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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.
May 11, 2020 Media Brief
Today: State’s coronavirus cases keeps rising over weekend, mostly in SoCal; when will OC’s recoveries from Coronavirus be reported and, seven O.C. nursing homes and two care facilities report coronavirus deaths.
May 8, 2020 Media Brief
Today: OC public servants speak out about workplace safety – Charles Barfield; local farm purchases surplus produce to donate for community care packages and County operated beaches to open, with restrictions.
May 7, 2020 Media Brief
Today: County coronavirus testing still lags behind other large counties; Newport Beach council spends over a million to chase housing goals they oppose and, judge orders OC company to stop selling unapproved hand sanitizer.
May 6, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Four more deaths and 131 new Coronavirus cases; Santa Ana City Council resists efforts to reverse rent freeze but Anaheim says no to eviction extension.
May 5, 2020 Media Brief
Today: OC officials to send beach reopening plan to Sacramento; landlords and property owners challenge Costa Mesa eviction moratorium and, beachgoers celebrate limited opening in Laguna and San Clemente.
May 4, 2020 Media Brief
Today: We can’t let cities and states go under: Gil Cisneros and Harley Rouda; So Cal cities spend big money on needed masks, other COVID-19 gear and, OC officials won’t enforce business closures during pandemic.
May 1, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Governor Newsom not surprised by lawsuit threat over beach closure; Orange County reports single-day high of 145 new COVID-19 cases and ACLU pushes OC Sheriff to release 500 medically vulnerable jail inmates.
April 30, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Coronavirus hospitalizations have been rising in OC; Newsom opts to close only OC beaches due COVID-19 concerns and, Anaheim city manager sacking heightens accountability, transparency concerns.
April 29, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Orange County has 4th highest Coronavirus hospitalizations in the state; supervisors trigger confusion with reopening guidelines and Newport Beach keeps beaches open amid COVID-19 concerns.
April 28, 2020 Media Brief
Today: Nearly 100 OC inmates test positive for Coronavirus, union raises concerns; OC aims to get Coronavirus tests up to 4,000 a day and County is mostly ready for next steps toward reopening, health officials say.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
