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The Sponsorship Committee had its most recent regularly scheduled meetings on June 1st. The Sponsorship Committee and the Board have approved the following items:
A $1,000 donation to the Heart of RRISD program. The group is raising funds to place an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in every school within the RRISD.
Nicholas Espinoza currently attends Gattis Elementary and is in their special needs program due to profound autism. His family is going through a turbulent time and there was not enough money available to pay for specialized summer daycare. The club sponsored $700 to the Clay Madsen Recreation Center to enroll “Nick” in their special needs summer camp. The club received a warm thank-you note from Nick and his mother.
Other items of interest include:
The committee is currently working on five (5) different requests from individuals who need hearing aids or need hearing aid repair.
Our approved Sponsorship Spending for the year now stands at $25,012
Don’t Forget - The Sponsorship Request Form is the form is now available for submission online through the club website at: http://www.rrsertoma.org/sponsorship_request.htm.
On a personal note, I have sincerely enjoyed my Sponsorship role this past Sertoma year. None of the successes we have experienced would not have been possible without the dedication and hard work of my faithful committee members. Special thanks to the following members for their undying support all year long:
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Chris Scott
Vice President
Sponsorship
SHARP (Sertoma Hearing Aid Recycling Program) Update
About a year and a half ago, Rufus Honeycutt, Dennis Graffious and I met to restart our club’s participation in the SHARP program. To kick off our drive to collect used hearing aids, we created new Round Rock Sertoma SHARP brochures and distributed them to Ears, Nose, Throat (ENT) doctor’s offices, nursing homes, pharmacies and other places, and are starting to see a regular stream of hearing aids coming in.
Our activity in this program is coordinated with the UT Speech and Hearing Center and the Northwest Austin Sertoma Club. Each quarter, UT makes available a limited number of examination slots at discounted rates for needy individuals with hearing disabilities. If hearing aids are required, they are drawn from the hearing aid bank and sent off to be rebuilt and refitted. Each year they fit 40 – 60 patients with recycled hearing aids. As part of their sponsorship activity, the Northwest Austin club has been picking up the cost to have these hearing aids refitted.
I’m pleased to say that we have been very successful in our outreach effort so far. We have collected 44 hearing aids to date and have sent them down to be added to the UT hearing aid bank. Dick Reid and the Sponsorship committee also recently helped to qualify and schedule a patient at UT for a full hearing exam. We’re still awaiting the results.
If you or anyone you know has hearing aids they no longer need, please contact me and we’ll continue to keep this program running strong. Thanks!
Tony Abbatista
SHARP Coordinator
Over the past two months we’ve accepted several new members to the Round Rock Sertoma club:
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Larry Terrell |
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Pete Tisdale |
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Paul Richards |
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Peggy Linial |
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Reed Stone |
Please take a minute to introduce yourselves to our newest members and help them become involved quickly in our club’s community activities. Welcome aboard All!
Just a reminder for everyone, the club has available white polo shirts with the Round Rock insignia that can be worn to show our club unity at Sertoma events. I have just about any size needed, so feel free to contact me if you’re interested in purchasing a shirt, the cost is $16.00 each.
Please help to spread the word about Sertoma and to strengthen our club by continuing to bring in new members.
Thanks,
Tony Abbatista
Vice President Membership