Harbor Mesa Lions donate school supplies
Once again, the Harbor Mesa Lions are filling decorated shoeboxes
with school supplies for the first-graders at Whittier Elementary
School.
This annual program helps provide students and teachers with
equipment to aid in their studies and assignments as they begin their
early education. Items such scissors, rulers, crayons, erasers,
pencils and sharpeners are included in each box.
Funds for these items are raised each year by the Harbor Mesa
Lions through events such as their casino night, spaghetti dinner,
garage sale and more.
The project is chaired by members Gina Stansbury and Eunice
Thomason, who organize the collecting of the boxes and the list of
items supplied by teachers.
The boxes will be given to the children on Thursday.
ROTARIANS HOST CHINESE STUDENT
2005-06 Rotary International President Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar
feels strongly that increased youth exchanges will bring about
international understanding and be a step forward toward world peace,
Rotary Club of Newport Irvine President Tim Shields said.
In response, club member Bailey Smith and his wife, Linda, have
accepted Nancy Chen, a Rotary Youth Exchange student, into their
Laguna Beach home from Aug. 26 to Dec. 15. She will be a junior at
Laguna Beach High School.
Nancy is one of four students participating in the first-ever
youth exchange with Rotary in China. She is a straight-A student from
a magnet school in Beijing and is fluent in English. She loves
skiing, ping-pong, badminton, singing and French.
In addition to attending school, she will be visiting other Rotary
families and local Rotary Clubs.
LIONS THAT SHARE
The Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club takes pride in its
members who take the extra step and service the Lions District.
Raul Jara is on the district membership development committee.
Mike McIlroy is on the district Sign and Hearing Foundation board and
also on the international visitation committee. Club President Mike
Scheafer is also serving as chairman of the international visitation
committee and chairman of the multi-district convention.
“When the visitation chairman sets up a visit to another Lions
Club, be the first to sign up. These are fun outings and a great way
to meet fellow Lions in the District,” noted Lee Gibbs, editor of the
club’s newsletter The Tale.
A LITTLE SERVICE CLUB HUMOR
Newport Irvine Rotarian Bob Little shared this joke: “Is it true
that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my
life?” the elderly woman asked.
“Yes, I’m afraid so,” the doctor told her.
There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied: “I’m
wondering, then, just how serious is my condition, because this
prescription is marked ‘NO REFILLS.’”
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SERVICE CLUBS
Westside Boys & Girls Club’s Dan Monahan, sponsored by Dan
Worthington, joined the Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions club.
WORTH REPEATING
From the Thought for the Day as provided by Greg Kelley of the
Newport-Mesa-Irvine Interfaith Council: “I am responsible. Although I
may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible
for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and
the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness,
immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from
the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have -- life itself.”
-- WALTER ANDERSON
SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK
How are you giving back to your community? 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 opportunities for service. Most clubs will buy
your first meal for you as you get acquainted with them.
TUESDAY
7:15 a.m.: The 48-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club meets
at the Five Crowns restaurant for a program by Tom Curry Sr., vice
president of LMS, discussing engineering simulators
(o7www.newportbeachsunriserotary.orgf7).
Noon: The newly formed Rotary Club of Costa Mesa will be meeting
at The Club House at South Coast Plaza.
6 p.m.: The Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Cub meets at the Costa
Mesa County Club for a business meeting.
WEDNESDAY
7:30 a.m.: The Newport Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the
University Athletic Club.
Noon: The 27-member Exchange Club of the Orange Coast meets at the
Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a business meeting.
6:15 p.m.: The 50-member Rotary Club of Newport Balboa meets at
the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Newport Beach Fire Chief Tim
Riley (o7www.newport balboa.orgf7).
THURSDAY
7 a.m.: The 20-member Costa Mesa Orange Coast Lions Club meets at
Mimi’s Cafe to hear Bob Dressler.
Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the
Holiday Inn (o7www.kiwa nis.org/club/costamesaf7); the 50-member
Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach/Corona del Mar meets at the Bahia
Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Peter Yu, president of the Circle K
Club at UCI, discuss the International Convention he attended; the
85-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor meets at the Newport Harbor
Nautical Museum for a business meeting; the 90-member Rotary Club of
Newport Irvine meets at the Radisson Hotel to hear Erin Wolff on
Court Appointed Special Advocates (o7www.nirotary.orgf7).
* 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 o7jdeboom@aol.com.
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