Happy Year of the Dragon!

Once again the Asian Liver Center at Stanford will be at the San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival. This year, non profit has also been invited to join the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade. This is your chance to reach millions with our life-saving message since the parade is televised!

Parade
We need everyone – adults and all students (elementary through college) to be dragons (we have an awesome 40′ dragon!), lantern marchers, and more. You must attend 2 training sessions, including one on Saturday, January 28. More details and date of the second session will be provided at the first meeting.

Outreach Education Booth
We need high school, college students, and adults to educate festival goers about hepatitis B and liver cancer. Your job? Convince them to get tested for hep B. Mandatory training and orientation for this role is on Friday, February 3rd. All languages are welcome, though Cantonese speakers are especially needed for the booth.

We will not be able to accommodate all volunteers, so sign up quickly.

Sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/CNYFestival2012

Mark these dates and times in your calendar:

Chinese New Year Festival – Outreach Booth
Dates: Sat/Sun, Feb. 11 & 12
Time: 8 am – 5:15 pm
Location: San Francisco Chinatown, Grant Avenue
Festival info: http://www.chineseparade.com/​parade_events.asp?pEvent=commun​ity_fair

Chinese New Year Festival – Parade
Date: Saturday, Feb. 11
Time: 1:00 pm – 8 pm
Location: San Francisco Chinatown, Grant Avenue

Mandatory Training Session for Outreach Booth Volunteers
Date: Friday, Feb. 3
Time: 6-7:30 pm
Location: Asian Liver Center, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Address will be sent in confirmation email. Walking distance from California Avenue Caltrain station.

1st Mandatory Training Session for Parade Walkers
Date: Saturday, Jan. 28
Time: 9:30-11:30 AM
Location: Stanford University, location TBA
Address will be sent in confirmation email. Walking distance from California Avenue Caltrain station.

If you are interested in the event, sign up ASAP! We will deal with carpooling to SF!

Lunch and afternoon snacks will be provided too. Get lots of free stuff!!!

Deadline to sign up: Thursday, January 26!

Last month, Palo Alto conducted a food drive for nonperishable goods for local homeless shelters.  They collected many many bags of food, just in time for the holidays!

Thank you all for coming to the Area 13 Meeting today! We had fun at Hobee’s If you couldn’t join us this time, make sure to come next time February 5th, 2012 as we continue to talk about the upcoming dance and first annual Charity Dinner!!!

Quick Recap:

I. Area Day of Service! http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/339826639363712/ SIGN UP NOW! January 21, 2012

II. Area 11, 12, 13 Dance
Date Change:  Feb. 24, 2012 still from 7pm-10pm
Theme: Forever Young
More details about volunteering for set-up and clean-up to come!

III. First Annual Area 13 Charity Dinner
Theme decided:  UNDER THE SEA!!
A. Committees:
Food – St. Francis HS
Acts – Gunn HS
Raffle – still up for grabs!
Publicity – Palo Alto HS
Decorations – Pinewood HS

IV. PWR registrations are due the 20th of January! Don’t miss your chance to go on an overnight retreat with other Interactors and learn more about becoming leaders.