RCVE Breeze (Mar 15, 2018)

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

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Jeff Hata
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Attendance

Eller, Jordan

Flag Salute

Stork CFP, CSPG, Midge

Greeter

Daly, Sharon

Greeter

Inspiration

McGee, Bruce

Introduction of Guests

Joke of the Week

Borneman, John

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 22, 2018

Kevin Clerici

Ventura Downtown Partners - Red Shirt Project

Apr 05, 2018

JB Drake

Cryotherapy

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Introduction To Rotary - Oxnard

Mar 24, 2018

Social: CryoWorks

CryoWorks

Apr 05, 2018
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Harriet Clune

Service Above Self

We have had a very busy first half of the 2017-2018 Rotary Year. From July 1 through December 31, 2017, we accomplished a lot of good things. We certainly had some good social events, a nice Christmas Party at the Channel Islands Yacht Club, a BBQ at Limoneira, Girls’ Night Out, reception for Govenor John Weiss with the other two Ventura Clubs at the Ventura Yacht Club, Trivia Night at Garman’s Pub in Santa Paula and a fun time decorating the Rotary Rose Parade Float that garnered the Princess Trophy!

Two fundraisers were held: Nightmare on the Hill and Poinsettia Plant Sales. These provide important funding for our projects.

This year we have tried to concentrate on “Mini” Moments of Service in our community as well as our major projects. For the major ones, we supported the YMCA Operation Splash for $6000, the GoCare project in Nicaragua that is entering the third year of our Rotary International Grant (total was about $300,000.), over $2400 for the Mossy Foot project in Ethiopia covering medical needs, the Ventura Botanical Gardens for an additional $25,000 to total $50,000 over two years and we sponsored the all-city July 4^th Push-em Pull-em Parade with thousands of participants.

Our Mini opportunities were small but powerful. Several members loaded books for Friends of the Library Sale prior to the opening of the new Hill Street Library, we had an entry in the Fair Parade, we participated with other clubs in the Back Pack Project, contributing $2500., supported the YMCA Back- To-School Bash, supported the Rotaract Fundraising Project for their build in Mexico, participated in the United Day of Caring with help at the Beach Cleanup, blankets for the elderly, work at a homeless community, worked at the District 5240 Conference, helped drive Rotarians to the Ventura Botanical Gardens during the District Conference, donated $1650 to Rotaract for their build, supported Rotary Ventura South Trivia Contest with a team, distributed food and supplies to victims of the Thomas Fire, supported food share, rang bells for the Salvation Army at Christmas, donated canned food for a Holiday Can Tree and bought gifts for Military Families at Christmas time.

Hats off to all of you good hearted Rotarians who worked so hard to serve our community and our neighbors in 2017. Our community has been through some tough times with the fires and damage and losses during December. It feels good to help. Let’s keep our Rotary values and continue to be active in our community and around the world. Do good, one person at a time. Ventura Strong!

Harriet Clune

President 2017-2018

Rotary Club Ventura East

Meeting March 8, 2018

Posted by Jeff Hata on Mar 08, 2018

Sharon Daly led us in the Flag Salute.

Our Inspirational Message was delivered by Amber Landis-Stover.

Guests and visiting Rotarians: Guest of Rich Stewart was Sher Heard. Guest of Husam Hishmeh was Rick Pazen.

Rick Pazen told us that he was going to be shooting in a clay pigeon tournament and that he was going to make a donation to the Leukemia Society in memory of his father, Bob Pazen, and invited club members to join him in making a donation.

President Harriet read a letter from Bill and Pam Hicks who are making a $200 donation to the RCVE Foundation in memory of Bob Pazen and John Masterson.

President Harriet thanked our greeter Jordan Eller and Margarida Eidson for taking attendance.

The Opportunity Drawing was a $50 Vica Gift Card and a Journal of Ventura County History.

Bill Klope gave our joke of the day and John Borneman led us in our song of the day.

President Harriet let us know that today was International Women's Day and had some trivia questions about Women's Day.

Announcments:

Todd placed a hand out on all the tables about changes in Social Security.

Jeff Hata passed around the sign up sheet for a cruise in November and spoke about the District Assembly in Oxnard. Also, the Clubs Board Retreat will be on May 19th from 10:00 - 1:00 followed by a club social from 1:00 - 4:00.

Joe Strohman asked for volunteers for Mock Interviews. The 4 Way Test essay entries are in and ready to be reviewed. We are in the planning stages for Job Shadow.

Joe Strohman also announced that we had found 3 families to give to monies the Foundation had been given.

Bruce McGee spoke about the quilt give away being conducted by Georganna Hawley's (Swan) Quilt Guild this afternoon.

President Harriet asked Melody O'Leary-Namikas to speak about the clean up at the Cross a few weeks ago.

Sher Heard spoke about a book she read about peace. Something we should look into as a potential Peace Club.

President Harriet spoke about our tree planting project on Saturday. It will happen rain or shine! Information is on your tables and has been emailed.

President Harriet thanked Amber Stevens for getting our new "Rotarinan at Work" tshirts made.

Ojai Wine Festival is coming in June, discounted tickets are available now.

Our speaker next week is a Rotarian from Carpinteria who climbed Mount Kilimanajaro.

Midge Stork conducted the raffle and our lucky winner of both the Visa gift card and the book was Sher Heard!

Trees, trees, trees and some rain!!!

Posted by Harriet Clune on Mar 10, 2018

The Rotary Club of Ventura-East and The Rotary Club of Ventura South, as well as Ventura Rotaract and our friends and families were very adventurous on Saturday, March 10. We planted trees for The Ventura Land Trust after they lost nearly a thousand trees in the Thomas Fire around the Big Rock area and the Ventura River. Not only did we plant trees, we did it in the rain. And we carried trees, dug holes, planted and spread mulch. We planted 135 California Live Oak saplings in less than an hour! We got wet. And I personally can’t believe how much fun it was! Thank you, Rotary International President Ian Riseley, for asking us to do this. We had over 40 people there, including District 5240 Governor Elect Sandi Schwartz. We even had two Rotarians from Thousand Oaks who joined us. Ventura Star Reporter Colleen Cason was there taking rather damp notes. Even Mother Nature helped by providing a nice rain to help our trees along.

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