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Intruder takes package, barges in home DONALD MAYBERRY Burglary suspect
A bold intruder who walked into a home in Garden Grove after allegedly stealing a package from the front porch was arrested Saturday afternoon. According to Sgt. Mark Lord of the GGPD, the incident occurred in the 12600
block of Fieldstone Lane shortly around 12:45 p.m. The owner of a residence was watching through a “Ring” surveillance camera and saw a man taking a package from in front of the home. The suspect then returned a few minutes lat-
er, according to police, and went into the house where he saw a woman lying on her bed. The suspect tried to convince her to take a shower, which she refused. Her mother came home and found the suspect in her
daughter’s bedroom; he claimed to be from Amazon and was talking to her. Fleeing on foot, the suspect was located an hour later after a report of a man jumping into a backyard at 6592 Chapman Ave. He was detained a short dis-
tance away and was identified as the man wanted in the burglary on Fieldstone. Arrested was Donald Mayberry, 39, a transient on parole from the Los Angeles area. He was booked into Orange County Jail on a residential burglary charge.
MEASURE O APPROVED BY VOTERS
1-cent sales tax hike for Garden Grove is winning Voters in Garden Grove voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to impose a 1-cent sales tax – Measure O –in response to pleas from some community leaders that the city faced a financial crisis. As of 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the Orange County Registrar of Voters reported that 18,962 voters (63.4 percent) had voted yes, while 10,956 (36.6 percent) were opposed. The measure required a simple majority to be approved. The city won’t be receiving any revenue until April, however. Measure O was placed on the ballot by the city council as financial projections showed that a change in the state employees pension fund is requiring that all cities pay a significantly larger share. Garden Grove isn’t the only city pursuing a sales tax solution to the “structural deficit” caused in part by pension costs. Voters in
Placentia, Santa Ana and Seal Beach approved similar measures, and “hotel taxes” were raised in San Clemente and Tustin. In nearby Anaheim, a proposal to raise the minimum wage paid to workers at hotels subsidized by the city to $15 (and to $18 later) was ahead by the margin of 29,151 to 27,497. Here are the results of city elections in the area as on Monday night. Incumbents are marked with an *. Not all candidates may be listed. Garden Grove • Mayor: Steve Jones* 24,123; Donald Taylor 4,399. • City Council District 1: George Brietigam 2,178; Gerry Serrano 1,668; Adam Degner 1,231. • City Council District 3: Thu-Ha Nguyen* 2,893; Duy Nguyen 1,205. • City Council District 4: Phat Bui* 1,972; Mark Anthony Paredes 1,566; Joe Continued next page
H. Beach may leave the public cable TV authority The Huntington Beach City Council voted Monday night to consider getting out of the Public Cable Television Authority. Slowly. Or maybe not at all. The council voted 7-0 in favor of a resolution setting the stage for a possible withdrawal from the PCTA – composed currently of the
n HUNT. BEACH CITY COUNCIL cities of Fountain Valley, Stanton and Westminster, as well as Huntington Beach – and direct the city manager to return with a plan to make the break and then transition Continued next page
LONGTIME Orange County Congressman (R-48) was defeated in his bid for another term by Democratic challenger Harley Rouda is in the Nov. 6 election. He represemts Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa and parts of other cities.
After 30 years, Rohrabacher is out The long reign of conservative firebrand Dana Rohrabacher as a Congressman representing westcoastal Orange County is coming to an end. As of Monday night – according to the Orange County Registrar of Voters – the Republican incumbent was trailing Democratic challenger Harley Rouda by
over 10,000 votes in the 48th District race. Rouda, a former Republican who finished first in a crowded Democratic primary this year, is polling with 113,276 (52.2 percent) votes to Rohrabacher’s 103,8-4 (47.8). However, those numbers are not official or final: there are over 300,000 votes still
School incumbents are winning ... mostly
Voters in the Garden Grove-Huntington BeachStanton-Westminster area went to polls to on Nov. 6 to pick the leaders for their public schools systems, and mostly they re-elected incumbents. In at least one case, though, an office-holder appeared to be losing, as the vote count continues. As of 10 a.m., the Orange County Registrar of Voters reported that over 300,000 ballots remained to be counted countywide. Here are local results as of 10 a.m. For the latest numbers, go to www.ocvote.com throughout the
day. Incumbents are marked with a *). Garden Grove Unified School District • District 4: Bob Harden* 5,303, Katelyn Brazer 2,990, George Reis 930. Huntington Beach Union High School DisContinued next page
HARLEY ROUDA Democrat wins upset.
to tally countywide. A journalist and later a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, Rohrabacher was first elected to Congress in 1988 in what was then the 42nd District. He won his re-election campaigns with ease, but in 2016 his district went for Democrat Hillary Clinton, Continued next page
Contract for new stadium at Bolsa Grande approved By Jim Tortolano Renovation and replacement of the stadium at Bolsa Grande High School was cleared for kickoff Tuesday night by the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education. The board voted 5-0 to approve a contract worth $11,011,369 to G.B. Construction to remove and rebuild the facility on the BGHS campus, a stadium half a century old. After the Nov. 14 Showcase of the Bands event,
the work should commence. The final product for the 5,000-seat stadium is expected to be ready for the start of the football season in the late summer of 2019. The complex will include new seating, lighting, drainage, field, track, scoreboard fencing and ADA access for the disabled. It will be similar to Monsoor Stadium at Garden Grove High, opened in 2017. The stadium is home field for Bolsa Grande, La Quinta, Pacifica and Rancho Alamitos high schools.
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