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Community: The Orange County Traffic Officer’s Assoc. is hosting the annual Motor Rodeo on 09-12-12
The Orange County Traffic Officer’s Assoc. is hosting the annual Motor Rodeo at Huntington State Beach (PCH and Newland gate) on 09-12-12. The event starts at 0700 hours and all of the proceeds raised from the event will benefit police officers who are injured in the line of duty or the families of police officers killed in the line of duty. Continue reading
Chris Nguyen, over at OC Political, wrote a very complete analysis of the election results in the 72nd Assembly District, where two Republican candidates, Travis Allen and Troy Edgar, will face off again in November.
Nguyen analyzed the vote in each city in the 72nd and found that Edgar and Allen were in the top two in the Cities of Huntington Beach, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach,
and Rossmoor. Edgar also came in second in the City of Garden Grove. Continue reading
Art Pedroza for the Orange County Board of Education, Area One
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 22, 2012
Contact: Art Pedroza, 714-606-7622, Website: www.votepedroza.com
The 2012 O.C. Dept. of Education, Area One, Social Media Report Card
SANTA ANA – Public school officials often talk about the need to connect with parents, but do our local public school districts really walk the walk, when it comes to communicating with parents?
Art Pedroza, a candidate for the Orange County Board of Education, Area One, noticed in 2010 that the Santa Ana Unified School District’s website did not include a common, and popular, tool for instantly translating their site to other languages. The district corrected that oversight once Pedroza brought up the issue during his campaign in 2010 for the SAUSD School Board. Continue reading
The OC Commission to End Homelessness voted to encourage the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) to give the County and the City of Santa Ana more time to address the city’s concerns, with regard to turning a vacant bus station in downtown Santa Ana into a shelter for the homeless, according to the O.C. Board of Supervisors Chairman John Moorlach’s blog.
Moorlach wrote that “The original recommendation was simply to encourage the County to purchase the Santa Ana Transit Station. In an effort to provide good dialogue, I did reach out to Acting City Manager Paul Walters earlier this week to inform him of the agenda item at this morning’s meeting (Paul is also a member of the Commission). You can see from the Voice of OC what happened after the heads up. For the record, I abstained on the vote because I am on the Board of Supervisors and the Board of OCTA.” Continue reading
SURF CITY USA® MARATHON RECORDS EARLIEST-EVER SELLOUT; FIELD SIZE CAPPED AT 20,000 TO PRESERVE THE RUNNING EXPERIENCE
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Race organizers today announced that the Surf City USA® Marathon and Half Marathon races are sold out for the seventh consecutive year. The largest combined oceanfront marathon and half marathon event in California, Surf City showcases 20,000 participants and 50,000 spectators from all 50 states and 18 foreign countries on Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, 2012. A record 100,000 attendees are anticipated to attend the two-day Active Lifestyle Beach Expo. Information is available at www.runsurfcity.com. Continue reading
GOP 72nd A.D. candidates Joe Carchio and Matt Harper, Picture Courtesy of the Surf City Voice
Huntington Beach Mayor Joe Carchio and Council Member Matt Harper, who are both Republican candidates for the 72nd Assembly District, which includes part of West Santa Ana, are trying to eliminate a city commission – the Mobile Home Advisory Board (MHAB), according to the Surf City Voice.
If Carchio and Harper cannot get rid of the MHAB Commission, then they will try to eliminate “the at-large members whose current purpose is to provide a buffer between park owners and park residents and an independent look at the issues.”
Harper must have learned this from his former boss, Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen, who has been trying to eliminate community positions from the O.C. Caloptima board. Continue reading
There are now four Republicans running for the 72nd Assembly District, which includes part of Santa Ana. The Republican candidates include Huntington Beach Council Member Matt Harper (Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s former Chief of Staff); Westminster Mayor Pro Tem Tyler Diep; OC Board of Education Trustee Long Pham and Huntington Beach Mayor Joe Carchio.
All of them will be appearing at the next meeting of the Fountain Valley Republican Assembly on Nov. 17. Here are the details: Continue reading
Most Santa Ana residents live in the 69th Assembly District, but a few, on the west side, live in the newly created 72nd Assembly District. This new district includes the following cities: Westminster, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, a portion of Huntington Beach, a portion of Santa Ana, and the unincorporated county island of Midway City.
Yes – this district includes quite a bit of Little Saigon – and it also encompasses Vietnamese communities in Fountain Valley, Santa Ana and other parts of the district. Continue reading