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November/December 2007 Newsletter

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Mark your calendars! Our next meeting is a potluck and business meeting scheduled for January 19 starting at 6:00pm. Come join us at Pam and Phil Lopes' home with family, friends and a dish of food to share. Their home is located at 1421 N. Camino de Juan. To get there, drive west on Speedway, pass Greasewood and just as the road merges to two lanes you will come to Camino de Juan. Take a right and the Lopes' house is the last house on the left.

There is no Ethnic dinner scheduled for December. We hope you will use this time to help out at the street fair.

Catherine (our President) and her husband, Raymond, are excited to announce the arrival of daughter Sika Isabelle Hounfodji. (Sika is pronounced "SEEK-uh"). She arrived on Wednesday, September 26th at 9:01 a.m., weighed in at 8 lbs 6 oz and measured 20 in.

RPCV-SA Activities:

From the Prez, Catherine North:

Dear Fellow RPCVs,

Thank you all for coming out in November. We had a great crowd, and I was pleased to see so many Fellows, too. We hope you’ll all be back in January.

We're gearing up for the December Street Fair, so please consult your calendars and sign up for a volunteer shift.

Speaking of calendars, we still have a lot of the wonderful international calendars that the Madison RPCV group puts together.  You can buy them for yourself, for gifts, or to sell to friends and colleagues – remember, this is a fundraiser, too.

I’m looking forward to seeing you soon.

catherine

 

From the VP, Malvenia Lewis:

We need volunteers for the Fourth Avenue Winter Street Fair!

Sign-up now by emailing me at gypsii6 at netscape.com. Please specify your preferred time.

Thank you for your continued support,
Malvenia Lewis
Vice President

 

From the Trea$urer, Courtney Martin:

Our current account balance is $2,088.

2008 Calendars

2008 Calendars are in stock and will be available for sale at the all subsequent meetings until they are ALL sold! All of the proceeds from the calendar sales are used to fund Peace Corps Partnership projects. Since 2006, the group has funded almost $6,000 in projects.

T-Shirts!

Several of our members ordered t-shirts at our September meeting for $5 each. There have been some requests for additional orders. We will coordinate with Georgia Ehlers, Coordinator of the Peace Corps, to see when she will be re-ordering the t-shirts. Please let Courtney Martin (cemartin79 at yahoo.com) know if you are interested.t-shirt

Membership Options

As a reminder, we currently provide an alternative to joining the National Peace Corps Association. For local members interested in paying dues directly to the RPCV of Southern Arizona group we offer the low annual rate of $15/person. If you do choose to join the NPCA, please identify RPCV of Southern Arizona as your local affiliation and we will receive a portion of your membership dues. ($22.50)

All proceeds from our fundraising events and membership dues are allocated directly to Peace Corps Partnership projects

 

From the Community Services Coordinator, Jennifer Dederich:

AIDS Walk 2007

The Southern Arizona RPCV group and Peace Corps Fellows formed a joint team, "Peace Corps - Life is Calling", to participate in the AIDSWALK on Sunday, October 14th.

Thank you to everyone that fundraised for the event and those that joined us for the walk/run. Members of the RPCV group included Pam and Phil Lopes, Al Pedolsky, Casey Boettcher, Jennifer Dederich, Courtney Martin and Rich Roth. . . as well as at least 20 other students from the U of A Peace Corps Fellows Program and Peace Corps Fellows Coordinator Georgia Ehlers. In all, 32 of us participated.

Overall the team raised $1800; we placed second within the Organizations category and fifth overall!

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