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• OC Fair 2024: What you need to know about tickets, a parking increase and getting in

  18-07-2024 00:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The carnival rides are ready for action, the blue ribbons have been posted and the farm animals are happily snacking away in their display pens.
  The 2024 OC Fair opens Friday, July 19, for its 23-day run at the fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.
  READ MORE: 2024 OC Fair opens Friday with some new twists and lots of favorites
  More than 1 million people are expected to visit the fair over the next four weeks, tempting their tastebuds with any number of sweet treats and crazy culinary concoctions; shopping
  
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• Wells Fargo worker’s body found in cubicle 4 days after clocking in

  30-08-2024 18:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Muri Assunção | New York Daily News
  A Well Fargo employee in Arizona died at her office desk, but her body was only discovered four days after she last punched in for work, authorities said.
  The employee, identified as 60-year-old Denise Prudhomme, scanned into work at the bank’s corporate office in Tempe at 7 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 16.
  The following Tuesday, Aug. 20, building security informed Tempe police that a person had been found unresponsive in the office.When officer
  
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• For Secretary of State Shirley Weber, access to voting was a lesson learned from a young age

  30-08-2024 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Every so often, Shirley Weber would come home from school and bypass the front door of her Los Angeles home.
  She’d take the side yard and enter in the backdoor, careful not to disrupt those gathered in her living room. It was Election Day, and people were voting at 351 West 45th St.
  The importance of voting — and access to it — was instilled in Weber, California’s secretary of state, from a young age.
  When Weber’s family moved to their home in Los Angeles, her mothe
  
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• Blue Jackets’ Johnny Gaudreau and brother killed in crash on eve of sister’s wedding

  30-08-2024 18:02 via ocregister.com
  
  NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and his younger brother were killed Thursday night when they were hit by a suspected drunken driver while riding bicycles in their home state of New Jersey, police said.
  Gaudreau, 31, and brother, Matthew, 29, are Carneys Point, New Jersey, natives and were in the area for their sister Katie’s wedding scheduled for Friday in Philadelphia, at which they were to be groomsmen.
  New Jersey State police said Friday the Gaudreau brothers were cycling on a road when a ma
  
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• The free Los Angeles Kids Book Festival returns to West Hollywood Park

  30-08-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Kids Book Festival returns for a free one-day event for children of all reading levels and ages.
  The festival will take place on Sunday, Sept. 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at West Hollywood Park. Bookworms can expect 70 exhibitors, live book readings, interactive storytelling sessions, musical performances and arts and crafts. Other activities on the program include face painting, a photo booth, dancing, games, slime making, food trucks, and free Universal Pictures and DreamWor
  
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• Adare Manor scratched from Del Mar’s Pacific Classic

  30-08-2024 17:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Adare Manor is being scratched from the Pacific Classic, in which the mare was the morning-line favorite to defeat males Saturday at Del Mar.
  Trainer Bob Baffert confirmed the news Friday morning.
  “She tied up after galloping yesterday, and she’s still a little tight today,” Baffert said by phone. “She can’t be even a little offer her game in a big race like this.
  “It’s disappointing, but it happens.”
  Tying up means the horse experienced uncomforta
  
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• Why, yes, let’s put California policies in the national spotlight

  30-08-2024 17:48 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – After Vice President Kamala Harris secured the Democratic nomination for president, many news outlets featured news stories with headlines such as this one: “Harris Put California at Center of Politics.” Or “Bay Area Relishing in National Spotlight.” There’s little doubt that Harris’ ascent – and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s long-running effort to tout California’s so-called “freedoms” in benighted Red States – has
  
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• Steven Greenhut: Why, yes, let’s put California policies in the national spotlight

  30-08-2024 17:48 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – After Vice President Kamala Harris secured the Democratic nomination for president, many news outlets featured news stories with headlines such as this one: “Harris Put California at Center of Politics.” Or “Bay Area Relishing in National Spotlight.” There’s little doubt that Harris’ ascent – and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s long-running effort to tout California’s so-called “freedoms” in benighted Red States – has
  
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• Soothe and repair your skin with these after-sun lotions

  30-08-2024 17:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The best after-sun lotion
  We’ve finally reached summer, a season alive with beach days, outdoor cookouts and drawn-out days in the sun. While sun protection is a must, even those most diligent about wearing sunscreen can find themselves with a sunburn. Unfortunately, people usually don’t notice sun-damaged skin until hours later.
  Applying after-sun lotion is an excellent way to experience sunburn relief. The top choice is Amara Beauty Aloe Vera Gel due to its
  
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• Hike these Orange County hidden wilderness gems

  30-08-2024 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  National parks across the west are beautiful and immense. They are national parks for a reason.
  But if you want a little feel for some of these parks like the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, some say you don’t have to look any further than our own backyard.
  If you use your imagination, maybe squint a little, national park-like areas can be seen and felt here in the Irvine Ranch Open Space.
  “I always say to my friends and family that you don’t have to go out to Yosemite, there are so
  
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• 8 Orange County hikes to hidden wilderness spots

  30-08-2024 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  National parks across the west are beautiful and immense. They are national parks for a reason.
  But if you want a little feel for some of these parks like the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, some say you don’t have to look any further than our own backyard.
  If you use your imagination, maybe squint a little, national park-like areas can be seen and felt here in the Irvine Ranch Open Space.
  “I always say to my friends and family that you don’t have to go out to Yosemite, there are so
  
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• Santiago Canyon College’s Vargas: A career built on inspiring learners

  30-08-2024 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  After 24 years of leadership, Santiago Canyon College Vice President of Continuing Education Jose Vargas is set to retire at the end of this month. Vargas served in a number of crucial roles for the college, including stepping in as interim president during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as his current role in which he has overseen the exponential growth of SCC’s Division of Continuing Education.
  Born in Mexico, Vargas migrated with his family to the U.S. when he was 6 years old. The oldes
  
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• Master stir-frying with these top carbon steel woks

  30-08-2024 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Which carbon steel wok is best?
  Woks cook food quickly and are great for stir-frying at high temperatures. Typically, they can use stainless steel, aluminum or cast iron. However, many professional chefs and food experts agree that a carbon steel wok is the best as it heats up quickly, stays hot for longer and is lightweight and highly durable.
  Carbon steel woks range significantly in size, thickness and design. The Craft Wok Traditional Hand Hammered Pow Wok is an excellent example with a
  
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• UCLA football at Hawai’i: Who has the edge?

  30-08-2024 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA (0-0) at Hawai’i (1-0)
  When: 4:30 p.m. Saturday
  Where: Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex
  TV/radio: CBS (Ch. 2) / 1150 AM
  Line: UCLA by 14 points
  What’s at stake? This game will mark the beginning of some important firsts for UCLA, most notably DeShaun Foster’s first game as a head coach and the program’s first game as a member of the Big Ten Conference. There is nothing more the team wants than to start both eras with a resounding victory. UCLA is also
  
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• Real estate news: Irvine buys office building for $13 million

  30-08-2024 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The city of Irvine on Aug. 15 paid $13 million for the two-story headquarters of RGP Property at 17101 Armstrong.
  The building, which will help the city expand its administrative office spaces, spans 57,301 square feet, according to CBRE, which negotiated the deal for RGP.
  “This was a great result for both parties, which provided for the seller to downsize and reduce their real estate footprint, and for the buyer the ability to occupy a strategically located asset within the Irvine Busines
  
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• Stunt or first step? Inside state’s last-minute effort to cut electric bills, streamline clean energy

  30-08-2024 17:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom have significantly scaled back their eleventh-hour plans to reduce Californians’ electric bills and fast-track renewable energy projects.
  Many experts said the proposed measures now amount to a political gesture or, at best, a small first step toward solving the problems, rather than nuts-and-bolts, comprehensive steps that would give Californians financial relief or speed up solar and wind projects.
  The main proposal addressing California’s risi
  
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• Southern California fast-food jobs at record high for 3rd straight month

  30-08-2024 17:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Staffing at Southern California’s fast-food restaurants continues to rise to record heights but job growth is cooling as the industry’s biggest players digest a $20-an-hour minimum wage mandate.
  California fast food has been thrust into a grand economic experiment in which larger quick-serve chains, beginning April 1, must pay workers at least $4 an hour more than the state’s $16 wage floor. Industry leaders say the wage hike will hurt restaurant operators, forcing them to trim
  
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• HOA Homefront: Can we use acclamation, voting boxes and board-signed envelopes?

  30-08-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: How many consecutive elections by acclamation? Our HOA board with management approval held a 3rd consecutive acclimation year. What does Civil Code allow? When must an election be held even though open seats same as those applying? Thank you for your most helpful informative newsletters. — L.B., Martinez
  A: Elections by acclamation are elections that occur without opening and counting ballots. The option of election by acclamation entered the Davis-Stirling Act in 2022, with the additio
  
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• Bringing CHP in to police city streets in state

  30-08-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Oakland is just the eighth most populous city in California, but for both good and bad reasons, it often punches above its weight in its influence in the state.
  And it’s currently in the national spotlight as the ostensible hometown of Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president.
  It’s true that the vice president happened to be born in an Oakland hospital. But she grew up in neighboring Berkeley, where her parents lived. Problem is, no one who aspires to the White House can a
  
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• Halloween Horror Nights 2024 at Universal Studios Hollywood: Everything you need to know

  30-08-2024 16:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Leatherface, Chucky, radioactive zombies, demon angels, devil dogs, chainsaw punks, Dracula’s daughter and the Bride of Frankenstein will all terrorize Halloween Horror Nights when the annual fright fest returns to Universal Studios Hollywood.
  Halloween Horror Nights 2024 will include eight new haunted mazes, two live shows, four scare zones and the Terror Tram on select nights from Sept. 5 to Nov. 3 at Universal Studios Hollywood.
  Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what&rsq
  
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• Sacramento Snapshot: Housing bill meant to help undocumented immigrants divides OC legislators

  30-08-2024 16:15 via ocregister.com
  
  A controversial housing bill meant to help undocumented immigrants receive state help to purchase a home was sent to the governor just before the legislature wrapped up its work for the year — and Orange County’s legislators were fairly split on it.
  AB 1840 ensures that immigration status cannot be the sole reason why someone is denied from any of California’s Housing Finance Authority’s home purchase assistance programs, including the Dream for All Program, which provide
  
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• Contaminated sediment proposed for burial in Newport Harbor likely go to Port of Long Beach instead

  30-08-2024 16:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A plan to bury contaminated sand and debris dredged up from main navigational channels in Newport Harbor in a pit at the harbor’s floor appears to be off the table, with the material instead to be repurposed by the Port of Long Beach.
  The Army Corps of Engineers is set to clear an estimated 1.2 million cubic yards from the harbor’s central channel and channels near its entry. Of that, about 10% of the material removed can’t be dumped into the open ocean under federal law becaus
  
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• Buena Park sober home suit: Fighting got so bad, ‘I thought they were going to kill someone’

  30-08-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Buena Park sign on La Palma Avenue (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  This is not Newport Beach. The neighbors don’t have $5 million homes. It’s Bluebell Drive, a working-class corner of Buena Park near Knott’s Berry Farm, where the low-slung tract houses were built in the 1950s and sell well below Orange County’s $1.1 million median sale price.
  Yet, like in Newport, everything changed after the group home/sober home/rooming house/halfway house (there&r
  
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• Buses and bikes share lanes in LA and elsewhere

  30-08-2024 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. Dear Honk: Here in the San Fernando Valley some of our major boulevards have been recently re-striped with the far-right lane now a dedicated, combined bus and bicycle lane. I have yet to see a single bicycle in these lanes. But suppose a bicyclist claims his or her rightful place in one, are the planners envisioning that the bus will slowly and carefully, and at a safe distance, drive behind the bicycle for whatever distance the bicyclist rides in that lane? If the bicyclist were to ride for
  
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• What’s the best day to hit the beach for the “unofficial” end of summer?

  30-08-2024 15:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Schools are back in session, tourist crowds are easing and the beach is beckoning locals.
  Labor Day marks the “unofficial” end of summer, a chance to enjoy the last bit of warm weather before the days start to cool and the season turns.
  Conditions will be mildly warm and pleasant through the weekend at the shore, with each day gradually warming, said National Weather Service meteorologist Chandler Price.
  “If you’re going to pick any day of the weekend to escape to the bea
  
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• Don’t expect Kamala Harris to be involved in Prop. 47-Prop. 36 debate

  30-08-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Kamala Harris played almost no role in the key decision on crime made by California voters in the 2014 election, when they passed Proposition 47 and reduced penalties for many types of crime.
  As state attorney general at the time, Harris said professional ethics forced her into a neutral role. It was a convenient stance allowing her to escape unscathed to the U.S. Senate two years later, then become vice president in 2020 and now emerge as the Democratic presidential nominee.
  So don’t expe
  
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• Why this is the right time to strategizing about your fall garden

  30-08-2024 14:55 via ocregister.com
  
  5 things to do in the garden this week: 
  Fruit trees. Start strategizing fruit tree planting now as the beginning of fall — a favorable time to plant trees in general — is just around the corner. Although many deciduous fruit trees are self-fertile and will produce a sizable crop planted individually, you will always get more fruit if there is a pollenizer tree nearby. (This goes for avocado varieties as well.) For example, a Santa Rosa plum yields a nice crop on its own but wil
  
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• High school football: The scores from Thursday’s Week 1 games

  30-08-2024 10:17 via ocregister.com
  
  All of the scores from Thursday’s Week 1 high school football games.
  CIF SOUTHERN SECTION
  Nonleague
  Alemany 56, Bernstein 6
  Calipatria 65, Desert Mirage 12
  Carpinteria 28, Hollywood 12
  Artesia 54, Mark Keppel 6
  Azusa 34, Ganesha 21
  Capistrano Valley Christian 34, University 17
  Etiwanda 27, Citrus Valley 3
  El Modena 42, Colony 27
  El Monte 29,. Alhambra 0
  Corona del Mar 47, Cypress 14
  Esperanza 24, Fountain Valley 20
  Golden Valley 41, Antelope Valley 6
  Granite Hills 39, Carter 22
  Hemet 35, I
  
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• El Modena football defeats Colony with help from early spark from Xzavier Guess

  30-08-2024 09:47 via ocregister.com
  
  ORANGE — The offense for El Modena’s football team revolves around quarterback Xzavier Guess, and the three-year varsity starter continues to prove he is up for the task.
  Guess, who received several offers from Division I colleges before committing to UC Davis, completed 12 of 24 passes for 243 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Vanguards to a 42-27 nonleague victory over Colony on Thursday at El Modena High School.
  The left-handed quarterback was illusive in the pocket and when
  
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• Josh Monroe leads the way as Capistrano Valley Christian football runs over University

  30-08-2024 08:48 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — A year ago, Capistrano Valley Christian running back Josh Monroe was a backup who averaged less than three carries per game.
  This season, Monroe has been the biggest playmaker for the Eagles.
  The senior ran for 268 yards with four touchdowns in Capistrano Valley Christian’s 34-17 win over University in a nonleague football game Thursday at University High.
  “I’m super proud of the offensive line. They were pretty much doubted, but we kept working, kept going throu
  
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