🌱 Park View School Demolition + Sex Offender Re-Offends?

Happy Saturday, Huntington Beach; today is Epilepsy Awareness Day (also known as Purple Day)! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started off right.

The former Park View School will become a green space. Also, did a registered sex offender re-offend? Finally, a racially motivated threat earns a man a 68-day sentence.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 69 Low: 56.

Here are the top five stories in Huntington Beach today:

1. On Friday morning, the Ocean View School District hosted a demolition ceremony for Park View School. Located at 16666 Tunstall Lane, the “K-8 school educated thousands of students between 1969- 1989. After the school closed in 1989, it was leased to the Huntington Beach Union High School District as an Adult Education and Independent Study School, but has been vacant since 2009.” The site will be turned into a green space. (OC Breeze)
2. A registered sex offender “is accused of exposing himself to three victims in Newport Beach on Monday.” In 2016, he was “convicted of exposing himself in the children's section of a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Huntington Beach.” The man is now “charged with indecent exposure with a prior conviction, a transient failing to register annually with authorities, both felonies, and misdemeanor counts of lewd conduct in a public place and possession of drug paraphernalia.” (NBC)
3. On Thursday, a man pleaded guilty “to a racially motivated threat with a stun gun.” The incident happened on February 19, when the 42-year-old Black man brandished the gun at a 54-year-old white man while commenting on the latter’s race. He “was immediately sentenced to 68 days in jail, or credit for time served behind bars.” “As part of the plea deal, a felony count of violation of civil rights with violent injury and a misdemeanor count of possessing a stun gun with a prior conviction were dismissed.” (Daily Pilot)
4. The HBPD announced Thursday that it will conduct a DUI checkpoint on Saturday from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. As is typical, the OD would not release the actual location. However, these venues are “chosen based on a history of DUI crashes and arrests.” (HBPD)
5. The Kinder Caminata at Santa Ana College took place on Friday. It introduced more than 1,000 kindergarten students to the concept of higher education. There was also the “‘Si Se Puede’ march around Santa Ana College, a nod to civil rights and labor movement activist Cesar Chavez.” (ABC)

Today in Huntington Beach:

• Surfrider Foundation Channel Cleanup at 10449 Adams Ave (8:30 AM)
• California’s Strongest Man 2022 at 21291 Pacific Coast Hwy (9:30 AM)
• The ‘Sound Burned’ House Music Beach Party at the Huntington Beach House (11:30 AM)
• Lions Crabfest at the Huntington Beach Senior Center (4 PM)
• Royale Comedy at The Rec Room by Off The Wall (10 PM)

From my notebook:

• Our Lochlea Lane neighbor is missing their cat. He’s gray with white paws, skittish, can be vocal. Did you see it? (Nextdoor)

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— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.