Foothills Sentry - November 2022

Foothills Sentry Page 8 November 2022 Family. Friends. Community. We’re all in this together. State Farm, Bloomington, IL 1801073 Ron Esparza, Agent Insurance Lic#: 0C79663 827 S. Tustin Ave Orange, CA 92866 Bus: 714-505-3400 ron@ronesparza.com DENIS BILODEAU ORANGE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 4 Fully Fund our Police & Fire Departments Paid for by: Bilodeau for Orange City Council 2022 Address our Homeless Crisis on Tustin Street Paid for by Nicol Jones for VP City Council 2022 ID #1453090 TAWC announces Young Women of the Month The Tustin Area Woman’s Club honors a senior from area high schools every month. Honorees for October are Kyra Schwarzer from Foothill High School and Valerie Ontiveros from Tustin High School. Kyra Schwarzer has been in the Foothill Associated Student Body for four years, is an International Baccalaureate candidate, and has been a part of the FHS Mock Trial team for three years. Schwarzer volunteers through Tustin Assistance League and her church. She has been a Girl Scout for 11 years, and is currently working on her Gold Award project. She is the American Legion FHS delegate for Girls State and holds a second-degree black belt in Tae Keon Do. Schwarzer plans to attend a four-year university and obtain a degree in education. Valerie Ontiveros entered Tustin High School with two main goals, to be involved and to prepare for her future. Her Valerie Ontiveros Kyra Schwarzer community service involvement has been with the nonprofit Operation Warm Wishes (OWW) as an intern and volunteer. She has planned, organized and attended events that provide haircuts, food and toys to those in need. She is currently the Vice President of OWW. Oniveros was selected to represent THS at Girls State and spent a week in Sacramento. She is a member of the California Honor Society, recipient of the Superintendent Honor Roll award, and is a member and Project Commissioner of the THS National Honor Society. Valerie looks forward to being the first in her family to attend a four-year university. She plans to major in criminal justice, attend law school and open her law firm. Tustin Area Woman's Club is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Community Service Organization. For more information about TAWC, see tustinareawomansclub.com . New members are always welcome. Curbside parking in many Or- ange neighborhoods is elusive, at best, forcing many residents in congested areas to seek “permit parking only” restrictions on their streets. To date, there are 25 neighbor- hoods that have “permit parking for residents only” status. The problem, the city admits, is that unpermitted vehicles simply shift to the next street over, or down the block, where parking (if one can find it) is unrestricted. To assist neighborhoods ex- periencing the spillover effect, the city has identified five “op- portunity” areas that may request permit parking without an ap- Orange identifies “opportunity” areas for permit parking only plication fee or parking study; a 55% support rate by residents is required. Only neighborhoods of single-family homes and duplex- es are eligible for permit parking. The criteria used to identify opportunity areas was primar- ily intrusion into single-family neighborhoods by high-density, multi-family residential complex- es. Commercial, institutional and recreational uses are also contrib- utors to parking congestion. The five areas include the streets bounded by Sycamore Ave., Main St., the 22 and 57 Freeway; the Santiago Creek Trail, 22 Freeway, Tustin St. and Glassell; Walnut Ave., the Or- angewood Villa Apartments, the 55 Freeway and Wayfield St.; the flood control channel/Edison easement, Katella Plaza, Cam- bridge St. and the Lantern Bay Apartments; and Meats Ave., Del Mar Ave., Greengrove St. and Cambridge. Residents outside of those ar- eas may still apply for permit parking, following established city protocols. Orange recently lowered the application fee from $4,000 to $1,000. The fees cover the staff time needed to perform park- ing studies and determine if the threshold (75% usage) for permit- only parking is met. OPA Volunteer of the Year named Mary Nori Forester is the recipient of this year’s Gary Bandy Volunteer of the Year Award. She was recognized for her service at OPA’s Fall Barbecue, Sept. 24. The Gary Bandy award is presented to annually to a resi- dent who has demonstrated outstanding devotion and effort in preserving and maintaining Orange Park Acres Trails and Equestrian Facilities. Although Forester is one of the newer OPA residents, her hard work during all the trail work days has not gone unno- ticed. She is always there from start to finish, racking rocks, picking up trash and handing out water. Residents agree that her generosity has helped the com- munity in a myriad of ways, resulting in her selection as re- cipient of the 2022 Gary Ban- dy Award. The Crescendo Chapter of the Guilds of Seger- strom Center welcomed new members at its first program of the season featuring Kenny Metcalf. The new members were, back row from left, Kath- leen Tucker, Sue Meyers, Sharon Olsen, Karen Ca- halan, Mary Hofflander, Barbara Grabill, Sandra Marsile, Maggie Hart; middle row, from left, Kim Greenwald, Jac- quelyn Hubbard, Janice Sagan, Gayle Ackerman, Gretchen Whisler; and front row, from left, Min- ta Sue Jack and Donna Peery. Mary Nori Forester