| October 11, 2018 |
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Volume 6 Issue 35 |
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| Spitzer Discusses Public Safety at Noble Vikings Charities Luncheon |
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Supervisor Spitzer points to a map showing the proposed needle exchange locations in relation to nearby schools. |
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Supervisor Spitzer with Marvin Waider, Chief of the Noble Viking Charities Board. |
Supervisor Todd Spitzer spoke to the Noble Vikings Charities luncheon on Tuesday, October 9. As a leader in public safety, Spitzer shared the dangers of allowing a needle exchange program, which is estimated to distribute a million needles per year, to operate in Orange County. Spitzer also discussed the County’s efforts to curb homelessness and to better protect our communities.
At the close of the event, Supervisor Spitzer presented a service award to Marvin Waider and the Noble Viking Charities of OC, which raised $68,965 to feed 18,000 people in need during Christmas time this year.
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| Tustin Tiller Days |
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Carnival rides, including the Ferris wheel, were just one of the many fun activities at the Tustin Tiller Days festival. |
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Supervisor Spitzer thanked Cherrill Cady for her service to the City of Tustin. |
Supervisor Spitzer joined Mayor Al Murray, Mayor Pro Tem Beckie Gomez, Councilmembers Allan Bernstein, Letitia Clark, and Chuck Puckett, and hundreds of Tustin residents for Tustin Tiller Days.
The three-day festival is an annual tradition in the City of Trees since 1957. Tiller Days celebrates Orange County’s agricultural heritage while providing an opportunity for local non-profit organizations to promote their cause and raise much-needed funds. The festival this year featured the first annual hot dog eating contest, live music, carnival rides, and the Backyard Brewfest, where attendees mingled and sampled craft beers and ciders from local breweries.
Cherrill Cady, who has volunteered with the Tiller Days Committee for 40 years, was the Grand Marshall at the Tiller Days Parade on Saturday. Supervisor Spitzer presented her with a certificate to thank her for her service. |
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| Supervisor Spitzer Honors Local Leaders Preserving Italian Heritage |
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(L to R): Fred Fascenelli, Frank DeSantis, Councilwoman Diana Fascenelli, Eileen DeSantis, and Supervisor Todd Spitzer at the Bowers Museum. |
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The festival began with the Parade of Flags from different regions of Italy. |
Supervisor Todd Spitzer jointly presented a proclamation with Villa Park Councilwoman Diana Fascenelli to Frank and Eileen DeSantis at the Italian Renaissance Festival at the Bowers Museum.
Frank and Eileen DeSantis are two remarkable leaders of preserving and honoring Italian culture and history here in Orange County.
Frank was a founding member of the Order of Sons of Italy (OSIA), Orange County Chapter, and served as OSIA National President from 1997 to 1999. He also co-founded the non-profit Orange County American Italian Renaissance Foundation (OCAIRF), and in 1992, the Orange County Board of Supervisors appointed Frank as Quincentenary Chairman.
Eileen has dedicated much of her time to both these organizations and joined Frank in contributing to Chapman University’s Italian Language Program and the new Musco Center for the Arts.
Supervisor Spitzer thanks Frank and Eileen for their outstanding commitment to the Italian community here in Orange County. |
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| Tele-Town Hall: Active Shooter Response Preparation |
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A screenshot from Supervisor Spitzer's Facebook live event of the Tele-Town Hall. (L to R): Christine Laehle, Department of Education; Supervisor Todd Spitzer; Montana Sudul, Communications Specialist; Lt. Dave Klug, Irvine Police Department; Pasquale Guida, Knowledge Saves Lives. |
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A few days after the one year anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in America to date, Supervisor Spitzer brought together a panel of experts—Lt. Dave Klug of the Irvine Police Department, Pasquale Guida of Knowledge Saves Lives, and Christine Laehle of the Department of Education—to discuss active shooter emergencies.
Active shooters can strike in any place at any time, including unfortunately school campuses. To prepare Orange County schools for a potential active shooter situation, the County of Orange recently allocated $4 million to the Orange County Department of Education for mental health wellness programs, building systems of support for students, and providing training courses contracted through Knowledge Saves Lives.
View the Facebook live video here, or listen to the audio of this and all of Supervisor Spitzer’s other Town Hall events at: http://www.ocgov.com/gov/bos/3/info/tele_town_halls.
The next Third District Tele Town Hall event will be on Wednesday, October 24. To join the call, dial (855) 756-7520 extension 41701# at 5:30 pm. |
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| Author Talk: Betty Reid Soskin at the Irvine Katie Wheeler Library |
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The County of Orange and OC Public Libraries are pleased to present a conversation and book signing with Betty Reid Soskin. Betty is an author, composer, singer, social and political activist, entrepreneur, historian, blogger, public speaker, and National Park Service Ranger whose remarkable life spans the great American fault lines of the 20th and early 21st centuries. She is the oldest ranger in the National Park Service at 96!
Betty is now touring the country to spread word of her first book, “Sign My Name to Freedom”, a memoir of her long, multifaceted life. She will be visiting the Katie Wheeler Library, 13109 Old Myford Road, Irvine, CA, 92602, on Sunday, October 21st at 2pm. The event is free and no registration required.
Born into a Cajun/Creole African-American family in 1921, she spent her early years in New Orleans in the era of lynching and Jim Crow segregation. Her family later settled in Oakland, California, following the historic floods that devastated the City of New Orleans in 1927. Betty co-founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in Reid’s Records in Berkeley, California, worked with elected officials to rehabilitate the block on which the record shop was located, and served on the staff of a Berkeley City Councilmember and then as field representative to two members of the California State Assembly.
In the 1960’s and 70’s, she was active in the Bay Area's civil rights and Black Power movements, as well as the movement to end the Vietnam War.
In 1995, Betty was named a “Woman of the Year” by the California State Legislature. In 2005 she was named one of the nation's ten outstanding women “Builders of communities and dreams” by the National Women's History Project in ceremonies in both Griffith Park in Los Angeles, and in Washington, D.C.
As a State Assembly field representative, Betty was instrumental in the establishment of Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, in 2000. She was later hired to work at the Rosie the Riveter Park, and is the oldest ranger in the National Park Service at 96. She is a highly sought-after public speaker and her blog, CBreaux Speaks, has thousands of followers. She introduced President Barack Obama at the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington in 2015.
Betty continues to work for the National Park Service. In 2018, she has spoken at the Commonwealth Club, The Makers Conference in 2018 with Gloria Steinem and many others, at the Muse Festival in Bend Oregon and has events scheduled with Nike, Facebook and will be a featured storyteller at The Moth Main Event at Lincoln Center in New York in April.
To learn more, visit http://www.ocpl.org.
(Portions courtesy of OC Public Libraries). |
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| OC Health Care Agency Hosts Exercise in Health Emergency Preparedness
through Point of Dispensing (POD) Event
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| Construction Alert: Santiago Canyon Road Pavement Rehabilitation Project |
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| Construction Alert: Live Oak Canyon Road/Trabuco Canyon Road Safety Improvements Project, September 2018—April 2019 |
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| Pet of the Week |
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Click on the image above to view a PDF version. |
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| Events Around the District |
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Anaheim
Preschool Storytime
Friday, October 12, 10:30 am – 11:00 am
Anaheim Canyon Hills, 400 Scout Trail
Family Storytime
Saturday, October 13, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
East Anaheim Branch Library, 8201 East Santa Ana Canyon Road
Irvine
2018 Spooktacular Fun Days
Saturday, October 13—Sunday, October 14
Cost $5; http://www.cityofirvine.org/news-media/calendar-of-events/event/2018-spooktacular-fun-days
Orange County Great Park, 6950 Marine Way
Orange County Great Park Farmers Market
Sunday, October 14, 10:00 am—2:00 pm
Orange County Great Park, 6950 Marine Way
Orange
Spooky Storytime & Craft
Thursday, October 18, 4:00 pm—5:00 pm
Library Taft Branch, 740 E Taft Ave
Frighteningly Fun Rock Paint Night for Adults
Monday, October 22, 6:30 pm—8:00 pm
Community Room, 407 E Chapman Ave.
Silverado
Family Drop-In Crafts
Saturday, October 13, 11:00 am — 2:00 pm
Library of the Canyons, 7531 East Santiago Canyon Rd.
After School Yoga
Tuesday, October 16, 4:00 pm — 4:45 pm
Library of the Canyons, 7531 East Santiago Canyon Rd.
Tustin
Books for Breakfast
Saturday, October 13, 9:15 am—9:45 am
Tustin Library, 345 E. Main Street
Farmers Market
Wednesday, October 17, 9:00 am—1:00 pm
El Camino Real and West 3rd Street
Villa Park
Music and Movement Storytime
Thursday, October 11, 11:00 am – 11:00 am
Villa Park Library, 17865 Santiago Blvd.
Yorba Linda
Coffee Talk: Medicare Demystified
Tuesday, October 16, 10:30 am—12:00 pm
Hurless Barton Park, 4579 Casa Loma Ave.
Sunday Concerts: Concert Violinist: Drew Tretick, Disneyland Violinist
Sunday, October 21, 1:30 pm
Richard Nixon Library and Museum, 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
For questions or comments regarding Spitzer’s E-Newsletter
please contact the Supervisor's office staff at: (714) 834-3330 or Montana.Sudul@ocgov.com
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