JIM DE BOOM -- Community & Clubs

CURE FOR HOLIDAY BLUES: Would you like a cure for the Holiday

doldrums? FISH-Harbor Area, also known as Friends in Service to Humanity,

has a solution to get rid of the Holiday Blues. Adopt a family for

Christmas. You, your church, service club, business, school or family can

adopt a family. Call FISH and they will give you the name, sizes and ages

of the children and parents. You buy and wrap gifts, provide the

Christmas dinner and deliver it to the local family in need.

Don’t want to adopt a whole family but want to contribute? Buy a

turkey, canned food or a toy for a needy family. FISH needs hundreds of

turkeys, a thousand or so toys for boys and girls of all ages.

FISH needs Santa helpers to work with toy coordinators. The job

includes sorting and packing gifts for families. FISH needs drivers to

deliver the holiday food and gift packages. Or you can become a regular

Mobile Meal volunteer or sort groceries in the FISH garage. Get over the

holiday blues by giving the gift of yourself. Call Debby at (949)

645-8050.

CLUB NOTES: Art McIntosh notes that members of the Exchange Club of

Newport Harbor have purchased and sold more than $5,000 worth of

entertainment books this fall. Proceeds go to the club’s charities.

Members of the Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club

held a food drive in November to support Share Our Selves in making

Thanksgiving Baskets for the less fortunate. Rotarian Bob Silver is

coordinating the adoption of two FISH families for Christmas by the

Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa. Rotarian Dick Cooling is coordinating the

sale of Sees Candy for members of the Rotary Club of Newport Beach

Sunrise. The Newport Harbor-Costa Mesa Lions Club has committed to

support the Adopt-A-Social Worker program and Lion Joan Parks is

coordinating their efforts of collecting baby furniture and clothing.

Worth Repeating -- From “FISH in Focus” the publication of FISH-Harbor

Area -- “Someday is not a day of the week.”

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS COMING WEEK: Thankful for all your

blessings? Glad you live in the Harbor Area? Want to make a difference in

life of a youth or a troubled family here or abroad? Try helping your

community and the world through a service club. You are invited to attend

a club meeting this coming week to learn more about service clubs. You

will probably meet business and community leaders at the meeting. Most

clubs will buy your first meal for you as you get acquainted with them.

TUESDAY -- 7:30 a.m.: The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will meet

at Five Crowns Restaurant for a program by Professor Jess Atkins,

“Projects at the Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory”.

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 for a program by Dr. Ullrich on the ESA Food Bank.

6:00 p.m.: The Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club (o7 https://www.newportbalboa.orgf7 ).

THURSDAY -- 7:00 a.m.: The Costa Mesa-Orange Costa Breakfast Lions

Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe for its monthly business meeting.

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

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

Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by Cal State Fullerton business

professor Rada Bhattachary on “Business in Orange County,” the Exchange

Club of Newport Harbor will meet at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum

for a Ladies Day program by Dick Freeman on “What Really Happened to

Amelia Earhart” (o7 https://www.nhexchangeclub.comf7 ), the

Newport-Irvine Rotary Club will meet the Irvine Marriott for a program by

Richard Devylder on “How to work with Disabilities” (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, Suite 201,

Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.