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Jan 03, 2018 6:00 PM
Please join us for Fellowship and Dinner with Rotary International President Ian Riseley and First Lady Juliet Riseley. Register here. Wednesday January 3, 2018 Doubletree Hotel, 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, CA 6:00 PM Dinner / Cost: $90 per person
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Peninsula Clean Energy
Jan 04, 2018
Charlsie Chang is a Community Outreach Fellow at Peninsula Clean Energy.
Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE) is a joint program of the San Mateo County and all its cities to help meet local climate action goals. It provides cleaner electricity at lower rates to almost all San Mateo County residents, businesses, and institutions. Peninsula Clean Energy works in partnership with PG&E, which continues to maintain the electrical grid, provide customer billing, and administer energy efficiency and discount programs. After one year of full countywide operations, Peninsula Clean Energy expects to save East Palo Alto residents $329,000 on their electricity bills. Countywide, electric customers will save about $17 million and avoid 680 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Residents, businesses and public institutions all automatically benefit from their share of savings. Meanwhile, large public agencies such as school districts will reap significant savings.
Website: www.peninsulacleanenergy.com |
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Jan 04, 2018 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Jan 15, 2018 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
MLK Day of Service and East Palo Alto Mayor's Tree Planting Monday, January 15, 2018 Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm Join us as we plant some trees at the new Rich May Memorial Field. Additionally, there will be a ceremonial planting in honor of the new East Palo Alto Mayor Ruben Abrica. |
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Jan 15, 2018 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
YCS (Youth Community Service) and the City of Palo Alto are pleased to celebrate the life and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event will be held on January 15, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mitchell Park Community Center in Palo Alto.
Our Rotary Club will be participating. Todd Armstrong, Youth Committee Chair, will have a display table at the site. If you are available that day to help out, please let Todd know. We hope to see you there!
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Photography - Tips and Tricks in the New Digital World
Jan 18, 2018
Franko Morales, a graduate from San Jose University and long time resident of San Jose took to photography 30 years ago. He has done photography internationally, and uses his skills to capture nature, portraits, human emotions, and weddings. He will share his thoughts on various aspects of his passion. It is well known that digital photography has made everybody a photographer, so we will learn from his hints on what you can do to make good photographs, the settings, the lighting etc. He will also be sharing some of his art pieces. |
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Jan 19, 2018 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Jan 24, 2018 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Her Story: Living in China
Feb 01, 2018
Charlsie Chang is a recent Master’s of Public Administration graduate from Tsinghua University in Beijing and lived in Beijing for three years. Moving there at 21 after spending her entire life in the United States, she will share her experiences about living in China, struggling with preconceived notions about the country, as well as one of the major lifestyle impacts — pollution.
Her Master’s program in Public Administration focused on international development with many of her classmates being government officials from developing countries such as Eritrea, Albania, Kenya, Brazil, the Philippines, and more — both learning and sharing their experiences to bring back to their countries. She will share her thoughts on the growing middle class, China’s rapid economic development and expansion, and why she feels embracing other cultures and experiences is fundamental for personal growth.
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Rebuilding Together Peninsula
Feb 08, 2018
Virginia Johnson is AmeriCorps, Safe at Home Client Services Coordinator at Rebuilding Together Peninsula. Virginia is a graduate of Maryville College, a small school in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee. Though she studied Psychology, Philosophy and Religion, she hopes to make a career in the non-profit and NGO fields, specifically working with refugee, immigrant, and housing rights. She decided to join RTP for a year of Americorps service to work in communities in which these issues intersect, and to be constantly challenged to tackle community problems in the most thoughtful and impactful ways possible. About Rebuilding Together Peninsula: "Since 1989, Rebuilding Together Peninsula (RTP) has provided renovation and repair services for the Peninsula’s most vulnerable homeowners—seniors, veterans, persons with disabilities, and families with children and community facilities. As the only local organization addressing this particular need, we have built the expertise and infrastructure to tackle critical home repairs, securing safe and healthy housing for those most in need." Website: http://www.rebuildingtogetherpeninsula.org/
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Feb 08, 2018 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Cooley Landing Education Center
Feb 15, 2018
Lily Lee is a consultant to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, in partnership with the City of East Palo Alto. She was Cooley Landing Project Manager for several years. She worked for six years for the City of East Palo Alto, on loan from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to facilitate testing and cleanup of potentially contaminated properties to promote beneficial reuse. Lily is seeking an operator and partners for Cooley Landing Education Center and Park, located at the eastern end of Bay Road in East Palo Alto. About Cooley Landing Education Center and Park: A breathtaking nine-acre peninsula on the edge of San Francisco Bay that offers wide variety of educational opportunities that await all visitors. This park and Education Center offers unparalleled vistas over the southern Bay and offers ideal vantage points to observe the Bay’s waterfowl, rays, sharks, and tidal wetlands ecosystem. The East Palo Alto community has long desired education programs here about nature and the rich local cultural history for all ages, especially students, families, and seniors. Website: https://www.openspace.org/our-work/projects/cooley-landing |
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Feb 22, 2018 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The Rotary Clubs of District 5170 sponsor the Richard D. King Annual Youth Speech Contest each year offering our youth a great opportunity to gain public speaking skills while learning about what Rotary is and does throughout the world, especially among young people. Our hope is to inculcate the spirit of “He profits most who serves best.” Currently EPA Bayshore Rotary is sponsoring three high school students who will compete to win prizes as top public speaker, or runner-up, in District 5170. Our hope is the award be used to further the student’s education. As Rotarians, our goal is to recognize and to support these young people who are tomorrow’s leaders. Our club will host the local contest on February 22, 2018 at the YMCA from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The winner will move on to compete at the area level with hopes they will earn a spot in the district finals! Let's all support our kids in this important endeavor! |
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Kara Grief Organization
Mar 01, 2018
Rosario is the Spanish Services Manager at Kara. Kara is a non-profit organization that offers a safe and caring environment where those coping with death and dying can express and normalize their feelings of grief. Our peer support model advocates listening, speaking, and acting from the heart in service to others. Kara is a self-referral organization and our services are offered to individuals, families and organizations in the Bay Area community. Kara offers a variety of services including: One on one peer support, Drop in support groups, Therapy, Family & Children Services and Camp Erin. Kara offers these services in Spanish and English. Visit their website: https://kara-grief.org/
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Mar 01, 2018 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Mar 13, 2018 6:30 PM
Richard D. King Speech Contest (Area Level) will be held on March 13, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. We held our Club Area competition at our Rotary Club on February 22, 2018. The winner was Amani Kapuya. He will compete in this Area Level competition.
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International Rescue Committee Services
Mar 15, 2018
The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and regain control of their future. It responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and focuses to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to the devastated people. Sead is the Site Manager at the San Jose office and had worked for many years with IRC. He has extensive and unique experience with direct client services as well as management. Kayla is the Community Outreach Specialist for the Immigration Program at the International Rescue Committee in Northern California and serves communities in need, ensuring refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking, and immigrants have access to high quality immigration legal services. Website: https://www.rescue.org/ |
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Memory Fun 101 - Memory Training for Everyone
Mar 22, 2018
Memory is absolutely fundamental to learning, so improving one’s memory has a profound positive impact on one’s career and personal life. In this fun and entertaining presentation, U.S. Memory Champion, Chester Santos, will teach attendees the basics of memory improvement. Attendees will learn a number of memory boosting methods that will exercise their imagination and awaken their creativity. Participants will be shown how to utilize both sides of their brain in order to make information stick and become unforgettable. Attendees will participate in enjoyable exercises and will actually be able to feel their memory ability improving throughout the presentation. Everyone will leave this interactive session with sharper minds and a solid foundation in exercises and techniques that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. Chester Santos grew up in California, studied in Fresno, and earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Rising International
Mar 29, 2018
Carmel Jud is Founder / Executive Director of Rising International in Santa Cruz, California. From their website: "At Rising International we spread hope and dignity by selling crafts made by women living in the poorest and most dangerous places in the world; Places where hope is a radical act, and creating beauty is an act of courage and inspiration. Crafts are sold at intimate gatherings in the U.S., often referred to as home parties. Craft sales enable the artisans to find a way out of poverty by running sustainable micro-enterprises. Each craft comes with the story of the artisan, giving her a voice in our world. In the United States, we train women, many economically vulnerable, to run their own Rising Home Party businesses. They earn an income selling crafts for their global sisters. It's a total win-win: The more our local entrepreneurs prosper, the more they change the world." Rising International uses the home party or direct sales model to solve extreme poverty, both locally and globally. Think Avon or Tupperware for a social cause. By using the home party model the organization enables women who are surviving gender-based violence, homelessness, and human trafficking to connect with other survivors around the globe, and through the power of entrepreneurship, help each other to rise. Website: www.risinginternational.org
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Indian Bollywood Music
Apr 05, 2018
Bollywood film songs have been described as eclectic both in instrumentation and style. They employ many types of instruments showing remarkable inventiveness in melody and instrumental techniques. Sunil will take us through the amazing journey of seventy years of Bollywood Cine music. Sunil Ramesh graduated from University of California, Berkeley majoring in Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics and has an MBA from Northwestern University. After being with Amazon for a few years as a Product Manager in the area of visual search and augmented reality, he recently joined import.io, as its Vice President. He has been trained in Indian and Western Classical music and is a key member of BOOM, a Bay Area Jazz & Bollywood Music Band that performs for fund-raising for non-profit organizations. |