INSIDE SCOOP

-- Compiled by the Daily Pilot staff

We’ve never doubted that Newport Beach’s Vice Mayor Tod Ridgeway has

top job potential. But while we’ll have to wait at least until next year

to see him in the mayor’s seat, a letter we recently received at the

Pilot made us realize that he’s preparing for the role in more ways than

one.

Ridgeway, also known as Chief Running Water of the Naranja Nation’s

Mojave Indian Princess Tribe, has been leading his 28 subjects and

recently entertained many of them at his mountain getaway in Lake

Arrowhead. Madison “Hummingbird,” Ridgeway’s 6-year-old daughter,

co-hosted the event.

In the YMCA sponsored dad-daughter organization, Ridgeway said his

role was simply to make the little girls happy.

“It’s so much fun to see their eyes get so big,” he said.

Well, we’ll have to wait and see how Ridgeway’s chief experience will

translate to the mayor’s seat. Until then, we’d just like to take a

moment and thank his princesses for their thoughtfulness to bring a Daily

Pilot copy along the way.

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Besides Madison “Hummingbird,” Ridgeway’s 6-year-old daughter,

Samantha “Golden Hawk” and Ricki “Wild Coyote” Archie, Francesca “Wild

Kitten” and Jackie “Moon Tiger” Cappellini, Kaitlyn “Rainbow Magic”

Cosenza, Annie “Wild Flower” Kinney, Kami “Running Deer” Kurisu, Jasmine

“Little Flower” O’Hea, Gracie “Princess Grace” Peck, Amy “Golden

Squirrel” Rapillo and Julia “Wild Magic” and Cristina “Bird” Sclafani are

also included in the picture.