Spindrift March 19, 2020
Starting a bit late at 12:22, President Ken DuFour began with an inspiring prayer relevant to today’s times, and we had Deane Bottorf challenge us to assume to proper position for the flag salute.
Among the successes of City Net are housing a 30-year homeless man at the Central Library in an apartment in Anaheim; housing a mother and daughter (97 and 67-year olds) in an apartment in Tustin, relocating a domestic violence survivor by the 73 Freeway back to housing in Riverside and placing an evicted Newport Beach woman in a psychiatric treatment house in Costa Mesa. Orange County has a Coordinated Entry System to help match people to housing opportunities, using criteria that include disability and Veteran status. Speaker Natalie knows some of the homeless by name and is therefore both a social and administrative link with helping ameliorate the problem. Newport Beach already has supportive housing for veterans, located behind Cappy’s Café on Coast Highway. She has 140 people on her spreadsheet now. Several locations are being examined for building suitable facilities. Thank you, Natalie, for sharing with us this important work.
FIELD OF HONOR
The committee, chaired by Secretary and Past President Richard Swinney, is meeting weekly now, with regular action items being accomplished each week. Look at the www.exchangeclubofnewportharbor.com website and see how easy it is to dedicate a flag for that special person. Also, put it on your calendar for the 15th of May weekend. Download the flag order form attached if you want to add more information or avoid the PayPal fee we pay.
RAFFLE
Harlan Pauley won the $10 Hamilton and Program Chair Mitch Mitchell got the $20 Jackson. See both in this photo right around the time they were buying the winning tickets!
