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Foothills Sentry Page 2 NOVEMBER 2024 jad tec.com $ 15 95 /mo as low as SECURITY JADTEC LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN! 714 282 0828 | jadtec.com | ACO4202 PEACE OF MIND PROTECTION holiday Rio Santiago dump landowner Milan Capital has been told by LEA that it must safely remove the entire 126,000 cubic yards of Stockpile H. residential use. The agency also questioned Leighton’s testing methods, and advised that addi- tional sampling of Stockpile H would not ferret out “acceptable soil” because there was no con- sistency within depth, type and amount of contaminants found; the source of contamination is unknown, and not localized to one area. Dig the hole deeper Leighton’s report also indi- cated that arsenic was detected at levels exceeding acceptable “background concentrations.” LEA advised that any additional boring underneath the stock- pile might need to be readjusted to determine if contaminants leached into the ground below. The agency told Milan that it must submit a workplan that de- scribes the safe removal of the entire contaminated stockpile, and a timeline for doing so with- in 60 days. Milan/Leighton responded, not with a workplan, but with a litany of concerns about LEA’s conclusions, scientific basis and the implications it presented. It noted that of the 38 samples test- A campaign sign display on the corner of Fairhaven Avenue and Oak- wood Street in Orange pays tribute to lost presidential elections over the course of America’s history. Created by Nina Katchadourian, the “Monument to the Unelected” is an art installation, updated every four years. Not all of the signs are historical. After researching political cam- paign sign aesthetics, Katchadourian designed many of them herself. The residence is the home of John Spiak, director and chief curator at Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center. Elle Doughty Lily Meskel TAWC names Young Women of the Month The Tustin Area Woman’s Club announced its first set of Young Women of the Month honorees for the 2024-25 school year. For the month of October, TAWC rec- ognized outstanding seniors Elle Doughty and Lily Meskel. Doughty has been on the Prin- cipal’s Honor Roll at Foothill High School all four years, and has received the AP Scholar with Distinction Award, and recog- nized as a National Merit Scholar Semifinalist. She is the Senior Class president and is active in Associated Student Body, where she plans events for seniors. She also volunteers as her school’s mascot to inspire spirit at football games and pep rallies. Doughty is a member of the California Scholarship Federation, a pros- ecution attorney on Mock Trial, and is a member of several school clubs. She serves as a Foothill High representative on the TUSD School Board and plans to major in political science or economics at UCLA, with the goal of be- coming a corporate lawyer. Lily Meskel is secretary general of the Model United Nations Pro- gram at Tustin High School. She competes on the varsity basketball and flag football teams. Lily is a member of the National Honor Society, California Scholarship Federation, and is an AP Scholar Award recipient. She is a member of the Dead Poets Society, His- panic Community Enhancement and is involved in the Tiller Sport- ing Goods program. Other seniors honored for Octo- ber are Navya Shivashankar from Legacy High School and Jelena Villanueva from Beckman High School. H ed, only six exhibited chemicals exceeding residential screening levels, and argued that the risk of the detected compounds, as de- fined by DTSC, is low. Leighton requested a face-to-face meeting with LEA to achieve a “mutually acceptable outcome.” To date, analyses of soil sam- ples taken from the other 11 stockpiles have not been submit- ted to LEA. Photo by David Markovitz "Orange dumpsite" continued from page 1