Kiwanis International offers individuals objectives to steer by

Founded in 1915 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Kiwanis

International is a thriving organization of service- and

community-minded individuals who support children and young adults

around the world. More than 500,000 Kiwanis-family members in more

than 80 countries make their mark by responding to the needs of their

communities and pooling their resources to address worldwide issues.

If the CEOs of Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia and the other companies

that have found themselves in trouble lately had followed the

“Kiwanis Objectives,” they wouldn’t be facing stiff jail terms, notes

Charles Markel, past president of the Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club and a

Realtor with Pacific Coast Realty Group.

The six permanent objectives were approved by Kiwanis club

delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver. They have remained

unchanged since. They are:

* to give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the

material values of life;

* to encourage the daily living of the golden rule in all human

relationships;

* to promote the adoption and the application of higher social,

business and professional standards;

* to develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent,

aggressive and serviceable citizenship;

* to provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form

enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build

better communities;

* to cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public

opinion and high idealism that make possible the increase of

righteousness, justice, patriotism and goodwill.

Wow! I wonder if the candidates for governor of California or even

our local city council candidates could live by the objectives of

Kiwanis in their campaigns in office? One would hope so.

RANCHO RENDEZVOUS

The Rotary Club of Newport Beach Sunrise will hold its annual

fund-raiser, Rancho Rendezvous, at the Village Crean at 6 p.m. Aug.

24. A live and silent auction, a raffle, a great dinner and dancing

will be featured. Proceeds from the $100-per-person ticket will

benefit local youth activities sponsored by the club. For more

information and tickets, call Price Shapiro at (714) 556-7161.

DRUMS IN PARADISE

Newport Beach residents Paige and Jay Kunkle, Donel and Bill

Wiles, and Debbie and Tom Newmeyer will be honored at the 10th annual

black-tie safari-attire gala Zoofari “Drums in Paradise” on Aug. 24

at the Santa Ana Zoo.

More than 400 guests are expected to enjoy fire jugglers, fortune

tellers, exotic dining and thirst-quenching jungle juice, live and

silent auctions, dancing to the Blue Machine and drumbeats from

Kishin Daiko of the Japanese Community Center and Jodaiko from UC

Irvine’s Drum Group, said dinner chair Sandy Pignone. Tickets at $150

per person are available by calling (714) 953-8555, Ext. 10. Proceeds

will benefit the upgrading of the existing animal habitats and

creating new exhibits.

DRIVERS NEEDED

The Mobile Meals program needs volunteer drivers to deliver meals

prepared by Hoag Hospital to shut-ins in Corona del Mar, Costa Mesa,

Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. You may volunteer once a week or

once a month between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Here is a chance to help

someone on your lunch hour. For more information or to volunteer,

call Friends in Service to Humanity at (949) 645-8050.

WELCOME TO THE

WORLD OF SERVICE CLUBS

John Robinson, sponsored by Dean Reavie, rejoined the Rotary Club

of Newport-Balboa.

WORTH REPEATING

From Greg Kelley of the Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council ...

“A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we

ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me

make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!” --

Thomas A. Kempis

SERVICE CLUB

MEETINGS THIS WEEK

MONDAY

6:30 p.m.: The Harbor Mesa Lions Club will meet at the Costa Mesa

Country Club. The featured speaker will be Officer Doug Williams of

the Orange County Search and Rescue Team with his dog, Taffy.

TUESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will meet at Five

Crowns Restaurant for the official visit of District Gov. Jim

Parsons.

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 (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 for a business meeting.

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

Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by me on Rotary International’s

Campaign to Eradicate Polio by 2005 (www.newportbalboa.org).

THURSDAY

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

Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe to hear Scott Paulson of the

Newport-Mesa Schools Foundation.

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

Holiday Inn (www.kiwanis.org/club/costa

mesa); the Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Al Williams on the San Diego

Chargers football team; the 80-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor

will meet at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum to hear Richard

Luehrs, president of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce, discuss

lawsuit abuse; and the 100-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club will

meet at the Irvine Marriott Hotel for the official visit of District

Gov. Jim Parsons (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.