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A Mystery Topic, not education or music!!
Feb 15, 2017
Dr. Alexis Sheehy is a retired educator. She earned her BA at Pepperdine, her MA at the University of La Verne, and her Ed. D. at the University of Southern California. She taught middle and high school English and history in Covina and Redondo Beach before going into administration. She was Associate Principal at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School and Principal of West High School. She retired from the Burbank Unified School District as the Deputy Superintendent. She has been married to Jim Sheehy for almost 52 years, and they are the parents of James, who is in marketing with Pepsico, and Shannon, who is a middle school teacher. They are also proud grandparents of Matthew. Alexis and Jim are avid travelers, having visited 99 and 100 countries respectively. She is currently serving as president of the Rotary Club of Redondo Beach which is severely cutting into their travel time! |
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Feb 25, 2017 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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PUP Program Director
Mar 08, 2017
Heidi grew up in Kansas City Missouri and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a BA in Communications from Chapman University. Heidi has been involved with many organizations helping animals and educating the public for the last 20 plus years. She was the Director of Volunteer Programs for Los Angeles Animal Services, Founder and Executive Director of KidsnPets, and the Director of Pals2Pets. Her passion for raising awareness thru education and public speaking is reaching out nationwide. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Pet Care Foundation. She is excited to share that through their grooming program and shelter adoption events they have helped place over 6000 dogs and cats into to new loving homes in 2016.
Her current position is with Los Angeles World Airports as the PUP Program Director. She developed and created the program to alleviate stress and anxieties at airports. The program allows an opportunity to provide an overall enhanced customer experience by providing stress relief and comfort to passengers through the interaction with pets. She has assisted 42 airports nationwide and internationally to start a program. 6 of the airports are in Canada, 1 in Milan Italy and hopefully Hamburg Germany in the near future.
She is the loving guardian of Sparkles and Smokie (cats) Chance and Sadie (Dogs) and Rosie (Horse) |
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Guatemala Literacy
Mar 15, 2017
Chris is an Englishman who has worked his way across the pond via Bermuda and currently resides in the Cayman Islands. He is a Director of the Rotary club of Grand Cayman, a club which for the past 10+ years has had representatives take part in the Guatemala Literacy Project as part of their international service projects. Chris attended the GLP tour the last 2 years and sponsors two students in the program. However his work allows him to travel and so an accord was struck between himself and the co-operative for Education that he would visit Rotary Clubs whilst on his travels and help spread the word about this great project. Chris has spoken at TED events and hosts the largest HR conference in the Caribbean, his motto is “you have to have fun doing what you love as life is too short to do anything else”. We hope you enjoy what he has to say! |
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RBUSD Honor Band
Mar 22, 2017
Dr. Elward will be speaking about the District's work with art and music. Dr. Erik Elward is the Director of Educational Services in the Redondo Beach Unified School District (RBUSD), responsible for directing instructional and student services programs. His recent work centers on developing the district’s strategic plan as well as implementing systems to support California K-12 educational standards for students.
Dr. Elward has been an educator for 20 years. Prior to joining the RBUSD, he worked within the Los Angeles Unified School District. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Dr. Elward received a Master’s degree through the Principal Leadership Institute at U.C.L.A. and an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California. |
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Lifesaving But Simple Test
Mar 29, 2017
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Mar 30, 2017 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Redondo Beach Fire Department
Apr 05, 2017
Chief Metzger will speak about the mission, capabilities, and future challenges of the Redondo Beach Fire Department. He also has some great stories to tell about the Department's interesting calls. Born and reared in Toledo, Ohio, Bob began his professional career in the Fire and Rescue service in Toledo in 1977. He served the City of Toledo for 29 years, retiring in 2006 as the Deputy Chief of Operations. With his wife Beth, he relocated to Naples, Florida in 2007 to be closer to family and became the Fire Chief of the Golden Gate Fire Control and Rescue District. He served in Florida for six years before relocating to Redondo Beach to accept the Fire Chief position. He has served as Redondo’s Fire Chief for the past four years. Bob received his Bachelor of Science degree in Fire Safety and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Florida Gulf Coast University. He is a graduate of the Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD. When not working, Bob’s interests include golf, fishing, motorcycles, and hanging out with Beth. They have four sons between them, scattered across the U.S. Core beliefs: Honesty, integrity and accountability. Model the conduct you wish to see in others. |
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Strange Phenomenon - The Total Solar Eclipse
Apr 12, 2017
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Peace Fellow Program
Apr 19, 2017
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Apr 19, 2017 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Apr 22, 2017 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Join us to help Redondo Beach Seniors, we will be washing windows, doing light gardening, and performing minor home repairs and maintenance. We estimate we'll spend an hour or two at each home. We will meet at BCHD 1200 Del Amo Street, Redondo Beach Bring gloves, gardening implements and tools. We will descend like a swarm of friendly locusts! |
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District Humanitarian Trip to Merida, Mexico
Apr 26, 2017
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Prevention Strategies to Reduce Teen Alcohol and Drug Use
May 03, 2017
Raunda Frank and Heather Longridge work at Behavioral Health Services (BHS) in Redondo Beach. They will update us on the Beach Cities teen trends in alcohol and drug use, new laws that impact teen substance use as well as prevention strategies that are being used by Los Angeles County prevention education providers like BHS to reduce underage substance abuse. Raunda is a Prevention Coordinator she holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from UCLA and a Law Degree from Hastings Law School. She received her Substance Abuse Treatment Counseling Certification and Social Media Convergence Certificate from California State University, Dominguez Hills. Ms. Frank is also a Certified Prevention Specialist with the California Consortium of Addiction Program and Professionals. Heather is a Prevention Outreach Specialist for BHS. Heather provides prevention services including education, outreach, and policy work to support teen alcohol and drug prevention in the beach cities of Los Angeles, California. Heather began her association with BHS in 2013 when she worked as an intern in their Relapse Prevention and DUI programs while she completed her education in the drug and alcohol counseling program at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Heather is a Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor (CATC III) with the California Association for Alcohol/Drug Educators and has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine.
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3D Theatricals
May 10, 2017
T.J. Dawson is the Executive Producer and Artistic Director of 3D Theatricals. “…Under the guiding hand of T.J. Dawson, [3-D Theatricals] has delivered shows whose production values exceed many a touring company…, and which are as slick and professional as anything in New York City…”– Orange County Register 3-D Theatricals was just awarded the prestigious Joel Hirschorn Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre award by the LA Drama Critics Circle. 3DT has also been recognized by the LA Stage Alliance with several Ovation nominations over the past couple of years. The company received the most Ovation nominations of any theatre for the 2012-13 season next to Center Theatre Group. As a director, T.J. has received an Ovation nomination, as well as a L.A. Drama Critics Circle nomination for the critically acclaimed production of PARADE (winner of 4 Ovation awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Ensemble, and Best Musical) and was also nominated as Best Director for 3DT’s RAGTIME. He has also directed for 3DT: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, ALL SHOOK UP, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, A CHORUS LINE, AVENUE Q (Ovation Nomination), 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL, INTO THE WOODS, SIDE SHOW, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE FULL MONTY and currently directing a fresh and new feeling OKLAHOMA, . Other Select producer/ director/ choreographer credits include: the Orange County premieres and critically acclaimed productions of SIDE SHOW, Lippa’s THE WILD PARTY, BAT BOY THE MUSICAL, CABARET, INTO THE WOODS and SEUSSICAL. |
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May 13, 2017 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Saturday May 13 from 8:00 to 10:00 AM our club will help distribute shoes to needy kids at Payless Shoe Source at the Galleria at 1815 Hawthorne Bl. Athena Marano of the Salvation Army is coordinating the families of about 40 to 45 kids to be served. We need 6-8 volunteers to help with their shoe selection. Please text or phone me if you have any questions. Thanks, George Schane 310-994-6883 |
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CASA - Advocates for children in the Foster Care System
May 17, 2017
CASA LA sponsors court appointed advocates for abused and neglected children in the Los Angeles Foster Care system. Melanie will talk about foster care and the fight against child trafficking. She will explain the role CASA play in helping children to heal from these experiences. Melanie Berringer joined CASA of Los Angeles as a Volunteer Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator in December 2016. She is responsible for outreach and volunteer recruitment in the coastal cities of Los Angeles. Part of this role includes developing partnerships with corporations and community groups, in order to increase awareness of the opportunity to become a volunteer advocate for one of the 30,000 children in the dependency system in LA County, many of whom are survivors of child trafficking, or who are at a greater risk of falling victim to it. She looks forward to sharing information about the work of the organization and the role of the volunteer advocates in the lives of the foster children they work with.
Prior to joining CASA, Melanie was travelling, volunteering, and studying Spanish in South America. Melanie has a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Colorado, Denver and a BA from UCSC. |
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The US Open Golf Tournament
May 31, 2017
Sue Johnson was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She got her BA from Wittenberg University and Masters degree from Kent State University. She moved to Manhattan Beach, California in 1996 when she got married. While in Cleveland, she taught Junior High / Middle School Mathematics for 25 years. She received Math Teacher of the year award from both the Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Sue loved to use her mathematics skills in helping with scoring and statistics for various sporting events. She started working professional golf tournaments in 1973 and started traveling to help with scoring on the Champions Tour in 1989. She also started helping at local Synchronized Swimming competitions in 1972. In 1975, Sue was made National Scoring Chair, a position that she still holds. Sue has run the scoring for many international Synchronized Swimming events including
She has also received several honors for her work in synchronized swimming at the international level.
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Teacher of the Year Awards & Student Scholarship Winners
Jun 07, 2017
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Desalination
Jun 21, 2017
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Rotary 2017-2018 -- New Board, New Year
Jul 12, 2017
Walter Campbell was born in Wichita, Kansas, and grew up in Arizona and Texas. His father played professional football (Chicago, now Arizona Cardinals) and worked in sales. During WW II, his mother at age 19 worked as an accounting manager at Boeing, managing some 40 female payroll clerks, all older than herself, some of which were the mothers of her high school girlfriends. She was so glad the Americans won the war so she could leave Boeing and concentrate on raising 3 sons, even though only one of which, Walter, was especially well-behaved. She later worked as a primary school office manager in Tulsa.
After Permian HIgh School in Odessa, Texas, the school made infamous via book, movie and TV show as “Friday Night Lights”, and where he played football and basketball, Walter went east to Harvard College, studied psychology, sociology and economics, threw the javelin for Varsity Track, and graduated (AB ‘67). He studied sociology in England on a Rotary scholarship and then worked for Merrill Lynch in NYC. He then went to Harvard Business School, studied finance and graduated (MBA ‘71). He worked as a management consultant at Cambridge Research Institute and then as an independent consultant in Boston focussing on strategy and finance. He later joined Isys Corporation, a small software and financial information company, as co-founder and Managing Director. Isys was sold to Lotus Corp which was later bought by IBM. After that, he partly owned and managed several small businesses, the only successful one being City Gardens, Inc., a horticulture company which was sold to Rentokil, a large UK building maintenance company. He then joined with Forest Properties, Inc., in Cambridge, and has spent the last 20 years or so investing in real estate, mainly in New England and New York. He moved to California in 2006, motivated by the arrival of grandson Luke, a future Rotarian who was recently drafted to help with the backpacks project.
Along the way, Walter married and had three children (Jason, entrepreneur, martial arts teacher and musician; Kirsten, financial services executive; and Robin, Broadway dancer, actor and singer). He has 6 grandchildren, Luke and Connor in Manhattan Beach, Jake in Wichita and Mary in Phoenix, and William and Henry in NYC.
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Jul 16, 2017 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Better Together: Building Communities Where Everyone Thrives
Jul 19, 2017
ICAN is a nonprofit organization that has been serving the community for over 40 years. It provides quality recreational, employment, empowerment, and socialization programs for Southern California’s adults with physical and developmental disabilities, meeting the needs of not just the individual, but his or her entire family. Scott Elliott and his wife Louise lead ICAN together and have for the past 20 years. They both grew up in the South Bay and started volunteering together back in 1993. They now reside in Carson, CA with their two children, who are also active young ICAN volunteers. In addition, they serve as foster parents for young adults with disabilities. |
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Redondo Beach Rotary Exchange Student Presentation
Jul 26, 2017
Luke Pilapil attended the Orange County School of the Arts during high school, as a part of the acting conservatory. He loves all aspects of creativity but his main passions are rooted within the film and television industry. He recently completed his last year of high school as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in Novara, a small town outside of Milan, Italy. He plans on completing his general education requirements at Santa Monica College this coming year before transferring to the University of Southern California. |
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Jul 29, 2017 9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Annual Rotary - Chamber of Commerce fun softball game on July 29th. Contact Bruce Logan if you want to play! This is a great fun event for our members. It includes a team from the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce and provides a great recruiting opportunity for our clubs.
The games are only 1 hr and 5 minutes long. Three games and play should be complete no later that 12:30. We have this field reserved for the day. Picnic in the park after games.
Our new Governor Colette Vergari will be present to throw out the first pitch at 9am. So this event will have some good PR opportunity. Here are the teams:
Torrance-Del Amo South Bay Sunrise Torrance Redondo Beach/Lomita Torrance Airport (Combined Team) Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce Bob Kelchner Immediate Past President Coach and coordinator for game South Bay Sunrise Rotary Cell# 310-779-5726 |
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Jul 31, 2017 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Looking at the Year Ahead
Aug 02, 2017
Keith Kauffman has served as the Chief of Police for the Redondo Beach Police Department since 2015. He formerly served on the police force for the city of Hawthorne where his experience encompassed an array of assignments including patrol, gangs, narcotics, SWAT and more. He achieved the rank of Captain in 2008 and began working on the Coffee with a Cop program in 2011. Chief Kauffman holds a BA Degree from UCLA in Spanish Literature and Linguistics, and an MS Degree from Cal State Dominguez Hills University in Negotiations and Conflict Management. He is a graduate of the California POST (Police Officer Standards and Training) Command College, winner of the Dorothy Harris Award for his published journal article and a two-time “Medal of Valor” recipient. |
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Aug 08, 2017 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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After the Quake - What Happens Then?
Aug 09, 2017
Jeanne O’Donnell is a Senior Program Manager for the Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management. Before joining the County she spent twelve years as a consultant assisting cities, counties and territories throughout the United States on post-disaster recovery efforts. She is a community liaison, chairs local disaster planning task forces and manages Local Assistance Centers established after disasters. She has led the development of a number of countywide disaster plans including mass fatality, volunteer management, animal response, and donations management. Jeanne represents LA County on numerous State task forces and served on the Board for the California Emergency Services Association, Southern Chapter. She is also a founding member of the West Coast Chapter of Women in Homeland Security. In a disaster she is assigned to supporting the County Emergency Operations Center. She has worked on a wide variety of disasters in her career including floods, civil unrest, fires, earthquakes, windstorms, and hurricanes. A graduate of California State University, Fullerton Ms. O’Donnell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations. |