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The college conversation: Her daughter is headed off to school

LISA McLAUGHLIN, Daily Pilot columnist

My 5-year-old heads off to kindergarten this week, and even though she’s been in preschool and pre-K for three years, I’m a mess.

This transition is the real deal, and I’m beside myself wondering if I’ll have enough tissues the first day.

She, on the other hand, is ecstatic. The thought of new friends. New clothes. What her new teacher will be like.

And, more than that, she can’t wait to get back to school and learn. The Montessori school that she attended for three years called the time when students were focusing on academics “work,” so she’s really excited for new “work.”
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Letters to the editor: Hoag Irvine, JWA issues

1:57 pm, Sep 3rd, 2010 Written by Daily Pilot Costa Mesa Newport Beach News Add a Comment

Hoag Hospital, Irvine

This is one of those reports that is very uplifting (“Care catered to Asian Americans,” Aug. 29). At first, it makes you feel proud of your fellow citizens. Just how far as citizens we will go to accommodate all cultures and traditions of the known world while paying little attention to our own. We print government documents in various languages for all those to exercise their rights as citizens or permanent residents. Major corporations have several languages you can choose to carry on business, as the common language is splintered into many parts.

Over catering to Mexicans in the public school system and through law enforcement or lack of law enforcement has been costly. We have gone from a time when Californians were just the average citizen. With the same problems and joys as the rest of the citizens in California. Fast forward to today and we are almost completely segregated from Mexicans by location, language, culture and flag.

This all started with the poor nurse that thought she was bringing a refreshing dessert — a popsicle — to a new mother. The nurse didn’t expect anyone to be ’shocked’ for such a simple kindness. Instead the nurse was lectured on how and what she should know before being a nurse. When in reality it was the patient and family who should learn the customs, language and traditions of this nation. Which now seems like a distant dream as to immigrants actually adopting their new nation state as their own.

Does E Pluribus Unum, ‘out of many, one’ have any importance or important meaning in today’s culture? If it does we need to work on it a little more. Or, we will continue to become ‘out of many, the tower of babel of many more’ that will not hold us together as a nation state or the several states. A vast waste land, of different areas, where we have nothing in common except the wars between us.

August Lightfoot

Newport Beach

ps: The website is now available with sections in Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean. Calif. Senator’s website.
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UC Irvine shortens but won’t lift campus ban on Muslim group, students say

1:21 pm, Sep 3rd, 2010 Written by Los Angeles Times Irvine News Add a Comment
The suspension of a Muslim student group at UC Irvine was upheld Friday by university officials, but the recommended yearlong ban was cut in half, the Muslim group announced, meaning the group will be able to begin participating in campus activities in December.

The Muslim Student Union was appealing the campus ban that was handed down earlier this summer following a protest by several students during a February speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren.

The union has maintained that it did not organize the protest, though many of its officers and members participated.

In maintaining the suspension, the university relied on that participation, which it said made the appearance of the student union’s endorsement for the protest difficult to overcome, said Reem Salahi, the group’s attorney. … Continue Reading
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Forget the U.S. Open. These guys play with wooden rackets

12:18 pm, Sep 3rd, 2010 Written by Joanna Clay Costa Mesa Newport Beach Regional Sports Add a Comment

COSTA MESA — It all started in 1999, when friends Clay Peterson and Johnny McCray bought neighboring homes.

While unpacking, Peterson came upon a wooden tennis racquet and they started to hit balls in Peterson’s tennis court.

Then they had an idea.

“Why don’t we have a tournament and have people dress up?” Peterson thought.

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Man found dead on street in Santa Ana

12:00 pm, Sep 3rd, 2010 Written by Los Angeles Times News Add a Comment

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Dozens of $20 bills lay like confetti on a Santa Ana street Friday after a 55-year-old man was killed during a robbery just hours after winning several thousand dollars at a casino in Hawaiian Gardens.

Santa Ana police were alerted to the South Andres Place killing about 5:30 a.m. by a woman screaming for help.

Arriving officers discovered a man laying in the street, having apparently been run over by an assailant.

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The Crowd: Event raises $104K for charity

11:21 am, Sep 3rd, 2010 Written by Daily Pilot Costa Mesa Events Newport Beach Add a Comment

By B.W. Cook, Daily Pilot columnist

The final fundraising tally for the 2010 O.C. Baron’s Speakeasy summer party has topped $140,500. Chaired by the super dedicated Carol Wilken and Kay Burra, the 12th annual event, to raise money for the fight against cancer in Orange County, unfolded at the Crevier Classic Car Barn adjacent to John Wayne Airport. More than 200 guests, many in 1920sattire, in keeping with the party theme, enjoyed catering by Soiree amidst the magnificent automobiles housed in the warehouse. Auctioneer Charles Dreyer pushed the live auction merchandise while the crowd checked out a massive silent auction to boot. Enjoying the sounds of Bobby Mustos and the Sidecar Jazz were party organizers Margo Ferris, Connie Cruz, Nancy and Bob Johnston, Anne Moore, Barbara Steinberg, Paul Kamholz, David and Betty Comegys and Susan Ballou.
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City Life: Spend time with your kids — now

10:51 am, Sep 3rd, 2010 Written by Daily Pilot Costa Mesa Newport Beach Thoughts Add a Comment

By Steve Smith, Daily Pilot columnist

My father was not a wealthy man. Not even close. But he now has something in common with Donald Bren, the billionaire chairman of the Irvine Co.

A few days before my father passed away 10 years ago, he told me he wished he’d spent more time with his four boys.

During Bren’s testimony in the trial to determine whether he owed more money to two children born out of wedlock 18 and 22 years ago, Bren was asked by one of his lawyers whether he regretted not having spent more time with them.

“I do,” he replied.
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Christian Dior opens at South Coast Plaza

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Christian Dior lovers now have a new reason to adore Dior.

The Christian Dior store at South Coast Plaza celebrated its grand reopening Wednesday night complete with flowing Champagne, models in the designer’s latest dresses and an appearance by actress Eva Mendes, who’s been photographed on several occasions with a camel colored Dior Libertine Hobo bag slung over her shoulder.

The store location may be the same, cater-cornered from Hermes in the Costa Mesa uber-mall, but the interior has undergone a complete facelift. The space was gutted and then remodeled for three months to create separate salons for ready-to-wear shoes, fine jewelry and watches.

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Angels’ Jordan Walden steps in as surprise setup man

8:59 am, Sep 3rd, 2010 Written by Los Angeles Times Regional Sports Add a Comment
Reporting from Oakland — After the Aug. 28 trade that sent closer Brian Fuentes to the Minnesota Twins, Manager Mike Scioscia said he would use the relief triumvirate of Kevin Jepsen, Francisco Rodriguez and Jordan Walden to set up new closer Fernando Rodney.

The first two names made sense. Jepsen has been one of the Angels’ primary setup men since 2009, and Rodriguez, though a rookie, has emerged this season as a fairly reliable right-hander.

But Walden? The 22-year-old right-hander had been in the big leagues for all of six days at the time, and he was being tabbed as one of the team’s top short relievers?


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Hall is the man for JSerra

11:32 pm, Sep 2nd, 2010 Written by Matt Szabo Newport Beach Regional Sports Add a Comment

Newport Beach resident Jake Hall, a junior at JSerra High, is the Lions’ starting quarterback this year.

Hall got a chance for a reunion of sorts Thursday night, as his Lions played host to Newport Harbor in a scrimmage. Hall grew up with several of the current Sailors in the Newport-Mesa Junior All-American Football program. He was on the 2006 Pee-Wee level team that made it to the Super Bowl.

Hall, who threw one touchdown pass against Newport Harbor in the scrimmage, will lead the rising Lions, who won their first Trinity League game in four years last season.

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PHOTOS: Marina High School Football

Written by Scott Smeltzer on Sep 1st, 2010 at 2:37 pm

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Marina High School football players practice Tuesday, Aug. 31 in preparation for the upcoming season.

PHOTOS: Ocean View Football

Written by Scott Smeltzer on Sep 1st, 2010 at 2:30 pm

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Ocean View High School players practice Tuesday, Aug. 31 in preparation for the start of the season.

PHOTOS: Project Self Sufficiency Back-to-School Celebration

Written by Scott Smeltzer on Sep 1st, 2010 at 2:22 pm

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Project Self Sufficiency hosts a back-to-school celebration with free backpacks and school supplies at the Edison Community Center Monday, Aug. 30.

Man who killed Newport liquor store clerk gets 25 to life

Written by Mike Reicher on Aug 31st, 2010 at 12:55 pm

Weston Scott Kruger, a Newport Harbor High School graduate, was sentenced to 25 years to life Tuesday, and will be eligible for parole in 21 years because of credit for time already served.
The defense is planning an appeal based on certain jury instructions, including those to consider that a homicide occurred at the same time [...]

Newport tennis player Beblie improving

Written by Matt Szabo on Aug 27th, 2010 at 10:45 pm

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Newport Harbor High incoming senior Tracy Beblie won the 11th annual Safe Passage Summer Junior Open tennis tournament Thursday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, beating Jake Hoeger of Redondo Beach, 6-0, 6-4 in the final.
Beblie had knocked off No. 1-seeded Anthony Lee of Gardena in a semifinal, 6-0, 6-2.
Beblie, who played No. 1 [...]

PHOTOS: Oktoberfest at the Old World Village

Written by Scott Smeltzer on Aug 27th, 2010 at 4:33 pm

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Oktoberfest at the Old World Village in Huntington Beach will start on Sept. 5 and run through Oct. 31 on Wednesdays through Sundays.

Elvis in the Marketplace

Written by Daily Pilot on Aug 24th, 2010 at 10:45 am

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Man arrested after multiple crashes

Written by Joseph Serna on Aug 20th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

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CORONA DEL MAR — A Lynwood man was arrested this morning after police said he got behind the wheel drunk and, from a review of a police account, essentially played bumper cars down a Newport Beach street before coming to a stop on a front lawn.
Joshua Mario Muniz, 24, was arrested on [...]

It’s an ‘emotional yo-yo’

Written by Joseph Serna on Aug 20th, 2010 at 11:12 am

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COSTA MESA — Heather Ellis can’t help but get teary-eyed when talking about how it feels to wait while lawyers and judges argue over the fate of same-sex marriage rights in California.
“I don’t really know how to say it,” Ellis, 38, said. “It’s really odd that we have to go through this.”
Ellis and [...]

College opens first residence hall

Written by Cindy Frazier on Aug 20th, 2010 at 9:58 am

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This year, for the first time, Laguna College of Art & Design students will be able to live in campus housing.
The housing is located at 793 Laguna Canyon Road, between the Sawdust Festival and Art-A-Fair, in a converted retail center about 3/4 mile from downtown Laguna Beach. The college is located about a [...]