2010 Winter Youth Baseball Sign-up

Mira Mesa Youth Baseball (MMYB) is a nonprofit youth benefit corporation and is operated totally by volunteer parents. We provide a safe atmosphere while teaching the game of baseball for the kids of Mira Mesa and surrounding communities. MMYB is governed by the Official Rules of Major League Baseball and Pony Baseball rules and regulations, which include those exceptions believed essential for our youth baseball program.

The Winter Instructional Program is an excellent opportunity for players new to baseball or 9 year old players who will face live pitching for the first time.

SIGN UP: Sunday-August 8 & 15, 2010: 9am to 2pm, Mira Mesa Recreation Center, 8575 New Salem Dr.

DIVISIONS: Winter Instructional Program includes Pinto (ages 7 & 8), Mustang (9 & 10), Bronco (11 & 12), Pony (13 & 14), and Colt (15 & 16)**

COST: $85 per player; Includes shirt/hat but NOT fundraising.

**Colt fees TBD

Bring a copy (not original) of player’s birth certificate.

ASSESSMENTS: Sunday-8/22 (players will be scheduled at registration) at Camino Ruiz Neighborhood Park, 11498 Camino Ruiz

GAMES: Sundays-9/19 to 11/21

For more information go to www.mmyb.org or contact us at info@mmyb.org

Mira Mesa Women’s Club “Sew In” at Callahan’s

The Mira Mesa Women’s Club is going to do a “sew in” at Callahan’s. They will be working on “comfort pillows” which are the pillows they make for breast cancer patients and send all around the world. They rely on “donations” for this project and have several fundraisers throughout the year to raise funds for supplies. This sew in will be to put the pillows together and get them ready to ship. Last year 5000 pillows were shipped out, and since the program began in 1995 over 50,000 pillows have been sent out. That is pretty awesome!

It is easy to get involved, even if you don’t know how to sew. If you can sew bring your sewing machine. If you can’t sew… bring yourself and help them cut material, match pillows and package up in a box ready to ship. If you need further information contact Martha at 858-566-8847.

Event Information: July 31st, 2010 from 10am – 3pm at Callahan’s.
They will take a lunch break at Noon where you can purchase a lunch (at your own expense) in the restaurant area and then return to working on the pillows in the front room. Come for part or the entire event and help out this wonderful community service project.

Hope to see you there!

For more information about the project and the Mira Mesa Women’s Club, go to:
http://www.mmwomensclub.com/ComfortPillow.html

Dance & Company Anniversary Special – Free Classes for 1 Week

Dance & Company in Mira Mesa Celebrates their One Year Anniversary by Offering Free Classes All Week!

During the entire week of July 26th, Dance & Company will offer free classes to all new students. Dance classes range from Ballet to Hip Hop. They also offer classes in Choreography, Musical Theater, as well as Yoga, Pilates and more. Not only do they offer a wide array of amazing classes, but the instructors are amazing as well. You can check out the classes offered here: http://danceandcompany.net/classes.html

Dance & Company will also be introducing lunch time classes during the week and will offer these classes free to new and current students. Stop by and try as many classes as you’d like, on them!

Visit their website at www.danceandcompany.com for the current class schedule. You can email them at inquiries@danceandcompany.com or call them at (858) 750-3021 for additional information.

Dance & Company opened one year ago and is proven to be quite successful in developing an artistic outlet for the local Community. “We really want to grow into a major resource for our community—to teach local kids and adults about the importance of exercise, artistic expression and discipline through the medium of dance“, says Artist Director and co-owner Katie Lewis.

So make sure and take advantage of this great One Year Anniversary Special.

Dance & Company
Performing Arts Company
6635 Flanders Drive, Suite D
San Diego, CA 92121
(858) 750-3021

Mira Mesa 4th of July Celebration 2010

Can you believe it… another year has past and it is time to celebrate another 4th of July in Mira Mesa? As always, it is going to be another fun-filled day and evening with things getting started at 7am, so make sure to get some sleep Saturday night.

Here is the basic lineup for the day’s events:

• 7:00am – 11:00 am: Pancake Breakfast at Epicentre (Definitely worth getting up early for)
• 11:00am – (All Day): “Fun Day at the Park” runs all day long at the Mira Mesa Community Park and it is definitely the best place to celebrate Independence Day in Mira Mesa. There are rides for the kids, lots of food vendors, and tons of space to hangout and BBQ with friends and family. Just make sure to get there really early to grab a prime spot.
• 1:00pm: The 4th of July Parade. The Parade runs down Mira Mesa Blvd. from Greenford Dr. all the way down to Camino Ruiz where it turns right for one block and then another right on New Salem ending just past the Fire Station. Onlookers line the streets all the way down the Parade route, so grab your beach chair and stake out a good spot early.
• 9:00pm: FIREWORKS!!! Mira Mesa has a great fireworks display each year and it is well worth hanging out until 9:00 and watching. The fireworks are synchronized to the music of local radio station KYXY (96.5 FM), so make sure to bring your radio and some extra batteries.

One thing I would like to mention is that the Mira Mesa 4th of July festivities is put together completely by local volunteers and requires planning and fund-raising efforts throughout the year. Around $40,000 had to be raised this year to put on the event (including funding the fireworks) and at least that much will be required (if not more) to have it again next year. So, if you like to donate a little cash (even 5 to 10 dollars would help), it would be greatly appreciated. Just click on the “Donate to Fireworks Fund” button below and you will be taken to a Paypal link where you can make your donation.

Hickman’s PEP Junior Kindergarten Gives “The Gift of Time”

Hickman Elementary offers a “Junior Kindergarten” program called “PEP” for Primary Extended Program. This class is for the youngest Kindergarten-age eligible children (turning 5 between June 1 and December 2) who may benefit from an additional year before entering a regular full-day Kindergarten the following year.

A San Diego Unified School District approved pilot program, PEP began in 2006 and provides an alternative and voluntary choice for parents. Recent news reports have shown that today’s Kindergarten includes previously 1st Grade expectations while at the same time California has amongst the youngest populations of Kindergarten students (most states have cut-off birthdates of September 1st and some at June 1st to turn 5 years old). Many California districts have created similar classes to PEP to support these young children.

Research-based and modeled after Poway Unified School District’s program, PEP allows for the time needed for developmental maturation socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively to succeed with greater readiness for today’s very high academic standards in Kindergarten and 1st Grade.

Hickman parents and teachers are seeing the value of developmental readiness and maturity as overall school scores have risen, data shows great success of former PEP students, and parents are 100% supportive and appreciative of the program. PEP is not a remedial class, but a developmental Kindergarten that is California Standards-based. Primarily for students who enter Kindergarten still 4 years old, PEP provides for a strong foundation for early and long-term school success. Children participate in all regular school activities and events 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. daily. The second year the students begin a regular, full day Kindergarten with greater readiness skills.

Hickman Elementary is currently accepting PEP applications and CHOICE applications. The school is located in Mira Mesa at 10850 Montongo Street, San Diego, CA 92129 and the school number is (858) 271-5210.

Hickman’s office will reopen August 26th but during the summer break the Principal may be contacted by district e-mail (jwroblewski@sandi.net) for PEP enrollment information.

Document Shredding, E-Recycling, & Rummage Sale at Mira Mesa High

Document Shredding and E-Recycling, Plus Rummage Sale at Mira Mesa High School

This Saturday and Sunday, May 15th and 16th is the perfect weekend to get rid of all those boxes of documents that you have been planning on shredding, but just haven’t gotten around to doing. Identity theft is huge and is growing more each year, so it is important to shred any documents that have information about you on them (except for the ones you need to keep, like tax records).

This weekend from 9AM – 4PM each day you can take your boxes of documents to the Mira Mesa High School parking lot and get them shredded for $10 for your first bankers box of documents, and $5 for each additional box. This can save you hours and hours of time in front of your personal shredder, as well as save the shredder’s motor.

At the same time you can bring all your old electronic junk you have sitting around the house to the High School parking lot and they will get rid of that for you as well. They are accepting things like: electronics, TV’s, computers, cables, wires, cords, monitor, laptop, cell phones, and more…

WHEN:
Saturday May 15, 2010
Sunday May 16, 2010
(9AM – 4PM Each Day)

WHERE:
Mira Mesa High School (Parking Lot)
10510 Reagan Road
San Diego, CA 92126-3298

The Mira Mesa High School Class of 2012 is also having a Huge Rummage Sale benefiting their Senior Prom from 8AM – Noon in the school parking lot on Saturday, so you do a little shopping after you get done recycling!

Save Money with Groupon San Diego and Signon Daily Deal

Who doesn’t like saving money? I know I do! Well this probably isn’t new to a lot of you out there, but it was new to me… so I thought I would share. Have you heard of Groupon San Diego?

Groupon is a “Deal of the Day” type of website that offers a new local discount “Groupon” each day. These can save you up to 90% on different products and services around San Diego.

The way it works is Groupon make deals with local merchants to offer big discounts on individual products or services for one day and they create an assurance contract with them. What that mean is they guarantee the merchant a certain minimum number of sales to be made. So if that number is met, the deal is on and it becomes available to everyone. But if that number is not met… nobody gets the deal for that product. This helps take some of the risk away from the retailer, as they can treat the “Groupon” as quantity discount coupon, and it is also a great promotional tool to get their name out there.

I have been a member for just over two weeks now and I have not seen a Deal fall below the required number, but I am sure it is possible.

Check out the image on the right to see a few of the great deals they offered recently. I actually would have liked to have purchased each one of those deals, but some of them were offered before I ever heard of Groupon San Diego. My boys would have loved me to get that paintball Groupon, and we always go to Belmont Park a couple of times each year, so that $10 All Day Pass would have been a no-brainer!

Not only is it a great site for saving you money on stuff for you and your family, but it also a great place to buy gifts as well.

To compete with the great success Groupon San Diego is having, the San Diego Union-Tribune and some partners have created their own version and it is called the “Signon Daily Deal“. They are brand new, but they offer some AWESOME DISCOUNTS as well. Yesterday I purchased a $100 voucher for the restaurant Bellefleur (great downtown eatery), which also included a Free Bottle of Wine for only $50. I am going to use it to take my wife out for a nice romantic night on the town.

So what are you waiting for? Head over to both Groupon San Diego and Signon Daily Deal and get on their Daily Alert lists today. It is absolutely free to sign-up, and I promise you that you will glad you did!

My Groupon Deal of the Day and Signon Daily Deal emails are literally the only emails I look forward to receiving each day, as I love saving money and finding new things to do in San Diego, as well as new places to eat.

Mira Mesa Free Classified Ads Now Open

One of the main requests we have received over the last few years was to add a Classified Ads section to the website. Until just recently there was really no good software programs available that would integrate well with the back-end of this site’s software. Well fortunately there is now, and we are “Beta Testing” it on MiraMesa.com.

It is actually more than a beta test, as it is fully functional and should be working fine. I just say we are beta testing it because I am sure there will be lots of tweaking and categories to be added, so if you start using it… please make sure to send us some feedback of what you like and don’t like, as well as anything you think we need to add.

Now the Classifieds will be different than the Business Directory (that we already have on MiraMesa.com), so please don’t list your business in this section. The Classified section is more for things like; Selling Cars and Household Items, listing Garage Sales, posting photos of Lost Pets, listing Rental Properties or Rooms for Rent, etc… and we even have a Help Wanted section so local businesses can hopefully find some good employees that live close to work.

So please give it a try and make sure to let your friends and neighbors know about it as well. Like any good idea, it will take a while to catch on… but hopefully each week it will grow more and more, and people will start to take advantage of it, especially since it is FREE!

Taste of Mira Mesa V – April 6, 2010

Presents

The Taste of Mira Mesa V

Tues, April 6^th, 2009

6:30-8:30pm

To Be Held At Gen Probe

(Tickets Only $25)

Join the Mira Mesa Community In This Special Event, Taste Food Samples From Many Restaurants In The Area, Check Out Our Tremendous Display Of Silent Auction Baskets, Mingle With Other Mira Mesans and Enjoy The Entertainment!

Childcare Provided

Please visit www.MiraMesaHighSchoolFoundation.org to view photos of previous year’s events

To get your tickets or if you need more information please contact Esther Alamedden at ealameddin@gmail.com, you can also purchase tickets from Jennifer Kvalvik jkvalvik@sandi.net or Christine Hight chight@sandi.net at Mira Mesa High School.  Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you all there.

Support 4th of July Fireworks at Casino Night on March 12th

“Casino Night”, the annual fundraiser to support the Mira Mesa Community 4th of July, returns this year with the theme “Mardi Gras”.  Casino Night is scheduled for Friday, March 12, beginning at 5 p.m. The Country Inn and Suites, 5975 Lusk Blvd., will again be the site of this fun-filled fund-raiser.

This year, Casino Night will get a boost from the Mira Mesa Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber is committed to supporting the Mira Mesa Community, and the annual 4th of July event is one of Mira Mesa’s most popular community events. The event is also an excellent chance for Mira Mesa businesses to say “thank you” to their employees and clients, by sponsoring a game table or auction item.

Businesses and individuals interested in sponsoring game tables can download a sponsorship form from the Mira Mesa Town Council website. Additionally, auction items are being sought for Casino Night and donors will receive tickets to the event. Donation forms are also available at the MMTC website.

For additional information, or to sponsor a table or donate an auction item, contact Bonnie Apple at 858-784-3676 or Bonnie.Apple@expresspros.com, or Sandy Smith at 858-361-5229 or sandysmt@san.rr.com.

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