Print
Excitement was writ large on the faces of children and adults alike Wednesday morning, as Newport-Mesa Unified School District welcomed thousands of elementary students to campus for the first full day of in-person instruction since March 2020.
Masked students at Adams Elementary School in Costa Mesa were greeted with cheery hellos and elbow bumps galore during the school’s morning drop-off period. For some friends, the start of the school day was the first opportunity for them to reconnect across cohorts that had been separated and attending in-person classes in shifts since Sept. 29.
NMUSD trustees approved the return of elementary school students to full-day instruction five days per week in a meeting last month, citing the continued countywide decline of coronavirus cases. Orange County Health Care officials on Wednesday reported 53 new infections and two COVID-19 fatalities.
OCTA welcomes new Supervisor to Board of Directors, approves selection of new Public Member
oc-breeze.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oc-breeze.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
TimesOC: A new development in the alleged beating of a homeless man by deputies
latimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from latimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Print
Vivar means “to live” in Spanish, and Jimmy Vivar has done plenty of living in his quarter-century on this Earth.
Vivar, a Costa Mesa resident, was born with an degenerative eyesight condition called Retinitis pigmentosa. He has very little sight, a field of vision that’s like a pinhole, and extreme difficulty seeing at night. He usually walks with a cane.
“Sometimes people ask for percentages,” Vivar said. “I don’t exactly know what the percentage of vision would be, but I do have problems with peripheral vision. Playing sports or Frisbee would be hard, seeing things from further away and coming close into my field of vision. Being able to navigate new areas is also difficult. Figuring out how deep a set of stairs are, or in a new place, where a fire hydrant might be, for example. And if there’s a white fire hydrant and a white building behind it, I’ll probably miss that.”