Marge Spess Stegemeier
The Peralta Hills Estates Improvement Association would like to express their deepest sympathy and condolences to Dick Stegemeier and his family. Marjorie Spess Stegemeier died peacefully on Wednesday the 16th of February at her home in Anaheim, California. Daughter of James and Lily Spess, Marge was born on Sept. 15th, 1933 in Mannford, Oklahoma. She grew up with her sisters, Ruth , Rebecca (deceased), Ramona and Emma. Following graduation from high school in Tulsa, she married Richard J. Stegemeier of Wood River, Illinois in 1952. In the following years Marge and Dick were blessed with four children, Rick Stegemeier, Dave Stegemeier, Laura Whited and Martha Tesh. She is also survived by nine grandchildren. Marge enjoyed life throughout the world, establishing loving homes for her family in California, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Faithful to the virtues of an Oklahoma farm girl, she treated all with kindness, generosity, a warm smile and a quick wit. While raising a family, Marge also devoted her life in support of her children and devoted husband, she will forever be our first lady. A Rosary Service in Marge’s memory was held at the McAulay & Wallace Mortuary in Yorba Linda on Feb. 25th. The Requiem Mass was held at the San Antonio de Padua Church in Anaheim on Feb 26th, followed by interment at the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange. Memorial gifts can be made to the Littlest Angel Guild of Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), where Marge served as a volunteer, or the St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, which provided outstanding care during her lengthy illness.
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bed of mushroom risotto. Chicken stuffed with artichoke and sun dried tomato is accompanied by a delicate fig gastrique – a surprising combination of flavors and incredibly good. Other entrées include short ribs over polenta. Entrees are reasonably priced and extras like dinner salad are definitely worth it. For 5 dollars— you get an individually made salad created with exquisite care. The house dressing – raspberry vinaigrette – might be best salad dressing I ever experienced with none of the chemically induced commercial sweetness so often found in raspberry vinaigrettes. The care given to the most mundane salad is evident in all the entrees. You don’t get the feeling any item was made en masse earlier just waiting to be reheated. Desserts are another area where the restaurant shines. Just when experience had taught me that red-velvet cake is much over-hyped and nothing more than dry chocolate cake with red food coloring – Chef Adam served the real thing—presented as an oversized cupcake, it is truly unique, moist—served warm, with notes of chocolate – but better. Served with homemade cream cheese, it looks too good to be true, as if it had jumped off the cover of Bon Appetit. The restaurant also features other desserts like Madagascar Vanilla Bean Crème Brulee and Ricotta Chocolate Cannoli – all are approximately $2.50 to $3.00, and served generously. The gourmet cuisine, reasonable prices, and casual coffee-house atmosphere might be the reason that there are often solo diners eating here. If feels like an undiscovered little find. The restaurant has applied for its liquor license. Bringing your own bottle is discouraged at this time. But with food this good—you kinda forget about the wine.
A Weighty Matter of Success by Francisca K. Klos
5…4…3…2…1…the clock was ticking and a successful solution to their Instant Challenge lay between “The Team that Forgot to be Named” and the State Championship of Destination ImagiNation’s Challenge E, “Verses! Foiled Again!” Could they succeed? Earlier the structure they had engineered using only wood, foil, and glue had stood strong. Weighing just 17.6 grams, it had supported 710 pounds of weights. The skit they had written and their props had been well received. Now all they had to do was impress the judges with their teamwork, ingenuity, and creativity and solve the task at hand. Five minutes later they felt they had succeeded, but they would not find out for yet another hour. Later that night Matthew Carter, William Klos, Zachary Klos, Jesse Johnson, Jonathan Johnson, and Zachary Mips celebrated. “The Team That Forgot to be Named,” had been named. They were declared the State of California’s Left to Right: Matthew Carter, William Klos, First Place Team for Challenge E, at the Middle School Level. This distinction has Jonathan Johnson, Jesse Johnson, earned them the honor of representing California at Destination ImagiNation’s Global Zachary Mips, and Zachary Klos Finals, where the best of best teams from across the U.S. and around the world, will come to compete in Knoxville, Tennessee, May 24th-27th. Destination ImagiNation is a non-profit organization that promotes creativity, ingenuity, teamwork, and problem solving, with a course of academic challenges for students in Kindergarten through the University level. The teams take months independently developing solutions for the challenge they chose on their own. Solutions are presented and Instant Challenges are solved at Regional Tournaments, with the top two teams in each challenge and region progressing on to the State Tournament. After that the best teams go on to compete at the Global Finals. The team members attend, Nohl Canyon Elementary, Cerro Villa Middle School and El Rancho Middle School in the Orange Unified School District. They are seeking support in their endeavor to raise funds to get to Tennessee. If you would like to help, please contact their Team Manager, Francisca Klos, at angelklos@sbcglobal.net, 714.349.9922 or 714.998.1290. Two of the team members, Zachary and William Klos, are residents of Peralta Hills. Any help provided for the team will be greatly appreciated. For more information on Destination ImagiNation please visit www.idodi.com.