WEDNESDAY,AUGUST26, 2020 /// Now including Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent /// dailypilot.com Caution the rule as virus declines in O.C. As students log on to learn, Newport-Mesa officials say there’s much to consider before campuses can reopen. BY SARA CARDINE Orange County Tuesday marked its third day of being off a statewide coronavirus monitor- ing list, showing a decline in in- fections and hospitalizations as health officials reported 335 new cases and 15 deaths — a fraction of records hit in recent months. Hospitalizations dropped to 385 patients, with 113 in intensive care, the lowest rates recorded in the past two months and nearly half of peak levels seen in mid- Kevin Chang | Staff Photographer July. That trend could spell good HUNTINGTON BEACH RESIDENTS Alex Kolosow, 70, and Alex II, 44, claim to have every Kobe Bryant card, more than 2,000, along with news for schools that will techni- several other pieces of Bryant-related memorabilia. Orange County named Aug. 24 Kobe Bryant day in honor of the late Newport Beach resident. cally be allowed to resume in- person instruction once the county has remained off the list for 14 consecutive days, accord- Fans celebrate Kobe Bryant Day ing to state reopening guidelines. But at Newport-Mesa Unified —where 1,650 students logged with memorabilia, memories on Monday for a 100% virtual Cloud Academy and another 17,350 began the new school year under a distance-learning model Like many, Alexander Kolosow and his son, Alex —officials say there’s still much work to be done before physical II, celebrated Kobe Bryant Day in Orange County campuses reopen. surrounded by images of the late Lakers star. In a release sent out Tuesday to the school community, Supt. BY DAVID CARRILLO Kolosow and his 44-year-old son, Russel Lee-Sung clarified no date PEÑALOZA Alex II, paid tribute to Bryant on has been set for the resumption Kobe Bryant Day in Orange of in-person learning. He assured Walking inside of the Kolosow County. the district would provide ad- family’s two-story house in Hunt- The county Board of Supervi- vance notice of any changes in ington Beach on Monday, it re- sors declared Aug. 24 as Kobe the instructional model. sembledaKobe Bryant museum. Bryant Day. The day before, Bry- “This is expected to be a year Bryant memorabilia covered ant would have turned 42. of continuous adjustment to the walls, tables, countertops Orange County residents on changing conditions,” Lee-Sung and floors. In the kitchen and Monday honored the basketball said in a separate statement dining room areas, more than legend and Newport Beach resi- Tuesday. “Adjusting what and 2,000 Bryant basketball cards dent, who died with 13-year-old how we teach in a remote setting Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer were on display, and there were daughter Gianna and seven oth- or switching to modified in-per- enough Bryant bobbleheads to ers in a helicopter crash in Cala- RYAN BROCCOLO, with wife Megan and son Brayden, stand in front son instruction will also be a sig- fill an NBA roster. There were a basas on Jan. 26. Alexander of a mural of Kobe and Gianna Bryant. Monday was Kobe Bryant Day. nificant challenge.” hundred magazines and news- Kolosow saved that next day’s District officials are working papers lying around the living newspaper. As an avid collector Locals who received fist bumps and coaching out the calculus of how students room with No. 8 or No. 24 on the of newspapers, he said the story enrolled in a flexible, three-level cover. of Bryant’s death will be as mem- advice from Kobe Bryant will never forget the learning plan might return to Bryant wore those two jersey orable in the U.S. as the day John basketball legend and Newport Beach resident. class under a hybrid model com- numbers during his 20-year ca- F. Kennedy died or Neil Arm- plete with facial coverings, social reer with the Los Angeles Lakers, BY MATT SZABO whole Mamba Mentality,” said distancing and smaller class co- and on “8/24,” Alexander See Bryant, page A2 Ryan Broccolo, 41, a Fountain horts operating on a limited- Ryan Broccolo’s 2-year-old Valley resident. Broccolo at- hour schedule. VARIOUS son Brayden never got to see tended Bryant’s last game in They must also solve the logis- MAGAZINE Los Angeles Lakers superstar April 2016, in which he scored tics of arranging bus transporta- COVERS of and Newport Beach resident 60 points in a win over Utah, as tion and meal distribution, while Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant play basketball. well as his memorial service at reaching agreements with New- are on display But he did get to meet him. Staples Center last February. port-Mesa’s employee unions at the The “Black Mamba” met “After he retired, he showed about a possible return to phys- Kolosow Brayden Broccolo at a children’s that no matter how busy you ical campuses. family home book fair at Orange Coast Col- are, no matter how much you “It’s like a giant Rubik’s Cube,” in Huntington lege last October. He signed a have going on, you always have said Newport-Mesa Board Presi- Beach. book for Brayden, and they ex- time to be a great father,” Broc- dent Martha Fluor of the work changed fist bumps. colo said. “He inspired me on that remains. “I know parents Kevin Chang “I was first a fan of the athlete and off the court.” want our kids to go back. But Staff he was, then more so a fan of Photographer the person he was with the See Kobe, pageA2 See Virus, page A4 Huntington Beach school district rolls out sports reopening plan BY ANDREW TURNER in Phase I, all sports can resume MARINA HIGH workouts. People must spread out SCHOOL athletes The Huntington Beach Union into groups of 10 or fewer out- work out on campus High School District has provided doors. There will be a limit of 50 on Tuesday. A aframework for the resumption of people per outdoor facility three-phase athletics and performing arts pro- throughout the reopening phases. reopening of the grams that had been shut down Sports were categorized as athletics program due to the coronavirus pandemic. listed below: within the Monday marked the first day Low risk: running sports, swim- Huntington Beach that district schools could resume ming sports, sideline cheer and Union High School sports workouts, albeit with a lita- song, noncontact dance, golf, District has multiple ny of protocols in place. choir choreography, and string safety protocols in “First day was a feeling that is and percussion instruments. place due to the hard to put into words,” Ocean Moderate risk: baseball, volley- coronavirus View High School football coach ball, tennis, badminton, girls’ pandemic. Luis Nunez said. “I had goose- lacrosse, soccer, baseball, softball, bumps of joy to see all the kids on water polo and field hockey. the field together again. I know a High risk: wrestling, football, lot of districts started and shut boys’ lacrosse, competitive cheer Scott Smeltzer down and started up again, but in and song, and contact dance. Staff Photographer [the Huntington Beach Union Marina football coach Jeff Tur- High School District], we never ley said that he had about 47 kids Orange County came off the said regarding a timeline for mov- practiced, with no athlete contact got the opportunity to ever start between varsity and junior varsity state’s coronavirus monitoring list ing into Phase II. “They took Or- or use of locker rooms during the since March. This is the first sum- show up on Monday. He added on Sunday, starting a 14-day ange County off the watch list, so I first two phases. mer I did not have football since that a number of athletes opted countdown before schools could sit there and go, ‘OK, 14 days from Phase II does provide for 10 ninth grade, as I have always had out of coming out this week with be allowed to physically reopen. now, we should be able to go to people to be indoors, and equip- practice as a player or coach since the workouts being optional. Turley is hopeful that timeline Phase II.’ I’m hoping and praying ment can be shared on a limited 1995.” Turley said the workouts at this might also be the basis for moving that everything just keeps settling basis for moderate- and high-risk The school district’s reopening point have primarily consisted of into Phase II of the resumption of down and we can move into sports. At that point, low-risk guidelines provide for a phased agility drills and conditioning us- athletics. Phase II in a couple of weeks.” rollout with three parts. Currently ing body weight. “There’s a wishful one,” Turley Asocial distance of 6 feet will be See Sports, page A3 A2 WEDNESDAY,AUGUST26, 2020 DAILY PILOT | COASTLINE PILOT | HUNTINGTON BEACH INDEPENDENT WWW.DAILYPILOT.COM THE DAILY COMMUTER PUZZLE By Jacqueline E. Mathews ACROSS 1__ Alamos, NM 4"Jack __ could eat no fat" 9Air mattress problem 13 Apple tablet 15 Suspect's defense 16 Chopping tools 17 Galaxy twinkler 18 Solitude lover 19 Gather crops 20 "Beat it!" 22 Mayberry resident Christina House |Los Angeles Times 23 Soap lather 24 Dieter's ARTISTS MIKALA TAYLOR, left, Tony Concep, center, and Michael Ziobrowski concern: abbr. collaborate on a mural in Santa Ana on Thursday to honor Kobe Bryant, his daughter, 26 Talks back Gianna, and the other seven people who died in the Jan.