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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