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BEST VEST: At a Rams game a few years ago, Shirl Rapport of Anaheim noticed the quarterback always seemed to bounce back from a defensive pounding. Her husband, Bory, suggested she see what the team could do for her. Turns out team equipment manager Don Hewitt had just the thing for Rapport: An old Joe Namath flak vest. . . . Rapport suffers from epilepsy, and the flak vest protects her during seizures. Rapport, 59, tells her poignant story of the struggles she’s faced with epilepsy in a “My Turn” column in Newsweek magazine this week.

TREE SHOPPING? When are trees just in the way? When they keep shoppers from seeing your stores, say some business owners along Harbor Boulevard in Fullerton. . . . City officials are studying their request to cut some of them down. But the Tree Society of Orange County is raising strenuous objections. It warns in its latest newsletter that “a treeless street would turn many off to downtown shopping.” No decision has been made.

SENIOR PUSH-UPS: He might not be the TV fitness king he was in the 1980s, but Richard Simmons is still popular with senior citizens. Simmons has geared his exercise programs toward keeping the elderly fit. . . . And more than 1,000 of them are expected to exercise with him Friday at the Sequoia Athletic Conference Center in Buena Park. Simmons is the featured guest at Secure Horizons’ “Wellness Festival.” Says a spokeswoman: “He’s an inspiration to seniors; they love him.”

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KEEPING THE FEVER: With the World Cup gone, South Coast Plaza has taken down its 100 red and blue soccer banners--one large enough to cover half a dozen elephants. It’s donated them to the American Youth Soccer Organization, which will distribute them to leagues throughout Orange County. . . . “We’re overjoyed,” says AYSO spokesperson Lolly Keyes. “This prolongs the life of something that was very important to youth soccer: the World Cup.”

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