Foothills Sentry December 2020

Page 3 Foothills Sentry December 2020 Expires12/31/2020 We are blessed to have such wonderful, caring and loyal customers who supported us through the pandemic. Grazie mille! Cheers to a happy, healthy and open 2021! With love, Marjan and the Da Bianca Staff T R A T T O R I A Buon Natale! Reservations Recommended (714) 289 - 1508 • www.dabianca.com HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday 4:30 - 9:00 PM 7448 E. Chapman Ave. Orange (on the corner of Chapman and Newport) Check our website for holiday updates, nightly specials and remodeling news. Da Bianca gift certificates and t-shirts make great gifts! The 26th annual persimmon sale, sponsored by the Pitcher Park Foundation and Orange Home Grown Foundation, held Nov. 15, was decidedly low key, but plans for public puckering to resume in 2021 are underway. Tustin voters approve council salaries Slightly more than 75% of Tu- stin voters said "yes" to Measure CC, establishing modest salaries for council members. The $600 stipend, determined by a state formula based on population, will apply to council members elected or re-elected in November 2022. Future salary in- creases would be limited by state law to 5% or less. Tustin council members have not received a salary or employ- ment benefits since 2012, when voters approved a measure that eliminated council compensation. The current council approved placing Measure CC before vot- ers by a unanimous vote. The thinking was that volunteer ser- vice could limit the number of people willing to run for office. Serving on Tustin’s City Coun- cil often requires more than 20 hours per week, and may require members to take time off from their paying jobs. A small stipend to offset out-of-pocket expenses could broaden the pool of citizens able to serve on the council. With the reinstatement of coun- cil compensation in Tustin, only two cities in Orange County, Or- ange and Villa Park, do not pro- vide stipends for council members. Council breaks ground for new Orange Fire Department Headquarters The City of Orange broke ground, Oct. 22, at the site of the new Orange City Fire Department Fire Station 1 and Fire Headquar- ters campus, at 1176 E. Chapman Ave., on the corner of Chapman Ave. and Water St. The current Fire Station 1 and Headquarters facility, originally built in 1968, has served the citi- zens of Orange for half a century. Over the decades, substantial im- provements to firefighting tech- niques and equipment have left the current building no longer able to meet the needs of modern firefighters and paramedics. Af- ter careful analysis, it was deter- mined that designing and build- ing a brand new facility would be a more fiscally responsible solu- tion than renovating. The new complex will be ap- proximately 27,927 sq. ft., sub- stantially larger than the current building. An existing building on the site will be refurbished to provide an additional 3,780 sq. ft. of reserve apparatus storage. Once completed, the campus will provide firefighters with a more spacious vehicle bay, equipment maintenance and storage areas, training facilities, and house the Orange Fire Department adminis- trative offices. Project costs will total approxi- mately $23 million. The project is being funded by lease revenue bonds issued earlier this year. Project completion is anticipated in summer 2022. Farm Managers Christine Clark and Doug Turner Councilmember Kim Nichols, Mayor Mark Murphy and Councilmen Mike Alvarez and Chip Monaco wield shovels, officially breaking ground for the new Orange Fire Department Headquarters. Jeff Holley, left, received his Bugling merit badge from Scoutmaster Matt Banasiak. Local Scout sweeps merit badges, achieves top honor Jeff Holley of Boy Scout Troop 33 not only earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 2016, he recently earned all 137 merit badges of- fered by Boy Scouts of America. This is an accomplishment only a very few Scouts – roughly 380 in the nation – have done in the 110-year history of Scouting. Only 5% of youth involved in Scouting earn the highest rank of Eagle, which requires a total of 21 merit badges. Holley managed to coordinate with other troops and devote the time necessary to earn each badge, in addition to graduating from Canyon High School ear- lier this year. At CHS, he was captain of the football team, a First Team All- League running back during his senior year, and on the baseball team. As a Scout, Jeff had the op- portunity to attend the National Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia as well as each of the BSA’s High Adven- ture bases, Northern Tier in Min- nesota, the Florida Sea Base in the Florida Keys and the Philm- ont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. His Eagle project was canvassing Fairhaven Cemetery in Santa Ana to locate all of the veterans in- terred there, and putting all 6,000 names into a searchable database on the web. Jeff is now attending Azusa Pacific University, majoring in nursing.