JIM DE BOOM -- Community & Clubs

WALK FOR PEACE: World peace advocates of all ages are invited to join

in the Orange County Peace Walk/Peace Jam 2001, which will take place

Sept. 22 at Triangle Square. The event is being held in celebration of

the United Nations’ International Day of Peace.

Walkers will gather on the upper level of Triangle Square at 11:30

a.m. for opening festivities featuring remarks by Costa Mesa Mayor Libby

Cowan and Councilwoman Linda Dixon. Native American Geeta Sacred Song of

Orange County, who is an international peace shaman known as Peace

Mother, will then lead participants in a ceremony to officially begin the

Peace Walk. Doves will be released into the air, and rose petals will be

scattered as walkers begin circling Triangle Square, carrying banners,

chanting, singing and playing musical instruments.

After the Peace Walk, local musicians will provide live entertainment

until 4 p.m. The entertainment lineup for the event will include And the

Angels Sing, an eight-person El Cajon-based vocal group; Brian Taraz, a

Garden Grove gospel rock singer-guitarist; Orange Coast Unitarian

Universalist Church Choir of Costa Mesa, under the direction of music

director Adriana Lopez-Young; Evren Ozan, an 8-year-old Native American

flutist from Laguna Beach; Theresa Padua, a Los Angeles-based flutist,

drummer and singer; Global Peace Vibrations, an Orange Coast-based

instrumental group featuring instruments from global traditions,

including the didgeridoo and Native American drums.

In addition to the musical entertainment, the local Orange County

United Nations will give out free UNICEF trick or treat boxes,

participating nonprofit groups will host displays, and a raffle will be

held for prizes.

Local community and faith-based organizations in charge of planning

the event are the Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council, Bahais of Costa

Mesa and Huntington Beach, Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church,

Amnesty International, United Nations Assn., NAACP and the Center for

Peace and Healing. Chairs of the organizing committee are Lane Calvert of

the Bahais of Costa Mesa and the Rev. Karen Stoyanoff of the Orange Coast

Unitarian Universalist Church.

People or groups interested in taking part in the Orange County Peace

Walk/Peace Jam should call Stoyanoff at (949) 646-4652. No entry fee is

required. For more information about the event, log onto o7

https://www.ocuuc.orgf7 and click on the Orange County Peace Walk/Peace

Jam 2001 logo.

FREE LUNCH: The Retired Public Employees Assn. of California, Newport

Beach Chapter, will hold its quarterly meeting at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 8 at

Zubie’s Chicken Coop, 414 Old Newport Blvd., Newport Beach. The lunch is

free to all members and prospective members. Speakers will be Chuck

Valdes and Kurato Shimada, candidates for the PERS board. Reservations

are a must and may be made by calling Marian Perris at (949) 548-1316.

FREE BACKPACKS: The Zonta Club of Newport Harbor has been busy buying

and filling backpacks for 150 fifth-graders at Oakview Elementary School

in Huntington Beach. The backpacks were presented at a ceremony Friday

with students, parents and teachers in attendance.

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

the Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “My grandfather once told me

that there are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who

take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was

much less competition.” Indira Ghandi, the late prime minister of India.

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.

MONDAY

6 p.m.: Harbor Mesa Lions will meet at the Costa Mesa Golf and

Country.

TUESDAY

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

Crowns Restaurant for the official visit by District 5320 Governor Rod

Eide.

6 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 (o7 https://www.southcoastmetrorotary.orgf7 ) 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 program by Norman Ewers titled “Why We Must Have El

Toro.”

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

Corinthian Yacht Club (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 club President Irwin Kinney titled

“Alaskan Cruise and Site Seeing Expedition.”

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 for a Ladies Day program featuring club chef Rob

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

Harbor Nautical Museum for a business meeting, and the Newport Irvine

Rotary Club will meet the Irvine Marriott for a program by Ron Hodge

titled “The Art of Soaring” https://(o7 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.