An opportunity to thank boat paraders

Enjoy the Christmas boat parade? If so, here is your chance to say

thank you to the boat owners and homeowners who provided the free

entertainment for you and your guests for five nights in December.

Hosts, hostesses and restaurants came off looking like heroes as 90

boaters spent five nights touring Newport Harbor during the

three-hour parade.

You can say thank you to both the homeowners and boat owners by

attending the Christmas Boat Parade Awards Dinner and Auction,

presented by Traditional Jewelers on Friday, Jan. 17, at the Four

Seasons Hotel, 690 Newport Center Drive. Festivities will begin at 6

p.m. with a reception dinner at 7 p.m. and awards, auction and

dancing to the E-Ticket until 11 p.m. The cost is $75 per person and

tables of 12 are available for $900.

The Commodores Club of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce

proudly presents the Newport Harbor Christmas Boat Parade Awards

Dinner and Auction. This annual event celebrates the parade winners

and features entertainment, a fabulous silent and live auction, a

sumptuous dinner, award winners from the Christmas Boat Parade and

Ring of Lights and a great opportunity to showcase your business

through your contribution of an auction item(s).

Commodore Club members Mehdi Eftekari and David Janes are serving

as co-chairs of the dinner and note that your donation of an auction

item will include recognition of your donation in the auction program

at the event, company or families name on the Chamber’s Web site and

in a special recognition ad in the Daily Pilot.

Auction items donated to date include Omega lady’s 18K yellow gold

and steel watch valued at $3,500, luxurious hotel stays in Boston,

Palm Beach, Chicago as well as the Newport Beach at Four Seasons,

Hyatt and Marriott Hotels, golf foursomes at Robinson Ranch, Monarch

Beach and Los Cabos and airfare any where in the nation that American

Airlines flies.

Proceeds will benefit the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce and

the 2003 Christmas Boat Parade. Deadline for inclusion in the event

program is Friday. To reserve tickets or to donate an auction item,

call Karin Graves at (949) 729-4400.

HARBOR MESA

LIONS PLAY BINGO:

Harbor Mesa Lions will begin the new year with its “Lucy and

Ethyl’s Bingo Parlor” fund-raiser at its 6:30 p.m. Monday meeting.

Club members Arlene Schafer and Carol Van Holt will conduct the

games. Members and guests will play to win donated prizes after the

meeting at the Costa Mesa Country Club. Funds raised will be given to

local organizations in April. For information about this event, call

(714) 962-0265.

SPEAK UP NEWPORT:

At its Wednesday meeting, Speak Up Newport will hear from Newport

Beach Police Capt. Paul Henisey and Lt. Bob Oakley about the Airborne

Law Enforcement Services provided by the Newport Beach Police

Department helicopter team. The meeting at the Newport Beach Tennis

Club will begin with refreshments at 5:30 p.m. and program at 6 p.m.

For more information, call (949) 224-2266.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD

OF SERVICE CLUBS:

Jennifer Hanson, who joined the Newport Beach-Corona del Mar

Kiwanis Club.

WORTH REPEATING:

From “Thought for the Day” provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport

Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council:

“The only truly happy individual is always a fighting optimist.

Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility,

social courage and objectivity.”

-- W. Beran Wolfe

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS COMING WEEK

TUESDAY

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

meet at Five Crowns.

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

the Costa Mesa Country Club for a program on the Orange County Water

District.

WEDNESDAY

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

at the Center Club (www.southcoastmetro rotary.org); and the Newport

Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the University Athletic Club.

Noon: The 40-member Exchange Club of the Orange Coast will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club.

6 p.m.: The 60-member Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa will meet at

the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club to hear Kirk McIntosh, director of

the Daily Pilot Cup soccer tournament.

THURSDAY

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

Club will meet at Mimi’s Cafe to hear from Karen Shepard Grimes of

Southern California Edison.

Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the

Holiday Inn; the 50-member Newport Beach-Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club

will meet at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club (www.kiwanis.org/club/

costamesa); the 80-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor will meet

at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum to hear author Ted Wentworth

discuss “Build a Better Spouse Trap;” and the 100-member

Newport-Irvine Rotary Club will meet at the Irvine Marriott Hotel to

hear Mark Desmond of High Hopes Head Injury Program

(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.