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Newport-Mesa Unified SchoolDistrict was set to begin summersports this week — with a slew ofcoronavirus protections and pre-cautions in place — but officialsnow say the athletic programs willbe postponed until the state is-sues guidelines for youth sports.

“Regretfully, our plan to reopenathletics must be put on hold atthis time,” the district said in anews release Tuesday.

“Until there is specific guidanceprovided by [the California De-partment of Public Health] re-garding recreational team sportsor school-based sports, OrangeCounty school districts have beenadvised not to operate summeryouth sports programs.”

Newport-Mesa Unified, hometo Corona del Mar, Costa Mesa,Estancia and Newport Harborhigh schools, initially indicated ina June 25 online notice summersports programs would beginMonday with face coverings,

physical distancing and tempera-ture checks, among other modifi-cations.

That program was to be “volun-tary and based on parental discre-tion.”

That announcement followed aJune 15 news release from the Or-ange County Board of Supervisorsstating, while games and eventswould continue to be prohibited,sports teams would be allowed topractice in accordance with pro-tocols outlined in the state’s in-dustry guidelines for day camps.

“I advocated for a safe return toyouth activities because playingsports is a fantastic way to buildcharacter, in addition to burningoff the past months’ pent-up en-ergy,” Orange County SupervisorDon Wagner said in the Junestatement.

“The state’s guidance is the nextbig step to bringing O.C. back tonormal.”

But last week, as state officialstightened restrictions on gather-ings and group activities in coun-

ties, including Orange, with ob-served spikes in infections andCOVID-19 hospitalizations, thefate of youth sports seemed tohang in the balance.

Legal counsel with the OrangeCounty Department of Educationweighed in on Monday after re-ceiving queries from school dis-trict superintendents about sum-mer athletics and reaching out di-rectly to state health officialsthrough an essential services in-quiry.

“CDPH has confirmed that atthis time, youth sports, includingconditioning activities, are notpermitted,” General Counsel Jeff-rey Riel wrote in a letter to districtleaders, indicating the health de-partment was working on, buthad not released, guidelines spe-cific to youth sports.

“Until there is specific guidanceprovided by CDPH regarding rec-reational team sports or school-based sports, school districts arewell advised not to operate sum-mer youth sports programs,” Riel

continued.While no one at the Sacra-

mento-based health agencywould speak in an interview, offi-cials confirmed Riel’s conclusion

in an email to the Daily Pilot.“At this time, no state guidance

has been issued for youth sports

Newport-Mesa Unified’s plan to start summer sports put on hold

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ANEMPTYMustangFieldatCostaMesaHighSchoolonTuesday.Newport-Mesaofficials say summerathleticprogramswill bepostponed fornow.

BY SARA CARDINE

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Orange County’s co-ronavirus hospitalizationsreached another high Mondaywith 659 inpatients confirmedto have COVID-19.

Sixteen of the last 18 dayshave marked records as hospi-talizations have climbed rap-idly since the county furthereased lockdown restrictionslast month, according to datareleased Tuesday by the Or-ange County Health CareAgency.

On Sunday 634 patientswere reported, Saturday’s totalreached 624 and Friday’s 594.From June 18, when 335 peo-ple were hospitalized withCOVID-19, through Monday,the most recent day for whichdata are available, the hospi-talized population withCOVID-19 has increased by97%.

The number of patients withthe disease in intensive carehas increased by 59% in thatsame time frame, with 224 inthe ICU on Monday.

The vast majority of hospi-talized patients are local resi-dents, but six of Monday’s pa-tients were from ImperialCounty, according to the O.C.agency’s Emergency MedicalServices division.

The hard-hit rural county,which only has two hospitalsbut has the highest concentra-tion of COVID-19 cases in thestate, has been sending pa-tients to other parts of South-ern California to take pressureoff its taxed medical facilities.Orange County has not been

Don Leach | Staff Photographer

RACHEL STERN shopsfor lunch while wearing aface covering near the BalboaFun Zone on Monday.

HospitalnumberscontinuesteadyclimbWith 659 inpatientsconfirmed to haveCOVID-19, OrangeCounty reachesanother high Monday.BYHILLARYDAVIS

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Newport Beach playedhost to a massive cleanupeffort Monday after south-ern storm swells and afull-moon high tide Fridaycompromised a sandberm on the city’s BalboaPeninsula and sent water,sand and debris into citystreets and residences.

City officials estimatedthe work — to be executedby a small army of streetsweepers and city andcontractor work crewsequipped with brooms,blowers and shovels —could take from five toseven days.

“Our crews are on it andare going to be working asfast as they can, but wealso need to be realistic —it is a pretty massivecleanup,” Newport Beachspokesman John Popesaid Monday. “Theamount of sand and de-bris that flowed out waspretty shocking.”

Weather forecasters saidthe coastal flooding was aresult of a rare conjunc-tion of increased swellcaused by storms in theSouthern Hemispherealong with higher-than-usual high tides caused bya full moon.

“It was unlucky or coin-cidental we’d have thissouthern swell coming atthe same time as the high-est tides we’re likely to seethis month,” said MiguelMiller, a forecaster withthe National WeatherService’s San Diego office.“There was definitely aconfluence of factors.”

Miller said the NationalWeather Service, alerted

Newport Beach in cleanup modeafter flooding of Balboa Peninsula

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BRUCEOGILVIE, whose house inNewport Beachwas spared from thewater, spent his Fourth of July searching forsandbags andmovingmud anddebris. City officials estimate the cleanup of the streets could take from five to seven days.

A rare combinationof storm swellsand higher-than-usual tides resultsin the inundation.BY SARA CARDINE

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The sun was out in NewportBeach, the skies clear on the eveof July 4 when Bruce Ogilvieplopped down in the sand. Butsomething, he said, felt off.

A lifeguard had chased him outof his usual spot, which seemedpuzzling at the time, but thenOgilvie saw the guard sprint intothe water and save two girlscaught in a rip tide. This wasn’tthe first rescue of the day, Ogilvierealized, and the guard neededthe area cleared to run as fast ashe could into the churning ocean.

In hindsight, he said, “Ishould’ve realized: ‘Hey, some-thing bad’s going to happen.’ ”

By 6 p.m. that evening, hugewaves were cresting over Balboa

Pier and flooding through BalboaPeninsula, an idyllic oceanfrontcommunity in Orange Countybarely above sea level. This thinspit of land is all that stands be-tween the ocean and the bay —the first line of defense for the restof the Newport Beach coast.

There wasn’t a large enoughsand berm in place to protect thissudden breach, and residents saidthere was little warning except forthe full moon overhead creatingextremely high tides, and an an-gry surf that kept getting biggerand bigger.

“It was kind of a triple witchingeffect,” said Ogilvie, who notedthat because of the high tide, thepeninsula’s gate and valves were

‘Something bad’s going to happen’: Signs pointed to disaster

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STREETS IN THE Balboa Peninsula are flooded by higher-than-usualcoastal tides and high surf in Newport Beach on Friday night.

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Walter “Wally” Robert Gayner, a handsome, loyal, hard-working family man,loved by all he touched was born on October 3, 1929 to Ann andWalter Gaynerin Glendale, CA and died peacefully at his home on July 1, 2020 with his lovingwife, Joan, at his side. Wally had a unique presence about him; stunninglycharming with a contagious smile, always well-dressed, would walk into aroom and all eyes would gaze upon him with admiration, a real guy’s guy butmost importantly a wonderful gentleman to women. He had “it” all going on.

His father who had been a World War I ace pilot moved the family to Nice,France when Wally was a child. His sister Suzanne, an accomplished childpianist, was born there. The family returned after three years to Southern Cal-ifornia where his youngest sister, Patsy, was born. Wally graduated from LosAngeles High School in 1947 where he excelled in swimming and theater,staring in several plays and was an all-city champion swimmer and awardeda scholarship to USC. After one year at USC he left to join the Navy, servingon two aircraft carriers, the USS Princeton and the USS Bairoko where he wasstationed at North Island Naval Air Station earned a place on the All-Navy SwimTeam. When his service was up, he enrolled at UCLA and became a lifelong

Bruin fan. Wally was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and remained close to his fraternal brothers till death.Loving friends and being loved meant most to Wally and socializing became Wally’s biggest character asset makingmany close friendships along his robust life’s journey. Coming from a modest upbringing he loved all people, alltypes and had a burning desire to succeed in marriage and in business. In 1950 he married his beautiful Trojansweetheart, Marilyn “Lynn” Bremer, and raised three children in Orange County while spending leisure time travelingthe world until Lynn’s passing in 2003.

He was an accomplished residential developer and home builder, building over 10,000 homes over four decadesshaping Orange County and Southern California communities through his companies Republic Homes and EagleDevelopment from 1960 to 2000. Wally launched his homebuilding career in the 60s by developing Mesa Verde, astate-of-the-art master planned golf course and residential community in the heart of Costa Mesa. The first parcelhe pursued was a bean field near the Santa Ana River bed, now Mesa Verde Golf Course, that the Segerstrom Familysold to Wally and partners, in an effort to offer a combination of new tract and custom homes around a qualify golfcourse for young families to live, play and shop at nearby South Coast Plaza regional shopping center planning toopen in 1967. Mesa Verde was beautifully situated along the west side of Tee Winkle Farm, now Tee Winkle JuniorHigh School, sprawling westward toward Estancia High School. Even today, more than a half century later, MesaVerde is considered a hidden gem that stood the test of time with winding roads, churches, parks, schools, cul-de-sac streets with many homes fronting golf links, and innovative home designs that Wally incorporated into thecommunity.

Besides loving sports and the outdoors, Wally’s main hobbies were flying his private small airplanes around tovarious projects in the southland, hunting in exotic areas of the globe, and building custom homes for his family. Hespent many hours with architects designing innovative, cutting-edge features, so he began incorporating featurestypically found in custom homes into single family tract home designs in the 60’s with his residential communitiesin Friendly Hills in Whittier, Laguna Hills, Mesa Verde and Lake San Marcos. He engineered such innovations as the“split-level” and “patio style, central courtyard” designs in his tract homes. Many of his own custom homes werecentered around ranching such as his Castle Ranch, a landmark 1,500 acre working ranch with a private airstripfor his plane, and in Coto de Caza where he raised champion Tennessee Walkers or the ocean and lakes such ashis cabin in Lake Arrowhead and his home on the beach in Newport.Wally loved sharing his ranches and waterfronthomes by hosting social events with his friends and family. If you were a friend of Wally’s you were expected to comevisit and horseback ride, hunt, water or snow ski, swim, play tennis or just relax and have a beer or cocktail with himat any of his homes. He had a real “mi casa, su casa” welcoming attitude to all friends and family.

His achievements and affiliations were vast and varied, to name a few; Blue Lagoon Villas built in 1962 was the firststatutory condominium built in California, initial member of the Balboa Bay Club Board of Directors, President andFounder of the first drug rehabilitation for teenagers in Orange County called Assessment Treatment Service Center(ATSC) “Alternative to the Juvenile Justice System”, master planned Ford Aeronutronics site – One Ford Road nearBig Canyon, the first President of the Builders Industry Association (BIA) Orange County Chapter and always attendedthe annual Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco, received the Mayor’s Award from the City of CostaMesa honoring his Mesa Verde development and its positive community impact to the City, President of EstanciaHigh School Booster Club, longtime UCLA Alumnus and Bruin Football supporter, UCI Advisory Council Memberplanning student and faculty housing on campus, initial Coto de Caza ranch development, longtime Portola Rider,San Bernardino Sheriff Search and Rescue supporter (allowed use of his helicopter), and Orange County SheriffAdvisory Council longtime member. Wally stood for quality housing for mid-income families, local law enforcement,and helping young people with their careers and challenges.

Wally’s story telling of his personal adventures was phenomenal, recanting his past like it was just yesterday. Onetime his buddies met him for lunch at the Club and played a joke by walking out one-by-one during one of Wally’sepic stories, as if each guy was going to the bathroom, but he just kept talking even when all had left the table,determined to finish.

In his seventies, he reunited with another beautiful Trojan, Joan Field Riach, whom he had known in high school andwere happily married for 10 years. Their second time around romance was magical, loving their travels together andtheir times with their families and friends. Wally was an amazing and loving husband and a wonderfully supportiveand loving father, grandfather and great grandfather.

Wally was predeceased by his mother and father and sister Patsy. He is survived by his wife, Joan, his two daugh-ters, Kyle Gayner and Tracey Gayner with two children Robert Rankin and Cory Poole. His son, Scott Gayner withhis children Sammis Nelson Gayner and Cassidy Gayner Reeves married to Dane Reeves with their new baby boyborn in January, Logan Scott Reeves, whom Wally adored. His sister Suzanne Peters and many nephews, niecesand cousins. His stepsons Tom Riach Jr. married to Victoria and Steven Riach married to Wendy with eight stepgrandchildren. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to: The J. F. Shea Center for Therapeutic Riding, OrangeCounty whose mission is to serve people with disabilities who benefit from Equine Assisted Therapy & Activitieshttps://www.sheacenter.org/donate/tribute-memorial-gifts/

Adios big Wally, the Lord has enriched all our lives by sharing your life with us!

A celebration of his life is pending

Walter “Wally” Robert Gayner

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by a forecast predicting surfup to 8 feet, issued a beachhazard statement earlyThursday morning and lat-er that day upgraded thewarning to a high surf ad-visory for Orange County.

When it became appar-ent the full moon would co-incide with the alreadyrisky wave conditions, theagency issued a coastalflood advisory notice forthe area early Saturday.

“A long period of south-ern swell — these are theconditions surfers dreamof,” Miller said. “But we is-sued the advisory to saylook out for high surf, dan-gerous rip currents andhazardous swimming con-ditions. These are thethings that usually getswimmers.”

Pope said lifeguards onduty Friday — before thecity closed its beaches forthe Fourth of July weekend,

in part, due to concerns ofthe still-spreading co-ronavirus — reported mak-ing 100 rescues and issuingsome 2,700 preventive

warnings to beachgoers.One lifeguard, Sean Rich-

ards, was commended bycity officials on Monday forhis heroic actions Friday

afternoon, performing twoback-to-back rescues be-fore collapsing on thebeach from exhaustion.

Stationed at the A Street

lifeguard tower near theBalboa Pier at around4 p.m.

Richards noticed twoteenage swimmers in dis-tress, according to a city re-lease issued Monday. Aftersuccessfully extricating thefirst victim, the lifeguard re-turned for the second.

“Richards held the swim-mer with one arm whileheavy surf slammed themboth to the ocean floor andheld them under.

The two were alsopushed into pier pylons bythe strong waves,” the re-lease stated. “Richards wasable to maintain his grip onthe swimmer throughoutthe ordeal, and both madeit to shore.”

By the time the NationalWeather Service had issuedits coastal flood advisory,Friday’s high surf condi-tions had already causedwater to breach a seasonalsand berm built by the cityearlier this summer to ab-sorb excess swell.

Pope said city and con-

tractor crews immediatelybegan rebuilding a newberm on Saturday.

“Our mission was to getthe sand berm back inplace and higher andwider,” he said, adding thateight pieces of heavy equip-ment — bulldozers andbackhoes — were em-ployed in the effort.

“That was enough to pro-tect the area from floodingon the second night andthe third.”

Public Works and con-tractor crews turned out infull force Monday to cleanup public areas near thepier, including a parking lotand some nearby citystreets. The work is ex-pected to last throughoutthe week.

“There’s a huge amountof sand and debris. [And]the flood overturned everytrash can in the beach park-ing lot,” Pope said. “It was areal mess.”

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ASANDBERM is rebuilt by thecity toholdoff bigwavesandhigh tidesatBalboaPier inNewportBeach.Thebermsuccessfullyheldoff largewavesonSaturday incontrast to the flooding thatoccurredonFriday thatpushedwater into surroundingparking lots, fieldsandstreets.

shut and unable to allowany drainage into the bay.

City officials werestunned by the ocean’s in-tensity. One lifeguard saidhe couldn’t help but thinkof a tsunami — big wavesare not unusual for New-port Beach, known for epicsurf spots like the Wedge,but what surprised him Fri-day was how each wave didnot break nor dissipate.

Each wave seemed tobuild on top of the nextone, moving one large wavefarther and farther up thebeach until it overtook anderoded the sand berm thathad been standing in asprotection.

“It came in unexpectedlyearly and unexpectedlylarge ... It hit right at hightide,” said Mike Halphide,the Newport Beach Fire De-partment’s chief lifeguard.His team that day rescued100 people overall and pre-vented more than 2,500other incidents by warningfolks who were about to putthemselves in danger.

John Pope, the city’s pub-lic information officer, saidextra crews and machineshave been deployed to ag-gressively build a new,larger and taller sand barri-er before the next high tide.“We expected high surf —the forecast was about 5 to7 feet, and as much as 20feet at the Wedge, but itwas just such an unusualconfluence of ocean activ-ity,” he said.

The water pooled intothe beach parking lot, sub-merging cars up to theirwheels and covering thepavement with mud, trashand foam. More seawaterrushed past the junior life-guard training station,through the soccer fieldand onto Ogilvie’s streetand his neighbors’ homesand driveways.

Cars and bikers tried tonavigate out of the flood aspedestrians waded throughcalf-high water. Dramaticnews helicopter videoshowed a 40-foot sailboatbattered by angry surf andwhitewash. Several peopleand a dog on board hadbeen rescued shortly beforethe water smashed every-

thing into pieces, accordingto KABC-TV.

One seasoned lifeguardhad been transported tothe hospital earlier aftermaking back-to-back res-cues, Halphide said. Afterthe first rescue, the guardimmediately went back outand had to take anotherperson through the pier,where waves six to eightfeet tall were poundingagainst the pillars.

“By the time he got thevictim to the shore, he wasso exhausted and justabout collapsed,” Halphidesaid.

“Seriously folks, pleaseplease please be carefularound the water thisweekend,” Newport BeachMayor Will O’Neill wrote onTwitter, along with photosof the shattered sailboatwashing ashore. “Weweren’t kidding when wesaid this weekend posedpublic safety concerns.”

O’Neill said on Facebookthat Newport Beach is pre-paring for the next tide.

“Public works crewworked throughout thenight and continue to worktoday with bulldozers to

build the berms back up,”O’Neill said. “I am confi-dent that you have morequestions as we head intoan expected higher surf andhigher tide tonight. I cansay right now that our pub-lic works department isworking very hard rightnow.”

By Saturday morning,sand dozers greeted beach-goers and those who cameto gawk at the scene. Anumber of cars were stillstuck in the mud, andheavy machinery roaredand beeped as crewsscrambled to build a muchbigger sand berm. Theflooding had also dumpeda large amount of trash anddebris that officials saidmay take up to a week toclean up.

Tita Jaramilla, dressedhead to toe in red, whiteand blue, jogged by withthree friends and greetedfolks with smiles and a spir-ited “Happy Fourth!” Everyyear, she and her friendscelebrate the holiday some-how, and this year was nodifferent.

With so much going onand large gatherings and

events canceled due toCOVID-19 concerns, shesaid, “We thought we’dhave our own little paradethis year.”

They had planned to runsix miles, a July 4 10K, butthe flooding had forcedthem to reroute and run anadditional six, almost sevenmiles. She was a little out ofbreath by mile 13, but saidspending the morning thisway meant a lot to her.

“The way our society is,with everything so upsidedown, I think people haveforgotten how much theylove our country,” she said.“I haven’t. I come from amilitary family. My dadfought in Vietnam and hemade sure we have thefreedoms that we havenow.… We’re not going tonot celebrate today.”

As for Ogilvie, he spentmuch of the Fourth of Julysearching for sand bags andmoving mud and debrisout of his yard and drive-way. His house was sparedfrom the water, he said, buthis neighbor’s home acrossthe street sits on lowerground and had about aninch of water inside.

He recalled waiting forthe city to come help pumpout the flood, as he and hisneighbors stayed up lateand tried to clean up themess.

“The first pump theybrought was not bigenough, they had to get an-other pump, and then atsome point they just rode itout, praying, hoping thatthe waves would stop com-ing and that the tide wouldgo back down and theycould open the drains backup so that water woulddrain to the ocean.”

Ogilvie watched thecleanup and constructioncrews Saturday morningand said he hoped the big-ger sand berm would becompleted in time.

“They need to pile upsand and create a wall, abarrier, so when the wavescrash, and they come in,the water can’t breach overand go to the soccer field,”he said. “Once it crossesover and goes to the soccerfield, we’re hosed.”

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or recreational team sports,therefore those activitiesare not allowed at thistime,” the email read.

Nearby HuntingtonBeach Union High SchoolDistrict spokeswomanCheryl McKenzie con-firmed Tuesday no planshad yet been made to offersummer athletics. Edison,Fountain Valley, Hunting-ton Beach, Marina, OceanView and Westminster highschools are part of the dis-trict.

At Costa Mesa’s EstanciaHigh School, athletic direc-tor Nate Goellrich saidabout 75% of the teams oncampus — which comprisemore than 500 students —had been trained andbriefed and were ready togo when news of the post-ponement broke.

“We had plenty ofcleaning supplies providedby the district, we all hadhand sanitizer — we feltpretty confident we’d have asmooth operation,” he said,describing small workoutgroups and a deep cleaning

regimen.“Putting a pause on it is

gut-wrenching, but I under-stand why it happened.”

One silver lining, Goell-rich said, is that the school’spreparation will put it at anadvantage whenever thestate guidelines for schoolsports are developed.

“Now we’re in a primeposition to start once wehave a green light. We al-ready have a plan, so I feelwe’re ahead of the curveand ready to start,” he said.

Costa Mesa High SchoolPrincipal Jake Haley saidmost coaches and athleticstaff were trained on Thurs-day to implement the newprotocol this week.

Athletes were to be bro-ken into smaller cohortgroups to limit exposureand a strict regimen hadbeen developed.

The campus was plan-ning to hold water polopractice on Monday at6 a.m. and then bring thecheer and football teams tothe field on Tuesday whenword came from the districtover the weekend to holdoff for now.

“Every sport submitted aplan to us of what their

safety plans were going tolook like. Then the informa-tion changed,” Haley said.“I think pressing pause wasthe right thing to do — weall want a return to athlet-ics, but we need to makesure we’re going about it tohave all the accurate infor-mation we can to go aheadsafely.”

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MUSTANGFIELD at CostaMesaHigh School, where Principal JakeHaley saidmost coachesand athletic staff were trained onThursday to implement the newprotocol thisweek.

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asked to relieve any otherjurisdictions, according toan agency spokesman.

The change in OrangeCounty’s three-day aver-age of total hospitalizedpatients was 10.6% as ofTuesday, easing backtoward the 10% statethreshold that would indi-cate short-term stability.

The three-day hospital-ization rate is one of thekey metrics the CaliforniaDepartment of PublicHealth is tracking as it de-termines which countiesmight have to go back intosome level of lockdown —as already seen on July 1,when Gov. Gavin Newsomcalled for the renewed clo-sure of indoor restaurantdining rooms and all barsfor at least three weeks inOrange County, amongseveral other counties.

Other state metrics, test-ing positivity and ICU andventilator capacity, weremixed. Testing positivity— the percentage of teststhat return positive — was

at a record-high 14.2% asof Tuesday, well above thestate’s 8% threshold thatOrange County hasn’t metsince June 25. But 40% ofICU beds and 67% of ven-tilators were still availablein the area Tuesday, wellwithin the state-definedminimums of 20% ICU ca-pacity and 25% ventilatoravailability.

Also on Tuesday, thecounty reported 1,010 newconfirmed cases ofCOVID-19, its secondstraight day of 1,000-plusnew cases. Agency spokes-woman Jessica Good con-firmed that both of thesedaily updates showedcommunity transmissionof COVID-19 and did notrepresent a backlog in re-porting by the state, whichhas explained sharp peaksin the recent past.

Orange County has nowrecorded 18,892 cumula-tive positive tests forCOVID-19. Of those, 8,867cases are estimated tohave recovered.

An additional 8,037 testswere reported Tuesday,bringing that total to278,696. The county also

reported three newCOVID-19 related deathsTuesday, bringing total fa-talities to 369. Of those, 191have been nursing homepatients.

Here are the latest cu-mulative case counts anddeaths for select cities:

• Santa Ana: 3,711 cases;98 deaths

• Anaheim: 3,425 cases;91 deaths

• Huntington Beach: 921cases; 40 deaths

• Irvine: 593 cases; fivedeaths

• Costa Mesa: 554 cases;three deaths

• Newport Beach: 451cases; two deaths

• Fountain Valley: 167cases; six deaths

• Laguna Beach: 78cases; fewer than fivedeaths

Updated figures areposted daily at occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/coronavirus-in-oc.

For information on get-ting tested, visit occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/covid-19-testing.

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingentcreditors, and persons who may otherwise be interestedin the will or estate, or both, of: NORMAN LIEUA PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed byJENNIER A. LIEU in the Superior Court of California,County of ORANGE.THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests thatJENNIFER A. LIEU be appointed as personalrepresentative to administer the estate of the decedent.THE PETITION requests authority to administer theestate under the Independent Administration of EstatesAct with full authority . (This authority will allow thepersonal representative to take many actions withoutobtaining court approval. Before taking certain veryimportant actions, however, the personal representativewill be required to give notice to interested personsunless they have waived notice or consented to theproposed action.) The independent administrationauthority will be granted unless an interested personfiles an objection to the petition and shows good causewhy the court should not grant the authority.A HEARING on the petition will be held on07/23/2020 at 2:00PM in Dept. C06 located at 700CIVIC CENTER DRIVE WEST SANTA ANA CA92701 CENTRAL JUSTICE CENTER.Notice in Probate Cases(1) You must attend the hearing by video remoteusing Microsoft Teams; (2) Go to the Court'swebsite at http://www.occourts.org/media-relations/probate-mental-health.html to appear forprobate hearings; and for remote hearinginstructions; (3) If you have difficulty connecting toyour remote hearing, call 657-622-2878 forassistance.IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, youshould appear at the hearing and state your objectionsor file written objections with the court before thehearing. Your appearance may be in person or by yourattorney.IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditorof the decedent, you must file your claim with the courtand mail a copy to the personal representativeappointed by the court within the later of either (1) fourmonths from the date of first issuance of letters to ageneral personal representative, as defined in section58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 daysfrom the date of mailing or personal delivery to you ofa notice under section 9052 of the California ProbateCode. Other California statutes and legal authority mayaffect your rights as a creditor. You may want toconsult with an attorney knowledgeable in Californialaw.YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. Ifyou are a person interested in the estate, you may filewith the court a formal Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estateassets or of any petition or account as provided inProbate Code section 1250. A Request for SpecialNotice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for Petitioner:JASON MURAI (245887)21250 HAWTHORNE BLVD. #700TORRANCE, CA 90503 Telephone: (310) 776-56047/1, 7/2, 7/8/20CNS-3375917#DAILY PILOT

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T.S. No. 048289-CA APN: 151-105-07 NOTICE OFTRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TOPROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULTUNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 2/17/2006.UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECTYOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT APUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATIONOF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGAGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT ALAWYER On 7/23/2020 at 9:00 AM, CLEAR RECONCORP., as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant toDeed of Trust recorded 4/13/2006 as Instrument No.2006000247890 of Official Records in the office of theCounty Recorder of Orange County, State ofCALIFORNIA executed by: DOLORES BORUNDA,A MARRIED WOMAN AS HER SOLE ANDSEPARATE PROPERTY WILL SELL AT PUBLICAUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH,CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE ORNATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY ASTATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR ACHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERALSAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGSASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIEDIN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODEAND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THISSTATE: ON THE FRONT STEPS TO THEENTRANCE OF THE ORANGE CIVIC CENTER,300 E. CHAPMAN, ORANGE, CA 92866 all right,title and interest conveyed to and now held by it undersaid Deed of Trust in the property situated in saidCounty and State described as: LOT 76 OF TRACTNO. 6104, AS SHOWN ON A MAP RECORDED INBOOK 222, PAGES 25, 26 AND 27 OFMISCELLANEOUS MAPS, RECORDS OF ORANGECOUNTY, CALIFORNIA. EXCEPTINGSUBSURFACE WATER RIGHTS, AS DEDICATEDTO THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH THEMAP OF SAID TRACT. The street address and othercommon designation, if any, of the real propertydescribed above is purported to be: 8452 SNOWBIRDDR HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92646-6123 Theundersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for anyincorrectness of the street address and other commondesignation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will beheld, but without covenant or warranty, express orimplied, regarding title, possession, condition, orencumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses ofthe Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed ofTrust, to pay the remaining principal sums of thenote(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The totalamount of the unpaid balance of the obligation securedby the property to be sold and reasonable estimatedcosts, expenses and advances at the time of the initialpublication of the Notice of Sale is: $789,597.50 If theTrustee is unable to convey title for any reason, thesuccessful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall bethe return of monies paid to the Trustee, and thesuccessful bidder shall have no further recourse. Thebeneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretoforeexecuted and delivered to the undersigned a writtenDeclaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and awritten Notice of Default and Election to Sell. Theundersigned or its predecessor caused said Notice ofDefault and Election to Sell to be recorded in thecounty where the real property is located. NOTICE TOPOTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are consideringbidding on this property lien, you should understandthat there are risks involved in bidding at a trusteeauction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on theproperty itself. Placing the highest bid at a trusteeauction does not automatically entitle you to free andclear ownership of the property. You should also beaware that the lien being auctioned off may be a juniorlien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you areor may be responsible for paying off all liens senior tothe lien being auctioned off, before you can receiveclear title to the property. You are encouraged toinvestigate the existence, priority, and size ofoutstanding liens that may exist on this property bycontacting the county recorder's office or a titleinsurance company, either of which may charge you afee for this information. If you consult either of theseresources, you should be aware that the same lendermay hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust onthe property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: Thesale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponedone or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary,trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of theCalifornia Civil Code. The law requires thatinformation about trustee sale postponements be madeavailable to you and to the public, as a courtesy to thosenot present at the sale. If you wish to learn whetheryour sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable,the rescheduled time and date for the sale of thisproperty, you may call (844) 477-7869 or visit thisInternet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, usingthe file number assigned to this case 048289-CA.Information about postponements that are very short induration or that occur close in time to the scheduledsale may not immediately be reflected in the telephoneinformation or on the Internet Web site. The best wayto verify postponement information is to attend thescheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844)477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP. 4375 Jutland DriveSan Diego, California 92117

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