NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach plans to be a very busy man in 2007. And this comes on the heels of a year he calls “perhaps the busiest of my life.”

“With fundraising, running a campaign, assisting a successor, transitioning out of one job and into another, hiring a new staff, being sworn in and hitting the ground running, this year has been packed,” he said.

When asked for his New Year’s resolutions, the newly elected supervisor offered up a whopping 11. Much of them are professional ones as he commits to his new responsibilities, but he also wants to make time for personal goals, like his hobby of collecting photographs of all of the 63 California State Historical Landmarks.

With this year’s list of resolutions from some of our more notable figures, we asked them to get personal.

“Improve my golf game. Exercise more. Lose 10 pounds.”

— Tom Harman, state senator

“To ensure a future with an outstanding quality of life for my three children and all the children in the world by helping to lead the fight against the catastrophic effects of global warming.”

— Leigh Steinberg, sports attorney and philanthropist

“My New Year’s resolution will be to lose 25 pounds.”

— Chuck Hinman, assistant superintendent of secondary education for the Newport-Mesa Unified School District

“My New Year’s resolution is to laugh more, live more and love more…. Time goes by so quickly, and I need to remember to slow down and appreciate the many blessings and people in my life…. I want to be a role model of kindness this New Year.”

— Debra Muniz, Kaiser Elementary School assistant principal

“To overcome my fear of the legacy of my mother’s temperamental sewing machine and to continue taking sewing lessons to build my confidence until I do.”

— Pat Insley, College Park Elementary School principal

“I resolve to lose lots of ugly entropy this year by reading more books, cleaning up my desk, and tidying up the backyard.”

— Tom Egan, retired Newport-Mesa school board member

“My goal would be to laugh more. Life is too short not to have more fun.”

— Showleh Tolbert, director of development for Girls Inc. of Orange County

“Stay on this side of the grass.”

— Doug Fieger, lead singer of the Los Angeles-based rock band the Knack, before he performed at the New Year’s Eve concert at the Orange County Fair & Exposition Center.

“My biggest resolution this year is to focus more on my physical well-being. I don’t know if I’ll actually go to the gym, but I will focus on my physical health.”

— Micky Dolenz, drummer for the Monkees who is playing the part of Charlemagne in the Orange County Performing Arts Center’s production of “Pippin”

“My New Year’s resolution is to complete walking all the streets in Newport Beach for my fourth time by Sept. 1, 2007. I’ve already walked 300 miles and have another 150 miles to go.”

— Don Webb, Newport Beach city councilman and former mayor

“To swim three times a week, so I can compete and not be dead last in the Junior Lifeguards’ Monster Mile event.”

— Steve Lewis, Newport Beach Fire Department Chief

“To cherish my family and friends, especially my Thursday stitching group. With friends like these, who needs therapy!”— Martha Fluor, Newport-Mesa school board member

“I have several of them, but they’re more like goals for 2007 than resolutions: Get a major donor for the Balboa Theater project; rent an electric boat and cruise Newport Harbor; go whale watching (I have never done that); buy a new car; publish two books; do more volunteer work for nonprofit organizations”

— Christopher Trela, author of “Newport Beach Centennial: Celebrating a Century”