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Krebs featured on Rose Parade float David Krebs was a member


and officer of Orange Elks Lodge 1475, and an avid volunteer and supporter of Elks’ projects, his favorite being the Christmas bas- ket program for needy families. Krebs died in November 2008


from a cerebral stroke. He had made it clear to daughter Tracey that he wanted to be an organ donor. Thus, his tissue and cornea do-


nations became Christmas gifts for more than 50 people. Tracey says that any time family mem- bers and friends feel sad when thinking of David, they turn their thoughts to how many lives he changed because his family said “yes” to organ donation re- quests. Each year there is a “Donate


Life” float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, and this year’s float featured David’s floragraph among images of fellow donors. OneLegacy Foundation spon- sored six floragraphs, including David’s. Families were invited to help


On the left; Anne Grey, executive director of the OneLegacy Founda- tion, Tracey Cooper (holding the photo of her father, David Krebs) and Chris Cooper.


decorate the float floragraphs, and each family received its own special image that had been pre- served and framed.


Orange PD to automate


evidence storage and retrieval The purchase of an interview


room recording system for the Orange Police Department was approved by the city council, Dec. 9. The new $61,000 system re-


places cameras, recorders, micro- phones and monitors in four in- terview rooms. The city is using Board of State and Community Corrections local assistance fund- ing for the purchase. The existing interview room


systems were purchased in 2008. They are now considered anti- quated, inefficient and offer no


PFC Matthew James Craig Spartan is


now a Marine PFC Matthew James Craig, 21,


son of James and Kathryn Craig of Orange, graduated from the United States Marine Corps boot camp on Dec. 5. He completed 13 weeks of intensive basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego as one of 84 recruits in Training Platoon 3271, during which time he was a squad lead- er, received an expert status in marksmanship and an intermedi- ate swimming qualification. Craig graduated from Villa


Park High in 2012. After 10 days’ leave at home, he will report to Camp Pendleton for two months at Infantry Training Battalion.


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ing Villa Park TV, instituting the city schools advisory committee, advancing safe routes to school on Center Street, and installing a new flagpole and city flag. The new council held its first


business meeting on Dec. 16, and assignments for 11 city commit- tees were announced. In prior years, Pauly had not accepted committee assignments, forcing the remaining council members to take on additional work. This year, all five council members are assigned committees and will at- tend those meetings as follows:


redundancy. A detective had to manually burn interviews to a CD from the recorder, and physically book the disc into the evidence room, where it is stored. The new system fully auto-


mates the audio/video recording, storage and retrieval functions, and also interfaces with the de- partment’s existing digital im- age management system. The integrated systems consolidate digital images, video, and audio evidence, store it on a redundant network server, and preserve a strict chain of custody.


OUSD will oppose historic status for Killefer building


In a unanimous closed-session


vote, the Orange Unified School District trustees agreed to for- mally oppose efforts to have the Killefer School building listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The effort, ledbytheOldTowne


Preservation Association, seeks historic status for the 74-year-old building because it was the first school in the area to voluntarily desegregate – three years before the state made it mandatory in 1947. The structure is the centerpiece


of a 1.7-acre surplus school site owned by OUSD, and sold earlier this year to a developer. If the


Budget and Finance, Fascenelli and Barnett; OC Vector Control, Mills; OCFA, Barnett is assigned, and Nelson will attend as alter- nate, as needed; OC Sanitation District, Mills, alternate Colla- cott; Public Utilities and Trans- portation, Fascenelli, alternate Nelson; City/Schools Advisory, Nelson, alternate Collacott; Hu- man Resources, Fascenelli, al- ternate Barnett; Community De- velopment, Collacott, alternate Nelson; Community Services Foundation, Collacott, alternate Nelson; OC Libraries and Friends of VP Library, Nelson, alternate Mills; and Towne Centre, Colla- cott, alternate Nelson.


designation is granted, the build- ing cannot be torn down and must be preserved by whoever owns it. The Olson Company bid $5.1


million for the property, and planned to build townhomes. When it learned of the movement to preserve the building, it pulled out of the deal. The second highest bidder,


Western States, has agreed to pay $5.075 million for the parcel. It is now in a 480-day escrow.


The Home Depot Foundation: Celebration of Service program helps and honors the 3.5 million U.S. veterans who have suffered service- connected disabilities. Over 2,000 projects were completed by Home Depot Foundation volunteers in 2014, with more than $80 million committed since 2011. The local group plans one project each month, working primarily with local nonprofits to aid veterans and seniors.


Tuesday, January 13, 2015


Kelly Alcala, center; John Tornicelli, past commander Disabled American Veternas Chapter 23, left; Thomas N. Sandy, current Chpater 23 commander, right.


Giving back to a veteran Despite the pre-Christmas


busyness, a platoon of volunteers made time to “give back” and aid a World War II Navy veteran. Volunteers from DisabledAmeri- can Veterans, Chapter 23, Cov- enant Presbyterian Church and Home Depot worked together to rehab the home that veteran Kelly Alcala, 88, shares with his senior dog Noelle. The DAV coordinated the proj-


ect; Covenant Presbyterian pro- vided lunches and snacks, and the Home Depot Foundation Cel- ebration of Service provided ap- proximately 20 willing volunteers and supplies. Over the course of three days, the modest Orange home was renovated to include a wheelchair rampand landscaping. Workers created a planter area by the ramp; placed pavers; cleared debris; poured cement in a hole in the backyard patio to make it us- able; installed a low-maintenance


vinyl fence. They also fixed a leaky faucet and installed a ceil- ing fan for the senior. The wheelchair ramp will pro-


vide Alcala easier access and a greater degree of independence. Alcala lost his left leg in March 1945, while serving as a gunner on the USS Nevada, based out of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theater. Three pieces of shrapnel also pierced his left hand. Alcala had enlisted in the Navy only a year earlier, in the middle of his senior year at Santa Ana High School. Alcala came home to Orange County to recover, married a high school classmate and had five children. He worked for Standard Oil and at El Toro, and completed college in order to teach history and English, as well as tutor im- migrants. Now retired, Kelly is active in veterans’ groups and the church, and walking his beloved Noelle.


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