Chevron's West Coyote Hills Approval Appealed by Friends
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COMMUNITY ullerto♥ n bsCeALErNDAvR Peage 1r 4-15 FULLEFRTON’S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (printed oOn 20% recycled paper) • YEAR 37 #18 • EARLY NOVEMBER 2015 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com Chevron’s West Coyote Hills Approval Appealed by Friends The Planning Commission approved Chevron’s development proposal for West Coyote Hills in a 6-1 vote at the October 22 meeting at City Hall and during the session residents learned some new “facts.” The commission’s approval of the Chevron proposal for 760 homes on West Coyote Hills is final unless chal - lenged by an appeal within 10 days. Friends of Coyote Hills, the group that has been working for years to pre - serve the land as open space and which put the successful Measure W on the 2012 ballot that overturned Chevron’s prior development approval, is filing an appeal this week. Stay tuned for a date not yet set when the issue will come up before City Council for a final decision. Thirty-three people made comments on the proposal during the hearing. The great majority opposed the plan citing water issues, pollution, earth - quake, liquifaction, traffic, and the Continued on page 5 To celebrate the day, students and staff wore mis-matched socks The Million Misfit Sock March and signed a pledge to be a friend to all, stand up for others and Beechwood School Elementary participated for the third year in not be a bystander to bullying. In photo above, Dr. Bak and her a row in the annual event which encourages people to celebrate students show off their mis-matched socks at the Oct. 23 event. 7 . A 7 S what makes them different and take a stand against bullying. D . 5 C - EISA ROSAS I D 1 U A E . N P T D O O E R R N T G A O R Traffic Accident T A S ETERANS AY ARADE D I V D P E T E On Oct. 21, a 24-year-old Fullerton L N S M R L A O P R Brigadier General Sylvia R. 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The Crew at Fullerton Observer Page 2FULLERTON OBSERVER COLUMN & COMMUNITY OPINIONS EARLY NOVEMBER 2015 PASSION FOR JUSTICE by Synthia Tran reached Pulau Bidong. The United Fullerton Nations and the Malaysia delegations came out to welcome us. As we were Observer pulled from our boat, the delegations were The Fateful Trip (Part 3) quite shocked and stopped counting The Fullerton Observer Community when they saw over a hundred of us in a Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie The boat was suddenly slowing down enough gasoline for our trip, the realiza - boat that was designed for about twenty Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is and the engine went out again. While the tion still came to us as a shock. We had to staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, or thirty at the most. publish, and distribute the paper throughout mechanic was fixing it, we the passengers sew all of the materials and fabric we had We were told to sit on the ground for a our community. were praying hard. I had never imagined together, hang them up on the mast, and while to regain our balance and as we sat This venture is a not-for-profit one with that the waves were so big in the open sea; let the wind blow the boat along. there we felt as though the ground was all ad and subscription revenues plowed back they hit the boat and made it move The boat captain told us that if the moving back and forth under us. into maintaining and improving our inde - strongly from side to side like a heavy wind stayed favorable even if no one res - pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - We were given instant noodles to eat, munity newspaper. drunk man. Sometimes I feared it might cued us we could reach Pulau and that was the best cup of Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - turn all the way over and sink. During Bidong, an island of noodles I have ever eaten in dents about the institutions and other socie - those violent moves, the seawater splashed Malaysia, where a refugee The boat captain my entire life. Tears were tal forces which most impact their lives, so into the boat; drenching everyone; people camp had been established rolling down my face as I that they may be empowered to participate trembled, children cried and everyone by the UN, within the next told us that in constructive ways to keep and make these thought how lucky we were. private and public entities serve all residents prayed loudly. day. if the wind We could have died in the in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible This area of the sea was next to the But if the wind changed its stayed favorable, ocean. Our trip was very ways. Thailand Bay, where Thai pirates commit - direction, or the weather got short (3 days and 2 nights) Through our extensive local calendar and ted many crimes against boat people, they bad, or the Thai pirates visit - even if no one compared to others, which other coverage, we seek to promote a sense killed men, raped women, and threw chil - ed us, we would not be able of community and an appreciation for the rescued us lasted weeks longer. We were values of diversity with which our country is dren into the sea. My family and I held to predict what would hap - so fortunate to have an expe - so uniquely blessed. hands to stay strong against this horrible pen then. we could rienced captain who had feeling while we continued praying. We At noon, a Thai fishing reach an island, been in the Navy and a tal - UBMISSIONS S : had no choice but were willing to accept boat came toward us.