COSTA MESA
A hiring committee has named Aviva Goelman the interim director of the Costa Mesa Senior Center, which has been operating without a director since Alan M. Meyers was fired in May. He faces charges in Oregon that he bilked a nonprofit health clinic of nearly $10,000.
Goelman will assume her new duties Wednesday.
Councilwoman Linda Dixon, who is a member of the center’s hiring committee, said she expects that Goelman will win the trust and confidence of the senior center’s members.
Goelman was active for more than 15 years in the Ruth Kahn Jewish Senior Center, now based at the Jewish Community Center. Most recently, she has managed Early Years Toys, a store in Newport Beach. The store will close at the end of the summer.
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