WITH BULLETINS? As the incoming chairman, Supervisor...

WITH BULLETINS? As the incoming chairman, Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez will deliver the annual “State of the County” address before the Orange County Forum on Jan. 10. Think he’ll find anything to talk about? . . . A spokeswoman says tickets for the $35 luncheon event, at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, have sold briskly since news of the county’s bond crisis. She adds: “Surprise, surprise.”

SHOO RATS: All agencies here have bond crisis money troubles. But in the Fullerton School District, some things require no expense spared--like fighting rats. . . . District trustees this week had to chuckle as they approved $665 spent on exterminator services because of a rat in the Educational Media Center. They know it wasn’t just a mouse--a clerk’s shoe was found partially eaten and a chair had huge chunks bitten out of it. . . . They got their money’s worth--the rat has not returned.

HOLIDAY SCIENCE: Lisa Kaplan of Laguna Beach describes herself as “your typical housewife, who happens to love to organize things.” Her talent for organizing is why the AIDS Services Foundation calls on her each year to put together and head distribution of its holiday gift baskets for AIDS patients and their families. She and scores of volunteers will be handing out about 600 baskets today. . . . Says Kaplan: “We’ve got it down to a science. It’s a great way to spread the holiday spirit.”

BOMBS AWAY: UC Irvine police want to make sure campus personnel don’t open mail from a serial bomber who has sent 15 exploding packages to university researchers and others across the nation since 1978. . . . Campus Police Chief Kathy Stanley sent an electronic bulletin university-wide this week that warned: “Mail bombs may have protruding wires, aluminum foil, oil stains, or a peculiar odor.” Also: avoid ticking or buzzing packages--or those addressed with cut-and-paste letters.