COMMUNITY ullerto♥ n bsCAeLENrDAvR Paege 12r -15 FFULLERTON’S INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (Oprinted on 20% recycled paper) • YEAR 37 #11 • MID JUNE 2015 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com Citywide Day of Music June 21st With over 20 venues featuring over 100 musical performances, Fullerton will join the worldwide celebration of music on Sunday, June 21st. The day will feature free musical performances all over the city from 10am to 10pm. Venues include: the Museum Center and downtown plaza, Fullerton Public Library, Magoski Art Colony, Plummer Auditorium, the Muckenthaler, Fullerton Airport, Elks Lodge, Mo’s Music, Hillcrest, Ford, Independence, Mountain View and Woodcrest parks, Bourbon Street, the Slidebar, Max Bloom’s, The Night Owl and many other businesses, First Christian, Wilshire Ave. Community, Grace River, and First Methodist churches and more! All performances are free. Visit www.thedayofmusic.com for the full line- up and a map of venues around the city. A special performance takes place at noon at the downtown Museum Plaza when Lit invites all guitarists and other musicians to play their hit song “My Own Worst Enemy” with the band. WHAT ’S UP WITH GILMAN PARK ? The International Day of Music is cele - Gilman Park is located ment for review. A Capital brated in many countries around the A little creek runs through the world. See page 9 for more info between E. Rolling Hills Improvement Project was Drive and Hartford Ave. in funded last year to cover the peaceful Gilman Park but the Fullerton. Unfortunately the costs of demolition, building park restrooms are a hazard. lovely 13.7 acre park is modifications, and site work marred by the restrooms but the project has yet to be which are falling down and sent out to bid and no time - 7 . A 7 S D . 5 C appear to be in hazardous line has been set. Until dem - I D 1 U A E . condition. olition takes place, said N P T D O O E R R Public Works Director Hoppe, new safety barriers N T G A O R T A S D Don Hoppe said that after a will be constructed around I E T E L N S M R tree limb fell on the building the site. L A O P R T U P E S there was a waiting period Gilman Park opened in F P until the insurance company 1978 and was named after settlement came through. Richard Gilman who found - The Parks & Recreation ed the first commercial Department hired an archi - Valencia orange grove in tect to determine if a portion California. The western end of the building could be of the park was originally retained where irrigation part of the Gilman family controls are located. Plans home. Four rustic wooden T were developed and submit - bridges span a little creek N ted to the building depart - running through the park. E L L D A I C S 2 E S E OC Board 0 R I US EPA Report on Potential Risk to E 4 R T V 6 R - R Approves T E Water Resources from Fracking E 5 V S N 2 D B E The US Environmental Protection Agency’s the most complete compilation of scientific 5 Purchase of A - R O draft assessment on the potential impacts to data to date, including over 950 sources of 4 O R E 1 drinking water resources from hydraulic frac - information, published papers, numerous Shelter Location T 7 U H T turing activities, requested by Congress, was technical reports, information from stakehold - The OC Board of Supervisors, in C N released June 4th. ers and peer-reviewed EPA scientific reports.” a 5-0 vote, approved an agreement I R The assessment identifies important vulner - The EPA’s review of data found specific to purchase a 1.87 acre property at O abilities to drinking water resources by follow - instances where well integrity and waste water 1000 N. Kraemer Place in ing the water used for hydraulic fracturing management related to hydraulic fracturing Anaheim. The property now enters from water acquisition, chemical mixing at the activities impacted drinking water resources. a 90-day due diligence investigation. well pad site, well injection of fracking fluids, The vulnerabilities to drinking water Town hall meetings will be sched - the collection of hydraulic fracturing waste - resources include: uled so that interested community water (including flowback and produced •water withdrawals in areas with low water members may discuss the possible water), and wastewater treatment and dispos - availability; use of the property as a year-round al. Read the full study at •hydraulic fracturing conducted directly 24-hour homeless shelter with http://www2.epa.gov/hfstudy/hydraulic-frac - into formations containing drinking water wrap-around services including 4 turing-water-cycle. resources; physical and mental health, job 3 8 search, rapid rehousing and more. N “EPA’s draft assessment will give state regu - •inadequately cased or cemented wells 2 R 9 1 O 5 E lators, tribes and local communities and resulting in below ground migration of gases Dates have yet to be announced but A 0 T V 7 C industry around the country a critical resource and liquids; EV Free Church or Grace Ministries R R X N E to identify how best to protect public health •inadequately treated wastewater discharged are being considered as locations. E O O L S B T and their drinking water resources,” said Dr. into drinking water resources; Questions and comments from the R L B O E P Thomas A. Burke, EPA’s Science Advisor and •and spills of hydraulic fluids and hydraulic public can be sent by email to U L O L F Deputy Assistant Administrator of EPA’s fracturing wastewater, including flowback and [email protected] or U F Office of Research and Development. “It is produced water. More on page 18 by phone to 714-480-2998. Page 2FULLERTON OBSERVER COMMUNITY OPINIONS continued on next page MID JUNE 2015 PASSION FOR JUSTICE New Development Fullerton by Synthia Tran I have one question to ask of whomev - Observer er is concerned. Who is going to supply Departure, Escape, and Punishment the water to the new buildings being The Fullerton Observer Community built across from the railroad station? Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie A couple of years after taking over the baby home so the mother could go to Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is South Vietnam, the Vietnamese govern - the labor camp. In a small town where Mary L. Fullerton staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, ment had a conflict with China, and they everybody knew everybody else, it was publish, and distribute the paper throughout were concerned that if the war broke out impossible to hide your identity. If you our community. This venture is a not-for-profit one with between two countries, the Chinese- were a capitalist who got caught escaping, Turn in Neighbors all ad and subscription revenues plowed back Vietnamese people in the South would you would be accused of treason. into maintaining and improving our inde - turn against them and support China’s Therefore, my family and I decided to I totally disagree with Gary Graves pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - invasion. So the VC decided to let the leave town. Father remained behind to (letter “Conservation Yes, Turning in munity newspaper. Chinese pay a big bribe and leave the support us by sending us money as he had Neighbors, No” page 2, Early June Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - country by boat. This happened in 1978 no desire to leave the country. issue). What is wrong with turning in dents about the institutions and other socie - those who break the rules? There is noth - tal forces which most impact their lives, so and 1979, and we called this I was in junior high that they may be empowered to participate “semi-official” departure. Up school and spent one ing quite so discouraging to an honest in constructive ways to keep and make these until this point, South The price school year at the largest person who follows the rules than to see private and public entities serve all residents Vietnamese people had already tutoring center in town to dishonest people get away with breaking in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible for each of us the rules. ways. been escaping by boat - but in a was ten units successfully complete my Don Jordan Fullerton Through our extensive local calendar and smaller scale. seventh, eighth, and ninth other coverage, we seek to promote a sense To prepare for the journey, of gold grades. (The reason I had to of community and an appreciation for the rich Chinese-Vietnamese bought with an finish three grades in one Re: Don’t Turn in values of diversity with which our country is big boats that held hundreds of year will be explained at a so uniquely blessed. estimated value the Neighbors people each,. They registered of $250 US later date.) The center was SUBMISSIONS : with the government, paid the run by three brothers; the RE: Gary Graves on "Water Submissions on any topic of interest are fee, and signed over their prop - per unit middle brother fell in love Conservation Yes - But Not By Turning accepted from Fullerton residents and we try hard erties. Gold and valuables were at that time. with me but I was a kid in Neighbors" in Early June issue. to get it all in.