PUBLIC SAFETY Store rallies behind one of...

PUBLIC SAFETY

Store rallies behind

one of its own

Employees at El Metate Market on 19th Street in Costa Mesa are

taking up a collection to help with the medical expenses of a

stocker, who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident.

Vance Hanning, 56, has worked at the market for 35 years,

entertaining workers and customers with his cantankerous personality.

He underwent hip-replacement surgery and has been at Hoag Hospital

since a car hit him Jan. 22 as he walked a friend home.

* Attorneys last week selected a jury of 12 and four alternates to

hear the retrial of three men accused of gang-raping an allegedly

unconscious 16-year-old girl when they were teenagers.

The first trial of Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann, both now 20,

and 19-year-old Greg Haidl, the son of former Orange County Assistant

Sheriff Don Haidl, ended in a mistrial last year after the jury in

that case became deadlocked. This jury, like the first, is made up of

eight men and four women.

Opening arguments in the retrial are scheduled to start Monday.