Barry Chase was recently appointed executive...

Barry Chase was recently appointed executive vice president of

acquisitions at CT Realty Corp of Newport Beach ... Fred Ameri of

Newport Beach, and senior vice president of Irvine based RBF

Consulting, was recently elected chairman of the board of trustees

and the executive board of the World Affairs Council of Orange County

for 2004 ... Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan O. Bass son of Jeff and

Jeanine Bass of Costa Mesa recently completed the final phase of

training in aviation electronics at Oceana Naval Air Station, Va.

Bass is a 2002 graduate of Newport Harbor High School ... J.C Turner

of Corona del Mar High School recently presented raffle prize winner

Peggy Martin with a trip to Hawaii. Turner was the top raffle ticket

seller for the Corona del Mar cross country and track teams ... Ruth

Freeman, Julie Fredrickson, Jenna Boyd, Dana White, and Carole Thomas

of Newport Beach and David Gilbert of Corona del Mar recently

completed 30 hours of state mandated training to become Court

Appointed Special Advocates ... Amanda Fries of Costa Mesa and Lynne

Riddle of Newport Beach won second place for on-the-spot team feature

at the Journalism Assn. of Community Colleges’ Southern California

Conference. Fries and Riddle are part of OCC’s Coast Report student

newspaper ... Mike Billings and Matt Ballinger recently won first-

and second-prize awards in news writing at the Journalism Assn. of

Community Colleges’ Southern California Conference. Billings and

Ballinger are part of OCC’s Coast Report student newspaper ... Raquel

S-Saboor recently received honorable mention at the Journalism Assn.

of Community Colleges’ Southern California. S-Saboor is part of

Orange Coast College’s Coast Report student newspaper ... Gregory

Smith recently received honorable mention for his critical review at

the Journalism Assn. of Community Colleges’ Southern California.

* NEIGHBORS spotlights achievements in the community. Please

direct noteworthy information to Luis Pena by fax at (949) 646-4170,

or send e-mail to [email protected].