SEEING MIRACLES: Since birth, 54-year-old Sarah Binford,...

SEEING MIRACLES: Since birth, 54-year-old Sarah Binford, a nurse at Chapman General Hospital in Orange, has been blind in her right eye from cataracts. And her whole life she was told that nothing could be done. . . . But Orange ophthalmologist Christopher Lyon persuaded her to let him try the latest technology. Results: “It was quite dramatic,” he says. “She sat right up on the operating table and yelled, ‘I can see! I can see!’ ” Says Binford: “I was so scared. But Dr. Lyon was so positive, I knew I had to try.”

FOR MEN ONLY: The new Colorado Silver Bullets women’s pro baseball team will play only men’s teams--mostly college and semipros--in its upcoming 30-game schedule. Says a spokeswoman: “We plan to beat them, too.” Nearly 50 women have been invited to this week’s tryouts in Florida, including K.C. Clark of Costa Mesa and Stacy J. Sunny of Huntington Beach. Only 20 will make the team. Says Clark: “We clap for each other. But we really want to make this team.”

NAKED WAX: Filmmaker David Zucker (“Airplane!,” “Naked Gun”) spoke here three years ago about the resistance he encountered when he wanted to cast straight-faced actor Leslie Nielsen in his comedies: “Our embarrassed casting director said, ‘Leslie Nielsen?’ ” . . . . Now the third in the “Naked Gun” series will be released, and Nielsen, above, now 68, will be on hand when a statue of his detective character is unveiled during ceremonies Friday at Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park.

DORIS’ DAY: The League of California Cities’ Orange County Division has selected its first “Legislator of the Year,” and the winner is . . . Assemblywoman Doris Allen (R-Cypress). She was selected for her “consistent support for local government” and her opposition last year to efforts in Sacramento to drain city property tax revenue, league officials say. . . . “I feel good about it,” Allen says. “My cities know I’ve done a lot of things for them, from getting parks to you name it.”