Weekly Announcements
September 28, 2004
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements September 28, 2004 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
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Jazz for Juvenile Diabetes: Time to Rally
for the Raffle It's time to dust off your rolodexes and reconnect with old friends, family, colleagues and associates. We need to get a variety of prizes to raffle off for this year's Jazz for Juvenile Diabetes Benefit (details below), and you can help. Kate Certain, Raffle Committee chair, needs your help to collect raffle donations in retail value at or above $50. Here is how you can help: 1. Go on a scavenger hunt with Kate around San Diego asking local businesses to contribute; 2. Contact your friends, family, and colleagues to see if they can contribute; 3. Give something on your own. We really need everyone's help to make this event a success... and the raffle can get much-needed donations for the Juvenile Research Foundation (not to mention Rotaract!) Rally for the Raffle 2004 - it's on! Anyone person or company who donates anything above a $200 value will receive 2 tickets to the event. E-mail Kate Certain if you have something for the raffle or if you would like to attend the Scavenger Hunt! Thank you all for your support!!! Rotaract and Jazz 88 Present the 3rd Annual Jazz For Juvenile Diabetes December 9, 2004 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm THIN (Above The Onyx Room, Gaslamp Quarter Downtown) Featuring a night of Latin Jazz with the Caballero-Verde Quintet and DJ SK spinning Latin Jazz beats. The Caballero-Verde Quintet explores and redefines Latin rhythms, weaves them with a backdrop of absorbing melodies, and present their well-synchronized originals and covers of Salsa, Brazilian music, and other Latin standards into their own unique style of Latin Jazz. Here's a sample: http://www.dannygreen.net/descarga1.html To view photos of last year's event, check out: Photos - Jazz for Junvenile Diabetes. If you have any questions, please contact Evan. |
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| Attending the San Diego Film Festival? September 29 - October 3 San Diego Film Festival would like to thank the men and women of Rotaract for their work in our community! 20% of all pass sales under the code ROTR (entered at time of purchase online) will be donated to the Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego!!! The Third Annual San Diego Film Festival will take place from September 29 - October 3: 5 fun-filled days, 85 feature, documentary and short films, 6 parties, 9 panels and seminars, and 300+ filmmakers and actors. This is one event that you won't want to miss! So, when buying your tickets online at www.sdff.org, make sure to enter the code ROTR. See you there! |
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San Diego Festival of Beer
Recap The 10th Annual San Diego Festival of Beer was a smashing success! Friday night, approximately 25 Rotaractors gathered Downtown to help pour beer for a cause! We had a great time being bartenders for a night and listening to great live music for our dancing and singing pleasure. Look for more information in future newsletters as the event organizers total up the amount for donation to the SDPAC, San Diego Professionals against Cancer. We look forward to volunteering for this fun event again next year! |
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| Tijuana Homebuilding in October October 9 (Saturday) On Saturday, October 9, in collaboration with the Downtown Breakfast Rotary and the Tijuana Rotaract Club, Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego members will be heading South of the Border on a day-long trip to help build homes for needy families in Tijuana, México. No experience necessary. This is one of the most impactful community programs in Downtown Rotaract history. We have over 20 people already signed up to attend. You won’t want to miss it! We are signing people up based on membership first, so if you are a prospect, please do everything you can to fill your membership requirements in September so we can give you priority status and can guarantee your place on the homebuilding crew. To learn more about this worthwhile project, please visit México Caravan Ministries' website at http://www.mcministries.net, or feel free to contact your Club's International Chair, Denisse Roldán. |
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Difference for a Week
Program The Toussaint Academy is looking for volunteers to participate in their “Difference for a Week” program. Three Toussaint alumns are college freshmen who have no support system without volunteers through this program. They need someone to help them get through their classes, advise them on college living, encourage them to keep working hard, and most of all…to send them cookies!! Difference for a week asks you to call one of these students once a day for one week and to send a care package with fun and useful items (eg. Some laundry soap, a highlighter, etc.). You can sign up more than once and you can take one week with each student if you like. Students are:
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| Last Chance for Centennial Project Suggestions In honor of Rotary’s 100th year, we will be selecting a Centennial Project. Please e-mail any suggestions supporting your favorite cause to Geoff by the end of this week so we can evaluate opportunities and make a decision. |
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Professional Development Thank you to everyone who shared at Tuesday's meeting regarding their own professional development, personal strengths and goals. For those of you who were not able to make the meeting, we held an open forum opportunity for us to talk about where we are in life -- our signature strengths and goals. This allowed us to learn from each other things that we may not have known before, show things that we may have in common, and also demonstrate what we can learn from one another. This was a wonderful start to exploring the personal (& personable!) resources amongst us. We are hoping to continue these opportunities to share about ourselves at each meeting. We will probably offer one or two people the opportunity to share each week. You may also look forward to the us having more speakers from local industries and involvements who will be invited to address various topics related to Professional Development. *** Coffee Talk, Small Group, Book Club... Whatever you want to call it, however you want to shape it... If you're interested in meeting with other Rotaracters to read professional development/industry/other books & publications, to discuss concerns, and share thoughts – this may be for you! More information to come, but we'll be exploring this as another way to recognize what we have in common and what areas we can help each other. If you have any questions about the above topics, please feel free to contact Bridget Johnson. Thank you! |
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| 2004 Walk to Cure Diabetes October 16 & 24 The San Diego Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) serves all of San Diego County and extends north to Orange County. The Chapter provides valuable information about juvenile diabetes to people with diabetes, their families, and the general public. It also holds numerous successful events that raise much-needed funds for diabetes research. One of those events, the 2004 Walk to Cure Diabetes, is coming up in October. As always, there will be two occasions to join the fun and raise money for a great cause:
For detailed information on how to join the Walk and raise money for such a great cause, visit the JDRF San Diego Chapter website: http://www.jdrf-sandiego-news.org/walk/index.html Volunteer on Walk Day Help register walkers, man the Walk route, set-up, teardown, etc. All those who volunteer on Walk day get credit for walking, so you can still raise funds! If you would like to volunteer your time on one or both of those days, please sign up with the JDRF directly: http://www.jdrf-sandiego-news.org/news/walk_volunteer_reg.html |
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| The Rotaract Family Feud Championship October 23 (Saturday) 8:00 pm Ah yes…remember the hit game show, Family Feud?! Where families emphatically compete against each other to match the top answers of the one hundred people surveyed? Well, it’s here. Enjoy having “Richard Dawson” as your host and join us for our very own Rotaract Family Feud game show as we form “families” and compete to win the championship. It’s only $5/person to play and the winning “family” will win half of the jackpot! The remainder will go to the Rotaract fund for future charitable causes. Bring your favorite beverage to enjoy while you’re in the audience or playing the game. Bound to be filled with witty responses, good times, and loads of laughs, this will certainly be an evening to remember. Be sure to RSVP on the Evite that was sent out. If you did not receive it, please contact Rose. If you'd like to help plan this event, please contact Rose. |
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| Entertainment Books Entertainment Books will be available at the first meeting of October. We’ll focus on an online campaign. Books are $40 and Rotaract receives $8 per book, plus an incentive rewards program that nets a total of $200 to Rotaract for every 21 books sold! Check it out at www.entertainment.com. More info to come in next week’s newsletter on how to buy/sell online (for any city in the USA!). Check back next week! |
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Community Service
Events Tijuana Homebuilding Project Attention all members and prospective members: Community Service opportunity in October! Check out the details here! Senior Center 2nd Saturday of each month Volunteers (2-3) are needed the 2nd Saturday of each month from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm to help serve lunch at the Senior Center Downtown. Please contact Carl for details and availability. |
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| Downtown San Diego Breakfast Rotary Meeting The Downtown San Diego Breakfast Rotary Club is meeting every Wednesday at 7:00 am at the Symphony Towers University Club, 750 B Street, Suite 3400. Next scheduled speakers:
For last minute changes, please check http://www.sdrotary.org! |
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Members' Bulletin Board
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| Rotaract
& Rotary Trivia Professional Development A club's professional development activities should expand the members' understanding of the work environment and business opportunities within their community. These activities should highlight the Rotaractor's role in the community's economic development and illustrate how skills developed through service activities can help resolve problems in the workplace. Each Rotaract club should provide professional development opportunities to its members through activities such as:
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| Contact Information If you have information, suggestions or feedback that you think the board might use to improve the club, we'd love to hear what you think, so please send your ideas to info@sdrotaract.org, snail-mail them to
or contact any member of the board directly:
If you have an announcement you'd like to have included in the weekly newsletter, please send it to newsletter@sdrotaract.org with "Newsletter" in the subject line no later than Friday evening. You are receiving this e-mail, because you have come to a meeting of the Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego and have filled out your e-mail address on one of our forms. If you would like to be removed from all (!!!) Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego e-mails, please write an e-mail to newsletter@sdrotaract.org with "Remove" in the subject line. We'll miss you! |
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