Weekly Announcements
October 12, 2004
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements October 12, 2004 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. More information below. We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
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| TJ Homebuilding Wrap Up What an amazing effort from everyone on this project! We got up early, got home late, got our fingers dirty, and built three houses for extremely grateful families. This truly was a culmination of international, community service, and fund raising efforts that should make everyone involved in Rotaract proud. Photos will be coming soon and they’ll show us sawing, hammering, roofing, raising walls, affixing doors, and having lots of fun along the way. Thanks to all who participated for their hard work and for representing Rotaract so well. Special thanks to Justin Carreiro and Chris Jaccard for driving their cars across the border and very special thanks to Josh Slodki for his organization of an entire team from donation through caravan and construction this weekend. |
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| Election Time Is Coming! November is fast approaching, which also means it's almost time to vote! At our next meeting, we'll discuss the upcoming election and the importance of exercising your right to vote. We'll also be having a guest speaker to elaborate on these topics. |
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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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| 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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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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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 Leadership Development A club's leadership development activities not only aim to make members more effective leaders in their personal lives, but also to teach them how to develop and sustain strong clubs with relevant projects. Each Rotaract club should provide leadership development opportunities to its members through activities that encourage the following: * Improving public speaking skills * Learning techniques for marketing the Rotaract program to potential members * Building consensus among members * Delegating project responsibilities and ensuring the necessary follow-up * Identifying channels for project publicity and promotion * Finding financial resources for strengthening club development * Assessing project success Additionally, consider providing ongoing leadership development opportunities to Rotaractors in the district as they strengthen their understanding of Rotary. |
| 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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