“Santa Ana has the second-highest child obesity rate in California among cities over 100,000.” Does that sound familiar? The bad news is that was reported way back in 2006, by Jennifer Delson when she was writing for the L.A. Times.
Has anything changed since 2006? “The cities with the highest levels of overweight youth are Anaheim (43.5%), Santa Ana (46.5%) and Stanton (51.8%)—cities which also have the highest rates of poverty, according to publichealthadvocacy.org.” That is a new report, sad to say.
Yet when a mother of four tried to run a scrimmage for her NJB youth basketball team recently at John Adams park, in Santa Ana, a park ranger shut them down informed them that next time they needed to make a reservation. Continue reading