Knott’s Berry Farm announces opening date for Camp Snoopy makeover - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

Peanuts fans can mark their calendars for the grand reopening of Camp Snoopy after a month-long delay pushed back the original planned return of the kiddie land.
The reimagined Camp Snoopy will officially open on June 27 at the Buena Park theme park after blowing past a Memorial Day Weekend debut that was postponed due to construction delays.
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Angel City FC winless skid reaches four with Gotham FC loss

A little give-and-go did not go Angel City FC’s way.
Rose Lavelle dashed to her left after feeding Delanie Sheehan in the box, took a short pass and scored the decisive goal in Gotham FC’s 2-1 victory over Angel City FC on Saturday at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.
The U.S. women’s national team veteran, who is in her first year with Gotham FC (6-2-3, 21 points) following three seasons with OL Reign, touched the ball twice before delivering a left-footed rocket that sn

Trump supporters line the streets in Newport Beach in anticipation of his visit

Several hundred supporters of former President Donald Trump lined the streets of Newport Beach Saturday morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of the White House contender as he comes to town for a fundraiser.
Dressed in red, white and blue — some donning star-spangled top hats and large flags draped around their shoulders — ardent supporters along Jamboree Road held up signs that read, “Welcome, President Trump” and “Trump 2024, Take America Back.”
It was a party

Former President Trump arrives in Newport Beach for a fundraiser

Several hundred supporters of former President Donald Trump lined the streets of Newport Beach Saturday, hoping to catch a glimpse of the White House contender as he came to town for a fundraiser.
Dressed in red, white and blue — some donning star-spangled top hats and large flags draped around their shoulders — ardent supporters congregated all along Jamboree Road and Bayside Drive and held up signs that read, “Welcome, President Trump” and “Trump 2024, Take Americ

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Club 33 manager dies in ‘tragic’ Disneyland accident

Disneyland employees are mourning the “tragic” death of Club 33 administrator Bonnye Lear who fell from a moving golf cart and hit her head in a backstage area of the Anaheim theme park.
“We are heartbroken by the loss of Bonnye and offer our sincere condolences to everyone who cared for her,” Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock said in a statement. “At this time, we are focused on supporting her family and our cast members through this tragic event and making s

Alexander: A perfectly eloquent appreciation of Vin Scully

Vin Scully never wrote an autobiography, and in fact he turned down multiple requests, from multiple authors, to collaborate on a book. The one biography that was published, Curt Smith’s “Pull Up A Chair,” released in 2010, was done without Scully’s cooperation – and, as the story goes, Vin wasn’t terribly thrilled with it.
“And he’d always give a different reason” for not wanting to do a book project, recalled Tom Hoffarth, a former sports m

Caitlin Clark reportedly left off USA Basketball team for Paris Olympics

Caitlin Clark won’t be headed to the Paris Olympics, according to a person familiar with the decision.
The person, who provided the full roster to The Associated Press, spoke on condition of anonymity Saturday because no official announcement has been made.
The decision was first reported by The Athletic.
Clark does have some international experience with USA Basketball at a younger level, but she couldn’t attend the national training camp in Cleveland after she was invited because s

Golden retriever Tucker would like an active family to love

Breed: Golden retriever
Age: 2 years
Sex: Neutered male
Size: 65 pounds
Tucker’s story: Tucker is a typical golden – he loves hiking, people and his many toys. He’s friendly, affectionate, loyal, smart and curious. He’s house-trained and walks nicely on a leash. He’d make a great companion for an active family with children 8 or older. He’d also do well with an inveterate TV watcher. He wants to be the king of his castle, so no other dogs or small animals. Tuc

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Tabby kittens Taylor Swift will make great playmates

Breed: Domestic shorthair tabby cats
Age: 12 weeks
Sex: Taylor is spayed; Swift is neutered
Taylor and Swift’s story: These two cuties are friendly, smart and super bonded. They’re always together, investigating or playing hide and seek with their favorite toy: cardboard boxes! They love to cuddle on the sofa with their foster family. A willingness to engage in kitten play is a must for whoever adopts these two. They’d make a great addition to a young family. They have been vac

Swanson: Michael Cooper continues offering Hall of Fame wisdom

What makes a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, you ask?
Hard to say exactly, the criteria has always been impossible to pinpoint, decided by mystery voters who don’t seem necessarily to be following a specific recipe.
But you know it when you see it.
And Michael Cooper is it.
Not only because of his contributions to the Lakers’ five NBA championships between 1980 and 1988. Or his inclusion on eight NBA All-Defensive teams. Or that 1987 Defensive Player of the Year award.
It’s

Iga Swiatek breezes to 3rd consecutive French Open women’s title

PARIS — Iga Swiatek won her third consecutive French Open championship and fourth in five years by defeating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1 in the final on Saturday.
The top-seeded Swiatek trailed 2-1 early in Court Philippe Chatrier before taking the next 10 games to claim the opening set and go up 5-0 in the second. She stretched her winning streak at Roland Garros to 21 matches, and her career record at the place is now 35-2.
The 23-year-old from Poland is the first woman with three trophies

Unfinished schooner landlocked in Trabuco Canyon seeks its next adventurer

The home-built vessel crafted by a blind man in Garden Grove was to sail from California to the Great Lakes, traveling more than 7,000 miles through open and inland waters.
Instead, the hull of the schooner named Visions sits landlocked amid a cluster of canyon oak trees, covered in dust, dry leaves and dead branches.
The original quest began miles from the ocean, as Don Baumea shaped the boat’s keel and watertight bottom by feel in his backyard. When he died, Robert Heerdt — an acco

Summer books 2024: It’s summertime and the reading’s easy. Or epic. Choose your own adventure.

One strategy for summer reading — and yes, there are strategies — is to begin a project.
Dabble in short punchy books, but devote the season to an epic. You get three months.
I read “The Lord of the Rings” this way, one installment a summer, for years. Now I’m picking through Robert Caro’s (still unfinished) Lyndon Johnson biography this way. Another strategy: Give yourself a quasi-degree in something very specific. Read the complete short stories of the late

Susan Shelley: Pulitzers for the ‘Russiagate’ hoax should be returned

On Oct.14, 2020, just weeks before the presidential election, the New York Post published a blockbuster front-page story headlined, “Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad.”
The story by Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge exposed the lie in then-candidate Joe Biden’s claim that he had “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” The reporters wrote that the correspondence was contained “in a m

California job openings tumble 42% in 2 years

“Swift swings” takes a quick peek at one economic trend.
The number: California is suffering from the nation’s second-biggest drop in job openings since the Federal Reserve began hiking interest rates two years ago.
The source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at job openings for the 50 states and Washington, D.C., for March – the latest available – and compared them with March 2022.
The why: The Fed began its battle against four-decades-high inflation two years ago in

Why this contrarian approach to gardening offers much to consider

I spoke with Greg Alder on a video call for nearly two hours as he walked through his extraordinary half-acre farm showing me the fruits of his labors. At the close of our conversation, this master gardener summed up his approach to food gardening with a question: “What if I don’t?” We agreed that would make an excellent title for a book expounding on his horticultural philosophy. As a subtitle, I suggested: “The Contrarian Gardening Wisdom of Greg Alder.” To access

Safety-net health clinics cut services and staff amid Medicaid ‘unwinding’

Katheryn Houghton | (TNS) KFF Health News
One of Montana’s largest health clinics that serves people in poverty has cut back services and laid off workers. The retrenchment mirrors similar cuts around the country as safety-net health centers feel the effects of states purging their Medicaid rolls.
Billings-based RiverStone Health is eliminating 42 jobs this spring, cutting nearly 10% of its workforce. The cuts have shuttered an inpatient hospice facility, will close a center for patients m

Wins at the ballot box for abortion rights still mean court battles for access

Before Ohio voters amended their constitution last year to protect abortion rights, the state’s attorney general, an anti-abortion Republican, said that doing so would upend at least 10 state laws limiting abortions.
But those laws remain a hurdle and straightforward access to abortions has yet to resume, said Bethany Lewis, executive director of the Preterm abortion clinic in Cleveland. “Legally, what actually happened in practice was not much,” she said.
Today, most of those

Larry Wilson: Little wins in the war against despotism

I was kind of chuffed, in that blows-against-the-empire way, last week to find one of the various strongmen who rule much of the world taken down a peg at the polls.
As Anjali Mody reported from Chennai, India, “After a decade of increasingly unchecked power, Narendra Modi has been cut down to size.”
The Hindu nationalist prime minister didn’t lose, exactly. After the votes were counted in the world’s largest democracy he’s still in power, for his third term, one of

Claims the California Legislature is transparent are bogus

“Transparency in government is paramount,” said Assemblywoman Gail Pellerin, D-Santa Cruz, proving that hypocrisy in government is clearly the rule in California. As chair of the Committee on Elections and Redistricting, Pellerin praised “transparency” as she voted to kill a bill that would have banned non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) from the bill-making process.
The bill, Assembly Bill 2654, was in response to a report by KCRA’s Ashley Zavala, who broke the news t

Edible flowers, flavored salts and canning your own food: Questions and answers

Q. I would like to grow and use edible flowers. What advice can you give?
Most edible flowers can be used fresh as a garnish for finger sandwiches, pastries, cakes, or other desserts. Squash flowers, which are edible, can be stuffed with ricotta cheese and fried for a savory treat.
Some of the most popular edible flowers include sweet violet, lavender, borage, pansy, calendula, rose, hibiscus, feijoa, chamomile, basil, and thyme. For use as a fresh garnish, pick in the morning on the day you are

Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (May 30-June 6)

Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from May 30 to June 6.
Charlie’s Chili, 102 McFadden Place, Newport BeachClosed: June 5
Reason: co*ckroach infestation
Reopened: June 6The French Avenue at Irvine Spectrum Center, 668 Spectrum Center Drive, IrvineClosed: June 4
Reason: Insufficient hot waterAndalusia Kitchen, 111 W. Avenida Palizada, Suite 302, San ClementeClosed: June 4
Reason: Rodent infestationQuan Bun Ban Mai, 88

There are new digital nomads on the block: families

By Sam Kemmis | NerdWallet
For some, “digital nomad” evokes the image of a young, unencumbered tech worker sending emails from the beach. Indeed, three-quarters of digital nomads are under age 40, according to a 2023 survey of over 1,200 digital nomads by Flatio, an online accommodation platform.
Yet some families have joined the digital nomad lifestyle, leaving their belongings — and the idea of a “home” — behind as they travel the globe. The lifestyle may no

Price reductions for logistics buildings might hint at further softening

Our industrial market in Southern California is rapidly morphing into a buyer’s/tenant’s market. By that I mean, a supply of available buildings which exceeds demand and a softening of prices.
This is happening in the large logistics spaces constructed in the last building craze. At their peak, rents topped $2.10 per square foot (triple net) for these concrete caverns. On a 100,000-square-foot building, that’s $210,000 per month plus an additional $40,000 for operating expenses

Dearica Hamby, Cameron Brink help Sparks rally past Wings

LOS ANGELES — Sparks forwards Dearica Hamby and Cameron Brink each recorded double-doubles to help the team end its three-game losing streak.
Hamby had 16 of her game-high 22 points in the second half and grabbed 12 rebounds for her eighth double-double in 10 games. Brink, a rookie, had her first career double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds as the Sparks outscored the Dallas Wings 20-9 in the fourth quarter to rally for an 81-72 comeback win on Friday night at Crypto.com Arena.
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Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, June 8, 2024

The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
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Framber Valdez, Astros deny Angels’ bid for 4th straight win

ANAHEIM — The Angels couldn’t solve Houston Astros left-hander Framber Valdez this time around.
Valdez notched his seventh complete game in the past four seasons, holding the Angels to one run and four hits in the Astros’ 7-1 victory in the opener of the three-game series on Friday night at Angel Stadium.
Valdez (5-3) struck out eight and walked one on 106 pitches.
The Angels lit up Valdez for eight runs in a 9-7 win in Houston on May 20, tying a career worst for the left-hande

Former San Marino estate of CIA chief John McCone sets sales record at $30M

A gated, 5.5-acre compound once owned by John McCone, the CIA director during the Cuban missile crisis, has sold for $30 million.
That makes it the most expensive home ever sold in San Marino.
Located in the upscale Lacy Estates neighborhood, this 13,706-square-foot residence boasts nine bedrooms and 15 bathrooms across three structures, all connected by formal gardens. The June 5 deal, which closed at 33% over the $22.5 million asking price a month after officially listing, broke the previous r

Scoreless duel goes to 11 before Dodgers beat Yankees

NEW YORK — It was a parade of stars at the plate worthy of October – and a parade of zeroes on the scoreboard, also postseason-worthy.
The Dodgers and New York Yankees stuffed their lineups with five former MVPs on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series billed as a potential World Series preview. But Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto and a collective of six Yankees pitchers engaged in a scoreless duel for 10 innings before Teoscar Hernandez came through with a two-run dou

Dodgers-Yankees matchup a preview of things to come in October?

NEW YORK — Dodgers manager Dave Roberts strode into the visitor’s dugout at Yankee Stadium on Friday afternoon and noticed a difference immediately.
“Feels like the postseason,” he said, looking at the media crowding around for his pre-game press availability.
“Is this October or what?”
It is not October yet but the matchup between the Dodgers and New York Yankees drew a postseason-sized media gathering and is being billed as a potential World Series preview &