Fountain Valley City Manager Ray Kromer says he sees nothing wrong with the city annexing a nearly 21-acre unincorporated area into its boundaries. He just wants the county to agree to pay for an extra police officer before the additional police coverage begins. According to the Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) the area contains about 1,100 residents and 813 housing units. LAFCO has been working with an appointed task force for about a month to find a way to either formally annex the property or otherwise agree to connect it with nearby city services.
The Fountain Valley-based charitable organization known as Elwyn is staging its 13th annual Bowlathon from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Fountain Bowl. Proceeds benefit the organization that serves and gives jobs to people with disabilities. In addition to bowling, there will be pizza, silent auctions, casino games and door prizes. Cost for a team of five bowlers is $300, which includes chips and salsa, a pizza and a pitcher of soda.
Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology, the provider of computer memory products, reports a record revenue of $6.5 billion for 2010, $2.4 billion more than sales reported for 2009. The firm said the boost came from increased shipment volumes and a rise in average selling prices. The company founded by John Tu and David Sun is privately held. But the company might not be able to repeat banner results of last year. Many of the memory chipmaker’s facilities are in Japan, where a March 11 earthquake caused massive damage that is expected to derail production. In fact, the island nation accounts for nearly a fifth of the world’s computer chip production and even a minor interruption to the production process can throw a hammer into plans to produce a delicate computer component.
A Fountain Valley man, who shared his home with his mother, has been sentenced along with his mother in a Lincoln, Neb. drug case. Scot Christensen was given 8-to-10 years in Nebraska prison for possessing 66 pounds of marijuana found after a state trooper stopped the man and his mother near the Lincoln Airport in February 2010. His mother, Cynthia Bruckner was given three-to-eight years on the same charges. Bruckner swore she did not know the marijuana was hidden in the sport utility vehicle her son had rented.
The Huntington Beach Sailing Foundation is sponsoring a cardiopulmonary resuscitation, automated extrnal defibrillator and first aid class covering emergency procedures for adults, children and infants on June 18. The lifesaving procedures will be taught at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, 17100 Euclid St. A minimum donation of $25 to support the Sailing Foundation is requested, but not required.
A 22-year-old Fountain Valley woman has been cited for having 110 cats in her home. Courtney Howe is the former president of Fountain Valley’s Cat Connection Rescue Network, an agency that took in unwanted cats of all kinds who faced possible euthanasia at other agencies. A wormer at Cats in Need, another Orange County rescue group, told reporters that Howe “just didn’t how to say no” to cats in trouble. Some of the seized felines were too sick to save and others have been put up for adoption.
