RCVE Breeze February 11, 2021 (Feb 10, 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

Last week we heard from Beverly Critcher of Wildlife Experience Safaris and her beautiful safari opportunities in Uganda.

This week we will have our fellow Rotarian Sharon Daly present about Mossy Foot an organization we continue to help in Ethiopia.

Our future programs include:

February 25^th – Steve Eidson - FBI
March 4^th – Dr. Rice VUSD Superintendent/Dr. Seuss Day
March 11^th – Banks Pecht – Life Coach
March 18^th – Dark recuperating from the St. Patrick’s social
April 15^th – Matt Lavere – VC Supervisor

Events coming up:

February 26^th – Mossy Foot Drive through Fundraiser
March is Rotoract Sock It to Me – Please bring your lightly used or new socks to the Poinsettia Pavilion by March 31^st
March 11^th – Blood Drive at the Pavilion 2:30 to 5pm
March 15^th Board Meeting
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 February 4, 2021

Todd Juvonen led us in the Flag Salute.

Kathy McGee gave our Inspirational Message.

President’s announcements:

Foundation Board meeting Feb 9
Feb 11 Beverly Critcher of Wildlife Experience Safaris
Feb 16 Board Meeting
Feb 18 Sharon Daly - Mossy Foot
Feb Mossy Foot Drive through fundraiser
April 24-25 Aut2Run
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 Ronald McDonald Family Room Walk

Opportunity drawing from Joe Strohman $50 gift card for Lazy Dog

Avenues of Service

Ashley Pope is meeting with Interact President on future activities

Sharon Daly invited everyone to participate in Mossy Foot’s fundraiser.

Joe Strohman will be interviewing Todd Juvonen next week.

Foundation Board meeting is open to club members. Let Joe know if you would like a link. The accounts did well last year.

Our speaker today was Derek Poultney from Ventura Land Trust.

Happy $’s: Cal Magro,

Opportunity drawing winner was Bill Gray!

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