April 5, 2010 marks the starting date of a new effort to recycle food wastes from businesses in Laguna Niguel and eight other Orange County cities. Through a one-year $400,000 grant from the County of Orange Waste & Recycling Department, food waste will be collected from five local businesses and taken to a composting facility for recycling. Learn more.
Meet Your Marines & Sailors Car Wash A Great Success!
Over 85 Marines and sailors from the City’s
adopted Marine Unit – 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, together with Mayor Linda Lindholm, Councilman Robert Ming and members of the Laguna Niguel Military Support Committee, raised more than $10,000 washing cars at Plaza de La Paz last Saturday.
The funds raised will be used in a variety of
ways to help the men and women who serve with the 1st Battalion, 4th Marines and their families. This has included sending CARE packages to the Marines when deployed overseas, providing baby-shower baskets to expectant wives here at home, sponsoring welcome-home events for returning sailors and Marines, and helping the unit put on social events.
In addition to the Marines and sailors who washed the cars, Committee members and other community volunteers contributed many hours to help make the day both fun and profitable. Special thanks go to Committee Member Adam Liquori, who was in charge of organizing the event, Plaza de La Paz for use of the parking lot, Walgreens, which helped sponsor the car wash and provided donors with discount coupons and other free items, and Starbucks for providing free Frappucinos to our hard-working Marines.
Mission Accomplished! Giant Lei Presented to USS McClusky.
It took 146 hours, 2000 red, white and blue
plastic bags, 2000 rubber bands and a team of dedicated volunteers to assemble a 100 ft. lei that was presented to representatives from the USS McClusky at the March 16th City
Council Meeting. Faith Lakamp, wife of the ship’s Commanding Officer and Kathy Bray, wife of the ship’s Executive Officer, accepted the lei on behalf of the sailors, and expressed their sincere gratitude and appreciation to all those who helped put it together.
Earlier this month, Carole Allen and Hugh Fryling of the Military Support Committee’s Welcome Home/Lei Making Committee put out an “all hands on deck call” looking for volunteers to help assemble the lei. The response was amazing. Volunteers from not only Laguna Niguel but our neighboring cities of Aliso Viejo, San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente answered the call to honor the men and women serving onboard the USS McClusky. “We are so grateful Carole Allen and Hugh Fryling for leading this effort” said Mayor Linda Lindholm, Co-Chair of the Laguna Niguel Military Support Committee. “I, along with my Co-Chair Robert Ming, would also like to acknowledge the following volunteers whose dedication and tireless effort went into making such a beautiful lei.”
Cheryl Fredenburg
Kimerbley Frendburg
Susan Bristol
Betty Colby
David Dotson
Kristin Etter
Alison Etter
Ina Inouye Margaret Jones
Joseph Jones
Matthew Jones
Jessica Jones
Amy Vu
Vi Vu
Larry Larson
Gayle Moran
The lei will be draped across the bow of the ship as it returns to port in early April following a 6-month deployment.
“Fire alert” Flags to Fly At Key Locations Around Town During Red Flag Conditions!
The City of Laguna Niguel joins the Orange County Fire Authority a nd County of Orange in participating in the OC Fire Watch Program. The program is designed to increase public awareness of fire dangers by flying red “Fire Alert” flags at the City’s three fire stations and at key locations around the City during Red Flag conditions.
The Fire Alert Flags will enhance the City’s current Red Flag Fire Watch Patrols program that has been in effect since 2007.
