Golden West College

Golden West College wants participants for its Summer Swim Program. The college is offering recreation swimming, water polo classes and swim lessons for all levels from Parent and Me to adult. Lessons are offered in four sessions from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday and cost $50 a session per child. Open recreation and lap swimming is offered from noon to 1 p.m. June 21 to Aug. 12. Membership is $2 a person, or individual passes for $40 and family swim passes for $80. Registration is from 8 to 11 a.m. June 12 and 19 at the Golden West College pool deck at 15744 Goldenwest St. or www.gwcswim.

Some programs at Golden West College could have to cut back after a new bookstore contract allows the district to take revenue dollars that would normally be used to fund athletic, performing arts and academic programs. The Coast Community College District, which also oversees Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa and Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley, consolidated its three campus bookstores in April, changing the route of bookstore revenues from the colleges to the district with no direction as to whether the money will go back to the students.

C omedy, tragedy, drama and music — these four basic elements of the theater all will be explored, in that order, by Golden West College during its 2010-11 season. The Huntington Beach college will be leading off with "Don't Dress for Dinner," written in the 1960s by French playwright Marc Camoletti, even though it plays like a typical English farce. The cast of characters includes a husband, his wife, her lover and his mistress and a gourmet chef preparing epicurean delights for the troupe.

Huntington Beach Police said they are investigating an unauthorized leak of a photograph of UFC fighter Tito Ortiz taken in city jail after he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a retired adult film star. The photo was leaked to a celebrity gossip website, apparently without permission. The photograph, taken of a video monitor, shows Ortiz sitting in the Huntington Beach Jail, said Lt. Russell Reinhart. TMZ, a celebrity-gossip news website, obtained the photograph and posted it April 27. Reinhart said the department is holding an internal investigation into the matter.

La Tempa earns baseball accolades Huntington Beach High and Golden West College product Justin La Tempa, a senior pitcher at the University of Oregon, has been announced as the Pac-10 Conference Baseball Player of the Week. Additionally, La Tempa has been named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Assn. national pitcher of the week after throwing a one-hitter in the Ducks' 6-0 win over Washington State on Saturday. La Tempa took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and finished with a career-high 10 strikeouts.

UFC fighter Tito Ortiz was arrested on suspicion of domestic dispute Monday in Huntington Beach, officials said. Ortiz, 35, was arrested just before noon in the 16700 block of Baruna Lane, officials said. He was booked in the Huntington Beach Jail and released on $25,000 bail. Authorities received a call from the victim’s father at 9:53 a.m. Monday asking police to look into a possible domestic dispute at Ortiz and Jenna Jameson’s house in Huntington Beach, according to police.

Officials plan to hold a self-defense training class today following the March kidnapping and rape of a Golden West College student. The Huntington Beach Police Department and Golden West are hosting two self-defense and awareness training classes in response to the on-campus crime. ?This is a problem that affected our city as well as other cities,? said Nilda Patino de Berndt, community relations specialist for the Police Department. The college contacted the department after a student was kidnapped on campus and sexually assaulted.

When Golden West College revives the hit musical “Grease” next weekend, director Martie Ramm cautions audiences not to expect any disco music or Bee Gees lyrics. “What you will not see on this stage is a live version of the 1978 movie that starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John,” Ramm said. “While creative in its own right, the movie of ‘Grease’ made more than a few changes from the original raunchy, raw and aggressive musical that captivated all who saw it when it was created in the early 1970s.