Community & Clubs -- Jim de Boom
More than 300 Costa Mesa Girl Scouts will salute the community’s
“Hometown Heroes” today at the annual Costa Mesa Girl Scout camp-out at
the Orange County Fairgrounds. Girls from 6 to 18, from 40 Costa
Mesa-based troops, are attending the event, which will celebrate the
organizations that serve the Costa Mesa community. The camp-out began
Friday and runs through Sunday.
A flag-retiring ceremony was held Friday evening, celebrating
America’s most important symbol and starting a weekend of activities that
will not only honor the men and women who serve Costa Mesas but inform
the girls about the services they provide and ways they can be helped.
This morning’s events focus on the organizations that provide
essential services. Representatives of the Costa Mesa Police and Fire
departments, Mesa Consolidated Water District, Costa Mesa Sanitary
District and Southern California Edison will participate.
This afternoon, charities and service organizations will participate
in a service organization fair, where girls will learn about the
activities of these charities and the ways Girl Scouts can help them
achieve the organization’s goals. Girls will not only acquire
information, they will help the participating organizations directly.
Projects will include making hygiene kits for Serving People In Need,
“Buddy Bags” for the Red Cross and individual soup packages for Someone
Cares Soup Kitchen. Girls are bringing books to donate to the Orange
Coast Interfaith Shelter.
Participating service organizations include Someone Cares Soup
Kitchen, Share Our Selves, Friends in Service to Humanity, ReLeaf Costa
Mesa, Costa Mesa Laubach, American Red Cross, Mothers Against Drunk
Driving, SPIN, Youth Employment Service, Project Cuddle and the Costa
Mesa Literacy Council.
For more information, call Carol Hamilton, Costa Mesa Girl Scout Assn.
chairwoman, at (949) 646-8512 or Margaret Rutledge at (7140 646-5687.
PATRIOTIC EVENT:
Residents from Costa Mesa and Newport Beach are invited to join in a
special kickoff to Memorial Day weekend at 11 a.m. on Friday at the bell
tower at Newport Harbor High School. Students and adults will honor in a
special ceremony the 36 Harbor alumni who gave their lives in service to
their country. The invitation is extended by program coordinators Phil
D’Agostino, U.S. history teacher at Newport Harbor High School, and
George Grupe III, a retired military pilot, historian and patriot.
American Legion Post 291 will display a large American flag, the Costa
Mesa Fire Department Color and Honor Guard will present the colors, and a
21-gun salute will be part of the ceremonies. Last year, more than 200
adults and hundreds of students began their Memorial Day weekend with
their presence at this special ceremony. You are invited to join them
this Friday as well.
SPAGHETTI BINGO NIGHT:
The Costa Mesa Orange Coast Breakfast Lions Club will hold its Second
annual Spaghetti Dinner and Bingo Night on May 25 at the Costa Mesa
Woman’s Club. Proceeds from the event will be used to support the club’s
community activities. Club Vice President George Wines has sold 25
tickets by himself, and other members are selling tickets and passing out
fliers advertising the event. You may order your tickets from Wines by
calling (714) 434-1749.
CLUB NOTES:
Members of the Exchange Club of the Orange Coast passed the hat at a
recent meeting and raised more than $100 to buy diapers for the Adopt A
Social Worker program. Member Tom Keyes got the job to purchase and
deliver the diapers to the program’s center.
WORTH REPEATING:
From the “Thought for the Day” provided by Greg Kelley of the
Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “Your greatness is measured by
your kindness -- Your education and intellect by your modesty -- Your
ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices -- Your real
caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for
others.”
-- William J. H. Boetcker
SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK:
MONDAY
6 p.m. The Harbor Mesa Lions Club will meet at Zubies Restaurant.
TUESDAY:
7:30 a.m.: The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will meet at Five
Crowns to hear Lisa Murphy of the Orange County Sanitation District.
6:30 p.m.: The Costa Mesa-Newport Harbor Lions Club will meet at 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 for a program by Santa Ana High School
students.
6 p.m.: The Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at the Bahia
Corinthian Yacht Club for a presentation of the city of Newport Beach
Track Meet Awards.
THURSDAY
7 a.m.: The 20-plus-member Costa Mesa-Orange Coast Breakfast Lions
Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe to plan for their May 25 Spaghetti Dinner
and Bingo Party to be held at the Costa Mesa Women’s Club.
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, the
80-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet at the Newport Harbor
Nautical Museum for the presentation of the Youth of the Year awards by
Gary Eckles, and the 100-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club will meet at
the Irvine Marriott Hotel to hear Eric Winternute discuss “the chemical
world” (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 o7 jdeboom@aol.comf7 or by mail to 2082 S.E. Bristol St., Suite
201, Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.
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