Tag: Memorial Day

Film Screening Stands Up For Wounded Vets

Film Screening Stands Up For Wounded Vets

| May 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

By Justin Swanson | LB Indy   The Laguna Beach Film Society’s invites the public to attend a special screening of the Oscar-winning movie “The Best Years of Our Lives,” on Thursday, May 23, in recognition of Memorial Day, which falls the following Monday. Actor Michael Hall, who played the son of one of the [...]

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Scouts Close Out Year with Flag Retirement Ceremony

Scouts Close Out Year with Flag Retirement Ceremony

| June 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

Pack 35 closed out another successful scouting year with a family bonfire celebration and annual flag retirement ceremony at Aliso Beach on Wednesday, June 13. Many of the boys received their final patches of the year, including the community service patch for their participation in the Memorial Day flag placement ceremony at Pacific View Cemetery [...]

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Scouts Fulfill Their Pledge With Reverence

Scouts Fulfill Their Pledge With Reverence

| June 6, 2012 | 0 Comments

Cubmaster Emeritus Tom Fay fulfilled his commitment to the late Harry Lawrence by having Pack 35 Cub Scouts plant the first flag at his final resting site in Pacific View Cemetery’s  Garden of Valor. Scouts Jeremy Leeds, Cade St Clair, Sam Richey, Lucas Kravitz, Andrew Domanskis, Jared Moy, Duke Wollam, and Noah Lessard along with [...]

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Memorial Day: Summer’s Kickoff

Memorial Day: Summer’s Kickoff

| May 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

Expect pageantry, pancakes, patriotic songs and police patrols Local resident and U.S. District Judge David O. Carter is the guest speaker at the 85th Memorial Day ceremony Monday, May 28, hosted by Laguna Beach’s American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. The remembrance of comrades who died in wars and conflicts protecting the country takes [...]

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Winning Team Causes a Racket

Winning Team Causes a Racket

| June 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

Laguna Beach High School sophomore Teague Hamilton won the 2011 West Coast Open Tennis Tournament in Lakewood over Memorial Day weekend. Teague completed the tournament without dropping a set.  The 7-5, 7-5 score in the final match over Hosep Orojian from Glendale, who had won two of the last three tournaments he entered and a [...]

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McWeather or Not

McWeather or Not

| June 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

Hurricane Season Touches Down You can’t ask for a nicer Memorial Day than today. Notoriously cloudy, today is quite the wonderful exception thanks to yesterday’s Aleutian blaster, which swept things clean, so clean that Catalina Island looks like you could almost reach out and touch it! The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is over two weeks [...]

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Home-Grown Events Celebrate Memorial Day

Home-Grown Events Celebrate Memorial Day

| May 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

The Laguna Beach Exchange Club plans its annual Memorial Day pancake breakfast from 7 to 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 30, in Heisler Park, staffed by local police and firefighters. Due to construction underway near the park’s Monument Point, Memorial Day observances by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion that typically follow the pancake [...]

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Eavesdrops

Eavesdrops

| May 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

Memorial Day Grampa will we go to the cemetery this year? Only if you want to. You’re too old to drag anyplace. It would be better to go before the picnic.. Yeah. could we go early? That way you won’t be anxious. And get cranky. I don’t get cranky and I’m not anxious. Oh yes [...]

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Despite Setbacks, Aliso Beach Café Reopens

Despite Setbacks, Aliso Beach Café Reopens

| March 31, 2011 | 0 Comments

Gearing up to take advantage of potential spring break crowds, Michael Weiss plans today to reopen Aliso Beach’s Sands Café, the only food and beverage concession at the county’s second most popular beach. Weiss’s plan to cash in on the exclusive 10-year concession was not as successful in his first season as he hoped due [...]

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