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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.
February 25, 2021
Today: County quietly shuts down last walk-in homeless shelter without announcement; Moorlach’s campaign for supervisor continues as he tests positive for COVID-19, and Westminster lifts business eviction protection a month early, allows repayment.
February 24, 2021
Today: OC plans to open multiple vaccination sites for school employees; Newport Beach joins other cities in battle with the state for greater land-use control, and Irvine residents get a public airing of concerns about the air in their neighborhoods.
February 23, 2021
Today: Top OC prosecutor calls for treatment instead of jail for drug use, mental illness; Anaheim Convention Center opens today with outbreak concerns, and Los Alamitos High may offer new ethnic studies, will Yorba Linda follow?
February 22, 2021
Today: Partial herd immunity’ emerging, but some challenge the value of that status; OCEA members are on the frontlines of the public health crisis, and Social Services Agency expands Public Assistance office hours beginning today.
February 19, 2021
Today: OC could see rolled back COVID restrictions on youth and adult sports; Capistrano Unified teachers want COVID-19 safety changes, and a new permanent bridge shelter in Costa Mesa, furnished by IKEA, will open to clients in March.
February 18, 2021
Today: Supply delays to temporarily close Disneyland mass vaccination site; FBI probe into Capitol riot activity lands in O.C. again, and Lake Forest City Council bails on new regional renewable energy agency.
February 17, 2021
Today: Santa Ana College vaccination site opens Wednesday; vaccination inequities persist; OCs coronavirus metrics improve again, and Anaheim supports Assembly bill to speed Disney reopening.
February 16, 2021
Today: County to make push to vaccinate those with less access; Huntington Beach officials crackdown on homeless activity, and on Presidents Day, elected officials across OC should reflect on George Washington’s farewell.
February 11, 2021
Today: Officials say Coronavirus vaccines at Soka University supersite not affected by storage issues; could Santa Ana join the community choice energy movement, and a lawsuit challenging Prop 22 is refiled in Alameda County.
February 10, 2021
Today: What are OC’s actual Coronavirus vaccine demographics; OC won’t be vaccinating teachers, food workers for at least two weeks, and Placentia –Yorba Linda Unified School District is not video broadcasting so parents are.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
