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A massive 2010 earthquake in Haiti and her own dangerous heart condition served as motivation for nurse Angela Howell-Edgerly to help others.
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ngela Howell-Edgerly was a nurse at Hoag Hospital in January 2010 when the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Trained to save people’s lives, she watched helplessly as the TV news reported that tens of thousands were dying a world away. She decided to do something about it. Howell-Edgerly was struck by how many of the earthquake’s survivors appeared without shoes in the reports. So she organized a massive shoe drive for the victims. Three years later, she returned to Haiti with her 9-yearold son, Dylan, to teach CPR at a Port-au-Prince orphanage. It wasn’t her first time helping people a world away. NO STRANGER TO THE WORLD’S ILLS
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Angela Howell-Edgerly, center, traveled to Haiti in August to teach CPR and deliver an automated external defibrillator to a Port-au-Prince orphanage.
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The need is great. It can be overwhelming. But I also think that one person can do something to help.”
Howell-Edgerly, now 43, came to the United States in 1990 at 20 years old from her native England with $300 in her pocket and a place to stay with a cousin in California. Within four days, she landed a job as a live-in nanny in Irvine.
ANGELA H O W E L L - E D G E R LY CEO OF RESCUE HEART F O U N D AT I O N
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Angela Howell-Edgerly Lives in: Costa Mesa Hometown: Kings Norton, outside Birmingham, U.K. Age: 43 Occupation: Nurse, volunteer, and founder and CEO of Rescue Heart Foundation Family: Husband Chris Edgerly; son Dylan; two cats, Sugar and Spice; and two dogs, Roxy and Rosie
Volunteers plan to count homeless Olympic volleyballers make in Costa Mesa early and quickly new friends and go for gold Organizers say strategy increases tally’s accuracy. At
light today, volunteers will spread out across the city, each assigned to 1 square ANTONIE mile. The BOESSENKOOL task: to REGISTER count the WRITER number of homeless people in Costa Mesa.
April Ross, left, and Kerri Walsh Jennings celebrate after a point at an Association of Volleyball Professionals event this season.
Rivals in 2012, April Ross, Kerri Walsh Jennings are on same team for Rio in 2016.
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FILE PHOTO: SAM GANGWER, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Volunteer Julie Dunbar interviews homeless people in Costa Mesa during the annual count in 20 1 2. This year’s tally, scheduled for today, will not involve interviews.
It’s the fifth annual count by Vanguard University’s sociology program and professor Ed Clarke, and the third year the Churches Consortium, a group of area churches, has teamed up with Clarke for the count.
In the past couple of weeks, they have held training sessions to teach volunteers how to ensure that all of the city is covered. The survey defines S E E C O U N T ● PA G E 4
BY JEREMY BALAN ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
April Ross went through a whirlwind of emotions on the sand of a London beach volleyball court in August 2012. First, there was disappointment at the height of her professional career. Ross and her partner, Jennifer Kessy, had just lost the Olympic gold-medal match
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to the legendary duo of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings. Secondly was the pride in realizing that even in a loss,
she had just won her first Olympic medal. Then came a bombshell. S E E R O S S ● PA G E 1 6
INSIDE TODAY’S CURRENT REHEARING REJECTED
RETAIL FOR RAIN FORESTS
Costa Mesa City Council votes against another hearing on Fairview Park construction. SEE STORY ON PAGE 3
Newport Beach company seeks to use retail to save endangered ecosystems. SEE STORY ON PAGE 8
STUART PALLEY, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
COACH’S INSIGHT Five questions with Newport Harbor tennis coach Kristin Case. SEE STORY ON PAGE 1 8
EUGENE GARCIA, THE REGISTER