West Orange County CERT (Community Emergency Response Team for Western Orange County California)
West Orange County CERT serves the Western Orange County CA communities of Seal Beach, Cypress, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, La Palma, Buena Park, and Westminster,
The Cypress Village Neighbor 4 Neighbor event today was terrific. The HOA put on a very nice event for the 681 units in the complex and more that 100 residents attended. Our West Orange County CERT program had 4 tables/booths set up – Make Plan, Get A Kit, Get Informed and the doctors ran a […]
As many of you know, back in October, 2017 Cypress PD Officer Matt Ward was killed in an off duty multi-vehicle traffic collision on the 405 Freeway. Matt left behind his wife Allison and their sons Liam and Anderson; his brother Rob Ward, a Tustin PD Officer; and his parents, David and Gloria Opstad. […]
We had a fun meeting this past Wednesday. Ed taught the Stop The Bleed program and everyone who participated was certified. We also found out our CERT Trailer is out of commission for a while as some adjustments need to be made to it. For the time being the La Palma trailer will be our […]
It was a rare rain filled morning in Westminster, but by shortly after 9:00 the showers had stopped and the sun was shining down on the seventh annual Little Saigon Tet Parade. The parade celebrates the lunar new years and Year of the Pig. The annual event is hosted by the City of Westminster and […]
A huge Team Shout Out to the hardy members and Police Explorers who braved the rain and cold on Wednesday evening to help Ray and Dave unload the Seal Beach CERT Trailer. The job needed to be done and these folks showed up and took care of business. Thankyouverymuch! Pictured from left to right are Ray, […]
The neighbors along Schooner Way in Seal Beach got together for a Neighbor 4 Neighbor® event on Saturday 10/27/2018 and had a terrific turn out. Jeannie Dennison and a team of block captains arranged the event in the park along Schooner Way. The day was primarily for the neighbors to get out and meet each […]
HELP RAISE MONEY TO SUPPORT OUR INJURED VETS! The Woman’s Club of Cypress is creating a delicious recipe cookbook and 50% of the profits from its sales will be donated help our injured Vets through the Patriotic Service Dog Foundation. The other 50% goes to college scholarships and other charitable donations. This fundraiser helps to cover cookbook production […]
Our October Team meeting was held at the Cypress Community Center and did we have a great turnout – WOW! More than 40 Team members brought a large assortment of store bought and home made food items: salads, chicken, pizza, macaroni casserole and enough desserts to feed an army of locust. Nicely done Team! After […]
Our initial CMAP class for West Orange County CERT was a complete success, This class was based on the updated July 2018 CERT Mutual Aid Program materials released by Orange County CMAP, and it produced 6 new WOCC Level A candidates. A huge thanks to our class facilitators Kris Moskowitz, Michelle Hosejsi, Art Remnet from […]