Weekly Announcements
November 28, 2006
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements November 28, 2006 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 at 6:30 pm at Kansas City BBQ, 610 W. Market Street, Downtown San Diego. We're looking forward to seeing you! |
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5th Annual Jazz for Juvenile
Diabetes: Buy Your Tickets Now!!! December 01 (Friday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Karma Lounge @ On Broadway, 615 Broadway (Downstairs) A Benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation San Diego. Tickets On Sale Now! Tickets for Jazz For Juvenile Diabetes 2006 are on sale now via our website. Raffle tickets may be also purchased on the web, and donations may be made as well. Buy your tickets early, and encourage your friends, family and co-workers to join us at this great event! Important: Please remember that your membership dues must be paid before the Jazz For Juvenile Diabetes event in order to get the member ticket price. So make it a priority to pay your dues, and then buy your ticket online to get the (lower) advance ticket price! If you are interested in volunteering on Friday, please e-mail Andy Gerber or call him at 858-248-7010. Event Information On December 1st, 2006, the Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego will hold its Fifth Annual Jazz For Juvenile Diabetes event in Downtown San Diego. Jazz For Juvenile Diabetes 2006 is a jazz concert (and great party) featuring a live performance by San Diego favorite David Patrone. This year the event moves to a larger stage than ever before at the Karma Lounge, downstairs at On Broadway Events Center. Your event ticket is good for access to the entire On Broadway venue after the event officially ends at 10 pm. Eat, drink and dance to some great music – and all for a worthy cause! Each year, Jazz For Juvenile Diabetes benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation San Diego. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. The San Diego Chapter of JDRF serves all of San Diego County and extends north to Orange County. The Chapter provides valuable information about juvenile diabetes to people with diabetes, their families, and the general public, as well as raising much-needed funds for diabetes research. Take part and help raise funds for this great organization by purchasing your tickets today. Entrance tickets are $30 per person for Rotaract members, and $35 for non-members if purchased in advance. All tickets purchased at the door are $40, so make sure to buy yours early. Raffle tickets are $5 (5 for $20). Both can be purchased online through PayPal using your major credit card or bank account. Tickets will be held for you at the door, so you don't need to worry about shipping. Tickets may also be purchased at the door the night of the event, but there is a possibility that it will sell out. To purchase tickets, please click here. See photos from our 2005 Jazz For Juvenile Diabetes event by clicking here! Don't forget ... Please help the cause by making this one of our most successful fundraisers ever! Share this information with friends, family and co-workers and encourage them to tell their friends! Thanks for your support!!! We're looking forward to celebrating with you for a great cause on December 1st! |
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Upcoming Social Events: Balboa
Park December Nights & Holiday Party Balboa Park December Nights December 02 (Saturday) 5:30 pm - ... Balboa Park Meet us: 5:30 - 6:00 pm, Dean Koci's house, 3779 Centre Street, 92103 or 7:00 pm, statue in front of The Prado restaurant, 1549 El Prado, Balboa Park Join Rotaract at December Nights on December 2nd at Balboa Park. The website describes the event: "The beloved San Diego event features sparkling lights, color and music with traditional celebrations and holiday-themed entertainment areas. In the spirit of the holidays, participating Balboa Park museums open their doors free of charge from 5:00 to 9:00 pm both nights. The largest free community festival in San Diego, December Nights attracted more than 250,000 visitors in 2005." The plan is to meet at Dean Koci's house between 5:30 - 6:00 pm. He lives less than a mile away and has offered his backyard for parking along with the surrounding area. From his house we are going to walk to the park. Or you can meet us at the big statue of the guy on the horse in front of The Prado restaurant at 7:00 pm. After the event we will meet back at Dean's place to socialize and possibly go out somewhere. We thank Dean for his generosity of volunteering his place. Annual Rotaract Holiday Party December 15 (Friday) 7:30 pm Felix Tinkov's house, 4752 Lotus Street Come join the Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego for its annual holiday party. Once again, the very generous Felix Tinkov is hosting the party at his spacious house. There will be a white elephant gift exchange, so please bring your funniest gift under $20. The exchange will take place promptly at 10:00 pm. Also kindly bring your favorite beverage or snack to share with the group. Like always it will be memorable, we hope you can make it! If you have questions about our social events, please contact our Social Chair Mark. |
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Volunteers Needed: Christmas on
the Promenade December 08 & 09 (Friday & Saturday) Time TBA NTC Promenade, Point Loma As you all may remember, one of our last guest speakers at our meeting was Adriana Herrera from Kids Included Together. They are hosting an event the first weekend of December called Christmas on the Promenade. The event benefits Kids Included Together, a local non-profit group supporting the inclusion of children with disabilities in community programs, and several other local non-profits. Adriana is looking for volunteers to help with various aspects of the event including activity booths, Breakfast with Santa, gift wrapping station, etc. If you would like to volunteer, please email Cade or call her at 858-705-1575. You can also download a volunteer form here. |
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Senior Center 2nd Saturday of each month 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Senior Center Downtown 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 Why the pins? By Nina Mandell. The Rotarian. While looking for a good way to promote a new club program, Don Garner, a member of the Rotary Club of Chicago, decided try a well-tested tactic to do the obvious: hand out lapel pins with the program’s logo. “You know Rotarians and their pins," he says. Rotarians do seem to have pins for everything. But why? Quick History Lesson The first lapel pin in Rotary history was created in 1909 for the Rotary Club of New York. It wasn’t given to every member, though: Only the club’s president, Bradford Bullock, wore the first pin. After Bullock left office in 1911, the pin changed forms a few times. Today, it depicts the official Rotary emblem. Now all Rotarians are encouraged to wear pins, if not for a specific program or club, at least for Rotary in general to show pride and membership. But exclusive pins are still around, such as those given to Paul Harris Fellows or handed down in individual clubs, such as the Rotary Club of Laredo, Texas, USA. In Laredo, as a nod to the club’s roots, the president proudly wears a pin passed down from its first district governor. Pins also have been popular fundraising tools, as the Rotary Club of Orange, California, USA, knows well. In 1969, the club president began fining people who didn’t wear their pins to meetings — a practice that continues today. The money goes into the club’s general fund. The pins provide some of the best publicity in the world for Rotary, especially when notable people wear them, says Randy Strong, a member of the Rotary Club of Westlake Village Sunrise, California, USA, and owner of a nonprofit marketing firm. According to Strong, "There are a lot of good organizations, but from the standpoint of publicity, if there's someone famous wearing the pin, that strengthens the image." http://www.rotary.org/interactive/archive/200609/didyouknow.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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