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So Far, 14 Candidates<br />
Running for Council<br />
Fourteen people have pulled nomination<br />
papers to run for a seat on the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> City Council. Filing nomination<br />
papers does not mean a prospective<br />
candidate will run, but it is a necessary<br />
first step. The deadline to file for the 2year<br />
council seat is 5pm Friday, <strong>Aug</strong>. 6th.<br />
The deadline to file for the two 4-year<br />
seats is 5pm Wed, <strong>Aug</strong>. 11.<br />
Three councilmembers will be selected<br />
by voters in the Nov. 2, 2010 election;<br />
two 4-year terms and one 2-year term.<br />
Mayor Protem Pam Keller has announced<br />
that she will not be seeking re-election;<br />
Mayor Don Bankhead’s term is up; and<br />
Councilmember Shawn Nelson resigned<br />
after being elected to the remaining term<br />
of the OC 4th District Supervisor vacated<br />
by Chris Norby. His remaining council<br />
term ends Dec. 2012.<br />
The following candidates have filed<br />
nomination papers: Don Bankhead;<br />
Martin Burbank; Doug Chaffee; Roland<br />
Chi; Anthony Fonte; Max Gentalen;<br />
Aaron Gregg; Jesse LaTour; Barry<br />
Levinson; Patrick McKinley; John<br />
Noskey; Madusha Palliyage; Greg<br />
Sebourn; and Bruce Whitaker.<br />
Nomination papers may be obtained<br />
from the City Clerk’s office at <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
City Hall. Call (714) 738-6355 for more<br />
information.<br />
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Two PÄS art students practice perspective in a themed painting exercise titled “Falling Back.”<br />
Project Art School<br />
by Kelsi Collins and Xanat Hernandez<br />
Project Art Studio (PÄS) located downtown<br />
on Harbor, just south of Commonwealth, plans<br />
to showcase kids art at the First Friday <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Art Walk on <strong>Aug</strong>ust 6th. The exhibit will feature<br />
the work of children from age six to twelve.<br />
Over the summer, Kristi and Brian Prince,<br />
PÄS owners, orchestrated two art classes titled<br />
“Summer Fun” and “Storybook Adventure”<br />
partly to expose their sons Noah and Ezra to art.<br />
In “Storybook Adventure” children developed<br />
their own character, storyline and illustrations.<br />
The completed storybooks were bound and will<br />
be on display at the Art Walk. Each student’s<br />
development is shown not only in their artwork<br />
but also through a newfound confidence and<br />
familiarity with the arts.<br />
Over the duration of the six-week program<br />
students prepared cave paintings to adorn the<br />
entrance of PÄS. After the prehistoric theme of<br />
the cave entrance, spectators can expect a colorful<br />
and diverse showcase of children’s art.<br />
College Educator’s Protest is Heard<br />
Forty North Orange<br />
County Community College<br />
District educators attended<br />
the July 27 board meeting to<br />
protest the district’s recent<br />
move to fill the vacant position<br />
of Vice Chancellor of<br />
Instruction at a salary of<br />
$200,000 plus benefits, and<br />
added costs of office and support<br />
staff.<br />
Educators argued that the<br />
money could be better used<br />
closer to the classrooms rather<br />
than in the hiring of another<br />
administrator. For example,<br />
they pointed out that the<br />
money could be used to fund<br />
seventy 3-unit classes for<br />
about 2,000 students.<br />
The district faces serious<br />
cuts in classes, raised student<br />
fees, unfilled positions, a hiring<br />
freeze, and an additional<br />
$1 million in cuts this year for<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> college alone.<br />
Due to the protest, NOCC-<br />
CD Chancellor Dr. Ned<br />
Doffoney recommended the<br />
job announcement be withdrawn<br />
and the board agreed.<br />
Dr. Doffoney said that filling<br />
the unfinished term of<br />
former Vice Chancellor Kathy<br />
Hodge with an interim<br />
administrator had been considered<br />
in order to finish the<br />
work of the educational master<br />
plan, but that he would<br />
now consider other options.<br />
Throughout the course students experimented<br />
with basic drawing, watercolor, oil pastel and<br />
collage. A favorite project for many of the children<br />
is titled “Falling Back,” a mixed- media representation<br />
of a human form falling into a creative<br />
backdrop. To stress the perspective of<br />
“Falling Back,” the hands and feet appear larger<br />
than the rest of the body.<br />
Other projects include a painted cityscape and<br />
a collage constructed with colorful scraps of<br />
paper. Using art utensils ranging from sponges<br />
to toy cars, children used different textures,<br />
materials and shades of color to design their collages.<br />
“At first the kids were shy” instructor Kristi<br />
said. “But they have completely warmed up to<br />
the environment.” Pleased with the children’s<br />
enthusiasm this summer, she hopes to offer similar<br />
after-school classes in the Fall.<br />
Call Project Art School at (714) or visit the<br />
website: www.projectartschool.com or drop by<br />
the gallery for more information.<br />
Water Shortage<br />
Over 1,100 counties in the<br />
lower 48 states face high risks of<br />
water shortages by mid-century<br />
based on estimates from a new<br />
report by Tetra Tech for the<br />
Natural Resources Defense<br />
Council released July 20, 2010.<br />
The report uses available water<br />
use data across the US and climate<br />
projections from the recent<br />
intergovernmental Panel on<br />
Climate Change. The report<br />
finds that 14 states face an<br />
extreme or high risk to water sustainability,<br />
or limitations on<br />
water availability as demand<br />
exceeds supply by 2050. At<br />
highest risk are the Great Plains<br />
and Southwest US including 19<br />
California counties.<br />
GROUPS STAND<br />
UP FOR THE<br />
FULLERTON<br />
COLLABORATIVE<br />
by Jan Youngman<br />
The <strong>Fullerton</strong> School District<br />
Board, at its July 19 meeting,<br />
voted 3-2 to continue the over<br />
twenty-year partnership between<br />
the district and the <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Collaborative for the coming<br />
2010/11 school year.<br />
Representatives from the O.C.<br />
Business Council; Boys & Girls<br />
Club of <strong>Fullerton</strong>; St. Jude<br />
Hospital; and others were among<br />
those speaking in support of the<br />
continued partnership with the<br />
Collaborative.<br />
Five spoke in opposition to<br />
continuing the relationship,<br />
including the president of FACT<br />
(<strong>Fullerton</strong> Association of<br />
Concerned Taxpayers), a group<br />
responsible for vicious hit mailers<br />
in past school board and council<br />
campaigns. (The group’s major<br />
funding comes from Bushala<br />
Brothers Inc. Tony Bushala heads<br />
the group FFFF (Friends for<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>’s Future) which has<br />
made both Pam Keller and the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Collaborative frequent<br />
targets. FFFF is currently suing<br />
the City of <strong>Fullerton</strong>.).<br />
The entire salary and benefits<br />
of the Collaborative’s current<br />
executive director, Pam Keller, are<br />
paid by the Collaborative at no<br />
cost to the school district. The<br />
Memorandum of Understanding<br />
(MOU) between the district and<br />
the Collaborative allows Keller to<br />
continue in her role and maintain<br />
status as an employee with the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> School District.<br />
Trustee Minard Duncan pointed<br />
out that millions of dollars<br />
have been brought into the district<br />
because of the Collaborative<br />
and its director who is an instrumental<br />
person in getting things<br />
done in that she also understands<br />
the concerns of the district.<br />
Trustee Ellen Ballard, voting<br />
for the Collaborative, said the<br />
question is “does it benefit the<br />
children of <strong>Fullerton</strong>? Yes.”<br />
Trustee Hilda Sugarman pointed<br />
out that district employees<br />
oversee other organizations<br />
(PTA, Boys & Girls Club after<br />
school programs, All the Arts for<br />
All the Kids, etc.). She said the<br />
Collaborative benefits students<br />
and the district, “the<br />
Collaborative is effective and the<br />
leadership and programs are<br />
important.” (Sugarman heads the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Excellence in<br />
Education Foundation, a support<br />
group for technology in classrooms.)<br />
Trustee’s Bev Berryman and<br />
Lynne Thornley voted to end the<br />
relationship. Thornley said that<br />
she was “not trying to disband<br />
the Collaborative,” but ques-<br />
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Obama Impeachers<br />
Free Speech & Silence<br />
by Manuel N. Bass<br />
Of late we are besieged by people and placards<br />
pushing for the impeachment of Obama, commonly<br />
with a portrait of the President sporting a Hitlertype<br />
mustache. Such graffiti should perhaps be dismissed<br />
as reflective of the maturity level of the<br />
impeachment advocates. As offended as I am by the<br />
portrayal (I am Jewish and a WWII vet), I generally<br />
do dismiss it.<br />
However, on Monday, July 26, impeachers were<br />
on the sidewalk next to the Sunny Hills branch of<br />
the post office, a Federal building, where, indeed,<br />
the spirit of free speech in America is appropriately<br />
exercised. A hand-printed placard beside the mustachioed<br />
poster of President Obama invited drivers to<br />
pull over if they supported impeachment. Some<br />
cars, including a police car, (nothing implied about<br />
the <strong>Fullerton</strong> PD) had pulled over.<br />
I approached the two men in charge. I asked the<br />
basis for their move for impeachment. The younger<br />
of the two (about fiftyish) referred me to a book. I<br />
said, “No, I want to hear it from you.” He again<br />
referred me to the book, and I replied as before. He<br />
then said, “I don’t want to talk to you.” Wow! A<br />
street demonstrator offered a willing audience<br />
declined to speak. I then asked him what the mustache<br />
on Obama’s portrait signified to him. He<br />
repeated, “I don’t want to talk to you.” I told him<br />
that I was a WWII vet, and that I am Jewish and<br />
had lost relatives in Eastern Europe, and that the<br />
symbol carried a lot of meaning for me. Again, he<br />
said “I don’t want to talk to you.”<br />
The man was within his rights not to speak. That<br />
is one legitimate aspect of freedom of speech, for the<br />
defense of which I consciously dedicated my service<br />
in the Navy. But, a stance of silence was glaringly<br />
incongruous on a public sidewalk while attempting<br />
to rally people to the overthrow of our President.<br />
In the first sentence of the text of the Declaration<br />
of Independence is the phrase, “a decent respect to<br />
the opinions of mankind requires that they should<br />
declare the causes which impel them...” I am sure<br />
that anyone of the signers could have stated one and<br />
probably more of the many reasons listed by<br />
Jefferson, and would gladly have seized the opportunity<br />
to do so.<br />
The man who declined the invitation to speak,<br />
and others like him will fail. But, that is beside the<br />
point. Referring others to a lengthy text that they<br />
are highly unlikely to read does not serve the purposes<br />
of the free market of ideas on which democracy<br />
rests. The impeachment cabal well understands<br />
this impediment to an informed public and exploits<br />
it to the full. One of the easiest ways to hide something<br />
is by drowning it in an overload of real or purported<br />
information.<br />
Once before, in front of Henry’s Market, I<br />
encountered two young men (twentyish) with that<br />
same poster and asked what they understood by the<br />
mustache added to the portrait of their President.<br />
They gave me an honest answer - they knew little of<br />
Hitler and WWII (and they admitted to being paid<br />
solicitors for the impeachment movement, but<br />
added that they believed in it also). The two men by<br />
the post office were more senior, and could not<br />
appeal to the same, somewhat legitimate ignorance<br />
evoked by the two young men.<br />
The man who did not want to talk to me is at best<br />
cowardly and intellectually bankrupt. Had he been<br />
there on July 4, 1776, could he honestly have signed<br />
the document? Or would its words have committed<br />
him farther than he personally was willing to go?<br />
And yet, I defend his right not to speak, even<br />
though I do not honor it. His is not the example<br />
that I would want set, especially for our youth.<br />
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COMMUNITY OPINIONS AUGUST 2010<br />
The news of Natalie Kennedy’s<br />
passing came as a great shock and<br />
heartbreaking sadness. She will be<br />
missed by all of her friends and family<br />
and be remembered for her<br />
relentless work for truth, peace and<br />
justice.<br />
I first met Natalie in 1971,<br />
through her husband Ralph, when<br />
we were both volunteers working to<br />
elect Robert Ward to the <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
College Board of Trustees. That was<br />
the beginning of a beautiful and<br />
cherished friendship that lasted for<br />
39 years.<br />
We, here on Williamson Ave., are<br />
still waiting for sidewalks, curbs,<br />
lights and potholes to be fixed. And,<br />
the parking problems have not been<br />
addressed. We need a 2-hour parking<br />
zone so our customers can have a<br />
place to park. Instead it looks as if<br />
even more businesses which store<br />
broken-down vehicles on our street<br />
are being encouraged by the city.<br />
There is now a notice, put up by<br />
the city, saying that new businesses<br />
are requesting permits for auto repair<br />
and storage. One of those business<br />
has been part of the ongoing problem<br />
of illegal painting, washing<br />
down bondo, etc. into the sewer, and<br />
for the parking of damaged vehicles<br />
on the street taking up customer<br />
parking for the rest of the small businesses<br />
in the area.<br />
In addition, though the city did<br />
make some businesses put in handicap<br />
parking on their property, the<br />
• 97,140<br />
• 4,413<br />
• 1,209<br />
• 31,882<br />
• 6,773<br />
• $1,022<br />
Billion<br />
Remembering Natalie<br />
WAR COSTS in Life & Money<br />
IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN<br />
She had all of the characteristics of<br />
a person who is full of compassion,<br />
integrity, and courage, and worked<br />
to help improve the lives of people<br />
less fortunate than she.<br />
It was really a privilege to have had<br />
her as a friend and <strong>Fullerton</strong> was<br />
lucky to have had her as one of its<br />
citizens.<br />
Roy T. Kobayashi<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
ED: Roy and his wife Irene are<br />
founding members of the <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
<strong>Observer</strong> and still work on the paper.<br />
Trees Cut Down for Library Expansion<br />
The huge, gorgeous trees that<br />
graced the land between the library<br />
and <strong>Fullerton</strong> City Hall have been<br />
cut down. Our city is known as the<br />
“Tree City,” and even has its own<br />
Arboretum. How sad that the city<br />
would forget its birthright. Did anyone<br />
on the library board or the city<br />
government voice opposition?<br />
The famous architect Frank Lloyd<br />
Wright would turn over in his grave.<br />
A great architect uses the environ-<br />
Why Are Problem Business Allowed?<br />
ED: According to the July 2010<br />
City Council Briefing, Planning and<br />
Code Enforcement staff met with<br />
property owners of 722-748 W.<br />
Commonwealth Ave. and 719-749<br />
Williamson Ave. to reconcile land<br />
use approvals with current uses. The<br />
existing CUP called for the uses to<br />
be operated by one car dealer whereas<br />
the property owners have been<br />
renting to multiple entities. Staff<br />
worked with the property owners to<br />
submit an amendment to their original<br />
CUP, to allow the multiple uses.<br />
The item was reviewed by the<br />
Planning Commission on July 14.<br />
Building and safety issues are being<br />
resolved separately.<br />
ment he finds as his canvas. But<br />
now it’s too late to save the irreplaceable<br />
trees. Anonymous<br />
Focus Available<br />
Since the “<strong>Fullerton</strong> Focus” is no<br />
longer included in the water bill, I<br />
asked the City to print up some<br />
copies and leave them at City Hall<br />
for those of us who are without computers.<br />
Now anyone can pick up a<br />
copy each month.<br />
Carole Maher <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
businesses still allow non-handicap<br />
parking in the spots. Their own cars<br />
are there everyday, all day.<br />
One last problem concerns the<br />
safety of the kids in the area. With all<br />
the auto shops here, we have a problem<br />
with cars racing up and down<br />
the street. Can’t they test the cars<br />
they work on a bit slower?<br />
We can’t figure out why this part<br />
of the street (700-800 block) is being<br />
ignored. We are learning that calling<br />
city hall does little good. About a<br />
year ago we met with one city official,<br />
but problems are still ongoing<br />
all this time later.<br />
Are city services just for the higher<br />
tax-paying areas? Do we have to<br />
know somebody at city hall in order<br />
to get the problems fixed? What can<br />
we do to inspire some real action to<br />
take place here?<br />
Concerned Citizens<br />
of Williamson Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
If city hall staff are being unresponsive<br />
you can speak or leave a<br />
message for councilmembers by calling<br />
714-738-6311 or by email to<br />
Mayor Don Bankhead; Mayor<br />
Protem Pam Keller; and<br />
Councilmembers Dick Jones and<br />
Sharon Quirk-Silva at<br />
Council@ci.fullerton.ca.us<br />
Mail letters to <strong>Fullerton</strong> City<br />
Council, <strong>Fullerton</strong> City Hall, 303<br />
W. Commonwealth, <strong>Fullerton</strong> CA<br />
92832.<br />
According to the city traffic engineer,<br />
you should present a petition<br />
signed by the members of the street<br />
who support the need for action to<br />
the council.<br />
Civilians killed by military in Iraq<br />
www.iraqbodycount.org (7/17/2010)<br />
US Soldiers killed in Iraq: (DoD 7/2010)<br />
US Soldiers killed in Afghanistan (7/2010)<br />
www.icasualties.org<br />
US Soldiers wounded (DOD reports) www.icasualties.org<br />
Iraq (3/2003 thru 7/2010)<br />
Afghanistan (10/2001 thru 7/2010)<br />
Cost of Wars Since 2001 www.costofwar.com (7/29/2010)<br />
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AUGUST 2010 COMMUNITY OPINIONS Continued on page 7<br />
I know it is naïve to wonder what is<br />
controversial about a resolution asking<br />
people who claim not to be racists to<br />
repudiate racism. If I'm not harboring<br />
racists or trying to protect my clout with<br />
racists, why would I resist repudiating<br />
anyone who acts like a racist?<br />
Okay, I said my wonderment<br />
was naïve.<br />
It is very clear that elements<br />
of The Tea Party-which<br />
is not a party at all but<br />
a coalition of grievances<br />
(some quite valid)--are<br />
racists. This, however, is not<br />
a stunning charge. Any<br />
group will have some racists-<br />
-Democrats, Republicans, Catholics,<br />
Protestants, Muslims, Hindus and Jews.<br />
This is the nature of groups and unfortunately<br />
of the human condition.<br />
The problem is not the fact that when<br />
you look at pictures of Tea Party gatherings,<br />
you don't see many people of color.<br />
But it is not the colors in the picture but<br />
the content and character of the signs that<br />
more than hint at racial animus. When<br />
there are signs with President Obama as<br />
Out of My Mind<br />
by Jon Dobrer © 2010 JonDobrer@mac.com<br />
Wikileaks: And the Truth Shall Set You Scared<br />
The good news and bad news about our<br />
nation are related--as such things usually<br />
are. We survive because despite elections<br />
(which occasionally have consequences)<br />
we enjoy and are cursed with tremendous<br />
continuity. This is to say that all<br />
American governments tend to act like,<br />
well, all other American governments.<br />
Out of power candidates<br />
run against imperial presidencies<br />
and government secrets.<br />
Everyone out of power is all<br />
for transparency because it<br />
might reveal the ignorance,<br />
arrogance and incompetence<br />
of the incumbents. Funny<br />
how as soon as the outs get in,<br />
they see the virtues of both<br />
opacity and mendacity.<br />
The revelation of the<br />
Pentagon Papers during the<br />
Vietnam War was heroic to<br />
the anti-war movement and liberals. Yet<br />
the leaking of the notes and reports from<br />
the front in Afghanistan is not welcomed<br />
by the Obama Administration. Like all<br />
leaked intelligence, it is alleged to put our<br />
service people in harms way. Uh, I think<br />
what puts them in harms way are deployment<br />
orders and the pursuit of a military<br />
goal that we stipulate cannot be achieved<br />
by military power. Our other goals and<br />
metrics of victory are ill defined or undefined.<br />
This White House, as all other White<br />
Houses before, dances the dance of dissembling<br />
double-speak. It was emotionally<br />
painful and vaguely nauseating for me<br />
to watch Press Secretary Gibbs channeling<br />
the Queen from Alice in Wonderland<br />
and holding two impossible things before<br />
breakfast. He held two opposing and contradictory<br />
positions on the 90,000-page<br />
document release by Wikileak. He consistently<br />
argued that he had nothing to say<br />
because there was "nothing new," and we<br />
already knew everything in the leaked<br />
materials; and he asserted without shame,<br />
insight or apparent irony that these materials<br />
were valuable, it was wrong to release<br />
them and they put our service personnel<br />
in greater danger.<br />
The released materials are pretty raw,<br />
and how much is reliable is certainly open<br />
As with<br />
so many<br />
important<br />
secrets,<br />
these<br />
are secrets<br />
from the<br />
American<br />
people only.<br />
NAACP Asks Tea Party for Repudiation of Racism<br />
Silence<br />
is a response.<br />
Own<br />
the bigots<br />
or repudiate<br />
them.<br />
to question. These are reports by people<br />
in the field and raw intelligence from people<br />
with positions to defend and opponents<br />
to discredit. They are not to taken<br />
as Gospel. But what makes them important<br />
is what they reveal about both the<br />
Bush and Obama administrations' common<br />
view on secrecy and desire for the<br />
American public NOT to<br />
have information about how<br />
the war is being conducted,<br />
what is working and what is<br />
going terribly wrong.<br />
One of the things we know,<br />
but don't want to be officially<br />
known, is the complicity of<br />
the Pakistani intelligence<br />
service and their aid to both<br />
the Taliban and Al Qaeda.<br />
The Pakistanis are, after all,<br />
our allies and recipients of<br />
billions of dollars of aid-much<br />
of it military. The other great<br />
smoking gun is actually a smoking missile<br />
and serves as a good example of governmental<br />
bad faith. A report claims that at<br />
least one of our helicopters was shot down<br />
by a SAM--a surface to air missile. Up till<br />
now we have claimed that the Taliban<br />
didn't have missiles and if any helicopters<br />
were hit it was by RPGs (Rocket<br />
Propelled Grenades). So, why doesn't our<br />
government want this known?<br />
1. Well, because we have been denying<br />
it for years and we don't want to admit<br />
prior acts of mendacity.<br />
2. Because if it is true it probably means<br />
that the SAMs we gave the Mujahidin to<br />
use against the Soviets are being used<br />
against us, and we don't want to wonder<br />
how the arms we are now supplying our<br />
"friends" may, are and, inevitably, will be<br />
used against us.<br />
As with so many important secrets,<br />
these are secrets from the American people<br />
only. Our enemies know if they have<br />
missiles, if the Pakistanis are helping them<br />
and how well they are doing.<br />
Democracy depends on We the People<br />
having access to good information. Our<br />
governments want us only to have access<br />
to their version of good news. This is<br />
deeply disappointing, but hardly surprising.<br />
Hitler, cartoons with Obama with a bone<br />
through his nose, pictures with chickens<br />
and watermelons, one does not require a<br />
degree in semiotics to understand the<br />
intent of some.<br />
Remember Sir Thomas More, "Silence<br />
connotes assent." The silence,<br />
the non-repudiation of racial<br />
hatred implies at least a disquieting<br />
tolerance. Nor can one<br />
fail to recoil at the angry mob<br />
that spat at African American<br />
members of Congress on their<br />
way to vote on health care and<br />
still credibly deny racism. That<br />
they were uniquely targeted<br />
again calls for a response.<br />
Dislike Obama, as many liberals disliked<br />
W. Call him names. Fight his policies<br />
with reason, wit and passion. Or just<br />
be vulgar. That too is okay (but says more<br />
about you than about him). However,<br />
please if you care about this nation, do not<br />
add to racial tensions by attacking the<br />
African half of his race or pretending that<br />
he is not a real birthright American. This<br />
too is a kind of code delegitimizing the<br />
man not his policies.<br />
FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 3<br />
<strong>Observer</strong>s Around the World<br />
Leon & Lis Leyson<br />
at the Museum of the Holocaust<br />
Leon and Lis Leyson, subscribers to the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> <strong>Observer</strong> since its inception, are<br />
pictured above at the opening in June<br />
2010 of the Krakow (Poland) Museum of<br />
the Holocaust. The Museum is housed in<br />
Oskar Schindler's enamel factory where<br />
Leon (at the young age of 13) and several<br />
of his family worked as members of<br />
Schindler's List during World War II.<br />
Oskar Schindler was able to save the<br />
lives of Jewish men, women and children<br />
under the guise that they were essential<br />
workers in his enamelware factory and by<br />
bribing Nazi officials not to kill them. His<br />
wife Emilie worked with him and by the<br />
end of the war they had spent their entire<br />
fortune and had succeeded in saving 1200<br />
people from the death camps.<br />
by Dr. Richard M. Ramirez, Ed.D.<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> College Dean, Emeritus<br />
With so much attention on test scores<br />
and school reform, our local k-12 education<br />
leaders should be engaging the community<br />
on what skills and knowledge students<br />
will need to succeed in a globally<br />
competitive world.<br />
I join with parents and<br />
many others in <strong>Fullerton</strong> wondering<br />
why our school leaders<br />
seem overly infatuated with<br />
API scores knowing full well<br />
that multiple choice tests do<br />
little to prepare our kids with<br />
writing, thinking, and problem<br />
solving skills needed to<br />
succeed at the next level,<br />
whether in the work place or<br />
university.<br />
The Anaheim Union High School<br />
District, is more focused on 21st Century<br />
skills and recently became the first OC<br />
district to approve “the Seal of Biliteracy,”<br />
a statewide initiative promoted by<br />
Californians Together. Students graduating<br />
from the Anaheim District, who are<br />
proficient in a second language, will now<br />
earn diplomas stamped with seals showing<br />
their dual literacy. Officials said the goal is<br />
to encourage more students to learn and<br />
master multiple languages. The mastery of<br />
two languages is a valuable asset for participation<br />
in a diverse 21st century economy,<br />
says Fred Navarro, the district's assistant<br />
superintendent of education services.<br />
As the leading voice of business, the<br />
Orange County Business Council<br />
(OCBC) wholeheartedly endorsed the<br />
initiative stating “an important component<br />
of 21st century skills is fluency in<br />
Leon Leyson, as the youngest survivor<br />
on Schindler’s List, has told his shocking<br />
and inspiring story to students and adults<br />
in <strong>Fullerton</strong> and across the country. He<br />
says that, Schindler was a genuine hero<br />
because of the danger he put himself in<br />
and the chances he took. “A hero,” says<br />
Leyson, “is an ordinary human being who<br />
does the best of things in the worst of<br />
times.”<br />
SPECIAL EVENT: Leon Leyson will speak<br />
at a free event at 7pm, Thurs., <strong>Aug</strong>ust 5 at<br />
the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201<br />
W. Malvern Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833. Call<br />
866-411-1212 between 12 noon to 4pm<br />
Wed.-Sun; or 714-866-1212 or go to the<br />
website at www.themuck.org for more<br />
information and directions.<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Students Need the Seal of Biliteracy<br />
...building<br />
linguistic<br />
and cultural<br />
capacities<br />
empower<br />
students<br />
with<br />
marketable<br />
skills.<br />
another language (besides English) that<br />
will enable California’s next generation of<br />
business leaders and workers to continue<br />
to grow our economic capacity. Anaheim<br />
Union High School District proposed<br />
policy to recommend a “Seal of Biliteracy”<br />
is an excellent example of k-12 practices<br />
that support 21st century skills for<br />
economic success.”<br />
The OCBC letter continues, ”The<br />
Seal of Biliteracy will affirm<br />
AUHSD’s commitment to success as<br />
symbolized by Oxford Academy, one<br />
of America ’s best high schools, which<br />
has developed strong Chinese and<br />
Spanish foreign language programs.<br />
Sycamore Junior High and other<br />
schools in the district are also to be<br />
commended for their commitment to<br />
rigorous foreign language programs<br />
such as “Spanish for Spanish Speakers”<br />
which has been highlighted as a best practice<br />
in closing the achievement gap. The<br />
seal is rigorous in that the student must<br />
show academic literacy in both English<br />
and another language through Advanced<br />
Placement scores and high grades in both<br />
languages.”<br />
As we all know, <strong>Fullerton</strong> has great<br />
schools too that are very competitive with<br />
the Oxford Academies of the world. But,<br />
we cannot afford to sit by while other districts<br />
move forward in building on linguistic<br />
and cultural capacities which<br />
empower students with marketable skills.<br />
In these difficult budgetary times, we<br />
should not settle for mediocrity and must<br />
continue to find ways to support curriculum<br />
that will give our young people a “leg<br />
up” on the competition. The time is now<br />
to support a Seal of Biliteracy for our<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> schools.
Page 4 FULLERTON OBSERVER CITY GOVERNMENT NEWS<br />
AUGUST 2010<br />
CITY COUNCIL NOTES w/Kevin Frink<br />
The <strong>Fullerton</strong> City Council meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month<br />
at 5pm (closed session) and 6:30pm (public session). Contact councilmembers<br />
at 714-738-6311 or council@ci.fullerton.ca.us. Upcoming Agenda info and Streaming<br />
Video are available at www.cityoffullerton.com. Meetings are broadcast live on Cable<br />
Channel 3and rebroadcast at 3pm and at 6pm the following Wed.& Sun., and 5pm Mon.<br />
City Hall is located at 303 W. Commonwealth, <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92832.<br />
7-6-10 Council Report<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>’s City Council and<br />
Redevelopment Agency called the July 6th<br />
regular meeting to order, with 4 members<br />
seated at the council dais. The evening’s<br />
activity saw council examine council’s<br />
vacant seat, the designation of trucking<br />
routes in <strong>Fullerton</strong>, and possible amendments<br />
pertaining to personal service facilities<br />
and tattoo parlors. Additionally,<br />
council heard from the engineering<br />
department regarding residential permit<br />
parking and from the police department<br />
about vehicle release fees and towing<br />
guidelines and requirements.<br />
PUBLIC COMMENTS: Several<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>ians spoke during the public<br />
comments segment. Vince Buck was<br />
present to call for a closer look into minimal<br />
cuts made by the public safety departments<br />
in comparison to other city departments.<br />
Reginald Jones voiced concerns<br />
regarding the pending renovation at the<br />
senior center. A segment of <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Senior’s wish to keep the free standing<br />
facility as currently utilized. Barry<br />
Levingston commented on the horse trails<br />
at Euclid Ave. asking why they have not<br />
been opened since their 2003 closure.<br />
COUNCIL VACANCY: With the resignation<br />
of Shawn Nelson on June 21st, council<br />
debated how to proceed. The options<br />
included a Special Election or an appointment<br />
made by council. Ultimately council<br />
voted to request the County of Orange<br />
to consolidate a special municipal election<br />
with the statewide general election to be<br />
held November 2, 2010.<br />
TRUCK ROUTES: With the recommendation<br />
of the Engineering and Police<br />
Departments, council discussed adding a<br />
chapter for Truck Routes and Terminals to<br />
the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Municipal Code. Mark<br />
Miller, traffic engineer, and Corporal<br />
Ledbetter presented, and council<br />
approved, 4-0. Previously, <strong>Fullerton</strong> has<br />
operated with weight restrictions to certain<br />
trucks but no designated trucking<br />
routes.<br />
TATTOO PARLORS: Unanimously, council<br />
members voted to amend <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Municipal Code and remove the “Tattoo<br />
Parlor” from the definition of a “Personal<br />
Service Facility”. A new definition will<br />
be established for the parlors along with<br />
permitted locations and guidelines.<br />
Council heard discussion from the<br />
Development Dept. and tattoo shop owners.<br />
Currently, there are no problem at<br />
the 18 sites. This code amendment will<br />
allow the ink spots in most commercial<br />
areas, but more restrictions, such as proximity<br />
to residential areas, grade schools,<br />
and other tattoo businesses, and size<br />
restrictions.<br />
IMPOUND: The cost to release stored or<br />
impounded vehicles (non-DUI) will be<br />
rising. Chief Sellers and the Police Dept.<br />
cite a city audit, which shows the administrative<br />
cost recovery vehicle release fee<br />
(ACRVRF) does not support the costs<br />
associated with such activity. Fees will be<br />
rising to offset the incurred costs. Council<br />
approved the recommendation 4-0.<br />
TOWING: <strong>Fullerton</strong> and their police<br />
department are looking toward new<br />
guidelines and requirements for towing<br />
operations within the city. Currently,<br />
tow operations are not in compliance with<br />
the California Vehicle Code which presents<br />
challenges when trying to regulate<br />
towing in town. According to Cpt.<br />
Hamilton, there is an approximate deficit<br />
between operational costs and the costs<br />
recovered of over $550,000. (How many<br />
employees can be compensated annually<br />
with $550,000?) The item was continued<br />
to a future council session.<br />
PARKING: With recommendations of<br />
both the Transportation and Circulation<br />
Commission and the Engineering Dept.,<br />
council amended Chapter 8 of the FMC<br />
pertaining to permit parking on designated<br />
streets in <strong>Fullerton</strong>. Currently parking<br />
is regulated in neighborhoods near Troy<br />
High School, <strong>Fullerton</strong> College and CSU<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> with posted time restrictions.<br />
This action allows residential parking procedures<br />
and guidelines with a super<br />
majority (65%) of neighbors supporting<br />
any changes. Council supported this<br />
action with a vote of 3-1. (Quirk-Silva,no)<br />
CONSENT CALENDAR: With the<br />
approval of the evening’s consent calendar,<br />
the council approved a new cellular tower<br />
to be raised at 3151 N Euclid and rejected<br />
bids for a project at the <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
7-20-10 Council Report<br />
The July 20 agenda was brief and the<br />
meeting even trimmer with a public hearing<br />
on Franchise Towing continued to the<br />
<strong>Aug</strong>ust 17, 2010 council meeting. All four<br />
remaining councilmembers were present.<br />
•AFFORDABLE HOUSING: With unanimous<br />
support of the council and the<br />
Development Dept., a new Affordable<br />
Housing and Disposition Agreement has<br />
been reached for a 16-unit complex near<br />
the Richman park area. Richman Court,<br />
LP and the City of <strong>Fullerton</strong> will enter the<br />
agreement to rehabilitate and manage a<br />
16 unit apartment complex at 466 West<br />
Valencia Dr. <strong>Fullerton</strong> is required to<br />
meet a certain minimum of affordable<br />
housing units by 2014. This rental complex,<br />
as stated by council member Jones,<br />
marks “a little bit more than a drop in the<br />
bucket.”<br />
•COMMITTEES REINSTATED: As a fund<br />
saving measure, council looked into the<br />
suspension of six citizen committees and<br />
commissions. Staff has estimated 400<br />
hours each year are spent by City of<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> staffers on commission and<br />
committee work projects. After hearing<br />
comments from a few citizens, council<br />
unanimously voted to reinstate the six<br />
committees.<br />
Pat McNelly, a former commission<br />
chairman urged the council not to “lose<br />
track of our citizens that have stepped forward”<br />
and suggested a merger of the<br />
Underground Utilities Commission and<br />
the Citizens Infrastructure Review. A<br />
member of the Technology Working<br />
Group suggested a group member could<br />
Salaries of City of <strong>Fullerton</strong> Executive Employees<br />
POSITION 2007 SALARY* 2010 SALARY*•<br />
•City Manager.......................$212,371............$241,584<br />
•Chief of Police.....................$172,316............$227,556<br />
•Fire Chief............................$170,050.............$213,900<br />
•Dir. of Redevelopment........$170,050.............$196,800<br />
•Dir. of Engineering.............$161,461.............$188,040<br />
•Dir. of Development...........$161,461.............$183,888<br />
•Dir. of Admin Services........$153,249.............$181,908<br />
•Dir. of Maintenance............$152,871.............$172,968<br />
•Dir. of Human Resources....$132,098.............$160,356<br />
•Dir. of Parks Recreation.......$145,721............$158,784<br />
•Library Director...................$130,669............$138,348<br />
•Assistant to City Manager....$ 97,431............$127,428<br />
Tennis Center, near St. Jude Hospital and<br />
the North Orange County YMCA. Also,<br />
council approved the 2010-11 investment<br />
policy and the 7-year capital improvement<br />
program. The capital improvement program<br />
will maintain Measure M funding<br />
requirements for <strong>Fullerton</strong>.<br />
FULLERTON BEAUTIFUL: The <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Beautiful Foundation were in the house to<br />
present 6 awards for exceptional landscape<br />
across the city. The 3 residential winning<br />
yards can be found at: 1375 Riverside<br />
Drive, 400 N. Malden Ave. and 100 N.<br />
Hart Place. Championship landscapes of<br />
the commercial variety can be seen at the<br />
following addresses: 801 and 1012 E.<br />
Chapman Ave., and 1016 N. Harbor.<br />
IN MEMORY OFNATALIE KENNEDY<br />
The meeting was adjourned in the<br />
memory of Natalie Kennedy, a founding<br />
member of the <strong>Fullerton</strong> <strong>Observer</strong>, the Fair<br />
Housing Council, and the Interfaith<br />
Committee to Support Farmworkers. She<br />
died at 85 of cardiac arrest on June 20<br />
while planting drought-tolerant plants<br />
beneath her Maple tree.<br />
serve as secretary to relieve the City of<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Staff member.<br />
Several adjustments were made to the<br />
operations of the citizen commissions for<br />
the immediate future. To lessen the<br />
involvement of city staff, minimal documentation<br />
will be taken at commission<br />
meetings, including action minutes and<br />
audio backup only. Several committees<br />
will meet quarterly, the Energy Resource<br />
and Management, Investment Advisory,<br />
and Technology Working Groups.<br />
Others will meet on an “as needed” basis,<br />
with no less than one meeting each year.<br />
Those committees are the Airport Noise<br />
and Safety, Citizens Infrastructure Review<br />
and the Underground Utilities.<br />
•NEXT MEETING: <strong>Aug</strong>ust 3rd, 2010<br />
council will will hear from the Orange<br />
County Transportation Authority regarding<br />
a widening project to the 57 freeway<br />
and their “strategic” bikeway plan.<br />
Council will also discuss the Raymond<br />
Ave. grade separation.<br />
•COYOTES: During the meeting’s closing<br />
and staff communications period,<br />
Councilmember Quirk-Silva spoke about<br />
the threat of coyotes in neighborhoods.<br />
Fortunately, councilmember and retired<br />
medical doctor, Richard Jones was at<br />
attention to quickly school the audience<br />
in the genetics of the eastern and western<br />
coyotes of North America. Eastern<br />
Coyotes share bloodlines with wolves and<br />
might have larger skulls and more aggressive<br />
behaviors, he said.<br />
IN MEMORY OF CARL RICHARDSON<br />
The meeting was closed in memory of<br />
Carl Richardson, the founder of the local<br />
Care Ambulance Service.<br />
*figure includes benefits<br />
of city-paid retirement,<br />
medical contribution, dental<br />
contribution, vision, life and<br />
longterm disability insurance<br />
and auto allowance (or<br />
$485 if a vehicle is provided)<br />
•figures include a 5% cut<br />
in pay due to City Budget<br />
Problems<br />
A 2010 comparison of the compensation of Orange County City Managers was completed<br />
by Cynthia D. Smith and Janice A. Voshall, Brandman University (Chapman U<br />
System). Below are the figures for the cities with populations of 100,000 or more.<br />
City Population Total Compensation Cost Per Resident<br />
Santa Ana 353,428 $327,074 $0.93<br />
Anaheim 348,467 $317,923 $0.91<br />
Irvine 212,793 $355,692 $1.67<br />
Huntington 198,025 $275,822 $1.39<br />
Garden Grv 173,067 $289,485 $1.67<br />
Orange 141,634 $203,072 $2.17<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> 137,000 $260,214 $1.90<br />
Costa Mesa 113,955 $274,337 $2.41<br />
Mission Viejo 100,242 $260,122 $2.59
AUGUST 2010 SCHOOL NEWS<br />
School District Notes by Jan Youngman<br />
FSD Board meetings take at 5:30pm on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays<br />
of each month at District Headquarters, 1401 W. Valencia, Dr.,<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833. See www.fsd.k12.ca.us for agenda or call 714-447-7400<br />
JUNE’S FSD MEETING HIGHLIGHTS<br />
Budget and Lawsuit<br />
Unfortunately, the budget pain will continue.<br />
Budget projections for the 2011/12<br />
and 2012/13 years will demand more cuts.<br />
Since the District will no longer be able to<br />
continue the Class Size Reduction<br />
Program, the state will take those funds.<br />
Currently, the promised state funding is<br />
being “deferred,” which ordinarily means<br />
that the state must eventually give those<br />
funds to the school districts. But now the<br />
state through “creative accounting” will no<br />
longer “defer” funds, but just take them<br />
away without reimbursement.<br />
With such a dire situation facing<br />
California schools and the disregard to<br />
Prop. 98 on school funding, a lawsuit,<br />
Robles-Wong vs. California, has been filed<br />
to force the state to honor its Prop. 98<br />
funding commitment. The Board voted<br />
4-1 for a resolution supporting this action.<br />
Trustee Thornley voted no. “The court<br />
is not a way to solve this, it should be done<br />
in the legislature.” Trustee Ballard disagreed<br />
with her saying that the legislature<br />
has not supported children and education,<br />
but has manipulated funding and propositions.<br />
Title III Funds<br />
The state is permitting school districts<br />
flexibility to use Title III funds during<br />
2011 through the 2013 school years for<br />
budget shortfalls. While some programs<br />
funding (such as: GATE, technology, arts<br />
& music, PLC’s) will remain largely intact,<br />
enough was used to complete the budget.<br />
Dr. Cardinale stressed that “without the<br />
flexibility to use the Title III funds, the district<br />
would not be solvent.<br />
Layoffs Avoided<br />
Since the teachers (FETA) agreed to take<br />
8 contractual furlough days, they were able<br />
to save all but one permanent and 13 temporary<br />
teachers from being laid off. This<br />
permits class sizes to be an average of 31<br />
students instead of 33.<br />
Salary Reductions<br />
The district Certificated Management<br />
and Administrative Staff employees have<br />
agreed to take a 5.25% salary reduction.<br />
Announcements<br />
•Sunset Lane School will begin a feebased<br />
Pre-school (ages 3&4) and before<br />
and after school child care program.<br />
Currently, the district has only one feebased<br />
preschool at Beechwood.<br />
•All the Arts for All the Kids annual<br />
2010 Pin Auction will take place October<br />
30. Proceeds benefit art and music lessons<br />
in all district classrooms.<br />
•The <strong>Fullerton</strong> Education Foundation<br />
presented the District with a $4,000 donation<br />
requesting that each school’s<br />
library/media center receive $200 for<br />
books and supplies.<br />
• The <strong>Fullerton</strong> Excellence in<br />
Technology Foundation (formerly<br />
Excellence in Education Foundation)<br />
raised $85,000 largely from their “Toast to<br />
Learning” Wine Auction.<br />
•Assistance League of <strong>Fullerton</strong>’s contract<br />
with the district was renewed. This<br />
organization provides low-income students<br />
with school clothes, through its Operation<br />
School Bell program, and free vision<br />
screening for all students. Follow-up vision<br />
care is also provided for low-income students.<br />
•Superintendent Hovey was invited to<br />
join the Suburban School Superintendent<br />
group which is a national group that meets<br />
regularly to discuss school issues.<br />
Membership is by invitation.<br />
Autistic & Occupational Programs:<br />
An indistrict autistic program and a<br />
“high incident” (occupational therapy)<br />
program will be added. Previously, the district<br />
sent students to other districts and<br />
sometimes private schools. The Board<br />
decided it would be beneficial to have these<br />
programs available for students within the<br />
district.<br />
Next Meeting: 5:30pm, <strong>Aug</strong>. 24<br />
Cherami Scholarships<br />
The Cherami Foundation has awarded<br />
scholarship money to outstanding<br />
high school graduates for the tenth<br />
year. The eleven recipients are the top<br />
students in their graduating class,<br />
respected by their peers, held in awe by<br />
their teachers, committed to community<br />
service and just all-around wonderful<br />
young people! Recipients include the<br />
number one ranked graduate in his<br />
class at Buena Park High School. Many<br />
of the students came to the US speaking<br />
no English and have overcome language<br />
as well as cultural differences.<br />
Students were selected from <strong>Fullerton</strong>,<br />
Buena Park, La Habra and Sonora<br />
High Schools.<br />
Several years ago, Dr. Joann<br />
Brannock her husband Fred decided to<br />
lend a helping hand to deserving students.<br />
That’s how the Cherami<br />
Foundation got its start. The<br />
Foundation has given over $220,000 to<br />
136 amazing students. Joann tells<br />
them, “When you complete your first<br />
year with a 3.0, your scholarship will be<br />
extended for your second year.”<br />
Almost every student awarded a scholarship<br />
has made that challenge a reality.<br />
This year Carolyn T. Johnson and Ellen<br />
Ballard were privileged to read applications<br />
and meet the eleven students. As<br />
Carolyn said, “I’ve read many applications<br />
in the past and these were truly<br />
the best of the best.”<br />
Awards went to: Vicky Tapia and<br />
Alejandra Rodriguez going to CSUF;<br />
Sophia Mercado and Leslie May<br />
Legaspi going to UCI; Charity Hall<br />
going to UC Davis; Laura Skinner<br />
going to CSULB; Derek O’Hanlon<br />
going to UCLA; Neyanatullah Akbar<br />
going to UCLA or Berkeley; Derek<br />
Donaldson going to Cal Poly Pomona;<br />
and Alex Montgomery and Francisco<br />
Rios Casas going to USC.<br />
FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 5<br />
<strong>Observer</strong>s Around the World<br />
Brookhurst from Orangethorpe Ave.<br />
to the 91 Freeway will go to one lane in<br />
each direction for eight weeks beginning<br />
in mid-<strong>Aug</strong>ust. The state-funded<br />
$558,535 project will improve the road-<br />
The<br />
Godbey’s<br />
in Paris<br />
Pictured at<br />
left, Kathy<br />
and Steve<br />
Godbey<br />
celebrate<br />
Steve’s<br />
birthday<br />
in Paris.<br />
Groups Stand Up for<br />
the Collaborative<br />
Continued from frontpage<br />
tioned the purpose of having a district<br />
employee head the group.<br />
Berryman said that while she had been<br />
involved in a Collaborative program;<br />
thought it was helpful in bringing all the<br />
resources to one place; and thought it<br />
important for <strong>Fullerton</strong>; she felt that district<br />
employees should not be involved<br />
in overseeing the group. She suggested<br />
Keller could take a leave of absence or<br />
become a part-time employee and thereby<br />
retain her district employee benefits.<br />
The <strong>Fullerton</strong> Collaborative was<br />
established in 1989 as a cooperative of<br />
executive directors, educators, activists,<br />
community service leaders, and volunteers<br />
dedicated to building and supporting<br />
a healthy community for <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
residents. Through this venture, groups<br />
work together to seek ongoing financial<br />
support, community input, and improve<br />
student success as community awareness<br />
is raised regarding the services available<br />
to students and their families.<br />
Free Summer Program<br />
Created by the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Collaborative<br />
Volunteers from the <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Collaborative created free summer programming<br />
for elementary school-age children<br />
in the Richman neighborhood to<br />
replace the loss of summer school caused<br />
by school district budget issues. Mondays,<br />
Wednesdays and Fridays are sports days<br />
and Thursdays and Fridays are art classes.<br />
There are approximately 30 volunteers<br />
working with the 75 children enrolled in<br />
the “SOLFUL” (Summer of Love<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>) program.<br />
Brookhurst Goes to One Lane in Mid-<strong>Aug</strong>ust<br />
way, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and access<br />
ramps, restripe and install a traffic signal<br />
conduit.<br />
Call the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Engineering Dept.<br />
at (714)738-6845 for more info.
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New Library<br />
Bookstore Opens<br />
The Friends of the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Library have<br />
opened a used bookstore at 401 W.<br />
Commonwealth, directly across Short St. from<br />
the Main Library. The store is open from 10am<br />
to 2pm Mon., Wed., and Fri.<br />
The Friends are paying the rent for the store<br />
and all proceeds from sales of used books, CDs,<br />
DVDs, video tapes and vinyl records support<br />
library programs and activities.<br />
The library’s $10 million expansion, funded<br />
by <strong>Fullerton</strong> Redevelopment, is expected to be<br />
completed by July 2011, at which time the<br />
Friends can move into their new space planned<br />
in the expanded Main Library.<br />
The expansion project, which began construction<br />
in June, will add 6,000 square feet of<br />
space and renovate 29,000 square feet to better<br />
serve the library’s 83,000 cardholders, several<br />
thousand annual visitors and more than one<br />
million transactions annually.<br />
In addition to the new bookstore space<br />
planned for the Friends, the expansion will<br />
include a new community room and kitchen; a<br />
pre-function gathering space; new coffee cart<br />
area; and new restroom and storage facilities.<br />
Areas to be renovated include the local history<br />
room; the circulation office; book stack areas;<br />
computer areas for public use; and the teen<br />
area.<br />
For more information about the new bookstore<br />
or the expansion project call the library at<br />
(714) 738-6326 or go to the Friends of the<br />
Library blog at fullertonfriends.blogspot.com<br />
New Korean Restaurant<br />
in Town Wins<br />
4th District Recognition<br />
Doori, located at 1811 W. Commonwealth<br />
Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong>, CA 92833, received the “4th<br />
District Restaurant of the Week” recognition<br />
from OC Supervisor Shawn Nelson’s office.<br />
The new restaurant, owned and operated by<br />
the Yang family, serves authentic Korean cuisine.<br />
Free Class About Hearing<br />
Loss & Corrections<br />
Local Audiologist Jane Steckler will teach a<br />
free 10-week series on how the ear works, what<br />
can go wrong, and methods available to correct<br />
hearing problems including various devices and<br />
the basics of lip reading.<br />
The course is sponsored by the North OC<br />
Community College District at the <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Senior Center, 340 W. Commonwealth Ave.,<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> 92832. Classes start Monday, Sept 13<br />
from noon to 2pm. The series is free but preregistration<br />
is requested. Call the center at 714-<br />
738-6305 to register.<br />
Michelle and her mom Shirley (pictured above) and dad James Lau attended the presentation.<br />
Michelle Lau - Girl Scout Gold Award<br />
On June 13, 2010, the Girl Scout<br />
Council awarded Michelle Lau, a resident<br />
of Amerige Heights in <strong>Fullerton</strong>, the<br />
Gold Award. Michelle is a junior at<br />
Sunny Hills High School.<br />
Michelle has been a Girl Scout since<br />
she was in kindergarten. She advanced<br />
through Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Cadet<br />
and is now a Senior of the Girl Scout<br />
Troop 4013. Before her attainment of<br />
Gold Award, Michelle had also obtained<br />
Bronze and Silver Awards.<br />
The Gold Award Project of Michelle is<br />
to teach children at the local Boys &<br />
Girls Club about environmental concerns<br />
(she also teaches third graders at<br />
her church). Michelle taught a total of 8<br />
classes within one month during after<br />
school hours and on Sundays. The topics<br />
she covered included water, soil/air pollution,<br />
plants and animals, as well as recycling.<br />
Michelle comes from a scouting family.<br />
Her father is a Boy Scout Master and her<br />
mother is a Girl Scout Leader of her<br />
troop. Her brother is an Eagel Scout and<br />
her sister is working on her own Gold<br />
Award Project about ethnic diversity.<br />
Michelle, in her junior year, was the<br />
President of both the Chinese Club and<br />
the Acting on Aids Club at Sunny Hills<br />
Disaster Plan Conversation at Museum Center<br />
Learning how to protect yourself and<br />
your family is the focus of a special program<br />
presented by Councilmember<br />
Sharon Quirk-Silva Thurs., <strong>Aug</strong>ust 26 at<br />
7:30pm at the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Museum Center,<br />
on the corner of Wilshire and Pomona,<br />
one block east of Harbor. Guest speaker is<br />
Fire Chief Wolfgang Kanbe who will talk<br />
about the Community Emergency<br />
Response Team, which trains citizens to<br />
provide immediate assistance in case of<br />
disaster. A question and answer session<br />
follows. The draft Local Hazard<br />
Mitigation Plan will come before the<br />
Council for approval in the near future.<br />
Free. Call (714) 738-6311 for more info.<br />
High and she was recently elected<br />
President of National Honors Society for<br />
the senior year.<br />
In sports, Michelle has competed with<br />
the Junior Varsity Volleyball and Track<br />
Team of Sunny Hills High School. She is<br />
a 2nd degree black belt holder in Tae<br />
Kwon Do with the Hi Kick Academy in<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>.<br />
Outside school, she was the president<br />
of the Medical Explorers Post 7 at Kaiser<br />
Permanente in Anaheim and had served<br />
as Editor-in-Chief of its newsletter. At<br />
church, she is a leader in the core youth<br />
fellowship.<br />
Besides being in the top four percent of<br />
all eligible Girl Scouts to receive the Gold<br />
Award, she also is in the elite one percent<br />
of her school as a member of the Top 100<br />
academically accomplished students for<br />
three consecutive years, California<br />
Scholarship Federation, National Society<br />
of High School Scholars, and National<br />
Honor Society.<br />
Michelle has received certificates of<br />
recognition from Mayor Don Bankhead<br />
and the <strong>Fullerton</strong> City Council,<br />
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,<br />
Senator Dianne Feinstein, former<br />
President George W. Bush, the United<br />
States Army, the California State<br />
Assembly, and the County of LA.<br />
Development<br />
Director to Conduct<br />
Public Dialogues<br />
Al Zelinka, <strong>Fullerton</strong>’s new development<br />
director is holding a series of<br />
community meetings in which citizens<br />
are invited to come discuss<br />
issues, concerns and hopes they have<br />
regarding the city’s growth and<br />
development. The next meeting is<br />
on Sept. 28 from 6pm-7pm at<br />
Vision Center, Rm. 140, Grace<br />
Ministries International, 150 S.<br />
Brookhurst, <strong>Fullerton</strong>. Call 714-<br />
738-3347 or email<br />
alz@ci.fullerton.ca.us for more<br />
information.<br />
3-D Model of<br />
Downtown Available<br />
via Google Earth<br />
Twenty-five community members<br />
attended the meeting to showcase<br />
“Downtown <strong>Fullerton</strong> 3D.” The<br />
project, funded through SCAG and<br />
Caltrans, created a 3D digital model<br />
of the downtown for a variety of<br />
planning and visualization uses. The<br />
model is available at www.cityoffullerton.com.<br />
Go to the “About<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>” link near the top of the<br />
main page and click on the “Maps”<br />
link. The model will also be available<br />
on Google Earth at an upcoming<br />
date.<br />
8 Water Main Line<br />
Breaks in June<br />
There were eight water mainline<br />
breaks in June. Two, including the<br />
Main Plant Pump Station 18” steel<br />
pipe and the 6” cast iron break at<br />
1234 E. Ash Ave., were suspected to<br />
be caused by age. The pipes were laid<br />
in 1952. Reason for the other six<br />
breaks is unknown. They occurred at<br />
1300 Candlewood; 1300 Eltham<br />
Place; 2173 Loma Alta; 1713 Shady<br />
Brook; 2900 Birch Place and 1631<br />
Brea Blvd. All involved 6” to 8” cast<br />
iron pipes laid between 1962 and<br />
1976.<br />
County Commission<br />
Positions Available<br />
Anyone interested in serving a 3year<br />
term on the Public Financing<br />
Advisory Committee should call<br />
Audra Adams in OC Supe. Nelson’s<br />
office at (714) 834-3998 or by email<br />
to Audra.Adams@ocgov.com.
AUGUST 2010<br />
LOCAL NEWS<br />
Michelle’s new bike rests against the memorial bench of her brother Alex Buck<br />
located at the top of Hillcrest Park. His death at a young age inspired her to compete in<br />
marathons to raise money for cancer research.<br />
TRIATHLON ATHLETE IN TRAINING<br />
All I Have To Do Is Complete It<br />
by Michelle Buck<br />
This is a story for women that have<br />
said or thought, “I am too heavy or over<br />
weight” to do something.<br />
My parents always encouraged me to<br />
enjoy the outdoors and to play any sport I<br />
wanted. In fact, at <strong>Fullerton</strong> High School,<br />
I was on the Soccer and the Track and<br />
Cross Country Teams. I also walked up<br />
Lemon Hill from school everyday.<br />
Although the hill was only a half mile<br />
long, it felt more like 10 miles!<br />
I was an active kid, however, as a young<br />
adult, my life changed. My life became<br />
more about work and about having a<br />
sociable night life. So those nice weekend<br />
afternoons were more about napping and<br />
not about enjoying the great outdoors!<br />
While I was nearing my 30’s, I lost my<br />
brother to cancer. This made me stop and<br />
take a serious look at my life. I knew<br />
things had to change; that I had to<br />
Michelle running the Rock ‘n Roll<br />
Marathon<br />
change. I began by joining a wonderful<br />
program called Team in Training (TNT).<br />
While I was running in memory of my<br />
brother, I started to “find myself” with<br />
TNT. Since 2007, I have raised thousands<br />
of dollars to fight cancer.<br />
So far, I have completed two full<br />
marathons and six half marathons. Yes the<br />
word is completed. From day one, I simply<br />
told myself, “This is a race against yourself<br />
and not anyone else.” It did not matter<br />
that it took me 6.5 hours to cross the 26.2<br />
mile finish line; the whole point was that<br />
I crossed it!<br />
This year I have once again set high<br />
goals for myself and I am planning to<br />
complete three Triathlons which will<br />
involve running, biking and swimming.<br />
Many people might look at me and say,<br />
“no way,” because at 35-years-old, 5-feet<br />
tall, and about 40 pounds overweight, I<br />
don’t fit the typical description of a<br />
triathlon athlete. But, that does not matter.<br />
This is a race for myself, not others.<br />
A few months ago, my father and I went<br />
to Banning’s Bikes in Downtown<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> and I got fitted with, and purchased,<br />
my first race bike!<br />
Twice a week, I now leave my car<br />
behind to ride my bike to work. Riding<br />
down the riverbed and up PCH is about<br />
22 miles to my workplace. I average about<br />
13 miles an hour, which is not very fast, as<br />
most experienced riders go about 18 to 19<br />
miles per hour. As I see it, all of those fast<br />
riders are missing out on a lot! There’s no<br />
rush. It’s about seizing the moment.<br />
Furthermore, I have started swimming<br />
for a half an hour, two times a week. This<br />
is a great start and these baby steps are<br />
already beginning to work for me.<br />
In September, I plan on doing my first<br />
Triathlon in Long Beach. I will not start<br />
the race in the third wave with my age<br />
group. I will start in the last wave. This is<br />
the category for women 145 lbs and over.<br />
I am looking forward to starting at the<br />
end, because all I have to do to win is to<br />
complete it.<br />
This is my message to all big women;<br />
discover your own challenges, make your<br />
own goals, and please remember it’s not<br />
about how fast you do it, it’s all about the<br />
fact that you try and that you can complete<br />
it!<br />
FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 7<br />
Are “Dynamic” Signs Right for<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>? by J. A. Kaluzny<br />
Rules for electronic reader boards, digital<br />
display and “dynamic” display signs are<br />
being written for <strong>Fullerton</strong> by<br />
Development Director Al Zelinka, his<br />
staff and consultant Ron Pflugrath of<br />
Hogle-Ireland, Inc. On <strong>Aug</strong>ust 25 at<br />
7pm, an ordinance for such signs will be<br />
on the planning commission agenda.<br />
“If there’s an identity we (<strong>Fullerton</strong>)<br />
want to project,” said Mary Ann Clark, a<br />
resident attending an informational meeting,<br />
“We should start building it.”<br />
“Does the city have a vision?” asked<br />
Terri Prado, A-A Auto Service, Inc. She<br />
said she was representing auto dealers in<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> and a Rotary Club.<br />
“We have a great team,” said Mr.<br />
Zelinka, referring to city staff. “More collaboration<br />
than I’ve seen in any other city.<br />
We are informed by the community. We<br />
have professional opinions, but this is not<br />
a staff-driven city hall.”<br />
Zelinka cited the general plan as a great<br />
framework for building a unified system<br />
and specific plans in particular, such as in<br />
neighborhoods and industrial areas.<br />
Three sign meetings attracted three<br />
business people at the first, two sign professionals<br />
at the second, and half a dozen<br />
citizens at the third. Four sign industry<br />
people attended the first session, along<br />
with the representatives of Winkelman<br />
Realty, the Chamber of Commerce and a<br />
mediator-lawyer (this writer).<br />
Senior Planner Heather Allen presented<br />
slides including images provided by two<br />
sign companies showing the potential<br />
types of “dynamic” signs as electronic<br />
reader boards, digital displays and dynamic<br />
displays –“close to a TV screen.” Signs<br />
can be on building walls, “monuments,”<br />
or poles, and are judged by area, height,<br />
quantity and separations.<br />
Flashing signs are prohibited under the<br />
current ordinance. Those are “any lighted<br />
sign that flashes, animates, scintillates,<br />
consists of running lights or of illuminated<br />
changing information.”<br />
One resident expressed concern that<br />
small blinking signs “are popping up<br />
everywhere. They look bad,” said Jane<br />
Rands. I’m concerned about the (sign)<br />
industry, that they believe anything goes<br />
in <strong>Fullerton</strong>. Are we opening up to these<br />
things everywhere?”<br />
“There are gradations of permissions,”<br />
said Zelinka. He also said, “much of our<br />
zoning code is a problem. It’s been<br />
tweaked over 20 years, band aids put on.<br />
The reality of this moment in time is that<br />
we are having many inquiries for dynamic<br />
signs. What we’ve heard regarding<br />
conditional use permits include five topics:<br />
proliferation, distraction, aesthetics,<br />
quality of physical sign structure and adjacency<br />
with residential.”<br />
“But we should have a ceiling, a limit,”<br />
said Rands. “Not a floor, but a top limit.”<br />
William Clark said “We need to<br />
improve public signs, bring a certain aesthetic<br />
to downtown.”<br />
Enforcement of any standards that<br />
might be adopted was a concern addressed<br />
by all.<br />
Sign professionals suggested the posting<br />
of a bond could be used to assure compliance<br />
with restrictions.<br />
The Clarks who live across the street<br />
from a digital sign that was supposed to<br />
replace a proliferation of unsightly banners<br />
at St. Juliana’s said, “They still have<br />
the banners plus the digital lighted sign.”<br />
Edward Wasserman, Daktronics, a<br />
Calabasas commercial sign company, said<br />
“You need to have aesthetically pleasing<br />
signs. LED saves power and electricity<br />
and has the feel of the 20's and 30's. Staff<br />
has already heard from me.”<br />
“We don’t want to see downtown<br />
become a Las Vegas strip,” said both<br />
Winkelman and Teresa Harvey, director<br />
of the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Chamber of Commerce.<br />
Electronic Sign<br />
Ordinance<br />
The <strong>Fullerton</strong> Planning Commission<br />
will decide on a final draft of the ordinance<br />
to regulate “Dynamic Signs” within<br />
the city at its meeting at 7pm Wed.<br />
<strong>Aug</strong>. 25th 7pm at City Hall, 303 W.<br />
Commonwealth Ave. <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92832.<br />
Dynamic signs include electronic message<br />
boards which change messages, and<br />
full-color digital video displays.<br />
Call Heather Allen at 714-738-6884<br />
or email to HeatherA@ci.fullerton.ca.us<br />
for more information.
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AUGUST 2010<br />
Little Eagle Free students with LEF Founder Frances Knott(front center). PHOTO LOREEN BERLIN<br />
Little Eagle Free Scholarships<br />
by Loreen Berlin<br />
“Little Eagle Free” presented nearly<br />
$55,000 in scholarship money to thirtyone<br />
American Indian students last year.<br />
Since its inception in 1997 the nonprofit<br />
has awarded $254,300 to 183 students<br />
of American Indian heritage going<br />
on to higher education.<br />
The effort has paid off in terms of college<br />
graduates and those nearing graduation<br />
in fields as wide-ranging as music,<br />
writing, medical, criminal justice,<br />
American Indian studies, and education.<br />
Each year, along with awarding the<br />
scholarships, LEF honors an accomplished<br />
American Indian. Previous honorees<br />
have included:<br />
2009: Ernest H. Siva,<br />
Cahuilla/Serrano American Indian, cofounder<br />
of the Dorothy Ramon Learning<br />
Center in Banning. The Center is a facility<br />
that preserves and shares Southern<br />
California’s distinct American Indian cultures,<br />
languages, history, music and traditional<br />
arts.<br />
2007: Dr. Paul Apodaca,<br />
Navajo/Mexican, Chapman professor, historian,<br />
and consultant with several arts<br />
and academic agencies including the<br />
Smithsonian.<br />
2006: Justin Farmer, Ipai/Diegueno<br />
Nation, an expert in American Indian basketry<br />
who has documented and conserved<br />
the art form.<br />
2004: Steven R. Heape, Cherokee<br />
Nation, a film director dedicated to<br />
Indian history and preserving the culture.<br />
2003: Dr. Less Walls, Choctaw heritage,<br />
then president of the Southern<br />
California College of Optometry.<br />
2002: Louis Armijo, Navajo, WWII<br />
Code Talker, <strong>Fullerton</strong> High School<br />
teacher featured in Tom Brokaw’s bestseller<br />
“The Greatest Generation.”<br />
In addition to awarding scholarships the<br />
Little Eagle Free Foundation, headquartered<br />
in <strong>Fullerton</strong>, provides eyeglasses to<br />
students at the Sherman Indian High<br />
School in Riverside, and helps students in<br />
Richfield, Utah with an emergency dental<br />
program.<br />
Contributions to the Little Eagle Free<br />
Foundation are tax-deductible. For information<br />
on how to contribute call 714-<br />
990-5054. For more information on<br />
scholarships go to www.littleeaglefree.org<br />
By Pamela McLaren<br />
Damas de Caridad Raises $61,000<br />
for Children’s Dental Program<br />
A check in the amount of $61,000 was<br />
presented on June 18, 2010 to VP of<br />
Healthy Communities, St. Jude Hospital’s<br />
Barry Ross and St. Jude CEO Lee Penrose<br />
by Emily Johnson and Trudy Durrette of<br />
Damas de Caridad.<br />
The money will help fund St. Jude<br />
Medical Center’s annual Children’s<br />
Dental Clinic for the sixth year.<br />
The non-profit Damas de Caridad, a<br />
longtime support group for St. Jude’s<br />
charitible health programs, held its 49th<br />
annual luncheon at the Anaheim White<br />
House and selected Trudy Durrette to<br />
serve as 2010-11 president. Other officers<br />
include Doretta Wedin/1st VP,<br />
CSUF Art Majors Take Top Honors<br />
Cal State <strong>Fullerton</strong> art majors brought<br />
home five of the six top awards presented<br />
for posters and trailers at the 9th annual<br />
Key Art Awards Student Competition.<br />
The contest is part of the Hollywood<br />
Reporter’s annual Key Art Awards, which<br />
honor achievements in motion picture<br />
marketing and advertising.<br />
In addition to the<br />
awards, students<br />
studying graphic<br />
design under the<br />
direction of lecturer<br />
and alumna Cheryl<br />
Savala-Lalicker<br />
received seven of the<br />
12 nominations in<br />
the contest’s movie<br />
poster category, while<br />
another six students,<br />
under the direction of<br />
Christian Hill, associate<br />
professor of art,<br />
garnered two-thirds<br />
of the nine nominations<br />
in the movie<br />
trailer category.<br />
Sweeping the<br />
movie poster category<br />
as winners were:<br />
•1st: Diane Nguyen<br />
•2nd: Nicole Beesley<br />
•3rd: Yu-Ting Huang<br />
Taking two of the top awards in the<br />
movie trailer category were Glynis Brown<br />
(2nd) and Jan Injarusorn (3rd).<br />
“Winning first place definitely came as<br />
a surprise; there were so many great<br />
entries, especially from CSUF, that anyone<br />
could’ve won,” said Nguyen, who earlier<br />
this year was a semifinalist in the<br />
worldwide Disney ImagiNations contest.<br />
“I’m really proud of the Art Department.<br />
All the students are so passionate about<br />
what they do, and we’re backed up by the<br />
most amazing teachers that I’ve ever met<br />
during my school career.”<br />
Membership; Carol Noble/2nd VP,<br />
Resource Development; Shirley Kerstner<br />
and Toni Davis/3rd VP, Social; Walda<br />
Anderson/Recording Secretary; Irene<br />
McCormick/Corresponding Secretary;<br />
Lorraine Lappi/Treasurer; and Barbara<br />
Kuntz/Publicity Chair.<br />
Women who wish to join Dama de<br />
Caridad’s work to earn funds in support<br />
of St. Jude Medical Center are welcome.<br />
Currently, there is one fundraiser per year<br />
which occurs in the fall. Funds raised are<br />
used to support children's dental health.<br />
Anyone who wishes to join may call<br />
Membership Chair Doretta Wedin, at<br />
(714) 961-1416.<br />
This year’s contest called for entries to<br />
be based on the film “Atonement.” All<br />
schools received the film, in addition to<br />
such collateral materials as production<br />
stills, logos and images to serve as background<br />
and inspiration for the contestants.<br />
CSUF students have a long history of<br />
Diane Nguyen, Nicole Beesley and Yu-Ting Huang.<br />
PHOTO BY CHERYL SAVALA-LALICKER<br />
winning prizes in this competition. Since<br />
the contest’s first year in 2002, CSUF students<br />
have won 22 top awards; six firstplace;<br />
eight second-place; and eight thirdplace<br />
prizes for their movie posters and<br />
trailers.<br />
Past CSUF winners have gone on to<br />
work in the film and entertainment<br />
industry. Dara Cornell (B.F.A. art-graphic<br />
design’09), who won first place in the<br />
movie trailer category two years ago, edited<br />
the dailies for Tim Burton’s latest film,<br />
“Alice in Wonderland.” Justin Ridge<br />
(B.F.A. art-entertainment art/animation<br />
’03), the inaugural second-place winner in<br />
the movie trailer category in 2002, directed<br />
episodes of “Clone Wars” for<br />
Lucasfilm.
AUGUST 2010 LOCAL NEWS<br />
by Chan Kim<br />
YWCA Thurmond Scholarships<br />
Three students at California State<br />
University, <strong>Fullerton</strong> (CSUF) received a total<br />
of $6,000 in scholarships from the YWCA<br />
North Orange County’s Thurmond<br />
Scholarship Fund, an outreach dedicated to<br />
helping women 24 years and older pursue a<br />
college education. The recipients were recognized<br />
at the Y’s annual meeting June 26 at the<br />
Coyote Hills Country Club in <strong>Fullerton</strong>.<br />
Three full-time students, Aihanh Truong,<br />
Kristy Haffner, and Eileen Marie Anguiana,<br />
were awarded $2000 scholarships. After<br />
reviewing over 30 applications in March,<br />
chairwoman Joan Mears and committee<br />
members Nissa Foster and Catherine Van<br />
Riette directed ten semifinalists to the<br />
Thurmond family; Don Thurmond, his sister<br />
Carol Wells and his wife Roseanne<br />
Thurmond selected the final three recipients.<br />
Don Thurmond and Carol Wells carry on<br />
the legacy of their mother, late community<br />
activist Ruth Thurmond, who dedicated her<br />
life in assisting economically disadvantaged<br />
women achieve their educational goals. Ruth<br />
Thurmond founded the scholarship committee<br />
in the late 1990s, after decades of advocacy<br />
for women’s rights and involvement with<br />
the YWCA North Orange County.<br />
Aihanh Truong came to the US at the age<br />
of thirty-eight. She bravely started her life in<br />
her new country with her eighteen-monthold<br />
son. She soon began attending <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
College, hoping to set a good example for her<br />
son to follow. Currently, she is majoring in<br />
Human Services.<br />
Kristy Haffner, with an Associate Teacher<br />
Certificate from the Social Sciences Division<br />
at <strong>Fullerton</strong> College, aspires to graduate with<br />
an Associate’s degree in Mathematics.<br />
Ultimately, she hopes to earn a Bachelor’s<br />
degree in Child Development and a multiple<br />
subject teaching credential. Through her various<br />
experiences in college, she dreams to<br />
make a difference in the lives of children.<br />
Eileen Anguiano’s previous life experiences<br />
hindered her from pursuing her educational<br />
goals, she continued forward with the<br />
support from her family and friends. Now a<br />
single mother of four, she reflects,<br />
“Perseverance and determination has given<br />
me the will power to continue to work hard<br />
for what my family deserves -an education to<br />
live a higher quality life.” Eileen started<br />
attending <strong>Fullerton</strong> College in July of 2008<br />
and has completed fifty- three units. With a<br />
major in Human Services at California State<br />
University <strong>Fullerton</strong>, she hopes to become a<br />
marriage and family therapist or a juvenile<br />
probation officer.<br />
The YWCA provides many services to the<br />
community. Donations are tax-deductible.<br />
Contact Executive Director Diane Masseth-<br />
Jones at 714-871-4488 or Chan Kim at 714-<br />
822-9200 to find out how you can help. Or<br />
go to www.ywcanoc.org for more information.<br />
Donate Your Old<br />
Cell Phones & Ink Catridges<br />
Drop off your old ink & toner cartridges<br />
and cell phones at YWCA NOC, 215 E.<br />
Commonwealth Ave., Suite F, <strong>Fullerton</strong> CA<br />
92832, to help support YWCANOC programs.<br />
Monopoly Raises $4,200<br />
Over 56 players gathered to compete in the<br />
fifth annual Monopoly Tournament to have<br />
fun and support the YWCA’s programs.<br />
The day-long competition included two<br />
90-minute rounds and a final round with the<br />
top six competitors. Gary<br />
Heller won the tournament<br />
ending up with $12,998 in<br />
play money of the $15,140<br />
total in the game.<br />
Ken Koury came in 2nd;<br />
Brian Boles placed 3rd;<br />
Peter Schlosser placed 4th;<br />
Craig Way came in 5th; and<br />
Robert Ellis, last year’s winner<br />
came in 6th.<br />
2010 champ<br />
Gary Heller<br />
All are experienced national Monopoly<br />
players. Also in attendance was past world<br />
champion Lee Bayrd, past national champ<br />
Matt McNally, and Kevin Tostado (who is<br />
director of an upcoming documentary called<br />
“Under the Boardwalk,” due out in theaters<br />
later this year.) Also competing was <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Mayor Don Bankhead who came in fifth in<br />
the first round of play.<br />
The event raised $4,200 for breast cancer<br />
detection services to uninsured, low-income<br />
women and other YWCA programs.<br />
YWCA<br />
Executive<br />
Director Diane<br />
Masseth-Jones,<br />
Rosanne and<br />
Don<br />
Thurmond,<br />
and scholars<br />
Kristy Haffner,<br />
Eileen Marie<br />
Anguiano and<br />
Aihanh T.<br />
Truong. -MIMI<br />
KO KRUZ<br />
Karate Champs<br />
National Victory<br />
Adam Kraus (11), Derek Montoya (10), and<br />
Jasmine Nguyen (14) from the Nihon Karate<br />
Dojo, took home a total of 7 medals, at the U.S.<br />
Karate Nationals, held in Greensville, South<br />
Carolina on July 8-11. It was an intense four-day<br />
competition, with approximately 2,000 qualified<br />
karate athletes, competing for the title of,<br />
National Champion and spots on the U.S. Karate<br />
Team.<br />
Adam Kraus won 3 medals in the Boys<br />
Intermediate division, which includes Gold in<br />
Kata (forms), Gold in Kobudo (weapons), and<br />
Silver in Kumite (sparring). Adam remains the<br />
National Karate Champion in Kata for his division<br />
two years in a row. When asked how he feels<br />
about his accomplishment, Adam replied “I’m<br />
really excited about next year and look forward to<br />
doing my best in the Advanced Black Belt division!”<br />
Derek Montoya won Bronze for Kata in the<br />
Advanced Black Belt level. This was the second<br />
year that Derek has competed at Nationals in the<br />
Advanced Black Belt division. Derek commented,<br />
“I had a blast<br />
at Nationals and excited<br />
to medal in such a big<br />
and tough division.<br />
My goal next year is to<br />
win Gold!”<br />
Jasmine Nguyen a<br />
Freshman at Troy High<br />
School, won three<br />
medals in the Girls Elite<br />
Advanced Black Belt<br />
division which includes<br />
Gold in Team Kata,<br />
Silver in open Kata, and<br />
Bronze in Kumite. She<br />
also made it onto the<br />
U.S. Karate Team for<br />
FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 9<br />
At Left: Jasmine Nguyen is<br />
flanked by fellow teammates<br />
Sapphire Bang and Jessica<br />
Kwong. The girls are the first<br />
in their age group to qualify<br />
for the US Karate Team and<br />
are headed for the Pan<br />
American Games in Montreal,<br />
Canda this month.<br />
Team Kata and as an alternate,<br />
for Kumite.<br />
Jasmine and her Kata teammates,<br />
Jessica Kwong (15)<br />
and Sapphire Bang (16),<br />
will be representing the<br />
U.S., for Team Kata at the<br />
Pan American Games in<br />
Montreal, Canada in<br />
<strong>Aug</strong>ust. Jasmine says,<br />
“I’m very honored to be<br />
part of the US Karate<br />
Team. My team and I are<br />
determined and looking<br />
forward to taking home the<br />
Gold for the US! “They are<br />
the first Girls Team Kata in<br />
the 14-17 age category who<br />
have made it onto the US<br />
Karate Team.<br />
Adam, Derek and<br />
Jasmine train with Senseis<br />
Chad Eagan and Bruce<br />
Nguyen at the Nihon<br />
Karate Dojo, located just<br />
past the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Airport,<br />
in Buena Park. Eight kids<br />
from the Nihon Karate<br />
Dojo, competed at<br />
Nationals this year in South<br />
Carolina and brought<br />
home a combined 23<br />
medals!<br />
Help Jasmine<br />
Get to Montreal<br />
Anyone interested in<br />
helping Jasmine get to<br />
Montreal can send donations<br />
to: Jasmine Nguyen<br />
c/o Nihon Karate Dojo<br />
6046 Beach Blvd., Buena<br />
Park, CA 90621<br />
Derek Montonya, Jasmine Nguyen and Adam Kraus brought<br />
home the medals from the National Karate Competition.
Page 10 FULLERTON OBSERVER ENVIRONMENT<br />
AUGUST 2010<br />
Conservation Gardening<br />
by Penny Hlavac pennyhlavac@yahoo.com<br />
A Few Tough Australians<br />
Gardeners hoping to lower their water<br />
bills and add a touch of the exotic to their<br />
gardens should consider the fascinating<br />
and beautiful plants of Australia.<br />
Sollya heterophylla, the blue bell creeper,<br />
is a sprawling shrub or small vine with<br />
lustrous medium green leaves, purplishmahogany<br />
stems and clusters of little blue<br />
flowers in summer. It has proven to be<br />
drought tolerant and fast growing in the<br />
demonstration garden in front of the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Arboretum Potting Shed. It<br />
takes full sun or partial shade and in the<br />
wild often grows under eucalyptus trees.<br />
The front slope as you go past the<br />
waterfall at the arboretum is the place to<br />
see eremophilas, or emu bushes. Most eremophilas<br />
are from arid inland Australia—<br />
— “eremophila” means “desert loving” or<br />
“a dweller of inhospitable places.” In<br />
Australia the flowers and fruits are eaten<br />
by the large flightless emu bird. Here the<br />
flowers provide nectar for hummingbirds.<br />
The largest eremophila on the slope,<br />
Eremophila bignoniiflora x polyclada,<br />
when in bloom looks like the desert willow<br />
(Chilopsis linearis) of the California<br />
low desert but the two are unrelated. This<br />
unusual small tree/large shrub came from<br />
the Australian Native Plants Nursery<br />
owned by Jo O’Connell, herself a native<br />
Australian, who for many years has had<br />
one of the most interesting booths at the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Arboretum Green Scene.<br />
Check out her website at www.australianplants.com.<br />
Chamelaucium uncinatum, Geraldton<br />
Wax Flower, with its small needlelike<br />
leaves and airy growth habit<br />
blends beautifully with other plants<br />
without crowding them. It can<br />
reach about five feet or more high<br />
and as wide. Clusters of small pink,<br />
purple or white flowers in winter<br />
and spring make wonderful cut<br />
flowers and are often sold in florists’<br />
shops. It needs especially good<br />
drainage and grew beautifully with<br />
no water (once established) in my<br />
old garden which had very sandy<br />
soil. I have decided to take a chance<br />
with it in my present garden which<br />
has clay soil. (I have mounded the<br />
soil and added generous amounts of<br />
pumice.)<br />
There are no hummingbirds in<br />
Australia but hummingbirds love<br />
grevilleas. The two I grow are<br />
Grevillea 'Superb' a medium sized<br />
shrub always in bloom with large<br />
salmon flower clusters, and a taller<br />
one, Grevillea 'Moonlight,' with<br />
creamy white flowers. Ferny finely divided<br />
leaves provide an interesting contrast with<br />
the plants around it. Because they respond<br />
well to clipping, grevilleas are good candidates<br />
for espalier, like the Grevillea 'Ruby<br />
Clusters' in front of the <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Arboretum Potting Shed. Hard as it may<br />
be to believe, grevilleas are members of the<br />
same family as the South African proteas<br />
sold in florist shops. The family,<br />
Proteaceae, was named after the Greek<br />
god Proteus who was able to change shape<br />
at will. Like other members of that family,<br />
grevilleas have evolved special root<br />
clusters designed to grab nutrients in<br />
Australia's nutrient poor soil. So don't<br />
bother fertilizing them. In fact, the addition<br />
of phosphorus could even be harmful.<br />
Occasionally a grevillea will become<br />
chlorotic (leaves turn yellow). This can be<br />
corrected with chelated iron. A few people<br />
develop dermatitis when handling these<br />
plants.<br />
Above: E. big x pol close<br />
Above: Adenanthos x cunninghamii<br />
Below: Grevillea-’Superb’ (DM)<br />
Adenanthos x cunninghamii or “woolly<br />
bush” is another member of the protea<br />
family. It has very small red flowers which<br />
are easy for humans to miss but hummingbirds<br />
have no trouble finding them.<br />
The plant in front of the Potting Shed is<br />
only about a year old but you can see a<br />
woolly bush which is probably around ten<br />
years old under one of the golden medallion<br />
trees at the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Police Station.<br />
With its soft and silky silver-grey foliage it<br />
would be great in the “plant petting zoo”<br />
portion of a child's garden.<br />
Rhagodia spinescens, or Australian saltbush,<br />
which can be seen smothering<br />
weeds near the Potting Shed is normally<br />
used as a drought tolerant and fire retardant<br />
ground cover but will grow upward<br />
with support. Its rapid growth, tolerance<br />
of clipping and tiny grey leaves would<br />
make it perfect for topiary in that same<br />
child's garden---- perhaps a topiary kangaroo?<br />
Low-Carbon Footprint Camping<br />
Let the Sun Recharge Your Favorite E-Gadgets<br />
by Sarah Mosko<br />
Does the prospect of spending a weekend<br />
away from your favorite e-gadgets<br />
(cell phone, laptop, iPod or PDA) stir up<br />
separation anxiety? Around our house<br />
we’ve dubbed this e-angst, and it can kill<br />
enthusiasm for an otherwise welcome<br />
family camping vacation.<br />
For teens or adults similarly infected<br />
with e-angst, a diversity of devices are on<br />
the market which let you bring your egadgets<br />
along with you camping and also<br />
trim your carbon footprint because they<br />
utilize only sunshine for power.<br />
Solar chargers<br />
An assortment of portable solar-powered<br />
chargers is available that adapt to virtually<br />
any handheld electronic appliance<br />
including digital cameras and GPS units.<br />
Most rely on photovoltaic silicon cell<br />
technology akin to what is used on<br />
rooftop solar panels. Many are small<br />
enough to fit in a back pocket or certainly<br />
a glove box so can travel with you virtually<br />
anywhere. The cost is as little as $15<br />
or up to $150 depending on the capacity.<br />
Because rechargeable batteries are incorporated,<br />
gadgets can be recharged even<br />
after the sun goes down. Small electronics<br />
generally charge in 2-4 hours.<br />
Solar backpacks offer another option for<br />
charging batteries or small gadgets on the<br />
hiking trail - the solar cells are embedded<br />
into the backpack material using so-called<br />
‘flexible’ or ‘thin-layer’ solar technology.<br />
Though not widely available in stores,<br />
several are sold on-line, some for under<br />
$100.<br />
Solar tents based on the same concept<br />
have been employed by the U.S. Military<br />
- for charging telecommunication and tactical<br />
devices and to relieve troops of the<br />
burden of lugging around batteries - and<br />
could be developed for civilian applications<br />
in the not too distant future.<br />
Laptops need relatively high capacity<br />
chargers which ups the cost to somewhere<br />
between $150 and $600. The solar array<br />
can come as traditional panels which fold<br />
up much like a brief case or as a flexible<br />
sheet which rolls up like a mat. Another<br />
style has the panels set into the outside of<br />
a computer carrying case. Unfolded, the<br />
panels measure roughly 1-2 feet by 2-3<br />
feet. You can either trickle charge the<br />
computer while it’s in use to extend the<br />
battery life or allow for the up to 12 hours<br />
needed to fully recharge a computer that’s<br />
turned off. Because solar computer chargers<br />
weigh anywhere from one to six<br />
pounds, they’re compatible with car<br />
camping.<br />
Automotive solar battery rechargers are<br />
another option for charging laptops. A<br />
solar array plugged into the cigarette<br />
lighter recharges the car battery while the<br />
laptop is simultaneously operating or<br />
recharging via a direct connection to the<br />
car battery.<br />
More Solar Camping Supplies<br />
•Solar showers are no doubt the oldest<br />
solar camping supply around. The concept<br />
is incredibly simple and efficient.<br />
When a black plastic water bag absorbs<br />
sunlight, the light is converted to heat<br />
which is transferred to the water inside. At<br />
the end of a dusty day, suspend the bag<br />
from a tree and let gravity do the rest.<br />
These sell for about $25 at camping supply<br />
stores.<br />
•Solar Cookers: Zero carbon-emission<br />
hot meals can be prepared on campouts<br />
using solar cookers which also operate on<br />
sunlight. Because internal temperatures<br />
can reach 300°F, solar cookers can be used<br />
to prepare anything from baked bread to<br />
meat stew, and they are also useful for<br />
water pasteurization which requires a temperature<br />
of only 150°F.<br />
Here’s how solar cookers work. A black<br />
lidded pot is placed inside a box-like<br />
chamber that traps sunlight and converts<br />
it to heat. Some type of clear plastic or<br />
glass encloses the pot to keep the heat<br />
trapped inside. Light-reflective surfaces<br />
arranged above the chamber concentrate<br />
additional sunlight into the cooker.<br />
Solar cookers are in widespread use in<br />
less developed parts of the world, including<br />
China and India, especially in areas<br />
where deforestation is an issue or firewood<br />
is in short supply. Hundreds of styles are<br />
sold commercially at prices in the range of<br />
$50-$100. Or, you can easily find instructions<br />
on-line to construct your own for<br />
next to nothing with just boxes, black<br />
paint and aluminum foil.<br />
•Rugged solar camping lanterns or<br />
torches allow dining or reading after dark<br />
without propane or disposable batteries.<br />
Battery-powered light emitting diodes<br />
(LED) are recharged by a small attachable<br />
solar panel. Each hour of charging provides<br />
one or two hours of lamp light.<br />
Figure the cost at about $50. There are<br />
also many styles of LED flashlights to<br />
choose from with the option of recharging<br />
by way of built-in solar panels or a hand<br />
crank.<br />
•Solar hat fans which clip onto the<br />
brim are available too for those with the<br />
mettle to sport one. They’re driven by a<br />
mini solar panel measuring a few inches<br />
square and sell for $10 or so.<br />
As the sun is the ultimate source of the<br />
energy on which virtually all life depends,<br />
it seems fitting that solar technologies can<br />
play a role in sustaining both our sense of<br />
connectedness to and preservation of the<br />
natural world.<br />
www.sarahmosko.com
AUGUST 2010<br />
Food Around the World<br />
by Leela Cyd www.leelacyd.com<br />
Avocado Wasabi Salad<br />
I’ve had the idea of an avocado<br />
based salad dressing<br />
kicking around in my head<br />
for the last few days, and an<br />
avocado kicking around my<br />
kitchen counter. This salad is<br />
easy to throw together, and is<br />
a great entree salad, or a side<br />
salad for a dinner party or<br />
some such get-together.<br />
The dressing is rich, and<br />
despite the title, is pretty tasty<br />
even without the added wasabi. You<br />
have my permission to leave the wasabi<br />
powder out altogether if you don’t like it<br />
or can’t find it.<br />
I don’t know if my wasabi powder is<br />
old and has lost its kick, or if you need a<br />
massive amount of it to make things<br />
spicy (anyone with experience want to<br />
weigh in?), but this dressing was as mild<br />
as the day is long. It added a great flavor,<br />
but no heat. You may wish to add in<br />
your own wasabi powder slowly, tasting<br />
as you go, just in case yours is spicy.<br />
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Avocado Wasabi Salad Serves 4-6<br />
Greens of your choice for 4-6 people<br />
1 Carrot, shredded<br />
2 tsp Vegetable Oil, divided<br />
1/2 to 3/4 Cup Broccoli, chopped small<br />
1/3 Cup Toasted Slivered Almonds<br />
1 Recipe Wasabi Chickpeas, below<br />
1 Recipe Avocado Wasabi dressing<br />
Fresh Cracked Black Pepper<br />
Wasabi-Tamari Chickpeas<br />
1 tsp Oil<br />
1 Cup Chickpeas<br />
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The other ingredients are simple but<br />
flavorful as well. Pan-fried wasabi-soy<br />
chickpeas, sauteed broccoli, toasted<br />
almonds, and shredded carrots. I find<br />
this mixture goes particularly well<br />
together, adding crunch, sweetness, protein,<br />
and color. And they all pair wonderfully<br />
with the dressing.<br />
Speaking of the dressing, it’s pretty<br />
ugly stuff. This isn’t something you’re<br />
going to want to serve on the side for<br />
your guests. Toss it with the lettuce and<br />
then serve it. Just trust me on this one.<br />
You’ll see when you make it.<br />
1 tsp Wasabi Powder<br />
1/2 tsp Sugar<br />
1 Tbs Low Sodium Tamari/Soy Sauce<br />
Avocado Wasabi Dressing<br />
1 Ripe Avocado, diced<br />
2 tsp White Wine Vinegar<br />
3 Tbs Hummus, plain or garlic<br />
1 tsp Stoneground Mustard<br />
1/2 tsp Salt<br />
2 tsp Wasabi Powder<br />
1/4 to 1/3 Cup Vegetable oil<br />
Avacado Wasabi Dressing: Begin by whisking the dressing ingredients together,<br />
except for the oil. Whisk until smooth. If your avocado isn’t super ripe, you<br />
may wish to blend the dressing in a food processor. Slowly add oil until emulsified<br />
and the dressing is smooth, refrigerate until ready to use.<br />
Toast your almonds in a dry pan over medium heat if they are not already<br />
toasted. Set aside.<br />
In the same pan, add 1 tsp of oil and add broccoli. Sautee over high heat until<br />
the broccoli is beginning to color in spots and is bright green, but still tendercrisp.<br />
Sprinkle lightly with salt and set aside.<br />
Wasabi Chickpeas: Add the second teaspoon of oil to the same pan and add<br />
the chickpeas. Reduce heat to medium-high. Cook the chickpeas until they are<br />
golden on all sides, using a spatula to loosen them as necessary, but don’t worry<br />
if they stick a little. Add the wasabi powder, sugar, and tamari and stir well.<br />
Remove from pan and set aside.<br />
In a large bowl, add your salad greens. Add the broccoli, 3/4 of the chickpeas,<br />
3/4 of the almonds, and 3/4 of the carrots. Toss with enough dressing to coat.<br />
Plate the salad, and garnish the top with the remaining chickpeas, almonds and<br />
carrots. Crack fresh black pepper over the top. Serve immediately.<br />
If you are serving the salad later, do not add the dressing until the last minute.<br />
Cardamom Apricot Lassi<br />
I miss India. I miss the<br />
heat, the brightly-colored<br />
saris, the kinetic and devilishly<br />
slow pace, the interesting<br />
assortment of mustache<br />
styles, the free-falling<br />
off the high dive into the<br />
cosmic swimming pool, the<br />
first bite of a really nice<br />
flaky masala dosa, holding<br />
people's babies for photos,<br />
chatting on every bus ride<br />
with my fellow travelers,<br />
the feeling that every day<br />
something crazy and unexpected<br />
could happen . . .<br />
Like being invited to a 3day<br />
wedding, spotting gray<br />
monkeys in a papaya tree or<br />
having the spice guy give<br />
me a 'family' discount.<br />
That was amazing.<br />
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I was reminiscing<br />
on the subcontinent and all<br />
of it's flavors, and thinking<br />
about what's in season<br />
here-- apricots, stone fruits<br />
and things of this nature<br />
are exploding in the<br />
Northwest, papaya and<br />
mango, however, are not.<br />
Thus, the cardamom apricot<br />
lassi was born. So tangy<br />
and delicious on a summer<br />
afternoon, might even be<br />
perfect as a popsicle, frozen<br />
in molds with a stick or<br />
spoon in the center, kinda<br />
like the photo at right of a<br />
popsicle made in a shot<br />
glass (see tips below) from<br />
http://orangette.blogspot.c<br />
om/2010/07/for-popsicle.html.<br />
Cardamom Apricot Lassi serves 2 (generously)<br />
Ingredients:<br />
4 ripe apricots, cut in half<br />
1/2 c plain greek yogurt<br />
1 1/2 tbsp honey<br />
1 tsp vanilla<br />
1/4 tsp cardamom (or more to taste)<br />
1/2 c soy or almond milk<br />
3 ice cubes<br />
Top: Fresh Apricots<br />
Above: Finished Lassi<br />
Below: Popsicle made in a<br />
shot glass<br />
Method:<br />
Blend at a high speed until all<br />
ingredients are combined. Then,<br />
blend a little more so it's extra<br />
smooth and lassi-like. Enjoy!<br />
Popsicle Tips: Take some raspberries - frozen or fresh, and some plain yogurt and<br />
blend them with a bit of sugar and a splash of lemon juice (or use recipe for Apricot<br />
Lassi above). When it’s smooth, press through a strainer to catch the seeds, divide<br />
among your molds, add a stick in the center of each, and freeze. I use tall, narrow shot<br />
glasses. Small Dixie cups would work well too.
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•HIBBLETON GALLERY<br />
714-420-8524 www.hibbleton.com<br />
112 W. Wilshire, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
(next to Mulberry St. Restaurant )<br />
Open: Thurs - Sun 1-6pm or by appt<br />
“THIS IS NOT A GATED<br />
COMMUNITY”<br />
RECEPTION 6PM-10PM AUG. 6<br />
Artists Jonathan Apgar, Erika Hickle,<br />
Natalie Lawler, Kristina Lee, Rachel<br />
Malin, Gabriel Arroyo, and Tessie<br />
Whitmore exhibit in this group show that<br />
aims to break down the esoteric boundaries<br />
of abstract art and to open up a playful,<br />
accessible and honest visual dialogue.<br />
•MAX BLOOM’S CAFÉ NOIR<br />
714-871-2600<br />
www.maxbloomscafenoir.com<br />
220 N. Malden, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
PAINT BY NUMBERS<br />
RECEPTION 6PM-10PM AUG. 6<br />
Early 1950s display of vintage “Paint by<br />
Numbers” paintings from a private collection.<br />
•GRAVES GALLERY<br />
gravesgallery.com 714-879-1993<br />
114 E. Amerige, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
“THROUGH THEIR EYES”<br />
RECEPTION 6PM-10PM AUG. 6<br />
Exhibit of <strong>Fullerton</strong> artist Melinda<br />
Read’s portraits of marine life and other<br />
wild animals. Opening features food by<br />
Café Hidalgo, live music by Collusion of<br />
Souls, and wine reception. The artist also<br />
teaches at a private art studio and works<br />
with a number of environmental organizations<br />
to raise funds for endangered<br />
species and other animals in need. A portion<br />
of sales will benefit the Sea Shepherds<br />
Gulf Rescue, which is working to clean<br />
and save the wildlife affected by the oil<br />
spill. - thru <strong>Aug</strong>. 27<br />
FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK<br />
<strong>Aug</strong>ust 6, 6pm to 10pm<br />
ART, LIVE MUSIC, TREATS Downtown <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
www.fullertonartwalk.com<br />
Above: From the Mountains to the Sea by Evan Everest at the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Museum.<br />
•FULLERTON MUSEUM CENTER (714) 738-6545<br />
301 N. Pomona (at Wilshire) Downtown <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
MEANINGLESSNESS: Art by Evan Everest<br />
RECEPTION 6PM-10PM AUG. 6<br />
Evan Everest’s art explores the catalyst<br />
and significance of human rituals.<br />
“Meaninglessness” is a selection of paintings<br />
that that according to the artist<br />
“…mirror human rituals and beliefs to<br />
provide an alternate vantage point.”<br />
Living and working in Long Beach, Evan<br />
explores the idea “that the ritual contains<br />
more truth than the belief<br />
with which it is associated.”<br />
The Artist’s idea that rituals<br />
are explained by belief and the<br />
understanding of the world<br />
around us are shown with<br />
both the subject matter and<br />
technique he uses to create his<br />
paintings. “Meaninglessness”<br />
exists as an interpretation of<br />
the artists understanding of<br />
human actions and their<br />
implications.<br />
KEGGED, CASED,<br />
BOTTLED OR CANNED:<br />
10,000 YEARS OF BEER<br />
opens with a reception 6-<br />
9pm on Fri., July 30 featuring<br />
a tour of the exhibit,<br />
curator’s talk, and a special<br />
beer. $10. There are records<br />
of Babylonian tablets dating<br />
back to 4300 BC that contain<br />
recipes for beer and Egyptian<br />
and Mesopotamian accounts.<br />
In the middle ages beer was<br />
used for tithing, trading and<br />
paying taxes. - thru Oct. 10<br />
$4/adults; $3/students &<br />
seniors; $1/children 6-12;<br />
free/ under 5 and members.<br />
($2 for all visitors from 4-<br />
8pm the first Thursday of<br />
each month)<br />
•PASTEL ART<br />
GALLERY (714)680-0732<br />
622 N Harbor, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
92832 (near Brookdale Place)<br />
STUDENT &<br />
INSTRUCTOR SHOW<br />
OPEN DURING FIRST<br />
FRIDAY ART WALK<br />
Artists Sung and Katherine<br />
Su and their students exhibit<br />
original paintings in the studio<br />
and gallery.<br />
•CAFE WEST<br />
714-773-6323<br />
123 W. Amerige, <strong>Fullerton</strong> (off the parking lot)<br />
PHOTOGRAPHER LAUREN MENDOZA<br />
RECEPTION 6PM-10PM AUG. 6<br />
Finding herself unemployed, Mendoza travelled<br />
through Italy and France (got stuck in Paris after the<br />
volcano erupted) and photographed the adventure.<br />
•PÄS GALLERY<br />
www.projectartschool.com 714-871-2727<br />
115 S. Harbor Blvd., <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
THE CAVE<br />
RECEPTION 6PM-10PM AUG. 6<br />
The Cave features artwork from the kids of project<br />
art school- thru <strong>Aug</strong>ust 16<br />
HANDS ACROSS HARBOR 7:30PM, AUG. 6<br />
Downtown <strong>Fullerton</strong> wherever you are - hold someone.<br />
Also get your photo taken in the free DittoSnaps<br />
photo booth<br />
STUDENT DESIGN SHOW<br />
OPENS 6PM-10PM AUG. 27<br />
Featured artwork by design students.<br />
•OTTO www.shopotto.com 714-526-3142<br />
111 E. Commonwealth, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
JENIFER M. HERNANDEZ<br />
RECEPTION 6PM-10PM AUG. 6<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> artist Jenifer Hernandez presents an<br />
exhibit of colorful mixed media work, often using<br />
found objects, or reclaimed components. Hernandez<br />
apprenticed beginning at age 12 under watercolor<br />
painter Carmen de Leon Perez. She went on to study<br />
studio art, zoological illustration and earned a degree<br />
in graphic design. She lives in town where she and her<br />
husband are raising their young child.<br />
•THE VIOLET HOUR STUDIO<br />
www.violethour.com 714-441-1504<br />
225 W. Santa Fe Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
BURNING MAN 2010<br />
RECEPTION 6PM-10PM AUG. 6<br />
The Rangers of Metropolis: Burning Man 2010 and<br />
the music of Rory Cloud (in his last performance<br />
before leaving <strong>Fullerton</strong>.)<br />
•MUCKENTHALER<br />
CULTURAL CENTER<br />
1201 W. Malvern, <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833<br />
714-738-6595 www.themuck.org<br />
KOREAN SISTER CITY EXHIBIT<br />
The Muckenthaler celebrates <strong>Fullerton</strong>’s Sister<br />
Cities with a special group exchange exhibit featuring<br />
artists from Yong-in, Korea and <strong>Fullerton</strong>. The show<br />
travels to Yong-in early next year. In all, 25 different<br />
artists showcase paintings, ceramics, sculpture, textile,<br />
and works in other media.<br />
Eight artists from Yong-in were present for the<br />
opening reception (which included a calligraphy<br />
demonstration) in the Muckenthaler galleries on July<br />
9.<br />
Artists representing Yong-in are Ki Pyung Kong,<br />
Young Ran Kim, Joo Ick Kim, Soon Kwan Ma, Jeong<br />
Ae Park, Byeon Hae Ik, Hae Chang Seo, Oe Ja Son,<br />
In Ja Shim, Jun Seop Ahn, Seong Man Oh, Kyung<br />
Sung Lee, Bum Joon Lee, Duk Moon Jung, Soo Yung<br />
Jung, Churl Moon Jin, Yu Soon Choi, Hyun Jung<br />
Choi, and Man Gab Hur. Representing <strong>Fullerton</strong> are<br />
James Dahl, Carol Henke, Rowan Harrison, Young<br />
Shin Kim, and Steve Metzger.-thru Sept. 16
AUGUST 2010 THEATER<br />
BAT BOY – The Musical<br />
Bat Boy—The Musical with story and<br />
book by Keythe Farley and Brian<br />
Flemming and music and lyrics by<br />
Laurence O;Keefe revolves around tolerance<br />
and love. Can people learn to tolerate<br />
someone who is very different from<br />
them? Can the power of love overcome<br />
intolerance?<br />
A strange boy with pointy ears is found<br />
by three local youths exploring an underground<br />
cave. Both parties are startled. The<br />
boy bites one of the girls, there is a struggle<br />
and the youths subdue him and finally<br />
bring him to the surface. Bat Boy not<br />
only looks different but does not speak.<br />
All he can do is make squeaking sounds<br />
and he is extremely agitated. He is finally<br />
put in a cage and sent Dr. Parker, the local<br />
veterinarian.<br />
The town is in an uproar; people are<br />
both fascinated and repelled by him but<br />
the overall consensus is “get rid of him.”<br />
Meredith Parker, the doctor’s wife disagrees<br />
and patiently works with Bat Boy,<br />
showing him affection and teaching him<br />
how to speak and behave properly. Her<br />
daughter Shelley ultimately helps her<br />
mother’s efforts.<br />
THE WHO’S TOMMY<br />
The Who’s Tommy at Chance Theater<br />
is definitely a “Wow” performance. An<br />
original album by The Who was reformatted<br />
by Pete Townsend and Des McAnuff<br />
into a rock musical and Director Oanh<br />
Nguyen provides a fast-moving colorful<br />
presentation that never loses energy<br />
thanks to a very talented group of performers.<br />
Its 1940, England is at war. Shortly after<br />
Captain and Mrs. Walker marry, he is<br />
called to duty. He is reported missing and<br />
presumed dead and their son, Tommy, is<br />
born in 1941. Four years later, Captain<br />
Walker is liberated from a POW camp<br />
and returns home to find his wife ready to<br />
marry another man.; a fight erupts resulting<br />
in the lover’s death. Tommy watched<br />
everything in a mirror and when his parents<br />
realize this, they tell Tommy he didn’t<br />
see or hear anything and must never<br />
speak about it.<br />
Tommy, now deaf, dumb and blind, is<br />
molested by his Uncle Ernie, bullied by<br />
his cousin Kevin and subjected to numerous<br />
tests by many doctors. In desperation<br />
his parents seek help from the “Acid<br />
Queen” but to no avail. Ultimately, doctors<br />
determine that Tommy’s state is not<br />
physical and only he can cure himself.<br />
But Tommy can play pinball. He plays<br />
brilliantly and becomes a pinball champion.<br />
Tommy becomes a full-fledged<br />
celebrity, making appearances in large<br />
venues. People want to be like him but<br />
when he insists that they should be themselves<br />
rather than him, his followers<br />
become disenchanted and leave him. All<br />
through the years he has stood staring<br />
before the mirror. Finally, in sheer frustra-<br />
REVIEWED by Joyce Rosenthal<br />
Bat Boy learns quickly and well but<br />
unfortunately, the town still doesn’t like<br />
him. Although he responded to the love<br />
received from the doctor’s wife and<br />
daughter, there is little tolerance in the<br />
town for someone who looks so different,<br />
who doesn’t “fit.” The play ultimately<br />
takes a dark turn and there is no happy<br />
ending.<br />
Director Glendele Way-Aigle puts the<br />
large cast (many actors play multiple<br />
roles) with assorted degrees of talent<br />
through their paces. Choreographers Tony<br />
Viramontes and Kathleen Switzer plus the<br />
live four piece band led by Bill Wolfe help<br />
make this an interesting performance.<br />
Steven Joseph Alcanter (Bat Boy),<br />
Jessica Lynch (Shelley Parker) and<br />
Kathleen Switzer (Meredith Parker) are<br />
outstanding in their roles.<br />
HUNGER ARTISTS<br />
699-A S. State College, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Tickets: 714-680-6803<br />
www.hungerartists.com<br />
•BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL plays<br />
thru <strong>Aug</strong> 15.<br />
•ROSENCRANTZ &<br />
GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD<br />
opens <strong>Aug</strong> 27 - plays thru Sept 19<br />
Mark Bartlett (Narrator/Tommy)<br />
tion, Mrs. Walker shatters the mirror<br />
which releases Tommy; he doesn’t revert<br />
to his former self; but joyfully embraces<br />
his family and his younger selves.<br />
The acting, singing and dancing of the<br />
entire cast is delightful to watch. Mark<br />
Bartlett (Narrator/Tommy), Kevin<br />
Cordova (Captain Walker), Paul<br />
Hovannes (Cousin Kevin), Clarissa<br />
Barton (Acid Queen), Brynne<br />
McManimie (Sally), Cameron McIntyre<br />
(Tommy age 4) and Seth Dusky (Tommy<br />
age 10) are standouts<br />
Also contributing to the show are<br />
Allison Bibicoff (Choreography),Mike<br />
Wilkins (Musical Direction), KC<br />
Wilkerson (Lighting and Video Design),<br />
Christopher Scott Murillo (Scenic<br />
Design) and Casey Long (Sound Design).<br />
CHANCE THEATER<br />
5552 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim Hills<br />
Tickets: 714-777-3033<br />
www.chancetheater.com<br />
•THE WHO’S TOMMY - held over<br />
thru <strong>Aug</strong> 15. Thurs & Fri at 8pm; Sat at<br />
3pm & 8pm; Sun at 2pm and 7pm<br />
MAVERICK THEATER<br />
110 E. Walnut, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Tickets: 714-526-7070<br />
www.mavericktheater.com<br />
•IMPROV SHIMPROV LATE NIGHT<br />
COMEDY Every Friday & Saturday at 11pm.<br />
www.improvshimprov.com $5<br />
•THE HOBBIT THERE & BACK<br />
AGAIN opens <strong>Aug</strong>. 6 - plays thru Sept 19<br />
The Hobbit follows the adventures of Bilbo<br />
Baggins many years before “The Lord of the<br />
Rings” on his unexpected journey to reclaim<br />
the treasure of the great dragon Smaug.<br />
Nathan Makaryk directs this adaptation of<br />
J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved fantasy novel. Fri at<br />
8pm and Sat at 4pm and 8pm<br />
STAGES THEATER<br />
400 E. Commonwealth, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Tickets: 714-525-4484<br />
www.stagesoc.org<br />
•SO ALONE, THE REUNION CON-<br />
CERT opens <strong>Aug</strong> 6th - thru <strong>Aug</strong> 8. Music<br />
from the story of New York Dolls frontman,<br />
Johnny Thunders’ amazing talent and his<br />
slow decline into the world of drugs which<br />
eventually took his life. Songs from the show<br />
with the original band members. Directed by<br />
Mitch Faris. Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 6pm<br />
•OUR TOWN <strong>Aug</strong> 20 thru Sept 19<br />
Our Town by Thorton Wilder, is directed<br />
by Joe Parrish. "There's something way<br />
down deep that's eternal about every human<br />
being." Juxtaposed against the broader background<br />
of time, social history, and the universality<br />
of normal events, we are engaged in<br />
the lives of two families as they journey<br />
though daily life, love and marriage, death<br />
and loss. Fri and Sat at 8pm; Sun matinee at<br />
2pm<br />
•TWISTED WINE opens <strong>Aug</strong>. 28 and<br />
plays thru Sept. 18 Saturdays and Sundays at<br />
5pm. Written by Jesse Glick and directed by<br />
Casey Holm this is not your typical love<br />
story. Robert and Sherry have an amazing life<br />
together. They are young, intelligent, successful,<br />
and don't have too much to worry<br />
about... until their friend, Lisa, makes them<br />
an offer that shakes up their world. Will love<br />
conquer and defy the odds?<br />
FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 13<br />
FCLO MUSIC THEATRE<br />
Plummer Auditorium,<br />
Lemon & Chapman, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Tickets: 714-879-1732<br />
www.fclo.com<br />
•THE RAT PACK REVISITED<br />
opens <strong>Aug</strong> 20 - plays thru <strong>Aug</strong> 28. The<br />
timeless music of Frank, Dean and<br />
Sammy. Five performers and a live<br />
band promise to deliver the music that<br />
transcends generations.<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Children’s<br />
Repertory on Tour<br />
by Michelle Gottlieb<br />
Many of you are aware of <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Children’s Repertory Theater, that<br />
amazing company of children in fifth<br />
through eighth grade that put on<br />
incredible Broadway-style shows twice<br />
a year, but did you know they also travel?<br />
The FCRT company of 65 children<br />
is presently finishing it’s run of Peter<br />
Pan and preparing for their European<br />
adventure. Every three years FCRT<br />
goes on a Musical Tour. They left July<br />
30th and will visit Switzerland, Austria,<br />
and Germany, where they will perform,<br />
and Italy. One of the most exciting performances<br />
they will have on this trip<br />
will be at the Swiss Music Festival.<br />
FCRT has been going on tour<br />
throughout its twenty eight year history.<br />
Hundreds of children have had the<br />
opportunity to not only perfect their<br />
performing skills, but to see many parts<br />
of the world. They have gone to<br />
Europe, Australia and Japan. These<br />
trips are very expensive with not only<br />
the travel, but also the costumes and<br />
props needed for the performance.<br />
FCRT welcomes donations to help<br />
defray the costs. Tax-deductible donations<br />
can be sent to FCRT 2118<br />
Smokewood Ave, <strong>Fullerton</strong>, CA<br />
92831.
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HITS &<br />
MISSES<br />
by Joyce Mason<br />
© 2010<br />
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT:<br />
A Hit & a Miss<br />
With a tone that waivers between sitcom fare<br />
and emotional heft, “The Kids are All Right”<br />
offers a twenty-first century take on middle-class<br />
family drama. In this case the family consists of<br />
two lesbian parents and their biological son and<br />
daughter, conceived and carried by each mother<br />
from the sperm of the same donor. This premise<br />
would not work as well as it does without spoton<br />
performances from the two leads played by<br />
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as well as<br />
the crisply written lines of co-writers Lisa<br />
Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg.<br />
Nic (Bening), a Los Angeles physician and the<br />
major breadwinner in the family, is the more<br />
stern and disciplined partner, while Jules<br />
(Moore), with few credentials but lots of enthusiasm,<br />
pursues her newest interest: landscape<br />
design. Their daughter, Joni (Mia Wasikowska),<br />
has just graduated from high school as a Merit<br />
Scholar and is headed for college in the fall. Less<br />
of a scholar than his sister, 15-year-old Laser<br />
(Josh Hutcherson), excels in sports.<br />
Even though the family is unconventional, the<br />
children have been brought up with the same<br />
expectations placed upon them as children from<br />
other upper-middle-class homes. They are told<br />
to get good grades, to write thank-you notes, to<br />
associate with friends who provide a good influence,<br />
and to express their opinions and ideas<br />
openly and appropriately. Now that Joni is<br />
eighteen and an adult, Laser, curious about his<br />
father’s identity, wants her to access the sperm<br />
donor files and seek their father’s identity.<br />
Their father turns out to be Paul (Mark<br />
Ruffalo), a cool, unmarried guy, who rides a<br />
motorcycle, raises organic vegetables and runs his<br />
own boutique restaurant. In a well-written<br />
scene, Paul finally meets with Joni and Laser,<br />
pleased that they have turned out so well and<br />
unruffled by the fact that they are being raised by<br />
a same-sex couple. In fact, Paul is the essence of<br />
cool—laid back, accepting, non-judgmental, and<br />
open to new experiences.<br />
Surprised but not angered by the fact that the<br />
children have contacted their biological father,<br />
Nic and Jules agree to invite Paul to their home<br />
for dinner. But this planned one-time contact<br />
expands into an extended relationship when Paul<br />
hires Jules to landscape his neglected backyard.<br />
Innumerable problems develop as these two<br />
spend time together at Paul’s home. But Paul’s<br />
influence on the two teenagers is more positive.<br />
Joni becomes less intimidated by her more controlling<br />
parent, Nic, and Laser finally ends his<br />
friendship with a teenage boy that both moms<br />
have disapproved of for months.<br />
The movie is filled with intelligent and realistic<br />
dialogue, most of which is light and bantering.<br />
But as problems develop between Nic and<br />
Jules and as both women realize that Joni will<br />
soon be moving from their home to a campus<br />
dorm, the sitcom humor of the first half of the<br />
movie changes to a more introspective and emotionally<br />
charged dynamic. By the end of the<br />
film, the comedic tone has morphed into a serious<br />
and contemplative mood.<br />
Cholodenko (“Laurel Canyon”) directed “The<br />
Kids Are All Right” with great attention to detail<br />
and with care and precision in choosing the cast.<br />
The interiors of the homes have a contemporary,<br />
lived-in appearance, and the wardrobes accurately<br />
reflect the personalities and identities of the<br />
characters. Nic is frequently seen in her hospital<br />
scrubs and Jules looks amusing in the khaki<br />
shorts and workman’s vest of her new landscaping<br />
career. The outstanding work of Bening and<br />
Moore is ably supported by Ruffalo, Wasikowska<br />
and all of the skilled supporting actors.<br />
Two Hits: Don’t Miss It!<br />
A Hit & A Miss: You Might Like It.<br />
Two Misses: Forget About It.<br />
MON, AUG. 2<br />
•1:45pm-4pm: Panel Discussion on<br />
Women & Health with Loretta<br />
Sanchez at the Muzeo, 241 S. Anaheim<br />
Blvd., Anaheim, CA 92805. Visiting<br />
women members of Congress will also<br />
be in attendance. An opportunity to<br />
learn what the Patient Protection and<br />
Affordable Health Care Act which just<br />
became law will mean to fixing our<br />
healthcare system, especially for women.<br />
RSVP by calling Javiera Cartagena at<br />
(714) 621-0102 or via email to<br />
javiera.cartagena@mail.house.gov.<br />
www.house.gov/sanchez<br />
•4:30pm: Lions Field Dedication at<br />
the site of $13 million refurbished field<br />
on Bastanchury at the edge of Hillcrest<br />
Park. Fake grass covers the playing fields.<br />
46 mature trees were removed and the<br />
slope was stabilized to prevent slippage<br />
and tiny new trees were planted. A new<br />
concession stand, meeting room, batting<br />
cages and restrooms are part of the completed<br />
project funded by a 1998 Park<br />
Improvement Bond and park dwelling<br />
taxes. Refreshments will be served and<br />
Pop Warner cheerleaders and football<br />
players will begin their first practices.<br />
TUES., AUG. 3<br />
•10am-Noon: “Obama & the<br />
Middle East” William Haddad, chair<br />
and professor of history, CSUF in a free<br />
OLLI lecture. Mackey Auditorium,<br />
Ruby Gerontology Center, 800 N. State<br />
College Blvd., <strong>Fullerton</strong> (657-278-4851<br />
or www.cle.fullerton.edu for more info.<br />
•5pm-7:30pm: National Night Out<br />
Against Crime at Westhaven Park,<br />
12252 West St,, Garden Grove 92840.<br />
Free family event features music, balloons,<br />
bubbles, raffles, games, prizes and<br />
non-profit groups in a program to generate<br />
anti-crime programs and community<br />
partnerships.<br />
•6:30pm: City Council Meeting at<br />
City Hall, 303 W. Commonwealth Ave.,<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> 92832 (at Highland). On the<br />
agenda is a Public Hearing on Fire Dept.<br />
Fees for conducting annual inspections<br />
of multi-family residential occupancies.<br />
Call the Fire Dept at 714-738-6500.<br />
WED., AUG. 4<br />
•8am-1:30pm: <strong>Fullerton</strong> Certified<br />
Farmers Market at 801 W. Valencia Dr.<br />
in Independence Park (between<br />
Highland and Euclid). Fresh fruit, vegetables,<br />
eggs, honey, fish, flowers, plants,<br />
nuts and bread. Plus the best tamales.<br />
714-871-5304.<br />
THURS., AUG. 5<br />
•1:15pm-3:15pm: “The Growing<br />
Power of the Non-Ideological Middle<br />
in Politics & Religion” Jonathan<br />
Dobrer (LA Daily News & <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
<strong>Observer</strong> columnist) in a free OLLI lecture.<br />
Mackey Auditorium, Ruby<br />
Gerontology Center, 800 N. State<br />
College Blvd., <strong>Fullerton</strong>. 657-278-4851<br />
or www.cle.fullerton.edu.<br />
Free Summer<br />
Classes for Seniors<br />
Offered by North OC<br />
Community College District<br />
Older Adults Program.<br />
LOCATION: Muckenthaler<br />
Cultural Center, 1201 W.<br />
Malvern, <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833<br />
•Ceramics: Thurs. 10am-noon.<br />
(materials $25 clay)<br />
•Quilting: Mon. 1pm-3pm<br />
•Tai-Chi Chuan: Thurs.<br />
8:45am-10:15pm. Chinese health<br />
exercise.<br />
•Beginning Drama: Mon.<br />
10:30am-12:30pm<br />
Enrollment Info:<br />
Call 866-411-1212 or email<br />
info@themuck.org<br />
THURS., AUG. 5 CONTINUED<br />
•3pm-6pm: Summer Happy Hour at<br />
the Senior Center, 340 W.<br />
Commonwealth Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong> features<br />
hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar offering<br />
beer, wine, and soft drinks.<br />
Entertainment by singer/musician Ron<br />
Allen, and dancing. $2 cover charge.<br />
Call 714-738-6305 for more info.<br />
THURS., AUG. 5 continued<br />
•4pm-6pm: Hunt Library Film &<br />
Board Games stay cool and enjoy<br />
watching a movie or playing board<br />
games. All ages welcome. Hunt Library,<br />
201 S. Basque Ave (off W. Valencia Dr.)<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833. Free<br />
•4:30pm-8:30pm:Outdoor Market<br />
fresh vegetables & fruit; food vendors;<br />
beer garden; kids activities; live<br />
Reggae/Rock music by Upstream<br />
formed in Trinidad in the 80s by brothers<br />
Haile & Dereck Blackman, sons of<br />
Ras Shorty I, the man responsible for<br />
bringing Soca music to the world.<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Plaza on E. Wilshire between<br />
Harbor and Pomona, Downtown<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>. Free admission and parking.<br />
714-738-6545<br />
•7pm: Leon Leyson: A Holocaust<br />
Survivor and part of the legendary<br />
Schindler’s List describes his extraordinary<br />
experiences as a young boy during<br />
the Nazi occupation in WWII.<br />
Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 W.<br />
Malvern Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833. Call<br />
714-738-6595 Wed.-Sun. noon to 4pm<br />
or go to www.themuck.org for more<br />
information. Presented by Davis Barber<br />
Productions. Free<br />
SAT., AUG. 7<br />
•7:30am-8:15am: Walk & Talk with<br />
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez hosted<br />
by the City of <strong>Fullerton</strong>. Wear comfortable<br />
shoes and participate in an<br />
informal meeting with our local representative.<br />
Laguna Lake Park, 3120<br />
Lakeview Dr. (off Euclid) in north<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>.<br />
•9am: OLLI Open House features<br />
guided tours, exhibits, light refreshments<br />
and a presentation on Fall semester classes<br />
and activities. Ruby Gerontology<br />
Center CSUF, (enter campus on<br />
Gymnasium Drive off State College<br />
Blvd.) Free parking. Call 714-278-2446<br />
or see website www.olli.fullerton.edu for<br />
more info on this group which offers<br />
over 200 classes a year on a wide variety<br />
of topics to all semi-retired of any age.<br />
no educational prerequisites, no grades,<br />
no homework, no examinations, and no<br />
attendance requirements. $225 annual<br />
fee (or by semester: $65 summer; or<br />
$115 Fall/Winter) includes unlimited<br />
number of OLLI classes (plus audit any<br />
CSUF class with permission of instructor),<br />
parking pass, bookstore & library,<br />
and performing arts discounts, athletic<br />
event tickets, and more.<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Interfaith Emergency Service<br />
• 4:30pm: Social Hour & Silent Auction<br />
• 5:45pm: Welcome & Dinner<br />
• 7pm: Live Auction<br />
Angelo’s & Vinci’s Ristorante<br />
550 N. HARBOR BLVD., FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA<br />
AUGUST 2010<br />
SUN., AUG. 8<br />
•1pm-5pm: Free World Dance<br />
Festival celebrates Southern<br />
California’s diversity with the rich<br />
tapestry of dances from Mexico,<br />
Ireland, Spain, the Middle East,<br />
Korea, Argentina, and Guam, among<br />
others. Muckenthaler Cultural<br />
Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave.,<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833. Call 714-738-6595<br />
or go to www.themuck.org for more<br />
info.<br />
MON., AUG. 9<br />
•11am: 1st Annual James<br />
Wernke Golf Tournament<br />
Hacienda Golf Club, 718 East Road,<br />
La Habra. Go to www.jameswernkefoundation.org<br />
for details.<br />
•6pm-8pm: Free Film Series at<br />
the Library - “Alamar”, an independent<br />
film (not suitable for young<br />
children) will be screened at the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Main Library Osborne<br />
Auditorium, 353 W. Commonwealth<br />
Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92832. Jore has only<br />
a few weeks with his five-year-old son<br />
Natan before he leaves to live with<br />
his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching<br />
Natan about their Mayan heritage,<br />
Jorge takes him to the pristine<br />
Chinchorro reef, and eases him into<br />
the rhythms of a fisherman’s life. As<br />
the bond between father and son<br />
grows stronger, Natan learns to live<br />
in harmony with life above and<br />
below the surface of the sea. 714-<br />
738-6325 or 738-6327 for details.<br />
WED., AUG. 11<br />
•7pm: Planning Commission<br />
Meeting City Hall, 303 W.<br />
Commonwealth, <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92832<br />
THURS., AUG. 12<br />
•4pm-6pm: Hunt Library Film<br />
& Board Games stay cool and enjoy<br />
watching a movie or playing board<br />
games. All ages welcome. Hunt<br />
Library, 201 S. Basque Ave (off W.<br />
Valencia Dr.) <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833.<br />
•4pm-8:30pm: Dog Days at the<br />
Downtown Outdoor Market features<br />
dog show and contests in ten<br />
categories, including best pet trick,<br />
fastest eater, loudest bark, and more,<br />
plus dog-themed vendors and<br />
exhibitors and live music by Munish<br />
-DJ. Free. Call 714-738-6545 to register<br />
your dog in the contests.<br />
•6pm-9pm: Hunt Library<br />
SCORE Small Business Workshop<br />
develop a winning business plan to<br />
help manage your business. More<br />
info at www.score114.org. Hunt<br />
Library, 201 S. Basque Ave (off W.<br />
Valencia Dr.) <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833. Preregister<br />
for this Free workshop by<br />
calling 714-550-7369 or online at<br />
workshops@score114.org.<br />
Continued next page<br />
FIES Annual Fund-Raising Dinner<br />
Sunday, September 19, 2010<br />
RESERVATIONS: 714.680.3691<br />
(Please RSVP before September 10, 2010)<br />
Find more information about FIES online at www.fies.us<br />
“REBUILDING LIVES OF THE HUNGRY & HOMELESS”
AUGUST 2010 EVENTS<br />
THURS., AUG. 12 continued<br />
•7:30pm: Travels in Turkey Andrew Clay<br />
will show photos of travels in Turkey, including<br />
Ephesus, Cappadocia and Istanbul at the Rio<br />
Hondo Sierra Club meeting. Meet at Banco<br />
Popular at the SW corner of Euclid and<br />
Rosencrans (near CVS) in north <strong>Fullerton</strong>.<br />
Free<br />
•8pm: Free Poetry at the Muck- Ben Trigg<br />
& Steve Ramirez famously known as the<br />
cheeky hosts of Two Idiots Peddling Poetry,<br />
Trigg and Ramierz remind people that poetry<br />
can be powerful but also fun. Muckenthaler<br />
Cultural Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave.,<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>. 714-738-6595 or go to www.themuck.org<br />
for more info. Moon Tide Press.<br />
FRI., AUG. 13<br />
•10:30am: Hawaiian Luau Luncheon features<br />
a Hawaiian dance group performance<br />
and lunch. $3.50/general public; $2.50/60 or<br />
older at the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Senior Center, 340 W.<br />
Commonwealth Ave. 714-738-6305<br />
SAT., AUG. 14<br />
•1pm-2pm: Ed Royce Town Hall at<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> City Hall, 303 W. Commonwealth.<br />
An opportunity to meet and discuss issues with<br />
U.S Representative for our district, Ed Royce.<br />
www.royce.house.gov. Free<br />
•1pm-4pm: Secrets of Brewing Beer at<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Museum Center features speaker Jeff<br />
Williams of O’Shea Brewing who will discuss<br />
the process and offer tips. Beer sampling is<br />
included. Must be 21 or over to attend.<br />
$10/members; $12/general. Reserve a seat by<br />
calling (714)738-6545.<br />
•7pm: Harmony Under the Stars Concert<br />
features the Orange Empire Barbershop<br />
Chorus and guest quartets at Pearson Park in<br />
Anaheim. Group ticket rates available.<br />
$15/adults; $10/kids 10-18; Free for kids<br />
under 10. Call 714-871-7675 or go to<br />
www.oechorus.org.<br />
THURS., AUG. 19<br />
•7pm: Magician Abbit the Average combines<br />
astounding magic, zany juggling and<br />
non-stop antics. Muckenthaler Cultural<br />
Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
92833. Call 714-738-6595 or go to www.themuck.org.<br />
$10<br />
First Annual Restaurant Week<br />
by Kelsi Collins & Xanat Hernandez<br />
The Chamber of Commerce presents<br />
its 1st annual Restaurant Week, from<br />
<strong>Aug</strong>ust 1st to the 7th, where participating<br />
local eateries will offer meals at<br />
reduced prices. Each restaurant has<br />
designed a pre-fixed menu for the weeklong<br />
event for food enthusiasts to sample<br />
the flavors of <strong>Fullerton</strong> cuisine.<br />
Participants can choose from 31 different<br />
restaurants primarily located in<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>’s historic downtown. From<br />
Angelo’s and Vinci’s spumoni to<br />
Matador Cantina’s bacon-wrapped<br />
THURS., AUG. 26<br />
•9:30am-3:30pm: Senior Public<br />
Transportation a presentation on public<br />
transportation choices and in filling<br />
out applications for OCTA Access and<br />
other non-emergency medical transportation<br />
services. <strong>Fullerton</strong> Senior<br />
Center, 340 W. Commonwealth Ave.<br />
The service is free but appointments are<br />
required. WECARE mobility management<br />
volunteers are also being sought.<br />
Call 714-738-6305 to reserve your spot<br />
or to learn more about volunteer positions.<br />
•7pm: Peter Brandon a <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
local, produced his first breakout song<br />
“Drive Real Fast” which created waves in<br />
the country music world. He was nominated<br />
for LA Music Award for Song of<br />
the Year and has performed with lots of<br />
well-known acts. Muckenthaler Cultural<br />
Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
92833. Call 714-738-6595. $10<br />
•8pm: Outdoor Market & Movie<br />
After enjoying Latin music by Ostia at<br />
the market from 6:30 to 8:30pm on E.<br />
Wilshire & Pomona next to the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Museum Center - bring your<br />
chairs, blankets & cushions to the corner<br />
of Chapman & Harbor behind the Fox<br />
Theater for a showing of Dr. No with<br />
Sean Connery. Both events are Free<br />
street dogs, customers can expect a<br />
wide-range of tastes. Restaurants offer<br />
menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner<br />
at prices ranging from $5 to $40. Some<br />
of the other food establishments<br />
include: Café Hidalgo, Mulberry Street,<br />
Karma Kabob, Monkey Business Cafe,<br />
Phans 55 Bistro, Brownstone Café,<br />
Branagan’s Irish Pub, Bourbon Street,<br />
The Cellar, ENVY, Heroes Bar & Grill,<br />
Roscoe’s, The Olde Ship, Cherch,<br />
Chomp Rockin’ Sushi & Teppan Grill,<br />
Commonwealth Lounge, Lomeli’s,<br />
Revolucion Mexican Grill, Summit<br />
SAT., AUG. 28<br />
•1:30pm & 5:30pm: Romeo & Juliet<br />
in Ralph B. Clark Park by Shakespeare<br />
directed by Branden Roberts. Two shows<br />
at 1:30pm and 5:30pm in the<br />
Amphitheater area. Kids & seniors/$2;<br />
adults/$3. Parking/$5. Clark Regional<br />
Park, 8800 Rosecrans Ave., Buena Park.<br />
RSVP at ws.romeoandjuliet@gmail.com.<br />
•5pm: Barney Frank keynote speaker<br />
at the OC Democrats annual Harry S.<br />
Truman Awards Dinner. Also present to<br />
accept an award for her work on protecting<br />
the environment will be Senator<br />
Barbara Boxer. Buena Park. More info at<br />
www.ocdemocraticparty.org<br />
THURS., SEPT. 2<br />
•7pm: Zoot Velasco executive director<br />
of the Muckenthaler and also a performance<br />
artist takes the stage for a mix of<br />
folk tales and personal stories.<br />
Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 W.<br />
Malvern Ave., <strong>Fullerton</strong> 92833. Call<br />
714-738-6595 www.themuck.org. Free<br />
•4:30pm-8:30pm: Outdoor Market<br />
fresh vegetables & fruit; food vendors;<br />
beer garden; kids activities; Latin music<br />
by Ostia. <strong>Fullerton</strong> Plaza on E. Wilshire<br />
between Harbor and Pomona,<br />
Downtown <strong>Fullerton</strong>. Free Admission<br />
714-738-6545<br />
FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 15<br />
House, Tranquil Tea Lounge, Stadium<br />
Tavern, Ziing’s Bistro & Bar, and more.<br />
Chamber of Commerce Chair Gary<br />
Graves has worked closely with restaurants<br />
in the hope of increasing city<br />
income through sales tax while encouraging<br />
locals to take advantage of<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>’s finest restaurants. The<br />
restaurant business, like many other<br />
industries, faces many challenges in<br />
maintaining a customer base in today’s<br />
economic climate. In the spirit of its<br />
mission statement, the Chamber aims<br />
to organize other events similar to<br />
Restaurant Week to support the growth<br />
and prosperity of <strong>Fullerton</strong>.<br />
Free Summer<br />
Outdoor Concerts<br />
TIME: 6pm to 9pm<br />
LOCATION: <strong>Fullerton</strong> Sports field<br />
located at 560 E. Silver Pine St. (off<br />
Bastanchury Rd., west of Brea Blvd.<br />
in the Brea Dam flood control<br />
basin).<br />
PARKING: Free parking onsite and<br />
free overflow parking with shuttle<br />
service at First Evangelical Free<br />
Church parking structure on corner<br />
of Bastanchury Rd. and Brea Blvd.<br />
KIDS: Free arts & crafts<br />
FOOD: Bring a picnic or purchase<br />
supper from the providing restaurant<br />
of the evening. Frati Gelato<br />
will also have a booth at each concert.<br />
BRING: Lawn chairs or blankets<br />
for seating and family & friends.<br />
•<strong>Aug</strong> 4: Music by Southbound<br />
and food by Z Pizza<br />
•<strong>Aug</strong> 11: Music by Beatles tribute<br />
band Help and food by Roscoe’s<br />
Deli<br />
•<strong>Aug</strong> 18: Music by Jann Browne<br />
Band and food by Bourbon Street.<br />
City of <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Parks & Rec 714-738-3167
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Veterans Honored at Luncheon<br />
Prime Time, the senior’s group at<br />
Wilshire Ave. Community Church,<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>, honored Veterans and spouses<br />
from the <strong>Fullerton</strong> area on Tuesday, June<br />
29, with a free barbeque luncheon and celebration.<br />
Guests arrived and had photos taken<br />
next to Willie & Bettye Boehringer’s decorated<br />
1917 T model Ford. A giant<br />
American flag was flown from the top of<br />
the third story of the building and gently<br />
blew in the breeze as patriotic band music<br />
Unitarian Universalist<br />
Church in <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
1600 N. Acacia Ave.<br />
Welcome 10:15am • Service: 10:30am<br />
CHILDCARE (infant & toddlers) & Programs for Pre-K thru Teen<br />
•SUN., <strong>Aug</strong> 8: Effects of the Internet on Society - Professor Pat Ganer<br />
•SUN., <strong>Aug</strong> 15: Nature, Red (and Green) in Tooth & Claw-Rev. Jon Dobrer<br />
•SUN., <strong>Aug</strong> 22: Can Humanism be Religious? - Rev. Jon Dobrer<br />
•SUN., <strong>Aug</strong> 29: Overcoming Addiction - Cathy Stills, of Hope House<br />
Rev. Jon Dobrer www.uufullerton.org 714-871-7150<br />
Orangethorpe<br />
Christian Church<br />
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST<br />
(714) 871-3400<br />
CHURCH SCHOOL: 9am<br />
WORSHIP: 10:15 am<br />
2200 W. ORANGETHORPE<br />
FULLERTON<br />
welcomed the guests. Boy Scout Troop 93<br />
presented the Colors and David Tovey led<br />
the flag salute. <strong>Fullerton</strong> High School<br />
graduate, Alicia McCormick sang the<br />
National Anthem. Dr. Kirk Mackie led in<br />
the invocation. Rev. El Roy Pankow acted<br />
as Master of Ceremonies.<br />
Mrs. Carol Bankhead, wife of <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Mayor Don Bankhead, was among those<br />
recognized in attendance. Ryan Hougardy<br />
representing <strong>Fullerton</strong> and District 40, Ed<br />
Royce’s office, presented Prime Time with<br />
FULLERTON’S CONGREGATIONS WELCOME YOU<br />
•THURSDAYS: 10am<br />
•SUNDAYS: 8am & 10am<br />
(Nursery & Church School)<br />
an American flag which had been flown<br />
over Congress. Recruiters from the Brea<br />
military offices carried the banners of the<br />
various branches of the military and<br />
Veterans and spouses came to stand by<br />
their branch of service as Jenny Wentworth<br />
Senior and El Roy Pankow led the audience<br />
singing the theme song of the various<br />
military branches. Southern California’s<br />
“Good News Kids” choir with Dean &<br />
Mary Jean Brown performed a musical<br />
tribute. Veterans were thanked and the<br />
oldest Veteran of each branch of the military<br />
was recognized.<br />
FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR<br />
YOUNG MARRIEDS<br />
& SINGLES<br />
Call (714) 871-3535 for details<br />
Free Concert<br />
4:30pm Friday, <strong>Aug</strong>ust 20<br />
Let The Lady Sing, VIII<br />
AUGUST 2010<br />
Drunken Teen Driver<br />
Pleads Guilty to Crash<br />
Killing Two Friends<br />
Jared Nobel Berggren, 20,<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>, pleaded guilty to two<br />
felony counts of gross vehicular<br />
manslaughter while intoxicated with<br />
a sentencing enhancement for causing<br />
great bodily injury. He faces a<br />
maximum sentence of 13 years in<br />
state prison at his sentencing on <strong>Aug</strong>.<br />
20, 2010, in Santa Ana. He was 19 at<br />
the time of the incident.<br />
At 2:30am on May 11, 2009,<br />
Berggren was driving at a high rate of<br />
speed in a residential area in <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
with a blood alcohol level of .10 percent.<br />
He lost control and crashed into<br />
a large eucalyptus tree. Passengers<br />
Jacquelyn Ardalan, 19, and Miles<br />
Andrew Christensen, 19, were pronounced<br />
dead at the scene.<br />
Ardalan's mother told the court<br />
that her daughter's death was preventable<br />
and that her life has been<br />
forever changed by the loss of<br />
Jacquelyn.<br />
Christensen's father explained that<br />
he had a strong, loving relationship<br />
with his son, but "overlying this is the<br />
solitude of judgment I feel as a parent.<br />
I find little satisfaction in anything<br />
I may have done right as a parent<br />
and find there is no emotional<br />
balm that can sooth the pain of my<br />
failures as a father. I know that things<br />
we tend to work out with time with<br />
our adult children will never be granted<br />
to me. I now live with the feeling<br />
that there is no redemption in this<br />
mortal life for the failures I had in<br />
raising my son."<br />
TWO WORSHIP<br />
SUNDAY SERVICES<br />
WORSHIP<br />
9am and<br />
9:00 10:30am AM &<br />
in 10:30 the Sanctuary AM
AUGUST 2010 REST IN PEACE WE REMEMBER YOU<br />
Leatrice A.<br />
Cunningham<br />
Leatrice A. Cunningham,<br />
87, passed away July 5, 2010.<br />
She was preceded in death by<br />
her loving husband William J.<br />
Cunningham Sr.<br />
She is survived by her children;<br />
Peggy Clampitt (Chuck),<br />
William J. Cunningham Jr.,<br />
Michelle Hulstein (Les), Curt<br />
Cunningham (Joyce), Jo-Anne<br />
Carter (David), Pat<br />
Cunningham (Jayne), Mariann<br />
Martin (Barry), Jeffrey<br />
Cunningham (Lisa), Terri<br />
O lmstead, Shawn<br />
Cunningham; 17 grandchildren;<br />
22 great grandchildren<br />
and sister Joanne Forspring.<br />
Funeral Mass was held on<br />
July 9 at St. Juliana's Catholic<br />
Church, <strong>Fullerton</strong>, with burial<br />
at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery.<br />
McAulay & Wallace<br />
Mortuary assisted the family.<br />
Kenneth<br />
Campbell Jr.<br />
Kenneth Campbell Jr.<br />
born March 17, 1952 in<br />
Renton, Washington,<br />
passed away July 28,<br />
2010 in <strong>Fullerton</strong>,<br />
California. He is survived<br />
by his wife, son,<br />
daughter, 6 grandchildren,<br />
a brother, 3 sisters,<br />
his mother-in-law and<br />
his son-in-law. He was<br />
Loved by all.<br />
Sharon M. Lord<br />
Sharon M. Lord, 39, passed away July 9,<br />
2010. She was diagnosed with brain cancer in<br />
1997. God gifted her with 13 yrs of life dedicated<br />
to praising Him.<br />
Sharon never met a stranger and always<br />
made an opportunity to share her testimony.<br />
She is survived by her son Anthony Baxstrum;<br />
mother Betty Hopkins (Greg); father Michael<br />
Lord Sr. (Irene) and brother Michael Jr.<br />
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FULLERTON OBSERVER Page 17<br />
Virginia Ruth Boehrer Glandon<br />
Virginia Ruth Boehrer<br />
Glandon passed away peacefully<br />
and quietly to be with the Lord,<br />
and her husband, on Saturday,<br />
July 10, 2010. Virginia was<br />
born in 1913 in Berkeley, CA.<br />
She met her husband, Howard<br />
Glandon, there and married him<br />
in 1934. They had one child,<br />
born shortly after WWII. They<br />
raised their daughter in Marin<br />
County, then retired to Santa<br />
Rosa, CA, where they enjoyed<br />
30 full years. In 2000 they<br />
moved to <strong>Fullerton</strong>, CA, to be<br />
closer to their daughter.<br />
Virginia was extremely active<br />
in the Presbyterian Church most<br />
of her life, as young-adult leader<br />
(with her husband), a Sunday<br />
School teacher, choir and bell<br />
choir member, in couples<br />
groups, and as a deacon. At<br />
retirement she and her husband<br />
continued their commitment to<br />
Christ. One of her most memorable lifeexperiences<br />
was attending a summer conference<br />
at the San Francisco Theological<br />
Seminary in 1932.<br />
Virginia played both cello and piano; as<br />
an adult she continued with her cello by<br />
playing in various musical groups made<br />
up of her friends and herself; in retirement<br />
she amazed people with her talent to<br />
Daniel C. Valdivia Sr<br />
Daniel C. Valdivia Sr., 61, passed away<br />
July 16, 2010. He is survived by son<br />
Danny Jr.; daughters Margaret Nunez,<br />
Denise Whitney and Vivian Valdivia; 11<br />
grandchildren and 2 great grandchidren.<br />
A service was held July 20 at McAulay<br />
& Wallace Mortuary, <strong>Fullerton</strong>. Burial<br />
followed on July 21 at Holy Sepulcher<br />
Cemetery in Orange.<br />
Virginia Glandon celebrating her 96th birthday.<br />
just sit at the piano and create classicalstyle<br />
music, even after she was declared<br />
legally blind.<br />
In her later years Virginia became an<br />
avid golfer, having two holes-in-one to her<br />
credit.<br />
She was laid to rest next to her husband<br />
in Santa Rosa, CA. She is survived by her<br />
daughter, Shirley Ruth Gregg.
Page 18 FULLERTON OBSERVER LOCAL NEWS<br />
AUGUST 2010<br />
Carl Binder Retires Story and Photo by Jere Greene<br />
Over sixty-five friends and fellow<br />
employees came by the <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Senior Center to wish longtime Front<br />
Desk Receptionist Carl Binder a fond<br />
farewell. Carl has decided to retire and<br />
spend more time with his wife, Irma.<br />
He held the position for over eleven<br />
years.<br />
Coco Barragan from SeniorServ, the<br />
organization that provides low-cost<br />
lunches at the Center, provided two<br />
sheet cakes, along with punch and coffee<br />
for everyone.<br />
Center Supervisor Eloisa Espinoza<br />
and John Clemons from Parks and<br />
Recreation were on hand to recognize<br />
Carl and present him with a plaque to<br />
commemorate his years of service.<br />
Carl started with the City in October<br />
of 1998 after leaving Hughes as a Cost<br />
Analyst, and this background served<br />
him as he maintained the records for<br />
the Senior Center operations.<br />
Many nice things were said about<br />
Carl, but the most meaningful was that<br />
he will be missed.<br />
FULLERTON CRIME LOG w/Jeanne Hoffa<br />
Compiled from interviews with the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Police Department<br />
and daily crime records of the <strong>Fullerton</strong> Police Department.<br />
•BRAIN AND SKELETONS VANISH FROM<br />
FCC: Two skeletons and a model brain disappeared<br />
from <strong>Fullerton</strong> College before the 4th<br />
of July weekend, according to Dr. Bruce<br />
Cordell, the Dean of the Natural Sciences<br />
Division. The replacement value is $8,000 to<br />
$9,000. Cordell described the deluxe dualsex<br />
muscular skeleton, plastic skeleton and<br />
model brain as essential tools used to help students<br />
learn anatomy and physiology They<br />
were being stored in the temporary Science<br />
Village classrooms set up on the south side of<br />
Chapman Ave. awaiting the department’s<br />
move to its new home in Dec. Anyone who<br />
sees any life-size skeletons or model brains in<br />
the vicinity of <strong>Fullerton</strong> College is encouraged<br />
to call the Science Dept at 714-992-7043.<br />
•LAW OFFICES TAGGED IN GOLD: The Law<br />
offices where <strong>Fullerton</strong> Deputy City Attorney<br />
Elena Gerli works with dozens of other<br />
lawyers was vandalized with gold spray paint<br />
July 19th, according to police reports.<br />
Windows to the offices of Jones and Roach,<br />
Jones and Mayer at 3777 N. Harbor Blvd.<br />
were painted with "DODSB", "WC", "TAK",<br />
"MACK" and "MDC" <strong>Fullerton</strong> Police Senior<br />
Cadet Raymond Aguilar said. "DAZEY" was<br />
written across a tree out front.<br />
•PET TURKEY ASSAULTED BY INTRUDER: A<br />
family’s pet turkey was assaulted by a stranger<br />
who jumped the backyard fence at the home<br />
on the 4000 block of Franklin Ave July 13th,<br />
according to <strong>Fullerton</strong> Police Sgt. Andrew<br />
Goodrich. The turkey’s 34-year-old adopted<br />
mother came home at 5:15pm after a threehour<br />
absence and found her back window had<br />
been shattered, Goodrich said. Her turkey,<br />
named “Blue”, was bleeding in spots where its<br />
feathers had been cut and apparently plucked,<br />
Goodrich said. Blue is 6-months old and is<br />
expected to survive.<br />
•LO-JACK LURES COPS TO CAR THIEVES:<br />
The Lo-Jack unit in a <strong>Fullerton</strong> Police<br />
Officer’s car began to signal June 7th as he<br />
drove near Yorba Linda Blvd. and the 57<br />
Freeway. The officer followed the signal south<br />
to the Moonraker Apts on Nutwood Ave.,<br />
where he found a 2004 Nissan Pathfinder that<br />
had been reported stolen out of LA. The car<br />
was backed into a parking space and plates<br />
had been removed. The officer waited nearby<br />
and watched until two people got into the car<br />
and eventually arrested a 22-year-old man and<br />
21-year-old woman from Arcata, California,<br />
for auto theft.<br />
•BANDANA WEARING MAN ROBS MOBIL<br />
STATION: An unarmed man wrapped his face<br />
in a bandana and went in the Mobil Station<br />
on Yorba Linda Blvd. and demanded cash on<br />
July 7th. The masked suspect, described as a<br />
5’9”, 210 pound Hispanic man, had dark<br />
eyes, a black and white bandana, a black<br />
hoodie and jeans adorned with writing across<br />
the front. He left the scene running on foot<br />
with an undisclosed amount of cash.<br />
•WOMAN BATTLING CANCER ENDS LIFE: A<br />
61-year-old <strong>Fullerton</strong> woman who had battled<br />
brain cancer for seven years shot herself in the<br />
head. She had lost much of the use of her body<br />
after surgery and radiation to remove the slow<br />
growing cancer. The former phone company<br />
employee who lived on Sequoia Ave. had difficulty<br />
with everyday activities. Unbeknownst<br />
to her husband, she had taken a bus to a gun<br />
store in March, purchased a .38 and had taken<br />
shooting lessons. Her husband returned home<br />
from a bicycling trip and found her lying in<br />
front of the TV in their living room, which<br />
was still on. Police estimate she died on July<br />
4th. She is survived by her husband of 8 years<br />
and a 39-year-old son who lives in Brea.<br />
•BICYCLING THIEF AWAKENS VICTIM: A<br />
man awoke to clanking noises that came from<br />
the back of his truck in his driveway on the<br />
3800 block of Madonna Dr. July 7th. He<br />
went outside and saw a slight man in his 50’s<br />
jump from his truck and onto a bicycle with a<br />
handful of tools he had just pilfered. When<br />
the victim confronted the suspect, the biker<br />
pointed a dark gun at him, mumbled something<br />
unintelligible, and escaped into the<br />
night. The suspect is 5’5” and 120 pounds.<br />
•MAN TRIES TO FILL FORGED<br />
PRESCRIPTIONS: A man tried to fill two prescriptions<br />
at Walgreens on Chapman Ave. that<br />
looked fishy to an employee July 15th. The<br />
employee called police when the doctor’s DEA<br />
number didn’t match the number on the back<br />
of the prescription. Police arrived and arrested<br />
the 34-year-old <strong>Fullerton</strong> man at 2:32pm. The<br />
prescriptions were for the diabetes drug<br />
Januvia and the asthma aid Advair. Another<br />
man was arrested at the same location after he<br />
dropped off a prescription an employee said<br />
was fake. The 37-year-old was arrested for trying<br />
to fill a forged prescription.<br />
•BANK ALERTS BEST BUY TO EMBEZZLER: A<br />
Wells Fargo employee called Best Buy when<br />
one of their employees deposited checks into<br />
his personal account that had been written out<br />
to the company July 15th. The suspect<br />
allegedly deposited $1,500 in checks inscribed<br />
with the notation "computer services.”<br />
Stephen Knittel, an 18-year-old from Colton,<br />
FULLERTON CRIME LOG continued<br />
was arrested for embezzlement at 2:04pm.<br />
•SCHOOL COMPUTER THIEVES: A witness<br />
saw several boys sneak out of a classroom at<br />
Nicholas Jr. High with laptops under their<br />
arms and called the cops June 26. The hooded<br />
kids crawled out of room 32 after smashing a<br />
window, then ran to two dark vehicles waiting<br />
nearby. The cars fled the scene before police<br />
arrived. Police found the vandals had pried<br />
open two padlocked storage cabinets where<br />
the computers were stored. Laptops were also<br />
stolen from room 20 at Woodcrest<br />
Elementary. At Pacific Drive vandals cracked<br />
the windows of rooms 3 and 14 on July 4th.<br />
Tools used in the auto body program were<br />
stolen from <strong>Fullerton</strong> High School July 16th.<br />
•VANDALS DUMP PAINT IN CAR: An<br />
unknown suspect dumped white paint inside<br />
of a green 1998 Plymouth Neon that was<br />
parked on the 500 block of Princeton Ave.<br />
July 6th. The car's owner told police she had<br />
left the windows down.<br />
•Vandals Bathe School in Paint: Graffiti<br />
vandals painted 15 doors at Nicolas Jr. High<br />
July 19th. Vandals also swathed black paint<br />
across four sets of windows, two drinking<br />
fountains, four lunch tables and on the walkway<br />
to the front office. The painters wrote<br />
the letters "RV" backwards and the letters "D"<br />
and "ZG", <strong>Fullerton</strong> Police Senior Cadet<br />
Raymond Aguilar said. The damage is estimated<br />
at $300. Vandals struck Maple<br />
Elementary July 18th, painting "SICK" in 8'<br />
by 5' letters across the handball court and<br />
painted the library, the west side utility boxes<br />
and the gutters with black marker and white<br />
paint. Damage is estimated at $200.<br />
•MAIL AND O2 TANKS PILE UP ON<br />
DOORSTEP: A woman on the 2200 block of<br />
Chapman called police when mail and oxygen<br />
tanks began to pile up on her neighbors<br />
doorstep July 17th. Police forced open the<br />
door and found the 67-year-old woman had<br />
died, Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said.<br />
•THIEVES STALK BUSINESSES NEAR<br />
MIDNIGHT: Employees at International<br />
Trading Company on the 1400 block of<br />
Walnut came to work July 17 and found the<br />
locks had been cut off of their storage containers.<br />
Security camera footage showed four men<br />
in an SUV patrolling the company’s parking<br />
lot at 10pm the night before. The men came<br />
back at midnight, cut the locks, closed the<br />
container door then left the scene. 20 min.<br />
later they returned and searched through the<br />
storage containers, but apparently didn't find<br />
anything worth stealing, so they smashed the<br />
window on a Mercedes Benz parked nearby.<br />
That same night, thieves cut the locks on<br />
storage units at Rancho Performance<br />
Transaxles at 115 E. Elm Ave., less than 3/4 of<br />
a mile from International Trading. They pried<br />
locks on the gates and [storage] containers.<br />
There was nothing inside but greasy transmission<br />
cores inside. Thieves had successfully burgled<br />
a pump and an engine from the business<br />
next door to Rancho Performance Transaxles<br />
July 5th, according to a company employee,<br />
who asked that his company name not be<br />
used. The vandals had tried to cut the locks to<br />
a fenced in area behind the shop, and ended<br />
up pulling the fence up to get inside. The<br />
engine weighed between 60 to 100 pounds.<br />
•MEN IN VAN STRIKE VENDING MACHINES:<br />
Sex Predator Suspect Sought<br />
On Thurs., July 8, 2010 at about<br />
2:20am, a suspect was caught on surveillance<br />
video assaulting a lone female at<br />
CVS Pharmacy, 2200 N. Harbor, in<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>. The suspect is described as a<br />
white male, 18-21 years old, 5’9”, 160<br />
lbs, with brown hair and a British<br />
accent. The suspect left the store in a<br />
black truck. <strong>Fullerton</strong> Detective Kathryn<br />
Hamel said, “due to the brazen public<br />
nature of this assault, we are concerned<br />
that there may be other victims of this<br />
suspect.”<br />
Anyone with information about this<br />
incident or others, or anyone who thinks<br />
they know the suspect should contact<br />
Detective Hamel at 714-738-5327. The<br />
video file is available for viewing at the<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong> Police Dept. on the corner of<br />
Highland and Commonwealth.<br />
Two men pried open the vending machines in<br />
the Moonraker Apts and fled in a plumbing<br />
van July 15th. The suspects were described as<br />
being in their mid-30s.<br />
•BURGLARS STRIKE HOMES ACROSS TOWN:<br />
Associated Road: An intruder broke into a<br />
home on the 3000 block June 28 by climbing<br />
through a bedroom window. A house on the<br />
same cul-de-sac was burgled July 8. A burglar<br />
stole two laptops from a home on the 2500<br />
block by going through an unlocked door in<br />
the back. A home on the same street was burgled<br />
July 20. City Pointe Apts: Computers<br />
were stolen July 5th. Olive Ave: A bicycle was<br />
stolen from the backyard in a home on the<br />
2400 block July 7. Highland Creek Apts:<br />
An intruder tore open a window screen and<br />
slipped in a window July 14 while the couple<br />
who lived there went for a walk, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
Police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said. The burglar<br />
stole more than $500 in cash and a checkbook<br />
from the pair who are in their 20s.<br />
Another home in the complex was burgled<br />
July 8th. Deerpark Dr.: A laptop was stolen<br />
from a 32-year-old man at his apartment on<br />
the 2200 block July 14th. Police found no<br />
sign of forced entry. Lakes Apts: Intruders<br />
forced open the front door July 15th while the<br />
victims, two men and a woman in their 20s<br />
went to the spa. The victims lost cell phones,<br />
laptops, medication, purses, wallets, clothing,<br />
jewelry, computer hardware, and $400 in<br />
cash, <strong>Fullerton</strong> Police Senior Cadet Raymond<br />
Aguilar said. The total loss was $5,000.<br />
Wilshire Ave: A home was burgled on the 200<br />
block July 18th. Riverside Dr.: On July 19th,<br />
a woman told police someone broke into her<br />
home on the 1200 block by entering the back<br />
window. Cameo Dr.: An intruder climbed<br />
through another back window on July 19th<br />
on the 1200 block. Placentia Ave.: A home<br />
was burgled on the 1300 block July 20th and<br />
again on the 21st. Idylwood Apts: Three cars<br />
had their windows smashed July 21st.<br />
•GOAT APPREHENDED: A report of a goat<br />
on the street in the park near Bastanchury<br />
Road and Parks Ave. ended with the goat<br />
being "apprehended" July 14th.<br />
•DOLL SET ON FIRE ON DOORSTEP: On<br />
July 21st, a doll that had been lit on fire was<br />
left at the front doorstep at a home on the 800<br />
block of Clarion Drive.<br />
•FOOD INTRUDER: On the 2200 block of<br />
Truslow Ave., an intruder climbed through a<br />
window of a back house, opened a freezer, ate<br />
the food inside and left the freezer door open<br />
according to police reports July 19th.<br />
•JUNE STATISTICS: The Police Dept.<br />
received 4,246 emergency calls on 911 lines in<br />
June. In addition, the dept. handled an additional<br />
11,290 general information calls for<br />
service. Officers were dispatched on 3,810<br />
calls for service and initiated 2,938 additional<br />
contacts. There were 1,236 criminal reports<br />
taken and 533 persons arrested for various<br />
criminal offenses. The Downtown Echo Team<br />
arrested 23 persons for being drunk in public,<br />
7 drunk drivers, and wrote 49 open container<br />
citations, 9 urinating in public citations, and<br />
43 jaywalking citations. Two motor officers<br />
have been assigned to assist with enforcement<br />
issues in the Downtown during summer. The<br />
officers have issued 404 citations so far; of<br />
these 209 were for jaywalking.<br />
Photo of sexual battery suspect taken from<br />
surveillance video. The entire video is available<br />
to be viewed at the Police Dept.
AUGUST 2010<br />
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to eat and rest time and gets to do<br />
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As adults, we can be so busy with<br />
the arrangements that we forget<br />
about the child’s perspective.<br />
It’s very important that we do act<br />
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•Solid White Tuna in Water: Tri-Union<br />
Seafoods recall of Chicken of the Sea brand<br />
12-ounce solid white tuna in water due to a<br />
seal problem that could result in contamination<br />
causing illness if consumed.<br />
•Ultram ER (tramadol HCI) Extended-<br />
Release Tablets: 245,941 bottles and 368,760<br />
have been recalled by Ortho-McNeil. Product<br />
releases slightly faster than 8-hour rate specified.<br />
•Tylenol products recalled by McNeil<br />
Healthcare due to chemical contamination by<br />
2,4,6-tribromoanisole. Included are Children’s<br />
Tylenol Meltaways; Tylenol Day & Night<br />
Value Pack; Tylenol Arthritis Pain Extended<br />
Release Geltabs and more.<br />
•Liquid Infant’s & Children’s Tylenol,<br />
Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl products<br />
recalled by McNeil Healthcare because they<br />
contain a higher concentration of active ingredient<br />
than specified; contain tiny particles;<br />
and/or failed testing.<br />
SUNSCREEN LOOK-UP<br />
Environmental Working Group<br />
Sunscreen Guide to 1,400 sunscreens, lip<br />
balms and moisturizer tells you what you<br />
need to know to find safe and effective<br />
sunscreens. Go to<br />
www.ewg.org/2010sunscreen for the full<br />
report and lists of the sunscreens which<br />
passed and failed the tests.<br />
SAFE SURRENDER<br />
Parents who feel they can not take care<br />
of their new baby can legally surrender<br />
the child at any <strong>Fullerton</strong> Fire Dept. Call<br />
toll-free at 1-877-222-9723 or 1-888-<br />
600-4357 or 211 for more information.<br />
back yard with nothing to eat and<br />
no sleeping bags. But, once all the<br />
arrangements have been made, our<br />
challenge is to relax and see the<br />
world once more through a child’s<br />
eyes.<br />
This is a special time to share with<br />
our children. A time that will end all<br />
too soon. Take the time to see the<br />
world the way your child does. Be<br />
amazed by the things that you see<br />
along the side of the road. Be<br />
thrilled about seeing a place you<br />
have never seen before.<br />
Take the time to truly experience<br />
and enjoy the trip and your time<br />
together. You are building special<br />
memories that your family will<br />
treasure for the rest of their lives!<br />
Michelle Gottlieb Psy.D, MFT<br />
INDIVIDUAL, COUPLE, & FAMILY THERAPY<br />
305 N. Harbor Blvd., Ste 202,<br />
<strong>Fullerton</strong>, CA 92832<br />
714-879-5868 ext. 5<br />
ONGOING SERVICES<br />
To list your home-based business in the<br />
Local Only On-Going Service Listing call<br />
714-525-6402. Listings in this section are<br />
$10 per issue/21 issues per year. You are<br />
allowed 50 words or less. Contractors<br />
must provide license #. Thank you.<br />
REPAIR/REMODELING<br />
LOCAL ELECTRICIAN<br />
Skilled electrician and <strong>Fullerton</strong> native for<br />
40 years. Service truck ready, inspection corrections,<br />
wiring, Title-24 lighting & equipment<br />
installs. Heating & A/C repair, electrical<br />
renovations, minor plumbing and other<br />
handyman services. Not a licensed builder.<br />
$2M General Liability, City License<br />
#5563007. Call Roger (714) 803-2849<br />
www.NoFixNoPay.info<br />
GOT REPAIRS?<br />
We do it all - Handyman services,<br />
kitchen/bath remodel, carpentry, interior &<br />
exterior jobs, drywall, painting, plumbing,<br />
vinyl, ceramic & wood laminate flooring,<br />
formica installation, wallpaper removal, windows,<br />
fencing and more. Very dependable! 20<br />
years experience! “Werner General Repairs &<br />
Remodeling” Thomas Werner 714-812-6603.<br />
1519 E. Chapman Ave. #175, <strong>Fullerton</strong><br />
92831. City License #127977<br />
J&R CUSTOM WALLS INC.<br />
Acoustic scrapes, drywall hanging, taping, and<br />
texturing. Remodels, room additions, patchback,<br />
water damage repairs. Free Estimates.<br />
Cleanliness guaranteed. State License<br />
#922562/City License #552927. Phone: 714-<br />
323-1473; Fax: 714-992-4492 or by email to<br />
JandRcustomwalls@yahoo.com<br />
CONSTRUCTION<br />
Patios, decks, roofing, fences, windows, door,<br />
garage doors, kitchen, bath, building plans,<br />
demo, repair, remodel. Licensed with over 30<br />
years of experience. If you would like to see<br />
some of my work please check out my website<br />
at www.nuageconstruction.com. Lic#744432<br />
Call (714) 738-8189<br />
MOSLEY’S PAINTING<br />
Mosley’s Painting & Texture. Interior,<br />
Exterior, Residential, Commercial.<br />
Acoustic removal, all textures, stucco<br />
patch, drywall & repair, water damage,<br />
mold issues. Most repairs, big and small<br />
jobs, We do most anything. Call James at<br />
714-270-3232. State License #750294;<br />
City License #134494.<br />
LANDSCAPING<br />
WATER SAVING IRRIGATION<br />
Want to save water? Lots of water? Let us<br />
install a Smart Irrigation Controller and<br />
update your sprinkler system. It will save<br />
many 1,000s of gallons of water and it will<br />
precisely water your landscape with no runoff<br />
or wasted water. The Natural Touch<br />
Landscaping 714-624-0961 or naturalponds.net.<br />
License c27 778355<br />
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BEAUTY & HEALTH<br />
AMWAY, ARTISTRY, NUTRILITE<br />
To buy Amway, Artistry, or Nutrilite<br />
products please call Jean 526-2460<br />
COMPUTER HELP<br />
DOWNTOWN COMPUTER<br />
SOLUTIONS<br />
Need help setting up that wireless home network?<br />
Viruses and spyware slowing your<br />
business down? If you need assistance with<br />
these or any other computing needs call<br />
Downtown Computer Solutions today for<br />
onsite services. Specializing in Home and<br />
Small Business computing services. Call<br />
(714) 524-6120 or email me at<br />
scottj@downtown-computers.net<br />
PETS<br />
PET SITTING/DOG WALKING<br />
We are a professional and friendly petsitting<br />
and dog walking service. We take great care of<br />
your pets while you are away on vacation or at<br />
work. We also do overnight stays if needed.<br />
We have references. Call Lisa at 714-213-<br />
3711. www.happypawspet-sitting.com<br />
WINDOWS<br />
WINDOW WASHING<br />
All windows in your residence washed without<br />
streaks inside and out. All sills and tracks vacuumed<br />
and cleaned. Screens hand-washed. I<br />
use drop cloths and shoe covers to keep your<br />
house clean. References available upon<br />
request. <strong>Fullerton</strong> City License #554171. Call<br />
Patrick (714) 398-2692 for a Free Estimate.<br />
SUICIDE HOTLINE<br />
24-hour Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-<br />
800-273-TALK (8255). Vets should press “1”<br />
after being connected. Go to:<br />
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/<br />
Army Suicides<br />
Spiked in June<br />
Suicides in the U.S. Army spiked in<br />
June to the highest monthly level since the<br />
Vietnam era. According to military statistics,<br />
32 soldiers took their own lives last<br />
month. Twenty-one of those were on<br />
active duty, while 11 were reservists with<br />
inactive status. Last year already broke the<br />
annual record for Army suicides with 245<br />
service men and women killing themselves.<br />
So far, 2010 has seen suicides rise<br />
to over half of 2009's numbers.<br />
www.thedailybeast.com<br />
HOUSE CLEANING<br />
MOM’S CLEANING SERVICE<br />
Mom’s Cleaning Service is especially for<br />
Seniors. Responsible, honest, dependable.<br />
Call Mary at 714-829-4338
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FASHION IN DOWNTOWN FULLERTON<br />
American Vintage<br />
210 N. Harbor Blvd. (714) 449-9760<br />
A collection of true vintage, renovated vintage and<br />
miscellaneous new pieces give American Vintage an<br />
edge in the downtown fashion scene. If you are willing<br />
to brave the growing hipster population and a<br />
cowboy named Quinn, you can find a vintage treasure<br />
for a decent price. While Xanat suited up in a<br />
sequin 60’s go-go get up, our photographer turned<br />
male model pulled on some cowboy boots and an<br />
embroidered western shirt.<br />
Epic Jeans:<br />
214 N. Malden Ave.<br />
(714) 726-7720<br />
Driving up to Epic<br />
Jeans, we were startled<br />
by the half mannequin<br />
standing solo in the<br />
parking lot. Wearing<br />
trendy jeans, the half<br />
mannequin’s backside<br />
was adorned with a sign<br />
for $10.99.<br />
Undeterred, we proceeded<br />
into the jean<br />
shop. Once inside we<br />
discovered bargain<br />
clothing with an urban<br />
flare. If you’re looking<br />
for jeans embellished with rhinestones<br />
and/or crosses, look no more.<br />
With jeans starting at $10.99 and<br />
accessories at $2.99 their prices are<br />
hard to beat. Look for their back-toschool<br />
sale starting <strong>Aug</strong>ust 6th.<br />
Above:<br />
Xanat in sequined dress<br />
for $16, heart glasses $10,<br />
and white belt $16<br />
at American Vintage.<br />
At Left:<br />
Quinn in Cowboy boots<br />
$40 and vintage embroidered<br />
shirt $19<br />
at American Vintage.<br />
Above: Kelsi found a little black dress $16.99 while Xanat<br />
found a T-shirt at $5.99 and embellished jeans for $22.99.<br />
Kelsi found a black evening dress moderately<br />
priced at $16.99, a metallic purse for<br />
$8.99, and a cross necklace for $2.99.<br />
Xanat braved embellished jeans for $22.99<br />
(buy one pair, get one half off); a T-shirt for<br />
$5.99 and a headband for $1.99.<br />
Style Boutique:<br />
122 N. Harbor Blvd. (714) 871-7878<br />
Located on Harbor at Amerige, Style<br />
Boutique offers stylish clothing at reasonable<br />
prices.<br />
With trendy dresses and heels, Style<br />
Boutique has clothes perfect for a night<br />
out in the club or a trip to Vegas without<br />
breaking the bank.<br />
by Kelsi Collins & Xanat Hernandez<br />
photos by Quinn Morrissey<br />
Roadkill &<br />
Roadkill Ranch<br />
119 E. Commonwealth<br />
(714) 773-1156<br />
Perhaps our favorite store<br />
in downtown, Roadkill, carries<br />
unique lines that you are<br />
not going to find at the<br />
mall. The store has recently<br />
expanded, adding Roadkill<br />
Ranch next door to their<br />
Commonwealth space.<br />
Roadkill sells clothing with<br />
an eclectic, bohemian and<br />
funky look, while the Ranch<br />
features vintage inspired 40’s<br />
and 50’s cocktail dresses in<br />
the pin-up and rockabilly<br />
style. Roadkill Ranch also<br />
carries men’s clothing mainly<br />
t-shirts, Pendletons, and<br />
Levis. We had a<br />
blast trying on<br />
their unique<br />
styles.<br />
Above Right:<br />
Quinn in a navy mechanic shirt $52;<br />
and hat $16 from Roadkill.<br />
At Right: Xanat in a Stop Staring dress<br />
for $150 and headband for $12.<br />
Kelsi in a Rock Steady shirt $36, and<br />
shorts $49, Report shoes for $49 and<br />
headband for $8, at Roadkill Ranch<br />
The men’s side<br />
features a similar<br />
vibe with button<br />
up shirts and fitted<br />
jeans.<br />
In a nutshell,<br />
Style Boutique<br />
offers great party<br />
styles for young<br />
people looking<br />
for a good time.<br />
At Left: Xanat<br />
in a bullseye dress<br />
for $32; shoes for<br />
$29; purse for<br />
$43 and hat for<br />
$19 from Style<br />
Boutique.<br />
At Right: Kelsi<br />
in a purple<br />
striped dress for<br />
$29 and shoes for<br />
$29 from Style<br />
Boutique.