RCVE Breeze February 4, 2021 (Feb 04, 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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Jeff Hata
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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

Happy Valentine’s Day. Please take a minute and send a Valentine’s Day Card to St. Jude Kids using this easy link

https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/other-ways/valentines-day.html?sc_icid=home-spot-help-valentine

Last week we enjoyed the beautiful pictures from Harmon Canyon and heard from Derek Poultney from the Ventura Land Trust.

This week get set to travel to Uganda and hear from Beverly Critcher of Wildlife Experience Safaris.

Here is what is coming up:

February 16^th – Board Meeting
February 18^th – Sharon Daly – Mossy Foot
February 25^th – Steve Eidson – FBI

Events coming up:

February 26^th – Mossy Foot Drive through Fundraiser
March 17^th – Rotary Social Event - St. Patrick’s Day Social 5pm
April 25^th - Mark your calendars for the virtual Walk for Kids fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC
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. More information to come.

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

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

Meeting January 28, 2021

Kathy McGee led us in the Flag Salute.

Guests and Visiting Rotarians Bob Schilken

Kathy McGee gave our Inspirational Message.

Margarida spoke about the club’s participation in FoodShare distribution yesterday.

Jeff Burgh’s mother passed away suddenly. Please keep Jeff in your thought’s and prayers.

Upcoming events:

February 11^th – Beverly Critcher – Wildlife Experience Safaris
February 16^th – Board Meeting
February 18^th – Sharon Daly – Mossy Foot
April 25^th - Mark your calendars for the virtual Walk for Kids fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald Family Room at VCMC
April 24^th and 25^th - Will be the virtual Aut2Run fundraiser for the Autism Society of Ventura County

Opportunity Drawing Jeff Hata donated 2 bottles of wine from Labyrinth Winery.

Avenues of Service

Sharon Daly reported that Ireland had the highest COVID rate in the world. Also Europe is suffering from Vaccine unavailability

Ashley Pope met with Interact on Tuesday. They are in the middle of finals. They are talking about some projects for Valentines Day. More info to come.

Joe Strohman let us know that they stayed dry at the FoodShare distribution yesterday. Everyone who participated said it was fun and a great project.

4 Way Test Essay contest is underway and the Club Foundation Board will be meeting on February 9^th.

We have Employee of the Quarter we can do and would like to do. Think about your employees and nominate!

Bruce McGee spoke about membership. Encourage your friends to visit the club on Zoom.

VPD Police Chief Darin Schindler was our speaker today.

Our opportunity drawing winner today was Judy Hoag!

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