Carol and James Beres of Huntington Beach...
Carol and James Beres of Huntington Beach usually enter their names in contests but never win, so it was quite a first-time thrill getting a call saying she had just won a 1986 Jeep Comanche, the grand prize of a Beach Boys concert in Costa Mesa. Her husband took the credit, saying when he entered his name, he also submitted her name. Replied his smiling wife: “That’s right.”
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