A free chance to help out ‘America’s Service Club’

If your New Year’s resolutions include getting more involved in

the community, you might want to try the Exchange Club’s “Stand Up

for America” program, which offers a free 90-day trial membership in

a local club without further obligation. You only pay for your meals

when you attend the meetings during the 90-day period.

Exchange is known as “America’s Service Club,” with its patriotic

emphasis, support of police and fire departments and promotion of

patriotism in schools and public places.

Men and women are invited to visit the Exchange Club of the Orange

Coast, which meets at noon on Wednesdays at the Bahia Corinthian

Yacht Club, 1601 Bayside Drive in Corona del Mar. It’s still a

men-only group at the Exchange Club of Newport Harbor, which meets at

the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum on Thursdays at noon.

For more information on Exchange, call Orange Coast president Tom

Keyes at (714) 342-1232 or Newport Harbor president Rick Harris at

(949) 642-22479.

REACHING OUT

The Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club is reaching out to the community

-- those who own boats and those who don’t, those who belong to clubs

and those who don’t -- with a twice-monthly series of education

programs, club member William Long says. Jay Carson is coordinating

the programs for the yacht club.

Last week, there were programs on sailing and boating information

on Avalon. This week’s program, at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the club, will

provide an update on the Catalina Conservancy and what it means to

visitors to the island.

There is no charge to attend. The yacht club is at 1601 Bayside

Drive, Corona del Mar. More information can be obtained by calling

Long at (949) 644-9530 or Carson at (949) 515-8348.

UFOs FROM THE BLACK VAULT?

The nonprofit MUFON of Orange County will host the entrepreneurial

founder of the Web site “The Black Vault,” John Greenewald Jr., this

Wednesday. He is author of the revealing new book “Beyond UFO

Secrecy” and will share some of the most dramatic discoveries he has

made in his relentless pursuit of secret government documents that

demonstrate a continuing cover-up and the depth of the government’s

accumulated knowledge of, and intense interest in, the UFO

phenomenon.

The talk will be at 7:30 p.m. at the community center at 1845 Park

Avenue, Costa Mesa. Information: (714) 520-4UFO.

ANNUAL SISTER CITY MEETING

The Newport Beach Sister City Assn. will hold its annual meeting,

which includes the election of officers and directors, on Thursday,

Jan. 30, at the Newport Beach Yacht Club, said Sid Stokes, the

group’s president. Newport Beach Mayor Steve Bromberg will be the

guest speaker. The Sister City Assn. is responsible for Sister City

programs in Japan, France and Mexico.

Dinner is $35 per person. Reservations, due by Jan. 24, can be

made by calling Sally Nockold at (949) 644-6105.

WORTH REPEATING

From “Thought for the Day,” provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport

Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “Happiness, grief, joy, sadness, are

by nature contagious. Bring your health and your strength to the weak

and sickly, and so you will be of use to them. Give them, not your

weakness, but your energy, so you will revive and lift them up. Life

alone can rekindle life.”

-- Henri-Frederic Amiel

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS COMING WEEK

MONDAY

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

Zubies Restaurant.

TUESDAY

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

meet at Five Crowns for a program by Jana Barbier on “The arts in our

community.”

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.southcoastmetro

rotary.org); and the Newport Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the

University Athletic Club.

Noon: The 40-member Exchange Club of the Orange Coast will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Len Wayne on “Humor in Your

Heart.” The 35-member Soroptimist International of Newport Harbor

meets at the Santa Ana Country Club.

6 p.m.: The 60-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Pam Jones, director of the

Orange County Special Olympics.

THURSDAY

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

Club will meet for a program on the California Indian Center by Paula

Starr.

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

Holiday Inn (www.kiwanis.org/club/ costamesa); the 50-member Newport

Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club will meet at the Bahia Corinthian

Yacht Club to hear Cathy Montaague of St. Joseph Health System; the

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

Harbor Nautical Museum to hear Karen Harrington of Share Our Selves;

and the 100-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club will meet at the Irvine

Marriott Hotel for a program on the Newport Beach Fire Department

(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.