NEWS
By Annie Kim | June 13, 2013
A group of 90 teen surfers, all diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, will gather from around California hoping to catch a break at Laguna Beach on Saturday morning. The Pediatric-Adolescent Diabetes and Education, or PADRE Foundation is hosting its ninth annual Surfing with Diabetes Camp at Three Arches Bay, which will feature a surf lesson from former professional surfer Scott Dunton, a luau and an evening beach bonfire. "It's not all about diabetes. It's about having fun," said Evan Barker, 15, of Laguna Beach, who has surfed the event since he was 12. "You don't have to feel weird about checking your insulin, you can be yourself and not have to hide.
NEWS
By Dr. Terry Welsh | June 3, 2013
This Tuesday, the Costa Mesa City Council will vote on a "traffic mitigation agreement" for the proposed Banning Ranch development. This agreement, negotiated between the developer and Costa Mesa City Hall behind closed doors, would require Costa Mesa to make modifications to streets and intersections in the Westside in order to accommodate the majority of the 15,000 car trips per day expected to be generated by the proposed 1,375-home Banning Ranch...
NEWS
By Bryce Alderton | May 30, 2013
Coast Highway turned into a running trail for police, lifeguards and firefighters Thursday morning. Public safety personnel from Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, UC Irvine and the city of Irvine passed a torch throughout Orange County as a lead-up to the June 8 and 9 Special Olympics Southern California at Cal State Long Beach. About 20 employees from Laguna's Police, Fire and Marine Safety departments donned T-shirts and running shoes for a 5.5-mile jog that took them from the police station on Forest Avenue north along Coast Highway to Newport Coast Drive, where the torch was passed to Newport Beach police.
NEWS
By Jill Cowan | May 24, 2013
Orange County beachgoers can rest easy knowing that the waters off the Southern California coast are - for the most part - pretty clean, and they seem to be getting cleaner, according to environmental group Heal the Bay's 23rd annual Beach Report Card . The report, which assigns letter grades to 445 beaches statewide based on their weekly bacterial levels, found that 93% of the beaches monitored in Orange County received A or B ratings during...
NEWS
From the Daily Pilot staff | May 22, 2013
Veteran journalist Alisha Gomez has been named managing editor of Los Angeles Times Community News (TCN) in Orange County, Editor John Canalis announced Wednesday. Gomez will help oversee the staff of 24 that produces the Daily Pilot, Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent, which have a combined print circulation of 137,000. She previously served as managing editor of the Huntington Beach Independent and the Coastline Pilot and, on June 3, will add the Daily Pilot to her duties as part of a planned newsroom reorganization.
SPORTS
May 2, 2013
BOYS' TRACK & FIELD Sunset League finals HUNTINGTON BEACH - Newport Harbor High's Marty Taylor won the shotput with a personal-best mark of 62 feet, 5 inches, and was also champion in the discus (186-6), Thursday at Huntington Beach High. Taylor led a 1-2-3-4 finish in the shotput. Ramsey Hufford finished second (54-0), freshman Joe Stukonis was third (53-5) and Will Fortier was fourth (52-9). They all qualified for next week's CIF Southern Section Division 2 preliminaries.
SPORTS
By Matt Szabo | April 26, 2013
OJAI - Corona del Mar High senior Alec Adamson is the last Newport-Mesa athlete still in contention at the prestigious 113th annual Ojai Tennis Tournament. But Adamson still strives for more. He'll be playing at the tournament's showcase venue, Libbey Park, on Saturday. The goal is a title. No. 2-seeded Adamson advanced to the CIF singles division semifinals after a pair of impressive victories Friday. He topped Stefan Doehler of Foothill, 6-1, 6-3, on Friday morning at Libbey Park.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Terry Markowitz | April 24, 2013
Peruvian food is an interesting and delicious mixture of indigenous cuisine combined with influences from the Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and West Africans who settled there. At the family-run Inka Cantina in Fountain Valley, you will find a menu featuring the operators' own traditional family recipes from the Andes and the northern coast of Peru. As you enter this pleasant little strip-mall restaurant, the owner greets you warmly as if you were family. His daughter was our waitress, and she was new on the job. He joked that we should be kind to her, but no need, she was quite perfect.
NEWS
By Steve Virgen | April 17, 2013
Melissa Mead ran in the Boston Marathon for the first time Monday. She will remember it more now because of the two bombings near the finish line at the historic race. Mead was among at least 35 runners from the Newport-Mesa area who ran in the world's oldest and most prestigious footrace. Mead, of Costa Mesa, is a Newport Harbor High School and UC Irvine alumna. The 23-year-old said she finished the race in about 3 hours, 49 minutes, some 20 minutes before an explosion went off near the finish line.
SPORTS
By David Carrillo Peñaloza | April 12, 2013
COSTA MESA - Steven Macias lost his glove in the second inning and then command of his pitches. He struggled to recover in time after a comebacker to the mound ripped off his glove. Estancia Coach Nate Goellrich checked on his ace a couple of times during the second inning against Laguna Beach. First, he went out to the mound to see if Macias was OK after the line drive. Richie Nunis hit the ball that hard that Macias couldn't hold onto his glove, let alone the ball. "It kind of rattled him, even he'll admit it," Goellrich said of Macias.