Fish Fry makes its return today

Let’s welcome back the Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club Fish Fry,

which begins today and continues Sunday at Lions Park in Costa Mesa

at the corner of Rochester and Park Street, one block off Newport

Boulevard.

It’s a weekend of family fun with carnival rides, games of skill,

a wide variety of food booths, including fabulous Alaskan cod deep

fried in a special secret batter. There will be entertainment, a baby

contest and a whole lot. So after the morning of sports or going to

church, grab the family and enjoy a 57-year harbor area tradition,

the Lions Club Fish Fry.

HEISMAN AND

LOWSMAN TO MEET

Carson Palmer, Heisman Trophy winner, will share the spotlight

with Ryan Hoag, Lowsman Trophy winner, at the Orange County Youth

Sports Foundation Sports Banquet at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel on

June 26 as part of the Irrelevant Week XXVIII Celebration.

Palmer, the celebrated quarterback out of USC, the Heisman Trophy

winner and the No. 1 draft selection by the Cincinnati Bengals, will

be toasted along with the last choice, Hoag, Mr. Irrelevant XXVIII.

Hoag, a product of Gustavius Adolphus College in Minnesota, is a wide

receiver picked by the Oakland Raiders.

Among a star-studded list committed to the affair are former USC

quarterbacks Paul McDonald, Rodney Peete, Craig Fertig, Sean

Salisbury and Gordon Adams, as well as USC coach Pete Carroll, for

the first-ever Heisman-Lowsman banquet. Others, among a long list of

sports legends, are former baseball commissioner Peter Uberroth, Ben

Davidson, Sammy Lee, Gary Beban and master of ceremonies Paul Salata.

Individual tickets for the event, which begins with cocktails at 6

p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m., cost $150. Tables of 10 cost $1,500, and

corporate tables cost $2,500, which includes preferred seating, as

well as one seat at a private VIP luncheon at the Ritz Restaurant

with Carroll, and access to the pre-event Celebrity Lounge.

All proceeds are for the benefit of local Orange County youth and

youth sports programs. Ladies and gentlemen invited. No autographs,

please.

A reservation form and more information are available by

contacting Ken Purcell at (714) 800-3152 or by e-mail at

ocysf@cox.net. The Web site is www.ocysf.org.

WATCH OUT ON

THE GOLF COURSE

The last time I played 18 holes of golf was 10 years ago or so

with Daily Pilot Publisher Tom Johnson and then-editor Bill Lobdell

at Links at Monarch Beach. I gave up the game of golf shortly

thereafter when my golf score appeared in a box on the front page of

the Daily Pilot along with some interesting comments about my golfing

abilities, which were few to none.

Thanks to encouragement from the Rev. Dennis Short and fellow

Rotarian Wendell Sawyer, I have been for the past three months

playing nine holes of golf every other week or so. Two weeks ago, I

became one with my driver. Still haven’t figured out how to use the

wedge and putter yet, but will get there.

And thanks to my friend Richard Nyberg, on Monday, June 9, I will

play in a foursome at the fourth annual Good Shepherd Communities

Golf Tournament being held at Los Coyotes Country Club in Buena Park.

Good Shepherd Communities works with some 800 people with

developmental disabilities, including 125 in Orange County who live

in residential homes and supported living centers. It’s a worthy

cause.

It’s a 10 a.m. check-in and barbecue lunch, and then a noon

shotgun start and an awards banquet and dinner at 6 p.m., along with

a silent and live auction in the new clubhouse. The cost is $250 per

person. The hole-in-one contests feature a Ford expedition and BMW

Z4. It will be a day of fun. You can join us on the course by calling

Joyce Nyberg at (714) 593-7988.

RETIREMENT PARTY

There are still tickets available for Costa Mesa Police Chief Dave

Snowden’s retirement party being held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14,

at the Costa Mesa Hilton. The community will come together to

celebrate Snowden’s leadership, not only in law enforcement, but also

with Hoag Hospital, Girls Inc., Costa Mesa 900s, Boy Scouts and

Exploring, and a dozen other causes. For more information, contact

Doneen Westenhaver at (714) 754-5117.

SERVICE CLUB

MEETINGS THIS WEEK

TUESDAY

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

meet at Five Crowns (newportbeachsunriserotary.org/ index.htm).

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

Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for Youth of the Year from Dana Hills

High School.

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

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by Ambassadorial

Scholar Camrin Christensen on her studies in Russia

(www.newport-balboa.org).

THURSDAY

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

Club will meet at Mimi’s for a quick course on “Horse Race

Handicapping” by Lion Phil Hughes.

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

Holiday Inn; the 50-member Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club

will meet at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club (www.kiwanis.org/club/

costamesa); the 80-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet

at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum for a business meeting; and the

100-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club will meet at the Atrium Hotel

for the presentation of the Newport Beach Police Department Awards

(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.