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Corona del Mar High School Girls’ Varsity soccer team will play its final home game at 3:15 Tuesday, school sources said.
The game will be the senior game, where the team will honor the seven members who are seniors. The game pits Corona del Mar against the first-place Beckman team.
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More than three hours after two workers were stranded, dangling from a medical building at 1401 Avocado Avenue, crews were able to remove the scaffolding that malfunctioned on Monday morning.
“Once the victims were safe, firefighters assisted in lowering the scaffolding to safety utilizing a high angle rope rescue technique,” said Jennifer Schulz, a Newport Beach Fire Department spokeswoman. “Firefighters harnessed a representative from the company that owned the scaffolding and lowered him to the inoperable equipment.”
He was then able to lower the scaffolding to the ground, she said. The men were stranded at 10:45 a.m., and the scaffolding was on the ground by 2 p.m.
A total of 22 firefighters from Newport Beach and Costa Mesa responded, Schulz said, along with Newport Beach police. Avocado Avenue was closed briefly between San Miguel and San Nicolas drives.
Read our earlier story — including interviews with the two rescued men — here.
Photos courtesy of the Newport Beach Fire Department.
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Rainy weather over the weekend caused a city-owned tree to fall onto a home in the 700 block of Heliotrope Avenue, police reports state. The tree fell just before 7 a.m. Saturday, causing $5,000 in damage, police said. By Monday morning, crews had removed most of the tree, and a blue tarp covered much of the roof of the home.
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A 26-year-old Laguna Beach man was arrested on suspicion of possession of narcotics just before midnight Friday, police records show. The arrest occurred at East Coast Highway and Los Trancos near Crystal Cove State Park. The man’s bail was set at $20,000.
Police made two DUI arrests in the Corona del Mar area on Sunday. A 40-year-old Laguna Beach man was arrested at 8:50 p.m. at East Coast Highway and Pelican Point Drive; his bail was set at $10,000. And a 46-year-old Irvine man was arrested at 10:50 p.m. at San Miguel Drive and MacArthur Boulevard; his bail was set at $2,500.
A 28-year-old Costa Mesa man was arrested at 1:40 a.m. Sunday at Iris and First avenues on suspicion of disorderly conduct while intoxicated; his bail was set at $500.
Since Friday, police made more than a dozen alcohol-related arrests throughout Newport Beach, records show.
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Two men were left dangling by harnesses from the side of a medical building on Avocado Avenue when their scaffolding’s motor malfunctioned just after 10:30 a.m. today. The men were quickly rescued.
“I was grateful the harness was doing its job,” said Mark Dunn, 44, of Irvine. “We were very, very lucky.”
The other worker, Wes Malone, 27, of Huntington Beach, said they were in their second week of work on the building at 1401 Avocado Avenue, repairing leaks from January storms that flooded the building’s stairwells.
“It was just run of the mill, getting ready for the day’s work,” he said.
Dunn said they set up the scaffolding, then went to between the eighth and ninth floors. “We work our way down from the top,” he said.
But when he pressed the button to stop the motor, Malone’s side stopped. “My side continued to go,” he said.
He used the emergency switch, stopping them, then they called for help. They then tried to power it back up, the motor didn’t respond. Finally, Malone said he released the emergency switch to try to lower the scaffold to the ground — but only one side moved.
“The left went down, the safety harnesses caught us, and we were hanging by a rope,” he said.
Minutes later, firefighters and maintenance workers were on the roof, hoisting the men, one-by-one, to safety. The firefighters were in the building on an unrelated call, said Jennifer Schulz, a Newport Beach Fire Department spokeswoman, and the men were dangling for only a few minutes.
Fire department crews checked them out, the men said, and they were fine and considering going back to work. Fire crews were waiting to see if they needed to assist taking down the scaffolding, which was hanging from the building on the Avocado side of the street for more than an hour.
Avocado Avenue was closed between San Miguel and San Nicolas drives during the event as a safety precaution.
Workers from the medical offices stopped to talk to the men, who were in the parking lot taking phone calls from friends and family members.
“It was pretty up there,” Dunn said.
Mark Dunn, left, and Wes Malone, were rescued Monday morning from the side of a medical building.
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Two hot topics for residents of Corona del Mar will be discussed at City Hall this week — bicycle safety and leaf blowers.
The Task Force on Cycling Safety meets at 4 p.m. today in the Council Chambers of City Hall. The meeting will begin earlier than usual in order to accommodate a presentation by Brian DeSousa of the Orange County Bicycle Coalition.
The group also plan to discuss costs of printing a bicycle map, as well as updates on sharrows (marked lanes where cars and bikes share the road), bike racks and “hot spots” that are especially dangerous for cyclists. East Coast Highway in Corona del Mar is frequently cited as a hot spot. Click here to see the agenda for today’s meeting; click here and here for earlier task force stories.
The topic of leaf blowers will be on the City Council’s agenda for its study session, scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers.
The question of whether Newport Beach should ban leaf blowers came from a few private citizens along with members of the Corona del Mar Residents Association. Some residents have complained of noise and air pollution from leaf blowers, and pointed to cities including Laguna Beach that have full or partial bans.
The CDMRA conducted an online poll, with 85 percent of respondents saying the wanted a full or partial ban. Read more about the poll results here.
According to a city staff report, however, further research and analysis should be conducted — which will be difficult with city departments like General Services working with reduced work forces. One option would be for the Council to vote to direct staff to take no further action on the subject.
Read our earlier stories here and here.
Both meetings are open to the public.
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The Corona del Mar MIddle School Cheer team chalked up another first-place win Sunday and are now headed to the Junior Nationals scheduled for Feb. 28 at California Adventure, according to an email sent by sponsor teacher Nicole Fusaro. The team this year has had three first-place wins and one second-place win. To watch the team at the Junior Nationals, you need to buy a ticket or use a pass for a California Adventure entry, then purchase a $10 wristband from Fusaro. The time will be announced one week prior to the competition.
Photo courtesy of the CDMHS PTA.
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Three runners, cheered on by spectators from homes behind small white fences, with sailboat welcome signs and whale weather vanes — there’s even a dog, and a tiny version of the No. 5 lifeguard stand.
What could be more Corona del Mar than that?
The CdM 5K Run Committee held its first meeting last month, and the first order of business was unveiling the artwork to be used for the event, scheduled for Saturday June 5.
Artist Mary Kay Crowley, who sells her work in a Balboa Island gallery, was selected after a search that lasted most of last summer, according to a city memo. She met with the run’s steering committee several times over the fall before completing the acrylic painting, which will be featured on brochures, posters, shirts and other marketing materials.
Image courtesy of the City of Newport Beach.
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