6 Honored for Aiding Santa Ana Shelter for Abused and Neglected Children

Six county individuals and corporations will be honored Sunday by the Child or Parental Emergency Services of Santa Ana for their financial and personal contributions in the prevention of child abuse.

The honorees are Jeanette Oppenheimer of Santa Ana, Bullock’s, In-N-Out Burger, Hughes Aircraft Give-Once-Club, the Women’s Club of Laguna Hills, and Lawrence Bridges of Red Car Inc. in Hollywood.

Posthumous awards will be announced for the group’s co-founders, Emma Wharton of Orange and Dorothy Hill of Tustin.

The United Way agency is a 24-hour voluntary crisis center that provides emergency shelter for children up to age 5 who may be subject to abuse or neglect.

Los Alamitos resident Roseann Woods, artist-in-residence at Golden West College and a concert pianist, has been inducted into the Los Alamitos Hall of Fame. She is nationally known for her benefit tours and masters piano classes and is in the National Guild of Piano Teachers Hall of Fame. She holds a master’s degree of music from USC.

Jeff Cleary, a La Habra carpenter apprentice, topped a field of 4,000 apprentices from the United States and Canada to win the International Drywall Apprenticeship Contest held recently in Ontario, Canada.

He earlier beat out 1,500 others to win the California contest, qualifying him for the international event, which entailed building a room exactly to specifications within 12 hours. A written test preceded the room construction.

Cleary won $600 in cash and $200 worth of tools.

Geana M. Woods, a Cal State Fullerton student and sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve, won first place in photography at national competition by the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondent Assn.

Her photos of the annual obstacle course race through mud at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station won the 1988 award for best picture story.

The 20-year-old Irvine resident, who majors in communications, received a $100 cash award, a 5-day, expense-paid trip to attend the association’s recent conference in Annapolis and a $500 scholarship.

The Pacific Interfaith Peace Prize Foundation of Fullerton honored Jill Jackson Miller--whose song, “Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let it Begin With Me,” has become popular throughout the world--at its recent peace banquet in the First Christian Church in Fullerton.

The Orangewood Children’s Home and Orangewood Children’s Foundation of Orange were jointly named to receive a presidential recognition award for community service, according to Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.). The senator nominated the refuge for abused, abandoned and neglected children.

Accolade, the student newspaper for Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, has been named an All-American publication by the National Scholastic Press Assn.

Southern California Edison Co. presented an energy management award to Beckman Instruments for its new energy storage system, which shifts electricity use to cool its 600,000-square-foot Fullerton facility to times when both demand and cost of the power is at its lowest. Beckman, which makes medical instruments, also received $77,000 in rebates from the utility and will save $115,00 annually on its electric bill.