Around Town: 2 Newport residents receive caregiving awards
Two Newport Beach residents were among six members of the area caregiving industry honored Wednesday with Oliver Halsell Care Awards from Fairhaven Memorial Park & Mortuary
Arnetta Robinson, community relations liaison at Sea Crest Home Health and Hospice Services of Costa Mesa, has more than 20 years’ experience in the health care industry. She began her career in outpatient physical therapy, but when her sister died after a 16-year battle with lupus in 2002, Robinson transitioned to hospice care to help people with terminal illnesses.
Rabbi Reuven Mintz, director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Newport Beach, is a spiritual and grief counselor at Hoag Hospital and a leader of The Friendship Circle, a Newport Beach organization that provides activities and events for children with special needs and their families.
Fairhaven Memorial Park, with locations in Santa Ana and Mission Viejo, created the Oliver Halsell Care Awards in 2012 to pay tribute to Orange County caregivers. Halsell founded Fairhaven in 1911.
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Golf tournament raises $12,540 to aid breast cancer patients
A golf tournament and fundraiser by South Coast Toyota at Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa raised $12,540 last month to support Lake Forest-based Breast Cancer Solutions, which provides referrals and other assistance to breast cancer patients.
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Basketball tourney raises $3,200 for Irvine schools
The 12th annual Irvine Hoops Classic basketball tournament on Nov. 8 raised more than $3,200 to benefit the Irvine Public Schools Foundation, according to a news release.
More than 350 fifth- through eighth-graders on 40 teams representing 22 schools in the Irvine Unified School District played in the tournament, held at University and Irvine high schools.
The nonprofit Irvine Public Schools Foundation provides funding to support science, technology, engineering, arts, math, after-school and summer programs, athletic trainers, school nurses and more in the Irvine Unified district.
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Donations sought to help buy rain gear for homeless
The Irvine-based Illumination Foundation, a nonprofit that offers services to homeless families and individuals to help guide them toward self-sufficiency, is seeking donations of money to fund the purchase of rain gear, warm clothing and other items for people without shelter during the coming rainy season.
To donate or for more information, contact Sheryl Henrickson at shenrickson@ifhomeless.org or (949) 273-0555, ext. 202.
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Charity group’s Newport meeting collects $500 for CSP
Chew for Charity, a group of 35 women who raise funds and awareness for the Community Service Programs, raised $500 for CSP at its meeting Tuesday in Newport Beach.
CSP is a nonprofit that provides counseling and support services to struggling Orange County children and families.
Chew for Charity, which meets monthly, has raised more than $80,000 for CSP since 2007.