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Virtual Meeting Link - https://sousa.zoom.us/j/93063925240
*SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER*
Mark GrantColor Commentator, San Diego Padres
April 30, 2024
12:00 p.m.
Elijah's Restaurant 7061 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92111
Ticket: $35 | Free Parking *After 4/25, Ticket $40*
**Kiwanis San Diego Annual Meeting**
May 7, 2024 ~ 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Program: Mental Health Awareness
Speaker: Jim Dorschel Update: Survivors of Suicide Loss
Annual Meeting of the General Membership of the Kiwanis San Diego
Agenda
I. CALL TO ORDER/DETERMINATION THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT
II. APPROVAL OF ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES OF AUGUST 15, 2023
(Click HERE to access)
III. ELECTION OF 2024/2025 CLUB OFFICERS AND THE CLASS OF 2027 CLUB BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Justin Frisco, PresidentSteve Morris, Immediate Past PresidentGordon Boerner, Vice PresidentKarina Sousa, Club SecretaryBrian Krause, Club Treasurer2025: Glen Honig, Lance Grob2026: Tom Bauer, Lauren Cook 2027: Ryan Callan, Wendy Reuben
IV. ADJOURNMENT
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Zoom link: https://sousa.zoom.us/j/89652311937?pwd=SGZvTzhyRVRuNFFUaEhQME1udXU3Zz09
Dial by Phone +1 669 900 6833 US
Monthly Division Council Meeting
Hosted by Chula Vista
May 15 | 6:00 p.m.
Napoleone's Pizza House | 619 National City Blvd.
Monthly Networking Night!
May 16, 2024 4:30 - 7:00 PM
Come mix & mingle with your fellow Kiwanians at our monthly networking night.
Open invitation. Guests are encouraged to attend!
This month we're meeting at:
5 O'clock Somewhere Rooftop Bar - Margaritaville
616 J St, San Diego, CA 92101
March for Babies
May 18, 6:15 - 11:30 am
Balboa Park, 699 El Prado, San Diego 92101
More info about the event:
https://marchforbabies.org/EventInfo?EventID=22494
We will volunteer at set up, check in, tear down and cheering folks on at check points.
March of Dimes is a Kiwanis International partner.
Join us for Lunch
Program National Conflict Resolution Center
Speaker Steven Dinkin, President
May 21, 2024 ~ 12:00 p.m.
Elijah's Restaurant, 7061 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92111
Speaker bio: Steven P. Dinkin has served as President of the National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) since 2003. At NCRC he has secured several federal contracts with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of the Navy, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He has also expanded the organization’s dispute resolution programming outside the United States to Europe, Asia and Latin America. Before arriving at NCRC, Steve was Program Director at the Center for Dispute Settlement (CDS) in Washington, D.C. where he designed a mediation program with the U.S. Attorney’s Office as well as mediated workplace and employment cases under contract with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Federal Reserve System.
In addition to his work at CDS, Steve was an Adjunct Law Professor at George Washington University where he taught a mediation clinic and served as President of the D.C. Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution and chaired the D.C. Bar Litigation Section, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. In San Diego, Steve served as Co-Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, San Diego County Bar, and is a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the State Bar of California as well as a member of the California Western School of Law’s Council of Visitors. He has co-authored two books on conflict resolution: The Exchange, A Bold and Proven Approach to Resolving Workplace Conflict and The Exchange Strategy for Managing Conflict in Health Care. Steve earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School.
Red Shoe Day!
Please join our team and help raise money for the Ronald McDonald House of San Diego on
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 7:00 - 9:30 A.M.
Our team will be located at Laurel and Pacific Hwy
JOIN US DOWNTOWN TO HELP FUNDRAISE BY CLICKING THIS LINK AND CHOOSING TO "JOIN TEAM"!
If you can't come, use the same link to donate to our team!
Your efforts will help families with children in local hospitals throughout San Diego.
Thank you for your support!
Join us for our Club's Virtual Meeting!
June 4, 2024 ~ 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Program: San Diego Wave Futbol Club
Speaker: TBD
They will let us know the history of the Club, how it works with the community, and get us fired up to attend a game together.
Zoom link:
https://sousa.zoom.us/j/89652311937?pwd=SGZvTzhyRVRuNFFUaEhQME1udXU3Zz09
Service Project with UPLIFT San Diego
Bright Futures Youth Conference
June 10, 2024 8:00 - 10:00 AM
Miramar College,
10440 Black Mountain Road 92126 (L Building)
We will join with the UPLIFT San Diego at the first Bright Futures Youth Conference, an invent that introduces high school students and their parents or guardians to various professions.
Our volunteer roles will be to oversee a breakout room, directing traffic and checking people in.
June 13, 2024 4:30 - 7:00 PM
Sky Deck at Del Mar Highlands
12925 El Camino Real, San Diego 92130
Program: San Diego - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Speaker: Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli
U.S. Navy (Retired)
Commissioner Emeritus
San Diego Unified Port District
June 18, 2024 ~ 12:00 p.m.
A street urchin raised in New York City, Garry Bonelli had a distinguished military career as a U.S. Navy SEAL - spanning 45 years of active and reserve service. Graduating with Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) selection and training Class 51 in 1969, he rose through the ranks from seaman apprentice to a two-star rear admiral - making combat deployments in Vietnam as a Navy frogman, and serving as the acting commanding officer of SEAL Team FIVE during the 1990/1991 Gulf War.
Recalled to active duty in 2006, he was promoted to Flag rank and first served as the Deputy Commander and then the ninth Force Commander of Naval Special Warfare. Rear Admiral Bonelli provided the vision and leadership for a 9,000-person worldwide special operations force of SEALs, special boat operators, and mission enablers while directing a $1 billion-plus enterprise. Rear Admiral Bonelli retired from the U.S. Navy in 2013.
Following his naval service, the Coronado City Council twice appointed Mr. Bonelli to serve as a Commissioner for the San Diego Unified Port District from 2014 through 2021.
Port Commissioner Bonelli made public policy and provided stewardship for 14,000 acres of tidelands along 34 miles of San Diego Bay, including 22 bayside public parks. The Port’s working waterfront generates more than $9.4 billion annually in economic activity supporting over 70,000 jobs in the region.
Commissioner Bonelli’s responsibilities included working with the Port’s five member cities - Coronado, Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, National City, & San Diego. He worked with the shipbuilding and ship repair industries; oversaw operations of cargo and passenger cruise ship terminals; and established policies for harbor police and homeland security issues.
In addition, Commissioner Bonelli worked with the U.S. Department of the Navy and U.S. Coast Guard; minority/underserved communities; environmental groups; and more than 800 hotel, retail, restaurant, sportfishing, and other visitor-serving tenants who lease Port public tidelands.
Earlier in his civilian career, Bonelli worked as a senior executive providing public policy counsel to the boards of directors of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and then the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG).
Hosted by Imperial Beach
June 19 | 6:00 p.m.
No meeting on July 2!
We are volunteering with
Boys to Men and the Surfrider Foundation
for a Morning After Mess Beach Cleanup!
July 5, 2024
8 am - noon
Spirit of IB Statue, Imperial Beach
July 11, 2024 4:30 - 7:00 PM
Monkey Bar - Town and Country Mission Valley
500 Hotel Cir N, San Diego, CA 92108
Program: Inspiring a Passion for Nature Through Books
Speaker: Georgeanne Irvine
Author and Director of Publishing, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Georgeanne Irvine, children's book author and director of publishing for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, will share inspiring wildlife stories from her award-winning, non-fiction Hope & Inspiration book collection. She will also provide a behind-the-scenes look at creating the books as well as poignant stories about how children and adults were inspired by many of the featured animals—such as Omeo the koala, Karen the orangutan, and Floyd the flamingo.
July 16, 2024 ~ 12:00 p.m.
San Diego native Georgeanne “George” Irvine has devoted her career to raising
awareness about animals and wildlife conservation. She is the director of publishing for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, where she has worked for 46 years, as well as the author of nearly 30 children’s books about animals, including the award-winning Hope and Inspiration collection.
Major passions for George include traveling, photography, storytelling, Broadway
musicals and, of course, wildlife. She lives for adventure travel and loves seeing
animals in their native habitats. Her worldwide expeditions have taken her to many of the wildest places on earth—from the jungles of Borneo and South America to the mountains of China and the forests of India to the Outback of Australia and the savannas of Africa.
We are hosting the
Division 11 Council Meeting
July 17, 6:00 p.m.
August 6, 2024 ~ 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Program: 211 San Diego
As a local nonprofit organization, 211 San Diego is the region’s trusted source for information and connections to community, health, and disaster resources. They will enlighten us about their programs and provide their perspective of the issues and solutions to children's issues in the region.
Speaker: Meg Hersman Storer, Chief of Staff
As Chief of Staff, Meg Storer brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the fields of public affairs, communications, and marketing. Meg joined 211 San Diego in 2003 and today is responsible for helping the agency build upon its social entrepreneurship vision, create a positive public reputation, and ensure proper positioning and messaging for 211 throughout the local and national community. Meg serves as the agency’s keystone by providing strategic oversite of executive-facing initiatives internally and externally. Also overseeing the External Affairs team, Meg is pivotal in raising awareness of 211 and its programs among key community leaders to generate support and partnerships that forward its mission.
Prior to 211, Meg served as both the State Government Affairs Coordinator and Communications Coordinator for American Forest & Paper Association in Washington, D.C., gaining experience in federal and state functions. She has extensive experience serving in a leadership role at a state and national level including 211 California Board of Directors to support critical legislation for statewide coverage of 211, has served as the Vice-Chair of the California Alliance of Information and Referral Systems and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems. She serves on the boards of Vets’ Community Connections and Champions for Health, and is a past member of Zero8Hundred, San Diego Veterans Coalition, and the Economic Development Corporation Foundation.
Meg received recognition from the San Diego Business Journal’s Business Woman of the Year in 2020 and the San Diego Metro Magazine’s “40 Under 40” for 2016. She has a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management from the University of San Diego, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Shippensburg University. She is a graduate of the North County Leadership Class and an alumna of Fieldstone Emerging Leaders Class.
Cal-Nev-Ha District Convention
August 8-10, 2024
Kona, HI
August 15, 2024 4:30 - 7:00 PM
Malibu Farm
831 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101
Program: San Diego Tourism Update
August 20, 2024 ~ 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Julie Coker,
President and CEO, San Diego Tourism Authority
Julie Coker is the President and CEO of the San Diego Tourism Authority (SDTA), where she oversees the organization’s efforts to promote San Diego as a top destination for meetings, conventions, overseas travelers and leisure visitors. The San Diego Tourism Authority is recognized as one of the best in the business and continues to set the standard for destination marketing organizations under Coker, who assumed the role in March 2020.
San Diego ranked as one of the top-performing U.S. destinations in 2022, ranking fourth in the nation in hotel occupancy at 72.6%. With Coker at the helm of SDTA, tourism jobs returned to pre-pandemic levels with more than 200,000 employed; San Diego County’s Transient Occupancy Tax generated more than $360 million for regional services; SDTA’s sales and marketing programs delivered a $30 to $1 return on investment, the highest in the organization’s history; and the retention rate among SDTA members was 93%.
Coker’s commitment to serving on boards gives her unique insight and notable influence in the tourism industry. In January 2023, she was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, joining 31 other leaders from the domestic travel and tourism industry in providing advice to the Secretary of Commerce on travel priorities. She also serves on the executive boards of the U.S. Travel Association and Visit California, the boards of Meeting Professionals International, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, the San Diego Lodging Association and Sharp Health Care.
Previously, Coker served as the President and CEO of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau (PHLCVB) where she oversaw the 2017 NFL Draft and the 2016 Democratic National Convention, which had a combined economic impact of $325 million for Philadelphia. Prior to that, she was PHLCVB’s Executive Vice President, Convention Division, and managed a staff of 25 sales and services professionals responsible for selling the expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center and hotel packages to customers across the country.
Prior to joining the PHLCVB, Coker was the general manager for the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing, where she led all operational aspects of the 350-room hotel. A 21-year Hyatt veteran, she began her career in 1989 as a corporate management trainee at Hyatt Regency Columbus. Throughout her more than two decades with Hyatt, she rose through the ranks in a variety of positions, including assistant front office manager, front office manager, hotel assistant manager, assistant executive housekeeper, and general manager.
From January 2018 to 2020, she served as co-chair for the U.S. Travel’s Meetings Mean Business Coalition and secretary-treasurer for International Association of Exhibitions and Events Executive Committee. From 2016 to 2019, Coker co-chaired the Shared Spaces Initiative to combat homelessness with Philadelphia’s mayor, and in 2016, she served as the chair of Mayor Jim Kenney’s transition team for the Democratic National Convention.
Additionally, Coker is a member of the San Diego Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. In 2023, she received the Fearless Award from the San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce and was inducted into the All-Time Hall of Fame by Smart Women in Meetings. In 2021, she was named a Phenomenal Woman in Business in the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Phenomenal Women series. In both 2012 and 2019, the Philadelphia Business Journal named her among their Women of Distinction honorees. She was the 2017 United Negro College Fund Mayor’s Ball Honoree for Civic Leadership and was named one of the Network Journal’s 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business.
Coker is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management and graduated magna cum laude.
Hosted by Southeastern
August 21| 6:00 p.m.
No meeting on September 3rd!
September 12, 2024 4:30 - 7:00 PM
Kaiser Hof
2253 Sunset Cliffs Blvd, San Diego, CA 92107
Hosted by Sweetwater
September 18 | 6:00 p.m.
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