... .. WUllll More the same, doods to start. sun will appear. S..P-AZ SERVING ThfE NEWPORT - MESA COMMUNmES SINCE 190 , ON 1HE WEB: WWW.DAILYPILOT.COM SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2002 Smooth sailing_fOr _Newport-Mesa · Unified· • Districts across Southern California are pa.infully exci~ed about employees, closingtwo sum­ moves taken ove r the last the economy . fluctuated $384.6 million from next mer schools-and rutting back four years to pay oU debt and between recessions and slashing budgets, but strategic planning is year's budget and approved on the program for disabled align the budget with its boom times. paying off for local schools. · raising class sizes in the students. strategic plan. After the county bankrupt­ fourth through 12th grades. And in January, Uie Irvine "We're very conscientious cy, however, Supt. Robert Board members said it might Unified School District voted about the process," trustee Barbot worked with teacher Deirdre Newman afloat, while other districts take another $44-million cut to close an elementary school Dana Black said. "We're groups and parents to identi­ DAILY PILOT flounder in a battering of to fully balance the budget. and made severe cuts to com­ aligned so every dollar is fy ways the district could financial storms th.is budget The Huntington Beach pensate for a projected $5.2· accounted for." steel itself against lean finan­ NEWPORT-MESA - The season. Union High School District is million shortfall. It wasn't always that way. oal times. school district's strategic On Tuesday, the Los ~xpecting to trim nearly $4 Ne\!Port-Mesa Unified The district suffered its The result was the creation financial planning and frugal. Angeles Unified School million from its budget by School ~trlct 's sunny finan­ share of ups and downs mind-set are keeping . it District Board of Education laying off more than 30 cial outlook is based on throughout the last decade as SEE SCHOOL PAGE M A SWINGING TIME Jewish Federation moving out • After 12 years in Costa Mesa, the group will pack up its campus within the year and relocate in Irvine. # o.epa 8tuir•th D AILY PILOT COSTA MESA _: The Jewish Federation Campus, which for yee.rs has served as a hub for community act:iv1- ties, will move to a new and improved building in lrVme by the end of next year, administrators decided Friday. The federation's board of directors voted unanunously to sell the current 40,000-square-fool campus on East Baker Street and 'I 'm sure the donate most of the money to the new new facility Samuell ~ampus to will be be built on Bonita Canyon Drive in extremely lrvine. beneficial to The project, which will cost an the Jewish estimated $20 mil- community.• lion, is expected to be comp1eted by Rabbi the end or 2003, Reuben Mintz said Charles Karp, Chabad Jewish president of the Center SEAN HIUCR I DAILY PILOT Jewish Federabon. Amy Stechauner, 5, show! her brothers how.high she can swing ln the frontyard of the family's Costa Mesa home. The new 180,000-square- foot building to be constructed on 20 acres will house all the agencies that now use the fede ration's Costa Mesa campus, he said With more than four times the square footage, the facility will easily house, Landmarks to be demolished among other amenities, a health club, several spaoous meeting rooms and an auditorium, Karp said. • Kona Lanes and the dosed Ice Chalet are set carries dothing, shoes, home "This is a huge project," he said. "It's to be destroyed to make way for a revitalized accessories and more, company going to be a communitywide effort and representative Susan Hender­ an extensive campaign." Mesa Verde Shoppmg Center. · son sa.id. Henderson confumed The federation houses several orga­ a companywide strategy to nizations, including the Jewish Lolita H•rper lively Kona Lanes bowling• alley enter the Southern California Community Center, Jewish Family DAILY PILOT on Harbor Boulevard and the market by spring of 2003 but Service, Anti-Defamation League and empty Ice Chalet building and could not oomment on specific Jewish Agency for Israel. COSTA MESA movie theater, will lose all three locations, she said. Irvine seemed attractive in large part Renovation plans for the south­ structures to make way for C.J. Segerstrom & Sons because the site was donated by the ern half of the Mesa Verde Kohl's retail store, offida1s said. spokesman Paul Freeman said Samuell family, Karp said. 1be land was Shopping Center, where the Mel Lee, associate planner the Kohl's project 1s the second sold to the Samuelis by the Irvine Co. vintage Kona Lanes neon sign for the d ty,.sa.id Kohl's represen­ phase of the overall rehabilita­ Karp said officials hope the move will casts an eerie glow on the sur­ tatives have submitted an appli­ tion of the Mesa Verde center. be a •win-win situation for everybody.• rounding abandoned buildings, cation for an 88,000-square-foot "The profile of the people The new campus is advantageous will replace the landmark bowl­ store on the Segersqom-owned that use the center are certainly because it will be customized for ing alley and nearby ice rink property. · looking for the things thatj{ohl's the J ewish community, said Debbie with a..new department store. Kohl's is a family-focused The center, which houses the specialty department stores that SEE LANES PAGE M SEE MOVING PAGE M Demise oflockers is a pain in the back BrlaDGMta y first school locker few radkal• who kept a few aadbb was at Bancroft personal items in their lock­ Newpo.rt M Junior High School er, but moatly it wu a way Harttor1Dgb in Los Angeles in 1968. stotioni a chance to drop off Bancroft was a beautiful one loed of books and pJck old school in the middle of up another on the way to the Hollywood movie IC8D8 the next class. I near Highland Avenue lnd Back then. no one kept Santa Monica Boulevard. I plani for a pipe bomb in remember the lut epilode their locker. No one kept a of the televilion show •The loaded gun, and DO one fugitive• - a Quinn Martin kept • pint m w!Uakey then!. production - WU filmed Locken were locken. and there. uyaoe ltUp6d enough to Actually, I bad two tock· Dllllhlal. Jt loCkar room II a ..., w11pam or caab'a· ID en, u did everyone elle in good .,.. to baft locken. bad a Piece wbR tbe the ICbool. The one in the aUlbaltliM Md unite It 111 main buildlDg WU for boob 8ldt tbln. kx:bn MXW dllll'Nd wbat tMy and oth8r ltudioul stuff. 1be werm't UMd far muda other got. After all. tbat'I why we other WU iii the boyl' locker .than boob and 1undl. Oh room dMMd to tbe gym· aure, tMre ._. probably • SEE FAMILY M8I M " I \ Christ Cliurch by the Sea Cb.rist Church by the Sea seeks to provide a loving, nurturing environment for ptalsing God and meeting the spiritual needs of members and friends. The church al.lo operates a preschool extended-care and tutoring program year-round. Worship services are held at 8:30 and io a.m. Sunday. Sunday school meets at 10 a.m., ~d child care is avO:llable. The Rev. George R. Crisp ii senior pastor. The churcb was establish~ in 1932 and JS at 1400 W. Balboa Blvd., Newport Beach. (949) 613-3805. A2 Saturday, M4y 4, 2002 Doily Pilot , .. .. Winding up closer to God ·aod still draws near to us in the ordi­ nary. commonplace, everyday experience and places. He comes in surprising ways." - Henry Gariepy never cease to be amazed at the cre­ ative ways God communicates specific I messages to me just when 1 need tbem the most. A few weeks ago the detaJ.l.s and deci­ sions of everyday lile, plus helping plan a wedding:seemed to multiply like rabbits.· Thal night, I tossed and turned in bed. That happens to me at times when I focus more on the things of life and less on God; who gave me lile and has purposes for my days. The next day, we went to church, and through the message and the music I was ientinded that God •. ·.·.·. : offers peace when we 'fi'~ ~ ~ .-. .... feel anxious and wis­ dom when we need c·=-·- -rli.~ . After church, we went to eat with fa.n:UJy .. tLnd friends al a nearby Gndy Trone Ruby's Diner. It's· a fun place with fun Jood and Christeson friendly service. Ruby's THE MORAL is dlso a great place for GR!G FRY I DM.Y l'tlOT families because they OF THE STORY Father Wayne Wllson ls pastor of SL Barnabas Orthodox Chutth, which celebrates Pasch, or orthodox Easter, this weekend. give crayons, paper and cute toys to children. We d1dn't actually have lads Wlth us, but we were se!ited by two large ta bl es with several childre n at both. The children were given different little wmdup toys. Some of them marched for­ ward until they.hit something on the table, Celebrating Pasch like the naplon holder. Then they just noisi­ ly spun in place until they wound down. Some of the others just made noise, bent St. Barnabas Orthodox Church in Costa Mesa will had its Easter celebration this weekend over and then flipped in place. I thoroughly enjoyed my meal and the Michele MalT equinox.· Wilson said. Eastern Orthodox churches as across the United States and good conversations around our table.