COMMUNITY & CLUBS:

To honor longtime member Roy Woolsey’s memory, the Rotary Club of Newport Sunrise has established a student-of-the-month program in his name at the Monte Vista Back Bay High School. Each student chosen receives a gift certificate to Staples.

Rotarian Syd Lucas, liaison with the school’s principal and staff, manages every year’s selection of scholarship recipients and coordinates assistance in efforts to acknowledge publicly the accomplishments of many of the students.

MAKING HOLIDAYS BRIGHTER

Harbor Mesa Lions are seeing that three families in Costa Mesa have holiday cheer by fulfilling their wish lists and supplying food and clothing. Members have purchased gifts from lists supplied by school administrators that recommend families in need. Food gift cards are also given so the families will enjoy their holiday meal.

The club is also donating gifts to the Westside Boys & Girls Club for their Dec. 15 shopping day; it will also wrap the gifts the children purchase with points earned throughout the year.

RESTAURANTS HOST DINNER SERIES

Five top Orange County restaurants host guests of the Friends of Orange County Interfaith Shelter at specially prepared gourmet meals five Mondays throughout the year. The FOCIS Dinner Series is the largest fundraiser undertaken so far by the Friends group.

The first dinner took place Monday, Oct. 29 at Hush, a sleek and sophisticated restaurant in Laguna Beach.

People can still participate in the next four dinners, and experience mouth-watering delicacies designed by the leading chefs in the county. They will take place on Jan. 21 at Marche Moderne in South Coast Plaza; Feb. 25 at Five Crowns in Corona del Mar; March 31 at Zmario in Irvine and May 5 at Traditions By Pascal in Newport Beach. Each dinner has been customized for the Friends of OCIS.

The original cost for the dinners was $150 per person. Proceeds from the dinner series benefit the families at the Orange Coast Interfaith Shelter. Now wouldn’t four nights of great dinners make a good Christmas gift for a person who has everything else?

For more information or reservations, contact Judy Cooper at (949) 640-8828 or (949) 280-6545 or by e-mail [email protected].

WORTH REPEATING

From the Thought for the Day as provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council: “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”

— Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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