A new Rotary Club for Costa Mesa

JIM DE BOOM

A new Rotary Club is being formed in Costa Mesa and it meets at noon

on Tuesdays at the Holiday Inn on Bristol, west of the San Diego

Freeway, according to member Truck Smith.

If you live or work in Costa Mesa and want to make a contribution

to your community, you are invited to check out the new Rotary Club

on any Tuesday at the Holiday Inn.

According to Smith, the new club is for leaders who want to

volunteer in the community. Rotary clubs encourage high ethical

standards and carry out humanitarian projects in their local

community and around the world, he added.

“The club will meet weekly for fellowship and to discuss local and

global topics. Clubs are nonreligious, nongovernmental and open to

every race, culture and creed,” Smith said.

The program for Tuesday will include Rotarian Dale Bixler

discussing the changes in the banking system that started last

October under the name, “Check 21.” You will hear what these changes

could mean to you from a printer’s point of view.

For information on the new Rotary Club of Costa Mesa, contact

Smith by e-mail at tsmith@optum.com, or by phone at (714) 445-4190;

Bixler via e-mail at dalebixler@comcast.net, and by phone at (714)

437-0100; or Dan Hanley by e-mail at dhanley@cmacloans.com, and phone

at (714) 619-4304.

EXCHANGE MOURNS

PAST PRESIDENT

The Exchange Club of Newport Harbor is mourning the passing of

44-year member Robert E. Washbon, who passed away on Dec. 28.

Washbon, an orthodontist by profession, served as club president

in 1965-66 and developed many lifelong friendships. He remained an

active club member in spite of several strokes that slowed him down.

Our condolences to the family and friends.

ROTARY RUSSIAN EXCHANGE

Rotary District 5320 Gov. Grant Engle has established a Group

Study Exchange with Rotary District 2350 in Moscow, Russia.

A team of Russian educators will visit District 5320, which covers

Orange County and southern Los Angeles County, from April 30 through

May 28. A team of educators from District 5320 will visit Moscow area

from May 14 through June 11, according to Engle.

The Rotary District is now seeking four non-Rotarian team members,

who must be between the ages of 25 and 40 and involved in education.

Exchange participants cannot be directly related to a Rotarian.

“The team will study the way Russians work and live and will study

their education system in depth ... and the Russian Team will do the

same when they visit District 5320,” Engle said.

The teams will stay in the homes of Rotarians while visiting.

Educators, teachers, professors, administrators or consultants

between the ages of 25 and 40 who are interested in an expenses-paid,

once-in-a-lifetime trip to Russia should contact committee chairman

Ken Montgomery at (949) 362-4339, or by e-mail at

kmontgomery@ci.laguna- niguel.ca.us, for more information and an

application.

Applications are due by Feb. 8, and the selection of the team will

take place on Feb. 12. More information on the Group Study Exchange,

along with applications, can be found on the Rotary International

website at https://www.rotary.org/foun dation/education

al/gse/index.html.

WORTH REPEATING

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

Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “I prefer to be remembered for what I

have done for others, not for what others have done for me.”

-- THOMAS JEFFERSON

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS

THIS WEEK

Help your community and the world through a service club! For

many, service club membership is an extension of our religious

beliefs and congregation affiliation.

You are invited to attend a service club meeting this coming week

to learn more about opportunity for service. Most clubs will buy your

first meal for you as you get acquainted with them.

TUESDAY

7:30 a.m.: The 48-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will

meet at the Five Crowns restaurant. (www.newportbeachsunriser

otary.org)

WEDNESDAY

7:30 a.m.: 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 a business meeting

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

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by Greg Hamer of

Lifewater International on the group’s clean water projects with

Rotary. (www.newportbalboa.org)

THURSDAY

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

Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe to hear Mike Corez, a gemologist.

(www.cmoclions.org)

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

Holiday Inn for a business meeting (www.kiwanis.org/club/costamesa);

the Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach-Corona del Mar will meet at the

Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club (www.newportbeachkiwanis.org); the

100-member Rotary Club of Newport Irvine will meet at the Radisson

Hotel to hear Chapman University President James Doti

(www.nirotary.org); the 85-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor

meets at the Nautical Museum for a business meeting

(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.