MILLENNIUM MOMENT

The changing face of the West Side is being shaped by the efforts of

Costa Mesa resident Manfredo Lespier, president of the the Latino

Business Council and a leading force in the group Unity Through

Diversity, which holds conferences to discuss local race relations.

A board member of the National Hispanic Bar Association and the Southern

California regional president of the group, Lespier moved to this area in

1976 to play water polo at UC Irvine. He stuck around to raise his

children with his wife, Jean, a graduate of Estancia High School.

* MILLENNIUM MOMENT celebrates the people who have made a major

contribution to the Newport-Mesa community during this century.