Community & Clubs -- Jim De Boom
Jim De Boom
Starting your own business? Looking for ways to strengthen your new
business? Elmer Biggerstaff, president of the Rotary Club of
Newport-Balboa has announced that the club has just initiated a free
community service project just for you.
Members of the Rotary Club have joined together to offer complimentary
e-mail and phone coaching to start up and existing business owners as
they engage in the free business course offered on the Internet. The
project is focused on helping beginning and new businesses be as
successful as possible so they can avoid the mistakes that lead to
failure and bankruptcy. The Small Business Administration continues to
report that 90% of the businesses started fail within the first five
years, half of these in the first year.
“Our goal as a service club, in offering this complimentary ‘My Own
Business’ coaching support program, is to help our community gain and
maintain strong, healthy businesses through coaching business owners in
ways that help them avoid costly mistakes and make more profitable
decisions,” Biggerstaff said.
Millard MacAdam heads up the Rotary Club business coaching team of
Biggerstaff, Chad Brown, Jim de Boom, Roger Gilbert, Hal Gray, Roger
McGonegal, Richard Oberreiter, Edward Rennie, Wendell Sawyer and Stephen
Speer.
To gain more information about the course, how to enroll and how to
access complimentary business coaching, visit the Rotary Club Web site at
o7 www.newportbalboa.org.f7 Click on the link on the main page to
information about the “My Own Business” course and complimentary coaching
from the Newport-Balboa Rotary Club members. Here you will find
information about the content of the free course, the Rotary Club
coaching process and the backgrounds and specialties of each Rotary
coach.
ATHLETES OF THE MONTH: Members of the Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa
saluted the Athletes of the Month from Estancia and Costa Mesa high
schools. Kiwanian Charles Markel introduced boys’ soccer player Rolondo
Vivar and his coach Steve Crenshaw, girls’ soccer player Erica Plietez
and coach Tom Williams from Estancia High School and girls’ water polo
player Candice Carpenter, wrestling team member Benedick David and coach
Rich Buonarigo from Costa Mesa High School.
FLAG PRESENTATION: On Friday March 1, the Harbor Mesa Lions Club
presented the “Lion’s Flag Day” program to the third-graders at Whittier
Elementary School. Each student received a small flag from the club.
Representing the club were Joan Parks, Marianne Allen, Myrta Sparks and
Carol Van Holt.
NEWPORT CENTER TOASTMASTERS: If you are a morning person, get a
jump-start on your Monday at 6:55 a.m. The Newport Center Toastmasters
Club has openings for five men or women to fill to its maximum of 30
members. This club is unique because it provides a free video recording
of each speech you give, documenting your achievements. You will be a
welcome guest on this or any Monday at 610 Newport Center Dr. in the
ground floor conference room. Park in the structure just South of San
Joaquin Hills Road and North of the Building entrance. For more
information, call April Buchner at 714-423-8025
WORTH REPEATING: From Thought for the Day by Greg Kelley of the
Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council. “The truly rich person is not the
one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.” -- Mother Teresa
SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS COMING WEEK: Looking for a way to answer
President George W. Bush’s call to donate 4,000 hours in service to your
neighbors and country as we try to make America a better place to live?
Try helping your community through a service club. You are invited to
attend a club meeting this coming week to learn more about service clubs.
Most clubs will buy your first meal for you as you get acquainted with
them. Here is this week’s meeting schedule:
TUESDAY
7:30 a.m.: The 40-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will meet
at Five Crowns Restaurant to hear Gordon Bricken discuss Community
Service Opportunities
6:30 p.m.: The Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club will meet at the
Costa Mesa Country Club.
WEDNESDAY
7:15 a.m.: The 20-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet at
the Center Club (o7 www.southcoastmetrorotary.orgf7 ) and the Newport
Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the University Athletic Club.
Noon: The 35-member Exchange Club of the Orange Coast will meet at the
Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Tom Schiel on Antique Autos.
6 p.m.: The 60-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at the
Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by Past District Governor Mike
Darnold on Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. (o7 www.newportbalboa.orgf7
).
THURSDAY
7 p.m.: The 20-plus member Costa Mesa-Orange Costa Breakfast Lions
Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe for a program on “New Library Concepts.”
Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the Holiday
Inn (o7 www.kiwanis.org/club/costamesaf7 ), the Newport Beach-Corona
del Mar Kiwanis Club will meet at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear
Greg Schwenk, director of the Newport Beach Film Festival, the 80-member
Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet at the Newport Harbor Nautical
Museum to hear Ted Trueblood on “Inside Afghanistan.” (o7
www.nhexchangeclub.comf7 ), the 100-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club
will meet at the Irvine Marriott to hear Orange County Sheriff Mike
Carona. (o7 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.
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