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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 20, 2020 Media Brief
Today: What Prop. 22’s defeat would mean for Uber and Lyft — and drivers; hate crimes spiking across Orange County, up 89% since 2015, and Costa Mesa poised to vote on second round of virus relief funds for small businesses.
October 19, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Orange County reports 196 new coronavirus cases; OC Asian and Pacific Islanders team up to battle Coronavirus disparities, and car rally in Orange County rails against Proposition 22.
October 16, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus trends move in right direction, supervisors to bolster distribution effort; schools take different paths on testing as vaccine chatter begins, and pandemic erects barriers for prized bloc of voters in nursing homes, senior facilities.
October 15, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Money, political battles surround controversial housing project before Orange voters; Seal Beach reclassifies city jail ending overnight lockups and, airport village in Newport Beach expected to include affordable housing.
October 14, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Orange County in the midst of unprecedented mail-in ballot wave; officials ready to define a Coronavirus outbreak, still won’t list outbreaks, and food pantries fight food insecurity as government aid dwindles, unemployment rises.
October 13, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Amidst record voter turnout, County DA probes GOP ballot harvesting; no new deaths, 117 new cases related to COVID-19 reported in OC, and No on California’s Prop. 22 endorsed by the Times.
October 9, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Vast new reservoir in south Orange County gets its first drops of water; Coronavirus: 162 new cases, 10 new deaths in Orange County on Oct. 9 and, Costa Mesa launches rental assistance program for residents affected by COVID.
October 8, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus: 14 new deaths reported in Orange County on Oct. 8, total surpassed 1,300; school districts delay classroom reopening as county sees uptick in virus cases, and local officials rethink public access to cooling centers amid heat waves.
October 7, 2020 Media Brief
Today: OC to close motel program sheltering over 500 homeless people at high risk for COVID -19; County is failing state’s new health equity metric, remains in the red tier, and City Council majority is OK with Visit Anaheim holding onto millions of bailout dollars.
October 6, 2020 Media Brief
Today: County and state officials assure voters that they will not tolerate election intimidation or fraud; Disneyland reopen unclear as OC sees uptick Coronavirus cases, but County health officials are giving the green light.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
