Around Town: Costa Mesa Senior Center bus gets makeover
The Costa Mesa Senior Center bus recently got a makeover and a new name, “Costa Motion.”
The bus, formerly a traditional white passenger bus, now has colorful art and bears the slogan “Keepin’ seniors moving.”
City staff created the design.
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Kirk Bauermeister receives Costa Mesa Mayor’s Award
Costa Mesa native and longtime resident Kirk Bauermeister received the Mayor’s Award during Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
Bauermeister is a lifelong educator and former principal of Estancia High School. He currently is executive director of secondary education for the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, where he’s worked for nearly 20 years.
At City Hall, he serves on the Senior Commission, which oversees the senior center. He also was a co-facilitator on the Charter Committee, which drafted a city charter for voters to decide on in 2014.
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12 competitors prepare to raise funds for cancer fighting
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Orange County Inland Empire chapter will hold a launch event from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Fairmont Hotel in Newport Beach for the Man & Woman of the Year campaign.
The campaign is a 10-week competition in which 12 people from Southern California will create and implement different fundraising activities to support the society’s mission to end blood cancers.
The competitor who raises the most money between Tuesday and June 4 will be honored at the Quest for Cures Gala on June 4 at the Fairmont.
Tuesday’s kickoff event will feature the 12 competitors, presentations from Leukemia & Lymphoma Society leaders and past winners of the campaign.
The Fairmont Hotel is at 4500 MacArthur Blvd.
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Discussion of gravitational waves set in Costa Mesa
Cal State Fullerton faculty members will discuss the detection of gravitational waves, confirming a prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity, at 6 p.m. April 7 at the Center Club in Costa Mesa.
The event is open to the public. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased by March 31 at fullerton.edu/gravitationalwavesevent.
The Center Club is at 650 Town Center Drive. For more information, call (657) 278-7550.
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School-zone traffic measures planned
Costa Mesa’s Public Services Department is planning several traffic-calming measures near city schools.
The work includes flashing lights activated when children are on campus.
The plans also would incorporate technology that collects the speed and volume of cars passing by Costa Mesa schools. The data will help future enforcement efforts, officials said.
City Council approval of the plans is pending. Installation could begin this summer.
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Newport woman joins board of Santa Ana nonprofit
Kyle Team of Newport Beach recently joined the board of directors of KidWorks, a Santa Ana-based nonprofit that helps needy neighborhoods in central Santa Ana.
Team previously was a KidWorks after-school volunteer tutor and a member of its fund development and capital campaign committees.
She also has served on the development committee at Sage Hill School in Newport Coast and been involved with fundraising for St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach.