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In 2010, the district attorney’s office Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie marriage she has been subjected to repeat - “My kids have too much trauma,” she investigated but decided there was “lack of Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is said. “I love my kids. I’m a very good sufficient evidence” to prosecute Chris staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, ed verbal and mental abuse as well as the publish, and distribute the paper throughout alleged physical abuse for which Norby mom.” Norby after he and his wife acknowledged our community. was arrested Wednesday. Martha Norby was born in Honduras having an argument but denied that he hit This venture is a not-for-profit one with For his part, Chris Norby, backed by and speaks accented English. Among her. Police had been called by a man mak - all ad and subscription revenues plowed back Board of Supervisors Chairman Shawn other things, she said he makes fun of the ing a delivery to a nearby home who said into maintaining and improving our inde - way she speaks. he saw Norby push his then pregnant pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - Nelson, the lawyer who bailed him out of munity newspaper. the Fullerton city jail, said it was Martha Norby acknowledged previous incidents wife. The Sept. 2, 2010, police report Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - who was the violent personality. when police were called to their home. “I indicates Martha Norby initially con - dents about the institutions and other socie - “I’m the victim here,” said Norby. “I’ve don’t wish her any harm, but she’s caused firmed she was struck but later publicly tal forces which most impact their lives, so never laid a finger on her. I’ve been subject a lot of harm to her family… Filing a false denied it. that they may be empowered to participate police report is a very serious thing.” In the latest incident, Chris Norby was in constructive ways to keep and make these to abuse - physical, emotional and finan - private and public entities serve all residents cial - over the past few years. … She's When they had another argument this charged with misdemeanor child endan - in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible extremely bipolar." week, Norby said, he thinks his wife pan - germent and domestic violence. He is ways. But Martha Norby, who said Thursday icked, thinking he would call police and scheduled to appear in Superior Court, Through our extensive local calendar and she is filing for divorce, claimed she’s the instead alerted police herself. Fullerton, on March 19. 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OUT OF MY MIND by Jon Dobrer © 2014 [email protected]

What’s the Fracking Problem? How did fracking become the new "F" ommend sticking them where the sun word? We need natural gas and oil, and don't shine. They are called ugly and may they must be extracted from beneath the impede the migration of some desert surface of the earth. When regular pump - denizens. ing methods no longer work, we need to Swapping oil for electric energy for our put in some liquid to force the extrac - cars isn’t yet a good choice either. tion—down to the very last drop of ener - Batteries are dirty and difficult to manu - gy-filled goodness. Given our need for facture. But they are far worse to dispose power, why is this controversial? of. Their impact in the form of toxic sub - Let's start with the fact that every kind stances is considerable. of power has a negative environmental This seems to leave us with the once impact. Our question isn’t if there are royal pretender King Coal. Dirty to environmental costs but what those costs mine. Dirtier to burn. It leaves ugly scars are in environmental degradation that in the earth and uglier scars in the lungs we’ll accept to fuel our life-styles. of the miners. The high particulate smoke Oil is dirty to extract and then leaks is a friend to no one. Clay Jones Cartoon ©2014 claytoonz.com and spills. Broken pipelines and wells So, here we are again, back to oil. Even have hurt our environment and have with all its obvious problems isn't frack - decades-long harmful consequences. ing an acceptable risk? Can't we have an About the Trolley vs. Frequent Buses Oil is far more expensive than it seems. intelligent, dispassionate conversation of Early March Front Page We spend much of our military budget risks and benefits--particularly given the protecting areas that produce oil, and problems with every other energy source? Your article “Fullerton Trolley Boon or of Orange County. But rather than blam - then we have to guard it in transit. The answer is: I don't know. Folly,” about the proposed trolley from ing the Orange County Transit Authority, Europe pays more for gasoline than we In order to have an intelligent conversa - the Cal State campus to downtown which is probably paying close attention because we hide our subsidy in our mili - tion and make rational choices, we need Fullerton got me thinking about both this to the numbers of those empty seats, let’s tary budget. Any thought that we would clear information and enough transparen - project and bus riding in general. look at our own reluctance to use the sys - have gone into Iraq and Libya or spent cy to build trust. And frankly, given the Having contributed more than my tem we have. billions in Egypt if there were no canal at PR spin and lies that have been associated share to global warming with a 27-year Many of us (myself included) have said Suez or no oil in the region? with almost every accident--from the commute to my job in Long Beach, I that we would ride buses more often if However, oil is not the only problemat - Gulf to Fukushima--trust is a problem. decided when I retired last year to take they ran more frequently and if bus stops ic energy source. The problem with fracking is that we advantage of the senior bus pass (only $4 were closer to our houses. But should Fukushima demonstrated the problems don't know exactly what they’re putting a month!) and drive my car as infrequent - OCTA be expected to add more buses and with nuclear power. Now having had 3 and pumping into the ground. It isn't ly as possible. bus routes if it may mean more empty Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, just high-pressure water. It’s all kinds of But driving is just so darned convenient seats? we should understand the downside of chemicals that will eventually find their and so far I have fallen woefully short of I appreciate that many Observer readers living with our friend the atom. It has an way into the aquifer, our drinking water, my goal. The bus I am most likely to ride are busy working people or parents with energy cost to mine and a greater cost to our food chain and into us. is the number 26 from the Cal State cam - children to chauffeur around, or that they refine. Then you have a toxic and deadly Many of the chemicals have not been pus near my house to exercise classes at live far away from a bus stop. But is there substance that keeps giving its poisoned studied as to their impact on us, or what the Fullerton Community Center (pre - one particular trip for which some readers gifts for centuries. We still have no safe concentrations in water are either harm - sumably this is close to the proposed route could substitute bus riding for driving? place to put our spent, but still deadly, less or deadly. Nor do we know what for the trolley). Someone in your article Might there be any city council members Uranium and Plutonium. No one wants happens when these chemicals are in asked whether there are empty seats on willing to try it? it in barrels. It's not safe in cooling tow - combination with other mystery chemi - this bus —- an excellent question and the I, for one, will try to leave my car in the ers, and trucking it across states to bury in cals. answer is yes—-I have never had trouble garage more often. Hopefully fewer empty a mountain is proving problematic. The energy companies have disclosed finding a seat. bus seats will put the pressure on for bet - Falling water going through turbines to that their fracking brews “contain or may Although I love the trolley idea, what ter service. generate electricity seems like a good idea. contain”: Methanol, Naphtha, P-Mentha, we really need is a better bus system for all Penny Hlavac Fullerton It’s clean and relatively efficient. Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrofluoric Acid, However, there’s considerable impact on Ammonium Chloride, 2 Butoxy Ethanol the environment when we dam up rivers. and Aromatic Amines. MMMM. Yum. Fireworks, NonProfits, & Mountain View Leak Nor are most of us happy with high-ten - What could go wrong? These are the dis - sion electric lines running near our closed chemicals. The truly frightening First of all, Mr. Whitaker is correct to we continue to allow fireworks of any homes. Towers are unsightly, and the part is their claim that they can't fully want to use what we already have for non- kind into our city to be used at the electromagnetism may cause serious reveal what they are putting into the earth profit banner placements, but using the absolute worst time of the year for fires. health problems. because the formulas are "proprietary fences at corner intersections is very dan - I might also mention that we are a “Tree Wind power seems like a safe energy trade secrets," like, I guess, the formula gerous. We continually have incidents at City” - and that trees and fire are not a source, but it too is controversial. The for Coke. the corner of Bastanchury and Associated good combination. windmills are not attractive in our moun - Locally, some of the wells set for frack - Road where banners and signs placed on Although the voters did vote for this, it tain passes, deserts or in our shallow bays. ing are as near as 111 feet from homes. the fence limit and restrict the view for makes no sense to me. Our city fireworks Even Ted Kennedy fought to keep them Does this seem a reasonable risk or a sen - drivers going through the intersection. celebration has been great and well out of Hyannis Port. They also impact, sible policy? Not without better informa - This intersection is already one of the attended for many years. Thanks to the literally, our bird population, cuissarting tion. We have bad choices and worse most dangerous we have due to the way Observer for giving us a voice to respond. and pureeing our feathered friends into choices. Every source has an environmen - speeding is involved in the up and down A. A. Davitian Fullerton pâté. tal and health cost. We have to pick, but natural terrene of the hills. Then there's solar. It's pretty much intelligent choices are based on good Next: The leak at Mountain View Park. accepted on residential rooftops. information. This we do not yet posses. Maybe the water should be tested, if it has Pancake Breakfast Blast However, when you try to install a solar not been tested yet, for the chemicals cracking pumpers force into the ground Thank you so much for the article and array in the desert, where the sun does www.Dobrer.com pictures in the Observer about the troop's shine, some environmental activists rec - Follow me on Twitter @jondobrer for reclamation of the oil and gas. This could tell us if it is or is not caused by the pancake breakfast. We had a great show - drilling. Or maybe it is water coming ing of people despite the rain. My from somewhere it is not supposed to youngest son was old enough to flip pan - WAR COSTS in Life & Money cakes this year and had a blast. IN IRAQ & A FGHANISTAN come from, other than a spring. And lastly, I understand that groups I had several people tell me they saw the • 121,945 Civilians killed by Violence www.iraqbodycount.org (3/15/2014) want to use fund raising events like selling article and came to the breakfast from that. We appreciate your support by get - US Soldiers killed in Iraq: (DoD 5/11/2012 - no update since this date) fireworks to raise money for their particu - • 4,486 lar interests. Fireworks is not the way. ting the word out. Thanks again, • 2,315 US Soldiers killed in Afghanistan (3/15/2014) www.icasualties.org Until last year we were a city without Melanie Anderson Fullerton US Soldiers wounded (DOD reports) www.icasualties.org fireworks and it in no way has hurt our • 32,223 Iraq (3/2003 thru 11/2011- no updates since this date) city; it has actually had a benefit, fewer fires. When we first moved here some 50 • 17,674 Afghanistan ( 10/2001 thru 10/13/2012- no updates since this date) You Make Sense years ago it was like a war zone, and final - Your paper is one of the few making any • $1.5 Cost of Wars Since 2001 www.costofwar.com (3/15/2014) ly the voters outlawed all fireworks. We sense in today’s world. Trillion (rounded down) (Iraq $816 billion) (Afghanistan $702 billion) are in a very significant drought, why do Thom Pari Anaheim Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER CITY HALL NEWS MID MARCH 2014

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March 4th Council Meeting (next meeting is March 18) Separation of Church & State: The trees in a different park each year. meeting began with, the now customary, ArtWalk The mayor and council hon - prayer “to our heavenly father...” this time ored founder Jesse LaTour and the organ - from a representative of the Salvation izers of Fullerton’s First Friday ArtWalk Army who said the organization is known and invited everyone out to the 4th as a religion in some countries. He said Anniversary Celebration. See page 12. the SA’s drug and rehab programs are Sister City President Mike Oates gave Cleanup of Union Park on Truslow Complete totally funded by its thrift stores. The an update on upcoming events including The California Department of Toxic The company contended that it was not Anaheim facility has space for 145 men a visit by 10 Junior Ambassadors and 3 Substances Control (DTSC) has the only responsible party, citing use of and 130 women. (It’s other low income chaperones visiting from Fukui, Japan in announced that the city-owned Union the vacant land by the railroad and a roof - housing, however, is subsidized by large gov - time to celebrate the 25th anniversary Park on W. Truslow Ave. in Fullerton, ing company and inadequate testing by ernment grants according to IRS records.) with Fullerton. The 50-year anniversary which was contaminated with toxic chem - the city. After the city won the case in SHHS Vocal Ensemble The 21-stu - with Morelia, Mexico will be coming up. icals, has been cleaned up to a level that court, the cleanup process began. dent ensemble dressed in formal wear Fullerton Sister City has been invited to allows unrestricted use. In late 2012, DTSC approved a work sung the Star Spangled Banner for the visit Jong-in, Korea for the ten year Historically, the property, located just plan to facilitate removal and disposal of council and audience. The vocal group anniversary with that city. The 12-mem - south of the railroad tracks and the old more than 1,849 tons – or about 80 has received superior rating in the CSUF ber group will be leaving on March 24th Manufactured Gas site was vacant land truckloads - of contaminated soil from the Choral Fest. and includes Mayor Chaffee and his wife, and variously housed warehouses, light Site. DTSC worked closely with The CalGRIP Museum Center Art City Manager Joe Felz and other represen - manufacturing buildings, storage yards SoCal Gas and the Union Pacific Railroad Education Director Amiee Aul described tatives of the business and education com - and a makeshift soccer field. Company, while maintaining communi - the gang reduction program which began munity. All are paying their own way. The City of Fullerton purchased the cation with the City of Fullerton to facili - in 2011. The program has provided Oates gave special credit to Ted Kim for vacant property in 1998 and converted it tate the successful cleanup opportunities to students that they would organizing an agreement which now into a park in 2003. Documentation is online at the DTSC otherwise not have been able to partici - brings Korean business leaders to After Southern California Gas cleaned EnviroStor data base: https://www.envi - pate in supported by $50,000 in grant Fullerton instead of LA and reminded up the polluted Manufactured Gas site rostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.as funding to date. everyone that Sister City is a non-profit so just north of the park in 2008, a citizen’s p?global_id=60000511 Arbor Day Maintenance Director donations are tax-deductible. group asked the DTSC to order testing of The ‘Removal Action Completion Dennis Quinlivan and arborists Wayne Volunteer of Month Ted Kim accept - the adjacent park site where children Report’ and the ‘Certification Package’ are Elms, Bill Kaiser, and Booker James (not ed the Volunteer of the Month parking would play. The tests revealed the same under the “Activities” tab. present) were honored by the Mayor for plaque for Daniel Kang who is out of the pollution discovered at the Manufactured City Parks & Recreation Director Hugo Fullerton’s Tree City USA designation. country on missionary work in India. Gas site were present in the park: hydro - Curiel said that outreach to neighbors and (This year 20 big Ginkos were planted at Mayor Chaffee presented the honor in carbons and lead in the soil, and low lev - the community will take place in the next Woodcrest Park on March 15 to replace the thanks to Mr. Kang for initiating our els of other contaminants in soil vapor. few months so residents can weigh in on sick trees that had to be removed.) The pro - Sister City relationship with Jong-in. The park was fenced off to protect public the future use of the park site. The plans gram invites the community to help plant safety and the DTSC arranged several will then go to the Parks & Rec public meetings to explain the next steps. Commission and then to Council. To be PUBLIC C OMMENTS amazing amount in the last two years.” The city was forced to sue SoCal Gas to put on the Union Park meeting notifica - •Fracking & Acidizing: Sherri Davison She added that, “all cases of abuse should spur cleanup of toxins to residential levels. tion list call 714-738-6575. a longtime Fullerton resident spoke about be listed on the city website.” how difficult it was to get accurate infor - •CollegeTown: A citizen objected to mation about what oil companies are adding new student residential housing doing. She said the Air Quality units in the area around CSUF and asked Management District had given her quite council to think about the people who an education. She found that 8 wells in pay taxes and actually live here instead of Brea and 5 in Fullerton are being acidized the transient population of students when or fracked. “Little is known about acidiz - considering approval of university expan - ing,” she said, “though it is possibly even sion. Neighborhoods are already impacted more dangerous due to the toxic chemi - by the university traffic and parking. cals used which may be putting our water Councilmember Flory said that parking supply at risk.” She asked the council to seems to be a hot button issue and the consider following LA’s lead in recently public needs to be involved in the plan - putting a moratorium on acidizing and ning process. fracking. “LA researched it and are con - •Street Lights Still a Problem: Erin cerned,” she said. She invited everyone to Lewis, who has spoken several times in an informational rally on March 15 at past years, said that the street lights on her Rolling Hills Park on Bastanchury. (see street are still an unaddressed problem. frontpage story for more on this) She asked for an update about what was Councilmember Jan Flory asked staff to being done. She also said the 3-ton trash look into fracking and acidizing. “These trucks were also causing damage to the are important issues for our water.” streets. •Police Review: An organized group of •Water Board: Tom Babcock, former people finished each others sentences - in Metropolitan Water Board representative, the three minutes allowed - to advocate who was replaced on the board by Jan for a Citizens Police Review Board. In the Flory and the alternate Jennifer Fitzgerald, process some listed all the cases where noted that both were absent from the very officers have been found to have broken important budget and rate setting meet - the law themselves and called for the end ing so Fullerton had no representative. “As of POBAR. a ratepayer I expect more.” Councilmember Flory objected to some speakers efforts to besmirch the police REGULAR B USINESS dept. She said as a “44 year resident my •Vets Cemetery: Post 142 Commander experience has been very good. POBAR Marilyn Harris gave a presentation on protects officers from the dangerous issues Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva’s bill - drugs, etc - they have to deal with.” She to locate a state veterans cemetery in noted that Chief Hughes, after being Orange County. She asked the council to appointed in 2012 had already made support it. “There are a couple hundred many of the reforms listed by the inde - thousand of us here.” pendent office of review audit of the The item passed 4-1 (Whitaker, no, department and now nearly all of the 59 because he said the federal government recommendations. “He is involved in the should do it.) community and has accomplished an Continued on page 18 MID MARCH 2014 EDUCATION NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5

Laila Huff High School Board Meeting Highlights is currently by Vivien Moreno working Fullerton Joint Union High School District Board meets at toward her 7:30pm on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month Bachelor of at district headquarters, Science in 1051 W. Bastanchury Rd., Fullerton 92833. Human For more information call 714-870-2800. Services. A single parent See the agenda at www.fjuhsd.net since her husband passed away of terminal cancer in 2012, Laila ultimately hopes Feb. 25th FJUHSD Board Report to inspire her daughters to I usually report these meetings chrono - on their own. Food production includes overcome difficult circum - logically, but this time I am going to scientists, farmers, business leaders and stances. She interns at switch it up a bit. I will come back to the distributers who will face increasing chal - ResCare Home Care and FAA students who were honored this lenges from world population growth, hopes to pursue a Master’s night and hit the nutritional services por - limited arable land, and changing climac - in Gerontology, as well as tion of the evening first. tic conditions. The FAA students were work at a community •F AST FOOD : Kristin Hilleman, well spoken, enthusiastic and hopeful for agency promoting inde - Director of Food Services for the FJUHS the future of providing food for the world pendence and quality of life District, is exploring the possibility of in the next generation. for older adults. Laila will adding additional food options for both graduate in May 2014, just Bill McGarvey presented this year’s scholarship awards to students and faculty this year. Taco Bell •S CHOOL CALENDAR APPROVED : The two weeks before her daugh - and Chick-fil-A both responded to her board approved the proposed 2014/2015 Ernesto Rangel and Laila Huff (pictured above right). ter graduates from the request. The district’s main focus is that school calendar and it is posted now on University of California the food items provide the government the FJUHSD website. 4th Annual Bill McGarvey Irvine. approved nutritional balance and that YWCA Scholarships they have the appropriate price range for •B UDGET UPDATE : Ron Lebs, Asst. Scholarship Applications the district’s students. On January 14th, Superintendent for Business Services, pro - The 4th annual Bill McGarvey Scholarship Luncheon Applications for the the Consent Calendar included the con - vided a budget update regarding the was held at the Holiday Inn & Suites, in Fullerton. The Thurmond Scholarship are tractual agreement with Chick-fil-A to increased revenue allocated by the state scholarships are awarded to CSUF adult re-entry stu - available by calling the bring the sandwiches on school sites to sell and the reshaping of the budget due to the dents. This year’s scholars are: YWCA of North Orange to the students. The board approved the Local Control Funding Formula. The Ernesto Rangel , an accounting major due to graduate County at (714) 871-4488. agreement in its concent calendar with no good news is that there are no budget cuts in 2016, has been working at the Law Offices of The scholarships are public discussion. this year, but the sad news is that we are Thomas Kerns McKnight for the past four years. He designed for reentry The February 19th edition of the not going to be back to the 2008 educa - plans to become a certified public accountant. In addi - women, 24 years or older, Fullerton Union High School newspaper, tion budget levels until 2020. So in tion to being an excellent student and employee, attending Fullerton College Pleiades , ran an article questioning the essence, increased revenue doesn’t mean Ernesto is also father to a one-year-old daughter. or Cal State University. suitability of offering such a product and any additional money, it just means that the endorsement by school district given our students are not getting more of their the controversial and highly publicized future hacked away this year, and some of political beliefs professed by Chick-fil-A’s the money is going back into educational CEO, Dan Cathy. The district’s position programs for them. on the matter was questioned by Trustee The interesting portion of the new Montoya who asked Director Hilleman funding is that the board will have greater what the ramifications would be if the dis - flexibility in allocating the funds received. trict chose at this point to not order from Unfortunately, as Dr. Giokaris stated and this company after the contract has as others have also mentioned, the best already been signed. Director Hilleman analogy to the LCFF is that we are flying replied that the district and the school in a giant aircraft that is still being built in sites would incur no monetary loss since transit. Much is still to be determined by the profits are only affected by how many the state and the district as to how the sandwiches are purchased at the school money will be spent and how much flexi - site. If a school site does not choose to bility the district will have. have the product sold on the campus, •S UMMER SCHOOL : Dr. Jennifer there is no loss or problems with the con - Williams, Director of Administrative tract. The district is asking for student and Services gave a presentation assessing the parent input. Please send your opinions to success of last year’s summer school ses - the school site principals in this matter. sion. The board took into account the Principal Rani Goyal at FUHS stated that outcomes from last year and approved the she would be asking for opinions from funding for 2014 summer school session. PHOTO JERE GREENE student groups on the matter. A similar Last year almost 8,000 students partici - DRIVERS BE AWARE OF BICYCLISTS: Police and paramedics help a 15-year-old type of food contract with Taco Bell was pated in summer school. Even more stu - bicyclist who was hit by a vehicle at the intersection of Chapman and Highland on March approved at the February 25th meeting. dents are expected this year. Students 6th around 3:20pm. The young man was taken to the hospital but is expected to be okay. (For more on this story see frontpage arti - attend summer school for three main rea - cle in this issue and in the Early March issue sons: in order to retake a class that CSUF Honors SchoolsFirst for $500,000 Gift received a failing grade, to take classes that online in the “Past Issues” section at Cal State Fullerton recognized with SchoolsFirst, which supports teacher remove pressure from impacted programs www.fullertonobserver.com) SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union on development and advancing education," (like taking health and computer science March 5 for its $500,000 naming gift to said Claire C. Cavallaro, dean of the •Student School Report: The Board in summer) and to earn additional units the College of Education's Center for College of Education. "The center has Meeting started with the Student School in order to graduate. Students outside the Creativity and Critical Thinking now become a premier educational hub for the Report given by Lindsay Angeli, a district may not attend FJUHSD summer located in the Pollak Library. development, evaluation and dissemina - Fullerton Union High School senior who school, as it is too cost prohibitive. The center's new name is “SchoolsFirst tion of innovative educational approaches plans on attending Boston College in the Federal Credit Union Center for that infuse the arts, technology and sci - fall. The high schools are transitioning The March 11th school board report will Creativity and Critical Thinking,” in ence as central components of an integrat - from winter to spring sports and using be in the next issue. honor of the gift. "We're proud to partner ed curriculum." various spirit raising activities to help stu - For over five years, the center has pro - dents focus on their studies. Sadie vided direct professional development Hawkins and Stag dances were held at services to local educators and future many of the high school sites to announce teachers, promoting infusing the arts, sci - the beginning of spring and singing grams ence and technology into K-12 curricu - could be heard celebrating Valentine’s Day lum. This has resulted in the center serv - at Sunny Hills High School. ing 850 teachers and CSUF teacher candi - dates and more than 11,000 young learn - •FAA & Ag Programs: The board and ers — made possible with an initial the district recognized the FAA and agri - $250,000 gift from SchoolsFirst. The cultural programs offered at many of the credit union's latest pledge will advance high school sites. These programs offer the center's reach even further, said Teresa students hands on experience and allow Crawford, professor of elementary and students the chance to develop new skills bilingual education and director of the they would have a difficult time gaining center. Page 6OBSERVER MID MARCH 2014 MOMS Club Spring Fling Event Seeks Vendors by April 1st Deadline MOMS Club will hold a family friend - ly fair and auction on Saturday, April 26 from 11am to 2pm at the Fullerton Community Center Courtyard, 340 W. Commonwealth. Admission to the event is free and will include an auction and var - ious children’s activities and vendor exhibits. Vendors interested in participating may request a registration form at momsclub - [email protected]. Forms are due by April 1. Vendor registration fees are $20-$30 for space at the event. One 6- foot table and chair will be provided. The vendor may also use their own equip - ment within the allocated space. Funds from vendor registration fees and the auction items will benefit the MOMS ID THE P HOTO : Club Mother-to-Mother Fund, which offers grants for emergency expenses to The DOWNTOWN Report Where is this and club members experiencing financial and with text & photos by Mike Ritto what is its purpose? natural disasters. The proceeds will also be Send your answer to shared with Pathways of Hope, which Mike at: [email protected] provides services to families affected by Downtown Fullerton Market ANSWER TO E ARLY M ARCH . hunger and homelessness. The Beginning: You Say You Want Some Evolution MOMS Club members are stay-at- Below: The roof of the former Masonic home and/or working mothers living in The “stage,” and to call it a stage does Korn vendor showed up. Free samples, Temple building, now the Spring Field Fullerton. Members gather at parks, in require quotation marks, well, it was real - what a genius! The aroma drew you in and Conference Center on corner homes, at the library, and attend commu - ly just a framework covered with an unsta - there is no way any normal human could of Chapman and Harbor nity events together. To find your branch ble, nearly flat substance that may have at eat a handful of that too good to be legal of MOMS Club of Fullerton go to one time been plywood. The thing was goodness and walk away. Just like you, I www.momsclub.org. located in the corner of a dirt lot, across bought a bag every week and every once from a parking lot that was equal parts in a while some even made it home. bare dirt and asphalt crumbles. Took some The street itself was vintage cool, turned time to convince the first bands to play white from years of sun exposure and the there. “Hey, you live here, do it for your cracks were filled with black tar to keep home town!” It paid $150. The stage rem - the thing from drifting off in the next nant was quickly replaced in time, no rain. Back in those days it rained in harm, no fallen guitar heroes. Fullerton, sometimes even enough to cre - One of the early vendors had freshly ate puddles. baked cookies, salads, and huge baked The beer garden was less than half the potatoes and for some crazy reason, they size it is now and you could still get a seat. Changes all were not only really good but also real - Hard to believe but all of this is true, and Sorry to say but Café 109 on Harbor ly affordable. She sold out of a camping all of it led to what is now known as one seems to have closed their doors. We’ll trailer and every order came with a good of the places you need to see and be seen keep an eye on the place. CHA2o is mov - smile and a bad joke. in if you are going to be considered a true ing into the southeast corner of Harbor Things got even better when the Kettle “Fullertonian.” and Commonwealth. Looks like they will have a large menu with smoothies, Let the 2014 Fullerton Market Begin slushies, teas, and a large Asian inspired Fresh produce. Prepared food. Artisans. when you are there. food menu plus fruit platters, salads, and Bike Route Report Non-profit organizations. Merchants. “It is very popular with the returning desserts. Make that a very large menu and Live music. Kids activities. Beer garden. A farmers who always ask about it to make they appear to be moving quickly on the At the March 18 meeting (6:30pm at real stage and a plaza devoid of rock crum - sure they are one of the farmers who get to remodel so we should have a nice progress City Hall) the council will hear a presen - bles. The beer garden pranksters have not participate. They have come to know each report in the next issue. A new restaurant tation on "Bicycle Routes and Trail grown up but the trees have so we now other as well as the customers and that may be moving into the former OPUS Updates." While it is not certain what will have some nice shade. This is where really adds to the popularity of the mar - bank leasing office, keep an eye out for be included in the report, among the Fullerton becomes a true community and ket. When we open on April 3rd we will signage, etc. items that bicycle activists have asked to it starts soon. have tomatoes, asparagus, mushrooms, hear about are: the proposed Wilshire The Farmer’s Market side of things has and all of the other fresh produce we’re Bike Boulevard, the completion of the St been brought together since the very known for.” As the weeks pass, more and Josua Tree Music Fest Jude/Rolling Hills class I (paved, offroad) beginning by Kay Thomas. She has a more fresh fruit will arrive from near and It’s not in Fullerton, but still a fun event bike route, a class I bike route along the Masters in Social Work so she naturally often quite far, including peaches, plums, with live music continuously from 4pm Brea Creek flood control channel next to branched out and added the Farmers strawberries, well, I guess we could list ‘til 2am on Friday; 10am to 2am on Malvern, the use of "sharrows" in Market duties when the new nighttime just about every type of fruit and veg - Saturday; and 10am to 7pm on Sunday. Fullerton, installation of signage, appoint - Farmers Market came to be. It must have etable that grows in Southern California The 12th annual festival takes place May ment of a transportation czar, and plans seemed logical at the time and over 20 and you will likely find it there. 15 to the 18th. It’s a desert with average for getting future external funding (grant years later she is still a fixture so it has Let’s all promise to meet at the market high in May at 93, low at 71. Come and writing). This will be a good time to hear been a perfect fit. If you want to know soon. I’ll be one of the many wearing a go freely from your camp to the festival about what the city is doing to advance anything about everything or everything shirt with the word Fullerton on it. See village. Kids 10 and under are free. More safe bicycling, and to provide your input. about anything at the market, find Kay you then! info at www.joshuatreemusicfestival.com MID MARCH 2014 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7 Observers Around the World

A Visit to Quintana Roo “I visited my daughter, Molly Cooper, last sum - mer. She spent about 18 months teaching English at Na'atik Language School in Felipe Carillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico. We visited the Coba Mayan ruins near Playa del Carmen, saw the sights on the Yucatan peninsula, and swam in the Caribbean and two Inside a Hometown cenotes (mysterious sink - Magazine holes in the Yucatan). It was an awesome trip! Love The FullertonStories Magazine is the Observer!” an off shoot of the online news site - Joan Cooper FullertonStories.com published by Fullerton resident since Davis and Carrie Barber and their 1996 crew. The current issue is being dis - tributed throughout neighbor - Pictured at left, hoods by members of CSUF’s Molly and Joan Cooper at Rugby team. Davis says he hires the Coba Mayan ruins. nonprofits to distribute the maga - zine to give them a boost. Give him a call at 714-525-2671 if your group is interested in participating. Dave Temple and Sabino Gutierrez Visit the Masai in Kenya Inside the February/March issue are many interesting stories including an interview with 96-year-old for - “We spent two weeks mer Mayor Buck Catlin, and fea - visiting national parks and tures on home remodeling, inde - reserves in Kenya. pendent coffee houses, fashion, and This was taken while more. You can subscribe to the visiting the Masai Mara, magazine, which comes out six where we donated school times a year, for $36 by sending a supplies, books, and solar check to Fullerton Stories, 305 N. powered lighting to the Harbor Blvd., Suite 300C, local tribes. It was truly Fullerton CA 92832. For more the trip of a lifetime! information contact the news crew The program we partici - by email to pated in is a private aid [email protected]. foundation which targets villages based on needs which fluctuate by village (the Masai are nomadic tribes). We also worked The Observer with the Kenyan Wildlife Looking for Service and the Maasai Association.” Funny Items More Info: Submissions for the all funny www.kws.org April First Backpage are being www.maasai-associa - accepted through March 26. tion.org/maasai Send your short funny faux or real news article, story, cartoon or photo to: [email protected] or Fullerton Observer PO Box 7051 Fullerton CA 92834

Free Income Tax Assistance for Low & Moderate Income Seniors Free income tax preparation assistance for low-and moderate-income seniors will be offered on Thursdays through April 10th at the Fullerton Community Center, 340 W. Commonwealth (across from the library and city hall). Volunteers trained by the IRS will be available from 12 noon to 3pm. Seniors should bring their Social Security cards, copies of previous federal and state tax returns and forms for the current year, including W-2s, 1099s, SSA- 1099s, and anything else that reflects income and expenses for the year. FREE , BUT APPOINTMENTS ARE REQUIRED . CALL 714-738-6305 Page 8FULLERTON OBSERVER FROM FRONT PAGE MID MARCH 2014 How to Find Information on Oil Wells in Your Neighborhood

•A link to the Dept. of Conservation Oil, Gas, Geothermal map is now avail - able on the city website at cityoffuller - ton.com. At the site you can zoom in on Fullerton and other California towns to see where all oil wells are located. Here is the link: http://www.conserva - tion.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Index.aspx

•Another site which provides a map of wells being acidized, fracked or gravel packed (another form of fracking) can be found at: http://baldwinhillsoilwatch.org/action- center/sc-aqmd-rule-1148-2-maps/ When you get to this site you can expand the map to see any area including Fullerton and click on the dots represent - ing wells for more info. The group listens to one of several speakers. PHOTO PABLO UNZUETA •For more information on what kind of Acidizing’s Happening Here continued from frontpage chemicals are being used in specific wells where permits have been taken out to on fracking and acidizing issues, here we Longtime Fullerton resident Heather acidize or frack, and where the closest have a chance to get in front of the situa - Sutherland said she was glad she came to homes to those wells are located go to the tion. the rally. She plans to write city, county South Coast Air Quality Management No further information on the oil spill and state officials to ask them for a mora - District website www.aqmd.gov. has been released since Fish & Wildlife, torium until more can be learned about The direct link to the search engine is: the agency overseeing the hazmat clean- the risks. “Fracking and acidizing use large http://aqmd.gov/prdas/1148- up, declared it complete. The oil leak was amounts of water - a scarce resource in 2/main.html said to be 98% water. What was in that California - as well as dangerous chemicals Once there hit the “Community water has not been released. that can pollute our air and water. We Members” button to get to the “Well The source of the Mountain View Park have the choice to stand idly by and Activity” Search page. leak, ongoing since May 2013, is still assume someone else will step forward, Click on “Event Notification Search” being investigated and the city has recent - but, we all have the power to do some - and plug in “Breitburn Operating, LP” ly hired a new group of experts to help thing to keep our communities safe and and “Orange” to see a screen showing find the source. City tests of the water healthy.” Breitburn oil wells in zipcodes 92831 and found no petrohydrocarbons, but, the test Interest in the topic was originally 92835 in Fullerton. (The “View did not include chemicals used in acidiz - sparked by Ann Marshall who first Document” button does not work unless ing. Because the water is not cold, as it noticed the oil spill into the Fullerton you have Internet Explorer browser) would be if emanating from city water or Creek and alerted the paper. The Observer If you don’t have Explorer, click on the an artesian source, it is suspected to be January issue contained all we could find company name and the info will come up connected with the three oil pipelines out about the spill at the time. That issue on a screen showing five sections: underlying the park property. The oil can be found in the “Past Issues” link Under Section D you will note that the companies have denied responsibility. online at www.fullertonobserver.com. well is being Acidized. Several of the wells near Mountain Ann’s concerns also sparked the interest of Under Section E you will find the clos - View Park, such as Breitburn Well #30 Sherri Davison, of Fullerton, and together est home to the well. and Hualde Fee 45, on Bastanchury east they organized the info event along with Hit the “New Search” tab at the top of of the site, and Hualde Fee 42 in Vista members of the Brea Congregational the page and when there select the Park across from the site, are listed as Church, some of whom are also active “Chemical Report” tab. This will take you using a process called “Water Flood,” members of the Citizens Climate Lobby. to a page again showing the five wells. where enormous amounts of water are Go to www.citizensclimatelobby.org to Click on the “Event ID” of each well to injected to increase oil production. The find out more about the group. bring up a screen showing well activity. water used in that process may be mostly A surprize highlight of the event was a Click on Section B and C to see the list brine, or a mixture of hazardous and non- performance by Steve Noonan of a song and amounts of chemicals going into the hazardous wastes. he wrote about the issues. well listed. Above Right. You can also just put in “Orange” and Mountain View find all the wells being Acidized or Park closed due Fracked in all of Orange County. to mystery leak. On the main search page you can sign PHOTO MIKE RITTO up for notifications of new acidizing and At Right. fracking incidents by clicking on the “Join Singer Steve Newsletter” button at top right. Noonan with Sherri Davison PHOTO MIKE RITTO

At Left. Several visitors sign up for more info. PHOTO PABLO UNZUETA MID MARCH 2014 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 9

Puente Bike Path by Vince Buck Above Right: Puente Path The Puente Bike Path, which was com - These routes involve some hills. That is looking north. pleted two years ago, has proven to be a a good thing, but it does require some valuable and popular community asset. effort. Above: The The substantial resistance to its construc - Pavement is generally in better shape old Puente tion has now become general apprecia - outside of Fullerton. The worst pavement Path looking tion. The accompanying photos show the on these routes will be found on south. improvements that have been made. Associated Road, north of Rolling Hills; More to the point, this link between the Fullerton Creek Drive; and the 600 block At Left: The northern and southern segments of of Dorothy Lane. north entrance. Puente Street provides an important safe Rides, as described, start on Berkeley commuting route for people living in below the Court House and behind Below: north Fullerton and La Habra (and Ralph’s. This is the traditional starting What the north beyond) to downtown Fullerton, CSUF point for the off-road Fullerton Loop. entrance used and Troy High School. One of the most dangerous parts of these to look like. It also provides a number of new recre - rides is crossing Harbor and entering Brea ational riding possibilities which I enjoy Blvd. The crossing is narrow and there are several times a week. Two of them, which cars entering Brea from the right at high I encourage you to try, are described speeds. You may wish to start your ride below (others will be included in a later someplace else, most likely your home. article). Several caveats: All mileages are approximate. While these rides are mostly on streets The north slope on the Bike Path is that have Class II (striped, on-road) steep. Inexperienced riders or riders who routes, or are wide and lightly trafficked, are not in shape may have to walk. Riding both have some more challenging sec - south, it is easy to ride too fast. Be careful tions. If you are not an experienced rider and watch your speed. check them out in your car first. There may be the occasional errant golf Definitely ride the routes before taking ball on the Path. I have yet to encounter your kids on them. one but I have heard that they occur.

Route #1: Up and back on Puente. Route #2 Central/ Associated loop. This ride is about eleven miles and is the For riders who do not like retracing their simplest and easiest ride. steps this is an alternative to Route #1. It Leave the Court House parking lot; is around 12-13 miles. turn left on Berkeley and then right on The start is the same as Route #1, but at Valley View. After crossing Harbor, Valley Central (about four and a half miles) turn View becomes Brea Blvd. Much of Brea right on a class II route. At Brea Blvd., Blvd. is a Class II route but after crossing Central becomes State College and there Imperial the route is narrow for a short is a short steep hill. Stay on State College distance. The steepest grade on the ride to Birch. (The Class II markings end occurs past Longview. before Lambert and until it resumes this is At about 2 miles turn left onto Rolling a narrow and dangerous stretch. It is Hills (class II) and continue until it ends important to stay in your lane and not at Puente. Turn right and continue to the move into the bus stop area after crossing Bike Path at about two and a half miles. Lambert, since it will be unsafe to move Currently Puente is an unmarked route back into the lane until all cars pass.) but it is lightly travelled. Still, try to avoid At Birch (class II), about half a mile times when Beechwood School is opening beyond Lambert, turn left for another or letting out. half-mile to Associated Road (class II) After exiting the Path, continue on where you turn right. (South of Imperial, Puente until it ends at the open lands of back in Fullerton, the surface of the Puente Hills (about 5.5 miles from the Associated is very bad). Follow Associated start). Only part of the northern section Road across Yorba Linda Blvd. onto the of Puente is class II but it is generally CSUF campus. Turn right on West wide and/or lightly trafficked. Some of Campus Drive, right again on Gym the traffic consists of large trucks. There Drive, left on Student Union Drive and are several speed bumps. This is a gradual right on Dorothy Lane. (Experienced rid - uphill ride, but in the afternoon the ers might prefer to turn right on Yorba onshore wind will help you. Linda and reach Dorothy via Fullerton Return by the same route enjoying the Creek Drive, but this route has heavy traf - downhill run which you have earned. fic and narrow lanes.) Since it is a north/south ride, it is a Continue on Dorothy (class II and III) good ride for late in the day because the to Hornet (jogging left at Longview) and sun is not in drivers’ eyes for the most then to Berkeley. Turn right on Berkeley part. This ride can be extended by riding (class II) and back to your starting point. east to Berry or west to Palm, about a half There are many ways to extend this mile in either direction. Returning on route including riding all the way to Berry you can either go through Aerovista Carbon Canyon Park. The easiest exten - Park to Brea Boulevard, or by Brea city sion is a 2-mile loop around Craig Park. streets back to the Path. Next issue will include a couple of routes that go to the west. Page 10 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL AUTHOR MID MARCH 2014

“It took about a year to write the manuscript, a year for A First Novel from Local Author Michael Oates editing, and eight months for the publishing process.” And this did not include the time he devoted to research! An interview by Amanda Lara However, the hard work paid off. Now, Oates has a It’s sunny and pleasant in the outdoor patio contract with Knox Robinson Publishing, and "Wade in at Café Hidalgo in downtown Fullerton, and the Water" is garnering some stellar editorial reviews. author Michael Oates (also owner of the restau - Although this, his first book, is set to release next rant) is kind enough to treat me to a soda month, Oates is already working on other writing ven - before we begin the interview. As a writer tures and projects. myself, I’m interested in what inspired him to Mr. Oates offered me an advanced-reader copy of write his first novel, “Wade in the Water.” "Wade in the Water" which I devoured almost immedi - Playing the piano at seven years old, Oates ately. With beautiful prose and a gripping storyline, the says, was the first step in his artistic career. “I novel is a definite must-read. took my creative side that was predominately in HOW TO GET THE BOOK music over to the printed word, and just let it "Wade in the Water" is available for purchase now on flow.” Amazon.com, and will be in stores and as an ebook Oates, who has been in the restaurant busi - beginning April 22nd. ness for twenty-eight years, said that this was the first time that he took a writing idea and BOOKSIGNING EVENT APRIL 26 “saw the whole thing through to the end.” Author Michael Oates will be appearing at the Barnes “It’s hard to open yourself up – writing makes and Noble booksellers in the Amerige Heights shopping you vulnerable - because you’re saying things center on Saturday, April 26 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm to sign that are on your mind and in your heart, and copies of the novel. For a list of other appearance dates people either accept it or they don’t. I think it and information, visit his website at authormichae - is the same with any art you do.” Oates says, loates.com. smiling. “If there’s something that really inter - ests you, and you want to pursue it, I think Amanda Lara is a local high there comes a time when you just have to do school junior and author of the it.” TeenWorld column for the Observer. The idea for this novel started when he She's planning a career became intrigued by a piece of history, the dis - as a literary agent. aster of the Johnstown flood, which took place at the end of the nineteenth century. The flood was the result of a broken dam in the country - the Johnstown flood. “Through the flood, you see the side of Pennsylvania, and it devastated the community. father-and-son relationship change, as both realize the “It’s an event I learned about in 1989, when I saw a admirable qualities in each other. That’s one of the crux - April First documentary about it. An amazing tragedy of one catas - es of the novel: the theme of doing what you want to do trophe after another – it just gripped me.” and being who you are, and being accepting – father, Submissions “In life and in literature, I tend to look for a deeper mother, son, daughter.” meaning than what’s being said on the surface,” says Oates recalled how early on he expressed his interest in Submissions for the Fullerton Observer’s Oates. “This flood – this tragedy – it’s not simply about writing the story to his wife, and how she encouraged April First Funny Backpage are being the homes and factories that were washed away, but about him to pursue the idea. “The theme of the book is about accepted through March 26. If you have a the people who were there, living it.” going after your dreams; stop talking about it and do it, funny item to offer send it to: His passion for music bled into one of the main char - which was kind of how this book was written – thanks to [email protected] acters in the novel - a boy named Bennett who dreams my wife!” Oates laughs. or Fullerton Observer, PO Box 7051, about attending Juilliard. The characters in the novel, Between running his restaurant, and the responsibilities Fullerton CA 92834 including Bennett, come to face adversity as a result of and joys of family life, he found the time to write. MID MARCH 2014 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 11

WHAT ARE YOU READING? “Speaking of... by C.C. Lee BOOK REVIEW BY KATHLEEN FAHER Lara was rather underdeveloped, but as this story is told from Pudge’s point of Looking for Alaska view, it makes sense, because he has very by John Green little interest in her, though she harbors romantic feelings toward him. Miles Halter feels like his life is empty Alaska is the character that Green and his disappointing high school expe - describes the most. However, she occa - rience is nothing like he imagined it sionally lacks personality and feels more would be. In search of something new, like a plot point and an object for Pudge he convinces his parents to let him trans - to lament over due to unrequited love. fer from his public school in Florida to When it comes to Alaska, you either like Culver Creek Boarding School in or hate her. She has no qualms with Alabama, his father’s alma mater. sleeping around and cheating, drinking, He becomes best friends with his new and acting impulsively. She introduces roommate, Chip “The Pudge to misbehav - Colonel” Martin who gives ing and smoking, but him the nickname, "Pudge," doesn’t give a second to poke fun at his tall and thought to returning skinny frame. Across the his feelings. Green hall is Alaska Young, an portrays her as a self- intelligent, gorgeous girl described feminist; who soon captures Pudge’s however, with the Students performing the traditional “Peacock” dance at the attention. Together with way she acts, she rein - Fullerton Chinese School’s 25th anniversary celebration. Takumi and Lara, other forces negative per - dorm residents, they plan ceptions of women. It’s Great to be Multilingual the most outrageous pranks Halfway through in the history of Culver the novel, there is an Recently, I attended and helped host to communicate with other people from Creek. But the fun turns abrupt change of Fullerton Chinese School’s 25th different parts of the world. This will ben - sour and the group’s friend - pace. There seems to Anniversary dinner. There were more than efit everyone because the world will seem ships are at risk when an be less plot and the 250 people present, and among them was closer; more ideas can be shared. accident occurs and every - characters reminisce Fullerton Mayor Doug Chaffee, as well as There are many ways to learn new lan - one is forced to confront the about life and what some other invited guests. However, the guages. I am lucky enough to live in a big questions about life, love, and death. could possibly be after it, when one of majority of attendees were fami - household where my par - Looking for Alaska is written with the students dies. Though the novel does lies who have been attending or ents can speak another Green’s humorous tone that carries make you think, it dwells too much on volunteering at the school for a “If you talk language in addition to halfway through the novel, until the the same subject for long periods of long time. The school is all volun - to a man English, and I attend a point where the story becomes darker time. The book is littered with bright, teer-run, mostly by parents who in a language school that teaches and far more depressing. In his book humorous notes, but they are few and have or once had children attend - he understands, Spanish as part of the cur - The Fault in Our Star s, Green’s charac - far between in the depressing sludge, ing the school. Most of FCS’s riculum. Other schools ters can be pretentious and consider filled with underage drinking and smok - teachers were there as well. that goes also offer a choice of themselves more intelligent than their ing. Fullerton Chinese School and to his head. learning another lan - peers, which Green pulled off rather well Looking for Alaska was optioned as a the Fullerton Chinese Cultural If you talk guage. in “Stars.” The characters are similar in movie by Paramount Pictures, but got Association were founded in to him in Knowing one language Looking for Alaska also, but it is not as stuck in the black hole of predevelop - 1989. Since then, it has grown to can help learn another. successful. ment, an unfortunate fate for most be an excellent nonprofit organi - his language, For example, the Pudge is a generic character, rather would-be-movies. The screenplay was zation that has been successful in that goes Romance languages plain, but tolerable and relatable. He written by Josh Schwartz, who also preserving the Chinese culture to his heart.” (Spanish, French, Italian, feels what every teenager feels at some agreed to direct the movie. Be sure not and teaching the Chinese lan - etc.) are all very similar. I - Nelson Mandela point, like their lives are meaningless in to hold your breath about a movie possi - guage to thousands of students. take piano lessons and their adolescence. The Colonel is by far bility, but don’t give up complete hope. I began attending FCS when I many of the terms are in more interesting than Pudge, with a was in kindergarten, as did my Latin, French, or Italian. deeper and more complex character. Observer Book Review younger sister. Although sometimes reluc - Because Romance languages are related, Takumi was overlooked throughout columnist Kathleen Faher tant to go—because Chinese is so hard to knowing one can help decipher another. most of the novel, but Green saved his is a Troy High senior learn!—I do understand the value of While foreign languages do help com - shining moments in character develop - and a writer planning learning another language. At my school, municate with other peoples while travel - ment until the end, making him much a career in the we are required to take Spanish, begin - ing, they also help with certain profes - more understandable and interesting. publishing field. ning in kindergarten. Just like learning sions. For example, many students going any other subject, learning a language into the medical field might take Latin or requires comprehending the basics first, Greek because many medical terms are in beginning from common phrases and those languages; the same with law and most frequently used vocabulary words, to Latin. Even though learning and explor - colors, to numbers, etc. ing new languages may seem like a lot of I believe being multilingual is very work, it will only benefit us in the long important. One of my observations of run. American society is that we aren’t always CC Lee is a Fullerton 7th grader open to learning and trying new things. who loves to read and write, draw, sing Learning new languages is one way to and play piano and volleyball. Is There More to Teeth Clenching? open a new door for people, especially If you’ve ever heard a sleeping individual mon, people with one condition may want to kids. Being multilingual means being able clenching his or her teeth at night, you proba - consider diagnosis of the other two. bly already know something about “bruxism.” Those who grind their teeth at night are at Aside from making a horrible sound, this higher risk for developing temporomandibular excessive clenching of the jaws and grinding of joint (TMJ) misalignment, which is a very the teeth poses the potential to wear away painful and potentially debilitating condition. tooth enamel, disrupt jaw position, and even We provide complete, quality dental care for crack teeth. For these reasons, the dentist high - all your oral health needs. You can feel confi - ly recommends that bruxers be outfitted with dent that a professional and dedicated staff per - custom-made tooth guards that are worn at forms all services, and you’ll find our staff night to prevent tooth grinding and its delete - friendly and knowledgeable as well. Dental rious effects. In addition, research has recently exams are the best way to screen against brux - revealed that bruxism seems to be related to ism. We invite you to call us to schedule your restless leg syndrome and migraines. Because next appointment. Also ask us about “Tooth these condictions may have something in com - Print,” used in the event of a missing child. Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER ART NEWS MID MARCH 2014 Fun for All at ARTwalk Anniversary PHOTOS BY JERE GREENE The 4th Anniversary ArtWalk cele - bration held at the Fullerton Plaza was a blast and attended by 1,000 people. Entertainment was provided by the Toyaacan Aztec Dance Group, DJ Philip Higson, and live bands The Moan and Deep Sea Madness. There were also roving entertainers includ - ing Fullerton High School Circus Club’s jugglers. The event offered art-related exhibits, demonstrations and vendors including Mobile Tees with a silk- screen booth, Artside Studio, All the Arts for All the Kids, and Artist Supply Warehouse with hands-on art activites for kids. The event also fea - tured Blanquel Popular Art and other arts & craft booths, a photobooth, food trucks, beer and wine garden, booths by Kizh Gabríeleño Band of Mission Indians, Comic Book Hideout, and many more. The celebration was sponsored by Art Supply Warehouse, Diabolo Drinks, the Fullerton Museum Center, and MG Disposal, and organ - ized by ArtWalk founders Jesse LaTour and Brian Prince and Corky Nepomuceno, Kelly Chidester, Monica Johnson and Lilly Tokuyama. High School District Art Exhibit OLLI Artists Exhibit at the Bradford House The 28th Annual Fullerton Joint Union announced at the Awards Reception on The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute http://thebradfordhouse.info/ High School District Education Tuesday, April 8th at 6:30pm at the at Cal State Fullerton in conjunction with Artwork from OLLI classes in watercol - Foundation Art Show is on display at the Education Center Board Room. the Placentia Historical Society will pres - or, photography, drawing, ceramics and Education Center located at 1051 W. The nonprofit Education Foundation ent an exhibition of its members’ art work textiles will be exhibited on the porch and Bastanchury Road in Fullerton. The show has sponsored the art exhibit since 1987 on Sunday, April 6 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm lawn of the Bradford House while OLLI is open to the public Monday through in an effort to promote the visual arts of at the Bradford House,136 E. Palm Circle musicians perform inside the house. Friday, 8am to 5pm, through April 11. district students. in Placentia. Docents will conduct tours OLLI members will appear in Victorian The show will be juried by Fullerton The student art exhibit was organized of the interior of the historic house during costume. Visitors will have an opportuni - Museum Art Educator Aimee Aul; CSUF by Fullerton High Assistant Principal the exhibition. This event is part of ty to learn about the many OLLI classes Professor James Dahl, and Muckenthaler Sonje Berg and Troy High Principal Amy OLLI’s 35th Anniversary Celebration. and programs that are available for retired Director of Exhibits Matthew Leslie. The Avina. More information may be found at and semi-retired people in the area. Free winning student entries will be FULLERTON ARBORETUM MUCKENTHALER 1900 Associated Road (CSUF campus) Fullerton 657-278-3407 1201 W. Malvern, Fullerton 714-738-6595 TheMuck.org fullertonarboretum.org HANJI : C ONTEMPORARY KOREAN PAPER ART - THRU APRIL 13 CALIFORNIA INDIAN EXHIBIT California Indian Feast is a new statewide traveling exhibition from the Grace The Hanji: Contemporary Korean Paper Art Filled with historic and contemporary Hudson Museum and Exhibit Envoy. exhibit is curated by Linda Kim and Chung Lee photographs, food specimens, memoirs, The exhibit runs through March 23rd and curated by the Lynn J. Gallery. Hanji, tradi - recipes, baskets and other artifacts, For more information, please visit tional handmade Korean paper, is renowned for Seaweed, Salmon, and Manzanita Cider: A www.exhibitenvoy.org. its fine quality and durability. Artists Young Hoon Kim, Dong Hyun Chung, Soon Ok Ahn, FULLERTON MUSEUM CENTER Jong Kook Lee, Theresa Hwang, and Yoonsook 301 N. Pomona at Wilshire, Fullerton 714-738-6545 B. Ryang interpret this ancient art form in a vari - ety of unexpected ways for the 21st Century. MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II IN AP P HOTOS •M AIN GALLERY “Memories of WWII” •F OYER GALLERY is showing artwork features photos courtesy of the Associated by Aaron Jones. The resin drawings Press which offered Americans a daily view of represent an investigation into the the war by its own photographers and by memories of the last villains in society. photographers in the U.S. Armed Services, as •S TROLLER BRIGADE , free program well as images from the world press that oth - for toddlers and preschoolers features erwise would not have been seen. The best of docent-led games, stories and crafts in these images make up this exhibition. The the gallery. Every Wed. thru April 9th, exhibit runs through April 13. 10am to noon.

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STAGES THEATER by Mark Rosier REVIEWED 400 E. Commonwealth, (at Balcom) Fullerton Tickets: 714-525-4484 www.stagesoc.org •LOOT written by Joe Orton, directed the American Scene, an attack on the by Jesse Runde, opens March 28th and substitution of artificial, for real, values plays thru April 27th, Fri. & Sat. at 8pm, in our society, a condemnation of com - Sun. at 2pm. A masterpiece of satirical placency, cruelty, emasculation, and At Right: dark farce following the fortunes of two vacuity; it is a stand against the fiction The soon to young thieves, Dennis and Hal. Dennis that everything in this slipping land of be wed works for an undertaker. Hal’s old Mum ours is peachy-keen.” Jean-Michel (Michael has just died. They rob the bank next Edward Albee once said, “I have a fine Phillips) and door to the funeral parlour and find the sense of the ridiculous but no sense of his dad perfect place to hide the loot. When humor.” It’s that sense of the ridiculous Georges Inspector Truscott turns up, the already that governs the action in this early Albee (Richard thickened plot goes topsy-turvy. The one-act. The American Dream features Comeau) in show premiered in London in 1966 and the twisted archetypal family of Mommy, “La Cage remains one of the most potent works Daddy and Grandma, whose collective Aux Folles” from this comedic master. cruelty is rivaled only by their need for playing •AMERICAN DREAM by Edward each other. “ American Dream by Edward weekends Albee, directed by Philip Brickey, opens Albee is as important today as when it through April 5th and plays through April 26th. was written in 1960. It reminds us that April 26. The classic comedy is about an average everything is not perfect in the good ole family trying to keep up in a materialistic USA. It forces us to ask ourselves La Cage Aux Folles at the Maverick society. When Albee wrote the play, the whether the American Dream is dead or La Cage Aux Folles burst onto the Glenn Koppel and Richard Corneau are popular culture ideal of the American was it ever attainable in the first place,” Broadway theatrical scene in 1983 and beyond fabulous with their portrayal of a family was rooted firmly somewhere says director Philip Brickey. was nominated for nine Tony awards, married couple doing whatever is needed between Father Knows Best and The The play performs on Saturdays & winning six. The musical with music and for the happiness of their son. Donna Reed Show . Albee himself Sundays at 5pm April 5 through April lyrics written by Jerry Herman and book Songs like “We Are What We Are,” described the play as, “an examination of 26. by Harvey Fierstein Brown and is based "With You On My Arm," and “Song On on the 1973 French play of the same The Sand,” provide a touching heartfelt MUCKENTHALER CULTURAL CENTER THEATER name by Jean Poiret. tone and subtle yet poignant messages 1201 W. Malvern, Fullerton Fullerton's local Maverick Theatre about self pride, romance that can stand Tickets: 714-738-6595 www.themuck.org brings a glitzy and heartfelt spectacle that the test of time, as well as the fact that love entertains on many a level. The musical knows no gender, age or race. •COUGAR MAMA written & per - $20. (A pre-show dinner is offered at production tells the story of Georges, the Michael D. H. Phillips and Angela formed by Polly Seale, produced by 5:30pm for $20.) Cougar Mama com - master of ceremonies and owner of the St Griswold make a quirky and endearing FCLO Music Theatre, plays one night bines passion for musical theatre with Tropez draq queen club "La Cage Aux pair who's chemistry is as authentic as only on Thurs., March 20 at 7:30pm. passion for love, life and motherhood. Folles. Georges lives happily with his same you'll find on any Orange County theatre sex "wife" the larger than life Albin who stage. Matt Jennings as Jacob brings a CHANCE THEATER performs under the name Zaza with Les fierceness and wonderfully effortless sense 5552 E. La Palma, Anaheim Hills Cagelles, an assortment of vivid and of timing to every scene he inhabits. Tickets: 714-777-3033 www.chancetheater.com unique chorus drag queens and women Director Curtis Jeromes masterfully •24-HOUR CHANCE-A-THON Jocelyn A. Brown, Aimee Gomez, David that bring sparkle and spectacle every crafts humor, pathos, spectacle, glitz and a provides 26 hours of live performances in McCormick, Erika C. Miller, Bill instance they are on stage. cast of beauteous singers who bring depth support of chance Theater’s artistic and Strongin & Scott B. Well George's son Jean-Michel who is the and true emotion to the story. Curtis educational programs. Twenty-five differ - DAY 2 - Sunday, March 23 product of a drunken one night stand Jerome's additional elegant and delicious - ent acts are presented during the 2-day Leg 3: 9am-4pm returns home to inform his father that he ly over-the-top costume design and ener - marathon line-up of performances. 9am Wild Things Children’s Theatre is to wed a lovely young lady named Anne getic choreography make each dance DAY 1 - Saturday, March 22 Troupe who's father happens to be a politician for number ooze with an adventurous sense Leg 1: 10am-4pm 10am “Speak the Speech” - OCSA The Tradition, Family and Morality Party of exhilaration and energy. 10am “Learn the choreography from 11am “Take a Chance!” - a musical and who threatens to shut down all estab - The themes of acceptance, tolerance Lysistrata Jones” - with Kelly Todd revue by Ragtag Entertainment lishments he deems morally objection - and self pride are as prevalent today as 11am “Community Speak Up” – with 12pm “We Will Rock You 2!” - OCSA able. they were when this show first captivated Marilyn Boehm, Sarah DuVal, Maile 1pm “Musical Revue 4 U” - with local Jean-Michel invites his estranged birth and enlightened audiences in 1983. Fok, Christopher Hughes, Courtney middle and high school students mother Sybil to attend a gathering of both La Cage Aux Folles at The Maverick Mitchell and Regina Niles 2pm “Inspired” - with St. Mary families in a meeting in advance of the Theatre runs weekends through april 26. 12pm “Friday Night Film Fights” - a Magdalene Anglican Church Choir wedding and in doing so alienates Albin, live podcast with Sam Well & Kyle Haas 3pm “The Jenga Princess” - a new the parent who has raised him since birth. MAVERICK THEATER 1pm “Rachel Mount” - a cabaret play by Tiffany Reid When Sybil cancels at the last minute 110 E. Walnut Ave., Fullerton 2pm “Truth Be Told” - a one-man Leg 4: 4pm-10pm Albin takes it on himself to portray Jean- play with Doyle Smiens 4pm “Judevine: A Solo” - starring Michel's mother with many a laugh out Tickets: 714-526-7070 www.mavericktheater.com 3pm “Dis-FUN-ction” - a cabaret Brian Rickel, directed by Kari Hayter loud result. The story is at the core a love with Joanne Juliet Lapointe 5pm “Ragtime For All Time” - with story between Albin and Georges and Leg 2: 4pm-10pm Eric Marchese •LA CAGE AUX FOLLES music puzzle pieces that each character brings to 4pm “King of the World” - a cabaret 6pm “Blue Skies” - a concert with & lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by the joy of the other. with Ana Bomgaars and friends Erika C. Miller, Rob Blaney, Jon Hyrkas Harvey Fierstein, directed by Curtis La Cauge Aux Folles is a tricky undertak - 5pm “Pump Room 111” - a new play and Bill Strongin Jerome plays through April 26 with ing that takes some precise elements to be by Gabriel Carrasco 7pm “Miscast: A Broadway Cabaret!” Fri. & Sat. shows at 8pm and Sun. at considered a worthwhile production. First 6pm “So Happy (Singing) Together” - - with Jared Kaitz and friends. 5pm. Audiences may be familiar with and foremost the relationship between a concert with Robyn & Robert Wallace 8pm “Improv Comedy” - with Secret the story from the popular movie Albin (Glenn Koppel) and Georges 7pm “Seventh Street Jazz” - with City Comics Society “The Birdcage” starring Robin (Richard Comeau) must have a believable Cristiana Franzetti 9pm “Role Reversal 2” - with Laura Williams. $25 ($15 for students with chemistry because their relationship is the 8pm “Let’s Duet” - with Melinda M. Hathaway, Katie Brown and Matt current ID). Not intended for anyone soul of the entire piece. Porto & Miguel Cardenas Takahash. under 13. 9pm “Craic in the Stone” - with Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER EVENTS MID MARCH 2014 Get Your Garden Started by Warren Bowen and opens at 9am. Admission is always There is more home gardening of free (donations welcome!) . For this event vegetables now than at any time since get there early for parking in the Arb lot WWII with its “Victory Gardens” This though parking in the Cal State lots is good for budget economy, nutrition nearby will also be available. OC and exercise. Your best Master gardeners will be present to help select plants and offer gar - choice to get an early start is Veggiepalooza to stop in at the Fullerton dening demonstrations. Arboretum for the annual at the The Arboretum is located plant sale of veggies. It is Arboretum at 1900 Associated Road just more than tomatoes and pep - Over 600 east of State College Blvd. pers this year...a real varieties of off Yorba Linda Blvd. on the Veggiepalooza. That name is vegetable plants Cal State Fullerton campus. new but the annual event has are offered Bring a wagon if you plan on been going on for a quarter Sat. & Sun. stocking up in quantity. Members of the Friends of of a century. March 22 & 23 This year there will be over the Arboretum support 600 varieties of vegetable group will be admitted on plants, fruits, and companion plants Friday, March 21 at 3pm. Don't from around the world including 200 belong?....you can join at the gate and tomato choices and 190 peppers. become more involved in the The Fullerton High School Circus Club added to the merriment. PHOTO BY JERE GREENE People drive from places like Temecula Arboretum's annual events! and North Hollywood to get the rare Call 657-278-3407 or visit fuller - Mardi Gras for Autism a Success Despite Rain pepper varieties they seek! Some of the tonarboretum.org for more informa - hottest will bring in folks with back - tion. This year’s Mardi Gras for Autism event If you miss out on this sale don’t was held on March 1st and drew 2,000 peo - grounds in India and the Philippines. One local motel already has a reserva - despair. The Arboretum will be selling ple of all ages despite falling on one of plants for weeks after the event. Pop in California’s very few rainy days. Huge tents tion by an Alaskan! The giant plant sale takes place on Saturdays and Sundays for your were set up in the parking lot on E. Santa Fe plants and free gardening advice. to keep the revelers dry. The event was truly Saturday and Sunday March 22 and 23 fun for all with interactive activities and exhibits for all abilities, live dance, music, Free Every magic performances. And Fullerton High School’s Circus Club performers. Tuesday The annual event is sponsored by Larry Sierra Club Houser who became involved with autism after his son was diagnosed. Admission is Singles Hike always free but part of the funds raised from & Dinner food and drink sales are donated to Fullerton 4 to 5 mile hike in the gen - Cares, the autism support group Larry tle hills of Fullerton. The founded. $8,500 was collected before slow to medium pace is great expenses this year. Proceeds will help support King & Queen of the Autism Mardi Gras for beginners. Optional din - autism programs in the Fullerton School were Bruce and Linda Whitaker. ner afterwards. The hike District. PHOTO BY MATT LESLIE begins at 6:30pm. Find out more about Fullerton Cares at Meet at the east end of www.fullertoncares.com or on the fullerton - Below: Huge tents kept Mardi Gras atten - Laguna Lake in Fullerton cares facebook page. Also check out a dees and performers dry during the some - (from Harbor Blvd. go west on AutismLive youtube review of the event at times torrential showers during the event. Hermosa Dr., left on Lakeside http://youtu.be/IA14lk9xDm8 PHOTO BY JERE GREENE Dr. for ½ block and park on the street) . Look for hikers on the east side of Lakeside Dr. Wear sturdy boots, bring water, flashlight. Call Sanford Opperman at 714- 993-0651.

MUSEUM OF TEACHING AND LEARNING BENEFIT 6PM TO 8:30 PM FRIDAY , M ARCH 21 THE AYRES HOTEL & S UITES , 325 B RISTOL STREET , C OSTA MESA Chinese appetizers & sweets, beer, wine, coffee, silent auction Keynote Speaker Rick Harrington “A P EEK AT AMERICAN SCHOOLS THROUGH THE EYES OF CHINESE TEACHERS ” Tickets $45 online at www.motal.org or mail check to: MOTAL, PO Box 3820, Fullerton CA 92834-3820 Call Greta Nagel at 714-824-4221 or email [email protected] MID MARCH 2014 EVENTS CALENDAR FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15

MON, MARCH 17 SAT, MARCH 22 THURS, MARCH 27 continued •4:30-6:30pm: Forgotten Heroes •1pm-3pm: Bridal Gown Sale at •11:30am-2pm: Lunch with League HITS & of the UFW at Pollak Library, Room Assistance League Benefit at the “Our Dysfunctional Congress” present - 130, CSUF, 800 N. State College Assistance League meeting room MISSES ed by Pat Ganer, PhD, who has been on Blvd., Fullerton. Johnny Itliong, son adjoining the Bargain Box Thrift by Joyce Mason the faculty of Cypress College since 1971 of UFW co-director Larry Itliong, Store, 233 W. Amerige in Fullerton. © 2014 teaching Speech Communication and will discuss the legacy of his father The event features once-worn bridal Political Science. Meridian Club, 1535 and other Filipino farmworkers and gowns modeled by Assisteens Deerpark Rd, Fullerton. RSVP by leaving DALLAS BUYERS CLUB: organizers of the Delano Grape Auxiliary members. Proceeds go to message at 714-254-7440 or online at Two Hits Strike and boycott in 1965. Free but League philanthropies. Light refresh - [email protected] no later than parking is $2 per hour or $8 for daily ments will be served. Admission is “Dallas Buyers Club,” a film not memorable Mon. March 24. $18 permit. For more info call Carolina free. for plot but elevated by its performances, man - SAT, MARCH 29 Ojeda-Kimbrough at 657-278-2006 •2pm: An American Girl in aged to receive nominations for Best Picture, Best •11am-1pm: Assembly District 65 or email cojeda-kimbrough@fuller - Hitler’s Germany at Fullerton Leading Actor, and Best Supporting Actor at Women of Distinction honorees will be ton.edu Museum Auditorium, E. Wilshire at Hollywood’s Academy Awards ceremony. It won presented in a ceremony held at the Buena TUES, MARCH 18 Pomona, downtown Fullerton. Free two of these Oscars, thanks to the exceptional Park Community Center, 8150 Knott •8am-4pm: 23rd Annual with museum admission to the work of Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. Ave., Buena Park. Call Assemblywoman Linguistics Symposium CSUF Memories of WWII exhibit of AP Starting in the early 90s, McConaughey’s Sharon Quirk-Silva’s office at 714-526- Titan Student Union, 800 N. State photos. 714-738-6545. 9-year-old career began with small parts that gradually mor - 7272 with questions or go to College, Fullerton. Speakers include Eleanor Ramrath Garner was on a phed into leading-man roles in romantic come - www.asmdc.org/quirk-silva Rebekha Abbuhl, Rong Chen, Eniko ship in the mid Atlantic when war dies, a specialty that brought him notice in the •2pm: Life Aboard a Pacific Csomay, and Robert Malouf. Free broke out. Unable to return to the 2000s but made him restive to shed the hand - Battleship Veterans panel discussion, but parking is $2/hr or $8/day. For US, she and her family spent the some, leading-man stereotype. His shift to more organized by American Legion Post 142 more info contact Michael Hein at entire war in Germany. Her best sell - challenging roles began when he played the will be held in the Fullerton Museum [email protected] ing memoir is a story of trying to small-town Texas lawyer in “Bernie” and the run - Auditorium, E. Wilshire at Pomona, •12:45pm-2:30pm: Duncan maintain hope, in a world full of ter - away outlaw in “Mud.” But even these memo - downtown Fullerton. Free with museum Tonatiuh, award-winning chil - ror. Fullerton Museum Auditorium, rable roles are overshadowed by his portrayal of admission to the Memories of WWII dren’s author, illustrator on Social E. Wilshire at Pomona, downtown real-life Ronald Woodroof. exhibit of Associated Press photos. 714- Justice issues at Pollak Library, Fullerton. Free with museum admis - Shedding over 40 pounds from his already 738-6545. Room 130, CSUF, 800 N. State sion to the Memories of WWII slender physique, McConaughey is barely recog - THURS, APRIL 3 nizable as Ron, the electrician and part-time College Blvd., Fullerton. Storytelling exhibit of AP photos. 714-738-6545. and the social issues explored in his SAT & SUN, MARCH 22 & 23 •4pm-8:30pm: Downtown Fullerton rodeo rider, who in 1985 tests positive for H.I.V. arket opens with fresh vegetables, fruit, books, including “Diego Rivera: His •Veggiepalooza Plant Sale at the M A heterosexual, promiscuous womanizer and rag - flowers, craft and food vendors, beer and ing homophobe, Ron resents the homosexual World and Ours,” and, “Pancho Fullerton Arboretum, 1900 Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Associated Rd., on the CSUF cam - wine garden, live entertainment, and kids stereotype associated with the diagnosis as much ctivities. Downtown Plaza, and along E. Tale,” are the subject of this free lec - pus. For more info call 657-278- a as he resists accepting the doctors’ findings. But Wilshire between Harbor and Pomona in his T-cell count is 9 (100 being normal), and ture by Tonatiuh who grew up in San 3407 and see article on page 14. Miguel de Allende. Free but parking SUN, MARCH 23 downtown Fullerton. Admission is free. Ron is told he has approximately 30 days to live. Free parking in the structure next to the is $2/hr or $8/day. •8am-2pm: Family Health Fair at AIDS treatment in 1985 is experimental at best park across the street from the Museum •6:30pm: Fullerton City Council Buena Park High School, 8833 and Ron learns that a double-blind trial using Center. Call 714-738-6545 for more info. Meeting at Fullerton City Hall, 303 Academy Dr., Buena Park. Come AZT is being conducted in a Dallas hospital. Be there or be square! But, as yet, no conclusive results have been found W. Commonwealth. Superbowl learn about state resources available and the drug lacks F.D.A. approval. So Ron Champ honored (see frontpage); to you and your family and about searches for alternative treatments. He visits an Bicycle Update; MADD Awards; health care options and how you can unlicensed American doctor living in Mexico, PLC Harborwalk Apartments; enroll in Covered California. The who tells him that massive doses of AZT are dan - Amerige Court DDA Extension; free fair is sponsored by 65th District gerous but he would like to start Ron on a mix - Political sign update; Towing RFP; Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva ture of zinc, aloe, vitamins, fatty acids, Peptide T Housing Bond Funds & Affordable and the Anekant Community and DDC. Housing Project update; T&CC Center. Call Buena Park High at This medical cocktail does extend Ron’s life Crosswalk enhancements at uncon - 714-992-8601 well past the 30-days the doctors had predicted. trolled crosswalks WED, MARCH 25 So the renegade electrician/rodeo rider/hell-raiser WED, MARCH 19 •8am-1pm: Year-round Every becomes an entrepreneur as he starts illegally •8am-1pm: Year-round Every Wednesday Farmers Market at importing these drugs and offering them to Wednesday Farmers Market at Independence Park (next to the AIDS patients “free.” The catch is they must join Independence Park (next to the DMV) on Valencia Dr. between his Dallas Buyers Club with a monthly member - DMV) on Valencia Dr. between Euclid and Highland. Fresh fruit, ship fee of $400. But to reach his customer base, Euclid and Highland. Fresh fruit, vegetables, eggs, nuts, mushrooms, he needs to find a partner with contacts in vegetables, eggs, nuts, mushrooms, fish, bread, flowers, plants from real Dallas’s gay community. fish, bread, flowers, plants from real farmers. Many hard to find items. During Ron’s brief stay in the hospital AIDS farmers. Many hard to find items. 714-871-5304. ward, he has met Rayon (Jared Leto), a transsex - 714-871-5304. THURS, MARCH 27 ual, who wears provocative clothes and abundant THURS, MARCH 20 •9am-3pm: Literature, Culture makeup. The two have an antagonist relation - •11:30am-1:30pm: AAUW No- & Language Conference at Titan ship because of Ron’s intolerance for non-hetero - Host Lunch & Speaker Masako Student Union, CSUF, 800 N. State sexuals, but recognizing a mutual need, Ron and Kawase at the Sizzler Restaurant, College, Fullerton. Over 40 student Rayon become reluctant business partners, 1401 N. Harbor, Fullerton. Masako presentations related to literature, enabling Ron to travel for the drugs to Japan, Kawase will speak about the book culture and languages including: Germany and Mexico, where they are legal. But “The Inspiring Story of Takahashi 9:50am Vietnamese & Spanish; in the U.S., no drugs for treating AIDS have yet Bird Pins,” and the history and artis - 11am Chinese and Spanish; 1pm received FDA approval. Understanding Ron’s tic talent of the Takahashi family. Luso Brazilian dramatic monologues desperate search for medical help, a dedicated •4pm: Micro-Inequities: What & TESOL; 2pm Japanese, Spanish doctor and researcher named Eve (Jennifer Are They and Why They Matter is American & TESOL. Free but park - Garner) offers sympathy and acknowledges that the focus of a lecture about the small, ing is $2/hr or $8/day. her profession cannot yet offer help to AIDS suf - unjust inequalities part of a larger https://sites.google.com/site/aaeean - ferers. story about the unequal place of nualconference/conference-program “Dallas Buyers Club” is not a pretty movie to women in the workforce presented watch. Scenes in seedy motels, run-down trailer by Samantha Brennan, professor of parks, and narrow bull pens provide a rough and philosophy at Canada’s Western raw edge to the movie. But the authentic and University. CSUF Humanities Social dynamic performances of McConaughey and Science Room 110, 800 N. State Leto elevate the film as the two actors squeeze College, Fullerton. Free but parking humanity out of two basically unsympathetic is $2/hr or $8/day. characters. Some of the film’s redemptive quali - FRI, MARCH 21 ties can also be attributed to French-Canadian •9am-10:30am: Veterans Affairs director Jean-Marc Vallee (“The Young Victoria”) Breakfast at North Orange County and scriptwriters Craig Borten and Melisa Community College District, 1830 Wallack. W. Romneya Dr., Anaheim. Come to discuss veterans issues with Assembly member Sharon Quirk-Silva. RSVP Two Hits: Don’t Miss It! at [email protected] or A Hit & A Miss: You Might Like It call 714-526-7272. Two Misses: Don’t Bother Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER MID MARCH 2014

REST IN PEACE WE REMEMBER YOU John was extremely close to Warafterwar by Thom Pari • his daughter Janine who passed away in 2005. John The old men are rumbling Dr. John T. Walker adopted Kristin Sunanta They want another war Walker (Joy’s daughter) in They love war for the young Dr. John T. Walker, 75, passed away at 2009. John is survived by his They took US to Korea the Solace Center Hospice in Asheville, wife Joy Wanden Walker of So many died in snow NC, on February 27, 2014, 3:55 pm, Waynesville, NC, brother A futile effort in a draw after suffering a stroke in January. Craig Walker of Redlands, The took US to Vietnam John was born in Chicago and moved CA, sister Joyce Walker 60,000 died for nothing to Whittier California as a ten-year-old. Breithaupt of Everett, WA, Fifteen wasted years He graduated from Whittier High in sons John R. Walker of President after President lying 1956 and received a full scholarship to Carlsbad CA, David Walker of While it was we who protested labeled Dartmouth College where he majored in Costa Mesa and Robert Commie scum who were right German Language and Literature. One of Walker of Rolesville, NC, and 911 came we must have a war the most formative experiences in John’s daughter Kristin Sunanta The old men screamed life was to study at the University of Walker of Waynesville, NC. Another President lied as did his VP Freiburg in southeastern Germany for a one of the most satisfying in his career. The bereaved also include The old men and the President semester in his senior year. A multi-gen - He was proud to have assisted at least daughters-in-law Ellen Walker Would not fight nor the VP erational friendship with his host family 1,000 students in their desire to study of Costa Mesa, CA, and So again the young went has endured. in places like England, Paris, Costa Jeannine Walker of Rolesville, They died in the thousands In 1963, after completing his MA in Rica, Florence, and Salzburg. NC, granddaughter Kylie For nothing ever found except waste German at the University of Southern Being a father always came first. Walker of Costa Mesa CA, Send them to another country to war California, John was hired at Fullerton During all of this time, he was able to grandson Kellen Stover of FL, Screamed the old men because we must kill College where he would spend the next be a loving father to his children, brother-in-law Stephen A. So more young died and did the despicable 48+ years. John was a German professor attend all of their athletic games and Breithaupt of Everett, WA, sis - Torture and then sent in the drones until 1981, engaging his students with his make the school lunches. Though his ter-in-law Barbara Walker of Better we send in the clowns whose idea pedagogical antics. lunches were famously horrible, it was Redlands, CA, and nieces War is the answer to all He served in various administrative the effort that his children will never Nancy Shaffer of PA and Faith Now again they scream in yellow paper capacities, including Dean of Instruction forget and will always appreciate. John M. Walker, of Flagstaff, AZ, Wrapped in Fox News with blond anchors until 1995. From 1995-2011, his love of was the most amazing father and has Genevieve Morrissey and her Send troops to the Ukraine Where teaching led him back to the classroom as the utmost respect and love from his husband Dr. James H. In the middle of Russia sits a bear History Professor. During his time at children and his wife Joy. Morrissey of Champaign, IL The German’s had such good luck in WW2 Fullerton College and while actively rais - An incredibly polite person who and their daughter, niece Let US too get bogged down ing his four children, John earned a PhD would never say anything disparaging Sarah Elliott and her husband In yet another fiasco war in History from the University of about anyone, John also had an infec - Frank Elliott, of Frederick, We have 662 military bases around the globe California at Irvine tious laugh and a great sense of humor. Maryland. He is also survived In over one hundred countries While an administrator, John led like- He was certainly loved by all who knew by his first wife, Pamela M. Mustn’t let them stand idle minded faculty in the establishment of a him. Walker, of Fullerton, CA. We have no hand in this poker game Study Abroad Program for both Fullerton John retired in 2011 to the Great Between evil Putin and the Ukraine and Cypress colleges, a program that has Smokey Mountains of North Carolina In lieu of flowers the family We took our gold medals and went home endured for a quarter century. where he shared an amazing last two requests you instead donate to Let US not go back and show we are evil too The high point of his teaching career years of his life with his loving wife of the Fullerton College While still killing children in the desert was in 2011 when he was co-leader of the 22 years, Joy. They were inseparable. Foundation at: Bring home the troops first study abroad program to be taught in Joy was with John almost every minute www.fullcollfoundation.org and talk no more of war Berlin. His Study-Abroad experience was of his last 7 weeks in the hospital.

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Orangethorpe Unitarian Universalist Christian Congregation in Fullerton Church 1600 N. Acacia Ave. (Disciples of Christ) Welcome 10:15am • Service: 10:30am CHILDCARE (infant & toddlers) & Programs for Pre-K thru Teen Dr. Robert L. Case, Pastor SUN ., M ARCH 16: Universalism: Past, Present, Powerful - Rev. Fristad Sunday Service : 10 AM SUN ., M ARCH 23: Spring Can Really Hang You Up - Rev. Jon Dobrer 2200 W. O RANGETHORPE SUN ., M ARCH 30: Building Our Legacy - Rev. Jon Dobrer FULLERTON (714) 871-3400 www.orangethorpe.org Rev. Jon Dobrer www.uufullerton.org 714-871-7150 MID MARCH 2014 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17

At Left: Barbara Johnson, HAPPY 95 TH BIRTHDAY Jo-Anne Matsuba, DORA MAY SIM ! Jan Fontes, and Barbara Dietterle were the team from Fullerton accompanying children in a visit to parents in jail on the most recent Get On The Bus event.

Jazz pianist Ron Kobayashi and friends will perform at a dinner fundraiser for the program at 5pm on March 29th at St. Juliana’s in Fullerton. Happy Birthday to Dora May Sim who will be cel - ebrating her 95th birthday on March 24th. Well wishes may be sent to: Dora May Sim, 2527 Brea Blvd. #214, Fullerton CA 92835. Dora May was hospitalized late last year but has now recovered and is doing fairly well in her apartment home at Morningside’s Park Vista Assisted Living says “It Was a Privilege to Go to Prison” by Barbara W. Johnson daughter Maureen File.. A retired Fullerton librarian, Dora May Sim is also If these words cause you to be shocked, I am not At lunchtime, 3 kinds of pizzas were delivered, and the author of “Ostrich Eggs for Breakfast: A History surprised. Let me explain why I feel this way. For Jan had fun being the “waitress” taking orders from for Boys & Girls” about the history of the city of the past 8 years I have been part of the “Get On The each family, and I had fun putting the order on each Fullerton. The book, illustrated by Wanda Collins, Bus” program of the Center for Restorative Justice plate for her to deliver. was first published in 1972 and republished in 1986 in Works (CRJW), a nonprofit organization that unites We were told that an attached outside grassy area time for the city’s centennial celebration. children, families and communities separated by that is never open was specially opened that day so Ostrich Eggs for Breakfast is available to borrow at the crime and the criminal justice system. that the little kids with bubble blowing equipment Fullerton Public Library and copies are on sale at the My church, the Congregational Church of could go outside and not make the inside floor wet Library History Room, 353 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton, United Church of Christ, has been part - and slippery. The fathers and their children loved Fullerton. Proceeds go to support the library. Go to nering with St. Juliana Catholic Community for the being outside together. I was touched by overhearing www.fullertonlibrary.org for more information on the past 4 years to raise the necessary funds to provide a father and son talk about baseball and watching as library or call 714-738-6333. the buses to transport the children, their caregivers the dad taught his son some special moves. and other volunteers often long distances from The four hours went by very quickly, and soon it Orange County to many different prisons through - was time to leave—another emotional time for the A Thank You Note from out California. However, 2013 was the first year I families and for us. We stopped at a Community was privileged to be part of a volunteer team selected Center for a simple supper on the way home and Fullerton Historian Dora May Sim to accompany the children on the bus to Soledad, then watched Disney movies on the bus with the to Fullerton Residents and Valley State Prison to visit their fathers on children (or slept) until we got home to Fullerton at Fathers’ Day last June. 10:30pm to end a day I will never forget and an “Words cannot express what it means to have so Our team consisted of Barbara Dietterle, Jo-Anne experience I felt privileged to have! many kind, caring thoughts and encouragement from Matsuba, Jan Fontes—all from St. Juliana’s— and When I began educating myself on this issue, I was so many people in our city of Fullerton. The helpful - me. Our bus started with a group from San Diego at surprised to learn from the Center for Restorative ness and pleasure of your gifts, such as flowers from 12:10am on Saturday, June 15, and then picked up Justice Works (CRJW) that “more than 200,000 private gardens, have brightened my home here at our group in Fullerton at 3:30am and another group children in California have a parent in prison and Park Vista Assisted Living at Morningside. And so in Santa Clarita at dawn. On we went to Soledad, that 50% of Get On The Bus mothers and 40% of many cards and visits from friends continue to bright - and Valley State Prison, where we arrived at about Get On The Bus fathers report that they would never en my life. Please accept my love and deep apprecia - 10am for our scheduled 4-hour visit. see their children without Get On The Bus. tion for all of your kindness.” Barbara Dietterle and Jo-Anne Matsuba were Experts in the field stress that regular visits with Still Loving Fullerton, assigned to one unit, and Jan Fontes and I to a dif - incarcerated parents maintain healthy emotional and Dora May Sim ferent one. After passing through intense security, social adjustment for these at-risk children. Regular Jan and I arrived in a pleasant room arranged with visits also help to strengthen family bonds—a signif - low tables and chairs set up for the families to gather icant factor which can result in around. The tables were filled with games, drawing lower rates of recidivism for materials, and other activities. There was a special the parents.” To learn more, photographer to take the family’s photo, which was visit getonthebus.us or contact definitely a highlight of the day and we were touched Barbara Johnson of the when these precious photos and their family stories Congregational Church of were shared with us. Fullerton, 714-529-5166. Page 18 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL NEWS MID MARCH 2014 Damas de Caridad’s Building Dreams Together Fundraiser for St. Jude Medical Center by Erin Wilkinson order to provide care to its patients, we are When St. Jude Hospital was opened in proud to be one of the organizations that Fullerton in 1957 by the Sisters of St. provide support. Joseph of Orange, local philanthropist In keeping with the mission of support Marcy Arroues Mulville recognized the for St. Jude through philanthropy, we will value of having a quality hospital in our be hosting a luncheon fundraiser, community. “Building Dreams Together,” on April 5th To help raise money for this new hospi - at The Richard Nixon Presidential tal, Mulville founded Damas de Caridad Library. Our event will feature a live and in 1961 with its sole mission being sup - silent auction as well as opportunity tick - port for St. Jude through philanthropy. ets for purchase with a chance to win a Over the years St. Jude has become one cash prize. We will also be recognizing of the premier medical centers in the Dr. Michael Sugarman and his tireless region and along the way Damas has work on behalf of St. Jude Medical donated nearly $2 million to St. Jude and Center. the programs it supports, including the We are very pleased that all of our net Children’s Dental Clinic and the Mobile proceeds are earmarked once again for state of the art equipment and technology Funds from the Damas de Caridad fundraiser are earmarked for equipment and technology Pediatric Clinic. We continue to be very improvements in patient rooms and surgical suites in the new Northwest Tower. passionate about St. Jude and the life-sav - in patient rooms and surgical suites in the ing work that happens there. Since St. new Northwest Tower. This will be a Contact Lorraine Lappi at (714) 529- completing the Contact Us form. We Jude is a not-for-profit hospital and wonderful addition to our community 1671 to request an invitation or visit our hope to see you on the April 5th – we depends on a generous community in and we are pleased to be a part of the website at www.damasdecaridad.com and would love to have you join us! fundraising effort.

March 4 City Council Report continued from page 4 •IT Upgrades: A $3 million IT Gallery Cafe in Newport Beach. They upgrade plan to replace obsolete phone proposed and upscale 1950s Americana and computer systems was discussed. IT diner and menu. After they get the restau - Director Hellen Hall said that the depart - rant on its feet (in about a year) they plan ment will issue RFPs and get at least three to add an outdoor patio and entertain - bids with exact pricing on each item. The ment center dining hall. The 10 year lease list of needed upgrades including cabling includes two 5-year options at $1,250 per and infrastructure was made in a long month plus percentage of gross sales. (49¢ process with help of consultants. The cost a square foot to start). O’Reilly said that will be spread among all the departments. they wanted to give them a fair rate to get In the long run the improvements will started. Approved 5-0 save the city money. •Safety Unit & Dispatcher MOU: Passed 3-2 (Whitaker and Sebourn, no) Human Resources Director Gretchen •Bastanchury Rd. Expansion OCTA Beatty presented the plan to reimburse Project Extention: Jane Rands of the Safety and Dispatch employees for Bicycle Users Committee said that the increased amounts previously paid into committee was not included and has sev - CalPERS in lieu of taking raises. Allyson Sonenshine and Wilma and William Peloquin, three of this year’s YWCA honorees, eral problems with various sections. She Approved 3-2 (Whitaker and Sebourn, with 65th District Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva at the Chocolate Fantasy. asked that the plan go to the committee. no) Public Works Director Hoppe said that YWCA Raises $55,000 at Chocolate Fantasy “The plans are done. This is just for a 24- Over 220 guests attended the Chocolate at the annual Orange County Women’s month extention to complete the project. AGENDA FORECAST Fantasy raising over $55,000 to support Health Policy Summit. If we changed the plans we would have to March 18: Super Bowl and Anti- the work of the YWCA of North Orange •2014 Entrepreneur of the Year Jael go back to OCTA with the new amended Bullying Champ Derrick Coleman hon - County. The event was dedicated to the Tanti is the president of Happy Cooking proposal.” He said the Bicycle Users ored; Bike Routes & Trail Update; memory of Dottie Young who was the Company. Born in Nicaragua, Jael moved Committee did look at the plan two years MADD Awards; Harborwalk 2008 YWCA Woman of the Year. to Costa Rica at the age of 16 and then to ago. Passed 4-1 (Whitaker, no) Apartments; Pelican Laing “Amerige The National Charity League of Canada. Her diverse experiences instilled •Fireworks: A proposal to increase fees Court” development agreement exten - Fullerton, Eastside Christian High in her a sense of take-charge optimism will pay for two extra police and one fire sion; Coyote Creek Class I Bike Lane; School, the CSUF President’s Scholars that has colored her goals and decisions. unit and add electrical hookups to booths. Political sign update; ; OC Korean War Club, and Troy High School provided vol - •2014 Man and Woman of the Year The fees would be $94 to cover just law Memorial; Towing RFP; Bicycle update unteers for the evening. Ann Patrick- William and Wilma Peloquin Bill is a and fire enforcement and $217 increase to (see page 6); Housing Bond Funds & Green played the piano during dinner and retired Navy Captain with 21 years of for enforcement and electrical hook ups Habitat for Humanity Affordable Jim Williams was the perfect Master of active duty. He is a WWII Veteran and over the current charge. Passed 3-2 Housing Project; T&CC Crosswalk Ceremony. At the event the YWCA recog - spent time as a flight surgeon with the Air (Whitaker and Sebourn, no) enhancements at uncontrolled crosswalks nized outstanding individuals as exempla - Marines. He is an example of “Service •Airport Restaurant Lease: Airport April 1: Mayor’s Day of Service procla - ry role models who capture the YWCA above Self” and is a past district governor Manager Brendon O’Reilly said Requests mation; Donate Life proclamation; OC mission: of Rotary 5320. Wilma’s background as for Proposals for a tenant at the restaurant Human Relations presentation; Title VI •2014 Health Advocate of the Year an Ophthalmic assistant provided support located at the airport went out Oct. 2013. Plan; T&CC Recommendations; Allyson Sonenshine, JD , was recognized to her husband and District 5320 in the Three interested restaurant operators Agreements for Access/ Park projects; for nearly 20 years of nonprofit legal and effort to raise over $30,000 for the elimi - responded and two of those moved on to Political Signs; City Improvement volunteer experience in women’s health nation of preventable blindness. In addi - the interview phase with staff and airport Update; PLC Harborwalk Apt. and reproductive justice. She is the tion, Wilma worked to inspire the Rotary stakeholders. Criteria included experi - April 15: Fireworks Lottery; Airport Founding Project Director for the OC to put together a $27,000 matching grant ence, conception, financials. The highest update; Street Light replacement contract; Women’s Health Project, a nonprofit that for cataract surgery in India in 2006. scoring proposal was selected. Brian and Consultant contract renewal; Water main facilitates improvements in local women’s “The YWCA of North Orange County Sherri White are from third-generation replacement/street & sewer contracts; health through data analysis, policy devel - thanks all who attended and congratulate restaurant families. They operate the AT&T Cell Site at Richman Park; opment, education and advocacy, and all who were honored,” said YWCA Legislative Platform. which brings together local stakeholders Executive Director Diane Masseth-Jones. MID MARCH 2014 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 19

Raymond Underpass Construction Begins Story and Photos by Jere Greene about to have an underpass installed as Work in preparation of the underpass well that will result in complete closure of on Raymond is underway. The area west that street. of the street, south of Commonwealth The major work on the Placentia Avenue, beginning at Walnut, past the Avenue underpass was completed on Railroad tracks to Ash is now enclosed March 12, with two lanes in each direc - Construction begins on the Raymond Underpass alternative road. with fencing. tion opened to the public. That project Two houses are gone, and the industrial which began in Jan. 2012 resulted in the and overcrossings to separate car traffic all long-term projects, but will improve buildings that line Raymond are next. A relocation of the old Home Depot Store. from rail traffic being funded primarily the flow of traffic on the east side of bypass road will be built on the west side Finishing details are expected to be com - through $630 million in OCTA Bridges Fullerton in the long run. of Raymond and the various underground plete by June. Until then pedestrian and Program grants. Nearly 70 trains travel each day along utilities will be rerouted before the actual bicycle detours will remain in place. After completion an added advantage the BNSF rail line through Anaheim, excavation can begin. State College is These projects are part of seven under for local residents will be the elimination Fullerton and Placentia and that number of the day and night train horns now is expected to increase by more than 45% required by the constant railroad traffic by 2030. LOCAL ONLY CLASSIFIEDS that passes through Fullerton. 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Page 20 FULLERTON OBSERVER GOOD THINGS MID MARCH 2014 100th Member Fullerton Public Library Serves Thousands Pictured at left, Shanthi National Library Week, April 13-19, 2014 Ramesh, the 100th member to join the Woman’s Club of by Maureen Gebelein items (books, CD’s, DVD’s, magazines & Fullerton, received her pin from Fullerton Public Library Director eBooks, for example) to the public. Our Membership Chair Kathy Evans staff answered 69,475 reference questions. (wearing glasses). The club has First sponsored in 1958, National We held a total of 880 programs during experienced a dramatic rebirth Library Week is a national observance the year that were attended by 20,160 over the past several years, rebuild - sponsored by the American Library people of all ages. Last, but not least, we ing membership from only five in Association and libraries across the coun - were lucky enough to have 14,566 hours 2007. The members have devoted try each April. It is a time to celebrate the of volunteer help during the year. their time to supporting Faces of contributions of our nation’s libraries and We would like to take this opportunity Fullerton, Crittenton, WTLC, librarians and to promote library use and to wish everyone a Happy National Fullerton Historic Theatre support. I thought this would be a good Library Week and to invite you to visit Foundation, Fullerton College time to let you know how your library is Fullerton Public Library in 2014, if you Foundation and many other doing. haven’t already. And we would like to organizations. The Main Library reopened almost thank all our patrons, as they are the ones Learn more about the club at three years ago after the completion of the that give us our purpose. www.womenscluboffullerton.org expansion and renovation project. I hope We would also like to take this opportu - everyone in Fullerton has had a chance to nity to thank our support groups, Friends Women’s Club Spurs Domino Effect visit since the reopening. of the Fullerton Public Library and the Portions of the Library were closed dur - Fullerton Public Library Foundation, as in Efforts to Rebuild Woodcrest Park ing the construction and many of you well as those community groups that have by Debbie Stout Habitat for Humanity and the experienced minor disruptions to service. helped fund our programs by donating Woodcrest community received a grant to During the project, we wondered if our money and hands-on help for special pro - The Women’s Club of Fullerton‘s ambi - erect a fence around the school because of patrons would remember us and come gramming needs. tious project to rebuild a park that is in unlawful activity taking place on school back or if they would find another place While there are many quotes that per - dire need of improvements has spurred grounds at night. Before the fence was to go. We were happy to find that on tain to the value of public libraries, I will individuals, businesses and nonprofit put up, parents would wake up early to reopening day, July 23, 2001, we were close with a quote from Lady Bird organizations to get involved. clean up detritus and graffiti they didn’t busy and were confident that our patrons Johnson. At first, WCOF Conservation Chair want their school children to see. would return. Since then we have also Linda Holman-Konieczny was interested The fence solved the problem, but left been tracking statistics (something we do “Perhaps no place in any community is so in raising funds to plant some trees at the approximate 300 children in the com - anyway!) and are thrilled to say that our totally democratic as the town library. Woodcrest Park, but after hearing the munity without the use of the school statistics are showing that we keep getting The only entrance requirement is interest.” needs of area community leaders at a playground and facilities when the school busier and busier! meeting organized by Habitat for closed after hours. They were left only to I thought I’d take this opportunity to Thanks for your interest! Humanity, it became apparent to her that use the languishing park. tell you briefly how we did in 2013! Of the park, which is adjacent to Woodcrest “We are seeking more donors and the course, statistics are just numbers and they The Fullerton Public Library Elementary, needed more than just trees. community’s help to revitalize this park,” can’t convey the thrill of putting a book in is located at 353 W. Commonwealth. said Holman-Konieczny. “People can be the hands of a new reader, the squeals of delight you hear coming from the story The library is open: part of this effort by donating money, Mon.-Thurs. from 10am to 9pm; services, auction items for fundraisers or time rooms, or the success patrons feel volunteering their time.” when they are able to find work using our Fri. & Sat. from 10am to 5pm; Holman-Konieczny asked Landscape computers. But, they do convey that and Sunday from 1pm to 5pm. Architect Kathryn Rue, who donated her Fullerton Public Library is quite busy! For more information services, to create a concept for the park. Last year people made 509,048 trips to call 714-738-6333 or go to: the library as automatically registered by Rue asked Precision Property www.fullertonlibrary.org Measurements to provide an accurate the door counter. We circulated 803,550 map of the park when it was discovered none existed. That company also donat - ed their services. When Kiwanis International learned about the project, they set aside a grant for $25,000 in honor of their 100th Anniversary. Kiwanis CNH District then earmarked an additional $7,500 towards the playground. “We need to raise another $25,000 for playground equipment,” said Holman- Konieczny, “plus funds to refurbish or replace the picnic tables, the concrete slabs, enhance the landscape, and install barbeques and a gazebo.” Anyone who would like to make a donation of funds, wish-list items or time can contact WCOF Conservation Chair Linda Holman-Konieczny at enriched - [email protected] or 714-329-8177