April 2025 - Shannon Louis

April 29, 2025

Vietnam War pilot reflects on rescue helicopter evacuations during the fall of Saigon

About two dozen Vietnam veterans joined Irvine dignitaries and others Tuesday at Hangar 297 at the Great Park, the future home of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Operation Frequent...

April 29, 2025

The Habit goes national with a burger created for Coachella

A combo that The Habit & Burger & Grill created exclusively for fans going to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is now going to be available for everybody. It’s called the Desert Drip...

April 28, 2025

Status Update: Brea Mall opens new entrance, shops as expansion continues

A sophisticated new entrance with a faux-turf courtyard now welcomes shoppers at the Brea Mall, part of an evolving expansion at the north Orange County retail center. Inside a new wing of stores are open,...

April 25, 2025

Real estate news: Senior living facility closing in Orange, 56 layoffs pending

The assisted living facility ActivCare Living in Orange is closing in early June. The company relayed the news to the California Employment Development Department, indicating the entire staff would be laid off when the facility...

April 25, 2025

Irvine to be home of first T&T Asian supermarket in Southern California

Canada’s largest Asian grocery store chain is expanding to Southern California, opening its first supermarket in Irvine’s Great Park Neighborhoods next year while establishing its first U.S. regional headquarters in Brea where it will oversee...

April 24, 2025

McDonald’s launches chicken strips, taking on Taco Bell and Wienerschnitzel

A fast food chicken war has broken out on three fronts. McDonald’s is adding what it calls its first new permanent menu item in four years with the introduction of McCrispy Strips. It will arrive...

April 24, 2025

Great Park gondolas gets initial OK from board for possible pilot

A gondola-like system is now on the path to arrive at the Irvine Great Park after a city board approved on Tuesday, April 22, looking at a pilot system to move the visitors around. The...

April 21, 2025

Status Update: JCPenney to be bulldozed in Orange; 99 Ranch opens in Aliso Viejo

City and homebuilding officials will gather Thursday, April 24 to witness the demolition of the long-shuttered JCPenney at the Village at Orange Mall. The mall, now half of its former shape, saw the back end...

April 21, 2025

Gondolas in the Great Park? Irvine could pilot new transportation system.

Great Park visitors one day might get around using a new gondola-like transportation system that delivers aerial views, taking passengers from shops to the park’s famed balloon. The Great Park Board on Tuesday, April 22,...

April 19, 2025

Earth Day celebrations get an early start, with more events planned through the week

The moment of meditation was about more than just sitting still – the intention was to connect with nature. Hundreds of people at four beaches – Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Dana Point and Long Beach...

Month: April 2025