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Restricted by the warehouse lease to food collection and dis- tribution, Suess stresses that it will NOT be the familiar walk-up services the homeless had come to appreciate -- and rely on -- for close to three decades on Struck Avenue. “That door has closed for the time being,” Suess says. "No walk-ups. We can’t have them [homeless patrons] at our industrial site.” Hugs and handshakes That last sentence appeared visibly painful for the matri- arch, who revealed that the most personal perk of her reign over Mary’s Kitchen has been the one-on-one relationships she de- veloped with her homeless pa- trons. “Even more difficult for me than saying goodbye to so many who came around to give me a last hug, are the ones who pressed their phone numbers into Save the date for GOCAT In keeping with its mission to create a state-of-the-art perfor- mance and visual arts complex in Grijalva Park for all ages, the Greater Orange Community Arts Theater Foundation (GOCAT) will hold the GOCAT Gala on Friday, Oct. 28 at the Doubletree Hilton. For sponsorship and ticket info, see GOCAT4ALL.org. In addition to a new 30-m. pool, El Modena High's aquatics facility includes a new scoreboard, timing system, restrooms, lockers and training rooms, and a state-of-the-art filtration and temperature control system that keeps the water sparkling clean at 84 degrees. The Aug. 2 ceremonial ribbon cutting for El Modena's new aquatics facility featured, from left, OUSD Deputy Supt. Dave Rivera, El Modena Principal Sandra Preciado, OUSD Trustees Angie Rumsey, Rick Ledesma, Ana Page, OUSD Supt. Gunn Marie Hansen, and OUSD Asst. Supt. Cathleen Corella. Orange Chamber to host Candidates’ Forum The Orange Chamber of Com- merce’s 2022 City Council and Mayoral Candidates’ Forum will be held at Santiago Canyon Col- lege on Thursday, Sept. 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. The SCC campus is located at 8045 E. Chapman Ave. The in-person forum will be moderated by Gaddi Vasquez, 8th United States Ambassador to the United Nations in Rome. The public will hear from city coun- cil and mayoral candidates seek- ing to serve the City of Orange. Vasquez will ask questions on topics impacting the city. Chamber Executive Director ElizabethHollomanurges Orange residents and business owners to save the date for this event that may help shape their choices in the Nov. 8 election. For more information, contact the Orange Chamber at (714) 538-3581 or email Elizabeth@ OrangeChamber.com. my hand and said, ‘you’ll find us Gloria, I know.’ They couldn’t accept that Mary’s gates could be closed to them. And I don’t blame them. It was a place, maybe the only place, they felt accepted.” At least the trucks of Mary’s Kitchen will roll again. A num- ber of congregational and com- munity sites have committed to partnering with Gloria to serve foodstuffs, beginning in October. For now, that’s as much as Mary’s Kitchen can commit to. But Suess says she is open to other options. “We are even open to partner- ing with someone who could run a shelter, and we could run the kitchen part of it. We know there are many church groups and com- munity nonprofits that acknowl- edge the need, but don’t have the distribution or refrigeration to build on. We have that.” What these partners do have, and share with Mary’s Kitchen, Suess says, is “a mission of out- reach to the homeless and the hungry … for all the right rea- sons. And that’s good enough for right now.” John Underwood is a longtime OC journalist who has written for numerous publications and is an award-winning documentary producer. Los Angeles Dodger and El Modena High School graduate Freddie Freeman is donating $500,000 to OUSD to build a clubhouse and batting cages at his alma mater. The 1,400-sq.-ft. modular structure will include a coach’s office, storage area, team meeting room and lockers. The plans first go to the State Archi- tect for approval, before the proj- ect starts. The district will pay for site work, walkways, fencing, drinking fountains and furnish- ings. The total cost is $1.1 mil- lion; unspent contingency funds from the aquatics facility will make up the difference. "Mary's Kitchen" continued from page 1 Photos by Tony Richards