A new Rotary Club for Costa Mesa
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JIM DE BOOM
A new Rotary Club is being formed in Costa Mesa and it meets at noon
on Tuesdays at the Holiday Inn on Bristol, west of the San Diego
Freeway, according to member Truck Smith.
If you live or work in Costa Mesa and want to make a contribution
to your community, you are invited to check out the new Rotary Club
on any Tuesday at the Holiday Inn.
According to Smith, the new club is for leaders who want to
volunteer in the community. Rotary clubs encourage high ethical
standards and carry out humanitarian projects in their local
community and around the world, he added.
“The club will meet weekly for fellowship and to discuss local and
global topics. Clubs are nonreligious, nongovernmental and open to
every race, culture and creed,” Smith said.
The program for Tuesday will include Rotarian Dale Bixler
discussing the changes in the banking system that started last
October under the name, “Check 21.” You will hear what these changes
could mean to you from a printer’s point of view.
For information on the new Rotary Club of Costa Mesa, contact
Smith by e-mail at [email protected], or by phone at (714) 445-4190;
Bixler via e-mail at [email protected], and by phone at (714)
437-0100; or Dan Hanley by e-mail at [email protected], and phone
at (714) 619-4304.
EXCHANGE MOURNS
PAST PRESIDENT
The Exchange Club of Newport Harbor is mourning the passing of
44-year member Robert E. Washbon, who passed away on Dec. 28.
Washbon, an orthodontist by profession, served as club president
in 1965-66 and developed many lifelong friendships. He remained an
active club member in spite of several strokes that slowed him down.
Our condolences to the family and friends.
ROTARY RUSSIAN EXCHANGE
Rotary District 5320 Gov. Grant Engle has established a Group
Study Exchange with Rotary District 2350 in Moscow, Russia.
A team of Russian educators will visit District 5320, which covers
Orange County and southern Los Angeles County, from April 30 through
May 28. A team of educators from District 5320 will visit Moscow area
from May 14 through June 11, according to Engle.
The Rotary District is now seeking four non-Rotarian team members,
who must be between the ages of 25 and 40 and involved in education.
Exchange participants cannot be directly related to a Rotarian.
“The team will study the way Russians work and live and will study
their education system in depth ... and the Russian Team will do the
same when they visit District 5320,” Engle said.
The teams will stay in the homes of Rotarians while visiting.
Educators, teachers, professors, administrators or consultants
between the ages of 25 and 40 who are interested in an expenses-paid,
once-in-a-lifetime trip to Russia should contact committee chairman
Ken Montgomery at (949) 362-4339, or by e-mail at
[email protected] niguel.ca.us, for more information and an
application.
Applications are due by Feb. 8, and the selection of the team will
take place on Feb. 12. More information on the Group Study Exchange,
along with applications, can be found on the Rotary International
website at https://www.rotary.org/foun dation/education
al/gse/index.html.
WORTH REPEATING
From the Thought for Today, provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport
Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “I prefer to be remembered for what I
have done for others, not for what others have done for me.”
-- THOMAS JEFFERSON
SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS
THIS WEEK
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 opportunity for service. Most clubs will buy your
first meal for you as you get acquainted with them.
TUESDAY
7:30 a.m.: The 48-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club will
meet at the Five Crowns restaurant. (www.newportbeachsunriser
otary.org)
WEDNESDAY
7:30 a.m.: 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 for a business meeting
6 p.m.: The 50-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at
the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by Greg Hamer of
Lifewater International on the group’s clean water projects with
Rotary. (www.newportbalboa.org)
THURSDAY
7 a.m.: The 20-plus member Costa Mesa-Orange Coast Breakfast Lions
Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe to hear Mike Corez, a gemologist.
(www.cmoclions.org)
Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the
Holiday Inn for a business meeting (www.kiwanis.org/club/costamesa);
the Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach-Corona del Mar will meet at the
Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club (www.newportbeachkiwanis.org); the
100-member Rotary Club of Newport Irvine will meet at the Radisson
Hotel to hear Chapman University President James Doti
(www.nirotary.org); the 85-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor
meets at the Nautical Museum for a business meeting
(www.nhexchangeclub.com).
* 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].
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