Group invites city to offer prayers The...

Group invites city

to offer prayers

The Saturday Night Prayer Partners will host a “Citywide Prayer

Meeting” from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Harbor Christian Fellowship,

740 W. Wilson St. in Costa Mesa.

The prayer is for the United States, Iraq and the upcoming local

and national elections. The meeting is nonpolitical, and organizers

urge guests to not wear or bring campaign materials. The prayer

meeting is open to everyone.

For more information, call Robin at (714) 546-1452 or e-mail

[email protected].

South Coast Plaza to offer Angelitos card

For the third year, South Coast Plaza will offer the Angelitos

Shopping Card, which provides a 20% discount at more than 100

participating South Coast Plaza retailers and restaurants from Nov. 4

through Nov. 9.

Cards can be purchased for $50 at all South Coast Plaza concierge

desks or by calling Angelitos de Oro at (949) 642-9883 or visiting

https://www.angelitosdeoro.org. All proceeds from card sales benefit

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County.

Last year’s shopping card program raised $100,000 for Big Brother

Big Sisters of Orange County.

Angelitos de Oro is a nonprofit organization dedicated to Big

Brother Big Sisters of Orange County and has donated over $2.8

million from fundraising efforts since its inception in 1961.

For more information, call Beverly Morgan at (714) 435-2115.

City offers sandbags

to prepare for season

The winter storm season has arrived, and empty sandbags are

available at the city of Newport Beach Corporation Yard, 592 Superior

Ave., Building A, from Monday through Friday, between 7 a.m. and 3:30

p.m. as supply permits. Proof of residency is required, and there is

a limit of 10 sandbags per resident.

Residents may check with local lumber suppliers or home

improvement stores if more than 10 sandbags are needed. Sandbags will

not be available at any of the city’s fire stations.

Sandbags may be filled with beach sand, but city officials request

that beach sand be returned to the beach after the storm season.

To confirm the availability of city sandbags, call the General

Services Division at (949) 644-3055.

Costa Mesa awarded for savvy work with budget

The city of Costa Mesa has received the Government Finance

Officers Assn.’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award, the

organization’s highest honor.

Since the award’s inception in 1988, the city of Costa Mesa joins

900 public entities that have received the distinction. The award

reflects the commitment of the City Council and the staff to meeting

the highest principles of governmental budgeting.

The Distinguished Budget Presentation Award is the only national

awards program in governmental budgeting.

Contact Marc Puckett at (714) 754-5243 for information on the

association or the city’s finance administration.

Local business owner’s design skills showcased

Leslie Barish, a Costa Mesa business owner and an award-winning

designer with more than 25 years of experience, will be seen on Home

& Garden Television’s “Designers’ Challenge” at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 11.

“Designers’ Challenge” will show Barish’s home-makeover project

for Kirk and Susan Kennedy. The challenge was to create a redecorated

space with an ambience requested by the clients for less than

$25,000. Barish redecorated a space that included a bedroom and a

small adjacent alcove that was to be turned into a home office.

The producers of “Designers’ Challenge” turned to the

International Interior Designers’ Assn. for recommendations when they

received the request from the Kennedys. Barish was contacted after

submitting a concept drawing and competed against designers from San

Francisco and Chicago and was selected by the client.

Barish owns Design Consultants in Costa Mesa and was a regular

contributor to a design column in the Los Angeles Times. She has also

written about institutional design in the National Health Review.