RCVE Breeze (Oct 12, 2017)

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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Attendance

Cekov, Michelle

Flag Salute

Gallagher, Dick

Greeter

Spellman D.D.S, William J.

Greeter

Inspiration

Blackwell, Tim

Introduction of Guests

Pope, Ashley

Joke of the Week

Harbison, Steve

Opportunity Drawing Donor

Pope, Ashley

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.

Oct 19, 2017

Ken Corney - City of Ventura Police Chief

Oct 26, 2017

Bill Poett and Dr. Laura Ciel

Mindful Creators Movement

Nov 02, 2017

Jill Sarick Santos

Food Forward

Nov 09, 2017

Dana Davis

Veterans Recognition

Nov 16, 2017

john Gherini

Santa Cruz Island

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Rotary Club of Oxnard - Octoberfest

Gibb's Truck Center

Oct 19, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

MPRLS Weekend - Oxnard

Oct 20, 2017 – Oct 22, 2017

Nightmare on the Hill

Poinsettia Pavilion

Oct 28, 2017
6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Nightmare on the Hill Sponsorship Information

Sign up for a sponsorship today and help us continue with local community service projects such as the Ventura Family YMCA Operation Splash, City Center Learning Center, Blanche Reynolds School Library and more.

Click here to buy tickets now...

Presenting Sponsor - Available

Venue Sponsorship - Available

DJ Sponsorship - Available

Casino Sponsorship - Available

Bar Sponsorship - Available

Food Sponsorship - / Ventura County Pharmacy

Ghoul Sponsors

Capital Mortgage Services - Jordan Eller

Savory Prime - Laura Shannon

Realtor Melody O'Leary-Namikas

Witches Sponsors

Mortgage Couch - Shelby Bishop

Bill Spellman

Cauldron Sponsors

Realtor - Tim Hughes

Raffle Prize Donations

Tierra Gardens - Lydia Ramos

First Bank - Rosanna Colin

Jersey Mikes - Dawn Rosin

Bob & Wendy Pazen

SpiceTopia - Ashley Pope

Bill Hicks

Harriet Clune

We had a good turnout of our members for the District Conference held at the Marriott Ventura Beach in early October! Hats off to our members: Jeff Hata with Rosandra Esquivel, Joe Strohman with daughter Olivia, Rich Stewart, Bruce McGee, Kathy McGee, Midge Stork with Dave Stork & Kris Hansen.

Our display table/booth was very nicely done representing three of our projects: Go Care in Nicaragua, YMCA in Ventura and Mossy Foot in Ethiopia. The display generated many comments and lots of interested visitors. At the dinner on Saturday night our club was recognized by District Governor John Weiss during his speech to the conference, mentioning our donation to support the Conference, our donations to support the Rotaract Build in Mexico, our projects both locally and internationally and his enjoyment of our joint club BBQ. Thanks go out to Michelle Cekov, Amber Stevens, Rich Stewart, Sharon Daly and Kevin Daly for all their work in setting up the displays.

In addition to all of the above, Bruce McGee & Kathy McGee were recognized and presented a short video about the project at Ventura Botanical Gardens. Everyone I spoke with was very impressed by the scope and beauty of the project and the positive results that should accrue to Rotary in Ventura. Members of our club volunteered to transport visiting Rotarians up to the VBG site to enjoy the views, the plans and a delicious lunch! Thanks to Tom Swan, Rich Stewart, Kris Hansen and Midge Stork for driving!

It is always a treat to meet and visit with Rotarians from all over our District. Rotary is a fellowship of like-minded people who all follow the concept of “Service Above Self.”

Harriet Clune

Rotary Ventura East

President 2017-2018

Mossyfoot Project

We are continuing to accept gently worn shoes to send to Funds2Org. They will pay Mossyfootd $.40 a pound. When we get enough shoes,
I could use help with bagging them.
Thanks,
Sharon

Meeting October 5, 2017

Posted by Jeff Hata on Oct 05, 2017

Husam Hishmeh led us in the Flag Salute.

Our Inspirational Message was given by Bruce McGee.

Rich Stewart introduced guests and visiting Rotarians.

Visiting from Ventura-South was Don McDonald, former member, Jim Baroca was also visiting today.

Don McDonald spoke about the Trivia Contest hosted by The Rotary Club of Ventura-South to benefit the literacy program put on by the Ventura County Library.

President Harriet asked for volunteers and got enough people to make two teams.

President Harriet thanked Bob Noville for greeting today.

Midge Stork announced that our raffle prize was a $50 gift card to Cafe Fiore.

John Borneman led us in a song.

Bill Spellman announced that all of our spots for RYLA have been filled.

Greg Frye spoke about Poinsettia orders.

Joe Strohman said that the Military Collaborative is in need of a new space. If you know of any vacancies, please let Joe know. Joe also let us know that Tom Hashbarger is working on a program to honor our military veteran's. Joe's last announcement was that Margarida would be honoring Hector with an Employee of the Quarter award next week.

President Harriet passed around a sign up sheet for Nightmare on the Hill work duties.

President Harriet was also passing around a condolences card for Lee Albee who passed away last week. Lee was a very long time member of our club.

The trivia contest at Garman's Pub was a lot of fun and 2 of our 3 team's won prizes!!! The team of President Harriet, Bob Pazen and Rich Stewart came in second and the team of Wendy Pazen, Dave Anderson, Colin Hoag and Dick and Mary Gallagher came in 3rd.

The District survey is out, please answer it. It's only 1 question so it won't take long to complete.

The catering committee being led by Carolyn Diacos has 4 bids. There will be a committee meeting after our club meeting today. Tastings from 2 caterers have been arranged and a decision will be reached soon.

Happy $'s: Husam Hishmeh, Jeff Hata, Kris Hansen, Wendy Pazen, Tobias Hildebrand and Tom Hashbarger.

Midge conducted the raffle and our lucky winner was Bob Noville.

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