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The Christian Science Monitor:
“Regardless of when the budget passes, it will be retroactive back to July 1,” says Marc Posner, spokesman for Cypress College. “So waiting for the state to take action wouldn’t be that prudent.”
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Somehow, others add, California must find a way to escape its amplified cycles of boom and bust. Says Mr. Posner of Cypress College: “If we don’t act now, we’re going to be in an even deeper hole.”
You have to die to earn a Darwin Award, so a man arrested this week at Golden West College doesn’t exactly qualify. But he certainly gets an honorable mention. For those who don’t know, the Darwin Awards — made popular through vast e-mail circulation — are granted to those who remove their genes from the societal pool by committing stupid acts.
The 21-year-old Garden Grove man was apprehended on Wednesday afternoon after botching a purse-snatching attempt by escaping from a supermarket parking lot into the training compound of a police academy at a neighboring college. Continue reading “Stupid Criminal Trick Ends at GWC When Suspect Runs Into Teacher/Cop”
Forget those ritzy bashes held by political party big wigs in upscale Orange County hotels. Students at Golden West College can attend an election-night gala on November 5 in the Student Activities Office on the GWC campus.
Continue reading “Election-Night Gala Scheduled by Students at Golden West College”
NEAR EL TORO MARINE BASE, CA — While U.S. Marine aviators rocket above in F-18s, amateurs soar through computer-generated skies in mock F-111s, F-14s, and F-16s in a warehouse that’s a hybrid between arcade and NASA training center.
Fighter Town, USA is based on realism, but geared for entertainment. Continue reading “FighterTown: Part Arcade, Part NASA Simulator”
North and South. Some of the most classic battles have been divided that way: The Civil War, the NCAA’s all-star football games and just about any issue in Orange County.
In the late 1980s, a slow-growth initiative — that would have capped development in South Orange County — failed at the ballot box. More recently, the North approved the El Toro airport measure.
But a more subtle battle has been won by the North.
Never has a South County resident sat on the Board of Supervisors.
Seems hard to imagine, especially considering the five-member body is elected by geographic area.
But, the basic boundaries — that put Fullerton and Rancho Santa Margarita in the same district — were inked long before the Mission Viejo Co. began attracting residents to its artificial-lake-side community. Continue reading “Representation on Orange County’s Board of Supervisors Yet Another Classic North vs. South Battle”
IRVINE — Been through the El Toro Y at night lately and confused it with the drive into Las Vegas? Don’t worry, it’s just the Irvine Entertainment Center.
With more than five miles of neon lights, the 21-theater, restaurant-laden complex opened to star-struck eyes this week. Continue reading “New Edwards Theaters Light the Way”
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA — It’s four minutes until 6 a.m. and Tim Barnett walks up to a bus stop at the corner of Santa Margarita and Antonio parkways — a backpack slung over his shoulder and a skateboard in tote under his arm.
So begins the daily trek into his Irvine office. Some 40 minutes will elapse between the time he starts his 1.5-mile, skateboard-powered, downhill trip from home to the bus shelter until he gets off the 17-seat mini-bus. Continue reading “Bus Riders May Get Route Awakening”
LAKE FOREST — Look out the window of the Del Taco on the corner of El Toro and Trabuco roads and across the street you’ll see … another Del Taco.
Relax, there’s no need to rush to the optometrist. Continue reading “Dueling Del Tacos”
LAKE FOREST — Some crimes are so heinous, they’re destined to change the dynamics of a community.
The rape of a 9-year-old girl who was walking home from a short trip to buy school supplies when she was yanked into the thick bushes at Serrano Creek Community Park on Saturday night is that type of crime. Continue reading “Rape Outrages, Binds Community”
WEST NEWPORT — Three people jumped out a burning upstairs apartment leaving behind everything except their lives — something officials say they’re lucky to have.
Continue reading “Three Escape Apartment Fire with Only Their Lives”