Nov. 19, 1939-March 25, 2012 Ken Wood, partner with Fred Lang in the Laguna Beach landscape architecture firm of Lang and Wood, died in Norway on March 25. It was Wood’s pencil that drew the curving lines of Laguna’s Main Beach boardwalk. He started working with Lang in 1967 and they formed their partnership in [...]
By Robin Pierson, Special to the Independent The sign off on Anne Wood’s answering machine ends with an admonition encompassing her mantra for life: “Do something nice for someone.” Wood, who has been serving the community of Laguna Beach in a myriad of capacities for more than 40 years, is the Woman’s Club Woman of [...]
Laguna Beach Republicans plan a grand opening of their local headquarters, Sunday, May 27, at 1464 S. Coast Highway, to be attended by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Laguna Beach City Council candidate Steve Dicterow and Assemblyman Allan Mansoor, OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh, and Laguna Beach Republican President Michele Hall. Laguna Beach Republicans and conservatives are [...]
Presentation on Halliburton House Laguna Friends of Architecture invite the public to a presentation on Halliburton’s Hangover House, Wednesday, May 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the Debilzan Fine Art Gallery, 224 Forest Ave. Architectural historian, lecturer and educator Ted Wells will outline the adventurous life of Richard Halliburton, and will also describe the evolution of [...]
Home Seller Makes Move of Her Own Award-winning First Team agent Andrea Ballesteros joins Laguna Beach’s First Team Estates office at 900 Glenneyre St. With the majority of her business in Laguna Beach, Dana Point and Monarch Beach, she is departing from the Irvine office to be more available to her clients, said Ballesteros, who [...]
Members of the Boys & Girls Club gained real-world work experience while partnering with their local Taco Bell for a fundraiser on Saturday, May 5, in support of the club’s Keystone Teen Leadership Program. The teens had the opportunity to sell a menu item they created at last summer’s Taco Bell Business Camp, the “Encheeselada.” [...]
Kenneth Wynn Wood Nov. 19, 1939-March 25, 2012 Ken Wood, partner with Fred Lang in the Laguna Beach landscape architecture firm of Lang and Wood, died in Ile d’Oleron, France, on March 25. It was Wood’s pencil that drew the curving lines of Laguna’s Main Beach boardwalk. He started working with Lang in 1967 [...]
No one loved Laguna Beach more than Andy Hedden. He was born on May 4, 1957, in Long Beach, and had to wait three interminable years before moving to Laguna for the rest of his life, a proud 52 year resident of what he considered Heaven on Earth. He attended virtually every school in town, [...]
The 40th annual Village Laguna Charm House Tour is scheduled for Sunday, May 20. The tour, featuring five of the town’s most interesting homes, is presented by Village Laguna, a community organization that embraces Laguna’s history and promotes its small-town atmosphere, and also plays a role financially supporting political candidates. This year’s selection of homes [...]
Save the Environment With a Drive-Thru Surterre Properties invites anyone with unwanted electronics and paper to drive through the Laguna Beach School District parking lot, 550 Blumont St., Saturday, May 12, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and drop off these landfill “no-no’s”. This is a free service with no forms to complete and guests [...]
By Robin Pierson and Pam Wicks, Special to the Independent After viewing moving slides taken on a spiritual trip to India, the Neighborhood Congregational Church and several members of the audience, pledged support and $600 to help the monks and Tibetan refugees living in an impoverished, desolate area of central India. More than 100 people [...]
Impact Giving, an Orange County women’s collective giving organization, distributed six checks totaling $130,000 at its third annual grant awards event last week. Recipients included three local and three international nonprofit organizations working to solve social problems. The three local organizations granted: • Just In Time – $30,000 to provide a safety net of life [...]
Saddleback Memorial Foundation and Saddleback Memorial’s Baby Alumni Club hosted the 14th annual Dizz’s As Is fundraising event in Laguna Beach on April 30. The event raised approximately $10,000 to benefit women and children’s services at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center. Eleven obstetricians, pediatricians, and anesthesiologists and hospital administrator Hugo Folli took the evening off from [...]
Janet Lena 1941-2012 D.H. Lawrence once said, “It is not the length of life but the depth.” If one agrees with this conclusion then Janet (Jan) Lena’s, of Laguna Beach, certainly filled the bill. Born in New York City in 1941, Lena spent her formative years in Long Branch, N.J., where she developed a [...]
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Ignoring a Red Zone Elicits More Than a Ticket
How can lack of a parking space land you behind bars? In Laguna Beach, it occurs when you pull into a spot marked in red reserved for the police watch commander. That’s what happened to Barbara Louise Kanode, 47, of Newport Beach, who on Wednesday, May 9, took an available spot near City Hall while [...]
