{"id":281628,"date":"2019-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/torrey-pines-rotary-club-donates-over-12000-toys-and-other-news-briefs\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:00:00","slug":"torrey-pines-rotary-club-donates-over-12000-toys-and-other-news-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/torrey-pines-rotary-club-donates-over-12000-toys-and-other-news-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrey Pines Rotary Club donates over 12,000 toys and other news briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>LA&nbsp;JOLLA TOY DRIVE DISTRIBUTES OVER 12,850 STUFFED ANIMALS<\/strong><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The&nbsp;Care &lsquo;n Share Toy Drive, a project of the Torrey Pines Rotary Club,&nbsp;distributed more than 12,850 new and gently used stuffed&nbsp;animals from&nbsp;its collection drive at the San Diego County Fair. The toys were&nbsp;distributed to children from eight local organizations.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&ldquo;We&nbsp;could not have done it without the wonderful support of the San Diego&nbsp;community!&rdquo; said Nancy Stoke, chair. &ldquo;It is heartwarming&nbsp;to see&nbsp;both the faces of the children who choose to donate their prizes and&nbsp;the delighted faces of the children who receive the&nbsp;donations.&rdquo;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Care&nbsp;&lsquo;n Share would like to thank San Diego City Library and the many&nbsp;San Diego County Library locations for hosting collection&nbsp;boxes; NCL&nbsp;Del Sol Chapter and NCL Poway Chapter for their help at the Fair; and&nbsp;Del Mar Plaza, Two Men and a Truck, and&nbsp;Affordable Printer Care for&nbsp;their logistical support.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Founded&nbsp;by Stoke in 2009, the Care &lsquo;n Share Toy Drive has distributed more&nbsp;than 95,000 toys thanks to donations from the&nbsp;community. For more&nbsp;information or to donate, go to&nbsp;carensharetoydrive.com.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCERT EXPLORES CINEMA THROUGH SONG<\/strong><br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>The&nbsp;Athenaeum Music and Arts Library will host the concert &ldquo;The World&nbsp;of Music and Cinema&rdquo; on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m.,&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Joan &amp; Irwin Jacobs Music Room, 1008 Wall St. in La Jolla. In&nbsp;this concert, pianist, singer, and storyteller Bruno Leone will&nbsp;perform music from the movie musicals of Hollywood&#8217;s Golden Age to&nbsp;the musical films of the past half-century. Tickets for this event&nbsp;are $17 for members and $22 for nonmembers. To reserve tickets, call&nbsp;858-454-5872 or visit&nbsp;ljathenaeum.org\/art-history-lectures.&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span><strong>UCSD&nbsp;TO HOST BLOOD DRIVE WITH SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK<\/strong><br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>UC&nbsp;San Diego will partner with the San Diego Blood Bank to host a blood&nbsp;drive from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 12, and&nbsp;Tuesday, Aug.&nbsp;13, on Library Walk at the UC San Diego campus. Eligible donors must&nbsp;be 17 and older, weigh at least 114 pounds,&nbsp;and be in good health.<br \/><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span>Appointments&nbsp;are encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome. To schedule an appointment,&nbsp;or to learn more, visit&nbsp;sandiegobloodbank.org&nbsp;or call 1-800-4MY-SDBB (1-800-469-7322).<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span><strong>UC&nbsp;SAN DIEGO TO HOST FORUM AND TALK ON U.S.&ndash;CHINA RELATIONS<\/strong><br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>Thomas&nbsp;Donilon, national security advisor under President Barack Obama;&nbsp;Stephen Hadley, national security advisor under&nbsp;President George W.&nbsp;Bush; and Cui Tiankai, Chinese ambassador to the U.S., will give a&nbsp;talk on U.S.- China relations on Aug. 12 at 4&nbsp;p.m., at the Great Hall&nbsp;at the UC San Diego campus, 9500 Gilman Drive. This talk is a part of&nbsp;UCSD&#8217;s larger inaugural bipartisan&nbsp;forum, which strives to&nbsp;bridge the divide between Washington and Beijing. The forum spans&nbsp;from Aug. 12 to Aug. 16, but it will not&nbsp;be open to the public. For&nbsp;more information on the forum and the talk, and to register for the&nbsp;talk, visit&nbsp;china.ucsd.edu.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><strong>GOOD&nbsp;SAMARITAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH COMMITS TO CLEAN ENERGY<br \/><\/strong><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>On&nbsp;Sunday, July 23, Good Samaritan Episcopal Church, 4321 Eastgate Mall,&nbsp;held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil its new&nbsp;41,254-watt AC&nbsp;Sullivan Solar Power system and celebrate a commitment to clean&nbsp;energy. This choice will save the church around&nbsp;$702,850 over the&nbsp;next 25 years.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>&ldquo;We&nbsp;are excited to reduce our carbon footprint. We are so grateful for&nbsp;Sullivan Solar Power&#8217;s professionalism and expertise,&rdquo; said the&nbsp;Reverend Janine Schenone, rector of Good Samaritan. &ldquo;Good Samaritan&nbsp;Episcopal Church strives to care for God&#8217;s creation in a&nbsp;variety of&nbsp;ways, such as eliminating single-use plastic and other disposable&nbsp;products. When we had the chance to install solar power,&nbsp;we jumped at&nbsp;it.&rdquo;<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>Good&nbsp;Samaritan Episcopal Church plans to reinvest the hundreds of&nbsp;thousands of dollars in savings from the solar energy system&nbsp;into the&nbsp;church and the community that it serves. For more information about&nbsp;Good Samaritan Episcopal Church, visit&nbsp;goodsamchurch.org.&nbsp;To learn about solar energy and how you can join the solar energy&nbsp;revolution, visit&nbsp;sullivansolarpower.com.<br \/><\/span><strong>&nbsp;<br \/><\/strong><span><strong>NEXTLEFT&nbsp;RELOCATES HEADQUARTERS TO LA JOLLA SHORES<\/strong><br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>NextLeft,&nbsp;a full-service content marketing and SEO agency aimed at ridding the&nbsp;world of digital clutter, will relocate its corporate&nbsp;headquarters to&nbsp;La Jolla Shores. Located two blocks from the beach at 2255 Avenida De&nbsp;La Playa, the new office space is designed&nbsp;to cultivate an energetic&nbsp;and outdoorsy company culture as well as accommodate company growth.&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span>&ldquo;We&#8217;ve&nbsp;grown quickly over the past three years and needed a space that&nbsp;reflected not only our design aesthetic but also our values&nbsp;as a&nbsp;company,&rdquo; said CEO of NextLeft, John McKusick. &ldquo;We look forward&nbsp;to continuing to grow and having such an inspiring space to&nbsp;do so.&rdquo;<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>NextLeft&nbsp;is a team of digital marketing strategists with an average of 10-plus&nbsp;years each of agency and in-house digital marketing&nbsp;experience.&nbsp;Frustrated by the overwhelming amount of useless clutter on the&nbsp;internet today, NextLeft set out to help businesses&nbsp;improve their&nbsp;rankings by becoming the authority of their respective industries&nbsp;through creation and promotion of unique, relevant&nbsp;content that their&nbsp;customers actually want and need. For more information on NextLeft,&nbsp;visit&nbsp;nextleft.com.&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><strong>NATHAN&nbsp;FLETCHER KICKS OFF LA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTER&#8217;S 2019 DISTINGUISHED&nbsp;SPEAKER SERIES<br \/><\/strong><span><br \/><\/span><span>County&nbsp;Supervisor Nathan Fletcher will commence La Jolla Community Center&#8217;s&nbsp;2019 Distinguished Speaker Series at a reception&nbsp;from 5-6 p.m. and a&nbsp;lecture and Q&amp;A from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at the La&nbsp;Jolla Community Center, 6811 La Jolla Blvd.&nbsp;Fletcher will speak on&nbsp;matters relevant to our community, such as environmental issues and&nbsp;alternative modes of transportation such&nbsp;as biking. His lecture kicks&nbsp;off a five-month series of lectures by local leaders who strive to&nbsp;improve the community. To learn more or&nbsp;to make a reservation for&nbsp;this event, call 858-459-0831 or visit&nbsp;ljcommunitycenter.org.<br \/><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA&nbsp;JOLLA TOY DRIVE DISTRIBUTES OVER 12,850 STUFFED ANIMALS&nbsp;The&nbsp;Care &lsquo;n Share Toy Drive, a project of the Torrey Pines Rotary Club,&nbsp;distributed more than 12,850 new and gently used stuffed&nbsp;animals from&nbsp;its collection drive at the San Diego County Fair. 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