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• FHA Commissioner Montgomery, leave down payment assistance alone

  23-01-2020 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Saving up for a down payment, even a 3.5% down that FHA often requires, is an insurmountable struggle for a plethora of low-income, hard-working Americans.
  But about 150,000 families without the cash still have become homeowners thanks to down payment assistance from a variety of state or federal housing finance agencies — commonly referred to as HFA’s.
  Going forward, maybe not.
  Last April, Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Brian Montgomery issued a bombshell directive that
  
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• Commissioner Montgomery, leave down payment assistance alone

  23-01-2020 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Saving up for a down payment, even a 3.5% down that FHA often requires, is an insurmountable struggle for a plethora of low-income, hard-working Americans.
  But about 150,000 families a year who lack the savings or family help needed to buy a home still have gotten on the ownership path thanks to down payment assistance from a variety of state or federal housing finance agencies — commonly referred to as HFA’s.
  Going forward, maybe not.
  Last April, Federal Housing Administration Commi
  
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• ‘Gangbuster’ gray whale sightings raise hopes

  23-01-2020 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Gray whales were spotted off Dana Point in big numbers on Jan.22, 2020, a hopeful sign for the marine mammal species that suffered an Unusual Mortality Rate in 2019 that is still being investigated. (Photo courtesy ofLori Hespe/Dana Wharf)
  Gray whales were spotted off Dana Point in big numbers on Jan.22, 2020, a hopeful sign for the marine mammal species that suffered an Unusual Mortality Rate in 2019 that is still being investigated. (Photo courtesy ofLori Hespe/Dana Wharf)SoundThe gallery will
  
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• Flurry of gray whale sightings raise hopes after 200 stranded dead whales last year

  23-01-2020 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Large pods of gray whales have been spotted off Orange County this week, including six seen off NewportBeach’s coast on Jan. 22, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Alex Shaw Newport Coastal Adventure)
  Gray whales were spotted off Dana Point in big numbers on Jan.22, 2020, a hopeful sign for the marine mammal species that suffered an Unusual Mortality Rate in 2019 that is still being investigated. (Photo courtesy ofLori Hespe/Dana Wharf)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLarge pods of gray whales
  
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• Assembly Bill 5 threatens small businesses across California

  23-01-2020 23:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Assembly Bill 5 is easily one of the most destructive bills I have seen during my tenure in Sacramento, and definitely the bill with the most far-reaching and consequential impacts on California workers. Passed last year and now California state law, AB5 severely limits independent contracting, costing thousands of workers not only their jobs but their means of supporting themselves and their families.
  Last year’s AB5 completely changed the standard for determining whether a worker is an i
  
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• Arraignment of Temescal Valley man who faces triple murder charges postponed

  23-01-2020 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  A 42-year-old Temescal Valley man charged with three counts of murder for what prosecutors said was an intentional ramming of a car filled with teens who had played a doorbell-ringing prank at his house appeared in court Thursday afternoon, Jan 23, for the first time, but the arraignment hearing was delayed to Feb. 21.
  Anurag Chandra was charged earlier in the day with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in connection with the Sunday night car wreck near his home that lef
  
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• Senior Moments: These million-dollar offers are a dime a dozen

  23-01-2020 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  It seems my tongue didn’t quite make it into my cheek.
  In a recent column, I wrote about being contacted by an aging widow who offered to give me her inheritance of $19.7 million dollars to do charity work. She claimed she was childless and terminally ill. All I had to do was send her my bank account number so she could deposit the money.
  I joked about what I would do with all that money. At least, I thought I did. However, many readers wrote to warn me that Mrs. Lila Haber was likely
  
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• Dodgers announce 21 non-roster invitations to spring training

  23-01-2020 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers announced a list of 21 non-roster players invited to spring training camp Thursday.
  For the second year in a row, the list features several of the organization’s top prospects yet to make the team’s 40-man roster and few players with major-league experience.
  Among the prospects invited are right-hander Josiah Gray, infielder Jeter Downs (both on Baseball America’s Top 100 prospects list announced this week), catcher Connor Wong, former first-roun
  
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• USC football adds future non-conference game against Fresno State

  23-01-2020 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  USC football and Fresno State will play a non-conference game against each other at the Coliseum in 2028, the two schools announced on Thursday.
  The game will be played on Sept. 9 that year. The two teams also announced that the 2025 meeting between them has been moved to 2026. The Trojans and Bulldogs played each other this past season, with USC winning 31-23, and will play again in 2022.
  The Fresno State game is the first non-conference opponent announced for USC in 2028.Related Articles USC O
  
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• Muzeo hosts authors in Open Book Series

  23-01-2020 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center is presenting the next event in its Open Book Series with Distinguished Authors.
  From 1 to 3 p.m. on Jan. 25, Stephen Maitland-Lewis, Steven Deeble, and John Brantingham will be talking about their books and offering information for attendees.
  The event in the Muzeo’s Carnegie Building is free and open to the community.  For more information call 714-765-6450 or visit muzeo.org.
  Anaheim First is getting input from residents
  Anaheim First is a
  
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• University High girls stay atop the Pacific Coast League standings

  23-01-2020 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  It was a memorable week for University High’s girls basketball team which won two key Pacific Coast League games to remain atop the league standings.
  University (9-13 overall, 4-0 in league) extended its league winning streak to 24 games dating back three seasons. The Trojans ended the week on Jan. 16, defeating Woodbridge 51-50.
  The lead see-sawed back and forth in the final minutes, but the Trojans’ Samantha Skurnick scored on a driving layup with 11 seconds left for the eventual g
  
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• 14 theater productions to see in Southern California this week, Jan. 24-30

  23-01-2020 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES COUNTY
  ‘Rock of Ages Hollywood’
  The musical by Chris D’Arienzo with classic rock music from the 1980s by various songwriters has a new home. Minimum age: 12.
  When: Runs 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday. Seating is at tables.
  Where: The Bourbon Room, second floor, 6356 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles.
  Tickets: $89 and up.
  Information: rockofageshollywood.com
  ‘Proving Up’
  Pasadena Opera puts on Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek&rsquo
  
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• Man who killed step-brother in Garden Grove found not guilty by reason of insanity

  23-01-2020 22:07 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that a man who stabbed his step-brother to death at a Garden Grove apartment is not guilty by reason of insanity.
  Judge John D. Conley determined that Andres Adolfo Serrat, 29, committed second-degree murder when he killed 20-year-old Donte Barcelo. But the judge accepted the determination by several psychologists that Serrat was insane at the time of the slaying.
  Serrat has a history of paranoid schizophrenia, said Jacob DeGrave, the public d
  
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• Clippers’ Jerome Robinson making subtle strides

  23-01-2020 22:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Rome, as they say, wasn’t built in a day.
  There’s pressure that comes with being an NBA lottery pick, lofty expectations attached to being drafted 13th overall and arriving with the reputation — based on a 40.9 collegiate 3-point percentage — as a sharpshooter.
  Sure, sometimes Zion Williamson introduces himself by erupting for 17 consecutive points in three minutes. But more often, life in the NBA (and life in general) doesn’t deliver such instant gratification.
  Sec
  
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• Daxon: Brea school superintendent discusses Measure G

  23-01-2020 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Soon Breans will be marking ballots on Measure G, a measure to approve selling bonds to finance $123 million in school construction and improvements, but voters have many questions about the bond.
  I had a conversation with Brea Olinda Unified School District Superintendent Brad Mason and he answered some:
  Q: Is it correct that the school board selects the seven members of the Oversight Committee? Must they be Brea residents?
  A: It is the board’s responsibility to select and approve Citizen
  
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• OC’s housing battles show the limits of edicts

  23-01-2020 21:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The latest battles between several Orange County cities and state and regional officials over home-construction mandates spotlight the failure of California’s long-term approach toward housing development. There’s wide agreement that the state needs to dramatically increase its housing supply to stabilize soaring property and rent prices. But instead of allowing market forces to work, the state prefers to issue ham-fisted rules and edicts.
  Last week, the city of Irvine blasted the So
  
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• Inside the Dodgers: What’s it like to get exactly one Hall of Fame vote?

  23-01-2020 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: This is the Thursday, Jan. 23 edition of the Inside the Dodgers newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.For today’s editions of the Southern California News Group papers, I wrote about Hall of Fame voting in the social media age. There’s a thought nestled in that piece about the value of private ballots. Namely: any vote cast for a player who does not meet the usual Hall of Fame standards has value and (usually) shouldn’t be ridic
  
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• Local trails, guided hikes offer options for Laguna Woods residents to explore the great outdoors

  23-01-2020 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Woods Village residents are taking up hiking as a way to stay fit and explore the natural beauty of south Orange County.
  Laguna Woods Village is surrounded by more than 22,000 acres of wilderness parks with more than 70 miles of hiking trails. (Register file photo)
  Barbara’s Lake, the only freshwater lake in Orange County, is and a short hike from Laguna Woods Village. (Courtesy of Andy Cmiel)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsHikers walk near the trailhead off the Willow parking
  
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• Retrial begins for driver accused of killing grandmother, 2-year-old girl in Irvine crash

  23-01-2020 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  A driver accused of causing a 2015 crash in Irvine that killed a woman and her granddaughter is once again on trial for second-degree murder, less than a year after a juror caused a mistrial by changing her mind from a guilty verdict.
  Alec Scott Abraham faces two counts of murder in connection to the deaths of Katherine Hampton, 54, and Kaydence Hampton, 2, during a June 10, 2015 crash at Alton and Barranca parkways that also left the girl’s mother and brother injured.
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• Murder, attempted murder charges filed in Temescal Valley crash that left 3 teens dead

  23-01-2020 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  A 42-year-old Temescal Valley man was charged with murder and attempted murder Thursday, Jan. 23, after prosecutors said his angry pursuit of a car full of teens who played a doorbell ringing prank at his home ended with three of the boys dead and three injured.
  Anurag Chandra was scheduled to enter his plea Thursday afternoon in downtown Riverside County Superior Court. He is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, the Riverside County District Attorney’s
  
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• 40-year-old ‘Dogpatch’ shack gets new life at San Onofre surf beach

  23-01-2020 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Volunteers from the San Onofre Surfing Club helped restore theiconic “Dogpatch” beach shack, built in 1981, that had been deteriorating for years. (Photo courtesy of San Onofre Surfing Club)
  Volunteers from the San Onofre Surfing Club helped restore theiconic “Dogpatch” beach shack, built in 1981, that had been deteriorating for years. (Photo by Laylan Connelly/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsVolunteers from the San Onofre Surfing Club helped restore theiconic
  
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• Former Wells Fargo CEO fined $17.5M for sales scandal

  23-01-2020 20:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ken Sweet, The Associated Press
  Federal regulators have slapped former Wells Fargo Chief Executive John Stumpf with a $17.5 million fine for his role in the bank’s sales practices scandal.
  The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also announced Thursday it was suing five other former Wells Fargo executives for a combined total of $37.5 million for their individual roles in the bank’s poor practices. Two other executives also settled with the OCC, paying million-dollar fines a
  
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• A look back at UTLA’s ‘historic victory’

  23-01-2020 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  A year ago, the United Teachers of Los Angeles went on strike, paralyzing the second-largest school district in America. Some 30,000 teachers walked out on 600,000 students. When the strike ended with a deal, union President Alex Caputo-Pearl declared his union had achieved a “historic victory.”
  A year later we know the truth. Today it’s safe to say the L.A. teachers union win in 2019 has made it harder to teach, harder to learn and harder to live in L.A.
  Criticism of the deal
  
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• UCLA women, coping with first loss, host Washington

  23-01-2020 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The late Friday night was becoming an early Saturday morning, and UCLA women’s basketball head coach Cori Close was on a red-eye flight out to the East Coast for recruiting.
  The No. 10 Bruins had just lost their first game all season. Their program-record perfect start had come to an end in double-overtime against crosstown rival USC on Friday night at the Galen Center.
  Despite the loss, Close’s phone kept buzzing with notifications of text messages from her players. One by one, the
  
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• Trump removes protections for waterways, aiding developers

  23-01-2020 20:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration lifted federal protections Thursday for some of the nation’s millions of miles of streams, arroyos and wetlands, completing one of its most far-reaching environmental rollbacks.
  The changes will scale back which waterways qualify for protection against pollution and development under the half-century-old Clean Water Act. President Donald Trump has made a priority of the rollback of clean-water protections from his first weeks
  
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• Bellator 238: Cris Cyborg challenges Julia Budd and MMA history

  23-01-2020 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — First out was the challenger, just 25 days after she had inked what Bellator MMA was touting as the biggest contract ever given to a female fighter.
  Then came the champion, the only featherweight titleholder Bellator has ever known.
  Cris Cyborg and Julia Budd stood in the middle of the cage Sept. 28 at The Forum, shaking hands and smiling for a collegial staredown absent any bravado or trash talk, real or imagined.
  In the same arena Saturday night, the pleasantries will come
  
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• Harvey Weinstein held me down and raped me, ‘Sopranos’ actress tells jury

  23-01-2020 20:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, TOM HAYS and JENNIFER PELTZ | Associated Press
  NEW YORK — “Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, telling a jury in a quivering voice that the burly Hollywood studio boss barged into her apartment in the mid-1990s, overpowered her and raped her as she tried to fight him off by kicking and punching him.
  She said that a month later, she ran into him and confronted him about what happened, and he replie
  
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• Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Volta’ delivers a low-voltage experience

  23-01-2020 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Is it possible that Cirque du Soleil’s creativity gas tank is running on empty, or at least on fumes? You might think so after seeing its latest tent creation, “Volta,” the least magical, least imaginative, most recycled show the company has ever assembled and taken on the road.
  “Volta” opened Tuesday in the Dodger Stadium parking lot where it will play through March 8 before moving to the Orange County Fair & Event Center for a second engagement, March 18-April
  
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• Newport’s Mathisrud among seven local football standouts in North-South game

  23-01-2020 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Not many of us qualify for needing to gain weight, but imagine if that was you. Actors, sumo wrestlers and offensive linemen come to mind as those who might require packing on some pounds for a certain role.
  Newport Harbor High’ Carter Mathisrud has committed to play football at the University of Washington. (Courtesy of Carter Mathisrud)
  Newport Harbor High senior left tackle Carter Mathisrud, who has committed to play football at the University of Washington, is one of the lucky few who
  
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• Review: A new Korean restaurant in Irvine puts soup on the front burner

  23-01-2020 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  A new specialty Korean restaurant opened in Irvine recently. The starkly minimalist Tang & Tang sells soup and very little else. 
  They offer more than a dozen options from a simple “beef rib clear soup” to an elaborate presentation of chicken broth in a large pot filled with a whole chicken stuffed with rice. 
  75 Best Places to EatWhere to eat in Orange County in 2019: A map of the 75 Best PlacesI haven’t tried the latter yet, but I have sampled that beef rib soup
  
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• Colorado’s Vista Verde sparkles in winter

  23-01-2020 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  When I was invited to Steamboat Springs, I envisioned myself swooshing down the ski mountain by day and sipping hot toddies at a hip après ski bar by night. I did not imagine myself drilling a three-foot hole into a frozen lake with an ice auger in sub-freezing temperatures. Yet here I sit, cozy in a thermal shelter, fishing pole in one gloved hand and hot chocolate in the other, on a true Colorado adventure thanks to Vista Verde Ranch.
  Vista Verde is a 540 acre, all-inclusive, four-seaso
  
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• Drummond: Yorba Linda council checks in on fees that help support new residents

  23-01-2020 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  New development – whether residential or commercial – brings additional infrastructure needs to communities, and state law allows municipalities to levy “impact fees” on building projects to pay the often hefty costs associated with providing new parks, roads and storm drains.
  Yorba Linda’s City Council members recently reviewed state-required annual reports on three of the fees charged to developers, who then tack the costs onto the price that purchasers pay for co
  
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• Jim Lehrer, longtime PBS news anchor and debate moderator, dies at 85

  23-01-2020 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID BAUDER
  NEW YORK  — Jim Lehrer, co-host and later host of the nightly PBS “NewsHour” that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85.
  Lehner died “peacefully in his sleep,” according to PBS. He had suffered a heart attack in 1983 and more recently, had undergone heart valve surgery in April 2008.
  For Lehrer, and for his friend and longtime partner Robert MacNeil, broadcast journalism was a service, wi
  
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• Costa Mesa police officer, man injured in intersection crash

  23-01-2020 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A Costa Mesa police officer responding to a call and the driver of another car were hospitalized Thursday morning, Jan. 23, after colliding, police said.
  It was about 6:50 a.m. when the officer in her patrol vehicle was traveling with lights and sirens on to an “urgent” call near Baker Street and Fairview Road, police said. As the officer drove into the intersection, the patrol car and a sedan collided.
  The man in the sedan and the officer were taken to a hospital to be treated for t
  
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• Car collides with police SUV with lights and and sirens on in Costa Mesa

  23-01-2020 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A Costa Mesa police officer responding to a call and the driver of another car were hospitalized Thursday morning, Jan. 23, after colliding, police said.
  It was about 6:50 a.m. when the officer in her patrol vehicle was traveling with lights and sirens on to an “urgent” call near Baker Street and Fairview Road, police said. As the officer drove into that intersection, the patrol car and a sedan collided.
  The man in the sedan and the officer were taken to a hospital to be treated for
  
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• Former In-N-Out executive will open Kenwood’s Kitchen and Tap in Costa Mesa

  23-01-2020 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Former In-N-Out executive Ken Kenwood will take his 33 years experience with the company and start his own restaurant, Kenwood’s Kitchen and Tap in Costa Mesa.
  Ken Kenwood expects to open Kenwood’s Kitchen and Tap in spring or early summer in a 4,000-square-foot space in Costa Mesa at The Shops at Mesa Verde. (Courtesy of Kenwood’s)
  The family owned and operated restaurant will serve “American comfort food” in a “casual upscale” environment. Le Cordon Bl
  
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• 33-year In-N-Out executive will start his own restaurant, Kenwood’s Kitchen and Tap, in Costa Mesa

  23-01-2020 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Former In-N-Out executive Ken Kenwood will take his 33 years experience with the company and start his own restaurant, Kenwood’s Kitchen and Tap in Costa Mesa.
  Ken Kenwood expects to open Kenwood’s Kitchen and Tap in spring or early summer in a 4,000-square-foot space in Costa Mesa at The Shops at Mesa Verde. (Courtesy of Kenwood’s)
  The family owned and operated restaurant will serve “American comfort food” in a “casual upscale” environment. Le Cordon Bl
  
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• Roger Waters will bring This is Not a Drill Tour to Staples Center

  23-01-2020 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Innovative rocker and former Pink Floyd player Roger Waters has created an all-new concert experience for 2020. On the tail of his Us + Them Tour, the outspoken 76-year-old activist and musician has announced his This is Not a Drill Tour, which will be performed in arenas in the round.
  Waters will bring the tour to Staples Center in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 10.
  “It’ll be a new show. It will be no-holds-barred. My work is to think, ‘Well, how can I make rock & roll more i
  
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• 5 things to know when shopping for mid-century modern furniture

  23-01-2020 18:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The Cold War is long over, but the fashions it inspired remain hot, says Courtney Gallagher, an expert in mid-century modern furniture.
  Gallagher runs an online antiques business, Not Another Mod Snob, that’s driven by social media. She also has a store in Riverside that’s filled with eye-popping vintage merchandise.
  She recently moved it from Brockton Arcade to a spot on Magnolia Avenue among other antique businesses. Gallagher has three tenants, two of which sell mid-century m
  
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• Circus troupe brings chills and acrobatic skills with new show ‘Blizzard’

  23-01-2020 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  As a Cirque du Soleil performer for years, Bruno Gagnon was used to the grandeur of the famous traveling troupe, often performing with dozens of others on stage at the same time all under the big top in huge venues.
  But he and a few other performers wanted something more by creating something more minimal.
  They wanted something less over the top and more intimate where the audience could really connect with the performers and be swept into the stories while still being dazzled by the acrobatics
  
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• California’s monarch butterfly population is critically low for 2nd year

  23-01-2020 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
  SAN FRANCISCO — The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California’s coast remains critically low for the second year in a row, a count by an environmental group released Thursday showed.
  The count of the orange-and-black insects by the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental organization that focuses on the conservation of invertebrates, recorded about 29,000 butterflies in its annual survey. That’s not much different than last year&rsqu
  
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• Laguna Woods Village resident Doug Gibson chosen to fill board vacancy

  23-01-2020 17:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The Third Mutual board elected 16-year resident Doug Gibson to fill a vacancy during a regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
  Gibson, who said his greatest strength is communicating with fellow residents, edged candidates Gan Mukhopadhyay and Susan Smallwood.
  “I get to know people an awful lot. My strengths are the ability to meet people, earn their confidence, listen to them and then work with them.” Gibson said.
  Gibson will fill a vacancy left by Bunny Carpenter, whose two-year term
  
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• Coachella 2020: Here’s your chance to design one of the festival’s artistic recycling bins

  23-01-2020 17:44 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’ve ever wandered past the brightly-colored, decorated recycling bins of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and wondered how you could design your own, here’s your chance.
  Global Inheritance, a nonprofit environmental awareness organization that has partnered with Coachella for 17 years, is the force behind the decorated artwork-like recycling bins and other projects such as a teeter totter that uses kinetic energy to charge phones.
  The organization is offering 50 p
  
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• After 13 years, JT Schmid’s Restaurant & Brewery in Tustin has closed

  23-01-2020 17:42 via ocregister.com
  
  In a voice choked with emotion, Lisa Schmid told the Register that JT Schmid’s Restaurant & Brewery in The District at Tustin Legacy closed on Friday, Jan. 17.
  “The reason is because it was losing money,” she said. “When Jason was here he was trying to turn it around. But me trying to have two restaurants and one is profitable and the other is not, it’s very hard and emotionally sad.”
  Her husband, Jason Schmid, owner of JT Schmid locations in Tustin and An
  
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• Master Gardener: What to do about olive fruit flies and woodpeckers

  23-01-2020 17:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I have an olive tree that produces many olives. In previous years, I have collected the ripe olives and home-cured them with good results. This year, when I soaked them overnight, there were thousands of tiny worms at the bottom of the bucket, and I had to discard all the olives. What happened?
  A: Your tree was visited by the olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae). These insects first appeared in California in 1998 and have spread throughout all olive-producing regions in the state. They are cons
  
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• Streamline all, not some, California development

  23-01-2020 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When it comes to making modest and reasonable reforms to a California environmental law that would ease California’s housing crisis, state lawmakers say one thing and do another.
  For decades, it has been obvious that tweaks to the California Environmental Quality Act, better known as CEQA, are required as the law is routinely abused by groups with no environmental purpose welding frivolous lawsuits to block developments. Attempts at reform usually die a quick death, though hypocritical law
  
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• Faith-based model provides option for those priced out of health insurance, but it comes with risks

  23-01-2020 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Yesenia Amaro, USC Center for Health Journalism News Collaborative
  When Bob Stedman suffered a minor stroke in 2017, he received 60 personal checks from strangers, along with get-well cards and notes of encouragement.
  The 55-year-old Orange County father of five used those checks, provided through a health care cost-sharing ministry, to pay for his $13,000 hospital bill. Thousands of Californians who struggle to afford private insurance have turned to the faith-based, health care cost-sh
  
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• For Ducks right wing Jakob Silfverberg, unselfishness is a ‘no-brainer’

  23-01-2020 16:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Jakob Silfverberg was involved in one of the biggest trades in the Ducks’ history. He played on one of their best lines. He has been and continues to be one of their best leaders. He also made one of the biggest personal decisions since the franchise began play in 1993-94.
  Actually, it was “a no-brainer for me,” as he put it recently.
  After all, family comes first.
  So, Silfverberg turned down an invitation to represent the Ducks at the NHL All-Star Game on Saturday in St. Louis
  
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• Newport Beach police seek witnesses of hit-and-run crash that left pedestrian injured

  23-01-2020 16:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Police are looking for anyone who may have witnessed a small SUV hitting a pedestrian in Newport Beach then taking off.
  It was just before 8 p.m. on Dec. 28 when police got a 911 call about the incident at Superior Avenue and Hospital Road.
  Police said the pedestrian, whose gender has not been released, was walking across the intersection in the crosswalk before getting hit by the red or maroon vehicle traveling north on Superior.
  The victim suffered major injuries.
  Surveillance video show the v
  
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• Rebel hero or First Order spy? Rise of the Resistance mobile games let you choose sides

  23-01-2020 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  A pair of new mobile games in Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge let you enlist as a Resistance rebel, remain loyal to the First Order or play a rogue scoundrel determined to pit both sides against each other.
  The debut of Rise of the Resistance dark ride at the Anaheim theme park has unlocked two new missions gamers can play in the Star Wars themed land that tie into the backstory of the new attraction.
  “It really does add an extra layer of discovery and exploration to your
  
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