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MORTGAGE BURN: Share Our Selves, a Costa...

By David Haldane, Helene Elliott and Bill Billiter
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MORTGAGE BURN: Share Our Selves, a Costa Mesa agency that provides assistance for the needy, was almost homeless itself two years ago when evicted from a community center. . . . Now in new headquarters, it’s throwing a $501-per-couple shindig Oct. 11 to pay off its $260,000 mortgage. And organizers say they are already within $10,000 of that goal. . . . “We’re spellbound,” says spokeswoman Lauri Mendenhall, adding that “burning” the mortgage will allow future donations to go directly to help the poor.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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