Front Page Letters Calendars Archives Sign Up Contact Us StuNewsLaguna Volume 4, Issue 40 | May 17, 2019 Search our site... 0 Search Police Files Local who allegedly took lemur from Santa Ana Zoo could be responsible for a number of NB burglaries Last summer someone stole a 32-year-old lemur from the Santa Ana Zoo. The suspect has now been identified as Quinn Kasbar, 19, of Newport Beach. Authorities say Kasbar stole the primate and then the next day dropped it off at the NEWPORT Newport Beach Marriott Bayview hotel in a box with a note saying that it belonged to the Santa BEACH Ana Zoo and to call police. A video from the hotel showed a suspect leaving the scene in a hoodie sweatshirt. Broken Clouds Recently, Kasbar was allegedly “bragging” about the incident. In a follow-up Humidity: 55% investigation, police found that he’s allegedly also tied to a number of burglaries on Balboa Wind: 4.7 m/h Island, Corona del Mar and Newport Beach. 62.3°F He will appear in court next month. However, he remains free on bail. Loaner car reported missing from Fletcher Jones Motorcars Newport Beach Police took a report on Wednesday, May 8, from Fletcher Jones TUE WED THU Motorcars for a vehicle that was previously taken without their consent. The incident originally took place on December 7, 2018, when the vehicle was issued as a loaner car, to be returned two days later on December 9, 2018. The vehicle, a white 61/62°F 59/61°F 60/60°F Mercedes c300, was never returned. Police are investigating. Parole violator arrested for commercial burglary Last Thursday, May 9, Newport Beach Police arrested Gabriel Michael Lopano, 25, from Costa Mesa, at 10 a.m. for commercial burglary with no forced entry. The incident took place in the 2200 block of Bristol Street where a citizen had previously reported a burglary on the prior Saturday, May 4. Police were investigating the report on Monday, May 7 and found Lopano testing door handles to the building, where he gained access through multiple doors, according to NBPD PIO Heather Rangel. He was subsequently arrested and additionally charged with a parole violation. His bail was set at $20,000. NBPD to open their doors this Sunday to the public The Newport Beach Police Department will have an open house this Sunday, May 19, from noon until 4 p.m. Enjoy free food, station tours, live demonstrations, police horses, K9s and activities for kids. The police station is located at 870 Santa Barbara Dr. The community is asked to park in the parking structure at 888 1/2 San Clemente Dr. Scroll down to Police Beat for all arrests & crime report 0 Fair Game By TOM JOHNSON Ben Carlson movie highlights NHHS Alumni fundraiser It’s one of those fundraisers that has it all…great cause, great program and lots of extras. The Newport Harbor High School Alumni Association is honoring Newport Beach Lifeguard Ben Carlson at the “Part of Water” Festival on Saturday, May 18 in the school’s theater and you’re invited. Hunt House Pictures’ new film Part of Water is a tribute to fallen Newport Beach hero Ben Carlson and the dedicated lifeguards who protect our California coast. The film will play four times this Saturday, May 18 (12, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 p.m.), and will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers. Also, from 11 a.m. until 6:30 p.m., there will be food trucks including TK Burger, Sessions Deli, Banzai Bowls and Massimo’s Pizza, and picnicking on the grass under the iconic NHHS tower. The whole family can also enjoy booths set up by ocean-related educational organizations and nonprofits like the Surfrider Foundation and the John Wayne Cancer Society, along with local vendors including Yoki Shop, Electric Bike Company and The Board Club. It takes place at Newport Harbor High School’s Robert B. Wentz Theater. To check out a movie trailer and get tickets. go to www.newportharboralumni.org/movie. • • • Republican Kelly Ernby has thrown her hat into the ring for the state’s 74th Assembly seat in 2020. Newport Beach Mayor Diane Dixon is also in and so is incumbent Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach). Ernby is from Huntington Beach and is a Deputy District Attorney. Here’s a question: One of her first endorsements for the office came from former Newport Beach city councilmember Scott Peotter. Is that a good thing for her campaign or a bad thing? I’ll let you decide. • • • Something bugs me and I want to get it off my chest. Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager, always gets her “council meeting brief” out to readers on the Friday prior to the Tuesday city council meeting. It gives the community an opportunity to review the issues and plan to attend if need be. That’s the way it should be done. The Newport-Mesa School District, on the other hand, is just the opposite. Tuesday, at 11:03 a.m., the day of their scheduled meeting, I received an email from the District saying, “in the interest of keeping the community informed, please see..” and they include a brief review. Is it really in the interest of the community to send out this type of communique less than seven hours before the start of the meeting? I say no. The agenda is posted on Fridays before the Tuesday meeting and their brief should be as timely. I’ve asked for changes but for naught. • • • Business must be good for local chiropractors. Here’s why. I’ve been suffering with a severe lower back issue for months. I’ve exercised, stretched and rested, nothing helps. So last week I decided to engage a chiropractor. I looked online, found one, then filled out their info card to await a return telephone call. It never came. So Monday, I called another one and got a machine. No problem, I left a message, hoping for a return call. So far, it, too, has never come. I can only assume that chiropractors have so much business they don’t need anymore. Oh...what to do? • • • Finally, 27 people stepped up to serve on the City’s Homelessness Task Force. Seven were selected at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Congrats to Helen Cameron, John Heffernan, Terry Moore, Thomas Peterson, David Snow, The Rev. Cindy Voorhees and Jean Wegener. They join city councilmembers Brad Avery, Joy Brenner and Will O’Neill. The City will spend $1 million over the next five years on outreach and placement. 0 Art formed in a wave This is as close as we can come to actually singing to our readers on their birthdays! We’d love to include yours – and/or your friends and children’s birthdays here. Just email to: [email protected] Celebrate and enjoy your birthday! May 14 Anna Miller-Smith Lilian Greengrass Spinney Events, programs at Steele Platt OASIS Senior Center Summer Lynne Perry May 15 Click on photo for a larger image Brian Cole Photo by Clark Reeder (Instagram @crca.photo) Michael Avila An abstract wave making a splash at the Wedge this week Rob Bekken Scott White Velo Kins 801 Narcissus Ave., Corona del Mar 92625 May 16 949.644.3244 Douglas Echlelberger Parking is Free! Holly Schwartz McDonald OASIS Senior Center is on Facebook! Sign up to receive the newsletter Marcus Tellez HAPPENINGS Mark Binder The Exchange Club of Newport Serena Roberts Harbor 10th Annual Field of Honor Friday, May 17 through Monday, May May 17 27. Dedication ceremony: Saturday, May 18 at 12 p.m. Memorial Day Cora Campbell Ceremony: Monday, May 27 at 12 p.m. Jim Dale Visitors are welcome daily from May 17-27. Takes place at Castaways Park Nancy Pauley located at Dover Drive & 16th Street, Richard Cirelli Newport Beach. For more information, http://www.nhexchange.net to dedicate May 18 a flag ($450. The Amazing, Incredible, Adedayo Boluwatife Unbelievable Geologic History of Donald A. Dix Newport Beach and Southern Justine Amodeo California Laureline Orsetti Wednesdays continuing through May Maxine Fletcher 24 from 4-5:30 p.m. in Room 2A. Led by David K. Larue, geologist and professor. The geologic history of May 19 Newport Beach and Southern Jen Engevik California is truly unique and amazing. Steve Bender You will discuss the evolution of Southern California and Newport Beach, and the scientists who made May 20 the geologic interpretations, in a way Jodie Conneely that is easily understood and Kirk Bauermeister appreciated even if you don’t have a Lee Berrey science background. Meal & A Movie Wednesday, May 29 with the screening of Finding Your Feet. Meal starts at 12 p.m.; the movie starts at 1 p.m. in the 1 Evelyn Hart Event Center. Please call the prior Friday to request a meal. You Must Remember This: Skiing Synopsis: When “Lady” Sandra Abbott By NANCY GARDNER discovers that her husband of 40 years I didn’t grow up skiing, nor did most of my friends. There was not something known as is having an affair with her best friend, ski week, because there weren’t huge numbers of parents pulling their kids out of school to she seeks refuge in London with her go skiing. However, there was skiing experience in my family. Early in their marriage, my estranged, older sister, Bif. The two parents decided to take up the sport. could not be more different – Sandra is Since my mother was vastly more coordinated than my father, something he cheerfully a fish out if water next to her admitted, after a time or two, she was zipping down the slope quite a bit faster.