LIGHTS ON: Tonight is supposed to be...

LIGHTS ON: Tonight is supposed to be lights on at your house, if you want to be in tune with the annual National Night Out Against Crime. . . . In Garden Grove, the police are hosting an open house. In San Clemente, residents plan to turn on their outside lights and have numerous neighborhood potlucks parties. Says Jan Sener, San Clemente’s crime prevention specialist: “We’ve always had a good response. It gives people a chance to say as a neighborhood: ‘We want to make crime less a factor.’ ”

QUANTUM LEAP: One company making a tidy profit in the health care business: Quantum Health Resources in Orange, which provides health care to people with chronic diseases. It made Fortune magazine’s list of 100 fastest-growing American companies. With sales last year at $221 million, its growth rate within the last five years is 82%. Quantum success comes partly, the magazine says, from charging considerably less than most hospitals. Says a Quantum spokeswoman: “We’ve seen the magazine; we think it’s great.”

AL’S NEMESIS: Perky, cute, working on her second husband, Amanda Bearse’s character Mary Rhodes D’Arcy makes the perfect warring neighbor for Al Bundy’s sexist lines on TV’s “Married With Children.” In real life, Bearse, the only openly gay actor on a regular prime-time series, is a leading gay rights activist. She’ll be grand marshal in the Orange County Gay and Lesbian Pride Celebration parade in Irvine on Aug. 14.

REAL STREET PARADE: One thing different about this year’s gay parade: It will be on the streets. The last four years it has been on the UC Irvine campus because city officials in Irvine were reluctant to grant a street permit, fearful of unruly incidents involving the crowd. But with the parade so orderly the last four years, says parade spokeswoman Kimberly Syre, the city has lowered its insurance requirement for organizers. The parade route off campus will be on Campus Drive between Berkeley and Bridge streets.