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Service Above Self

We meet Thursdays at 12:00 PM

Poinsettia Pavilion

3451 Foothill Road
Ventura, CA 93003
United States

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Jeff Hata
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August 23

Attendance

Stevens, Amber

Flag Salute

Swan, Tom

Greeter

Kagan, Ken

Inspirational Message

Borneman, John

Introduction of Guests

Swan, Tom

Opportunity Drawing

McGee, Kathy

September 6

Attendance

Kagan, Ken

Flag Salute

Hansen, Kristopher

Greeter

Swan, Tom

Inspirational Message

Stork CFP, CSPG, Midge

Introduction of Guests

Swan, Tom

Opportunity Drawing

Landis-Stover, Amber

NOT SO SILENT CORNER

Service Above Self

August is my favorite month for a lot of reasons. The main reason is because each year, all of Ventura kicks of my birthday celebration with the County Fair. For two weeks, I get to see how we celebrate all things we do in Ventura and display them for the world to see. My favorite is the Youth expo. I’ve been here long enough to recognize a few the names and see how the talent of the kids has progressed. We start young and we find out early what feeds our soul. Imagine, just for moment, what we could do if we instill in kids the four-way test and teach them to think of Service above Self?

The universe is always at work. I was lucky enough to greet and sit next to the Principal at Buena at a recent meeting. Imagine my delight when she shared that Interact would be up and running again at Buena High. We have a chance to transfer the same enthusiasm we see at the fair on display, year-round through the Interact program. So, if you have kids, grandkids, neighbors or friends with students at Buena High School, encourage them to look for ways to be of service. We don’t have to wait for next August to show Ventura how proud we are to be a part of it.

Rosandra Esquivel

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.

Aug 23, 2018

Carol Liesh

Call Me Capable

Aug 30, 2018

Social at the Ventura Chamber of Commerce Taste

Location Museum of Ventura County 5:30 - 8:00

Sep 06, 2018

Bruno Cerato

The White House Restaurant

Sep 13, 2018

Craft Talk

Sep 20, 2018

TBA

Sep 27, 2018

Dave Creswell, VUSD Superintendent

State of Ventura Unified School District

Oct 04, 2018

TBA

Oct 11, 2018

Sylvia Whitlock

The First Woman in Rotary

Oct 18, 2018

Sarah Junkin Woodward

Center for Development in Central America

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Pamper Yourself & Tea Blending Party

SpiceTopia

Aug 21, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Sip & See: Blanket Making

Sep 18, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

District Conference & Foundation Gala

Oct 05, 2018 – Oct 06, 2018

Sip & See: Succulent Wreath Making

Oct 16, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Jeff Hata

The Annual Backpack Project was completed this weekend. This project is truly a collaboration and a model for how projects should be done in the future. All three Ventura Rotary Clubs, Ventura-East, Ventura and South, along with the Ventura Downtown Lions Club get together and fill backpacks for local Ventura Unified School District Students who, otherwise, would not have a backpack or supplies to start the new school year. We had another big crowd and we assembled almost 900 backpacks in about 1-1/2 hours! Thanks to club members Bruce McGee, Roy Valdez, Judy Hoag and her grandson Zander Hoag and Tom Hashbarger for coming out and supporting this project. Can't wait to work on this project again next year!

This coming Tuesday is our next Sip and See! People have been asking what "Sip and See" means. Well it means come on out and work on the project we have planned for that evening or just come out and socialize and "Sip" on a tea that Ashley Pope stocks at Spice Topia and "See" what everyone's up too. We had a good turn out and a lot of fun at the first Sip and See and I know we will have more fun this time. This month we will be "Pampering" ourselves. We will be making body scrubs with salt or sugar and essential oils or if you ever wanted to be your own tea blender, Ashley will have some teas for you to make your own custom blend from. This is all going to be happening on August 21st at Spice Topia from 6:30 - 8:00. Bring a friend or family member!!!

One of the things I appreciate about Rotary is that we are non-political and non-sectarian organization. Our club made the decision a little over 10 years ago to discontinue doing an invocation at the beginning of our meetings and replaced the invocation with the Inspirational Message. We did so because we had members who practiced religions other then Christianity and were not comfortable with the invocation. The club made the decision that the right thing to do was to eliminate the invocation in favor of the Inspirational Message...Is it Fair to All Concerned? I can appreciate and support that decision.

We are also a non-political organization. One thing I know is that if you want to divide a group bring politics into the room. I am amazed when I see business owners I know and respect post their political ideals on their business social media. Don't they realize that even though they may feel the majority of people are behind what they think that there are still people who will not share their views and maybe stop doing business with them? There has been discussion in the past to bring politicians in to campaign in front of the club but then if we invited one candidate to speak the feeling was we needed to invite all the candidates so that idea was dismissed.

I feel that we are a better organization without politics being a part of what we do within our meetings. Does that mean we will never have an elected official speak to the club? The answer is NO! In fact we had Sheriff-Elect Bill Ayub speak to the club last week and I thought the Sheriff-Elect did a fantastic job. We are also hoping to have a few other elected officials speak this year but they will be speaking about what is going on in their department and not about campaigning.

So, what I am getting at? My point is that when you are at the podium speaking to the club I ask that you keep to your point and leave politics out of what you are saying. No comments, no jokes, no innuendos. We are a club that has fun together, we get things done together so let's not divide the room by bringing politics into Rotary.

This week Joe Strohman will be interviewing our newest member, Christina Ahn. Christina is a Statistician at Point Mugu and I am looking forward to hearing about Christina. Next week our speaker will be Carol Leish. I've known Carol for many years and I really appreciate Carol's story. You can learn more about Carol by visiting her website: www.callmecapable.net.

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help and brave enough to ask for it.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Jeff Hata

President, 2018-2019

Rotary Club of Ventura-East

Meeting August 9, 2018

Posted by Jeff Hata on Aug 09, 2018

Roy Valdez led us in the Flag Salute

The Inspirational Message was given by Kris Hansen.

Introduction of guests & visiting Rotarians was made by Bill Crookston.

Guest of President Jeff was Mike Stamakinley and THE Rosandra Esquivel and guests of Margarida Eidson were her sons Ryley and Derek.

Guest of Kris Hansen was Buena High School Principal Bobbi Powers and guest of Amber Landis-Stover was Jeffry George.

Visiting Rotarin was Jerry Dannenberg.

President Jeff thanked the greeter Roy Valdez & Christina Ahn & Christina Ahn for taking attendance.

John Borneman – Song

Rotary Recognition:

Birthdays:

Harriet Clune
Bill Spellman
Jeff Burgh
Jim Word
Bill Hicks
Bill Gray

Presidents announcements:

Back pack project with Downtown. August 8^th 9 – 12 VUSD Headquarters on Stanley.
August 9^th Peace, Love & Understanding Luncheon 12 – 1
- Exhibition – Through August 21^st. 4 Floor 8 - 5
Ventura Chamber Taste Event August 30^th. We need to sell a minimum of 40 tickets at $25/ticket. That’s $15 off the member price. We will in turn be given a “Gold” level sponsorship with all the benefits that go with it.
District Conference October 5 – 6
Nightmare on the Hill October 20^th.
Meeting with Group 7 Presidents and talk about Ronald McDonald walk. There is interest.

Judy Hoag announced that Poinsettia orders forms are now available and that Roy Valdez would be helping with sales this year.

Happy $’s: Bill Hicks, Amber Landis-Stover, Margarida Eidson, Jeff Hata, Kris Hansen & John Borneman.

A bad attitude is like a flat time. You can’t go anywhere until you fix it.

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