Easy Rider and Plan A Ride

 Welcome to the Village’s wonderful fixed-route bus transportation system, The Easy Rider and your bus reservation system, Plan-A-Ride! Getting around Laguna Wood Village is as easy as stepping on one of the community’s private buses. Our bus system provides transportation throughout the community and to nearby shopping centers, restaurants, churches, and medical facilities. Both Easy Rider and Plan A Ride buses adhere to ADA requirements and can accommodate wheelchairs and walkers. Weekly destination shopping is provided on Tuesdays to stores that are not available on scheduled routes. The Recreation Department offers monthly excursions utilizing the Easy Rider for Residents to enjoy museums, festivals, concerts and sporting events.

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Marjorie Kinney is a “plein air impressionist”, as the French say.  We say, “an outdoor artist.”  The full palette of oil colors transcend her joyful spirit and the “I want to be there” response.

Favorite subjects are coastal landscapes, flowers, mountain scenes, and abstract expressionism. She has painted for over 31 years with oils and acrylics.

Marge paints landscape and seascape oil paintings near Laguna Beach, Dana Point, Newport Beach, Balboa Island, Monterey, Carmel, Lake Tahoe, San Diego and throughout the Southern California, Orange County region.

Her full palette of romantic colors speaks for the picturesque days she spends painting “en plein air,” the French word for painting on location.

Marge’s paintings are often likened to Monet or other famous impressionists who also painted en plein air, however the symphony of bright colors in her painting style is derived from the way light waves cross the Mediterranean belt which extends across Southern California skies.

Marge exhibits at the nationally famous, juried Art A Fair Festival and The Balboa Island Art Walk of Fine Art.

The Art-A-Fair Festival runs from June through August at 777 Laguna Canyon Rd. in gorgeous Laguna Beach, CA. It is located just two blocks from the main beach and ocean and is across the street from the Festival of the Arts and adjacent to the Sawdust Festival. There are 130 top artists who exhibit at the Art-A-Fair Festival from all over the world.

The Balboa Island Art Walk takes place in May along Bay Front Ave, on Balboa Island, in Newport Beach, CA.
The Balboa Island Art Walk features fine art with approximately 100 artists from the local region. It is a great show!

Marge teaches over 60 art lessons on YouTube videos.  Her channel has over 900,000 views and 3,200,000 minutes of guests from 94 countries learning from her art demonstrations. Check out her YouTube Channel at:
www.youtube.com/c/margekinney .

Exhibitions and Licenses

• Art-A-Fair Festival, open each July-August; Laguna Beach, CA, 25 years; Balboa Island Art Walk in May
• La Quinta Art Festival, La Quinta, CA, Desert Plein Air Invitational, Sawdust Winter Festival
• Guest artist at the House of the Americas and Museum for Women Artists in Washington, D.C.
• Pimpernel Ltd. UK -licensed 12 images for world distribution in 21 countries.
• Churchill Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Since 1992 Marge has appeared at South Orange County Hotels to conduct Art Classes, Art Tours and to provide Interactive Art at opening night receptions. They include The Ritz Carlton, Montage, St.Regis, Pelican Hill, Marriott Cliffs and Huntington Beach Resorts.

Marjorie Kinney was formerly in corporate business for many years and served for many years on two Fortune 50 Boards of Directors. She has an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Artist Statement

Picasso said, ” The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to share it”.
For years I have sought out new ways of expressing my natural restlessness.  Painting has been a mainstay of my activities for 31 years.  I am still passionate about painting coastal landscapes and find traveling to new coves or seascapes stimulating. I try different styles, particularly contemporary abstracts, but return to landscapes as my main interest. She has four grown sons.

Over 200 Corporate Clients include:
American Association of Construction Lawyers; Biotech, 3M, Marsh-McLennon, Sun Microsystems, Lenox, Pharmacia, Parke-Davis, Steel Services Assn., Bank of Canada, National Assn. of Broadcasters, Produce Marketing Assn, Renaissance, Marriott, Merck, Pfizer, Financial Network, Fujikawa,. Volvo, B of A, Biotech companies, to name just a few.

University Of California Irvine 90+ Study

They are called “the oldest old.” They are people age 90 and above, and they are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population. Now a landmark study of thousands of members of Laguna Woods Village is revealing factors that may contribute to living longer. Some of the findings are no surprise — smoking led to shorter lifespans, while those who exercised lived longer. Other findings were unexpected — vitamins did not prolong life, but carrying some extra weight did.

Dr. Claudia Kawas of the University of California, Irvine, found the research equivalent of a gold mine when she discovered that 14,000 residents of a retirement community formerly known as “Leisure World” (now Laguna Woods) had filled out detailed questionnaires about their diet, activities, vitamin intake, and medical history back in the early 1980s. With $6 million from the National Institutes of Health, she and her staff took those 14,000 files and began a research project called “90+.” Who had died and when? Who was still alive and over 90? They were able to locate and sign up 1,600 of those 90-plussers, as they call them, many still living at Laguna Woods. Each is examined physically and cognitively every six months.

“People who exercised definitely lived longer than people who didn’t exercise. As little as 15 minutes a day on average made a difference,” says Dr. Kawas. Keeping active in non-physical ways, such as socializing, playing board games, and attending book clubs, also was associated with longer life. “For every hour you spent doing activities in 1981, you increased your longevity, and the benefit of those things never leveled off,”

Kawas says that being obese at any age is unhealthy. However, she found that older people who were moderately overweight or average weight lived longer than people who were underweight. “It’s not good to be skinny when you’re old,” Dr. Kawas says.

Vitamins didn’t seem to affect longevity, but alcohol intake did, with people who drank up to two drinks per day having a 10-15 percent reduced risk of death compared to non-drinkers. “A lot of people like to say it’s only red wine. In our hands it didn’t seem to matter,” says Dr. Kawas.

One of the biggest surprises so far in the study is that 40 percent of the time, what seemed to be Alzheimer’s disease in people over 90 actually wasn’t. The researchers learned this by studying the brains of the subjects after death; many showed evidence of microscopic strokes. Kawas says she hasn’t yet figured out what caused the strokes, so she can’t say how to prevent them.