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Charles Weinberg in front of his photos on display at the Environmental Nature Center. — Photo by Sara Hall

Local Photographer Puts Nature on Display at ENC

After a long career of delivering babies, retired doctor Charles Weinberg now finds his passion in photography. A collection of this “serious amateur” photographer’s work is now on display at the Environment Nature Center. The show will continue through the end of April. Many of his photos were taken at the ENC, including all of [...]

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Lynn “Mama Lynn” Elliott with two of the children under the care of her Light in Africa organization.

Spreading the Light With Mama Lynn

It started like an ordinary day in 1999 when Lynn Elliott first heard a voice in her head saying, “Go to Africa.” Then she heard it again. “I ignored it at first,” Lynn explained.  “Then I fell to the ground, and couldn’t move, as if some invisible force held me down. … Then the voice [...]

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A Boerewors Sausage Roti Wrap, also known as an African burrito, at Mozambique Peri Peri.

A Lunchtime Safari

“Ready for a trip to Mozambique? I asked our editorial assistant, Catherine, who’s been filling in for Stasha (Stasha has been MIA while she stars in a play in Burbank). “Sure, I’ve been all over Europe but never Africa. I have my passport, but I’m not sure I can miss that much school,” replied Catherine. [...]

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Father Henry and Meece planting trees in Kenya.

Helping Kenyan Women Dream Big

From Newport to Nairobi   A Newport Beach based charity is helping pave the road to success for college girls in Kenya. Agano with Kenya, a charity in its debut year, has sponsored its first 10 girls their first year of college, an opportunity they otherwise probably wouldn’t have gotten if it weren’t for the [...]

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Agano With Kenya Founder Jene Meece with Pascaline and Miriam and Audrey, the plastic patient they practice their skills on at Catholic University nursing school. — Photo courtesy Jene Meece

From Newport to Nairobi

A Newport Beach woman traveled to Nairobi to help pave the road to success for college girls in Kenya. Jene Meece, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Agano with Kenya, is currently in Africa with other team members from the charity, visiting, documenting and encouraging the girls the organization has helped reach higher education. “Ten young [...]

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9/11: For David Paine, It’s About Remembrance and Service

  By Roger Bloom | NB Indy   As the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks arrives, Newport Beach’s David Paine wants folks to know all their options for observing the day, and that among those options is signing up to render service to others in memory of those who perished. “Remembering 9/11 is a [...]