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Thursday, November 30, 2017
Its a Greater Orange Holiday
Greater Orange
open holiday season
OPA and Plaza Tree
lighting, Santa Tour, and 20th Villa Park Dry
Land Boat Parade
Saturday December 2nd
The Christmas
holiday season’s official Greater Orange kickoff for 2017 will be in Orange Park Acres (OPA).
The OPA will open the Greater Orange Holidays with its Community Tree Lighting
at the corner of Orange Park Blvd Santiago Canyon
The OPA will kick-off the holiday season with a down-home
tree lighting complete with caroling, candy canes, home-baked cookies, hot chocolate,
coffee and kids crafts.
OPA will be collecting donations for Love Bugs Rescue (www.lovebugsrescue.org) and gifts for Operation Santa Claus to provide Christmas presents for foster children and children in needy families.
23rd Annual Plaza
The City of Orange Plaza Tree Lighting
Ceremony and Candlelight Choir Procession kickoff celebrates 23
years of tree lighting ceremonies in the Historic Old Towne Orange Plaza
At 5:15 p.m. we will officially light our tree for the
season, which will then become the backdrop for a 350-voice choir candlelight
procession orchestra, led by Greater Orange legendary musical director Michael Short.
The 2017 guest
narrator for the holiday evening will be former Orange County Supervisor Bill
Campbell.
The whole family is invited to this free event to enjoy good cheer, photo opportunities with Santa, and family fun activities including crafts, carnival games and a moon bouncer.
As always, refreshments will be sold by local non-profit
groups for a nominal fee, which goes to support their works in the community.
The traditional local kick-off to the holiday season starts
at 3:30 p.m., as Santa Claus comes to the Old Towne Plaza
The center piece of the event-the official tree
lighting-will take place at 5:15 p.m. with the traditional candle light
choir procession.
In case of rain please call the official Orange Special
Events Hotline for details: 714-744-7278.
Santa to Tour Villa Park December 9th
before heading back to the North Pole
Few people outside Villa Park may know that Santa and Mrs. Claus keep their Southern California vacation residence right here in Greater Orange at the Claus Villa in Villa Park.
Each
year before making the final push towards getting ready for that Christmas Eve
world tour, the Claus family spends a weekend at their Villa
Park
This
year’s Santa's annual tour (with some locally famous very large elves) is
Saturday December 9, 2017 from 8:00 am- 3:30 pm.
Along
with the scheduled stops, Santa has been known to drop by or stop along the
route where ever there is a gathering of believers.
For
more information contact the Villa
Park City
Hall
The
Annual Santa Tour is sponsored by the Villa Park Foundation.
For
more information CLICK ON: Santa Tour
20th Anniversary of
Sunday Dec 11th
Being
land-locked never bothered many in Greater Orange, especially in Villa
Park
This year's 20th Annual theme is "Decades of
The
flotilla sails through the backwaters of Villa Park, starting at 5:00 pm from Villa
Park High
School
The
Great Villa Park Inland Boat Parade is sponsored by the Villa Park Foundation.
For a map and more information CLICK ON and scroll to the
bottom: VP Boat Parade
Wednesday, November 08, 2017
Were OUSD bond opponents right?
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Trustees appear to be trying to prove the facility bond opponents were right after all ...
OUSD Board looks to spend hundreds
of thousands of educational tax dollars on public relations
How bad has the OUSD Board's reputation become?
Apparently bad enough that after almost 20 years, the Orange Unified Trustees are contemplating spending hundreds of
thousands of educational tax dollars on public relations.
On the November 9, 2017 OUSD Agenda, Information Item 16 B
(Agenda page 32) will be a follow-up staff report on options for obtaining an
OUSD Public Relations position. Staff will present the cost options of an
in-house public relations position and a consultant public relations firm.
The move comes on the heels of reported blistering remarks
about the OUSD Board in the stakeholder surveys for a new OUSD Superintendent
and just a year after OUSD voters approved a massive tax increase in the form
of Measure S to update the district's high schools.
Ironically, part of the opposition to the numerous bond
attempts from the community were that the schools were in such dire disrepair
because the OUSD Trustees and the OUSD Administration could not manage the
budgeted educational tax dollars. Now
with Measure S passed after a Herculean effort by the administration of former
Superintendent Mike Christensen, it appears that the OUSD Trustees are ready to
not learn from history. First by
numerous accounts forcing a popular Superintendent out , and next by hiring a public relations firm and
returning to a educational tax wasting model.
The Reactionary Jacobson Board that was eventually recalled
in the famous 2001 Orange Recall faced a similar public relations crisis. Then
Superintendent Dr. Robert French tried to delicately bring the item of their
reputation to the OUSD Board's attention by conducting a "community
survey". The consequences of what the community thought of them was the
Jacobson majority firing French.
Hundreds of thousands of
wasted educational dollars latter on public relations, lawyers and lawsuits, phony voter measures
etc, etc, etc, and the OUSD PR person was fired and the Jacobson Majority
recalled.
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| The last OUSD PR person |
The last Orange Unified Public Information Officer
was Judy Frutig who was hired by the then Reactionary Board controlled
by Education Alliance Trustee Marty Jacobson's anti-public education
majority (that Board was eventually recalled in
the 2001 Orange Recall Election).
Frutig's position became the mouthpiece for the reactionary
policies for a board majority out-of-control with policies growing more and
more unpopular. The information disseminated by Frutig was
directly dictated by Board President Marty Jacobson. Frutig quickly became
a lightning rod for uniting the Greater Orange Community against the Jacobson
Majority.
As the Recall pressure on the Board intensified, Frutig was
unable to meet the overwhelming challenge of the growing community
communication network and the state and national news scrutiny brought on by
outrageous Board actions and by the landmark gay student rights
case Colin vs Orange Unified. The under fire Board majority, now
facing a recall election, abruptly fired Frutig.
French eventually had the last laugh when the Reactionary
Board was recalled and the newly elected Citizen's Board hired French back with
the departure of Jacobson's hand-picked Superintendent Barbara Van Otterloo.
New OUSD Superintendent search and Measure S
on Board of Trustees November 9th Agenda
The Orange Unified School Board will meet for a Study
Session and for a Regular Meeting on November 9, 2017,
The 5:00 pm public Study Session will be on the search for
a new OUSD Superintendent. The meeting is scheduled for the Building B
Conference Room near the Superintendent's Office.
The Regular OUSD Board Meeting will take place at 7:00 pm
in the regular OUSD Board Room.
During the regular session, the Trustees will receive a
report on the Measure S Capital Faculties Program Update ( Agenda Item 16 A,
agenda page 31).
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING November
9, 2017
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
Work Study Session 5:00
pm Building B Conference Room
CLOSED SESSION- 5:30 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm Board
Room Building
For more information call the OUSD
Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at
714-628-4015
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