By Robin Pierson, Special to the Independent What started as one woman’s dream to create a high-end, affordably priced shopping extravaganza to raise money to help alleviate homelessness, abuse and hunger, has turned into a community-wide effort that will come to fruition Saturday, May 18 at the Neighborhood Congregational Church. Thanks to the generosity [...]
New Re/Max Office Opens Downtown Jeff Grice, a real estate investor and broker with a background in property management, has joined Re/Max as owner of its newest office in downtown Laguna Beach, 302 Glenneyre St. Re/Max Evolution will open with five agents – Mark Miller, Kim Avery, Kim Larsen and Angela McIver — and will [...]
Laguna Beach resident Lillian Lloyd celebrated her 101st birthday this week. She outlived her late husband Stanley and lives in a retirement park, still enjoying cooking, cleaning, spending time with her family and friends and watching basketball, says great-grandaughter Heather Lloyd.
Heroes Hear the Call Music, art, and film from around the world will showcase local and global heroes at My Hero Project’s sixth annual Laguna Hero Fest, taking place Thursday, May 23 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Seven Degrees, 891 Laguna Canyon Rd. The reception is free and open to the public and will [...]
Gay Rights Advocate Dies June Esther Campbell, 89, passed peacefully on Friday, March 29, 2013. She had been in failing health for several months and entered hospice care last summer. Campbell was an active real estate agent in Laguna Beach, selling homes even into her 80s. Legend has it that Campbell sold many local houses [...]
Impact Giving, an Orange County women’s collective giving organization and the brainchild of several Laguna Beach women, awarded six grants totaling $130,000 at its fourth annual awards ceremony earlier this month in Irvine. Recipients included four local and two international nonprofit organizations working to solve societal problems. They include $40,000 for San Diego’s Just In [...]
Club Leader Nominated for Women in Business Award Ellie Tipton Ortiz, current president of Laguna Beach’s Woman’s Club and a member of Soroptimist International locally, earned nomination by the Orange County Business Journal for its annual women in business award. Ortiz is an experienced divorce mediator whose company, Laguna Beach Legal Document Service, specializes in [...]
The vintage surf auction “California Gold” went off at the OC Fair & Events Center in Costa Mesa yesterday with total sales of $680,000. The event was organized to raise funds for San Clemente’s Surfing Heritage & Cultural Center, whose mission is preserving surfing’s history. Hundreds of surfers and collectors attended the event to enjoy [...]
For the second year in a row, more Laguna Beach residents pledged to conserve water, save energy, and cut pollution than in other small towns also taking part in a national contest aimed at curbing water and energy use across the nation. The Wyland Foundation and Toyota on May 3 announced the winning cities of [...]
Canyon Artists Hold Open House Join 20 professional for their semi annual open studio event Saturday, May 11, noon to 8 p.m., 3251 Laguna Canyon Rd. Normally closed to the public, these studios will offer wine, food, music and artwork. Painters, sculptors, mixed media artists, metalsmiths, glass artists, photographers and print makers sharing their work [...]
Creating Botanic Leaf Jewelry Laguna Outreach for Community Arts is offering a beginner-level, botanicals art class at Laguna Nursery. Participants can choose from either Thursday May 9 or Saturday May 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Horticulturalist Ruben Flores will discuss leaf shapes, and jeweler Karin Worden will lead the art workshop. Attendees will [...]
This year’s Charm House Tour, Village Laguna’s annual celebration of Laguna Beach’s original homes, will take place on Sunday, May 19. The tour will begin in the front parking lot of Mission Hospital Laguna, 31872 S. Coast Highway, from noon until 5 p.m. Parking is free on the fourth floor roof of the Mission Hospital [...]
“It Takes a Villager: Wit and Wisdom by Laguna’s Irreverent Observer,” a collection of newspaper columns written over a span of 50 years by Laguna Beach writer and activist Arnold Hano, was recently published by Laurel Press. In the words of Dan Duling, scriptwriter for the Pageant of the Masters, “These collected scenes personalize local [...]
There is one more opportunity to donate quality apparel and accessories for women, men, teens and children before the Boutique Benefit event. The collection drive is scheduled for Saturday, May 11 at the Neighborhood Congregational Church, 340 St. Ann’s Dr. from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All donations to the Boutique Benefit are tax-deductible. The annual [...]
Sampling for Good at Taste for Charity The Laguna Board of Realtors and affiliates will be holding their 18th annual A Taste for Charity benefit and set a $100,000 goal in order to double last year’s support to Laguna Beach organizations. This year’s event features California Coastal Auctions auctioneer Zack Krone. The $40 admission ticket [...]
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 [...]
