The Universal Sports Institute in Yorba Linda was meant to keep and attract students at a time when enrollment and funding are falling. Some school board members aren’t sure the program is a good investment.
Although her business premises were destroyed, Shelene Hearring’s students helped her understand that “all the spirits, all the energy, all the love, all those years were still living.”
The home construction market has already been dealing with shortages of skilled labor and building materials, along with expensive construction loans. Those factors will add to the costs of rebuilding communities destroyed by fires.