RAM WATCH: Do the heartstrings tug a...

RAM WATCH: Do the heartstrings tug a little when your St. Louis Rams win a game? Since moving from Anaheim to St. Louis, the pro football franchise is off to a 4-0 start, its best since 1989. . . . “There was not a lot of positive reinforcement for this team in Anaheim in recent years,” says first-year Ram Coach Rich Brooks. “I’m not a proponent of franchises moving, but I felt I had a better chance of turning this thing around in St. Louis than I did inheriting all the negatives that remained in Anaheim.” . . . The Indianapolis Colts are hosts to the Rams today.

POLICE HELPERS: If you pop into a nearby 7-Eleven for a cup of coffee on your way to work, you’ll see something new at the counter. All California locations in that convenience store chain will put up canisters during October to collect money for the Peace Officers’ Memorial Foundation. . . . The money goes to assist families of officers killed in the line of duty. In Orange County history, 38 officers have been slain while doing their jobs.

BEFORE THE QUEEN: It is quite a coup when you can get Queen Elizabeth II to attend your 70th birthday party. But former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will be busy before she celebrates with the queen on Oct. 16. Today, she speaks before the Jewish National Fund at the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa. . . . The occasion: to honor real estate consultant Michael L. Meyer and developer Henry Segerstrom for their local community service.

GOOD VIBRATIONS: Jon Parks is selling real estate in Dana Point now, but the two gold albums on his office wall hint at his colorful past. For 15 years, Parks, now 50, traveled the world working for his Hawthorne High School mates, the Beach Boys. He carried their equipment, served on occasion as manager and engineered some of the records. . . . Parks says he still gets sentimental when he hears the old tunes on the radio. “I’ve heard each of those songs 1,000 times. But for me, just like so many other people, they bring back good memories.”