HOW ABOUT AN ‘A’? The National Center...

HOW ABOUT AN ‘A’? The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children holds its annual board meeting in California for the first time--today and Friday--at the Four Seasons Hotel in Newport Beach. County Supervisor William G. Steiner, its vice chairman, has been a member since it began 10 years ago. . . . Its grade cards for states’ efforts in finding missing children will be a topic. Says Steiner: “California got a B+. But we have a long way to go: One out of five missing children are abducted in California.”

YOU DON’T LIKE KIDS? It’s a busy time tonight for third-grade members of the Holiday Choir at the Hebrew Academy in Westminster. They hit the malls in Lakewood, Cerritos and Westminster all within a three-hour period to sing for shoppers. Each year the group gets requests for return appearances. . . . While the songs are all in Hebrew, non-Jewish shoppers always seem delighted with them. Says Janie Kashby of the academy: “Young people singing and being happy--what’s not to like?”

DOUBLE BELLS: For the 60 years of marriage between Bob and Dolores Hope, she’s remained in the shadows, singing an occasional song on his Christmas TV specials (“Silver Bells”) or on the road with him. But Saturday, Dec. 10, Dolores Hope shares the spotlight with her famous husband at Bullock’s in South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. . . . They’ll promote their first full-length album, “Hopes for the Holidays.” They’ll sing some of those songs on Bob Hope’s annual Christmas special for NBC that airs Dec. 14.

ARTLESS FOR AIDS: Closed for installation of a new exhibit, Fullerton Museum Center won’t be offering any activities for today’s Day Without Art (OC Live!). That’s the art world’s annual AIDS observance, meant to draw attention to the myriad artists, dancers, musicians and others felled by the disease. . . . The arts center is, however, sending free passes for future events to local AIDS service organizations.