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Robert Brunswick — founder, president and chief executive of Buchanan Street Partners, a Newport Beach real estate bank — has been appointed to the board of directors of Bixby Land Company, a Southern California real estate and development firm. Bixby has more than 25 years experience in commercial real estate and was named Ernst & Young’s 2005 entrepreneur of the year.

Newport residents Amber Stecher and Ellen Miller modeled holiday fashions from Coldwater Creek at a Season for Excitement, a November fundraising fashion show and luncheon for the Ovarian Cancer Orange County Alliance held at the Mission Viejo Country Club.