RKC (ROSEMEAD KIWANIS CLUB) WEEKLY REPORTER – 10/29/08

 

Greetings to our K-Family (Kiwanis affiliated partner group of clubs), RKN (Rosemead Kiwanis Network) and other friends.

 

          Below are:

 

·         NEWS: Recent developments and activities related to Rosemead

 

Special focus: Chamber of Commerce Health Care Expo

                          Saturday, November 8

                         

                            New City Website and

                               Anniversary Banner Programs

 

·         EVENTS: Activities in and around Rosemead, with emphasis on the November and December Rosemead Kiwanis Club meetings.

 

See especially the Wednesday, Nov 19, Public Safety Meeting

                                  on Earthquake Preparedness

 

·         FAX OF LIFE: An inspirational email attachment, courtesy of Scott’s Valley Kiwanis. This week’s subject: “If I Had My Life to Live Over”  

(hold over from 10/12, which was a skipped RKC Reporter issue)

 

·         SPECIAL REPORT - Garvey District Greenlights

                                              Duff School Club Lease

 

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NEWS

 

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HEALTH EXPO – The Rosemead Chamber of Commerce will be sponsoring a Health Expo in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot, 1827 Walnut Grove, from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm on Saturday, November 8, 2008, CofC Executive Director Ruth Bourne advises.

 

The event has a number of activities and cosponsors. Events include Entertainment, Prizes, Free Healthcare Screenings, Flu Shots, Kids Bounce, Demonstrations by our local Sheriff Dept’s. including Mounted Posse, a Fire Dept. exhibit, Quaky Shaky House, Bloodmobile, Disc Jockey and a Specialty Car Display.

 

Co-sponsors include CH Auto, City of Rosemead, Holiday Inn, Mona Vie, Pacific Alliance Bank, Panda Restaurant Group, and the San Gabriel Valley Water Company, Ruth can be contacted for further information at 626/288-0811.

 

NEW ROSEMEAD CITY WEBSITE – Rosemead has a new city website, www.cityofrosemead.org, with over 280 pages of information and a variety of features.  According to a press release from Public Affairs Manager Aileen Flores, “The public can now watch live streaming video of City Council meetings or archived meetings through the website. The newly designed website also features e-news Sign Up, which allows the community to subscribe to e-mail alerts that provide the latest City Council and Commission agendas, details about upcoming events, information about crime and safety alerts and other important City news."

 

CITY ANNIVERSARY BANNERS - Families, businesses, and community organiza-tions are invited to sponsor 50th Anniversary banners, which will be displayed on major Rosemead streets from January 2009 – September 2009.  The banner will feature a commemorative logo celebrating the City’s 50th Anniversary of incorporation and will be customized with the name of the sponsor.

 

Sponsorships are only $125 per banner.  The banners will be given to each sponsor after September 2009 to keep as a souvenir of the City’s 50th Anniversary.  A mock-up of the banner and a registration form can be viewed on the City website at www.cityofrosemead.org.

 

For more information about the 50th Anniversary banner program, call the Rosemead Parks and Recreation Business Unit at (626) 569-2160

 

UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS:

 

NOTE: Information below is subject to change

 

THURSDAY OCTOBER 30, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Regular Meeting)*

 

California Propositions – Jan Robertson has arranged for a speaker from the League of Women Voters, Dr. Carolyn Ellner, just before the General Election. Dr. Elner retired as Dean of Education at California State University, Northridge for 16 years.  Before that she served as Associate Dean at Claremont Graduate University.  She began her career as a schoolteacher in New York and Washington, D.C.  She currently serves as chair of the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing and is their liason to the State Board of Education.  She will go over the foremost state ballot propositions, both pros and cons, in a non-partisan manner. Printed materials will be distributed.

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2008 – ELECTION DAY

 

In addition to voting for Federal and State elected officials, this election day will feature a variety of State propositions, a critical bond issue for those in the Rosemead School District and a proposed legal change in the status of the City of Rosemead.

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2008 – MAYOR’S BREAKFAST

 

Rosemead Initiatives will be the theme of the latest in this series of quarterly breakfast meetings open to the public. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, this event will be held at Charley Brown’s Restaurant, 909 N. San Gabriel Blvd (intersection with Walnut Grove near the intersection with the Pomona Freeway) at 7:30 am. Payment of $15 per person must be made to the Chamber of Commerce prior to Friday, October 30 – 626/288-0811 (credit card orders by phone are accepted).    

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Regular Meeting)*

 

Garvey Schools – Kiwanian Virginia Petersen, Superintendent of the Garvey School Diostrict, will be sharing current district developments and toucvhing upon what Rosemead Kiwanis can do to be even more effective in improving life for children and families in the Garvey District.  

 

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Special event)*

 

Rosemead Kiwanis will be having an Inter-Club meeting with the San Gabriel Kiwanis Club, which meets at the San Gabriel Hilton, 225 W. Valley, San Gabriel. THERE WILL BE NO MEETING AT THE CALIFORNIA MISSSION INN due to a CMI dance.

 

Historical note: 62 years ago the San Gabriel Kiwanis Club was the formal sponsor for the group of Rosemead businessmen who had been meeting together and decided to try becoming a formal Kiwanis Club.  Rosemead Kiwanis today is directly descended from that event.

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2008 – Community Public Safety Meeting

 

Earthquake Preparedness - Participants will have an opportunity to learn more about what they as individuals and local Neighborhood Watch units can do to prepare for the inevitable tremors which roll through our area.

 

According to a release from the city Public Safety Department “discussions will focus on what to do before, during, and after the shake.  Participants will receive tips for survival during the first 72 hours up to seven days after the disaster. There will be vendors and display booths at the community meeting from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.”. 

 

The location is 8301 East Garvey Avenue (NE Corner of intersection with Charlotte). Parking will be available in the adjacent Zapopan Park parking lot. Please enter off of Garvey Avenue. For further information contact Rosemead Public Safety Coordinator Mandy Wong at 626/569-2292.

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Regular Meeting)*

 

JPL – The Current and Future Mission - Kiwanian and one time KEY Club member Sara Hatch will be our featured speaker. She has a Bachelors Degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Masters Degree from MIT, both in Aerospace Engineering. Her JPL specialty is in the Guidance and Navigation Section and has been focused on spacecraft trajectory design.

 

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (No Regular Meeting)*

 

There will be no Rosemead Kiwanis Club meeting at California Mission Inn or anywhere else this week due to observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Regular Meeting)*

 

Special Music Program – RKC is tentatively slated to present a special free choral program for CMI residents and the general Rosemead community featuring talent from the Rosemead School District. Details to come.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Special Meeting)*

 

Special Music Program – RKC is tentatively slated to present a special free choral program for CMI residents and the general Rosemead community featuring the Rhythmatics from the Garvey School Districts Rice Elementary School. Details to come.

 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17 – Community Public Safety Meeting

 

Topic to be Announced - The location is 8301 East Garvey Avenue (NE Corner of intersection with Charlotte). Parking will be available in the adjacent Zapopan Park parking lot. Please enter off of Garvey Avenue. For further information contact Rosemead Public Safety Coordinator Mandy Wong at 626/569-2292.

 

THURSDAY DECEMBER 18, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Regular Meeting)*

 

American Cancer Society – details to come

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (No Regular Meeting)*

 

There will be no RKC meeting at CMI this week due to observance of the Christmas Holiday and special activity two days later..

 

THURSDAY DECEMBER 27, 2008 – RKC MEETING: (Special Activity)*

 

RKC will host volunteer lunch serving for KEY Club volunteers involved with Rose Parade float decoration – details to come as event approaches.

 

                            * - unless otherwise indicated, Kiwanis meetings are at 12:10 in

                                 California Mission Inn chapel’s multipurpose room, 4807 Earle

                                 (north of Mission and south of Grand ½ block on west  side of

                                 the street), Rosemead. Street parking is normally required.

 

 

WEEKLY FAX OF LIFE INSPIRATIONAL E-MAIL “If I had My Life to Live Over” -  (see attachment  - a hold over from 10/12, which was a skipped RKC Reporter issue)

 

SPECIAL REPORT - Garvey District Greenlights Duff School Club Lease

 

The conversion of a portion of the mothballed Duff Elementary School campus into a Rosemead Branch of the Boys and Girls Club as part of a sublease agreement from the City of Rosemead, who will be the primary lessee, has taken another step forward.

 

The Garvey School Board has authorized staff to negotiate an agreement with the city.  Under the proposal as recommended the Boys and Girls Club will operate multi-faceted late afternoon and early evening programs on the campus during the regular school year. Weekend and summer programs are also likely.

 

The programs will supplement rather than compete with current over-subscribed after school programs in the Rosemead and Garvey districts.  As presently envisioned transportation of enrolled members from elementary schools after school throughout the city to Duff will be provided, but parents will be responsible for pickup. .The programs will also be integrated with City of Rosemead activities in the adjacent Garvey Park.

 

A national relationship is already in place between Kiwanis International and the national Boys and Girls Club. For this reason it is anticipated that Rosemead Kiwanis will be actively involved with the Duff branch if final negotiations between the District, City and Club are successful.

 

 

     (Note: the rosemeadkiwanis.org website now has a two year accumulation

       of Fax of Life inspirational monographs available for review  – see the Fax

       of Life link at bottom of the “Newsletters” section of the website.)

 

           

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