Neighbors

Newport Beach-based Vintage Senior Housing, LLC, recently announced

that Deanna Cason has been named vice president of operations and

marketing. She assumes her new position immediately. Prior to joining

Vintage, Cason was the West Coast regional vice president of operations

for Merrill Gardens, LLC, in Seattle. Before that, she spent more than 10

years with Costa Mesa-based ARV Assisted Living, Inc., where she began as

a marketing director for San Diego County, overseeing a group of five

assisted living communities. Vintage Senior Housing also owns and

operates Avalon at Newport West and East, both in Newport Beach. The

company was founded in 1998 to develop, own and operate senior housing

and assisted living communities. . . . Chandler Namath, 5, and Eva

Namath of Costa Mesa, won first place in the Championship Pumpkin Pie

Eating Contest sponsored by HomeTown Buffet during the second annual

Halloween Hearse, Bug and Monster Car Show held at the Orange County

Marketplace in Costa Mesa. . . . Newport Beach resident Paul A. Moses was

recently recognized by the U.S. Bankruptcy Judges for the Central

District of California as the mediator in the Central District that

settled the highest number of cases (9) during the 2000-01 term. The

award was presented at a luncheon of the Federal District Court held at

the New Otani Hotel in Los Angeles on Nov. 8. The Central District

contains Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Santa Barbara counties. The

Central District’s Bankruptcy Mediation Program was established in 1995

and has been recognized as one of the most successful programs in the

country handling hundreds of cases per year. Since the program’s

inception, 63% of the cases have been solved that were sent to mediation.

. . . Richard A. Weiss of Newport Beach recently introduced the Weiss

Vertexometer, an instrument designed to improve the accuracy of

refractive surgery, at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual

meeting in New Orleans. on Nov. 13. Weiss has practiced in Newport Beach

since 1986 and is a clinical assistant professor in UC Irvine’s

department of ophthalmology. The device measures the vertex distance, the

distance between the phoropter (the instrument used to determine

refractive error) and the patient, before refractive surgery. Portions of

the proceeds from the sale of the device benefit One World Sight Project,

Inc., a nonprofit organization to help cure blindness that Weiss

currently heads. The Vertexometer is available through OASIS Medical by

calling (800) 528-9786 or by visiting o7 https://www.oasismedical.comf7

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