Believe it or not, state Sens. Joe Dunn and John Campbell have found a bill they can agree on: They’re co-authoring SB 1080, which would bring English-as-a-second-language classes to the sites of interested employers. The OC Biz Council’s Stan Oftelie, who has been pushing the measure, calls it “pro-Latino and pro-business” …
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the mega-seller “The Purpose Driven Life,” made Time’s recent list of the world’s 100 most influential people. That puts him in elite company,other clerics on the list are the Dalai Lama, Iraqi Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. Billy Graham missed the cut …
’90s pitching sensation Ila Borders has a new career,again with the boys. She’s in her first year as a Long Beach firefighter. Borders, you’ll recall, was the first woman to win men’s college baseball games, with Southern California College (now Vanguard University) in Costa Mesa. She went on to become the first woman to win in the minor leagues, too …
Waters & Faubel is now Faubel Public Affairs. Meg Waters, citing family obligations, has left the six-person firm, which represents government entities and is best known for its campaign against the proposed El Toro airport. Waters said she negotiated a buyout with Faubel, they remain “the best of friends” and she’s looking for less time-consuming employment …
Angels Prez Dennis Kuhl is chairing the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s annual OC evening-walk at Angel Stadium on Sept. 10. And he’s agreed to a “no-holds barred” discussion about baseball, including steroids and his team’s controversial name change, at a Pacific Club members-and-guests-only breakfast May 6 …
The recent butterfly invasion added a splash of color to the local landscape,and to windshields …
Golf shrink/instructor Dr. David Wright (“Mind Under Par”) has moved from Pelican Hill to the new “Back of the Range” facility at Arroyo Trabuco …
Sen. Dianne Feinstein visits the OC Forum May 5. Call (949) 588-9884 …
A company sale has left Chriss Street with 24 file cabinets that he’s offering to nonprofits. Contact him at chriss@streetassetmanagement.com …
Honors: To Dick and Ann Sim and Tom Nielsen, the Jade Award from the Irvine Barclay Theatre. To Henry Segerstrom, a lifetime achievement award from the Tourism Council …
UCI prof and standup comedian William Schonfeld on why Chancellor Ralph Cicerone is headed east to become president of the National Academy of Sciences: “He’s an eminent climatologist. The monotony and lack of diversity in the Irvine climate is no longer sufficiently challenging to him. The move to Washington, D.C., will enable him to thrive on the joys of cold, rain and snow, as well as the pleasures of high humidity and scalding heat.”
