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The City National Grove of
Anaheim
Fair Wage Act of 2016
The City National Grove of Anaheim is
located at
2200 East Katella Avenue
Anaheim, CA 92806
(adjacent to Angel Stadium of Anaheim)
(714) 712-2700
BOX OFFICE HOURS:
Monday – Friday: 10:00am – 6:00pm
(later on show nights)
Saturday: 12 Noon – 4:00pm (later on
show nights)
Excluding all nationally recognized
holidays Page 3
California "Fair Wage Act of 2016"
$15 Minimum Wage Initiative (2016)
Page 5
Small Business Ideas Page 6
Ebay, Freelance writing, Book
sale.
Little Saigon Page 7
Refresher
Lisa Dzera worked with EROC to develop an
overview of campus sexual
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In 1988, the
State of California officially recognized “Little
Saigon” as a Special Tourist Zone centered on the
9000 block of Bolsa Avenue in Westminster. Photo
courtesy of Phuong Nguyen.
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Japan up Little Community Page 13
Little Arabia Anaheim Page 8
Costa Mesa
Anaheim's Little Arabia pushing for a higher
profile
The commercial district has become a go-to
place for Arab Americans and fans of
Middle Eastern food. Some people are
advocating for official recognition.
Latin Orange County Quarter
Page 10
Religious services, community events, athletic
clubs, and Japanese language classes
sponsored by Nikkei churches provided critical
social connections for the dispersed Orange
County community
Latinos are 34 percent of Orange County's
population, but hold just one of the county's 19
congressional, state legislative and county
supervisor seats.
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Poke restaurants and bars, Poke fast
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The City National Grove of Anaheim is an indoor,
live music venue in Anaheim, California operated by Nederlander
Concerts of Los Angeles. Its approximate capacity is 1,700.
Less than two miles (3.2 km) from the Disneyland Resort, the Grove
is just to the east of Interstate 5 on Katella Avenue. The Grove sits
on the northwest corner of the parking lot of Angel Stadium of
Anaheim, home of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim. It is also located near the Anaheim Regional
Transportation Intermodal Center with Amtrak and
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Metrolink service.
It originally opened as the ill-fated Tinseltown, an awards showthemed
restaurant. After converting to a concert venue, it was
renamed The Sun Theatre for a short time before changing its name
to The Grove of Anaheim. On January 24, 2011, the venue again
changed its name to City National Grove of Anaheim, following the
agreement of a five-year, $1.25 million naming rights deal with City
National Bank. [1]
Among the artists that have performed here are Bob Dylan, B.B.
King, Enrique Bunbury, Julio Iglesias, Boz Scaggs, Merle
Haggard, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Seal, MattyBRaps,Something
Corporate and Jaguares. [1]
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Ballotpedia.com the
Encyclopedia of American
Politics
California "Fair
Wage Act of 2016"
$15 Minimum Wage
Initiative (2016)
A $15 minimum wage
initiative called "Fair Wage
Act of 2016" (#15-0032) was
not put on the November 8,
2016, ballot in California as
an initiated state statute. The
measure was certified for
ballot, but proponents
withdrew it on June 23,
2016, due to the passage of a
$15 per hour minimum wage
law by the California State
Legislature. [1]
A "yes" vote
was a vote in
favor of raising
the state's
minimum
wage to $15
per hour by
2021.
A "no" vote
was a vote
against raising
the state's
minimum wage
to $15 per
hour by 2021.
Initiative measure 15-0032
was supported by the Service
Employees International
Union-United Healthcare
Workers West (SEIU-UHW)
and was designed to increase
the minimum hourly wage to
$15 per hour by 2021. [2][3]
The Service Employees
International Union's
California Council backed
a competing $15 per hour
minimum wage initiative
called the "Raise
California's Wage and
Paid Sick Days Act."
Petitioners behind the
competing measure
continued to gather
signatures after the "Fair
Wage Act of 2016" was
certified for the 2016
ballot. The Service
Employees International
Union's California Council
stopped signature
collection on April 1,
2016, and the competing
measure will not appear
on the November
ballot. [4][5]
On March 26, 2016,
California legislators
proposed legislation which
was designed to raise the
statewide minimum wage
gradually until it reached $15
in 2022. Lawmakers achieved
an agreement with the union
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behind the "Fair Wage Act of
2016" regarding this
alternative legislation. [6]
On March 31, 2016, the
California Legislature passed
the alternative legislation,
Senate Bill 3, and sent it to
the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown
(D). Gov. Brown signed the
alternative legislation bill
into law on April 4, 2016.
California Council of SEIU
withdrew its competing
measure, Raise California's
Wage and Paid Sick Days Act
of 2016 (#15-0105A1) on
April 1, 2016. [5][7][8]
California "Raise
California's Wage
and Paid Sick Days
Act" $15 Minimum
Wage Initiative
(2016)
A $15 per hour minimum
wage initiative called the
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(#15-0105A1) was not put on
the ballot as an initiated
state statute for voters in
California on November 8,
2016.
Initiative measure 15-0105,
which was supported by
Service Employees
International Union's
California Council, was
designed to increase the
wage to $15 by 2020. [1][2][3]
A competing $15 per hour
minimum wage initiative
called the "Fair Wage Act
of 2016," which was
sponsored by Service
Employees International
Union-United Healthcare
Workers (SEIU-UHW), was
certified for the 2016
ballot, but was withdrawn
on June 23, 2016. [4][5]
On March 26, 2016,
California legislators
proposed legislation which
was designed to raise the
statewide minimum wage
gradually until it reached $15
in 2022. Lawmakers achieved
an agreement with the union
behind the "Fair Wage Act of
2016" regarding this
alternative legislation. [6]
On March 31, 2016, the
California Legislature passed
ces you can provide from
the quiet of your own
home:
Copyediting. This is
where fact checking
the alternative legislation,
Senate Bill 3, and sent it to
the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown
(D). Gov. Brown signed the
alternative legislation bill
into law on April 4, 2016.
Both California Council of
SEIU and SEIU-UHW approve
of the bill's stipulations, and
the Fair Wage Act of 2016
(#15-0032), was withdrawn
in June 2016. [5][7][8][9]
Service Employees
International Union's
California Council told the
Monterey Herald on April 1,
2016, that it had stopped
gathering signatures for
Raise California's Wage and
Paid Sick Days Act of 2016
(#15-0105A1). [10]
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BUSINESS
IDEAS
takes place, and where
grammatical, stylistic and
typographical errors are
caught.
Proofreading. This is the
last stop for a "finished"
piece. The proofreader
makes sure the
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Developmental
editing. A developmental
editor works with a
manuscript on big-picture
things like organization
and content issues.
Book doctoring. This is
an editorial service
provided for manuscripts
written by experts. They
create a manuscript as
best they can and then a
book doctor puts it into
publishable shape.
Ghost Writing. As a
ghost writer, you actually
do the research and write
the book and someone
else's name is attached
as the author.
Copywriting. Also known
as business writing, this
is writing that promotes a
product or a service.
Book writing. Do you
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something professional,
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interior decorating? Or
personally, like knitting?
Why not write a book
about it?
Magazine article
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Little Saigon Refresher
newspapers are a great
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The largest such community, in Orange
County, California. This suburban ethnic
enclave is home to the largest concentration
of overseas Vietnamese, nearly 200,000, or
10 percent of the Vietnamese American
population. Because of its size, location,
and demographics, Little Saigon is also
home to some of the most influential
Almost everyone has a
few boxes of books
stashed away in the
house somewhere. Why
not make a business out
of them? In order to gain
customers--especially
repeat customers--you
will need to have some
regular shop hours. Make
your shop known for
something-a specific
category (or two) of
books, having some first
editions for sale, all
paperbacks a dollar and
all hardcovers two bucks,
and/or a swap program.
Maps, illustrations,
postcards, greeting cards
and magazines are good
sidelines to include in
your shop.
intellectuals, entertainers, businesspeople,
and politicians in the Vietnamese diaspora,
many of whom are invested in constructing
Little Saigon as a transnational oppositional
party to the government of Vietnam. Unlike
traditional immigrant ethnic enclaves, Little
Saigon is a refugee community whose
formation and development emerged in
large part from America’s efforts to atone for
its epic defeat in Vietnam by at least sparing
some of its wartime allies a life under
communism. Much of Little Saigon’s cultural
politics revolve around this narrative of
rescue, although the number guilt-ridden
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Americans grows smaller and more
conservative, while the loyalists of the pre-
1975 Saigon regime struggle to instill in the
younger generation of Vietnamese an
appreciation of their refugee roots.
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Figure 1. In 1988, the State of California
officially recognized “Little Saigon” as a
Special Tourist Zone centered on the 9000
block of Bolsa Avenue in Westminster.
Photo courtesy of Phuong Nguyen.
Vietnamese enclaves in San Francisco, San
Jose, San Diego and other towns have
chosen, sometimes after acrimonious
debate, to adopt the moniker “Little Saigon,”
which is generally reserved for Orange
County, California, home to nearly 200,000
Vietnamese. The business presence of
Little Saigon in Orange County spans a
multitude of adjacent small cities such as
Santa Ana, Garden Grove, and Fountain
Valley, but its historically central
thoroughfare—and Lunar New Year parade
route—runs along the 9000 strip of Bolsa
Avenue in Westminster. The sheer size of
Little Saigon has allowed it to sustain
longstanding and culturally influential
businesses and institutions at the local
level, which has translated into greater
visibility at the global level. As a result,
Vietnamese throughout the world know of
Little Saigon, sometimes via alternative
references such as Bolsa Avenue or the
neighboring city of Santa Ana. Spatially,
Little Saigon follows a contemporary model
of suburban ethnic enclave formation, which
started with Asian-owned businesses
occupying what used to be white-owned
shopping centers and establishments.
Despite the turnover in the commercial
sector, the residential makeup in and
around Little Saigon is a little more diverse,
consisting primarily of whites, Latinos, and
Asians.
Unlike most immigrants, Vietnamese
Americans, as refugees, have gained entry
into the United States on moral, rather than
legal, grounds. Their presence in the United
States, once viewed as a melancholy
reminder of an unfortunate war that
Americans would rather forget, eventually
served to portray America, as the receiving
nation for half a million Indochinese
refugees, in a far more positive light than
the war ever could. Consistent with that
logic, charitable and guilt-ridden white
Americans have felt morally obligated to
support the formation and preservation of a
South Vietnamese refugee community as a
way to atone for America’s failure to protect
its wartime allies from communism.
Little Arabia
Anaheim Upward
Two miles from Disneyland, a stretch of strip
malls in Anaheim has transformed into an enclave
catering to California's Arab American
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It lacks the immense sprawl of nearby Little
Saigon or the decades-long history of Chinatown
in Los Angeles, but the place now known as Little
Arabia is a destination for Arab Americans from
around the state and, lately, a go-to place for
foodies in search of Middle Eastern dishes.
Yet Little Arabia is largely unknown to the
millions of tourists who flood into Anaheim every
year — and it remains below the radar even to
longtime residents in the city's west side.
A group of ambitious activists and business
owners is trying to change that by getting city and
tourism officials to recognize the commercial
district as a destination.
"The most important thing to us is saying, 'We are
part of Anaheim,'" said Rida Hamida, director and
co-founder of the Arab American Civic Council.
"You have Disney, the Honda Center, the Angels,
and you also have Little Arabia."
The push is starting to gain some momentum.
Most recently, the Anaheim/Orange County
Visitor & Convention Bureau agreed to put Little
Arabia on its visitors guide.
"What I've seen of it, it has some great restaurants
that I got to enjoy and a community that's trying to
build something there, so that's exciting to see,"
said Jay Burress, president and chief executive of
the convention bureau, who visited Little Arabia
for the first time last month.
The civic council is also preparing a new website
and brochure to attract visitors.
Proponents' most ambitious goal — an official
designation for Little Arabia and an accompanying
freeway sign — is a long-term one. But it's getting
push-back from some nearby residents and even
some within Little Arabia.
Some residents say such a designation would
shortchange other ethnic pockets in the county's
largest city. They have also complained about the
increase in hookah lounges that have opened in
Little Arabia.
To some Little Arabia denizens, there's a sense that
the enclave is just not ready for a coming-out
party.
Generally seen as the dense commercial strip along
Brookhurst Street between Crescent and Katella
avenues, Little Arabia holds a wide variety of
storefronts. There are restaurants, grocery stores,
hookah bars and clothing shops, each catering to
the region's large Arab American population, all
intermixed with a slew of chain groceries, fastfood
places, Mexican diners and muffler shops.
"We're not ready to do a grand opening yet for
Little Arabia because it's not ready," said Ahmad
Alam, owner of Arab World Newspaper and a
local property owner who envisions malls, movie
theaters, "something to hang on to."
Alam said Little Arabia lacks cohesion and has
fallen short of the place he imagined: an ethnic
community that would "make everything available
for the new generation, to know about their history
and heritage." The area, he said, is not yet suitable
for an official designation.
When supporters of the effort to gain recognition
came to him, he said, "I told them, 'Hey, good job.
Bring me investors.'"
Esther Wallace, chairwoman of the West Anaheim
Neighborhood Development Council, said she's
opposed to focusing attention on Little Arabia with
an official designation.
"There's only one ethnic group that's being
promoted and that's the Arab American group,"
Wallace said. "We don't have a Little Mexico or a
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Little Korea. All the pressure seems to be on
putting a Little Arabia out here, and I don't see
why."
West Bank. "It's going to take some education both
internally and externally."
None of that has dissuaded those who want the city
and tourism officials to pay attention to the area.
Getting the area into visitor guides is just a first
step, said Rashad Al-Dabbagh, also of the Arab
American Civic Council. Next, the group would
like to see a tourist bus from the Anaheim
Convention Center to Little Arabia. Like Alam, it
would also like to see the look of Little Arabia
become more cohesive, a look Hamida described
as an Andalusian style.
But without lots of money to invest, Al-Dabbagh,
Hamida and other supporters are taking a different
tack: using social media to draw attention to the
area, trying to bring city officials into the fold and
inviting residents to learn about the community.
Recently, they held an event dubbed the
"shawarma summit," a meeting of business owners
and local leaders, including Wallace, Burress and
Mayor Tom Tait. It took place at Papa Hassan's
Grill, a restaurant specializing in Lebanese
shawarma.
Tait said he supports efforts to draw more attention
to Little Arabia but not an official designation.
"It's this great local flavor that we should be
bragging about," he said. However, "as far as the
city saying here's where the lines are, I'm not for
that, because if we do that officially that could
exclude people who aren't a part of it."
Organizers of the effort are prepared to be patient.
"Some are reluctant, but it takes some educating
about what is the vision," said Asem Abusir, who
last year opened Knafeh Cafe, which specializes in
a generations-old pastry recipe from Nablus in the
Latin
Quarter
If Latinos are looking for one
of their own among the
county’s top political posts –
or even for a Latino on
Tuesday’s ballot vying for one
of those jobs – they’ll have to
look hard.
There are 19 congressional, state
legislative and county supervisor
districts that are wholly or mostly in
Orange County. Only one is held by a
Latino, and that could shrink to zero
before this election cycle is over.
That’s in stark contrast to the Latino
population, which has grown to 34
percent of the county and 22 percent of
its voting-age citizens, according to U.S.
census data.
And while Orange County is an extreme
example, the phenomenon is seen
throughout the state.
Latinos account for 39 percent of
California’s population and 28 percent
of its voting-age citizens.
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But they hold just 19 percent of U.S.
House seats, 12 percent of state
Senate seats, 24 percent of Assembly
seats and 10 percent of county
supervisor seats, according to a joint
study by the state Latino Legislative
Caucus and the the Leadership
California Institute.
“While Latinos have seen progress in
both the level of representation and
their capacity to secure leadership
positions, Latinos still lag significantly in
representation at all levels of California
government, especially the local level,”
the report says.
“Underlying issues of poverty,
unemployment, education, homeownership
and other social indicators …
may contribute to this lack of civic
engagement.”
That likelihood isn’t surprising given
studies of the U.S. population at large
that show homeowners with higher
incomes and educations tend to
participate more in electoral politics,
both as voters and candidates.
Latino hopefuls
The best-case scenario for Orange
County Latinos this year is to increase
their share of those 19 seats by three:
• Democratic Latina Sharon Quirk-
Silva is attempting to win back the
Assembly seat she lost to Republican
Young Kim in 2014. The primary is a
trial run, as they are the only two
candidates and will automatically face
off in November.
• Santa Ana Councilwoman Michele
Martinez is among those challenging
county Supervisor Andrew Do’s reelection
bid. Unless Do – or someone
else – receives more than half of
Tuesday’s vote, the top two vote-getters
advance to November.
• The only Latino among the 19 office
holders is Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-
Orange, who is stepping down to run for
U.S. Senate. Among the leading
candidates to replace her is former
state legislator and county Supervisor
Lou Correa, who is expected to be one
of the top two vote-getters advancing to
November.
It’s possible for Latinos to get elected in
the county. But the small number of
Latinos running is part of the problem.
In the tri-county 29th Senate District,
the majority of which is in north Orange
County, 37 percent of the population is
Latino but none of the three candidates
vying for the open seat is.
In the 68th Assembly District, which
extends from Lake Forest to Anaheim
and also has an open seat, 28 percent
of the population is Latino, according
to AroundTheCapitol.com. None of the
seven candidates is.
One approach to increasing the access
to public office for Latinos is to create
district elections for city councils, which
often act as a springboard to county,
state and federal posts.
Anaheim, Garden Grove, Fullerton,
Buena Park and San Juan Capistrano
have established or are moving toward
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district elections because of lawsuits or
the threat of lawsuits claiming that
Latinos are not adequately represented
on those city’s councils, in violation of
the Voting Rights Act.
Four of those cities have no Latino
council members despite sizable Latino
populations. District elections give
heavily Latino parts of a city a greater
ability to elect council members from
their neighborhoods.
The Region
Koreans find a good fit in
Fullerton
The city in O.C. is attracting a growing
number with reputable schools, relatively
low crime and good jobs.
December 28, 2008|My-Thuan Tran
Perhaps the future of Orange County can be found
in the rows of cookie-cutter houses in Fullerton's
hillside neighborhood of Amerige Heights. On
what used to be the site of the Hughes Aircraft
plant, developers have built spacious homes,
sprawling parks and landscaped roundabouts next
to a large shopping center with a Target and an
Albertsons.
But past the master-planned veneer is the changing
face of Orange County. Next to Albertsons is a
taekwondo studio; across from Target is a Korean
tofu stew restaurant. Not far away are two of the
largest Korean churches in the state.
Amerige Heights, just like the villages in Irvine
and the newer housing tracts of Tustin, has become
a destination for Asian Americans, drawn by highperforming
schools, relatively crime-free
neighborhoods and good jobs. According to
recently released U.S. Census data, the Asian
population in every city with available data in
Orange County has gone up. Countywide, the
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Asian population has increased roughly 16% since
2000, a much faster rate than the Latino population
and in the opposite direction of the white
population, which has dropped nearly 8%.
Fullerton, once a traditionally white bedroom
community in northern Orange County, has seen
growing numbers of Asians moving into its
middle-class neighborhoods such as Amerige
Heights, where real estate agents estimate more
than half of the residents are of Korean descent. To
cater to them, smaller Korean churches have
sprouted in the area, such as Crossway Community
Church in Brea. Korean parents even started a
Korean PTA at Sunny Hills High School, where
Asian Americans make up half of the student
body.
Japan up next door
provided by local Japanese immigrants and
"some good American friends." In 1930, the
Mission became the Wintersburg Presbyterian
Church and plans were formed to build a new
church structure. The congregation used this
building until 1966.
Among the very few substantial Nikkei
resources left in all of Orange County, the
Wintersburg Japanese Presbyterian Church
complex is unusual for its range of structures
demonstrating the growth of a Japanese
Christian church. The complex retains the
original 1909-1910 Mission building, a rectory
dating to 1910, the larger 1934 church built,
and the home of church benefactor, C.M.
Furuta. At the time of our 2007 Preserving
California’s Japantowns survey, the property
was fenced off and potentially threatened by
development.
Religious services, community events, athletic
clubs, and Japanese language classes
sponsored by Nikkei churches provided critical
social connections for the dispersed Orange
County community. The earliest churches were
Anaheim Japanese Free Methodist Church, the
Buddhist Church in Talbert and Wintersburg
Presbyterian Mission in what is now Huntington
Beach. Begun in 1904, the Wintersburg Mission
building and a small minister's home were
dedicated in 1910 through funds and labor
Costa Mesa new Japanese Market in place
of the old and closed Fresh and Easy.
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