San Clemente Library to Reopen After 18 Million Upgrade
Onie Fickling anticipates June 29 reopening of the San Clemente Library after a yearlong renovation. The county\'s $18 million upgrade expands to 13,728 square feet, adds accessibility features, repurposes a senior center, relocates the Friends of the Library bookstore, and creates new children\'s space and staff work areas.
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Onie Fickling
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Avenida del Mar
Mike Smith
Friends of the Library
Seaside Senior Center
Avenida Victoria
Nick Agro
San Clemente Library
San Clemente Library Highlights In OC System
The San Clemente Library reports twenty two thousand one hundred eighty registered users and daily visits ranging from seven hundred to one thousand. It stocks over twenty five thousand materials and offers access to more than two point five million items through OC Public Libraries. A library card carries zero cost for holders within the county system.
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Library to transform old center into versatile multipurpose space
Fickling tour of the empty library building highlights plans to raise the ceiling and add exposed beams to create a ro omer children’s section and partitioned multipurpose room. She says the library will offer programs for moms and toddlers to seniors with ideas from Librarian Karen Wall.
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Fickling
Karen Wall
San Clemente backs ER despite MemorialCare plan
San Clemente residents and leaders oppose closing the 73-bed acute care hospital. The City Council approved a resolution resisting MemorialCare Health System’s proposal to replace the hospital with an outpatient facility. MemorialCare owns Saddleback Memorial Medical Center San Clemente at 654 Camino de los Mares. The plan would shift to non hospital delivery of care, lacking state accredited emergency room for paramedic patients. Local residents warn the ER closure harms South County. SEE HOSPITAL PAGE 4.
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Orange County Fire Authority
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Hamm Chosen as Mayor by City Council
City Council chose Councilman Chris Hamm to serve as mayor for the coming year at a Tuesday meeting where the Nov 4 election winners joined the five-member body. Incumbents Tim Brown and Lori Donchak were sworn in again, Kathy Ward was seated, and Jinh Evert stepped down to move to Florida with his wife. Hamm expressed excitement about the council moving forward as he accepted the mayoral gavel. See council page 6.
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Fred Swegles
Chris Hamm
Tim Brown
Lori Donchak
Kathy Ward
Jinh Evert
Sharyn
Florida
Hamm
Redemption fuels Tritons comeback to CIF final
San Clemente High overcame a 21-7 halftime deficit against Capistrano Valley in a semifinal at Thalassa Stadium. Bran don Reaves returned a kickoff for 89 yards, Vlad Dzhabiyev added a late TD run, and Chase Berman kicked the decisive extra point as the Tritons won 28-27 and advanced to the Southwest Division final after a 42-35 victory over Trabuco Hills on Oct 30.
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Tritons
Brandon Reaves
Chase Berman
San Sanene
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San Clemente
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la Habra
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