RCVE Breeze April 29, 2021 (Apr 27, 2021)

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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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.

Margarida Eidson

Last week we heard from Michel Jump and the wonderful work being done by the Family Justice Center and Camp Hope. The statistics were concerning but the good that is accomplished by this fierce group is wonderful. Our Club was enormously proud to contribute $2,500 to Camp Hope to send kids to summer camp and continue to work on breaking the cycle of abuse. If you would like to learn more about this organization, check out www.VCFJC.org.

This week we will have Clint Garman speak to us about Feed 805 – Food collection for Food Share.

Looking forward to seeing you at our future programs and events coming up:

May 13^th – 1^st Live/Hybrid meeting at the Pavilion
May 17^th – Board Meeting
May 20^th – Scholarship distribution
May 22^nd - Board Retreat – Poinsettia Pavilion 9 to noon
May 27^th – Sheriff Bill Ayub
June 3^rd – Evan Hillgeman – JPL – Perseverance
June 10^th – Rafael 100^th Birthday Celebration
June 17^th – 4 Way Test luncheon
June 24^th - DARK
June 26^th – Step downs for Jeff B and Margarida

I hope you join me at our regular meetings every Thursday at noon via Zoom.

Serving with a smile

Margarida

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Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Meeting April 22, 2021

Laura Shannon led us in the Flag Salute

Guest of Sharon Daly was Kevin Daly.

Laura Shannon gave our Inspirational Message

President’s Announcements

May 6^th – Clint Garman Feed 805
May 13^th – 1^st live meeting at the Pavilion in the large room
May 17^th – Board Meeting
May 20^th – Scholarship distribution meeting in the large room
May 27^th – Sheriff Bill Ayub
June 3^rd – Evan Hillgemann – JPL Perseverance Mars Rover
June 10^th – Rafael Canton 100^th Birthday Celebration
June 17^th – 4 Way Test
June 21^st – Board Meeting
June 24^th – Dark
June 26^th – Step Down 4pm parking lot of the Poinsettia Pavilion

Harriet Clune donated $50 cash for today’s Opportunity Drawing.

Avenues of Service:

Joe Strohman let us know FoodShare Distribution May 5^th

We received 5 Scholarship applications for the Bob Pazen Memorial Scholarship and we will give all 5 $1,000 scholarships.

4 Way Test Essay contest entries are coming in fast and furious. Presentation will be June 17^th.

Foundation meeting last night and ideas are being discussed on how to recognize Ron Polito.

Ashley Pope met with Interact Tuesday and Interact is working on a project for the “Her

Continuing Pen Pal project with Special Education students.

Attended District Assembly and learned a lot!

Community Service is still working on Feed805. If you picked up a bag, please return it filled with canned goods.

Our speaker today was Angie Brinkhoff, Executive Director, Autism Society Ventura County.

Happy $’s: Ashley Pope, Bruce McGee

The opportunity drawing winner was Carin Kally! Carin asked for another name to be drawn and that winner was Laura Shannon. Laura donated the $50 to Gavin’s Team!

Tim Hughes read a thank you letter from Amber Nozi, one of our four year scholarship recipients, who is graduating this year!

FEED805

If you have donations for this effort, please drop them off at the Poinsettia Pavilion. President Margarida will be collecting and making sure all donations get delivered to FEED805.

Letter from 2020 Scholarship Recipient Alireza Taeb

Dear Joe Strohman

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Alireza Taeb(Ollie), I was one of the scholarship recipients from the last academic year, which I think was around July, 2020. I'm almost halfway through my freshman year at Uc Davis, and so far it has been the craziest experience of my life when it comes to my personal and professional growth.

You might ask what is the purpose of this long and dreadful email, as I am very well aware that you and your fellow Rotarians are busy and occupied with your professional lives. Well I just wanted to say Thank you and give you a look on my experience at college. And the impact that you guys had on it. If it wasn't for the generous help of the Rotary Club of Ventura East, I would not have been able to move to campus and gain the full experience of independence and being outside of my intellectual bubble. The opportunity to move away from home has forced me to grow and adapt in many ways, needless to say that it was very difficult but I am grateful for it.

As I mentioned in my previous application my commitment and journey with Rotary and it's principles will go much further than just my Interact career. I am currently serving as the District Rotract Representative for District 5240, with my friend and colleague Elijah Harnar. In this position I've had the pleasure of working with many bright minded individuals including the Ventura Rotaract team. And I seriously cannot wait for circumstances to give us more flexibility in what we can accomplish. I think it's worth mentioning that as soon as I got to campus, I searched for the UC Davis Rotaract club. Long story short I'm also an active member of the UCD Rotaract club and I attend their meetings regularly. Also definitely looking to get more involved as we move forwards.

Please feel free to share this with your fellow Rotarians to let them know that I have not forgotten about their generous help, and I'm still seeking to pay it forward in whatever way I can.

Sincerely,

Alireza Taeb

RCVE Makes a Donation to the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC

The Rotary Club of Ventura-East presented Amy Towner with a check for $4,575.00 to help support the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC.

l-r: Amy Towner, Todd Juvonen, President Margarida Eidson, and Adonis Campillo

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