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Byron Schweigert, of Fountain Valley, has been named chief executive

officer of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, the second-largest

not-for-profit community hospital in the state. Schweigert had been

senior vice president of administrative services at the hospital ...

Literacy Volunteers of America-Huntington Valley announce the graduation

of 20 new tutors for the Huntington Beach Library. They are: Ursula

Basich, Christine Cotton, Beverly Curtis, Geetanjali Deo, Rafik Mattar,

Maureen Mazzatenta, Linda Schwanz, Ed Taylor, Jennifer Urbano, Sherry Ung

and Tawn Wolfe, of Huntington Beach; Annalee Jongewaard, and Camille

Meade of Fountain Valley, will be tutoring at the Central Library. Audrey

Kasparek, Meg Leicester, Luzmila Mont, Art Ora, and Mary Jan Wiley of

Huntington Beach and Camille Meade of Fountain Valley are volunteering in

the Oak View Branch Library Family Literacy Program ... Shannon Pearce

and Jennifer Garcia, of Huntington Beach, and John Stauber of Fountain

Valley, members of Orange Coast College’s defending state champion speech

and debate team, won medals at Pasadena City College’s Watson-Lancer

Invitational ... Thomas E. Lutz, Mayor Pro Tem of Santa Ana, was recently

sworn in as the newest board member for the Orange County Water

District... Senior Pilot Officer Paul Lane and Observer Officer Jack

Paholski received the Good Samaritan Award from the Huntington Beach

Chamber Commerce at its 28th annual Public Safety Awards Luncheon. The

two helped rescue a severely injured bicyclist in El Moro Canyon State

Park ... Officer Jim Moore received the Award for Merit from the

Huntington Beach Chamber Commerce at its 28th annual Public Safety Awards

Luncheon. During a 10-month period, Jim functioned both as the manager of

the Budget/Research Unit and the Information Systems Group for the Police

Department ... Officer/Pilot Dan Catalano of the Police Aero Bureau

received the Award for Merit from the Huntington Beach Chamber Commerce

at its 28th annual Public Safety Awards Luncheon. Catalano assumed the

responsibility of primary instructor during a time of major personnel

change in the Aero Unit. In the past two years, Catalano has instructed

three new pilots ... Michelle Elizabeth Pitts, a resident of Huntington

Beach and 1999 graduate of Calvary Chapel High School, has been named to

Golden West College’s 1999-2000 homecoming court ... Huntington Beach

resident Jennifer Reed, a biology major who graduated from Valley Vista

High School in 1997, has been named to Golden West College’s 1999-2000

homecoming court ... Renee De Ann Araujo, a Huntington Beach resident and

1999 graduate of Huntington Beach High School, has been named to Golden

West College’s 1999-2000 homecoming court ... Shari Halldorson

Freidenrich, Huntington Beach city treasurer, presided at the Washington

State University Alumni Association directors’ meeting in September ...

Rodney L. Washington of Huntington Beach has been named Financial

Services Representative II of the Huntington Beach Branch of First Bank

and Trust ... David Bardin, of Huntington Beach, recently served as an

emergency response vehicle driver for the American Red Cross in New

Jersey, helping in hurricane relief efforts ... Huntington Beach High

School graduate Devin S. Murtos recently graduated from basic military

training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Murtos is the

son of Debra R. Murtos of Huntington Beach ... Robert Beardsley,

Huntington Beach public works director, was appointed to the Orange

County City Engineers’ Flood Control Advisory Committee last month as a

representative for the County Supervisory District No. 2 ... Stefanie R.

Noffsinger of Huntington Beach graduated in April from Michigan State

University with a bachelor’s degree in advertising and another in supply

chain management ... Private Christopher I. Klein, a 1999 graduate of Fountain Valley High School, is temporarily working with recruiters of

the Army Recruiting Station in Huntington Beach. Klein is the son of Jeff

Klein of Fountain Valley.