Weekly Announcements
July 04, 2006
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements July 04, 2006 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. Please Note: Our club is dark for the 4th of July – please have a safe and fun Independence Day! Return for our meeting on July 18th as Bridget and her new board begin the Rotaract year with a bang! We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
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A Welcome Message from President
Bridget Johnson Happy New Year! Yes, it's also 4th of July. But, welcome to the 'new year' for Rotaract. As difficult as it is for me to believe that the '05-'06 year has ended, I know that there are great things in store for the year ahead. There are many accomplishments and memories of which we may be proud. While we like to hold on to the good times, we can move forward with them as inspiration to create even more new opportunities and to achieve our goals. Rotaract has made a significant difference in my life since I moved to San Diego. I am thrilled to have formed incredible friendships as well as experienced some amazing service acitivities. For these reasons and more, I am honored to be the incoming President of the Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego for 2006-2007. In addition, I am excited to have a strong board working with me, and I thank them for their forthcoming committment and energy. (These individuals will be announced in next week's newsletter.) We are all likely familiar with the sayings, "Life is what you make of it," and "Life is not about what you get, but what you give." Rotaract is a unique gathering of like-hearted young professionals who wish to give of themselves, making life better for the community and for one another. Through our next fundraisers, community service events (both annual and new), semi-monthly meetings, and other activities, we will make the most out of this next year. See you at our first meeting, Tuesday, July 18! Sincerely, Bridget Bridget Johnson President, 2006-2007 The Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego |
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Board Position
Available Would you like to become more involved in our club during the 2006-2007 year? Do you have interest and skill in web design and development? Website Chair may be for you. If this has sparked something inside of you, or if you have interest in becoming more involved with Rotaract in another capacity, please email Bridget. |
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| Lights, Camera, Action: USCC Rotaract
Conference July 19-23 (Wednesday - Sunday) or July 21-23 (Friday - Sunday) UCLA The United States, Canada, and Caribbean (USCC) contains more than 400 Rotaract Clubs, working on a variety of projects on the basic principles of Rotary's "Service Above Self." The Lights, Camera, Action USCC Rotaract Conference is an amazing opportunity for our club to meet more of our Rotaract Family from the USA, Canada and the Caribbean! Anyone that attended last year's Chicago conference can attest to the level of energy, insight and plain ol' fun that was shared... and this year's LA conference will be no different! The conference is from July 19-23rd and as you are welcome to attend the whole conference, our club will most likely be carpooling to LA Friday (July 21) and leaving Sunday afternoon (July 23). We are looking into accomodations as to make the registration amount less and will get more information to you ASAP. Please put this date on your calendar and get ready to truly experience Rotaract! Events include various keynote speakers, workshops, group exercises, the Getty Center Museum, dinner at a Hollywood Mansion and of course... our own Los Angeles after-parties. To find out more informaton, view USCC 2006 and to see pictures from last years' conference in Chicago, view Chicago Rotaract Conference 2005. If you are interested, please email Andrea Espinoza. |
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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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| Rotaract & Rotary
Trivia President Boyd Encourages Rotarians to Lead the Way New RI President William B. Boyd is encouraging Rotarians to Lead the Way in the 2006-07 Rotary year, calling his choice for the RI theme "an affirmation of my belief in the power of Rotarians to change the world, one positive act at a time." Boyd, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, stresses sustainability in Rotary projects. "As Rotarians, we understand the truth of the old saying that when you give a person a fish, you feed him for a day; when you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime," he told incoming district governors at the International Assembly in February. Boyd has selected water as his first emphasis. "Without clean water, little else is possible. If you are thirsty, nothing else matters," he says. Citing high childhood mortality rates caused by illness and malnutrition, Boyd has chosen health and hunger as his second emphasis. " Without food, there is no health," he says. "And without health, there is no hope." His third emphasis, literacy, is fitting for Boyd, who used to work in his family's bookstore. He sees literacy as "the escape hatch from the cycle of poverty" and a natural complement to his emphases on water and health and hunger. "Literacy enables communities to take care of their water resources, address their own health and hunger issues, and teach the next generation," he says. Given Rotary's need to think about the future, Boyd is also emphasizing the family of Rotary, which he says includes Rotaractors, Interactors, Rotary Youth Exchange students, Inner Wheel club members, Rotary Foundation alumni, and Rotarians' families. "We are the ones who must Lead the Way," Boyd told 2006-07 district governors at the International Assembly. © 2006 Rotary International. http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/events/060630_newyear.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:
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! |
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2006 The Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego http://www.sdrotaract.org |