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Five things San Clemente should know this week Road Reconfiguration Plan in North Beach Dies in Gridlock THE LATEST: A proposed plan to reduce the North Beach stretch of El Camino Real from two lanes in both directions down to one on each side has been put on ice, as the city council on Tuesday, May 5, encountered a logjam over the project.

In a 2-2 split, acting Mayor Laura Ferguson and Councilmember Gene James voted to turn down the proposal, while Councilmembers Chris Hamm and Kathy Ward wanted to move ahead with the reconfiguration.

The project, which had come at the request of a group of residents from North Beach last year, was to turn El Camino Real into a two-lane highway—one lane in each direction—starting from El Portal and continuing north to Avenida Estacion, where the road already converts to one lane.

According to the city, the reconfiguration, including the dedication of Class II bicycle lanes, was meant to slow, or calm, traffic, as well as make the area bicycleand pedestrian-friendly, giving it more of a “neighbored” feel.

“The addition of Class II bicycle lanes provide a dedicated space for cyclists while also increasing motorist recognition that they are using the roadway,” the city said in its report to the council.

Advocating for the plan, Hamm and Ward stressed that it would be beneficial to both the residential and business community in North Beach, as slower traffic and more pedestrians would bring people to the local shops.

“It’s not only going to be good for the businesses, but it’s going to create a more walkable community in North Beach, which I think, ultimately, we all want,” Hamm said, adding: “For me, the motivation isn’t to create more bike lanes; the motivation is to create a more walkable, enjoyable community—something that will bring community not only to the residents but to the businesses.”

Based on conversations he said he had with a handful of shops in the area, James contended that “there is a large contingent of businesses who are adamantly opposed to this.”

Ferguson raised the issue of the reduced lanes creating traffic congestion.

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Uncertainty over when sporting events will be allowed to have spectators has prompted the organizers of the San Clemente Ocean Festival to postpone this year’s competition to 2021. Photo: Fred Swegles

bility and be more pedestrian-friendly, but I just think this is the wrong location to do it,” she said. “And to remove lanes, it will increase traffic. . . . I don’t see it having the outcome that we anticipate.”

During the council’s budget talks ahead of Fiscal Year 2019-2020, councilors directed staff to analyze the North Beach residents’ proposal, looking at the merits to see if the project was feasible, Public Works Director Tom Bonigut explained at the May 5 meeting, which was conducted via teleconference.

Based on the analysis Senior Civil Engineer Nestor Mangohig and his team conducted, using 2030 traffic projections, a reconfigured El Camino Real “still performs at acceptable levels of service, so the concept does work,” Bonigut told the council.

Construction along El Camino Real is currently underway as part of a project that was approved in the FY 2019-20 budget to repair and rehabilitate portions of the road. That repair project is scheduled to wrap up by around Memorial Day weekend, according to the city.

With the road repair project nearing completion, Bonigut stressed that the city needed an answer from the council regarding the lane reconfiguration, as the contractor would be soon restriping the street.

“We will be restriping that street in the near future, so we need to know to either put it back the same way or put it back the new way,” Bonigut said.

He had also noted that the North Beach Community Association, a nonprofit comprising residents and business owners in the area, had recently withdrawn their previous support for the reconfiguration.

“Not because they don’t want to do it, but

because they don’t feel the time is right, right now,” Bonigut said in clarification.

Ferguson had considered tabling the decision until the next council meeting, so she could have a chance to hear from more North Beach residents and businesses.

Bonigut said that while the city was coming up to the wire on the decision, it could afford to wait one more meeting.

He also said that if the council decided to hold off altogether, it could change its mind in the future. If that was the case, however, the city would be looking at about $250,000 to conduct the restriping and reconfiguration.

At the end of the deliberations, however, James motioned to reject the city staff’s recommendation for the project, resulting in the 2-2 stalemate.

WHAT’S NEXT: The next regular city council meeting is scheduled for May 19 at 6 p.m.—Shawn Raymundo

44th Ocean Festival Postponed to 2021 THE LATEST: In light of the ongoing public health crisis, this year’s San Clemente Ocean Festival will be postponed to 2021, organizers of the annual ocean-based competition announced on Tuesday, May 12.

The 44th Ocean Fest had been scheduled for the weekend of July 18-19; however, the organizers didn’t feel confident the state of California would be at Stage 4 of the governor’s reopening plan by then.

“We don’t feel confident that the state will be at Phase 4 in time for the event, and it would be too difficult to enforce face

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masks and safe distancing,” Executive Director Peggy Vance explained to the San Clemente Times.

Ocean Fest President Jeff Beasley echoed that point, noting that with the size of the festival, which draws large crowds to San Clemente’s beaches every summer, there wouldn’t be a safe way to hold the event responsibly.

This past weekend, Gov. Gavin Newsom moved the state into the second phase of his four-stage road map for reopening businesses. Under Stage 2, retail shops have been allowed to reopen with modifications.

Per the governor’s road map, Stage 4 would completely lift the stay-at-home order and reopen the highest-risk workplaces, such as concert venues, convention centers and live-audience sporting events, including Ocean Fest.

The Ocean Fest has now been rescheduled for July 17-18, 2021—marking the first time “The Greatest Show on Surf” has ever been postponed or canceled.

WHAT’S NEXT: For the time being, the Ocean Fest team will soon be calling on the would-be competitors to use their social channels to share their summertime experiences at the ocean. Ocean Fest will post those experiences on its social networks as well, showcasing the various ocean swims and tandem boogie rides the competitors are doing on their own.

“We’ll be posting on our Facebook page . . . sharing fun experiences that the athletes are doing to participate in at the beach during the summer,” Vance said.

More information on that is soon to follow, according to the Ocean Fest team.—SR sanclementetimes.com

EYE ON SC Victims in Homicide Investigations Identified; No Suspects Reported THE LATEST: Authorities have recently identified the victims in two separate homicide investigations in San Clemente.

According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, 56-year-old Wendy Diane Massau was the woman whose body surfers had found in the waters off North Beach on March 18.

And 47-year-old Christian Zamora has been identified as the victim who was reportedly killed in his San Clemente home on the 3000 block of Calle Frontera on April 25.

“Both cases are still pending investigations,” said OCSD spokesperson Carrie Braun.

As of Tuesday, May 12, OCSD did not have any details regarding potential suspects to report, nor had the causes of death for both individuals been reported.

At around 8 a.m. on March 18—the day of Massau’s birthday—surfers had located her body floating off San Clemente’s North Beach coast, according to OCSD. Investigators, Braun previously told the San Clemente Times, considered the death suspicious and would be working to “determine the circumstances surrounding her death.”

A month later, homicide investigators began looking into the death of Zamora, who was found by deputies inside his home around 10:30 p.m. on April 25. According to OCSD, deputies were called to the Calle Frontera home in response to calls of a disturbance.

Upon arrival, the deputies attempted to make contact with the resident inside the home, but there was no response. Later, the deputies were able to enter the home, where they located Zamora’s body.

No other individuals were inside Zamora’s home when authorities entered, according to OCSD. Anyone with information regarding the incidents can contact OCSD at 714.647.7000. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to OC Crime Stoppers at 1.855.847.6227.—SR

City Anticipates Minimal Impact to Fiscal Year Revenue from Pandemic THE LATEST: While the ongoing public health crisis is expected to cost the city of San Clemente about $2.5 million in general fund revenue for Fiscal Year 20192020, city officials expressed confidence that the fiscal year will close in June with minimal impact.

“I think it’s safe to say— and we can say with confidence—that we’ll be able to close out the current fiscal year with very little impact,” Assistant City Manager Erik San Clemente Times May 14-20, 2020

Sund told the council on Tuesday, May 5.

According to the current fiscal year budget, the city is projected to collect about $67.6 million in general fund revenue, with $35.63 million (or roughly 53%) coming from property taxes.

Another $10.13 million was projected to come from sales taxes.

“Our revenue structure is very unique, and in this case, a good revenue structure,” Sund said of the city’s budget, adding that the city isn’t significantly dependent on sales taxes or transient occupancy taxes (TOT).

Financial Services Officer Jake Rahn told the council on May 5 that while the city doesn’t expect to see any significant impacts to property-tax revenue this fiscal year, the effects of the pandemic on the revenue stream will likely be felt in Fiscal Year 2021-2022.

“Basically, we have another year out and should be able to get a better understanding of where things are at that time,” Rahn said.

Sund noted that though the city certainly expects there to be impacts related to the coronavirus pandemic, staff is “having a hard time forecasting or identifying those specific impacts.”

“We have had a meeting with our sales tax adviser, and they indicated that they, too, are still waiting to understand the true impacts,” Sund said.

City staff, he said, is expected to come back to the council during the May 19 meeting to present the latest quarterly report, which should provide a better picture on how sales-tax revenue will fare amid the crisis.

To cover costs related to locally addressing COVID-19, the council last month voted to reactivate a disaster relief fund, setting aside $500,000 from the city’s general fund and general liability fund.

According to Sund, the city has so far spent about $62,000 of those monies, which paid for additional janitorial services such as deep cleaning and disinfecting public facilities, respirator supplies, sanitizer, gloves for field staff, barricades for closures and caution tape.

“And all of those are being tracked, because we will be submitting them for (federal) reimbursement for the COVID-19 related transactions,” Sund said.

In the report on the financial impacts, the city pointed out that it does have an Emergency Reserve of $13.4 million, as well as an additional $4 million in unassigned funds.

“This does not mean the City should utilize this reserve automatically and take no actions,” the city said in its report, which went on to emphasize that “cost mitigation efforts and actions have, and are, being put in place.”

Highlighting some of those mitigation efforts, Sund said the city’s fiscal year budget should be balanced come June 30—when FY 2019-20 ends.

“So, currently, we’re freezing in

funding all currently vacant or unfilled positions, we’re reducing and limiting the schedule of part-time/hourly positions, (and) we’re reducing travel and training budget,” he said, adding: “We’re reducing capital improvement commitments … and we’re also reassessing funding provided for non-city entities for potential delay, reduction or cancellation.”

Adding to Sund’s presentation, Rahn said the city usually ends the fiscal year with slightly higher revenue—about 1.5% to 2% above projections—while coming in about 2% to 3% under anticipated spending.

“We’re going to be coming in at a much tighter operating position,” Rahn said of the current fiscal year, which budgeted $71.6 million in general fund expenditures.

San Clemente collected about $2.5 million more in expected revenue for Fiscal Year 2018-19 and spent roughly $2.3 million less than what had been budgeted for that year, San Clemente Times previously reported.

Rhan added that the impacts on sales tax and TOT in the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 budget will ultimately depend on the length of the pandemic and how the state begins to phase out of the stay-at-home orders with businesses reopening.

The council will convene a workshop on Wednesday, May 27, to discuss the city’s proposed FY 2020-21 budget. Sund said the budget will include ongoing shortfall mitigation measures, such as reducing funding for certain capital improvement projects.

The council on May 5 gave staff a short list of priorities for the proposed fiscal year budget ahead of the workshop That list included not wanting to see any cuts to public safety and not wanting to dip into any of the city’s reserves before first making reductions in discretionary spending, as well as identifying capital improvement projects that can be delayed.

WHAT’S NEXT: The next regular city council meeting is scheduled for May 19 at 6 p.m.—SR

The Coach House Live-Streams During COVID-19 Pandemic THE LATEST: The Coach House has been forced to scrap planned concerts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but they are still serving as an entertainment platform for the masses.

Doug Starks and Jim Taylor hosted a live-streamed entertainment show from the San Juan Capistrano venue on Saturday, May 9. The show was broadcast on alerttheglobe.com and featured jokes, discussions, interviews and live music.

The plan is to broadcast live shows every Saturday at 5 p.m.

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Doug Starks and Jim Taylor host a live-streamed entertainment show from The Coach House on Saturday, May 9. Photo: Collin Breaux

of what happens next. The global economic crisis has also hit home for The Coach House, according to owner Gary Folgner.

“It’s not doing a damn thing,” Folgner said regarding the lack of concerts at the South Orange County venue. “Until (officials) decide to let entertainment go, we won’t be doing anything. Up until this stuff started, we were doing great. It’s probably the best year we’ve ever had.”

The Coach House has hosted wellknown musical acts over the years, including B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Chris Isaak, Pat Boone, and the punk band X—among many concerts that have drawn standingroom crowds. Usually, the venue is packed with patrons seated at tables, enjoying meals while listening to music.

During the May 9 show, most of the chairs were unoccupied at the venue, which is closed to the public, and the only people there were working on the live show. Folgner said the economic crisis has impacted the venue by close to $500,000.

“They’ve cut my rent in half for two months, but I think we’ve got another seven or eight months to go before we have any chance at all,” Folgner said. “When they start letting football and baseball play to audiences, then we can probably start going.”

Folgner criticized media coverage of the crisis, saying reports have made it “bigger than it really is,” which discourages people from going out. He also cited comparative death rates from smoking, said previous health crises did not get such coverage and criticized the temporary shutdown of Orange County beaches.

As for the May 9 show, actor and entertainer Mark Christopher Lawrence and therapist Martine Evans were guests.

Dennis Jones Band provided musical entertainment.

Starks and Taylor discussed movie roles and mental health with Lawrence and Evans.

The hosts and guests spoke while sitting on stage in chairs, in front of a photo backdrop of San Juan Capistrano taken by local photographer Scott Schmitt.

Starks said he has been meditating and looking at the ocean every day during the pandemic.

“I’m really excited about doing this, because this has been a community effort,” Starks said.—Collin Breaux sanclementetimes.com

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Beach Run Challenge and Cancer Walk Moved to August The American Cancer Society’s 5K Beach Run Challenge and Cancer Walk of Support, initially scheduled for this Saturday, May 16, at the beach near the San Clemente Pier, has been moved to Aug. 8 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

According to the event’s GoFundMe page, organizers intend to adapt social distancing guidelines, potentially changing the format for both the 5K run and beach walk by having rolling individual starts and timing.

The event “will be adapted to COVID compliance,” the event page said. “The health of every participant is a priority, (but) cancer doesn’t go on hold! It can’t be postponed!

Immune-compromised cancer patients appreciate our support more than ever!”

The event is meant to help support the ACS’s lifesaving research and local services for cancer patients in Orange County.

All of the proceeds are to go to support the Relay for Life campaign.

Participants can choose to either run in the 5K Beach Run Challenge or walk with family and friends along the beach trail in the Walk of Support.

The 5K run will loop from Linda Lane to Calafia Beach and back. The walk will loop from the pier to Calafia and back on the beach trail. Participants can do a portion of the walk, or simply donate to the cause.

The 5K is for adults, 18 and older. A youth waiver with a parent’s signature will be needed for anyone under 18 who is walking or volunteering.

More information on how to participate and donate for the event can be found at charity.gofundme.com/sc5krunwalk. Organizers encourage those looking to participate to check with the site periodically for updates, as it works with the city and ACS for the August event.

Golf Club Raises Funds to Support Municipal Course Employees Nearly $18,000 was raised in donations to supplement the income of the bar staff and teaching pros at the San Clemente Municipal Golf Course, which had closed for several weeks amid stay-at-home orders to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

The San Clemente Municipal Golf Course Men’s Club put on the fundraiser through a GoFundMe page, raising $17,739 with the help of 225 individuals from both the men’s club and the women’s club, Club President Kurt Luebke told the San Clemente Times.

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A group of residents from a neighborhood near Trestles visits Leo Larsen, one of the neighborhood’s oldest residents, on Monday, May 11, as part an ongoing effort to support the elderly staying inside amid the pandemic. Photo: Courtesy of Cory Scurlock

According to Luebke, the club has more than 700 members who use the municipal course as its home course, which hosts more than 35 annual tournaments and competitions a year. The club, he said, has an outstanding relationship with the professional teaching staff, the pro shop workers and bar staff who were out of work for roughly seven weeks.

The city closed the course, along with other city-owned or city-operated facilities, on March 16. The course was reopened to the public on May 2.

Luebke said the club has been working on dispersing the money to the employees and should be wrapping up those payments by end of the week.

neighborhood long ago.”

Scurlock said the neighbors exchanged stories with the Larsens and encouraged them to stay in touch with those in the neighborhood. Leo Larsen, she said, cautioned the group about motorists speeding down Avenida San Luis Rey. Scurlock wrote that the group had planned to also visit with another neighbor who is 90 years old, but upon going to her home, the next-door neighbor notified them that she had recently fallen and was in rehabilitation.

She is “expected to make a full recovery and return home sometime in the next two weeks,” Scurlock said, adding that the group will visit her then and offer any support she might need from the neighborhood.

Trestles Neighborhood Group Visits Elderly Residents

Levin, Local Mayors Call on Congress for Funding to Smaller Municipalities

During these trying times for the elderly staying indoors to socially distance themselves and prevent the spread of COVID-19, a group of residents near Trestles are banding together to visit with those neighbors by keeping them company—from a safe distance of 6 feet.

On Monday, May 11, Cory Scurlock and a few other neighbors paid a visit to Dale and Leo Larsen, two of the neighborhood’s oldest residents, she said. Outside the home, the Larsens showed off pictures of the neighborhood back when their house was built in 1969.

“The Larsens are in their 80s now and encouraged us to plant our roots in San Clemente long- term,” Scurlock told San Clemente Times in an email. “To be cautious, we all stood 6 feet apart and didn’t shake hands. . . . The kids particularly seemed to enjoy their stories of their

U.S. Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) and a bipartisan coalition of nine local mayors, including acting Mayor Laura Ferguson, reiterated their call on Thursday, May 7, for direct federal funding to stabilize smaller counties, cities, and towns—specifically, those with populations under 500,000.

Their call supports several letters that Levin and House colleagues sent to Congressional leadership requesting funding for small municipalities, which are struggling with costs and declining revenues due to COVID-19.

“The essential public services that cities provide are critical for our health and security, yet many smaller cities have been cut off from federal, aid and they are desperate for a lifeline,” Levin said in a press release. “While the CARES Act included funding for states and large cities, it wasn’t enough, and it’s time for House and Sen-

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PRESCHOOL ZOOM CIRCLE TIME 10-10:30 a.m. Serra Parent-Participation Preschool hosts this weekly preschool circle time as a fun way for young children to engage in fingerplays, songs, flannel stories, books, music and movement, and more. Security settings will be enabled upon entering the Zoom circle time. Email serra.coop.preschool@gmail.com for the Zoom Meeting ID. serrapreschool.org

ate leadership to rectify that.”

The next coronavirus relief package that Congress passes must provide more money to cities, and it must set aside funding for cities with fewer than 500,000 residents, Levin said.

Levin said he hopes to pass additional relief legislation with direct stabilization funding to localities with populations under 500,000, and to lower the threshold for direct funding through the Coronavirus Relief Fund.

“We have worked day and night throughout this crisis to maintain critical public services and protect the health, safety, and economic security of our people,” stated the letter signed by the mayors. “As the pandemic erodes our traditional sources of local revenue, we have risen to the occasion to serve the individuals and families who call our cities home. We need the federal government to step up.”

The coalition of mayors also includes San Juan Capistrano Mayor Troy Bourne and Dana Point Mayor Richard Viczorek.

The cities of Carlsbad, Del Mar, Encinitas, Oceanside, Solana Beach and Vista were also represented.

“We are calling on Congress and the President to provide direct aid to our cities in order to offset lost revenues and unexpected costs during this unprecedented time. The health and well-being of our people depend on it,” the letter stated.

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Our Health and the New Normal

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rior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world faced other issues, including the mental health crisis and significant chronic diseases that have led to life-altering disabilities and deaths and are still major challenges that make us more vulnerable to this virus.

While we acclimate to social distancing, wearing masks in public and working/ schooling from home, many are still fighting the very things that can help us counter this disease and its harmful effects—our food and exercise choices.

While our busy lives typically kept us away from family and friends, along with focusing on our health, this pandemic halted life as we knew it, exacerbating these issues. With the opportunity to plan visits with loved ones currently taken away in the attempt to “flatten the curve,” we now long for those connections.

Kids will be the first to admit that snow days, or other scenarios, that might have keep them out of school for a day or two, were the best surprises ever. But after weeks of being forced to stay home, with video games no longer taboo and bedtimes eased, they miss their friends and their routines.

Human beings crave schedules and some sense of normalcy. From an early age, we seem to thrive by establishing habits that provide structure to our lives. Pre-COVID, we saw the overscheduling of activities, paired with overconsumption of social media, increasing anxiety and depression across the board.

As we combine this current crucible with establishing a new normal in so many areas in our lives, I will once again challenge you to consider moving toward a healthier approach with your food and fitness routines.

It is the perfect time for change.

As a nutrition and fitness professional, I have had the opportunity in the past few months to engage with people who previously didn’t have “time” to consider their nutrition and exercise pre-COVID— and for that, I could not be more thrilled.

So much of what I do with my clients involves psychology, the human mind and its attachment to HEALTH AND food, as well as physioloNUTRITION 101 gy—how the body reacts to

By Gina Cousineau the food it is provided. Before quarantine, many of my clients’ struggles with life’s daily challenges had them running to food to feel better. But as the public health crisis creates additional uncertainty, all bets are off, and using food and other substances for comfort is at an all-time high.

In life, we generally did a good job of directing our individual paths, but when obstacles get in our way, too many of us don’t have the tools to maneuver around them. This is where I talk about “controlling that which we can control.”

We can decide to use food, not only for

comfort, enjoying every morsel we put in our mouths, but also to drive our health. We can also choose to move our bodies in some capacity daily, improving our health in this way, as well.

It is not all or none; it is about “some.”

Some healthy habits are better than none, and there is no better time than now, since most of us have it in abundance right now.

So instead of waiting till Monday to start that new diet, depriving yourself of select food groups and restricting calories, I challenge you to do the following:

crisis. There are no valid reasons here in California for the continued enforcement of self-isolation and social distancing. There are many compassionate reasons to reopen.

Government-mandated lockdown reduces herd immunity, which is needed to triumph over this virus. Compassion would encourage herd immunity. Control will demand vaccines.

Prolonged isolation is destroying our immune systems, putting our country’s citizens at risk for more illnesses besides this one particular virus.

Compassion would encourage healthy immunity systems, by going out in public, interacting considerately and wisely with our communities, enjoying nature, being active, getting plenty of sunshine and perhaps, most importantly, providing for our families.

Control denies these basics and offers monetary supplementing at the risk of our health and well-being.

Lockdowns do not stop transmission; it just slows it down. Therefore, more at-risk people are at risk for a longer period of time. Where is the compassion in that?

Sunlight kills the COVID-19 virus per a new government study that the Department of Homeland Security says could eventually change public policy. California is known for her sunshine.

Opening our hospitals, permitting “elective surgeries,” is compassionate and will save lives. Control is causing our medical professionals to be either overworked or furloughed.

We don’t need to wait for testing; we don’t need to wait for vaccines. Criminals didn’t have to wait; they got their freedom.

Was that compassion, or control?

• Drink more water • Get more quality sleep • Exercise each day • Practice stress reduction • Eliminate soda • Say no to non-nutritive sweeteners • Stop purchasing highly processed foods Gina Cousineau works with clients virtually and is offering her services at no charge during the pandemic. Her extensive education with a BS in dietetics and MS in integrative and functional nutrition, chef training, and more than 30 years as a fitness professional, allow her to help clients with finding a practical nutrition that works for their lifestyle. You can reach her at mamag@ mamagslifestyle.com, 949.842.9975, and on Instagram and Facebook @mamagslifestyle. SC PLEASE NOTE: In an effort to provide our readers with a wide variety of opinions from our community, the SC Times provides Guest Opinion opportunities in which selected columnists’ opinions are shared. The opinions expressed in these columns are entirely those of the columnist alone and do not reflect those of the SC Times or Picket Fence Media. If you would like to respond to this column, please email us at editorial@sanclementetimes.com

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It’s not about compassion; it is about control. It is not compassionate to deprive people their livelihood, their ambition, their passion, their business or their profession. No amount of government money fills the soul with meaning and purpose.

It is control to close businesses and places of employment. It is about control to enforce the wearing of masks. There may have been a time early on, when we had to rely on models and experts, but now we have hard data. Now there is no other reason besides control.

Attorney General Barr affirmed that the Constitution is not suspended in times of

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EDITOR’S NOTE: According to the Washington Post, William N. Bryan, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the Homeland Security Department, outlined last month some findings of recent lab studies that indicate the novel coronavirus, when exposed to high amounts of ultraviolet light, doesn’t survive for very long on certain surfaces and in the air. The results of those studies had not been peerreviewed when Bryan presented the information during a White House press briefing. sanclementetimes.com

SOAPBOX GOV. NEWSOM, OPEN THIS ECONOMY GREGG NEWBURY, San Clemente

You asked us to stay home. We learned a new term when we had to go out: social distancing. The object was to “flatten the curve,” you said. Just a few weeks so as not to overwhelm the hospitals.

We did that successfully for two months.

You pushed the goalposts out further to somewhere between getting a vaccine and obtaining a zero coronavirus death rate.

Both objectives are impossible.

If there were no costs to staying home, then we could stay home forever. But there are costs. The costs are tremendous, possibly irreversible.

Many, many businesses won’t be here when we open up as it is; the longer we stay out, the fewer businesses will sustain this shutdown. These are lives ruined.

Your favorite restaurant downtown will be shuttered. Bars and night clubs. Hospitals.

Manufacturing. Shops. Millions will remain on unemployment until it runs out. Homelessness. Suicides. Domestic violence. Drugs.

Alcoholism. Depression. Robberies. Murder.

We bent the curv,e and now you are asking for more. Shutting down the largest commerce in the union is easy. You should use your ingenuity and science to figure a way to open this state back up. Flatten the unemployment curve. Flatten the economic curve.

Some people make it a choice between staying home and dying. That is a false assumption. A Stanford study showed the death rate is extremely lower than 1%.

Lower than driving on the 405. Lower than the common flu. Lower than most anything.

You will get some help from science, if you let it. Sunlight, heat, and fresh air are all thought to be anathema to coronavirus, and we are coming into summer. Open our beaches. We found a way to keep supermarkets open by wearing masks, following the decals on the floor, plastic shields between worker and customer.

Now open all retail. Anything without dinein should be a no-brainer; large gatherings will require more thought, but that can be done. Open up the other-than-retail workplaces as well; get people back to being productive again. Some have to pay rent. Study other states opening up. Open this state now.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Based on a sampling of 3,300 Santa Clara residents who received antibody tests in early April, a team of Stanford University researchers believes the findings suggest the virus has a fatality rate of between 0.12% and 0.2%, much closer to the death rate of the flu, which is 0.1%. Other statisticians, epidemiologists and infectious disease experts have questioned the Stanford study, which had not been peer-reviewed. Skeptics of the study note that the math isn’t consistent with other cities, such as New York City.

WHAT’S HAPPENING TO SAN CLEMENTE? JUDY JONES, San Clemente

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ing seemed to not oppose the state’s and county’s social distancing directives. If we do otherwise, the legal precedent is not in our favor. I strongly feel that we can’t stand alone in opening our beaches and businesses any sooner than our neighboring cities.

From the May 1 city council meeting, I learned that we were working with other beach communities on a coordinated opening approach. Yes, we all want to get back to the beach. I also learned that Gov. Newsom mentioned things are looking good for some changes soon in coordination with all of California and with neighboring states. A letter to the governor with our detailed plans helped the solution.

But, what is being done to assist our businesses? Why aren’t we pressuring the Small Business Administration and banks to accept the applications for loans, which can become grants, from our small businesses?

And, even applying for federal resources to support the budget of our city?

Obviously, without tax revenue from sales tax, how do we pay for our police, our garbage collection and even special city council meetings?

Most important is the major job of our elected city officials—to keep us safe.

We can’t see the invisible enemy, and we need to pay attention to science. When the scientists tell us the COVID-19 cases are decreasing and we have treatment and prevention, including testing availability, then I will feel safe. Not before.

As a part of that safety, we should be addressing the nursing homes and other senior care facilities. What efforts are being made by our city for those hot spots?

I am not feeling safe in San Clemente when people protest, go to the beach, and go to restaurants with no social distancing; these protesters will not bring my business back to San Clemente shops and restaurants.

I am in the age group categorized as vulnerable and with the most disposable income, so my business will be crucial to the recovery.

Just opening up the beach and businesses without much caution is not enough.

Be patient; go with science.

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Social Distance Shopping Retailers Reopen with Restrictions as California Moves into Stage 2

BY SHAWN RAYMUNDO, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

Judy Orlandella motions to the store clerk at Hobie Surf Shop to point out the item she wants to examine. She’d pick it out herself on this sunny Monday afternoon, May 11, but a table blocks the store entrance, keeping customers out while staff essentially does the shopping for them.

Then came a loud clank from inside, surprising the 53-year-old San Clemente resident, as well as the handful of other shoppers standing by for their turn.

Orlandella quickly expresses concern before she and the others break out into laughter.

“Even when I’m not inside shopping, I’m still breaking things,” an enthused Orlandella said jokingly. “Welcome to social distance shopping.”

Hobie’s setup at its San Clemente storefront on the corner of Avenida del Mar and Ola Vista represents the “new normal”—at least temporarily, many hope—for retail shops amid the ongoing public health crisis.

This past weekend, California moved into the second phase of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reopening plan—the four-stage road map to gradually reopen businesses and soften the state’s stay-at-home restrictions.

Under Stage 2, low-risk workplaces such as retailers, manufacturers and warehouses were permitted to reopen with certain modifications, or limitations. For retailers, that meant offering delivery and curbside pickup services similar to Hobie Surf Shop and other stores in Downtown San Clemente.

“No public is inside, so we’re containing ourselves right now by coming to them,” Hobie Manager Natalie Gamette told San Clemente Times on Monday.

“We’re wearing masks, and the majority of the public is wearing masks, and we’re sanitizing all of the surfaces,” she said, adding that customers are “not coming in and touching the payment. We’re just taking their card and using hand sanitizer.”

In a press release from the governor’s office on Friday, May 8, Newsom said he moved the state into Stage 2 because “Californians, working together, have flattened the curve.”

“Because of that work, our health data tells us that California can enter the next stage of this pandemic and gradually begin to restart portions of our economy,” Newsom said in the release.

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Colton Overin, a store manager for Catch Surf in Downtown San Clemente, works with twins Cacean McAlister (left) and Caiya McAlister (right) as they pick out designs for a surfboard on May 11. Photo: Shawn Raymundo

As of Monday, May 11, California had a total of 69,382 cumulative positive coronavirus cases, with 2,847 related deaths, according to the California Department of Public Health.

Roughly 3,250 people currently afflicted with the virus were being treated in a hospital, including 1,093 in intensive care units.

Per the governor’s road map, counties could move further along into Stage 2 by allowing dine-in restaurants, malls, office buildings and outdoor museums to reopen as long as they can show there have been no reported deaths related to the coronavirus and have had a rate of one case per 10,000 people within a two-week period.

Other caveats would require any county to demonstrate that it has increased testing capacity, meeting a daily minimum of 1.5 tests per 1,000 residents, and has the ability to temporarily house at least 15% of the their homeless population.

More than 1 million people in the state had been tested for the virus as of Monday.

Close to 54,770 of those tested reside here in Orange County, which has a population of roughly 3.22 million.

The number of cumulative positive cases in Orange County reached 3,602 as of Tuesday, May 12, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.

On Tuesday, the county reported 62 new cases since Monday. The county’s hospitals were treating 230 individuals who had contracted the virus, including 100 in ICUs. There was one new reported death on Tuesday, bringing the total to date at 77.

Over the first weekend of reopening, Hobie Surf Shop was “busy, busy,” as many in the community were ready to get out and

shop again, Gamette emphasized.

Just up the street, Catch Surf shop, which has a similar setup to Hobie, also experienced a burst of customers this past weekend.

Colton Overin, a store manager, said the good weather brought some “summertime vibes,” making it seem as if downtown was back to how it normally looks on weekends.

During his daily press briefing this past Friday, Newsom said that about 70% of the state’s economy was allowed to reopen with the modifications. Stage 2, he said, means business owners could begin to “survive and get back on their feet,” while acknowledging that the restrictions would continue to pose a struggle for many hoping to get back to where they were before the pandemic.

Touching on how being allowed to reopen has helped the business so far, Overin said it’s been good, particularly because Catch Surf, as a brand, has a loyal following of customers looking to buy surfboards—something not as easily done online.

“This is the easy way of letting them come pick it up and let them see it in person, whereas online, it’s kind of hard to buy a surfboard,” Overin said. “So coming in here is helpful.”

While those downtown businesses saw a bit of a revival on Del Mar, Lynn Castillo, the owner of the Flip Flop Shops franchise at the Outlets at San Clemente, said foot traffic at the outdoor mall was slow in the first weekend.

“Being here in the Outlets, I’m sure you can see by walking around, we’re one of the few stores open here, so as far as foot traffic goes, obviously it’s very slow,” she said, before noting that many locals who visited the store on Saturday told her “a lot of people are ready to get out, start shopping again.”

CALLING ALL RETAILERS With retail shops now allowed to reopen with modifications and restrictions under the state’s Stage 2 reopening plan, the San Clemente Times is looking to compile a comprehensive list of the area’s retailers that are open for delivery and pickup services.

Similar to the Local Eats list of restaurants, the SC Times would like to provide readers with the same online resource of area shops. The SC Times staff is asking for those retail shops to reach out, letting us know you’re open so that we can add it to the list.

Please contact City Editor Shawn Raymundo at sraymundo@picketfencemedia.com and Sports Editor Zach Cavanagh at zcavanagh@picketfencemedia.com.

“Right now, it’s still new, so it’s slow,” she said, adding: “But I’d give it a week or so. Once things start to open up, we’ll start getting busier. It’s just a matter of maintaining our sanitation, making sure . . . everyone is wearing masks, or everyone is keeping their distance.”

The few stores currently open at the Outlets are allowing customers to walk in. Signage posted on the shops’ doors do instruct visitors to wear face coverings while encouraging social distancing.

Castillo said that assuming foot traffic picks up, she’ll be allowing only 10 customers in the store at a time. For now, with very few people coming to the store, she said social distancing hasn’t been an issue.

“Our shop is really small, so there’s not much we can really do,” she said. “Once we start getting busier, we’ll start letting in only 10 people at a time and having everyone wait outside with the markers. But we’ll cross that bridge . . .”

Newsom also noted this past Friday that just because some businesses can reopen with the limitations, it doesn’t necessarily mean the general public is ready yet to head back out to shop.

“Just because you announce that we have a variation on an opening and people can do curbside pickup and there’s a sense that things are moving again, it doesn’t mean that customers are confident and comfortable yet,” Newsom had said in a press briefing.

Castillo on Monday spoke about allaying some of those concerns customers may have by stating she and her employees will be practicing social distancing guidelines to the best of their ability while also learning how to make customers feel safe.

“The hard part for us is we are very personal people, very personal business. Helping people try on shoes, find products for them, you are in close contact with people,” she said. “So for us, it’s going to be learning what makes other people feel comfortable or learning how to help without causing any sort discomfort or being too close to people who don’t like it.”

When Orlandella visited Downtown San Clemente on Monday afternoon, she said it was her first outing for social distance shopping, with her first stop being Hobie Surf Shop.

“I’m happy to see Hobie open, because Hobie is essentially California and very much San Clemente,” she said. “This was the very first thing I bought. This is the very first thing that I socially distance-shopped for, and it was very seamless; very easy.”

For Orlandella, she said she’s not apprehensive about shopping as long as businesses adopt the same procedures as Hobie, where no one can physically enter the store.

“If it was people going inside, I wouldn’t go inside,” she said, adding: “I feel that it is better that we stay toeing the line and follow all of the safeguards and the protocols, and this is a great way to do it. I have no apprehensions when it comes to something like this, where they just bring it out to me, but if I was in a small space, I would not want to go in.” SC sanclementetimes.com

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CoastLines by Fred Swegles

coast to Australia, five weeks from Australia to Chile and three days from Colombia to Panama.

During Cherokee shipboard time, Alkema and Dubinsky flew home to rejoin their wives, who they insisted were supportive of this boys-will-be-boys adventure.

Aroundthe-World Adventure I

magine taking an 11-year-old Jeep Cherokee—with 165,000 miles on its odometer—on a 34,000-mile journey around the world.

A human-interest story that I wrote about John Alkema’s 2012 adventure was one of the more outlandish tales I shared with readers during 50 years of journalism.

I recently recalled that tale, suddenly and vividly, upon learning that Alkema, a San Clemente resident since 1971, had lost a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer on March 29. He was 75.

You may have read his remarkable life story in an April 9 San Clemente Times obituary. I was intrigued by the obituary. I hadn’t known most of what I read.

“Yes, quite a life welllived!” Alkema’s wife, Linda Verraster, wrote to me when I contacted her for this story.

His life was so interesting that the obituary didn’t even mention the global odyssey that had so astonished me COASTLINES when I wrote about it in

By Fred Swegles 2013.

Fasten your seat belts, folks.

The article was titled “Drive this: 1 Jeep, 34,000 miles, lots of memories.”

The seed for it was planted when Alkema, a retired Los Angeles County firefighter, had challenged himself to try to drive across the United States only on dirt roads.

As of June 20, 2013, when the Orange County Register published my story about him, Alkema had made it to Mount Rushmore.

In 2012, he’d gotten sidetracked, deciding to do something else—take a rumble in his 2001 Jeep Cherokee on roads paved or dirt—around the world.

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THE WINDING ROAD EASTWARD

Clockwise from top: John Alkema in his Jeep Cherokee at Ayers Rock, Australia, during a worldwide adventure in 2012. Alkema photographs his Jeep Cherokee with Ayers Rock, Australia. Alkema in 2005 at California Pass, Colorado, on one leg of his incremental efforts to drive across America using only dirt roads. Photos: Courtesy of Paul Dubinsky, Linda Verraster and Gretchen Alkema

He and friend Paul Dubinsky from South Carolina drove the first 2,700 miles from San Clemente to Baltimore, then put the car on a cargo ship to Germany.

Flying there, they drove to France, then set out to travel east to San Clemente.

Sum total? Four months of driving, five continents, 26 countries, 2,300 gallons of gas, two breakdowns. A 13-month venture, including cargo ship time. Total cost? Around $25,000.

THE BACKSTORY

could Alkema and Dubinsky do to top the banger rally? Take Alkema’s Jeep Cherokee around the world.

A REAL BANGER?

OK, so it was not quite a real banger, I wrote. Alkema estimated it was worth around $3,000, but it was still old enough that he and Dubinsky could walk away from it if something went terribly wrong.

Repairs could be a problem. Vast expanses of Russia would be worlds away from Jeep auto parts. Alkema trusted his beloved Cherokee.

“He and Dubinsky took spare parts— starter, generator, fuel pump, coil, etc.,” I wrote. “When a shock mount broke in Russia, a resourceful mechanic inspected it, and in less than three hours built one from scratch that was better than factory, Dubinsky said.”

The two had met in 2008 during the Alcan Winter Rally, a 5,000-mile journey from Seattle into the Alaskan Arctic. Alkema drove it with his daughter, Gretchen. Dubinsky drove it with his son, Yvon.

Three years later, Alkema and Dubinsky reunited in London to join a British “banger rally,” a caravan of old cars covering 3,000 miles through the Balkans to Bulgaria in an CROSSING THE OCEANS English car they bought for $500.

“The car spent more time without us than Bangers, as the Brits call them, are neceswith us,” Dubinsky said in our 2013 intersarily cheap, so it’s no big deal to leave them view—three at the weeks destinacrossing the tion—mayAtlantic, be donate three weeks them to a from Ruslocal charity.

DIRT ROADS ACROSS AMERICA sia’s Pacific So what After circling the globe, John Alkema resumed an earlier bucket-list goal, crossing America on dirt roads.

Daughter Gretchen says, “I believe he drove most of the way between the coasts, on individual stretches. He used various paper maps and online resources to lay out likely routes.”

Gretchen had joined him on a 2005 leg, crossing Arizona, Colorado and Utah in a Chevy Silverado.

Most memorable, for Gretchen, was Black Bear Pass.

“The top section of Black Bear is known as ‘The Staircase,’ ” she says. “We actually sheered the front tire against the cliff near the top of the trail. Changing out a tire on Black Bear was definitely a memorable moment.

“I’m grateful Dad gave me a sense of adventure, wonder, and reverence for our amazing world through many, many travel adventures. It is something I will always treasure.”

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Departing Paris, Alkema and Dubinsky drove to Italy, Austria and Slovakia. At Kazakhstan, they joined a 2012 banger rally from London to Tashkent. For five days, they reunited with like-minded drivers they’d met in 2011.

“At a fork in the road,” I wrote, “the Americans set off on their own.”

“We’re not very good tourists,” Alkema told me. “We don’t go to museums. We both like to drive.”

WAS IT DANGEROUS?

Alkema described driving the switchbacks of Italy’s Stelvio Pass. He described being pulled over by a Ukrainian cop for speeding, leading to an “extortion” ticket, as Dubinsky described it.

The Americans talked the cop down from 300 Euros to 20 Euros, drawing out the conversation so long the cop just wanted to leave to pursue others, I wrote.

“We never felt threatened,” Alkema told me. The vagabonds rented rooms along the way or camped overnight if unable to find a room.

“One day, they drove 16 hours in Siberia, finding a room after midnight,” I wrote.

AND THE FOOD?

“The travelers stayed healthy, adapting to local foods despite a language barrier and menus they couldn’t read,” I wrote. “At a cafe in Russia, the Americans obviously were confounded over what to order when a diner spoke up, “OK, guys, what do you want?”

Fred Swegles is a longtime San Clemente resident with nearly five decades of reporting experience in the city. Fred can be reached at fswegles@picketfencemedia.com. SC PLEASE NOTE: In an effort to provide our readers with a wide variety of opinions from our community, the SC Times provides Guest Opinion opportunities in which selected columnists’ opinions are shared. The opinions expressed in these columns are entirely those of the columnist alone and do not reflect those of the SC Times or Picket Fence Media. If you would like to respond to this column, please email us at editorial@sanclementetimes.com

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Why Now Is the Perfect Time to Date

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ewly divorced in 1994, I thought finding love after age 50 was going to be easy. I was grossly mistaken.

Dating was challenging and hard work.

Rejection was common. I became so frustrated, I started writing about it.

A quarter-century later, after writing approximately 4,000 newspaper and eNewsletter articles, one thing about senior dating has remained a constant: it’s still a challenge.

One would think that with all of the modern tools available to senior singles—the Internet, a multitude of dating sites such as Match.com, eHarmony, and Senior Singles, cell phones and texting—senior dating would be less challenging now.

Nope, if anything, it’s even more challenging. Why? The dreaded single-women-to-singleON LIFE AND men ratio keeps getting LOVE AFTER 50 larger as we age. And that

By Tom Blake larger ratio is the biggest contributor to the senior-dating challenge.

Especially for mature women. There are fewer and fewer men available.

And during these COVID-19 times, senior dating is even harder. No coffee dates at Starbucks. No first-date strolls on the beach. And for some, like my good friend Les Jones, age 94, who is living at the Atria retirement-home facility adjacent to San Juan Hills Golf Club in San Juan Capistrano, he isn’t even allowed to leave his room. How the heck can Les date?

I reached out to Christine Baumgartner, South Orange County dating and relationship coach, for her opinion on senior dating and sug-

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gestions during these virus-restricted times.

Christine said, “Many people who contact me think they ‘can’t’ date right now. And what I’m clear about, is, it’s the PERFECT time to date. People can meet virtually through FaceTime, Skype, or Zoom. It’s the ideal way to get to know each other without the pressure or concern about getting ‘physical’ too soon.

“Also, one of the biggest complaints among senior singles is when people meet in person, they don’t look like their pictures. Now, they will be able to confirm what the other person looks like before meeting face-to-face.

“There are many fun things to do together (virtually), with a new person:

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• Read books to each other • Learn a language together • Learn to play the same type of musical instrument • Pick a recipe, cook and eat together • Do a craft together—each will get to see how the other one deals with learning something new, with all the possible frustrations • Give each other a virtual house tour (do not give out your address)—just a tour of the inside. Oh, my, what will you learn about each other’s lifestyle!

“And as you are ‘doing’ all these things together, you can ask questions about his or

her life to learn about personality traits to determine if you’re a match—and if you will eventually want to meet in person.”

Christine added, “I brought these points up in a Facebook thread, and one person responded, ‘We’ll run out of things to talk about if we can’t meet in person.’

“My response was, ‘If you run out of things to talk about with someone you’ve just met, then this is confirmation that you are not a match.’ ” For dating information from Christine, visit theperfectcatch.com.

One reader, Althea, 72, who is a live-in caregiver for an elderly couple, emailed to say: “For me, the actual finding of someone

to E-Date is the difficult part.”

I responded, “Yes, Althea, that’s a challenge as well, especially for women, especially now. But as times improve, you never know who might enter your life and end your senior dating challenge. Wouldn’t that be nice!”

Tom Blake is a retired Dana Point business owner and resident who has authored books on middle-aged dating. See his website at findingloveafter50.com. To comment: tompblake@gmail.com. SC PLEASE NOTE: In an effort to provide our readers with a wide variety of opinions from our community, the SC Times provides Guest Opinion opportunities in which selected columnists’ opinions are shared. The opinions expressed in these columns are entirely those of the columnist alone and do not reflect those of the SC Times or Picket Fence Media. If you would like to respond to this column, please email us at editorial@sanclementetimes.com

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JOANNE BAADE City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Council PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE INVITING ELECTRONIC BIDS WELL FILTER PLANT REHABILITATION CHEMICAL STORAGE BUILDING PROJECT NO. 16408 Bids shall be submitted electronically through the City’s electronic procurement system (PlanetBids) at: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=28939 Bids must be received by no later than 2:00 p.m. on June 16, 2020. All bids received after that time will be returned to the Bidder, as they will be deemed disqualified. Only electronic bids submitted through PlanetBids will be accepted. Bid tabulations will be available on PlanetBids immediately following the bid closing.

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Form, completed in full and signed (PlanetBids Attachments Tab). In addition the Bidder shall attach Subcontractor(s) Listing, Experience Form, Bid Security, and all other documents required herein (PlanetBids Attachments Tab). The system will not accept a bid for which any required information is missing.

The work to be done consists of furnishing all materials, equipment, tools, labor and incidentals as required by the plans, specifications and contract documents for the WELL FILTER PLANT REHABILITATION CHEMICAL STORAGE BUILDING (PROJECT NO. 16408), in the City of San Clemente, California.

Reference is hereby made to these Specifications for further particulars, and same are by such reference incorporated herein and made a part thereof, the same as though fully set forth hereunder.

Specifications and contract documents are posted in the City of San Clemente PlanetBids System Vendor Portal website at: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=28939 All bidders must first register as a vendor on the City of San Clemente PlanetBids System website to participate in a bid or to be added to prospective bidders list.

The contract does call for monthly progress payments based upon the engineer’s estimate of the percentage of work completed. The City will retain 5% of each progress payment as security for completion of the balance of the work. At the request and expense of the successful bidder, the City will pay amounts so retained upon compliance with the requirements of Government Code Section 14402 and the provisions of the contract documents pertaining to “substitution of securities.”

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, in accordance with Section 1770 of the California State Labor Code and in accordance with the terms of the Southern California Master Labor Agreement, has heretofore established a prevailing rate of per diem wages to be paid in the construction of the above entitled work. The said wage rates are herein referred to and adopted in this Notice as though fully set forth herein, and said scale is made a part of this Notice by reference.

Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1771.1, no contractor or sub-contractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project submitted on or after March 1, 2015 unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. Furthermore, all bidders and contractors are hereby notified that no contractor or sub-contractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations.

Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1771.4, all bidders are hereby notified that this project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

No bid will be accepted from a contractor who has not been licensed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 9, Division III of the Business and Professions Code, State of California. Bidder shall possess a Class “A” California State Contracting License in good standing. Bidder shall have successfully completed a minimum of 3 verifiable similar projects with a minimum valuation of $200,000 in the past 5 years.

The bidder, by submitting its electronic bid, agrees to and certifies under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of California, that the certification, forms and affidavits submitted as part of this bid are true and correct.

The City of San Clemente reserves the right to re-

ject any or all bids.

To be published: and:

May 14, 2020 May 21, 2020 ________________________ David T. Rebensdorf Utilities Director

A NON-MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held to inspect the site and discuss the work to be done and the Contractor’s responsibilities. The City’s representatives will be available to address questions. The meeting will be held at the Well Filter Plant project site (350 Avenida Santa Margarita, San Clemente, CA 92672) on May 27, 2020, at 10:30 a.m., to be followed with a site visit.

PUBLIC NOTICE ORDINANCE NOS. 1697 and 1700 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of San Clemente, at its Adjourned Regular meeting of May 5, 2020, introduced the following ordinances: 1. Ordinance No. 1697 entitled AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA, DELAYING THE ENACTMENT OF ORDINANCE NO. 1684, WHICH AMENDS CHAPTERS 2.28, 2.32, 2.36, 2.40, 2.42 AND 2.43 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE, RELATING TO THE BEACHES, PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION, PLANNING COMMISSION, GOLF COURSE COMMITTEE, HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, COASTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND INVESTMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 2. Ordinance No. 1700 entitled AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE REPEALING MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 2.04.070 RELATING TO COUNCIL VACANCIES. Persons interested in receiving an inspection copy of either or both of the proposed Ordinances are invited to call the Deputy City Clerk at (949) 361-8301 or by email at campagnolol@san-clemente.org. Copies will be emailed or mailed to you at no cost.

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that the City Council of the City of San Clemente will consider adopting the aforementioned Ordinances at its meeting of May 19, 2020 at 6:00 p.m., which will be held via teleconference.

JOANNE BAADE City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Council PUBLIC NOTICE ORDINANCE NO. 1699 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of San Clemente, at its Adjourned Regular Meeting of May 5, 2020, adopted the following ordinance: Ordinance No. 1699 entitled AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE AMENDING 8.12.090 OF THE SAN CLEMENTE MUNICIPAL CODE TO INCLUDE VIOLATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS AS CITABLE OFFENSES AND AMENDING SECTION 9.24.030 TO PROHIBIT TRESPASS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. Persons interested in receiving an inspection copy of the Ordinance are invited to call the Deputy City Clerk at (949) 361-8301 or by email at campagnolol@san-clemente.org. Copies will be emailed or mailed to you at no cost.

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NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the abovereferenced Ordinance was introduced at the City Council meeting of April 21, 2020 and was adopted at the Adjourned Regular City Council meeting of May 5, 2020 by the following vote: AYES:

HAMM, JAMES, WARD

NOES:

MAYOR PRO TEM FERGUSON

ABSENT: NONE JOANNE BAADE City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Council PUBLIC NOTICE ORDINANCE NOS. 1694 and 1696 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of San Clemente, at its Adjourned Regular Meeting of May 5, 2020, adopted the following ordinances: 1. Ordinance No. 1694 entitled AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE AMENDING SECTIONS 3.24.190 AND 3.24.220 OF THE SAN CLEMENTE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO REGULATIONS GOVERNING ACCESS TO SHORT-TERM LODGING UNITS WITHIN THE CITY. 2. Ordinance No. 1696 entitled AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 8.86.040 RELATED TO PERMISSIBLE HOURS FOR ERECTION OF CAMPING FACILITIES IN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE PUBLIC CAMPING IS PERMITTED. Persons interested in receiving an inspection copy of either or both of the Ordinances are invited to call the Deputy City Clerk at (949) 361-8301 or by email at campagnolol@san-clemente.org. Copies will be emailed or mailed to you at no cost.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the abovereferenced Ordinances were introduced at the City Council meeting of April 7, 2020 and were adopted at the City Council Adjourned Regular meeting of May 5, 2020 by the following vote: AYES:

HAMM, JAMES, WARD, MAYOR PRO TEM FERGUSON

NOES:

NONE

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Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado,

CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 18STCV075956 Judge Serena R. Murillo The name and address of the court is: (El Nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Los Angeles (Central District) 111 North Hill Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff ’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del obogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Dana Sykulski, CSB #228210 Post Office Box 10426, Burbank, CA 91510 Phone: (818)783-8500 DATE: (Fecha) 12/07/2018 Sherri R. Carter, Executive Officer/Clerk, by (Secretario) Glorietta Robinson Deputy Clerk(Adjunto) Published: San Clemente Times April 23, 30, May 7, 14, 2020

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): PHOENIX AIR CONDITIONING, INC. a corporation; DUSTIN CHRISTENSEN aka DUSTIN LANE CHRISTENSEN, an individual; Does 1 through 20, inclusive.

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STORIES, SCORES, SCHEDULES AND MORE

Season on Ice San Clemente product Scott Savage waits out minor league hockey shutdowns

BY ZACH CAVANAGH, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

As sports leagues and organizations shut down across the country in mid-March, professional athletes across the continent scattered back to their respective homes to wait out the closures or, in many cases, to start preparing for next season months earlier than they had expected.

Pro hockey defenseman Scott Savage of San Clemente was one of those many sent home and stuck in a holding pattern while top leagues make their many decisions.

Savage, 25, had an assist for the ECHL’s Maine Mariners in a home loss on March 10, which turned out to be the last normal day in the sports world. The NBA postponed its season on March 11 and the NHL suspended play on March 12, setting off a domino effect for North American professional leagues.

“It was pretty strange,” Savage said. “We had a day off. We went into practice, and the NBA was canceled. That day of practice had a weird feel to it. This is something no one’s gone through.”

The NHL had its final games on March 11 before pausing its season the next day, and the ECHL, the second tier of minor league hockey, canceled the rest of its season, including the Kelly Cup Playoffs, on March 14.

“It’s harder to operate for the ECHL to operate without fans or anything,” Savage said.

“It was happening so quickly. The worst part was there were so many rumors going around. When you’ve got 20-25 players on a team with families, and you hear things from coaches, and what’s on the news, there was so much confusion as to what the decision was going to be.”

Though paused, the season wasn’t officially over for Savage then, as he was only assigned to the ECHL’s Mariners. Savage’s contract was with the American Hockey League’s Milwaukee Admirals, the top minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Nashville Predators. However, the AHL officially canceled the rest of its season and Calder Cup Playoffs on Monday, May 11.

Now, Savage waits on the decision of the NHL—not to play this season, but to prepare for a potential 2020-21 campaign.

“Any minor league player is at the mercy of the NHL,” Savage said. “We’re waiting to see if they’ll play out the season. The AHL and ECHL can’t start the season until the NHL season starts. So we’re all in limbo. We don’t know.”

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Scott Savage, 25, of San Clemente is now training at home after his season with the ECHL’s Maine Mariners and AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals was shut down. Savage, who began playing roller hockey in San Clemente as a child, now waits for his next opportunity. Photos: Zachary Roy, Scott Savage

ing plans to try and return for an amended playoff format later in the summer and delay the start of next season until possibly December. That would delay the start of any AHL or ECHL season until then, as well.

For now, Savage is at home with family in San Clemente. Savage has a workout program from his strength coach that he’s been executing in the backyard and training with his brother. Savage says it’s mostly just general fitness, as he waits for a potential sea-

son start date to gear his full training toward.

While it might be the most unlikely place to do so, San Clemente is where Savage began his road to professional hockey.

Savage was born in San Bernardino, and his family moved to San Clemente when he was 4 years old. Shortly thereafter, Savage started playing roller hockey at the old San Clemente Hockey and Family Skate Center in North Beach, later called SC-SK8 and now closed.

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“It was really hard to see that rink have to close,” Savage said. “Everyone practiced on Saturdays. I was starting to get better, and they let me practice up with every age group from the 1995s to the 1988s. I couldn’t leave the rink.”

Savage transitioned to ice hockey at around 7 or 8 years old, beginning first in Yorba Linda and then switching to the LA Selects out of Westminster for the rest of his minor hockey career. Savage won two national championships, as well as a second- and third-place national finish with the LA Selects.

Savage then left his home in San Clemente to join the United States National Team Development Program in Ann Arbor, Mich., for his junior and senior years of high school.

“It was a big adjustment leaving high school,” Savage said. “It was a learning experience for me and my family. I moved in with a billet family. I was representing my country at tournaments. It was a quick learning curve.”

Savage moved on to Boston College, where he played as a true freshman and graduated in 2017. Immediately after his graduation, Savage began his pro hockey career by signing with the AHL’s Cleveland Monsters and playing in three games to finish out the 2017 season.

Savage has spent the past three seasons moving between the AHL and ECHL levels.

Savage played with Cleveland and the ECHL’s Jacksonville Icemen in 2017-18 and has split the past two seasons with Milwaukee in the AHL and Maine in the ECHL. “It can be a challenge,” Savage said of the minor league lifestyle. “Obviously, my goal is to make it to the NHL. My intermediate goal is to establish myself as a mainstay AHL player. It’s difficult. When you get called up, you’re living at a hotel and eating out every night. I didn’t have my car the first year as a pro, because I didn’t know where I was going to be.”

Savage’s hockey journey came full circle in that second season with Cleveland, as he joined the team for its West Coast swing and played professional hockey for the first time in California playing in San Diego, Ontario, Stockton and San Jose.

Savage said his family traveled to all of those games, and it was a rewarding experience as a California hockey product to play professional games in his home state.

“It’s incredible,” Savage said. “It’s a big testament to the Ducks, Kings and Sharks for reinvesting in their community. It’s now a normative sport. We’d get knocked off as kids from California, and now they’re producing NHL players left and right.”

Savage is intent on pushing that California hockey dream. When and where that will be is anyone’s guess, but just as he did as a boy, Savage will train in San Clemente and be ready for his next opportunity. SC sanclementetimes.com

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SCOOP ON THE LOCAL SURF COMMUNITY

GROM OF THE WEEK

DARRIN SHIGEI

Darrin Shigei. Photo: Courtesy of the Shigei family

BY JAKE HOWARD, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

O One of surfing’s great stylists, Phil Edwards was among a hardcore crew of local San Clemente and Dana Point surfers who changed the sport forever. Photo: Courtesy of Bev Morgan

Sometimes, Best Thing to Do Is Just Go Surfing It’s great to have our surf spots back

BY JAKE HOWARD, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

H

ow’s everybody doing out there?

Have you all had a chance to get back in the water, get some waves and rinse the funk off?

And how about that run of swell we’ve had the past few days? With our local spots from Trestles to Salt Creek open again and lighting up, it feels good to have the motion of the ocean back in our lives.

Taking a deep breath this week, I wanted to take a step back and just recognize that one way or another, everything is going to be all right. Through my work at the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center, the past few days I’ve been drilling deeper into our local surf history.

In the words of Johnny Cash, “It’s important to know where you’ve been so you can figure out where you’re going.”

With Trestles having been closed the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about a conversation I had with Phil Edwards last year.

“Miki [Dora] and I spent one summer together at San Onofre, and we’d look up at the point and ask these old guys what San Clemente Times May 14-20, 2020

it was like up there,” Edwards said as he reminisced. “ ‘Oh, well, we went back up there in ’38, and Peanuts Larson got this big wave . . . blah, blah, blah,’ they’d say. Anyway, Miki was 16, and I was 13. He had a car, so we drove the car up there and walked through the railroad tracks and around the swamp, and that’s how we started surfing The Trestle,” Edwards said. “And we didn’t tell anybody for a while. So, we had it all to ourselves for a while; it was kind of neat.

I graduated high school in ’56, so it would have been before that.”

The Trestle. Hopefully, everyone has a deeper appreciation for it now after having it taken away. In a conversation over the weekend with one of the locals who helped construct the surf shack at Cotton’s Point, the stoke level was high.

“I’m so happy to be down here again. It’s just such a special place,” he said, throwing out the last bits of his sandwich to the seagulls.

During the grips of the lockdown, I spent a little bit of time surfing out at Poche. The relatively forgotten Capo Beach spot was dubbed “the new San Onofre” by a friend, as people packed the lineup.

Bobbing around in the rust-colored, red tide water, I positioned myself in front of Wayne Schaffer and Walter Hoffman’s houses. Now 91 years old, Wayne was the first surfer to buy a plot on Beach Road, paying a paltry $5,500 for it in 1953. Edwards and Gordon “Grubby” Clark soon rented a room from Schaffer.

“One day, I was down hanging out at Trestles with a few guys,” Schaffer said in a recent conversation. “Phil was down there.

I was introduced to this rather tall guy; you couldn’t forget his name: Grubby. We got acquainted on the beach. He seemed like

a pretty fun guy. He was down at Hobie’s a lot glassing boards. He had this yellow truck with a camper on the back that he built. He’d sleep in it. He was like a homeless person.

As I got to know him, one day he said, ‘Can I park down at your lot and sleep?’ ” “Finally, I said, ‘If you want, I’ll rent you a room.’ He jumped at it, so he moved in here. Later on, in came Phil. He was living in Oceanside and doing a lot of surfing up here and hanging out, and he worked at Hobie’s.

So now there were three of us here, and it was a great time period of us surfing and diving and fishing and just being surfers.”

The “Poche Surf Club,” as it would come to be known, essentially started the surf industry.

Edwards was the most popular surfer of his era. Clark’s foam blank business created an empire. Walter and Flippy Hoffman’s fabric business supplied the textiles for pretty much every surf brand. Then there was Bruce Brown and his little film called The Endless Summer.

And Hobie Alter; well, Hobie’s Hobie.

I guess the point of all this reminiscing is that people have been soaking in the saltwater around here for a long, long time. They’ve ridden waves through high times and low times.

Countless lives have been touched, even saved, by places like The Trestle and Doheny.

So, as we all endeavor to move forward in these uncertain days, sometimes the best thing you can do is just go surfing.

Jake Howard is local surfer and freelance writer who lives in San Clemente. A former editor at Surfer Magazine, The Surfer’s Journal and ESPN, today he writes for a number of publications, including the San Clemente Times, Dana Point Times, Surfline and the World Surf League. He also works with philanthropic organizations such as the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center and the Positive Vibe Warriors Foundation. SC

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ne of the rising stars at Salt Creek these days, Dana Point’s Darrin Shigei has been making the most of his time during these wild and crazy days.

“My favorite thing about surfing is the fact that you are able to connect with nature and the ocean,” says Darrin.

Currently in sixth grade, Darrin goes to home school, as well as attends Ardent Academy for the Gifted Youth in Irvine for math and science competitions.

His adventures in surfing began when he was 8 years old, when his parents enrolled him in Mary and Todd’s Boy in a Barrel Summer Surf Camp at Doheny.

“I immediately fell in love with surfing,” he says.

To take his blossoming talent to the next level, Darrin’s working these days with coaches such as former world tour surfer Neco Padaratz, John Daniels and the Stefano Esposito Vivi Group.

“Surfing and competing with my friends inspires me the most,” Darrin says. “There are a lot of great surfers my age in the local area that I surf with. They help me get better.

“In the next 10 years, I just hope to continue to progress in surfing and travel around the world doing what I love to do—surf.” SC

SURF FORECAST Water Temperature: 66-68 Degrees F Water Visibility and Conditions: 8-12‘ Thursday: Fading combination of South and Northwest swells for waves in the waist-chest high zone (2-3’+) for many breaks. Light/variable wind early, followed by 6-10kt south shifting westerly onshores in the afternoon.

Outlook: Easing Northwest and South swell mix has surf down slightly Friday in the waist high range, (2-3’), as light winds in the morning rise to light+/ moderate Southwesterly flow for the afternoon. Fresh Southwest swell will see surf rise into the waist-chest high range (3-4’) Saturday afternoon, then build to chest-head high+ (3-5’+) on Sunday. Primarily light+ southerly wind in the mornings, shift to 6-10kt westerly afternoon flow on Saturday and Sunday.

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