The Can Do Club of Friends of
Ronald Reagan
Sports Park
Can-Do Club
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The Can-Do Club is a fund-raising adjunct of Friends of Ronald Reagan SP
The club has ten objectives:
1) To honor the memory of President Ronald Reagan by building a monument to remind others of the value of individual initiative, which he so effectively demonstrated and fostered in others.
2) To honor the memory of the volunteers and donors of the community of Temecula who provided President Reagan with an outstanding example of American enterprise when they built a sports park without government assistance.
3) To assist in presenting a public celebration every year to commemorate the anniversary of the date, March 3, 1983, when President Reagan cited the people of Temecula for building the sports park that now bears his name.
4) To schedule events featuring speakers who, by their connection with President Reagan or their ability to articulate the Can-Do spirit, motivate others to keep that spirit alive.
5) To seek to utilize private initiative to replace public assistance whenever possible.
6) To support projects and programs of Friends of Ronald Reagan SP that create such possibilities.
7) To help raise funds needed to expand those possibilities.
8) To work with schools to instill the Can-Do spirit in others at an early age.
9) To wear the Can-Do pin proudly at every appropriate occasion.
10) To help sustain the projects and programs of Friends of Ronald Reagan SP by paying annual, tax-deductible dues to demonstrate personal commitment to the cause.
Can-Do Club Applicaton
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Opening the 5th Annual Can-Do Day Celebration
Perry Peters, emcee, solemnly promises
".... a variety show --
music, dancing, speeches, prizes and presentations
-- all focusing on Individual Initiative."
Presenting the Colors were members of
Boy Scout Troop 337, selected because the troop's volunteers
helped build our Sports Park in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Pastor Robert Clark, a missionary to South Africa, offers the invocation. Pastor Clark is affiliated with
Faith Bible Church
of Murrieta.
Border Control Agent, Ed Dominguez (center), waits to lead in the
Pledge of Allegiance.
He serves on our Board of Directors.
Theresa Dame-Bellasario, current Mrs. Pacific States International, sings our National Anthem.
She competes for the world title
this summer.
Mayor Comerchero offers microphone to St. Jeanne de Lestonnac principal, Kristen Mora,
just after he announced her school won the 2010 Mayor's Trophy for the greatest number of
qualified entries in the essay contest. A happy emcee (left) looks on.
Jennifer Stanard,
a Temecula Luiseno Elementary teacher,
receives a certificate of
appreciation,
"... awarded with our deep gratitude,
in recognition of your commitment
to instill in your students the value of
self-reliance and the special connection between
President Ronald Reagan, the sports park named after him, and the Can-Do spirit of
the people in our community."
Chaparral High School senior,
Paige Lewis,
receives the Medallion of Initiative from Sue Weaver,
Secretary of our Board of Directors and creator
of this competition, for the most compelling personal Can-Do story.
Paige also received a
$500.00 scholarship check from us!
Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer, Michael R. McCracken,
explains the special relationship between the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan
aircraft carrier,
the City of Temecula, and
Friends of Ronald Reagan Sports Park. McCracken is founder-president of Veterans Temecula Valley (see our links),
which hosts an
annual Tribute to Veterans at the sports park every November.
Riverside County Supervisor,
Jeff Stone,
presents a statuette of Ronald Reagan, as he will appear in the
Can-Do Monument when built,
to Dan Stephenson,
who provided the seed money for our organization.
Stephenson has done the same
for many local organizations.
Anyone donating $15,000 to $29,999 will receive
this replica of the life size
Reagan statue that is designed
as part of the Can-Do Monument, for which the City of Temecula
has allocated space for its construction when
$300,000 has been raised.
The current total raised to
date is $90,000.
Katie Ozolins bows to applause,
as Miriam Lange (left) and
Averie Washburn
wait their turn after completing a "silent drill" Irish dance as part of a Claddagh Dance School presentation.
From left to right:
Bonnie Bellah, Nicholas Aquilino
and Annamaria Aquilino,
members of the
Claddagh Dance Studio in Murrieta,
perform several of the famous precision Irish dances.
As an unrehearsed challenge,
they performed
without the benefit of music,
due to a glitch in planning.
The audience clapped to the cadence and all the dancers
unexpectedly demonstrated their Can-Do spirit and the
show continued!
Jonathan S. Ray,
former Marine One helicopter pilot,
who ferried President Ronald Reagan
to his appointments,
delivers a Can-Do story of his own.
The Marine One helicopter group
is an elite corps of 700 Marines
who serve the Commander in Chief.
Of the 700, only a half dozen get to
fly the President. Jon was one of them!
He now is president of
Florentine Floors, Inc.
He is a member of our Can-Do Club!
Perry Peters, founder and president of Friends of RonaldReagan SP, entitled his closing remarks,
"What Will Tomorrow
Be Like?"
What Will Tomorrow Be Like?
When President Reagan died, we decided the concept of individual initiative that he so strongly encouraged and utilized in his own life, was too important to take for granted. That's why we formed Friends of Ronald Reagan Sports Park.
People from all over the world want to live and work in the United States. They are even willing to break laws to get here. Why? What makes us so different from everyone else?
We are locked in a struggle with Al Quaida, Taliban, Iran, North Korea -- a struggle that threatens to destroy everything we stand for. Why do they hate us so much? What do we have that they do not?
It's freedom. And we can only protect our freedom if we employ individual initiative. Eternal vigilance and taking initiative -- is the price of freedom.
Ronald Reagan didn't invent self-reliance, but he recognized it as a vital American trait. So do we.
We try to instill a sense of the power of individual initiative in our young people. We need more people who appreciate its value and its power. Some people are born with it. Others need to have it coaxed out of them. More of us need to use it as a weapon to defend our freedom.
We are committed to building a monument to the Can-Do spirit, right here in Ronald Reagan Sports Park. It's not just something nice to show visitors when they visit. It is meant to inspire us to be, as the U.S. Army puts it, all we can be. We need people like you, ladies and gentlemen, to step forward and say, "This is important. Let's get it done. I'll help."
There are many ways to help. We have a Can-Do Club to encourage people to become activists in awakening the spirit of initiative in our friends and neighbors.
This country was started by people who insisted on thinking for themselves. They decided freedom was more important than being comfortable. Our military count it more precious than life itself. Think about it as you leave this celebration.
What will tomorrow be like? It's up to you.
Join us next year in celebrating
Can-Do Day 2011
Our 2010 Can-Do Day Story
Pictures by Paige Lassley
Ronald Reagan Sports Park
Rancho Vista Road
Temecula, CA
92592
Friends of Ronald Reagan SP
42968 Agena Street
Temecula, California 92592
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