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THE CONNECTION: Residents of the foothills around...

By Jerry Hicks, Tom Hamilton and Helene Elliott

THE CONNECTION: Residents of the foothills around Lake Forest will likely be pleased with this morning’s ceremony on Portola Parkway: the opening of the $12.5-million, one-mile extension of the parkway, connecting it to El Toro Road. (B2) . . . Until today, the only major north-south route in that area was Trabuco Road. “A lot of people have been anxiously awaiting this day,” says one county official.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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