West Covina Sunrise Rotary Club Newsletter , Wednesday September 7, 2005

Hurricane Relief: Saturday and Sunday Sept 10th and 11th, we will host a Hurricane Relief Booth in the Eastland Shopping Center. The booth will be by Starbucks, located next to Albertons and the Party Store (corner of Citrus and Garvey). Starbucks will provide coffee to all of our volunteers. Please sign up to help this worthy cause. We need volunteers from 8AM till 6PM both days. Please stop by and encourage your friends to stop by to make a donation. Greg Benton is in charge of this event, please call him at home office (626-812-8383) or cell (626-893-1008) to sign up to help.

President’s Message: Let us live up to our motto, Service Above Self. Sign up to help out this weekend or stop by and cheer on your fellow Rotarians who will be volunteering and encourage your neighbors, family and friends to stop by and make a donation.

A Day at the Theatre: On October 9th, 2005, the Grove Theatre in Upland will become the West Covina Sunrise Rotary Theatre for the day. Don Morrin and his fellow thespians from the Grove Theatre will perform ‘Man of La Mancha’ as a special fundraising performance for our Rotary Club. There will be sponsorship opportunities available, so if you are interested in this great marketing opportunity, please call Don Morrin now. Ticket info: Special VIP Seats $30. Regular tickets $25. All tickets include food and drinks, an auction and raffle prizes. The goal is to raise enough money to fund our Christmas Basket Program so we need to sell at least 300 tickets or 10 tickets per Club Member.

Community Day at the Fair: Sept 30th is the West Covina Community Day at the LA County Fair. Rick Marshall is coordinating cars for the parade, which will start at 5PM. The first 25 people to sign up will get free entrance to the fair. Please see Dave Harris, Rick Marshall or Kathy Benton for more info.

Red Ribbon Rally. October 29th is the Red Ribbon Rally at West Covina High School. The planning meetings are held on Thursdays at 7:30 am at Denny’s. We need volunteers to sign up! Help is needed from 5AM till approx. noon. Please email Carolina with the time you are going to volunteer. You can also contact Alex Rodriquez or Carolina Chacon for more information.

Every Rotarian Every Year: Just a reminder to donate $100 to the RI Foundation. This is a new fiscal year, and the club encourages everyone to participate so the club can meet its goal of 100% participation.

Member News: Congratulations to Dave Harris and the Covina YMCA. They have now opened their West Covina branch on the Edgewood campus with Chris Kelso (a possible new Rotarian) as the Site Director.

Program: Greg Benton, who is a consultant to Post Secondary Education Facilities gave an interesting presentation about the industry. He used to work for the California Legislative agency who regulates post secondary educational facilities and now helps private education facilities with legal compliance and accreditation.


50/50 Raffle: Luis Chacon won the raffle, but luckily for the rest of us, drew the Queen of spades. Isn’t there a rule for how many times the same person can win????


Calendar:
Sept 9 Hurricane Relief Donation Booth. Starbucks in Eastland Shopping Center ( by
& 10th: Albertsons). We will be there all day. Please stop by.

Sept 14: Weekly meeting. Gary Pine, Sports Information Director, Azusa Pacific University
APU has several world class athletes, including Olympic Decathalon Silver Medalist Brian Clay, training at their facilities. Should be quite interesting.
Sept 15: Steak Fry - Men’s Club of Citrus Valley Health Foundation. Call 626-814-2421 for more info. Tickets are $45
Sept 17: Reniero’s open house for his new business in Newport Beach. Event will be from Noon to 4PM.
Sept 22: Weekly meeting. TBD.
Sept 28: We are meeting at NOON today with the noon time Rotary club for our official District Governors’ visit. If you show up at 7:10 AM you are going to be very lonely.
Sept 30: LA County Fair Community Day, LA County Fair Grounds, Pomona
Oct: 9: A Day a the Theatre – Grove Theatre in Upland
2PM Drinks, appetizers
3PM Show
5:30PM Hang with the cast of the show.

Oct 22: Stepping Stones for Women is hosting their Annual Benefit Dinner Auction on Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 6:00 PM at Azusa Pacific University - Upper Turner Center. All proceeds will benefit the on-going work of SSFW where formerly homeless women can find a safe, nurturing environment, and learn the necessary skills to become physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually healthy.
Oct 29: West Covina High School
Morning: Red Ribbon Rally
Afternoon: Shoots & Ladders

Places you may want to visit:
Rotary International member website
Rotary International