Benefit will help cure blindness

By : JIM DE BOOM

Aug. 13, 2005 12 AM PT

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Dr. Richard Weiss, a Newport-Balboa Rotarian and founder of the One

World Sight Project, is sponsoring a conference for ophthalmologists,

dermatologists, oculoplastic and plastic surgeons, optometrists, and

registered nurses from Aug. 27 to 28 at the Four Seasons Hotel in

Newport Beach.

While that conference is going on, the public is invited to attend

a beach party at the Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort on Aug. 27. It

will include dinner, drinks and live entertainment. Tickets to the

party -- which is open to children and families -- will be $125 per

person, $50 of which is tax-deductible.

The organization raises funds for the treatment and prevention of

blindness due to bilateral cataracts.

“It costs $50 to permanently cure a person of blindness in the

developing world -- so that if you can make the party, you can

rightly feel that because of you, someone in the world can see, and

that it happened this summer,” Weiss said.

Weiss added, “We are guaranteed to cure blindness in at least 80

people in Tanzania and Tibet with this program. To provide sight to

many of the world’s backlog of 25 million curable blind people is a

daunting task, but we can help with fundraising opportunities like

this one.”

Space at the beach party is limited. For more information or to

make reservations, call Jana at (949) 720-1400. Make checks payable

to One World Sight Project Inc., which is a 501.c3 tax deductible

charity.

For those who wish to participate but who won’t be able to attend,

each $50 donation will cure a person of blindness.

Donors may mail checks to Weiss Cosmetic & Laser Vision

Procedures, 360 San Miguel Road, Suite 403, Newport Beach, CA 92660.

More information on the One World Sight Project is available at

o7www.owsp.orgf7.

More information on the conference is available at

o7www.electivepro cedures.comf7.

Weiss will also hold a “Botox-A-Thon” on Thursday with Botox

Cosmetic products donated by Allergan Inc. Weiss will inject patients

for a $100 donation, with all of the profits going directly to

benefit the One World Sight Project. Weiss is attempting to fund eye

surgeries for 100 people through the event.

EXCHANGE CLUB INSTALLS OFFICERS

Bob Scott was installed as president of the Exchange Club of the

Orange Coast for a second consecutive term at the 20th annual

installation dinner, held at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club.

Shirley Lashmett, a member of the South Orange County Exchange

Club and district director for the California and Nevada district,

served as the installing officer.

Serving with Scott are President-elect Bita Kaboli, Secretary

Shirley Kohlmeier, Treasurer Don Lake, and directors Sharon Wright,

Tom Keyes, Ed Kohlmeier, Bob Jessen and Andy McCartney.

Scott, as the outgoing president (yes, he is the incoming

president too), named Lake as the exchangite of the year for 2004-05.

Lake is a charter member of the club, served as club president in

2001-02 and is the club’s current treasurer.

“I would like to personally thank Don for a job well done and his

total involvement in the Exchange Club of Orange Coast,” Scott said.

Congratulations to one and all.

WELCOMING NEWCOMERS

The Newcomer’s Club of Newport Beach meets the third Wednesday of

every month. At 11 a.m. Wednesday, the club will meet at the Balboa

Bay Club and Resort, 1221 W. Pacific Coast Highway.

Publicity chair Rita Horton invites all newcomers to meet other

area newcomers and enjoy a summer gathering. The cost of the luncheon

is $32.

For reservations and more information, please call (949) 719-0748

or (949) 715-7590. There is a $7 charge for valet parking and free

parking is available on the street.

WORTH REPEATING

From the Thought for the Day as provided by Greg Kelley of the

Newport-Mesa-Irvine Interfaith Council: “Spread love everywhere you

go -- first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to

your wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.... Let no one come to

you without leaving better or happier. Be the living expression of

God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,

kindness in your smile and kindness in your warm greeting.”

-- MOTHER TERESA

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 to hear Hans Linhardt, president of

Linhardt Technology Development International, discuss liquefied

natural gas (o7www.newportbeachsun riserotary.orgf7).

Noon: The newly formed Rotary Club of Costa Mesa will be meeting

at Vista Park in Costa Mesa for a service project, preparing lunch

for more than 100 kids attending Amanda’s Back 2 School picnic,

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