OLMOS PERFECT: “Listen to me, world, I’m...

OLMOS PERFECT: “Listen to me, world, I’m proud of being brown! I was raised by a pair of hard-working Mexican parents who only came to this country to find more opportunities.” That’s from Sagrario Gil, 13, eighth-grader at Carr Intermediate in Santa Ana, chosen Wednesday by Opera Pacific as winner of its “Building Bridges” writing contest. . . . Her story of her family’s struggles will be turned into a children’s opera to be performed at Yost Theater in Santa Ana next April. Actor Edward James Olmos was on hand at ceremonies to congratulate her.

YES INDEEDEE: If you’re a baby boomer, there’s a good chance that Dick and Dee Dee, Paul and Paula, and Tommy Sands are a part of your adolescent history. And all will be at Super Crown in Brea on Saturday, plus other pop singers, to promote “The Rock & Roll Cookbook” (E2). It includes recipes from rockers of all generations. One such gem: Ozzy Osbourne’s Yorkshire pudding. Quips Dick St. John of Dick and Dee Dee: “You’d expect bat stew or something.”

NOVEL IDEA: Madison, the unborn son of Huntington Beach Library Director Ron Hayden and his wife Cindy, doesn’t arrive until February. But the Haydens are honoring him now, and helping the library too. . . . They’ve donated $10,000 to the new children’s wing of the city’s Central Library--scheduled to open in December. The money will go to construct a party room, to be called the “Maddy Room.” It’s so kids can celebrate birthday parties at the library. . . . Says Hayden: “It will be more literary than a pizza party.”

MARK & DAVID: Meanwhile, workers are rushing to finish up the 320-seat Library Theatre in the new children’s wing. That’s so actor David Birney can perform in Mark Twain’s “The Diaries of Adam and Eve” on Oct. 15, its inaugural, fund-raising event. Tickets are $75. For $25 more, you get a reception with Birney. A “pre-gala celebration” follows in the unfinished wing the next day.