Flag: Dave Friedman
Invocation: Carolyn Urquidez
Guest:
Carla Kasimir
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
President discussed the Boys & Girls Club semi-virtual event in December with Barnes & Noble and this clubs $500 donation.
Carolyn Urquidez
They are on track to create 600 emergency backpacks for Dialysis patients. She talked about when they started the program of providing Emergency Backpacks, 99% of dialysis patients had no emergency backpack.
some of the essential items in the emergency backpack
These backpacks are intended to help a patient who may have to survive 72 hours with out dialysis. In the backpack are the following; kidney grocery list on an information packet, emergency list of supplies needed, including cash, fist aid kits, tools, flashlight, blood pressure cup, change of cloth and sock, one week supply of medications, information on how to disinfect water, and a list of
medications.
Emergency backpack
Dave Friedman
Spoke about the sales of ticket for our forth coming Raffle event. He said he is working with Zoraida and Ali on the design of raffle tickets. They should be available in 2-3 weeks. According to Dave, the tickets will be $100 apiece. The goal of this raffle is to give scholarship to the needy youths in our community.
Zoraida chime in by explaining hoe she is planning to sell tickets.
she said she does this by creating a wish list of individuals to purchase such tickets and she has been very successful using this technique.
Marie Valencia:
Thanksgiving - Saturday morning at Victory Outreach Church where boxes of food will be distributed to the Homeless in and around the community. Usually, the foods are taken to where the Homeless encampment are.
Christmas - December 22. She is pushing non-profits for donations. She needs sizes of family members within each family now because after Thanksgiving, it becomes harder to get the right sizes.
