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Page 6 OBSERVER MID APRIL 2013 Prescription Drug Drop Off Event Sat., April 27, 10am-2pm The Fullerton Police Department will be participating in the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 28, from 10am to 2pm. This free, anonymous service is offered to the public to help the community get rid of unused or expired medications. Bins will be set up on the west side of the police dept. on Highland. People can pull up to the bins and unload the prescriptions. The Fullerton Police Dept. is located at 237 W. Commonwealth Ave. at the corner of Highland. Call 714-738-6800. Mayor’s Talk Around Meet Mayor Whitaker for his monthly casual talk session on Tuesday, April 23rd at 6:30pm scheduled at the Museum Center on E. Wilshire (corner of Pomona). Drop by for the mayor’s update on key issues and bring your questions, concerns and ideas. 20th Annual All the Hearts Art Auction Call for Artists There is an open call to artists to adorn the smaller hearts for the upcoming All the Hearts Art Event which supports art lessons in Fullerton public schools. For complete information email: alltheartsfoundation@gmail.com To find out more about All the Arts for All the Kids Foundation go to allthearts.org or “like” them on Facebook at “All the Arts for All the Kids Foundation”. Kids play in the fountain as the band begins to perform at Downtown Fullerton Market’s first day of the season, April 4th. PHOTOS BY ADAM JAMES www.AJStills.com First Downtown Market Day of the Season "Bubba and the Big Bad Blues" played on the opening evening of the Downtown Fullerton Market located along Wilshire and the plaza next to the Museum Center between Harbor and Pomona. The market is open every Thursday through October 31st from 4pm to 8:30pm. Features include fresh produce (including an organic produce stand), hot Bubba & the Big Bad Blues got the party started. food sold by vendors, outdoor beer & wine garden, craft vendors, kids activities and live music. Admission to the Museum Center is discounted on Thursdays and admission to the market and parking are always free. Come downtown and enjoy music, dinner, and crafts outdoors. Bring neighbors, family and friends and mingle with fellow Fullertonians every Thursday. Upcoming bands include: •April 18: Tombstone Shadow (a Creedance Clearwater Revival tribute band) •April 25th: Deke Dickerson and the Echophonics • May 2: The blues of the Chris Anderson Group •May 9: The Answer • May 16: Calypso & Reggee music with Upstream Help for Vets in Need of Home Repair Do you know a low-income US military veteran in Fullerton who is in need of home repairs? The Home Depot Foundation hopes to partner with Habitat for Humanity of Orange County to fund home repairs for several low-income veterans in Fullerton. The timeframe in which the homes can be identified is limited. We are looking for home-owning veterans living anywhere in Fullerton – although preferably in south or southwest Fullerton. Active duty military, spouses of deceased veterans, and veterans living in south Orange County are also eligible. If you know a low-income veteran in need of home repair, please contact Alex Osborne, Habitat for Humanity OC, Neighborhood Revitalization Manager at 714-434-6200 ext. 212 or 949-742-0436 or by email to alex@habitatoc.org or by mail to: 2200 S Ritchey St., Santa Ana, CA 92705 Are You Concerned About a Veteran? Veterans Crisis Line Can Help The Veterans Crisis Line connects veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text messaging. Veterans and their loved ones can call 1- 800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255 to receive confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Support for deaf and hard of hearing individuals is also available. Get help for a veteran now go to http://veteranscrisisline.net
MID APRIL 2013 LOCAL NEWS 2013 Garden Tour Not to Be Missed by Nancy Spencer Come join us in cerebrating the beginning of Spring with a stroll through lovely and inspiring gardens. This year Fullerton Beautiful presents its annual garden tour on Sunday, April 28 from 11AM to 4PM. The tour will begin at Fullerton College Horticulture Department on Berkeley Avenue, east of Lemon Street. Visitors may purchase maps for the self-guided tour for $10 while shopping for plants at the Horticulture Department before departing on the Tour. Flower purchases may be left at the Dept. and picked up after touring the gardens. There are eight beautiful gardens on the tour with many clever ideas. One homeowner turned a swimming pool into a koi pond, some entertainment areas incorporate planting of flower gardens within hardscape, slope plantings, grottoes, different types of vegetable gardens, recycling of water and, of course, lovely rose, perennial and drought tolerant flower gardens. Features at last year’s Garden Tour included hanging gardens, a tree-well patio, a tiered fountain garden, and the lovely sun-dappled garden chair pictured here - as well as drought tolerant and other types of gardens. PHOTOS BY ERIK VOSS Local Author Peggy Hesketh will present her latest novel “Telling the Bees” at a reading and book signing on Saturday, April 20 at 2pm at the Fullerton Barnes & Noble Book Store, 1923 W. Malvern, in the Amerige Heights shopping center. “I grew up a few miles away (down Dale Avenue to a little Cinderella housing tract off Orange Avenue) in West Anaheim,” says Hesketh. “My oldest friend lives just off Malvern in the old Los Coyotes neighborhood. We used to play softball up the hill near Gilbert and Rosecrans on the other side of Ralph B. Clark park.” Her latest book “Telling the Bees,” is set just down the road in old Anaheim. “If you have lived in this neck of the woods, as I have since childhood, you may remember the scent of orange blossoms, jasmine and eucalyptus that used to infuse the nights with such possibilities.” “I grew up watching Johnny Carson. I remember thinking: I must have interesting jobs so that when I sit on the couch next to Johnny and he asks me what I did before I became an author I would have glorious stories to tell. So my first job straight out of high school was an incense stick dipper, my second a waitress in a coffee shop that shared a bathroom with a whorehouse upstairs, my third a window blind repair person, my fourth a typesetter, my fifth a freelance ad copywriter, my sixth a computer graphics artist, and so it went. And meanwhile, I dropped out of several colleges, got married on a volcano in Guatemala in a Mayan ceremony presided over by a Catholic priest who was murdered five years later by a right-wing death squad, had two glorious children, nursed both my parents through fatal cancers, earned a BA in journalism, spent a dozen years as a reporter and editor, traveled around the world, broke several major bones playing softball, went back to school, earned an MA and MFA, started writing fiction and teaching full time at the University of California, Irvine, (which by the way, was one of the colleges FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7 Author Peggy Hesketh PHOTO BY CHRIS GRIFFITHS www.peggyhesketh.com Local Author Peggy Hesketh I dropped out of as an undergrad), spent the last year undergoing treatment for breast cancer, and ultimately celebrating this crazy life. Oh, and I'm back playing softball twice a week.” ABOUT THE BOOK Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A nevermarried octogenarian, still residing in the house in which he was born, Albert makes a modest living as a beekeeper, just as his father and his father's father had done before him. Deeply acquainted with the ways and workings of the hives, he knows that bees dislike wool clothing and foul language; that the sweetest honey is made from the blooms of eucalyptus; and that bees are at their gentlest in a swarm. But Albert is less versed in the ways of people, especially his beautiful, courageous, and secretive friend Claire. A friend and neighbor since childhood, Claire was a hovering presence—and then a glaring absence—in Albert's life, a change that has never been reconciled. When she is murdered in a seemingly senseless accident during a burglary gone wrong, Albert is haunted by the loss. In the aftermath of this tragedy, he is left to piece together the events of their lives, to attempt to make sense of their shared past and the silence that persisted between them for a decade before her death. What Albert comes to learn is that Claire's secrets were far darker than anything he could have imagined . . . and the mystery behind her murder lay not so much in who did it, but why. Spanning the arc of the twentieth century, set in the transforming landscape of Southern California, Telling the Bees is a beautifully imagined novel about the farreaching consequences of words left unspoken, the persistence of regret, and the power of truth both to wound and to heal. The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and IndieBound. For more information go to www.peggyhesketh.com
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