INSIDE SCOOP

At the July 17 Huntington Beach City Council meeting, Mayor Dave

Garofalo greeted the sponsors of the Huntington Beach Art Center

Children’s Art Camp in a ceremony. When posing for a picture with the

children who are participating in the camp this summer, Garofalo jokingly

said: “People my size make me feel taller.”

A FEW FIRSTS

Pauline McIntosh, 82, was the first student Carrie Wall had to teach

how to use a calculator. But that wasn’t the math teacher’s only first

with McIntosh.

“She’s the only student I’ve had that calls me honey,” Wall said.

LESS HEAT

A fiery game of basketball Monday between the Chinese Women’s Olympic

team and the combined forces of Fountain Valley and Garden Grove

firefighters, who lost to the women, 81-86, lost its sting soon after the

final buzzer, when player Joe Cucinotti of the Fountain Valley Fire

Department carried his toddler daughter onto the court.

In a flash, the firefighter was surrounded by several tall women

doting on the little girl.

-- Compiled by Kenneth Ma, Angelique Flores and Torus Tammer