Exchange Club honors top officers

JIM DE BOOM

The Police Officers of the Year were honored by the Exchange Club of

Newport Harbor at a recent luncheon organized by member Bill Bechtel.

Newport Beach Police Capt. Paul Henisey introduced Officer of the

Year Det. Rich Bradley, who is also the department’s training officer

in the use of force. Bill Hartford was introduced as Supervisor of

the Year for the Newport Beach Police Department. Hartford deals with

sex offenses. Costa Mesa Police Chief John Hensley introduced Julie

Beckman, Officer of the Year who is in charge of recruitment and

training for the department. Paul Beckman, husband of Julie Beckman,

was named Supervisor of the Year. Paul is a homicide investigator and

an expert in speech analysis. The Exchange Club presented each

officer with a plaque recognizing their award. Congratulations.

SOROPTIMISTS INSTALL NEW OFFICERS

Diane Ashe has been installed as president of the Soroptimist

International of Newport Harbor, replacing Katherine Flores, whose

served as president this year. Serving with Ashe are Carolyn Turner

and Rosalinda Lopez, vice presidents; Denise Glass, treasurer; Sally

Brocket, assistant treasurer; Casey Shea, secretary; and Soulah

Warshauer and Kathy Flores, directors. The Soroptimist Club, the

world’s largest women’s-service club, meets at noon on the second and

fourth Wednesdays of the month at the Santa Ana Country Club. For

more information about the club, contact Flores at (949) 756-0353.

LIONS OFFICERS INSTALLED

The Harbor Mesa Lions Club held its installation of new officers

for 2004-05 at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Harry Sparkes on Saturday.

District Governor Elect Barbara Hayward officiated at the

installation of the following: Immediate Past President Joan Parks,

President Sandi Scheafer, 1st Vice President Carol Van Holt, 2nd Vice

President Arlene Schafer, Secretary Karen Lamas, Treasurer Marianne

Segalla, Bulletin Editor Jennifer Kelder, Tail Twister Maureen

Coffey, Lion Tamer Myrta Sparkes, and directors Ann McIlroy, Eunice

Thomason, Patty Mueller, Gina Stansbury, Janie Harris and Bernice

Ellis. The Harbor Mesa Lions Club meets twice a month for dinner.

Barbara Hayward, Harbor Mesa Lions member, will be officially

installed as District 4-L4 governor at the Lions International

Convention in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, July 5 through 9. This

convention is attended by Lions Club members from more than 100

countries and is one of the largest annual gatherings of its kind in

the world.

Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club member Mike Scheafer, who is

a current Costa Mesa City Council member, served as Lions District

4-L4 governor in 1997-98. One has to give a lot of time, talent and

treasure to become a service club governor. Congratulations are in

order for Barbara Hayward. For more information about the Harbor Mesa

Lions Club, contact Carol Van Holt at (714) 962-0265.

HUMAN RELATIONS PICNIC

The Costa Mesa Human Relations Committee is sponsoring the third

annual community picnic from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Fairview Park,

2525 Placentia Ave. at the entrance next to Estancia High School.

“Each and every resident of Costa Mesa is invited, and we are

hoping to bring together the diversity of Costa Mesa,” said Sue

Smith, Human Relations Committee member. Bring your own picnic lunch

and blanket, and the Human Relations Committee will provide

children’s activities and entertainment. For more information contact

Mirna Burciaga at (714) 435-0944.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SERVICE CLUBS

Richard Carroll, classification, real estate, residential,

sponsored by Bob Smith, who joined the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa.

WORTH REPEATING

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

Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “Where I was born and where and how I

have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have

been that should be of interest.”

-- GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS

THIS WEEK

TUESDAY

7:30 a.m.: The 47-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will

meet at Five Crowns restaurant for a program by Wade Roberts on the

Corona del Mar Centennial Celebration. (https://www.newport

beachsunriserotary.org).

WEDNESDAY

7:30 a.m.: The five-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet

at the Holiday Inn, 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 at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for the Demotion Party for President

Ed Rennie.

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

Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club meets at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club. The 85-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor

meets at the Nautical Museum (www.nhexchangeclub.com).

* 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.