SWE Tucson Newsletter - August 2009

Upcoming Events 1. Hate grocery shopping or cleaning up?- Simply Dinners August 8th 2. August RUN Dinner - Fire & Spice 3. Engineering Your Scrapbook – September TBD 4. Silent Auction - we need your help 5. Join the Sonora Region- B Community

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1. Simply Dinners Hate grocery shopping or the cleaning up that comes with preparing meals? Make home cooking easier for you, sign up for an afternoon of socializing while preparing dinners for your family. Simply Dinners has all the ingredients, laid out (already chopped), all you have to do is follow the instructions to measure and mix the recipe ingredients into baking pans or Ziploc bags. Take everything home and freeze until you're ready to heat. Let your neighbors and friends know! You will also be supporting your local SWE section, 10% of your order will be donated to SWE. At least one food sample and a special dessert will be served at the party. Bring a box, standard-size cooler, or laundry basket to transport your meals home, also, if you have long hair bring something to pull it back with. To Reserve a Spot: 1. Place an order by August 3rd. The August menu features 15 dinners offering Asian Coconut Stir Fry, Raspberry Chipotle Pork Tenderloin, Tropical Glazed Salmon, and more. 2. If you are new to Simply Dinners we recommend that you read all about it at https://www.simplydinners.com/Default.aspx. The “introduction”, “how it works”, and “about the food –faq” pages are the most helpful to learn about the concept. 3. You need to sign up for your meals ahead of time so all of the ingredients can be prepped and ready for you. To place your order: a. Go to the order page or call the store at 615-9050. b. Click on our Private Party session. The party is scheduled for Saturday August 8th 2-4 pm at the Plaza Palomino store. There is a little lock next to the time. If you hover on the time you will see the session name which is “Private Party for Society of Women Engineers" c. When you select the time you will need a password. The password to our session is “SW082009”. This is case sensitive. d. When you enter your order you should enter the Promotion Code of “SWE2009”. This signals Simply Dinners to donate 10% of your order to SWE-Tucson. Please note - a minimum of 6 dinners needs to be ordered per person for SWE Tucson to get the donation, check with your neighbors and friends to combine orders if you'd like. 2. August RUN Dinner From the restaurant webpage: Hungry? Fire + Spice, our new cutting-edge Southwestern eatery is a culinary experience you won't want to miss. Steeped in history and rich in culture, Arizona cuisine blends traditional Native American ingredients, the refined tastes of Old Spain, and the spices, peppers, and cheeses of Mexico. Fire + Spice's menu is infused with the flavors of all three culinary traditions, and stands at the vanguard of nouveau Arizona cuisine. From presentations where the plate is the canvas and the food is the paint, to the enticing blend of aromas, textures and flavors—you'll enjoy Southwestern fare like you've never seen or tasted it before. *Support your local section 15% of the order will be donated to SWE Tucson Who: Everyone! This is meant as a nice social dinner. Feel free to invite spouses, friends, neighbors -- anyone you think would like to come! What: Second Monthly RUN Dinner, and a fun evening out! Why: To try a new restaurant, or simply eat good food while hanging out with cool people! When: Thursday, August 20th, 6pm Where: Fire + Spice Restaurant, 5151 East Grant Road • Tucson, Arizona 85712, 323-6262. Reservation is under SWE Menu: Menu is located here RSVP: swe_tucson@yahoo.com by August 18th 3. Engineering Your Scrapbook – September TBD Come and learn how Creative Memories has engineered some incredible tools and organization systems for scrapbooking. You will learn how to care for your photos and mementos as well as present them in several ways to share them with your friends and families. Speaker - Kathy Juell, Creative Memories Consultant 4. Silent Auction Planning Volunteer Opportunities Our University of Arizona scholarship fundraising event will be Saturday November 14th at 2:30pm at Tohono Chul Park. This event is one of the highlights for FY10. Meet for tea and fun as you take care of some early Christmas shopping while raising scholarship money for UA SWE students. Volunteer to help with the event planning and preparations, contact swe.tucson@gmail.com. 5. Have you joined the SWE Sonora Region- B Community yet? The Sonora Region Community is a place to find information on upcoming region events, minutes from the region meetings, information on the region focus groups, and much more information. The community also offers a place to post discussions, ask questions, or take polls. To join the Sonora Region – B Community, logon on to My Communities from www.swe.org. On the blue header titled My Communities, choose Manage Communities, choose Browse Communities S-Z, scroll down and click on the check box next to Sonora Region- B, then choose the join button. You will then be able to view all of the information for the Sonora Region.

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Last updated on 20 July 2009 by SWE Tucson Secretary