Mayor's Welcome

Get ready Garden Grove. Garden Grove Gems is coming! Gnorman the Gnome has a message for you about sprucing up your front yard, snapping a photo and joining the fun! This year's home beautification program is virtual, so whether you enter or not, you can check out the beautiful homes online and vote for your favorites. Watch Gnorman as he introduces the program and shares a few important dates. Looking good Garden Grove!

In this Headlines, Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones, on behalf of the Garden Grove City Council and Staff, shares some information about remodeling the City Hall Lobby. For your convenience, many services can be accessed online and most in-person business can be handled next door at the former Credit Union.

Annual West Garden Grove Youth Baseball Opening Day Parade and opening ceremony. Grand Marshal Laura Herzog, founder of Honoring Our Fallen, procession of antique cars, fun community event for the whole family.

CERT is the Community Emergency Response Team. They help police, firefighters, first-responders and us when there is a disaster. This group trains when things are good, then volunteers during the worst of times. GGTV3 Reporter Mark Bedor attended a Garden Grove CERT training session and graduation. He files this report.

At the City of Garden Grove we always want to look our best. When one of our neighborhoods needs a little boost, we are there to help. In this Headlines, Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones shares information about the City's clean-up efforts.

The City of Garden Grove cares about our neighborhoods! When one of these neighborhoods needs a little help, residents, volunteers, City employees and the Garden Grove Police Department are there to lend a hand. And Republic Services brought in a few big containers to haul off bulky items that were no longer needed. GGTV3 Reporter Breanna Greenup has the story. Plus, in Garden Grove we have established ourselves as a foodie destination. Now it looks like the City is also the place to go for coffee, tea and lots of other specialty beverages! Did you say boba?

The City’s Garden Grove Teen Action Collaborative (GGTAC), in partnership with the Employment Development Department’s Youth Employment Opportunity Program (YEOP), invites local teens, ages 13-17, to attend a free Career Building Workshop Series, aimed at helping local youth prepare for job and career opportunities!

The workshop dates and topics are:

City Hall lobby will be closed during an 8-month construction project, beginning Monday, January 31, 2022 through October 2022.

Front counter services will be available at the building west of City Hall at 12860 Euclid Street, which include business license, cashiering, and water payment services.

For more information, please visit www.ggcity.org/modified-services.

Over 100 beautiful quilts will be hung on the manicured grounds of Kiwanisland park. There will be opportunity baskets, a quilters garage sale with thousands of fantastic deals and fun games of Left, Center, Right where you can win handfuls of curated fat quarters.

The Orange County Quilters Guild, one of Southern California’s oldest guilds, is an educational and philanthropic organization. Every year they donate hundred of handmade quilts to various children's foundations and military veterans. This event will supports their philanthropic efforts.