Garden Grove’s Home of the Year Can’t Break a Winning Habit--Awarded Title Third Time

“It was quite a surprise the first time” said Adrienne Neal, after the house she bought in 1977 was selected as Home of the Year in Garden Grove. Since that time she has won that division award three times, including this year.

“I used to spend a lot of my time on the shrubs and flowers, but now I have a gardener” she said. “I always kept the house painted and looking nice,” no doubt the main reasons judges selected her home, according to Garden Grove Gorgeous spokeswoman Kathy Roth.

“The criteria is the variety of shrubs, condition of sidewalks, driveways and fences and the appearance of the home,” she said. If a homeowner wins the award four times, the house is named to the city’s Hall of Fame.

Neal feels the contest is an excellent idea. “It gives us an incentive to do more to our property,” she said. “I’m waiting for next year.”

The 10-week weight-control class starting June 25 at St. Joseph Hospital of Orange has the telling title of “The Better Weigh.”

Patti Lemke, a spokeswoman for the Orange YWCA, likes to talk about Christmas in June. For instance, she notes, there’s less than 200 shopping days until Christmas.

Actually she’s promoting the Y’s 1986 Christmas Store where vendors rent space to sell their handcrafted items for three days in November.

“It’s kind of fun when you first start talking about Christmas and it’s only June,” she said. “It’s really festive.”

In June?

Acknowledgments--Todd French, 17, of Anaheim, a straight-A senior and outstanding football and baseball player at Canyon High School who plans to attend Stanford University, named state Scholar-Athlete of the Year by California Interscholastic Federation . . . Dr. Milo E. Tedstrom, of Laguna Hills, who admitted the first patient to St. Joseph Hospital in 1929 and retired in 1979 at age 79, presented Outstanding Physician’s Recognition Award by the Orange County Medical Assn.