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Even during this period of physical distancing, there are lots of fun, free activities available online that we can do from the safety of our homes.

Irvine Community News & Views has compiled a long list of resource links to keep your family engaged and even entertained from the safety of our homes.

In addition to taking care of your physical health, it’s important to also focus on your mental well being.  Exercise can help with that. Even during this period of physical distancing, it’s important to get out and take a walk to keep our bodies moving and lower our stress levels. 

Irvine Community News & Views is closely monitoring the coronavirus locally and how the global health crisis is impacting Irvine residents so that we can provide our community with accurate and timely information.

All IUSD schools (and Irvine schools in Tustin) are closed until further notice and our three local library branches are closed.

On Tuesday (March 17th), the all-volunteer team at the “Build the Great Park Veterans Cemetery” committee delivered 19,758 signatures to the Irvine City Clerk’s office, moving Irvine one giant step closer to fulfilling the City’s promise to build a beautiful Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery on the City-owned ARDA site at the Great Park.

Irvine Community News & Views has received a number of heartwarming stories from across our City, regarding neighbors helping neighbors.

For years, giant land developer FivePoint has plotted and schemed in an effort to acquire the City-owned 125-acre site (“ARDA”) on the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in the Great Park that had been designed and approved for a State-built and State-operated Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery.

For weeks, scores of Irvine volunteers have been circulating three official voter petitions: the “Build the Great Park Veterans Cemetery” initiative petition and two recall petitions. 

The recall petitions are aimed at Mayor Christina Shea and Councilman Michael Carroll.

As Irvine residents, we have had enough! We have had enough of the duplicity, the political games, and the disregard for our votes and even our right to vote. We have had enough of the corrupting influence of developer money that funds City Council candidates at exorbitant levels.

Irvine Community News & Views recently sat down with “Build the Great Park Veterans Cemetery” Committee Chair Ed Pope to discuss the local initiative campaign to ensure that Irvine voters get the final say as to the fate of the City-owned ARDA site at the Great Park.

A coalition of veterans, longtime Irvine residents and university community members have served a “Notice of Intention” to circulate a petition to recall Mayor Christina Shea and Councilmember Michael Carroll.