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COVID-19 has further infil-trated the Newport Beach FireDepartment, affecting firefightersand more lifeguards.

Ten firefighters and 11 life-guards had tested positive for thecoronavirus as of Friday, con-firmed Fire Chief Jeff Boyles.

Boyles said the virus apparentlybroke through to his crewsthrough community spread andnot while directly treating co-ronavirus patients. He said all firestations and trucks remainstaffed, and cleaning protocolshave been tweaked. NewportBeach Fire is not sending crews toout-of-county wildland fires.

“We have been very vigilantwhen we go on calls with what weknow to be sick people, but peo-ple have lives outside of work,”Boyles told the City Council at itslast meeting on July 14.

An additional 30 firefightersand 21 lifeguards have quarantin-ed at some point in July, Boylessaid Friday.

Going into this weekend, 11 life-guards — four positive and sevenin quarantine — were off duty.Four firefighters — all recoveringafter testing positive, none left inquarantine — were away fromwork.

“Fortunately, not all of themwere off at the same time so wewere able to maintain our staffinglevels in the fire stations, lifeguardtowers and junior lifeguard pro-gram,” Boyles said. “It was a bal-ancing act for a small window oftime in order to accomplish that.”

Coronavirus among the life-guard ranks was a key part ofNewport’s decision to make theunprecedented decision to closebeaches on the Fourth of July, his-torically the summer peak for

COVID-19casesseep intoNewportfire ranksThecity’s first respondersare among the33,358whohave testedpositivefor thecoronavirus inOrangeCounty.BYHILLARYDAVIS

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When Gov. Gavin Newsom an-nounced on July 10 that approxi-mately 8,000 California prisonerscould be released ahead of sched-ule to stop the spread of the co-ronavirus that causes COVID-19inside state prisons, Nalya Rodri-guez watched as organizationsplanned ways to support thosewho would soon be released intoa pandemic-ridden world.

Place4Grace, which serves fam-ilies impacted by incarceration,started Rides2Freedom, whichcoordinates pick-ups and drop-offs for those who might not haveeasy ways to get back home, es-pecially if their prisons are milesaway from their families shelter-ing in place.

Rodriguez, a sociology PhDstudent at UC Irvine who hasbeen organizing around prison is-sues for about eight years, wanted

to find a way for people whomight not be able to give rides tohelp.

She reached out to Place4Graceto see if the prisoners had needfor supplies and learned thatoften times the newly releasedprisoners are sitting in the releasearea for hours without basic ne-cessities.

For the last week, Rodriguezand Courtney Echols — organ-izers for the newly formed Peo-ple’s Coalition of UC Irvine — andtheir volunteers have beenputting together backpacks filledwith supplies to give to theseprisoners.

The “solidarity packs” includehand sanitizer, personal hygienekits, face masks, tissues, waters,snacks and $25 gift cards.

“The gift cards are to allowthem to have some money to buya fresh set of clothes,” Rodriguezsaid. “So that they feel like new as

they come into our communi-ties.”

Rodriguez said they were in-spired by the work already beingdone by organizations including714 Mutual Aid, which collectedsupplies for folks recently re-leased from the Santa Ana countyjail.

“It’s to show them that asthey’re being released, that yourcommunity cares,” she said.“Your community is here and wewant you to thrive with us.”

Officials at the California De-partment of Corrections and Re-habilitation said that those withfewer than 180 days left in theirsentence and those older than 30will be given priority.

No one serving time for a crimedefined in state law as violent orinvolving domestic violencewould be set free, officials

Organizers at UCI collect donations to help prisoners released early

Courtesy of UCI4COLANALYA RODRIGUEZ and Courtney Echols are leading an effort atUC Irvine to collect supplies for “solidarity packs” for prisoners thatwill soon be released into a pandemic-ridden world.

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Southern California has longbeen a place people want to liveand where vacationers want totravel.

In the new normal forged bythe coronavirus, people have hadprecious little to laugh about asthey deal with complicationsbrought on by the pandemic.

For one night, a couple ofcomics were able to provide suchan escape on Friday in Hunting-ton Beach.

Ian Bagg and Lachlan Patter-son headlined “Comedy on theBeach,” a show that was free atSeaLegs at the Beach.

“Where there’s a will, there’s away,” John Johnson, the show’sproducer, said of being able toput on the event. “I just am itch-ing to get back to putting on

these shows again and being ableto have a chance with thisunique venue has just been ablessing.”

Johnson added that this wasthe eighth “Comedy on theBeach” show that he has put onat SeaLegs since 2018, but it wasthe first time since the co-ronavirus shutdown.

Patterson, a Venice Beach resi-dent who said he turned 46 thisweek, said he could not think of abetter way to celebrate a birth-day than a return to doing stand-up comedy.

While he is conscious of theneed for safety precautions toprotect against the spread of thevirus, Patterson said he has comearound to the idea that laughtercan provide its own form of heal-

Photos by Raul Roa | Staff Photographer

COMEDIAN LACHLAN PATTERSON gets the crowd laughing during the “Comedy on the Beach” show at SeaLegs at the Beach on Friday.

‘Comedy on theBeach’ provideswelcome escape

SINGERJOHNNYLUVplayed anextended setat the show,which wasfree to thepublic.

BYANDREWTURNER

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Laguna Beach Unified SchoolDistrict is considering taking astand against racism with a res-olution.

A draft of the two-page reso-lution, which calls for “a com-mitment to creating an unbi-ased and inclusive societythrough education,” was eithertoo vague or trying to pack intoo much, depending on theschool board member.

“The Laguna Beach UnifiedSchool District Board of Educa-tion stands strongly with ourBlack and all marginalized stu-dents, staff, families and com-munity and vows to reflect up-

on its policies, values, goals andmissions to ensure its commit-ment to all, and to creating anunbiased and inclusive societyfree of discrimination, harass-ment and negative stereotypingtoward any person or groupthrough education; and ... theBoard of Education vows tomake decisions with a deliber-ate awareness of impedimentsto learning faced by students ofcolor and/or diverse cultural,linguistic or socioeconomicbackgrounds,” the statementreads in part.

School board Clerk CarolNormandin said the resolution

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S ally McBride (a fic-tional creation) wastired of Zoom, tired of

parents and tired of notbeing with her kids alonein her classroom with thatinexplicable feeling thatteachers have for those 27to 38 students in theirrooms. Oh, for the freedomto tell that little inside joke,to walk among her stu-dents and put her handlightly on the shoulder ofthe kid who was causingtrouble and to actuallyteach with ease.

Instead Sally was goingto have to walk into a class-room that reeked of Cloroxand try to teach in twoweeks. She tried to putaway her fear. She feltstrongly that if the districtdecided to have a semireg-ular school day, becauseshe was comparativelyyoung and healthy at 46,she had an obligation to doit. She was worried abouther own health and wor-ried about their onedaughter who was slated todo a hybrid schedule in herdistrict, which Sally hopedwould keep her safer, butwasn’t at all sure.

She had a week to getready, but one thing hadnever changed — meet-ings! Meetings were stillscheduled, but in additionto those, there were newthings to learn … alwaysnew things to learn. Allsummer there had beenclasses that Sally was askedto take, and much to herfamily’s dismay did take.

The district had stockedher room with hand sani-tizer, soap, paper towels,Kleenex and trash contain-ers, but as usual she couldtell it wasn’t enough foreven the first week. Sallyanticipated many trips tothe store. It was alwayshard getting supplies fromthe district anyway, andshe knew that in theseconditions, it would beeven more difficult.

The signs were in theroom also: “Wash yourhands,” “Safe Distance 6Feet,” “Use Sanitizer” and,oddly, “Don’t Touch!” Shewasn’t sure what that lastone meant, but it wasfunny. Going to Stapleswasn’t as much fun as itused to be, but she knewthat she was going to addto these small signs withmuch larger ones to makethe point. She also knewthat she was going to findcute but kind-of-scaryphotos to go with the signsand spend the requisitehours putting them on.

She had brought herblue tape to tape off thedistancing of the forward-facing desks. She thoughtthe district would probablydo it, but she wasn’t sure.Things had continued tobe confusing.

She wondered if thecustodians would clean thebooks every day but knewthat because she was now afreak about cleanliness thatshe would clean themanyway in between classes.

Sally looked at one of thetwo closets that would holdall the sanitizing stuff andreminded herself to bring alock so that kids would notbe able to get into whatwas going to be a toxicspace.

Sally felt so sorry for theteachers who had theyounger kids because itwas going to be so hard tokeep them safe. How werethey going to keep kidswearing their masks cor-rectly (they always some-how freed their nose,which was the place whichwas easily found by thevirus), keep them apart,keep them from touchingthings, keep them fromtouching their faces, havethem sanitize, wash theirhands?

And then there was thewhole bathroom scenario.

The bathroom issue washuge. No adult could go

into the bathroom with astudent or if a student wasin there, so they were liter-ally out of the educationalcommunity’s control inthat one place. The onlything that could be con-trolled was rigorous view-ing of the restroom door, sothat only one child couldgo in at a time. Sally wasnot sure that was possibleas the school only had twocustodians currently. Shewas sure that teacherswould be asked to fill in …and of course, they would.

She made a note to airthat closet out every day.Could there be a toxicbuildup? She could see thecloset exploding.

Speaking of airing, shewondered how she wasgoing to increase ventila-tion as the windows wereall on one side of the room.Well, not really … therewere windows next to theceiling but they were hardto open with the polething. Ventilation wasimportant because shereally didn’t want to use theair conditioner as the infor-mation about spreadingthe droplets was fairly clearin that A/C tended tospread and keep them upin the air. As Sally under-stood it, the best thing todo was let them drop to theground and surfaces sothey would either die or besanitized.

For the last two monthsSally had thought of thevirus as having humanqualities, and they weren’tgood. They were killers.She had completely per-sonified this virus, and shehated it with all her heart.

Yep, school was twowhole weeks away … may-be. Sally was worried.

To be continued …

COMMENTARY | SANDY ASPER

Coronavirus concerns aheadof the new school year

SANDY ASPER is aNewport Beach residentwho taught at theNewport-Mesa UnifiedSchool District for 40 years.

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Raymond Einar Berg, M.D.March 13, 1930 - July 2, 2020

Raymond Einar Berg, M.D., passed away peacefully at hishome in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 90, followinga courageous, six-month battle with blood cancer. His lovingfamily was at his side.

A native Californian, Dr. Berg was born in San Francisco toNorwegian American parents. He made his first trip to Norwayat the age of two months, traveling with his family acrossthe Atlantic aboard the SS Bergensfjord. He would forevertreasure his Norwegian heritage and returned to Norwaymany times during his life to visit beloved relatives and delightin the country’s spectacular scenery and familiar culture.

Growing up during the Great Depression, Dr. Berg spenthis early childhood living on his Uncle John’s ranch in Auburn,California, where there was always food to eat but also workto be done. From a young age, Dr. Berg helped tend to theanimals and fruit orchards. His favorite chore was milking thecows. Despite the hard times and hard work, Dr. Berg alwaysremembered his years on the ranch as idyllic, and it was onthe ranch that he developed his strong work ethic and deepappreciation for life and the great outdoors.

Throughout grade school, Dr. Berg continued to spendsummers on the ranch but returned home to San Franciscoeach year for formal schooling. He was a popular student atBalboa High School, where he earned numerous athletic andacademic honors and graduated valedictorian in June 1947.He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where hewas a scholarship student, member of the Pi Kappa Alphafraternity and sports reporter for The Daily Californian. Hecompleted his premedical studies in three years, receivinghis undergraduate degree in 1950. In 1954, he received hismedical degree from UCSF School of Medicine.

A rotating internship at D.C.General Hospital inWashington,D.C., was followed by a first-year residency in general surgeryat St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City, then a majorteaching hospital in Greenwich Village. In 1956, Dr. Berg’smedical training was interrupted when he was commissionedinto the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, where he served as ship’ssurgeon aboard the carrier USS Lexington (CV-16) based inYokosuka, Japan. In 1958, he returned to San Francisco tocomplete his residency in orthopaedic surgery at Universityof California Hospitals.

Dr. Berg found his life’s calling as a practicing physician andwas a dedicated, brilliant orthopaedic surgeon. He truly lovedhis work and improved the lives of nearly 30,000 patientsover the course of his long career. He maintained a privatepractice in Orange County, California, for more than 48 years,30 of which he was on the medical staff of Hoag MemorialHospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach. He enjoyed workinglocum tenens assignments across the country and servedas a Qualified Medical Examiner and consultant to both theCalifornia and Washington state departments of workers’compensation. He held medical licenses in six states and staffappointments at 29 hospitals. He was still seeing patients onJanuary 16, 2020, the day he received his cancer diagnosis.

Perhaps the professional accomplishment of which hewas most proud was the founding of the Newport CenterAmbulatory Surgical Facility (now Hoag Newport CenterSurgicare) in the late 1970’s. With vision and perseverance,Dr. Berg fought to overcome then-existing state regulatoryobstacles and the resistance of the local medical communityto establish a privately funded, outpatient surgical facility, onlythe 35th in the country, confident that outpatient surgery wasthe way of the future.

Dr. Berg was a Diplomat of the American Board ofOrthopaedic Surgery, Fellow of the American Academy ofOrthopaedic Surgeons and member of numerous medicalsocieties. He was a former Director of Sports Medicine at theUniversity of California, Irvine, and co-founder of the SquawValley Orthopaedic Clinic, Lake Tahoe. In 1977, he served asa volunteer attending surgeon with Orthopaedics Overseasin Tunisia.

With his limitless curiosity, adventurous spirit and joie devivre, Dr. Berg lived an exceptional life pursuing his passionsand enthusiastically sharing them with family and friends.From his father, he gained a lifelong love of hunting, fishingand boating. He became an avid, accomplished sailor,owning many boats over the years, including the NautorSwan 37 Heidi, which he sailed 13,000 miles from Finlandto the Mediterranean, the Romsdal 65 North Sea trawlerViking, which he maintained in the Pacific Northwest, andthe Islander 48 Lorelei, which he and his family sailed off theCalifornia coast for 20 years. He loved to fly and became alicensed pilot, owning two Cessna single-engine aircraft. Heenjoyed hiking and camping in the wilderness and logged80,000 miles with his family in their beloved RV. He was aworld traveler with a passion for languages. He was an expertdownhill skier well into his 70’s with an elegant style perfectedin the Austrian Alps. A serious humorist, Dr. Berg nevermissed an opportunity to dispense laughter, and his quickwit and well-timed jokes, puns and limericks will be sorelymissed.

Dr. Berg was a Master Mason and 60-year member ofBalder (now Columbia) Lodge in San Francisco. He was a65-year member of Sons of Norway, never missing an annuallutefisk dinner. He was a 47-year member of Newport HarborYacht Club, where he spent many happy times with familyand friends. Balboa High School remained important to himthroughout his life, and he was an active member of theschool’s alumni association.

Dr. Berg’s greatest pride and joy was his family. He issurvived by his loving wife of 35 years, Lori Doyn Nelson,their two sons, Jon Nelson Berg and Peter Nikolai Berg(Anne Bowler), and his son from a previous marriage, EricChristopher Berg (Cindy Morris). He also is survived byhis sisters, Ellen Kilham and Mildred Lubimir. Dr. Berg waspreceded in death by his parents, Einar Joachim NicolaiBerg of Os, Norway, and Synneva Augusta Olava Ruud ofWaterville, Washington, and his sister, Evelyn Berg.

The family would like to express its gratitude to theexceptional doctors, nurses and staff at City of Hope NationalMedical Center for the outstanding, compassionate care theyprovided Dr. Berg during his illness.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a private funeral servicewas held on Saturday, July 11, 2020, at Pacific View MemorialPark, Corona del Mar, California. Memorial donations may bemade to the Masonic Homes of California. Please mail checksmade payable to California Masonic Foundation to: Masonsof California, Attn: Denise Avila, 1111 California Street, SanFrancisco, CA 94108.

Marilyn “Mimi” Woods MacGowanAugust 27, 1928 - June 21, 2020Marilyn “Mimi” Woods MacGowan was born inHollywood, California on August 27, 1928 to Juliaand GeorgeWoods. She and her younger brotherGeorge grew up in Hollywood during the

Depression, having happy childhoods – full of family andfriends. Her younger brother George gave Marilyn hernickname “Mimi”, and that is how she was known by friendsand family. Marilyn’s father was an attorney practicing inHollywood, having been in banking prior to the Depression.Marilyn graduated from Hollywood High School, where she

was a good student and socially active, including serving asPresident of the prestigious JA Club. Following high school,she went to UCLA and joined the Delta Gamma sorority.Starting around 1938-39, Marilyn spent summer days at herparent’s beach house on Balboa Island, sailing, swimming,dating and dancing.It was on Balboa Island that she met her future husband,

Bill MacGowan. They had spotted each other at the beach,before being introduced. Marilyn had seen Bill playing withsome young children, and thought “that’s just the kind of guyI want to marry”. Bill had seen Marilyn in her black bathingsuit, and was also impressed. Bill arranged with a neighborto introduce them, and they spent the next 12 hours on a longfirst date that included sailing, dancing, dinner, and a motorboat ride in the ocean. Shockingly, at the end of the date,Bill asked Marilyn to marry him, and just as shockingly, sheaccepted! This was really out of character for both, who haddated a lot and were not prone to rash decisions. But it trulywas love at first sight, as evidenced by their long and happy52 year marriage.After Marilyn graduated from UCLA, and Bill from USC,

they moved to an apartment on Balboa Island, and Marilyntaught at the newly built Harper Elementary School in CostaMesa, teaching third grade. Marilyn’s younger sister Juliewas born during this time, and the two sisters enjoyed avery special relationship and love. After a couple of years,Bill and Marilyn saved and bought their first house in Encino,California, where their daughter Ann was born, and Marilyntransitioned to being a homemaker. After several years, theymoved to a new home in Rossmoor in Los Alamitos, Californiawhere their sonWilliam III (Billy) was born. In 1962, Bill joinedSperry Rand in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the family moved toUtah for several years before finally moving back to NewportBeach.Bill and Marilyn bought their house in Eastbluff on the day

John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the MacGowanfamily was the first family to move into the new Eastbluffdevelopment, in 1964. Marilyn lived in this house, with thebeautiful views of the Back Bay, for 56 years. While busyraising her two children, Marilyn also became active in theChristian Science church, the Daughters of the AmericanRevolution, Investment Club, Book Club, and at the LagunaBeach Pageant of the Masters, where she served as CastingDirector for several years. She also served for a year asPresident of the Claremont McKenna College Mother’s Club.Bill and Marilyn traveled extensively all of their marriage,

but developed a special love for the island of Kauai, wherethey would visit each year. They made many friends onthe island, and their favorite activity was swimming atPoipu Beach. Marilyn served as the family historian for theextended MacGowan/Woods families, and helped sustain the“Christmas Funnies” tradition, which had started in the 1890’s.The “Funnies” involved family members writing funny poemsand giving humorous gifts to each other. This family traditionis now well over 120 years old.People describe Marilyn as fun, happy, smart, outgoing,

with a great sense of humor. She loved music (she playedthe piano and flute), reading and the study of religion. Marilynwas a wonderful caregiver for husband Bill, who graduallygrew frail after his long career in aerospace, and then carriedon courageously for 18 years after his passing, although shemissed him every day.Marilyn passed away, peacefully, at home, in her 91st year

on June 21, 2020, surrounded by her loving family, and wasinterned at Pacific Memorial Park next to her husband Bill.She is survived by her daughter Ann Marilyn MacGowan, sonWilliam Nelson MacGowan III, daughter in law Angela GayleMacGowan, grandchildren William Nelson MacGowan IVand Amalie Julia MacGowan, sister Julia Catherine Kugel ,brother in law Richard Roy Kugel, sister in law Barbara ScottWoods, and many nieces and nephews in the Kugel, Bridge,Woods, and Sigband families.She was greatly loved by her family, and cherished by her

friends. She will be greatly missed.

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visitors. Leading up to theholiday, two lifeguards hadtested positive and morethan 20 were being quaran-tined.

Fire and lifeguard offi-cials said they had enoughstaff for the big weekend,but a cautious City Councilvoted for the hard closureto keep the remainingguards from having to domore with less.

Boyles said the Centersfor Disease Control andcounty health officials sayfirst responders can workuntil they are symptomaticif they have been exposed,but Newport has been ag-gressive with its contacttracing and quarantining.

“The majority of thosewho tested positive were al-ready identified as exposedand were in quarantinewhen their test resultscame back positive,” Boylessaid.

“That tells us that wetheoretically preventedthem from working andcausing an even greateroutbreak.”

The infected individualscome from corps of about120 firefighters, 95 in life-guard operations, 55 in jun-ior guards and 50 lifeguardreservists.

Orange County had 710new COVID-19 cases and 13newly reported deaths Fri-day, bringing the totals to33,358 cases and 556 re-lated fatalities.

Area hospitals had 652

patients, 215 in intensivecare units.

Estimated recoveriesfrom infection are now at18,007.

In key state monitoringmetrics, testing positivity inthe county is at 12.7%, ICUbed availability is at 32%,and the change in thethree-day average of hospi-talized patients is at 0.5%.

Although generally de-creasing over the past sev-eral days, testing positivityremains high enough tokeep Orange County on thestate’s watchlist. The othermetrics satisfy state stand-ards.

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• Santa Ana: 6,272 cases;143 deaths

• Anaheim: 5,708 cases;137 deaths

• Huntington Beach:1,580 cases; 44 deaths

• Irvine: 1,080 cases; ninedeaths

• Costa Mesa: 1,066 cases;seven deaths

• Newport Beach: 766cases; five deaths

• Fountain Valley: 337cases; eight deaths

• Laguna Beach: 122cases; fewer than fivedeaths

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ing for those who havebeen cooped up in quaran-tine.

“At first, I thought mygoal as a standup comedianduring this pandemic, I feltlike, was just to get out ofeverybody’s way, don’t bepart of the problem, stayhome, stay safe,” Pattersonsaid. “When people say, ‘Weneed laughter,’ I kind of

said, ‘Well, we need to besafe,’ but I’ve had very fewopportunities to laugh dur-ing these last six months,and I have laughed.

“Seeing comedy on theinternet, I’ve had somegood outward laughs atthings and social mediaposts, and that feeling istherapeutic, and I can’t ig-nore that. I think peoplereally do need to laugh.”

Patterson and Bagg areboth alumni of the hitshow, “Last Comic Stand-

ing.” Bagg said there is noreplacement for the energyof live entertainment, andhe shared how he got hisstart in the business.

“I just started on an openmic in Vancouver,” Baggsaid. “I was supposed to begoing to college to becomean explosives engineer. Iwent on this open mic, andI never went back toschool.”

Bagg referred to comedyas a feast-or-famine indus-try, not only with audiences

but with family members.He said that to this day, hisfather still shakes his headin disbelief that he took thispath and it worked out.

Those in attendancecame ready to enjoy them-selves on Friday night.

Karri Fuqua, 51, of Hunt-ington Beach said that sheand her husband, Mike, areregulars at SeaLegs at theBeach, but they had neverattended a comedy show atthe venue.

The couple brought Beth

Reed, a friend who wasvisiting from Las Vegas.

“I think comedy in themiddle of COVID is a greatidea,” Reed said. “Peopleneed to laugh. Being se-cluded, isolated, all that,this is what people need.”

Reed described the LasVegas Strip during the pan-demic as “desolate.”

“I keep telling people, ‘Ifyou want to see what theend of the world is going tolook like, go drive on theStrip in Vegas.’ Vegas, al-ways people are there, it’s litup, everything’s going. It’slike the end of the world[now].”

Johnny Luv opened as alive musical act, and somedanced in front of the stage.Several sung along during a

rendition of Bob Marley’s“Three Little Birds.”

A crowd of more than 300took in the show, dozens ofwhich viewed it from be-yond the venue on thesand. “It can bring the com-munity together,” DrewCampolito, 22, of Hunting-ton Beach said of the show.“Definitely, for free is reallynice, too. It’s been hardtimes lately.”

Diondre Miller, 20, Cam-polito’s partner, agreed thatmaking the show free gaveit a feeling of community.

“It’s really cool,” Millersaid. “It’s really fun. It madeus want to come out andsupport.”

Raul Roa | Staff Photographer

JOHN JOHNSONwarms up the crowd at the “Comedy on the Beach” show at SeaLegs at the Beach on Friday evening.

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CROSSWORD AND SUDOKU ANSWERS

Bjorn Hoffmann has re-turned home to OrangeCounty after graduatingfrom UC Berkeley.

The former Corona delMar High School tennis starearned his degree in legalstudies. He has been tryingto keep busy since the co-ronavirus pandemic wipedout his senior season forthe Cal men’s tennis team.

Hoffmann, however, isnot done with college ten-nis just yet.

He is enrolling in UCIrvine’s Master of Financeprogram, he said Wednes-day. He plans to competefor the Anteaters nextspring with his fifth year ofeligibility.

Hoffmann’s family has a

rich history with the UCIrvine program. His father,Carsten, and mother, Bil-jana Longman, both playedfor the Anteaters, as did hisuncle, Zoran Korac.

“UCI was an easy startingpoint for me in my searchfor schools, just becausewe’ve got a long historywith UCI,” Bjorn Hoffmannsaid. “I know the coach[Mike Saunders], and Iknow the team. I startedtalking with the coach a lit-tle bit, and he got me reallyexcited about the idea ofgoing over there.

“To really be close tohome, have my parentscome to every match prettyeasily and do that Master ofFinance program really justchecked a lot of boxes. Ithought it would be a great

way for me to wrap up myathletic career.”

Hoffmann was 9-5 in sin-gles and 13-6 in doubles hissenior year for Cal, beforeCOVID-19 hit. In four sea-sons with the Golden Bears,he was 67-34 in singles and39-28 in doubles.

Hoffmann had a deco-rated prep career at CdMthat included three years atNo. 1 singles. He won the2016 CIF Southern SectionIndividuals Singles Cham-pionship as a senior, andwas a two-time finalist atthe prestigious Ojai tourna-ment.

Now he is headed to aplace that his family alreadycalls home.

“We’ve been joking that ifit wasn’t going to be me[playing tennis for UCI], it

was going to be [mybrother] Niels,” Hoffmannsaid. “We definitely feel likewe were destined for some-one to go and play overthere. I’m definitely excited

to carry on the Anteater tra-dition. Obviously my par-ents are super-stoked on itas well and I know my un-cle is ... and I know thecoach is really stoked that

he gets another local guywho has a lot of connec-tions there.”

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Former CdM tennis star Bjorn Hoffmann headed to UC IrvineBYMATT SZABO

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KevinChang

CORONADELMARHighgraduateBjornHoffmann,shownplaying in2016, plansto play hisfinal yearof collegetennis atUCI nextspring.

said, nor would those re-quired to register as sex of-fenders.

In the first week, the Peo-ple’s Coaltion raised $1,700and created about 78 soli-darity packs.

During Thursday’s emer-gency drive at UC Irvine,which lasted from 9 a.m. to5 p.m., they raised over$2,400 and collected hun-dreds of donations rangingfrom food to menstrualproducts, socks and back-packs.

Both Rodriguez andEchols, a UC Irvine PhDstudent in criminology, lawand society, also organizefor UCI4COLA, whichstarted in February, in-spired by UC Santa Cruzstudents advocating for a

Cost-of-Living Adjustment(COLA) on their campus tosupport those affected bythe ongoing housing crisesin California.

The People’s Coalition,which started in June, isalso working on projectsincluding the expansion ofa critical race theory con-ference on campus and thedevelopment of an anti-racism program for PhDstudents and for the schoolof education.

Both organizations col-laborate on biweekly mutu-al aid fundraisers for theIrvine community.

Echols said thatUCI4COLA has been ableto redistribute $15,000 fromdonations to students inneed of emergency funds.

They’re trying to createas many solidarity packs aspossible before the antici-pated release of prisoners

later this month and inearly August.

The next mutual aiddrive is scheduled forJuly 31.

“This is a really scarytime,” Rodriguez said.“They’re being releasedinto a society where peopleare dying. There’s nothingwe can do about it. But wesaw that there was a needand that we have the re-sources to put somethingtogether to contribute tothe community.”

Monetary donations canalso be sent throughVenmo @uci-mutual-aid.Rodriguez also encouragesdonations to Place4Grace’sRides2Freedom programand Choices For Freedom’sHome4Good program tosupport their efforts.

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ada.tseng@latimes.com@adatseng

was “whitewashed.”“It focuses more on us

and what we’ve done butmisses, from the com-ments made, that wefailed our students, ourBlack students,” she said.

“We failed to under-stand, to provide for them

with equity.”Normandin said she

supports more of a com-mitment that directly ac-knowledges the BlackLives Matter movementand its broad suggestionsfor change in schools, rec-ognizing that this sum-mer’s racial reckoningworldwide was triggeredby police killings of Blackpeople.

For Laguna Beach, shesaid that should includediversifying staff and con-sultants, offering arts andliterature from more cul-tures, addressing racismhead-on in classroomconversations, and usingthe district’s privilege todemand equitable fund-ing for other school dis-tricts.

Board member DeePerry said she supports ageneral resolution fol-lowed up with a morespecific action plan.

Board member JanVickers agreed and thinksa broad resolution reflectsdeeper thinking.

Vickers said she prefersthe concept of acceptanceover tolerance.

“I compared it to whenyou have a young childwho’s going through areally difficult stage. Youtolerate that behavior tillyou get to the end, wherethey finally change thatbehavior,” she said.

“But when you acceptsomething it’s differentthan tolerating. It’s an ac-tual acceptance of that ashaving validity.”

Parents and at least onestudent submitted com-ments supporting the res-olution, describing howthey have encounteredracism in the four-schooldistrict that serves a townthat is 85% white, accord-ing to the U.S. Census.

Discussions on thestatement are expected toresume at a future meet-ing.

The school board willmeet next on Monday,specifically to discuss areopening framework forthe coming school year.

The meeting beginsstreaming at 10:30 a.m. atlbusd.org/liveboardmeeting.

hillary.davis@latimes.comTwitter: @dailypilot_hd

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