Bulletins - 2010 - 06/02/2010
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Amanda Huynh
After President Karen Green called the meeting to order, Jane Barry lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Audrey Coleman provided the invocation and, Mary Engles and Jim Mulvaney lead us in our annual tradition of singing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" with Allison Hooper playing on the piano.
With only three marbles left in the Dr. Seuss hat, Nancy Vaughan, Leah Swearingen (for Ken Tablang), and Steve Wells took turns drawing the marble that will win them the opportunity to be entered into the “Win an iPad” drawing. The lucky winner by default was Ken Tablang.
We welcomed many guests and visiting Rotarians today including Beth Russell and Patti Mix from Freedom Dogs, Denise (guest and friend of 30 years of Judy Bambace), Sandy (guest and wife of Chris Carstens), and Richard Garrett (Tennessee Rotary Club).
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Demotion Party: Tuesday, June 29, at University Club. There will be a $50 charge per guest. Please RSVP to Robin Bottomley’s evite.
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Dark – No Meeting: Wednesday, June 30.
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Mission Valley Club: Friday, July 9 will be holding their charter celebration dinner.
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Stand Down: July 17-19. Sign-up sheet to go out first week of July.
Freedom Dogs is a 100% volunteer organization whose primary focus is to team Specialty Service Dogs with troops returning from war with PTSD and physical limitations. All donations go directly to the training and care of the Freedom Dogs and their military partners. Freedom Dogs go through a two year customized training that is quite tedious, time consuming, and costs almost twice that of training a regular service dog. The estimated cost from training to placing each Freedom Dog amounts to approximately $50,000 over a two year period. In May 2009, Freedom Dogs completed a pilot program at Camp Pendleton with several Marines of the Wounded Warrior Battalion - West. This pilot paired Specialty Service Dogs and their trainers with selected Marines as an adjunct to their rehabilitation. The success of this pilot now has the non-profit growing at a rapid rate.
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