Page 7 Foothills Sentry DECEMBER 2025 Imagine a new regional park in Orange www.SaveOrangeHills.org • 4.5 miles of additional hiking, cycling, mountain biking and equestrian trails • Better wildÞre protection • Relief from traffic congestion • Safer crossings for mountain lions, deer and other declining wildlife • Preservation of a prehistoric Native American village site and scenic panoramic vistas Donate to preserve Orange Hills forever! Orange Hills Regional Park is our vision to permanently connect Irvine Park to Peters Canyon ©2023 Collin Eckert ©2025 Jeff Peterson ©2025 Joel Robinson ©2025 Joel Robinson © Sgoodwin4813| Dreamstime.com ©2024 Paul Sargeant City Parks employees Josh Garcia and Cesar Marquez took charge of the wiring and lighting removal. El Modena High School's Aiden Aguirre, Rivers Pinsin, Isai Cano and Trenton Yoshikawa used teamwork to straighten and wrap flags for storage. Volunteers went back and forth, removing flags from the field and taking them to the staging area. As one volunteer noted, “We’ve done this before; we’ve got it down.” Glenn Easterbrook, Susan Wood and John Schutz from the American Legion carefully wound flags around their flagpoles. Panda Kisela, Nikki Karell and Debbie Kisela alphabetize the cards that were attached to the flags to recognize individual soldiers. Volunteers rally to outrun rain Predictions of heavy rain in the area forced an early closing of the Field of Valor Veteran’s Day flag display at Handy Park. Slated to remain on display until Nov. 13, volunteers were quickly assembled on the 12th to remove over 1,000 flags from the field ahead of the forecasted rain. On short notice, some 60 volunteers from the Community Foundation of Orange, the Elks Lodge, American Legion Post 132 and El Modena High School rushed to the park to remove the flags from harm’s way and get them safely stored until next year. It didn't, however, rain that day. Field of Valor at Handy Park Photos by Tony Richards Photo courtesy Orange Elks
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