COMMUNITY Fullerto♥ n bsCeALErNDAvR Peage 1r 4-15 O EAR FULLERTON’S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (printed on 20% recycled paper) • Y 39 #7 • MID APRIL 2017 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com FULLERTON COLLEGE FASHION STYLE NIGHT : Fashion class students from designers to stylists and marketers are par - ticipating in a fashion showcase on May 11 from 6:30pm to 9pm at the Wilshire Auditorium, 315 E. Wilshire in Fullerton. The First 100 Days free event will include the work of student designers judged by local fashion bloggers, industry speakers, music and an awards cer - by Vince Buck emony. The public is invited. Learn more on their facebook page Fashion at Fullerton College. Ever since Franklin Roosevelt launched his presidency in the heart of the depres - New Homeless Shelter Opens May 5 sion with 15 major pieces of legislation in 100 days — a New Deal that changed 7 . by Jere Greene as has been the case at the Armory. A 7 S D . the direction of the country — journalists 5 C I The new year-round homeless shelter at To accommodate area residents there D 1 U A E . and scholars have paid particular atten - N P 1000 Kraemer Place in Anaheim is opening will be no walk-in traffic, instead clients T D O O E R R tion to each new president’s first 100 days N T on May 5th just as the Fullerton Armory will be dropped off by vehicles. The first G A O R T A S in office. While this is an arbitrary time D I E T Shelter closes for the season. The new shelter 75 clients have been selected, drawn from E L N S M R period it provides a convenient date to L A will provide 24 hour access, meaning resi - the long-term homeless or those suffering O P R T U P E assess a president’s style, skills and goals; S F P dents won’t have to wait for nightfall to come from disabilities. The shelter will not in and rest or be out by 6am in the morning, house families. and to speculate what the remaining continued on page 17 1,360 days may bring. This interest has been greater than usual for President Trump because of his unique personality and because of his lack of governing expe - rience before entering office. On May 1 the Fullerton Public Library as part of its Town/Gown series will pres - ent a panel of CSUF professors offering T N an assessment of President Trump’s first E L 100 days in office. I look forward to my L D A I former colleagues presentations, and here C S 2 E offer a few preliminary observations. S E 0 R I E 4 R T Some authors, such as Henry James and V 6 R - R Shakespeare, create characters who drive T E E 5 V S N plots to inevitable outcomes. Introduce an 2 D B E 5 A Othello or Iago and you can pretty much - R O 4 see where things are going. Trump seems O R E 1 T 7 U H to be one of those characters who cannot T C rise above his personality. N I R continued on page 3 O FULLERTON MARCH FOR SCIENCE Saturday April 22 Candlelight Vigil who chairs the House Foreign Affairs 9am at Fullerton City Hall Committee to include action to support 303 W. Commonwealth for Refugees bringing Syrian refugees to Southern FullertonMarchForScience.com Fourty-five members of the local California. Visit Indivisibleca-d39.org 4 3 Indivisible-D39 held a candlelight vigil in 8 N Former City Manager Pleads Not Guilty 2 front of Representative Ed Royce's office on R 9 1 O 5 E Former City Manager Joe Felz, who April 3, 2017. The results of a Fullerton A Birch Street in Brea on April 7th in 0 T V 7 C retired after a Nov. 8, 2016 late night acci - Police Dept. internal investigation were R response to the horrific gas attack in Idlib, R X N E E O dent where he crashed his mini-van into a sent to the OCDA which then pressed O Syria. The group gathered in front of the L S B T young tree on the median in front of a charges. Felz pleaded not guilty and is R L office and then marched to the intersection B O E P U L of Imperial Highway and Brea Blvd. The home on Glenwood, was arraigned on scheduled for a pre-trail hearing on May 3, O L F charges of DUI and leaving the scene of an 2017 at 8:30am in Dept. N-9, North U event was held in solidarity with the people F of Syria, and to urge Representative Royce, accident by the OC District Attorney on Justice Center, Fullerton. Page 2FULLERTON OBSERVER COMMUNITY OPINIONS MID APRIL 2017 Dear Mayor & Council Members, What Are Your Plans for District 2? Is the Wall a Good Choice? Fullerton Is the 'Wall' on our southern border a good bserver Below is a series of email exchanges Chaffee has said that he will not be choice ? One view is that it may help to keep O between Council Member Sebourn running again, but even if he does, certain bad elements out at some financial and I (Sinh Dang) regarding my open there will be no election to run! As a expense but what is more alarming is that the The Fullerton Observer Community letter to the council on March 27, result of your inaction, the council wall shall cause damage in human relations Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie 2017 published in the Early April seat for District 2 will be vacant from Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is around the world, especially with Mexico. staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, Fullerton Observer. 2018 to 2020. And it appears that The US sits between Canada and Mexico. We publish, and distribute the paper throughout Even though I tried my best to you are setting up so that you can are neighbors, and freedom affects us all. Our our community. explain, he doesn’t seem to get it! So appoint a replacement despite the own security would be improved if we help This venture is a not-for-profit one with all I am giving up on him. fact that residents in District 2 have Mexico to invest in factories, schools and tech - ad and subscription revenues plowed back into As for my question on District 2: the right to decide who their repre - maintaining and improving our independent, nology. As a close neighbor, we should help non-partisan, non-sectarian community news - What is your plan for District 2, and sentative will be. Mexico to achieve a higher standard of living in paper. who are you saving that seat for? Therefore, please explain your rea - their own country because diplomacy, not a Our purpose is to inform Fullerton residents Council Member Sebourn’s answer son for not putting District 2 up for wall, will make our southern border safer. about the institutions and other societal forces election in 2018. This seems to go which most impact their lives, so that they may was: Building the existing wall higher and longer “I have no plans for District 2” against the public vote to have may have long term negative consequences be empowered to participate in constructive District elections to begin with. ways to keep and make these private and public Now I am asking the rest of you: because it's not only an insult to our neighbor, entities serve all residents in lawful, open, just, I look forward to hearing from you What is the plan for District 2? but more importantly, the help we could have and socially-responsible ways. at your earliest convenience. offered may be filled by another country which Through our extensive local calendar and Mayor ProTem Chaffee’s term will other coverage, we seek to promote a sense of end in 2018, but his District 2 is not Thank you and Best regards, surely will diminish the strong image of our community and an appreciation for the values on schedule for election that year. Sinh Dang country. of diversity with which our country is so Why not? Jay Williams Fullerton uniquely blessed. SUBMISSIONS : Whitaker, I would have been forced Submissions on any topic of interest are Chain of emails: to be a one-term council member. Cross Country is a Sport accepted from Fullerton residents and we From Sebourn: (3/29/2017) How is it ok that I serve one term but try hard to get it all in. Sorry we some - You stated "By putting District 3 – not ok for Mr. Silva (who actually Hello, My name is Noah Rovira. The main times fail. Shorter pieces have a better where both Sebourn and Silva live – had three options: complete current reason I am writing to you is to finish my com - chance. Email to observernews@earth - on the election schedule for 2018, term; run in 2018; or both)? link.net or mail to: munications merit badge for Boy Scouts. The you are forcing Silva to run against ---------------------------------- second reason is because I was reading how FULLERTON OBSERVER Sebourn after only two years in office PO BOX 7051 From Sinh Dang: (4/6/2017) much recognition other sports get while my FULLERTON, CA 92834-7051 when he should be allowed to serve Council Member Sebourn, sport does not get any.