Garden Grove Journal Sept 27, 2012

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Grove to face El Toro

It’s ‘Singular’ fun

Over 25,000 readers weekly n Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 n www.ggjournal.com n Vol. 30, No. 58 n Phone: 714-539-6018 n Fax: 714-539-6079

n GARDEN GROVE CITY COUNCIL

Candidate forums can use city buildings Candidate forums will soon be blooming all across Garden Grove. At Tuesday’s meeting, the Garden Grove City Council gave its approval to forums at two city-owned facilities. The council voted to allow the Vietnamese Interfaith Council to host such an event at the Courtyard Center in the Village Green Park on Saturday, Oct. 6, from 1-5 p.m. Additionally, it gave ap-

proval to the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce to hold its candidate forum at the Community Meeting Center on Wednesday, Oct. 1o from 6-9:30 p.m. A third forum, organized by the Central Garden Grove Neighborhood Association, will be held at 12361 Meade St. on Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. At a short meeting that lasted a little over half an Continued next page

Unemployed decrease in the GG area

12% 11% 10% 9% 8% 7% 6%

Stanton

This month’s report of unemployment carried good news for Orange County in general and the Garden Grove-Stanton-Westminster area in particular. Statistics released by the state Employment Development Department showed that unemployment in Orange County fell from 7.9 percent in July to 7.7 percent in August. In Garden Grove, the rate fell from 9.9 percent to 9.6 percent. In Stanton the figure changed from 12.8 to 12.4 percent, and Westminster saw a decline from 8.9 to 8.5 percent. The data is not seasonally adjusted, and is not an actual count, but an estimate based on statewide numbers and

Unemployment rates falling across O.C.

Garden Grove

The 17th annual Arab American Festival is coming to downtown Garden Grove this weekend, bringing the food, music and culture of north Africa and the Middle East to the Big Strawberry. Again the event will be held at the Village Green Park at Main and Euclid streets, which is also location of the Strawberry Festival each Memorial Day weekend. The festival features carnival rides and booths, live entertainment, a wide variety of food and drink items for sale, and information tables from organizations and agencies. “Arab American Festival is not just a ceremony where we celebrate our culture and social heritage as a community,” said festival founder Ahmad Alam. “It is an appreciation and gratitude gesture to this country, our adopted homeland and its wide-open doors of tolerance and understanding among all Americans.” There is a growing population of Arab Americans in Anaheim along Brookhurst Street, and another community growing up around the JOURNAL PHOTO Islamic Society of Orange County mosque and school on FOOD, MUSIC, items for sale will all be a part of this year’s Arab American Festival at the Village Continued next page Green in Garden Grove this weekend,

Westmin st er

By Jim Tortolano Garden Grove Journal

JOBLESS RATES ON WAY DOWN O.C.

Arab fest coming to GG this weekend

Unemployment rates in select cities August 2012. Source: Employment Development Department. Journal graphic

historical patterns of employment. Rates for other Orange County cities include: • Anaheim: 9.8 percent; • Cypress: 8.1 percent; • Fountain Valley: 6.4 percent; • Huntington Beach: 6.3 percent; • Orange: 7.1 percent; • Santa Ana: 12.2 percent; • Seal Beach: 5.6 percent. The lowest rate of any Orange County city was Los Alamitos with 4.2 percent.

n STANTON CITY COUNCIL

Apartment plan will Foundation honored have to wait to Oct. 4 A proposal to build an apartment complex on Dale Street was continued to a later meeting by the Garden Grove Planning Commission last Thursday, The proposal by Brandywine Homes to build the 24unit, three-story apartment complex at 12662 Dale St., north of Stanford Avenue, will be taken up again at the next scheduled meeting on Oct. 4. In the proposal, the developers are planning to use a 35 percent affordable housing density bonus and to get waivers from some development standards, including setbacks. One person spoke in favor of the project, one against and a letter was received raising some questions. Planners did approve a site plan, tract map and development agreement with The Olson Company to build a 17-unit single family small-lot subdivision on the north side of Trask Avenue, east of Newhope Street.

for backpack project By Brittany Hanson Garden Grove Journal

Donating backpacks isn’t just putting supplies into a bag and handing it off to a child, you have to find the supplies, the people and time power to do it. At Tuesday’s Stanton City Council meeting, volunteers and donors got a little time in the spotlight for their help. The Stanton Community Foundation organizes the

backpack event for the beginning of each school year to make sure kids in Stanton get the supplies that they need. This year, there were 200 packs donated to kids. “We did 200 this year . . . next year, you hear this, we want to do 400,” said Elizabeth Ash, co-chair of the SCF. Brian Donahue, city Continued next page

At GG library, return to ‘Manzanar’ Wakatsuki-Houston was just a child when she packed her bags with her mother, grandmother and nine siblings to move From behind barbed wire, 7-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuti and to the barracks in the Manzanar internment camp in 1942. her family were watched, monitored and housed “Somehow, I felt [as a child] as though the in camps by their government as a threat to the attack on Pearl Harbor was all my fault,” repeople of their country. Wakatsuki-Houston, “I felt horrible, a “I felt as though the called In California. deep humiliation.” That same girl, now Jeanne Wakatsuki- attack was all my The surpriseJapanese attack on the unpreHouston, spoke to a crowd at the Garden Grove pared naval harbor prompted President FrankRegional Library on Saturday about her time fault. I felt a horlin Delano Roosevelt to sign Executive Order in the camp and about her book, “Farewell to rible, deep humili- 9066 and relocate around 120,000 Japanese Manzanar.” American citizens to the camps. The book was the first of its kind and chron- ation.” Wakatsuki-Houston said that the fear the icled the experiences of her Japanese American attacks struck in all Americans was fanned by family from the day of the bombing of Pearl the irresponsible press of the era, especially Harbor in Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941, to driving out of the intern- William Randolph Hearst’s publications.The media depicted ment camp for West Coast Japanese in 1945. Continued next page

FUTURE

NEWS

What to expect in the Journal for the next issue and beyond . . . .

COMING UP: Coverage of the Garden Grove school board meeting, as well as the photos of Arab American Festival and Civil War encampment at the Stanley Ranch Museum. Look for Sherry Travis’ column, as well.

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By Brittany Hanson Garden Grove Journal

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