Artists’ Efforts to Help Laguna Community Clinic Won’t Go Unrewarded

Eight artists--including four children--who designed the Laguna Beach Community Clinic’s first Christmas cards will be honored with a party at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Laguna Beach Richard Yeakel Antique Gallery.

The artists donated their designs, which have been printed on Christmas cards and sold to help finance clinic operations.

The young artists are Kate Achterberg, 5, Heather Ann Hammil, 8, Rebecca Judy, 8, and Kristin Svendsen, 15, all from Laguna Beach.

Adult honorees are David Scott Meil of Laguna Beach, Katherine Leland of Costa Mesa, Stan Lyon of Fullerton and Suvan Geer of Costa Mesa.

Barbara Kent, 78, who picks up litter while walking her black poodle Bella along Fullerton’s Hiltscher Park recreational trail, has received Fullerton Beautiful’s first Anti-Litter Award and $50.

Kent, who started the first 4-H Club in Fullerton 35 years ago, carries a bag to pick up litter during her daily walk. She collects enough aluminum cans each month to net $8, which she donates to the 4-H Club.

San Ana High School track coach Darel Newman, who was known for his explosive starts as a sprinter and tied the hand-timed world record of 9.2 seconds for the 100-yard dash in 1964 as a Fresno State University track star, recently was inducted into the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame.

Fountain Valley police officer Kim Kiesz was recently honored by Gov. George Deukmejian at a ceremony in Sacramento. The Governor’s Crime Prevention Award for Practition- ers is presented annually.

Kiesz’s award recognizes her efforts in the depart- ment’s 22.5% increase in citizen contacts to

promote crime prevention, as well as for providing new educational and volunteer programs, special activities and community service projects.

Costa Mesa architectural photographer Jack Boyd received an award of merit from the Orange County chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers for his exterior and interior design photography on the United Cerebral Palsy Community Service project, a series of reconditioned Victorian homes used to house cerebral palsy patients.

Ernestine Raab Greeneof Laguna Beach, a 17-year-old exhibitor in the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts, won first prize in crafts for her designs on jewelry at the recent Catalina Island crafts exhibit.

Gina Giampietro, 12, of Huntington Beach was presented with the Villa Nova Outstanding Citizen Award for helping free 5-year-old Elizabeth Eichelberger. Elizabeth had caught the neck of her blouse on a tree branch and was strangling.

“She (Gina) truly is a hero,” said Viane Eichelberger, Elizabeth’s mother. “Our family owes a great deal of gratitude to Gina for what she did.”

Villa Nova Restaurant in Newport Beach recognizes individuals who perform good deeds. Gina and her family received complimentary dinners.

Kimberly-Horn & Associates, Inc., an Anaheim engineering firm, received the Grand Conceptor Award for its role as chief engineering consultant on the Raleigh-Durham (N.C.) International Airport’s $23-million improvement project. The award was given by the Consulting Engineers Council of North Carolina.

Fullerton’s Troy High School was honored by the Metropolitan Life Foundation for its health education programs and was one of only 15 high schools nationwide to receive the award given annually to exemplary schools under the foundation’s “Healthy Me” program.

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