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MV Students Dominate County Poster Contest

    Trabuco High students dominated a poster contest sponsored by the County’s Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Team. The goal of the Annual Prevention Poster Contest is to recognize and support students for promoting lifestyles free of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
    THHS students of won 10 of the 12 awards. The first place [...]

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Letter: Denial Of O’Neill Charter Will Trigger Battle

Roll up your sleeves Mission Viejo. This community will not sit still for rejection of what was a carefully crafted, and well supported charter school. There was no legal basis for the rejection recommendation; it is based on opinion and conjecture.
The appeals processes will in all likelihood expose the majority in this administration and Board [...]

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Fence Captures Alleged Drunk Trespasser

    On Thursday deputies responded to the report of a man trying to climb over a fence in the back yard of a residence.  The officers found the 40-something man extremely intoxicated and stuck on top of the fence near Escalona and Los Ondas, off Avery Parkway.
    When the subject tried to extricate himself from [...]

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Kiddie Castles: Suitable For Oso Trail?

    A Mission Viejo company, Kiddie Castle, has obtained agreements to place 300 of its brightly themed vending machines in shopping centers. Simon Properties, owner of the Shops at Mission Viejo, has approved locating machines in its malls.
    Kiddie Castle franchisees offer items for babies and toddlers from the Castles, according to Vending Marketwatch. The Company [...]

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MV Plastic Bottle Closes Doheny Beach

    For the second time this month, a sewage leak in Mission Viejo closed Doheny State Beach.  The latest incident occurred Monday on Crown Valley near Coco’s Restaurant.
    Bob Gummerman, General Manager of Moulton Water District, told the Dispatch a couple one liter plastic bottles caused the problem.  One of the bottles tilted and stuck [...]

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Will Teachers Sacrifice Salary?

    The budget cuts suggested by staff at last night’s Capo School Board meeting didn’t seem to fit the mindset of some Trustees.  Mike Winsten and Ellen Addonizio expressed viewpoints that salaries should instead be cut, with Addonizio asking when union negotiations would begin for the 2009-2010 academic year, according to Beyond the Blackboard (BTB).
    Perhaps the ‘handwriting was on the wall’ [...]

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Orly Taitz Confronts Justices Roberts & Scalia

    Local dentist and attorney Orly Taitz confronted two Supreme Court justices last week in her pursuit to force disclosure of President Obama’s original birth certificate.  Taitz attended a speech by Chief Justice Roberts last  Thursday at the University of Idaho.  She was called to the microphone for the first question following the address:

My name is Orly [...]

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MV Clinic: OC Supes Pull Abortion Support

    Yesterday the Orange County Supervisors withdrew funding to Planned Parenthood, which could affect a clinic offering abortions in Mission Viejo.  Planned Parenthood lists a health center on LaPaz which is one of five such PP clinics in Orange County. 
    The Supes, led by Chairman John Moorlach, said they felt it was an inappropriate use [...]

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Local Dentist Continues Fight v. Obama

    MV dentist Dr. Orly Taitz is continuing her challenge to the citizenship of President Obama.  Taitz, also an attorney, says she now represents over 100 military personnel, from Major General to enlisted, who claim Obama is constitutionally unqualified to serve as their commander-in-chief.
    Taitz sent a petition to Congress requesting that it open judicial proceedings empowering [...]

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Jail For Bribe

    Mission Viejo resident Reza Khayyami was sentenced today to 6 months in jail for soliciting and accepting a $5,000 bribe. He was previously convicted by a jury of using his position as County Chief Technology Officer to influence work contracts.
    In March 2003, Khayyami was hired as CTO for Orange County. In the spring [...]

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Letter: Mission Viejo’s Genesis

Back in the late 1950’s a gentleman came into my office seeking a job. I was Director of Planning for the City of Santa Ana at that time. Marty Russo was a man looking for a new vocation, if you will, as he said he no longer wanted to be a roofer. [Re: Passings: Marty [...]

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Kayley’s Death: Feds Investigating

    The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission is investigating the death of Kaylee Ishii.  The death occurred when she was trapped inside a front load Kenmore washing machine. 
    The Commission currently requires top loading machines stop agitating when the lid is open.  It will consider whether the standard should also be applied to front loaders.
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Washing Machine Kills 4-Year-Old Kayley

    Last night a 4-year-old Mission Viejo girl died after crawling into the family’s front loading washing machine.  Sheriff’s spokesperson Jim Amormino tells the Dispatch her 15-month old brother evidently was able to engage the machine by pushing buttons.
    It is uncertain how long little Kayley Ishii was trapped in the machine, but Amormino say it [...]

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Local Church Addresses Cohabitation In Hard Times

    The pastor of Mission Viejo’s Crossline Church says standards have changed drastically regarding cohabitation by unmarried couples.  He works to encourage a biblical view against such arrangements, even when economic conditions create additional incentive for living together.
    ”These are not easy things because we are dealing with people’s hearts and feelings,” Pastor J.P. Jones told [...]

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