planners to be seated on Thursday

The oath of office will be administered to members for the Garden Grove Planning Commission when the panel meets on Thursday.

Approved by the city council at its last meeting to serve a two-year term were Randy Arbgast, Asia Cunningham*, Josh Lindsay*, Matthew Montano, Mark Anthony Paredes, Daisy

Perez Castellanos* and John Ramirez*.

(Those marked with an asterisk are holdovers from the previous commission).

In addition to the administration of oaths, there will be the selec- tion of a chair and vice chair for the commission and an orientation on the role of the panel, laws – including the Brown Act on open meetings – and an overview of the general plan, zoning code and municipal code.

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in the Community Meeting Center, 11300 Stanford Ave.

Poker game raided by robber

Gambling can be, well, a gamble.

A group of people playing poker at a home in Garden Grove in the early morning hours of Saturday were surprised to find themselves at the scene of an attempted “stick-up.”

According to the GGPD, the in- cident was in the 12200 block of Diane Street (near Euclid Street and Chapman Avenue) and the call came in at 1:35 a.m.

The card players were engaged in their gaming when a masked man dressed in black fired a shot from a handgun near the rear