Our Laguna: Music festival quite the success about town

A businessman whose family were early settlers in Laguna, Boyd is in the third year of his third term on the council, the first one being in the 1970s.

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Ed Drollinger remembered

More than 200 of the late Ed Drollinger's friends and family members gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of the man who greeted everyone with a smile.

Drollinger's voice was the one Laguna Canyon Conservancy members heard each month reminding them of the dinner meeting.

"We hope to see you there," he would say. When you arrived he greeted you with that ever-present smile and thanks for attending.

"He always wanted people to be as happy as he was," Grandson Brian Conner said.

The service at the Neighborhood Congregational Church included a military salute by David Connell, Bob McIntosh and Don Hurlbut from American Legion Post 222.

Sande St. John organized the barbecue that followed the service. Among the volunteers: Kathryn Delpdew, Mike Soto, Carolyn Wood, Andy Wood, Donna Gee, Vikki and Nico Theris, Brian Sadler, Louise Buckley, Gayle Waite and chef John Keith.

Donations from the conservancy and the Exchange Club helped fund the barbecue. Wendy Potter, Cindy Bryne, Diane Valentino and Lee Breeding donated food. The White House provided the coffee.

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