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Newspaper
Garden Grove Journal
Location
Garden Grove, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 2013
Page
4
After a state Supreme Court ruling affirmed city authority to ban medical pot clinics Garden Grove ordered all pot shops shut. Police enforced the order with $1000 daily fines for remaining open as activists protested at a packed council meeting. The piece notes the city’s high clinic concentration and cites reporting by Douglas Marino.
Cathay General Bancorp, lease holder, told a city panel in October 2014 that it is working to restart construction on the Garden Grove Galleria project near the Korean Business District after a 2009 halt. The stalled mixed-use development faced financing woes and a 2012 jury verdict of 11.275 million in favor of the former developer.
Westminster School District faced a year of upheaval as Superintendent Richard Tauer was placed on paid leave July 1 after a 3-2 board vote. He resigned a month later amid budget-cut tensions. Several top administrators left for neighboring districts. In November Marian Kim Phelps was named new superintendent as trustee Andrew Nguyen stepped down for family reasons.
Adrian Vazquez, legally blind after a 199x accident at age four in Zacatecas, Mexico, overcame a damaged optic nerve to graduate with honors from Bolsa Grande High School. He earned a full ride to Loyola Marymount University, starting this fall, a journey profiled in the June 22 Orange edition.
In 2001 Bobby Ogata, released after 26 years for robbery and burglary, left addiction and crime behind with a Salvation Army job. He studied the Bible, quit heroin, reconciled with family, and turned to cutting hair, eventually opening Bobby's One at a Time Barber Shop in Westminster to serve customers across Orange County and Los Angeles. The Garden ran the full story on August 15.
Corruption allegations hit Westminster Police and local business ties after Officer Anthony Duong Donner and Kevin Khanh Tuan Do were arrested in August on federal extortion charges. A student from Garden Grove High was killed in September near San Francisco. Tet festival drama led to a park swap then a later parade controversy in December. A former Garden Grove officer was convicted of sex assaults from 2006 and 2009. Westminster High Lions reached CIFSS semifinals before losing to Corona del Mar.
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