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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 3, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Election Day kicks off with two-thirds of OC votes already cast; school re-opening debate continues as potential COVID wave looms, and O.C. Health Care Agency looks to kids to promote ‘mask message.'
November 2, 2020 Media Brief
Today: More than 1 million ballots cast in Orange County with Election Day tomorrow; amid fires and a global pandemic, OC residents step up to serve, shelter and feed and, 233 new COVID-19 cases and 1 new death reported in OC.
October 30, 2020 Media Brief
Today: More than 770,000 ballots cast as Vote Centers open today; anxious religious leaders come together to urge calm ahead of Election Day, and more Coronavirus testing to come to poor, often minority neighborhoods.
October 29, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Almost a half-million OC residents have had the Coronavirus; OC residents back home after days of wildfire uncertainty and, county Congressional seats: Will there be a repeat of 2018.
October 28, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Some containment progress as two wildfires continue to burn in OC; Orange County residents remain resilient after two days and two fires and, did faulty power equipment drive 90,000 OC residents from their homes?
October 27, 2020 Media Brief
Today: County fires spread to nearly 20,000 acres new evacuation orders; families flee from two OC fires, growing in acres overnight and, five Westminster council candidates hope to take charge of disarrayed city.
October 26, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Wildfire leaves two firefighters critically injured, 60,000 evacuate; Blue Ridge and Silverado Canyon photos – Day one and, fires, dust and winds torpedo air quality.
October 23, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Uber and Lyft lose appeal against California labor law; County’s unemployment rate remains high as potential second Coronavirus wave looms and, Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach begins first phase of clinical trial for COVID-19 vaccine.
October 22, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Candidate money sources come to light too late as many have voted early; Garden Grove schools to phase in reopening of schools amid pushback and, OC prosecutors “inappropriately abandoned” plan to tell defendants about informant violations.
October 21, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Voters return more early ballots than 2016, but gap narrows; La Habra councilman under fire for allegedly mocking public commenters; calls intensify for DA to reopen probe into police shooting.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
