RCVE Breeze December 17, 2020 (Dec 16, 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.

New Member Proposal

The following

has been proposed as a new member of

the Rotary Club of Ventura-East:

Name: Joe Bova

Classification: Education

Proposer: Tom Swan

Publication Date: December 16, 2020

Any objections to this person becoming a

member of our club should be brought to

the attention of the President, President-Elect

or any Director within ten (10) days of this

publication.

Margarida Eidson

We delivered 3 full boxes of Toys to the Ventura County Fire Department at the Collection for the Spark of Love; Toys will go to Ventura County kids in need. Thank you for all your donations.

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We had a great team passing food at the Food Share meal distribution. So well organized and so many cars came by. Thank you, Joe, for organizing it and Thank you to our volunteers Ken, Todd, Cal, Roy, Jeff B., and Bruce.

Our first Virtual Wine and Cheese Christmas party and White Elephant gift exchange was so much fun. Wonderful charcuterie plates from Peiranos Thank you for all who participated.

Last Saturday our volunteers served the community by ringing the bell for the Salvation Army. It was a wonderful day lots of people donated and they were so happy that we were there bring a sense of normalcy to our Holiday season. Thank you again Amber for organizing it and Thank you to our Bell Ringers Todd, Sharon, Laura, Rich and Harriet, Tom, Cal and Jeff B.

Coming up in the future we will have:

December 24^th – DARK – Merry Christmas
December31st – DARK – Happy New Year
January 7^th – TBD
January 14^th – Wade Namura

I wish you a wonderful Holiday Season with lots of Love and Friendship.

Serving with a smile

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Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Thank you from Cypress Place

The residents from Cypress Place Senior Living wanted to reach out and give us a "BIG" Thank You for the Poinsettias that were delivered to all of the residents. They appreciated the poinsettias very much and sent a few pictures for us to enjoy!

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Meeting December 10, 2020

Husam Hishmeh led us in the Flag Salute today.

Visiting Rotarian today was Saraubh Bajaj President of Ventura Downtown and guest of the club was Joe Bova.

Kathy McGee gave our Inspirational Message.

Presidents announcements:

Dec 12 – Ventura Family Justice Center Toy donations
Dec 16 – 2 – 5 Foodshare food pantry.
Dec 17 – Virtual Christmas Party. Charcuterie Boards from Pierano’s $25
Dec 24 & 31 Dark
California Office for Small Business Advocates – Small businesses can apply for a grant.
Opportunity Drawing Roy Valdez donated a $50 gift card, winners choice, Amazon or Starbucks

Roy Valdez let us know that we sold out of Poinsettias. Thank you to everyone who came out to help deliver. Sold 295 cases. Net about $6,500 this year!

Avenues of Service:

Ashley Pope said Interact will be meeting next week and Margarida will be speaking about RYLA

Joe Strohman let us know we need to Directors for the Foundation Board. Foundation is at $3.3 million.

Vocational Service – Toy drive is ongoing. Ventura Family Justice Center is virtual. Order through Amazon and deliver to them.

YMCA we adopted a family and we are also donating to Spark of Love.

Saurabh Bajaj is doing a fundraiser, Coffee Table book illustrated by local photographers. You can order online at VenturaRotary.org.

Our speaker was Carolyn Prijatel-Sutton with the Coalition for Family Harmony

The winner of the Opportunity Drawing was Kathy McGee.

Telemedicine is expanding the reach of health care
For patients who lack options, a virtual visit can mean the difference between going with or without care

The sad truth about altruism is that there aren’t enough altruists
The people who fill the truly essential roles in society are often in short supply

Rotary Foundation receives highest rating from Charity Navigator for 13th consecutive year
Rotary Foundation receives highest rating from Charity Navigator for 13th consecutive

Building bridges, overcoming roadblocks
Guatemalan and U.S. clubs use relationship with Engineers Without Borders to meet COVID-19 crisis.

ShelterBox recognizes Rotary with Global Humanitarian Service Award
ShelterBox awarded Rotary International with its first Global Humanitarian Service Award, in recognition of Rotary’s outstanding partnership throughout the years during its 20th anniversary virtual event on 12 November 2020.