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In it he displays great •C ROSSWORD : Valerie Brickey admitted she had never worked with disaster we do not have anything to insight and sensitivity to a problem that baffles and • D OWNTOWN REPORT : Mike Ritto •G ARDENING : Penny Hlavac seniors or as a manager before. help folks out that may have a need. worries all of us. Joyce Mason Fullerton Over the years our park had accu - •F ULLERTON HISTORY : Jesse La Tour & Terry Galvin Anonymous Fullerton • M OVIE REVIEW HITS & M ISSES : Joyce Mason mulated some walkers, wheelchairs, •Y OUNG REPORTERS : crutches, bath chairs that were for an ED: Seems odd that the manager Uncorked Francine Vudoti, C.C. Lee, Agnes Lee, emergency situation; if a resident would throw away property without I recently attended one of my favorite local Annie Choi, Seoyun Choi & Ceili Tuttle •P OLITICAL COMMENTARY : didn't have this to use to get around consulting the owner of the park. events, Fullerton Uncorked. I made a cool little VINCE BUCK & Jonathan Dobrer after surgery or an accident. We had Please send us the phone number of recap video of it that you can watch at: •P ASSION FOR JUSTICE : Synthia Tran them stored in an area that was con - the owner of the property. Seems https://youtu.be/daphhMXzv-c . •R OVING REPORTERS : Jere Greene, Sinh Dang, venient. Our Senior Club was asked right that the owner might like to Ricky Zollinger Fullerton and other Community Members about these items and we told them replace that equipment. www.F1LM.org • S CHOOL BOARD REPORTS : Jan Youngman & Vivien Moreno what they were for. •S CIENCE : Sarah Mosko & Frances Mathews Without any further communica - •S PORTS : Avery Jordan, Michael Foo, T. Lincoln tion with anyone on the has lived HOW TO VOICE YOUR OPINION • T HEATRE REVIEWS : Ceili Tuttle here for a number of years she took it Community Opinion pages are a free forum for the community. The Observer • T RAVEL : Ravi Perra upon herself to have two mainte - welcomes letters on any subject of interest. Comments are the opinions of the •V IDEO OBSERVER : Emerson Little nance men cut the useable equip - writer, may be shortened for space, and typos will be corrected (if we notice them). Created & Published in Fullerton ment into pieces and throw in the We must verify your identity, but anonymous letters or those appearing with ini - by local citizen volunteers for 39 years trash. (Pictures available if needed) tials and town are accepted if the writer can make a case that revealing his/her name Fullerton Observer LLC She doesn't live on site so she is would be a problem. not an on-site manager and to The Early November issue will destroy perfectly good equipment Email to: [email protected] hit the stands on October 30 seems like a bad decision to many of Or Mail to: Fullerton Observer, SUBMISSION & AD us who live in our Mobile Home DEADLINE: Oct. 23, 2017 Park; I know if our residents weren't PO Box 7051, Fullerton CA 92834 MID OCTOBER 2017 COMMUNITY OPINIONS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 3 Pass a Clean DREAM Act by Angelica Salas & Melody Klingenfuss Since 2012, we have watched hundreds who arrived in the United States before of thousands of young undocumented their 18th birthday a chance for perma - immigrants brought here as children gain nent legal status, as long as they meet res - new confidence to pursue their aspira - idency and security requirements and ful - tions, their educations and their careers, fill military, educational, or work condi - thanks to the Obama administration’s tions. If they clear the obstacles, they earn Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals residency after eight years, and presum - (DACA) program. In the past month, we ably, citizenship after 13. Because they have watched those same young people be were already fulfilling some of these thrown into a hell of uncertainty and fear requirements, DACA recipients also get as the Trump administration effectively fast-tracked. This legislation represents an ended DACA, announcing a six-month opportunity to do right by these students phase-out and challenging Congress to and to return to the ideal expressed by our come up with a legislative national narrative that we solution. give everyone, no matter These students who were 75% of their class or provenance, a famously “brought here conservatives chance to succeed. through no fault of their own,” & Republicans, Instead, Republican who just weeks ago were 86% of Congressional leaders are becoming architects of their playing games with these Students line up at a recent CHIRLA clinic to receive help in renewing DACA status. future, are now once again independents, students, turning them into merely victims of political 97% of liberals bargaining chips to win ment or military service rules. The five- The students whose future hangs on the forces beyond their control. & Democrats more enforcement measures year wait for citizenship would then fol - fate of the DREAM Act have no other This country built by genera - for a border that is already a low, making for at least a 20-year process. options for legal status, no line to go to tions of immigrants who support a path no-man’s land of sensors, For years, in poll after poll, Americans the end of. While in the DACA program, arrived seeking a chance to to citizenship for barriers and militarized have supported a path to citizenship for they followed the rules, submitting to prosper is denying that same DACA students. patrols. The truth is that the undocumented, and today they over - background checks, enrolling in school chance to this latest genera - Republicans for decades whelmingly support citizenship for and finding work, paying steep fees every tion. Unless, that is, Congress So what is the have been exacting enforce - DACA students. An ABC two years to renew their status, and pay - passes a clean DREAM Act, hold up? ment measures in immigra - News/ Washington Post poll released late ing taxes. These young immigrants truly with no immigration enforce - tion “deals” while giving last month showed a “vast” 86 percent of are American dreamers, like their immi - ment conditions or poison nothing in return in the way Americans support residency for undocu - grant parents and many others looking for pills. of legal immigration. Let’s not forget that, mented people brought here as children. a chance to be full members of our socie - Weeks before this administration before Obama implemented DACA, he The support crosses both ideological and ty. Passing a clean DREAM Act is giving announced the end of DACA, Sens. Dick tried to encourage Congress to pass immi - ethnic lines: three-quarters of Republicans them the same chance our parents and Durbin (D-Illinois) and Lindsey Graham gration reform, without success. Now, and conservatives, 86 percent of inde - grandparents had. If we really are who we (R-South Carolina) introduced the bipar - with Trump prodding them, Republicans pendents and 87 percent of moderates profess to be, we owe them at least this. tisan DREAM Act in the Senate. Reps. are trying to neutralize the DREAM Act expressed support, as well as 97 percent of Angelica Salas is Executive Director of the Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-California) and by introducing their own supposed alter - Democrats and 96 percent of liberals. Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) soon fol - native, the SUCCEED Act. But it impos - Also, 94 percent of Latinos, 93 percent of Angeles (CHIRLA). lowed with their version in the House (a es a much longer wait, granting no perma - blacks and 84 percent of whites said yes to Melody Klingenfuss is a DACA recipient and version first introduced 16 years ago). The nent status until after 15 years while these young people. These are not figures leader of the immigrant youth movement in the DREAM Act offers undocumented youth imposing tougher education and employ - to dismiss lightly. California Dream Network (CDN) Fullerton College CORRECTION Stadium Proposal Councilmember Jesus Silva Coffee & Conversation: Can’t believe it but we Just wanted to thank you for print - screwed up the dates of Councilmember ing the article for the Fullerton Jesus Silva’s Coffee & Conversation meetings College Neighborhood Action again. Sorry for the error. Below are the cor - Council (Neighborhood Concerns rect dates. About Proposed College Stadium, Coffee & Conversation sessions where res - page 2, early October issue). We so idents are invited to bring concerns, ideas, appreciate the Observer 's commitment questions and just come talk with the coun - to cover important neighborhood con - cilmember happen on the last Wednesday of cerns for the citizens of Fullerton. each month from 5:30 to 6:30pm. The Mary Frances Gable upcoming session is Wed., October 25, at Fullerton Panera Bread, 2415 E. Chapman Avenue at the corner of State College Blvd. Who is the Republican Congress Representing? The recently failed Republican health - infrastructure repairs, funding to protect care bill was pushed through before a full water, air, and pollution clean-up, fund - Congressional Budget Office score that ing to protect our food supply, education, would reveal how many people it would health and safety programs, defense, vet - affect and its cost. It was dropped before erans benefits, and more plus it would the vote because after a talley of raise the deficit. And yet, Republicans are Republican members of congress they lining up to vote for it even before the WAR COSTS in Life & Money realized it would fall a few votes short of details of who it would affect and how it California leads the nation with 3,972 soldiers wounded and 739 dead in wars since 2001. passing. would be paid for are ironed out. IN IRAQ & A FGHANISTAN The CBO came back with the numbers Gun control - especially bans on mili - on the failed healthcare bill. Here they tary-style weapons and ammunition clips • 179,298 Civilians killed by Violence www.iraqbodycount.org (10/13/2017) are: (like those used by the shooter in Las • 32 million people would have lost Vegas) - and safety measures are also • 4,526 US Soldiers killed in Iraq: (DoD 10/13/2017) their health insurance brushed away - perhaps due to the over • 2,403 US Soldiers killed in Afghanistan (9/1/2017) www.icasualties.org • $299 billion in Medicaid would be $3.5 million the NRA contributes to defunded campaigns each year ($11,900 to Ed US Soldiers wounded (DOD reports) www.icasualties.org • The bill would result in 580,000 lost Royce). • 32,223 Iraq 3/2003 to present (no updates since 11/2011) • 17,674 jobs and $240 billion in lost economic Who are Republican representatives in Afghanistan 10/2001 to present (no updates since 9/2012) activity through 2027 congress really representing? Certainly The current Republican Tax Plan is not the people of the US. For those who • $1.79 Cost of Wars Since 2001 www.costofwar.com (10/13/2017) (rounded down) (Iraq $820 billion) (Afghanistan $786 billion) going the same way so far revealing huge still think contacting our local representa - Trillion tax cuts to corporations and the most tive Ed Royce is worth it - you can call his EVERY HOUR US taxpayers are paying $4 million for cost of war in wealthy and peanuts for the rest of us. office in Brea and make a statement at Afghanistan; $117,035 for cost of war in Iraq; and over $8 million for Instituting the plan would rob the nation (714) 255-0101. total costs of war. What Can We Do With this Money Instead? of needed tax dollars to cover necessary KG Fullerton programs that benefit the country such as Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER GOVERNMENT NEWS MID OCTOBER 2017 The 3-street area added to include Sebourn’s CITY COUNCIL NOTES home in District 3 The Council meets at 6:30pm on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Upcoming agenda information and streaming video of council meetings are available at www.cityoffullerton.com. Meetings are broadcast live on Cable Ch 3 and rebroadcast at 3pm and 6pm the following Wed. & Sun. & 5pm Mon. City Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton. Contact council at 714-738-6311 or by email to: [email protected] October 3rd Council Meeting Next Council meeting is Tuesday, October 17th at 6:30pm. Come see your local government in action! Closed Session: Before every public city council meeting, there is a “closed session” in which council meets with various parties outside view of the public. According to Silva lives the agenda provided by the City Clerk, during this meeting’s closed session, council dis - in District cussed the discipline/release/dismissal of an unnamed city employee. They also met with representatives of various public unions (police, fire, and city employees) to dis - 3 here. cuss “parameters of authority for negotiating salaries, benefits, and working condi - View of District 2 & District 3 (where both Sebourn and Silva live) tions.” City Attorney Richard Jones reported that the city has rejected the proposal of the fire department union. Potential District Voting Map Changes Downtown Bars to At the request of Councimember Silva, council discussed re-visiting the district TIMELINE Double Occupancy voting map which voters approved in City Council approved (4-0, Sebourn Councilmember Sebourn, who •Sept 15, 2015: Public Hearing 2016. Announces Settlement abstaining) a request from the Downtown abstained from voting on the item, point - According to Silva, the boundaries were Requirements Restaurant Association (a group of down - ed out that Florentine and other restau - drawn (in part) to prevent incumbent town restaurant/bar owners) to change a rant/bar owners who “stand to benefit the council members from having to run •Nov 4, 7, 10 & 14, 2015: Round local ordinance, doubling the allowable most from this” should be a part of recov - 1 Community Meetings with against one another. However, due to a Compass Demographic’s Dave Ely occupancy of downtown restaurants/bars ering some of the costs associated with last-minute adjustment, both he and to draw up district maps. (and other businesses) in areas without increased police and fire presence down - Sebourn ended up in the same district. He fixed seating. The current occupancy is 15 town. Councilmember Silva, who voted wants to make a “minor adjustment” •Dec 15, 2015: Public Hearing square feet per person. They have request - for the change, agreed saying, “I’d like to presentation of input from Round 1 moving Sebourn back into district 2 Community Meetings ed that the city change this to 7 square see if the restaurant community could pay (which will not have an incumbent, nor feet per person, to bring the city’s code for cleanup [of downtown].” will it be up for election until 2020). •Feb 27, March 3, 8, & 10, 2016: into conformity with state code. This sug - Councilmember Fitzgerald spoke in According to the ordinance approved by Round 2 Community Meetings gestion was not based on a study, any new favor of the change: “I have been so with Demographer Ely to draw up voters, council may change district district maps. Map 2B submitted by data, or a request from city staff; it was impressed with the business owners in our boundaries once in a two-year period. Jeanette Vasquez was selected as the initiated by downtown restau - downtown who are Councilmember Sebourn said to Silva, community favorite. rant/bar owners. Councilmember people of integrity and “You seem kind of cavalier that moving Mayor Pro Tem Chaffee responsibility, who •April 6, 2016: Consensus Sebourn, my neighborhood from one district to Meeting in which those who had made an addition to the pro - want to be at the table who abstained another is not a big deal…changing the submitted maps were invited. Map posed ordinance, requiring and be part of solu - movement of the line may in fact be a very 2B was selected businesses seeking to amend from voting, tions.” big deal.” He suggested moving Silva’s their occupancy to make an Mayor Whitaker, also •April 19, 2016: Public Hearing pointed out that... neighborhood to district two. with maps including 2B already application to the city and get it restaurant/bar spoke in favor of the Silva replied: “That would be fair except submitted. Extension announce - approved by the Community change proposed by the owners who that when this map was chosen, the last ment that maps will continue to be Development, Fire bar owners: “They don’t adjustment that was made was to move accepted through May 10. Department, and Police “stand to benefit want the downtown to yourself into district 3. Prior to that, you •May 17, 2016: Map 8 (by Departments. the most from be a wreck, they don’t were in district 2, and at the very end, an Slidebar owner Jeremy Popoff) sub - A number of local residents this” should be want their business to adjustment was made to move you into mitted without the dog ear adding spoke against this change, argu - be a problem. They’re district 3 for the purpose of each council Sebourn to District 3. Fitzgerald asks ing that it will make the down - a part of looking to be successful member having his or her own district that Sebourn’s neighborhood be town area, which experiences a recovering at whatever it is that and not running against another incum - moved from District 2 to 3. large influx of weekend patrons, some of the costs they’re doing.” bent.” •June 7, 2016: Continued Public less safe and will end up costing Mayor Pro Tem Chaffee, (who lives in associated Before voting to Hearing from May 17 - Map 8A re- the city more money in public District 2 but has announced he won’t be approve this change, no submitted (including dog-ear mov - safety and cleanup. with increased running for re-election) supported Silva’s data was collected or ing Sebourn from District 2 to “You can’t just keep over - police and fire suggestion, and said that he has no prob - District 3) - council selects 8A for cited by council or pro - crowding places and expect lem with two incumbents running against ballot measure. presence vided by staff to answer nothing to happen,” said resi - each other, but supports the change to get downtown. the following questions: •June 20: Court orders a second dent Liz Savage, who suggested rid of a what he called “gerrymandering.” Public Hearing due to Map 8A revi - that downtown bars should pay 1) How much is the Mayor Whitaker, who seemed open to a sions. for overtime of police officers downtown. city spending/losing on police, fire, ambu - possible change, said that he takes issue •August 2, 2016: Public Hearing Resident Jane Rands said that the prob - lance, cleanup services, and free parking with calling it gerrymandering. “These afterwhich council picks revised lem stems from the 1990s, when the city downtown on the weekends? and were all complete maps that were voted Map 8A for the ballot measure. approved dozens of liquor licenses in an 2) What are the crime trends down - on, and there were pros and cons of vari - •August 8, 2016: Judge accepts effort to “redevelop” the downtown, and town, and how will increasing occupancy ous maps,” he said, “none of these were that city has complied with the set - since then, various city councils have done affect these trends? adjusted or modified in progress.” (See tlement agreement. little to fix the problems created by allow - The last study, done in 2007 by the timeline at right) ing 62 liquor licenses downtown, which Downtown Working Group, determined Councilmember Fitzgerald, (who made was created and promoted by downtown she said far exceeds the guidelines of the that extra downtown clean-up and the suggestion to move Sebourn into restaurant/bar owners. Parks and California Department of Alcoholic enforcement attributible to the bar scene District 3) said, “I have no desire to Recreation Commissioner Jose Trinidad Beverage Control (ABC). cost the city $1.3 million over what the change this map or to change any of the Castaneda urged that the council consider Restaurant and bar owners have argued area returns in revenue. boundaries. This was a map that was re-drawing the district lines, saying that that increasing the occupancy will actual - Note: According to financial disclosure thought about and deliberated on for a the boundary between districts 4 and 5 ly help with public safety issues and also very long time through numerous public cut up a community. Resident Liz Savage help them compete with other neighbor - records available online under Elections/Campaign Disclosure Forms on hearings.” (Actually, the district map that said that, “It looks like a lot of back and ing cities that have higher occupancy forth trading went into the map.” Joshua the City Clerks page ( www.cityoffuller - was generated by the majority of public allowances. meetings was map 2B, which council reject - Ferguson expressed discontent with the Speaking on behalf of restaurant and ton.com ) all of the councilmembers have received contributions from downtown ed in favor of 8A. See timeline at right. ) process, saying, “Nobody wants this to bar owners, Joe Florentine, owner of Members of the public took the oppor - come back again and again and again Tuscany Corner Grill (formerly Tuscany bar owners in varying amounts for their most recent campaigns. tunity to comment more broadly on prob - based on ridiculous gamesmanship.” Club) said that the occupancy increase for lems with how council created and select - At the request of Silva and Chaffee, re- him would be 60-80 people. Fitzgerald...... $4,600. ed the district map. Resident Jane Rands consideration of district boundaries will “I don’t imagine it would change any - Whitaker...... $2,855. said that the map approved by the council come back to council at a public hearing thing because we do a very good job con - Sebourn...... $1,700. (8A, the one that went on the ballot) on November 7th for further discussion, trolling our crowd, as all of our business Silva...... $ 500. unfairly cut up the downtown into pieces. after the City Manager secures the servic - owners do,” Florentine said. Chaffee...... $ 450. She also took issue with the fact that it es of a demographer. MID OCTOBER 2017 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5 Affordable Housing Needs continued from front page dissolved statewide. Additionally, the amount of HOME and CDBG money The 2014 Fullerton General Plan has also decreased over recent years. Update states: “When market rents are “One of our problems is we don’t have compared to the amount lower-income the funding,” said Rebecca Leifkes, households can afford to pay, it is clear Housing and Neighborhood Services that very-low- and extremely-low-income Manager for the city of Fullerton, “Over households have a difficult time finding the past ten years, the amount of funding housing without overpaying.” we get from CDBG and HOME has The SCAG Regional Housing Needs decreased considerably, and that’s across Assessment sets goals on the number of the state…We’re expected to do more affordable housing units and housing in with less. Cost of living has increased, but other categories needed per city. our funding has not.” According to the most recent report, While the CDBG and HOME funds Fullerton needs to build 411 are limited, they do help units for very-low income some. For example, 75 low households, and 299 units for “We’re expected income seniors in mobile low income households. to do more homes and apartments in Every year, Fullerton and with less. Cost Fullerton received rental assis - Construction is underway for a 55-unit affordable housing complex on Santa Fe. other cities receive grant tance. funding from the U.S. of living has “For those 75 people, it’s a including 24 units for tenants receiving To make these things happen, according Department of Housing and increased, but great thing,” said Leifkes, mental health services. to Leifkes, “We would need some devel - Urban Development (HUD) our funding “We recently received a letter •Related California: Development of a oper partners interested in doing these to help provide programs, has not.” from one of the property 55-unit affordable housing complex located emergency-type programs in our city. We services, and housing for low managers who told this story at 336 E. Santa Fe Ave. would also need to have ‘buy-in’ from the income people. These two about a tenant who hadn’t city council and neighborhoods.” grant programs are called --Rebecca Leifkes, been able to eat. With the •Habitat for Humanity: Construction The UCI study cited at the beginning HOME and CDBG Fullerton Housing rental assistance funds, she was completed on one of the three single- of this article shows that it costs far less (at (Community Development and Neighborhood was so excited that she was family ownership units located at 401 S. a government level) to prevent homeless - Block Grant). Services Manager able to go grocery shopping Highland. ness than it does to get someone off the For fiscal year 2016/17, streets. for the first time in a long These projects, as well as existing Fullerton received approxi - “There are a lot of reports out there that time.” affordable housing complexes in Fullerton mately $1.3 million in CDBG funds and show that if you can keep somebody from Through a partnership with Orange such as City Lights on Commonwealth $379,163 in HOME program funds. This becoming homeless, that’s ultimately County Housing Authority, 520 Fullerton Ave, are helping to address the problem. money goes toward things like rental assis - going to be cheaper in the long run than residents received Section 8 Rental However, there is still a large unmet need, tance, housing rehabilitation, and other the services that would be required to be Vouchers. Of the 520 households assisted, which is exacerbated by current economic programs for low-income people. provided when somebody has become 146 were families, 116 were disabled, 200 trends. Additionally, existing affordable While this money is extremely valuable homeless,” said Leifkes. were elderly, and 58 were veterans. housing complexes in Fullerton all have to the limited number of people who Thus, while the primary drivers of Over the past fiscal year, construction long waiting lists. receive assistance, there remains a large homelessness are larger economic forces began on several projects containing Barriers to more affordable housing unmet need. In the past, affordable hous - (rising housing costs, stagnating wages), affordable housing units: include the loss of redevelopment funds ing projects were funded through some of the solutions can happen local - which offered incentatives to affordable Redevelopment Agency money. However, •A Community of Friends: A 36-unit ly—if government, developers, non-prof - home builders, and a lack of acceptance of in 2012, Redevelopment Agencies were permanent supportive, affordable project its, and neighbors all agree to direct their located at 1220 E. Orangethorpe Ave., affordable projects by neighbors. efforts toward solving this problem. Census of Homeless Individuals in the Santa Ana Flood Control Channel Overall count 422 (361 answered survey questions below)

GENDER DURATION OF HOMELESSNESS PETS LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE Man...... 223 <1 year...... 88 No...... 239 Anaheim...... 79 Woman...... 138 1-2 years...... 85 Yes...... 89 Out of State...... 39 3-5 years...... 77 Santa Ana...... 35 AGE PROBATION /P AROLE 6-10 years...... 45 Orange...... 31 18-25...... 29 Yes...... 33 11-20 years...... 19 Garden Grove...... 29 26-59...... 286 No...... 289 21+ years...... 5 Fullerton...... 15 60+...... 25 LA County...... 12 CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER HEALTH INSURANCE Riverside County...... 10 ETHNICITY Yes...... 5 MediCal...... 219 Huntington Beach...... 8 White...... 221 No...... 318 Hispanic/Latino...... 72 None...... 89 San Bernardino County..8 Black/African American....34 Medicare...... 18 USUALLY SLEEPS IN Buena Park...... 7 American Indian/Alaskan..15 VA...... 7 Anaheim...... 104 Stanton...... 6 Pacific Islander...... 7 Private...... 6 Orange...... 205 Costa Mesa...... 5 Asian...... 4 Santa Ana...... 13 Westminster...... 5 Other...... 5 DISABILITY /HEALTH CONDITION Fullerton...... 1 Placentia...... 4 Yes...... 164 Garden Grove...... 1 Tustin...... 4 PRIMARY LANGUAGE No...... 157 Laguna Niguel...... 1 Yorba Linda...... 4 English...... 322 Los Angeles...... 1 Northern CA...... 3 Spanish...... 7 MENTAL HEALTH CONCERN Cypress...... 2 No...... 186 NOTES : Fountain Valley...... 2 VETERAN Yes...... 136 •Data Summary prepared by City Net Irvine...... 2 No...... 300 for the County of Orange La Habra...... 2 Yes...... 22 over a two day period. STRUGGLES WITH ADDICTION •Region surveyed from Newport Beach...... 2 No...... 198 MONTHLY INCOME Chapman Ave to Ball Road. Aliso Viejo...... 1 None...... 202 Drugs only...... 78 •Census information gathered by represen - Laguna Beach...... 1 1-500...... 53 Alcohol only...... 22 tatives from: City Net, Illumination Laguna Hills...... 1 Foundation, OC Health Care Agency, OC 501-1000...... 45 Both...... 22 Lake Forest...... 1 Probation, OC Sheriff’s Department., and Los Alamitos ...... 1 1001+...... 20 Orange Police Department. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM Santiago Canyon...... 1 •Data is all self reported by respondents. INTERESTED IN CASE MANAGEMENT Yes...... 223 Villa Park...... 1 Yes...... 246 No...... 138 Contact [email protected] with questions about the data set. No...... 57 Page 6OBSERVER The DOWNTOWN Report © 2017 MID OCTOBER 2017 Text & Photos by Mike Ritto [email protected]

Before photo of the area where the Canyon #2 fire starting on October 9 had burned 24 structures and 8,000 acres by October 11th. Fullerton Fire & Police sent crews to help out our neighbors in Anaheim Hills. Wild fires in northern California reported 17 deaths, 180 people missing, over 5,000 people evacuated to shelters, 2,000 structures and over 115,000 acres burned so far. who have spotted the smoke, some who 2:29pm, emergency alert blasts from FROM ORDINARY DAY TO WILDFIRE can see the flames, all are gripped by the the phone in my pocket, making me the Canyon Fire. All of those seemingly feeling of hopelessness, again. It’s now jump- “Mandatory evacuations for PERSPECTIVE big hassles are no longer a blip on the 2:20pm and the wind has shifted enough Orange Park Acres, North Tustin, East Life happens, and gets tedious at times. radar of course. Downtown issues, sure to bring that all too familiar nasty aroma Orange, Monitor Media.” Our cat cries Intermittent internet connection. Water they are important or this column would of wildfire with it, along with the smallest out, wants to come inside. Our chickens has been shut off for the day, repairs need - not exist, but again, not sure any of you of bits of ashes and dust being blown by are quiet but skittish, looking up into the ed. Nearby traffic is unbearable due to are too concerned about them today. We the arid wind. Soon, all of Orange County sky, the fish in the pond won’t come up construction. Three times in under 15 all know someone affected by these catas - will be under the cover of smoke, yet I can for food, the desert tortoise won’t eat, she minutes, I sit and wait for a train to cross. trophes and I hope somehow this unites still see beautiful blue skies to the north. is hiding. I fight the urge to do the same. At home, the refrigerator is acting up and us. freezes everything. These things seem like STOP ! N OW THIS ? Fullerton Photo Quiz dominoes falling on my patience, one As I get back to writing, a bit before after another. Later, a possum is actually 10am, I notice smoke is spreading across Last Issue’s Question in the house, a windshield cracks, a hub - the southern sky, outside my window. Are cap goes missing, blah blah blah. Where is the home (pictured in the you kidding? By now of course you know All of those things happening at once 1959 photo at right) today? the details, but as I write, this second, it but suddenly, the hills above my parents’ The Storybook House built by seems the world is on fire, because now home is on fire, and evacuation is immi - Fullerton College students in 1959 - the Canyon Fire 2 is in also in full force. A bit nent. A number of family and friends are home was sold to the highest bidder. later, the light outside is now extremely dealing with serious health issues. Las eerie, as the brown and orange cloud of Vegas, you know that horrible story. That smoke spreads far enough North to par - should be enough grief for now, but no. Answer tially obscure the sun. Next, I am watch - Another huge fire where many of my ing live coverage of houses burning on Normally, this is a sentence or two, but cousins live is taking their homes out Cedar Point Drive, thinking, like most of last time we asked for help in locating a today as I awake. you, about the many people I know who house built by Fullerton College students, The first thing I see, 6:30am, cousin live near there. yet the mystery continues. Perhaps by the Steve evacuated last night, got out OK, After my oldest daughter cancels her time this issue is printed we will know and some other comforting messages classes and sends her Santiago Canyon more, but for now…. would follow, then this from John: “Just College students home, her route takes found our house burned to the her near the condo she used to own in ground…everything is gone. Feeling sad Orange Park Acres. She notices that all of and upset right now.” Cousin Cheryl the fire trucks and the command center “Jeanie most likely lost her home in are at the cemetery. Can’t say I know what Fountain Grove.” Sadly, that turned out that means, if anything. My youngest to be true, Aimee and Dom lost two con - The second one (pictured above) was daughter is also at work and loses her sit - dos, Jan evacuated but returned to a safe built long after the Storybook House and ter, my sister Dr. Sharlene has to race home, two other homes that my relatives is unusual for the neighborhood. home to Corona through insane traffic. A grew up in are gone, still waiting for word As I drove up, looking at it from the neighbor comes to her aid and takes in her on another, just too much to believe and side, I thought it might be the right one, son for the remainder of the day. One fire yet, there is optimism because they all got only remodeled and added on to. is out at least. out safely. Others were not so fortunate. Once I compared it to the Storybook it It’s now so windy outside it sounds like was obvious, but thanks to Pamela A B IT LATER a horror movie, it’s getting dark like the Greenhaigh for alerting us to the possibil - beginning of a solar eclipse, the pool is so A state of emergency has just been ity. full of leaves and other debris raining Here is a similar home. declared, homes are gone but my relatives Thanks also to the neighbors who came down from the sky, it looks more like We were alerted to this one on are safe, so again, some perspective. Still, out to see why this guy was taking photos. soup. Due North, a beautiful blue sky. To Chapman near what used to be Foster’s none of us can imagine how horrible it is Luckily, they are Observer readers and the South, East and West, the sickening Freeze by reader Maureen Flynn. Close, to lose everything like that, and none of us friendly at that. Thanks for not telling me color of lost homes and dreams. Time by the looks of it, probably a few years wants to find out. to get the heck out, it would not have passes and the fire marches on. older, and not quite the same design, so My parent’s house was spared, barely, in been the first time, ha. My phone lights up, photos from many no cigar. Time to look at lead #2. MID OCTOBER 2017 LOCAL NEWS & CROSSWORD FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7

Pathways of Hope Raises Over OUR TOWN CROSSWORD © 2017 “A L IST ” by Valerie Brickey (answer key on page 19) $65,000 at Annual Fundraiser Pathways of Hope raised over $65,000 Pathways of Hope (formerly Fullerton to end hunger and homelessness and hon - Interfaith Emergency Shelter, FIES) is a ored Warren Bowen, Cynthia and Steven nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger and Peck, and Barb Jennings at the annual homelessness in North Orange County. fundraiser on September 24th. The organization has held the Annual Dinner and Auction Fundraiser at Angelo’s & Vinci’s Ristorante for 25 years to support their housing and food pro - grams. This year’s event celebrated several members of the Fullerton community whose contributions have shaped Pathways of Hope’s growth over the course of the organization’s 42-year histo - ry. Warren’s House Pathways of Hope honored the late Warren Bowen, one of the founding members of FIES and a lifelong supporter of Pathways, by announcing the name of their newest shelter, Warren’s House. Warren’s House serves chronically home - less adults with medical disabilities in Warren Bowen partnership with St. Jude Medical Center. Eric Azariah, Pathways of Hope’s Board Chair, paid tribute to Warren’s longstand - ing support of the Fullerton Community at the organization’s fundraiser. “Just two ACROSS 41. “Black-ish” actor years ago in this very room, we celebrated 1. Compadre 44. “Farewell, mon ami” Warren’s outstanding service to Pathways. 6. Egg holder 45. Steer clear of We are saddened by his loss, but also filled 10. Leave a mark 46. Roth ___ with joy to know that his legacy is living 14. Camera brand 47. Baton Rouge univ. on at the Warren’s House shelter every sin - 15. Gross college? 49. “Junebug” actress gle day,” he said. 16. ___ Raton, FL 51. “Goody Two Shoes” singer Steven & Cynthia Peck 17. “Fatal Attraction” actress 55. “Xanadu” rock grp. 19. ___ spumante 56. Hair goo Scholarship 20. Loch ___ monster 57. Rented Pathways also celebrated its 25th year of 21. Excursion 60. “48 Hrs.” actor Nolte partnership with Angelo’s & Vinci’s at this 23. Little one 64. Aquatic plant year’s fundraiser by announcing the 24. IBM language, part of UML 66. Hall of Fame tennis player launch of the Steven and Cynthia Peck 26. ___ Falls 68. Big-ticket ___ Scholarship. This program will benefit 28. “M*A*S*H” actor 69. Greek portico homeless and low-income individuals and 33. Code-cracking org. 70. Dined at home families served by Pathways of Hope, in 34. Prohibit 71. D.E.A. agent honor of the compassion and generosity 35. Spanish wine region 72. Sports award of Angelo’s & Vinci’s owner, Cynthia 37. Life force, in yoga 73. Easter marshmallow treats Cynthia Peck Peck, and her late husband Steven Peck. David Gillanders, Pathways’ Executive Director, said, “With this scholarship, DOWN 32. “___ script error has occurred” Cynthia and Steven’s desire to make the 1. Opened ___ of worms (computer message) world a better place for our neighbors in 2. Horse’s hair 36. She used ___ de plume need will touch the lives of struggling 3. Lodges 38. The East families and individuals every year.” 4. Continues 39. “Cheers” regular 5. “Put ___ Happy Face” 40. Santa ___ (hot winds) Harry Brown Award 6. Hosp. area for premature babies 42. Steer Additionally, Pathways of Hope hon - 7. Genuine 43. Non-prof. schooling? ored Barb Jennings with the Harry Brown 8. Coil of yarn 48. Apprehension Award for her outstanding service to 9. Go to bed 50. Be generous Pathways. Barb served on the Pathways 10. Org. for mom-and-pop shops 51. “Encore!” Board of Directors for 15 years and as 11. ___ Mesa 52. Atlanta-based airline President for 12 years. Her leadership 12. Thespian 53. American novelist Horatio empowered the organization to grow from 13. Indian yogurt side dish 54. Pastries operating one shelter and one food distri - 18. Receive in large amounts 58. “Halt!” bution center to operating four shelters, 22. Car’s speed control 59. Online fodder? four permanent supportive housing pro - 25. Drunken revelry 61. “Now it’s clear!” grams, and a comprehensive food distri - 27. Actress Teri ___ 62. “Fixer Upper” host ___Gaines Barb Jennings bution and resource center. 28. Sound on Old MacDonald’s farm 63. Burns and Olin Barbara Johnson, (pictured below left) 29. Touch down 65. “The Walking Dead” network the founding Executive Director of FIES, 30. Against 67. Jay-Z’s genre said, “We could tell immediately, when 31. “Well___ punk?” we got Barb Jennings, that she was a jewel (from “Dirty Harry”) with a lot of talent. Look at how Pathways has grown in service and commitment to the community!” Pathways of Hope exceeded their Come check fundraising goals and raised a record- breaking $65,000 to end hunger and out our homelessness at this year’s fundraiser thanks to the generosity of the North Orange County community. To learn more about the organization’s mission to rebuild lives of the hungry and homeless, visit their website at www.path - waysofhope.us, or contact their main CAPRI SHOES office by calling (714) 680-3691 or email - ing [email protected]. Barbara Johnson Page 8FULLERTON OBSERVER EDUCATION NEWS MID OCTOBER 2017

ATA ON ULLERTON S IGH CHOOL TUDENTS HIGH SCHOOL BOARD HIGHLIGHTS D F ’ H S S & commentary by Vivien Moreno Fullerton Joint Union High School District has eight high schools (including one alternative and one continuation). There are 541 teachers and 33 administrators. The Fullerton Joint Union High School District Board meets at 7:30pm on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month •E NROLLMENT : 13,983 (2016-17) includes 291 homeless students at district headquarters, 1051 W. Bastanchury Rd. 714-870-2800 • See the agenda at www.fjuhsd.net •A VERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE : 13,568 (2015-16)

•A VERAGE CLASS SIZE : 30.9 students (2014/15) New California Student Data •E THNIC DIVERSITY : 7,787 Hispanic; 2,590 Asian; 2,387 White; 474 Filipino; One outcome of all the current changes and as a parent you can use the data to 315 two or more; 313 Black; 60 Pacific Islander; 28 none reported. (2016/17) in technology and education funding is consider different components about a the abundance of student based data col - school, but you need to know where to •A VERAGE SCORES BY SUBJECT : (Out of total possible score of 36) lected. Student data is reported by gender, look and how to look at it. Science, 24; Reading, 25; Mathematics, 26; English, 25 (2015/16 ethnic/race identity, socioeconomic sta - Think about what your child needs to tus, homelessness, English language learn - stay engaged in learning. Do they need •G RADUATING : 94.5% (2014/15) •D ROP OUT : 105 students (2014/15) ers and students with disabilities. I left out extra help emotionally or with study •G RADUATES MEETING UC/CSU R EQUIREMENTS : 51.4% (2014/15) a few categories but you get the drift, and habits? Will they need help balancing schools are not only monitored by state sports and social activities with academics. •F REE & R EDUCED -P RICE MEALS : 5,964 students tests but by multiple measures including Are they interested in a certain career suspension rates, graduation rates, atten - pathway? Testing data and graduation •E NGLISH LANGUAGE STATUS : 5,270 students. Students in this category are profi - dance, AP and SAT scores and soon there rates represent a gateway to spark a fami - cient in two or more languages. Law requires that all students whose primary lan - will be additional requirement evaluating ly’s interest to request a school tour to see guage is other than English be assessed for English language proficiency. This num - a student’s preparedness for the work if the culture, programs and environment ber includes those whose primary language is not English but who scored high place or college right out of high school. are the best fit for their child. enough on the state test of English proficiency to not be classified as an English What does all that data mean? Looking While parents use data to choose a good Learner and those who have achieved Fluent English Proficient status. at information provided by Ed Data and local school for their family, school •L ANGUAGES OF ENGLISH LEARNERS : More than 65 languages are spoken in the the CA Department of Education, change administrators use data to self-evaluate. homes of 1,335 students including: 1,133 Spanish; 92 Korean; 22 Mandarin is a key component to measuring Higher test scores and low suspension (Putonghua); 19 Filipino (Philipino or Tagalog); 18 Arabic; and 51 English California’s schools. rates stimulate school competition, but Language Learner students who speak other languages at home. The California high school exit exami - data should be used to measure engaged, nation ended 3 years ago; new state and successful student populations and where SAT tests were overhauled with new test - the school can improve serving low reputation instead of serving all students. bit less than average) and the district only ing scores that do not correspond to old achieving students to reach their greatest The Dashboard at www.caschooldash - spent 88.26% of their funding compared scores and what data is collected is for spe - potential. board.org makes it easy to compare differ - to other high school districts in the state. cific funding rules with new criteria. New Student participation in SAT testing ent student populations. Instead of focusing on the lack of future test scores and school ranking mean some - and AP course work as well as graduation Special population student data deter - funding, the district could shift its think - thing entirely different than the old API rates can indicate if a school is serving mines supplemental school funding. Local ing to allow teachers and support staff score families and real estate agents once their low-income students and English Control Funding gives every child a base greater freedom to try innovative solu - used to gauge local schools. learners in inclusive, positive ways. The amount and identified special population tions and support grant writing efforts to See http://www.ed-data.org multiple student data groups allow students receive additional stipends. If the find increased revenue to support those https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2017 schools to refine their services and pro - district has more than 55% population of children. See http://www.ed-data.org. grams to help narrow achievement gap underserved students, then they receive Before delving into the data, take a issues that can get lost in a district like even more money. This money allows a The FJUHSD is an amazing district moment to think about what you want FJUHSD with such a high overall gradu - district to hire additional teaching and (just compare it with any other district in from it. Everyone wants great schools for ation rate. If student population data stays support personnel to address these stu - the state) with soaring graduation rates their children, but what does that mean? stagnant, this could indicate that school dents’ multiple needs (such as technical, while suspension and dropout rates stay High test scores tell one part of the story, administration is perhaps resting on their emotional, or financial support) in order consistently low. to be successful in today’s educational The most important steps in digesting environment. any amount of school district data is to The FJUHSD is a district that comes understand what you are looking for and close to the higher supplemental funding what the data is revealing. There is always percentage but will never achieve it with room for improvement, and looking at only 48% of the overall student popula - increases of AP class accessibility, special tion qualifying. Messages of deficit spend - population achievement and the new ing and lower funding allocations can career and college readiness rubric will all instill concern about future funding, but round out the picture the data brings to the spending reality reveals that FJUHSD life for parents and school administrators received 94.77% of the funding that all to see areas of success, of need, and of other state high school districts received (a focus.

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Students along with their teachers make Jegi, a fun game to play. Lessons in Culture The Korean School held on Saturdays at coin with a hole through the middle, and Sunny Hills High School celebrated the a sheet of hanji paper. The paper is folded Korean Thanksgiving Chuseok, held from in half, the coin is placed in the middle of The Art of GERMS October 4th through October 6th, by the folded paper, and the paper is folded Germs? Oh no, I don't like them. No "The Wonderful World of Germs." Mr. participating in numerous fun activities. several times again with the coin still one likes them, right? But, wait until Zacarias loves to include hidden symbols Students made Jegi, a special Chuseok inside the paper. A sharp object is then you visit the Fullerton Museum Center or figures within his paintings. Some of game to play, and made Songpyeon, a spe - used to pierce a hole through the paper, these days. You will be amazed at how his paintings reminded me to pray. cial Korean cake, to take home. The also passing through the hole in the coin. these bad guys are depicted in amazing One is a beautiful religious icon called Korean School was established by the Each end of the folded paper is then and funny ways. The featured artist in "Virgin of Guadalupe," who is the Korean Institute of Southern California in inserted into the hole, and the ends of the the exhibit is California artist, Jaime mother of Jesus and revered throughout 1972. The school teaches children from paper are unfolded and torn into strands. Zacarias, whose nickname happens to be the Americas especially in Mexico. Kindergarten to 10th grade Korean lan - Make a Jegi with Paper Germs. His name may not ring a bell to In the past, I had seen more classmates guage skills, culture and history. me but his work has been exhibited who attended the free family night at the and a Rubber Band worldwide. museum. Sadly, this time, I didn't see How to Make Songpyeon A simpler method is to place a small pile To be honest, I don't really enjoy vis - anyone familiar at all. There were only a Curious about how to make the special of two or three coins in the center of a iting art museums as much as going to few who came from the different schools Songpyeon cake? Visit “Korean Bapsang,” 25cm square cut from a plastic bag or tis - an amusement park. But I thought I in the district. Could it be because it a great website created by Hyosun Ro. She sue paper. The paper is bunched around would give it a chance because the was a weekday and everyone is busy with gives a recipe for Songpyeon and describes the coins, and the coins are tied in place Fullerton School District sponsored a homework? Or would it have helped if the process complete with photos, and with string or a rubber band. The loose free night for students in GATE which they distributed flyers with interesting tells where to shop for ingredients. To visit part of the bag or paper is then cut into usually happens once a year. I'm glad I features of the exhibit like those funny her website, which also lists recipes for strands. did because I actually had fun looking at twists in the paintings that are fun to other mouthwatering dishes, go to The most important factor of good jegi the tentacled figures which are the explore? http://www.koreanbapsang.com . Once is its weight, which should be around 10 favorite subjects of Mr. Jaime Zacarias. For anyone interested, the exhibit there just put “Songpyeon” into the search grams (0.35 oz). If it is too light, it is very His paintings also have a great blend of "Under the Microscope: the Art of box and her recipes will come up. hard to control jegi since it falls to the colors that will energize you. I like it Germs" is still available and will run Directions for how to make the Jegi ground before the next kick is ready. when a painting has funny twists and through October 22nd at the Fullerton game can be found on the Jegichagi page However, if it is too heavy, it is hard to Mr. Zacarias did not disappoint. I had Museum Center in downtown on www.wikipedia.org . One fun thing kick the jegi high enough. fun discovering Abraham Lincoln hid - Fullerton. when you get to the wikipedia.org page den somewhere in the painting called you can choose which of numerous lan - How to Play guages to read wikipedia in. Then just put Players kick the jegi into the air using “Jegichagi” into the search engine. instep of the foot. The winner of the game FALL SWIM Here is the description in English: is the player who kicks jegi the most times Traditionally, a jegi is made by taking a without letting it fall. PROGRAMS! • PRE-COMPETITIVE CLASSES NOW THROUGH NOVEMBER 18 • SPRINGBOARD DIVING TUES & T HURS , 6:30-7:30 PM

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by Jesse La Tour And so, she decided to pursue a career in science, rather than medicine. The following is the first in a series “I was a little rebellious, not outwardly, of profiles of local professors making but intellectually rebellious,” she says, amazing contributions to our “And a research lab was a great place for understanding of the world. that. I could read an article written by my research advisor and go criticize it to him, Moving to the United States from Iran and he would be appreciative of that in 1996, Parvin Shahrestani didn’t speak instead of confrontational. And he treated English and didn’t know what she wanted me like a colleague.” to do with her life. Prior to arriving in the Ultimately, Shahrestani U.S., she had moved around a decided to pursue her lot and had “a really broken-up Ph.D, where she contin - education.” “Flies and ued to study evolution and Starting at the University of aging. She did a post-doc - California at Irvine, a first-gen - humans share torate fellowship at eration college student, she was a lot of genes Cornell, studying immune an undeclared major with a defense. These two areas— Pavin Shahrestani examines fruit flies under a microscope in her lab at CSUF. wide variety of interests, span - in common. aging and immune ning from math to linguistics, When it comes defense—would become to religious studies, to science. Some of her research has potential they going to be requiring new mutations to disease-related her main areas of expertise But it was a general educa - application to humans—understanding in order to be able to adapt?” and research. tion biology course called genes, some how we age and how our immune systems Much of Shahrestani’s research involves Now Shahrestani teaches “Conception to Birth” that work. But she is also interested in under - how immune systems age, which is called estimates say genetics, evolution, aging, sparked her love affair with standing how evolution works. immune senescence. Like all scientists, she and general biology at biology. Learning about early as high as “That’s kind of hard to figure out in is driven by curiosity and questions—try - CSUF. She also runs her human development felt intu - humans,” she explains, “but with flies, ing to understand what we don’t currently 70 percent own lab—leading a itive. you can cause evolution to happen in the know. research team that studies Thinking she would go to similarity.” lab.” This is called “experimental evolu - Her recent research, which examines evolution, genetics, aging, medical school, Shahrestani tion,” and her team is discovering some how male and female flies age and how and immune defense using decided to boost her resume by interesting things. For example, some of they respond differently to disease, could fruit flies. volunteering at a hospital and a her research suggests that, along with ran - have relevance for more personalized Why fruit flies? “The reason you can research lab, not knowing that this would dom mutation, evolution can also happen medicine in humans and “could also have use flies is because flies and humans share lead her down a different path. because of the frequency of pre-existing relevance for biological control of mosqui - a lot of genes in common,” she explains, She took a class on evolution, taught by genetic variation in populations: This is tos and the diseases they carry—malaria “When it comes to disease-related genes, pioneering scientist Michael Rose, and called “allele frequency,” and dengue, for example.” some estimates say as high as 70 percent decided to join his lab, studying evolution Understanding how evolution works She and her students have presented the similarity. So, if you identify genes that and aging. Doing research in the lab was a could have applications to how we under - research done by her lab at conferences affect disease in flies, you have pretty high perfect fit for her. stand things like how species respond to around the world, from Japan, to France, chance that a homologue (similar-type) of “It felt so natural for me,” she says, “It climate change. to Germany, to right here at CSUF, at the that same gene is going to be affecting the fit my personality. It fit my curiosity and “Say you want to know how a species is Summer Research Symposium. disease in humans.” creativity.” going to change over time when climate Shahrestani says she hopes “that my lab change is happening,” Shahrestani can make substantial contributions to the explains, “Let’s say ocean waters are warm - field of evolutionary genomics, that my ing, you have some marine students can be trained well and go on to organisms…how are they going to evolve, great things, that my teaching of classes and how fast? Are they going to be losing will continue to improve. I see this as a genetic variation or maintaining it? Are lifelong career. I really love it here.”

Ethan Mundt and Charley Rippon struggle to find the right words to write in an email to Feed the Children while Fisher McDonald counts the donation money. Titans on a Winning Streak to Feed Children in Need For this football season the Mighty team accomplishes. Although their record Mite level of Fullerton’s Pop Warner is one win and four losses, the Titans feel Titans (29 kids) committed to raising like they are on a winning streak because money to donate to Feed the Children for through their efforts they have raised meals for less fortunate children by find - $350, enough money to serve 120 meals ing sponsors to donate $1 per touchdown, to needy children. For more information, interception, or fumble turnover that the visit www.feedthechildren.org. MID OCTOBER 2017 A FULLERTON LANDMARK FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 11

VIDEO OBSERVER by Emerson Little © 2017 Angelo’s & Vinci’s Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been ing the Peck family had bought and reno - going to Angelo’s and Vinci’s Ristorante vated.” The restaurant’s website also says with my family. When I was younger, I that during their renovation in 1992, “the used to be afraid to walk down the dark - old wood, terra cotta tiles and brick was ly-lit staircase into the basement and my salvaged and re-used to keep alive the feel - dad used to have to hold my hand as we ing and memories of those days long ago.” walked by it. But my most memorable Recently, my parents and I ate lunch at moments at Angelo’s and Vinci’s were the Angelo’s and Vinci’s. Steven Peck, founder times when I ate pizza, pasta, of Angelo’s and Vinci’s and and all kinds of Italian food. I As we were renowned Hollywood dancer, was shocked to read recently choreographer and actor of that one proposal for develop - walking to our over 100 movies and televi - ing the area around the Fox table, I couldn’t sion performances, hung pic - Fullerton involved relocating help but notice tures of over 40 years of and demolishing Angelo’s and a pink neon famous stars, directors and Vinci’s to build a 260-space sign with dancers in the entryway. parking structure topped with Once my family entered, we A jubilant Steven Peck on opening day of Angelo’s & Vinci’s Ristorante. condos. an arrow were greeted by a friendly Created with a charming feel of Italy, the restaurant has become a Fullerton icon. According to an article from pointing to waiter and seated. the Daily Titan , city council - the basement, As we were walking to our man Jesus Silva held an infor - table, I couldn’t help but mal public meeting at Panera with the word, notice a pink neon sign with Bread on State College and “MONSTERS” an arrow pointing to the was asked by a concerned glowing basement, with the word, Fullerton resident about the in capital “Monsters” glowing in capital future of Angelo’s and Vinci’s. letters. In fact, Steven Peck Silva “informed attendees that letters. purposely created the no agreement had been “Monster Wine Cellar” in the reached with the owner of theater’s original basement Angelo’s and Vinci’s Ristorante to sell dressing-room to house his wine bottles. their property, and that the property After placing an order for an iced tea, I would only be developed if the owner was decided to check out the basement while a willing partner.” The councilman went my parents waited at the table. on to say, “We’re not going to As I walked down the stairs take it from (the owner). We’re into the cellar, I saw a fluores - not doing eminent domain. This cent red light coming from would only be a business deal.” behind an area that seemed Angelo’s and Vinci’s Ristorante like a small jail cell where all is a historic Fullerton landmark the monsters were kept. At that should remain where it is the bottom, it wasn’t nearly as er and cheese monger. Lining the edges of doors that led to a banquet hall that could and where it always has been. frightening as I thought it was the balcony and upstairs railings were var - be reserved for special occasions and cere - The restaurant was built forty- when I was little. Two small ious statues, decorations, art pieces, pho - monies. The upstairs area was not open at five years ago. According to the chandeliers hung from the tographs and more lights. In fact, there the time, although I did spot two man - Angelo’s and Vinci’s website, the Angelo’s & Vinci’s ceiling. One was held up by a was a canvas-sized Mona Lisa and a pic - nequins on a flying trapeze hanging from building was originally struc - owners statue hand. Amid the 6-foot ture of Albert Einstein eating pasta. the ceiling. tured “as an L-shaped market - Cynthia & figures of Dracula, Our waiter returned shortly after to take It would be a shame if Fullerton lost place” in the early 1900’s when Steven Peck Frankenstein and King Kong our order. My family ended up ordering this creative, historic, and wonderful Fullerton was still an orchard. (before he standing in cages, there was a an extra large onion and garlic pizza, restaurant that our city has come to know Local farmers and vendors used passed away Luigi doll. Another set of which was so large that we ended up tak - and love over the years. Be sure to visit to bring their produce to the in 2005). stairs on the other side of the ing half of it home in a take-out bag. The Angelo’s and Vinci’s for the decorative marketplace to sell to the townspeople. basement led into the well-lit kitchen. place is pretty popular with families and décor and wonderful Italian food. About twenty years later, the building was By the time I got back to the main din - couples enjoying various items off the Angelo’s and Vinci’s Ristorante is open for changed from its original L-shape to a ing area, my iced tea had already arrived. I lunch menu. lunch and dinner from 11am to 9pm on square. Large wood barrel trusses used in sat down and began eating some delicious There is a bar toward the back of the Sundays through Thursdays and from the restructuring of the building can now Italian bread that the waiter had brought dining area, which I believe is open at 11am to 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays. be seen in the Sicilian Room and Piazza to our table. Colored “fairy” lights hang - night. To find the bathroom, I had to To see a video of Angelo’s and Vinci’s, Fantasia at Angelo’s and Vinci’s. ing on the walls above us lit the room and walk through a set of double doors into a just visit the Fullerton Observer website, According to a Los Angeles Times article, mirrors on the walls reflected the scene. It long hallway with pictures on the walls. click on the “Videos” tab and click on the in 1992, the restaurant “moved across an looked a little like an Italian town square The photographs showed various artists words “Emerson Little YouTube alleyway” from its original location to its since directly across the room from my eating or performing. Down the hallway Channel,” which will take you directly to current location in the “cavernous build - table was a sign from an old Italian butch - and past the restrooms was another set of my page. Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL HISTORY MID OCTOBER 2017

FULLERTON ’S FIRST INHABITANTS PART 5: Environment and Economy by Jesse La Tour

The following is part of a series of articles plant, and mineral. Animal resources about the native American tribe who were included deer, antelope (a kind of moun - the original inhabitants of Los Angeles and tain goat), coyote, wolves, foxes, rabbits, north Orange County, including Fullerton, squirrels, skunks, birds, snakes, and wild - called the Gabrieleno Band of Mission cats. Indians Kizh Nation (or just Kizh). In pre - Animal meat was prepared in a variety vious articles, I have described Kizh religion, of ways, including jerking, roasting, boil - tribal leadership, and shamans. In this arti - ing, and baking. Skins and pelts were used cle, I will discuss the environment and econ - for clothing, containers, and blankets. The Kizh expertly wove baskets that were both useful and artistic. omy of this local tribe. The source for this Other useful tools made from animals including needles, fishhooks, awls, bows, information is an excellent book called “The dream helper to an individual.” whistles, flutes, and rattles. First Angelinos” by William McCawley. “These carvings represent sensitive According to McCawley, the Kizh were works of art,” McCawley explains, “as well expert hunters, “and their weapons and The Kizh homeland, McCawley as testaments to the religious beliefs and technology reflected a versatile set of explains, “offered an environment rich in faith of Gabrielino seafarers.” natural resources. This strategies for utilizing ani - wealth of resources, coupled Due to an mal resources to the best Plant Resources with an effective technology advantage. Large animals and a sophisticated system of abundance of were hunted with bow and Trees supplied the wood used for build - trade and ritual exchange, natural arrow, while small animals ing Kizh homes and for manufacturing resulted in a society that was resources, were taken with traps, bows and arrows, spears, harpoons, bowls, among the most materially snares, nets, slings, and platters, dishes, and canoes. wealthy and culturally Kizh society throwing sticks.” Tule reeds (or bulrushes ) were used to sophisticated of the was among the Kizh hunters also used make houses, reed canoes, baskets, and California Indian groups.” ingenious decoy headdresses various containers. most materially Soapstone effigies held religious significance. Because the Kizh inhabited made from deer heads—to Acorns provided a staple food with a such a large area, natural wealthy and mimic deer and allow them high nutritional value. The Kizh devel - resources varied widely culturally to get close. oped techniques to leech out tannic acid “Much of the asphaltum,” McCawley among settlements. There sophisticated of Insects often served as a and make acorns palatable, allowing them explains, “was collected as it floated ashore were at least nine distinct kind of “fast food” and to be ground into a mush or made into from marine seepages, although an alter - habitats, stretching from the the California included grasshoppers, lar - cakes. Acorns were usually collected in the native source was the tar pools at La mountains to the ocean, each Indian groups. vae of bees, wasps, ants, and fall in “an intense, cooperative communal Brea.” with their own unique natu - beetles. effort.” Clays were also used to make ceramics, ral resources. Among the coastal com - Other plant foods included: chia seeds, body paint, and soaps. The Kizh territory was also munities, fish and sea mam - roots, bulbs, wild hyacinth, clover, wild With so many natural resources and at the center of an extensive network of mals (whales, seals, sea otters) provided sunflower seeds, cholla cactus seeds, and such an advanced system of trade and trade with other tribes that stretched east - excellent sources of food. Shellfish like wild tobacco. manufacturing, it’s no wonder that early ward to the Colorado River and westward abalone, oysters, and clams were also The Kizh were known as expert basket- ethnographer Alfred Kroeber called the as far as San Nicolas Island. These trading eaten. weavers, making baskets that were both Kizh “the wealthiest and most thoughtful partners included the Cahuilla, Serrano, In addition to being expert hunters, the useful and artistic. Baskets would be of all the Shoshoneans of the State.” Luiseno, Chumash, and Mojave tribes. Kizh (like their Chumash neighbors to the woven with both geometric and realistic To facilitate this trade, there would be north) were expert seafarers and fisher - designs in three colors: red, green, and Stay tuned for the next part of this large inter-tribal gatherings that included men. They built sturdy plank canoes black—made from natural pigments. series, in which we learn more about the feasts, dances, and ritual exchange of shell (called a te’aat ) which could hold 8-10 original inhabitants of this area! bead currency. Various tribes and lineages people on fishing and sea voyages. Mineral Resources would join together in ceremonial, politi - Seafaring was still a risky activity, how - cal, and economic alliances. ever, so Kizh mariners “sought aid from The Kizh homeland also included “a the supernatural world to help them in variety of useful minerals…and these played a large role in the development of Animal Resources their efforts.” They would carry stone carvings which “may have served as talis - trade and manufacturing.” The main natural resources of the Kizh mans that were used to channel supernat - Soapstone was used to make cooking may be divided into three types: animal, ural power from a guardian spirit or vessels and religious effigies (small stat - ues). Flint was used to make arrowpoints, small drills, and knives. Slate was used in soapstone quarries to make picks, saws, and choppers. Granite was used to make mortars and bowls for grinding. Crystals were used for religious or ritual implements. Asphaltum (tar) was used as an adhesive, and for waterproofing con - tainers. MID OCTOBER 2017 EVENTS CALENDAR FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 13

TUES, OCTOBER 17 SUN, OCTOBER 22 TUES, OCTOBER 26 •6:30pm: Fullerton City •12:30pm: Pathways of Hope continued HITS & Council Meeting at Fullerton City Pizza & Beer Registration is $25 Thurs 1am-noon and 2pm to 4pm MISSES Hall, 303 W. Commonwealth. See and includes pizza and one beer (evening hours on Nov. 8th, 14th the agenda online at www.cityof - ticket. Bootleggers Brewery, 130 S. and 20th from 6pm to 8pm.) by Joyce Mason fullerton.com under How Do I and Highland Ave, Fullerton. Best ‘80s 7:30-9:30pm: Sean Oliu with © 2017 then View Council Meetings. gear has chance to win an awesome the Darden Sisters & Joe Tartar : WED, OCTOBER 18 prize. Questions? Call Rhiannon at perform at Muckenthaler Cultural •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday (714)680-3691 x207. Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Battle of the Sexes: Two Hits Farmers Market at Independence MON, OCTOBER 23 Fullerton. For tickets visit www.the - Park, next to the DMV on Valencia •5:30pm-7:30pm: “Signature muck.org or call (714)738-6595. You have to be over 50 to remember the nation-wide between Euclid and Highland in Move” film screening Titan •6:30pm-10pm: Dia de Los excitement surrounding the Billie Jean King/Bobby Fullerton. Fresh produce including Student Union, Ontiveros Room. Muertos Fullerton College Quad Riggs tennis match, surpassed only in number of televi - fruit, vegetables, eggs, flowers, The film follows the journey of 312 E. Chapman Ave, An annual sion viewers by the moon landing four years earlier. The plants, baked goods, nuts, and more Zaynab, a Pakistani Muslim lawyer celebration features food, music, Women’s Movement was growing in size and intensity in straight from the farmer. living in Chicago, who begins a new dancing and exhibit of alters to 1973, when women still needed the signature of their THURS, OCTOBER 19 romance with Alma, a confident ancestors. Public invited. Free. husband or father to get a credit card. Equal pay for •4pm-8pm: Downtown Market Mexican-American woman. Free. TUES, OCTOBER 31 equal work, although still an unachieved goal, was con - craft vendors, hot food, fresh pro - TUES, OCTOBER 24 •4:30pm-6pm: Job Search sidered too elusive to ever become a reality. duce, flowers, kids activities, beer & •9:30am: Fate of the OC Workshop: Resumes at the With the help of screenwriter Simon Beaufoy wine garden. Live music beginning Human Relations is on the OC Fullerton Public Library Conference (“Slumdog Millionaire”), directors Valerie Faris and at 6:30pm. At the Downtown Plaza Board of Supervisors agenda. Center, 353 W. Commonwealth. Jonathan Dayton (“Little Miss Sunshine”) transport us on E. Wilshire & Pomona. County Hall of Administration, 333 Adults and teens are invited to bring to the seventies and to an era in which a Bobby Riggs Admission is free. Call 714-738- W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana. their resumes and see what the could announce with bravado: “I’ll put all those 6545 for info. Learn about OC Human Relations experts think. Free. Women’s Libbers back where they belong—in the •6:30pm-8pm: Family Movie at www.ochumanrelations.org. •6pm-8:30pm: Haunted kitchen and the bedroom.” Also recreating the era are Night “Dolphin Tale” at the •1pm-2pm: Latin American Fullerton Walking Tour a tour of smoke-filled rooms, harvest-gold drapes, mini skirts for Fullerton Public Library Osborne Religion in Southern California at downtown Fullerton, OCs most women, plaid jackets and sideburns for men. Auditorium, 353 W. the Pollak Library, Room 130 on haunted city. Space is limited so Billie Jean King was the first woman ever named by Commonwealth. Free. the CSUF campus, 800 N. State make your reservations early. Call Sports Illustrated as sportsperson of the year. When first 7:30pm: Haemil at the College Blvd., Jennifer Hughes, Fullerton Museum Center at asked to play a tournament with a male opponent, King Muckenthaler : Enjoy an enchanti - associate professor of history at UC (714}738-6545. $25. turned down the head of the Tennis Association, Jack ng evening of vocal harmonies and Riverside, presents her research on WED, NOVEMBER 1 Kramer (Bill Pullman), who announced that the female tranquil instrumentals by the the role of religion in colonialism •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday winner would receive $1500 while the male winner Korean group Haemil. The group and decolonization. Farmers Market at Independence would earn $12,500. She also turned down Bobby delivers harmonies infused with tra - •4:30pm-6pm: Job Search Park, See details in Oct 18 listing. Riggs’ challenge for a tournament because of his gim - ditional and modern instruments. Workshop: Create a Resume at the •5pm-7pm: Maple School Day micks and his clownish behavior. The event is held indoors at the Fullerton Public Library Conference of the Dead Celebration food, Riggs (Steve Carell), a self-promoter and once the top Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Center, 353 W. Commonwealth. music, face-painting and activities. tennis player in the world, is now 55 years old but still 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton. Adults and teens are invited to come 244 E. Valencia Dr., Fullerton. eager to earn money to fund his gambling obsession. He Visit www.themuck.org or call and find out how to set up a success - •6pm-8pm: Independent Film stages tennis games that he plays while holding two dogs (714)738-6595 for more informa - ful resume. Free. Series “The Shack” rated PG-13 by leashes or while dressed like Bo Peep. Now he wants tion. $25 ($16/students & seniors). •8pm-10pm: Saxophone will be screened at the Fullerton to beat the top women’s player. When King (Emma SAT, OCTOBER 21 Chamber Ensembles at CSUF Public Library Osborne Stone) turns him down, Australian champion Margaret Clayes Performing Arts Center Auditorium, 353 W. Court (Jessica McNamee) accepts his challenge. •9am-2pm: Pumpkin Jog-a- thon at Fullerton Joint Union High Recital Hall, 800 N State College Commonwealth. Free. Because of pay inequities enforced by Kramer, King Blvd. Fullerton. Free ($8 parking). THURS, NOV 2 and 7 other top female players leave the Kramer-con - School Stadium, 201 E. Chapman WED, OCTOBER 25 •4pm-8pm: Downtown Market trolled Tennis Association and form with the help of Ave. is hosted by the Rotary Club. •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday crafts, food, entertainment. Free businesswoman Gladys Heldman (Sarah Silverman) Visit www.rotaryjogathon.com . Farmers Market See Oct 18 admission See Oct 19 listing. their own Women’s Tennis Association, sponsored by •5pm-8pm: Annual Boy Scout •4pm-6pm: “I am Jazz” Book 6:30pm-8:30pm: Florence Virginia Slims. When Riggs handily beats Court in what Troop 97 Spaghetti Dinner at Talk CSUF at Pollak Library, Arnold Young Artist Exhibit : The was to be called the Mother’s Day Massacre, King Morningside Presbyterian Church Rotary Club Rm 130. A children’s finest works from seven Fullerton decides she must take on the braggart Riggs. at the corner of Raymond and book based on the real-life experi - School District schools. “Battle of the Sexes” does a nice job of balancing both Dorothy Lane in Fullerton. $6 ence of Jazz Jennings, a transgender Muckenthaler Cultural Center, the public and private lives of these two high-profile donation for all you can eat spaghet - child. Free. 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton. players. Kept out of the news at the time is the gradual ti dinner w/ all fixings goes to sup - •4:30pm-5:30pm : Councilman Visit www.themuck.org or call eroding of King’s heterosexual marriage and her growing port scouting activities. Jesus Silva Coffee & Conversation (714)738-6595. Free. romantic attachment to hair stylist Marilyn Barnett 2pm-4pm: Buffalo Soldiers at Panera Bakery, Chapman & State •7pm-8:45pm: Town & Gown: (Andrea Riseborough). Riggs’ long-suffering wife, Exhibit CSUF See article page 15. College. Free. The Music of Poetry at the Priscilla (Elizabeth Shue), reminds Riggs that his gam - •7pm: Public Hearing Fullerton Public Library Conference bling habit has eroded his tennis earnings and that they Residential Bee Keeping Center, 353 W. Commonwealth. are now living on her personal wealth. So both oppo - Fullerton Planning Commission, Three award-winning writers from nents enter the match with their marriages in jeopardy. City Hall, 303 W. CSUF will each read from her Riggs’ attempt to kick the gambling habit ends in deba - Commonwealth. recently published book and discuss cle as he enters a Gamblers Anonymous program only to THURS, OCTOBER 26 poetry. Features Dr. Graham ( Begin end up playing poker with the group’s leader. King’s •4pm-8pm: Oktoboofest at with a Failed Body ); Dr Pratitis ( The husband, always supportive of her career ambitions, Downtown Market dress in cos - Last Stone in the Circle ); Dr. Tian grows slowly aware of her waning affection for him. tume and enjoy trick-or-treating, (Migration ). A Q&A and book-sign - The film is also successful in recreating the excitement craft vendors, hot food, fresh pro - ing with the authors follows. Free. surrounding the iconic tennis match: the pageantry, the duce, flowers, kids activities, beer FRI, NOVEMBER 3 symbolism, the commercialism, and the emotional & wine garden. Live music begin - •6pm-10pm: First Friday Art investment of world-wide viewers. Although we know ning at 6:30pm. Downtown Plaza Walk Downtown Fullerton the outcome of the match, today’s movie audiences on E. Wilshire & Pomona. Call Numerous venues showing art all become totally invested in watching this 44-year-old (714)738-6545 for info. within easy walking distance in event. Some audiences have been known to applaud as •5pm-8pm: Art Exhibit downtown Fullerton. Visit King scores points throughout the match. Reception Culturally Displaced www.fullertonartwalk.com for details Both the leading and supporting actors turn in totally Fullerton College Art Gallery, 312 and see page 15 for some offerings. convincing performances. Having just won an Oscar E. Chapman Ave, Selections from Free. for last year’s “La La Land,” Stone dyes her hair, dons a the Frederick R. Weisman Art SAT & SUN, NOV 4 & 5 tennis dress and round glasses, and perfects a convincing Foundation. Weisman was a pio - •10am-4pm: CA Native Plant stance on the tennis court, doing most of the tennis Sale at the Arboretum Over 100 maneuvers herself. Carell, having received an Oscar neering collector who lived in Fullerton in the 1950s, gaining a native plants for sale. Garden nomination two years ago for playing the demented experts available to help you choose. DuPont heir in “Foxcatcher,” throws himself into his respected reputation as the presi - dent of Hunt Foods. On view are Fullerton Arboretum, 1900 roles with whole-hearted conviction. He becomes the Associated Road. Call 657-278- media-savvy Bobby Riggs with his outsized personality works from the collection explor - ing cultures from artists from 4010 www.fullertonarboretum.org and lust for attention, yet he also resonates in the more •Noon-4pm: Dia de los Muertos intimate role of husband and father. Cuba to Brazil to Germany addressing topics including slav - Fiesta : Muckenthaler Cultural ery, surveillance, and identity. Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Two Hits: Don’t Miss It! Regular gallery hours are Mon- Fullerton. Visit www.themuck.org Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER THEATER MID OCTOBER 2017

NTERVIEW WITH The Woman in Black: I a Ghost Play PLAYWRIGHT AT STAGES THEATRE DAVID MACARAY 400 E. Commonwealth Ave, Fullerton Tickets: (714) 525-4484 www.stagesoc.org by Angela Hatcher The framework of this spine tingler is STAGEStheatre, the premier playhouse and oldest store - unusual: a lawyer hires an actor to tutor front theater in Orange County, has produced a David him in recounting to family and friends a Macaray original play in eight out of its last ten seasons. story that has long troubled him concern - While the OC’s intimate theater scene remains innovative ing events that transpired when he attend - and prolific, STAGEStheatre takes its core philosophy one ed the funeral of an elderly recluse. There step further by continuing its original concept of producing he caught sight of the woman in black, new plays by local writers. the mere mention of whom terrifies the In 2008, director Philip Brickey, who had worked with locals, for she is a specter who haunts the Macaray in the ‘90s, submitted Macaray’s play, Larva Boy , to neighborhood where her illegitimate child STAGES for consideration. The play was a “quirky and was accidentally killed. Anyone who sees unusually dark story about a talented young writer with a her dies! A classic of the genre. Written by gift for inventing disturbingly real horror scenes.” It was Stephen Mallatratt, based on the novel by accepted, especially well-received, and was unquestionably Susan Hill. Directed by David Chorley. from a strong voice that the STAGES production team had Through November 5th. not heard before. The following year, Brickey submitted another of Macaray’s plays, Borneo Bob , about a suburban family who discover that their good-natured neighbor is Night of the also…a cannibal! Living Dead According to Executive Director, (and playwright) AT MAVERICK THEATRE Amanda Demaio, the STAGES’ team finds that these long- Playwright David Macaray at work. term working relationships also give patrons the particularly 110 E. Walnut Ave, Fullerton unique opportunity of watching the growth of a writer. Tickets: (714) xxx-714-526-7070 I had the opportunity to interview Mr. Macaray, and here’s Q: Name your play that is closest to your heart, and why. www.mavericktheater.com what he had to say: DM: I was afraid you were going to ask me that. Okay. If Adapted and directed by Brian Newell, Q: When did you become a playwright, and why? forced to pick only one, it would probably be The Meaning of Night of the Living Dead, the zombie David Macaray: I majored in Philosophy at Cal State Long Life . Great cast, tight script, the darkly absurd playfully juxta - classic that started it all, plays through Beach. After college I joined the Peace Corps (India). I began posed with the “profound.” Plus, STAGES gave us a very cool, October 29. A group of panicked sur - writing plays (short one-acts) in the early 1990s, largely as an minimalistic set. vivors are barricaded in a deserted farm - “experiment,” to see if I could do it. Q: How did your collaboration with STAGEStheatre come house while a horde of flesh-eating zom - about? bies hovers outside their door. Perfect for Q: Is there an intrinsic voice that you try to retain through - the Halloween season. $25. out your writing? DM: Philip Brickey and I had done plays together in LA DM: Above all, I try to keep it witty and fast-paced, even and Hollywood in the 1990s, but because he was familiar with when I’m dealing with semi-abstract or “philosophical” topics. STAGES, and was impressed with the set-up (the space, the Tribes Whenever I’ve tried to get too serious or pedantic, it hasn’t professionalism, the location), he urged me to submit some - AT CHANCE THEATER worked. thing. So I sent them Larva Boy. They agreed to produce it, and that’s how it all began. 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim Q: What’s the first “hook” that gets a new play started for Q: Philip Brickey has directed all of your plays at Tickets:(888) 455-4212 you? Is it a theme, an image, a character? www.ChanceTheater.com DM: For me, it can be any one of those. Oddly, that ini - STAGEStheatre. Have there ever been any artistic challenges tial “hook” rarely remains intact. I’ve begun scripts with a between the two of you? If so, how have they been resolved? Written by Nina Raine and directed by main character in mind, only to have him or her not only DM: Philip and I have had three angry fist-fights, each of Marya Mazor. Billy, the only deaf child in morph into something different, but vanish altogether. It hap - which I won easily. I’m joking. With a Theater Arts degree a family that could hear, was raised inside pened in Freud and the Android . By the time it was half-fin - from the University of Arkansas, Phil is one of those directors the family’s fiercely idiosyncratic and ished, a central character had been entirely written out of the who never gets excited or panicky. He’s always in control. politically incorrect cocoon. Billy adapts script. I’d moved so far in a new direction, his character no When he needs something from the playwright or actors, he brilliantly to his family’s unconventional longer made sense. requests it clearly and politely. Because Phil enjoys my writ - ways without truly feeling what it’s like to ing, and I admire and trust his direction, it’s been a dynamic be heard. It’s not until Billy meets Sylvia, Q: How has your work evolved or changed over time? partnership. a young woman on the brink of deafness, DM: While the overall tone and mission have remained Q: What would you most like to accomplish artistically, in that he is finally introduced to the deaf pretty much the same, I like to think my material has gotten community that his family sheltered him sharper and more disciplined. the next year or so? DM: Other than a full-length comedy ( Brain Freeze ) I’ve from his entire life. Through October Q: What inspired you to write Larva Boy in 2008? submitted to STAGES for next year, I plan to begin a novel. 22nd. DM: As a kid, I loved scary movies, couldn’t get enough of I’ve authored four non-fiction books, but I’ve never written a them. So I wanted to see if I could write a really dark and dis - novel, so I’ll be sailing in uncharted waters. The way I see it, turbing story. And while I wasn’t exactly sure how Larva Boy the very worst that can happen is that I fail utterly in this ven - was going to get there (what all the twists and turns would be), ture, and fall subject to professional ridicule and personal I was dead set on making the ending very dark and unsettling. humiliation. In other words, a win-win.

NOW PLAYING AND COMING SOON TO CSUF P ERFORMING ARTS CENTER Red Scare on Sunset Cry Baby, the Musical Bell, Book & Candle

Red Scare on Sunset by Charles Busch, Tony nominated Cry Baby, the Musical Bell, Book and Candle by John Van directed by CSUF graduate student Kyle with music by Adam Schlesinger, lyrics by Druten is directed by guest artist Cooper, runs through October 29. Red Scare David Javerbaum and book by Mark Elina De Santos and opens on Sunset is a funny and frighteningly pure O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan opens at November 17 running through parody of the 1950’s communist “invasion of CSUF on October 27th. The production December 10. Gillian Holroyd casts Hollywood.” features direction by CSUF alum Sarah spells and performs feats of supernat - When film star Mary Dale discovers that Ripper, musical direction by Mitchell uralism. She even casts a spell over an her own husband has been lured into the Hanlon and choreography by William F. unattached publisher who falls head local Communist Party by way of a method- Lett, and runs through November 12. over heels in love with her. acting class, she wages a private war to save Based on the cult classic 1990 John Waters Unfortunately, as it turns out, witch - her husband and conquer the Beverly Hills film, Cry Baby, the Musical features a es can’t fall in love, which presents a Commies. The McCarthy era is turned on its delightfully demented book from the writ - clear and crazy conundrum for dear head in this novel take on a serious subject ers of Hairspray , a rockabilly score from Gillian. with fog, haze, and herbal cigarettes. $14 the co-founder of Fountains of Wayne, ($12 with advance Titan Discount purchase and the executive producer of The Daily for students, seniors or with a CSUF ID). All Show . It's 1954. Everyone likes Ike, 800 N State College Fullerton tickets are $14 at the door. Tickets are avail - nobody likes communism and Wade able by calling (657) 278-3371, 11am-5pm, “Cry-Baby” Walker is the coolest boy in Tickets: (657) 278-3371 Monday through Friday and online. Baltimore. $24. [email protected] MID OCTOBER 2017 ART & MUSIC FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15 SMALL BUT MIGHTY : A Benefit Show for Valerie Lewis

CSUF alumni Stan Breckenridge, Valerie Bordeaux and Bobby McDonald “Equivalencies” by Valerie Lewis (a self-portrait) are featured in the exhibit focusing on African American Civic Engagement. A dear friend and deep rooted commu - Fullerton Art Walk and will run through nity artist named Valerie Lewis has been the end of December. “A FRICAN AMERICAN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ” diagnosed with breast cancer. For the past For the show we are giving out 320 5x5 Showcases Buffalo Soldiers & Titan Alumni several years, she has had an art studio in inch birch art blocks to artists to create The Magoski Arts Colony, and has been works. All pieces will be priced at $75 and with a Reception October 21 at CSUF a regular exhibitor and curator, winning all proceeds will go to our friend Valerie. Looking at “African American Civic •Edgar Clark, former Titan basketball OC Weekly ’s Best Artist of 2014. She also Mark your calendars to come support a Engagement” throughout the decades, player recently started her own art business here good cause. Cal State Fullerton’s African American •Carver Cossey, singer, conductor and in Fullerton called Art Academics. Studies Department presents a new exhib - educator The Magoski Arts Colony and the local Friday, Nov. 3 from 6-10pm it on the contributions of Buffalo Soldiers •Leonard Guinn, former Titan basket - community are trying to help her finan - The Magoski Arts Colony during the 1860s and CSUF’s alumni ball player cially and emotionally as much as we can 223 W. Santa Fe Fullerton, CA 92832 from a century later. •Freddie Maxie (B.A. dance ’79), for - with an art show called “Small But www.magoskiartscolony.com An opening reception will be held 2pm- mer “Soul Train” dancer Mighty” which will open on Friday, 4pm Saturday, Oct. 21, in the Pollak •Bobby McDonald (B.S. physical edu - November 3, 2017 during the Downtown Library’s Rotary Club of Fullerton Room cation ’75), president and executive direc - 130, CSUF, 800 N. State College Blvd. tor of the Black Chamber of Commerce Fullerton. Parking is free on Saturday. of Orange County Women’s Work Group Show at FLDWRK The exhibit, which continues through •Mark Saunders (B.A. ethnic studies- “Women’s Work,” a new exhibit featur - launching the exhibition. Dec. 31 in the library’s Salz-Pollak Atrium African American studies ’03), program ing the work of nine female artists, all Artists participating in the “Women’s Gallery, coincides with the launch of a development specialist for the Walt focusing on different mediums, is set for Work” exhibit include: Mona Ampudia, new endowment fund to support African Disney Co. Friday, November 3 from 7pm to 9:30pm sea glass/fused glass jewelry; Leanne Emas, American studies faculty and students. •James H. Shelby (B.A. ethnic studies- as part of the Downtown Artwalk. FLD - abstracts; Vanessa Harmon, macrame’; The exhibit features memorabilia of the African American studies ’78), gospel WRK, 110 North Harbor Boulevard, Ste. Jenifer M. Hernandez, acrylic; Suzanne Buffalo Soldiers, African American sol - artist 101, is hosting the event. Langone, textiles; Denise Marshall, glass diers of the 9th and 10th Calvary •Jubilant Sykes (B.M. performance Although most of the artists have exhib - mosaic & ceramics; Jane Ouweleen, digi - Regiment of the United States Army, such ’79), Grammy-nominated musical artist ited their work before, this is the first tal composites; Jyl Russell, ConBrio as a uniform, Winchester rifle, bicycle, Three related lectures, all in the Rotary showing for some of the participants. designs, gemstone jewelry; and Lisa photos and sculptures of notable mem - Club of Fullerton Room 130 of the Pollak “The idea for this exhibit came from the Vaughn, Chinese brush painting. bers. A collection of medals, plaques, Library, will be held this fall: fact that I know several women who are “Serious Fun,” a Southern California books, documentaries and music record - Nov. 6, 10:30am: “A Radical very talented artists and now have the trio, will be performing music from the ings from successful Titan alumni of the Experiment: African Americans in Higher time to devote to their work with incredi - 60’s and beyond during the evening. As 1960s-1970s also will be on display. Education During Reconstruction” pre - ble results,” said Carol van Ahlers, who is with all artwalk venues, admission is free. In addition, the following alumni will sented by Tyler Parry, associate professor be highlighted in the exhibit: of African American studies •Jacques Bordeaux (B.A. sociology ’76), Nov. 14 , 1pm: “Researching African founding director of the California Fullerton Museum Center October 20 American Family History” presented by Science Center’s Science Center School Colleen Greene, marketing librarian Project Paint with Artist Nov. 30 , 1pm: “Music Among African •Valerie Bordeaux (B.A. communica - Americans of the 1860s-’70s and 1960s- Jamie Zacarias tions ’76), former director of university ’70s” presented by Stan Breckenridge, co- outreach at Cal State Long Beach Artist Jaime Zacarias (aka GERMS) will chair and lecturer of African American •Stan Breckenridge (B.A. music ’75), paint with audience members in a Mimosas studies musician, Fulbright scholar, co-chair and with the Master event hosted by the Fullerton The lectures and exhibit are open to the lecturer of African American studies at Museum Center in the gallery on Sunday, public free of charge. On-campus parking CSUF October 22 at 1pm. Learn step-by-step tech - is $8 per vehicle for the day/evening or $2 •Gregory Bunch ’79 (B.A. criminal jus - niques and enjoy mimosas. All art supplies per hour in “Park and Pay” spaces. Details tice), media, entertainment and broadcast and mimosas provided. are available online. The Museum Center is located on East solutions sales leader Wilshire at Pomona in downtown Fullerton. Space is limited so call (714)738-6545 to Before They Were Heroes: reserve your spot. $60. SUS ITO ’S WORLD WAR II P HOTOGRAPHY Fullerton Arboretum through October 29 Downtown Fullerton Art Walk The Fullerton Arboretum is showing an traditionally given to soldiers going to Friday Nov 3, 6-10pm exhibit of the photographs of Sus Ito. war) made for him by his mother and the Born in California in 1919 to a family of other women at Rohwer. He also had a immigrant tenant farmers, Sus Ito was 35mm Agfa camera with which he took drafted into the US Army in 1940. thousands of photographs documenting Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his life on the road. Unseen for decades he switched to civilian duty while his fam - these images are remarkable for their ily was sent to live at Rohwer concentra - detail and their humble day-to-day quali - tion camp in Arkansas. In the spring of ty. 1943, Ito was selected to join the 442nd’s The exhibition is up through October 522 Field Artillery Battalion. He served in 29 at the Nikei Museum at the Italy, France and Germany, eventually ris - Arboretum, open to viewing on ing to the rank of lieutenant. Ito’s tour of Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays duty included such high profile historic from noon to 4pm. events as the rescue of the Lost Battalion The Fullerton Arboretum is located at and the liberation of a subcamp of 1900 Associated Road at the edge of the Dachau. CSUF campus. Admission is free. During his time Ito kept with him a Visit www.fullertonarboretum.org for senninbari (a thousand-stich cloth belt more information. Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL NEWS MID OCTOBER 2017 Celebrate Universal Children’s Day November 20 by Dr. Dorothy Sailor Ways to Celebrate Universal Children’s Day is November Send out loving thoughts for the chil - 20. All parents, teachers and other adults dren you care for and all children. Have in the lives of children are invited to cele - Fun! brate the day. 1. Get the message about UCD out to Universal Children’s Day (UCD) is a all people in the lives of children- parents, special day for parents, teachers, and all teachers, and librarians. adults in children’s lives to honor them 2. Place Universal Children’s Day on all and to understand and provide conditions calendars, websites, and class outlines, in during the year for children’s maximum the library, and on Facebook. Check growth and development. These needs or Wikipedia for ideas- Some countries are rights are based on conditions necessary using cartoons related to UCD. for children’s survival, protection, devel - 3. Plan a party with your children’s Two lanes of the Raymond Avenue underpass are now open opment, and their participation in family, input at home, school, and playground or after a long grade separation project. PHOTO BY MIKE RITTO community activities and society. in your neighborhood around November Many children today have special needs 20. Help children understand that they Raymond Avenue Underpass Partially Opens due to the loss of their home, temporary and all children are special and all have basic rights that provide for their needs as One lane (going each way) of the new the next few weeks. A temporary closure loss of some friends, or confusion over where or when to go to school. Children children. Especially young children need Raymond Ave. underpass at Valencia of Ash Ave., west of Raymond will be in extra protection. Adults also are guaran - Drive opened to motorists on October 2. place through mid-December. Access to show grief and distress differently. For example, a child may appear to be manag - teed special human rights. The temporary Raymond bypass road was businesses located along Ash will be via 4. The theme of the party could be closed. No pedestrian or cyclist access is Elm Avenue. Valencia Drive will connect ing the situation well and then a few weeks later their grief erupts. based on one or more of children’s basic available but this is expected to change in to Raymond in late 2017. rights or needs such as the need to have Who Supports UCD? their own friends, to express their opin - ion, to play, to have a name, or to be cared Rest in Peace • We Remember You 1. OMEP, the World Organization for for. the Education and Welfare of Young 5. Children’s needs can be incorporated Children and its over 70 national com - into their regular activities. For example, mittees support UCD. The National under the basic need for “development”, Delores “Dee” Adams Association for the Education of Young children need opportunities to participate Children, the Association for Childhood in their family, school, and community Dee Adams passed away peacefully years, and had a passion for anything Education, Int. and others. activities. surrounded by her two daughters on home and garden related. 2. Many religious organizations also 6. Find teachers in distant countries to September 11, 2017, after a short bat - She is survived by her three children: recognize this day and children’s basic organize pen pals or video conferencing. tle with cancer at the age of 76. David Adams of Wildomar, California; human rights. 7. Children could write essays on select - Dee was born September 3, Julie Adams of Norco, 3. Most nations around the world also ed topics. Organize a contest. 1941 in San Diego, California; and Amy support Children’s Rights and Universal 8. Help children solve their disagree - California. She spent most of Davis (Adams) of Children day. Some celebrate on Nov 20 ments so that each child can feel success - her years as a devoted mother Fullerton; four grand - and others on different dates. In some ful with the solution. and housewife until later in children, Austin, nations, their government or private 9. We need to identify healthy ways to life when she went to work Jordan, Dylanger, and organizations arrange special activities for parent and help prevent exploitation of for Viewtech in Anaheim, Paislee. She also leaves children such as free visits to the zoo and children in their homes, schools, commu - where she later retired. She behind the latest love of museums or special children’s movies. The nities, and on the internet. was preceded in death by her her life, her puppy United States government has not official - husband Kenneth “Ken” Penny Dixie Maggie. ly recognized UCD. Some Web Resources: Adams, also of San Diego. A private celebration 4. Universal Child’s Day is on some •Wikipedia: They spent 30+ years in of life with friends and U.S. commercial and education calendars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children’s_Day Fullerton raising their family. family will be held due Community Playthings began placing •Alliance for Childhood: Dee was a member of the Red Hat to her request for no formal services. UCD on their calendar in 2014. Other www.allianceforchildhood.org Society, attended a senior swim class She will be laid to rest beside her hus - organizations and individuals put articles •World Forum Foundation: three times a week as a member of the band at Loma Vista Cemetery in about UCD in their local papers. www.worldforumfoundation.org Fullerton YMCA, volunteered for Fullerton. Donations may be made to 5. We need healthy and educated chil - many local charities throughout the Tara’s Chance in Fullerton. Dorothy Sailor is a Fullerton resident and dren to grow up to be our nation’s leaders. Professor Emeritus of Child Development at Fullerton College Joseph William LOCAL CONGREGATIONS WELCOME YOU Valinches (July 15, 1940-Sept. 22, 2017) Orangethorpe Joseph William Valinches, 77, Christian passed away on September 22, 2017 following complications from brain Church cancer. (Disciples of Christ) He was born July 15, 1940 in Dr. Robert L. Case, Pastor Waterbury, Connecticut to parents Joseph John and Sophie Marion Sunday Service : 10 AM Valinches who preceeded his death. RANGETHORPE He was married to Lorraine Marie 2200 W. O Doyon on December 28, 1963 in FULLERTON (714) 871-3400 Santa Monica. Joseph was a retired www.orangethorpe.org Electrical Engineer from Hughes Aircraft, Ground Systems Division in Fullerton. He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather who will be greatly missed. His legacy will live forever. He is survived by his wife Lorraine, sons, James and Norman and grand - daughters Alexandra and Alyssa. Funeral services will be held on Friday October 6, 2017 (10:30am) at San Antonio De Padua Catholic Church in Anaheim Hills. Burial immediately following at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange. MID OCTOBER 2017 LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17 Coast to Coast Foundation and Women’s Transitional Living Center Honored as California Non-Profits of the Year

by Jere Greene Fullerton's Coast to Coast Foundation was honored by Assemblymember Sharon Quark-Silva with the California State Assembly’s Non-Profit of the Year 2017 award. Since 2008 Coast to Coast has supported the homeless. The foundation also works with the Fullerton Police Department’s four homeless liaison offi - cers along with a representative from the County Health Department. Recently office space was provided to the founda - tion in the police department, where they provide weekday walk-up service between 10am and 1pm for those in need. Members of Coast to Coast, wearing their distinctive neon yellow T-shirts tour the streets, alleys and riverbeds to meet one-on-one with those in the homeless population. While many aren't ready to take the difficult steps to turn their lives around, repeated contact with the caring Coast to Coast members eventually con - vince a percentage to make the change in their lives. Coast to Coast can provide motel vouchers, clothing and bus fares to WTLC Board Chair Bob Cummins and CEO Gigi Tsontos with facilitate the transition. Senator Newman (with scissors) officially open the new Center. While starting in Fullerton, Coast to Coast has also contracted with the cities of New WTLC Center Opens Brea, Huntington Beach, Tustin, the river California State Senator Josh Newman attended the October bed and the Courtyard shelter in Santa 4th opening of the Women’s Transitional Living Center’s new Ana, and in collaboration with Mercy community space called “The Center.” The new facility will House, the newly opened north county provide legal, clinical, and housing advocacy to survivors of Bridges at Kramer Place transitional facil - domestic abuse and human trafficking for those who choose ity in Anaheim. not to participate in an emergency shelter. Founder and Executive Director Marie Coast to Coast Founder and Director Marie Avena accepted the Over 100 community supporters participated in a tour of the Avena was invited to Sacramento to award from Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva. new center and heard a bit about the history of WTLC. receive the award. Founded in 1976, WTLC is the oldest domestic violence shel - Also honored as a 2017 Nonprofit of the Year by provides a secure shelter to battered women and their ter in Orange County. The non-profit agency supports all our district Senator Josh Newman was Fullerton's children. WTLC CEO Gigi Tsontos accepted the aspects of survivors’ recoveries and was honored as a California WTLC (Woman's Transitional Living Center) which award. Non-profit of the Year by Senator Newman earlier this year. If you or someone you know is a victim of abuse, contact the 24-hour bilingual hotline at 877-531-5522 or email [email protected]. For more information visit www.wtlc.org. Also see them on Facebook. Page 18 FULLERTON OBSERVER BOOK REVIEW MID OCTOBER 2017

As these special forces mercilessly break ALL INVOLVED : bones and nearly kill several gang mem - bers during a backyard barbecue raid, the A Kaleidoscope of the 1992 L.A. Riots leader thinks to himself: “This begins with viewing our prospective targets as by Jesse La Tour owner, an anonymous “special forces” neither victims nor as people, but as operative, and others. unpunished criminals getting a dose of On April 29th, 1992, I was twelve years Told from these various points of view, the only medicine they understand. I old, living in a quiet suburban neighbor - the story of the riots becomes plural, not would recommend heartily that you not hood in Fullerton. I remember watching singular. There is no one correct narra - pity them.” the news with my family, shocked to see tive— the riots are explored in all their Just as gang members revel in the fact people in South Central Los Angeles loot - kaleidoscopic complexity. that the riots have created a lawless envi - ing, burning, beating one another. Perhaps the most succinct explanation ronment in which they can “settle scores” Though South Central was only a 30- of the riots comes from a fireman, engi - and loot, so too these special forces revel minute drive from my house, it might neer Anthony Smiljanic, whose feelings in their mission. “Now, we are more dan - have been another planet, so far removed toward the rioters vacillate from hatred to gerous than we have ever been because was it from my safe world. understanding. In a moment of clarity, he here is no oversight and, best of all, we do At the time, I had no context for what I thinks to himself: not have to do paperwork in the morning. was seeing on television. In school, I had - “The people sitting at home, watching this No forms. No narrative,” the anonymous n’t learned about the 1965 Watts Riots, unfold on television, they have no idea. special forces leader thinks to himself. police brutality, or the complex history of Those are the people shocked by the riots. At the beginning of this chapter, there is race relations in LA. At the time, I didn’t They can’t comprehend them because they a quote from Major James D. Delk, com - even make the connection between the don’t understand the other side. They don’t manding officer of National Guard Rodney King verdict and the riots. The understand what happens to people with no Forces: “The police were also telling gang narrative being presented on the news was money who live in a neighborhood where this sense of brutal honesty. We get access members that the National Guard was, in a story of black and brown people tearing crime is actually a viable career path when to the innermost thoughts of people, and effect, a much, much bigger gang. They their own city apart for no reason, or there are no other opportunities, and I’m not thus the novel becomes an exercise in felt those were terms the gang members because they were just bad people, or excusing or condoning it or saying it can’t be empathy, even for those people whose could relate to.” worse. avoided, but I’m saying choices might at first baffle or repel us. In one of my favorite chapters, we get Fast forward 25 years and We see the riots that’s how it is.” Several chapters are devoted to the sto - inside the mind of an elderly black home - now I’m an adult. I’ve since A re-occurring theme of ries of members of a specific Latino gang less man named James, who is schizo - learned (from my own read - from the point the novel is a contrast in Lynwood. We get inside the head of phrenic. His inner thoughts read like ing, not from school) about of view of gang between the television nar - such characters as Jose Laredo (aka Big poetry or religious scripture. He is, in a the Watts Riots and some - members, a rative and the actual reali - Fate), Ray Vera (aka Lil Mosco), Lupe way, the prophet of South Central, who thing about the history of fireman, a nurse, ty. For example, as two Vera (aka Payasa), Anthony Delgado [aka regularly speaks to Our Lady, the Queen race relations in not just LA, young gang members Lil Creeper], and others. of the Angels. The full, original name of but even my hometown of a homeless watch the riots on televi - All of the characters, even [or perhaps Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Fullerton. man, a graffiti sion from their home in especially] the gang members are fully- Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de I’ve learned how up until artist, a shop Lynwood, one of them realized human beings with loves, fami - Porciúncula (or “The Town of Our Lady at least the 1960s, if you owner...the story thinks: “[The reporter] lies, dreams. Even as they participate in the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula.) weren’t white, you couldn’t goes on about how this the violent world into which they were In the end, one of the lessons of the buy a house in most neigh - becomes plural, isn’t his America, the one born, we feel their tension, their struggles, book is the notion that the 1992 L.A. borhoods. I’ve learned about not singular. that he knows and loves their passionate humanity. Riots, like the 1965 Watts riots, like the widespread school segrega - and believes in. I have to The novel also questions and expands 1942 Zoot Suit Riots, was the result of tion and job discrimination chuckle at that ignorant, the very notion of a “gang.” For example, unresolved socio-economic and racial ten - that even federal and state legislation have been-living-so-long-in-the-burbs-he- we learn from Payasa that in Lynwood sions that have been, and continue to, not managed to fully solve. doesn’t-even-know-what-the-[expletive’s]- [and probably not just Lynwood] there’s rumble beneath the surface of Los Angeles Today, in 2017, police violence against real-anymore [expletive], cuz that’s when an element of the local sheriff’s depart - like a mighty river. people of color is now a national conver - Clever cracks up and says what I been ment who are actually white supremacists. In an inner monologue, “Lil Creeper” sation. Now, it seems, the lessons of the thinking in my head the whole time. “That’s Lynwood,” Payasa thinks, “We considers the fact that there have been 1992 L.A. Riots might prove worth re- “Welcome to my America, cabron.” got our very own neo-Nazi sheriff gang… race riots in LA every couple decades: The considering. All Involved explores this other Los to them, if you’re brown or black, you’re Zoot Suit Riots, the Watts Riots, and now About a month ago, I went to an event Angeles, this side of American life where worth nothing. You’re not even human. the 1992 L.A. Riots. And each time, peo - at 1888Center (a very cool bookstore/art poverty is real, with all its horrifying con - Killing us is like taking out trash. That’s ple are shocked, and think “Wow, that gallery/coffee shop in downtown Orange) sequences. Fireman Smiljanic explains it how they think.” was terrible, just awful, no way that where local author Ryan Gattis discussed this way: “There’s a hidden America We also learn that, during the riots, should ever happen again.” And after each his novel All Involved , which is about the inside the one we portray to the world, covert special forces (maybe National riot nothing really changes—the systemic LA Riots. and only a small group of people ever Guard) were sent in to “teach a lesson” to problems persist. The novel gives 17 first-person accounts actually see it. Some of us are locked into gang leaders. One of the chapters is told of those crazy six days in 1992. We see the it by birth or geography, but the rest of us from the point of view of an anonymous “All Involved” by Ryan Gattis riots from the point of view of gang mem - just work here. Doctors, nurses, firemen, military guy who leads a unit that brutal - is published by Ecco Press. bers, a fireman, a nurse, a homeless man, cops—we know it. We see it.” izes the very gang members whose stories 1888 Center is located at 115 N. a graffiti artist, the son of a Korean shop One of the strengths of All Involved is we’ve been reading. Orange St. in downtown Orange.

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Fullerton friends Kathy and Dan Pratt (above left) and Darlene and Tom Glass (above right) enjoyed a cruise visiting many countries. Above they are pictured at Melk Abbey, Austria. Friends on a Cruise Sisters in San Francisco “We went on a river cruise down the Danube. There were 27 of us in our group. We started Sinh Dang and her sister were in San Francisco for a three-day in Passau, Germany and ended in Budapest, Hungary. We stopped along the way in Linz and visit. “The city was very crowded with tourists. We had fun but Melk, Austria, and also Bratslava, Slovakia.” - Kathy my sister was very tired from all the walking up and down the countless hilly streets. The cost of living is even more expensive than in Orange County!” - Sinh Joyce & Dan Visit Norway

Tom and Joyce Caballero visited Norway. They are pictured at left on the Troll Roll in Aalesund, Norway. “It was a fabulous trip with so much wonderful Pearl and Jerry are shown above on the retired royal yacht Britannia. They also visited scenery to see Buckingham Palace and Edinburgh Castle among other landmarks. and great people to Pearl & Jerry in England, Wales, & Scotland meet.” “We visited England, Wales, and Scotland and had a wonderful time with beautiful - Joyce & Tom cool, clear weather. We depended on the kindness of strangers for these photos. Thanks for keeping us in touch with local Fullerton news.” - Pearl & Jerry Mann