Community & Clubs:

Newport Harbor High School and the Newport Harbor Educational Foundation announce the inaugural Lights Up — A Newport Harbor Showcase of the Arts, featuring a multitude of Newport Harbor High’s top actors and singers, 19 musicians, 22 dancers and alumni artists.

The event is at 6 p.m. May 15 in the newly unveiled Robert B. Wentz Theatre at the school’s Loats Performing Arts Center.

The master of ceremonies will be alumnus Steve Johnston (’61), and will feature special guest appearances from talented alumni, including actor Anthony Zerbe (’54), actor-director Stuart Cooper (’60), Newport Beach Film Festival Executive Director Greg Schwenk (’86), LA Master Chorale opera singer Steve Pence (’97) and composer-pianist David Morihiro (’03).

Following the performance, a benefit at the Environmental Nature Center, adjacent to the campus, will include a martini bar, dinner, auction and live entertainment with a reunion performance of the popular Harbor High 1970s band Kings Road.

This one-time performance will include Kings Road band members Jeff Bitetti (’78), Terry Cline (’74), Ross Harris (’73), Jim Helfrich (’76), professional drummer John Ferraro (’73), who has toured with Barry Manilow and Boz Scaggs, and their friend Terry Lawless, the keyboard player for U2.

The honorary producer of Lights Up is motion picture director and producer Frank Marshall, a Newport Harbor High alumnus from the class of 1964.

Marshall and his wife, Kathleen Kennedy, of the Kennedy Marshall Co., have produced many movies, including “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Schindler’s List,” the “Indiana Jones” and “Back to the Future” series, “E.T.” and “The Sixth Sense,” among many others.

The fundraising goal of $100,000 will go toward upgrading classroom technology, instructional supplies, student guidance, academic assistance, professional development for faculty and more.

Tickets are $125 for the event at the theater and the dinner at the nature center, or $50 and $25 for the theater event only, and may be bought at www.NHHSLightsUp.org or by calling Newport Harbor Educational Foundation at (949) 646-1556.

HALL OF FAME

Monday is the deadline to submit candidates for the Daily Pilot Community and Clubs Hall of Fame, who will be recognized at a luncheon May 21, at the American Legion Post 291 in Newport Beach.

Nominations received to date include Art Walton, Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa, Dr. Robert Wood, Exchange Club of Newport Harbor; Elizabeth Dearborn, Newport Harbor Elks No. 1767; Rollo McLellan, Costa Mesa Newport-Harbor Lions Club; and Ernie Delfin, Rotary Club of Newport-Irvine.

To honor a member of a service club or a community organization for their contributions to the communities of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach and their respective organizations, e-mail me at [email protected] or call (949) 689-4443 and a nomination form will be e-mailed to you.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity.”

— Thomas Wolfe

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 opportunity for service.

Most clubs will buy your first meal for you as you get acquainted with them.

TODAY

7:30 a.m.: The 10-member Newport Harbor Kiwanis Club meets at Denny’s Restaurant, 290 Bristol St., Costa Mesa.

Noon: The Exchange Club of Newport Harbor meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club, 1601 Bayside Drive, Corona Del Mar, for a Business Meeting.

5:15 p.m.: The 10-member Rotary Club of Costa Mesa meets at the Ramada Inn & Suites, 1680 Superior Ave., Costa Mesa. Visit www.costamesarotary.org.

6 p.m. The Rotary Club of Newport Balboa meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a program by Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas. For more information, visit www.newportbalboa.org.

THURSDAY

7 a.m.: The 20-member Costa Mesa Orange Coast Lions Club meets at Mimi’s Café, 1835 Newport Blvd.

Noon: The 45-member Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach-Corona del Mar meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club. For more information, visit www.newportbeachkiwanis.org.

The 95-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor meets at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club for a Business Meeting. For more information, visit www.nhexchange.org.

The 45-member Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa meets at the Costa Mesa Golf and Country Club, 1701 Golf Course Drive.

The 65-member Rotary Club of Newport Irvine meets at the University Club at UCI, 801 E. Peltason Drive. Visit www.ni-rotary.org.

COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published Wednesdays. Send your service club’s meeting information by fax to (714) 921-8655 or by e-mail to [email protected] .