RCVE Breeze August 27, 2020 (Aug 25, 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.

Margarida Eidson

We had a great presentation last week from Marlyss Auster of the Ventura Visitors and Convention Bureau. The VVCB does so much to promote tourism in our city and I was surprised to hear how much we receive in taxes from this industry. If you have not been to their offices, they are located on the corner of Santa Clara and California Streets in the Masonic Center building. They have a variety of products from local artists and companies. They are a wonderful way to support and advertise our city.

This week our presenter will be André Mendes. André is the current Chief Information Officer for the Department of Commerce in Washington DC.

André Mendes was appointed Chief Information Officer for the Department of Commerce (DOC) in August of 2019. There, he has overall responsibility and oversight of all technology systems of the DOC and its associated bureaus (FY2020 Budget $3.8B).

We will also have “Joe Strohman’s Rotary Spotlight” and our featured Rotarian will be Harriet Clune.

Coming to you via Zoom in the next meetings we will have:

September 10^th Kevin Clerici – Downtown Ventura Organization

September17^th Zoom game of Scategories – Meeting will be at 6:30pm new Zoom link will be provided

September 24^th Michelle Hubbard – Leadership and Transformation Program

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday

Serving with a smile

Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Meeting August 13, 2020

We were led in the Flag Salute today by Jim Word.

President Margarida let club members share their memories of Bill Crookston.

President Margarida asked if members would help in contacting members who have not been on a zoom call lately.

President's Announcements:

Sunday is the Aut2Run
Next week is 3^rd Thursday and we will be playing bingo
August 27^th - Marlys Auster
Sept 3^rd - Chief Information Officer for the Department of Commerce
Sept 10^th – Kevin Clerici – Downtown Ventura Partners
Sept 17^th - Name that Tune - Meeting in the evening.

Opportunity drawing was for a $50 gift card to Trader Joes.

Avenues of Service

Community Service – Friends of the library will be doing a book sale

Anthony Caspary – Ventura Spirits was our speaker

Joe Strohman spotlighted Kathy McGee.

Opportunity drawing winner was Rich Stewart.

Happy $’s Rich Stewart