ELECTION RESULTS PAGE 20 COMMUNITY Fullerton bsCeALErNDAvR Peage 1r 1-15 O EAR FULLERTON’S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (printed on 20% recycled paper) • Y 40 #11 • MID JUNE 2018 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com Fullerton Residents Protest Federal Policy Separating Children from Parents The corner of Harbor and Chapman was alive during rush hour on June 15th with honking, waving, thumbs up and marching, as over 70 Fullerton residents gathered to protest the Trump/Pence Administration policy of separating chil - dren from their parents at the border, a practice that has been called a violation of international law and human rights by the United Nations. Over 10,000 children are now being held in detention centers. Members of the First Congregational Church of Fullerton were joined by Fullerton First Christian and Fullerton Univeral Unitarians and others. Upon arrival, those seeking asylum and crossing the border without papers are detained from several months to a year, until they come before the court. While they wait to be “processed” they are held in one of 109 detention facilities. One new aspect of this detention, unlike under past administrations, includes separating children as young as two and holding them in separate facili - ties away from, and without contact to, their parents. Keep Families Together: Locals with a message to the Trump/Pence Administration about the new policy of separating children continued on page 18 from their parents while they seek asylum or wait for court date for crossing the border without papers. PHOTO BY JESSE LA TOUR FACING NEIGHBORHOOD OPPOSITION Day of Music 7 . A 7 S

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S Pathways of Hope, “This is the solution to free musical events all around town. F P Facing backlash from angry/concerned resolve a lot of those issues that each and Visit www.thedayofmusic.com to get a neighbors, city council voted to postpone every one of us come across every day.” complete, updated lineup for over 200 an agreement with local non-profit However, many people who live in the free performances. Visit one of the 50+ Pathways of Hope to study the feasibility neighborhood expressed fear and concern venues for a printed program - you’ll be of building a “permanent supportive with the project. sure to find just the right beat. Here are housing” complex for local homeless peo - These concerns may be summarized as: a few: ple. Council voted to move the discussion 1) fear for their safety and that of their to October in a 3-0 vote (Silva and children caused by the presence of home - •Museum Plaza (E. Wilshire) 4 pm - Rhythmo Mariachi Kids

T Fitzgerald abstaining). less people, 5 pm - 7 pm - Kid’s Corner N The proposed project would [potential - 2) fear of decreasing property values E L ly] be built on a city-owned parcel of land caused by the presence of homeless peo - 7:30 pm Skapeche Mode L D A I that is largely vacant at 1600 W. ple, and; •Fullerton Public Library C S 2 E Commonwealth Ave. next to the city 3) fear that the project would attract S E 0 R 2 pm: John Haggerty I E 4 R T maintenance yard and railroad tracks. more homeless people to the area. 5:15 pm – Sunday Brunch V 6 R - R T E According to Housing and The proposed permanent supportive 7 pm - Curtain Call E 5 V S N

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O “Permanent Supportive Housing is a rounding neighborhoods during the day. 8:15 pm – Sean Oliu cure for homelessness,” said David continued on page 4 continued on page 13 The Grand Jury on What’s Keeping Us From Addressing Homelessness by Malika Pandey Urban Development defines a chronically Chronically homeless people face debil - Calling for both municipal and county homeless person as an unaccompanied itating circumstances as well as the mental response, the 2017-18 OC Grand Jury homeless individual with a disabling con - and physical stress of living on the street. released their report on May 31 titled dition who has either been continuously The report cites a study which discovered

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F chronically homeless people. white, one in seven are veterans, and only U F The US Department of Housing and 20-25 percent are female. continued on page 5 Page 2OBSERVER COMMUNITY OPINIONS continued on page 3 MID JUNE 2018

Fullerton CORRECTIONS There were several errors in the page 4 Observer City Council Notes story “Elderly Klimpel Manor Residents Allege The Fullerton Observer Community Newspaper , founded by Ralph and Management Violations,” which Natalie Kennedy and a group of friends appeared in the Early June Fullerton in 1978, is staffed by local citizen vol - Observer. Thanks to those who alerted us unteers who create, publish, and dis - to the errors which are corrected below: tribute the paper throughout our com - munity. This venture is a not-for-prof - it one with all ad and subscription rev - ERROR ONE: Chaffee ownership enues plowed back into maintaining Fullerton Mayor Doug Chaffee still and improving our independent, non- holds an interest in Klimpel Manor as is partisan, non-sectarian community noted on his 2017/18 financial disclo - newspaper. sure form 700 filed with the city and Our purpose is to inform Fullerton residents about the institutions and signed in March 2018. other societal forces which most impact In that form he declares that he their lives, so that they may be empow - receives $10,000 to $100,000 in rev - ered to participate in constructive ways enue from Klimpel Manor annually. to keep and make these private and So the information that he transfered public entities serve all residents in law - ful, open, just, and socially-responsible interest in the property to his partner ways. Through our extensive local cal - WNC in 2014 was inaccurate. endar and other coverage, we seek to promote a sense of community and an ERROR TWO: Chaffee ownership appreciation for the values of diversity Erosion of Separation of Church & State? We received the following correction with which our country is so uniquely blessed. Jehovah’s Witnesses have a table and of Church and State. Other people in line from City Housing Manager Rebecca chairs set out in front of the Fullerton are also bothered by this including one Leifkes regarding incorrect information SUBMISSIONS : DMV on Valencia (next to Independence lady wearing a large cross. printed in the Early June Observer page 4 Submissions on any topic of interest are article “Elderly Klimpel Manor Residents accepted from Fullerton residents and we Park) and are proselytizing to the captive This is a state government office. Why audience waiting to get into the DMV. is this being allowed? And should we Allege Management Violations.” We are try hard to get it all in. Sorry we some - printing it below in whole because we times fail. Shorter pieces have a better According to the representative they allow it? - LLV Fullerton chance. Email to observernews@earth - have a permit to be there and come from ED: Those interested in this subject still do not understand it but hope some - link.net or mail to: the Kingdom Hall church in Fullerton. might also tune in to any Fullerton city one does. FULLERTON OBSERVER I am not the only person who is object - council meeting and experience the long “I was surprised to see the article PO BOX 7051 ing to this as a violation of the Separation prayer sessions before each. titled "Elderly Klimpel Manor FULLERTON, CA 92834-7051 ______Residents Allege Management How To Subscribe Bernie & Living Wages Violations," in the most recent edition Subscriptions are due each October of the Fullerton Observer , which mis - $25/Fullerton • $35/Out of Town I heard Senator Bernie Sanders speak to afford rent and food. Some work part- quotes several of the facts that I had Send Check with Name & Address to: a mostly Disneyland worker audience on time. New hires are not given medical care relayed to you on June 1, 2018, in Fullerton Observer, PO Box 7051, June 2nd in Anaheim. He said that a com - benefits, and some of the manufacturing response to your e-mail sent on the Fullerton CA 92834-7051 evening of May 29, 2018 and follow up ______pany that made $9 billion in profits last jobs have been sent to China. year should be able to afford to pay its Senator Sanders said Disney could set a e-mail on May 31, 2018. How to Advertise As indicated in my e-mail, at no time Call 714-525-6402 , workers a decent living wage. He men - great example for corporate America by or email tioned that the CEO of Disney, Robert negotiating a decent wage with benefits, was Klimpel Manor owned by Mayor [email protected] Iger, had earned $400 million over the last including health care, treating workers Chaffee's family trust, as reported in ______the article on page 4. Prior to the 10,000 issues of the Fullerton Observer 4 years, and spoke of the great income with dignity and respect. Disney employ - inequality that exists today. ees are not just teenagers anymore but development of Klimpel Manor, the are distributed throughout Fullerton underlying property was owned by and sent through the mail to subscribers Some 3,000 Disney workers have been people with families. He praised Mr. Iger every two weeks except only once homeless over the past year, some living in for supporting the firing of Roseanne Barr Douglas B Chaffee and Margaret N. in January, July & August. their cars, some have to double up with but said this could be a moment in histo - Chaffee (collectively, "Chaffee"). Chaffee transferred the property to a Missed a Copy? Visit us online at: other families, some facing long com - ry for Robert Iger, to do the right thing! mutes to work because they couldn't limited partnership titled "Klimpel www.fullertonobserver.com Suzanne Darweesh Fullerton Manor, LTD" (the "Partnership") in & on FaceBook connection with the various financing • STAFF• City Missing Out Uninformed Voters obtained for the development of • Co-Editors: Ill-informed voters of the 29th have Klimpel Manor. Sharon Kennedy & Jesse La Tour on Funding Source Chaffee contributed the property and • Database Manager: Jane Buck traded a great representative for some - It feels like many decisions the Council thing less. We’ve seen in Josh Newman cash to the Partnership, and in return, • Advisor: Tracy Wood obtained interests in the general partner • Copy Editors/Proof: Angela Valentin considers come down to the city not hav - what true leadership and representation • Distribution: Roy & Irene Kobayashi, ing enough money. I won't dare suggest look like. of the Partnership. The general partner Marjorie Kerr, Manny Bass, simply raising taxes a bit... But I find So rest assured, Ling Ling Chang will be of the Partnership retained only a 4% Leslie Allen & Victor Cortes myself wondering why a city, which could held to account by us, her constituents. interest in the Partnership. The Photography: Jere Greene, Damion Lloyd remaining 96% interest was owned by • Webmaster: Cathy Yang apparently benefit from new money, still She better plan to face us in regular Town hasn't allowed the sale of recreational Halls and other venues, as did Senator the limited partner, which contributed • FEATURES & COLUMNISTS marijuana. The Council's outdated moral Newman. We demand no less than real tax credits to the Partnership. • C ITY ISSUES : Jane Rands & Matt Leslie hangups are potentially costing us mil - representation. Also as indicated in my e-mail, • C OUNCIL REPORT : Jesse La Tour although Chaffee was the contracting •C ROSSWORD : Valerie Brickey lions. Arlene Hoffman Fullerton • D OWNTOWN REPORT : Mike Ritto JC Fullerton party in the 1994 Owner Participation •G ARDENING : Penny Hlavac ED: Thank you Arlene for writing Agreement with the former Fullerton •F ULLERTON HISTORY : in about this. Because over half of Redevelopment Agency ("Agency"), Jesse La Tour & Terry Galvin HOW TO VOICE voters passed the recall of District the $1.7 million grant was provided not • M OVIE REVIEW HITS & M ISSES : Joyce Mason 29th Senator Newman, the replace - to Chaffee, but to the Partnership, for •Y OUTH REPORTER : Francine Vudoti YOUR OPINION ment top vote-getter wins the race •P OLITICAL COMMENTARY : use in developing Klimpel Manor. In Vince Buck & Jonathan Dobrer The Community Opinion pages pro - without having to run in addition, the $1.3 million loan refer - •P ASSION FOR JUSTICE : Synthia Tran vide a free forum for the community. The November’s General Election. enced in your article was not provided •R OVING REPORTERS : Jere Greene, Sinh Observer welcomes letters on any subject In other races the top two vote- by the Agency or City, but rather was Dang, and other Community Members of interest. Comments are the opinions of getters in the June 5 Primary elec - provided by the California Housing • S CHOOL BOARD : Jan Youngman the writer, may be shortened for space, tion move on to the Nov. General •S CIENCE : Sarah Mosko Finance Agency, again to the •I NTERN : Malika Pandey and typos corrected if we notice them. Election even if there are only two Partnership (i.e., not to Chaffee). • T HEATRE REVIEWS : We must verify your identity, but we candidates running - this regardless I'd like to respectfully request a cor - Angela Hatcher & Mark Rosier allow initials only and town to be printed of party preference, or whether one rection to this story in your online ver - •V IDEO OBSERVER : Emerson Little if desired, or anonymous in print if a rea - candidate receives the majority of all sion, as well as a revision in the next Created & Published in Fullerton sonable case can be made as to why that is votes cast in the primary election. print edition. Please do not hesitate to by local citizen volunteers for 40 years necessary. Please add your contact infor - Only candidates running for State contact me if you have any questions Fullerton Observer LLC mation so we can verify though. Thanks! 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OUT OF MY MIND Silence, A False Refuge from Politics by Jon Dobrer © 2018 by Manuel N. Bass On the Sunday before the primary I blessed with little other than trouble. received a call from a pleasant female Nor are active voters immune from voice urging me to vote for Chiang over thoughtless advocacy. In my opinion Suicide isn’t Simple Newsom for Governor. She asked, “Did that’s how we American’s got saddled with We rightfully are shocked and bewil - optional and death is a side effect. you know” and then started reading the the McCarthys, the Nixons, the Dubyas dered when a seemingly successful per - When England made pharmacy com - familiar phrases condemning Newsom and the Trumps. LBJ saved us from that son commits suicide. We are puzzled and panies package opioids in blister packs that I’d read ad nauseam in flyers that I’d warmonger Goldwater, and then pro - probably even personally threatened. We instead of bottles, the suicide rate from received in the mail. longed the Vietnam War in a blind may feel, often without giving our feel - opioids was immediately cut in half! I interrupted her and asked about her. attempt to “win” it, urged on by Pentagon ings words, that if someone who “has it Instead of taking off the cap and swal - She is a hired political advocate. To her lies. all,” kills themselves, then what immuni - lowing a bunch of pills, people had to credit, she spoke willingly. Though she’s The verbal exchange of honest opinions ty do I have with my less than perfect un-peel those annoying blister-packed old enough to vote, she doesn’t because “I between concerned citizens is, in the last life? pills one at a miserable time. Often, by am not political.” That’s precisely the analysis, the best defense of democracy. Many of us were introduced to the the time they freed half a dozen pills, phrase used by older Germans when I was Live humans talking without intimidation unknowability of other people’s pain and they had switched from feeling suicidal in Germany in 1953 and probed their to their fellows is the most transparent thoughts about the Nazis, often on streets form of government. I don’t apologize for desperation through the poem, “Richard to homicidal. But however they felt, the lined by the rubble of bombed-out struc - the opinions I’ve expressed here, and, Corey” by Edwin Arlington Robinson: impulse often had passed. tures: “Ich bin nitch politisch.” along with Jefferson, I’ll defend to the Some who commit suicide don’t want That’s how they got Hitler. Such think - death your right to express counter opin - And he was rich—yes, to kill themselves. They want to kill the ing is not unique to Germany. Most of ions. Furthermore, I’ll listen to you. richer than a king— world. They want to inflict pain, transfer those seeking asylum from the world of But, I read the negative flyers in my And admirably schooled their pain onto someone who hurt them politics tend to go with the loudest dema - mail and always check the fine print to in every grace: or onto the entire world. Suicide can be gogue to avoid trouble. They are then find out who paid for them. In fine, we thought that quite hostile. I have had to help clean up he was everything the brains of several men (guns seem a To make us wish that guy thing) who chose to inflict pain and A Poll Worker’s Thoughts we were in his place. guilt on their families by “swallowing a So on we worked, and gun” at home with their families present on the June 5th Primary Election waited for the light, in another room. Yes, hostile. And went without the meat, Paradoxically, sometimes our societal by Sinh Dang I took care of the first part of the voting and cursed the bread; disapproval of suicide can cause people process: Greetings, checking in voters, And Richard Cory, This election I was assigned to an answering questions, and providing provi - one calm summer night, to kill themselves. I have known literally Election Board at the polling place in a sional ballots, and I was particularly Went home and put a bullet dozens of people who were afraid of los - senior living center in Anaheim. The touched to see some elderly voters who through his head. ing control of their pain and dying. space available for us was the hallway, so They spoke to me about exercising their we couldn’t follow the protocol of having went through so much hardship just to vote. Some walked with walkers and were We do understand that suicide is not a will and control while they still could. the official tables in the position to see the helped by family members; one who we simple thing. It is not always a matter of They were scared to death, not of death, entire room of voting machines. but of losing their say in their own Instead, all the voting “booths” were helped was legally blind. Some senior vot - undiagnosed depression. The impulse to ers asked questions. Some went up to end life is often a drive to end suffering dying. lined up facing the wall, and my inspector There were people who said they did didn’t mind standing and walking around their rooms to get their ID’s to fill out and even dying. It is not necessarily “a provisional envelopes, so they could vote. cowardly way out.” not want to undergo another round of the area all day long to keep an eye on the chemo, afraid that they machines and to help the voters needing After the poll closed, we tallied the votes For example, no one and were quite surprised thought that the people who wouldn’t be allowed to assistance. He insisted, “We will do our best to help you vote; the to see a large number of leapt from the Twin Towers stop, or to say “Enough! only thing we won’t do is to I used to doubt provisional ballots! on 9/11 were committing With over Let me go.” Telling them 43% of the voters who that not only could they make the selection for you.” people who suicide. We all under - 40,000 suicides Since we worked in the hall - came during the day stood—minister, priest, stop the treatments but said they voted provisionally! The in America that I and their families way, we got chances to say didn’t receive rabbi and imam—that we “Hello” to the senior residents main reason stated was are not made to remain in a each year, would be there for them their mail-in that they didn’t receive and support them with walking by who lived there. burning room. No one was They were extremely polite, ballots - until it their ballots in the mail. some are love if they chose to exit denied burial in sacred sweet, and nice. There was this In the past, I thought acts of on their own terms, gave happened to that the voters either ground. No one judged great lady who we saw a few my family. them as weak or cowardly. desperation, them a sense of freedom times during the day; by the lost or misplaced their We understood that this was and power. In every case, afternoon, she said, “I don’t ballots, and just said not about the quality of the tragic when I had this conversa - know how you guys can stay they didn’t receive them their lives—material or spir - results of tion, they chose treat - awake this long. You must be going to be able to vote provisionally. But now I truly believe that the ballots didn’t arrive itual. This was about exercis - treatable ment. On the other hand, around and pinching each other.” ing control over the quality I have had to deliver eulo - There were roughly 300 voters on the in the mail because it happened to some of their final moments; depression. gies for people who were Voter Roster at our polling place, and of my own family members. There are five vote by mail voters in their home, but indeed, it was the last act of not sure they would more than half of those were “Vote by only one received his ballot this election! control or agency in their remain in control of their Mail” voters, so we didn’t expect to be lives and their deaths, very busy. However, many of these voters In Los Angeles, there were almost 120K lives. voter’s names left off the Roster due to When states legislate the who feared losing their showed up saying either they didn’t dignity and therefore decided on an early received the ballots in the mail, or didn’t “printing error.” right to “physician assisted suicide,” this What? I can’t help but thinking about a is as misleading as calling the 9/11 escape. remember what happened to it. This time Of all of the many changes in medi - there were some voters whose names were conspiracy to suppress voters! This is just jumpers suicides. People close to death a primary election. What will happen in or with intractable pain, are not trying to cine during my lifetime, little is more not even on the list. Since the job of a poll workers is to help voters vote, we had November? commit suicide. They don’t want to stop impactful than the Hospice Movement them vote provisionally. California has been a blue state, with living. They want to stop dying. that made treatment patient-centered more Democrats than Republican voters. At some point, as hard as it is to imag - and allowed people the freedom to play Under the guidelines, a voter But, I would advise the Democratic Party ine for the young and healthy, death can an active part at the end of their lives. may vote provisionally if: not to let down its guard. They should lose its fearful aspect and may no longer We often feel pain, guilt and helpless - not rely too much on the “Blue Wave.” seem to be the enemy, the very opposite ness when someone we know and love 1) His/her name is not on the Roster or If there is a Republican candidate on is different than what is listed of life. Death may come as a friend, a lib - actively ends their living or their dying. the November ballot, Democrats may be erator, or in the words of Walt Whitman All this is normal and appropriate. But in 2) “Vote-by-Mail” designation is in the in for a surprise! “a deliveress.” addition to these natural reflexes, we can Roster but the voter does not have And for voters who find their name is Yes, with over 40,000 suicides in also know that suicide is not simple. It is his/her ballot not on the Roster, or those whose ballot America each year, some are acts of des - not one thing, one thing to be con - didn’t arrive in the mail, by all means, demned or judged. We can still love 3) Voter lives at a different address than please insist on voting provisionally - peration, the tragic results of treatable that listed depression. Many are also impulsive. someone deeply even when they have because if you have not voted elsewhere, Someone is angry or sad, feels lonely, made a choice—reasoned or impulsive— 4) “Proof of Residence” designation is your provisional vote will be counted. with which we strongly disagree. Love in the Roster but the voter cannot hopeless or rejected. They grab a gun or ED: There were 45,500 Provisional Ballots provide proof of residence. pour a bottle of pills down their throats. can and should abide. cast in the June 5th Primary Election. Some of them don’t want to die. They www.Dobrer.com 5) “Early Voter” designation is in the As of June 16 those were the only ballots simply want to go to sleep in order to Follow me on Twitter @jondobrer Roster but the voter claims that they did left to count. See election result update escape. Sleep is the goal, waking is not vote at an early voting location. on back page. Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER GOVERNMENT NEWS MID JUNE 2018

CITY COUNCIL NOTES by Jesse La Tour The Council meets at 6:30pm on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Upcoming agenda information and streaming video of council meetings are available at www.cityoffullerton.com. Meetings are broadcast live on Cable Ch 3 and rebroadcast at 3pm and 6pm the following Wed. & Sun. & 5pm Mon. City Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton. Contact council at 714-738-6311 or by email to: [email protected] June 5th Council Meeting Report Next Council meeting is Tuesday, June 19 at 5pm. Come see your local government in action!

Closed Session: Council Discusses Lawsuit 20-Year Pin: Crime Scene Investigator and Forensic Specialist Dawn B. Scruggs was Filed on Behalf of Homeless honored on May 15 by Chief Hendricks with her 20-year pin of service. Her family was present in the audience for the presentation. Scruggs originally joined the Fullerton Police During this week’s “closed session” to meaningfully address homelessness, Department as a dispatcher but in 2002 switched to the CSI department. council met with legal counsel to discuss a alleging violation of the constitutional - PHOTO BY STEVEN GEORGES /B EHIND THE BADGE OC very important lawsuit regarding home - rights of local homeless people by crimi - lessness in Orange County. There was no nalizing poverty. closed session report from the city attor - Though Fullerton is not yet named in Council Delays Approval of Housing ney. The case (Orange County Catholic the lawsuit, we have been named in a continued from frontpage Worker v. Orange County, City of “Cross Complaint” filed by Santa Ana Project for the Homeless Anaheim, City of Costa Mesa, City of and will likely be impacted by what tran - Regarding living next to the Armory, become homeless, I would want to know Orange, City of Santa Ana) was filed in spires regarding the lawsuit. City leaders one resident said, “I’m sick and tired of it, there was a place for me to go, a place for January of this year, and is about the fail - have attended hearings and meetings and everyone else is sick and tired of it as me to get the support that I need, and ure of Orange County and various cities related to the lawsuit. well, and we are not going to stand by and that’s what Pathways of Hope is provid - watch you ruin our neighborhood more ing.” New Agreement With CARE Ambulance and let this come in.” Kelsey Brewer of the California People who spoke against the project Association of Cities, said, “the national - In an effort to deal with Fullerton’s the city itself will bill patients and collect tended to conflate an emergency shelter ly-recognized model of permanent sup - budget deficit, council approved (4-1, revenue. It expected that this will save like the Armory with permanent support - portive housing is the only model that is Whitaker “no”) a re-negotiated contract Fullerton around $1 million annually. ive housing, which are markedly different data-driven and shown to end chronic with CARE Ambulance, the city’s ambu - The contract will last for two years, as a models. homelessness.” lance provider. Under the old contract, trial run. Former Fullerton mayor and current Debra Pember of Developers Edge and CARE would charge for its service and Councilmember Whitaker, who voted North OC Community College District a past Building Industry Association bill the patient for that service. Under the against the new contract expressed con - Trustee Molly McClanahan pointed out boardmember is also on the board of new contract, the city will pay CARE just cern that CARE is guaranteed revenue, that the service model of Pathways of Pathways of Hope. She said that, contrary over $2.2 million a year as a “flat rate” and while the city is on the hook for liability. Hope is different from an emergency to residents’ concerns, this project would homeless shelter like the Armory. not add more homeless people to the area, Hunt Library Wilshire Avenue “I want you to visit but is “actually giving the Pathways of Hope current homeless a place to go and Committee Formed Bicycle Boulevard housing facility in Fullerton,” “Pathways of have services.” Council voted unanimously to award a said McClanahan, “It is some - Hope has a During council discussion, Following much discussion at recent construction contract of $1,947,690 to council and library board meetings thing that everybody in the long history in Mayor Protem Sebourn asked Vido Samarzich, Inc. for the Wilshire city can be proud of. Not only Pathways Director Gillanders regarding what to do with the city-owned Avenue Bicycle Boulevard Improvement the community, Hunt Branch Library, it was decided to the way it looks—its architec - to describe the difference Project. The project construction is fund - ture and design—but the serv - and they are between The Armory and create an ad hoc committee to study and ed by a Congestion Mitigation and Air the right explore options. Each councilmember was ices that are provided there.” what Pathways is proposing. Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ) Various services to help organization “It’s apples and oranges,” asked to choose one person to be on the grant from the Federal Highway committee. Councilmember Silva homeless families back on to do this.” said Gillanders, “What we’re Administration and the City Air Quality their feet are offered by actually talking about is appointed Egleth Nuncci, Mayor Pro- -Leonel Talvera Improvement Trust Fund account. Pathways of Hope at its transi - building a beautiful apart - Tem Sebourn appointed Fern Richardson, The project consists of bicycle and Mayor Chaffee chose Peter Beard, and tional housing on Amerige ment community where each street improvements on Wilshire Avenue Ave. in Fullerton, which is blended into a individual unit would be assigned to Councilmember Fitzgerald selected between Woods and Acacia. The improve - Michael Williams. Councilmember historic downtown area (see page 5). someone who is formerly homeless, and ments will include, most notably, round - The newly proposed center would be this unit would end their homelessness. Whitaker said he needs more time to abouts at 10 intersections. make his choice. for adult men and women. They would have a place to live. That’s the The project is intended to provide a Though many neighbors were opposed solution to homelessness.” “bicycle boulevard” connection link to the proposed project, a few voiced sup - Mayor Chaffee mentioned the current HUNT LIBRARY 101 between Downtown Fullerton, the port and others, not living in the nearby lawsuit against Orange County (Orange Past, Present & Future Transportation Center and Cal State neighborhood, were in favor of it. County Catholic Worker v. Orange Fullerton. Providing bicycle boulevard Leonel Talavera, who works with County, City of Anaheim, City of Costa Monday, June 25 improvements is intended to encourage Habitat for Humanity, said “Me and my Mesa, City of Orange, City of Santa Ana) 6:30pm-8:30pm bicycle travel by providing continuous family live in the neighborhood, just for the lack of homeless shelter space, and travel, improving safety, and reducing south of the proposed site. I’m here to how cities across the county are looking Orangethorpe United traffic speeds and volumes. speak in support of Pathways of Hope and for solutions. Methodist Church Construction is expected to start in joining this agreement with the city. Chaffee also expressed concern that, mid-July and be completed by early Pathways of Hope has a long history in given the manufacturing history of the Chapel Hall November 2018. 2351 W. Orangethorpe Ave. the community, and they are the right proposed site, there may be soil toxicity. (Near NW corner of Gilbert & Valencia Drive organization to do this.” Councilmember Fitzgerald asked that Orangethorpe) GiGi Tsontos, CEO of the Women’s attention be given to various concerns Gas Tax Infrastructure Transitional Living Center in Fullerton, expressed by the neighbors about criminal (714) 729-3019 Improvements said “we know that putting people in a activity by current homeless people in www.savethehunt.com permanent location can change their lives their neighborhoods. She pointed out that Council voted unanimously to award a forever…Fullerton has the opportunity to voting for the agreement did not commit construction contract of $1,548,742 to really make that impact.” the city to approving any project but Upcoming Agenda GRFCO, Inc. (aka Griffin Structures) for Erica Flor of Eastside Christian Church allowed Pathways to explore possible infrastructure improvements along said, “There are so many names and sto - funding and create a project proposal Tuesday, June 19, 6:30pm : Stadium Valencia Drive from Gilbert to ries of individual people behind this thing which would come back to council for Resolution requesting effort from North Brookhurst. $1 million of this will come we call homelessness…We all need stabil - approval or rejection. She made a motion OC Community College District to from the Gas Tax Fund Balance. ity to thrive, and that’s what we’re offering to approve the agreement with Pathways, negotiate to share facilities with Fullerton The scope of work includes slip-lining these individuals, to be able to move in which councilmember Silva seconded. High and CSUF; Community Planning 2600 feet of new sewer pipe inside exist - the right direction.” That motion failed. and Development Programs Consolidated ing sewer pipe, manhole rehabilitation, Dr. Debra Stout, a professor at CSUF, Citing concerns of the neighbors, Plan & Citizen Participation Plan new sewer manholes, full depth reclama - and executive director of the Fullerton Chaffee made a motion to continue the Amendment and Update; and more. Visit tion of the existing pavement section, Collaborative said that “providing hous - item to October, during which time he www.cityoffullerton.com to access the full curb access ramps meeting ADA require - ing is the most effective way of addressing encouraged Pathways to do outreach in agenda . ments, and minor water improvements. homelessness in the city…If I was to the neighborhood. MID JUNE 2018 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5 Interview With Pathways of Hope Executive Director David Gillanders by Jesse La Tour Meetings will be held across the street from the site, at the maintenance yard At the June 5th Fullerton City Council community room. We’re asking people to meeting, many residents who live in the submit all their questions, both written neighborhood around a proposed housing and in e-mail form to info@path - community for the homeless expressed waysofhope.us. We want to be as accessi - concern, anger, and fear—saying that they ble and transparent as possible. do not want such a facility in their neigh - O: Does Pathways of Hope currently borhood. (See article on front page for a have any facilities that are like the one breakdown of this meeting.) being proposed? To gain a better understanding of the DG: We have a number of transitional proposed project, and hopefully answer and supportive housing units spread some of the residents’ concerns, I decided throughout the communities of Fullerton to sit down with Executive Director and Anaheim. This facility [on Amerige] David Gillanders of Pathways of Hope, we call “bridge housing” which is what the local non-profit which will comes before “permanent sup - potentially be building and portive housing.” It’s designed running the “permanent sup - “My office to help get formerly homeless portive housing” facility which will be there. people stabilized—and then A Pathways of Home facility on Amerige in Fullerton blends with the neighborhood. is basically affordable housing They will be transition them into more per - for the homeless, with wrap - manent housing. DG: I would say that I hear you and I drugs who are housed. On a sheer num - around social services. able to knock O: Are the units occupied understand. These kinds of projects can bers basis, most people who are substance I also visited a currently- on the door by mostly families or individu - be terrifying, especially when you hear of abusers have housing. But, people who are existing Pathways of Hope and tell me if als? Who stays here? people with mental disorders with the then homeless have those issues exacerbat - facility on Amerige Avenue they’re having DG: It’s a little bit of both. word “homelessness” attached to it. But, ed quite a bit. We chose “Keystone” as the downtown, which is blended Because of the riverbed situa - we are not talking about 80 people with name of the project because we believe rather seamlessly into a residen - issues.” tion, we’ve had more individu - mental disabilities. We’re talking about that when someone is housed, that is the tial neighborhood. als that we’ve been helping. serving people with a variety of different foundation to help them recover from all Fullerton Observer (O): Historically, it’s been more kinds of needs. A recent study published those other issues. A lot of the people at the council meet - families. by UCI and the United Way showed that O: So the primary driver of homeless - ing were concerned about the facility and O: I realize that you guys have different about 70 percent of homeless people are ness is economic issues, but substance what it might bring to their neighbor - types of housing models. How many units in that situation for economic reasons. abuse can play a role in exacerbating hood. What is the first thing you would to of “permanent supportive housing” do When people become homeless, there things. What are some of the other causes say to those concerned neighbors? you operate? tends to be issues that could be exacerbat - of homelessness? David Gillanders (DG): DG: We have seven permanent sup - ed. But there are a lot of non-homeless DG: Sometimes, it’s physical health I completely hear, understand, and portive units, housing nine people. We’re people who have mental health issues— issues. Sometimes it’s elderly folks—that’s acknowledge the concerns of the resi - adding two more soon. people who suffer from depression, bipo - another huge growing population of the dents. Those are the concerns anyone O: Whoa, but the complex you’re pro - lar disorder, anxiety. homeless—especially middle age and eld - would have about something going up in posing on Commonwealth is 80 units! O: Okay, so maybe not everyone there erly women. They are so vulnerable when their community like this with the word DG: We also have 40 rapid re-housing is going to be mentally ill, and even if they they’re homeless. They’re vulnerable to “homelessness” attached to it. At placements spread throughout the com - were, millions of non-homeless predatory behavior from men, in particu - Pathways, having been here for 43 years in munity, which is essentially the same Americans suffer from mental illnesses lar. The numbers from the Women’s the community, we want to be good part - model. We have a family shelter in like depression and anxiety. But, what Downtown Living Center in LA about ners and good neighbors in this. Anaheim which is 10 apartments that about the fear of homeless people with women who are homeless and the experi - O: It seems like you guys need to do holds 12 families. drug and alcohol addiction? ence they have on the street with sexual more outreach in this neighborhood. O: Okay, but 80 units is more than ten DG: There’s usually not one issue that assault, rape, domestic violence—is stag - What are you planning to do to? or twelve. What would you say to some - puts somebody on the street. It’s not that gering. people use drugs, therefore they’re home - DG: We will be hosting a series of meet - one from the neighborhood who thinks continued on page 17 ings directly in that community. this is too dense? less. There are a lot of people who use The Grand Jury on What’s Keeping Us From Addressing Homelessness

continued from frontpage “While these are vital issues that need to Based on its findings, the Grand Jury Board of Supervisors and every city coun - be addressed, nothing can be accom - made nine recommendations regarding cil in the county, is required to submit Residents in Permanent Supportive plished without leadership and collabora - the development of permanent housing responses by September 1st to the presid - Housing access medical care and have tion between the County and cities,” the including: site allocation, increasing pub - ing judge of the Superior Court. contacts with law enforcement less often report stated. lic awareness, and addressing aforemen - The report begins with a quote from than chronically homeless people on the Most notably, the report focuses on tioned roadblacks. The report also recom - Indian independence movement activist streets. The average cost of services for a backlash from local residents caused by mends the regional decision-making body Mahatma Gandhi, and it seems like a fit - chronically homeless person NIMBYism, lack of funding, propose a comprehensive plan to identify ting end: “The true measure of any socie - on the street is $100,759 per and disunity among the cities. the costs of developing additional sites ty can be found in how it treats its most year, as compared with “The true The Grand Jury also cites the and secure local funding. vulnerable members.” Read the entire $51,587 for a resident in measure of county’s crisis-driven approach Each agency affected, including the OC report at www.ocgrandjury.org. permanent housing. to the issue, asserting a more “Research shows that any society proactive strategy is necessary to housing the chronically can be found sufficiently address homeless - homeless not only dramati - in how it ness. cally improves their overall treats its most The primary recommenda - health, but also significantly tion is for the county and cities decreases their costs to the vulnerable to establish an independent community,” the report said. members.” regional body dedicated to “Placing the chronically developing permanent housing. homeless in Permanent - Mahatma Gandhi The report further explains Supportive Housing... has inconsistent federal and state proved particularly effec - funding requires close coopera - tive.” tion on all levels, because crite - The Grand Jury found the current ria for new funding often includes coun - 1,724 beds in OC to be insufficient, but ty-city collaboration. It emphasizes the identified many roadblocks to the devel - importance of consistent, ongoing fund - opment of additional housing sites, ing for housing and associated support underscoring a lack of political will on the services. part of both city and county. The Grand Jury recognized a lack of According to the report, many issues awareness on the part of city and county impede increased Permanent Supportive officials as well as local residents regarding Housing development, such as funding the logistics of permanent housing, its and a shortage of sites on which to build financial benefits, and the homeless popu - more units. lation’s willingness to accept aid. Page 6FULLERTON OBSERVER The DOWNTOWN Report © 2018 MID JUNE 2018 Text & Photos by Mike Ritto [email protected] COFFEE COFFEE Fullerton Photo Quiz COFFEE

Yes, we know about the beers, the bars, the many cars when the sun goes down. What about all of the brewing that goes on when the sun comes up? There is a new coffee house being built right now, squeezed into a space between Joes and D’Vine, and it will become an addition to the variety of coffee houses, bars, and restaurants serving coffee that have become bigger players in our down - town more than ever before. At one time we kept hearing “There is no place to get a decent cup of coffee downtown in the morning?!” Some early favorites are now gone. The first time I ever had coffee downtown was at Steele’s on Harbor. They had something called ‘coffee’, served by a very short wait - ress. Yea, no variations, well, maybe decaf, but when you came inside you just ordered coffee and it was simple. If I recall correctly, it was even good. The Brown Mug was on the corner of Whiting and Harbor in the 60’s. For a EW HIS UMMER LAY OFFEE time, it was something of a hangout for N T S : P C students in the morning. Unfortunately, it The newest is called Play Coffee and it Shown above with the massive founda - burned down, as have so many downtown will be a full service coffee house with an tion work is the owner Leon, who tells us buildings over the years, and is now a espresso bar, an outdoor patio, seating he should be up and running by late sum - bank drive through. along the alley and will be built with a mer. The alley will reopen at that time as number of shipping containers. well.

THE EARLY DAYS & NOW Rialto Café on Wilshire serves up ANSWER TO LAST ISSUE ’S Not completely accurate - but here is You can get coffee (and breakfast) at 7am, Stumptown coffee and cold brew along PHOTO ABOVE : something of a café timeline. Rutabegorz and of course most days even that early with breakfast starting at 8am every day, Great Blue Heron and Snowy Egret began as a coffee house back in 1970 and time is nice outside by the fountain. and you will always find people sitting often seen at Hillcrest Park. of course still serves plenty of coffee and McClain’s Coffeehouse and Café has outside in the mornings, taking in the tea, along with a menu of healthy options been taking care of the coffee needs in the cool vibe of that part of our downtown. QUESTION : that makes it one of the places locals often northern reaches of downtown for quite Dripp is on the corner of Harbor and Where is the mural site as their favorite. They now serve some time and you no doubt have noticed Chapman and is certainly ‘up there’ in Seaworth iced coffee in bottles as well. patrons on their outdoor patio as you scale. They serve coffee from all over the shown in photo below? The Blue Wolf bookstore served coffee drove by. Open at 8am all the way to globe, in small batches, and are very picky Send your answer to Mike at but since they could not get clearance 3AM! about what they serve, so be prepared for [email protected] from the Health Department, they gave it Classic Rock Coffee came along in that a different type of coffee experience if you away, and accepted ‘donations.’ They part of downtown in 2017 and along with have not yet been there. They have food of were around when the Thursday Market coffee and tea, they serve up breakfast, course, as well as specialty teas, beginning began and had some very good Thursday lunch and dinner, opening at 7am. It’s at 7am. evenings there. Sorry to see them leave also a music venue, with open mic nights. Pie Dog on Commonwealth now has town, hope they are doing well. Find them a few doors south of Ralphs. their own Master BLK Cold Brew, which The Hub came along in the early 90s Max Bloom’s Café Noir on Malden is only brewed fresh to order. They tell us and Santa Fe Café at the train station in serves up coffee, art, music, movies, and a “We don’t want to be the only coffee you 1994. Some of ‘Rutas’ clientele migrated vintage atmosphere all their own, open at drink, just your favorite.” Known for the to the Hub to spend hours nursing a cup 10am. food (new menu now by the way) and of coffee, and then The Hub became The The Night Owl has been at the corner unique beer selections, they are just as fas - Slidebar, with live music, food, and sure, of Harbor and Amerige since 2011 but for tidious when it comes to their coffee. they have coffee too. Obviously, most some reason it seems like they have been They open at noon weekdays, 11am on restaurants serve coffee but we’re mostly here forever. Their coffee and tea offerings Sat/Sun. highlighting those who concentrate on a are organic and the menu is extensive. You Pilgrims Coffee House on W Wilshire is variety of coffees. will also find live music and art inside, fairly new and recently started selling their The Brownstone came along in 1997, and outside. They are open at 8am and Winchester Blend coffee beans from taking over the courtyard of Villa del Sol. serve until midnight. Guatemala. Also check out their Kombucha. Opens at 7am. Black Bear Diner, McDonalds, Starbucks are chains that you know about, and have probably already been to. A sec - Free Outdoor Movies ond Starbucks is being built now at FULLERTON MUSEUM PLAZA , Harbor/Brea Blvd. You can get fresh E. Wilshire Ave brewed coffee inside Ralphs too. Between Harbor & Pomona DON’T FORGET 8pm on Saturdays THE TEA through June 30

A couple of attempts at a tea house failed, but Tranquil Tea Lounge on Wilshire has been thriving for years, with their unique selection of nearly 100 vari - eties of specialty and organic loose teas. Breakfast too, until 11am, opens at 10am.

Tea Joy on Harbor/Chapman is a ‘boba tea shop’ and serves hot and cold drinks, Lost & Found: Desert tortoise “Spunky” was found on W. Brookdale Place creamy milk teas, a large menu of flavored on Wed., June 13. He is about a foot in diameter. We called OC Animal Care at 714- teas and more. They have been open for a 935-6848 and officer Tricia came and got him and gently put him in her truck for the few months now, and their hours are ride to the facility. After a notice was placed on the Fullerton Observer facebook site a 10am- 8:30pm. neighbor a street away retrieved Spunky and he is now safe at home. MID JUNE 2018 LOCAL NEWS & CROSSWORD FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7

Patrick Babb OUR TOWN CROSSWORD © 2018 Selected for “F RIENDS ” by Valerie Brickey (answer key on page 19) NASA Camp

Fullerton College mechanical engineer - ing student Patrick Babb has been select - ed to attend the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) summer program, where 280 community college students from across the US are selected to participate in a 4-day on-site experience at a NASA facility. NCAS offers an opportunity to interact with actual NASA engineers and scientists and participate in team building engineer - ing/business oriented exercises with other students. The team building exercises revolve around Mars exploration. Students are selected for the on-site experience based on the grade earned from a 5-week online course regarding information about NASA and a proposed mission to Mars in the 2030s. Patrick will be attending in July.

At Right: Patrick Babb at Fullerton College with his invitation to NASA. Jace Chamberlin walks off against ACROSS DOWN 1. American Patriot Paul 1. “Losing My Religion” rock group Stanford with First Career Homer 7. Field measure 2. Brian of ambient music 3. The Mystery Machine, for one Nicknamed “Jumbo” by CSUF head 11. Samantha Bee’s network by Hannah Yoshinaga 4. Poet Dickinson coach Rick Vanderhook and fellow team - 14. Nail polish 5. Go with different actors On a night when the local LA Angels mates, Chamberlin faced jumbo-sized 15. Salmon and smelt eggs 6. ESL parent sch. group celebrated the successful hitting career of expectations when he stepped up to the 16. Mine find 7. Amphitheater veteran Albert Pujols at Angel Stadium, a plate. He had never hit a home run prior 17. Tennis great known for 8. Infant’s woe new Orange County batting star was in to the game in 89 plate appearances her grunting 9. Bounce back again the making at Stanford University in Palo despite having a batting average over .300 19. Place 10. Slalom curve Alto. In the West Coast in the regular season. 20. Terse 11. November birthstone Regional of the College However, after getting ahead 21. German philosopher Immanuel 12. “City Slickers” actor Kirby World Series, CSUF fresh - in a 2-0 count, Chamberlin 22. Baby kangaroos 13. Seven, in Italian man slugger Jace launched the ball towards 25. Reality TV fashion designer 18. More apologetic Chamberlin hit the first right center field. The ball 27. Same old, same old 21. Prone to clumsiness home run of his collegiate hit the outfield scoreboard as 28. Toni Morrison’s “___ Baby” 22. Ewing Oil, for e.g.? career, leading the Cal State Chamberlin rounded the 30. Corvallis sch. 23. Phlebotomists sch.? Fullerton Titans to a 2-1 vic - bases. 31. Secretary of Energy 24. Online satay? tory over 2nd-seeded Chamberlin’s history of under B. Obama 26. Actor Morales Stanford on June 2. being a clutch hitter hardly 33. Arm or leg 29. “That’s ___ folks!” Chamberlin faced began with his home run 36. “Just___” (request at a salon) 32. Discriminatory Cardinal pitcher Will against Stanford, as he has 40. Prominent suburb of Phoenix 34. Hosp. picture Matthiessen with two outs the second highest batting 43. Kind of spirit board 35. Rubber duck locale in the bottom of the ninth average on the team and has 44. ___ Aid Jace Chamberlin 37. IHOP’s “___ Tooty Fresh and Fruity” inning. Matthiessen, a soph - the eighth most hits of any 45. “___ be surprised” 38. Occupied, as a lavatory omore DH and pitcher sporting a 2.00 Titan despite having 71 fewer at-bats than 46. “I’m not sure” 39. “It’s hard to stay ___ you!” ERA, had already recorded five outs and those ranked from one to seven. 48. Playboy nickname 41. Steamy was aiming to allow his team the chance Chamberlin also earned four varsity let - 50. LAX agency 42. “The Pioneer Woman” Drummond to win in extra innings after they battled ters, two CIF Division II championships, 51. 1992 Independent Presidential 47. Comes together well through 13 innings to defeat the Wright and a season in which he batted .408 with candidate 49. Bird of prey State Raiders the night before. a .504 on-base percentage as part of the 56. Up to now 51. Morocco’s capital Redwood High School baseball team. 58. Some 52. Corpulent While Chamberlin's home run did lead 59. Able to be dissolved 53. Spectacle Fullerton College CSUF to their 10th Super Regional at 61. Implore 54. Hotel units CSUF’s Goodwin Field in school history, 62. “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” Stadium 55. Buttery spreads they were defeated by the Washington actress WILL BE DISCUSSED AT 57. Connery and Penn Huskies 6-5 in Game 3. However, 66. Baseball bat wood 60. Alpha ___ (defunct supermarket) FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL Vanderhook and the rest of the team can 67. Office note 62. Evenings, abbr. look forward to contributions from 68. More chic 6:30pm Tuesday, June 19 63. 50-50, e.g. Chamberlin and other Titan power hitters 69. ___ Offensive 64. Moray, e.g. City Hall as they look to advance to the College 70. Deflating balloon sound 65. 12th graders, abbr. 303 W. Commonwealth World Series next season. 71. Adams and Elgort

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Kids Rule! JOKES TO SHARE by Francine Vudoti © 2018 1. What’s gray, has four legs, and a trunk? Summertime: Best Time to Enjoy A: A mouse on vacation! the Peace and Playfulness of the Ocean 2. What kind of music do killer whales like? It is a bright, beautiful morning. The when I’m just resting on the sand, the A: They listen to ocean looks so inviting as I watch the waves come right at my feet and tickle the orca-stra! waves hit the shore. It looks like it is beg - them. I walk along the shore and enjoy ging me to come and play along. The the feeling of peace. I pick up some shells 3. What did the beach say playful motion of the waves brings back along the way. The shells are like jewelry as the tide came in? happy memories and the splashing sound the ocean wears. Nothing could get any A: Long time no sea! of the ocean is music to my ears. I feel better than that! Then, playful dolphins energized as I bathe in the sunlight that jump out of the waters and show off their 4. Teacher: penetrates my hotel room. It’s time to skills. What a sight to behold! Use ‘letter carrier’ head out and spend a lovely time with Time for some nourishment after hours in a sentence. “my pal,” the ocean. of restless fun. Ahhh! Delicious food and Student: The vast ocean seems to pull me as I a fabulous view are a good sum! It is such Yes ma’am. draw closer to the shore. The bright, blue, a wonderful time to be at the ocean. I “My dad said that after sky is just as enormous and overwhelm - build a tiny sand wall around my blankie, seeing how many things ing. Oh, how I love the ocean breeze that my stuffed animals, and me. Then, I ran my mom was bringing on warms the heart. Glistening waters dance back to play with “my buddy.” vacation, he would rather magically as my eyes gleam at the sight. At Some good things never last. The time letter carrier own luggage.” last! The shimmering ocean is in my full for us to leave has come. How can I go? 5. Italy got Hungary, view! I jump up and down with joy, It’s the best time of my life. I feel like I can Ate Turkey, excitement written all over me! play with “my friend” for a long, long Slipped on Greece, I dash and splash, chasing the waves and time. I like the feeling of peace and quiet, like to come, too? It is worth all your time. Don’t Broke China, running away as the waves chase me back. the playfulness and carefree moment. I be fooled doing too much school work preparing Went shopping in Iceland, I love the carefree moment I’m spending still have about eight weeks of summer for the next grade level, trying to get ahead. Got eaten by Wales! with “my friend,” the ocean. At times, and I will keep coming back. Would you Summer is meant to rest our minds.

ZAC Water Safety Camp at Fullerton Boys & Girls Club The Fullerton Boys & Girls ticipate in ZAC Camps. Club hosted a 4-day water safety Nothing is more important than camp June 5th to June 8th at the the safety of our kids, and it Fullerton Community Center brings great joy to provide kids pool. Local police and fire par - and their parents with the tools ticipated alongside professional to enjoy the water more safely.” water safety instructors. According to the Centers for The ZAC Camp brings life- Disease Control, drowning is saving safety skills to five to the leading cause of accidental nine-year-olds. The program death among children ages 1-4, combines classroom instruction and the second leading cause with swimming lessons and among those aged 5-14. opportunities to learn important Drowning risk is highest in skills from first responders. minority populations, with The ZAC Foundation was drowning rates nearly three established in 2008 by Karen times that of Caucasian chil - and Brian Cohn after their six- dren. Many of these tragic year-old son Zachary Archer deaths are preventable through Cohn became trapped in a drain proper water safety skills and in their backyard swimming measures. pool and lost his life. District 29 Senator Josh The Foundation’s education Newman was the author of a efforts have since reached thou - recent water-safety bill SB442 sands of children and their fam - signed by Governor Brown in Above: ilies nationwide. October 2017 that updated the ZAC In addition to in-pool lessons 20-year-old Swimming Pool SUMMER 2018 Foundation and safety classes with first Safety Act requiring safety REGISTRATION IS Event at the responders, campers learned devices. The bill put in place an NOW IN PROGRESS. Fullerton water safety from the book The additional layer of safety in resi - Community Polar Bear Who Couldn’t, dential and public pools adding Summer Session begins Center taught Wouldn’t Swim , a children’s book requirements to increase compli - Monday, June 4th. local Boys & co-authored by Zachary’s par - ance with existing law. Now a Girls Club ents. home inspector must include in • PRE-COMPETITIVE CLASSES members all Karen Cohn said, “Each year, their report which two required about water it is tremendously gratifying to safety devices a pool or spa has REGISTER TODAY ! safety. see our son Zachary’s legacy live in place at point of sale. “Pool PHOTO BY on in the faces and laughter of drownings can be prevented,” JERE GREENE kids across the country who par - said Senator Newman.

FULLERTON JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT City Summer Playgrounds for kids 5-12 Summer Meals Program Trained Staff • Meals Included • Fun Activities Provided Free to All Children Located at Chapman, Garnet, Gilbert, Maple, Orangethorpe & Richman Center Mondays through Fridays from 12pm-4pm June 4 - July 12 • Mon through Thurs • 10am-Noon SESSION 1: J UNE 4-29 Plus Special Summer Luau Party •Fullerton High, 201 E. Chapman Ave, Fullerton SESSION 2: J ULY 2-J ULY 27 Plus Special Lip Sync Show •La Vista/La Sierra High, 951 N. State College, Fullerton $20 per Session ($5 sibling discount) •La Habra High, 801 W. Highlander Ave., La Habra Sign up at Maple Community Center •Buena Park High, 8833 Academy Dr., Buena Park or by calling (714) 738-3161 or online at •Sonora High, 201 S. Palm St. La Habra www.cityoffullerton.com/summerplaygrounds MID JUNE 2018 SCHOOL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 9

“Working with Fullerton Cares to make my vision become a reality has been an amazing experience. Creating this space with Summers' occupational therapy background has really shed light on our students specific sensory needs. I can't wait to open the doors for our kids this fall and see all the positive impact our hard work has created.” -Amy Jahn Above: Teacher of the Year Amy Jahn envisioned the Sensory Room and what it could do for her students and then went to work to make it happen enlisting the support of various individuals and groups including Summer Dabbs of Fullerton Cares. New Sensory Room for Autism at Sunset Lane - from Idea to Reality

Fullerton School District opened the partnership with Fullerton Cares and are new Sensory Room for individuals with thankful to the many people and organi - autism and other sensory needs at Sunset zations who helped bring this important Lane School (2030 Sunset Lane, feature to Sunset Lane School and the Fullerton) on May 24, along with Fullerton School District,” stated Fullerton Cares. Superintendent Dr. Robert Pletka. As the latest statistic from the Centers For more about Fullerton Cares and it for Disease Control suggests, one in 59 sork in support of those with Autism visit children are diagnosed with Autism. A www.fullertoncares.com The new Sensory Room at Sunset Lane. sensory room is a therapeutic space with a variety of equipment that provides stu - dents with special needs with personalized sensory input—helps these children calm and focus themselves so they can be better prepared for learning and interacting with others. The Sensory Room is the vision of 2018 Teacher of the Year Amy Jahn and teacher Karina Tran, with encouragement of Principal Gyurina, and the sponsorship of the Fullerton School District, Fullerton Cares, the Womans Club of Fullerton and others. Sensory rooms have improved student outcomes and have shown to have a posi - tive impact on students who are better able to follow directions and spend more time on tasks. Additionally, sensory rooms have proven to be a cost savings as they cost less than sending students out for support services. Many sensory rooms are designed primarily for autistic stu - dents but over time have expanded to sup - port all students, including those with vision, language, learning and emotional difficulties. The Sunset Lane School sensory room The Womens Club of Fullerton selected provides opportunities for students to Fullerton Cares as its 2017/18 Charity of the touch a wall for tactile input, play on one Year and donated $20,000 to the organization. of the multiple swings, light up bubble Fullerton Cares is planning to pass that sum on tubes, enhance touch through a squishy towards the cost of creating the Sensory Room. corner, and take a turn at one of the many Fullerton Cares has donated over $33,000 to sensory bins. “We are grateful for our the Fullerton School District to support Autism services in the schools since 2014. Page 10 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL HEALTH NEWS MID JUNE 2018

animals at the top of the food chain must consume more food to obtain the same amount of energy. As our population grows with time, it will require more resources to support meat-based diets, as they necessitate more land, water, and energy as well as more physical food. One of the most prominent reasons many convert to veganism or vegetarianism is concern for animals. Vegans attempt to prevent the exploitation of animals by reducing demand for meat, egg, and dairy products. After discovering the harmful and cruel conditions animals within the food industry are subjected to, many peo - ple develop moral objections to their treat - Local Author’s ment and adopt veganism or vegetarianism. Vegan Cookbook While veganism does not guarantee peo - ple better health, people who avoid animal Fullerton author Amber St. Peter’s products often have lower rates of obesity, Homestyle Vegan is full of practical, cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and tasty vegan recipes from baked Both Fullerton’s Wednesday and Thursday Farmers Markets (see calendar page 11) cancer. The vegan diet relies on whole goods to beverages to party dishes. and many supermarkets carry organic fruit and produce. grains and nuts for protein. 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TUES, JUNE 19 THURS, JUNE 21 continued THURS, JUNE 28 continued HITS & •6:30pm: Fullerton City Council •5pm-7pm: Fullerton Day of •5pm-8pm: Concert at Craig Meeting at City Hall, 303 W. Music Sousapalooza bring your Regional Park 3300 State College MISSES Commonwealth, Fullerton. Stadium instrument and play the music of Blvd features Big Bad Voodoo Daddy by Joyce Mason Resolution requesting effort from John Philip sousa with the band at the & Orion Walsh. Free admission & © 2018 North OC Community College Hillcrest Park Great Lawn, 1200 N. parking. Food on site for purchase. District to negotiate to share facilities Harbor Blvd. Visit www.thedayofmu - with Fullerton High and CSUF; SAT, JUNE 30 FIRST REFORMED : Two Hits sic.com to RSVP to save a seat and to •12pm: Fantasy Writing Community Planning and download the music. Free Looking very much like the kind of Protestant Workshop led by authors Melissa Development Programs Consolidated •5pm-8pm: Concert at Craig minister Grant Wood might have painted, Ethan Buell and P.G. Badzey who will give Plan & Citizen Participation Plan Regional Park 3300 State College Hawke, square jaw and furrowed brow, plays a Amendment and Update; and more. you the tools to create entire worlds at man of God plagued with a faltering faith. Blvd. Fullerton features Donavon Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. Visit www.cityoffullerton.com to access Frankenreiter and Adam Lasher. Free Reverend Ernst Toller (Hawke) pastors an upstate the full agenda . Commonwealth. Free New York Dutch Colonial Church, built in 1767 admission & parking. Food on site for •6pm-10pm: Free Outdoor Movie and getting ready to celebrate its 250th anniver - WED, JUNE 20 purchase. at Craig Regional Park 3300 State sary. The church has a rich history, having once •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday •6:30pm-8:30pm: Opening College Blvd features Guardians of the been a stop on the Underground Railroad, but Farmers Market at Independence Reception Brett Green: The Last Galaxy (2014, PG-13). Free admis - now its congregation is small and the building Park, next to the DMV on Valencia Hiding Place, a survey of large scale sion & parking. Food on site for pur - serves mostly as a museum and a destination for between Euclid and Highland in works on unstretched canvas and chase. school field trips. Fullerton. Fresh produce including multilayered fiberglass screens at •6pm: Free Concert on the Quad Toller’s personal Gethsemane springs from his fruit, vegetables, eggs, flowers, plants, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 Under the Stars at Fullerton College, guilt about having encouraged his son to sign up baked goods, nuts, and more from the W. Malvern, Fullerton. Thru Aug 19 321 E. Chapman Ave., features the for the armed forces during the Iraq War. When farmer. Continues every Wednesday •7:30pm: Day of Music Boombox Fullerton Community Band in six months later his son is killed, Toller’s marriage •10am: Computer Basics/E-Book Parade starts at Ford Park, 469 W. “Salute to America.” Bring friends also dissolves. Finding it difficult to pray, Toller Tutoring Session at Fullerton Public Wilshire Ave. and at sunset at and family, chairs, blankets, and pic - instead writes daily in a journal, which he has Library, 353 W. Commonwealth. Get Fullerton Plaza, 301 N. Pomona Ave. nic. vowed to keep for a year and in which he commu - one on one help to get started with at E. Wilshire in downtown Fullerton. •8pm: Free Outdoor Movies at nicates with God his doubt and despair. For the computers, the internet, or e-books. Bring your boombox, or other musi - Fullerton Museum Plaza at E. audience the diary serves as a narrative vehicle for •7pm: City Manager Ken Domer cal instrument and join the parade. Wilshire Ave. between Harbor and delivering to us Toller’s internal dialogue, the way will speak on city issues including www.thedayofmusic.com . Pomona in downtown Fullerton. Call a soliloquy might work in a Shakespearean play. infrastructure repair, city finances, Conscientious about serving his small parish, FRI, JUNE 22 (714) 738-6545 for more info. Chevron/Coyote Hills, new develop - •6pm-10pm: North OC Chamber SAT & SUN, Toller answers the request from Mary (Amanda ments and more at the Lions Club Seyfried) to counsel her husband, Michael (Philip of Commerce Business Excellence JUNE 30 & JULY 1 meeting at Sizzler, 1401 N. Harbor. & Leadership Awards at Holiday •3pm: Movies at the FOX features Ettinger), a radical environmentalist, who has Free and open to the public. You are even served a stint in prison for protesting indus - Inn, 7000 Beach Blvd., Buena Park. JAWS. Tickets are $20 at the door or not obligated to buy food. tries engaged in polluting the soil and waterways. This year’s honors go to retiring 39th online at www.foxfullerton.org. Corner Now he wants her to abort the child she is carry - THURS, JUNE 21 District Congressman Ed Royce, of N Harbor and Chapman down - ing rather than bring a new life into a fast deteri - •11am-10pm: Fullerton Day of Polly’s Pies, CSUF, and St Jude town Fullerton. Doors open at orating world. Music features over 150 free concerts Medical Center. $125/per person 2:30pm. Bring a receipt from lunch Some scenes appear to be shot in real time at over 40 venues throughout the city admission. (714) 871-3100 that day at Angelo’s & Vinci’s next door and receive a free popcorn. and the meeting between Michael and Toller has (and 700 cities across the world). For SAT, JUNE 23 that effect. Expertly written by writer/director Proceeds go to reopening the theater. a list of local venues and performers •4pm-8pm: 3rd Annual Katz Car Paul Schrader, Michael explains with some scien - visit The Day of Music website at Show at Max Bloom’s Café Noir, 220 WED, JULY 4 tific evidence his despair about the world he www.thedayofmusic.com . N. Malden, downtown Fullerton fea - •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday would leave to his unborn child. Each man comes •4pm-8:30pm: Every Thursday Farmers Market at Independence out of that conversation having impacted the tures classic car show, vendors, enter - Fullerton Downtown Market on E. Park. See June 20 listing for details. other, with Toller counseling Michael to find sol - tainment by New Dogs, Old Tricks Wilshire between Harbor and and Icpacxochitl Storyteller and more. •5pm-9pm: 29th Annual City 4th ace in hope even as he finds mounting reasons for Pomona features live music by The despair. He concludes that “wisdom is holding Free toy cars for the first 22 children of July Celebration and Fireworks Split, produce, food and craft ven - attending with their families. Show, at Fullerton High School soft - two contradictory truths in our mind at the same dors, children’s activities, Wine and time.” •8pm: Free Outdoor Movies at ball field on Lemon between Berkeley Beer Garden and more. Free admis - Fullerton Museum Plaza at E. and Chapman. Free admission, family While preparing for the anniversary of his icon - sion & parking. Repeats every Thurs. ic colonial church, Toller finds himself working Wilshire Ave. between Harbor and activities, kids rides, local charity •4pm-6pm: Fullerton Day of with the nearby Abundant Life Church with its Pomona in downtown Fullerton. Call booths offering reasonably priced Music Ukulele Jam bring your hundreds of parishioners and its wealthy contrib - (714) 738-6545 for more info. food, live music by Deke Dickerson ukulele and pluck along with and the Ecofonics and more. (activi - utors. He views the capable pastor of that congre - MON, JUNE 25 UkeFull, Fullerton’s Ukulele Club. ties cost $2-$5). Fireworks show at gation, Rev. Jeff Jeffers (Cedric Kyles), as having •6:30pm-8:30pm: Hunt Library Stages Theater, 400 E. 9pm. No alcohol or smoking or pets lost touch with the meek and needy as he maneu - 101 a public meeting on the past, Commonwealth Ave. Free. Give-a- (except seeing eye dogs). Free parking vers his way among his rich parishioners and polit - present and future of the Hunt ical advocates. Yet it is the wealth of that ways by Make Music Alliance sponsor throughout downtown and at the Branch Library, a gift to the city from church that is making possible the viability of Alfred Music. parking structures on Wilshire and Norton Simon and designed by archi - Toller’s own small parish, and he becomes partic - •4pm-10pm: Fullerton Elks corner of Chapman and Lemon. No tect William Pereira and considered a ularly conflicted when he googles the name of Lodge Day of Music celebration parking at the Fullerton College mid-century modern masterpiece. Edward Balq (Michael Gaston), the industrialist open house will serve food from 5pm structure on Lemon. Street closures Come learn how you can help save contributing most heavily to Abundant Life. to 7:30pm. Live bands will perform. begin at 3pm. Call 714-738-3167. this treasure. Orangethorpe United “First Reformed” takes its viewers on a journey 1400 Elks View Lane, (off Brea Blvd. THURS, JULY 5 Methodist Chapel Hall, 2351 W. seldom experienced by movie audiences. across from Hillcrest Park). Call 714- •4pm-8:30pm: Every Thursday Orangethorpe Ave, Fullerton 92833 Schraeder, brought up in a strict Calvinist church, 870-1993 for more info. Fullerton Downtown Market on E. (near NW corner of Gilbert & has struggled with his evolving religious beliefs Wilshire at Pomona with live music Orangethorpe). Call (714) 729-3019 since he was 16, yet he has not given up on the by Superlark. See June 21st listing. important role of religion in his life. Having writ - Free Teens Only or visit www.savethehunt.com . SAT, JULY 7 ten the screenplay for “Taxi Driver” over 40 years Sci-Fi Film Fest WED, JUNE 27 •6pm-10pm: Free Outdoor Movie ago, Schraeder, now 71, decided he could finally •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday at Craig Regional Park 3300 State write a movie about religion. In a recent interview, June 20: Serenity Farmers Market at Independence he was careful to express his desire in this film “not June 27: The Edge of College Blvd features Honey, I Shrunk Park. See June 20 listing for details. to entertain his audiences but to draw them into Tomorrow the Kids (1989, PG). Free admission the film.” That is exactly what he accomplishes. July 11: Guardians of the THURS, JUNE 28 & parking. Food on site for purchase. Not all audiences will enjoy this movie, but no Galaxy: Vol 2 •4pm-8:30pm: Every Thursday •7:30pm: Duruflé Requiem one who sees it will forget its slow-boiling sense of July 18: Men in Black Fullerton Downtown Market on E. Mozart Coronation Mass Meng suspense, its unexpected eruptions, and its magi - July 25: Pacific Rim 2 Wilshire at Pomona with live music Concert Hall, CSUF, 800 State cal resolution. by Showkillers. See June 21st listing College Blvd, Fullerton. 100-voice All films begin at 4pm for details. Berkshire Choral International in the Teen Area of the •5pm: Library Board Meeting at Chorus with the Horizon Symphony TWO HITS : Don’t Miss it! Fullerton Public Library Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. Orchestra - Rob Istad conducting. A H IT & A M ISS : You Might Like it. 353 W. Commonwealth Commonwealth. Tickets $22: www.bershirechoral.org TWO MISSES : Don’t Bother. (714) 738-6333 Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER MUSIC FEATURE MID JUNE 2018

At Left: The percussion department. Like a musical museum - Mo’s Fullerton Music Center, takes advantage of every square inch of space available to feature all types of musical instruments in every category. and statues. The Fullerton Music Center sells all things musical - everything from acoustic and electric guitars to ukuleles, cellos, violins and basses. I even saw ban - jos, mandolins, and harmonicas. “A typical day of work involves a lot of customer service with the frequent check- in of new stock and taking inventory,” said an employee. “I have learned a whole new language, and that is of the music world. I have learned a lot about team - work and major social skills. Management and I are very close on a friend level. My co-workers are my best friends. The most enjoyable part of the job is how much I have learned and continue to learn.” “The store’s window displays were [Mo’s] advertisement,” said Mr. Palmateer. “She figured she could either spend money on a full-page ad in the OC Register for one day or buy some teddy bears and have a consistent ad in the win - dow for years. She saw the joy it brought to people.” The shop windows still light up at IDEO BSERVER ly the same. “It’s painful for the ones you night, so if you are driving down Harbor V O leave behind,” said Roger. “There’s twelve when it’s dark outside, take a glance at the © 2018 by Emerson Little teachers, her family and all the customers new Day of Music display. The Fullerton who come in here that miss her deeply.” Music Center happens to be one of the Fullerton Music Center: Several years ago, during a “Night in establishments participating in the city - Fullerton” event, I saw a ragtime concert wide Day of Music on June 21st. Marketing Melodies for Over 60 Years in a back room at the Fullerton Music Among other offerings will be a mobile Center. I also have a more personal con - recording studio with Detterich-Steele With shop windows decorated for near - over 60 years ago. At the beginning, Mo nection to the store. My grandma said, ly every holiday, Mo’s Fullerton Music worked through the Fullerton Music from 3pm to 7pm, where visitors will be “In the mid-1950s, one of my best friends able to choose from a selection of mics Center, located on the corner of Harbor Center’s rental programs for pianos. She was working at the Fullerton Music and Amerige in downtown Fullerton, has was later given the opportunity to pur - and instruments in order to record a basic Company, when this man walked through track. Dedicated engineers will then mix become one of the town’s most special chase the building, and bought it in the the door” and she looked up at him and landmarks. Purchased by the late early ’70s, moving the store to its current the recordings down into a song to share said, “I’m going to marry that guy.” He with the world. Free concerts will also be Maureen “Mo” Meloy back in the early location in 1985. kept coming back to the store 1970s, her legacy lives on through the About 10 of the original taking place at this location throughout every day to buy something the day. shop. teachers who were working at “Enter as until he had the courage to Mo was born and raised in Yakima, the store before it was purchased The store continues to bring customers strangers, ask her out. Then they got in by word of mouth. From instruments Washington and became one of Orange stayed. The number increased to married and had four chil - County’s most respected community 19 teachers around 2006 and leave as to toys and tools of the musical trade, the dren. Fullerton Music Center is the place to go members after running the Fullerton- 2007. Currently, 12 of the finest friends” When I walked into the based music store. According to Roger musicians around Orange whether you’re musically talented or not. store this time, there was an To see a video of the seasonal shop win - Palmateer, Mo’s husband and current County still work at Mo’s. instant welcoming and warm owner of the Fullerton Music Center, she By 1990, the Fullerton Music dows and decorated interior of this down - feeling. I was greeted by the employees at town landmark, visit the Observer ’s web - started in the music business during the Center was not only carrying pianos and the counter before sitting down to talk to 1960’s in Chicago. organs, but also selling drums, violins, site, click on the “Videos” tab and click on Roger. He said, “It’s a big store, there’s a the words “Emerson Little YouTube Following an accident, Mo was con - other instruments and sheet music. lot of responsibility. In the late 1980s, we fined to her house and wasn’t supposed to Roger said, “Mo was involved with any - Channel,” which will take you directly to started decorating the windows. Mo my page. ever walk again. She was facing life in a thing that went on.” bought some mechanical teddy bears, and wheelchair. The store is now called Fullerton Music put them in the windows. They became However, “The owner of Conn Music Center. ‘Mo’s’ isn’t officially part of the popular, so we escalated the displays and Centers asked her to go to work. He put name. But if you knew her personally, decorations and began putting them up her out in front of the store playing the you’d know why we still call it Mo’s.” In for the holidays.” organ. And then one day, she decided to the music center, there’s a sign that reads, After talking to Mr. Palmateer, I stand up and play the organ and she’s “Enter as strangers, leave as friends” since stepped through a doorway decorated to been walking ever since,” said Roger. “Her Mo treated all her customers with the look like a cobblestone entrance, which first year at Hammond Organ sent her on same level of kindness and sincerity that led directly into a room full of organized an all-expenses paid, two-week trip to an she would share with a life-long friend. “It sheet music. In fact, the Fullerton Music island off of Florida. She had sold more built a sense of community since the Center was recognized just a few years ago organs, and ones that were hard to sell, employees took the time to know their for its sheet music department and les - than anybody in the U.S.” customers on a first-name basis.” sons. They even won a plaque for “Orange Originally located on the other side of Unfortunately, Mo Meloy passed away County’s Best Sheet Music.” With more Harbor, the Fullerton Music Center was at age 71 on October 21, 2016. However, than 2,500 square feet of sheet music, cus - started by a Fullerton College professor Roger Palmateer has kept the store exact - tomers can choose from classical composi - tions to tunes from TV shows and movies. Interspersed throughout the room are glass cases full of miniature instruments MID JUNE 2018 DAY OF MUSIC THURSDAY JUNE 21 FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 13

The city will come alive on Thursday, June 21 throughout the day, into the night for the fourth Annual Day of Music. Here’s how to best enjoy the day and keep up with any updates: •Visit www.thedayofmusic.com to get a complete, updated lineup for over 200 performances at 50+ venues. •Download the Make Music Day app from App Store/Google Play on your mobile device (IOS/Android) and select Fullerton from the list of cities. •Visit one of our many venues and grab a printed program to have a look at the 50+ venues where music will be performed. •Scan the QR There is something for every codes. musical taste and age group.

OVER 200 FREE MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER THEATER REVIEWS MID JUNE 2018

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Titanic STAGE DOOR REPERTORY THEATER MYSTERIUM AT THE LA HABRA DEPOT 1045 N Armando St, Anaheim 92806 311 Euclid St, La Habra 90631 (714) 630-7378 www.stagedoorrep.org (562) 697-3311 www.mysteriumtheater.com by Angela Hatcher Thibault, who fills the role as comfort - by Mark M. Rosier among the participants is potent and ably as a pair of old slippers, and with a Under the direction of Nick Charles, their vocal, acting, comedic timing is romantic subplot, Cherry and he turn the Stage Door Repertory Theatre’s current Titanic at the Mysterium at The La impressive throughout. song, “Like Zis/Like Zat” into a total production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels the Habra Depot is the tale of the ill-fated The second act is enriched with sus - charmer. Musical has audiences belly-laughing Titanic's maiden voyage - long a subject pense, fast paced intensity to a heart The supporting cast is strong and adds themselves silly at this moderately for books, movies and many a creative wrenching somber tone that would make to the merriment of the sight gags and raunchy and enormously funny outburst medium since the tragedy of the sunken the most cynical of theater goers attempt jokes, but there is one Southern-Fried of energy, pure zaniness, and true stage ship occurred on April 15th 1912. to mask the emotion they may feel. “chick,” Helen Ross as Jolene Oakes, who pizzazz. The myths and stories surrounding the What is particularly impressive is that turns a little shindig into a country hoe - With book by Jeffrey Lane, and music event remain of lasting interest. The tale director Hindley and the cast and crew down with the song, “Oklahoma.” With by the great David Yazbek, there is noth - received musical theater treatment with have taken a large-scaled production on a her boot-scootin’ dancing and outstand - ing more fun than watching the confi - the Tony Award winning Titanic created well-known subject to count and have ing vocals, her deliciously incongruous dent, poised, and debonair con artist, by Peter Stone and Maury Eastman, created an extremely entertaining pro - performance with the ensemble is a Lawrence Jameson (Glenn Freeze) work which made it's debut in 1997. The har - duction that is nothing short of impres - stand-out. The number “Great Big Stuff” his “magic” on vulnerable rich female rowing story is brought to the Mysterium sive among the limitations that exist in is just what its title says it is – it is one of tourists in the French Riviera. With a stage under the direction of Eric J local theater. those “Broadway songs” that sticks in a taste for the good life, Lawrence (an obvi - Hindley and producer Marla Ladd. Because the tale's conclusion is known great big way, and Haidl, along with the ous 007 contender) finds his glamorous The vastly entertaining production is by the audience before the show even ensemble, “nails it” in Act I. and extravagant lifestyle threatened when filled with suspense, emotion, sympathy begins, I don't think I need to warn of The musical score is wonderful and the clumsy, bumbling grifter, Freddy and even some laughs. From the creation spoiler alerts. The stage of more than there are too many lovely and high-spirit - Benson (Jonathan Haidl) invades his ter - and fanfare of the immensely powerful capable storytellers engross the audience ed songs to mention; however, a few ritory and zeroes in for some of the ship to the initial calm of the voyage and early on and keeps them intrigued for its more that stand out are “Nothing is Too biggest cons in town. Since living then the sudden historical tragedy, the two plus hours - a most worthwhile feat. Wonderful to be True,” “Love is My comedic legend Steve Martin portrayed score provides a nice blend of songs that Standout performs include but are not Legs,” and “Give Them What They Freddy in the film of the same name, showcase emotions. Passengers range limited to Steven Brogan, Eric J Hindley, Want.” Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a down Haidl has been handed the challenge of from third-class immigrants desiring a Randy Calcetas, Ariel Infante, Gary and dirty escapade that is overflowing making this role his own. With perfect greater tomorrow, to second-class passen - Hobday, Britany Prenger, Noelle LeBlanc with accomplished actors, singers, and timing, great physical comedy, and the gers who want a taste of the good life, and Gabriel Daud. dancers as it tosses outrageously funny gift of an incomparable ability to trans - even if it's just a temporary distraction Mysterium's production of Titanic is zingers at the audience from beginning to form from dramatic to comedic actor, from an economically common exis - evidence that local theaters can and end. Note must go to the excellent Haidl makes us believe that he is the first tence, to the first-class passengers who should tackle large-scale productions and Choreography by Candace Shirk and Freddy to ever take on the role. desire to bask in the prestige and status of can do so with imaginative creative inge - Musical Direction by Rick Heckman. A huge part of this show depends on the maiden voyage. nuity, which this show overflows with. Director and Set Designer, Nick Charles’ the relationship between Lawrence and The first act consists of the excitement Pun intended. addition of the set’s swaying palm trees Freddy, and the chemistry between Freeze and wonderment of the proclaimed A particularly effective creative touch is were the perfect touch. Speaking of the with Lawrence’s smooth self-assurance "moving city." We become acquainted that every theater ticket is a boarding pass set, a huge staircase centerpiece was and elegance and Haidl with Freddy’s with the ship's creators, it's by-the-book with a name and class, and upon the trapped off stage at one point and as the brash and vulgar mannerisms is pure staff and the previously mentioned pas - show's completion a list of survivors and actors tugged and pulled and struggled to magic. sengers who all seem awestruck. unfortunate casualties is read out. This get it rolled onstage, they made jokes and Sharon Ray Massey is the lovely From the ship's creators doing all they author, coincidentally, perished. tap-danced until the set was freed. Christine Colgate who has a great pres - can to make sure the voyage is an event Titanic runs weekends throughout Because of the upbeat nature and sense of ence as the warm-hearted and seemingly unlike any before it's time, the chemistry June in La Habra. fun of the show, the audience enjoyed the naïve American Soap Queen. Megan moment and laughed right through it. Cherry does amazingly well as the This do-not-miss show runs thru June STAGES THEATRE lovelorn and highly vulnerable Muriel 23rd. Stage Door Repertory Theatre Eubanks. William Crisp, another con - 400 E. Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton (714) 525-4484 www.stagesoc.org 1045 N Armando St Ste A Anaheim, summate performer, portrays Lawrence’s 92806. (714) 630-7378. www.stagedoor - side piece, French policeman, Andre rep.org. “Greater Tuna” “The Twilight Zone” What do Arles Struvie, Thurston There is a fifth dimension beyond that Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas which is known to man. A dimension as Blye and Rev. Spikes have in common? In vast as space, as timeless as infinity. It is this hilarious send-up of small town the middle ground between light and morals and mores, they are all among the shadow, science and superstition, and it upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas’ third lies between the pit of man’s fears and the smallest town. The fictitious town of summit of his knowledge. This is the Tuna, Texas, is located in west Texas, dimension of imagination. It is an area about half-way between San Angelo and which we call “The Twilight Zone”. Hell. Though the action takes place in the “That’s the signpost up ahead. Your next early eighties, nothing has changed since stop: The Twilight Zone.” Directed by then.Written by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Darri Kristin & David Campos, Fridays Jaston Williams. Directed by Brian J. at 11:00pm and Saturdays at 5pm. Cook. Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 5:30pm (Sunday July 8th at Sundays at 2pm thru June 24. 2pm only) thru July 8. 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Brett Green: The Last Hiding Place @ THE MUCKENTHALER June 21 – August 19 Opening Reception Thursday, June 21, 6:30pm. Gallery Tour Thursday, July 19, 7:30pm. A survey of works by the Southern STARSTRUCK California artist whose large scale paintings on unstretched canvas and multilayered fiberglass screens personalize the often over - looked humanity of both obscure and sensationalized vintage photographs. 1201 W. Malvern Ave. Fullerton (714)738-6595 www.themuck.org Vintage Movie Posters From the Private SUMMER AT THE MUCK Collection of Rock'n Roll Legends, Celebrity Guests, and Classic Favorites! Mark P. Miller The historic house on the hill will soon time performers to celebrate be buzzing with a variety of electrifying Independence Day! This patriotic event ULLERTON USEUM acts for the 2018 summer season! Here are features piano solos, ragtime songs, and @ F M some of the upcoming performances: multi-instrument presentations of vintage CENTER ragtime music. 301 N. Pomona Ave. Downtown June 28: “Just Desserts” with Beth Fullerton (714) 738-6545 Sussman . Sussman will perform July 12:“Tied Up in Knotts” with Gershwin's own arrangements for one- Karen Knotts. Don Knotts' daughter, night-only! As well as piano confections Karen, performs a hilarious one woman show about growing up with her famous The movie poster, in all of its sizes by Claude Debussy, Edward MacDowell, and forms, has been the backbone of Duke Ellington, and Hoagy Carmichael. father. You'll hear behind-the-scenes sto - ries and see rare video clips! the cinema industry. Movies and their After the show, enjoy complimentary posters have grown side-by-side since desserts! To purchase tickets call (714) 738-6595 NCONQUERABLE the late 1800's, and as the films July 5: An Evening of American or visit www.TheMuck.org. The U evolved, so did the means of promo - Ragtime. The Orange County Ragtime Muckenthaler Cultural Center is located INERTIA tion. This never-before-exhibited pri - Society presents a revue-style show featur - at 1201 W. Malvern Avenue, Fullerton, vate collection from the Miller Archives ing some of Southern California’s best rag - 92833. @ H IBBLETON GALLERY will showcase rare film posters from the 235 W. Santa Fe. Fullerton Golden Age of Cinema. On display www.hibbleton.com through August 5. Opening reception Friday, July 6th from 6-10pm during the Downtown Fullerton Art Walk

“If I stop thinking about what I am making, is my work meaningless?” Perhaps working through line and color, words on paper and captured imagery, we are finding meaning in the vastness of the universe. “Unconquerable Inertia” is the divergent collaboration of artists across mediums interpreting these struggles, pushing through all doubts and uncer - tainties to still create and create again. Featured artists are Brea Peck, Hillary Hendricks, Kazumi Devries, Randy Colosky, and Shannon Kim.

A S TARE INTO THE SOUL : Fullerton First The Portrait Photography of Slav Zatoka Friday on Exhibit through July 20 ART WALK @J OSEPHINE JOAN GALLERY 515 W. Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton www.josephinejoan.com 6pm-10pm • July 6 Josephine Joan Gallery is a collaboration between Leanne Sargeant and Valerie Downtown Fullerton Lewis and is named after their grandmothers. The gallery is currently accept - ing exhibition proposals. Email ideas, a few images and your bio to www.fullertonartwalk.com [email protected]. (714) 681-6754. Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER REST IN PEACE • W E REMEMBER YOU MID JUNE 2018

Lynda Ann Hudson Underwood Dwain Morris Van Diest Memorial July 14 Memorial June 30 Lynda Ann Hudson Underwood of She saw her role in the classroom as one of It is with great sorrow that the Van service to the community he loved and Fullerton passed away on June 5, 2018 developing intellect, but of equal impor - Diest family announces the passing of cared for so many years. after battling a long series of illnesses. She tance, as one of molding the character of their beloved Dwain Van Diest on June Dwain was known for his service to was 78. She is survived by her husband of her young charges. 13, 2018 after is battle with biliary and his community. He was very active in 51 years, Larry Underwood, and her two Lynda and Larry are founding members liver cancer. the Boy Scouts of America as he served daughters, Laura and of a couples’ movie discus - Dwain was born in Riverside, in many roles including Commissioner Melissa, two sons-in-law, sion group. The group California to dairy farmer Norm and his and Eagle advisor. He made many treks Mark Morgan and met monthly for a potluck wife, Elsie Van Diest. Norman, who was through the Sierras and led scouts on 7 Derrick Parkinson, plus dinner for more than 40 heading toward Normandy during treks to Philmont Scout Ranch in New six grandchildren, Casey, years. The friendships WWII, was called back to see the birth Mexico. For his efforts in scouting and Evan, Kaitlyn, forged over dinner and of his son. As the family the larger community, Christopher, Hannah and lively discussion endured grew, and Norman got Dwain was the recipient Zachary. She is also sur - and their support for each into the construction busi - of the Silver Beaver vived by two brothers, other never wavered. ness, they moved to La award. Warren Hudson and After she retired, she Mirada into a brand new Dwain also had a pas - Trammell Hudson, both loved reading, spending house built in 1955. sion for taking 8th living in Sarasota, Florida. time with her grandchil - Dwain was the first to grade students on their Lynda was born in dren and playing bridge. attend many of the brand annual field trip to Montgomery, Alabama. Lynda’s bridge skills new schools being built in Washington D.C. He She graduated from weren’t legendary but her the area including La began as a chaperone Sidney Lanier High story telling was. She Mirada High School. As when his own children School in Montgomery where she was one loved all-day-bridge and the dessert and he was growing up, he went to Parks Junior of the most popular students in her class. friendship they shared. In retirement, worked in his father’s bike High and continued to Lynda graduated from Wesleyan College Larry and Lynda renovated a vacation shop and in a nearby phar - serve on these annual in Macon, Georgia with a degree in home in Seal Beach. The “beach house” macy delivering medica - trips with Rancho- Education. While at Wesleyan, she played was one of Lynda’s favorite and most tion to the community Starbuck Intermediate on the field hockey team. During her relaxing places to be. At any opportunity, and making milk shakes. school in Whittier. In summers in college, she worked in Stowe, they shared the beach house with family This is where he gained an Loving Husband, Father, all, Dwain chaperoned Vermont and attended Auburn and friends, sometimes squeezing more interest in medicine which Papa, Friend. 28 trips to DC taking University. people inside than made good sense. The would lead to his career as Pharmacist and photographs to create After graduating from college, she memories created there had all the calm of a pharmacist. He became Community Leader his famous DVD for taught elementary school in Pensacola, a beach vacation with all the comforts of heavily involved in Boy each student. He Florida for two years before moving to home. Scouts and earned the enjoyed teaching kids California where she met Larry, the love Lynda may have been small in stature, rank of Eagle Scout. about our Nation’s history especially at of her life. They married and settled into but she towered over the rest of us with He married his wife Anna in 1968. Redoubt #9 on Yorktown battlefield. their home of 43 years on Sunny Wood her outgoing personality — full of love, After attending Cerritos Community Dwain was also active at Fullerton Drive in Fullerton. She continued to warmth, humor, and an instinctive under - college, he made the long commute to First Christian Church since he was a teach early childhood classes after marry - standing of people. She could fill a room USC to earn a PHD in Pharmacology in child. He served for many years as an ing Larry. She took time out from teach - with her passion for living and easy laugh - 1969. During his time at USC, he made Elder. ing to be a full-time mother with the ter, and yet, she was also a thoughtful lis - money by teaching lessons on the organ For Dwain, family was everything. He arrival of Laura and Melissa. tener. These qualities are why so many as he was a talented musician and had a and his wife committed to having Lynda was a Girl Scout troop leader, people throughout her life, from high passion for classical music. After becom - Sunday dinners each week at their home introducing many girls to the joys of school and college to the health profes - ing a pharmacist, he helped open a to gather anyone who would attend to camping, especially the delights of s’mores sionals at the nursing home, call her dear Savon on the corner of Rosecrans and intentionally love his family and engage and loud singing at a campfire program. friend, confidant and fellow trouble- Euclid and managed this store (and all in their lives each week. Dwain will for - Also, Lynda and her daughters were active maker. the variations of companies it became) ever live on in the hearts of the thou - volunteers for Meals on Wheels through Lynda Hudson Underwood will be for 44 years until CVS closed the loca - sands of students, friends and family that their participation in National Charity sorely missed by her family and her legion tion. After transferring down the street he invested his time and energy. League. of friends, but they know she is laughing to help his customers move their pre - A memorial service will be held at Once her daughters were older, Lynda and having fun with the angels and will scriptions, he retired from CVS and 10:00 AM on Saturday, June 30, 2018 at returned to the classroom where she con - continue to live on in our memories. helped one of his pharmacists, Jasmine the First Christian Church of Fullerton, tinued to inspire the love of learning. She A memorial service will be held at St. Lam, open her new store in the same 109 E. Wilshire Avenue, Fullerton, CA taught kindergarten and first grade at Paul Lutheran Church in Fullerton on shopping center on Rosecrans and 92832. In lieu of flowers, please make Allen Avenue Elementary School in San July 14, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of Euclid. He enjoyed seeing many of his donations to Fullerton First Christian Dimas for fifteen years. The way Lynda flowers contributions should be made to customers return to Sunrise Village Church (memo - Dwain Van Diest taught could make young children melt. the American Lung Association. Pharmacy for a more personal touch and Memorial Fund).

HUNT LIBRARY 101 Orangethorpe Come find how you can help save the Library. Christian Monday, June 25, 6:30pm-8:30pm Church Orangethorpe United Methodist Church Chapel Hall (Disciples of Christ) 2351 W. Orangethorpe Ave. (Near NW corner of Gilbert) Dr. Robert L. Case, Pastor Questions? Call (714) 729-3019 Sunday Service : 10 AM or visit www.savethehunt.com 2200 W. O RANGETHORPE FULLERTON (714) 871-3400 www.orangethorpe.org WAR COSTS in Life & Money IN IRAQ & A FGHANISTAN

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• 4,541 US soldiers killed in Iraq: (DoD 4/14/2018) • 2,411 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan (6/02/2018) www.icasualties.org • 32,223 US soldiers wounded (DOD reports) www.icasualties.org Iraq 3/2003 to present (no updates since 11/2011) • 17,674 Afghanistan 10/2001 to present (no updates since 9/2012) • $4.55 Cost of wars Since 2001 www.costofwar.com (6/16/2018) Trillion (rounded down) California Only: 3,974 soldiers wounded and 1,371 dead in wars since 2001. EVERY HOUR US taxpayers are paying $32.08 million for total costs of war. What Can We Do With this Money Instead? MID JUNE 2018 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17 Interview With Pathways of Hope continued from page 5 CSUF G ENETIC O: Some neighbors expressed concern over home - productivity with school and work. We can help you RESEARCHER HONORED less people wandering into their neighborhood, and with all of that. But we know that literally the key - thought this facility would only add to that. stone for all of that is a front door, a set of keys, and Neuroscientist Math P. Cuajungco is known for his impres - DG: What I would say to the Basque community someone to say, “I’m here to help you.” That’s it. sive record of scholarship and creative ideas, which led to an and to all those folks living over there who have those O: I also heard neighbors’ concerns that this would unexpected research discovery. concerns is that their lived experience thus far of peo - attract more homeless people to Fullerton. Would Since joining Cal State Fullerton in ple experiencing homelessness is going to be very dif - there be homeless people loitering around this build - 2007, the researcher with an interna - ferent from living next to a beautiful property where ing, waiting for services? tional reputation has established himself people are formerly homeless. We will be their DG: This is a point I want to drive home to peo - as an expert in the area of zinc neurobi - neighbors. My office will be there. They will be able ple—there’s no walk-up services, there’s no service ology and neurodegenerative diseases, to knock on the door and tell me if they’re having center, there’s no check-in center, no lockers, no food including Alzheimer’s disease, issues. And I welcome it, because it’s part of our pantry, no tenting. This is an apartment community Parkinson’s disease and Mucolipidosis responsibility over there—to be the best neighbor we that has competent, professional social workers type IV. can be. attached to it, so that once someone is stable and Cuajungco’s research focuses on better O: What kind of security assurances can you pro - they’re in a unit, we’re there to provide everything understanding Mucolipidosis type IV, vide the neighbors? they need, so they can move forward. known as ML-IV, a genetic disorder that DG: We’re going to reserve two units for paid staff O: So, if there’s no walk-up services, how would His research results in the death of cells in the brain, to live on-site, so they will be there 24 hours a day to homeless people get into this housing? led to the eye and stomach. His work led to the mitigate any kinds of issues. We’re going to have on- DG: It would be through coordinated entry, but discovery that discovery that high amounts of zinc site services all the time with trained professionals to Fullertonians who are homeless are going to get pri - high amounts accumulate in certain cells, causing neu - work with the residents. ority. Coordinated entry uses a list of folks who are of zinc rodegenerative diseases. O: I’ve been over to the Bridges at Kramer emer - currently homeless and have been assessed for their accumulate in For his groundbreaking contributions gency shelter, and they are pretty buttoned down level of service needs. There are outreach teams that certain cells, to science and scholarly accomplish - with security over there. Are you guys going to have are contracted by the county. North OC has con - causing ments, Cuajungco has been selected as private security guards? Is that part of the plan? tracted with an agency called City Net. So, there’s an neuro- the university’s 2018 recipient of the L. DG: We’re definitely talking about what makes the assessment tool, and they go out and engage and degenerative Donald Shields Excellence in most sense, but I would look to other apartment interface one-on-one with people. It’s a way to deter - Scholarship and Creativity Award. communities that do permanent supportive housing mine how to best fit a person’s needs into the right diseases CSUF President Fram Virjee present - in the county, where that becomes unnecessary very housing model for them. ed the award at the Academic Senate. quickly—mostly because people become acclimated O: Another criticism I’ve heard from some neigh - Coaxed to the meeting by his dean, who told him he might be to what it’s like to have their own home. For these bors is that this is just giving people free rent, who asked questions about the National Institutes of Health-fund - people, the day they come in, they become not are not incentivized to find a job, and be productive. ed Maximizing Access to Research Careers program he oversees homeless anymore. DG: We know, and evidence bears this out, is that at CSUF, Cuajungco was surprised by the recognition. O: I heard other neighbors ask, “Why Fullerton? once people are stable, they want to find ways to be “I’m honored to be recognized for my research accomplish - Why don’t other cities take their fair share?” productive. So they start thinking about how to ments,” said Cuajungco. “More importantly, I am very grateful DG: Other cities need to take this on as well. move forward with their lives. Once you stabilize to my former and current students for helping me advance to According to a county report, we need to build people with some medication, treatment, or the where I am now. I also thank my colleagues and collaborators roughly 2700 units of permanent supportive housing proper services, they don’t want to just sit there. for their direct or indirect support of my academic endeavors.” across the entire county. Fullerton’s assigned number People want to be productive. Sean Walker, chair and professor of biological science, char - for that can be taken down very quickly with O: Any closing thoughts? acterized Cuajungco as an invaluable colleague who is a strong Keystone. (Also, see article on frontpage regarding the DG: The UCI study showed that it costs $100,000 contributor to the scholarly community. “Dr. Cuajungco has recent OC Grand Jury Report on homelessness a year to have people living on the street. It costs contributed to the growth and development of federally fund - O: Can you talk a little more about the “perma - $50,000 a year to house them. So there’s a fiscal rea - ed research training programs, which give CSUF faculty and nent supportive housing” model? son to do this. There’s also a community health rea - students greater opportunities to collaborate and engage in DG: Permanent supportive housing says, “What son to do this—keeping people in their own homes high quality, cutting-edge research experiences,” Walker said. we can offer to you is a place to live, to stabilize you, so we can help them so they’re not a detriment to the Professor H. Jochen Schenk also noted the researcher’s “record and then we can wrap you around with anything you community. And then there’s just compassion. of outstanding scholarship at CSUF” and praised his “record of need to move you toward sobriety, mental health, training and preparing students for success.” Page 18 FULLERTON OBSERVER MARCHING FOR CHILDREN MID JUNE 2018 Fullerton Residents Protest Federal Policy Separating Children from Parents continued from frontpage US Senator Jeff Merkely was recently barred from entering and touring an old Walmart housing over 1,400 immigrant children in Brownsville, Texas. The McClatchy DC Bureau broke the news that a plan is being considered to build tent cities on military bases near the border to house the over 10,000 children now held by the Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. “I certainly sympathize with those who are in charge of controlling our borders while we, as a nation, grapple with the border and immigration issue,” said Carla Jones, “but choosing to take innocent and so very vul - nerable children from their parents is not an acceptable solution to this problem. Laws without mercy are per - verse. Our borders should be a place of American digni - ty.” U.S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions has stated that this action is being implemented to deter asylum seekers from coming to the US border. Fullerton Congregational Church member Lupe Ramirez pointed out that “defense contractors are now in the business of putting up these camps for the kids,” and that one of the companies getting the biggest con - tracts is Haliburton. Residents of all ages joined in the June 15 march in downtown Fullerton. Protests also took place in many other cities. On January 13th, a group of U.S. congress members missing, and could be vulnerable to sex trafficking “or (including Joe Crowley, John Lewis, Pramila Jayapal, Jan some other horrible thing...it’s heartbreaking.” Schakowsky, Al Green, Raúl Grijalva, Judy Chu, Adriano Another protestor who is a therapist said, “I believe Espaillat, and Jimmy Gomez), led a peaceful march from that Trump is complicit and actively causing attachment ICE headquarters to the White House, laying in the trauma for children. He’s creating an entire generation of street to express their opposition to the Trump/Pence children who are going to be damaged the rest of their policy. lives...So many children are being hurt, so many families The Fullerton rally started on the corners of Harbor are being torn apart, and it’s not needed.” and Chapman and became a march, as protestors headed When asked why she joined the march, a woman down Harbor holding signs and chanting: pushing her toddler in a stroller said,“I get emotional, so I can’t really answer, but this is my answer [indicating her Hey Hey, Ho Ho, ICE’s Actions have to go! child]. I’m here for children. I think there’s injustice Families Belong Together! going on.” We Are Christians and we say, “ Dave Sonneborn said, “This issue needs to be above Do not take their kids away!” politics—to do what needs to be done for families.” Shame, Shame, Shame! The Congregational Church organizers of the protest Up, Up With Liberation, encouraged attendees to send Attorney General Jeff Down Down with Deportation! Sessions letters and postcards making their views known. “We are a truth and justice ministry,” said Ramirez, To make your voice heard on this issue, you can also “We’re going to be seen, we’re going to be heard, and sign an American Civil Liberties Union petition at we’re going to stop this.” www.action.aclu.org/petition/separating-families and Ramirez also pointed out that right now, 1,500 kids are contact your elected officials. Above: A young Fullertonian marches with a message to end separation of families. The protest started around 5:30pm at Harbor and ALL PHOTOS Chapman with a march downtown to Commonwealth BY JESSE LA TOUR and back and ended around 7:30pm.

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Claude *Richard *Eric H. Toni *Hugh Nguyen Steve Rocco Parrish Ramirez Woolery Smart 386,003 98,044 340,576 (69.7%) 82,995 (17.0%) 349,679 (74.8%) 117,498 (25.2%) (79.7%%) (20.3%) STATEWIDE CANDIDATES & I NITIATIVES PRELIMINARY RESULTS Gil Cisneros (D) The Top Two Vote-Getters Move on to Nov. 2018 General Election Run-off. Young Kim (R) State Superintendent 28,216 (21.5%) 25,291 (19.3%) Governor Treasurer Public Instruction: OTHER CONTENDERS : Phil Liberatore (R): 18,670 (14.3%) A run-off in the Nov. 2018 General *Andy Thorburn (D): 12,046 (9.2%) Election is not required for this office Shawn Nelson (R): 9,166 (7.0%) if one candidate gets 50% Bob Huff (R): 8,066 (6.2%) or more of the vote. *Sam Jammal (D): 7,025 (5.4%) *Mai Khanh Tran (D): 6,793 (5.2%) Herbert H. Lee (D): 5,456 (4.2%) Steven C. Vargas (R): 3,778 (2.9%) *Gavin John H. Suzi Park Leggett (D): 1,857 (1.4%) Newsom (D) Cox (R) *Fiona Ma (D) Greg Conlon (R) John J. Cullum (R): 1,582 (1.2%) OC: 142,921 OC: 213,083 OC:186,332 OC: 151,033 CA: 2,111,751 CA: 1,629,077 CA: 2,599,602 CA: 1,255,055 US Senator (33.5%) (25.9%) Secretary of State Marshall *Tony K. CLOSEST CONTENDER : Tuck Thurmond Antonio Villaraigosa (D) CANDIDATE OC/S TATEWIDE OC: 229,303 OC: 137,862 OC: 60,813 CA: 821,393 (13.0%) *Alex Padilla (D) 229,375/3,122,821 CA: 2,043,146 CA: 1,925,740 (37.6%) Lt. Governor Mark Meuser (R) 240,071/1,893,771 (35.4%) RUNNER UP: Attorney General Lily Espinoza Ploski: OC: 75,916 CA: 876,109 *Dianne *Kevin Feinstein (D) De Leon (D) OC: 205,911 OC: 41,641 Winning State Props below in bold CA: 2,662,827 CA: 716,421

State Orange County Statewide *Eleni Ed Propositions Yes...... (No) Yes...... (No) *Xavier Becerra (D) Kounalakis (D) Hernandez (D) Steven Bailey (R) OC: 201,642 OC: 102,883 OC: 109,710 OC: 177,997 PROP 68 266,558...... (280,767) *3,242,322...... (2,473,003) CA: 2,704,455 CA: 1,423,503 CA: 1,211,775 CA: 1,484,173 Controller PROP 69 425,292...... (128,085) *4,634,606...... (1,093,043) Insurance Commission CANDIDATE OC / S TATEWIDE PROP 70 210,285...... (322,951) 1,955,269 ...... *(3,541,427) CANDIDATE OC / S TATEWIDE *Betty Yee (D) 257,888 / 3,623,063 PROP 71 413,025...... (124,356) *4,296,624...... (1,247,275) S. Poizner (NPP) 265,873/ 2,365,691 Konstantinos *R. Lara (D) 176,659 / 2,274,924 Roditis (R) 247,232 / 2,025,499 PROP 72 471,218...... (75,087) *4,761,781...... (876,109)