OCC library friends announce officers The...

OCC library friends announce officers

The Friends of Orange Coast College’s Library have announced

officers for the 2002-03 school year, and Newport Beach is well

represented.

Heading the group as president is Christine A. Edwards, a Newport

Beach resident who is manager for special projects at Long Beach

Airport. It will be Edwards’ eighth successive term as president of

the group, which provides volunteer and financial assistance to OCC’s

Norman E. Watson library.

Donna Shockley will be helping Edwards as vice president. The

Newport Beach resident will be serving her fourth term in the

position.

Newport’s Idamae Kelly will be membership chair. She retired from

OCC in 1986 after serving as a campus secretary for 25 years. She’s

joined by Nancy Timmons, of Costa Mesa, who will be treasurer, and

Freddi Anderson, who will be recording secretary.

Newport beaches come up clean, mostly

Newport Beach shores faired well last week in Heal the Bay’s

weekly Beach Report Card.

Set up like school grades, the card synthesizes water-quality

monitoring data from the county’s Department of Health Services.

Earned A+ grades were Corona del Mar beach, Little Corona, Pelican

Point, all of Crystal Cove, Orange Street, 52nd Street, 15th Street,

the north side of the Balboa Pier, the Wedge and -- surprisingly --

the Santa Ana River mouth.

In the harbor and Back Bay, also earning A+ grades, were the south

and west sections of the Newport Dunes, Via Genoa Beach, Sapphire

Avenue Beach, Abalone Avenue Beach, Ruby Avenue Beach, the Grand

Canal, 19th Street Beach, 15th Street Beach, 10th Street Beach, Bay

Isle Beach and N Street Beach.

Other areas didn’t fair so well.

Yacht Club Beach on Lido Isle earned an F, as did Harbor Patrol

Beach, Rocky Point Beach and 43rd Street Beach. The other sections of

the Newport Dunes earned Bs and Cs.

Fall Needle Arts Fair scheduled at OCC

Orange Coast College will hold its 32nd annual Fall Needle Arts

Fair on Nov. 9-10 on the campus.

The fair, being held on a Saturday and Sunday, will run from 8

a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

About 120 workshops and seminars will be held during the event,

including sessions on fashion design, sewing and quilting.

Last year’s fair attracted several thousand people.

Two-day passes for the fair are $39 in advance and will be sold at

the door on the first day for $55. Single-day passes are $25 in

advance and $30 at the door.

For more information, call OCC’s Community Education Office at

(714) 432-5880, ext. 1.

Learn French fast with course at OCC

Orange Coast College is offering a French workshop for people

interested in picking up just a little bit of the Romance language.

The seven-week evening workshop will meet Thursdays from Sept. 12

to Oct. 24. The class will run from 7 to 9 p.m. in OCC’s Allied

Health Room 101.

The cost is $85.

The class will focus on “traveler-type” sayings, including how to

give and understand simple instructions, how to find luggage at an

airport and, most importantly, how to order food in real French

restaurants.

Registration is underway at the school’s Community Education

Office, next to the library For more information, call (714)

432-5880.

No trash collection on Labor Day in Newport

Areas of Newport Beach regularly scheduled to have trash and

refuse pickup will not be serviced on Sept. 2, Labor Day.

Instead, the pickup will take place the next day, Tues., Sept. 3.

Because of the holiday, all other areas of the city will have

trash and refuse pickup a day later throughout the week.

For more information, call General Services at (949) 644-3055.