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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 5, 2017
Today: ‘The heroes we need to hear about’: How strangers helped strangers after Las Vegas mass shooting; Southern California weather turning hotter, but cooldown is on the way and A split Coast community colleges board OKs electing trustees by district.
October 4, 2017
Today: These Southern Californians died in the Las Vegas mass shooting. Here are their stories; Santa Ana planning ban on camping, structures to reduce homeless encampment at Civic Center and a committee will help investigate foul odor in Huntington Beach, City Council decides.
October 2, 2017
Today: Orange County Sheriff’s deputy tried to aid dying at Las Vegas mass shooting scene; Huntington Beach harbor area closed following 3,600-gallon sewage spill and How John Wayne Airport scored a No. 1 national quality ranking.
September 29, 2017
Today: Santa Ana, Garden Grove open talks over Willowick Golf Course, closed Santiago Canyon College center could become largest homeless shelter in Orange County and significant lessons learned from the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake.
September 28, 2017
Today: U.S. Supreme Court to take up union fee case first sparked by Rauner; Supervisors postpone decision on control of Human Relations Commission and former Spitzer staffer to receive $150,000 settlement over labor law violation.
September 27, 2017
Today: OC supervisors OK broad powers to destroy county emails, texts, veterans to immediately get all 125 acres for cemetery in Irvine and Irvine is nation’s 3rd most-prosperous large city.
September 26, 2017
Today: Irvine to hold special meeting on veterans cemetery; two OC Supervisors seek direct authority over pro-diversity group’s staff and Anaheim Convention Center’s $190 million expansion: Will city recoup its investment?
September 25, 2017
Today: Audit: OCTA staff lowered performance standards for contractor; Is Disney paying its share in Anaheim? and housing crisis: see how state lawmakers are putting more teeth — and more money — into reform.
September 22, 2017
Today: Beuthin - Lack of health care access a gateway to homelessness; McCain to oppose Graham-Cassidy, likely sinking Obamacare repeal and County may allow immediate destruction of texts and email.
September 21, 2017
Today: Town Hall Meeting on important retirement issues set for September 26, 2017; OC veteran’s cemetery in Irvine stuck? and Santa Ana wants county to shelter homeless on vacant Irvine land, considers suing.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
