[ March 30, 2012; 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ]
Calcas is hosting the Orange County Dream Team’s 4th Annual Loteria Fundraiser, this Friday night, March 30th, from 6:30-8:30pm. They are asking for a $10 Donation.
Location: Calacas, Inc., located at 324 W. 4th St. #B, in Santa Ana.
Prizes • Snacks • Beverages
If you are unable to attend but would still like to make a donation please [...]
Posted in Charities, Education, Entertainment, immigration, Latinos, Santa Ana, Youth 
Tags: calacas, dream team, Loteria Fundraiser, Orange County, Santa Ana 
No Comments »[ March 31, 2012; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Katie Cover, Public Relations/Marketing Director
PO Box 10572, Westminster, CA 92685
Lawmen host Columbus Maruaders for big charity game…
Westminster, CA, March 27, 2012 – On March 31st the OC Lawmen will take on the Columbus Marauders at the Santa Ana Bowl/Eddie West field for the teams 35th annual Copbowl benefiting the Orangewood Children’s Home. [...]
[ March 24, 2012; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ]
TOBACCO CONTROL ADVOCATES JOIN FORCES TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT YOUTH SMOKING THROUGH FREE SCREENING OF DOCUMENTARY FILM “ADDICTION INCORPORATED” AT YOST THEATER IN SANTA ANA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Adrian Althoff, Communications Manager, National Latino Tobacco Control Network 408‐449‐6491 / aalthoff@indianalatino.com / adrian.althoff@gmail.com Bethzabe Martinez, President, LULAC‐Bolivia 714‐855‐8262 / bethzabemartinez@yahoo.com
WHAT: In an effort to raise awareness about [...]
Posted in Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Health and Medical, Santa Ana, Youth Tags: Addiction Incorporated, lulac, yost, Youth Smoking No Comments »[ March 25, 2012; 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. ]
Are you ready for a free MMA-inspired clinic, right here in Santa Ana?
Fighting for Fitness is an Orange County-based 501c(3) non-profit organization which is hosting a free MMA-inspired fitness clinic for children ages seven to 17 at Roosevelt Elementary School in Santa Ana. The event is open to the public and takes place Sunday, March [...]
Posted in Education, Entertainment, Health and Medical, Santa Ana, sausd, sports, Youth Tags: childhood obesity, clinic, fighting for fitness, free, MMA, roosevelt elementary school, Santa Ana No Comments »For Immediate Release: March 16, 2012
For More Information Contact: Carol Chamberlain – office: (916) 319-2069, mobile: (916) 804-5355
Comprehensive California High School Drop Out Audit Findings Now Available
Audit, Conducted at Request of Latino Legislative Caucus, Shows Nearly 95,000 Students of the Class of 2010 Dropped Out. Approximately 50,000 of Those Students Were Latinos.
SACRAMENTO – At the request of the California Latino [...]
Posted in assemblyman jose solorio, california, Education, Latinos, Santa Ana, Youth Tags: dropout rate, jose solorio, latino students, schools, state audit, testing 3 Comments »Community: PLANNING FOR 2012 INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION BEGINS
The Planning Committee is asking for Residents’ Input during the Upcoming Planning Meetings
SANTA ANA, CA (March 8, 2012) – On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Councilmembers Bustamante and Benavides, City Staff, and community members attended the first planning meeting for this year’s Independence Day Celebration, to be held Sunday, [...]
Posted in Arts and Culture, Charities, Family, Historical, Parks and Recreation, Santa Ana, Youth Tags: 4th of july, independence day, planning committee, Santa Ana No Comments »I don’t know why unionized school bus drivers are allowed to go on strike – all that does is hurt working families and kids. But the good news is that so far the SAUSD has been able to avoid a bus driver strike with negotiations ongoing. Here is there latest update on the matter:
SAUSD NEWSBRIEF-March [...]
Posted in Education, Labor, Santa Ana, sausd, working families, Youth Tags: durham school services, Santa Ana, sausd, school buses, strike 3 Comments »Food trucks aren’t making kids fat
By JOSE SOLORIO, STATE ASSEMBLYMAN
3/01/2012
One of my Democratic colleagues has introduced Assembly Bill 1678, which seeks to ban “mobile food vending” within 1,500 feet of elementary and secondary schools, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on school days. Without food trucks offering their fattening foods, the theory goes, kids will [...]
Posted in assemblyman jose solorio, Food, Health and Medical, Restaurants, Santa Ana, Youth Tags: ab 1678, childhood obesity, food trucks, jose solorio No Comments »[ March 3, 2012; 8:00 am to 9:30 am. ]
The Northeast Santa Ana Little League (NESALL) is hosting their Opening Day ceremonies this Saturday, March 3, starting at 8 am. President Dwayne Angebrandt will make a welcoming statement, which will be followed by a “parade of players,” and then the National Anthem, which will feature members of the Santa Ana High School ROTC, including their [...]
Posted in Baseball, Charities, Entertainment, Family, Parks and Recreation, Santa Ana, sports, Youth Tags: clyde wright, dave angebrandt, gus lujan, Little League, nesall, Northeast, opening day, Santa Ana No Comments »[ March 3, 2012; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ]
Wanna bend it like Beckham? Join the Chivas USA soccer club this Saturday, March 3rd from 10am-2pm at the Westfield MainPlace Mall, in Santa Ana, for FREE Mini-Soccer skills & drills clinics; appropriate for kids of all ages and abilities.
For more information, call (310) 630-4550, ext. 3629.
Also this Saturday, March 3, come on down to Auntie [...]
This has been a bad week in Orange County, with two Santa Ana public school teachers arrested and facing sex charges with high school students at Godinez High and the Orange County High School for the Arts (OCHSA). Now a 41-year old mother in Irvine, who “during the time of these incidents worked part time with [...]
UPDATE: The OC Register’s online article about this has some interesting comments, here.
Joseph Manuel Orduna, an Irvine resident and wrestling coach/teacher at the Santa Ana Unified School District’s (SAUSD) Godinez Fundamental High School, has been arrested and charged with “making sexually suggestive comments and inappropriately touching two female students.” The SAPD and the OCDA are seeking [...]
Posted in Courts, Crime, Education, Orange County, Public Safety, Santa Ana, sausd, Youth Tags: godinez high school, irvine, Joseph Manuel Orduna, ocda, Santa Ana, sapd, wrestling 19 Comments »
The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) is one of nine Orange County school districts that “have filed preliminary spending plans indicating they might not be able to meet their financial obligations over the next two years, part of a group of 137 districts statewide that the state considers to be in “financial jeopardy,”” according to [...]
What will SAUSD Superintendent Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana do now?
Update: Fresno Unified is losing their QEIA funding too, due to low test scores, and San Bernardino Unified is losing 7 million in QEIA funding.
The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) has apparently lost their Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA) funding, which will result in a huge [...]
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SAPD arrests another public school teacher, at OCHSA, for sexual comments
Unbelievable. Another Santa Ana public school teacher has been arrested for making sexually suggestive comments to students, the day after a wrestling coach and biology teacher, Joseph Manuel Orduna, was arrested at Godinez High School. This time the SAPD arrested John Juul Nielson, of Cerritos, a dance instructor at a Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) charter [...]