A chance to adopt a family for the holidays
JIM DE BOOM
Get in the spirit and adopt a needy family for the holidays. You,
your family or even your office can adopt a family for Thanksgiving,
Christmas or both.
You can adopt a needy family by contacting Serving People In Need
(SPIN), Friends in Service to Humanity (F.I.S.H.) of Harbor Area or
Share our Selves (SOS). All three groups have dozens of local
families that would benefit from the adoption, families that they
have worked with throughout the year.
“The Thanksgiving adoption involves the ‘adopters’ providing
groceries for a traditional meal, including a turkey or a store
voucher to purchase the turkey, yams and/or potatoes, cranberry
jelly, stuffing, vegetables, fruit, nuts, pie and a disposable
roasting pan,” said Anne-Marie Vercueil, SPIN’s case manager.
The Christmas adoption involves providing food and gifts for the
needy family -- adults and children. In most cases, you get to
present your Thanksgiving meal or Christmas gifts to the family
itself.
Contact SPIN at (714) 751-1101, ext. 105; FISH at (949) 645-8050;
and SOS at (949) 642-3451.
Tell them you are a Daily Pilot reader and want to adopt a family.
You will make a difference!
HEARTS AND HANDS DAY
More than 500 youth and adults from more than two dozen
congregations and service clubs will come together on Saturday, Nov.
22, for the Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council Hearts and Hands
“Hands On” Service Day, said Jaimie Day, the council’s vice
president.
There will be projects for Families Forward, SOS, Islamic Relief,
Child Help U.S.A., Adopt a Social Worker, Someone Cares Soup Kitchen,
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, FISH, Vineyard Storehouse,
Threads of Love, LDS Humanitarian Services, Newport Beach Public
Library, South Coast Children’s and Orange County Police Departments.
All are welcome to join in the fun of hands-on service. There are
projects for just about every age group and experience level. High
school students can get Newport-Mesa Unified School District service
hours for their participation. To volunteer, contact Day at (949)
642-9460 or by e-mail at jaimieday@yahoo.com.
GIVE THANKS TOGETHER
The Newport-Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council invites the community
to an Interfaith Celebration of Thanksgiving on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 4
p.m. at Harbor Christian Church.
The Rev. Dennis Short, pastor at Harbor Christian Church and the
council’s president, will be joined by Rabbi Marc Rubenstein of
Temple Isaiah and Imam Moustafa Al-Qazwini of the Islamic Education
Center of Orange County in a service of thanksgiving, praise and
music. Those attending are asked to bring two cans of food to be
shared with SOS, Families Forward and FISH.
WORTH REPEATING
From Thought for the Day provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport
Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council:
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good
example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will
make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
-- FRANCIS MAITLAND
BALFOUR
Embryologist
SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS
THIS WEEK
MONDAY
6:30 p.m.: Harbor Mesa Lions Club will meet at Golden Garden
Restaurant in Costa Mesa.
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 Rotary Club of Newport Balboa will meet at the Bahia
Corinthian Yacht Club to hear past district Gov. Price Shapiro
discuss the Rotary Foundation (https://www.newportbalboa.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 to hear Vic Taylor of the California Highway
Patrol; the Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet at the Newport
Harbor Nautical Museum; and the Rotary Club of Newport Irvine will
meet at the Atrium Hotel to hear Bill Habermehl, Orange County
superintendent of schools (https://www.nirotary.org).
* COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published Saturdays in the Daily Pilot.
Send your service club’s meeting information by fax to (714) 921-8655
or by e-mail to jdeboom@ aol.com.
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