Coast Guard Seaman Apprentice Christopher R. Fisher,...

Coast Guard Seaman Apprentice Christopher R. Fisher, son of Robert

and Krista Fisher of Huntington Beach, recently graduated from the

U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N.J. ... Navy

Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason A. Ready, a 1996 graduate of Edison

High School in Huntington Beach, recently made a port visit to the

city of Suva, Fiji while on a seven-month deployment in the Western

Pacific and Arabian Gulf while assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class

destroyer USS O’Kane ... Seaman recruit, Francis Bendork, of

Huntington Beach, is in basic training in the Great Lakes, Ill. In

September he will be leaving for further training in Mississippi ...

Jessica McHerrin, a student at Grace Lutheran Elementary School and

daughter of Marie McHerrin of Huntington Beach, won first place for

outstanding performance in the Digital Photography Competition that

was sponsored by the Orange County Department of Education.

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