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SUNDAY,OCTOBER 11,2020 /// Times Community News publication serving Orange County /// timesoc.com Voters assured fraud won’t be tolerated At a news conference, county officials maintain ballots will be protected and intimidation will not be allowed. BY BEN BRAZIL Following President Trump’s repeated — and disproven — statements about widespread election fraud, Orange County officials sought to assure voters Monday that they would defend ballot integrity and protect polling places from outside inter- ference. “I think one of the messages that I want to make clear is that we’re not going to tolerate intim- idation, we’re not going to toler- Photos courtesy of Rodeo 39 ate rule-breaking in the vote cen- RODEO 39, a new dining and lifestyle center in Stanton, is set to open Saturday. It is the creation of San Juan Capistrano developer Dan Almquist. ters, and we want to make sure that the laws, the regulations and the rules are followed,” Orange County Registrar Neal Kelley said at a news conference outside the Stanton rounds up new food Santa Ana office. During the event, crews loaded semi-trucks with 1.7million bal- lots set to be mailed this week to and lifestyle center, Rodeo 39 registered voters. Trump has urged supporters to monitor voting centers for fraud, BY LORI BASHEDA adirective that has led to con- cerns nationwide about the po- Mention that you’re headed to Stanton and tential for intimidation and dis- you’re likely to hear something along the ruption. lines of: Where’s Stanton? Trump has repeated the widely But a new public market is putting the tiny discredited claim that mail-in city on Orange County’s map in a big way. ballots lead to voter fraud — a Rodeo 39 is the creation of San Juan Capi- claim California’s top law en- strano developer Dan Almquist, a managing forcement official called “base- partner at Frontier Real Estate Investments. less” during the Santa Ana news It was Stanton (population 36,000) city conference. leaders who came to him. They had a “The studies have been done, blighted 24 acres on Beach Boulevard just off voter fraud in America is exceed- the 22 Freeway, and did he want to take crack ingly rare, voter fraud in Califor- at it? nia is exceedingly rare,” Secretary He accepted the challenge, seeing a chance of State Alex Padilla said. “Vote- to break out of the traditional shopping cen- by-mail, specifically since we’re ter mold and create a collection of shops and going to count on it so much this eateries that was more along the lines of a November election, is nothing hangout, something experiential. new in California.” “I felt vested in doing something right by Mail-in balloting has “proven the city,” said Almquist, 43. “Stanton was al- to be secure,” he said. ways a little bit of an underdog. The commu- Orange County District Atty. nity deserved more.” Todd Spitzer said his office will While food is the foundation of Rodeo 39 prosecute those who engage in (and it is a carnival of food), don’t call it a voter fraud. food hall. A TATTOO ARTIST from Skin Design Tattoo, a shop in Rodeo 39, marks a customer’s arm. “There are those people that “The food hall concept … you eat, but then need to know that if they are what?” Almquist said. “I wanted to create a arcade, a raw bar, a tea bar, a cocktail bar, a tattoo artist in the nation. Just to put it into thinking about, or planning to place that goes beyond a transactional envi- coffee shop and even a small stage for that perspective, Skin Design now has locations in engage in potential mischief, we ronment, somewhere you want to spend exciting day when live music can resume. Las Vegas, New York City, Honolulu — and will be there to enforce the law,” time.” Rodeo’s biggest vendor coup though is Stanton. Spitzer said. So in addition to an Insta-worthy floral scoring Skin Design Tattoo, which is owned boutique and a bakery, Rodeo 39 has a retro by Robert Pho, who many argue is the best See Rodeo 39, page R6 See Voters, page R6 SURFER MAGAZINE, AN ICONIC TOUCHSTONE OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BEACH CULTURE, SHUTS DOWN BY MIKE FREEMAN yesterday (no, nothing to do with over the past few years, but this AND GARY ROBBINS the heat from the Biden endorse- one hit me really hard,” said Steve ment, just the COVID economy), Hawk, who edited the magazine SAN DIEGO — Surfer maga- but I feel like we’re ending on a for eight years in the 1990s. “It was zine, which helped legitimize high note with this one,” editor in so much more than just a maga- wave-riding as a global sport chief Todd Prodanovich said in an zine for a lot of surfers of a certain through its lush photography and Instagram post about the final is- generation. It was a cultural California-cool stories, printed its sue. touchstone and groundbreaking final edition and suspended oper- “Funny how you can work a job in a lot of ways.” ations this month, to the dismay like this for 10 years and each is- Surfer was among the first of the legions of baby boomers sue is a completely new and dif- niche sports magazines of any who once lingered at newsstands ferent journey. I’ll really miss that kind to be successful, with a pedi- waiting for the latest issue. part, and the mag in general, gree akin to Hot Rod and Field & Founded in 1960 and beloved which ends on this issue after 60 Stream, Hawk said. by pre-internet-age surfers from years of publication.” It helped spawn a plethora of Mission Beach to Biarritz, the Though many in the surfing beach culture publications such magazine furloughed staff Friday community say they saw the end as Surfing, which closed about and ceased further print and on- coming, the demise of Surfer still three years ago, and the ongoing line content offerings. Though stings for aging surfers who magazines Surfer’s Journal in the founded in Orange County, the couldn’t wait for the monthly U.S. and Surfing World in Austral- magazine was based in recent magazine to arrive. ia. years in Carlsbad. “I have watched many great “It was the first. It became the “The whole staff got let go publications go out of business communications vehicle for surf Roger Showley | San Diego Union-Tribune culture, and out of that came SOME BACK ISSUES of Surfer magazine are shown on a shelf in the JOHN other ones,” said Peter Townend, periodicals department of the Los Angeles Central Library. SEVERSON alegendary surfer and president started Surfer of ActivEmpire, an industry con- print mentality among the edito- named A360 Media. It publishes a magazine sulting firm. “We have suddenly rial staff that said, ‘Look man, this handful of other magazines, in- with a single lost one of the most iconic brands is Surfer magazine. This thing is cluding Men’s Journal, Muscle & issue in 1960. in the surf culture over the past 60 never going away,’” said Scott Fitness, Star, In Touch, US Weekly years.” Bass, who worked in digital oper- and Soap Opera Digest. Known as the “bible of the ations at Surfer from 1997 to 2007. When AMI bought Surfer, it sport,” Surfer probably reached its “No one wanted to admit it.” also acquired sister publications peak in the early 2000s. Like many After a series of ownership Bike, Snowboarder, Powder and print periodicals, it struggled to changes, Surfer was acquired in Transworld Skateboarding. Some get a grip on the digital advertis- 2019 by American Media Inc., of these publications also have ing business model as more and which owned the National En- been reportedly affected by fur- more of its readership transi- quirer. loughs and suspended opera- Family Photo tioned online. AMI has since merged with an- “There was a real magazine and other company and has been re- See Surfer, pageR6 R2 SUNDAY,OCTOBER 11,2020 TIMESOC WWW.TIMESOC.COM Topping out ceremony held for Orange County Museum of Art BY ANDREW TURNER The Orange County Mu- seum of Art is one step closer to realizing its ex- pansion. Atopping out ceremony was held at the construc- tion site on the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus Courtesy of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Tuesday in Costa Mesa. “BARE EXISTENCE” will be featured at the virtual “The topping out cere- Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Saturday. The annual mony is particularly signifi- festival usually takes place in Costa Mesa but is going cant in construction be- online this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic. cause it marks the pinnacle of the structural phase and the transition to the fin- Environmental film ishes, both exterior and in- terior,” Carlos Gonzalez, the regional executive offi- festival goes virtual cer of Clark Construction Group, said. BY BEN BRAZIL “At first we weren’t Shortly before the final even going to do it,” Ken- structural beam, signed by Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer As wildfires rage and nedy said. “We said we people affiliated with the the pandemic tears don’t want another project, was lifted and put SOREN STUFKOSKY, left, and Brad McGlothlin watch as the final beam is put into place during through the country, a Zoom.” into place, Gonzalez spoke Tuesday’s ceremony at the construction site on the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus . film festival organizer in She said the films vary, about the symbolism of a Orange County is hoping but should give viewers a live tree accompanying it to approximately 53,000 “We’ve made so much “It’s a very community- to play a part in shed- sense of hope about the the top of the steel struc- square feet with about progress on construction oriented, very public build- ding light on climate planet’s future.