Residents Ask Representative Ed Royce to Stand up by Barbara Sobin
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COMMUNITY Fullerto♥ n bsCeALErNDAvR Peage 1r 0-11 O EAR FULLERTON’S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (printed on 20% recycled paper) • Y 39 #4 • EARLY MARCH 2017 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com Coyote Hills Nature MAPLE MURAL : Walk March 11 Artist The Friends of Coyote Hills will hold Katherine a Nature Walk in the West Coyote Hills England on March 11 from 9am to 11am. Meet and crew at the Laguna Lake Equestrian Center Sue Ferrante, on Lakeview Drive. Bring water and Aya Kinoshita, wear comfortable shoes. Free. Visit Nancy Francis, www.coyotehills.org for information. 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Warne Family Endowment Fund, a program 5th grant program of the OC Community grade Master Foundation, announced a $50,000 Mosaics class. grant to the City of Fullerton to assist in Ribbon cutting acquisition of land at West Coyote Hills. is on Visit www.cityoffullerton.com/westcoy - March 10. otehills for more information or contact Parks & Recreation Manager Alice Loya at [email protected]. TROY SHOOTER SUSPECTS Residents Ask Representative ENROLL AT LA SIERRA Ed Royce to Stand Up by Barbara Sobin Two 16-year-old Troy students were arrested by 7 . A Fullrton Police on February 1, 2017 for plotting to 7 S D . 5 C I D 1 “shoot up” the Troy campus in an event “bigger U It’s “homecoming week” for US and this is not a normal administra - A E . N P T D than Columbine.” A warranted search by police of O Congressmen. District 39 tion. For this reason, the group O E R R N T G A O Congressman Ed Royce’s constituents expressed the belief that Congressman the students’ computers showed they had conduct - R T A S D I E T E have been writing and phoning him Royce needs to stand with his con - ed internet searches on school shootings and L N S M R L A O P R expressing concerns over a variety of stituents and do what is morally and firearms prior to their arrest, however no weapons T U P E S F P matters and requesting that he hold an patriotically right, even if it means were found at their homes in Anaheim. in-person town hall meeting. These breaking with his party on some issues. The students have been newly enrolled in the letters are all answered with form let - Many in the group expressed con - Fullerton High School District’s on-line education - ters and statements that he has no plan cerns about repealing and replacing al program which includes a once-a-week meeting to hold a town hall meeting. the ACA and several people told sto - with a teacher on the La Sierra/La Vista Campus, Since the congressman failed to hold ries about how crucial the act has been located adjacent to Troy High. the requested town hall, the Indivisible for the health of their families. A pedi - According to a parent, none of the La Sierra/La group joined the Service Employees atrician from Brea pointed out that Vista teachers or parents were notified that these International Union in a candlelight many of her patients are totally students, who need careful supervision, were on T vigil to his home. Two hundred people dependent on the ACA. the campus. However, an email memo was sent to N Troy High teachers who were asked not to share E joined the peaceful march from Many participants said that they are L L D Hiltscher Park to Royce’s home (which deeply concerned about climate the information. FJUHSD Boardmembers con - A I C S was protected by a half dozen change, elimination of the EPA tacted said they were not notified. Superintendent 2 E S E 0 R I Fullerton police officers) on the (Environmental Protection Agency), Scambray failed to return a call from the Observer . E 4 R T V 6 R evening of February 23 where they repeal of regulations that protect our - R T E E 5 ARSON SUSPECT ARRESTED V expressed their support for the ACA air and water, and the threatened can - S N 2 D B E (Affordable Care Act) and immigrant celation of the Paris Climate agree - 5 Fullerton Police officers conducting surveillance A - R O families. Visit www.indivisibleca- ment. 4 in the area plagued with fires in the 1200 block of O R E 1 d39.org for info on Indivisible. Fears were also expressed about the N. Gilbert Street watched as Esther Eunjung Cha, T 7 U H T Sixty to eighty constituents have vis - racist alt-right advisors, Steve Bannon C 24, of Fullerton attempted to start two separate N ited Royce’s Brea office every day to and Steve Miller, having such tremen - fires on February 19. She was approached by offi - I R deliver messages with their concerns dous influence in the administration cers and taken into custody for arson. She admit - O and requests that he meet face to face and Trump’s choice of Bannon to serve ted to setting numerous fires within the area. with his constituents. With no on the NSC (National Security Anyone with information is asked to contact answer, the Indivisible 39 group Council). The Russian involvement in Fullerton Police Dept. Property Crimes Sgt. K. organized a town-hall-style dinner at our election and the potential role of Hamel at 714-738-5336 or by email to the Fullerton Sizzler on February 22 several people in the Trump adminis - [email protected]. Anonymous information and invited Congressman Royce to tration was a topic of major concern can be provided by calling 1(855) TIP-OCCS or at attend. Although Royce failed to show with a call to support an independent www.occrimestoppers.org. up, a group of over 100 constituents commission to investigate. The OC District Attorney, on February 22, did attend and spent several hours There were great concerns about the charged Cha with four felony counts of arson of 4 talking to an empty chair with Ed future of public education and the another’s property, two felony counts of attempted 3 8 N Royce’s picture on it. possible decrease in services for chil - arson, and misdemeanor counts of possession of 2 R 9 1 O 5 E Each attendee was offered the dren with special needs. A high school methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. Cha is A 0 T V 7 C opportunity to raise a topic and government teacher spoke about how accused of setting fires at the Fullerton Hills R R X N E address the empty chair about their much she loves teaching her students E Apartments including the contents of a trash can O O L S B T concerns. A very long list was devel - about government, but that their located in the mailroom, a cardboard box in the R L B O E P oped and will be delivered to the con - motivation in coming to school cen - laundry room, and the building’s dumpster. U L O L F gressman. Participants expressed con - ters around music, the arts and sports. If convicted, Cha faces a maximum of eight years U F cerns that these are not normal times Continued on page 7 in state prison. 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