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Dear OCEA member,
This holiday season, I am reminded how the work each of you do each day enables so many families throughout our communities to enjoy a safe and healthy time with family and friends. In fact, many among our ranks will be working throughout the holiday to make sure Orange County works, that its streets are safe and that its residents get the services they need.
Today I wrote an editorial in the Orange County Register to highlight the incredible work you all do and to remind residents that you are the unsung heroes who keep our communities working (see below).
Wishing you and your loved ones joy and love this holiday season, from your family at OCEA. Thank you for all you do.
In solidarity,
Jennifer Muir Beuthin
OCEA General Manager
Remember the unsung heroes this holiday season
By Jennifer Muir Beuthin, Contributing writer
Every year the Register recognizes influencers throughout our communities—leaders who have made a mark, whose stories provide a glimpse into the incredible and diverse fabric that makes Orange County so special. Congratulations to each of the honorees.
For each of the 100 most influential people who are singled out every year, we can all probably name people in our own circles who make a huge impact on our lives each day. And so these influencer stories also help us all tap into our own personal feelings of gratitude, feelings that are especially poignant as we shop and cook and prepare to spend time with loved ones during the holidays.
In that spirit of gratitude, I wanted to highlight the efforts of a group of incredibly influential people because the very nature of their work often means that when they’re successful, most of us hardly know they’re there.
The municipal workforce in our county impacts just about every aspect of our daily lives, and this holiday season is no different.
For those of us who have family visiting from out of town, your guests will be greeted at John Wayne Airport by Sheriff’s Special Officers whose job is to make sure the public is safe inside and outside the walls of the airport terminals. You can feel confident knowing that SSOs have intervened not only to protect the public from dangerous situations, but also to perform CPR and save lives when travelers have fallen ill.
October 14, 2021 Media Brief
Today: Oil spill on center stage as Congress debates offshore drilling ban; OC oil spill was likely about 25,000 gallons, and Fullerton Council deadlocked over budget cuts, use of federal relief funds.
October 13, 2021 Media Brief
Today: Oil pipeline records obtained by Voice of OC prompt questions; Newport Beach officials approve local emergency over oil spill, and Port of LA to join Long Beach in 24/7 operations, Biden announces.
October 12, 2021 Media Brief
Today: State, feds kick off slew of investigations into OC oil spill; Anaheim is the largest OC city without a housing policy, and Kaiser workers vote to authorize strike at Southern California hospitals, clinics.
October 8, 2021 Media Brief
Today: State and federal officials cut off regular, public updates of OC oil spill; a father-son boat charter business survived the pandemic, now they face an oil spill, and why didn’t an auto shut-off system prevent the massive oil leak off OC’s coast?
October 7, 2021 Media Brief
Today: OC lawmakers call for new bans on offshore drilling; testing begins to see when beaches can reopen, and cleaning oil off birds can feel good, but does it make a difference?
October 6, 2021 Media Brief
Today: Oil spill cleanup facing lack of workers; Newport Beach, Laguna latest agencies to declare local emergencies, and feds say operators waited hours to shut down pipeline.
October 5, 2021 Media Brief
Today: Supervisors question who first knew about massive oil spill, declare emergency; information, communication gaps dominate first days of oil spill, and oil spill provides common enemy for divided Huntington Beach community.
October 4, 2021 Media Brief
Today: Last holdout Newport Beach harbor closes due to oil spill; fewer birds affected by oil spill than feared, and here’s what beaches and harbors are closed as work on massive spill continues.
October 1, 2021 Media Brief
Today: OC fairgrounds vaccination site now open; more Orange County students to head into classrooms full-time, and even with a turnaround coming, hunger remains a crisis in Orange County.
September 30, 2021 Media Brief
Today: OC cannot fine qualified mental health director who wants the job; Coronavirus: OC is 62% fully vaccinated with 398 new cases reported, and Gov. Newsom Newsom signs police reform bills.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
