East Side Traffic Wars Heating Up

SPORTS BAR NONE Costa Mesas Eric 74-y ear-old passes Solis fifth at State bar on 14th try ;.,pr . PAGE :. Serving the Newport-Mesa community since 1907 ', 1 > I I I~ < > 1 > r... william Despite lobdell loss, horse • Belated thanks racmg for [flft oflife hasn't lost efore 1-month-old Matthew Christian Lobdell B gets too old ... its charm • Thanks to Hoag Hospital's aides, nurses and doctors. They all make Hoag a wonderful By Jennifer Armstrong, Daily Piiot place to have a baby. Even the people who handle the side ser ELJ\lONT. N Y - A brO\vn vices - from birth certificates to horse named Touch Gold had baby pictures - were unfailing JUSt trampled Bob and Be\'erl) ly friendly and helpful. It was Lew1s' dredffis ol seemg their our third tour in the labor and own Silver Charm capture rac delivery and maternity wards, mg's coveted Tnple Crovm But and we feel more pampered the Newport Beach couple each time. mamtamed their trademark • Thanks for nothing is how cheery graciousness we feel about our HMO. My They smiled a they lciced the wife had a C-section and was press nunutes after theu gra) allowed only a two-night stay at three-year-old fell to se>cond Hoag before she was booted out. place in the Belmont Stdke" Sdt She has finished five marathons urday in New York -l..id they and can handle a fair amount of kept smiling through their own physical pain (plus she had lots post-race party at the cusl1\' Gar of help at home), but you won den Ctty Hotel der how other women in less for In fact. as they greeted gue~b tunate circumstances deal with m the hotel's ballroom d.tter the these drive-through C-sections. race. they seemed to be trymg to On the bright side, the HMO did cheer others up. pick up the entire cost of the "This doesn't look hke d short hospital stay. funeral, does it7" Be\'erl\· said • Thanks to family and friends looking at the buffet boasting who kept us ridiculously well sole Florentine and crab Then' fed during MattheW's first few were 70.00 people at Belmont ,_weeks. It's always a little awk Park today - that doesn t hap ward being on the receiving end pen - and they were all out to of such generosity, but we even see Silver Chann That's prett~ tually got used to it. good." • No thanks to modem tech Last month, Silver Charm, nology, we spent three anxious with jockey Gary Stevens. cap weeks during the pregnancy tured the Kentucky Derby and wondering if our baby had a ·the Preakness Stakes - a \icto- chromosome abnormality that 1)' Saturday would've made tum causes severe retardation and the 12th horse in h1storv to win usually death in infants. U we the Tripe Crown Oddsmakcrs ever have another baby, we'll gave Silver Charrn b-5 odds to decline any of the optional pre win natal tests now available. "l don't thmk Hus 1c; m the Only after getting the results Tiger Woods categol)·," Bob said of the amniocentesis - which .i.s~o 1-l.TED PRESS before the race of its possible told us Matthew was fine - did Orange County and Newport Beach favorite horse Silver Charm (far right) turns the comer down the stretch with jockey . historic s1gruficance "But 1t does we find out the odds of a baby in $5 help racing, and that's great " having this particular genetic Gary Stevens Belmont Stakes. Newort Beach owners Bob and Beverly Lewis just missed winning the liiple Crown and million bonus by 3/4 of a length. Winning the race was Touch Gold and jockey Chris Mccarron in the middle. Instead, Touch Gold. with 2-1 aberration were extremely long odds, came from behind m the - like 1 in 200,000. And even final seconds at Belmont Park, with a positive screening, the leaving the Lewises' Tuple odds are still 16-1 that the baby Spending the day at the Behnont Stakes offers a glimpse into Bob and Crown bid m the dust The price doesn't have the abnormality. dtfference between Silver When the odds are so much in Beverly Lewis., world -- and proves that winning isn't the only thing Charm wmrung and losing. a your favor, why put yourself $432,600 purse plus $5 mill.loo through all the worry? make racing history. smell fill s the air as women in wide Tnple Cro""-n bonus from Visa, • Thanks to a week off after By Jennifer Armstrong, Daily Pilot At 5:30 p.m. Silver Chann, their gray brimmed hats and men m dark swts mill versus $14~ , :!00 for second Matthew's birth, 1 now realize colt, will run in the Belmont Stakes, the final about -- many sporting green and yellow place how much a working parent ELMONT, N.Y. - Bob and Beverly leg of the Triple Crown, one of sports' Silver Charm buttons and baseball caps. Bob shrugged 1t off as slmple misses of their child's day. Le'Wi.s' 110-member· entourage gathers in toughest accomplishments. The horse last The Lewises emerge from the elevator bad luck. "That's hor!:>e racing Though the baby slept almost the lobby of the Garden City Hotel on Sat month captured trophies in the Kentucky - Bob, 72, wearing a checkered sports for you, " he said after the race. continuously, l had a great time urday morning, waiting to head to Behnonl Derby and Preakness Stakes. playing Mr. Mom with my two Park - hopefully to see the Lewises' horse ln the hotel's marble lobby. a perfumed • SEE STAKES PAGE 5 • SEE CHARM PAGE 5 • SEE THANKS PAGE 4 r----------------, FIGHTING 'WORDS l\lll-'\ East Side traffic Despite a tough battle, four Newport-Mesa city officials beat four members of AROUND TOWN .......4 LOGIN ... ............3 the Newport Harbor High School debate team for the second year in a row wars heating up CLASSIFIED •..........9 POLICE FILES ...........2 By Marissa Espino, Daily Pilot be PUBLIC NOTICES ........7 • Residents argue over whether cars shoul4 diverted from 19th Street to others in the neighborhood. Pour Newport Harbor High SPORTS ..............6 School debate team students WEATHER . •...•••..• •2 stomping ground for motorists on were defeated during the Second By Susan Deemer, Daily Pilot their way to South Coast Plaza or Annual Dishonorable Debate the San Diego Freeway. against four Newport-Mesa city \\ I \ I II I IC COSTA MESA - 1Taffic con- But despite the area's proxuni- officials, but not without putting gestion on the East Side is fueling ty to commercial areas along up a good fight. a bitter war between those neigh- Newport Boulevard and 17th . Despite the loss for the second bors who want to keep motorists Street, many residents m the area year in a row to the more experi out of the area and those who want to remaln unscathed by traf· enced elected officials, the well oppose change. fie. spoken students - Mike Hoevel, Following a heated community Comnuttee member Lance Al~ Arjad, Elizabeth Kent and meeting held Wednesday rught at Jencks, who has taken the lone Valerie Tenell - didn't make it City Hall, city officials say they pos1bon on the conuruttee against easx for their opponents. will continue to earch for a mid- any changes, believes that all They are a tough team," said dle ground lhat Will appease all three plans being considered Newport Beach coundlman John residents. would sWle traffic and make lt l:fedges about the students. HI Residents on the East Side of difficult for residents themselv91 thought they did a great job." the city, Uve just a few blocks to naVlgate the streets. .fledges initiated the first Hon away from one of the bu iest However, Peter Noghavl. the orable Mayor's Debate last year, dumping grounds for traffic: Th city's manager of transportation ~ut because there a.re no longer DON LEACH I OAlV PILOT Costa Mesa Freeway. The neigh· ervlces, sald Jencks is m.tsleading any mayor's involved in the event, Newport Harbor debate team memben Mike Hoevel (left) and borbood is steps away from Tuan- ·---- Elizabeth Kent engage In debate with Newport-Mela dty oftldals. gle Square and has become a • SEE TRAFFIC PAGE I . 8 SEE DEBATE PAGE 4 . • 0 MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1997 CITY IDITOll neighbors COMMUNITY Mltchefl, Tina Morgan, AJma Mor rison, David Moyer, Nicole The Girt Scout Coundl of Mugavero, Deidre Murr•y, Ruml Orange County elected new N•umur•, Tomoe N•bmur•, 'llembers to Its board of directors. Hang-Phung Nguyen, MyCh•u Joining the 36-member board are Nguyen, Kenjlro Ohba, Hector \149ry Hornbuckle a nd Robert Partida, Anh Pham, Bernardo tiutchlnson of Costa Mesa and PUego, lndrianl Rakjan, Gl•ncar1o <ay Brown, Uti¥d Massey and Renella, Monica Reyes, Syros 3ernarda Neaf of Newport Roshandel, Nancy Ruiz, Lori 3each. Sallee, Suwaphak Samritchalkun, Rebecca Sardon, James Sharp, For the thud stra.tght year, the Timothy Sllooy, Julie St. John, Costa Mesa office of the interna Kelly Steele, Kanae Suzuki, A.ilea tional insurance broke r Johnson Takamlzawa, Shin TamakJ, Yuko & Higgins has won United Way of Torii, Theda Villarmla, Elsie Vir· Ordnge County's Preside ntial rueta, HongPhi Vo, Kelty Vu, Bri Award for Best Employee Giving. an Wang, Michelle Wilson, Sara Wortc.man, Brittany Wright. T•ku MILITARY Yanaglba, Raena Yanaglsaw•, Yoko Yao, Mayuml Yokoo, and Ndvy Auman Angelo Ganzon, Hitoml Yoshida. son of Te resita and Ange lo Gan Newport Beach - Kimberli w n II of Knowe ll Place, Costa Bryant,, Donna Callahan, Judith Mc!.d, a nd seve ral othe r sailors Oift.

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