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Join us for Lunch
Program: Ricardo Rabines and Taal Safdie, co-founders of Safdie Rabines Architects
May 20, 2025 ~ 12:00 p.m.
Elijah's Restaurant, 7061 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92111
Plus, Division updates from Lt. Gov Martha Futterman
Ricardo Rabines and Taal Safdie are the Founding Partners of Safdie Rabines Architects, an award-winning architecture, interiors, and urban design firm in San Diego. The husband-wife team met while completing the Master of Architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, and went on to establish SRA in 1993 with an initial emphasis on custom single-family residences. More than three decades later, their portfolio has grown to include numerous project types, from academic facilities and civic buildings to mixed-use housing, bridges and infrastructure, and large urban master plans.
Taal and Ricardo’s work aims to capture the essence of each project’s site, and is driven by a mission to create significant, meaningful places. Their designs are guided by the betterment of the public realm and provide indoor and outdoor gathering spaces that encourage interaction. Their work consistently embraces sustainable design principles and integrates nature within the built environment, enhancing the well-being and identity of surrounding communities.
A selection of notable projects include the Scripps Seaside Forum conference center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which hosts researchers from around the world and is a favorite local wedding venue; the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, designed into a vast hillside to provide commanding views of downtown Los Angeles; UC San Diego’s Epstein Family Amphitheater, an on-campus public venue for concerts, lectures, and other wide-ranging events; and the San Elijo Lagoon Pedestrian Bridge, innovatively suspended from Interstate-5 to provide new pedestrian connections to a popular North County trail system. The firm has also designed nationally, including the mixed-use Crystal Flats development for the Walton Family Foundation in Bentonville, Arkansas; Evora, a luxury live-work community in Las Vegas; and the new Lusail Pedestrian Bridges that trace the waterfront in Qatar’s second-largest city.
Throughout their careers, Taal and Ricardo have been active members of the architectural community, participating in lectures, juries, and conferences locally, nationally, and internationally. They continue to be actively involved in the design of every SRA project, setting the tone for the creative direction of the firm’s body of work and its influence on public spaces throughout and beyond San Diego.
Red Shoe Day!
Please donate to our team and help raise money for the Ronald McDonald House of San Diego on
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Please consider donating to our team through this link!
Your efforts will help families with children in local hospitals throughout San Diego.
Thank you for your support!
Monthly Division Council Meeting
Hosted by Chula Vista
May 21 | 6:00 p.m.
Marina Park Condominium | 850 State St. San Diego CA 92101
We are delivering dinner to the girls at
Girls Rising Above Child Exploitation (GRACE)
June 10, 2025
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Address provided after you sign up.
Service Project with Just in Time for Foster Youth My First Home Shopping Day
Saturday, June 14, 2025 8:30 AM
My First Home Group Shopping Days are held at our My First Home Distribution Center, where participants are paired up with volunteer shoppers to choose the items needed to turn their apartment into a welcoming, comfortable place to call home. The Distribution Center is stocked with everything needed to create a firm foundation, from gently-used furniture and décor to new beds, appliances and cleaning supplies.
We are limited to 6 participants who will be the volunteer shoppers, paired with Just in Time for Foster Youth participants.
4561 Mission Gorge Place, Suite 2-G, San Diego 92120
Program: San Diego History
Speaker: Roger Showley
June 17, 2025 ~ 12:00 p.m.
Roger Showley, retired Union-Tribune reporter and former president of the Balboa Park Committee of 100, is a third-generation San Diegan. He graduated from UC San Diego in 1970 with a major in history and joined the UT in 1974. He focused on growth and development in the Home and Business sections with special attention downtown redevelopment, urban planning and architecture, historic preservation and housing, commercial development and big public and private projects. In addition to his journalistic work, he has written seven books on San Diego history, taught extensions classes for UCSD. Since retiring in 2018, he has focused on Balboa Park, where he headed the Balboa Park Committee of 100, and served on the boards of several organizations, including the San Diego Architectural Foundation, Friends of San Diego Architecture, Citizens Coordinate for Century and San Diego Yacht Club history and library committee. He and his wife, Carol, live in Scripps Ranch and have two grown children and one granddaughter.
Hosted by Imperial Beach-South Bay
June 18 | 6:00 p.m.
Napoleone's Pizza House | 619 National City Blvd.
Pittsburgh is known for its innovative industries, thriving cultural scene and a landscape distinguished by rivers and bridges. Of course, the city is also known for its place at the heart of American steel manufacturing.
Join us in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., for the 2025 Kiwanis International Convention. You’ll be a part of an event that can help you transform your club and its impact in your community. Education. Fellowship. Decision-making. Explore all the ways the Kiwanis International convention can help you forge the future — for your club and for our worldwide organization.
More info
We are volunteering with
Care 'n Share Toy Drive
collecting toys at the San Diego County Fair
These toys are then donated to sick children in the region.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
7 pm - 10 pm
Del Mar Fairgrounds
2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd, Del Mar 92014
More info about volunteering can be found here.
Program: Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Dr. Aaron Elkins, Director of the James Silberrad Brown Center for AI at SDSU
July 15, 2025 ~ 12:00 p.m.
We are Hosting the
July 16 | 6:00 p.m.
Kiwanis Night at Lake Elsinore Storm Baseball
August 1
Tickets and more info:
https://www.gofevo.com/event/Kiwanisnight25
Kiwanis Night Flyer.pdf
Program: College and Zitlau Scholarship Recipient Recognition
August 19, 2025 ~ 12:00 p.m.
Hosted by Sweetwater
September 17 | 6:00 p.m.
Join our Club and perform extraordinary things in your community!
Kiwanis Club of San Diego is a 501(c)4 non-profit organization.
3276 Rosecrans Street, Suite 202, San Diego, CA 92110-4893
