In his 39 years as a Newport Beach lifeguard, 59-year-old Brian O’Rourke has witnessed, marveled at, ridden, and battled just about every wave type known to oceanographers.
In his 39 years of scanning and patrolling sea and shore, he estimates that he’s saved more than 1,000 panicked persons of every...
Miracle Makers International Film Festival (MMIFF) concluded its third season following five days of screenings, Q&As, industry panels, a VIP Pitch Fest, Newport Harbor yacht interviews, veterans programming, and an Awards Show Gala celebrating excellence, purpose, and meaningful storytelling.
Held September 2 through 6 at Regal Edwards Big Newport and...
By Sandra M. Borges | Special to the NB Independent
Newport Beach entrepreneur Luann McElroy, whose business ventures include her own magazine, Damsel, and Voyagers Rentals, a Newport Beach Duffy boat experience, had talked about launching a Christian-based company, but she was unsure what that company might be.
One day, her...
By Sandra M. Borges | Special to the NB Indy
In Orange County, approximately 95,000 adults ages 65 and older live alone, and it’s not by choice. Newport Beach resident Marc Iannini identified this problem after the loss of several of his uncles, leaving their widows in a lonely state...
Let’s clean Upper Newport Bay!
Join OC Parks, Newport Bay Conservancy and fellow volunteers for Coastal Cleanup Day at Upper Newport Bay on Saturday, Sept. 19. Spend the morning protecting local coastlines and wildlife and contribute to the removal of thousands of pounds of trash and recyclables that make their...
It’s one of the best deals in town. In fact, it’s free!
“It” is the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve located near the Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center at 2301 University Dr.
The Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve comprises 135 acres of bluffs and bay, and serves as the “educational...
In a world of strange relationships, who’d have thought that the medical specialty of Dermatology was in any way related to the Visual Arts?
After visiting the current photography exhibit titled “Carwash Whimsey and Newport Classics” at the Newport Beach Public Library on Avocado Street, featuring both the impressionistic and...
While everybody around him was “freaking out,” then 16-year-old Ryan Agzour maintained an almost unnatural calm, a seemingly impossible responsibility when having to apply CPR to one’s father suffering what sadly became a fatal heart attack.
While learning Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in the third session of the high school version...
High school students Damacia Shang and Kelland Hong are taking on a challenge that baffles most parents: How to get kids to eat their vegetables.
The teens are launching their community service initiative by doing it remotely with a group of grammar school kids in an after-school English-learning program taught...
It’s life’s truism: the older we get, the less enthused we are to venture beyond Newport’s comfortable borders for the entertainment venues we used to find so enriching, exciting and educating.
Problem solved via the Friends of OASIS Travel Department (located in the OASIS Senior Center main office). According to...
