FRIDAY,AUGUST6,2021 /// Now including Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent/// dailypilot.com Charter school gets OK to open Aug. 23
The Orange County Board of Education gives the green light to Costa Mesa’s ISSAC, which had been flagged for alleged violations. BY SARA CARDINE
Costa Mesa’s International School for Science and Culture — a charter recently called out by county officials for noncompliance issues — has been given a green light to resume teaching by the Orange County Board of Education, just weeks be- fore classes begin. Newly hired ISSAC Principal Kim- berly Saguilan appeared before board members Tuesday to explain how officials worked with a team of consultants to resolve issues that had Photos by Kevin Chang | Staff Photographer placed the charter school at risk of TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR Diana Abruscato hangs a banner for the annual Surf City Pickleball Tournament at Murdy Park in Huntington receiving a notice of violation. Beach. The returning tournament, skipped last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, takes place Friday through Sunday. “We’re going to use every moment as a teachable moment,” Saguilan said. “We’re going to be operating as effectively and efficiently as possible, 172 players ready as Surf City and we’re going to be building great relationships as a community part- ner — we’re here to work together.” On Aug. 23, the school will open Pickleball Tournament returns the doors of a leased 18th Street facil- ity to more than 200 students enrolled for the 2021-22 school year, The annual event, which wasn’t ABRUSCADO, officials confirmed. Previous plans to right, instructs open a second facility for younger held last year due to the Karl Rodriguez, 12, grade students at the Boys and Girls coronavirus pandemic, will be a Scouts Troop Club of Costa Mesa, where ISSAC at Murdy Park this weekend. 319B member, on was operating without a proper per- where to place mit during the pandemic, have been BY MATT SZABO supplies. put on hold until 2022. Orange County Department of Ed- Diana Abruscato was the first one at ucation staff in June recommended Murdy Park in Huntington Beach on Thurs- board members issue a notice of vio- day afternoon, which wouldn’t surprise any- lation to the charter school, due to one who knows her. discrepancies in budgets submitted Abruscato, the president and founder of by ISSAC and at least one parent’s the Surf City Pickleball Society, was there complaint that teachers were charg- setting up for this weekend’s Surf City Pick- ing families a fee for on-site instruc- leball Tournament. Matches start Friday at tion, describing activities as child- 8a.m. and continue through Sunday. care. Abruscato unloaded banners from out of Staff further claimed budgeting the back of her sport-utility vehicle. One box and enrollment documents sent to was marked “court numbers,” and another “We’re here,” she said. “We’re not new from previous iterations, but Abruscato is the California Department of Educa- read “tape measures.” anymore.” happy the tournament is back. It was can- tion misreported student attend- She is the director of the popular annual There are 172 registered players for this celed last year due to the coronavirus pan- ance, which led to overfunding that tournament, which started in 2016, and an year’s Surf City Pickleball Tournament, in demic. had to be corrected. ambassador for the sport. Pickleball has men’s, women’s and mixed doubles. It’s a By design, the pickleball tournament has Saguilan assured board members been gaining popularity in recent years, and double-elimination format, and the skill lev- traditionally taken place concurrently with Tuesday all incorrectly collected fees plenty of stories have been written about els range from 3.0 to 4.0. A social is planned the U.S. Open of Surfing, although this year had been returned to families and that, but Abruscato isn’t really buying the for Saturday night at Duke’s. narrative that it’s a novel sport. The registration number is down a bit See Pickleball, page A2 See Charter, page A2 Lyft driver is convicted in 2019 rape of passenger after she left an H.B. bar
BY CITY NEWS SERVICE Oct. 1. sodas, prosecutors said. The victim was dropped off by About 12:30 a.m., Sept. 1, she A45-year-old Lyft driver is her husband at a friend’s home used the Lyft app to call for a scheduled to be sentenced in in Costa Mesa on Aug. 31, 2019, ride home, prosecutors said. October for raping a woman he where she drank four or five She was picked up about was driving home nearly two vodka sodas with a handful of 12:50 a.m. by the defendant, years ago, according to court re- friends, according to a trial brief who pulled over about a half cords obtained Monday. from prosecutors. mile from her residence in Or- Jorge Tapiacastro was con- About 9:30 p.m. that night she ange, got out and then got into victed July 28 of rape by use of and two of her friends took an the backseat with the victim, drugs, rape, sexual battery and Uber ride to the Bungalow bar who said she had passed out, Don Leach | Staff Photographer false imprisonment, all felonies. in Huntington Beach where she He is scheduled to be sentenced drank three to five more vodka See Lyft, page A2 A MIXED-USE PROJECT proposed for Mariners Mile finally received the go-ahead from the Newport Beach City Council after much contention from residents concerned about its impact on the area. 2 charged in Fountain Valley killing Mixed-use project gets
BY ANDREW TURNER A WOMAN was found green light from the Two suspects were charged dead in her with murder on Thursday in car near Newport City Council connection with the death of a Slater Avenue 26-year-old Long Beach woman and in Fountain Valley last month. Tradewinds BY LILLY NGUYEN the project was pulled for review Oliver Reynaldo Leon, 27, and Street in by the City Council by Mayor Mary Diedra Chavez, 25, have Fountain After months of delay, the Brad Avery, who did so on behalf both been charged with murder Valley July 19. mixed-use 2510 W. Coast High- of residents that objected to the and conspiracy to commit a way project got the go-ahead decision. crime, court records show. Scott from the Newport Beach City The project was, at the time of Fountain Valley police re- Smeltzer Council late last month, much to its February approval, proposed sponded to a call concerning a the chagrin of residents opposed to replace an existing marine fa- traffic incident near the intersec- to the development. cility at 2510 and 2530 W. Coast tion of Slater Avenue and of the residential street Amber- Fountain Valley police spokes- Members of the council Highway with a mixed-use de- Tradewinds Street at 6:11 p.m. on wood Circle. man Sgt. Donald Farmer said the unanimously voted to uphold velopment that would include July 19. Albanese was pronounced homicide investigation marks the Planning Commission deci- both residential units and a bou- Authorities then found Phia dead at the scene. Fountain Val- the first for the department since sionto approve the project in tique auto showroom. Marie Albanese, 26, of Long ley police opened a homicide in- 2015. February, with council members The project has since seen sig- Beach in the driver’s seat of her vestigation after discovering that Acriminal complaint detailing Noah Blom and Duffy Duffield nificant revision since. car, which had come to a stop Albanese had sustained a gun- recusing themselves from the along the curb on the south side shot wound. See Charged, page A2 vote and discussion. In March, See Project, page A4 A2 FRIDAY,AUGUST6,2021 DAILY PILOT | COASTLINE PILOT | HUNTINGTON BEACH INDEPENDENT WWW.DAILYPILOT.COM Chastain reported. “So, CHARTER those three items we were Continued from page A1 concerned about have basi- cally been resolved.” MARKETPLACE maintained that, with an Board Vice President Ken To place an ad, go to http://timescommunityadvertising.com/ operating income from last Williams said he was satis- school year of $175,000 and fied with the charter Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices anet funding balance of school’s progress and con- $83,000, the school was fis- firmed they would not be cally solvent. required to make ongoing Aracely Chastain, direc- in-person updates. tor of the county depart- Sally Chou, the charter’s ment’s Charter School Unit, board president, thanked confirmed after reviewing trustees for working with ISSAC’s first interim budget school leaders to iron the school appeared to be things out. getting back on track. “I’m very grateful for “There were some inac- what you’ve done to make curacies with the budget, sure ISSAC is being compli- but when [leaders were] ant and doing what we able to move numbers need to do,” she said. around … it looks like they are fiscally solvent and will [email protected] have prudent reserves,” Twitter: @SaraCardine
that they’ve allowed [the PICKLEBALL tournament] to go for- Continued from pageA1 ward,” she said. “Our city has been quite enthusiastic. the U.S. Open will be held We’re trying to keep our in late September. Abrus- businesses and activities cato said the two events moving forward, and I each draw their unique visi- think this is a sign of it.” tors to the benefit of the Putting the event to- city. gether is a team effort. On “I’m a planner,” Abrus- Thursday, workers from cato said. “We have people Huntington Beach Public who come in from all over Works were on site at the United States, and we Murdy Park, replacing trash want to make sure we’re receptacles near the tennis giving a true Surf City expe- courts. Abruscato also had rience when they come in. the help of a few Scouts There’s no other Surf City, from local Troop 319 setting U.S.A. ... We’re a destination up. city, so we always have Susan Rodriguez players who come from all dropped off her son Karl, over. It’s not a local tourna- 12, a Scout who attends ment, by any means. You’re Huntington Christian going to play someone School. She said pickleball from Northern California, is included in her son’s cur- Arizona, Utah, Florida.” riculum. Abruscato said she didn’t “It’s just neat that we know this year’s tourna- have a pickleball presence ment would happen until here [in Huntington the state opened up and Beach],” Rodriguez said. dropped the tier system of Cat Navetta, the treasurer pandemic restrictions on of the Surf City Pickleball June 15. Still, there are safe- Society, agrees with that. ty measures in place this “We really had a whole weekend. She said each year extra to plan,” Navetta player will have his or her said. “We found out pretty temperature taken, be giv- late in the game last year en a mask, be required to that we couldn’t have it, sign an additional COVID and we were really waiver and answer some bummed. We found out questions about their previ- pretty late in the game this ous activities. Signs encour- year that we could have it, aging social distancing will and we were really excited.” also be posted. “We’re very fortunate [email protected] here in Huntington Beach Twitter: @mjszabo
cutors said. Her friend told LYFT her to call her husband Continued from page A1 and she repeated the same to him, prosecutors said. prosecutors said. Her husband managed The defendant told the to find her around La Veta woman she was “beauti- Avenue and Glassell Street ful” before he forced him- and took her home before self on her for a few min- later taking her to a local utes, prosecutors said. hospital, prosecutors said. Then he got out, and she The woman’s blood-alco- also exited the vehicle be- hol level was .131, and DNA fore the defendant drove evidence linked Tapiacas- off, prosecutors said. tro to the assault, prose- The woman called her cutors said. friend and told her she was raped and didn’t know [email protected] where she was, prose- Twitter: @TheDailyPilot
Benz. CHARGED Per the report, the com- Continued from page A1 plaint alleges that the sus- pects directed Albanese to the incident alleges that turn onto Tradewinds Leon and Chavez traveled Street, took her phone, and from Los Angeles County to then Leon shot her in the Tustin with two additional head three times. co-conspirators, then called Chavez is scheduled to Albanese in order to “lure be arraigned on Aug. 18 at her out of a hotel room,” 10 a.m., according to court according to a City News documents. Jail records Service report. show that she is being held Prosecutors reportedly at the Intake Release Center allege that Leon and with bail set at $1,002,000. Chavez got into Albanese’s City News Service contrib- car with her when leaving uted to this report. the hotel, and the unidenti- fied co-conspirators fol- [email protected] lowed in a black Mercedes Twitter: @AndrewTurnerTCN
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STARTS TOMORROW! SouthCoast RepertoryTheatre Conservatory presents TheSummer Players in
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2021 SUMMER OLYMPICS U.S. WOMEN’S WATER POLO TEAM, WITH CDM ALUM, TO PLAY SPAIN IN BID FOR OLYMPIC GOLD IN TOKYO
BY MATT SZABO But Musselman scored, fol- ate Alys Williams added lowed by a big goal by Co- one goal each. Maddie Musselman and rona del Mar High girls’ wa- Team USA now prepares the United States Olympic ter polo coach Melissa Sei- for its fourth straight gold women’s water polo team demann with a second re- medal match. The Ameri- surged to the finish line maining in the half. cans have played Spain Thursday against the Rus- Still down by a goal at once this year, an 18-9 vic- sian Olympic Committee. halftime, Team USA scored tory at the FINA World Now just one match re- nine goals in the second League Super Final in mains in Team USA’s quest half, including four by Mus- Athens on June 16. for its third straight selman. Musselman, the Fischer Olympic gold. “When you’re a shooter, sisters and Newport Harbor Musselman, a Corona del you’ve got to shoot,” U.S. High product Kaleigh Mar High School product, coach Adam Krikorian told Gilchrist are all trying to scored four of her five goals reporters after the match. win their second straight in the second half as Team “That’s your job. When the gold medal. It took a semifi- USA rallied for a 15-11 win opportunity exists, you nal rally to get it done. over ROC in a semifinal can’t hesitate. She didn’t “You probably saw the match in Tokyo. hesitate tonight. No matter passion that comes with The U.S. will play Spain how many shots you not only scoring goals but for the gold medal at missed before, you got to go getting stops on defense,” 12:30a.m. Saturday morn- with the same courage, the Musselman said after the ing Pacific time, which is same aggressiveness and match. “It’s huge when 4:30 p.m. Saturday local she did that. She was huge we’re able to do that. Every time in Tokyo. The match for us, especially in the sec- piece goes together. It’s not will be broadcast on the ond half.” just one person making a USA Network and the NBC Team captain Maggie block. It’s what happened Sports app. Steffens added three goals right before that. You can Team USA had beaten for the Americans and feel the energy ricocheting ROC 18-5 in a group play Makenzie Fischer, a Laguna off each other. That’s spe- match earlier in the tourna- Beach High graduate, add- cial and I don’t know if all Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer ment, but the Russians ed two goals. CdM graduate teams have that.” came out strong in the Stephania Haralabidis, La- CORONA DEL MAR HIGHSCHOOL graduate Maddie Musselman, shown shooting in an semifinal in building a 7-4 guna Beach alumna Aria [email protected] exhibition match on May 19, scored a match-best five goals for Team USA in its comeback lead late in the first half. Fischer and Edison gradu- Twitter: @mjszabo semifinal victory over the Russian Olympic Committee at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
CROSSWORD AND SUDOKU ANSWERS way. future projects — “piece- PROJECT An additional unit was meal” ahead of finalization Continued from pageA1 also added to the residen- of the circulation element tial building, bringing the to be folded into the up- In a report prepared by total number of potential coming general plan up- city staff, the project’s bou- residences to 36 with three date. tique auto showroom was of those units still desig- Councilwoman Diane scaled down from 11,266- nated as affordable. Dixon said she’d like to see square-feet to a 5,096- Its exterior architecture public works and traffic square-feet office space in- was also updated and in- staff take a look at the traf- stead. cludes a 20-foot dedication fic in the area separate from Additionally, the build- along its Avon Avenue the project in the future. ings had originally been frontage to accommodate Councilman Will O’Neill proposed to be connected for the widening of that criticized the Housing Ac- by a bridge between the street in the future. City countability Act in his com- residential and commercial staff said it is currently ments, saying the state’s re- sides to the roof deck. compliant with all applica- quirements for Newport It will now be a single ble standards of the zoning Beach to zone for at least structure interconnected by code. 4,834 housing units over ahallway along the high- This is the first mixed-use the next decade will mean development to come to that more hearings for proj- the area since the city’s last ects like the 2510 W. Coast general plan update in Highway Project will take 2006. place as the city seeks to al- Residents requested ad- low for the mandated addi- ditional delay of the proj- tional housing units. MARKETPLACE ect, arguing that the project “Welcome to our world, did not comply with the today,” Dixon said. “The To place an ad, go to http://timescommunityadvertising.com/ overall vision for Mariners state has new laws. The Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices LegalNotices Mile — a 1.3-mile stretch of state has new mandates. Pacific Coast Highway that We, at the local level, are they said they felt should be seeing our authority and “visitor-facing” and have powers stripped away as we “village-like” qualities. all know, but the people did The height of the devel- approve the general plan in opment has also been a 2006 ... the local coastal source of ongoing concerns plan, the zoning code — all from members of the pub- this is in compliance. lic who say that views from “So, the state has tied the John Wayne Park would be council’s hands — our impeded. hands — to say what we Councilwoman Joy Bren- can approve or not and ner floated the idea of de- density, intensity is chang- veloping a master plan for ing — pending right now in development in Mariners Sacramento,” Dixon contin- Mile — an idea attempted ued. by a previous city council in “Our laws and our lives 2011 that was ultimately and our communities are shut down in response to dramatically changing be- significant objections by cause Sacramento is telling residents. cities that ‘You cannot do Brenner also raised con- that anymore. You have to cerns about approving build denser housing units projects — both the 2510 W. and give bonuses for more Coast Highway project and affordability’ and we all know that story on afford- able housing. So, welcome to the world of California in Mark’sPainting & 2021,” Dixon said. “It’s Handyman Service frightening.” 714-222-3055 [email protected] Wood Restoration Specialist Twitter: @lillibirds Licensed &Bonded C-33-#967860
Barbara Dapper Travers June 4, 1937 - July 14, 2021 Barbara “Barbie” Dapper Travers, 84, passed away peacefully at her Laguna Beach home due to complications of a stroke, surrounded by her family and loved ones. Fortunately, in the days leading up to her passing, she was able to spend time with her children and many of her grandchildren, sharing memories and many laughs. Barbie was born at Wilshire Hospital, Los Angeles, in 1937, daughter of Jane Ann and Vernon Dapper. Barbie grew up in Glendale and La Canada Flintridge and went to John Muir High School. While attending UCLA to get her teaching degree, she joined the Pi Beta Phi Sorority and the Song Leading Team, which she lead her senior year, and met many of her lifelong friends and future husband, Gary Davidson. They moved to Laguna Beach in the mid 1960’s and had 4 children. Barbie married David Hirschler in 1975 and gained 4 daughters - a very ‘Brady Bunch’ situation with her 4 children. After David’s passing in 2007, Barbie married Robert Travers, a friend from junior high school. They spent the next 14 years TOP BRANDS between Napa and Laguna Beach. Barbie was very active in her local community and with local charities, such as The Adoption Guild. Barbie loved the beach, entertaining family and friends and traveling, BIGGER especially to the south of France, Italy and Hawaii. SAVINGS Barbie is survived by her spouse, Bob, her brothers, Brian and David Dapper, her children, Eric Davidson(Joanie), Peter Davidson(Angela), Jana Day(Dan) and Katie Halperin(Glenn) and 10 grandchildren - Danielle Duley and Joanie Davidson, Taylor, Nicole and Gary Davidson, Eliza and Danny Day and latimes.com/Coupons Holly, Harrison and Lucy Halperin. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to The Adoption FIND IT. LOVE IT. BUY IT. THE SHOP Guild of Southern California at P. O. Box 95, Corona Del Mar 92625 or on their website - adoptionguild.org 714-966-5777