Don’t miss tonight’s First Saturday of the Month Downtown Santa Ana Art Walk, which is set for June 2, 2012. Arts, crafts and live entertainment centrally located at: Artists Village – Second Street Promenade (2nd & Broadway) & the Santiago Arts Colony (Santa Ana Blvd. & Poinsettia)
There is always something new to see ! Downtown Inc. encourages artists of all medias to participate in this event. Here are a few highlights to look for tonight: Continue reading
Only three candidates have applied for the position of Orange County Superintendent of Education, in the wake of the announcement by the current Superintendent, Bill Habermehl, that he is going to retire this year.
The candidates include former SAUSD Superintendent Al Mijares, who is currently working at The College Board, a non-profit membership association of more than 6,000 colleges, universities and schools, as well as other educational organizations. They are best known for administering the SAT test.
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GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER
Downtown Santa Ana, CA
a unit of Cal State University Fullerton’s College of the Arts
http://grandcentralartcenter.wordpress.com/
Grand Central Art Center is pleased to announce our next Social Practice Artist in Residence – Portland, OR based artist and athlete Adam Moser. Continue reading
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Santa Ana’s Gallery 207 Showcases International Group Art Show
Gallery 207, MyArtContest.com and Artist Portfolio Magazine are pleased to present to you a Group Art Show of 10 works of art from both emerging and established artists from around the world. Join us at the opening reception Saturday, June 2nd from 6 -10 pm, Second floor of the Santora Arts Buidling Suite E. Congratulations to all the entrants! Continue reading
California’s elected officials and political candidates are trying to figure out how to campaign in the new Open Primary Election that is set for June 5. Here in Orange County, one of our longtime U.S. Representatives, Loretta Sanchez, apparently decided to skip the primary election altogether.
You won’t find any Sanchez signs and I have seen no mailers and have not received any phone calls from her campaign. But her opponents are all running hard. Continue reading
Activists, for the second year, asked Orange County supervisors Tuesday to recognize Harvey Milk’s birthday with a proclamation, but the board declined the opportunity, as it did last year, according to the L.A. Times.
This happened last year too, but Supervisor Janet Nguyen fled the dais that time, before the activists and residents who came to the Board of Supervisors’s meeting had a chance to speak. This time, according to the L.A. Times, she stuck around but fled the room before her colleagues and County staff could speak.
Nguyen likes to pretend that she is a moderate but in the end she is just as much a knuckle-dragging Republican as are her colleagues. They are all anti-gay and that is pretty much how their party rolls – although they have just as many closted homosexuals in politics as their local Democratic counterparts do. Continue reading
Santa Ana Waste Management and the City of Santa Ana are going to be hosting a Used Oil Filter Exchange Campaign at two locations in Santa Ana, through June 30.
Every resident of Santa Ana who brings in an old oil filter during this special promotion, to either of the two locations, will receive a brand new oil filter! Continue reading
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA – Blueray Management LLC, a top aquatics and recreation provider, has partnered with the City of Santa Ana Parks and Recreation department to keep the city aquatic facilities open this upcoming 2012 summer with superior aquatics programming. The company will provide the city with its superior aquatic programs for all ages, including Learn To Swim Lessons, Aqua Aerobics, Youth Swim Team, Youth Water Polo, and much more at all five city aquatic facilities.
Managing Director, Abby Pearose has over 15 years experience in the aquatics industry, as a swimmer athlete, coach, and service provider. He describes Blueray Management’s aquatics services as, “…second to none and that Blueray is committed to create a major impact this upcoming season and build a stronger community through our aquatic programs. We are going to give it all we got this summer and not hold anything back. Our team has been working countless hours preparing to make an impact from day one of programs. We expect residents of the City to notice the difference in programming quality instantly. Our goal is to offer the city with more of our superior programs in the fall, such as Baseball Teams, Basketball Teams, After-School homework labs, to name a few.” Blueray will operate all five city aquatic facilities during non-recreation swim times (1:00 pm – 4:30pm, times may vary by facility) at the following facilities: Continue reading
Latino Health Access will be hosting a “Walk for Peace” on Friday, June 1st, from 5PM – 7PM, at Sasscer Park, located at 502 W. Santa Ana Blvd., in Santa Ana.
The event flyer states: We Are One Community Walking Together To Build A Safer Santa Ana…Walk With Us! March will begin at Santa Ana High School and the closing program will begin at 6:30 PM. United in Love for our youth…we have the power to help them grow successfully! Continue reading
The best candidate that Orange County’s Vietnamese community had going into the June 5 Open Primary, Westminster Mayor Pro Tem Tyler Diep, dropped out of the race for the 72nd Assembly District. That left two Vietnamese candidates vying for that seat – O.C. Board of Education Trustee Long Pham, a Republican, and Garden Grove Planning Commissioner Joe Dovinh, a former Decline to State voter who is now a Democrat.
Dovinh has “spent $6,699 during the March 18-May 19 reporting period, brining his total spending in the AD-72 race to $16,352. He has $5,493 left in his warchest,” according to the OC Political blog. They also reported that Pham “spent $62,675 during the March 18-May 19 reporting period, bringing his total spending in the AD-72 race to $106,072. He has only $1,412 left in his warchest.” Continue reading
The 16th Annual Santa Ana Memorial Day Festival is taking place from May 25-28, at Madison Park, located at Edinger & Standard Ave. This event is a production of Fiesta de Carnival.
There will be Rides, Games, and Food. Attendance is predicted to be about 35,000. Continue reading
The Patchwork indie arts & festival is coming back to Santa Ana on Sunday, May 27, 2012, from 11:00am until 5:00pm. This event showcases 100+ local independent artists, crafters and designers in an outdoor setting.
Come down and eat & drink from local cafe & restaurant booths as you listen to tunes and peruse goods from the best southern california creators. look & shop… clothing for men, women & kids, handbags, accessories, art, ceramics, home goods, garden finds, plushies, jewelry, paper goods, edible treats, pet gear, crochet & knit goods, kits & patterns, bath & body goodies & more. check out our bike valet & diy crafting tables for adults & kids. Continue reading
By: Jorge Rocha, Candidate for the 46th Congressional District
This is the first of several articles that I will be writing to introduce myself to the constituency of the California’s 46th US Congressional District.
Today, I am introducing myself to you so that you will be able to know me better as a person and about my ideas on government and politics in general.. My objective is to win your trust and your which should help me be one of the two top vote getters in the June 5 Primary Election. Such outcome will then propel me to the General Election in early November 2012. The ultimate objective is of course, to defeat Rep. Loretta Sanchez in the latter. Continue reading
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Deceased former Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Tom Fuentes “scripted his funeral ritual last August with one of his former seminary classmates and refined it in the intervening months,” according to his longtime friend, O.C. Register columnist Frank Mickadeit.
As usual, when it came to Fuentes, there is more to the story. The OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano scrutinized the list of guest speakers and attendees at Fuentes’ funeral and he found a gaggle of pedophile apologists:
*Giving the homily was the man who replaced Fuentes as communications director, Lawrence Baird. Baird was a notorious asshole to many sex-abuse victims, defended vile pedophile Michael Harris as “an icon to the priesthood” to the media even as the Orange diocese knew he was a pedophile rapist, and even once sued a sex-abuse victim for defamation (he lost). Yet Fuentes wanted this man to give the homily? Birds of a feather… Continue reading
City of Santa Ana Advisory: FLOWER STREET CLOSURE OVER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
SANTA ANA, CA (May 25, 2012) – Beginning Saturday, May 26 at 4:00 am, the County of Orange will be performing work that requires the closure of portions of Flower and Sixth Streets near the Santa Ana Stadium. The work includes installation of a new electrical feeder cable between the County’s Central Utility facility and its Jail complex. The closures include Flower Street from north of Sixth Street to Santa Ana Boulevard, and about 300 feet of Sixth Street just west of Flower Street. This work is scheduled to begin Saturday, May 26 at 4:00 am, and will conclude on Sunday, May 27 at 6:00 pm. Continue reading