Mobile Meals drivers urgently needed

JIM DE BOOM

Friends In Service to Humanity provides meals to the homebound

Mondays through Fridays through its Mobile Meals service.

Historically, the faith community and Daily Pilot readers have become

volunteer drivers to deliver the meals to the Newport Beach and Costa

Mesa areas after they pick up the meals at Hoag Memorial Hospital

Presbyterian.

The Mobile Meals drivers scheduled for March has 82 vacancies.

March is just days away. This means there are 82 routes without

drivers. Can you offer 1 1/2 hours, from 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., for

just one day of your choice per month to deliver meals to those

unable to provide for themselves? Call the FISH Office, (949)

645-8050, and volunteer.

READ ACROSS AMERICA

There is still time to participate in “Read Across America,” a

program that focuses attention on how important it is to motivate

children to read. “Read Across America” is tied to the birth date of

Dr. Seuss, which is Tuesday, March 2. Perhaps you could organize your

office, church or temple, or club members to volunteer to read in a

classroom on Tuesday for 30 minutes, either in your local school or

at one of our three target schools for Read Newport-Mesa. To

participate in “Read Across America” at one of the three target

schools, call Pomona Elementary School at (949) 516-6980, Whittier

Elementary School at (949) 515-6990 or Wilson Elementary School at

(949) 5215-6995. Let’s make a difference, Pilot Readers.

LIONS GIVE FISH FRY PROCEEDS

“Our meeting of Feb. 24 has to be the night we, as Lions, have to

love the best. This was the night we gave out the proceeds from our

last Fish Fry, and to know we helped so many is worth every hour of

planning and working the Fish Fry,” said Costa Mesa Newport Harbor

Lions Club President Raul Jara. The following organizations received

funds from the Lions Club Costa Mesa: Historical Society, Project

Look, District 4L4 Sight and Hearing Foundation, Boys and Girls Club

of the Harbor Area, Estancia Baseball Boosters, Costa Mesa Baseball

Boosters, 4L4 Hearing and Speech Action Committee, Someone Cares Soup

Kitchen, Harbor Mesa Lions School Box Program, Save Our Youth, Youth

Employment Services, DARE, Blind Children’s Learning Center, Costa

Mesa United, Costa Mesa Senior Center, College Park Elementary, OC

Model Engineers Railroad Club, Shalimar Learning Center, NMUSD

Project Success, Costa Mesa National Little League and Costa Mesa

American Little League. Wow! That’s from just one event. Save the

dates of June 5 and 6 for the annual Lions Club Fish Fry at Lions

Park.

HARBOR MESA LIONS HONOR MEMBER

Harbor Mesa Lions recently honored member Arlene Schafer with the

Melvin Jones Fellow award for this year. Melvin Jones is the founder

of the Lions’ international organization and this award is the

highest recognition given to individuals by their club.

Congratulations, Arlene!

WORTH REPEATING

From the Thought for Today, provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport

Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council:

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it

will be too late.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK

MONDAY

6:30 p.m.: The Harbor Mesa Lions will have a bingo fundraiser at

the Costa Mesa Country Club. Following dinner, “Lucy and Ethyl’s

Bingo Parlor” will have members Schafer and Carol Van Holt conducting

the games, which will raise money to be donated to local charities.

TUESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The 40-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will

meet at Five Crowns Restaurant (https://www.newportbeach

sunriserotary.org).

6:30 p.m.: The Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club will meet at

the Costa Mesa Country Club for a business meeting

(https://www.geocities.com/

cmnhlions/page5.html)

WEDNESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The 10-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet

at the Center Club 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 for the induction of Jim Silva by past District

President Dick Freeman.

6 p.m.: The 50-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Dan Rogers of Goodwill

Industries. (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 for a program by Ray Stewart on Vision Enhancement

(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 Exchange Club

of Newport Harbor will meet at the Nautical Museum for a business

meeting (https://www.nhexchangeclub.com). The Rotary Club of Newport

Irvine will meet at the Atrium Hotel (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.