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TODAY

The Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce will host a 90-minute breakfast

boost from 7 to 8:45 a.m. today at the Costa Mesa Country Club. $12

if prepaid, $17 at the door. The country club is at 1701 Golf Course Drive. For reservations, call (714) 885-9090.

The Newport Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting at 9:30 a.m.

in the Harbor View Club House. The guest speaker will be Rex Yarwood,

horticulturist and manager at Haster Grove in Laguna Beach. The club

house is at 1900 Port Carlow Place, Newport Beach. (949) 720-1552.

The International Studies Program at UCI will host a lecture on

Colombia’s wars and the United States’ possible involvement from 3:30

to 5 p.m. in the university’s Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100. The

lecture will be presented by Caesar Sereseres, associate dean of the

School of Social Sciences. Free. For more information, call (949)

824-8687.

FRIDAY

The Costa Mesa Women’s Club, a 92-year-old club, will hold their

monthly meeting, which will include entertainment and a luncheon.

Free admission, lunch $7.50. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. in the

club house at 610 W. 18th St. (949) 548-7242.

SATURDAY

The Harbor Christian Fellowship Church in Costa Mesa will host a

Mammogram-a-thon from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The event, sponsored by

YWCA Encoreplus and The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, will

provide breast cancer screenings to the community. Free. The church

is at 740 W. Wilson St. For more information, call (714) 935-9720 or

(714) 806-2037.

A seminar providing beginning Internet explorers the tools and

tricks of navigating through the World Wide Web will be held at 10

a.m. at the Balboa and Central Public Libraries. The Balboa branch is

at 100 E. Balboa Blvd., Balboa and the central branch is at 1000

Avocado Ave., Newport Beach. Free. For more information, call (949)

717-3801 or visit www.newportbeachlibrary.org.

Newport Elementary School will hold its annual fall festival from

noon to 5 p.m. at the school. This year’s festival, titled The

Country Fair, will include a petting zoo, pony rides, a pumpkin

patch, carnival games, prizes and much more. Proceeds raised by the

event will benefit the enrichment programs funded by the PTA. The

school is at 1327 W. Balboa Blvd., Newport Beach. Admission is $5 for

adults and $10 for children presale, $12 for children at the door.

(949) 515-6965.

The Center for Spiritual Discovery will hold two ceramic workshops

with Kris Sheldon today and Nov. 9. Two separate sessions will be

scheduled each day. The first session will take place from 9 a.m. to

noon and the second will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. The workshops

will focus on basic ceramic techniques, and each participant will

have the opportunity to make a ceramic box and custom decorate it.

The fee is $40 and includes the clay and tools. The center is at 2850

Mesa Verde Drive E., Costa Mesa. For more information, call (714)

754-7399.

A holiday boutique with more than 30 vendors will be held from 10

a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Eastbluff Recreation Center in Newport Beach.

The boutique is sponsored by The Sylvia & Stacy Team and The

Cinderella Guild of the Children’s Hospital of Orange County. All

proceeds will benefit pediatric cancer research at the children’s

hospital. The center is at 2414 Vista del Oro. For more information,

call (949) 552-6222 or send e-mail to [email protected].

The UCI Arboretum and Orange County Fine Arts will host the annual

Art of Flowers fall art and flower show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the

UCI Arboretum. The event will include a fine art show and sales by

artists and the arboretum. Admission is $2 per person and free for

children younger than 12 and members of the Friends of the UCI

Arboretum. The arboretum is just south of the corner of Campus Drive

and Jamboree Road on the UCI North Campus. (949) 824-5833.

Macy’s South Coast Plaza and Radio Disney will host a pumpkin

patch event with more than 5,000 pounds of pumpkins for children to

chose from. The event, which will be held in Macy’s Women’s Store,

will begin at 1 p.m. Guests are encouraged to wear costumes. The

store is at 3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa. For reservations, call

(714) 556-0611, ext. 4231.