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Monthly Archives: September 2013

Santa Ana Public Library welcomes author Ruben Acosta Vallejo on 9/19

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Santa Ana Community Alert: Santa Ana Public Library Welcomes Author Ruben Acosta Vallejo

SANTA ANA, CA (September 11, 2013) – The Santa Ana Public Library is pleased to present local author Ruben Acosta Vallejo for a discussion of his book Dying Freedom: Insurrection 1810. Through this wonderful work of historical fiction, Acosta helps a new generation understand the personal cost of their ancestors’ struggles and triumphs.

Ruben Acosta is a teacher who grew up in Santa Ana, California. He learned English as a teenager while practicing his grandfather’s mariachi songs. He is a former amateur boxer and enjoys playing baseball. Ruben received a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from California State University, Fullerton, as well as a Master’s Degree in Cross-Cultural Teaching. He currently teaches second grade at Heroes Elementary in the City of Santa Ana and lives in Old Town Orange with his wife and their daughter and son. Continue reading→

The Philharmonic Society donates $10K of instruments to Carr Intermediate

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Santa Ana Unified School District, Press Release

Philharmonic Society Donating $10,000 Worth of Musical Instruments to Carr Intermediate Music Program

THE EVENT: The Orange County Philharmonic Society is donating musical instruments, music method books, and supplies worth $10,000 to Carr Intermediate School’s music program. The event will kick off with a few musical selections by the Valley High School Band followed by a presentation of the instruments from the Philharmonic Society. Budding student musicians will have an opportunity to test out the brand new instruments that they will utilize in their music programs. Continue reading→

Chevron’s Fuel Your School Program launches in Orange County

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Chevron’s Fuel Your School Program Launches in Orange County

Collaboration with DonorsChoose.org will help generate up to $1 million for local public school teachers and students

BREA, CALIF., Sept. 10, 2013 – Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (NYSE: CVX) today announced the launch of its Fuel Your School program in Orange County. This year, the program will expand to 14 U.S. communities from nine communities in 2012, helping to provide educators with the classroom supplies they need to engage and positively impact the lives of students. Continue reading→

Public forum about what is new in Santa Ana’s city government set for 9/18

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Santa Ana City Council

Connect-to-Council will be conducting a public forum entitled “Santa Ana Winds of Change” on Wednesday, September 18,2013, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, at the Rancho Santiago Community College District Boardroom, located at 2323 N. Broadway, in Santa Ana.

The forum will be a discussion of “What’s new in our City government?” Continue reading→

Santiago Elementary School students to hold a 9-11 memorial event

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Santa Ana Unified School District, Press Release

Santiago Elementary School Students to hold 9-11 Memorial Event

THE EVENT: On Wednesday, September 11, the Santiago School community will gather in a school wide memorial – “Remembering 9-11” – in honor of the many lives lost during the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Continue reading→

Santa Ana man charged with murdering woman found under a Newport Beach bridge

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Jaime Prieto Rocha

At approximately 7:40 p.m. on Friday, September 6, Newport Beach Police Detectives arrested Jaime Rocha in connection with the murder of Nancy Hammour. Rocha has been charged with one felony count of murder and faces a maximum sentence of  25 years to life in state prison if convicted, according to the OCDA. He is being held on $1 million  bail. Rocha is accused of murdering Nancy Hammour on Sept. 2, 2013. The ongoing  investigation is being conducted by the Newport Beach Police Department.

On Monday, September 2 at approximately 8:45 a.m., the Newport Beach Police Department responded to a call of a woman lying face down underneath the Bay Bridge, near the intersection of East Coast Highway and Bayside Drive. Newport Beach Police personnel responded and determined that the woman was deceased at the scene, according to the Newport Beach Police Department. Continue reading→

H.B.’s Democrat Council Members try to stop a party on the state beach

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Two lame Huntington Beach Councilmembers, Connie Boardman and Joe Shaw (both Democrats) have sued to stop a beach party that is sponsored by the State of California – and will be held at the Huntington Beach State Beach on September 14, 2013.  The lawsuit has no merit as the beach belongs to the state, and by extension to us.  If you have nothing better to do on the 14th I encourage you to go have fun at this party and stick it to the H.B. Council party poopers, who sued the event promoter even though the event will be safe, with plenty of state police and security guards, and proceeds will benefit a charity for sick children.  It is pretty obvious that Shaw and Boardman just want to keep minorities out of Huntington Beach.

Here are the details about Wet Electric: The original creators of the waterpark music festival and pool party are returning to Southern California with the ultimate daytime music festival. This years Wet Electric is an extra special one as we will be hosting our event right on the beautiful sandy beaches of Huntington State Beach. This will be the biggest and most memorable 21+ event of the summer! Continue reading→

Minority women donors sought for Healthy Breast Tissue Collection

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Leila Andres, Angela Acevedo, Jane Ka'ala Pang & Charlene Kazner

When Jane Ka’ala Pang learned she could donate a small amount of her healthy breast tissue to support groundbreaking breast cancer research, she immediately said “yes!” Earlier this year, Ka’ala Pang, along with Angela Acevedo and Charlene Kazner, traveled to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center as Orange County representatives to donate their healthy tissue.

Now, the three women are working with Komen Orange County to raise awareness and encourage participation for the first-ever West Coast healthy breast tissue collection on Nov. 2 – to be held right here in Orange County. The goal of the event is to collect 150 samples from women of Asian American, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, African American and Latina descent, in an effort to fuel global breast cancer research. Continue reading→

New downtown hipster deli open now but wouldn’t you rather eat a torta?

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My daughter Becky loves to go to Chapter One: the Modern Local, with her boyfriend Alan.  She says they have the best drinks in town.  Now the guys who opened that restaurant have expanded with a new venture – a hipster deli called C4: the Cure for the Common.  It is located across from the Memphis at Santora, in the historic 1931 Empire building at the corner of Third and Broadway, near Chapter One.

For lunch, C4 plans to offer a variety of sandwiches – from classics like corned beef and pastrami to specialty creations such as a beef tongue sandwich served with baby octopus and heirloom potato salad.  Sandwich prices will range from $6 to $18 – the latter price reserved for some “crazy,” yet-to-be named sandwiches, Hall said, according to the O.C. Register. Continue reading→

Two more men busted for trying to solicit sex from a decoy prostitute

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Orange County District Attorney  Press Release

For Immediate Release,  Case # 13CM05126/13CM05606: September 9, 2013

TWO SEX PURCHASERS CONVICTED FOR SOLICITING SEX FROM WOMAN WHOM THEY BELIEVED TO BE PROSTITUTE

SANTA ANA – Two sex purchasers were convicted and sentenced Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, for soliciting sex from a woman whom they believed to be a prostitute. Baltazar Fernandez, 60, Riverside, and Francisco Cortez Santiago, 30, Santa Ana, each pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of agreeing to engage in prostitution. Both defendants were sentenced to three years of informal probation, 10 days in jail with the possibility of CalTrans in lieu of jail, donations to the Victim/Witness Emergency Fund, and must submit to AIDS testing and education. Continue reading→

Garden Grove man charged with international arms trafficking

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 6, 2013

Defendants Used Law Enforcement Credentials to Obtain Military-Grade Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles and Other High-Powered Weapons for Smuggling to the Philippines

Federal agents have arrested REX MARALIT, a New York City Police Officer assigned to police headquarters in Manhattan, and his brother WILFREDO MARALIT, a Customs and Border Protection Officer assigned to Los Angeles International Airport, pursuant to arrest warrants issued in the Eastern District of New York.  These two men, along with a third brother, ARIEL MARALIT, are charged with conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act by exporting high-powered weapons from the United States to the Philippines without a license from the U.S. State Department, and with conspiring to engage in unlicensed firearms dealing.1   Continue reading→