The Waffle House Index helps Southerners — and FEMA — gauge a storm’s severity

• October 8, 2026

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

Golden hash browns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of syrup are among the classic Southern comfort foods. But when hurricanes tear through Southeastern towns, the hot meals and bold yellow signs of the local Waffle House provide another kind of comfort.

If a Waffle House stays open in town, even in a limited capacity, neighbors are reassured that the coming storm is unlikely to cause devastation. A closed location of the dependable diner chain has come to indicate impending disaster. The metric is known as the Waffle House Index.

What might sound like silly logic has become one of the most reliable ways for Southerners — and even federal officials — to gauge a storm’s severity and identify communities most in need of immediate aid.

What is the Waffle House Index?

The South’s favorite disaster authority provides an informal measure of how significantly a storm will affect or has affected a community.

A map of the chain’s over 1,900 locations, concentrated in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic, helps residents of storm-prone states assess whether they’re likely to lose power, experience severe flooding or endure other extreme conditions that might cause a resilient restaurant to close its doors. For some, it’s a telltale sign of whether they need to evacuate.

Waffle House is known not just for serving breakfast 24/7, 365 days a year, but also for its disaster preparedness. For decades, people across the South have noticed that the local Waffle House seemed to be the only business still open during a storm or the first to reopen after it passed.

The restaurant chain’s reputation for remaining open when people desperately needed a place to warm up, charge devices and grab a hot meal became a fairly reliable — albeit amusing — resource to help track recovery efforts. The company even operates its own storm center.

How does the index work?

Waffle House’s social media shares color-coded maps of its restaurant locations in certain regions that will soon be hit or are recovering from storm damage. The Federal Emergency Management Agency also offers some live tracking.

Green means the location is serving a full menu, indicating minimal damage in the surrounding area. The lights are on and the syrup is flowing.

Yellow means the restaurant is serving a limited menu, a signal that it’s pulling power from a generator and might have a low food supply. The area might not have running water or electricity, but there’s enough gas to fry up bacon for hungry customers.

Red means the location is closed, a sign of unsafe operating conditions and severe destruction to the restaurant or nearby communities.

How did the index start?

Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate has said he thought up the Waffle House Index while leading Florida’s emergency management efforts in 2004. He had been searching for something to eat while surveying the devastation left by Hurricane Charley and was only able to find a Waffle House serving a limited menu.

His team began to notice other open Waffle Houses in communities without power or running water. The restaurants eventually became a key feature on a color-coded map that his team provided to help the public and local officials identify where storm damage was most severe.

Fugate continued to use his color-coded map when he joined FEMA under President Barack Obama. He was the agency’s administrator in 2011 when a deadly tornado tore through the town of Joplin, Missouri. Both of the town’s Waffle Houses reportedly stayed open.

The restaurant chain’s disaster readiness is no coincidence. Seven locations were destroyed and 100 more shut down in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, but company executives saw business skyrocket at restaurants that reopened quickly.

They soon embraced a business strategy centered around keeping their restaurants operable during and after a disaster, according to the company’s website. The chain said it has invested in portable generators, bought a mobile command center and trained employees on what they can still serve if they lose electricity.

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Medical debt is crushing Los Angeles hospital patients. Health officials may have a fix

• October 8, 2026

By Noam N. Levey | KFF Health News

Every Tuesday, Naman Shah sees tuberculosis patients at a small public clinic in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. Shah, a physician and epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, pores over images of battered lungs, listens to labored breathing and checks medications.

It’s part of an initiative dating to the early 20th century to control infections so tuberculosis doesn’t spread. “We like doing things upstream,” Shah said, “meaning before they happen, not after the damage is done.”

Today, Shah and his colleagues are applying the same principle to medical debt. A key part of that effort is a new system to allow every hospital in Los Angeles County to easily screen patients for financial aid. The goal: to stop low-income families from getting a bill that buries them in debt.

Shah estimates this system could prevent several hundred million dollars of medical debt every year.

Vicious cycle

Nationwide, an estimated 100 million adults have some form of healthcare debt. In Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, public health officials calculate that about 800,000 residents have medical bills they can’t pay.

“The impacts of medical debt were staggering,” said Shah, who used to staff a rural health clinic in India and, since 2023, has led a county initiative in Los Angeles to tackle the debt problem.

“People end up with credit card debt and then a vicious cycle of high interest rates and poverty,” he said. “People forgo their prescriptions. People forgo appointments. And then you get into worse health.”

Hospitals typically offer financial aid to patients with low incomes. But information about assistance is often hard for patients to get. Applying can be cumbersome. And many eligible patients never seek aid, research shows.

“Most people walk into the hospital and walk out without any knowledge of financial assistance,” said Jared Walker, founder of Dollar For, a nonprofit that helps patients nationwide apply for aid, often called charity care.

That’s fueling debt. It’s also driving costly collection efforts that even hospital officials acknowledge pointlessly target low-income patients who are unlikely to be able to pay.

“They’re turning their wheels trying to collect on debt that isn’t collectable,” said Adena Tessler, regional vice president for the Hospital Association of Southern California.

Presumptive eligibility

One potential solution is a system that automatically screens and qualifies low-income patients for financial aid without requiring an application. This is called presumptive eligibility.

Some hospitals already use such systems, which rely on software that checks patient eligibility based on publicly available information such as credit history.

The strategy can be very effective. Shah said hospitals that have deployed presumptive eligibility systems have reported as much as a 50% increase in the amount of financial aid they give patients.

Under a state law passed last year, all California hospitals will have to start doing presumptive eligibility screening by next July.

But the systems can be expensive and difficult for smaller hospitals to implement. Only about 1 in 5 hospitals in Los Angeles County currently use them, Shah said.

Public health officials wondered if they could help more hospitals set them up.

The county, which, like many local governments, faces major fiscal challenges, couldn’t pay for this, Shah said. But the public health department could bring together healthcare and hospital officials in the county to figure out another solution.

“The beauty of government is not when it always has to do the work,” Shah said. “We have the ability to make sure that people cooperate.”

The Hospital Association of Southern California, initially wary of the county initiative, came to see improving hospital financial aid programs as beneficial to hospitals, many of which were wasting money on collections. “The billing process is cumbersome and costly,” said Paul Young, a senior vice president with the association.

The association agreed to procure a presumptive eligibility system and make it available to its members. This bulk-purchasing approach, which Young compared to “a Costco model,” would lower the cost for individual hospitals, he said.

At the same time, L.A. Care, a nonprofit health plan that administers Medicaid coverage for more than 2.5 million low-income county residents, committed $2 million to set up the system.

The investment reflected the safety net insurer’s mission to make medical care accessible to more people, said Melanie Fontes Rainer, who leads strategic planning for L.A. Care. “It’s going to make Los Angeles County better,” she said.

Making it work

Getting the new system up and running by January, as the partners hope, faces challenges.

Hospital officials are figuring out how the system will be funded in the long term. And it’s unclear how many of the county’s 88 acute care hospitals will ultimately use it, even if it’s cheaper and easier to access.

The partners are also working to improve data that the system relies on to screen patients. One goal is to link the system to tax records maintained by the state of California. This would provide hospitals with more accurate information on patients’ income than current systems, which often rely on estimated income.

Walker, the patient advocate at Dollar For, said he’s heartened by the county’s effort. “I’m optimistic that we can make a better charity care system,” he said. “And the fact that hospitals in Los Angeles County are willing to be innovative and creative about ways we can do that is super encouraging.”

For his part, Shah said county public health officials recognize that a better screening system at hospitals won’t by itself eliminate medical debt. But he said the public health department couldn’t ignore a problem that affects more county residents than asthma or tobacco use.

“Prevention is our bread and butter,” he said.

This article is part of “Hidden Help,” an investigative series from Tradeoffs and KFF Health News about how hospitals can protect their patients from the life-altering harms of medical debt.

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF.

This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

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Arizona congressional candidate says she was sexually assaulted when repairing campaign signs

• October 8, 2026

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and WUFEI YU

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona congressional candidate says she was knocked unconscious and sexually assaulted this summer when repairing campaign signs overnight.

Bernadette Greene-Placentia told investigators that two men raped her, and she kicked her feet up at one point to try to fight back. She said she felt the weight of one of her attackers on her body, and had bruises on her arms from being held down, a bump on her head and other injuries, according to police reports.

“I knew that I had been knocked out,” Greene-Placentia told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Greene-Placentia, 52, is a Democrat who is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh for the 8th Congressional District seat representing parts of metro Phoenix that are reliably red. She said she told her husband and campaign staff about the mid-August attack in Sun City days after it happened. The Phoenix New Times first reported on it Wednesday.

Greene-Placentia told the AP she was disgusted that two men took control of her body and she had no say in it. She said she decided to speak out publicly when she realized she was telling voters she would advocate for them when she was not advocating for herself.

“My takeaway is that I have a lot more empathy and understanding of why so many women don’t come forward,” she said. “And, and I’m hoping that I can encourage them.”

Greene-Placentia said she couldn’t recall many details of the Aug. 14 assault, including the exact location or a description of the men, though she said one wore black boots and had small feet. She told investigators one of the men used an expletive to describe her, and she believes he referenced her political party.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office declined to comment on its investigation of the attack.

Greene-Placentia is a former long-haul trucker and later ran a small transportation company, according to her campaign.

In a social media post supporting Democrat Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 run for the presidency, Greene-Placentia called herself a former Republican and a “never Trumper,” and said she voted Libertarian in 2016. Greene-Placentia later became more engaged in Arizona Democratic politics.

She said she often put up and repaired campaign signs overnight because it was cooler than the blistering summer days and there was less traffic.

Arizona Democratic Party treasurer Greg Freeman said he got a call from Greene-Placentia, a friend who ran his 2024 campaign for a county assessor, the morning of Aug. 17. She told him she had been sexually assaulted by two men, Freeman said, and he could tell she wasn’t ready to go to the police or share it publicly.

“Obviously she was processing it on the phone,” Freeman said. “She was just in shock. She was just horrified by what happened.”

Greene-Placentia said she wishes she had called police immediately and gone to the hospital. After the attack, she took multiple showers and washed the clothes she was wearing, police reports state.

The embarrassment and anger made it hard for her to come forward, she said. She reported the attack to police in late August.

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Surging surf floods onto Broadway and Coast Highway in Laguna Beach

• October 8, 2026

Motorists passing Main Beach in Laguna Beach found the ground covered in inches of water, even though rain forecast with Hurricane Rachel hasn’t arrived yet.

Marine Safety Chief Kai Bond said the water came from the ocean during a period of high tides and high surf.

“Rachel came earlier than expected,” he said, adding that passing motorists and visitors to Main Beach and other lower-lying areas of Laguna Beach might expect more of the same over the next two weeks.

The city’s public works crews were out Thursday morning clearing the area as traffic along Coast Highway, Broadway Street and Laguna Canyon Road slowed to a crawl. At close to 11 a.m., there was still at least 8 inches of water at the Coast Highway and Broadway intersection adjacent to the beach park.

Bond said the water recedes with the tide.

In South Laguna, some of the Aliso Beach coast-side parking lot is back open after city crews wrapped up work on clearing sand and making reports. The lot was closed before Labor Day because of impacts from an earlier hurricane.

The row of parking spaces closest to the sand will likely remain closed for at least a couple more weeks, Bond said, given the current weather forecast.

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The FBI has seized tools used by Chinese hackers for cyber operations, officials say

• October 8, 2026

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE and ERIC TUCKER

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and responsible for disruptive cyber operations in the United States and abroad, including against the power industry, academia and critical infrastructure.

The seizure of the tools, announced Wednesday by the FBI and Justice Department, represents the latest law enforcement effort in recent years to go after a broad-based hacking campaign known to the private sector as Flax Typhoon.

The tools at issue, called “Microscan” and “FishHub,” were used by the hackers to scan, phish and hack targets that included U.S. and foreign critical infrastructure. The tools were used to target, among other entities, an unnamed power company in the U.S., Japanese and Polish airports, Taiwanese universities, a multinational, nongovernmental organization and Taiwanese critical infrastructure companies.

The latest operation has rendered the tools inoperable in what FBI and Justice Department officials said was a blow to the hacking operation.

“We aim to remove the capability from the threat actors. We target their infrastructure, their money, and their tools,” FBI Cyber Division Deputy Assistant Director Jason Bilnoski told The Associated Press, calling the hacking operation “indiscriminate and reckless.”

The tools were operated by a Chinese-based information security company called Integrity Technology Group, which the FBI has said is closely associated with the Chinese government and is the actual identity of Flax Typhoon.

In September 2024, the FBI announced that it had disrupted a botnet associated with Flax Typhoon that installed malicious software on more than 200,000 consumer devices, including cameras, video recorders and home and office routers, to create a massive botnet — a network of infected computers. The botnet was used to facilitate cyber crimes, such as the theft of sensitive information from victims’ networks.

FBI San Diego Supervisory Special Agent Brett Lally said that the department would continue to monitor for ways that the company might rebuild its infrastructure.

“It’ll be interesting to see what this round of disruption actions have in terms of their ability to operate as a company in China,” Lally said.

Tucker reported from Washington.

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UCLA football has ‘a fun way of playing,’ CBS analyst Charles Davis says

• October 8, 2026

LOS ANGELES — UCLA football has captured college purists’ imagination around the country.

CBS lead college football analyst Charles Davis has seen the reaction during UCLA’s 4-0 start.

“I think if you don’t have a real affiliation or you’re not a fan rooting for or against UCLA , the rest of us are watching this in fascination,” Davis said. “They have a fun way of playing. And having that James Madison connection, knowing this staff played against Oregon in the College Football Playoff, makes for a day of compelling football on Saturday.”

Davis, who will be on the call when No. 21 UCLA battles No. 13 Oregon at 12:30 p.m. at Eugene’s Autzen Stadium, spoke with the Southern California News Group on Tuesday about his observations of the Bruins.

While the James Madison parallels are there, Davis doesn’t think Indiana’s story of overnight national championship success with Curt Cignetti compares to UCLA. Instead, he sees Bob Chesney as a coach fans can relate to and a figure who has built from the ground up.

Chesney’s first head coaching job was at NCAA Division III Salve Regina in Newport, Rhode Island, between 2010-12. Afterwards, Chesney headed to NCAA Division II Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., where he led the Greyhounds to five consecutive winning records and produced 12 All-Americans between 2013-17.

Next came the transition from NCAA II to a Division I FBS school at Holy Cross, where Chesney continued creating success and rebuilding programs. Chesney led Holy Cross to an 11-0 regular season record in 2022 – the first undefeated season by the program since 1991 before succeeding Cignetti at James Madison and leading the Dukes to their first College Football Playoff appearance.

“People like it,” Davis said. “The Indiana story isn’t going to be beaten. No one will ever be able to beat what Cignetti did. UCLA has had success in the past. But they haven’t been good in a while, and this is a lot of fun to watch. And when watching Bob Chesney, you’re seeing how he’s done it the right way. He’s worked his way through the ranks and his ascension has been incredible.”

One observation made by Davis is that Chesney has reinvented himself at each stop.

“He’s battle-tested, and he’s been through the coaching clinics and workshops,” Davis said. “His teachings, his messages are consistent, and he’s redefining himself like A.I. And the best part of all? I believe he wakes up confident with who he is every day. He knows what he wants and knows what wants to create that culture.

“You’ve seen it with the guys he’s brought in from JMU. And you see the buy-in quickly. If there’s a player who doesn’t know a scheme or has a question, there’s a James Madison guy there to help explain it.”

CULTIVATING TALENT FROM WITHIN

Chesney has also developed players who otherwise would’ve maybe been discarded to the scout team, second or third string, and turned them into stars. Senior center Riley Robell started as a scout team defensive lineman under Chesney and was on the verge of quitting football to focus on wrestling before meeting Chesney.

Wayne Knight was a kick returner before earning more carries with Chesney at James Madison and is now ranked second in FBS in yards per carry (9.0), tied for third with rushing touchdowns (nine) and carries the fourth-best rushing offense collectively.

And then there’s the work done with Nico Iamaleava, who transferred from Tennessee after a standout career at Warren High in Downey.

Chesney hasn’t just developed players as a coach. He’s viewed as a football professor. A mind that views the game of football with multiple dimensions and whose tactical intelligence and group organizing are hard to match.

He is a delegator who allows offensive coordinator Dean Kennedy and defensive coordinator Colin Hitschler, with their assistants, to teach the game to their own liking and style while obtaining key principles that have shaped UCLA’s early success.

“That’s what coaches are, coaches are teachers,” Davis said. “It’s not just on the field but off the field. I feel he and his staff have a way of identifying and teaching each player how to throw a block, catch a pass, and help each player figure out how to learn and develop themselves. And when you come to this program, you’re going to learn to be a better player. He went to all the clinics and learned how to get this message out. His whole staff is built that way.”

UTILIZING MULTIPLE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN

Among the bedrocks of UCLA’s early success has been Chesney’s constant rotation of offensive linemen, using 10 to 15 players in the trenches rather than a five-man rotation that plays together nearly every snap with occasional breaks.

The system installed by Chesney and offensive line coach Chris Smith has equated to UCLA’s success in the run game and passing game. Offensive linemen aren’t just viewed and utilized as complete one-size-fits-all pieces.

Davis marvels at how each blocker is looked at individually, with strengths and weaknesses to decipher which scheme fits best to their strengths, knowledge and playing style.

“They are going in like it’s a hockey change,” Davis said. “And there’s no loss in continuity. It’s amazing what I’m seeing. And it’s something we’ve rarely seen or at least done and well executed for years.”

Davis compared the run style, offensive tempo and switches to the strategies used by Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Paul Brown, who revolutionized the game using his own specialized T-formation that required alternating guards.

“We haven’t had that for a long time, and in this case, their continuity is in using multiple players,” Davis said. “You watch their production and it’s been fascinating to watch.”

But Davis also cautioned that Chesney’s style doesn’t fit with each program or organization. Chesney was hired by UCLA on Dec. 6, 2025, and had nearly a year to make the proper installs and recruit the proper players that fit his run style that’s become one of the elite weapons in all of college football.

“It’s not for everyone,” Davis said. “It’s worked well for Coach Chesney, but the key to having something similar is understanding how they go about it. It takes patience and finding the right players and also having great assistant coaches to teach.”

PROGRESS AND PROCESS OVER OUTCOMES

UCLA (4-0, 2-0 Big Ten) now faces Oregon in a highly anticipated rematch between Chesney, albeit at a different program, and Ducks head coach Dan Lanning, who will turn to Nebraska transfer quarterback Dylan Raiola after starter Dante Moore was ruled out Wednesday while still dealing with a head injury.

Moore, who transferred to Eugene in December 2023 after one topsy-turvy season at UCLA, sustained a frightening concussion on a second-quarter hit flagged for targeting in a 41-27 victory over USC on Sept. 26. Raiola, who stepped in and threw for 289 yards and two touchdowns in defeating the Trojans, will make his first start for the Ducks (3-1, 1-0).

Davis, in observing Chesney, has seen how UCLA has thrived. It might feel overnight from the outside until peeling back the layers and the small details executed, from stretching to Iamaleava’s footwork drills and catching interceptions in practice.

“It’s just fun to see UCLA having the success they are having as a team,” Davis said. “They run the ball with great effectiveness and turn that into great production. It’s success that not many expected so quickly. Now they get to be measured by a team like Oregon, who is always a factor in deciding the College Football Playoff.

“This is a team that plays with passion; they are talented, disciplined, and that’s why they’re hard to beat. For UCLA, they aren’t worried about anything besides measuring themselves. And they get that measurement against Oregon to really see how far along they are.”

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Army identifies systemic failures behind DC midair collision and calls for safety fixes

• October 8, 2026

By JOSH FUNK

The U.S. Army found many systemic breakdowns that led to last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington D.C. and recommended numerous steps the military should take to prevent future tragedies.

The military has not publicly released its report on the deadliest plane crash on U.S. soil in over two decades, but ultimately shared it with many of the families of the 67 people who died.

For months, the families have been pressuring the Army in daily social media posts to release the report, which was completed in May. The Associated Press obtained a copy on Thursday. The Army did not immediately comment.

While the report largely reinforces the National Transportation Safety Board’s conclusions, the civilian investigation was broader and the NTSB focused on years of warning signs missed by the Federal Aviation Administration. The Army report highlighted how the air traffic controller in the tower at Reagan National Airport could have prevented the crash, but also acknowledged the military’s own failings.

The report recommended that the Army look beyond Washington, D.C., to study the practices in every major city where its helicopters operate to ensure similar risks aren’t present. An Army official said the review of helicopter flights in other cities, including Los Angeles and the Seattle-Tacoma region, is ongoing. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the situation.

The lieutenant general who authored the report said “breakdowns across all layers of conflict management caused this accident” but “the most salient contributing factor was the two broken radio transmissions” that kept the helicopter crew from identifying Flight 5342 as it was circling to land on Reagan National Airport’s alternate runway. The military pilots were wearing night-vision goggles that limited their field of vision and made it difficult to spot the plane amid the lights of the city.

The main group of families of passengers on the plane, who were flying from Wichita, Kansas, said the report reinforces their call for Congress to pass aviation safety reforms and require aircraft to be equipped with systems that will help pilots know where traffic in the air is.

“It’s a simple concept anyone can understand: aircraft should be able to see each other in the sky. The technology is proven. All that’s required is the political will to do the right thing,” the Families of Flight 5342 group said in a statement Thursday.

“We have waited long enough. We waited for the NTSB. We waited for the Army. Both investigations are complete, and both make clear that collision avoidance technology must be part of the solution. There is nothing left for Congress to wait for,” they said.

Both the House and Senate passed different aviation safety bills, but lawmakers are still working on a compromise piece of legislation to bring up for a vote in both houses of Congress.

Associated Press Writer Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report from Washington.

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Anaheim briefs: PACE academy to connect residents with police

• October 8, 2026

Public Awareness through Citizens Education, or P.A.C.E., is coming to Anaheim.

Participation in the PACE program is a serious time commitment and well worth it. The PACE academy helps citizens become more aware of how their Police Department functions in daily operations, helps the department to become more aware of the feelings and concerns of the community, and builds harmonious relationships between citizens and police personnel.

Classes will be meeting on Tuesday nights from 6 to 9 p.m. for 14 weeks. Apply by Jan. 30, 2027. Call Rocio Burress, crime prevention specialist with APD, for more information and to apply at 714-765-1918.

Halloween movies at Farmers Park

Lumen Experiences is bringing Halloween Monday Night Movies to the Anaheim Packing District’s Farmers Park.

The free screenings will be shown on a giant LED screen in the park.  Seating and blankets available while supplies last. Showtime is 7 p.m.

And of course, popcorn is available for purchase.

Coming up are “Casper” on  Oct. 12; “Coco” on Oct. 19; and “Hocus Pocus” on Oct. 26.

For more information and a full list of events, visit anaheimpackingdistrictcom

Nominate homes that get in the spirit

The Anaheim Beautiful Fall & Halloween Home Decorating Contest is taking entries until Oct. 12.

Do you go all out to turn your home into something spooky or festive in your neighborhood? Anaheim Beautiful is offering awards.

Email to contact@anaheimbeautiful.org to enter: Resident’s name, full address, phone, email address, pictures and video. Homes will need to remain decorated from Oct. 16 to Oct. 31 (dusk to 10 p.m.).

Who will be the next Miss Anaheim?

The 2026-27 Miss Anaheim Beautiful scholarship program recognition and crowning will be held on Oct. 11.

Tickets are $10 for the 3 p.m. event at the Ebell Club, 226 N. Helena St.

For more information, contact contact@anaheimbeautiful.org

Colonists cruise to gather

A classic car show will be hosted on Oct.  17 at Anaheim High.

There will be entertainment, food, vendors, and lots of classic cars to check out.  There will also be lots of alumni on site.

The show is looking for more classic car owners to participate. For forms or information, email anaheimalumni@yahoo.com

Also, the next Anaheim High all-class alumni breakfast is Nov. 9.

Former Colonists will meet at Mr. D’s Diner, 126 E. Yorba Linda Blvd., in Placentia.  The gathering features a speaker to enlighten the group, door prizes and more.

If you would like to attend or find out when the next one is, contact 2ahsbreakfast@gmail.com

Vintage and collectible doll sale

The CA Doll Collectors Club is presenting a big doll sale on Nov. 8 in Anaheim.

Antique vintage dolls, Barbies, toys, teddy bears, and vintage holiday items will be for sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Brookhurst Community Center, 2271 West Crescent Ave.

Admission is $5; parking will be free. Contact Janice Young with questions at 714-345-5797.

Help get Anaheim Halloween ready

Halloween is right around the corner, and so are the Anaheim Fall Festival and Halloween Parade.

The organizers of the two popular events are looking for volunteers. Each Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. up until the events on Oct. 24, folks will be busy creating new floats and sprucing up the existing floats.  Join the fun — and they do have a lot of fun!

For more information, contact siobahn@anaheimfallfestival.org

Shop and help support the library

The Friends of Anaheim Public Library Book Sale is coming on Sept. 18 at the Central Library.

There will be books for sale, and other items too, such as jewelry, curios, knick-knacks, puzzles and more. Proceeds from the book sale directly support Anaheim Public Library programs and services.

The sale will be 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Central Library’s basement, 500 W. Broadway. For more information, call 714-765-1810

Muzeo has an animated October

The Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center has an exhibit from the Walt Disney Archives on display.

“Capturing Life, Creating Character,” about the art of live-action reference, will be open in the Muzeo’s Main Gallery through Nov. 1.

This is a fascinating look at the pursuit of character animation through a collection of rarely seen photographs of live performers and their animated counterparts.

Another exhibit, “AnaheimLand,” is showing in the Carnegie South Gallery, also through Nov. 1. ” AnaheimLand ” draws on the deep, living connection between our city and the Disneyland Resort.  Don’t miss it.

For more information, visit muzeo.org

Andrea Manes shares with her neighbors events and news about the Anaheim community. If you have an event to share, contact her at andreadeemanes@gmail.com or 714-815-3885.

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