A TASTE OF SAGE: Sage Restaurant in the East Bluff Shopping Center
and Robert Mondavi Wines have joined with Gamma Tau Gamma of Alpha Chi
Omega for a fund-raiser at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to benefit the Human Options
and the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation. Award-winning Sage chef Richard Mead
will cook up a variety of Sage specialties and Mondavi will provide a
tasting of their coastal wines. Tickets are $25 per person and can be
obtained by calling Geri Barr at (949) 549-7809 or Ronda Sutton at (949)
955-1430, ext. 206.
NATIONAL DAY OF SERVICE: Nine members of the Exchange Club of
Newport Harbor gave 50 kids an unusual and fun tour of Newport Harbor on
the National Day of Service, Oct. 23. The kids came from the Orangewood
Home for Abused Children, Concept 7 (Foster Home Agency) and Boystown of
Orange County. Member Seymour Beek donated the use of one of the Balboa
Island ferries for a two-hour cruise of the harbor.
JAPANESE STUDENTS VISIT: Four junior high school students from
Okasaki, Japan, and two teacher/chaperons visited Newport Beach and were
hosted by four local families, the Newport-Balboa Rotary Club and members
of the Newport Beach Sister City Assn. Rotary Club president Jim Sirkin
said four local junior high students travel to Okasaki in the summer for
a visit and then host the Japanese students.
Jonathan Clements and parents Scott and Marjorie hosted Masahiro Kamiya;
Mark Aguliar and parents Louis and Kathye hosted Motofumi Nagai; Karlin
Meehan and parents James and Kathleen Meehan hosted Yuga Sugita; and
Danielle Murphy and Mrs. Linda Baker hosted Momoko Iwase. The chaperons,
Mrs. Michiyo and Mr. Yataka Okada, were hosted by Karen and Edward
Ollila, who traveled with the Newport Beach students to Okasaki.
The Okasaki students visited local junior high schools, Newport Beach
City Hall, the public library and had a lot of time to learn about
American family life. On one evening, all gathered with members of the
Rotary Club and Sister City Assn. for a traditional American barbecue and
the unique American experience of pumpkin carving at the home of Rotarian
Moe and Dorothy Hamill.
The exchange program has gone on for more than a dozen years and Rotarian
Wendell Fish noted that for the first time, the city of Okasaki this
year has adopted Oct. 30th as pumpkin-carving day. A new tradition has
been started in Okasaki, thanks to the youth exchange program.
WORTH REPEATING: From the newsletter of the Newport Beach-Corona
del Mar Kiwanis Club, the Scuttlebutt ... "Some things are valuable
