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GETTING SERIOUS: Actor Garrett Morris, who was...

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GETTING SERIOUS: Actor Garrett Morris, who was recently shot in a robbery attempt, said Thursday he will host a May 12 benefit concert to raise money for “Kids Against Guns,” founded by Rancho Santa Margarita resident Kathy Graves and her brother, Kyle Cathey. . . . The group was formed in response to the murder of one of their relatives. “It’s time we put an end to this violence,” says Morris, still recovering from his injuries, “and the best way I think we can is by educating our kids about the dangers of guns.”

JUST DUCKY: There’s a big to-do at the Pond of Anaheim today, but it has nothing to do with the Mighty Ducks. Ogden Entertainment will hold announce the name of its new professional indoor soccer team. It’s going to be . . . the Anaheim Splash. You don’t get it? Splash, playing at the Pond? Ogden says the team will play 14 home games “in friendly waters” starting June 10. Also to be unveiled: a Splash team logo and colors.

PRIORITIES: The Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce has decided to start giving an annual community service award. So who should get the first one? Rudy Castruita, superintendent of the Santa Ana Unified School District, who has a roomful of accolades for his concentration on helping school dropouts. . . . Chamber President Mike Metzler, who knows him well, suggests: “If you ask Rudy, he’ll tell you what’s most important to him is: when he walks into a classroom, children know him by name.”

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ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Costa Mesa millionaire and businessman Milan Panic has gotten plenty of mileage from his 1992 stint as prime minister of his native Yugoslavia. This week he is in the Czech Republic by invitation of playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel to talk about economic development in Eastern Europe. The trip follows by two weeks an announcement that a Panic drug subsidiary, SPI Pharmaceuticals Inc. bought Russia’s oldest drug company, Oktyabr.

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