Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library COMMUNITY & ARTS CALENDAR Page 14-17 TRIBUTEi muu IL. TOI w TRUSLOWI rPage 11■ i | | J { TAP WATER WARNING Page 19 ullerton U bse »j fci i Li FI Fullerton’s Only Local, Independent Newspaper • Est. 1978 (printed on 100% recycled paper) VOLUME 25 #14* SEPTEMBER 1, 2003 SEPTEMBER 1 2 0 0 3 FULLERTON OBSERVER Library Discussion on Patriot Act Includes FBI & ACLU “Do limitations on our civil liberties protect us from ter­ rorism or threaten our basic freedoms?” The City of Fullerton Main Library’s Osborne Audito­ rium will host a free public forum from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm on Wednesday, September 17th. Speakers include Louis PLEASE RETURN TO THE * r Flores of the Federal Bureau of Investigations and Ben FULLERTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union. 353 W. COMMONWEALTH AVE. Questions surrounding the purpose and usefulness of the ‘I t FULLERTON, CA. 92832-1796 “Patriot Act,” and other civil liberty limiting measures will be discussed. Bring your neighbors and your questions. The free forum is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of mma* North Orange County and the Association of American University Women Fullerton and the Fullerton Public Li­ brary. The Main Fullerton Public Library is located on Amerige i at Highland next to Fullerton City Hall. City Takes Steps Toward Safer Bike Route The City of Fullerton recently established a vital link in the growing network of bicycle routes by restriping Berke­ ley from Chapman to Harbor to accommodate bicycle lanes (class II). In doing this two traffic lanes were removed east ■ of Lemon. The reasons for this realignment are not only to provide for safe bicycle routes but to provide more parking for the College and, after other changes are made, to reduce traffic on Lemon north of Berkeley. The newly striped route has been on the Bicycle Plan for A celebration of the Korean cultural arts took place at the Muckenthalet: Above dancers perform a over a decade and has often been requested by the Bicycle User's Task Force. The route will provide safer bicycle ac­ famous fan dance signifying the jo y and happiness o f life. (story page 9) Photo ©2003 Stephen Weissbart cess to Fullerton College and directly links with the Hornet City Hall & Way/Dorothy Lane route which provides a safe route to Cal Library P olice State University; and via routes on Associated and Bastanchury, farther east. MM Sr. Center On the south end it allows individuals to ride on Class III & A m erige W. Santa Fe (signed but unstripped) routes on lightly traveled streets such Park as Amerige and Wilshire. One can then link up with the Orange Juice Factory Railroad Class II route on Acacia and ride south out of the city. ri j Station On the North end, the Berkeley route continues past Har­ bor to Valley View. From there one has several choices. Lightly traveled residential streets lead to a route on Valencia New Paseo Park Mesa from which one can get to Bastanchury and to a newly 1 4 4 stripped route on Parks. Turning right on Valley View leads to Harbor and Brea. After getting through a difficult inter­ W. W alnut section each of these streets have routes leading north. Brea Boulevard takes one to an excellent route on Rolling Hills W. T ruslow leading to Craig Park and on east to Tri-City Park. Important, if small, steps have been taken towards mak­ How neighborhoods will be protected as toxic chemicals are removed has not been answered. ing Fullerton a safer place to ride a bicycle. The city needs to be encouraged to do more to fill in the blank places and complete the bicycle plan.-VS (Related story page 12) Neighborhood Protection from Time to Renew Toxic Substances Sought The Observer was founded 25 years ago by a group of friends. Today the paper is edited by Sharon Kennedy, A neighborhood bordering the new Paseo Park currently ing neighborhood will be protected from the chemicals billow­ daughter of the founding editor, the late Ralph Kennedy. under construction on Truslow in Fullerton also lies in the ing into the air during the dig-n-haul process, have not been Stories are written by community volunteers who really care pathway of possible problems related to the removal of tox­ answered by either Sempra or the DTSC. Other questions con­ about the topics they are covering. This makes for a unique ins from a former gas manufacturing site at 144 W. Walnut, cerning where the transported toxic material is headed have also community driven paper with a wide range of ideas and owned by Sempra Energy. remained unanswered to date. opinions. From a publication originally distributed from The site has been found to Contain a series of chemicals Sempra plans to send a “fact-sheet” out this month to those neighbor to neighbor, today the paper is read by 10,000 called Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). Some within a quarter mile of the site but said that there was not enough households in Fullerton. Once a year, around September/ in the series of 100 compounds are relatively harmless while public interest in the topic to hold a hearing. According to the October, the Observer invites all our old subscribers and others are known cancer causers and some can damage the DTSC, out of 1000 notices sent out to neighbors only 30 replies any new subscribers to send in a bit of their hard earned DNA. Some of the chemicals at the site have been found to were received. money to help support independent' news in Fullerton. At be of the cancer-causing variety. Following its mandate to A work-plan on the dig-n-haul, scheduled for the end of Oc­ the same time, because we are always looking for ways to protect the public, the California EPA Department of Toxic tober, should be in the public library in the next few weeks. improve the paper, we welcome your thoughts, ideas and Substance Control has accepted Sempra Energy’s voluntary The interested public may contact Sempra at (323) 881-3552 suggestions. Thank you for supporting the Fullerton Ob­ plan to remove the top five feet of soil from the entire site. or California EPA DTSC at (916) 324-3142 with requests to be server Community Newspaper! Repeated requests for information on how the surround­ added to the mailing list. S E N D T O : Know Fullerton Read the Observer! $25/Fullerton ($35 Out of Town) NAME ................... .......................... PRIVACY PROMISE FULLERTON HOUSE # & STREET The Observer PRESORTED OBSERVER Subscriber List is TOWN STANDARD U.S. PO Box 7051 POSTAGE Fullerton CA STATE ............. PAID 92834 Z I P ......................... Permit No. 1577 525-6402 PHONE NUMBER ................... Fullerton, CA Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Page 2 Fullerton Observer SEPTEMBER 1,2003 COMMUNITY OPINIONS more next page The Middle Game (At$, Mitt TPtR.'i FfrStfiOfJ S(/MM£R ZOOS of Law & Order fey Vince Buck Perhaps the biggest lie told by the Bush Administration in the lead up to the war in Iraq was that the war was going to bring about regime change. Regime change was never a possibility. No viable opposition was available to install as a new regime. Lacking a new regime to install, the Bush administration engaged in regime removal, creating in its place a situation far more fraught with danger for the United States than the situation that existed before. My principal reason for opposing this war was that little thought had been given Even the Bush to the endgame: the situation 5,10 or 30 administration, years in the future. We are currently pay­ ing the price - including this war— for which has been the machinations of the British at the end so good at self of World War I, over 80 years ago. What deception, is price will we pay over the next century for this adventure? The Bush adminis­ starting to see tration has never addressed that question. the light... Applaud City Leaders for Of greater immediate concern is that Dear City Council and far too little attention was given to the middle game: how to maintain Renaissance order and establish a new order once the old order was removed. The City Manager: About Tony and Joe Florentine have been longtime business owners in our Bush administration was so anxious to get rid of Saddam that they that 6-inch Patio beautiful Downtown. They put their money and their efforts into creating irresponsibly removed him with no realistic strategy of what to do a business in an area that had been woefully neglected by the city for next. Saddam government posed little real threat to the United States, many years. The steel framing to enclose the patio so the Bush Administration created one in the minds of the American The current renaissance in the downtown area is occurring for many is now constructed over the block wall reasons, one of which is the dedication and hard work of our Downtown people (as previous administrations had done before with Hafez Assad, at Florentine’s. I have not received a re­ Muammar Qaddafi and Manual Noriega): weapons of mass destruc­ restaurant owners. Downtown Fullerton is used as an example for other ply to my letter of July 16 in which I cities all over the country because our current city leaders and staff have tion ready to be deployed and links with A1 Qaeda. They then con­ suggested the patio and the wall be re­ made a concerted effort to be pro-business.