OLD BALL: They aren’t the Angels, or...
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OLD BALL: They aren’t the Angels, or even the Yorba Hills all-stars. But the Prospectors hope to bring a national championship to Orange County. The Huntington Beach-based softball team is in Kansas City this week to play in the World Series of Senior Softball. Says Huntington Beach Councilman David Sullivan, 58, who plays outfield: “It’s fun. We act like teen-agers for a week.” But he admitted that after playing three to four games a day for five days, “it’s tough on the old body.”
OH, BROTHER! “Clinton is coming to the Nixon Library.” Executives at the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda couldn’t resist that headline on its mailer about a rock party Sept. 23. It’s to kick off a new exhibit on musical tastes of the First Families over the past four decades. Included will be President Clinton’s saxophone. . . . But that wasn’t the tie to the headline: Clinton’s rock-playing brother, Roger Clinton, will bring his band for the event. They’re calling it “Nixonpalooza.”
NEW PORT O’ CALL: Audrey Adams’ new job for U.S. Customs will bring a change of scenery. She goes from the Texas border town of Laredo to become the new U.S. Customs director at the Port of Los Angeles. . . . On Thursday, Adams, above, speaks before Women in World Trade at the Holiday Inn-Irvine about the agency’s downsizing by the Clinton Administration. Says Patty Senecal, chairwoman of the Orange County chapter: “We deal with Customs a lot. It’s not often we get a chance to meet and size up the director for our region.”
REASON TO DIVE: Scuba divers love old shipwrecks. Which is why a group of local divers is working on a plan to find a ship--150 feet or so--to wreck off Crystal Cove, one of the county’s most scenic diving regions. First they need a donor, then they have to dive through government red tape for permission to sink it. But they say it’s worth the effort. . . . What’s the appeal of a ship on the ocean bottom? Says diver Troy Zerillo of Huntington Beach: “It’s the lure of the unknown.”
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