Getting spooky with the Halloween spirit Newport...

Getting spooky with the Halloween spirit

Newport Beach’s annual Halloween Window Painting Contest will take

place on Oct. 26 at two different Newport Beach shopping centers.

Children participating in the contest will decorate store windows

at either the Newport Coast Shopping Center at the corner of Newport

Coast Drive and San Joaquin Hills Road or at the Westcliff Plaza at

17th Street and Irvine Avenue.

The cost is $5 and pre-registration is required. For registration

forms and other information, visit the city’s Web site at

https://www.city.newport-beach.ca.us. Under “News/Events” select

“Public Information Office” then “City News.” For information by

phone, call (949) 644-3000.

Market Place honors

several local nonprofits

In honor of celebrating the start of its 35th year, the Orange

County Market Place gave $3,500 each to ten community organizations

Saturday. Those organizations are: the Costa Mesa Senior Center,

Costa Mesa Historical Society, the newly-planned Harbor area Boys and

Girls Club of Costa Mesa, Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce CM 900 Club,

Costa Mesa High School, Estancia High School, Vanguard University,

Orange Coast College and the newly-established Costa Mesa Community

Foundation, from which equal donations to the Costa Mesa Fire

Department and Costa Mesa Police Department will be made for their

community educational programming.

SCORE to have several

workshops this month

The Service Corps of Retired Executives is offering the first of

many business workshops on Tuesday in Costa Mesa. The workshop, on

creating business plans, will take place from 9 a.m. to noon at

National University, 3390 Harbor Boulevard. To make a reservation,

call (714) 550-7369.