President Deb Davila thanked everyone who submitted answers to the questions she sent last week and about you've been doing at home! She shared the information in the slides below! Check it out and see if there's some new things you could be doing, watching and enjoying!
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Venezuela Global Grant 50/50 Opportunity
Cesar Zambrano talked about the Venezuela project and how Covid-19 is now affecting the people. They are starting a global grant to help and has asked our club for $1000.
Kailey Wagner offered one 50/50 Paul Harris Opportunity where a $500 donation would be matched by our club. Seven members chimed in to donate and she put all their names in a hat and drew out Leigh Seaton's name! The others wanted to still donate and more information will be coming on how this can happen once the grant is set up.
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Every week Dr. P. works hard to set up the meeting and then monitor it throughout the time we are together!
We are so happy that he does this each week so here's a big THANK YOU for all that you do for our club!
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Birthdays
Martha Macker - April 30
Rotary Anniversaries
Martha Macker
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Rotary Family Happy News!
Don't forget to share your happy updates with President Deb so she can share with all of us!
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New Plans About Donating
Money to the Rotary Foundation
President Deb reminded us that we will be pivoting how we make our $100/member donation to the Rotary Foundation. As you recall, every year we used the purchase of Cajun tickets by our members towards the RI requirement of having each member donate $100/year. As a result, we always had 100% participation.
Since we did not have the Cajun this year, Kailey Wagner had asked members to volunteer to donate $100. Around 25 members said yes.
However, the club has come up with another plan.
Last month we donated our breakfast fee to the employees at the Grand Vista Hotel. But since most of them will now receive money from the state and federal government, it was suggested that we use that money toward fulfilling our RI requirements of $100/member.
What does this mean? Every month $58 of your dues go towards breakfast. We will now collect that money from April and May and send it to RI to reach our member goals.
As before, if you DO NOT want to donate this money back, please let John Tolson know now. If you agreed to donate the $100 originally, this money will not be charged to you.
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VENMO JIM TODAY YOUR DONATION!
Senior Concerns
and Rotary
Jim Visage has been working hard on arranging for our club to work with Senior Concerns to collect and shop for food.
To date they have purchased and donated more than 1000 lbs of food and this Friday they will donate another 500-600 lbs!
Volunteers are still needed to shop and donations are being accepted always.
Please VENMO Jim - his VENMO account is
JAMES VISAGE.
Donations of non-perishable items (canned goods, grains, paper goods, etc.) are now being accepted and you can bring them to Jim's office and deposit it in a box there. The address for Jim's office is: 370 Easy Street. His email is: jim@computermetal.com. Phone: (805) 558-7100.
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Scholarships for Graduating High School Seniors - Committee Forming Now
Kathryn Scroggin said that the deadline for our local students to apply for scholarships is was last Friday, April 24. The process is taking a little longer than usual to receive the applications but she is hoping to have them soon. She is planning on doing something late May or early June to honor those that have been chosen.
If you would like to be on her committee to review the applications, please reach out to her now at kscrog@roadrunner.com.
Bingo Night for Fun and Fellowship
Laura Berger said that our club's Bingo night is planned for tomorrow night Friday, May at 5:30 p.m.
You should have received two emails with information -- one about getting on with Zoom and the other with a Bingo Card!
Please plan on reading BOTH emails prior to tomorrow night. (Bring your wine and food and enjoy!)
Drive-In Movie Night
Bill Klepper said he is researching and planning a drive-in movie night for Friday, July 3rd! This will be an easy fundraiser while keeping social distancing! He thanked our newest member Ryan Valencia for stepping up to chair along with Larry Borovay.
More details to come soon.
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HONDURAS FOOTPRINT PROJECT
We had a wonderful guest speaker this morning, Dr. Marc Bernard.
He shared information about the Honduras Footprint Project, which Leigh Seaton participated in this past year. (This is a part of Operation Footprint that Heather and Nick Frankle were involved with also!)
Over the years he has performed 3,000 pediatric foot and ankle operations and seen more than 30,000 cases. He said that they are not only treating the child but the entire family. They are the ones that have been carrying the child around.
He shared there is so much disparity between the have and have-nots and the nutritional issues that affect the criteria.
Below are some of the photos from trips in the past and in January 2021 there will be another trip planned to Honduras. If you are interested, please reach out to Leigh.
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New Member Proposal:
Think about who would make a good member!
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Rotary Club FinderNeed to find a club to do a makeup? Or find out where Rotary clubs meet while you are traveling? Click here to access the Club Finder page on the RI website.
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Welcome Guests
Nick Frankle
Mark Lowry
Wayne Snyder
Nick Frankle
Mark Lowry
Wayne Snyder
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