RCVE Breeze June 17, 2021 (Jun 16, 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.

New Member Proposal

The following

has been proposed as a new member of

the Rotary Club of Ventura-East:

Name: Dawn Knowles

Classification: Realtor

Proposer: Margarida Eidson

Publication Date: June 8, 2021

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

Thank you so much to all the members that participated in reading all 400 essays for the Four Way Essay Contest - Harriet Clune, Tim Hughes, Kathy McGee, Ashley Pope, and Laura Shannon, and thank you to Joe Strohman for organizing it all.

And just like that, it is the end of June! What a challenging year we’ve all had, but we kept it fun, light and stuck through all of it together. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be your President. It was an honor. We did not do as much as I had planned but did a lot under the circumstances.

This week we will be dark because we will have our 57^th Annual Service-Above-Self Recognition Banquet on Saturday the 26^th at 5pm at the Poinsettia Pavilion. I am looking forward to celebrating all our Rotarians.

The District Awards and Year-End Celebration will be Friday June 25^th at 6pm via Zoom. If you would like to attend, please register in advance using this link. https://rotarydistrict5240.org/sitepage/encore

The 2022 Rotary Convention will be in Houston and Hotel reservations and registration is now open with big saving before June 30 https://convention.rotary.org/en

Looking forward to Cal’s first meeting in July, and to see our club come together again in supporting Cal and all his goals.

Our future programs and events coming up:

June 24^th – DARK
June 25^th District Awards and Year-End Celebration
June 26^th – 57^th Annual Service Above Self Recognition Banquet
July 1^st – Cal Magro – President 2021, 2022
July 8^th – Nurses Scholarships
July 15^th – Social on the Rotary Plaza at the Ventura Botanical Gardens
July 22^nd – Jeff Moorhouse – Angel Flight
July 29^th - City Center

Thank you for all the wonderful support and for making this club the best and most fun Club in town.

Serving with a smile

Margarida

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Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Meeting June 10, 2021

Tim Hughes led us in the Flag Salute.

Jeff Burgh introduced guests & visiting Rotarians.

Guest of the Dawn Knowles, Rocky Ludes, Richard Jimenez, Carol Marquez, Jerry Dannenberg

Presidents Announcements:

June 21^st – Board Meeting
June 24^th - DARK
June 26^th – 57^th Annual Service Above Self Recognition Banquet
July 1^st – Cal Magro
July 8^th – Nurses Scholarships
July 15^th – Social on the Rotary Plaza at the Ventura Botanical Gardens
July 22^nd – Jeff Moorhouse – Angel Flight

If you have something for silent auction for the Step Down bring it to Margarida.

Ashley Pope said school is out and there is a new Interact Board that Ashley will be working with over the summer.

Joe Strohman interviewed Dr. Rafael Canton who celebrated his 100^th birthday!!!

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