SUNDAY, JULY18, 2021 /// Now including Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent/// dailypilot.com H.B. council to deliberate on new member Monday night BY MATT SZABO port of at least four council members. The Huntington Beach The agreed upon candi- City Council hopes to ap- date then would be sworn point a new member dur- in at Tuesday’s regular City ing a special meeting on Council meeting. Monday, filling the va- Alternatively, if no can- cancy caused when Mayor didate is finalized by Pro Tem Tito Ortiz re- July 31, then a special elec- signed on June 1. tion would be required. The council called the Ortiz, a former profes- special 6 p.m. meeting af- sional mixed martial arts ter listening to more than fighter, made an abrupt 100 applicants for the va- exit from the council at its cant position on July 9 and first meeting in June. He is- 10. Each applicant made a sued a statement after the statement of up to five public comments portion minutes, on why he or she of the meeting, saying that would be a good choice for in his brief time on the Photos by Don Leach | Staff Photographer the position. panel he’d been met with Council members have “hostility and judgment” CAST MEMBERS who play in the Declaration of Independence tableau wait backstage before they take the stage in the agreed on parameters for and subject to character 2021 Pageant of the Masters show “Made in America.” The re-creation of artwork is a unique style known as tableaux vivant. Monday’s meeting. Each assassination through the will be able to nominate media. “To put it simply, up to three candidate this job isn’t working for names to consider. Voting me,” he said. Volunteerism keeps alive rounds will start from there, until and if one can- [email protected] didate receives the sup- Twitter: @mjszabo Pageant of the Masters MICHELLE BY ANDREW TURNER LIGGATT, who stands in he lights go up, the audience as the Statue of goes quiet and all else is still. Liberty T In that very moment, the sculpture, waits crowd is transported to another pe- backstage with riod as it gazes upon the re-creation a few redcoats of artwork in a unique style known as as she waits to tableaux vivant. take her It is the great draw of the Pageant position in the of the Masters, a show that like the art show. it replicates, has stood the test of time. The living picture show started in Don Leach | Staff Photographer Laguna Beach in 1933. MAYOR PRO TEM Tito Ortiz resigned from the City As seen from a distance, the sub- Council on June 1. “This job isn’t working for me,” he said. jects in the reproductions are largely SEAN humans inserted into the frame, HIGUCHI becoming nearly indistinguishable sells programs from the original artworks when in front of the costumed and painted. Irvine Bowl on Those that pose as the living pic- a recent night. tures themselves are volunteers, as well as many behind the scenes pre- paring them to play their parts for 90 seconds in the spotlight. The shared experience, often with other family members, is a key aspect of what keeps the volunteers coming back. See Pageant, page A5 Don Leach | Staff Photographer Newport Beach’s Tiffany Yuhas BARBARA WINKLER of SoCal Quilts of Valor, left, surprises Joseph King with a quilt in the USC colors during his 100th birthday party at the American Legion post in Newport Harbor on Saturday. believes in the power of hope WWII vet celebrates BY MATT SZABO his 100th birthday Tiffany Yuhas no longer had her marriage. Acouple of years later, with family, others she no longer had her hair. What she has rediscov- at Newport Harbor ered, though, is her sense of purpose. As a receptionist, Yuhas is BY LILLY NGUYEN Monday. It also probably likely the first person a pa- helps that he has no tient will encounter when Joseph King likes to vices. he or she comes through joke that he’s probably Though he admitted in the front doors of City of been exposed to more arecent interview that he Hope Newport Beach. It’s chemicals than any other did enjoy a cocktail most been that way since her person would be in his nights and used to first day of work on Feb. 3, lifetime. smoke, but quit in 1950. 2020, just a week after the King, a chemical engi- The only pills he takes, facility opened. neer who finally retired he said, are vitamins. She is there to greet the from his day job about King was born in patients with a smile, but four years ago at 95, Michigan on a rural farm also take calls from phar- thinks people should not in 1921, where he lived up macies seeking refills, along necessarily trust every- until he was about 8 or 9 with a laundry list of other thing that environmental- and moved with his fam- responsibilities. ists say. ily to the port city of “I can’t refill, but I have to He’s been around lead, Muskegon. at least take the medication chromium, asbestos in There, he finished high down and spell it right,” she Don Leach | Staff Photographer his profession and used school, went on to junior said. “I’m still learning, but to spray his family’s po- college and was working I’m getting the hang of it. NEWPORT BEACH resident Tiffany Yuhas at the City of Hope offices in Newport Beach. Yuhas tato crop with arsenic when the attack on Pearl You have to have a general was one of the first employees hired to the City of Hope team after a lymphoma diagnosis. and white lead. Harbor happened in 1941. blanket knowledge of kind “I’ve been exposed to a “I decided I needed to of what everyone’s role is, of Hope for saving her life 25-year marriage. in my liver and kidneys. I myriad of chemicals that get back to college as fast make sure everybody’s after she was diagnosed Yuhas said her doctor at was totally covered in lym- are supposed to have as I could. It changed my happy. There’s a lot of with lymphoma in Septem- another hospital initially phoma, my whole torso.” killed anybody and the life quite a bit during that things we do.” ber 2018. She said she had a said she was “too far gone” But after the doctor only thing I can figure is time,” King said. The 56-year-old Newport CT scan that confirmed it, to recover. called the City of Hope, that it killed the bugs,” he King initially started as Beach resident takes it all in after she started getting bad “I must have been walk- Yuhas went via ambulance said, laughing. apharmacist before shift- stride. It sure beats the al- headaches following the re- ing around with it for a to the Duarte location. He theorizes it might ing gears to chemical en- ternative. moval of her ovaries. while,” she said. “By the What followed was six be why he’ll make it to In a way, Yuhas is paying The news came just two time they got me, I had a his 100th birthday on See Veteran, page A2 it forward. She credits City years after the end of her collapsed lung, and it was See Hope, page A5 A2 SUNDAY, JULY18, 2021 DAILY PILOT | COASTLINE PILOT | HUNTINGTON BEACH INDEPENDENT WWW.DAILYPILOT.COM THE DAILY JOSEPH KING, sitting with COMMUTER girlfriend Shirley, PUZZLE pauses for a group picture with extended By Jacqueline E. family during his Mathews 100th birthday party at the ACROSS American Legion 1Like MacDonald post in Newport or King Cole Harbor Saturday. 4More precious & adorable Don Leach Staff 9__ of; in a way Photographer 13 Be a couch potato said he recalls most of his He just says yes to things 15 Can't __; finds VETERAN own childhood as having and I think he is always intolerable Continued from pageA1 been a normal one. He very happy and he doesn’t 16 Small musical recalls that his parents di- complain about anything, group gineering while studying vorced when he was in really.” at the University of Michi- his teens. His father never “I thought, ‘What do I 17 British peer gan. remarried, but did meet want to do to be like Joe?’ 18 Descartes & While there he enlisted his current partner, He has more experiences Coty and was deployed for ac- Shirley Johnstone, in the than most people because 19 Check for the tive duty upon his gradu- late 1990s. he’s not picky,” Kline said. landlord ation in 1943. He served Joseph King said he Kline described King as 20 Smell inhibitor on the USS Biddle, an met Johnstone while on a ameticulous cook that 22 Breakfast order American destroyer ship trip to Louisville to see loved to bake pies, make 23 Rips off SUDOKU 25 Baseball club during World War II. the Kentucky Derby. jams and his own tomato He was responsible for Johnstone was a host for sauce from scratch. 24 Scale divisions: 26 Cheesy chip By The Mepham Group 27 Parisian's love maintenance of the ship’s that excursion, which was Kline’s sister Jacque abbr. machinery. organized by the Uni- Ratto said that King and 26 Sea forces 28 Panorama Complete the grid so each row, column and 29 Sweat King said that while he versity of Southern Cali- her husband, Anthony 29 Sweet 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every was serving he never en- fornia.