JIM DE BOOM -- Community & Clubs

TRIATHLON SUCCESSFUL: Club President Nancy Bell reports the Newport

Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club successfully staged the fourth annual

Pacific Coast Triathlon at Crystal Cove State Park in August. Bell

attributes the race’s success in part to the outstanding performance of

volunteers from such organizations as Boy Scout Troop 90; Laguna Beach

Police Explorers; Newport Harbor High and Corona del Mar High athletic

teams; Newport Outriggers; UC Irvine water polo; the Corona del Mar

Community Church, Congregational; and not to mention the tremendous

volunteer efforts from club members, along with its Key Clubbers and the

UCI Circle K sponsored youth.

In keeping with Kiwanis’ primary focus on youth, the main feature of

this year’s event was the first-ever CHOC Kids’ Triathlon, for kids 13

and younger. Families participated together in a relay with dads

performing one leg, moms another and kids the third leg. Twelve hundred

men, women and kids crossed the finish line. The race attracted some of

the best athletes in the sport, including the upcoming Julie Swail, UCI

water polo coach, who took first place in the Women’s Division. This win

could lead to Julie winning the silver medal in water polo on the U.S.

women’s team. Last year’s winner of the Pacific Coast Triathlon’s Women’s

Division, Michellie Jones, went on to win the silver medal at the 2000

Olympic Triathlon event in Australia.

This year, the local Kiwanis Club contributed $20,000 to local high

school athletic teams and various Kiwanis-sponsored youth programs:

Newport Harbor High School, Corona del Mar High School, Boy Scout Troop

90, Laguna Beach Police Explorers and UCI water polo. During its four

years of operation, the triathlon has made it possible for the club to

contribute $105,000 to the community.

THE NEW BALBOA BAY CLUB: Barbara and I were two of some 1,500

people who toured the new Balboa Bay Club Clubhouse on Sunday. The new

health and fitness facilities and programs offered are world class. The

new facilities will be open to members on Tuesday, after which the

demolition team will move in to remove the old health club facilities,

hotel rooms and ballroom and banquet facilities. Club President Henry

Schielein says the new hotel and banquet facilities will be ready in 18

months or so, when the club becomes once again the social center of

Newport Beach.

GOATHILL GO GETTERS: Karen Schwandt of the Mesa Goathill Go Getters

is chairwoman of the 4-H week committee, which will hold a 4-H Day Oct. 6

at Harbor Center, 2300 Harbor Blvd. From noon to 2 p.m., 4-H Club members

will display some of their various projects. Stop on by and learn more

about 4-H.

EXCHANGE INSTALLS OFFICERS: Don Lake was installed as president of

the 31-member Exchange Club of Orange Coast at a dinner held at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club. Serving with Lake are Tom Keyes, Shirley

Kohlmeier, Bob Jessen, Bob Scott, Teryl Scott, Leopold Vansteenkiste and

Jack Wilder. Exchange District President Dick Freeman had the honor of

inducting two new members.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: The Taste of Newport, now scheduled for Oct. 5-7

at Newport Center-Fashion Island needs volunteers to work four-hour

shifts. Volunteers will receive free admission to the Taste the day they

work and a Taste of Newport T-shirt. For more information or to

volunteer, call Melisa Hansen at (949) 729-4411.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SERVICE CLUBS: Dennis Garren and Marge

Chapman joined the Exchange Club of Orange Coast, and Robin Barnes,

sponsored by George Wines, joined the Costa Mesa Orange Coast Breakfast

Lions Club.

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK: Upset by what happened on Sept.

11? Want to make a difference in the world and our community? 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 Rob Williams on Guadalupe Canyon.

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 Exchange Club of the Orange Coast will meet at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club.

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

Corinthian Yacht for a reunion dinner and “Joke Off,” featuring Frank

Hall, Gordon Bowley, Jim Villers and Jack Connole (o7

https://www.newportbalboa.orgf7 ).

THURSDAY

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

Mimi’s Cafe for a business meeting.

Noon: The Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the Holiday Inn, 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 at the Irvine Marriott for a program by David Simpson on the future

of Orange County transportation (o7 https://www.nirotary.orgf7 ).

SATURDAY

6 p.m.: The Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach-Corona del Mar will meet at

the Santa Lucia Clubhouse for President Vance Thompson’s installation

dinner.

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

Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.