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.