Make that two spectacular coastal homes for OC developer Sanford Edward. He’s been planning an oceanfront house at his The Strand at Headlands development in Dana Point. And now he says he has purchased 2.4 acres at Pebble Beach Golf Links from the Orrick family of San Francisco legal fame for $16.25 million. The site overlooks the 12th green with whitewater views of the Pacific. Edward, an expert on the California Coastal Commission, says he won’t need its approval to raze and replace the existing house. He notes the Orrick family bought the property in 1919 from Pebble Beach’s original developer, Samuel Morse: “I intend to keep this land in my family, as the Orricks did, for another 89 years” …
He’s acting sheriff with the emphasis on “act.” Jack Anderson, who wants to be appointed as Mike Carona’s permanent replacement, has already fired a former superior (Jo Ann Galisky) amid a grand jury probe of a jail beating death. And he’s gone where Carona didn’t dare: He has proposed replacing close to 800 jail deputies with lower-paid correctional officers. (The replacements would be phased in as deputies retire or are reassigned.) The deputies’ union has howled, but the supes have reacted favorably toward an idea that could save tens of millions of dollars annually. And Nick Berardino, whose union for non-deputy county employees could wind up representing the new jail personnel, calls Anderson’s plan “the boldest move in 30 years of county government.” Compared to it, says Berardino, Supe John Moorlach’s attempt to rescind the deputies’ “retroactive” pension increases, “looks like a lawn party” …
Scott Flanders, CEO of OC Register parent Freedom Communications, has thrown caution to the wind. First, he stuns fellow libertarians by declaring that Barack Obama is the freedom-loving choice for president, then he tells the Insider that he’s going to British Columbia to try heliskiing. Also, Flanders has joined the board of Internet health insurer eHealth Inc. …
Sir Eldon Griffiths updates the World Affairs Council on Europe at a March 18 dinner at the Irvine Marriott …
Anybody want a brick attached to a sponge? The OCBJ has 80 sponge-bricks left over after distributing 440 of them at last week’s Excellence in Entrepreneurship awards luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Irvine. Speaker Michael Gray (St. John Knits, Sweet Life Enterprises) used the makeshift item to show how in business it’s better to soak things up than to resist. (He first used it years ago on a problem employee named Lori,she not only got the message, she married him.) But the Insider suspects Gray may also be on to his next big thing,a scrubber that doubles as a doorstop …
Three of this year’s five winning entrepreneurs are foreign-born: William Wang of Vizio, Pierre Andr & #233; Senizergues of Sole Technology (etnies) and Shaheen Sadeghi of The Lab/The Camp.
