Weekly Announcements
June 28, 2005
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements June 28, 2005 |
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| Next Meeting Our first general meeting of the 2005-2006 Rotaract year will be held on Tuesday, July 05, 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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| Farewell Message from President Geoff
Miller Dear Friends, This June has provided me with the perfect ending for my term as President. In the last month, I’ve had the privilege of honoring Martin Blair and marking the 10th anniversary of the Downtown Rotaract. I’ve had the pleasure of presenting San Diego Hospice with the largest check we’ve ever donated to a beneficiary. I’ve had the honor of representing my fellow Rotaractors on an international stage and accepting an award we all worked together to earn. I’ve had the opportunity to share my heart with you one last time in my farewell address at my last meeting. And I've had the good fortune to receive a wonderfully heartfelt and touching gift from you in return. The 2004-2005 year has been our best as a club and I feel so lucky to have been able to lead such a talented and passionate group of people. And I am so excited to be a part of Andrea Espinoza’s Presidency. I’m sure that she will find this experience as rewarding as I have and I encourage you all to continue to be involved in this club…it really is something special. I thank each and every one of you for your efforts and for your friendship and I look forward to sharing in the next year’s fun and success. With a lifetime of lessons and memories and an overflowing heart, Geoff Miller President Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego 2004-2005 |
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| News from the Rotary International Centennial
Convention in Chicago Geoff, Andrea, Evan, Bridget, Carl, and Kerrith represented the Downtown Rotaract in Chicago this weekend at the Centennial Convention. They made a big splash on the international scene! As Rotary members from 161 countries descended upon Chicago, they met Rotaractors from every continent and traded ideas and opinions at a number of workshops aimed at increasing member retention, utilizing professional development programs, and creating greater synergy between clubs and districts. Here are some of the highlights: - Andrea and Evan stole the show on a panel discussion of regional service project winners from around the world. In describing our planning and implementation processes to carry out Jazz for Juvenile Diabetes, they demonstrated the professionalism, leadership, and commitment our club regularly puts into every project we do. People were talking about their discussion for the entire weekend and every person we introduced ourselves to showed reverence when we said we were from San Diego. - Geoff accepted the Best Service Project award for USA, Canada, and the Caribbean on behalf of the club and appeared with regional winners from clubs in India, Brazil, Turkey, Hong Kong, and Nigeria. - Mel Gallegos and Jonathan Stone represented our Breakfast Rotary in attending the Rotaract convention with us. Thanks to both for appearing with us. - Outgoing Breakfast Rotary President, Ron Erbetta, and President-Elect Maureen Eberle, helped us celebrate by gettin' their grooves on Saturday night on Rush St! Check the Scrapbook pages in the next few weeks for photo proof of this!! - There was great interest in our weekly newsletter and we will surely be increasing our subscriber totals and adding links to other Rotaract web sites from all over the world as we stay in touch with our new friends. - Rotary International Convention for 2005-2006 is June 11-14, 2006 in Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark (a bridge connects the two cities and countries). |
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| 2nd Annual Life Skills Scavenger
Hunt July 16, 2005 (Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Gaslamp Quarter Join us for the 2nd Annual Life Skills Scavenger Hunt. Teens from the Toussaint Academy will compete to win prizes! They will search for their Life Skills all over the Gaslamp! Activities from 11 am - 4 pm, after party from 4 pm - 6 pm with the kids and then after with adults only at the Octopus Garden! We need volunteers to help set up and break down, as well as work at designated stations, pretending to be different service persons, for example, one volunteer was the "cable provider," another the "bank teller," etc. For more information or to sign up e-mail or call: Andrea Espinoza, 619-921-9422 |
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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 / events:
For last minute changes, please check http://www.sdrotary.org! |
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Members' Bulletin Board
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| Rotaract & Rotary Trivia Featured Rotary International Project: Helping Kids With Burns Over seven million children a year suffer from severe burns throughout Latin America. Without proper treatment, those that survive suffer for the rest of their lives. The source of the problem: home fire heating, open fire cooking, household accidents, and carelessness with fireworks. To address these concerns, Rotarian Jorge Rojas started the Burned Children Foundation in 1979 and has had Rotary support ever since. "We can treat about 7,000 patients a year with skin grafting free of charge," said Phillip Bradbury, of the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C., USA. The project has been made possible by funds raised by Rotarians and partnerships through Matching Grants. "We are looking to apply for another 3-H Grant in the near future," says Bradbury, a director on the Coaniquem Burned Children Foundation board. The project also has an adoption program in which an individual or a group incures the expense outright of a child's treatment. More information is available at the project's web site www.burnedchildren.org. (Copied from: http://www.rotary.org/events/conventions/2005coverage/index.html) |
| 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:
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