Costa Mesa Community Run! The Fun Starts Tonight!

Costa Mesa Community Run!  The Fun Starts Tonight!

The event, which supports Costa Mesa public schools, begins at 5 p.m. Friday, April 22, with an expo featuring live music by Orange County blues/dance band Blue Daddy, $1 food, an Easter egg hunt, rides and more.

Saturday | April 23, 2011 | Costa Mesa

The 4th annual Costa Mesa Community Run brings together community and school for a 2K fun run and a 5K run through Fairview Park, beginning and ending with a lap in Jim Scott Stadium at Estancia High School.

The well-marked USTFA-sanctioned 5K course winds through Fairview Park, which offers rolling hills, ocean views and cool breezes. All entrants will receive a T-shirt and a goodie bag. 2K entrants will also receive a medal.

The overall male and female winners of the 5K will each be awarded a $250 gift card from IKEA.

Course map

Race Day Schedule

• 6:30 a.m.: Registration opens
• 7 a.m.: Health and community fair and pancake breakfast begins
• 7:30 am: Aerobic warm-up
• 8 a.m.: 5K start
• 9 a.m.: 2K fun run start / award ceremony
• 10 a.m.: Nature walk

 

The event, which supports Costa Mesa public schools, begins at 5 p.m. Friday, April 22, with an expo featuring live music by Orange County blues/dance band Blue Daddy, $1 food, an Easter egg hunt, rides and more.

Bib numbers, T-shirts and goodie bags will be available for pick up from 3-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21, at Road Runner Sports (1835 Newport Boulevard) or Friday, April 22, at the expo.

Licensed drivers 18 or older will have the opportunity to test drive the 100% electric Nissan LEAF during the expo and run. Nissan, sponsor of Team RadioShack and official vehicle of the 2011 Amgen Tour of California, is giving cycling, endurance and performance sport enthusiasts the chance to to test drive the “no tailpipe, zero emissions” electric car. Stop by and enter for a chance to pace the race during Stage 7 of the Tour of California.

 

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 Larry Weichman is President and Broker of Costa Mesa-based real estate powerhouse Weichman Realtors,"the most trusted name in Costa Mesa Real Estate". Larry and his highly-trained team of professionals have proudly served Costa Mesa since 1976. For questions about an upcoming sale or purchase, call him directly at 714-241-4532 or email your questions to Larry@TeamWeichman.com. Be sure to visit Larry Weichman in Costa Mesa CA for the latest news and information on the Costa Mesa real estate market.  Lic #00573423 

 

      

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Costa Mesa Residents- 7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

Social media is all the rave but it’s prudent to keep informed:

by Consumer Reports Magazine

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Courtesy of Computer Masters

Using a Weak Password - Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with number tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbold. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word “houses”: hO27usEs!

Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile - It’s an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you’ve already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click o the info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls - For almost everything in your Facebook profile, you can limit access to only your friends, friends of friends, or yourself. Restrict access to photos, birth date, religious views, and family information, among other things. You can give only certain people or groups access to items such as photos, or block particular people from seeing them. Consider leaving out contact info, such as phone number and address, since you probably don’t want anyone to have access to that information anyway.

Posting Your Child’s Name in a Caption - Don’t use a child’s name in photo tags or captions. If someone else does, delete it by clicking on Remove Tag. If your child isn’t on Facebook and someone includes his or her name in a caption, ask that person to remove the name.

Mentioning That You’ll Be Away from Home - That’s like putting a “no one’s home” sign on your door. Wait until you get home to tell everyone how awesome your vacation was and be vague about the date of any trip.

Letting Search Engines Find You - To help prevent strangers from accessing your page, go to the Search section of Facebook’s privacy controls and select Only Friends for Facebook search results. Be sure the box for public search results isn’t checked.

Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised - Facebook limits its members to ages 13 and over, but children younger than that do use it. If you have a young child or teenager on Facebook, the best way to provide oversight is to become one of their online friends. Use your e-mail address as the contact for their account so that you receive their notifications and monitor their activities. “What they think is nothing can actually be pretty serious,” says Charles Pavelites, a supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. For example, a child who posts the comment “Mom will be home soon, I need to do the dishes” every day at the same time is revealing too much about the parents’ regular comings and goings.

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This Weekend's Best Real Estate Buys in Costa Mesa California!

This Weekend's Best Real Estate Buys in Costa Mesa California!

 

Larry Weichman is President and Broker of Costa Mesa-based real estate powerhouse Weichman Realtors,"the most trusted name in Costa Mesa Real Estate". Larry and his highly-trained team of professionals have proudly served Costa Mesa since 1976. For questions about an upcoming sale or purchase, call him directly at 714-241-4532 or email your questions to Larry@TeamWeichman.com. Be sure to visit Larry Weichman in Costa Mesa CA for the latest news and information on the Costa Mesa real estate market.  Lic #00573423 

 

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Questions and Answers- Costa Mesa California Real Estate

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

We all know the mantra of real estate: location, location, location.  The neighborhood is usually the most critical factor in determining a home's value.  When you begin your home search, you should create a list of criteria for the neighborhood in which you want to live, work, and play.

Ask yourself questions like how long is the commute to your workplace?  Is an urban setting or a rural area more suited to your lifestyle?  What is the crime profile for the neighborhoods that interest you? 

How convenient is it to get to shopping centers, churches, schools?  Speaking of schools, how is the area's school district rated?  Even if you don't have or plan to have children, the quality of the school district is another significant factor that determines the home's future value, which will be important when the time comes to resell your house.

If you find that you're priced out of the neighborhood you really love, try to locate fixer-uppers in the area.  They may need work, yes, but you'll get your foot in the door, so to speak, and can expect your property value to rise along with the other neighborhood properties and your improvements and repairs.

A real estate agent will help you locate a suitable neighborhood and home, and protect your best interests.  Make your list and make a call today.

Larry Weichman is President and Broker of Costa Mesa-based real estate powerhouse Weichman Realtors,"the most trusted name in Costa Mesa Real Estate". Larry and his highly-trained team of professionals have proudly served Costa Mesa since 1976. For questions about an upcoming sale or purchase, call him directly at 714-241-4532 or email your questions to Larry@TeamWeichman.com. Be sure to visit Larry Weichman in Costa Mesa CA for the latest news and information on the Costa Mesa real estate market.  Lic #00573423 

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