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NEWS BRIEFS A report surfaced this week showing what Orange County cities owe in unpaid leave to employees. Costa Mesa showed $5,438,852 and Newport Beach another $8,905,596. Overall, Orange County cities had liabilities of $ 1 54,3 1 0,874. The high liabilities are a result of cities not having caps on the amount of vacation that can be accrued or because employees were hired before caps were put into place. More than 1 8,000 participants raised in excess of $2 million last weekend at the Komen Orange County Race for the Cure in Fashion Island and Newport Beach. Whole Foods Market, the nations largest natural food retailer, opened a 33,800-square-foot store at Fashion Island last week. Like other stores, Whole Foods Market in Newport Beach features the usual assortment of bulk foods, coffee bar, organic produce and to-go foods. However, the Fashion Island store also offers two craft brew bars, a fusion tea caf and a specialty cheese shop. A 1 2-year-old boy was arrested for setting a fire that caused $90,000 in damage outside a Costa Mesa residence last Friday evening, authorities said. Firefighters shortly after 4:1 5 p.m. responded to a residential area near Orange Avenue and Knox Place, said Fred Seguin, a battalion chief with the Costa Mesa Fire Department. The firefighters extinguished the blaze within 1 0 minutes. No injuries were reported. Fire investigators determined that the blaze was started by boy setting fire to paper.

Costa Mesa classroom gets greenovated


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School professionals have long wanted to go green but many required more factual proof and research, showing that the benefits of green schools better air quality, higher test scores, lower utility bills, etc. were in fact measurable and achievable. The Orange County Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC-OC) along with Irvine-based school design experts, LPA Inc., took action to greenovate, or retrofit, a typical classroom at a local public school. The goal: to create a life-sized model, a green classroom, and test it against a conventional classroom, sans green upgrades, next door. The idea has become a reality at the Davis Magnet School in Costa Mesa. Design of the greenovation kicked off last November, construction began this July, and completion of the retrofit has come just in time for the inaugural Green Apple

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Clean, fresh and abundant indoor air is essential to our health and our ability to learn new information; Room Seven at Davis Magnet School is toxic-free and healthy.

Day of Service, on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. The economic environment that our public schools operate in is challenging, said Wendy Rogers, Chair of the USGBC-OC Green Schools Committee

and Design Principal at LPA. "As a mother of two, and someone who designs K-12 schools for a living, I understand the challenges and dwindling budS E E G R E E N PA G E 5

Giving Latinos more of a voice in Costa Mesa


said it was his experiThe Costa Mesa ence that everybody in council race is getting this community just lots of attention countywanted to be treated wide. like everyone else. Issues of outsourcing John Stephens and and unfunded pension Harold Weitzberg said liabilities have taken BARBARA theyd met with Crissy center stage. But one VENEZIA Brooks, executive directhing Im not hearing THE CURRENT tor and co-founder of about is where the Histhe non-profit Mikapanic or Latino commuCommunity Development Cornitys voice is in this election. Councilman Steve Mensinger poration. For those unfamiliar with Mika, theyve been around since 2003 working in the low-income neighborhoods of Costa Mesa. They cultivate leaders from within the largely Latino neighborhoods, then organize residents into Community Action Committees that create improvement projects for their neighborhoods.
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The average green school saves $ 1 00,000 per year. Miss Lopezs Fourth Grade Class: Alexis Amaro, Emma Arrosagaray, Dylan Bartell, Heyward Bradford, Jonathan Chavez-Velazquez, Gracie Costlow, Taylor Demarais, Katherine Eimers, Zachary Fletcher, Edwin Gaites, Erin Galvin, Angelica Garcia, Chad Gordon, Nathaniel Han, Tsubasa Harada, Brayden Harlow, Keilan Hooper, Jake Kondo, Jazmin Lopez, Brycen MacBeth, Noah Martin, Ryan McIntyre, Frida Molina, Faith Nguyen, Ethan Rasmussen, Joshua Sarte, Emily Scherl, Brooklyn Soto, Cooper Steck, Taylor Talbott-Clark, Kendra Tulecki, Nicole Vitiello and Jackson Wrubel.
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gets our schools are facing. I also know that with 55 million Americans spending six hours a day (or more) in school facilities, we must do a better job creating positive educational environments. Outdated buildings, with little access to daylight, outdated fixtures, and poor ventilation, do little to prepare todays learners for the future. With the launch of this green classroom experiment, students at Davis Magnet get the opportunity to learn first-hand about their school building, how their actions in the classroom affect their environment, and how they can have an impact on their schools bottom line both financially and environmentally. The greenovated classroom has been gutted, insulated, and equipped with high-performance lighting that "harvests" daylight, environmentally friendly flooring and furnishings, wireless submeters (for monitoring utility usage), and a new ventilation system. All paints and finishes have high recyclable contents and low levels of volatile organic compounds. Positioned next to a conventional classroom, the retrofitted space will be used in an experiment that compares energy use between the two rooms. The retrofitted version will serve as an "active environment" where pupils will learn how to measure HVAC loads, monitor utility usage, and understand the importance

of simple moves like turning off the lights before leaving an empty room. Its all very scientific, Rogers said. The conventional classroom has controls that have been in place since December to establish a baseline of energy use, pre-renovation, so we have the facts and figures of where we started and can see, with numbers, how much the greenovation improves performance. Rogers said she hopes the classroom retrofit will raise awareness of the value of environmentally friendly classrooms in a county where just eight schools in 38 public school districts are considered green. For the Green Apple Day of Service, Rogers and other members of the USGBC-OC will join teachers, parents and students to celebrate this noteworthy milestone in the Green Classroom movement the completion of this classrooms retrofit and beginning of the social experiment to come. From 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29, guests will gather at the Davis Magnet School for tours, green apples and lemonade. The greenovation has been funded through in-kind donations at zero cost to the Davis Magnet School. LPA committed school designers and financial support, to see this project come to fruition. The company has a long history of promoting greener, healthier buildings in Southern California. Other donors include: Disney, McCarthy Building Companies and Sunbelt Controls.

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