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Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: A Real Saint in OC

Posted by R. Scott Moxley in Moxley, News Roundups

October 24, 2007 6:31 AM

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  • While Politicians Yap, Strickland Performs: The current issue of People celebrates Orange County’s Alena Strickland, 49, for taking in 112 foster children. Yes, 112. Even more impressive? According to the article, each child has had special needs such as autism, blindness and deafness. She doesn’t do it alone. Strickland has her retired restaurateur husband Philip Pedone by her side. What motives her? "I was faced with a need, I can [help], so what's my excuse not to?" she told the magazine. "In the grand scheme of things, what's more important: a child's life or me being able to go out to dinner?" Class act.
  • Deputies get 12% raises! Yesterday the board of supervisors approved a new contract with more than 1,800 sheriff’s deputies that gives whopping 12 percent raises, retroactive raises and medical benefit reforms. The one certain public benefit: the deal helps reduce a $140 million unfunded taxpayer mandate a politically weak-kneed, all-Republican board gave the deputies several year