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In the Pipeline: Fighting for the love of his life
It's hard to believe that this Friday marks one year. Do you remember where you were when you heard? I was driving back from Los Angeles, on my way to a vigil outside the home of beloved Ocean View High School coach Jim Harris, who would soon die from...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Paul Wilson, Scott Evans Dekraai, Justice System
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In The Pipeline: Mrs. Greer saves the good old days
Last week, I wrote about Leroy Jauman after we visited the home on Eighth Street where he was born, the abode with those two tall, slender palm trees in front of it. His dad, Andy, planted those trees in honor of his son Leroy's birth back in 1924, and...
Tags: Book, Entertainment, Movies, Hal Roach, PBS (tv network)
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In The Pipeline: Two trees grow in Huntington
There are many palm trees in Huntington Beach, but few as meaningful as the pair of graceful and slender Mexican fan palms that scrape the sky just several blocks from the ocean on Eighth Street. Like the house they sway in front of, they date back to the...
Tags: Book, Entertainment, Movies, Schools, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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In the Pipeline: Miracle at hole No. 6
I can never again drive past hole No. 6 of Meadowlark Golf Club (on Heil Avenue between Graham and Springdale streets) without thinking about Bradley Smith. At Mass at St. Bonaventure several weeks ago, Father Angelos Sebastian (whom I've written about...
Tags: Book, Hospitals and Clinics, Golf, Sports, Neurosurgery
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Not afraid to talk suicide
Jay Asher was never involved in bullying in school, either as a victim or a perpetrator. At least, he thinks he wasn't. But after the emotional journey the author went through in crafting his young-adult novel, "Thirteen Reasons Why," he can't entirely...
Tags: Literature, Suicide, Arts and Culture, The New York Times
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In The Pipeline: A week of ducks and dribblers
Next week, we're fortunate to have not one but two special author appearances at Barnes & Noble at Bella Terra. At 7 p.m. Sept. 18, Martin J. Smith, editor-in-chief of Orange Coast magazine, will discuss and sign his new book, "The Wild Duck Chase:...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Wildlife, Hunting, Women's National Basketball Association, Chase (tv program)
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In the Pipeline: 405 impacts another set of wheels [updated]
Costa Mesa Mayor Eric Bever wrote a strong editorial in the Daily Pilot last week calling out the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) for its "audacious scheme" that would "use billions of Measure M2 freeway congestion-improvement tax dollars to...
Tags: Book, Highway Transportation, California Department of Transportation, Jack LaLanne, Human Interest
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In the Pipeline: After theft, a sweet recovery
One of the coldest cases on record has been solved. Call it "justice served, a la cart." Back in May, I wrote about Mike Guidicianne, the 34-year-old Boston transplant/entrepreneur who owns and operates Orange County Slush here in Huntington Beach....
Tags: Book, Craigslist, Inc., Theft
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In the Pipeline: A pop legend sails in
There's a concert I'm looking forward to nearby in Laguna Beach this Saturday. Thirty years ago, it was seemingly everywhere: the earnest, feathery voice of a soft-spoken Texas balladeer, Christopher Cross. The charts back then featured a galaxy of stars...
Tags: Joni Mitchell, Golden Globe Awards, Music, Elton John, Academy Awards
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In The Pipeline: Local Babe Ruth footage unearthed
I've never seen anything like this. It's hard to fathom. So rare is the view that I don't even want to blink for fear of missing a split second. Did I really just see that? Recently, at a signing for my new book, "Baseball in Orange County," an elderly...
Tags: Book, Babe Ruth, Baseball, Walter Johnson, Sports
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In The Pipeline: Three generations of tea party tradition
Back in 1987, there was a picture of Mende Schlendering in the newspaper — this newspaper. The occasion was her 10th birthday, celebrated with a tea on the golf course at SeaCliff Country Club. But more specifically, the reason Mende's picture was...
Tags: Book, Arts and Culture, Customs and Tradition, Madonna
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In the Pipeline: Making noise over minute of silence
With the Olympics starting this coming week, I wanted to point out that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the worst day in Olympic history. In 1972, at the Munich games, eight Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and took nine...
Tags: Book, Sports Organizations, International Olympic Committee, Terrorism, George Santayana
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