Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements August 30, 2005

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Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. Please note: There will be no meeting today! We only meet on the first and third Tuesday of each month. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Munich Interota Conference 2005 September 11 - 18 (Sunday - Sunday) Munich, Germany Themed "Be Rotaractive - Create Future", Rotaractors, Rotarians and their guests from all over the world are invited to come together at the Interota conference in Munich from September 11 - 18, 2005. The conference aims at picking up the Rotaract principles: Learn, Help and Celebrate. The conference will also serve as a platform for getting to know Rotaractors worldwide, making friends and establishing transcontinental partnerships with the help of atmospheric celebrations as well as an attractive culture and sight-seeing program. For more information visit http://www.interota.org.

Annual Rancho Jireh Picnic September 18 (Sunday) 2:00 pm Crown Point South A new date has been selected and we are excited to start the planning process for this event! Join us on September 18th for our annual Rancho Jireh Picnic. Rancho Jireh Foster Homes is a non-profit Christian ministry serving the needs of abused and neglected children. Founded in 1988, Rancho Jireh has successfully placed hurting children with Christian families in San Diego and Riverside counties who have opened their homes and provided individualized care and nurturing, helping children heal and blossom to their true potential. The picnic will be a day of BBQ, games, and a whole lot of fun for new families and Rotaract. We need planners! Volunteers are needed to plan games and get prizes, organize cookie decorating and face painting and also help set up for the event the day of. Please contact Miguel to help in the planning stages. It's sure to be a good time!

Volunteering for the San Diego Festival of Beer September 23 (Friday) 8:30 pm-Midnight Intersection of State & A Streets, Downtown The San Diego Festival of Beer is an event sponsored by the San Diego Professionals Against Cancer (SDPAC) that allows guests to sample beers from a large number of Microbreweries. SDPAC is a non-profit organization in the San Diego area that volunteers their time to help raise money to combat Cancer. This is your chance to help in that fight! The Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego is partnering with them as volunteer bartenders for the night! This is a very fun event and over 3800 people attended last year. All volunteers must be at least 21 years old, attend a fifteen-minute orientation session (which will be given at the start of your shift), and sign a Responsibility Release Waiver. Beer Pouring volunteers will not be allowed to consume beer during their shift... but rumor has it that we'll be all heading downtown for our own fun after the event. Make sure to sign up at the meeting or contact Miguel to secure your spot for this fun event. See pictures from last year's SD Festival of Beer.

Tijuana Homebuilding in October October 08 (Saturday) All day Tijuana, México On Saturday, October 8, Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego members will be heading South of the Border on a day-long trip to help build homes for needy families in Tijuana, México. No experience necessary. This is one of the most impactful community programs in Downtown Rotaract history. You won’t want to miss it! We are signing people up based on membership first, so if you are a prospect, please do everything you can to fill your membership requirements in September so we can give you priority status and can guarantee your place on the homebuilding crew. To learn more about this worthwhile project, please visit México Caravan Ministries' website or feel free to contact your Club's International Chair, Stacey Dindinger.

Cultural Exchange Committee We are very excited to participate in a cultural exchange this year with the Rotaract Club of Kavaklidere, Turkey. Our President and International Chair have been exchanging emails with their respective board members within the past few months and are excited to begin the cultural exchange with two of the most dynamic Rotaract clubs in the world! The president of the Kavaklidere club has written a welcome letter to our club and has included some brief information about their members, their culture and their country. Their cultural box is also on its way containing a home-made DVD from their members, some brochures about Kavaklidere and according to their president, "our best wishes and love from Turkey will be sent to you together with the package." We are in the midst of forming a committee to do footage and gather San Diegan items to send to our fellow Rotaract club. Please contact Stacey to join this committee or for additional information.

French Translator/Penpal Needed We are in need of someone to reply to a club in Djibouti, a french territory in Eastern Africa. Please contact Andrea Espinoza if you are interested in being the translator between clubs and meeting some new and global Rotaract friends!

Member of the Month - July 2005 Dean Koci, past president and co-founder of the Point Loma Nazarene University Rotaract, has jumped right into the downtown club activities from the beginning, even attending the Annual Rotary/Rotaract International Conference in Chicago in June and helping out at the Lifeskills event in July. We are glad to have him as a part of the downtown club. Congratulations, Dean!

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 Miguel 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: August 31 Joe Bauer Formerly of Hudson & Bauer September 07 Steven Penhall Sycuan Indian Casino September 14 Kathleen Murray The Legacy of Jonas Salk September 21 Sally Montrucchio Tender Loving Canines For last minute changes, please check http://www.sdrotary.org!

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Rotaract & Rotary Trivia Rotary Quotables "In 1988 the World Health Assembly agreed that it would commit to eradicating polio in time for the world to be certified polio-free by 2005. Since then, Rotary International, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been leading this massive undertaking." — Mia Farrow, UNICEF Special Representative "Thank you, Rotary, for recognizing that a world without polio is possible. You have been the catalyst for the world to accept and carry out the challenge of eradicating polio from the earth." — Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Copied from: http://www.rotary.org/