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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 /// Now including Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent /// dailypilot.com Safety on Newport Beach’s Balboa Peninsula boardwalk isn’t a new issue. Not by a mile, or by the nearly 3 miles that the boardwalk runs along the Bal- boa Peninsula between 36th Street to E Street. The issue of safety on the board- walk is a long-standing issue, with resi- dents raising concerns about speeding, unsafe conduct and, now, the prolifera- tion of electric bicycles and other mo- torized vehicles. The issue returned before the New- port Beach City Council during a Feb. 11 study session earlier this year, with many of the concerns focused on speeding. Up for discussion Tuesday night was adoption of an ordinance to add addi- tional language to define electric bicy- cles, electrically motorized boards and motorized transportation devices at- large and an increase of the maximum fines for violations from $50 to $200. City staff also sought direction from the City Council on whether or not it should bring back restrictions or a ban on motorized transportation devices on the boardwalk, which includes e-bikes. The fastest class of e-bikes is already prohibited from the narrow path, along with surreys, motorized scooters and skateboards, but like cycle surreys, elec- tric bikes are available for renting at Newport’s many tourist-serving seaside bike shops. City staff reviewed current signage and regulatory measures already imple- mented such as the replacement of old signs and radar speed feedback signs, which inform passers-by of how fast they’re going. Still pending projects are revision of text-based signs to symbol-styled signs and the addition of speed-calming de- vices such as rumble strips, which are currently undergoing a pilot program at three locations along the Castaways Park trail until the end of the year. The speed limit on the boardwalk is 8 mph. Councilwoman Diane Dixon, whose district includes the Balboa Peninsula, said the issue pre-dated her arrival on council. Dixon was elected to the City Council in 2014 and said that boardwalk safety has been the “number one issue” in all her town hall meetings, an issue, she said, has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Boardwalk safety stirs debate by council Newport officials discuss enforcement, signage and possible ban of electric vehicles on the path. BY LILLY NGUYEN See Safety, page A3 How soon is too soon when it comes to children returning to in-person instruction during the coronavirus pandemic? That depends on who you ask. About 75 parents and students attended a rally to reopen schools in front of the Huntington Beach City School District of- fice on Tuesday, prior to a special board meeting. Many parents in attendance said they were frustrated that the board of trustees voted unanimously on Sept. 8 that students would return to school for hybrid instruc- tion no earlier than Oct. 26. That timeline is much later than neigh- boring districts. Fountain Valley School District students returned to campus Tues- day, while elementary-age students in the Ocean View and Newport-Mesa Unified school districts are set to return on Monday and Tuesday, respectively, also in a hybrid format. Orange County gave every school the green light on Tuesday to reopen class- rooms. April Helliwell, one of the rally organ- izers, is the PTSA president at Hawes Ele- mentary School. Her two sons attend Hawes. “The community is completely in the dark, and it’s reached a point where we are now uninformed and frustrated,” Helliwell said. “We’re still sitting here with no informa- tion and we’re looking at Oct. 26. Everyone has questions about why is it still Oct. 26, and if it is Oct. 26, what is the reason? I think a lot of people are saying they think the reason is because the district didn’t do anything for six months … There has just been a lot of mistrust and a loss of faith in the district. People have just had enough.” Helliwell said district parents have been unhappy for a while now, mentioning the closing of Perry Elementary School last spring. In June, Supt. Gregg Haulk resigned; Greg Magnuson is the interim superintend- ent. “They’re just not being transparent,” Hel- liwell said. “This is a community that has a ton of volunteer help. What do you need us to help with? Do you need us moving desks around, do you need parent volunteers to unbox all of the PPE and set it up for you? They would have a ton of help if they would just reach out to us, and that’s not happening at any level.” Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer PARENTS AND students rally outside the Huntington Beach City School District on Tuesday to protest the district’s delayed reopening plans. Some H.B. City School District parents upset as classrooms remain closed The hybrid learning plan has children going back to school on Oct. 26, at the earliest. Nearby districts are reopening next week. RADFORD BROWN, 5, places a sign in front of the doors at the Huntington Beach City School District. The posters were left for board members who met Tuesday night. See District, page A4 BY MATT SZABO A remodel of the Coast Liquor store and a cottage next door that housed athletes from the 1932 Olympic Games was at the center of a discussion during the Laguna Beach City Council meeting on Tuesday night. After extensive consideration, council members approved 4-1 a modified plan to turn the li- quor store into a multitenant building. The Planning Com- mission had reviewed the proj- ect in July and unanimously rec- ommended council approval. It is the second project sub- mitted by Chris Dornin, the president of the Dornin Invest- ment Group, approved by coun- cil members in recent months, after a remodel of Coast Inn re- ceived approval in July. Coast Liquor is at 1391 South Coast Highway and 168 Moun- tain Road. The plan would in- clude a 1,485-square-foot coffee shop at the corner of the high- way and a 1,220-square-foot li- quor store. An outdoor dining area was also part of the propos- al. The motion carried by the council calls for the restoration of the liquor store, including in- stallation of a rooftop sign with black letters spelling out the word ‘beverages.’ Council mem- bers debated the color of the building, ultimately deciding it will be red in keeping with how it was originally built. Among the modifications to the proposal, council members did not go along with the plan to have a lower-level retail storage area turned into an office, be- lieving it would intensify use. Mayor Bob Whalen said he couldn’t go along with the of- fices down below, but he thought the liquor store and the café could be beneficial to the community. “I think the café use is going to be a great local amenity for this neighborhood,” Whalen said. “I think it’s coastal visitor serving.” Councilman Peter Blake said he felt that the community was going to get better with the new additions. “I see this incredibly vibrant corner that’s going to end up serving locals because the hip district is a local district, and this café is going to become an ancillary service to the locals that live in that community and the people that are in that ho- tel,” Blake said. Councilwoman Sue Kempf noted that residents living near Coast Liquor may find it nice to have an option for food and re- freshment within walking dis- tance. “I don’t think people are going Laguna council approves plan for remodel of Coast Liquor and a new café BY ANDREW TURNER See Laguna, page A2 Former Huntington Beach High School boys’ basketball coach Elmer Combs has died. Combs, 91, died of natural causes on Sunday, his daughter Terri said. Over the span of 19 seasons from 1958 to 1977, Combs ac- crued 328 wins with the Oilers. Roy Miller, who played for Combs and later succeeded him as coach, said that Combs is the winningest coach in program his- tory. Huntington Beach won eight league titles with Combs manning the bench. Miller was a 6-foot-2 center for an Oilers squad that reached a CIF final against Compton in 1968. That Compton team had several college-bound basketball players and an Olympic high jumper in Reynaldo Brown. Hunt- ington Beach lost the game 64-52 at the Long Beach Arena. Under Combs, the Oilers also won an incredible 44 consecutive league games. Miller remembers how the streak got started. “The very first league game of the 1967 season, we lost to Es- tancia in three overtimes, and ob- viously, that didn’t sit well with us, so we went on to have 44 straight league victories after that,” Miller said, adding that the run went on to be the Orange Former Huntington Beach High boys’ basketball coach Elmer Combs dies Courtesy of the Combs family ELMER COMBS won eight league titles as the head coach of the Huntington Beach High School boys' basketball team from 1958 to 1977. BY ANDREW TURNER See Combs, page A2

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 /// Now including Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent /// dailypilot.com

Safety on Newport Beach’s BalboaPeninsula boardwalk isn’t a new issue.

Not by a mile, or by the nearly 3 milesthat the boardwalk runs along the Bal-boa Peninsula between 36th Street to EStreet. The issue of safety on the board-walk is a long-standing issue, with resi-dents raising concerns about speeding,unsafe conduct and, now, the prolifera-tion of electric bicycles and other mo-torized vehicles.

The issue returned before the New-port Beach City Council during a Feb. 11study session earlier this year, withmany of the concerns focused onspeeding.

Up for discussion Tuesday night wasadoption of an ordinance to add addi-tional language to define electric bicy-cles, electrically motorized boards andmotorized transportation devices at-large and an increase of the maximumfines for violations from $50 to $200.

City staff also sought direction fromthe City Council on whether or not itshould bring back restrictions or a banon motorized transportation devices onthe boardwalk, which includes e-bikes.

The fastest class of e-bikes is alreadyprohibited from the narrow path, alongwith surreys, motorized scooters andskateboards, but like cycle surreys, elec-tric bikes are available for renting atNewport’s many tourist-serving seasidebike shops.

City staff reviewed current signageand regulatory measures already imple-mented such as the replacement of oldsigns and radar speed feedback signs,which inform passers-by of how fastthey’re going.

Still pending projects are revision oftext-based signs to symbol-styled signsand the addition of speed-calming de-vices such as rumble strips, which arecurrently undergoing a pilot program atthree locations along the CastawaysPark trail until the end of the year. Thespeed limit on the boardwalk is 8 mph.

Councilwoman Diane Dixon, whosedistrict includes the Balboa Peninsula,said the issue pre-dated her arrival oncouncil. Dixon was elected to the CityCouncil in 2014 and said that boardwalksafety has been the “number one issue”in all her town hall meetings, an issue,she said, has been exacerbated by theCOVID-19 pandemic.

Boardwalksafety stirsdebate bycouncilNewport officials discussenforcement, signage andpossible ban of electricvehicles on the path.BY LILLY NGUYEN

See Safety, page A3

How soon is too soon when it comes tochildren returning to in-person instructionduring the coronavirus pandemic?

That depends on who you ask.About 75 parents and students attended

a rally to reopen schools in front of theHuntington Beach City School District of-fice on Tuesday, prior to a special boardmeeting.

Many parents in attendance said theywere frustrated that the board of trusteesvoted unanimously on Sept. 8 that studentswould return to school for hybrid instruc-tion no earlier than Oct. 26.

That timeline is much later than neigh-boring districts. Fountain Valley SchoolDistrict students returned to campus Tues-day, while elementary-age students in theOcean View and Newport-Mesa Unifiedschool districts are set to return on Mondayand Tuesday, respectively, also in a hybridformat.

Orange County gave every school thegreen light on Tuesday to reopen class-rooms.

April Helliwell, one of the rally organ-izers, is the PTSA president at Hawes Ele-mentary School. Her two sons attendHawes.

“The community is completely in thedark, and it’s reached a point where we arenow uninformed and frustrated,” Helliwellsaid.

“We’re still sitting here with no informa-tion and we’re looking at Oct. 26. Everyonehas questions about why is it still Oct. 26,and if it is Oct. 26, what is the reason? Ithink a lot of people are saying they thinkthe reason is because the district didn’t doanything for six months … There has justbeen a lot of mistrust and a loss of faith inthe district. People have just had enough.”

Helliwell said district parents have beenunhappy for a while now, mentioning theclosing of Perry Elementary School lastspring. In June, Supt. Gregg Haulk resigned;Greg Magnuson is the interim superintend-ent.

“They’re just not being transparent,” Hel-liwell said. “This is a community that has aton of volunteer help. What do you need usto help with? Do you need us moving desksaround, do you need parent volunteers tounbox all of the PPE and set it up for you?They would have a ton of help if theywould just reach out to us, and that’s nothappening at any level.”

Scott Smeltzer | Staff PhotographerPARENTSAND students rally outside theHuntingtonBeachCity School District on Tuesday to protest the district’s delayed reopening plans.

SomeH.B. City SchoolDistrict parentsupset as classrooms remain closedThe hybrid learning planhas children going back toschool on Oct. 26, at theearliest. Nearby districts arereopening next week.

RADFORDBROWN,5, places a sign infront of the doorsat the HuntingtonBeach CitySchool District.The posters wereleft for boardmemberswho metTuesday night.

See District, page A4

BYMATT SZABO

A remodel of the Coast Liquorstore and a cottage next doorthat housed athletes from the1932 Olympic Games was at thecenter of a discussion during theLaguna Beach City Councilmeeting on Tuesday night.

After extensive consideration,council members approved 4-1a modified plan to turn the li-quor store into a multitenantbuilding. The Planning Com-mission had reviewed the proj-ect in July and unanimously rec-ommended council approval.

It is the second project sub-mitted by Chris Dornin, thepresident of the Dornin Invest-ment Group, approved by coun-cil members in recent months,after a remodel of Coast Inn re-ceived approval in July.

Coast Liquor is at 1391 SouthCoast Highway and 168 Moun-tain Road. The plan would in-clude a 1,485-square-foot coffeeshop at the corner of the high-way and a 1,220-square-foot li-quor store. An outdoor diningarea was also part of the propos-al.

The motion carried by thecouncil calls for the restorationof the liquor store, including in-stallation of a rooftop sign withblack letters spelling out theword ‘beverages.’ Council mem-bers debated the color of thebuilding, ultimately deciding it

will be red in keeping with howit was originally built.

Among the modifications tothe proposal, council membersdid not go along with the plan tohave a lower-level retail storagearea turned into an office, be-lieving it would intensify use.

Mayor Bob Whalen said hecouldn’t go along with the of-fices down below, but hethought the liquor store and thecafé could be beneficial to thecommunity.

“I think the café use is goingto be a great local amenity forthis neighborhood,” Whalensaid. “I think it’s coastal visitorserving.”

Councilman Peter Blake saidhe felt that the community wasgoing to get better with the newadditions.

“I see this incredibly vibrantcorner that’s going to end upserving locals because the hipdistrict is a local district, andthis café is going to become anancillary service to the localsthat live in that community andthe people that are in that ho-tel,” Blake said.

Councilwoman Sue Kempfnoted that residents living nearCoast Liquor may find it nice tohave an option for food and re-freshment within walking dis-tance.

“I don’t think people are going

Laguna council approvesplan for remodel of CoastLiquor and a new caféBYANDREWTURNER

See Laguna, page A2

Former Huntington Beach HighSchool boys’ basketball coachElmer Combs has died.

Combs, 91, died of naturalcauses on Sunday, his daughterTerri said.

Over the span of 19 seasonsfrom 1958 to 1977, Combs ac-crued 328 wins with the Oilers.Roy Miller, who played for Combsand later succeeded him ascoach, said that Combs is thewinningest coach in program his-tory.

Huntington Beach won eightleague titles with Combs manningthe bench.

Miller was a 6-foot-2 center foran Oilers squad that reached aCIF final against Compton in1968. That Compton team hadseveral college-bound basketballplayers and an Olympic highjumper in Reynaldo Brown. Hunt-ington Beach lost the game 64-52at the Long Beach Arena.

Under Combs, the Oilers alsowon an incredible 44 consecutiveleague games. Miller remembershow the streak got started.

“The very first league game ofthe 1967 season, we lost to Es-tancia in three overtimes, and ob-viously, that didn’t sit well with us,so we went on to have 44 straightleague victories after that,” Millersaid, adding that the run went onto be the Orange

FormerHuntingtonBeachHighboys’basketball coachElmerCombsdies

Courtesy of the Combs family

ELMER COMBSwon eight league titles as the head coach of theHuntington Beach High School boys' basketball team from 1958 to 1977.

BYANDREWTURNER

See Combs, page A2

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County record for leaguewins in a row for sometime afterward.

“I [was a] sophomore.After I lost that leaguegame to Estancia in tripleovertime, I never lost aleague game after that inmy remaining threeyears.”

Combs’ teams may nothave been the biggest, butwhat they lacked in size,they made up for in grit.Miller said that it wasCombs’ ability to demandand get more out of hisplayers that he took fromhis former coach when hetook the reins.

With Huntington Beachexperiencing great successunder Combs, and Marinabeing coached by Lute Ol-son at the same time,Miller said that thecrosstown rivalry wassomething to behold.

The late Olson went onto become the winningestcoach for the University ofArizona men’s basketballprogram.

“We did a couple oftimes lose to them intournaments, but we ne-

ver lost to them in leaguein the three years that Iplayed,” Miller said. “LuteOlson was there for those,so it was a tremendous ri-valry. As a matter of fact, ifyou didn’t get into thatgym by the first quarter ofthe JV game, you didn’tget in. It was insane, andit’s hard to explain to peo-ple nowadays.”

Combs and Miller, whowould succeed his formercoach as head coach ofthe Oilers from 1978 to2000, had a special bond.Both were physical educa-tion instructors and eachserved as athletic directorat the school.

Both also played collegebasketball, Combs at USCand Miller at Long BeachState.

Terri Combs said thather father was best knownfor his humor and his hu-mility. She added that hewas organized and a de-cent man who neverswore at home.

As a coach, Combs leftan indelible mark on hisfamily, as all of his kids in-herited his work ethic.

“Something that is su-per important that hepassed on to all of his kidswas his work ethic,” Terri

Combs said.“He worked hard his

entire life, and he passedthat on to us becausewe’re all really hard work-ers, too, always made ourown way, never asked forhelp, and that was be-cause of him. He taughtus that.”

Terri Combs said thatthe family is considering acelebration of life for herfather in the spring. Theplans are tentative be-cause of the coronaviruspandemic.

Combs is survived byhis son Randy, 69, daugh-ters Jennifer Williams, 67,and Terri, 64, and fourgrandchildren.

Continued from page A1COMBS “Something

that is superimportant thathe passed on toall of his kidswas his workethic.”

— Terri CombsElmer Combs’ daughter

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to be driving into townand go to the Coast Liquor,but people living in thatarea are going to walk overthere and have coffee andsit outside,” Kempf said.“Sitting outside has gottenhugely popular in ourtown, and I’d kind of liketo see the tables and stuffout on the sidewalk. That’skind of the way we’re goingnow.”

Whether or not to lightthe sign was another con-tested point. Councilwom-an Toni Iseman, the lonedissenter, pointed to want-ing to keep Laguna Beachskies dark, something that

was not lost among someof the public commenters.

“Dark skies has beenimportant, I think, for La-guna for a long time, andwe have a sign ordinancethat, thanks to previouscouncil members, has dis-tinguished Laguna from allthe other coastal towns,”Iseman said.

“All you have to do isdrive through at night andgo, ‘What is it about La-guna that makes this bet-ter?’ It’s the fact that wewere in control of thelighting and the signs.”

Council members hadbeen invited to expresstheir views on the sign.Iseman had begun bymentioning that she livedin the neighborhood

where the project is to takeplace when a male voiceinterjected and said theword “bitch.”

Multiple council mem-bers reacted to the profanelanguage, and when thediscussion of the item wasbrought to a close, Isemanrequested that the inci-dent be recorded in theminutes and that sheplanned to identify theperson.

“I don’t know if there areany legal consequences wecan impose,” Whalen said.“It’s going to be obviouslyrather embarrassing, and Ithink somebody ought tobe offering an apology.”

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“The reason we’re sittinghere tonight and we have aroom full of people and let-ters having been written isthat people are violatingthese fundamental laws ofour city with impunity,cavalierly and with impuni-ty,” Dixon said, adding thatshe wanted the City Coun-cil to find a solution by theend of the night.

Conversation on Tuesdayfocused chiefly on speedingand a lack of enforcementas the central crux of the is-sue, with opponents of apotential e-bike ban sayingthat electric bicyclesshouldn’t be singled outwhen manual bikes couldreach similar speeds. Thosespeeding should be heldaccountable, but not goodoperators.

Some residents recom-mended the possibility ofexpanding the boardwalk tocreate a separate lane forbicyclists, while othersstressed clarifying the signsand for greater enforce-ment.

Councilman Kevin Mul-doon said that while heunderstands safety on theboardwalk is a seriousproblem, he felt that policeresources were better usedelsewhere. Muldoon said hefelt the best way to handlethe issue was by imposingphysical barriers or deter-rents. Dixon agreed that en-forcement could not be theonly solution to the speed-ing issue, but added thatshe felt the issue was largelyseasonal.

The City Council voted toadopt the ordinance toamend the language in thecurrent ordinance to statethat no users of the board-walk can exceed the 8-mphspeed limit, as proposed byMayor Will O’Neill, and toincrease the maximumfines. Muldoon dissented.

Dixon, along with MayorPro Tem Brad Avery andcouncil members Joy Bren-ner and Jeff Herdman, di-rected staff to bring back apotential ordinance man-dating pedestrians only onweekends from MemorialDay to Labor Day week-

ends.Staff was also directed to

look at other cities andcountries on how issues ofspeeding are dealt with andfor staff to return with in-formation on the pilot pro-gram at Castaways Parktrail. The City Council alsovoted to lift a hold on a

capital improvement proj-ect meant for the board-walk that had been tabledto the 2021-22 fiscal yearout of concern for budgetshortfalls as a result of thepandemic.

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from her father, she left home and family at the age of 14for the bright lights of Honolulu, with the understanding thatgreater opportunities existed in the big city. She attendedMcKinley High School, then graduated from the Universityof Hawaii in 1955 with a degree in Home Economics witha concentration in Dietary Institutional Management, all thewhile supporting herself on a tight budget.Soon after graduation, her big adventure began. She

moved to Boston and proudly worked at the renownedMassachusetts General Hospital as a hospital dietician. Thebig eastern city was such a spectacular delight for the tropicalisland girl. Actually watching Ted Williams play at FenwayPark instead of listening about it through the static of the radiowas astonishing.The adventure continued on to St. Luke’s Hospital in

Chicago. Through mutual friends, she met the love of herlife, Steve Asahino, an orthodontics student at Loyola DentalSchool. The two were married at the University of Chicagoin 1959 and soon got busy building a home and family. Theymoved to Newport Beach in 1960 because it was reminiscentof their beloved native Hawaii, and because Dr. Asahinounderstood the growing area was an ideal location to starthis orthodontics practice. Before long, they had four children:Steven, Karen, Kathryn, and Kenny. They found the time toexplore the world together, travelling throughout the U.S.,Europe, Hong Kong, and Japan, where Dr. Asahino helpedintroduce orthodontics to his ancestral home.Myrtle’s generous Aloha spirit was infectious, and she

made friends far and wide. Many are blessed to be in herOhana. Her philanthropic work at Bowers Museum throughMEDELLAS with other Asian American women brought outthe best of her fundraising skills. She was active in Cal StateFullerton’s Oral History program, recognizing the importanceof preserving stories from the Issei, first generation pioneerswho settled in the LA and Orange County area.Mostly though, she loved a good party. Their home was

often filled with the Hui Aikane (a close group of islandtransplants) and a wide group of other friends, bringing tastypotluck dishes, ukuleles, and raising the spirit of Aloha.When Dr. Asahino unexpectedly passed away in 1985, her

large Ohana became all the more important to Myrtle. Shewas a charter member of “TheWalkers,” a group of fellow ladyvolunteers from the 1984 Olympics who can still be seen tothis day walking the early morning streets of Dover Shoresand solving the world’s problems. Her family grew with thearrival of her grandchildren Paul, Cole, Malia, Claire, Eliza,and Nuala. She was a loving and nurturing grandmother,being an integral positive influence in each of their lives.Theirkind and generous hearts are Myrtle’s legacy.Myrtle’s generous spirit and positive outlook knew no

limits. When she was given lemons, she would literally makea delicious lemon meringue pie and return it as a gift. Shecouldn’t stand to see anyone lonely. If she knew a remoteacquaintance who would be alone during the holidays, shewould invite them over for one of her famous Christmasparties. She was always quick to laugh, and to make us laughwith her unique insights and good humor. We were blessedwith her charming smile up until the very end.We are saddened to see her pass, but comforted knowing

she is reunited with her departed loved ones. The angels andthe saints are going to love her lemon meringue pie.Myrtle is survived by brother Isamu (Ruth)Yoshioka, sisters

Janet Nagasako and Cherry (Jerry) Kobashigawa; childrenSteven, Karen (Dan) Selleck, Kathryn (Rich) Tait, and Kenny(Catherine); grandchildren Paul Selleck, Cole Tait, ClaireSelleck, Malia Asahino, Eliza Tait, and Nuala Asahino; plusnumerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in deathby parents Masato and Shige Yoshioka, beloved husbandSteve Asahino, and sister Misao “Sue” Rivera. Her life will behonored with a private grave side ceremony. Once restrictionsare lifted, Myrtle’s life will be celebrated with a large party, asshe would have liked.In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution to the

Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County in memory ofMyrtle at https://www.yourfooddrive.org/drive.php?myrtles_food_drive

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During the board meet-ing, Magnuson provided ashort update on the transi-tion from Phase 1 (distancelearning) to Phase 2 (hybridlearning). He said the dis-trict currently has a sub-stantial inventory of PPEsupplies on-site, including34,000 disposable adultface masks, 10,900 dispos-able children’s face masks,4,000 bottles of hand sani-tizer, 2,400 face shields,11,000 cloth student facemasks and 4,400 cloth adultface masks. He said schooloffices have been outfittedwith plexiglass barriers.

Magnuson said an addi-tional $1 million has beenearmarked for PPE and cus-todial services.

Magnuson said more de-tails concerning safety inPhase 2 would be providedby Oct. 6. Having that timewill allow the district towork out glitches in the dis-tance learning program andconsider different hybridprograms including an“AM/PM” model, wherekids come on campus inthe morning or afternoon,he said.

“You [the board of trust-ees] asked us to learn fromother districts, and that’swhat we’re doing in this pe-riod,” he said. “We’re inconsultation with no lessthan a half-dozen schooldistricts on what they’re do-ing.”

Magnuson wrote in anemail Wednesday that thedecision to bring backHuntington Beach CitySchool District students noearlier than Oct. 26 “reflectsan abundance of cautionfor the health and safety ofstudents and staff.”

“The board was mindfulof the local post-MemorialDay increases in COVIDcases, and in their discus-sion expressed concernabout a potential post-La-bor Day COVID increasethat would be disruptive toschool reopening,” Magnu-son wrote in the email. “Ad-ditionally, the board ex-pressed a keen interest tosupport high quality stu-dent instruction, includingtime to successfully imple-ment our Phase 1 distancelearning model before tran-sitioning to the Phase 2 hy-brid model.”

The Orange CountyHealth Care Agency onWednesday reported 26new deaths due toCOVID-19, bringing thecounty’s death toll to 1,176.

Of the deaths reportedWednesday, six were skillednursing facility residents,two were assisted living fa-cility residents and 18 wereresidents not living in a fa-cility.

Overall, there were 156new positive tests reportedWednesday, leaving OrangeCounty at 52,538 cumula-tive cases. Of those cases,an estimated 47,367 peoplehave recovered.

Jennifer Shea, who hasthree sons who are studentsat either Hawes Elementaryor Sowers Middle School,attended Tuesday’s rally.While some chanted, “Nomore Zoom, open theroom!” Shea held up a signthat read, “It’s OK to cheaton this one. Copy FountainValley’s plan.”

“My kids are definitelysuffering,” Shea said. “The

teachers are wonderful, butmy kids are getting phys-ically sick, getting head-aches being on Zoom for solong. If they’re allowed to goback safely, why haven’t we?It’s just the frustration ofnot having any clarity.”

HBCSD board membersuniformly said during theirboard meeting closing re-marks that they understoodparents’ frustration.

“I also feel that samefrustration at the speed atwhich things are takingplace,” board memberDiana Marks said.

“But what I do know isthat the staff has beenworking 24-7 to get wherewe are today. It has taken alot of work, and I knowpeople like to compare usto other districts, but we dohave a smaller staff thanother districts do.”

Board Vice PresidentBridget Kaub said thatcommunication was im-

portant, even to the pointof overcommunicating,when more informationwas available.

“If we can have a verycomprehensive answer toso many of these questionsthat continue to be posedon [Oct. 6], I think that willalleviate a lot of these ques-tions and stress,” she said.

Protesters left their signsat the doorstep of the dis-trict building, to be foundby board members as theyleft the building. Helliwellsaid her desire was that thesigns would not be neededagain.

“I hope that we don’thave to be out here again,and that our kids will besafe in class sooner ratherthan later,” she said. “If[Fountain Valley] can goback, and they’re right nextdoor, why are we not pre-pared?”

Some parents may not bewilling to wait. Gina Clay-

ton-Tarvin, president of theOcean View School Districtboard of trustees, said in atext message that severalparents have contacted herto help transfer their kidsout of HBCSD and intoOVSD.

“We have obliged, as webelieve in school choice,”she said.

ORANGE COUNTYCOVID-19 STATS

Here are the latest cumu-lative coronavirus casecounts and COVID-19deaths for select cities inOrange County:

• Santa Ana: 10,114 cases;271 deaths

• Anaheim: 8,958 cases;254 deaths

• Huntington Beach:2,371 cases; 71 deaths

• Costa Mesa: 1,785 cases;29 deaths

• Irvine: 1,635 cases; 12deaths

• Newport Beach: 1,110

cases; 22 deaths• Fountain Valley: 501

cases; 16 deaths• Laguna Beach: 212

cases; fewer than fivedeaths

Here are the case countsby age group, followed bydeaths:

• 0 to 17: 3,670 cases; onedeath

• 18 to 24: 7,902 cases;four deaths

• 25 to 34: 11,347 cases; 17deaths

• 35 to 44: 8,401 cases; 32deaths

• 45 to 54: 8,481 cases; 103deaths

• 55 to 64: 6,312 cases; 169deaths

• 65 to 74: 3,148 cases;240 deaths

• 75 to 84: 1,795 cases; 251deaths

• 85 and older: 1,437cases; 359 deaths

Updated figures areposted daily at occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/coronavirus-in-oc.

For information on get-ting tested, visitoccovid19.ochealthinfo.com/covid-19-testing.

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