Clipped Wings®RDW: RDW VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Sunday, February 22, 2009

RDW VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

SPECIAL OLYMPICS/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
COLLEGE OF MARIN

Saturday, May 16th 0800-1500 - Kentfield Campus
Opening Ceremonies, Tennis, Track & Field Championships
+ Olympic Village selling T-Shirts, etc. + Food

Sunday, May 17th - Indian Valley Campus-Novato
Aquatics Championships
(Time TBD)

CONTACT: Co-Prez Ginny to sign up & carpool

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RDW UPCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS

May 16 & 17 - Northern California Special Olympics Games at College of Marin. Volunteers from both RDW & MAR needed. Call or e-mail Co-Prez Ginny.

May 20 - General Meeting/Lunch, 11:30 a.m. at Chris'. Members are to each bring a tray of the appetizers that they plan to make for the June 3rd theater benefit/reception -- so that we can all "test and taste" the contributions prior to the event.

June 3 - Our annual theater benefit "In the Mood" @ the 6th Street Playhouse in Old Railroad Square-Santa Rosa. 7:15 pm Reception; 8:00 p.m. Curtain. Set-up time TBD*. Check out website www.6thstreetplayhouse.com/guides/season-0809/g-k-hardt-theater/in-the-mood/

Our National President Pam Z. will be our honored guest at both 6/3 and 6/4 events. She will spend the night of 6/3 at RDW member Dona's home -post play..

Separate email re: our "ticket-less" reservations and other details re: the play will be sent to members via regular e-mail. The "Y" is in the process of printing marketing flyers for the event.

June 4 - 11:00 a.m. combo MAR/RDW luncheon/ meeting at the Sky Lounge restaurant at STS (Charles M. Schulz/Sonoma County Airport) -- followed by a 2:00 tour of both the outside WWII aircraft and the indoor UAL MAR/RDW Stewardess/Flight Attendant exhibit @ Pacific Coast Air Museum (PCAM). Again with our National President as our guest.

Our National Prez will then travel to Marin and have dinner with the MAR chapter the evening of 6/4. She will spend the night @ MAR Co-Prez Stevie's home. And, will be taken to SFO on 6/5 for return flight to OMA.

June 17 - General meeting has been canceled because of all the above June activity.

July & August - Summer hiatus. No meetings/events except for:

July 10 - Sonoma County Family YMCA Golf Tournament @ Windsor Golf Course. "Y" needs RDWers to help again like last year. Details to follow.

September 16 - General Meeting/Luncheon. Site TBD . Dues for new fiscal year due.

October 1, 2009-September 30, 2010 - New Fiscal Year. Current officers still serving in second term. Bring your dues checks to either September or October meeting. Keep recruiting new members and asking former ones to come back.

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RDW GOES BACK TO 1973

The Redwood Empire Chapter of Clipped Wings charteredwith National in February 1973. Our founders were Sharon and Dona (Santa Rosa) and Jean (now DEN). These three women got together and decided to form a chapter in Northern California.

At the start, total chapter membership was 10. The ladies (no men then) were very enthusiastic and immediately went to work to make the chapter known. Many of us "Desperate Housewives" then had little ones and were enthusiastic about getting out of the house to volunteer raising funds for the developmentally disabled. Ideas were soon flowing for fundraisers for both our local and national philanthropies. We sold pointsettias at Christmastime; our "Women's Pins" handcrafted by an artist in Maine who crafts the pins to suit your individual fund-raising; participate in Macy's "Shop for a Cause"; and now our theater benefits.

We also had social gatherings such as family picnics, dinners out with our husbands, partners and friends and our annual Christmas party.

Our membership post 9/11 grew and declined. We expect it to bounce up again. Currently some are now widows; some single again with "Empty Nests" and therefore have more time to volunteer. Meetings are held monthly on the 3rd Wednesday at a host's home or at a restaurant.

Several of our members have attended National and International Special Olympics and volunteered as guides, presenting awards and hosting a parents' reception. Currently we have 15 Active Members; 4 Affiliates, 1 Honorary and 1 Friend of RDW -- totaling 21 participating. Many are also active as civic volunteers in their communities.

RDW was one of the five Bay Area Chapters to host the 1992 convention "Bayview '92" in San Francisco. Our June was overall Chair and our Marilyn produced all publicity, programs and printed matter.

For those of you who do not know where we are located, we are mainly in the Santa Rosa area about 65 miles north of San Francisco; 10 miles south of Healdsburg--covering both Napa and Sonoma Counties; and recruiting members from Mendocino County. We have Active Members in Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Graton, Sonoma and Napa. Affiliates from MAR and MAL from San Rafael, Novato and Larkspur; Honorary-Sebastopol; and Friend-San Francisco.

We are proud that in 2004, we were one of the first chapters to have a male join. And our Will has the honor of being the first male chapter officer-- serving as RDW VP 2006-2008.

Over the last three years, we have successfully sponsored theater benefits at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa's Old Town-Railroad Square. Ticket sales for the play and wine reception -- where our members and husbands/partners make the food and serve it and the wine -- have enabled us to donate over $3,000 each year to our local YMCA Adaptive Aquatics Program and to Special Olympics/Northern California. We were the first chapter to donate to the Flight '93 Shanksville Memorial; others followed suit.

Our next theater benefit is June 3rd's "In the Mood" -- a musical staged at a USO in Italy during WWII. Get ready to listen to the "Oldies but Goodies" from the 40s and jitter-bug at intermission. (See website on 6/3 RDW Calendar for description, and separate box ad for purchasing tickets.)

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