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.. ..-- ". • I .. •. I" SERVING THE NEWPO~T - MESA CO~UNmES SINCE 1907 ON 1HE WEB: .WWW.DAILYPILOT.COM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2001 M¢ne studies center pl~ed for Bae}_( Bay • Located on Shellmaker . • mental groups - have it thett way, routine monitonng of the water, but m another marine studies center will wiJJ a lso teach college and hJgh State offldH wilt unveil plans fot open its gates just down the water in school students about their work. Island, 20,000-square-foot MOTHER'S DAY building will serve as water the new nwine science center dur- 2003, the department of fish and While it's still unclear who will pdy . I 1n Earth ~ lebratlon game revealed Tuesday. for the $5-million project, several How do you plan quality lab and educate ~-Island~urday . c:::'., The 20,000-square-foot bulldmg organizations have already satd they on cetebrating Earth residents about watershed. actMties will indude kayak tours, on Sbellmaker Island will aim to edu· will contribute money. The county, Day? Call our Readers hilting and biking along the sattwa- cate residents about Newport Beach's for example, plans to contribute $1 23 Hotline at (949) 642-6086 Mathis Winkler ter "*1h and talks by Nturallsts. watershed while serving as a water million m tobacco settlement funds or send e-mail to daily D AILY PILOT The event will begin at 10 a.m. and quality laboratory for the Orange The state department of Cish and p1/ot0/atimes.com. Please last until 3 p.m. The island can be County health care agency at the game, which has owned the island spell your name and NEWPORT BAY - J ust last Octo reached from Back Bay Drive. same time. for decades, will also pick up a large include your hometown ber, the c;j.ty's •residents welcomed a • It's a wm-win situation,• said chunk of the bill, Andersen sa.id. and phone number. for new interpretive center in the Back Chamois Andersen, a department of Newport Beach, the Californid verification purposes only. Bay. irlcluding the state's department or fish and game spokeswoman, adding But if a coalition of groups - fish and game, the city and environ· that scientists will not only conduct SEE CENTER PAGE 5 f Pro-airport groups ready to Tirmble • After being qwet for 'far too long,' pro-El Toro forces plan to go on the offensive within the next few weeks. Mathis Winkler DAILY PI LOT NEWPORT BEACH Armed with d mult:i.millJon dolldr \fdT chest dt their disposal. representdt1ve~ of g roups suppor-.mg an airport at El Toro SaJd Tuesday that they are ready to e nter the nng Alter s1ttmg qweUy whJJe lhf' coun· ty's dnb-El Toro forces we re bombard· mg residents with mdller.. televts1on dnd new~pdper ads, El Toro supporters w11J reld!Jdte with "No matter equdl means m the what they next two weeks SEAN HUERI OAll.Y PILOT spend, "We've been Miranda Young says the water at UtUe Corona tested positive for pollution. Below, she walks along UWe Corona, where she ddrk for fdr too I tested water samples to evaluate water quality. they can't long.• Sd1d Dave Ellis, d pokesman change the for the Airport reality that Work mg Group "This ts dn exotmg this airport's lune for us. WC' have a bad idea. not been able to return ftre m a long If you put tlrnf' In the next Testin perfume on I 0 days. O range pig, County will be get· a it's ting educdted on air· still a pig. " ports and uses at El Toro• Paul Eckles Eilts added that e wa ers executive the group was cur· director of the rently hne tuning El Toro Reuse School science project shows what more and more Planning telev1s1on ads for Authority cable TV as well as people are finding out - Little Corona is polluted m<ttlers "Everybody will get an idea of how Danette Goulet dent tested the water in four different El Toro will beneht the county.· he DAILY PILOT spots, she found that one popular area S&d. was in fact contaminated. Whtle Ellis' group already reap· be didn't want to believe that the "(Tests) told me that Little Corona peared on the battleground when 1t waters she swam in were pollut was polluted and l tested the water right launched a new Web site promottng El ed. The beaches would, after all, here where it runs into the ocean and Toro, a recent $120,000 grant from S be closed if they were polluted, the tide pools,• Miranda said as she Newport Beach will allow the Auport Miranda Yoµng thought. crouched down by water running into Working Group to expand 1ts efforts So for her sixth-grade science project the tidal area. •So It could be killing the into the real world as well. for the Pegasus School in Huntington creatures or animals in the tide pools.• City leaders al o approved Beach, 12-year-old Miranda set out to In order to conduct her science pro $150,000 for Cillzens and Jobs m the prove her hypothesis - that the beaches ject Miranda needed to be able to test in Newport Beach are not polluted. But when the Newport Beach resi- SEE WATER PAGE 4 SEE EL TORO PAGE 5 Case. still not necessarily closed after more than a decade . QA9IDS- --· l&flOIS - 2 • Once convicted for hiring knew that. But he was reminded of daughter of th late actor and local PUU "100'S. ......J that unpleasant truth a couple legend John Wayne people to attack his wife, weeks ago when the John Marshall Alisa Wayne and her boyfriend, VOll5_ ______ t7 Dr. Thomas Gionis' past now Law Review - part of the John Roger Luby, were a11aulted ln Marshall Law School in Chicago - Luby't Newport Beach home m prevents him from holding a canceled his appointment as the October 1988. According to reports, prestigious post in Chicago. incoming edJtor·ln<hief. Wayne wu thrown face down on a Gionll, 47, ii cummUy a tee0nd garage floor while attacken - said .,..... ......... yea.r student there and wu elected to be h1Nd by GiOn1s - pilt()I· 0M.V~ to the post in March. whipped Luby and severed bis CoMMllt lfW'Cln But n1ne yeers ago, the then Adilllel tendon. •MUI A criminal record II like a finger· Irvtae orthopedic surgeon Wat in 8 Gioftli' trial WU IOi>g and.anlel · Wllldwtwo••D11•........ IWt ....... ... prinl It's like a lbedow you cen't diff9rmt plac'9 - he WU convicllld ing, end pobiabiy palntul far .. cOn• lbalut off. lt'l llb b9ng bound bY and lllltenced to .-ve five years in C9Md. aw dllftnillliy ..._,..._, ........ bmllble lhllcklel, prtloD tor blrtng two thugs to attack or. naomu GAonll protMbly idl ..-..ng.d wUe, Ailla Wayne, SHGIONISM911 .. SatutdAys and Sund4ys· at Russois Per 'PET OF THE WEEK Experience at Fashion Island in Newport 'Chance' Beach. The Community Animal Network is a Chance, a 2-year-old male corgt..gold en retnever rrux, ls avatlable for adopbon commuruty-supported animal organiu· through the Newport Beach-based Com· tion linking people and pets through muruty Animal Network. community acDon. Other animals avail The playful dog has been protession· able for adoption may be seen on the ally trained by Valerie Pollard, wbo wilJ Web at http://www.animalnetwork.org. proooe two in-home training sessions to For informabon or to send donations, the adoptlllg family. call (949) 759-3646 or write to the Com Chance and other rescued dOgs and munity Anlmal Network. P.O. Box 8662, cats may be seen from noon to 4 p.m. Newport Beach, CA 92658. Daily Pilot 2 Wednesday, April 18, 2001 Mar. Volunteers are also For A Gettins.. needed from 10 a.m . to 5 p.m. Monday through Sat GOOD CAUSE INVOLVED urday at the same location, (949) 640-4777. • GETTING INVOWED runs peri· odlc.al(y In the Daily Pilot on a rotat AMERICAN Janet ing basis: If you'd like information on adding your organization to this CANCER soc11n list. call (949) 574-4298. ROAD TO RECOVERY Eversmeyer WOMEN The transportation program needs volunteers to dnve HELPING WOMEN cancer patients l o and from Providing a voice for Mentors and donations are medical treatments free or needed to assist victims of charge. The required com the Paci!ic Chorale domestic violence. Volun mitment JS a few hours each teer teachers are also need week or month. Drivers ed for computer classes. must have a valid dnver's ecently, Jdnet Eversmeyer was The organization is at 711 license and insurance and half of a two-person effort to W. 17th St., Suite A -10, Cos be at least 25 years old. Vol ew 1,800 squares m the ta Mesa. The center also unteers may use either thctr i.hape of a floral harp for a 90-mch, needs volunteers to help own vehicles or Amencan king-size qu1Jt for the Pacil1c with cilent intake and Cancer Society vans. (949) Chorale's upcommg fund-rdlser. dressing, donation collec 261-9446 or scorn er@ Whdt mdde the 71-year-old vol tion, sorting clothes and concer.org . unteer do this? general office work. (7 14 ) "I have been d singer all my life 631-2333. dnd I cdn't tmdgmc anyone gelling AMERICAN HEART ASSN. through life without music," she WYLAND FOUNDATION The American Heart Assn. ~Id is looking for volunteer'> to Eversm"yer, d Newport Beach The Wyland Foundation, perform van ous gener al resident, volunteer!> sporadic w hich encourages greater office dutJes m the main dmounl'> of ttme for lhe chorale's awareness of ocean conser office and implement edu guild d'> d membe1 of its board, vation, is seeking volun cational and fund-raising whJCh 1<, mddc up enllrely of volun teers for clerical and com events through Oran ge teer!> puter help and grant writ County.