Dec. 1: See below post about the Goleta Fun Run — 5K and 10K. Runners still wanted!
Dec. 8: 5K for MDA – Registration begins at 9 a.m. at Chase Palm Park. The race begins at 10:15 a.m. Everyone is welcome to participate. If you would like to form a team you can contact Kristen McGee at kmcgee@mdausa.org. You can also check out the Web site for more information at www.mdaevent.org/santabarbara/5kformda2007
Cottage Health System, the folks that brought us the delightful Baby Fair, are hosting a Senior Expo on Wednesday, November 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Earl Warren Showgrounds (Gate B).
Volunteers are needed from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. to help with lunches (unloading, stacking, and distributing).
As a token of their appreciation, volunteers get lunch, which is from Cliff’s & Company (very tasty!).
About the Expo: There will be 90 to 100 exhibitors from a wide range of organizations and live music. Last year more than 700 older adults attended. For $5, they get admission, a flu shot, lunch, fitness testing and parking in Lot #2B or Lot #2A.
Sure, it’s a weekday, but not everyone has an 8-to-5 job, so if you can volunteer, please contact Rotaract Member Dana Goba at danagoba@hotmail.com or (805) 252-4796.
Our membership chair Rita recently visited China! Here’s what she had to say about the experience:
I went to China with other teachers from Dos Pueblos, San Marcos, and Carpinteria High. It was an amazing experience. The Chinese we met were so interested in learning more about Americans. We had a great time sharing and taking in the sites.
Due to the Zaca fire, the Bunny Festival at the Sunken Gardens has been moved to Sunday, October 28. Contact Amber Mills for details.
As part of Santa Barbara’s largest annual festival, Fiesta, the Santa Barbara Rotaract club will be operating a booth in the De La Guerra Mercado. We will be selling pre-packaged drinks and food, such as water, Monster, FRS, Arizona Iced Tea, and ice cream! We will be operating the booth all day, every day of Fiesta, from 10 in the morning until midnight. We have a great location this year; right near the entrance between the churro lady and the fish taco stand! All proceeds from the sales we make will go to the Rotaract coffers for future volunteer and social activities. Oh, and by “we”, that would be YOU! The work will be split into 3 and 4 hour shifts with either 3 or 4 people working each shift. So, figure out when you can volunteer and go the signup form to let us know. The weekday daytime shifts will be particularly hard to fill, so if you can, please make something happen and volunteer for those times. The shift schedule will be finalized in the next couple of weeks.
Thanks in advance!
The Rotary Club of Santa Barbara’s annual Wheel Chairity Race to help raise funding to purchase wheelchairs for people challenged by severe disability and poverty in developing countries. These wheelchairs are 1. cheap, but 2. also inexpensive to maintain because they are made of widely available parts (bicycle tires, etc.)
The fundraiser is called Wheelcharity and it will be in the Ledbetter beach parking lot on Sunday June 3rd. From 12pm to 3pm.
We will need Rotaracters down there to encourage the racers/people donating and to also just help setup
Many Rotarians are pledging money ($500+ a piece) to this fundraiser. It will be casual and fun!
The race is $50 for an individual, $500 for a corporation (4 person relay), $200 for a small business (4 person relay)
The $50 cost of an entry is enough for 1 wheelchair. The $500 cost of a corporate relay is enough for 10 wheelchairs.
Hidden Gardens of Montecito
SEVENTH ANNUAL GARDEN TOUR & BIRDHOUSE AUCTION
THIS SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2007, 1-5 PM
Tickets $75 per person
Join the CAMA Women’s Board for their Seventh Annual Hidden Gardens Tour. Spend a festive Sunday afternoon visiting fabulous gardens at three magnificent Montecito estates. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine at the Grand Finale garden and bid on one-of-a-kind birdhouses designed by well-known artists and personalities of the Santa Barbara area. KEYT’s John Palminteri returns as auctioneer.
Reservations are necessary.
Please call 805-967-4173 or email.
Proceeds benefit CAMA and its Music Education programs, including the Women’s Board Student Ticket Program, which enables junior and senior high school students to attend CAMA’s concerts at the Arlington Theatre.
BIRDHOUSE PREVIEW…
A selection of birdhouses are on display in the windows of
Saks Fifth Avenue, 1001 State Street, through May 4.
The Santa Barbara Downtown Organization hosts 1st Thursday on May 3. Local art galleries stay open later, and many have live music, drinks and snacks, lectures and other special events.
Rotaract Member Adam will be in front of the SB Museum of Art at 6 p.m. if anyone would like to join him. Can’t make it by 6? Give him a call on his cell phone to find out where he is later in the evening and meet up with other Rotaracters — (805) 636-6078.
More information about the 1st Thursday schedule for May 3 is available here.
Anyone who was a member of Rotaract last year has undoubtedly heard about the Invisible Children of war torn Uganda. On April 28th, 2007, thousands of Americans will converge on displacement camps in 15 major cities to send a message to politicians and media about the longest running war in Africa and demand change. In an event appropriately titled “Displace Me,” activists will bring attention to the 1.5 million Ugandan citizens that were forced to move overnight into large camps that are riddled with violence, disease, and other inhumane conditions.
Learn more about about the event here and about Invisible Children here and here.
