Anaheim over the years

by Ray Sanford

Anaheim native Steve Faessel gave a fascinating history of Anaheim and Orange County, complete with photos of the early years.

Faessel served on the Orange County Historical Commission until June 2006. Faessel served on the Commission’s Editorial Board for the republishing of the Orange County history, 100 Years of Yesterdays. He has served as the Commission’s Chair for the 2000 and 2001 terms.

He is a volunteer researcher for the Anaheim Public Library in the Elizabeth Schultz Local History Room. In addition to being the Anaheim Public Utility Department’s unofficial Historian, he has written a number of articles on Anaheim including his recently published illustrated local history books for Arcadia Publishing, Early Anaheim, and Anaheim: 1940-2007. In addition to these, Faessel recently completed a large format illustrated history of Anaheim for Turner Publishing: Historic Photos of Anaheim. A new small-format book for Turner Publishing: Recalling Anaheim has just been published.

The two Tony(i)s

Tony Murcia gave up his red badge this week in exchange for a blue one from Toni Thomas.

Congratulations, Tony

Haiti Clinic

By Ray Sanford

The program this week was about the Dental Care for Children project in Haiti. Rotarian Austin Wall, DDS and Chuck Tozzer, DDS traveled to Les Cayes, Haiti to hold a dental clinic for orphaned children.

You can see the photos here.

Irvine Dental Screenings

By Ray Sanford

The Irvine Dental Screenings project went off without a hitch on Saturday.

We set a new record. We saw 126 kids — 40% more than last year!

Dr. Tozzer and Dr. Wall were both from Dental Care for Children and have participated every year since the inception of this program. Amazingly, they'd just returned from doing several clinics in Haiti! 

You can learn more about the work Dental Care for Children does at  http://www.dentalcareforchildren.org

The Assisteens, as usual, were organized, efficient and in control. Kudos to Tricia and Lizzie, who planned, scheduled and trained the young women so well there were no hiccups. Great work!

Our veteran school nurses had everything ready to go and kept all the forms, kids and parents organized. I'm sure it was like herding cats at times, but it never showed.

School Board member Dr. Gavin Huntley-Fenner dropped by for a visit so we put him to work being a dental assistant to Dr. Tozzer. It's no wonder the IUSD runs so well with people like Gavin on the board.

Goodies and coffee were provided by Todd Wardlaw at The Corner Bakery in The Marketplace. Many thanks for their continued support. Please patronize Corner Bakery and let them know how much you appreciate their support.

Photos of the event are here.