The City of Santa Ana is closing its playgrounds, volleyball courts and tennis courts beginning Wednesday, April 1, in order to prevent gatherings and protect the public from COVID-19. The City has already shuttered its enclosed parks, recreation and other facilities and canceled all programs and classes except the take-out senior meals program. Those include:…
Effective March 30, Orange County Community Services has implemented a call center to meet the needs of businesses impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Economic & Business Recovery Call Center will offer information and resources to help Orange County businesses navigate the current economic climate. These resources will support businesses with challenges such…
The City of Santa Ana is offering a grant of $2,500 to $5,000 for Santa Ana-based microenterprises through the Santa Ana Small Business Incentive Program. Applicants must qualify for the Small Business Incentive Grant. Details are available at www.santa-ana.org/SBIP. Eligibility Qualifications The program provides a reimbursement grant for eligible businesses on a first-come, first-served basis. Grant…
The City of Santa Ana has created webpages in English, Spanish and Vietnamese to help residential and commercial tenants understand the City and State moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webpages include frequently asked questions, a sample letter that renters can use to advise their landlord of their inability to pay…
The Santa Ana Police Department will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License checkpoint on Friday, June 13th, 2014. It will begin at 9:00PM and is scheduled to conclude at 3:00AM. It will be conducted in the area of 500 W. First Street, Santa Ana, CA. Continue reading
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Discovery Science Center Hosts MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition
The Cube offers visitors the chance to become a MythBuster during the blockbuster exhibit of the summer – June 14 – September 7, 2014; tickets now on sale
SANTA ANA, Calif. –Discovery Channel’s Emmy®-nominated series comes to life to uncover truths behind popular myths by mixing scientific method with gleeful curiosity and old-fashioned ingenuity in MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition, which makes its way to the Taco Bell Discovery Science Center beginning June 14, 2014 – September 7, 2014. (Click here for a special online discount.)
The exhibition creates hands-on, interactive experiences for guests of all ages by combining popular scientific facts with innovative, family-friendly displays. In MythBusters, co-hosts Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Tory Belleci, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara take scientific investigation to exciting new levels by proving or exploding myths using their highly experimental approach and extensive backgrounds in special effects. Savage and Hyneman were heavily involved throughout the development of the exhibition to ensure guests experience a true MythBusting encounter. Continue reading
Sad news to report. Longtime Com Link member and Santa Ana neighborhood activist Rita Corpin, a 72-year-old , was discovered by her gardener around 11 p.m. Tuesday on the porch of her home in the 1400 block of South Rosewood Avenue in Santa Ana, police said, according to CBS News.
Corpin retired in 2010 from decades of teaching world history at La Quinta High School in Westminster, according to the OC Register. Corpin was not hurting for money. She retired with an annual pension of $120K per year, according to an online source.
I spoke to Santa Ana Planning Commissioner Sean Mill about Corpin’s death. Mill recalled that she was actually one of his teachers. In fact he said he got tossed from her class during a vigorous debate about Middle East politics. You can read comments about her from her students here. Continue reading
The Patchwork Show, an annual event that draws 180 crafts makers and 5-8,000 people to the downtown Santa Ana area, is set for June 15, 2014. This free special arts & craft fair will feature high end artisan food makers, textiles, plush toys and vegan body care. There will be three stages of music as well as free interactive stations so that visitors can participate and make crafts.
Area restaurants will also have Father’s Day & event specials throughout the day. The event will feature shuttle service from the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) to the downtown area to aid with parking. Continue reading
City of Santa Ana
SANTA ANA (June 10, 2014) – Members of the public are invited to attend three Public Review Meetings to learn about and provide comments on any possible social, economic and environmental issues related to the Santa Ana – Garden Grove Fixed Guideway Project. This transportation project, a partnership between the Cities of Santa Ana, Garden Grove and the Orange County Transportation Authority, would provide a convenient connection from the Metrolink commuter rail service at the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) and move commuters, visitors and area residents between the transportation center and key activity and employment centers in Santa Ana and Garden Grove. Continue reading
Maxwell Chorak, 25, of Santa Ana has been identified by the Orange County Coroner as the man who fell off the university’s fives story social sciences building on Tuesday afternoon at 4:18 pm.
He was pronounced dead at the scene according to the OC Fire Authority, as reported by the OC Register. Continue reading
Blake Smith, Valley High School Teacher
Valley H.S. Teacher Nominated to Represent Angels at All-Star Game – Needs Your Vote
Blake Smith, a Special Education Teacher at Valley High School, has been nominated by one of his students and parents for the Major League Baseball, PEOPLE, and Target All Star Teachers Award. He is one of the final three nominees to be voted on to represent the Angels at the All-Star Game this summer.
Let’s help Blake to surpass all the other nominees by voting today! Voting is open through June 29, 2014, and you can vote as many times as you like. All you have to do is click here and then type in the random entry numbers and hit the vote button. Continue reading
Perfect Attendance Car Giveaway
Santa Ana High School 12th Grade Student Nicandra Lopez won a new 2014 Chevy Sonic, courtesy of Guaranty Chevrolet, this past Saturday at the SAUSD’s Perfect Attendance Car Giveaway event.
The SAUSD has the highest dropout rate in Orange County and they have combated student absenteeism for years by promoting the annual new car giveaway. Continue reading
Santa Ana Unified School District
Media Advisory
The Valley High School Culinary Arts team of High School Inc. Academy continue to reign as the nation’s culinary arts champions after clinching first-place for the third time in a row at the National Cooking up Change® competition that was held Monday, June 9, 2014, in Washington, D.C. Their journey began this spring when they competed against other high school students enrolled in culinary arts programs in Orange County and won first place. This qualified the team to represent their region at the national competition. Continue reading
Orange County Sheriff’s Department
NEWS, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Investigators Arrest Suspect in Multiple ATM Thefts
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – (June 10, 2014) – On Sunday, July 8, 2014, Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigators arrested Daniel Eamon Sweeny, 40, Tustin, in connection with numerous ATM thefts. Sweeny is suspected of having stolen as many as 24 ATM machines across Orange County over the course of the last year. Continue reading
Teachers’ unions suffered a major legal setback Tuesday after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that state laws governing teacher tenure are unconstitutional, according to CBS News. What does this judgement mean for kids enrolled in public schools in Santa Ana? Here is how Students First summed it up: Continue reading
A man in a wheelchair was struck and killed by a train Monday evening, according to the OC Register, which also reported that “witnesses told investigators that the signals warning pedestrians and motorists about the incoming train had activated, and the man appeared to move underneath the arm meant to block the sidewalk.”
The fatal collision halted train traffic through the area, according to Metrolink’s official twitter feed. Buses were sent to the area in order to assist commuters.
With this horrible incident in mind, do we really want to move forward with the proposed Santa Ana Streetcar? There are currently four options for this proposed Streetcar under consideration, according to the City of Santa Ana: Continue reading
Orange County District Attorney Press Release
For Immediate Release, Case # 13WF0274: June 9, 2014
WESTMINSTER – A man was sentenced Friday to 25 years and eight months in state prison for placing a female relative in a bathtub filled with water that was over 120 degrees Fahrenheit and severely burning and disfiguring the victim. Alfred Alexander Hollimon, 24, Westminster, was found guilty by a jury March 21, 2014, of two felony counts of child abuse, one felony count of mayhem, and a sentencing enhancement for causing great bodily injury to a child under 5, with a prior strike conviction in 2008 for attempted robbery in Nevada. Continue reading
During June 23-August 30, 2014, the Santa Ana Public Library Learning Center will observe special Summer hours:
Valerie Amezcua
This fall’s Santa Ana School Board race is shaping up to be perhaps the most interesting local election in awhile.
Candidates for the SAUSD School Board who already announced that they are running in November include Shuntele Andrews, a retired Valley High School teacher; Cecilia Aguinaga, a community activist who serves on the OC Vector Control Board; Eric Alderete, an attorney and Planning Commissioner; and Valerie Amezcua, a Supervising Probation Officer at the Central Youth and Family Resource Center in the City of Santa Ana.
Two SAUSD School Board Trustees are up for reelection – John Palacio and Audrey Yamagata-Noji. Both have been in office far too long. I hear Yamagata-Noji may be retiring from the School Board. I have not heard that about Palacio. I suspect he will run again. He almost has to. He says he is a political consultant but who would hire him? He needs the pay and benefits he gets from the SAUSD. Continue reading