A competitor hangs on to a steer as he flies through the air after sliding off his horse during the Steer Wrestling event at the 20th anniversary Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo held at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park on San Juan Capistrano Saturday, August 27, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Retired Marine Lt. Col.Jamey Federico, left, and Marine Maj. Thomas Schueman are pictured outside Camp Pendleton in San Clemente on Monday, August 29, 2022. Both Marines went through extraordinary measures using their network of contacts to get their interpreters and their families out of Afghanistan. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Bicentennial Mural on the spillway of the Prado Dam in Corona, CA, on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. Ron Kammeye created the mural in the 1970s. After a long legal battle, organizers are planning to start the restoration of the “200 Years of Freedom” bicentennial mural visible to drivers on the eastbound 91 Freeway. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Mural designer Ron Kammeyer stands in front of the bicentennial mural he created in the 1970s for the Prado Dam spillway in Corona, CA, on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. Kammeyer is helping to restore the mural. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
People take a cool morning stroll through TeWinkle Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. The city is seeking public input for a plan to refurbish the lakes, which are leaky and have an inoperable pump system. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Employee Preston Ramirez gives his one-year-old horse Apricot a cooling shower at the El Rodeo Equestrian Center in Yorba Linda, CA on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. Ramirez is an assistant trainer and groomer at the center.
Temperatures are expected to be around 100 degrees in much of the county through the Labor Day weekend. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A baby goat uses Aurelio Osorio’s back as a springboard during Yin Yoga class at Goods and Goats in San Juan Capistrano on Sunday, August 28, 2022. Goat yoga has become popular at the farm. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A rider attempts to stay on the horse during the Bareback Riding event at the 20th anniversary Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo held at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park on San Juan Capistrano Saturday, August 27, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lines on the rocks show previous water levels on Treasure Island/Garstin Island in Big Bear Lake, CA, on Friday, August 26, 2022. The lake is 16 1/2 feet below full and algae is giving the water a green hue. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Docks sit on the embankment in Boulder Bay in Big Bear Lake, CA, on Friday, August 26, 2022. The lake is 16 1/2 feet below full and algae is giving the water a green hue. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kayaks are docked near the solar observatory in Big Bear, CA, on Friday, August 26, 2022. The lake is 16 1/2 feet below full and algae is giving the water a green hue. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A competitor slides off his horse and grabs a running steer during the Steer Wrestling event at the 20th anniversary Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo held at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park on San Juan Capistrano Saturday, August 27, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Artist Marina Auilera holds her piece, QUE PASA HOMEBOY, at the El Salvador Community Center in Santa Ana, on Friday, August 26, 2022. Her work and that of other Chicano artists will be on display during the Chicano Heritage Festival at El Salvador Park in Santa Ana on Sunday, August 28, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Saint Morgan, 10, takes a spin while the 11th Annual Uptown Jazz Festival in Long Beach plays nearby at Houghton Park on Saturday, August 27, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Marines salute as the American flag is lowered to half staff during a remembrance service at Park Semper Fi in San Clemente, CA on Friday, August 26, 2022. The event honored the 13 service members who were killed in a bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan airport a year earlier during the U.S. withdraw. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Deven Bryant, linebacker at St. John Bosco in Bellflower on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
St. John Bosco quarterback Pierce Clarkson (10) in Bellflower on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A teen lets the incoming waves rush past him near the Seal Beach Pier in Seal Beach on Monday, August 22, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kite surfers ride the waves in Seal Beach on Monday, August 22, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cancer patient Bonnie Nolan gets a view of the City of Hope’s new outpatient care center as she rides in the Great Park Balloon to celebrate the opening of in Irvine, CA, on Monday, August 22, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Monday, August 22, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Xena, a dog up for adoption, gets a kiss from Dove Project’s Kiana Bahm of Hermosa Beach at the Mess Hall Market at FLIGHT at Tustin Legacy in Tustin which partnered with local dog rescues and vendors to celebrate National Dog Month with an adoption event on Saturday, August 20, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
David Wenwei Chou, left, the man accused of opening fire in a Laguna Woods church in May, killing one and injuring five others, appears for an arraignment with his attorney, Jennifer Ryan, deputy public defender, in superior court in Santa Ana on Friday, August 19, 2022. Chou entered a not guilty plea to murder and attempted murder charges and hate-crime enhancements. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Shoshana Gomez gets a high-five from Hanah Berger as she rides a waterslide at Camp Silver Gan Israel in Huntington Beach, CA, on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Chesky Paltiel takes aim on the archery range at Camp Silver Gan Israel in Huntington Beach, CA, on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Mobile Operations Manager Parsia Jahanbani prepares a dose of the monkeypox vaccine at Families Together of Orange County in Tustin, CA on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. The Jynneos vaccine consists of two doses administered 28 days apart. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jamie Tilbury’s 4-year-old son, Parker, takes shelter during the first day of school at Vista Del Mar in San Clemente on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Parker’s older brother, Benjamin, 7, was starting second grade. Parker was going to pre-k. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Middle school students on Vista Del Mar’s leadership team, welcome children back during the first day of school in San Clemente on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Zion Fox of Long Beach, the head man dancer, of Arikara tribe in North Dakota, dances in the arena as the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians hosts a powwow at the Blas Aguilar Adobe in San Juan Capistrano on Saturday, August 13, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Artist Lani Emanuel, right, and her oil on canvas, “Imaginary Friend,” invites art-goers to her booth during the 90th Birthday Bash for the Festival of Arts Fine Art Show in Laguna Beach on Saturday, August 13, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A shopper walks past the seven-foot letters spelling, HOPE, each painted by a local artist, which depicts the cancer journey of four local City of Hope Orange County survivors, in South Coast Plaza’s Jewel Court on Friday, August 12, 2022. The exhibit, Hope is a Masterpiece, is a collaboration between City of Hope Orange County and South Coast Plaza and is on display through August 28th. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Workers with HSG, a window cleaning and servicing company, get busy on some of the 10,000 window panes at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA on Friday, August 12, 2022. The job will take several weeks to finish. The windows were last cleaned before the cathedrals opening in 2019. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dr. Christopher Ried, Medical Director, HIV/STD Services pictured at the Orange County Health Care Agency in Santa Ana on Thursday, August 11, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Emily Johnson, supervisor of the Long Beach’s HIV-STI Surveillance Program in Long Beach on Thursday, August 11, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Mia Aviles, in white, gives a hug to Isabella Pentleton during the first day of school at Sunkist Elementary School in Anaheim, CA on Thursday, August 11, 2022. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Workers clean Laguna Canyon Road after a water pipe broke along West Ridge Trail and flooded the roadway in Laguna Beach, CA, on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Dr. Shannon Connolly, associate medical director at Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties,
in Anaheim on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Dr. Connolly says, “In the last 10 years, people not considered to be in high-risk groups are coming back positive for syphilis. I recently had a patient who tested positive, was a married heterosexual woman from the middle class, with no risk factors that I could identify.” (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Pali Adventures counselor, Hiccup, soothes a camper who climbed 50-feet up a tree to a jumping platform before deciding not to jump. Hiccup, patiently escorted him down in Running Springs on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Children in Pali camp’s Flying Trapeze specialty, like 12-year-old Rio Revis, soar off a 24-foot-tall platform and are caught midair by counselor Rabbit in Running Springs on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. Rabbit has performed internationally and is co-founder of Santa Barbara Trapeze Company. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Pali counselor, Shivers, keeps an eye on campers from atop a scaffold as the former college diver teaches them Hollywood Stunts in Running Springs on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Lifeguard Sofie Gibson teaches campers how to jump in a pool with a rescue tube during Camp Wild Rivers Junior Lifeguards in Irvine, CA, on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Emma Marquis gets a kiss from her mom Delfina Padilla during the first day of class at Hansen Elementary School in Anaheim, CA on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Cheryl Rex looks to the flag as servicemen, including her son, Marine Private Branden Murrell, left, stand during the flag retreat at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Monday, August 8, 2022. Rex’s other son, Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, was one of the 11 service members killed in the bomb attack at HKAI during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Merola received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal during the flag retreat at Disneyland’s Town Square. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Marine Private Branden Murrell, left, and Master Sergeant Patrick Hause, stand during the flag retreat at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Monday, August 8, 2022. Murrell’s brother, Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, was one of the 11 service members killed in the bomb attack at HKAI during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Merola received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal during the flag retreat at Disneyland’s Town Square. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Seventeen-year-old Mack Rutherford was greeted by news crews and officials after landing at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA on Monday, August 8, 2022. Rutherford is attempting to be the youngest person to fly around the world solo in an aircraft. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
James Foster of the BMX Stunt Masters sails through the air while performing a stunt off the ramp during Rancho Santa Margarita’s first-ever Bike Rodeo in the parking lot of the Bell Tower Regional Community Center Rancho in Rancho Santa Margarita on Sunday, August 7, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ezekiel Lau of Hawaii celebrates his Men’s US Open of Surfing win in Huntington Beach on Sunday, August 7, 2022. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Surfers’ Hall of Fame inductee Peter Mel reacts after making his imprint in concrete during the ceremony on Main Street in Huntington Beach, CA on Friday, August 5, 2022. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Beth Fitchet Wood and Steve Wood take a photo with surfer Brett Simpson following their inductions into the Surfing Walk of Fame on Main Street in Huntington Beach, CA on Thursday, August 4, 2022. Simpson was the Surf Champion inductee, the Woods were the Surf Culture inductees for the band Honk. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The Pacific Symphony and the Pacific Chorale, under the direction of Carl St.Clair, perform for the “Concert for Healing” at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. The concert was held in memory of the victims of the shooting on the church property on May 15. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jason Oppenheim in his Newport Beach, CA, office on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Oppenheim, stars in the new Netflix series “Selling The OC” premiering Aug. 24. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Steve Van Doren, left, of Vans, poses for a selfie with Sara Maltby, Kiana Sabla and Gwen Sanchez, right, as he cooks free hotdogs for beach goers at the Van Doren Village during the US Open of Surfing on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, in Huntington Beach. It is one of the ten fun and free things to do at the US Open of Surfing this week in Huntington Beach. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Brea K9 officer Matt Wendling, left, swings around the German shepherd named Mirk to demonstrate how the police dogs are trained not to let go of a suspect until give a command to do so during the National Night Out in Brea Downtown in Brea on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Brea Fire Department paramedic Chis Murray, left, attempts to give 19-month-old Troy H. a fire hat during the National Night Out in Brea Downtown in Brea on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Common dolphins swim just off the bow of the boat, Lily, of Capt Dave’s Dana Point Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari, off Dana Point on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. A group from the World Animal Protection took a tour of the waters off Dana Point to see marine life in the wild, a year after Dana Point was declared the nation’s first Whale Heritage Site in North America. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A dog carries a skateboard as it takes a walk along the boardwalk near the Huntington Beach Pier in Huntington Beach on day four of the US Open of Surfing on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Sawyer Lindblad of San Clemente surfs during the Vans US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Bettylou Sakura Johnson, right, and Sawyer Lindblad pass a fisherman on their to their heat at the Vans US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Kei Kobayashi of San Clemente, second from left, poses for photos after surfing in his heat on the opening day of the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach on Saturday, July 30, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
We asked our photographers to pick their favorite photos from July 2022, and here are some of the moments they selected.
Even though summer isn’t over, for most of OC, August meant the end of summer camps and students heading back to school. In Huntington Beach, Camp Silver Gan Israel, a Jewish day camp, wrapped up its 50th year serving 250 kids a week in a place Rabbi Sender Engel, calls, “a place where happy kids are Jewisher and Jewish kids are happier”
Above Orange County, chefs, secret agents and trapeze artists met in the San Bernardino mountains at Pali Adventures.Kids get to choose from among 60 afternoon electives during the weeklong summer camp. After entering the summer camp’s compound the 250-acre forest becomes your battleground. You will drive an all-terrain vehicle. You will climb four stories up a pine tree and jump. You will learn martial arts and self-defense. You may even go on an overnight mission. But you won’t be able to call mom and dad. Sorry, Pali rules.
In Irvine, the area’s newest attraction started a junior lifeguard program giving inland Orange County kids a unique place to learn water safety. Camp Wild Rivers Junior Lifeguards is a one-week program for kids 6 to 13 years old at Wild Rivers Water Park in Irvine.
At the beach, thousands gathered to watch the year’s biggest surfing competition – the Vans US Open of Surfing where competitors not only ride the waves but hang out with fans along the shore. Along with the new inductees to the Surfing Walk of Fame on Main Street in Huntington Beach.
Over in Garden Grove, Workers with HSG, a window cleaning and servicing company, got busy on some of the 10,000 window panes at Christ Cathedral. The job takes several weeks to finish. The windows were last cleaned before the cathedrals opened in 2019.
Down in San Clemente, there was a range of emotions as kids returned to Vista Del Mar K-8 school. On one side of campus, middle school students on the school’s leadership team were all smiles as they welcomed their classmates back to school. While in another classroom Jamie Tilbury’s 4-year-old son, Parker, took shelter as he held on to her legs before starting pre-k.
The month ended with sweltering heat in San Juan Capistrano as goats and horses took center stage in the city. While baby goats joined adult humans during Yin Yoga class at Goods and Goats cowboys were also competing at the 20th anniversary Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo.
