Fairview onramp will close 6 hours...

Fairview onramp will close 6 hours Saturday

The California Department of Transportation will close the

Fairview Road onramp to the southbound San Diego Freeway for about

six hours Friday to allow workers to pave a new shoulder for the

onramp.

The ramp will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Motorists who need to get to the San Diego or Costa Mesa freeways

from Fairview Road will be detoured to Sunflower Avenue and Baker

Street, respectively. Detour signs will be posted.

Caltrans officials said the work needs to be done during the day

because it would disturb residents if done at night.

This construction is part of an improvement project from Caltrans

and the Orange County Transportation Authority in the area between

Bear Street and Hyland Avenue on the San Diego Freeway and between

Birch Street and the San Diego Freeway on the Corona del Mar Freeway.

The freeway will be widened and new ramps, bridges and sound walls

will be built.

For more information, call the Transportation Helpline at (800)

724-0353.

American Legion will host speech contest

American Legion Post 291 has announced that its annual High School

Oratorical Contest will take place Jan. 6.

The legion will only select six applications on a first-come,

first-serve basis. The top winner will receive $150, and all

participants will receive $25.

The contest is open to any high school student in Orange County.

Participants cannot be 21 or older.

The contest format consists of two speeches -- one covering an

assigned topic lasting eight to 10 minutes. The second speech must be

three to five minutes.

The content of all the speeches will be the U.S. Constitution.

For more information and applications, call Roy Burtrum at (714)

403-6858.