Weekly Announcements
November 16, 2004
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements November 16, 2004 |
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| Next Meeting Please note: Today's meeting will be held at the Toussaint Teen Center! Our next general meeting will be held today, 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. Our guest speaker tonight will be Darren Smith from Mighty 1090 AM. Check out the details below. We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
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| A Message From the President As the Holidays approach and the year winds down, I thought this would be a good time to thank everyone for making 2004 such an amazing year for Rotaract. And this being a festive time filled with travel plans to see family and friends, I wanted to provide an "at a glance" look at the landmark events that remain on our Rotaract calendar so nobody will be left out. If you haven’t been to a meeting or a social or community service event lately, you’ve missed something big! We’ve had an infusion of energetic new members and prospects and there is a buzz that is growing from meeting to meeting, event to event. Nobody wants to miss a Rotaract function for fear of missing an unforgettable experience. This incredibly talented board continues to impress me with their heart and their ambition and they are preparing a flurry of opportunities for each of you to share in "the next unforgettable experience". The club is transforming into a great big family. And who could think of a better way to spend the Holidays, than with their families? So I hope you’ll be a part of our Rotaract Family at as many of these events as possible in the coming month. Humbly and with plenty to be thankful for this year, Geoff Miller Rotaract At a Glance
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| Today's Guest Speaker: Darren Smith - Mighty 1090
AM Our Professional Development Speaker on November 16: Darren Smith, Mighty 1090 AM We will be welcoming Darren Smith from Mighty 1090 to the Toussaint Teen Center tell us about his background as a radio talk show host and a sports journalist. He’ll share with us his encounters with professional athletes and the choices he has made to get him to this place in his career. Darren attended St. John’s University and has worked on ESPN’s “Dan Patrick Show” and freelanced for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. |
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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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| Centennial Project Has Been Chosen The board has made a decision to partner with the Downtown Breakfast Rotary for our Centennial Community Service project. Every Rotary club has chosen a special project that will be completed in honor of Rotary’s 100th year and we wanted to do the same. Our decision to assist our sponsoring Rotary in restoring and improving the Potiker Family Senior Residence will be the next step in bringing our clubs closer together and we will be providing the critical manpower that Rotary needs in order to complete their project. Carl Tiu has met with Carol Jensen, who is heading the Centennial Project for Rotary, and Ron Erbetta, our Rotary President, as well as a director of the Senior Center and will be reporting on the scope and first activity days for the project at Tuesday’s meeting. |
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| Rotaract Holiday Party 2004 December 18 Mark your calendars! Our Rotaract Holiday Party will be held Saturday, December 18 in Ocean Beach. We will celebrate the Holidays together with a sensational potluck feast and a lively White Elephant gift exchange! So be sure to save the date. More details to follow. |
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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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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 Rotaract History - Part 5 By 1981, Rotaract was so popular that Rotaractors in South Africa decided to host the first INTEROTA conference, an international meeting for all Rotaractors. Subsequent conferences have been held every three years. To date, INTEROTA conferences have been hosted by Rotaractors in Australia, Brazil, England, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey. International meetings for Rotaractors are also held every year at the Rotaract Preconvention Meeting that precedes Rotary's annual convention. The first such meeting was held in Seoul, Korea, in 1989, with more than 450 Rotaractors in attendance. Several developments in the early 1990s helped strengthen the Rotaract movement. In February 1991, the first Rotaract club in Eastern Europe was chartered in Budapest, Hungary, with the help of Austrian Rotaractors. Ties with Eastern Europe were further strengthened when the same Austrian Rotaractors helped charter the Rotaract Club of Prague in what was then Czechoslovakia later in 1991. In March 1992, the RI Board established World Rotaract Week, which is celebrated annually during the week of 13 March to commemorate the chartering of the first Rotaract club. During World Rotaract Week, Rotaractors attend meetings with their sponsoring Rotary clubs, undertake joint service projects, and speak with clubs that do not sponsor Rotaract clubs about the benefits of the program. |
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