Latter Day Saints

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a partial list of places to worship in Huntington Beach. If you would like to list your church, temple or synagogue, call (714) 966-4610, fax us at (714) 966-4667 or send e-mail to o7hbindependent@latimes.comf7. Please include the name of the place of worship, the address, phone number, service times and pastor or rabbi. BEACHCITIES CALVARY 19891 Beach Blvd., lower level (714) 374-3506 www.beachcitiescalvary.orgService: 10 a.m. Sunday Pastor: Jim Kempner BEACHCITIES COMMUNITY CHURCH 9872 Hamilton Ave. (714)

Heather Grow would have no trouble reading a council agenda by night and reading "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" by day. The first-time Huntington Beach City Council candidate has worked for nearly three years as an inclusion facilitator for special-needs children at the YMCA. In her spare time the last few months, she's made the rounds as a candidate, speaking at meet-ups at friends' houses, designing campaign signs and handing out cards with a slogan — "Public service without politics" — meant to underline the fact that she isn't a career politician.

After years and years of hard work and planning, the Huntington Beach Tree Society is holding a rededication ceremony for Butterfly Park. It's officially Norma Gibbs Park, and Norma Gibbs is expected to be present at the celebration. She was the first woman elected to the Huntington Beach City Council and served from 1970 to '78. She was mayor from 1975 to '76. In the past few years the 7-acre plot of land was transformed from Scary Park back to Butterfly Park with the help of Park Restoration Coordinator Leslie Gilson , Tree Society President Jean Nagy and Tina Stevenson, the park's education coordinator.

From politics to religion to business to holiday festivities, it sometimes felt as though Noble Waite touched every aspect of life in Huntington Beach. And some days, it felt as though every side of life congregated at his drugstore - the hub of Surf City life that Waite ran for nearly three decades. The World War II veteran, who went on to serve Huntington as a councilman and church leader, ran one of the few drugstores around at a time when they meant more than in-and-out shopping.

Ellen McCarty FOUNTAIN VALLEY -- The mood was somber and quiet Wednesday morning at Fountain Valley High School, with students still coming to grips with the death of Steven "Scotty" Lang. Students are "real quiet, subdued," said Lynn McCall, special education clerk at the school. "The shock has worn off, and people are just quiet. Teachers have tried to keep the kids to together to talk about [Scotty's] death." Scotty, a 16-year-old junior at Fountain Valley High School, collapsed during football practice Monday afternoon.

NATURAL PERSPECTIVES In only a few short months, the Friends of the Shipley Nature Center have taken great strides toward their goal of restoring and reopening the nature center in Central Park. The group hopes to prove that they are up to the challenge on Saturday, from 9 a.m. to noon, when they formally kick off their restoration efforts with a major celebration at the center, which is on the west side of Goldenwest Street near Talbert Avenue. According to group's president, Stephanie Pacheco, the morning restoration party will include members of the organization, 60 Boy Scouts, a troop of Girl Scouts, a group of 50 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a UC Irvine ecology class and members of the general public.

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