April 5, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
OC Register: In these four Orange County ZIP codes everybody 16 and older is already eligible for a COVID-19 shot
People ages 16 and older who live in four ZIP codes of Santa Ana, Anaheim and Garden Grove can get a COVID-19 vaccine now – an expanded age guideline that won’t apply in much of California until April 15.
Voice of OC: Dispute erupts over proposed rail project along eroding Capistrano Beach
In the past five years, those near the area’s Doheny State Beach have watched “in horror” as dozens of palm trees and chunks of the closed south parking lot have crumbled into the sea, wrote a project critic wrote in a recent letter to transportation officials.
Voice of OC: Santa Ana’s Vietnamese residents often find community in other cities
Specifically, they find it in the neighboring towns of Garden Grove and Westminster — cities with one of the largest combined concentrations of Vietnamese people outside Vietnam.
Voice of OC: KKK fliers found in Huntington Beach
Some Huntington Beach residents were dismayed to find flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan near their homes Easter morning, Sunday, April 4, about a week before “white lives matter” demonstrations promoted on social media were scheduled to take place around the country.
OC Register: Orange County’s crazy housing: $820,000 record price, most sales in 15 years
The selling spree came as recovery quickened from the pandemic’s broad economic challenges. Interest rates remained low but are rising. Severely limited housing inventory also hindered house hunters seeking new or larger living spaces.
Daily Pilot: Laguna Beach to consider repealing municipal code provision that checks foul language
In the first meeting with in-person public participation since meetings went virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic, the council will consider repealing a portion of the municipal code that criminalizes using foul language during council meetings.
California
KTLA: California nears COVID-19 vaccine target that would ease reopening of businesses and public spaces
California is on the precipice of administering 4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in its most disadvantaged areas — a hurdle that, when cleared, would trigger a rewrite of the state’s reopening blueprint to make it easier for counties to more widely reopen businesses and other public spaces.
Nation
CNN.com: Bar opening event linked to 46 Covid-19 cases, a school closure and hospitalization, CDC report says
“Bars can play a role in community spread of COVID-19 because of limited mask use while eating or drinking and lack of consistent physical distancing,” the authors wrote in the report.
Publication Date: April 5, 2021
