Ready to raze the roof

GROUND BREAKING

After nearly three years of fund-raising and a protracted approval

and permitting process, the Orange County Council of the Boy Scouts

of America are at long last starting the much needed renovation of

the Sea Scout Base on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach. The new

Sea Base facility is a cooperative venture between the Boys Scouts of

America, Chapman University, the 1812 Privateer Lynx and its

supporting Defense of Freedom Foundation.

The groundbreaking ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m. on

Friday, with a reception and dinner hosted by Newport Beach resident

David Janes, rear admiral, USNR (retired) and chairman of the Sea

Base Executive Committee. Construction for the new facility will take

the better part of a year. For more information, call (714) 546-4990,

ext. 145.

FIRE AND LIFEGUARD

BEACH PARTY

The fifth annual Fire and Lifeguard Beach Party, sponsored by the

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

at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Newport Dunes Resort. More

than 350 people are expected to attend the beach party to honor the

brave men and women of the Newport Beach Fire and Lifeguard

department who aid us in emergencies each year, according to chairs

John Braeger, Marion Halfacre and Tim Quinn. The event will be

complete with a gourmet barbecue prepared by the chefs from the

Newport Dunes, live entertainment and short awards ceremony to honor

the Fire Fighter, Marine Safety Office and Seasonal Lifeguard of the

Year.

KEYS TO LITERACY

A book and author dinner, a benefit for Literacy Volunteers of

America, will be held on Thursday, Oct. 10, in the Plaza Ballroom at

the Hyatt Newporter and will feature authors Kelly Land, Jonathan

Fraser Light, David Rosenfelt and Meryl Sawyer, said Fay Bosler of

the Newport Beach Public Library Foundation. “All the money raised at

the event will be used to support the Newport Mesa Literacy

Volunteers,” she said. “Most people recognize the program as the

Newport Beach Public Library Program.” The event is sponsored by the

Fleur-de-lis Foundation and the Orange County Alumnae of Kappa Kappa

Gamma. The evening begins with a reception at 6 p.m. The dinner and

program is at 7 p.m., with the book signing afterward. Tickets at $75

each can be obtained by calling Bosler at (714) 549-2044.

WORTH REPEATING

From Greg Kelley of the Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council:

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of

life, when generally all that we need to make us really happy is

something to be enthusiastic about.” - Charles Kingsley

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS

THIS COMING WEEK:

TUESDAY

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

Crowns Restaurant.

6:30 p.m.: The Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club meets 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.southcoastmet rorotary.org) and the Newport

Harbor Kiwanis Club meets at the University Athletic Club.

Noon: The Soroptimist Club Newport Harbor meets at the Santa Ana

Country Club. The 35-member Exchange Club of the Orange Coast meets

at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a business meeting.

6 p.m.: the 55-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa meets at the

Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a program on full body scans

(www.newportbalboa.org).

THURSDAY

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

Club meets at Mimi’s Cafe to tour the Costa Mesa Police Department

Mobile Communications Vehicle.

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

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

Mar Kiwanis Club meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear

Dennis Hurley discuss “The Giving Principle”; the 80-member Exchange

Club of Newport Harbor meets at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum

for a business meeting; and the 100-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club

meets the Irvine Marriott Hotel to hear Lane Calvert discuss

“Exploring and Interact Clubs” (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,

Suite 201, Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.