Teens Aim for Sticker Shock With prom just around the corner, several teens from the Boys & Girls Club’s Keystone leadership club teamed up with the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence-Orange County (NCADD-OC) to participate in Sticker Shock. The teens visited Broadway Liquor and Stop’n’Go in Laguna Beach, where store owners allowed them [...]
By Justin Swanson | LB Indy When attorney Jennifer Zeiter moved to Laguna two years ago, she sought a philanthropic cause so that she might settle into her new community both productively and thoughtfully. Local real estate broker Cheryl Fouts recruited Zeiter to join the Women’s Circle of Wishes, a group of professional women [...]
Laguna Beach singer-songwriter Cheryl Procaccini’s CD “Everything is Connected and Other Animal Songs for Kids” earned a Parent’s Choice award from Parents’ Choice Foundation, a consumer guide to children’s media. Procaccini’s 12-song CD celebrates the diverse world of animals, plants and their habitats. The collection of nature inspired songs is intended to prompt young listeners [...]
By Liz Zuercher My adult son called me a bitch last Christmas, but I wasn’t insulted. It’s all about my famous almond roca, which inspires obsession, to eat it and to make it. If you succeed in making the roca, it becomes yours, no matter whose it was before. To me it’s a roca [...]
About 80 students, families and teachers from Cho’s Academy gathered at the second annual Tae Kwon Do Youth Awards Ceremony at Mozambique to honor the achievements of its top students. Director Jacob Cho, who opened his academy with Dana Sara at 1966 S. Coast Highway in 2009, hosted the awards. Cho acknowledged contributors to the academy, [...]
Friday, Nov. 23 Jazz with pianist Giovanni Miradi at Romeo Cucina, 249 Broadway St. 949-497-6627 www.romeocucina.com . Also 11/24 The Luis Olivart Trio, 9 p.m-1 a.m. Marine Room 214 Ocean Ave, 949-494-3027. NIck I & ADD, 8:45 p.m.-midnight, Mozambique, 1740 Coast Hwy. www.mozambiqueoc.com 949-715-7777 Guitarist-singer Jason Feddy, 8:30-11:30 p.m, Hotel Laguna, 425 S. Coast Hwy. [...]
Dear Laguna Beach families, In the spirit of community I’m asking for help in starting a chain reaction within our community. This is not something that I normally find myself doing, but I was touched by the story of a Laguna Beach woman who is fighting breast cancer. She is the mother of a [...]
——————————————————————————————————————— Friday, Nov. 2 Sawdust Art Festival Art Classes: 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. $95. Also 11/3 www.sawdustartfestival.org/studioartclasses 949-494-3030 Jazz with pianist Giovanni Miradi at Romeo Cucina, 249 Broadway St. Also 11/3. 949-497-6627 www.romeocucina.com Tricia Freeman, 9 p.m.-1 a.m, Marine Room 214 Ocean Ave. 949-494-3027 NIck I &ADD, 8:45 p.m.-midnight, Mozambique, 1740 Coast Highway. [...]
School officials and California Youth Services are hosting a 6:30 p.m. parent education program on Monday, Nov. 5, in the Laguna Beach High School Library about drug and alcohol usage as well as results of the 2012 California Healthy Kids Survey . “Our California Healthy Kids Survey data tells us that 48% of our seniors, [...]
At the fifth annual Laguna Hero Festival, nonprofit My Hero Project looks to showcase original stories, art and short videos less than 10 minutes long that celebrate heroes and organizations of Laguna who make a positive difference in the world. Submission deadline is Sept. 7 to My Hero Project, LHF Submission, 1278 Glenneyre #286, Laguna [...]
Fifty awards were given to landscape contractors last week by their peers, the California Landscape Contractors Association, for demonstrating the best quality, construction, originality and attention to detail on 2011 projects. Lake Forest’s Richard Cohen Landscape took home the Sweepstakes Award, the highest honor. Ruben Flores, president of Laguna Beach’s Visionscape, reaped five awards between [...]
The public school music programs at Thurston Middle School and Laguna Beach High School received a $5,000 gift from the Festival of Arts Foundation this year. The donation helped replace instruments, provide scholarships, allowed the bands to participate in competitions and continues to improve the program. The Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach was [...]
Lexi Del Toro, 17, a top water polo player at Laguna Beach High School, spent spring break surfing in Mexico as well as taking the ACT, a college entrance exam. Even so, she’s no typical teenager. Two years ago, she confronted her own mortality, learning she is afflicted with incurable kidney disease, the same disorder [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
