COMMUNITY & CLUBS:

On April 26, more than 25 Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will prepare the Environmental Nature Center’s Butterfly House for its spring opening to the public for the butterfly season on May 10.

Rotarians will install a new educational panel and organize other educational exhibits in addition to spring cleaning made necessary by the past seven months of construction on the nature center’s new Learning Center and Administration Offices, scheduled to open May 15.

This effort by the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa, all 49 Rotary Clubs in Dist. 5320 and thousands of others worldwide will join for the “Rotarians at Work” Day, said District Gov. John Brainerd.

Besides spring cleaning, the first order of our work day will be to update and organize the exhibits in the Butter House foyer and to add a new educational panel “The Butterfly Bar,” which depicts the food and where it comes from to feed a butterfly during its life cycle.

This panel was funded by a Dist. 5320 Simplified Grant. Funds were provided by Newport-Balboa and the district. This is the third time Rotary has used funds to supply educational materials for the Butterfly House, which is used by schools throughout Orange County on their field trips to the nature center, which provides natural and environmental science to 15,000 students a year.

STUDENT WINS ANOTHER LION’S SPEAKER CONTEST

Newport Harbor High student Ian McEwan won the Saddleback Region Student Speaker Contest in Aliso Viejo. He was judged the best of three speakers by members of the Aliso Viejo Toastmasters Club. Harbor Mesa Lions member Marianne Segalla chaired the contest.

Ian has won the Club Level, Zone Level, Region Level and will go on to compete at the District Level on April 20 in Laguna Niguel. He is sponsored by the Harbor Mesa Lions Club. This yearly contest awards cash and scholarships to the winner at each level, and the final winner will have won more than $20,000 in scholarships. The topic of the speeches is “Immigration — My Solution” and requires a memorized speech of no more than 10 minutes. The Multiple Dist. 4 Lions Clubs hold this contest each year with topics of current interest in hopes to help students with their education and create interest in current affairs.

For more information, call President Gina Stansbury: (714) 898-1897.

WORTH REPEATING

Thought for the Day as provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council …“The first duty of love — is to listen.”

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