SDCAD has been reformed.

Welcome to the new era.

The San Diego California Association of the Deaf has been reinstated!!

The San Diego CAD would like to announce our new officers!

President: Johnny Young
Vice-President: Matt Ellis
Secretary: Jeff Wright
Treasurer: Bill Mather
Member Director: Patricia Branz
Members at Large: (North county): Kimbely Laule
(South county) : Daniel Hoppe

We are focusing on recruiting more members. We are focusing on having a STRONGER Deaf Community in San Diego. Our only purpose is to HELP the Deaf Community!

If you would like to ask us questions regarding SDCAD, feel free to visit us at our booth at Deaf Awareness Day.

If you are unable to attend the Deaf Awareness Day event, you may go to the following link for a membership application.

http://www.cad1906.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/CADmembership.pdf

Contact us @: sandiegoCAD@gmail.com.

On September 29, 2007 at DAD come and lend your support!!!

On September 29, 2007 San Diego celebrates Deaf Awareness Day.
On that very same day, the entire world celebrates International Day of the Deaf and Sign Language! We will have tshirts for that event at the CAD San Diego booth, and we will have a rally in the afternoon.

See you there!

July 10th -- Meeting

General Meeting with the NEW board members-- all people are welcome to attend!

The meeting will discuss old business and new business (e.g. what plans we can do for the summer and future fall?) along with getting people familiar with the NEW board members!

Spread the word!

July 10th at 7pm.
(Carpool is strongly recommended)

It will be at the same place as the last meeting--at the UCSD's Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center which is located on the east side of freeway 5 (**It is NOT anchored to the main campus).

The meeting will be in a conference room on 3rd floor-- which is the same floor where Deaf Outreach program is at.

The address is: 3855 Health Sciences Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093. The driving instructions are being provided here at which also has a picture map-- please CHECK this to make sure you know where you go!





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The Greater San Diego CAD Chapter Board

June 19th, Tuesday at 7pm

June 19th, TUESDAY, at 7pm--
Brainstorm time!

Nominations from people are welcome as we should fill out the board-- membership is ecnouraged! Fill this out and give it to an existing member or mail it yourself (address is on bottom of the form)
Once you pay your membership dues, it will cover for two years! You are not required to attend every meeting! Everybody has their own life and we know that (we are humans too!)

To become a member, you are showing your SUPPORT and COMMITTMENT to establish a strong CAD chapter here in San Diego. 30$ for two years is equal to only about five cents a day!!! WHAT A DEAL!

It will be at the same place as the last meeting--at the UCSD's Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center which is located on the east side of highway 5 (not anchored to the main campus).

The meeting will be in a conference room on third floor-- which is the same floor where Deaf Outreach program is at!

The address is: 3855 Health Sciences Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093. The driving instructions are being provided here which has a picture map-- please CHECK this to make sure you know where you go!


**Please contact us at sandiegoCAD@gmail.com if you wish to nominate yourself-- or you can leave your name and contact information in the commentbox. Whichever you prefer!!!

All positions are OPEN to nominate and if you want to learn more about each position, read this entry made several months ago in mid-post where you see "What does each position of the committee do?" paragraph.

Special Guest for May 17th mtg

Save this date. May 17th, 7pm-- CAD Meeting. You. Me. Everybody.

The meeting is to brainstorm ideas for events to be hosted by CAD Chapter for Greater San Diego for summertime (ahh, beaches, bbqs,yeah!). CAD is not all about politics-- we are about the community, so the ideal community should have fun too! Consider this as a Town Hallmeeting, really.

The meeting will be hosted at Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center (part of UCSD in LaJolla on east side of freeway 5) in a conference room on the 3rd floor,again at 7pm on May 17th.
*Many thanks to Patty Branz for reserving this room!*

The address is: 3855 Health Sciences Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093.
The driving instructions are being provided here.


So once you arrive the location, go in and take the stairs (it is *right there*in plain sight), go to 3rd floor, the conference room is right there.

Grab this opportunity to chat and meet folks~ just swing by after your work or your dinner

We want to have a large turnout, so spread the word, and BRING FRIENDS!

***We got a special guest too! Richard Ray, the president of CAD-- which is the whole state-- will be there! So this is your chance to ask questions and get ideas from him!

(Membership forms will be available for you to fill out at the site)

This Weekend!! Come and Give it the Final Push!

Sunday, May 6th at 1pm -- meeting for CAD Chapter for Greater San Diego-- board and members altogther.

LOCATION: Mr Bon's Restaurant & Grill
5487 Clairemont Mesa Blvd
San Diego, California 92117
TIME: 1 o'clock

DATE: May 6th, this SUNDAY

Hope you can come down and meet your fellow members and give this darn chapter the FINAL PUSH !!!

We will discuss our future plans as we move into summer (think: BBQ and baseball games for kids!) and accept nominations to be elected into any positions.
PLEASE let us know and COME DOWN!!

!!!!!!!SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!!!!

Cancelled Meeting-- READ ON

April 21st meeting is CANCELLED at Kim Laule's notice.

If you wish to have a meeting, contact her at klaule@tmail.com and encourage her to conduct a meeting ASAP!!!
KEEP UP THE SPIRIT EVEN IF THE SUMMER IS ROLLING AROUND!!
There are many things you can do with CAD-- hosting a BBQ, hosting a July 4th get-together for all children and adults at some place and MANY MORE!


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Kirsi, the secretary of the CAD chapter for Greater San Diego, opinion is inserted from here on and may not represent the entire chapter of Greater San Diego:
I think this is our final straw that broke the camel's hump. I am very sorry that I couldn't get the community to rise and get together to do something for SAN DIEGO. I am sorry if I didn't get out the word enough-- I felt I did my part best as I can-- I pushed and pushed.
Unfortunately, I am leaving in late July or early August, so somebody needs to step up and open up a line of communications with Kim Laule. Right now, we are stuck with her power of networking-- and she is not willing to share her networking among her friends who are in higher places in CAD. She is determined to become the president, regardless her inefficiency in a such position. You need to speak up. You, him, her, them, and everybody else! You kept complaining about how we operate our chapter-- well, DO SOMETHING!
Talk with us, talk with Kim, TALK WITH WHOMEVER IN THE CHAPTER.

If you are pointing out the problem, at least offer a solution to take action on!!!!!


Again, I implore you to contact Kim to show your concerns and support for the CAD chapter. We cannot relay on DCS for providing community events and recreations!!!

Next Meeting! April 21

April 21, SATURDAY at 3pm

There will be a CAD meeting at Mr. Bon's Restaurant and Grill --
for members and the board to meet and discuss the plans for the CAD state-wide meeting to be hosted here in America's Finest City, SAN DIEGO!

Other plans can be discussed if bring up in the meeting-- so COME DOWN and BRING UP your plans/interests/questions. If you are interested in hosting a event for a holiday, let us know! We can help you out!

Mr. Bon's Restaurant and Grill is across from Madison High School in a small shopping center called "Madison Plaza" in Clairemont-- click here for the map

The address is 5487 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego CA. You can reach to it by using 805 or 52.
Again, APRIL 21 at 3pm-- on a Saturday.

~~Hope you can come and show your support for the community~~

To become a member, just mail in this form or give that form to Teri at the meeting along with $ and then you will receive a membership card from the CAD.

Board Meeting, March 24th

***CAD Board Meeting***

March 24th at 3pm
At Souplantation
1860 Marron Road, Carlsbad, CA 92008 (760)434-9100

For those who want to nominate themselves for positions (president,vice-president, secretary, treasurer, membership director,members-at-large, chartermember *members who act as representation/voicefor the rest of members*)

This meeting is a good time to step up and get involved in the committee!!

((More information can be found on http://sandiegocad.blogspot.com)

David Prince, the president of the LA chapter will come to assist our chapter to frame some fundamentals for instances planning for Miss DeafSan Diego or any fun event, rules regards to operate a fundraiser, andprocedures in being a "watchdog," and how to keep CAD informed aboutevents in San Diego. David Prince is currently planning events for CADExpo which will take place on August 30 to Sept 1 (this is also theplace for Miss Deaf California pageant) so David is a great guy to ask questions.

So if you are seriously considering to get involved with one ofpositions on the board, come down to the meeting to introduce yourselfto other people on the board!

**Go ahead and Share this information with other people who you think will beinterested in joining the board for CAD chapter.

***http://www.cad1906.org/membership.html If you can't help out on the board, you can at least get a form to mailin your application for becoming a member. Do check "San Diego" forwhich chapter you want to be affilated with (easy as it does!).

Misunderstanding

There may be a misunderstanding and/or miscommunication, but now her mind has been made-up-- Kim said St Patrick get-together is back on.

So please come to nominate yourself for positions and get involved with the people and plan for San Diego's future at Callahan's (same place where DPHH was hosted-- a coincidence!)

The more, the merrier. SPREAD THE WORD-- tell your friends about this website.

March 3rd meeting

After posting about meeting on this blog, mentioned on another blog, being announced via a yahoo!group "sandiego_deaf", mass-email to those who are interested-- only 8 people showed up. What is the issue here? Community apathy? Not spreading the word wide enough? Prehaps you can help us solving this myster by posting a comment...??

Our Second attempt at collecting more nominations for all positions for CAD will be conducted on March 17th, St Patrick Day. (Remember, just because there is one name to the position doesn't mean you cannot sign up-- we accept many nominations as we can for one position. So please contact klaule@tmail or leave a comment here to submit your self-nomination for whatever position you want for the committee/board. )

March 17th, St Patrick's Day from 4pm to 6pm, there will be a CAD get-together at Callahan's Pub and Brewery (Yes, the very same place for DPHH. A coincidence) in Mira Mesa.
The address is 8111 Mira Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92126


Come on down for the fun, meeting people, for food and drinks and SAME TIME, be involved with CAD!!!
We will try again with spreading words via this blog, emails, and flyers posted at DCS and passing out at deaf events, and YOU.
So spread the word for everybody to have a chance to partake in establishing CAD and get San Diego alive again!


(for map and directions, click here to see Callahan's on maps.google.com)
(If you want to be added to the mailing list regards to CAD's progress or events, please email klaule@tmail.com and request you to be added).


So far for the nominations, those people have signed up... (again-- just because there is already a name there doesn't mean they are automatically elected-- you can nominate yourself too!)
President: Kim L.
Vice-President: none
Treasuer: Kristen C.
Secretary: Kirsi G.
Membership Director: Teri
Member-at-Large (needs two): Clifton and none.

Reminder-- Meeting March 3rd

The election will be reopened for ALL positions on the committee of San Diego's chapter for CAD.
As of now, the positions of secretary and director-at-large have vacanted, unfortunately.

So contact Kim Laule (the current president of chapter) if you do want to nomiate yourself for any positions!!! Or leave a comment stating your nominations so we can take it in the account-- however, DO GO to the meeting to confirm your nomination...!!
(If you are out of town, please contact Kim to notify her so she can nominate you)


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Kirsi will nominate herself for the position of secretary.

Upcoming Meeting

Next meeting is on March 3rd, at 1pm

The meeting will be conducted to solve any mysteries surrounding the CAD chapter of Greater San Diego. There may be an another election as well, since people have backed out. So if you want to nominate yourself for any positions that I mentioned in previous post, please come and sign up!

The meeting will be at Palisades Park South. It is the same place where San Diego's Tent-City/Beach had their tents. It is on Law street and Ocean Blvd (click to view the map!).

Bring your friends, family, and more to learn about the CAD and how you can become a proactive member of San Diego's D/HH community!

At the beach, membership forms will be passed out for you to join.

Come for the election, the fun, and the people (and the sun!!)

First Official Meeting

On Feb. 3, 2007, a committee has been elected and approved as a chapter to represent the county of San Diego. The chapter's title is "Greater San Diego". The chapter is for California Association for the Deaf (aka CAD). We will perform as watchdogs and community center for our county where our members can come to learn and share our goals for the Deaf/HH community while enjoying our fun events that we will host in the future.

Membership form can be accessed on this web page where you can print out the form to be mailed along with the fees (maximum: 30$ for two years).

The committee is consisted of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, membership director, and directors-at-large. More roles can be added and filled if needed at further meetings.

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The meeting on February 3rd was conducted to elect the committee. The president is Kim, the vice-president is Kirsi, the secretary is Melissa, the treasurer is Kristen, the membership director is Tara, and finally the directors-at-large are Clifton and Karyn.

What does each position of the committee do?
The president of a chapter is the REPRESENTATIVE of the chapter so you will go out and speak for San Diego, you will deal with issues and decide how to distrubate the duties to your committee, and work with the president of CAD to let them know what is happening in your region/county.

The vice-president of a chapter's responsibilites are to relay issues/information/situations to the president, manage the inner system of committee (you deal with treauser, secratry, et cetera directly), basically all the dirty work behind the curtains are done by you to keep the president informed.

The secretary is to write down meeting, important information et cetera so everybody in the chapter can check up for facts, statements, et cetera.

The treasuer is to take care of funds, budget the chapter, and host fundraisers if needed.
Membership director is responsible for recuriting, taking care of membership fee (see CAD website), and making sure people are up to the date with their membership.

Directors-at-large are two positions to be filled-- one to represent the north side of county, another to represent the south side of county. Both works with assignment by President or VP to investigate a complaint, a situation, et cetera-- be detectives whom then relay the details back to the president.

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There will be a meeting on March 3rd, 2007 to recruit members and conduct a discussion with what vision we should take up on. More information will be posted on this blog.

(There is a state-wide meeting for all CAD chapter hosted at CSU-Sacramento, however we are a fairly new chapter so we are exempted from attending the state-wide CAD meeting. )