Newport-Mesa receives road money Costa Mesa and...

Newport-Mesa receives road money

Costa Mesa and Newport Beach received Measure M allocations for

local street and road projects from the Orange County Transportation

Authority this week.

Costa Mesa received almost $6.5 million, which will go toward

bicycle trails, improving intersections and widening the southbound

onramp of the San Diego Freeway to Sunflower Avenue. Newport Beach

got about $1.4 million for one project -- road widening between

Bayview Way and MacArthur Boulevard.

Irvine Co. honors 20 students for leadership

The Irvine Co. is honoring 30 high school seniors who have

demonstrated qualities of a community leader with student leadership

awards.

The $2,000 scholarships, which are part of the company’s Investing

in Education 2003 Awards Program, went to college-bound students with

a GPA higher than 3.0 from one of 15 schools in the Orange County

area.

Eight of those students were selected as semifinalists and will

receive an additional $1,000. Lindsay Freeman from Estancia High

School and Hilary Havens from Costa Mesa High School were among them.

Of those semifinalists, four finalists will receive an additional

$7,000 in scholarship funds.

The winners will be announced May 22.