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Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Ventura East!!
Ventura East
Service Above Self
We meet Thursdays at 12:00 PM
Poinsettia Pavilion
3451 Foothill Road
Ventura, CA  93003
United States
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Jeff Hata
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Meeting Responsibilities
Meeting Roster 7/26
 
Attendance
Stewart, Rich
 
Flag Salute
Clune, Harriet
 
Greeter
Daly, Sharon
 
Inspiration
Jones, Greg
 
Introduction of Guests
Eidson, Margarida
 
Opportunity Drawing Donor
Pope, Ashley
 
Meeting Responsibilities 8/2
 
Attendance
McGee, Kathy
 
Flag
Stewart, Rich
 
Greeter
Swan, Tom
 
Inspiration
 
Introductions of Guests
 
Opportunity Drawing
Spellman D.D.S, William J.
 
Rotary ROCKS!
 
We painted rocks and we are spreading the word! Rotary Rocks is a bit of a scavenger hunt. There are 10 rocks throughout Ventura, hidden or in plain sight! Find them and post it on the Facebook page for the club! Haven’t found the page yet? Type Rotary Club of Ventura- East on the Facebook search bar and like the page first before you post a picture of the rock you found! Keep your eye open for them!
 
 I love my rock and display it proudly in my office, even though I am not an artist. It was fun and I really enjoyed time spent with new friends.
 
 
Rosandra Esquivel
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.
Speakers
Aug 02, 2018
My Life
Aug 09, 2018
Our new Sheriff's goals and thoughts
Aug 16, 2018
Interview - Christina Ahn
Aug 23, 2018
Call Me Capable
Aug 30, 2018
Location Museum of Ventura County 5:30 - 8:00
Sep 06, 2018
The White House Restaurant
Sep 13, 2018
Sep 20, 2018
TBA
Sep 27, 2018
State of Ventura Unified School District
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Upcoming Events
Back Pack Project
Ventura Unified School District
Aug 11, 2018
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
 
Pamper Yourself & Tea Blending Party
SpiceTopia
Aug 21, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Sip & See: Blanket Making
Sep 18, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Important Links
Ventura Rotaract Website
GOCARE
Rotary District 5240 Website
Operation Splash Slideshow
ClubRunner Tutorials
Rotary Links
Rotary International
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Joining Rotary
Rotary History
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President's Message
Jeff Hata
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Last week we participated in a service project for "Make Someone Smile Week". This project involved meeting of Friday morning at Mayesh Florist in Oxnard to help assemble 600 arrangements. There were many people there from different organizations and people who just wanted to come out and participate. Larua Shanon and her friend Rae were there as was Ashley Pope and Rosandra Esquivel with her parents Oscar and Carmen, as well as myself. It was a little daunting to get the vase and then have to make a flower arrangement since I have never done anything like that, but it was a lot of fun! Then on Saturday a group of volunteers delivered the flowers to Senior Centers, hospitals, Convalescent Homes, wherever there were people who weren't getting a lot of social interaction.
 
Why do we do projects like this? I like to think it's because we belong to Rotary and we want to make someone's day just a little bit better...even if it's receiving a flower arrangement for no reason other then to say "I hope you have a GREAT day!" We often do these projects and never get any feedback on if we accomplished our goal or not.
 
I would like to share a message I received from a good friend of mine Saturday afternoon. "I wanted to let you know that one of your bouquets was delivered to my daughter's father just hours before he died. He never say them but they gave his daughter a lift on a very difficult day."
 
WOW! That's powerful stuff and that's why we do what we do. It only took a few hours out of our day to donate our time to this project yet we made such a positive impact on my friend's daughter. I was almost brought to tears reading this message. As I said earlier, we don't often get any feedback on our projects, but this message from my friend tells me that more often then not we do make a positive impact on the people we serve and that the projects we do are appreciated.
 
You don't want to miss this weeks meeting because we will be interviewing one of our newest members, Roy Valdez. I know Roy will be a great member to our club and you will also get the chance to meet Roy's wife Jess on Thursday. The following week, August 9th, we will have the opportunity to hear from Sheriff-Elect Bill Ayub.
 
Yours in Rotary Service,
Jeff Hata
President, 2018-2019
Rotary Club of Ventura-East
 
Stories
Meeting July 19, 2018
Kris Hansen led us in the Flag Salute
 
Our Inspirational Message was given by Bill Spellman.
 
President Jeff introduced guests & visiting Rotarians.
Guest of President Jeff was the one and only Rosandra Esquivel!
 
President Jeff thanked Harriet Clune for greeting & Rich Stewart for taking attendance.
 
Midge  Stork announced that our raffle was a bottle of Labyrinth Sauv Blac and a bottle of Four Brix Mouvedre from President Jeff & Rosandra Esquivel
 
John Borneman led us in a song.
 
Rotary Recognition:
Birthdays Husam Hishmeh, Ken Kagan, Mike Martin and Judy Hoag.
Roy Valdez was recognized for being newly married.
We recognized our catering staff for doing such a great job for us every week!
Rotarian of the Month - Todd
 
Presidents announcements:
  • Social for D.G. Sandi is being postponed until VBG Ground breaking.
  • Ventura Chamber Taste Event August 30th. We need to sell a minimum of 40 tickets at $25/ticket. That’s $15 off the member price. We will in turn be given a “Gold” level sponsorship with all the benefits that go with it.
  • Wendy Pazen Social July 28th. 4:00 pm - ???
  • Thank you to everyone who participated in the first Sip & See. Was a lot of fun.
Avenues of Service:
 
Amber Stevens – Make someone smile week
 
The club presented District Governor Sandi Schwartz with a gift basket from SpiceTopia and a check to End Polio Now in honor of District Governor Sandi.
Pictured from l-r: A.G. Bruce McGee, People of Action recipient and Rotarian of the Month, Todd Juvonen, People of Action recipient, Amber Stevens, D.G. Sandi Schwartz, President Jeff, Paul Harris Fellow recipient, Bill Gray, Paul Harris Fellow recipient, Jordan Eller and Paul Harris Fellow recipient, Sam Marsh.
 
Midge Stork conducted the raffle and our lucky winner was Harriet Clune
 
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. Joyce Meyer
Sip & See: #RotaryEastRocks!!!
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