Home makeover to air on ABC this...

Home makeover to air on ABC this weekend

The “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” episode featuring a family

from Costa Mesa will air at 8 p.m. Sunday on KABC-TV, Channel 7.

The homeowners, Tom and Deirdre McCrory, were selected after

stating in their application that their 1954 home on the city’s east

side was in need of updating and that they wanted to increase the

size of their house to accommodate the triplets Deirdre McCrory is

expecting on July 4.

Firm offers database to identify sex offenders

Newport Beach-based investigative research firm APSCREEN announced

that it now offers free access to a national sex offender information

database it created.

Company founder Tom Lawson said he compiled sex offender

information from 34 states and 12 other jurisdictions to create the

only comprehensive national website of such data.

The website contains no advertising, requires no registration and

charges no fees to users. Lawson said all the information on the site

is public record. He offered the site as a public service to the

community, and he hopes its availability will embarrass states that

don’t make their sex offender data public into doing so, he said. The

site can be found at https://www.nationalsexoffenderregistry.com.

Shoppers can contribute to a tasteful cause

People can make free contribute to Newport Harbor High School’s

Culinary Academy, which won a state competition and is going on to

nationals.

The academy will get contributions from Vons/Pavilions when

customers use their specially-registered club cards for purchases.

To register, call (877) 723-3929, enter your phone number and

press two. Tell them you want to update information and get your card

club number.

Call Hennie Sondel at the Culinary Academy at (949) 548-4044 to

tell her that the information is updated.

PacifiCare funding scholarships for Latinos

Spanish-speaking, bicultural high-school students who want to

pursue careers in the healthcare industry are eligible for more than

50 $2,000 scholarships.

The scholarships, funded by the PacifiCare Foundation, are offered

on behalf of PacifiCare’s Latino Health Scholars program designed to

educate students about career opportunities for Latinos in the

healthcare field.

Latino Health Scholars is part of PacifiCare’s Latino Health

Solutions division, an outreach initiative aimed at building stronger

ties with Latino members, physicians and organizations and providing

health and consumer services and products tailored to meet the needs

of Latino consumers.

High school seniors with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 who

are fluent in Spanish are eligible.

Applicants must show proof of acceptance into a university,

community college or an accredited technical college and must be

enrolled in an approved healthcare program at the time they receive

the scholarship. Applications are due June 30 and are available

online at PacifiCare en Espanol, https://www.pacificarelatino.com, as

well as at PacifiCare Health Systems’ website at

https://www.pacificare.com.

Scholarships are available for students in eight states: Arizona,

California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington.