Labor day pancake breakfast is on

City Hall employees will take Monday off to celebrate Labor Day.

The rest of the town will celebrate the end of the tourist season

with the traditional pancake breakfast at Heisler Park.

Laguna Beach firefighters will be flipping pancake and grilling

sausages from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the foot of Myrtle Street.

Laguna Beach Exchange Club members will help serve, and Mayor Cheryl

Kinsman has volunteered to help clean up after the breakfast.

Las Brisas restaurant will provide the sausages, orange juice,

butter and syrup. Jack Glass, new owner of Jolly Roger, will donate

all the pancake mix.

Breakfast costs $3.99 per serving. Proceeds benefit child abuse

prevention programs and local nonprofit organizations.

Organizer Sande St. John has arranged entertainment that includes

the Very Good Fairy, magician Devin, a real live Barbie and one-man

band, Rick Rock.

The Laguna Beach Exchange Club meets at noon, Thursdays at the

Hotel Laguna. New members are welcomed. For more information, call

(949) 494-6016.

Boys and Girls Club to celebrate opening

The Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Beach will host a grand opening

celebration at its new 25,000 square-foot clubhouse, a project that

was five years in the making.

The event will showcase new programs that will start at the club

this fall. Featured attractions will include the JazzMasters

Workshop, where people can jam with professional musicians.

The event will be from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12.

Admission will be free. For more information, call (949) 494-2535.

Jewish humor film to be shown Sunday

Laguna Beach High School 1999 graduate Aaron Krinsky spent two

years directing and editing “Jumor,” a film on Jewish humor.

“The goal was to connect people,” Krinsky said. “The point was to

use humor as the tool.”

“Jumor” will be shown at 7 p.m., Sunday at the Jewish Community

Center of Orange County in Irvine.

Krinsky will discuss the film project with the audience after the

show.

Jewish comedians traditionally honed their routines in the

Catskill mountain resorts known as the Borscht Belt. Las Vegas

nightclubs, radio and movies brought the humor to the rest of the

world, although it was not always identified as such.

All of “Jewish” humor is based Jew experience for the last 4,000

years, Krinsky said.

He spent countless hours on the film.

“You don’t have a lot of spare time at Yale,” he said. “We had a

rough copy after a year. We had to create a version that spoke to the

experience, the way we interacted with the people we interviewed.

“We got a sense of who these people were and where they came from.

It is a great introduction to a generation of people.”

Krinsky thinks the film will appeal to a wider audience.

“We want to put it in the hands of people who can do something

with it,” he said.

Admission to Sunday’s showing is free, but donations of $3 for

seniors and $5 for adults are suggested.. Reservations are also

suggested. For more information or to make reservations, call (949)

435-3400.

-- Barbara Diamond

Group names leadership award honorees

The American Assn. of University Women of Laguna Beach has

selected its honorees for the sixth annual “Women of Achievement”

dinner. The honorees, Vera Martinez, Lucinda Prewitt, Natalie Zucker,

Kathryn Turner, Laura Davick and Jean Raun, were selected for their

leadership roles in local organizations in Laguna and neighboring

communities. They will be honored at Tivoli Too on Oct. 25.

For more information, contact Carol Reynolds at (949) 947-0986.

Conservancy to discuss Village Entrance process

The Laguna Canyon Conservancy will discuss the long, drawn out

planning process that has gone into proposals for a Village Entrance.

The meeting’s topic will be “37 Years and Waiting,” and will mark the

resumption of the group’s monthly dinner meetings. Council members

Toni Iseman and Wayne Baglin are scheduled to attend.

Ideas to build a Village Entrance started in 1967 with the

“Program for Survival.” A design was selected by the City Council in

2002. However, it may be decades until the project is completed. The

meeting will be held on Monday, Sept. 13 at Tivoli Terrace, on the

Festival of Arts grounds, 650 Laguna Canyon Road. Reservations will

be required. For more information, call (949) 497-1884.

Senior art work sought for exhibit

The city will accept artwork created for the Senior Art Exhibit at

the end of the month. The project will be managed by the Laguna Beach

Senior Center and Arts Commission.

Entries will be accepted from Orange County residents who are at

least 55-years-old.

All entries must be original and made within the past two years.

Entries must be submitted between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Thursday,

Sept. 30. The winning entries will be exhibited at the Wells Fargo

Bank, 260 Ocean Ave. from Sept. 30 through Oct. 29. A reception for

participants and award winners will be held on Saturday, Oct. 2.

For an application or more information, call (949) 464-9535.

League of Women Voters to hold meeting

The Laguna Beach unit of the League of Women Voters will discuss

several topics of local interest at its first post-summer meeting.

The group plans to hold talks on the status of the Act V parcel,

the Laguna Beach High School Student Government Workshop and plans

for the Laguna Beach Election Festival. The meeting will begin at

9:15 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, in suite 202 in the meeting room at

South County Bank, 540 S. Coast Highway.

The meeting will be open to the public, for more information, call

(949) 494-9928.

Holistic health is topic of the talk

Chiropractor and holistic health educator Stephen Bizal will lead

the Wellness Mastery Workshop, “10 Principles of Wellness.”

Bizal will discuss topics including his views on understanding

disease, emotional wellness and proper diet. The lecture will be from

9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 25 in the third floor community room at Wells

Fargo Bank, 260 Ocean Ave. Information: (949) 376-7887.

TOW elects new leaders, plans events

Top of the World Neighborhood Assn. board of directors has elected

Piero Wemyss as its new president.

Todd Thornton has been elected treasurer and Gene Felder has been

elected into the dual role of vice president/secretary.

The group’s annual neighborhood picnic will be from 3 to 6 p.m.

Sept. 19 at Alta Laguna Park. Top of the World residents are invited

to bring their favorite dish to the pot luck.

The association will also be visible at the League of Woman

Voters’ Election Fair from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 2 at the high school.

It will co-sponsor a candidates forum on Oct. 18 at the City Council

chambers.

For more information, call Gene Felder at (949) 939-7257.