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' SERVING THE NEWPORT - MESA COMMUNmES SINCE 1907 SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1999 Failing ---Costa MeSa·wcin't support relations? · Eosta Mesa .. th~ky~~ coUnty ·-relations· coirlmiSsion council I made the - -- . right decf. ponce named in • (:ouncil ma1ority says the group, which documents during my term, let down the city 'ion not to fund on several occasions,• Erickson the Homan Rela· discrimination, has failed the city repeatedly. said. "I don't think they clld step up, tions Commbsion? Call our Readers .brutaljty claim Council voted 3c2 at a _speoal .. they did help us. I don't think • they served 'm an Unbiased man Hotline at (949) council meeting Tuesday against 642 ·6086 Of send paying about $3,500 in rnember ner.• e-mall to daflypi· $25 rmllion damage declined to comment, say COSTKMESA - City Council shlP dues to the commission. May-· . The Human Relatn>ns Conunis lotOHrth/lnk.net. • ing the claun was received members who voted this week or Gary Monahan, Councilman Joe sion was created by the County Please spell your claim will probably at City l lctl.l on Friday and against funding membership dues Erickson and Councilwoman Board of Supervisors and the name and tell us lead to lawsuit if it is had not been distnbuted to to the Orange County Human Rela Heather Somers did not support the League of Cities in 1971 to help your hometown the rouncil or to city and tions Commission criticized the proposal to pay the fees. ehm.inate prejudice and discruruna and phone num· declined,asitalrnost polwe ofiioals m time to .. group for letting down the city and tion 1Wenty-two Orange Gounty '· ber (for verlfica· offer a statement. "I've ... served on this council tlon only). certainly will be. blowing a fight at NeM>ort Harbor for eight years, and I feel that the In Februdry, a $202 mil High School out of proportion. Human Relations Commission, ~ ~ SEE RACE PAGE A8 Ei.N C.n lion claim - which has ~Pill been derued - was filed with the Placentia Police COSTA MESA - The Department and the Police Department hal:i been Orange County district named along .with 13 other attorney's office. The figure county ageno.es m a $25 smce has been adjusted to * · G E T T I N G I E A D Y l 0 R T H. E · F 0 U R T H million police brutality $25 rrul\1on because lawyers claiin filed on behalf of at say they no~ have a more least 16 ·families who had reabc;Uc e:,timate of dam their homes raided m early ages, said Dave Homsey, a Janoary. · law cl · for attorney Costa Me~a police olfi R1chdrd Keller, who ts rep cers partiapated m the ratd resenting the families. led by the Placentia Police According to the claun Department. The raid was filed by ·Keller. police were held m response to the 1998 re ponsible for a number of New Year's Eve gang slay abuses, mcluding: ing of a man in Placentia's • handcuffing children as Atwood neigbbOrhood. Costa Mesa officials SEE CLAIM PAGE AS ~ovative programs may be hit hardest by fµ.ndfug change After working to this week Pme tres ed that he does attract students, and the not expect the district to close state money that comes down lho. e mnovative pro- . gr~ . But, he added, •tho e with them, Newport programs cll'e ones you ha-. e to Mesa may have to look at very Cdrefully if you switch the type of funding . change its ways. you're getting." Instead of relying on the Jl*JC.~ GARRN>~ state for funding, tpe di.stnct Di»rfb may have to switch back to NEWPORT-MESA A funding it elf almost so\ely number of the distnct's special from local property truces, as " .programs - inclucllng Middle the value of Orange County College High School, the property increases Newport~ homeless school. and the new Me a wouJti become one of • PHOTOS BY ~HI DAILY Pl.pr and much-heralded Communi only 50 ot so of Cahforrua's Soccer mom Cindy Gomez, left. plays with her daughters Sara, 8, center and Kelsey, 10, right. in front of Blockbuster Fire ty Day School -.- could become 1.100 school distncb that qual works booth in Costa Mesa Thursday. Gomez sells fireworks for the Wolfpack Soccer Club and spends the night guarding fmanetal liabilities instead of ily a.s "basic aid" distrtcts. the booth. · money-makers iq .rthe near For the last three years, future. Newport-Mesa has been, a!' That's because the way· mo::.t school distncts m the state Newport-Mesa gets the money are, a "revenue limit" distrtct. fot its $118 inillion budget In a •revenue limit" distnct, S~ccer ~oms stay out later could change, Assistant Super the state counts the number of mtendent for Busine~ SeMce.-. Mike Fmer told board members ~: SEE BUDGET PAGE A9 of 19th Street and Placentia Up all night - or Avenue Irs 1ust another presti dozing nearby - is gious duty of a soccer mom. Gomez is responsible for the way it has to be guarcllng the Blockb~tcr hre works shack that the Wolfpack • when you're respon Soccer Club is running to raise money. Bauer is there for protec sible for a fireworks bon. "It's pretty uneventful, really," stand on Fourth of Gomez said. ------- • But if you ask Bauer, a retired Brlnging the party July weekend. cop, you'll gel a whole diffe!cnt story. Bauer, who spent 35 years at to Newport Beach · • Datt fltit the Long Beach Police Depart- A t age 26, Corona dcl Mar r ident ment until retiring as a sergeant Bill Dol:tt was finishing hik hrst COSTA MESA - Cindy Gomez and her father, David in :_990, s~ ~gs ot!1en.; don't. stint as secretary of the Ca.liforrua --Bauer, are spenaiiig tlie o -~"-A._llll.J~~--+--+--RE!1'.)ttbtfc:an~lrtY.. a post that earned h1111 different world,• Bauer sa1d. the duty of SeI'\'lllg a.s a voting member of of July weekend camping out "The It won't be at Yosemite or in creepy-crawlers come the tate' electoral colleg . Joshua nee, instead they have ouL • Dohr was instrumental m bnngmg Ctndy Gomez and daughter Sara help a customer. parked themselves at the corner fonner Secretary of State Henry SEE MOM PAGE A10 Kissinger to' Newport Beach pnor to the 1980 pr sidcntial election His dub a.l..;o indudcd lOOking a.fl r pa~ fmanc:e5, hetpihg influence party affatrs and rving a a Republican booster. INQ E P E ND E N CE Aside from politics, th busm man wa active in his fanu- --ily's Anaheun·based decal business • ..• INPSNM MOii WO cetebt.-S the people who Ind I mljQt car.. tribution to ttle Newport-Mini commun~ during this~.. INDEX WWHEI CIAlllD ...._..__..... __.... , ..,,.. .. ,____ _ •..•. ,. G, FlfUU F 'as-. Nllll&---- ...... - ------ "' I I •I , I . , I t ' ~2 Saturday, J"ly 3, 1999 Daily P~ot r-- - - ------ -- - - ------- -- --- -- ----- - ---- - -------~-------.........................---------- ----------·~-------------------- ------------~ ! II Tll SPllll ! MORAL OF I I I I I THE STORY I I I I I I I I i Address:·2a00 Mesa Verde Drive, East, Costa Mesa Telephone: (714) 545-1747 ·.• • I I Year-established: 1957 I I I Service times: Sunday, 10 a.m,; Sunday I school for students through age 20 I Don't forget to pack a I I meets concurrently; Wednesday, testi I mony meetings, 7:30 p.m. The public is I I sense ofh umor welcome to visit both the Sunday ·i;er t "I have always grown from my prob vice and the Wednesday testimony lems and challenges, from the things meetings. that don't work out That's when I've Child care: Provided on Sunday for chil really learned. " dren too young to attend Sunday - Carol Burne tt school and on Wednesday for children too young to attend the meeting won't be home this Fourth or July, Makeup of The congre- -i and though I am thrilled about what congregation: gation includes people of au ages, fam I I will be doing, I will miss a speaal tradition with my extended family. ilies with young children and Ten years ago we also celebrated teenagers, adults and senior adults. ffidependence Day dillerently. Type of worship: The Bible and Sci- We were excited to go backpacking ,.. • ence and Health with Key to the Scrip with our good fnends the Sandens. 1: tures, by Mary Baker Eddy, are the :nteir two boys and our girls love each pastors for a Christian Science church qther like cousins. But what a different service. Two readers, elected by the fiiourth of July we had. 1 won't choose n;iembership to serve two-year terms, to do it quite this way again, though it ' read from these books at Sunday ser definitely was a stretching adventure. vices. The first reader reads from Sc Here are some excerpts from the ence and Health and the second reader journal I kept: reads from the King James B,1ble. Ser 1Wo days ago we hiked to ParadlSe vices include organ rnl,\Sic and a vocal Valley in the Sequoias. It wasn't qwte solo and hymns sun-g oy the congrega paradlse however It was a tough, hot, tion. Wednesday testimony meetings seven-mile hike I was glad that the begin with readings from the Bible and girls had .their budcbes Matthew and the Mary Baker Eddy text. followed by MfDIHA fEJZAGI(, ~MAATINO I DAILY Pl.OT Michael there - they sang songs Diane Hill, left.