Weekly Announcements
March 06, 2007
| Rotaract Club of Downtown San Diego Weekly Announcements March 06, 2007 |
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| Next Meeting Our next general meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 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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| Rotary's Guest Speaker Tomorrow Morning:
Sailay Siddiqi March 07 (Wednesday) 7:00 am Symphony Towers University Club, 750 B Street, Suite 3400, Downtown Our sponsoring Rotary club, The San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Club, will have a very interesting guest speaker tomorrow morning: Sailay Siddiqi. Barely escaping brutalities in her home country, Sailay and her family fled through dangerous conditions to freedom in the Netherlands. Sailay is now in San Diego on a Rotary Scholarship allowing her to study to be a cardiac surgeon. She is performing unprecedented stem cell research, hopefully preparing her for surgical status and recognition in the medical community back in Holland. Hear Sailay share her amazing story first-hand! |
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| Joint Community Service Event with UCSD Rotaract:
SD Food Bank March 10 (Saturday) 9:15 am - 12:00 pm San Diego Food Bank: 9850 Distribution Avenue (92121 / in between the 805 and 15 freeways) Get ready for a joint community service event at the San Diego Food Bank! We are teaming up with the UCSD chapter of Rotaract to help box up food, put together brown bag meals for seniors and inspect and sort donated food items. Please arrive on time as the Food Bank will start with a brief introduction and discussion and then move on to our task assignments. Please be sure to wear sturdy, closed- toe shoes and clothes that you don't mind getting a little dirty! We will wait out front until about 9:15 and then go inside as a group. After the event, both chapters will head out to socialize and enjoy lunch together at a nearby restaurant. Please contact Cade to RSVP for this event by Thursday, March 8th! She needs to give the Food Bank a count of volunteers by that date. A little about the San Diego Food Bank: The organization provides meals to more than 200,000 families through San Diego County. Due to the extreme amount of food being distributed (10 million pounds annually) they depend heavily on volunteers. Volunteers contribute 55,000 hours of work annually. 342,554 people in San Diego County are officially below the federal poverty level. 50% of client households include at least one employed adult. 22% of Food Bank clients are senior citizens. 48% of the people served by the SDFB are under 18 years. 16% are five and younger. Directions to the Food Bank: – From the 805: Take the La Jolla Village Drive / Miramar Road exit. Merge onto Miramar Road traveling east. Turn left onto Distribution Avenue – it ends on a cul-de-sac. Turn left into the driveway on the left of the cul-de-sac. The San Diego Food Bank is the building on the right. – From the 15: Take the Miramar Road / Pomerado Road exit. Travel west on Miramar Road. Turn right onto Distribution Avenue. Go to the end of Distribution Avenue – it ends on a cul-de-sac. Turn left into the driveway on the left of the cul-de-sac. The San Diego Food Bank is the building on the right. |
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| San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Club: Blood
Drive March 15 (Thursday) 10:00 am - 3:00 pm 701 B Street, 2nd floor atrium On Thursday, March 15, 2007, the San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Club is sponsoring a blood drive to benefit the San Diego Blood Bank. The blood drive will take place at 701 B Street in the 2nd floor atrium. Last year we had 44 volunteers. Thank you for participating! Please type www.mysdbb.org into your web browser, enter the code IMBT, and select an appointment time -or- call 1-800-4MY-SDBB. We're looking forward to seeing you there! |
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| Save the Date: International Potluck Celebration on
March 18 March 18 (Sunday) 6:00 pm Location TBA Rotaract is celebrating its 39th anniversary next week (March 12-18), and in honor of this milestone, we will hold an international potluck dinner. Local Rotaract members and Rotarians are invited to attend the dinner and bring a dish reflective of their heritage. (Or, if you have an absolute favorite dish not of your heritage, you're welcome to bring that instead!) Thirty-nine may sound young. But, considering the breadth and depth of Rotaract around the world today, there is so much to celebrate! Start time will be approximately 6 pm. You may look for additional announcements at the March 6th meeting and in next week's newsletter ... but, for now, please mark your calendar and plan to join us on Sunday, March 18th! |
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| Ace of Hearts 2007: Submit Your Favorite Beneficiaries March 20 (Tuesday) – Deadline for submissions! Our annual Ace of Hearts fundraiser will take place this coming Summer 2007. We will be soliciting submissions for proposed beneficiaries over the course of this month. Any and all submissions are welcome, subject to the following criteria:
The deadline for submissions will be our general meeting on March 20th, 2007. Selection of the beneficiary will be made by the end of March, in time for announcement at our first general meeting of April 2007. We are also seeking suggestions for the venue for this year's event. Although there will be no formal submission and selection process for this, all members and prospects are encouraged to propose a venue. Please direct your suggestions to Andy Gerber. |
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Model UN Conference: Volunteers
Needed March 24 & 25 (Saturday & Sunday) 8:00 am - 4:00 pm and 11:00 pm - 7:00 am Location TBA The local Rotary Clubs are gathering volunteers for the Model UN conference that is coming up on the weekend of March 24-25. Five volunteers are needed on both days of the conference (Saturday and Sunday) from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, as well as one or two all-night chaperones from 11:00 pm - 7:00 am. Volunteers are needed for menial tasks, such as preparing and cleaning up lunch/snacks, moving luggage, etc. Overnight chaperones are necessary because the kids are high school-aged and require supervision. As described by another Rotaractor: "(This opportunity) is beneficial to Rotaract members who volunteer for this project in various ways: 1) we will work side by side with local Rotarians; 2) we will provide a necessary service to ensure the quality of this conference; and 3) we will observe debates related to contemporary issues that play important roles in international affairs." That, of course, is significant to Rotaract's goal of raising global awareness and understanding. To volunteer or for more information, please e-mail Jessica Ross Mann or call 650.288.8830. |
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Professional Development:
Roadmap to Leadership Last meeting our Professional Development Chair Jeff re-introduced the "Roadmap to Leadership". This document will assist us in achieving some of our professional development goals. Jeff has compiled various characteristics a leader (Downtown Rotaract member) can pursue if they wish to work on their leadership skills. Leadership is subjective and difficult to define for each individual, but Jeff has compiled these essential characteristics for us to focus on. As our understanding evolves we can add to our 'Roadmap' and encourage new discussion topics. Jeff will be taking two topics each month and discussing them with the group. In an effort to involve more of our membership and encourage participation, we will also have selected members presenting the topics and leading our group discussions. We will eventually couple those talks with a guest speaker who lives and works those values in their professional careers. We are very excited about this format and hope everyone can benefit from it. At our last meeting on February 20th, we had an electric discussion about the first two topics. 1. A leader has visions. 2. A leader commits to goals to achieve the vision. Tonight, our members and guests can look forward to another interesting discussion around the next two topics: 3. A leader plans and organizes. 4. A leader approaches problem solving in an open-minded and collaborative manner. Our Professional Development Chair Jeff is working on the speaker selections for these topics. Please stand by for further information. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Jeff. |
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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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| Rotaract & Rotary Trivia 2007 Council on Legislation Rotary International News, 09 February 2007 Preparations are underway for the 2007 Council on Legislation – Rotary's "parliament" composed of more than 500 representatives from every part of the Rotary world – which takes place in Chicago 22-27 April. The Council meets every three years to deliberate and act upon all proposed enactments and resolutions submitted by clubs, district conferences, the General Council or the Conference of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland, or the Rotary International Board. The Council itself also makes proposals. Two volumes of proposed legislation for the 2007 Council on Legislation are now available as pdf files. © Rotary International http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/announcements/070209_col.html |
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