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Local mom Mindy Cameron, whose 8-year-old son Christopher has a lethal genetic disease, attempted to climb Mt. Rainier in Washington last summer to raise money for medical research, but made it only about halfway to the top of the difficult slope. This year she’s hoping to make it to the top of Mt. Baldy in the San Gabriel Mountains and raise $10,000 for medical research. And, this time, she’s got the help of 18 local moms who will make the climb with her. “I already had a built-in team, so I thought, why not?

Red-light runner causes three-vehicle accident A motorcyclist suffered major head injuries Tuesday afternoon after he ran a red light and hit a vehicle, Costa Mesa Police said. Richard Rolsheim was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana. Police said Rolsheim, traveling southbound on Bear Street at about 3:05 p.m., did not stop at a red light on Paularino Avenue. He hit a driver who was turning left from Bear onto Yukon Avenue. That driver was struck by another car, officials said.

-- Deepa Bharath BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS Hearing held for former youth worker Newport Beach Police investigators testified at a Thursday preliminary hearing at the Harbor Justice Center for a former city recreation coordinator accused of inappropriately touching several young boys. Trenton Michael Veches was arrested in April on suspicion of behaving inappropriately with several boys, 10 years of age or younger. He faces felony charges for allegedly sucking the boys' toes.

Danette Goulet COSTA MESA -- Each Wednesday just after noon, a group of second-grade students at Kaiser Primary Center can be seen trouping out of the cafeteria with the lunch du jour and cartons of chocolate milk. Where are they going? Back to class to meet with their teachers and many parents -- also on lunch breaks -- for a book club. The club is optional and takes place during recess once a week. Yet the carpet surrounding second-grade teachers Julie Garmon and Caryn Broesamle was packed with 22 readers.

It's been such a chaotic week for Jocelyn Manderino. Ever since she was named Fountain Valley High girls' water polo coach last month, she's felt as if she's been playing catch-up. This past week, she could barely breathe with all the pressure and duties needed to be completed. In addition to working in her first head coaching job, Manderino, a former Newport Harbor water polo standout, has been wearing other hats, as well. She's an apartment manager in Tustin. As if working with teen-aged girls wasn't challenging enough, she's a single mother of two young boys.

As the second day of searching for two missing Costa Mesa hikers ended, resident John Sendrey decided it had gone on long enough. The 42-year-old IBM programmer thought a data- and technology-driven approach could be the key to finding Kyndall Jack, 18, and Nicolas Cendoya, 19. He took four buses and rode his bike to get to Trabuco Canyon armed with his iPad, iPhone and computer. "My plan was to go out there, not to do the actual search … but to implement the technology out there," Sendrey said.

Some of the country’s top medical researchers arrived in Newport Beach on Thursday to help find a cure for a fatal genetic disease that strikes young boys. The Newport Beach-based nonprofit CureDuchenne is hosting its first Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Summit at the Newport Beach Marriott this week to discuss the latest developments in medical research on the disease. “I’m very humbled, first of all, to have this level of top researchers in the world giving up their weekend to come out here,” said mom and CureDuchenne co-founder Debra Miller.

Newport Beach-based Daddy Cakes served pancakes to more than 340 students, parents and faculty at Panorama Elementary School’s inaugural Pancake Breakfast. Organizers hope to make it an annual event. Panorama Elementary School raised $1,100 for its upper-grade activities for fourth- and fifth-graders in only one hour. Daddy Cakes, which produces a line of nine flavors of pancake mixes, has grown exponentially over the past year, recently expanding its distribution in Orange County to Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Markets.

An Orange County jury on Thursday gave a Costa Mesa man his fourth felony conviction for molesting young boys. This time, it was a young relative he had abused. Dennis James Ward, 45, was convicted of nine felony counts of molesting a boy between 1990 and 1992, when the child was between 4 and 6 years old. It was not the most recent molestation Ward had been guilty of. Fourteen years ago, he was convicted of molesting two Huntington Beach children who had slept over at his house between 1992 and 1993.