Los Alamitos Race Course officials are in preliminary meetings this month with the city of Cypress to expand the track and barn area to accommodate thoroughbred racing set possibly for early next year.

“It’s a 50-50 percent chance that Los Al will host thoroughbred racing. We’ll know quite a bit more in the next 30 days as to if this will move forward,” Track Consultant Brad McKinzie said.

“We don’t’ know even if we are going to apply for permits. This project is still a proposal,” McKinzie said.

It was mostly for service credits that Rebecca Roberts took up tutoring while she was a student at Long Beach City College. But that simple act of volunteering her time caused a light to go off in her head.

In his State of the County address, Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach highlighted a local real estate market that is on the upswing, but noted that there are still several “torpedoes” that the county must avoid in getting the economy back on track.

Moorlach spoke to a filled banquet room at the Old Ranch Country Club on Feb. 7, noting that after a three year drop in sales tax revenue in the county, figures show that in 2010-11 there was a 6.5 percent increase in tax revenue for the county.

It was truly a stellar evening for parents and community members who gathered for the inaugural youth volunteer awards, “A Night Among the Stars” on Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Youth Center in Los Alamitos.

In his State of the county Address, Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach highlighted a local real estate market that is on the upswing, but noted that there are still several torpedoes that the county must avoid in getting the economy back on track.