Weekly Announcements
September 13, 2005
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements September 13, 2005 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. Please note: Money raised from the Bitches & Brags will be sent to Hurricane relief. Bring a couple extra dollars to the meeting to donate to this cause. Details below. We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
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| Hurricane Katrina Donation & Volunteer
Opportunities We collected $158 during Bitches and Brags at the last meeting for the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Now, we want to raise over $300 in the upcoming meeting, so bring your stories, your sympathy and your wallet. Aside from donating through our club, you may also contact a variety of organizations who are providing relief efforts. Volunteer San Diego has a list of ways you can help. Check out the listed options on their web site to see if there is a way you may become involved. Additional ways to donate:
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| Annual Rancho Jireh Picnic on
Sunday! September 18 (Sunday) 2:00 pm Crown Point South Our Annual Rancho Jireh picnic will be held this Sunday! 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. It's sure to be a good time! If you would still like to volunteer, please send Miguel an email to sign up. |
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| Guest Speaker on September 20th Our next Professional Development speaker is Dr. Jean Greaves, CEO of TalentSmart, Inc. and co-author of "The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book". TalentSmart helps companies develop human capital by providing leadership development and emotional intelligence tests, training, and consulting. Their clients include 3M, Morgan Stanley, AT&T, BMW, and Starbucks among many many others. Dr. Greaves holds a Ph.D. degree in organizational psychology, so look forward to gaining a lot of insight into the workplace. |
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| 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. |
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| Movie Night at the Drive-In
Theater September 30 (Friday) South Bay Drive-In Theatres Remember the good old "Happy Days," when movies were a quarter and you watched them from the inside of your '64 Ford Fairlane? No? Well, neither do I! That said, you can still experience the nostalgia at the South Bay Drive-In Theatres. We're gonna go down there, sit in our cars, littler them with popcorn, goobers and Cracker Jacks, and oh yeah, we'll watch a movie, on the evening of September 30th. Maybe we'll even make it a double-feature! Stay tuned and watch for the Evite. |
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| 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. |
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| Cultural Exchange Committee We are very excited to participate in a cultural exchange this year with the Rotaract Club of Kavaklidere, Turkey. 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. |
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| 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! |
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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 Miguel 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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| Rotaract & Rotary Trivia Thousands Sheltered by Rotarian Effort By Tonya Weger, Rotary International News, 9 September 2005 Rotarians from several districts and clubs are diligently working to provide refugees with shelter from the storm, as they have been since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on 29 August. To date, their efforts have provided emergency accommodation for up to 24,000 survivors via 1,200 ShelterBoxes — containing tents and necessary equipment — delivered throughout the U.S. Gulf Coast. "This is the first time [ShelterBoxes] are needed in the U.S. since there's standing water in a whole city," said Jerry Hearn, a past district governor of District 6960 and active member of Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch, Florida, where ShelterBox is an ongoing community service project. Hearn's district was hit hard by Hurricane Charlie in 2004. "But it was nothing to this scale; we could stay in our homes," he said. Due to the mass homelessness caused by Katrina, boxes were altered to accommodate two tents that house 10 people each. "We omitted 10 sleeping bags because the Salvation Army had enough cots for everyone," Hearn said. The distribution of ShelterBoxes is one of the main Rotarian relief efforts for Katrina at this time, and it's being coordinated throughout the entire United States. Rotarians are working closely with agencies such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army. "We continue to let them know what we have," Hearn explained. "We don't just drop [the boxes] off." Whether it's identifying campgrounds or other suitable places to set up tents or teaching the community how to best construct their ShelterBox villages, Rotarians are on the ground and making a difference. "I do believe we're getting a handle on the areas that were affected," said RI Director Bob Stuart, a member of the Rotary Club of Springfield, Illinois. "We are trying to reach all evacuees." According to Past District Governor Frank Bradshaw, a member of the Rotary Club of Lafayette South, Louisiana, 200 ShelterBoxes were taken to Katrina's ground zero in Gulfport, Mississippi. Lafayette and Lake Charles, Louisiana, were other early ShelterBox recipients. The Houston Astrodome received 200 boxes, which were later distributed to areas such as Jackson, Mississippi, where there was a greater need for additional shelter. Atlanta, Georgia, is slated to receive 400 units for evacuees there. And Rotarians are working to determine how to get more ShelterBoxes to areas that remain destitute. "Today it's the Delta south of New Orleans — there is very much need there," Hearn said. "In their recovery effort, they're where New Orleans was last week. The media was concentrating on New Orleans, and no one heard anything about these areas." The ShelterBox project began in England but has since spread to Australia, Canada, and the United States. The Rotarian-sponsored groups ship units globally to areas in need. For more information on relief efforts and ways to help, please visit RI's World Community Service Disaster Relief page and check the RI home page frequently for updates. © 2005 Rotary International http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/programs/050909_shelterbox.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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