4 Huntington Beach Scouts Soar to Eagle

Four Huntington Beach youths, Ben Indyk, Christopher A. Coerper, Mathew D. Braun and James N. Zarske recently received their Boy Scout Eagle rank.

Indyk, 17, renovated the rose garden at the historic Newland House in Huntington Beach as his community project, while Coerper organized the making and distribution of personal hygiene kits for the homeless.

Braun, along with his troop, earned enough money to assemble and distribute earthquake kits to senior citizens in the Huntington Village Apartments in Huntington Beach.

Zarske renovated a Marina High School band practice room which took 351 hours to complete.

Braun and Zarske are Marina High seniors, Indyk is a senior at Edison High and Coerper is a a Golden West College student.

Regina Lamourelke of Mission Viejo has been selected as 1992-93 Woman of the Year by the Saddleback Valley Business and Professional Women’s Organization.

She owns Children’s Discovery Centers, early childhood facilities in Lake Forest and Trabuco Canyon that care for about 200 children.

At the same time, the group named Catherine Maloof of Lake Forest as Young Careerist, an annual award presented to a woman under age 35 who has excelled in her career, education, community and personal endeavors.

Mathematics professor Sandra Savage, a 12-year faculty member at Orange Coast College, has been named Faculty Member of the Year for 1992-93.

Savage, a Laguna Niguel resident who has taught in 13 different institutions in six states during her 30-year teaching career, was selected over six other full-time faculty members.

Students submitted letters of recommendation on their favorite instructor and the college’s faculty voted the winner.

Nurse practitioner Judy Dennis of the FHP Health Care Center in Westminster has been presented the 1992 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners’ State Award of Excellence.

A registered nurse, Dennis is also a member of the Flying Samaritans, a group of health care professionals who travel to Mexico to provide medical care to the needy.

She is a Long Beach resident.

Watercolorist Barbara Kimmel of Placentia for the second year in a row was honored as Artist of the Year by the Placentia Art Assn. Her work will be featured on the cover of the group’s yearbook.

Laguna Hills resident Maria Nin, medical social worker with the Visiting Nurses Assn. of Orange County was named Outstanding Home Care Staff Person by the Council of Orange County Home Care Providers.

Corona del Mar resident Dennis Poore, president of The Water Man of La Habra, a water conditioning company for residents, restaurants and hotels, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Huntington Beach-based Pacific Water Quality Assn.

Moore has served as a board member of the statewide nonprofit trade association for the point-of-use water quality improvement industry that held its election during its recent convention in Palm Springs.

Nick Sylvester, director of marketing for Western Medical Center-Bartlett, the 241-bed long-term rehabilitation facility in Santa Ana, has been appointed to the California Assn. of Health Facilities community relations committee. The Mission Viejo resident recently received CAHF’s 1992 Excellence in Programming award.

Annie Gerard of Newport Beach and Sandra Zimmer of Costa Mesa shared the President’s Award presented by the Seniors Housing Council, an arm of the Building Industry Assn. of Southern California. The women are real estate marketing research professionals.