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by Jesse La Tour

In conjunction with rallies and protests across the country against the recent abor - tion ban legislation in states like Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio, about 100 people showed up during rush hour at the corner of Imperial Hwy & State College in Brea on May 21st to voice their opposition to attempts at rolling back abortion rights. “There are so many people all over the country who are coming out and protest - ing the recent legislation in Alabama, Missouri, and other states that are really clamping down on abortion rights, and trying to do away with Roe v. Wade ,” said Debbie Langenbacher, who helped organ - ize the protest. “One of the things that I’m pleased with is it seems we get a lot of peo - ple honking and waving in support of what we’re doing and what we have to say. We’ve only had one heckler so far.” “I’m very concerned about the recent laws that have been passed in different states, and I really don’t think it’s the gov - ernment’s job to make decisions for women about their bodies, especially with About 100 people rallied on the corner of Imperial Hwy and State College Blvd in support of Womens’ Rights a law that’s been established for over 50 and in opposition to recent attempts to roll back safe abortion. - PHOTO JESSE LA TOUR years,” another protestor named Pat said. and I know of too many country that this is wrong,” said Jim pen. It was scary because it was impossi - Fullerton resident Suzanne young women who died try - Gallagher, “ Roe v. Wade is the law of the ble. And now it’s scary because it’s hap - Benet said, “It’s really impor - “There is ing to abort themselves,” land and we’re supporting it. How dare pening.” tant to raise awareness about a coordinated said a protestor named they roll it back?” Fullerton resident and retired educator all the bans going on across Chris. One protestor was wearing a costume Marcy Fry said, “I’m not pro-abortion. the country right now, and effort going on There were also some men from the classic dystopian novel (and now I’m pro choice. And I just feel like it’s a how they can impact federal where they’re at the protest, also voicing TV series) The Handmaid’s Tale . very difficult thing for women to make law. We need to stay vigilant attacking their opposition to the “It is a story about what happens when this choice, but it is their right, and I don’t about raising awareness in women’s rights recent abortion bans. women have no freedom and no ability to feel it’s right to take that away from them. our own communities, and “This is a dangerous trend, control what happens to them,” she The government should not be involved banding together to keep to choose what all the states passing abor - explained, “When it was written, it was in medical decisions. That’s a very person - women’s reproductive rights to do with their tion bans, obviously target - fantastical, and it was never going to hap - al choice.” intact.” own bodies. ing Roe v. Wade ,” said Harry The protest drew a wide And we need to Langenbacher, “Trump has range of people from differ - done his best to put anti- Quirk-Silva’s Shelter Proposal for Severely ent backgrounds. Some of the send that message Roe v. Wade justices on the folks at the protest were old all over this court and that’s where it’s Medically Ill Homeless Heads to June Vote enough to remember country that headed...I think it’s very Governor Gavin Newson announced of the Fairview state property for Orange America before Roe v. Wade , this is wrong,” dangerous. It’s an attack on the landmark case that estab - women’s rights and an attack his adoption of Orange County County’s neediest and despairing resi - lished the right to abortions Jim Gallagher on human rights. And that’s Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva’s dents. nationwide. something we always gotta proposal that seeks to provide options at “These men and women are our hidden “In the 1970s, I helped my show up for.” the State’s Fairview Developmental neighbors; they come from all over best friend in college get an illegal abor - “We need to have our voices heard Center, for Orange County’s homeless. Orange County, and need shelter and tion, and I cannot believe I’m standing when it comes to women’s rights. There is To address the immediate crisis of medical care, in order to find stability and here fighting this fight again,” said one a coordinated effort going on where homelessness and severe medically ill hope,” Quirk-Silva said. woman. they’re attacking women’s rights to choose Orange County residents, the Governor Quirk-Silva’s legislation and the “I am old enough that I lived during the what to do with their own bodies. And we has included authorization to move for - Governor’s support is a very personal issue time when we did not have Roe v. Wade , need to send that message all over this ward to house and treat approximately for the OC Assemblywoman because her 200 OC residents who have no shelter, brother, who faced mental and alcoholism security or medical treatment. issues, recently died on the streets of High Speed Fiber Network Coming to Fullerton Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva, author of Orange County. Assembly Bill 1295, which is reflected in The revised budget will now undergo a Construction is expected to begin this GigabitNow. Pre-subscribers will benefit the Governor’s budget proposal, praised thorough vetting and public review month on a citywide high speed fiber from the best deals; and the first homes the Governor’s support for consideration process and be voted upon later in June. optic network. The privately-funded pro - will receive service before the end of the gram, built and operated by SiFi year. For more information about the Networks will be an open access network project, visit www.fullertonfibercity.com . enabling a choice of internet service FULLERTON WATER QUALITY REPORT providers while saving customers money Should Sunny Hills VAILABLE TO HOSE HO IGN P on what is described as one of the most A T W S U reliable networks in the US. Post Office Be Closed? This year’s annual water quality www.cityoffullerton.com/2019CCR . The construction uses a technique The US Postal Service is considering report, titled “City of Fullerton 2019 The City Water Department pro - called micro-trenching which causes min - closing the Sunny Hills Post Office Consumer Confidence Report” will be vides water to businesses and more imal disruption to streets. because the landlord has issued a termina - available on July 1, 2019 to anyone than 140,000 residents. The depart - The Fullerton FiberCity project will tion letter and will not renew the lease. who has sent a request to be on the ment operates and maintains over 420 provide a significant upgrade to internet A public meeting will be held to explain mailing list. miles of water pipes and 67.5 million speeds and accommodate a growing the proposal and possible relocation and Traditionally, customers received the gallons of water storage to deliver 8 bil - demand for data from next generation hear comments at 10am, Wednesday, June report with their water bill in the mail. lion gallons of water annually. devices in local households and business - 5 in the lobby of the Sunnyhills Post But this year customers will have to Fullerton’s water comes from two es. It will also facilitate new smart city ini - Office, 1820 N. Sunnycrest Drive. request the report to receive it in the sources. The water department pumps tiatives in key government services, such After the public meeting, the public mail. about 70% from the aquifer managed as traffic control, street lighting and emer - may submit written comments for 30 To request a copy by mail, email by the Orange County Water District. gency services. days to: [email protected] or call (714) The department purchases the remain - The primary internet service providers Dean Cameron, Pacific Facilities 738-2835. You can also pick up a copy der from the Metropolitan Water on the network will be GigabitNow and Service Office, US Postal Service, at Fullerton City Hall, 303 W. District which imports water from the Ting. Customers are able to pre-subscribe 1300 Evans Ave., Ste 200, Commonwealth or view by visiting Colorado River and the Sierra Nevada. to service now with either Ting or San Francisco, CA 94188-8200. EARLY JUNE 2019 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 3

HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOUND At Left: Speaker IN FULLERTON Continued from frontpage Oree Freeman She ran away from her foster home and Immigration and Customs Enforcement survived her new friend took her to the home of a if she tried to leave. She developed what is being sex-trafficker who began trafficking her known as a “Trauma Bond” with her traf - trafficked as on the streets of Orange County. ficker. She raised his children like they a child and She continued going to school and even were her own while being threatened that now works played sports at school, but “No one at her own child would be harmed if she left. with Saving my school knew I was trafficked,” she Ms. Taylor met the client at Target to Innocence, a said.“ She also said, “No one asked if I was talk about a program with a safe place, non-profit ok.” The trafficker had tattooed her neck potential immigration relief, being able to that helps and not even a doctor asked about that. see her daughter again, and possibly get bring Ms. Freeman recalled a situation when money for her unpaid work. Ms. Taylor awareness at the age of 12 and “wearing very little developed a trust with her client, who to end clothes,” she walked into a McDonalds learned to feel safe, in control, and set human and a mother clutched her child close to appropriate boundaries. Now her client is trafficking. her. The mother did not realize Ms. safe and in a nursing certificate program. Freeman was a child too and also needed Ms. Taylor recommended that when PHOTO BY to be protected. something doesn’t seem right, one should JESSE JA TOUR Ms. Freeman said that traffickers lever - observe and assess whether a potential vic - age a person’s insecurity. She said 78% of tim appears controlled or unable to speak exploited children have been sexually for themselves, cannot leave a job, some - abused at home. A trafficker’s control is one else has their immigration docu - city in Orange County because the inter - Event organizers recommended joining “more mental than anything,” ments, or they fear for the net is everywhere. “Even in Irvine,” he Polarisproject.org and carrying the Hotline she explained as she described safety of family members “Sex trafficking said. It just “looks different and costs number for victims to call 888-3737-888 her experience. “Normal was or themselves. more.” or text “be Free.” being raped 7 to 15 times a is in every city in Bethany Anderson, On June 13 at 1pm in the Mural Room The OC Human Trafficking Task Force night,” and, “Living to make Orange County Director of Camino at the Fullerton Police Station there will will have their next meeting on June 26 at money for somebody else.” Immigration Services be a Fullerton Human Trafficking 10:30 am at 1221 East Dyer Road Suite At 15 she was finally safe, liv - because the (www.caminoimmigra - Partnership Meeting for businesses and 120, Santa Ana, CA 92705. For more ing at Crittenden Agency internet is tionservices.org ), who community members to get more information please contact Linh Tran at (www.crittentonsocal.org ). works with Solidarity ( soli - involved locally. [email protected] or 714-765-7938. “That place saved my life,” she everywhere.” daritynpo.org ), a non-profit said. They saw her “as a human Sgt. Juan Reveles,OC that works with communi - being and as a child.” She asked Human Trafficking ties living in the Garnet that others would see children Task Force and Maple neighborhoods Negotiations with New Owner Not and adult victims of trafficking of Fullerton, said as humans too. “Immigration and human Working for Rancho La Paz Residents She alerted parents that traf - trafficking interact togeth - fickers have access to their children if their er.” The immigration system is difficult to Continued from frontpage team said his new payment would be so children have access to the internet and navigate and it’s difficult to apply for legal prohibitive he would not be able to buy she urged parents to “have that uncom - status, thus creating an increased risk of So negotiations are not productive. his grandchildren Christmas presents or fortable conversation with your kids.” exploitation where work goes unpaid or John Saunders just knows he is hold - take a vacation to see them, Mr. Not all human trafficking is sex traffick - underpaid. ing our homes hostage.” Saunders replied: “You must decide if ing. Stephanie Taylor, who is an anti-traf - People who arrive with or without doc - According to Ramirez, since Saunders you want to buy clothes, or go out to eat, ficking program coordinator for the umentation can “come forward as victims bought the park, more than 10% of the or pay your space rent.” Salvation Army ( https://orangecounty.salva - of trafficking” and apply for legal status. residents are selling their homes (40 Harrison asked council to direct city tionarmy.org/orange_county_ca/anti-traf - Ms. Anderson provides affordable immi - units). When she bought staff to prepare a report her home 5 years ago there ficking-services-2 ) and serves on the OC gration services to people who have been San Juan from the easily accessible Human Trafficking Task Force trafficked and for victims of violent were only 3 for sale. public information on Mr. (https://www.ochumantrafficking,com) crimes and domestic violence. At the May 21st Capistrano Saunders’ track record. spoke next. She provided the federal defi - Camille Hernandez from OC United Fullerton City Council “His reputation and the meeting, during public has an nition of Labor Trafficking under the talked about providing “Trauma ordinance that trail of misery he has left are Trafficking Victims Protection Act Informed Community Development.” comments, Jean Perez, who blatantly obvious,” Harrison (TVPA) of 2000. (www.ocunited.org/events/respite-confer - is on the negotiating com - protects residents said. “Waiting until the sec - Labor Trafficking is defined as “the ence ) She said children who are abused, mittee from the newly- ond council meeting in July formed Rancho La Paz of mobile home recruitment, harboring, transportation, neglected, or live with household disfunc - parks from is likely to be too late to pre - provision, or obtaining of a person for tion have a high level of trauma that Homeowners Association, vent the human toll he’s tak - labor or services, through the use of force, makes them vulnerable. agreed that negotiations exorbitant rent ing on the residents.” fraud, or coercion for the purpose of sub - She referenced a book called Pimpology: with Saunders have not Harrison asked council to gone well. increases. jection to involuntary servitude, peonage, The 48 Laws of the Game which describes I think enact some sort of anti- debt bondage, or slavery.” Sex Trafficking how pimps control persons by either prey - “I am sad to say that gouging ordinance to pro - under the TVPA involves similar circum - ing on their weaknesses or by tearing Rancho La Paz we have a tect the residents of Rancho stances, but in which the ”person induced them down and then making them Homeowners Association La Paz. negotiations with John justifiable reason to perform (a commercial sex act) has not dependent on their “pimp” for restoring for such Councilmember Flory attained 18 years of age.“ their self-worth. Saunders have not pro - said, “I am very concerned Ms. Taylor showed a 2014 public serv - Sgt. Juan Reveles from the OC Human duced an offer that could be an ordinance about Rancho La Paz, and I ice announcement called “Broken trafficking Task Force spoke last after agreed upon,” Perez said. in our city. would like to see our staff Dreams” (available on YouTube: returning from San Bernardino where he “There have been long- take a look at local ordi - term goals presented by Mr. Councilmember www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkMG86Rsum said they discovered that a victim had Jan Flory nances that have dealt with g) about a daughter, a father, and a recent returned to her CA trafficker after advo - Saunders that would not this issue before.” college graduate, all surreptitiously cates had flown her to Minnesota. allow many living in the Flory said she was not sure recruited into slavery. In Orange County, Like Ms. Hernandez, Reveles referenced park to remain in our about rent control, “but I do believe that people “drawn to a better life” can end up a book called The Naked Soul of Pimps homes.” when a landowner comes into the com - in domestic servitude, as nannies, or and Prostitutes , read by OC law enforce - “I wouldn’t want to see Fullerton and munity and raises rents that forces peo - exploited in hotel and motel or construc - ment according to a 2015 OC Register Anaheim put more people out on the ple out, there ought to be some mecha - tion industries. article. He said the book explains how a street because they have no means to nism for making those people whole…I Last year there was a call from Fullerton pimp fills the role of “daddy” for women pay,” Perez said. “We’re just hoping and think we should be prepared if the resi - to the national trafficking hotline. Ms. and girls who were neglected as children. we’re asking that you would help us dents and the new owner are unable to Taylor was given a phone number to con - Before 2012, Sgt. Reveles explained, the somehow find a way to be able to afford reach a long term agreement.” tact the caller. She spoke with the victim District Attorney’s office had filed only 6 our homes and stay here to live.” Flory noted that San Juan Capistrano over 9 months when the employer was out pimping cases because juries were not Todd Harrison, another resident of has an ordinance that protects residents of the house and his children were at sympathetic to victims who were prosti - Rancho La Paz, said that he is one of the of mobile home parks from exorbitant school. tutes. Now they explain human traffick - “endangered residents” of the mobile rent increases. “Undocumented individuals are highly ing to a jury before the victim enters the home park. Harrison said that during “I think we would have a rational, jus - vulnerable,” Ms. Taylor said. This victim court room to help the jury “see through one of the negotiations Mr. Saunders tifiable reason for imposing such an ordi - had lived here for 11 years but hadn’t been (the victim’s) defense of her pimp.” said, “I am not negotiating with anyone. nance on mobile home park owners in further than the Target around the corner. He said that sex trafficking is in every We are just talking.” our city,” Flory said. Her traffickers threatened to call When a member of the negotiating Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS EARLY JUNE 2019 CITY COUNCIL NOTES First Muslim Invocation by Jesse La Tour in Council History The Council meets at 6:30pm on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Upcoming agenda information and streaming video Shaykh Mustafa Umar, from the Islamic of council meetings are available at www.cityoffullerton.com. Institute of Orange County, is the first Meetings are broadcast live on Cable Ch 3 and rebroadcast Muslim in Fullerton’s history to give the at 3pm and 6pm the following Wed. & Sun. & 5pm Mon. traditional invocation/prayer before the City Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton. council meeting. Contact council at 714-738-6311 or by email to: [email protected] “Thank you for having me. This is truly an honor to be the first Muslim to give the invocation here at Fullerton City May 21 City Council Meeting Council,” Umar said, “It’s also special (Next meeting Tuesday, June 4 at 6:30pm. because it’s our holy month of Ramadan, Come see your local government in action!) where we’ve been fasting all month.” City Councilmmber Ahmad Zahra, Closed Session: Before every public city council meeting, there is a “closed ses - who invited Umar to give the invocation, said, “It’s about us being a diverse com - sion” in which council meets with various parties to discuss items outside view of the Shaykh Mustafa Umar, from the Islamic public. During this week’s closed session, council met with representatives of various munity. Fullerton is diverse, and we have many different people from many differ - Institute of Orange County, gives the public employee unions (police, fire, city employees) to negotiate salaries, benefits, and invocation before the council meeting. working conditions. Council also met with legal counsel to discuss the case Orange ent walks of life and different faiths and I County Catholic Worker et al v. Orange County et al (the ongoing court case regarding think it’s important for us as a city to the county’s lack of homeless shelter and services). Finally, council met with legal coun - show that we are inclusive of everybody. We’re all Fullertonians—whether you are sel to discuss two ongoing OC Superior Court cases: Cicinelli v. City of Fullerton, et al. Muslim, Christian, Jewish—everybody is a part of this.” and Wolfe v. City of Fullerton City Council . Cicinelli and Wolfe are two former Fullerton police officers who were fired over their involvement in the Kelly Thomas death. Following the acquittal of Cicinelli, and charges being dropped against Wolfe, they Staff Presents Budget Proposal have both sued the city/city council for wrongful termination, and are hoping to either Michael O’Kelly, director of mately $2.8 million. The City has experi - get their jobs back and/or get a settlement. Administrative Services, presented council enced an actual employee vacancy rate of with a proposed 2019/2020 city budget. over 10% during FY 2018-19. The city’s total budget is $197.6 mil - Other cost-saving measures include the Community Choice Energy? lion, including capital improvement proj - reorganization of Public Works, contract - During public comment, Jose Trinidad there will be a meeting for city leaders to ects (CIP) of $24.4 million. ing street sweeping, landscape mainte - Castaneda spoke in favor of Fullerton come learn about that study. General Fund revenues are projected to nance services models, jail services con - adopting an energy model called “I’m hoping that Fullerton gets on come in over budget by approximately tract, and proposed fee revisions. Community Choice Energy, which he board with the community choice ener - $2.8 million, primarily due to one-time The proposed budget includes $24.3 said “will bring clean air and lower elec - gy,” Tudor said. revenue of $2.4 million related to the sale million of funding for street, traffic sig - tricity bills for everyone, including resi - Speaking of the move to cleaner energy, of underground utility credits. nals, sewer, storm drain, facilities and dents and business owners.” Taylor talked about how his church, The proposed budget reflects approxi - parks improvements. Castaneda said that Sonoma County Fullerton First Lutheran, just installed mately 28 full-time city positions as Council is scheduled to officially adopt has instituted community choice energy solar panels on their roof, which will save vacant (a 4% vacancy rate), or approxi - the budget on June 4. with great results. them about $7000/year on energy costs, “Community Choice Energy is a pro - and the cost of the panels themselves will City Manager Named Acting City Treasurer gram where they aggregate energy and be paid off in around three years. Michael O’Kelly, Fullerton’s Director of The City Treasurer is a key position in have a plan where citizens can buy into it. “We are past the tipping point for solar Administrative Services (who also serves Fullerton, responsible for the receipt and It’s very cost-effective,” resident Wayne energy being economically viable here in as the City Treasurer) resigned at the end disbursement of all city funds, the man - Taylor said, and asked to have the city Southern California,” Taylor said and sug - of May to become city manager of Bell agement of the city’s $115 million invest - study the economic viability of adopting gested that the city put solar cells on the Gardens. ment portfolio and the reporting of CCE plan. roofs of all its buildings, and help citizens As a result of this, council voted 4-1 investment activity to the City Council. Patty Tudor said that Irvine is currently adopt solar energy more easily. (Whitaker “no”) to appoint Ken Domer, Whitaker said that, although he has in the midst of doing a study on Councilmember Zahra said he would Fullerton’s City Manager, to serve as act - “every faith in Mr. Domer on this, the Community Choice Energy, which like to hear more about community ing City Treasurer. optics are still problematic.” should be completed by next month, and choice energy. City Approves Agenda Forecast Residents Again Ask for Safety Measures Letter Declaring at Valencia/Lemon Crossing The next city council meeting will be Homeless Crisis Tuesday, June 4 at 6:30pm. Here are some During public comment, several resi - the careless drivers are local college stu - items on the agenda: public hearing for At the request of Councilmember dents who live in the neighborhood dents. “While I was walking my daughter water rate changes, paramedic subscrip - Ahmad Zahra, council voted unanimous - around the intersection of Lemon and after an after school program, there was a tion membership, fiscal year 2019/20 ly to send a letter in support of Assembly Valencia asked council to enhance the driver who almost ran into us,” Sandoval budget adoption, legal services agreement Bill 143, authored by Sharon Quirk-Silva, safety of that intersection, as it has been said. with Filarsky & Watt, Measure M2 eligi - to declare homelessness a “crisis”. The the site of numerous accidents, and cre - Councilmember Flory said she was very bility renewal, updated resolution setting “emergency” provision allows Orange ates a safety hazard for children who concerned about Lemon/Valencia inter - CalPers employer paid member contribu - County cities to waive the California attend Maple Elementary School. section. “The community has made this tions, annual action plan for community Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Carina Tovar, who works at Maple an issue a sufficient number of times that development block grant and housing requirement for building homeless shel - Elementary, said that her car was totalled I think it needs to be looked at. The sur - funds. Visit www.cityoffullerton.com to see ters (also called “navigation” centers). at that intersection last June. rounding community thinks it’s danger - the whole agenda. “It’s very dangerous there. We have our ous. The city is on notice,” Flory said. kinder playground right on the corner City Manager Ken Domer suggested there. There are accidents weekly. organizing a community meeting at the Something needs to happen before a big Maple Community Center to discuss the accident happens at the school,” Tovar issue with the intersection. He said, said. although the city has taken certain meas - Maria Sandoval said that they have a ures to improve safety at that intersection, crossing guard, but cars don’t respect him. he wants to work with the community to She and other speakers said that many of address this further. Extension of City Towing Contracts Council voted 3-2 (Fitzgerald and Flory “no”) to extend contracts with the Fullerton police department’s two contracted towing companies for one year (along with certain amendments), as their contracts are about to expire. The city will also be issuing a OC Animal Care Officer Given “Act of Courage” Award “request for proposals” (RFP) for professional towing services. for Saving Man from Dog Attack The two companies are Anaheim Fullerton Towing and Hadley Tow. Although the agreements with these two providers allow the option to extend the terms for an addi - OC Animal Care Officer Megan Orange County Animal Care,” Tavallodi tional two-year period, city staff believed it was in the city’s best interest to conduct a Tavallodi (above center) was honored by said, “This is a very meaningful award, new RFP process. the city and local representatives for her but I was just doing my job, and I know Mayor Protem Fitzgerald voted against the contract extension, citing “problems” with courage in saving the life of Mark K. that any of my fellow officers would have Hadley Towing. “I have seen the notebook of complaints,” Fitzgerald said, “It hasn’t Nunez from a recent vicious dog attack. done the same thing. I just happened to proven to be beneficial to us to have Hadley as a contractor.” “Thank you on behalf of everyone at be in the right place at the right time.” EARLY JUNE 2019 LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5

Council member Ahmad Zahra (far left) receives county recognition for the City from Austin Mejia, OC Supervisor Chaffee’s representative, at the raising of the Pride Flag at Fullerton City Hall. On the right is Laura Kanter, director of Policy & Advocacy at LGBT Center of OC.

Fullerton Raises the Pride Flag WWII Veteran Charles Pecoraro (standing 2nd from right) was honored at the event. - PHOTO JESSE LA TOUR by Randolph W. Baxter ty,” Zahra said, “For years, for decades, LGBTQ people have been in the closet -- The City of Fullerton raised the official 81st Annual Fullerton Memorial Day not for shame, but for fear: fear of 'com - Pride Flag on Wed, May 22 in a ceremo - ing out' and facing the discrimination ny at City Hall. The event, approved by by Ed Paul on the history of the 79th from WWI to within their communities, and often from the city council, was hosted by The 100th anniversary of the end of the present and how now, only 1% of the within their own families. And we've seen Councilmember Ahmad Zahra. The flag WWI and the role of the US Army population serves in the military, increas - this throughout history -- in extreme ver - will fly from Harvey Milk Day (May 22) Reserves was the focus of the 81st Annual ing the need for a strong reserve compo - sions during the Nazi era, when LGBTQ through the month of June to commemo - Fullerton Memorial Day Observance on nent. He also acknowledged the support folks were being killed alongside their rate Pride Month, which is celebrated in Monday, May 27, at Loma Vista of the families of all service personnel as Jewish sisters and brothers. We see cities around the world. Memorial Park, attended by an estimated they also serve. And he mentioned that he around the world today where gays, les - Harvey Milk (1930-78) was the first 2,000 people. can understand General Joseph bians, and transgender folks are killed sys - openly gay elected official in California Prior to the program, Charles Pecoraro, Dunford’s, the 2010 speaker and current tematically in places like Africa, the when he was elected to the San Francisco 100 years old, a Coast Guard veteran of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, when he Middle East and in Asia, and in countries Board of Supervisors (city WWII, and active member of Fullerton said “Fullerton has a World Class where they have capital pun - council) in 1977. He was American Legion Post 142 was recog - Memorial Day Ceremony.” ishment, beheadings and assassinated less than a year nized. Also Army veterans had profession - He paid tribute to the hundreds of vol - public executions, just for into his term. He famously “For me, al photos taken by Dave Ryan of unteers who made the ceremony possible being who you are: opposed the 1978 “Briggs this flag is Motographix, Inc., and received special and specific attention to a 19th, a 20th LGBTQ.” Initiative” (Prop 6), written by recognition pins from the AVMA in and a 21st century veteran, upon whose about our "And even in our own Fullerton State Senator John thanks for their service. This was possible graves he had placed flowers. The 19th city saying country, we were not any Briggs, which would have because of a donation by Fullerton Rotary Century veteran was Horace Jewett, Civil better, historically,” Zahra made it legal for public schools 'we see you Club. War, GAR. The 20th century veteran was continued. “People from the to fire teachers for being gay. and we Also participating in the ceremony were Warren Holmes, a WWII combat medic LGBTQ community have LGBTQ stands for Lesbian, vocalists Dave Deno and Kristen Romero, and active member of the Memorial Day love you.’” faced persecution and prose - Gay, Bisexual, Transgender the Fullerton Police and Fire committee for 30 years. The 21st cution and have to fight to and Queer -- the range of sex - Councilmember Departments, the Fullerton American Century veteran was SP-4 Santos A. get rights…hate crime still ual identities celebrated on Ahmad Zahra Legion Post 142, and the Fullerton Army Cardona, US Army, who was killed in exists, even in our own Harvey Milk's birthday (May JROTC and Troy Navy JROTC. action in Iraq. county.” 22) and throughout Pride On the prior Saturday, 300 community The ceremony was sponsored by the Recently in Orange Month (June). The rainbow-colored Pride volunteers placed crosses or Stars of David American Veterans Memorial Association, County, a young man, Blaze Bernstein, Flag is flown as a positive message against and American flags on 4,279 veterans’ Fullerton American Legion Post 142, the was killed for coming out, being killed for discrimination and violence and to cele - graves throughout the cemetery. City of Fullerton and Loma Vista who he was. Born and raised in South brate dignity and equality. June was select - Guest speaker was Major General Memorial Park. More information about Orange County, Blaze Bernstein was ed for LGBTQ Pride Month to commem - Eugene LeBeouf, Commanding General the ceremony, including photos and killed in Jan. 2018 at age 19 after he came orate the Stonewall riots which occurred of the 79th Theater Sustainment videos, may be obtained by visiting the out to a former high school classmate, at the end of June 1969. It also marks the Command headquartered at Los American Veterans Memorial Association Samuel Woodward, a neo-Nazi Zahra month that same-sex marriage was legal - Alamitos, California. His speech focused website at www.avmafullerton.org . mentioned the high depression and sui - ized in the US. Many events are held dur - cide rates in schools among LGBTQ ing this month to recognize the positive teens, and the fact that 30-40% of home - impact LGBTQ people have had in the less youth identify as LGBTQ. world. “Why are they homeless? Because they Fullerton City Councilmember Ahmad 'came out’ and they were ostracized by Zahra, the first openly gay Muslim mem - their communities, and often by their ber of any city council in the nation, families. So they ended up on the streets. spoke before the flag raising on what These are real issues in our communities,” WHEN TEETH HINT OF DISEASE would have been the 89th birthday of gay- Zahra said. “For me, this flag is about our Just as the eyes are windows into cent of the healthy population. Dental rights advocate Harvey Milk. Zahra city saying 'we see you and we love you.’ many health conditions, so the mouth hypoplasia renders teeth more vulnera - thanked his fellow councilmembers for Fullerton is now a city that is standing for serves as a door. For many people with ble to decay. agreeing to his initiative to declare May equality, embracing its diversity, and look - celiac disease, a trip to the dentist and To give our patients the best dental 22 "Harvey Milk Day" in Fullerton, and ing forward to a local future where every - not the gastroenterologist is the first care possible, we are committed to to fly the rainbow flag on the City Hall body has an opportunity to be who they step toward discovering the condition. continual learning and education. flagpole annually each June. are and succeed as Americans." The autoimmune disorder known as Because we want our patients to feel "Why the flag? The flag's about visibili - “celiac disease,” (an immune reaction confident knowing that we are a team to eating gluten) can cause damage to of skilled clinicians, we stay informed the small intestine that will interfere about the latest research, new tech - with nutrient absorption. If the disease niques and equipment, and the latest blocks calcium absorption, it can cause products that a dental office can offer “dental enamel hypoplasia,” the med - its patients to provide state-of-the-art ical term for white, yellow, or brown dental care. spots on the teeth. This weakening of We invite you to take advantage of tooth enamel affects as many as 40 per - our commitment to the highest quality cent to 50 percent of new pediatric dental care by calling us for an conven - celiac patients compared with 6 per - ient appointment. 501 N. Cornell Ave., Suite 1, Fullerton 92831. To schedule an appointment please call 714-992-0092 www.paulnelsondental.com Page 6OBSERVER The DOWNTOWN Report EARLY JUNE 2019 by Mike Ritto [email protected] © 2019

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Chris, Mike, and Joel celebrate at Fullerton Cameras on Harbor delighted to have recovered the stolen camera.

Do Unto Others If you have ever had the misfortune of Nikon camera and lens that he has used having you car or even your home broken for many years. He may have eventually Bootlegger’s Brewery co-owner Patricia Barkenhagen with daughter and the brew crew. into, you know it’s always items that have found a replacement, but it’s just not the a personal attachment that make it such a same. hard thing to get over. Losing a new TV or Write down your serial numbers! Joel something like that, no big deal, they are did, and because of that, the eagle eyes of NOTHING RHYMES WITH ORANGE easily replaced. Mike and Chris at Fullerton Cameras Well, maybe Fullerton does. We all to see how this particular orange made I once had my home broken into and spotted the camera just one day after the know the huge tracts of Valencia orange Fullerton grow and blossom. beyond the creepy feeling that someone theft. groves are gone, yet here and there, in Little did we know this promo photo was in my space, going through every - Can you tell they are all happy about front yards and back yards around our (below) would end up being ironic, with thing, was discovering that they took the outcome of this caper? In Joel’s own downtown where 1920’s era homes are, some thinking maybe this is what lead to some recordings that I could not replace words: “I have been shopping at Fullerton and indeed all over Fullerton, many trees a scary ladder incident, but no, not relat - along with, what, my cowboy boots?! Cameras for years. They have saved me a remain. Valencia Orange trees can survive ed. That story is briefly covered below. That will get you. Those boots took years number of times in the past when I need - and produce for a hundred years, and we Hundreds of pounds were hand deliv - to get right, so that was the last straw. We ed something for a shoot. Today they were lucky to harvest from some that are ered to Bootlegger’s Brewery and the crew were fortunate that the thief was caught REALLY saved me…today the thieves nearly seventy years old. were happy to help unload and get things the next week though we never got any - came in with my Nikon, and they [Chris The fruit is so amazing, a lot of those ready. thing back. and Mike] checked the serial number and harvested to include in this year’s Pictured above are co-owner Patricia You may know local photographer Joel when Chris and Mike asked if the thieves Bootleggers/Day of Music collaboration Barkenhagen with daughter Mila and the Eckman Maus and you likely have would like to hang out and talk to the never made it to the tanks. Yea, many brew crew (husband Aaron was in a meet - shopped in Fullerton Cameras on Harbor. police about it - they bolted.” were ‘tasted’ and tested to make sure they ing regarding this very project.) No surprise to hear there is a connection. They had gotten the serial number and were OK. Peeled, sliced or juiced, it’s easy The surprise is that Joel was feeling down checked it, and also got a name and a because thieves had not only broken into video of both of the thieves. Nice work, his car, but had taken his prize, expensive Shop Fullerton First!! The Former, Not the Ladder And now, the rest of the story. Photo Quiz 500,000 plus Americans are treat - ed each year for injuries from lad - der-related falls, and since this LAST ISSUE ’S QUIZ suddenly hits home, it’s time for a This building (below) still exists Public Service Announcement. downtown Where is it? Since my own unfortunate fall, Answer : This is the old Rialto Theater which lead to a trip to our St. Jude that was once open right in the middle ER and now, many weeks of of downtown Fullerton, on Harbor just recovery, I have discovered many south of Wilshire. It has been converted of us have had bad falls. and now has multiple tenants. Friend/patient confidentiality comes into play so no names will be mentioned here but these fine Fullerton citizens are known to all of us. Bottom line, respect the sit - uation and be beyond extra care - QUESTION : ful, nothing looks sinister about a Where in Fullerton is this sign ladder but trust me; danger is just pictured above located and around the corner, always have what is its significance? someone with you making sure all is well. Ahhh. Send your answer to Mike at At Right: Mike (pre-ladder inci - [email protected] dent) picking oranges with Day of Music volunteer Maria Marks.

Friday, June 21st 12pm to 10pm 150+ Free concerts in over 40 venues throughout the city of Fullerton. www.thedayofmusic.com EARLY JUNE 2019 LOCAL NEWS & CROSSWORD FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7

Airplane tours, bounce houses, exhibits and more last year. PHOTO BY JERE GREENE Airport Day Coming Up Excitement is building for Fullerton's Airport Day on Saturday, June 22nd, from 10am to 4pm. As always, admission and parking are free. The 6th annual event will feature dis - plays of vintage and modern aircraft, clas - sic automobiles, aviation-related exhibits, aircraft fly-bys, booths and vendors, and activities for children and adults. Airplane and helicopter rides will be available for a ACROSS 37. Small lizard fee. "We try to have something for every - 38. Harvesting edible red roots 1. Mount Olympus dwellers one here on Airport Day," says airport 42. ___ and aahed 5. Try to hail ___ manager Brendan O'Reilly. 43. Tiger Woods ex-wife ___Nordegren 9. Mystery writer’s award Airport Day is expected to bring thou - 44. Memphis-to-Nashville dir. 14. Plunder sands of visitors to the airport, with local 45. Excessive sweetness 15. Wolf, in Spanish aviation businesses and others in atten - 46. Narrow structural band 16. “It’s ___ and unusual creature.” dance. Members of the Fullerton Police 48. Effluvium 17. NPR interview, say and Fire Departments will be present, Visitors are encouraged to park at 49. Dodgers #22 20. Twangy, as a voice along with representatives from Anaheim Buena Park High School to relieve con - 51. Dr. Frankenstein’s workplace 21. “The opportunity never Police Department, California Highway gestion. Two large shuttle busses will be 53. Soup holder presented ___” Patrol, and Orange County Fire continuously operating throughout the 56. Video store category 22. Beatty of “Deliverance” Authority. Airport Day provides an day transporting visitors for free from the 60. Turning progressive 24. Whenever opportunity to showcase this Fullerton school to the airport. There will be storage 64. Stadium 28. Start of many Hope/Crosby asset and the role it plays supporting the areas for bags, strollers, etc. Remember 65. Kennedy and Turner film titles Southern California region. pets are not allowed at the airport. 66. “___, Brute?” 31. Creepy The Fullerton Municipal Airport is Handicapped parking is available at the 67. ___ Center (USC men’s 34. Abbr. at the end of a list located at 4011 W. Commonwealth Ave. control tower/restaurant parking lot. basketball venue) 35. Sea bird 68. 1978 Village People song 36. Actress ___ Flynn Boyle 69. ___ oil (organic pesticide)

DOWN 30. Popeye’s tattoo 32. Physics unit 1. “Rhinestone Cowboy” 33. Less common singer Campbell 36. Pot top 2. The last Mrs. Chaplin 37. Tonic’s partner 3. 2018 Wes Anderson film 39. Pennsylvania state nickname “Isle of ___” 40. “Aladdin” prince 4. Maroon 41. Ring up 5. Franken and Gore 46. Hindu wrap 6. Mozart opera “___ fan tutte” 47. “Stressed Out” band ___ One Pilots 7. Slightly 48. Talk show host Conan 8. ___ tree (Japanese miniature) 50. Mortal 9. Premature 52. Put two and two together 10. Persons conscripted into service 54. Online ruby? 11. “Frozen” actor Josh 55. US environmental grp. 12. Mr. Onassis founded in 1970 13. ___ Speedwagon 57. Part of un opéra 18. Corrida cry 58. Chess ending 19. Film critic Siskel 59. Reunion attendee, and what 23. College bigwig the circled answers will be 25. Yearned 60. Groceries holder 26. “___ bones about it!” 61. Baseball stat 27. Online Trump adversary? 62. Animation unit 28. Pit again 63. High ___ kite 29. Camden Yards player

CAPRI SHOES Page 8FULLERTON OBSERVER EDUCATION NEWS EARLY JUNE 2019 Congratulations! Fullerton School District Notes Margaret Willis from Troy High was one of only by Jan Youngman 39 winners in the Annual Washington Crossing Foundation National Scholarship Competition. Ladera Vista Culinary Students Develop The award is granted to high school seniors from across the country for best all-around presentations Vegetarian Option for School Lunch of why they are planning careers in government Several years ago Ladera service. She will attend American University. Vista Culinary Arts teacher Margaret is a member of the National Honor Kristin Montoya suggested to Society, achieved Principal’s Honor Roll and quali - Superintendent Pletka that her fied for California’s Scholarship Federation. She is a culinary students compete in a National Merit Commended Scholar and is a “Food Network Style NJROTC Cadet who received the Cadet Competition.” Achievement Award and was recognized for her Flash forward to 2019. leadership and service. She has completed five col - During a recent “listening dis - lege credits while maintaining a perfect GPA. She attended American Veterans Spirit cussion for students,” Dr. of American Youth Leadership Conference in Valley Forge, PA. She has been a mem - Pletka asked the group if there ber of the Girl Scouts for over 12 years and has been the treasurer and president of was anything that they would the 4-H Club. Margaret is an accomplished equestrian and junior member of the really like to have at school. Arabian Horse Association. Her grandfathers served in the Armed Forces. Three students replied that they would like vegetarian options offered at lunchtime. A View from the Next Generation Dr. Pletka then contacted Ms. Kristin by Nathan Guerrero Montoya and her co-teacher, Nancy The competition took place May 21st Wikes and their Culinary II students with and was judged by a panel including third the challenge to develop a vegetarian grade students Evolet Abalos and Sara option. The students accepted. Mooristani, who orignally made the At Left: The 28 students divided into 5 groups. request for more vegetarian options. They Their task was to follow the school lunch were joined by Superintendent Pletka, Teammates program’s strict nutritional guidelines of Director of Nutrition Mark Burns, Board Nathan limited fat, cholesterol and sodium on a President Janny Meyer and others. Guerrero budget of $1.50 per meal. They were also The winning dish was a bean dip with (2nd in limited to the number of ingredients per guacamole, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, and recipe. They were urged to be creative. debate) and fresh chips. Runner up dishes included The reward: the winning entrée would be pesto pasta, vegetarian chili, macaroni & Gabriella placed on the District’s Lunch Program. cheese, and nachos. Mercado (Finalist in •Innovative Districts: FSD is one of 19 school districts that have been newly impromptu) accepted into the League of Innovative Schools- a national coalition authorized by happily hold Congress to accelerate innovation in education. Dr. Pletka attended a meeting in their state Washington D.C. March 25-27. •Cesar Chavez & MLK: The board voted unanimously to bring the stories and championship examples of Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King into district classrooms. trophies. FSD R ECENT RECOGNITIONS : Parks Junior •Chan Chung (Parks Jr. High) won first •Charles “Bubba” Bankston: High student place in the National Speech & Debate Security, Parks JHS Chan Chung California State Championship. •Jose Daniel: (not pictured) •Claire Sanchez (Pacific Drive): Boys Custodian, Maintenance & Operations & Girls Club Youth of the Year Award •Mario Pantoja Neri: won first •Nicholas Vo: Ladera Vista JHS of the Instructional Assistant/Reg., place in the Arts. 2nd Place Essay Writing, Chapman Raymond School competition. University Holocaust Art & Writing •Karla Patricia Neri: Contest. Speech & Language Pathologist, •Dewain Barber: U.S. Chess Woodcrest School Federation & Dean of Scholastic Chess •Trang Lai: Director of who has volunteered for 45 years teaching Educational Services, District Office Speech & Debate on the Question of Self-Interest Chess to students and adults. He has •Melissa Perez: impacted the lives of hundreds of stu - ASES Expanded Learning Supervisor, dents. Child Development Services I attended a debate for the National affirmative/negative to ask questions of •Rebecca O’Connell: Teacher, Speech & Debate Association’s clarity to our opponent. During the •Egleth Nunnci: Pacific Drive parent and outstanding contributor for Dual Rolling Hills School California state championships from question segment when I was on the •Stephanie Wilmoth: Teacher, May 17 to the 19th. affirmative, I would ask the negative if Language Program •Yolanda McComb: Raymond School Parks JHS The resolution we were given was; they wanted to win the debate, of course •Dr. Kelly Castillo, Principal, “Humans are Primarily Driven by Self- they said yes, which further proved my Principal involved in Dual Language. •Nicolas Jr. High: “A School to Watch” Pacific Drive School Interest.” This sparked my interest and I point that humans are primarily driven •Pablo Diaz: ISS (Innovation Specialist really think that this is an important by self-interest. by US Dept. of Education •FSD: recognized as “Best Work Places” Support Teacher) provides opportunity topic for people to examine. Self-interest Even though there were people from for students at Nicolas & Fisler is really about what we want. Even all around the state because it was state with training in video & photography. though I have to debate both sides of the championships, I was paired with Parks Catch Me At My Best: and “live streaming” offered to all 6th debate, I agree with the affirmative side. Junior High’s Chan Chung. Chan won •Brenda Chavarin: Teacher, through 8th graders. Students have Studies from very prestigious and peer first place and I won second and one of Orangethorpe School already filmed the FSD Fest and the reviewed articles have shown that when my other teammates, Gabriella Mercado, •Armando Garcia: Ladera Vista Cooking Competition. our brains are shown two options, we placed as a finalist in impromptu. Computer Technician II, •Cheryl Nuncy: will usually choose the option that pro - I also competed in an event called Innovation & Instructional Support FETA Employee of the Year. vides more self-benefit, thus proving that Expository; where each student presents our primary motive is our self-interest. the judge with a topic of their choice An example of this is seen in the plane that they would like to inform people RECREATIONAL SWIM crash in Moscow Russia on May 6th. about. Mine was on self-driving cars, but Recreational Open Swim is open to Upon examination of all the pictures I ended up not placing. When I win, it is persons of all ages from 6pm to 8pm people have presented of the plane crash, a lot of fun. Though when I lose, it is on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday; you will notice that many of the passen - great to see others win. 7pm to 9pm on Tues., and Thurs.; gers left with their luggage. Despite peo - Overall, speech and debate is a fun and and from 12:30pm to 2:30pm on ple burning up behind the passengers in exciting way to improve speaking habits Saturday at the Fullerton the front, they followed their primary and there are organizations for college Community Center. $4 motive (self-interest) and grabbed their students and adults too. luggage. Nathan Guerrero is a Fullerton resident LEARN MORE AT www.fastswimming.net During the debate we had question and seventh grader at a local school. segments: A designated 3 minutes for the EARLY JUNE 2019 YOUNG OBSERVERS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 9

LET ’S CELEBRATE ! by Alexandria

JUNE 3 WORLD BICYCLE DAY

June 3rd is World Bicycle Day. This weight gain, and preventing cardiovascu - celebration was created just last year in lar diseases. It also helps prevent many April 2018 when the United Nations mental health conditions, such as depres - General Assembly passed a resolution to sion. recognize the important role of bicycles Bicycling is perfect for some easy exer - in the lives of people around the world “as cise, developing strength and stamina, a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and with the bonus of having a fun time. environmentally fit, sustainable means of We're lucky to have several bicycle trails transportation." in Fullerton. These take up about 28 (https://www.un.org/en/events/bicycleday/) miles and include a lot of beautiful Almost everyone has ridden a bicycle scenery. The full list of trails and a map of before, but not everyone may realize the the trails can be found online at great benefit it provides. Bicycling is a https://www.cityoffullerton.com/gov/depart - great way to exercise with little strain and ments/parks_n_recreation/find_a_trail/list_ injuries. It has several health benefits like of_trails.asp. reducing the chance of bowel cancer, low - Let's kick off the summer break by rid - ering the risk of diabetes, helping control ing our bikes.

WHAT ’S Tribute to Dads: TRENDING ? Happy Above: A refreshing walk among the trees on one of Fullerton’s trails by Sienna Fathers’ Day! Below: A safety sign on the Juanita Cooke Trail identifies the trail and provides the trail number of your location in case of emergency. by Joy

Father’s Day One day, a little boy was born. He was YOUNG OBSERVERS by Francine V June 16 a very good kid growing up. He always helped at home and was a very diligent Attention Parents: Survey Finds Students Father's Day is coming up. Wondering person. When he became a teen, he start - what to give dad on his special day? Cool ed being moody and different. He would Want to Explore the Fullerton Trails gift ideas could be doing something like go out at night and didn’t come back until cleaning the garage, drawing him a pic - the following morning. My family likes exploring the many know which trail they are hiking on. ture, writing him a poem, or a card to tell His dad was persistent, trying to get his recreational trails we are gifted with in Sometimes, I also get confused on which him your appreciate his jokes, and doing attention and talk to him. He made his Fullerton. I am filled with peace and hap - trail I am because of lack of signs. one of your father's favorite activities like son breakfast every morning and dinner piness whenever I hike under the swaying At least 11 students remember that they watching his favorite sports with him. every night. He gave him money for his trees and listen to chirping birds flying have been to the trail around Laguna Lake These ideas will require extra effort, but school lunch every day even when he around. I wish more people knew about and about the same number remember the gift will feel like a million bucks to knew he was missing his classes. these trails so I decided to conduct a sur - hiking along the Hiltscher trail. These your father. However, the day is quickly The lad continued to ignore his father vey among the students in the Language trails are among those that are filled with approaching, and you may be out of time until one day, still nursing a hangover Arts class. trees and make you feel you are in the to make something. from drinking the night before, he woke Out of the 96 respondents, 53.1% (51 countryside, far from the busy city streets. A few gifts that you can buy are - a shav - up to a phone call and learned that his dad students) have not been to the trails and Many students wrote about remembering ing kit, an Amazon Echo Dot, and a was in the hospital, sick with cancer. out of those who haven’t, 58% (30 stu - the beautiful scenery on their hike. I waterproof speaker. These gifts are sur - Crying and heartbroken, he watched as dents) want to go. agree because I could even prisingly on the cheaper side and are his father was fighting his battle. He This is great news for par - paint them in my mind. something that your dad will use forever. looked into his dad's eyes and cried, “I ents because this means that Last week, while on a hike However, what matters most on Father's love you.” His father made it home two their children want to explore along the Juanita Cooke Trail Day is showing your appreciation to your weeks later. The son has stopped partying the outdoors if only their par - that leads to Laguna Lake, I father and how much you care for him. and started caring for his dad. ents would bring them. After noticed the little detail on the Happy Father's Day! Treasure your dad (and mom, too) and all, there are so many good sign that says “Juanita Cooke the things he does for you. things about exploring the Trail, ‘Emergency #8.’” https://www.businessinsider. com/best- Happy Father’s Day! trails. Whoa, this is really cool! If fathers-day-gifts- under-50 In my past research and you have an emergency while articles in this column, I have hiking, you just tell the num - written how the Japanese call ber of your location when this “forest bathing.” There is you call for help and can be no required running or any easily found. tiring exercise. It simply Getting to see many trees means spending time around and plants along the trails, trees, close to nature. This brightens up my day. But, activity releases endorphins, because Fullerton is getting the chemicals that trigger hap - more populated and more piness and relaxation. apartment buildings are For those who have been on being built, beautiful pieces the trail, 59% (26 students) of land like Coyote Hills and go only if invited, 24% (11 Fullerton Arboretum are students) hike regularly, and being included in plans to 17% (8 students) have been build more buildings. on a trail as part of a school So what can we do? The activity. information from the survey FEATURED PET FOR ADOPTION Since more students go only if invited, speaks for itself. We can bring awareness this is more good news for parents and for to people that recreational trails are so by Katherine those who go hiking regularly. There are precious, and many kids do like to explore many teens who would consider exploring them, by putting up visible, aesthetically Guardian Fosters Needed the trails and all you need to do is invite pleasing signs, so that the trails can be them to go hiking. This is a great sum - more memorable. If we can add more of OC Animal Care needs your help! [email protected] if you are interested. mer activity and healthy alternative to just the emergency location codes, and most They need help finding Guardian Bottle Come help them today! staying home and watching TV or playing importantly, if we can spread the word on Fosters for underage kittens, and they will Meet other pets waiting for a new home video games. the beautiful things about our recreation - provide you with supplies and training to at OC Animal Care! Call (714)935-6848 For those who have explored the trails, al trails, it can attract more kids and fam - care for these young cats. Did you know or visit http://www.ocpetinfo.com or visit 47% (21) of students do not recall the ilies to go hiking and forest bathing, and that even taking a litter for one night can OC Animal Care at 1630 Victory Rd., in name of the trail. Perhaps the city’s parks ultimately, bring more happiness across save lives? Spread the word and email fos - Tustin, CA 92486. officer should put more signs so people our town. Page 10 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL NEWS EARLY JUNE 2019

Book lovers looking for treasures at last year’s sale. PHOTO JERE GREENE Garden Tips: “Indian Mallow” Friends of the Library Book Sale June 8th by Muriel Bergman by Penny Hlavac and elsewhere in the southwest. In our gardens it is happy in both full sun and Fullerton, you are awesome…Hundreds The Friends of the Fullerton Library Gardeners interested in water conser - partial shade and can reach 4-5 feet high of you attended the Friends of the volunteers are often asked, “Where does vation may have noticed that many of and as wide. Once established it will Fullerton Library three-day book sale in the money from book sales and Friends of the plants suitable for their gardens have need only occasional summer water. Soil March and were observed being remark - the Library memberships go?” grey leaves. The light color is a clever should be well-drained. ably good-natured and tolerant when an Our sole purpose is to raise funds for adaptation to life in a dry climate Indian Mallow is in the same plant elderly gentleman became totally the needs of the library. We have two because light colors reflect away the hot family as hibiscus as a close look at the engrossed in a large volume and planted three-day book sales, three one-day sales rays of the sun. In our gardens this same showy orange-yellow flowers will reveal. himself in a busy aisle. Shoppers skirted and a bookstore inside the library proper. grey foliage can provide an interesting Most numerous in spring, they are around him, allowing him to scrutinize These monies go to help fund the chil - foil to plants with green or chartreuse attractive to pollinators. A large black and shuffle at his own pace. dren’s and the adult library areas, enabling leaves. carpenter bee is a frequent visitor to the Customers also responded positively to the purchase of new literary product and One of the prettiest and easiest to grow Indian Mallow flowers in my garden. a mother’s plea to help look for her ‘lost’ technology as well as supply the means to of the grey-leaved plants is Indian Recently a large light golden-brown bee young son among the tables. Since he was support many new and on-going projects Mallow ( Abutilon palmeri ). This desert has also been visiting. I believe these are having a grand game hiding from every - and staff services. plant is native to dry rocky slopes, wash - “valley carpenter bees” (black female, one, the search took a bit of time. There will be a one-day sale on es and canyons in southern California golden-brown male). Our book sale volunteers really enjoy Saturday, June 8th. Please come and bar - helping shoppers. One woman mentioned gain hunt between 10am and 4pm. that her husband had dyslexia and after Also … come into the library and shop Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County forty years, with assistance from a special - for great deals at the Friends Bookstore. ized therapist, he’d finally learned to read. Hours are 10am to 4pm Monday through Kicks off Summer Food Program Because the prices were so low, the book Saturday. Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange dents who receive free or reduced lunch - sale and a helpful “Friend” offered her the County kicks off its Summer Food Service es. This program helps bridge the meal opportunity to buy lots of books by the The Fullerton Public Library is located at Program on June 3 at 51 sites throughout gap for those who rely on the free and authors and genres his wife knew he’d 353 W. Commonwealth. the county. Free meals will be provided to reduced meals during the school year. enjoy. all children, (no documentation Childhood hunger and food insecurities required), who are 18 years of age and can have long-term negative impacts on a younger. The program will allow 2,500 child’s cognitive development, ultimately children to have access to nutritious impairing their productivity and econom - lunches and snacks when school is out for ic potential into adulthood. Providing the summer while also bringing health reliable access to nutrition for at-risk chil - education to those who need it most with - dren is Second Harvest’s primary focus. in our community. More than 290,000 people in the coun - For 49% of public-school children who ty are at risk of hunger each month. Even rely on free and reduced lunch programs more concerning is that more than during the school year, summer can be a 112,000 children in OC are at risk of difficult time for many reasons, including hunger (one in six children). the lack of food. Second Harvest is committed to creat - Second Harvest will offer healthy morn - ing a future in which no one goes hungry ing and afternoon snacks and lunches by helping to feed more than 250,000 including chicken wraps, fruit, milk, and people each month. Just last year the non - turkey sandwiches, among other foods. profit provided a record amount of meals The program is intended for children – 25.1 million meals – to those hungry in from families that struggle financially, our community. with distributions at sites that are near Visit www.FeedOC.org for more infor - schools with at least 50 percent of stu - mation and see how you can help. EARLY JUNE 2019 TRANSPORTATION NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 11

FULLERTON , R AIL TOWN PART 4 The Union Pacific Railroad, and Railroads in Fullerton Today by Brian Yanity Factory). Today, the three east-west tracks through Fullerton station are owned by This is the fourth article in a series the Santa Fe Railway’s successor, the about the past, present and future of rail - Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) roads in Fullerton and Orange County. Railway, and shared by passenger (up to Previous articles in this series in the 52 trains per day, including both directions ) Fullerton Observer, explored the local his - and freight (roughly 50 to 80 trains per tory of the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and day) . Pacific Electric Railway. The Surf Line tracks heading south from Fullerton towards San Diego are UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD now owned by the Orange County The Union Pacific (UP) was the third Transportation Authority (OCTA), typi - railroad to arrive in Fullerton, following cally carrying dozens of passenger trains the Santa Fe and the Pacific Electric. The and several freight trains each day. Next to UP was seeking to compete with the Santa the train station, OCTA’s bus station Fe for the lucrative long-distance shipping offers local transit connections to six of Orange County citrus and oil, as well as OCTA bus routes. offering passenger service. Fullerton is located at a strategic loca - In 1923, the UP completed a branch tion on the Southern California rail net - from Los Angeles via Whittier and La work, along the Los Angeles-San Diego Habra, and soon after opened its own line as well as the western end of the Fullerton depot across the tracks from the BNSF Southern Transcon between Los Santa Fe depot. The UP track through the Angeles and Chicago. hills of western Fullerton still exists, going The university city of 140,000 is rough - north from a junction with the BNSF ly situated at the population center of the mainline at Southern California mega- Commonwealth Avenue, in region. More than 15 mil - parallel with West The thousands of lion people live within 50 Bastanchury Road and N. miles of the Fullerton train Harbor Blvd. into La rail passengers station. Few cities in Habra. passing through California are located in In recent years however, Fullerton each such a privileged location this branch was abandoned day represent on the rail system. by UP between Fullerton Fullerton is frequently and La Habra. The Union thousands of cars served by the Amtrak Pacific depot building was not on the road Pacific Surfliner (between moved north across the causing traffic Los Angeles and San Diego) railroad tracks to its current congestion and as well as Metrolink’s Railroads of northern Orange County, circa May 1928, location in 1980. The Orange County line and about the time period of peak track mileage in the county Fullerton UP depot is on pollution. 91/Perris Valley line the National Register of (between Los Angeles and In 2018, 257,822 of those Surfliner pas - double-stacked container train keeps over Historic Places, and is now South Perris via Riverside). sengers arrived or departed in Fullerton. 200 trucks off the road. the Old Spaghetti Factory It is thus not surprising that In addition, over half a million passen - Future improvements to both passenger restaurant. Fullerton boasts the busiest train station gers board Metrolink trains at Fullerton and freight rail infrastructure, for more UP tracks that paralleled the Santa Fe in Orange County, serving an average of each year. The thousands of rail passen - frequent and reliable service, is essential line southwards to Anaheim, passing about 3,000 passengers daily. gers passing through Fullerton each day for a prosperous and sustainable future for south of the current train station and Each weekday, from the city-owned represent thousands of cars not on the the region. Fullerton was born as a rail - through what is now Union Pacific Park, Fullerton Santa Fe Depot one can board road causing traffic congestion and pollu - road town, and will always be one. were abandoned in the 1990s. Most of 26 trains per day to Los Angeles, 12 trains tion. The author would like to thank Harold this original UP track between Fullerton to San Diego, 5 to Riverside and the Most of the dozens of BNSF freight Benash, President of the Southern and Anaheim has since been removed. famed Amtrak Southwest Chief to trains passing each day through Fullerton California Rail Plaza Association/Fullerton Albuquerque, Kansas City, and Chicago carry shipping containers long distance Train Museum (www.fullertontrainmuse - RAILROADS IN FULLERTON TODAY every evening. between the rest of nation and the ports of um.org ), and Elrond Lawrence - Executive Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner route between LA/Long Beach, the busiest container Director of the Los Angeles Railroad Around what is now known as the San Diego and San Luis Obispo via Los port in North America. The 2,200-mile Heritage Foundation (www.larhf.org ), for Fullerton Transportation Center, one can Angeles, carries nearly 3 million people BNSF Southern Transcon route connects their historical review of the drafts of this visit the original depot buildings of all each year. It is the second-busiest interci - three of the busiest freight rail hubs in the article. three railroads which came to Fullerton: ty passenger rail corridor in the nation, U.S.: Chicago, Kansas City and Los REFERENCES - the Santa Fe (continuing as the city’s train behind only the Northeast Corridor Angeles (via Fullerton). Stephen E. Donaldson and William A. station), Pacific Electric (Hopscotch between Boston and Washington, D.C. One of the nation’s most vital freight Myers, Rails Through the Orange Groves: A Tavern) and Union Pacific (Old Spaghetti rail corridors, the BNSF tracks through Centennial Look at the Railroads of Orange Fullerton carry a not-insignificant fraction County, California, 1989. of the nation’s trade with Asia. Trains City of Fullerton Transportation Center Improved Bridge Crossing Elevators with steel wheels are a far more energy Specific Plan, 2015: https://www.cityof - at Fullerton Transportation Center efficient way to move freight than with fullerton.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.as trucks with rubber tires. Shipping a con - px?BlobID=22753 On any given workday, an average of The five-level SOCO parking struc - tainer by double-stacked train results in Rail Passengers Association, Amtrak 3,000 commuters travel through the ture on W. Santa Fe opened in 2018. less than a quarter of the diesel fuel con - Ridership Statistics, 2018: Fullerton Transportation Center, making it Earlier this month, upgraded elevators sumed and air pollution emitted com - https://www.railpassengers.org/all- the busiest stop along Metrolink’s Orange were installed using money left over pared to shipping it by truck. A typical aboard/tools-info/ridership-statistics/ County route. By the year 2020, the antici - from the parking structure project. The pated number of Fullerton’s boardings is elevator project modified the existing expected to grow to a daily average of pedestrian bridge and added two new 4,000. traction elevators, one on each side. Many of these travelers need a place to The elevators provide increased park their cars before boarding the train. In pedestrian access to both platforms at fact, the availability of parking, and the ease the station and increase usability for all of accessing the station, can affect people’s passengers. willingness to choose this form of public This project highlights the ability of transportation. OCTA to partner with cities through - In partnership with the City of Fullerton, out the county to provide OCTA recently completed station upgrades oversight/funding options to maximize that will make the Fullerton Transportation use of local funds through OC Go Center a more convenient and desirable (also known as Measure M) along with place to begin and end a journey. state and federal dollars. Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER VIDEO OBSERVER EARLY JUNE 2019

The protected rooting area (at left) where baby plants grow out of their 4” pots and are trans - planted before being included in the plant sale shown at right.

VIDEO OBSERVER human consumption.” Next, the cuttings planter had potatoes, more beets and by Emerson Little © 2019 are put in a propagation mix, which some radishes. drains really quickly so it doesn’t rot out There was also a compost pile pretty the stems. After that, they’re immediately close to the planters. Ed said, “So students Cultivating Community: taken to the mist houses, an area of rela - use this space to actually get their hands tively high humidity where they can dirty and actually learn something by Plant Sales at Fullerton College recover and start rooting. “We want to doing.” There were two empty garden slowly acclimate them so they can actual - beds that had been harvested pretty Tucked away in a far corner of the cam - fact, student interns have become a key ly handle full sun and less water,” said Ed. recently. Students used these gardens for pus near the corner of Lemon Street and part of the plant sales. “So after they root, they get transplanted their Principles of Horticulture class. Berkeley Avenue, the Fullerton College “I’ve kind of been spiritually born into the soil that they’re going to be in.” They started from the seed, planted in the Horticulture Department has been put - here,” said Ed Kim, a former Fullerton The baby plants are then taken into a garden, tended to their gardens, before ting on community plant sales since 1992, College student and intern who now protected area where they can root out. harvesting during finals week. the most recent one last month. works as a Horticulture Lab Technician The area provides half-day sun. Here, the After the plant sale was over, we walked The sales, which are now offered three with the department. “I was already kind plants are still well-watered so as they over to the hoop houses, a different type times a year, began when horticulture pro - of interested in plants and coming here root, they can get stronger of greenhouse normally used fessors decided to sell extra plants used in really cemented that. All the education before being transplanted. in the winter because they their instruction. that I got and the hands-on training was Ed explained, “Some Families can heat up nicely. “We’re growing For the past couple of years, I’ve occa - invaluable. We learned a lot of theory, but plants take pretty quickly, so come to both tomatoes and peppers in the from plant to sale, it can be a winter and it’s not the ideal sionally attended the plant sales with my we really put it into practice and really got the tomato and mom and dad. This May, we visited again. to see - because theory doesn’t always couple of months. Some take time for them to grow, so After parking at a far gate a little ways work out.” a year. After they’ve grown the seasonal that’s why these hoop houses down from the Horticulture The student intern program, which out in a four inch pot, we sales to pick up are great,” he said. “They pro - Department’s administrative building, my started in 1999, is available to seven transplant them into a gallon plants and vide sunlight, but also warmth and then they go out on the so that the plants can grow.” family passed by people hauling small, Fullerton College students every year. connect with rusted red wagons full of various plants Each intern is assigned to a different sec - sales floor where they kind of Sliding the hoop house door they had just purchased. tion of plants from which they propagate acclimate in full sun, just others who also open, Ed showed me inside Inside, there was a wide selection of seeds or cuttings, Ed said. being fully in the environ - share their love the greenhouse where there plants, including California native, “I was an intern here for the year 2017, ment.” for gardening. was a conglomeration of all drought tolerant plants, herbaceous so that’s where I got a lot of my skills. I Ed Kim showed me the plants not sold in the sale. perennials, shade plants, house plants, propagated a bunch of plants, seeded around the main sales space. “So after the main sale, we vines, succulents and spring vegetables plants, divided plants and did propaga - An area with a large shade take all the tables out and among others. Each was divided into its tion from cuttings, also known as cloning. top over it was the vine sec - clean up.” I saw some leftover own section, laid out in rows on tables or We have a good mix of the stuff that we tion. “We have a very good selection of vegetables, peppers and a mishmash of the gravel-covered ground for visitors to offer. We grow from seeds and we also perennials, bulbs, and shrubs,” he said. different plants laid out in rows. find, admire and buy. All of the plants grow from cuttings.” “We like to break it down by water usage, Some of the leftovers along with other were cultivated by the students at Not only do the interns gain valuable so things that use a little more water we scraps are tossed into two large worm Fullerton College. My mom actually experience in assorted aspects of horticul - put with the perennials. Most of the stuff bins, which are used to house worms, Ed ended up purchasing day lilies and a few ture careers, but they also raise funds for that we sell are perennials, so we don’t sell explained. “Whenever there’s fruit, there’s succulents in the bargain bin. next year’s internship program through too many annuals.” a whole mess of them,” he said. “Seems Student interns and volunteers were each sale. In the widest section of the gravel-cov - like mango’s their favorite. They just love helping customers by talking to them Ed Kim explained the plant preparation ered ground, I found myself looking at the fruit … and then they eat the whole about the plants they were selling, offering process. They typically dip cuttings into California Natives and drought tolerants thing.” With these two large worm bins, advice for keeping plants healthy and rooting hormone, which they store in a sitting out in the direct sunlight. Behind the Horticulture Department plans to ideas for different types of gardens. In refrigerator with a sign warning, “Not for these rows of plants was a covered shade harvest the castings and sell them at their house area. “An interesting note, these sales, especially the tomato sale. “It’s per - shade plants don’t need total shade. I fect because when people plant their veg - think that’s a common misconception,” gies, they’re going to do a thin layer of said Ed. “So if you give them more partial, worm castings and plants love it.” like on the north side of your property, Back in March, the Fullerton College that’s probably perfect, but a lot of these Horticulture Department also had their plants can take some direct sun as well, most recent three-day tomato sale, which just not all day, especially between ten and offered a wide variety of tomatoes and two o’clock you don’t want to give them peppers, drawing in customers from sun. So, next to your home or building on around Orange and Los Angeles counties. the east or the west side should work. Families can come to both the tomato They’ll get maybe some morning or after - and the seasonal sales to pick up plants noon sun, but be protected from that and connect with others who also share mid-day sun.” their love for gardening. So be sure to Rather large wooden planters full of dif - keep an eye out for the next one on the ferent vegetables stood to the side of the calendar, the fall plant sale. shade house close to an area known as the For a behind the scenes look at the “teaching garden.” In the first planter, Ed Fullerton College Horticulture pointed out some edible plants like Department plant sales, visit amethyst basil and nasturtium, which www.fullertonobserver.com and click the kind of tastes like Wasabi or mustard. The tab labeled “Local.” Underneath that tab, second planter had eleven different types click on “Emerson Little YouTube of beets growing in it, including white, Channel,” which will take you directly to red, and yellow beets, while the third my page. EARLY JUNE 2019 EVENTS CALENDAR FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 13

MON, JUNE 3-AUG 18 SAT, JUNE 8 continued •Summer Reading Program for •9am: Fullerton Rec Riders FREE SUMMER ages through 8th Grade features HITS Gymkhana Show come watch ONCERTS prizes for readers keeping track of C local riders and their horses in a independent reading. Sign up at the & free show held at the Equestrian BUENA P ARK Fullerton Public Library, or online Center Arena at Laguna Lake Park, Wednesdays at 7pm MISSES at www.fullertonlibrary.org/kidszone . 2900 Lakeview Way, Fullerton. Boisseranc Park, 7520 Dale St., TUES, JUNE 4 by Joyce Mason © 2019 (cancelled if it rains). Visit Buena Park 90620 (714)562-3860 •6:30pm: Fullerton City Live music & Food trucks. Free www.fullertonrecriders.org. Free Council Meeting at City Hall, 303 admission. Bring friends, family & •9am-11am: Friends of Coyote W. Commonwealth. Water Rate blankets or beach chairs. Also bring AMAZING GRACE : Two Hits Hills Nature Walk: Spring and public hearing, Paramedic subscrip - your drum and join the pre-concert NOTE : This is the review of the current movie summer provide the hills with a tions, Budget and more. drum circle each night from 5pm- with Aretha Franklin. In the last issue we acci - profusion of color; carmine mon - •End of Ramadan (Eid al Fitr) a 7pm. key flowers and black sage crowd dentally printed Joyce’s review of an older film month of charity to others and fast - •June 5: Pop Gun Rerun, the slopes with spots of red and with the same name. ing for Muslims with no eating or 80s tribute violet, along with coastal prickly •June 12: Heart Love Alive drinking sunrise to sunset each day pear, orange deer plant, and purple tribute to Heart Aretha Franklin had already established herself as the and at sunset a meal with friends Fern-leaved phaecelia. •June 19: Just Pretending, number one R & B singer in America with singles like and family called Iftar. Hear the songs and calls of a Pretenders tribute “Respect,” “Spanish Harlem,” “Natural Woman,” and WED, JUNE 5 “Bridge over Troubled Waters.” She had made twenty multitude of nesting birds like the •June 26: LA Sound Machine, •8am-1pm: Rain or Shine Every R & B albums and received five Grammys, but in Bewick’s Wrens, song sparrows, tribute to G. Estefan 1972 the Queen of Soul decided to return to the Wednesday Farmers Market at orange-crowned warblers, and & Miami Sound gospel music she had grown up with in her father’s Independence Park next to the goldfinches. The rare California •July 3: Biscuits & Gravy, R&B church. DMV on Valencia between Euclid gnatcatchers call out in the early •July 10: Uptown Funk, Born in Mississippi, Aretha spent most of her early and Highland in Fullerton. Fresh mornings, while at dusk brush rab - life in Detroit, where her father, Reverend C.L. produce including fruit, vegetables, bits come out to forage and the LA H ABRA Franklin, was pastor of the New Bethel Baptist plants, eggs, flowers, baked goods, coyotes sing in celebration of the Thursdays 6:30pm-8:30pm Church, his sermons famous throughout the country. tamales, empenadas, kettle korn, new season. Portola Park, Even Martin Luther King traveled to Detroit to hear nuts, and more. It’s a moderate 2 to 2 1/2 mile 301 S. Euclid St, La Habra. Reverend Franklin preach. By the time Aretha was •9am: Braille Institute Free hike suitable for the entire family. Live music, Free admission. Bring Dogs are welcome as long as they friends, family & blankets or beach ten, she was singing solos in his church, and by age 12, Series to help those with low vision are on leashes. Meet at the open- chairs & picnic. Kids Zone arts & she was traveling with her father and the church’s per - stay independent starts with forming choir. gate entrance to the Equestrian crafts. No pets (except service dogs) Gizmos & Gadgets at the Fullerton But when she made her decision to return to singing Center of Laguna Lake Park, on •June 20: Flashback Heart Attack gospel hymns, Aretha chose to stage and record her Community Center, 340 W. Lakeview just east of Euclid in (80s cover) first album in Reverend James Cleveland’s New Commonwealth. The series contin - Fullerton. Wear comfortable shoes •July 18: Desperado (Eagles) Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts with ues on first and third Wed. through and bring water to drink. Free. back-up from the church’s choir. Known as the September. Call 71738-6575 SUN, JUNE 9 FULLERTON Southern California Community Choir, the singers •6pm: Art House Film Series •2pm-4pm: The Power of Hip- Wednesdays 6:30pm-8:30pm were already famous for their stunning harmonies and “Green Book” (PG-13) a white Hop panel discussion with Dr. Fullerton Sports Complex, 560 E. enthusiastic performances, as well as their black garbs bouncer bonds with a black musi - Kristine Wright and special guests Silver Pine (off Bastanchury), set off with shiny, silver vests. cian while chauffeuring him around takes place at the Fullerton Live music & Food for sale. Free Warner Bros. was interested in filming this momen - the Jim Crow South at Fullerton Museum Center, on corner of E. admission. Bring friends, family & tous event and sent a newly hired Sydney Pollack to Public Library Osborne Wilshire and Pomona in blankets or beach chairs. Free family direct. Although “Amazing Grace” can be categorized Auditorium, 353 W. Downtown Fullerton. $12 arts & crafts. (714)738-3167 as a documentary, it has no interviews and no narrative Commonwealth. Free voice. We see the events as they unfold over two nights SAT, JUNE 15 •July 10: Upstream of performing with no effort to conceal the soundmen, THURS, JUNE 6 •1pm-4pm: Juneteenth •July 17: Kid Ramos Memphis cameras, and crew; wires and equipment lie scattered •4pm-8:30pm: Fullerton Celebration at California African •July 24: The Answer throughout the room. Outdoor Downtown Market with American Museum, 600 State Wednesdays 6:30pm-8:30pm Since the audience consists of the church’s parish - live music beginning at 6:30pm, Drive, Exposition Park, LA 90037. Hillcrest Park Great Lawn, ioners, the audience is mostly African American except Beer & Wine Garden, craft and hot A day for the community to cele - 1200 N. Harbor, Fullerton (shuttle for a couple of interlopers, most prominently Mick food vendors, fresh produce, flow - brate the anniversary of June 19, from court house free parking) Jagger and Keith Richards seated in the audience, as ers, kids activities. Downtown 1865, when Union General •July 31: Bubba & Big Bad Blues transfixed as we and the parishioners are. Fullerton Plaza and E. Wilshire Gordon Granger declared that Aretha, with her guileless face and powerful voice is between Harbor & Pomona. (714) Texas’s enslaved people were free. BREA transfixing. She wears a shimmery caftan, ornamented 738-6545 Bring picnic blankets and enjoy DJ Wednesdays 6:30pm-8pm with delicate beads, and has an Afro hair style, popular FRI, JUNE 7 sets by Francesca Harding and fam - Brea City Hall Park, 401 S. Brea in that era. Her voice has an energy reminiscent of •6pm-10pm: Fullerton Blvd (just south of Imperial Hwy) revival meetings. The depth of her tones, the sophisti - ily activities. Free (but parking is Downtown ArtWalk come down - $12). For more info call (213) 744- Live music, Tri-tip BBQ for sale. cation of her harmonies, her occasional forays into scat Free admission. Bring friends, family town and enjoy local art exhibits at 7432 or www.caamuseum.org are slightly reminiscent of Mahalia Jackson, but Aretha & blankets or beach chairs. numerous venues within easy walk - Franklin’s voice has a quality and style that only she WED, JUNE 19 •July 10: Symphonic Winds owned. ing distance. Free •8am-1pm: Rain or Shine of the Pacific (patriotic) Although appearing effortless in her performance, •6pm-10pm: Open Mic Night Every Wednesday Farmers •July 17: Alley Cats (Doo-Wop) Aretha’s face becomes beaded with perspiration. At one at the Fullerton Museum Center on Market at Independence Park. See •July 24: Electric Vinyl (rock) point, her father, seated in the front row, gets up and E. Wilshire downtown Fullerton. June 5 post. •July 31: Upstream, Reggae with his handkerchief wipes his daughter’s damp face. Call 714-738-6545 if you would •9am: Braille Institute Free Reverend Franklin also addresses the audience during a like to perform. Sign ups begin at Series Technology Workshop to PLACENTIA break between songs. Occasionally Aretha accompa - 6:30pm. The galleries will also be help those with low vision stay nies herself on the piano, but most frequently it is Thursdays 6:30pm-8pm open to the public for free. independent at the Fullerton Cleveland at the piano. Also accompanying Aretha are Tri-City Park, 2301 N. Kraemer SAT, JUNE 8 drummer Bernard Purdie, guitarist Cornell Dupree Community Center, 340 W. Blvd, Placentia. and bassist Chuck Rainey. •7am-8:30am: Kids Ages 5-15 Commonwealth. The series con - Live music, Food for sale by non- The album of spiritual music made on those two Fishing Derby at Clark Park come tinues on first and third Wed. profits. Free admission. Bring friends, evenings in Watts became a best seller, some of the register to fish from 7 to 8:30am through September. Stop by the family & blankets or beach chairs. spirituals being “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” and then join the Derby from 8am front desk or call 71738-6575 to •July 18: Upstream, Steel Drum, “Wholy Holy,” “Mary, Don’t You Weep,” “Climbing to 11am at Clark Regional Park, save your seat. Caribbean/Reggae/Calypso Higher Mountains,”and “Amazing Grace.” 8800 Rosecrans Ave., Buena Park. THURS, JUNE 20 •July 25: Scot Bruce (Elvis tribute) So why did this landmark performance not appear The lake will be stocked with 2,000 •4pm-8:30pm: Fullerton on-screen until now? Apparently, there had been a pounds of catfish. Bring your own Outdoor Downtown Market on YORBA L INDA technical glitch in the filming that caused the picture fishing poles (bait will be provided). E. Wilshire with live music begin - Sundays 5:30pm-7pm and the sound to be out of sync. Producer Alan Elliott All minors must be accompanied by ning at 6:30pm. See June 6 post. Hurless Barton Park Amphitheater, purchased the footage and had it painstakingly syn - an adult (adults can fish after the FRI, JUNE 21 4601 Casa Loma, Yorba Linda chronized. We are the richer for it. event ends). Food will be available •12pm-10pm: Day of Music Live music, Free admission. Bring for purchase. Parking and event reg - Over 40 venues around town pro - friends, family & blankets or beach TWO HITS : Don’t Miss it! chairs & picnic. . istration and admission is free. Visit viding over 150 free concerts. Visit •July 21: Tijuana Dogs (Rock) A H IT & A M ISS : You Might Like it. www.ocparks.com or call 714-973- www.thedayofmusic.com for info. •July 28: Surf’s Up (Beach Boys) TWO MISSES : Don’t Bother. 3170 for more info. Free Free Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER THEATER, MUSIC & DANCE EARLY JUNE 2019

“All Shook Up” @ B UENA PARK HIGH SCHOOL 8833 Academy Drive Buena Park, California 90621 Tickets: (714) 562-3860 This crowd-pleasing musical is inspired Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30pm. by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley. June 14-23. It’s 1955, and into a square little town Founded in 1980 by former elementary in a square little state rides a guitar-play - school teacher Ruth Walp, Buena Park ing young man who changes everything Youth Theatre was created due to public and everyone he meets in this hip-swivel - school budgetary cutbacks in the arts. ing, lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll Since then, the program has produced have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede fully staged Broadway musicals with thou - shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak sands of youth actors. The musicals con - Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be tinue to receive outstanding critical Cruel.” acclaim and attract audiences of all ages. $11 General admission, $9 seniors and The Friends Buena Park Youth Theatre children 12 and under. To purchase tick - (BPYT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organiza - ets or for additional information, please tion that provides local youth the oppor - visit BuenaPark.com, the Buena Park tunity to participate in live theatre. The Community Center at 6688 Beach Blvd. program also offers young cast members (between Stanton Ave. and Beach Blvd. at opportunities to participate in benefit per - Pinchot Ct., behind City Hall), or call formances for local community events as (714) 562-3860. Tickets will also be well as two professional quality produc - available for purchase at the box office tions annually with parent volunteers “Fellowship: The Musical” starting one hour before the event. Friday serving as show staff. More info at: @ M AVERICK THEATER and Saturday performances at 7:30pm. www.bpyouththeatre.com . 110 E Walnut Ave Unit B, Fullerton, CA 92832 Tickets: (714) 526-7070 www.mavericktheater.com

Tolkien fans will delight in seeing all their favorite characters with one major change- they’re funny-in this hilarious musical parody of The Fellowship of the Ring . This is the Orange County premiere of the show from the book by Kelly Holden- Bashar and Joel McCrary with music by Allen Simpson. Lyrics and additional materi - al by Brian D. Bradley, Lisa Fredrickson, Kelly Holden-Bashar, Joel McCrary, Edi Patterson, Steve Purnick, Cory Rouse, Allen Simpson, Ryan Smith, Peter Allen Vogt and Matthew Stephen Young. For ages 12 and older. Now through June 30. Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 6pm. Tickets $30 General Admission/$15 student. Director: Brian Newell. Choreographer: Kelsie Blackwell. Stage Manager: Kelsey Somerville.

“Into the Woods” @ S TAGES THEATER 400 E Commonwealth Ave, Fullerton, CA 92832 Tickets: (714) 525-4484 www.stagesoc.org

Stages Theatre presents “Into the Everyone’s wish is granted, but the con - Woods,” the first of two musical offerings sequences of their actions return to haunt in their 27th season directed by Jill them later with disastrous results. Johnson. Helming this “giant” undertaking is “Tigers Be Still” James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim director Jill Johnson. Starring in “Into the take everyone’s favorite storybook charac - Woods” are: Audrey Bivens, Briana @ C HANCE THEATER ters and bring them together for a time - Bonilla, Tucker Boyes, Justin Budds, Bette Aitken theater arts Center on the Cripe Stage less, yet relevant, piece… and a rare mod - Justin Keane Crawford, Hayden 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92807 ern classic. Mangum, Cameron Patrick Murray, Tickets: (888) 455-4212 www.ChanceTheater.com. The story follows a baker and his wife, Melissa Musial, Carrie Ryder, and Brooke who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who Veluzat. Chance Theater announced that four would come downstairs, her sister would wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Tickets for Into the Woods are $32.00, performances have been added to the stop watching Top Gun from the couch, Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. $30.00 for students and seniors. regional premiere of Kim Rosenstock’s her first student would do one assign - When the baker and his wife learn that Performances are June 15th- July 21st, comedy, “Tigers Be Still”. Originally ment, her boss would leave his gun at they cannot have a child because of a Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and scheduled to close on June 2nd, the show home, and someone would catch the actu - Witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey Sundays at 2:00. For reservations please will now run through June 9 on the Fyda- al tiger that escaped from the local zoo, to break the curse. visit www.stagesoc.org . June 15-July 21. Mar Stage at the Bette Aitken theater arts everything would be just perfect! Center. Written by Kim Rosenstock. Directed This dark comedy centers around the by Marya Mazor. Recommended for ages infinitely trying-to-be optimistic Sherry 13 and up. Contains adult language. Wickman. Despite having to move back Extended thru June 9. Fridays at 7:45pm. in with her family after college, things Saturdays at 2:45pm and 7:45pm. take a turn for the better when she’s hired Sundays at 2:45pm as an art teacher. Now, if only her mother EARLY JUNE 2019 ART & FILM FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15 “Field Notes: When Taxonomy Becomes Iconography” Downtown Fullerton Art Walk @ M UCKENTHALER CULTURAL CENTER June 7th 6-10pm 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton www.themuck.org (714)738-6595

Printmaker Linda Lyke vividly captures the spontaneous and immediate sense of dis - covery that stems from close and careful observation of nature. This body of work evolved from Lyke’s own particular observations of birds and megafauna in Amboseli National Park and the Maasai Mara in Kenya, as well as in her home city of Los Angeles. Gallery Opening Reception, Sunday, June 9, 12:00 p.m. $10 non-members, Free for Members. Through August 4. “Moving Forward: Art by Nancy Johnson” @ V INO NOSTRA RETAIL AND WINE BAR 123 E Commonwealth Ave, Fullerton Come enjoy a glass of wine or beer and the artwork of Nancy Johnson at Vino Nostra from 6-10pm on Friday, June 7 during the Downtown Fullerton Art Walk. Artist statement: “My soft surreal approach to life’s obstacles and experiences is where I am inspired. Not only my own narratives but the ones I witness in my daily life. They scream at me to get them out in an unconventional whimsical way. There is always something that we can see as a problem or as a learning opportunity. Moving forward leads us to personal freedom from the standards others have put on us and the stan - dards we've put on ourselves. My only hope is that my work brings a wonderment and connection to your thought process and a smile to your heart.”

“John Sollom Art Exhibition” @ J OSEPHINE JOAN GALLERY 515 W Commonwealth Ave.

On Friday, June 7 from 6-10pm during the Downtown Fullerton Art Walk, Josephine Joan Gallery will present an exhibition of the works of John Sollom, “Reading is Cool: An Art Show” who was named Best Artist in Orange County by OC Weekly back in 2012. @ T HE COFFEE CUP Sollom’s work explores the relationship 220 Malden Ave, Fullerton between consumerist fetishism and vege - tarian ethics. New combinations are gen - The opening reception for Hibbleton Tommy Kovac is a writer, artist, creator erated from both mundane and transcen - Gallery's latest pop-up art show entitled of various independent things, and library dant structures. “Ever since I was a teenag - "Reading is Cool: an Art Show" featuring technician. His first comic book was er I have been fascinated by the essential the work of Melinda Hagman, Tommy released in 1999, and his work has been unreality of the universe,” Sollom says. Kovac, and Jesse La Tour will take place published by SLG Publishing, Disney “What starts out as contemplation soon on Friday, June 7 from 6-10pm at The Press, and OC Weekly . Kovac has created becomes corrupted into a manifesto of Coffee Cup during the Downtown and distributed independent works such defeat, leaving only a sense of chaos and Fullerton Art Walk. This event is free and as zines (small self-published magazines) the unlikelihood of a new reality.” open to the public. and mini-comics, and does a periodic Melinda Hagman is perhaps most web-comic called "Smells Like Library." known for her “Author Series,” which Jesse La Tour is the co-founder of Building Guitars, Making History: Fender Stories includes ethereal paintings of famous Hibbleton Gallery. An avid reader and writers. She is an avid bibliophile and col - writer, La Tour will be showcasing draw - and Custom Beats: The Art of Hip-Hop lector of vintage books, which serves as ings from his coloring book "Literary @ F ULLERTON MUSEUM CENTER artistic inspiration along with her deep Figures" which includes drawings of 301 N. Pomona Ave, Fullerton, CA 92832 love of music. famous authors. Now on display at the Fullerton Custom Beats: The Art of Hip-Hop Museum Center are two new music-relat - tells the story of another genre of music. “The Human Condition: ed exhibits: For almost 50 years, Hip-Hop has been Building Guitars, Making vital to the expression of urban youth Art by Luciano Leon” History: Fender Stories brings a local around the world. Beginning as a pre - dominantly African-American youth cul - @ M CCLAIN ’S COFFEE SHOP element to the Museum. From modest beginnings at his Fullerton radio repair tural expression from the streets of New & G ALLERY shop, Leo Fender presided over what York, Hip-Hop is now an international 817 N. Harbor Blvd. Fullerton became the largest musical instrument phenomenon and a multi-billion dollar empire in the world. industry. Opening reception Saturday, June 8. His electric guitars, amplifiers, and key - With colorful street art, flashy track 6pm-11pm. Collection of 25 photo - boards set the standard for the industry. suits and fresh sneakers, masters of graphs, mainly black and white printed on His ideas formed the basis for the Hip-Hop express themselves outwardly metal, which deal with the good, bad and almost limitless possibilities of sound in as well as inwardly- writing poetry and the ugly of the human condition. music that today most people take song lyrics reflecting confidence, opti - for granted. mism and struggle. Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER COMMUNITY OPINIONS EARLY JUNE 2019 Fullerton College Fullerton Stadium Observer Regarding the Sherbeck Field Improvement Project (Fullerton The Fullerton Observer Community College). Newspaper , founded by Ralph and Natalie Kennedy, Roy and Irene We received a letter signed by Richard Kobayashi, and other friends in 1978, Williams stating we could express our is staffed by local volunteers who cre - views by writing to him at the NOCCD ate, publish, and distribute the paper (North OC Community College throughout our community. District). This venture is a not-for-profit one - We are adamantly against the project revenues are plowed back into main - for the following reasons: taining and improving our independ - Fullerton Union High School field ent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - across the street is newly-renovated and munity newspaper. Our purpose is to available and as homeowners in the area inform Fullerton residents about the for forty years we don’t want to see our institutions and other societal forces which most impact their lives, so that property value ruined by a large and loud they may be empowered to participate sports stadium. in constructive ways to keep and make We are writing this letter to alert our these private and public entities serve neighbors that writing a letter to stop this all residents in lawful, open, just, and project to Mr. Williams, District Director socially-responsible ways. Through our Friends of the Fullerton Arboretum Facilities Planning and Construction, will extensive local calendar and other cov - be like those Catholics who wrote to the erage, we seek to promote a sense of Speak Up About Current Issues church to complain about sexual abuse. community and an appreciation for the California State University, Fullerton is and the possible inclusion of new facilities Not only will they get no action but values of diversity with which our in the midst of developing a Campus within the existing developed footprint or they’ll be ostracized for speaking out. country is so uniquely blessed. ______Master Plan. The Friends of the Fullerton adjacent to the Arboretum exterior such 10,000 issues of the Fullerton Observer Arboretum were present last May for their as a research greenhouse. And a more per - CJT Fullerton are distributed throughout Fullerton public kick-off event and spoke about the meable boundary that facilitates student and sent through the mail to subscribers importance of the Fullerton Arboretum. access but still protects rare and endan - every two weeks except only once The Friends also attended the recent April gered botanic resources is needed. in January, July & August. 10 “Spring Open House” at which the • If development were to occur at the Solar Energy & university and its consultant presented Arboretum, university touchstones would Utility Companies How To Subscribe three scenarios, all of which appeared to include ensuring strong academic con - Subscriptions are $35 per year. 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However, so much for our mutually respectful and on solar users. www.fullertonobserver.com we oppose any alternative in more than four constructive dialogue and not The utilities lobbied to remove this pro - ______which the land use zoning in assume a posture of absolute decades, remains vision from the legislation, and state law - SUBMISSIONS : the Arboretum Strategic Plan positions. makers on the powerful Senate Submissions on any topic of interest is changed to allow for con - a world-class The Friends of the are accepted from Fullerton residents. Appropriations Committee obliged. struction of new parking botanical Fullerton Arboretum are I know the utilities are powerful, but I We strive to get something about facilities, student housing, deeply engaged in the everything in but shorter pieces do institution. expected better from our representatives. have a better chance of getting in. conference centers, wellness Campus Master Plan process. Everyone has a right to make their own Email: [email protected] centers and wide, paved, Advocacy for and care of the energy from the sun and reduce the ______multi-use pathways. More Arboretum is foremost in our amount of expensive electricity they have • STAFF• green, open space should be created, not minds. The bottom line is that we all want to buy from their utility. • Publisher: Sharon Kennedy less; build the campus up, not out. to ensure the Arboretum, where we have Whether or not you have solar, contact • Editorr: Jesse La Tour The Friends are a valued non-profit contributed so much for more than four your state senator and ask them to bring • Advisor: Tracy Wood support group that has contributed a sig - decades, remains a world-class botanical back the Solar Bill of Rights. 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Arboretum with university colleges for •R OVING REPORTER : Jere Greene Since the Open House, the Friends have education and research and also support a • C OUNCIL REPORT : Jesse La Tour heard directly from President Framroze thoughtful upgrade to the existing infra - •Special Reports: Virjee and his goals for the campus. We structure with the least possible impact to HOW TO VOICE Jane Rands & Matt Leslie, J. Kaluzny were encouraged by his words. They Arboretum biomes, gardens and natural YOUR OPINION • D OWNTOWN REPORT : Mike Ritto include, most importantly, that the resources. • S CHOOL BOARD REPORTS : Arboretum will not be “demolished,” nor We hope that you’ve had a chance to The Community Opinion Jan Youngman & Vivien Moreno will student housing or parking facilities submit comments on the Campus Master pages provide a free forum for the •Y OUNG OBSERVER EDITOR : Francine Vudoti community. The Observer wel - •P OLITICAL COMMENTARY : be constructed there. 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MYSTERY PHOTO : OUT OF MY MIND Does anyone know what this interesting photo of what looks by Jon Dobrer © 2019 like Roman ruins - taken across from Hermosa Drive School on E. Hermosa is all about? Trump: It’s Official Please send answers to He’s a Loser! [email protected]. Trump lost over a billion dollars in one Answers decade! For a man who hates “losers,” and • This is a photo of a pool that labels and libels his opponents derisively as has been under construction for “losers,” he turns out to be the biggest loser of many years at a private home of at least one decade! a nice family. - R YAN CANTOR The Beatles had it right about President Trump. He’s a loser and is not what he appears •It’s a work in progress of a to be. He isn’t the king of debt, as he bragged, private swimming pool that the but the king of unpaid debt, the king of the building department should write off and write down. He’s a loss leader and have never approved. a lost leader. What an eyesore. - J.B. The song, I’m a Loser, should be played at all The mystery photo is of a backyard pool at a private home. Democratic rallies and used to troll Trump at his rallies. Trump labeled his Shattering the Context of War by Robert C. Koehler opponents, Republican He isn’t the and Democratic, and cre - The U.S. government protects itself, comments: “Well, it’s their fault for United States,” he means the U.S. gov - king of debt, ated mean memes and not democracy. That’s what is most bringing their kids to a battle.” ernment, particularly the executive catch-phrases such as apparent about its 18-count indictment And when some Bradley tanks arrive branch. as he “Lying Ted,” “Crooked of Julian Assange, not to mention the at the scene, a crewman comments, And of course the Apache helicopter bragged, but Hillary,” “Low-energy ongoing imprisonment of Chelsea laughing: “I think a tank just drove video was just a drop in the bucket of the king of Jeb” and most reprehensi - Manning, for the leaking and release of over a body.” what was released, which is the basis of unpaid debt, bly, “Pocahontas”. Dems State Department and military docu - At the time the video was released, in Assange’s indictment. Der Spiegel , one should let “Loser” be ments and videos a decade ago. 2010, three years after the incident of five international publications that the king of their catch-phrase printed The current reporting on the indict - occurred, Defense Secretary Robert got advance copies of more than the write off on signs and chanted on ment is mostly about Assange himself: Gates complained that its impact was 250,000 State Department cables, and write the streets. This attacks his expulsion from the Ecuadoran unfair because the public was seeing it wrote at the time: “Never before in his - down. He’s a him right in his fragile embassy in London after he’d been “out of context” — which of course it tory has a superpower lost control of ego and undermines his holed up there for seven years; the sex - was! It was sheer, raw war, shown as it such vast amounts of such sensitive loss leader claim to fame, his fabled ual assault charges against was in progress. The information — data that can help paint and a lost business accomplish - him in Sweden; and, of After the video Department of Defense is a picture of the foundation upon which course, his role as a “tool” supposed to have total con - US foreign policy is built.” leader. ments, as just another lie. came out... Trump may not be of the Russians, along trol over context; on the Reflecting on all this, I wrote: “The honest. He may cheat on with his flip-flopping a psychologist home front war is 100 per - revelations so far seem less significant his taxes, and he certainly appeal to both the politi - explained that cent public relations. The than the fact that the American govern - has cheated on all his spouses. He’s also cheat - cal left and right (depend - soldiers need public’s role is to be specta - ment’s bin of secrets has once again ing on the nature of the tors, consumers of orchestrat - been raided, and that the raw data of ing on his nation, which is also my nation. to distance Trump has been “seeing,” but not colluding controversy WikiLeaks is ed news; they can watch diplomacy has been strewn across with, another country—and they might have stirring up). What a story! themselves smart bombs dropped from cyberspace, for the likes of you and me tapes. Almost entirely missing from what on high and be told that this to ogle and, if we choose, draw our own But that might not make a difference since from the current report - they are doing is protecting them from ter - conclusions. We get to have real-time ing is anything about the rorism and spreading democ - looks at how geopolitics actually works. Trump is so brazen that, like Edgar Allen Poe’s, to maintain The Purloined Letter , he hides his misbehavior leaks themselves, except racy. That’s context. “While temporary secrecy, or at least in plain sight. vague references to them, their sanity... After the video came out, privacy, is sometimes necessary in any So why should the lies about his success, such as this comment by their job is to the New York Times attempt - endeavor, permanent secrecy — secrecy wealth and its source be different and finally John Demers, assistant destroy the ed to restore some of the as entitlement — is nothing but dan - attorney general for shattered context, quoting a gerous.” start to erode the support of the faithful? enemy...one way Because it attacks his image and strips away the national security: “This psychologist who explained Assange’s indictment is his red badge false face he painted on himself. release made our adver - to do that is that soldiers need to distance of courage. We can’t depend on large Shattering pretense can be fatal. President saries stronger and more to see it as themselves from what they’re institutions to stand up for democracy. Truman swore like a sailor. LBJ swore like a rap knowledgeable, and the a game... doing to maintain their sani - The larger the institution, the more singer. Their profanity and vulgarity didn’t hurt United States less secure.” ty: “. . . their job is to destroy absorbed it is likely to be in its own them. It confirmed their images as “authentic.” These words are the enemy, and one way preservation and the success of its agen - However, when Nixon’s Watergate Tapes remarkable BS and have they’re able to do that is to see da. Democracy requires people outside revealed him to be mean and profane, it pierced resonance only to the extent that the it as a game, so that the peo - the circle of power, both his sanctimonious image. I would hold that this actual leaked data is missing from the ple don’t seem real.” governmental and corpo - discussion, such as the infamous But the searing takeaway rate, to maintain an adver - destroyed him and his credibility more than the “This release “Smoking Gun” in the Watergate tapes that Apache helicopter video of 11 unarmed from the video wasn’t the sarial relationship with proved his involvement in the cover up. men (in U.S. military parlance, “insur - laughter, it was the killing made our power and endlessly dig for Trump’s origin myth is, well, a myth, and his gents”), including a Reuters photogra - — the destruction of “the adversaries its secrets. This is called financial acumen is a lie. Look at him and his pher and his driver, being shot and enemy,” who in this case stronger journalism. ridiculously painted tan and dyed hair. His killed from above on a street in were a group of seemingly and more Demers, justifying the greatest accomplishment as a builder is the Baghdad, and two children being unarmed men standing government’s indictment, injured. around and talking. Two of knowledgeable, paid lip service to the architectural marvel that is his hair. It’s also a and the symbol, clear metaphor, hiding in plain sight, The video shows the killings as they them were journalists, pho - sacredness of journalism, of a cover up. Trump was a Master of the occur, with helicopter crewmen talking tographer Namir Noor- United States explaining: “The depart - Universe? No. Never. He’s a Loser. and laughing between bursts of Eldeen and his driver, Saeed less secure.” ment takes seriously the www.Dobrer.com machine gun fire, as though they’re Chmagh. After the incident, role of journalists in our playing a videogame: Reuters tried to learn the These words democracy, and we thank “Oh yeah, look at those dead bas - details of what happened are remarkable you for it. It is not and DID YOU MISS AN ISSUE tards.” and filed a freedom of infor - BS ... never has been the depart - “Nice.” mation request, but that ment’s policy to target OF THE FULLERTON OBSERVER ? We see a wounded man crawling for went nowhere. The details them for reporting. But cover, only to be taunted from above: only became known when Julian Assange is no jour - Are You Looking for Back Issues? “Come on, buddy. All you gotta do is WikiLeaks released the classified video. nalist.” pick up a weapon.” All of which brings me back to the There you have it. What better proof Are you interested in A van shows up and some men start Demers quote: “This release made our could you ask for that he is a journalist, picking up the bodies. We listen to the adversaries stronger and more knowl - and that the secrets he has ripped out of Advertising in the paper? crewmen asking for permission to edgeable, and the United States less hiding require serious public scrutiny? shoot — “engage” — and finally start secure.” Robert Koehler ([email protected]), firing at the van, in which, it turns out, These words need to be translated. Visit: syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago two children are sitting. When that lit - By “our adversaries,” he means the pub - award-winning journalist and editor. www.fullertonobserver.com tle detail becomes apparent, a crewman lic (American and global). By “the He is the author of “Courage Grows Page 18 FULLERTON TRIBUTES EARLY JUNE 2019 Rest in Peace • We Remember You • Rest in Peace • We Remember You • Rest in Peace

professions—namely crafts - Robert Eugene manship and education, always Stoffel following his innate sense of creativity and benevolence. Robert Eugene Stoffel died May Michael is described by those 6, at the age of 90. Born on he worked with as a humble, September 16, 1928 (Santa Ana), he sedulous worker; by family and was a long-time resident of Anaheim friends as a gentle giant with and then Fullerton. endless compassion and con - He attended St. Boniface School cern for others. His congenial and Anaheim High School, and humor and warm laugh incited graduated from St. Anthony High enjoyment for all that heard. School (Long Beach). He earned a He was a creator, artist, author, BS in Education from Santa Clara poet, athlete, mentor, good University in 1950, and a Master of Samaritan, husband, father, Arts in History from Loyola grandfather, brother, son, and University. the shoulder one always want - Bob was a man of faith, family, ed to lean on. and devotion. He married Gloria Michael is preceded in pass - Ann Fabian on December 28, 1957. Michael John Tuttle ing by his mother Faith and Bob and Ann were active, faithful brother Billy. He is survived by members of St Mary’s Catholic Michael John Tuttle, devoted his four children, Cullen, Church (Fullerton) since 1959. father and husband, passed unex- Drew, Jordan, and Ceili; his Together they raised 7 children. Bob pectedly on April 30th, 2019 at wife Sunbie; his three grand - and Ann were married for 51 years the age of 64. children, Max, Ginger, and (upon her death in 2009). Survived Clara P. Hernandez Originally from Rome, New Ashton; his sisters, Colleen, by 7 children: Robert, Cynthia, As anyone who ever crossed paths with Clara P. York, Michael was the middle of Katie, and Sheila; and his James, John, Lawrence, Mary and Hernandez (aka Rosie) can tell you she was a five children born to Martin and father Martin. Julie; 17 grandchildren; and 7 great devoutly spiritual woman who shared unsurpassed Faith Tuttle. Michael has been taken from grandchildren. kindness, graciousness, generosity, encouragement, Michael completed his bachelor us too soon but lives on in us He was a popular teacher in the and her wonderful sense of humor and bright opti - of the arts from Baker University, and our memories. As he ABC Unified School District for 41 misim with all. This in spite of the many challenges alongside lettering all four years in would always quote, “Live long years, where he spent most of his that came her way. Her large loving family and both basketball and golf. After col- and prosper.” years as a science & health teacher, many close friends will miss her along with everyone lege, he immersed himself in many well-known for his humor and who ever knew her - even for just a short while. She puns, at Carmenita JHS (Cerritos). died peacefully at age 81 on the morning of May 27.

Norman Lee Northcutt Jr.

Norman Lee Northcutt Jr., life in service to his country, and Arlen L. Waldrop known to all as Lee, passed away retired in November of 1974 as 6-2-1938 - 3-18-2019 peacefuly in his Fullerton home on Chief Petty Officer. May 13, 2019. He is survived by his In 1981, Lee was introduced to Arlen was born in Herrin Illinois on June devoted wife of 60 years, Rosie, his the B.P.O.E. and was impressed by 2nd 1938 to Charles and Alice Waldrop. children Marilyn, Michelle Kasbon their many charitable works, specifi - Herrin was a small coal mining town where (John), Michael, and David cally regarding veterans and chil - his father worked in the mines for years. (Becky); his grandchildren Anna dren. He joined the La Habra Elks After high school Arlen enrolled at Southern (Rodney), Mara, Amber (Dave), and continued to implement his Illinois University and graduated with an Matthew, Norman, Michael, Adam, mission statement of the Elks, a true engineering degree. He went into the Air force Devan and Jacquelyn; his great- patriarch of Charity, Justice, after college and spent 4 years serving his grandchildren Aiden, Rosemary, Brotherly Love, and Fidelity. His country. Connor, and Eloise; and his younger vision for the Elks led him to hold Once out of the military he landed in brothers Wayne, James and various leadership positions within Fullerton in 1973 and called it his home until Leonard. He also leaves behind the organization. he passed. countless extended family members Lee was a proud American and a Arlen started his career in the aerospace within the Benevolent and dedicated family man. He was an industry working for the Hi-Shear company Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.). avid golfer, loved to travel and was a out of Torrance and then Hughes aircraft in El Arlen enjoyed fishing and hunting. He was Lee was born on December 14, huge Dodgers fan. Segundo. He was fortunate to work on many an avid writer and enjoyed drawing and paint - 1936 on a Navy base in San Diego, Lee and Rosie loved living life to space shuttle programs during his career and ing with oil paint. to Winifred and Norman Lee the fullest which took them on was able to attend several launches. Arlen was a diabetic and had Parkinson’s Northcutt Sr. He spent most of his many great adventures around the In 1990 Arlen retired and started enjoying Disease but that very rarely slowed him down. youth in Woodbury, Tennessee, and world. Lee is a prime example of the time with his 5 grandchildren. Arlen loved to Once his beloved wife of 40 years passed he his teen years in Southern California kind of person we should all strive travel to Hawaii and did so 12 times. found kinship at Nick’s Restaurant in where he graduated from Whittier to be. Arlen thought it would be fun to dress up Fullerton and built many relationships and High School. Shortly after high It was his wish that in lieu of flow - for christmas as Santa for his grandchildren enjoyed sharing stories and bringing roses school Lee joined the US Navy ers, a donation would be made to and really enjoyed it. He was a real bearded from his rose garden to share with others. under the “Buddy” program. While the California Hawaii Elks Major Santa and was also the Santa at the Brea Mall Arlen is survived by his daughter Teri Sue in the Navy he earned his Associates Project in his name. You can make a for a few years, but his biggest joy was appear - Campbell and Son Ken Clark along with 5 Degree and climbed his way up the donation through the website ances at CHOC hospital, schools, churches grandchildren Scott, Robert and Nicole ranks serving on various cruisers, https://chea-elks.org/major- and personal families. He always donated his Campbell along with Mekenna and Brandon destroyers, and admiral’s staff. He project/donations. services for free. Clark. went on to dedicate 20 years of his Services have been held. EARLY JUNE 2019 NEWS, CROSSWORD & CLASSIFIEDS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 19

OUR TOWN CROSSWORD © 2019 ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY CASES ANSWER KEY Fullerton Pastor Charged “C LASS OF 2019” on page 7: with Child Molestation John Rodgers McFarland, 67, of a volunteer chaplain for the Fountain Fullerton was arrested on May 9, 2019 Valley Police Department and Fountain and charged on May 13 with seven felony Valley Fire Department. counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a McFarland was a pastor at Surf City minor under the age of 14, and four Church in Huntington Beach between felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts 2011 and 2016, and served as senior pas - with minors between the ages of 14 and tor at Fountain Valley United Methodist 15. Church for 26 years from 1988 to 2016. Prosecutors allege the molestations for He served as a youth pastor at the San PUZZLE MASTER the current offenses occurred between Dieguito Methodist Church in Encinitas Valerie Brickey 2003 and 2017. from 1978 to 1981 and attended was born in McFarland is currently being held on Christian Youth Camps during his min - Fullerton and two million dollar bail at the OC Jail. He istry there. McFarland’s first appointment returned to raise her faces a maximum sentence of 179 years to as senior pastor was at Calexico United family here. She has life if convicted on all counts. Methodist Church in Calexico, where he been contributing McFarland has been the head pastor at served from 1981 to 1988. puzzles since 2014. Orangethorpe United Methodist Church Deputy DA Ann Fawaz of the Sexual in Fullerton since 2016. He also served as Assault Unit is prosecuting this case.

LOCAL ONLY CLASSIFIEDS Man Pleads Guilty to Anti-Semetic Threats Nicholas Wesley Rose, a 28-year-old Rose's parents contacted the Orange Call (714) 525-6402 Irvine man pled guilty on May 31 to one Police Department in April 2018 con - The Fullerton Observer provides space for NEIGHBORS to advertise. To par - felony count of carrying a loaded firearm cerned about their son's anti-Semitic rhet - ticipate you must have a local phone number. Contractors must provide valid that was not registered to him and three oric, including a statement that he intend - misdemeanor counts of violation of civil ed to "get a gun and kill some Jews." licenses. Editor reserves right to reject any ad not considered suitable for our rights in connection with threats made to During a search of Rose's Irvine apart - family newspaper. The cost of a classified is $10 for 50 words or less per issue. three houses of worship in Orange ment, police found anti-Jewish literature Payment is by check only. The Observer assumes no liability for ads placed here. County because of their connection to the and a journal full of white supremacist However, if you have a complaint or compliment about a service, please let us Jewish community. He had conducted and anti-Jewish writings by Rose, includ - know at (714) 525-6402. Call City Hall at (714) 738-6531 to inquire about extensive internet searches on the houses ing a list of steps titled "Killing my first business licenses. For contractor license verification go to the California State of worship and visited them between Jew" and a "Kill List." Contractor License Board website at www.cslb.ca.gov . December 2017 and April 2018. 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the IRA used one of its preexisting social A Summary of the Mueller Report media personas (Facebook groups and PART 1: How the Russians Used Social Media Twitter accounts, for example) to announce and promote an event. to Influence the 2016 Election The IRA then sent a large number of direct messages to followers of its social by Jesse La Tour electoral system, to a targeted operation media account asking them to attend an that by early 2016 favored candidate event. From those who responded with The full, official title of the Mueller Trump and disparaged candidate Clinton. interest in attending, the IRA then sought Report is “Report on the Investigation The IRA' s operation also included the a U.S. person to serve as the event's coor - into Russian Interference in the 2016 purchase of political advertisements on dinator. In most cases, the IRA would tell Presidential Election.” social media in the names of U.S. persons the U.S. person that they personally could According to the report, “The Russian and entities, as well as the staging of polit - not attend the event due to some preexist - government interfered in the 2016 presi - ical rallies inside the United States. To ing conflict or because they were some - dential election in sweeping and systemat - organize those rallies, IRA employees Special Counsel S. Robert Mueller III where else in the United States. After the ic fashion.” posed as U.S. grassroots entities and per - event, the IRA posted videos and photo - The initial FBI investigation into sons and made contact with Trump sup - Twitter Operations graphs of the event to the IRA 's social Russian interference in the 2016 election porters and Trump Campaign officials in IRA-controlled Twitter accounts sepa - media accounts. began in late July 2016, under the presi - the United States. Mueller’s investigation identified dozens dency of Barack Obama. Upon realizing These social media groups and rately had tens of thousands of followers, including multiple U.S. political figures of U.S. rallies organized by the IRA. The the extent and scope of the Russian accounts, which promoted divisive U.S. earliest evidence of a rally was a "confed - attacks, in late December 2016, the political and social issues, falsely claimed who retweeted IRA-created content. In January 2018, Twitter announced erate rally" in November 2015. The IRA Obama administration imposed sanctions to be controlled by U.S. activists. Over continued to organize rallies even after the on Russia for having interfered in the elec - time, these accounts became a means to that it had identified 3,814 IRA-con - trolled Twitter accounts and notified 2016 U.S. presidential election. The tion. By early 2017, several congressional reach large U.S. audiences. attendance at rallies varied. Some rallies committees were examining Russia's By the end of the 2016 U.S. election, approximately 1.4 million people Twitter believed may have been in contact with an appear to have drawn few (if any) partici - interference in the election. the IRA had the ability to reach millions pants while others drew hundreds. In May 2017 Special Counsel Robert S. of U.S. persons through their social media IRA-controlled account. Mueller was appointed to investigate "the accounts. Multiple IRA-controlled IRA specialists operated certain Twitter Indictments and Charging of accounts posing as individual US per - Russian government's efforts to interfere Facebook groups and Instagram accounts Criminal Activity in the 2016 presidential election," includ - had hundreds of thousands of U.S. partic - sonas. IRA operated a network of auto - ing any links or coordination between the ipants. mated Twitter accounts (commonly On February 16, 2018, a federal grand Russian government and individuals asso - referred to as a bot network) that enabled jury in the District of Columbia returned ciated with the Trump Campaign. Facebook Operations the IRA to amplify existing content on an indictment charging 13 Russian When assessing links between the Twitter. nationals and three Russian entities- According to the Mueller report, in Individualized accounts used to influ - Russian government and the Trump cam - November 2017, a Facebook representa - including the IRA with violating U.S. paign, the report notes that the relevant ence the U.S. presidential election includ - criminal laws in order to interfere with tive testified that Facebook had identified ed @TEN_GOP (described previously); legal term would be “conspiracy” not “col - 470 IRA-controlled Facebook accounts U.S. elections and political processes. lusion.” Mueller notes that “collusion is @jenn_abrams (claiming to be a The indictment charges all of the defen - that collectively made 80,000 posts Virginian Trump supporter with 70,000 not a specific offense or theory of liability between January 2015 and August 2017. dants with conspiracy to defraud the found in the United States Code.” followers); @Pamela_Moore13 (claiming United States, three defendants with con - Facebook estimated the IRA reached as to be a Texan Trump supporter with During its investigation the Office many as 126 million persons through its spiracy to commit wire fraud and bank issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, exe - 70,000 followers); and @America:__Ist_ fraud, and five defendants with aggravat - Facebook accounts. (an anti-immigration persona with cuted nearly 500 search-and-seizure war - IRA employees also traveled to the ed identity theft. As of this writing, the rants, obtained more than 230 orders for 24,000 followers). In May 2016, the IRA prosecution of some remains ongoing United States on intelligence-gathering created the Twitter account communications, obtained almost 50 missions. before the U.S. District Court for the orders authorizing use of pen registers, @march_for_trump, which promoted District of Columbia. Other defendants In certain cases, the IRA created IRA-organized rallies in support of the made 13 requests to foreign governments accounts that mimicked real U.S. organi - remain at large. pursuant to Mutual Legal Assistance Trump Campaign. Although members of the IRA had con - zations. For example, one IRA-controlled 70 U.S. media outlets also quoted Treaties, and interviewed approximately Twitter account, @TEN_GOP, purported tact with individuals affiliated with the 500 witnesses, including almost 80 before tweets from IRA-controlled accounts and Trump Campaign, the indictment does to be connected to the Tennessee attributed them to real U.S. persons. a grand jury. Republican Party. More commonly, the not charge any Trump Campaign official Similarly, numerous high-profile U.S. or any other U.S. person with participat - IRA created accounts in the names of fic - persons, including former Ambassador Russian Election Interference titious U.S. organizations and grassroots ing in the conspiracy. That is because the Michael McFaul, Roger Stone, Sean investigation did not identify evidence Mueller’s investigation revealed that the groups and used these accounts to pose as Hannity, and Michael Flynn Jr., retweeted Russian government and its affiliates anti-immigration groups, Tea Party that any U.S. person who coordinated or or responded to tweets posted to these communicated with the IRA knew that he interfered in the 2016 election in two activists, Black Lives Matter protestors, IRA-controlled accounts. Multiple indi - main ways: and other U.S. social and political or she was speaking with Russian nation - viduals affiliated with the Trump als engaged in the criminal conspiracy. 1) First, a Russian entity called the activists. Campaign also promoted IRA tweets. Internet Research Agency (IRA) carried To reach larger U.S. audiences, the IRA Mueller therefore determined that such Trump Campaign affiliates promoted persons did not have the knowledge or out a social media campaign that favored purchased advertisements from Facebook dozens of tweets, posts, and other political presidential candidate Donald J. Trump that promoted their groups on the news - criminal purpose required to charge them content created by the IRA. Posts from in the conspiracy to defraud the United and disparaged presidential candidate feeds of U.S. persons. According to the IRA-controlled Twitter account Hillary Clinton. Facebook, the IRA purchased over 3,500 States or in the separate count alleging a @TEN_GOP were cited or retweeted by wire- and bank-fraud conspiracy involv - 2) Second, a Russian intelligence service advertisements, and the expenditures multiple Trump Campaign officials and conducted computer-intrusion operations totaled approximately $100,000. ing the IRA and two individual Russian surrogates, including Donald J. Trump Jr., nationals. against entities, employees, and volunteers The IRA bought an advertisement for Eric Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Brad working on the Clinton Campaign and its Instagram account "Tea Party News" Mueller did, however, charge one U.S. Parscale, and Michael T. Flynn. These national for his role in supplying false or then released stolen documents. asking U.S. persons to help them "make a posts included allegations of voter fraud, patriotic team of young Trump supporters stolen bank account numbers that allowed as well as allegations that Secretary the IRA conspirators to access U.S. online The Internet Research Agency: “by uploading photos with the hashtag Clinton had mishandled classified infor - ‘#KIDS4TRUMP.’" In subsequent payment systems by circumventing those Fake Social Media Accounts, mation. systems' security features. months, the IRA purchased dozens of On September 19, 2017, President Bots, and Trolls advertisements supporting the Trump On February 12, 2018, Richard Pinedo Trump's personal Twitter account pleaded guilty to identity fraud. Mueller The Internet Research Agency (IRA) Campaign, predominantly through the @realDonaldTrump responded to a tweet did not establish that Pinedo was aware of carried out the earliest Russian interfer - Facebook groups "Being Patriotic," "Stop from the IRA-controlled account @ the identity of the IRA members who pur - ence operations identified by the Mueller All Invaders," and "Secured Borders." l0_gop (the backup account of chased bank account numbers from him. investigation—a social media campaign Collectively, the IRA's social media @TEN_GOP, which had already been Pinedo's sales of account numbers designed to provoke and amplify political accounts reached tens of millions of U.S. deactivated by Twitter). The tweet read: enabled the IRA members to anonymous - and social discord in the United States. persons. "We love you, Mr.President!" ly access a financial network through The IRA was based in St. Petersburg, Individual IRA social media accounts In January 2018, Twitter publicly iden - which they transacted with U.S. persons Russia, and received funding from attracted hundreds of thousands of fol - tified 3,814 Twitter accounts associated and companies. On October 10, 2018, Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who lowers. For example, at the time they were with the IRA. According to Twitter, in the Pinedo was sentenced to six months of is widely reported to have ties to Russian deactivated by Facebook in mid-2017, the ten weeks before the 2016 U.S. presiden - imprisonment, to be followed by six President Vladimir Putin. IRA's "United Muslims of America" tial election , these accounts posted months of home confinement, and was The IRA used social media accounts Facebook group had over 300,000 follow - approximately 175,993 tweets. ordered to complete 100 hours of com - and interest groups to sow discord in the ers, the "Don't Shoot Us" Facebook group munity service. U.S. political system through what it had over 250,000 followers, the "Being Fake Political Rallies termed "information warfare." Patriotic" Facebook group had over The social media campaign evolved 200,000 followers, and the “Secured The IRA organized and promoted polit - Stay tuned for upcoming reports on from a generalized program designed in Borders" Facebook group had over ical rallies inside the United States while the remaining findings on other aspects 2014 and 2015 to undermine the U.S. 130,000 followers. posing as U.S. grassroots activists. First, of the investigation.