Community & Clubs -- Jim de Boom

“An American In Love With His Country” will be the subject of the

award-winning presentation by nationally known poet James Bruce Joseph

Sievers at the fifth annual Interfaith National Day of Prayer breakfast

to be held at 7:15 a.m. Thursday at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal

Church in Corona del Mar and sponsored by the Newport-Mesa Irvine

Interfaith Council.

Participating in the program with Sievers will be former Costa Mesa

Mayor Peter Buffa, Costa Mesa Mayor Linda Dixon, the Rev. Karen Stoyanoff

of Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church, the Rev. Don Oliver of

Hoag Hospital, Imam Moustafa Qazwini of the Islamic Education Center of

Orange County, Rabbi Richard Steinberg of Congregation Shir Ha Ma’A lot,

the Rev. Barbara Stewart of St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, Msgr.

Daniel Murray of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Dennis Short

of Harbor Christian Church, Jaimie Day of Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints’ Newport Beach stake, Greg Kelly of the Ecumenical and

Inter-religious Affairs Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Orange, and

entertainer Jim Roberts, who will provide music and an inspirational

opening with “God Bless America” and concluding with the song “Let There

Be Peace on Earth.”

Tables for eight are available for $100. Sponsorship is available for

$100. Individual tickets are $12.50 per person, and reservations may by

made by calling (949) 660-8665, Ext. 3, sending an e-mail to o7

nmiinterfaith@aol.comf7 or by mailing your check made payable to NMIIC

to 2082 S.E. Bristol St., Suite 201, Newport Beach, CA 92660.

AN UNFORGETTABLE 24 HOURS

The Newport Harbor High School stadium will be the venue for hundreds

of spirited team walkers in the inaugural Newport Beach Relay For Life

event on May 17 and May 18. Be part of another Newport Beach first and

participate in the American Cancer Society’s Newport Beach Relay for Life

event. Members of the Newport Beach community are encouraged to get a

group of friends together to form a relay team and join in on 24 hours of

fun, excitement and an all-around good time -- all in an effort to raise

awareness and money in the fight against cancer.

The event will bring together friends, family, businesses, hospitals,

schools, churches and people from all walks of life. Team members are

encouraged to seek sponsorship before the race.

If you are a cancer survivor, you won’t want to miss the cancer

survivors’ lap, which will begin the event. This lap symbolizes the

courage survivors and their families display and sustain in their lives.

Participants will also have the opportunity to recognize loved ones with

the evening’s Mile of Hope luminaria ceremony, which will take place at

9:30 p.m. May 17. Lighted candle luminarias sold by volunteers will be

decorated with the names of cancer survivors and those lost to cancer.

Placed around the track, these candle luminarias will light the way for

all relay participants throughout the night.

The Newport Beach Relay For Life Event Committee, chaired by Newport

Beach City Manager Homer Bludau and local resident and cancer survivor

Pat Smith, has gained strong support from the community. In its first

year, two-time cancer survivor and Newport Beach Councilman Steven

Bromberg has been named as the event’s honorary cancer survivor. Local

celebrity Paul Salata is the Relay For Life honorary survivor chairman.

“Just about everyone’s life has been touched by cancer in some way,”

Bludau said. “We are fortunate and excited that Steve Bromberg and Paul

Salata have stepped forward as Newport Beach cancer survivors to give

this great cause both their support and their time.”

In Orange County, the money donated by the event will pay for such

vital services as free transportation to cancer therapy for patients;

free sickroom equipment; quality of life programs for patients and

families; training and assistance programs for prosthetics, makeup, wigs

and turbans; volunteer help lines for advice and information; and support

for ongoing research at UC Irvine and Hoag Hospital.

For more information regarding the inaugural Newport Beach Relay For

Life, call California Marketing Concepts at (949) 675-0501 or the

American Cancer Society at (949) 567-0634, or visit www.cancer.org.

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK:

TUESDAY

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

at Five Crowns Restaurant for a program by Don Winton on Israel.

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 a business meeting.

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

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Barry Baldwin discuss tugboat

operations in Long Beach Harbor (www.newportbalboa.org).

THURSDAY

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

Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe.

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 Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Brig.

Gen. Frank Quinlan of the Marine Corps Reserve on the war on terrorism,

the 80-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet at the Newport

Harbor Nautical Museum for a business meeting, the 100-member

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

talks (www.nirotary.org).

* 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.