Newsletter – July/August 2008

IREM NEWSLETTER
July 1, 2008 Issue
Submitted by D. J. Ryan
REstart Jumpstart (oops, update… ☺)

REstart Website
Check out our new REstart website at www.restartprogram.org. It has just received a
total facelift and makeover, thanks to the efforts of co-chair John Modlin. It isn’t
complete yet, but when it is, it will be an invaluable resource for the REstart graduates,
the industry volunteers, our many supplier sponsors who help underwrite the program,
and property management companies. Bookmark our site and visit often to watch our
progress.

Softball Tournament
Don’t forget that we have our first annual Softball Tournament on August 23 at Robb
Field in Ocean Beach. We still have space for more teams and more sponsors, but those
opportunities are filling up quickly. Sign up as soon as possible and bring your whole
family for a fun day of competition, food and fun (and a special area for the kids). If you
are interested, check out all the details on the new website or call Traci at 619-218-6396.

IREM Golf Tournament – Silent Auction
Thanks to everyone who contributed items for the silent auction at the golf tournament
last month on May 22. And even more thanks to all of you who bid on those items. The
proceeds of the auction, nearly $1000, go directly to support the REstart program.

Warehouse
If you have been reading this column in the last few issue of the IREM Newsletter, you
know we have been looking for a new warehouse space, where we provided business
clothing for our REstart students. Unfortunately, we were unable to find a suitable space,
and our current landlord asked us a few weeks ago to vacate the space that we have been
using all these years. That left us with a storage dilemma. We had to make some quick
decisions and the upshot of it is that the keys have been returned and we are now out of
the space thanks to some special volunteers who provided us with some extraordinary
help.

Our sincere thanks go to IREM’s own Toria Watson, for organizing the transition
and in her own words, great thanks go to: “Scott Miller and Mike Mathias & Allied
Waste, Steve Harvey & Lot Management, John Ogle & ARC Roofing, for donating their
resources and their manpower to work with me this morning in cleaning out, dismantling
and disposing of the entire warehouse contents, and bagging and boxing ALL the clothes
for pick-up on Monday. This was no small endeavor and their acts of kindness and
charitable spirit is immeasurable! I was put in contact with The United Cerebral Palsy
Association, which is in immediate need of the amount of clothing we had, and it will go
directly to needy recipients.”