RCVE Breeze April 22, 2021 (Apr 21, 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.

Margarida Eidson

Wonderful information from Angie Brinkhoff from the Autism Society of Ventura County last Thursday and wonderful Aut2Run event this Saturday. We were so happy to be able to be a sponsor to the event with a donation of $2,500.

This week we will Michael Jump from the Family Justice Center.

Looking forward to seeing you at our future programs and events coming up:

We have collected 30 bags of food for the Food Share FEED805 program we would love to reach 100 bags by May 13^th our first live meeting. Please consider passing out bags to your neighbors and offer to pick them up to collect food items for Food Share. I have lots of empty bags ready to get filled.

May 6^th – Clint Garman Feed 805
May 13^th – 1^st live meeting at the Pavilion in the large room
May 17^th – Board Meeting
May 20^th – Scholarship distribution meeting in the large room
May 27^th – Sheriff Bill Ayub
June 3^rd – Evan Hillgemann – JPL Perseverance Mars Rover
June 10^th – Rafael Canton 100^th Birthday Celebration
June 17^th – 4 Way Test
June 21^st – Board Meeting
June 24^th – Dark
June 26^th – Step Down 4pm parking lot of the Poinsettia Pavilion

I hope you join me at our regular meetings every Thursday at noon via Zoom.

Serving with a smile

Margarida

CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR ZOOM MEETING

Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Letter from 2020 Scholarship Recipient Alireza Taeb

Dear Joe Strohman

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Alireza Taeb(Ollie), I was one of the scholarship recipients from the last academic year, which I think was around July, 2020. I'm almost halfway through my freshman year at Uc Davis, and so far it has been the craziest experience of my life when it comes to my personal and professional growth.

You might ask what is the purpose of this long and dreadful email, as I am very well aware that you and your fellow Rotarians are busy and occupied with your professional lives. Well I just wanted to say Thank you and give you a look on my experience at college. And the impact that you guys had on it. If it wasn't for the generous help of the Rotary Club of Ventura East, I would not have been able to move to campus and gain the full experience of independence and being outside of my intellectual bubble. The opportunity to move away from home has forced me to grow and adapt in many ways, needless to say that it was very difficult but I am grateful for it.

As I mentioned in my previous application my commitment and journey with Rotary and it's principles will go much further than just my Interact career. I am currently serving as the District Rotract Representative for District 5240, with my friend and colleague Elijah Harnar. In this position I've had the pleasure of working with many bright minded individuals including the Ventura Rotaract team. And I seriously cannot wait for circumstances to give us more flexibility in what we can accomplish. I think it's worth mentioning that as soon as I got to campus, I searched for the UC Davis Rotaract club. Long story short I'm also an active member of the UCD Rotaract club and I attend their meetings regularly. Also definitely looking to get more involved as we move forwards.

Please feel free to share this with your fellow Rotarians to let them know that I have not forgotten about their generous help, and I'm still seeking to pay it forward in whatever way I can.

Sincerely,

Alireza Taeb

Meeting April 15, 2021

Joe Bova led us in the Salute to the Flag today.

Guest of Emily Barany was Eric Knight. Guest of Margarida Eidson was Dawn Knowles (Downtown Rotarian) and also visiting was Ron Allen

Laura Shannon gave our Inspirational Message.

Announcements:

April 22^nd – Angie Brinkhoff – VC Autism Society – Aut2Run
April 24^th and 25^th - Will be the virtual Aut2Run fundraiser for the Autism Society of Ventura County make sure you sign on to team Gavin

Here is the link to sign up to walk/run with Gavin’s Team: https://runsignup.com/RaceGroups/2323/Groups/888636

Here is the link to donate to Gavin’s Team: https://runsignup.com/gavinsteam

April 25^th - Mark your calendars for the virtual Walk for Kids fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC

Walk for Kids 2021 - Ventura: Rotary Club of Ventura East - Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California

April 29^th - Waiting on confirmation
May 6^th – Waiting on confirmation
May 13^th – 1^st live meeting at the Pavilion
May 20^th – Scholarship distribution meeting
May 27^th – Sheriff Bill Ayub

Opportunity Drawing $50 gift card to Simone’s donated by President Margarida.

Sharon Daly shared with us that the Peace Scholarship is available to Non-Rotarian’s to use for a post graduate degree.

Joe Strohman FoodShare Distribution on May 5^th.

April 15^th – Deadline for Scholarhip Applications Bob Pazen

4 Way Essay Test essays are being delivered to Joe.

June 17 Essay winner reading from 2020 and 2021

Looking for ways to remember Ron Polito.

President Margarida reminded us about FEED805

Our speaker today was Ventura County Supervisor Matt Lavere.

Happy $’s: Cal Magro, Sharon Daly

President Margarida let us know we received an email from one of our scholarship recipients

Our opportunity drawing winner was Rich Stewart

FEED805

If you have donations for this effort, please drop them off at the Poinsettia Pavilion. President Margarida will be collecting and making sure all donations get delivered to FEED805.

RCVE Makes a Donation to the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC

The Rotary Club of Ventura-East presented Amy Towner with a check for $4,575.00 to help support the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC.

l-r: Amy Towner, Todd Juvonen, President Margarida Eidson, and Adonis Campillo

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