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.
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