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SPORTS COUNCIL CDM cross country Shalimar landlords stronger than ever looking at new fee Serving the Newport-Mesa community since 1907 .. FIREPROOF AND FASHION ·FORWARD add that extra level of protec HWe haven't had dny com •Newport By John Canalis, Daily Pilot tion.• said Newport Fire and plaints,• Blauer said. Beach's fire and Marine Lt. John Blauer. The department ordered 300 NEWPORT BEACH - That sky Even with fire-proof qualities, navy shirts. Exact cost figures marine officials blue polyester shirt is so five min· the shirts breathe better than poly· were not available Tuesday after utes ago. ester. The new line is designed for noon but Blauer said the navy get new uniforms Call the fashion police. Wait, hot weather, as in hot as a bwning shirts were $7-10 cheaper a piece make that the Fire Department. building, as in Orange County in than light blue shirts made from that are cheaper, Though fashion actually has late August hot. · the same matendl nothing to do with it, Newport HTbe shirts are a bit lighter and There was no need to buy new safer ... and firefighters will trade in their light cooler and have a bit of a tropical slacks. The department already blue shirts this week for new blend,• Blauer said. issues navy pdnts made from a • able to leap a navy tops. Each of the department's 90 or cool, fire-retardant matenal. temperature Newport Fire and Marine offi so field officers began wearing The decision to go with the cials ordered the wardrobe the darker shirts Monday, just in new shirts was made by the change in a change for Monday since the new time for fall. Management and department safety committee, an duds are cheaper, safer and cool other office types will stick with internal organization that advises single bound. er. The old shirts had their prob· white shirts. the fire chief. Safety was the lems, since polyester melts in It seems as though the new impetus for lhe change. MARC MAR1lN I DAILY PILOT extreme heat. look has passed muster in trendy Style was apparently just a Newport Beach firefighter Chris Brown sheds department's "These are fire resistant, they Newport, home of Fashion Island. bonus. old powder-blue unifonns, displaying the new dark blue ones. "People ·· ~ . would ask if it was a Faberge egg, and I'd say Teacher at 'No, it wasn't created by Faberge, but it's like one "' - JIM GRAHL Balboa Island jeweler, below Lincoln is top of her class • Claire Ratfield becomes one of the first of 170 teachers to attain new national teaching standard. By Julie Ross Cannon, Daily Prlot NEWPORT BEACH - Lincoln Elementary School has some thing new to crow about Sixth-grade teacher Cldire Ratfield th.ls week became the only teacher tn the country to earn two certifications from the National Board for Professional Teadung Standards Ratfield, who was one of the Claire Ratfield ftrst 170 teachers to become board certified, is now leachng a charge to heighten teacher board certification awareness statewide and to prompt state and local school officials to offer incen tives for teachers to take the tests. "Talang a second certific.anon ex.am wasn't to shQw that I'm the best teacher in the world· she said 1\lesday. , . " Certification is a part of a movement to raise the stan· dards of teaching nationwide. As part of the first corps of teachers to pass the strenuous exams, Rat:field was hon ored at the White House for her acluevement last year. • SEE TEACHER PAGE 4 Reagan ranch has . auctioneers hopping • Purported sale of former first family's IT'S Ne YeLK 'Heavenly' Santa Barooa property is being handled by Sotheby's Newport Beach office. LOcal jeweler ~opes His Faberg~-type By Carolyn M iller. Daily Pilot egg can net as much as $550,000 NEWPORT BEACH - The phone lines at Sotbeby's International Real Estate office on Bayside Drive were •we created it to put •t out there and see if clogged Tuesday Wlth callers from around the world. By Julie Ross Cennon, Daily Pilot the world would want to buy it," he said during The hot property in question? A sprawling ranch its an interview in his Balboa lslAnd studio. famous owner once referred to as heaven. Al.BOA ISLAND - Eighteen months of 1be egg, which opens to reveal a five-animal Ronald ond Nancy Reagan are selling their work bave ftDally batched for Jim Grahl. carousel, is oo dill>lay at Black, Starr & Prost at beloved 688-acre Santa Barbara ranch, which they A local jeWe)er, Grahl and three eaod South Coast Plaza. The elaborate egg is carried PHOTOS BY MARC MAATIN I DAl.Y Pl.OT B An enamel leopard guards tbe controls of rarely VlSit smce the former president was diagnosed atal have aeated what he affectionately calls on the back of an 18-carat-gold bejeweled ele with Alzheimer's disease in 1994. •'Jbe Uttle Red~.• a Paberge-style master phimt on a black bue outlined in diamonds. one of Jim Grahl's Faberge-style eggs. · we've been deluged with mqwnes," said Zachary piece of~. The mecbanizedegg also plays carousel Grahl sald he produced •lbe Uttle Red Wnght, of Sotheby's Real Estate, Newport Beach, Tues Though be doem't yet have a buyer for the music while the deta.iled,.hand-carved animals Egg,• an omate work he hopes will fetch day · we clldn't mtend to put the property on the mar ~.ooo egg, Grabl Aid hll ID.aiD ~vein $550,000, as a warm-up for an even more ket until after Labor Day That's the timing we set up ~the ornate, seven-inch piece was to lntrtcate project. llmpiy try out bis skills. • SEE EGG PAGE 4 • SEE PROPER1Y PAGE 4 ------------------~--------~~------,I Ir • I I \ 11 I \ \\ I \ I 11 I Ii City ofticia.IS consider hiring Back Bay expert I I ALMANAC 2 Now that things •In the aftermath of IRWD battle, some council mem •Sit(re what we have been have cooled through with the IRWD, this seem AROUND TOWN 2 bers believe a person knowledgeable in. tideland issues like it should be a priority," said CLASSIFIED 7 down, we can Councilwoman Nonna Glover, who, get back to our is needed. USTEN UP 3 along with Councilwoman Jean standard tare tor a sum strong cas for hiring uch an Watt, ~ ~ that this be dOoe. POU<;E FtlES 2 •The IR.WO (issue) may have Sh091d the city mer day on the Orange By Carolyn Miller, Daily Pilot e~: the dty's batUe with th PUBLIC NOTICES 6 Irvine Ranch Wat r District, been prevented earlier if we bad a hire 1 full-time Coast. Barlf morning loW 5tAff pereon looking at the tOta1 expert to deal · SPORTS . 5 cloudzi wUJ pntCftl9 plenty NEWPORT &BACH - While which proposed dumpmg 5 mil most agree Newport Bay is one of lion gallons of treated wage overall bey,• Glover satd. • u strictly with ol altemoon 11111 and Ughi the d ty's attractive assets, the water daily into the bey. beceri1e appcen\ to me with mwo Newport lay Howtorwil• that we didn't haw that perlOO.. • bteeae& slew of mues aunoundiilg it can After a long struggle, the city iSSUM? PlllM IHw be as murky as mud. end the diltrict arrived at an The hope ill tar the bay expert 142-5171 s.. VJM:thwt ,.2 baAI with So to clear that up, the dtY may a~t last month that pre-. to meet oo a r9guJ.er a your thc;Mllhts on our 540-1224 task teem of a\lthoritiea oo bey place one penon in c:b&rge ot .n vertts the bay fJOl1I becollling lt..a.n Modliw. mues. Members ol that team we .....,10 bay ..... - - Uplirt whaal Ibey Whit amounted to • toUet. BUt the w.-. could call an •t _, time . Mnch Of Whet mJght have bMls ii .... One l'k'mt ..._ 'oft...cl a idll pu19111t. •Sil IAY PAGE• • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1996 around town fi- ·~- . - r. --, --- ~ y l'f#~- - ... • • . t' ~• _ ""=.. - I_ ~- ' -- -- I -- ".______~ - ..a.,.- - Suffrage Day luncheon at 11:30 a .m. at the Balboa Bay Club, 1221 SOCIALHOUR W. Coast Highway, Newport Center 500, a support group of Beach. The cost is $25. For more the Orange County Perfonning information, call 857-5343. Arts Center, will have their next Social Hour at Griffin Unton Con FRIDAY temporary Bxhibitions from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 1640 Pomona Ave., ROCK 'N' ROLL Costa Mesa. Center 500 members "Bobby and lbe Cruzen" will are free and a $10 donation is rock into the Harbor View Center requested of guests. For more with the sounds of the 1950's and information, call 556-2122. the 1960's rock and roll for free from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at IRS WORKSHOP Harbor View Center on the cor The Internal Revenue Service ner of San Miguel Drive and San is offering a free tax workshop for Joaquin Hills Road in Newport small business owners from 10 Beach. For more information, call a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Cost.a 854-3779. Mesa Library, 1855 Park Ave. For more information, call 360-2094. PAOFtCCUP Local sailor Jeny Henn and his SI RESS RELEASE crew mates-will-discuss-the West A free, two-part workshop that Marine Pacific Cup Race during teaches participants how to deal the final presentation of Orange with stress through the study of Coast College's annual summer actualism will be offered this "Barbecue Lect\ll'e Series" from summer by Orange Coast Col 6:30 to 9 p.m.