Fullerton Arboretum Earns Highest Level Accreditation
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COMMUNITY Fullerton bsCeALErNDAvR Peage 1r 3-15 O EAR FULLERTON’S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (printed on 20% recycled paper) • Y 39 #20 • EARLY DECEMBER 2017 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com Fullerton Arboretum Earns Highest Level Accreditation Recognized for its commitment to studying and protecting the world’s flora, the Fullerton Arboretum on the campus of Cal State Fullerton has received ArbNet’s highest level of accreditation. The 26-acre botanical garden — a part - nership between Cal State Fullerton and the city of Fullerton spanning nearly four decades — is one of three such preserves in the state of California and one of 21 in the world to achieve the Level IV accredi - tation. “Not only does the accreditation demonstrate that the Fullerton Arboretum operates in accordance with the same professional standards as many of the other higher achieving arboreta around the world, but it also presents our arboretum as an institution that is willing and able to collaborate in plant conserva - tion and other botanical research on a global scale,” said Gregory Dyment, direc - tor of the Fullerton Arboretum. continued on page 4 The 26-acre Fullerton Arboretum on the campus of Cal State Fullerton features various garden environments from desert, subtropical, bamboo forests, to woodland lake, stream, conifers, orhards, a cultivated farm, children’s garden and more. PHOTO BY DAMION LLOYD PLUMMER AUDITORIUM , A L OCAL TREASURE IN JEOPARDY 7 . A 7 S by Terry Galvin The “jeopardy” is being caused by some ADA accessible front row seats. The cost D . 5 C I D 1 U A E of the proposed changes to alter the build - . would be an unfortunate waste of public N P T D O O E R Everyone in Fullerton must be aware of ing for additional ADA access. Some of funds when an acceptable option is to add R N T G A O R T Plummer Auditorium, easily one of the those improvements will cause the A more accessible seats to the main floor, S D I E T E L N S top 5 major historic buildings in the city. destruction of a portion of the original M which was altered from its 1931 condition R L A O P R T U P It was placed on the National Register in 1931 historic balcony and will impact E in 1972. The Board of Trustees has S F P 1993, after a substantial improvement other key historic features of the building. already given direction to their staff to project funded by the Fullerton Improving accessibility is a good thing include the destructive balcony option in Redevelopment Agency. Great care was unless it is done without considering the final plans to be approved in the near taken to preserve the many historic fea - other options with less adverse impacts. future. continued on page 5 tures of the building while upgrading the The State Historical Building Code adjacent restrooms to ADA (Americans requires alternative measures to be imple - with Disabilities Act) standards in effect at mented in order to avoid destruction of Lack of Affordable the time, adding a new restroom for the major historic features of designated his - backstage, adding air conditioning, and toric buildings. Destruction of the audi - Housing Creates T upgrading the sound and lighting equip - torium’s historic features, such as the bal - N Dilemma for E L ment, among other items. cony, will happen if the community does L D A I The building is owned by the Fullerton not express its opposition. Homeless Shelter C S 2 E Joint Union High School District The proposed “improvements” to the S E 0 R by Jesse La Tour I E 4 R (FJUHSD), which is in the process of balcony involve spending about $650,000 T V 6 R Earlier this year, Orange County - R developing plans for seismic upgrades for of public funds for construction of a two- T E E 5 V opened Bridges at Kraemer in Anaheim, S N the clock tower and the auditorium. That story addition on the east (Lemon) side of 2 D B E the county’s first 24-hour homeless shel - 5 will be a welcome improvement and will the building for an elevator and two bath - A - R O ter. This provided beds for 100 of the esti - 4 assure that the building can function safe - rooms and destruction of more than two O R E 1 mated 4,800 homeless residents of the T 7 U H ly far into the future. rows of balcony seats, all to provide two T C county. N The original policy was that individuals I R WHAT ARE REPRESENTATIVES DOING FOR US? P ART I: would be able to stay at the shelter for up O to six months while they transitioned into Ed Royce Voting Record: 1993-2017 permanent homes. However, due to a lack of affordable housing choices across the by Jesse La Tour Representative Ed Royce was first elected region, the deadline came too soon and in 1992, and has been continuously re- This series takes a look at what our Mercy House (which runs the shelter) elected since then. He will be running for elected officials are doing in their posi - released eight people back onto the streets. re-election in 2018. tions as they represent us. Part I looks at After this decision, the county decided Because Rep. Royce has been in office U.S. Representative Royce. Parts II and to change its policy. Mercy House was for nearly 25 years, it would take several III will look at state Assemblymember given the discretion to extend the deadline volumes to give a complete account of the 4 Quirk-Silva and state Senator Newman. and five of the eight have returned. 3 hundreds of bills he has voted on. A sum - 8 N Susan Price, Orange County Director 2 The summaries use data available from R 9 1 mation of Royce’s votes on several key O 5 E the helpful unbiased web site www.votes - of Care Coordination, said that housing A 0 T bills, organized by policy areas such as V 7 C mart.org , which allows voters to research has been found for 32 of the original 100 R R X N health care, labor, education, defense, etc. E E people who came to the shelter. She said O all bills (past and present), as well as cam - O L S is on pages 10 and 11. For more in-depth B T paign contributions, key positions, and that construction is expected to finish on R L B O information, visit www.votesmart.org, E P space for an additional 100 beds by late U other important data regarding their rep - L O L type in Ed Royce, and begin your F resentatives. April/early May 2018. U research! F U.S. Congressional 39th District continued on page 10 & 11 continued on page 4 Page 2OBSERVER COMMUNITY OPINIONS CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 EARLY DECEMBER 2017 has only a big mouth, is considerably less OUT OF MY MIND fraught than one with Kim Jong Un who Fullerton has nukes and ICBMs. by Jon Dobrer © 2017 Then there’s his lobbying for the elec - Observer tion of Roy Moore, accused of sexual con - tact with underage girls. Trump defends The Fullerton Observer Community his position by saying how important the Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie The Curse of Interesting Times Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is Republican seat is in the Senate. This hyp - staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, We do live in interesting times. We have an important historical figure, so how is ocrite who claims the Bible is his favorite publish, and distribute the paper throughout a president, whose government is rent by that a slur? Hymie is a fine Jewish name, book (though a close second is his The Art our community. far more conflict than either Obama’s or but don’t think of referring to Sen Chuck of the Deal ), seems to have missed the This venture is a not-for-profit one with all Lincoln’s “team(s) of rivals.” All cabinets Schumer as Hymie, or Sen Cruz as mark, by missing Mark 8:36, “For what ad and subscription revenues plowed back into fight and have struggles for power and Pancho. These are honorable names but maintaining and improving our independent, will it profit a man if he should gain the non-partisan, non-sectarian community news - elbow one another in order to get into the the context would make them painful whole world but lose his soul.” paper. spotlight. But this is different. stereotypes and slurs. He’s even denying that his recorded Our purpose is to inform Fullerton residents Two of the so-called grown-ups in Who else can’t let go of the racist canard conversation with Billy Bush, where he about the institutions and other societal forces President Trump’s cabinet are in a bitter that Obama is not a real American and bragged about committing sexual assault which most impact their lives, so that they may feud. 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