COMMUNITY ullerto♥ n bsCAeLENrDAvR Paege 13r -15 FULFLERTON’S INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (printed on O20% recycled paper) • YEAR 36 #14 • EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com Home Invasion DEAR EDITOR Robber Loose in Thank you for publishing my opinion. I am very North Fullerton happy. I couldn’t believe A suspect described as a white or that my article was in the Hispanic male, 180 pounds, 6 feet or newspaper. Honestly, I for - taller, wearing a hoodie and a bandana got all about it. But over his face, and carrying a semi-auto - mommy showed me the matic hand gun, is thought to be other day and I jumped in responsible for a series of home inva - excitement. I’m proud to be sion robberies in north Fullerton. a Fullerton resident because The most recent robberies took place my opinion is heard even when I’m a kid. Aug. 17 and 19. Two homes on the Sincerely 1500 block of Avenida Selva and one in the 2600 block of Trieste Way were entered through open garage doors on P.S. I had to type my let - Aug. 17. The suspect pointed the hand - ter because my school wants gun, demanded money and then fled in us to practice keyboarding. I each instance. On Aug. 19 at 9pm a just learned cursive writing teen was assaulted on his driveway in this summer so I’m going to the block of Crestview Drive. The teen sign this letter with my was taken to the hospital with a head brand new signature. wound but is OK. The robber got away Hooray!!! with $30 in that instance. The description of the suspect Dear Francine, matches those of three other robberies That was a good letter. that occurred in the same area since You have strong opinions! If June. you have time and your Anyone with information is asked to mother lets you we would call Fullerton Police Detective like to hear more from you. Magliano at 714-738-6753. Please contact me at Anonymous tips can also be left on the [email protected] OC Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-855- or call 714-525-6402. - ED Francine’s letter “No Babysitters!” appeared in the August Fullerton Observer on page 2. 847-6227 or through their website P.S. Nice signature! www.occrimestoppers.org. COUNCIL REJECTS ZEN TEMPLE West Nile Virus Alert The city council in a 3-2 vote at its Tikvah, Fullerton UU, Christian 7 . A 7

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F more information by visiting www.ocvcd.org The six nuns outside their home on Euclid purchased in 2002 by Chieu Zen Association. Page 2FULLERTON OBSERVER NEWS & COMMUNITY OPINIONS EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 Caution: Check Your St. Jude Radiology Bills even went online and got the number of the supervisor of radiology and spoke with ullerton The Observer received a report from a come from St. Jude Radiology. When the her. Representatives always claim they are F citizen who desires to remain anonymous bill arrives, they always bill me for my "redoing their billing system" and they are Observer but would like to alert the public, espe - portion and the discounted amount. correcting the problem. But for 3 years! I cially the elderly and those who care for Many times the discounted amount is a don't think so. them, to a serious problem regarding hundred dollars or so. The Fullerton Observer Community I would love to know how many thou - Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie medical billing. For the past 2-3 years I have to call their sands of dollars St. Jude Radiology has Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is The person is lucky to have great PPO billing department every time and ask received that they should not have in this staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, health insurance through her work but them why they do not just bill me for apparent overbilling.” publish, and distribute the paper throughout has a problem with the way St. Jude what I owe instead of including the dis - St Jude Medical Center representative our community. Radiology is handling the billing and counted amount. This venture is a not-for-profit one with Dru Ann Copping said that the Center all ad and subscription revenues plowed back wants to caution others to check the accu - I asked them if they do this on all bills, contracts with various doctors and med - into maintaining and improving our inde - racy of their bills. especially to older people who probably ical groups but does not oversee their pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - “When I receive my EOB (explanation just pay whatever they are billed as I know business practices. St. Jude Radiology and munity newspaper. of benefits) from the 3rd party provider, I my mom, who is 87, would. Several times St. Jude Medical Group contract with the Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - put it in a folder and wait for the bill to I have asked to speak with a supervisor, I dents about the institutions and other socie - hospital for space and are credentialed to tal forces which most impact their lives, so care for their patients in the hospital, but that they may be empowered to participate are otherwise unaffiliated, despite the use in constructive ways to keep and make these of “St. Jude” in their names. Although St. private and public entities serve all residents in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible Jude Medical Center does not take ways. responsibility for its contract groups, Through our extensive local calendar and Copping said she would look into the other coverage, we seek to promote a sense issue. In the meantime, check your bills! of community and an appreciation for the values of diversity with which our country is so uniquely blessed. Sprawl or Open Space: Can’t Have Both SUBMISSIONS : Submissions on any topic of interest are I am a resident of Fullerton and agree accepted from Fullerton residents and we try hard completely with the Guiding Principals of to get it all in. Sorry we sometimes fail. Shorter the Downtown Core and Corridors pieces have a better chance. Send by email to Specific Plan as described in the July issue [email protected] or by snail mail to: of the Observer. FULLERTON OBSERVER The population of southern California PO BOX 7051 is growing and people have to have some - FULLERTON, CA 92834-7051 Most Neighbors Opposed to Watt Communities ______where to live, work and go to school. 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But at some point Missed a Copy? “picked an excellent developer to bring before the July 16th meeting. southern Californians are going to have to Visit us online at: here” - since the Watt Communities has Most neighbors are opposed to the den - make the transition to less car travel (and www.fullertonobserver.com been around since the 1940’s and has sity, the traffic and parking issues, water less car ownership?) and greater use of & on FaceBook built homes on Euclid Ave. recently. demands and the damage and stress on public transportation, bicycling and walk - He told the PC that current residents the local streets and infrastructure that the • STAFF• ing (which would be easier with every - • Editor: Sharon Kennedy who have been here for 40 years (many construction traffic, noise and pollution thing closer together.) • Database Manager: Jane Buck under Prop 13) don’t "allow us to sustain will cause - even after the density of the I understand the concerns of the writer • Advisor: Tracy Wood the infrastructure.” “We have to seek project was lowered from 32 to 28 condos from “Friends for a Livable Fullerton” in • Copy Editors: homes for a higher tax base” and “build by the Planning Commission which Tom & Kate Dalton & Viveca Wolff the July and August issues of the paper. • Distribution: Roy & Irene Kobayashi, homes for younger people”. According to approved the plan at the Aug. 13 meeting. But it’s not just about whether or not to Tom & Kate Dalton, Marge Kerr, him those who have lived here for decades It now goes to the council for a final vote. grow densely in Fullerton. Unrestrained Pam Nevius, Manny Bass & Leslie Allen are “hardly going out except to shop or to Anonymous Fullerton sprawl anywhere in southern California • Photography: Jessica Berens, Jere Greene, Patti Segovia, Eric Chang can have negative consequences for all of the resultant congestion, crime and dis - us. So what will it be for the future, den - • Webmaster: Cathy Yang Condos Opposed content that comes with it. • FEATURES • sity or sprawl? 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Anonymous letters may be •Science: Sarah Mosko & Frances Mathews hensible style of development that has ED: The 28-unit, 2-story, 3-4 bed printed if you can make the case for • Theatre Reviews: become prevalent in our once beautiful condo project proposed for the 2.86 acre anonymity. You can request to be identified Mark Rosier & Angela Hatcher community. I am ashamed that our elect - former church property will sell for by your initials and town only (we will ed officials only see fit to over-develop and $600,000 and up each. The proposal is need your whole name for verification). Created & Published in Fullerton We print all that we can fit. by local citizen volunteers for 36 years trample upon the very neighborhoods and expected to come before the council at its Fullerton Observer LLC people that have served as the backbone of Tues., Sept. 16 meeting at 6:30pm. 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OUT OF MY MIND Oil Drilling: Water Quality & Earthquake Impacts by Jon Dobrer © 2014 [email protected] My husband and I have been doing a lot water disposal and oil recovery practices of research on the hazards of fracking, on local water quality and earthquake prompted by the recent earthquake. We risk. My sister lives in Dallas and the citi - live in North Fullerton, where damage zens of Texas are very concerned about Peace Between Palestinians & Israelis from this quake was substantial. this issue, as well as the citizens of As strange as it may seem with all the So why would I be hopeful? I’ll tell We are planning to attend the Oklahoma and Ohio where actual damage shooting, bombing, suffering, fear and you—and it isn’t just magical thinking September 23 meeting at CSUF on this has been proven. deaths on both sides, this moment is preg - because I’m going to Israel in October for subject, an event hosted by Dr. David I have recently read that three of the nant with the possibility of real peace. three weeks! When the first ceasefire was Bowman and the CSUF Department of city’s water wells have been contaminated Yes, I know that other moments have offered it was in neither side’s interest to Sciences. and more are at risk. I would like to know come and gone, other hopes have been take it. Israel, knowing it would be con - I am hoping you will reprint this article how many wells we do have so that a per - dashed by the extremists (or what we now demned for whatever they did, figured from a Texas newspaper. The article cer - centage can be assigned that would prob - call the “maximalists) whose violence has they should accomplish as much as they tainly gives credibility to the dangerous ably mean more to the average citizen. cast a veto on any previous peace plans. could in destroying the rockets and tun - impacts of fracking, acidizing, and waste Robin Keyzers Fullerton I also know that the dialogue or “peace nels. Hamas calculated that the more process” has sometimes seemed so Israel destroyed buildings and killed civil - ED : Fullerton Water Manager Dave that will pull industrial toxins out of the advanced and close to peace as to be irre - ians, the worse Israel would look and the Schickling says there are 11 active wells in water and pipe them to a treatment plant. versible. Today, it is failure that seems irre - stronger Hamas would become in power, Fullerton. According to OCWD records See page 10 this issue for more on this. versible. But in foreign affairs nothing is prestige and credibility. the last three wells that were shut down in The Symposium on the Impact of Oil ever inevitable or irreversible. I believe Today a ceasefire is in both their inter - Fullerton were Yosemite Water Company Extraction in North Orange County will this is a unique moment. Yes, I hedge my ests. They both accomplished their objec - privately owned BAST-F (Aug. 23, 2013), be held at 6pm, Tuesday Sept. 23rd in the hopes and understand that everything I tives. Hamas, though still not beloved F-KIM1 (Jan. 18, 2002), and F-FS13 Titan Student Union at CSUF, 800 N write could be irrelevant at best anywhere—even at home— (Jan. 25, 2002). All were destroyed due to State College Blvd. RSVP to guarantee a and foolish by the time this sees has gained by “standing up Volatile Organic Compounds. seat at: http://nsm.fullerton.edu/fracking/ print. Still, I am hopeful. to Israel.” Yes, at a terrible The OCWD which manages the Today See details about panelists and When this last war with Gaza cost. And Israel accom - aquifer from which we pump much of our how to submit questions on page 11 started and the world called for a ceasefire plished most of what it set drinking water is working on a system an immediate ceasefire, it was is in both out to do by eliminating not in the interests of either side their interests. much of Hamas’ leadership, to accept the ceasefire. Hamas destroying many of the rock - Dear Mayor and Councilmembers... needed, for political reasons, to They both ets and collapsing most (they gain visibility in the world. They accomplished think) of the attack tunnels About Denying the Temple a Place to Be had been rejected by nearly all their bored into Israel. Further I went to the City Council meeting on happens at the Fullerton Monastery until sides of their own team. They objectives. fighting doesn’t advance August 5 for another item on the agenda, last night. While building our Temple in were unpopular in Gaza with the either interest. and I happened to hear the public com - Garden Grove over 15 years ago, our people, having violently stifled Most importantly Israel ments, council discussion and decision on Reverence was being sued by the neigh - opposition without gaining will unlikely ever be stronger the Conditional Use Permit for Chan bors, and he had to go to Court, day in either peace or concessions from the or have both the implicit and even explic - Giac Monastery. What a coincidence! As and day out. But finally, Justice pre - Israelis. They were unpopular with their it backing of Saudi Arabia and Egypt an outsider of the issue but as a long time vailed. Shiite supporters in Iran and Syria, against Hamas, nor will they have a better resident of Fullerton, I would like to The Monastery’s neighbors have every because they took the Sunni side against partner to negotiate with than PA leader express my opinion if you don’t mind. right to express their feelings. They prob - Shiite/Alawite Assad in Syria. They were Abbas (aka Abu Mazzin). Whoever fol - I am in the group of Fullerton residents ably feel uncomfortable with things that unpopular with Sunni Egypt and Saudi lows him will likely be less pragmatic and who did not know a Monastery existed at they are not familiar with. In extreme Arabia because of the support they had more religious. The Palestinians—partic - that location until last year when someone cases, we sometimes call it from Shiite Iran. And, of course, Israel ularly on the West Bank have a chance to told me about it, and I had to drive by “Discrimination”. Believe it or not, couldn’t have more antipathy towards truly extend their influence into Gaza and twice to find it. Now it is very hard for Buddhist people face discrimination them since their charter called for the leverage their relative social and economic me to believe the Monastery is a bother or everywhere, so no surprise here. I don’t elimination of not only the Jewish State success into gathering together a power a nuisance to the neighborhood. Yes, they blame the neighbors; they have been in but of Jews. that both could agree to peace and actual - should find a bigger lot and build a bigger the neighborhood first, and the They were a step away from irrelevance ly deliver peace. At the same time, even Monastery in a location that is farther Monastery came later. How dare the and needed a war to show that they were though pushed by his far right extremes, away from the residential area, but I guess Monastery be different? Why didn’t they to be taken seriously. Every Israeli killed Netanyahu is at the legacy part of his they don’t have a lot of money, so have to build a block wall and live behind it? increased their status and every Gazan career and could be generous if he make do with the best they have. Mr. Mayor and City Council: However killed increased their relevance—they believed the results would be real and One of reasons to deny the CUP men - emotional some of your residents might were, after all, fighting Israel. With their secure. tioned was that the noise of closing car be, I was hoping that you would make rockets—increasingly potent Iranian Fajr The pieces in this long and tragic chess doors at 8am on Sunday could disturb the your decision based on facts and not emo - 3s and 5s, they could do far more damage game are aligned—Hamas is friendless in neighbors. Are you serious? My gardener tion. You re-wrote the CUP, limiting and than with their old Katusha unguided and Gaza, Egypt can’t afford either war or comes at 7:30am Saturday morning to restricting the service from 8am to short-range rockets. With their tunnels Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is in mow the lawn and clean the sidewalk for 11:30am on Sunday (That was unfair in dug deep and running miles into Israel, trouble, and Saudi Arabia is far more con - three houses on my street, and nobody my opinion; the Monastery should be they could unleash a devastating surprise cerned with Iran than Israel. The larger complains. allowed to have a service in the afternoon attack—apparently scheduled for the fights and instabilities in the region make People in my neighborhood celebrate too). The Monastery representative was upcoming high Holy Days in September. the Israeli-Palestinian issues a distraction anniversaries, birthdays, and showers bending back and forth to please you, but The kidnapping and killing of three in the greater Sunni Arab versus Shiite many times a year sometimes with loud at the end, by a majority of 3 to 2 votes, Israeli youths and the outrageous retalia - Persian regional conflict. So now is a time music and dancing going past midnight. I you denied them their rights to practice tory murder of an innocent Palestinian pregnant with possibilities. Yes, similar don’t know if anyone ever calls police, but their religion. youth reset the clock and provided the moments ended in stillbirth or abortion, my family and I just close the window and I understand you have a tough job. You casus belli for both sides. So off we all but there are reasons for optimism. We go to bed. It only happens a few times a can never please all of your residents went into rockets being launched at Israeli are not, no matter what the extremists year. It’s their happy time, so I would because we are different, and that is why cities and the airport—not just the usual insist, eternal enemies. If we refuse to give ignore it. I would rather hear them play - no elective official ever receives 100% of towns and kibbutz in the country—and extremist violence the veto, we can make ing music than hearing them argue with the votes. But in this case, I truly believe in came the bombs and artillery aimed at peace. Most Israelis and most Palestinians each other. the City Council’s decision to deny the Hamas leadership, rocket storage areas crave it. On the other hand, the Monastery only CUP was regrettable. You may please (too often in schools and Mosques) and www.Dobrer.com has two big celebrations in a year: Mid- some residents but you have disappointed the tunnels. It was all a horror. Follow me on Twitter @jondobrer April for Buddha’s Birthday and Mid-July many of us. I sincerely hope that our city (Lunar Calendar) for Parents would not have to spend tax dollars to Appreciation Day. These are not many, defend itself in court. And for the record, WAR COSTS in Life & Money not much to ask for, and should not be a I do not know anybody and haven’t spo - IN IRAQ & A FGHANISTAN reason for your denial. ken to anyone at the Monastery. Respectfully yours, • 128,140 Civilians killed by Violence www.iraqbodycount.org (8/30/2014) It was indicated that the letter support - ing the Monastery was signed by people S.D. Fullerton • 4,486 US Soldiers killed in Iraq: (DoD 5/11/2012 - no update since this date) mostly outside of Fullerton, but that does - n’t mean the Monastery does not have the US Soldiers killed in Afghanistan (8/30/2014) www.icasualties.org New Subscriber • 2,343 support of Fullerton residents. Most I am the editor of the monthly maga - US Soldiers wounded (DOD reports) www.icasualties.org importantly, it doesn’t mean everyone in zine that goes to Rancho Fullerton resi - • 32,223 Iraq (3/2003 thru 11/2011- no updates since this date) Fullerton is against the Monastery, as one dents. I intend to use my pen to urge my • 17,674 of you suggested. Buddhist people don’t Afghanistan ( 10/2001 thru 10/13/2012- no updates since this date) neighbors to subscribe to the Observer go to the Temple and Monastery where also. • $1.5 Cost of Wars Since 2001 www.costofwar.com (8/30/2014) they live. My family and I go to a Temple Trillion (rounded down) (Iraq $817 billion) (Afghanistan $743 billion) Paul Kratzer Fullerton in Garden Grove, and I had no idea what ED: Thanks! Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER CITY HALL NEWS EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 CITY COUNCIL NOTES Fullerton Residents Filing for by Jacqueline Mahrley Council Seats in Nov. Election The City Council meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The following residents (listed in alpha - LWV Candidate Forum Upcoming agenda info and streaming video of council meetings are available at betical order by last name) have filed for October 2, 6:30pm at Fullerton City www.cityoffullerton.com. Meetings are broadcast live on Cable Channel 3 and council seats in the upcoming Nov. 4th Hall Council Chambers, 303 W. rebroadcast at 3pm and 6pm the following Wed. & Sun. and at 5pm Mon. City election. Look for the Observer candidate Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton. spread in the early October issue. Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton.Contact Council at •Rick Alvarez How to Register to Vote 714-738-6311 or by email to: [email protected] •Larry Bennett The last day to register to vote is •Bill Chaffee October 20, 2014. To register, pick up a August 5 Council Meeting •Doug Chaffee (incumbent) voter registration card and return it before See August 19 meeting report on page 18. •Sean Paden the deadline. Cards are available at: Next Meeting 6:30pm, Tues, September 16 at City Hall •Jane Rands •OC Registrar of Voters at •Greg Sebourn (incumbent) 714.567.7600 or on-line at Concerned Taxpayers, stated that it is http://www.oc.ca.gov/election/ PRESENTATIONS unacceptable that Fullerton citizens have Non-Partisan Voter Info •City of Fullerton, City Clerk's Office not been able to watch City Council •City of Fullerton website: at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton, •Fire Chief Knabe and Smokey Bear Meetings live on Channel 3 in over a year. www.cityoffullerton.com “Election” tab presented the City Council with cupcakes • League of Women Voters 714.738.6350 honoring Smokey’s 70th Birthday. As COUNCIL C OMMENTS www.smartvoter.org •City of Fullerton Main Library at 353 tribute to Smokey’s work toward wildfire •Health Dept Closure of Fountain: • OC Registrar of Voters W. Commonwealth, Fullerton. prevention the council named August 9 as Councilmember Fitzgerald inquired www.ocvote.com Smokey Bear Day. about the Health Department closing the •A representative of the Cookie Moms pop up water fountain in Museum Plaza presented an overview of their volunteer because of new cleaning requirements. ZEN TEMPLE TURNED DOWN work at Crittenton Services for Children City Manager Joe Felz said that he expect - Continued from frontpage lems with the temple’s current location on and Families group home over the last 14 ed details of these requirements the fol - a resident on Rodeo Road filed an appeal the 4-lane arterial Euclid which is not par - years. About 100 volunteers a month lowing week. Fitzgerald spoke of the Give and gathered the signatures of residents ticularly rural. She noted that the adja - work with infants to 18-year-old children Backpacks Drive during which students opposed to the CUP but not included in cent neighbors said they had a good rela - in a variety of activities. Additional vol - receive a backpack filled with supplies at the 300-foot notice-zone. Many of those tionship and had not objected aside from unteers are always needed. For more the beginning of the school year. signers may have been misled by incorrect one asking that a sign not be placed and information see www.crittentonsocal.org. Volunteers can donate financially, help information regarding loud chanting, that hours be kept to the morning. She •Mayor Chaffee presented a reserved pack backpacks, or assist in delivery. non-existant expansion plans and untrue made a motion to approve the CUP for parking space (his own) to the August More information can be found at tales that 29 people lived, or would be liv - operation of the temple between 8am and Volunteer of the Month JoAnn Matsuba. www.lovefullerton.org. ing, in the home. Multiple residents of 66 11:30am for up to 29 members and drop - Her decade of service reflects work with •West Nile Virus: As Fullerton’s repre - homes on Rodeo Road, Valencia Mesa ping the afternoon hours added by the organizations such as Get on the Bus, sentative on the Vector Control Board, and surrounding streets signed and other city. The motion was seconded by Cookie Moms of Crittenton, Meals on Councilmember Flory informed the audi - signatures came from far away households Councilmember Fitzgerald who said she Wheels and schools such as Rosary High ence that there has been an increase in the apparently in support of a drives by the location every day and has School. county of the number of birds infected friend or family member. noticed that it is quiet, with West Nile Virus which can be passed The head nun (who lives in “Traffic could be clean and well-kept, PUBLIC C OMMENTS to humans. One infected crow was found the home with 5 others) said disruptive.” but had no idea it was •Rafael Correa: Many people spoke on at city hall. She suggested that the council through her nephew who -Mayor Chaffee a religious institution. behalf of Rafael Correa, Jr., a 19 year old have a presentation on the subject from interpreted for her, that there Ignoring that Fullerton’s Mayor protem graduate of Anaheim High School, who Vector Control. She said an important are no plans to expand the Traffic engineer and police Sebourn made a was killed on July 5 while riding his bicy - prevention technique was to remove all home or the number of people found no problems . counter motion to deny the CUP. His cle on the Juanita Cooke Trail at standing water where mosquitos breed. living at the residence and that “Car doors would Bastanchury Road in Fullerton. It was his As Fullerton’s representative on the OC they only wanted to be able to motion was seconded first experience on the bike trail. His be disruptive to the by Whitaker. Sebourn Water District Board, Flory asked if grey continue to practice their reli - neighborhood” friends and acquaintances spoke of his water systems (where household wash gion as they had been for the said the neighbors -Mayor Protem Sebourn positive characteristics and his family water can be reused as landscape water) past 10 years. would be disturbed by focused on their deeply felt loss. State are allowed in Fullerton. Chief Building People from both sides of “In 10 years of activity closing of car doors Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva sent Official Kirke Warren answered that the the issue filled council cham - it has not been and, ignoring the a message through the Correa family building code permits them with some bers at its August 5th meeting troublesome but..it planning manager’s statement that most lawyer in support of a guard rail at the site restrictions and said that interested citi - to give their opinions. might grow and cause to prevent bicyclists and others from churches in Fullerton zens could find more information at the Those in favor of granting problems in the future.” entering the intersection in the future. Building Dept. Lastly, Flory asked about the CUP included temple operate in neighbor - -Councilmember Whitaker The City Council was asked to visit the the status of a run-down property near members, the majority of hoods with a CUP, location of this tragedy and repair it as Marion and Brea. Director Warren told whom are of Vietnamese said that the use was quickly as possible in order to prevent her that it would not be red-tagged as it descent and are from out of town. All incompatible in a residential neighbor - future tragedies. Councilmembers indi - had been purchased and would be rebuilt. extolled the benefits of meditation and hood. Mayor Chaffee agreed, and, ignor - cated that the city was studying the area to 4TH Q UARTER T REASURER ’S R EPORT commented on the silence of the services ing that the Fullerton traffic engineer and determine what changes need to be made The report shows an interest return of and their intent to continue to be good police reported no traffic problems, and the meeting was later adjourned in 0.75% on Fullerton’s present investment neighbors. Many mentioned that their added that traffic could be disruptive. Correa’s honor. portfolio. Councilmember Flory asked if families had immigrated to the US from Councilmember Whitaker, while not - •Conflict of Interest: Jane Rands the city is looking for a better way to Vietnam after the war when conditions ing that in ten years of activity the temple directed a question to City Attorney invest. Joe Felz, City Manager, responded became too dangerous for those who had not been troublesome, was concerned Richard Jones asking for a statement as to that Fullerton is in the process of selecting fought alongside the US to stay. it might grow and cause problems in the whether or not the city council members a consultant to help invest its money in a Most of those opposed admitted to not neighborhood in the future. He said that may participate in Item 12, the better fashion (this will come before the being previously aware that there even was a future owner may not be so compliant. Downtown Core and Corridors Specific City Council on September 16th). a monastery/temple located in the neigh - Apparently all three misunderstand the Plan (DCCSP) because they have an Julia James, Administrative Services borhood, but expressed their fears that purpose of a CUP which can be revoked if interest, ownership or a certain amount of Director, explained that even though expansion (although no expansion is any violations of the conditions occur, investment within 500 feet of the zone Fullerton’s portfolio was not managed as planned) of the facility would bring down and that any new use would trigger the area, and must recuse themselves by nei - well as it could be in the past, any consult - property values and destroy the rural requirement of a new permit. ther voting for, or discussing, the item. ant is still restricted to certain types of nature of the neighborhood. Some men - The alternative motion to deny the Attorney Jones stated that investments. Under California govern - tioned noisy services and traffic problems, CUP, thereby ending religious services at Councilmember Whitaker had asked his ment code, cities can’t invest in anything however no noise complaints or traffic the temple, passed 3-1-1 (Flory no, office to look into that issue and he felt that is not safe and secure, such as certain problems have occurred at the site in the Fitzgerald, abstaining). that because the area was so large that securities. During the last year, James has past 10 years of operation. One complaint The decision could leave the city open there was no conflict but suggested coun - increased investments from 29 to 63 and was made in 2005 of a religious organiza - to a lawsuit for violation of the Religious cil members check with Fair Political spreading them out. The City of tion operating in the neighborhood. That Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Practices Committee to be sure. Later in Newport, which has investment consult - complaint was investigated by Code Act which bans cities from using land use the evening Item 12 was moved to a date ants, has performed about the same. Enforcement and the case was dropped in regulation to impose substantial burden uncertain in order to give councilmem - Interest rates won’t change much, she said, 2009 with no violation cited. on religious assembly. bers time to resolve the conflict of interest until the Federal Reserve raises them. The only councilmember who visited The council has a chance to reconsider question and to give the city time to bet - The council voted unanimously that all the property before the August 5th deci - its decision on this issue which returns for ter notify the public of the Downtown investment proposals go first to the sion was Jan Flory. She said though she final signing at the Tues., Sept. 16 meet - Core and Corridors project. Investment Advisory Committee. would be disturbed if a religious institu - ing at city hall. •TV Access to Meetings: Jack Dean, tion wanted to locate in the middle of You can make a comment by email to: president of the Fullerton Association of Continued on page 18 rural Rodeo Road, that she saw no prob - [email protected] EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5 A “Peace” Monument That’s Not Really About Peace by Vince Buck With little fanfare, at their August 19 clauses) apparently was added to make the meeting the city council debated an agen - resolution justifiable and broaden support da item vaguely titled “Support for House from other local groups. Councilmember Resolution No. 121.” The description of Flory moved to focus the resolution solely this item (#11) further mentioned support - on that issue, but Councilmember ing the Fullerton Museum Center Fitzgerald said no, and Flory’s motion died Association in its consideration of “options for lack of a second. Fitzgerald also request - for the display of a Peace Monument.” Not ed that the council vote on “support” for much information there, and inside the locating the monument. packet, the discussion begins by talking Public comments were evenly divided about human trafficking, leading to confu - (and highly charged) . Most of the oppo - sion about what was really being addressed: nents were of people of Japanese descent to HR 121, human trafficking, or some sort whom the resolution was a slap in the face. of monument in Fullerton. (The item and This is not a controversy that Fullerton HR 121 can be found on the Fullerton web needs. page in the council meeting archives.) Mayor Chaffee noted that he informed The message of the proposed monument shown above is expected to be similar to HR 121 is a resolution which passed the the Japanese Consul General that the coun - the one that the Korean American Forum of California donated to Glendale last House in 2007. Contrary to what the cil would not vote on a memorial, yet in year. (See wording below). photo and inscription sent by KAFC agenda item suggests, HR 121 is not about voting to “support” the Fullerton Museum Inscription on the Proposed Monument current human trafficking but is addressed Center Association in its search for a loca - to the government of Japan asking for, tion for such a monument it did exactly The following are the inscriptions on the existing monument erected in Glendale. The proposal to erect the monument near the museum will go to the Museum Center among other things, an apology and that. While this sounds as though the coun - Board which meets at 7pm on the 3rd Mon. of most months at the Museum on the accepting responsibility for its actions cil is merely backing a museum initiative, it corner of Wilshire and Pomona. The board’s next meeting is Oct. 20. involving sexual slavery during WWII. appears that any discussion by the museum “I was a sex slave Peace Monument The Fullerton Council resolution also board to date has been the result of of Japanese military” erroneously says that HR 121 was adopted requests from city hall. Perhaps “pressur - • Torn hair symbolizes the girl In memory of more than 200,000 by Congress and states the official position ing” is a more accurate word for the city’s being snatched from her home by Asian and Dutch women who were the Imperial Japanese Army. removed from their homes in of the United States government. It did not actions than “supporting.” The museum Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, the pass the full Congress, did not become law board must get the idea that a majority of • Tight fists represent the girl’s firm resolve for a deliverance of jus - Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and does not state the policy of the United the council, which provides much of its tice. East Timor and Indonesia, States. budget, wants a monument and wants the • Bare and unsettled feet repre - to be coerced into sexual slavery While House resolutions may be impor - work done by some group other than itself. sent having been abandoned by the by the Imperial Armed Forces of Japan tant (they are used in the impeachment Or maybe I have this wrong and instead the cold and unsympathetic world. between 1923 and 1945. process) , they are largely symbolic in nature, council wants this proposal buried but did • Bird on girl’s shoulder symbol - And in celebration of proclamation izes a bond between us and the of “Comfort Women Day” by the often passing on a voice vote in response to not have the backbone to act on its own. deceased victims. City of Glendale on July 30, 2012, the efforts of some special interest. They do The agenda and a speaker for the Korean • Empty chair symbolizes sur - and of passing of House Resolution 121 not go to the Senate and do not become American Forum each described this mon - vivors who are dying of old age by the United States Congress on July 30, law. They simply express the opinion of a ument as a “Peace Monument.” How did without having yet witnessed jus - 2007, urging the Japanese Government single house. In 2007 over 1500 House we get from comfort women and human tice. to accept historical responsibility • Shadow of the girl is that of an for these crimes. Resolutions were introduced and many trafficking to peace? There is no description old grandma, symbolizing passage passed. Typical is one which congratulated in the council material about this monu - It is our sincere hope that these of time spent in silence. unconscionable violations of human rights UC Irvine men’s volleyball team for win - ment or its design. But it seems that it will • Butterfly in shadow represents shall never recur. ning the NCAA championship (HR511). be a replica of one currently in Glendale hope that victims may resurrect one Japan committed many horrendous war (see picture) ; perhaps sited by the “beer gar - day to receive their apology. July 30, 2013 crimes in WWII some of which have gone den” wall in front of the museum. The orig - unpunished. (For many examples of these inal sits in Seoul, Korea opposite the Excerpt of a Letter from a Korean War Veteran crimes — plus a riveting story — I encourage Japanese Embassy. More confrontational everyone to read “Unbroken,” this year’s than peaceful. Opposing the Comfort Woman Monument Fullerton Reads book.) Sexual slavery was As Bruce Whitaker noted, if we are to A longer version of a letter excerpted immigration of Hispanics, the execution one of those crimes and Japan has not done begin placing monuments to atrocities in below was sent to each of Fullerton’s five of the Jewish people in WWII, and the a good job of acknowledging responsibility Fullerton, we have started down a slippery council members on August 18, before the illegal incarceration and stripping of the for these crimes; Japan is also inclined to slope. How many more similarly tragic August 19 council meeting where a reso - constitutional rights of the American cit - deny or rewrite history. causes will we consider: the Holocaust, lution to support HR 121 and to “support izens of Japanese ancestry during their But HR 121 passed the House 7 years interned Japanese-Americans, Armenians, the Fullerton Museum Center Board in internment in WWII? ago. Many war crimes have been commit - and Kurds; the victims of Boko Haram kid - finding a location for the statue,” passed The Korean people should appreciate ted by many countries — including the nappings, 9/11, My Lai and sexual preda - in a 3-2 vote (Flory & Whitaker, no) Japanese Americans who bravely served USA — since then. This item came before tors in the Catholic Church; the victims of during the Korean War and helped them the Fullerton Council now only because of wartime bombing by all sides throughout As a young boy of 12 years of age, I gain their freedom to come to America. the activities of the Korean American the world over the past 50 years including was a victim of the mass WWII incarcer - In 1997, I helped organize the Japanese Forum of California, which, according to London, Hiroshima, napalm bombings of ation of over 120,000 Americans of American Korean War Veterans its website, began as a handful of individu - Tokyo, Gaza and Iraq; or the millions Japanese ancestry. In 1950, during the Organization to try and help bridge the als who, in order to “...push the govern - killed by both Germans and Japanese in Korean War, in spite of my incarceration hatred gap between the Korean people ment of Japan to formally acknowledge and WWII. All worthy candidates. by the United States Government in and the Japanese Americans. To allow apologize for the Military Sexual Policy should not be made via an incom - WWII, I volunteered for the U.S. the Comfort Woman monument for Slavery ...” seeks “... to build ‘Comfort plete and misleading item, placed on the Marine Corps to serve, fight and defend atrocities committed by a foreign coun - Women’ memorials in California... as a way agenda without any commission hearings a country and a people I did not even try in the City of Fullerton will not help to continue to put pressure of the govern - or public discussion. What was the hurry; know. Five sons of my first generation bring a resolution or local harmony.” ment of Japan ...” and whatever happened to transparency? parents from Japan served in the U.S. It is very important to understand that So, in spite of statements throughout the Why did a seven-year-old House resolu - military in American wars. Two in today, we have many new young genera - evening that the item was really about cur - tion need to come before the council with WWII with the much decorated tions of Korean and Japanese Americans rent day human trafficking, the group that little public airing in the middle of a coun - Japanese American 442nd Regimental who hold no animosity and are very brought this up, The Korean American cil campaign? Perhaps the question answers Combat Team and three of us in Korea good friends, including marriages. To Forum is focused on one thing and one itself. If we are to proceed, the monument during the war at the same time. renew a past hatred by erecting such an thing only: pressuring the government of should have a full public vetting My objection to this monument in no offensive monument will only help Japan to acknowledge its crimes and apolo - The goal of the Korean American Forum way means I condone or defend the destroy those friendships that have gize; and it wants Fullerton’s help in doing of California is clear: to put pressure on actions of Japan. I am merely defending developed over two generations. Please that by erecting a “comfort woman” memo - Japan by placing a monument in Fullerton. the integrity of our Japanese American do not create an unnecessary concern for rial. The motion that the council passed This seems unlikely to be an effective tactic, communities across our nation. An apol - them. on a 3-2 vote (Flory and Whitaker dissent - but it is effective in creating dissention and ogy for this issue is due from Japan for My final comment is to bring to your ing) supports that effort. division. No matter how worthy the ulti - any atrocities it committed and not by attention that on August 29, 2013, the The resolve (action) clause in the council mate goal of the Korean American Forum governmental agencies in the U.S. or by City Council of the City of Buena Park, resolution only addresses HR 121 and the campaign, it is not one destined to individuals. California, setting a precedent, voted to government of Japan. It makes no mention strengthen community in Fullerton. A monument for such a controversial deny the implementation of the of current day human trafficking and in The council should think twice before issue between two foreign countries is Comfort Woman Statue Monument in spite of all the talk, the council proposed no unnecessarily allowing an external group to not in the best interest of the city. Will the City of Buena Park. action on that issue. embroil the city in controversy. We have accepting such a monument mean we Robert M. Wada The material on current day human traf - enough controversies of our own. will be open to additional monuments to Sgt., U.S. Marine Corps ficking (which appears only in “whereas” commemorate the slavery of blacks, the Korea, 1951-’52 Page 6OBSERVER EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014

Yamaha pulling parts and things, that was when Fender was actually in Fullerton, I didn’t run into him but some of my friends who worked there did, and there’s a real kinship with Fullerton because I grew up in La The DOWNTOWN Report Habra, which is just next door. text & photos by Mike Ritto [email protected] I played a lot of Fenders but now I have a signature Gibson, I also play a Duesenberg Double Cat, black, and I love it, it’s great. O: You play a lot of other instru - ments too, is there an instrument besides the guitar that you really like to play? I play a bit of keyboards, pedal steel, harmonica, I had a set of vibes that I just sold. It’s just fun having Above & at Right: Rusty Anderson and his band different instruments to express your - Rusty Anderson Afternoon opened the Museum self with. Center’s new exhibit “Ferry Cross the Mersey.” O: Is there something about being on stage with Paul McCartney that you can tell us about? The thing that I have figured out after doing this for so many years with Paul is that being on stage is a very extroverted position, but it’s also very introverted in the way that you are playing. In a way, you’re there par - tying with 50,000 people, and we’ve done up to a million, but it’s like Ronee Blakley, star of the movie Nashville, sat in on a Dylan song with Rusty and the band. you’re playing by yourself in your bedroom in a way. It’s an incredible INI WITH USTY NDERSON experience and it’s not lost on me at M Q&A R A all. I feel incredibly fortunate to be in Observer: We were lucky enough to get O: You must be a ‘Zappaphile’, Bunk this position. You can only pinch tickets to the recent opening of the Gardner is playing some sax and clarinet. yourself for so long, it begins to hurt. Fullerton Museum Center ‘Ferry Cross Yea, He is a good friend of mine, I met Note: To hear the entire interview the Mersey’ exhibit where you and your him through my wife who is a good friend and some of Rusty Anderson's music, band Rusty Anderson Afternoon played of his wife, and I am a huge Mothers of go online and listen to www.kocira - to a full house. What prompted you to Invention fan so it was fun to work with dio.com on Saturday, September 6th, play the Fullerton show? him. All of this music I make seems to be at 1pm. If you are in South Orange Rusty Anderson: I do a lot of shows with very diverse, that’s just the way I roll. It’s County at the time just tune your Paul McCartney and I am able to sort of all fun and games. radio to 101.5FM". squeeze in some shows and announce the O: You’ve been in Fullerton before, and new music on our EP “Rusty Anderson you’ve played at the Thursday Market, do Thanks so much to Rusty Anderson, Afternoon II.” It’s up on iTunes, Spotify, you have any memories of Fullerton? Did guitar wizard and singer with Paul Amazon and there are two solo albums, you ever run into Leo Fender or Jackson McCartney and leader of his own “Undressing Underwater” and “Born On Browne when you were in Fullerton? great band Earth” but this was a band project. I went over to Fender after working at “Rusty Anderson Afternoon.”

COME FLY WITH ME BY WINNING THE DRAW IN ID THE PHOTO Phyllis Fender shows off her guitar-shaped Two lucky Observers will be getting a bird’s eye purse at the Museum Center opening. view of Southern California soon. We have stepped up our photo quiz to include a one hour photo tour What Good is a World from Fullerton Municipal Airport, across Fullerton, south to the beach, across to Downtown LA and all Without Music? parts in between. You will see many landmarks and have a great time floating above the traffic. The weekend of August 16th was filled All you have to do is email your answers to me. Yes, with music. It was the 45th anniversary of email is the only way you can officially enter, no texts, Woodstock. The amazing Ferry Cross The calls, or yelling the answer at me as you drive by. Just Mersey exhibit opened at the Fullerton ID the location in each aerial photo correctly, and you Museum Center (a must see, www.fuller - will be included in the drawing for a flight in October. tonmuseum.com) and the perfect fit for One entry per person. Please email your answer by the such an event was local musician Rusty deadline of October 1st to qualify. No exceptions. Anderson and his band, Rusty Anderson Afternoon. NAME THE FULLERTON LANDMARK Answer to August ID the Photo (photo below) How can a local musician fit in with an circled in photo above for a chance to win The National Registry-listed 7,500 sq. foot historic building shown below exhibit about “The British Invasion”? a one-hour flight. Email your answer to is up for sale for $1.9 million. It is located at the corner of Pomona and We’ll get to that in a minute, but what Amerige in downtown Fullerton. Built in 1909, it was the longtime home about the headline here? That came from [email protected] of the Methodist Church Phyllis Fender, who heard that from her husband Leo Fender. She was at the open - ing and received an award in her late hus - band’s honor. Gloria Winkelmann You may have heard but we wanted to men - tion it here, our dear friend and a true titan of business in our Downtown recently passed away. She had been in failing health for some time. I don’t know of another person so univer - sally respected and loved by so many, we will always remember her, thanks for your friend - ship, support, and inspiration. Rest in peace. EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7 OUR TOWN CROSSWORD “W ORK IT OUT ” by Valerie Brickey

Dr. Versie Burns (at center) with Rusty Kennedy of OC Human Relations (at left) and Orange County NAACP President Donald Craig, at right. PHOTO BY A. V ARELA Dr. Versie Burns Honored by NCNW Fullerton resident Dr. Versie Burns was tors, business owners, and health honored at the OC National Council of providers. The mission of SANI is to share Negro Women “Legends Luncheon” on skills and expertise with the indigenous August 17 at the Hotel Fullerton. The South African community. 44. Part of 28-Across cities of Anaheim, Irvine, Garden Grove In 2001, Dr. Burns was a delegate with Across 1. Flower similar to a violet 45. J. _____ Hoover and Tustin also recognized her accom - the OC Human Relations Commission to 46. Spelling contest plishments with certificates. the United Nations “World Conference 6. Just a bit 10. Found in the belfry 47. Slime Dr. Burns, a native of Burmingham, on Racism” held in Durban, South Africa. 49. Ground ______, mining trenches Alabama, began her teaching career in the She is a life member of OC-NCNW 14. Freeze 15. 12-point type in streams Jefferson County public schools after and remembers meeting civil and women’s 51. Bottles of tomato condiment graduating from Miles Methodist College. rights activist Dr. Dorothy I. Height. Dr. 16. Landed 17. Labor 55. Lubbock univ. She and her family moved to California Burns, a widow, is the mother of one 56. High card in the early sixties. While continuing as a daughter and two sons who live locally. 19. Comic Rudner 20. Narcissist’s love 57. Hippie garb teacher and administrator she earned her Others honored at the event included 60. Shock with a jolt Masters Degree from CSULA, a Kathleen Davis Bowman, executive direc - 21. Put away, eternally 23. Diner order 64. “No ifs, ands, or ____” Doctorate from USC, and a PhD. from tor of WISEPlace for the YWCA; Connie 66. Labor UC San Diego. Jones, executive director of Southwest 24. Admiral’s org. 26. Felix and Oscar 68. Molecule part Dr. Burns was the first African- Community Center, chair of the 69. Waiter’s handout American to serve on the executive board Community Action Partnership of OC, 28. Labor 33. Female, on a farm 70. Review the books of the California Reading Association. and Boardmember of the OC Emergency 71. Contact ____ As part of her research development she Food & Shelter Program; Ernesta Wright, 34. Business trade name, abbr. 35. Concur 72. RR depots visited and observed teaching methodolo - executive director of the G.R.E.E.N. 73. Molecule parts gies in several countries including Foundation; and the Rev. Mark E. 37. Michael of R.E.M. England, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico Whitlock & Rev. Hermia Shegog- 41. Labor and Puerto Rico. On several trips to Spain Whitlock of Christ Our Redeemer AME she worked with both the Spanish Church who have expanded the church Down 32. Requires Consulate and the California State from 10 members in 1998 to its current 1. Photos 36. Where London is located, abbr. Department of Education to select teach - membership of over 2,600, making it the 2. Stomach woe 38. Latvian hockey player and coach, ers for bilingual programs. largest AME church in Orange County.. 3. Simon or Diamond Arturs Dr. Burns is a founding member and 4. Chemical element in fertilizer 39. Winged extinct reptile prefix (Dr. Burns was also the author of the vice president of South Africa Now, Inc., 5. N follower? 40. Looks at column “Tough Topics” for the a nonprofit organization of professional 6. “Put _ ___ in it” 42. Units of energy Fullerton Observer in past years.) women who are educators, administra - 7. Soil 43. To stretch very tight 8. Thespian 48. Substances derived from poppies 9. What Scrooge said to a Stooge? 50. Leave early 10. Tavern 51. Secret group 11. It might be airtight 52. Not obtuse 12. Sir or Madam 53. Wyoming Range 13. RBIs, e.g. 54. Ancient Egyptian board game 18. Harmless 58. Lindsay’s mom 22. A large spar on the prow of a ship 59. Jersey plural? 25. Begin, as a journey 61. Designer Gucci 27. Prefix with physics 62. Whole milk alternative 28. Slight advantage 63. Guesses, abbr. 29. 360, Live or One 65. Text msg. service 30. Roof overhang 67. LAX gov’t regulator 31. Coffee, Tea __ __? Page 8FULLERTON OBSERVER SCHOOL NEWS EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014

High School Board Meeting Highlights by Vivien Moreno Fullerton Joint Union High School District Board meets at 7:30pm on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month at district headquarters, 1051 W. Bastanchury Rd., Fullerton 92833. 714-870-2800. See the agenda at www.fjuhsd.net

August 5 Board Meeting (Next meeting Sept. 9 at 7:30pm)

and timing systems. The recent proposal GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND focuses on site preparation, maintenance During the August FJUHSD board & storage requirements, an attendant sta - meeting, the trustees voted 4 to 1 to tion and ticket/concession stand, and a approve sending a General Obligation spectator shade structure. The estimate Bond to the voters to decide whether to includes costs for a possible prefabbed, grant $1.75 million to the high schools stainless steel (for example a “Myrtha”) over the next 25 years to do long-term pool which is more expensive initially, but facilities repairs to six of the high school seems to cost less for maintenance and Good Hands For One tutors provide free assistance to young students at the library. sites in the district. will last longer. The pool is designed to Trustee Kilponen voted against the meet CIF requirements, allows 2 water “Good Hands For One” High School Students bond, saying that she believed that more polo teams to practice at the same time, time was needed to clarify what projects and still supports a shallow area for Making a Difference story & photo by Jere Greene the money will accomplish and she does - instruction and physical therapy needs. Good Hands For One is a nonprofit One website states, “Our organization is n’t want any issue to interfere with imple - Trustee Kilponen asked about tennis, organization of high school students who comprised of dedicated and motivated menting Common Core Curriculum. A volleyball, and basketball court areas that are volunteering their Saturday mornings high school students who want to make written copy of the bond measure is avail - will be sacrificed and rearranged for the to mentor youngsters at the Fullerton an impact on our community.” Fullerton able on the FJUHSD website under News , new aquatics facility. The architects indi - Library Conference Center, 353 W. can be proud of these outstanding stu - just click on the title to access the declara - cated that because of different sports sea - Commonwealth Ave. dents and their parents who actively sup - tion and a list of districtwide areas of facil - sons, no real loss of playing area is project - Students provide free tutoring in math port their efforts. ity’s needs. School site specific projects are ed. to children in the 2nd thru 6th grades Learn more about the group at not listed. Call the district office at (714) She also inquired about utilizing solar every Saturday from 10:30am to noon. http://goodhandsfor1.wix.com/good - 870-2800 to ask about specific projects. energy, but the architects indicated that An average of 40 pupils attend the ses - hands or send an email to goodhands - Fullerton College President Dr. Rajen the existing space is not conducive to sions where they are paired with a high [email protected] Vurdien, Karen Allen, Marilyn Harris, using solar energy at this time. school tutor for one-to-one attention. Juana Avila, and Stacy Small spoke con - Trustee Montoya asked if there was a There are 80 tutors enrolled in the pro - Hoax Job Flyers cerning the bond. unisex bathroom/ changing area available, gram who work alternative days. If you The trustees made various comments, and the architects indicated the only new would like to be tutored or be a tutor May Target Teens but basically stated that after carefully shower/restroom was located in the atten - come in a little early at 10am on Saturday In July the Downey School District tightening the budget, the harsh state dant area. to fill out an application. The service is funding cuts and the new Local Control issued a warning to parents about a poten - Boardmember Hathaway was con - free but applications are required. tially dangerous flyer posted in neighbor - Funding Formula does not allow these cerned with long term maintenance costs The organization has been recognized larger projects to be possible without the hoods advertizing jobs for teens. “The fly - and how far the construction bids will by the Fullerton City Council. There are ers are often fronts for human traffick - public’s fiscal help. Maintaining our come in over cost estimates. 80 tutors enrolled in the program. About school facilities at the level the communi - ing,” warned the district official. The fly - The plans are available on the website 40 work each weekend so students can get ers specifically offered teens jobs paying ty expects requires additional money from (http://www.fjuhsd.net under Divisions one-on-one attention. property owners. Trustee Buchi stated that $150 to $400 a week with free transporta - get Business Services, then click “2014- After spending their summer providing tion. Downey code enforcement removed she felt positive about delivering it to the 2015 Agenda Attachments, Board two hour Saturday sessions, the group voters to decide. over 200 flyers in a few weeks for violating Meeting August 5” and SHHS Design held a 'graduation and recognition' cere - city code. Downey police did not back the •N EW TEXT BOOKS : The Board adopt - Development pdf.) The board approved mony in August. Now that school has district’s claim about human trafficking. ed new text books for foreign languages the revamped design in order to send it restarted, the program has began another and AP Biology along with IB mathemat - Similar flyers showed up in a neighbor - out to Division of the State Architect series of weekend classes, and there were hood east of Adalena Park, in Fullerton, ics and Social Science texts. The public (DSA). Once submitted, the DSA will around 50 students at their initial meet - may view any proposed textbooks in the according to a reader who alerted the review the plans and the District will start ing. paper. Call Fullerton Police Desk non- Education Office before they are prequalifying contractors to bid on the This program benefits both students approved by the Board. emergency number at 738-6716 if you project. and mentors alike. The Good Hands For find one you are concerned about. •SHHS P OOL PROJECT : PJHM •IB P ROGRAM : Amy Holms, Eunhae Architects presented an updated design Kim Choi, and Denise Yu, parents of Candidates Running for High School Board for the Sunny Hills Pool Project. The Sunny Hills High School seniors in the design/build process has pushed back the Latin IB program, came to speak to the Three School Board Trustees are run - original deadlines by 2 months (this ning for re-election in the Nov. election LWV Candidate Forum Board about instructor access. (I under - The League of Women Voters will hold makes the construction start date stand this issue was resolved by the begin - and there are four challengers. The three September, 2015, instead of July, 2015) incumbents are Marilyn Buchi, Robert N. a forum for high school district trustee ning of school.) MJ Noor spoke about candidates on October 8, 6:30pm at and the following changes were made: less parents forming an Honors Association. “Bob” Hathaway, and Robert A. “Bob” emphasis on deck showers, ADA accessi - Singer. Challengers are Joanne Fawley, Fullerton Joint Union High School ble showers, sound systems, score boards, Zina B. Gleason, Ho Jeong Lim, and MJ District Headquarters boardroom, 1051 Noor. The candidate’s statements can be W. Bastanchury Rd., Fullerton, found at: www.ocvote.com EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 SCHOOL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 9

Proud Basketball SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTES Commissioner/Coach by Jan Youngman Ellwood Brown with his Fullerton School District Board meets at 6pm on 2nd & 4th winning Lakers Team: Tuesdays of each month at district headquarters, Back Row L-R: 1401 W. Valencia Dr., Fullerton, 92833. Sebastian, Carson, For agenda go to: Anderson, Amaris and www.fsd.k12.ca.us or call 714-447-7400 Riley; Front Row L-R: Logan, Chase and August 26 Board Meeting (Next meeting Sept. 9) Reyana (not pictured— Micah and Keilani) FSD R EFINANCING not to extend the terms of these bonds. This is the second time the district has TO BENEFIT TAXPAYERS : refinanced bonds. In 2010, the district Once again the district has refinanced completed a similar refinancing that General Obligation Bonds. The district locked-in $3,000,000 savings for local selected the right time to refinance the taxpayers over the following 15 years. ONGRATULATIONS ASKETBALL HAMPS bonds and was able reduce the interest The district itself will not receive any C B C ! rates from 4.73% to 1.87%, reducing the part of the savings, but pursued this Congratulations to the 2014 Fullerton August 16. community’s tax bill by over $890,000 opportunity strictly on behalf of local tax - Boys & Girls’ Club Division II (ages 7-9) Call Basketball Commissioner Ellwood over the next 12 years. The district chose payers. Basketball Champions. Brown, at 714-871-1391, X1014, or The championship game was played at email him at ebrown@boys/girlsfuller - California Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention: the Fullerton Community Center on ton.com for info on upcoming programs. The City of Fullerton is experiencing Each family receives core comprehen - increasing gang membership resulting sive service components including case CSUF Seeks Info on Accused Child Molester criminal activity. The primary objective of management, family advocacy, education - this grant-funded project is to intervene in al enrichment, after-school and summer Cal State Fullerton has confirmed that of children who enrolled at the center the lives of families who have school-age recreational activities, and mentoring. Thomas Pulver, an individual who was during that period, as well as parents of children that are exhibiting high-risk Meetings are ongoing, with special sup - arrested recently in Los Angeles County currently enrolled children. behaviors related to gang lifestyle. port and crisis intervention available on charges of child molestation, worked at Parents with questions are being invited Through a collaboration of city depart - when needed. The district and other our campus Children’s Center from early to contact Assistant Dean Carmen Curiel ments, schools, and community-based organizations have provided after-school 2005 through early 2009. in Student Affairs at 657-278-1245 or organizations the problem of gang activity and summer activities. Campus police are actively investigating [email protected]. is addressed using a multi-faceted Also local police officers participate in whether he harmed any children at the The university is deeply concerned approach. the Fullerton Lifting Youth Program by CSUF center during this period. about the welfare of all the children it’s The overarching project goal is to conducting a series of 10-week long, small Because he worked at numerous other served and currently serves. reduce the ever-rising number of inter- group mentoring workshops exclusively schools, institutions and childcare centers, While CSUF cannot comment on the generational gang members and to con - for Fullerton CalGRIP youth. The work - multiple law enforcement agencies are police investigation, we will provide fur - tinue with the momentum of the gang shops focus on youth development, self- investigating his conduct. The university ther updates when they are available. violence suppression, intervention, and esteem building, conflict resolution, real - is assisting these agencies to the fullest Paula Selleck, CSUF Media Relations preventative approach that was launched izing consequences and decision-making. extent possible. in 2011. The Fullerton CalGRIP program Currently, the program hopes to Anyone with information about Mr. relies on a school-centered, community include 30 more families in the program, Pulver during his time at the institution ASI Scholarships based approach to youth development depending on grant funding. that would be helpful to the criminal Associated Students Inc. will award over and delinquency. investigation should immediately call Sgt. $7000 in scholarships and 35 book rental Nigel Williams in the Cal State Fullerton scholarships to CSUF students this semes - •iPad Program: The district has started ED100.org University Police Department at 657- ter. Applications are available online at distributing iPads to Nicolas & Parks junior Trustee Berryman informed the 278-2578. asi.fullerton.edu and must be submitted high schools’ 7th & 8th graders and Valencia board of a new website: ED100.org. Cal State Fullerton is contacting parents by 5pm on Oct. 13 to be eligible. Park’s 5th & 6th grade students. This is part This is a website supported by the Full of the ongoing district technology program. Circle Fund (a Bay area non-profit) and •Strengthening Core Program: As part of the California PTA. It provides lessons providing professional development for to explain the California education sys - teachers, FSD will be using experienced FSD tem and the new changes that are teachers to lead workshops throughout the occurring in the education system to year. parents. It is also available in Spanish. •Foundations Combine: The Fullerton TWO IMPORTANT FUNDRAISERS Technology Foundation and the Fullerton Education Foundation have been combined •Sept. 12: Fullerton Cares will hold into one foundation: The Fullerton a Comedy Show for Autism Speaks at Education Foundation. 6pm at the Fullerton Fox Theatre. (see Community Comments ad on page 20 for ticket information) Mr. Imbriano and 3 fellow community •Sept. 20: The Fullerton Education members expressed their concerns about the Foundation will be sponsoring use of wireless technology in the schools due Carnevale: A Night in Venice at the to microwave transmissions. They also Fullerton Arboretum at 6pm. This is expressed their objections to the district the 10th Annual Toast for Learning adopting the Common Core Curriculum. Event. Page 10 FULLERTON OBSERVER REGIONAL & LOCAL NEWS EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 Restart of Matrix Acidizing in Fullerton Acidizing in Fullerton took a break after Acidizing is the process where fluid con - the earthquake but has started up again taining hydrochloric acid and other sol - with the two most recent notifications, vents are forced at a high rate (though along with start date, well operator and below fracturing pressure) into wells to closest residences, listed below. enlarge or dissolve pore spaces. •Start Date - 8/28/2014: Breitburn •Start Date - 8/20/2014: Breitburn Operating LP (aka Chevron, Pacific Coast Operating LP (aka Chevron, Pacific Coast LLP) is matrix acidizing EC Hole 82 (API LLP) is matrix acidizing Hualde 41-A # 0405921190). NEAREST RESI - (API # 045904981). NEAREST RESI - DENCE: 690 feet from nearest residence DENCE: 411 feet from nearest residence on Threewoods Lane, Fullerton 92831 . on Palmetto Terrace, Fullerton 92831 .

A W ATER MAIN BREAK turned Dorothy and Hornet into a lake around 7pm Friday, Aug. 29. Road repaving work was being done and neighbors speculated that the weight of the trucks may have broken the main. Crews were searching for the source. -VB Water District Responds to Grand Jury Report In May, the OC Grand Jury released a Working together with the OC Sanitation Map of the contamination problem which has shut down three wells in Fullerton. report entitled Sustainable and Reliable District, OC Water District is expanding Orange County Water Supply: Another its Groundwater Replenishment System, OC Water District Clean-up Plan for Endangered Species? Go to www.ocgrand - already the world’s largest, which treats jury.org to read the report and responses. sewer water to drinking water standards. Contamination Problem Threatening Aquifer At the Aug. 20 OCWD meeting the In 2015 the system will bring 100 million OC Water District manages the aquifer tion will cost $47 million and the cost to response to the report was approved gallons of water per day to the region, from which 19 cities draw 65-75% of operate it about double of that, over 30 which recognized the first priority for sus - enough for 850,000 people per year. their water supply. Industrial pollutants years. OCWD is in litigation to recover tainable water should be to maximize the Other responses included exploring called Volatile Organic Compounds costs from the corporations responsible. recycled water supply. In Southern desalination and additional water recy - (VOCs) have been detected in parts of the The project, which was to begin in 2012, California, 1.3 billion gallons of treated cling projects. For more about GWRS go groundwater aquifer that underlies north - has been on hold with the exception of 6 wastewater flows into the ocean every day. to www.gwrsystem.com or ocwd.com. ern and central Orange County. extraction wells that have been completed. Although our water is currently safe to Eventually OCWD will be working Prop 1 Water Bond Heads to November Ballot drink the contamination is moving to the along Orangethorpe Ave. and State On August 13, the Legislature and cleanup and recharge, water recycling, parts of the basin from which drinking College to lay about 600 feet of pipeline Governor Brown approved a new water stormwater capture, and projects to assist water is pumped. per night under the roads for about a year. bond for the Nov. ballot. The $7.5 billion communities that lack access to safe Three wells in Fullerton were taken out At a presentation before the June 17th Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure drinking water. These strategies will help of service because the contaminants were council meeting, OCWD general manag - Improvement Act of 2014, or Proposition California reduce its dependence on the approaching elevated levels (see locations er Mark Vargas said it may be 18 months 1 as voters will see it on the ballot, volatile Sierra snowpack, improve access on map above). The contamination was before the project begins. replaces Proposition 43, the $11 billion to reliable water supplies and protect our caused by chemicals used in industrial When completed the contamination water bond drafted in 2009. resources for the future. Funds allocated manufacturing over the course of many will be pumped out and through the Recognizing California's continued in the bond may not be spent on the pro - decades. A system to clean up the pollu - pipelines to a treatment plant. drought conditions, the bond advances posed Bay Delta Conservation Plan. regional solutions such as groundwater San Onofre Radiation Storage Still A Problem Although concerned citizens were suc - The newer model is almost 20” thick as cessful in their efforts to shut down San opposed to the 1/2” to 5/8” thick stainless Onofre Nuclear Power Station, new prob - canisters. The cast iron casks also have a lems have surfaced related to the type of lower fail rate due to cracks and have an storage technology proposed by Edison. inner cask that adds protection. Germany The dry cask storage system estimated to mainly uses CASTOR casks. cost $400 million is proposed to prevent a Though they are not as robust as the nuclear accident that could affect every - CASTOR, TN Series Forged Steel Casks one living within a 50-mile radius of the by Areva are being used at Fukushima site, located just north of San Clemente. Daiichi and provide more protection with Fullerton is about 41 miles away. much thicker steel that does not require a Edison is proposing using the cheaper cement overpack cask. stainless steel/concrete overpack/cask Both Germany and Japan enclose their technology which has been criticized for casks in buildings for protection from the use near ocean environments. The cask environment and other external forces. may fail within 25-40 years according to This is something Edison should also con - Mark Lombard, Nuclear Regulatory sider. Commission Director of Spent Fuel stor - Meanwhile Edison’s request to use the age and Transportation. stainless steel dry cask storage may be Originally the thought was casks used decided this month. San Onofre’s Chief to contain radioactive materials would Nuclear Officer, Tom Palmisano, told the only have to last until the depository at California Senate Energy, Utilities and Yucca Mountain opened. But the NRC Communications Committee on August stated the earliest date for a permanent 12 that Edison plans to decide by repository is in 2048 and may be later. September on a dry cask system vendor. A possible replacement might be the Much more detailed information and NRC licensed CASTOR V/21 ductile references are available on the cast iron cask or the newer V/19 model. SanOnofreSafety.org website. EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 CSUF FRACKING SYMPOSIUM FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 11 Oil Extraction Practices Including Fracking, Acidizing, Waste Water Disposal and Flooding in North Orange County and Impacts on Water Quality and Earthquakes to be Discussed at CSUF Sept. 23 Symposium A Symposium on the Impact of Oil repeated requests that an information ses - Extraction in North Orange County will sion be held on the topic of fracking. PANELISTS INCLUDE : take place Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at The purpose of the symposium is to •Earthquakes: •Industry Representative: 6pm at the Titan Student Union at Cal provide local policy makers and the pub - Robert Graves, U.S.G.S. Trent Rosenlieb, LINN Energy State Fullerton, 800 N. State College lic with objective impartial information Dr. Graves is a Research Geophysicist at Trent Rosenlieb is the Asset Manager Blvd. To guarantee a seat to the free event about the environmental impact of oil the U.S. Geological Survey's Pasadena for LINN Energy. He is a Registered RSVP to http://nsm.fullerton.edu/frack - extraction in north Orange County. Field Office and is the Southern Petroleum Engineer in the State of ing/rsvp The symposium will feature experts in California Regional Coordinator for the California with over 30 years of diverse Audience members are encouraged to the fields of seismology, hydrogeology, air U.S.G.S. Earthquake Hazards Program. experience in oil and natural gas explo - submit questions to the panelists. quality, and environmental geology who Dr. Graves's expertise is earthquake seis - ration and production, with the majority Questions can be submitted in advance at will speak to the potential impact of oil mology. of his professional career spent in the http://nsm.fullerton.edu/fracking/ques - pumping – including fracking – on our •Groundwater: California oil and gas producing regions. tions, or may be emailed directly to frack - groundwater, earthquake hazard, and W. Richard Laton, Ph.D He has been involved in critical dealings [email protected]. water quality. Representatives of the Dr. Laton is an associate professor of with land owners and regulatory agencies; Moderator Dr. David Bowman, CSUF California Division of Oil, Gas, and hydrogeology at Cal State Fullerton. His working towards science and fact based Professor of Earthquake Seismology and Geothermal Energy Resources – the gov - expertise is soil and water contamination; solutions. Interim Dean of the College of Natural ernment entity responsible for overseeing hydrology and surface water, wetlands, •Regulatory Oversight: Sciences and Mathematics organized the oil production in California – will be on and coastal monitoring; field sampling Dan Dudak, California Department session and is participating pro bono after hand to discuss regulatory and policy techniques; and well hydraulics. In addi - of Conservation, Division of Oil, a request from nine surrounding north aspects of oil drilling. tion to his academic work, Dr. Laton Gas, and Geothermal Resources county cities, including Fullerton. Representatives of the local oil industry serves as a consultant to the groundwater (D.O.G.G.R.) Fullerton’s City Manager Joe Felz will also present information about ongo - and environmental industries. Dan Dudak is Deputy Supervisor with brought the topic up at a regional meeting ing oil drilling in north Orange County. •Air Quality: the California Department of of the cities after Councilmember Flory’s See the list of panelists at right Susan Nakamura, S.C.A.Q.M.D. Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas, and Susan Nakamura is the Director of Geothermal Resources, District 1, which Examples of Questions Sent in So Far Strategic Initiatives at the South Coast Air covers most of the Los Angeles Basin and Quality Management District surrounding counties. Mr. Dudak has a Submitted from Fullerton: recourse for financial recovery is available (S.C.A.Q.M.D.). Ms. Nakamura’s long history in the energy sector working • A SoCal Connected program tran - to the City of Brea and it's residents? responsibilities cover toxics rulemaking, with the Division in various capacities and script from 11/27/2012 quotes USGS Dr, Q: Are horizontal drilling lines crossing the Clean Communities Plan, California with the State Lands Commission as a Lucy Jones: city limits and fracking under our homes? Environmental Quality Act, and the Air geothermal and seep study project lead. “So where they've been disposing of •What are the tanker trucks carrying Quality Management Plan. Ms. Prior to state service, he worked in the pri - waste water by pumping it down below back and forth from well sites? What are Nakamura’s team developed Rule 1148.2 vate sector for a leading petrophysical lab - the water table, that gets you down to the the risks associated with a spill or leak? which was adopted April 5, 2013 and oratory and environmental geomechanics seismic depths, and that seems to be Q: Why are homeowners not advised requires operators and chemical suppliers laboratory. Mr. Dudak holds a B.S. in where we see the earthquakes.” - Dr. Lucy when a huge tower is erected next to their to notify and report specific information Geology from Illinois State University and Jones home? In most states the height of the to the S.C.A.Q.M.D. regarding oil and is a member of the Geological Society of On 3/6/2014 the USGS released a tower has to be as many feet from the gas operations. America, the American Association of statement that included the following: home in case of a collapse. Are these Brea •Environmental Impact: Petroleum Geologists, Society of “The observation that a human- city ordinances no longer in effect? Mark Zeko, Environmental Petroleum Engineers, and the Geothermal induced earthquake can trigger a cascade Q: In 1986, the Department of Engineering & Contracting Inc. Resources Council. He is also a former of earthquakes, including a larger one, has Conservation conducted a study of 70 Mark Zeko is Vice President and Steering Committee member of the important implications for reducing the abandoned oil and gas wells for methane Principal Hydrogeologist at California Geothermal Energy seismic risk from wastewater injection,' and other gas accumulations in the Brea- Environmental Engineering & Collaborative. said Elizabeth Cochran, USGS seismolo - Olinda oil field. About one-half of these Contracting Inc. He is a registered profes - •Moderator: David Bowman, Ph.D gist and coauthor of the study. sites contained methane at a hazardous or sional geologist/hydrogeologist in 14 Dr. Bowman will be the Panel "Historically, earthquakes in the central greater concentration. The study’s conclu - states and specializes in the remediation of Moderator. He is the Interim Dean of the United States have been uncommon. Yet sion was that this area would not be groundwater, soil, and soil vapor impact - College of Natural Sciences and in the year 2011 alone, numerous moder - appropriate for commercial, industrial or ed by industrial and commercial land Mathematics and Professor of Earthquake ate-size earthquakes occurred in residential development. As home devel - uses. Seismology at Cal State Fullerton. Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and opment has been constantly encroaching Arkansas. Many of these earthquakes into oil fields what further studies or For more information and to RSVP: http://nsm.fullerton.edu/fracking/ occurred near waste-water injection information have been available to devel - wells." opers and prospective homeowners in years to "stimulate" the well at the Brea Submitted from Buena Park: Q: How much liability insurance is pro - these areas? Who is responsible for evalu - Sports Park. What kind of precautions are Q: Is there a suspected, or established, vided by waste water injection projects in ating if the land under and around our in use to protect the citizens of Brea and link between the fracking in the area and the event that the process triggers earth - homes is safe? the surrounding counties from that same the large earthquake that occurred earlier quakes that damage property? Q: Most experts report that more than kind of spill. This spill happened in an this year? If there is a link, is there any - Q: Do you use acids to frack oil wells in a 3-4% methane leak from wells makes oil Alfalfa field. I live near the Sports Park thing we can do to be better prepared, the area? What is the difference between and gas extractions worse than coal since and have never been informed of any outside of the typical earthquake preven - "acid maintenance" and "well acidula - unburned methane is 80 times more pow - evacuation plans in case of a spill of this tative measures? tion"? What kind of acid do you use and erful as a greenhouse gas than CO2. The magnitude. Question: How are these Submitted from LA: how concentrated is it? EPA states that the oil and gas industry chemicals transported? What time of day Q: With the new report just released by Submitted from Brea: maintains a 1 to 1.5% leak rate. This rate are these chemicals transported? Why are Food and Water Watch showing that oil Q: Are your well casings earthquake is an estimated report to the EPA by the they allowed near a school and public companies use 2 million gallons of water a proof? What will happen if there is a large oil industry. An independent study started sports park? day for oil extraction activities, why in the magnitude earthquake, and the tectonic in 2009 by NOAA, National Oceanic & Submitted from Yorba Linda: world would we want to continue much plates shift dramatically. If an earthquake Atmospheric Association, scientists meas - Q: Where is the wastewater from the less expand this practice that is already so can destroy a home, what assurances do ured three sites including the LA Basin hydrofracking being disposed of and how dangerous on so many other levels when we have that a well casing won't break which measured a 17% methane leakage. is it being safeguarded from leaching into we are in a chronic drought? during such an event? I am asking the AQMD to measure the the soil? Submitted from Pasadena: Q: What test equipment do you use leakage rate on the Brea Oil Fields. To Q: Is continuous air monitoring taking Q: I work for the City of La Habra that guarantees there is no leakage or seep - what extent are green completions being place in the active fracking sites in Brea Heights which has an oil drilling EIR in age when I can smell methane coming implemented? adjacent the public schools? If not, why process. Can you point us to any studies over Tonner Canyon on some days and Q: According to the Oklahoma newspa - not? on the health effects of natural resource explain why people using the Brea Sports pers, a chemical spill happened in August. Q: Why do fracking and acidification production? Park have complaints that their eyes are The largest fracking-related spill in operations require exemption form the burning or the smell is giving them a Oklahoma happened in rural Kingfisher Clean Air and Water Act? Find What’s Happening Here headache. County last Monday -- though local Q: Linn Energy's annual report states, media wasn’t alerted until Thursday – Submitted from Anaheim: FrackWatch Websites “The Company cannot provide assurance when 480 barrels (20,000 gallons) of Q: What's California Division of • www.heightsoilwatch.org that any insurance it obtains will be ade - hydrochloric acid, enough to fill an resource and USGS's view on fracking • www.stopfrackingbrea.com quate to cover any losses or liabilities." Olympic swimming pool." According to and its potential to cause earthquake or Is this common industry practice? In Linn Oil, that is approximately the any other kind of geo-hazardous events in • www.whittierhillsoilwatch.org the event of a catastrophic event, what amount of chemicals they use every 3 north OC area? • www.foodandwaterwatch.org Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL NEWS EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 Chaffee Pays for Volunteer Signs New Citizen Police Academy Offered A public information request filed on Mayor Protem Sebourn doesn’t get to pick by Jere Greene better than average insight into the July 24, 2014 by Sean Paden cleared up any of his friends for the honor. At the last Fullerton is again offering the Citizen department’s inner workings. It was a very the question about who is paying for the meeting when questioned again about the Police Academy to members of the com - rewarding experience. Volunteer of the Month parking plaques issue by Dwyer, Mayor Chaffee answered munity. This 10-week course is provided Additional information can be obtained presented by Mayor Chaffee at each coun - “None of your business.” annually by the police department to pro - by contacting Community Service Officer cil meeting since December 2012. Public records show that Chaffee paid vide a view of the internal details of police Juanita Juarez at 714.738-6836 Questions about the issue have been $699.16 to the City of Fullerton on July work. Individual classes are given every raised at the last several meetings by pub - 31, 2014 to reimburse the costs of the Wednesday evening between September lic commentor Richard Dwyer, who signs. The city did not return inquires by Information Sought on 10th and November 12th. Instructors expressed dissatisfaction that the Mayor print time about whether Chaffee is regu - include Police Chief Dan Hughes, cap - Assault Downtown Chaffee selects all recipients and that larly invoiced for the cost of the signs. tains, managers, patrol officers, detectives, An assault took place on the 100 block dispatchers, and other staff members. of N. Harbor downtown on Aug. 23rd Lawsuit Filed to Force District-Based Information covers many aspects of around 2am. One victim who was police operations, including arrest and punched and fell striking his head is now Elections for Better Representation booking procedures, jail confinement, in a coma. A second sustained a dislocat - There are approximately 135,161 The lawsuit states that though plaintiff crime scene investigation, dispatch and ed shoulder and a third, cuts and bruises. Fullerton residents; 34.4% are Hispanic Vivian “Kitty” Jaramillo attempted to call management, and the use of K-9 dogs The assault was captured on surveil - or Latino and 22.8% are Asian, according avoid the need for litigation by engaging for both drug searches and suspect cap - lance cameras and investigators are asking to the 2010 US Census. None of the cur - in a dialogue through her counsel in cor - tures. Additional classes cover briefings on for the public’s help in identifying them. rent council members or elementary respondence sent Feb. 4, 2014 to the city, domestic violence, sexual predators and Call Detective B. Coffman at 714-738- school board trustees are Latino or Asian. and March 18, 2014 to the school district, Megan's Law. Also covered are the investi - 5361 or [email protected]. The absence of any Latinos or Asians on both have failed to act. gation procedures involving officer Anonymous tips may be provided at the council or school board reveals a lack Jaramillo was a city council candidate in involved shooting incidents and homicide www.occrimestoppers.org or by calling 1- of access to the political process states two both the 2006 and 2012 elections and the investigations, a tour of the shooting 855-TIP-OCCS. lawsuits filed in July which hope to lawsuit contends - though prefered by range along with a discussion of the vari - Suspect #1 is described as a 6-foot white change the situation. Latino voters was defeated due to insuffi - ous weapons used by the department and male, 210 lbs with a muscular build, in The two lawsuits were filed on July cient of support among the larger non- a hands-on demonstration of the video his mid 20s with brown spiked hair and a 29th with the Superior Court of the State Hispanic white voters. The at-large shooting simulator. deep voice; Suspect #2 as a 5’8” white or of California, one against the City of method creates a lack of representation Each academy participant will have the Hispanic male, 180 lbs., in his mid 20s, Fullerton and the other against the the lawsuit contends. opportunity to take a Ride-Along with a clean shaven with short black hair with Fullerton Elementary School District, The lawsuit is being handled by the law patrol officer. I took this program a cou - lines razored into the sides. They were alleging violations of the California firms of Shenkman & Hughes, R. Rex ple of years ago as I felt if I was going to accompanied by a white female with Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA). Parris Law Firm and Law Offices of write about the police, I should have a blonde hair. The lawsuits ask the court to mandate Milton C. Grimes on a pro-bono basis. that both institutions implement district- (Disclosure: Kitty Jaramillo was the $5,000 to WTLC from Woman’s Club based elections, as defined by the CVRA. Observer recommendation for the The Woman’s Club of Fullerton Tsontos, who accepted the donation at the Currently both city council members and council position each time she ran.) (WCOF) has announced the donation of club’s July 16 monthly meeting. elementary school district boardmembers $5,000 to the Women’s Transitional WTLC is a nonprofit organization are elected in an at-large method, which Fullerton Reads One Book Living Center. Members of the WCOF dedicated to helping individuals and fam - the lawsuit contends creates a situation Unbroken: A World War II Story of chose WTLC as their Charity of the Year ilies escape domestic violence and where all successful candidates come from Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by in 2013, and then set out to raise money exploitation. WTLC provides the tools the wealthier section of town leaving a gap Laura Hillenbrand is the Fullerton Reads for the non-profit. Money was raised and resources to build self-esteem and in adequate representation. If a district- selection for October of 2014. A movie, through WCOF Quartermania and empower people for independent living. based system were used, voters in each dis - directed by Angelina Jolie, based on the Bunco Boogie events over the last year. For more information about WTLC, visit trict would only be able to vote for candi - book will be out in Dec. See movie trailer “The Woman’s Club’s support helps our www.wtlc.org. For more information dates living in their district, making for at: http://www.unbrokenfilm.com/ For clients receive the services needed to heal,” about the Woman’s Club visit www.wom - better representation. more information call (714) 738-6327. said WTLC Executive Director Gigi enscluboffullerton.org. 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REVIEWED by Mark Rosier Mysterium Theater Opens at La Habra Depot

The Mysterium Theater, Volunteers have been helping which started in a small black clean and get the theater ready box in Orange, then moved to for its opening set on Sept. 5 its current home, a former when The Importance of Being At Right: church in Santa Ana, in 2010, Ernst , by Oscar Wilde (Project Big Daddy is opening up the old Depot Gutenberg’s adaptation in two (Joe Parrish) Theater in La Habra. acts) will be the first offering. In addition to presenting The theater is located at 311 and Big Mama plays, the group plans to offer S. Euclid St. in La Habra. For (Rose London) musical performances, magi - more information on upcoming in a cast that cians and other entertainment, shows and to purchase tickets does more than and conduct acting classes for call 714-505-3454 or visit justice to this adults and children. www.mysteriumtheater.com. iconic play running through Sept. 21st. MAVERICK THEATER 110 E. Walnut Ave., Fullerton Tickets: 714-526-7070 www.mavericktheater.com Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Stages •ELVIS ’68 written & direct - •SUNDAY MYSTERY: RIO ed by Brian Newell and per - CAN BE MURDER written Tennessee William's classic theatrical piece Cat Maggie expresses her jealousy of Mae when she formed by Casey Ryan as Elvis by Byron LeDue, directed by On A Hot Tin Roof which places piercing drama, refers to her five spawns as "no neck monsters". Presley, was so popular that it is Bob May, plays thru Sept. 13 at dishonesty, sexual intensity and laughter on display Big Mama (Rose London) the matriarch of the coming back for an extended 3pm for $20 (or at 1:30pm is local theatre's latest Must See production. It is clan, loves her family to a fault. Her intense adora - run. The show relives a historic with three course pre-show din - currently playing at Stages Theatre in Fullerton. tion of Big Daddy blinds her to the fact that he moment in music history, ner included for $45). A crime Accomplished directing and acting talent Joe truly has grown to despise her. leather suit and all, in the stage occurs against the steamy back - Parrish once again pulls double duty as director These issues come to a head when the family re-creation of the crooner’s ground of war-weary G.I.’s and and actor and has assembled a first rate group of convenes for Big Daddy's birthday celebration 1968 live comeback special. At lusty Rio residents preparing talent to tell this riveting tale.The Pollitt family, where, along with Doctor Baugh (Bill Carson), the time Elvis hadn’t played a for the 1946 Carnival. One one of the wealthiest families in the south, is slow - and Reverend Tooker (SP Calloway), they plan to live show in seven years and his lucky audience member has a ly breaking at the seams. Years of deceit, resent - inform him of his true diagnosis. popularity was fading. The chance to solve the crime and ment, jealousy and anger have been swept under Joe Parrish and his cast tell an unflinching story show turned into an intimate win a prize. Adults. the rug but the rug is now being pulled from under of unlikable characters who win you over with jam session featuring 20 of •IMPROV SHIMPROV late the clan. their multi layered entertainingly flawed traits. Elvis’ hits with storytelling and night improv comedy voted the "Big Daddy" Pollitt (Joe Parrish), a charismatic Lysa Dacus as Maggie "The Cat" brings an aggres - audience interaction. Fri & Sat best in Orange County per - foul-mouthed wealthy cotton plantation owner, is, sive sensuality to her role. Her character has the at 8pm, Sunday at 6pm thru forms every Fri and Sat at unbeknownst to him at the start of the play, suffer - raw ability to bring the strongest of men to their Sept. 15. $25/general; $10/stu - 11pm. $5 www.improvshim - ing from a likely fatal bout with cancer. His family weakened knees. Mathew Migliorini is superb as dents w/current ID. prov.com has hidden the truth of his diagnosis leading him Brick. Illustrating a first rate portrayal of an alco - to believe it's merely a spastic colon. holic. A man who crawls inside the numbing com - Big Daddy's son Brick (Mathew Migliorini), and fort of a bottle instead of allowing himself to grieve CHANCE THEATER his sultry wife Maggie "The Cat" (Lysa Dacus), and confront his unclear feelings towards his best 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim Hills have reached a marriage defining crossroads in friend. Joe Parrish as Big Daddy gives one of his Tickets: www.ChanceTheater.com their relationship. Brick is in the storm of a current strongest performances to date as the crude cruel Info: 714-777-3033 depression since his best friend Skipper died at his plantation owner facing the fact that his days may MAPLE & VINE by Jordan reenactors, they forsake cell own hands after revealing to Brick a romantic be numbered. Rose London is delightful as Big Harrison, directed by Mark phones and sushi for cigarettes interest. Momma Pollitt. Serving as the glue that holds her Ramont, opens Sept. 19 and and Tupperware parties. Katha Big Daddy and Maggie have questioned the family together, London combines a lively brash - plays thru Oct. 19, and plays and Ryu are surprised by what boundaries of their friendship and have suspected a ness and fragile tenderness. She skillfully bring a Fri & Sat at 8pm and Sundays their new neighbors - and they more profound bond. Knowing the truth about grace to her cruelty particularly in her dealings at 7pm. Katha and her husband themselves - are willing to sacri - Big Daddy's inevitable tragic fate, and understand - with Maggie. Sara LaFramboise, SP Calloway, Bill Ryu have become allergic to fice for happiness. Teens & ing it is his dream for Maggie and Brick to conceive Carson and Mark Bowen all provide delightful their 21st century lives. After adults only. 2 hours with inter - a child, Maggie pulls out all the stops to seduce her moments that range from the striking of effective they meet a charismatic man mission followed by a discus - husband who's lack of lustful interest stems from dramatic chords to well timed levity. from a community of 1950s sion with the artists. Skipper's passing. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is an iconic piece of art Brick's brother Gooper (Mark Bowen), and his and the cast and crew of Stages production does wife Mae (Sara LaFramboise), are cohorts in the tradition more than justice. attempting to secure control of Big Daddy's estate. STAGES THEATER 400 E. Commonwealth, (at Balcom) Fullerton Tickets: 714-525-4484 www.stagesoc.org •CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee - come to the fore. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Williams, directed by Joe Parrish performs through forces the audience and characters alike to deter - Sept. 21st. This heart-wrenching drama examines mine what is truth, what is lie, and which lies have the web of deceit holding a wealthy Southern fam - become truth. Performs Fri & Sat at 8pm and Sun. ily together while threatening to tear them apart. at 2pm. Over the course of one sultry Mississippi night, the AUDITIONS: (see details online) characters’ gentility disappears as accusations of Sat. Sept. 20, 10am -1pm: It’s a Wonderful Life: greed, sexual desire and dishonesty - long repressed A Live Radio Play (5-6 men, 4-5 women) Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER ART & MUSIC NEWS EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014

and a variety of mediums, the artists MUCKENTHALER expose struggles the homeless face on a daily basis, yet reveal their humani - 1201 W. Malvern, Fullerton 714-738-6595 TheMuck.org ty and vulnerabilities surrounding their difficult circumstances. Donations of new or gently used blankets, sleeping bags, used clothing and toiletries will be gratefully col - lected and distributed by the Coast to Coast Foundation to local home - less individuals. The exhibit runs through Oct. 11. Gallery hours are Mon-Thurs noon -4pm; Sat, noon- 4pm. Free Sat. parking. Detail of Encounter Three, a lifesize One of the works from the exhibit, ceramic sculpture by Christopher Chinn Encounter Three, is a life-sized ceramic portrait of a sleeping home - BEGOVICH GALLERY less man by artist Christopher Chinn. The sculpture will be dis - CSUF, 800 N State College Blvd, Fullerton played somewhere on the CSUF www.seeingtheinvisiblelifeonthestreet.org campus during the run of the exhib - it. Come and find him! SEEING THE INVISIBLE LIFE The sculpture was previously ON THE STREET installed at the United Way of Art Opening Sat, Sept 6 Greater LA’s “Home Walk” bus shel - ter. The sculptures give people an from 5pm to 8pm opportunity to engage homelessness in an unexpected and non-threaten - Preview and art talk with Art History KOREAN TRADITIONAL FUSION MUSIC TROOP “H AEMIL ing way. Keep an eye out for them, PERFORMS THURS ., S EPT . 4 AT 7:30 PM Professor and Gallery Director Joanna Roche especially in the LA area where they and Exhibit Curator Joanne Mace. The exhibit can often be found spending the day Korean Traditional Fusion Music hearts of other ethnic communities. highlights the realities of being homeless. on local sidewalks, galleries, civic and "Haemil" Team was formed in 2008 with The group will perform on the Featuring twenty artists from the US and UK cultural centers. a vision to bridge the gap between differ - Muckenthaler outdoor amphitheater stage ent culture communities. Haemil has Thurs, Sept. 4 at 7:30pm. been active in delivering and educating Tickets 866-411-1212, online at harmonies through Korean traditional www.TheMuck.org or by sending email music using traditional and modern to [email protected]. $12.50/members; instruments. Through the dedications of $25/general; $20/students their performances they hope to touch the

WASHI : P RINTMAKING WITH PAPER FROM FUKUI AT THE MUCK THRU SEPTEMBER 28 Traditional paper of Japan, known for centuries as washi, is used for everything from furniture to toys, clothing, and origami. It is also a particularly fine ground for printmaking and other art. This invitational exhibition features prints, drawings, and paintings made on washi, including paper made in Fullerton Sister City Fukui, Japan. The exhibition features nearly fifty artworks by a dozen artists working in different areas of the One Man - Many Instruments United States, including Erynn Detail of Locus of Water Instalation Richardson, Mary Sherwood Brock, Kay North OC Community Concerts performance at Orange County School by Seiko Tachibana Brown, Sapira Cheuk, Bernie Jones, Association is kicking off its 69th season of the Arts and privately. Judith Kruger, Bryan Lenorud, Cat Chiu sized, on large washi sheets. Bryan with “World of Woodwinds,” a perform - Single concert admission is $20/adults Phillips, Cathy Weiss, and others. Lenorud prints directly from inked fish, ance by Gary Gould on September 15 at and $10/students. A series family plan The artists vary widely in approaching layering multiple images upon one anoth - 7:30pm at the First United Methodist price includes all five concerts of the year the medium. Erynn Richardson incorpo - er to form ghostly schools of vanishing Church on the corner of Pomona and and covers two adults and all their young rates beeswax and hand sewing into her species. Sea life is also the subject of Sapria Commonwealth a block east of down - children for only $120. Tickets are at the prints, while Cat Chiu Phillips embroi - Cheuk’s cephalopod themed cyanotypes. town Fullerton. door or see the website www.northoc - ders on newspapers collaged to printed One of the exhibition’s galleries will Gould's one-man-multiple-instru - concerts.org. Call (714) 535-8925 for surfaces. house a special multi-print room-sized ments show features dazzling musician - more information. Three works by North Carolina artist installation by San Francisco-based artist ship, lighthearted narration, and best- Other upcoming shows in the series Mark Iwinski poignantly capture the scale Seiko Tachibana, entitled Locus of Water. loved melodies. His unique combination include: Oct 20, 2014, Alfredo and mass of harvested trees by printing The exhibit, sponsored by Fullerton of musical styles includes jazz saxophone, Rolando Ortiz - South American harp; inked impressions of their stumps, life- Sister City Association runs thru Sept. 28. klezmer clarinet, and Irish penny whis - Nov 17, 2014, Street Corner Symphony tles. Gary Gould has performed in pit Band - variety show; Feb 9, 2015 -- orchestras, worked on cruise ships, and Classic Touch Duo - duets and solos; and played in big bands. Gould is also an Mar 30, 2015 -- Jennie Oaks Baker - vio - FULLERTON MUSEUM CENTER instructor teaching music theory and lin. 301 N. Pomona at Wilshire, Fullerton 714-738-6545 Open Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat, & Sun from 12 to 4pm and Thurs. noon to 8pm. TWO NEW EXHIBITS UP THRU NOVEMBER 9TH

•Ferry Cross the Mersey: •Six Strings As Canvas: Art Guitars An exhibit of photographs and arti - from the Fender Custom Shop tells an facts capturing British music acts of important story of how craftsmanship found the early 1960s and 70s. In early its way in the machine age of guitar building. 1964, Beatlemania had crossed the From the very beginning, players added Atlantic and over the next two years their names to instruments, created unique English bands dominating the decorations, and painted their guitars unusu - American charts included The al colors beyond what the factory offered. Rolling Stones, Animals, Herman’s The Fender designs lent themselves to this Hermits, Freddie, the Dreamers and treatment and Fender responded to the trend more. Organized by the Rock & Roll in the 1980s with the creation of the Fender Hall of Fame and Museum, this Custom Shop. The exhibit shows some of exhibit will delight music fans of all the shop’s outstanding examples. generations. EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 EVENTS CALENDAR FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15

TUES, SEPT 2 FRI, SEPT 5 WED, SEPT 10 continued HITS & •5pm: Get Hired: Navigating the •6pm-10pm: Downtown Hidden Job Market Fullerton Public Fullerton ArtWalk features numer - •9am-10:30pm: Parkinson’s MISSES Library, 353 W. Commonwealth.. ous venues showing art and offering Disease with Hoag Hospital by Joyce Mason 714-738-6326 or www.fullerton treats. Free fun for everyone. Parkinson’s expert Dr. Joyce Chance. © 2014 library.org. Free www.fullertonartwalk.com Fullerton Elks Club, 1451 N. Brea WED, SEPT 3 SAT, SEPT 6 Blvd., Fullerton. Free •9am-1pm: Hire a Vet Job & AGIC IN THE OONLIGHT •8am-1pm: Fullerton’s Every •5pm: Get Hired: Selling Yourself M M : Two Hits Resource Fair sponsored by the state Woody Allen mined New York City during the Wednesday Farmers Market at in an Interview Fullerton Public of California at the Fullerton 70s, filming the movies that made him famous, but Independence Park, 801 W. Valencia Library, 353 W. Commonwealth. Community Center, 340 W. more recently he has crossed the Atlantic and Dr., Fullerton (next to the DMV & 714-738-6326 or www.fullerton Commonwealth. Veterans, National focused on London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona and Janet Evans Swim Complex) . Fresh library.org. Free Guard, and Reservists returning from now the Cote d’Azur. “Magic in the Moonlight” produce, plants, nuts, flowers, and •5pm-8pm: Seeing the Invisible active duty are invited to dress for suc - does not match the magic of “Midnight in Paris” or much more. Life on the Street Art Opening at cess and bring a resume. Call Veteran’s the heft of last year’s “Blue Jasmine,” but it con - •6pm: Independent Film Series: Begovich Gallery, CSUF, 800 N State Employment Representative Alan tains signature Woody Allen humor, a light and All is Lost Osborne Auditorium, College Blvd. See page 14 Sheldon at Anaheim Workforce frothy script, gorgeous scenery and notable acting. Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. SUN, SEPT 7 Services at 714-518-2342 for info. Set in the Jazz Age, 1928 specifically, “Magic in Commonwealth. Robert Redford •2pm-3pm: Dr. Lisabeth Ryder •7:30pm: Dance in the Now per - the Moonlight” also indulges Allen’s love for jazz, plays a man who must fight for sur - on Starting Worker Co-ops Irvine formance presented by Nouveau which fills the sound track. Leading the cast and vival after being shipwrecked. Free Ranch Water District Community Chamber Ballet at Muckenthaler out - holding the film together is Colin Firth playing THURS, SEPT 4 Meeting Center. (see map at door amphitheater, 1201 W. Malvern, British upper-class and intellectual snob Stanley •4pm-8:30pm: See the Hearts at http://www.ocgreens.org/IRWDmap. Fullerton. Tickets $25. Call Lois Crawford, a world renowned magician who per - Downtown Outdoor Market on E. jpg). Dr. Ryder is the head of the LA Ellyn Dance Studio 714-526-3862 forms under the disguise of a Chinese illusionist Wilshire and at the Downtown Plaza chapter of WORCS (laworcs.us), a THURS, SEPT 11 with the pseudonym Wei Ling Soo. Crawford’s sig - between Harbor and Pomona next to nonprofit resource for people interest - •4pm-8:30pm: Downtown nature act wows audiences as he makes an on-stage the Fullerton Museum Center. Fresh ed in starting their own worker coop - Outdoor Market on E. Wilshire and elephant disappear before their eyes. produce craft vendors, food booths, eratives. at the Downtown Plaza between Although illusion is his trade, Crawford prides beer & wine garden, kids activities, TUES, SEPT 9 Harbor and Pomona next to the himself on being a rationalist, professing that live music and All the Arts Hearts on •5pm: Get Hired: Create a Fullerton Museum Center. Fresh pro - magic does not and cannot exist, for all feats of display. Free Winning Resume Fullerton Public duce, flowers, craft vendors, food magic are accomplished by sensory tricks. He is •7:30pm: Korean Traditional Library, 353 W. Commonwealth. booths, beer & wine garden, kids also a professional debunker of mentalists who Music “Haemil” performs at the 714-738-6326 or www.fullerton activities, and live music Free. claim to have powers for contacting spirits of the Muckenthaler, 1201 W. Malvern, library.org. Free SAT, SEPT 13 dead. So Crawford’s friend and fellow magician, Fullerton. $25/general; $20/students •7pm: Post-Occupation Japan •6:30pm: Concert Under the Howard Burkan (Simon McBurney), entices him & seniors. Tickets: 866-411-1212 or Through American Eyes Town & Stars “All That Jazz’ w/ Grammy to visit a chateau in the south of France, owned by www.TheMuck.org Gown at Fullerton Library Award-winning Jazz Pianist Bill wealthy American Grace Catledge (Jacki Weaver), Osborne Autitorium 353, W. Cunliffee & a lineup of talent at Cal who has hired the beautiful Sophie Baker (Emma Commonwealth, Fullerton. Take a State Fullerton lawn north of Titan Stone) to hold a séance that will put her in touch glimpse into the daily life of postwar Gymnasium, 800 N. State College with the spirit of her late, beloved husband. Japan through a set of over 100 hand- Blvd., Fullerton. Show ends in fire - Crawford relishes the chance to debunk yet written letters and typed aerograms works. Free lawn seating courtesy of another spiritualist. But “Magic in the written by longtime Fullerton resi - Kaiser and Schools First Credit Moonlight”—even though it has extended dia - dents John and Joan Greenwood, Union. Bring a picnic or purchase logues exploring whether there is a God, whether who were living and working in the food from onsite food trucks. there is life after death, and whether unseen forces cities of Kobe and Osaka. At the time MON, SEPT 15 can play in our lives—is first and foremost a Joh was working for B of A and his •7:30pm: Gary Gould “World of romantic comedy. However, its froth is grounded late wife Joan Voss Greenwood was Woodwinds” a one-man, many in strong performances, especially that of Eileen teaching and finishing her disserta - instrument performance presented by Atkins as Crawford’s worldly wise Aunt Vanessa. tion in English lit from Stanford. She later became a CSUF English profes - North OC Community Concerts at CALVARY: Two Hits sor. These rare letters illuminate the First United Methodist, 114 N. variety of social, political, and eco - Pomona $20/adults; $10/students. Holding together a much darker film is Brendan nomic changes occurring in the wake 714-535-8925 Gleeson, a commanding actor who has played of the Allied Occupation (1945- SAT, SEPT 20 Winston Churchill and Mad-Eye Moody in the 1952), yet preceding the age of Japan’s •1pm-4:30pm: OC Ragtime Harry Potter movies. Set on the windy beaches of high-speed economic growth and Society Performance Steamers Jazz Ireland’s County Sligo with its stony outcrops and income-doubling plan of the 1060s. Club, 138 W. Commonwealth, rural villages, “Calvary” is both a character study Presented by CSUF Professor of Fullerton. Free. www.ragfest.com and a murder mystery. History Kristine Dennehy who teach - 11:30am-2pm: The Politics of Father James (Gleeson), a parish priest who es classes in Japanese, Korean, and Common Core w/ Ted Lempert plus joined the priesthood after his wife died and who modern world history. Free. Call the silent auction and luncheon during has a grown daughter, sits inside the confessional library at 714-738-6326 for more the annual League of Women Voters booth. On the other side, a penitent tells him of information. of North OC kick-off event. Lempert the repeated sexual abuse he endured as a child and WED, SEPT 10 is the president of Children Now, a the revenge he plans to exact for those crimes. •8am-1pm: Fullerton’s Every national non-partisan research and Because the perpetrators are now dead, he plans to Wednesday Farmers Market at advocacy organization for children’s take the life of a good priest. “I’m going to kill you Independence Park, 801 W. Valencia health and education and a political because you’re innocent,” he confesses. “I will meet Dr., Fullerton (next to the DMV) . science lecturer at UC Berkeley. you on the beach in a week.” Fresh produce, plants, and more. Reservations due by Sept. 15 at noon: The next seven days are delineated by daily titles 714-254-7440 or email lunch - as Father James administers to his parishioners, a [email protected] (include motley collective of half-believers and non-believ - lunch choice of pasta, chicken or ers. The butcher has separated from his wife, who is beef tri-tip), $25 having an affair with an African mechanic; a dying, old man is trying to complete his novel; a bitter doctor mocks his own medical skills; a man of ENIOR EN S ENNIS wealth tries to write a check to the Church to expi - S M ’ T ate his personal guilt. Father James’ own daughter, For over 20 years a group of Fiona (Kelly Reilly), confronts him about his deci - senior men have played men’s sion to join the priesthood at a time when she most 3.5 doubles at 8am Monday needed a parent. mornings at the Fullerton Hanging over all of these daily happenings is the Tennis Center for 2 hours. apprehension of the threat made in the opening Manager Dave sends out an scene. We wonder, as does Father James, which email invitation for players and parishioner made the murderous prediction and follows up with a list of the will he carry it out. Crafting this thoughtful and players for the next Monday. moody film is writer/director John Michael Any number can play because McDonagh, almost as famous in Ireland as his it is rotational. ($6/balls fur - younger brother, playwright and screenwriter nished) Martin McDonagh. If you would like to join send an email to Two Hits: Don’t Miss It! [email protected]

Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER Rest in Peace • We Remember You EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014

He lived much of his childhood in Oildale, a Larry served the city of Fullerton as were thoughtful and wise; he was suburb of Bakersfield, where he went to school a Planning Commissioner for sixteen always calm and instinctively gener - and excelled. He worked after school and years and took an active interest in the ous. Larry approached his life, his fam - through the hot summers at his dad’s gas station. positive direction and growth of his ily, and his friends with honesty, loyal - After graduation from Bakersfield High School, city. He was Ellen’s biggest cheer- ty and integrity. Larry followed his dream and enrolled at UCLA. leader and advisor as she was elected to If asked, he would tell you his most Larry was a True-Blue loyal Bruin, a member of the Fullerton School District Board of precious gift and legacy are his four Sigma Pi Fraternity and rarely missed a basket - Trustees for twelve years. children, Jeffrey (Tami), Susan ball or football game. It was in his sophomore Larry and Ellen traveled the world (Randy), Peggy (Dick), Jimmy year that he met the love of his life Ellen Jebejian. together, often times with dear friends. (Lesley) and his amazing, wonderful Larry loved Ellen and actually put her first before They have photo albums filled with grandchildren, Lauren (Ballard) Shaw, his beloved Bruins. They were married February beautiful memories from Africa to Katelyn Ballard, Taylor, Clay, Logan 1, 1959 at St. James Armenian Church in Los China to Russia and many places and and Mollie Friend, Alyssa, Tyler, and Angeles. countries in-between. Trevor Semerdjian, Ellie and Delaney James Larry Ballard He attended USC law school and passed the Larry was bitten by the golf bug and Ballard. In addition he leaves his 4.4.1937 - 8.4.2014 California bar exam before graduating in 1963. spent many happy hours chasing the brother Bob (Jan), his brother-in-law Larry, a quiet, gentle man, spoke very By that year, the Ballard family had expanded to little white golf ball around the Alta Richard (Barbara), and many close little, but when he did people listened. To include Jeffrey, Susan and Peggy. A move to Vista Golf Club. He loved to read and family members and friends. his friends, Larry was loyal, to his profes - Fullerton to practice law came next. Larry quick - complete daily crossword puzzles (in Remembrances of Larry sion, a highly regarded attorney. Above all ly established himself as a business/real- ink!). His favorite place was his “dad’s” may be made to: he was a wise and compassionate father estate/trust attorney and his expertise in these chair engrossed in a good book. He and a faithful loving husband who was fields earned him the respect of his peers and was master of the BBQ, grilling per - Fullerton Education Foundation most happy and comfortable when sur - hundreds of clients. In 1969, son Jimmy was fectly cooked shish kebab for family PO Box 5317, Fullerton CA 92838 rounded by his family. added to the family. gatherings. He had a slightly off-kilter, Fullerton Public Library Larry was born April 4, 1937 in Larry was always proud of his children and as dry sense of humor and loved to laugh 353 W. Commonwealth Ave. Bakersfield, California. His hard-working teenagers each of them worked in his office as at a really good joke. His opinions Fullerton CA 92832 parents, Buck and Bea, expected him to “go-fers”. Susan and Jimmy became lawyers, be successful and instilled in him drive Jeffrey, a vascular surgeon and Peggy a pre-school She is survived by her three chil - and determination. teacher. Dorothy Tamaccio dren, four grandchildren and four Dorothy Tamaccio passed away great grandchildren: Joan and Joe Performing Arts at CSUF, the Boys and Girls on August 16, at the age of 91 at Girone along with their daughters; Clubs, the Muckenthaler Center, and others. her home in La Habra Jennifer Girone and The awards Jim received are too numerous to Villa. She was born in her children Luke, Tess detail, and many of them he received with Philadelphia, PA, and was and Will Hall, and Dottie; but they included recognitions from one of 11 siblings in a Julie and Greg Rink the US Congress, California State Legislature, large Italian family. and their son Colin all the OC Board of Supervisors, Fullerton City Dorothy loved ball live in Pennsylvania. Council, the Boys & Girls Clubs, the YWCA, room dancing, angel pins, Patrice McGlensey the Rotary Foundation of Rotary doing hair, and her two Hendrix and Skip International, and CSUF (e.g. Visions and cats. When she moved to Hendrix live in Visionaries and Outstanding Emeritus). He Fullerton in 2005 she Virginia. Her son was also the co-author (with E.V. Pullias) of a delivered Meals On Kevin McGlensey and major book on education, A Teacher Is Many Wheels for several years. wife Marlene currently Things , which was published in many lan - She was a vastly interesting live in Fullerton and their daughters JAMES D. “J IM ” Y OUNG guages worldwide. woman, a fierce mother, an excel - Becky and Melissa grew up in (1921 - 2014) He was a gifted speaker and a prolific writer lent cook and a vibrant personali - Fullerton. James D. Young, known fondly as “Jim”, of poetry and philosophy who studied the ty. The family will be making Dorothy is also survived by three died in the company of his children on August human condition in all of its forms. He was a ravioli from scratch in her honor siblings William 77, Dolores 87 and 29, 2014 in Fullerton, California. fearless and thoughtful educator, who respect - for years to come. Irene 95 years old. Jim was born in Huntington, West Virginia. ed all views and challenged disrespect and When his parents each became seriously ill, he misplaced authority. An example was his fight moved to Kentucky to be raised by his grand - to protect his students, his faculty, and First mother. He later moved to New Mexico with Amendment and academic freedom principles his father where he spent the rest of his youth, when the John Birch Society instigated a state Planning Ahead on a ranch near Ruidoso and, during the senate investigation of a play (“The Beard”, by school years, in Roswell. Beat poet Michael McClure) done internally as It was in Roswell that Jim met the girl who an experimental classroom-only project under Simply Makes Sense: faculty supervision. Jim’s testimony in the became his dearly beloved wife of 70 years, • Spares your family and friends Dorothy Belle Rea (“Dottie”). Dottie Young, investigation was a pivotal event. The univer - sity backed Jim’s defense of the exercise on the unnecessary financial and emotional burden who was Jim’s lifelong partner in every • Can lock in the costs using today’s prices endeavor, died earlier this year. basis that the state had no right to interfere During WWII, Jim, served for as the skip - with classroom academics. • Prevents the tendency of overspending per of an LCT (an ocean-going landing craft) Jim cared deeply about others, and will be • Advanced funeral plans are transferable in the South Pacific. His boat, unofficially remembered as a mentor to hundreds and an christened by his young crew as the “Dorothy example to thousands. He believed in Belle Rea”, participated in some of the largest Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s exhortation in Family Owned & Operated since 1911 battles in the Southern Pacific war theatre, “The Little Prince”, that “It is only with the including Leyte Gulf, Milne Bay, Hollandia, heart that one can see rightly; what is essential McAulay & Wallace Mortuaries Biak, Neumfoor, and Moratai. Jim was is invisible to the eye”; and it was with that injured in one battle, and nearly lost his leg. spirit that he led his life. He was also keenly 902 N. Harbor Blvd 18311 Lemon Drive After the war, Jim earned his Ph.D. in aware of the important question asked of the Fullerton CA 92832 Yorba Linda CA 92886 speech and drama at USC and, after success - Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s “Our (714) 525-4721 (714) 777-2692 ful careers at Pepperdine and Cal State LA, Town”, one of his favorite plays: “Do any was recruited to create the Department of human beings ever realize life while they live Theatre at what ultimately became California it?—every, every minute?” Jim realized life at For Free Information at no obligation Clip & Send to address above. State University, Fullerton. In those early every minute, including in his last days before years, the school had no facilities for drama passing, when he quoted Robert Browning: “I Please Send Information on: productions, but under Jim’s creative guidance would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore. And made me creep past. No! Let ____Funeral Service Plans ____Cremation the fledgling department found ways to put ____Social Security ____VA Benefits on shows in parking lots, churches, and shop - me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, the ping centers. Today it boasts one of the finest heroes of old.” He died as he lived: with drama programs in the country, housed in the courage and curiosity. Name ______Jim is survived by his son, Doug (Oakland, James A.W. Clayes III Performing Arts Phone______Best time to call______Center. Among the theatres within the Clayes CA), his daughter, Vicki (Denver, Colorado), Center is the James D. Young Theatre. three grandchildren, and one great-grandson. Address______Gifts in Jim’s memory can be made to the In addition to founding and leading the City______State______Zip Code______new drama department, Jim served CSUF in a Dr. James D. and Dorothy R. Young variety of administrative roles for 41 years, Founder’s Scholarship Endowment at including as Associate VP of Academic California State University Fullerton c/o the Programs. He was also active in Rotary Cal-State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation (2600 Nutwood Ave. Suite 850, Fullerton, (including service as District Governor), William H. McAulay FD #289 License #190 & #1304 MAMM Alliance for the Support of the CA or http://foundation.fullerton.edu). EARLY SEPTEMBER 2014 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17 OC Veterans Cemetery a Go as Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva’s Bill Passes Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva’s (D- Fullerton) Assembly Bill (AB) 1453, a bill that would establish a veterans cemetery in Orange County, passed out of both houses of the Legislature and is now headed to the Governor for his consideration. “Several years ago, a group of local veterans got together and formed the Orange County Veteran Memorial Park Committee to garner support for a veterans cemetery. Today, we celebrate their tireless efforts as we move forward with the legislation,”said Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva. “Local veter - ans, many of whom risked their lives on foreign soil, deserve a an honorable place that will provide their families and communities a true and lasting opportu - nity to pay their respects and honor the countless sac - rifices made as they served and defended our nation.” AB 1453 will direct the California Department of Veteran Affairs and the local governments in Orange County to work collaboratively to design, develop Hundreds of supporters attended the AB1453 briefing where Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (at center) honored the and construct a state-owned and state-operated work of Orange County Veterans Memorial Park Committee members Gary Colletti, Dr. Richard Ramirez, Bill Cook, Orange County Veterans Cemetery. Marilyn Harris, Pete Katz, and Louie Quezada who organized to gather support for a Veterans Cemetery to locate in OC. The City of Irvine stepped forward this past July to designate up to 125 acres of the Great Park, formerly cities, endorsements from Quirk-Silva represents the 65th CA tions or more information, please call known as Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, for the veteran community stake - Assembly District which includes (916) 319-2065 or send an email through use of a veterans cemetery. holders and over 3,000 indi - Fullerton and 6 other cities. For ques - www.asmdc.org/Quirk-Silva. The bill received support from 19 Orange County viduals. Assemblywoman LOCAL CONGREGATIONS WELCOME YOU!

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continued from page 4 August 19 Council Meeting August 5 Council Meeting Next Meeting 6:30pm, Tues, September 16 at City Hall House Resolution No. 121 Support everywhere. (see page 5 for more on this 4TH Q UARTER the ticket and notification that the per - Fullerton’s US Representative Ed Royce issue) TREASURER ’S R EPORT son arrived safely. Mayor Pro Tem addressed the council and stated he Councilmember Flory said every nation - Sebourn stated that he will approve this Proposed Second Allonge and cosponsored House Resolution 121 in ality, every ethnic group is important to the item if it is amended to include the Modification to Promissory Note to 2007. The House passed this resolution fabric of our city. The Japanese Consulate police department providing a quarterly Owner Participation Agreement for because they felt that the “Comfort General contacted the City Council saying report of its use of asset seizure funds for Fullerton City Lights Single-Room Women” victims who survived WWII the approval of the resolution may damage this program. He stated that a report Occupancy Apartments Located at 224 needed to be acknowledged since their Japan’s feelings of friendship toward can be made during the first meeting in East Commonwealth Avenue ordeal had been denied by many. Royce Fullerton. She read part of a letter from October in order to give the public a Charles Kovac, Housing and felt that Fullerton should recognize their local resident Mr. Wada (see page 5). She chance to view it. The amended item Neighborhood Services Manager, heartbreak and their desire to achieve noted that Glendale was being sued for passed 4-1. Councilmember Whitaker explained that the 2013 and 2014 pay - recognition and apology from the Japanese placing the monument. voted against it as he would like to wait ments were moved back two years, cre - government. He recommended that the Mayor Chaffee and Councilmember until the reporting system is in place. ating a 44-year term rather than a 42- council approve a Resolution of Support Flory agreed that the resolution should be year one. Despite this explanation, PROP 13 for HR 121 . reworked into a City of Fullerton docu - Mayor Chaffee felt the wording was Public Comments for this item fell into ment recognizing the tragedy of human Although the city has no jurisdiction three categories. The first group saw the trafficking wherever it may occur. The inaccurate. Council continued the item over Prop 13 this item was brought for - to the next council meeting (5-0). statue as important in recognizing sex traf - mayor thanked the KAFC for honoring ward by Mayor Protem Sebourn and ficking and past Japanese wartime sexual Fullerton with their request, but said that POLICE G RANT FROM P HELPS passed in a unanimous vote. slavery. They encouraged the council to see the monument should be more universal. Councilmember Flory thanked the Councilmember Flory said that the monument’s purpose as educational Councilmember Whitaker was con - Wilson Phelps Foundation for its Proposition 13 introduced a standard and beneficial to future generations who cerned about Fullerton projecting anything $8,500 donation toward an anti-theft which was unfair to younger people and must learn from past human rights viola - but kindliness to people we consider technology which assists in the identifi - younger families. She gave the example tions in order to prevent the same things friends, such as the countries of our Sister cation of stolen equipment and those of her younger sister paying 5 times the from happening in the future. Cities. He was not sure if it was appropri - responsible for the theft. The council amount of property tax on her home The second group believed that whether ate for a city to become involved with geo- unanimously accepted the donation. which is half the size of her own just the sexual slavery of Comfort Women dur - political issues. because she bought it a few years after USE OF A SSET S EIZURE F UNDS ing World War II happened or not is con - Councilmember Fitzgerald and Mayor Prop 13 went into affect. troversial and that it was a foreign diplo - Protem Sebourn both embraced the resolu - Councilmember Whitaker asked how Councilmember Whitaker asked her if matic issue not appropriate for the city to tion and the monument as is. the Police Department’s Homeless she thought she was paying to little or address and will create tension. The resolution was passed on a 3-2 vote Liaison Officer Program was funded her sister was paying too much. “Both,” The third group was concerned about all with encouragement to the Museum before the asked-for $50,000 in asset said Flory, who predicted there would human trafficking and war crimes world - Center Board to locate the monument. someday be a tax revolt by young peo - seizure funds. Chief Dan Hughes said wide. Human trafficking won’t end any - See page 5 for more information that there never was a budget for this ple on the issue. where in the world until we stand against it program; nonprofit organizations assist - ed. Additional funds are now needed as SPECIAL O LYMPICS H OST T OWN •OCTA Bike Loop: The concept for •Cell Tower in Richman Park: The the homeless population in Fullerton is The council voted unanimously to the Orange County Transit Authority AT&T cell tower to be located in Richman increasing, their needs are expanding partner with California State University, Bike Loop includes 66 miles of primari - Park between the St. Jude clinic and the and the number of Homeless Liaison Fullerton, and be a “Host Town” for ly off-street trails seamlessly stitched community center and at the edge of the Officers has grown from 1 to 4. approximately 100 international ath - together throughout the county. school sports field, was approved on a 3-2 Whitaker asked if there was any letes during the 2015 Special Olympic Seventy percent of this work is already vote (Whitaker & Sebourn, no) with the accounting in the past for this program World Games which take place July 21 done. The beneficial outcomes for the addition by Councilmember Flory that and what amounts were involved in its to 24. county include improvement in the AT&T’s study showing low emissions be support. Chief Hughes answered that quality of life, the making of intercon - posted on the city website. Public the funds needed for the relocation of a AGREEMENT WITH P OLICE D EPT . nected communities, the links between Comments: Parks & Rec Committee chair homeless person, for example, would A tentative Memorandum of the bike loop and other modes of trans - Barry Levinson said the committee was include those required to contact the Agreement between the City of portation, and safer journeys for all. banned from discussing adverse health family, see if they would receive the per - Fullerton and Fullerton Police Converting underutilized spaces and effects and never received a copy of the con - son, and buy the transportation ticket. Management Association was arrived at adding retail and attraction sites add to tract as requested. A resident of the area said The case document, therefore, would and approved in a 3-2 vote (Whitaker, the local economy and help raise prop - that even minute, non-thermal micro or include a photograph of the person and Sebourn, No). erty values. More information can be electro-magnetic waves can be detrimental found at octa.net/ocloop. especially to children attending the school, •Senior Reserve Officers: Chief park and clinic. Dan Hughes introduced the three •The Downtown Core and Corridors CHANGE & BALANCE most senior Police Reserve Officers. Specific Plan Public Hearing postponed to by Michelle Gottlieb Together they have donated over 55 an upcoming date uncertain in order that years of service without pay, answering better public notification to 7,000 sur - Options to Suicide many of the same calls any other police rounding households could occur. officer answers. Chief Hughes pub - •Local Historical Landmarks at 1400 W. I am writing this column about a right now. licly thanked them and the families Orangethorpe Ave. and 545 W. Whiting Ave week after Robin Williams tragically How you feel right now is temporary. who allow them to spend so much were approved 5-0. ended his own life. Mr. Williams suf - I know it feels like you have always felt •Outdoor Music: Staff will come back at fered from depression, a very serious this way and will always feel this way, time on behalf of the police depart - ment and the Fullerton community. the Sept. 16 with ways to clarify the down - and, as you can see, life-threatening but our moods fluctuate. Sometimes we town outdoor music ordinance. condition. When someone has reached are down, sometimes we are not. Until Reserve Officers Michael Lyman, the point of seriously considering sui - your mood starts to go up again and Nick Rosner and Randy Richards were The meeting was adjourned in the memory cide, it means that they see no other you can feel safe, stay with someone. honored as Volunteers of the Month. of Larry Ballard (see page 16) options, that the only choice that seems Do not isolate yourself. Be with people. to have any validity is death. Even if they do not understand exactly For all those who suffer from depres - what you are going through, they have sion or who are currently considering felt sadness and pain. They understand suicide, I am reaching out to you, I am that. It is not your job to make them talking to you. There are options. There understand; just ask them to stay with are always options. If you cannot see you. them, then ask those close to you what Suicide is a permanent solution to a options they see. If you are unable to do temporary problem. Please remember that, reach out to clergy or a therapist that. Things change. Life is always or a hotline. There is ALWAYS some - changing. Here is a phone number and one willing to hear you. You may have web site to a 24 hour hot line. 1-800- to try a few times until you reach that 273-8255 http://www.suicidepreven - person. I know that I am asking a lot of tionlifeline.org you when you are that down, but, Things will improve. People care. again, there are options other than sui - Hang on. Things will change. Hold on cide and there are people willing to talk to see what life will bring you next on to you, even if it does not feel like it your journey.

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Kate in Cambodi a

Kate Heaton (pictured at left) traveled to Cambodia for an unusual purpose.

“I volunteered for 7 weeks at Wat Opot, a chil - dren's communi - ty in Takeo, Cambodia for children who are HIV positive or have lost parents to AIDS. I did multi-media art journaling with the kids.”

Gunnar Kaczor enjoyed historic sites and represented his home town.

Chris & Janny in Alaska Chris and Janny Meyer visit - Glacier fields and the inside ed the famous Mendenhall passage. Glacier on an Alaskan cruise. Janny is a retired teacher and They traveled with Fullerton current FSD board member and Australian friends to the and Chris is a Library board beautiful sights of Alaska from member and retired Fullerton Skagway, Juneau, Sitka, City Manager. Hoonah, Ketchikan through

The Muleady Family in the High Sierra

“The Muleady Family (Daniel, Sandy and Bob) spent five days backpacking in the High Sierras at Pear Lake and the Tablelands. It was a nice stretch of the legs before Troy High School started, and we brought along some reading material as well”. -Bob Muledy

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