Toxic Water Problem

FULLERTON OBSERVER ae; n Ht Sec -11 Speech Hate and cases; evidence. cases 4 and charges; criminal cases. -21 Literature Hate cases; 25 - Assault Verbal cases; -38 ism Vandal­ cases; -41 Assault cal Physi­ categories: five into fell were due to dropped insufficient was there however laws, hate crime under prosecute to dence evi­ insufficient was there cases hate and ported incidents crimes htocre n 1999. in occurred that crimes and incidents hate about sufficient evidence to file other other file to evidence sufficient 4 in prosecuted; or filed were charges cases 14 in that stated At­ District County Orange The 1998. in cases 169 from down torneys Report on Hate Crimes Crimes Hate on Report torneys vided OCHRC with information with vided information OCHRC pro­ hate of victims and tions, organiza­ based ous community vari­ League, the Anti-Defamation Attorney, District OC the Local law agencies, enforcement the in number of Hate Crimes reported. reduction significant a 2000. The 1999 report indicates indicates 1999 report 2000. The 21, on March of Orange County Relations Commission the in Crimes Commission Hate on report Relations (OCHRC) released its annual annual its released (OCHRC) County Orange In Drop Crimes Hate Types of 1999 Hate Crimes Crimes Hate 1999 of Types I 19 tee ee 3 re­ 136 were there 1999 “In (714) 525-6402 (714) Fullerton, CA 92834 CA Fullerton, 7051 P.O.Box Observer Fullerton T h e Orange County Human Human County Orange e h T [ULLERTON [ULLERTON 353^-eOMMQNWEALTH Violinist Linda Wang Comes To Fullerton (page 14) (page To Fullerton Comes Wang Linda Violinist

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chance of a successful prosecution. Some victims victims Some prosecution. successful a of chance may simply distrust government. distrust simply may may have language or cultural barriers. Some people and family that if even be there would reported little their and/or them stigmatizes report a feel making that also may people Some report. a make they if further them harass and return will perpetrator the often are Victims unreported. go incidents many very traumatized after the incident and fearful that that fearful and incident the after traumatized very because recorded those than higher significantly problems” their for scapegoat to for people around munity groups. munity and Com­ Departments Police OC who also credits Director, Executive OCHRC Kennedy, Rusty said Courtesy oftheLocalHistoryRoom,FullertonPublicLibrary Actual numbers of to are be of Hate believed numbers Crimes Actual standard that standard OCHRC hate.” discourages community out on their on out act to society Rustv Kennedy Kennedy Rustv the fringes of fringes the extent we extent some “To higher have set a set have Fullerton’s Only Local, Independent Newspaper • Est. 1978 1978 Est. • Newspaper Independent Local, Only Fullerton’s

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ay epe looking people many Victim. category dubbed Multiple Mormon- Christian-3; 4; Latino-10; American-14; r go tee rnt as aren’t there good are 29. of charted the placing responsibility also were race Middle Middle White- Eastern-7; Asian Lesbian-20; & Gay -25; Jewish can-30; Ameri- African also; ries white white males under the age on crimes the of 3/4 for ee iie i catego­ in divided were 1. Plus 22 fell into acases “When economic times times economic “When and age The perpetrator The number of victims victims of number The Know Fullerton Read the Observer! the Read Fullerton Know Subscribe. Find out how on Pageon how 3 out Find Subscribe. 353 W. COMMONWEALTHAVE. PLEASERETURN TOMAIN LIBRARY FULLERTONPUBLIC LIBRARY FULLERTON, 92832-1796CA Hughes Aircraft Co. and pointed directly into our regional aquifer plus data data plus aquifer regional gaps our in by report into presented 1998the investigative Raytheon July self-conducted directly pointed and Co. Aircraft Hughes Ricardo Gonzalez were both at present Gonzalez Ricardo the site for and the December November property. Rowe and DTSC DTSC and the Rowe beneath runs property. that up-hill aquifer just the located of is area interface (MW#16) well critical a MW# 13,new at from The site. Fullerton northwest at the well monitoring new a request to Rowe Will Geologist EPA led California aeil Lb n A Atog bt Ryho rsls etd eo EPA below tested results Raytheon both Hazardous Although EPA LA. the 3) in and Lab Raytheon; by Materials contracted lab off-site certified a numbers, all results were found to be actionable. be to found were results all numbers, concentration of 1,1 of concentration -DCE atthat I 510 ug/L(microgramsCharted have ever seen.” PCE; and 1,1 DCA have also reached the upper level of our regional aquifer. regional our of level upper PCE;the 1,1and reached DCAalso have well registered contaminant the of In 6 ug/L. addition, the Level Contaminant Raytheon, Maximum by the acceptable above contracted lab certified site per in the off­ ug/L 317 and test; litre)in on-site the ug/L 400 result; EPA the in To To find out OCHRC.) more contact the the Orange by County sponsored event family agencies teachers, parents, students, for be­ understanding and tolerance promote that programs positive tracks Commission County” the in crimes and organizations, community residents, etdmntae htohrcnaiat fo h ieicuig 1,1-TCA; including; site the from contaminants other that demonstrated test (714) 567-7470 (714) calling by Commission Relations Human fun a for 20 page (See businesses. and programs on-going many offers OCHRC backgrounds. and all of ages people tween hate no be will there enforcement, law of efforts the combined through when day to the forward look I year. past the in hate of victims stillnumerous were there dened 1999 tests taken at the new well. new the at taken 1999tests group understanding and tolerance. inter­ and understanding building group by hate prevent to Work •of »Speakacts hate. cal police against out Water Agencies and Departments and a March 9,2000 informational “public” “public” informational 9,2000 a and March Departments and Agencies Water ug/ 40 actionable a of still a to reading drop a dramatic made of the DCE level indicate month following the done tests from Results Rowe. said aquifer,” the them and to contaminate causing further include out mobilize the contaminants ad ek Epra Car f h OC the of Chair “ I am sad­ Commission. Esparza, Relations Human Becky said 1999,” for County Orange in crimes hate the schools, County “I’m pleased headway. is making OCHRC Orange of third L. What caused the change? the caused What L. Human Relations Commission and the lo­ OC the and the Commission Relations to Human incidents hate-related Report residents recieved only after the meeting had already been held. been already had meeting many the after which only meeting recieved the of notices residents 1,400 out sent former agency the of The mile a site. within Hughes residents for High Jr. Parks at held was meeting to see the significant reduction of reported reported of reduction to see the significant ots “TCPbi IfrainOfcrOi ako niae h next the indicated few next Jackson Otis the in Officer ready Information report Public a “DTSC have months. should and possible even or necessary Court. The neighbors contend the 1998 landslide that took the backyards of backyards the took that landslide 1998 the contend neighbors The Court. achievable.” is clean-up property 270-acre the of development commercial and housing proposed area. the in meeting public another include will process the in steps home subdivision project in San Juan Capistrano in the California Superior Superior California the in Capistrano Juan San in project subdivision home whether determine we until construction residential any on off sign to going which they bought from Raytheon in Dec. of 1998, Jackson said, “We aren’t aren’t “We said, Jackson 1998, of Dec. in Raytheon from bought they which The sample was split three ways and tested by: 1) the Raytheon on-site lab 2) 1)on-site by: the Raytheon tested and ways three split was sample The Commenting on the results Rowe said Friday, they represent the “highest “highest the represent they Friday, said Rowe results the on Commenting In addition to tracking Hate Crimes the Crimes Hate tracking to addition In With Tolerance groups working in one- one- in working groups Tolerance With Following the tests Prop 65 notices were sent to City and County Health and Health County and to sent City were notices 65 Prop tests the Following DTSC is still working on the data to determine what remedial actions are actions remedial what determine to data the on working still is DTSC • Assist and support hate crime victims • victims crime hate support and • Assist drsig omnt cnen sronig h LF I uCl Cos.’ SunCal II LSF the surrounding concerns community Addressing Problem Water Toxic SunCal Cos. is currently battling the neighbors of their “Pacific Point” 400- 400- Point” “Pacific their of neighbors the battling currently is Cos. SunCal “We have to move very carefully because the hazards connected to pumping to pumping connected the hazards because very carefully to have move “We What can an ordinary an can What Concerns about a toxic plume emanating from the site of former of the site the from emanating plume a toxic about Concerns citizen do about do citizen Hate Crime? Hate

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public? (see pp 8 & 9 for more) for 9 &8 pp (see to thewhy isn’t the If available data tests have continued, of December and November in site the tested EPA The after made tests plus period time that for made tests of Raytheon by the “invited” before becan to agency be at wait present tests. so, Even records must EPA Currently ing the bad news that the plume has invaded the aquifer? the aquifer? ing has invaded that the the news bad plume source. 1999any from to be unavailable seem December 1999? October - 1998 June between anybody by taken ment is southwest the chemicals found there are not not are there found well #9, to site. to Airport be chemicals the Hughes believed related the southwest is ment fully and checked as often as monthly. as often as checked care­ and fully watched are areas problem known in wells water Drinking said. she up,” stepped being of process the in Nyra move­ water of Quality, the pattern typical “Because Water Yamachika. of use, Director industrial OCWD heavy to of of according point years a 20 is over area to That due concern watched. carefully being also located is #13 Firewell ug/L. 5.0 MCLof the exceeded due to a which of 5.6 ug/L PCEreading Tetrachlorethene, was it if system the down close year. this February as cently which is located southwest of the former Hughes site is site Hughes former the of southwest located is which are #10 and #2; #1; wells Nearby Fullerton. insoutheast Avenues Acacia and Kimberley of streets cross the near closed was 1999#13 firewell heof in October Infact said.” contaminated,” be to found and have not shown signs of contami­ monitored carefully being the that Thursday said Manager Water City Carlson, John own, their on make will person each cer­ that While water? city’s our ain n et odce s re­ as conducted tests in nation are site the to closest wells two desicion a to down comes tainly sit. homes their which on slope the of toe the at company 1999. Why haven’t tests continued especially consider­ especially continued tests haven’t 1999.Why by the grading work, done by the done work, by the grading their homes was $600,000 caused Many questions remain, for instance: Where are tests tests are Where instance: for remain, questions Many “The City would not hesitate to not hesitate would “The City Meanwhile, is it okay to drink drink to okay it is Meanwhile,

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Response To Yes Build Kids or Build Jails On 22 Voter Michael’s (not real name) parents Mr. Brow (March 15 letters) may believe he is recently divorced. His mother has not “homophobic” but his words label him as cancer and is going through chemo­ such. What is “right and normal” and what is a therapy. She has a hard time taking sin? Did a loving God create homosexuals and care of him since she feels sick most then assign them the role of pariahs, to live of the time. His father is unemployed, outside of “normal” society; to be abused ver­ lives in a hotel, and is very busy bally and physically? To act within the nature looking for work. Michael comes to that God created is not an abomination. Do we the Boys & Girls Club of Fullerton also believe that mixing wool and linen is. an every day after school and stays until abomination? It’s also in the bible. the doors close at 8pm. The Club Bible literalists would have to postulate a takes care of Michael by providing a cruel, vindictive God; certainly not one of loving safe, positive place to get help with is homework, develop friendships, and kindness. Normal is a statistical anomaly. Is left- have fun until he goes home. handedness normal? How about near­ Research shows that it takes over sightedness? Certainly one man and ONE woman $50,000 a year to incarcerate one is not biblical. The patriarchs had multiple wives; juvenile in Orange County. It takes Jacob married both Leah and Rachel. about $400 to support one youth at Demonstrating good sportsmansnipj for more see Lisa Whitings Sports Shots page 20) Marriage was considered an economic ar­ the Boys & Girls Club for one year. rangement until comparatively recently. It was to Our kids face pressures and risks Continued on next page combine properties and ensure an orderly inher­ that are much different from the ones Community Opinions itance. Adultery was a female sin. Marriage to­ we faced growing up. The Club pro­ 1998. The reason that this map shows day is a civil contract. vides guidance in avoiding alcohol, Dad Would Be Proud little change is because that count was Ministers from liberal wings of many churches tobacco and other drugs, and prema­ What a terrific paper you put out! Have you submit­ taken during June, 1998, and both Cal have performed “commitment” ceremonies for ture sexual activity. We help youth ted your paper for an award given to monthlies? You State Fullerton and Fullerton College had same sex couples. This initiative brought out the to acquire life skills, leadership skills, should. Congratulations to your contributors and staff ended for the summer. If taken during the discrimination and intolerance exhibited by Mr. family values, play sports, learn about also. As you know I was at USC with your father. school year, the count would have been Brow. Same sex marriage is no threat to hetero­ art, theatre, and music. We develop He’d be real proud of you. Best Regards, much higher. sexual marriage; it sets no horrible example to youth to help them realize their maxi­ Victor Magistrale Pasadena Dorothy Lane is designated in the cur­ our children. mum potential. E D : Dear Mr. Magistrale - thanks for the rent General Plan as a residential street, What are homophobics afraid of - that if You can help with a tax-deductible encouraging note! I too am amazed by the but is receiving traffic volumes compa­ homosexuals are not considered sinners then gift or as a volunteer. Call 525-8241. wonderful contributions to the paper and the rable to an arterial. No, the problem is not We can build kids or we can build unique to Dorothy Lane, and whatever multitudes would rush out to join them? dedicated volunteers, (some of them founding jails. solutions are found for Dorothy Lane Committed relationships with rights and re­ members) that make the paper possible. It is an sponsibilities benefit society. Equal treatment R.B. Boyle B&G Club could and should be applied to Valencia President incredibly successful example of what a Mesa and the northern part of Lemon under the law is part of our Constitution and that Ronnie Hewett Executive community can do for itself! I know Dad would Street as well. all states must give full faith and credit to the laws Director be proud and I am so happy to be able to continue The problems of increased traffic, speed, and judicial proceedings of other states is also Fullerton his work and grateful to the community members road rage, and excess noise due to larger part of our Constitution. that make it happen. - Sharon vehicles, i.e. SUV’s are not unique to I can remember when interracial marriage Fullerton either. Through countless hours was also considered an “abomination” and against Not About Death, Dorothy Lane of research on the Internet, we have God’s law. Come into the 21 st century! The State About Kids learned that more than 167 cities through­ has no compelling reason to discriminate against Neighborhood Traffic out the US and Europe and Canada have homosexuals despite the vote of the homophobic This letter isn’t about the death found it necessary to practice Traffic majority! penalty, Chechnya, cholesterol, ciga­ Association Replies to Mr. Calming. Traffic Calming is simply plac­ S. Bloom Fullerton rettes, red meat, McDonalds, subur­ ing various kinds of devices in the street ban assault vehicles, welfare, med­ Alexander to both slow and deflect excess traffic. CORRECTION icaid, medicare, nuclear power, abor­ Enclosed is an article which I have written on behalf Honolulu, Hawaii, for example has de­ Thank you for publishing my article on St. Patrick tion, gun control, china, or campaign of the Dorothy Lane Neighborhood Traffic Associa­ veloped 21 of these devices. and adding the relevant artwork, however, I am finance reform. This letter is also not tion. This is in response to Mr. James Alexander’s These other cities have found, and we disturbed by some additions and deletions. For about El Toro, toll roads, Bosnia, article about the meeting with the Fullerton T & CC believe that Dorothy Lane is experienc­ instance, where did you get the number of churches taxes, poverty, Clinton, talk radio, in February, which was called to discuss our traffic ing, a large number of cut-through mo­ and baptized? One must be careful and suspecting Hillary and her Senate race, health problems. torists who are using residential streets to of exact numbers when writing about the ancient care, Title IX, affordable housing, I was unsure as to whether Mr. Alexander was avoid the use of the more heavily-trav­ world. Also why did you add, ‘a saint of the Roman old growth forests, the spotted owl, writing on behalf of the paper as a reporter, or if his eled arterials. We believe large numbers Catholic Church’? There was only a Christian the justice system, racism, social se­ piece was an opipion. If he was reporting for you, then of cars are cutting through Dorothy Lane Church in that era, and St. stands for saint. St. curity, homosexuality, the stars and he was not very accurate. Through some detective from Placentia and Yorba Linda to go to Patrick belongs to all Christians. And that is what bars, the militia, MTBE, surveillance work I’ve discovered that there are two James Alex­ the West and others are cutting through I had in mind as an Irish-born Catholic. Sincerely, cameras, the Internet, the Dow Jones. anders, one living in Sunny Hills, and the other off from Harbor (via Hornet Way) and some Ellen Mitchell Fullerton Industrials, pornography, religion, Rosecrans. In this case, since he is not a resident of the also are coming north on Raymond from sports, medical marijuana, the ozone, Dorothy Lane neighborhood, why should he have an the 91 freeway to go East to State Col­ ED: Ellen Mitchell’s article on St. Patrick was global warming, whales, the price of opinion about our concerns here on Dorothy Lane? lege. Many of these motorists appear to gasoline, landfills, recycling, snail Could it be that Mr. Alexander is a City employee? I be students going to CSU F, Fullerton interesting and timely! In Mitchell’s article darters, or Microsoft. I’ll understand ( “Who Was St. Patrick” Observer3/15, page hope you see fit to print our article. College and Troy High School. These if you disregard the following for Marion H. Cathers Fullerton motorists could and should be using 20) I admit to adding a few lines. I got the lack of interest. ED: Mr. Alexander is neither of the Alexanders you Chapman and State College Boulevard. ‘extra ’ information on the number of churches This letter is about children. found, nor is he an employee o f the City. He reported The Fire Battalion Chief did speak at founded and baptisms performed by St. Patrick If a child lives with criticism, he on the meeting from his point of view as an interested the T& CC meeting, and said the Fire from the World Book Encyclopedia. The idea learns to condemn. bystander which was why it appeared in the opinion Department had tested their vehicles on that St. Patrick was a saint o f the Roman If a child lives with hostility, he section. The paper does not have a viewpoint on this the speed bumps on Livingston in Catholic Church also came from the World learns to fight. issue but relies on citizens that do, to write in. Thank Placentia, where they found the bumps Book. As we know even information in If a child lives with ridicule, he you for your letter and the article you sent, which delayed the emergency vehicles too much. Encyclopedia’s can sometimes be inaccurate, learns to be shy. certainly makes a strong case for your position, is However, what was not said was that If a child lives with shame, he learns printed in full below. those bumps are the old style and no incomplete or outdated. Ellen Michell says to feel guilty. Thomas Cahill has done extensive research on longer being used. The Institute of Trans­ If a child lives with tolerance, he The Dorothy Lane Neighborhood traffic Associa­ St. Patrick and other subjects and she portation Engineers, a well-respected or­ learns to be patient. tion was formed last October, and has 106 members, ganization made up of national and inter­ recommends his books to those interested in If a child lives with encourage­ who have signed petitions directed to the City Engi­ national traffic engineers, recommends a the true story. Sorry to have shortened the ment, he learns confidence. neering Department and to the Fullerton City Coun­ 22' speed hump. This hump is as wide as article somewhat. We try to make room for If achild lives with praise, he learns cil. These citizens are all concerned about the traffic a car is long, very gradual in its incline everything that comes in. Thanks for to appreciate. on our street and have implored the City to take action and is only 1-2" high. That kind of hump contributing! If a child lives with fairness, he to correct the problem. is what our Association is advocating. learns justice. The purpose of this article is to correct some misrep­ Tests done in Ventura, California and If a child lives with security, he resentations which appeared in a March 15 Observer Portland, Oregon have found that these How To Voice learns to have faith. article entitled The Question of Dorothy Lane, by kinds of humps cause only a 9.2-10.7 If a child lives with approval, he James Alexander. This article appeared on the “News second delay to emergency vehicles. We Your Opinion learns to like himself. and Opinions” page, though it was unclear which of would like the Fullerton Fire Department The Fullerton Observer Independent Commu­ If a child lives with acceptance and these it was meant to be. Some statements, however, to work out a compromise with us and try nity Newspaper welcomes letters from the Com­ friendship, he learns to find love in certainly reflect Mr. Alexander’s opinion, rather than to help, not hinder, our search for a solu­ munity on any subject. Letters are the opinions of the world. well-supported facts. tion. the writer and will not be edited except for length, What I have just shared with you At the recent Transportation and Circulation Com­ The crash gate we suggested, another if necessary. For verification letters must be didn’t require one single government mission Meeting, for instance, our estimates indi­ Traffic Calming device currently in use signed with address and phone number. Only program. cated that approximately 100 people attended and not in Las Vegas, Nevada, would be con­ your name or initials and city will appear in print What I just shared with you won’t 50. This shows a greater community concern about trolled by emergency vehicles only, not unless otherwise requested. cost you a single penny in new taxes. Ed @ this traffic situation. hampering them at all, but would cer­ What I just shared with you should Mr. Alexander says that the traffic volume has tainly stop the cut-through traffic our Fullerton Observer seem obvious to any decent human remained about the same on Dorothy Lane in the last street endures. P.O. Box 7051 being. 20 years. Our volume is 6,700 cars per day near Marion Cathers Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92834 Faustin Reeder Fullerton Raymond and 8,700 cars per day at Troy High School, for the Dorothy Lane as reflected in the City Biennial Traffic Flow Map of Neighborhood Traffic Association Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

— APRIL 1, 2000 OPINION OBSERVER Page 3 rgtreat jit Dodger Stadium. He sold out and OUT OF MY MIND: By Jonathan Dobrer kept movhijF’^ PUB. LIB ©2000 Jonathan Dobrer [email protected] The Dodgers, formerly known as L. A., were taken over by Rupert Murdock who owns all “clusters” and before that “regions.” By now the papers that the Chicago Tribune and Rome Wasn’t one senses a pattern. What is new is that they Knight-Ridder don’t. So now the Dodgers want to move the administrators off the “Hill” are owned by Newscorp an Australian/Brit- The Fullerton Observer, founded by and into more localized offices. In other ish/New York company. Pathetic. Ralph Kennedy in 1978, is a group of local words, the same people who made the mess citizen-volunteers who create, publish and Sacked In A ARCO, L.A.’s last Fortune 500 company is distribute the Observerthroughout our com­ will fix their mess by moving closer to the about to merge and disappear from the down­ munity. This venture is a not-for-profit one scenes of their crimes. This is not like rear­ town scene. This leaves only Disney as the with all ad and subscription revenues Day ranging the deck chairs on the last big player. Their loyalties are No more jokes plowed back into maintaining and improv­ I wonder if there was a time, a specific Titanic; this IS re-arranging the divided between their studios in ing our independent, non-partisan, non­ moment when the people of Rome knew it deck chairs on the Titanic. about Orange the Valley and their Angels, Ducks, sectarian, community newspaper. was all over? They fought hard to keep their But none of these disasters County. and Mouse in, yes. Orange County. Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi­ empire. They worried about the revolts in the showed up on the political or We may have No more jokes about Orange dents about the institutions and other soci­ Middle East. They battled Hannibal back to newspaper radar. The natives mishandled County. We may have mishandled put off noticing because they etal forces which most impact their lives, North Africa. But the barbarians who broke millions of millions of dollars on risky invest­ so that they may be empowered to partici­ had a big time “pro-business” ment schemes. We may raise con­ their gates came from the North. dollars pate in constructive ways to keep and mayor. It’s the economy stupid, troversies with immigrant bashing All the talk in Los Angeles about the Pacific on risky make these private and public entities serve Rim and the Pacific Century seems kind of and stupidly they all thought or gay bashing school boards, but all Fullerton residents in lawful, open, just, quaint right now. This is the moment. This is everything was fine. investment by God, we have two locally owned and socially-responsible ways. the day when we see through all the denial and What woke them up and ended schemes. papers—our wonderful Fullerton Through our extensive local calendar their willful blindness was the We may raise Observer and some daily out of and other coverage, we seek to promote a realize that it’s over for Los Angeles. L.A. is just so yesterday, so 20th Century. While Los sale of the Los Angeles Times controversies with Santa Ana. sense of community and an appreciation to the Chicago Tribune. This Who owns our sources of news is for the values of diversity with which our Angeles looked west across the Pacific for its immigrant bashing leaves L.A. as the largest city in important. As the once-upon-a- country is so uniquely blessed. future and worried about invaders from the or gay bashing south, the barbarians who sacked them also the United States that doesn’t time L.A. Times found out with school boards, Published twice per month came from the North—Chicago. have a locally owned daily pa­ the Staples Center fiasco, when It all slipped away, almost without anyone per (and even L.A.’s major but by God, marketing and business mix, the except once in July, August and December. weekly alternative papers are we have two public is betrayed and we can’t tell NO FAX, SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: noticing or discerning the pattern. Entropy is like that. The energy dissipates and cannot be owned by out of state interests). locally owned advertising from reporting. When Editor • Sharon Kennedy recaptured, and systems devolve from organi­ Why was L.A.’s epiphany so papers—our both Disney and Fox/Newscorp late in coming? The Rams crept P.O. Box 7051 zation to chaos. wonderful own sports teams, make movies Fullerton CA 92834 out of the Coliseum but moved and own TV networks, how can The anarchy in the police department serves Fullerton Ranting Correspondent • Jack Harloe as a good, actually horrible, example. The so close it didn’t really seem we trust reviews and commentar­ like they were gone. Or alterna­ Observer ies concerning either their own Office Manager • Tom Cooney chaos is exemplified by the chief of Police tively, the way they were play­ and some unholy owned subsidiaries or their Advertising • Saskia 525-8352 refusing to cooperate with the District Attor­ ney. This is actually way past political and is, ing, it didn’t seem like they had daily rivals? • Features • in fact, criminal obstruction of justice. It’s ever really been here. The Raid­ out of With both the consolidation of ers came for a visit, but soon Chris Beard, Warren Bowen, just part of the shattered mosaic that was Los Santa Ana. media and the removal of control decamped back to Oakland, Jonathan Dobrer, Michelle Gottlieb, Angeles. and accountability from the local Chuck Greening, Abee Luke, The Los Angeles Dysfunctional School Dis­ claiming to be tired of broken promises. scene all over this nation, we have to consider Joyce Mason, Diane Nielen,Cherie trict is another clear sign that “things fall apart U.C.L.A. moved its basketball program to ourselves to be very fortunate here in Orange Lutz Pizarro, Jan Youngman, and the centre will not hold.” Huge, crimi­ Westwood and it’s football to Pasadena. County to have local writers, editors, and Louise Schatzman, and Lisa nally inefficient, and with a tragically meta­ The Coliseum Commission could empty publishers. We may not always draw the Whiting. static bureaucracy, which grows without ac­ arenas and stadiums not simply of fans but same conclusions concerning political mat­ tually doing anything to promote education, also of the teams themselves, having earlier ters, but we will be informed by people who • Observers • this district cannot even decide whether to driven both the Lakers and the Kings to know us and care about us. Ebba Anderson, Ellen Ballard, explode or implode. The flavor of the week in Inglewood. Stubbornly holding out to re­ Good bye Los Angeles, your day is over. terms of salvation is to break the district into stock the aging and obsolete coliseum with Good bve L.A. Times and the. Chandler fam­ Don Bauman, Alex Buck, Vince new beef, they broke Peter O’Malley’s heart Buck, Florence Cavileer, Fran 11 mini-districts. This replaces the previous ily. Hello Orange County. Hello Natalie, and sent him packing. But he didn’t stop his Mathews, Karen Haluza, Diane schemes which had the district broken up into Sharon and Saskia. Ross, David Styfee and contribut­ ing community members To order your autographed copy send You’ve been reading and “This is a wonderful collection. Dobrer (picking on) Enjoying or $10 payable to: • Production Chief, Proofreader touches us all with tales that speak o f joy Paste-up • Mary Graves Being Infuriated by Jonathan Dobrer and death with equal facility. Jonathan Dobrer’s Out of Backup: Mildred Donoghue That takes a special talent and Dobrer My Mind columns. Now 16334 Francina Dr. •Distribution Chief • Roy Kobayashi has it. I recommend this marvelous book buy the book.This is a col­ Encino, CA 91436 Crew • Cecil Ballentine, without reservation." j lection of 30 of the very Your copy will be rushed to Denny Bean, Richard A1 Martinez best of Dobrer’s columns Pulitzer Prize winning columnist you Brewster, Sam Standring. not published here. by the U.S. Post Office. Subscriptions: $20-$30/year Advertising: $9/column-inch Community Opinions Dear Jonathan Reparations Call Saskia at 525-8352or e-mail Just when I think you cannot be Slavery, Genocide, Observernewad@ earthlink.net More Page 15 A . • more incisive, you write an article Aparthied, Lynchings, Seg­ like “Hunting Season”. I, too, am hor­ regation, Discrimination, has Iraq been unable to get the Thanks for rified at the needless slaughter of our Redlining, Internment Next Observer will hitthe stands parts necessary to make re­ on April 10 - Deadline for all babies. Are these not our guarantors? Camps, Etc. Yeah, I think Teiuchmiller’s pairs, chlorine that could pu­ reparations are necessary. articles and ads at Observer While I can understand the thinking rify the tainted water is deemed behind our storied 2nd Amendment, what First: We should take after a chemical weapon, and can­ office is 4/3/2000-THANKS! “Forgotten War” is now happening with guns is not what the Pope and admit that these not be imported. Thank you very much for David our framers had in mind. People might things happened and were I served in the Korean War SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Teiuchmiller’s story on “The For­ have legitimate concerns for their safety, wrong. Second: We should era in the USMC. I have a gotten War.” The Korean War is but the protection of their children needs come to agreement on a mon­ great regard for the combat indeed forgotten. Yet, so much to be the first part of the equation. etary award. By we, I mean veterans of the USMC whom blood, sacrifice, heroism and dedi­ I think that part of the problem lies the US Government, whom I came to know, after their cation should never be forgotten. in the safeguards surrounding gun own­ we allowed to commit crimes return. Sincerely, In addition to the dead, over ership. Child-proof locks might help, against people. I also would 150,000 Americans were Patrick F. Flynn but they are easily bypassed. Registra­ include any corporations that Yorba Linda wounded. Undoubtedly, many of tion is not a deterrent to criminals. Is the were involved. Although my them are still suffering from their technology there to “fingerprint” a gun ancestors fought against all wounds today, those that are still Dear Jon purchaser, so that only he or she can use these wrongs I feel we as a alive. the weapon? Is that a little more “stupid- Government need to make In all our wars of the 20th Cen­ Subject: parent/crook-proof’? reparations and I include my­ tury, the major causalities have Your other excellent point dealing self. If we can openly admit always been civilians, women and Hunting with the breakdown of morals in the our history, like what is hap­ children, non-combatants. If they family is equally as crucial. As ateacher, pening in South Africa with were not killed directly in bom­ Season I try to encourage avenues of discussion the Truth & Reconciliation bardments, they die later, of dis­ Fullerton Observer 3/15/2000 about values with my students, but, when Committee, we have made a ease, starvation, and malnutrition. To a card-carrying liberal they do not have the arena to follow step in the right direction. The GulfWar ended in 1991, yet from a dedicated conservative: through with their families, there is a real When we as a nation pretend since then 1.5 million civilians DAMN WELL TOLD!!!! road block in the process. Wouldn’t you that the crimes of the past are have died because of the block­ We surely are a lot closer like to see dinner table discussion make unimportant or didn’t even ade, mainly infants and the eld­ together than I had thought be­ a resurgence? (Call it “Temple Beth Din­ happen, we encourage the erly, due to lack of food, medi­ cause I can’t think of one word ner Table”) idea that crime pays. Recent cines and clean water. This is not in that piece that Iwould change. I eagerly look forward to your “Ful­ Examples: the Nixon Library the kind of battle that does credit This is another masterpiece lerton Observer” articles. They are a and US Stamp have distorted to the USA, and its military. The which needed to be written. much anticipated light in the scary me­ the meaning of honor. US destroyed the infrastructure of Sincerely, dia world. Iraq, including all the sewage treat­ Warmly, M. Kilpatrick ment and water plants. Not only Tom O’Neill /via e-mail Sherri/wa e-mail Fullerton Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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More Federal Money There’s No Place Like HOME For Fullerton Council Notes nity it should, if possible; The Federal government requires the City to • Earth Day in Fullerton: A C ity Council asked staff to give provide affordable hous­ draw up a yearly Strategy/Action Plan in order to byAbee Luke celebration started six years ago on a status report on how best to use ing for students and pro­ receive Community Development Block Grant the patio of the HUB Cafe is grow­ fessors. ‘Council di­ and HOME funds. Over 40% of the CDBG funds The City Council met in a regu­ HOME funds. The HOME pro­ ing in size, this year, on April 22, gram was created in 1990 by the rected staff to return in go to alley, sidewalk and street reconstruction lar and notably quiet session, ten bands will perform, a local ra­ Federal government to expand the sixty days with a detailed projects. Other uses of these funds include March 21, 2000 at 4 p.m. Only dio station will broadcast, and it is supply of affordable housing for proposal to obligate the services for the elderly and homeless, child care, regular, Ralph Baker, made a estimated that five thousand people low income people. Since 1992, HOME funds which are health, drug abuse education and fair housing public comment and there were will attend. (Hopefully spending Fullerton has been allocated set to return to Washing­ activities, employment and recreational needs. no proclamations or presenta­ money at local businesses.) The $4,283,000, mostly used for ton June 30 if left uncom­ Council approved the One-Year Strategy/Action tions. (There was a 7:30 session Downtown Business Association Homebuyer Down Payment As­ mitted by that time. Ap­ plan and requested $1,692,000 in CDBG funds but unfortunatly our reporter, requested $2500 to help with the sistance and acquisition and reha­ proved 4-1, Norby no.. and $550,000 in HOME funds. Approved 5-0 event and to list the City as one of Ebba, fell asleep on the couch bilitation of substandard housing. the sponsors. Approved 5-0. and missed it. I f anybody out At present the City has over one • You May Be Able to Get It million in unobligated HOME OM NG E COUNTY'S PSCMtC* JAZZ CLUB there would like to comment on Wholesale, But Retail Generates that part of the meeting call the funds. These funds are entirely Sales Tax: In January Council separate from the 20% set aside paper. 525-6402) Steamers Cafe asked for a study of the City’s retail funds generated by Redevelop­ brings yoi tax base. This study is supported by ment activities. • The Consent Calendar was ap­ the Fullerton Business Council. Mayor Jones was eloquent in proved with the exception of an Council approved a $29,900 con­ supporting the City’s efforts to item listing capital expenditures. tract with Robert Charles Lesser create affordable housing. He cited Councilman Norby had questions and Company to conduct the Study teachers and even principals of about several items: the City Lights with a reluctant Norby supporting local schools that cannot afford to project, the Highland Underpass, only with the caveat that there is no live in Fullerton, since the City the Library and Basque Yard. Al­ implied deal with any developer. calls itself the education commu- though the City gives January, 2001 Approved 5-0. * as the completion date for the High­ land underpass, the railroad will ul­ City Settles Case Soto pinnisf J oAh, timately determine the date. The "As soon as you hear him you know Library project is slated to be com­ The City of Fullerton has agreed to a financial settlement in a lawsuit you're hearing a class act. . ." plete in June, 2000, the Basque Yard filed in conjunction with the construction of a new city maintenance Marilyn Duff, Northern Lights, Orange County Register yard. in April, 2000. Councilwoman Flory NO LUNCH COVER suggested that the Council be given The settlement, which followed two days of mediation, is not a tour of the library and underpass to exceed $2.05 million. Payment of the settlement was approved by the wm K REDUCED LUNCH PRICES projects. The report was received Fullerton City Council Tuesday (March 21) following a closed-door “ and filed. session with the city’s attorneys. S NEW MENU ITEMS • Council adopted the “City of “We reluctantly agreed to the settlement because of the pro­ Fullerton Environmental Review jected expenses of a lengthy trial, and the uncertainty of any verdict,” Pastrami Sandwich $4-99 Guidelines for Implementing the said Fullerton City Manager James L. Armstrong. “We do not believe Beef Dip Sandwich 4-99 California Environmental Qual­ that the City bears any fault in the matter, but the City Council felt it ity Act”. They also adopted a year would be in the best interests of the City to settle now, rather than allow All Deli Sandwiches 5.25 2000 Legislative program and plat­ the item to drag through the courts.” form, deleting one line which called Armstrong also pointed out that approximately $1.25 million of the Panini 5-99 for support of legislation authoriz­ settlement covers payments to Southwest Engineering that were held ing a simple majority of voters in a back by the City for work already completed. Armstrong said had the 138 W. COMMONWEALTH IN FULLERTON issue gone to trial, it was likely Southwest would have been awarded that city to establish local priorities, in­ ( 1/2 Block West of Harbor Blvd.) 7 1 4 . 8 7 1 * 8 8 0 0 cluding the right to increase taxes amount by the court. and issue general obligation bonds. The lawsuit grew out of the city’s decision to terminate With voters not in the mood to abol­ its contract with Southwest Engineering Inc. of Santa ish the two thirds requirement for a Monica, the construction contractor on the maintenance bond vote and and in fact extending yard project. and broadening the requirement, the The contract, in the amount of $5.9 million, had been item was removed. Councilman awarded to Southwest for the much-needed expansion of Bankhead tried and failed to re­ the city’s maintenance yard on Basque Avenue. Funding move an item to support local gov­ for that project came from bond proceeds. ernment finance reform efforts that Construction began in May 1997, and was to have been Pacific Community more equitably distributes sales and completed by October 1998. The city terminated the property taxes, and reduce sales tax contract in February 1999 after repeated attempts to get the competition between cities. The contractor to finish the contract on a timely basis. platform was adopted 4-1, Bankhead In response to the termination. Southwest filed a lawsuit no. against the city for breach of contract seeking damages of • Pay Raise for Temps, Seasonals approximately $9 million. L ife Y o u and Interns: It is getting difficult While the lawsuit awaited mediation, Travelers’ Insur­ to recuit and retain non-regular em­ ance, the contractor’s bonding company, hired Mallcraft ployees such as interns, lifeguards, Inc. of Pasadena to complete construction. The project is L e a d police cadets, community services tentatively scheduled for completion this April. employees and maintenance help­ SPM ers as the City is now paying as much as 20% below the market rate. OC Board of Supervisors Although the percentage rate in­ creases seem high, the pay rates are Supports Labor so low that dollar increases are also The agreement with local construction unions to re­ low. Approved 5-0. quire the use of trained union labor on all OC government • Managers Agree to Agreement contracts for the next 5 years passed. Chairman Smith for Management: Only four meet­ said the decision was made to save taxpayers money. ings between the City and the Police Apparently even though Union workers cost more up and Fire Management Associations front, they tend to be well trained and supervised and You’ve worked hard for your home. were needed to reach agreement on generally put out quality work that doesn’t have to be a new three year contract. done over.-SK Isn’t it about tim e it worked for you?

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Above: A Daycare Mom Focused on Speaks Up creating, over 4000 I am the divorced single mother of three children, and my kids have young been in daycare going on three years. I can’t make it clear enough to you artists that this daycare program has kept a roof over our heads, food on the table and clothes on our back. participated I’ve been able to have self-respect and go to work every day. My in the children will probably never see me dress up for work because I work Annual in a hardware store, but they see me go to work every day. I really think Florence the children have benefited from this program. My daughter has been Arnold on the Honor Roll for two years. My first son was on the Behavioral Art Honor Roll last year. He won an award for Math Excellence this year. Festival My kindergartner brings home happy faces every week. With the help at the of Miss Leticia and Miss Rachel, they all benefit. I’m doing everything that I can possibly do by myself for my children. One of the articles that was written says that the kids are our responsi­ bility. Every day I wake up, I know that the kids are my responsibility. I love them more than anything. All of us parents love our kids more than anything. The daycare program has been so important. I really wish that the Fullerton School District could set a standard for other school districts in realizing that these kids are not only important from 8 o’clock in the morning until 2:45 in the afternoon. They are important 24 hours a day. These kids, are our future. It’s not just a key slogan. It’s a reality. I want to take this opportunity to really thank Ms. Leticia and Ms Rachel. Because of them, I was never worried when my kids were at the daycare program. With them I know that my kids are in good hands, loving hands and safety. H W Fullerton Child Care 25th Children’s Art Festival by J. DeLoof The entire day’s events was sponsored by Fullerton On The Brink School District’s Foundation for the Arts, I t was a day for the young and old, teachers, Muckenthaler Center Circle, and the Muckenthaler by Fred Mason moms, dads, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cous­ Cultural Center Foundation. But the variety of ins, and friends, as over 4000 of the Fullerton resources contributed to this event by many other Another chapter in the continuing Trustee Guth said government should community gathered to celebrate, participate organizations including the Girl Scouts, art students saga of the daycare programs at Sunset not pay for child care and that parents in, and enjoy all the arts at the 25th Annual from both Fullerton College and California State Lane and Valencia Park schools was with children in the program should con­ Florence Arnold Young Artist Festival at the University Fullerton, National Charity League, Fu­ played out by the Fullerton Elementary sider changing their lifestyle in order to Muckenthaler Cultural Center gallery and ture Scientists and Engineers of America, South School District Board of Trustees at its have more time to spend with their chil­ grounds Sunday, March 12. Coast Storytellers Guild, the Fullerton Chinese Cul­ March 14, 2000 meeting. The specific dren. She pointed out the additional fi­ Children had their faces painted, their por­ tural Association, CM School Supply, McAulay and matter before the Board was the pro­ nancial factor that the cost of living in­ traits drawn and made clay pots, wood con­ Wallace Mortuary, Fullerton Community Bank, and posed discontinuance of the daycare crease received from the state is 1.4% structions, paper flowered hats for themselves Children’s League of Fullerton, indicates the aware­ programs at Sunset Lane and Valencia while teacher salaries were raised 5.4%. and sometimes moms, musical instruments, ness of the event’s value to the entire Fullerton Park schools ant the sending out of (ed: check your facts Ms Guth, the state puppets, collaged fabric bags, dressed up in community. preliminary notices to employees in cost of living raise is actually 2.84%) The art of nearly 4000 Fullerton children covering those programs. theatre costumes, and participated in many Finally, she stated she would vote for all the walls, hallways, and ceilings of the galleries of Prior discussions between the Board other “hands on” art activities organized by the continuing the program if the teacher’s the center will continue to April 2. Gallery hours are and the Fullerton Elementary Teachers board of the Fullerton School District Founda­ union would release the child care em­ Tues-Fri. 10a.m.-4p.m.andSat.andSun. 12-4p.m Association (FETA) toward the possi­ tion for the Arts. ployees. (see A Daycare Mom Speaks at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center at 1201 W. bility of switching employees from the In the center’s outdoor theater, there were Up /Heather Warner’s statement) Malvern Ave, Fullerton. Naomi Jue, Acacia Elemen­ Certificated Bargaining Unit to the Clas­ Irish Dancers, the Ladera Vista Concert Band, tary School teacher and a board member of the F.S.D. sified in order to offer lower salaries the Orange Empire Chorus, Ballet Folklorico, Trustee Ellen Ballard stated it was dif­ Foundation for the Arts, noted how much pride and and thereby keep within the budget, had singers from the Fullerton High School Acad­ ficult to support a deficit program. She accomplishment her third and fourth grade students apparently not been successful. A strong emy of the Arts sang excerpts from “Fiddler on expressed the hope that some nonprofit acquired by having their art exhibited in a cultural statement in favor of daycare was given the Roof’, and Jean-Paul Jen n played the organization could take over the program institution. The proceeds of more than $6000.00 to the Board by FETA President Mimi violin. Zenchuji Zendeko Taiko Drummer and mentioned that in Redlands and earned at the event will help support arts education Guadette. Trustee Kim Guth, long time troupe gave the youngsters and their families a Northern San Diego, all of the school programs in the Fullerton School District and help to foe of District daycare programs, ac­ unique performance experience. sites have child care programs run by the keep the arts in our schools. cused the Union of being somewhat YMCA or the Boys & Girls Club. hypocritical because they had refused Board President Hilda Sugarman stated to release the employees from contract, that while she supports daycare, the sum­ and in effect had held the District hos­ mer program is a financial problem be­ Million Mom March by Shirley Bloom tage. cause not enough students enroll to keep Several statements were made in fa­ the state funding. She said she was happy Wrganizers of the Million Mom March, a vor of daycare. Maria Moreno, to hear the Teacher’s Union will work grassroots movement, are working in communi­ Cherylynn Thompson, Bill Kenney and with the District to try and resolve the ties across the country to bring out a million Heather Warner all made statements existing problems. She asked that the moms and others on Mother’s Day, May 14, IN ONE YEAR FIREARMS KILLED urging the District to find a way to matter come back before the Board prior 2000, to demand common sense gun laws. The 0 CHILDREN IN JAPAN continue the program, (see A Daycare to the May 15 meeting, when final termi­ League of Women Voters of California and the 19 IN GREAT BRITAIN Mom Speaks Up /Heather Warner’s nation notices would have to be sent out. United States are both endorsers, as the goal of 57 IN GERMANY the march corresponds with the League’s posi­ statement) With Trustees Fisler and Pogue dis­ 109 IN FRANCE Superintendent Cooper and Dr. senting, the Board voted 3-2 to send out tion on gun violence prevention. Godfrey presented the financial prob­ the preliminary layoff notices to the six A large turnout is expected in Washington DC, 153 IN CANADA lems surrounding the existing program. daycare program employees. In another as well as in many cities and towns across the AND 5,285 IN THE UNITED STATES One possible solution suggested was to motion the Board voted to bring the mat­ country. In California there will be marches in increase the fee per child from $270 to ter back prior to May 15, 2000. Stay Oakland, San Diego, Sacramento and two in Los GOD BLESS AMERICA. $350 per month. Another solution dis­ tuned. Angeles. The marches are inclusive. You do not cussed was to turn the program over to In other matters: have to be a mother, or even a woman, to be a a non-profit organization such as the • Teacher Donna Judd received a Cer­ participant. Everyone is welcome. What a mean­ YMCA or Boys & Girls Club. These tificate of Recognition. Her 7th grade ingful way for families and others to spend organizations could run the programs classes have been raising money for re­ Mother’s Day together! from the school sites. The Rolling Hills storing the eyesight of people in Kenya, The next twelve months are critical to the future and Hermosa Drive sites are already at a cost of $ 110 per person. Through the of the gun violence prevention movement. Since under the auspices of the YMCA. efforts of the students and substantial Littleton and all the shooting that have followed, Trustee Fisler said that it is difficult to matching funds and support from the public opinion polls have shown overwhelming understand how this problem can exist teachers and the community, the pro­ support for sensible gun laws, including licensing at a time when the state has such a large gram has raised $2,214.16. of handgun owners, registration of handgun trans­ surplus. He pointed out that there were • Trustee Bob Fisler was honored for fers, and tighter regulation of gun manufacturers a number of programs (Rat were termi­ his 24 years on the School Board. He and dealers. But unless we can translate those nated by the District that did not come demonstrated in his remarks during the polling numbers into visible signs of support, it is back, including school nurses and li­ discussion on daycare problems that he likely to be “business as usual” in Congress and braries. Special education and bussing has not lost any of his sharp mental acu­ in state legislatures. Now more than ever, we programs are also economic drains on ity. need to get the message out. Handgun Control, Inc. the District. • The Board received a report on the There are two ways to register for the MMM and 1225 Bye Street. N 't . Suite i 100 Putting the budget in perspective. status of modernization with 12 schools to get more information. You can sign up online Washington, D C 26005 Trustee Marj Pogue said that special completed. at the MMM website at www.millionmommarch.com or call the toll-free education has a $450,000 deficit, while • The Board received a report and an­ STOP FIREARMS VIOLENCE the deficit represented by the child care number 1-888-989-MOMS or call Women nounced that the District expects to spend AGAINST OUR CHILDREN. program is only $20,000. $1,117,500. on deferred maintenance. Against Gun Violence at 510-204-2348 Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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Easter Bunny Breakfast

“Firefighter of the Year” Nick Corona Nick Corona, 36, a native Californian, said his decision to join the Fire Department came after he got to know the Fun and Frolic with the Easter Bunny on Saturday April Above: Chris Blake, lan Blake, Jordan Brown, people who brought the big red fire engines in for repairs 15th from 9am to 11am when the Ebell Club of Fullerton Harrison Lamb and the Bunny with Summer Grainger to the City Maintenance Yard where he worked as a presents Breakfast With The Easter Bunny at their club­ mechanic. “They were so friendly and helpful, and really house, 313 Laguna Road, 1 block west of Harbor off seemed to enjoy their jobs.” And in 1996 when he decided Bastanchury. Besides pancakes, sausages & juice for parents to change careers, the firefighters were right behind him, and children, pictures will be taken with the Easter Bunny Child Car-Seat offering encouragement and assistance all along the way. and there will be crafts, story telling and entertainment by the Safety According to his co workers, Corona has thrown himself Dance Depot. wholeheartedly into the job ever since he put on his Studies have found over 90% of child car For reservations call Sue at 529-1608 or Mary at 993- firefighter’s uniform. Always willing to take on new seats are installed incorrectly and many 9234. $5/children & $7/adults. Proceeds support the Ebell assignments around the department, he also manages to have been recalled without the owners Club’s philanthropic endeavors. find time to help in a variet of community service projects knowledge. The Fullerton Police Depart­ such as the annual Memorial Day Observance, Red Cross ment and the Buckle-Up Orange County blood drives, the Toys for Tots Program, the Spark of Task Force hosted a child safety seat check­ Love Toy Drive and conducting public education pro­ IT'S TWICE THE FUN up event at the Hunt Branch Library park­ grams for the department. ing lot Thursday. The event was by ap­ Corona’s wife, Adele, also works for the Fullerton Fire pointment only. If you would like to have Department. The couple have two children. Four years THURSDAY NIGHT! your child car seat checked for safety you after switching careers, Corona has no regrets about can call Officer Maureen Becerra at 738- leaving the mechanic’s trade. “I really look forward to rv- r E 6835 at the Fullerton Police Station to sign­ coming to work every day,” he said. “Each shift is The Fullerton Market and Beer Garden is up for the next free safety check event.. different and challenging. And it’s great to be able to help back, and it's bigger and better The event draws a big crowd and volun­ people.” teer help is also needed. Iytmch, snacks, The Fire Department couldn’t be happier with his than ever before! Every Thursday night beveages and scheduled breaks are pro­ decision to switch careers. In fact, Corona has proven so beginning April 27-Oct. 19 from 4-8 p.m! vided for volunteers! Like to help? Call exceptional in his work that he has been named “Firefighter Officer Becerra at above number. of the Year” by the Fullerton Firefighters’ Association Come celebrate the return of the Market and and the Fire Department. -SPM join us for some fun as we host the opening ceremonies for the Fullerton Downtown Plaza! Fullerton Beautiful Annual Open Gardens Tour ARTS AND CRAFTS BEER GARDEN! April 16 11:00 AM-3:00 PM LIVE SWING MUSIC! PROFESSIONAL DANCERS Maps are available for a $2 donation at WILL TEACH YOU the Fullerton College Horticulture Department FREE FOOD! HOW TO SWING! on Berkeley Avenue east of Lemon Street CALL 714-738-6545 FOR MORE INFO! For more information Call 992-7381 FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY " Introducing H WHEN YOU NEED EXPERIENCE Jan M. Flory ^fullerton firsts (714) 525-9998 Your ultimate online guide to everyone and • Divorce • Custody/ Visitation • Guardianship • Support Modification everything in Fullerton • Adoption • Real Estate Backgnd 141 West Wilshire, Ste. C, Fullerton, CA 92832 K Tty it and you’ll see! , Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

APRIL 1, 2000 FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7 “Fullerton Observed” Photos & Text by Alex Buck © 2000 Can you identify this Fullerton landmark? All pictures in this series are taken from places that are accessible to the public within the city of Fullerton. If you know where this photo was taken and something about the mural write to Alex Buck, Fullerton Observer, PO Box 7051, Fullerton CA 92834, and your answer will appear in the next Observer.

Joanne Hardy Library Adult Services Manager WHAT ARE YOU READING? Communities United Against Meth The Greatest Generation “Meth is the number three drug choice of our teenagers in recovery, and the number one hard drug,” said John White, by Tom Brokaw Chemical Dependency Services coordinator for Crittenton Services of Fullerton, in his comments as a panelist at the Methamphetamine Town Hall meeting held last Thursday in Anaheim. The meeting was sponsored by YMCA What attracted you to it? Communities in Prevention-North and OC Health Care Agency. • Tom Brokaw appeared on CNBC to discuss his book about At the meeting community members, law enforcement, public health specialists, and youth testified to a panel of the men and women who came of age during the Depression and political representatives, public officials, and other community leaders regarding the growing problems of meth. World War II. When Brokaw covered the 50th anniversary of Meth, also known as speed, crank, and crystal is a growing menace in our community. Over 50 meth clandestine D-Day, he came up with the words, “This is the greatest laboratories (clan labs) were found in North Orange County last year, according to statistics from the Bureau of generation any society has ever produced.” Brokaw spoke with Narcotic Enforcement. When the labs are found the clean-up is quite costly. In 1998 the clean-up of these labs cost such passion and emotion, his eyes filling with tears, that I the county in excess of $500,000. ““This is a drug that effects everyone,” says Alejandra Rodriguez of the Valencia wanted to read about the people who moved him so deeply. Task Force in Fullerton. Many young people turned out for the event. “The youth came out tonight to show that they Besides, librarians are always interested in noteworthy locals, do care, and want to make a difference,” said Communities in Prevention Coordinator Regional Organizer Tareca and one of Fullerton’s own, Luis Armijo, is among those Hubbard-Holt. The community members were able to make their concerns known to the panelists, and get some of profiled. their questions answered about the problem and how they could make a difference in their community. If you would like to get involved or want more information call Tareca Hubbard-Holt at (714)738-5110 or Yregionalorg @ aol .com What is it about? Meanwhile don’t forget to talk to your kids. • Brokaw’s book shows the simple, consistent virtues that characterize the generation. That generation, tempered by the FOR THE BEST IN Depression, saved civilization from the brink of disaster and went on to build the prosperous society we take for granted. He REAL ESTATE SERVICES profiles almost 50 individuals of “quiet courage and plain decency”, ordinary people, workers on the home front, war heroes, women, future celebrities and political figures. Their stories also address the strength of marriages, and the shame of racial discrimination in that era. Would you recommend it? • I would like everyone 55 and younger to better understand this generation to whom they are so connected and indebted. My father and mother are of this generation. Dad was a Marine, and, like most war veterans in the book, almost never talked about what he had endured. Like Brokaw, my parents would say, “It was important to honor your country and feel a sense of duty and * * responsibility not just for yourself, but for your family and your • $&*dvich community.” They fly the flag every day. Brokaw points out that we are now losing these veterans and encourages us to seek Call Carl Byers r — out the stories of our relatives before they are lost forever. The library has The Greatest Generation on audiotape, as well as 714-449-7777 Free Sandwich , book format, so commuters can be inspired by the stories on w/purchase of e-mail: [email protected] their way to and from work. j One Bagel Sandwich & Drink I at Regular Price I What will you read next? Sellers need Byers With this Coupon. Expires 4/15/2000 1 • I will select a book recommended in The Traveler’s Reading call Carl L Guide. It describes books for the armchair and the true traveler. On Harbor &' Since I will vacation in the south of France this year, I will in Downtown Fullerton choose a novel set in Provence or the French Riviera. It’s a fun Grtu^ (7U)879-1960 way to get a taste of the area beforehand. Open 7-Days This column is compiled by Dr. Diane Ross D isc o v e r y

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Water In Fullerton Hargis + Associates, Inc. 2223 Avenida De La Playa, Suite 300 by Sara Emerson La Jolla, CA 92307 T oxic industrial solvents were used by the former Hughes Aircraft Company at its facility in Fullerton. In a public information meeting held Attention: Chris Ross Saturday, March 11, at Parks Junior High, the California Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) Subject: Revision to Analytical Report revealed that toxics from the site, including Trichloroethylene (TCE), have reached the upper portion of the groundwater system aquifer of the Orange County Groundwater System located in Fullerton. DTSC ac­ Project: 532/Raytheon-Fullenon, sampled May 11,1998 knowledged that whether and when the contamination will impact local Del Mar Analytical Number: HE01576 drinking water sources remains an open question. Raytheon, though still in charge of the project, sold approximately 293 acres of land to LSFII (SunCal Cos.) who plans a mixed used residential Dear Mr. Ross: and commercial development. Based on the questions raised at the workshop, whether the site is safe for the planned residential develop­ Per the request o f Andrew Haliburton, sample MW -13 was reanalyzed for Antimony and ment also appears to remain an open question. Lead by EPA method 6010. Following are the results of both analyses.

BACKGROUND Hargis + Associates Del Mar Analytical Antimony Lead ID ID mg/L mg/L Hughes purchased the 313-acre site in 1957 and began operations in R.L. = 0.010 R.L. - 0.0050 1959. The facility manufactured defense products. Operations included machining and fabrication, assembly, plating, laboratory and testing. M W -13 HE01576A* 0.012 0.059 TCE is an industrial degreaser that if breathed or ingested can cause MW-13 HE01576B** N.D. N.D. nerve, lung, kidney and liver damage. It can also impair the heart, immune system and fetal development, or even cause coma and death. R.L. * Reporting Limit California has listed it as a cancer-causing chemical under Proposition * “A” indicates initial analysis 65. Hughes used TCE, among other toxic solvents, as an industrial degreasing agent during its operations. It was not until 1961 that state ** "B” indicates reanalysis water regulators even required TCE to be recycled rather than dumped. In 1985, the State granted Hughes a permit to store hazardous wastes at Due to the inconsistency of the results, we are investigating our procedures and have seven Hazardous Waste Management Units. Between 1985 and 1992 already narrowed it down to the extraction. We will determine if this was a one time Hughes closed these units. In 1993, DTSC issued certificates of closure for the seven units. Since 1993, the site was permitted as a hazardous anomaly or if changes need to be made to the procedure so that this does not occur again. waster generator. Raytheon is allowed to store waste on-site for up to 90 The report has been revised to include both results. days. If you have any questions or require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact 1995 - 1997 INVESTIGATION me.

In 1995, as part of the closure process for the seven Waste Management Sincerely yours. Units, and in accordance with the federal Resource Conservation and € E I V E Recovery Act, Raytheon Company identified 24 areas on the property that required further investigation for possible clean up. DEL MAR ANALYTICAL UN 1 7 199*1 • Soil Conclusions: DTSC revealed that the study started by 'flickA. t i a t i r / B Raytheon in 1996 showed shallow soil contamination including heavy Michele Harpe r ' HARGIS * ASSOCIATES,MC. metals, such as copper, nickel and zinc, as well as hexavalent chromium. ____ LAJ0UA.CA California has also listed hexavelent chromium as a cancer causing Project Manager chemical under Proposition 65. (It was the primary issue in the newly The letter above was part of the data from which Raytheon drew their conclusion that toxins on the site released Julia Roberts film “Erin Brockovich.” Deeper soil is contami­ do not threaten human health. The letter is from the Laboratory hired by Hargis & Associates, the firm nated with solvents, referred to as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) and other fuel related compounds. hired by Hughes and then Raytheon to oversee testing of the site. Though the original analysis indicated toxins had been detected, this hnd other samples were retested at Hargis & Associates request and • Shallow Water Conclusions: A pocket of shallow water under uniformly received an ND (none detected rating. Both substances are EPA priority list carcinogens. The the site, or perched zone, is contaminated with VOC’s, including 1,1 MCLfor lead is 15ug/L (equal to 0.015mg/L); the MCL for Antimony is 6ug/L (equal to 0.006mg/L). dichloroethene (DCE) and 1,1,1-trichlorethane (TCA). DCE can cause Above measurements are in mg/L. nervous system damage and long-term exposure can cause liver damage. TCA is also toxic. Workshop attendees posed a multitude of questions WHAT’S • Deep Groundwater/Regional Aquifer Conclusions: pertaining to the contamination of the groundwater: NEXT? Groundwater investigation is not complete. Within the last four months, it was discovered that DCE from the shallow water zone migrated into the • Why were they treated with delays and resistance when they started question­ DTSC answers that another upper part of the groundwater. DTSC communicated these findings to the ing the risk to the water table in January 1999? public investigation meeting local water district, city officials and other interested parties for a possible will be held in six to 12 months. Proposition 65 notice. TCE and Freon 11 were recently detected in a • Why were they told repeatedly in 1999 that the contamination was only Meanwhile, the public is urged section of the aquifer above which there is no shallow water or perched limited to the perched zone? Why do Raytheon and SunCal Cos. resist further to review copies of project in­ zone. Local health officials state the closest domestic well is tested soil and water investigation and yet continue to argue that the aquifer is not in formation deposited at the Ful­ annually and is a mile from the test well producing the TCE and Freon 11 potential danger? lerton Public Library on 353 readings. Local water officials would be required to shut down any West Commonwealth Avenue. drinking water sources when contaminant readings exceed safe levels. • Wasn’t the new test well (which detected and finally verified the contamina­ (Unfortunatly the information tion in a section of the aquifer) only drilled after attendees met with DTSC and in the “repository” is based on •Overall Conclusion: In 1997, Raytheon completed a Health Risk pressed the issue? Shouldn’t more test wells be drilled to monitor the water tests from 1997/98. No new re­ Assessment that concluded that current concentration conditions at the between the newest test well and Fullerton’s drinking water well? sults from 1999 or 2000 have site do not threaten human health. Neither Raytheon nor DTSC plan any been recorded. Why not?) Resi­ further soil testing or soil remediation for the tested or untested acres on • Why were five drinking wells closed in Fullerton? For instance, the dents who want to be on the the site. DTSC confirms that further investigation is required to evaluate Bastanchury Water Company used the well on Pioneer for its source. Why was mailing list were told to call the potential impact of contaminants on the regional aquifer. the well closed? Why does the city purge its files of drinking water complaints Holly Kress, DTSC Public Par­ after three years? Doesn’t the purging hamper investigation? ticipation Specialist, (714) 484- 5359. • Why is the City requesting a 2% increase in water rates to drill a new deeper In addition, residents are urged PUBLIC QUESTIONS well for Fire Station well #13 when the old well was closed down last year due to call DTSC or write to DTSC, to PCE contamination? Why doesn’t the polluting party pay? Public Participation, 1011 North When questioned by workshop attendees, DTSC acknowledged that the Grandview Avenue, Glendale, Health Risk Assessment conclusions only apply to the small section of the • Why was the notice about the public workshop mailed only to some of those CA 91201, if they are con­ property that was studied by Raytheon. No soil samples were taken for residing within a mile of the facility (rather than the 3 miles as discussed in the cerned about the clean up or the vast majority of the property. Furthermore, DTSC acknowledged that Fall)? Why wasn’t there a broader and more timely notice? have information pertaining to all sampling was conducted by the property owner or its consultants. No areas of contamination that samples were taken by independent third party investigators. Moreover, • Why did the Register discourage attendance by proclaiming the investigation should be studied. The North upon more questioning DTSC acknowledged that health risks exist for a dead issue with its banner “Former Hughes site is deemed safe” next to the Fullerton Homeowners Asso­ potential residents who may digest vegetables grown in home gardens notice of the workshop? ciation, PO BOX 5358, Fuller­ located in the areas of soil contamination. ton 92838, also offers to assist Representatives from SunCal Cos., that plans to begin development • Why doesn’t DTSC take a more proactive role in investigating the site? Is it local residents in communicat­ within months, stated that the public should be reassured that heavy true that DTSC responds to public concerns to investigate or not investigate? ing with DTSC. You can also equipment operators will call for further investigation if they see or smell write or call the Observer. 525- toxic substances when they are grading, (what about the workers health,job • Why did the representative from Ed Royce’s office direct DTSC to get done 6402 or PO Box 7051, Fuller­ security or inability of detection through odor or appearance?) with the investigation so SunCal Cos. can get on with development? ton CA 92834 Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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-1200 -1200 -1300 -1400 The illustration above shows the upper & middle aquifers. “The water table in the regional aquifer under the Site appears to be in hydraulic communication with the middle aquifer system. The thickness of the regional aquifer under the Site is projected to be approximately 430 feet thick. The estimated average hydraulic conductivity of this section of sediments under the Site is approximately 20 feet perday. ” from Hargis & Assoc. RFI study Hydrogeology, #8.1.2.1 Regional, page 96

A Life-Threatening Contamination of Malvern/Gilbert Area Emergency in Our Water? From 1968 to 1982 I worked with perhaps 80 coworkers in the Glass Containers Corp (sister company to Hunt-Wesson) corporate Office lo­ ©2000 Jonathan Dobrer cated on Gilbert one short block south of Mai vern. Perhaps 7 years ago I was shocked to read in the LA Times (?) that Hughes Aircraft had been cited for cleaning equipment with a harmful solvent and allowing this run-off to W hen do waters of life become waters of death? How much poison is If at first you drain directly to Moore St. into an open paved channel located in the middle acceptable in our drinking water? At what level of cancer causing, nervous of the street. The north entrance to our employee parking lot was located system irritating, immune system compromising concentration should we don’t succeed, immediately adjacent to Moore St. We employees of Glass Containers were worry? These are not abstract questions. They are very relevant right now test again! working from 50 to 100 feet from the drainage. in Fullerton. I believe the news releases stated it had contaminated the surrounding soil The problem is not simply that we know that antimony, lead, hexavalent and represented the second highest concentration of solvent contamination Further test results (re­ chromium, TCE (Trichloroethene) and PCE (Tetrachloroethene) are being only exceeded by the open dumping which had occurred at the El Toro Air found in our wells and plumes of poison are sinking into our water table. The printed at left) reveal that base. Since the ground water was contaminated Hughes was required to a sample of water from the problem is that spokespeople for the agencies that oversee and monitor our extract the poisoned water and clean it up. My neighbor who was a Hughes water do not agree on what constitutes an emergency. site tested positive for both ./employee at that time was told by a Hughes employee participating in the The O.C.W.D.(The Orange County Water District) admits that they have antimony and lead. This is clean-up that he was amazed at the quantity of water involved. When I known about the TCE and PCE contamination since 1995. They tell us that disturbing enough on the called someone at Fullerton City Hall and inquired as to what was there is no emergency and we shouldn’t be unduly concerned. Yet they also surface, but like poison happening I was told he was not following the matter because it was the admit that while they are only required to monitor our wells once a year, sinking beneath the sur­ responsibility of some Federal agency located elsewhere. I last made public some of our Fullerton wells are being checked once a month. Even to the face, it gets worse the reference to this Hughes contamination at a public hearing at the Parks untrained Fullerton Observer this might indicate some “due” concern. deeper we go. Understand­ School concerning the McColl Dump clean-up which elected no interest on Countering O.C.W.D.’s “no emergency” position is the EPA (Environ­ ably unhappy with the re­ the part of those responsible for the hearing. mental Protection Agency), that has declared our situation to be an emer­ sults, Raytheon consult­ Now during my very infrequent discussions with former Glass Container gency. Confused? Well, confusion seems to be the appropriate response to ants, Hargis & Associates co-workers the principal topic appears to be who has died recently. such contradictory interpretations by people who should know what they ordered a re-testing, and Accordingly, on January 3rd of this year I sat down and tried to recall are talking about. Whom should we believe, the company that sells us our this time (Are you ready?) without the benefit of any company records, who of those I remember water or the agency responsible for protecting our environment and our no traces of antimony or working with have died during or following my employment at the Gilbert lives? lead were found! Why location of Glass Containers. Of the people I listed, 18 died of cancer, 6 died were the results different? of heart problems, 3 died of unknown causes, and one is living with colon Erin Brockovich, where are you? Was the soil the same? cancer) Were the procedures iden­ I will be out of the country in the Orient. If I am in town I certainly would tical? What was the vari­ like to attend a State Department of Toxic Substances Control meeting. I Often TV and movies are “ripped from the headlines,” but our situation is able? fail to understand why this wasn’t a meeting open to the general public since acase of life imitating art. The number one grossing picture in America right If, in fact, some of this we are entitled to know of the toxic environment we were exposed to now is Erin Brockovich, the true story of deadly water pollution and the land is to be converted to because of the Hughes Aircraft Company’s illegal acts. lying and covering up by PG&E. (Pacific Gas & Electric). And the grossest residential use, what liabil­ James R. Antonow Fullerton thing in Fullerton is the admitted presence of TCE and PCE in our water. ity does the City of Fuller­ How much of a bad thing is too much? There is no doubt that Hughes ton (that would be “We the Aircraft used these chemicals and left the ground polluted by them. There People”) have in issuing is no question that like underground killer bees they are headed to a well near building permits? Accord­ you. There is no question that some form of remediation will be necessary ing to the testing ordered To Be Notified of Future Meetings to protect our aquifers in order to protect our lives and the lives of our by Raytheon, there already children. There is no question that these chemicals are bad for us and that appears to be an unaccept­ Concerned about the clean up or have information they can cause quick death in high concentrations and terrible illnesses as able cancer risk for resi­ pertaining to areas of contamination that should be studied? they build up in our bodies. How much any individual can tolerate is not dents on parts of their prop­ known. erty. We could, I suppose, Call: Holly Kress, DTSC Public Participation Specialist However anecdotally, as the letter from Mr. Antinow (at right) indicates, follow Los Angeles’s lead (714) 484-5359 there seems to be ample cause for investigating an apparent cancer cluster and build a 200 million Write to: DTSC, Public Participation affecting former workers near the Hughes property. With over 22% of Mr. dollar high school on the 1011 North Grandview Avenue Antinow’s co-workers dying of cancer, the people of Fullerton should be property. Glendale, CA 91201 asking hard questions and demanding real answers. How could this be when More questions were tests show the cancer risks are within “the acceptable limits of 104—10 6,” raised than put to rest in the for non-residents? Workers should not have higher cancer rates than the rest pursuit of this story. Stay Write to: The North Fullerton Homeowners Association of the population. tuned for our next install­ PO BOX 5358 Imagine then if their own tests showed unacceptable risks of cancer. They ment as we follow the path Fullerton CA 92838 do. Buried on page 102 in an 8 inch thick document, (The RFI or Resource of least resistance and see Conservation and Recovery Act Facilities Investigation) is the admission how toxins penetrate, mi­ You can also write or call the Observer. that “resident adult and child (sic.) had an estimated cancer risk greater than grate and contaminate the 525-6402 or PO Box 7051, Fullerton CA 92834 10-6" ground, the water and us. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

Page 10 FULLERTON OBSERVER NEWS APRIL 1,2000 transfer service for #26 and #41. The new Bus Rider Responds map shows the addition of terminus there for Computer Bits, segments of the present #41 (yes, #41 is TRANSIT to OCTA canceled and reused at the same station), but Tips &Tricks Straightlining not for the new segment of Chapman service (#24). This prevents direct Railroad and Alan DeBernochi ©2000 Metrolink access for the whole upper NE TOPICS The following types of responses filled the wedge of Fullerton, Placentia, and Brea. Is 5-hour public hearing in SA on 2/28/00, by Dick Hutchins this fair or wise? addressed primarily by Orange County’s The Price Of Gas vs OCTA and Fullerton City Council, please blind, handicapped, and maturing popula­ reveal the ultimate plan for the Park’nRide Bugs N’ Stuff Rail Systems tions. Orange County has grown. Fullerton on Magnolia & Orangethorpe. The new While the price of gasoline continues calls itself “The Education City” and hope­ All computer systems sooner or later, more often map’s text states every line but the 721- to rise we should not lose sight of the fully will fight for direct service to its col­ than not, will exhibit periods of mysterious and express to LA is discontinued from fact that one of the benefits of rail transit leges and universities. Representatives from spooky behavior. Park’nRide. Is this large capital investment systems is to reduce dependency on oil, UCI spoke at the hearing and are said to be This phantom conduct generally happens when to be considered redundant? while at the same time reduce air pollu­ cooperating with OCTA to improve service. you’re smack in the middle of doing something The new map shows a very awkward end­ tion and traffic congestion. Oh yes, and Can’t Fullerton do as well? really important like being in the middle of a game of ing for #25 at Manchester, without indicat­ to transport people too. Remember The new map of altered routes assumes FreeCell or Solitaire. ing where the connections occur with #26 - 1978 (during the fuel crisis) when CSUF students can exit the Chapman Av­ Sometimes, the system will just hang or freeze up, and the new #24 which is impossible. Stu­ AMTRAK couldn’t provide enough enue bus at Commonwealth where there is a giving you no choice but to switch the system off and dents, day or night, will find this area very equipment to handle the volume of rid­ narrow median in front of a row of homes. It start up all over again. unpleasant; it is unlit, without amenities and ers, so it was standing room only most has no curb cut nor any room for wheelchair Often, it shows itself in the form of General Protec­ “middle of nowhere.” Line #25 should con­ of the time. A real good indication that access; hence, vehicular traffic will have to tion Faults or Fatal Exception Errors, or it comes in tinue to invite beach-area students to cam­ we do need the transportation alterna­ accept the turns, north and south to reach the form or an error message which states “ This pus, as well as bring them directly from the tives. CSUF, Hope University, and other disabled program has performed an illegal operation.” It then up or down swing of #41. That line should The 29 mile “Centerline” appears to users’ stops. offers you a couple of cryptic choices. None of not be fragmented, requiring several changes be a circuitous route between Fullerton Direct service to this area comes from many which ordinarily do any good. for the ambulatory and wheelchair users and Irvine but when the master plan, for directions: the #26 line from Park’nRide and Generally, the usual things that cause most of the alike. Then new line #24 on Chapman/ above hang-ups or error messages are as follows: the future rail transit systerm of Orange Yorba Linda; #41 from the La Habra and Malvern serves no purpose and is unneeded. County is considered, in it’s entirety, it Brea corners; #69 up from Santa Ana and Old Software The use of older, bug laden versions Straight routes and direct lines can co­ becomes more logical that it is centered points along busy Tustin Avenue; and#25 up of software applications. Often these applications exist, within reason, but emphasis needs to around Fullerton. However, the oppo­ from the beach areas; as well as the proximity were initially designed for DOS or Windows 3.1 and be directed toward valid criteria established sition of Anaheim and Santa Ana (cities of #49 on State College. This seems reason­ while they may appear to work properly at first, they within the early system before accepting that need it most), could eliminate Ful­ able and ideal, to serve a state university were never really intended to be run on Windows 95 changes by consultants and driver com­ lerton for years to come. which must invite students from a wide area. or 98. plaints. Fullerton does have a lot of bus use The Orange County land boom started Two of these lines use the stopover area on The best and least expensive solution is to bite the and many turns - these are not zig-zags, and 125 years ago when the railroads ar­ Nutwood, as well as the Metro 490 which bullet and spend a few dollars and upgrade the downtown Fullerton does not need the two rived to provide transportation to and goes to CalPoly Pomana via Brea Mall and software to a version designed to run on your current new, short segments (39 and new 41) termi­ from other parts of the country. Fuller­ ends up in LA. Windows 95/98 operating environment. nating at the Transportation Center. Changes ton is a boom town that not only sur­ Line #69 is said to be eliminated in the Low RAM memory If you are running you system will hinge on a vote will be taken at a public vived but continues to thrive, growth changed system; presently it is the only line with less than 32MB of system RAM and your using meeting April 10 at the County of Orange limited only to it’s boundries, and now to pass the Santa Ana Railroad Station. A Windows 95/98, you’re not only asking for system Planning Commission Hearing Room, Hall has a chance to become the major hub of number of short commute routes there do not errors and hang-ups but, you’re probably not seeing of Administration, 10 Civic Center Plaza in rail transportation once again. Express incorporate any Railroad use for vacations or the full potential of your computer system’s inherent downtown Santa Ana. (800-636-7433) evacuations. Is this any way to serve a Rail­ speed. your views either through this paper or L. Nuessmeier Fullerton directtoOCTA. Contact Dave Simpson, road? RAM memory is still a pretty good bargain. Its 714/560-5570 or send E-mail to The Fullerton Railroad station/OCTA area relatively inexpensive and is simple to install. For dsimpson @ octa.net is heavily used as end-of-line for commute Maintaining the what you spend in dollars you will gain in system buses and #42 and #47, as well as in-and-out speed and spend less time being afflicted with the torment and grief of computer glitches, crashes and ZEV Mandate hangs-ups. As you likely know, the past Full Hard Disk Poor system performance may two biennial reviews have not gone sometimes be a result of a shortage of disk space. well for those who wish to see the The days of 1 or 2 Gigabyte disk drives being mandate stay strong. In 1996 and 1998, adequate are long gone. A full install of Windows98 ARB chose to weaken the mandate, can take as much as 267MB or over 25% of a 1GB pushing back deadlines and softening disk drive. on the number of truly zero-emission When the Disk Drive starts to get full it can no vehicles needed to meet the dictates of longer provide what’s called a “swap drive” for the the regulation. With the year 2003 as system. It’s kind of like a special little section on the the target date for the full implementa­ disk drive where a lot of background stuff goes on in tion of the Mandate, and production order for the computer to function properly. schedules set/more than a year in ad­ So if you have a full install of WIN95 or 98, plus all vance, it is likely that the automakers the other software that’s loaded on the hard drive, and the oil companies will try to pres­ plus a relatively insufficient amount of RAM memory, sure California to abandon the regula­ then it’s not suprising that at some point or another, tion before they have to truly start to and quite often, the system is just going to rebel. deal with it. And that will include Solution - More RAM memory and larger Hard pressure at the very top: to Gov. Gray Disk and dump/delete or upgrade the software. Davis. While your at it, the easiest and a no cost approach It will be important that Gov. to keeping your system as healthy as possible is to Davis knows that the vast majority of periodically run Scandisk to check the drive for the citizens of California want to main­ errors, and use the Defragg tool to unfraggment the tain the ZEV mandate. He needs to disk drive. This will help the computer to function as hear that we like its clean-air benefits, best it can given the above burdens that it may have the fact that it drives technology to to tolerate. increasingly cleaner options, the way it Any time you do get a system error or a complete will help U.S. reliance on foreign oil. crash, always power down the system and restart it Write and tell the governor with the power switch. that we need to maintain the ZEV man­ The system’s main memory is extremely devious. date. He can be reached at; It remembers stuff. It knows that there is something Gov. Gray Davis amiss somewhere and it will retaliate and crash again State Capitol for the same reason if you don’t completely turn it off 10th & L Streets and then back on again. It’s a Sacramento, CA 95814 By utilizing some of the above provisions, those Tim McRae, Planning and error messages and hangs up won’t totally go away, Conservation League, Sacramento, but you just might get less of them. (P)916-313-4523 [email protected] Secret! (E)[email protected] ESPR o y ’s Photo Lab The “Yes We Can" Photo Lab email: [email protected] • http://www.flash.net/~roysfoto 405 E. Commonwealth Avenue, Fullerton, CA 92832 (714) 871-4440 • Fax (714) 871-4FAX (4329) Compon€it Upgrades Softwaree Installations ^Tutorials Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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a CaCalState Department of Anthropology College of Humanities & Social Sciences and A Associated Students present ASSOCIATED Spring 2000 Exhibit STUDENTS WALIKING IN BEAUTY: Timeless Arts of the American Southwest Q£ f Indians Mondays: 2-6pm Tuesdays: lOam-lpm Wednesdays 5-7pm Thursdays 4-7pm

Sundays: CITY of BREA GALLERY ’'April 2&9, May 7&14) 1-6pm Fullerton Museum Center The Gallery’s Annual Juried Exhibition McCarthy Hall Room 424 301 N. Pomona Ave. Fullerton (714) 738-6545 Lori Koefoed CalState Fullerton Made in California “Across Time • Beyond Place” Alchemist Four Contemporary Mexican Artists thru-May 12 LA ARTCORE at Arturo Elizondo Sumiyo Toribe Juror Martin Betts Director of Exhibi­ Union Center for the Claudia Fernandez tions & Special Programs at Long MayDay Arts Francisco Beach Museum of Arts 1 Civic Center Circle Sap 120 Judge John Aiso St., LA Fernandez “Taka” DANIEL STOROZYNSKY March 18-April 8 Betsabee Romero 990-7730 Sarah Bain Gallery Great Show Don’t Miss It! - thru April 30 Brea (213) 617-3274

A Niqki li\ FuIIerton 2000 ERTON MUSEUM CENTER Apml 28 fROM 7^11 p.M. Spotlighting Fullerton's Across Time * Beyond Place: finest in the arts! Contemporary Mexican Art Bring your family and celebrate the arts Jan. 29- April 30, 2000 throughout Fullerton! 301 N. Pomona Ave., Fullerton, CA 92832 714-738-6545 Featuring FREE: www.ci.Fullerton.ca.us/museum IRVINE MUSEUM # Art Exhibitions! 12th Floor of the Tower 17 Building 18881 Von Karman Ave # Multicultural dance performances! (949) 476-2565 # Puppet shows! # Childrens activities! Presents # All types of live music for everyone! John Gamble (1863-1957) Free bus transportation is provided to all the sites! Granville Redmond (1871-1935)

Paul de Longpre (1855-1911) Please call 714-738-6575 A Niqlu In for more information! FuIUrton also 2 0 0 0 Lecture Series Explores Cults, Dana Bartlett, Franz A. Bischoff, Jessie Arms Botke, Sects and Religions Clyde Forsythe, John Frost, Free of charge BAGEL SAM)\VK'HES.SM(M)TH1KS AND q | Anna Hills, Percy Gray, 10am ♦SPECIALTY COFFEE William Ritschel, Donna Mackey Auditorium •mewgmt.cAjmamAHKmjLArrt: ajad c m i tea Schuster, Jack W ilkinson Cal State Fullerton Smith, Elmer Wachtel, Sponsored by CLE Marion K. Wachtel, William BAGELS & ESPRESSO W endt GREAT GOOD PLACE (714) 278-2446 $1.00 o n ANY BAGFJ, SANDWICH 309 North EUCLID*FuiIerton SCHEDULE: » April 4 - F ree through May 20 (EUCLID & COMMONWEALTH) .75 OPPOSE DOZEN BAGELS Dangerous Cults, Mind Control G 5 0 OFF ANY SPECIALTY COFFEE Cults, Doomsday Cults” Hours: »April 18 Cults and the First llam-5pm Tuesday - 10% OFF GROUPCATERING Amendment” OFFER EXPIRES Saturday *not v\Ui> wrrn anyothkr o t o j uMrren aw n* ctsrww

►Open for Breakfast Lunch & Snack F a l l H o u r s G A L L E R Y The Brownstone Cafe Mon-Fri llam-4pm (949) 376-8176 Saturday 8am-5pm 176 5. Coast Highway Muffins & Gourmet Coffees & Fresh Juices Sunday 8am-lpm Laguna Beach Sandwiches • Gourmet Pizzas • Salads

Breakfast • Lunch * Dinner * Catering Located in Historic Directly Across from Main Beach Villa del Sol @ (714)526-9123 Harbor & Wilshire Kennedy - Acrylic on Canvas 4 ’x5 ’ Local Paintings • Brazilian Furniture Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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•BREA CURTIS THEATER - (714) 990-7722; 1 Civic Center Circle, Brea; • Vanguard Theater -rigft &-■**>' Ensemble presents The Writes Of Spring] An evening of original one-act plays from OC Play­ wrights Alliance • GHOSTS by Martin Williams A Reputation for /the history of theater explained by some of its famous characters; THE GOSPEL ACCORD­ Superb French Cuisine ING TO...by Colleen Bevaqua / a preacher and Wine Cellar sets out to help a minister “spice up” his mes­ sage- amazing how different these two really are; THE ENCOUNTER by Anna Winslow/ Winner of numerous Freud and Joan of Arc meet on a train. Just who is analyzing whom?; STORM RIDERS by prestigious Awards for Joanna Adams /a charming little housewife outstanding cuisine. puts the make on her lawnboy, a real moral dilemma.; THE SUBJECT ISN’T ROSE by Eleanor Brook /was sister Rose really behind Romantic dining in Artie’s problems or should we just break the an elegant setting. glass bowl? - thru April 2.. $10/$7/$5 Department of Theatre and Dance at CALSTATE FULLERTON Located in famous •FULLERTON ACADEMY OF THE ARTS at presents “THE FOREIGNER” by Larry Shue, directed by Villa del Sol Plummer Auditorium- (714) 671-1084; • FID­ DLER on the ROOF: Matinee 1:30pm Saturday Terry Walcutt. Opening Night 8pm April 14 thru April 23 at the April 1 with the last show of the run at 7:30pm Arena Theatre on Nutwood Avenue & State College Blvd. For Reservations call April 1. $8 “Fiddler on the Roof’ is fun. The music Fullerton. When Betty Meeks, owner of a fishing lodge in (714) 525-5682 is ageless. The dancing is incredible and the Tilghman County, Georgia, welcomes her old pal Sergeant 305 N. Harbor Blvd. tat Wsishire) professional scenery is spectacular. “Fiddler” “Froggy” LeSuer and his homely looking “foreigner” friend, has been translated into 16 languages, played Fullerton, CA thousands of times in some 32 countries and she has no idea of the comedy to follow. Thanks to the <4 miles North of DisnevlandJ won nine Tony Awards. Rabbi Solz of Temple mistaken belief that the foreigner doesn’t understand English, Beth Tikvah acted as the show’s technical advi­ a pair of conniving evil doers unwittingly sor. Told with humor and wit audiences enjoy expose their dirty plot and justice pre­ such songs as the haunting “Sunrise,Sunset,” vails! This comedy is the winner of two Jor a Healthy the joyous “Tradition” and the humorous “If I Obies and Outer Critics Circle Awards as Were A Rich Man.” Alternative to best New American Play and Best Off- •FULLERTON COLLEGE CAMPUS THEATRE - Broadway production. Tickets (714) 278- conventional (714) 992-7298; • 3371 Dining <£

•LA MIRADA THEATRE for the Performing ARTS - (714) 994-6310; 14900 La Mirada Blvd. La Snacking: Mirada • Especially for young audiences- FAUSTWORK Mask Theater March 19; Show sheds light OAMCH • D9JUREK on the artistic, psychological & historical aspects of masks. It is through a parade of characters & physical transformations that the audience also glimpses human nature at its funniest & most ' <£ DESSERTS poignant. : For mature audiences • THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN; March 31 -Apr 16; This CAPPIACCSNO spectacular rags-to-riches musical, starring Tony Award-nominated actress Cathy Rigby, cel­ ebrates the life of Molly Tobin as she scrambles out of a dirt poor Missouri childhood, marries ESPRESSO Colorado miner Leadville Johnny Brown and then strikes it fabulously rich. Her ambition to be one imported and Domestic of “The Beautiful people of Denver” takes her all the way to Europe and on her return passage she is booked on the luxurious but fateful Titanic, the rest is history. Beers <£ Wines Ram-10:30pm Mon -Thar 11am- 12:30pm Jri - Sat F ullerton U nion H igh S chool - A cademy of the A rts 7 3 8 -9 3 3 9 proudly presents one of America’s most beloved Broadway Musicals

Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25 at 7:30 pm RUTABEGORZ Restaurant Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1 at 7:30 pm 211 Rorth Pomona • Jullerton Matinee, Saturday, April 1 at 1:30 pm

Plummer Auditorium, Chapman and Lemon, Fullerton General Admission, $8; FUHS ASB & Senior Citizens, $7 Angdofe e^Y lncfe Tickets & Information, call (714) 671-1084; 9 am to 5 pm P R i s t o n This ad has been placed in honor of Jennifer Murphy SPIRIT Of rrounts LAUGHLIN, NEVADA r ~i |------1 I 3 Days, 2 Nights | | 2 Days, 1 Night 1 Departs Tues, April 18 I | Departs Sun, April 16 1 I from $69.00 per person Dbl I | from $39.00 per person Dbl I 1------1 l______1_l * ~7I/2/2/() e i \ v ^ | Departs Sat, April 15 I ._ i I from $7 per person!!! I ANY OCCASION! r i------O ne Call, W e D o It A ll! All overnight trips include return motorcoach transportation, accomodation, funbooks, and more... (714) 879-4022 RESERVE TODAY!!! 550 N. HARBOR BLVD., FULLERTON 7 1 4*774-748 5 “A PLACE TO EAT • A PLACE TO Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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m SO. COAST REPERTORY Tickets $18-$47/ (714)708-5555; 655 Town H its a n d Center Drive, Costa Mesa • thru II Ghiotto Ristorante April 9 - The California premiere of the Irish play The BEAUTY QUEEN M isse s of LEENANE; tells a sometimes dark, Fine Italian Cuisine frequently hilarious story of a mother by Joyce Mason © 2000 and her spinster daughter. Trapped 136 E. Commonwealth Ace, in a desolate cottage in equally deso­ F ullerton late lives, the two women engage in (H2 blk. East of Harbor Blvd.) a battle of wills until an interested tel(714)447-0775 fax.(7M)447-0644 neighbor offers the younger woman COTTON MARY: A Hit and a Miss a final chance at escape. Handsomely mounted and elegantly filmed by the experi­ Reservations recommended •STAGES THEATER: 525-4484; 400 enced team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, “Cotton Dinner Nightly-Lunch Mon - Fri E. Commonwealth Ave. 'tickets Mary” offers fine acting and a polished script but a plot too Full Bar-Great wine selection $12 • “THE MIRACLE OF MARY thin to entertain us for its two-plus hours. M ACK”S BABY” A comedy by Johnna Set on the Malabar Coast in 1954, “Cotton Mary” presents Adams, directed by Amanda DeMaio. a view of the lingering colonial attitudes existing in India The whole town is talking about Mary during the first years of its independence from Britain. Many $8,95 Early Diner Special Mack - she dug something out of her British were still living in India in the style to which they had yard on Friday night. Something become accustomed during the long British rule. A conse­ Bruschetta appetizer-freshly baked crashlanded there. She has mistak­ quence of that colonial period is the undetermined social Italian and Foccaccia breads-Dinner enly taken an alien invasion for the status of the Anglo Indian as embodied by Cotton Mary salad-Choose from 5 entrees-Spvmoni miraculous return of her lost baby (Madhur Jaffrey), whose mother was Indian and father ice cream-Wine,coffee,tea or soda boy, Little Lloyd Luke, and it’s going British. to take the whole town to set her Mary works as a nurse in the hospital where Lily Macintosh Valid Mon - Fri 5 pm - 6 pm straight before the green “baby” (Greta Scacchi) is rushed to have her baby on a night when phones home! 8pm April 1 thru 16 her husband, a British correspondent, is on assignment and VANGUARD THEATER: 699-A -ia * the phone lines are down. The baby is born underweight, and S.State College Blvd Lily, unable to nurse the infant or to get medical advice from between the British doctor, turns to Mary for help. Cotton Mary ______Orangethorpe and ingratiates herself with Lily by making the baby the focus of Commonwealth. (714) her prayers and by finding a wet nurse to feed the infant. 738-3841; • FRANKIE Frightened because her milk has not come, Lily invites •LUNCH & JOHNNY in the Clair Mary to live in her home so she can continue to care for the baby. Eager for the chance to live in a British home with ll:30am-2:00pm de Lune by Terrance McNally. -A critical as servants and fine appointments, Mary moves in and quickly well as popular suc­ mimics the habits and customs of her English employers cafe • TAfAS cess, this comedy even as she begins to take over the running of the house from combines poignancy Lily and from Lily’s trusted family servant, Abraham (Prayag 5:00pm-7:06pm and laughter as it Raag). IDALGO traces an unlikely ro­ Lily has inherited the lovely seaside home from her parents @ the Villa del Sol • DINNER mance which, despite and spends most of her time tending its beautiful gardens as (714) 447-3202 all odds, begins to de­ her husband, John (James Wilby), pursues his news stories 5:30pm-10:00pm velop between two and finds assorted excuses for staying away from home. middle aged “losers” Disheartened and lonely, Lily loses control of her household who have come to ex­ as the feisty and domineering Mary takes over. 305 N. Harbor at the comer of Wilshire in Downtown Fullerton pect very little from life. Intent on claiming the British half of her heritage, Mary, Set in a walk-up apart­ although middleaged, begins to wear Lily’s dresses and to ment on Manhattan’s style her hair in a European fashion. She takes note of how the West Side, the play British dine, the linens they use, the soaps and perfumes they opens with the char­ consume, always relishing the moments she can condescend­ acters getting out of ingly impart these tidbits to her “less fortunate” Indian bed and each wishing relatives. She lives for the moments she can sweep into their to get out of the situa­ homes pretending that she is more British than Indian. tion. Neither is in the Jaffrey offers a bravura performance as Cotton Mary. It is bloom of youth but out a complex role, for even as we dislike her frenzied attempt to of their sometimes deny her Indian heritage and to take over the British house­ touching, sometimes hold where she works, we can feel some sympathy for her hilarious interplay, the plight. She has never been wholly a part of either culture. promise of a relation­ The movie focuses on the two women, Mary and Lily, and ship beyond a one- suffers somewhat from the problem that neither woman is Bar & G rill night stand begins to interesting enough to command our attention for two hours. emerge and as the Their home is too small a microcosm in which to play out the 1161/2 W. Wilshire • Fullerton lights dim, the two are problems of post-colonial life in India. (714)526-3032 fax (714)526-3381 back in bed again, tick­ ets $ 17/$ 15 • Thurs­ backalley.webjump.com day March 16th Spe­ cial preview perfor­ mance $7 -thru April The City of Fullerton Full Menu & Daily Specials 15th Community Services Department OPEN DAILY at 11am EXCURSIONS University Art Museum CalState Sign up by calling SERVING LUNCH & DINNER Long Beach Donna @ 738-6575 C h a p m a n (562) 985-5761 Gene Autry Museum W. W ilshire Defying Category Learn about California’s earliest k cowboys. Join us on Sunday, May 7th c 1------1 1------A“ l 0 .a Centric 59: Seth for a trip to the Gene Autry Museum. k m Kaufman Lunch on your own at the Golden PARKING LOT X Spur Cafe” (cafeteria style). We leave I I M a ld e i A m e r i g e March 21 - April 21 Fullerton City Hall parking lot at 9:30 am and return at4:30 pm. Price $20.00. Three new bodies of work displayed Commonwealth in the central court gallery debut two UPCOMING EVENTS 8x4 panels made entirely of eggshells Soluanp Over O O y A / D r ip fused in resin, and four sculptural or­ All aboard Amtrak from Fullerton 4/01 - Jacob Van Auken ganic forms made of paint, dirt, and train station to Santa Barbara. We 4/06 - Linley weeds plus several delicately shaped will stay in the Chimney Sweep Inn, 4/07 - Buckys/Kanary paint-chip constructions. dine at the Cabernet Bistro, bus to the LA-based artist Seth Kaufman was 4/08 - WonderLove Chumash Casino for an evening of 4/13 - Gregg Edwards bom in Newark, New Jersey in 1958 and has been an active member of the fun, breakfast at the Little Mermaid 4/14-Relish A LA art community for the past 10 years. the next morning and then enjoy a 4/15 - Square/Jay Buchanan JMSk Kaufman’s work has included a wide two-hour sightseeing trip on Lake 4/20 - Lido Club j Q j range of subject matter and media. Cachuma before our ride home. All is 4/21 - Lido Club From poignant commentary on the included for $324.00 single, $249.00 4/22 - Lido Club 1992 LA riots, to works composed of double and $239.00 triple (per person 4/27 - Gregory Page tiny delicate squares of resin filled in a room). Sat. May 20 / Sun. May 21. 4/28 - Speakeasy with peach pits, or large back-lit pieces Leave 7:15am Return 8:00 pm. Must that highlight intricate patterns of cro­ sign up by April 17th 2000. 4/29 - to be announced cheted work. EL- Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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The Fullerton Joint Union High School District Educational Foundation and FULLERTON The Orange County Theatre North Orange County Community Concert C <2 i I * G t: Organ Society present Series Final Concert Season features JAZZ BANDS in Concert H ilariou s World Famous SilentMovie LINDA WANG Violinist #1 Jazz Ensemble & “BIG BUSI­ 8pm Wednesday April 12 NESS” First United Methodist Church #2 Jazz Ensemble with Laurel &C H a rd y 114 N. Pomona at Commonwealth 8pm April 13 2pm Sunday ^ S IM O N Tickets $5/$15 Campus Theater April 9 GLEDHILL 535-8925 across the street from Plummer Auditorium Fullerton Plummer Fabulous Artist from England Auditorium at the Mighty Wurlitzer $10/adult • Children Free “Everybody in New York knows who we are. We beat all other universities and won 1st place, in the National Jazz Competition in Reno and we’ve been invited to perform in Europe this summer. Funny, we are only unknown here at home. ” Gregory Woll, Director of Jazz Studies Fullerton College Tickets: 992-7433 or at door 1-hour before show $3.50/$7 Cal State Fullerton’s Spring Dance Concert CD “Piranha” proceeds go towards April 6-9 in the CSUF Little Theatre. A vibrant theBands European tour in June collection of pieces choreographed by faculty and students and performed by students. Call the Music Dept. 992-7296 Advance sales $6-$8 ______Call (714) 278-3371 for more info Violinist Linda Wang yjuIliTtim Civic jCifhi Opera uild ~ by Josephine Chance Drunks D ynam ic American violinist Linda Wang debuted with JdU ('Women OrderesleA in the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, at age Supporting the ffC jC .0 nine. She later studied at Julliard under Dorothy DeLay, 'To Com e 0 et JAquainted r With then at USC under Ruggiero Ricci. She also studied under Alice Schoenfeld. She won a Fullbright Scholarship to T h e [Judd Salzburg’s Mozarteum. She has a gorgeous tone, masterful • Social Dinar. 11am I technique and delicate phrasing. Her accompanist, pianist • cMee&if 11:30am Elena Abend is also a Julliard graduate and famous in her • ZPropam: 12noon own right. J2uncheon ffodoms {Performance Linda Wang, age 27, was born in New York and currently resides in LA. Linda is a first prize winner of the ht International Markneukirchen Competition in Germany, the NFMC Young Artists Auditions, and the International Casl ^Members of Kingsville Competition in Texas. She has also appeared u H ir e d e with numerous ensembles as a soloist and toured the world the Diem JfuHerton Civic Jag/it Opera giving masterful performances. She has performed at production some of the world’s most celebrated concert venues in­ The Jerusalem TrioEa cluding Carnegie Hall and the Berlin Schauspielhas. 1 lam JApril 6 Linda Wang will perform the last concert of the 1999- Piano & Strings Coyote DtAls $olf Chib 2000 Community Concert Series on Wednesday evening, (714) 7 28-6486 or 871-2876 April 12 at 8pm at the Lirst Methodist Church on the comer 3:30pm Sunday April 2 of Pomona and Commonwealth Avenues in Fullerton, just east of Harbor Blvd. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $15/adults The Performing Arts Center ______J and $5/children or call 535-8925 for more information. Sunny Hills High School *1801 Warburton Way Season tickets for the 2000-2001 are also on sale. FULLERTON • Dvorak’s Piano Trio in E-Minor, Op. 90 (“Dumky”) • Schubert’s Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 100 • Paul Ben Haim’s “Variations On A Hebrew” CHIN TING (714) 525-9504 or 525-7758 LAIFF 2000 CHINESE POT OF GOLD LA Inde­ Specializing in Szechwan Cuisine pendent Winner of 1985 Restaurant Writers Silver Award Film Festi­ Escape to Historic Julian Innkeepers val April Pat and Darrell Straube 13-18 Welcome You to • COCKTAILS • CATERING Their Stylish Country Inn. • FOOD TO GO at the Laugh Factory - Enjoy • BANQUET FACILITIES Deluxe Accommodations, 75 films, Delicious Country Fresh Cuisine, shorts WE DELIVER TO YOUR HOME features & Friendly Personal Sendee. ($2 charge for orders under $15) docum enta­ Explore the Surrounding Countryside. REGULAR HOURS ries, (323) Make Discoveries in our Historic Town. LUNCH 937-9155 or Monday thru Friday: ll:30am-2:30pm 1 - 8 8 8 - Orchard Hill Country Inn DINNER ETM-TIXS A Romantic Country Escape in the Heart of Julian's Monday thru Thursday: 5pm-9pm Visit Historic District Friday: 5pm-10pm website: Saturday: 4-10pm, Sunday. 4pm-9pm 800-71-ORCHARD wwvvJaif.com (800/716-7242) www.orchardhill.com 1939 Sunnycrest Drive, Fullerton 2502 Washington St, Julian, CA 92036 738-1977 Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

APRIL 1, 2000 NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15 First-Hand History - Parks Jr. High To DC 27 Years and Counting

Cherie Lutz Pizarro O n April 6th, Parks teachers Craig Wallace and Kristi Hernandez will set out for Washington, DC with some 200 junior high kids in tow; it will be Wallace’s 27th trip and Hernandez’s 10th. All told, Parks has sent close to 4,000 students across the country for a first­ hand look at our nation ’ s history - and brought them all home safely! Parents, teachers, school board members, former students, and local businesses have all played a role in this annual endeavor, but no one deserves more credit than Wallace and Hernandez. Both are award­ winning teachers who somehow find the time to do it all - inspire kids, pick up a master’s degree, spend time with family, and along the way organize a yearly transcontinental journey for 200 teenag­ ers.

The “DC trip” hasn’t always been quite that big. The first-year roster included only 44 students and five faculty members; the group spent five days in DC and walked everywhere. The trip expanded to 86 students and ten days the following year, and it has been growing ever since. This year, as well as taking in the sights in the capital, the Parks students will spend their spring break visiting historic venues in Pennsylvania and colonial Virginia. Of course, a bigger trip means higher costs and more fundraising. Twenty-five years ago, the students sold magazines and rolled newspapers to cover their $350 tab. That cost has nearly quintupled, so today’s travelers also sell pies, cookies, and wrapping paper, make pizzas, buy scrip, wash cars, and flip pancakes. Who keeps track of all that money? That would be Kristi Hernandez, the organizational arm of the duo. As a logical exten­ sion of her role as computer teacher, Hernandez tallies everything, enters it into the computer, and prints it out. She loves that part of the job, but following up with the parents and kids who don’t meet their deadlines can be draining. While Hernandez often works Graduate, Argon, Begins behind the scenes, Wallace iI on the front lines, running most of the Life As A Guide-Dog For pre-trip meetings with students and parents and relishing his role as Above: Craig Wallace and Kristi Hernandez communicator. The same division of labor works in DC; Hernandez The Blind ensures that everything runs smoothly, and Wallace teaches history Wallace and Hernandez can’t begin to count the number of hours to everyone within earshot. Together, they have forged a relation­ they spend each year planning for and going on the trip; no sooner T h e Wilkinson family of Fullerton, pictured ship built on trust and collegiality, and every Parks kid who has been do they return from one excursion than preparations begin for the above raised Yellow Labrador Retriever, “Argon” to DC has reaped the benefits of their partnership. next. But they are the first to acknowledge the help they’ve had from and introduced him to his new companion, Mr. others, starting with their spouses, who do everything from washing Chester Smith at a graduation ceremony early this What keeps them going year after year? Basically, it’s the chance cars to photographing kids at the Lincoln Memorial. Former year. to have an impact on the lives of young people. Ten days away from chaperones pitch in year after year, school board members and The pups are born at the Guide Dog kennels. At home amounts to a time of amazing growth for teens, and Wallace alumni donate to the scholarship fund, teachers buy more pies and two months of age they are placed in the homes of and Hernandez love making that growth possible. According to cookies than they can eat, local businesses lend their support, and puppy raisers who house-train the pups and teach Wallace, the trip is all about providing “a safe environment for the even the fundraising companies occasionally kick in an extra them social skills. This socializing by the raiser students to discover who they are.” Seeing the kids unearth a new percentage point of the profits. In short, Wallace and Hernandez helps to lay a solid foundation for the future of the reverence for their country and its institutions is an added bonus. make it happen, but it really does take a community... dog as a Guide Dog. When the dogs are about 18-months old they are returned to the school to begin a four to five month Free or Low Cost Community Opinions Long Distance program of Guide Dog training with licensed instructors. Following completion of training the Health Care Proofreading dogs are matched with blind people enrolled at the Yesterday brought the March 1st is­ school. The new person-dog team completes an Coverage Offered sue of the Observer. Noticed a couple of intensive, in-residence course at the Guide Dog Parents are constantly challenged with An Idea For El Toro things, actually the same error two times, school culminating in an informal graduation cer­ the issue of affodable health care for A University on the site where the El Toro which my picky brain finds without emony at which the raiser presents the dog to the their children. Many are unaware of the Marine Air Station once resided, would promote even trying. This is not to”blame” any­ new graduate. variety of health insurance programs more High Tech companies to move into the one, I think you really know that En­ Guide Dogs for the Blind, provides dogs and available for families with children from area. They need skilled people to fill the jobs glish is a funny language. One of its training entirely free of charge to qualified blind 0-18-years old. Depending on your fam­ they bring with them. If the University was more confusing peculiarities follows: men and women throughout the United States and ily income, your child may qualify for geared to Computer, BioMed, and other sci­ The contraction, it’s, (with apostrophe) Canada. The program receives no state or federal quality health insurance including den­ ences already demanding more workers today in stands for the two words, it is. The funding and depends entirely on donations for its tal, vision, prescriptions and much more our job force, then this would be just what the pronoun, its, (without apostrophe) is existence. for as low as $4 per month. For addi­ county needs. Irvine is growing, and is expected the possessive form referring to some­ If you would like to help out or want more tional information, or to schedule an to grow with new companies looking to move thing belonging to “it”. Am I the only information on this program phone: (800) 294- appointment, please contact Dorothy there. These are technical companies. But they one who gets bugged by this sort of 4050 or write: Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., PO Castillo at Catholic Charities: (714)957- need skilled, professional, well trained employ­ thing? Box 151200, San Rafael, CA 94915 or visit the 4650 ees to make their companies successful. Not Pat Plambeck Website: www.guidedogs.com only does a University provide these types of Vancouver Washington employees, after they graduate, but even before hand, they are a good source for cheap labor, ED: Hello Pat, Happy to see you are NEW SERVICE Drapery Cleaning providing the student good work experience and paying attention and no, you are not helping the employer and future employee to see the only one. We get many calls from $ Q 4 9 — * what each has to offer. The University can also sharp eye future back-up volunteer AIR DUCT do research for the companies in the area. BioTech Observer proofreaders like yourself •PenParPerTanel stocks are expected to take off. BioTech compa­ •Up to 96” unlined nies are planning the future for our health and Our long-time esteemed CLEANING •Take Down & Re-hang lives. Cures for known diseases are around the proofreader, Mary Graves also Free estimate ^ $85 min. E^5/1jB/00 comer. Look into the biological research going agrees with you and is thoroughly Call for appointment on up a UCLA. I am sure Irvine is involved also. bugged when I don’t make all the Includes Sanitizing_____ Science is on the edge of making more discover­ changes she suggests, (for instance Carpet Cleaning ies in the next 10 years in medicine, biology, and she just told me to take the previous ills •Truck Mount Units 0 * i computers than ever before. All of us working in sentence out.) With the eye o f an •Pre-Conditioning I I ^ the technology fields find it very hard to keep up. eagle she catches the tinest of errors •2 Trained Techs But the fact is true. DNA and cell growth studies •Clear Clean Rinse ^ m in - in spelling, syntax, punctuation, etc. are advancing rapidly. So, can you imagine the Believe me, proofreading any 1965 SUNNYCREST DR. •Pre-Spotting Re§ 250 sq ft effect a new University in place of the El Toro Exp. 5/18/00 publication is not a job for the faint FULLERTON airport would have on our community and the world! I was proud of the Marines that left. They o f heart and I would like to take this Area Rug Cleaning OFF left behind a record of great achievements. I opportunity to thank Mary Graves believe the replacement for them could equally for all she has done over the years We hand clean all area rugs. 35% bring pride and recognition for future records of and continues to do for the Observer •Any Items Brought In to store We test all rugs for color bleeding. great achievements. Our imagination is the only and apologize for not making all the •We Specialize in Oriental Rugs limit to our future. And of course, good sound keereshins. 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Page 18 FULLERTON OBSERVER NEWS APRIL 1, 2000 Lucian King Chime Truscott 137 West Chapman Avenue Ste B Colonel U.S. One Block West of Harbor Blvd Army (Infantry) (714) 870-9405 Retired YOUR PRIMARY HEALTHCARE PROVIDER OF WORKER’S COMPENSATION 1922-2000 Try Acupuncture for Pain Relief by Joyce Eun Fendos sary actions to heal the damaged tissue. At this point In the United States Acupuncture is best known for the Acupuncture Points need help to correct the prob­ L ucian was the son and namesake of a noted World War II it’s effects in reducing pain and musculoskeletal disor­ lem and once again begin conveying information. The general, and one of three family members who graduated from West ders. It seems natural to wonder how inserting needles action of inserting a needle at the Acupuncture Point Point. “Army” life was in his soul and he met it as he did every at particular Acupuncture Points can do that. does just that. The goal of correcting the flow of Chi or challenge in life —head on, with gusto. Graduating from West Point We tend to believe that the nervous system is the only the flow of information of life force cannot be reached in the class of 1945, he trained as a pilot and flew one of the first mode of communication in our body. But let’s consider by using any pain reliever or anti-inflammatory. This operational jets: Lockheed’s Shooting Star P-80. When the Korean the instance in which a limb of the body is paralyzed is why the result of Acupuncture treatment is so War started the call of the Army’s “ground pounders” was too strong due to stroke or nerve injury. The patient can not move different and outstanding. and he volunteered as a rifle company commander in the 2nd or even feel that limb, however, each tissue and each If there is a car accident on a freeway, it is important Infantry Division and was proud that his company was one of the first cell of the paralyzed limb still functions, maintaining that the police and a tow truck come as soon as possible to be integrated under orders from then President Harry S. Truman. it’s life force. For example, if the paralyzed limb is cut, and clear the wrecked car away and make the traffic He served a second tour of duty in Korea as a staff officer, trained as blood clotting and tissue regeneration will occur. Clearly flow smoothly. If the information about the car acci­ a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division, and served as a there is another communication system within our dent never reaches the police or towing company, commander of a mechanized infantry battalion in Vietnam. During body. Through this invisible system, information from miles of cars would be stuck in a traffic jam and even his service he was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the all parts of the body circulates continuously to maintain then the police and towing company would not know coveted Combat Infantryman’s Badge with oak leaf cluster. Lucian life. This communication system can be compared to about the accident. In our body the same thing hap­ was a graduate of the Army War College, earned an MBA at George radio communication which does not need a wire pens. If the flow of Chi, the flow of information is Washington University and wrote and testified variously before connecting station to receptor, while the nervous sys­ blocked, caught in a ‘traffic jam,’ physical phenomena Congress and in the pages of the Washington Post and New York tem, on the other hand, is like a cable network which such as pain and very slow healing happens. The flow Times. He served two tours of duty on the Army General Staff at the needs cords to connect them. As wireless radio commu­ of information in our body as well as in our daily life Pentagon, specializing in post-war military reorganization. He advo­ nication reaches many receptors at far distances, the is important. cated equal treatment for all in the military including Gays and invisible network within our body carries information Wouldn’t it be wonderful if that nagging pain would persons of all ethnicities. He will be remembered for his great zest to and from every organ, tissue and cell. And as media­ finally go away without costly hospital treatment? and enjoyment of life. He died of a brain tumor on March 12,2000 tion stations are necessary in radio communications Do not hesitate to consult with an Acupuncturist, at Kirkland, Washington.He is preceded in death by his wife of 52 systems, the Acupuncture Points have a similar role of especially when you are suffering from an injury or years, Anne Harloe Truscott. He is survived by one brother, five mediation in the body. overuse or repetitive use of certain muscles or tendons, children, Jack and Marion Harloe and his companion, Florence When there is an injury, that damaged tissue sends a such as carpal tunnel syndrome, sprain or pain in Cavileer (Observer reporters). As a fifth great grandson of Thomas lot of information to nearby Acupuncture Points which fingers, elbow, shoulder, neck, back, knee, ankle, etc. Jefferson, Lucian will be buried in the Jefferson family cemetery at work as mediation stations. With an excess of informa­ You will be amazed by the effect of Acupuncture Montecello. A celebration of his life will be held by friends in tion the points become overloaded and they fail to which has been treasured by people in oriental coun­ Emerald Heights, Redmond, Washington. function properly. As a result, the information can’t tries for thousands of years. reach those organs and tissues which perform neces- Joyce Eun Fendos is a licensed Acupuncturist with a practice in Fullerton

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Page 20 FULLERTON OBSERVER NEWS APRIL 1, 2000 Joey Kessler tags Cardinal player out at the plate.

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APRIL 1, 2000 FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 21 Sports Shots Kia •••••by Lisa Whiting Classic Sports Shots: Lisa Whiting, 737 N. Euclid Fullerton CA 92832 Women’s

Cody Softball Hass stays at CSUF focused on ball. Cherie Lutz Pizarro Every year about this time, hundreds of premier college athletes and their fans descend on our city for a four-day tour­ nament. The event features top-ranked teams, attracts thou­ sands of spectators, and gener­ Erik Lundquist o f the ates $20,000 for the athletic T-ball Cardinals is department at Cal State Fuller­ safe at home after ton. The sport? Women’s soft- slide. ball. Sponsored by KiaMotorCars, this year’s classic featured 16 teams - eleven of them ranked in the top 25 nationally. The teams were grouped into four pools, and after two days of Coaches hope pool play, they were seeded nothing will into a single-elimination cham­ get past the pionship bracket from which mitt o f T-ball number one ranked Washing­ Dodger Joey ton emerged victorious. Ac­ Kessler cording to CSF’s former coach, Judi Garman, the Kia Classic is “the toughest tournament in the country outside of the college world series.” Softball differs from baseball in many respects. The baselines are 60 feet rather than 90 feet, the pitching rubber is only 43 feet from home plate, the pitcher throws underhand - at about 70 mph — and (against all self- preservation instincts) the first and third basemen routinely creep incredibly close to the Orange County Human Relations presents batter to defend against a pos­ sible bunt. But the lesser di­ mensions don’t diminish the The Orange County 24-Hour Relay Challenge athleticism of the game; rather, the smaller field puts great de­ April 15th-16th, 2000 fense and speed at a premium. Offense is on display too. Ten at Cal State University, Fullerton years ago, women’s softball teams bunted their way onto base, and, if they were lucky, scored two runs in seven in­ nings. Today’s game has changed dramatically. The pitcher stands three feet farther back, the fences are closer in, OUNTY . the ball is livelier, and, given Coach, Dave Hodge, gives Single A players some 24-HOUR RELAY the increased availability of weight training and year-round last minute words of encouragement. CHALLENGE play, the women are much stronger. All teams still have players who can bunt, but line ...Making Community A Reality drives and homers abound. On top of all that, softball has Bring your tents, sleeping bags and tennis shoes a certain pageantry that just doesn’t exist in other sports. and join people from all over Orange County for a 24 Chants from the dugout and the hour celebration of community and team work! stands have a call and response quality reminiscent of the pul­ pit, and the glove-slapping, ball­ Each member of a 10 person team runs tossing gatherings of fielders between outs or innings are or walks a mile then passes a baton to amazingly ritualistic. With the a teammate in a cycle that repeats for stands full of fans from all parts of the country, it’s a cultural hours. The 24 hours is filled with experience as well as a display of athletic prowess. free live entertainment, food, games, Women’s softball is growing and workshops in a violence, drug and by leaps and bounds. More women are playing, more alcohol-free environment. women are earning scholar­ ships, more former players are joining coaching staffs, and DOlft MISS Out! more people are watching. Judi Call Orange County Human Relations Garman is leaving CSF (to run clinics internationally ), but her to sign up a team at 714-567-5054. tournament will continue. The softball complex is being re­ We need volunteers to work four hours shifts. vamped this summer, and come Call us and bring your whole family to help out. next March there will be an­ Rauly Gutierrez, one o f many local High other - new and improved — Schoolers to ump games classic in Fullerton. Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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Louise Schatzman EXPANSION IDEAS Spotlight More room is needed in the Fullerton Senior Center for exercise classes, for bridge, for dancing, for meetings and just for practice sessions. Ideas are coming our way showing that there are options. There are also pros and cons to each idea. and But in the best interest of the whole city, wouldn’t it be wise to look at the long FEEDBACK FOUNDATION range needs and an overall plan for the center first. Even if it is necessary to move This month the Senior Club is honoring 26 years of one step at a time to accomplish the final article because the more complete plan FEEDBACK FOUNDATION which provides food for the Balance is overwhelming, we need to get started. by Michelle Gottlieb hot lunch program. In Fullerton, the program has been run One idea from Dick Waltz is to glass in the patio on the south side of the 19 of those 26 years by Margo Beverage. The activity building. Yes it would require some electrical work for lighting and maybe outlets, started out at the first small library, where the museum is there would be no plumbing. The construction would be largely filling in roof now located, in their small side room. Food was brought sections and glass panels and heating. However the main supports are there. The HOT and served to the then 15 member group. They moved patio as it is is used for some exercise classes now in nice weather, so would to the Wilshire Ave. First Baptist Church in their basement, certainly be used if closed in. THINK ABOUT IT! the club started really accumulating new members, so needed more room and a kitchen. The activity stayed there ANOTHER IDEA FOR until the addition to the Senior Center was completed in 1980. Members lobbied to move the hot lunch program into EXPANSION OF RESOURCES the Senior Center and dining room and were accepted. In a second sketch (not pictured) Dick suggested a possible Community Margo also handles the Feedback Program for homebound Center constructed in the style of city hall on the now empty lot across Wilshire April is Child meal services. The total number of participants in the lunch Ave from the museum. The senior center on Commonwealth is not adequate for Abuse Prevention program now averages 250 seniors. general community use as well as a senior center. The city needs more meeting Our THANK YOU’s to the rooms, exercise rooms, club rooms as well as a large dining room with kitchen, M onth. FEEDBACK FOUNDATION!!! where there is adequate parking. It makes me sad that it is Can such a building be a part of our master plan without stepping on too many even necessary to have a child political toes - instead creating better communication between the many Fullerton abuse prevention month, but active groups? Think about these ideas and send in unfortunately, child abuse is a YOUR ideas to me, fact of life. I was talking with someone the other day about Louise Fullerton Observer what I do and their comment was,’! didn’t think that all that P.O. Box 7051 Fullerton, 92834. stuff really happened. I thought the news just made it all up.” This is one area that the news does not exaggerate. If any­ thing, they downplay it because it hurts too much to hear about it. Kids are hurt, killed, aban­ doned, ignored, raped every day. For example, in the month of February in Orange County, over 2100 children were re­ ported to the Child Abuse Reg­ istry as possible victims of abuse. That number boggles 3 - my mind. Over 2100 children were hurt in the month of Feb­ ruary! Now, not all of those reports will be valid, but most of them will be. And what about all of those children that Toastmasters Gets You will not be reported? FULLERTON COLLEGE Of course, our first response JAZZ BANDS in Concert TALKING! “Is what can I do?” If you are Improve your speaking ability in our self- aware of a case of child abuse, World Famous paced, friendly, practical meeting environ­ you can anonymously report it ment. Visit a Toastmasters Club today: to the Child Abuse Registry at #1 Jazz Ensemble & (714) 940-1000. The social Figures of Speech Club workers there will take a re­ #2 Jazz Ensemble Second & Fourth Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Presented by Paul K Nelson, DJ)S port, investigate the situation Borders Books and do their best to make sure Associated Road at Imperial Hwy. that every child is in a safe Info: 714 996-9106 “LONG IN THE TOOTH” 8pm April 13 As we age, the cells of the place. Fullerton Toastmasters Club gingiva (gums) neither replen­ There are organizations that CampusTheater First, Third & Fifth Monday, 6:30 p.m. ish themselves as rapidly as they work every day to prevent child across the street from Plummer Auditorium Quaker City Savings, Community Room once did nor keratinize as well. abuse. One is Euclid at Rosecrans Keratinization is the process that called Prevent Child Abuse, Info: 714 435-2202 changes the outer (epithelial) layer of the gums to make them Orange County. This is a group Hillcrest Toastmasters Club of wonderful people who have “Everybody in New York knows who we are. impermeable to water-soluble First & Third Monday, 7 p.m. substances. As a result, the gums it as their mission to stop child We beat all other universities and won 1st Chin Ting Restaurant are less able to resist bacteria abuse in Orange County. place in the National Jazz Competition in 1929 Sunnycrest Drive and mechanical irritants, as well You can wear a blue ribbon. Info: 714 521-9706 as to repair themselves. Conse­ The blue ribbon is the symbol Reno and we’ve been invited to perform in quently, the gums may recede, Europe this summer. Funny, we are only The Lunch Bunch Club which makes the tooth appear of the prevention of child abuse. A grandmother tied the unknown here at home. ” First & Third Tuesday 11:55 a.m. longer. It is important to note ConAgra Grocery Products that age-related gum recession first blue ribbon after her Gregory Woll, Director of Jazz Studies Company Building, Room A is relatively modest. Most of the grandson’s body was found, a gum recession that we experi­ Fullerton College 1645 W. Valencia Drive victim of child abuse. She Info: 714 680-2459 ence as adults is due to peri­ chose the color blue so that she odontal disease and overzeal- Tickets: 992-7433 or at door 1-hour The Toastbusters Club ous brushing. Thus, with proper would always remember the before show $3.50/$7 Second & Fourth Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. dental care and guidance, bruises on his body. Quaker City Savings, Community Room middle-aged adults need not Wear a blue ribbon. Make a CD “Piranha” proceeds go towards Euclid at Rosecrans look “long in the tooth.” difference. Make Orange theBands European tour in June Info: 714 228-1101 Our bodies speak to us on many Countyaplacewhereitdoesn’t levels about their needs, and we hurt to be a child. Call the Music Dept. 992-7296 can teach you how to listen. Y our body will give lots of good years of service if you take care Michelle Will Answer Your of it. This holds true for all parts Questions. of your body, and perhaps no­ Send your letters to Michelle where more obvious than your at 305 North Harbor Blvd., Individual, mouth. Whatever your oral con Suite 202 cerns, from preventing peri­ u^Aic/ieffe odontal disease, to cosmetic Fullerton, CA 92832 Couple,Family needs, to restorative treatment, or e-mail her at our procedures cover a broad [email protected] and GofilieS spectrum and we welcome your Michelle will answer your and Child call at 992-0092 for a consulta­ questions at no charge. tion . The office is located at 100 Michelle Gottlieb is a MET Therapy N. State College Blvd., Suite 1. Marriage, Family and Child PS: Chronic periodontal dis­ Therapist with a private ease, which often takes years to practice in Fullerton. This Sliding Scale Available 305 North Harbor Blvd., progress, usually begins in adults over the age of 35. column offers general advice Suite 202 and is not meant as a (714) 879-5868 Fullerton, CA 92832 substitute for a client- ext.5 Lie.# MFC32271 therapist relationship. Lie.# MFC32271 Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library

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Page 24 FULLERTON OBSERVER APRIL 1, 2000 A Stranger in a Foreign Land Chuck Greening H e was here again, late last night, shuffling along our back garden path. We never see him in the daytime - he must have found a private place to sleep through Then came the cataclysm! the day. But who is he? And where is he from? For the only time in the past half-billion You can tell by his body build that he really isn’t one of the local folk. Heavy bodied, short legged, not built for speed. He pokes his long nose into all the nooks years, two continent-sized masses which and crannies. Perhaps near-sighted, or else relying on his sense of smell more had evolved separately than sight. for tens of millions of years, were then It is hard to place him as to lineage. He isn’t a member of the weasel family with their long, slender, arched bodies. He’s not in the dog/fox/coyote family - long- rejoined. At once, two great biological legged, fast trotters. He’s not a rodent, with their compact bodies, high in the experiments were set in motion. rump. Certainly not a cat, or a bear, or a raccoon. He is, of course, an opossum, and as such, he is really quite different from all the other medium-sized, furry creatures which might be roaming around our neighborhood at night. And not just in appearance. The opossum is the only marsupial in North America. They, like kangaroos, wombats, koalas and others, bear almost microscopic babies which blindly make their way into a pouch on the mother’s belly. They fasten onto a nipple, and stay in the pouch until they are better prepared to meet the world. Teeth, fur, eyes open, etc. This semi-external gestation can take five months or more. So this answers the question of who he is, and why he doesn’t really look as though he belongs. But, like all interesting questions, this one leads on to another - how come he is here at all? The answer to that question is not entirely known, The tropical ocean which had flowed freely The outcome was somewhat one-sided. The North but the route taken is well known, and represents quite a strenuous voyage. between the two continents for ages, were sun­ won. Highly successful creatures like the mastodon, dered into Atlantic and Pacific. No way for any the large cats, wolves, and bears moved into the south, A lo n g about 250 million years ago, all the world’s continents were arranged tropical sea creature to get to the other side. So the and generally displaced the native species. Southern quite differently. It has been well established that the continents are made up of clock of species divergence was set in motion, species, such as the giant ground sloth, made the trek, rocky plates, floating on the partly molten interior of the earth. At that early time, resulting in the many distinctive Atlantic and but were generally wiped out by competition with the the continents were all squished together into a single land mass, which today’s Pacific forms found today. The Panama Canal natives. Or, in the case of the sloth, perhaps killed off paleo-geologists call Pangea. By 230 million years ago more or less, the land does not really change things because of the lock by human hunters. In the long run, there are very few mass had split into a northern super-continent (named Laurasia) and a southern system, and the fact that all the water to operate the mid-sized mammals from the South American stable mass (named Gondwanaland). lock system is fresh water from the highlands of left in our land. One widely successful placental mam­ Over the next few million years, Gondwanaland began to split up further. The Panama - a real barrier to salt-water creatures. mal made it - the porcupine, another odd-ball survivor huge mass which was to become South America was in the process of splitting Second, and more complex, was the opening of limited to the Texas border region is the armadillo. off from the west edge of what became Africa. Up to this point, all the primitive a land bridge between the two Americas. In the And then there is the one successful marsupial - our animals in Gondwanaland (including remote ancestors of the opossum) were north, a complete set of placental mammals, which back garden visitor - the opossum. So now we know evolving differently from their Laurasaian counterparts. But they would meet had honed their survival skills against a wide range how he got here (not easy) but why is he the sole again in a much later time (we are really getting to the opossum, so hang on a of opponents and physical conditions, with incur­ survivor of the type? Perhaps a key feature is his bit). As soon as South America-to-be had split a few miles away from Africa, sions from Eurasia from time to time, across the remarkably flexible feeding choices. The only rule the die was cast for the future of the animals which happened to be living on it. intermittent Bering land bridge. In the south, a seems to be “if it’s bio-degradable, it’s edible.” That They could develop and evolve, but for 50 million years or so, they had no new mixed set of placental and marsupial mammals, and the tendency to large families - a dozen or more in body styles coming in from abroad. By the relatively recent epoch of three evolved in isolation from any other populations a litter. million years ago, a set of animals had fitted itself to all the niches in the for more than 50 million years. And they love snails! So long live the Great continent. Some of the mammals were placental, like all the familiar beasts of American Marsupial! North America, Europe and Asia, but some were marsupials. Australia, which had split off from Gondwanaland in the other direction even earlier than South America, wound up with nothing but marsupials. City Council Advisory Positions for Arboretum or In the course of evolution ii) South America, the passengers had plenty of time to occupy everything from rain forest to Tierra del Fuego. They evolved animals Investments Available Now suited to all these habitats, starting with what they had taken from Gondwanaland. Applications are being sought from Fullerton citizens interested in serving on either of two advisory So they wound up with a large, powerful marsupial which was built much like committees to the Fullerton City Council. One vacancy exists on the Investment Advisory Committee, and the sabertooth cat of North America. And there was a seven-foot tall flightless there are two openings on the Fullerton Arboretum Commission. Interested Fullerton residents can contact bird (descendant of the dinosaurs) with a 15-inch beak built like a machete - the the city Council Office at (714) 738-6311 or pick up an application in the City Council Office on the first floor speedy hunter roughly equivalent to the wolf in North America. And a collection of Fullerton City Hall, 303 W. Commonwealth Ave. Deadline for returning the applications is 5:30pm of smaller opossum-like animals - all marsupials. And lots of other types. They Monday April 17. The Investment Advisory Committee meets quarterly to review the City’s current were on a really slow boat to their eventual rendezvous with North America. investments, and develop recommendations to the Council on future investments and policies. The Fullerton They were plowing along at about a half-inch per year. Not fast, but Nature has Arboretum Commission oversees the development, use and maintenance of the Arboretum, which is a joint all the time in the world. And it gave all the animals a chance to settle into their project of the City Redevelopment Agency and Cal State University Fullerton. Commission members roles. represent both the city ahd the university, as well as the community at large.-.sm

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