RCVE Breeze May 6, 2021 (May 05, 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

It is always nice to hear from Clint Garman and the wonderful job Feed 805 did to collect food for Food Share

This week we will have our first Hybrid meeting. We will be live from the Poinsettia Pavilion main ballroom (Ventura Room) but we are still running Zoom for any member that cannot attend in person for any reason.

We will be inducting Oscar Hernandez into our club, and talking about membership.

Looking forward to seeing you at our future programs and events coming up:

May 17^th – Board Meeting
May 20^th – Scholarship distribution meeting in the large room
May 27^th – Sheriff Bill Ayub
June 3^rd – Evan Hillgemann – JPL Perseverance Mars Rover
June 10^th – Rafael Canton 100^th Birthday Celebration
June 17^th – 4 Way Test
June 21^st – Board Meeting
June 24^th – Dark
June 26^th – Step Down 4:30pm parking lot of the Poinsettia Pavilion

I hope you join me at our regular meetings every Thursday at noon live at the Poinsettia Pavilion or via Zoom.

Serving with a smile

Margarida

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR ZOOM MEETING

Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Meeting April 29, 2021

Rich Stewart led us in the Flag Salute

President’s Announcements

May 13^th - 1st Live/Hybrid meeting at the Pavilion
May 17^th – Board Meeting
May 20^th – Scholarship distribution
May 22^nd - Board Retreat – Poinsettia Pavilion 9 to noon
May 27^th – Sheriff Bill Ayub
June 3^rd – Evan Hillgeman – JPL – Perseverance
June 10^th – Rafael 100^th Birthday Celebration
June 17^th – 4 Way Test luncheon
June 24^th - DARK
June 26^th – Step downs for Past President Jeff Burgh and President Margarida

Opportunity Drawing was donated by Ashley Pope. Detail job at Eight O Five Detail!

Avenues of Service

Amber Stevens reminded us about the Elmhurst playground painting this weekend.

Sharon Daly said the African countries have pretty much been spared from COVID-19. There is a serious need to provide them with clean water for cooking and sanitation.

Joe Strohman has a FoodShare distribution set up for May 5^th.

All 4Way Test Essays are in and are currently being reviewed by the panel.

Nursing Scholarships are all $1,000 each and we will be awarding 5 Scholarships.

Our speakers today were Mike Jump and Joshua Varela from the Family Justice Center.

President Margarida presented Mike Jump with a check from our Club Foundation for $2,000.

Happy $’s: Carin Kally, Rich Stewart, President Margarida

Our Opportunity Drawing winner was Bill Spellman

FEED805

If you have donations for this effort, please drop them off at the Poinsettia Pavilion. President Margarida will be collecting and making sure all donations get delivered to FEED805.

Letter from 2020 Scholarship Recipient Alireza Taeb

Dear Joe Strohman

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Alireza Taeb(Ollie), I was one of the scholarship recipients from the last academic year, which I think was around July, 2020. I'm almost halfway through my freshman year at Uc Davis, and so far it has been the craziest experience of my life when it comes to my personal and professional growth.

You might ask what is the purpose of this long and dreadful email, as I am very well aware that you and your fellow Rotarians are busy and occupied with your professional lives. Well I just wanted to say Thank you and give you a look on my experience at college. And the impact that you guys had on it. If it wasn't for the generous help of the Rotary Club of Ventura East, I would not have been able to move to campus and gain the full experience of independence and being outside of my intellectual bubble. The opportunity to move away from home has forced me to grow and adapt in many ways, needless to say that it was very difficult but I am grateful for it.

As I mentioned in my previous application my commitment and journey with Rotary and it's principles will go much further than just my Interact career. I am currently serving as the District Rotract Representative for District 5240, with my friend and colleague Elijah Harnar. In this position I've had the pleasure of working with many bright minded individuals including the Ventura Rotaract team. And I seriously cannot wait for circumstances to give us more flexibility in what we can accomplish. I think it's worth mentioning that as soon as I got to campus, I searched for the UC Davis Rotaract club. Long story short I'm also an active member of the UCD Rotaract club and I attend their meetings regularly. Also definitely looking to get more involved as we move forwards.

Please feel free to share this with your fellow Rotarians to let them know that I have not forgotten about their generous help, and I'm still seeking to pay it forward in whatever way I can.

Sincerely,

Alireza Taeb

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