An outdoor gallery of murals at the Blue Lot, curated by Ruben Salazar, seeks to amplify the voices and stories of the unseen communities of Santa Ana.
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department cordoned off a section of Fountain Valley’s Mile Square Regional Park on Friday after parkgoers discovered a body floating facedown in a lake on the north end of the property.
Sgt. Todd Hylton confirmed an O.C. Parks ranger received a call about 10:45 a.m. from visitors who were boating on the park’s North Lake when they saw something in the water.
“From what I understand the [reporting parties] were in a swan boat,” Hylton said Friday afternoon from the scene, where members of the department’s Homicide Detail had taped off the shoreline and closed the area to visitors.
For Derek King and many like him, Mary’s Kitchen is a sanctuary.
King, who has been homeless for nearly a decade, found Mary’s Kitchen in Orange when he had reached his limit. Physically and spiritually malnourished, he was ready to give up.
Mary’s Kitchen provided him with food, a shower and clothing. It helped restore something that many homeless people have had to relinquish: Dignity.
He found meaning again, in the relationships he made and the spirituality fostered by the nonprofit’s leadership. “There’s times when the fear of living for nothing will strangle you,” King said.
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A civic conundrum is unfolding on Newport Beach’s Balboa Peninsula just in time for the Fourth of July, as the city’s code enforcement team considers removing a flagpole with a long but somewhat mysterious provenance for encroaching onto publicly owned land.
Officers responding to a complaint arrived this week to a row of homes along the oceanfront Newport Balboa Bike Trail, where the U.S. and California state flags flapped freely atop a flagpole mounted into a sandy beach berm.
Neighbors say the pole has probably been there since around the time the nearby houses were built in the 1950s.