JIM DE BOOM -- Community & Clubs

CHALLENGE TO DAILY READERS: Banker, police, doctor, lawyer, minister,

executive, secretary, clerk, reporter, college or high school student,

retiree, service club member, church member, or any other interested

resident who reads the Daily Pilot: We need you! Can you spare one hour a

week to help a child with literacy?

The Daily Pilot, the Rotary Clubs of Newport Balboa, Newport Irvine

and Newport Sunrise, as well as the Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith

Council, are supporting the Los Angeles Times’ Reading by 9 program. They

are seeking 2,001 volunteers to work with 2,001 students in kindergarten

through third-grade at Pomona, Whittier and Wilson elementary schools in

Costa Mesa.

The three schools have limited-English students who need help in

reading, writing and English.

Mentor sessions may be scheduled from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and after

school from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. New mentor orientation

will be held this week at each school.

To attend an orientation session or to volunteer, call a campus of

your choice:

* Pomona Elementary School -- 2051 Pomona Ave., Costa Mesa -- Jill

McWhertor, literacy leader, at (949) 515-6980;

* Whittier Elementary School -- 1800 N. Whittier Ave., Costa Mesa --

Sarah Markel, HOSTS program director, at (949) 515-6898;

* Wilson Elementary School -- 801 Wilson Ave., Costa Mesa -- Pam

Eastman, literacy leader, at (949) 515-6995;

* Shalimar Learning Center at the Soup Kitchen, at (949) 646-0396.

If you belong to a church or temple service club, or work at a

business, challenge your fellow employees to volunteer as a mentor. One

hour a week for the next 14 weeks. Use your lunch hour. Go before or

after work.

The need is urgent, the time is now. I am not asking you to do

anything that I am not doing. You can make a life-changing difference for

a child.

MILLION CHALLENGE: For the fourth year, Rhode Island philanthropist

Alan Shawn Feinstein is offering $1 million this spring to nonprofit,

anti-hunger agencies throughout the country. He will divide $1 million

among all those agencies using his offer to help them raise funds through

April 30. Each agency will get that proportion of his $1 million

representing their proportion of the total raised and reported to him in

response to this offer.

This challenge is an opportunity to increase the value of your

donation to the Share Our Selves food bank and help alleviate hunger in

Orange County. Share Our Selves’ volunteers distribute more than 200 bags

of groceries each day to the homeless, unemployed and working poor

families living in Orange County. Many local restaurants, bakeries,

grocery stores and caterers donate food that would otherwise be thrown

away. Share Our Selves buys fresh produce from local vendors and staples

from the Second Harvest Food Bank and the Community Development Corp. The

program is staffed by volunteers who pick up the food, order the food,

break down large quantities into family-size servings and bag the

groceries based on each individual’s or family’s needs.

Call Karen Harrington, Share Our Selves’ director of development, at

(949) 642-3451 for more information.

SEARCH FOR TALENT: There’ll be singin’ and dancin’ and playin’ of

instruments at the Oasis Senior Center in Corona del Mar when the

Exchange Club of Newport Harbor presents its “Search for Talent 2001,”

with the show starting at 6:30 p.m. The contest is open to kids 6 to 18,

and plaques will be awarded to winners in each of three age groups. These

winners will then be invited to compete at higher levels for bigger

prizes, and finally for $1,000. Entries must be received by Tuesday. For

entry forms or more information, call Deane Bottorf at (949) 673-8701.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SERVICE CLUBS -- Mark Doyle joined the

Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club.

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK: Does your New Year’s resolution

include getting more involved in your community, making new friends,

networking or giving something back to your community? Try a service

club. You are invited to attend a club meeting this week. Many clubs will

buy your first guest meal.

TUESDAY

7:30 a.m.: The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will meet at the

Newport Harbor Nautical Museum-Riverboat Restaurant.

6:30 p.m.: The Costa Mesa-Newport Harbor Lions Club will meet at the

Costa Mesa Golf and Country Club.

WEDNESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet at the Center

Club, and the Newport Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the University

Athletic Club.

Noon: The Orange Coast Exchange Club will meet at the Bahia Corinthian

Yacht Club for a business meeting.

6 p.m.: The Rotary Club of Newport Balboa will meet at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Kim Scheer of Southern California Edison

speak on the state’s energy crisis (o7 https://www.newportbalboa.orgf7

).

THURSDAY

7:30 a.m.: The Costa Mesa Orange Coast Breakfast Lions Club will meet

at Mimi’s Cafe to hear Bob Walker speak on photography and computers.

Noon: The Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa will meet at the Holiday Inn, the

Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club will meet at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club, the Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet at

the Riverboat Restaurant to hear John Crean give a talk titled “The

Building of Fleetwood Enterprises,” and the Newport Irvine Rotary Club

will meet at the Irvine Marriott Hotel for Craft Talks (o7

https://www.nirotary.orgf7 ).

* COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published every Saturday in the Daily Pilot.

Send your service club’s meeting information by fax to (949) 660-8667,

e-mail to jdeboom@aol.com or by mail to 2082 S.E. Bristol St., Suite 201,

Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.