RCVE Breeze April 1, 2021 (Mar 30, 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

What a wonderful presentation from Banks Pecht this past week. It was wonderful to hear about her company Executive Coaching as well as Multiple Sclerosis facts and her passion to help others. Our members gratitude was amazing, we were able to donate $1,000 to Banks’s MS Bike ride team. I am so proud of our Rotary Club members.

Thank you to Bruce, Cal, Harriet, and Rich for volunteering this past Saturday for the Kids and Families together Spring Basket giveaway drive through. Many happy kids and families.

A great big thank you to Cal for volunteering every Thursday to be the runner at the drive through Poinsettia Pavilion take away dinners.

This week we will have Amy Towner from the VC Foundation talk to us about the Walk for Kids and the Ronald McDonald Family room at VC Medical Center.

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

April 15^th – Matt Lavere – VC Supervisor
April 17^th – Rotary District 5240 Training. Virtual event where you may choose the training you would like to attend free of charge.
April 19^th – Board meeting at Topa Brewery on 4880 Colt St. in Ventura

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

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

Serving with a smile

Margarida

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Best,

Margarida Eidson

President 2020-21

Rotary Club Ventura – East

Meeting March 25, 2021

President Margarida led us in the Flag Salute today.

Guests and visiting Rotarians: Guest of the club Oscar Hernandez Visiting Rotarian Amy Bailey

Our Inspirational Message was given by President Margarida.

Announcements:

Rotaract is continuing the Sock it to me event
April 1 – Banks Pecht Life Coach
April 2 – 3 Kids and Families Together is looking for volunteers
April 8 – Amy Towner
April 15 – Matt LeVere
April 17 – District Training Assembly
April 22 – Angie Brinkhoff
April 24 – 25 Aut2Run
April 25 – Walk for Kids

Opportunity Drawing is a hand turned bowl from Jim Word.

Amy Bailey, Executive Director, Ventura Family YMCA thanked the club for our generous donation to Operation Ventura. Over 10 years now!!!

Avenues of Service

Sharon Daly let us know that Mossy Foot received a $5000 grant!
Community Service: Kids and Families Together event.

Our program today was Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation.

Happy $’s: Ashley Pope, Sharon Daly, Bruce McGee, Cal Magro

Our opportunity drawing winner was Bruce McGee!

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