JIM DE BOOM -- Community & Clubs

BLUES ON THE BAY: The Sons of the American Legion Post 291 are

presenting the fourth annual Blues on the Bay concert, from 11 a.m. to 10

p.m. Aug. 25 at the post, 215 15th St., Newport Beach.

Performing will be Roy Gaines, “Big” Al Blake with Kirk “Eli”

Fletcher, Nick Curran and the Nitelifes, Jamie Wood and the Roadhouse

Rockets, The Slimtones, Nathan James and Costa Mesa Humor Kings, says

event chairman Fred Scott.

Scott notes that proceeds from the event, which have amounted to more

than $20,000 over the past three years, are reinvested into local

charities, including veteran groups, local schools, the Newport Beach

Police Department and a variety of youth activities.

The event’s Web site is o7 https://www.salbluesonthebay.comf7 and

includes complete event details and sound bites from the performing

artists. Don’t have Web access? Call (949) 673-5070 for tickets or (949)

675-SALS for information. Tickets are $20 for the all-day event. Food and

beverages can be purchased at the post. Enjoy a cool day on the bay.

LIONS PREPARE BACK TO SCHOOL TREAT: For the second year, members of

the Harbor Mesa Lions Club are decorating and filling dozens of shoe

boxes as welcome back to school gifts for first-graders at Whittier

Elementary School. Led by Joan Parks, Carol VanHolt, Ann McLlroy and

Eunice Thomason, club members have been collecting the shoe boxes,

covering them with decorations, adding pencils, pencil sharpeners,

erasers and other much needed schools supplies. The first day of school

is Sept. 4th, and the Lions will be at the Whittier Library handing out

the back-to-school treats to appreciative students.

DONATE VIA THE WEB: Children’s Hospital of Orange County now has

E-Giving at The Choc Shop at o7 https://www.choc.orgf7 . Jeffrey Wilcox,

executive director of the CHOC Foundation, notes donations can be made at

the Web site, on a secure server, to support and protect the health and

well-being of more than 100,000 children that the hospital serves each

year. At the Choc Shop site, visitors can also shop for child safety

products and CHOC branded “Bear Wear” with all the profits donated to

CHOC. Take a look.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SERVICE CLUBS: Kristine Drinovsky,

associate YMCA director, joined the Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis

Club.

WORTH REPEATING: From “Thought for the Day” provided by Greg Kelley

of the Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “Most of us can, if we

choose, make this world either a prison or a palace.” -- Lord Avebury

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK: Who did you help this week? Don’t

have an answer for that question? Try helping your community and the

world through 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 Five

Crowns Restaurant for a program by Kathy Hayes of the Orange County Child

Abuse Prevention Center.

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

Monahan’s.

WEDNESDAY

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

Club (o7 https://www.southcoastmetrorotary.orgf7 ), and the Newport

Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the University Athletic Club.

Noon: Amigos Viejos will meet at the Newport Beach Country Club, the

Orange Coast Exchange Club will meet at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club

to hear Don Riggs and Dan Melehan discuss the effect of the current

administration on the stock market.

5:30 p.m.: The Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club to hear business executive David Brown discuss the

business of politics (o7 https://www.newportbalboa.orgf7 ).

THURSDAY

7 a.m.: The Costa Mesa-Orange Costa Breakfast Lions Club will meet at

Mimi’s Cafe for a presentation by Jim Francisco of the Orange County

Vector Control on fire ants, killer bees and other harmful critters.

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

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

Corinthian Yacht Club for a report by Wally Paulson on the Cal-Nev-Ha

Convention, the Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet at the Newport

Harbor Nautical Museum for a program by Bob Tracy on Ansel Adams’

photography and life, the Newport Irvine Rotary Club will meet at the

Irvine Marriott for the Great Debate on the future of El Toro by W.A.

Bloomer and Jack Wagner (o7 https://www.nirotary.orgf7 ).

* COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published Saturdays in the Daily Pilot. Send

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

to o7 jdeboom@aol.comf7 or by mail to 2082 S.E. Bristol St., Suite

201, Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.