Weekly Announcements
May 10, 2005
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements May 10, 2005 |
* * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
||||||||
| Rotary to Match our Donations! Our wonderful parent club, the Downtown Breakfast Rotary, has committed to match our donation to SD Hospice, virtually guaranteeing that this will be our largest fundraiser ever! Rotary will match our funds dollar for dollar, up to $2,000 and then will match 10% for any money we earn above that amount. So please spend these last few days doing anything you can to bring in donations, sell raffle tickets, and fill the house on May 12. Special thanks to Downtown Breakfast Rotary President, Ron Erbetta, and the rest of the Rotary board for their generosity. |
||||||||
| 3rd Annual Ace of Hearts on
Thursday! May 12, 2005 (Thursday) 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Sidebar $25 Rotaract/Rotary Member $30 Rotaract Prospects/General Public Raffle tickets: 1 for $5 or 5 for $20 The Third Annual Ace of Hearts benefit will be at Sidebar on May 12, 2005 from 7pm – 10pm. Tickets are $30 for the general public (and Rotaract prospective members) and $25 for Rotary and Rotaract members. A great Monte Carlo night featuring a fun night of casino style gambling with craps, blackjack, roulette and more. This years beneficiary is San Diego Hospice. San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care is a not-for-profit, independent health care organization providing expert pain management and compassionate care to adults, children and infants living with serious or life-limiting illness. Their amazing mission is to prevent and relieve suffering and promote quality of life, at every stage of life, through patient and family care, education, research and advocacy. To learn more about Hospice, please visit www.sdhospice.org. Our online ticketing page has gone live for Ace of Hearts. You can purchase tickets and Raffle tickets instantly with your credit card or with your Paypal account. And if you can’t be with us for the fun and games, you can still make a donation to San Diego Hospice using the online system. Attention All Members: Please help us spread the word about Ace of Hearts by sending the page link to as many friends/family as you can think of, even if you know they can’t join us. We need page views for advertising purposes and we would like to beat the Jazz for Juvenile Diabetes 2004 total dollars raised online. Amazing Raffle! This year’s raffle is shaping up to be the best yet! The grand prize is a trip for 2 to Vegas. The winners will have a private plane to Sin City and a 2 night stay at the Westin’s beautiful location in Vegas. Click here to see more. First Sponsor Signed Up Special thanks to Winning Mind for being Rotaract’s first sponsor of this years Ace of Hearts. Please visit their website at www.thewinningmind.com. Several companies have been contacted and discussions are ongoing for more! 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. |
||||||||
| North County Rotaract Has Begun Next North County Rotaract Planning meeting: May 11 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm Neiman's Restaurant Please RSVP in advance to Tom Base. The planning for launch of the new North County Rotaract club began April 27. Newly appointed Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary liaison, Tom Base, facilitated the first planning meeting and a number of Downtown Rotaractors who live and work in North County were in attendance. The first step toward becoming an official club will be to gather 15 members and there will be a full board to be elected in the next month or two. North County Rotaract meetings will be held on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. If you live/work in North County or know someone who does and wants to get involved in Rotaract, this is a chance to be a founding member! Please contact Tom Base for more information or to express your interest in joining. |
||||||||
| Guest Speaker on May 17: Perry Peake May 17 (Tuesday) 6:30 pm Kansas City BBQ Chief Perry Peake has an extensive background involving work with the San Diego fire department, FEMA and many emergency response teams around the country. Having started in the fire department at age sixteen, he has successfully worked his way to become a highly regarded leader and authority in his field. Chief Peake was a FEMA Task Force Leader for rescue efforts on the World Trade Center site, and also a Branch Director during San Diego's Cedar Fire Incident of 2003. Additionally, Chief Peake has also worked in various business management and consulting positions, including his time as President of San Diego Medical Services Enterprise. We are excited to be welcoming Chief Perry Peake at our next (May 17) meeting, when he will talk about what he has learned throughout his professional experiences. |
||||||||
| Rotary vs. Rotaract Bowling
Championship May 20 (Friday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mira Mesa Lanes, 8210 Mira Mesa It's time to win our trophy back! Remember our beach volleyball championship with The San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Club last summer? Uh, yeah...sadly, we got spanked and they earned full bragging rights along with the beautiful Chianti trophy. Well, now’s our chance to redeem ourselves and earn that trophy back. Polish your ball, shine your shoes, and mark your calendar! It’s time to step-up, people. We have a bowling competition to win! Don't miss this opportunity to mingle with our sponsoring Rotary Club and meet new, interesting, and influential people. This event will run from 7-9 pm at Mira Mesa Lanes. $15/person includes use of the stylish bowling shoes. Members, prospective members, and guests are all welcome. To ensure we secure enough space, please reply to the evite by May 09. |
||||||||
|
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. |
||||||||
| 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 / events:
For last minute changes, please check http://www.sdrotary.org! |
||||||||
Members' Bulletin Board
|
||||||||
| Rotaract & Rotary Trivia Rotary "Firsts" The first Rotary club meeting was in Chicago, Illinois, on February 23, 1905. The first regular luncheon meetings were in Oakland, California, chartered in 1909. The first Rotary Convention was in Chicago in 1910. |
| 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! |
| ©
2005 The Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego http://www.sdrotaract.org |