NEIGHBORS

Frank and Lin Neal, a retired Newport Beach couple, joined a

three-week volunteer service program coordinated by Global Volunteers in

Porur, India. They took children from the Dazzling Stone Orphanage on

outings, read to them and helped them prepare a new home. ... Army Pvt.

Matthew S. Knowles has graduated from basic combat training at Fort

Jackson, S.C. During training, he received instruction and practice in

drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed

combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy and other skills.

Knowles is the son of John and Laura Knowles of Costa Mesa. ... The

Orange County Business Committee for the Arts on Sunday honored companies

for their support of the arts in the community at the Newport Beach

Marriott and The Ritz Restaurant and Garden. The Arts Award, which

recognizes a nonprofit arts organization that has innovative partnerships

with businesses, was presented to the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, with a

$2,500 cash grant underwritten by Ernst & Young LLP. Each honoree

received an etched crystal trapezoid. ... A dish featured on the menu at

Maggiano’s Little Italy in Costa Mesa during October for National Breast

Cancer Awareness Month helped raise $1,000 for the Orange County

Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The menu item

was orange roughy stuffed with crab and wild mushrooms, submitted by

amateur chef Suzy Stevens of Costa Mesa. She had taken top honors in

Maggiano’s Southern California Best Italian Dish Contest, beating out

more than 500 entries and nine finalists. ... Orange Coast College art

professor Karen Mortillaro received the Community Service-Learning

Superior Collaboration Award earlier this month during a luncheon at the

third annual California Community Service-Learning Conference in Long

Beach. The Huntington Beach resident has been a faculty member at OCC for

30 years. She was selected for the award for her 23 years of work with

disabled students at Fairview Development Center. ... The Roxburgh

Agency, Inc., an integrated communications company in Costa Mesa,

recently hired Jennifer Binai as an Advertising Account Coordinator.

Prior to joining Roxburgh, Binai worked at Edwards & McCaslin, an

advertising and public relations agency specializing in the real estate

industry in Northern California. ... Newport Beach resident Sueanne

Pacini was recently named Komen Orange County Outstanding Volunteer 2000.

She has been involved with the Komen Foundation since 1992. Pacini served

on various positions in the past eight years, including president and

co-chair for the Race for the Cure. ... Irell & Manella LLP, a

full-service law firm with offices in Los Angeles and Newport Beach,

recently announced that Alan Friedman, a corporate restructuring and

Chapter 11 bankruptcy attorney, has joined the firm’s Newport Beach

office. Friedman was formerly a partner with Marshack, Shulman, Hodges &

Friedman.