Weekly Announcements
August 08, 2006
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements August 08, 2006 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 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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| Community Service Recap Thanks to all those who showed up for the Ice Cream Social on August 05 at the Potiker Family Senior Residence. We all had a great time and the seniors really appreciated our time. Stay tuned for our next community service event, the Rancho Jireh Summer Picnic. The picnic is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, September 16th. More details coming soon! |
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| Social Event: Del Mar Fair & Billy
Idol August 12 (Saturday) 12:30 pm @ Pizza Port, Solana Beach or 3:00 pm @ the Del Mar Track Our next Rotaract social event is a day at the Del Mar Track. On Saturday, we will be meeting for lunch at Pizza Port in Solana Beach and then heading over to the Del Mar Track for the races and the Microbrew Festival during the day followed by a free concert by Billy Idol after the races end. There will be several chances to meet up with us during the day. For those that want to meet for lunch and carpool to the track, we are meeting at Pizza Port in Solana Beach at 12:30 pm (135 N. Highway 101, Solana Beach, CA 92075). To get there take the 5 and exit Lomas Santa Fe and go West until you reach the 101 and turn right. Then it is about 100 feet on your left. Just park on the side streets. We will probably leave Pizza Port aroun two-ish then head to the track which is very close. Parking at the track is $6 and general admission is also $6. The first race starts at 2pm. For those that want to meet us there, our Social Chair, Mark, will meet people at 3:00 pm. When you first enter the track there is a small stage about a hundred feet on your left, which is used for the Friday concerts. We will meet people there at 3:00 pm. If you get there later, our group will be around the microbrew area which is directly on the opposite side of the finish line in a grassy area. Just ask around where the microbrew area is located or call Mark at 858-922-1275, if you can't find us. After the races end, the free Billy Idol concert starts at 7:00 pm near the microbrew area. And afterwards, for those who want to go out, there is the option of going to En Fuego in Del Mar. Rotaract has done these events before and they are good times all around. If you haven't received our evite please contact our Social Chair, Mark. |
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| Professional Development If any member or prospective member has used the following postings to attend an event and would like to share your information with the club, please email the Professional Development Chair Jeff. Upcoming: Professional Development Events in Our Area National Human Resources Association "Creating High-Performance Coaching Cultures" August 08 (Tuesday) 7:45 am - 9:30 am DoubleTree Hotel, 7450 Hazard Center Drive, 92108 Cost: $25.00/$40.00 Members/Non-Members Established in 1951, the National Human Resources Association (NHRA) is a network of local affiliates focused on advancing the development of human resource professionals. SCORE "Financing: Financing Your Business" August 09 (Wednesday) 9:30 am - 11:30 am SCORE Entrepreneur Center, 550 West C Street, Suite 550, 92101 Cost: $25.00 (with pre-registration) San Diego Public Library "How to Find Distributors and Suppliers in Mexico in One Afternoon" August 09 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm SD Public Library - Central Library, 820 E Street, 92101, 619-238-6630 Cost: Free Presented by Richard Villasana, founder of Mexico Phone Books and author of "Insiders Guide to Doing Business in Mexico." He provides international market consulting to companies such as Cisco Systems and AT&T Wireless and has lectured at National University. These sessions will be held in the Second Floor Meeting Room. To register, or for more information, contact the Library's Business Resources & Technology Link or check the San Diego Public Library's Calendar of Events. Small Business Development Center "Doing Business Online E-Commerce Workshop" August 10 (Thursday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Cost: Free SBDC, 1823 Mission Avenue, Oceanside, 760-795-8740 Participants will evaluate online business models and identify how the Internet can be used effectively. Examine the impact the Internet has had on different industries and identify key online opportunities. The class provides an entrepreneur's overview of software and hardware technologies used for conducting e-business. SCORE "Starting a New Business: How to Start and Manage Your Own Business" August 22 (Tuesday) 9:00 am - 4:15 pm Point Loma Nazarene University, 4007 Camino del Rio South, 92108 Cost: $64.00 (with pre-registration) The SCORE Association (Service Corps of Retired Executives) "Counselors to America's Small Business" is a nonprofit association comprised of 11,500 and growing volunteer business counselors throughout the U.S. and its territories. SCORE was formed in 1964 and nearly 4.5 million Americans have utilized their services. |
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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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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 Cade for details and availability. |
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| San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Meeting The San Diego Downtown 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 Rotary Clubs are First Responders in Lebanon Crisis By Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga. Rotary International News. August 02, 2006. The relief team organized by the Rotary Club of Limassol-Berengaria Cosmopolitan, Cyprus, was expecting no more than one boatload of 500 evacuees from the fighting in Lebanon on 19 July. But the following day, the volunteers who had originally offered to help find hotel accommodations for the new arrivals in the port city of Limassol were suddenly faced with a much bigger challenge. "The Americans decided to reroute their largest ships to Limassol, and we found ourselves standing in front of thousands of people in need in an instant," explains Scott Givhan, leader of the club's relief project. Military and chartered-cruise ships each carrying up to 2,000 people — most of them Australian, British, and U.S. passport holders — fleeing the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict were docking at all hours of the day and night, says Givhan. At its peak, the operation brought in about 10,000 evacuees in three days. The club assembled an efficient multinational team of volunteers from 10 Western and Middle Eastern countries. Each time a boat came in, they were on hand to greet, comfort, and assist passengers. Nearly half of the Rotary club's 25 members were on vacation. But those present and the non-Rotarian volunteers who joined them did an outstanding job providing food and refreshments and helping set up rest and play areas for evacuees and their children. They even offered evacuees use of their mobile phones to call loved ones and make travel arrangements. "This project would not have been possible without the contributions from our non-Rotarian volunteers, many of whom worked through the nights to help the evacuees," says Givhan. With the evacuations ending, the club is turning its attention to helping people internally displaced by the fighting. Already, it has sent two shipments of relief items — mostly donations of food and medicine — to Batroun, Lebanon. Members of the Rotary Club of Batroun are receiving the supplies and distributing them in their own cars at great personal risk. "We contacted this club because it is competent," says project coordinator George Kfouri, of the Limassol-Berengaria club, who is Lebanese. "The members in Batroun are trusted, and they are like our own brothers." "These Rotarians are the real heroes," says Givhan. The city of Batroun, in northern Lebanon, is host to more than 10,000 people who have fled intense fighting and aerial bombardment in the south. Other Lebanese Rotary clubs are helping with the relief effort. Rotary clubs were the first to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Batroun, say Givhan and Kfouri. Because Rotarians are members of the affected communities, their aid distribution network is one of the most active in the region. Kfouri says that the Limmasol-Berengaria Cosmopolitan club is now bracing itself for an influx of Lebanese refugees to Cyprus. The club is receiving donations of money and goods to provide emergency relief in Cyprus and Lebanon. For more details, visit the Disaster Relief page or contact Scott Givhan (phone: + 357 99 466 103; e-mail: alpa1@usa.net). © Rotary International. |
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