Street closures for WGG parade

On Saturday, Feb. 25, from 7 to 10 a.m., various streets in Garden Grove will be closed for the West Garden Grove Youth Baseball Opening Day Parade. Major streets impacted are Lampson Avenue, from Valley View Street to Lamplighter Street, and Springdale Street, from Stanford Avenue to Belgrave Avenue. The following streets will also be closed:

• Cerulean Avenue

• Topaz Street

• Trinette Street

• Amethyst Street

• Picket Avenue

• Taylor Circle

• Poplar Street

Residents and businesses have been notified in advance.

Matthew Benjamin Hurley told the court during a hearing Monday that he holds himself “100 percent accountable” for the 2020 death of Rose Avelar in Huntington Beach, it was reported.

Hurley, who referenced his own battle with addiction, accepted a plea deal last year, admitting to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl resulting in a death.

“I never meant for someone to get hurt,” Hurley told U.S. District Judge James V. Selna. “The person I am under sub- stances is not who I want to be. I’m tired of the misery and pain my addiction has caused.”

Avelar’s relatives, who traveled from Massachusetts for the sentencing, described her as a “beautiful, driven young woman” who was excited about attending college in California.

“You robbed me of her,” Austin Avelar, Rose’s brother, told Hurley. “She died alone, far away from me and my family, and the pain of her death is so deep I feel it will never end.”

Hurley was one of more than a half-dozen alleged drug dealers who were federally charged in April 2022 after prosecutors said they sold fentanyl-laced narcotics that resulted in 10 deaths in Orange County.