SAVE OUR ORCHARD COALITION
P.O. Box 10038, Santa Ana, CA 92711-0038
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 11, 2012
Contact: Jeannie Gillett, SOOC Coordinator, 714-296-4642
The Metabolic Studio Supports Legal Defense Fund for Landmark Orange County Orchard
SANTA ANA, CA (May 11, 2012) – The Metabolic Studio has made a generous grant of $10,000 to the [...]
Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category
The Save the Sexlinger Orange Orchard Coalition receives a $10K donation
Posted by Art Pedroza on May 15th, 2012
Posted in Development, Nature, Parks and Recreation, Santa Ana 
Tags: Donation, Metabolic Studio, Santa Ana, sexlinger orchard 
2 Comments »You can assist Back to Natives at Santa Ana’s Santiago Park nursery
Posted by Admin on May 13th, 2012
Come assist Back to Natives at our Nursery in Santa Ana’s lovely Santiago Park! We will be propagating and caring for native plants that will be used for habitat restoration or to help raise funds for our environmental education and habitat restoration programs.
Depending on what needs to be accomplished, you may be seeding, transplanting, weeding, [...]
Posted in Charities, green, Nature, Orange County, Parks and Recreation, Santa Ana Tags: back to natives, native plants, nursery, Santa Ana, santiago park, volunteers No Comments »Santa Ana City Council should vote to change racist chicken ordinance
Posted by Admin on April 29th, 2012
I was pleased to read in the O.C. Register that Santa Ana Council Members Sal Tinajero, Claudia Alvarez and David Benavides voted, as the Public Safety Committee, to change a city ordinance so that residents may keep chickens in their backyard, provided they are at least thirty feet from any neighbor’s property.
Deputy Santa Ana Police [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, Councilman David Benavides, Councilman Sal Tinajero, Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez, Latinos, Nature, pets, Santa Ana Tags: Chicken Ordinance, Claudia Alvarez, David Benavides, public safety committee, Sal Tinajero, Santa Ana, santa ana city council, Sharon Portman, Tim Rush 5 Comments »Wells Fargo volunteers planting over 100 trees at Santiago Park today
Posted by Admin on April 21st, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media: Reginald Durant, Director of Restoration, Back To Natives Restoration, (949) 335-8655
More than 100 volunteers will gather tomorrow to plant 160 trees in honor of Earth Day and to mark Wells Fargo’s 160th anniversary
Santa Ana, Calif. (April 20, 2012) – Back to Natives Restoration today announced a $10,000 donation from Wells Fargo in support of the nonprofit’s [...]
Posted in Banking, Business, Nature, Parks and Recreation, Santa Ana, Volunteer Tags: earth day, Santa Ana, santiago park, trees, volunteers, Wells Fargo 4 Comments »Get a free Metrolink pass to the Dana Point Festival of Whales on 3/3
Posted by Admin on February 27th, 2012
[ March 3, 2012; 8:30 am to 9:30 am. ]
The Dana Point Festival of Whales attracts nearly 100,000 visitors each year. With a parade, whale watching excursions, contests, a block party, shopping and more, the festival is a great way to celebrate the annual return of the migrating gray whales.
Join us in Orange for a FREE Metrolink ticket and more!
OCTA is kicking off the Festival of [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Nature, Orange County, Santa Ana, Transportation Tags: dana point, festival of whales, metrolink, octa No Comments »Get there greener – ride the bus with the ENC and the OCTA
Posted by Admin on February 22nd, 2012
[ March 22, 2012; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ]
GET THERE, GREENER – RIDE THE BUS WITH THE ENC AND OCTA
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., February 22, 2012 – As the cost of gas steadily rises throughout Orange County, reaching an average of $4.12 per gallon according to www.orangecountygasprices.com as of February 22, the Environmental Nature Center has partnered with the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) [...]
Posted in Energy, Entertainment, Environment, Nature, Newport Beach, OCTA, Orange County, Santa Ana, Transportation Tags: buses, environmental nature center, newport beach, octa No Comments »Anti Santiago Creek bike trail NIMBYs caught on film!
Posted by Admin on February 15th, 2012
The pathetic NIMBY’s who oppose completing the Santiago Creek bike trail have been caught on film and the results are hilarious. What is not funny is their insistence on forcing bicyclists onto dangerous city streets instead of finishing the segment of the Santiago Creek bike trail that extends briefly through the Floral Park and Fisher [...]
Hike O.C.’s Limestone Canyon today and see the O.C. Grand Canyon!
Posted by Admin on February 4th, 2012
[ February 4, 2012; 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. ]
Reprinted from OC Trails
Once a month, OC Parks and the Irvine Ranch Land Conservancy open Limestone Canyon Wilderness Park up for a Wilderness Access Day. Most of the time, Limestone Canyon is only open for limited guided tours, which anyone can sign up for through the Irvine Ranch Natural Landmarks Activities page. However, during the [...]
Santa Ana staff rejects Floral/Fisher Park NIMBYs’ demand to fence off trail
Posted by Admin on January 29th, 2012
The Public Right of Way is 156 ft at its widest, runs 24 feet wide most of the length and the narrowest is 17 ft wide at Jack Fisher Park
The City of Santa Ana’s acting City Manager has made public a memo that is not good news for the Floral/Fisher Park NIMBY’s who want to [...]
KOCE’s Real Orange to feature the Santiago Creek bike trail controversy
Posted by Admin on January 24th, 2012
Southern California’s PBS TV station, KOCE , is airing a story this Friday night about the controversy regarding the pending completion of the bike trail in Santiago Creek. A group of residents in Santa Ana’s Fisher Park Neighborhood are trying to stop the bike trail and are advocating for having the area fenced off from the [...]
Posted in Bicycles, Family, Nature, Orange County, Parks and Recreation, Santa Ana Tags: bike trail, fisher park, koce, real orange, Santa Ana, santiago creek 2 Comments »Supporters of finishing the Santiago Creek Bike Trail launch new website
Posted by Admin on January 21st, 2012
The grass-roots neighborhood organization, Neighbors for the Santiago Creek Bike Trail, that was formed to further the goal of a bike path in the “missing link” along Santiago Creek, has launched a new website.
This “missing link” is the 1/4-mile gap located in the Santiago Creek, between the 5 Freeway underpass and Flower Street (see map [...]
Pulido’s lawyer gets dragged into the Santiago Creek bike trail melee
Posted by Admin on January 12th, 2012
The battle to finish the Santiago creek bike trail that currently ends under a bridge, just south of the Main Place Mall and Memory Lane, in north Santa Ana, took an interesting turn today as various letters and emails that were requested by the bike trail proponents were emailed by Santa Ana City Clerk Mary [...]
Back to Natives receives $7K grant from O.C. Community Foundation
Posted by Admin on January 10th, 2012
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
CONTACT: REGINALD DURANT, DIRECTOR OF RESTORATION, (949) 335-8655
BACK TO NATIVES RESTORATION
BACK TO NATIVES RECEIVES $7,000 GRANT FROM ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR VOLUNTEER HABITAT RESTORATION PROGRAM
IRVINE, Calif., January 10, 2012 – Back to Natives Restoration, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit public charity has received a $7,000 grant from the Orange County Community Foundation (www.oc-cf.org) to [...]
Back to Natives teams with the U.S. Forest Service to teach restoration
Posted by Admin on January 8th, 2012
The United States Forest Service & Back to Natives Restoration Present a…Restoration Training Program
13 Days in 2012
Back to Natives Restoration, in a cooperative agreement with the Cleveland National Forest, is providing hands on habitat restoration training over the course of 6 weeks beginning on February 16. Each training session will focus on specific aspects of the restoration [...]
Save the Sexlinger Orchard demonstration set for this Sat., Jan. 7
Posted by Admin on January 3rd, 2012
[ January 7, 2012; 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. ]
DEMONSTRATION THIS SATURDAY
January 7, 2012 from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Come on out to our first demo of 2012. We continue to connect with lots of folks in support of preserving the Sexlinger Orange Orchard. Come on by to say hello, sign our petition or, leave a message to the Santa Ana Planning Department and [...]
