Twelve Living Kidney Donors to Run in 200-Mile Relay Race to Raise Awareness About Healthy Lives After Donation Huntington Beach, Fri., Apr. 10, 6:15am, to San Diego, Sat., Apr. 11, 4:30 pm Twelve living kidney donors will run the 200-mile, overnight Ragnar Relay So Cal from Huntington Beach to San Diego to raise awareness that people can still lead normal, healthy lives after donation and to inspire others to take action in support of living and deceased donation. Over the course of two days and one night, team #344, “Have You Seen My Kidney?” will join 762 other teams in the race. Each participant will run three times, with each leg ranging between three and eight miles, varying in difficulty. Participants: Tyson Wood (Rescue, CA) and Bill Martinez (Lynwood, CA), who donated to their sisters; Kathleen Hostert (Fullerton, CA), who donated to her husband, Kathy Vochoska (Bakersfield, CA),who donated to her son and Leann Slaby Bier (Los Angeles, CA), who donated to her father and lasted 30 of 39 days on the TV show, ”Survivor;” Phillip Palmer (Los Angeles, CA), Michelle Guardino (Loomis, CA), and Fernando Landeros (South El Monte, CA), who donated to friends; Melanie Medlock (Scottsdale, AZ), who donated to an old friend after reconnecting on Facebook; team captain Rick Glover (Santa Ana, CA), who donated to a friend and walked alongside the 2015 Donate Life Rose Parade float; retired sheriff captain Elizabeth Kelly (Folsom, CA), and Ivan Slaban (Escondido, CA), civilian member of the San Diego Police Dept., who donated to strangers. Continue reading
Category Archives: Santa Ana
Snake Night at the Santiago Park Nature Reserve set for April 24
The Santiago Creek Wildlife and Watershed Center, at the Santiago Park Nature Reserve, is hosting their annual “Snake Night” event on Friday, April 24, 2015, at 6:30 pm.
Join the Nature Reserve at Santiago Park to learn all about local snakes: how to identify them, where they live, and what to do if you encounter one. Continue reading
Santa Ana Earth Day celebration set for April 18 at the Santiago Park Nature Center
Cypher International and the Santa Ana Parks, Recreation and the Community Services Agency are hosting an Earth Day celebration, “Living Water,” on Saturday, April 18, 2015, from 1-4 p.m. at the Santiago Park Nature Center, located at 600 East Memory Lane, in Santa Ana.
- Find out the role of indigenous knowledge in the stewardship of water resources Dialogue on Native American traditional beliefs and local community projects.
- Guided tour of the Santiago Park Nature Center at 12:30 & 1 pm
- Featuring state advocate Janet King, award-winning actor Tonantzin Carmelo, & TONGVAGAR, a Tongva cultural arts group.
Man shot to death near Santa Ana High School
Paul Guzman
Paul William Guzman (39) Santa Ana was shot to death on Wednesday, at about 2:50 p.m., at the 1100 block of West Chestnut Avenue, near Santa Ana High School, which is on Spring Break, according to CBS News.
A female neighbor of the victim said that he had been talking to another man in his front yard, when she heard what sounded like three gunshots. Continue reading
Security guard at a used car lot on Harbor Bl. stabbed by a car thief
A security guard thought to be in his 40s or 50s, at a used-car lot at Harbor Boulevard and Hazard Avenue, was stabbed multiple times while trying to stop someone who was breaking into one of the cars early Thursday morning in Santa Ana, at around 12:20 a.m., according to the O.C. Register.
Apparently the security guard confronted a suspected car thief as he was trying to break into a car. The suspect knocked the guard down and then stabbed him a number of times in his torso, before the thief ran off. Continue reading
Free food and resources at el “Día del Niño” celebration in Santa Ana
For Immediate Release
Saturday April 11th Is A Day For The Children
Free Food and Resources at el “Día del Niño” Celebration in Santa Ana
Orange County, CA (April, 2015) – Healthy kids make for a healthy community. For the past 20 years KidWorks Santa Ana has known this axiom to be true. Day in, day out, it is the mission of KidWorks to provide all of the tools necessary for at-risk children to grow up and prosper and find their own unique identity.
On Saturday April 11th, from 10 am until 1 pm, between the 1900 and 2200 blocks of Myrtle Street, KidWorks will host a Día del Niño celebration, in partnership with other local non-profits, community leaders and educators. Saturday marks the culmination of the Week of the Young Child, which has been celebrated across the nation for over 4 decades. Continue reading
The DTSA Farmers’ Market turns one
City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County
Community: The DTSA Farmers’ Market Turns One
The DTSA Farmers’ Market is celebrating its one year anniversary!
A community-oriented, chef-driven certified farmers’ market – here’s a recap of what year one looked like:
• The DTSA Farmers’ Market launched on March 27, 2014, providing the community with a weekly event with organic produce, artisan foods, live local music, and a free kids’ craft table.
• In May they began to offer a “Friends of the Market Program” to residents and shoppers. With a DTSA Farmers’ Market tote bag, you can get discounts all over town, every Thursday. This has helped to create a destination feeling for the downtown area, with the market being one of a number of stops for shoppers. Continue reading
Three O.C. Supervisors to call for the resignation of Judge Marc Kelly, on Thursday
Judge Marc Kelly
MEDIA ADVISORY
Wednesday, April 8, 2105
Contact: Kelsey Eiben 714-676-8879
Announcing Major Support To Recall Orange County Judge M. Marc Kelly
(Santa Ana, CA)-Bryan Scott and several Orange County Supervisors, including Chairman Todd Spitzer, Vice-Chair Lisa Bartlett, and Shawn Nelson, will be holding a press conference tomorrow Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 1PM to call for the resignation of Orange County Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly who minimized the sentencing of Kevin Jonas Rojano-Nieto after he had been convicted of raping a 3-year old girl, and call for his resignation.
WHO: Continue reading
Tustin police officer used CPR to save a Santa Ana construction worker’s life
The Tustin Police Department has recognized their police officer, Bonnie Breeze, as their Officer of the Month for March, 2015, after she saved a construction worker in Santa Ana when he was having a heart attack at his jobsite.
Breeze was transporting a subject who had two felony arrest warrants to the Orange County Jail, on February 26, 2015, in her squad car. She was stuck in construction-related traffic near First Street and Grand Ave., in Santa Ana, where Grand Ave. is being widened. As Breeze waited for the light to change, one of the construction supervisors ran up to her vehicle and said that one of the workers on his job had suffered a heart attack. Continue reading
Prosecutors and defense attorneys agree that Judge Marc Kelly is an ass!
I took a stroll today through OC’s main courthouse in downtown Santa Ana in hopes of taking the real temperature of the firestorm that erupted after Judge Marc Kelly violated California law and refused to sentence a convicted sex offender to the mandatory minimum sentence set by the California legislature for such heinous crimes. The best place for this extemporaneous polling seemed to be in the court’s cafeteria, where lawyers, prosecutors, litigants, and others congregate throughout the day.
Stacking the facts of a 20-year-old sodomizing a 3-year-old with enough violence to tear her anus and require hospitalization against Kelly’s bizarre justifications for leniency has stirred folks from Orange County to Chicago to call for his ouster. But what do the locals who work in the criminal justice system think? Continue reading
The OCDA is hosting a free soccer camp this week to keep kids out of gangs
ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Date: April 6, 2015
SANTA ANA – The Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) is hosting the 12th annual Spring Youth Soccer Camp (SYSC) this week for selected elementary school students from Russell Elementary School in Santa Ana. SYSC is an ongoing community gang prevention effort organized through the Orange County Gang Reduction Intervention Partnership (OC GRIP) that encourages youth to avoid the eminent dangers of gang life and get involved in healthy team-building extra-curricular programs. The 3-day spring break soccer clinic kicked off this morning at 8:00 a.m. and will conclude on Wednesday, April 8, 2015.
The program is being held at Russell Elementary School at 600 South Jackson Street, Santa Ana. Members of the media are invited to attend all portions of the event. Continue reading
Missing man with medical condition took the train to Santa Ana from Fallbrook
SAN DIEGO COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
For Public Release: April 6, 2015
San Diego Sheriff’s Missing Person Case #15117208
On April 5, 2015, at 1200 hours, 78 year old Pete Ybarra walked away from his residence in Fallbrook. Mr. Ybarra went to Oceanside and eventually boarded a train northbound. Mr. Ybarra road the train to Santa Ana, Orange County where he exited the train at about midnight. Continue reading
OC Judge Kelly reduces sentence of man who sodomized a 3-year-old girl to 10 years
Judge M. Marc Kelly
Can you believe it? Orange County Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly had the opportunity to give a 25-year-to-life sentence to Kevin Jonas Rojano-Nieto, 20, who was convicted by a jury on December 3, 2014, of sodomizing a 3-year-old girl. But Judge Kelly decided instead to sentence Rojano-Nieto to 10 years in prison.
Rojano was playing video games in the garage of his Santa Ana home on June 4, 2014, when a 3-year-old girl, to whom he is related, wandered in to hang around, said Deputy District Attorney Whitney Bokosky. Rojano, who became sexually aroused by the child, pulled her pants down and assaulted her, Bokosky said, according to the O.C. Register. Continue reading
Poll – should Santa Ana double public parking fees in DTSA?
Santa Ana City Manager David Cavazos was known for nickle and diming the residents of Phoenix when he worked in that city. We warned Santa Ana’s City Council that he would do the same thing here but they hired him and overpaid him anyway. Now our predictions are coming true, sad to say.
This time Cavazos wants to increase public parking fees in Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA). “He is working to convince city officials and merchants that higher rates would benefit the city,” according to the O.C. Register.
In downtown Santa Ana, meter rates are 75 cents an hour. Parking garages charge $1 per hour, $7 per day and $40 per month. To Cavazos, it’s mind-boggling that the nearby Health Care Agency parking structure charges $4 an hour while the city’s meters charge 75 cents and off-street parking facilities charge $1 per hour.
A fire broke out this afternoon at Santiago Park’s historic log cabin
Picture Courtesy of the Park Santiago Neigborhood Association’s Facebook page
A fire broke out this afternoon at the log cabin located at Santiago Park. The cabin was not occupied at the time. Santiago Park is located off of Memory Lane and Main St., just north of the 5 Freeway, in north Santa Ana. The Orange County Fire Authority has not yet reported about the fire on their Twitter feed or their Facebook page.
My son saw several fire trucks and police cars at the park and the fire was also reported on the Park Santiago Neighborhood Association’s Facebook page. They also reported that the fire was started by embers from a nearby bush/tree fire. Continue reading