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City Council Honors the Fullerton Property of Fullerton Public Library, Local History Room C O P V 2 e Community & Fine Arts Calendar ps.9-12 MAR 1 2 1997 FullertonI 1 FULLMiTON r*U8. LIB. Observer*■ Fullerton’s Only Local, Independent Newspaper ( printed on recycled paper) No. 276 March 15,1997] City Council Honors the Fullerton Observer and Its Editor, Longtime Local Activist, Ralph Kennedy Harloe in his “Council Doings” and the political cartoons of tween such political distinctions had the past few years been By Jack Harloe Observer cartoonists Claudia Rae and Michael Freeth. significantly blurred, especially at the local level where “most Ordering the 100 strong Observer staff down to city hall He also expressed surprise at being singled out for special of us have become comfortable working with other concerned to protect him, Editor Ralph Kennedy did his best citizens of different persuasions on non­ to explain what the council should be doing (build­ partisan teams to solve whatever prob­ ing bicycle paths and affordable housing)-—and lems face our community.” what the Observer is all about (proving that there is According to an up to now unim­ life after bagels and no-cal spread at 118 W. peachable source, Kennedy added later Brookdale.) “It may be a case of I’ve grown accus­ When he fi nished Mayor Chris Norby, never at tomed to their ways. But as time goes a loss for either votes or words, said: on, the individuals we observe every “WHEREAS, in 1978, a group of Fullerton day in their manifold activities betome citizens led by longtime resident Ralph Kennedy much more important to us than the saw a need for an independent newspaper which things they say. We all mellow with would provide an alternative voice for citizens and age, so perhaps the day is not far away causes which may otherwise not be heard; and when we’ll meet in the city hall park­ WHEREAS, that group led to the founding of ing lot for a hugging match before the “Fullerton Observer”, a non-profit, home-pro­ going inside to fight out the issues. I duced newspaper which has grown from a once-a- hope Comcast is ready for that one. I month paper of less than 1,000 circulation to a am.” twice-a-month paper of more than 8,500 circula­ [Back at the Office: Reporter tion; and Harloe insisted on unequal time.] “I WHEREAS, as the “Fullerton Observer” ap­ just want to say that I am sorry for any proaches its 20th anniversary, it continues to be mis-statements I may have made and produced by an unpaid staff of volunteers who have will try to limit them in the future. As been honored by many organizations, including the for the rest of the city haliers, I hope Orange County Community Service Agency, the they continue to make their mis-state­ ...... ...J Fullerton School District, and the Orange County Observer Editor Ralph Kennedy enjoys laugh with City Councilmembers, from ments so we can write them up,” Harloe Transportation Commission; and left, Chris Norby, Jan Flory, Dick Jones, Julie Sa, and Don Bankhead. said. WHEREAS, while the faces of the staff may The brief, informal ceremony in have changed through the years, the life force behind the recognition by a conservative city like Fullerton in a very Council chambers concluded with Kennedy asking the Ob­ Fullerton Observer continues to be the passions and convic­ conservative county like Orange, despite his being a “self- server staff members in the audience to stand and be recog­ tions of Ralph Kennedy; proclaimed, unrepentant liberal.” nized and, at the request of Councilmember Jan Flory, then NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, Finally, Kennedy acknowledged that the boundaries be- introducing each of them by name and Observer assignment. Chris Norby, Mayor of the City of Fullerton, in behalf of the entire Fullerton City Council, do hereby commend the “Ful­ lerton Observer”, Ralph Kennedy and his staff, and thank them for their efforts to fill acommunications need in the City Political Candidates Get The Message: of Fullerton.” So read the City Council Resolution of Commendation to Ralph Kennedy & The Fullerton Observer, signed by Mayor The Next Election Will Be Different! Chris Norby and City Clerk Audrey K. Culver on the 4th of March 1997. After remarks by Mayor Norby, in which he explained The November 1996 passage of Prop 208 Campaign Finance rules, that the worst thing that can happen to a politician is that he/ now state law, will encourage candidates to limit their expendi­ she be ignored, Norby then extolled the effectiveness of the free press and the Fullerton Observer in particular in preclud­ tures by limiting individual contributions. ing any such anonymity for the Fullerton City Council and city staff. the right thing, not necessarily the thing that will get them Kennedy then rose to accept the Commendation, assuring By Jack Harloe and Naej Mahksa elected. Loopholes, there may be in the new law; \ ou can be Mayor Norby that he would never be ignored by the Observer, All over the state of California attorneys and city officials certain that master campaign managers all over the state are to the warm applause of volunteer Observer staff members are attempting to write history. History, in fact, that hasn’t yet searching. And the unheralded unintended consequences will who were in the audience. happened but will when the first election is held under the surely arise. A non- staff member and friend, former Fullerton Mayor rules imposed by California’s successful campaign finance The new rules encourage a political candidate to agree to Frances Wood, approached the podium with a cluster of party reform measure, Proposition 208. The provisions of Proposi­ observe a specified limit on contributions and a “voluntary” balloons, which she handed to the Observer Editor with the tion 208 are now part of the California Political Reform Act, limit on the monetary expenditures that candidates can make. comment, "I thought some balloons would be just what was first enacted in 1974. They are certain to change traditional If a candidate lives in a jurisdiction that has less then 100,000 needed to keep this celebration festive and light-hearted.” election campaign practices, if not drastically alter the cam­ residents, any one person may contribute not more than After receiving a big hug from the former Mayor, Kennedy paign battlefield. $100.00 per candidate per election. If the candidate lives in a thanked the Council for choosing to honor the Observer, Ironically, the change will come about from an element jurisdiction that has over 100,000 residents (Fullerton’s case) despite the numerous barbs and needles administered in its not generally found in politics—altruism. In this instance any one person may contribute no more than $250.00 per pages over the years, especially by City Hall reporter Jack altruism is employed to encourage political candidates to do Continued on p. 4 MORE INSIDE Nicolas Junior High City Council Approves $40,000 Museum Plaza Study Page 7 Students Return “Fullerton Beautiful” Sponsors Open Garden Tour Page 8 Former Fire Chief, Roe White, Toasted on His 90th Birthday Page 16 from Successful kJM ■ Odyssey p.19 Golden Hill 5th-Grader Wins Izaak Walton Conservation Contest Page 18 Boulevardier Bulk Rate [ Commentary CAR-RT Council Doings FULLERTON OBSERVER U.S.Postage PAID School Subjects Post Office Box 7051 Permit No. 1577 About Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92834 Fullerton, CA Classifieds Property of Fullerton Public Library, Local History Room Page 2 FULLERTON OBSERVER NEWS March 15, 1997 I try not to break the law until after sunset. built the mission there and then in a hundred Some nights I don’t. One of my favorite legal years they would have been able to look nighttime adventures is to mount my Gary through telescopes and see the Union troops Fisher CR-7 mountain bike, leave my house Mie JZast H that Abe Lincoln stationed on Catalina Island to pedal along the multi-use paths adjacent to VS to intercept Confederate ships slipping the Brea Dam, pass by Pete and Marie’s H y Chris Heard W supplies in through the western frontier. They mansion, say hi to Major at the stables, go missed out on sipping watered down cherry through the storm drain under Bastunchury, cokes at Otto Evans candy shop and 102 beers climb the hill by the golf course and exit next San Diego sick from the mosquito bite and all, they really missed out on all the fun by showing on tap at Heroes. They missed out on watchi ng to Frank Amato’s office on Harbor. The I’m sure that he would have found this to be a up so early in our town’s development.. If movies at the Rialto and the Fox. Of course, Boulevard. I love this street. I shop it, walk good location for something more than a one they had waited a few years they could have I miss watching movies at the Fox so maybe it, ride it, drive it, live it. night stand for Portola. But Crespi was set on enjoyed the carne adovada at Anitafs, studied the ghost of Portillo is backing his horses back I’ll pedal down Harbor and pass places that building the thing in San Gabriel which was martial arts at Tiger Yang’es, stopped by Leo down the hill, turning the clock back so as to trigger memories, emotions, and thoughts. lucky because if they had built the mission Fender and Doc Kaufman’s repair shop on start over again. Maybe Junipero Serra got his At St.
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