Cool nights, hot jazz

JIM DE BOOM

If you are looking for a place to entertain family and friends over

the holidays, make a visit to Duke’s Place at the Balboa Bay Club to

hear the Marc LeBrun Trio on a Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday

night.

LeBrun, 42, is a gifted jazz pianist and singer who accompanied

the likes of Tom Jones, Olivia Newton John, Diane Schuur, Larry

Gatlin, Maureen McGovern, Roberta Flack and Nell Carter.

Beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursday and at 8 p.m. on

Fridays and Saturdays, LeBrun, accompanied by Gordon Peek on the

drums and John Pintoff on bass, will warm the evenings atmosphere

with interpretations of the great sounds of Frank Sinatra, Nat “King”

Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

LeBrun has some 5,000 songs committed to memory, responds to most

any requested and music and dancing is encouraged. Duke’s Place is

open to the public and valet parking is validated with a purchase of

drink or food. On a cool night, enjoy hot jazz in the warm atmosphere

of Duke’s Place.

HELPING HANDS

Members of the Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club had 10

volunteers on Friday night at the Orange County Rescue Mission in

Santa Ana, providing food and cooking dinner for 50 needy people,

said Barrett Westover, Kiwanis coordinator.

READING

BY 9

Newport- Mesa school board President Martha Flour was the first to

donate to this year’s Reading by 9 matching challenge from the Rotary

Clubs of Newport-Balboa, Newport Irvine and Newport Beach Sunrise.

She was quickly joined by former Costa Mesa mayor and preschool

director Mary Hornbuckle, Elizabeth Stahr, George and Natlie Fox, and

Betts Harley as we begin to match the $6,800 provided by the clubs.

Check the Daily Pilot pages for the quarter-page display ad to use to

send in your contribution to buy reading books for Pomona, Whittier

and Wilson Elementary Schools.

The Rotary Clubs of Newport-Balboa, Newport Irvine and Newport

Beach Sunrise, along with the Daily Pilot and the Fashion Island

Fountain for Youth, were honored by the Newport-Mesa Board of

Education at a recent meeting for their support of the Reading by 9

program, which has provided more than 16,500 books for Pomona,

Whittier and Wilson elementary schools in the past four years.

At the meeting to receive the proclamation from Fluor were Ed

Rennie, president of the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa, and Roger

McGonegal, Reading by 9 coordinator for Rotary District 5320.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD

OF SERVICE CLUBS

Arthur Steinberg, sponsored by Terry Rousselot, who joined the

Rotary Club of Newport Balboa. Jim Harrison and Rodney Hansen, who

joined the Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club.

WORTH REPEATING

Things to be thankful for: The mess we need to clean up after a

party ... because it means we have been surrounded by friends. The

clothes that fit a little too snug ... because it means we have

enough to eat. The windows that need cleaning ... because it means we

have a home. The huge heating bill ... because it means we are warm.

The spot we find at the far end of the parking lot ... because it

means we are capable of walking. The weariness and aching muscles at

the end of the day ... because it means we’ve been productive. The

dog that lives behind us that won’t stop barking ... because we can

hear. The complaining we hear about our government ... because it

means we have freedom of speech. The alarm that goes off in the early

morning hours ... because it means we are alive to be woken. Happy

Thanksgiving!

SERVICE CLUB

MEETINGS THIS WEEK

TUESDAY

7: 30 a.m.: The 40-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will

meet at Five Crowns to hear John Goodlad discuss the Rotary

Foundation (https://newportbeach sunriserotary.org/index.htm).

6:30 p.m.: The Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club will meet at

the Costa Mesa Country Club.

WEDNESDAY

7:15 a.m.: The 10-member South Coast Metro Rotary Club will meet

at the Center Club (https://www.southcoastmetro rotary.org); and 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.

TURKEY OF THE YEAR

The second Turkey of the Year Awards will be handed out next

Saturday in the Community & Clubs column. There are a lot of

candidates, but only a couple of winners. Until then, have a Happy

Thanksgiving, enjoy the family, friends and shopping this coming

weekend.

* 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 [email protected].