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Former Sunkist packing plant got a Veterans new life: The Anaheim Packing House receive VIP by Vickie Vértiz treatment at The Anaheim Packing job fair House just had its grand opening. The old Sunkist packing plant is now a new marketplace and dining hall sure to attract locals and tourists alike. Although the words “dining hall” make it sound like a college cafeteria, the Packing House is anything but that. The market is filled with various mouth-watering businesses such fresh vegetable stands, a juice spot, a bakery, two bars, a pizzeria, fish market, several restaurants and even a chocolatier. The 100-year-old building was renovated at the cost of several million dollars and took many years to complete. The former Sunkist packing plant spans 42,000-square-feet and is a historic Spanish revival building owned by the city of Anaheim. The building is an example of many others in a national trend to restore older or historical buildings and develop trendy food markets, such as the Ferry Building in San Francisco, for instance. The operator-developer of this project is Shaheen Sadeghi, from LAB Holding. Sadeghi com-
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pared the process of construction to heart surgery in a Los Angeles Times interview. The company is also responsible for the Lab and the Camp, both off-beat retail spaces located in Costa Mesa, with indoor-outdoor spaces to hang out. The Anaheim Packing house has a warehouse feel, with two
floors that beg to be explored. According to the Orange County Register, it was rehabilitated by Thirtieth Street Architects and features hundreds of windows, whitewashed beams, maple floors, tall barn-style sliding doors, a redwood deck with Chinese elms and Please see page 2
Names of on-duty shooting-involved police officers are now public knowledge by jennifer schlueter While some law enforcement agencies in California have generally been disclosing names of officers involved in on-duty shootings, others have considered it a safety concern and therefore withheld them. Cmdr. Andrew Smith, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman, claimed that the department hasn’t “had any real issues" revealing the
names. The Long Beach Police Department chose to keep the names private because the lives of the officers and their families could possibly be endangered. However, on May 29, the California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 to make the names of officers involved in a shooting public knowledge unless the disclosure would prove a credible safety concern for the
officer. Justice Joyce L. Kennard stated for the majority: "If it is essential to protect an officer's anonymity for safety reasons or for reasons peculiar to the officer's duties—as, for example, in the case of an undercover officer—then the public interest in disclosure of the officer's Please see page 4
After many years of dedicated service to our country, many service men and women return home with the daunting task of finding employment in a very competitive job market. The Anaheim/OC Job Fair Committee, chaired by Mayor Pro Tem Kris Murray, will honor these brave men and women by providing them with VIP treatment on June 11 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Each veteran will be granted early access to the Job Fair through a dedicated “Veteran’s Entrance” where they will be invited to participate in the morning ceremony. Once inside, veterans will be given special identification badges, professional resume reviewers to help translate military skills into business skills, and resource booths dedicated to services for veterans. In addition to the career workshops open to the public, a veteran-focused workshop will be offered entitled “Transitioning from Military Employment.” Despite the added emphasis on veterans this year, the Anaheim/OC Job Fair is open to the public with free admission and parking. Job seekers are encouraged to take advantage of the free resume review and participate in the career workshops. Free Wi-Fi and an Internet Café will be available for people to apply for jobs on-site. For more information on the 2014 Job Fair, visit www. AnaheimJobs.com/JobFair2014. html. The Job Fair will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Anaheim Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E, 800 West Katella Avenue in Anaheim.
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U.S. exports reach $193.3 billion in April
McDonnell to face Tanaka in run off race for Sheriff
Export-Import Bank financing support helps create American jobs
by SHEL SEGAL
The United States exported $193.3 billion of goods and services in April 2014, according to data released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Commerce Department. “The numbers show that the world’s consumers want U.S. goods and services for their quality and reliability,” said ExportImport Bank Chairman and President Fred P. Hochberg. “Made in America is still the best in the world, and the Ex-Im Bank is proud to play its part in boosting U.S. exporters abroad and supporting jobs here at home.” Exports of goods and services over the last twelve months totaled $2.3 trillion, which is 45.1
percent above the level of exports in 2009, and have been growing at an annualized rate of 9.0 percent when compared to 2009. During the same time period among the major export markets (i.e., markets with at least $6 billion in annual imports of U.S. goods), the countries with the largest annualized increase in U.S. goods purchases, when compared to 2009, were Panama (22.7 percent), Russia (18.9 percent), Peru (18.5 percent), Hong Kong (17.9 percent), Colombia (17.6 percent), Argentina (16.4 percent), Ecuador (16.1 percent), Chile (15.5 percent), Indonesia (14.6 percent) and China (14.5 percent).
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In the race to replace embattled Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell won the right to face former undersheriff and current Gardena Mayor Paul Tanaka in Tuesday’s Primary Election. McDonnell finished well in first in the election, garnering 49.15 percent of the vote, while Tanaka received 14.74 percent. Falling short were Bob Olmsted with 9.89 percent, James Hellmold with 7.91 percent, Patrick Gomez with 6.74 percent, Todd Rogers with 6.14 percent and Lou Vince with 5.43 percent. In the race for the vacant Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors First District seat, former U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis won the election with 70.32 percent of the vote and will have to face opponent April Saucedo Hood in the November General Election. Juventino “J” Gomez took third. In the race to become the next Los Angeles County Assessor, Jeffrey Prang led a field of 11 candidates with 18.06 percent. Running against him in November will be John Morris, who had 16.40 percent of the vote. In Monterey Park, Measure A – a housing development initiative – passed with 52.45 percent of
the vote. In a special election in Glendale to fill a vacant city council seat, Paula Devine beat out a field of five candidates with 33.69 percent of the vote. That term will end in April 2015. And in another Glendale-related matter on how to decide to fill office vacancies in the future, known as Measure G, this initiative passed with 68.58 percent of the vote. In the 49th Assembly District covering the west San Gabriel Valley, Assemblyman Ed Chau is being returned to Sacramento for another term. He has 60.7 percent of the vote and has defeated Esthela Siegrist. In the 22nd state Senate District, state Sen. Ed Hernandez ran unopposed and is on his way back to the state Legislature. And in 27th Congressional District, Rep. Judy Chu is on the road back to Washington, defeating challenger Jack Orswell with 63.21 percent of the vote. Voter turnout for this election was considered by many to be low at just over 13 percent, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder. (Shel Segal can be reached at ssegal@beaconmedianews.com. He can be followed via Twitter @ segallanded.)
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a carbon steel fireplace designed by landscape architect Ken Smith. The new businesses include Wheat & Sons, a butcher with a chef’s counter, Hans’ Homemade Ice Cream, and coffee roaster Cafecito Organico, based in Los Angeles. Seating is available throughout the Packing House in a communal style, with large tables to share. Guests can buy drinks from one place and buy food at another, encouraging folks to move around and have a good time. At one bar, owners are looking to welcome beer lovers and
those looking for inspiring cocktails. “We want to serve things that you wouldn’t be able to get anywhere else,” said Sean Schickling of Hammer Bar to the OC Register. “We will serve some classic (cocktails), but we will have some completely unique spirits and cocktails as well.” Options will include drinks made with homemade bitters including Szechuan peppercorn and habanero bitters. The Anaheim Packing House is located at 440 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim. For more information, visit www.packingdistrict.com.
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The leaders of California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia today applauded the Obama Administration’s newly released proposal for reducing carbon pollution as a welcome sign that the federal government is stepping up as a partner in the fight against climate change. The three West Coast governors and the Premier of British Columbia, representing the Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC), said the proposal would achieve meaningful greenhouse gas reductions from existing power plants, the nation’s largest source of heat-trapping emissions. At the same time, they said, it will allow the states flexibility to build on programs and partnerships that are already protecting public health, saving consumers money and spurring innovation in cleaner, safer energy. “President Obama and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy are to be congratulated for accelerating a national response to the costs and risks of climate change,” said Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber. “These standards will protect the health of citizens across the country while supporting our growing renewable energy economy on the West Coast. I am particularly pleased to see the Administration recognize the important role of regional partnerships, like the Pacific Coast Collaborative, in meeting the objectives of this new effort to curb carbon pollution,” he said. The proposed U.S. EPA regulation, under Section 111(d) of the federal Clean Air Act, complements the goals of the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, a comprehensive and far-reaching agreement signed by the leaders in October 2013. The agreement commits the three states and British Columbia to align climate and energy policies, link programs where feasible to create consistent and cost-effective solutions, and grow the region’s clean energy economy. “President Obama today announced historic federal policy action to address climate change,”
said Washington Governor Jay Inslee. “The EPA’s new carbon pollution standards will also encourage and empower ongoing state and regional climate action, such as our collaborative efforts to grow the Pacific Coast’s clean energy economy. The risks of inaction on climate change are too great to ignore, and threaten grave damage to Washington’s communities, economy and way of life. I commend the President for taking this bold climate action.” The PCC leaders pledged to cooperate with governments around the world to press for action on climate change. “While others delay and deny, the Obama Administration is confronting climate change headon with these new standards,” said California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. “Clean energy policies are already working in California,
generating billions of dollars in energy savings and more than a million jobs. Bold, sustained action will be required at every level and this is a major step forward.” Under the PCC Action Plan, California and British Columbia will maintain their existing carbon pricing programs, while Oregon and Washington will commit to moving forward on similar policies. The leaders will further commit to “meaningful coordination and linkage between states and provinces across North America.” “I congratulate President Obama and the U.S. EPA for taking the next step on the path to not only reducing carbon pollution in the United States, but also in driving investment in new clean technology and clean energy for years to come,” said British Columbia Premier Christy Clark.
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‘Campaign to Unload’ urges California regents to examine endowments Students and faculty at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) are understandably shocked by the hate-filled rampage of a UCSB student Friday night, in which six UCSB students were killed and 13 wounded just off campus. America mourns with the families and we embrace the responsibility to work together to stop this madness. "Not one more," as Richard Martinez, father of 20-year-old Christopher, one of the students who was killed, heartbreakingly challenged us. We are up to the challenge. To that end, we call on the University of California Board of Regents to examine whether the system's $88 billion endowment is contributing to more senseless destruction by being invested in companies that profit from gun violence, obstruct common-sense gun legislation, and fund the NRA. University endowments led the way in divesting from apartheid South Africa and should do so again in divesting from the gun industry. There have been 72 shootings on school campuses since the Sandy Hook massacre. We cannot afford to invest in gun companies. We are paying too high a cultural price to financially benefit from stock prices that climb even as our young people fall. The University of
California, where this latest horror occurred, should stand with its community and ensure that it is not funded with the blood money from these killings. The UCSB community is grieving, but there is a way to stop the madness: divest. Congress—the "craven, irresponsible politicians," Richard Martinez labeled them— has failed its constituents, 85% of whom support a bill to make every potential gun purchaser go through a background check. So we must use our wallets to take a stand. Divestment is a new front in the war to end the epidemic of gun violence. Its focus is on the corporate elements that are profiting from readily available and barely regulated firearms that are responsible for more than 30,000 American deaths every year, including the 20 first-graders and six educators massacred with a military-style assault weapon at Sandy Hook Elementary. “Our communities, and especially our young people, are bearing the brunt of gun violence while corporate executives reap the financial rewards. Lately, gun deaths—homicides, suicides, and accidents—make up the second-highest cause of death among young people aged 15-24. If this trend continues, gun violence will become the No. 1 cause of death for
millennials next year. We have to stop the madness; these students are our future. “In the wake of last week's tragedy, we must call on the University of California Board of Regents to divest from the gun industry,” the Campaign to Unload says. Meanwhile, the gun industry—led by Remington Arms Company; Sturm, Ruger & Co.; and Smith & Wesson—has profited even as more Americans are killed by the products it manufactures and aggressively markets. The value of these companies has grown significantly just as the rate of mass shootings has increased. Luckily, some institutions have already begun divesting. Occidental College started the movement in February by becoming the first highereducation institution to pledge to avoid any investments in companies that manufacture military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines for the general public. Universities should lead on this issue to ensure that they do not further the epidemic of gun violence by financially supporting the companies that profit from the devastation of young peoples' lives. Schools are supposed to be sacred places for learning, but our campuses have become battlegrounds. Help us cut off the supply and make our campuses safe again. Sign this petition to stand with the UCSB community and call for divestment from the gun industry. This change depends on you. Want to support our work? MoveOn Civic Action is entirely funded by our 8 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. http://petitions.moveon. org/sign/university-of-california-1?source=mo&id=9654720688398-4MRTY7x
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name may need to give way. That determination, however, would need to be based on a particularized showing. Vague safety concerns that apply to all officers involved in shootings are insufficient to tip the balance against disclosure of officer names.” Justice Ming W. Chin disagreed: “Absent a showing of some greater public need for the information, we should allow law enforcement agencies to protect the very officers who are out there every day protecting us. They deserve at least that much for their brave service.” The court’s decision derived from a case that a Los Angeles Times reporter opened years ago. In 2010, Douglas Zerby, 35, was fatally shot by LAPD officers because they misjudged the garden hose nozzle the victim was holding for a weapon. Thus, LA Times reporter Richard Winton asked for the names of the officers who killed Zerby by shooting him 12 times. Winston was supported by other media and unions that agreed on the public’s right to know the officers’ names. The names have been revealed by Los Angeles attorneys. Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell agrees with the court’s decision. He had leaned toward disclosing the officers’ names in 2010, which was however prevented by the police union. "Too often," McDonnell explained in an email to the LA Times, "law enforcement treats the vast majority of what it does as secret and dissuades public involvement, when in fact very little need be kept confidential and the engagement of our community should be embraced and welcomed."