Neighbors

Newport Beach resident Carl “Pumba” Hilgren received the Right Stuff

Award at the weeklong Aviation Challenge California in the San Joaquin

Valley for this week. The program is in its fifth season of introducing

youth to hands-on aviation training. . . . The Peterson Group, a

10-year-old marketing communications agency announced July 3 that Mia

Castillo, 24, was appointed account coordinator for the Newport

Beach-based agency. Castillo’s duties will include managing the company’s

public relations activities and assisting the development of the

company’s municipal clientele. . . . Irvine resident Paul Trapp has

joined Donahue Schriber, the Costa Mesa-based real estate development,

acquisition and management firm, as its new senior leasing

representative. Trapp will be responsible for leasing properties in

Southern California and Arizona and managing new development in existing

centers. . . . Fieldstone Communities Inc., headquartered in Newport

Beach, has a new project manager for its Orange County division. Costa

Mesa resident David Greminger was appointed to the position and will be

responsible for overseeing the design, construction, and sales and

marketing of new Fieldstone residential communities throughout Orange

County and the Inland Empire. . . . Newport Beach residents Sally Molnar

and Sharon Turner have been reelected to serve on the Susan G. Komen

Breast Cancer Foundation’s 2001-02 board of directors. Turner returns as

legal counsel and Molnar accepts a position as secretary for the second

straight year. The national foundation has netted more than $300 million,

including $6.1 million by the Costa Mesa branch. . . . The Coast

Community College District Board of Trustees has hired Ron Berggren, one

of the founders of Coastline Community College, as the Coast Community

College District’s new vice chancellor for educational services and

foundation. The Anaheim Hills resident has served as vice president of

Student Services and Economic Development for the District for the past

seven years. . . . Newport Beach resident Christina Adams earned an

honorable mention in the 11th consecutive New Millennium Writing Awards,

which recognize writing achievements in poetry, fiction and nonfiction

that are unpublished, or works that have appeared in print in a

publication of no more than 5,000 circulation. Adams was among 50 writers

and poets of 1,200 to be selected for the award. . . . Richard T.

Hossfeld of Newport Beach graduated from Claremont McKenna College on May

13 with a bachelor’s degree in government-economics. He was one of 256

students in this year’s graduating class. . . . Newport Beach-based

Johnson Gray, a full-service advertising agency has hired Mission Viejo

resident Doris Cardillo as controller for the agency. She will be in

charge of all accounting services. The agency’s client base specializes

in entertainment, health care, financial services, travel and tourism,

and consumer products.

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