Category: Orange County News

Laurie’s Final Dream: Higher Education for Wheelchair Occupants

Laurie’s Scholars founder Don Schoendorfer with wheelchair recipients in Kenya Other than earplugs for when your mother-in-law invites herself to spend the summer at your house, the wheel with axle arguably is the greatest singular invention in the history of humankind. The earliest wheel, it is surmised by archeologists, revolved Read More

Kure It Cancer Research of Newport Beach Celebrates 16th Anniversary with ‘Let’s Save Lives’ Gala

Kure IT! founder Barry Hoeven Doctors are always striving for ways to cure cancer, but Corona del Mar resident Barry Hoeven was looking to Kure cancer. Hoeven was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2007. After Hoeven learned there was a disconnect between the number of people afflicted with kidney cancer Read More

DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach Now Enrolling Patients in Clinical Study on Artificial Disc Replacement

Committed to supporting research vital to the field of spinal care, DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach (“DISC”) has announced its participation in a clinical study on artificial disc replacement and is now enrolling qualified patients. Candidates may include patients between the ages of 18 and 75 who have been Read More

OC Community Foundation Surpasses $1 Billion Granting Milestone

The Orange County Community Foundation (OCCF), one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing community foundations, has reached the historic milestone of over $1 billion in grants and scholarships awarded since its inception in 1989. This Foundation’s giving has made a philanthropic impact on six continents, 32 countries, and 448 California Read More

Great Bites HB Offers California Coastal Comfort Food with an Organic Twist

Great Bites cuisine There’s a new restaurant just across the Newport Beach border in downtown Huntington Beach called Great Bites that’s serving what co-owner Josh Crater calls “healthy nutritious real food that actually tastes great and everyone wants to eat, not like boring bland traditional health food.” Crater’s quote perfectly Read More