The Shields Painting Difference: Perfection with Every Brush Stroke
Many painting companies in Florida rely on flashy marketing and big promises to try and attract new clients. But when it comes time to work, they fall short of their promises. This is often due to a lack of experience, qualified painters, and a drive to overachieve. At Shields Painting, we do things a little differently than other painting companies in Citrus County. We believe that a professional paint job should be as close to perfect as possible. Our goal is to leave you 100% satisfied, whether we're touching up an old residential paint job or performing a complex commercial project. It might sound simple, but we achieve that goal through honesty, hard work, beautiful results, and reasonable pricing.
As a family-owned and operated painting company in Garden Grove, FL, we strive to provide personalized, professional, and friendly service. Shields Painting has been in business since 1968 for a good reason. Whenever possible, we go the extra mile to make sure our customers are happy. Unlike some of our competition, we want to know all about your house or business painting project: your vision, your preferences, your challenges, and your goals. When we understand your needs, we can present you with a fantastic final product - one that you're proud to show off to friends and neighbors.
At Shields Painting, we combine our extensive experience with time-tested, meticulous painting processes, resulting in the highest quality painting results around. As a painting contractor in Citrus County, we can take on a variety of residential, commercial, and industrial projects in Florida.
A few of our most popular painting services include:
- Interior Painting
- Exterior Painting
- Residential Painting
- Commercial Painting
- Cabinet Painting
- Ceiling Painting
- Fence Painting
- Sign Painting
- MUCH More!
Our commercial, industrial, and residential painting contractors take the proper steps to protect your property and belongings while we work. Our team will clean up after ourselves, so your property is left clean and free of debris when we're done. After all, we think there's only one way to do a job, and that's the right way.
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Your Go-To House Painting Company in Garden Grove, FL
Your home is a haven of relaxation and solitude. It is uniquely you - a place where you can express who you are through style and design. Whether you need interior touch-ups for your crown molding or a new exterior coat of paint, hiring a reliable painting contractor is the best way to get quality results.
At Shields Painting, we know how important it is to have a home that highlights your tastes and personality. That's why we offer an extensive array of residential painting services in Citrus County. As tempting as it might be to try a DIY paint job, without the proper skills and experience, there is a good chance that the results will turn out less than satisfactory.
High-quality painting requires skill, experience, and patience. If you're a homeowner who needs residential painting services but doesn't have the time, patience, or skills to handle the job, look no further than Shields Painting. We offer accuracy, precision, and longevity with each paint job we perform. Our customers choose Shields Painting for their home because they receive:
- Free Quotes with Detailed Project Breakdowns
- Affordable Pricing
- Expert Painting Contractors
- High-Quality Paint Products
- Combo of Traditional and Modern Techniques
- Well-Maintained Tools
- Unmatched Craftsmanship
- Friendly, Personalized Service
- Good Old-Fashioned Hard Work!
The majority of our house painting services come in two forms: interior and exterior.
Interior Residential Painting
As an interior painting contractor with decades of experience, our expert technicians have developed an interior painting process that maximizes quality and emphasizes customer satisfaction. We understand that interior painting goes beyond aesthetics. It protects your ceilings and walls and helps you sustain a healthier place to live for your family. When only the finest craftsmanship will do inside your home, Shields Painting is here for you.
Our seasoned team of painting experts and craftsmen is dedicated to respecting your space and providing you with the look and feel you're craving inside your home. Whether you bought a new house and want to make it your own or need minor touch-ups but have no time, Shields Painting is ready to tackle the job, no matter how small or large.
Unlike some painting companies, our interior house painters take the time to get the details right, every time. For instance, color is only one aspect of your interior paint job. The paint sheen or finish is just as important. Certain finishes are better for living rooms and bedrooms than in kitchens and bathrooms. We'll help you find the right finish and paint colors for your home, so you don't have to worry about touch-ups or repainting.
Some of our most popular interior house painting services include:
- Ceiling Painting
- Popcorn Ceiling Removal
- Living Room Painting
- Bathroom Painting
- Basement Painting
- Color Consultations
- More
Cabinet Painting
Citrus County cabinet painting deserves its own section on this page because it requires more time, skill, and quality paint than most sections of your home. If your home's cabinets are built into its woodwork, replacing them can be obnoxiously expensive. Compared to the cost of installing new cabinets, painting your kitchen cabinets is much more affordable.
At Shields Painting, we specialize in transforming old cabinets into new, gorgeous features that are just as usable as they are beautiful. Each step of our cabinet painting process is meticulous and thorough. And we'll take care of the entire job, from cleaning, prep, and sanding to priming, painting, and reassembly. This unique service lets you enjoy a brand-new look in your kitchen without having to go into debt by replacing your cabinets.
Whether your cabinets are new, but you want to change their color or you'd like to transition wood cabinets to a painted finish, Shields Painting has the expertise and experience to give you a new look you'll love.
Exterior Residential Painting
Your home - it's a place that not only keeps your belongings safe. It protects your family and loved ones, too. It's one of your largest investments, and like anything else of value, it should be protected. However, Florida weather can take a toll on your home's structure and paint, lowering your home's value and even putting your family at risk.
While it's true that a beautiful exterior affects your house's value, it shouldn't take thousands of remodeling dollars to make a positive change to your home. There's a fine line between reasonable pricing and top-quality painting, and that sweet spot is what Shields Painting aims for. If you want to transform how your friends and neighbors see your home, never underestimate the power of a professional paint job.
Our exterior residential painting services are designed to boost curb appeal, give your home a fresh look, and help it stand up to Florida's unique weather. But we provide more than that. When you hire Shields Painting for your outdoor painting project, you will enjoy peace of mind in knowing that your home is in truly capable hands. Our goal is to exceed your expectations and help bring out the best in your property, whether you need to re-stain your deck or remove old, peeling paint from your siding.
If you're on the hunt for the very best exterior painting contractor in Garden Grove, FL, look no further than Shields Painting.
Some of our most popular exterior house painting services include:
- Vinyl Siding Painting
- Deck Painting and Staining
- Stucco Exterior Painting
- Wood Exterior Painting
- Porch Painting and Staining
- Soffit Painting
- Fascia Painting
- Window Painting
- Front Door Painting
- Thorough Painting Prep
- More
The Premier Commercial Painting Company in Garden Grove, FL
When it comes to first impressions, your businesses' appearance plays an important role. Your commercial property's paint job factors into its overall aesthetics. A great-looking, well-maintained paint job can mean the difference between a customer walking in your storefront and passing by. Conversely, an old, worn-out commercial paint job can send the wrong message to prospective customers. If you can't take the time to keep up your property's appearance, why would a customer spend their hard-earned money on your products?
The same goes for your businesses' interior paint. Would you want to do business with a company that has peeling paint or unsightly crown molding? At Shield's Painting, our goal is to create a beautiful environment that your customers and employees will love inside and out. When you work with our business painters, you can rest easy knowing we treat your business like it were our own. We always clean up after ourselves and know that operations cannot come to a halt just because we're painting. As such, we'll work with your busy schedule to ensure the job gets done right the first time without disrupting your day-to-day commitments.
With decades of commercial painting experience, we know the demands of a commercial painting project necessitate a disciplined and focused approach from the start. Our team of business painters is committed to delivering quality, on-time results on every project, every time - no excuses
We offer professional business painting services to a variety of building types, including:
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Industrial Painting
A high level of care and finesse are required to effectively paint an industrial property. At Shields Painting, we know that industrial paint jobs involve much more than aesthetics. That's why our industrial services are customized to your specifications, using industrial-grade materials that stand up to heavy-duty operations.
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Retail Store Painting
Our commercial painters apply effective, yet appealing interior and exterior paint that stand up to the daily rigors of busy retail environments.
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Small Business Painting
Do you own a restaurant franchise? Have a small "mom and pop" location that needs a fresh coat of paint? Shields Painting has the resources and reliability to efficiently get the job done the first time. That way, you can focus on serving your customers, not having your business repainted.
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Healthcare Location Painting
From walk-in clinics to long-term care facilities, Shields Painting is sensitive to your patients' needs. We know you must protect your patient's privacy while maintaining productivity. Our approach to healthcare location painting centers around your schedule to avoid disruptions in care.
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Apartment Complex Painting
Erase signs of wear and make your apartment complex or multi-family building a more desirable place to live with a stunning, professional paint job.
Florida's Most Trusted Painting Contractor
Shields Painting has been in the business since 1968. In a world where so much has changed, we are proud to uphold the ideals that make us successful: hard, honest work, getting the job done right, and excellent customer service. Providing you with trustworthy, quality work will always take priority over rushing through a project to serve the next customer. That is just not the way we choose to do business.
As professionals dedicated to perfection, we strive to provide a unique painting experience for every customer - one that focuses on their needs and desires instead of our own. Whether you need residential painting for your home or commercial painting for your business, we encourage you to reach out today to speak with our customer service team. Whether you have big ideas about a new paint project or need our expertise and guidance, we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Billionaire’s hospitality group buys Peacock Garden in Coconut Grove
Katherine Kallergishttps://therealdeal.com/miami/2022/07/25/billionaire-backed-restaurant-group-buys-peacock-garden-in-coconut-grove/
UPDATED, July 28, 1:40 p.m.: Mohari Hospitality, the investment group led by PokerStars billionaire Mark Scheinberg, bought the Peacock Garden cafe property in Coconut Grove, The Real Deal has learned.Mutiny on the Park, led by developer Ricardo Dunin and restaurateur Lalo Durazo, sold the commercial condo at what’s now the Hotel Arya tower for $9.5 million, or nearly $1,500 per square foot, to Mohari Coconut Grov...
UPDATED, July 28, 1:40 p.m.: Mohari Hospitality, the investment group led by PokerStars billionaire Mark Scheinberg, bought the Peacock Garden cafe property in Coconut Grove, The Real Deal has learned.
Mutiny on the Park, led by developer Ricardo Dunin and restaurateur Lalo Durazo, sold the commercial condo at what’s now the Hotel Arya tower for $9.5 million, or nearly $1,500 per square foot, to Mohari Coconut Grove, property records show.
Riviera Dining Group, which Scheinberg’s Mohari took a “significant” minority stake in late last year, will operate AVA MediterrAegean out of the space. The restaurant will also have a private space for members called MM Club, according to Riviera Dining Group. Riviera’s other concept is Mila, a restaurant, rooftop lounge and bar in South Beach. The first AVA opened in Winter Park in February.
Mohari Hospitality, Mark Scheinberg’s investment firm, has partnered with Property Markets Group, Greybrook Realty Partners, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Ritz-Carlton and other major hotel companies, according to its website. Scheinberg, and his father, Isai, co-founded PokerStars and sold it to Amaya Gaming in 2014 for $4.9 billion, according to published reports. Scheinberg’s net worth is about $5.3 billion, according to Forbes.
The commercial condo in Miami’s Coconut Grove, a 6,369-square-foot unit at 2889 McFarlane Road, is on the ground floor of the Mutiny on the Park hotel-condo building that Dunin completed in 2001. The restaurant, now called the Peacock Garden Resto Bar & Grill, has a large outdoor space and a separate entrance from Hotel Arya, which was previously known as the Sonesta Coconut Grove.
Felix Bendersky, broker and owner of F+B Hospitality Brokerage, represented the seller. Lee Koniver of Koniver Stern, and Ryan Brodsky of Colliers represented the buyer in the off-market deal.
The seller was in contract to sell the space to another buyer, but after requesting an extension, the buyer swooped in and closed the deal within two months, Bendersky said.
The deal illustrates strong demand for second-generation restaurant space in Coconut Grove. It also exemplifies the trend of operators buying the real estate for their restaurants instead of leasing, sources say.
“Second-generation spaces are non-existent today and they are highly highly in demand,” Brodsky said.
Durazo, owner of DZO Hospitality, opened the Peacock Garden Cafe in 2011, according to the Miami New Times. He was a former owner of the nearby Jaguar Restaurant at 3067 Grand Avenue.
Dunin, a former principal of Lionheart Capital who launched his own firm, Coconut Grove-based Oak Ventures, also redeveloped the The Mutiny Hotel around the corner from the Hotel Arya. Most recently, he is partnering with Edgardo Defortuna’s Fortune International Group to develop the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Pompano Beach.
An earlier version of this story misidentified the buyer.
Nickelodeon hotel might come to Garden Grove
Chris Hairehttps://www.ocregister.com/2016/05/13/nickelodeon-hotel-might-come-to-garden-grove/
Listen to this articleGARDEN GROVE – The city might soon become home to one of the first hotels in the United States associated with television giant Nickelodeon – continuing Garden Grove’s efforts to link its stretch of Harbor Boulevard with the Anaheim Resort District.The City Council unanimously agreed this week to enter into negotiations with developer Kam Sang Co. to build the Nickelodeon Resort Hotel – a 600-room, four-diamond resort on 10 acres with an expanded pool area.Details are still i...
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GARDEN GROVE – The city might soon become home to one of the first hotels in the United States associated with television giant Nickelodeon – continuing Garden Grove’s efforts to link its stretch of Harbor Boulevard with the Anaheim Resort District.
The City Council unanimously agreed this week to enter into negotiations with developer Kam Sang Co. to build the Nickelodeon Resort Hotel – a 600-room, four-diamond resort on 10 acres with an expanded pool area.
Details are still in the works, but both Kam Sang and city officials said it will be in the ballpark of the recently opened Great Wolf Lodge, in terms of construction costs, north of $100 million, and potential tax revenue, from $6million to $8 million annually to the city.
Construction of the hotel could begin within 24 months, according to Kam Sang officials.
Officials at Nickelodeon, a media company largely geared to children and teenagers, declined Thursday to comment specifically on the hotel proposal.
“We are actively looking at numerous opportunities to develop Nickelodeon resorts and hotels in the U.S. and abroad, such as the new property we have opening in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic this summer through a partnership with Karisma Hotels & Resorts,” Nickelodeon officials said.
The only other hotel currently with a Nickelodeon theme, in Orlando, Fla., is dropping it, but that could be related to a new partnership rather than not being successful in its 10 years.
The Garden Grove hotel would incorporate the Nickelodeon brand to lure tourists while also being luxurious enough to bring in Anaheim Convention Center businesspeople.
“We want to balance corporate travelers with Disney tourist travelers,” said Phil Wolfgramm, the senior vice president for Kam Sang Co. “It won’t slap you in the face.”
Kam Sang has tried to develop the property on Harbor Boulevard, next to the Sheraton Hotel, for about a decade, Wolfgramm said.
The deal struck with Garden Grove on Tuesday requires Kam Sang, which is also developing the city’s long-awaited Brookhurst Triangle mixed-use project, to pay the city for any environmental studies and for acquiring the Tamerlane Apartments that occupy the future hotel property.
Even though the apartments are privately owned, the city has for years had a deal allowing it to buy the land whenever it wants, said Greg Blodgett, Garden Grove’s senior project manager working on the Nickelodeon hotel.
The city can transfer that right to Kam Sang, Blodgett said.
Blodgett estimated that getting the land ready for construction – including buying the property, relocating tenants, demolishing buildings and performing environmental studies – could cost the developer upward of $25 million.
“It’s a unique project and something we’ve been working on for a while,” Blodgett said.
The hotel’s conceptual plans are still in development and must be approved by Viacom before going public, Wolfgramm said.
The hotel would offer 15,000 to 30,000 square feet of meeting, retail and dining space, and 5,000 to 15,000 square feet of entertainment, according to city documents.
There would be an outdoor theater, and some recognition of the Nickelodeon brand. Most of the rooms, though, would not be themed, unlike the Great Wolf, which themes all but its most basic rooms.
The family suites would likely have separate, themed children’s areas, Wolfgramm said.
If successful, the hotel would continue Garden Grove’s attempt to bank off of the lure of nearby Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
The Great Wolf, a 600-suite resort and water park, opened earlier this year. The city is expected to soon announce another major hotel, with a convention center, across the street from where the Nickelodeon Resort Hotel would go.
“It’s exciting,” Wolfgramm said. “The city has done a good job positioning itself for their needs in the future.”
Staff writer Scott Schwebke contributed to this report.
Contact the writer: 714-796-6979 or chaire@ocregister.com
Street medicine pilot launches in Garden Grove
Destiny Torreshttps://www.ocregister.com/2023/04/04/street-medicine-pilot-launches-in-garden-grove/
Health care providers are taking to the streets of Garden Grove armed with a “doctor’s office on wheels” to bring medical assistance to homeless people where they are at – including primary care, but also behavioral health services and case management.The street medicine program is being organized by the county’s provider of publicly funded health coverage, ...
Health care providers are taking to the streets of Garden Grove armed with a “doctor’s office on wheels” to bring medical assistance to homeless people where they are at – including primary care, but also behavioral health services and case management.
The street medicine program is being organized by the county’s provider of publicly funded health coverage, CalOptima Health, in partnership with the city of Garden Grove and Healthcare in Action, a medical group that provides health care and other services to unhoused individuals. Through a $4 million, two-year contract, Healthcare in Action will deliver care to up to 200 CalOptima members using a medical van to reach those living in parks, under freeways and elsewhere on the streets.
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CalOptima Health CEO Michael Hunn talks with nurse Nicole Coye inside the mobile doctor’s office during its introduction in Garden Grove, CA on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. The mobile medical unit is a partnership between CalOptima Health, the City of Garden Grove and Healthcare in Action. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
“This program focused on bringing supportive health care and social services for our homeless community is a model of dedicated teamwork, outside-the-box thinking and passion for serving those in need,” Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Along with being mobile, the program uses a “people-centric” approach, said Benjamin Kaska, Healthcare in Action’s director of clinical operations.
“There’s a barrier to care,” Kaska said for people who are dealing with homelessness. “When you go to a doctor’s office, you’re expected to arrive on time, have all your paperwork organized, I.D., your payment. In this environment, you remove those barriers. We come out and provide the care directly to them, wherever they’re located.”
A large percentage of folks experiencing homelessness are in “survival mode,” prioritizing where their next meal will come from, where they will sleep and taking care of their belongings, said Kelly Bruno-Nelson, CalOptima’s executive director of Medi-Cal/CalAIM.
“Clearly, health care needs come secondary to that,” Bruno-Nelson said. “It’s not that folks on the street don’t care about their health, it’s that they can’t prioritize it because they have to prioritize basic needs that those of us who are housed don’t have to prioritize.”
Deploying with be a medical team with a physician assistant and registered nurse, who will provide primary care and clinical management, and a “peer navigator” team with a social worker and an individual with lived experience, who will be offering supportive services and community resources.
The peer navigator team will approach people on the street to make connections and see what help they need; once someone engages with the program, Healthcare in Action will function as their primary care physician and visit on a regular basis, Bruno-Nelson said.
“We feel very strongly about, when it comes to street medicine, unlike the traditional health care system, it’s rapport first, and then care second,” she said. “If you can’t build rapport with those that you’re serving, you won’t be able to provide the care. So, you have to have folks on your team who know what it feels like to be unhoused. Lived experience is very important.”
Challenges the teams will face include locating their patients and providing medications, because most pharmacies require a form of identification, according to Kaska.
“Some of the barriers that we’ve tried to avoid still exist within other areas, and we try our very best to navigate those waters and provide the care despite the barrier,” he said. “Some of our teammates, for instance, will go and will pick up the medication for the patient and deliver it back to them, which is time intensive, but it matters.”
Kaska said locating unhoused patients is easier with the help of those who know the community best, including local law enforcement. Also, patients can be given a cellphone or a GPS tracker if they’re willing.
After six months of running the street medicine program in Garden Grove, the goal is to expand to other cities throughout the county, according to Bruno-Nelson.
CalOptima CEO Michael Hunn said the county organized health system’s entry into providing street medicine is one of the many programs in the relatively new state initiative, California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal, or CalAIM. The state Department of Health Care Services launched the multiyear health program to strengthen Medi-Cal by integrating in other social services.
“We’re taking (CalAIM) seriously,” Hunn said. “The impetus for this, and us expanding into it, is to be that health plan that takes the health and – as this van says – puts it in action.”
In his years working in health care, Michael Hochman, CEO of Healthcare in Action, said he has never seen so many community entities joining together to address homelessness.
“This is the first time in 20 years that I have seen around the table city leaders, county leaders, law enforcement, EMS, fire, health plans, community organizations; it’s really an incredible testament to Hunn and his team at CalOptima and the city of Garden Grove to pull this together,” Hochman said. “I applaud them not just for being ambitious with the goal of making a dent in homelessness in Garden Grove, but in the holistic approach.”
Shakespeare Orange County gets bumped from Garden Grove Amphitheater for reggae and rock concerts
Susan Christian Gouldinghttps://www.ocregister.com/shakespeare-orange-county-gets-bumped-from-garden-grove-amphitheater-for-reggae-and-rock-concerts/
“Thus with a kiss I die.” And alas, the curtains fall on “Romeo and Juliet.”It looks as though Shakespeare Orange County also has reached its final act – at least at the Garden Grove Amphitheater, its host for almost 30 years.The city has inked an agreement with concert promoter LFA Group to operate the open-air arena in Village Green Park for the next decade. That deal replaces a less formal arrangement Shakespeare O.C. enjoyed with Garden Grove to maintain the amphitheater while providing enterta...
“Thus with a kiss I die.” And alas, the curtains fall on “Romeo and Juliet.”
It looks as though Shakespeare Orange County also has reached its final act – at least at the Garden Grove Amphitheater, its host for almost 30 years.
The city has inked an agreement with concert promoter LFA Group to operate the open-air arena in Village Green Park for the next decade. That deal replaces a less formal arrangement Shakespeare O.C. enjoyed with Garden Grove to maintain the amphitheater while providing entertainment there.
“Originally, the city said, ‘We’re bringing in this promotion company, but we always want to keep Shakespeare during the summer,’” said John Walcutt, Shakespeare O.C. artistic director. “We agreed to shrink our season from five months to two months.”
But then, Walcutt said, LFA promised only a couple of weekends – a limited offer that would not be worth the time required for preparation.
“Plays aren’t like concerts,” he said. “You need to rehearse a lot – and you need a stage to rehearse on.”
Already, Shakespeare O.C. was squeezed out of the amphitheater this past summer, Walcutt said. Still, he hoped the city would throw a lifeline for next summer until he learned otherwise in a recent meeting with officials.
The amphitheater’s Shakespeare tradition began in 1980 under artistic director Thomas Bradac. In the 1990s, Bradac took Shakespeare O.C. to Chapman University, where he still teachers. It returned to the amphitheater in the early 2000s.
Director of the acting conservatory at Orange County High School of the Arts, Walcutt took the reins five years ago. The plays attracted thousands of people throughout each season.
Walcutt aims his frustration more at the city than at LFA, he said: “I totally understand. LFA is a business, and the amphitheater is a great concert venue. Our disappointment is that the city never really engaged with us. They put fertilizer on the grass right before the opening night of ‘Hamlet’ one summer – stuff like that. They just weren’t into it.”
From Garden Grove’s standpoint, however, the deal with LFA was too good to pass up. Built in the 1970s, the 540-seat amphitheater is in desperate need of a face-lift.
Parks and Recreations Director John Montanchez said the agreement makes LFA responsible for $225,000 in upgrades over the next 10 years.
“We don’t have those funds,” he noted.
The company will spend a lot more than that, said LFA managing partner Viet Tran, who sold his partnership in the three-restaurant chain Dos Chinos to found LFA.
“Just adding a kitchen will cost $150,000,” he said. LFA also plans to repaint and upgrade the lighting and sound systems.
Tran said his goal is to make the underused amphitheater a year-round destination for concertgoers. Dubbed Garden Amp, the venue so far has featured a variety of music, from reggae to country to ska to rock to punk.
“I graduated from Garden Grove High and I never knew this thing existed,” Tran said. “I was taking a tour of parks in the city last year, looking to do a music festival, and I stumbled across the amphitheater. From the outside, you can’t even tell it’s there. It’s a beautiful venue, surrounded by trees and grass and the open sky.”
This year, LFA has produced about 30 events, and has another 15 booked. Tickets range from free to $30. “We usually fill the place,” Tran said.
Walcutt ran some dates by him that are already booked, Tran said. “We are certainly open to Shakespeare performances at the amphitheater, but John hasn’t reached out to us again.”
The amphitheater will help to revitalize Historic Main Street, Montanchez said: “It will bring life to the area.”
Other cities have contacted Walcutt about transferring the Shakespeare productions to their parks, he said.
“In the end, the amphitheater belongs to Garden Grove and they can do as they wish with it,” Walcutt conceded. “I’m sorry we couldn’t get them behind us. They’re all good people, but Shakespeare was like medicine to them.”
Then, with a little Shakespearean wit, he added, “They didn’t think of us as culture, they thought of us as mold.”
Mom of teen who punched girl during O.C. basketball game is charged for telling daughter to do it: DA
Nouran Salahiehhttps://ktla.com/news/local-news/mother-of-teen-seen-on-video-sucker-punching-girl-during-o-c-basketball-game-is-charged-for-telling-daughter-to-hit-her-da/
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.A mother is facing jail time after yelling at her daughter to hit another girl during a basketball game in a caught-on-video incident in Garden Grove last month, the Orange County District Attorney announced Thursday.The mother, 44-year-old Latira Shonty Hunt of La Puente, was in the stands on Nov. 7 watching her teenage daughter compete in a youth basketball game, when she a...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.
A mother is facing jail time after yelling at her daughter to hit another girl during a basketball game in a caught-on-video incident in Garden Grove last month, the Orange County District Attorney announced Thursday.
The mother, 44-year-old Latira Shonty Hunt of La Puente, was in the stands on Nov. 7 watching her teenage daughter compete in a youth basketball game, when she allegedly yelled “you better hit her for that” after her daughter had an interaction with a rival player on the court.
Viral video shows her daughter then sucker punching the other player, a 15-year-old girl, in the face. The girl collapses on the court following the “unprovoked attack,” officials said.
Hunt was charged with one misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and one misdemeanor count of battery, according to the DA’s office.
She faces a maximum sentence of one year in Orange County Jail if convicted on all counts.
“It is unconscionable that a parent would encourage her child to engage in violence during a sporting event,” O.C. District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement.
The father of the girl who punched the other player, Former NBA player Corey Benjamin, issued an apology in response to the incident.
“As a father, I’m shocked and disappointed at my daughter’s behavior as this is not a reflection of the values and standards that my family holds. Nor does it exemplify the values, character and spirit of sportsmanship that the game of basketball requires,” he said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press.
The incident took place at an event hosted by Avac United, which organizes games for youth between the ages of 13 to 16 across Southern California.
The victim’s mother, Alice Ham, told KTLA that she knew something was wrong when her daughter came back home disoriented after her basketball game. The mother later found out what happened when teammates and other parents filled her in and showed her the video.
The Ham family released a statement through their attorney after charges were announced.
“The Ham family is pleased with the decision by the Orange County District Attorney to file charges against Latira Hunt, the statement read. “We believe that this is the correct decision and the first step towards ensuring that there is accountability. There is no place in sports for a parent to incite violence against another child. We are hopeful that this will serve to discourage this type of behavior in the future.”
The CEO of Avac United, Gary Thomas, told KTLA that the organization has banned the girl who punched Ham’s daughter and her mother, until further notice.