Mission Viejo Buzz - 09/18/10

The Buzz

Linda Dorr, a Tea Party Patriot, reports, “We contacted the OC Register to make sure schools in the area were planning special events for Sept. 17, Constitution Day. In San Clemente, we recorded fifth graders spelling out the word ‘Constitution’ and using each letter to tell a story about the U.S. Constitution. U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton were invited to raise the flag in honor of this day. Lobos Elementary included their daily event of the Pledge of Allegiance and a patriotic song. The OC Register local paper will have pictures and a story this week of Lobos Elementary.” The Register’s Sept. 18 Local section included an article with photos about Constitution Day.

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The Mission Viejo Environmental Association, the city’s largest homeowners association, will hold a celebration and neighborhood update on Sun., Oct. 3. Members are invited to learn about the HOA’s beautification plans for common areas and slopes. The get-together will be held at Tortilla Flats Restaurant from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. RSVP to donna4RE@yahoo.com by Fri., Sept. 24.

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From Stephen Frank's Sept. 18 California Political News and Views about an item on the November 2 ballot: “Prop. 22 is a disaster. If you support it, that would allow local government to continue stealing land through eminent domain. Then local government would be allowed to give private property, stolen from its owners, to their friends--as these do today. If Prop. 22 passes, it stops the State from stealing money from the local redevelopment agencies, local organized crime. Which is worse, crime on the local level or crime on the State level. Which set of criminals do you support?  That is really what Prop. 22 is all about. As for me, I am voting NO on Prop. 22 – we need to stop the local organized crime agencies, and use of the ballot box stop the State level gang.

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Forwarded by Carl Schulthess, founder of MissionViejoCA.org: “I believe that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.”

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Within a week of the tragedy of two young people dying after they fell asleep on train tracks in Mission, an alarming article appeared in the news about teens in Colombia deliberately risking their lives by lying on railroad tracks as a train approaches. They roll to the middle of the tracks as a train passes over them. The tragedy in Mission Viejo has left a lot of people wondering how this could have happened.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/World/2010/09/19/Teens_cheat_death_with_train_game_515151.html