Community & Clubs -- Jim de Boom

The 37th annual Orange County All-Star High School Boys and Girls

Basketball game will be held tonight at the Orange Coast College

gymnasium. The finest basketball players in Orange County will compete in

north and south teams for unsurpassed competition. The girls’ teams will

tip off at 5 p.m., while the boys’ will tip off at 8 p.m.

Ken Dilley, president of the Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club, which sponsors

the annual event, notes that more than $500,000 has been raised from the

event to support the Boys & Girls Club; Boy Scouts; CHOC, OCC, Golden

West and Vanguard University scholarship funds; the Salvation Army; and

the YMCA. Tournament Director Tom Lee looks back with pride on some of

the game alumni: Steve Beurlein, now quarterback with the Carolina

Panthers; Olivia DiCamilli, playing with San Diego State; Miles Simon,

who was the most valuable player of the college Final Four; and Dean

Garrett, who played with the Minnesota Timberwolves, to name a few.

Tickets are available at the gym door at game time.

GOLF FOR FISH: The fourth annual Golf Tournament to benefit

FISH, Friends In Service To Humanity of Newport Beach, will be held May

13 at Sea Cliff Country Club in Huntington Beach. The day will begin with

registration at 8:30 a.m., shotgun will follow at 10 a.m., lunch will be

on the course, and a silent auction and banquet will go from 4 to 6 p.m.

There are contests for hole in one, closest to the pin, longest drive and

most accurate driver.

FISH provides a range of services to families who barely make ends

meet: rental assistance, utility payments, food, child-care subsidies,

medical assistance and mobile meals for seniors. Golf is $195 a person

(this is a fund-raiser, remember) and more information may be obtained by

calling Mike Thompson at (949) 675-1775.

IRRELEVANT WEEK GOES TO THE UNDERDOGS: Irrelevant week, in

its 27th year, is a fun-filled week that honors the last person taken in

the NFL draft, which is being held this weekend in New York, while

raising funds for various charities in Southern California. Melanie

Salata Fitch, chief executive of I.W., is inviting service clubs to

nominate an underdog in their group for recognition during Irrelevant

Week. “This could be someone who chaired the annual fund-raiser, someone

who always volunteers with the cleanup jobs or who is always willing to

lend a helping hand. Someone who deserves to be honored but never seems

to receive the recognition,” she said.

Fitch is prepared to come to the club meeting to present the underdog

with a gift and recognition from Irrelevant Week and to invite them to

the Irrelevant Week Welcoming Reception. For more information, call Fitch

at (949) 263-1141.

LEADERSHIP TOMORROW: The Leadership Tomorrow, a training

program for those who want to become more involved in their community, is

now accepting applications for the next training class. Graduates of the

program have gone on to be city council members, serve on commissions and

provide leadership in a variety of community organizations in Costa Mesa,

Irvine and Newport Beach. The group will hold a special luncheon May 23

to introduce prospects to the program that meets once a month during the

year. You will be given the location of the luncheon when you make

reservations with Dee Dee at (949) 729-4410.

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

Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “A pessimist is one who makes

difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes

opportunities of his difficulties.”

-- Harry Truman

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK: Looking for a way to answer

President 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 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 for a program by Air Force Veterans on POW life

in the South Pacific.

WEDNESDAY:

7:15 a.m.: The 20-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet at

the Center Club (www.southcoastmetrorotary.org), 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 for the Book of Golden Deeds presentation.

5:30 p.m.: The 55-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear about the proposed joint

city-school district library at Mariners Park. (www.newportbalboa.org).

THURSDAY

7 a.m.: The 20-plus member Costa Mesa-Orange Coast Breakfast Lions

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

Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the Holiday

Inn (www.kiwanis.org/club/costamesa), the Newport Beach-Corona del Mar

Kiwanis Club will meet at the Laguna Niguel Club, the 80-member Exchange

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

hear from Judge Selim Franklin on Military History, and the 100-member

Newport-Irvine Rotary Club will meet at the Irvine Marriott for craft

talks (www.nirotary.org).

* 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.