RCVE Breeze (Mar 10, 2016)

Club Information

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

Emch, James

Flag Salute

Swan, Tom

Greeter

Hata, Jeff

Inspiration

Clune, Harriet

Joke of the Week

Burgh, Jeff

Opportunity Drawing Donor

Hishmeh, Husam

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.

Mar 10, 2016
Michelle Cekov
GoCare Update

Mar 17, 2016
TBA
TBA

Mar 24, 2016
Joe Strohman
New Member Interviews

Mar 31, 2016
Courtney Lindberg
Environmental Sustainablility

Apr 07, 2016
Patrick Davidson
CAPS Television and media

Apr 14, 2016
Bruce Stenslie
Current Business Outlook for Ventura County

Apr 21, 2016
Greg Totten
Ventura County District Attorney's Office

Apr 28, 2016
TBA
TBA

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RYLA volunteer background check consent form due

Mar 10, 2016

St Patrick's Day Parade

Mar 12, 2016
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

City Center Clean-up Day

Mar 19, 2016
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Master PRLS2

Mar 26, 2016

RYLA

Apr 14, 2016 – Apr 17, 2016

Basic PRLS

Apr 16, 2016

Bruce McGee

Greetings

Our program this week is perfect for your prospective guest, Dr. Ron Bale PhD on Stress management.

As Tim Blackwell said earlier this week- I'm as Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!

I want you to get up right now!! I want you to get up right now and invite a potential new member to visit our club this week.

Reminders

Feb 29 - Joint meeting at Ventura South Wedgewood Banquet Center noon till 1.15
Mar 4 - YMCA Operation Splash celebration Ventura Masonic Lodge 6-8 pm

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 March 3, 2016

Posted by Jeff Hata on Mar 03, 2016

PE Husam Hishmeh rang the bell and invited everyone to lunch, guests & visiting Rotarians to the front of the line please.

PE Husam thanked our greeter Kathy McGee and also thanked Daryl Cruser for taking attendance.

Guest of Joe Strohman were his daughters Hannah and Marie. Guest of John Masterson was his son in law Michael Martin and guest of Jeff Hata was Ryan Rogers.

Joe Strohman led us in the Salute to the Flag.

John Borneman gave our inspirational message and then led us in singing America the Beautiful.

Midge Stork announced that our raffle prize was a gift card to the Yard House generously donated by Jeff Burgh.

Dick Gallagher gave our joke of the week.

Happy $'s: Husam Hishmeh, John Borneman, Tim Hughes, Tim Blackwell and Midge Stork.

Joe Strohman updated us on what his daughters are up to ... Hannah is currently taking classes at Ventura College and Marie is taking acting lessons in Los Angeles.

Joe Strohman called on Nicole Kruetz to give us a quick vocational minute. Nicole recently returned to work after giving birth to her son, Colton, 5 months ago. Colton will be in Kindercare two weeks from now. For her day job, Nicole is the branch manager at the Ventura Branch of County Commerce Bank which has now merged with Citizen's Business Bank. County Commerce Bank went from $250 million in assets to $9.5 billion overnight! Nicole handles commercial lending up to $10 million.

Midge Stork conducted the raffle and our lucky winner was Bob Noville!!!

Announcements:

Juan Mendoza told us that he is involved with an international exchange "A Year in America" and he is looking for host families.

Tom Swan reminded us about the City Center project on March 12th from 8:00 - 3:00.

Rich Stewart needs tutors for Atlas school homework club and Rich is also looking for "Ambassador's" for the City's 150th year celebration.

Jordan Eller is looking for people to help with the scholarship committee this year.

Dave Anderson reminded us about the YMCA Victory dinner Friday night.

Midge Stork told us that Tom Hashbarger is very ill. Please email, don't call or go to visit.

Ventura-East presents $6,000 donation to the Ventura Family YMCA to fund Operation Splash

Posted by Jeff Hata on Mar 04, 2016

Members of our club were on hand at the Ventura Family YMCA's Annual Campaign Victory Celebration. The YMCA celebrates the hard work put in by their members, staff and board members to gather monetary donations to fund scholarships for those who cannot afford to pay for a full membership. The YMCA's goal is for everyone who wants to come to the YCMA can have that opportunity. This year campaigner's raised $184,000 during campaign, Amy's goal was $170,000!!!

The Rotary Club of Ventura-East was on hand to present Amy Bailey, Executive Director of the Ventura Family YMCA, with a $6,000 donation to fund Operation Splash for an additional year. Operation Splash was a program established in 2010 between the Ventura Family YCMA and the Rotary Club of Ventura-East to provide learn to swim lessons for homeless and underprivileged children in our community. In the years following Operation Splash's inception the program has been expanded to Operation Ventura where besides swimming other youth sports opportunities are being provided.

Besides water safety other benefits of the program has been:

These children have been learned socialization skills through interaction with other members of the Y.
Has provided these children with the opportunity to "just be kids" during the time they are attending classes.
Provided their parents with the opportunity to "decompress" and work on securing employment or taking care of other tasks without having to be concerned about what their kids are doing.

Children for this program are identified through programs at City Center, Project Understanding, Salvation Army to name a few.

l-r: Juan Mendoza, Tim Blackwell, Kathy McGee, Jeff Hata, Amy Bailey, Bruce McGee, Tom Swan, Midge Stork, Dave Anderson, Bob Noville

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