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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.
December 4, 2020
Today: Battle heats up to represent coastal cities on OC Board of Supervisors; new stay at home order imminent for Orange County and others, and California expected to get 327K COVID vaccine doses.
December 3, 2020
Today: Evacuation zones for the rapidly-growing Bond Fire expanded; Silverado residents say this fire is different and, OC’s nonessential businesses to be shut down under new stay at home order.
December 2, 2020
Today: Struggling Santa Ana residents turn to each other for pandemic aid; California’s move toward regular COVID-19 testing is a relief to healthcare workers, and thousands of customers brace for power shutoffs because of Santa Ana winds.
December 1, 2020
Today: OC grapples with skyrocketing COVID cases,hospitalizations; many OC businesses might be shutdown because of the virus, and, who will represent the County’s coast on the Board of Supervisors?
November 30, 2020 Media Brief
Today: 1,058 new cases, no new deaths reported in Orange County on Nov. 29; new, younger city council will decide what the city looks like, and local officials eye Michelle Steel’s vacated supervisor's seat.
November 25, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus positivity rates keep increasing in working-class neighborhoods; OC Health Care Agency ramps up efforts encouraging testing and, Irvine Council approves colleague’s mailer spending despite city policy violation.
November 24, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus hospitalization increases recall summer wave as Thanksgiving draws near; San Clemente City Council censures colleague for speaking out against city staff and, Irvine city council to vote on councilman Carroll’s mailer spending.
November 23, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Annual high tide spurs concerns about future safety of San Onofre nuclear waste stock; 552 new COVID cases and 3 new deaths reported in Orange County on Nov. 22 and, Orange County mixed on enforcing Gov. Newsom’s curfew and mask orders.
November 20, 2020 Media Brief
Today: 2nd Coronavirus wave already digging into county’s poorest neighborhoods; 1,169 new cases, 3 new deaths reported in Orange County on Nov. 20, and County food banks and pantries step up to giveaway Thanksgiving turkeys.
November 19, 2020 Media Brief
Today: OC residents face statewide Coronavirus curfew beginning Saturday; what did Orange County voters tell us this past election? and, OC reveals a slice of how it spent federal coronavirus relief money.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
