RCVE Breeze January 21, 2021 (Jan 21, 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 saw beautiful pictures of our wonderful Channel Islands with a great presentation by Spencer Burke from the National Park Service.

This week our program will be with Ventura Police Chief Darin Schindler, I am looking forward to hearing from our new Police Chief, please invite guests to promote our wonderful club.

Once again, we will be distributing meals for Food Share on Wednesday the 27^th.

We will be doing it once a month. You will be able to sign up as soon as we get the date. Watch for more information during our meetings and on email.

The following are the planned future programs:

February 4th - Derek Poultney - Ventura Land Trust
February 11^th – Beverly Critcher – Wildlife Experience Safaris
February 16^th – Board Meeting

April 25^th - Mark your calendars for the virtual Walk for Kids fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC

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.

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 January 14, 2021

Harriet Clune led us in the Salute to the Flag.

Board meeting changed to Tuesday due to Holiday

Upcoming meetings:

January 21 – Spencer Burke, National Park Service
January 28 – Darin Scindler, Ventura Police Chief
February 4 – Derek Poultney, Ventura Land Trust
February 11 – Beverly Critcher – Wildlife Experience Safaris
February 16 – Board Meeting

Opportunity Drawing was $50 gift certificate to Café Zack from Margarida Eidson

Avenues of Service

Ashley Pope reported that Interact will be meeting next week.

Joe Strohman said we will be running the Ron Hertel 4 Way Test Essay Contest. Still looking for 2 more people to serve on Foundation Board.

The Rotary Club of Ventura-East Foundation had about $3.4 million at the end of December. A more formal report to come.

Sharon Daly reported that International Service is discussing possible International grants.

Bruce McGee – Membership will be sending out speaker topics so we can invite potential members.

March 11 blood bank at the Pavilion.

Our speaker today was P.D.G. Wade Nomura.

We inducted Joe Bova today with the help of P.D.G. Wade Nomura. Joe’s sponsor is Tom Swan.

PP Jeff Burgh announced Cal Magro President 2021-2022, PE Roy Valdez, PEN Laura Shannon.

Happy $’s Cal Magro, Adonis Campillo

Opportunity drawing winner was Jeff Burgh!

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