NEWS FROM THE COMMUNITY

Filipino chain debuts in Anaheim Jolibee, the largest fastfood chain in the Philippines, has opened its first Orange County location in Anaheim featuring its infamous Chickey fried chicken. The chicken is our banner pr" said Maribeth Oela Cruz, head of West Coast operations for Jollibee. On Friday, Oela Cruz joined other top Jollibee executives, staff employees and city officials in a blessing ceremony for the Anaheim location. The restaurant and drive-through took over the space occupied for years by Chris and Pitts at 601N. Euclid St. Also opening is the company s equally famous bake shop dubbed Red Ribbon, which specializes in Filipino pastries and cakes. The hottest-selling items are the ube (purple yam) and mang cakes. It is the first Red Ribbon to open in Crange County and the 37th to open in the United States. Red Ribbon and Jollibee are connected, but have separate entrances. Roughly 670 Jollibee restaurants operate worldwide, with a bulk of the units in the Philippines. The Anaheim Jollibee is the 26th to open in the country. Manila based Jollibee Foods CJorp., whose West Coast headquarters are in the City of Industry, has plans to grow the Jollibee brand by 50 percent over the next five yid. -Nancy Lima Native Americans to city: Don't kill coyotes Upset that residents had hired a trapper who snagged a coyote that was euthanized, animai-nghts activists and Native American leaders pleaded with the City Council last week to forbid the killing of coyotes. The city took no action, but their efforts are paying off when it comes to persuading Edison International officials to disallow traps on their nursery properties where the coyotes live. Edison officials, who gave a private trapper permission to set up on a nursery near Stonybrook Drive and Dale Street, has ordered the traps removal. Members of Native American tribes from San Bernardino County, who have been fighting similar trapping efforts in Arcadia and other cities, caravanned to the Anaheim council meeting. We want Anaheim and all of Orange County to know that we have lived in harmony with coyotes and other wildlife for generations, and killing coyotes with poison, traps or CPS devices is unfair and upsets the balance of n" said Randal Massaro of Victorville, a representative for Union Members for Preservation of Wildlife Worldwide. Massaro describes his an luiderground movement of union members trying to protect nature. I am here " said Apache Daklugie Running-Hawk, who said he is a spiritual leader for the Tarasco Nation band of Indians and is based in Lucerne Valley. These are our four-legged friends, and this is their" he said. Now they are' trying to drive them out, like they drove us (Native Americans) out generations ago. We need to live among them and learn from them. Running-Hawk played a song on a Native-American wood flute in a show of " during his comments before the council. Anaheim residents recently hired a trapper in west Anaheim after more than a dozen cats and small dogs were reported missing or killed by coyotes. On Sept. 10, OC Animal Care officers responded to a trapped adult coyote in distress and euthanized it. Residents supporting trapping coyotes said they only want to relocate the coyotes - not kill them. But state Department of Fish and Game officials said if coyotes are trapped, they must be euthanized; state law prohibits relocation. Erk Carpenter Pot ban vetoed by governor Anaheim officials are criticizing Gov. Jerry Brown s recent decision to veto Senate Bill 847, which would have barred medical-maryuana dispensaries from within 600 feet of residential properties. Anaheim has been fighting dispensaries in court; an additional concern arose last month when a dispensary opened on a residential street near the police station. Medical maryuana dispensaries do not belong in residential ne" Mayor Tom Tait said. (3ov. Brown s veto puts cities such as Anaheim in difficult positions in how to protect our residents from the documented negative secondary effects of medical marguana. 2.300 'adopted' Marines welcomed home After seven months at sea, nearly 2.300 members of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived on the beach of Camp Pendleton last week to tearful hugs firm wives and to wide-eyed grins from babies born while they were away. They also arrived to homemade muffins from Anaheim. Among the family members and well-wishers crowded on the beach to welcome home the three boatloads of Marines was an Anaheim grandmother, a nurse, a retired Marine and a handful of others from Orange County who have adopted the 13th MEU. I am so thankful to be home, to see my family again and be able to thank all the peo" . Their support is so great, it reminds us of why we do what " Quin said, l live city of Anaheim seems like such a wonderftul place; we might consider living there some day. Carolyn Walters, who leads the Anaheim conunittee, dressed in red, white and blue and welcomed home the Marines with big hugs as if they were her own sons and daughters. She pursued the idea of adopting thfc Marine unit four years ago while her own son, Derek, a Marine sergeant, was deployed