Girls Club

COSTA MESA - The Boys and Girls Club of the Harbor Area will participate in a spring roller hockey season. Youngsters in grades 1-8 are eligible to play. The games will take place on weeknights starting at 4:30 p.m. and all games will be played in the Boys and Girls Club gymnasium. The Harbor Area Boys and Girls Club is located at 2131 Tustin Ave. in Costa Mesa. All players must have a helmet with face protection, elbow and knee protection, inline skates, a hockey stick and a hockey ball.

NEWPORT BEACH - The Boys and Girls Club of the Harbor Area Eastbluff Branch will be holding registration for the upcoming winter basketball leagues for youngsters in grades 1-8. Registration is Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Boys and Girls Club, located at 2555 Vista Del Oro in Newport Beach. There is an instruction program for grades 1-2 and a competitive league for grades 3-8. The registration fee is $90 for the instruction program and $120, plus a $30 refundable uniform deposit, for the competitive league.

Garret Heiser nailed two free throws with four-tenths of a second left to lead the Magic to a 39-38 victory over the Lakers in a thrilling Boys and Girls Club sixth-grade championship game. Heiser finished with 11 points, and Beau Caillouette led the champions with 13 points. R.J. D'Cruz scored a game-high 17 points for the Lakers, who battled back from a 12-point first-quarter deficit. Jameson Galey added 12 points for the Lakers, while Austin Carden scored 10 for the Magic.

Hi-Time Wine Cellars in Costa Mesa on Tuesday presented the Boys and Girls Club with a $7,500 check from a recent 50th anniversary chili cook-off. The wine retailer invited local businesses Aug. 26 to the fundraiser. Salesman and event organizer Jeff McKinney said he expected two vendors to contribute an additional $2,500, boosting the total to $10,000. Dan Monahan, executive director of the Harbor Area Boys and Girls Club, said the funds go toward after-school programs, supplies and even staff.

Time flies when you are having fun. So, it is hard to believe that the Burbank Boys and Girls Club has been open for 10 years. It seems like yesterday that the first few neighborhood children showed up for the free popcorn, hot dogs, soda at the ribbon-cutting, kick-off ceremony, Sept. 9, 1995. Over the last 10 years, I noticed how the organization had become a home away from home for a lot of its young members. Furthermore, I realized that these children were becoming more positive, confident and were also learning self worth, usefulness, teamwork and how to express themselves more effectively.

Jumping up and down under blue and white balloons, dozens of Burbank Boys and Girls club members cheered as some of them won bicycles during a raffle held at the club's 10th anniversary celebration on Friday. There was pizza and ice cream as part of the celebration -- and the children received a visit from several Burbank Boys and Girls Club alumni, who participated in the club when it first opened. It was that opening that young and older celebrated Friday.

Fundraiser for youth club on at Wingnuts Wingnuts will be hosting a fundraiser tonight benefiting the Westside Boys & Girls Club. Youngsters from the club, in Costa Mesa, will become waiters and waitresses and all tips collected will be matched by Wingnuts management. Wingnuts owner Gregg Diganci came up with the idea. He created an employee volunteerism program that requires each staff member to perform two hours of community service each month at the club.

COSTA MESA - Four different Penguins players scored goals to key a 4-2 victory over the Stars in the fourth-grade championship game of the Harbor Area Boys and Girls Club rolley hockey playoffs Friday at the Costa Mesa Boys and Girls Club. Kevin Kottke, Connor Corrigan, Justin Bailey and Dillon Flinn each found the net for the winners, who completed a 12-1 season. Corrigan's goal created a 1-1 tie at the end of the first quarter. After the Stars answered Flinn's goal to tie it at 2-2, Bailey scored to put the Penguins up at halftime and Kottke added an insurance goal in the third quarter.

Deirdre Newman "The new guy" is not a familiar moniker for Oscar Santoyo. But that's what the former executive director of Save Our Youth was being called Monday in his new job with the Boys and Girls Club of San Juan Capistrano. For almost 10 years, Santoyo guided kids in Costa Mesa toward a variety of goals, like getting into college. As the director of program services for the Boys and Girls Club, Santoyo will focus entirely on programs like education, technology recreation and arts and crafts without having to worry about fund-raising.

The Kings defeated the previously unbeaten Penguins, 3-2, in fourth and fifth grade boys roller hockey action from the Harbor Area Boys and Girls Club. Ryan Iverson's goal with 26 seconds remaining broke the 2-2 tie and gave the Kings the win. The Kings were led offensively by J.P Hogan and Nyko Gonzalez, while Bernie Tanner and Elizabeth and Nick Mamey anchored the defense. In first, second and third grade action: Kings 3, Red Wings 2 - Eric Sansam and Devon Gonzalez each scored for the Red Wings, but the team fell one goal short.

The Boys & Girls Club of the Harbor Area has been awarded a $10,000 start-up grant from the Anthem Blue Cross Foundation. The money will go toward Triple Play, a program to help children exercise, eat healthier foods and feel better about themselves by engaging in healthy relationships. The Boys & Girls Club of America and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the program in 2005 to combat childhood obesity. According to the Anthem Blue Cross Foundation, the rate of children with obesity has nearly tripled since 1980.

A 9-year-old boy who collapsed at the Boys & Girls Club of the Harbor Area has died, Costa Mesa firefighters said Friday. Myles Thames fell to the ground at 4:30 p.m. Thursday while shooting hoops on the club's basketball court, according to Battalion Chief Fred Seguin. An autopsy performed Friday morning determined that Myles suffered a cardiac arrest as a result of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart that makes it more difficult to pump blood, coroner officials said.

The Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa joins sponsors Hoag Hospital, South Coast Plaza, Union Bank, the Costa Mesa Community Foundation, Office Depot, Sears, the OCC Foundation and attorney Gregory Bartone in supporting the Boys & Girls Club of the Harbor Area to annually fund and support Kelly's Closet. According to project advisor Jeff Dimsdale, the Boys & Girls Club chapter selects 24 children, who will be paired with the Costa Mesa High or Estancia High Key Club, or an Orange Coast College Circle K mentor.

Molly Muntzel Smith, age, 80, of Newport Beach, CA, passed away peacefully on February 8, 2011. Molly was a native of Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from Grant High School.  She earned her Bachelor of Allied Arts in 1952 from University of Oregon, where she studied art. She was an enthusiastic member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and was crowned Queen of Homecoming at the University in 1951. After graduation, she moved to San Francisco, California, where she was introduced to her future husband, Walker Smith, Jr., of Pasadena, California.

Need to toss old laptops or dated cell phones? The Boys & Girls Club in Costa Mesa is recycling used electronic equipment to raise money. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, residents can drop off their unwanted electronics, such as TVs, monitors, video game systems, printers or fax machines at the clubhouse. Batteries, light bulbs and appliances will not be accepted. Electronic Waste Recycling, or eWaste, is hosting the event for the Boys & Girls Club and thinks it is important for people to come out and support the nonprofit's fundraising efforts.

T welve residents who have given of their time, talent and treasure in service to the communities of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach were honored last Friday through their induction into the 2010 Daily Pilot Community & Clubs Hall of Fame. Honored were: Tim Martin, who was nominated by Joel Carlson, president of the Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach-Corona del Mar, for his seven years of volunteer service as skipper of the Sea Scout Base National Flag Ship and for instructing hundreds of youths in sailing for more than 20 years.

  The Newport Harbor Elks #1767 held its annual “Spirit of America” carnival on Saturday, November 21st. The lodge members provided food, games, toys and crafts to the children of 100 military families from San Diego and Camp Pendleton. Many of the children have fathers and mothers who are currently serving our country in Iraq and Afghanistan. In other news, Youth Activities Chairman, Rick Blake and lodge members will also be distributing 1600 dictionaries to third grade students at local elementary schools.

Harlem Globetrotters’ Eugene “Wildkat” Edgerson and Wun “The Shot” Versher will visit the Newport Sports Museum from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. The players will donate a Globetrotters autographed ball to the museum while also making an interactive presentation for local youths. The players will incorporate the team’s signature ball-handling skills into a motivational presentation encouraging kids from the Westside Boys & Girls Club to commit to regular physical activity.

COSTA MESA — Dan Monahan knows that when kids reach a certain age, they prefer not to be referred to as boys and girls. But that isn’t stopping the youth leader from creating a space for teens at the Boys & Girls Club. Monahan, the executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of the Harbor Area, watched proudly Saturday morning as crews from DPR Construction installed new paint, walls and flooring in the aged building on Tustin Avenue. DPR renovates a different venue every year for free.

Several area soccer coaches have expressed displeasure with a CIF Southern Section rule which bars them from coaching the same players on their high school and club teams. The rule, No. 2412 in the CIF Southern Section blue book states: “No member of the school athletic staff shall organize, sponsor or coach a soccer team outside the season of soccer, during the school year, in which students with remaining eligibility at that school are participating. After the soccer season and before May 12, coaches may associate with potential team members for the purpose of learning and practicing skills of soccer only during one regular physical education class.