Weekly Announcements
August 22, 2006
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements August 22, 2006 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. Please Note: There will be no Rotaract meeting on August 29! (We meet only on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.) We'll look forward to seeing you in September! |
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| Upcoming Community Service: Annual Rancho Jireh
Picnic Save the Date: September 17 (Sunday) Our next community service event, the annual Rancho Jireh Picnic, will be on Sunday, September 17. This annual event promises to be a great time and fun opportunity to brighten the day of others. Haven't been to this event in past years? You'll want to be there this year. Stay tuned for more details to come! |
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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 Learning to Walk By M.J. Cody. Special to The Rotarian. July 2006. Canadian Rotarian Linda Raney was performing humanitarian work in the Dominican Republic five years ago when she met 11-year-old Enyerh García. He crawled across the floor of his family's one-room home and pulled himself upright to greet her and a couple of her fellow Rotarians. Enyerh had not walked since age four, when a heavy metal grate fell on him and broke bones in both legs. They did not heal normally because he has osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic condition (commonly known as brittle bone disorder) that causes bones to break easily and sometimes become deformed. "When I saw the courage and determination of that boy, my heart went out to him," says Raney, a member of the Rotary Club of Whitby Sunrise, Ontario. "I decided right then and there that we had to help." Rotarians and Shriners arranged for Enyerh and his younger sister, Chairen, who also has the disorder and had difficulty walking, to undergo surgeries at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal, which conducts pioneering orthopedic surgery and groundbreaking research on osteogenesis imperfecta. In July 2005, the Garcías boarded a plane with their mother, Yubelkys. The family stayed with Raney in Whitby for the next nine months. Whitby Sunrise club members paid for their airfare and living expenses, and the Shriners covered all medical and transportation costs in Canada. At the hospital, medical personnel inserted metal rods into the children's legs, wrapped them in casts, and later made custom leg braces so Enyerh and Chairen could move with the help of a walker. In January, Enyerh had surgery to correct his scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine. Without correction, his spine would have compressed his lungs, rendering him unable to breathe within a year. "They were troopers," Raney says, recalling their almost daily physical therapy in Whitby along with their six 10-hour round trips from Whitby to Montreal for surgeries and checkups. The Garcías flew back to the Dominican Republic in April. The Whitby Sunrise club now funds the children's ongoing physical therapy, bone-density enhancing intravenous transfusions, and pediatric follow-ups, all of which will continue until their growth plates close. Enyerh and Chairen will return to school in September. "I will get to school all on my own," says Enyerh, whose friends used to carry him there. When asked what the best part of their stay in Canada had been, an animated Enyerh, 16, answers, "Gameboy," and Chairen, 8, shouts, "School!" then adds, "Barbie." Both learned some English in Canada. "What about being able to walk? And Linda? And Rotary?" their mother prompts. "Oh, yeah," Enyerh laughs. A few days before leaving Canada, Enyerh shared a parting gift. While his mom, sister, and Raney watched, he stood all by himself – something he had not done in 12 years. Learn more at www.brittlebonesrotary.ca © 2006 Rotary International. http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/features/0607_tr_fr_walk.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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