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IRVINE — Eighty-hundred and fifty volunteers participated in a Just Serve event Saturday, May 20, packing 217,792 meals for those in need locally and globally, an organizer said.

The volunteers worked in assembly line fashion at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Irvine. The church partnered with the Power of Ten and Harvest Pack to host the event.

The church will ship 110,628 rice meals to the International Care Ministry in the Philippines and donate 107,304 oatmeal meals to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.

The Shir Ha-Ma-alot congregation of Irvine also participated in the event.

Laguna Niguel’s summer concert series returns on Friday, June 9 with a performance from Tommy Tassi and The Authentics.

The rock band, playing tunes from the 1950s, is the first of six to play at the Crown Valley Community Park through August.

The free concerts will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Entrance is free while food from Soho Taco and Cut Handcrafted Burgers is available for purchase.

Guests are urged to bring low chairs and blankets. A shuttle service is also offered from City Hall.

IF YOU GO

What: Tommy Tassi and The Authentics

When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 9

Where: Crown Valley Community Park, 29751 Crown Valley Parkway.

Information: cityoflagunaniguel.org

Live updates from Game 6 of the Ducks-Predators NHL Western Conference finals series. The Ducks trail in the best-of-seven series 3-2, going into the Monday 5 p.m. game (NBCS) in Nashville.

SANTA ANA The body of 17-year-old Aubreyanna Sade Parks was found by cyclists on a grassy curb in an upscale neighborhood of Yorba Linda just before 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 4, 2014.

She had been stabbed multiple times.

Police found her dragonfly charm necklace, a bloody box-cutter knife, and a severed finger of hers at the scene.

Hours later, a Yorba Linda man walked into an emergency room in Corona with a severe cut on his hand and a story that raised suspicions with the doctor.

Trial began in Orange County Superior Court on Monday for Larry Shoo Shin, 38, who is accused of luring Parks to Yorba Linda and stabbing the teenager to death as she fought for her life.

In his opening statement, Senior Deputy District Attorney Troy Pino said Parks was working as a prostitute when Shin lured her to a wealthy neighborhood where he did not live and pretended to be a rich man seeking company while his wife was out of a town.

When she arrived around 4 a.m. Shin stabbed her and left her body sprawled on the curb, Pino said. The prosecutor said Parks had more than 30 cuts and defensive wounds and had tried to fight back using her box cutter.

Shin suffered a severe gash to his hand in the bloody confrontation, Pino said. He tried to stop the bleeding at home but realized the cut was too deep and went to the Corona hospital, even though there was a hospital just five miles from his home in Yorba Linda, Pino said.

Pino said Shin told the doctor that he “fell on his knife,” but his story was suspicious so the doctor called police.

Police searched Shin’s Prius parked at the hospital and found a knife under the seat that had blood from both Shin and the victim, Pino said. In the Prius, police also found Parks’ cell phone with text messages from Shin shortly before the killing asking her to meet him outside, he said.

Pino said Parks sometimes used an alias, Keisha Clark.

In a possible motive, Pino said, Parks and Shin had dated about seven months prior to the killing, and Shin, whose family owned several ATM machines, had accused her of stealing $5,000 to $20,000 from him while he was loading one of the ATMs.

He had lured her to that neighborbood by pretending to be someone else, Pino said.

Shin at the time had called police and told them that his girlfriend, Keisha Clark, had stolen money from him, Pino said.

Pino said Parks’ mother, about a year ago, searched through her daughter’s belongings and found a fake ID with her daughter’s picture and the name Keisha Clark.

“She was not an angel, she had her issues like we all do – I’m asking you to hold (Shin) accountable for what he did,” Pino told the jury.

Shin’s defense attorney, Edward Welbourn, waived his option of giving an opening statement on Monday.

A former cheerleader at Peary Middle School in Gardena, Parks was a good student and aspiring attorney before she met a man that coerced her into prostitution, her family has said.

Santa Ana police had arrested Parks in a prostitution sting a month before her death, and her pimp, Marsalis Joseph Smith, also was caught in the crackdown.

Parks told officers she feared Smith would hurt her or her family if she didn’t do as he said. She was taken to a shelter but left days later.

Smith, who was in custody when Parks was killed, pleaded guilty in 2014 to human trafficking and making criminal threats. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

GREEN GAL: The Duchess of Cambridge took in a private tour of the Chelsea Flower Show held at the Royal Chelsea London Hospital on Monday.
She met with the floral show’s exhibitors and judges and viewed Northern Irish designer Ian Price’s “Mind Trap” garden, the Sir Simon Milton Foundation Garden and the M&G Garden 2017. The duchess was joined by Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice. The annual show is said to be a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
Kate Middleton donned a floral green printed Rochas midi dress.

The Duchess of Cambridge in Rochas. 
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This is the second time the duchess has attended to the annual flower show. Last year, she joined Prince William and Prince Harry, as the royals visited the floral arch that was designed for Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday at the venue, the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Over the weekend the young royal remained low-key during her sister Pippa Middleton’s wedding, which was held on Saturday. where she donned a custom-made, Forties-style midi dress by Alexander McQueen.
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ON DECK IN CANNES: For its fifth annual benefit, The Heart Fund will be counting on some generous people for this week’s fund-raiser in Cannes with Moncler founder Remo Ruffini being first in line.
The billionaire titan will be providing the location — his 180-foot motor superyacht “Atlante” — for Wednesday’s Generous People gala “The Big Blue” benefit, which is expected to attract 100 supporters. Leonardo DiCaprio, Inna Zobova, her filmmaker husband Bruno Aveillan and Eva Cavalli are among the 100 guests who have been invited to help children suffering from heart disease. Having had heart surgery as a child due to the fact that she was born with a hole in her heart, Zobova said she can relate to the ordeal that many youngsters around the world are dealing with. To share her success story, her husband made a short film for the nonprofit and photographer Peter Lindbergh shot Zobova with her scar clearly exposed for an awareness campaign for The Heart Fund. She said via e-mail Monday, “I wish with my example to spread an awareness in the world that someone who went through all this is not a handicap. I wish to see more people living happier, fuller

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ALL WHITE: While the president made his historic trip to the Western Wall Monday, First Lady Melania Trump and First Daughter Ivanka Trump made their way to the women’s section of the wall.
FLOTUS chose a Michael Kors Collection suit for the momentous photo-op, pairing the belted white jacket and slimming skirt with red and white Manolo Blahnik zebra-printed stilettos. The Trumps also visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Monday during what will be a 28-hour stay.
Earlier in the morning she and the President were greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. Sara Netanyahu reportedly told the First Lady “You know, in Israel all the people like us. The media hate us but the people love us,” according to The Times of Israel. The two women were expected to have more time to talk Monday night at a private dinner with the Netanyahus.
In the midst of a multiday trip in the Middle East — the first couple’s first official overseas journey — Monday’s trip to the Western Wall marked the first one by a sitting U.S. President.
The First Lady has worn Michael Kors on a few key occasions including for the start

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DJs and producers Alain Macklovitch, better known as A-Trak, and Nick Catchdubs founded Fool’s Gold, an independent record label, 10 years ago. At the time, they had no idea the business would evolve into a full lifestyle company that includes an apparel collection, a Beats 1 radio station on Apple Music, and an events company — Fool’s Gold is known for its one-day festival called Day Off, which takes place in multiple cities.
“I don’t think that when we first decided to start a record label we thought we would have a shop,” A-Trak said. “But we were always fans of labels that were consistent brands and the kind of labels you wanted to represent with your clothing. So everything has been a pretty natural progression.”
Fool’s Gold opened its first store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2011 but shut it down in November to focus on a new, larger space at 147 Grand Street. The shop, which was designed by Family New York, the architecture firm responsible for Off-White’s stores and the floating stage Kanye West performed on during his Saint Pablo Tour, is stocked with Fool’s Gold apparel and accessories along with vinyl records. And there’s a space in the store dedicated

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MILAN — The Italian trade show White is gearing up for its upcoming edition, announcing a series of partnerships during a press conference held on Monday. Running from June 17 to 19, the show will showcase contemporary men’s lines and a preview of women’s collections for a total of 300 brands confirmed, 50 more compared to the previous year.
Massimiliano Bizzi, founder of White, underscored the importance of having women’s previews at the fair. “Our show is made of women’s brands for more than 50 percent,” he said, adding that “right now, even contemporary labels need to show the collections earlier due to the restricted time of sales campaigns.”
“White has hit the target,” said Mario Boselli, honorary president of the Italian Chamber of Fashion. “[The show] responds to a real need of the market,” he added, highlighting the difference between the fair and the decision of some big players of the industry, who are similarly presenting both men’s and women’s collections at the same time, but during women’s fashion shows. “The timing of men’s shows in January and June is perfect…but now the men’s fashion week is weaker: We have the same number of shows but lost some [big names],” Boselli

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