INSIDE SCOOP

-- Compiled by the Daily Pilot staff

Chad Ware, owner of the Pacific Sales and Leasing truck dealership,

bought the Old Pink House last month and expects to finish renovating it

next month.

The house is going to look the same, with the original doors and

windows replicated, except for its color.

The Old Pink House is going to be painted white. White, with blue

trim, is the house’s original skin.

But attention to detail is not the real reason Ware is shying away

from pink.

“Pink?” he asked Thursday. “Are you kidding? A single guy living in a

pink house? People would talk!”

Some like it quick

Not that J.T. Tarwater, the commander of the American Legion Post 291,

is a stingy guy. Speed’s really the reason why he married his new wife,

Roxie, on the Balboa Island ferry on Saturday.

A few years back, Roxie told J.T. that she’d want to tie the knot on

the ferry if she ever got married again.

“It takes only three minutes,” she said to him. And yes, it also only

costs 35 cents.

Since then, ferry rates have gone up a little, but Tarwater said he’d

gladly fork out the extra 15 cents to say “I do.”

Jim Mahoney, of Gondola Co. of Newport Beach, delivered the couple to

the ferry from the legion hall and many legion yacht club members

escorted the gondola. After the ceremony, everyone returned to the legion

for a reception.

All we can say is we hope the Tarwaters will have a great ride in

years to come as well.