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Connecticut RPCVs hold "Salute to Peace Corps Week" fundraiser gala on March 5
Connecticut RPCVs hold "Salute to Peace Corps Week" fundraiser gala on March 5
Connecticut RPCVs are celebrating Peace Corps Week by holding a fundraiser gala, "SALUTE TO PEACE CORPS WEEK," to raise money for their "Community Service Fund." The money wilol be usede to support projects submitteed by CTRPCV members both international and domestic. The gala, “SOUNDS OF BRAZIL IN ELM CITY” is: An Evening of Music, Dancing & International Foods, Silent Auction and Raffle, and Grant Award Presentations, with music by the Award Winning band, “Samba Brasil.”
Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker: Kevin Quigley, Prseident, National Peace Corps Association
The event is being held on Saturday, March 5, 2005, 7:00 PM to Midnight, at the Quinnipiack Club, New Haven, Connecticut. Attire: Festive!
Connecticut Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Established in 1981 as a regional affiliate of the National Peace Corps Association, CTRPCV is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt organization comprised of Peace Corps Volunteers who have served in developing countries all over the world and are currently living in Connecticut. CTRPCV members speak about their experiences at schools and community organizations, volunteer in numerous community service efforts, and, through the CTRPCV Community Service Fund, provide financial assistance to education, health, small business and community development projects supported by its members at home and abroad. Past grants include bicycles for caregivers at Malawi Children's Village, an AIDS orphanage; landscaping at Life Haven Homeless Shelter for Women And Children; books for a school library in Romania; and various micro-enterprise projects, including a corn grinding mill and a café employing “street boys” in Nicaragua.
Event Committee:
Honorary and Advisory: Congressman Christopher Shays; Scotland King, Citigroup; Timothy Cahill, Smith Barney; Patti Vassia, Middlesex County Community Foundation; Guy Mozzicato, RMD Americas
Chairs: Robert Graulich, Maureen Shanley, Helen Risom Belluschi
Directions to Quinnipiack Club:
From I-95, take Exit 47 (Rte 34) and get off at Exit 1 (downtown). Drive straight at end of ramp onto North Frontage Road and make a right at the first light onto Church Street. Drive up Church through 5 lights. The Quinnipiack Club is on the right at #221 (tel: 203-562-3147). You can park on the street, in the courthouse parking lot across the street, or in the lot behind the Citizen's bank building via the alley next door to the bank.
ADVANCE TICKET ORDERS*
General Admission: $50.00
CTRPCV Members: $35.00
Patron Level: $125.00 (Includes invitation to VIP Reception and mention in Event Program Book)
*Note: Payment at the door is additional $10.00.
For further information, call or email Event Co-chair Maureen Shanley (203-775-9222, maureenshanley@hotmail.com), or Ticket Sales Chair Helen Risom Belluschi (203-966-7230, harb43@msn.com). For more information on CTRPCV, or to download forms for tickets, event sponsors or silent auction, please visit our web site at www.ctrpcv.org.
When this story was posted in March 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:
| The Peace Corps Library Peace Corps Online is proud to announce that the Peace Corps Library is now available online. With over 30,000 index entries in over 500 categories, this is the largest collection of Peace Corps related reference material in the world. From Acting to Zucchini, you can use the Main Index to find hundreds of stories about RPCVs who have your same interests, who served in your Country of Service, or who serve in your state. |
| March 1: National Day of Action Tuesday, March 1, is the NPCA's National Day of Action. Please call your Senators and ask them to support the President's proposed $27 Million budget increase for the Peace Corps for FY2006 and ask them to oppose the elimination of Perkins loans that benefit Peace Corps volunteers from low-income backgrounds. Follow this link for step-by-step information on how to make your calls. Then take our poll and leave feedback on how the calls went. |
| Coates Redmon, Peace Corps Chronicler Coates Redmon, a staffer in Sargent Shriver's Peace Corps, died February 22 in Washington, DC. Her book "Come as You Are" is considered to be one of the finest (and most entertaining) recountings of the birth of the Peace Corps and how it was literally thrown together in a matter of weeks. If you want to know what it felt like to be young and idealistic in the 1960's, get an out-of-print copy. We honor her memory. |
| Make a call for the Peace Corps PCOL is a strong supporter of the NPCA's National Day of Action and encourages every RPCV to spend ten minutes on Tuesday, March 1 making a call to your Representatives and ask them to support President Bush's budget proposal of $345 Million to expand the Peace Corps. Take our Poll: Click here to take our poll. We'll send out a reminder and have more details early next week. |
| Peace Corps Calendar: Tempest in a Teapot? Bulgarian writer Ognyan Georgiev has written a story which has made the front page of the newspaper "Telegraf" criticizing the photo selection for his country in the 2005 "Peace Corps Calendar" published by RPCVs of Madison, Wisconsin. RPCV Betsy Sergeant Snow, who submitted the photograph for the calendar, has published her reply. Read the stories and leave your comments. |
| WWII participants became RPCVs Read about two RPCVs who participated in World War II in very different ways long before there was a Peace Corps. Retired Rear Adm. Francis J. Thomas (RPCV Fiji), a decorated hero of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died Friday, Jan. 21, 2005 at 100. Mary Smeltzer (RPCV Botswana), 89, followed her Japanese students into WWII internment camps. We honor both RPCVs for their service. |
| Bush's FY06 Budget for the Peace Corps The White House is proposing $345 Million for the Peace Corps for FY06 - a $27.7 Million (8.7%) increase that would allow at least two new posts and maintain the existing number of volunteers at approximately 7,700. Bush's 2002 proposal to double the Peace Corps to 14,000 volunteers appears to have been forgotten. The proposed budget still needs to be approved by Congress. |
| RPCVs mobilize support for Countries of Service RPCV Groups mobilize to support their Countries of Service. Over 200 RPCVS have already applied to the Crisis Corps to provide Tsunami Recovery aid, RPCVs have written a letter urging President Bush and Congress to aid Democracy in Ukraine, and RPCVs are writing NBC about a recent episode of the "West Wing" and asking them to get their facts right about Turkey. |
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