NEW HOBBY: Store managers are sprucing up...
NEW HOBBY: Store managers are sprucing up this week at Hobby City, the 22-shop crafts and collectors center on Beach Boulevard in Anaheim, just south of Knott’s Berry Farm. Reason: They’re expecting a boost in business from the new “Adventure City.” It’s a $4-million, mini-amusement center--10 children’s rides--that Hobby City will open Aug. 20 on two adjacent acres. . . . Says Hobby City owner Bea DeArmond: “We’re all putting a little trim on our shops to get ready for it.”
JUST BECAUSE: What do you do when you’re no longer on the swim team after seven years? Cyrise Calvin, 30, says you keep on swimming. Calvin, who swam for seven years with the Nadadores in her home town of Mission Viejo, arrives home Saturday after swimming the English Channel. Two years ago she became the 24th woman to swim to Catalina Island. . . . Says her father, Robert Calvin: “She’d say she did it just because it was there.” If you’re interested in swimming the channel, her time was just under 11 hours.
WORLDLY VIEW: Here’s one way for Asian refugees to get jobs: Find someone willing to hire them. More than half of the 200 employees at Narendra Gupta’s rapidly expanding automotive accessory company, Dashking in Santa Ana, are refugees. . . . “Why not?” he says. “People are the same the world over.” A fringe benefit for him: Gupta was recently honored by the county Social Services Department and Catholic Charities for his record in hiring refugees.
BIKING FOR BIKERS: How would you feel going home in rush-hour traffic if your vehicle were stuck behind a group of bicyclists, six abreast? . . . That could happen on Aug. 19, when a loose-knit local bicycle group is planning what it calls a “critical mass instructional ride” on Edinger Avenue in Westminster, starting at Beach Boulevard and heading west. . . . That’s a Friday, at 5:30 p.m.--rush hour. Says one person involved: “We aren’t radicals. We just hope to make the public more aware of cyclists’ right to use all the roads.”
