Religious Services
Laguna Chabad Remembers Mumbai Massacre
Along with Chabad centers around the world, Chabad Jewish Center of Laguna Beach will commemorate the first anniversary of the terror attacks on the Chabad Jewish Center in Mumbai, India, by hosting “Shabbat… Just Do It,” an innovative program for children aged five to 13 and their families, beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21. Full Story
Church Renovation Nears Completion
Laguna Presbyterian Church’s construction walls were removed this past Monday, following two years of retrofitting for earthquake safety, restoration of its original 1927 roof, waterproofing the basement, and revitalizing the interior to its Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style. The sanctuary is expected to reopen next month. Full Story
Week’s Events Instills Compassion While Reaping Donations
The public responded with generosity to the first Homeless Awareness Week, sponsored by the city’s Housing and Human Services Committee and largely brought to life by volunteer member Faye Chapman. Full Story
Holiday Greens and Fudge Sale Supports Safe Graduation
Once again the graduating classes of 2009 and 2010 will be hosting a holiday sale to raise funds to benefit the Laguna Beach High School’s Safe Graduation Night events. Fresh, fragrant holiday greens, featuring 20- and 24-inch mixed evergreen wreaths and 15-foot cedar garlands will be sold. Fudge from the Chocolate Soldier of Laguna Beach will also be offered. Full Story
Scouts Learn the Drill at Laguna’s Fire Station
Eight young scouts and siblings from Cub Scout Pack 35 of Laguna Beach toured the Laguna Beach Station 1 firehouse on Forest Avenue on Nov. 3, exploring the nearly 80-year-old station house, Orange County’s oldest, where they discovered two gigantic fire engines, sleeping and working quarters for the firefighters, and an old-fashioned fire pole. Full Story
Winners Announced for Institute’s Raffle
Charles McClung of Laguna Beach won $10,000 cash, and Lorna Gibbs and Donald McKee, also of Laguna Beach, won a signed Wyland painting
or $5,000 cash) in the Ocean Institute’s Laguna Beach Million Dollar Home Raffle. Their names were drawn along with nearly 150 other winners before
standing-room-only crowd of over 600 at the Ocean Institute last week. Full Story
OCCF Honors its Founder
Laguna Beach resident Judy Swayne, founder of the Orange County Community Foundation (OCCF), received a lifetime achievement award at the organization’s anniversary event last week, celebrating 20 years of supporting philanthropy in Orange County. Full Story
Wedding Announcement
Grant-Rankin
Laguna Beach couple Jenny Alexandra Grant and Lane Douglas Rankin were married at San Francisco City Hall, where Grant’s parents were married years ago. The July 2 wedding took place after Lane proposed on the beach in Santa Barbara during a wine tasting trip. Full Story
Club Aims to Close Budget Gap With Donors
The Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach has begun their “It Just Takes One” annual campaign to raise funds to support the growing need for services among children and families in Laguna Beach, Aliso Viejo, and surrounding areas. Full Story
Shop ‘Thriftily’ at Turnabouts’s Christmas Boutique
The Assistance League of Laguna Beach promises shoppers all kinds of Christmas finds at their annual Christmas Boutique, to be held Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 20 and 21, and Dec. 4 and 5, in the garage behind the Turnabout Thrift Shop located at 526 Glenneyre Street. Full Story
Give Thanks with the Christian Scientists
Christian Scientists in Laguna Beach invite the community’s adults and children to join them in starting their Thanksgiving Day in church at a special service to be held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 26, in First Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 635 High Drive (off N. Coast Highway, above Boat Canyon shopping center). Full Story
LBHS Offers Early Holiday Shopping
Laguna Beach High School’s annual Holiday Boutique will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21, in the campus quad.
Santa Claus and choral singers will be on hand, and breakfast snacks and lunch items will be available as shoppers visit vendors.
For more information, call 497- 7750. Full Story
Lawn Bowling Club Elects New Board
The Laguna Beach Lawn Bowling Club elected new board members at its annual general membership meeting Nov. 1. The newly-elected directors include Curt Barstch, president; John Laguna, vice president; Dennis Lockwood, treasurer; Bob Schmalholtz and Bella Denes. In addition, the club expanded its five-director board to seven and appointed Dottie Parnell and Scott Roberts, secretary. Full Story
Citizens Needed to Fill Out Housing Committee
Applications are due by Nov. 24 for volunteers interested in serving on the city’s Housing and Human Services Committee. One two-year term is open and the City Council will make its appointment Dec. 1.
The committee meets monthly at the Senior/Community Center and advises the council on affordable housing. Full Story
Journalist to Receive Award
Laguna Beach resident William Wheeler has won an Earth Journalism Award for his recent story in Good Magazine in which he reported from Pakistan on the potential for a water war between India and Pakistan for control of the Indus River. Full Story
Cases of Swine Flu Surface Locally
Swine flu is sickening some Laguna residents, but while doctors and parents scramble for doses of the H1N1 vaccine, the school district’s absence rate – a key indicator of how hard a sickness is hitting the student population – has declined 10 percent compared to last year, and 18.3 percent from the year before. Full Story
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