INSIDE SCOOP

--Daily Pilot staff

With barely a month to go until the election, you would think Clarence

Turner, co-chairman of Newport Beach’s Measure T campaign, wouldn’t be

doing anything except getting out the vote.

But far from it.

Turner and his wife, Janice, will board a plane for Sao Paolo, Brazil,

on Nov. 14 to cheer their daughter Irene, 35, at the International Film

Festival.

She will present “The Girls’ Room,” the first film the movie producer

also has directed.

Set at the University of North Carolina, the film tells the story of

two young women--one a debutante, the other a bohemian--who come to like

each other.

Turner, who has seen the movie, admitted that he is clearly prejudiced

as the director’s father. But he said it is a very good film

nevertheless.

While they are down there, the Turners also will pay a visit to Rio de

Janeiro and get splashed with water at Iguazu Falls, which is higher and

wider than Niagara Falls and surpassed only by Africa’s Victoria Falls.

GREENLIGHTER GETS UNEXPECTED CHEERS

Earlier this year, Newport Beach Mayor John E. Noyes publicly stated

that he opposes the Greenlight initiative, one of two growth-control

measures on the Nov. 7 ballot.

“I’m going to vote against it,” he said. “The bottom line is: Is it

good for the community?”

But at a recent council candidates forum at City Hall, Noyes proudly

wore an oversized “Pat Beek for City Council” button on his jacket.

Noyes and his wife, Sheila, also contributed $500 each to Patricia M.

Beek’s campaign. She is running for the District 5 council seat being

vacated by Noyes.

The thing is, Beek is a fervent supporter of Greenlight and one of

three candidates who have been endorsed by the measure’s supporters.

The mayor must be thinking about the bigger picture and think that

Beek’s record of community activism and her time on the Parks, Beach and

Recreation Commission merit his support.

SHALIMAR A SPRINGBOARD TO SETTING HIGHER GOALS

Students living in the Shalimar neighborhood have good reason to

rejoice that part of their after-school tutoring program reopens today.

Newport-Mesa school board trustee David Brooks recently reported that

20 local students are now in college because of the intervention of

Shalimar Learning Center.

Those 20 students, who are each the first in their families to attend

college, have said they would not have pursued higher education if it had

not been for Shalimar.