Total lunar eclipse will occur Saturday night...

Total lunar eclipse will occur Saturday night

A lunar eclipse on Saturday will turn the full moon into a dark,

ruddy orb as the moon drifts through Earth’s shadow.

The total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout North and South

America, Europe and Africa, weather conditions permitting. The moon

will be completely covered by the earth’s shadow during the eclipse.

Newport Elementary to show American pride

Newport Elementary School will host “Proud to be an American Day,”

which will be open to the public on Monday.

The event will open with the 1812 Privateer Lynx tall ship

unfurling its sails and shooting its cannons at 9 a.m. Members of the

military and the police and fire departments will also appear, as

will a member of the Anaheim Angels.

It will include patriotic musical performances by students and a

sign-up for a blood drive in the name of Newport Elementary parent

and paramedic Brian Slater, who is recovering from a bodysurfing

accident.

Lt. Gen. John Rhodes will speak with children about flag

etiquette, and Principal Denise Knutsen will read from Lynn Cheney’s

book “America, A Patriotic Primer.”

All events will take place from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on the sand in

front of Newport Elementary, at 1327 W. Balboa Blvd.

Mariners Christian will honor veterans Tuesday

Mariners Christian School will host Marine Lt. Col. John O’Brien,

who recently returned from Iraq, at its Veteran’s Day assembly on

Tuesday.

Al Elby, an Army veteran from the Battle of the Bulge, who spent

five months as a prisoner of war after capture by the Nazis, will

also speak. The event will include veterans from the Korean and

Vietnam wars, as well.

Students from Boy Scout Troop 90 will serve as the honor guard at

the assembly.

The program will take place at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at Mariners

Christian School, at 300 Fischer Ave. in Costa Mesa.

College will operate employment centers

Coastline Community College will continue to operate Costa Mesa’s

One-Stop Center and will take over centers in Garden Grove and

Mission Viejo as part of an agreement announced last week.

The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved the agreement,

which includes a $3.5-million grant from the county to operate the

centers. The grant will also provide funding for a new satellite

location in the north part of the county.

Coastline was the only operator for the centers selected in the

county, based on its track record running the Coastal Orange County

One-Stop Center in Costa Mesa.

The One-Stop centers provide employment assistance, including

recruitment, eligibility documentation, client assessment, case

management, vocational training referral, career center support, job

search assistance and job placement.

Linda Biehl will start Sage Hill speaker series

Newport Beach resident Linda Biehl, mother of a woman killed while

doing humanitarian work in South Africa 10 years ago, will kick off

Sage Hill School’s Speaker Series on Nov. 17.

Biehl and her late husband created the Amy Biehl Foundation to

further peace and racial equality in South Africa. Her daughter, a

Fulbright scholar and Stanford University student, was murdered while

she was working against apartheid.

Linda Biehl works with the foundation in South Africa about six

months a year on AIDS education and after-school and employment

programs.

The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. a Sage Hill School, at 20402

Newport Coast Drive in Newport Beach. Tickets cost $10 per person or $25 per family. All proceeds will benefit the Amy Biehl Foundation.

For more information and reservation, e-mail [email protected] or

call (949) 219-1395.

Fund-raiser nets $16,000 for Hoag

A fund-raiser sponsored by the 552 Club and Sterling BMW last

month for Hoag Hospital’s Women’s Pavilion raised almost $16,000.

Also at the event, Bruce Schwartz, a member of the board of

directors of the Hoag Hospital Foundation, won a grand prize two-year

lease on a 2004 5301 BMW.

The seven-story pavilion is scheduled to be done in 2005. It will

have a 42-room maternity unit, a neonatal intensive care unit and

three operating rooms dedicated for Cesarean sections.

Open house will give update on freeway work

There will be an open house on Nov. 18 to showcase progress being

made on the San Diego Freeway and San Joaquin Hills Transportation

Corridor improvement project.

The open house will provide an opportunity to talk directly with

Caltrans and Orange County Transportation Authority representatives

about the project, construction activities and construction plans.

The agencies have been working together to improve the freeways

between Bear Street and Hyland Avenue in Costa Mesa.

The project is scheduled to be done in mid-2004. It adds a

separate offramp from the northbound toll road to Fairview Road and

Harbor Boulevard; improves onramps and offramps at Harbor Boulevard

and Fairview Road; adds an onramp to the northbound San Diego Freeway

at Hyland Avenue; and adds sound walls throughout the project. The

project is more than 85% complete.

The open house will run from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at TeWinkle

Intermediate School, 3224 California Ave., in the multipurpose room.