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Daily Pilot E-Newspaper Thursday, July 23, 2020.Pdf THURSDAY,JULY23, 2020 /// Now including Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent /// dailypilot.com Youth sports still dealing with virus The Premier Girls Fastpitch Nationals, scheduled for local sites, becomes one of the most recent events canceled due to the pandemic. BY ANDREW TURNER The Premier Girls Fastpitch Nationals have been canceled because of the co- ronavirus pandemic. National championships for the travel softball organization were set to take place from July 24 to Aug. 9. The first week, which comprises the 18-and-under and 16-and-under na- tional championships, was called off on July 12, PGF President Dan Hay said. The second week, during which the 14- and-under, 12-and-under, and 10-and- under divisions compete, was canceled Photos by Kevin Chang | Staff Photographer July 19. NEWPORT BEACH resident Ken St. Sure, 78, spent more than a year assembling a Kodak World’s Largest Puzzle in his garage. With the tournament’s timing late in the summer, Hay had held out hope that the event would be able to take ‘World’s largest puzzle’ place. “I never thought back in March that we would be sitting here in July not be- ing able to play softball,” Hay said. “The pieced together inside disease was supposed to calm down and almost go away during the hot-weather months, and it did exactly the opposite. “The state of California started to Newport Beach garage open fields up a little bit a month ago, and then when these numbers started to spike, they shut everything back BY HILLARY DAVIS need the stay-at-home orders to commit down.” to the project. He took up jigsaw puzzles Hay added that the PGF Nationals He’s got the whole world in his garage. about 10 years ago after retiring from a ca- Newport Beach is itself a destination, reer as a restaurant executive. He says it See Sports, page A5 but on the concrete floor of the St. Sure keeps his mind sharp and instills patience. residence in Newport’s Dover Shores are Some people do crossword puzzles or images of some of the world’s true won- crochet, he said. He snaps together iconic ders in the format of desktop-sized jigsaw and fantastic scenes and candid family THE PUZZLE REPRESENTING NMUSD puzzles: the Great Pyramids photos, custom-printed Hong Kong is one of St. Sure’s favorites. of Giza, the State of Liberty, into large-format 1,000- the canals of Venice, and 24 “It’s like a good piece puzzles that he has drafts a plan more locales, interlocked sealed, matted, framed together into a collage. book. You want and hung around the The 27 iconic scenes, house. for secondary connected by rows of solid to finish, but As puzzlers do, St. Sure black pieces as connective you don’t.” had a system of sorting by tissue, are billed as the color and assembling the schools World’s Largest Puzzle, a — Ken St. Sure borders on his Kodak opus. 51,300-piece creation by Each panel, at 1,900 pieces, BY SARA CARDINE Kodak. It measures 28.5 feet by 6.25 feet. It was individually packaged. He worked on cost $500. It took Ken St. Sure, an experi- large flat boards atop a table in the garage Though Orange County schools may enced “puzzler,” 13 months to complete. before laying the panels on the floor and have to reopen remotely next month, About three weeks ago, he announced sealing them without about a dozen bot- given the ongoing coronavirus pan- he had good news: he finished his puzzle. tles of special puzzle glue. His garage isn’t demic, Newport-Mesa Unified officials He also had bad news: he finished his puz- quite 28 feet wide, so he rearranged the on Tuesday approved a plan for how zle. panels to stack about as tall as the chassis secondary students could return to “It’s like a good book,” he said. “You of his and his wife’s cars are long. Before campuses if and when it’s safe. want to finish, but you don’t.” Although it the cars come into the garage, A100% virtual K-12 school option has was a diversion during this spring’s co- ST. SURE COMPLETED a Kodak World’s been created for all district parents ronavirus lockdown, St. Sure, 78, didn’t See Puzzle, page A5 Largest Puzzle that includes 51,300 pieces. wishing to keep kids at home. Now offi- cials are considering how the rest might learn in a flexible model that would shift in response to state and county reopen- ing guidelines, from in-person to hybrid to online, in either direction. ALSO FROM THE DAILY PILOT: ATK-6 plan was adopted by board members last week. But accommodat- ORANGE COUNTY BREAKERS IN THICK LAGUNA BEACH APPROVES PILOT ing a panoply of high school offerings — OF WORLD TEAM TENNIS PLAYOFF PROGRAM FOR PARKLETS PAGE A2 electives, AP courses, progressive math RACE PAGE A6 classes and world languages — in a MAILBAG: SAFETY SHOULD BE A modified schedule, and then layering in UC IRVINE RECEIVES $529 MILLION IN PRIORITY IF AND WHEN SCHOOLS disinfection and social-distancing pro- RESEARCH FUNDING, 20% MORE THAN REOPEN THIS FALL PAGE A3 tocols that satisfy ever-changing health PREVIOUS YEAR’S RECORD PAGE A2 Ryan Nixon | Courtesy of World Team Tennis See Secondary, page A4 Huntington Beach’s Great Pacific Airshow is a no-go for September BY SARA CARDINE “We started hearing more and more about those cases rising, This year’s annual Great Pacific and it seemed evident we were Airshow in Huntington Beach — going to have an uphill battle,” he an event whose aerial feats have said Tuesday. “We ultimately drawn hundreds of thousands of came to the realization that the spectators to the city’s pier and unfortunate reality was the state beachfront area since 2016 — has was not going to issue any per- been canceled. mits for outdoor events.” Organizers recently announced The Great Pacific Airshow an- the three-day spectacle scheduled nually thrills audiences as three for Sept. 18 through 20 would not international jet teams — the Air take place, due to the ongoing co- Force Thunderbirds, United King- ronavirus pandemic and restric- dom’s Red Arrows and Canada’s tions placed on large in-person Snowbirds — engage in what Elli- gatherings. ott described as “a spectacle of Kevin Elliott, president of Pa- engineering and aviation skill.” cific Airshow, LLC and director of Participants from Newport to the show, said he held out hope Long Beach might also catch per- the show might still be held as formances from the Red Bull Air planned with social-distancing Force or watch county fire depart- measures in place. He even ex- ment aerial units demonstrate plored the feasibility of moving water drops. Last year, two jet- the entire affair 3 miles out to sea pack-wearing racers zoomed be- and having spectators watch it fore audiences, the first time such from boats. afeat was performed as part of a But in late June, as Orange public display. County coronavirus cases and Given the complicated logistics COVID-19 hospitalizations began of booking performers, seeking to surge, Elliott said he began to Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer see the writing on the wall. See Air, pageA4 THIS YEAR’S Great Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach will not take place, organizers confirmed this week. A2 THURSDAY,JULY23, 2020 DAILY PILOT | COASTLINE PILOT | HUNTINGTON BEACH INDEPENDENT WWW.DAILYPILOT.COM THE DAILY COMMUTER PUZZLE By Jacqueline E. 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