Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/honda-center/)
The COVID-19 pandemic is testing us as an organization and as an entire community on many fronts. From my perspective, we are all rising to the challenge in unprecedented ways. As a food bank and pantry network, Second Harvest and our partners continue to make the bold adjustments and preparations needed to best support those who will depend on us in the weeks and months ahead.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County will be retooling their drive through food pantry designed to help those in need during the coronavirus pandemic and are prepared to serve 8,000 people.
Second Harvest Food Bank has launched weekly drive through service at the Honda Center to help them feed the hungry while maintaining the safety of the volunteers, staff and those coming to pick up the food through social distancing.
The Angels, Anaheim’s baseball team may be looking to leave, but the city’s hockey team, the Anaheim Ducks, are negotiating a new 25-year lease and development project around the Honda Center.
Riprap has moved two homeless camps from the Santa Ana riverbank, one by the Honda Center last year and the other this year along the 57 Freeway from roughly the 22 Freeway to Angel Stadium. The Honda Center riprap was requested by Supervisor Shawn Nelson, according to county emails.
The Anaheim City Council has approved a deal to allow Anaheim Arena Management, the operator of the Honda Center, negotiate and sell the naming rights to the city’s signature transportation hub, known as the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, or ARTIC.
The removal comes less than two weeks after the county entered a $750,000 contract with the non-profit City Net to provide services to a separate group of homeless people camped on the western bank of the Santa Ana River near Angel Stadium.
The company that manages the Honda Center will get exclusive rights to sell advertisements on two electronic billboards in front of ARTIC, Anaheim’s transportation hub.
The emails raise questions about whether Nelson also directed a similar removal this winter of a large homeless encampment along the river south of Angel Stadium.
Anaheim will scrap an existing fireworks program that Mayor Tom Tait says disproportionately benefits Anaheim Hills residents for a more limited program where only 16 nonprofits will participate each year.