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SHAKESPREARE GGISMAN IS THE OUT AT AMPHITHEATER ACCUSED IN
Covering Serving Garden Grove Garden Grove Huntington Beach Huntington Beach Stanton Stanton Westminster Westminster
OH MY, OHTANI!
n STANTON CITY COUNCIL
Smoking ban in city parks on agenda
FIERY ATTACK
Rock’n’roll concerts taking the stage
By Jim Tortolano
said John Walcutt, the SOC artistic director. “We did the William Shakespeare best we could, doing very wrote “All’s Well That Ends good work and engaging the A proposal to restrict Well, “ but it remains to be community. But in the five smoking in public parks seen how things will turn years I’ve led the company, tops the agenda for next out for Shakespeare Orange we just couldn’t get them Tuesday’s meeting of the County. hooked in. It was an upStanton City Council. SOC,Grove for years resihill battle. Even though the A Garden man the state prison. Although the details of dent theatrical troupe at the neighborhood and the artiswas arrested on July 3 for ARTISTS’ RENDERING of the Jack-In-The-Box planned for a development Valleywere Viewnot availThe incident took place the on proposal Festival Amphitheater in tic community responded allegedly throwing a “Mo- on June 27, 2018 at about Street in West Garden Grove. The proposed project, going before the cityable planning today commis(Thursday), the the Village wonderfully.” lotov cocktail” – an Green im- 1:30 p.m. Police say that sion on Thursday, will also include a sit-down eatery, a car wash and an expanded the justificationmovie for the planned in device Garden suspect assembled the Garden Grove complex. provisedpark incendiary deordinance includes this apparently Mayor Steve usually Grove, inside a is glass bottle vice and rode his bicycle tostatement. – at two men for in a ward the two men on Katella outhomeless and looking Jones had this “The Community ServicAnaheim. According new home. to the Avenue in Anaheim. comment to the es Department’s mission is Orange County AtIn District a Facebook Tribune: One of the victims was to enhance the quality of life torney’spost, office,the Andrew Ericre- inside a makeshift tent, and SOC “The city is of residents. In that effort Mongerson, has itbeen near saddened ported29,that was another outside the tent deeply and in joining with hundreds chargedbeing with felony counts allegousted from a bus stop. MongersonShakespeare OC of other California cities and of assault with a deadly edly lit thehas device threw residence at the 540-seat notand been able to work counties, this ordinance will weapon,open-air possession of flam-Large The long-awaited revamp- car wash. would beimplement demolished to it atForthe men, facility. outyelling terms insults with the new opreasonable remable material and attemptThe developer is Cinemas make room for theregarding develop-the locyclingerator away. of the amphitheater. ing of a commercial center mat Assembly, whichand stages strictions ed arson. nearamphitheater on Valley View Street will Management, Inc. and ac- ment. popular music concertsThe lo- glass Forshattered years, the cation and manner of smokHe will pre-trialtook theover victims,satthe dormant pieces blaz-a significant come before the Garden cording to the city staff reThe newingsit-down restauin recreational areas.” callyhave anda which hearingmanagement in North Justice until running fuel.year and the Grove Planning Com- port, the existing Four Star rant has not Huntington been identified, Beach last there,ing will portionoutofofthe Center be in Fullerton on July A witness hope calledwas Anaheim bowling al- in all year banned smoking filling the amphitheater that Shakespeare mission when it meets on theater – with four audito- and the closed 12. If convicted all charg-of police the could suspectexist was by mobiliz- Thursday, Oct. 18. riums – would become a ley at theparks, southwetlands of the and site beachwith a of schedule perfor-andOC es, he could serve up to five arrested on June 30. Proposed for the 2.71- Starlight Cinema increased isPHOTO not part es. of the project, ANGELS mances which won’t leave ing their stage set and allowyears and four months in acre site now size with a 2,846 located and 12111 If approved on Tuesday time for the classical theater ing other shows toShohei happen Ohtani’s pinch hitoccupied home runbyinatheinseventh inning wasexpanthe key to the at 12101 (July St., 10),south the ordinance theater and a closed sion and reconfiguration to Valley View of company to stage its plays. at the amphitheater during4-3 movie Angels’ win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday. The win allowed come back to the July buffet restaurant is a proj- result in six auditoriums. Chapmanwould Avenue. “We tried to get them their extended downtimes.” the Angels to .500 at 24 for final approval ectmove that back wouldover include an46-45.Total seating for the cin- The commission meets at and (city officials) interested,” Continued next page expanded movie complex, ema will be reduced from 7 p.m. in adoption. the council chammeets in its a new Jack In the Box fast 627 seats to 326 seats to bers insideThe thecouncil Commuchambers in City Hall, 7800 food restaurant (with drive- allow for stadium-style nity Meeting Center, 11300 Katella Ave.. (west of Beach through lanes), a sit-down seating with recliner seats. Stanford Ave. Boulevard) at 6:30 p.m. restaurant and an automatic The existing vacant eatery
Suspect allegedly three Molotov cocktail at two homeless men
New eateries, bigger cinema proposed for Valley View site
That was a loud, long and kinda weird 4th of July
53-house A new ‘Dracula’ for a new era
The rockets’ red glare of explosives without a perand bombs bursting in air mit and for discharging ille– the bad kind – are over. gal fireworks. Mostly. Vampires on stage But he didn’t earn his The July 4th holiday lit arrest for cleverly launchatmuch theofMainstage up the sky, with the ing his pyrotechnics from spectacular displays from West at Golden behind a wall or with other GARDEN GROVE firefighters in action. illegal fireworks. It let to concealment. According to numerous arrests, but no Lt. Whitney, he was riding By Thom deMartino fires attributed locally to the a mini-bike down the street, A proposal to build a stuff on the Fourth. towing a trailer from which But unusual who wants to live for53-unit housing project There was one mortars blasted fireworks ever, really? on a former school site instance in Garden Grove. into the sky using an elecDAVID LEE TURNER The immortality gloriwill go before the HunAccording to Lt. Carl Whittronic ignition device. Fireworks suspect. fied in Grove fiction — in reality, tington Beach Planning ney of the Garden The suspect was spotted Commission on Tuesday. wouldn’t it be more of a THE CAST of “Bram A reports on a staff re- that union “PIRATES OF PENZANCE” is one of the such non-Shakespeare supported a Police Department, 37 offiStoker’s Dracula” on the Mainstage What’s before the the prohibition of by officers in an unmarked curse,ontofirewatchample the ofworld view ofplays the Orange stagedCounty by Shakespeare change. Orange County. cers were deployed Theater at Golden West College. vehicle and allegedly tried planners is a general pyrotechnics ocFire Authority’s proposal to you 200 know away from However, the cities of works watch. Over callsfallunlawful plan amendment, tract curred in the of Aca- to flee on his bike but was provide fire service to Gar- Irvine and Placentia have were receivedyou, ones de- area aboutyour illegalloved Jean) has been tasked to young Doctor (MatmapSeward and other approvcia and Jackson. David Lee eventually stopped and arden Grove highlights Tues- notified the OCFA of their fireworks, andscend to the dust, hunger71 citations travel to far-away Tranthew Cobb). But while the rested. The Orange County als to construct the projTurner, 51, of Garden Grove day’s meeting of the City intention of withdraw from issued, each for ing$1000. for companionship, sylvania, to arrange the up-and-coming practitioner ect at 14422 Hammon wascan arrested possession Bomb Squad was called to Council. a thirst neverfor purchase the agency. Irvine’s comThe mostwith brazen ex- that of disarm property a isTurner certainlyLane, a catch, Lucysite of the for trailer. Aofficials man was wounded the one-time In March, of fatally the plaint centersby onHuntington its “donor” Beach be slaked? And how could certain mysterious count, be waiting was booked into seems Orange to Franklin school. for an incident earlyIt Thursday OCFA – police which in serves 23 status. pays more morning. in taxes such a hunger or thirst cor- while his dedicated something, some- will County Jail in Santa Ana. The planners cities in Orange County According to –Officer Angela public inforto the OCFA Bennett, than it receives rode the soul of even the and winsome fianWestminster police re- one… A mysteribe asked to change the made a presentation on the in services. has ex- a stolen mation officer for the HBPD,Placentia police located best of humanity? ported “several arrests” for ousgeneral ce Mina (Carolyn and plan unknown for the area possibilityvehicle of thatatagency pressed that the cost For a limited time, “Drac- Feres) impatiently about 12:30 am.concern The suspects fled from ofillegal fireworks and the figure… from public and semiabsorbing the Garden Grove of belonging to the agency ula” is currently showing at awaits his return. ficers and a chase resulted, ending in the area of 12th confiscation of hundreds of Seward is low public tohimself residential Fire Department. The coun- continue to rise without conthe Golden West College Street Mina’spounds dearof those materials. obsessed withopen onespace density and cil was told thatand thePalm city Avenue. trol. Each member city has Mainstage Theater in Hun- friend and confiIn Huntington Beach, of park There, suspects theboard vehicle. the topatients allow forhe the decould save as much two as $23.5 oneran votefrom on the of di-One was tington Beach with an adap- dante, the precocious huge crowds and showedoversees up at atvelopment the local asyof the planned taken into custody and the other was shot by police. million through 2034-5 by rectors. tation that upends the usual the pier to watch single-family slightly scandalous Lucy a spectaclum, a madman named homes Ren- with making theHe move. was taken to a local treated Thehospital council and meets in its for gunportrayals of the immortal (Katherenin ular – and legal reduced lot sizes Heflin) does– show field of (Patrick Peterson). The and In June, representathe Community shota wounds wherechambers he later in died. No officers were Carpathian that audiences her part to distract explosives, followingtroubled a day “public obsession benefits for the tive of the Garden Grove her comman’s Meeting Center, 11300 Staninjured. may have seen before. the 114th Firefighters Assn. told the ford Ave. at 6:30 p.m. panion withthat herincluded own tales withan-bugs community.” and small aniA gun was located at the scene, according to JULY the 4 crowd The players areHuntington the same: Beach. 4th of July parade. council that members of in downtown of her own nual suitors coming mals fascinates the doctor,
Report on OCFA for GG to be made
project to H. Beach planners
Man fatally shot by HB police
eager young English solici- to court her — including leading him to insist that tor Jonathan Harker (Alex the fixated and determined next page For breaking news and sports all week long, go to www.orangecountytribune.com or follow Continued us on Facebook HBPD. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is handling the investigation.