NEIGHBORS

Dora Taylor of Aliso Viejo has joined the Costa Mesa offices of IA, a

global workplace solutions firm, as a project manager. Taylor brings to

the IA team more than 12 years of experience in architecture and

interiors in the areas of commercial interiors, hospitality projects and

tenant improvements. . . . The Junior League of Orange County, California

Inc., based in Newport Beach, recently hosted a night of festivities

while raising funds for Orange County children’s programs in its seventh

annual Monte Carlo Night at South Coast Plaza’s The Clubhouse Restaurant.

The fund-raiser has raised more than $300,000 over the past six years. .

. . Jay Skenderian and Ken Morgan of the Newport Beach-based Morgan

Skenderian Investment Real Estate Group helped Granite Riverside LLC of

Newport Beach to sell an 88-unit apartment complex in Riverside for $3.3

million, as well as helped to sell a 16-unit apartment complex in

Fullerton for $965,000 to Menlo Family Ltd. of Costa Mesa. They also

helped to sell a 26-unit apartment complex in Fullerton to Paul Dunlap of

Fullerton for $1.85 million, and helped to sell another 16-unit

apartment complex in Anaheim for $1 million. . . . Kristin Maberry, a

senior at Newport Harbor High School, has completed her Gold Award

Project. She is a senior Girl Scout in Odyssey Troop 859. She built a

playhouse that she will donate to the Heritage House in Costa Mesa. . . .

Capital Pacific Holdings of Newport Beach has sold a 55,282-square-foot

office complex in Laguna Beach for $9.55 million. The space was sold to

Sav-Most Desert Rancho, a Laguna Beach-based private investor. . . .

Genevieve Peterson and Christine Poda of the Orange County Council Boy

Scouts of America in Costa Mesa attended the last series of basic

professional training at the Center for the Professional Development in

Texas. Peterson and Poda joined 45 other professional Scouters from

across the nation for the weeklong course focusing on management,

fund-raising and sales. . . . More than 225 Orange County high school

students attended Orange Coast College’s 17th annual High School Dance

Day on March 7. Four classes were offered for students interested in a

career in dance. . . . Newport Beach-based John Laing Homes received

three awards at The Nationals, the largest competition for new-home sales

and marketing professionals and communities. . . . Navin Watumull and

Craig Levine of Newport Beach made the dean’s list for the fall and

winter 2000 semester at Tufts University in Massachusetts. . . . Navy Lt.

Eric N. Pfister, son of Andrea and Nelson Pfister of Newport Beach,

visited Mahe, Seychelles archipelago, during a six-month deployment to

the western Pacific Ocean and Arabian Gulf while assigned to the

amphibious assault ship Tarawa. . . . Newport Beach-based Point B Inc.,

announced it has been selected as the agency of record for the new Pain

Management Technologies business of Bard Access Systems, a global leader

in the access device technology market. Point B is a full-service

strategic marketing communications agency specializing in highly

technical industries, such as health care, biotechnology and the

Internet. . . .

* NEIGHBORS spotlights achievements in the community. Please direct

noteworthy information to Stefanie Frith via fax at (949) 646-4170, or

send e-mail too7 [email protected] .