HUNTINGTON BEACH...Huntington Beach Police and Border Patrol Officers questioned fourteen (14) individuals who were taken into custody after a 24-foot boat came ashore at Seapoint Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach early Thursday morning.
Huntington Beach Police received a call from Border Patrol officials, just before 5 a.m., requesting assistance with the investigation of a boat that ran ashore. Fourteen individuals were found on the beach where the boat was located. They were taken into custody and transported to a nearby Border Patrol station. Their nationality is unknown at this point. Authorities are working to identify the smuggler or captain of the boat. No narcotics were found at the landing location and Federal Officials are handling the investigation.
HUNTINGTON BEACH...“CHUC MUNG NAM MOI” is Vietnamese for Happy New Year. Southern Wind Lion Dancers/GioNam are a student group from UCI's Vietnamese Student Assoc. They recently performed their original version of the Lion Dance to celebrate the New Year at Whole Foods in Bella Terra. Traditionally, it was a male effort to be both the head & tail of the lion but these days the girls can also be the front or back, just as long as they are capable.
The student group's final equipment check before entering Whole Foods for their original performance
Pearl, white lion made in San Francisco and RA, black & red lion made in Malaysia
pleasing the crowd with their high leaps & dance
Cymbals & drum create the rhythm for the lion dancers
HUNTINGTON BEACH...On January 31, 2012, Chief Ken Small swore in Officer Andy Alvarado and Officer
Angela Bennett as the newest police officers with the City of Huntington Beach.
Officer Alvarado has over 11 years experience between the California Highway Patrol and most recent, the California Department of Justice (DOJ). Officer Bennett has over 9 years experience between the Torrance Police Department and the Chula Vista Police Department.
Pictured: Officer Alvarado, Chief Small and Officer Bennett
The swearing in was joined by their families and the Huntington Beach Police Department. The Police Department plans on hiring several more police officers in the coming months in anticipation of several retirements.
HUNTINGTON BEACH...A man's body was discovered in the harbor surrounding the Huntington Harbour area of Huntington Beach on Wednesday evening, January 1, 2012. At approximately 6 p.m. Orange County Sheriff's divers removed the man's body from the harbor in the rear of the 3400 block of Sagamore Drive. At the present time police do not suspect foul play and are investigating the man's death.
ATCHISON, KS...Benedictine College has recognized those students who have distinguished themselves academically during the last semester. Bethany Orr of Huntington Beach was recently named to the Dean's List for the fall semester.
Benedictine College is a Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts and residential college located on the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas. The institution traces its roots to 1858 and is dedicated to educating men and women in a community of faith and scholarship. It has been named one of the top Catholic colleges in the nation by the Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College and one of America's Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report.
CHICAGO, IL ...Sean Parker of Huntington Beach made the Dean's List at DePaul University for the fall quarter of 2011. In order to qualify for the Dean's List at DePaul, students must earn above a 3.0 grade point average on a four point scale.
With more than 25,000 students, DePaul University is the largest Catholic university in the United States and the largest private, nonprofit university in the Midwest. The university offers 275 graduate and undergraduate programs of study in ten colleges and schools on three Chicago campuses and three suburban campuses.
HUNTINGTON BEACH... If it hadn't been for Carole Kanode, the Youth Shelter would not be a reality. It was in 1987 that Kanode and a small group of volunteers banded together to help teenagers on the street find a safe place to live while they find a permanent living quarters.
The group spotted the Brooks House, an old run down house in Central Park. Kanode lobbied the city council for help in securing the house for the teens. It was a long and hard project as the group, now and official board, combed the city's business community for volunteer labor and materials. The house had to be repaired, painted, brought up to code and some out buildings demolished.
On Saturday, January 28, 2012, California Senator Tom Harman, Huntington Beach Mayor Don Hansen, Mayor Pro Tem Devin Dwyer, Council members Connie Boardman, Joe Carchio and Joe Shaw participated in thank you to the founding board members and an unveiling of a plaque at the Huntington Youth Shelter in Huntington Central Park dedicated to those original shelter's founding members.
The public watch the plaque dedication
Janeen Laudenback from the city and Elsa Greenfield from Community Service Programs, Inc., welcomed some of the early Youth Center's board and the public to the shelter's Founders Plaque Dedication.
l-r: Janeen Laudenback and Elsa Greenfield
Huntington Beach Mayor Don Hansen thanked many of the founding members who were in the audience for all the good work in establishing the youth shelter.
Huntington Beach Mayor Don Hansen
Senator Tom Harman told the audience about the time he was on board as a member and the railings that had to be installed and how he got it done. Harman next told the story on the fire door that had to be installed inside the house. The door had to drop down when the alarm was sounded. But that was not what happened on the first try or the second. Finally on the third try the door fell and all was fine with city inspectors.
California Senator Tom Harman
Sheri Stratz, Youth Shelter Advisory Council Member
Elsa Greenfield and Sheri Stratz gave a brief history prior to welcoming those present to take a tour of the shelter.
The plaque rests in the butterfly garden at the Youth Shelter, and memorializes the generous contributions of those who began working together in 1987 to establish the Huntington Youth Shelter which opened in 1994.
HUNTINGTON BEACH...The following people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant. They have only been arrested on suspicion of a crime and, as with all crimes, are considered innocent until proven guilty.
- Eric D. Coffey, 30, Huntington Beach
- Katherine E. Kellams, 39, Huntington Beach
- Joey S. Mueller, 27, Huntington Beach
- Glenn Grosch, 58, Huntington Beach
- Richard A. Jefferies, 44, Huntington Beach
- Marten Goltra, 47, Huntington Beach
- Jerry D. Pate, 55, La Mirada
- Dulce I. Lara, 23, Fullerton
- Hugo J. Barcenas, 34, Huntington Beach
- Antonio M. Jimenez, 51, Santa Ana
- Jeffrey C. Lavare, 38, Huntington Beach
- Morgan P. Ellson, 30, Huntington Beach
- Danielle Smith, 27, Costa Mesa
- Anthony Dagostino, 30, Huntington Beach
- Amando J. Villavicencio, 46, Huntington Beach
- Timothy J. Ryan, 55, Huntington Beach
- Patricia Pena, 36, El Monte
HUNTINGTON BEACH...Members of the Marina High School Drum and Marimba Corps held a Drum-A-Thon fundraising event in the Vons parking lot across from the high school at Springdale and Edinger on Saturday, January 28, 2012. Several students arrived early with their drums and marimbas while parents helped with the equipment and baked goods.
Marimba players from Marina High School
The funds raised from the event will help send these teens to musical events during the year and to other events said one of the mothers.All day Saturday shoppers to the market stopped to listen to the music played on the marimbas and the beat of the drums.
Keeping the beat agoin' was the drum section from Marina High
Included in the Drum-A-Thon event were homemade baked goods such as these brightly colored cupcakes.
Cupcakes and baked goods sold to help raise funds
HUNTINGTON BEACH...The Huntington Beach Public Library is sponsoring a series of three programs to help children understand and appreciate those people who differ from them.
Each of the programs will feature a blind person with a guide dog, an American Sign Language interpreter for the hearing impaired, an art project involving the use of a wheelchair, and story time about differences between children. Each program is free and will last approximately one hour.
The programs will take place as follows:
Thursday, February 2 at 2:30 p.m. at the Banning Branch Library located at 9281 Banning Avenue, Huntington Beach
Monday, February 23 at 1:30 p.m. at the Barnes and Noble, in the Bella Terra Shopping Center on the corner of Beach Blvd. and Edinger Avenue in Huntington Beach
Thursday, February 23 at 3:30 p.m. at the Huntington Beach Central Library located at 7111 Talbert Avenue, Huntington Beach.
HUNTINGTON BEACH...Beginning February 7, the City of Huntington Beach Public Works Utilities Division will be implementing a water main flushing program in the north section of the City from roughly Garfield Avenue to the City’s northern border. The program is typically performed as routine maintenance and helps maintain the quality of the water in the distribution system.
Utilities Division crews will be operating fire hydrants in order to flush the system. This work will be performed Tuesdays through Fridays between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The program is expected to take approximately four months to complete.
Customers may experience some discoloration of their water during or following flushing activities in their neighborhood. This is only temporary and is not harmful. The discoloration should disappear by running faucets for a few minutes. If discoloration persists, or if customers have questions pertaining to the flushing program, they should call the Utilities Division at 714-536-5921.
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