Visit the new Balboa Village
JIM DE BOOM
Grab the family, hop in the car and drive to the new Balboa Village
on Balboa Peninsula between 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Sunday for La
Strada dell’ Arte, a festival of artists, entertainers and Italian
restaurants.
The main feature will be chalk artists, some 30 in number, who
will be making their creations on the black top Washington Street.
Other artists will be exhibiting their art on Main Street. The Plazza
de Bambini will be an area for your children to try their hands at
chalk art on the street.
There will be $5 gondola rides, mimes, dancers, Italian singers,
Renaissance battle reenactments, an Italian wine and beer garden, and
a Ristorante dell’ Arte with seven Newport Beach restaurants selling
tastes of their food.
The event is sponsored in part by the Olive Garden, the Daily
Pilot and the Los Angeles Times, to name a few, for the benefit of
the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum.
CASINO NIGHT COMING
The Harbor Mesa Lions’ seventh annual Viva Las Vegas casino night
fund-raiser will be held on Friday, Oct. 24, at the Costa Mesa
Neighborhood Community Center. The event will feature dinner by the
Newport Rib Company, a deejay, dancing, a silent auction and gaming
tables.
Tickets cost $30 and cover one drink ticket and $100 in playing
money. All funds raised will go to local charities and the Lions
Sight & Hearing Foundation. For information, call (714) 641-0664 or
(714) 545-6126.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY
What are you going to do on Saturday, Oct. 25, to make a
difference?
Created by USA WEEKEND magazine, Make A Difference Day is an
annual program that takes place on the fourth Saturday of October.
Make A Difference Day inspires and rewards volunteers by publicizing
their efforts.
For more information on Make a Difference Day or to enter your
club’s volunteer efforts visit https://www.usaweekend.com/
diffday/index.html.
GOING ON LINE
John Willis, editor of the Sons of the American Legion Chowline,
says in the October issue to their members:
“We all know the Internet is a bundle of information. But, did you
know that you could access this publication and the Seabreeze on the
Internet? Well, you can -- just go to https://www. al291.org. You will
find lots of great info and links to even more interesting sites. For
example, the Seabreeze has a captivating story from [World War II] on
the cover -- a must read.
“If you have e-mail capability you can receive this newsletter
before the mail, by providing your e-mail address to Jeff Kingsley at
kingfeet@primenet.com. The money we save on printing and postage will
go to charity projects instead. Currently, we are mailing out around
350 hard copies.”
FIND ANYTHING ONLINE
Andrew Pomeroy of Creative Continuum will present “Finding
Anything Online” to a meeting of Computer Friends of Oasis on
Wednesday at the Oasis Senior Center.
Pomeroy is senior support technician of a major multinational
manufacturing firm and is directly responsible for more than 300
computer systems, support, training and systems evaluation. He is
also the lead programmer for My Life Story, an initiative to find an
easy way to help people record their memoirs. Pomeroy’s repertoire
includes Web development, business development and marketing
research, and he has written two books on search engines and
genealogy.
The meeting begins at 1 p.m. with a question and answer session in
the Multipurpose Room. The Oasis Center is at the corner of
Marguerite Avenue and 5th Street in Corona del Mar. A $3 fee is
charged for visitors who are not members of Computer Friends.
POST-ELECTION ANALYSIS
Assemblyman John Campbell will provide an analysis of the Oct. 7
recall election at a special luncheon meeting of the Orange County
Coast Assn. being held at noon Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the Newport
Harbor Nautical Museum.
Campbell, the leading Assembly Republican in the budget
negotiations, will also provide an update on the recent legislative
session. Lunch is $20 for members, $22 for guests. Reservations can
be made by calling (714) 921-8865 or by sending an e-mail to
OCCoastAssoc@aol.com.
WORTH REPEATING
From the Thought for the Day provided by Greg Kelley of the
Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “One of the penalties for
refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed
by your inferiors.”
-- Plato
SERVICE CLUB
MEETINGS THIS WEEK
MONDAY
6:30 p.m.: The Harbor Mesa Lions will meet at the Costa Mesa
Country Club. The featured speaker will be Westside Boys & Girls Club
branch manager Dan Monahan.
TUESDAY
7: 30 a.m.: The 40-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will
meet at Five Crowns (https://newportbeach
sunriserotary.org/index.htm).
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 10-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet
at the Center Club (https://www.southcoastmetro rotary.org); and the
Newport Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the University Athletic
Club.
Noon: The Exchange Club of the Orange Coast will meet at the Bahia
Corinthian Yacht Club.
6 p.m.: The 50-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet the
Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to taste some samples from candy maker
Gino Marinelli (https://www.newport- balboa.org).
THURSDAY
7 a.m.: The 20-plus member Costa Mesa-Orange Costa Breakfast Lions
Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe.
Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the
Holiday Inn (https://www.kiwanis.org/ club/costamesa); the 50-member
Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach-Corona del Mar will meet at the Bahia
Corinthian Yacht Club; the 80-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor
will meet at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum to hear Mehdi Rohani
on the “Outlook for the Middle East”; and the Rotary Club of Newport
Irvine will meet at the Atrium Hotel to hear Murray Dempster,
president of Vanguard University, discuss “Ethics and Values in
Education” (https://www.nirotary.org).
* COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published Saturdays in the Daily Pilot.
Send your service club’s meeting information by e-mail to
jdeboom@aol.com.
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