BACK UP THE CREEK: When it’s a...

BACK UP THE CREEK: When it’s a creek that gives your golf course character, unrelenting rains can put you out of business. Scenic, nine-hole Aliso Creek Golf Course in Laguna Beach was shut down for more than three months, partly because the rains washed out two of its bridges. Now, it’s ready to tee it up again. . . . Course officials will decide today--after putting finishing touches on new bridges--whether to open Friday or Saturday. . . . But if you’re calling for a tee time, be prepared: They might get a lot of weekend traffic.

ONLY FIFTH? Top 10 signs that your county’s bankruptcy has become something of a national joke: One may be when it makes David Letterman’s Top 10 list. On his CBS “Late Night” show Monday, Letterman read off his “Top Ten Signs You’ve Hired a Bad Accountant.”. . . Right there at Number Five: “He used to be some kind of financial big shot in Orange County.”

ANNE’S STORY: When Bruce Giuliano of Irvine saw a photography exhibit in Northern California based on Holocaust victim Anne Frank’s life, he knew he wanted it for Orange County. . . . The retired businessman started putting together an organizing committee--now grown to 300--and after two years’ effort, the exhibit opens April 20. It stays two months at the Newport Harbor Art Museum’s Library Annex. . . . Says Giuliano: “You don’t have to be Jewish to see how clearly her story reveals what bigotry does to us as a people.”

JUST ASK: When Santa Ana Unified school officials heard that the book on Anne Frank’s famous diary might be available free, they requested copies--10,000 of them. And that’s how many they got the past week. . . . The gift came from a Burbank-based nonprofit group that is giving 150,000 copies to schools, mostly in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Santa Ana schools are the largest recipients to date--just for asking. . . . Says district spokesman Chris Rice: “The number 10,000 was our wild dream and we didn’t expect anybody to say, ‘We’ll buy 10,000 for you.’ ”