RCVE Breeze (Jul 11, 2019)

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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July 25

Greeter

Shannon-Prange, Laura

Attendance

Eidson, Margarida

Flag

Gallagher, Dick

Inspiration

Introduction of Guests

Stewart, Rich

Opportunity Drawing

August 1

Greeter

Swan, Tom

Attendance

Pazen, Wendy

Flag

Hansen, Kris

Inspiration

McGee, Bruce

Introduction of Guests

Thompson, Vance

Opportunity Drawing

Swan, Tom

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.

New Member Proposal

The following

has been proposed as a new member of

the Rotary Club of Ventura-East:

The following

has been proposed as a new member of

the Rotary Club of Ventura-East:

Name: Carin Kally

Classification: Property Managment

Proposer: Bruce McGee

Publication Date: June 30, 2019

Any objections to this person becoming a

member of our club should be brought to

the attention of the President, President-Elect

or any Director within ten (10) days of this

publication.

Jeff Burgh

Wow!! The first meeting of the new year is in the books - and I survived! We’re officially off and running for 2019-2020, and ready to make an impact on our community. Together a “Big Impact”.

Following in RI President Mark Maloney’s footsteps, our Club’s Action Plan will help connect us to our community in a big way, and in the process build our Club membership, all while having fun!! Our plan for the year follows along these four action items:

1 – Increase our Impact –

Become more involved with issues which are important to our community.
Grow our Participation.
Be a Presence!

2 – Expand our Reach –

Include Rotaract in our activities and become more involved in theirs.
Step up our involvement with Interact, build on our past.
Partner with our sister clubs
Work with Mossy Foot to build it a force in Africa – Let’s Go To Africa!

3 – Enhance Participation and Engagement –

Suggest programs relevant to you, something you’d like to hear about and then bring a friend to the meeting.
We’re starting something new - “Third Thursday of the Month” begins in September. No Lunch meeting, a dinner meeting at a local establishment. Bring the family.

4 – Adapt to Changing Times –

Identify an exciting and new Club fundraiser - Something impactful for our community.
Be respectful of our members who are building their careers or businesses.
Ending our meetings at 1:15pm this year.

And have FUN!!

I believe having FUN while doing something impactful for our community, can and will grow Rotary and Our Club.

What’s next:

This week we have the Rubicon Kids Theater as our program, followed the 25^th by a visit from our City’s Mayor Matt LaVere – Bring a friend, both programs will be very interesting and enjoyable.

We’re going to start August off with a bang, to celebrate Harriet’s birthday on August 1^st, by holding a Club “All Hands Meeting”. The meeting will be designed to gather your input on our Avenues of Service, come ready to present your ideas on…..fundraising/programs/projects/etc. I am looking forward to your ideas for our Club.

Oh, and lets not forget the Backpack Project, with our sister Clubs on Saturday, August 10^th !!

See you Thursday!

Jeff Burgh

President, 2019-2020

Rotary Club of Ventura-East

Meeting June 27, 2019

Posted by Jeff Hata on Jun 27, 2019

Bill Gray led us in the Flag Salute,

Our Inspirational Message was given by Jeff Hata.

President Jeff introduced guests & visiting Rotarians.

Guest of the club was Carin Kally.

President Jeff thanked Ken Kagan for greeting & Judy Hoag for taking attendance.

Todd Juvonen donated our Opportunity drawing prize today.

Presidents announcements:

June 29 – D.G. Sandi’s Stepdown
July 4 – Push-em Pull-em Parade
- Assist with getting the sidewalks cleaned up after the parade.
Board please meet after the meeting (Carin Kally)

Avenues of Service:

Tim Hughes passed around some thank you cards we received from our recent scholarship recipients.

Happy $’s: Vance Thompson, Sam Marsh and John Borneman

President Jeff presented Joe Strohman with a Rotarian of the Year award for all the work Joe does behind the scenes.

Margarida Eidson conducted the raffle and our lucky winner was Tim Hughes!

Thought for the week…

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

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