Frank to address Village Laguna

City Manager Ken Frank will discuss plans for the senior center,

community center and clinic at the Village Laguna membership meeting

Wednesday.

Frank will discuss the draft environmental report for the center

that will be at the bottom of the Third Street hill.

Architectural drawings for the project are at the City Hall front

desk. City Hall is open Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m.

The meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the third floor community room of

Wells Fargo Bank, 260 Ocean Ave.

For more information, call Ginger Osborne at (949) 499-4809.

Lecture will focus on heart disease

South Coast Medical Center will sponsor a lecture about heart

disease from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 5.

The guest speaker will be Andrea Rose. She will talk about the

role of exercise and nutrition in cardiac health.

The hospital is at 31872 S. Coast Highway. For more information,

call (949) 499-7202.

Concert to benefit cancer research

Neighborhood Congregational Church will host a benefit concert and

auction for breast cancer research.

Ann Roach will sing at the concert starting at 8 p.m. Nov. 28 at

the church, 340 St. Ann’s Drive.

There will be an auction preview at 7 p.m. The auction will take

place at 9 p.m.

Tickets are $10 to $25 depending on income level. Breast cancer

survivors get free entry.

For information, call (949) 929-2110.

New locale for Thanksgiving potluck

Because of the construction at Bluebird Park, the annual

Thanksgiving potluck this year will be held at noon on Thanksgiving

day at the Presbyterian Church at Second Street and Forest Avenue.

The Cross-cultural Council and the Laguna Resource Center will

provide plates, silverware and napkins. Everyone is invited to this

community potluck. Guests are encouraged to contribute a traditional

or nontraditional dish.

Volunteers should arrive at Tankersley Hall by 11 a.m. to help set

up tables and put out the food, drinks and desserts. Those bringing

cooked turkeys should call Ellin at (949) 497-2239. For other

information, call David at (949) 497-3936.

Two seats opening on Design Review Board

Laguna Beach resident interested in applying for the Design Review

Board need to submit their applications to the city clerk’s office by

Dec. 30 at 5 p.m.

Appointments will be made by the City Council to fill two regular

terms to Feb. 1, 2006 and one alternate term to Feb. 1, 2005.

Interviews will be held at the City Council’s regular meeting on Jan.

6.

The council asks that applicants attend two Design Review Board

meetings before interviewing for the position.

Design Review Board members are given $175 per month for about 10

hours of work weekly, including meetings on the first four Thursdays

of every month in the council chambers at 6 p.m.

Applicants should understand and conceptualize architectural

drawings and visualize building mass and volumes based on a site’s

staking plans. Experience in the building trades, architecture,

historic preservation, landscaping, planning and real estate would

all be assets to the position.

For more information, call the city clerk’s office at (949)

497-0705.

Laguna activist Osborne to give lecture in Santa

Ginger Osborne, president of Village Laguna and a psychology

professor at Santa Ana College, will deliver a lecture titled

“Successful Aging: Body, Mind and Spirit,” at 1 p.m. Tuesday in

Phillips Hall at the college.

The lecture will present a positive perspective about aging and

discuss options that help promote vitality in people’s later years.

Osborne, also a former president of the South Laguna Civic Assn.,

won the distinguished faculty award this year, which is considered

the highest honor given by colleagues to a faculty member at Santa

Ana College.

The lecture is open to the public. A congratulatory reception will

be held afterward in the Art Gallery foyer.

Osborne’s many contributions to the college include chartering a

chapter of Psi Beta, the national honor society in psychology for

community colleges, and establishing the Santa Ana College Psychology

Club, which hosts a speaker series.