172 Players Ready As Surf City Pickleball Tournament Returns
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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.