State of Education address set for Wednesday

Several hundred educational and business leaders and elected

officials from throughout Orange County will hear William M.

Habermehl, superintendent of the Orange County Department of

Education, present the State of Education Address from 4 to 6 p.m.

Wednesday.

The reception, benefiting Learning for Life and sponsored by the

Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union, will be held at the

Grand Ball Room of the Hilton Costa Mesa.

Habermehl is expected to discuss the state budget and its effects

on school districts in Orange County for the school year, teacher

standards and recruitment, state-mandated test results and

educational system needs.

Former state of California Education Secretary Marian Bergeson

will serve as the master of ceremonies of the event chaired by John

Dean, Orange County superintendent of schools emeritus, and yours

truly, a retired Newport-Mesa Unified School District trustee.

Learning for Life is a Character Education and Career Exploration

program serving 30,000 youth in Orange County, according to David

Blankenhorn, president of Harbor National Bank and chairman of the

Learning for Life Board of Directors. “Our mission is to empower

youth to make ethical choices throughout their lives,” he adds.

Sandy Alford, teacher in Garden Grove, Al Mijares, superintendent

of the Santa Ana Unified School District and Karen Ayala, extended

day coordinator for the Westminster School District will be honored

during the reception. Northern Trust Bank offices in Newport Beach

and Los Angeles have joined with Learning for Life Board Member

Victoria Gray in helping to underwrite the reception.

The Hilton Costa Mesa is at 3050 Bristol St., Costa Mesa. Tickets

are available at $35 each for educators, $50 for business and

community leaders, and include hors d’oeuvres and program. No-host

beverages will be available. For more information and reservations,

call Debbie Clinton at (714) 689-2323, ext. 6005.

FISH BREAKFAST ON THE BAY: FISH’s annual “Breakfast on the Bay”

will be held from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Newport Dunes Waterfront

Resort. Activities, in addition to a delicious breakfast buffet

provided by the Newport Dunes, include live music, an exciting raffle

and a silent auction that includes a lot of goodies, according to

Executive Director Debbie O’Connor. Just for kids, there will be

clowns and a separate raffle. Breakfast tickets are $12 for adults,

$5 for children. For breakfast or raffle tickets, call (949)

645-8050.

CLUBS ARE BUSY: Soroptimist International Newport Harbor joins

Nongovernmental Organizations around the world to acknowledge the

U.N. International Day of Peace today. Each club member will make a

personal commitment to promote peace in our world and our lives. On

Sunday, members proudly serve as volunteers for the 11th annual Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure, joining more than 30 other local

Soroptimists and thousands of volunteers to promote breast cancer

awareness, services and treatment.

On Oct. 6, Soroptimist International Newport Harbor will join

50,000 Soroptimists to promote our annual End Workplace Violence by

distributing information about domestic violence hotlines and helping

promote the idea that work places around the world need to have a

plan to help protect their employees from potential domestic violence

incidences by providing a secure environment. For more information,

contact Dawn Marie Lemonds at (714) 957-5046.

Members of the Rotary Club of Newport Balboa are also volunteering

at the 11th annual Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure. Some members

worked on the event on Friday, others today and still others at 4

a.m. Sunday. This morning club members, joined by the members of the

Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club, are working on the Back Bay

Cleanup. Tonight, the Rotarians and their spouses hold their annual

Progressive Dinner, visiting homes of at least three Rotarians for

hors d’ouvres, a main course and dessert. As President Roger

McGonegal says, “This is a busy weekend for our members.”

WORTH REPEATING ... From Greg Kelley of the Newport Mesa Irvine

Interfaith Council: “If you live only for yourself, you are always in

immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your

own views and interests.”

-- W. Beran Wolfe

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS COMING WEEK:

TUESDAY: 7:15 a.m.: The Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club meets at

Five Crowns Restaurant.

WEDNESDAY: 7:15 a.m.: The 20-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club

will meet at the Center Club (www.southcoastmetrorotary.org) and the

Newport Harbor Kiwanis Club meets at the University Athletic Club.

Noon: The Soroptimist Club Newport Harbor meets at the Santa Ana

Country Club. The 35-member Exchange Club of the Orange Coast meets

at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear a sergeant from the Orange

County Sheriff’s Department discuss “Air Support.”

6 p.m.: The 55-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa meets at the

Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to visit the U.S. Coast Guard boat,

Narwahl. (www.newportbalboa.org).

THURSDAY: 7 a.m.: The 20-plus-member Costa Mesa-Orange Costa

Breakfast Lions Club meets at Mimi’s Cafe for a business meeting.

Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club meets at the Holiday

Inn (www.kiwanis.org/club/costamesa); the Newport Beach-Corona del

Mar Kiwanis Club meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear

Dennis Hurley discuss “The Giving Principle;” the 80-member Exchange

Club of Newport Harbor meets at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum to

hear Dave Bean, historian and docent of “Drum Barracks” in San Pedro,

discuss the history of Phineas Banning, one of the founders of the

city of San Pedro; the 100-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club meets

the Irvine Marriott Hotel to hear Barbara Oliver of Prevent Child

Abuse Orange County. (www.nirotary.org).

* COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published Saturdays in the Daily Pilot.

Send your service club’s meeting information by Fax to (949)

660-8667; e-mail to [email protected] or by mail to 2082 S.E. Bristol,

Suite 201, Newport Beach, CA 92660-1740.