RCVE Breeze (Jun 23, 2016)

Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Ventura East!!

Service Above Self

We meet Thursdays at 12:00 PM

Poinsettia Pavilion

3451 Foothill Road
Ventura, CA 93003
United States

District Site

Venue Map

Jeff Hata
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Attendance

McGee, Bruce

Flag Salute

Juvonen, Todd

Greeter

Noville, Bob

Inspiration

McGee, Bruce

Joke of the Week

Borneman, John

Opportunity Drawing Donor

Burgh, Jeff

Rotary Club of Ventura-East

Elevator Speech

We are a leadership organization comprising of local business, civic and professional leaders.

We are a nonpolitical, nonsectarian service club.

We meet regularly to get to know each other, form friendships and through that we are able to get things done in this community. Like:

Scholarships at 5 local high schools,
Interact Clubs at 3 local schools.
Support the YMCA, City Center, Ventura Botanical Gardens
Promote literacy and career guidance in schools

Internationally we support a huge project our club started called GoCare in Nicaragua and contribute to eliminating Polio worldwide.

The Rotary Club of Ventura-East meets Thursday noon to 1:30 at the Poinsettia Pavilion in Ventura. Come and learn more about Rotary's humanitarian service, high ethical standards in all vocations and help build good will in this community.

Jun 30, 2016
Bruce McGee
Final comments

Jul 07, 2016
Husam Hishmeh
Thoughts and plans for 2016-17

Jul 14, 2016
Sheriff Geoff Dean
Ventura County Law Enforcement

Jul 21, 2016
Mayor Eric Nasarenko
State of the City

Jul 28, 2016
Joe Strohman
New Member Interviews

Aug 04, 2016
David Fukutomi
Homeland Security

Aug 11, 2016
Rich Slater, PhD
Deep Sea Diving All Over the World

Aug 18, 2016
Dr. William Rajala
Hospice Care

Aug 25, 2016
Dr. Bill Spellman
From Script to Opening Curtain

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Push em Pull em Parade

Jul 04, 2016
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Fourth of July Fireworks Show

Jul 04, 2016
4:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Rotaract General Meeting

Wedgewood Banquet Center

Jul 05, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Rotaract Step Down Dinner

Jul 12, 2016
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Rotaract Escape Room Social

Jul 16, 2016

Rotaract Board Meeting

Domino's

Jul 19, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Bruce McGee

Greetings

Hi All

We have another topical program this week

William Saleeby, PH.D.

Connecting: Key Networking Tips for Business and Life

Reminders

July 4 - Push em Pull em Parade 8 - 10am
July 4 Downtown Fireworks sign up to help 4-7 or 6.30 till 9.30
Turn in your greensheet if you have not yet, copy attached
August 13 - Rotaract Mexico Build

VENTURA EAST ROTARY 2015-16 BOARD GOALS

We will strive to hit these goals, please review and commit to them

GROW MEMBERSHIP FROM 44 TO 64
DEVELOP AN ON-BOARDING AND MENTOR PROGRAM FOR NEW MEMBERS
HAVE FUN
DEVELOP A CULTURE OF LEADERSHIP TO GROW INVOLVEMENT AND SHARE THE LOAD
INCREASE COMMUNITY SERVICE FREQUENCY TO HAVE FUN AND GROW MEMBERS
FUNDING-DOUBLE POINSETTIA SALES, REVAMP BBQ TEAM THIS YEAR

Serving with the best,
Bruce McGee

What is Rotary?

Meeting June 16, 2016

Posted by Jeff Hata on Jun 16, 2016

Bill Spellman led us in the Flag Salute.

Jeff Hata gave our Inspirational Message and our joke of the week.

President Bruce thanked everyone who attended the Step Down Dinner. President Bruce said that many members thanked him for wanting to do a formal event. In case you didn't attend the Step Down Dinner, President Bruce gave a "brief" recap of his speech. Most importantly, we need to keep inviting and adding new members. We've added 10 over the last year and we need to keep the momentum going.

Fundraising, we need to come up with fundraisers so we can keep doing the good work of Rotary. Watch what other organizations are doing and maybe we we can piggyback on them.

President Bruce also spoke about succession planning and how we now have the next 3 years covered, but we need to develop leaders so we never have the problem of not having leaders in the future.

We also need to have flexibility in our meetings. Maybe only 4 a month or shorten our meetings to an hour. Things for Husam and his board to think about.

Tim Hughes presented Kelly Hatten with a check for the new Blanche Reynolds Library in the amount of $1,050.

President Bruce asked everyone to help out and sign up for the duty roster and turn in your roster sheets today!!!

Tim Blackwell then led the induction ceremony for Kris Hansen! Welcome to the club Kris!!!

John Borneman led us in a song then Harriet Clune conducted the raffle for a $50 Trader Joe's gift card and the winner was Jeff Hata!

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