EDUCATION New bus turnout an island of...

EDUCATION

New bus turnout

an island of relief

Students at Harbor View Elementary School in Corona del Mar got a

new welcome mat this week.

The principal dubbed the new bus turnout on Goldenrod Avenue “Bus

Island.” It’s designed to relieve congestion on the street and in the

parking lot.

* A former Orange Coast College faculty member, who left the

school four decades ago made a $900,000 bequest to the school,

officials announced last week.

Costa Mesa resident Shirley Jane Brooke died in March 2003,

leaving the large donation to OCC, where she worked from 1956 to

1964. It was the largest cash bequest in the college’s history and

the fourth-largest donation.

* Students hoofed it to three Newport-Mesa schools this week for

National Walk to School Week.

College Park, Mariners and Sonora elementary schools had special

celebrations for those who chose to walk. National Walk to School

Week seeks to encourage walking for fitness and raise awareness of

safety issues.

* UC Irvine professor emeritus Irwin Rose earned a share of this

year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of

Sciences announced this week.

Rose, 78, garnered the honor for his work researching how proteins

are broken down inside cells. He and Aaron Ciechanover and Avram

Hershko from the Israel Institute of Technology shared the award for

their work, which can be applied to cancer-fighting drugs.

PUBLIC SAFETY

Public safety officials

back Proposition 1A

Local public safety and city officials gathered this week to voice

their support for Proposition 1A, which would amend the state

constitution to protect local funding for local services.

Supporters said it would seriously limit the state’s ability to

take local dollars away from local services. The cities of Newport

Beach and Costa Mesa support the proposition.

POLITICS

Cast ballots at JWA before

or after your flight

Orange County voters waiting to get out of town can cast their

ballots on electronic voting machines at John Wayne Airport through

Oct. 29, the Orange County Registrar of Voters announced Tuesday. The

airport is the first in the country to offer early voting. The

registrar introduced new electronic machines and allowed people to

cast ballots early in 16 places for the March primary, but this time

around, the early voting has been expanded to 27 locations, including

the airport.

Voting at the airport isn’t for everyone, though. It’s inside the

security checkpoint, so it can only be used by ticketed passengers,

and it’s only for voters registered in Orange County. All early

voting locations will offer people the chance to register to vote or

sign up to be a poll worker.

GOVERNMENT

Group gives greenlight

to council candidates

In Newport Beach, City Council candidates Dolores Otting and John

Buttolph picked up endorsements from the slow-growth Greenlight

group. Greenlight endorsed these two because they will put residents’

desires first, spokesman Phil Arst said.

* After the first campaign finance reporting deadline, incumbent

Steve Rosansky in Newport Beach and Planning Commissioner Katrina

Foley clinched the most contributions. Rosansky has raised $36,000,

including a $5,000 loan, and Foley brought in about $30,000.

* In Costa Mesa, sponsorship banners can hang on public baseball

and softball fields as long as they are only on the outfield fences

and facing the field’s interior, among other restrictions. The City

Council approved a law Monday regulating these banners and temporary

signs advertising city-sponsored events on public property.