Car Wash

With fewer than two months remaining on the Arches lease, owner Dan Marcheano has planned a "raucous" Sunday afternoon of soap suds and pulled pork sandwiches as the restaurant hosts its third-annual car wash benefiting the 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion. About 35 Marines from the Pendleton-based battalion are coming to Newport Beach to take on the car-washing duties. In addition to receiving a car wash, attendees will be offered hamburgers, hot dogs, Caesar salads, pulled pork, Italian sausage sandwiches as well as bagpipe music.

The Arches restaurant will host a car wash to benefit the city-sponsored 1st Battalion, 1st Marines from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the restaurant parking lot, 3334 West Coast Highway, Newport Beach. Marines from the Camp Pendleton battalion and their wives will wash cars to raise funds for their annual ball, held each year in Newport Beach. There will also be some homemade baked goods available. Newport Beach sponsors the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. The sponsorship committee raises money throughout the year to help pay for expenses for Marines and their families.

The Costa Mesa Senior Center will partner with Newport-Mesa churches Saturday in a car wash to raise funds for the center’s programs. From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., members of Rock Harbor and Newport Mesa churches will wash cars at 695 W. 19th St. There will be a suggested $5 donation as well as a hot dog, chips and a drink available for an extra $2. The churches have set up the car wash as part of Serve Day, a day in which numerous churches venture...

Newport Harbor High School players, parents and coaches as well as community members are mobilizing to provide support for a lacrosse player who suffered a serious injury recently. Cameron Piorek, a sophomore on the junior varsity lacrosse team for Aliso Niguel, injured his neck and spinal cord during a lacrosse game April 22. He underwent surgery Sunday to help repair the damaged areas. Cameron doesn’t play for a Newport-Mesa team, but Newport Harbor has rallied to his cause.

Costa Mesa is hosting a car wash to raise money for the Southern California-based Marines regiment it officially adopted last month. The city committed to helping the 1st Battalion 5th Regiment last month after representatives of the outfit approached the City Council. The council voted unanimously to offer the city’s support. A group of Marines from the regiment will be washing cars from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 27 in the parking lot of Costa Mesa City Hall. Proceeds from the event will go to the battalion, where they will be used to pay for support services for the families of deployed Marines and also to put on receptions.

The Marine Corps Birthday Ball is an event that makes the men and their mates feel special, but it's not one that is always affordable. "Our goal for raising money is to allow the lower ranks — sergeants and lower — to go to the Marine Corps Ball for free," said 1st Sgt. John Kob of the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, Newport Beach's adopted Marine battalion, who recently returned from Iraq. "The military doesn't get paid that much respectively, they really don't, and our goal is to just help the lower enlisted people to go free."

Pancake breakfast and fundraiser The choirs from John Burroughs High School will have a car wash and pancake breakfast fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the school on 1920 W. Clark Ave. There is no charge for the car wash, but donations to the choir program will be accepted. The Burbank Kiwanis will sponsor the breakfast. Tickets for the breakfast are $5. For information, contact Connie Trimble at (818) 269-7043. Career fair set for Woodbury The Burbank Unified School District will hold a college and career fair from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. today at Woodbury University, 7500 Glenoaks Blvd.

 The scholars of Boys Hope Girls Hope are giving back -- in a very big way. On  March 14, the students organized and ran a very successful car wash to help raise funds for relief in Haiti. Jemal, currently a sixth grader at St. Cecelia’s in Tustin, learned about the devastating earth quake from his teacher at school. He was especially concerned that the children of Haiti would not have any food, water or shelter. He wanted to raise funds to help out and came up with the idea of a car wash.

Normally, an ecologically minded Newport-Mesa resident eager to keep their car flashy and attractive faces a terrible dilemma — to clean, or not to clean. Experts say using a garden hose to clean a vehicle can use more than 100 gallons of water and add pollutants that can contaminate local bodies of water. “Water contamination and conservation are important issues in Southern California,” said Sunny Jiang, an environmental engineering professor at UCI. “With run-off [from a car wash]

A group of car washes in Northern and Southern California that allegedly underpaid workers and routinely denied them breaks will pay more than $1 million in restitution for unpaid wages and civil penalties, state officials said Tuesday. "Workers at these car washes were taken advantage of by unscrupulous employers who illegally denied them the pay and benefits they earned," said State Attorney Gen. Kamala D. Harris. "The resolution of this case will allow workers to receive the pay they are owed.

They may be among the few and the proud, but the Marines who belong to Newport Beach's adopted military unit, the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines Regiment, spent much of their Saturday washing cars off Coast Highway. Members of the 1/1 Marines, based at Camp Pendleton, washed, buffed and polished some expensive wheels to a shine. "The goal of the event today was for the 1/1 to raise funds to help pay for the battalion's November 17th Marine birthday ball, and to make sure those at the bottom of the Marine pay scale have a chance to attend," said Laura Dietz, a local resident who serves as military liaison for Newport Sunrise Rotary and helped the Marines publicize the car wash.

The Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa on Aug. 14 sponsored a shopping trip for two dozen members of the Boys & Girls Club of the Harbor Area. All the children attend one of the club's two branches in Costa Mesa. Before boarding a bus to travel from the Boys & Girls Club to Target, the children received backpacks full of school supplies. Each child had a shopping buddy to help him or her. The buddies are members of Kiwanis-sponsored student service leadership clubs: Circle K Club of Orange Coast College and the Key Clubs of Costa Mesa and Estancia high schools.

 The scholars of Boys Hope Girls Hope are giving back -- in a very big way. On  March 14, the students organized and ran a very successful car wash to help raise funds for relief in Haiti. Jemal, currently a sixth grader at St. Cecelia’s in Tustin, learned about the devastating earth quake from his teacher at school. He was especially concerned that the children of Haiti would not have any food, water or shelter. He wanted to raise funds to help out and came up with the idea of a car wash.

Costa Mesa City Council candidate Bill Sneen has filed a complaint against candidate Gary Monahan with the Fair Political Practices Commission for allegedly misrepresenting a large campaign contribution. The complaint states that Monahan improperly listed $7,000 as a campaign donation from the “Chino Hills Country Club,” while Surat Singh — the man who gave Monahan the money — said it was payment for consulting that Monahan did for him. Singh owns Angel’s Auto Spa in Costa Mesa and initially said that he gave Monahan the money for helping him develop a country club on a piece of property he owned in the Inland Empire.

If you pass by Costa Mesa City Hall and see 60 Marines scrambling around and Humvees posted in the parking lot Saturday, don’t panic; they’re there for you. Well, actually, they’re there for your car. Saturday morning men and women from the 1st Battalion 5th Marines regiment will be on hand to raise money for their families in times of need. When Marines are deployed around the world, sometimes even the simplest things, such as buying or fixing home appliances or getting repairs done on a car can be more demanding and costlier without them there, organizers said.

. . FOR THE RECORD: The Sept. 19 column ?Grab a club for Marines? should have identified the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines Regiment as the beneficiary of Saturday?s Costa Mesa car wash fundraiser.. I can?t believe it?s been nearly a year since we celebrated the fighting men of this country and especially the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines of Camp Pendleton at an inaugural golf tournament for them at the Newport Beach Country Club. And the good thing is that year No. 2 is here, and things are getting underway for another successful event.

Costa Mesa is hosting a car wash to raise money for the Southern California-based Marines regiment it officially adopted last month. The city committed to helping the 1st Battalion 5th Regiment last month after representatives of the outfit approached the City Council. The council voted unanimously to offer the city?s support. A group of Marines from the regiment will be washing cars from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 27 in the parking lot of Costa Mesa City Hall. Proceeds from the event will go to the battalion, where they will be used to pay for support services for the families of deployed Marines and also to put on receptions.

The Costa Mesa Senior Center will partner with Newport-Mesa churches Saturday in a car wash to raise funds for the center’s programs. From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., members of Rock Harbor and Newport Mesa churches will wash cars at 695 W. 19th St. There will be a suggested $5 donation as well as a hot dog, chips and a drink available for an extra $2. The churches have set up the car wash as part of Serve Day, a day in which numerous churches venture...