COMMUNITY ullerto♥ n bsCAeLENrDAvR Paege 12r -15 FFULLERTON’S INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (prOinted on 20% recycled paper) • YEAR 37 #10 • EARLY JUNE 2015 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com UPDATE : Y EAR ROUND HOMELESS SHELTER The real estate division of the County of Orange will bring consideration of a pro - posed purchase and sale agreement for 1000 N. Kramer Place, Anaheim at the 9:30am Tuesday, June 2nd meeting of the OC Board of Supervisors. Board approval of the $4.25 million agreement for office space, storage and a possible year-round homeless emergency center does not commit the county to a definite course of action. Any additional decisions about the use of the property would be brought back for consideration by the board. If later approved as a year-round home - less shelter the location, in an industrial park, would replace the current partial- year use of the National Guard Armory on Brookhurst which is located in a resi - dential neighborhood. The board meets in the Hall of Administration (NW corner of Broadway and Santa Ana Blvd.) in Santa Ana. Groups working with the homeless population, including the OC Human Relations Commission and the Fullerton Homeless Task Force, strongly support a year-round multi-service shelter as a criti - The pie chart above shows the water used by various categories within the city. cal solution to getting people off the The Landscape Irrigation category is what industries use in outdoor watering. Fun Upcoming Events streets, out of the parks and neighbor - The Commercial category includes water to businesses and schools. • S AT , J UNE 6, 2 PM : J OURNALIST & hoods, and into a safe place where servic - AUTHOR TRACY WOOD will speak at the es they need can be centrally located to UT ACK IN ESIDENTIAL Friends of Pollak Library CSUF on “The help them get their lives back on track. 50% C B R Toxic Mix of Corruption & War.” Wood, LANDSCAPE WATERING as a UPI reporter, was one of the few “Fullerton must save 2 billion gallons of April 1st order for 25% reduction in water women assigned to cover Vietnam. Free

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G A Water Systems Manager Dave Schickling Southern California has announced a O R T A S D I E • M ON , J UNE 15, 10 AM : F LAG DAY T E at the May 19th council meeting. 15% cutback in water supplies to the city. L N S M R L A CEREMONY by Wilshire Wise Students O P R “The city must report its water use each The city will be going into Phase III T U P E S F Fullerton College Quad, 321 E. P month and the state will base fines on restrictions which include staggered out - how many days the city went over the door watering allowed before 8am and Chapman Ave, Fullerton. Free limit within the 9-month period.” after 6pm: even addresses, Tuesdays & • S AT , J UNE 20, 10 AM -4 PM : O NE DAY Schickling presented the city’s drought Saturdays; odd addresses, Thursdays & BOOK SALE at Fullerton Public Library, plan in response to Governor Brown’s Sundays. continued on page 4 Continued on page 15 Tenants are Targets of Serial Towing Where They Live

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PASSION FOR JUSTICE Easy Way to Save Water Fullerton by Synthia Tran It goes without saying that it is important that we all save water. And, there is an easy Observer way to do this. You can go to a hardware Injustice & Money store and buy a showerhead which has a lever The Fullerton Observer Community which turns the shower water off and on. Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie After ransacking the wealth of busi - the loud speaker that “It’s time to dis - Then, when you take a shower, you can wet Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is ness owners in South Vietnam and tribute meat”; he then put down his staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, down and then turn the water off using lever publish, and distribute the paper throughout transporting tons of gold across the bor - surgical equipment and rushed out of while you soap up and shampoo. After this, our community. der to repay the war debt to China and the door to collect his portion because you can turn the water back on using the This venture is a not-for-profit one with the Soviet Union, the government of his entire family relied on it for a whole lever to rinse off. Of course, you can do this all ad and subscription revenues plowed back Vietnamese Communist (VC) started month’s nutrition! with a regular showerhead, but you waste into maintaining and improving our inde - robbing from the general public by Sugar, cooking oil, fabric, etc. were pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - more water doing it that way. This is because munity newspaper. exchanging and controlling the curren - also being distributed similarly. For with a regular showerhead you have to spend Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - cy. non-government people, there was a time adjusting the hot and cold water knobs dents about the institutions and other socie - There was a lot of paper currency cir - black market for everything – if you had and even waiting for the water to heat back tal forces which most impact their lives, so culating on the market but not many the money. up again. that they may be empowered to participate good products to buy, so inflation was After a year or so, with the black mar - in constructive ways to keep and make these If you turn off the shower water using the private and public entities serve all residents high. Precious merchandise like gold, ket, bribes, corruption, and paper lever on a showerhead with one, you can in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible diamonds, and jade changed hands on money flooding the market, inflation rinse off right after turning it back on with ways. the black market for profit to avoid the skyrocketed. So the VC ordered the the lever because the temperature of the Through our extensive local calendar and watchful eyes of the government. money exchange again. Currency was water will still be the same then as before you other coverage, we seek to promote a sense One evening, a government swapped three times in of community and an appreciation for the turned it off. This is because the lever turns values of diversity with which our country is advisory warned that a tornado the period of about the water off and on beyond where it is so uniquely blessed. was coming the following day After a four years. The outside adjusted by the hot and cold water knobs. and that everyone should limit world knew nothing SUBMISSIONS : travel. The next morning they year or so, about it; even the Randy Cox Orange Submissions on any topic of interest are announced the new “money with the younger generation in accepted from Fullerton residents and we try hard exchange.” People would have black market, Vietnam was not aware. to get it all in. Sorry we sometimes fail. Shorter the opportunity to exchange It’s also worth men - A New Home pieces have a better chance. Send by email to 500 units of current VND bribes, tioning that healthcare for the Homeless [email protected] or by snail mail to: (Vietnamese Dong, the currency corruption, and medication during FULLERTON OBSERVER of Vietnam) to 1 unit of the new this period were very The OC Register and the Fullerton Observer PO BOX 7051 and paper have recently published a number of articles FULLERTON, CA 92834-7051 VND, and the maximum poor, especially at the ______allowance would be 1000 new money local level ward and dis - and letters about the proposed full-time (24/7) shelter for the homeless at 1000 N. How To Subscribe VND for each family. flooding trict. Subscriptions include home delivery South Vietnamese people Diagnosis and treat - Kraemer St. in Anaheim. These entries are a and are due each October were in shock, dismay, and the market, ment were free at that hodge-podge of reports from various writers $25/Fullerton • $35/Out of Town wondered what we would do inflation time but the doctors that give very little information about the Send Check with Name & Address to: with the money that we were were North Vietnamese building and whether or not it would be Fullerton Observer, PO Box 7051, skyrocketed. acceptable. Fullerton CA 92834-7051 not allowed to exchange? Some nurses who were pro - ______despondent people jumped to moted after only three There were several errors, such as the one How to Advertise death from their high balconys years on the job. the April 9 issue of the Register that stated Call 714-525-6402 , with a big bag of money by their body. I remember they prescribed the that the Fullerton Armory gives shelter to or email One of our neighbors banged on our antibiotic Tetracycline for any illness we 380 homeless persons per night. Having [email protected] been a volunteer for 3 years at that shelter, I ______front door in the early morning and had: stomach aches, sore throat, flu, 10,000 issues of the Fullerton Observer volunteered to exchange money for us cold, etc. It amazes me how many of us know that the real figure is 200, and at the are distributed throughout Fullerton because she didn’t have much to are still alive and well today. armory in Santa Ana, is also 200. and sent through the mail to subscribers exchange. We knew her as she was a At the beginning of the “Revolution,” The breath of fresh air we were waiting for every two weeks except only once in classmate of my cousin, and father as the winners called it, the men who just came along in Curtis Gamble's article in January, July & August. allowed her to use the area in front of made a living by transporting people the Fullerton Observer, Early May addition. Missed a Copy? our home to buy and sell merchandise and merchandise by the tricycle called Curtis describes the building at 1000 N. Visit us online at: so she could make a living. Father gave “xe xích lô”, looked up at the highrise Kraemer, even noting that one section is www.fullertonobserver.com her some money hoping she would help buildings and said to each other that divided into about 24 rooms. He informed & on FaceBook exchange and bring back the new cur - “We will live there, very soon.” To their us that bus stops for lines 38, 129, 59 and • STAFF• rency. To our surprise, she didn’t come disappointment, only government offi - 213 are only about 2 blocks away form the • Editor: Sharon Kennedy back, and we had no courage to ask for cials were allowed to live in the big building's front door. He noted that there is • Database Manager: Jane Buck easy access to the 91, 57, and 55 freeways • Advisor: Tracy Wood fear of prosecution by the government. buildings and nice houses. The tricycle • Copy Editors: Viveca Wolff. All food and necessities were rare so men would continue to labor until they and that inside the gates there is room to Sam & Janet Evening & Kathleen Haiker they were being distributed by could no longer do it, and then they park up to 74 cars and trucks. • Distribution: Roy & Irene Kobayashi, rationing. For example, every govern - would rely on their children, relatives, These are good features, but personally my Tom & Kate Dalton, Marjorie Kerr, ment male worker was allowed to buy charities, or become panhandlers to sur - preference would be shelters accommodating Pam Nevius, Manny Bass & Leslie Allen 50 people each in most every city in Los • Photography: 18 kg of rice per month, and female vive. Jere Greene & Liz Marchant workers were allowed 15 kg. The gov - Poor people were fooled into support - Angeles and Orange counties. • Webmaster: Cathy Yang ernment reasoned that men must eat ing the communists. They were think - Should we still call them homeless when • FEATURES • more than women. ing of the ideal of communism, where they have their new full-time homes? • History/Arboretum: Warren Bowen For meat distribution, on the other everyone works hard and receives their Joseph Weeks Anaheim • Politics & other stuff: Vince Buck • Roving Reporters: Jere Greene, Betz Kuttner, hand, both men and women were enti - fair share. They were wrong. They and other Community Members tled to buy 1 kg (2.2 lbs) of meat per were treated with injustice all their lives • COLUMNISTS • month. There was a joke that this sur - along with current and future genera - •Art: Marjorie Kerr geon was about to operate on a patient tions. Xin Chao Ms. Tran •Conservation Gardening: Penny Hlavac when there was an announcement over • Council Report: Need Reporter I have been following your writing in •Crossword: Valerie Brickey •The Downtown Report: Mike Ritto the Fullerton Observer with some interest. • Movie Review Hits & Misses: Joyce Mason I am the leader of a group of 20 people at •Youth Columnists: C.C. Lee, WAR COSTS in Life & Money the First Presbyterian Church in Francine Vudoti & Sammy Howell California leads the nation with 886 soldiers wounded and 252 dead in wars since 2001. Fullerton. We are interested in having you •Video Observer: Emerson Little share your experiences in Vietnam, •Out of My Mind: Jonathan Dobrer IN IRAQ & A FGHANISTAN •Passion for Justice: Synthia Tran including how you left and came to the • School Board Reports: • 139,272 Civilians killed by Violence www.iraqbodycount.org (5/29/2015) United States. I look forward to hearing Jan Youngman & Vivien Moreno from you. Sincerely Bob Bergstrom •Science: Sarah Mosko & Frances Mathews • 4,491 US Soldiers killed in Iraq: (DoD 5/29/2015) • Theatre Reviews: Xin Chao Mr. Robert Bergstrom: (5/29/2015) www.icasualties.org Mark Rosier & Angela Hatcher • 2,358 US Soldiers killed in Afghanistan I am honored that you have invited me US Soldiers wounded (DOD reports) www.icasualties.org to address your group and I really appreci - Created & Published in Fullerton • 32,223 by local citizen volunteers for 37 years Iraq (3/2003 thru 11/2011- no updates since this date) ate your kindness in giving me the oppor - Fullerton Observer LLC • 17,674 Afghanistan ( 10/2001 thru 10/13/2012- no updates since this date) tunity. However, I have decided to only Mid June 2015 issue share my experiences through the • $1.6 Cost of Wars Since 2001 www.costofwar.com (5/29/2015) until the day I complete my will hit the stands on June 15. Observer Trillion (rounded down) (Iraq $818 billion) (Afghanistan $702 billion) memoirs in book form. I hope you under - SUBMISSION & AD Cost of Military Action Against ISIL $4.4 billion stand and will forgive me for declining DEADLINE: June 8, 2015 www.nationalpriorities.org your kind offer. Best Regards Synthia Tran EARLY JUNE 2015 COMMUNITY OPINIONS continued on page 18 OBSERVER Page 3

OUT OF MY MIND by Jon Dobrer © 2015 [email protected]

IRAQ , A FGHANISTAN & THE FUTURE LIES AHEAD * We’re currently obsessing about what lying—lying as they did in Vietnam when we’d have done “if only we’d known then we won every battle and body count, yet what we know now” in Iraq. Were we lied lost the war. to by Bush/Cheney? Did some just hon - We’ve killed every “second in com - estly get it wrong? Was all the intelligence mand” of Al Qaeda, of the Taliban and wrong? now of ISIS. Or maybe everyone we kill This re-litigation of how we got into we promote to second in command, post Iraq is both long over-due and ill timed. It mortem. serves as a distraction from the lies we We just killed the well-known ISIS have been told by this administration and Emir of Oil, that no one in the intelli - are being told today. Let me be clear, all gence community had heard of pre- governments try to control the news; they mortem. Many analysts believe we were spin it so as to look good. However, dis - looking for someone else but had to settle tortion and spinning become fabrications with the corpse we had. The corpse’s and deceptions until growing into full- name may have been Abu Sayyaf, a Nom fledged lies. de Guerre, translating as Father of Sayyaf. But is lying too strong a word? You This either means that he has a son Water Conservation Yes - But Not By Turning in Neighbors decide. There was an inten - named Sayyaf or his I do not like that the City of Fullerton, devices for the home and lawn. (2) Create tional conflation of weapons of fighting name is literally is now encouraging residents to report on a Fullerton Beautification award for best mass destruction with nukes. What’s Father of a Sword-maker. neighbors as a water waster! They have looking landscape with 80% drought-tol - Yes, it’s literally true that we dangerous is We killed him and took set-up the Water Waster hotline. "If you erate plants (3) Publish best practices for didn’t want proof of WMDs to his wife, Om Sayyaf notice that a neighbor is overwatering or reducing water usage and include in the be a mushroom shaped cloud if we don’t (Mother of a Sword- use the past lies has a water leak call the Water Waster hot - water bills (4) the city should put back the over one of our cities. But that maker) captive. We say line, at 714-738-6744 or email water-friendly toilets at city hall (they were wasn’t a clear and present dan - to inform she’ll be a great source of [email protected]" there and then they went away) , and (5) ger. We knew Saddam had no the present intelligence. Sure, the Shouldn't we focus on finding better lead by example and publish water usage nukes but did have some radical Sunni men of solutions on how to reduce our water reports and practices. If homeowners are chemicals. We let that confla - and deal with ISIS are known for con - the future usage, not turn-in citizens just to 'fine" expected to reduce water by 50%, so tion stand and still do. We’ve fiding in their women. them. should our city. defined down to nearly mean - lies ahead. This great kill is sup - My recommendations on how the city We need to lead in water conservation inglessness WMDs. The posed to distract us from could be pro-active: (1) Publish a list of through education not by turning in our Tsarnaev brother’s terrible pres - the fact that Ramadi has companies that can provide water-saving fellow neighbors! sure cookers were charged as We’re actively fallen to ISIS. Mosul has Gary Graves Fullerton weapons of mass destruction. losing, and our been in ISIS’ hands for a If Conservation Doesn’t Work Out - What’s Plan B? On that depreciated standard government is year. We made 19 bomb - Now we have it! Our city has jumped 19th, the two-day a week outdoor water - Saddam had WMDs. Truth or lying—lying as ing runs in the 24 hours from Phase I to Phase III in response to ing was assigned as follow: Even address - lie? Your call. before Ramadi fell. The the governor’s mandatory cut in water es should water on Wednesday and Sy Hersh raised questions they did in Iraqi government soldiers Vietnam usage by 25% throughout the entire state. Saturday; odd addresses on Thursday and with the official story of the fled, once again leaving As a Fullerton resident, I will do my Sunday. However, I went on the city web - killing of Osama Bin Laden. when we won their American supplied best to comply with the city’s demand. I site today, and it says the outdoor water - While his version may have every battle and guns, rockets, grenades was one of the early adopters of water ing days are Monday, Thursday, and problems, they’re not nearly as and Humvees. We are the conservation. I started saving water over Saturday. So which days are the right serious as the self-evident body count, yet arms suppliers of ISIS lost the war. three years ago by removing 1000 SF of days? My brother just went on a trip with absurdity of Obama’s original and ought to boycott grass and replacing it with cement and his family, and I told him to reschedule version. ourselves! ground cover, which requires much less his sprinklers to water on Thursday and We flew two Blackhawk hel - Our generals are lying, water. I have also stopped washing my car Sunday. If this is wrong, I hope the city icopters into Pakistan undetected by their but it’s their job not to look bad, nor to at home and go to a car wash where they won’t give him a ticket because I will have military—despite having equipped them make the policy makers (Obama) look recycle. I have applied for rebates to to pay for it. with the latest radar. We flew into bad. Sec. of State Kerry is lying, but remove another 950 SF of turf in my back Using figures from the Pacific Institute, Abbottabad, a mile from Pakistan’s West remember a diplomat is someone who is yard. My gardener just removed 250 SF the average water usage for outdoor land - Point, crashed a helicopter and no one paid to lie for his country. “Oh a small of the ground cover, which grows out of scaping is 50% of the total. So by cutting showed up to investigate. Oh, that’s right, tactical stumble, a slight reversal. Not control and will replace it with drought the outdoor watering from 7 days to 2 the lights were out in the entire city by what we wanted, but no big deal.” Mosul, tolerant plants and rocks. days, as the proposal suggests we would be some strange coincidence. Ah, yes, there Fallujah, now Ramadi, are places we I replaced the faucets and the washing able to meet the 28% cut requirement. was an extra helicopter hovering about to fought for and died for and now promise machine. To be honest, I don’t like the Well, we may need to take a second rescue the folks if one bird happened to to fight for them again. Really? Why? new washer and if I had a choice, I would look. Not many people water the lawn be disabled. Who? go back to the old washer in a heartbeat. daily anymore. In fact, around my two- There was a firefight to get to Bin ISIS is Sunni. Baghdad is Shiite. Iraqi The city is fair not to order a cut across mile daily jogging path, I have seen a lot Laden—and while we killed him, his Sunnis will not fight and die for their the board as many of us feared. We only of brown front yards in the past couple of guards and possibly a wife, we all escaped Shiite oppressors (whom we put in place) need to reduce the outdoor watering to years, and the number is growing. A large unscathed. And still no mob gathered. and the only nation willing to die killing two days a week, no watering between the number of home owners have already Amazing. ISIS is Shiite Iran. Sunnis cannot be “lib - hours of 8am and 6pm, and all the leaks abandoned their yards to save water, so When Pakistan scrambled its air defens - erated” by Shiites. So whom shall we send need to be repaired promptly or face a the 50% outdoor watering estimate may es, they all flew east, believing, they said, to take back Mosul, Fallujah and Ramadi? fine. no longer be correct. Will cutting two that the intrusion came from India not Maybe Sunni Turkey will fight ISIS? Well, That’s easy! I can do that without any days really save the amount we are hoping Afghanistan. Again, advanced radar no. Turkey, our NATO ally, has been buy - problem even though my heart sinks for? couldn’t tell the direction of our copters? ing the stolen oil from ISIS and the late knowing that the remainder of my front My fear is that we will not be able to We were extremely careful to identify Father of a Sword-maker. lawn will die under the summer heat. I meet our quota. Then what? What is our Bin Laden’s DNA and take pictures, but One way or another, we got into Iraq can only hope and pray for El Niño to plan B? S. Dang Fullerton disposed of the body at sea and sup - with poor intelligence. Presidents, we’ll all bring us rain, and hope my lawn will pressed the photographic evidence. agree, can’t make good decisions without revive itself in the winter. Ed: The council will finalize the vote on No, I don’t believe that Bin Laden is good information. Voters can’t make Now we just need to iron out some the new ordinance at its June 2 meeting, alive, but neither do I believe that intelligent decisions without good infor - details: According to the proposal that afterwhich the new watering days will be Pakistan didn’t know where he was or that mation. This is why we should call out was accepted by the City Council on May posted online. no high-ranking Pakistanis sold him out. the lies, all the lies, past, present and the What I do believe is that we didn’t get a future lies ahead. straight story about Iraq from George W, HOW TO VOICE YOUR OPINION nor did we get a straight story from *Title Mort Sahl Community Opinion pages are a forum for the community. The Observer wel - Obama about Bin Laden or Iraq. political satire album 1959 comes letters on any subject of interest. Comments are the opinions of the author, What’s dangerous is if we don’t use the may be shortened for space, and typos will be corrected. Although we must verify past lies to inform the present, and deal your identity, you may choose to have only your initials appear in print. Anonymous with the future lies ahead. www.Dobrer.com letters are accepted if the writer can make a case that revealing their name would be Right now, we’re not winning in Iraq. Follow me on Twitter @jondobrer a problem. Send to: We don’t have a reasonable prospect of Jonathan is available to speak to groups on: [email protected] winning in Iraq/Syria against ISIS. We’re Current Events, the Middle East & or send by mail to: actively losing, and our government is Comparative Religion Fullerton Observer, PO Box 7051, Fullerton, CA 92834 Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER GOVERNMENT NEWS EARLY JUNE 2015

CITY COUNCIL NOTES Temporary Draining of Laguna Lake Proposed The City Council meets at 6:30pm on the first and third Tuesdays of each A contentious part of the city water St. Jude nurse and doctor warned that month. Upcoming agenda info and streaming video of council meetings are avail - supply shortage plan, the draining of draining the lake could trigger a massive Laguna Lake, brought a chamber full of uptick in West Nile Virus for which able at www.cityoffullerton.com. Meetings are broadcast live on Cable Ch 3 citizens to the May 19th council meeting Orange County became famous as the and rebroadcast at 3pm and 6pm the following Wed. & Sun. and at 5pm Mon. to speak on the cons. epicenter last year with 282 confirmed City Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton. The reasoning behind allowing the lake cases and 8 deaths. The virus is spread by Contact Council at 714-738-6311 or by email to: [email protected] to drain is that it has been leaking since its mosquitos. $7 million renovation in 2006 ($5 million St. Jude Heritage doctor Pauline Liang MAY 19 C OUNCIL M EETING (NEXT MEETING J UNE 2) from the state and $2 million from the city) . said that most people contracting the During that renovation it was decided virus would just feel flu symptoms but Water Supply Shortage & Phase III Restrictions that the man-made lake, which had never that those with auto-immune conditions required a liner in the past, still wouldn’t and the elderly could die from WNV. She Continued from frontpage saving measures include: pools must be require one. However, it is now believed suggested the city reach out to the elderly covered; no filling or draining of pools can Water use in Fullerton is 60% residen - that the dredging of the bottom of the population with help in removing turf take place within the next four months: tial. Of that residential use, 60% to 80% lake during the renovation may have and that the difficult turf replacement no fountains except recirculating, no hos - is used for outdoor watering. Residents uncovered a fissure of some sort, though application process on the BeWaterWise ing off pavement, no runoff properties, no will be required to cut outdoor water use divers sent down to track the water leak website be simplified. “Draining the lake water at restaurants unless requested, no in half. Violators will receive one written with blue dye were unable to find one. is not a good idea,” she added. potable irrigation of turf on city owned notice and then fines. The state allows Over the past five years the lake has Mary Homme, who lives near the lake, property; no spray irrigation on new fines of $100 for 2nd time; $300 for 3rd been losing water at a rate of 50 gallons said she is still in the recovery process home construction and more. time; and $500 for 4th time. If there are per minute (over 26 million gallons per from contracting WNV last year when she As detailed in the Mid May Fullerton additional violations a flow restrictor can year) presumably through this mysterious fell into a coma and was hospitalized for 4 Observer pages 1 and 2, city parks will fall be installed. Residents can appeal a viola - leak. More expensive MWD water is used months due to the virus. Her husband into three categories for water restriction tion to the Energy Resource Management to replace the loss because the feed from was also struck by the virus seven years from 10% to 85%. Committee. that water supplier is nearby. earlier. “Mosquitos have been increasing,” Council passed the ordinance minus the According to directions from the state According to Catherine Lancaster of she said, “If you drain the lake you have to Laguna Lake draining portion (see discus - those with irrigated lots of 3-acres or more North Fullerton Homeowners beware of a mosquito WNV outbreak.” sion at right) in a 4-1 vote (Whitaker, no). may apply for special plans. Other water Association, the group which played a According to the city, OC Vector A final vote takes place June 2. key role in getting the renovation of the Control can keep the danger down by lake started, there is no mystery. “The lake spraying and introducing mosquito larva Is a 50% Cut Back on naturally drains into the Coyote Creek,” eating fish. Landscape Watering she said. She said a building moratorium Expert Shakil Siddiqui said that a liner would save more water than would drain - can be installed without draining the lake. Enough? ing the lake. Commenting on the 50% Elaine Mitchel objected to the Net Zero During the discussion of the con - landscape watering regulation she said idea for new construction and suggested a servation measures Councilmember that many property owners must continue building moratorium would save more Flory brought forth some calcula - to water their sloping properties or risk water than draining the lake. There were tions and questioned whether rely - fire and slippage. She also suggested a fire - many other comments mostly from resi - ing on reduction of landscape water - works ban be put in place during the dents opposed to the draining on grounds ing alone would be enough to meet drought. that it is a well used park and draining the 2 billion gallon water savings Many public commenters including a would cause health issues. goal. Fullerton’s 45,000 households use Other City Business about 22,500 acre feet of water in 1 acre foot = 325,851 gallons •C IVIL AIR PATROL : The Civil Air •T ROY HIGH SCIENCE OLYMPIAD total. The average household uses 1/2 acre foot = 162,925 gallons Patrol cadets dressed in uniforms with RECOGNIZED : The council recognized the about a half an acre foot per year: 45,000 x 162,925 = 7,331,625,000 gallons white gloves and carrying rifles brought Troy High Science Olympiad team stu - 446 gallons per day, per household - 60% is used on outside watering and placed the American flag to the cham - dents and faculty for their 10th time win - with roughly 60% or 267 gallons of 60% of 7,331,625,000 = 4,398,975,000 gallons bers. The Civil Air Patrol, an auxilary of ning the national title. After the photo that amount per day going to land - 4.398,975,000/2= 2,199,487,500 gallons the US Air Force, has over 5,000 opp a 1/5th of the audience left the cham - scape watering; up to 80% in sum - 2,199,487,500/45,000 = 48,877.5 gallons squadrons with 70,000 members in the bers and were replaced with those attend - mer (but, possibly less per household 48,877.5/365 = 14.5 gallons per day/household US. One squadron with 60 members is ing to speak about the possible draining of for multi-family apartments). based at Fullerton Airport. According to Laguna Lake. (see item at right) If each household cuts water use by lion gallons within the next 9 months to Captain Goeggel the squadron helps with •P UBLIC RELATIONS : After discussion 14.5 gallons per day, 2.1 billion gallons of meet the state mandate of a 28% reduc - search and rescue missions when called an open-ended 5-year contract with a water would be saved in a year citywide tion in water use. upon, and teaches young people “leader - public relations firm was continued to but only 1.6 billion in 9 months.) Will restrictions in other categories be ship and how to follow.” For more info June 2 when it will come back with more The city has to cut water use by 2 bil - enough to take up the slack? visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com. specifics. Public Works feels the city needs •M EMORIAL DAY : Ed Paul, coordinator a professional consultant to handle getting for the American Veterans Association information to businesses surrounding NO BUILDING MORATORIUM ? MORE FAKE GRASS STARTING WITH 77th annual Memorial Day ceremony at areas of large construction projects. The new requirements do not include a LADERA VISTA JR. H IGH FIELD Loma Vista, invited volunteers to help Councilmember Whitaker said, building moratorium as has happened in Replacing city-owned grassy areas in place flags and remove, iron, and pack “Sounds like you are trying to sell the Santa Barbara and Monticito, and as was parks and school fields used by the city them away for next year. 600 volunteers project when you just have to give accu - suggested by serveral public speakers. New for sports teams is being considered help out each year. Call 714-871-2416 or rate information so that businesses can housing developments will instead fall according to City Manager Joe Felz who visit www.avmfullerton.org for info. inform their customers.” He suggested under a Net Zero plan. This means that said he had just met with Fullerton •S ELECTIVE SERVICE : Lt. (JG) Jason using Fullerton’s current public informa - instead of a 28% cutback, new develop - School District Superintendent Robert Morgan of the Navy Reserves said the tion officer and free media coverage ments will be required to use less or the Pletka on the subject. That plan may Selective Service is seeking board mem - through newspapers, radio and social same water that was used on the property start with a proposed $4 million project bers. Males ages 18-26 must register for media. prior to development. This will be further to install artifical turf at the Ladera Vista the US Selective Service which is an insur - Council agreed that more specifics were discussed at an upcoming session. Jr. High School field. ance policy in the event that the draft is needed on the hourly rate and cost of the Councilmember Whitaker said con - reinstated. They are trying to make sign 5-year contract before a decision is made. LARGE INDUSTRIAL WATER USERS verting more sports fields to artifical turf up mandatory when you get a drivers •F IRE INSURANCE AT GOLF COURSE : The city’s largest industrial water users seemed a wise thing to do. “The city are being asked to cut back by 28% if they license. Go to www.sss.gov for more info. Council agreed to a $250,000 deductible should lead on areas where grass can be •C LOSED SESSION REPORT : The council necessary to be eligible for $800,000 in can. Asked by the Observer , the city repre - replaced by artificial turf or zeroscape.” sentative said he was not allowed to divulge voted unanimously to settle the case insurance payments for the damages to an Councilmember Flory, while agreeing brought by Loretta Salas for $30,000. American Golf Course maintenance shed who those large users are. Hopefully they with the zeroscape idea, advised caution do not include oil companies. At least one •B LAKE FAMILY RECOGNIZED : Mayor and its contents caused by the recent Brea on covering the city in artifical turf, say - Sebourn and Mayor Protem Fitzgerald Dam fire. The deductible will be paid of Fullerton’s largest water users is known. ing she would like to learn more about Kimberly Clark, which makes toilet paper, presented a certificate to James and Sarah back by the Brea Dam Fund. The cause of the down-side before adding more. She Blake and their kids Jude, Jonah and the fire is still under investigation but is used 679 million gallons of water in 1990 said she had recently read about some (enough to serve 4,500 families) according Sofia. The family hosts a 4th of July Block not believed to be suspicious in nature. negative features of artificial turf includ - Party each year. The kids came to a previ - •G ENDER ACCOMMODATIONS : A to its own records. Its most recent 2010 ing its tendency to heat up to very high Sustainability Report states it was cutting ous council meeting to make the case that $234,000 contract will add bathroom, temperatures on hot days and its ability block party fees were too much. They did shower and sleeping accommodations for that level by nearly 350 million gallons per to harbor viruses. year through recycling, clarifying and then such a fine job presenting their reasoning females at Fullerton’s Main Fire Station. According to Director Schickling the that council agreed at a subsequent meet - Station #4 will be done next year and then reusing waste water. (See http://www.sustain - grass replacement issues will be dis - ing to drop the fees altogether. The 4th of all fire stations will have accommodations abilityreport2010.kimberly- cussed separately and are not part of the July Block party held on Live Oak Ave. for female firefighters and paramedics. clark.com/planet/protecting-water- ordinance being voted on June 2 begins at 9am on July 4th. Public invited. resources.asp#sthash.TAO1Gmnh.dpuf) Continued on page 17 EARLY JUNE 2015 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5

TENANT TARGETS OF REGULAR TOWING BY THE HOMESTEAD PARKING RULES & REMINDERS APARTMENT COMPLEXES WHERE THEY LIVE Attention Resident(s), continued from frontpage recently when management moved her to All Homestead tenants must register a different designated spot around the ***Please read carefully*** their vehicle licence numbers with the corner and further away from the pathway management so that vehicles not belong - leading to her apartment. She said this ing to tenants can be identified. was done after she complained about This notice is intended to make you clear and offer a reminder on “At lease signing time,” says the current maggots and the unkempt condition of the parking rules here at the Homestead. Vehicles may be towed by manager, “tenants are told about the park - the trash can area adjacent to her original West Coast Metro Parking at owner’s expense if not followed. ing restrictions before they sign.” parking space. According to California Vehicle Code In her case, parking is a also a safety 1. Any vehicle parked in any open space without a hangtag 22658 Section (a)(1)) - tow companies issue. Although she usually returns home permit clearly visible is subject to tow, whether registered or may not tow a car unless permanent signs in the daylight hours from her 12-hour are posted at each entrance to the proper - shift as a nurse at a hospital, occasionally unregistered . ty. Although there were no permanent she is unexpectedly sent home early before 2. Guests are never allowed to park behind the gates posted signs at Homestead prohibiting dawn. She said she was too scared to walk 3. If you have only one registered vehicle, your one vehicle is parking at the pre-dawn hours of May 19, from the newly designated carport spot in always required to park in your one assigned carport a sign was erected at the main entrance the darker part of the parking area and 4. You may have a maximum of 2 registered later that day. admitted parking in the closer, well-lit but In addition, a notice printed on white unmarked spot near her apartment. vehicles, one must park in your carport and the second in an typing paper was scotch-taped in four Unfortunately her son had the hang-tag open space with your hangtag clearly visible . locations nearby the apartments of resi - and her car was towed. The manager at 5. If you acquire a new or replacement vehicle, you must notify dents who had been towed May 19th. The the time explained that open parking on site management or West Coast Metro Parking current Homestead manager said that the without a hangtag can only be used by res - immediately in order to register the vehicle before parking notices were a courtesy reminder and idents for short periods of loading or placed at all 700 residences. However, unloading. on the property based on a tour of the complex by an A month later she said she was again let 6. If your hangtag is lost, misplaced, or damaged you must Observer reporter, this did not appear to off work early and returned home around immediately notify on site management to receive a be the case. A co-manager’s statement 2:20am. She parked her car in the open replacement. A $50 fee may apply. that the permanent entrance sign had unmarked parking spot closest to her been up for about two months was false apartment so she could cart her grocery according to eye-witnesses. No permanent bags into her apartment before moving to *** If you need assistance with registered vehicles or have any signs were posted on or near any of the her new spot around the corner. Lugging questions during non-office hours you may reach West Coast open parking spaces within the complex. the heavy bags while walking from the Metro Parking 24 hours a day at 714-539-5900. *** The Fullerton Police Department is not darker spot did not seem safe. But, when involved in arranging towing on private she returned to her car, it was gone. property except in incidences of crime. She called Fullerton Police and Arnel Thank You, However, all tow companies are required Management. She found that her car had Homestead Management to notify police when they tow. They been towed from the location inside the must state the reason for the tow and give gated apartment complex at 2:40am by To the licence plate for a stolen vehicle check. & Mo Towing. Argyros’ and Arnel Management were in Above: Those whose cars are towed must show When she questioned the new on-site the news in 2001 after making a $1.5 mil - A notice printed on typing paper was the FPD proof of identity before retriev - manager about the most recent tow, she lion settlement (plus $200,000 in civil taped to just four locations around the ing their vehicle from the tow yard. This was told that loading and unloading was penalties and $150,000 in investigation 700-unit complex on May 19 after sever - $55 service (which includes the stolen allowed, but that she had “only a few min - and prosecution costs) in a class-action al tenants had their cars towed from the vehicle check) is paid for by the owner of utes to do it.” case of defrauding tenants. Arnel admitted gated apartments where they live. the car. To & Mo charges $45 per day plus “It takes longer than that to walk to and no wrong-doing. That case was brought by $185 for the tow. So, the total cost to res - from my apartment,” said the nurse. “I the California State Attorney General idents who pick up cars promptly is $285 don’t have money to waste and would not against Argyros and Arnel alleging that the per incident. have taken the chance of being towed management company had unfairly kept One five-year resident said she had again - but I believed I was OK because of the security deposits of potentially thou - never had a problem being towed until what the former manager told me.” sands of tenants. While originally investi - gated by the OCDA, the case was turned over to the state two months after it was revealed that the apartment owner Argyros had made major contributions to the cam - paign of OC District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and after Rackauckas ordered that the lawsuit against Argyros’ and Arnel Management be withdrawn, saying he wanted more time to negotiate an out-of- court settlement.

POSSIBLE RESOURCES FOR TENANTS : •FairHousingOC.org or 714-569- 0823 may be able to help sort out tenant/landlord issues. •Legal Aid OC Small Claims advisory Above & Below: It was 2:20am and dark when she returned from work so she parked in program can be reached at (714) 571- the well-lit vacant unmarked spot (shown above) next to the pathway to her home to carry 5277 or visit www.ocsmallclaims.com. her groceries into the apartment. She planned to come back and move the car to her They can give answers to how to go about designated spot several rows away (below) but by then it was already towed. filing a small claims case and referrals to attorneys who can give advice.

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Three typed notices were taped to the poles that separate a couple of carport parking spots and one was taped to a garbage enclosure Page 6FULLERTON OBSERVER The DOWNTOWN Report EARLY JUNE 2015 THE WILSHIRE BROTHERS text & photos by Mike Ritto [email protected] Henry Gaylord Wilshire and his brother William headed west from Ohio FETE DE LA MUSIQE and eventually struck real estate gold. They landed in Los Angeles in 1884, WORLD MUSIC DAY where Henry purchased 35 acres at the western edge of town (now MacArthur JUNE 21 Park). They headed to Long Beach after that, and when the Long Beach Hotel THE SOUNDS ON WILSHIRE AVE burned down and left them out in the cold, they made their way to Fullerton. Tina was finally able to round us up and got the As you know, their investment with the interview after all. If you want to check it out, lis - Amerige Brothers and the deal with ten to 100.3FM on Sunday June 14th at 7:30pm. George Fullerton lead the way, and a Here is a snapshot from the interview of what we town was born. wanted the listeners to know, and of course, Observers too. Glenn: ”Fete de la Musiqe, also known as World Music Day, is an annual music festival taking place on June 21, the first day of summer, in 110 countries around the world. We have over 160 Above: Tina conducting the interviews you can hear on 100.3 FM performances scheduled at over 30 venues all over on Sunday, June 14 at 7:30pm the City of Fullerton, including The Museum Plaza, Hillcrest Park, in the lot behind Out of Below: Mike Ritto and Glenn Georgieff at the radio station before the interview Vogue and Roadkill Ranch, Roscoes Deli, The with Tina about Fullerton Day of Music coming up on June 21st. Slidebar, churches, retail businesses, even porches and street corners.” Glenn experienced it first hand while in France, and came to the conclusion a couple of years ago that this event would work in Fullerton. “It was everywhere, it just permeated everything that was going on in the city that day.” Tina: “Mike, can you give us a little more infor - mation on what will be happening on Day of Music?” Mike: “Leo Fender changed popular music with his innovations, his Stratocaster and Telecaster electric guitars, precision basses, ampli - 5900 Wilshire THE SOUND fiers, and if people around the world have heard of Fullerton, it is likely because of that connection to Henry Gaylord insisted the 4 blocks Leo and the Fender connection to music all over between Westlake and Sunset bear his the world. On our Main Stage, we will have Kats name when he permitted a new street to & Strats, one of our Mass Appeal performances, bisect his property, so there you have it, so anyone with any type of stringed instrument two Wilshires, two streets, one radio can participate. show called 5900 Wilshire, and our We chose two very easy songs to play, “Smoke adventure begins, right here, on the on the Water” and “Louie, Louie” and posted Miracle Mile. We noticed a fair resem - tutorials on our website www.thedayofmusic.com blance of the radio show’s namesake building to the progressive rock band “This is something of a lark, but not a joke, and we hope Worst Enemy”. Next up, “The Jeremy Benson Band” will play, Yes “Going for the One’ album cover. everyone will follow the lead of the band on stage, Bubba and followed by an eclectic mix of performers and a special surprise That was appropriate and yes is always The Big Bad Blues, and right after that, local favorites Lit will act at sunset. This type of thing will happen all over Fullerton, better than no. lead the crowd in a performance of their huge hit “My Own all day long, and all of it will be FREE! Thanks to the support of 100.3FM ‘The Sound’ GM Peter Burton, Program Director Dave Beasling and an invite FIND OUT MORE from Promotions Director Chris ABOUT SOUNDS Santoyo, Glenn Georgieff, founder of ON WILSHIRE The Day of Music here in Fullerton and IN FULLERTON I were headed up to the 19th floor for an interview with Tina Mastramico. But wait, as soon as Tina met us at the The best way to find out more is door and ushered us into the studio, to go to the website, sign up, volun - here comes mid-day personality “Uncle teer to help, or just check out the Joe Benson”, and we found ourselves venues and plan your day with fam - being regaled in Uncle Joe’s Garage just ily and friends around town on June down the hallway. Joe interviews rock 21. This is something that will legends there and you can find them on bring everyone together, young and www.thesoundla.com. old, no matter what type of music Meet Joe in person on June 21st and you like. Again, all of the venues hear his son’s band at the Museum Plaza provide music at no charge. We too. Yea, you guessed it. The plaza is on think everyone will remember this Wilshire, of course. day for a long, long time and we hope it will become an annual event At Right: Uncle Joe in his Garage we all look forward to. EARLY JUNE 2015 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7 Vintage Fullerton Photo Quiz OUR TOWN CROSSWORD “Fullerton Streets ” by Valerie Brickey (answer key on page 19)

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ACROSS 38. Washer amount 1. Kaplan and Kapler 39. “May I __ to the price?” 6. New tree support 41. Not working 11. I ending? 42. “Sunny” Mexican beer 14. “___ which will live in infamy”, 43. Concept December 7, 1941 44. Like dishwater 15. Humped mammal 45. Citrusy Olympian Jim? 16. “Characters Welcome” network 49. Actor McKellen 17. Hater 50. Traffic jams ANSWER TO LAST ISSUE ’S VINTAGE PHOTO 19. French sea 54. Ex-DA Garcetti and Ernie’s pal? 20. Career training coll. in Anaheim 58. Brit. record label Question 21. Hi-___ paper towels 59. Old French coin of low value On which of (Kimberly Clark product) 60. “Barefoot Contessa” Garten the four original 22. Wealthy non-female? 61. Skill at rowing corners of 24. Sandwich order 64. CD follower Spadra and 27. Foot part 65. Throat dangler Commonwealth 28. Ordinary riches? 66. Otis Redding song, did the hotel 33. Viper “___ Arms of Mine” pictured at 36. Didn’t have enough 67. Genetic letters right sit? 37. “Sense and Sensibility” 68. Greet and seat Answer director Ang 69. Tear up The St. George Hotel was built on the Northeast DOWN 34. Entrance corner in 1888 35. Spiritual leader of Tibet 1. Full range 39. Suffix with lemon or lime 2. Farewell, in France 40. Stage decor Thanks to Cherie Pape at the Fullerton Public Library History Room 3. Place to wash up 41. One way to settle for the historic photos of Fullerton! 4. LAX info. a gentlemen’s quarrel 5. Summon 43. Type of rock formed from lava 6. Rift 44. Short distance races 7. La Brea ___ Pits 46. Catch in the act Police Seek Info on 8. Love, in Latin America 47. Kind of band 9. French military cap 48. The Edsels hit, Shooting at Gilbert Park 10. Voted in “___ Lama Ding Dong” 11. Battered, as with fists Fullerton police responded to the 2100 victims were transported to the hospital 51. One-time coach on “The Voice” 12. On the ocean 52. Grace block of W. Baker Ave. on May 26 at and remain in stable condition. 13. Mend, as socks 10pm regarding shots fired in the area of The investigation is on-going and any - 53. Slangy hello to a talking horse? 18. Barbershop request 54. Prepare for action Gilbert Park. one with information is urged to contact 23. Condo org. Officers arrived on scene and discovered Detective Phu at 714-446-1459. 55. Aware of 25. Did great on a test 56. Four-star review two male victims on the east side of the Those wishing to provide information 26. Water pipes park suffering from gunshot wounds. The anonymously can do that by calling the 57. Possible test answer 29. “Straight Outta Compton” group 62. Tech. for higher quality first victim in his 20s was shot in the Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1(885) 30. “Scream” director Craven upper torso; the second victim, a juvenile TIP-OCCS or by visiting the website computer graphics 31. Darjeeling and oolong 63. “Be quiet!” was shot in the lower torso and legs. Both www.crimestopers.org 32. Actress Lamarr 33. In addition Page 8FULLERTON OBSERVER EDUCATION NEWS EARLY JUNE 2015

Ladera Vista Jr. High eighth grader Michael Zhu (at right) won the Super-Champion tournament, Front row: Maple Student Council Treasurer Larissa Casarez, Vice President thereby earning the “2015 Fullerton City Chess Champion” title. Above he plays Laguna Road 5th Mariana Patino Ramos, and President Mia Camarena. grader Anthony Kharrat, the youngest player in the Super-Champ field which featured the very best Back row: Cal-State Long Beach Librarian Susan Luevano, Maple Alumni players regardless of grade. Tournament director Jon Darling at far left observes the game. Committee Chair Kitty Jaramillo, and committee member Mary Helen Duenas, independent contractor and para-legal Mike Juarez, retired Riverside City College Fullerton City Chess Champs EOPS Director Mike Carrillo, and Maple School Principal, Susan Mercado. Due to conflicts with other school Maple School Career Day events and vacations, the 10th annual The Maple School Career Day students come back to share their Fullerton Host Lions tournament had was held on Wednesday, May 13 at careers, neighborhood experiences, lower than normal participation. Maple School. The event is spon - life challenges and how they over - However, competition was intense in all sored by the Maple Alumni came to be successful. The presenta - three of the tournaments held: 1st to Committee and the Maple School tions were made to the 5th & 6th 3rd grade, 4th through 8th grade, and Student Council. Former Maple grades. -B OBBY MELENDEZ the "Super-Champ" tournament which featured the very best scholastic players Fred Williams to Continue as NOCCCD in Fullerton, regardless of grade. Owen Tang, Andrew Song and Interim Chancellor through June 2016 Jonathan Hsing were crowned 1st, 3rd The North OC Community chancellor.” A nationwide search for and 6th grade City Chess Champions. College District Board of Trustees a permanent Chancellor has been LV 8th grader Michael Zhu won the has extended the appointment of extended. Super-Champ tournament, and is the Fred Williams as Interim 2015 Fullerton City Chess Champion. Chancellor through June 30, 2016. New FC President Sunny Hills 9th grader Isaac Kim , Mr. Williams has served in this The board of trustees unani - Acacia 5th grader Denny Lee , and capacity since March, succeeding mously voted to appoint Dr. Greg Parks Jr. High 7th grader Julia Hsing Dr. Ned Doffoney, who retired in Schulz as interim president of placed second through fourth in the Above: February. Fullerton College, beginning July 1, Super-Champ tournament. Julia Hsing playing a tough game with Denny Lee. Mr. Williams has served the dis - 2015. Dr. Schulz has spearheaded a trict for over 20 years. Prior to being number of innovations during his appointed interim chancellor, he three-year tenure as the provost of At served as vice chancellor of finance the School of Continuing Left: & facilities since 2004, and the dis - Education. He began his district trict director of fiscal affairs, since career in 2000, serving as SCE’s 1st 1994. The board ratified Williams’ manager of admin services, interim through appointment during its May 26, district director of fiscal affairs, and 3rd Grade 2015 meeting. “Throughout his dean of instruction and student winners career at NOCCCD, Mr. Williams services. Prior to becoming provost, line up to has proven himself a wise and ethi - he was the dean of Trades, receive cal leader in the community college Industrial and Career Technologies their arena,” said board president M. at Long Beach City College. Dr. trophies. Tony Ontiveros. “He has already Schulz replaces Dr. Rajen Vurdien, made a tremendous impact on the who has moved on to become pres - district in his two months as interim ident of Pasadena City College.

KEEPING OR REMOVING WISDOM TEETH Having one’s wisdom teeth (third sary surgery. If an exam reveals completely molars) removed before leaving for college erupted, functional, painless, cavity-free used to be a rite of passage. Conventional teeth in healthy gum tissue, wisdom teeth wisdom held that, because they were often may remain in place. Each case is different. misaligned or impacted, it was best to Just because your wisdom teeth aren’t a remove these teeth soon after they source of pain doesn’t mean there’s nothing emerged. More recently, however, the atti - wrong. The teeth could be stuck or impact - tude toward wisdom teeth has become ed. If it is deemed that wisdom teeth more complex. Instead of automatically should be allowed to remain in the mouth, extracting these teeth at the back of the it is important to monitor them for mouth as part of a “better-safe-than-sorry” changes that might indicate otherwise. approach, dentists and maxillofacial sur - Everyone wants a beautiful smile and geons are urging a more complete evalua - everyone should have one. Call us for pro - tion that helps avoid the risks of unneces - fessional, gentle dental care. EARLY JUNE 2015 COLUMNISTS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 9

VIDEO OBSERVER by Emerson Little Kids Rule! by Francine Vudoti

The FOX Fullerton Theater sign lit for the first time in decades. THE FOX L IGHTS UP Francine in front of one of the vintage airplanes on exhibit at Airport Day. The restored Fox Fullerton sign was pers staffed the bar and food was sold. PHOTO BY B. A NDIVA unveiled and lit for the first time in decades I’ve been asked to start the Fullerton on Friday night, May 22, as part of the the - Observer ’s first video column. I’ll be creating Fullerton’s Amazing Airport Day ater’s 90th Birthday celebration. videos of interest to Fullerton residents and In a pre-lighting ceremony, Foundation will include links so that readers can see president Leland Wilson, along with them. I feel lucky, I live in Fullerton. We plane that can stop a fire, and a sea - Congressman Ed Royce awarded certificates I’ve been making videos since middle have a municipal airport. I checked plane that can land on the sea. This is of appreciation to many of the volunteers school. It all started when I took a video pro - the internet and our city is the only what makes Fullerton Airport special. who have contributed time and money to duction class at Park’s Junior High. Soon, I one with a municipal airport here in It is not only used by people with pri - the theater’s restoration. The biggest cheer began to film ordinary things outside of Orange County. I feel even luckier vate planes but it is also used by the went out to the electrician in charge of class. My videos later developed into travel because we celebrate Airport Day California Highway Patrol, the restoring the sign’s letters, Mike Hobbick. logs, where I recorded family road trips every year. It is the day when people Anaheim Police Department and the After a brief countdown, the renovated around California and other states. can get inside the airport and learn Orange County Fire Authority in fly - “Fox” sign was lit! A line of visitors waiting After receiving a professional movie mak - more about the airport and the planes. ing and landing their planes and heli - for a tour of the interior stretched around ing program and completing a Media This year’s Airport Day was held last copters. the back of the building onto Chapman all Concepts class at Troy High School, my May 9 and I went with my dad. It was We tried to go for a helicopter ride the way to the corner of Harbor. Forty-nine videos have now become less amateurish and a marvelous day. We went around but the line was long. Dad said we can people were let in at a time by tour guide more meaningful. Over the years, I have checking out all the planes and heli - just ride the seaplane when we visit Todd Huffman, who explained how the the - uploaded these videos onto Youtube and copters. There were also fun toys that Catalina Island this summer. I can’t atre is being restored to its pre-1955 condi - now have over 100 videos, including fake you could buy, helicopters that could wait. tion. He gave a brief history of the building previews for science-fiction and horror take you for a ride, and you could get I really had fun on Airport Day. I in the lobby, before letting everyone into the shows like Doctor Who and Helix . inside and sit on lots of amazing air - will be attending this event again next auditorium. The Fox event will start off the Video planes. year. For those who want to attend, it The Fox was originally dubbed the Alicia Observer column. Using my Panasonic We explored the airfield. We saw is held every second Saturday of May. Court Theatre after the wife of C. Stanley DMC-FZ70 camera, I captured the historic planes that were old, important, and See you next year! Chapman, who financed the building. The moment of the Fox sign lighting on Friday beautiful! There were phenomenal same company that built the Egyptian and the action on Saturday. I used my Sony planes like those used in the World Francine is a local 8-year-old student who enjoys writing and many other activities. Theater and Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Movie Studio Platinum 13.0 program to edit War, a police plane that can help the Hollywood constructed the Fox. The theatre footage of the two-day event into a video. police capture criminals, a fire fighter was later added to the National Register of I tried to find appropriate music that cor - Historic Places. It is estimated that the responded with the Speakeasy theme and Fox could be completely restored and ended up using Duke Ellington’s “Satin opened as a multi-purpose performing Doll” and Leon Redbone’s “My Walking arts center within two years if funding Stick.” It took me a few hours to edit and can be found. upload the video to Youtube. You can view it Those who took the tour saw a newly at: https://youtu.be/HKLuHQ_pO9U restored ceiling with original paint design and were treated to a dazzling Emerson light show incorporating two of the orig - Little is a inal chandeliers. Tours continued until student at 10pm and birthday cake was served. Troy High Outside the Fox, vintage cars were on School display and volunteer actors clad in interested in 1920’s outfits supplied by the Fullerton photography, Civic Light Opera posed for photo - film, art and graphs. On Saturday, a 1920’s Speakeasy literature. orchestra entertained guests, while flap -

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It all began last fall, with the removal of an old oak tree from the center of our backyard. That loss left us with 1,300 sq. ft. of sad-looking, unwanted grass. Wanting to utilize an outdoor space that is bigger than our house and use less water, I decided to get creative. My family brainstormed some ideas: my hus - band wanted to install turf and chalk it for a football field, my daughter wanted a rock garden with a pond, but my son drew up a plan for a mini-golf course with some added plants, mulch, stepping stones and pebbles. Full disclosure: I’m not a garden - er or a golfer, but decided to give his idea a try. I knew about the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) offer - ing an incentive to remove turf and completed the online appli - cation in minutes. I was approved a couple of weeks later and was given a 3-month deadline to complete my project. My hus - Before After band and I set a budget, with most of the money going to plants and ground cover. Now, came the hard part. I started by cov - I found plant hooks and LED lights I wanted to create some height, and I ering the grass with whatever I could find to choke it off: I used at the Dollar Store that I put number He drew up found a wind sculpture and a metal stickers on and used as hole markers. obelisk to add some interest. I also moved tarps and rugs and newspaper. The yard looked like a junkyard! a plan for a I took the opportunity to repaint the neighbor’s garage that bor - I shopped our local nurseries and the a seating area (a bench, 2 chairs and an ders our yard and stain the fence before I embarked on the grass. Fullerton Arboretum for drought-toler - mini-golf umbrella) we had on our patio into the I was stalling, fearing the huge project I had committed to. ant plants that I liked: lion’s mane, pur - course yard. I began by raking up the dead grass stalks and pulling the ple and red salvia, potato bush, with some We have good, sandy soil and I planted roots out by hand. I got about 4 sq. ft. done that first day! The California poppies. I created a “salsa added the plants with relative ease. Once the weather was unseasonably warm, but I only worked early in the garden” in one patch of the yard, to grow plants, mulch, plants were in and the furniture arranged, tomatoes, onions, cilantro and peppers. I bought bags of mulch and pebbles; 55 morning and late at night. With each patch of grass I cleared I stepping stones would cover it with weed tarp, which I secured with fabric pins I positioned (and re-positioned) potted bags of mulch and 30 bags of pea pebbles hammered in with a rubber mallet. After 7 weeks, I had cov - plants around the “course,” ensuring the and pebbles. in total! ered the entire lawn with the weed tarp. I used a total of 570 best sun and shade for the plants. My My project was done and just last week fabric pins and wore out three pairs of garden gloves! friend, Leah Lopez, planted our Meyer I met my deadline and got final approval At Costco, I chanced upon some outdoor rugs made in the lemon tree (and helped out with lending her trusty van from the MWD! USA from recycled material. They looked like 6’x9’ green and tools!) . I bought 64 plants and herbs in all. We’re all in the backyard a lot now and even our “turf.” I bought all 5 of them and when I got them home, cut I tried to repurpose some underused items we dog and cat love lying (and scratching in the cat’s case) them in half to make 3’x9’ “greens.” I laid them out in the already owned. I scoured our cluttered garage and on the “green.” I no longer use the backyard sprin - shape made from my son’s drawing. I secured them with fabric found a fire pit, multiple sized pots, plant markers klers, instead I use buckets of water I’ve collected pins and bought some rubber edging to line the course. and mismatched stepping stones. I recovered two from washing the dishes and the shower. If I can do small fabric seats and dragged them into the yard. it, anyone can do it!

A Garden Party to Benefit Veterans An amazing phenomenon has occurred on a vacant The goal of the Veteran Home Repair Program plot of land behind a Fullerton church. A fertile oasis administered by Habitat for Humanity is to help vet - of orderly garden plots, a whimsical children’s garden, erans stay in their homes, protect their investments, a vineyard and succulent demonstration garden have extend their independence and restore their dignity sprung up where just four years ago there were just and pride in homeownership. Improvements in safe - assorted weeds. ty and accessibility include wheelchair ramps, making The demonstration garden is a partnership bathrooms accessible and safe with modification to between Episcopal churches and Habitat for fixtures and grab bars and more. For more info visit Humanity OC and raises funds to bring needed http://www.habitatoc.org/MilitaryVeterans improvements in the homes of limited income veter - Even though volunteer man-power builds and ans. repairs, building materials must be purchased, on average for about $10,000 per home. A Garden Party will be held to raise funds We found a humming bird nest with tiny baby birds Fullerton Heritage Home Tour for the project on Saturday, June 13 from in our orange tree. - PHOTO R.K ENNEDY 5:30pm to 8:30pm at the Emmanuel Featuring the Hillcrest Neighborhood Community Demonstration Garden at 1145 W. Valencia Mesa Drive in Fullerton. There Saturday, June 27, 2015 will be plenty of hors d’oeuvres, wine and 10 AM-2 PM (Last ticket Sales at 1:15 PM) non-alcoholic drinks. There will also be live music. The cost for tickets is $20 (Free for Tour starts from the Red Cross Building kids under 12). in Hillcrest Park, All proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity Corner of Lemon and Valley View Veterans home repair project. Call Bernice Ticket Price is $20 714-449-9632 or Jane 714-961-6010 with ($10 for Fullerton Heritage Members) questions. The Demonstration Garden was started in 2007 by Gordon and Lorra Dickenson. They More info at www.fullertonheritage.org both possessed a passion for growing things or (714) 740-3051 and many years of gardening experience. It took many people’s contributions and effort to turn this dream garden into a reality. People have provided strenuous labor moving cement chunks and hay bales all the way to general mainte - nance, building, planting and patrolling for gophers plus dona - tions by local busi - nesses. EARLY JUNE 2015 GARDEN NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 11 Rethinking Landscaping by Patrick McNelly majority of these chemicals are wasted due to inappropriate timing and appli - Our Fullerton community is faced cation. These chemicals then run off with a serious challenge in the next year. and become a major source of water Because of the four-year drought, the pollution. Last but not least, 30 to 60 State of California has mandated that percent of urban fresh water is used on Fullerton must reduce our water use by lawns. Most of this water is also wasted 28% from what we used in 2013 or face due to poor timing and application, and possible fines of $10,000 a day. The eas - overwatering. iest (and yet the most challenging) way When I taught composting work - to reduce water use is to cut back on shops at the Fullerton lawn watering by 50%. Arboretum from 1989 But we love our lawns. The The easiest until 2011, I used to ask lush green grass in our neigh - way to reduce the audience, “Why are we borhoods and parks is part of spending so much time, our urban lifestyle. Here’s water use is to water and energy growing some background about why grass clippings to just dis - we have lawns and why they cut back on pose of them in our trash are problem. lawn watering each week?” Certainly Historically, lawns first by 50% backyard composting can Variegated Elephant Food (Portulacaria afra at the Police Station drought garden) became popular among the help turn grass clippings gentry of Western Europe, and yard trimmings into a All Succulents are Not Equal by Penny Hlavac where they were managed either as pas - valuable resource for our gardens, but ture or by labor-intensive hand sheering the time has come to rethink our entire Mandatory water restrictions and money ground or in a pot. It is, however, one of or scything. The modern lawn seems to approach to lawns and landscaping in for lawn removal have helped spark garden - the slower succulents to root so it’s a good be a deprecated form of the highly man - our dry, desert-like climate, especially ers’ interest in one of my favorite groups of idea to pot up some extras for future needs icured English landscape gardens which during this serious drought. landscaping plants, the succulents. But as or to give to other people. If you plan on became popular among the nobility in There’s a new saying today that has anyone who has grown them will tell you, keeping it in a large pot and want it to cas - Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries. become popular because of the drought, not all succulents are equally drought and cade over the sides, choose the droopiest But wasn’t until the 19th century with “Brown is the new Green.” All around sun tolerant or long lived. Over the years branches for cuttings. the invention and mass production of town we are starting to see more brown many of us have developed reliable Like most succulents, it is the lawnmower that lawns really took lawns and low maintenance front and landscaping favorites. One of mine is After the easy to dig up and transplant off in North America. back yards. It’s very possible that this variegated elephant food if your garden plan changes. A Today, American lawns occupy some will become “the new normal,” regard - (Portulacaria afra ‘Variegata’). first year word of warning however: 30-40 million acres of land. less of how long the drought lasts. If we The species Portulacaria afra, with variegated moving dirt around is a bad Lawnmowers to maintain them account each do our part in cutting water use solid green leaves and beautiful tiny idea if you have certain weeds for some 5 percent of the nation’s air elephant both indoors and outdoors, we can mist-like pink flowers, can reach at food can which spread by tubers or pollution – probably more in urban meet these new low water use chal - least 10 feet tall. It is said to provide bulbs. Some people who have areas. Each year more than 17 million lenges. 80% of an elephants diet in parts of survive dutifully replaced their lawns gallons of fuel are spilled during the Visit http://www.fullertonwatercon - Africa. The cultivar Portulacaria afra on rainfall with drought tolerant plants refilling of lawn and garden equip - servation.com to get more details about ‘Variegata,’ however, remains low have had a rude shock. Weeds ment—more than the oil that the alone, even the Phase 3 water conservation rules growing. A specimen in my garden, in drought such as nutsedge (Cyperus Exxon Valdez spilled. and to see other suggestions for helping planted by my mother at least 20 rotundus), Bermuda butter - Homeowners spend billions of dollars conserve water. years ago, has only reached 18 inches years. cup (Oxalis pes-caprae), and and typically use 10 times the amount at its highest point and has spread 6 false garlic (Nothoscordum of pesticide and fertilizers per acre on Patrick McNelly is the chair of Fullerton’s Energy Resource Management Committee. feet wide. Its stems are purple and its borbonicum), which for years their lawns as farmers do on crops; the leaves, variegated white and green, have may have gone unnoticed in a mowed lawn an overall yellow appearance which pro - will soon make their presence known when vides a great color contrast with other the lawn is removed. They are all very hard plants. I have never seen this cultivar to get rid of. Moving dirt from place to bloom. place just spreads them around. In this case After the first year variegated elephant it is best to make cuttings of the succulent food can survive on rainfall alone, even you want to move and start over. in drought years. Cold winters used to The best place to see variegated elephant cause die back of branch tips but for the food is the beautifully renovated Police last couple of winters I have noticed very Station garden on Commonwealth Avenue little of this. Hot summers have never or (complete with label!) in the drought tol - been a problem. Most of mine are in the erant garden near the entrance to City Hall. ground in full sun, but a few are in more Hopefully by now all Fullertonians have shaded areas in pots. Unlike those in the seen and admired the changes in landscap - ground, the plants in the pots need ing on Commonwealth in the library/com - occasional water. munity center/Police Station area, includ - Variegated elephant food, like so ing the glorious Parkinsonia ‘Desert many succulents, is easy to propagate Museum’ trees lining the street. It will be a from cuttings. Pull off bottom leaves, let treat to see what replaces the lawn in front the ends dry off, and stick it in the of City Hall. Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER UPCOMING EVENT NEWS EARLY JUNE 2015

Opera Diva Deborah Voigt in Town June 8 A great opportunity to hear one of the world’s best singers is coming up as interna - tionally-renowned opera star Deborah Voigt will conduct a special master class at 7pm on Monday, June 8 in the Meng Hall at Clayes Performing Arts Center at Cal State, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton. The public is invited. Tickets are at the door: $10/Students with ID; $20/General, Voigt is a CSUF alumna. Participating in the class are six CSUF vocal students: will include the 50 State Flags carried by the Girl Scouts of Trinidad Cano, Juliet Kidwell, James Lesu'i, Flag Day Invitation June 15 America. Free parking will be available on the lower level of the Megan Ralston, Amanda Salmen and Joslyn parking structure on Lemon between Chapman and Berkeley. The Wilshire Wise Students (pictured above) from the Sarshad. A brief Q&A session with the Wise is an acronym for Work, Independence, Self-Advocacy, Wilshire School of Continuing Education Center would like soprano will follow. and Education. The Wilshire Wise Programs serves 20 adult to invite the public to their 16th Annual Flag Day Ceremony Her interest in opera was sparked at Cal developmentally disabled adults and is part of the North Monday, June 15, at 10am sharp at the Fullerton College State Fullerton by Jane Paul, emeritus pro - Orange County Community College District. Quad, 321 E. Chapman Ave, Fullerton. This years’ ceremony fessor of music, who encouraged her to enter vocal competitions. Award Winning Journalist, Investigative The soprano's springboard to the Met SUMMER WRITING was her first-place win in the Orange PROJECT Reporter and Author Tracy Wood in Free County Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 1983, which propelled her to a first-pace The Summer Writing Project is an Lecture at CSUF Saturday June 6 finish at the Metropolitan Opera National annual collaboration between Black Hill The Patrons of the Library at Currently she is senior reporter with Council Western Regional Auditions in Press, JukePop, and 1888 that advocates California State University, Fullerton, Voice of OC, an online investigative 1984. In 1985, she became a national final - writing and supports reading. will meet at 2pm on Saturday, June 6, at news group covering Orange County. ist and performed in a spring concert at the This joint venture presents authors the Pollak Library on campus. Winner of numerous Met in New York's Lincoln Center. Also with the opportunity to craft their After a short business meeting awards for investigative that spring, while still a student, Voigt per - novellas one chapter at a time with journalist Tracy Wood will speak reporting, Wood was formed the title role of Donna Anna in the immediate quantitative and qualitative on the fall of Saigon 40 years ago named Los Angeles Print 1985 university production of "Don feedback from their readers, while also and the “toxic mix of corruption Journalist of the Year in Giovanni," opposite her classmate, Rod broadcasting their words to an audience and war.” 2001 by Sigma Delta Gilfry. The two opera stars performed eager for the next great storyteller. As a reporter for United Press Chi, the professional together on the New York stage in 2011 in Throughout the months of June, July, International, Tracy Wood was journalism association. "Annie Get Your Gun." and August, we partner with local book - one of the few women assigned Wood and eight other stores, libraries, and universities to as a combat correspondent dur - women reporters co- schedule a series of educational lectures, ing the Vietnam War. authored "War Torn, panels, and workshops for the commu - She joined the Los Angeles Stories of War from the nity. Times where she was an investigative Women Reporters who Covered Summer Writing Project 2015 begins reporter for 17 years, covering political Vietnam" (2002 Random House) . on June 1 and continues through and government corruption and later The meeting and the lecture are free August 31. To participate write a novel - became the Orange County Register ’s and open to the public. Parking is also la and submit chapters via jukepop.com. investigations editor, leading the paper’s free. A shuttle will be provided for those Black Hill Press editors will select three investigations team when it broke the who need assistance from the parking lot (3) novellas based on reader analytics story of former OC Sheriff Michael S. to the library beginning at 1:25pm. (retention + reading time) to be pub - Carona's ties to Nationwide Auction For more information contact lished as a special collection with cover Systems founder and former Assistant [email protected] artwork by Mariya Suzuki. Sheriff Donald G. Haidl. She also served or [email protected] Visit 1888.center/swp for more info. as interim editor of MS magazine. EARLY JUNE 2015 ART NEWS by Marjorie Kerr FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 13 Flat Rhianna’s Road Trip On May 2nd, Flat Rhianna arrived at artist Marjorie Kerr’s Fullerton studio in a surprise visit. She traveled by envelope through the US Mail sent all the way from Iowa by Marjorie’s cousin who is in the first grade. Flat Rhianna is Flat Stanley’s sister and the two of them are often involved in classroom projects at school. Luckily Marjorie was on vacation from her job as Art New Editor for the Fullerton Observer so there was time to have some fun. In fact, Flat Rhianna came just in time to accompany Marjorie and her friend Hans on a trip around the Southwest from May 4th through May 12, 2015. Fullerton First Friday ARTWALK MAP Their first stop was the petri - Flat Rhianna enjoyed a ride on Dolly, If you have never been on the Fullerton easy walking distance showing art from fied forest and painted desert in cousin Marti’s miniature horse First Friday ArtWalk consider coming 6pm to 10pm. Below is a list of venues Arizona where Flat Rhianna Egyptian sphinx, the gondolas of Venice, downtown this Friday, June 5. The free that correspond to the numbers on the took photos and bought post cards. Santa Italy, and the US Statue of Liberty. All event features fun places to visit within map above. Others may be open also. Fe, New Mexico, at 7000 feet, was the were lit up with bright lights at night. next stop. Flat Rhianna spent a day with her road 1) Fullerton Museum Center, on E. 13) Out of Vogue, She stayed at the Inn of the Governors trip buddies viewing the Boulder Dam Wilshire, between Harbor and Pomona. 109 E. Commonwealth. in downtown Santa Fe. The room was near Las Vegas. The dam supplies electric - decorated with Navaho Indian blankets 2) Share & Do Good, 110 E. Wilshire. ity and water to many cities. Another day 14) Roadkill Ranch & Boutique, and a Kiva fireplace. Santa Fe is home to 119 E. Commonwealth. she went to the Valley of Fire State Park a VILLA DEL SOL 305 N. Harbor many American Indians and people of few miles north of Las Vegas. The unusu - 3) Lolo Boutique various other heritages. al red rock formations also had petro - 4) Unity Salon MAGOSKI ARTS COLONY One day she took a drive to visit the glyphs of images pecked into the walls by 5) Green Bliss Cafe 223/225 W. Santa Fe Bradbury Museum in Los Alamos, New the Indians of long ago. www.magoski.com Mexico. The exhibit there tells the story of The 2000 mile road trip, which includ - 6) Max Bloom’s Cafe Noir, the birth of the atomic bomb in the 15) PAS Gallery ed travel through California, Arizona, 220 N. Malden Ave. 1940s. Many scientists worked to create 16) Monkwood New Mexico and Nevada, ended in the bomb which was dropped on Japan, 17) Hibbleton Norco, California at cousin Marti Kerr’s 7) Lucero Photography, killing and injuring many people, but also 18) Bookmachine one acre “ranchette” where Rhianna sat on 112 W. Wilshire. ending WWII. 19) Violethour Studio Dolly, the miniature horse. The road trip continued through The drive was on Highway 15 to 40 to 8) Tranquil Tea Lounge, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Flagstaff, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the 25 to 106 W. Wilshire. CARPE DIEM EXPERIENCE Arizona (with snow flurries at 6000 feet) Santa Fe. The return was 25, 40, 93 at 115 S. Harbor and then through Kingman, Arizona to Kingman to Las Vegas, Nevada. Route 40 9) Hapa Cupcakes, 105 W. Amerige. 20) Adorned Las Vegas, Nevada. There was also a visit overlapped at times with the legendary 21) Internal Gallery & Oddities to the Las Vegas “strip,” which has unusu - Route 66. The Las Vegas Route 15 to 91 10) The Night Owl , 200 N. Harbor. al architecture depicting other places in took the travelers back to Fullerton. 22) Blanquel Popular Art the world, like the Paris Eiffel Tower, the 11) Comic Book Hideout, 109 S. Harbor 215 W. Commonwealth. MUCKENTHALER CULTURAL CENTER 23) Comic Hero University 1201 W. Malvern, Fullerton 714-738-6595 www.themuck.org 140 E. Santa Fe 12) Oh, Hello Friend, 122 N. Harbor. OPEN: Wed - Sun, 12 - 4pm & Thurs. 5pm to 9pm. VETERANO CARS : thru June 14 The automobile has a consistent presence in the work of pio - neer Chicano artists of Los Angeles. Gilbert “Magu” Lujan, Frank Romero, Carlos Almarez and other veteranos of the movement depict the ubiquitous cars of LA as nostalgic objects of past decades, colorful customized expressions of East LA culture, and as anthropomorphic forms embodying con - temporary times. -thru June 14. FULLERTON MUSEUM CENTER 301 N. Pomona at Wilshire, Downtown Fullerton 714-738-6545 OPEN: Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat, & Sun 12- 4pm, and Thurs. 12-8pm. Costumes, stage props, video, and more from behind the scenes of the Tonight Show that dominated late night TV from 1962 through 1992. Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER THEATER NEWS EARLY JUNE 2015 BRONWYN DODSON THEATRE REVIEWED by Mark Rosier Fullerton College 321 E. Chapman Ave., Fullerton Box Office: 714-992-7150 (open 9:30am-3:30pm)

•DIRECTORS FESTIVAL a multi-genre celebration of short plays or performance pieces organized by artistic director Chuck Ketter and managing director Mela Hoyt-Heydon with perform - At Right: ances at 8pm Monday, June 22 to Friday, June 26.

Jill Cary Martin MAVERICK THEATER as the family 110 E. Walnut Ave., Fullerton matriarch and 714-526-7070 www.mavericktheater.com Kelsey Arnold •AVENUE Q by Jeff Whitty, music & lyrics by Robert Lopez as her unstable & Jeff Marx, opens June 5 and plays through July 18th. This daughter in rated R Tony Award winning musical is a puppet-filled comedy “House of Yes” that tells the story of a recent college grad named Princeton who playing through moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that although the residents seem June 13. nice, it’s clear that this is not your ordinary neighborhood. Together, Princeton and his new-found friends struggle to find PHOTO BY jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life. Filled with gut- KIRK HUFF SCHENCK busting humor and a delightfully catchy score, not to mention puppets, Avenue Q is a truly unique show. For audiences 17 and HOUSE OF YES at Stages up. $28 (students/$15)

Stages Theatre in Fullerton continues it's long Adding to the already complex display, younger CHANCE THEATER and successful tradition of producing edgy and off brother Anthony soon finds himself entirely smit - AT Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center kilter comedies with its latest dark and twisted pro - ten by Lesly and, despite his brotherly bond, fol - 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim Hills Tickets: 714- duction of Wendy Mcleod's The House Of Yes. lows his desire and allows himself to covet her for 777-3033 www.chancetheater.com Containing such adult themes as incest, death his own romantic intentions. and mental instability, director Jack Millis takes the Mrs Pascal turns a purposefully blind eye to all •SAMSARA by Lauren Yee, directed by Benjamin Kamine has unsettling events of House Of Yes with a lightheart - that is transpiring in hopes of keeping her family's been extended through June 7. Americans Katie and Craig are ed and effective approach - punching the comedic little world as unified as possible. The Pascal's con - having a baby with Suraiya, a surrogate from India. As all three tones vibrantly, which in turn, underplays the nection to the famed Kennedy clan is emotionally “parents” anxiously await the baby’s due date, Katie and Suraiya shock value of the dark themes. This allows the drenched in the fact that the Pascal patriarch are attacked by flights of their imagination: a seductive audience to take in the over-the-top reality of the deserted his family the day of John F. Kennedy's Frenchman and a sharp-tongued fetus. Fresh off its successful Pascal family. Millis relies on the skill of his cast in assassination. first production at Victory Gardens in Chicago, the Chance is their seemingly effortless ability to flesh out the Jackie O, with an intentional resemblance to her excited to produce the West Coast Premiere of this hilarious and comedy in every situation. namesake, even plays a little re-enactment of highly theatrical journey into 21st century parenthood. It's the Thanksgiving holiday circa 1983 and a Kennedy's ill-fated last moments. The game is part hurricane is about to wreak havoc outside while of the strange shared rituals between her brother inside the family attempts to establish normalcy and herself which exemplify the layers within their Underground Alternative Comedy from moment to moment and day to day. relationship. Family matriarch Mrs Pascal (Jill Cary Martin), The biggest strength House Of Yes has going for it Show Pushes Experimentation her mentally unbalanced daughter Jackie O (Darri are the performances throughout. Led by Darri The popular underground variety show “Comedy Sucks,” host - Kristen) who has been recently released from a Kristen who's multi faceted portrayal of Jackie O ed by Scott Blacks and featuring psychedelic videos by found mental health establishment, and her youngest son ranges from immensely fragile to endearing, to footage collective “Grimy Ghost!,” presents an experimental and Anthony (Adam Evans), a wide-eyed Ivy League struggling to keep her emotions from imploding, fresh take on live comedy in Orange County. The droll name drop-out, await the arrival of Jackie's twin brother to exhibiting a dark but effective sensuality. Kelsey “Comedy Sucks” challenges each of the performers on the line-up Marty (Aaron Mcgee) and his innocent and sweet- Arnold as Lesly conveys a nicely stable counter to to prove the show's own title wrong. natured fiancee Lesly (Kelsey Arnold). the chaos of Kristin's Jackie O. Jill Cary Martin, “Comedy Sucks” will be at STAGEStheatre in Fullerton on This sets the back drop for many a chaotic Adam Evans and Aaron Mcgee all provide strong June 4th. Doors open at 7:45pm and showtime is at 8:00pm. episode as Jackie O's too-close-for-comfort connec - comedic moments and provide a nice sharp bite to Tickets are $5 at the door. Comedians scheduled to perform tion with her brother is thrown into peril. When Wendy Mcleod's firey dialogue. include Megan Koester, David Gborie, Josh Androsky, Clare Marty and Lesly arrive, Jackie O's instantaneous STAGES THEATER O'Kane, and Ian Davis. jealousy makes for some emotionally unhinged, Past headliners include comedians seen on Conan such as but comedic moments. 400 E. Commonwealth, Fullerton Hampton Yount and Allen Strickland Williams as well as nation - Tickets: 714-525-4484 al headlining comedians such as Maron guest star Rick Shapiro. www.stagesoc.org Combining the best in alternative stand-up comedy with out - rageous obscure VHS found footage from the darkest crevices of •THE HOUSE OF YES by Wendy MacLeod, thrift stores, “Comedy Sucks” provides an experience unlike any directed by Jack Millis plays Sat. & Sun. at 5pm, other comedy show in Orange County. Be warned though, this thru June 13. show is not for kids. •BOEING BOEING plays Fri & Sat at 8pm, "There is a community of experimental and innovative come - and Sun at 2pm, thru June 14. dians in Orange County and we love that our show gives those •AUDITIONS: Auditions for Cabaret will be comics an opportunity to try material you won't see anywhere held Sat, June 13, 10am-2pm. Check website for else,” Scott Blacks says. details. Scott Blacks was featured in the 2013 documentary 100 Jokes. •GREEN MAN by Jim Knable, directed by In 2014 Scott performed at the Santa Cruz Music Festival, the Jeremy Lewis, opens June 26 and plays Fri & Sat at Brokechella festival in LA, the Hollywood Laugh Factory, and 8pm, and Sun at 2pm thru Aug. 2nd. Painter travelled all over the Pacific Southwest. Scott started 2015 with Abigail’s model is a naked man painted green, and the New Orleans Comedy and Arts Festival and The Memphis her architect husband Ronald’s new intern bears a Comedy Festival. striking resemblance, though he’s clothed. Their About Grimy Ghost! “Grimy Ghost!” is a regular contributor new acquaintance, Genice, is a stone sculptor of to the popular online found footage collective, “Everything is gargoyles whose musician fiancé appears in the Terrible!” For more information on “Grimy Ghost!” visit same hue. Who the Green Man is to each of them http://grimyghost.com/. A sample of the kind of video that will is a mystery only they can help each other unravel. be played at "Comedy Sucks" can be found here: A play about love, loss and other things made of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM3aMDUl0zY stone. •THE TWILIGHT ZONE by Rod Sterling, adapted & directed by Darri Kristin & David FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS Campos opens July 10 and plays Fri & Sat at 11am-2pm every Friday now through June 26 10:30pm, and Sun at 5pm thru Aug. 2nd. “There AAA Fullerton, 1450 N. Harbor Blvd Fullerton is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to 714 278-6838 man. A dimension as vast as space, as timeless as Bacon Mania, Kona Ice, Dos Chinos, infinity. It is the middle ground between light and The Lobsta Truck, The Grilled Cheese Truck, shadow, science and superstition, and it lies between Hobo Pizzo Co., The Buffalo and more. the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. EARLY JUNE 2015 EVENTS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15

TUES, JUNE 2 SUN, JUNE 7 SAT, JUNE 13 continued •3pm-5pm: Fair Housing •11am-4pm: Celebration of the HITS & Foundation Walk in Clinic Arts a free family-friendly event fea - Humanity Veterans Home Repair Conference Room, Fullerton Public, tures art demonstrations, original art, Project. Call Bernice at 714-449-9632 MISSES 353 W. Commonwealth. Free live classical, jazz and Acappella music or Jane 714-961-6010 by Joyce Mason •10am-5pm: Comics Creation © 2015 •6:30pm: Fullerton City Council at four stages, dance performances, Meeting 303, W. Commonwealth. kids art activities, a variety of food for Crash Course with Glynnes from Final public hearing on Phase 3 Water purchase. Hurless Barton Park, 4701 Comic Book Hideout at Fullerton GOOD KILL : A Hit & a Miss Supply Shortage Conservation Plan. Casa Loma Ave, Yorba Linda. Call Public Library Conference Center, WED, JUNE 3 Gabriella Rollins at 714-996-1960 for 353 W. Commonwealth. Register by June 10th. Call 714-738-6380 or visit The irony implied in the title announces the •8am-1pm: Fullerton Every more info. www.artsyl.org Wednesday Certified Farmers MON, JUNE 8 www.fullertonlibrary.org theme of this rather troubling film about the use SUN, JUNE 14 of drones in modern warfare. Started during the Market Fresh produce, nuts, baked •10:15am & 11am: Toddler goods, flowers, plants, and more at Storytime at Fullerton Public Library •9am-1pm: Elks Club Brunch to Bush administration and stepped up by the support Elks charities at 1400 Elks Obama administration, drones as weapons con - Independence Park, next to the DMV Osborne Auditorium, 353 W. on Valencia between Euclid and Commonwealth. For children 3 and View Lane, Fullerton (at the top of the tinue to incite praise and criticism from members hill off Brea Blvd. across from of both political parties. In June 2014, the New Highland in Fullerton. Rain or shine under with an adult. Free but registra - every Wednesday. Easy parking tion is required. Call 714-738-6380 Hillcrest Park) features all you can eat York Times reported on the findings of a bipartisan omelets, bacon, sausage, and waffles. panel that included former C.I.A. and Pentagon •6pm: Independent Film Series or visit www.fullertonlibrary.org features “A Walk Among the •7pm: Opera Star Deborah Voigt $12. 714-870-1993 officials as well as members of a non-partisan MON, JUNE 15 think tank. Tombstones” rated R, at the Fullerton at Meng Hall, CSUF Performing Arts Public Library Osborne Auditorium, Center, 800 N. State College, •10am: 16th Annual Flag Day The report challenged some widespread criti - Ceremony conducted by Wilshire cism of armed drones, arguing that they should 353 W. Commonwealth. Free Fullerton. $20 cash or check at the THURS, JUNE 4 door. RSVP to Renée Gillespie at 657- Wise students from the Wilshire “neither be glorified nor demonized” because School of Continuing Education. The there is “strong evidence that civilian deaths from •4pm-8:30pm: Downtown 278-8683 by June 3rd. Fullerton Outdoor Market E. TUES, JUNE 9 ceremony will be held at the Fullerton armed drone strikes are far fewer than from tradi - College Quad, 321 E. Chapman Ave., tional combat aircraft.” Rather than turning war - Wilshire & Pomona. Fresh produce, •2:30pm-3pm: Afternoon Live at craft booths, food vendors, kids activ - Fullerton Public Library Osborne Fullerton. Free parking is on the lower fare into “a video-game mentality,” the study dis - level of the parking structure on covered quite the opposite. Drone pilots watch ities, beer & wine garden, live music at Auditorium, 353 W. Commonwealth. 6:30pm. E. Wilshire between Harbor For children entering 1st grade and Lemon (between Chapman & their targets for days and weeks before “pulling the Berkeley). This year’s ceremony trigger” and are often more susceptible to “ post- and Pomona. up. Free but registration is required. FRI, JUNE 5 Call 714-738-6380 includes 50 state flags carried by Girl traumatic stress than pilots of manned aircraft,” Scouts. The Wise program serves 20 who do not witness the devastation their bombs •6pm-10pm: Fullerton ArtWalk •7pm-7:30pm: Bedtime Bears at Numerous venues around downtown Fullerton Public Library Osborne developmentally disabled adults. have left behind. THURS, JUNE 18 Writer-director Andrew Niccol may or may not Fullerton within easy walking distance Auditorium, 353 W. Commonwealth. exhibit art. Visit www.fullertonart - An evening storytime for children 3-6 •6:30-m-8:30pm: Free Family have read this 2014 report, but he definitely Movie Night fun-filled evening fea - weights the scales on the brutality of drone war - walk.com for a map and list of venues years old and their families features or just show up downtown and wan - stories, puppets, songs, poetry, films, tures school age-appropriate movies fare. Even though he is biased, Niccol does for the whole family. Osborne deserve praise for taking on a topic not yet der around. Fun and free. crafts & more. Kids are welcome to SAT, JUNE 6 wear their pajamas. Free but registra - Auditorium, Fullerton Public Library, explored in a major Hollywood film, and he casts 353 W. Commonwealth. his film with credible and accomplished actors. •2pm: Journalist Tracy Wood on tion is required. Call 714-738-6380 “The Toxic Mix of Corruption & WED, JUNE 10 FRI, JUNE 19 Adding to the tension of “live” warfare vs.”remote •10am-4:30pm: Drop-In control” warfare, he uses Ethan Hawke (looking War” at the Pollak Library (#130) Cal •8am-1pm: Fullerton Every State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Wednesday Certified Farmers Costuming Lab Use one of the very different than he did as the dad in last year’s library’s free sewing machines in an acclaimed “Boyhood”). Hawke plays Tom Egan, Blvd. Wood started her career as a UPI Market Fresh produce, nuts, baked combat correspondent during the goods, flowers, plants, and more at all-day sewing lab. Some knowledge of who completed six tours of duty flying an F-16 sewing machines is required. Bring fighter plane, an experience he loved because of Vietnam War. She was an investigative Independence Park, next to the DMV reporter for the LA Times for 17 years on Valencia between Euclid and your own costuming supplies. Call the thrill of flying and because he “had skin in the Shirley Ku at 714-738-6326. game” of war. covering political and government Highland in Fullerton. Rain or shine corruption. She served as the OC every Wednesday. Easy parking. Fullerton Public Library Conference Now a drone pilot, Egan sits in front of a com - Center, 353 W. Commonwealth. puter screen in an air-conditioned, oversized stor - Register ’s Investigations Editor and •6pm-7pm: Read with the Dogs at was Interim Editor of MS Magazine. Fullerton Public Library Osborne SAT, JUNE 20 age unit on an Air Force base outside Las Vegas. •10am-4pm: Friends of the His permanent frown and his lack of genuine She is currently a senior reporter for Auditorium, 353 W. Commonwealth. VoiceofOC. She and eight other jour - Elementary aged kids and their fami - Fullerton Public Library One-Day- engagement with his wife (January Jones), a glam - Only Fiction Book Sale thousands of orous former dancer, and his two bubbly children nalists co-authored “War Torn, Stories lies are invited to drop in and read to of War from the Women Reporters certified therapy dogs from the Pet books. Hard-cover adult and chil - speak to his unhappiness at being grounded. dren’s books 50¢, paperbacks 25¢, Major Egan asks his commanding officer (Bruce who Covered Vietnam” in 2002. The Prescription Team. public is invited to attend. Admission THURS, JUNE 11 Special Surprise Category 50¢. Greenwood) for a transfer back to flying real Fullerton Public Library Conference planes. But the Air Force no longer needs him to and parking is free. Contact caroly - •4pm-8:30pm: Downtown [email protected] with questions. Fullerton Outdoor Market E. Room Entry Hall, 353 W. fly F-16s, a fact the camera proves by panning over Commonwealth. 714-739-3143 more than a dozen planes gathering dust on the •5pm-9pm: 36th Annual Wilshire & Pomona. Fresh produce, Assistance League Taste of the Town craft booths, food vendors, kids activ - •10:30pm-1pm: Lego Fun Day base. Even though the film is set in 2010, the Lots of Legos and Duplo bricks to cre - methods of warfare have already changed. at Fullerton Downtown Plaza, E. ities, beer & wine garden, live music at Wilshire Ave. between Harbor and 6:30pm. E. Wilshire between Harbor ate with for kids 3 to 12. Photos will Sharing Egan’s anguish over the remoteness of be taken of the creations to show in their involvement and the occasional civilian who Pomona. Food by local restaurants and Pomona. who donate signature dishes, opportu - •6pm: SCORE Workshop features the Children’s Room. Osborne just happens to wander into the targeted crosshairs Auditorium, 353 W. Commonwealth. after the “permission to prosecute” order has been nity basket raffles, and live entertain - program on how to price your product ment benefiting League charity pro - or service to generate profit. Fullerton Free - just drop in. made is his assistant, Airman Vera Suarez (Zoe SUN, JUNE 21 Kravitz). But most of the airmen who engage in grams, Operation School Bell and Public Library Conference Room, 353 New Start, Vision Screening, Santa’s W. Commonwealth. Free but registra - •10am-10pm: Fullerton Day of the drone activity are not emotionally affected, Music features free musical perform - seeing their job as that of eradicating the enemy Closet, Meals on Wheels, Act 1, and tion is required. Visit www.work - La Vista High School. Call 714-526- [email protected] or call 714-550- ances all around town in a citywide (in the film referred to as the Taliban but in the celebration of the worldwide holiday 2014 report as al Qaeda) before they get to us. 5124 or email [email protected] for tick - 7369 et info. FRI-SUN, JUNE 12-14 devoted to music. Visit www.theday - Niccol and his production designer Zach ofmusic.com for full list of venues and Staenberg use a rather interesting visual device •6pm: Concert Under the Sky at •Community Summer Festival Fullerton College Quad features the carnival rides, games, food, raffle, fun artists or if you would like to host a with the probable intent of bridging the distance musician or musical group or sign up between the Nevada desert and the Yemen and Fullerton Community Band and for whole family. St. Philip Benizi repeats on June 27 and July 25. Bring Catholic Church, 235 S. Pine Dr. at to perform. Afghan villages. The camera frequently hovers MON, JUNE 23 over the tract homes where the airmen live in the a blanket to sit on and a picnic. Free Valencia, Fullerton. Free admission. •7pm-9pm: Forum on SAT, JUNE 13 •5pm-7pm: SCAG Regional Las Vegas suburbs, brown in landscape and color Transportation Plan/Sustainable except for an occasional backyard pool. We see Homelessness in Fullerton & North •9am-12pm: Homelessness 101 at OC at Unitarian Universalist Woodcrest Elementary, 455 W. Baker, Communities at CSUF Mihaylo similar images of mud-constructed buildings and Hall, O’Brien Conference Room brown landscapes through the computer screens Congregation, Temple Beth Tikvah, Fullerton. A panel will present topics 1600 N. Acacia, Fullerton. Speakers about understanding homelessness, 2601, Nutwood Ave., Fullerton. focused on targeted terrorists halfway around the Public input sought for the plan that world. include Eve Garrow, ACLU; Cynthia mental health, and how to help. RSVP Sanchez, OCCCO; Bob Cernise, www.fullertonact.org has a major impact on local jobs, open Anaheim Poverty Task Force; Kathy •5:30pm-8:30pm: A Garden Party space, public health and mobility. Schuster, CareerWise; Ariel Jarish, to Benefit Veterans at Emmanuel SAT, JUNE 27 Two Hits: Don’t Miss it! Future in Humanity, and police Community Demonstration Garden, •10am-2pm: Fullerton Heritage homeless liaison officers. Free with a 1145 W. Valencia Mesa Dr., Fullerton. Home Tour features the Hillcrest A Hit & A Miss: You Might Like it neighborhood. Visit www.fullerton - Two Misses: Don’t Bother donation of non-perishable food item $20 at the door (kids under 12 are for Pathways of Hope Food Bank. free). All proceeds benefit Habitat for heritage.org for tickets & information. Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER TRIBUTES & LOCAL NEWS EARLY JUNE 2015

REST IN PEACE • W E REMEMBER YOU Greatest William “Bill” McGarvey Jr. Generation November 5, 1921 to May 14, 2015 Saluted at

Bill, 93, passed away peace - work and community service. Memorial Day fully at his home in Fullerton Bill was the founding presi - on May 14th. dent of the Friends of the by Ed Paul Born in Wooster, Ohio on University for Cal State The “Greatest Generation” and the November 5, 1921. His family Fullerton and served 37 years US Marines were the focus on moved to California in 1937 on the CSUF President Monday, May 25, at the 77th Annual where he graduated from Advisory Council Board. Fullerton Memorial Day Observance Manual Arts High in 1939. He He was the Past President of at Loma Vista Memorial Park, attend - joined the Navy in 1941 and the Fullerton Rotary Club, the ed by an estimated 2,200 people. was on an aircraft carrier in the Fullerton District Board of Prior to the program, 50 members of Pacific theater in WWII. In Realtors, the Fullerton the Greatest Generation received spe - 1953 he joined Chapman Ave. Chamber of Commerce, and cial recognition pins from their great Realty as a realtor and later the Big Brothers of North grandchildren or great-great grandchil - formed McGarvey-Thompson Orange County. dren, who are here and have greater Realty and subsequently He was named a Super Good opportunities because of their service. McGarvey-Clark Realty where Guy in 1969 by the Boys and Particular recognition was given to Bill McGarvey was surprised with a birthday cake he served as Chairman of the Girls Club of Fullerton, Mr. Buck Catlin, age 96, former Navy by CSUF students, faculty, and family on his 90th birthday. Board. Education in 1964 by the Commander and mayor of Fullerton, He married Virginia in 1945. Fullerton School Board and Bill is survived by his sons, William III (Janet) and Patrick and Manny Barrios, age 93, former She preceded him in death in Man of the Year in 1965 by the (Anna) and four grandchildren, Meghan, Matthew, Molly 101st Airborne, US Army who made 1994. They moved to Fullerton Fullerton Chamber of and William IV as well as numerous nieces and nephews. the historic jump behind enemy lines in 1951 and he remained there Commerce. He was awarded Services will be held on Friday, June 26th at 11:00 am at the on D-Day, 1944 and whose presence until his death. the CSUF President’s Medallion Muckenthaler Cultural Center. In lieu of flowers please con - electrified those who attended the last Bill was involved in more in 1992 (one of two in the past tribute to one of the charitable organizations that he so gen - year’s ceremony. than six decades of charitable 50 years). erously gave to during his lifetime. On the prior Saturday, 600 commu - nity volunteers placed a cross or Star of David and a flag on 4,043 veterans’ Fullerton in 1955 where she remained lent gardening and was involved with the graves throughout the cemetery. until her passing. Fullerton Arboretum & Botanical The special guest speaker was She loved spending time with her six Gardens. She loved to walk with the Lieutenant General David H. Berger, grandchildren and three great grandchil - other members of the Senior Center and Commanding General, I Marine dren. She was an outstanding seamstress supported the annual Memorial Day serv - Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, and knitter, making clothing for her entire ice at Loma Vista Memorial Park by iron - CA. family along with a special baby quilt for ing the flags each year. Sponsored by the American Veterans each of her grandkids. She took great She was an independent and adventur - Memorial Association, more informa - pride and joy in seeing her children and ous person taking several big adventures tion about the ceremony may be grandchildren growing up and the various in her later years to Europe, Alaska and obtained by visiting their website at accomplishments in the endeavors they the Panama Canal. www.avmafullerton.org. each pursued. She was a devoted wife and Muriel Anna Nelson Fairgrieve is sur - mother who loved to go camping and vived by three children: William traveling to many favorite destinations in (Rhonda) Fairgrieve of Port Orchard, Muriel Anna the western states. Washington; Mary Ann (Dan) Bush of Mrs. Fairgrieve was involved with Girl San Juan Bautista, California; and James Nelson Fairgrieve Scouts for over 55 years and was a found - (Lori) Fairgrieve of Star, Idaho. Her hus - November 7, 1927 to May 14, 2015 ing member of the Orange County Adult band William predeceased her. Troop #1, fondly referred to as the She will be remembered by all who Muriel Anna Nelson Fairgrieve was “OWLS”. This group supports and men - knew her by her kind words and caring born November 7, 1927, in Hempstead, tors Girl Scouts throughout the area and ways, and will be missed by all whose lives New York. She married William Thomas she loved her involvement in the annual she touched. Fairgrieve in 1950. The couple moved Girl Scout camps, supporting individual Services were held on May 24 at Loma from New York to Burbank, California in girls, annual cookie and calendar sales. Vista Memorial Park with a reception fol - 1951 then made the family home in She loved growing flowers and succu - lowing at the family home. LOCAL CONGREGATIONS WELCOME YOU Orangethorpe Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Dr. Robert L. Case, Pastor Sunday Service : 10 AM 2200 W. O RANGETHORPE FULLERTON (714) 871-3400 www.orangethorpe.org EARLY JUNE 2015 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17

Above: John Quijano, Jimmy Jaramillo, Marvin Owens, Joey Hernandez, Sammy Perales, Fortino Gallo, Fred Jaimes & Joseph Valenzuela at the Fullerton College Hall of Fame ceremony and dinner where Marvin Owens was honored. Maple Community Friends & Fullerton College Hall of Fame Honor Marvin Owens Ryan Moy with parents Terrence and Naomi Moy Former Fullerton High & College foot - Friday, May 15 at the college. of Fullerton at his graduation. ball great, Marvin Owens was surrounded Marv Owens received his Hall of Fame by family and Maple Community friends medal for his athletic contribution to Dr. Ryan Moy on his induction into the Fullerton Fullerton College and community service Ryan H. Moy, M.D., Ph.D., son of Naomi and College 2015 Athletic Hall of Fame at a with the Leon Owens Foundation. Terrence Moy of Fullerton, was awarded a Doctor of celebration dinner and ceremony on -ROBERTO MELENDEZ Medicine degree from the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania on May 16. Dr. SAVE THE D ATE : City Council Report continued from page 4 Moy, who also holds a doctorate in Immunology, will June 30th begin his six-year residency/post doctoral work in •F IRE STATION GENDER ACCOMMODATIONS continued from page 4: Internal Medicine and Oncology, respectively, at the Dr. Ronald Jue, co-author Councilmember Flory asked why it was so relocate the fire station would be borne by New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell of “The Inner Edge,” and expensive and received the answer that the developers. Medical Center located in Manhattan, New York City. 2014 TED speaker will pres - renovations involved new plumbing, Mr. Levinson asked, “If you are only To his credit, he completed the M.D./Ph.D. pro - ent “A Glimpse of His doorways, walls and ceilings. talking about accommodating two gram in seven years instead of the normal eight years. Holiness, the 14th Dalai Jane Reifer pointed out that the station females why not just put a lock on the Lama. What can we gain was in the Transportation Center Specific door? Males who feel like females can use from his teachings that brings Plan Area and could be demolished. female restrooms in schools, why can’t Notices & Tributes significance into our life? Director Hoppe said that if that happened adults share restrooms?” Notices and tributes in the Observer Free OLLI lecture at Mackey it would be years away and the cost to Council voted 4-1 (Whitaker, no). are free to residents depending on space available. Auditorium, CSUF, 800 N. Send to [email protected] State College Blvd. Call 657- PUBLIC C OMMENTS Levinson. Stand up and do the right 278-2446 for information. •Chris Williams said that Acacia and thing,” she said. Victoria Drive streets are in bad shape. He She also said that she and Mayor said that the $2.5 million budgeted is only Protem Fitzgerald had attended the recent enough to fix one mile of road per year Water Summit and had learned that if the and needs to be greatly increased. He was drought continues it will have huge eco - asked to leave his contact information so nomic consequences. that staff could look into the matter. Flory and Fitzgerald took a tour of the •Barry Levinson said that the reason Republic Services (MG Disposal) 35-acre that the city staff was pushing high densi - recycling facility in Anaheim. ty, which causes traffic, pollution, and Councilmember Flory said the tour is fas - added water shortage, was to fund their cinating and open to teachers who would own salaries. like to take students. •Joe Imbriano asked that special investi - Mayor Protem Fitzgerald asked that a gator Gennaco be brought in to look at stop sign study be done at Valley View the police investigation of the incident and Glenhaven. Public Works Director involving Levinson’s alleged intimidation Hoppe said he would get right on it. of a cell tower representative in the city Councilmember Whitaker said that hall foye. “He was defamed and maligned Gennaco is on contract to the city and by Fullerton Observer and others,” he said. that he would like to see a full accounting COUNCIL & S TAFF C OMMENTS of his expenditures and activities. Councilmember Flory challenged Mr. All members praised the various events Imbriano asking him to release the video that had occurred around town. Mayor he had taken of the Levinson incident. Protem Fitzgerald said that Love Fullerton “You were involved but have refused to has year-round projects for volunteers at release the tape to exonerate your friend www.LoveFullerton.org.

JUNE 2 C OUNCIL A GENDA $2 Million to Control Lake Leak 3) Float in liner using materials such as Item #3 discusses establishing a new bentonite which sink to the bottom. This CIP project to investigate the most cost- would be a minor disruption of use of the effective way to control the loss of water lake and does not guarantee success. (No from Laguna Lake involving a transfer of estimate given). $2 million from the Sanitation Fund Redistribution of Housing Funds reserves that will be paid back as other Item #5 discusses how to redistribute funding becomes available. bond proceeds to increase affordable The lake loses an average of 90,000 gal - housing in the city since The Waterford lons of water per day (30% to evaporation Group which was allocated $5 million for and 70% through the leak. Three alterna - a project at 600 W. Commonwealth was tives will be considered: unable to come through. Also Squier 1) Fully line the lake bed at an estimat - Properties/ROEM Corp, which was allo - ed one-time cost of $2 million. This cated $5 million for a project at 336 E would require draining and refilling. Santa Fe, east of Lemon, has dropped out. 2) Constructing a well recirculating sys - The non-profit Community of Friends tem which would involve complicated project has moved to 1220 E. study and continued ongoing energy and Orangethorpe Ave and could use some of maintenance costs. (No estimate given). the money. Page 18 OBSERVER HEALTH NEWS EARLY JUNE 2015

Tide Turning Against Plastic COMMUNITY OPINIONS continued from page 3 Microbeads in Toiletries Low Risk of Long Term Effects of WiFi by Sarah Mosko the second state to enact a ban, citing that There are signs that the era where plas - manufacturers were already largely on & Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation tic microbeads from personal care prod - board, given pledges to phase out microbeads by several corporations by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro duty-cycles. They store data within the ucts pollute bodies of water worldwide Professor of Physics, Emeritus, CSUF including Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & device and transmit it in very short bursts and aquatic food chains might be drawing similar to a text message. The smart to a close. Johnson, L’Oréal, Proctor & Gamble and In my opinion, the information pre - Unilever. Besides, alternative abrasives can sented in the Health News Column in the meter is in transmit mode typically less Microbeads are miniscule spheres of than 1% of the time so the SARs associat - plastic commonly added as abrasives to be made from many natural materials, like Mid-May 2015 Observer regarding the beeswax, walnut shells, apricot pits, sand long-term health effects of Wi-Fi and ed with them are very small. personal care products like face scrubs, The electromagnetic radiation problem shower gels and toothpaste. or salt crystals. other forms of non-ionizing electromag - Meanwhile, California is netic radiation is seriously misleading, that should concern us is not the cell tow - They’re designed to wash down ers, WiFi routers, or smart meters — but the drain, but because of their Scientist reconsidering a statewide ban because it conflates very low-risk activities which failed passage last year such as being in the vicinity of a cell the cell phones themselves. When a per - small size, they escape sewage are son holds a cell phone to his or her ear to treatment plants. Once dis - discovering by a single vote (AB 888, phone tower, using WiFi or smart meters Bloom). The proposed ban, with a much higher risk activity. Namely, make a call, a significant fraction of the charged into oceans, rivers or that toxic energy radiated from the cell phone is lakes or onto land, they’re virtu - which would take effect in talking on a cell phone held to one’s head chemicals Jan. 2020, passed in the state for long period of time. absorbed by the head. Cell phones sold in ally impossible to clean up. the U.S. deliver SARs ranging from a low They’re typically made of from the assembly on May 22 and has To my knowledge, the only studies that moved on to the senate. New have shown statistically significant of 0.19 to a maximum of 1.58 Watts/kg. polyethylene or polypropylene plastics As the study quoted in the Health News and do not biodegrade within transfer to fish York’s Attorney General has increases in cancer rates associated with also signaled intention to high-frequency electromagnetic radiation column stated exposure to SARs this high any meaningful human time flesh which on a daily basis over many years appears to scale, especially in aquatic envi - shoot for a ban again this (EMR) were those where relatively high humans eat. year, citing that microbeads EMR doses were involved. One such raise the risk for gliomas (a type of malig - ronments. And, like other plas - nant brain cancer) by about 40% com - tics, they attract and accumulate were found in three-quarters study, which was mentioned in the article, of samples of treated effluent from New showed that people who talked on cell pared to the rate in the general popula - oily toxins commonly found in bodies of tion. While other studies have not been water (e.g. DDT, PCBs and flame retar - York waste treatment plants. Additional phones for 30 minutes or more daily over states currently considering bans include a long period of time (10 so definitive, we should err dants). on the side of caution and Microbeads resemble fish eggs, likely Connecticut, Hawaii, Oregon and years) showed a 40% increase The Washington. in a particular type of malig - take this particular study at contributing to the documented ingestion electromagnetic face value. of microplastics in the millimeter and There’s even a possible national ban in nant brain tumor – glioma. the works. Two U.S. Representatives, Fred Another study looked at caus - radiation Glioma is a relatively under size range by sea life in bottom tiers rare type of cancer in older of the ocean food web, including zoo - Upton of Michigan and Frank Pallone of es of deaths for radio ama - problem New Jersey, have re-introduced a bill teurs in California and adults, but more common plankton, sandworms, barnacles and small that should in children and young crustaceans. The potential for ingested which stalled last year that would ban the Washington, and found that concern us sale of products with microbeads starting although radio amateurs had adults. Fortunately, it is microplastics to transfer up aquatic food is not relatively easy to signifi - chains is very real, as demonstrated by Jan. 2018. Because Upton is the a lower overall death rate Republican chair of the House Energy from cancer than the general the cell towers, cantly reduce the risk of studies revealing transfer from the tiniest developing this type of to larger zooplankton and from mussels to and Commerce Committee and Pallone is population they did experi - WiFi routers, the ranking committee Democrat, there is ence a death rate from two cancer while still enjoying shore crabs. There is parallel risk for or smart meters the benefits of a cell harmful chemicals associated with greater hope for successful passage this particular types of cancer that time around. was higher than the general — but phone. Those who talk on microplastics to increasingly concentrate cell phones for more than a in animal tissues, adding threat to humans Things are heating up outside the population. Questions have the cell phones United States too. The international Beat been raised about the few minutes a day should and other life forms dining at the top of themselves. choose a cell phone model the chain. the Micro Bead campaign touts 66 partic - methodology used in the ipating NGOs in 32 countries and offers radio amateur study, but if it with a low SAR, and Scientists are also discovering direct should be sure to use a ingestion of microplastics by fish which a free download app allowing shoppers is taken at face value, it reports on a group across the globe to scan barcodes to iden - of people exposed to much higher levels of wired earpiece and microphone or the humans eat and that toxic chemicals from speaker phone feature of the phone. This the plastics transfer to fish flesh. tify which products contain plastic EMR for long periods of time than even microbeads. The campaign’s website also those who talk on cell phones for extend - permits the phone to be positioned away Beginning with the pioneering meas - from the head, greatly decreasing the SAR urements of plastic debris in the North posts lists of products by country that ed periods of time. Numerous other stud - contain microbeads. ies of populations exposed to low levels of to the brain. Children and young adults Pacific Gyre by the Long Beach-based – the population most at risk from Algalita Marine Research Foundation, the Moreover, Germany plans to promote EMR have shown no statistically signifi - an international effort to reduce waste cant correlations with cancer rates. gliomas - should be encouraged to text buildup of plastic pollution in all five of rather than to talk on their cell phone. the world’s oceanic gyres is now well- from plastics, including microbeads, at Cell phone tower antennas, WiFi router the June economic summit of the Group antennas, and smart meter antennas are Not only is the cell phone held away from established. Together with the recent dis - the body while texting, but the text mes - covery of microplastic accumulation in of Seven (G-7) nations. essentially point sources of electromagnet - Appearing in the February issue of ic radiation. The laws of physics dictate sage is sent as a very short burst of EMR, the U.S. Great Lakes and some rivers, this so the exposure is very small by compari - has spurred tangible momentum among Science magazine, the findings of the first that the specific absorption rate (SAR) in large-scale study to estimate how much Watts/kg of body weight from these son to a voice call. some U.S. politicians toward elimination There is another risk associated with cell of microbeads in personal care products. plastic is actually going into the oceans are sources will decrease approximately as the nothing short of shocking. Using data square of the distance from a point source phone use that has nothing to do with For example, the Great Lake states of electromagnetic radiation. It is estimated Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and New York all from 192 coastal countries, the researchers of radiation – the inverse square law. For calculated that, just in the year 2010, example the transmitter in a typical cell that between 17% and 25% of all traffic considered legislative bans last year, accidents in the U.S. are caused by people though Illinois emerged as the only state between 4.8 and 12.7 million metric tons phone tower may radiate a total of about (roughly 10.5 to 28 billion pounds) 50 Watts of electromagnetic radiation in talking or texting on a cell phone while to enact one, effective late 2017. The driving and that 8% to 10% of all traffic 2013 study spearheaded by Santa entered the oceans. If nothing is done to all directions. Because of the inverse stem the inflow of plastics, those numbers square law, a person standing 10 meters fatalities involve cell phone use, many of Monica’s 5 Gyres Institute reported that these are teen-agers or young adults. much of the microplastic debris in the could increase ten-fold by 2025. (about 30 ft) from the tower would have a Given these sobering figures, world- SAR of about 0.365 Watts/kg. This is Thus, between 2,500 and 3,200 traffic Great Lakes strongly resembles deaths are associated with cell phone use. microbeads in cosmetics. Lake Ontario wide elimination of microbeads in per - well below the allowed limit of 1.6 sonal care products, an entirely avoidable Watts/kg here in the U.S. Since most cell In comparison, approximately 1,400 chil - was most polluted, approximately 1.1 dren and teenagers are diagnosed with million microplastic fragments per square source of plastic pollution, can’t happen phone towers are at least 10 meters high, soon enough. one would have to stand at the base of the glioma from all causes each year in the kilometer. United States. Then just this April, New Jersey became Read more articles by Dr. Sarah Mosko on tower to experience this SAR. A person her website www.boogiegreen.com standing 10 meters away from the base of The bottom line is that the only risk to the tower, would experience a SAR of less the general public from EMR at cell than 0.03 Watts/kg or about 2% of the phone frequencies comes from the cell maximum allowable SAR. phones themselves, not from the towers, WiFi routers are restricted to much WiFi routers, or smart meters. And, with lower power output than cell phone tow - a little care even that risk can be greatly ers, and in practice radiate less than 4 reduced. watts of power or less. A person standing ED: Thank you for your expert opinion 2 meters (about 6 ft) away from the router on the Mid May Observer page 2 article would experience a SAR of less than “109 Scientists Call for EMF Protection 0.006 Watts/kg or less than 0.4% of the Against Long-term Health Effects of WiFi.” allowable SAR. 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