OPINION PAGES 16-17 COMMUNITY Fullerton bsCeALErNDAvR Peage 1r 3-15 O EAR FULLERTON’S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (printed on 20% recycled paper) • Y 40 #15 • MID SEPTEMBER 2018 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com

PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD TAKEOVER ATTEMPT Buried in the September 18th Fullerton City Council agenda under Item #1"Board/Commission/Committee Reorganization” is a proposed amend - ment that would, if passed, dissolve the Fullerton Library Board and replace the members, after their current terms are up, with council members. If passed the pro - posed council takeover of the board will occur in two phases: two council members joining in 2019, and the remaining com - ing on as current library trustee terms expire. In addition, a new library advisory committee will be formed in 2020. The item will be considered at the Tues, Sept 18th council meeting at 6:30pm at city hall, 303 W Commonwealth. "One of the reasons for a Library Board is to provide some insulation from pres - sure of political groups. Turning over all functions to the council will remove any degree of separation,” said former long - time Library Boardmember Vince Buck. Two current councilmembers have spo - ken in public advocating the selling off of the Hunt Branch Library. Councilmember Fitzgerald has ques - THEY WON GOLD : Team USA Junior Pan American Jinen Kai athletes won gold at the international competition. tioned why the city is in the library busi - Congratulations to the team, parents, Dojo Senseis, and Senpais. 21 countries brought over 750 athletes to the competition. Photo shows ness at all and has suggested that the Elite Kata Team Natalie Hertogh, Sierra Estrada, Kaitlyn Shimohara, and Kalea Aradanas training. See page 8 for story. PHOTO BY MARC county could take over and run the Fullerton Public Library. Send message to the council at [email protected] Monitoring Contamination by Jesse La Tour Former President In an effort to protect groundwater wells began construction on September Obama Visits 7

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ORANGE C OUNTY D ISTRICT 4 BOARD OF S UPERVISORS (some questions & answers not included due to space)

The two County Supervisor Candidates Fullerton Mayor Doug Chaffee and La Habra Mayor Tim Shaw were each questioned separately. Their responses are juxtaposed here to The participating council candidates Greg Sebourn District 3 (second from left), and District 5 council candidates Vicki Calhoun, better compare their views. Jose Castaneda, John Ybarra, Ahmad Zahra and Paulette Marshall Chaffee sat together at the table during the question session. Asked how they could provide better support for health needs, Mr. Chaffee said the county health department continued from frontpage homes period.” She feels that education is Candidate Forum at Library the way to end generational poverty. should “reach out” and assess needs. 65th District Assemblymember Quirk- She also recently co-authored legislation She said the county failed to use the Mr. Shaw recommended continuing Silva said the “First 5 California” program to establish the Orange County Housing Mental Health Services (MHS) funds active transportation projects funded effectively prepares students for school Finance Trust and just prior to the forum received from the state so legislation was by OCTA like the 66 mile OC Bike and that she had worked on a Women’s delivered a $5 million check to Bridges at passed to allow the county to keep the Loop. Caucus Priority Bill to restore funding to Kraemer shelter. She said there is not unspent funds. She further encouraged Both agreed with the Association of early education that had been cut in 2007 enough affordable housing and that we Collaborative members to ask the County California Cities Orange County’s and 2008. are “not building enough [affordable] Supervisors to use the MHS money. (ACCOC) goal of 2,700 permanent supportive housing (PSH) units coun - DISTRICT E LECTION S YSTEM tywide. FULLERTON C ITY C OUNCIL D ISTRICTS 3 AND 5 Mr. Chaffee said he supports the Prior to the candidate questions and Joint Powers Authority Housing Trust answers, Fullerton City Clerk, Lucinda District 5 candidates Vicki Calhoun, • Active Transportation legislation devised by the ACCOC. Mr. Williams, explained the process for the John Ybarra, Jose Castaneda, Ahmad Shaw who is on the legislative commit - first by-district election for City Ms. Calhoun said new developments Zahra, and Paulette Marshall Chaffee should include wider streets and pedestri - tee of the ACCOC said he is “thankful Council in which candidates must be participated. Sabrina Narain was absent. to Sharon (Quirk-Silva) and the state registered to vote in the district in an walkways. Mr. Sebourn agreed that pri - From District 3 only Mayor Protem vate developers should make improve - legislature for the housing trust.” He which they are running. By-district Greg Sebourn was there. Jesus Silva was says it will be used to pool local, state, elections and the district boundaries ments but the city should continue apply - unable to attend the afternoon meeting ing for grants. Mr. Castaneda said there and federal funds for PSH. However, were approved by 54% of Fullerton because of his schedule as a school teacher. they differed on housing priorities. Mr. voters in 2016 in response to a 2014 should be more transit-oriented develop - Nicolas Wildstar also did not attend. ment, shade trees over sidewalks, and pro - Chaffee said shelters with “low barriers” California Voting Rights Act challenge are needed because places like Bridges Council candidates answered the questions tected bikeways. Mr. Ybarra said the city to the city’s at-large elections because at Kraemer “leave people outside of the here and some not included due to space: should fix broken streets and sidewalks, they “diluted the vote of Latino and loop” while Mr. Shaw advocated for the Asian voters,” she explained. The two put bike lanes on every street, and line the • Affordable Housing streets with trees because, “Most people in “housing first” model. at-large seats ending in 2018 will be Their ideas to reduce childhood Ms. Calhoun supports mixed income my neighborhood walk.” Mr. Zahra said filled by one councilmember elected poverty were different. Chaffee said the housing near transit on city-owned land development should include “walkable from D3 and one from D5. If Jesus county was contracting out jobs to peo - and streamlined zoning. Mr. Sebourn said areas,” dog parks, and crosswalks. Ms. Silva is elected in D3 there will be a ple who weren’t earning enough to live not much can be done without a Chaffee supported grant funding, adver - special election to fill the remainder of in the county. His remedy is to subsi - Redevelopment Agency but to sell bonds tising Fullerton trails, encouraging kids to his current at-large term per City dize affordable housing and pay a living and use CDBG funds to help first time walk and bike to school on more than one Ordinance 2.02.020 regarding council wage. Shaw on the other hand said, home buyers. Mr. Castaneda recommends day of the year. vacancies. “The best social program ever is a good building Accessory Dwelling Units (a sec - HOW TO F IND Y OUR D ISTRICT • At-Risk Youth paying job” and the county needs a ond house on an existing lot), transit-ori - Ms. Calhoun referenced a program in business environment “conducive to To find which district you live in visit ented development, and a housing trust Tustin that builds self-esteem and a desire job creation” to provide those jobs. www.cityoffullerton.com and click on like Irvine’s to keep affordable housing for healthy choices. Mr. Sebourn supports Last, they were asked for strategies to the “Election 2018” link on the main affordable in perpetuity. Mr. Ybarra said continuing the partnership between Parks help with the increased number chil - page; then select “General Municipal housing “has to come from the private and Recreation with the District dren hospitalized with mental illness Election November” and then the sector” because projects like Habitat for Attorney’s office. Mr. Castaneda wants to and drug addiction. Mr. Chaffee said “Voting District Lookup Tool” where Humanity’s are too slow to get built. Mr. expand the hours at community centers to there should be more places where you can plug in your address. Zahra said there needs to be more than provide STEAM activities by non-profits adults can reside with their child receiv - luxury apartments that drive up the rent and include youth leadership positions ing mental health care like the 16 beds UPCOMING F ORUMS like the new apartments at the Orangefair within the city. Mr. Ybarra said mentoring Children’s Hospital Orange County on Candidates and Initiatives Mall that start at $2,000 a month. Ms. should come from parents and the com - recently opened. Chaffee said there should be more houses on the Nov. Ballot munity through coaching and tutoring. Mr. Shaw said there should be more built by Habitat for Humanity on city CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES Mr. Zahra said there need to be policy public-private partnerships. As an owned property, state tax credits should •Oct 9, 6pm: Fullerton City Council changes to improve city services such as example, he described a county pro - be used to finance housing, and seniors City Council Chambers, 303 W. community liaison police officers who gram that keeps seniors in their homes should rent out rooms in their home. Commonwealth participate in the community. Ms. while providing outpatient care rather SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES • Permanent Supportive Housing Chaffee said there is block grant money than “institutionalizing” elderly people •Oct 3, 6:30pm: Fullerton Joint Ms. Calhoun said that the city should available for programs such as field trips in skilled nursing facilities because it is Union High School District Board engage the public to avoid outrage over provided by OC United and a leadership “more cost effective.” Room, 1051 W. Bastanchury Road. projects like the Keystone project program run by Parks and Recreation. •Oct 8: Fullerton Collaborative Pathways of Hope (POH) is trying to Forum for School Board Candidates at build and the high-rise apartments next to the Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. Costco that look down into her neighbor - Commonwealth. hood. Mr. Sebourn said residents should •Oct 10, 6pm: Fullerton School be educated to understand that projects District Board Room, 1401 W like POH bring value to their neighbor - Valencia Drive hood. Mr. Castaneda faulted the city for PROS & C ONS ON INITIATIVES not providing funding to POH for com - munity outreach. Mr. Ybarra said that •Sept. 29, 10am: League of Women group homes in neighborhoods are Voters at Fullerton First United already allowed but should be managed Methodist Church 114 N. Pomona correctly to help people get off of the •Oct. 6, 1pm: OLLI Mackey street. Mr. Zahra said the city should Auditorium CSUF, 800 N. State respect the fears and concerns of residents College about projects and agreed that the burden •Oct. 10, 10am: League of Women to inform residents should not be put Voters Fullerton Community Center, onto non-profits. Ms. Chaffee said the 340 W. Commonwealth city council should listen to neighbor - •Oct. 18, 7pm: AAUW at Cerritos hood concerns and cited AB 448, the leg - Park East, 13234 166th St, Cerritos islation establishing a Housing Trust as a •Oct. 29, 1pm: Morningside Main means to provide Permanent Supportive Hall, 800 Morningside Dr, Fullerton Housing. MID SEPTEMBER 2018 REGIONAL & LOCAL NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 3

Fire and safety crews searched the building rubble to make sure all was safe and to try and determine what caused the explosion. The building was a total loss and the explosion so powerful it blew out windows in the front house.

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GAS LEAK DETERMINED TO BE CAUSE OF BUILDING EXPLOSION by Jere Greene explosion and trying to rule out any bomb or remaining gas line threat. Fullerton Fire Division Chief Jaime Newton said Pieces of the asphalt roofing material floated that investigators have determined that a natural gas down like snow for blocks around. The blast cut leak inside a converted detached garage on W. high voltage power lines to the neighborhood and Valencia Drive, was ignited by a nearby appliance Edison was out replacing them. causing the explosion and fire. The back unit at the rear of the property was On September 8th at 12:45pm Fullerton Fire being painted and repaired by a family friend who Engine 1, Anaheim Fire, an Arson Squad, the was near the building when it exploded. He called County Bomb Squad, the Sheriff’s K-9 dog team 911 and tried to put out the resulting fire with the and the Red Cross all responded to the incident. garden hose. He suffered glass cuts from the win - Residents within 5 houses on each side of the site dows being blown out by the blast but is okay. were evacuated for four hours as the safety crews Happily the grandmother who lives in the front checked out the area searching for the cause of the house was away from home at the time. Troy’s Brandon Clark pitching at a home game against Sonora High. PHOTO BY SOPHIA OTA Chemical Spill at RENOWNED ARCHITECT ALAN HESS Cal State Lab ON SIGNIFICANCE OF FULLERTON ’S CORRECTION UNT RANCH IBRARY LUS OUR CSUF campus Police, Fullerton Fire H B L P T In the page 9, Mid May 2018 story “Troy No Hitter,” the and hazmat teams from Anaheim, Renowned architect, historian, and author Alan Hess will above photo was sent to us by another party and printed with - Huntington Beach and OC Fire discuss William Pereira’s contributions to architecture in the out permission or attribution to the photographer Sophia Ota. Authority responded to a call on the 20th Century and the significance of Fullerton’s Pereira- This photo of Brandon Clark was taken at a home game at CSUF campus on September 8th around designed Hunt Branch Library building on Monday, Troy High against Sonora High. The photo was incorrectly 1pm regarding a chemical smell released September 24, from 7pm to 8:30pm at Pacific Drive used to illustrate an article about an away game no-hitter from an experiment a student was doing Elementary School. 1501 W. Valencia Dr., Fullerton. pitched by Brandon at Fullerton High School. in room 143 of the Dan Black Hall. The presentation will be preceded by a special tour of the Recently, when Sophia, whose passion is photography, start - Fifty people were evacuated from the Hunt Branch Library, which is very near the school, from ed college her professor suggested that she ask for a correction building and a hazmat team proceeded to 5:30pm to 6:30pm. from the paper and she did that. take samples in the area where the inci - The program is presented by Save the Hunt, a community Thank you Sophia for the correction, and we are sorry for the dent was reported. County hazmat crews group dedicated to keeping the now closed Hunt Branch error. Best of luck in your future career as a photographer. And respond to calls from Dan Black Hall at Library in the public realm. The tour and program are free of if you care to submit photos in the future we will do better. CSUF because numerous chemicals are charge. Free parking is available at Pacific Drive School. stored at the building. Visit www.SaveTheHunt.com or call (714)729-3019. Fullerton Fire Marshal/Division Chief OCDA Files Charges Kathy Schaefer said, that the 24-year-old Assemblymember Quirk-Silva student was located in Room 143 and for False Police Report sent to St. Jude Medical Center for evalu - Bringing Funds to Town in Former City Manager DUI ation. He is okay. He had been conduct - State Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva has secured a total of ing an experiment involving yeast and $45,000 in funding for the Boys & Girls Club of Fullerton from Continued from frontpage milk. When the substance turned black the State Budget. This funding will allow the Boys & Girls Club Upon arrival officers found then City Manager Felz attempt - showing a presence of bacteria he put the to establish their program Digital Days, a collaboration between ing to drive his disabled vehicle away from the scene. The offi - substance into an autoclave (used at high California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) and the Boys & cers noted symptoms of intoxication but because of Felz’s posi - temperature and pressure to kill bacteria) Girls Club. It will offer students from the 4th – 6th grade the tion as city manager called in Sgt. Corbett to handle the inves - to clear it. But, when the device was opportunity to expand their STEM (Science, Technology, tigation and determine if Felz was driving under the influence. opened he smelled chlorine and alerted Engineering, and Math) skill set through an after-school curricu - Corbett is accused of conducting a cursory examination of campus police who evacuated the build - lum designed by CSUF faculty and taught by the university’s stu - Felz and writing in his police report that Felz was not under the ing. Dan Black Hall was cleared by safety dent instructors in a beneficial partnership for both. Together, influence of alcohol. He then drove Felz home. Then Police units at around 4pm according to CSUF CSUF and the Boys & Girls Club will implement the Digital Chief Dan Hughes sent out a memo to councilmembers about Police. Days 16-week engineering program at three different sites of the the incident declaring that while Felz had been drinking he was Boys & Girls Club. The program will focus on three different not found to be impaired. Take Fullerton’s Online STEM skill areas: Mobile application (app) development, basic Felz announced his retirement from the city manager posi - digital logic circuits, and Arduino microcontroller programming, tion shortly after, and shortly after that - then Police Chief Local Hazard Survey and culminate in a project involving one or more of the skill areas. Hughes also retired from the city to take a position at The City of Fullerton has prepared an Other funding Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva has brought to Disneyland. online survey for members of the public, town includes AB 448 a bill she co-authored which establishes the At the time questions about possible special treatment asking for information about past experi - OC Housing Finance Trust which will go to reducing homeless - extended to officials in such cases was discussed by the public. ence with natural hazards and how the ness in Orange County. The bill was just signed by the Governor. On March 3, 2017, charges were filed against Felz for DUI city’s Local Hazard Mititgation Plan can Quirk-Silva has also co-authored six bills for small business assis - and hit and run with property damage. be most useful. tance and expansion and job creation which have passed in bipar - On Dec. 19, 2017, Felz pleaded guilty to misdemeanor con - The city will release a draft of the plan tisan votes and will next go through the Senate. duct admitting to driving under the influence. He was given for public review in Fall 2018, with final In addition, Assemblymember Quirk-Silva has secured $5 mil - three years of probation. adoption planned for 2019 following lion in funding to expand the Bridges Homeless Shelter in Since the 2016 incident, the OCDA has been investigating approval from the California Office of Anaheim, presented $25,000 in funding to the Muckenthaler the conduct of Corbett and all other FPD officers involved. Emergency Services and FEMA. Visit Cultural Center for fixing its irrigation system, secured $1.7 mil - Corbett will appear in Dept. C-55 at the Central Justice www.surveymonkey.com/r/KB6XP7D to lion for Los Alamitos STARBASE, another youth STEM program Center in Santa Ana at 8:30am this month. If convicted he take the survey. Learn more about the for kids of our district, and secured $19.8 million in funding to faces a maximum sentence of three years in state prison. Senior LHMP at www.cityoffullerton.com/LHMP . help purchase and preserve Coyote Hills as open space. Deputy DA Brett Brian is prosecuting the case. Page 4FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL NEWS MID SEPTEMBER 2018 Annual 9/11 Display by Jere Greene The 17th annual 9/11 display, created by Scott Townley in front of his family home at the corner of Woods and Fern, is truly amazing. This year was no exception with 417 crosses and 5,000 flags commemorating safety workers and victims who died in the World Trade Center, Pentagon and United Flight 93 terrorist attack on 9/11/2001. In a tent erected on the property, Townley displays photos of each of the 3,040 people who died in the attack. Neighbors help him and his family set up and tear down the memorial each year. Townley says he created the memorial so we don’t ever forget 9/11 and all the lives we lost that terrible day. One of seven double-sided large panels set up under the white tent showing the faces of all who died in the attack. - PHOTO JERE GREENE

CITY MANAGER DOMER ’S REPORTS Transparency has improved for the first time since former City Manager Jim Armstrong left town in 2001 to take the City Manager position in Santa Barbara. Current City Manager Ken Domer has resumed regular reports available to the public through the link “City Manager Updates” on the main page of the city website at www.cityoffullerton.com. The items include reports from all departments. Below are a few taken from several of the latest postings.

September 4 Closed Session Discussion on Off-Duty Behavior of Police Chief and Captain NEW AFFORDABLE RENTAL COMPLEX : While the public session council meet - council at the October 16, 2018 council Construction of the 46-unit Jamboree Housing Complex is in progress on W. Valencia. ing was cancelled due to the Labor Day meeting, and further directed the City Council approved the 1, 2, and 3-bedroom project in May 2017. Units will be for persons holiday, council did meet in special closed Manager to explore the possibility of hir - and families within 30%-60% of the median area income. Check out the October 1st session to discuss “Pubic Employee ing an Interim Police Chief. Currently, issue for an update on Affordable Housing. PHOTO JERE GREENE 9/10/2018 Discipline/Dismissal/Release Per during this interim period, Captain Bob Government Code Section 54957. Dunn has been the acting Police Chief. Director Don Hoppe Retires City Attorney Jones reported the coun - The city is working to explore interim Public Works Director Don Hoppe will retire on September 28. cil directed the following: a full and com - opportunities to include interim Captain (ED: Hoppe was hired by the city in 1992 and served as plete administrative investigative report positions, based on recently retired or Fullerton’s Director of Public Works since 2011.) The city has conducted on Chief Hendricks and expected to retire Fullerton police officers retained an executive recruiter firm to assist with hiring a new Captain Oliveras with report back to according to the Sept. 6 report. director. For the recruitment flyer interested persons can go to https://www.ralphandersen.com/ jobs/public-works-director-fullerton-ca/ Homeless Issues The Sept. 6 report includes description Habitat for Humanity CITY COUNCIL NOTES of a Sept. 5th meeting held with Federal Six properties in the Richman Park area The Council meets at 6:30pm on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Judge David O. Carter concerning home - of town will be the new location of 12 sin - Upcoming agenda information and streaming video less issues. gle-story attached homes for sale to house - of council meetings are available at www.cityoffullerton.com. “The city managers from Buena Park, holds earning less than 80% of Area Meetings are broadcast live on Cable Ch 3 and rebroadcast Placentia, and Orange were also in atten - Median Income. Purchasing priority will at 3pm and 6pm the following Wed. & Sun. & 5pm Mon. dance as part of the North Service be given to displaced households and City Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton. Planning Area, a 13 city group within the those who live and/or work in Fullerton. Contact council at 714-738-6311 or by email to: [email protected] North Orange County area. On Friday, Sept. 7th, the judge will have the defen - The Sept. 4 public session council meeting was canceled due to dant cities of Anaheim, Orange, Costa Energy Services Mesa, and the County of Orange back in the Labor Day holiday. Next council meetings are court for the homeless lawsuit. The North Public Works staff met with Engie, an Tuesday, September 18th and October 2nd at 6:30pm. Service Planning Area will be represented energy performance company, on August Come see your local government in action! by the City of Orange and will present the 28. Engie will conduct a comprehensive Judge deal terms regarding the develop - study of city facilities and suggest energy Upcoming Agendas negotiation item for SE corner of Pomona ment of emergency shelter beds in the efficient improvements (solar, equipment Ave and East Santa Fe in the Fullerton cities of Buena Park and Placentia to satis - upgrades, etc.) that the city can imple - To view the whole agenda for these Transportation Center (about a proposed fy, in conjuction with beds in Anaheim, ment throughout its facilities. Any project meetings visit www.cityoffullerton.com on development concept in line with the the agreed upon amount within the North funding will be guaranteed by energy effi - the Friday before the meeting date. FTC Specific Plan; and one continuing Service Planning Area.” ciency savings. Engie will first conduct an labor negotiation. audit of the city’s Edison accounts and •September 18: Items include: Public A new 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Library issues (see frontpage article), a •October 2: Amendment to agreement decision (Martin v. Boise), has the poten - then perform walk-throughs of city facili - for trash services with MG Disposal; ties. presentation on 2018 district elections, tial to affect homeless issues throughout app-based rideshare program downtown, Commonwealth/Raymond Infrastructure all of California. The three-judge panel new well 7A construction, Hillcrest Park Rehab Project; Aviation Facilities Inc. held “that the Cruel and Unusual Ride-Sharing duck pond, recycling market development lease; Emergency Performance Grant... Punishments Clause of the Eighth zone, committee reorganization, review of •October 16: Report of investigation Amendment precluded the enforcement A 90-day pilot program for designating city of Fullerton conflict of interest code, into Chief Hendricks and Captain of a statute prohibiting sleeping outside drop-off/pick-up locations for downtown personnel management system changes, Oliveras actions while off duty in Irvine; against homeless individuals with no nighttime visitors using ride sharing serv - treasurer’s report for 2018, and more. Security Guard Request for Proposals for access to alternative shelter.” As long as ices (such as Uber, Lyft, and taxis) is in Closed Session at 4:30pm: Three exist - the Community Center and Main there is no option of sleeping indoors, the progress. The data from the program has ing litigation items (Anaya, Bradley, and Library; Designation as a Recycling government cannot criminalize indigent, been positive and staff is recommending OC Catholic Worker); Two anticipated Market Development Zone; First Quarter homeless people for sleeping outdoors on that the drop-off/pick-up locations be litigation items; one public employee dis - Financial and Treasurer’s Report; Monthly public property. continued. cipline/dismissal/release item; on property Report from city lobbyists. MID SEPTEMBER 2018 LOCAL WATER NEWS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5

MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT NORTH BASIN GROUNDWATER LISTING AS A SUPERFUND SITE The Orange County Water District (OCWD) created a “fact sheet” to clarify misconceptions that have surfaced regarding cleanup efforts. Below are some excerpts.

Myth: EPA Superfund is the last 14 years, OCWD has spent more heavy-handed and unnecessary. than $27 million toward North Basin. $4 million went to attorneys. $23 million FACT : EPA Oversight is necessary for has been spent on investigatory and envi - North Basin. If tests reveal a potentially ronmental work, construction of monitor responsible party (PRP) caused the con - and extraction wells and other litigation tamination, the U.S. Environmental expenses. Protection Agency (EPA), through the EPA is the expert in the process of Superfund process, can compel the PRP studying subsurface contamination and to contribute financially to the cleanup will determine liability of the responsible and/or carry out the remediation them - parties in the cleanup. selves. EPA is the federally-recognized authori - Myth: OCWD has been busy suing ty specifically formed by Congress to everyone and not doing anything address complex groundwater cleanup about the cleanup. sites with multiple sources operating sequentially over a period of decades. FACT : OCWD is the only entity map - Unraveling the history and occurrence of ping and remediating the plume. In addi - OCWD workers are drilling two new monitoring wells to track North Basin pollution contamination is difficult and requires tion to constructing 80 monitoring wells at this location on N. Yale south of Chapman. The process began Sept. 10 and is expected specialized skills and legal powers. No to map the extent of the plume, six extrac - to take three to four weeks. Another recently installed monitoring well other agency is better suited for this work tion wells (which extract pollutants) were went in behind the Fullerton Police Department last week. -PHOTO JESSE LA TOUR than EPA. drilled by OCWD several years ago in the North Basin. However, none of the Myth: Superfund listing causes extraction wells were placed into service Monitoring Contamination property values to decline. until recently because of legal challenges filed by PRPs. continued from frontpage according to OCWD, “it is also very com - FACT : Property overlying many plex, will take decades to complete and Superfund sites in CA have gone up in After waiting a few years for a resolution Although drinking water served to resi - could cost more than $100 million.” value. For example, properties in Silicon of the legal challenges and considering dents and businesses is safe, the ground - The US EPA is currently involved with Valley, which has 10 Superfund sites still new directions set by the EPA, the water contamination has caused five the study, and the North Basin in remediation, have some of the highest OCWD Board of Directors directed staff drinking wells to be taken out of service. Contamination site is being considered property values in the nation. Closer to to complete and operate Extraction Well The contaminant plume extends five for placement on the Superfund National home, in Fullerton, where the McColl site 1, considered one of the most important miles in length and must be controlled Priorities List—which would allow for is still in remediation, property values of the original six wells because of its and cleaned up to prevent impact to addi - more federal money, expertise, and over - have continued to go up. proximity to two drinking water wells. To tional drinking water wells. The contami - sight to ensure cleanup. A Superfund designation is a strong expedite the completion of the well, nation consists of industrial solvents that Business groups including the OC indication that the problem is being dealt OCWD engineers re-designed it to allow spilled into the ground from past industri - Business Association and the 20 compa - with. The matter at hand is to come up discharge of the contaminated water into al/manufacturing activities. nies who have been identified as poten - with the best solution to address the con - the nearby sanitary sewer. Construction of Control and cleanup of the North Basin tially responsible for the pollution are tamination and not have the public get the first extraction well was completed plume is critically important to protect opposed and some have filed suit to stop stuck with the bill. and became fully operational in the underlying water supply for 2.5 mil - monitoring and extraction wells from September 2017. lion residents in Orange County, but going in. (see Myths & Facts at right) Myth: The cost per household is mini - The water discharged by EW-1 is sent mal and can be absorbed by ratepay - into a sanitary sewer that is a tributary to ers so we can get on with the cleanup. the Orange County Sanitation District’s (OCSD) Plant 1 where it is treated exten - FACT : There are less than 20 PRPs in sively and then sent to OCWD’s North Basin and more than 2.5 million Groundwater Replenishment System residents in OCWD’s service area. Some where the water undergoes a three-step of the North Basin costs will be indirectly advanced purification process. The puri - paid for by residents through funding fied water is then recharged into the from a statewide Proposition 1 grant. groundwater basin for subsequent reuse. Without contribution from the PRPs and Monies secured through settlements and a their insurance companies, the balance Prop 1 grant were used to pay for these will be taken from ratepayers in Orange efforts. County. The $100 million+ costs to clean up the Myth: OCWD is suing companies contamination over the next 30 years are that are cooperating and doing significant. To divide that amount by a cleanup on their properties. population of 2.5 million does make it look deceivingly small. However, to do FACT : The lawsuits are not directed that is a game of deception. What is right toward smaller on-site cleanups by each and just should not be glossed over by corporation (sometimes under order of mathematically spreading the liability of the state EPA), but the contamination others out over vast populations of the which spread beyond their property lines, innocent. merging into the large plume. The subject of the lawsuit is this offsite contamina - Myth: OCWD’s lawsuit is a means to tion. The lawsuit aims to compel PRPs to shakedown innocent local businesses. develop and implement a long-term Fact: North Basin involves less than 20 groundwater cleanup remedy to address potentially responsible corporations this offsite contamination which was not (PRPs) and their insurance companies, being dealt with. many of whom are no longer doing busi - ness in Orange County. With the statute More Information of limitations looming, OCWD exercised Read the entire myths and facts sheet at its right to file a lawsuit in 2004 against https://www.ocwd.com/what-we- the PRPs to compel a large-scale cleanup do/water-quality/groundwater- while minimizing costs to rate payers. cleanup/north-basin/ Defendants were brought into the law - If you have any questions or concerns suits based on scientific data provided by about North Basin, please contact CalEPA, the Department of Toxic OCWD at (714) 378-8244 or visit Substances Control (DTSC) and the www.ocwd.com. Regional Water Quality Control Board For more information about EPA and (RWQCB). the Superfund program, visit Since filing suit, OCWD has received https://www.epa.gov/superfund. about $22 million in settlements. Over Page 6OBSERVER The DOWNTOWN Report © 2018 MID SEPTEMBER 2018 Text & Photos by Mike Ritto [email protected] Fullerton Photo Quiz Jackson Browne went to SHHS in Fullerton and during that time started his career playing solo in places like the old Paradox. PHOTO MIKE RITTO Jackson Browne Receives 2018 Gandhi Peace Award Former Fullerton resident singer/musi - cian/composer Jackson Browne was pre - sented with the Gandhi Peace Award by QUESTION : Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Sept. 14. The MUSICAL INSPIRATION & B LACK HOLE /S TRAY CAT Another downtown dome. ceremony took place at the Lyman Center Why is Downtown Fullerton such a Early on, Bill and Anna Evans opened a for Performing Arts. Where is this one located? good place for musical inspiration and location in Brea, selling records, t-shirts, Jackson Browne has organized or partic - Send your answer to Mike at creation, the selling of musical instru - stickers, and other music related items on ipated in thousands of benefit perform - ments, live performances, a permanent one side and vintage fashion/costumes on [email protected] ances to support the environment, social museum installation and other related the other. Then the wrecking ball made its justice, and human rights as well as causes entities? move, reducing downtown Brea to rubble, supporting arts education and music in Of course it all starts with Leo Fender, so they packed up the goods and moved schools. He founded the groups and we have covered that here. Our past to Fullerton, downtown that is, where a Musicians United for Safe Energy and includes the recording of hit records at the wrecking ball is not welcome, but shops Nukefree.org . He is currently a member of Rhythm Room in the 60’s. Jackson like theirs most definitely are. Ocean Elders. Last December Browne Browne roamed the area in the 70’s, and Zoom 30 years from then to now and it released “The Dreamer” about the situa - in the 80’s, it was Social Distortion, Agent was time for another move. Luckily, the tion of those protected by DACA. Orange, The Adolescents, The Middle move was just a bit southwest of where Browne, who was inducted into the Class, D.I., and many others who lit a they were. They are now inside the newly Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, and musical fuse that still burns. It is that wave upgraded space in SoCo at 115 S Harbor. into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in of music in the 80s that seems to bring We stopped into their new location to 2007, is the first artist to receive the people here still, looking for vinyl records say hi and realized they moved just in Gandhi Peace Award from the nonprofit and more. time, with people already there shopping Promoting Enduring Peace. for Halloween costumes and some for Previous recipients are: Eleanor Christmas presents. I will wait until the Roosevelt, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther last second to shop but they are fully King, Jr, Norman Thomas, William Slone stocked right now so you may as well get Coffin, Benjamin Spock, Wayne Morse, a jump on it. There is an instant legacy to U Thant, Dorothy Day, Daniel Ellsberg, the new place, since the aforementioned César Chavez, Marian Wright Edelman, Social Distortion and The Adolescents George McGovern, Arik Ascherman, performed in its back parking lot in their Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Medea heydays. Pretty sure the echoes are still Benjamin, Omar Barghouti, and Ralph hanging in the air. Nader.

NEW IN TOWN 9/11 Just as it was time to turn in my copy for this newspaper, some friends took me over to ANSWER TO LAST ISSUE ’S NO ESCAPE PHOTO QUESTION see the tribute to the thousands who lost their lives on 9/11 at Scott Townley’s Fullerton This crown sits on top of which historic There may be no escaping now, but building downtown? home. Since this was the first time I had gone by the time we go to press, looks like to see it, there was no way I could let it go There was a lot of interest in the ‘mys - Infinity Escape on West Amerige, tery photo’ this time as many searched without at least a mention. The flags, photos, (where DSYL and myself had offices) crosses, flowers, were a powerful reminder of downtown for the dome we pictured, will be up and running. They have been which as all of you discovered is on top of that day of course, and Scott reminded us of testing and the first room is just about the thousands more who now suffer from the our museum on Wilshire and Pomona. It completed, and may have just opened has been there since 1941, when the after effects of breathing in all of the pollutants as we speak. If you are not familiar with that were airborne after the towers collapsed. building was originally constructed and the concept, an escape room involves a opened as Fullerton’s library. The Perhaps the lasting memory of this visit will physical adventure game. Players solve a be meeting and watching the many people Fullerton Museum Association was series of puzzles and riddles to complete formed in 1971 and in 1985 major reno - who were there from all over Southern certain objectives. If you have never California. These are scary and divisive times, vations took place at what we now know been to one, think about getting some as the Fullerton Museum Center, which but there was no division here. Some knew friends together and check it out. Some one or more of those pictured, those whose hosts the weekly Fullerton Market. Time rooms are a bit like a highly advanced is running out on that. The last one of the names are on the crosses and flags and monu - haunted house for a new generation. ments. The displays made all of us feel like we year is October 25th so make plans to go There are other themes as well of soon, Thursdays from 4pm to 8:30pm. knew all of them. Sometimes we need a visual course. reminder. See Jere Greene’s photo page 4

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Traffic Circles along Wilshire are in various stages of construction. The one shown above of at N. Yale is one of those nearing completion. It features drought tolerant plantings. Stop signs are still up on much of Wilshire as people learn to navigate. -PHOTO JESSE LA TOUR New Traffic Circles Expected to Create a Bike-Friendly Path on E. Wilshire by Jane Rands downtown neighborhood. There was buy- Ten roundabouts are being installed in from both public safety staff and resi - along the new Wilshire Ave Bicycle dents on East Wilshire for this project. Boulevard between Acacia and Woods to The pilot program and subsequent facilitate continuous travel for bicyclists planning efforts ensured that the changes along much of the route. The funding for to the road design would not negatively the bicycle boulevard was received under a impact access for emergency vehicles. grant for bicycle and pedestrian facilities. At multiple well-attended neighbor - ACROSS 38. Former Georgia senator Sam The side benefit to Fullerton was that hood meetings before and after the pilot 1. Prefix with physics 39. Lemon and lime drinks the grant allowed the funding to be used project on E. Wilshire Ave, residents said 5. Terra ___ 40. Paella pot to fix the pavement along the route. That they liked the plan and hoped it would 10. U.S. socialist Eugene V. ___ 41. Ditto alternative means that city planning and engineering calm traffic. The roundabouts are a more 14. “I’ll call you ___” 42. Hook shape was actually very clever at finding a cost-effective means to slow traffic than 15. Skating jumps 43. Pressed wood, for example unique funding source to repair about two positioning a police officer on the street 16. Geometry calculation 45. Stuck in ___ miles of roadway through the historic for traffic enforcement. 17. Hummus, in India 46. Anger 20. Note after fa 47. Sticky situation and a hint LOCAL CANDIDATE MEET & G REET 21. A long, long time to the circled letters by Janet McNeill John Ybarra, Paulette Marshall Chaffee, 22. Heebie-jeebies 50. Clinton campaign staffer Abedin The non-partisan Neighbors United for Ahmad Zahra, Vicki Calhoun, Jose 23. Steelers quarterback nickname 52. “Welcome” site Fullerton will host a Candidate Meet & Trinidad Castaneda, and Sabrina Narain. “Big ___” 55. Polite request for a Greet on Monday, Oct. 1, from 6:30 to Candidates for Fullerton School 24. Partner of pots food bowl covering 8:30pm. The event is an opportunity for District Area 3 are Jennifer Harris and 25. Taj Mahal fowl 58. Easter flower the public to speak one-on-one with all Beverly Berryman; for Area 4, Shana 30. Law enforcement stations, abbr. 59. “___ Mondays” (Garfield quote) responding candidates in the November 6 Charles and Janice Catlin Meyer. 33. Plunders 60. Fits to ___ election for the Fullerton City Council, Candidates for Fullerton Joint Union 34. Pre-stereo 61. “The Time Machine” race the Fullerton School District, and the High School District Area 1 are Regina 35. ___ vera 62. Lacking grass? Fullerton Joint Union High School Cuadra and Chester Jeng; for Area 4, 36. Kotter of “Welcome Back, Kotter” 63. Larger ___ life District. The free event will be held in the Lauren Klatzker, Nathan Vestri, Chris 37. “Amadeus” actor Tom Community Room of the Fullerton Thompson and Mike Oates; and for Area Public Library, 353 W. Commonwealth 5, Marilyn Buchi and Bridget Donoghue Avenue, Fullerton. Vornholt. DOWN 29. DJ Khaled’s “___at Me” Fullerton City Clerk Lucinda Williams 1. PC alternatives 30. “The Brady Bunch” actress Eve will open the gathering with an explana - 2. Bounce back 31. Gift recipient tion of how the new District Only voting 3. Peacock’s pride 32. Sir, in Seville system works. 4. Agatha Christie’s “The ___ Murders” 35. Japanese cartoon art NUFF has designed this informal voter- 5. American gangster Al 37. Lackluster victory and-candidate gathering to support the 6. Beasts of burden 41. Wall art public in its process of selecting the most 7. Darjeeling and oolong 43. Ocean Spray’s berry, abbr. thoughtful and informed candidates to 8. “No Scrubs” group 44. Hobbled carry Fullerton city and schools forward. 9. ___ paddle (type of oar) 45. Philadelphia Eagles All candidates have been invited to 10. Medjool and Anbara running back Jay attend the event: City Council 11. Sea eagle 47. Catalina, e.g. Candidates Districts 3 are Jesus Silva, 12. Toot 48. Execute perfectly Greg Sebourn, Nicholas Wildstar, and 13. Articulates 49. Folk singer Guthrie Mohammed Abdel Haq; for District 5, 18. Possesses 50. Lukas of “Witness” 19. Coffee dispensers 51. ___ no good 23. “Misery” actress Kathy 52. S.A.T. section 24. Used to prevent ink drying out 53. Between ports 25. Pond buildup 54. New driver, typically 26. Provokes 56. Pi follower 27. Court wear 57. Chow down 28. Charm Page 8FULLERTON OBSERVER EDUCATION NEWS MID SEPTEMBER 2018

HIGH SCHOOL BOARD HIGHLIGHTS FULLERTON TEAM WINS INTERNATIONAL GOLD & Commentary by Vivien Moreno Seven elite athletes from Fullerton’s Jinen The Fullerton Joint Union High School District Board Kai dojo represented the meets at 7:30pm on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays United States last month of each month at district headquarters, at the Pan American 1051 W. Bastanchury Rd. Karate Championships in 714-870-2800 • See the agenda at www.fjuhsd.net Brazil. Kalea Aradanas, Ian Estrada, Sierra Estrada, Justin Ferrer, Natalie Hertogh, Paolo September 7 FJUHSD Board Meeting Serafico and Kaitlyn Shimohara competed at a Next FJUHSD Board Meeting: Sept. 17 at 7:30pm Nationals qualifier to earn a spot on the United The FJUHSD September 7th Board the restricted to over $6 million, leaving States team. Over 750 meeting was opened by honoring the 12- 29% of the budget as an ending fund bal - athletes represented 21 time National Science Olympiad ance of over $46 million. Increased pen - different countries in Championship team from Troy High sion and benefit costs are a near future Brazil. School. Dr. Atkinson, Assistant concern projected to increase by over $1.6 Aradanas placed third Superintendent of Human Resources million next year and over $2 million the in her division and announced new Assistant Principals: following year. This year the district spent Shimohara defended her Crystal Crawford (BPHS); Jillian Davis over $38 million on benefits and pen - title for the second year. (TRHS); Marcene Guerrero (FUHS); sions. Pension and benefit costs have risen Estrada, Hertogh and Pete Herman (SOHS); and Katelynn much faster in the last 5 years than have Shimohara competed in Wright (SOHS) to the district. La Vista salaries. In 2014-15 the district paid the female junior and and La Sierra High School presented a almost $28 million in benefits and this cadet team kata and successful attempt to corral student cell last year they paid $38 million. While placed first. phones during the school day with a new salaries have risen about 10% in that time Ian and Sierra are jun - program called Yondr. Yondr is a heavy span, benefits and pensions have increased ior and freshman stu - duty magnetic closed case that students by 28%. The amount of money to keep in dents, respectively, at park their cell phones in during class time reserves is always a delicate balance. Sunny Hills High and and have the teacher release them at end Having a large enough budget reserve to Hertogh is a junior at of class. Although not foolproof, teachers, cover upcoming expenses versus making Fullerton High. Estrada, Shimohara and Hertogh accepted 1st Place parents, and students feel like there is sure that all students have the academic as Natalie Hertogh said, honors. PHOTO BY LORNA HERTOGH more learning getting done with less cell well as emotional support programs and “Competing in Brazil was truly an honor. The camaraderie of the US athletes was phone access during the school day. services must be watched carefully by as inspiring as it was enjoyable. Brazil is a beautiful country and I thoroughly appre - board trustees. ciated the opportunity to see some wonderful landmarks. Karate has given me so Budget Update much more than I ever expected it would and I am most grateful to everyone who Joan Velasco, Assistant Superintendent Late Start High School supported the team this year.” of Business Services, presented the unau - Dr. Singer commented on the possibili - dited budget actuals, which report what ty of the passage of SB 328, the late start the district actually spent last year. high school bill introduced by State ensures that it will not disappear. children the 5 additional hours of sleep a Despite not receiving as much money Senator Portantino. Whether or not SB 328 requires students attending week finds students more alert, less tru - from the state, the district managed to Governor Brown signs it this time around, publicly funded schools in grades 7-12 to ant, better behaved. The bill allows school save enough to bring the unrestricted the scientific research as well as Senator start first period after 8:30am. This bill districts 3 years to make the change, funding balance to over $40 million and Portantino’s commitment to this issue does not apply to zero period, before allowing teacher contractual negotiations school sport practices, or rural school dis - in that timeline. tricts. With respect to AP and IB students, the Respected scientific studies have consis - district implemented the earlier school tently found that teens experience a phys - schedule and gave families 2 years to iological shift in their circadian rhythms adjust. Trustee Singer shared the that makes it very difficult for them to fall California School Board Association’s asleep before 11pm. However, teens still complaints about the unknown fiscal need 8 hours of sleep a night to increase hardship of moving the bus schedule, their brain function and support physical installing night lighting for sports events, growth. With all their academic, volun - and expressing concern about some par - teering, and sports activities, giving our ents’ drop-off schedules.

annually) and has serviced the organ for Plummer Organ Care almost 20 years. Mr. Marsh and Mr. During public comments, David Shirk both expressed great concern about Marsh, the President of the Orange the condition of the organ. Board County Theater Organ Society, and President Buchi asked if they had tried to Brydon Shirk, President of the Fullerton contact the superintendent, giving the Academy of the Arts Foundation, request - impression that the school board was ed the trustees’ help to compel unaware of this situation. Mr. Marsh Superintendent Dr. Scambray and repeated that he had contacted both Dr. Director of Facilities Todd Butcher to Scambray and Mr. Butcher but received answer their phone calls or emails in order no response. It looked like another exam - to schedule time to service the historic ple that the only way to communicate pipe organ located in the Plummer with the administration is through a blue Auditorium. card filled out at a board meeting. OCTOS provides this service free of Hopefully, Dr. Scambray and Mr. Butcher charge (which they stated would other - will connect with the OCTOS and not let wise cost between $25,000- $50,000 this historical instrument deteriorate.

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Would You Ever Pick Health as an Elective? Before I started junior high, I submitted to much water. The article reminds me of my the school registrar the electives I would like mom who always tells me to drink water. to take. My top choices were coding, robot - Sometimes, I have to drink even when I don’t ics, digital arts, and choir. I excitedly waited feel like it. for the result of my application which I don’t The good news is, the article suggests that have any idea of how the school decides the best way to know when it is time to drink except for choir because they let us audition. water during exercise is when we feel thirsty When the list of my electives was given to me, (https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/health/raw- I was surprised to see Health as one of my two fish-vibrio-vulnificus-amputation/index.html) . elective courses. What? How did that hap - The next article I read was about the danger pen? I had never - in my wildest imagination of eating raw seafood such as sushi which is - thought of Health as my elective. very popular in the US. During the orientation it was announced Eating raw or undercooked seafood such as that Health is mandatory for all 7th graders. fish, oysters, clam can lead to serious illnesses Isis Garcia Rivera was presented with an award from the FSD Board of This is totally the opposite of what an elective or death due to the bacteria and parasites that Trustees for her winning Nutrition Services logo design (see below). course means. The dictionary says that an are found in this type of food elective course is a course that students can (https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/health/raw- Student Creates Logo for District take if they like. I felt like I had lost my fish-vibrio-vulnificus-amputation/index.html) . chance with the electives I truly liked. I have not eaten these kinds of seafood and by Nancy Wikes Criteria for entry included that the Our Health teacher requires us to read one after reading the article I don’t think I will. Last spring, Fullerton School logo: must be original work, should health news story every week, summarize the The most recent article I read is about the District Nutrition Services conduct - be simple and abstract (not compli - story and write our opinion about it. This flu vaccines that will be available starting this ed a student art contest in search of cated or confusing) and include no news article should not be older than two month of September. The article reports that a department logo. more than 4 colors. weeks at the time we submit our write-up. the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests The invitation was sent out to all Among the entries received the There are a bunch of other rules that we need that kids should be given the shot instead of Jr. High students within the district. winning logo was chosen for its sim - to follow or else points will be deducted, the nasal mist because it is more effective. plicity and for giving the impression which happened to me. I got deduction for It also reports that the University of that what we eat helps keep us submitting a typewritten work because the Pittsburgh Medical Center has chosen two healthy. The logo pictures a student rule is to write it by hand. I was totally egg-free vaccines- Flucelvax and FluBlok- sprouting up from healthy green shocked because in elementary, our teachers because they are more effective than the older leaves, their arms reaching over their allowed us to do our work in digital format. I vaccines that are grown in eggs. head forming a heart with a fork in got so used to it that I totally forgot about the (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health- one hand and spoon in the other. rule. Well, I guess those rules help us to be news/guidance-which-flu-vaccine-get-shots-kids- Isis Garcia Rivera is the talented focused. maybe-go-egg-n906291) student who created the logo. She I have never really paid attention to reading Looking for health articles every week is not was in 8th grade at Parks Jr. High at health news at all so my mind needed a lot of the only thing I like about our Health class. I the time and has since moved on to convincing. Strangely, though, when I started realize that this class helps us understand our - Sunny Hills High School. She was reading I realized that our weekly homework selves better and teaches us what it takes to be recognized for her creativity at a is not bad at all. As a matter of fact, I find it healthy physically, mentally, emotionally and recent board meeting. The logo will interesting because I learn new things every socially. I may have missed an opportunity to be used for all Nutrition Services week. So far, I have read about how much take the elective I like but our Health class is flyers, brochures and marketing water we should take during exercise because also important because learning how to be materials. some people end up dying due to drinking too healthy is the first step to being healthy.

due to a strong community partnership SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTES by Jan with the O.C. Dept. of Health, FSD and Public Comments Youngman St. Jude’s Hospital community programs. Six speakers spoke to the board about “the Ann Scott Situation”. Several months Fullerton School District Board meets at 6pm on 2nd & 4th •N ICOLAS FESTO L AB : The new lab at ago, this Commonwealth teacher was dis - Tuesdays of each month at district headquarters, Nicolas allows students to focus on tech - missed for allegedly giving students 1401 W. Valencia Dr., Fullerton, 92833. nology and engineering design-based answers to a test. She denies that she did For agenda go to: www.fsd.k12.ca.us or call 714-447-7400 learning while integrating science and that. Once again, each speaker praised the mathematics concepts using a project- 23-year-teacher for her teaching skills, her based approach, with the goal of provid - dedication to her students, and the count - September 4 FSD School Board Meeting ing students the opportunity to optimize (Next meeting Sept. 25) less hours where she provided an unpaid solutions for real-world problems. after-school soccer program for students. Students learn concepts from STEM dis - Concerns were brough up about the cul - •N EW DISTRICT 1 T RUSTEE the only Orange County Junior High ciplines in a “learning by doing” environ - ture at the school and the district. INTRODUCED : Trustee Vazquez intro - School that received an award. ment. Students will work on duced Mr. Aaruni Thakur as the new The Alliance has also observed that stu - Aerodynamics, Automation & Robotics, •B UDGET PRESENTED AND APPROVED District 1 Trustee. He was the only candi - dents are losing weight across the district. CAD, CNC Lathe, Engineering & Stress (4-0 Sugarman absent): Currently FSD date to file for the position and begins his He attributes this success to FSD provid - Analysis, Environmental Technologies, has $139,864,795 in revenue and term December 1, 2018. ing healthier lunches, snacks and the Fiber Optics and Lasers, Alternative $143,285,522 in expenditures. The dis - focus on students and families exercising trict is receiving $84,000 in additional •N EW ARTS FOR ALL THE KIDS CLAY Energy, Plastics, Mechanisms, Electricity, more. revenue and currently there is 18.18% in CLASSROOM : Valencia Park is providing a CNC Mill, Mechatronics, Electronics, The Alliance has worked with the reserves from the 2017/18 school year. Clay Classroom for the All the Arts for All and Process Engineering. Over $250,000 District Food Service in developing new For a detailed presentation of the district’s the Kids’ newest program. The room will of equipment was provided by FESTO. healthy food menus; Commonwealth, budget visit www.fullertonsd.org . be equipped with a kiln. Teachers have been trained and classes Maple, Orangethorpe and Nicolas schools Students will be bused to the school have already begun. had students participate in developing the FSD Board of Trustees from throughout the district to attend the On another note Nicholas Jr. High new menus. class. They will have instructions on School achieved 100% PTA membership! Approves New Policies on Several individual schools have devel - working with clay, designing their art Immigrants oped special programs to encourage exer - •FETA: Newly elected FETA President work, creating it and then it will be fired cise: Commonwealth parents are invited Mr. Mike Jacobs encouraged the district in the kiln. They will return to glaze the On October 5, 2017, Governor Brown to participate with their children in P.E. to accept the agreement with the teachers. piece and it will be fired again; after which signed AB 699 into law, a bill designed to activities; Orangethorpe established they will have a handmade piece of their •G O HUMAN CAMPAIGN : Assistant enhance protections for immigrant stu - “Wellness Wednesday” where students are own! Superintendent of Personnel Services Dr. dents served by school districts, county encouraged to walk back and forth to Chad Hammitt reported FSD has office of education, and charter schools. •N ATIONAL SILVER RECOGNITION : Mr. school. Valencia Park profiles “Harvest of launched the Go Human Campaign The bill went into effect January 1, 2018 Barry Ross, representing St. Jude’s the Month” where students are intro - geared toward driver awareness of pedes - and contains a number of implications for Healthy School Alliance, a joint program duced to new fruits and vegetables. Pacific trians. The goal is to increase commmuni - public schools. In particular, the bill obli - with the FSD, congratulated the district. Drive obtained a United Way Grant for a ty and driver awareness about the impor - gated the California Attorney General to He said the program, which promotes “Saturday Wellness Program”; Hermosa tance of slowing down because of the publish model policies by April 1, 2018, health & wellness for students and fami - Dr. has CSUF volunteers assisting stu - many children who are around the streets. and for schools to adopt those model poli - lies, received more awards than any other dents with athletics. Clever signs have been put up at all the cies. At the August 14, the FSD Board of district. Nicolas Junior High School was Mr. Ross said the program’s success is schools to remind drivers. Trustees adopted the model policies. Page 10 FULLERTON OBSERVER HISTORY FEATURES MID SEPTEMBER 2018

PASSION FOR JUSTICE by Sinh Dang © 2018 Self Schooling & Ongoing War Dear Readers: Many years ago, when I als, and send them home for me to started writing about my experiences study. All I needed was to study hard, escaping the harsh communist regime in get ready and fly to Saigon to take the Vietnam, becoming a refugee, and coming exam at the end of each school year in to Fullerton, I was worried about my safe - the first two years. ty and used my mother’s maiden name While life went on in the city with Tran as my pen name. But, a few readers some people living like there was no recognized me from the photo and I think tomorrow, war went on in the battle - it is now time for me to use my real name. field. Every now and then, I heard old Apologies for not being truthful from the friends, relatives, or acquaintances had beginning. left school to join the army, and many didn’t return. Caskets covered with flags There I was quitting school when I were being brought back to temples and Map of the unincorporated town of Orangethorpe. still had the momentum to go forward. churches. Young women and small chil - Below: The 1915 Spencer House at 1400 W. Orangethorpe I helped father with the family business dren with white bands over their heads every day, but I missed school terribly. I wept and walked behind caskets to the The Town of Orangethorpe pulled out my older brother and sister’s cemetery. Even though they received books, notebooks and homework from monetary compensation from the gov - by Terry Galvin, Fullerton Heritage their 12th grade and looked at them, ernment, I wondered how life would be When the County of Orange incorpo - read them. And, by the middle of the without the man they loved. rated in 1889, a number of towns, includ - school year, I decided to self-study the As many young lives were lost in the ing Fullerton (1904), Newport Beach senior year and prepare to take the battles, the South Vietnamese govern - (1906), and Huntington Beach (1909), Baccalaureate II exam or the High ment needed more soldiers, so they low - quickly followed suit. During these early School Diploma exam, and do it all by ered the mandatory enlistment age from years, Orange County had about fifty myself. 18 to 17. There were more good-byes, unincorporated villages and towns, rang - Subjects covered in the exam were more unfinished projects, and countless ing in size from a few families to a suffi - Math, Languages broken hearts. How could cient population needed to incorporate as Initially, the rough roads in (Vietnamese literature, you plan anything; what a city. Started by turn-of-the-century land Orangethorpe were difficult to navigate, English, and French), My sister could you say to your loved and oil booms, many of these communi - but in 1913, as part of the Good Roads Biology, and Physics or signed me up ones when you didn’t even ties quickly vanished while others were Movement, Orange County Supervisors Chemistry. Chemistry was at the College know if you would survive paper towns that never developed past the made the area a top priority. New paved the most difficult subject for the vicious war? planning stage. Others would thrive for roads were constructed starting with me. My older sister, who was of Law, where American soldiers were in decades and eventually be annexed to Orangethorpe Road, enhancing commu - in Pharmacy School, was she could pick the city. They were nice, cities during the aggressive annexation nity life and the ability to ship agricultur - very good at it. During her but some were naughty. wars following World War II. al products. school break, she visited up the class They rode on tricycles, The most important of these long-lost In 1921, the residents voted to incorpo - home, and explained the materials, and coming up close to school - towns to Fullerton history is rate as a city in order to prevent being chemical formulas, reactions, girls walking on the street, Orangethorpe. In 1860, settlers began annexed by Fullerton and to stop a and how everything worked send them tapping the girls’ buttocks moving into the territory northwest of planned sewage farm from being built by to me. But, at the end, I was home for me and laughing impolitely. Anaheim, eventually naming the area Fullerton. In 1923, a sewer line running still confused. to study. Bad social effects, drugs Orangethorpe. Like the county and the from Fullerton to the ocean was planned, Physics and Chemistry and prostitution also fol - city of Orange, the name played on the ending the sewer farm threat, so on were rotated in the exam lowed American soldiers. appeal of the word “orange,” combined December 31, 1923, the residents of each year. Lucky for me, at Bars popped up everywhere. with the Old English word “thorpe”, Orangethorpe voted to unincorporate. the time I took the exam, The girls who served liquor meaning a village. However, the sewer farm was ultimately Physics, with which I had no problem, in those establishments were actually The town consisted of 6.25 square implemented by Fullerton because the was on the test, not Chemistry - other - prostitutes who came from all walks of miles, sandwiched between Anaheim, sewer line to the ocean was never built. wise, I would have failed miserably. So I life; they were villagers’ daughters evacu - Fullerton, and Buena Park. The town The sewer farm was abandoned by 1926, passed the exam to the astonishment of ated from their villages; they were for - limits ran roughly from Stanton Avenue and ultimately became the site of the a lot of people because many students mer house helpers who wanted to make on the west to Harbor Boulevard on the Fullerton Municipal Airport in 1927. failed even when they had the time and more money; they could be a soldier’s east and from Lincoln Avenue on the Well into the 1950s, Orangethorpe opportunity to study all year long. wife who needed extra income. An ama - south to approximately Olive Avenue on consisted primarily of ranch homes sur - This was a weird period in my life teur prostitute was called a “parachute the north. Orangethorpe was larger than rounded by grove upon grove of orange, because quite a few guys wanted to ask jumper.” Brea or La Habra, but had no police or lemon, and walnut trees. Farmers and for my hand in marriage. There were In the summer, the weather was very fire departments or a city hall. It did have ranchers in Orangethorpe formed a tight- four of them: a teacher, a photographer, warm, so my family slept out on the an elected Treasurer, City Clerk, and knit community, and many important a goldsmith, and a military officer. I patio. Once an American soldier Board of Trustees, which met once a Fullerton families—the Royers, don’t know what they were thinking. I jumped our fence and hid under my month at the Orangethorpe School. The Gardiners, Spencers, and Hiltschers— guess they thought I would quit my younger brother’s bed. We were scared treasury consisted primarily of income came from the Orangethorpe district. studies and stay home to be married. I and didn’t know what was going on. derived from a one dollar an acre assess - The most famous individual born in said “No” to them all. Grandma shined the light and saw him; ment from Orangethorpe residents. City Orangethorpe was guitar legend Leo Mother told me that Grandma said to he bowed and signaled her to be quiet, services were provided by Orange County. Fender (1909-1991), who attended the her, “You’ve got to convince her. If you but she refused because of the danger to Land in this area was selling for ten dol - Orangethorpe School. let her say ‘No’ to everyone, she will our family, so he jumped out over the lars an acre. In 1872, early farmers and After World War II, original settlers and become an old maid.” For goodness fence. Later, we were told that he stayed ranchers banded together to build an irri - their families began selling acres of their sake, I was only 18 and busy helping overnight at a house in the neighbor - gation ditch that brought much needed land to developers. Gradually the orange father’s business during the day and hood, and the Military Police (MP) were water to the area. Settlers were attracted and lemon groves were plowed under and working on my self-schooling at night. out looking for him, but he successfully by the rich, fertile soil in the district, ini - replaced with tract and ranch-style homes. The matchmaker who brought the escaped! tially growing apricots, walnuts, and alfal - Glimpses of what early Orangethorpe ranking soldier to my home was my Communist guerillas occasionally fa, but switched to more lucrative citrus looked like can be found in the few desig - uncle (grandma’s nephew). After I made it to the city. They disguised groves in the 1910s. nated Significant Properties that remain: declined to accept the soldier’s love let - themselves as street vendors, recycling In 1872, the first school in northern the Gardiner House (1155 W. ter, uncle got mad and stopped talking men, or trash collectors, but secretly Orange County was constructed at the Orangethorpe, 1925), the imposing Mary to me. The soldier later lost his life in placed explosives that destroyed bridges, northeast corner of Nicolas (now Euclid) Spencer House (1520 W. Orangethorpe, one of the fierce battles. Uncle then was burned down a powerhouse or police and Orangethorpe Avenues. Two years 1913), and the Clarence Spencer House nice to me again because he just escaped headquarters. later, a two-story school was constructed (1400 W. Orangethorpe, 1915). from making his niece into a widow. Explosions often happened at night, at Orangethorpe and Brookhurst In 1954, the school district was divid - Having graduated from high school, the whole city turned dark, and sirens Avenues, and the first school was brought ed between Fullerton and Anaheim, and going to university was the next logical blared. Everyone would wonder what to the new site to become part of the larg - the entire Orangethorpe area was eventu - step, but I couldn’t do that because it happened and who might be dead. Years er building. Prior to the building of the ally divided and annexed to Anaheim, would defeat the purpose of me staying later after being in America, the sirens first elementary school in Fullerton in Fullerton, and Buena Park, although a few home to help out. So I was to quit still brought up my bad memories: I 1888, Fullerton students attended the pockets of unincorporated county territo - school again. However, my sister signed worried about my family’s safety if we Orangethorpe School. ry remained for many years. me up at the College of Law, where she weren’t home together. I am still startled Visit www.fullertonheritage.org for more Fullerton History. could pay a fee, pick up the class materi - now by the sounds of illegal fireworks! MID SEPTEMBER 2018 HISTORICAL FEATURE FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 11 A Brief History of Mexican Immigration to the United States (Part 2) by Jesse La Tour labor to American farms and railroads…The Bracero program proved In the current political climate in which immediately attractive to millions of we live, immigration (and especially unemployed and underemployed rural undocumented immigration) has become Mexicans.” a divisive, hot button issue. With residents facing poverty and In the July issue of the Observer I began unemployment at home, Mexican leaders a series of articles on the history of immi - were generally on board with the Bracero gration from Mexico to the United States Program. based on a book called Beyond Borders by When World War II ended, along with historian Timothy J. Henderson. the labor shortages, the initial Bracero Here is part two of this series. Program expired in 1947. However, the growers who benefitted from the steady The Bracero Program: supply of cheap labor were unwilling to 1942-1964 see the program end. As one grower explained, "We are asking for labor only at Image from "Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964" As we have seen, the United States’ pol - certain times of the year—at the peak of (Smithsonian Institution) icy toward immigration from Mexico has our harvest—and the class of labor we In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act eases, having unalterable criminal procliv - followed a pattern of recruitment and want is the kind we can send home when made it a felony only to ‘import’ or ‘har - ities, burdening welfare, debasing morali - exclusion. In good times, when we need we get through with them." bor’ an illegal alien…the so-called Texas ty, and thinking subversive thoughts. cheap labor, Mexicans are recruited to Thus, growers lobbied hard, and suc - proviso said explicitly that employing did Words like ‘horde’, ‘tide,’ ‘flood,’ and work here. In bad times, when jobs are cessfully, to continue the program beyond not constitute ‘importing’ or ‘harboring.” ‘invasion’ became standard fare in discus - scarce, Mexicans are excluded and deport - the war years. It would not officially end Thus, the employers were protected, while sions of the topic.” ed. until 1964. The end of the Great Depression and the employees were vulnerable. In 1953, during an economic down - When the U.S. and Mexico were unable turn, illegal immigrants made convenient the United States’ entry into World War II The 1950s: “created a labor shortage in agriculture, as to reach a new bracero agreement, the scapegoats. There arose a familiar anti- some 10 million men were conscripted Illegal Immigration and U.S. announced it would begin recruiting immigrant hysteria: “Many Americans into the military and war industries “Operation Wetback” braceros unilaterally. were soon calling noisily for expulsion. boomed, leaving once again a dire short - This news resulted in “impoverished Out of this hysteria was born the bizarre age of labor for US agriculture.” Along with the rise of the Bracero Mexicans…flocking to the northern bor - policy of the mid-1950s: enticing people “Mexicans, who had been reviled and Program, there was also a rise in undocu - der by the thousands, till the border towns to enter the country illegally, on the one expelled during the lean years, were sud - mented immigration: “In 1943, at the were choked with hungry, homeless men.” hand; and on the other hand, plotting a denly in high demand,” explains start of the program, the number of illegal This created a crisis along the border in wholesale roundup and deportation of Henderson. immigrants deported was 8,860; by 1953, which Mexico declared that ‘wetbacks.’” Out of this labor shortage was born the the figure had risen to 885,587.” no one would be allowed to Out of this hysteria arose an Bracero Program: “a long-lived experi - This situation was pushed by condi - cross the border to the US, official US enforcement pro - ment in planned and managed migration tions in Mexico, and pulled by American while US officials stated that The United gram in 1954 called any Mexicans who managed “Operation Wetback.” that would eventually bring some 4.5 mil - growers and employers who “saw some States’ policy lion Mexicans legally to the United States, distinct advantages to undocumented to cross the border would be Commissioner of even while helping to greatly increase the workers. Undocumented workers are not contracted as braceros. toward Immigration Joseph Swing flow of undocumented workers.” covered by all of those annoying provi - The crisis came to a head immigration announced “that the Border Meanwhile, in Mexico, political and sions stipulating minimum wages, decent on January 22, 1954 when from Mexico Patrol would begin a mass “Border Patrol agents at sev - roundup and deportation of economic instability remained. housing, healthcare, and so forth.” has followed During the Depression, Mexican The Bracero program created relation - eral border crossings opened undocumented Mexicans. President Lazaro Cardenas had carried out ships between migrants and employers, the gates and invited the a pattern of Signs and billboards were large-scale land reform, redistributing “who made it clear that they would be crowds to enter. What fol - recruitment erected with stern warnings in more than “44 million acres of land from happy to rehire them if, once their bracero lowed was a scene of pre - and exclusion. Spanish: ‘The Era of the large estates—nearly half of all cultivable contract was up, they should return to the dictable pandemonium: at Wetback and the Wire Cutter land in Mexico—and distributed them US illegally.” several towns along the Has Ended! From This Day among 811,000 peasants.” Some migrants “lost patience with the boundary, Border Patrol Forward Any Person Found in But the Mexican leaders who came to slow process and high cost of securing a agents tried to pull migrants the United States Illegally Will power after Cardenas had different priori - bracero contract, and opted for the quick - across the border while Mexican soldiers be Punished by Imprisonment.” ties. There was a re-concentration of land er, cheaper option of crossing into the US sought to prevent their crossing or pull Immigrant detainees were loaded onto and resources into fewer and fewer sans documents.” them back south. Mexican troops used trucks and taken to detention camps, hands—a focus on large-scale industrial Growers, at this time, tended to prefer a water hoses, guns, clubs…but they were eventually to be deported. farms, to the detriment of small farmers. workforce that included both braceros overrun…” The Immigration and Naturalization “Between 1941 and 1952, fully 90 per - and illegal immigrants, “ensuring that Ultimately, Mexico backed down, and Service claimed that as a result of cent of Mexico’s agricultural budget went workers would always be in abundant the program continued on US terms. “Operation Wetback” 1,300,000 to large irrigation projects in a handful of supply and making it improbable that Meanwhile, undocumented immigra - Mexicans had left the U.S. northern states,” Henderson explains, they would be able to bargain for better tion continued to outpace the Bracero Reflecting on the legacy of Operation “and nearly all of the suddenly valuable pay.” Program, which created another 1930s Wetback, historian Juan Ramon Garcia land that resulted from those projects Just like today, undocumented immi - moment (see Part 1). points out that it attacked symptoms, not quickly found its way into the hands of grants were vulnerable to mistreatment “By the early 1950s, in a development causes: “The operation obviously did wealthy, well-connected entrepreneurs.” and exploitation: “There were notorious that likely had much to do with rising nothing to erase the enormous gap in The post-Cardenas agriculture policies cases of especially unscrupulous employ - Cold War paranoia, Americans began wealth between the United States and created a large farmworker underclass: ers calling in the Border Patrol at the end heaping scorn on undocumented immi - Mexico, or to create good jobs in Mexico. “The wage laborers had no job security, of the harvest, having agents round up grants,” Henderson explains, “newspapers In some ways, the operations worsened and were forced to pick up work whenev - and deport illegal immigrants just before and magazines were filled with articles the situation.” er and wherever they could, often moving payday.” painting illegal immigrants as alien about to follow seasonal crops; they Critics of the Bracero Program, includ - invaders bent on undermining the Stay tuned for Part 3 of “A Brief received no legal protection, got no social ing a US presidential commission on American way of life. Those immigrants History of Mexican Immigraiton security or medical care, and had no migratory labor, claimed that the program were charged with carrying loathsome dis - to the United States.” access to adequate housing or education depressed wages, displaced domestic for their children.” workers, and encouraged illegal immigra - “It almost seemed as though Mexico tion: “Labor unions, human rights had entered the business of producing groups, and Mexican-American organiza - emigrants,” Henderson writes, “The bur - tions criticized the law, calling for much geoning supply of poor, unskilled, unem - stronger protections, including a guaran - ployed, desperate Mexicans was good teed minimum wage, etc. news to American agribusiness.” Despite these critics, the powerful influ - And so, pushed by imbalanced labor ence of business interests prevailed. In policies in Mexico, and pulled by the 1951, Public Law 78 was passed, which labor shortage created by World War II, continued the Bracero Program into the many Mexican workers again migrated 1960s. The large grower interests were north—largely with the Bracero Program: able to get laws passed that protected “a joint program between the United them from being penalized for employing States and Mexico to provide contracted undocumented workers. Page 12 FULLERTON OBSERVER SPECIAL FEATURE MID SEPTEMBER 2018

Before, During & After Friends of the Fullerton Public Library volunteers bring in the boxes and organize the books on the tables for the book sale. which supports the Public library.

VIDEO OBSERVER by Emerson Little © 2018 Friends Help Support the Fullerton Public Library Ever since my grandparents moved to check, they met with then-Library Fullerton, my family has been going to Director Harry Rowe to officially form library book sales. My parents are now the Friends of the Library. members of the Friends of the Fullerton Over fifty years later, the Friends are Public Library, a non-profit organization still making things happen at the that helps raise funds for the library Fullerton Public Library. The very active through the Friends Bookstore located in Board of the Friends sets the standard for the library and the annual book sales. other adult volunteers by maintaining a Their mission is to support the Library, close working relationship with the its services and programs by advocating Library Director and the Division man - rium for the sale, I met Dave Lynch, one where most of the members had gathered, for public support and use of the Library, agers. Through the years, the Friends have of the two male boardmembers who bring Janet Wolf from the Friends explained, by generating current and long-term raised funds through membership dues the donations downstairs, and Kathy “Because members pay dues they a 10% funding, and by developing volunteer and book sales. Brayton, who has been with the Friends discount in the bookstore on any pur - involvement. This month, I got an exclu - On September 7th, 8th, and 9th, the for 16 years and sorts and prices the dona - chase. Only members can come in from sive look at how the Friends prepare for organization held its autumn book sale in tions. Kathy said, “We tend to get collec - 10am to noon on the first day of the book their book sales in the Osborne the Main Library’s Osborne Auditorium. tions when people die. We get a lot of sale. So I’ll be the person outside with a Auditorium at the Main Branch. With a mailing list of over 600 mem - teacher’s books. They switch grades or list of all the members and they have to On November 7th, 1961, fourteen rep - bers, 335 paid memberships and 50 life- they retire, and they’ll bring in boxes of show me their card or they don’t get in. resentatives of Fullerton organizations time memberships, the Friends receive a teaching materials.” People can also pay the 2019 membership met in the city librarian’s office to discuss lot of items, which they sell at their book - Ms. Brayton added, “We find interest - at the door and I will give them a card to the formation of the Friends of the store, 1-day and 3-day book sales and also ing things in books. We’ve found pictures, get in.” This gives members of the Friends Fullerton Public Library. During the online through Amazon. The various sale lots of bills, and money before. There was the first pick at the book sale. The gener - meeting, Mrs. Edwin Arthur, of the items are donated by members of the one time when we found a bank note al public sale hours begin at noon. I went American Association of University community to the Library. from Columbia or Peru that looked like it with my dad on the first day since my Women (AAUW), explained that the The day before the sale started, I met might be worth a whole lot. I heard there family pays the membership fee. I hap - “idea for the formation of the group had with Leslie Allen, a long-time member of was this place in Disneyland that does pened to find some film and photography arisen in connection with the Book Fair the Friends, at the Library Bookstore. currency exchange, so I took it books for myself, along with held by her organization.” Mrs. Arthur, After introducing me to a few members of there, but it turned out it was a few DVDs, while my dad along with other members of the AAUW, the board, Ms. Allen explaned what hap - an old discontinued note that bought some CDs and a rare had gathered used books and house plants pens in preparation for the book sale. was worth nothing. We take The Friends colored Dave Brubeck vinyl to sell for the benefit of the library. Walking through the crowded aisles of that kind of stuff like foreign of the Library record. Shortly after handing over their first donations ready to be taken to the audito - coins up to the Children’s hold two The sale continued Library and they use them in through Sunday, September crafts or as prizes.” used book 9th and ended at 4pm., with The Friends pointed toward sales a year, remaining items being where the collectable and vin - which are offered at a special discount - tage books were stored. Ms. extremely ed rate of “two bucks a bag.” Allen said, “Tom Hall, who’s All proceeds from sales go to the other male boardmember, popular the Friends for the Library. is an expert on collectable among the The funds are often used to books, so we give them all to community. purchase books for the THE FLAP OVER WISDOM TEETH him. He researches them and library and invest in com - When the third molars (“wisdom gums, while acute symptoms range prices them. Some of them are puters and reading programs teeth”) do not have sufficient room to from severe pain and pus discharge to really great finds.” for library patrons. erupt through the gums, a partial swollen lymph nodes. Periocoronitis The Friends of the Library hauled boxes The Friends of the Fullerton Public eruption can lead to inflammation and can be averted with regular checkups. of books, DVDs, CDs, videotapes and Library hold two used book sales a year, infection of the soft tissue around the Whether dealing with wisdom teeth, vinyl records to the designated tables of and they are extremely popular among the tooth. This inflammatory condition, restorations, cosmetic dentistry, or the Osborne Auditorium, each with a community, so be sure to look out for known as “pericoronitis,” commonly dental implants, a good experience labeled tag. The Friends always try to keep them in 2019. Also, the next time you occurs among young adults in their with dentistry is based on two things - their regular customers in mind and try visit the Library, check out the Friends 20s, with about 81 percent of those choosing the right dentist whom you not to move subjects around anymore Book Store, which is located adjacent to affected being between 20 and 29 trust and who is up to date on the lat - than absolutely necessary. the Local History Room on the main years old. The infection often occurs as est in dentistry, and taking the neces - “Some subjects need sub-subjects,” said floor. a result of the development of a gum sary steps to keep dental problems at Donna Jaeker. “These are tabled logically, To watch my full interview with the flap over the partially erupted tooth, bay through self-care at home between so Dieting is on the Cooking or Health Friends of the Library, visit the Observer ’s which traps food and allows a build up professional visits. Table, Bibles on the Religion Table, website www.fullertonobserver.com , click of bacteria that causes infection. We work with you to maximize your Parenting on the Sociology Table, College on the “Videos” tab and click on the Chronic symptoms include dull pain, oral health. Call us if you would like to Prep next to Literature and Vintage words “Emerson Little YouTube a bad taste in the mouth, and swollen make an appointment. Fiction, and Collectables next to Channel,” which will take you directly to Vintage.” All the tables have to have a cer - my page. If you have any suggestions 501 N. Cornell Ave., Suite 1, Fullerton 92831. tain amount of space between them to about a place or event in Fullerton that To schedule an appointment please call 714-992-0092 make sure there’s room for required would make a good video and that I could wheelchair ADA access. cover in this column, just email me at lit - www.paulnelsondental.com Walking over to the cash register table [email protected]. 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TUES, SEPT 18 SUN, SEPT 23 WED, SEPT 26 HITS & •6:30pm: Fullerton City Council •4pm: Ning An, Piano Lecture & •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday Meeting, at city hall, 303 W. Performance CSUF Artist Teacher Farmers Market at Independence MISSES Commonwealth . Public Library Ning An will provide a brief lecture Park. See Sept. 19th listing. by Joyce Mason Board issues (see frontpage). New followed by a performance of JS THURS, SEPT 27 © 2018 Well #7, Rideshare, and more. Visit Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Meng •8:55am: New Market & www.cityoffullerton.com for agenda . Concert Hall, CSUF Performing Donation on Raymond at E. THE WIFE : Two Hits WED, SEPT 19 Arts, 800 N. State College Blvd, Commonwealth grand opening and Fullerton. $10. (657)278-3371 at 11am donation presentation to Gifted actor Glenn Close made such a startling •8am-1pm: Every Wednesday Farmers Market at Independence •4:45pm: 26th Annual Pathways Soroptimist International. and lasting impression on moviegoers when she of Hope Fundraiser at Angelo’s & •4pm-8:30pm: Every Thursday played the vengeful, scorned woman in “Fatal Park, next to the DMV on Valencia Vinci’s, 550 N. Harbor Blvd, Fullerton Downtown Market on E. Attraction,” that the role has tended to overshadow between Euclid and Highland in her career since then. However, moviegoers will be Fullerton. Fresh produce including Fullerton includes live and silent auc - Wilshire between Harbor and richly rewarded when they see Close in a very differ - fruit, vegetables, eggs, flowers, tion and dinner. Tickets are $75 Pomona. Live music by “The ent role that will undoubtedly garner her another plants, baked goods, nuts, and more available at Amazing Wildcats.” See Sept. 20th. Academy Award nomination. from the farmer. www.pohoc.org/AVDinner. Call FRI-SUN, SEPT 28-30 With sparkling dialogue and strong acting from •8am: Water Ad Hoc Meeting at Mychael at 714-580-3691 x233 with •Noon-11pm: St Juliana Annual the entire cast, “The Wife” keeps us riveted as we the third floor law library at City questions. Fall Festival at 1316 N. Acacia Ave watch the inner workings of a complicated marriage Hall 303 W. Commonwealth, MON, SEPT 24 (at Melody Lane) in Fullerton Friday play out on the world stage. Screenwriter Jane Fullerton. Discussion on how to •5:30pm-8:30pm: Tour The and Saturday Noon to 11pm; Anderson bases the film on Meg Wolitzer’s novel of Sunday 3pm-10pm. the same name, while Swedish filmmaker Bjorn fund needed water infrastructure Hunt Branch Library with repairs including possible rate hikes. Architect Alan Hess also a historian SAT, SEPT 29 Runge keeps the action smooth, engaging , and per - •10am: League of Women Voters suasive. •2pm: Civil Dialogue: Gun and author. Hess will discuss William Pros & Cons of initiatives on the It’s winter in a Connecticut home in 1992 as the Control at Titan Student Union Pereira’s contributions to architecture phone rings, waking Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) focusing on universal background and planning in the 20th Century upcoming Nov. ballot. First United and his wife, Joan (Glenn Close), to tell them that checks. Limited seating so register at and the significance of Fullerton’s Methodist Church, 114 N. Pomona Joe has won the Nobel Prize for literature. Efficient https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civil- Pereira-designed Hunt Branch (at E. Commonwealth, Fullerton. as always, Joan makes Joe’s to-do list, sets his watch dialogue-gun-control-tickets- Library building. The one hour tour •8pm: CSUF Concert Under the for the hour to take his heart pill, and arranges to 49570206823 takes place at Hunt Library, 201 S. Stars includes fireworks, and musical have a champagne and hors d’oeuvres celebration Basque and is followed by the presen - entertainment. Food trucks and pre- with several of their closest friends that evening. THURS, SEPT 20 tation starting at 7pm at Pacific concert festival begins at 5pm. Impeccably groomed, witty and self-confident, •4pm-8:30pm: Every Thursday Drive Elementary, 1501 W. Valencia Festival seating is free. Visit fuller - Joan, nevertheless, emanates a low level of repression Fullerton Downtown Market on E. ton.edu/concert or call 657-278- and resentment. On the surface, the Castlemans Dr. (nearby the Hunt). Free parking Wilshire between Harbor and at the school. Call 714-729-3019 or 3480 to buy reserved tickets. seem to have a perfect marriage. Their home is love - Pomona features live music by “Back MON, OCT 1 ly and comfortable; they have two grown children, a visit www.SaveTheHunt.com for to the 80s,” produce, food and craft •6:30-8:30pm: Candidate Meet son, David (Max Irons, son of Jeremy) interested in more information. vendors, children’s activities, Wine & developing writing skills of his own, and a daughter •6pm: Video Games & How & Greet hosted by Neighbors about to deliver their first grandchild. Skillfully Beer Garden. They Are Made presented by United for Fullerton at the Fullerton woven into the tale are flashback scenes of how the •4pm-6:20pm: Constitution Day Blizzard Inc. The company is famous Public Library Community Room, Castlemans met. Jeapardy at Titan Student Union for creating game titles such as World 353 W. Commonwealth. Meet In 1958, Joan (played now by Annie Starke, Close’s Pub, CSUF, 800 N. State College of Warcraft, Diablo III, and Council and School District candi - real daughter), had been a Smith College student in Blvd., Fullerton. Parking is $8 Overwatch. The discussion panel dates. Free one of Joe’s writing classes. He gave her mild encour - •6:30-8pm: Anti-Racist Writer will take the audience through the WED, OCT 3 agement and slyly flirted with her, even though he Tim Wise will talk on “Challenging process of game development from •6:30pm: League of Women was married and had an infant daughter. But he con - the Culture of Cruelty and Voters Forum for Fullerton Joint vinces Joan that he is in a bad marriage. Thirty-four the initial game concept to program - Understanding and Defeating Race ming and release. A HTC Vive Union High School District candi - years later, Joan and Joe look back at this time in & Class Inequity in America” at the dates in the District Boardroom, their life with some feelings of guilt. Virtual Reality demo will start at Fullerton College Campus Theater, 1051 W. Bastanchury, Fullerton. On the plane to Stockholm, the Castlemans find 6pm. Fullerton Public Library 321 E. Commonwealth. Wise is the that they are hunted down by a budding writer deter - Conference Center, 353 W. FRI, OCT 5-28 mined to write a biography of Joe. Rebuffed by Joe, author of seven books and appeared Commonwealth. Free •8pm: Bee-luther-hatchee by biographer Nathaniel Bone (Christian Bale) does not alongside the legendary scholar and •7:30pm: All in the Family Thomas Gibbons, directed by take rejection easily and accepts a postponed conver - activist Angela Davis in the 2001 Ensemble String Trio Chamber Saundra McClain in the Hallberg sation from Joan, who reminds her husband that documentary “Vocabulary of music of Beethoven, Schubert and Theater, CSUF Performing Arts, 800 there is “nothing more dangerous than a writer Change.” He appears regulary on Bach. David Spelz, cello, his wife N. State College Blvd. whose feelings are hurt.” Also on the plane is their CNN and MSNBC to discuss race Conne Kupka, violin and viola, and SAT, OCT 6 son David, annoyed with his father for not taking issues. Seating is limited. Free their son Brendan Speltz, violin. •1pm: OLLI Pros & Cons on time to read and discuss with him a short story he has Ballot Initiatives Mackey just completed. SAT, SEPT 22 Community Concert Association at the Fullerton First United Methodist Auditorium, CSUF, 800 N. State Visually, the Stockholm scenes are a pleasure to •10am-11am: Free Nature Tour College Blvd. watch with the darkness of winter and the snow on Church, 114 N. Pomona (at at Fullerton Arboretum 1900 •5pm: Boys & Girls Club the ground. Sensitive to his surroundings and always Associated Rd., at the edge of the Cal Commonwealth) in Fullerton. ready to impress pretty young women, especially the Tickets: Call 714-535-8925 or visit Fundraiser social and silent & live State Fullerton campus. Call auction, dinner. Fullerton photographer assigned to follow him, Joe loves to (657)278-3407 for more info. www.northocconcerts.org recite: “His soul swooned slowly as he heard the Community Center, 340 W. snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly Commonwealth. Call 714-871- falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the 1391 (ex. 1003-Brett Ackerman living and the dead.” Then Joe pauses before or Aishwarya Balasundaram at attributing those lines to their real author, James ex.1009) with questions. Joyce. TUES, OCT 9 There is also vicarious pleasure in watching all of •6pm: League of Women the rehearsals, formalities, banquets and protocol City Council Candidate Forum that lead up to the iconic ceremony honoring the peerless recipients of the world’s most famous City Council Chambers, City awards. Hall, 303 W. Commonwealth, “The Wife” is not a flawless film. The plot that Fullerton. unfolds is fairly reflective of the societal role that women had to take during the mid-fifties. In one of Call for Musicians, the flashback scenes, Elizabeth McGovern (in a Poets, Storytellers cameo role) plays novelist Jane Mozell, who cautions OPEN MIC NIGHT the aspiring Smith College coeds that as women writ - ers they will never be taken seriously . This warning at Fullerton Artwalk does affect plot developments within the movie and 7pm Friday, October 6 some might argue plays too heavy a hand. Fullerton Museum Center on E. Wilshire TWO HITS : Don’t Miss it! Call (714) 738-6545 A H IT & A M ISS : You Might Like it. to sign up to perform TWO MISSES : Don’t Bother. Page 14 FULLERTON OBSERVER THEATER MID SEPTEMBER 2018 BEE -LUTHER -HATCHEE AT CSUF “Bee-luther-hatchee” by Thomas Gibbons opens Friday, October 5 at 8pm and performs through October 28 in the Hallberg Theatre on campus.. The play, directed by guest professional director, writer and actor Saundra McClain, fol - lows Shelita Burns, an African-American editor who publishes “Bee-luther-hatch - ee,” the award-winning autobiography of a reclusive 72-year-old black woman named Libby Price. Having never met, Shelita decides to deliver a copy to Libby. The fateful meeting between the two stirs and challenges preconceptions. Tickets are available at the Joseph Clayes III Performing Arts Center box Actor, writer, director Saundra McClain directs “Bee-luther-hatchee” Stages Theatre director Patti Cumby, and her cast read and discuss the script of “The office in-person, by calling (657) 278- opening October 5th in the Hallberg Secret in the Wings” as they prepare the play’s OC premiere. PHOTO BY KIRK SCHENK HUFF 3371, or online. Hours: 11am-5pm, Monday through Friday. $14 Theatre at the CSUF Performing Arts Stages Unlocks ‘Secret’ Subscriptions for the Theatre & Dance Center, 800 N. State College Blvd. season at California State University, Coming up this season in addition to of Obscure Fairy Tales Fullerton are available now. The FlexTix Bee-luther-hatchee opening October 5 and subscriptions offer redeemable credit playing through October 28, are Children New play runs October 5th-November 4th options, to use all at once or one-at-a-time of Eden opening October 26 and perform - – you create your own unique season! ing through November 11, and Mr. by Eric Marchese and lines from poems by James Joyce and Subscriptions for the Fall season are $56 Fyodor Tyutchev. Burns: a Post-Electric Play opening each, and the entire season is $106. Single November 9 and playing through Fans of playwright and director Mary The two songs plus musical elements tickets range from $12 to $24. Zimmerman and anyone who loves dark are music-directed by Gabrielle December 2. fairy tales are in for a treat next month Maldonado. Movement and dance are when Stages Theatre opens its production choreographed by cast member Edgar “In the Heights” @ MYSTERIUM of “The Secret in the Wings” which pre - Andrew Torrens. All nine cast members – miers October 5th. La Habra Depot Playhouse, 311 S. Euclid, La Habra 90631 David Bradbury, Paul Burt, Adam Bradley (562)697-3311 www.mysteriumtheater.com The new production, the 2014 play’s Clinton, Emily Curington, Mady Orange County premiere, also serves as an Durbin, Jaime Hadley, Judy Mina- In the Heights , directed by Miguel Cardenas, music direction by Gabrielle introduction to Zimmerman for those Ballard, Stan Morrow, and Torrens – por - Maldonado, choreographed by Zantino Bustos and Schuyler Gage performs through unfamiliar with her: She specializes in cre - tray multiple roles. September 23, Thurs, Fri, Sat at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. From Lin-Manuel Miranda, ating theatrical works that adapt or “The Secret in the Wings,” she said, the creator of Hamilton - In the Heights tells the story of a vibrant community in New recombine various classical and pre-classi - “doesn’t shy away from the darkness that York’s Washington Heights neighborhood with the rhythm of three generations of cal works – “The Odyssey,” “The exists within us. Instead, it pulls us in, music. The biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and Notebooks of Leonardo DiVinci,” wraps us in its tendrils, and hypnotizes us which you leave behind. “Arabian Nights” and, most notably, with a sometimes silly dreamscape that is “Metamorphoses,” her Tony Award-win - filled with all manner of characters repre - AVERICK HEATER ning adaptation of Ovid’s myths. senting the best and worst we have to “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” @ M T “Secret” has been described as “a capti - offer. I am beyond thrilled to see where 110 E. Walnut Ave. Fullerton vating voyage into our collective child - this experience takes us.” (714) 526-7070 hood subconscious” and “a vivid staging Stages Theatre is located at 400 E. www.mavericktheater.com of European fairy tales retold in the imag - Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton. (714) inative and colorful style” for which 525-4484 stagesoc.org A smart, tense and suspenseful new take Zimmerman is acclaimed. on Stevenson's look at the evil that lurks The play, which weaves elements from in the hearts of men that seems true to the “Beauty and the Beast” with several lesser- “The Other Place” Stevenson original story but hipper, sexier and more intense. This is not your grand - known stories into a dream-like explo - @ CHANCE THEATER ration of the darker side of human Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center father's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . In this impulses, invites adults to immerse them - 5522 E La Palma Ave, Anaheim, CA version, the dark Hyde indeed comes out, selves in a rare and magical storybook (888) 455-4212 and he is evil beyond measure. But not all experience. www.chancetheater.com evil: He loves, and is loved. This is a play The play’s director, Stages Theatre that honors the original, but gives a more board president Patti Cumby, said that the The Other Place , written by Sharr White complex interpretation of the dual nature fairy tales depicted “are not your typical and directed by Matthew McCray will of man. A dark and disturbing story liber - bedtime diversions for children.” She preview from September 21 to 28; regular ally peppered with humor. describes “Secret” as “a cautionary tale performances begin Sept. 29 and contin - Writer Jeffery Hatcher has taken the about the pitfalls of navigating the adult ue through October 21. story far beyond the original and delivered world.” The play focuses on Juliana Smithton, a fast paced, psychological, heartfelt, Cumby said that the well-known tale of a respected neurologist whose life has Victorian thriller! Staged by the director “Beauty and the Beast” is essentially used recently begun unraveling. Her husband of Night of the Living Dead, The Killer as a framing device that contains six “pret - is leaving her, her daughter has eloped Angels , and Holmes and Watson , this style ty obscure” Brothers Grimm fairy tales. with a much older man and even she’s of production is what the Maverick does The first half of each story “cuts away to beginning to question her own good best. the first half of the next” until “near the health. A compelling and acclaimed The play runs through September 29th. end, where the tales fan out in reverse drama in which nothing is quite what it Performances are Friday and Saturday at seems, This Outer Critics Circle Award 8pm, Sundays at 6pm. Tickets are $25 order.” Thursday, September 27 Fairy tales, in their original form, nominee will likely keep you talking long general, $10 for students with a current after the curtain has closed. I.D. • Decorative Pumpkins Cumby noted, “are cautionary tales that • Make Jun Kombucha work their way into our psyche and hold a mirror up. They challenge us to look Sunday, October 21 deeply within our own minds, face our Halloween Pumpkin fears, discover our strengths, help each other and be open to transformation.” Sunday, October 28 Because Zimmerman’s text provides “a Myth & Lore of Wolves lot of space to be creative,” Cumby said she has “opted to make music and move - Sunday, November 11 ment a heavily featured aspect” of Stages’ Coyotes: production. Forgotten Keystone Species Two songs are written into the show – “The Song of the Three Blind Queens” (music by Laura Eason and Joy Gregory) and “The Three Snake Leaves” (music by Andre Pluess). Zimmerman wrote the lyrics to both, including original lyrics MID SEPTEMBER 2018 ART & MUSIC FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15

Liberation/Incarceration MUCKENTHALER CULTURAL CENTER 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton www.themuck.org (714)738-6595 Gallery Tour Thursday October 4 at 7:30pm Accounting for over twenty percent of prisoners in the world, the United States has the highest rate of incarceration per capita than any other nation. This group exhibi - tion explores artistic themes of personal and societal oppression and liberation, photog - Artist Esther Jacks discusses her work at the Magoski Arts Colony Sept. 7th Artwalk. raphy documenting the sometimes cathartic stories and experiences of people in prison arts programs, as well as artwork by prisoners themselves. The exhibit is up thru DOWNTOWN FULLERTON ART WALK October 14. Free Admission, donations welcomed. The Downtown Fullerton Art Walk happens the first Friday night of every month. Here are some photos taken at The Magoski Arts Colony at the September 7th Art “Faculty Biennial 2018” Walk. Don’t miss the next Art Walk on October 5th from 6-10pm at various venues @ FULLERTON COLLEGE ART GALLERY around downtown. Visit www.fullertonartwalk.com for more info. PHOTO BY JESSE LA TOUR 321 E. Chapman Ave. Fullerton @ CSUF B EGOVICH GALLERY The 2018 Faculty Biennial at the Fullerton College Art Gallery features the work of “Living With Clay” the Fullerton College Art Department faculty in a variety of styles and media. Gallery 800 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton hours are Monday through Thursday from 10am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm or by appointment through October 10th.. Evening showing on September 17th from 6pm to 8pm. Admission is always free. The gallery is located in Room 1004 in the Art Living with Clay: California Ceramics Collections runs Building, 1000 on the Fullerton College campus facing Chapman. through November 17. Curated by Rody N López, this exhibition featuring over 60 artists pays homage to distin - guished collectors of ceramic artworks from some of the most respected artists in the field. This rare exhibition fea - “Vietnamese Art: tures artists of local, regional, national, and international An Overview” significance with a wide range of traditions that include studio pottery, the 1960s clay revolution, and today’s con - @ CSUF S ALZ -P OLLACK temporary innovations. Enormous wall-sized photos of ATRIUM GALLERY the collections inside the homes of the collectors are fea - tured along with selected pieces. 800 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton

On exhibit through September 23 in the Salz-Pollak Atrium Gallery of Pollak MUSIC MENG CONCERT HALL Library is “Vietnamese Art: An Clayes Performing Arts Center CSUF, Overview,” curated by Do Le Minh, 800 N. State College Box Office 657-278-3371 Ph.D., professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at California State •Fri, Sept 21, 8pm: Bill Cunliffe & Jeremy Siskind , duo University, Fullerton. piano. $10 The French Colonial regime established •Sun, Sept 23, 4pm: Ning An , piano - JS Bach’s Golberg the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Day Dreamer w/ Butterflies Variations. Ning An will provide a brief lecture followed by l’Indochine (School of Fine Arts of by Nguyen Phuoc a performance. Free Indochina) in Hanoi, 1924-1945, to PHOTO COURTESY POLLAK LIBRARY , CSUF introduce Western Art to the Vietnamese •Sun, Sept 30, 4pm: University Wind Symphony & people. Since then Vietnamese artists of Vietnam, now living in the United States, Symphonic Winds with Dustin Barr conducting works by mixed backgrounds and talents have predominantly in the Orange County area William Shuman, Norman Dello Joio, Johnathan Neman developed a unique blending of tradition - of Southern California, have gathered a and more. Free al and modern artistic styles. large collection of Vietnamese art works •Wed, Oct 3, 8pm: David Holben, Tuba & Friends . $10 Through war, many valuable art works and cultural artifacts. Many artists contin - •Thurs, Oct 13, 8pm: Fullerton Jazz Orchestra featuring have been lost or destroyed. However, ue to create works that have Vietnamese Ning An, free piano guest saxophonist Jeff Ellwood, Bill Cunliffe, director. $10 many artists and collectors from South characteristics, features, and influence. lecture & performance MID SEPTEMBER 2018 Page 16 FULLERTON OBSERVER COMMUNITY OPINIONS Stop Kavanaugh OUT OF MY MIND Any sane human being within these Fullerton United States who hasn't been alarmed at by Jon Dobrer © 2018 the direction this country has been point - Observer ed, must have been living under a rock. The Fullerton Observer Community The rampant racism that has been con - Newspaper , founded by Ralph and In Defense of Anonymous doned and encouraged, the sexism, the Natalie Kennedy and a group of friends Ever since the “Anonymous’” op-ed was breaking of norms up close, floundering war against women's rights, the champi - in 1978, is staffed by local citizen vol - published in the New York Times, debates in the administrative chaos constantly, oning of sexual assault, the repeated unteers who create, publish, and dis - have raged over the question of whether and being struck by the clear and present attacks on the environment, the utter lack tribute the paper throughout our com - he or she (or they) is a patriotic hero or a danger of Trump’s apparent psychological of any sound foreign policy, the religious munity. This venture is a not-for-prof - persecutions. Even in our worst night - it one with all revenues plowed back sniveling coward. Is Anonymous a brave instability, what are the most effective underground member of The Resistance, choices? Sure, he or she (or they) could mares the most gifted writers of horror into maintaining and improving our would never dare to push the suspension independent, non-partisan, non-sectar - or simply too afraid to publicly tell the speak publicly and bravely exit the White ian community newspaper. truth to those outside the administration? House. But to what benefit? of disbelief to these limits. Faced with Our purpose is to inform Fullerton Anonymous has, in a very unlikely Anonymous might look brave but such a litany of immorality, they would residents about the institutions and manner, brought Obama and Trump would the nation be better served without never believe an audience could possibly other societal forces which most impact together. Both say that this is not how our someone who knows first hand what accept the scenario as real. their lives, so that they may be empow - democracy is designed to operate. Elected many have concluded second hand to wit: Yet, here we are. It is real and it keeps ered to participate in constructive ways presidents are not supposed to be over- This Emperor has no clothes? getting worse. Witness the attempts to to keep and make these private and ruled and sabotaged by unelected mem - Personally, I believe that Anonymous is appoint Kavanaugh to the Supreme public entities serve all residents in law - bers of the administration—assuming for floating a trial balloon, not for impeach - Court, the one bulwark against the excess - ful, open, just, and socially-responsible es of power wielded by a paranoid narcis - ways. Through our extensive local cal - the time being that Anonymous isn’t the ment but for the 25th Amendment. lean and hungry, though elect - Knowing that Congress sist. This is a man who has refused to state endar and other coverage, we seek to his support of women's rights and who promote a sense of community and an ed, Vice President Pence. has no appetite for appreciation for the values of diversity While in theory, we are a I believe impeachment, has said that he doesn’t believe a sitting with which our country is so uniquely democracy governed by laws, Anonymous is Anonymous may be trying president can be taken to court. 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The subject needs to be • D OWNTOWN REPORT : Mike Ritto The Community Opinion pages pro - in the past two weeks, a single coyote in exposed and these people need to be •G ARDENING : Penny Hlavac vide a free forum for the community. and around the Harbor, Brookdale, bused back. •F ULLERTON HISTORY : The Observer welcomes letters on any Michael Quaranta Fullerton Jesse La Tour & Terry Galvin Malden and Malvern blocks in the early • M OVIE REVIEW HITS & M ISSES : Joyce Mason subject of interest. Comments are the morning and late evening hours. We •Y OUTH REPORTER : Francine Vudoti opinions of the writer, may be short - don’t want them trapped or killed but Trouble with District •P OLITICAL COMMENTARY : ened for space, and typos corrected if also don’t want people’s pets to get hurt. Vince Buck & Jonathan Dobrer we notice them. I happened to see a coyote the other Look-Up on Website •P ASSION FOR JUSTICE : Sinh Dang We must verify your identity, but we •R OVING REPORTERS : Jere Greene morning and warned a man who was I entered my address in the search space and other Community Members allow initials only and town to be print - walking his dog toward it. He said he at the District Map Lookup on the city • S CHOOL BOARD : Jan Youngman ed if desired, or anonymous in print if a never even considers this a possible website. I tried entering the address sever - •S CIENCE : Sarah Mosko reasonable case can be made as to why issue. al different ways with no luck. I asked our •I NTERN : Malika Pandey that is necessary. But Please Note : City Clerk, “Had my section of Fullerton • T HEATRE REVIEWS : Opinions sent to us without name, Nancy & Linus Fullerton Angela Hatcher, Mark Rosier, Eric Marchese succeeded from the union without •V IDEO OBSERVER : Emerson Little address and phone number will not be ED: If you see coyotes or want to look up notice?” Here is the way to find your dis - printed. Please add your contact infor - where they are being reported in your Created & Published in Fullerton trict. Visit www.cityoffullerton.com and mation so we can verify. That informa - neighborhood you can visit the click on the “Election 2018” link on the by local citizen volunteers for 40 years tion aside from name and town will not USC study website: Fullerton Observer LLC main page; then select “General be kept, shared, or printed. Thanks! http://ucanr.edu/sites/CoyoteCacher/. Municipal Election November” and then The Early October issue will Send opinions to: You can also visit www.ocpetinfo.com the “Voting District Lookup Tool.” Then hit the stands on October 1st, 2018 [email protected] or and click on Coyote Encounters. You can plug in just your number and street and SUBMISSION & AD mail to: Fullerton Observer, report aggressive coyote behaviors at click on the correct address from the DEADLINE: Sept. 24, 2018 PO Box 7051, Fullerton (714) 935-6848 or (714) 259-1122. choices. Don Waterbury Fullerton MID SEPTEMBER 2018 COMMUNITY OPINIONS FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17 Traffic Circles on Wilshire Ave. To Fullerton City Council, city streets will still be in an utter state of Congratulations! Instead of taking the disrepair. initiative of using county money to do You made the decision to listen to those much-needed repair on city streets, you who said that traffic circles were the way instead boldly chose to construct four to go, that ethical persuasion via posted traffic circles on Wilshire Avenue. Never SLOW DOWN signs and increased mind that those circles will do nothing to police presence was a naive approach to stop cut-through traffic. Never mind that the problem. Again, well done, City they will slow down ALL traffic - includ - Council members. Well done. ing police, fire and rescue teams. Never Andrew Williams Fullerton mind that such slowdowns may cost lives ED: See page 7 update on the Traffic and property as a result. Never mind that Circles purpose and funding. About City’s Inability to Close Pot Shops Interestingly, our previous City neighborhood in months. Development Director Karen Haluza saw Throughout the city, neighborhoods are what was coming. She knew California overrun with broken down cars sitting on would vote to legalize marijuana. She the streets for weeks, with roads that are made several attempts urging the barely drivable, and home after home of Fullerton City Council (the same we have front yards that are merely dirt. The city today, except for Jesus Silva) to implement used to be beautiful and proud. regulations in regard to where pot dispen - And what are the councilmembers, city saries could locate in town. She was the manager, and city planner doing about Where is Part II on Immigration? voice of reason, urging for regulations that any of it? would only allow them in business parks, But, let’s be fair; let’s talk about what Where is part II of Jesse La Tour’s “A clip the articles for my family and love the ensuring citizens that they would not have they have implemented. They have built Brief History of Mexican Immigration to series. When will Part II show up? these businesses cropping up in residental many giant apartment or condo buildings the United States” (July issue}? I was look - Roselyn Rowland Heights areas, near schools and child care centers. with no thought about the infrastructure ing forward to that and it wasn’t in the But the council did not heed her advice. needed to support all the additional cars. August or Early September issue. I read ED: Thanks for your letter. See page 11 We now have six fully operational mar - Anyone driving down Harbor - the Observer when I come to Fullerton to for Part II. Sorry it took so long. We have ijuana dispensaries running in the city, the Orangethorpe or Euclid-Orangethorpe visit my doctor’s office. Being Hispanic I space problems. newest one being at Euclid and Baker, can attest to this. It literally takes nearly close to two schools and a daycare center. 30 minutes to get to the freeway due to RE: Book Report by Jesse La Tour The council states it can’t do anything the obsessive overbuilding. Did our coun - about it. They can’t shut them down (even cil listen to the citizens when these plans The book, “Beyond Borders, a History Drop that book, read a real historical when we clearly have regulations that do were being made? No they did not. of Mexican Migration,” by Timothy J. book by a real historian or the encyclope - not allow these types of businesses in our And finally, West Fullerton has an Henderson (reviewed by Jesse La Tour on dia, or a history of Mexico, and the years city) because “They have lawyers...we opening for a council seat to represent page 11 in the July Observer article “A Brief of the Polk Administration. Real history. might get sued.” Isn’t that what we pay District 5. And guess who rented a home History of Mexican Immigration to the Mr. La Tour, your book report is at best our city attorney for? in District 5 in order to be able to run for United States (Part I) is revisionist history worth a D-. The council recently stated that they the seat - Mayor Chaffee’s wife. We know if it can be called history at all. Wm. S. Prescott Fullerton First, the Dorothea Lange photo that can’t confiscate the merchandise because the Chaffees do not live anywhere near Jesse La Tour Responds: Wm, I would accompanied the article is not “Mexican “it would have to be stored, and what if it West Fullerton. Does this seem highly be very interested in suggestions you may immigrants” but one of a series of gets stolen?” They could possibly be sued. unethical to anyone? have of a “real” history book on this topic. Americans coming west during the Dust WHAT? Don’t we have a police facility We have a choice here...we continue The author of Beyond Borders is a profes - Bowl years. that also stores other confiscated drugs (ie: business as usual or we vote them all out sor of history at Auburn.. Secondly, the section on how the border meth, heroin, etc.)? and start over. Let’s vote people in who About the photo - it is of a Mexican came to be is not a “war of conquest,” but This neighborhood has watched the love our city more than their own political family of migrant workers with a flat tire a response to continued attacks on Texas. “backpack people,” parade around their agenda. along a road in California taken in Santa Anna attacked Texas to reclaim streets, to and from the dispensary that Joni Walbring, Sue Valencia, February 1936 by Dorothea Lange. That The Higgins Family, Jianne Seville, Texas which was then a US state. runs morning to night seven days a week. would have been just at the end of the Danelle Cross, Jose Miranda, “Manifest Destiny,” Xenophobia, The neighbors have begged for patrol cars, Dust Bowl years. You can check this out Cathy Hecina, Nacho Hecina, Eugenics, etc., are very much in style in for a police presence, for help. The neigh - by visiting https://fineartamerica.com/fea - Richard A Michik, Grace Michik, Mr. Henderson’s “historical” account in bors have attended council meetings tured/mexican-migrants-1936- pleading for help, to no avail. Just excuses. Michael Roberts, Sarah Roberts his own words which do not actually Fullerton granger.html. There hasn’t been a police car seen in the reflect real facts.

Code Enforcement on Unpermitted Pot Shops Use Fullerton High Stadium for College Games I read with disappointment that the our eyes. Code Enforcement Supervisor Guillermina Unfortunately, when we do not get vol - State Champion Fullerton College foot - None of these conditions exist at Torrico sent the following information untary compliance as is the case with this ball team is again playing its home games Fullerton HS stadium, which the Hornets to residents concerned about a cannabis business, staff has to do their due dili - at Yorba Linda HS. This is straining my successfully shared for 90 years. It's right business on S. Euclid. gence so that when we go to court, we can 60-year loyalty. across the street, with plenty of parking show the court that we have progressed YLHS is nearly 10 miles from the FC and north-facing home section with the At this time ALL cannabis-related uses through the case within our legal parame - campus--a 20 minute drive. Parking is ter - sun at our backs. are prohibited citywide. And, if you’ve ters. rible, with many competing events in By what rationale are fans continuing to spoken to the resident that shared with Update on Increased Fees their pool and gym. Even the weather is be inconvenienced by this odd arrange - you regarding the daily $500 citations, On July 17th, the City Council passed worse, typically 5 degrees hotter, with a ment? When are the Hornets coming hopefully they shared that this is not the a resolution to increase the administrative north-south stadium configuration that back to Fullerton? GO HORNETS! extent of our Code Enforcement efforts citation fee amounts. puts the afternoon sun beating right into with the property at 1418 S. Euclid. This amendment to the fee schedule is Chris Norby Fullerton Our Code Enforcement staff has been expected to provide a more effective tool following due process and currently, this to gain compliance since Code Homeless Housing Double-Speak business has, in addition to getting fined Enforcement staff can apply the increased daily, been served with a Final Notice and penalties depending on the nature of the RE: Community Concerns About neighborhoods. We all know we can call Order to Abate so that we can continue violation and the responsiveness of the Homeless Housing Addressed” Early Sept the police but by the time we call or on to the public nuisance abatement parties involved. Observer. Gillanders calls, it is too late. The child, process where after a hearing we will seek Here is a link to the Agenda Item: None of the questions that were asked elderly person, etc. has already been a court order to abate the use and pass https://fullerton.legistar.com/LegislationDet by the community were answered by assaulted, robbed or otherwise attacked. along all incurred costs to do so, to the ail.aspx?ID=3550588&GUID=5803EE5 Pathways of Hope or the developer. When Developer Todd Cottle was asked about property owner. D-8758-4D5F-A415-5FF3FDBBE397 asked how they would ensure the security the shelter bringing down property values Typically, when our Code Enforcement of the neighborhood, David Gillanders and who would stop residents from trash - staff receives a report and confirms the answered “We will not allow people to ing neighborhoods and parks. He unpermitted use, we work the case to gain Use Pot Tax threaten you and IF we see them we will responded that there were a number of compliance with the property owner. As call the cops. studies showing that doesn’t happen. part of the due process, we are required to to Fix Roads Funding roads seems easy. Let store - What the heck kind of answer is that? What studies? Who were they done by? provide a notice and then a final notice of fronts sell marijuana, as is the law, and In other words, there is no specific plan or We asked questions and want answers, violation prior to issuing fines. We do get reap the tax benefits. It's really that sim - process in place to protect us so they have not non-specific government-speak and voluntary compliance with these notices ple. no way of assuring the safety and security double-talk. for most of our cases. Jared Cohen Fullerton of our children, elderly and families in the Ronald N. Teti Fullerton Page 18 FULLERTON OBSERVER REST IN PEACE • WE REMEMBER YOU MID SEPTEMBER 2018 In Honor of My Friend Carolyn Margaret “Peggy” Martin by Diane Vena she lived but chose not to leave. She only Margaret “Peggy” Martin passed away was president and a long-time member of left when I or another friend came to on August 21, 2018, at the age of 91. She the Fullerton Branch of AAUW. Peggy With all the current fear and debate visit and took her out. She lived her last was born on October 8, 1926, in LA, was also a strong supporter of the Arts. about permanent supportive housing, I years, safe and taken care of. She became California, where she was also raised. Her She was a Docent at the National Gallery want to tell the story of my friend, my dear friend and I loved her. family spent their summers at Lake of Art in Washington, D.C., Treasurer of Carolyn. It is a story about why helping Homelessness is a complex human Elsinore and Newport Beach, the California State is not enabling and why it is sometimes issue for all of us. PSH is just a piece in where she learned to love the University Fullerton Art refused and why Permanent Supportive that complex issue that has now become water. Peggy graduated as the Alliance, and a long-time Housing (PSH) is desperately needed for an issue for residents in Fullerton. PSH class valedictorian from Wilson member of Fullerton our very vulnerable people would have worked for my High School in LA. Friends of the Library. who are homeless. friend Carolyn. For those She went on to attend Peggy supported Higher I met Carolyn many years who complain that these Stanford University during Education, particularly her ago when I worked near people are given a free ride, World War II, where she gradu - beloved Stanford. She was where she resided, on the side Carolyn couldn’t work. She ated with BA and MA degrees in a long-time member of the of a tire shop on Fourth Street was elderly and mentally ill Business Education. After the OC branch of the Stanford in Santa Ana. The owner and through no fault of her war Peggy travelled to a recover - Alumni Association. workers there were kind to own. She lived a produc - ing Europe as part of a delega - Peggy loved to read and allow her to have a bed and all tive life (married and a tion of young women. travel. She even renewed her belongings next to their nursing student) prior to After getting married, Peggy her passport at the age of building. She lived there for a her mental illness which lived in Fullerton, California, for 55 years, 91. Her trips took her to many states of long time, never bothering led to her homelessness. and Bethesda, Maryland for 4 years. Peggy the US, to Mexico, Canada, South anyone. She wouldn’t allow She was a kind and gentle and her husband, Fran, raised two sons, America, Europe, China and Hong Kong. anyone to touch her or help her beyond soul who loved animals and me. Gary, who is a retired public schoolteacher, She was in Hong Kong during the transfer giving her money or food. Knowing her forever changed my view of and Bruce, who continues to work in the of the city from the UK to China. There are those who would say today people who are homeless. Computer Industry. In her early-married Peggy loved her family and friends. She that she didn’t want help and that by There are hundreds/thousands of life before the boys were born, Peggy was predeceased by her parents, Ruth and helping, people were enabling her. The Carolyns on the street. Each has his or worked as a high-school teacher. In later Ray Milnor, her sister, Jackie MacKay, and truth is Caroline was schizophrenic and I her own story. Homelessness is not sim - years after the boys were raised, she pre - by her husband, Francis. She is survived am so grateful to the people who helped ple. The only way to solve it is to delve pared taxes for 22 years at H&R Block. by her sons, Gary and Bruce, their spous - her as much as she would let them. into it, learning all that we can, and She was an early advocate for women’s es, Kathy and Cuauhtémoc, her grandchil - Tragically, one night someone physi - then, using that knowledge and knowing rights, supporting organizations that pro - dren Amanda and Alex, and her great cally attacked her. She was taken to UCI that we do not have all the answers, take moted women in higher education. She grandchildren Henry and Alton. Medical Center to be treated and then action with courage and compassion. was evaluated for 72 hours. She was for - From what I have learned, I know that tunate that a judge determined she could PSH is a good thing. Studies show that Mary Ruth Ashcroft Adele Norful not care for herself and was assigned a housing first leads to treatment and the Mary Ruth Ashcroft passed away peace - county conservator. It could just as easi - Adele Norful was born on November inclusion into our communities, not the fully on the morning of Tuesday, September ly have gone the other way, with her 11, 1927 in Ardmore, Oklahoma. She other way around. It would have helped 4th 2018. As a resident of Fullerton for being placed back on the street and being lived in Fullerton at Klimpel Manor for my friend Carolyn (and in reality a dif - nearly 40 years, she will be known for her extremely vulnerable. Instead, she was 23 years. She was one of the first peo - ferent kind of supportive housing literal - volunteer work for the community and as placed in a board and care facility where ple to move into the new complex. ly saved her from much suffering). Let’s an RN of 46 years. In her lifetime she saved she was treated for her schizophrenia and After she became ill her son Eric moved learn all that we can, be brave, take many lives, she had a passion for people and cancer. her to a health center in Riverside near action, and let it help so many vulnera - life. She will also be remembered for having I will never forget how she would run his home in Corona. She died on July ble others now homeless in our commu - a loving smile and for her kindness. She is to hug me when I visited. She was 18 and graveside services were officiat - nity. predeceased by her husband Ray and one allowed to go on short walks from where ed by Pastor W.R. Norful at Riverside son and survived by their other son, five National Cemetery. She is missed by all grandchildren and four great grandchildren. who knew here her at Klimpel and by Graveside services were held on Sep. 10 at many friends and relatives. Rufus Putnam Van Zandt Loma Vista Memorial Park, Fullerton. Rufus Putnam Van Zandt, Korean cers in Washington’s Continental Army. War veteran, Vice President of the He met Barbara Pearce while an MBA Unocal Foundation, and resident of student at Stanford and they married in Fred Edward Peters 4/29/1931 - 3/24/2018 Fullerton for over 50 years, died of natu - 1956 upon his graduation. He worked ral causes on August 20. He was 88. for Unocal his entire career, starting in The legacy of a man’s life can be meas - Dusters in the Fresno and San Joaquin Rufus was born in Chicago on San Francisco, when it was still the ured by the number of lives that have been Valley areas. He even participated in air December 4, 1929. He was the only Union Oil Company of California. In made better, richer, happier and more suc - shows, art fairs and at other public events. child of World War I and II veteran 1965 he was transferred to the LA head - cessful by that man having been in them. Throughout his life he referred to flying as (Col.) Arnold (Mabel) Van Zandt. quarters and he and Barbara settled in In Fred’s life this legacy radi - being like soaring with During World War II his father was acti - Fullerton. ates out and back to others in the birds. In the early 70s vated and his family moved to Virginia, They had four children, all of whom numbers beyond any means Fred formed a company where Rufus attended Augusta Military graduated from Fullerton High School. to measure. to develop and preserve Academy and later graduated from Barbara preceded him in death in 2003. Fred loved teaching and Corona Airport as a hub William and Mary in 1952. He was a Rufus retired from Unocal in 1991. began his career teaching high for small, general aviation member of Pi Kappa Alpha and the He was an avid antique dealer in retire - school history and coaching and sport flying. ROTC. ment, selling in downtown Fullerton and football in Fresno before He and his friend Upon graduation he served as an Army Country Roads in Old Town Orange. coming to Fullerton. Charles collected and artillery officer in the Korean War. His last 15 years were spent with his He taught psychology class - restored Ferrari cars to Rufus was the namesake of Brig. Gen. partner, Carol Shields. es at Fullerton College for 37 follow one of his lifelong Rufus Putnam, a founder of the Rufus is survived by sons Eric (Wanda) years from 1958 to 1995. passions - to preserve Northwest Territory and appointed by Howard (Susan) Richard (Yvette), Fred emphasized the impor - automotive history. George Washington as the first Surveyor daughter Karen (John), and 12 grand - tance of factual thinking in all Fred wanted to put General of the U.S. He was a member of children. Donations may be made in his aspects of life, not just in aca - some of his engineering the Society of Cincinnati, members of memory to The Salvation Army, P.O demics. Counseling was also ideas to good use. He felt whom are direct descendants of the offi - Box 93002, Long Beach CA 90809. included in his repertoire of “Do gracefully it was important to pro - teaching others how to what needs to be tect the children of the become better parents, and done, even if you future. He designed and helping adolescents and chil - don’t feel like patented anti-ballistic Orangethorpe dren solve their problems furniture and equipment using games he invented. doing it,” to shield individuals from Christian But, Fred was also a “renais - the shootings our culture Church sance man” of passionate curiosity, cre - is facing. (Disciples of Christ) ativity and imagination. Flying and air - His endless energy resulted from his ports became an interest when he was five being a hard worker and continually rising Dr. Robert L. Case, Pastor - at the time his dad worked at Santa to the occasion: “Do gracefully what Sunday Service : 10 AM Monica’s Clover Field Airport. When he needs to be done, even if you don’t feel was in junior high and high school he like doing it,” was his motto. 2200 W. O RANGETHORPE worked part-time in the Douglas main Fred Peters’ life’s mission was to teach FULLERTON (714) 871-3400 hangar and on the field during the latter mankind how to make themselves and the www.orangethorpe.org period of World War II and after. From world better. You did just that Fred, and 1948 to 1958 Fred worked for Crop we miss you. MID SEPTEMBER 2018 CLASSIFIEDS. 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BALANCE & CHANGE Individual, Couple & Family Therapy MICHELLE GOTTLIEB Psy.D., MFT 305 N. Harbor Blvd, Suite 202, Fullerton, CA 92832 714-879-5868 x5 www.michellegottlieb.com MID SEPTEMBER 2018 OBSERVERS AROUND THE WORLD Page 20 Caballero Family Caribbean Cruise The Caballero family, Joyce, Tom and their son, two grandsons and friends visited the Caribbean on a family cruise vacation. “We visited many ports including Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands: Roatan, Honduras; Belize City, Belize; and Cosumel, Mexico, in the Western Caribbean and Princess Cays, Bahamas; St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and St. Maarten in the Eastern Caribbean. At Right: The Caballero family visited the amazing ancient Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in Cozumell and the beautiful port of St. Maarten.

The Kilpatrick Family in Italy

Lang-McNabb Family in Europe Karen Lang and Ira McNabb took a fabulous trip through Europe visiting landmarks. At left: Venice Above: The iconic London Bridge in England. Ellen & Fred Lentz on a Cruise “About a month ago we took a cruise from Barcelona to Bergen, Norway. Pictured (at right) we are in Bergen with a great view of the fjord behind us. They were having a heat wave of 72 degrees.” -Ellen & Fred