Just in time to help burn off all those holiday season calories, Drenched OC has opened near the Fashion Island retail center in Newport Beach.

The fitness studio created by Angela Parretta brings together new and old Pilates methods in “heated reformer” classes.

Reform from eating delicious Danish butter cookies from Costco?

Alas, the technique involves working out with Pilates machines or on mats in a heated space, which helps you get “drenched,” working the heart, lungs and sweat glands along with various muscle groups.

Address: 230 Newport Center Drive. (The studio is in a building with an ocean view near the retail center and next to the Regal movie theater.)

For more information, go to drenchedoc.com, email info@drenchedoc.com or call 949-763-0904.

Tahari boutique opens at Citadel Outlets

More on the holidays, pivoting this time to shopping: The Elie Tahari fashion line has opened its third California location at the Citadel Outlets.

Yes, we know the Citadel is a bit outside of Orange County, but outlet shopping is sure to be hot this season with inflation over 7%.

At the Citadel store, Tahari shoppers can expect something of a curated experience. Similar to Amazon’s Wardrobe feature, “Signature Style” means a store associate will help a customer select garments and then ship them home. No changing rooms necessary!

The company is providing customers with three days to sample the clothes. Return shipping is free.

Tahari reps tell us the service can be either virtual or in-person.

The Tahari brand also has shops at Fashion Island in Newport Beach and at Santa Monica Place.

Address: 100 Citadel Drive, Unit 608.

Mergers

Costa Mesa-based Crisp Imaging has acquired Sacramento-based Century Graphics. No terms were provided on the sale. It’s Crisp’s fifth acquisition in 2022, bringing to seven the number of companies since 2021.

Century Graphics, a division of California Surveying and Drafting Supply, is a reprographics printing company founded in 1978. It has two locations in Sacramento and El Dorado Hills.

Coming up

The nonprofit Women’s Transitional Living Center in Fullerton is hosting an open house from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17.

Light refreshments will be served.

WTLC is in the process of building Hope House, a standalone home that will accommodate 16 to 20 survivors of domestic violence for up to 24 months at no cost to them.

Address: 201E. Amerige; RSVP to Elia Renteria at ERenteria@wtlc.org or call 714-992-1939, ext. 137.

On the move

Colleen Versteeg is the new CEO at Irvine-based Tilly’s Life Center, a nonprofit that supports teens’ mental health. She was executive director of Orange County Head Start for more than a decade.

Appointments

Gov. Gavin Newsom has made two interim judicial appointments to the Superior Court of Orange County.

Erin Rowe, 50, will serve in an interim appointment as a judge. She has served as a senior deputy district attorney and an assistant head of court at the Orange County District Attorney’s Office since 2020 since 1996.

Israel Claustro, 47, also is serving in an interim appointment as a judge. He has served as a senior deputy district attorney and an assistant head of court at the O.C. District Attorney’s Office since 2020.

On board

Newport Beach resident Lantz Bell, a founder at Bell & Brown Wealth Advisors on Balboa Island, has been named to the board of directors at the nonprofit NorthEast of the Well in Costa Mesa. The nonprofit’s mission is to “empower those caught in the cycles of addiction, abuse, incarceration and sexual exploitation/human trafficking.”

Dolores Salman has joined the board of directors of Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire. The nonprofit grants wishes for critically ill children. She is the global head of environmental, health and safety at Netflix.

The Newport Beach-based nonprofit CureDuchenne and Dana Estates raised more than $1.5 million to find and fund a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Hawken Miller, seen here, suffers from the disease. His parents, Paul and Debra, founded the nonprofit in 2002. (Courtesy of Matthew Morgan Photography)

Good works

The Newport Beach-based nonprofit CureDuchenne and Dana Estates raised more than $1.5 million to find and fund a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy during the eighth annual Napa in Newport at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point. To date, the event has helped raise more than $8 million for CureDuchenne. The genetic muscle disease in children is always fatal.

Milestones

City National Bank presented the fifth annual Harvesters Innovative Service Award to six nonprofits that get meals to at-risk Orange County residents. Recipients included Delhi Center, Friendly Center, Giving Children Hope, Orange County First Assembly of God, Someone Cares Soup Kitchen and the Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation. To help the nonprofits increase their capacity to fight food insecurity for families, Harvesters and Second Harvest contributed $50,000.

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Grants

California has granted $8.5 million for social entrepreneurship programs in north Orange County. State Sen. Josh Newman helped to secure the money for the NorthSTAR OC Collaborative. The group builds an ecosystem and pathways to business for underrepresented and under-resourced entrepreneurs. Programming will include a host of initiatives to help get startups off the ground including workshops, webinars, neighborhood centers, training, mentoring, counseling, incubation and early-stage capital investments.

City of Hope Orange County has received a $1.5 million grant from the Irvine Health Foundation to develop an information source for patients and physicians on cancer prevention, treatments and clinical trials. The Community Cancer Resource initiative will be among the nation’s first that curates information from experts and makes available local resources for cancer patients. The CCR program will be introduced in three phases: content development, community outreach and expanded access for community oncologists and other physicians.

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