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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.
November 4, 2017
Today: Disney stops LA Times movie preview access, citing Anaheim reporting, Southern California commuting ranked as nation’s most stressful and hearing scheduled on proposed Mesa Water District rate hikes.
November 3, 2017
Today: Beuthin - Hold those who tread on our freedom accountable; homeless along Santa Ana River in Fountain Valley ponder next steps as county enforcement looms, and Anaheim considers affordable housing requirement.
November 2, 2017
Today: OC Supervisors take direct control of anti-hate group’s staff, the Veterans Day Food Drive is happening now to help veterans in need and their families and rising health insurance costs are a growing worry for aging people, early retirees.
November 1, 2017
Today: Homeless program funding proves elusive for Anaheim, regional economists are positive, but warn of too-high housing costs and an aging workforce and can $46 billion buy a home for nuclear waste stored at San Onofre?
October 31, 2017
Today: Who is running the County’s 2018 Tet Festival? Two new Fullerton underpasses are final touch in OCTA’s $663 million O.C. Bridges program and County to restrict access on Santa Ana River trail and shut down Fountain Valley homeless encampment.
October 30, 2017
Today: Former Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters appointed DA’s investigations chief, is compassion giving way to anger over homelessness in Southern California? and Is Prop. 47 partly to blame for more officer-involved shootings?
October 27, 2017
Today: Supervisor Nelson: County to phase homeless people out of Santa Ana riverbed, Sheriff’s deputies have made 180 arrests in Santa Ana River bed, and contacted 1,000 homeless people to help them; and OC Veterans Cemetery to be dedicated at Strawberry Fields.
October 26, 2017
Today: OC Fire Authority plans outside investigation of Canyon Fire 2 response; Anaheim police chief receives $750,000 settlement in exchange for resignation, and will the demise of the Eastern Gateway at Disneyland be a death blow for businesses on Harbor?
October 25, 2017
Today: Santa Ana to crack down on Civic Center homeless camp, you are invited to a free community event honoring Veterans Nov. 11, 2017; and Southern California police injured in Las Vegas mass shooting heroism denied workers’ comp due to state law.
October 24, 2017
Today: Anaheim police chief steps down, nearly all Anaheim short-term rental owners apply for hardship extension to avoid ban; and Skosh Monahan, former Costa Mesa councilman’s restaurant, briefly closed due to roach infestation.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
