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IHWDIN, ,tpM THINKING ALLOW D I don 't smell a rat, and I tri d Thtnt1191vtng Dey. Thi V T dtldllnt for ewm~ I 'l\IMday. AT A GLANCE WIATHIR ON1HIWll: WWN,.,,..com Of'~Ind""".'"""'°" two iwllt• GMNGTHANKI ........ Al HAPNNINQI Dtvtd~"'" ......-- M IPCMtTI ' •• .• • NEW .1004 •... 'Eftl .•.. Automatic .... '°' 11 lonttll ••..... Ta 1111111110. " nn. {1~77Vf3~1~ .' t 1t 11s ..-11.- I 3klo. ctoeed end lease. Total Q1vt off $5000 i'dudes $2636.09 cap cost reduction. Fnt payment, tax, lcense and feel and SO MCtlity deposit and $576 bWlk fee. 10k miles per yw. 1~ per mile excess. Next pf)m8nt dUt 30 days after Inception. Next payment 006 30 days aft• Inception. NEW2004 NEW2004 BEETLE TOUARiG · convertlble Automatic I '. Serving the Newport-Mesa community since 1907 FRl>AY, NOVEMBER ~1 . 2003 Glmpbell,' Cristich Nature center founder lead packs Robert House offers . monthly tours of the native reserve in funding Campbell has raised $624,000 for his state Senate run. Assembly candidate Cristich has raised $207,000. Allcla Robinson Daily Pilot How much it costs to run for elected otnce in Orange County depends on whom you ask. In the Republican primary race for the 35th Senate district seat, the front runner in terms of fundralsing ls 70th District Assem blyman John Campbell. In a campaign 8- . nance repon filed in October, Campbell re Lori Whalen enjoys the scent of a bay leaf ported a cash balance 0($624,364. during a walk through the nature center. That's more than twloe as much as the $2B6,171 his opponent. 68th District Auem· btyman Ken Maddox. listed as his balance. Alicia Robinson The reports covered the period from July 1 Dally Pilot to Sept. 30. Campbell said this week that since the repon was med. bis total has sur· ometimes in life, you have to take passed $800,000 and his goal for the cam· time to stop and smell the bay laurel. paign ls •considerably h.lgher than that" Environmental Nature Center He said he expectS to wind up his fund Sfounder Robert House did just that raising with $1.25 to Sl.5 million. Thursday while giving a tour of the nature Although Maddox's goal of $400,000 is preserve that he founded in 1972. much Jower, he said he's not worried by The 3.5-acre nadve plant garden next to Campbell's campaign coffers. Newport Harbor High School features habitats recreating 14 of the 28 ecosystems SM FUNDING, Pa11 M that can be found in California. House led the visitors who came for the tour through the center's desert. which boasts palm trees and cactuses; a freshwater marsh; a stream environment; and even a redwood forest THE ENVIRONMENT area. House's monthly tours were canceled over the summer to make way for children's . nature camps but will resume full-force ln City might January. The center ls always open to the public and offers school programs during much of the year. Once an unused gully that House PHOTOS BY KENT TREPTOW /OM.Y PM.OT fine lawn described as •raw land," the center has. From left, Sally Felling, Frank Feller and Environmental Nature Center founder Robert See GARDEN, Pac• M House examine pine trees during a tour of the center on Thursday. drenchers Newport officials are considering how to THINKING ALLOWED encourage residents and businesses to prevent runoff caused by over-watering. I don't smell a rat, and I tried June C1111rand1 OatlyP1lot rats had been wanted was to attract a friendly things that attracted some of the spotted, hoping to rodent. vermin, so they are now gone, Booth NEWPORT BFACH - ln a never-ending catch a glimpse of 'Ihankfully, those -Handt Snacks" said. quest to keep ~d out ot the harbor and one of the, um, aacbn and cheese deals -which l The bird feeders, garden and pond ocean, city officials are tum1ng an eye toward cageless class Wee lQ keep around ln case my son are all part of learning life skills, those who until now have continued to pol pet& What I got needs 10mething to munch on - which is an essential and fun part of lute unpunished and often unaware. instead was a were gone. the special education curriculum. On the heels of their efforts to educate guided tour or the I braced myself and walked across Booth said. She theo took me Inside residents about environmentally trlendly car room from middle the aging campus - built sometime to show me the steel plates, just put washing. dry officials are considering what school prlniclpal tn the 1960I-to Ms. Suzy Thatcher's in place, to stop the rat3 from to do about businesses and residents who Broob Booth. room. (also known as Ms. T.) I don't burrowing tn from the root. over-water lawns. LOLITA "We can't let you know what I expected. but what l Something about foam rubber and Assistant Oty Manager Dave KlJhaid be is HARPER lit in on a cla.ss.'" saw was one ot the most nicely steel wool and being very proactlw preparing an item for the ary Council's con she said. •That decorated and Inviting classrooms. about the problem. l lcnow she wu sideratJon that could become the law of the requites pedal permission from the The entrance to the room houses a sincere, but she also had tba1 public land. The Item will ask whether the city dlstrtct and three.day nodce." vegetable garden, with strawberries relations tone in her volce - abe had should take steps to educate and even pun All right, J'U take what I can get. J and tornatot!S. and a lrol pond. There to put on a good front to the medJa. I ish businesses and people who water their did a quick mental rundown ofwhat u&ed to be bUd feeders. but they I had ln my pUl"le. The last thing I were determined to be one of the SM ALLOWED. Pase M SM LAWN, Paa• M · ThanksvMng Day. The Keeper of evidence locker hands over keys Daily Pilot deadline for aubmltak>N I• Tueldey. AT A GLANCE Police property supervisor Bob Bork Will WEATHER ~ retire after 24 years with the department. ON1l4EWEB: Cloudt •od even eraln drop www.~com 0( two IWllt. DHpa lharattt drtve crosa-country with h1I S..Pac•A2 OaityPUot wife. BonnJe. to his new borne GMNGTHANKS in a Florida c:ounay club where HAPPENINGS ob Bott hu &eell a lot tn be hopes to Jpend the rest of Whet 11'9 you th1nkful for thll the two decades he'• h1a lite punulbg hia passion - veer7 Good health? family Otvid c...ldy k.-pe on B spent look1na after the golf. and fr1endt? • Cost&Meulob On Thursday. after a WMtmr h 11, let ua know by rcding. SHhpM Depa.rtmerit'• property room. redrement party and celtlng (948) 8'2.:eole °' He'e eeen them all golog.. way luncheon, It WU ID ~1g~enHn1Ntt BlOod·tWned dOtbee. begl.M1nc to sink bl for Bodt. · ~•Dnaccm SPORTS ' ,..._..,... yourneme ind bonee, a me.er that hOUied a "I've done this a lcq time," lndudt yc,ur hometown and VlngUlrch No. 4-taitlttd woman's corpie for yeen. be Mid. Joolcl"8 up at the tombtton.e;-ewn a medieval colorful bdoona bobbfng ~numbir. women"~*"' bill and chain. The Plot Wtl Nn. "*"°" beatte Wlelmlt•r Cohge. around his otllce. "It'• WiRK C. OUSTIVOM..YN.OT S.PIPAlO eo.tr. wtD n!tW Monday alter obVlOUlly emodonaJ for me to °" ~tbe~ttOrU Tacked.., befi'Mt rettma :~ &ipeMsor 80b °'"''""".. yMll. A week now, he'll ... ~ , ... M Botk's desk is 1 stilt fta& sianed ottMr CosUa Mesa poke. ON THE . THE HARBOR COLUMN Dreading the dredging hoy. if the forests were Well, I'm allowed to be Ao6again thinned. cruil1ng on the The effects of eel hlab aeu this week. grass protection is but don't worry, I now being felt In wtU be baclc just in the harbor, with thrie for my Sunday some dodcs sitting iadJolhow. on the bottom at lunontwo low tide. And di«erent voyages. people out fishing On one, I will be MIKE bllV't found aome a.board with WHITEHEAD spedet are now someone whom otf-limJts with IDO$l of you in Newport regulations impoMd without Harbor Will mnember auppordve ldentiftc data. ~ ....,._ It ta known that tome Remember~ He was Oflidak (not our local the Newport barbormaster, otBdala) who me Imposing and be i;etired thfl year to set the eel grass protection have sail on his Unlfttte motor said that they th1oJc there yacht. Well. be planned to can never be too much eel join the Baba }WI& auisen, grass. However, we have teen Randy Seton has been appohrted to Newport Beach CoastaVBay Wibr ~ Citizens AcMsotY Committee. but inltead. Kuulea ls aome results: the public is putting bis yacht on a starting to tab notice of all Dockwtse transport ahlp. Hill the regulations because now next stop ls Ptorfda. they are feel.Ing the effects. I mentioned that Kasules Lately, some ft.shlng . auislng Floridian waten to restrictions bave been eased, An official member Gmy em. owner or Hills Fuel and leg1slalors are starting to Dock. and Hill pointed out look closely at the stile of that Marty better get use to affain a«ecttng the public. June C1111rand• Longtime water-quality running by the fathometer. I think that we need to get Oa1lyPilot "We are veiy lucky 1n th.is baclc to common sense and watchdog Randy Seton is area with the depths that we use realistic sdentillc studies hen Randy Seton attended b!s named to the Coastal/Bay haw," Hill told me.