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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.
April 3, 2018
Today: Moving started for Santa Ana Civic Center’s homeless; Supervisors leave it to cities and judge to find homeless shelter sites and, why the redesigned San Onofre nuclear waste containers weren’t federally approved.
April 2, 2018
Today: Santa Ana alleges class-based discrimination by cities that reject homeless shelters; in fighting homeless camp, Irvine's Asians win, but at a cost and, OCEA's Holistic Lifestyle Fair April 12.
March 30, 2018
Today: Orange County Fire Authority broke protocol in small, delayed Canyon 2 fire response, probe finds; Orange County was set to house the homeless, and there was a popular revolt, and worker death shines spotlight on Disney’s poverty policies
March 29, 2018
Today: A bolt on the container of nuclear waste at San Onofre may have been shaken loose; Costa Mesa is opposing a homeless shelter at Fairview Developmental Center and, as a crucial primary nears, track the California races that could flip the House.
March 28, 2018
Today: OC Supervisors back off new homeless shelters, Santa Ana council members sue the mayor, and PBS examines why Anaheim’s low-wage workers are homeless
March 27, 2018
Today: Santana: Day of reckoning on the homeless issue; Supervisors likely to scrap homeless plan and Mission Viejo sued for violating state voting law.
March 26, 2018
Today: Hundreds protest Irvine homeless shelter; supervisors start addressing concerns; judge expects county to keep promise of beds for riverbed homeless and Heroes Hall salutes women.
March 23, 2018
Today:County to debate making Irvine only new site For emergency homeless shelter; union members at Disneyland gather to discuss upcoming contract talks and So Cal jobless rates continue to fall, with Orange County leading the pack
March 22, 2018
Today: Orange County declares housing shortage a threat to residents and businesses; County supervisor withdraws support for a temporary homeless shelter and there is a new parking system at John Wayne Airport
March 21, 2018
Today: Irvine, H.B. and Laguna Niguel to sue County over homeless shelters; jury awards $30 million to children of Anaheim man killed in Riverside machinery accident and tails are wagging at Orange County’s larger, up-to-date animal shelter
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin
