RCVE Breeze February 18, 2021 (Feb 17, 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 have our fellow Rotarian Sharon Daly about Mossy Foot an organization we continue to help in Ethiopia.

This week we will have Steve Eidson from the Federal Bureau of Investigation talking about crime scene investigation and evidence recovery.

Our future programs include:

March 4^th – Akbar Alikhan Assistant City Manager
March 11^th – Dr. Rice VUSD Superintendent/Dr. Seuss Day
March 17^th – St. Patrick’s Day Social 5pm
March 18^th – Dark recuperating from the St. Patrick’s social
March 25^th – Corey and Brittany - Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation
April 1^st - Banks Pecht – Life Coach
April 8^th - TBD
April 15^th – Matt Lavere – VC Supervisor

Events coming up:

February 26^th – Mossy Foot Drive through Fundraiser
March is Rotoract Sock It to Me – Socks for the homeless. Please bring socks to the Poinsettia Pavilion by March 31^st
March 11^th – Blood Drive at the Pavilion 2:30 to 5pm register at www.blood4life.org
March 15^th Board Meeting
March 17^th – Rotary Social Event - St. Patrick’s Day Social 5pm
April 25^th - Mark your calendars for the virtual Walk for Kids fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC

Here is the link for our team! Walk for Kids 2021 - Ventura: Rotary Club of Ventura East - Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California

April 24^th and 25^th - Will be the virtual Aut2Run fundraiser for the Autism Society of Ventura County make sure you sign on to team Gavin. More information to come.

Here is the link to sign up to walk/run with Gavin’s Team: https://runsignup.com/RaceGroups/2323/Groups/888636

Here is the link to donate to Gavin’s Team:

https://runsignup.com/gavinsteam

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

Serving with a smile

Margarida

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR ZOOM MEETING

Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Vitalant Blood Drive

Rotaract Fundraiser

Meeting February 11, 2021

Wendy Pazen led us in the Flag Salute.

President Margarida did our Inspirational Message today.

Kathy McGee gave us an update on Midge Stork.

Dates to watch for:

February 16 – Board Meeting
February 18 – Sharon Daly- Mossyfoot Foundation
February 25 – Steve Eidson – FBI
February 26 Mossy Foot Fundraiser
March 4 – Dr Rice – VUSD

Kathy McGee donated a $50 gift card to Wood Ranch BBQ for our Opportunity Drawing.

Joe Strohman conducted elections for our Club Foundation Board. Harriet Clune was elected to fill Kris Hansen’s open seat. Bill Gray and Judy Hoag were elected to fill the two open at large seats.

Bill Gray our Foundation Board Chair let us know that the returns on our accounts were very good this year. We will do $100,000 in scholarships again this year. Thank you for Todd and his diligence to improve our fund performance. The Foundation will be giving the club

$15,000 for charitable giving. We are over $3 million in the Foundation!

The Foundation will also be giving 2 Bob Pazen scholarships this year.

Bruce McGee let us know that the Membership Committee met yesterday and had a good meeting. We are going to be on Zoom for a while so let’s use it to get new members!

Beverly Critcher spoke about the Wildlife Experience.

Joe Strohman spotlighted Todd Juvonen.

Rotaract is collecting socks so if you have any to donate, please pass them on to Rotaract.

Happy $’s: Carin Calley, Bruce McGee, Cal Magro, Judy Hoag

Opportunity drawing winner Cal Magro

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