The next Board Meeting will be held on 11/14/2018 at 6:00 P.M. at the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce building.
President Pat announced that in 2018 the club has sent 15 wheelchairs for distribution to needy persons in Tijuana, Mexico, and the club plans to send 30 wheelchairs in 2019. This is one of the club’s international projects. Members can donate $200 to the club to cover the cost to purchase of one wheelchair for this worthy project.
Congratulations to the induction of our newest member LORI HUISKEN with the classification of Physical Fitness Trainer. Her sponsors are Jim Pontello and Pat Dolphin.
There will be a club social on Saturday 11/17/2018 including which includes dinner and then attending the play “Holmes for the Holidays” at the Glendale Center Theatre. The cost is $65/person, and the play starts at 8:00 P.M.
The club’s Christmas party will be held on 12/02/2018 at the home of Pat and Mary Dolphin. You are requested to RSVP to the Dolphins so they will know how many will be attending.
President Pat thanked every member of the club, member of the club’s Interact Club, and friends who worked at the Rise Against Hunger project on 10/29/2018 which our club co-sponsored with the Sierra Madre Rotary Club. President Pat said that almost 20,000 meals were packaged before we ran out of the ingredients. The meal packages will be shipped to feed needy persons in South East Asia . Hopefully this will become an annual project for the club.
Larry Callahan is sending around a signup sheet at the club meetings seeking members to signup to help judge the awarding of Mini-Grants.
Congratulations to the following Students of the Month: SANDRA TANG – Academics, LAUREN KO – Athletics, and ELIZABETH CHANG – Performing Arts.
The Teen Leadership Conference will be held from 11/30/2018 through 12/02/2018.
The club’s program this week was a speaker from the San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity. Their organization is looking for volunteers to help build homes for needy families in the San Gabriel Valley, and they are also seeking donations of “new and gently used furniture, appliances, home goods and building supplies”, to be sold at the Habitat for Humanity “ReStores” (thrift stores), with one located in Azusa.
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