Community & Clubs -- Jim de Boom

POLICE APPRECIATION BREAKFAST: There may still be a few tickets left

for the 31st annual Police Appreciation Breakfast to be held at 7:30 a.m.

Thursday at the Sutton Place Hotel. The breakfast, sponsored by the

Commodores Club of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce, will honor the

outstanding efforts of the Newport Beach Police Department in making our

community a great place in which to live, work and play.

Many of Newport Beach’s front-line officers and their families will be

in attendance as they accept the appreciation of the community. For

ticket availability call the Chamber of Commerce at (949) 729-4400.

TALENT ABOUNDS: The Rotary Club of Newport Balboa enjoyed the singing

talent of eight students from Corona del Mar and Newport Harbor high

schools who participated in a singing contest with the four winners

advancing to the regional finals and possibly to the District 5320 finals

to be held at UC Irvine.

The contestants were Jeannie Herbst, Corona del Mar High; Martin

Glyer, Corona del Mar High; David McMahan, Newport Harbor High; Tara

Rybarski, Newport Harbor High; and Josh Westover, Newport Harbor High who

won the Male Musical Theater category; Alessandra Hass, Corona del Mar

High winner of the Female Classical category; Zarah Mahler, Newport

Harbor High winner of the Female Musical Theater category; and Mike

McLean, Newport Harbor High winner of the Male Classical category. Kevin

Weed served as the accompanist for the students while Newport Harbor High

teacher Gail Brower-Nedler proudly looked on.

Serving as judges were Warren Lortie, choir member, and Rodger

Whitten, minister of music, Corona del Mar Community Church,

Congregational; Gerry Long, a musician and former college music

professor; and Jan McKibbon, pianist and music director for the Rotary

Club. Wendell Sawyer, the Rotarian who coordinated the event, said the

judges had no easy task and they took almost 20 minutes to make their

decisions.

SUNRISE ROTARY BRIGHTENS THE DAY: At a recent Newport Beach Sunrise

Rotary Club meeting, President Tom Birch called on Willis Longyear, who

presented a club check to Bill Mountford of the Boy Scout Seas Base for

$3,000 to purchase a much-needed digital projector for the base. At the

same meeting, member Syd Lucas, together with Fred Hernandez and Mike

Bradford, presented Sue Goldberger, technology supervisor for Monte Vista

Back Bay High School, a check for $2,000 to purchase books for the

reading program. Lucas noted that the funds for the books came from the

Fountain of Youth coin collections at Fashion Island.

SCIENCE FAIR JUDGES: Twenty members of the Exchange Club of Newport

Harbor will serve as judges at the annual Science Fair to be held at

Anderson Elementary School on Tuesday. Some 85 students will enter

projects that will be judged during the fair.

SONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION: Sons of The American Legion will hold its

annual Child Welfare Dinner/Dance on Saturday, March 23. This year, along

with the always great buffet and many great raffle prizes, Sons of the

American Legion member Jack Lillycrop’s nine-piece band will be playing.

Tickets, at $20 per person, are available at the Legion office or call

Scott Cullings at 714-285-9400.

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

Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “Hold yourself responsible for a

higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself -- and be lenient to

everybody else.” -- Henry Ward Beecher

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:

MONDAY

6 p.m.: The Harbor Mesa Lions Club will meet at Zubies Restaurant.

TUESDAY

7:30 a.m.: The 40-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will meet

at Five Crowns Restaurant to hear John Brainerd on membership

development.

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 Newport Beach City Councilman Steve

Bromberg.

6 p.m.: The 60-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at the

Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a Craft Talk by Greg Clayton (o7

www.newportbalboa.orgf7 ).

6:30 p.m.: The 20-plus member Costa Mesa-Orange Costa Breakfast Lions

Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe for a “Ladies Night Social.”

THURSDAY

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 for a

Circle K Takeover; the 80-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will

meet at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum to hear Laird Hayes, NFL

referee, discuss “Inside the NFL” (o7 www.nhexchangeclub.comf7 ); the

100-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club meets the Irvine Marriott to hear

Exchange Student Chris Larson from Sweden (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 jdeboom@aol.com or by mail to 2082 S.E. Bristol, Suite 201, Newport

Beach, CA 92660-1740.