Aids Service Foundation

The county's largest AIDS service group held an open house here this week to mark the official opening of its new South County branch office. "Our goal is to bring ourselves and our programs to those that need them, rather than having them have to come to us," said Patrick Jager, director of development for AIDS Service Foundation. "We do not want to have to make people who are ill go any more out of their way than they have to."

The event: The 14th annual Big Splash, an all-wet, all-volunteer musical spoof featuring lip-syncing and "un-synchronized" swimming to benefit the AIDS Services Foundation Orange County. The show took place Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in the backyard pool of the Laguna Beach home of ASF board members Al Roberts and Ken Jillson.

The event: Round-Up for Life IV, a hoedown featuring a chuck-wagon barbecue, line-dancing and midway rides, held on the Centennial Farm at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. The Saturday event benefited the AIDS Services Foundation, which helps local people living with AIDS. City slickers: More than 600 party-goers wearing cowboy boots and western shirts moseyed around the farm, eating barbecue, playing arcade games and dancing to the Sam Morrison Country-Western Band.

The event: Round-Up for Life IV, a hoedown featuring a chuck-wagon barbecue, line-dancing and midway rides, held on the Centennial Farm at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. The Saturday event benefited the AIDS Services Foundation, which helps local people living with AIDS. City slickers: More than 600 party-goers wearing cowboy boots and western shirts moseyed around the farm, eating barbecue, playing arcade games and dancing to the Sam Morrison Country-Western Band.

The Centennial Farm at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa was the scene of an old-fashioned hoedown to benefit the AIDS Services Foundation/Orange County. About 450 guests--many in fancy cowboy boots--attended the Round-Up for Life II barbecue and country-western dance Saturday. The $75-per-person outdoor dinner was expected to net about $80,000 for the Irvine-based foundation, which provides services to people with AIDS in Orange County.

Like any good personal trainer, Cort Corson offers his clients at the ASF office plenty of encouragement when they're working out. But he stops short of urging them to push their bodies beyond the limit with just a little more weight or a few more repetitions. He knows they're already pushing themselves as hard as they can. For some, that may mean traditional bodybuilding, increasing muscle mass by lifting progressively heavier weights. But for others, weights are out of the question.

The event: The 14th annual Big Splash, an all-wet, all-volunteer musical spoof featuring lip-syncing and "un-synchronized" swimming to benefit the AIDS Services Foundation Orange County. The show took place Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in the backyard pool of the Laguna Beach home of ASF board members Al Roberts and Ken Jillson.

There have been AIDS walks, AIDS shows, AIDS dinners, AIDS concerts, AIDS recordings and even AIDS auctions. But until this weekend, there has never been an AIDS "cablethon."

Giving to AIDS Foundation: A donation from 30 Minute Photos Etc. in Irvine will help 350 AIDS sufferers in Orange County enjoy a more pleasant Christmas. The photo developer contributed $5,250 to the AIDS Service Foundation to help pay for a Christmas basket program. The baskets contain merchandise and donations. "Because the AIDS crisis is so compelling, 30 Minute Photos Etc.

The Centennial Farm at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa was the scene of an old-fashioned hoedown to benefit the AIDS Services Foundation/Orange County. About 450 guests--many in fancy cowboy boots--attended the Round-Up for Life II barbecue and country-western dance Saturday. The $75-per-person outdoor dinner was expected to net about $80,000 for the Irvine-based foundation, which provides services to people with AIDS in Orange County.

The county's largest AIDS service group held an open house here this week to mark the official opening of its new South County branch office. "Our goal is to bring ourselves and our programs to those that need them, rather than having them have to come to us," said Patrick Jager, director of development for AIDS Service Foundation. "We do not want to have to make people who are ill go any more out of their way than they have to."

Like any good personal trainer, Cort Corson offers his clients at the ASF office plenty of encouragement when they're working out. But he stops short of urging them to push their bodies beyond the limit with just a little more weight or a few more repetitions. He knows they're already pushing themselves as hard as they can. For some, that may mean traditional bodybuilding, increasing muscle mass by lifting progressively heavier weights. But for others, weights are out of the question.

There have been AIDS walks, AIDS shows, AIDS dinners, AIDS concerts, AIDS recordings and even AIDS auctions. But until this weekend, there has never been an AIDS "cablethon."

Donald G. Hagan, 46, a physician who was forced to abandon his Orange County practice when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and then became a leading spokesman for equal rights for AIDS victims. Hagan, whose honors include awards from the AIDS Service Foundation of Orange County and the Orange County Human Relations Commission, was a specialist in family medicine who stopped practicing in 1988 but began to speak about AIDS to various groups, which he said "helped me keep my identity."

Longtime Disneyland employee Robert Ponce, who staged the theme park's Lion King Celebration, died this week after a long illness. He was 36. Ponce, whose last position was senior show director at the Disneyland Resort, died Tuesday at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach. Ponce started at Disneyland in 1979 as a performer in the Main Street Electrical Parade, a show for which he later served as director.