A Vacancy Election will be held on March 12, 2019 within the Third Supervisorial District of the Orange County Board of Supervisors to fill the vacancy in the office of Third District Supervisor arising from the resignation of office by Todd Spitzer.
For more information, please contact the Orange County Registrar of Voters at (714) 567-7600 or visit our website at www.ocvote.com.
The office of the Third District Supervisor will continue to operate during normal business hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, to service the needs of residents. The office may be reached at (714) 834-3330.
Voting Locations for Third Supervisorial District Special Election
Earn Your High School Diploma through OC Public Libraries
Public Libraries will offer qualified community members the opportunity to earn an accredited high school diploma and credentialed career certificate through Career Online High School, part of the world’s first accredited, private online school district. Career Online High School is specifically designed to reengage adults into the education system and prepare them for entry into post-secondary career education or the workforce.
OC Public Libraries will award up to 10 scholarships for Career Online High School to qualified learners looking to earn a high school diploma and advance their careers.
To be considered for the program, applicants must:
Once enrolled, COHS pairs each student with an Academic Coach, who assists with developing an individual career plan, offers ongoing guidance and encouragement, evaluates performance, and connects the learner with the resources needed to demonstrate mastery of the course material.
Classes are supported by board-certified instructors and students have 24/7 access to the online learning platform. Coursework begins in one of eight high-growth, high-demand career fields, before progressing to the core academic subjects. Many students are able to graduate in as few as 4 to 6 months by transferring in previously earned high school credits.
In today’s fast-paced lifestyle, we’re often hit with notification after notification from twitter, Instagram, from emails and so on. There’s no denying that our electronic devices like our cellphones and laptops provide a huge help in keeping track of it all. But have you ever found
yourself asking what to do with all the old batteries from those devices? Sometimes batteries can pile around the house, especially after a new phone upgrade or when they just don’t work anymore.
Good news though, batteries can be recycled! By recycling batteries, it can not only help keep the environment safe but also your local waste facility employee. If not properly disposed, some batteries such as those made out of lithium can be volatile and spark whenever their metal terminal touches something metallic, like the inside of a garbage truck or the various waste at a landfill, causing a fire. In 2017, 65% of fires at waste facilities were the direct result of improper lithium battery disposal.
Recycling is a fantastic way to prevent that from happening! Although batteries can be recycled, they should not be placed in the recycling bin at home. Instead here’s some great alternatives:
Orange County residents can drop off batteries at any of our four different Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection centers for free.
While at the HHW collection center, be sure to pick up a free battery bucket for your home.
Most residents also live within ten miles of a Call2Recycle site.
Home Depot, Best Buy and Lowes are some of the local establishments that have battery recycling programs.
Be sure to test your knowledge on battery recycling with this quiz here!
Extended Park Hours Begin March 10
An extra hour of sunlight means an extra hour to explore Orange County parks.
The clocks spring forward early March 10, marking the beginning of daylight-saving time and OC Parks’ spring-summer operating schedule.
Spring-summer hours for the following regional parks are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.:
Carbon Canyon Regional Park
Clark Regional Park
Craig Regional Park
Laguna Niguel Regional Park
Mason Regional Park (Third District Park)
Mile Square Regional Park
Tri-City Regional Park
Yorba Regional Park (Third District Park)
Irvine Regional Park (opens at 6 a.m.; Third District Park)
Wilderness parks and the following regional parks are open at 7 a.m. and close at sunset year round:
O’Neill Regional Park (Third District Park)
Peters Canyon Regional Park (Third District Park)
Santiago Oaks Regional Park (Third District Park)
Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park
Caspers Wilderness Park
Laguna Coast Wilderness Park (parking lots open at 8 a.m.)
Riley Wilderness Park
Talbert Regional Park
Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park (Third District Park)
Wieder Regional Park
Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve
Hours for OC Parks’ beaches vary, but are generally between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Salt Creek Beach opens at 5 a.m. and will close at 12 a.m. Thousand Steps Beach opens at 6 a.m. and will close at 9 p.m.
OC Parks facilities will remain on these operating hours until daylight-saving time ends Nov. 3, 2019.
Anaheim Completes La Mesa Emergency Shelter
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu (C) and Councilmembers (L to R) Jordan Brandman, Stephen Faessel, Denise Barnes, Jose Moreno, and Trevor O'Neil were joined by Brenda (second from left), who will be moving into the shelter, at the opening of the La Mesa Emergency Shelter.
Anaheim, in partnership with Illumination Foundation, celebrated the completion Wednesday of the La Mesa Emergency Shelter, the third homeless shelter the city has opened in the past two months.
The shelter, built in just 47 days in an industrial area of east Anaheim, will offer beds and services to 102 people living in homelessness in Anaheim. It will welcome its first residents on March 6.
The shelter includes living areas for men, women, couples and families, as well as a lounge, kitchen and dining, bathrooms and showers, administrative offices and counseling rooms, and an outdoor space for residents and their pets to get some fresh air. Each resident will have an individual sleeping area with personal storage space.
There’s also a laundry room where residents can wash and dry their clothes — a luxury they didn’t have readily available living on the street.
Shelter operator Illumination Foundation will provide services and support for residents to help them transition out of homelessness, including career resources and job opportunities by Anaheim-based nonprofit Chrysalis.
The shelter will have onsite private security and an extensive security plan with Anaheim Police to ensure it is a good neighbor.
People will be referred into the shelter through our partners at City Net, Anaheim Police, Orange County Healthcare Agency and other Anaheim outreach workers.
The opening of the La Mesa Emergency Shelter will start the winding down of the 200-bed Interim Emergency Shelter on State College Boulevard, which opened in December. Illumination Foundation, which also operates the interim shelter, will transition residents from there to the La Mesa shelter.
Many people have already moved from the interim shelter to the Anaheim Emergency Shelter, run by The Salvation Army, since it opened on Feb. 1. The Interim Emergency Shelter is set to close by March 14.
The La Mesa Emergency Shelter marks the culmination of Anaheim’s shelter plan, which committed the city to building 325 new shelter beds by early 2019.
The shelters have allowed Anaheim to continue efforts to help people get on a pathway out of homelessness, while also addressing impacts we have seen on our parks, streets, commercial areas and other public spaces.
"All of this represents promises made and, more importantly, promises kept," Mayor Harry Sidhu said. "We pledged that we would help those in need in our city. We pledged to our residents and businesses that we would restore our parks, streets, neighborhoods and commercial spaces. On behalf of the city of Anaheim, I’m proud to say we have fulfilled those promises, and we have bettered lives in the process."
Irvine The Art of Competition Exhibit Now—May 12, Thursdays and Fridays, 12:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, 10:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m. Orange County Great Park, 8000 Great Park Blvd.
Family Game Day Sunday, March 10, 11:00 a.m.—3:00 p.m. Orange County Great Park, 8000 Great Park Blvd.
Orange Tech Tutor Saturdays Saturday, March 9, 10:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m. Main Library, 407 E. Chapman Avenue
Booktalk Monday, March 18, 7:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m. Main Library, 407 E. Chapman Avenue
Silverado Family Drop-In Crafts Saturday, March 9, 11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m. Library of the Canyons, 7531 East Santiago Canyon Rd.
Tustin Family Storytime Saturday, March 2, 9:15 a.m.—10:00 a.m. Main Street and El Camino Real
Farmers Market Wednesday, March 13, 9:00 a.m.—1:00 p.m. Tustin Branch Library, 345 E Main St.
Villa Park Music and Movement Storytime Thursday, March 14, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Villa Park Library, 17865 Santiago Blvd.
Yorba Linda Plan Your Summer Garden Wednesday, March 13, 7:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m. 18181 Imperial Hwy, Yorba Linda, CA 92886
Sunday Concerts: California Young Musicians, Elizabeth Zeitz, Conductor Sunday, March 10, 1:30 p.m. Richard Nixon Library and Museum, East Room, 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
For questions or comments regarding Third District's E-Newsletter
please contact the Supervisor's office staff at: (714) 834-3330 or Montana.Sudul@ocgov.com
yourself asking what to do with all the old batteries from those devices? Sometimes batteries can pile around the house, especially after a new phone upgrade or when they just don’t work anymore.
