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RAMS STILL WANT YOU: One benefit of the Rams having one foot out the door toward a new home: Prices haven’t changed, but it’s easier to get good season tickets this year. A pair of season seats runs $460 (high level), $600 (upper level) or $700 (club level.) Individual game tickets are $23, $30 or $35. . . . The Rams’ home opener at Anaheim Stadium is Sept. 4, against the Arizona Cardinals. . . . Two home exhibition games before that: New England Patriots (Aug. 13) and the Los Angeles Raiders (Aug. 20).

BILLBOARD TRUTH: The Rams are already on their way, if you believe a billboard on Bristol Street in Santa Ana. It says in huge letters: “The Rams are Moving.” That’s only slightly misleading. . . . They are moving--along with all the other National Football Conference teams--from CBS to Fox TV. The Rams’ TV debut will be their first away game on Sept. 11 at Atlanta.

ADD FAME: The first five to be honored at the new Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame came from many candidates. But in the women’s category, Joyce Hoffman was the sentimental local favorite--and the winner. “I’m delighted,” says Hoffman, 47, of Capistrano Beach, who plans to attend Thursday’s unveiling ceremonies. Hoffman won the women’s World Cup in surfing five straight years in the 1960s. And she still surfs. . . . “Though not in the dead of winter anymore,” she says. “I got a little too old for that.”

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BLACK & WHITE ISSUE: In the Franciscan Fountains area of Huntington Beach, near spacious Central Park, homeowners face a problem they hadn’t expected when they moved in: It’s skunks. . . . Some say they’re coming from a nearby creek channel, or maybe scurrying from their hideaways because of a new housing development in the area. Whichever, resident Chuck Barbara says there are “skunks in every back yard” in the neighborhood, either spraying their putrid aroma or drowning in the pools. City officials this week said they’d try to do something.

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