Weekly Announcements
January 24, 2006
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements January 24, 2006 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. Please note: There will be no meeting on January 31, 2006. We are only meeting on the first and third Tuesdays of each month! We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
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| Power of Love Foundation and Thanks to Guest
Speaker Dr. Subramanian Our guest speaker at the last general meeting was Suresh Subramanian, Ph.D., the Executive Director of the Power of Love Foundation and member of the board of the Global AIDS Alliance. He spoke about the need to be active in the struggle against AIDS and how the Power of Love is striving to increase effectiveness of prevention of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The Power of Love Foundation is a US non-profit that was officially founded in 2002 by Suresh Subramanian, Alka Subramanian and Ellen Furnari to develop community responses to the AIDS crisis in Africa. Although his speaking time with us was short, we thank Dr. Subramanian for his powerful message. Please look through the website to learn more about the mission and what you can do to help. |
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Choosing an Ace of Hearts
Beneficiary – Members Only! In May, the Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego will host it's 4th Annual Ace of Hearts fundraiser. Even though we have just (successfully) gotten through our last fundraiser in December, we will be in the beginning stages of planning for Ace of Hearts soon enough. The most critical piece in the pre-planning stage is here. We need to choose our beneficiary! Members (only) of our Rotaract club are encouraged to submit a "proposal" for their non-profit beneficiary of choice and the board will be voting in our February board meeting. Please email Andrea Espinoza with the name of the organization, the contact person(s) if known, a website and your thoughts/reasons why we as a club should donate to that particular organization. All email proposals need to be submitted by Friday, February 10th. |
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Whale Watching
Tour January 28 (Saturday) 1:00 pm (duration: 3 hours starting at 1:30 pm) H&M Landing, 2803 Emerson Street, Point Loma January Rotaract Social Event Ahoy mateys, We're a goin' on a Rotaract whale hunting journey. So batten down the hatches, hoist the mainsail, pull up anchors, tighten that winch, ...well, you get it! It's whale migration season and we're going on a 3-hour tour to watch them. We found a ship that leaves from the Point Loma harbor at 1:30 pm on Saturday, January 28, 2006. Try to get there 30 minutes early! It's $20 per person. We would highly recommend reserving your spot. If we can get enough people to tell us they're coming for sure, we will reserve the spots and try to get a group rate. Nonetheless, we'd recommend reserving your spot ahead of time and then cancelling if we get back to everyone that we have a better deal. For more whale watching info, click here. If you haven't received the evite, please click here or email Felix and ask him to send you one. So come aboard, we're expecting you. See you at the harbor! |
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SD Deployed Marine Care Package
Event & BBQ January 29 (Sunday) 1:00 pm Danielle Esposito's house, 3512 Grim Avenue (at Myrtle), North Park, 619.358.9668 Come on out to Danielle's lovely abode (okay, lovely may be pushing it (her words!), but she does have a yard with some grass and a pretty tree) this Sunday afternoon to help us put together personalized care packages to send to Marines in Iraq for Valentine's day. And also to eat grilled stuff, veg out in Danielle's backyard and make a big old mess. We'll be providing the shipping materials and the food and maybe even some beer, but please bring something fun/practical/tasty to send and a few bucks ($10-12) to chip in for the food and shipping costs. Here's a link to a website with some good ideas about what works and what doesn't. Keep in mind that the most appreciated gifts may be things you have laying around the house - local newspapers, magazines and books (and not just Maxim and Kerouac - include Cosmo and some chick-lit for the women!), non-perishable and non-meltable snacks, disposable cameras, crystal light, razors, DVDs, mix CDs (how cool would that be if we each made a mix CD?), etc. Please email Danielle with questions or to RSVP. If possible, let her know what you're thinking of bringing so we don't have 1900 packets of ramen noodles. And please feel free to offer up your culinary skills and/or contribute offerings to Dionysus (aka the god of wine, for the non-pagan among us). See you there! |
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| Bridging the World – Rotaract Preconvention
Meeting 2006 June 08-11 Malmö, Sweden & Copenhagen, Denmark For the first time in the history of Rotary International the annual world conference will take place in Scandinavia and will be a joint conference in Sweden and Denmark! This year Rotaract is invited to take an active part. The theme is "Bridging the World" – a bridge between countries and cultures and a bridge within the Rotary family. It is with great pleasure we invite you to join Rotaract Preconvention on June 8th-11th and the Rotary International Convention 2006 June 11th-14th in Beautiful Malmö and Wonderful Copenhagen. The Preconvention 2006 offers a variety of educational events including vocational workshops, inspirational speeches and company visits. The social highlights will include welcome party, an International Night, sightseeing and of course a traditional Grand Gala. Along with the educational and social events, Preconvention is an opportunity to experience fellowship with other Rotaractors, lots of interaction and of course to experience what a Rotary International Convention is all about. The setting is Scandinavia, home of Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren – the place of fairytales! See the Little Mermaid, the many castles and perhaps meet the Royal families of Sweden and Denmark! Don’t miss the new concept of Home hosting B&B! Rotaractors from Denmark and Sweden open up their homes for our foreign guest during the Convention days June 11th–14th. This is the chance for you to experience the Danish concept of “hygge” (having a great time) and of course experience true international Rotaract fellowship! At www.rotaract.se/preconvention2006/ you can find more information about the social programme for Preconvention 2006, accommodation and of course register for this once in a lifetime event! To register for the Preconvention meetings on June 9th-10th please visit www.rotary.org. Please notice that the cheapest price is with registration for the social programme before January 31st 2006 and for the Preconvention, December 31st 2005. We are looking forward to see you in Beautiful Malmö and Wonderful Copenhagen, June 2006. Best Regards, Anders Forslund & Kristine Binzer Chairmen of the Rotaract Preconvention Committee |
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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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Members' Bulletin Board
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