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May 16, 2013
Dorr-Carey Engagement Announcement Mr. and Mrs. George Carey of Balboa Island are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Morgan Carey to John Wells Dorr III, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dorr II of Lafayette, CA. Jennifer is a graduate of Newport Harbor High School and the University of Hawaii where she competed in volleyball. She is the Assistant Volleyball Coach at the University of California at Berkeley. John is a graduate of Las Lomas High School and the University of California at Berkeley where he competed in swimming.
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By Patrice Apodaca | May 3, 2013
Underlying all the many issues in education is one big, persistent problem: income inequality. From preschool to college, from test scores to technology access, socioeconomic status is the single most important determinant of student opportunity and achievement. This has long been, and probably will always be the case, but it hasn't always been addressed or even fully acknowledged. Recently, however, some bold, yet vastly different, responses to the have/have-not problem have emerged, each bringing fresh controversy while challenging our ideas about how far our public school system should go to try to engineer solutions.
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April 24, 2013
ROBERT LANGFORD MONTGOMERY, JR. 1927-2013 Robert Langford Montgomery, Jr., Harvard '50 mcl, Ph.D. '56 died on February 26, 2013 in Newport Beach, CA. A navy veteran of World War II, he was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California - Irvine from 1967, just two years after its founding, until his retirement in 1994. Earlier he had taught at the University of Texas at Austin and at Williams and held a Fulbright Fellowship in France. His academic work centered on the poetry and prose of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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By Bradley Zint | April 17, 2013
After meeting for nearly two hours in closed session, the Orange County Fair Board announced Wednesday that Doug Lofstrom will take over as interim chief executive. Lofstrom, who takes the helm Thursday, replaces interim CEO Jerome Hoban, who announced earlier this week that he is leaving for a new job as head of the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, a Bay Area suburb. Hoban's last day is April 30. "My heart and soul is in this property," Hoban said Tuesday, adding that he was "going to miss this staff.
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From the Los Angeles Times | April 13, 2013
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell were in California this week on a whirlwind tour to woo Golden State businesses to expand or relocate to their states. At the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa on Thursday, both state leaders took a breather to talk to The Times about why they were chatting with companies in Costa Mesa, Palo Alto and San Francisco. The governors, who cooked up this joint tour after discussing their mutual interest in job creation, took a much more amicable tack than Texas Gov. Rick Perry . Perry's swing through California in February was punctuated by radio ads that declared, "Building a business in California is next to impossible.
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April 4, 2013
Greg Willard Memorial Service & Celebration of Life April 8th at 1:00P.M Reception to Follow Mariners Church (Worship Center) 5001Newport Center Dr. Irvine, California 92603 Preferred Attire- Please Wear Purple in Honor of Greg's Fight against Pancreatic Cancer
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March 28, 2013
A missing Northern California teen was found in Costa Mesa with a gun in his waistband and a samurai sword in his car, police said Thursday. Costa Mesa police received a call at 6:07 p.m. Tuesday from a 17-year-old boy's father, who said his troubled son may be headed from Elk Grove to see someone he knew in Costa Mesa, according to police. Costa Mesa police and Huntington Beach police using a helicopter searched for about two hours before finding the boy, who was tracked through his cell phone to an area a couple of blocks from Wake Forest Road and College Avenue.
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By Jeremiah Dobruck | March 22, 2013
A marathon runner who teaches kindergarten at California Elementary School is leading about 60 kids on a 26-mile journey of their own. Vikki Clifford will run the OC Marathon on May 5, but the day before, she'll be cheering on students from her school's running club in a race of their own. She knows it's a lot to take on. "By the time I get home, I'm saying, 'There's a race I have to run tomorrow, and I'm dead," she said. California Elementary students from kindergarten to sixth grade are training every week for the Kids Run the OC event, when they will run a final mile to cap off 13 weeks of preparation.
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By Jeremiah Dobruck | March 20, 2013
Hayden Burthe sprinted through the last 30 seconds of his leg of California Elementary School's fundraiser and lay on the grass, but after pouring a bottle of water over his head, he hopped back up to celebrate the 35 laps he'd run. He and his fifth-grade classmates were churning along for a reason. "So we could get money [for the school] and so we could get pie in the face," said classmate Chris Abak, who ran 29 laps. Donors had pledged money to the school's technology program for each lap the Costa Mesa students ran at their annual jog-a-thon Wednesday.
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March 7, 2013
HAL LEHMAN May 8, 1918 - February 26, 2013 Hal Lehman, 94, a 55-year resident of Newport Beach, died peacefully after a long illness, at his Lido Isle home, surrounded by family on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Hal, the only surviving son of Gladys and Benjamin H. Lehman, was born at home in Boston on May 18, 1918 during the post-WW I flu epidemic. He was basically a life-long Californian, however, having moved with his family to Berkeley in 1920, when his father joined the University of California faculty as a professor of English. Hal's mother and father were divorced in 1922 and his mother moved to Los Angeles where she subsequently became a screen writer and was one of the founders of the Screen Writers' Guild. As a result of the divorce Hal spent a lot of time on trains between northern and southern California, spending one year with his father in Berkeley and the next with his mother in Toluca Lake. That arrangement continued until he was 16, when he decided to stay in southern California closer to most of his friends. Graduating from North Hollywood High, he went on to UC Berkeley WWII was on the horizon and he joined the Army in 1940. A good portion of the next five years were spent in the South Pacific theater.