RCVE Breeze (Mar 21, 2019)

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

District Site

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Jeff Hata
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March 21

Greeter

Stevens, Amber

Attendance

Shannon-Prange, Laura

Flag

Hata, Jeff

Inspiration

Hishmeh, Husam

Introduction of Guests

Opportunity Drawing

Eidson, Margarida

March 28

Greeter

Swan, Tom

Attendance

Eidson, Margarida

Flag

Inspiration

Introduction of Guests

Clune, Harriet

Opportunity Drawing

Hata, Jeff

April 4

Greeter

Hansen, Kris

Attendance

Swan, Tom

Flag

Thompson, Vance

Inspiration

Introduction of Guests

Hahn, Megan

Opportunity Drawing

April 11

Greeter

Stewart, Rich

Attendance

Stevens, Amber

Flag

Word, Jim

Inspiration

Pope, Ashley

Introduction of Guests

Juvonen, Todd

Opportunity Drawing

Pope, Ashley

April 18

Greeter

Thompson, Vance

Attendance

Stewart, Rich

Flag

Hansen, Kris

Inspiration

Juvonen, Todd

Introduction of Guests

Clune, Harriet

Opportunity Drawing

Crookston, Bill

April 25

Greeter

Hughes, Tim

Attendance

Juvonen, Todd

Flag

Strohman Jr., Joe

Inspiration

Borneman, John

Introduction of Guests

Stewart, Rich

Opportunity Drawing

Hata, Jeff

May 2

Greeter

Swan, Tom

Attendance

Thompson, Vance

Flag

Juvonen, Todd

Inspiration

Hughes, Tim

Introduction of Guests

Valdez, Roy

Opportunity Drawing

Hansen, Kris

May 9

Greeter

Eidson, Margarida

Attendance

Ahn, Christina

Flag

Crookston, Bill

Inspiration

Hishmeh, Husam

Introduction of Guests

Strohman Jr., Joe

Opportunity Drawing

Valdez, Roy

May 16

Greeter

Hishmeh, Husam

Attendance

Clune, Harriet

Flag

Swan, Tom

Inspiration

Valdez, Roy

Introduction of Guests

Hoag, Judy

Opportunity Drawing

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.

Mar 28, 2019

Donald McConnell

Offsite Caps TV

Apr 04, 2019

Bonnie Atmore

Rancho Ventura

Apr 11, 2019

Dean Axelrod

Direct Relief

Apr 18, 2019

Mary Jarvis

Craft Talk

Apr 25, 2019

Shawn O'Hara

Wine Tasting

May 02, 2019

Dan Holmes

Photographing the World

May 09, 2019

TBA

May 16, 2019

Cal Magrot

Craft Talk

May 23, 2019

Dark

Evening Social

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Jigsaw Puzzle Challenge Fundraiser at the YMCA

Ventura Family YMCA

Mar 30, 2019
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Sip & See: Spice Vision Boards

Apr 16, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Join us for a fun afternoon of Jigsaw Puzzles and Pizza!

Do you love puzzles? Then this event is for you! Teams of up to 4 people will compete for the Ventura Rotary East Puzzle Championship. The challenge will start promptly at 2:30PM, where the puzzles will unveiled and the teams will get their focus on. We will have prizes for the top 3 teams! This event benefits Rotary Club of Ventura East and Autism Society of Ventura County. The fee for this event is $40 per team.

Click here to go to the registration page.

Jeff Hata

Happy Spring! We are now officially into spring time and I love it! The weather is getting warmer, days will get longer, our hills are green, the wild flowers are in full bloom and did you all see the Painted Lady's migrating through our area this week! What an amazing site that was to see so many butterflies flying through our town on their way up north. They say this was the largest migration since 2002. I hope we get to see this again soon!

Spring is a time of awakening and new beginnings. Animals that hibernate start to come out of their hibernation, the blue jays are picking my hanging pots to pieces getting pieces of material to build nests with. We typically do a deep clean of our homes in the spring hence the term Spring Cleaning and probably best of all we have Spring Training and the start of a new baseball season and all the excitement that comes with that.

I would like to see our club come out of it's winter slumber and get excited and participate in all the fantastic events and celebrations that are coming up this spring. We start with Buena Interact Club's Beach Clean-up on March 23rd, followed by the District Training Assembly and our Puzzle Challenge on March 30th. I would like to see next year's board attend the Training Assembly and support Jeff Burgh as he builds towards July 1st. Then we have the Walk for Kids in support of the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC on April 7th. If you haven't signed up, please do so. You can sign up online or let Amber Stevens know and she can sign you up. The registration cost is only $25 and this goes towards such a fantastic cause. Let's get out and show our support for this project.

The Rotary Club of Ventura turns 100 this year and will be having a 100 Year celebration on May 4th. We will also be celebrating the opening of Rotary Plaza that afternoon.

I invite all of you to come and support our events and do the good things in our community that we love to do.

Don't forget about the "Forty Days - Forty Items" challenge. Starting on March 6th we are challenging you to remove one item from your closet that you no longer use or wear. At the end of the forty days either donate the items to a non-profit of your choice or bring your bag to the club and we will donate the items to a non-profit who can use the items. I know Rosandra and I will be participating and I trust many of our club members will also.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

– Winston Churchill

Yours in Rotary Service,

Jeff Hata

President, 2018-2019

Rotary Club of Ventura-East

NOT SO SILENT CORNER

March is Here!

So, March is here, and it just dawned on me that we have a month of 5ks and walks and hiking ahead of us. I’m a busy gal but considering what just happened with Dad, I must make time to take care of myself. So, anyone want to go for a walk? I normally would have a few takers for wine tasting but I want to challenge you all to join us for Ronald McDonald walk and have some fun. I know what you are thinking, but I can’t do this on my own. I need each of you to help me train.

Why the enthusiasm overload? My sweet sister reminded me that I will be 45 this year, ancient to some but just a baby to others. At first, I thought I should swim around the pier in August to celebrate the milestone, but I have never been in the ocean water, just my YMCA pool. I have a theory that I will be fine since our own Amber Stevens taught me to swim two years ago. I was swimming laps for about 45 minutes before the holiday break. I’ll let you in on what I have discovered: I like being active and it calms my never-quiet mind. With all that has occurred, I have come to terms with the fact that as busy as we all are, we have to also make time to heal and go within. The Ventura YMCA is my go-to place for this. Did you know that there is Aqua Zumba on Saturday mornings and a yoga class? I can swim laps and get a class in al before 9 am most weekends. I’ve missed out on some classes lately due to work and I cringe when I hear myself say that I am too tired to go. Well, that stops now! Plus, I have to be able to run circles around my sister, who is turning 30 this year. I wonder if she will like me reminding her?

Rosandra Esquivel

Meeting March 14, 2019

Posted by Jeff Hata on Mar 14, 2019

Bill Crookston led us in the Flag Salute.

Our Inspirational Message was delivered by Harriet Clune.

Joe Strohman Introduced guests & visiting Rotarians.

Visiting from the Rotary Club of Tablisi, Georgia, USSR was Sid White.

Sid took a few minutes and told us about his Rotary Club and what they do. Sid and President Jeff Exchanged Club Banners.

I want to thank the greeter Christina Ahn & Judy Hoag for taking attendance.

Midge Stork announced that our raffle prize was a gift card donated by Todd Juvonen.

Rotary Recognition:

Birthdays
- Laura Shannon
- Bill Crookston

Presidents announcements:

Upcoming speakers
- 3/21 – Job Shadow
- 3/28 – Offsite CAPS TV
Exchange Student Hyla Borrell
March 23 Interact will be doing a beach clean up at the end of California St.
March 17th is our Ventura St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Avenues of Service:

Amber Stevens: RMFR Update - We will be cooking a pancake breakfast for participants at the walk.

Ashley – Jigsaw Puzzles

Jeff Burgh – District Assembly

Joe Strohman - 4 Way Test Essays are being judged. We will have the winners announced soon.

Judy Hoag let us know that Carol Marquez is home and doing well!

Midge Stork let us know that Dave is coming home today!!!

Happy $’s: John Borneman, Roy Valdez and Husam Hishmeh.

Midge Stork conducted the raffle and the winner was Kris Hansen.

Thought for the week…

If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.

Fluid approach to water
How Rotary has changed to help people get clean water for longer than just a few years.

Profile Rotary member forms Roots of Peace to remove land mines
Profile: A vine ideaHeidi KühnRotary Club of San FranciscoHeidi Kühn arrived in Utsunomiya, Japan, in 1975, a few months after the end of the Vietnam War. She was a Rotary Youth Exchange

Putting power in hands of women
Stephanie Woollard went from Down Under to the top of the world to find out if one person can make a difference.

Turning teens away from crime
Rotary clubs in Canada invest in the PACT program, an urban peace initiative that aims to break the cycle of youth

From peace fellow to international advocate
Rotary peace fellow creates Red Dot Foundation to fight street harassment and violence against women.