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Safer roads for bicyclists in California Test Of The thanks to mandatory 3-feet buffer zone Alert OC by Jennifer schlueter system to take place on Tuesday
“We cannot forget that for everyone who’s visible in our classes, there are those who may be invisible,” he said. Matsuda knows what it is like to be excluded. A few doubtful school trustees voted against him because he had not served in a position of that magnitude before. However, the majority of
In conjunction with National Preparedness Month, Anaheim residents will receive a TEST call of the emergency notification system, AlertOC, on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. This will be a TEST only, and identified as such. AlertOC is a part of Orange County’s regional mass notification system. The test will replicate a large scale, multi-jurisdictional emergency requiring thousands of numbers to be called simultaneously across 24 cities and unincorporated areas. Anaheim residents with a landline phone line may receive a recorded voicemail message indicating this is only a test. Residents will notice that the caller ID phone number will be (714) 000-0000. AlertOC is Orange County’s mass notification system that alerts residents in Anaheim via landline phone service, also known as reverse 911, when there is an emergency. During a citywide emergency, the City of Anaheim may use AlertOC in conjunction with Anaheim Alert. To update your information in the countywide system, please visitwww.alertoc.org. Anaheim Alert is the City’s notification system, and offers customization according to geographic location, types of messages received, and preferred mode of communication (e-mail and/or text message to mobile phones). To sign up for Anaheim Alert, please visit www.AnaheimAlert.net,
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Until last week, drivers were required to keep a “safe,” but unspecified, distance to bicyclists. However, this law didn’t protect bicyclists enough, because, for example, in 2012, data from the Califor-
nia Highway Patrol found that “more than 150 cyclists were killed in car collisions in California”, according to the Los Angeles Times. Additionally, “in Los Angeles County, nearly 5,000 cyclists were killed or
hurt in traffic that year” and the number of bicycle collisions has increased 25% since 2011. Becky Garrow from the Sacramento Bicycle Advocates Group told Please see page 4
New Anaheim superintendent sees values in all students by Vickie Vértiz To capture the kind of man Michael Matsuda is, here is a story. While he was being welcomed as the new Anaheim Union High School District superintendent at a recent ceremony, Matsuda invited up a student he wanted to celebrate. The Los Angeles Times reported that Abby Carreon, a 17-year-old student who does not have a residence, is a senior at
Magnolia High School, and joined Matsuda as he described how she makes an hour and a half bus ride to get to school every day. Matsuda began last spring, but just started his first complete academic year on the job, and didn’t surprise Carreon that morning. He had previously asked her father, mother, and older sister to be in the audience, according to the Times.