NEIGHBORS

The Salvation Army Advisory Board presented Newport Beach resident

Betsy Tarbell with a life membership on its Orange County Advisory Board

at the recent Spirit of Giving Awards event. Tarbell became a member of

the board in 1981 and was the first woman chairperson of the advisory

board. She is the founder and director of Women of Vision, a ministry of

World Vision. She teaches at the Shalimar Learning Center in Costa Mesa

and works with the Orange County Mental Health Assn. ... F.M. Ameri, a

senior vice president at RBF Consulting, which provides planning, design

and construction services, recently was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to

the state’s Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board and has been

submitted to the state Senate for confirmation. Ameri was appointed to

the Orange County Board of Supervisors Development Processing Review

Committee in 1992, where he served as the chairman and is still a member.

He is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona with a bachelor’s degree, and holds a

master’s degree from Cal State Long Beach. The water quality control

board was created by the state Legislature in 1967 to ensure the highest

reasonable quality of water of the state. It is composed of nine regional

water quality control boards. The Santa Ana region, which includes

Newport-Mesa, continues to be one of the most rapidly growing areas of

the state, serving five million people ... The Roxburgh Agency, Inc. in

Costa Mesa has been named a finalist for 15 awards at the Feb. 24 MAME

celebration, sponsored by the Sales and Marketing Council of the Building

Industry Assn. The awards ceremony honors excellence in design,

merchandising and sales and marketing within the home-building industry.

Roxburgh will compete for top honors in 10 categories. The firm’s

marketing excellence has been recognized for work completed on behalf of

Alisal, a neighborhood by Monarch/Taylor Woodrow, and for two

master-planned communities -- Coto de Caza by Lennar Communities and San

Elijo Hills by San Elijo Development Company ... DMK, a Tustin-based,

multi-disciplined building professional, recently completed $270,000 in

tenant improvements on Quiksilver Youth, a new specialty toddler-to-teen

clothing store at Fashion Island. The 1,400-square-foot project began in

May, and Quiksilver opened a few months before the holiday season ... The

Animal Network of Orange County reported 82 adopted animals during the

month of December. The group holds adoptions every Saturday and Sunday in

front of Russo’s Pet Experience in Newport Beach.

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