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It's an Octoberfest  themed wine and cheese with German food  such as home made sauerkraut, spatzle, kugel,  strudels, and a variety of sausages and beers. Please bring a bottle of wine or beverage to share and an appetizer or bread.

Our generous host and chef  for the evening is Karen Druker in her beautiful home on Friday, October 6th from 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM  at 14190 Wild Plum Lane in Los Altos Hills. 

 

See you there,

 

Royce

Fellow Rotarians,

On behalf of PE Donna Verna, I regret to inform you that the Morning Satellite Meeting scheduled for October 10, 2023 has been CANCELLED.  You can expect our Morning Satellite meetings to resume in November per our regular schedule, namely, the second Tuesday morning of each month, 8-9am at Bridgepoint.

Regards,

Jeanine Valadez

Satellite Meeting Announcer

Ron Herman is an award-winning educator and Dean of Fine Arts and Communication at Foothill College, where he has been empowering students through visual storytelling for over 25 years. He has photographed for Polo Ralph Lauren and Spiegel, and his work is included in such collections as the Fototeca de Cuba, Kinsey Institute, Snite Museum, and the South Bend Museum of Art. Herman received his MFA from the University of Notre Dame and has lectured on his work and photographic technologies at Cornell, Stanford, and Yale Universities. In 2016, he was awarded a Fulbright to research religious diversity in Senegal, and in 2018-2019 he was an EPIC Community College Faculty Fellow at Stanford University, where he developed innovated programs to internationalize curricula. 

Herman believes in the importance of experiencing life as a foreigner and using these unique experiences to learn about other cultures, the world, and our place in it. In 2010, he began taking photo enthusiasts from the US to travel to Cuba to work alongside Cuban photographers and share creative ideas and information. These artistic collaborations have resulted in numerous joint exhibitions and artist lectures hosted by both countries over the years which were highlighted in the media and a short documentary film. His personal interest in Cuban photography has resulted in receiving a research grant, the publication of two books on the subject, and being awarded a Certificate of Recognition by the Cuban Ministry of Culture for organizing 10 years of creative collaborations between photographers from Cuba and the United States.

Luau for the Kids of Lahaina

Saturday, October 14th, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Los Altos History Museum, 51 South San Antonio Road, Los Altos

Invitation updated to showcase special performances!

Please forward to your non-Rotarian family and friends!

Break out your Hawaiian shirts and muumuus! Join us for a Luau for the Kids of Lahaina! Get ready to feast and hula the night away at the Los Altos History Museum! We are thrilled to announce very special donated performances by:

Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu, one of the most-recognized contemporary Hawaiian chanters, is also known for his contributions to the soundtrack of the 2002 Disney animated film, Lilo & Stitch. Mark founded the hālau-academy "AHA'' which is one of a very select few hula groups regularly invited to compete in the prestigious Merrie Monarch Festival’s internationally-acclaimed hula competition and has earned 1st place in all categories in Ia ‘Oe E Ka La, George Naope Hula Competition and many more.

Ka Nalu, a Bay Area-based Hawaiian band rooted in true traditional Hawaiian music. Ka Nalu specializes in a mix of contemporary, reggae, country and rock, while serenading lovers of Hawaiian music of all ages by taking them back to the islands with the sweet nahenahe sound and a powerful falsetto harmony.

Buy tickets here

All proceeds will be donated to the Lahaina Rotary Club and the Lahaina Boys and Girls Club who are helping Lahaina’s children and families recover from the wildfires by providing food, shelter, education, recreation, and counseling.

Thank you for joining us to make a tangible difference for these children whose lives have been forever changed by the wildfire. Your generosity is needed to help them heal and feel safe again.

We believe together we can help Maui Rise again!

Mahalo,

Royce Cablayan

Fellowship Chair

The Rotary Club of Los Altos

Scott Herhold spent 40 years as a reporter, editor and columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. Among his other duties, he wrote a series called “The Unsolved Crime File,’’ which examined cold cases in Santa Clara County.  Herhold was drawn to the Arlis Perry murder in part because his father was a Lutheran minister in Palo Alto at the time it occurred.  “It felt like the murder of a cousin,’’ he explains.  “It was a rebuke to my father’s faith.’’  Herhold is a graduate of Yale and a father of four grown children.  He lives in the Hanchett Park neighborhood of San Jose with his wife, Sarah, where the couple raised their four children.

“Murder Under God’s Eye’’ is his first book. For more, see www.murderundergodseye.com

Tom Myers is Executive Director of Community Services Agency of Mountain View and Los Altos (CSA), a nonprofit, social service agency serving low income and homeless individuals and families.  He has been in the Chief Executive role at CSA for more than 20 years, and has worked in the nonprofit sector for 35 years.

Tom served on the board of directors of United Way Silicon Valley, and was Chair of the Association of United Way Agencies.  A former member of the Human Relations Commission for the City of Mountain View, Tom served as that body’s first chair.  He served as President of the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee (BAYMEC).  He has been President of the Mountain View Rotary Club.  And he is a past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce.

Tom is past Chair of the Emergency Assistance Network of Santa Clara County.  He is also a part of an American Leadership Forum cohort of nonprofit CEO's working on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Leadership in the nonprofit sector.  He currently sits on the Board of Directors of Hope’s Corner, a food program that serves hot meals.  He is also on the Board of Directors of Alta Housing, a nonprofit developer of affordable housing.  And he sits on a task force developing a post-pandemic food security action plan for Santa Clara County.

He and his husband live in Los Altos.

Please save the date, Friday, December 15, 2023 for our annual holiday party. 

Let me know if you are interested in helping with this event.

Thank you,

Royce

650-224-1711

royce@sereno.com