Mayor’s breakfast set for Thursday morning The...

Mayor’s breakfast set for Thursday morning

The Orange Coast Christian Outreach will host its 39th annual

Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Thursday.

The event, featuring mayors from several Orange County cities, was

patterned after the original National Prayer Breakfast in Washington,

D.C., which was started in 1952 by leaders in the U.S. Senate and

House of Representatives and is still held every year.

Newport Beach Mayor Steve Bromberg will be honored at Wednesday’s

event when he will also present a city proclamation recognizing the

event.

The breakfast costs $25 per person or $250 for a table of 10 and

will be held at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel, 900 Newport Center

Drive. Information: (949) 219-5358.

Group meeting targets preparedness

Mesa Verde Community, Inc., a nonprofit community organization,

will hold its general meeting from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, March

19 at the Mesa Verde United Methodist Church, 1701 Baker St. in Costa

Mesa.

Keynote speakers Fire Chief James Ellis and Costa Mesa Police

Captain Tom Warnack will give a special presentation on disaster

preparedness and discuss how the Fire and Police departments are

working together to protect the citizens of Costa Mesa in the event

of a disaster. They will also talk about what residents can do in

their homes to prepare and protect themselves should rescue crews be

unable to get to them promptly.

The Costa Mesa Fire Department’s new Mesa Squad 85 fire engine

will be on display before the meeting. This meeting is free of charge

and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Former Daily Pilot photographer to speak

Former Daily Pilot photographer Lee Payne will accompany a slide

show with a personal account of 32 years of photojournalism in the

Harbor Area at an event on March 27 at the Central Newport Beach

Public Library.

The program, titled “Have Camera, Will Shoot,” incorporates 80 of

the Balboa Peninsula resident’s photos and a look at 30 years of

local history through the eyes and lens of the award-winning

photojournalist.

Payne joined the Pilot in 1961 after graduating from USC with a

degree in cinematography. He served as the Pilot’s chief photographer

for nearly three decades and won several awards from the Orange

County Press Club, the California Newspaper Publishers Assn., the

Associated Press and the National Press Photographers Assn.

Payne also taught photojournalism at Orange Coast College and Cal

State Fullerton. He is the author of two books, “Getting Started in

Photojournalism” and “Lighter than Air: An Illustrated History of the

Airship.”

The program will begin at 7 p.m. March 27 at the main library at

1000 Avocado Ave.