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A Life Remembered Friends Mourn Loss of Kurt Reinhold; Investigation Continues into Shooting by Deputy E Y E O N S C / PAG E 7

A memorial to Kurt Reinhold, the 42-year-old Black homeless man who was shot by homeless outreach deputies during an altercation last week, rests on the sidewalk outside the Hotel Miramar, the location where he died. Photo: Shawn Raymundo

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Five things San Clemente should know this week County to Stay in Red Tier as Daily Cases Rise Slightly THE LATEST: Orange County will remain in the red “substantial” tier on California’s color-coded COVID-19 monitoring system for at least a few more weeks, as the latest data released by the state’s health office on Tuesday, Sept. 29, showed a slight uptick in new daily cases.

For about the past two weeks, the county’s metrics on new daily cases and test positivity rate met the qualifications to enter the orange “moderate” tier—the third-highest of four state risk levels—potentially allowing certain economic sectors to expand services.

But Tuesday’s data put the county’s daily case rate at 4.4 per 100,000, up from the 3.6 cases the week prior. To qualify for the orange tier, a county must have between 1 to 3.9 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 and a test positivity rate between 2% and 4.9%.

Last Tuesday, Sept. 22, the county had 3.6 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000, with a 3.1% positivity rate, marking the first time the county had met the orange-risk level in both metrics. However, the county’s daily case rate rose to 4.4 on Tuesday, while the test positivity rate remained at 3.1 %, resetting the two-week clock before the county can move to orange.

The state mandates that counties must remain in a tier for a least 21 days. To move to a lower tier, the county must meet both of that specific tier’s metrics for two consecutive weeks. If the county has met those metrics for 14 consecutive days when the 21-day waiting period has passed, it can move down to the next tier.

However, if there is a spike and the county’s numbers increase to purple-tier levels for 14 consecutive days, Orange County could be moved back to the widespread tier—the highest-risk level.

In early September, the county was downgraded from the purple “widespread” tier to the red “substantial” tier, lifting restrictions on some economic sectors, including restaurants and movie theaters.— Shawn Raymundo and Zach Cavanagh

New Law Bars Toll Road from Coming Through San Onofre THE LATEST: Legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted last week places a permanent San Clemente Times October 1-7, 2020

Based on the latest data from the state’s health office on Tuesday, Sept. 29, Orange County will remain in the red “substantial” tier on California’s color-coded COVID-19 monitoring system for at least a few more weeks.

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moratorium on putting a toll road through San Onofre State Beach, solidifying the terms of a 2016 settlement agreement that had barred the Transportation Corridor Agencies from completing the southernmost extension of SR-241.

The new law, signed by Newson on Friday, Sept. 25, prohibits the construction and funding of a major thoroughfare, such as a street, road, or highway, on or in the state park, as well on lands that belong to the Richard H. and Donna O’Neill Conservancy.

Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath, the author of Assembly Bill 1426 and who represents the 76th District, credited environmental advocacy groups including Save Trestles and Save San Onofre Coalition for fighting the TCA to preserve the popular park and surf spot.

“This new law ensures that the hard work of everyone who fought to save this park cannot be undone,” Horvath said in a press release. “This is a huge victory for the cause of conservation in Southern California and for the future generations of surfers, bikers, hikers, and fishermen who will be able to

enjoy this special park, just as we have.”

In a blog post for Surfrider Foundation, Stefanie Sekich-Quinn, the coastal preservation manager for the nonprofit, said AB 1426 ensures that the settlement agreement the coalition had fought for is protected, validating “nearly 20 years of grassroots advocacy.”

“The word ‘historic’ is often overused, but in light of this legislation, today truly is a historic day,” Sekich-Quinn wrote in the Sept. 25 post. “This legislation, and previous lawsuit settlements, is the culmination of years of hard work to Save Trestles and brings an end to one of the hardest-fought, longest-lasting environmental battles in California’s history.”

In 2016, the TCA agreed not to build the 241 Toll Road extension through the San Mateo Watershed and Trestles, concluding a years-long dispute between the toll road operator and the coalition.

As a result of that agreement, the TCA began examining a variety of proposals to complete the 241 by having it connect to Interstate 5 via portions of San Clemente— setting up another years-long battle with the

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city and a local homeowners association.

The city and The Reserve Maintenance Corporation filed separate lawsuits against the TCA in August 2017, challenging the settlement and alleging the agreement had been made without an environmental review or public input.

The city’s lawsuit had also alleged that any route extension connecting the 241 to the I-5 via San Clemente would go against the legislatively intended route of the toll road, per the Streets and Highways Code section 541.

At press time, city officials had not responded to San Clemente Times’ request for comment.

Legislation from Sen. Patricia Bates sought to amend the section of the Highways Code by having the 241 Toll Road end where it currently does, at Oso Parkway, east of Mission Viejo. The law, as it currently stands, codifies that the 241 is to run from Route 5 south of San Clemente to Route 91 in Anaheim.

Bates’ measure, Senate Bill 1373, passed in the state Senate in a 24-6 vote this past June; however, because the legislature is focused on COVID-19 recovery this year, the state Assembly has placed the bill on the backburner and won’t be considering it in 2020.

SB 1373 was passed months after the TCA’s boards of directors voted unanimously to abandon the 241 extension proposals, instead moving forward with plans to further pursue the extension of Los Patrones Parkway—an arterial, untolled route.

Los Patrones, which begins at Oso, currently ends at Cow Camp Road in Rancho Mission Viejo. Under the plan, or Alternative 22 as it’s identified in the ongoing South County Traffic Relief Effort, Los Patrones would continue to Avenida La Pata, right up to the San Clemente city limits.—SR

Daily’s Sports Grill Opens in Downtown San Clemente THE LATEST: Daily’s Sports Grill, San Clemente’s newest sports bar in downtown, opened late last month, and the timing— given the circumstances of the pandemic—couldn’t have been better, as games in every major national sports league were being televised.

Whether it was Week 2 of the NFL, postseason coverage of the NBA and NHL or the MLB’s final stretch to the playoffs, there was a game on for just about every sports fan when Daily’s officially opened its doors on Sept. 20.

“It’s been a great week. The community, the support the community has given us the first week is nothing we could have imagined,” said Daily’s co-owner, Steve Vlahos, adding that the sports schedule has benefited the new restaurant because “first of all, fans can’t go to the games; you can only watch on (Cont. on page 4) sanclementetimes.com

EYE ON SC (Cont. from page 3) TV, and we have 28 televisions that can accommodate all the sports at one time.”

Vlahos noted that the bar is also opening at a precarious time, when current regulations due to the ongoing public health crisis have mandated indoor restaurant services in Orange County be limited to 25% capacity.

“There’s usually a line out front or people out front, and it’s because I can’t let any more people in, and it’s so disheartening because we want them to come in, but you have to do the right thing,” he said. “We’re adhering the best we can to the rule, and I feel like we’re being good stewards of the community.”

Vlahos said the restaurant has been keeping its windows and front door open, added air conditioning to both the front and rear of the building, and has been seating patrons at every other table for social distancing.

“And, quite frankly, I stand at the door with a counter in my hand, and I count the people coming in,” he said.

When Vlahos spoke with San Clemente Times by phone on Tuesday morning, Sept. 29, he expressed hope that the county later in the day would be able to announce its move into the orange “moderate” tier of the state’s coronavirus tracking system, which would allow restaurants to increase indoor capacity to 50%.

However, the state health office’s data on Tuesday showed Orange County saw a slight uptick in new daily cases, requiring the county to remain in the red “substantial” tier for a few more weeks.

Vlahos said that Daily’s, located where Duke’s had previously operated for more than a decade as a popular sports bar and spot for late-night dancing, won’t be anything like a dance club and will close at 10 p.m. most nights, midnight at the latest on weekends.

“We don’t intend to go beyond midnight,” he said. “Like I said, we’re a restaurant, sports grill first, and in an attempt for branding purposes, we’ve seen a lot of families come in; we had to go buy a lot of high chairs, which is something we didn’t anticipate but certainly welcome.”

Though it’s only been a couple of weeks that the restaurant has been open, Vlahos said one of the favorite items on the menu has been the ribeye sandwich.

“There’s nothing on our menu priced more than $18. It’s a four-page menu,” he said, adding: “I think we’ve taken it up a notch in terms of food quality. I think that has surprised some people; at least that’s the feedback I’m getting.”—SR

Palisades Elementary Reports COVID-19 Case Before Students Return to Campus THE LATEST: At least one person who tested positive for COVID-19 was at the Palisades Elementary School campus from Sept. 18-22, Principal Lisa Baggio said in a San Clemente Times October 1-7, 2020

An Orange County Sheriff’s deputy on Thursday, Sept. 24, instructs 18-year-old Fiona Meehan of Rancho Santa Margarita to step back on the sidewalk on El Camino Real during a protest over the police shooting of Kurt Reinhold the day before. Photo: Shawn Raymundo

letter to school families.

No students were on campus then, and the case was considered a “low risk exposure.”

“Staff have taken the necessary steps to properly sanitize and clean the campus in preparation for staff and students to return,” Baggio said.

Students began returning to campuses this week in Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD). CUSD has implemented a phased return to campus for various grade levels, with students returning to preschool through fifth grade starting on Sept. 29 through Oct. 5. Higher grade levels will return in the coming weeks.

CUSD has health protocols in place if a student or staff member has symptoms or tests positive for COVID-19. A person showing symptoms—such as fever, cough or loss of taste or smell—will be sent home and advised to get tested, though the classroom and school will remain open.

As for a confirmed case, the school community and local health department will be notified. That person will be excluded from school for 10 days from the onset of symptoms or test date, and exposed contacts will have to quarantine for 14 days after the infected person was at school.

Classrooms and other relevant spaces will be disinfected. The school will remain open.

Teachers and parents who have recently called in to comment during CUSD Board of Trustees meetings have expressed concerns about campus reopenings due to the ongoing pandemic. CUSD teachers have also taken issue with allegedly not being properly consulted about the district’s reopening plan, exacerbated by comments that Board President Jim Reardon made to Voice of OC, in which he, in part, said teachers who contended they weren’t consulted on the reopening plan “weren’t paying attention.”

Joy Schnapper, president of Capistrano Unified Education Association (CUEA), the local teachers’ union, said they see major holes in the plan and schedule that has been dictated.

Schnapper also mentioned an elementary school waiver application that failed,

which if approved would have allowed elementary school campuses to remain open even if state guidelines change.

“Time after time, CUEA has asked for true collaboration and to work through this crisis together. The waiver was the quintessential example. In our letter to the district, we specifically asked for a time to sit down and consult on how to open schools properly,” Schnapper said.

“This request was ignored, and instead CUSD disingenuously pushed the waiver through,” she continued. “The failure of the waiver rests entirely on CUSD. Had they engaged in consultation with CUEA, the result may have been different. The shortsighted attempt to circumvent working with teachers led to the county denying the request.”—Collin Breaux

Deputy Shooting of Homeless Black Man Sparks Protests in SC THE LATEST: Thursday, Sept. 24, was a day of social unrest in San Clemente, as dozens gathered to peacefully protest the police shooting of a homeless Black man who died outside of a local hotel during an altercation with sheriff’s deputies the day before.

Protesters first gathered in the morning outside the shuttered Pipe’s Café on El Camino Real, just down the street from where Kurt Andras Reinhold, a 42-year-old homeless man was shot by a deputy after reaching, authorities believe, for the officer’s firearm on Wednesday, Sept. 23.

Reinhold had been stopped that Wednesday afternoon by two deputies with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s homeless outreach unit, but it remains unclear as to why they contacted him.

The morning’s demonstration, though largely peaceful, later escalated when the group marched down to the Avenida Mendocino overpass and began to block oncoming traffic, prompting deputies to intervene and make arrests.

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According to OCSD spokesperson Carrie Braun on Friday, Sept. 25, five people were arrested during the rally—four for obstruction and one for vandalism. Braun was unable to identify the individuals, saying two were from San Clemente and the others from other parts of the county.

“They were blocking the roadway, and they were warned multiple times to leave the roadway, and when they refused, that’s when they were arrested,” Braun said of the obstruction arrests. “The duty of the peace officer is to get them out of the roadway.”

The five individuals, she said, were released Thursday evening.

A second demonstration was held later in the night outside of the old city hall building on Avenida Presidio. From there, the protesters marched down to the Hotel Miramar, near where the shooting had occurred, to hold a vigil for Reinhold.

Mission Viejo resident Ivette Boyzo told the crowd at old city hall that they gathered to pay their respects and mourn.

The demonstration was to emphasize that Black lives matter, Boyzo said. The crowd chanted “No justice, no peace, no racist police.”

Whitney Azizi, who lives in Orange County, marched with other protesters throughout San Clemente and said she participated because of the death of Reinhold and the larger issue of defunding the police. Certain duties, Azizi said, should be taken up by organizations such as mental health boards, while more funding should go toward helping the homeless, drug rehabilitation and welfare.

“Heartbroken and angry,” Azizi said when asked her reaction to Reinhold’s death. “It just seems like one after another, and it’s getting more and more difficult to deal with.”

Speaking during the first protest outside the hotel, San Clemente resident Taylor LaBarbera, 30, expressed criticism over the deputies’ handling of Wednesday’s incident involving the altercation and subsequent shooting.

“If they are not trained well enough to keep a homeless man away from their gun, which should be clipped—first of all—then they are not well enough trained to be out on the street dealing with homeless people,” LaBarbera said. “This is what we talk about when we say, ‘Defund the police.’ ” LaBarbera further explained that defunding the police—a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement since the death of George Floyd this summer—means “put funding from the police department into training for you to have homeless outreach that actually works.”

Following Thursday morning’s protest, the San Clemente City Council held an emergency meeting to declare a local emergency and institute a curfew ahead of Thursday evening’s demonstration outside old city hall.

The curfew was in effect from 9 p.m.

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he would not be dead right now,” Doram said. “Because Kurt was not a person to be aggressive and he wouldn’t have agitated anything along those lines, and that’s the part that was just so sad . . . knowing how unnecessary his death was.”

Friends Mourn Loss of Kurt Reinhold; Investigation Continues into Shooting by Deputy

HOMELESS OUTREACH

BY SHAWN RAYMUNDO, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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ast week’s police shooting of 42-year-old Kurt Reinhold stunned the community and those who knew him as more details surrounding his death slowly emerge from the ongoing investigation into the altercation that turned deadly outside of a local hotel.

Reinhold, a Black homeless man who authorities believe reached for an officer’s firearm while wrestling with two homeless outreach deputies on El Camino Real, is the latest face to be held up by activists as a symbol of police brutality and racial injustice.

The day after Reinhold’s death, mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter rallies were staged in San Clemente reinvigorating a local conversation on racial equality, the treatment of Black Americans and defunding the police—aspects of a national movement sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed in police custody at the start of the summer.

But for those who knew the husband and father of two, Reinhold was a caring and spiritual individual, who was more than just a headline.

“The one thing I can say about Kurt is he was a very kind dude. He was very warmhearted … a hard-working guy. He cared about all of us,” said Todd Doram, a friend of Reinhold’s. “You can trust Kurt 100% with just about anything. He was the kind of guy who would be there for you.”

Keith Terrell, who currently lives in Atlanta but knew Reinhold and Doram through the Peace Apostolic Church in Carson, echoed Doram’s sentiments, calling Reinhold “one of the most genuine, caring, sincere people you would ever meet.”

“He was somebody devoted to his faith and the church. A lot of the conversations (we had) were him wanting to do the best he could, wanting the best for you,” Terrell said. “He genuinely wanted to see people win—those around you. He had a huge heart.”

Terrell also knew Reinhold as a musician who would write Christian rap music.

“I think for a lot of young Black men, that’s one of the avenues we use to express ourselves,” Terrell said, adding: “I found out he was doing more music and more rap, Christian rap. So, it was another way for him to express his faith. Since his passing, another mutual friend, a producer, sent me Kurt’s songs, so I’ve been listenSan Clemente Times October 1-7, 2020

A memorial to Kurt Reinhold, the 42-year-old Black homeless man who was shot by homeless outreach deputies during an altercation last week, rests on the sidewalk outside the Hotel Miramar, the location where he died. Photo: Shawn Raymundo

ing those songs.”

In a Facebook post from the Peace Apostolic Church over the weekend, Reinhold was further remembered as a man confident in his faith, and someone as “tenderhearted as he was valiant.”

“Moreover, he was kind in a world that is not,” Howard Arthur Swancy, the church pastor, said in the post. “My beloved son grappled with some complicated challenges, as we all do; sometimes, these hills are hard to climb, but he always gave his very best. I believe his soul’s desire was to serve the Lord.”

As of press time, officials with the church had not returned San Clemente Times’ request for comment.

How Reinhold, a hard-working car salesman for a Nissan dealership in L.A. County and a musician so deeply in tune with his faith and convictions, ended up homeless in San Clemente remains unclear, noted Doram. The two, he explained, first met through the church about 20 years ago, and would hang out socially and even did business together for a time.

“I don’t really know a lot of the reasons why he ended up where he was at,” Doram said. “I started going to a different church 10 years ago. It wasn’t like we lost contact; I just hadn’t talked to him in the past couple of years. Seeing him houseless was surprising to me.”

“The big thing that stuck out to me was, because of how well we know who he is and his character and his kindness and those kinds of things, that’s what makes it the most sad to see, how he passed away,” Doram said. “I know the sheriff’s (deputies) who killed him, when they approached him, they didn’t see him as the Kurt that we know.”

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Since the shooting, surveillance footage and cell phone video that captured the incident have surfaced, giving a glimpse

into the events that led to the altercation between Reinhold and the two Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies, and the gunshots that killed him on that early Wednesday afternoon.

OCSD has pointed to the surveillance footage as evidence that Reinhold attempted to reach for one of the deputy’s firearms during the struggle, which had occurred at around 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 23, outside the Hotel Miramar.

At the start of the nearly 90-second cell phone video that has circulated on social media, the deputies instruct Reinhold to get out of the road and sit down, as he appeared to be jaywalking.

The video doesn’t show the moments when the deputies first approached Reinhold, and those details as to why deputies contacted him remain unclear, as OCSD has not yet released that information.

Reinhold is seen in the video telling the deputies to “stop touching me” and asking “what is your problem?” as he tried to walk away. The video cuts to show Reinhold continuing to walk away as one officer extends his arm, pushing him back.

The video, recorded from the other side of the street, later shows one deputy grabbing Reinhold from the side, while the second deputy comes around and appears to tackle him, resulting in all three going to the ground. The two deputies are then seen pinning Reinhold on the ground.

As the struggle continued, with motorists passing between the videographer and what was unfolding across the street, yelling ensues, and just as a truck and SUV pass by, a gunshot goes off. Another one goes off seconds later while the videographer positions himself behind a vehicle.

The video ends with deputies attempting to perform life-saving measures on Reinhold.

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According to OCSD, deputies are required to undergo crisis intervention training to be homeless liaison officers, which includes training for de-escalation and mental health identification.

On occasion, homeless liaisons and members of homeless outreach organizations, such as the city’s contractor, City Net, will coordinate to conduct engagement with homeless individuals out on the street.

OCSD spokesperson Carrie Braun previously told San Clemente Times the two deputies involved in the shooting were not accompanied by City Net workers the day of the incident. City Net officials this week also said they weren’t accompanying those deputies that afternoon.

City Net and law enforcement partners, including OCSD, are very collaborative, said Chelsea Bowers, director of public affairs for City Net. She explained that City Net, which has been contracted by the city since December, facilitates outreach and engagement both with and without law enforcement.

“I think any time you can be collaborative can be effective. If law enforcement is around, it can provide safety,” Bowers said, noting that officers can help City Net staff gain access to certain areas where homeless individuals are living to get “off the radar to the public.”

“But definitely collaboration across the board, especially with other nonprofit agencies,” she said. “It doesn’t just take one nonprofit or one supportive service to get (homeless individuals) off the street.”

According Bowers, City Net staff who work in the field undergo 40 hours of training on a variety of topics including motivational interviewing, problem-solving, therapy, and de-escalation.

She said those in the field work in two-person teams and get trained on how to respect a client’s boundaries to avoid physical altercations, and that they will walk away from such situations to keep themselves safe.

“Thank goodness we haven’t had any (incidents) yet,” she said, noting that the protocol is to walk away and then “we’ll document. If a client has been a little bit more specific with how they don’t want to interact with, we document and walk from it … we keep ourselves safe, and we can always try again in the future.”

According to City Net’s monthly report to the city, staff had made contact 1,563 times with individuals who are homeless in San Clemente between December and August. That number doesn’t reflect the number of homeless; rather, it is the number of times staff had met with individuals.

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Hear from the Candidates Leading up to the San Clemente City Council Special Election on Nov. 3, the San Clemente Times is publishing three questions, one every two weeks, that we’ve asked each candidate who is running for the two-year seat. Be sure to look for our 2020 Election Guide next week, when we’ll publish all the candidates’ responses to the third and final question. The list of candidates is published according to the random alphabet the California Secretary of State recently drew. SC WEEK 4 / QUESTION 3

As a member of the San Clemente City Council, what will be your top priority on the dais? What initiative or policy do you hope to achieve as an elected official, and what will be your first step in working toward that goal?

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GEORGE GREGORY

JIM DAHL

JERRY QUINLAN

The biggest challenge facing the city council is a lack of cohesiveness. My priority on the dais will be to encourage a culture of mutual respect and productive discussion, so we can build consensus and move our city forward. I will also work with city staff to identify process improvements that will help us serve the needs of residents and businesses more efficiently and effectively. I will further establish stronger ties with Dana Point and San Juan Capistrano to find opportunities for partnership within the tri-city area. My policy priorities are the following: 1. Hire a strong city manager; 2. Support small businesses with continued open-air dining and streamlined permit processing; 3. Reduce homelessness by coordinating the efforts of public safety, mental health, and homeless outreach services; 4. Protect our beaches, coastline, and open space.

Health and safety are priority No. 1, which includes an uptick in sheriff’s deputies and an audit of their time spent on particular calls. No more welfare checks for the homeless, drunk in public or defecating in public; you go away to county. Camping, you pick up and go or you go to county jail or Boise on the Greyhound bus—their choice—until the county builds some camps for the county’s homeless problems. A new EMT emergency medical technician team only? We do need another engine also, but EMTs are needed more because our existing EMTs are having a long time turning around to get back to our city from distant hospitals. Elect George T. Gregory on Nov. 3 for change and solutions.

When elected to the city council two-year term, here are my first priorities: 1. Hire an experienced city manager; 2. Replace the city attorney (BB&K) with a full-time, in-house attorney who will handle everyday legal issues. Also have expert attorneys to handle major legal issues; 3. Have the new city manager prepare a fiveyear strategic plan for city services and the budget, to be approved by the city council; 4. Have a Team Building Workshop for the city council to air out any differences between members so that the city councilmembers can work as a team!

My policy is to more fully support property owners and families of San Clemente, thereby keeping SC the city playground and park designed by Ole Hanson, author of the classic 1918 book Americanism vs Bolshevism.

Funds from the sale of this book purchased the vacant hillsides on which SC was founded. My first step would be full transparency on any fee, or increasing expenses on families, through any bureaucratic add-on mortgage, or financial plan. I know that 7,550 SC voters are in agreement with me on this, because, on March 3 of last year, we voted down Measure H, whose creation can be influenced by a local official, and which, to many of us, was a less than genuinely promoted, non-transparent, financial plan, as also asserted by the CEO of the Orange County Taxpayers Association.

DONNA VIDRINE

STEVEN KNOBLOCK

ZHEN WU

LARON RUSH

I will have several priorities as a newly elected city council person. To answer the question directly, my No. 1 priority will be to prevent the spread of infection and keep SC open for business. To open businesses and schools intelligently and responsibly. Be informed and lead on sustained recovery, balancing risks, listening to the science, following recommendations and mandates.

Communicating with our residents and understanding their concerns is critical! Getting to know city staff, to know the people and the work that they do. I will work with staff to navigate additional funding, grants, opportunities for our businesses. I will be a face at city hall who understands business needs and objectives and builds consensus for moving forward.

Top Priority: Hire an experienced, competent and fiscally conservative city manager to vigorously oppose the toll road. I would recruit locally from beach-oriented jurisdictions.

Policies: • Eliminate the millions of dollars wasted annually on unnecessary litigation, lobbyists and consultants; • Open a portion of our beach for responsible San Clemente dog owners to enjoy with their pets; • Increase transparency by reinstituting the ethics code, which the prior city council rescinded when mismanagement and Brown Act violations were asserted; • Rescind the anti-business, retaliatory ordinance forcing citizens that disagree with decisions of city staff to pay the city’s legal fees during administrative hearings.

My top priority now is to help the community recover from the current crisis and its economic havoc. The goal is to bring long-term prosperity through a combination of economic development and conservative fiscal policy to preserve our “Spanish Village by the Sea” vision and people’s quality of life. As a small business owner, five-year Planning Commissioner, and with a Master’s Degree from USC School of Public Policy, I will put my leadership skills and land use planning expertise to good use to achieve that goal. My initiatives include improving government transparency and accountability, hiring a city manager who excels in interagency collaboration and economic development, enhancing Del Mar and North Beach to stimulate business and job opportunities, guiding the hospital reopening process, and renewing the legislative effort to permanently remove the toll road’s threat.

I would say, for me, my first priority would be making sure that we can get something in place for the homeless, and make sure, once we figure things out, it stays in place.

I would also say it’s time to stop making excuses and just get the job done.

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EYE ON SC (Cont. from page 7) In the latest report for August, City Net noted that there were 34 clients currently engaged in case management and that since being contracted with the city, there have been 42 individuals who accepted offers to go to an emergency shelter.

BUSINESS INTERACTIONS

Maya Askar, an employee at Beach Front Liquor, just around the bend from Hotel Miramar, said she wasn’t working at the time of the shooting, but said she had briefly interacted with Reinhold a handful of times at the other store where she works, Victoria Market & Liquor.

“That’s where I first saw him, I want to say, a couple of months ago,” Askar said before noting that her first time meeting him, he seemed “scary” and would always appear to be “on edge.”

“My dad works with me there, and he told me, ‘He’s fine, just give him some food, he’ll be OK.’ And then he would just come every now and then,” she said. “He usually asks, ‘Hey, I can mop or clean if I can just get some food,’ and we usually just give him some food and then he just takes off.”

Askar noted that the two did eventually build a bit of a rapport, recalling that just days before the shooting, she gave him her ramen and asked what his name was.

“He looked at me kind of like hesitating; he’s like ‘you want to know my name?’ and I (said), ‘Yeah, what’s your name?’ ” she said. “It took him a second; he says, ‘It’s Kurt.’ I said, ‘OK, Kurt, have a good day.’ He says, ‘You, too’ and then walks out. And then he comes in the next day.”

On Monday of the week of the shooting, he came back to the Victoria store, where she was sitting outside with a friend.

“He comes up and asks, ‘Are you good?’ and I’m like ‘Yeah, I’m good.’ And he goes, ‘Are you sure? Are you good?

Are you good? Is this guy bothering you?’

I go, ‘No, dude, he’s fine,’ ” she recalled.

“He goes charging inside, waits for me to give him food, and he just runs off, and that’s the last time I’d seen him.”

Askar said it was unusual that Reinhold had been in the south side of town, noting that she always saw him at the Victoria store near downtown.

“I never talked to him more than that.

I just would ask him how his day is, and he always said, ‘Good, I’m blessed, I’m blessed,’ ” she said. “Other than that, I had never asked him any other question.”

One of the last people to see and interact with Reinhold was another employee of a nearby business who told SC Times that he had asked for a couple of dollars to buy some food at the liquor store.

“He had said, ‘Hey, can you spare a couple bucks? I’m hungry. I was just going to buy some food,’ ” said the employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “I personally had already had a couple of people come up to me and

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ask for money that day, so I just kind of rolled my eyes at him, which I know, in retrospect, feel really terrible about. My boss is really generous, and she gave him a couple of dollars.”

Reinhold, the employee said, went into the liquor store and purchased a couple bags of peanuts and went on his way.

Within minutes, the OCSD cruiser pulled over in front of the liquor store and adjacent flower shop to speak with Reinhold.

“He wasn’t doing anything; he wasn’t being weird with us. He wasn’t causing any problems that I’m aware of anywhere,” the employee said. “He came up, asked for a couple of bucks. We gave him some money; he went on his way.”

“He was just a normal dude—you know, obviously a little down on his luck, but yeah, he didn’t look like he was bothering anybody or anything,” the employee later added.

That employee didn’t see the shooting, noting that the incident was out of the line of sight. But the employee and the boss did for a short while watch as the deputies tried to get Reinhold back onto the sidewalk from the middle of the street. Moments later, the gunshots were heard.

“We walked back inside the shop here, so it was just kind of like I heard the ‘bop, bop,’ ” the employee said. “I was like, ‘Did I just hear that? Did they just shoot him?’

Why would they do that? Because all they needed to do was let him keep walking, call another unit or whatever; it seemed unnecessary to me, but I wasn’t in that situation, and I wasn’t the officer having to deal with somebody maybe trying to grab a weapon.”

Prior to the day of the shooting, the employee hadn’t previously noticed or interacted with Reinhold in the area, and could only describe him as a guy just passing through who needed money, food and somewhere to be.

“He seemed like a dude who was down on his luck,” the employee said. “He seemed to me like he had somewhere to be, like he was going to catch a bus or something. He didn’t seem . . . he didn’t seem like he was on drugs, he didn’t seem super sketchy.”

Overall, the entire experience was surreal, the employee said, noting that everything happened very quickly.

“To have someone standing in front of me alive and coherent one second and then to know that they’re down the street 10 minutes later having been shot by the police, how does that go south so fast?

How does that happen so quickly?” she said. “It just doesn’t make sense to me.

But again, I’m not the officer having to contend with that person.”

The Orange County District Attorney’s office is conducting an investigation into the matter, and OCSD has said it will also be conducting an internal investigation as well. SC Times will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. SC Page 9

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While the city experienced a handful of peaceful Black Lives Matter protests this summer in reaction to the numerous deaths of Black Americans during confrontations with police, this incident has put San Clemente on the map for all the wrong reasons.

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unify and educate our community, rather than divide us.

Hopefully, we’re able to have constructive discussions that lead to positive action about how to better deal with the homeless crisis in our town, state and nation, and how police and other agencies can be better equipped to deal with it and other social maladies.

There are countless ways to look at the incident through one’s own lens, but at the end of the day, a man’s life was lost during a confrontation with two sheriff’s deputies.

Is it fair to speculate that had Mr. Reinhold

we all should do our part to keep the water safe and clean. Many local environmental groups, such as Heal the Bay and Coastkeeper, do a great job in raising awareness about potential adverse impacts.

But recently, some local environmental “activist” groups seem to have abandoned science, and in doing so, they are simply creating doubt and fear for the beachgoing public.

I’m talking specifically about their responses to the wastewater batch releases that the San Onofre plant is performing. These are fully permitted and tested GUEST OPINION wastewater releases that

By Greg Becker contain a trace of radioactivity. When I say a trace, I mean it.

The last release comprised about 18,900 gallons of water. The total dose was 0.000722 millirem. How small is that?

You’d receive 25 times more radiation dose by sitting on the beach for an hour from the natural background radiation than if you were exposed to every particle

in that release.

If you drank all 19,000 gallons, your dose would be 4,000 times below the annual Environmental Protection Agency dose for drinking water. So, is it safe? Yes, it is.

Some local groups have responded by issuing warnings that don’t have a basis in fact. San Clemente Green publishes warnings and links the releases (implausibly, for no evidence is provided) to mass cancers, because we all know someone who has cancer, so, you know, wink, wink.

We shouldn’t tolerate this. Other groups such as the Samuel Lawrence Foundation and “SaveSanO” actually tell people not to go in the water, which is simply unsupported by the science. Another group is illegally posting signs warning people to swim or surf at their own risk because of the releases.

I see signs on the beaches often, warning me of sharks or elevated levels of bacteria in the water, things that can have a real and immediate impact to my health and safety. I have personally spent many days sick in bed agonizing from ear infections due to polluted runoff over the years.

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simply listened to the deputies and moved to the side of the road that he’d still be alive today? That by choosing not to heed the deputy’s orders, the situation escalated to where he fought with the officers and allegedly grabbed a deputy’s gun and was then shot because the deputies feared for their own lives at that point?

Conversely, is it fair to say that had unarmed homeless services personnel confronted him instead of armed deputies, they might have handled the situation differently and Mr. Reinhold might still be alive while receiving the help he needed?

The truth is, we don’t know all the answers to those questions. We need to wait for the full investigation to know how this confrontation ended with two gunshots fired from a deputy’s gun and Mr. Reinhold’s death.

But as we await the results of the investigation, I hope the community, both internal and external, resists the temptation to jump to judgment and can peacefully engage in civil discourse about how we collectively get better.

Because of this unfortunate shooting death, our sleepy little surf town is no longer on the sidelines of the national conversation about racial inclusion and fairness in policing. It’s time for us to show the state and nation that we stand for warmth, compassion, inclusivity and fairness.

But first we need to show that to each other. SC

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GUEST OPINION: By Greg Becker, mechanical engineer and former senior reactor operator at SONGS

Surfing Community Deserves Truth from ‘Activists’

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moved to this community because I love surfing. I took a job at the San Onofre nuclear plant in the 1980s, because I love surfing. I still surf several times a week at San Onofre and elsewhere.

The Pacific Ocean is a wonderful resource that deserves our protection, and

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SOAPBOX (Cont. from page 10) But I would never in a thousand lifetimes suffer any ill effects from the almost imperceptible levels of radiation being released from the plant.

Recently, I saw that the Surfrider Foundation, which is based in San Clemente, decided to see for themselves how safe these batch releases are. Surfrider was a strong proponent of Southern California Edison making the 48-hour public notifications for batch releases, something not required during the previous 50 years the releases had occurred, and maybe something no other plant in America does.

On its blog, Surfrider posted a story with information from Dr. Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. His conclusion: the level of radiation from batch releases is 20 times lower than the radiation level that already exists in the ocean. Another key point: if you surfed San Onofre every day for 100 years, your additional dose would be 10 times less than a single dental X-ray.

Does anybody listen to the fearmongers? Hard to say. I won’t complain about an uncrowded line-up, but it shouldn’t

be because people have been fooled into believing something that just ain’t true.

If you want to advocate for the surf community, give us the facts and the science, as Surfrider did. We can handle it.

Greg Becker is a mechanical engineer with a Professional Engineer’s License from the state of California. He spent 13 years as a senior reactor operator and shift technical advisor in the Control Room of San Onofre.

Currently, he is a registered Project Management Professional (PMP) working as the project manager in charge of lease termination and Mesa land return to the Department of the Navy. He spent two years as the captain of a 97-foot yacht sailing around the world and is the author of two books and four magazine article,s including a feature article for Surfer Magazine related to sailing, surfing and travel. SC

Letter to The Editor

of single-family zoning? There are many young families who come here to raise their families in these planned communities offering a small-town “neighborhood” vibe.

His suggestion to get rid of buildingheight restrictions shows his lack of concern for other homeowners/renters who enjoy views of the natural coastline or the foothills.

He wants to build and build and build multiple units, and with no height restrictions, buildings as high as apartment buildings. There are already multiple-unit structures throughout the city.

His suggestions will bring congestion, more parking issues, more crime, more problems. What Mr. Murphy is proposing will abolish the small-town atmosphere that San Clemente has managed to maintain despite having a thriving and growing economy.

I say, no, not in my backyard.

NOT IN MY BACKYARD EILEEN GREENE, San Clemente

Please allow me to address the points brought up in the letter “Yes in My Backyard by the Sea,” by Mr. Murphy.

Mr. Murphy’s concern is about what he says is the housing crisis in San Clemente. The solutions Mr. Murphy is suggesting would change the vision the founder of this beautiful city had in mind, and not for the better.

Mr. Murphy wants to establish policy to abolish single-family residential zoning, exclusionary zoning, building-height restrictions and historical preservation altogether.

He wants to implement progressive taxation to fund permanent support housing for the homeless and social housing for low-income earners, and have housing cooperatives.

Mr. Murphy mentioned that our golf courses take up significant amounts of natural resources and are another obstacle to his solution for more housing. San Clemente is a beautiful strip of oceanfront property and scenic foothills.

There are many residents who have worked very hard their whole lives to retire in this beautiful city because of the very things that Mr. Murphy suggests doing away with.

People appreciate the historical landmarks such as the Casa Romantica Cultural Center, the San Clemente Pier, etc. These landmarks are examples of outstanding design and characterize a way of life.

Mr. Murphy is suggesting getting rid San Clemente Times October 1-7, 2020

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Then-council candidate Gene James answers a question during the Chamber of Commerce’s candidate forum held in 2019 for the Special Election race, which James won. Photo: Shawn Raymundo

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1: VIRTUAL CANDIDATE FORUM—SPECIAL ELECTION 6-8 p.m. The San Clemente Chamber of Commerce’s Business for a Better San Clemente Political Action Committee, and local nonprofit organization First Amendment Voice, will host two virtual candidate forums, which are free and open to the public via the Zoom platform. The first forum will feature candidates running in the Special Election race for city council. During the forums, candidates will be asked questions from both the hosting organizations and from the public, live. Registration is required at scchamber.com. Once registered, attendees will receive a Zoom registration link prior to the event. For questions, please email info@scchamber.com.

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Thursday | 01 STARLITE MOVIES DRIVE-IN 6-10:30 p.m. The ultimate drive-in movie experience comes to the Outlets at San Clemente. Experience the nostalgia of a drive-in movie, featuring current, classic and quintessential favorites. Rediscover (or discover) films from the ’80s, ’90s and today.

It’s the perfect evening for couples, families and friends. Thursday night’s feature film will be The Notebook. Outlets at San Clemente. 101 West. Avenida Vista Hermosa, San Clemente. starlitemovienight.com.

Saturday | 03 SOUTH OC CARS AND COFFEE 9-11 a.m. South OC Cars and Coffee, dubbed the world’s biggest weekly car meet, attracts a mix of 500-1,000 hypercars, supercars, exotics, vintage, classic, muscle and sports cars, hot rods, rat rods, pickups, San Clemente Times October 1-7, 2020

4x4s and motorcycles. Those attending are encouraged to practice responsible social distancing. Face masks are not mandatory but are recommended. No cars in before 8:30 a.m. Cars should enter and leave slowly and quietly—no revving, speeding or burnouts. The Outlets at San Clemente, 101 West Avenida Vista Hermosa, San Clemente. southoccarsandcoffee.com.

Sunday | 04 ANESTHESIA-FREE TEETH CLEANING AND LOW-COST VACCINE CLINIC 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Qualified Pet Dental will be on-site at Bow-Wow Beautiful Pet Spa, with its Mobile Veterinary Clinic and a veterinarian and dental hygienist performing anesthesia-free teeth cleaning for pets by appointment. Low-cost vaccinations, flea prevention RX, microchipping, and airline travel exams are also available on a walk-in basis. Bow-Wow Beautiful Pet Spa, 364 Camino de Estrella, San Clemente.

949.702.3130. bowwowbeautiful.com.

Tuesday | 06 CASA CINEMA: ‘ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN’ 6 p.m. Enjoy a cozy movie night in Casa Romantica’s Main Salon. This month features a zany spoof of classic horror clichés and classic movie monsters. General admission is $10; $5 for members. Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente.

949.498.2139. casaromantica.org.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20206584158 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SEAWIND FOODS 120 ½ S EL CAMINO REAL, STE 202 SAN CLEMENTE, CA 92672 Full Name of Registrant(s): SEAWIND INTERNATIONAL, LLC 120 ½ S EL CAMINO REAL, STE 202 SAN CLEMENTE, CA 92672 This business is conducted by CA Limited Liability Company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 04/09/2014 /s/SEAWIND INTERNATIONAL, LLC /s/ GARRY GREEN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Orange County on 9/10/2020.

Published in: San Clemente Times September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 2020 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AND PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA ON THE PROPOSED SUBMISSION OF THE 2019-2020 CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT AND COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIFTEEN (15) DAY COMMENT PERIOD 10/5/20 - 10/19/20 Community Development Block Grant – the Consolidated Annual Performance Report for 2019-2020 The City of San Clemente is a recipient of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, awarded to the City by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In order to receive CDBG funds, the City is required to prepare a multi-year strategic plan known as the Consolidated Plan. At the beginning of each year, the City also prepares a one-year expenditure plan outlining the planned use of CDBG funds. At the conclusion of the fiscal year, the City must prepare a year-end performance report known as the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The 2019-2020 CAPER covers the period of July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, and provides a summary of activities undertaken with CDBG funds during the report period.

Notice is hereby given that an initial environmental assessment for the above item was processed and completed in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Staff determined that the above item is not a project pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines, section 15378 (b) (2) and (4).

In compliance with program regulations, the draft CAPER must be available for a 15-day public review and comment period. Accordingly, the 15day public comment period will begin October 5, 2020, and will end at noon, October 19, 2020. The draft report will be available for public inspection on the City’s website at https://www.san-clemente. org/department-services/social-services/housingservices. Written comments should be directed to Gabriel Perez, City Planner, at 910 Calle Negocio, San Clemente, CA 92672 or PerezG@san-clemente. org, on or before noon October 19, 2020.

In addition to the comment period, interested parties will be afforded an opportunity to provide comments on the 2019-2020 CAPER at the City of San Clemente Times October 1–7, 2020

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San Clemente City Council meeting of October 20, 2020 at 6:00 pm via teleconference. Please note that to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the public may not physically attend the meeting. However, to participate citizens may: 1. Listen to the meeting via live stream from the City’s YouTube channel at www.san-clemente. org/live or live on Cox Communications Local Access Channel 854; and 2. Submit any comments on agenda items to the City Council electronically. Material may be emailed to Campagnolol@san-clemente.org.

Transmittal by 4:00 p.m. on Council meeting days is recommended. If you challenge this project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised through written public comments delivered to the City of San Clemente. Information related to the proposed action is available at the Planning Division, at 910 Calle Negocio, and is available for public inspection by contacting Gabriel Perez at (949) 361-6196.

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GARAGE SALE - SAT. OCT. 3 Multi-Family Moving Sale Sat. Oct. 3. 8-11 am. 58 Via Armilla, San Clemente. Lots of good stuff. Cash/Electronic payment ok.

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PROFILES OF OUR COMMUNITY

GUEST OPINION: On Life and Love After 50 by Tom Blake

Should We Go?

I

t seems that every time my partner, Greta, and I plan a trip, situations arise beforehand that make us ask ourselves: “Should we go?”

In 2004, we planned a train trip from Madrid to other cities in Spain. A couple of weeks before our scheduled departure, terrorists bombed Madrid’s Atocha Train Station. The bomb was detonated on the tracks from which our train was scheduled to depart.

In a column, I asked readers: “Should Greta and I go on this trip?” Readers responded with a resounding “Yes! If you cancel, you let the terrorists win.”

Greta and I decided to go. However, we canceled our train reservations and rented a car instead. Navigating hundreds of confusing roundabouts likely made driving more dangerous than taking the train.

This year, we canceled an 82-day, round-trip cruise that was departing in October from Fort Lauderdale. The ship’s itinerary included crossing the Atlantic Ocean, navigating the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, circumventing the coast of Africa, then back to Florida.

You’re probably thinking: “COVID-19 must have forced you to cancel.”

But that wasn’t the reason. We canceled before the pandemic arrived, because a 737-passenger airliner was shot down with a missile over Iran in January 2020.

Our thinking: Tensions in the Middle East are heating up again. Our itinerary takes us into the Middle East. If a commercial airliner can be shot down, what’s to stop some crazies from shooting a missile into a cruise ship with the words “Holland America” emblazoned on the smokestack? In addition, the itinerary was taking us through places where pirates had attacked ships recently.

As it turns out, Holland America canceled the cruise a few weeks later due to

the pandemic.

We still had a yen to travel. In February this year, we made reservations to take the train to Seattle for a week beginning March 9 to visit relatives. In early March, when COVID-19 first surfaced in the U.S., Seattle was the initial hotspot in America.

We wondered: “Should we go?” We thought that being on a train for 33 hours going to a pandemic hotspot was not a good idea. We canceled.

In late August, the pandemic seemed to be easing somewhat. We had a one-week timeshare to use before the timeshare expired in October. So, we booked a resort in the Napa Valley wine country for Sept.

20-27.

Our plan was to drive from Dana Point up the 5 Freeway, stop a night at Harris Ranch, and then continue on to Napa. On the return trip, we planned to spend a night at the Davenport Roadhouse (a few miles north of Santa Cruz), which is owned by friends of ours. And other friends were going to join us for ON LIFE AND dinner at the Roadhouse.

LOVE AFTER 50 And yet we wondered:

By Tom Blake “Should we go?”

Of course, we knew we’d have to be careful with the still-active pandemic. To avoid public restroom stops along the way, we purchased a portable camping toilet that fit in our CRV. We even tested sitting on it in the car. We were ready to roll.

I promised Greta if the portable was necessary to use along the way, I’d even pull over and stop the car. We wanted no backseat tumbles or mishaps while the car was moving!

And then, about a month ago, the heatwaves hit California. We thought, “What happens if our car breaks down? Maybe we should rent a car? If a rental car broke down, the rental company would provide a replacement.” But, with the pandemic, we didn’t want to drive a car that other people had recently driven.

block of Avenida Del Mar in the early 1930s.

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And then the fires hit California. The two places we were going, Napa and Santa Cruz, were, respectively, where the second- and third-largest fires in California history were burning. The air quality in both places was terrible.

On Sept. 7, California closed several national forests due to new fires. Who could forecast what Sept. 20 would bring fire-wise? Would we have to worry about fires and air quality? Again, we asked: “Should we go?”

All these considerations kept nagging at us. We thought: “For now, we should just stay home. Why chance it?”

We decided South Orange County is the place for the perfect quarantine. I do my stand-up paddleboarding in Dana Point

Harbor, and Greta does water aerobics when the pool where she swims opens.

So, we opted not to go, at least not now.

Oh, does anyone need a portable camping toilet that’s never been used, for a cheap price? I suppose we could have a yard sale.

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. The San Clemente Times and Picket Fence Media do not publish content that is defamatory.

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Adoptable Pet of the Week: Anders wo-year-old Anders is quite the handsome pup. He has lots of energy and just loves to run and play in the yard.

Anders would likely make a great jogging buddy and wouldn’t mind the company of another similarly active dog. With his sweet face and happy disposition, this lovable canine is sure to win your heart.

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SC LIVING CoastLines by Fred Swegles

90 years ago: The Depression in San Clemente

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CHURCH: San Clemente’s first church, St. Clement’s Episcopal, was built in 1930 across from the Plaza and next to San Clemente’s school.

even months after the infamous Oct. 29, 1929 stock market crash plunged America into The Great Depression, San Clemente was still a sunny place to be, judging from the pages of El Heraldo de San Clemente, the weekly newspaper.

The paper, published by town founder Ole Hanson, maintained a rosy outlook, insisting that good times were ahead and that the beach town could ride out the nation’s financial difficulties.

California had grown so fast, and its real estate was so attractive, El Heraldo proclaimed that the economic setback would pass and prosperity would resume.

“I would rather be broke here in Southern California than any other place in the world,” Hanson told a business audience of 600 at COASTLINES Orange County’s Irvine

By Fred Swegles Park, as reported in June 1930. “The trouble with us is that we don’t know when we are well off.”

Today, as we look back at life in San Clemente 90 years ago, it seemed the Depression hadn’t yet turned catastrophic in the Spanish Village.

Construction was ongoing, and El Heraldo repeatedly reminded readers that the Spanish Village had itself been one of the fastest-growing communities in the world, up until the financial bump. It was only a matter of time for the slump to pass.

GOLF: “The year 1930 found the Spanish Village Municipal Golf Course opened to the public, the only ocean-view, all-grass course between Long Beach and La Jolla,” El Heraldo announced.

FISHING: Record numbers fished from San Clemente’s pier, its sportfishing boats and fishing barge the weekend of May 24-25, hauling in more than a ton of fish. “Nearly 100 anglers used the barge, while 65 were taken care of on the two live bait boats. It is estimated that 250 used the surf and pier for fishing,” El Heraldo reported, citing catches ranging from 25 to 100 pounds.

STATE HIGHWAY: Construction was underway to widen El Camino Real to 56 feet, including installation of 174 ornamental light poles that also would line Avenida Del Mar to the ocean.

Clockwise from top: This 1930 edition of El Heraldo de San Clemente announced construction of a restaurant specializing in seafood at the northern entrance into town. Mayor Tom Murphine’s tale of picking up a hitchhiker in San Clemente, 1930.

An example of many traffic incidents reported in 1930 along the state highway through San Clemente. Photos: Courtesy of the San Clemente Historical Society

WESTWARD EXPANSION

California’s population had more than doubled since 1920, El Heraldo said, and most of that surge was in Southern California. Visitors continued to stream into the state. A news story said 85,740 automobile tourists had entered California from January through June 1930, compared with 26,285 for the same period in 1929.

“You with small vision, open your eyes,” an El Heraldo editorial beseeched.

“You with fear in your hearts, become courageous. You are sitting on the development of a coast metropolis that as John Steven McGroarty says ‘will be one continuous city extending from Santa Barbara to San Diego, rivaling in population ancient Babylon with its multiplied millions.’ Watch San Clemente grow.”

Never mind that city dwellers who’d built enchanting beach homes in San Clemente from 1926-30 wouldn’t likely relish the prospect of their village morphing into a metropolis. But this was really just a pep talk, trying to assure property owners their real estate investment was safe.

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and bankers took over most of the town’s real estate.

EVER THE OPTIMIST

In 1930, Ole was telling his audience that, yes, there was some unemployment in the USA, but nothing like the hardships in China, India or England.

America’s westward expansion was destined to drive economic activity in Southern California, more than any part of the country, Hanson said, because “it is the stepping-off place, the terminus of the westward march.”

He urged his audience to cast off “the loud cries raised by calamity howlers.”

Said El Heraldo: “The gold rush of ’49. though picturesque and romantic, was a small affair compared with the modern movement in population. More people travel over any one of the great national highways in a month than came across in the covered wagons of ’49 in a year.”

Boulder Dam was under construction—a monumental conquest of the desert in Nevada—ensuring ample water for hordes who would visit or move to California seeking opportunities.

Locally, construction was beginning on a new highway linking Elsinore with San Juan Capistrano, making San Clemente beaches more accessible from Riverside County. The shortcut, to be known as Ortega Highway, would bring the Imperial Valley 75 miles closer to the sea.

Fred Swegles is a longtime San Clemente resident with 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. The San Clemente Times and Picket Fence Media do not publish content that is defamatory.

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RECREATION: With 3,000 feet of beach, a social club, a pier, a plaza, playgrounds, horse trails and the new golf course, San Clemente had more than $1.5 million worth of recreational property— “more park property than any city in the county, regardless of size,” El Heraldo proclaimed.

“In fact, we doubt if any city in the nation the size of San Clemente or cities ten times its size can show a park valuation such as the Spanish Village has.”

MINI GOLF: A miniature golf course opened along El Camino Real, “so located that any highway tourist can stop and get in a round when on his way to San Diego or Los Angeles.”

LORE: An 80-page book, The Story of San Clemente by Homer Banks, was published, on sale downtown at the San Clemente Art Shop.

RESORT HOTEL: Edward Fowler took out an option to build a million-dollar hotel on 12 acres overlooking the beach. The option required construction to begin within four months. Fowler said the hotel would include “every comfort and luxury imaginable and, when constructed, will be the most beautiful hotel on the west coast.”

DANCING & DINING: The Aquarium—a restaurant featuring a maple dance floor and live fish tanks—was under construction along the state highway near the San Clemente Beach Club.

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San Clemente native Taylor Kirby (right) receives his check from Ryan Sheckler (left) for winning the first Red Bull Solus skateboard contest at Sheckler’s private SC Sandlot in San Clemente. Photo: Red Bull Media House

Scoreboard

BY ZACH CAVANAGH, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

Our City Scoreboard keeps you updated on all of the local San Clemente youth and community team accomplishments and special individual performances of the week.

Email zcavanagh@picketfencemedia.com for submission.

San Clemente Native Wins Ryan Sheckler’s Red Bull Skate Event In a COVID-19 world, leave it to skateboarders to get creative when it comes to hosting events, with the latest entry right here in San Clemente.

Offering up his private SC Sandlot skatepark as the venue, skateboarding legend Ryan Sheckler teamed up with his sponsor to host a new and unique online video skateboarding contest: Red Bull Solus. The contest brought 13 skaters to Sheckler’s San Clemente playground, with each coming alone, or “solus,” for an hour-long session. In that session, skateboarders used the time to put together their best 45- to 60-second line of tricks, which was filmed and sent to judges to determine a winner.

Taking home the crown and prize money was 27-year-old Taylor Kirby, a San Clemente native based in Los Angeles. Kirby earned $10,000 for the win, with an additional $2,500 donated to his skateshop of choice, Lotties Skateshop in Los Angeles.

San Clemente was well-represented with the 30-year-old Sheckler headlining and 29-year-old Greyson Fletcher also competing. Both were skating for the Republik of Kalifornia skateshop in San Clemente.

For Kirby’s winning best ride, he took advantage of everything the SC Sandlot had to offer. Kirby hit a 360-flip to a 50-50 grind over a six-stair gap and hubba ledge.

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a switch 360-flip down the stairs.

In addition to the big prizes, voting continued online for the fan favorite award, which would give another $2,500 to the skater selected. The winner of that award was scheduled to be announced on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at redbull.com/solus. All videos of the runs and more info on all the skaters are available at redbull.com/solus.

Darnold, Jets Look for First Win on ‘Thursday Night Football’ It might be an understatement to say the first three games of the season for San Clemente High School alumnus Sam Darnold and the New York Jets have been rough.

The Jets are 0-3, with losses to Buffalo, San Francisco and Indianapolis by a combined score of 94-37 for a league-worst, minus-57 point differential. New York has posted league lows in total offense (263.7 yards per game) and points per game (12.3) and is the second-lowest in passing yards per game (175.3 yards).

Though Darnold has had some highlights with a 61.5% completion rate, 562 yards passing and three touchdowns, he also has thrown four interceptions and been sacked six times.

However, the former USC Trojan and his Jets teammates might have an opportunity to break through against the 0-3 Denver Broncos on Thursday, Oct. 1. The Broncos’ defense has allowed the fourthhighest passing yards per game (277.7) so far this season.

The Jets also get the advantage of playing at home on the short week, instead of at altitude in Denver. However, Denver has been competitive during its 0-3 start, with a two-point loss to 3-0 Tennessee, a fivepoint road loss to 3-0 Pittsburgh and a loss to 2-1 Tampa Bay. “Thursday Night Football” starts at 5:20 p.m. on NFL Network. SC Page 29

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Pro Surfing Returns to SoCal Waters Super Girl Pro comes to Oceanside—the first surf contest in California since the pandemic

BY JAKE HOWARD, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

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t’s been seven months since our local beaches were closed in a panic as the coronavirus pandemic swept over the country. Thankfully, it didn’t take too long to get them back open, and we’ve all been able to enjoy the open spaces of the beaches and oceans over the summer.

Since those initial closures back in March, competitive surfing in the U.S. has been on ice. Considering how much of our surf community is involved in the competitive side of the sport, it’s good to see things starting to return to some semblance of normalcy.

The first pro contest will take place this weekend in Oceanside, as the World Surf League hosts the Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro. The WSL has already run events in Australia, Brazil and Europe, as well as at the Surf Ranch in Lemoore. This will be its first contest in the ocean in California since the pandemic began.

Four-time world champion Carissa Moore will be headlining a stacked field that includes San Clemente resident and world No. 2 Caroline Marks, as well

Carissa Moore, a four-time world champion and 2018 winner of the Super Girl Pro, will be in Oceanside this weekend as pro surfing returns to the ocean in California. Photo: Courtesy of WSL/Steinmetz

as other powerhouses such as Lakey Peterson, Courtney Conlogue and Sage Erickson. Local stars Samantha Sibley and Tia Blanco are also in the draw.

“Everyone is so excited about this event,” Moore, who won the event in 2018, explained in a press release announcing the return of the contest “I’ve always been inspired by the message behind Super Girl, and it’s incredible to have a contest like this that focuses entirely on women’s surfing. I am thrilled to be back in the ocean competing, and the contest format seems really fun.”

The Super Girl Pro, an event that will feature the top female surfers from Hawaii, California and Florida, will take place from Oct. 3-4. Unfortunately, due to health concerns, fans are not invited, but there will be a live broadcast to tune into all weekend.

“The Super Girl Pro has been a huge

part of the landscape of women’s surfing for the past 13 years, and it’s incredible that they are able to make the event happen in 2020,” the WSL’s Jessi Miley-Dyer said in the same press release. “The field of talent competing includes both the best American surfers on the planet and the next generation of stars, and the competition format is really creative.”

Moore, Peterson and Conlogue were all together recently at the BSR Surf Resort in Waco, Texas, for a training session with the U.S. Olympic surf program.

After clinching the world title last year, Moore also earned herself the top spot on the Olympic team, along with runner-up finisher Marks.

Featuring the most progressive women in the water, the training session at the Texas wave pool was focused on helping the women continue to elevate their game to the next level. With an eye for technique,

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Water Temperature: 69-71 Degrees F

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Water Visibility and Conditions: 6-10 ’

W

hen asked when he started surfing, Salt Creek shredder Stone Childress kept it real.

“Like, 1,” said Stone. “I learned how to surf at Doheny with my dad.”

Now in kindergarten at the St. Anne School in Laguna Niguel, Stone’s pretty much been surfing his entire life, and he wouldn’t want it any other way.

“My favorite thing about surfing is surfing with my friends,” said Stone. “I just love surfing with my family and my friends. I love being in the ocean. And when there’s big waves, you can ride them. And it’s fun! I also love to skateboard and fish.”

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U.S. Coach Brett Simpson was on hand to help them break down their performances.

“We worked on turn variations, both backside and frontside, being light on the feet, airs and finding some extra pop!”

Simpson told the WSL. “We came with a few objectives to work on and check off the list. It was a very successful trip, and everyone is looking forward to going back soon.”

And now, all the stuff that Moore and company learned in Texas is sure to be applied in the ocean at the Super Girl Pro. It’s also worth noting that for the last couple of weeks, Moore, who hails from Oahu, has been posted up in town, ripping apart Lowers.

Given her abundance of natural talent, how hard she’s been working in the pool and at Lowers, the smart money must be on Moore to emerge victorious. But given how many great surfers are in the draw, it’s going to be anything but a cakewalk to get to the top of the podium.

As far as pro surfing goes, we’re still a long way from things returning to normal anytime soon, but the return of the Super Girl Pro is a step in the right direction.

The WSL is eyeing a full return of the Championship Tour in 2021, and events like this will give competitors a chance to pull on the jersey again, get their feet in the wax and get used to the nerves once again.

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

Thursday: South/southwest swell rolls in chest to head high+ surf, (4-5’+). Light/variable morning winds, turn to a light+ sea breeze for the afternoon.

Stone Childress. Photo: Courtesy of the Childress family

gets a little older. When asked where he sees surfing taking him in the next 10 years, his answer is on point.

“Hopefully, to Hawaii,” said Stone. “Also, I hope to do some contests, and I would be stoked to win some trophies.”

From the big surf of Hawaii to topping podiums, considering how stoked young Stone is on that ocean living and that he’s already got almost five years in the water under his belt, there’s no question that wave-riding will take him wherever he dreams. SC

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Outlook: On Friday a slow fading old South/ southwest swell and fresh Northwest swell set up with waist-shoulder-head high waves, (3-45’). Morning winds are light Friday, afternoon flow is light+ onshore. Surf slowly eases Saturday, then tropical swell is expected level wave size by the end of the weekend. Light/variable morning winds, followed by a light+ afternoon sea breeze for the weekend.

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