CHRIS MACDONALD NEWS January 3, 2021

2021 Newsletters

More 2021 Huntington Beach Happenings

Hello Friends,

A Very Happy New Year (2021) to all of You. As Senior Pastor Joe Pedick at Calvary Chapel of The Harbour in Sunset Beach Said: There is Hope For 2021. My Hope is that We can have Hope going forward with God. As he quotes The Bible Verse Romans 5:5 - Hope does not disappoint because the love of God is poured out in our Hearts by the holy spirit who was given to us. Hope means an expectation of Good!

Happy Birthday to Huntington Beach Realtor Lea Wooten.

From Barbara Delgleize, Huntington Beach City Councilwoman: Hope your Christmas & Holidays were merry…

The Order includes Orange County cities and prohibits private gatherings except for critical infrastructure and retail, and requires 100% masking and physical distancing in all others.

For any concerns or questions you may have I direct you to our HBReady.com site which has lots of information that you made need at this time.

Some important events coming our way: ON Monday, January 4th the 3rd block of Main Street will reopen to vehicle traffic. Business owners are inviting you down. On Tuesday, January 5th your City Council will be holding their Strategic Planning & Goal Setting meeting of 2021 at the HB Library via zoom. The public is welcome to attend more information will be forth coming on how to join.

It is with great sadness that I share with you the passing of a very special HB Treasure Daniel Patton "DanoLive" on Christmas day in a terrible car accident. In Dano's tribute, on Wednesday, January 6th at 4pm Surf City Classics, in conjunction with the Kowabunga Van Clan will be hosting a memorial for Dano at Lake Park so feel free to stop by and share your respects.

Update on Homeless In Huntington Beach on January 13th, Wednesday evening at. 5:30pm our City Manager, Oliver Chi, will be giving our residents an update on our new Navigation Center that opened just last month. Our Chief of Police Julian Harvey, and representatives from Mercy House will be on the call to share the policies and practices what's working and what still need some fine tuning. It will be a Zoom Call more information to follow.

Please join us for our next Huntington Beach City Council meeting on Tuesday, January 19th with a study session starting at 4pm. Lastly, I personally would like wish our entire community a Happy New Year in 2021. While we all know that 2020 has been a challenging and difficult year for many may we share collectively with gratitude that we live in Huntington Beach and may the New Year bring more happiness and joy…

From Patrick Brenden, CEO for the Bolsa Chica Conservancy... We live in interesting times. Everything is changing, all around us. Politically, socially, economically, 2020 has stretched us to our limits. But there is at least one thing that hasn't changed and that is our community's collective love for the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. And, despite all of the challenges thrust upon us this year by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Conservancy has continued to provide stewardship and public engagement for thousands of visitors. The trails at Bolsa Chica offer an opportunity to immerse oneself in nature, where beauty abounds. With the rise and fall of the tides, the sun and the stars each day, something new is revealed to the alert visitor. I invite you to explore this wonderful place in the new year and discover for yourself the restorative powers of nature. Please stop at the Interpretive Center to pick up a free trail map. Happy New Year!

Huntington Beach City Historian Jerry Person presents Remembering When

Celebrating the New Year Seventy-five years ago

Say hello to 2021 and the hope it will bring good fortune and happiness to our citizens of Surf City USA.
But because of the Coronavirus COVID-19 we can't celebrate the new year as we have done in other years. I know some people will try too, and some of those will maybe even find themselves in a hospital bed with the virus, so instead lets turn the calendar back seventy-five years ago and enjoy reading about how our residents celebrated their virus-free New Year's holiday in 1946.

If there were ever a New Years to celebrate it would be the one of 1946. World War II had ended, rationing of meat, sugar, gasoline, tires, etc. was nearly over and the best news was our servicemen were returning home to friends and family.

But not everyone of our Huntington Beach residents who served in the military were able to return home for the holidays, some had to celebrate the coming new year in some far-off land.

Huntington Beach serviceman Bud Galvin had to contend with celebrating his New Year's Day in far off New Guinea where he was stationed in the Army Air Corps at Biak.

Woody Kemp's New Year's wish that year was to get off Saipan and back home with his family in Huntington Beach.

Also stationed in the Pacific were Lawrence Mollica, Jack Jenkins and Elton Barnes, all good Huntington Beach boys who celebraed their New Year there.

Bill Pitts and Ernie Lynn were too busy to be able to enjoy their New Year holiday, as they were kept busy with military duties.

While back home in Huntington Beach Nettie Peebles surprised her daughter Nadine on her 20th birthday by getting up early and baking her an angel food cake for breakfast.

Main Street businesswoman Eve Druxman who owned Eve Druxman womens clothing store at 113 Main Street celebrated her New Year's Eve in Hollywood in the company of movie actresses Joan Leslie and Alexis Smith.

The new year saw Martha White elected president of the Starlite Club and Huntington Beach postal clerk Barnett Medford preparing for his upcoming marriage to Marjorie Hanson on January 24th.

Marjorie graduated from Huntington High and worked in the Standard Market's soda fountain and her soon to be husband Barnett would be coming home recovering from being wounded at D-Day in Normandy.

Longtime baker John Eader and his wife Minnie had a lot to celebrate that year, their son Howard came home after serving in the Army in England and France.

Standard Oil Company's repairman Lawrence Burdick and his wife Kathryn were able to spend their holiday with their son Frank here at home. Frank had been able to obtain a leave from Alaska to be with his family.

Herb Day had to return to base in Dalhart, Texas to get his discharge from the Army Air Corps., but he was still able to spend ten days with his wife Millie and daughter Hollie at their home at 515 1/2 Tenth Street.

Jake Steidinger said "I Do" to Betty Jean Cropsey in a double ring ceremony on December 29th so they could be able to spend their first New Year's Day together as husband and wife.

Huntington Beach Police Chief Don Blossom engaged Hazel Allen to cater a farewell retirement dinner for police officer Jack Tinsley. Tinsley had been a 25-year veteran on our police force.

William and Margaret Cookerley's daughter Frances attained the rank of Captain in the Army. She was in charge of arranging camp shows for the troops in the South Pacific and as dramatic director she would act as hostess at formal receptions and also would act in camp plays and do a little tap dancing for the GIs too.

The Plumlees held a family reunion at Lake Park clubhouse that included several members of the Plumlee clan at a buffet-style luncheon that included at the buffet table were Tom and Florence Wyllie and their daughter Judith.

Roy K. Smith and Hazel Ranney helped deliver a nine-pound baby boy to Jane Ranney Hollen in Smith's ambulance at the corner of Beach Blvd. and Lincoln Street on December 30th.

Lloyd and Zelpha Dye also became parents on December 30th., when their seven pound, twelve ounce daughter was born.

Over at the First Baptist church, Reverend Luther A. Arthur joined Elizabeth McCoy and Carl Kutter in holy matrimony.

Phyllis Laue was honored as she became queen of Job's Daughters in a ceremony that included Shirley Moore, Barbara Ries, Kathryn Achey, Ardeth Frederick, Nancy Wilson and Betty McCubbin.

The Blue Star Mothers baked and packaged 100 dozen cookies and sent them along with a box of apples, a box of grapes and two boxes of oranges to the wounded boys at the Long Beach Navy Hospital. Baking those cookies were Pearl Elliott, Myrtle Hermann, May Olsen and Ruth Paxson.

Vell Duvall and Perry Tunstall spent their day at home and Leland Pitts would spent his New Year's Day at home waiting for orders to report for duty.

Shirley Tayloe and Leonard Van den Bergh got engaged in that wonderful new year of 1946.

These events would be repeated throughout Orange County and in every city and town across America as the echoes of war gently faded into history. Little would they know that in four years many of our sons and daughters would again leave our hometown to serve in the military only this time to fight in Korea.

You can always E-Mail Jerry Your History Questions at: hbnews@hbquik.com .

Many Thanks for reading this Newsletter,

Chris MacDonald

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