Weekly Announcements
November 09, 2004
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements November 09, 2004 |
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| Next Meeting Please note: Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 6:30 pm at the Toussaint Teen Center Downtown. The TTC is on the corner of 5th and Ash (1440 5th Avenue). Please remember to bring your food item to share, and remember we are feeding approximately 30 teens! More information below. We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
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| Late Breaking News: Challenge Air Postponed to
February Originally scheduled for this Saturday, November 13, Challenge Air has been postponed until February 26, 2005. We will be upholding our commitment to volunteer for the event at that time. Here’s what you can expect in February: The fun-filled day will consist of an educational ground school where the children will learn about the forces of flight and learn how some of the physically challenged pilots fly with specially equipped airplanes; a twenty - thirty minute flight in the co-pilot seat soaring over local points of interest, static aircraft for the kids to tour, face painting, clowns, music, a visit from the Canine Companions for Independence, food and other fun. The Challenge Air "Fly Day" focuses on the children’s abilities and shows them through example the many possibilities available to them in aviation. The Sky’s the Limit! This is an amazing opportunity to inspire and motivate children and youth living with physical challenges and life-threatening illnesses. This is a free event for all participating children and families. |
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| Toussaint Teen Center Thanksgiving November 16 6:30 pm Toussaint Teen Center, corner of 5th and Ash (1440 5th Avenue) Join us for our Thanksgiving potluck meeting on November 16th, hosted at the Toussaint Teen Center. We will be conducting our meeting with 30 teens from the center, and having one huge potluck! There are so many things to be thankful for, why not share this time with our new and old friends? The Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego has been building a close relationship with the Toussaint Teen Center, which is an organization designed to foster a sense of belonging, competence, and self-esteem to runaway or homeless teenagers in the San Diego area. The TTC is a home where teens find refuge from the streets, attend class, receive counseling and build trust. Please plan on bringing a side dish, main dish, dessert or beverage to share! Call Andrea Espinoza, Vice President, at 619-921-9422 or e-mail Andrea to find out what food item is needed. For more information about the Center, visit Toussaint Teen Center. |
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| Thanksgiving Meal Delivery November 25 (Thursday) ElderHelp, in conjunction with the MOMeals Thanksgiving Meal Delivery: The MOMeals program delivers hot, festive meals and a visit to homebound seniors on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2004. The Downtown Rotaract club will be volunteering to help deliver meals on Thanksgiving Day. Volunteers will deliver 5 meals in groups and should plan on spending about 2 hours of their morning. To sign up or obtain more info, please contact Carl. |
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| 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. Tickets Now On Sale This years amazing event brought to you by Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego and Jazz 88 is sure to sell out. Be the first to get your tickets on our secure Paypal site. Please visit http://www.sdrotaract.org/Juvenile_jazz_info.html to get your tickets today! We can either hold your tickets at Will Call or mail them to you. Don’t forget to check out the amazing raffle! Prizes range from a United Airlines Ticket anywhere in the continental US ($1500 value) to Lego Land tickets! Support the cause and win fun prizes! Sponsorship Opportunities Still Available Click here for a list of opportunities to support the cause and get your name out to the Rotary and Rotaract community! If you have any questions, please contact Evan. |
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| Fundraiser: Entertainment® Books All Proceeds to Benefit the Tijuana Homebuilding Fund! Everybody knows the Entertainment® Book - full of 50% and 2-for-1 discounts on restaurants, movies, sporting events and more. Your friends and family will find great savings in travel, groceries, and entertainment, while at the same time raising money in support of our Rotaract club. The Entertainment® Book pays for itself in just a few uses with $1000s in savings. Books are available in 44 states and throughout Canada and are super easy to sell - people enjoy saving money while supporting a good cause! The Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego receives $8 per book, plus an incentive rewards program that nets a total of $200 to Rotaract for every 21 books sold! All proceeds will go to the Tijuana Homebuilding Fund! There are two ways to help your friends and family save money and help Rotaract! Check out the details in the Special Announcement we sent on October 18th. Please contact Evan Papel with any questions or assistance in further sales techniques. Thank you so much for your help in making this fundraiser a great success! We couldn't do it without you! |
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| District Rotaract Liaison Position
Available District 5340 is looking for a Rotaract member to act as liaison for all the clubs in the San Diego area. This person would coordinate projects between the Downtown, UCSD, SDSU, Grossmont, and Lost Boys clubs and work in conjunction with Dick Troncone and Bess Wakeman (Rotary’s District Rotaract liaisons). In addition, the new liaison would play a key role in the potential development of a North County Rotaract club. This is an excellent opportunity for exhibiting and developing leadership skills and it would be an honor for any of our members to be considered. If you are interested in finding out more about becoming the first Rotaract liaison in our District, please e-mail Geoff before November 11. |
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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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| Rotaract
& Rotary Trivia Rotaract History - Part 4 A special committee was convened to design the new service club program for young adults during 1966. After polling students at the University of Houston, Texas, USA, the committee decided that "Rotaract" would be the best name for the program — a combination of the words "Rotary" and "action." Coincidentally, the service club at the University of North Carolina had already adopted the name in 1966, but they coined it as a combination of the names "Rotary" and "Interact." The committee also decided that young women should be allowed to join on equal standing with male members at the discretion of the sponsoring Rotary club. Within a day of the certification of the Rotaract Club of the University of North Carolina, the Rotaract Club of the University of La Salle was chartered in Tacubaya, Mexico. The Rotaract Clubs of Florence, Italy, Gaston College, North Carolina, and Secunderabad, India, were all certified in the following weeks. The young adults' clubs that had already existed in many regions fueled the rapid growth of Rotaract for the first few years. |
| 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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