MAYOR REJECTS NOTION SHE PLANNED BREAKFAST.

Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS

Staff Writer

SANTA CLARITA -- While it has been advertised as the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast, the faith-based event is sort of between names.

Santa Clarita Mayor Marsha McLean, among the scheduled speakers, said Monday she wants to avoid the impression that it is her event, although she will be speaking at it.

So an apostrophe has been eliminated, and the event advertised as the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast has also been called the Mayors Prayer Breakfast -- politically correct, perhaps, but grammatically suspect.

"This is a breakfast put on by a business group, and I was invited to speak," McLean said. "Now this business group can invite whomever they wish and the content is up to them. I have nothing to do with it."

The description of the event as the "Mayors Prayer Breakfast" has been used in invitations under a "Mayor's Prayer Breakfast" letterhead. That is because it was too late to change the graphics on the letterhead, said organizer Joe Messina, a businessman with the Dunamis Group, a Christian organization.

McLean said the new name is meant to include mayors of other cities who participate in prayer breakfasts.

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