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“It is imperative that Orange County residents have a clear picture about the number of recoveries and recovery rates from COVID-19,” supervisors’ Chairwoman Michelle Steel told Voice of OC in a statement Wednesday.
Hundreds of families have been impacted by the spread of COVID-19 through at least 20 nursing homes and long term care facilities throughout Orange County.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously this past Tuesday to approve a $3 million agreement to support Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County and the Community Action Partnership of Orange County to assist with their emergency food distributions through the Social Services agency.
A Voice of OC flyover captured video of beaches up and down the OC coast, to see what members of the public were doing while Coronavirus social distancing restrictions is in effect.
The Santa Ana Regional Quality Control Board is meeting this morning to hold a public hearing on Poseidon Water’s request for a permit renewal for their facility, which would be built on 12 acres of a power plant and produce 50 million gallons of water per day, according to water district staff.
When the Council unanimously approved the program Wednesday, they also approved the program’s funding source, which took out $1.1 million from a city fund that was initially set up for improvements to poorly maintained properties and structures in the city’s west end. Residents and watchdogs quickly pointed out that the fund is still needed for that area, but has remained untouched for years.
The month of Ramadan is also an opportunity to be charitable and feed the hungry one of the many parts of Ramadan that Muslims can still do during the stay at home order.
The cities of Laguna Beach, Seal Beach, San Clemente, Dana Point, and Huntington Beach were allowed to reopen after their reopening plans were approved by the state.
Nearly 100 Orange County inmates have the novel coronavirus, raising concerns of the public employees union for an alleged lack of personal protective equipment from the County.
The cancellation — expected for weeks as the 150-acre fairgrounds property had all but closed its facilities to the public and other county fairs up and down the state already cancelled theirs — was made official by the OC Fair and Events Center Board of Directors at their Monday special meeting.