CALL OF DUTY: The Port Hueneme Police...

CALL OF DUTY: The Port Hueneme Police Department is riding high only three years after almost disbanding (B1). . . . Residents take fierce pride in the personal service they get from the small-town force. Really personal service. . . . “We had a call of changing a colostomy bag, and we had to do that,” remembers former Port Hueneme Officer Jim Evans, now with Oxnard. “I don’t think there’s anything too small for the Police Department.”

BLUE LIGHTNING: No ordinary wingding for the Point Mugu Air Show this year. Navy officials are planning a lollapalooza to celebrate the base’s 50th anniversary. . . . With a lineup topped by the Blue Angels, the Navy’s precision flight demonstration team, the first weekend in October promises to be a loud one. “We anticipate about 100,000 people to come,” said Capt. Stephen D. Beal, Point Mugu’s commanding officer. “It will be the best air show ever.”

NAME GAME: You won’t find it in Webster’s, because the new name of the 3M division in Camarillo isn’t really a word. . . . The corporation used an in-house committee, employee focus groups, outside focus groups, global e-mail suggestions and an outside consultant to bend, mold and sculpt the English language until it came up with: Imation. . . . Pronounced like part of the word “animation,” the new name, according to a spokesman, represents a series of corporate attributes: information, imaging, imagination and innovation.