RCVE Breeze (Jun 16, 2016)

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

District Site

Venue Map

Jeff Hata
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Attendance

Emch, James

Flag Salute

Emch, James

Greeter

Masterson, Sara

Inspiration

Masterson, Sara

Joke of the Week

Hata, Jeff

Opportunity Drawing Donor

Shannon, Laura

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.

Jun 23, 2016
William Saleeby, PH.D.
Connecting: Key Networking Tips for Business and Life

Jun 30, 2016
Bruce McGee
Final comments

Jul 07, 2016
Husam Hishmeh
Thoughts and plans for 2016-17

Jul 14, 2016
Sheriff Geoff Dean
Ventura County Law Enforcement

Jul 21, 2016
Mayor Eric Nasarenko
State of the City

Jul 28, 2016
Joe Strohman
New Member Interviews

Aug 04, 2016
David Fukutomi
Homeland Security

Aug 11, 2016
Rich Slater, PhD
Deep Sea Diving All Over the World

Aug 18, 2016
Dr. William Rajala
Hospice Care

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Win a 2016 Harley Davidson Street Glide Special

May 31, 2016 – Jun 25, 2016

Push em Pull em Parade

Jul 04, 2016
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Bruce McGee

Greetings

Thanks to all who attended and helped run the Step Down last Sunday, it was a wonderful evening celebrating our achievements for the past year.

Our program this week is Ken May on cybersecurity, sounds interesting and topical, bring a guest.

We are inducting our newest member Kris Hansen, a Ventura State farm insurance agent, Thursday. We had an orientation with him this morning, our club is lucky to have him join, come and learn why.

Reminders

July 4 - Push em Pull em Parade 8 - 10am
July 4 Downtown Fireworks sign up to help 4-7 or 6.30 till 9.30
Turn in your greensheet if you have not yet, copy attached
BOD June 18 Husam’s 11.30 at his office 1811 Knoll dr Ventura CA 93003
August 13 - Rotaract Mexico Build

VENTURA EAST ROTARY 2015-16 BOARD GOALS

We will strive to hit these goals, please review and commit to them

GROW MEMBERSHIP FROM 44 TO 64
DEVELOP AN ON-BOARDING AND MENTOR PROGRAM FOR NEW MEMBERS
HAVE FUN
DEVELOP A CULTURE OF LEADERSHIP TO GROW INVOLVEMENT AND SHARE THE LOAD
INCREASE COMMUNITY SERVICE FREQUENCY TO HAVE FUN AND GROW MEMBERS
FUNDING-DOUBLE POINSETTIA SALES, REVAMP BBQ TEAM THIS YEAR

Serving with the best,
Bruce McGee

What is Rotary?

Meeting June 9, 2016

Posted by Jeff Hata on Jun 09, 2016

Bill Crookston led us in the Flag Salute.

President Bruce took a few moments to tell us that the National Anthem at the NBA Finals game in Cleveland was sung by the crowd. Very impactful and moving!

Guests: Guest of Jeff Hata was Shelby Bishop, guest of Tom Swan was Laura Romano. Visiting Rotarian was Hutch from Ventura-Downtown.

Bill Crookston gave our Inspirational Message.

Michelle Cekov announced that the raffle prize was a $50 Visa gift card.

Laura Romano spoke about what's going on at the Girl Scouts, besides selling cookies! The mission of the Girl Scouts is Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

John Borneman led us in a song.

President Bruce asked for people celebrating June birthdays or anniversary's to stand and be recognized.

Tom Swan asked for volunteers to help Downtown with the Fireworks at Ventura College and let us know that we needed to be ready to set-up for the Push-em Pull-em parade at 9:00 on the Fourth of July.

Alison Thompson gave our joke of the day.

President Bruce told us that long time Downtown Rotary member, Terry Schaefer passed away. Terry's funeral will be at 11:00 am on June 15th.

Bob Pazen gave a recap of upcoming programs.

Husam Hishmeh told us about his trip to the R.I. Convention in South Korea.

President Bruce asked everyone to please turn in their completed roster sheets and reminded us that the Step Down Dinner was 6:00 on June 12th at the Wedgewood Banquet Center. Dress code is shirt and tie for men and "Nice" for women.

Joe Strohman asked for employee of the quarter nominations to be submitted.

Midge Stork conducted the raffle and our lucky winner was Judy Hoag!!!

Changes to the Official Directory
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Contribution forms now available in additional languages
Forms in additional languages are now available to help you record individual donations to The Rotary Foundation or single donations that combine gifts from several club members. You can get blank or personalized versions of the forms in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish by signing in to My Rotary and visiting the Manage My Club section of the Club and District Administration page. You can also contribute at www.rotary.org/give.

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