Former Angels star and Hall of Famer Rod Carew, who was born in Panama, celebrates after taking the Oath of Allegiance to become a U.S. Citizen in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Maude keeps control of her skateboard while cruising during the World K9 Sk8 Competition in Huntington Beach on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Surfer Jamie O’Brien reacts after putting his name and prints in concrete during the induction ceremony for the Surfers’ Hall of Fame in front of Huntington Surf & Sport in Huntington Beach, CA on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. O’Brien started as a pro surfer but found success searching out waves and making films and video segments about his journeys. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A cannon fires during the battle at the 31st annual Civil War Days held at Huntington Beach Central Park in Huntington Beach on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. The event continues on Sunday, September 1, 2024.(Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kailey Yang, 12, reacts as 3-year-old Scarlet Esquivel helps bury her in the sand as they enjoy the last days of summer at Newport Dunes in Newport Beach on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. For Kailey summer break ended when she returned to school recently. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Yer Fisher, left, takes a photo of her son, Lucian Fisher, center, a first grader, along with College View Elementary School Principal Allen Mendrin, right, behind a school bus prop on the first day of school on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, in Huntington Beach. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A dog gets some air as it cruises up Pacific Coast Highway in Seal Beach, CA, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cali Hatton sits on the ledge of the Buckets of Fun game as she plays at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The M Street Band prepares to play at the Huntington Beach Elks Lodge on Saturday night, Aug. 17, 2024. They are from left: Debbie Johnson, Mark Johnson, Brian Lynch, Dave Stretch, and Ed Means. The band played on Spaghetti Night, Aug. 23, 2023, at Cook’s Corner when three people were killed and four others injured in a shooting. Bassist Dave Stretch was shot in the hip and guitarist Ed Means was shot in the arm. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Officials rejoice during the reopening of Ronald McDonald House OC on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 in Orange. The $15.7 million expansion and rennovation project has increased capaity to 44 guest rooms. Celebrating are Executive Director Noel Burcelis, from left, Charles Antis, Soutthern California CEO Fatima Djelmane Rodriguez, Katie Rucker, and Fran and Fred Hill, who started the charity 50 years ago when their daughter was sick. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Alec Bradbury, a family nurse practitioner, is reflected in a side mirror of CalOptima’s new outreach van in Costa Mesa on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. Each van will have a FNP, a liscensed vocational nurse, and a mental health specialist to provide care to the unhoused community. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Paisley Zurbuchen, 6, goes heels-over-head as she waits outside Villa Park Elementary for the first day of first grade to begin on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A surfer uses his head while competing in the wacky Red Bull Foam Wreckers alternative contest in San Clemente on..Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lisa Albrecht of San Diego poses for photographs during the 31st annual Civil War Days held at Huntington Beach Central Park in Huntington Beach on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. The event continues on Sunday, September 1, 2024.(Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Young adults with Down syndrome hit the dance floor at the “End of Summer” party at the Danish Lutheran Church in Yorba Linda on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Valorie Bailey-Denton, right, of Bailey-Denton Photography in Garden Grove, takes a portrait of a soldier during the 31st annual Civil War Days held at Huntington Beach Central Park in Huntington Beach on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. The event continues on Sunday, September 1, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
With guns drawn, federal agents execute a search warrant at the home of Peter Pham in Garden Grove on Thursday morning, Aug. 22, 2024. Federal agents also executed a search warrant at the home of Rhiannon Do, daughter of Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do, in Tustin. They are accused in a county lawsuit of embezzling millions of dollars in COVID relief funds meant to feed the elderly. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A super blue moon rises over Saddleback Mountain as seen from Orange, CA on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. A superman occurs when the full moon is at its closest point to earth in its orbit. A seasonal blue moon is when there are four full moons in a season (spring, summer, fall and winter), according to NASA.gov. The third fun moon in a season with four is called a blue moon. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Traffic on The 57 Freeway south of The 91 Freeway in Anaheim, CA, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Leah Turner, 13, left, best friend of Sailor Jones, supported by her mother Vanessa, right, has she gives a emotional statement in support of Sailor before members of the school board during a LBUSD board meeting at Thurston Middle School in Laguna Beach on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Members of the Peer Assistance Leadership group welcome students to the first day of school as they arrive at Del Cerro Elementary School in Mission Viejo early on Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Bowie McBride greets his teacher Jennifer Pine on the first day of kindergarten at Moulton Elementary School in Laguna Niguel, CA on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Salvador Andres and his daughter Cesia fist bump before she heads to her first day of transitional kindergarten on the first day of class at Price Elementary School in Anaheim, CA on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Julia Kelly dances with her boyfriend Spencer Brown during a dance for young adults with Down syndrome at the “End of Summer” party the Danish Lutheran Church in Yorba Linda on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Brea Police Sgt. Edgar Padilla displays his tattoos..in Brea on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. The Brea Police Department launched a pilot program that allows uniformed officers to show their tattoos, with an overwhelming majority of officers voting in favor of the policy. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Marlen Monzon, left, takes a photo of her daughter, Eleyni, 6, a first grade student, in front of the welcome display on the first day of school at Del Cerro Elementary School in Mission Viejo early on Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Angie Solis holds daughter April as she gives a good-bye hug to her other daughter Camila during the first day of class at Eisenhower Elementary School in Garden Grove, CA on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Sally Fitzgibbons shows off the Woman of the Year award during the induction ceremony for the Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, left, talks about his book Over Ruled, The Human Toll of Too Much Law, with Richard Nixon Foundation President and CEO Jim Byron, at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, CA on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Sailor Jones, top, is embraced by her sisters and others following a LBUSD board meeting at Thurston Middle School in Laguna Beach on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Swimmers workout in the pool at the Ole Hanson Beach Club in San Clemente, CA, on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jarvis Earle of Australia gets some air as he surfs in the Round of 32 of the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. Earle advance to the Round of 16. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Junior lifeguard instructor Elizabeth “Lizzie” Lovat, right, gets a hug from junior lifeguard Juliana Akoubian as she is honored for helping to save Lovat’s life in Huntington Beach, CA, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. Lovat went bodysurf during her break last summer, her head hitting a sandbar – her body went limp and was left paralyzed from the injury. Akoubian helped rescue her as she lay motionless in the ocean. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Firefighters responded to a business fire in the 1200 block of South State College Boulevard in Anaheim, CA on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cook’s Corner in Silverado on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024 is a popular biker bar and restaurant. Aug. 23 will mark the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Cook’s Corner that killed three people and wounded six before responding Orange County Sheriff Deputies shot and killed the gunman, 59-year-old ex-Ventura police officer John Snowling. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Alan Cleland Jr. rejoices on his board after winning the men’s US Open of Surfing finals in Huntington Beach on..Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. He became the first to win the event for Mexico after squeezing out the victory over Marco Mignot of France. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Fair goers Brittney Ocampo, 9, left, takes photos of her mother on a ride as she sits with her aunt, Ana Almanzo, both of Costa Mesa, as they sit next to one of the many games on the midway at the OC Fair in Costa Mesa on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Peter Tran, dressed as Jin Lee from Red Panda, waits to get into D23 in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. The Disney fan fest runs from Aug. 9 to 11. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Orange County Sheriff Deputies, from left, Brandon Espinosa, Jesse Carrasco and Juan Contreras are shown at Cooks Corner in Silverado on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. The deputies were the first to respond to the mass shooting at the popular biker bar and restaurant. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Pasquale Celella rolls a ball at the bocce courts in Murdy Park in Huntington Beach, CA, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
An aircraft flies low over the water just off the beach during day one of the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Crean Lutheran football players clockwise from bottom left: Ben Byszewski (1), Mason McCullough (13), Taurian Nash, (5), Caden Jones (3), Carter Jones (9), Tyler Parker (99) and Kyler Petronis (77) in Irvine on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Its beach day a pack of 39 dogs of all breeds and sizes—the largest weighing more than 200 pounds and the smallest weighing under 10 pounds — as dog-walkers with Social Canines take a stroll through Back Bay in Newport Beach on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. From left: Madison McCormick, Chrysti Warner, and owner Parker Stanfield stroll along the bay with the well-behaved canines. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Robin Sinclair, left, Fiona Skye, center, and Marilyn Wright, cheer on a fellow Mermaid during the Newport-Mesa YMCA’s “Mermaid-a-Thon” to raise funds for the association in Newport Beach, CA, on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. A group of women at the Newport-Mesa Family YMCA call themselves “The Mermaids.”, they range in age from 55-85 years old and have been attending the Deep Water Aquafit class for decades. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Charles Antis, Co-Chair of RMHOC Capital Campaign, cheers on Jeff Bekos as he ceremonially leaves on a cross-country bike trip in Orange, CA, on Monday, July 29, 2024. Bekos is riding from California to Pennsylvania, 4,600 miles, over the next 77 days to raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities. Bekos’ trip, “One Dad’s Mission” is his way of giving back to RMHC for their help when his daughter, Hailey Bekos, was sick. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Volunteers help Teyjas Peterson around the track during an iCan Bike Camp at The Rinks in Irvine, CA on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. Forty campers with disabilities built confidence by learning to ride a bike during the week-long camp. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Officials celebrate the rennovation and expansion of the Irvine Animal Care Center with resident puppies during a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. From left: councilmember Mike Carroll, Mayor Farrah Khan, and Vice Mayor Larry Agran. The upgrades should finish in 2026 and the shelter will remain open while work is completed. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Surfer Paul Sampson greets his South Africa teammates in Huntington Beach. Sampson has overcome many obstacles in his life including homelessness, but he will be competing in the WSL US Open of Surfing. Huntington Beach is the fourth stop in the 2024 Challenger Series. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The front lobby at The Richard Nixon Library & Museum in Yorba Linda on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. Aug. 8 will mark the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Friends have their photo taken on the beach on day one of the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kaniela Stewart competes in The Huntington Beach Longboard Classic in Huntington Beach, CA, on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)