Around Town: Rose Parade float to promote Irvine
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When you watch the Rose Parade on New Year’s Day in Pasadena, look for the float from the Irvine Chamber of Commerce and Destination Irvine, the city’s destination marketing organization.
The 25-foot-tall, 18-foot-wide and 55-foot-long float is built by Pasadena-based Phoenix Decorating Co., which says it has built more than 750 Rose Parade floats since 1983.
The float, called “Innovation Rocks!,” presents a floral lab scene with an array of colorful beakers, helixes, elements and animated gears designed to explore science, technology, engineering and math.
Peter the Anteater, UC Irvine’s mascot, wears a lab coat in a nod to the university’s role as a medical and technology innovator.
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Irvine schools get $1,600 from MOD Pizza fundraiser
The Irvine Public Schools Foundation received a $1,600 check Monday from the MOD Pizza location in Irvine to help support local school programs.
The restaurant held a fundraiser Nov. 24 to 29 in which a dollar from every pizza sale was donated to the foundation.
MOD Pizza has welcomed special-education students from Woodbridge High School, as well as Career Link students, to intern there.
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Goodwill gets $100,000 grant from Edwards Lifesciences Foundation
The Irvine-based Edwards Lifesciences Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant to Goodwill of Orange County to help support Goodwill’s Tierney Center for Veterans Services.
The program helps veterans and their families find services for needs such as housing, job training and placement, and education and wellness.
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Irvine pediatrician joins MOMS Orange County board
Dr. Candice Taylor Lucas of Irvine has been appointed to the board of directors of MOMS Orange County, a Santa Ana-based nonprofit that serves low-income pregnant women.
Taylor Lucas, a pediatrician, is an assistant clinical professor at the UC Irvine School of Medicine in the department of pediatrics. She also is a pediatric fellow and consultant for the Children and Families Commission of Orange County.
Also named to the board was Craig Myers, a healthcare executive who is board chairman for the Coalition of Community Health Centers, headquartered in Irvine.