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There is already concentration of news and opinion in the would say, “Sad.” Visit us online at: both the rhetoric and fact of marginaliz - hands of the few and wealthy is not a good www.fullertonobserver.com ing media deemed disloyal to this admin - thing for democracy. www.Dobrer.com & on FaceBook istration. But it isn’t Sinclair’s size alone that is Follow me on Twitter @jondobrer • STAFF• • Co-Editors: Misleading Information from Council HOW TO Sharon Kennedy & Jesse La Tour • Database Manager: Jane Buck To Councilmembers ty that it caused, the over 95% of speakers who VOICE • Advisor: Tracy Wood Fitzgerald, Sebourn & Whitaker: opposed supporting the lawsuit lifted all of us • Copy Editors: staff I spoke with a captain at Fullerton PD who up and proved just how wonderfully good, lov- YOUR • Distribution: Roy & Irene Kobayashi, said that their department does not deal with ing, and inclusive the Fullerton community is. 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Comments • D OWNTOWN REPORT : Mike Ritto al speakers spoke in favor of joining the federal contribute to the good of our beautiful and are the opinions of the •G ARDENING : Penny Hlavac lawsuit against California’s sanctuary laws, Jane wonderful Fullerton community. writer, may be shortened •F ULLERTON HISTORY : Rands got up to say that she wanted people to for space, and typos cor - Jesse La Tour & Terry Galvin D. Vena Fullerton rected if we notice them. • M OVIE REVIEW HITS & M ISSES : Joyce Mason know that our city is not like this (the tone and •Y OUTH REPORTER : Francine Vudoti message of previous speakers) and proposed We must verify your iden - •P OLITICAL COMMENTARY : making our city a city of kindness. Sanctuary City Survey? tity, but we allow initials Vince Buck & Jonathan Dobrer Whitaker spoke in favor of that and in his I read an article in the Orange County only and town to be print - •P ASSION FOR JUSTICE : Synthia Tran next breath said he would be in favor of coun- Register today. Mayor Chaffee said it does not ed if desired, and remain - •R OVING REPORTERS : Jere Greene, Sinh affect our city. How does he know. Dang, and other Community Members cil sending a resolution opposing SB54 (a sanc- ing anonymous in print is • S CHOOL BOARD REPORTS : tuary law). Has Fullerton Observer taken a survey of its also possible if a reasonable Jan Youngman & Vivien Moreno Councilmember Fitzgerald and Mayor citizens to see what they think? My property case can be made as to why •S CIENCE : Sarah Mosko & Frances Mathews Protem Sebourn actually put the item to join taxes are $28,000 a year and I don’t like that is necessary. •S PORTS : Community Members the federal lawsuit on the April 3 agenda. Sacramento to use my taxes to protect illegal Anonymous letters sent • T HEATRE REVIEWS : Angela Hatcher criminal aliens. Good job Jennifer Fitzgerald. without contact informa - •V IDEO OBSERVER : Emerson Little (where 112 people spoke against joining). Ronald J. Correa Fullerton tion for verification are not Created & Published in Fullerton I ask you again, why did you put this item on the agenda? Supporting the federal lawsuit ED : See the information in this issue. Also printed. Thank You! by local citizen volunteers for 40 years Email: observernews Fullerton Observer LLC would have not changed or accomplished any- SB54 keeps from spending state taxes doing thing. Your action of putting it on the agenda the federal job of immigration control which @earthlink.net The Early May issue will contributed to a manufactured crisis that does we already pay for through federal taxes and it Or Mail to: hit the stands on April 30, 2018 not exist, unnecessarily creating fear and divi- does not hinder local police from arresting Fullerton Observer, PO SUBMISSION & AD sion within our community. criminals. Be sure to see what SB54 does on Box 7051, Fullerton DEADLINE: April 23, 2018 Even though it never should have been put page 5 and Police Chief Hendricks’ comment CA92834 on the agenda with the harm to our communi- on page 11. We also are paying for this lawsuit. MID APRIL 2018 OPINIONS & LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 3

COMMUNITY OPINIONS NEW BUSINESS IN TOWN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 New Age Auto by Marjorie Kerr University Library Directors in Support of Matthew and Melanie Kerr are former CSUF Library Dean Dr. Clem Guthro excited about their car business mov - ing to Fullerton! Dear Editor: Matt is my grandson and always loved playing with the Matchbox cars We write in deep concern for our colleague Dr. Clem Guthro, who we recently as a child. He also liked my Acura learned was summarily fired as Library Dean from Cal State Fullerton on March 2, RSX when he was in high school. He 2018. graduated from Sunny Hills High Clem is a valued and trusted colleague in our profession and we were appalled to hear School in 2010. He worked for an about the way he was treated. All of us who have signed this letter know Clem to be a International tire company in thoughtful, wise, and visionary leader. In many cases, we have worked with him direct - Anaheim in 2012. It was there he ly and cooperatively on multiple projects across multiple libraries. We know him to be met Melanie! Later Matt was hired both a collegial and collaborative library leader, who listens and speaks carefully. by a local car dealer where he appren - When we learned that Clem had moved from Colby to CSU Fullerton, we thought ticed and learned the business. that this California school was lucky to have him. That is why we were shocked to hear Matt and Melanie were married in of his firing and especially the manner in which it was carried out, as described in the 2016 and started a family-owned car Mid-March edition of the Fullerton Observer . dealership, New Age Auto, in Clem is an expert on print archiving and resource sharing in academic libraries and Orange, California. They moved we know he brought many years of relevant experience to the position of dean of the their business to a warehouse in library at Cal State Fullerton. Anaheim for a time. As past and present library administrators, we understand that academic libraries are Then they moved the business to in a period of rapid and profound transition, and that wise stewardship is needed in Fullerton in March 2018, enhancing times of both economic and technological disruption. Clem embodies such leadership. the building and lot at 603 S. At Colby, he was instrumental in a statewide effort to create a 21st century library sys - Harbor, Fullerton with a contempo - tem, a project that required working with faculty, students, IT staff, and other library rary look. You are invited to visit colleagues from a very diverse set of institutions across the entire state. We know that them and view the BMWs, Clem has developed some very creative ideas about how to guide this transition in aca - Mercedes, and other models. demic libraries and we expected Cal State Fullerton to be open to this kind of conver - sation about its own future. Instead, what apparently has happened is an ill-considered decision to eliminate one important voice in the ongoing campus conversation at Cal State Fullerton. Leaving the Fullerton City Council Four personal and professional impact aside, this looks like a very problematic way to create Joined a Losing Lawsuit Against consensus around the kind of change that most campuses face these days. We have to ask: What kind of input did students, faculty, and library staff have in the California Voting Rights Act this termination decision? Was there a scheduled evaluation and who was involved in Mayor Chaffee, Protem Sebourn, and After the Poway Council made that that process? Was Clem given any feedback along the way about potential concerns Councilmembers Fitzgerald and decision, reports the October 12, 2017 and/or issues? On its face, there looks to be a severe lack of due process and a lack of Whitaker (Silva absent) met in closed Poway News Chieftan , former Poway respect for diverse opinions, which leads to our final set of concerns. session on November 21, 2017 and Mayor Don Higginson was approached Due to the callous way in which this decision was apparently carried out, Clem will voted unanimously to authorize an ami - by Edward Blum of “The Project of Fair now be on the job market with a black mark next to his name. It may take a while for cus brief to be prepared in support of Representation,” Washington DC about Clem to find a new job and we are all concerned about lack of health coverage and the plaintiff in Higginson v Becerra, a using his name as the plaintiff in a case income depletion during this next difficult phase of Clem’s career. At the very least, we case filed in federal court in San Diego, to challenge the constitutionality of the believe that Clem and his family deserve health coverage until he is able to find a new to challenge the constitutionality of the California Voting Rights Act. job. That is the minimal and ethical thing to do. In the long run, we hope that the pow - California Voting Rights Act. The case was filed in US District ers that be at Cal State Fullerton also give some thought to their personnel protocols Fullerton’s city attorney announced Court San Diego on October 4, 2017, and practices with a view toward instituting a more rational and humane process. that the council had voted unanimously with Higginson represented by Finally, we want to thank the Fullerton Observer for publishing its account of this dire to join the case during the Closed Arlington Virgina law firm Consovoy set of circumstances. We believe that the more coverage this situation receives, the bet - Session Report Out at the beginning of McCarthy Park PLLC against the defen - ter off everyone will be in the long run. the November 21, 2017 pub - dants California Attorney Cordially, lic council meeting. No expla - What else General Xavier Becerra Bart Harloe University Librarian Emeritus nation of what the case was and the City of Poway. A St. Lawrence University about was offered (I guess that is the council number of Asian and is a heads up to ask that ques - Latino groups including Joanne A. Schneider Professor in the University Libraries signing onto and University Librarian, Emeritus Colgate University tion from now on). LULAC joined There was also no explana - behind closed California’s side of the Jeff Katz Vice President of Information Services tion about who brought this doors that case. Fullerton joined the and Director of College Libraries Bard College case to the Fullerton City the majority losing side. Gary Thompson Librarian Emeritus Siena College Council but the group behind There has never been a it “The Project on Fair of Fullerton person of color elected to ED: This letter was forwarded to the CSUF Office of the President Representation,” of residents the Poway City Council with the invitation to make a comment. No response was received. Washington D.C., is a legal would not though, according to the fund led by Ed Blum that latest census, well over a hires attorneys to launch chal - agree with? third of its 50,103 popu - lenges to affirmative action lation, falls in that cate - and Voting Rights Act laws gory (17,769 people across the US, to “reverse race-based mostly of Latino and Asian decent). legal protections”. Good news for that population that The money behind the fund is from Judge William Q. Hayes dismissed the the “non-profit” DonorsTrust and the case on April 5, 2018 and Poway will Donors Capital Fund. Those sister hold district elections beginning in groups are supported by the Koch November 2018. brothers and other ultra wealthy donors. On that paperwork was information The fund also donates to groups sup - listing the amicus briefs filed in support porting climate change denial, of the challenge to the CVRA including Islamophobia, ALEC and more with net one from the City of Fullerton repre - assets of over $187 million in 2016. (For sented by Jones & Mayer (Fullerton’s more information see Sourcewatch.org) contract attorney firm) which also rep - The case the Fullerton City Council resented six other cities in the case also signed our city up to join involved the filing amicus briefs against California’s Poway City Council which reluctantly Voting Rights Act. voted on August 31, 2017 to hold dis - This incident brings up questions trict elections rather than at large elec - about what else the Fullerton City tions after being challenged with a law - Council lends our city name to, behind suit by minority voters represented by closed doors, that the majority of attorney Kevin Shenkman (the same Fullerton residents would oppose, and thing that happened in Fullerton). how much that is costing us. Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER GOVERNMENT NEWS MID APRIL 2018

THE GOVERNMENT ’S CRACKDOWN ON IMMIGRANTS HARKENS BACK TO UGLY ERAS OF AMERICAN HISTORY Kevin Doi, pastor of Epic Church in Fullerton and co-founder of the local non-profit Joya Scholars, an educational nonprofit supporting student achieve - ment among working class communities in our city, said that the federal govern - ment’s crackdown on immigrants is simi - lar to what his family experienced during World War II. “This weekend, I am accompanying my mother, uncle, and aunt to Poston, Arizona on a pilgrimage to the site of their internment during World War II,” said Doi, “With over 100,000 other Americans of Japanese descent, my family was incarcerated without due process because they were ‘the wrong kind of immigrant,’ because at the time they looked like the ‘enemy’ and because at the For over 5 hours, council listened to local residents speak against the city joining the federal lawsuit. PHOTO BY JESSE LA TOUR time the US government told other Americans we should fear them.” Fullerton Will Not Join Federal Lawsuit Against State Continued from frontpage Local resident Thomas Crisp said that we face a 1930s moment. Apolonio Morales, political director of Debbie Langenbacher, a psycholo - “Why put kids into the foster system “As with many other economic down - CHIRLA, a state-wide immigrant rights gist, pointed out that when the undoc - when they have loving and supportive turns in modern history, the 1930s saw a organization said, “A third of families in umented parents of U.S. citizen chil - families?” another speaker asked. tidal wave of xenophobic backlash California are of mixed status. Here in dren are deported, these children likely Amelia, a first generation immigrant induced by the economic stresses of the Fullerton, we have mixed status families. end up in foster care. She has reviewed and resident of Fullerton spoke tearfully: Great Depression, focused on people of When you take away parents, you separate several cases where parents were “As a daughter of an immigrant family, I Jewish descent, and others. families, you have a detrimental impact deported and children were trauma - am worried for the stability of my family across the community.” tized. and the families around me.” Continued on next page

CITY COUNCIL NOTES by Jesse La Tour Mayor Gives Update on Homelessness The Council meets at 6:30pm on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mayor Chaffee said that he attended a agreed to allow the Armory to remain Upcoming agenda information and streaming video federal court meeting on March 31, in open an additional 90 days (see frontpage of council meetings are available at www.cityoffullerton.com. which Judge Carter invited all Orange story). Meetings are broadcast live on Cable Ch 3 and rebroadcast County mayors and city managers to dis - Chaffee said that the county has a lot of at 3pm and 6pm the following Wed. & Sun. & 5pm Mon. cuss homeless solutions. money dedicated for homeless City Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton. About 700 people who Resident Kathryn services, and recently pledged Contact council at 714-738-6311 or by email to: [email protected] were encamped along Santa Bullock asked $90 million to help with the Ana riverbed were recently problem. temporarily placed in council to “I think that’s not enough,” April 3rd Council Meeting Report motels and other facilities re-consider its he said, “They have over half “and now the struggle is the decision to not a billion on hand. We’re try - Next Council meeting is Tuesday, April 17th at 6:30pm. 30 days have gone by and expand areas where ing to find placement and Come see your local government in action! they’re still trying to find a homeless shelters treatment to make every - longer placement for them,” may be located. body’s city a little better.” said Chaffee. Fullerton resident Kathryn Woodcrest Park Renovation Update In addition to finding Bullock asked council to re- shelter for those 700 individuals, Judge consider its decision at the March 6th Council voted to award a construction Phase I of the project will reconstruct Carter said that the county must also find meeting to not expand areas where home - contract to Palp Inc. (Excel Paving the frontage road only, while phase II will a place for the nearly 400 additional less shelters may be located. She noted Company) for the Woodcrest Park focus on improvements to the rest of the homeless people camped at the Santa Ana that the Fullerton Armory shelter is not Renovation Phase I, the “Frontage Road park. The project was divided into two Civic Center (update: County evicted year-round. Improvements Project” for $369,877. phases to expend HRPP funding prior to homeless from the Civic Center on April 12. “Many cities just like passing the buck, Funding for this project is from the grant’s deadline. No report as to where they relocated). so no one’s actually doing anything,” said Housing Related Parks Program (HRPP) The project is anticipated to start con - The Fullerton Armory, which has a Bullock, ”Our community also includes state grant, Measure M2, the Park struction in May 2018 and estimated to capacity of 237 beds was scheduled to our homeless community, so I implore Dwelling Fund, and the Land and Water be completed in June 2018. Final plans close on April 15th; however, at the you to please re-consider doing either the Conservation Fund state grant. for the Phase II park improvements will request of Assemblymember Sharon Armory year-round or opening up aban - The scope of work includes the rehabil - be completed in early June with work Quirk-Silva, Governor Brown recently doned buildings near the Armory.” itation of 600 feet of frontage road and scheduled to begin in the fall. parking lot at Woodcrest Park. A new Council member Jesus Silva said, “I’m turnaround drop off for vehicles will be glad this is moving forward. I’m happy for added. Deteriorating curb, gutter, and the residents in this community. To the sidewalk will be replaced and ADA access residents of the Woodcrest area, thank ramps, striping, and signage will be you for your support and involvement.” installed. Police Department Hillcrest Park Update Purchases New Vehicles Parks and Rec Director Hugo Curiel City Council approved the purchase of gave a brief update on the renovation of seven new police vehicles to replace old Hillcrest Park. The fountain is finished, ones for a total of $340,000. Vehicles are the concrete of the bridge has been identified for replacement based on age, poured, and more. He said the city is mileage, serviceability, and continued looking to host a ribbon cutting on functionality. Saturday, May 5th. Upcoming Agenda April 17: Fireworks Sales Lottery; Legislative Update; Recycling Market Development Zone; Budget Update; St. Mary’s Church Festival; Pavement Management update and more. MID APRIL 2018 SANCTUARY FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5 Fullerton Will Not Join Federal Lawsuit Against State Continued from page 4 “History, as we know, has not looked Tina Cruz, a homeowner in Fullerton, kindly on that or other xenophobic back - said that SB 54 helps make our schools, lashes to economic crises,” said Crisp. hospitals, libraries, and public places safe Kevin Tay, son of Cambodian refugees, spaces for everyone in our community. said that not all laws are just or moral. “We do not need immigrant families “You talk about upholding the law, but fearing these spaces,” said Cruz, “Those think about what’s moral,” said Tay, seeking medical care or police help should “Slavery was the law. Jim Crow laws were not have to slink into the shadows in the law. Internment camps were the law— order to get it. That makes our communi - but none of them were moral…think ties unsafe. For law enforcement to effec - about what your morality and your decen - tively police our communities, a level of cy implores you to do. I don’t want my trust must be maintained, and how will community to be on the wrong side of crimes be reported under the threat of history.” deportation?” Susan Luevano, a 30 year Fullerton res - Dr. Mai Khanh Tran, whose family ident, said that the federal lawsuit escaped from Vietnam, said “I’ve had reminds her of California’s Prop 187, patients who did not show up to my office which sought to bar public resources from because they feared deportation.” undocumented immigrants, “a time when Hundreds of local residents showed up at the April 3rd council meeting urging council there was a hateful anti-immigrant atmos - SUPPORTING THE LAWSUIT not to join the federal lawsuit against California’s “Sanctuary” laws. PHOTO BY JESSE LA TOUR phere.” Though Prop 187 was later INCREASES HISTORIC DIVISIONS declared unconstitutional, it “very painful can look back at Japanese Internment sanctuary counties demonstrate better for myself and others in the Latino com - IN FULLERTON Camps. That was wrong, but done under economic conditions for all residents. On munity,” she said. the law. Most people in Fullerton did not average, they have higher median incomes Tommy Nixon, founder of the vote for Trump and will not vote for any - by about $4000, lower poverty rates, and Fullerton non-profit Solidarity, said, SANCTUARY LAWS PROMOTE one supporting the Trump agenda.” slightly lower unemployment rates.” “There’s two Fullertons—north Fullerton Local pastor and Fullerton police chap - Lifelong Fullerton resident Kitty TRUST BETWEEN IMMIGRANT and south Fullerton, and the dividing line lain Jason Phillips said “Our neighbors Jaramillo pointed out that 90 percent of COMMUNITIES , LAW is Commonwealth. And there’s a huge dis - and friends are those who this decision undocumented immigrants pay federal ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER parity between those two Fullertons…If will affect…I have friends who are immi - and state taxes taken out of their pay - you make this declaration, it continues to VITAL SERVICES grants. My daughters have friends who are checks, but will never be able to file tax divide our city, and that’s the last thing immigrants. How you vote tonight says returns because of their lack of social secu - Alice Lee, of the Korean Resource that we need.” something about what you are telling rity numbers. Center, and a Fullerton resident said "No He said that if we support the lawsuit, them, so I want to stand here tonight in “To say immigrants are draining our extra safety is gained by backing this law - “what it tells all the residents in the neigh - support of them.” system and are not needed is just not suit - any criminals are already handed borhoods that I’ve been living in, the peo - true,” said Jaramillo. over to ICE. All this does is undermine ple that I love, my neighbors and IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE Eileen, a local resident, a CSUF gradu - trust in local law enforcement." friends…it tells them that they’re less TO OUR ECONOMY & SOCIETY ate, and an attorney, said, “I’m an immi - Fullerton resident Jenny Kim said that a than, that we don’t care for grant, a citizen of this country, but it was - few weeks ago a man was shot in the them…They’ve already had that narrative Fullerton resident Michael Glick said n’t always so. I was undocumented for the Garnet neighborhood of Fullerton and he for a really long time.” that “the targets of this anti-immigrant first 16 years of my life, and the majority did not report the incident or seek med - Another Solidarity volunteer said, movement are hard-working, honest peo - of that was spent here…I was fortunate ical attention because of “the already bro - “Joining the lawsuit communicates to our ple who play a critical role in our econo - that my community embraced me and my ken relationship between law enforcement neighbors that we neither care for their my. This is particularly true in California, family, and its my responsibility to urge and our immigrant community.” safety nor value their contributions to the where they harvest our crops, clean our you to do the same…I’m not sure that I “The opportunity to treat an injury, to city.” offices and homes, and generally add to would be standing here today if we had save a life, are lost because of this loss of Marcy Fry, a retired Rolling Hills school the economy.” taken this position several years ago.” trust of law enforcement by minorities, teacher, said, “I live on the north side of Dr. Jody Agius Vallejo, Fullerton resi - which would be magnified if the city Fullerton, I know that not all people have dent, professor at USC, and an expert on Continued on page 10 & 11 aligns itself with the lawsuit,” said Kim. the same privilege and rights as I do. We immigration said “research shows that

SB54 Exceptions that Allow Local Police to Interact with ICE by D. Vena All except 10 of the Contrary to what some politicians offense involving the felony possession, Immigration and Nationality Act or is 103 speakers were have said California’s SB 54 sale, distribution, manufacture, or traf - identified by the United States (one of the sanctuary laws) allows ficking of controlled substances; (N) Department of Homeland Security’s Fullerton residents exchange of information between state Vandalism with prior convictions; (O) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Ten people visiting from the cities of and local law enforcement agencies and Gang-related offenses; (P) An attempt, or as the subject of an outstanding federal Brea, Anaheim, Diamond Bar, Santa federal immigration agencies concerning a conspiracy to commit an offense speci - felony arrest warrant. Ana Hacienda Heights; Huntington the serious or violent offenses below fied in this section; (Q) A crime resulting (b) In cases in which the individual is Beach and Yorba Linda spoke at the which are listed in the SB 54 law: in death, or involving the personal inflic - arrested and taken before a magistrate on meeting against joining the lawsuit. 1) The individual has been convicted of tion of great bodily injury; (R) Possession a charge involving a serious or violent •All but five of the 103 speakers a serious or violent felony... or use of a firearm in the commission of felony, or a felony that is punishable by were opposed to signing the lawsuit. (2) The individual has been convicted an offense; (S) An offense that would imprisonment in state prison, and the of a felony punishable by imprisonment require the individual to register as a sex magistrate makes a finding of probable •Some speakers came with their in the state prison. offender; (T) False imprisonment, slavery, cause as to that charge a law enforcement church or religious group including: (3) The individual has been convicted and human trafficking; (U) Criminal official shall additionally have discretion Sojourners, EV Free, Unitarian, within the past five years of a misde - profiteering and money laundering; (V) to cooperate with immigration officials. Elements, Solidarity, Resilience OC, meanor for a crime that is punishable as Torture and mayhem; (W) A crime ------Catholic, Fullerton Interfaith, Epic, either a misdemeanor or a felony for, or threatening the public safety; (X) Elder One City, Presbyterian, and more. and dependent adult abuse; (Y) A hate About Prop 47 has been convicted within the last 15 •Some speakers identified years of a felony for, any of the following crime; (Z) Stalking; No one is automatically released from state prison because of Proposition 47, the themselves from groups including: offenses: At this point lawmakers ran out of the ballot initiative passed by California vot - CHIRLA, LULAC, ACLU, CSUF (A) Assault; (B) Battery; (C) Use of alphabet and had to double up. ers on November 4, 2014. The new law OC Democrats, Fullerton College threats; (D) Sexual abuse, sexual exploita - Young Democrats, Hope University tion, or crimes endangering children.(E) (AA) Soliciting the commission of a allows people who are serving a felony crime; (AB) An offense committed while conviction for drug possession, petty Korean Resource Center Child abuse or endangerment; (F) Arab American Civic Council Burglary, robbery, theft, fraud, forgery, or on bail or released on his or her own theft, receiving stolen property, or forg - recognizance; (AC) Rape, sodomy, oral ing/writing a bad check of $950 or less to League of Women Voters embezzlement; (G) Driving under the Fullerton PTA, Joya Scholars influence of alcohol or drugs, but only for copulation, or sexual penetration; (AD) petition the court for resentencing. In a conviction that is a felony; (H) Kidnapping; (AE) A violation of subdivi - addition, Proposition 47 allows a person •Politicians and elected officials, and Obstruction of justice; (I) Bribery; (J) sion (c) of Section 20001 of the Vehicle who has completed his/her sentence for Commissioners speaking against Escape; (K) Unlawful possession or use of Code; (4) The individual is a current reg - the specified offenses to file an application the lawsuit included Ahmad Zahra, a weapon, firearm, explosive device, or istrant on the California Sex and Arson before the trial court to have the felony Sam Jammal, Andy Thorburn, weapon of mass destruction; (L) Registry. conviction reduced to a misdemeanor. Dr. Mai Khanh Tran, Jeanette Possession of an unlawful deadly weapon, (5) The individual has been convicted Offenders cannot petition a court if Vazquez and José Trinidad under the Deadly Weapons of a federal crime that meets the defini - they have previous convictions for any Castaneda Recodification Act of 2010; (M) An tion of an aggravated felony of the federal serious or violent crime. Page 6FULLERTON OBSERVER The DOWNTOWN Report © 2018 MID APRIL 2018 Text & Photos by Mike Ritto [email protected]

Fullerton Civic Light Opera

& The Rhythm Room Above: Two recordings FCLO opened in December of 1971 For a while it was a dead end, but then, made at the and produced 135 plus musical shows there it was, a Dick Clark video on You Rhythm Room. over 45 years. It was always one of the Tube featuring the Premiers that seemed heavyweights in Fullerton’s musical and to prove that incredibly, some rock and At Left: live theater culture, so it’s tough to see it roll songs were recorded live in The end of go, but many of you will carry memories Downtown Fullerton and actually became an era of the shows you saw them produce at hits. You can watch it by going to You as FCLO Plummer Auditorium. Tube and searching Premiers Farmer gives up We stopped by for a final peek at John. Seemingly, nobody in Fullerton had its historic Fullerton Civic Light Opera headquarters any idea that a venue like that ever exist - headquarters on Commonwealth across from the police ed, so it was time to dig deeper. on West station. It is just about cleared out to Nobody at FPD seemed to know about Commonwealth make way for a new pet related tenant, it at first, but finally, someone there said near Downtown and seeing the stage in shambles struck a they had heard there was ‘trouble’ across Fullerton. chord. the street with rock and roll dances that What About were loud and wild and attracted a lot of bands and that must have lead to the live Billy Cardenas was an East L.A. pro - unsavory types wanting to dance and recordings. moter and manager, and the two started the Rhythm Room? hang out. This was the early 60’s, don’t FCLO founder, the late Griff Duncan, doing shows at the Rhythm Room in A few years ago, a musical mystery you know, so rock and roll had to go!! seemed to know a bit about it but he was Fullerton. revealed itself. Sure, Fullerton was home Heathens all. amazed when shown copies of the 45rpm Apparently Frankie Garcia of Cannibal to Leo Fender and Jackson Browne, and a A New Hornet’s Nest: Apparently, since single “Farmer John” by the Premiers and and the Headhunters forgot the lyrics to long ago forgotten show at the Imperial rock music was banned at Fullerton “LA LA LA LA LA by The Blendells. Land of 1000 dances but still recorded the Ballroom above the Williams Company Junior College, the Rhythm Room They both have “Recorded Live at the song in the spring of 1965. The Blendells featured Buddy Holly and the Crickets, opened in May of 1963 and suddenly Rhythm Room Fullerton, Calif.” on the also forgot the lyrics to a song and substi - plus other musical milestones have taken Fullerton had its own young adult night label, as you can see in photos above. tuted some vocal exercises, the lalalalala place here, but this? club. It was also a rehearsal space for Farmer John reached #19 in July of 1963. stuff. Details regarding this are also hazy, There is some controversy regarding but another hit was born. whether Farmer John was actually record - And so, we are here at the final days of ed live in the Rhythm Room, with rumors FCLO, also home to long ago forgotten it may have been recorded in Hollywood early rock shows. We all knew the FCLO instead. But, a good story is a good story had a long and storied history. so why ruin it with unsubstantiated ‘facts’? A New Home for FCLO Costumes Land of a Thousand Dances Staged Cinema Wardrobe is the new Eddie Davis had started Faro and home for FCLO costumes and operates Rampart Records and launched the out of the warehouse on the 218 W Westcoast Eastside sound with the Commonwealth site. The costume shop Premiers, The Blendells, Cannibal and the phone number stayed the same. 714-879- Headhunters, and El Chicano. 9761

Above: The fabled stage is nearly dismantled. The inside of the building will be remodeled to accommodate a pet supply shop. MID APRIL 2018 LOCAL NEWS & CROSSWORD FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7

OUR TOWN CROSSWORD © 2018 Fullerton Beautiful Garden Tour “I NSTRUMENTAL ” by Valerie Brickey (answer key on page 19) by Sylvia Palmer Mudrick PHOTOS BY BOB LINNELL A riotous display of spring colors will be in the offing Sunday, April 29, when the nonprofit beautification group Fullerton Beautiful presents its Annual Open Gardens Tour. The tour, which will be held from 11am to 4pm features impressive examples of gardens that run the gamut from a coun - try cottage garden, a drought-tolerant gar - den with unusual fruit trees, a garden per - fect for the fanciest tea party, an extrava - The seven gardens featured on this year’s ganza of palms, a purple mix of rustic tour include a variety of styles, garden plantings, and quaint cottage gardens. architecture, waterfalls, and statuary, to Maps to the seven gardens to be spot - lush blooms, unusual trees, color schemes, lighted on the tour are $15, and may be and drought tolerant themes including purchased at the Fullerton College rock gardens and succulents. Horticulture Department, located east of the intersection of Lemon Street and Berkeley Avenue. Visitors are welcome to walk through the department’s gardens, and plants will be available for sale. Proceeds from the sales support the horticulture scholarship program. Among the gardens featured on the Open Gardens Tour will be a cottage-style garden that spotlights drought-tolerant plantings. In the wake of water rationing for lawns and gardens, the garden owner’s ACROSS DOWN goal was to replace most of the grass and 1. Cowboy pants 1. Bistro manicured vegetation with plantings 6. Salve 2. Wife of Zeus requiring less water. Working with 10. “Woe is me!” 3. “We’re adding on ___ room.” designer Deborah Collins, the owner’s 14. Eagle’s nest 4. Cry at a wrestling match, maybe efforts were rewarded with a front garden mind, other than a love of flowering 15. Reggae singer Yaniss 5. “Hold on a ___!” filled with a variety of plantings of differ - shrubs and a desire to attract what nature 16. Scrabble piece 6. 1922 Physics Nobelist ent textures in shades of gold, blue, silver, has to offer. As a result, the garden slow - 17. Instrument for Sarah Willis 7. Hubbubs pink, and purple. ly grew into a country-style showcase, and Maddy Brickey 8. Skulks Along with the beautiful jacaranda with lush flowers surrounded by a white 19. Barely managed, with “out” 9. Capital of the Philippines trees, the plants enhance and complement picket fence. 20. Per person 10. Chowed down the English cottage-style house. A variety In the rear yard a variety of colorful 21. “Whole milk ___?” 11. Clicked thumbs up on Facebook of colorful succulent beds with boulders blooms happily coexist with the owners’ 23. Apple picker 12. Tylenol competitor were added in place of grass areas, which orchard, vegetable garden and workshop. 24. 007 creator Fleming 13. Passover meal brought diversity and dimension to the Visitors will also find statuary of various 26. Defamation 18. Great esteem, in London design. The various plants include a vari - figures, mostly reading, which is a reflec - 28. Instrument for Tommy Dorsey 22. Male bravado ety of pittosporums, salvias, yarrow, lan - tion of the wife’s days as an elementary and Wycliffe Gordon 25. Assisting, criminally tana, grasses, Mexican marigold, lilac ver - school teacher who found joy in teaching 33. High card 27. Straight, at the bar bena, rock rose and ground morning young children to read. 34. Opposite of vert. 28. ‘80s TV show “___-Team” glory. Further information about the Open 35. French bookkeeper, abbr.? 29. Throw, as dice A second garden on the tour went Gardens Tour may be obtained by calling 37. Stops 30. Baseball’s Hershiser through several major transformations Fullerton Beautiful spokeswoman Kay 41. Instruments for Jimi Hendrix 31. CBS drama starring Mark Harmon before becoming what it is today. Prior to Miller at (714) 394-5805, or by logging and Slash 32. Walt Disney World theme park 2012, the garden boasted more than 300 onto the organization’s website at 44. Parcel out 36. Lab gel cycads and several palms. After those www.fullertonbeautiful.org. 45. Dove and Dial 38. Stow, as cargo were removed – a task that required a 46. Two, in Madrid 39. Gait faster than a walk crane to accomplish – the garden was 47. Big success 40. Leaky balloon sound planted with varieties ranging from tropi - 49. Instruments for Wynton Marsalis 42. Small salmon cal to desert, and includes many rare or and Miles Davis 43. 2011 Givers song unusual plants. Featured are many species 51. Kings’ seats 48. Dishes for a doll party of palm trees, cycads, aloes, agaves, 55. “Annabel Lee” poet 50. Hallucinogenic cactus bromeliads, and hundreds of tillandsias. 56. Presidential nickname 51. Fortuneteller’s card The garden also has many types of rock 57. Cake, in Paris 52. Thermonuclear weapon, for short displays such as quartz onyx and even 60. Himalayan legend 53. ___ in (restrains) jade. There are also fossils, coral, stalac - 64. Irritate 54. No longer fresh tites, stalagmites, and other garden art, as 66. Instruments for John Coltrane 58. Off-ramp well as a koi pond and a waterfall. and Max Brickey 59. First-rate Whimsy is the operative word for a 68. Old Dodge model 61. City west of Tulsa third garden to be spotlighted on the tour. 69. Tiger’s ex wife 62. Prefix with graph According to the owners, the garden 70. Handy 63. Comprehension by the ocean? began without any specific design in 71. Recipe abbr. 65. Place for gloss 72. Place for a béret 67. Run smoothly Register Online to Vote 73. Euripides drama Those 18 and over who are US citizens and residents of California, and meet other requirements can register online using your California driver license or ID card num - ber, date of birth, and last four digits of your social security number. 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You might be saying that video games are fun, but: 1) They may make you sick with headaches, eye strain, and can cause a condition known as “text neck.” This is when your neck is in one position look - ing down at a screen for too long. Just looking at an electronic device screen (even TV) for a long time can be really bad for your brain. So you should not be spending your entire day on the screen. 2) Too much video game playing can change your behavior towards your family. Video games are really addic - tive, so when your timer goes off or your parents say you can’t play any - The Fullerton School District 6th graders hike to the Laguna Lake. - PHOTO BY KELLY PELLIZZARI more, you might get really angry and take it out on someone. published scientific evidence on the heal - explore this lovely place through our P.E. It’s kind of like a drug because after ing effects of forest bathing from strength - class because hiking is one of our activi - awhile you have to have it. The thing is Kids Rule! ening the immune system, improving ties. that while you are playing you do not by ability to focus, recovery from illness, The term “forest bathing” is new to me care about your surroundings. All you increasing energy level to sleeping better. but I realized that I have already practiced care about at that moment is yourself. Francine I’m glad that it is spring time again. It it in the past. Knowing how this can help You should know that your parents are Vudoti won’t be too cold to go outdoors anymore. me live healthier has inspired me to spend probably very annoyed by you always I love the long walks as I explore the trees more time playing and relaxing in the wanting to play on your devices at © 2018 and discover different species of birds, and “mini forest” of our city which could be home. find some bunnies and squirrels along the found along the foot trails or parks or 3) Exercise! When you are sitting on way. In school, there is a pathway that even the Fullerton Arboretum. The beau - the couch all day you don’t go outside leads to a wooded area and ends in a beau - tiful spring weather is just the perfect time to play with your neighbors or enjoy Forest Bathing tiful lake called Laguna Lake. We get to for Shinrin-Yoku. nature. This can also lead to getting a bag of Doritos or something else unhealthy because you won’t want to Taking a walk and enjoying time Joooookes & Riddles & Funny Story Time take the time to make something around trees is such a wonderful thing to healthy to eat. You don’t want to take 1. How many gorillas can fit in the car? 7. As a scarecrow, people say I’m do. Last summer, I explored most of the the time to do that because you would (Eight). How many chickens can fit outstanding in my field. foot trails in Fullerton especially those have to change your character in the into the car? But hay, it’s in my jeans. with lots of trees. There are many benefits game or maybe your next round is A: None coz the car is already filled when doing this simple task which the 8. Sometimes I tuck my knees about to start. Those are not very good with gorillas! Japanese call “shinrin-yoku” or forest into my chest and lean forward. reasons to be unhealthy. bathing. Such a unique term right? Yep, It’s just the way I roll. Even though it may seem fun, video 2. Why aren’t koalas actual bears? except that it has some big meaning to it games are horrible for you and your A: They don’t meet the koalafications. 9. What did the waiter say to the guest that might leave your mouth hanging. family. Life is worth living, so live it like who called him over and complained, Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is a term you should. Make today the day that 3. What’s a foot long and slippery? “How come there are no chairs coined by the Japanese. This refers to you choose to be healthy, positive and A: A slipper. at our table?!” spending time in an environment with active. plenty of trees (Mckenna, John. “Living A. The waiter said, “I’m sorry but you Malaya M. Near Forest Has an Unexpected Benefit.” 4. What’s a pirates favorite letter? only booked one table…” 4th grade, Acacia School A. You think it’s R (they pronounce "r" 23 Oct 2017. www.weforum.org ). This 10. In a one-story pink house, there with strong accent) but it should be practice was developed in Japan in the was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink the C (sea). 1980s, almost 40 years ago, to reduce fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a How to Express stress and help people live healthier pink table, a pink telephone, a pink 5. I told my friend 10 jokes (www.shinrin-yoku.org ). shower– everything was pink! What Your Opinion to get him to laugh. The interesting thing about this con - color were the stairs? If you are a person in grades Sadly, no pun in 10 did. cept is that it doesn’t require any running, A. There were no stairs! Kindergarten through 8th grade you jogging or working out. Forest bathing It was a one-story house! can send your opinion on any topic 6. Two gold fish are in a tank. means simply taking in the beauty of to Letters to the Observer . We will One looks at the other and says, nature, walking or just sitting and relaxing I hope you enjoyed those. print as many as we have space for. “You know how to drive this thing?! ” around trees. The World Economic Tune in next time for some more! To participate please keep your let - Forum and Shinrin-Yoku.org have both ter to about 300 words or less or we may have to trim it. 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Alexandra Pace, Carly Fahundo, Taylor Garcia, Pricilla Gonzalez, Jessica James, Vendela Jors, Angela Lankenau, and Kaylee Nelson Students check out more than 1,000 multicolored T-shirts clotheslines across the CSUF Congratulations Assisteens campus on April 5. Fullerton College will have a similar event on its campus on April 17. Graduating Class CSUF Clothesline Project by April Conn Eight local high school seniors will be Pathways of Hope with food and gift dis - honored for their years of community tribution during the holidays to under - The 17th annual Clothesline Project For over 30 years, Waymakers has service at the Fullerton Assisteens annual privileged families; decorating pumpkins, took place on April 5 at Cal State helped Orange County victims of sexual charity fashion show on April 28 at the Valentine cookies and making blankets Fullerton with more than 1,000 multicol - assault and abuse find their voice and Embassy Suites in Brea. This year’s theme for the TAPP program at La Sierra High; ored T-shirts hung on clotheslines across overcome the hardships they’ve encoun - is “By the Sea.” helping to run the Assistance League’s campus. The event in Orange County tered. The Assisteens is the junior branch of Bargain Box Thrift Store on Amerige Ave began in 2001 with just eight T-shirts. The life-changing services offered to the Assistance League of Fullerton. There on Saturdays; and assisting with the annu - Each T-shirt contains a personal mes - victims include a 24-hour response line are 54 girls in grades 7th through 12th in al Assistance League fundraisers, Day of sage of an individual victim of crime. The (see below), one-on-one peer counseling, the group. They are involved in a variety Authors and Taste of the Town. installation gives a voice to the unheard support groups, extensive education pro - of philanthropic events and services Information on how to become an voices of hundreds of women and men grams (also offered to colleges and univer - throughout the year including: the annu - Assisteen can be found by calling 714- affected by violence and sexual assault, as sities) and a primary prevention focus al holiday party for the Boys & Girls Club 526-5124 or visiting the website: well as victims of child sexual abuse, sexu - working with men’s groups. Ten programs of Fullerton; preparation of Thanksgiving www.assistanceleague.org/fullerton . al harassment, human trafficking, domes - guide over 120,000 abused children, baskets for Fullerton families; helping tic violence, and homicide. crime victims, struggling families, acting During this impactful and artful out adolescents and people needing medi - demonstration at CSUF, Waymakers, the ation services annually. Orange County non-profit which hosts the annual event, has an unfortunate large number of rape had a table set up for victims to learn victims, with between 1,600 to 1,800 rape more about services available to them victims served by Waymaker’s Sexual through the nonprofit. Students could Assault Victim Services each year. also create their own shirts to add to the For more information visit www.way - compelling display. makersoc.org. Fullerton College will be hosting the If you or someone you know needs help Clothesline Project on April 17 from 9am right now call the 24-hour emergency to 3pm on campus at 321 E. Chapman help lines: Avenue in Fullerton. The display will be •Youth-in-need & youth shelter traveling to other colleges and universities programs (714) 842-6600 through the Orange County during •Support after sexual assault Sexual Assault Awareness month in April. (714) 957-2737

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Anna, the Vice President elect of Cal about criminals and felons (in the text of State Fullerton student body and a DACA SB 54): conviction for a felony punishable recipient, said “Stand up for immigrants. by imprisonment in state prison at any Stand up for human beings.” time; conviction within the past 15 years for any other specified felony; conviction SUPPORTING THE LAWSUIT IS within the past 5 years for a misdemeanor; POLITICALLY SHORT -SIGHTED , conviction of a crime that is serious, vio - lent, or punishable by a term in state EVEN FOR REPUBLICANS prison; and if release date and time are Fullerton resident Diane Vena suggest - already publicly available. ed that “there’s an underlying motivation Sophia Alexander cited a study from the that has nothing to do with immigration. Cato Institute, indicating that undocu - I think it has to do with elections, getting mented immigrants commit crimes at your name out there, just like all the 39th rates far below that of US citizens. district Republican candidates put out Dr. Vallejo, an expert on immigration, press releases before the Supervisors made said that “the research consistently their position known.” demonstrates that crime is statistically and Andre Charles, a political consultant significantly lower in sanctuary counties Members of the public line up to make their voices heard. PHOTO BY JESSE LA TOUR who lives in Fullerton reminded council compared to non-sanctuary counties.” of the 90s, when the Republican Party She cited a recent study [using ICE and Fullerton Will Not Join Lawsuit Against State tried to marginalize, demonize, and scape - FBI data] by Tom Wong of UC San Diego demonstrating that violent crime rates in shift toward dangerous language and poli - goat Latinos [like with proposition 187]. Continued from page 5 sanctuary cities are 35.5 fewer per 10,000 cies.” “That has rendered the Republican Donna Whitman works with an after people compared to non-sanctuary coun - Muhammad Abdul, a professor at Party, statewide, largely irrelevant,” said school program in South Fullerton, where ties. CSUF and Fullerton College, said “I work Charles, “You will be known as the politi - the PTA is mostly made up of immi - cians who want to break up Latino fami - grants, many of whom are undocument - in close proximity with undocumented But, we’re talking about illegal immigrants, a lot of DACA recipients, a lies. If this was brought forward to immigrants. They are not ed. advance your political career, it will not.” “The PTA would not be functioning if lot of them are my students. I understand a protected class. their fear because I used to be undocu - Resident Hal McNaught, a professor at it were not for undocumented mothers,” SUPPORTING THIS LAWSUIT said Whitman, “If we traumatize children mented myself.” Vanguard, an evangelical Christian uni - and their families with the fear of being He held up his American passport, and IS CLEARLY AGAINST versity in Orange County, said “There’s a deported, we are short-sighted and we’re said: “The resolution Councilmember RESIDENTS ’ WISHES big difference between an immigrant and not nurturing compassion in the next Fitzgerald introduced basically suggests an illegal immigrant. Keep us all safe and generation.” that the value of my life prior to obtaining Jeanette Vazquez, a Fullerton School keep the illegal immigrants out.” A member of the Air Force spoke of his this passport (which he got last year), was Boardmember and “a daughter of once Fullerton resident Gretchen Cox agreed superior officer Jenny Escobedo who, like less than the value of my life after this undocumented parents” pointed out the and said “This is not about immigration, many others, earned her citizenship while passport.” hundreds of speakers who were opposed this is about illegal immigration…I sup - serving our country. Another CSUF and Fullerton College to the lawsuit, compared to the few who port legal immigration.” professor said “I’m here today because of were for it. “What this council is consid - my students.” She gave the example of ering tonight is not reflective of the Many residents pointed out that immi - MANY FULLERTON STUDENTS one of her brightest students, who came desires of its residents,” said Vazquez. grants (documented or undocumented) ARE UNDOCUMENTED to the U.S. at age two and is undocu - Jared Cruz said, “If you guys vote to are first and foremost human beings. mented: “This administration has shat - support this, you would be going against Parks and Rec Commissioner Jose A professor at Cal State Fullerton said, tered her confidence in her place in the the people, and that has happened before Trinidad Castaneda said, “Here in “In my capacity as a research mentor on community…her face and countless oth - with Coyote Hills.” Fullerton, immigrants are a vital part of campus, I work closely with many stu - ers are the faces who remind me who will our families and communities, and we dents, many of whom are Dreamers, and be affected by this…while you see this as need to recognize the humanity of every I have seen first hand their growing fear A Handful of Supporters a simple legal squabble, to my students person who calls our state home, no mat - and anxiety surrounding our country’s Though only five of the 103 speakers this is a direct attack.” ter their background, what they look like, were for joining the lawsuit, I will con - or where they were born.” dense their main arguments, and follow Fullerton resident Mirvette Judeh, with each with counter-arguments provided by her young children gathered around her, other members of the public. spoke powerfully saying "We need you to But, won’t SB 54 allow dangerous stand against racial profiling, against the “illegal alien” felons back Trump racist agenda and stand up for onto our streets? inclusiveness. SB54 makes sure ICE is Resident Jeff McDaniel said that SB 54 kept out of schools and hospitals." would allow for releasing “illegal alien felons back onto our streets so they won’t “Why don’t they follow the rules face deportation.” He called this “criminal of the system and become legal?” and treasonous.” Debra Pember said we should not Resident Larry Bennett told the story of reward people who do not follow the law. Kate Steinle, who was shot in 2015 by a criminal “illegal alien,” suggesting that Residents countered that immigration undocumented immigrants can be dan - laws have changed over time. gerous. Suzanne Darweesh noted that “many of our ancestors came before there were laws that stipulated quotas…before the time of Several members of the public argued 10-year waits to get in.” She added that a against these claims, noting that SB 54 is lot of undocumented immigrants are peo - not detrimental to public safety because ple fleeing persecution, torture, even exceptions exist within the law for crimi - death.” She added that the League of nals. (See list on page 5.) Women Voters supports the sanctuary Dr Priya Shah noted that the following laws. exclusions are already in place to allow state and local agencies to inform ICE Continued on next page

Chart at left shows number of people crossing the border illegally has decreased from year 2000 to 2017. MID APRIL 2018 SANCTUARY CITY FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 11 Fullerton Will Not Join Lawsuit Against State Continued from page 10 show empathy, compassion, and love— A woman identifying herself as a not fear, hostility, and hate. Some spoke Muslim said that she and her brothers and directly from their faith and quoted vari - sisters graduated from college and own ous bible verses. four Fullerton properties. "But, if we Debby Lagenbacher, a Unitarian came today we would not be allowed Universalist Fullerton member, said we entrance. We are here to see if our council support undocumented immigrants. ”We is going to support a racist xenophobic are a great state and I am especially proud policy. that we are on the right side of history.” James Cho, a Fullerton homeowner and Bethany Anderson of OneLife City local pastor said that “The laws which Church of Fullerton, said “God stands make people undocumented are arbitrary. with those on the margins. We invite you In the 1940s, Mexicans were actually to choose hospitality, not hostility.” invited by the US government to come be Mike Clements who works with the farmworkers, legally. And then laws Catholic Diocese of OC, which has called changed and they became illegal.” He said for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, there is sometimes a difference between said that 1000 people of faith spoke out at what is legal and what is right. Rep Royce’s 39th Congressional office in He asked the council to not sign onto support of SB54. the lawsuit. “In twenty years when you Mindy Plick, who works as director of Many residents brought their children with them as they spoke to council urging them Children’s Ministry at the Placentia reflect on your decision today, will it have not to join the federal lawsuit against “Sanctuary” laws. PHOTO BY JESSE LA TOUR been one that is right and for the best of Presbyterian church, said “My husband, this nation?” my three children and I are friends with that the Association of California Police motion to oppose the lawsuit but when our immigrant neighbors...who are living Chiefs have taken a “neutral” position on told by the city attorney that was not pos - in fear right now.” SB 54. He added: “I don’t have the sible on the current agenda item made a RELIGIOUS VIEWS Phil Towne, a professor at Hope resources, as was mentioned by some peo - motion to “receive and file” the item, Speakers against signing on to the law - International University, said that “by ple, to even loan officers out to work on a meaning the city would take no action. suit included an impressive show of mem - entering into this lawsuit, we are not pro - task force or anything like that.” Chaffee seconded the motion. bers of local religious institutions. viding justice...I believe we are to show Councilmember Bruce Whitaker, who FINAL VOTE : Council voted 3-1-1 to Local Christians implored council to see hospitality to strangers, not to keep them supported the federal lawsuit, took a dif - pass Silva’s motion [Fitzgerald “no” and immigrants as fellow human beings and to out.” ferent position from both Chief Whitaker abstaining].The room erupted Hendricks and the California Police in applause and cheers, and the meeting WHAT CITY COUNCILMEMBERS HAD TO SAY Chiefs. “Legal authorities cannot carry was adjourned. Thus, Fullerton city coun - Councilmember Jesus Silva thanked Councilmember Jennifer Fitzgerald, out their duties under current laws in a cil will not join the federal lawsuit against everyone for showing up and speaking who supported the lawsuit, said “I’m not sanctuary city or state,” stated Whitaker. California. their minds. “It really speaks to the power going to show hospitality to those who Mayor Doug Chaffee agreed with To hear all the comments made in full and energy of our Fullerton community, commit serious crimes…I’m not talking Chief Hendricks. “It [SB 54] does not see the video of the April 3, 2018 that we can all show up for something about kicking out people for nothing or impact our law enforcement in any way. Council Meeting on the city website. that’s really important,” he said. breaking up families—that’s not what this It’s the same as it was before,” said He mentioned people like his brother, is about. This is about protecting the Chaffee. He cited budget constraints now an active Fullertonian, and Jose immigrant community and the commu - Fullerton is facing, stating that he didn’t NEW IGS P OLL Moreno, now on Anaheim City Council, nity as a whole from those who commit want to devote city resources to the law - REVERSES PREVIOUS who became citizens in the mid-80s under serious crimes.” She asked for Fullerton suit, but rather wants to focus on infra - president Reagan’s Amnesty. Police Chief Hendricks to give the depart - structure, education, and bringing people RESULTS together. Chaffee, the only lawyer on Silva, who teaches at Nicolas Jr. High in ment’s position on this issue. The 2015 IGS (Institute of south Fullerton, said that when his stu - Police Chief Hendricks replied that council, said “I don’t think the [state and federal] laws are in conflict.” Government Studies) poll results were dents heard about the anti-sanctuary law - immigration enforcement “is not a func - referred to by Councilmember Mayor Protem Greg Sebourn made a suit, they had some questions such as: tion of local law enforcement. Local law Sebourn and an audience member at motion to not sign onto the lawsuit, but “Why are they doing this? Do they not enforcement does not have the authority the April 3rd hearing on Sanctuary instead to draft a letter in support of think we’re human? Why are they so to arrest for immigration matters. That’s City law as proof that most immigration reform, and a letter support - mean? Why do they want to separate our left to federal authorities.” Californians are against the state’s laws ing a repeal of the California Sanctuary families?” “The bottom line is that, as police offi - that protect immigrants. City laws AB 450, SB 54, and AB 103. “Let’s keep in mind that our local resi - cers, we frankly don’t care because our job The trouble with that is that is that No one seconded this motion. dents are the most important thing right is to go out there and provide public safe - a newer poll released in March of Motion to Receive & File: now,” said Silva, “We’ve got to protect ty to everybody, regardless of your immi - 2017 reversed the conclusions of the Councilmember Jesus Silva first made a those students, those parents.” gration status,” said Hendricks, adding earlier poll and found that although “Californians hold divided and parti - san views about sanctuary cities there The group Against California’s Sanctuary Laws is bipartisan support for providing FAIR (Federation for American to deny law enforcement grants to sanc - donor to anti-immigrant groups with undocumented immigrants a pathway Immigration Reform) has been offering tuary cities; produced legislation guid - assets exceeding $493 million founded to citizenship and opposition to build - California cities and counties free repre - ance and talking points to lawmakers on by Cordelia Scaife May), The Swensrud ing the US/Mexico wall.” sentation through its legal arm immigration and refugee resettlement Endowment Fund, The Carthage The statewide survey found that: Immigration Reform Law Institute to issues; produced social media ads on Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, • 56% of voters support local com - file supporting Amicus Briefs to the immigration policy in 33 states; and Blair Foundation, Galbraith Foundation munities declaring themselves sanc - Trump Administration’s Department of provides “educational” material on and the F.M. Kirby Foundation. tuary cities and instructing local Justice lawsuit against California’s sanc - immigration issues to students from FAIR is affiliated with the Center for police and government employees not tuary laws (SB54, AB450 and AB103). grade school through col - Immigration Studies (CIS to turn immigrants over to federal FAIR's president Dan Stein sent a let - lege; - according to its Over a decade of which publishes false statis - officers when they are found to be in ter to cities and counties including Aliso IRS non-profit filing for tics) and NumbersUSA the country illegally. Opinions were research shows the highly partisan with large majorities of Viejo, Yorba Linda and reportedly others 2016. true intent of FAIR is both founded by Tanton. In with requests to join the lawsuit. FAIR’s founding leader 2007 FAIR ran a successful Democrats and No Party Preference Fullerton officials denied receiving a John Tanton warned that “to limit the number campaign against President voters supportive and Republicans such a letter. Seven cities and OC signed unless Latino immigra - of nonwhites living George W. Bush’s proposed opposed. on. Fullerton and Santa Ana did not. tion was restricted it in the U.S.” -SPLC Immigration Reform which •59% of voters oppose the propos - FAIR, based in Washington, D.C., would lead to linguistic, included a path to citizen - al to build a wall along the has been identified as a hate group since economic, racial and religious apartheid ship for most illegal immigrants. US/Mexico border. with Democrats 2008 by Southern Poverty Law Center, a in the US. This and other comments FAIR also controls two other tax- and No Party Preference voters non-profit which tracks hate crimes in and documents of over a decade of exempt organizations: FAIR opposed and Republicans strongly America. research, says SPLC, shows the true Congressional Task Force Inc., which supportive. Far from being a group dedicated to intent of Tanton’s anti-immigration develops immigration policy; and • 82% of voters showed bi-partisan ending “illegal” immigration, FAIR has advocacy is “to limit the number of non - Immigration Reform Law Institute Inc., support for providing pathway to cit - a budget of over $11 million spent whites living in the U.S.” FAIR’s current the legal arm which promotes enforce - izenship for illegal immigrants who against DACA (the program that pro - president Dan Stein, has warned that ment of immigration laws with a $1.4 have lived in the US for a number of tects those brought to US as children) immigrants are engaged in “competitive million budget. years, have a job, have not committed and DAPA (which would protect their breeding” aimed at diminishing white For much more on FAIR visit a serious crime, have learned English, parents from deportation) and the power. www.splcenter.org and enter and paid taxes. ENLIST Act (where service in the US FAIR is a non-profit funded by The its full name into the search engine. Read the full 2017 report at: military earns citizenship). FAIR lobbied Colcom Foundation (the single largest https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60d4423f Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER FEATURE MID APRIL 2018

Family Fun at La Habra Children’s Museum Stepping through the doors of the La desks and bins containing plastic foods. Habra Children’s Museum brought back Behind a plastic tree and up a set of tiny childhood memories. When I was around stairs was a corner with a comfy couch on four or five-years-old, I used to visit the it, which served as a reading nook. museum with my friends and family. Moving along, we stepped into the per - Fascinated by locomotives at an early age, formance room, where kids could try on I always looked forward to seeing the costumes ranging from firemen uniforms model train display. Now, years later, I to princess outfits. Ms. Ochoa said, “We decided to revisit the Children’s Museum have costumes donated from the La at La Habra. Habra Police Department and Fire Located on Euclid, the museum origi - Department.” In the center of the room nally opened in December 1977 and was was a red curtain background with a mini- built in a historic 1923 Spanish-style train stage setup and towards the back was a depot. It was one of only a few children’s fake recording studio. The La Habra Children’s Museum is a fun outing for the family. museums to open on the West Coast dur - At the science station were displays ing the seventies. With seven galleries and about water conservation, energy conser - clock counted down until the trains were at the Fullerton Train Station, this fourteen different exhibitions vation, and paleontology. ready to run. caboose had an old ice box and a cupola, for the little ones, the museum There was even a dinosaur dig There was a tiny room behind the which children could climb into just to continues to work to encourage Seven area, where kids and their par - model train village which belonged to the see what the engineers would see. Ms. enthusiasm about learning in a ents can dust through some STEAM Lab. “This is one of the newest Ochoa said, “The caboose was only for hands-on environment. galleries & dirt for fossils and bones. additions to our museum,” said Ms. engineers, so it’s kind of a special place for Meeting up with Outreach fourteen In the neighboring room, Ochoa, “We can now really focus on sci - children to come into.” She pointed to Coordinator, Raquel Ochoa, I Ms. Ochoa showed me an ence, technology, engineering, arts and where the engineer would live and showed took a tour of the museum on a different authentic, hand-crafted mathematics.” me the furnace which had some fake coal crowded Saturday morning. exhibits Dentzel Carousel with various Down a light-blue hallway, we walked inside it and a tea kettle on top. Authentic Entering the lobby, the colorful animals for children to ride on. into the oldest room in the museum, kerosene lanterns were placed in the engi - walls and giant stuffed animals encourage In the far corner of the room which is home to a permanent nature neer’s corner. Lanterns were the main way immediately grabbed my atten - was Buster the Bus, which was walk exhibit. The room was filled with that railroad workers communicated. tion. A miniature train pulled enthusiasm a real transportation bus that taxidermied heads of different animals They used a variety of colors to commu - by one of the characters from about was gifted to the museum. which lined the upper walls, while stuffed nicate different messages. For example, if Thomas the Tank Engine cir - Adjacent to the carousel predators sat on the ground. “We’re cele - a red lantern from the caboose of a train, cled around a glassed circular learning. room was the exhibition brating 40 years of play this year, so this is that meant that the train was going to track with a painted back - Children of Hangzhou: the original waiting room, where they stop soon. ground. Connecting with China in used to sell the tickets for the trains,” said In front of the museum was a carved, Following Ms. Ochoa down a yellow- honor of Chinese New Year . Ms. Ochoa Ms. Ochoa. wooden train engine, coal car and mosaic hued hallway, I got a brief look at the chil - said, “This is a temporary exhibit. It was “Now it’s been turned into a taxidermy butterfly next to a dinosaur display, where dren’s art center, where art activities for just received by the Boston Children’s room. All of these animals were living at kids could follow footprints in the cement school groups are held. Museum and they gave it to us, so we’re one time, but now they’re here, secured to an area in the bushes. Colored tricer - There were posters on display along the super excited to have this right now. We and safe. Hundreds of kids every week atops and other dinosaur statues stood out walls of the hallway for previous exhibits. want to show the culture and background touch them.” Sound effects of birds and front, providing visitors with a perfect Ms. Ochoa said, “We even have hand- of China. In this exhibit, we follow the other nocturnal animals played in the photo opportunity. painted scrolls by some children artists.” lives of four children. As we walk through, background as I walked through the Overall, the Children’s Museum at 301 Next, I was taken into the preschool we’re visiting their apartment, the coun - room. There were lions, bears, hyena, and Euclid Street in La Habra provides a fun, playroom, where the younger ones could tryside, West Lake, and the Yellow javelina, along with other animals, includ - hands-on learning experience for kids and play and pretend. “It’s ideal for children Dragon Theater, which is an important ing a golden eagle which hung from the parents who want to learn. Admission is under five years old,” said Ms. Ochoa. center for the city of Hangzhou.” ceiling. Ms. Ochoa showed me the $10 for children and adults, but is free for “We have a mini-market, a construction In the kitchen area, there was a fake Grotto in the corner of the taxidermy museum members and children under zone, a mini kitchen, and of course, our window frame with a picture of a Chinese room, where living animals like two. The museum is open from 10am to tree house reading nook.” There were apartment building behind it, giving the Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches and a 4pm on Tuesdays through Fridays and miniature shopping carts with colorful room a sense of perspective. On the oppo - Leopard Gecko were placed in small habi - stays open an hour later on Saturdays. It’s site wall was a TV screen playing a video tats. They were safely secured behind open on Sundays from 1pm to 5pm. of Chinese people gathering grains of rice. glass. Visitors can also meet Lucy, the To see my full tour through the La This display runs until May 27th when a museum’s resident tarantula. Habra Children’s Museum, visit the new exhibit called Lindo Mexico will take Outside the museum, real locomotives Fullerton Observer website, click on the its place. were parked along the original Union “Videos” tab and click on the words Walking through a doorway and down Pacific railroad tracks. Ms. Ochoa allowed “Emerson Little YouTube Channel,” a short set of stairs, we ended up at the me a look inside a bright red Southern which will take you directly to my page. model train village. The model train in a Pacific caboose. Like the train cars parked glass case stretched along the center of the room and looked very similar to the setup at Railroad Days. This was my favorite room when I was little because there were buttons my friends and I could press that would trigger movement from some of the railroad crossing signs and start some of the miniature train models. A digital MID APRIL 2018 EVENTS CALENDAR FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 13

MON, APRIL 16 SAT & SUN, APRIL 21-22 FRI, APRIL 27 continued HITS & •3pm-4pm: “Dream Riders •10am-4pm: 44th Annual •10am-Noon: Symposium on USA” Documentary Screening a Green Scene Garden Expo at Homelessness OC at CSUF Titan MISSES CSUF Pacific Islander Desi Fullerton Arboretum 1900 Student Union Theater, 800 N. by Joyce Mason American Heritage Month event in Associated Road (at the edge of State College Bvd., Fullerton on © 2018 Titan Student Union Theatre at CSUF) features vendors offering campus. The response to homeless - CSUF, 800 N. State College Blvd. countless varieties of native plants, ness in Orange County is at a criti - Free. For a complete list of activities tropicals, perennials, succulents and CHAPPAQUIDDICK : cal juncture. This symposium seeks call (657) 278-3742 or visit more, plus speakers on composting, to galvanize a concrete vision for A Hit and a Miss http://www.fullerton.edu/aparc/her - water conservation, organic garden - longterm. Free. To register to save a itagemonth/ ing and sustainability. Also a food Not old enough to remember the tragedy that occurred seat visit www.OCSymposium.com TUES, APRIL 17 court and beer garden. $8/general; in the waters off Chappaquiddick Island, co-writers SAT, APRIL 28 •6:30pm: Fullerton City Free/members and kids 12 & under. Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan were nevertheless rivet - •7am: 16th Annual Donate Life Council Meeting at City Hall, 303 SUN, APRIL 22 ed by an old New York Daily News headline dated July 18, Run/Walk & Family Festival at W. Commonwealth. See full agenda •1pm: Earth Day at 1969: “Teddy Escapes, Blonde Drowns.” Reading the the Intramural Field at CSUF, 800 at www.cityoffullerton.com Muckenthaler , 1201 W. Malvern, article, they saw Mary Jo Kopechne referred to as a N. State College Blvd. Fullerton. Fullerton, features free printmaking “floozy” and they wanted to learn more about her and WED, APRIL 18 Registration check in at 7am; demos for all ages and reception of about the events that led to her tragic drowning. •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday Run/Walk at 9am; Family Health Air, Water, Earth exhibit at 3pm. Both writers felt that with careful research they could Farmers Market at Independence Festival at 10am. Register by visiting •6pm: United Farm Workers develop a screenplay, which was then made into a film Park, next to the DMV on Valencia www.donatelifeoc.org Benefit Dinner features Sonia directed by John Curran. At the time of the research, sev - between Euclid and Highland in SUN, APRIL 29 Rodriguez of the Parent Institute eral people were still alive and could provide their first- Fullerton. Fresh produce including •11am-4pm: Annual Open for Quality Education. 140 S. hand recollections. A group of bright and talented young fruit, vegetables, eggs, flowers, Gardens Tour starts with maps Marks Way, Orange. Contact Pam women, called the Boiler Room Girls, had worked assid - plants, baked goods, nuts, and more available at Fullerton College at pampresnall@aol to RSVP. $25 uously on the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy, from the farmer. Continues every Horticultural Dept on campus off SUN-SUN, APRIL 22-29 who had been assassinated in Los Angeles just one year Wednesday rain or shine. Berkeley Ave. Stunning Fullerton •Various Times over the Days: earlier. The young women, among them Mary Jo •5pm-8pm: 3rd Annual Titan gardens featured. Visit www.fuller - Annual LOVE Fullerton has Kopechne (Kate Mara), had believed in RFK’s political Night Market inspired by the tonbeautiful.org for more info. numerous opportunities for volun - goals and were still mourning his death. They were hard - famous 626 Night Market and tra - •Noon to 4pm: Silk Road Unity teers of all ages, skills and talents to ly the “floozies” referred to in the Daily News . ditional street markets, brings the Festival at Brookhurst Community make a difference in the communi - The women had gathered at a cottage on APIDA community together by Center & Park, 2271 Crescent Ave., ty by helping spruce up local schools Chappaquiddick Island rented by Joe Gargan (Ed sharing culturally significant food, Anaheim. Free admission, food to helping people in need. See what Helms), a cousin of the Kennedys, who had invited other performances and activities. CSUF court, handcrafted items bazaar, volunteer jobs fit into your schedule RFK campaign workers. The party was hardly a baccha - Pacific Islander Desi American dance troupes, international musi - and sign up to join a team or start nal but there was dancing and some liquor. After toasting Heritage Month event in the Quad cians, & films sponsored by the one, at www.lovefullerton.org to a possible presidential run for Ted Kennedy (Jason at CSUF, 800 N. State College. Pacific-Asian Museum. Clarke) in 1972, Mary Jo left in order to catch the last THURS, APRIL 19 MON, APRIL 23 •12:30pm: Fullerton’s Crop ferry to Edgartown. Ted offered to drive her there and •10am-2pm: 7th Annual •10am-11:15am: “Lifting Hunger Walk registration check in the two left together. There is no hint of a romance but WorldFest Celebrating People, Together” Poetry by Victoria begins at 12:30pm at the Fullerton these two attractive people obviously admired one anoth - Cultures, and the Earth on the Chang CSUF Pacific Islander Desi Downtown Plaza, 125 E. Wilshire er. campus of Fullerton College, 321 E. American Heritage Month event in Ave. (next to the Fullerton Museum Exactly what happened from this moment on is still Chapman Ave, Fullerton. Free. (if it the Pollak Library Rm 130 at between Harbor and Pomona) in pieced together from evidence given at the 1970 rains event moves to April 26) CSUF, 800 N. State College Blvd. downtown Fullerton. Walk begins Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court inquest. As •4pm-8:30pm: Every Thursday •4pm-5pm: “What Pacific at 1:30pm. Proceeds go to fund depicted in the film, Kennedy had too much to drink Fullerton Downtown Market on Islanders Want You to Know” by global programs and Pathways of and was driving too fast when he approached the small E. Wilshire between Harbor and Lilvao Tautolo CSUF Pacific Hope to end hunger. Register at wooden bridge with no guard rails that spanned Pomona features live music, pro - Islander Desi American Heritage www.cropwalk.org/fullertonca Chappaquiddick pond. The car veered off the bridge and duce, food and craft vendors, chil - Month event at University Hall Rm MON, APRIL 30 landed upside down. Kennedy was able to break free and dren’s activities, Wine and Beer 210B, CSUF, 800 N. State College. •2pm: “Chinese Exclusion Act” swim the short distance to land. Thinking Mary Jo had Garden and more. Free admission •5:30pm: Fullerton School Documentary Screening examines also broken free, he called her name several times from & parking. Repeats every Thurs. District Dual Language Program the origins, history and impact of the shore, then returned to the overturned car to try to •6pm-9pm: How to Recognize for parents interested in the the 1882 law that made it illegal for free her. When unable to do so, he walked back to the Warning Signs of Suicide Fisler 2018/19 English/Spanish Dual Chinese workers to come to or to cottage where the party was still happening and got Joe School Auditorium, 1350 Starbuck Language Academy program. become citizens of the US. Free and a friend to return with him. They both dove into the St., Fullerton. Free program covers Pacific Drive Elementary CSUF Pacific Islander Desi water but were not able to release Mary Jo from the car. mental health, social media, and Multipurpose Room. Call Rossana American Heritage Month event in The events surrounding the failed rescue displayed suicide prevention presented in Fonseca at (714) 447-7416 or visit Titan Student Union Theatre at poor judgment on the part of a senator and would-be partnership with Fullerton School www.fullertonsd.org CSUF, 800 N. State College Blvd. WED, APRIL 25 presidential candidate. Apparently, there were several District. Email to: thepar - •7:30pm: Free Film Series •6pm: League of Women Voters houses where he might have stopped in order to call for [email protected]. “Pleasantville” features 1990s 39th District Candidate Forum police rescue. Instead, Kennedy did not report the acci - SAT, APRIL 21 teenage siblings who find them - Ehlers Event Center, 8150 Knott dent for eight more hours. Autopsies showed that Mary •6pm: 24th Annual All the Arts selves in a 1950s sitcom where their Jo was alive inside the overturned car for about two hours for All the Kids Art Auction live Ave., Buena Park. THURS, APRIL 26 influence begins to change their and a swift rescue could have saved her. entertainment, tapas & beverages, •5pm: Hunt Library Future at world. Max Bloom’s Café Noir, 220 As the story hit the papers and television news, several amazing live auction items, (Two Fullerton Public Library Board N. Malden Ave. Fullerton. Kennedy advisors, including Ted Sorensen (Taylor Free Uber rides from 5pm to 11pm meeting, 353 W. Commonwealth, TUES, MAY 1 Nichols), gathered at the Edgartown hotel to mitigate the subtracted from ticket price), valet Fullerton. Call/text (714) 729-3019 •6pm: Fullerton College damage the event would have on Senator Kennedy’s service provided. Hanger 21, 3970 or visit www.SaveTheHunt.com Stadium Project at Sherbeck Field career. One advisor remarked on the “gift Ted is getting Artesia Ave, at the Fullerton Presentation at Fullerton College FRI, APRIL 27 from his older brother Jack” as the Apollo 11 moon land - Airport, 4011 W. Commonwealth, Campus Theatre, 321 E Chapman •6:30pm: Lions 2018 Fullerton ing occurred two days later and the focus of the nation Fullerton. Email questions to allt - Ave, on campus. See the plan at Chess Championship at Ladera shifted from Ted’s lack of courage and poor judgment to [email protected]. Tax www.fullcoll.edu/campusprojects . Vista Jr. High, 1700 E. Wilshire. the successful space race started by JFK. deductible proceeds provide art les - •6:30pm: Fullerton City Register by April 25 by calling Pete Ted, however, must tell the bad news to his ailing sons for FSD. Purchase tickets at Council Meeting at City Hall, 303 Baron at 714-225-2635 or by email father, incapacitated by a severe stroke. Joseph Kennedy www.alltheartsforallthekids.org W. Commonwealth. See full agenda to [email protected] (a heavily made-up Bruce Dern) still exhibits anger and at www.cityoffullerton.com disappointment in his youngest son. We in the audience FRI, MAY 4 frequently view Ted alone or with one other person and •8:30am-2pm: 33rd all that screenwriters can present to us is their own spec - Annual Faley Special Games ulation as to what might have been said. Journalist Neal at CSUF athletic field north Gabler, currently writing a biography of Edward “Ted” of the Titan Gym, 800 N. Kennedy, disputes the accuracy of some of the film’s State College Blvd, will host scenes. Doing his own research, Gabler claims that 3,500 participants in OC’s Joseph Kennedy was much too incapacitated to have largest non-competitive, interacted with his son at this time. sporting event for athletes As a film, “Chappaquiddick” presents us with a plausi - with developmental and intel - ble if not totally accurate account of the events that lectual disabilities. Each ath - clouded Ted Kennedy’s political career for the rest of his lete is paired up with a volun - life and probably kept him from becoming a presidential teer buddy who accompanies candidate. However, he did go on to serve in the Senate them during the event. Live for seven more terms. music, and activities. Free. Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER FILM, MUSIC & THEATER MID APRIL 2018 Registration Closes May 1st for Day of Music Venues and Artists Calling all musicians and local business - rock to jazz perform in churches, parks, es! Registration to participate in Day of streets, restaurants and boutiques. It is a Music Fullerton (DOMF) is open - but chance for musicians to transform an closes soon. The deadline for artists and ordinary spot in Fullerton into an amaz - venues to register is May 1st. ing music experience. Day of Music Fullerton is an all day, Since it’s inaugural event in 2015, free music event happening on the DOMF has seen a wide variety of per - Summer Solstice which is June 21, 2018. formances and included a number of well- DOMF and 700 cities around the world known musicians such as Katie Stump, take part in this annual “Fête de la Johnny Two Bags of Social Distortion, Musique” known as World Music Day. Skapeche Mode, The Audacity, The This is the fourth year the event is being Aquadolls, Bubba and the Big Bad Blues, held in the City of Fullerton Musicians and businesses interested in DOM Board of Directors President participating in DOM 2018 please regis - Corky Nepomuceno wants to be sure the ter online to connect with one another word gets out about the registration dead - and set up your performances at line. “Our matchmaking program, basi - www.thedayofmusic.com cally an E-harmony platform between artists and venues, officially launched on March 21,” said Nepomuceno. “We have Local Authors Day at almost 30 venues already registered and Fullerton Library dozens and dozens of musicians signing Authors will be presented in the Main up daily. We’re closing registration on lobby of the Fullerton Public Library, May 1st this year to give us ample time to 353 W. Commonwealth on Saturday, CSUF B REATHES NEW LIFE INTO put together a cohesive schedule/program. April 28, from 11am to 4pm. We are strongly encouraging everyone Authors include: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST who wants to participate to get on the Alyssa Mei Liu: A Step Outside; Melissa horn aka ASAP!” Buell: The Cursed Blessing; Holidays with Perhaps the most famous and ingenious of all modern comedies, Oscar Wilde’s sen - On the day, 150+ pop up performances Jane: Spring Fever ; P. G. Badzey: The sational characters and zippy one-liners generally result in all-around hilarious confu - by musicians happen throughout the city Grey Riders ; R. Nease & W. Argsen - sion on stage and satisfied, knowing laughter in the audience. Jack and Algernon each turning local businesses and public spaces poetry & photos: Art to Alchemy ; James “reinvent the truth” to woo the women who have captured their hearts. The gentlemen of Fullerton into stages. Musicians of all R. Preston: Surf City Mysteries; and Tim are coerced to reveal their web of lies and reveal themselves April 20-May 6, 2018. By ages and genres from hip-hop to opera, Twombly: A Bonafide Detective Oscar Wilde. Directed by James R. Taulli. Single tickets: $14/12 Titan price Young Theatre Cal State Fullerton ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton COMING TO THE MUCKENTHALER Tickets: 657-278-3371 or [email protected] exclusive exhibit of Jonny Copp’s photog - raphy, writing and film captured during his extreme adventures around the world TWO NEW PLAYS AT STAGES THEATER plus live readings of Jonny’s poetry and travel journals by his mother Phyllis StagesTheater in Fullerton invites you to two interesting plays opening this month: Copp. Enjoy local craft beer from Bootleggers Brewery, tasty bites and Urinetown We Will Not Describe the drinks catered by Collette’s, film previews, Conversation silent auction and raffle prizes. In the not-so-distant future, a terrible Also included is an opportunity to meet water shortage and 20-year drought has Dani’s a massage therapist who prides award-winning author, filmmaker, and led to a government ban on private toilets herself on choosing not to break her adventure artist Jeremy Collins who will and a proliferation of paid public toilets, clients’ necks. Sonya’s a secretary who car - share his philosophy of on-location art owned and operated by a single megalo - ries a bloody axe in her bag because it creation and show his films “The Wolf maniac company: the Urine Good makes her feel powerful. They meet one and the Medallion” and “Drawn,” in Company. If the poor don’t obey the strict night after the disappearance of a young honor of his close friend, Jonny Copp. laws prohibiting free urination, they’ll be man who has murdered an elderly Films start at 7:30pm. sent to the dreaded and mysterious woman. Together, they piece together “Urinetown.” After too long under the what happened and uncover their own Free Saturday Morning Yoga : On heel of the malevolent Caldwell B. dark desires and fear that they will turn Saturday from 10am to 11am Sender Cladwell, the poor stage a revolt, led by a out like him… and what’s that noise com - Jonny Copp (1974-2009), the legendary One Yoga & Fitness leads yoga on the brave young hero, fighting tooth and nail ing from the closet? Inspired by a missing alpine climber, writer, photographer. lawn at the Muck. All levels welcome. for the freedom to pee “wherever you like, scene in Crime and Punishment . Written Bring your own mat. Plus, delicious whenever you like, for as long as you like, by Eugenie Carabatsos. Directed by Katie Embark on a transformative journey at smoothies and healthy protein bars pro - and with whomever you like.” Urinetown Chidester. April 28th, 2018 – May 19th, the 2018 Adventure Film Festival, found - vided by Jamba Juice and RXBAR. is a wickedly funny, fast-paced, and sur - 2018. Saturdays at 5pm and Sundays at ed by Fullerton native Jonny Copp (1974- Free Family and Kids Show : Saturday, prisingly intelligent comedic romp. Music 5:30pm 2009), the legendary alpine climber, pub - at 11am, a live performance by the and lyrics by Mark Hollmann. Book and lisher writer, photographer and storyteller. famous Alana Banana with tap dancing, lyrics by Greg Kotis. Directed by Edgar 400 E. Commonwealth Ave. This two-day, community-driven event original music and well-known cover Andrew Torrens. April 20th – May 20th, Tickets: (714)525-4484 at the historic Muckenthaler Cultural songs. The Alana Banana Show believes in 2018. Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, www.stagesoc.org. Center will take place May 4-5 and will teaching children kindness toward them - Sundays at 2pm showcase a diverse collection of the years selves, others, animals and the planet. most groundbreaking outdoorsports and After the show enjoy family-friendly environmental films, kids show, interac - adventure films inside and participate in HOLMES & W ATSON tive art, yoga, live music, and insightful fun arts and crafts activities! speakers that inspire activism through @ Maverick Theater adventure. Attendees can expect: Free Picnic on the Grass : Saturday 12pm to 4pm, join friends and family on The Best and Most Inspirational 110 E. Walnut Ave. Downtown the Muckenthaler grounds and see inspir - Films of the Year : On Friday and Fullerton ing exhibits and streaming video inside Saturday form 7:30 to 10pm raw, gritty, the mansion. Engage in interactive art creative, visceral and inspiring outdoor Tickets: (714)526-7070 with All the Arts for All the Kids, pottery adventure, cultural and environmental www.mavericktheater.com studio, lawn games, and silent auction. short films will screen. Doors open at 7. “Holmes and Watson” runs through Come early on Saturday for tacos and Purchase tickets at April 22nd. Performances are Fridays and drinks on the patio, purchase raffle tick - www.adventurefilm.org Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. ets, and to browse the vendor booths. The Muckenthaler Cultural Center Tickets are $22 general, $10 for students VIP Party : On Friday, from 5:30pm to 1201 W. Malvern Ave. with a current I.D. Not suitable for anyone 7pm VIP ticket holders experience an www.themuck.org (714)738-6595 under 10 years old. MID APRIL 2018 ART FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15 High School District’s Most Talented Art Awards Awards in the 32nd Annual Fullerton Joint Union High School District Education Foundation Art Show will be present - ed at a reception in the district board room on Tuesday, April 17 at 6:30pm. The District Education Center is located at 1051 W. Bastanchury Road. The show will be open from 8am to 5pm before the reception. The selections are juried by college and university professors. The student art exhibit is organized by Art Curriculum Committee Chair and Sunny Hills High School Principal Allen Whitten. The Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization, has sponsored the art exhibit since 1987 in an effort to promote the visual arts of the district’s high school students. Air, Water and Earth @ the Muckenthaler 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton www.themuck.org (714)738-6595 Air, Water & Earth exhibit opening and Earth Day Celebration takes place Sunday, April 22. The event includes free printmaking demos from 1pm to 3pm and a reception for the exhibit from 3pm to 6pm. The exhibit presents art selected from the national membership of the L.A. Printmaking Society CSUF W ATERCOLOR EXHIBIT by prominent LA artist Kim Abeles, a juror known for her own exceptional interdisciplinary work with environmental themes. SHOWCASES MORE THAN TALENT Artists explore the vital elements of life: air, water and earth, dur - A watercolor painting class at Cal State Fullerton ed to capture the vibrant colors, to set the mood and ing a time of great challenge and change to our planet, using tra - has become something more than art class as stu - to interpret with individual aesthetic,” says Yun, a ditional and experimental techniques current in contemporary dents engage not only in the creative process, but also noted watercolorist. From the painting and tech - printmaking from works on paper to installation and video pre - in the final presentation of a gallery exhibition and niques lessons, Yun led students in a discussion on sentations. - through June 10 public reception. titling their painting, writing about their chosen Opening officially April 14 and continuing scene and pricing their art. through May 13 is “Botanical Delights of the “Botanical Delights of the Arboretum” is open to Arboretum,” an exhibit of works by art students the public from noon to 4pm Wednesdays and taught and guided by Lawrence Yun, professor of art. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in the Orange A Fullerton Arboretum member and artists recep - County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum tion is set for 2pm-3:30pm Sunday, April 29. on the grounds of the Fullerton Arboretum, 1900 “Besides the required formal technical elements of Associated Road on the edge of the CSUF campus in a landscape painting that features foreground, mid - Fullerton. Visit www.fullertonarboretum for more dle ground and background, students also are expect - information. All the Arts for All Fullerton First the Kids Fundraiser April 21 The 24th Annual All the Arts for All the Kids Art Auction will Friday be held at 6pm on April 21st at Hanger 21 at the Fullerton Airport. Proceeds from the tax-deductible tickets for the event ART WALK provide free art classes to all students in the Fullerton School District. The event includes live entertainment, tapas and bever - 6pm-10pm • May 4 ages, plus amazing live auction items, including the heart sculp - tures seen around town. Valet service is provided or two free Uber Downtown Fullerton rides from 5pm to 11pm is subtracted from the ticket price. Hanger 21 entrance is 3970 Artesia Ave, (at the Fullerton www.fullertonartwalk.com Airport, 4011 W. Commonwealth), Fullerton. Tickets are avail - able online at www.alltheartsforallthekids.org.

Hibbleton Gallery presents: Gorb in the Schizocratic Linguiverse You are cordially invited to the next exhibit at Hibbleton Gallery, the release of an illustrated novel entitled “Gorb in the Schizocratic Linguiverse” an intertextually self-aware experi - ment in alternative modes of narration, a 21st century reimag - ining of Alice in Wonderland , with text by J. Martin Strangeweather and illustrations by Barbie Godoy. It also has aliens and cult leaders and other weird stuff.” The opening reception is Friday, May 4th from 6-10pm during the Downtown Fullerton Art Walk. As always, this event is FREE TATOO II 48 X60 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS MASSEY COLLECTION 2004 and open to the public. 223 W. Santa Fe Ave.Fullerton. www.hibbleton.com My Life on Earth: A Mini Retrospective of Student Art Exhibition Paintings by Sharon Kennedy @ Fullerton College Gallery 321 E. Chapman, on campus RECEPTION A reception on Thursday, May 3rd from 5pm to 7pm opens 6pm-10pm • Friday May 4 this annual exhibition which presents the best of the best art - work created by students during the current academic year. Violet Hour, Magoski Art Colony Many works will be available for purchase. Aside from the 225 W. Santa Fe, Fullerton reception, the gallery is open Mon. through Thurs. from 10am to noon and from 2pm to 4pm, May 3rd through May 16th. Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER REST IN PEACE • W E REMEMBER YOU MID APRIL 2018 Harry Musser Memorial April 21 April 21st Memorial for Ruth RoseMarie Harry Musser, 92, passed years, they enjoyed traveling (Ballantine/Rogers) Draper away peacefully February 13, with their friends. They 2018 at Richman Gardens in were long time members of Fullerton. Fullerton First United May 13th, 1936 – March 18th, 2018 He was born October 15, Methodist Church. RoseMarie, age 81, a longtime resident 1925 in Anaheim, California. Harry is survived by his of Fullerton, was born in Wilmington, He graduated from Anaheim four children; Susan Massachusetts, as Ruth Rose Marie High and UCLA. He served Musser, Cindy Musser, Ballantine. She was the daughter of our country in the United States Randy Russ, Diane William and Dorothy Rogers and sister to Navy during World War ll. Maroon; one granddaugh - Dorothy, Judith and Beverly Rogers, During his teaching career, he was the ter, Natalie Miller and one great grand - Daniel Ballantine, James (Barry) Laurin, principal of Raymond, Maple and Golden child, Charlotte. Wilfred (Babe) Laurin and John Falasca. Hill Elementary schools in Fullerton. Harry was a good and kind man loved Rose Marie attended Wilmington High After semi-retiring, he worked 15 years by many. He will be greatly missed... School where she met and eventually mar - coordinating student teacher's internships A Memorial service will be held at 1pm ried Weston (Wes) Draper. Together, they for Cal State University Fullerton. Saturday, April 21, 2018 at Fullerton First had five children, Susanne, Darlene, Earl, Two years ago, his wife of 45 years Ruth United Methodist Church, 114 North Jeffrey and Alison. Musser preceded his passing. For many Pomona in Fullerton, California 92835. Rose Marie was excited to become Nana to each of her seven grandchildren: Krista, Owen, Christopher (Chris), Derek, Ronald Edgar Oglevie May 18, 1932 - February 19, 2018 Austin and Jason, and later a great-grand - ma to Ethan. Rose loved holidays and Ronald Edgar Oglevie (85) died peace - his own business where he focused on family get-togethers; any chance to spend fully in his Fullerton home, surrounded Small Business Innovation Research con - time with her family was always her first by family. This followed a brief and tracts and consulting. He was active in priority. intrepid battle with Merkel cell carcino - numerous professional organizations such Rose Marie was a nurturing mother. ma. Ron will be remembered as a kind as AIAA and the IEEE Consultants She ruled the house with love, strong con - most giving person they have ever known. and good-natured man. His positive out - Network. victions and a wooden spoon and was very There are many folks (you know who you look was both infectious and inspiring. In Ron’s hobbies included golf, photogra - proud of her family. are), who are neither biologically or legal - Ron’s home, glasses were always more phy, and travel. He and Joan made Rose Marie’s life was bustling, with five ly related to her and yet call her “My than half full! When faced with multiple numerous trips, including a road trip with kids keeping her far from being bored. As Other Mother” or “Nana Rose”. To those challenges, Ron showed courage, tenacity, the family around the United States dur - her children grew, she was involved in she cared about, you knew she had your and resilience. His family considers him ing the 1970s. His favorite spot to visit many things related to their lives and hers. back, but would take you to task if she to be a role model for grace, was Island Park, Idaho, She taught religious education, and was thought you were out of line. dignity, and fearlessness. His where he spent many good an active member of PTA, Girl Scouts and Surrounded by her family, Rose passed steadfast dedication as a times with family fishing, Parents Without Partners. No matter away, very peacefully, at 5:52 in the morn - father and husband were rafting, and photographing what, though, Rose Marie would always ing on March 18th, 2018. On that quiet unwavering. wildlife. Ron and his family find time to “slow life down” and to sit and peaceful morning, Rose took her last Ron was born on May 18, were thankful to have had and chat with family, friends, neighbors, breath of life on this earth, and is now in 1932 in Clayton, Kansas to one last trip to Island Park co-workers, the mail-carrier, and pretty the palm of your hand Lord. mother, Dorothy (Schoen) during August of 2017, much anyone else that crossed paths with Rose Marie’s wish was to be cremated Oglevie, and father, Paul where they enjoyed cama - her. and her ashes interred with her family in Oglevie. The family lived raderie and nature in his Rose Marie had such a love for life, and Massachusetts. there until 1940 when they favorite spot. always made those around her feel A memorial mass for Rose Marie will be moved to California. While Ron is survived by his extremely welcome. In fact, many have held at St. Angela Merici Church in Brea, in high school, Ron and his wife of 61 years, Joan said that she is far and away the nicest and California on April 21st at 12:00pm. brother contracted polio. Gradually, they (Edgerton) Oglevie, as well as their four learned to walk again, and Ron graduated children: Karen Olson and her husband from Montebello High School in 1951. Todd Olson, Steven Oglevie and his wife Ron attended UCLA where he obtained Viviane Oglevie, Janice Carrillo and her his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical husband Michael Carrillo, and Rhonda Engineering and met his wife, Joan Robertson and her husband Cory (Edgerton) Oglevie. Ron and Joan were Robertson. He is also survived by seven active in the YMCA Cooperative at grandchildren: Aloise Keiffer, Juliana UCLA, and enjoyed keeping up with this Carrillo, Michelle Oglevie, Amber Olson, group over the years. Ron later earned his Victor Carrillo, Xander Robertson, and MS in Aerospace Engineering at USC. Parker Robertson. Ron began his career while still in col - He is preceded in death by his parents, lege and remained with Rockwell for 34 Dorothy Schoen Oglevie and Paul years. He enjoyed a prominent career as a Oglevie, as well as his brother, Roger technical specialist in guidance, naviga - Oglevie. tion, and control of space systems. His In lieu of flowers, please send all chari - early work was instrumental in the devel - table donations to the Meals on Wheels opment of the free-flight manually con - program sponsored by the Assistance trolled docking for the Apollo lunar land - League of Fullerton. Their information ing system. He was involved in numerous can be found at the following website: other projects including satellites, the https://www.assistanceleague.org/fuller - Space Station, and the Space Shuttle. ton/philanthropic-programs/meals-on- After retiring from Rockwell, he started wheels-of-fullerton/

brother. He later shared his love of fishing Phillip Joseph Gomez with his children and grandchildren. Phillip Joseph Gomez, 78, passed away After graduating from Excelsior High in peacefully Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at his 1959, and attending Cerritos College, home in Fullerton, surrounded by family. Phil served in the US Marine Corp. He He leaves his sons, Phillip and Dolores Correa were mar - Gomez and his wife Rebecca, ried July 17, 1965, at St. Steven Gomez and significant Boniface Catholic Church. other Christine Romero, David After serving with the Marine Gomez and his wife Elizabeth; Corp, Phil was self-employed his daughter, Linda Gomez; his after retiring after 25 years from sister, Hazel and three grand - Anaheim Manufacturing. Phil children. Phillip was preceded had a passion for golf, coaching in death by his loving wife baseball and watching his grand - Dolores Gomez and his brother children play sports. He played Andrew Gomez. golf almost every weekend for Born in Los Alamitos, to parents close to 40 years and coached baseball at Andrew and Mary Gomez, he was raised various levels, including semi-pro. in Norwalk. At a young age, he enjoyed Services were held on April 11 at St. hunting and fishing with his father and Mary’s Catholic Church. MID APRIL 2018 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17

OLLI Candidate Forum by Vince Buck MARINE SILENT DRILL TEAM PERFORMANCE On April 10, eleven of the seventeen often inaudible. It is not clear why these by William Lauper Corps bases and at six high schools. candidates for the open 39th two candidates are in the race, but they A special performance of The Thanks to the efforts of CDR William Congressional District seat met at CSUF may well draw off some votes from the Commandant’s Own, US Marine Lauper, USN-Retired, Troy High for an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute more practiced Dr. Mai Tran (who herself Corps Drum and Bugle Corps, Battle School was selected as one of the (OLLI) sponsored candidate forum. The is probably not a real threat to the other Color Detachment, and Silent Drill schools to host their performance, a three major Republican candidates leading Democrats). Team took place March 13th at very special honor. (Nelson, Kim and Huff) did not partici - The final candidate on the panel, Fullerton Stadium. An estimated 1,200 people attended. pate but Nelson sent a message which was Sophia Alexander, was identified as an Consisting of 124 members, The Prior to the Marines performance, read by the moderator. The major American Independent Party member, Commandant’s Own is based in multiple Troy Navy JROTC Exhibition Democratic candidates participated along but her views do not reflect that far right Washington, DC and performs at the Drill Teams conducted marching per - with a scattering of less-electable party. She described herself as an “inde - Marine Corps Memorial, at drum and formances. The Marines lived up to Democrats, Republicans, “independents” pendent” and her stated positions were bugle competitions around the globe, their traditions, performing multiple and an American Independent (who similar to the Democrats, although per - and for various heads of state. They songs and drills inspiring the crowd. sounded more like a liberal). haps more nuanced – but this was not the conduct winter training at MCAS On the reviewing stand was Dr. Scott The format was unusual. The eleven place for nuance. Her very detailed web - Yuma, Arizona. Scambray-Superintendent of Schools candidates were divided into two groups site describes her as the first openly trans - Each spring, they fine tune their for Fullerton Joint Union High School randomly. On the first panel were gender student body president of show with performances at the Marine District, Robert Hathaway-FJUHSD Democrats Sam Jammal, Dr. Mai Tran Fullerton College; and a recipient of the School Board Member and Suzi Park Leggett along with prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Transfer and Neil Reich, Major, Republicans Stephen Vargas and John Scholarship. Many other accomplish - USMC (Ret), a veteran Cullum and American Independent ments in her 6-year Navy enlisted career of WWII, Korea and Sophia Alexander. Each candidate made a and her relatively short academic career Vietnam. 2-minute opening statement and then in are listed there. She is/was a political After the perform - rotating order were asked 7 questions. economy student at Cal (it is not clear but ance, the Marines visit - Responses were limited to one minute. it appears that she may have taken a leave ed with attendees. They concluded with one-minute state - to run in this race). Her answers were Many approached ments. thoughtful. Reich who still fits into The second panel followed and includ - Among the topics covered (not all ques - his uniform worn at his ed Democrats Andy Thorburn, Gil tions were asked of each group) were: retirement in 1973. Cisneros, Herbert Lee and Independents Social Security/ Medicare: No one Included in this group Steve Cox and Karen Lee Schatzle. The advocated abolishing them, except per - was CPL Christopher second panel was present during the first haps Schatzle who would move towards Ochoa, from presentation. They were asked some of the privatization. Dems generally would raise Elmhurst-Queens, NY. same questions, and some different ones the brackets capturing more money while It turned out he and as well. No matter. The brevity of the for - Republicans would make them more Reich both went to mat and the abundance of candidates secure through an expanded tax bases by Newtown High (plus the absence of the real opposition) increasing jobs. Dr. Lee would tax corpo - School, some 69 years did not provide a good venue for learning rations more. On health care in general apart, Reich-1945, much new about the major candidates. Thorburn would move to a single payer Ochoa-2014. Pictured The earlier Chamber forum, reported system, and Cisneros wants corporations at left, Reich wondered here by Jane Rands, was much more use - to pay their full share. whether they had some ful in that regard, even in the absence of Guns : Cullum supports the NRA. End of the same teachers. Cisneros. of conversation. Vargas would support Odds are not good. The major candidates by now should be some actions like background checks and well known to those who are following the prohibiting bump stocks. The Democrats at cost. Thorburn would make all public race. The less well-known ones deserve a would support more limits, especially pro - education tuition free. Cox wanted free word or two. The Republicans, Vargas hibiting assault weapons. Alexander felt tuition, Lee more vocational education. and Cullum, talked like Republicans with that the NRA misreads the 2nd amend - Schatzle felt that students should work for Cullum being the more conservative of ment and wants more CDC studies their education, as she did, and not be the two. Schatzle, who was a Republican DACA : Cullum would send DACAs coddled. for many years, still pushed Republican back to their home country, Vargas is Closing statements were generally vacu - themes, emphasizing – as did others — against sanctuary cities. ous: I will work for all of you; I will work teaching children responsibility. She is a Climate Change : Cullum and Vargas for you guys; I will work across both aisles Senior Deputy District Attorney and pre - pivoted and did not address the question. [sic]; I grew up here; Parties let us down; viously ran unsuccessfully against a judge Vargas went to cap and trade, Cullum Look to values; Look at my website. who had been censured for sexual miscon - wanted to teach young people responsibil - The Chamber forum was better by lim - duct (In the present climate she might ity. The rest saw a real problem. iting the participants to those who have a have fared better). The other unaffiliated How can people have a full produc - chance to be on the November ballot candidate Steve Cox, an industry photog - tive life : Education and job creation were (Alexander thinks that she has a chance to rapher and journalist, expressed dissatis - popular answers. Alexander’s was the most be on the ballot because there are so many faction with both parties and seemed to unusual, endorsing John Maynard Keynes candidates in the race). In both, Thorburn be in a genuine search for his position in suggestion to tax machines and provide a was the strongest performer, with Jammal the political matrix. universal income for those displaced. a close second. It would have been good to The two lesser known Democrats were The deficit : Thorburn pointed to see them together. Tran was stronger in a cipher. On his website Dr. Lee takes Republican hypocrisy and called for more this forum; and while Cisneros showed solid Democratic positions on issues, but progressive taxation. Cisneros wanted up, the format and his answers did not he had not rehearsed his presentation and “real” tax reform with corporations paying provide much opportunity to get a real did not successfully articulate them. Suzi their fair share. Schatzle felt that we did feel for him. With the major candidates Park Leggett is a blast from the past, a fig - not need all the current entitlements split there was no real back and forth. The ure in the “Koreagate” scandal of the early Citizens United : No one liked it and closest we came to that was Cisneros twice 80’s and the widow of a one-time liberal those with money said that they would saying, “As Andy said…” Not a very congressman who had an “unorthodox” not accept PAC contributions. enlightening morning. But this race will personal life style prior to their marriage. Federal role in education : Cisneros not be decided by these events, but rather She had difficulty with the microphone would bring Pell Grants up to the cost of by money and partisan identification. and her responses to the questions were education and would offer student loans Orangethorpe Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Dr. Robert L. Case, Pastor Sunday Service : 10 AM 2200 W. O RANGETHORPE FULLERTON (714) 871-3400 www.orangethorpe.org Page 18 FULLERTON OBSERVER REGIONAL NEWS MID APRIL 2018

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MAP: Above dotted line shows the part of the Santa Ana River Trail from Memory Lane in Santa Ana (top right) to Taft Avenue (bottom left) in Orange which was closed in January to remove the encampment of over 700 homeless people. The trail was reopened to hikers, bicyclists and equestrians on April 7th. Santa Ana River Trail Reopens to Hikers, Bicyclists & Equestrians A portion of the Santa Ana River Trail While environmental remediation work hazardous waste, and approximately entire Santa Ana River Trail within from Memory Lane in Santa Ana to Taft is ongoing in some areas, the work zones 13,950 needles from the trail area; all County of Orange boundaries. Pedestrian Avenue in Orange was closed to the pub - will be secured by temporary construction which could have been avoided from gates were previously installed at trail lic on January 22, 2018, for an environ - fencing. A slightly modified trail route accumulating by offering regular refuse entrances to encourage compliance and mental remediation project which includ - will allow public use of a trail for hiking, services to the encampment where over reinforce publicly posted hours. The gates ed removal of the homeless encampment. bicycling and equestrian activity only 700 homeless people lived until relocated will be opened daily by OC Parks, but will It was anticipated to remain closed for up while being separated from continuing to motel rooms by court order in January. remain locked outside of public access to three months. project and maintenance activities. All trail users should be aware that sea - hours. Violators will be subject to citation The county made significant progress Between January 22 and March 3, the sonal operating hours (7am to 9pm and/or other enforcement actions. on the project, and a modified public County removed approximately 404 tons through October 31) are being enforced For more information about the access route was restored on April 7. of debris, approximately 5,300 pounds of by the OC Sheriff’s Department along the County of Orange, visit www.ocgov.com. CSUF Aging and Dementia Class Prepares Students for Looming Health Care Crisis To put a human face on Alzheimer’s dis - such activities, and observe nurses per - ease and other dementias, a Cal State forming medical oversight. “Patients love Fullerton gerontology class is taking stu - the one-on-one individual attention, espe - dents inside a local care facility that serves cially opportunities to share their stories,” approximately 100 patients with demen - says Alvarez. Students also learn such tia every day. strategies as “redirecting patients” so they In the course “Aging and Dementia,” feel safe and validated and “therapeutic students spend five weeks in the classroom fibbing” to meet patients in their own learning the fundamentals of the realities. disease, five weeks gaining Over “A patient who traveled fre - hands-on experiences at the quently during their working Alzheimer’s Family Center in 5 million in years may have a delusion that Huntington Beach, and five the US live they are at the airport waiting weeks reflecting on their experi - with for a flight. Instead of arguing ences and discussing long-term Alzheimer’s, with them, we might respond implications. with, ‘Can I get you a glass of The goal? To ready the next a number water while you’re waiting?’” generation of professionals for a expected to explains Alvarez. “Our goal is looming health care crisis. reach nearly to create happy, healthy days “The Alzheimer’s epidemic is 14 million for our patients and to help WAR COSTS in Life & Money a health care crisis both in by 2050. them maintain their quality of Orange County and on a life for as long as possible.” IN IRAQ & A FGHANISTAN national level,” says Cheryl Sarah Schoniger, a psychol - Alzheimer’s • 181,113 Alvarez, lecturer in gerontology Association 2018 ogy major minoring in geron - Civilians killed by violence www.iraqbodycount.org (4/14/2018) and course instructor, who also Facts & Figures tology, says “This experience • 4,541 serves as director of outpatient reaffirms to me that every per - US soldiers killed in Iraq: (DoD 4/14/2018) behavioral health for the son, regardless of their diagno - • 2,410 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan (3/16/2018) www.icasualties.org Alzheimer's Family Center and program sis, should be treated with respect.” • 32,223 US soldiers wounded (DOD reports) www.icasualties.org director for the Mind and Memory Supervising the students’ service-learn - Iraq 3/2003 to present (no updates since 11/2011) Program at Mission Hospital. She says ing is Titan alumnus Patrick Wallis, man - • 17,674 “We want to help students learn what to ager of activities at the Alzheimer’s Family Afghanistan 10/2001 to present (no updates since 9/2012) expect and see that working with this pop - Center. He became an advocate for the • $4.501 Cost of wars Since 2001 www.costofwar.com (4/14/2018) ulation can be really rewarding,” says population when his own grandmother (rounded down) Alvarez. was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Trillion During their 40 hours of service-learn - credits his alma mater with preparing him California Only: 3,974 soldiers wounded and 1,371 dead in wars since 2001. ing, students assist dementia patients with to work in the field. Alvarez notes that physical and occupational therapy, lead everyone is likely to have people in their EVERY HOUR US taxpayers are paying $32.08 million anxiety-reducing exercises, coordinate lives affected by aging-related diseases. for total costs of war. 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Fullerton Rallies for Science story and photos by Jesse La Tour EPA into the EDA, the Environmental Destruction Agency.” Around 200 people gathered on the lawn in Fullerton resident Jeff Rosenblum, who helped front of Fullerton City Hall for the Rally for organize last year’s March for Science, said: “It all Science, as part of the March for Science hap - started with a dream. I was going to Los Angeles pening in cities around the nation and the world fairly frequently for these marches and protests, on Saturday, April 14. and I thought to myself, ‘Why can’t we have The purpose of this event was to hold political them right here in good old Orange County?’” leaders accountable for passing equitable, evi - State Assembly Member Sharon Quirk-Silva, a dence-based science policies that serve all people long time teacher, said “We are here to stand up and all communities. not only for science, but for education...We may Many speakers and attendees cited climate not all agree politically, but we know that when change and pollution as fundamental challenges we use data and critical thinking, that we can that must be dealt with using evidence-based find the truth, and the truth matters. Science policies. matters.” “We need to vote for people, regardless of Jose Trinidad Castaneda, a Parks and Rec com - party, who support science, and hold them missioner in Fullerton said people need to get accountable,” said Mark Shapiro, the organizer involved with issues they care about because of the rally, “The EPA, our primary defense Civic engagement is the lifeblood of democracy. against pollution, was established by a Jessica Pratt, a UCI professor. said “I care Republican president (Nixon). Unfortunately, about the future of our planet, and the future of our current president is trying to change the my children. It’s disappointing that scientific