves are a billionth the two black holes to produce a single, more diameter of an atom. Lewis’ on a massive spinning black hole. This collision Astrophysicists expect that almost every of two black holes had been predicted but galaxy that we know of has a massive black Cruise never observed. hole at its center a millions times the mass of Dave & Reba Lewis (at left) The gravitational waves were detected on the Sun. boarded the Crown Princess in Sept. 14, 2015 at 5:51am. Eastern Daylight The CSUF Gravitational-Wave Physics San Pedro and took a cruise to Time (9:51 UTC) by both of the twin Laser and Astronomy Center, opened in fall 2012, Mazatlán, Mexico. Their first Interferometer Gravitational-wave is the hub for faculty-student research activ - visit was in 1983. Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located ities related to the discovery. CSUF faculty 1,865 miles apart in Livingston, Louisiana, researchers have received more than $2 mil - and Hanford, Washington. The observato - lion in external funding for their gravitation - ries are funded by the National Science al-wave studies, including grants from the Foundation, and were conceived, built and National Science Foundation. Grant fund - are operated by Caltech and MIT. ing also supported building the supercom - LIGO research is carried out by a group of puter, ORCA, in which high-performance more than 1,000 scientists from universities computing hardware and software are used around the US including Cal State Fullerton to model gravitational waves. To date, about - and in 14 other countries. 40 students have had the opportunity to CSUF, one of just three universities in work on this groundbreaking research. Southern California involved in the global For additional information: research effort, and its team of scientists and CSUF Gravitational-Wave Physics student researchers are key contributors to and Astronomy Center: the first direct detection of gravitational http://physics.fullerton.edu/gwpac

Meyers in Mexico Janny & Chris Meyer joined family and friends for a January get-away in Zihuatanejo, Mexico and enjoyed the beach.