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A 14-year old boy was hospitalized in serious condition Friday night after an illegal “mortar” style firework detonated prematurely while being ignited in Eastgate Park in Garden Grove. According to Sgt. Nick Jensen, public informa tion officer for the GGPD, the incident took place around 10 p.m. at the park at 12001 St. Mark St., just west of Valley View Street, near where Chap manTheAvenue.youth, who report edly suffered serious inju ries to his hands and face, was treated by Orange County Fire Authority paramedics and then taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange, according to Capt. Steve Concialdi, a public information officer for the OCFA.
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It was an unusual mo ment: two union groups struggling over whether the Garden Grove City Council should give ap proval to the development of the 500-room Nickel odeon Hotel Resort. After much comment from construction trade unions and UNITE, which represents hotel and res taurant workers unions, the council on Tuesday night voted 6-0 – with Councilmember John O’Neill (District 2) absent – to approve the ordinance for the project and deny an appeal of the planning commission’s previous approval.Speaking in favor of the project mostly were mem bers and representatives of various construction trade unions, including electri cians, carpenters and iron and steel workers. They cited the benefits of employing local workers and creating career job op portunities for high school graduates who don’t go on to college.Opposed were mem bers and representatives of UNITE, arguing that the land along Harbor Boulevard where the new project would be located –immediately south of the Sheraton Hotel – would be better used for hous ing, and that such a large development as the resort could have a negative im
THE GARDEN BROOK SENIOR VILLAGE in the background at Garden Grove Boulevard near Brookhurst Street – long derided as the “Rusty Skeleton” – is near ly completed while – (in the foreground) – construction continues for the second phase of the Brookhurst Place mixed-use development. At the northeast corner of the intersection, a five-story mixed use building has been approved by city plan ners (Orange County Tribune photos),
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“Illegal fireworks are ex tremely dangerous and unpredictable, said Con cialdi. “Since they are not regulated, once lit, the handler does not know when the illegal explosive
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A contract for design and construction support ser vices for the renovation of Norm Ross Sports Park was approved by the Stan ton City Council on a 5-0 vote on Tuesday night. The contract was awarded to PBK for an amount not to exceed $640,000. Fund ing comes from $7.9 mil lion in parks grant money the city received from the State of California.
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Garden Grove City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance for the Nickeloden Hotel resort project on Harbor Boulevard.
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The park is located west of Beach Boulevard and south of KatellaUpgradesAvenue.could include a com munity building, water play area, playground, skate park, picnic area basketball court, dog park and outdoor exercise equip ment.
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forOrangecountytribune.comlatestnewseveryday pact on the community. While the hotel workers repre sents employees at some Ana heim hotels, they’ve had no success in organizing at those in Garden Grove. Their objections Tuesday night didn’t move any members of the council.Praising the transition of Har bor toward a hotel resort district, Councilmember George Brieti gam (District 1) said, “The city has received a lot of benefits from [hotels]” and added “It fits the area and it fits the long-term goals for the Councilmembercommunity.”PhatBui (Dis trict 4) said the last steps toward development of the project was “the light at the end of the tun nel.” The “final” final step would come on Sept. 13 when the coun cil considers second reading and final adoption of the ordinance. is going to detonate.” No criminal charges will be pressed in connection with this incident, by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office which was sum moned to investigate the explo sion.
Suspect sought in attempted murder
The news was almost all good on the coronavirus front for Orange County in Tuesday’sAccordingreport.tothe county health care agency, the lat est tally of confirmed new cases – over four days –was 1,950, which averaged to 487.5 (rounded to 488) perThat’sday.down from Friday’s 692 and 654 a week ago. Deaths were at 27 (the same as Friday), while hos pitalizations declined from 271 from 259. The number of people being treated for COVID-19 in intensive care units fell from 44 to 35.
A 28-year-old Victorville man is in stable condition at a local hospital after being shot after a family party early Sunday morn ing in Garden Grove. According to Sgt. Nick Jensen of the GGPD, the incident took place in the 10000 block of Crosby Avenue. At 12:42 a.m., officers were sent to that loca tion in response to a report of a familyDuringfight.the party, several peo ple there got into an argument, followed by a physical fight in the street in front of the home. During the fight, a man shot the victim in the abdomen, then fled in a white “import” sedan. The victim was taken to an area hospital where he underwent surgery.Police describe the suspect as a 20-year-old Hispanic male. He is wanted for attempted murder. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call Detec tive Dustin Staal at (714) 7415227.
WORKERS MAKE PROGRESS IN completing new playground equipment in Garden Grove Park. The theme of the project is airplanes and space flight. Before becoming a park in rhe mid-50s, it was a small landing field for the U.S. Navy and later a commerical airport (Orange County Tribune photo)
GG Elks plan annual BBQ Our Towns
The statistically typical home in Garden Grove – if it were a person – would soon qualify for a senior citizen’s discount. According to a study complied by Inspection Support Network from U.S. Census Bureau Data, the median residential home in Garden Grove is 56 years old. Additionally, relatively few housing units – just 184 units – have been built in the last Study indicates many GG homes are getting a bit old six years. That’s 0.4 percent of housing stock. That compares to a national average of 42 years old and 3.5 percent of housing stock built sinceOther2014.Orange County cities noted in the survey are Irvine (22 years old). The study notes that older hous
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A 42-year-old man walking along the street in Huntington Beach was fatally injured when struck by a car Sunday night. According to Jessica Cuchilla, public information officer for the HBPD, the incident took place after 10:30 p.m. on Beach Boulevard, south of Ellis Av enue. Arriving officers found the pe destrian in the roadway in criti cal condition. He was taken to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The driver of the vehicle – a black 2008 Toyota Camry – re mained at the scene and cooper ated with officers. Impairment of the driver, a resident of Hemet, doesn’t appear to be a factor. Police believe the Camry was traveling northbound on Beach and struck the pedestrian south of Ellis Avenue. The pedestrian was not in a crosswalk. The investigation is ongoing. Anyone who may have wit nessed the collision or events leading up to it are asked to con tact HBPD Traffic Investigator J. Rounds at (714) 536-5670.
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For those of you who like to plan ahead, the Garden Grove Elks Lodge # 1952 will be holding its 64th Annual Labor Day Family Fun Festival on Monday, Sept. 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event, which takes place at 11551 Trask Ave. (at Newland Street) will feature a breakfast, barbecue, games and entertain ment. Its a membership drive, so it’s open to the public.
College honors Baylor University (Waco, Texas)•Alexis Serrano of Garden Grove was named to the dean’s
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• Shannon Villanueva has been named principal at Schroeder College and Career Academy.
• Michelle Watkins has been named interim principal at Se quoia Academy GATE Magnet Elementary School for the start of the 2022-2023 school year. A permanent principal will be selected in coming months.
• Sarah Rendon has been named principal at Schmitt Elementary School at the start of the 2022-2023 school year
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SANTA ANA (AP) – A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty in an Orange County court on Friday to charges that he killed one person and wounded five in a shooting at a Taiwanese American church Davidmeeting.Chou, 68, was ordered held without bail by Orange County Superior Court Judge Cynthia M. Herrera.
Chou is charged with murder with an enhancement for a hate crime in the killing of a 52-year-old doctor who sought to stop the attack on a May lunch gathering of largely older members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church. He is also charged with five counts of attempted murder.
Authorities have said Chou was motivated to attack the gathering of churchgoers in Laguna Woods by hatred of Taiwan stemming from the years he lived there as a boy after his family was forced from mainland China when Communists took control.
NO, IT’S NOT A LAND SHARK
Sharks, grizzlies, giant snakes and rampaging apes have tradi tionally been the go-to choices for animal-kingdom antagonists in survival thrillers. Lions not so much. Maybe the king of the jungle has always been too regal, too majestic – too heroic – to be lowered to the status of mere summer-movie marauder. But the circle of life also per tains to movies, and it was prob ably inevitable that the lion’s time would come. That’s, at least, the nature of “Beast,’’ a surprisingly agile and nifty Bmovie graced by Idris Elba’s formidable presence, fluid cam erawork and tolerable levels of implausibility.It’samoviewell engineered as a late-summer diversion – a big cat movie for the dog days of August – that Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur (“Adrift,” “Everest”) insures stays well within the paths of man-againstnature films before it. But while the lion is CGI, the South African location is genu ine, and Kormakur and cinema tographer Philippe Rousselot’s long, well-choreographed takes give “Beast’’ an immersive quality well beyond the genre’s usual slapdash cutting. But how do you make a lion a
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A lion with vengeance on his mind is the menace in the new horror-thriller “Beast”
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The lion’s ferocity is easy to empathize with, ever to root for. Having had his family taken from him, he’s like the Liam Neeson of lions. This is what Nate Samuels (Elba) and his two daughters, Meredith (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Jeffries), walk into. They’ve just arrived in South Africa, a trip that Nate hopes will be a healing one for theThey’refamily. still reeling from the death of Nate’s wife from can cer, a loss that Mere and Norah partly blame on Nate, a doctor. The pair had also separated a year before her death, adding to the family friction. But what’s better at ailing abandonment issues than a man-hunting lion? After reunit ing with an old friend, Martin (Sharlto Copley), a vehemently anti-poacher wildlife biologist, the four set out in a jeep to ex plore the savanna. It doesn’t take long before they stumble across the lion’s victims and find themselves fending off his attacks from the vehicle. When Martin radios that the lion is staring right at him, one of the daughters gamely asks, “Is that a little, um, unnatural?” There’s the backdrop of animal treatment, but “Beast’’ is mostly unburdened by larger meaning.
diabolical hunter? “Beast,” writ ten by Ryan Engle, opens with poachers mowing down a pride of lions. But one – a big one –escapes, and has a preternatural taste for avenging the killings and protecting its territory.
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• Linemen -- Bryan Bresee, ju nior, Clemson; Jalen Carter, ju nior, Georgia.
• Cornerbacks -- Kelee Ringo, sophomore, Georgia; Eli Ricks, junior, Alabama.
• All-purpose player -- Deuce Vaughn, junior, Kansas State.
Alabama stars Bryce Young and Will Anderson Jr. are among four players from the top-ranked Crimson Tide selected to The Associated Press preseason AllAmericaJoiningteam.Young, the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, and Anderson, the star pass rusher, were Alabama defen sive backs Jordan Battle and Eli Ricks as first-team selections. The AP preseason All-Ameri ca team presented by Regions Bank was selected by a panel of Top 25 poll voters and released Monday. Alabama running back Jahmyr Gibbs made the second team as an all-purpose player and Crim son Tide guard Emil Ekiyor was also a second-team selection. Alabama’s four first-teamers and six players on the two teams overall were the most for any school.Ohio State was second behind Alabama, just like in the AP Top 25, with three first-team selections and five players overall. Offensive tackle Paris John son Jr., running back TreV eyon Henderson and receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba were all selected to the first team. C.J. Stroud, who finished fourth in the Heisman voting last year, is the second-team quarterback. Tackle Dawand Jones made the second-team offensive line. Defending national champion and No. 3 Georgia had three players picked to the first-team: tight end Brock Bowers, de fensive tackle Jalen Carter and cornerback Kelee Ringo. Nolan Smith made the second-team at edge rusher. In a sign of college football’s new era of loosened transfer rules, seven players selected to the two teams have transferred in their college careers, includ ing Gibbs (Georgia Tech) and Ricks (LSU) from Alabama.
• Running backs -- Bijan Rob inson, junior, Texas; TreVeyon Henderson, sophomore, Ohio State.
• Defensive back -- Riley Moss, senior, Iowa.
• Tight end -- Brock Bowers, sophomore, Georgia.
For most of its brisk 93-minute running time, the Samuels tussle with the animal in a game of (big) cat and mouse. The shark in “Jaws” put an entire commu nity under the microscope, but the scope of “Beast” is narrow ly fixed on Nate and his girls.
• Tackles -- Peter Skoronski, ju nior, Northwestern; Paris John son Jr., junior, Ohio State.
• Guards -- Andrew Vorhees, sixth-year, Southern Califor nia; Caleb Chandler, sixth-year, Louisville.
• Linebackers -- Will Ander son Jr., junior, Alabama; Noah Sewell, junior, Oregon; Jack Campbell, senior, Iowa.
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“Beast,” a Universal Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for violent content, bloody im This “Beast” has a mission of vengeance
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There isn’t any beast within here, just a beast. But with lively supporting performances from Halley and Jeffries and a commanding one from Elba, they make a realistic, often bickering family. Elba’s commitment to the film gives it more psychological weight than it might deserve. Nothing will surprise you in how “Beasts” unfolds except for how engross ing it manages to be.
• Quarterback -- Bryce Young, junior, Alabama
• Center -- Jarrett Patterson, se nior, Notre Dame.
• Wide receivers -- Jordan Ad dison, junior, Southern Califor nia; Jaxon Smith-Njigba, junior, Ohio State; Kayshon Boutte, junior, LSU.
• Kicker -- Jake Moody, senior, Michigan. Defense • Edge rushers -- Will McDon ald IV, senior, Iowa State; Isaiah Foskey, senior, Notre Dame.
• Punter -- Adam Korsak, senior, Rutgers.
Alabamans lead pre-season football all-stars
• Safeties -- Jordan Battle, junior, Alabama; Antonio Johnson, junior, Texas A&M.
Transfers joining Gibbs on the second-team were Florida guard O’Cyrus Torrence (LouisianaLafayette); Baylor defensive tackle Siaki Ika (LSU); Notre Dame safety Brandon Joseph (Northwestern); and Florida State defensive back Jammie Robinson (South Carolina).
By Ralph D. Russo AP College Football Writer
Southern California receiver Jordan Addison, the Biletnikoff Award winner at Pitt in 2021, was a first-team selection.
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• Division 1: Huntington Beach • Division 5: Los Amigos, Ocean View • Division 6: Garden Grove.
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Continued from page 8 Week One Christian (2-0) of Temecula. Coaches, parents, fans, athletic directors, etc. are encouraged to submit rosters (up to date, please!), results, stats, photos, story ideas to us at orange countytribune.com. If you don’t contribute, you can’t complain about a lack of coverage. The CIF-SS preseason boys’ water polo “watch list” is out and four local teams are listed.
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Moreno: The Angels may be put up for sale
Boys’ watchpololist a possible sale of the team.” Moreno has owned the Angels since he bought the team from Walt Disney Co. in 2003 for $184 million. Initially the team prospered, winning six division titles, but the Halos have been missing from the playoffs since 2014 and haven’t posted a winning record since 2015.
“It has been a great honor and privilege to own the Angels for 20 seasons,” Moreno said in a statement.“Asanorganization, we have worked to provide our fans an affordable and family-friendly ballpark experience while field ing competitive lineups, which included some of the game’s greatest players.” Despite the grim record of the past seven seasons, the Angels have kept a strong fan base. They’ve had 3 million fans each season until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. Even now, they’re averaging almost 31,000 fans per home game in a decaying stadium in Anaheim that’s the fourth-oldest in Major League baseball. Only Fenway Park in Boston, Wrigley Field in Chicago and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles areTheolder.search for a replacement for the “Big A” led to a contro versial proposed deal in which the Angels would buy the sta dium from the City of Anaheim and develop the land around it. A corruption scandal tied to the mayor killed that plan.
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Dodgers win, Angels lose one more time ing may have attractive period charm and larger yards but also require more upkeep and have problems with plumbing, elec trical and heating and air condi tioning systems, repairs that can be expensive.
The increasingly notorious bull pen was tagged for six hits (in cluding a home run), four walks and eight runs. The Dodgers started fast, build ing a 9-0 lead after four innings. Freddie Freeman led the attack with three hits and four RBIs. Trayce Thompson kept pace with four runs batted in, includ ing a three-run home run in the second.Allthat support made the night a breeze for Tony Gonsolin (161), who worked five brisk in nings, giving up three hits and one run. He struck out three and walked two.
By David Arthur Orange County Tribune
Mike Trout hit his 25th home run of the season Tuesday night, but he’s the only Los Angeles Angel going very far this year. The Halos absorbed an embar rassing 11-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays to post their fourth consecutive defeat, and sixth in seven games. The Los Angeles Dodgers, on the other hand, continued to flex their muscles as the best team in Major League Baseball, beating the Milwaukee Brewers 10-1 at home. As for the Blue Crew, it was their fourth win in five games and a MLB-leading 85th triumph.InFlorida, the game was close through six innings, with the Rays nursing a 2-1 lead. But they broke through with six runs in the seventh and two runs
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• Bolsa Grande (1-0) at Bishop Montgomery (1-0) of Torrance • Santiago (0-0) at Santa Ana Valley (1-0) • Magnolia (1-0) at University (1-0)•La Quinta (0-0) at Westmin ster (0-0) • Los Amigos (0-0) at Ocean View (0-1)
• Rancho Alamitos (0-0) at La Sierra (1-0) of Riverside • Edison (1-0) at Leuzinger (00) of Lawndale • Villa Park (0-1) at Orange (1-0). Saturday • Pacifica (0-1) at Linfield
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Angels may be put up for sale in the eighth to turn the game into a rout.
• Loara (0-2) at Estancia (0-0)
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Thursday • Newport Harbor (1-0) at Ma rina (0-0) at Bill Boswell Field at Westminster High.
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The Los Angeles Angels have lost 70 games so far this sea son. Now it looks like the team and franchise may be losing an owner.Inastatement released on Tues day, it was announced that own er Arte Moreno was pursuing “strategic alternatives including It may seem a little odd that the second week of the local 2022 high school season is called Week One, but that’s because some teams got a jump on the season last week with what’s called Week Zero. Now, all of the teams present ing the communities of Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Stan ton and Western will have been in action by this week. The schedule appears below, but please note that the dates, locations, time, opponents and other details are subject to change without notice. All games are scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.There are a lot of interesting games this Week One but one of them relates to a mythical city championship.OnFriday,inthe season opener for both teams, La Quinta will visit Westminster for the “City of Westminster” title. Last fall, the Lions defeated the Aztecs 48-7. Here are the matchups:
Jesse Frietas (11) of Orange High still has the ball as Pacifica High defenders come back.
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Week One Brings Out the Rest
• Huntington Beach (1-0) vs. Summit High of Fontana (1-0) at home. Friday • Garden Grove (0-0) at Arte sia (0-0) • Western (1-0) at St. Margaret (0-1) of San Juan Capistrano
Trout connects, but Halos can’t; Dodgers hammer the Brewers
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