The final batting order and list of qualified candi dates for four seats on the Huntington Beach City Council has been deter mined for the Nov. 8 gen eral election. This year, the filing pe riod was extended until Wednesday because one eligible incumbent – Kim Carr – didn’t file for reelection. All 18 qualified candi dates’ names were or dered on the ballot on a random draw. Here’s the list (and the candidates’ ballot designation) as GGPD looks into possible youth football “fraud”
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An investigation into possible fraud by a local youth sports organization is underway by the Gar den Grove Police Depart ment.According to Lt. Brian Dalton of the GGPD, complaints have been received about the Gar den Grove Bulldogs Pop Warner League program based at Garden Grove Park.Police say that the 2022 season has been cancelled because its league had fallen out of compliance with the Orange Empire Conference, the govern ing body, as well as losing
Gasoline Prices Are Sliding in OC Area Printed in Garden Grove, California n orangecountytribune.com n Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022 n orangecountytribune@gmail.com Continued on page 3 Weather Forecast Saturday: 82/68 partly cloudy Sunday: 82/68 partly cloudy Monday: 84/65 partly cloudy Tuesday: 87/69 sunny 82 / 68WEEKEND EDITION HHH Mixed results in COVID-19 report For breaking news and sports all week long, go to www.orangecountytribune.com Average price in the county now at 5.23 per gallon Continued on page 2 FUEL PRICES ARE FALLING IN THE OC A gallon of regualr is $4.99 at this Union 76 at Lamp son and Beach in Stanton (Tribune photo) Continued on page 2 Final batting order for big HB city council field OrangeInside over M’s in Week Zero PAGE 6 Are gasoline prices in West Orange County dropping enough to put ting a smile on your face and more unleaded regular in your Ford or Nissan? Fuel prices are indeed coming down across the nation state and county. Of course, how much you pay depends on a variety of factors, including whether you pay cash, or use the company’s credit card or a differentAccordingone. to data col lected by Gas denangeperregular(andcom),(orangecountygasprices.Buddyherearethelowesthighest)pricesforagradeofgasolinegallonintheWestOrCountyareaofGarGrove,Huntington Beach, Stanton and West minster on Thursday. First, the lowest: • $4.69: Costco in Bella Terra (Center Ave.) in Huntington Beach. • $4.69: ARCO station on Beach Boulevard in Hun tington Beach. The highest noted on Thursday in the area: • $6.50: G&M at Beach and Westminster Boule
Two categories of statis tics on the status of the coronavirus in Orange County showed improve ment in Friday’s report, and two showed the op posite.Thereport covers Aug. 16 to According18. to that report, hospitalizations dropped from 291 to 271 and the use of intensive care units to treat COVID-19 pa tients declined from 44 to 36.However, deaths rose from 15 to 29 and con firmed new cases were at 2,076, which averages to 692 per day, an increase from Tuesday’s average of 654. A week ago the average was 769. In Orange County to date there have been 653,562 confirmed cases, of which 626,094 are considered recovered. Deaths are at 7,303.Nationally, new cases are down 19 percent and deaths by 3 percent – over a 14-day period – reports The New York Times. In California, new cases have declined 37 percent and deaths by 11 percent, according to Los Angeles Times, over a similar time period.
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• $5.78: Union 76 at Edinger and Bolsa Chica in Huntington Beach.Forcomparison, two months ago in West OC, the lowest price was $5.79 at a Costco in Hun tington Beach and the highest was $6.79 at the Mobil station at Beach and Edinger in Hunting ton
• Amory Hanson (historic resources boardman)
2 SATURDAY, AUG 20, 2022/ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE JIm Tortolano Editor and Publisher Marilyn Lewis Tortolano General Manager The Orange County Tribune is published on Wednesdays and Saturdays with some exceptions. Address is 9402 Luders Ave., Garden Grove, 92844. E-mail is orangecountytribune@gmail. com.Our website is www.orangecountytri bune.com.Phone:(714) 458-1860. Established Aug. 6, 2016. All opinions ex pressed in The Tribune, unless otherwise stated, are those of the individual writer or artist and not necessarily those of The Tribune.Amember of The Associated Press , the Online News Association and the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce. The best in local news for West OC TheTRIBUNECountyOrange Continued from page 1 Big field for HB council Continued from page 1 Gasoline costs fall in the OC posted by the city clerk’s office. • Kenneth Inouye (retired CPA) • Bobby Britton (entrepreneur) • Pat Burns (retired police officer) • Brian Burley (Huntington Beach business owner) • Oscar D. Rodriguez (asset manager/commissioner •
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ThisBeach.week, in all of Orange County the best price was $4.65 at the Costco in Cypress (Ka tella Avenue near Walker Street) and Fuel Up! at Chapman Av enue and Raymond Avenue in Fullerton (also $4.65). The highest for all of OC is that G&M noted above in West minster ($6.50), followed by a Chevron station in San Juan Capistrano at $6.29. According to the Auto Club of Southern California, the aver age price of a gallon of unleaded regular in Orange County is $5.23.
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Robert V. Reider (senior business consultant) Gracey Van Der Mark (business owner) Mike Volger (attorney) David Clifford (transportation executive/business owner)
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Gina Clayton-Tarvin (board member, Ocean View School Dis trict) William “Billy” O’Connell (non-profit CEO/director)
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Continued on from page 1 its non-profit status. GGPD have been told the league re fused to return fees, birth certificates and other items which were required at the time of sign-up. The GGPD, according to Lt. Dalton, is conducting an investigation into
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The awarding of a contract for design and construction support services for renovation of Norm Ross Sports Park goes before the Stanton City Council when it meets on Tuesday. Such a contract would be awarded to PBK for an amount not to exceed $640,000. The city has received $7.9 million in parks grant money from the State of California for the overall proj ect.It would be a major upgrade of the existing park, located on property ad jacent to Carver Elementary School, owned by the Garden Grove Unified SchoolUnderDistrict.thegrant proposal to the state, the renovations could include: • a community building
Contract for Norm Ross Park design considered
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Investigation into possible football fraud
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• playground • skate park • Little League field with an under-12 soccer field
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• perimeter walkway • picnic area • dog park • basketball court • exercise equipment. The city council will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the city hall, 7800 Katella Ave. The park is located west of Beach Boule vard and south of Katella Avenue.
For those of us who have watched the long, involved drama on whether the Westminster City Council would allow voters to decide whether to ex tend the 1 percent sales tax, it was difficult to know whether to feel pleased – or just exhausted – when it was all over. After months of back-and-forth and dire predictions of oceans of red ink and eventual bankruptcy, four of the five councilmemembers voted in favor on the final day for getting the issue on the Nov. 8 ballot. One councilmember abstained; three had abstained the day before. Aside from the merits of not letting Westmin ster sink into financial collapse, one thing that has stood out in this long and frustrating season of indecision has been the use of abstain ing as a way of dodging responsibility. As a general rule, members of a legislative body abstain when there is a financial conflict of interest. A councilmember or school trustee should abstain if their construction company – or one owned by a spouse or business partner – is bidding on a new public building, for example. But the shower of “abstain” votes in Westmin ster without a financial conflict is simply a way of avoiding making a public decision out of fear of the political ramifications. The irony of it is that most people understand “I abstain” to mean opposition, making people mad at you anyway. The website Lawinsider has this to say: “Abstain means to refrain from voting. Mem bers who abstain for reasons other than a declared conflict of interest shall be deemed to vote in op position of the question or matter.”
And here’s another thing … We hate to beat up on Westminster, but this is a city in need of a course correction. The Quang Tri Victory Founda tion – the group that’s seeking to locate a war memorial from the Vietnam War in a city park – a month ago filed a $100,000 law suit against the City of inWestminster.What’shead-shakingthecomplaintisthat part of the foundation’s whether fraud was committed during the course of signing up participants for the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Anyone who feels they were defraud ed by the Garden Grove Pop Warner League in connection with those events is encouraged to contact Detective Berenger at (714) 741-5813.
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So we suggest that any politician who plans to use “abstain” as an evasion of responsibility just not bother to run for office at all. It’s sort of like telling your boss you will “abstain” from coming to work for no reason at all. See how that ends up for you.
As the summer travel sea son wraps up, the Huntington Beach Police Department re minds drivers to be respon sible and never drive under the influence of alcohol and drugs. “Whether traveling locally or taking a longer road trip to see friends and family, please have a game plan for how to get home safely,” Sergeant Mike Thomas said. The Huntington Beach Po lice Department asks residents to take the necessary precau tions to protect yourself and your family by buckling up, avoiding distractions behind the wheel, following the speed limit, and not driving impaired.
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To help keep our community safe, the Huntington Beach Police Department will have additional officers on patrol from Aug. 17 through Labor Day (Sept. 5), looking for driv ers suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The additional efforts to prevent impaired driving are part of a national enforcement campaign.
So … if things don’t go your way, it’s all because of Com munism. Traffic accident? Communism. Bad head cold? Communism. This is the sort of nonsense that even Karl Marx would get a good laugh out of. We suspect the judge may have the same reaction.
Drive sober or else: HBPD
gripe against the city for tak ing an admittedly long time in making a decision on location is this remarkable statement: “These council members took a position in alignment with the Communist govern ment of Vietnam which was to prevent any recognition of the victory and sacrifice of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam over the Communist invaders.”
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Herbert had a nice completion to Keenan Allen in the back of the end zone but also threw an interception on the first play of a two-minute drill. Herbert said having to adjust on the fly against another de fense as well as seeing how the offensive line held up in pass protection was a bonus. “That’s a good front line that they have up there. To see those guys fly around up close and personal, I think it’s a great job for us to be able to learn and grow from that and continue to compete against those guys. So, it’s been good for us,’’ Herbert said.Prescott did have the highlight play to end Thursday’s prac tice with a Hail Mary to Den nis Houston, who got position over teammate Simi Fehoko and Chargers cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. to come up with the ball. “It was definitely good to end on that note, and just being in that situation, end of game, hav ing to go Hail Mary with the clock running,`` Prescott said. “The guys did a good job of pro tecting, giving me a lane, letting me buy some time.’’
By Joe Reedy AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA (AP) – Jus tin Herbert and Dak Prescott will be on the sidelines when the Los Angeles Chargers host the Dallas Cowboys in a pre season game on Saturday night. Both quarterbacks got plenty of snaps, though, the past two days during joint practices. Herbert and Prescott practiced on adjacent fields at the Jack Hammett Sports Complex, but both took part in a friendly round of target practice after the two-hour session ended. “I think they ended up winning, but it was fun to just see those guys and hang out with them a little bit,’’ Herbert said of the side competition between the two QB groups. “I’ve only met him a couple of times, but I re ally respect him as a player and as a competitor, as well.”
Dallas coach Mike McCarthy said early in camp that Prescott could play in the preseason fi nale Aug. 26 against Seattle. Chargers coach Brandon Staley, though, does not play the major ity of his starters in any of the three preseason games. For Herbert, the joint practices were the closest thing to a dress rehearsal that he is going to get before the Chargers’ regularseason opener against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sept. 11. “It means everything to us. Since we’re not playing in the preseason we need to take ad vantage of these reps, and we did,`` Herbert said. ``We felt like we really got after it the past couple of days. To go up against a team like that, I think it’s a great learning lesson for us as well, to see a team that flies around like that and a front sev en like they have.’’
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CeeDee Lamb missed both days of practice due to a foot injury, dealing another blow to a dimin ished Cowboys’ wide receiver group already missing Michael Gallup (ACL) and James Wash ington (foot). Prescott’s day featured a lot of handoffs to running backs Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard along with shortWhilepasses.Lamb is expected to return to practice next week, Gallup and Washington are expected to be sidelined when the Cowboys open the season against the Tampa Bay Bucca neers.Prescott said he isn’t get ting frustrated over having an inexperienced wide receiver group, but he is hoping to see them make strides the next two weeks.“Thisis exactly about that time to work and make other guys step up, take advantage of their opportunity,’’ he said. “Those guys got to know what I expect from them and how they expect me to throw the ball, so that’s all good things to be worked on.’’Chargers coach Brandon Stal ey was also pleased with the two practices and noted that the snaps provided more quality for the first units compared to a pre season game because different situations could be practiced. “You get more plays, and then the types of schemes that you’re playing against you’re seeing their premium scheme, where in the preseason no one is run ning their premium scheme,`` he“Thesesaid. practices are where it’s at. They may not get into the red zone in a preseason game, you may not have a two-minute situation that kind of expresses itself, so you’re able to control what happens.’’
Orange runs past Pacifica 42-7 in Week Zero debut
Friday night scores (all non-league) Orange 42, Pacifica 7 Godinez 15, Magnolia 13 Huntington Beach 20, Mayfair 13 Linfield Christian 41, Loara 7 Western 42, Chino 0 Bolsa Grande 53, Workman 6 Edison 48, Venice 13 Santa Ana Valley 34, Ocean View 16
Angels 1, Tigers 0
From a staff writer Both Los Angeles-Orange Coun ty area Major League Baseball teams posted one-run wins Friday night.
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The Panthers’ Premiere Was A Hit Angels, Dodgers each get one-run wins
The Los Angeles Angels got only three hits and one run in Detroit against the Tigers, but it was enough as Patrick Sandoval pitched a four-hit complete game gem.Sandoval (4-8) struck out nine batters and walked none.
All the excitement for the Los Angeles Dodgers took place late Friday as they scored once in the bottom of the seventh to tie their game with the Miami Marlins at home, and again in the bottom of theMookieeighth.Betts scored the winning run on a fielder’s choice.He had a great night at the plate with a sin gle, a double and a triple. In the seventh inning, it was Trayce Thompson’s double that drove in Jacob Stallings with the equalizer.TheDodgers (82-36) got a great pitching performance from Tyler Anderson, who worked seven in nings, yielding five hits and one run. He struck out six batters and walked three. Chris Martin (4-0) picked up the win in relief.
Jared Walsh supplied all the of fense the Halos needed when he cranked his 15th home run of the season in the top of the second in ning.With the win, the Halos (52-67) again moved to within one game of the third place Texas Rangers (53-66) in the American League West. Dodgers 2, Marlins 1
The first game of a high school football season seems to follow a script: missed tackles, fumbles, unforced errors and lots of pen alties.But at Fred Kelly Stadium, the Orange High Panthers had enough star power to defeat Pa cifica 42-7 in their premiere nonleague contest. Kobe Boykin ran for touch downs of 79 and 5 yards. Jona than Smith caught scoring passes of 40, 9 and 23 yards for the Pan thers.After exchanging punts, Orange jumped out to a first quarter 14-0 lead as Smith caught a 40-yard TD pass (along with a two-point conversion catch) and a 79-yard run by Boykin. The Mariners struck back when a receiver outjumped three Or ange defenders in the end zone for a 18-yard touchdown to close within 14-7. But the rest of the night belonged to the home team as it scored 28 unanswered points and started new Mariner coach Randy Fran zman’s season with a loss. However, that’s what pre-league games are for: to work out the kinks. Orange will take its 1-0 record next Friday against dis trict rival Villa Park, hosting the Spartans. Menwhile Pacifica (0-1) will travel to Temecula to play Lin field Christianm which is 1-0 after defeating Loara bythe score of 41-7.
KOBE BOYKIN (2) ran for two touchdowns as the Orange High Panthers opened the 2022 sea son with a 42-7 win Friday night over Pacifica (Orange County Tribune photos by Jim Tortolano). By Jim Tortolano Orange County Tribune
