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The Huntington Beach PoliceDepartment has arrested two sus-pects and seized drugs with awholesale value of more than$1 million as part of an ongoing in-vestigation into a drug traffickingorganization based out of Mexico.
The two suspects, males ages 21and 29, were taken into custodyTuesday night in the city of Bell,Huntington Beach Police Depart-ment spokeswoman JenniferCarey said. Their names have notbeen released due to the ongoinginvestigation.
At the time of the arrest, onesuspect was in possession of 20pounds of suspected metham-phetamines, Carey said. After asearch warrant was served at thesuspect’s residence, detectives re-covered 370 more pounds of sus-pected methamphetamines, 17kilograms of suspected cocaineand fentanyl and two handguns.
HBPD detectives have been in-vestigating the drug trafficking or-ganization after learning aboutdistribution taking place in LosAngeles and Orange counties,Carey said. The investigation tookplace throughout October, leadingto the identification of multiplesuspects.
Bustnets2arrests,morethan$1MindrugsBYMATT SZABO
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Frustration has been par for thecourse for many during the co-ronavirus pandemic, and that listincludes organizers of the HoagClassic golf tournament.
The annual PGA Tour Champi-ons event was postponed indefi-nitely in January, and was notplayed in 2021.
But the tournament will beback next spring, and as good asever, organizers say.
Officials have announced thetournament, which is put on byHoag, will be played March 2-6 atNewport Beach Country Club.The total prize pool will be $2 mil-lion, the largest in the tourna-ment’s 27-year history.
“It’s important for us to contin-ue to be a leader on the Champi-ons Tour,” Hoag Classic executivedirector Jeff Purser said. “There’s alot of new players that are comingup, and we wanted to make surethat this tournament remained in
a position to be a premiere event.[The purse] was an importantstatement to make, certainly. Ithink it’s exciting for the players, Ithink it’s exciting for the tourna-ment to make the statement thatwe continue to be a leader forHoag, our sponsors, our volun-teers, our fans, for everyone in-volved.”
The Hoag Classic, formerlyknown as the Toshiba Classic, isone of the most popular PGA TourChampions events. Hale Irwin,Fred Couples and Jay Haas haveeach won it twice. Ernie Els wonthe most recent iteration inMarch 2020, just before thingsstarted shutting down due toCOVID-19.
The tournament has raisedmore than $20 million over theyears for Hoag and other chari-ties. Next year’s tournamentpromises to return Military Ap-preciation Day and Student Day.A new feature will be the HoagTechnology Showcase, where at-
tendees will be able to see the lat-est technology used for patienttreatment and recovery.
Purser said health and safetymeasures will be in place, thoughspecifics aren’t known yet with thetournament nearly four monthsaway.
“We’re continuing to monitorand gauge what’s happening atevents in California,” Purser said.“There are tiers and different lev-els of expectation for various sizeevents. We plan our operationsyear-round and adapt as neces-sary, though, even in the normalyears ... We will do what’s neces-sary to provide a safe environ-ment for everybody.”
The Hoag Classic is the fourthof 28 events on next year’s PGATour Champions calendar. Totalprize money is a record $62 mil-lion.
Volunteer registration for thetournament is now available athoagclassic.com/volunteer.
“As exciting as the professional
competition is, it’s just one aspectof what makes the Hoag Classicso special,” said Hoag Classicchairman Paul Folino in a state-ment.
“The event simply wouldn’t bepossible without the dedication of
our volunteers and the involve-ment of our sponsors. They en-sure that the Hoag Classic is atrue community event.”
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Hoag Classic tournament returning inMarch 2022 with $2-million prize pool
Drew A. Kelley
FREDCOUPLESofNewportBeachchips theball onto the18thgreenduringtheHoagClassic at theNewportBeachCountryClubonMarch8, 2020.
BYMATT SZABO
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The Newport-Mesa UnifiedSchool District is finishing upsome smaller projects around itscampuses, including the final in-stallations of scoreboards at threeof its high schools and othermaintenance as the first half ofthe school year comes to a close,according to a recent update re-leased Tuesday.
Scoreboard replacement andinstallation at Estancia’s Jim ScottStadium, Costa Mesa’s baseballand Corona del Mar’s softballfields are expected to be com-pleted before the end of this year.
Additionally, the district said its
NMUSDfinishingup projectsat schoolcampusesBY LILLY NGUYEN
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NEWPORT HARBOR GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALLSTRIKES BACK VERSUS MISSION VIEJO INSTATE PLAYOFFS PAGE A3
HUNTINGTON BEACH GIRLS’ TENNIS FALLS ATSAN MARINO IN CIF DIVISION 1 SEMIFINALSPAGE A3
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Ed Bowen recalls teaching art classes atVilla Park High School in Orange in 1967when rumors began circulating the U.S.would draft citizens to fight in Vietnam. At26, and ripe for the picking, he wasn’t tooconcerned.
Since his parents had come to Corona delMar from Canada when he was a child, hefigured his foreign residency precluded himfrom having to register for the draft. Plus, hewas working a plum job; he loved art and thekids loved him.
It wasn’t until he received a letter in themail, informing him he was to report for dutywith the U.S. Army on Nov. 28, that he real-ized how wrong he’d been.
“I had to say goodbye to the kids — mydream was shattered,” he recalled. “But, as Isay now, the Lord had other plans, and hewas to take me to the ‘ultimate assignment.’ ”
What happened next would begin an in-credible journey that would take Bowen tosome of the most perilous stages of the Viet-nam War where, armed with only a sketch-pad and pen, an Instamatic camera and aColt .45 revolver, he would fulfill a mission tocapture the conflict in pictures.
As one of 46 combat artists serving in theArmy, Bowen was on one of nine teams ofartists charged with creating field sketchesover a two-month term of service.
Artists were afterward taken to a base inHawaii and given three months to createlarger works documenting battlegrounds, vil-lages and scenes of daily life that would be-
come property of the U.S. government.Bowen, now 78, says his being reassigned
to serve as a military artist likely saved hislife. After completing basic training at FortOrd in Monterey Bay, he was slated to be ahelicopter door gunner, an assignment with
Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer
EDBOWEN, aU.S.Armycombatartist sent toVietnamin1969, still paints scenes fromVietnamathisCoronadelMarhome,whichhecalls “myart zone.”
VietnamWar combat artist stillinspired by ‘ultimate assignment’BY SARA CARDINE
See Artist, page A2
Kevin Chang | Staff Photographer.OIL PAINTINGS by Bowen at a display of veterans’ artwork at Costa Mesa's Heroes Hall.
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Power went out forthousands of SouthernCalifornia Edison cus-tomers Wednesdaymorning in the area ofNewport Boulevard and17th Street due to ablown transformer, ac-cording to law enforce-ment officials.
Costa Mesa police saidofficers monitored trafficat the intersections along17th Street and placedstop signs in the area.
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The outage initially af-fected about 3,470 cus-tomers, a number thatdeclined to 805.
The original bounda-ries of the incident wereWalnut and Doverstreets, Cape Andoverand Monrovia Avenue.
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an unusually high mortalityrate.
“We were told when wegot to the school this wasyour death sentence,” hesaid in an interview Mon-day in his Corona del Marhome.
But, when he went to testfor the position, he failedmiserably. A learning disor-der he’d managed to over-come in his studies andprofessional life appearedwith glowing clarity duringa battery of exams. Higherups began eyeing him forthe infantry, an equally haz-ardous post. A young Bow-en was scared and riddledwith doubts about his fu-ture.
That’s when a firstsergeant — who’d omi-nously greeted new soldiersby informing them theywould likely die in combatand needed to “be pre-pared to honor your countyby dying” — learned of hispenchant for art and taskedhim to sketch a helicopterbattle to see if he had anytalent.
That test he passed withflying colors. A reviewboard selected him to serveas a combat artist.
“This was a God thing,” isthe only explanation Bowenhas to offer 54 years later.“He rescued me. I would
probably be dead if itweren’t for that.”
Combat artistry datesback to at least the CivilWar, during which a youngWinslow Homer famouslytraveled and lived with sol-diers, sending sketches bymail as a war correspond-ent.
The U.S. Army began itsown combat artist programin World War I, when artistswere commissioned as cap-tains in the Corps of Engi-neers and asked to high-light the activities of theAmerican ExpeditionaryForces. Their work wouldbe delivered to the Ameri-can Smithsonian Institu-tion.
If traveling by helicopterthrough Vietnam in 1969sounds like a joyride, Bow-en will set the recordstraight. Assignments oftentook the artists to far-flunglocales engaged in fullthrottle combat.
Serving at the rank of pri-vate first class, Bowen re-
calls one night spent on arubber plantation in a met-al shack as North Viet-namese soldiers overranthe site, dropping mortarsthat shattered the walls ofhis meager refuge as troopsstampeded the perimeter.
“I really had fear. I meanfear beyond fear,” he said,describing the attack. “Ihad a pistol, a .45, not anM-16. I carried that, but Icouldn’t fire it — I was toonervous. I’m not a warrior.Plus, it was full of sand. Iwas in panic mode.”
Now, decades later, Bow-en continues to paintscenes and portraits in-spired by the photographshe took. Several are on per-petual display in his livingroom, which he calls “myart zone.”
Three are on display atthe O.C. fairgrounds’ He-roes Hall veteran museum,whose current “ThroughTheir Eyes,” exhibit features
Continued from page A1ARTIST
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EDBOWENwrote“DrawingFire:VietnamThroughthe Eyes ofa CombatArtist.”
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After being upset in the CIFSouthern Section Division 3quarterfinals a week prior, theNewport Harbor High Schoolgirls’ volleyball team was in theprocess of moving on to the nextphase of their school year.
That was the case until lastTuesday, when Newport Harborcoach Andrew Mabry called aZoom meeting to break some un-expected news: The season wasnot over.
Mabry said the Sailors receiveda berth into the CIF State South-ern California Regional Division IIplayoffs after JSerra was disquali-fied from postseason competi-tion. Mike Middlebrook, an assist-ant commissioner of the CIFSouthern Section, said JSerra self-reported an ineligible player.
On Sunday, the Sailors saw thedraw come out, and if possible,they became even more excited.The bracket pitted Newport Har-bor against Mission Viejo, the
team that knocked it out of thesection playoffs.
Senior outside hitter EmmaFults had 13 kills and five serviceaces to lead Newport Harbor pastMission Viejo 25-23, 29-27, 23-25,25-19 on Tuesday in the openinground of the state tournament.
Newport Harbor (27-8), theWave League champion and pre-viously the top seed in the Divi-sion 3 playoffs, was eliminatedfrom the section playoffs by theDiablos in a five-setter on theroad on Oct. 27.
“It’s exciting,” said senior setterKate Bland, who distributed 24assists for the Sailors. “It’s a prettyemotional roller coaster. We gotover that we lost, the season’sover, and we got right back into it.It was kind of rough starting off,but we came here to win. We werehere for revenge. You can’t get ridof us.”
Junior outside hitter QuinnPerry had nine kills, five aces andtwo block assists for NewportHarbor. Senior middle blocker
Anne O’Brien provided nine killsand four blocks. Senior outsidehitter Emma Coatsworth contrib-uted eight kills and 1½ blocks off
the bench, while senior middleblocker Gabbi Higgs and junioroutside hitter Anabel Kotzakoveach had five kills in the match.
“We took a few days off, and[Mabry] told us to get on a Zoom,
GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL
Newport Harbor strikes back vs. Mission Viejo
Don LeachStaff Photographer
ANABELKOTZAKOVof Newport Harbormakes a kill down theline during afirst-round match ofthe CIF StateSouthern CaliforniaRegional Division IIplayoffs againstMission Viejo onTuesday.
BYANDREWTURNER
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SAN MARINO — TheHuntington Beach Highdominant girls’ tennis sea-son came to a difficult endWednesday against San Mar-ino.
The Oilers fell 76-63 ongames after playing to a 9-9match score at San MarinoHigh School. The battlecame down to the final threedoubles sets to decide whowould advance to the Divi-sion 1 final.
Huntington Beach head
coach Patrick Wright saw aninspiring performance fromhis team in a match he knewwould be close.
“The entire team is a lotdeeper and a lot stronger,” hesaid. “All these matches thatwe won that were close werea team effort for the mostpart. Last year we were rely-ing on our singles to get eightor nine wins. I knew thismatch most likely was goingto end up 9-9. I was hopingwe would have the edge ingames, but we didn’t.”
The 13-game edge for No.
2-seeded San Marino (15-1)came on the back of its No. 1and No. 2 singles players,Olivia Center and TianmeiWang, who swept all six oftheir matches convincingly.
Center won 6-2, 6-0, 6-1while Wang prevailed 6-1,6-0, 6-0.
“I just try to go point bypoint,” Center said. “In highschool tennis, every gamecounts. If we tie, we count upthe games. I really just try totake it point by point and fo-cus on the point in front ofme to do whatever I can to
win it.”Huntington Beach (16-3)
had the better of the doublesplay, winning six of nine sets.All three doubles pairs, LeNhi Huynh and Ella Weis-man, Sophie Jin-Ngo andCindy Huynh, and SophiaStraub and Isabella Moore,won two of their three sets.
Cindy Huynh, a senior,had a chance to play the sea-son with her two youngersisters, Le Nhi and Yen Nhi.
“It was great,” Cindy
GIRLS’ TENNIS
H.B. falls at SanMarino inCIFDivision1semis
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HUNTINGTON BEACH’SYen Huynh returns with a strongbackhand against San Marino High in a CIF SouthernSection Division 1 playoff semifinal match on Wednesday.
BYANTHONY CIARDELLI
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when we had no idea whatwas going on,” O’Briensaid.
“We heard we’re back instate, we were all superfired up, and when the
brackets came out Sunday,we figured out we wereplaying [the Diablos] again,and we were all even morefired up to get another shotat them.”
Junior setter Tegan Glenncompiled 18 assists forNewport Harbor, with herone kill clinching the first
set. Junior libero LaineBriggs had a diving servereceive and the bump setthat led to Fults’ match-ending kill.
“That was a really, reallyfun night,” Mabry said. “I’mreally proud of our kids.They played hard. Theyplayed to win the entiretime. They were ready to go.We had a great week ofpractice getting ready forthis, and they reallystepped up and respondedtonight.”
Senior outside hitterKaylie Steward had amatch-high 14 kills for Mis-sion Viejo (14-9).
Junior middle blockerChloe Karn had 10 kills and3½ blocks, senior outsidehitter Danica Wulf added 10kills and two blocks, andsenior setter Sam Listerprovided 35 assists, twokills and two aces.
With a roster made upentirely of juniors and sen-iors, Newport Harbor wantsto continue making memo-ries for as long as it can.
The Sailors travel to takeon Pacific Coast Leaguechampion Beckman (26-10)in the second round onThursday at 6 p.m.
“We had a good showingtonight,” O’Brien said. “AndI think we have a good runcoming ahead of us.”
Continued from page A3NEWPORT
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other maintenance projects— such as exterior paintingand new flooring — werecompleted during the sum-mer off-season and rooftopreplacements at MarinersElementary School are alsoexpected to be completedbefore the end of the year.All elementary schools nowhave digital marquees.
The district still has anumber of larger projectsin the wings, such as theEstancia theater project,which saw some legalpushback earlier this yearfrom the city of Costa Mesawhen the city contendedthe project did not undergoadequate environmentalreview.
District officials said inDecember construction
was expected to begin inthe fall of this year and thebuilding would open in2023, but work has beendelayed to early 2022 andthe expectation now is thatthe $32-million theater willbe completed in 2024.
The project is expectedto include a 350-seat thea-ter, black box, lobby andsupport spaces.
Initial renderings of theproject were presented inOctober 2019. Plans havebeen approved by the Divi-sion of the State Architect,but a construction contrac-tor for the project has notyet been identified by thedistrict’s board of trustees.
Newport Harbor’s aquat-ics will also see upgradesnext summer by way of theaddition of shade struc-tures and the replacementof bleachers and existingsports lighting.
The district is also ex-pected to modernize theexisting courtyard withinthe high school’s home artsbuilding.
It is unclear where stu-dent athletes and otheraquatics programs — asthe city also uses NewportHarbor’s and Corona delMar’s pools — will be relo-cated in the interim asconstruction is not ex-pected to finish until thewinter of 2022-23.
Currently in the designphase are the Ensign Inter-mediate student gatheringarea, which the district’sboard of trustees approvedin May last year, and theexpansion of the sidewalksand landscape improve-ments at Corona del MarHigh School and Ensign.
Continued from page A1PROJECTS
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art from veterans acrossconflicts. One, titled “En-trenchment” won thirdplace in the juried show.
Heroes Hall SupervisorCarol Singleton, recentlyacquainted with Bowenthrough the exhibit, saidmany veterans turn to art toprocess their wartime expe-riences.
The first time she saw theartist’s large-scale works,she was impressed. Now,talks about a future soloshow are in the works.
“When he came to dropoff his pieces, they were in-credible,” she recalled. “I
was just astounded by hisart — it’s amazing.”
Bowen’s longtime friend,former U.S. Marine SecondLt. Bill Peters, met the Or-ange County resident in1975 at a Bible study ses-sion and has remainedclose ever since.
As Peters learned moreabout Bowen’s art back-ground, he began sharinghis own photos with theartist. In return, Bowen sur-prised him with canvasesthat brought his own some-times harrowing servicewith the 1st Force Recon-naissance Company to viv-id life.
“He was out there withthe rest of us, taking thesame chances. And some-
times it was more of achance, because he’s man-ning his pencil and pad,sketching a combat mis-sion,” he said.
The bond is a special onebecause of their shared ex-periences.
“With Vietnam veterans,it was different (from otherwars),” Peters said.
“We didn’t come home toa very great welcoming, soyou were careful about whoyou brought into your life.But Ed is the real deal. He isa patriot who used his skillsabove and beyond the callof duty. And now, he is stillcapturing our generation.”
Continued from page A2ARTIST
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Huynh said. “I loved havingall of my sisters next to me. Itmotivated me to do better.We would compete aboutwho would do better eachmatch. It’s kind of fun.”
The match would not havemade it to the tiebreaker ex-cept for the play of Hunting-ton Beach’s young No. 3 dou-bles pairing, Straub andMoore.
The pair bounced backfrom a 6-2 first-set defeat towin their following two sets,both marathon affairs thatfeatured several grueling ral-lies.
Cindy Huynh, who helpscoach the Oilers’ junior var-
sity team, enjoyed seeing heryounger teammates improveduring the season.
“I was very proud that theyheld their own,” she said.“They did the best theycould. The amount they’veimproved from the begin-ning of the season to rightnow was amazing to see.”
The Oilers stuck in thematch despite facing thedomination from Center andWang. Center’s game fea-tured an overpowering serveand pinpoint accuracy thatoverwhelmed the Oilers’ sin-gles players, including YenNhi Huynh, the team’s No. 1.
Still, Huntington Beachcompeted until the end.
To win, the Oilers neededto sweep the final three sets,all doubles matches. Cindy
Huynh and Jin-Ngo madequick work of the San Mar-ino No. 3 doubles pairing ofMandy Rivera and CamdynWu.
But the Oilers’ No. 1 pair-ing of Le Nhi Huynh andWeisman fell to San Marino’sNo. 1 team of Elaine Wu andSelina Wu.
Straub and Moore wontheir final set over the SanMarino No. 2 doubles pairingof Valerie Ko and Katie Liu toclose out the match andforce the tiebreaker, whichwent to San Marino.
San Marino moves on toFriday’s Division 1 final toface La Cañada High.
Continued from page A3H.B.
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