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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.
July 10, 2019
Today: Grocery union, execs return to negotiating table; Fullerton declares shelter crisis and, Santa Ana Unified searching for new superintendent.
July 9, 2019
Today: Judge won't block San Clemente anti-camping law; toll lanes likely coming to 91, 60, 215 freeways in Riverside County and, are your kids going to college this fall? Turn in an OCEA scholarship application.
July 8, 2019
Today: Publisher says we are not ready for a major disaster; more air-quality testing planned at Edison High and, there’s bound to be traffic heading to the fair, here are some ways to avoid it.
July 5, 2019
Today: Grocery workers rally for customer support as contract rhetoric heats up; 6.4 magnitude earthquake rattles Southern California and, racially diverse Gen Z could change the look of minority neighborhoods.
July 3, 2019 Update
Today: Judge rules against OC’s immediate destruction of public records, Westminster police official alleges department retaliation and, Congress’ Ending Homelessness Act gets push from Anaheim, Santa Ana mayors.
July 2, 2019
Today: Beach goers: watch out for big waves and rip currents over the 4th of July weekend; DA records refute public reason for not prosecuting police sergeant for DUI and, Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs mourned and remembered.
July 1, 2019
Today: Possible grocery strike: Union to make announcement today; OC launches new panel to get 2,700 housing units for homeless and, doctors and hospitals sued in $1 billion medical-fraud investigation.
June 28, 2019
Today: San Clemente Council approves sheriff’s contract after delayed vote; parents express anger about toxic landfill near Edison High at school board meeting and, Huntington Beach gets 6 new firefighters and paramedics.
June 27, 2019
Today: Rent control measure moves closer to the ballot; veterans cemetery site in advances in Sacramento, stalls at home in Irvine and authorities investigating suspected embezzlement at Esperanza High School.
June 26, 2019
Today: Private jet battle continues after new promise made for John Wayne Airport; 50 of the 140 dogs seized from an affluent Orange home now ready for adoption and, smugglers make off with anything not nailed down in Disneyland’s new Star Wars land.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
