RCVE Breeze September 3, 2020 (Sep 02, 2020)

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

We had a great presentation last week from Marlyss Auster of the Ventura Visitors and Convention Bureau. The VVCB does so much to promote tourism in our city and I was surprised to hear how much we receive in taxes from this industry. If you have not been to their offices, they are located on the corner of Santa Clara and California Streets in the Masonic Center building. They have a variety of products from local artists and companies. They are a wonderful way to support and advertise our city.

This week our presenter will be André Mendes. André is the current Chief Information Officer for the Department of Commerce in Washington DC.

André Mendes was appointed Chief Information Officer for the Department of Commerce (DOC) in August of 2019. There, he has overall responsibility and oversight of all technology systems of the DOC and its associated bureaus (FY2020 Budget $3.8B).

We will also have “Joe Strohman’s Rotary Spotlight” and our featured Rotarian will be Harriet Clune.

Coming to you via Zoom in the next meetings we will have:

September 10^th Kevin Clerici – Downtown Ventura Organization

September17^th Zoom game of Scategories – Meeting will be at 6:30pm new Zoom link will be provided

September 24^th Michelle Hubbard – Leadership and Transformation Program

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday

Serving with a smile

Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Meeting August 27, 2020

Husam Hishmeh led us in the Flag Salute

Menu for tonight honey Dijon pork chops, sweet potato and lemon Fluff

Upcoming Programs:

Andre Mendez - CIO Dept of Commerce

Kevin Clerici – Downtown Ventura Partners

Thursday evening meeting - Scategories

Our Opportunity Drawing was donated this week by Carin Kally – Kayaking for 2 in Ventura Harbor.

Laura Shannon spoke about getting penpals for seniors.

Sharon Daly – Hydroponic program as a possibility.

9/25 Mossy foot will have a fundraising dinner.

Ashley Pope – Schools just started. Still working out what we are going to do. Will know more in a few weeks.

Joe Strohman – As with youth, more information in a few weeks after classes get settled in.

Bruce McGee – Andre Mendez, Chief Information Officer (Acting) U.S. Department of Commerce. He will discuss tech evolution, artificial intelligence and human longevity.

André Mendes was appointed Chief Information Officer for the Department of Commerce in August of 2019. There, he has overall responsibility and oversight of all technology systems at the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and its associated bureaus (FY2020 Budget $3.8B).

Prior to leading multiple Govt Agencies Mr. Mendes worked with Special Olympics, PBS and many other companies.

Let people know about our speaker and invite them to come listen in.

Our program today was Marlyss Auster with the Ventura Visitors & Convention Bureau.

Happy $’s: Cal Magro,

Opportunity Drawing winner: Larua Shannon!

We took a few minutes to speak about Bill Klope.