Month: January 2017

Treasure Chest

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Help Wanted—Treasure Chest We still need someone to take charge of the Treasure Chest while Jan is recuperating. You need a car and you can use one of the shopping carts she has to transport the goods. The quantity of merchandise can be much less than Jan brought. We really need to keep this going because it is one of our main fundraisers. Her helpers will be there to guide you. Won’t someone please volunteer? Call Marlene.

Program…Ken Schieck

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GIFT, Giving Individuals Fabulous Theater, is a nonprofit organization which brings theater to individuals—many of whom are unable to experience it otherwise. Since the start of 2013, GIFT has performed for local health centers, assisted living facilities, and children’s hospitals. GIFT performs a variety of short musicals, plays, and scenes for residents at these facilities, who are unable to attend theater productions and may have never seen a live production. Entirely run by students, GIFT has worked with over 100 performers, technicians, designers, photographers, marketers, and directors between the ages of 11 and 20. The passionate students that are a part of GIFT have come from and perform all over the Bay Area, including, but not limited to Campbell, Saratoga, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Cupertino, Los Gatos, San Jose, Santa Clara, Mountain View, and Belmont. Connected through outside theater groups, schools, clubs, and friends of friends, these students all come together with one common goal: to use their talent to give to others. GIFT has been commended by the county of Santa Clara for its volunteer work, and has been featured in the San Jose Mercury News, The Valley Catholic, and other local newspapers. GIFT has performed for hospitalized individuals ranging from ages 2 to 107 and has produced specialty productions in conjunction with Villa Montalvo’s ArtSplash festival. Additionally, GIFT has raised over $12,000 for local charities including the Sub-Acute Saratoga Children’s Hospital, Free the Children, local church programs, foster care therapy programs, food drives, and more.

Meeting Reminder

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Meeting Reminder

July 21, 10:00 a.m.

Room Q80

Social Time 9:30 a.m.

Campbell Community Center

Please bring books to share and Treasure Chest items. Leave food, clean clothing and linens, and canned food for Sacred Heart outside the meeting room on the bench. Please do not bring garage sale type items for Sacred Heart. Bring your items for the GI’s into the meeting area.

Lunch after meeting:

The Garret, 1777 S. Bascom, Campbell

408-559-7930

Program: Giving Individuals Fabulous Theater (GIFT)

Fund Raising Luncheon…Jan Delucchi

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We’re having a luncheon fundraiser on Tuesday August 18th after our meeting from 11:30 to 4:00 (to spread out the crowd) at the new Veggie Grill at Westgate Shopping Center (old Century location). Bring your family and friends and identify yourselves as AARP diners with the ticket from the flyer, which will be available at the tour table July and August. We will receive 50% of sales! The money raised will pay for a banquet room at a nice restaurant for our new January luncheon. If you cannot attend we would appreciate your help by placing a donation in the box at the tour table or you can send your donation to me. Let me know if you have a suggestion for a restaurant with a banquet room. And remember, we don’t need a green card to go out of Campbell! Be sure to pick up a flyer at the tour table and take to the Veggie Grill after the August meeting!

President’s Message…Marlene Hruby

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You may notice that this Dispatch looks like the older ones with me as Editor. That’s because I am Editor this month and I don’t have the same program as Maribel. We are sorry to report that Maribel’s father passed away and she is going to the Philippines for services. We have also decided that since our membership is down and we are padding the mailing list to come up to the required 200 copies for the bulk rate, I will be e-mailing the newsletter in color to the members who have given us e-mail addresses. This will save us over $400 per year. But don’t worry. It will be sent by blind copy so no one will have access to addresses. The rest will continue to receive a hard copy. If I don’t have your e-mail address, you can e-mail it to me at mar2hruby@sbcglobal.net. A hand vote was taken at the June meeting desiring a better venue for the annual luncheon. It was decided to avoid the holiday season and move the party to January 2016. So we are having a fundraiser to help pay for it. See the article below for details.

Chinese New Year

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CELEBRATE CHINESE NEW YEAR

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 11:30 A.M.

Lunch catered by Golden Harvest

Special Presentation

Orchard City Banquet Hall

Tickets Go on Sale 2/11—Deadline 2/13

Adult Center Office

NO Ticket Sales at Door

Sunshine

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Sunshine…Irene Elardo

I am so sorry to report the death of original member Lee Turcotte after a long illness. A sympathy card was sent to his partner, Libby Harbour. Get Well cards were sent to Jan Delucchi and Shelly Schwartz.

Volunteers

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VOLUNTEERS – SUPER IMPORTANT— PLEASE SAVE THIS PAGE
The annual AARP Activities Report is very specific as to volunteer categories. Our Standing Rules state all community-oriented volunteer activities of our members shall be considered “chapter-sponsored.” These activities are in no way conducted by AARP, which has no responsibility in connection with such activities. Therefore, we are changing our reporting categories to match AARP’s definitions. This will make that dratted year-end report much easier to tally.

PLEASE CUT OUT AND SAVE THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS SO YOU CAN CLASSIFY YOUR ACTIVITIES EASILY.

Advocacy/Legislative:  Non-partisan activities supporting the goals and strategies of AARP, your AARP State Office or a local community need. Examples include get-out-the-vote campaigns, writing letter to Congress on issues of concern, or hosting a community issues forum.

Education/Scholarships or other: Programs designed to identify and support the ongoing education of deserving students in the community. Any other school- or education- based community activity, such as literacy2 projects, adopt-a-school-      programs, tutoring, building a school playground, collecting school supplies for needy children or instructing seniors on how to use a computer should also be included in this section.

Fundraising: Projects like bake sales, silent auctions and other activities that raise money for the chapter’s community service projects (i.e. our Treasure Chest and Opportunity Drawing).

Health and Wellness: This includes chapter support for events promoting physical activity.

Hunger: Chapter efforts or programs that support or fight hunger. Examples include food drives or donating money to help hunger.

Long-Term Care/Nursing Home Support: Programs in which members provide friendly visits, reading, letter writing, etc. for shut-ins, residents of nursing homes and veterans’ facilities, as well as general support for such facilities.

AARP’S DAY OF SERVICE

AARP Driver Safety

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide

All Other: This general category includes all other chapter community service projects, including clothing drives, other support for needy members of the community, disaster relief or emergency preparedness, outreach to the disabled community, Habitat for Humanity, services to youth and seniors, etc.

In 2015 we had 66 members volunteering for a total of 3,151 hours!! Dave More contributed 1,517 of those hours. Congratulations, David! All, keep up the good work and remember to tally your hours in the above categories each month and submit the form below. It is not necessary to detail where you volunteer, only the category. This will make it so much easier for the year-end report to National.

LOOK FOR A LEGISLATIVE REPORT NEXT MONTH!

PLEASE BE SURE TO PUT THIS REPORT IN THE PURPLE ENVELOPE EACH MONTH! THANKS.

VOLUNTEER HOURS REPORT: NAME______________________________________MONTH: __________________

ADVOCACY/LEGIS. _________________   EDUCATION __________________  FUNDRAISING_________________

HEALTH/WELLNESS  ________________  HUNGER _________________  CARE/NURSING HOME ____________

DAY OF SERVICE _________________   DRIVER SAFETY _____________  TAX-AIDE _______________________

ALL OTHER ________________________________________________________________________________________

Dates to Remember

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DATES TO REMEMBER

DEADLINE for articles for the Dispatch First Tuesday each month e-mail to mar2hruby@sbcglobal.net   snail (US) mail: Dispatch, 2156 Orestes Way Campbell CA 95008

Executive Board Meeting, Wesley Manor   Second Tuesday each month 10:00 am Chapter Meeting Campbell Community Center, Room Q80      Third Tuesday each month   9:30 am