Weekly Announcements
February 22, 2005
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements February 22, 2005 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 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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| Happy 100th Birthday to Rotary! On Wednesday, February 23, Rotary International turns 100 years old! There will be a special celebration at our Downtown Breakfast Rotary meeting on Wednesday morning. Please RSVP to Ron Erbetta, President of the San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Club, if you plan on attending the Rotary meeting on the 23rd. Meeting details are below. Happy Birthday Rotary!!! Here's to another 100 years!! |
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| Thank You to Last Week's Guest Speaker Huge Thanks to Ms. Christine Shimasaki, Executive Vice President of the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau, for joining us at the last Rotaract meeting to speak with us about professional development. Ms. Shimasaki spoke on the topic of professional development and career paths, and how many times, professional development is not a linear path, but rather a chance to spot opportunities and to continually grow. She offered three major points: a. "Opportunities never die…they just pass on to someone else." Her own experience lead her from graduate school to working with Atari, to the Marriott, to Great America Theme Park, etc…she recommends always moving forward, always growing. b. "Whenever you fall, pick something up." – Oswald Avery. Bad things always happen, life happens! Attitude makes all the difference and Ms. Shimasaki recommends being contagious in a positive way. c. "When you're through changing, you're through." – Bruce Barton. Change and growth don't usually occur according to our time frame! However, there are some changes we can control – for example, returning to school to gain higher education. This is a way to be your own change agent. |
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| Centennial Project: Senior Center BBQ February 26 (Saturday) 12:00 - 3:00 pm Senior Community Center, 525 14th Street, Downtown On February 26th, the Downtown Rotaract will be teaming up with Senior Community Centers of San Diego for a BBQ social with the residents located at 525 14th Street, San Diego. The event will run from 12PM to 3PM. All are welcome to stop by and BBQ with our downtown neighbors. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Carl Tiu at 201-841-5042 or at ctiu2@yahoo.com. |
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| North County Rotaract Planning Meeting March 1 (Tuesday) KC BBQ Dick Troncone, our incumbent District Liaison, Bess Wakeman, Asst. District Liaison, and Howard Kummerman, incoming Liaison, will be in attendance at our March 1 meeting and afterwards they will conduct a planning session for the proposed North County Rotaract. We have already had a number of our members who make the commute from North County express interest in founding this club and serving board positions. Our plan is to treat North County Rotaract as a sister club and to make it possible for anyone in the Downtown Rotaract club to attend both club’s meetings. If you are interested in finding out about Rotaract’s expansion into North County, please RSVP to Geoff before March 1. |
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| "ARTS Fore! Children" Golf Tournament March 5 (Saturday) On March 5th, the Downtown Rotaract will be volunteering at the first annual "ARTS Fore! Children" Golf Tournament at the child-friendly Presidio Hills Golf Course in Old Town, located in San Diego, CA. It’s a golf tournament with a twist – the children ARTS serve & care for will be the competing golfers! ARTS is a San Diego-based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing hope, healing, and self confidence to the lives of children and youth facing adversities by providing expressive opportunities through the visual and performing arts. The Downtown Rotaract will be volunteering with chaperoning the kids as they compete. For more info please contact Carl Tiu at 201-841-5042 or at ctiu2@yahoo.com. |
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| Lost Boys Rotaract Liaison Position to Be
Appointed We are planning to assist the Lost Boys in their first ever Fundraising Dinner, April 16 at the Handlery Hotel. As part of our plan to assist, Geoff would like to appoint a Lost Boys Rotaract Liaison who would report to our club on ways that we can help their club get established. Downtown Rotaract members are needed to attend planning meetings for the fundraiser, to provide mentoring for Lost Boys officers so they can learn to run their own events, and to attend general Lost Boys/Mid City Rotaract meetings as well. We would like to have 2-3 of our members attend each meeting and the liaison could provide organization and leadership for our combined efforts. If you are interested in representing our club at the Lost Boys/Mid City Rotaract meetings, please email Geoff. Lost Boys Rotaract meetings are 1st and 3rd Saturdays from 10:00 am - 11:00 am at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) office at 4535 30th Street, Suite 115. The next meeting will take place on Saturday, March 5. Please e-mail Breanne Thornton at IRC or Duom Deng to RSVP. The Lost Boys of Sudan Since 1983, nearly five million people have been displaced by the civil war in Sudan. Among these are at least 20,000 children, mostly boys, between 7 and 17 years of age who were separated from their families. They trekked enormous distances over a vast unforgiving wilderness, seeking refuge from the fighting. Thousands died along the way – they drowned, were eaten by wild animals, shot by military forces or overcome by hunger, dehydration or fatigue. Thousands of others survived to tell the story. They became known to the world as the "Lost Boys of Sudan." After 14 years in refugee camps, their plight came to the attention of the U.S. State Department and beginning in 2001, thousands of these courageous young men were resettled in the United States. Read more: – IRC's National Lost Boys Education Fund: Lost Boys of Sudan – American Red Cross: Lost and Found - Orphaned Sudanese Refugees Come to America – Unicef: The Lost Boys of the Sudan – Church Word Service: The Story of the Lost Boys – Lost Boys of Sudan in Chicago |
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| Election Time Sooner This Year! The board has decided to move elections up from May to April this year (we hope that this will become a permanent change). New board members will still take office July 1, at the beginning of the new fiscal year, but the additional time as "officers-elect" will allow for a better transition from the current board to the new board. We plan to mentor each new board member, allow the new board to attend board meetings, and provide experience and knowledge transfer for planning events and meetings in advance of taking office. This is another step in the growth of the club and we believe that this extra training period will produce an even stronger 2005-2006 Rotaract year! Mark your calendars now as we need every member to participate in the nomination and voting processes.
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| 3rd Annual Ace of Hearts May 12, 2005 (Thursday) 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Sidebar $25 Rotaract/Rotary Member $30 Rotaract Prospects/General Public Sign up today to get in on the event of 2005! Volunteer! Email Evan if you are interested in either a leadership role or an assistance role for the event planning and promotion. You can volunteer in any of these areas:
Click on the links to see pictures of Ace of Hearts from 2003 and 2004. Ace of Hearts is a great night of casino-style gaming for a great cause. This year's beneficiary is San Diego Hospice. Please go to www.sdhospice.org to learn more about this amazing non-profit group that we will all be working hard for. |
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| New Web Page Keeps Track of Former SD Rotaract
Members We will be creating a new section on the web site that displays a virtual "where are they now" to any San Diego Rotaract members who no longer live in San Diego. We'll mark US and World maps with symbols in the cities where members are currently living and an email address for anyone who wants to participate. Our goal is to show that not only does Rotaract span the globe, so does the San Diego Rotaract! And we hope that this will help our "expat" members stay connected to us as well as let us know where we can find friends when we travel. If you have been a Downtown Rotaract member in the past and you are living in another city, please email Dave and ask him to place your city and email address on the map. And if you happen to know someone who we might be missing, please pass this idea along to them and ask them to reconnect with the club. |
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| SD Rotaract Featured in San Diego Magazine Two pictures from our Jazz for Juvenile Diabetes Fundraiser are printed in the "Seen" section of San Diego Magazine's February issue. You can check out the website to see more pictures that weren't included in the print issue. Here's the link: http://www.sandiegomag.com/seen/february05/seen_jazz.asp |
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| Annual Sponsorship An annual sponsorship for Ace of Hearts and Jazz for Juvenile Diabetes is currently being sought. A single sponsorship at the $5,000 level is available. If you would like to review the sponsorship opportunity information or would like to forward a lead, please email Evan Papel, Fundraising Chair. |
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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 2003-04 Outstanding Rotaract Project Winner – Europe Helping students learn a vocational skill while preserving the environment was the project goal of the Rotaract Club of Bursa Osmangazi, District 2440, Turkey. The club identified the Nilufer Vocational High School, a school for hearing impaired students, as the perfect opportunity to teach independence and respect for the environment. Rotaractors decorated and installed machinery for a vocational workshop on the school's premises. The workshop operates 5 days a week serving 300 students. |
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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:
Looking for information from one of our past newsletters? Accidentally deleted one of our Weekly Announcement e-mails? Click here to get to our Newsletter Archive! 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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