44 Women for Children recently held its Ninth Annual Scholarship Luncheon benefiting Orangewood Children’s Foundation at the Westin South Coast Plaza. Always an inspiring presentation, this year’s keynote speaker at the event was Olympic Gold Medalist Janet Evans, who is considered to be the greatest female distance swimmer in history. The event also recognizes a [...]
What is it about a parade that people love so much? I’ve enjoyed many throughout the world, from Pasadena to Wisconsin to Barcelona, Spain, and it never ceases to amaze me the crowds that will gather to watch one. Big or small, a parade brings smiles to the faces of old and young alike, [...]
On Friday, I participated in my very first electric boat poker run, this one in support of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, part of the Leukemia Cup Regatta activities being held here in Newport Harbor, which I wrote about in my Feb. 16 column. The Leukemia Cup Electric Poker Run & Auction was organized by Las [...]
I was born in Hawaii and grew up listening to Hawaiian music, which included lots of ukulele tunes. I even learned how to hula to “Ukulele Lady” as a girl. So when our editor asked me to write about the documentary “Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings” for this special edition of the Indy devoted [...]
This Sunday we’ll be heading to Santa Ana for a grand Fiesta in support of the St. Francis Home, a retirement community run by the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. This is our third year attending the fundraiser at the women-only retirement home where my 95 year old great aunt “T” has lived for [...]
“All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.” — Ludwig von Mises, Pulitzer Prize winning economist One of the great aspects of living in a market driven society is that if [...]
Assisting Hands Home Care, Newport Beach owner Judy Brady had her hands full earlier this week as she prepared to meet more than 60 of her fellow Assisting Hands Home Care franchisees who arrived Monday at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Spa for three days of intense programming devoted to the many issues facing [...]
“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln One of the items on my ‘bucket list’ is to age gracefully, and the older I get, the more I respect how much checking that one off the list is going to take. But this past Friday [...]
Newport Beach-based Indie band Theodore Lovely members Rob Armenti, Dan Bertsch and Robbie Moen are getting a taste of what it’s like to take their music on the road and well, the road has gotten a little bumpy for this uber-talented trio. The Folk/Americana-inspired band embarked on its inaugural “The Heart Leads the Way” tour, [...]
It was an honor to join hundreds of well-wishers including city officials, dignitaries and business leaders who gathered recently at The Island Hotel for a heartfelt retirement party for Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce President Richard Luehrs. Guests enjoyed a bountiful reception featuring a variety of themed stations as they mixed and mingled and shared [...]
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