NEIGHBORS
The advertising agency Lawrence, Mayo & Ponder of Newport Beach took
first place in a recent Literacy in Media Awards competition for a public
service announcement campaign that was developed for READ California, a
statewide literacy campaign run for Gov. Gray Davis by the secretary of
education. . . . The McKay Family Trust of Newport Beach recently bought
an 11-unit apartment complex in San Clemente for $950,000 from Morgan
Skenderian Investment Real Estate Group. Grant Hahn and Rick Applebaum
represented the firm’s Newport Beach office in the transaction. . . .
Brian M. Riley has been appointed to succeed founding chief executive
J.B. Crowell of PriVest Bank in Costa Mesa. Riley joined the bank in
September as president and will remain chairman of the board of
directors. PriVest Bank, organized in 1998, is the only Orange
County-based bank offering private banking and wealth-management
services. . . . Fred M. Whitaker has joined the law firm of Cummins &
White LLP as a partner in the Newport Beach office. Whitaker was the
former general counsel and northwest chief operating officer for Southern
California Oil Companies in Orange.
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